probavit, ac laetatus est quasi ad
ejus castra transissemus."]

[Footnote 1170: "Intelligimus etiam ipsos a suis objurgari quasi
sentiant nobiscum aut colludant." Letter of N. des Gallars, Oct. 6th,
_ubi supra_. See also letter of Beza, Oct. 3d, Baum, ii., App., 94.]

[Footnote 1171: The most extended and accurate view of the Colloquy of
Poissy is afforded by Prof. Baum, who has consecrated to it two hundred
and fifty pages of the second volume of his masterly biography of Beza
(pp. 168-419). The correspondence of Beza and others that were present
at the colloquy, collected by Prof. Baum in the supplementary volume of
documents (published in 1852), and the detailed accounts of the Histoire
eccles. des egl. ref, of La Place (Commentaires de l'estat de la rel. et
republique, which here terminate), and of Jean de Serres, who, in this
part of his history, does little more than translate La Place, are the
most important sources of authentic information. Castelnau's account of
the colloquy (1. iii., c. 4) is remarkably incorrect. He makes the ten
delegates confer together for _three months_, without agreeing on a
single point, and finally separate on the 25th of November. Davila is
brief and unsatisfactory (pp. 50, 51).]

[Footnote 1172: From what Martyr wrote to the magistrates of Zurich
(Oct. 17th) respecting the conduct of the bishops in connection with the
subscription to the canons, it would appear that the close of the
prelatic assembly did not disgrace the amenities of the debates at its
commencement (see _ante_, p. 499): "Accidit mira Dei providentia, ut
repente inter episcopos, qui erant Poysiaci, tam grave dissidium ortum
fuerit, ut fere ad manus venerint, imo, ut homines fide digni affirmant
res _ut pugnis et unguibus_ est acta." Baum, ii., App., 107. See also
the extract from Martyr's letter of the same date to Bullinger, cited by
Prof. Baum, ii. 401, note.]

[Footnote 1173: Histoire eccles., i. 383-405. See Baum, ii. 399-401.]

[Footnote 1174: The vote was, according to Beza's letter of Oct. 21st,
sixteen millions of francs with interest within six years (Baum, ii.,
App. 109); according to the Journal of Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 53,
within twelve years. Prof. Soldan, Geschichte des Prot. in Frankreich,
i. 512, 513, gives the details of the famous "Contract of Poissy." It
must be admitted that both nobles and people were ready enough with
plans for paying off the national indebtedness _out of the property o