[369] Spotswood, p. 88. The last of July. Knox, Ref., p. 205. Buchanan assigns the capture of the castle or the capitulation to the month of August 1547. ‘Hæc in mensem Augusti anni MDXLVII. inciderunt,’ p. 543.
[370] Melville’s Diary, pp. 276-278. M’Crie, Andrew Melville, ii. p. 66.
[371] Second Book of Discipline.
[372] Buckle, History of Civilization, ch. xvi.
[373] See vols. i. and ii. of the second series: The Reformation in the Time of Calvin.
[374] This thought was expressed to the author by a distinguished writer, to whom we owe a remarkable History of the French Revolution, published a few years ago.
[375] ‘Singulis momentis de Gallica libelli nostri editione cogitabamus.’ Letter to Francois Daniel; Lausanne, Oct. 13. 1536. Bibl. de Berne. Calvin, Opera, edid. Theol. Argent. vol. x. p. 63. The earliest known edition of the Institution in French is that of 1540.
[376] Vie de Calvin, p. 29. Paris edition of 1864. The Latin edition, speaking of the office of preacher, says, ‘Hoc autem primum recusavit.’
[377] Comment. sur les Psaumes, vol. i. p. ix. Paris, 1859.
[378] Lettres Françaises de Calvin (J. Bonnet), i. p. 270. To the Protector of England.