CHAPTER IV: 1525-1533.
1525-1533. Increased Severity--Louis de Berquin [124]122 Captivity of Francis I. [125]122 Change in the Religious Policy of Louise [126]123 A Commission appointed to try "Lutherans" [127]124 The Inquisition heretofore jealously watched [128]125 The Commission indorsed by Clement VII. [129]126 Its Powers enlarged by the Bull [130]128 Character of Louis de Berquin [131]128 He becomes a warm Partisan of the Reformation [132]129 First Imprisonment (1523) [133]130 Released by Order of the King [134]130 Advice of Erasmus [135]131 Second Imprisonment (1526) [136]131 Francis from Madrid again orders his Release [137]132 Dilatory Measures of Parliament [138]132 Margaret of Angoulême's Hopes [139]133 Francis violates his Pledges to Charles V. [140]134 Must conciliate the Pope and Clergy [141]135 Promises to prove himself "Very Christian" [142]137 The Council of Sens (1528) [143]138 Cardinal Duprat [144]138 Vigorous Measures to suppress Reformation [145]139 The Councils of Bourges and Lyons [146]139 Financial Help bought by Persecution [147]140 Insult to an Image and an Expiatory Procession [148]141 Other Iconoclastic Excesses [149]143 Berquin's Third Arrest [150]143 His Condemnation to Penance, Branding, and Perpetual Imprisonment
[151]145 He Appeals [152]145 Is suddenly Sentenced to Death and Executed [153]146 Francis Treats with the Germans [154]147 And with Henry VIII. of England [155]148 Francis meets Clement at Marseilles [156]148 Marriage of Henry of Orleans to Catharine de' Medici [157]148 Francis Refuses to join in a general Scheme for the Extermination of Heresy [158]149 Execution of Jean de Caturce, at Toulouse [159]150 Le Coq's Evangelical Sermon [160]151 Margaret attacked at College of Navarre [161]152 Her "Miroir de l'Ame Pécheresse" condemned [162]152 Rector Cop's Address to the University [163]153 Calvin, the real Author, seeks Safety in Flight [164]154 Rough Answer of Francis to the Bernese [165]155 Royal Letter to the Bishop of Paris [166]156 __________________________________________________________________
Elegies on Louis de Berquin [167]157