The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

68 RISE AND PROGRESS OF HUGUENOTS.
introd. a weak, and pusillanimous prince, incapable
1611. of taking any noble resolution. It was not
enough to leave the death of this great prince
unpunished; they added to that neglect all
Sully's sorts of outrages against his memory; and
^**^' unhappily for us, heaven, which reserved to
itself this vengeance, suffered envy and in-
gratitude to triumph in their success. I
returned home full of grief at what I saw
and heard, 'We are going,' said I, to madam
Sully, whose prudence I well knew, 'to fall
under the dominion of Spain and the Jesuits;
all true Frenchmen, and the Protestants especially,
must look well to their safety; for
they will not continue long in tranquility.' "
Whether Ravaillac was set on Henry IV. by
the Jesuits, or by Spain, or by Italy, his knife
did their work. The Jesuits rose with increasing
power, the King of Spain was relieved of
anxieties, Italy through the Queen Regent,
who was an Italian, won great favors, and
France was plunged once more into confusion
1611. and trouble; while the Huguenots were left to
fight for themselves. Eight days after the
death of her husband, the Queen Mother, in
the name of the Minor King, ratified the
Edict of Nantes; and in October, 1611, gave
another formal declaration bearing on and
adding forty-five thousand livres to the yearly
sum of forty-five thousand crowns, granted
them in the edict; but they were about the
last favors shown and the last gifts ever made
them by the crown. Henceforth all declarations
were practically disregarded and violated.
Unfortunately for the Huguenots, their
leaders became divided in their political as-
sembly, held by consent of the Queen Regent,
May, 1611, at Saumur. In that assembly the