hretienne, ii. 253-259; De la Place (ed.
Pantheon lit.), p. 4; De Thou, v. 530. Claude Haton gives a story which
bears but a faint resemblance to the truth--the mingled result of
imperfect information and prejudice. Memoires, i. 51-53.]

[Footnote 635: "And yit is not this the end and chief point of thair
malice; for thai, as children of thair father, wha is the autour of all
lies, incontinent did spread a most schamfull and horribill sclander, to
wit, that thai convenit upon the nycht for no uthir cause but to
satisfie the filthie lustis of the flesche." Knox, _ubi supra_, p. 300.
For an unfriendly account of the pretended orgies, see Claude Haton
(Mem.), i. 49-51.]

[Footnote 636: Foul play was even employed, in addition to barbarous
treatment, if Knox was rightly informed: "But theis cruell tirantis and
privie murdereris, as thai have permittit libertie of toung to none, sa
by poysone haif thai murderit dyvers in prisone." Knox, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 637: Henry ordered parliament to try the accused by a
commission consisting of two presidents and sixteen counsellors, and
enjoined that this matter should take precedence of all others. Hist.
eccles des egl. ref., _ubi infra_; Crespin, _ubi infra_.]

[Footnote 638: The courageous words of Philippine de Luns, when she was
bidden to give her tongue to have it cut off, were long remembered:
"Since I bemoan not my body," said she, "shall I bemoan my tongue?" Beza
alludes to her as "matrona quaedam et genere et pietate valde nobilis,
fidem ad extremum usque spiritum professa signis omnibus, quum, abscisa
lingua et _ardente face pudendis ipsius turpissime ac crudelissime
injecta_, torreretur." Beza ad Turicenses (inhabitants of Zurich), Nov.
24, 1557; given in Baum, App. to vol. i. 501; Hist. eccles., i. 82. A
courtier, the Marquis of Trans, son-in-law of the keeper of the seals,
was not ashamed to ask for and obtain the confiscation of her estates,
in violation of the provision of the late Edict of Compiegne, "que
plusieurs trouverent mauvais." De la Place, Commentaires de l'estat de
la religion et republique, soubs les rois Henry et Francois Seconds et
Charles Neufviesme, p. 4.]

[Footnote 639: Beza to Farel, Nov. 11, 1557, Baum, i. 490.]

[Footnote 640: The Scotch reformer, John Knox, being detained by
unfavorable tidings at Dieppe, on his return from Geneva, not only
devoted himself to visiting and strengthening his persecuted brethren in
France (M'Crie, Life of