[_Lat. orig. autogr._--_Library of Geneva._ Vol. 106.]
[436] Marcourt, senior minister of the Church of Geneva.
[437] This was the Reply to the Sorbonne Articles. See the note, p.
408.
[438] Calvin had already lost a son in the month of August 1542. See
note 3, p. 344. He had afterwards another child by Idelette de Bure,
which does not appear to have long survived.
[439] The imperial assembly of Spire dissolved in the month of May
1544. Charles the Fifth had then obtained considerable subsidies
from the Protestant princes in return for the important concessions
which he had made to them in the great concern of religion.--_Hist.
Charles V._, lib. vii.
[440] The French had gained a brilliant victory at Cérisoles, 14th
April 1544, over the Marquis of Guasta, the Imperial General.