Father to Francis, the Author of this Book.  He sent his Son, at 15 Years of Age, to Orleans to study the Common Law; which he did with so great Applause, that at Three Years End he merited the Degree of Doctor.  His Father designing to surrender to him his Place of Counsellor of Parliament, sent for him home:  But the young Gentleman was soon tired with the Chicane of the Bar, and plung’d himself deep in the Studies of [Footnote:  Les belles Lettres.] Humanity and the Roman Laws; for which he had a wonderful Inclination.  He happen’d to be a frequent Spectator of the Protestants Sufferings, who, about that Time, had their Tongues cut out, were otherwise tormented, and burnt for their Religion.  This made him curious to dive into those Opinions, which inspired so much Constancy, Resignation and Contempt of Death; which brought him by degrees to a liking of them, so that he turn’d Protestant.  And this put him in Disgrace with his father, who thereupon disinherited him; which forced him at last to quit France, and to retire to Lausanne in Swisserland by Calvin’s and Beza’s Advice; where his great Merit and Piety promoted him to the Humanity-Professor’s Chair, which he accepted of for a Livelihood, having no Subsistance from his Father.  There he married a young French Lady, who had fled her Country upon the Score of Religion:  He afterwards remov’d to Strasburg, where he also had a Professor’s Chair.  The Fame of his great Worth was so blown about, that he was invited by all the great Princes to their several Countries, particularly by the Landgrave of Hesse, the Duke of Prussia, and the King of Navarre; and he actually went to this last about the Beginning of the Troubles.  Twice he was sent as Ambassador from the Princes of the Blood of France, and the Queen-Mother, to demand Assistance of the Emperor Ferdinand: The Speech that he made at the Diet of Francfort is still extant.  Afterwards he returned to Strasburg; but Jean de Monluc, the Bishop of Valence, over-persuaded him to accept of the Professorship of Civil Law at Valence; of which he acquitted himself so well, that he very much heighten’d the Reputation of that University.  Here he received two Invitations from Margaret Dutchess of Berry, and Sister to Henry the Second of France, and accepted a Professor’s Chair at Bourges; but continued in it no longer than five Months, by reason of the intervening Troubles.  Afterwards he returned to it, and was there at the time of the great Parisian Massacre, having much-a-do to escape with his Life; but having once got out of France (with a firm Resolution never to return thither again) he took Sanctuary in the House of Calvin at Geneva, and publish’d Books against the Persecution, so full of Spirit and good Reasoning,