See the documents attached to the trial, in the Registres du Conseil du 27 Janvier 1534. Footnote 423: ‘Prêchant à des compagnies induisant de toute sa possibilité, &c.’—MS. du procès inquisitionnel de Lyon, p. 29. Footnote 424: Ibid. p. 37. Footnote 425: Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, pp. 69-71. Gautier MS. Footnote 426: ‘Les femmes comme enragées . . . de grande furie, lui jetant force pierres.’—Froment, _Gestes merveilleux de Genève_, pp. 71-74. Sœur Jeanne, _Levain du Calvinisme_, p. 70. Gautier MS. Footnote 427: Registre du Conseil du 2 Décembre 1533. CHAPTER III. FAREL, MAISONNEUVE, AND FURBITY IN GENEVA. (DECEMBER 1533 TO JANUARY 1534.) [Sidenote: Furbity Visited By The Catholics.] De la Maisonneuve was determined to uphold the liberty of Gospel-preaching. ‘We are called Lutherans,’ said Froment; ‘now, _Luther_ in German means _clear_, and there is nothing clearer than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Lutheran cause is the cause of light.’ And therefore De la Maisonneuve desired to propagate it. The zealous huguenot did not lose a moment after his arrival at Berne. He told all his friends (of whom he had many) what was going on at Geneva. Froment and Alexander, who stood by his side, supported his complaints and repeated the insults of the Dominican. The Bernese were exasperated by the abuse the monk had heaped upon the protestants, but they were animated by a nobler motive. They had thought that Geneva, so famous for the energetic character of its citizens, would be a great gain for the Reformation; and now people were beginning to say in Savoy, in the Pays de Vaud, at Freiburg, and in France, that the reforming movement was crushed in the huguenot city. ‘A great rumor,’ says Farel, ‘spread everywhere touching Geneva, how that Master Furbity had triumphed in his disputations with the Lutherans.’[428] The Bernese resolved to assist the threatened Reform by despatching to Geneva ... not large battalions, but a humble preacher of the Gospel. They sent William Farel as Maisonneuve’s companion.