ans to the true faith. However, although Villegagnon was a native
of Provins, where Haton long resided, the curate's authority is not
always to be received with perfect assurance.]

[Footnote 602: The reconciliation between the statements of the text (in
which I have followed the unimpeachable authority of the Hist. eccles.
des eglises reformees) and the assertion of the equally authoritative
life of Coligny by Francis Hotman (Latin ed., 1575, p. 18, Eng. tr. of
D. D. Scott, p. 70). that Coligny's "love for true religion and vital
godliness, and his desire to worship God aright," dated from the time of
his captivity after the fall of St. Quentin (1557), and the opportunity
he then enjoyed for reading the Holy Scriptures, is to be found probably
in the view that, having previously been convinced of the truth of the
reformed doctrines, he was not brought until then to their bold
confession and courageous espousal--acts so perilous in themselves and
so fatal to his ambition and to his love of ease. Respecting
Villegagnon's promise to establish the "sincere worship of God" in his
new colony, see the rare and interesting "Historia navigationis in
Braziliam, quae et America dicitur. Qua describitur autoris navigatio,
quaeque in mari vidit memoriae prodenda: Villegagnonis in America gesta,
etc. A Joanne Lerio, Burgundo, etc., 1586." Jean l'Hery or Lery was a
young man of twenty-two, who accompanied the ministers and skilled
workmen whom Villegagnon invited to Brazil, partly from pious motives,
partly, as he tells us, from curiosity to see the new world (page 6).
Despite his sufferings, the adventurous author, in later years, longed
for a return to the wilderness, where among the savages better faith
prevailed than in civilized France: "Ita enim apud nos fides nulla
superest, resque adeo nostra tota _Italica_ facta est," etc. (page
301).]

[Footnote 603: Jean Lery, _ubi supra_, 4-6.]

[Footnote 604: What Villegagnon actually believed was an enigma to Lery,
for the vice-admiral rejected both transubstantiation and
consubstantiation, and yet maintained a _real_ presence. Lery, 58, 54.
Cointas had at first solemnly abjured Roman Catholicism, and applied for
admission to the Reformed Church. Ibid., 46.]

[Footnote 605: Lery himself is in doubt respecting the exact occasion of
the change in Villegagnon's conduct. Some of the colonists were fully
persuaded "inde id accidisse, quod a Cardinali Lotharingo, aliisque qui
ad eum e Gal