ef., i. 364;
Jean de Serres, i. 315; Beza, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 1152: La Place, 192; Jean de Serres, i. 321-323; Hist. eccles.
des egl. ref., i. 370; Beza to Calvin, Baum, ii., App., 77; N. des
Gallars to the Bishop of London, ibid., 81; De Thou, iii. 73.]

[Footnote 1153: Letter of Beza to Calvin, Sept. 27th, _ubi supra_.
Besides permitting the communication of this information, the break in
the conferences (caused by the discovery, on Catharine's part, that the
majority of the prelates had resolved to submit a proposition respecting
the mass, drawn up in a strictly Romish sense--a refusal to sign which
they intended to take as the signal for declining to hold any further
intercourse with the Protestants) furnished an opportunity for Montluc,
Bishop of Valence--a prelate suspected of Protestant proclivities--and
Claude d'Espense, one of the most moderate of the theologians of the
Sorbonne, to meet privately, by request of Catharine de' Medici, with
Beza and Des Gallars. The result of their interview was the provisional
adoption of a declaration on the subject of the eucharist, which, though
undoubtedly Protestant in its natural import, was rejected by the rest
of the ministers as not sufficiently explicit. Hist. eccles. des egl.
ref., _ubi supra_. See a full account in Baum, Theodor Beza, ii.
342-344. They rightly judged that where there is essential discrepancy
of belief, little or nothing can be gained by cloaking it in ambiguous
expressions.]

[Footnote 1154: Beza's address is inserted in La Place, 193-196; Hist.
eccles. des egl. ref., i. 371, etc. See also De Thou, iii. (liv.
xxviii.), 74; letters of Beza to Calvin, and N. des Gallars to the
Bishop of London, _ubi supra_; Jean de Serres, i. 327, etc.]

[Footnote 1155: La Place, De Thou, letters of Beza, and des Gallars,
etc., _ubi supra_. "Comme si les feu rois Francois le grand, Henry le
debonnaire, Francois dernier decede, et Charles a present regnant (et
faisoit sonner ces mots autant qu'il pouvoit) avoient ete tyrans et
simoniacles." Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 375.]

[Footnote 1156: La Place, Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., etc., _ubi
supra_. Letter of Beza to the Elector Palatine, Oct. 3d, Baum, ii.,
App., 88, 89.]

[Footnote 1157: Because he was not sufficiently familiar with French,
according to La Place, 197 (ne scachant parler francois); and in order
to make himself better understood by the queen "ut a regina intelligi
posset," than he would h