icelles lettres que tous les habitane des villes brulees etaient connus
et juges heretiques et Vaudois." Letters-Patent of Henry II., _ubi
supra_, i. 47; De Thou, i. 544.]

[Footnote 504: Letters-Patent of Henry II., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 505: De Thou, i. 544; Hist. eccles., i. 30. It is worthy of
notice, however, that the letters of Henry II., from which we have so
often drawn, and which would naturally have alluded to this incident,
are silent in regard to the supposed change of view on Francis's part.]

[Footnote 506: De Thou, i. 545. Care was even taken to state that Guerin
was punished for a different crime--that of forging papers to clear
himself from accusations of malfeasance in other official duties than
those in which the Waldenses were concerned, and which came to light in
consequence of a quarrel between D'Oppede and himself. Garnier, xxvi.
40; Bouche, ii. 622. The leniency with which D'Oppede was treated may be
accounted for in part, perhaps, by the fact that the Pope addressed
Henry II. a very pressing letter in his behalf, as "persecuted in
consequence of his zeal for religion." Martin, Hist. de France, ix.
480.]

[Footnote 507: "Mais, craignant ceux d'entre les juges qui n'etaient pas
moins cruels et sanguinaires en leurs coeurs que les criminels qu'ils
devaient juger, qu'en les condamnant ils ne vinssent a rompre le cours
des jugemens qu'euxmemes prononcaient tous les jours en pareilles cause,
et voulant aussi sauver l'honneur d'un autre parlement," etc. Hist.
eccles., i. 50.]

[Footnote 508: "Mais il fut saisi pen apres d'une douleur si excessive
dans les intestins, qu'il rendit son ame cruelle au milieu des plus
affreux tourmens; Dieu prenant soin lui-meme de lui imposer le chatiment
auquel ses juges ne l'avoient pas condamne, et qui, pour avoir ete un
peu tardif, n'en fut que plus rigoureux." De Thou, i. 545. See a more
detailed account of his death, and the exhortations of a pious surgeon,
Lamotte, of Aries, in Crespin, fol. 117. Other instances in Hist.
ecclesiastique.]

[Footnote 509: The story of the martyrdom of the "Fourteen of Meaux" is
told in detail by Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta, fols. 117-121, and the
Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 31-33.]

[Footnote 510: Ps. 79. I quote, with the quaint old spelling, from a
Geneva edition of 1638, in my possession, which preserves unchanged the
original words and the grand music with which the words were so
intimately associated.]

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