51/59 Hence comes the proverb, to play truant (_faire l'ecole buissonniere--to go to hedge school_). All the resources of French civil jurisdiction appeared to be insufficient against the Reformers. asked the pope for a bull, transplanting into France the Spanish Inquisition, the only real means of extirpating the root of the errors." It was the characteristic of this Inquisition, that it was completely in the hands of the clergy, and that its arm was long enough to reach the lay and the clerical indifferently. |