This exclamation had hardly resounded through the church, when a great uproar, caused by the people, drowned the Lutheran's voice. The men who were present would have rushed from their places upon the disturber; but the women who filled the nave were before them. 'All with one accord fell upon the said Christopher, tore out his beard and beat him; they scratched his face with their nails and otherwise, so that if they had been let alone, he would never have gone out of the said church, which would have been a great benefit for poor catholics.'[383] Thus spoke the grand banneret, who had lost, as it would seem, a little of the moderation he had shown on other occasions. The castellan, Anthony Agasse, was not of his opinion: he wanted the culprits, if there were any, to be punished by the law and not by the populace; and rushing into the midst of this savage scene, he rescued Hollard from the hands of the furies, and threw him 'into a dungeon to avoid a greater scandal.'
[370] Matthew, x. 34.
[371] Calvin in loco.
[372] Bonivard, Chronique de Genève, passim.
[373] 2nd Timothy, ii. 5.
[374] Michelet, Hist. de France au seizième siècle.—La Réforme, pp. 483, 484, 518.
[375] Ancillon, Vie de Farel, ch. xi.
[376] Revelation, vi. 2.
[377] Hist. of the Reformation of the sixteenth century, vol. iv. bk. xv. ch. iv, vii, viii, and ix.
[378] Hist. of the Reformation, vol. iv. bk. xv. ch. ix.