20.

[1020] Tocsain, 136.

[1021] Mem. de l'estat, 146.

[1022] "Radices, atque etiam radicum fibras, funditus evellas." Pii Quinti
Epistolae, 111. See _ante_, chapter xvi., p. 308.

[1023] Mem. de l'estat, 147. The children of other cities emulated the
example of those of Paris. In Provins, in the month of October, 1572, a
Huguenot, Jean Crespin, after having been hung by the officers of justice,
was taken down from the gallows by "les petis enfans de Provins, _de l'age
de douze ans et au dessoubz_," to the number of more than one hundred. By
these mimic judges he was declared unworthy to be dragged save by his
feet, and, his punishment by hanging being reckoned too light, he was
roasted in a fire of straw, and presently thrown into the river. Numbers
of older persons looked on, approving and encouraging the children; a few
good Catholics were grieved to see such cruelty practised on a dead body.
Mem. de Claude Haton, ii. 704-706.

[1024] Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 128.

[1025] "On en remarqua qui avoient les yeux attaches sur le corps du Baron
du Pont, pour voir si elles y trouveroient quelque cause ou quelque marque
de l'impuissance qu'on lui reprochoit." De Thou, iv. (liv. lii.) 587. See
Euseb. Philadelphi Dial., i. 45, and Jean de Serres (1575) iv., fol. 39.

[1026] "Le Roy, la Royne mere, et leurs courtisans, rioyent a gorge
desployee." Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_, 132.

[1027] The prevot, echevins, etc., "du tout, auroient, d'heure en heure,
rendu compte et tesmoignage a sadicte Majeste." Extrait des registres et
croniques du bureau de la ville de Paris, Archives curieuses, vii. 215.

[1028] Mem. de l'estat, _ubi supra_.

[1029] Tocsain contre les massacreurs, Rheims, 1579, p. 140.

[1030] Ibid., _ubi supra_.

[1031] Brantome, Homines illustres francais, M. de Thavannes.

[1032] "Declarant (Alencon) qu'il ne pouvoit approuver vn tel desordre, ny
qu'on rompit si ouvertement la foy promise, qui fut cause que sa mere luy
dit en termes clairs que s'il bougeoit elle le feroit ietter dans vn sac
aual l'eau." Tocsain contre les massacreurs, 141.

[1033] Ib., 133.

[1034] De Thou, iv. 592.

[1035] His son, Jacques Merlin, at a later time pastor at La Rochelle,
although he does not mention the particulars of his father's escape, in
the journal published for the first time by M. Gaberel in an appendix to
the second vol. of his Histoire de l'eglise de Geneve, pp. 153-207,
alludes to it--"fut deliure