_ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 293: It was one of the great merits of Francis I., in the eyes
of De Thou, the historian, that he had drawn Bude from comparative
obscurity, and, following his wise counsels, founded the College Royale.
Erasmus styled him "The Wonder of France" (De Thou, liv. iii., i. 233),
and Scaevole de Ste. Marthe, "omnium, qui hoc patrumque saeculo vixere,
sine controversia doctissimus" (Elog. 3). He was at this time one of the
_maitres de requetes_. Crespin, fol. 58.]

[Footnote 294: Journal d'un bourgeois, 378.]

[Footnote 295: The series of letters ends with a prayer which it would
have been difficult, we must suppose, for a brother to resist: "Il vous
plera (plaira), Monseigneur, faire en sorte que l'on ne die (dise) point
que l'eslongnement vous ait fait oblier vostre tres-humble et
tres-obeissante subjette et seur MARGUERITE." Genin, 2de Coll., No. 52.]

[Footnote 296: A MS. of the Bibliotheque Nationale, printed by M. Genin
(i. 218, etc.), and G. Guiffrey, Cronique, etc., 76, note, gives these
and other interesting details, which are in part confirmed by Erasmus.]

[Footnote 297: Ibid., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 298: It was a slight suggestion of mercy that prompted the
judges to permit him to be strangled before his body was consigned to
the flames.]

[Footnote 299: "Ce qui fut faict et expedie ce mesme jour _en grande
diligence, affin qu'il ne fut recourru du Roy ne de madame la Regente_,
qui estoit lors a Bloys, etc." Journal d'un bourgeois, 383.]

[Footnote 300: For De Berquin's history, see Erasmus, _ubi supra_;
Journal d'un bourgeois, 378, etc.; Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta (ed.
of 1560), fol. 57-59; Histoire eccles., i. 5; Felibien, ii. 985; Haag,
s. v.]

[Footnote 301: Journal d'un bourgeois, and Hist. eccles., _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 302: So he is styled by Martin of Beauvais, writing some few
months later, in a sufficiently bold plea for the use of fire and fagot:
"Si vero _haeresiarchae Berquini_, et suorum sequacium pervicacia
delibutus (haereticus) incorrigibilis videatur, ne fortassis plusquam
vipereum venenum latenter surrepat, et sanos inficere possit, subito
auferte eum de medio vestrum, execrantes atque aversantes illius
perversitatem, et abscisum velut palmitem aridum (juxta Joannis
sententiam) _subjectis ignibus torrere facite_." Paraclesis catholica
Franciae ad Francos, ut fortes in Fide et Vocatione qua vocati sunt,
permaneant, authore Martino Theodorico Bellovaco,