berty of preaching and hearing the Gospel with
impunity be granted, there is great reason to fear an intestine war."
Baum, ii., App., 67. Cf. Summa eorum, etc., _apud_ Schlosser, Leben des
Theodor de Beza, Anhang, 358, 359.]

[Footnote 1144: La Place, Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., Jean de Serres,
etc., _ubi supra_, Castelnau, l. iii., c. 4.]

[Footnote 1145: No wonder; the prelates had just solemnly decreed, as
Abbe Bruslart informs us (Mem. de Conde, i. 52): "Non erat congrediendum
cum his qui principia et fundamentum totius nostrae fidei et religionis
christianae negant." Not only so; but they had protested against the
heretics being heard, and had declared that _whoever conferred with them
would be excommunicated_! "Disants que ceux qui confereroient avec eux
seroient excommunies." The reader, if he cannot admire their
consistency, will certainly be struck with astonishment at the fortitude
of the prelates who, a few hours later, could bring themselves with so
little apparent trepidation under the highest censures of the Church.
Bruslart goes on to tell us that it was the Cardinal of Lorraine who
brought them into this dreadful condemnation, partly hoping to convert
the Huguenots, _partly to please Catharine de' Medici_!]

[Footnote 1146: "Mais ce ne fut pas en si grande compagnie
qu'auparavant. Car Messieurs les preslats croignoyent que le monde ne
fut infecte de nos heresies, qu'ils appellent." Letter of Beza to the
Elector Palatine, Oct. 3, 1861, Baum, ii., App., p. 88.]

[Footnote 1147: Baum, Theodor Beza, ii. 311, 312.]

[Footnote 1148: Ib., _ubi supra_, Hist. eccles., i. 349. Letter of N.
des Gallars to the Bishop of London, Sept. 29th, Baum, ii., App., 80.]

[Footnote 1149: Beza's speech is given in full by La Place, 179-189;
Hist. eccl. des egl. ref., i. 350-362; and J. de Serres, i. 282-312. See
also De Thou, iii. 71, and N. des Gallars, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 1150: "Et hoc quidem prorsus inepte, quia neque conquesti
eramus, neque quemquam poterat videri magis accusare, quam eum ipsum
[sc. Cardinal Loth.] cui accesserat advocatus." Letter of Beza, Sept.
27th, _apud_ Baum, ii., App., 75. It was Beza's firm belief that
D'Espense had been hired by Lorraine to compose his speech of the 16th
of September, as well as to defend him on the present occasion. He
therefore not inappositely calls him, in this letter to Calvin,
"conductitius Balaam."]

[Footnote 1151: La Place, 189, 190; Hist. eccles. des egl. r