sely kindled at its mouth.
Sleidan, ii. 255.]

[Footnote 494: Hist. eccles., i. 29; Crespin, fol. 116; De Thou, _ubi
supra_; Sleidan, ii. 254. The deposition of Antoine d'Alagonia, Sieur de
Vaucler, a Roman Catholic who was present and took an active part in the
enterprise (Bouche, ii. 616-619), is evidently framed expressly to
exculpate D'Oppede and his companions, and conflicts too much with
well-established facts to contribute anything to the true history of the
capture of Cabrieres.]

[Footnote 495: De Thou, i. 543; Sleidan, ii. 255. Of the affair at La
Coste, the Letters-Patent of Henry II. say: "Au lieu de La Coste y
auroit eu plusieurs hommes tues, femmes et filles forcees jusques au
nombre de vingt-cinq dedans une grange." _Ubi supra_, i. 47.]

[Footnote 496: "Et infinis pillages etaient faits par l'espace de plus
de sept semaines." Ibid, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 497: Hist. eccles., i. 30.]

[Footnote 498: Letters-Patent of Henry II., _ubi sup._]

[Footnote 499: At Geneva the fugitives were treated with great kindness.
Calvin was deputed by the Council of the Republic, in company with
Farel, to raise contributions for them throughout Switzerland. Reg. of
Council, May, 1545, _apud_ Gaberel, Hist. de l'eglise de Geneve, i. 439.
Nine years later the council granted a lease of some uncultivated lands
near Geneva to 700 of these Waldenses. The descendants of the former
residents of Merindol and Cabrieres are to be found among the
inhabitants of Peney and Jussy. Reg. of Council, May, 10, 1554, Gaberel,
i. 440.]

[Footnote 500: Bouche, ii. 620, states, as the results of the
investigations of Auberi, advocate for the Waldenses, that about 3,000
men, women and children were killed, 666 sent to the galleys, of whom
200 shortly died, and 900 houses burned in 24 villages of Provence.]

[Footnote 501: Francis I., on complaint of Madame De Cental, whose son
had lost an annual revenue of 12,000 florins by the ruin of his
villages, had, June 10, 1545, called upon the Parliament of Aix to send
full minutes of its proceedings. Bouche, ii. 620, 621.]

[Footnote 502: De Thou, i. 544.]

[Footnote 503: "Et sachant que la plainte en etait venue jusqu'a [notre]
dit feu pere, auraient envoye ledit De la Fond devers lui, lequel ...
aurait obtenu lettres donnees a Arques, le 18me jour d'aout 1545,
approuvant paisiblement ladite execution; n'ayant toutefois fait
entendre a notre dit feu pere la verite du fait; mais suppose par