[514] Choupard MS. Spanheim, Geneva restituta, p. 43.
[515] Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 4.
[516] 'Supercilio adducto.'—Spanheim, Geneva restituta, p. 44.
[517] 'Si disputetur, totum ministerium nostrum destruetur.'—Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 5. This is differently reported: Froment and Choupard give ministerium: Roset and Spanheim mysterium. I have preferred the former as the better reading.
[518] Choupard MS. La Sœur J. de Jussie, le Levain du Calvinisme, p. 47.
[519] Mém. d'Archéologie de la Soc. d'Hist. de Genève, x. p. cviii.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE REFORMERS ARE EXPELLED FROM GENEVA.
(October 1532.)
=FAREL BEFORE THE EPISCOPAL COUNCIL.=
WHILE the upper house of the clergy was sitting at the vicar-general's, the lower house had assembled in the streets. The armed curates and chaplains watched what was going on, and when they saw the premier syndic with ex-syndic Balard and the bishop's secretary enter the inn, they guessed that they were about to conduct Farel before the episcopal council, and had immediately made it known to their followers, to the women and the common people. When the three reformers, accompanied by the three Genevans, came out, there was already a little crowd in front of the Tour Perce. The number increased as they proceeded along the streets which lead from the banks of the Rhone to the top of the hill; but the populace and the women were content to threaten and jeer at the reformers, crying out as loud as they could, 'Look at the dogs, look at the dogs.'[520] Thanks to the presence of the magistrates, the three reformers arrived safe and sound in the Rue des Chanoines and entered the house of the vicar episcopal. As those who were within as well as those who were without had equally sworn Farel's death, it seemed impossible for him to escape. The three evangelicals had to wait some time; in fact the syndics had preceded them, and required of the episcopal council that no harm should be done the ministers if they freely explained their doctrines. This engagement having been taken, Farel, Saunier, and Olivetan were called in, the two magistrates remaining in the assembly to secure order.