1531, Vatican Library,
Laemmer, Monumenta, 90. See Lambert's autobiographical sketch, entitled:
"Rationes propter quas Minoritarum conversationem habitumque rejecit,"
Gerdes., iv. (Doc.) 21-28, and translated, Herminjard, i. 118, etc.; F.
W. Hassencamp, Fr. Lambert von Avignon; Haag, France prot., s. v.; Baum,
Lambert von Avignon.]

[Footnote 245: So says Lambert, who states: "Novi ilium ex intimis; fuit
enim mihi perinde atque Jonathas Davidi." Praef. ad Comm. in Hoseam,
Gerdes., Scrinium antiquarium, vi. 490.]

[Footnote 246: The Bishop of Metz was _John_, Cardinal of Lorraine,
uncle of the more notorious Cardinal _Charles_. Chatellain had written a
poetical chronicle of Metz reaching to the year 1524. A friendly hand
continued it, and recorded the fate of Chatellain, described as

"Augustin, grand Docteur
Qui estoit grand predicateur."

The chronicle, which certainly possesses no striking literary merit, is
printed among the _Preuves_ of Dom Calmet, Histoire de Lorraine (Nancy,
1748), iii. pp. cclxxii., etc.]

[Footnote 247: Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta (Geneva, 1560), fol.
44-46.]

[Footnote 248: "Quorum (Antichristi prophetae) faex in eadem civitate tam
multa est, ut eosdem nongentos esse ferant." Lamberti praef. ad Comm. in
Hoseam, Gerdes., Scrinium Antiq., vi. 485, etc.]

[Footnote 249: Ibid., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 250: Hist. de l'eglise gallicane, _apud_ Gaillard, vi. 404.]

[Footnote 251: The letter is given by Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta,
fol. 50; also Gerdes., iv. (Doc), 48-50.]

[Footnote 252: Gerdes., iv. 51; Crespin, fol. 49-52; Haag, s. v.]

[Footnote 253: The incident, it must be confessed, is by no means above
suspicion (see Kirchhofer, Life of Wm. Farel, London ed., p. 40, and
Schmidt, Wilhelm Farel, p. 6), although, as Merle d'Aubigne observes,
Hist. of the Reformation, bk. xii. c. 13, it is in keeping with Farel's
character. Oecolampadius, foreseeing the possibility of his indulging
in such inconsiderate words and actions, warned him, as early as Aug.
19, 1524, to temper his zeal with mildness, and to treat his opponents
rather as was most expedient, than as they deserved to be treated.
Herminjard, i. 265-267.]

[Footnote 254: "Ceste heresie lutherienne, _qui commance fort a pulluler
par deca. Et jam plures de cineribus valde (Valdo) renascuntur
plantulae_." Council of the Archbishop of Lyons to Noel Beda, January 23,
1525. The title of primate was assumed both by t