[1038] Berne to Neuchatel, 17th December.
[1039] Berne to the Governor, 23d December.
[1040] Chambrier, Hist. de Neuchatel et Valangin, p. 299. Je ne crois pas que ce soit selon les vieux évangiles; s'il y en a de nouveaux qui fassent cela faire, j'en suis esbahie.
[1041] It does not appear that Bély could have stood and preached on this stone, as is generally said, unless what now remains is but a fragment of the original.
[1042] MS. AA. in the Choupart MS.
[1043] 2 Cor. xi. 24, 25.
[1044] De Perrot: L'Eglise et la Réformation, ii. p. 233.
[1045] This incident is generally attributed to Farel, but Choupart, following an older manuscript, says, le ministre de Neuchatel, by which title he always means Marcourt, and never Farel.
[1046] Some historians say "the coachman of the countess;" but Choupart, on three different occasions, writes a canon. The latter is no doubt more revolting; but there is nothing incredible in it.
[1047] De equo admissario loquitur qui equam init.