rokmorton, to Secretary Cecil (May 15,
1559), "that about the number of fifty thousand persones in Gascoigne,
Guyen, Angieu, Poictiers, Normandy, and Main, have subscribed to a
confession in religion conformable to that of Geneva; which they mind
shortly to exhibit to the King. There be of them diverse personages of
good haviour (_sic_): and it is said amongst the same, that after they
have delivered their confession to the King, that the spiritualty of
Fraunce will do all they can to procure the King, to the utter
subversion of them: for which cause, they say, _the spiritualty seemeth
to be so glad of peaxe_, for that they may have that so good an occasion
to worke their feate. But," he adds, "on th' other side these men minde,
in case any repressing and subversion of their religion be ment and put
in execution against them, to resist to the deathe." Forbes, State
Papers, i. 92.]

[Footnote 690: "Heri scriptum est ad me Lutetia.... Sorbonicos ad Regem
cucurrisse et tempus ejus eonveniendi aucupatos petiisse curam
inquirendorum Lutheranorum. Quum Rex respondisset: 'Se eam curam Senatui
mandasse, iique respondissent, '_totam curiam Parlamenti Parisienis
inquinatam esse_,' iracunde intulisse, 'quid vultis igitur faciam, aut
quid consilii capiam? An ut vos in eorum locum substituam, et
Rempublicam meam administretis?'" Letter of Hotman to Bullinger, Aug.
15, 1556, _apud_ Baum, Theod. Beza, i. 294.]

[Footnote 691: "The king, however, looks on all the judges with a
suspicious eye." Calvin to Garnier, Aug. 29, 1558. Bonnet, Eng. tr.,
iii. 460.]

[Footnote 692: Seguier, the leading jurist in the Parisian Parliament,
like most of the judges that possessed much legal acumen, and all those
that were inclined to tolerant sentiments, was reputed unsound in the
faith. Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, the English ambassador, says of him:
"One of the Presidentes of the court of Parliament, named Siggier, a
verey wise man, and one whome the constable for his judgement dothe
muche stay upon, is noted to be a Protestant, and of the chiefest
setters forward and favorers of the rest of that courte against the
cardinalles." The same accurate observer states that, of the "six score"
counsellors present in the Parliamentary session which Henry attended,
only "one of the Presidentes called Magistri and fourteen others were of
the King and the cardinalles side, and did agree with them and
condescend to the punishment of suche as shuld seme to resi