Note 1157 — Chapter XII

The admiral sent Teligny to the King on November 13 for this purpose.—C. S. P. For., No. 1,822, November 16, 1567; cf. No. 1,836. We know, from a letter of Charles IX to his brother, what the King’s terms would have been: (1) in the case of nobles, authorization of Protestant worship to those possessed of high justice or possessors of “pleins fiefs de haubert” i. e., fiefs that were noble, yet did not confer title, provided it were conducted within their own dwellings in the presence of their families and not more than fifty outside persons, and without arms; (2) absolute limitation of other worship to the places specifically granted in the edict of Amboise; (3) surrender of places and property seized by the Huguenots; (4) suppression of the Protestant cult within the walls of Lyons, but permission to worship at two leagues’ distance from the city; (5) interdiction of levies of money or men in the future and the discontinuance of Protestant associations and synods.—Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, Introd., xiv. It is a very remarkable fact that these precise terms had been recommended to Charles IX as a basis of settlement by Montluc in a memoir sent to the King in February 1565. See Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, V, 3-9. Montluc made the further recommendation that the governments be divided by sénéchaussées instead of by rivers, on the ground that rivers sometimes divided towns into two jurisdictions. His friction with Damville (cf. ibid., 103-6) probably accounts for the proposed change. Montluc also advised abolition of the vice-sénéchaux (ibid., 8).