[331] Calvin, Préface des Psaumes.

[332] Calvin, Actes, vii. 59.

[333] Mézeray, Hist. de France, ii. p. 981. The chambres ardentes were tribunals that pronounced the penalty of the stake against heresy.

[334] 'Grave passim apud Germanos odium ignes illi excitaverunt.'—Calvin in Psalm.

[335] Calvin, Préface aux Psaumes.

[336] Letters of Calvin to Myconius, March. 14, and April 17, 1542.

[337] See my History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, books viii. and xi.

[338] Vie de Thomas Plater, published by M. E. Fick, Doctor of Laws.

[339] Vie de Thomas Plater, published by E. Fick.

[340] 'Videbis quid amicitiæ sit remansurum cum papa et papisticis.'—Myconius ad Bullingerum, March 1534.