221. His embarkation as page for Scotland. 248. "Cette fiere beste-Pauvreté." 5. He represents Catharine de Medicis as having by her instructions saved the King from changing his religion. 8, 9. Opinion-its growth and evils. 15. Rebellious religion. 16. 17. Oribus probably means harquibuss. All this is characteristic and good. 18. He calls on the heretics for their testimonials. 19. Quite applicable to our Puritans. 20-1. The prayer. 23. Excesses of the Hugonots. 26. Physiognomy. 36. Nostradamus. 41-2. Du Bellay. 50. Huguenots his hearty hatred of them, and of all that ends in ots. 59. How far he would have gone with them. Just as far as the English Church went-I think. 60. They had nearly killed him once. 62. Villegagnon. 98. Reply to the charge of his fattening on his preferment. 100. How he saw Beza preach. 103. He calls upon the earth to give them back Louis XI. 109. His early endeavours to enrich and improve the language. 144. An honest portrait of himself. 145. 160. Greek oddly introduced. 162. He saw the young King embalmed. 163. The King of Scotland attempted to kill himself when his Queen died. He saw this. 167. Sixteen years he served Henry II. 170. Charles IX. 171. An ill character of the French. 237. Epitaph on Remy Belleau.-A poem upon his poem on the precious stones. "Le luth le meilleur qu'il mist one en escharpe." 238. An odd description of one dying of the stone. 239. Charles IX.'s dog had its tail and ears cut. 246. 241. The King had gloves made of his 63. Who is this whom he regrets so much skin. as being in their party? 64. A confession that the greater number of the priests are worthless. 70-4. Three madmen. 73. Books by some Genevan minister against him, printed at Orleans. 74. A good threat to the author. 80. A sort of complimentary defiance to Beza. 81. He wishes he had a good bishopric. 82. What he would then do. 86. Both he and Du Bellay were deaf. 87. He was thirty-seven when he wrote this. 93. A story that he had sacrificed a goat to Bacchus there seems to have been some frolic which gave occasion for the calumny. 94. His mode of passing the day. 95. How he goes to church. 96. His regularity at the service. Again he attributes all to the misconduct of the clergy. 255. Sonnet when he was near his death. 256. Poppy eaten in salad — but he can obtain no sleep from it. These are melancholy verses-but characteristic of the man, and of his undiminished vigour of mind. 345. He returned deaf from Scotland. 380. One of his lamenters prophecies that even from England pilgrims shall visit his tomb, and who so will watch there three nights becomes a poet. See in the Recueil, tom. 1, p. 251, a good sonnet upon the faults imputed to his style. 392. His touch to confer inspiration. 396. "De sa lyre faisoit les sept langues parler Et les flots gazoüillants d'une argenteuse source A l'envy de son chant faisoient bruire leur course." equal to those of England in Henry VIII.'s time. 38. The Prince of Orange's mother, Juliana, lived to see about 150 descendants! 47. Margaret who governed the Low Countries for her father Charles V. was a very gentleman - like personage. "Nec deerat aliquâ mento superiorique labello barbulâ; ex quâ virilis ei non magis species, quam auctoritas conciliabatur. Immo, quod rarò in mulieres, nec nisi in prævalidas cadit, podagrâ identidem laborabat." When in Passion Week she washed the 66 a sordibus pur 15. A pretty miracle of the lily at his death. A lily in his garden produced two buds at the same time, the one as usual flowered in May, the other neither expand-feet of twelve poor girls, ed nor withered, but remained in the same gatos ante vetuerat." state as if about to open throughout the spring and summer, and opened on the night of his death, Sept. 21. "Id vero et observatum ab omnibus, et lilio super Arâ templi maximâ ad spectandum proposito, fausti candidique ominis loco acceptum est." It put forth one leaf only. 51. Against popular assemblies. This is well expressed. 17. "Plus ultra" thought by many a better motto, and the Crab, a better device than what Charles had chosen. 70. He says that 30,000 foreign Protestants fled from England to the Low Countries during the Marian persecution. 156. Extraordinary care of noting all who were heretics. 167. Philip more intolerant than the theologians whom he consulted. 169. Part of his instructions to Egmont Philip sore at his want of rank in Eng- were, that such means of punishing the land. 20. Charles thought his own death would soon occur after that of his mother, and fancied that he heard her voice calling him. 24. Battle near Gravelines decided by some English ships, 1558. 26. That Elizabeth who was contracted to D'Carlos, and married to Philip, was called Princess of Peace, peace having been at her birth with England, and by her espousals with Spain. heretics should be adopted that, "spes omnis gloriolæ, pro quâ se impiè devovent præcludatur." He had learnt this from the Marian persecution and good John Fox. 207. Origin of sacred medallions. 232. An opinion that devils assisted in breaking the images. 275. It was a proverbial boast in Hainault. "Deo ac Soli subjectam esse Hannoniam." 302. A. D. 1567. The heretical places of 29. The revenues of the Low Countries worship destroyed, and gallowses erected with the beams on which the builders and attenders of those churches were executed. Great emigration. 318. Alva desired only to have skeleton regiments, which he could fill up in Belgium. 421. When the mutinous troops obtained their pay at Antwerp, 1574, they were so liberal that they gave the Franciscans among them, 4000 florins, and other mendicants in proportion. 426. At the siege of Leyden, some of 320. A. D. 1567. Musquets first intro- the Spaniards to throw up hasty works of duced into the ranks. 321. Good discipline of Alva's troops on their march from Italy. 324. Above 100,000 had emigrated, 1567. 347. Six canons called Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La. 369. Alva, "mirus bellicorum discriminum dissimulator, quique nihil magis timebat, quam ne timere videretur.” A good speech of this concerning the allies of Spain. 381. Some Belgians driven by an inundation from their own country, about two centuries before that time (1568), carried to England the cloth trade. 388. Alva boasted that he had found Peruvian mines in Belgium. 393. Puns concerning the Brill. Success of the Dutch at sea. 399. Rejoicings for the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day. 411. The soldiers had a saying, that a good general could not be long lived. Alva and Montmorency disproved it. 418. Battle of Monick or Moock, 1574, in which Luis Nassau fell. "Sunt qui scribant (Mendoza is referred to) in eâ primum pugnâ visum, ut soli equites lanceis armati sclopetarios' equites profligaverint. Ego tamen prælio ad Rentejum (Renty) castrum in Artesiâ commisso, annis ante Mockensem fermè viginti, Cæsarianos Raitres eodem armorum genere pugnantes, ab hastatis Gallorum equitibus, superatos observare me memini." defence both against the water and the enemy, dug the earth with their daggers, and carried it in helmets and breastplates. Harpoons used against the Spaniards from the Dutch vessels. 427. An extraordinary anecdote of a Spanish soldier's taking a vessel, when they had harpooned him and dragged him on board. 439. Chiappinius Ritellius, Marquis of Cetona, born "in militari plane domo; quippe cui et armatam sclopis majoribus equitum turmam, et edoctam in cochleæ moram decurrere peditum phalangem, bellica debet Italiæ disciplina." He defeated the Strozzi and the French, 1554,"datumque ei ab Duce, ut quadrigâ, quam primum Florentiæ visam perhibent, per urbem tanquam in triumpho veheretur." 440. He was so fat that he was obliged to support the abdomen by a bandage from the neck. By drinking vinegar he reduced himself eighty-seven pounds, after which he could wrap the skin of his belly round him. "Quantum is Italicæ militiæ gloriam auxit apud Belgas, tantum apud eosdem Italico nomini famam pudicitiæ ac pietatis imminuit." 444. Determination of the Pope and Philip to make Mary Queen of Englandand for this cause D. Juan de Austria was made governor of Belgium, that he might pass from thence. He was to marry Mary. 461. D. John of Austria passed through France disguised as a negro. 486. It seems it was the custom in the Low Countries to hang from the window a wisp of straw from a white rod, when death and the plague were there. 509. Great superiority of cavalry shown in the defeat of the Confederates, "Gem- | armed, adorned, and made to stand by help blours, oppidum, plurimis cladibus, incen- of a staff-that the King might see the diis ac populationibus nobilitatum." body before it was deposited in the Escurial. 529. He says of heresy-" id quod Orangio ad continendas contra Hispanum civitates, omni præsidiario milite certius instrumentum erat." 66 539. A. D. 1578, 1 Aug. Spectaculo fuere manipuli Scotorum, qui sive ostentatione audaciæ sive potius æstus intolerantiâ, quem et cursus, et dies cœlo ardente flagrantissimus intendebat, rejectis vestibus, solo indusio contenti, aliqui hoc etiam exuto, atque ad femora contorto, nudi inter armatos volitabant. Nec erant inde plerique eorum minus tuti, quam ceteri armis tecti, atque ideo graves; quos et declinandis telis impromptos, et a casu tardiores, et in receptu postremos, sæpe hostis aut ictu cæderet, aut equo proculcaret, aut manu caperet." Camden notices this (Hist. of Eliz. p. 226.) It was on the action at Rimenant when Don John was repulsed, "being courageously received by the English and Scots, who throwing off their clothes, by reason of the hot weather, fought in their shirts tied up between their thighs." But he does not, like Strada, observe upon the inconvenience of defensive armour 558. Charles V. cutting off his hair because he was afflicted with head ache, set the fashion of wearing it short. Don John of Austria, "quod ad lævam temporum partem erectum naturâ capillum haberet, omnem a fronte crinem revocare manu cœpisse; quodque placeret illud porrectæ frontis additamentum, inde usum derivatum esse retorquendi sustinendique capillamenti, adeò ut qui eo suggestu capitis utuntur, vulgò gestare Austriam alicubi dicantur." 560. He was carried in armour to his grave, like the princes of the House of Burgundy, and with a crown, thought to imply his assumption of that of Ireland. 564. His bones were sent to Spain, packed in three portmanteaus. They were put together there, the skeleton stuffed, drest, 17. A regiment which in seven years continual service had only received one month's pay. 30. The regiments of French, Scotch, and English, "constabat exercitus robur esse, Orangiusque appellare Fortes suos consueverat." 57. A caricature acted at Paris upon the supposed termination of the Low Country wars, when the Walloons went over to the Prince of Parma. 68. At Maestricht, the bellows from the Church organ taken into the mines to smoke the Spaniards with. 71. Women at the siege. 74. The peasants thresh the Spaniards in battle. 77. Prettily said of Sangeorgius, who was killed at the siege of Maestricht 66 qui paucis ante diebus ab Italiâ huc appulsus, multam à principibus vivis commendationem, magnam annorum complurium industriam mathematicis impensam ad hoc bellum attulerat; nempe nimis largum pro viâ tam brevi conficiendâ viaticum." 78. A strange folly in so sensible a writer- —men fighting after they were cut in half by chain shots, "sibi superstites, ac peremptæ partes ultores!" 82. The Prince of Parma said he learnt two things at the siege of Maestricht, "ut crebrius uteretur in posterum fossore quàm milite; et nihil non inspecto antea æstimatoque oculis ipse suis loco adparatuque, aggrederetur.” 87. Here is a good specimen of Philip's Catholic faith! 115. Great number of German women in Parma's camp, whom he employed in bringing fascines for a siege. 136. Philip neglected the Low Countries while he was securing Portugal, otherwise if Parma had been supplied with money, the war might, humanely speaking, have been brought to an end. 170. At the siege of Stenowick (?) 1581, Norris devised a mode of communicating by throwing letters in a cannon ball into the town, with a string to mark it. 174. Nivelli. "Est enim in eâ urbe perquam celebre Canonicarum collegium, flos plenè delibatus Belgicæ nobilitatis, addictum Divæ Gertrudæ sodalitium, inque subsideum levamentumque principum familiarum institutum." 189. A man shot in the breast, or rather "pilâ in pectus explosâ, ardente thoracis gossipio extinctus est." He was a remarkable person Inchius? Governor of Cambray. 197. Verdugo published Commentaries. 201. Parma called Tournay the Geneva of Flanders. 215. Jauregui certainly not censured by Strada. 223. Oudenard. 240. Saints set upon the walls of Steinwick in mockery during the siege. 241. The Gregorian Kalendar refused by those provinces, "quibus toto cœlo, atque anno errare toto, grave non est." 261. Parma engaged to complete his conquest, if money were provided. 277. Just before Alençon's death, they offered the reversion of their provinces to France, in case of his dying without issue. 291. Antwerp, 2000 ships sometimes in the port and river. 372. After the fall of Antwerp, Aldegund assured Parma, all the Provinces would submit if the liberty of religion were allowed. Parma would not hear of it. 393. Fraternity of the Blessed Virgin in Parma's army. 400. "Leicestrium egisse cum Hispano legato Guerrao Despæo, eique promisisse, si eas ipse nuptias, Regis sui nomine, Reginæ approbaret, se compotem voti Religionem Catholicam Angliæ redditurum; ac Despæum per occasionem serio cum Elisabethâ id præstitisse, exemplisque reginarum etiam Hispanarum, idem confirmasse, ego ex epistolis Despæi, responsisque Philippi regis, a noto mihi homine inspectis exploratum habeo." 409. In a dark night and hasty march, Parma sends on men to set the cottages on fire to light the way. 411. Burning sand what the armed soldiers at a siege stood most in fear of. 440.. Manoel, son of Antonio, with the English troops, but without a command, and not in favour with the army, who thought he carried ill fortune with him. 456-60. The Jesuits introduce a religious discipline into Parma's army, hence no doubt Gustavus drew his, and Cromwell followed Gustavus. 461. Stanley's treachery-a pure affair of conscience. 465. He says that the English would not have granted more money for the war unless Elizabeth had consented to the death of Mary. 478. A story that Elizabeth, being terrified by a dream, sent off to stay the execution, but too late. 480. I hope, and believe, it is not true that the bells were rung in London, and 321. Horrid famine at Brussels during bonfires made, for Mary's death. its blockade, 1585. 357. A ghost leads on the assault! 360. The soldiers used the dead bodies of their enemies in throwing up trenches, "irati ac festinantes." 366. Parma knew when to affect clemency. 509. The preachers in Leicester's favour. Alençon's attempt rather encouraged than warned him, "vitio generis humani, tentata infeliciter ab aliis retentare non dubitantis; spectantisque magis, quid illi facere potuerint quam quid fecerint." 517. He speaks of Elizabeth, in 1587, as |