[293] After having overcome the last scruples, and taken leave
of the members of his Church, "avec tristesse, larmes, grande
sollicitude, et détresse," as he himself tells us in the preface
to the Psalms, Calvin left Strasbourg towards the end of August
1541. He stopped a little at Basle; and being called to Neuchatel
by unforeseen circumstances, he wrote to the Seigneury of Geneva to
excuse himself for this delay.
Arrival of Calvin at Neuchatel--purpose of his going to that
town.