“Yet there is a greater combat of the nayles. I wyll recite them only that are come to my knowledge. Thereupon there is not ſo lytle a childe but wyll judge that the Devyll hath to much deluded the worlde in takyng from it both underſtandyng and reaſon, that it coulde diſcerne nothynge in this matter. If the auncient writers ſaye trewe, and namely Theodorite Hiſtoriographer of the auncient churche, Helene cauſed one to be nayled on her ſonne’s helmet, the other two ſhe put in his horſe bitte. How be it Sainct Ambroſe ſayeth not fully ſo. For he ſayeth that one was put in Conſtantine’s crowne, of the other his horſebit was made, and the thirde Helene kept. Wee ſe y^t already more than twelve hundred yeres agone this hath bene in controverſie, to wit, what was become of the nayles. What certentie can be had of them then at this preſent time? “Now at Millan they boſte that thei have y nayle that was put in Conſtantine’s horſe bitte. To the whiche the towne of Carpentras oppoſeth herſelfe, ſayinge that it is ſhe that hath it. Nowe S. Ambroſe doth not ſaye that the nayle was knit to the bitte, but that the bitte was made thereof. Whiche thynge can in no wyſe be made to agre eyther w^t their ſaying of Milan or w^t theirs of Carpentras. “Moreover there is one in Rome at Sainct Helenes; another alſo at Sene, another at Veniſe. In Germany two: at Collyne one, at the three Maries: another at Triers, one in Fraunce at the holy chappell of Paris, another at y^e Carmes, one alſo at Sainct Denis in France: one at Burges: one at Tenaill, one at Draguine. “Beholde here fourteene, whereof account is made; in every place they alledge good approbation for themſelves, as they ſuppoſe. And ſo it is that everye one hath as good right as aunother. Wherefor there is no better way then to make them all paſſe under one fidelium. That is to ſaye, to repute all that they ſaye hereof to be but lyes, ſeying that otherwiſe a man ſhoulde never come to an ende.” What would Calvin have ſaid if he had ſeen the formidable liſt of holy nails enumerated by Guiſto (or Juſtus) Fontanini, Archbiſhop of Ancyra? which is as follows:— 1. Aix la Chapelle. 2. Ancona, in the Cathedral. 3. Bamberg. 4. In Bavaria, Convent of Audechſen. 5. Carpentras. The Holy Bit. 6. Catania, Sicily. 7. Colle, in Tuſcany. 8. Cologne. 9. The Escurial in Spain. 10. Milan. 11. Monza. The Iron Crown. 12. Naples. Monaſtery of S. Patricius. 13. Nuremberg. Church of the Holy Virgin. 14. Paris. 15. Rome. Two Nails. Church of the Holy Croſs of Jeruſalem; Church of Santa Maria in Campitelli. 16. Sienna. Hoſpital Sainte Marie de de l’Echelle. 17. Spoleto. 18. Torcello, near Venice. Church of S. Anthony. 19. Torno, on the Lake of Como. 20. Toul. 21. Trèves. 22. Venice. Three nails. 23. Vienna. But this liſt is further ſupplemented by M. Rohault de Fleury, who gives ſix more:—