[Footnote 342: "Combien que ... nous eussions prohibé et défendu que nul n'eust dès lors en avant à imprimer ou faire imprimer aulcuns livres en nostre royaulme, sur peine de la hart." As neither of these disgraceful edicts was formally registered by parliament, they are both of them wanting in the ordinary records of that body, and in all collections of French laws. The _first_ seems, indeed, to have disappeared altogether. M. Crapelet, Études sur la typographie, 34-37, reproduces the _second_, dated St. Germain-en-Laye, February 23, 1534/5, from a volume of parliamentary papers labelled "Conseil." Happily, the preamble recites the cardinal prescription of the previous and lost edict, as given above in the text. M. Merle d'Aubigné carelessly places the edict abolishing printing _after_, instead of _before_, the great expiatory procession. Hist. of the Reformation in the Time of Calvin, iii. 140.] [Footnote 343: Félibien, Hist. de la ville de Paris, ii. 997.] [Footnote 344: Soissons MS., Bulletin, xi. 255.] [Footnote 345: I. e., _gaînier_, sheath-or scabbard-maker. Hist. ecclésiastique, i. 10; Journal d'un bourgeois, 444; see Varillas, Hist. des révol. arrivées dans l'Eur. en matière de rel., ii. 222.] [Footnote 346: "Qui ad se ea pericula spectare non putabant, qui non contaminati erant eo scelere, hi etiam in partem pœnarum veniunt. _Delatores et quadruplatores_ publice comparantur. Cuilibet simul et testi et accusatori in hac causa esse licet." J. Sturm to Melanchthon, Paris, March 4, 1535, Bretschneider, Corpus Reformatorum, ii. 855, etc.] [Footnote 347: The _name_ and the _affliction_ of this first victim give Martin Theodoric of Beauvais an opportunity, which he cannot neglect, to compare him with a pagan malefactor and contrast him with a biblical personage. "Hunc gladium ultorem persenserunt quam plurimi degeneres et alienigenæ in flexilibus perversarum doctrinarum semitis obambulantes; inter alios, _paralyticus Lutheranus Neroniano Milone perniciosior_. Cui malesano opus erat salutifer Christus, ut _sublato erroris grabato, viam Veritatis insequutus fuisset_. At vero elatus, in funesto sacrilegi cordis desiderio perseverans, _flammis combustus_ cum suis participibus seditiosis Gracchis, exemplum sui cunctis hæreticis relinquens deperiit. Et peribunt omnes sive plebeii, sive primates," etc. Paraclesis Franciæ (Par. 1539), 5.] [Footnote 348: The Journal d'un bourgeois, 444-452, gives an account, in the briefest terms and without comment, of the sentences pronounced and executed. See also G. Guiffrey, Cronique du Roy François I^er, 111-113.]