[_Lat. orig. autogr.--Library of Geneva._ Vol. 107a.]
[260] Laurent de Normandie, a Picard gentleman, and
Procurator-general at Noyon, had retired to Geneva some months
previously, at the request of Calvin, his countryman and
friend.--_Registers of the Council_, 2d May 1549. "Laurent de
Normandie retires to this place for the sake of religion, and
presses the Council to receive him as an inhabitant, which is
granted him."