[189] Amiens. The interview proposed in that town between the two monarchs did not take place.
[190] Charles, Duke of Savoy, dispossessed of the greater part of his territory by Francis I.
[191] The marriage of Calvin with Idelette de Bure did not take place till the following month of August.
[192] See the preceding Letter.
[193] Minister of the Church of Zurich.
[194] They are the two letters entitled: Epistolæ duæ, prima de fugiendis impiorum illicitis sacris, et puritate Christianæ religionis; secunda de Christiani hominis officio in sacerdotiis papalis ecclesiæ vel administrandis vel abjiciendis. Genevæ, 1537, in 8vo.
[195] This interview, which had been proposed to be held at Calais, in reference to fresh matrimonial projects of Henry VIII., did not take place, (see Hume, cap. xxxii.,) and after apparent hesitation on the part of the English monarch between an alliance with Francis I. and one with the Emperor, he turned to Charles V., sacrificing at once the friendship of the King of France and that of the German Princes.
[196] The citizens of Geneva, perceiving at length that their divisions were ruinous to their country, resolved in a General Council, assembled Feb. 1, 1540, to be at agreement with each other, and to live in unity together. The recall of the banished ministers put the seal to this reconciliation.—Ruchat, Hist. de la Réformation, vol. i. p. 137.
[197] The meeting at Smalkald took place the 1st of March, to draw up a form of agreement between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants.—Sleidan, book xii. p. 351. The meeting separated on the 13th April.
[198] The Chancellor Granvelle, father of the celebrated Cardinal Granvelle, minister and ambassador of Charles V.