Note 174 — Chapter VI · 1565-1569
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“I told him that, as for arranging anything of the sort between the Cardinal and the Duke, I regarded such a statement as a silly joke, the vain babble of the idle. I could assure him that to say that such a treaty had gone through my hands was absolutely false. If I had done such a thing against the Queen I should deserve heavy punishment from your Majesty, and even from the Queen herself, such action being entirely opposed to my instructions. I had never in my life had any communication with the Cardinal, and I was quite sure the Queen would not believe such nonsense.”—Spanish Calendar, vol. ii., 65. The English did not seem to understand fully at this time Philip’s distrust of all French interference, even that of the Guises.