[389] Ruchat, iv. p. 504.

[390] Ibid. p. 366.

[391] Edicts of the Lords of Berne. Pièces justificatives of Ruchat, iv. p. 500, note 2.

[392] ‘Capitaine de la jeunesse.’

[393] Calvin’s Letter to F. Daniel, Lausanne, Oct. 13, 1536.—Bibliothèque de Berne. Calvin, Opp. x. p. 63.

[394] Acts of the Disputation of Lausanne. Mémoire de Pierrefleur, p. 161. Ruchat, iv. pp. 179, 505.

[395] The Acts of this Disputation form a handsome manuscript volume in folio, preserved in the Library of Berne. The author having worked there in 1859, noticed this volume among others. Subsequently, Professor Gaussen, who had had a large portion of it copied several years before, presented the copy to the author. This narration is therefore drawn up from the original text.

[396] Avoyer was the title of the first magistrate of the Bernese republic. The baillifs were the deputy governors of the Bernese dependencies.

[397] Acts of the Disputation. Berne MS. folio xviii.

[398] Acts of the Disputation, fol. xxi. and xxv.