ouz_; et ce faict penduz et attachez au gibet ou potence, et
estranglez, selon leurs desmerites!"]
[Footnote 77: Journal d'un bourgeois, 327. The Marche-aux-pourceaux, or
swine market, was a little west of the present Palais Royal, just
outside of the walls of Paris, as they existed in the time of Francis I.
See the atlas accompanying Dulaure, Histoire de Paris. In December,
1581, the Parliament of Rouen sentenced one Salcede to this horrible
death. Bastard d'Estang, Les parlements de France, i. 428.]
[Footnote 78: Journal d'un bourgeois, 326.]
[Footnote 79: Ibid., 251.]
[Footnote 80: Ibid., 434. A somewhat similar instance is mentioned by
the continuator of the Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet (anno
1503), l. iii. c. 220.]
[Footnote 81: See the vigorous treatise it called forth from the pen of
the great Reformer of Geneva in 1549, under the title of "Advertissement
contre l'Astrologie qu'on appelle _judiciaire_, et autres curiositez qui
regnent aujourd'huy dans le monde." Paul L. Jacob, Oeuvres francoises
de Calvin, 107, etc.]
[Footnote 82: Despatch of La Mothe Fenelon, June 3, 1573, Corr. dipl.,
v. 345, 346.]
[Footnote 83: L'Heptameron dea Nouvelles de tres haute et tres illustre
princesse Marguerite d'Angouleme, Reine de Navarre. Publie sur les MSS.
par la Soc. des Bibliophiles francais. Premiere Journee, Premiere
Nouvelle.]
[Footnote 84: The practice of magic with small waxen images into which
pins were thrust, impious words being uttered at the same time, was at
least as old in France as the beginning of the fourteenth century. In
1330 Robert of Artois employed it to compass the death of Philip of
Valois and his queen; just as two centuries and a half later the
adherents of the League resorted to the same device to destroy Henry
III. and Henry of Navarre. See note L to the Heptameron (edit. cit.), i.
170. Jean de Marcouville (Recueil memor. Paris, 1564, Cimber et Danjou,
iii. 415) alludes to similar sorcery just after the death of Philip the
Fair, in 1314. It was therefore no "Italian sorcery" introduced into
France by Catharine de' Medici, as M. De Felice seems to suppose (Hist.
des prot. de France, liv. ii. c. 17).]
[Footnote 85: "Advertissement tres-utile du grand profit qui reviendroit
a la Chretiente, s'il se faisoit inventaire de tous les corps saints et
reliques," etc., 1543 (Oeuvres francoises de Calvin). A racy treatise,
which well exhibits the service done by the author to the Fr
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