of the expences incurred in travelling about 2000 miles. The
_copper-plates_ (notwithstanding every temptation, and many
entreaties, to _multiply_ impressions of several of the subjects
engraved) were DESTROYED. There may be something more than a mere
negative consolation, in finding that the work is RISING in price,
although its author has long ceased to partake of any benefit
resulting from it.]

[45] A plate of this Monument is published in the Tour of Normandy by
Dawson Turner, Esq.

[46] The Cardinal died in his fiftieth year only; and his funeral was
graced and honoured by the presence of his royal master. Guicciardini
calls him "the oracle and right arm of Louis." Of eight brothers, whom
he left behind, four attained to the episcopal rank. His nephew
succeeded him as Archbishop. See also _Historia Genealogica Magnatum
Franciae_; vol. vii. p. 129; quoted in the _Gallia Christiana_, vol.
xi. col. 96.

It was during the archiepiscopacy of the successor of the nephew of
Amboise--namely, that of CHARLES of BOURBON--that the _Calvanistic
persecution_ commenced. "Tunc vero coepit civitas, dioecesis,
universaque provincia lamentabilem in modum conflictari, saevientibus
ob religionis dissidia plusquam civilibus bellis," &c. But then the
good Archbishop, however bountiful he might have been towards the poor
at _Roncesvalles_, (when he escorted Philip II.'s first wife
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry II. to the confines of Spain, after he
had married her to that wretched monarch) should not have inflamed the
irritated minds of the Calvinists, by BURNING ALIVE, in 1559, _John
Cottin_, one of their most eminent preachers, by way of striking