ootnote 355: Gerdes, Hist. Evang. renov., iv. 109. For the nature of
the penalty, see Bastard D'Estang, Les parlements de France, i. 425,
note on punishments.]

[Footnote 356: When John Sturm wrote, March 4th, _eighteen_--when
Latomus wrote, somewhat later, _twenty-four_--adherents of the
Reformation had suffered capitally. Bretschneider, Corp. Reform., ii.
855, etc. "Plusieurs aultres hereticques en grant nombre furent apres
bruslez a divers jours," says the Cronique du Roy Francoys I^er, p. 129,
"_en sorte que dedans Paris on ne veoit que potences dressees en divers
lieux_," etc.]

[Footnote 357: G. Guiffrey, Cronique du Roy Francoys I^er, 130-132;
Soissons MS. in Bulletin, etc., xi. 253-254. We may recognize, among the
misspelt names, those, for example, of _Pierre Caroli_, doctor of
theology and parish priest of Alencon, already introduced to our notice;
_Jean Retif_, a preacher; _Francois Berthault_ and _Jean Courault_,
lately associated in preaching the Gospel under the patronage of the
Queen of Navarre; besides the scholar _Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples_, and
_Guillaume Feret_, who brought the placards from Switzerland.]

[Footnote 358: Under the head of _Sacramentarians_ were included all
who, like Zwingle, denied the bodily presence of Christ in or with the
elements of the eucharist.]

[Footnote 359: "De ne lire, dogmatiser, translater, composer ni
imprimer, soit en public ou en prive, aucune doctrine contrariant a la
foy chretionne." Declaration of Coucy, July 16, 1535, Isambert, Recueil
des anc. lois franc., xii. 405-407. See also a similar declaration, May
31, 1536, ibid., xii. 504.]

[Footnote 360: Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, 458, 459.]

[Footnote 361: Neantmoins Dieu le createur, luy estant en ce monde, a
plus use de misericorde que de rigueur, et qu'il ne faut aucunes fois
user de rigueur, et que c'est une cruelle mort de faire brusler vif un
homme, dont parce il pourroit plus qu'autrement renoncer la foy et la
loy. Ibid., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 362: "Et le tres-crestien et bon roy Francois premier du nom,
_a la priere du pape_, pardonna a tous, excepte a ceulx qui avoient
touche a l'honneur du saint sacrement de l'autel." Soissons MS.,
Bulletin, xi. 254. Sturm to Melanchthon, July 6, 1535, says: "Pontificem
etiam aiunt aequiorem esse, et haud paulo meliorem quam fuerunt caeteri.
Omnino improbat illam suppliciorum crudelitatem, et _de hac re dicitur
misisse [literas ad Regem]_." Herminjard, iii