[293] Switzerland had made a business, ever since the time when Charles VIII of France invaded Italy, of supplying troops of mercenaries to fight for others, especially for France and the pope. It was the Swiss who gained the battle of Marignano for Francis I, and Swiss guards may still be seen in the pope's palace.
[294] So eloquent was the new preacher that one of his auditors reports that after a sermon he felt as if "he had been taken by the hair and turned inside out."
[295] See above, pp. [212–213].
[296] For Zwingli's life and work see the scholarly biography by Samuel Macauley Jackson, Huldreich Zwingli (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901).
[298] Calvin intrusted the management of church affairs to the ministers and the elders, or presbyters, hence the name Presbyterian. For Calvin's work, see Johnson, Europe in the Sixteenth Century, pp. 272–276.
[300] An English translation of the Utopia is published by the Macmillan Company at 50 cents.
[302] The clergy only recognized the king as "Head of the Church and Clergy so far as the law of Christ will allow." They did not abjure the headship of the pope over the whole Church.