i. 222. He gives the names of four such "lectores
puriores"--Gadon, Mangin, Neufchasteau, and Mesnil--of whom we know
little.]

[Footnote 158: Parliament, however, as late as June 1, 1525, sustained
his episcopal authority by prohibiting the monks from preaching in
Meaux, whether in the morning or in the evening, when the bishop either
himself preached or had preaching before him in that part of the day.
Reg. of Parliament, Preuves des Libertez de l'Eglise Gallicane, iv.
102.]

[Footnote 159: Gaillard, vi. 409.]

[Footnote 160: "L'estat par la froideur duquel tous les aultres sont
gellez." Briconnet to Margaret of Angouleme, Dec. 22, 1521, Herminjard,
i. 86.]

[Footnote 161: "Celluy qui tous ruyne." Same to same, Jan. 31, 1524,
ibid., i. 186.]

[Footnote 162: "L'etat qui contient tous les autres dans le devoir," as
translated by Herminjard, i. 154.]

[Footnote 163: See both documents in Herminjard, i. 153 and 156.]

[Footnote 164: Instead of October 15, 1523, it is probable that these
documents ought to be placed nearly, if not quite, two years later. See
M. Herminjard's remarks on this difficult point, Correspondance des
reformateurs, i. 158, note. The same uncertainty affects Briconnet's
subsequent pastoral, revoking the powers accorded to "Lutheran
preachers," attributed to December 13, 1523, ibid., i. 171.]

[Footnote 165: Maimbourg, Histoire du Calvinisme (Paris, 1682), liv. i.
11-14; Daniel, Histoire de France (Paris, 1755), x. 23.]

[Footnote 166: Registres du parlement, Oct. 3, 1525, Preuves des
Libertez de l'Eglise gallicane, iv. 102.]

[Footnote 167: "Et supplie la Cour qu'il soit interroge en pleine cour,
et non par Commissaires." Registres du parlement, Oct. 20, 1525, ibid.,
iv. 103.]

[Footnote 168: Registres du parlement, Nov. 29, 1525, where the Bishop
of Meaux is ordered to pay 200 _livres parisis_ for the trial of the
heretics, prisoners from Meaux (Preuves des Libertez, iii. 166), and the
receipt for the same (Ibid., _ubi supra_). This was, however, merely an
application of the general prescription of Nov. 24, 1525, requiring all
prelates to defray the expenses of the trial of any heretics discovered
in their dioceses, with the right to indemnify themselves from the
property of the convicted heretics (Ibid., iii. 165). So the Archbishop
of Tours contributed to the expenses incurred in the trial of Jean
Papillon, Feb. 5, 1526 (Ibid., iii. 167).]

[Footnote 169: Daniel, x. 23, 24; Gaillar