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present. Hie eminent Frenchman, to whom
we are so much indebted^ was a doctor of the
Sorbonne, and rector of the university of Park.
Paul IV. would have made him a cardinal, had
not the supposed interests of France prevented.
De Thou affirms, that he was too good, as John
de la Casa was too bad, for that honour.* Cra*
shav writes concerning him, " of whom not
only Thuanus, Bochellius, and other indiflferent
andmoderate, but even Possevine the Jesuit,
and Genebrard, that rough and bitter papist^
give most honourable testimony.^'f
In his Commentary on the Epistle to Titus,
on ch. i. ver. 7, he has, what he calls, Di-
gressio Secunda, on the word duaMpcmfiia; and
- Lib. XTi. ad ann. 1566*
+ A Mittillliis, &c. Advertisement to the Christian Reader. See likewise DnpinliEccles. Hist. Eng. Tians. 1706, Sixteenth Centcuj, Book V. pp. lOO—O', where C. d'Espense, at the close, isdeicribed as " one of the most learned and judicious Doctors of his time." He was a right good, though not an ultra, papist; deesed himself well enough from the charge of being heretically affected^ thought it was a good action to kneel before a crucifix or images of the blessed Virgin and Saints, when praying to Christ or them; was an enemy to the unrestricted reading of the Seriptiires; and approved the sanguinary prohibition of Books by Henry II. The Cataloc:ue was published in 1551, and an account of it may be seen in the Literary Policy^ &c. pp. 34, 5. D^Espense took a leading part in the colloquy of Poissy, 1561: he likewise acted there as prompter to the juvenile^ and not ve^T theoiogic Cardinal of Lorraine. h2
