, Commentaires de l'estat de la religion et republique (ed.
Pantheon Litteraire), p. 5; and in Crespin (see Galerie chretienne, ii.
246).]

[Footnote 653: Guise's glory was, according to parliament, in
registering (Feb. 15th) the king's gift to him of the "maison des
marchands" at Calais, "d'avoir expugne une place et conquis un pays que
depuis deux cens ans homme n'avoit non seulement entrepris de faict,
mais ne compris en l'esprit." Reg. of Parliament, _apud_ Memoires de
Guise, p. 422.]

[Footnote 654: De Thou, ii. 549-552; Prescott, Philip the Second, i.
255-257.]

[Footnote 655: Hist. eccles. i. 87, 88.]

[Footnote 656: In Normandy the burdens imposed by the war indirectly
favored the growth of Protestantism. "The troubles of religion were
great in this kingdom during the year 1558," writes a quaint local
antiquarian. "The common people was pretty easily seduced. Moreover, the
'imposts' and 'subsidies' were so excessive that, in many villages, no
assessments of 'tailles' were laid; the 'tithes' (on ecclesiastical
property) were so high that the curates and vicars fled away, through
fear of being imprisoned, and divine service ceased to be said in a
large number of parishes adjoining this city of Caen: as in the villages
of Plumetot, Periers, Sequeville, Puto, Soliers, and many others. Seeing
which, some preachers who had come out of Geneva took possession of the
temples and churches." Les Recherches et Antiquitez de la ville de Caen,
par Charles de Bourgueville, sieur du lieu, etc. Caen, 1588. Pt. ii.
162.]

[Footnote 657: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 89.]

[Footnote 658: The letter, dated March 19th, is reproduced in the
Galerie chret., abridgment of Crespin, ii. 266-269. Melanchthon wrote,
in the name of the theologians assembled at Worms, an earnest appeal to
the same monarch, on the 1st of Dec, 1557. Opera Mel. (Bretschneider),
ix. 383-385.]

[Footnote 659: Hist. eccles., i. 89. Galerie chretienne, ii. 270.]

[Footnote 660: See Dulaure's plan of Paris under Francis I. Hist. de
Paris, Atlas.]

[Footnote 661: The date is fixed as well by the Reg. of Parliament (cf.
_infra_), as by a passage in a letter of Calvin to the Marquis of Vico,
of July 19, 1558 (Lettres franc., Bonnet, ii. 212), in which the
psalm-singing is alluded to as having occurred "about two months
ago"--"il y a environ deux moys."]

[Footnote 662: De Thou, ii. 578.]

[Footnote 663: Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., i. 90. How large a b