ulletin de la
Soc. de l'hist. du prot. francais, iii. (1854) 23, etc., establish the
fact that the reformed doctrines were already making formidable headway
in Paris and the adjoining towns. A brother of Bishop Briconnet took a
prominent part in the debate, and gave a deplorable view of the
prevalence of impiety and heresy in the higher circles of society.]

[Footnote 183: For a description of the punishment, see Bastard
d'Estang, Les parlements de France.]

[Footnote 184: "Vive Jesus Christ et ses enseignes!"]

[Footnote 185: Histoire ecclesiastique des eglises reformees, attributed
to Theodore Beza (Ed. of Lille, 1841), i. 4; Crespin, Actiones et
Monimenta Martyrum (Geneva, 1560), fol. 46; Haag, La France protestante,
art. Leclerc; Daniel, x. 23, who finds no more suitable epithet for
Leclerc than "_ce scelerat_."]

[Footnote 186: At this time a city of the Empire, and not conquered by
France until the reign of Henry II. (1552).]

[Footnote 187: The story of Leclerc's fortunes is told both by Crespin,
_ubi supra_, fol. 46, and by the Histoire ecclesiastique, i. 4; but,
strange to say, both these early authorities fall into the same error:
they place the first arrest of Leclerc in 1523, and his death a year
later. Almost all subsequent writers have implicitly followed their
authority. The Registres du parlement de Paris, already referred to,
March 20, 1524/5, fix the former event as having occurred only three
days before--"depuis trois jours" (p. 27); while Francois Lambert's
letter to the Senate of Besancon, dated August 15, 1525, expressly
states that Leclerc was burned Saturday, July 22, 1525. Herminjard, i.
372. Jean Chatellain had been executed at Vic, in Lorraine, six months
earlier (January 12, 1525). See P. Lambert to the Elector of Saxony,
Herminjard, i. 346.]

[Footnote 188: In accordance with the uncertain orthography of the age,
the name is variously written--Pauvan, Pauvant, Pavanne, or Pouvent.]

[Footnote 189: Pauvan's propositions, with the vindication by Saunier
(or Saulnier) are recapitulated in the censure of the theological
faculty, dated Dec. 9, 1525, and published _in extenso_ among the
documents appended to Gerdesius, Hist. Evang. Renov., iv. 36, etc.
Professor Soldan (i. 107) and others are incorrect in placing the
propositions and their condemnation by the Sorbonne subsequent to the
abjuration, which in this very document the Sorbonne demands.]

[Footnote 190: Ibid., iv. 47.]

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