MS. du Procès inquisitionnel de Lyon. There are three depositions with regard to these facts: those of Barbier the priest, pp. 267-270; of the furrier Simon de Montverban, pp. 274-278; and of friar Lyonnel, pp. 305-312. Footnote 514: MS. du Procès inquisitionnel de Lyon, pp. 282-285. Footnote 515: MS. du Procès inquisitionnel de Lyon, pp. 298-300, 413-414. Footnote 516: Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 241. Footnote 517: ‘Iceluy fut épié et recommandé.’—Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 241. Footnote 518: MS. du Procès inquisitionnel de Lyon, p. 424. Footnote 519: Ibid. p. 1. Footnote 520: All the procès-verbaux or minutes have his signature, with a curious flourish (_parafe_) exactly alike on each. Footnote 521: MS. du Procès inquisitionnel, pp. 5-6. CHAPTER IX. BAUDICHON DE LA MAISSONNEUVE BEFORE THE INQUISITIONAL COURT OF LYONS. (FROM 29TH OF APRIL TO 21ST OF MAY, 1534.) [Sidenote: The Examination.] The tribunal of priests wished to mark distinctly at the very outset that the Romish doctrine was in question: it was necessary to proclaim anew that _in instanti_, at the very moment, at the priest’s word, there was no longer in the host either bread or wine, but only the body and blood of the Saviour. ‘What do you think of the sacrament of the altar?’ was the first question put by the court to Maisonneuve. He rejected the Roman error; but his protestantism, as we have seen, came from Germany, and the Lutherans taught that ‘in the sacrament of the altar, in the bread and wine, were the true body, the true blood of Christ;’[522] and as, according to the Lutheran doctrine, the presence was spiritual, supernatural, and heavenly,[523] Maisonneuve, who professed this faith and had taken the sacrament at Frankfort in the Lutheran church, answered: ‘I believe that the real body of Christ is in the blessed host,’[524] but knowing the axiom of jurisprudence, that no accused person is bound to criminate himself, he would not declare his faith more precisely. If this doctrine interested the court, the connection of the accused with the chiefs of what they called _heresy_ had also a great importance in their eyes, and a doctor well known in France had given them great umbrage. ‘Do you know _Pharellus_?’ they asked Maisonneuve, who calmly replied: ‘He is from Dauphiny; he was brought to Geneva by my lords of Berne; and when I hear him, I believe as much of his sermons as seems right, and no more.’ These two answers might have led some to hope that they would exercise clemency towards the accused; but such was not the intention of the canons of St. John. The court declared that the witnesses would be examined on the following day. They were all to be for the prosecution; they might invent, add, or exaggerate, and the prisoner would not have it in his power to produce any witnesses for the defence.