s
of Lausanne is among the most touching passages in the French
martyrology, but the limits of this history do not admit of its
insertion (see Baum, i. 179-181, and Soldan, i. 236-238). Their progress
to the place of execution was marked by the recital of psalms, the
benediction, "The God of peace, that brought again from the dead, etc.,"
and the Apostles' creed; and, after mutual embraces and farewells, their
last words, as their naked bodies, smeared with grease and sulphur, hung
side by side over the flames, were: "Be of good courage, brethren, be of
good courage!"]

[Footnote 589: Beza to Bullinger, Dec. 24, 1553, and May 8, 1554; Baum,
Theodor Beza, i. 431, 438.]

[Footnote 590: The bull of Julius the Third sanctioning the use of these
proscribed articles of food--at whose instigation it was given is
uncertain--was regarded by the Parliament of Paris as allowing a
"scandalous relaxation" of morals, and the keeper of the seals gave
orders, by cry of the herald, that all booksellers and printers be
forbidden to sell copies of it (Feb. 7, 1553). But this was not
sufficient, since the bull was afterward publicly burned by order of
Henry the Second and the parliament. Reg. of Parliament, in Felibien,
Hist. de Paris, iv. 763; see also ibid., ii. 1033.]

[Footnote 591: Floquet, Hist. du parlement de Normandie, ii. 258-260.]

[Footnote 592: Garnier, Hist. de France, xxvii. 49, etc., whose account
of the attempted introduction of the Spanish Inquisition into France is
the most correct and comprehensive.]

[Footnote 593: Ibid., _ubi supra_; De Thou, ii. 375. The edict
establishing the Spanish inquisition is not contained in any collection
of laws, as it was never formally registered. Dulaure (Hist. de Paris,
iv. 133, 134) gives, apparently from the Reg. criminels du parl.,
registre cote 101, au 20 mai 1555, an extract from it: "Que les
inquisiteurs de la foi et juges ecclesiastiques peuvent librement
proceder a la punition des heretiques, tant clercs que laics, jusqu'a
sentence definitive inclusivement; que les accuses qui, avant cette
sentence, appelleront comme d'abus resteront toujours prisonniers, et
leur appel sera porte au parlement. Mais, nonobstant cet appel, si
l'accuse est declare heretique par les inquisiteurs, et pour ne pas
retarder son chatiment, il sera livre au bras seculier." (Soldan, from
Lamothe-Langon, iii. 458, reads _exclusivement_, which must be wrong,
if, indeed, the whole be not a mere paraphra