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[Footnote 98: Cenac Moncaut, Histoire des Pyrenees (Paris, 1854), iv.
342, referring primarily to southern France.]
[Footnote 99: Since the end of the thirteenth century the bishop had been accustomed to delegate the contentious jurisdiction of his diocese to an ecclesiastical judge, taking the name of _vicar_, or more commonly _official_ (”vicarius generalis officialis”). The court itself became known as the _officialite_. Trials for heresy, breach of promise of marriage, etc., came before it. See the Dictionnaire de la conversation (1857), s. v. _Official_.]
[Footnote 100: Michel Surriano (1561), Rel. des Amb. Ven., Tommaseo, i.
502. The other half went to princes, barons, and other possessors of lands, etc.]
[Footnote 101: How they behaved there, the abbe of Meriot elsewhere tells us: ”Et si le plus souvent a telles noyseay estoient les premiers les prebstres, l'espee au poing, car ilz estoient _des premiers aux danses, jeux de quilles, d'escrime, et es tavernes ou ilz ribloient et par les rues toute nuict aultant que les plus meschans du pays_.” Mem de Claude Haton, 18.]
[Footnote 102: Memoires de Claude Haton, i. 89, 90.]
[Footnote 103: Giovanni Soranzo returned from France in 1558, or a year before the close of the reign of Henry II.]
[Footnote 104: Relazioni Venete, Alberi, ii. 409. Brantome is a familiar instance of a favorite thus rewarded from the estates of the church. His amusing vindication of the anomaly is worthy of a perusal. See Digression contre les Eslections des Benefices, uvres, tom. vii. On one occasion an enemy of the loquacious courtier caused the a.s.sa.s.sination of his _t.i.tular_ abbot, apparently in the hope of depriving Brantome of his chief source of revenue! Ibid., vii. 294.]
[Footnote 105: ”Solo col ponderar loro la vita che tenevano.” Relazione di G. Correro, 1569, Tommaseo, ii. 150.]
[Footnote 106: ”Je n'ay point ouy dire, ny leu qu'auparavant ils fussent plus gens-de-bien, et mieux vivants; car en leurs Eveschez et Abbayes, ils estoient autant desbauchez que Gens-d'armes; car comme j'ay dit cydevant, qu'a la cour s'ils faisoient l'amour, c'estoit discretement et sans scandale,” etc. Brantome, _ubi supra_, vii. 312.]
[Footnote 107: ”Au moins plus sages hypocrites, qui cachent mieux leurs vices noirs.” Brantome, _ubi supra_, vii. 287-289.]
[Footnote 108: Brantome, _ubi supra_, vii. 280.]
[Footnote 109: Brantome, vii. 286.]
[Footnote 110: Reponse a quelque apologie, etc. Par Antoine de Mouchy, surnomme Demochares, docteur en theologie, 1558. Feuillet 2. _Apud_ Henri Lutteroth, La reformation en France pendant sa premiere periode (Paris, 1859), 137.]
[Footnote 111: ”Je suis esbahi de ce que ces jeunes gens nous alleguent le Nouveau Testament. J'avoys plus de cinquante ans que je ne scavoys que c'estoit du Nouveau Testament.” Robert etienne, _apud_ Baum, Origines Evangelii in Gallia restaurati (Strasbourg, 1838), 35.]
[Footnote 112: ”Un beau miracle,” says the Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, 38.]
[Footnote 113: Histoire ecclesiastique des eglises Reformees au royaume de France (commonly ascribed to Theodore de Beze, or Beza) Lille edit., i. 11; Gaillard, vi. 460. A MS. narrative of the farce, dictated by Calvin and taken down by his secretary, Charles de Jonvillers, has been discovered in the Geneva Library. It is printed in the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. franc., iii. (1854), 33, etc. Calvin, who had himself been a student in the University of Orleans, and was fully acquainted with the circ.u.mstances, drew up this piquant monograph for J.
Sleidan to use in his famous history of the times, where an account may accordingly be read.]
[Footnote 114: See the order of Spifame, of Oct. 5, 1527, for payment to the master mechanic on several annual recurrences of the scene, Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. franc., xxv. (1876), 236, with M.
Bordier's erratum.]
[Footnote 115: Farel, Du vray Usage de la Croix, 129, 131.]
[Footnote 116: ”Credo in Jesum inter animalia ex virgine nasciturum.”
Cha.s.sanee, Catalogus Gloriae Mundi, fol. 295. The medals were said to have been unearthed at Autun, the residence of Cha.s.sanee, who informs us ”multum curavi invenire, sed non potui.” But, in addition to the coins, Cha.s.sanee gravely tells us there was also a _church_ built by the _Franks_ at Chartres before the advent of Christ, in honor of the most blessed Virgin _pariturae_; ”from which it is demonstrated that, if other Gentiles prophesied _in word_ concerning Christ, the Franks believed on him _in deed_, just as also the Greeks, who erected a temple to the unknown G.o.d.” Ibid., _ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 117: From the simple costume worn arose the designation of ”_les processions blanches_.”]
[Footnote 118: Le protestantisme en Champagne: Recits extraits d'un ma.n.u.scrit de N. Pithou, seigneur de Chamgobert concernant l'histoire de la fondation, etc., de l'eglise ref. de Troyes des 1539 a 1595, par Ch.
L. B. Recordon (Paris, 1863), 31-33.]
[Footnote 119: The original of this remarkable record, the more significant from the subsequent position of Louise as a determined enemy of the Protestants, may be seen in Journal de Louise de Savoie, Coll. de memoires (Pet.i.tot), xvi. 407.]