Jean de Ferrières

[15] According to Arber, because of concerns about what steps his enemies might take if he were to administer his inheritance himself, Ferrières made a secret agreement with his sister Beraude, that she would present herself as Vendôme's sole heir.

[16] The French ambassadors arrived in England about 15 August 1562, and after numerous secret conferences with English officials, signed the Treaty of Hampton Court on 20 September 1562.

[17] Peace, continued persecution The French civil war came to a temporary end on 19 March 1563 with the Edict of Pacification signed at Amboise, which granted the Huguenots certain religious freedoms.

However Ferrières' goods were confiscated by the French crown on the ground of his responsibility for bringing English forces to Le Havre.

Ferrières left the royal progress at Vitry on 27 April, and joined the Prince de Condé in Paris, where he apparently resided for the next several years.

[20][21][22] Exile in England After the Prince de Condé was slain at the Battle of Jarnac on 13 March 1569, Ferrières and his wife, Françoise Joubert, left France, arriving in Cornwall on 28 April 1569.

[17] On 4 November 1569 Ferrières wrote from Holborn in London to Cecil recommending Giovanni Battista Agnello as 'a man of honesty and industry'.

[23][24] With his letter he sent Cecil a copy of Agnello's book, saying that he wished it had been printed on cleaner paper, 'but that of dusky hue best suits the works of Vulcanicorum hominum'.

In February 1572 he was at La Ferté, but shortly thereafter returned to Paris, where he remained in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, mistrusting the King's promises for the safety of the Huguenots.

[33] In consequence Carles allowed Ferrières, at the age of about sixty-six, 'to die like a dog while bound to the magazine at the bottom of the hold of the captain's galley'.