trouva finallement des evesques qui estoient tous
plains et couvers de ceste mauldite farinne. Et pour ce que le roy
tenoit le main forte pour faire pugnir de la peine du feu les
coulpables, y en avait mille a sa suitte et en la ville de Paris,
_lesquelz faisoient bonne mine et meschant jeu_, feignoient d'estre
vrays catholiques, et en leur secret et consciences estoient parfaictz
hereticques." Mem. de Claude Haton, 27.]

[Footnote 613: The execution of the "Five from Geneva" at Chambery, in
Savoy--then, as now again, a part of France--and the violent persecution
in the neighborhood of Angers, are well known (Crespin, fols. 283-321;
Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 68, 69). The inclination to resist force
by force, manifested by some Protestants in Anjou, was promptly
discouraged by Calvin; letter of April 19, 1556 (Lettres franc., ii.
90). The number and names of the martyrs will probably never be
ascertained. "N'estoit quasi moys de l'an qu'on n'en bruslast a Paris, a
Meaux et a Troie en Champagne deux ou trois, en aulcun moy plus de
douze. Et si pour cela les aultres ne cessoient de poursuivre leur
entreprinse de mettre en avant leur faulce religion." Mem. de Cl. Haton,
48. The Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. fr., vii. (1858) 14,
extracts from the registers of the Parliament of Toulouse, June 11,
1556, the sentence of a victim hitherto unknown--one Blondel. He had
dared to protest against the impiety of the procession of the
"Fete-Dieu," or "Corpus Christi," by singing "a profane hymn of Clement
Marot." Parliament turned aside from the procession, and in the sacristy
of the church of St. Stephen rapidly tried him, and ordered him to be
burned the same day at the stake in a public square, as a "reparation of
the injury done to the holy faith." Certainly a church dedicated to the
Christian protomartyr was not the most appropriate place for drawing up
such a decree!]

[Footnote 614: De Thou, ii. 404.]

[Footnote 615: De Thou, ii. 412-416.]

[Footnote 616: The papal letter sent by the hands of Caraffa to Henry
(together with a sword and hat solemnly blessed by Paul himself) is
reprinted in Cimber et Danjou, Archives curieuses, iii. 425, 426.]

[Footnote 617: De Thou, ii. 417.]

[Footnote 618: A letter of Henry himself to M. de Selve, his ambassador
at Rome, gives us the fact of the effort and of its failure: "Voyant les
heresies et faulces doctrines, qui a mon tres grand regret, ennuy et
desplaisir, pullul