d, vi. 409-411.]

[Footnote 170: Neither the reason nor the precise time of his departure
is known. It was apparently as early as 1523.]

[Footnote 171: See Haag, La France protestante, art. Farel; Dr. E.
Schmidt, Wilhelm Farel, in Hagenbach, Leben d. Vaeter und Begruender der
Reformirten Kirche, vii. 3, etc. A brief but very accurate sketch in
Herminjard, i. 178, etc.]

[Footnote 172: MS. Seminary of Meaux, January 11, 1524/5, Bulletin, x.
220.]

[Footnote 173: "Plusieurs peigneurs, cardeurs et autres gens de meme
trempe, non lettres."]

[Footnote 174: MS. Seminary of Meaux, February 6, 1524/5, Bulletin, x.
220.]

[Footnote 175: Compare for the date, Herminjard, i. 378, 389, 401.
Gerard Roussel was ordered by parliament to be seized wherever found,
_etiam in loco sacro_. So, too, were Caroli and Prevost. Jacques Lefevre
was cited to appear. Registres du parlement, Oct. 3, 1525, Preuves des
Libertez de l'Egl. gall., iii. 102, 103.]

[Footnote 176: Farel to Pellican, 1556, Herminjard, i. 481.]

[Footnote 177: "Ita invigilent Verbo ecclesiarum ministri, ut, nulla
pene hora diei, suum desit pabulum et quidem _syncerum, ut nulla subsit
palea aut fermenti pharisaici commissura_."]

[Footnote 178: Roussel to Briconnet, Strasbourg, Dec, 1525, Herminjard,
i. 406, 407.]

[Footnote 179: Roussel to Farel, Meaux, Aug. 24, 1524, Herminjard, i.
271--a document that throws a flood of light upon the motives of the
conduct of both Roussel and Lefevre. A letter of the same date to
Oecolampadius is, in some respects, even more instructive. Notice the
pitiful weakness revealed in these sentences: "Reclamabunt episcopi,
reclamabunt doctores, reclamabunt scholae, assentiente populo, occurret
Senatus (parliament). _Quid faciet homuncio adversus tot leones?_"
Herminjard, i. 278. A reference to the book of Daniel might have enabled
the Canon of Meaux to answer his own question.]

[Footnote 180: Pierre Toussain to Oecolampadius, Malesherbes, July 26,
1526, Herminjard, i. 447.]

[Footnote 181: Mandement de Guillaume Briconnet an clerge de son
diocese, le 21 janvier, 1525, Herminjard, i. 320, etc.]

[Footnote 182: It may seem surprising that Jean Leclerc escaped the
stake in punishment of his temerity. But the reason is found in the
circumstance that he was tried, not for _heresy_, but for _irreverence_.
This appears from the Registres du parlement for March 20, 1524/5. The
interesting discussions of that session, printed in the B