sand. The congregation was unusually large, the
day being the festival of St. John, and a holiday. The day before, the
Protestants had for the first time been permitted to assemble on a
feast-day, and Beza himself had preached without interruption to crowded
audiences at Popincourt and at the Patriarche. He had again preached on
the morning of St. John's Day. Letter of Beza to Calvin, Dec, 30, 1561,
Baum, ii., App., 148.]

[Footnote 1248: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 422.]

[Footnote 1249: That the disturbance was premeditated is proved by the
fact, attested by the Histoire veritable, p. 60, that the precious
possessions of the church had been removed from St. Medard a few hours
before its occurrence. Its object was clearly revealed by the haste with
which the parliament despatched a messenger to St. Germain, to solicit
the king in council to revoke the permission heretofore granted the
Protestants to meet in the suburbs of Paris. Hist. eccles. des egl.
ref., i. 422.]

[Footnote 1250: With this scene the connection of the "Patriarche" with
the reformed services disappears from history. It had been let to the
Protestants by a merchant of Lucca, who was himself only a tenant. In
the ensuing summer the owner, moved by displeasure for the impiety of
the religious services it had witnessed, made a gift of the "Patriarche"
to the parliament, asking that it might be employed for the relief of
the poor and other charitable purposes. Arret of parliament, Aug. 18,
1562, Felibien, iv., Preuves, 806. Of course, Saint Medard was suitably
propitiated by solemn expiatory processions and pageantry.]

[Footnote 1251: And with every indignity on the part of the people. See
extracts from "Journal de 1562," in Baum, ii. 480, 481. The authorities
I have made use of in the account of the St. Medard riot given in the
text are: "Histoire veritable de la mutinerie, tumulte et sedition,
faite par les Prestres Sainct Medard contre les Fideles, le Samedy xxvii
iour de Decembre, 1561" (in Recueil des choses memorables, 822, etc.;
Mem. de Conde, ii. 541, etc.; Cimber et Danjou, iv. 49, etc.), a
contemporaneous pamphlet written by an eye-witness; other documents
inserted in Mem. de Conde, among them the Journal de Bruslart, i. 68;
Letter of Beza, who was present, to Calvin, Dec. 30, 1561, _apud_ Baum,
ii. App., 148-150; Hist. eccles., i. 421; De Thou, iii. 100; Claude
Haton, i. 179, etc.; Castelnau, l. iii., c. 5; J. de Serres, i. 346;
Claude