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letters of Servetus which, he said, he had great difficulty in obtaining from
Calvin (who ought to have absolutely refused). He added some pages from
Calvin’s Institutes with the marginal objections of Servetus to infant
baptism in his handwriting. Ory, not yet satisfied, despatched a special
messenger to Geneva to secure the manuscript of the Restitutio, and proof
that Villeneuve was Servetus and Arnoullet his printer. Trie answered at
once, on the last of March, that the manuscript of the Restitutio had been
at Lausanne for a couple of years (with Viret), that Servetus had been
banished from the churches of Germany (Basel and Strassburg) twentyfour
years ago, and that Arnoullet and Guéroult were his printers, as he
knew from a good source which he would not mention (perhaps Frellon of
Lyons).
The cardinal of Lyons and the archbishop of Vienne, after consultation
with Inquisitor Ory and other ecclesiastics, now gave orders on the 4th of
April for the arrest of Villeneuve and Arnoullet. They were confined in
separate rooms in the Palais Delphinal. Villeneuve was allowed to keep a
servant, and to see his friends. Ory was sent forth, hastened to Vienne, and
arrived there the next morning.
After dinner Villeneuve, having been sworn on the Holy Gospels, was
interrogated as to his name, age, and course of life. In his answers he told
some palpable falsehoods to mislead the judges, and to prevent his being
identified with Servetus, the heretic. He omitted to mention his residence in
Toulouse, where he had been known under his real name, as the books of
the University would show. He denied that he had written any other books
than those on medicine and geography, although he had corrected many.
On being shown some notes he had written on Calvin’s Institutes about
infant baptism, he acknowledged at last the authorship of the notes, but
added that he must have written them inconsiderately for the purpose of
discussion, and he submitted himself entirely to his holy Mother, the
Church, from whose teachings he had never wished to differ.
At the second examination, on the sixth day of April, he was shown some
of his epistles to Calvin. He declared, with tears in his eyes, that those
letters were written when he was in Germany some twenty-five years ago,
when there was printed in that country a book by a certain Servetus, a
Spaniard, but from what part of Spain he did not know! At Paris he had
heard Mons. Calvin spoken of as a learned man, and had entered into
correspondence with him from curiosity, but begged him to keep his letters