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ft428 The incomplete draft of’ this address has been discovered by J. Bonnet
among the MSS. of the Geneva Library, and the whole of it by Reuss
and Cunitz in the library of St. Thomas in Strassburg. It is printed in
Opera, X. Pars II. 30-36 (and the shorter draft, IX. 873-876). Comp.
Herminjard, Ill. 117, note, and 418 sqq.
ft429 Three hundred crowns were offered for his capture dead or alive. So
Bucer wrote to Blaurer, Jan. 13, 1534, in Herminjard, III. 130. Cop
informed Bucer, April 5, 1534, that a German was burned in Paris, for
denying transubstantiation. Ibid. III. 159.
ft430 According to Beza (XXI. 123), Queen Marguerite protected Calvin
and honorably received him at the court; but he certainly left Paris very
soon. Colladon says nothing of an interference of Marguerite. The
story of the escape of Calvin is told by Papyrius Masson, and Desmay.
See M’Crie, p. 100, note 59. It has been compared to Paul’s escape at
Damascus, Acts 9:25.
ft431 They are indiscriminately called “faux prophètes, damnables
trompeurs, apostats, loups, faux pasteurs, menteurs, blasphémateurs,
meurtriers des âmes, renonceurs de Jésus Christ, ravisseurs de
l’honneur de Dieu, et plus détestables queles diables.” Farel, then in
Switzerland, was suspected of having some share in this incendiary
publication, but without any evidence. Courault, who was then in
confinement, advised not to publish the paper, “as it would excite great
commotion in the minds of the people, and bring odium on the whole
body of the faithful.” Hist. Martyr., fol. 64, quoted by M’Crie, p. 102.
ft432 Beza (XXI. 124) gives a brief account of the persecution:”Eousque
inflammata fascinati Francisci Regis ira ob schedas quosdam
adversus missam per urbem sparsas ipsiusque regii cubiculi foribus ad
fixas, ut publica decreta supplicatione, cui una cum liberis suis tribus
nudo capite ardentem facem quasi expiationis causa gestans interfuit,
quatuor urbis celebrioribus locis octonos martyres vivos ustulari
juberet, atque adeo solemni jure jurando testaretur, se ne liberis
quidem suis parsurum, si forte teterrimis illis, ut vocabat, haeresibus
essent infecti.” The Protestant reports are verified by that of a Roman
Catholic, “Bourgeois de Paris,” who witnessed the burnings with
satisfaction, as a spectacle well pleasing to God, and mentions the dates
and places of execution (namely, Nov. 10, 1534, Nov. 18, Nov. 19,
Dec. 4; Jan. 21,1535, Jan. 22, Feb. 16, 19, 26, March 3, May 5), as
well as the occupations of the victims, most of whom were