fols. 110, 111.]

[Footnote 480: Ibid., fol. 110.]

[Footnote 481: May 23, 1541. Bretschneider, Corpus Reform., iv. 325-328;
Gerdes., iv. (Doc). 100,101. But when the Germans intervened later in
behalf of the few remnants of the dispersed Waldenses, they received a
decided rebuff: "Il leur repondit assez brusquement, qu'il ne se meloit
pas de leurs affaires, et qu'ils ne devoient pas entrer non plus dans
les siennes, ni s'embarrasser de ce qu'il faisoit dans ses Etats, et de
quelle maniere il jugeoit a propos de chatier ses sujets coupables." De
Thou, i. 541.]

[Footnote 482: Hist. eccles., i. 27, 28; Crespin, fol. 114.]

[Footnote 483: Vesembec, _apud_ Perrin, History of the Old Waldenses
(1712), xii. 59; Garnier, xxvi. 23.]

[Footnote 484: Henry II.'s letters of March 17, 1549, summoning Meynier
and his accomplices to the bar of the Parliament of Paris, state
distinctly the motives of the perpetrators of the massacre, as alleged
by the Waldenses in their appeal to Francis I.: "Auquel ils firent
entendre, qu'ils etaient journellement travailles et molestes par les
_eveques_ du pays et par les _presidens_ et _conseillers_ de notre
parlement de Provence, qui _avaient demande leurs confiscations et
terres pour leurs parens_," etc. Hist. eccles., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 485: "Sur ce que l'on auroit fait entendre audit feu Seigneur
Roi, qu'ils etaient en armes en grande assemblee, forcant villes et
chateaux, eximant les prisonniers des prisons," etc. Letters Patent of
Henry II., _ubi supra_, i. 46; also, i. 28; De Thou, i. 541.
Notwithstanding the evident falsity of these assertions of Courtain, the
parliament's messenger, writers of such easy consciences as Maimbourg
(Hist. du calvinisme, liv. ii. 83) and Freschot (Origine, progressi e
ruina del Calvinismo nella Francia, di D. Casimiro Freschot, Parma,
1693, p. 34) are not ashamed to endorse them. Freschot says: "_Nello
stesso tempo_ che mandavano a Parigi le loro proposizioni, travagliavano
ad accrescere le loro forze, non che ad assicurare il proprio Stato. Per
il che conseguire avendo praticato alcune intelligenze nella citta di
Marsiglia, s'avanzarono sin' al numero di sedici mila per
impossessarsene," etc. The assertions of so ignorant a writer as
Freschot shows himself to be, scarcely require refutation. See, however,
Le Courrayer, following Bayle, note to Sleidan, ii. 256. The impartial
Roman Catholic continuation of the Eccles. Hist. of the Abbe Fleury,
xxv