[621] Sir Wm. Pickering to Council, Melun, Sept. 4, 1551, State Paper Office MSS. Patrick Fraser Tytler, Reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, i. 420.
[622] Hist. ecclés. des égl. réf., i. 72.
[623] See the declaration of Henry, in Preuves des Libertez de l'Égl. gallicane, part iii. 174.
[624] Hist. ecclés. des égl. réf., i. 72, 73.
[625] "Hoc quidem tibi possum pro comperto affirmare regnum Dei tantum nunc progressum in decem minimum Galliæ urbibus ac Lutetiæ præsertim facere ut magni nescio quid Dominus illic moliri aperte videatur." Beza to Bullinger, March 27, 1557, Baum, Theodor Beza, i. 461.
[626] At Autun, in Sept., 1556. Hist. ecclés., i. 70. No wonder that the example set by the judges of Autun "served greatly to instruct others!"
[627] Recueil gén. des anc. lois fr., xiii. 494-497. The respective jurisdictions of the clerical and lay judges remained the same. An article, however, was appended declaring that in future the confiscated property of condemned heretics should no more inure to the crown, or be granted to private individuals, but should be applied to charitable purposes. What a feeble barrier this provision proved to the cupidity of the courtiers, long glutted with the spoils of "Lutherans"—real or pretended—the case of Philippine de Luns showed very clearly, some two or three months later.
[628] Besides the accounts of the disastrous battle of St. Quentin given by the Mémoires of Rabutin, Coligny and other contemporaries, and by De Thou and other historians of a somewhat later date, the graphic narrative of its incidents contained in Prescott's Reign of Philip the Second (lib. i., c. vii.) is well worthy of perusal.
[629] Prescott, i. 240, note.
[630] "Comme feu soubs la cendre." Recueil gén. des anc. lois fr., xiii. 134.