Your humble brother and sincere friend,
John Calvin.
You can see the copies of the two letters which Messieurs of Berne have written. It might, perhaps, have been desirable that the first, dated the 15th March, should have been kept back.[421] But the thing is done. The remedy is good, inasmuch as the latter is as full as could be desired. Having perused the whole, we beg of you to forward them to the prisoners aforesaid. Our brother, Peter Viret, commends himself most heartily to you.
[Fr. orig. autogr.—Library of Saint Gall. Vol. 7, p. 211.]
CCCXIV.—To Cranmer.
He entreats his influence in favour of the person already recommended to the King.
March 1553.