treacherous servant of Antoine, King of Navarre, ii. 9.

Esnay, the inhumanity of the monks of, ii. 517.

Espense, Claude d', speech of, at the Colloquy of Poissy, i. 532;
confers with the Protestants, i. 538.

Espine, Jean de l', a converted Carmelite monk, and a minister at the
Colloquy of Poissy i. 509, 510;
in the Conference of Saint Germain, 539;
his escape on St. Bartholomew's Day, ii. 477.

Essarts, in Poitou, persecution at, i. 216.

Este, Anne d', daughter of Renee de France, married successively to
the Duke of Guise and the Duke of Nemours, at the hollow
reconciliation at Moulins, ii. 184;
she enters readily into the plan for assassinating Admiral
Coligny, ii. 434, 435.

Esternay, M. d', his residence burned, ii. 239;
comes to the help of the Huguenots, ii. 315.

Estrange, L', encourages Coligny, ii. 347.

Estrapade, an ingenious contrivance for prolonging the torture of
Protestant martyrs, i. 177, 178.

Etampes captured by Conde, ii. 87;
retaken by Guise, ii. 97.

Etienne, or Stephens, Robert, on the ignorance of the Bible on the
part of the clergy, i. 57.

Expiatory procession, the great, of January 21, 1535, i. 173-176.

F.

Faculty of Arts, its displeasure at the proceedings against the rector,
Nicholas Cop, i. 154.

Farel, Guillaume, i. 68;
his devotion, i. 69;
invited to Meaux, i. 73;
goes to Dauphiny, i. 83;
at Montbeliard, i. 117;
intercession of Berne for his relatives, i. 156;
probably not the author of the placard of 1534, i. 164;
labors in Geneva, i. 197;
urges Calvin to remain at Geneva, i. 208;
his recollections, i. 209;
his efforts for the persecuted at Paris, i. 309;
his liturgy, i. 342.

"Fashion of Geneva," the, i. 341, seq.

Fat, human, put to a new use by an apothecary of Lyons, ii. 517.

Faur, Du, his speech in the "mercuriale" of 1559, i. 334;
his arrest, i. 335.

Ferralz, M. de, ii. 534.

Ferrara, Duchess of. See Renee de France.

Ferrara, Ippolito d'Este, Cardinal of, sent as legate to France, i. 548;
his character, i. 550;
his reception by the French people, i. 550, 551;
Chancellor L'Hospital opposes his recognition, i. 551, 552;
his intrigues and success, i. 552, 553;
ii. 17.

Feudal system, decline of, i. 5.

Fiefs, absorbed in royal domain, i. 8.

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