oved fatal to Gerard Roussel, who is said to have
expressed on his death-bed similar regrets to those which had disturbed
the last hours of Lefevre d'Etaples. As for the murderer, although
arrested and tried by the Parliament of Bordeaux, he was in the end
acquitted, on the ground that he had performed a meritorious act, or, at
most, committed a venial offence, in ridding the world of so dangerous a
heretic as the Bishop of Oleron.[211]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 128: Scaevolae Sammarthani Elog. lib. i., i. 3. "Statura fuit
supra modum humili," etc.]

[Footnote 129: Sc. Sammarthani Elog., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 130: Lefevre's scientific works were numerous, and some of
them passed through many editions during the early years of the
sixteenth century. See Haag, La France protestante, art. Lefevre. I have
before me his edition of the Arithmetic of Boetius, with introduction
and commentary, of the year 1510, and copies of his Astronomical
Treatises of 1510 and 1516, the last of these published at Cologne.]

[Footnote 131: Sc. Sammarth. Elog., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 132: Epistre a tons Seigneurs et Peuples (Edit. J. G. Fick),
172.]

[Footnote 133: The passage in which Farel describes his former
superstition is so characteristic, that I quote a few sentences: "Pour
vray la papaute n'estoit et n'est tant papale que mon coeur l'a
este.... Car tellement il avoit aveugle mes yeux et perverti tout en
moy, que s'il y avoit personnage qui fut approuve selon le pape, il
m'estoit comme Dieu; si quelqu'un faisoit ou disoit quelque chose, d'ou
le pape et son estat en fut en quelque mespris, j'eusse voulu qu'un tel
... fut du tout abbatu, ruine et destruit.... Ainsy Satan avoit loge le
pape, sa papaute, tout ce qui est de luy en mon coeur, de sorte que
_le pape mesme_, comme je croy, _n'en avoit point tant en soy ne [ni]
les siens aussy, comme il y en avoit en moy_.... Et ainsy je persevere,
ayant mon panteon en mon coeur, et tant d'advocats, tant de sauveurs,
tant de dieux que rien plus ... tellement que je pouvoye bien estre tenu
pour un registre papal, pour martyrologe," etc. Epistre a tous Seigneurs
et Peuples, 164, 167, 169.]

[Footnote 134: Herminjard, Correspondance des Reformateurs, i. 4, 481.]

[Footnote 135: See the dedication, dated Dec. 15, 1512, Herminjard,
Correspondance des Reformateurs, i. 2-9.]

[Footnote 136: Letter of Farel to Pellican (1556), Herminjard,
Correspondance des Reformateurs, i. 481: "Pius sene