iii. 540, gives no credit to these calumnies.]

[Footnote 486: The substance of the royal order of January 1, 1545, is
given in the Letters-Patent of Henry II., dated Montereau, March 17,
1549 (1550, New Style), which constitute our best authority: "Le feu dit
Seigneur permit d'executer les arrets donnes contre eux, revoquant
lesdites lettres d'evocation, pour le regard des recidifs non ayant
abjure, et ordonna que tous ceux qui se trouveraient charges et
coupables d'heresie et secte Vaudoise, fussent extermines," etc. Hist.
eccles., i. 46.]

[Footnote 487: The names are preserved: they were the second president,
Francois de la Fond; two counsellors, Honore de Tributiis and Bernard
Badet; and an advocate, Guerin, acting in the absence of the "Procureur
general." Letters-Patent of Henry II., _ubi supra_; De Thou, i. 541;
Hist. eccles., i. 28.]

[Footnote 488: De Thou, _ubi supra_; Sleidan, Hist. de la reformation
(Fr. trans. of Le Courrayer), ii. 252.]

[Footnote 489: The fleet carrying these troops, consisting of
twenty-five galleys, was under the joint command of Poulin, Poulain, or
Polin--afterward prominent in military affairs, under the name of Baron
de la Garde--and of the Chevalier d'Aulps. Bouche, ii. 601. The Baron de
la Garde is made the object of a special notice by Brantome.]

[Footnote 490: Crespin, fol. 115. Sleidan and De Thou give a similar
incident as befalling fugitives from Merindol. Garnier, alluding to the
absence of any attempt at self-defence on the part of the Waldenses,
pertinently remarks: "On put connoitre alors la faussete et la noirceur
des bruits que l'on avoit affecte de repandre sur leurs preparatifs de
guerre: _pas un ne songea a se mettre en defense_: des cris aigus et
lamentables portes dans un moment de villages en villages, avertirent
ceux qui vouloient sauver leur vie de fuir promptement du cote des
montagnes." Hist. de France, xxvi. 33.]

[Footnote 491: So say the Letters-Patent of Henry II.: "Furent faites
defenses a son de trompe tant par autorite dudit Menier, que dudit de la
Fond, de non bailler a boire et manger aux Vaudois, sans savoir qui ils
etaient; et ce sur peine de la corde." Hist. eccles., i. 47; Crespin,
fol. 115.]

[Footnote 492: Crespin, and Hist. eccles., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 493: Many, overtaken in their flight, were slain by the sword,
or sent to the galleys, and about twenty-five, having taken refuge in a
cavern near Mus, were stifled by a fire purpo