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Notes 25—27

Leipz. 1822, p. 162; Haag, La France protestante, ed. 2, vol. iv., col. 957 970). Doneau was a Calvinist; driven from France by Catholics and from Heidelberg by Lutherans, he went to Leyden and ultimately to Altdorf. Hotman was a Calvinist, intimately connected with the church of Geneva. Baudouin was compelled to leave France for Geneva, whence he went to Strassburg and Heidelberg; but he quarrelled with Calvin and was accused of changing his religion six times. Charles Du Moulin also had been an exile at Tubingen. It is said that after a Calvinistic stage he became a Lutheran; on his death-bed he returned to Catholicism: such at least was the tale told by Catholics. (See Brodeau, La vie de Maistre Charles Du Molin, Paris, 1654; Haag, La France protestante, ed. 2, vol. V., col. 783 789.) To say the least, he had been 'ultra-gallican.' (Schulte, Geschichte der Quellen des canonischen Rechts, vol. iv., p. 251.) Of Le Douaiin also it is said 'il était réformé de cœur 5 (La France protestante, ed. 2, vol. v., col. 508). 'Die grosse Mehrzahl der hervorragenden Juristen bekannte sich mit grosserer oder geringerer Entschiedenheit zur Partei der Hugenotten' (Stintzing, Geschichte der deutschen Rechtsivissenschaft, vol. I., p. 372).

26  Stintzing, Geschichte der deutschen Rechtswissenschaft, vol. I., p. 284.

Francis Hotman and England27  Elizabeth's invitation to Hotman is mentioned in the Elogium of him prefixed to his Opera (1599),