[555] 'Optimus pater qui pro nobis potenter adeo pugnavit.'—Ibid.
[556] 'Accincti ad arma toto spectarunt die si Neocomenses proficiscerentur.'—Ibid.
[557] Requête de MM. les gouverneurs de Bâle à MM. les maîtres bourgeois de Neuchatel.—Choupard MS.
[558] "Tête nue comme un brigand."—Requête de MM. les gouverneurs de Bâle, &c.—Choupard MS.
[559] Choupard MS.
[560] Chambrier, Hist. de Neuchatel, p. 229.
CHAPTER X.
THE SCHOOLMASTER AND CLAUDINE LEVET.
(November and December 1532.)
=FRESH ATTEMPTS UPON GENEVA.=
FAREL, seeing his labours in these different localities crowned with a success that promised to be lasting, turned his eyes with all the more ardour to Geneva. The numerous victories of Neuchatel and Vaud seemed to augur new ones to be gained in the city of the huguenots. There were, however, great obstacles. A fanatical party, directed by monks and priests, was opposed to all change, and even the enlightened catholics, who desired the abolition of crying abuses, kept repeating that the church ought first of all to be maintained, and then reformed. 'A purification is not enough,' said Farel; 'a transformation is wanted.' But who was to bring it about? He had been banished from Geneva, and for a time could not return there.