Lest We Forget: St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

This event was surely
known in England also. Sir Francis Walsingham, the Chief Spymaster for Queen
Elizabeth 1, was in Paris at the outbreak of the coordinated slaughter and
barely escaped with his life. This also was the year that the Pope
excommunicated Elizabeth and the year in which he offered indulgences to any
English subject who might assassinate Elizabeth. Also, following the