lus de
mille aycus: pour sayte foys-la je ne les voullus croere." Letter of
Villars to the constable, Oct. 12, 1560, _apud_ Negoc. sous Francois
II., p. 655.]

[Footnote 914: On Sunday, the 28th of July, a gathering composed almost
entirely of women was discovered. Nothing daunted, 1,200 persons met the
next night, with torches and open doors, in the large school-rooms,
where their pastor, Maupeau, preached an appropriate sermon from Rev.
vi. 9, on "the souls of them that were slain for the word of God." Soon
the same place was resorted to by day. Summoned before the magistrates,
judge, and consuls, the Huguenots declared their loyalty, but said that
they had no idea that the king wanted to dictate to the conscience,
which belongs to God. Presently the church of St. Michael was seized.
Then the Cardinal of Lorraine (Oct. 14th) wrote to the bishop, telling
him to call upon M. de Villars for aid in suppressing assemblies and the
preaching. Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 207-210.]

[Footnote 915: They are Nismes, Montpellier, Montagnac, Annonay,
Castres, Marsillargues, Aigues Mortes, Pezenas, Gignac, Sommieres, St.
Jean de Gardonnenches, Anduze, Vauvers (Viviers?), Uzes, and Privas.]

[Footnote 916: Sommaire des instructions donnees a Pignan envoye au roy
par Honorat de Savoye, Cte. de Villars, Oct. 15, 1560, _apud_ Negoc.
sous Francois II., 659-661.]

[Footnote 917: On hearing of the seizure of Aigues Mortes by treachery.
Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 211.]

[Footnote 918: Letters of De Villars to the Guises, Oct. 27 and 29,
1560. Neg. sous Francois II., 671.]

[Footnote 919: Letter of the king to the Cte. de Villars, November 9,
1560. Ib., p. 673.]

[Footnote 920: H. Barnsleye to Cecil, August 28, 1560, State Paper
Office.]

[Footnote 921: I know of no more scathing exposure of the morals of the
clergy than that given by Francois Grimaudet, the representative of the
Tiers Etat of Anjou, and inserted _verbatim_ in La Planche, 389-396. It
was honored by being made the object of a special censure of the
Sorbonne!]

[Footnote 922: La Planche, 387-397; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i.
199.]

[Footnote 923: Remonstrances, plaintes, et doleances de l'estat eccles.,
MSS. Arch. du depart, de la Vienne, Hist. des Protestants et des eglises
ref. du Poitou, par A. Lievre (Poitiers, 1856), i. 84, 85.]

[Footnote 924: Geneva MS., _apud_ Baum, Theodor Beza, ii. 110.]

[Footnote 925: See the interesting passage in the