. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). erquin appeared in 1529. When thehumiliating and cruel sentence of public penance waspronounced upon that noble youth, Bude who hadbeen his intimate friend, paid frequent visits to theConciergerie, and urged the doomed man to make arecantation, and so save his life. When he thoughthe had succeeded in inducing Berquin to appear inthe court of the Palace of Justice and ask pardon ofGod and the King, Bude hastened to


. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). erquin appeared in 1529. When thehumiliating and cruel sentence of public penance waspronounced upon that noble youth, Bude who hadbeen his intimate friend, paid frequent visits to theConciergerie, and urged the doomed man to make arecantation, and so save his life. When he thoughthe had succeeded in inducing Berquin to appear inthe court of the Palace of Justice and ask pardon ofGod and the King, Bude hastened to tell theSorbonne that their prisoner was ready to withdraw 172 William Bude his appeal and to recant. At his next interview,however, he found that Berquin, having weighedthe two, apostasy and the stake, had finally chosenthe better part, though his friend might not soregard it. And so he went to the flames on April22, 1529. Bude lived eleven years after the martyrdom ofhis more heroic brother, and died at Paris in 1540,in the seventy-third year of his age. Subsequent tohis death his wife and family all became Protestants,five members of the household finding refuge ^73 Francis Vatable (Franciscus Vatablus) ONE of the learned Frenchmen brought toParis under the auspices and at the expenseof the royal founder of the TrilingualCollege was Francis Vatable. Born towardsthe close of the fifteenth century, and anative of the old province of Picardy, in the north ofFrance, Vatable entered upon public life as pastor ofa small town in Valois. His fame as a Hebraist,however, pointed him out to Francis I. and WiUiamBude as worthy of the honour of being the firstprofessor of Hebrew in the Royal College. When Vatable and his colleagues were appointedthe building was not erected, but the professorshipswere liberally endowed, and instruction was given tocourtiers, noblemen, and students in Hebrew, Greek,Mathematics, Philosophy, and Medicine. Besidestheir ordinary scholastic work the


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