Note 68 — Chapter II · THE CONTINENTAL REFORMERS (continued 2)
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Paul Henry, op. cit., pp. 70-5. Other examples are given by Preserved Smith, op. cit., pp. 170-4, and by F. W. Kampschulte, Johann Calvin, seine Kirche und sein Staat in Genf, 1869. Statistical estimates of the bloodthirstiness of Calvin’s régime vary; Smith (p. 171) states that in Geneva, a town of 16,000 inhabitants, 58 persons were executed and 76 banished in the years 1542-6.