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[English Translation] But all confused and full of ignorance, idolatry and superstition. The Senate being immediately informed by the Political Centmillenier[1], who does not allow any novelty to be introduced without first being examined and permitted, he is apprehended and brought before him wanting to have the knowledge, God having thus permitted it, so that the King and these Lords of the council being converted, would draw after them all the rest of the people from their obedience to the knowledge of this high secret of piety. The King himself questioned him, asking him who had brought him to his countries and why he was so daring to preach a new doctrine without permission from the Magistrates, given the rigorous prohibitions not to introduce any thing into the police and religion, seeing that in the one nor the other one could not increase, nor diminish anything without bringing impefection into it. That he and the Senate had been kind enough to do him the honour notwithstanding the crime he had committed, to hear his defences against custom, this depending on the judges, presidents and councillors. This holy personage filled with divine wisdom began his defence with very humble |
| 1. A "Centmillenier", or a "Hundredthousandth", would have represented 100,000 people. |
