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a passage clear for the procession. It finally introd .
halted at the Church of Notre Dame, where
the Host was placed on the altar, and the
Bishop of Paris said Mass as atonement for
past insults. After that, a sumptuous dinner
was served the King and princes at the
Bishop's palace; and that ended, the nobles
and prominent persons repaired to the
bishop's great hall to hear a speech from the
King. He pathetically lamented the harm
done to religion in the placards, and urged all
to unite in the support of the Romish church,
and declared: ''I warn you that I will have
the said errors expelled and driven from my
kingdom, I will excuse no one. As I am your
King, if I knew one of my limbs infected with
this rottenness, I would give it you to cut off.
And if I saw one of my children defiled by it,
I would not spare him. I would deliver him
up myself, and sacrifice him to God.*' At the
close of his speech, he was approached and
thanked for his zeal by two representatives,
who kneeled before him, one on the part of the
Roman clergy, and the other in behalf of the
Roman people. The response of the audience
was, **We will live and die for the Catholic
religion." The procession with the King and
nobles then formed again and proceeded to
two points in the city, where victims were held
to be burnt alive, that the wrath of God might
be appeased. At each place, three brave and
respected Reformers were separately exe- six
cuted, by letting each down into the flames ^^^J^'
and lifting him out of them, a number of times, in Pans,
by means of a strappado, until the rope which
bound his hands to it was burned, and he then
fell into the hot coals of fire: an awful death
in preference to abjuring his religion which