[_Calvin's Latin Correspondence_--_Amsterdam Edit._, tom. ix. p. 226.]
[56] That meeting had ended on the 13th May.--See Ruchat, _Hist. de
la Réf._, tom. v. p. 24.
[57] These two deputies were Rudolph de Graffenried, Banderet, and
Nicolas Zerkinden, Secretary of State.
[58] One of these ministers was Gaspar Grossmann, (Megander.) See
Letter XIII. p. 47. He had been charged by the seigneury of Berne
to draw up the oath which was to be taken by the ministers, and the
order of procedure to be followed in the Synod.
[59] On the authority of Ruchat, it appears that Caroli did not
wait for the decision of the Lords of Berne, and that he withdrew
himself into voluntary exile from the condemnation with which he
was threatened. The act of his desertion was given to Farel and
to Calvin, the 29th of June 1537. (MSS. de Grossmann. Archives de
Berne.) We shall meet him again in the following letters of the
Reformer.
[60] See that Confession, (Calv. Epist. et Responsa,) p. 227.