Prince’s deputy

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Often appears with: waldenses of provence · religious persecution and toleration · faction, party, and civil strife · disruptive theologian · counsel and advisers to rulers · bullinger correspondence

Usually: letter or document (1) · injustice endured (1) · exhortation (1) · indignation (1)

Letters of John Calvin, Volume I primary

Jean Calvin · c. 1540s–1564 (letters collected here; selection dating over Calvin’s lifetime; compiled in the 16th c. by Beza/Jonvillers)
LETTER PAGE > act of the struggle between Francis I. and Charles V. (7/43)

On 25 November 1544 Calvin writes to Bullinger requesting support for Waldensian brethren in Provence, rebuking a disruptive, self-contradicting doctor backed by a prince’s deputy, and asks Zurich leaders to help bridle him.

GENEVA, *25th November 1544*. You will receive from this brother who has delivered to you my letter, a crown-piece and two silver testons; for this, if I remember correctly, was the amount that remained. Excuse me, I pray you, for not having sent it sooner. As for the reason why this brother has been sent to you, by those of Neuchatel, he will himself tell you. There is, in my opinion, no difficulty, or very little,…