pine, Hist.
particuliere, iii. 281.]

[Footnote 556: "Ne pouvant doresenavant estre aultre mon interest que le
vostre. De quoy Dieu soit loue," etc. Letter of the Card. of Lorraine,
Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. franc., ix. (1860), 216.]

[Footnote 557: De Thou, i. 496. Henry was a _religious_ prince also,
according to Dandolo. The ambassador's standard, however, was not a very
severe one: "Sua maesta si dimostra religiosa, _non cavalca la domenica,
almen la mattina_." Relaz. Venete, ii. 173.]

[Footnote 558: Histoire eccles. des egl. ref., i, 43, 44.]

[Footnote 559: Une chambre speciale composee de "dix ou douze
conseillers des plus scavants et des plus zeles, pour connoistre du
faict d'heresie, sans qu'elle pust vacquer a d'autres affaires." Reg.
secr., 17 avril, 1545; Floquet, Hist. du. parl. de Normandie, ii. 241.]

[Footnote 560: In the preamble to the edict of Paris issued two years
later, Henry rehearses the ordinance and its motives: "Et pour ceste
cause des nostre nouvel avenement a la couronne, voulans a l'exemple et
imitation de feu nostredit seigneur et pere, travailler et prester la
main a purger et nettoier nostre royaume d'une telle peste, nous aurions
pour plus grande et prompte expedition desdites matieres et procez sur
le fait desdites heresies, erreurs et fausses doctrines ordonne et
estably _une chambre particuliere en nostre parlement a Paris, pour
seulement vaquer ausdites expeditions, sans se divertir a autres
actes_." Isambert, xiii. 136. Cf. Martin, Hist. de France, ix. 516.]

[Footnote 561: Martin, Hist. de France, ix. 516.]

[Footnote 562: Edict of Fontainebleau, Dec. 11, 1547. Isambert, xiii.
37, 38.]

[Footnote 563: A singular illustration of this device is given in a
letter recently discovered. In 1542 a printer, to secure for his edition
of the Protestant liturgy and psalter a more ready entrance into Roman
Catholic cities, added the whimsical imprint: "_Printed in Rome, with
privilege of the Pope_"!--Naturally enough, this very circumstance
aroused suspicion at the gates of Metz, and 600 copies were stopped. The
ultimate fate of the books is unknown. Letter of Peter Alexander, May
25, 1542, Baum, Cunitz, and Reuss, Calvini Opera, vi. p. xv. A single
copy of this _Roman_ edition has recently come to light. It proves to be
the earliest edition thus far discovered of Calvin's Strasbourg Liturgy,
the prototype of his Geneva Liturgy. O. Douen, Clement Marot et le
Psautier h