se, which I suspect.)]

[Footnote 594: By the advice of the Cardinal of Lorraine, the Parliament
of Paris had been divided into two sections, holding their sessions each
for six months, and each vested with the powers of the entire body. This
change went into effect July 2, 1554, and lasted three years. It was
made ostensibly to relieve the judges and expedite business, but really
in the interest of despotism, to diminish the authority of the undivided
court sitting throughout the year. De Thou, ii. 246, 247.]

[Footnote 595: The post of Inquisitor-General of the Faith in France,
having his seat at Toulouse, had, as we have already seen, long existed.
It was filled in 1536 by friar Vidal de Becanis (the letters patent
appointing whom are given in the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot.
fr., i. (1853), 358). He was succeeded by Louis de Rochetti, who left
the Roman Catholic Church, and was burned alive at Toulouse, Sept. 10,
1538. Afterward Becanis was reinstated (Ibid., _ubi supra_). A circular
letter of this inquisitor-general, accompanying a list of heretical and
prohibited works, is given, Ibid., i. 362, 363, 437, etc.]

[Footnote 596: Garnier, Hist. de France, xxvii. 49-54.]

[Footnote 597: The date, Oct. 16th, usually given (by De Thou, Garnier,
etc.) for this harangue is incorrect. The publication of the valuable
"Memoires-journaux du Duc de Guise," which Messrs. Michaud and Poujoulat
(1851) have brought out of their obscurity, affords us the advantage of
reading the account of the deputation and speech of Seguier in the words
of his own report, from the Registers of Parliament (pp. 246-249). From
this we learn that Seguier and Du Drac left Paris on Saturday, Oct.
19th, reached Villera-Cotterets on Monday the 21st, and had an audience
on Tuesday the 22d.]

[Footnote 598: "Qu'il falloit croire l'Escriture et rendre tesmoignage
de sa creance par bonnes oeuvres, et qui ne la veut croire et accuse
les autres estre lutheriens, est plus heretique que les mesmes
lutheriens." Memoires de Guise, 248.]

[Footnote 599: Memoires de Guise, 246-249; Gamier, xxvii. 55-70; De
Thou, liv. xvi., ii. 375-377.]

[Footnote 600: Mem. de Guise, 249, 250.]

[Footnote 601: According to Claude Haton (p. 38), a part of the
emigrants were, by the king's permission, drawn from the prisons of
Paris and Rouen. Nor does the pious curate see anything incongruous in
the attempt to employ the released criminals in converting the
barbari