ct was received with
ineffable delight, especially in those cities of the kingdom where there
were Huguenot judges. The Catholics were despised. The Huguenots became
bold: "En toutes compagnies, assemblees et lieux publicz, ilz huguenotz
avoient le hault parler." Despite the prohibition of the employment of
insulting terms, they called their adversaries "papaux, idolatres,
pauvres abusez." and "tisons du purgatoire du pape." Memoires, i. 122.
Doubtless a smaller measure of free speech than this would have sufficed
to stir up the bile of the curate of Meriot.]

[Footnote 1036: Already, on the 6th of March, Claude Boissiere had
written to the Genevan reformer from Saintes: "God has so augmented His
church that we number to-day by the grace of God thirty-eight pastors in
this province" (Saintonge in Western France), "each of us having the
care of so many towns and parishes, that, had we fifty more, we should
scarcely be able to satisfy half the charges that present themselves."
Geneva MSS., _apud_ Bulletin, xiv. (1855) 320, and Crottet, Hist. des
egl. ref. de Pons, Gemozac, etc., 57.]

[Footnote 1037: Letter to Bullinger, May 24, 1561, _apud_ Baum, ii.,
App., 32, and Bonnet, Eng. tr., iv. 190.]

[Footnote 1038: Letter of Gilbert de Vaux, April 5, 1561. MS. in Nat.
Lib. of Paris, _apud_ Bulletin, xiv. 321, 322.]

[Footnote 1039: After having examined the churches, convents, etc., the
lieutenant, though a Roman Catholic, reported to the Toulouse parliament
"qu'il avoit trouve une telle obeissance en ceste ville que le roy
demande a tous ses subjects, de sorte qu'il n'y avoit eu jamais un coup
frappe, ne injure dicte aux papistes par ceux de l'Evangile."]

[Footnote 1040: Letter of Du Vignault to M. d'Espeville (Calvin), May
26, 1561, in Geneva MSS., Bulletin, xiv. (1865) 322-324.]

[Footnote 1041: "Ceux de Tholoze sont du tout enrages, car ils ne
cessent de brusler les paoures fideles de jour a aultre. Le trouppeau
est fort desole, et croy qu'est sans pasteur." Letter of La Chasse,
Montpellier, June 14, 1561, to M. d'Espeville, Geneva MSS., _ubi supra_,
p. 325.]

[Footnote 1042: La Place, 127, 128; De Thou, iii., liv. xxviii. 53.]

[Footnote 1043: Memoires de Castelnau, 1. iii., c. 3. The discussion was
long, and would have been tedious, had it not turned upon so important a
topic. There were 140 members of parliament, and according to its
regulations no one was allowed to concur simply in the views of another,
but