erdotum multitudinem, qui solent plerumque _illiterati, moribus
inculti, servilibus operibus addicti, imberbes, inopes, fictitiis
titulis_ ad sacros ordines obrepere, non sine magno status clericalis
opprobrio." Ibid., xix. fol. 1128. The decrees of the councils of
Bourges and Lyons are given in Labbei Concilia, xix. 1041-1048, and 1095
etc.]

[Footnote 286: The image was affixed to the house of the Sieur de
Beaumont, at the corner of the Rue des Hosiers and the Rue des Juifs.
Felibien, Hist. de Paris, iv. 676.]

[Footnote 287: The strong language of the author of the "Cronique du Roi
Francoys I^er" (edited by G. Guiffrey, Paris, 1860) may serve as an
index of the popular feeling: "La nuict du dimenche, dernier jour de
may, ... _par quelque ung pire que ung chien mauldict de Dieu_, fut
rompue et couppee la teste a une ymaige de la vierge Marie ... qui fut
_une grosse horreur a la crestiente_." Page 66.]

[Footnote 288: The silver image, though protected by an iron grating,
fared no better than its predecessor. Stolen before the death of
Francis, it was succeeded by a wooden statue, and, when this was
destroyed by "heretics," by one of marble! The detailed accounts of the
expiatory processions in Felibien, ii. 982, 983, in the Registres du
parlement, ibid., iv. 677-679, in G. Guiffrey, appendix to "Cronique du
Roy Francoys I^er," 446-459, from MSS. Nat. Lib., in Gaillard, vi.
434, 435, and in the Journal d'un bourgeois, 348-351, give a vivid view
of the picturesque ceremonial of the times. It must have been a very
substantial compensation for the trouble to which the unknown author of
the outrage of the _Rue des Rosiers_ put the clergy, that the mutilated
statue of the Virgin, having been placed above the altar in the church
of St. Gervais, was said to have wrought notable miracles, and even to
have raised two children from the dead! Journal d'un bourgeois, _ubi
supra_. See also "Cronique du Roy Francoys I^er," 67, and especially
the poem (Ibid., appendix, 459-464), in twenty-five stanzas of eight
lines each, which, I fear, has nothing to recommend it, unless it be
_length_!]

[Footnote 289: May, 1530. Felibien, ii 988, 989; Journal d'un bourgeois,
410.]

[Footnote 290: "Quaeris, quid profecerim? Tot modis deterrens, addidi
animum."]

[Footnote 291: Erasmus to Utenhoven, _ubi supra_; also his letter to
Vergara, Sept. 2, 1527, and Beda's Apology, Herminjard, ii. 38, 39, 40.]

[Footnote 292: Erasmus to Utenhoven,