* * * You will thus become worse than an infidel, by neglecting to provide for those of your own house.

Such is the fruit of your Evangelism.

* * * Has not God, who worked so many miracles through them, (_i.e._ the saints,) manifestly directed us to regard those holy personages rather than Luther, Calvin, Farel, Videl, and so many other presumptuous men, who would desire us to slight those reverend names, and adopt their novelties?
Would they have us hold an open council to hear them, or unite in one common opinion against the Catholic Church?
* * * Without wasting time in further reflections, let me entreat you to place in their former condition the churches of Lescar, of Pau, and other places, which have been so deplorably desolated by you.

This advice is preferable to that given you by your ministers, which it imports you to abandon, &c.
&c .-- Your loyal and very obedient servant, "THE CARDINAL D'ARMAGNAC.
"_Vielleperite_, _Aug_.

18_th_, 1563." * * * * * To this Queen Jeanne replied in the following terms:-- "My Cousin,--From my earliest years I have been acquainted with the zeal which attached you to the service of my kindred.