ng this very period there have been
established more than sixty churches in other parts of the kingdom; nor
are the Genevese able to supply so many ministers as they are asked to
furnish. Meantime many are defending themselves against the royal
officers. The Gascons lately drove off the commissioners sent by the
Parliament of Bordeaux to make inquisition for Lutherans. The same has
happened in the district of Narbonne, not far from Marseilles. Epistolae
sec., ii., pp. 32, 33.]

[Footnote 807: Beza to Bullinger, Sept. 12, 1559 (Baum, ii., App., p.
3). Calvin, in his letters to Bullinger and Peter Martyr, both dated May
11, 1560, by the expression "eight months ago," points back to the same
period. Calvin's Letters (Bonnet), Eng. tr., iv. 104-106.]

[Footnote 808: Beza, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 809: Calvin's Letters, iv. 107. So the ministers of Geneva
declare before the council: "que pour les troubles arrives en France,
ils n'en sont nullement coupables; qu'il ne doit pas etre inconnu au
Conseil qu'ils ont detourne, autant qu'ils ont pu, d'aller a Amboise,
ceux qu'ils ont sceu avoir quelque dessein d'y aller." Registers, Jan.
28, 1561, _apud_ Gaberel, Histoire de l'egl. de Geneve, i., pieces
justif., 203.]

[Footnote 810: La Planche, 237.]

[Footnote 811: De Heu was a man of great influence. He had been
_echevin_ at Metz, and the chief mover in introducing Protestantism into
that city. In 1543 he invited Farel to come thither. Persecution drove
him to Switzerland. He returned from exile upon the fall of Metz into
the hands of the French, in 1552. When he found that the change had only
aggravated the condition of the Protestants, he became prominent in the
effort to enlist the sympathy and support of the German princes in
behalf of the French reformation. Bulletin de l'hist. du prot. fr., xxv.
(1876), 164.]

[Footnote 812: The whole affair remained involved in impenetrable
obscurity until the recent fortunate discovery of the "Proces verbal"
(or original minute) "de l'execution a mort de Caspar de Heu, S^r. de
Buy" among the MSS. of the Bibliotheque Nationale, 22562, 1re partie,
pp. 110-113. It is now printed in the Appendix to "Le Tigre," 103-108,
and Bulletin de l'hist. du prot. fr., xxv. (1876), 164-168. The very
date (which proves to be Sept. 1, 1558) was previously unknown.]

[Footnote 813: "Ce pendant," says the royal lieutenant, in the
interesting document just described, "aurions fait faire une fosse _dans