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[Footnote 294: Journal d'un bourgeois, 378.]
[Footnote 295: The series of letters ends with a prayer which it would have been difficult, we must suppose, for a brother to resist: ”Il vous plera (plaira), Monseigneur, faire en sorte que l'on ne die (dise) point que l'eslongnement vous ait fait oblier vostre tres-humble et tres-obeissante subjette et seur MARGUERITE.” Genin, 2de Coll., No. 52.]
[Footnote 296: A MS. of the Bibliotheque Nationale, printed by M. Genin (i. 218, etc.), and G. Guiffrey, Cronique, etc., 76, note, gives these and other interesting details, which are in part confirmed by Erasmus.]
[Footnote 297: Ibid., _ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 298: It was a slight suggestion of mercy that prompted the judges to permit him to be strangled before his body was consigned to the flames.]
[Footnote 299: ”Ce qui fut faict et expedie ce mesme jour _en grande diligence, affin qu'il ne fut recourru du Roy ne de madame la Regente_, qui estoit lors a Bloys, etc.” Journal d'un bourgeois, 383.]
[Footnote 300: For De Berquin's history, see Erasmus, _ubi supra_; Journal d'un bourgeois, 378, etc.; Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta (ed.
of 1560), fol. 57-59; Histoire eccles., i. 5; Felibien, ii. 985; Haag, s. v.]
[Footnote 301: Journal d'un bourgeois, and Hist. eccles., _ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 302: So he is styled by Martin of Beauvais, writing some few months later, in a sufficiently bold plea for the use of fire and f.a.got: ”Si vero _haeresiarchae Berquini_, et suorum sequacium pervicacia delibutus (haereticus) incorrigibilis videatur, ne forta.s.sis plusquam vipereum venenum latenter surrepat, et sanos inficere possit, subito auferte eum de medio vestrum, execrantes atque aversantes illius perversitatem, et abscisum velut palmitem aridum (juxta Joannis sententiam) _subjectis ignibus torrere facite_.” Paraclesis catholica Franciae ad Francos, ut fortes in Fide et Vocatione qua vocati sunt, permaneant, auth.o.r.e Martino Theodorico Bellovaco, Juris Caesarei Professore (Parisiis, 1539), p. 14.--See note at the end of this chapter.]
[Footnote 303: F. W. Barthold, Deutschland und die Hugenoten, i. 15; Soldan, Gesch. des Prot. in Frankreich, i. 115-120.]
[Footnote 304: Mezeray, Abrege chronologique, iv. 577.]
[Footnote 305: Soldan, i. 121.]
[Footnote 306: October 28, 1533.]
[Footnote 307: ”Con mala sodisfazione di tutta la Francia, perche pare ad ogniuno che Clemente pontefice _abbia gabbato_ questo re cristianissimo.” Marino Giustiniano (1535), Relaz. Ven., Alberi, i.
191.]
[Footnote 308: Catharine de' Medici was born April 13, 1519.]
[Footnote 309: These interesting particulars are contained in a MS.
letter in the Zurich Archives (probably written by Oswald Myconius to Joachim Vadian). The writer had them directly from the mouth of Guillaume du Bellay, the French amba.s.sador, who was with the king at the interview of Ma.r.s.eilles. Du Bellay also gave some details of his own conversations with Clement. The latter freely admitted that there were some things that displeased him in the ma.s.s, but naturally wanted so profitable an inst.i.tution to be treated tenderly and cautiously.
Correspond. des reformateurs, iii. 183-186.]
[Footnote 310: The truth respecting Toulouse probably lies about midway between the censures of the Huguenot and the eulogy of the Roman Catholic historian. According to the author of the _Histoire ecclesiastique_, the parliament was the most sanguinary in France, the university careless of letters, the population jealous of any proficiency in liberal studies. According to Florimond de Raemond, writing somewhat later, Toulouse was worthy of eternal praise, because, notwithstanding a marvellous confluence of strangers from all parts, and in spite of being completely surrounded by regions infected with heresy, it had so persisted in the faith as to contain within its walls not a single family that did not live in conformity with the prescriptions of the church! Historia de ortu, progressu et ruina haereseon hujus saeculi, ii. 486.]
[Footnote 311: Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta, fol. 64.]
[Footnote 312: Florimond de Raemond, ii. 394, 395.]
[Footnote 313: March 6, 1535. Journal d'un bourgeois, 453.]
[Footnote 314: Hist. eccles., i. 9; Crespin, _ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 315: John Calvin gives a contemporary's account in a letter to Francois Daniel from Paris, October, 1533. Herminjard, Correspond. des reformateurs, iii. 106, etc.; and translated in Bonnet, Calvin's Letters, i. 36, etc. See also Jean Sturm's letter of about the same date, Herminjard, iii. 93.]
[Footnote 316: Calvin's letter above quoted, one of the oldest of his MS. autographs. Dr. Paul Henry, in his valuable Life and Times of John Calvin (Eng. trans., i. 37) inadvertently makes Cop rector of the _Sorbonne_, an office that never existed.]
[Footnote 317: A single sentence may serve to indicate the distinctness with which this is a.s.serted: ”Evangelium remissionem peccatorum et justificationem gratis pollicetur; neque enim accepti sumus Deo quod legi satisfaciamus, sed ex sola Christi promissione, de qua qui dubitat pie vivere non potest, et gehennae incendium sibi parat.” Opera Calvini, Baum, Cunitz, et Reuss, x. 34.]