[85] Calvin, Commentaire sur Mathieu, ch. x.
[86] In the reign of Louis XIV. this lordship belonged to Colbert.
[87] 'Contrefont les marmitons.'
[88] 'Nonnullas interdum conciones in agro Biturigum, in oppidulo quod Linerias vocant.'—Bezæ Vita Calvini.
[89] Bèze, Hist. des Eglises Réformées, p. 7.
[90] 'Nisi me ab ipsis prope carceribus mors patris revocasset.'—Calvinus Volmario, in 2ᵃᵐ Ep. ad Corinth.
[91] Commentaire sur Mathieu, ch. x.
[92] Théod. de Bèze, Vie de Calvin (French text), p. 11. 'In agro Biturigum ... mors patris nuntiata in patriam vocavit.'—Ibid. in Latin text.
[93] 'Repentina mors patris,' says Beza. This sudden death proves that Calvin's father did not die, as some assert, of the long illness described in the letter to Duchemin.
[94] Dédicace de la 2ᵉ aux Corinthiens.