The Jew And the German, Or, From Paul to Luther : a Historical Study.
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Hundreds of parishes put down the mass, and numbers of priests became protestant pastors. After the death of the king — under the reg-ency of the Duke of Guise — the queen mother requested Admiral Colig-ny to give her a list of the Protestant churches already organized. The admiral found two thousand one hundred and fifty. The queen mother was restive under the power of the Guises, who under the pretence of extreme courtesy kept her in the back- ground of political affairs, which was not at all... to her liking. This state of affairs induced her to write to the Prince of Conde of a partially formed purpose of 154 THE JEW AND THE GERMAN. placing" herself, the young* king- and kingdom under the protection of the protestants. She was weary of the Guises, and they were the head of the Romish church in France. The cardinal was a much abler man than his brother, the duke. This was so well known in Paris that it was a common saying- that the regent was the arm by which the cardinal worked the wires of state.
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