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[Footnote 566: Inedited letter of Constable Montmorency of July 8, 1549, in the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. fr., ix. (1860) 124, 125.

”Voila,” says this doc.u.ment, ”le debvoir ou ledit seigneur s'est mis pour continuer la possession de ce nom et t.i.tre de Tres-Chrestien.”]

[Footnote 567: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 50, 51. Crespin, fol.

157, etc. The registers of parliament can spare for the auto-da-fe but a few lines at the conclusion of a lengthy description of the magnificent procession, and inaccurately designate the locality: ”Cette apresdinee fut faicte execution d'aucuns cond.a.m.nez au feu pour crime d'heresie, tant au parvis N. D. que en la place devant Ste. Catherine du Val des Escolliers.” Reg. of Parl., July 4, 1549 (Felibien, Preuves, iv. 745, 746).]

[Footnote 568: Anne Audeberte and Louis de Marsac. Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 52, 58; Crespin, fols. 156, 227-234.]

[Footnote 569: Isambert, Recueil gen. des anc. lois fr., xiii. 134-138.

Of course the provision giving to church courts the right of arrest, so opposed to the spirit of the ”Gallican Liberties,” displeased parliament, which duly remonstrated (Preuves des libertez de l'eg.

gall., iii. 171), but was compelled to register the law, with conditions forbidding the exaction of pecuniary fines, and the sentence of perpetual imprisonment.]

[Footnote 570: De Thou, i. 167. Hist. eccles., i. 53.]

[Footnote 571: De Thou, _ubi supra_. Mezeray well remarks that the Protestants recognized the fact then, as they always have done since, in similar circ.u.mstances, that there is no more disastrous time for them than when the court of France has a misunderstanding with that of Rome.

Abrege chronologique, iv. 664.]

[Footnote 572: ”A right of appeal to the supreme courts has. .h.i.therto been, and still is, granted to persons guilty of poisoning, of forgery, and of robbery; yet this is denied to Christians; they are condemned by the ordinary judges to be dragged straight to the flames, without any liberty of appeal.... All are commanded, with more than usual earnestness, to adore the breaden G.o.d on bended knee. All parish priests are commanded to read the Sorbonne Articles every Sabbath for the benefit of the people, that a solemn abnegation of Christ may thus resound throughout the land.... Geneva is alluded to more than ten times in the edict, and always with a striking mark of reproach.” Calvin's Letters (Bonnet), Eng. tr., iii. 319, 320. I cannot agree with Soldan (Geschichte des Prot. in Frankreich, i. 228) in the statement that the Edict of Chateaubriand left the jurisdiction essentially as fixed by the ordinance of Nov. 19, 1549. For the edict does not, as he a.s.serts, permit ”the civil judges--presidial judges as well as parliaments--equally with the spiritual, to commence every process.” It deprives the ecclesiastical judge, 1st, of the right which the ordinance of 1549 had conferred, of _initiating_ any process where scandal, sedition, etc., were joined to simple heresy, and these cases--under the interpretation of the law--const.i.tuted a large proportion of cases; 2d, of the right of deciding with the secular judges in these last-named cases; and 3d, of the power of arrest. De Thou, himself a president of parliament (ii. 375, liv. xvi.), therefore styles it ”un edit, par lequel le Roi se reservoit une entiere connoissance du Lutheranisme, et l'attribuoit a ses juges, sans aucune exception, a moins que l'heresie dont il s'agissoit ne demandat quelque eclairciss.e.m.e.nt, ou que les coupables ne fussent dans les ordres sacres.”]

[Footnote 573: Milton's Areopagitica. This was the view somewhat bitterly expressed in one of the poems of the ”Satyres Chrestiennes de la cuisine Papale ” (Geneva, 1560; reprinted 1857), addressed ”aux Rostisseurs,” p. 130:

”Je cognoy, Cagots, que mes liures Vous sont fascheus.e.m.e.nt nouueaux.

Bruslez, si en serez deliures Pour en servir de naueaux.

Mais scavez-vous que c'est, gros veaux, _Fuyez le feu qui s'en fera: Car la fumee en vos cerueauz Seulmient vous estouffera_.”

[Footnote 574: Recueil gen. des anc. lois fr., xiii. 189-208.]

[Footnote 575: Hist. eccles., i. 59.]

[Footnote 576: Letter of Beza to Bullinger, Lausanne, May 10, 1552 (Baum, Thedor Beza, i. 423): ”Et tamen vix credas quam multi sese libenter his periculis objiciant ut aedificent Ecclesiam Dei.”]

[Footnote 577: Beza to Bullinger, Oct. 28, 1551, Baum, i. 417: ”Tantum abest ut Evangelii amplificationem ea res (cruentissimum regis edictum) impediat ut contra nihil aeque prodesse sentiamus ad oves Christi undique dispersas in unum veluti gregem cogendas. Id testari vel una Geneva satis potest, in quam hodie certatim ex omnibus et Galliae et Italiae regionibus tot exules confluunt, ut tantae mult.i.tudini vix nunc sufficiat.”]

[Footnote 578: De Thou, ii. 181.]

[Footnote 579: Memoires de Vieilleville (written by his secretary, Vincent Carloix), ed. Pet.i.tot, i. 299-301. This incident belongs to the year 1549.]

[Footnote 580: Histoire eccles., i. 54-60.]

[Footnote 581: Soldan is scarcely correct (Gesch. des Prot. in Frank., i. 235) in representing them to have _completed_ their course of study; ”alii diutius quam alii,” are the words of Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta Martyrum, fol. 185.]

[Footnote 582: In fact, there seem to have been two ”_officials_” at Lyons--the ordinary ”_official_” so-called, or ”_official buatier_” as he is styled in the narrative of ecrivain (Baum, i. 392), and the ”_official de la primace_,” _i. e._, of the Archbishop, as Primate of France (Ibid., i. 388).]

[Footnote 583: Baum, Theodor Beza, i. 176.]

[Footnote 584: See a letter of Calvin to the prisoners, in Bonnet, Lettres franc. de Calvin, i. 340.]

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