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^{page 302 note 1} Lestocquoy, Acta, vi. 395–402: 23 October 1548, Della Torre to cardinal Farnese.

^{page 303 note 1} Groen van Prinsterer, Archives Correspondance de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau, série 1, iii. 282–6.

^{page 304 note 1} Toupin, Acta, vii. 44; the editor specifically stresses this point.

^{page 304 note 2} Ibid., 91: ‘Nostro Signore sente crescer gli avvisi che il Duca D'Alanson fratello del Re Christianissimo sia per passare armato in Fiandra a danni del Re Catholico’. Alençon took the title Anjou in 1576.

^{page 304 note 3} Ibid., 131: 15 June 1581, Castelli to cardinal de Côme.

^{page 304 note 4} Ibid., 205: 28 October 1581, cardinal de Côme to Castelli.

^{page 304 note 5} Ibid., 217: 18 November 1581, Castelli to cardinal de Côme.

^{page 304 note 6} Ibid., 456: 6 December 1582, Castelli to cardinal de Côme.

^{page 304 note 7} Ibid., 478: 28 January 1583; 491: 13 February 1583; Castelli to cardinal de Côme.

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^{page 305 note 2} Toupin, Acta, vii. 458: 6 December 1582; ibid., 479: 31 January 1583, cardinal de Côme to Castelli.

^{page 305 note 3} Ibid., 523–5: 30 March 1583, Castelli to cardinal de Côme.

^{page 305 note 4} Ibid., 526–9: 2 April 1583; ibid., 545–6: 9 May 1583, Castelli to cardinal de Côme.

^{page 305 note 5} Henry IV declared war on Spain on 16 January 1595: Isambert, , Recueil général des anciennes lois françaises, 1821–33, xv. 94–7.Google Scholar

^{page 305 note 6} The mission is described in Del Bufalo's instructions as being not only ‘di molta consideratione, ma di arduissimi negotii’, but also ‘ripieni di molte difficoltà’. Del Bufalo was further warned that he was about to embark upon ‘un oceano pieno di tempesta’: Barbiche, Acta, iv. 137.

^{page 306 note 1} Barbiche, Acta, iv. 138: ‘… tutto quello che humanamente potrà fare’.

^{page 306 note 2} Ibid., 144–5, 158–9, instructions.

^{page 306 note 3} The edict of Nantes, 13 April 1598, consisted of 92 general articles, plus 56 secret or ‘particular’ ones. To it were attached two royal ‘brevets’ of 3 and 30 April respectively. All four documents have been published by Benoist, E., Histoire de l'Édit de Nantes, Delft 1693, i. 62–98Google Scholar, and, more recently, by Mousnier, R., L'Assassinat d'Henri IV, Paris 1965, 294–334.Google Scholar

^{page 306 note 4} Clement VIII now stopped precisely at this point; ‘Non vuole hora … che essorti il re a pigliar l'armi contro gl'heretici’: Barbiche, Acta, iv. 144, instructions for Del Bufalo.

^{page 307 note 1} The eligibility of Protestants for offices was expressly conceded in paragraph 22 of the Edict of Saint-Germain, August 1570, and the principle was thereafter tenaciously sustained: Fontanon, Eacute;dits et ordonnances, iv. 302.

^{page 308 note 1} Henry IV subsidised the United Provinces for the rest of his reign. D. Buisseret (Sully, London 1968, 82) gives the amounts paid.