quarters, desiring of the princes & protestants there, that they by their ambassadours sent by the French king, would become suters vnto hym for the innocēt prisoners, which for the cause aboue said, wer deteined in bādes at Paris: by þ^e meanes of whose intercession (saith he) and MarginaliaGods help in tyme of neede. especially for that the Frenche king was then in warre (as God prouided) with Philip king of Spayne, a great part of the captiues were rescued and deliuered: albeit certaine of þ^e sayd number were executed before the commyng of the Germane ambassadours: the names and martyrdome of whom here vnder do ensue.  

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Foxe does not elaborate, naturally enough, on the fact that a good number of those imprisoned in the wake of the Affaire de la rue St-Iacques submitted ambiguous testimonies of their protestant loyalties, or were sufficiently ambiguous under cross-examination for them to be sentenced merely to witness the burning of others who had been sentenced. Crespin had, by contrast, followed La Roche-Chandieu in deploring their cowardice.

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(wherin he had ben well exercised and expert) in the presence of the Lieutenāt ciuile, that the said Lieutenant confessed, that he neuer hearde a man better learned, and of more intelligence.

ued the house to be compassed with enemies, albeit he might haue escaped with the rest, yet he woulde not, but dyd abide the aduenture, to the intent he would answeare for the fact, in receyuyng the sayde assemble into the house. The constancie of this man was inuincible in susteynyng his conflicts with the Sorbonistes. With doctour Maillard especially he was of olde acquaintaunce, whom he dyd knowe so wel, euen from his youth vpward, that whensoeuer the said doctour would open his mouth to speake against the Saintes for their nightly assembles, he againe dyd approche him with so filthy actes of buggerie and infamous Sodomitrie, that neither they which heard, could abide it, neither yet could he deny it, being so notorious, that almost all the children in the streates dyd knowe it: and yet that Sorbonicall doctour shamed not to empeach good men of whore-

MarginaliaNote the holy lyfe of these Sorbonicall Doctours. dome, for their godly assembles in the night. Whose lyfe was so farre of from al chastitie, as were their holy assembles cleare from all impuritie, in fine these two godly Elders in cruel paines of the fire, finished their martyrdome.

the body of ChristMarginaliaThe Sacrament. was in the Sacrament. How is that possible (saide shee) to be the body of Christe, to whom al power is geuē, and which is exalted aboue al heauens, when as we see the mice & rattes, apes, and Munkies playe with it, and teare it in peeces? Her petition to them was, that seeyng they had takē her sister from her, yet thei would let her haue a Bible or Testament to comfort her selfe. Her wicked neighbours, although they could touche her conuersation with no part of dishonestie, yet many thinges they layde to her charge, as that there was muche singyng of Psalmes in her house, and that twise or thrise, an infinite number of persons were seene to come out of her house. Also when her husband was in dying, no Priest was called for, neyther was it knowen where he was buryed: Neither dyd they euer heare any word of their infant to be baptised, for it was baptised in the Church of the Lorde. Among other her neighbours that came against her, two there were dwelling at S. Germain, in þ^e suburbes, betwene whō MarginaliaThe iust hand of God against false and bloudye witnesses. incontinent rose a strife, wherin one of thē sticked the other with a knife. The death of this gentlewoman was the more hastened of the lord keper of the Seale, Bertrand, Cardinal of Sens, and his sonne in law the Marques of Tran, for to haue the confiscation of her goodes.

MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of Clinet, Grauelle, and Philip de Luns. These. iij. holy martyrs aboue recited, were condēned the. 27. of Sept. by the proces of þ^e cōmissioners and the Lieutenaunt ciuile: and then beyng put in a Chappell together, certayne Doctours were sent to them, but their valiaunt constancie remained vnmoueable. After that they were had out of prison, and sent euery one in a doung cart to the place of punishment, Clinet euer cryed by the way, protestyng that he saide or maintayned nothyng, but the veritie