[Footnote 250: Hist. de l'église gallicane, _apud_ Gaillard, vi. 404.] [Footnote 251: The letter is given by Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta, fol. 50; also Gerdes., iv. (Doc), 48-50.] [Footnote 252: Gerdes., iv. 51; Crespin, fol. 49-52; Haag, s. v.] [Footnote 253: The incident, it must be confessed, is by no means above suspicion (see Kirchhofer, Life of Wm. Farel, London ed., p. 40, and Schmidt, Wilhelm Farel, p. 6), although, as Merle d'Aubigné observes, Hist. of the Reformation, bk. xii. c. 13, it is in keeping with Farel's character. Œcolampadius, foreseeing the possibility of his indulging in such inconsiderate words and actions, warned him, as early as Aug. 19, 1524, to temper his zeal with mildness, and to treat his opponents rather as was most expedient, than as they deserved to be treated. Herminjard, i. 265-267.] [Footnote 254: "Ceste hérésie luthérienne, _qui commance fort à pulluler par deça. Et jam plures de cineribus valde (Valdo) renascuntur plantulæ_." Council of the Archbishop of Lyons to Noel Beda, January 23, 1525. The title of primate was assumed both by the Archbishop of Sens and the Archbishop of Lyons, the former having apparently the better claim and enjoying nominally a Wider supremacy (as "Primat des Gaules et de Germanie"); but the latter gradually vindicated his pretension to spiritual authority over most of France. See Encyclopédie méthodique, s. v. Sens, and Lyon.] [Footnote 255: Gaillard, Hist. de François premier, vi. 408.] CHAPTER IV. INCREASING SEVERITY.--LOUIS DE BERQUIN. [Sidenote: Captivity of Francis I.]