Note 44 — Chapter III

We read of Luther’s books being read in Geneva as early as May 1521, and that their effect was to give several of the people heart to care little for the threats of the Pope; in 1522, Cornelius Agrippa, writing to Capito (June 17th), and Haller, writing to Zwingli (July 8th), speak of Francis Lambert (vir probus et diligens minister Verbi Dei), who had preached in Geneva, Lausanne, Freiburg, and Bern; and in 1527, Hofen, secretary to the Council of Bern, writing to Zwingli (Jan. 15th), thinks that Geneva could be won for the Reformation,—he had noticed that the people no longer cared much for Indulgences or for the Mass (Herminjard, Correspondance, etc. i. 101-3, 318 n., ii. 9 f., 10 n.; cf. 6).