1, 272.]

[Footnote 1004: Calvin, Memoire aux eglises ref. de France, Dec., 1560,
Lettres franc. (Bonnet), ii. 350.]

[Footnote 1005: Letter of Calvin to brethren of Paris, Feb. 26, 1561,
_ap._ Baum, ii., App., 26; Bonnet, Lettres fr. de Calvin, ii. 378, etc.]

[Footnote 1006: "E benche la piu parte fossero ignoranti, e predicasse
mille pazzie, pero ogn'uno aveva il suo seguito." Michel Suriano,
Commentarii del regno di Francia, Relations des Amb. Ven. (Tommaseo), i.
532. M. Tommaseo supposes this relation to belong to 1561, and mentions
the somewhat remarkable opinion of others that it was somewhere between
1564 and 1568. The document itself gives the most decided indications
that it was written in the early part of 1562, before the outbreak of
the first civil war--indeed, before the return of the Guises to court.
After stating that Charles IX. when he ascended the throne was _ten_
years old (page 542), the author says that he is now _eleven and a
half_. The proximate date would, therefore, seem to be January or
February, 1562. Throkmorton wrote to the queen, Paris, Nov. 14, 1561,
that "the Venetians had sent Marc Antonio Barbaro to reside there, in
the place of Sig. Michaeli Soriano." State Paper Office MSS.]

[Footnote 1007: Gaberel, Histoire de l'eglise de Geneve, i., pieces
just., p. 201-203, from the Archives of Geneva; Soulier, Histoire des
edits de pacification (Paris, 1682), 22-25.]

[Footnote 1008: Gaberel, Hist. de l'eglise de Geneve, i. (pieces
justif.), 203-206. He gives the deliberation of the council, as well as
the reply. Lettres franc. de Calvin, ii. 373-378. It needs scarcely to
be noticed that the "Sieur Soulier, pretre," while he parades the royal
letter as a convincing proof of the seditious character of the Huguenot
ministers, does not deign even to allude to the satisfactory reply. No
wonder; so apposite a refutation would have been sadly out of place in a
book written expressly to justify the successive steps of the violation
of the solemn compacts between the French crown and the Protestants--to
prepare the way, in fact, for the formal revocation of the edict of
Nantes (three years later) toward which the priests were fast hurrying
Louis XIV.]

[Footnote 1009: La Place, Commentaires, 120; Sommaire recit de la
calomnieuse accusation de Monsieur le prince de Conde, avec l'arrest de
la cour contenant la declaration de son innocence, in the Mem. de Conde,
ii. 383; De Thou, iii. 38.]

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