let them return to France, in mere dread of their machinations against him.

See Sully, vol.v.p.

113.] [Footnote 177: Sarpi, who was living at the time of Henri's murder, and who saw his best hopes for Italy and the Church of God extinguished by that crime, at first credited the Jesuits with the deliberate instigation Ravaillac.

He gradually came to the conclusion that, though they were not directly responsible, their doctrine of regicide had inflamed the fanatic's imagination.

See, in succession, _Letters_, vol.
ii.pp.78, 79, 81, 83, 86, 91, 105, 121, 170, 181, 192.] It is not, however, to be wondered that sooner, or later the Jesuits made themselves insupportable by their intrigues in all the countries where they were established.[178] Even to the Papacy itself they proved too irksome to be borne.