| Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 594 halaman
...turn of the royal power." The secular arm was not slow to strike. In 1559, a royal edict was published declaring the crime of heresy punishable by death,...mitigate the penalty. The fires of persecution, which had long been smouldering, again burst forth all over France. The provincial Parliaments instituted Chambres... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 520 halaman
...turn of the royal power." The secular arm was not slow to strike. In 1559, a royal edict was published declaring the crime of heresy punishable by death,...mitigate the penalty. The fires of persecution, which had long been smouldering, again burst forth all over France. The provincial Parliaments instituted Chumbres... | |
| Elisabeth Wilson - 1881 - 384 halaman
...PcUissy, p. 106.) In AD 1559, a royal edict was published, declaring the crime of reading the Bible to be punishable by death, and forbidding the judges to remit or mitigate the penalty. Fires were kindled all over France, the effects of which exist to this day; while "the oubliettes"... | |
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