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he had got an attestation from him that he had escaped without his assistance or connivance . Servetus refused to name the persons connected with him , or who were in his debt , in France . —Sept . 1 , Calvin appeared again in court , and had another dispute with the prisoner , to as little purpose as before .
- —Sept . 15 , Servetus presented a petition to his Judges , begging they would make an end of the affair , and signifying that he was eaten up with lice—that his breeches were torn in pieces — and that he had no other pair , nor any other doublet or shirt but a very sorry one ; and in the conclusion of the same
petition , he desired Calvin might be prosecuted as an " unjust accuser , " and the author of all his miseries . In another petition , he concludes thus— I beg of you , my Lords , to do me justice—Justice , my Lords , justice !—From your prisoner at Geneva , Sept . 22 , 1553 . —Michael Servetus , pleading his
own cause . His petitions were all in French : the following is a trans * lation of the last of them entire : — * Magnificent Lords ,
< c It is now three weeks since I desired to have an hearing but could not obtain it , I beseech you , for Christ ' s sake , not to deny me what you would not deny a Turk , when I desire you to do me justice . I have several things to tell you that are very important and necessary . As for the orders you gave ^ that something should be done to keep me clean , they have not been performed , and I am more miserable than ever . Beside , I am
very much troubled with cold , by reason of my cholic and rupture , which occasion some other miseries that I am ashamed to writef It is a great piece of cruelty , that I should not be allowed to speak , in order to supply my wants . For God ' s sake , my Lords ^ give some orders about it , either out of compassion , or out of duty . "
« From your prison at Geneva , ^ MlcHAEL Servetus . . » Oct . 10 , 1553 . 3 In this deplorable situation , far from his own country , fallen into the hands of cruel strangers , all under the influence of Calvin , his avowed enemy , who bore hiip a mortal hatred ; stript of all his property , confined in a damp prison , and
neglected till he was almost eaten up with vermin ; denied an advocate , 3 p 4 loaded with every indignity that barbarity could invent ; iijl this situation one of the Syndics , or chief magistrates , had eopipassion on him , and advised him to petition that his cjiuse might be removed to the Council of Two Hundred , which was the highest court , CaJviji opposed this , and
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Brief Account of Servetus . &i \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/7/
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