[Footnote 356: When John Sturm wrote, March 4th, _eighteen_--when Latomus wrote, somewhat later, _twenty-four_--adherents of the Reformation had suffered capitally. Bretschneider, Corp. Reform., ii. 855, etc. "Plusieurs aultres héréticques en grant nombre furent après bruslez à divers jours," says the Cronique du Roy Françoys I^er, p. 129, "_en sorte que dedans Paris on ne véoit que potences dressées en divers lieux_," etc.] [Footnote 357: G. Guiffrey, Cronique du Roy Françoys I^er, 130-132; Soissons MS. in Bulletin, etc., xi. 253-254. We may recognize, among the misspelt names, those, for example, of _Pierre Caroli_, doctor of theology and parish priest of Alençon, already introduced to our notice; _Jean Retif_, a preacher; _François Berthault_ and _Jean Courault_, lately associated in preaching the Gospel under the patronage of the Queen of Navarre; besides the scholar _Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples_, and _Guillaume Féret_, who brought the placards from Switzerland.] [Footnote 358: Under the head of _Sacramentarians_ were included all who, like Zwingle, denied the bodily presence of Christ in or with the elements of the eucharist.] [Footnote 359: "De ne lire, dogmatiser, translater, composer ni imprimer, soit en public ou en privé, aucune doctrine contrariant à la foy chrétionne." Declaration of Coucy, July 16, 1535, Isambert, Recueil des anc. lois franç., xii. 405-407. See also a similar declaration, May 31, 1536, ibid., xii. 504.] [Footnote 360: Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, 458, 459.] [Footnote 361: Neantmoins Dieu le créateur, luy estant en ce monde, a plus usé de miséricorde que de rigueur, et qu'il ne faut aucunes fois user de rigueur, et que c'est une cruelle mort de faire brusler vif un homme, dont parce il pourroit plus qu'autrement renoncer la foy et la loy. Ibid., _ubi supra_.] [Footnote 362: "Et le très-crestien et bon roy François premier du nom, _à la prière du pape_, pardonna à tous, excepté a ceulx qui avoient touché à l'honneur du saint sacrement de l'autel." Soissons MS., Bulletin, xi. 254. Sturm to Melanchthon, July 6, 1535, says: "Pontificem etiam aiunt æquiorem esse, et haud paulo meliorem quam fuerunt cæteri. Omnino improbat illam suppliciorum crudelitatem, et _de hac re dicitur misisse [literas ad Regem]_." Herminjard, iii. 311. Cf. Erasmus Op., 1513.] [Footnote 363: "Sapendo, _come sua Maestà m'ha detto_, che Cesare in Fiandra aveva sospeso ogni esecuzione di morte contro questi eretici, ha anche egli concesso che contra ogni sorte di eretici si proceda come avanti, ma _citra mortem_, eccetto i sacramentarii." Relazione del clarissimo Marino Giustiniano (1535), Relaz. Venete, i. 155.] [Footnote 364: Francis I. to the German Princes, February 1, 1535, Bretschneider, Corpus Reform., ii. 828, etc.] [Footnote 365: Sturm to Melanchthon, March 4, 1535, Bretschneider, Corpus Reform., ii. 855, etc.] [Footnote 366: A letter of Voré is found in Bretschneider, _ubi supra_, ii, 859.]