[739] Rather less than a hundred and fifty francs, which would be equivalent to more than two thousand francs of the present day; or about eighty pounds sterling.
[740] Maimbourg, Histoire du Calvinisme, book i.
[741] Calvin to Farel. Aug. 4, 1538. Bibl. de Genève. Calv. Opp. x. p. 228.
[742] Roget, Peuple de Genève, p. 117.
[743] Registers of the Council. Rozet, Chron. de Genève. Gautier, Hist. MS. de Genève. Roget, Peuple de Genève, etc.
[744] Lettres françaises, i. p. 11. See also Rozet, Chron. de Genève, iv. ch. 26.
[745] Calvin, Opp. x. p. 275.
[746] Archives de Genève. Letters of Farel, of June 19, August 7, and November 8. Roget, Peuple de Genève, p. 136. Calvin, Opp. x. p. 210.
[747] Fl. Raemond, Naissance de l’hérésie, book vii. ch. i.
[748] ‘Quibus tamquam lucidis gemmis, illa tua ecclesia fulgebat.’—Beza, Vita Calvini, p. 6.