Note 790 — Chapter IX

Coligny expressly denied having made any promise to return Calais to England, and as to the occupation of Havre, he said: “J’en ignorais les termes jusqu’à la venue de Throckmorton en Normandie, et lorsque j’en ai signé la confirmation, je n’ai jamais pu croire qu’il y eut autre clause que l’assurance donnée à la reine du remboursement des sommes qu’elle nous avançait.”—Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis, II, Introd., xiii. See the extended discussion of this controverted subject in Whitehead, Gaspard de Coligny, Appendix I, where he shows that the admiral is to be exonerated from the odium of having sought to betray Havre-de-Grace into the hands of the English and puts the blame for this article of the treaty of Hampton Court upon the vidame de Chartres.