[957] Du Cange, s. v. Ferrum Candens.
[958] Pachymeri Hist. Mich. Palæol. Lib. I. cap. xii.
[959] Raynouard, Monuments relatifs à la Condamn. des Chev. du Temple, p. 269.
[960] Bonif. de Morano Chron. Mutinense. (Muratori Antiq. Ital. Diss. 38).
[961] Malleus Maleficar. Francof. 1580, pp. 523-31.
[962] P. Burgmeister, who relates this in his thesis for the Doctorate (De Probat. per aquam, &c. Ulmæ, 1680), vigorously maintains the truth of the miracle against the assaults of a Catholic controversialist who impugned its authenticity. The affair seems to have attracted considerable attention at the time, as a religious question between the old Church and the Lutherans.
[963] Cæsar. Heisterb. Dial. Mirac. Dist. X. c. xxxvi.
[964] Godelmanni de Magis Lib. III. cap. v. § 19.
[965] Annalista Saxo ann. 993.
[966] Thus Rabelais, “en mon aduiz elle est pucelle, toutesfoys ie nen vouldroys mettre mon doigt on feu” (Pantagruel, Liv. II. chap. xv.); and the Epist. Obscur. Virorum (P. II. Epist. 1) “Quamvis M. Bernhardus diceret, quod vellet disputare ad ignem quod hæc est opinio vestra.”