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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · prisoners and exiles · french commissary · false accusations · diplomacy and embassies · crime and punishment
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In a 24 July 1545 letter from Geneva, Calvin calls for urgent measures to free and restore Provençal Waldensians, insisting commissioners must be just and inquiry must not be controlled by their enemies.
GENEVA, *24th July 1545*. Now is the time for vigorous measures, so that we may not have expended in vain so much labour in behalf of our unfortunate brethren; and now, if never before, they themselves, though silent, implore our aid. For, though I have learned from Germany, the King pretends that he will exercise some degree of moderation, for that a commissary had already been despatched to inquire into their affa…