Chapter VII

.

[149] Theophile de Viau, for instance.

[150] _Lettres choisies_, iii. p. 9.

[151] _Letter to the Synod of Alencon_, 1637.

[152] _Lettre a M. Morley_, p. 4 (1650).

[153] Collier, _Church History_, ii. p. 399. "The French Protestants," wrote Pierre Du Moulin in the same spirit, "keepe their zeale of religion for higher matters than a Surplice or a Crosse in Baptisme" (_A Letter of a French Protestant to a Scotsman of the Covenant_, 1640, p. 35).

[154] Allusion, of course, to Descartes.

[155] _Reunion du Christianisme_, pp. 117-19.

[156] _Reunion du Christianisme_, p. 173.

[157] _Op. cit._ p. 198.

[158] _Avis aux refugies_, pp. 128, 129.

[159] _Ibid._ p. 155.

[160] Aymon, _Actes des Synodes_, 2 vols., La Haye, 1710, ii. pp. 38, 39.

[161] _Ibid._ ii. p. 106.

[162] _Actes des Synodes_, ii. p. 636.

[163] _Ecclesiasticae Disciplinae; et Anglicanae Ecclesiae ... dilucida Explicatio._

[164] Penry's _Appellation_ and Throckmorton's _M[aster Robert] Some laid open in his Colours_, 1590. Cf. Sir Sidney Lee, _French Renaissance in England_, p. 303.

[165] _Memoires de Lenet_, p. 599. and Ch. Normand, _Bourgeoisie francaise_, pp. 400 _ssq._ See also