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[Footnote 1108: La Place, 154; Baum, Theodor Beza, ii. 230-234. To the names mentioned in the text must be added the name of Jean de l'Espine, who joined his brethren soon after their arrival at Poissy. He was a Carmelite monk of high reputation for learning, who now, for the first time, threw aside the cowl and subscribed to the reformed confession of faith. For an interesting account of his conversion caused by conversing with and witnessing the triumphant death of a Protestant, Jean Rabec, executed April 24, 1556, see Ph. Vincent, Recherches sur les commencements et premiers progres de la Ref. en la ville de la Roch.e.l.le, 1693, _apud_ Bulletin, ix. 30-32. The delegates of the churches were more numerous than the ministers; there were twenty-two, according to the Histoire ecclesiastique, i. 316; though the Abbe Bruslart (Mem. de Conde, i. 51), swells the number to twenty-eight. The names of twelve, representing twelve of the princ.i.p.al provinces, are given, with variations, by two MSS. of the National Library of Paris (Dupuy Coll., vols. 309 and 641), see F. Bourquelot, notes to Mem. de Claude Haton, i.

155.]

[Footnote 1109: Beza to Calvin, Sept. 12, _apud_ Baum, ii., App. 61; La Place, 158.]

[Footnote 1110: Beza, _ubi supra_. An engraving of the period, reproduced by Montfaucon, affords a pleasant view of the quaint scene.]

[Footnote 1111: La Place, 157; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 314; De Thou, iii. 65.]

[Footnote 1112: Letter of Beza to Calvin, Aug. 30, 1561, _ap._ Baum, ii., App., 59.]

[Footnote 1113: The speeches of Charles and L'Hospital seem to have been delivered before the introduction of Beza; cf. Hist. eccles. des eglises ref., i. 316. Prof. Baum, following La Place, 157, and De Thou, iii.

65-67, represents them as having been delivered subsequently. Theodor Beza, ii. 238.]

[Footnote 1114: La Place, 158; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 314, 315.

I have alluded to the fact, first noticed by Prof. Soldan, that De Thou and others have placed here a speech which was in reality delivered five or six weeks earlier; while not only they, but also the accurate La Place and the author of the Histoire eccles. des egl. ref., have done the same by the king's speech, and a rejoinder of Tournon to L'Hospital's address.]

[Footnote 1115: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 316.]

[Footnote 1116: This interesting incident Prof. Baum discovered in a fragmentary MS. in the remarkable collection of the late Col. Tronchin.

Theodor Beza, ii. 238. The text is thus given in the Bulletin xiii.

(1864) 284: ”M. de Besze, entrant dans la conference de Poissy avec un ministre de Geneve, un cardinal dit: _Voici les chiens de Geneve!_ M. de Besze, l'ayant entendu, repondit: _Il est bien necessaire que, dans la bergerie du Seigneur, il y ait des chiens pour abboyer contre les loups._”]

[Footnote 1117: ”Es sind auch die Cardinal, diewyl er geredt, mit entdektem Houpt gestunden, und beede mal, diewyl sy gebatet, hat sich die alte Kunigin nidergla.s.sen und mit gebatet, der Kunig aber ist bliben still sitzen.” Letter of Haller to Bullinger, Berne, Sept. 23, 1561, _ap._ Baum, ii., App., 73.]

[Footnote 1118: Baum, ii. 245.]

[Footnote 1119: La Place, 159; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref. i. 316. The current, but erroneous belief, that this confession was first composed by Theodore Beza at the Colloquy of Poissy, has already been noticed. It had been printed, as we have seen (_ante_, c. viii. p. 343), in the Geneva Liturgy as early as in 1542; and earlier still in that of Strasbourg. It was already the favorite of martyrs and confessors. Jean Vernou, in 1515, recited it at the _estrapade_. ”Verum antequam mactaretur,” says Jean Crespin, ”preces ad Deum fudit, ita exorsus: 'Domine Deus et Pater omnipotens ego certe coram sacrosancta majestate tua ex animo et syncere agnosco me peccatorem esse miserrimum,' et caetera quae in precationum formula recitantur statim initio.” The margin reads: ”Initium prec.u.m solennium Geneuae.” Actiones et monimenta martyrum, Genevae 1560, fol. 321.]

[Footnote 1120: La Place, 159; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 316.]

[Footnote 1121: ”De Beze portant la parole pour tous les autres, commenca et continua longuement sa remonstrance en a.s.sez doux termes, se soumettant souventefois, si l'on montroit par la Sainte Escriture,” etc.

Letter of Catharine de' Medici to the Bishop of Rennes, Sept. 14, 1561, _apud_ Le Laboureur, Add. Castelnau, i. 733.]

[Footnote 1122: ”His solumodo verbis Cardinales atque Episcopi usque adeo exasperati atque exacerbati sunt, ut in haec verba, orationem ipsius interpellates, proruperint: _blasphemavit, blasphemavit Deum_! Sed eorum adversis admurmurationibus D. Beza minime perturbatus, eodem vultu,”

etc. Letter of Joh.. Guil. Stuckius to Conrad Hubert, Sept. 18, 1561, Baum, ii., App., 66.]

[Footnote 1123: ”Da Beza eine schone Oration gethon, darinn er kurtz perstringiert alle strytigen Artikel, und als er letstlich kom uff den Artikel von der Gegenwirtikeit Christi im Sacrament, und under anderm gesagt das sige so veer von einander als der Himmel von der Erden, habend die Sorbonischen angfangen _klopfen_, _rutschen_, _brummlen_, das nieman nut mer mogen h.o.r.en, dess die alte Konigin ubel zufriden gsyn.

Dessgleichen auch der Cardinal von Lutringen und sy gheissen in Stille losen, man werde sy doch hernach auch gutwilliklich verh.o.r.en.” Letter of Haller to Bullinger, Sept. 25, 1561, Baum, ii., App., 73. ”Cela fut trouve si nouveau et estrange entre les prelats, que soubdain ils commencerent tous a murmurer et faire un grand bruict; lequel toutesfois estant aucunement appaise,” etc. La Place, 167, 168. ”Hic enim mussitare Cardinales et Episcopi, et tantum non vestes scindere.” Letter of Martyr to the Senate of Zurich, Sept. 12, 1561, Baum, ii., App., 63.]

[Footnote 1124: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 327.]

[Footnote 1125: Letter of Haller, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 1126: The admirable speech of Theodore Beza is given word for word by La Place, 159-167, and somewhat modernized by the Hist. eccles.

des egl. ref., i. 316-327. Cf. De Thou, iii. 67, 68; Castelnau, 1. iii., c. 4; Abbe Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 51; Letters of Stuck, Haller, and Martyr, _ubi supra_. Summa eorum quae a die 22. Augusti usque ad 15.

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