Note 622 — Chapter VI

“His arm is rotten and they have mangled him in the breast and other parts so pitifully”—in the endeavor to cut out the mortified flesh.—C. S. P. For., 1,040, Smith to Cecil, November 12, 1562. Cf. No. 932, October 30; for other details see C. S. P. Ven., November 8, 9, 10, 13, 1562; Mém. de Condé, IV, 116; D’Aubigné, II, 85. The knowledge of his death was kept a secret for two days (C. S. P. For., 1,079, November 20, 1562). The Spanish court wore mourning for four days in honor of his memory (L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 103). He was a “trimmer” to the last, on his deathbed professing the confession of Augsburg, as a doctrine intermediate between Catholicism and Calvinism (Despatch of Barbaro [Huguenot Society], November 25, 1562).