Note 1259 — Chapter XIII

In September, 1568, a royal edict was promulgated forbidding the public profession of any but the Catholic religion, and revoking all former edicts. Text in Recueil de Fontanon, IV, 294. Montluc claims that he was the author of the idea and that he sent a rough draft of such an edict to Charles IX (De Ruble, Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, V, 153, 154). In intimation of this policy, in August an oath of allegiance and obedience had been exacted by Charles IX of all the Huguenot leaders (C. S. P. For., No. 2,419, August 9, 1568; cf. No. 2,407, August 7 and Duc d’Aumale, Hist. des princes de Condé, II, 9).