note 456: "Que es choses de la religion l'on
ne use de precipitation par punition cruelle, ains
avec la moderation, et mansuetude requise, et dont
l'eglise a tousjours use; retirant le peuple de
l'erreur par doctrine et predication, et que si ce
n'est un acte scandaleux l'on ne passe oultre en
chastoy que puisse alterer le peuple et le
desgouter, que la reformation requise pour le bon
example, soit introduicte sur les gens de l'eglise
comme le legat advisera pour le mieulx."--Renard to
Philip: _Granvelle Papers_, vol. iv. p. 395.]

"You cannot set aside the dispositions of King Henry in favour of
Elizabeth without danger of rebellion. To recognise her as
heir-presumptive without providing her with a husband, who can control
her, will be perilous to the queen. The mean course between the
extremes, will be therefore, for your highness to bring about her
marriage with the Prince of Savoy. It will please the English,
provided that her rights of inheritance are not interfered with; and
although they will not go to war for our quarrel, they will not in
that case be unwilling to assist in expelling the French from
Piedmont.

"If your majesty approve, the thing can be done without delay. At all
events, before you leave the country, you should see the princess
yourself; give her your advice to be faithful to her sister, and, on
your part, promise that you will be her friend, and assist her where
you can find opportunity."

{p.201} CHAPTER IV.

THE MARTYRS.

The protests of Renard against the persecution received no attention.

The inquisition established by the legate was not to commence till
Easter; but the prisons were already abundantly supplied with persons
who had been arrested on various pretexts, and the material was ready
in hand to occupy the interval. The four persons who had first
suffered had been conspicuous among the leaders of the Reformation;
but the bishops were for the most part prudent in their selection of
victims, and chose them principally from among the poor and
unfriended.

On the 9th of February, a weaver named Tomkins (the man who had held
his hand in the candle), Pigot, a butcher, Knight, a barber, Hunter,
an apprentice boy of 19, Lawrence, a priest, and Hawkes, a gentleman,
were brought before Bon