[9] 'Hæretici divina primum vindicta, post etiam ... ultione plectendi.'—Justiniani Codicis lib. i. tit. i.: De summa Trinitate, et ut nemo de ea publice contradicere audeat.
[10] 'Publicum crimen, quia quod in religionem divinam committitur in omnium fertur injuriam.'—Ibid. tit. v.: De Hæreticis.
[11] The Justinian code dates from 529 A.D., just a thousand years before the time of Calvin's studies; but the greater part of the laws contained in it were of older date.
[12] Bimbenet, Hist. de l'Univ. des Lois d'Orléans, p. 30.
[13] Bimbenet, Hist. de l'Univ. d'Orléans, p. 358. The prefecture now occupies the site of Bonne Nouvelle.
[14] Ibid. pp. 40, 41, 51, 52, 358.
[15] This maille was probably the gold florin of Florence. The giglio fiorentino is the badge of this city, and John the Baptist its patron.
'La lega suggellata del Batista,'
says Dante in the Inferno, xxx. 74.
[16] M. Bimbenet, chief greffier to the Imperial Court of Orleans, gives this tradition in his Hist. de l'Univ. d'Orléans, pp. 161, 162, 179-358.