fter Du
Bourg's death--he is styled "senator innocentissimus, integerrimus,
sanctissimus."]

[Footnote 799: Florimond de Raemond, Historia de ortu, progressu, et
ruina haesreseon hujus saeculi (Col. 1613), lib. vii, c. vi., p. 411. We
have La Planche's testimony to the somewhat extraordinary statement that
the judges themselves declared Du Bourg happy in suffering in behalf of
so just a cause, and excused themselves for their own conduct by
alleging the pressure of the Guises (p. 228). "Stulte fecerunt
gubernatores Gallici, quod eum publice supplicio affecerunt," wrote
Languet, a few months later; "ejus enim supplicium _est una ex non
minimis causis horum tumultuum_." Epist. sec., ii, 47.]

[Footnote 800: Florimond de Raemond, ii. 410, 411. Let not the humane
reader mistake. Policy, not pity, dictated toleration. The same
Florimond de Raemond, presiding as the oldest counsellor, read an _arret_
of the Parliament of Bordeaux, not only ordering the disinterment of a
child buried in the cemetery of Ozillac in Saintonge, but that of all
the bodies of Huguenots that had been placed in any other cemetery
within ten years. Plaintes des eglises reformees de France, etc., 1597;
_apud_ Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. fr., xi. (1862), 145.]

[Footnote 801: Compare La Planche, 242.]

[Footnote 802: The singular details of these trials, which strikingly
illustrate the horrible corruption of the French judiciary in the
sixteenth century, are given by La Planche, 242-245; Hist. eccles., i.
160-164; De Thou, ii. 703, 704; La Place, 24, who remarks upon the
singularly different judgments in the five cases, and attributes the
variety to the change in the state of the kingdom, and to the diversity
of the interrogatories addressed to the prisoners. The sentences against
Du Faur and De Foix were subsequently annulled and erased from the
records of the parliament, on the ground of irregularity.]

[Footnote 803: De Thou, ii. 699; Agrippa d'Aubigne, Histoire universelle
(Maille, 1616), i. 89.]

[Footnote 804: Recueil gen. des anc. lois franc. (July 23, 1359), xiv.
1; (Dec. 17th), xiv. 14; and (Aug. 5, 1560), xiv. 46.]

[Footnote 805: La Planche, 218. Cf. Histoire du tumulte d'Amboise.]

[Footnote 806: "In Gallia omnia sunt perturbatissima," wrote Languet
(Jan. 31, 1560), "et scribitur esse omnino impossibile, ut res diu eo
modo consistant." The Cardinal of Lorraine, he added, has dissipated the
single church of Paris, but duri