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ft757 Audin, Life of Calvin, p. 394.
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ft758 See the extracts quoted on p. 495.
ft759 Opera, XII. 642 sq.: “Tametsi resipiscentiam manu in manum
implicita promisit, vereor, ne frustra surdo cecinerim fabulam.” Dyer
(p. 221) misdates this letter Dec. 2 (probably a typographical error).
ft760 Registers of Council for October, 1548, in Annal. 436-438. About the
same time the wife of Calvin’s brother, Antoine, was imprisoned on the
charge of adultery. Ibid. 441.
ft761 He was charged with saying that “la jeunesse de cette citésont pires
que les brigands, meurtriers, larrons, luxurieux, athéists.” Reg. of
Nov. 3, 1553, in Annal. 559.
ft762 Comp. the action of the Council, Nov. 13, in Annal. 561 and 562.
ft763 Rég. du Conseil, June 3, 1555, in Annal. 608: “Perrin est
condamnépar contumace quil ayt le poing du bras droit duquel il a
attentéaux bastons sindicalz copé: et tous tans ledit Perrin que
Belthesard, Chabod, Verna, et Michalet la teste copé: les testes et ledit
poing cloués au gibet et les corps mis en quartier iouxte la coustume
et condamnez a tous despens damps et interestz.”
ft764 Dyer, p. 397.
ft765 He said, according to the Registers of the Council, Jan. 27, 1546, “que
M. Calvin estoyt meschant homme et nestoyt que un picard et
preschoyt faulce doctrine,” etc. Comp. on his case Annal. 368, 370,
371. Audin calls Ameaux “a man of the bar-room with a wicked tongue
and a soul destitute of energy” (p. 386). He gives quite an amusing
account of the drinking party.
ft766 Annal. 378 and 380. The ministers interceded in behalf of De la Mare,
and the Council gave him six dollars (écus). Maigret was found guilty
of neglecting his duties and visiting houses of ill fame.
ft767 Annal. 411, 611 sq.; Opera, XII. 547, note 14, with references to
Galiffe, Bonivard, and Roget.
ft768 See above, p. 302 sq. That abominable slander about sodomy, which
even Galiffe rejects, Audin and Spalding are not ashamed to repeat.
ft769 See extracts from the Registers, March and April, 1551, and in
September, 1553, Annal. XXI. 475-479, 551 sq.