It is even as you say, my dear Farel,--we are indeed variously and sorely tried and tossed about by storms! We have now a _new_ business with Servetus--_jam novum habemus cum Serveto negotium_. His intention may, perchance, have been to pass through this city; but it is not precisely known why he came hither. When he was recognised, however, I thought it right to have him arrested, my man Nicholas presenting himself as accuser on the capital charge, and binding himself by the law of retaliation, to proceed against him. Articles of accusation under as many as forty heads were presented in writing on the day following the arrest. He prevaricated at first, which led to our being called in. Recognising me, he behaved as though he held me obnoxious to him. I, as became me, gave no heed to him. The senate, in fine, approved of all the charges, and he was sent back to prison. On the third day after, my brother becoming bail for Nicholas, he was set at liberty. I say nothing of the effrontery of the man; but such was his madness that [in the course of the interrogatory] he did not hesitate to say the Devil was in the Deity--_Diabolus inesse Divinitatem_--and more, that in so many men there were so many gods, Deity being substantially communicated to them, as, indeed, he said it was to stocks and stones! _I hope the sentence will be capital at the least--Spero capitale saltem fore judicium_; but I would have the cruel manner of carrying it out remitted. Farewell!