LETTER TO CALVIN AND PETITIONS HIS JUdges XVI. SERVETUS AGAIN ADDRESSES THE SYNDICS AND COUN- CIL OF GENEVA, AND ACCUSES CALVIN. THE CHAPTER I. MICHAEL SERVETUS, HIS BIRTH, PARENTAGE, AND EARLY EDUCATION. MICHAEL SERVETO, or as we know him best by his name with the Latin termination, Servetus, appears, from the most trustworthy information we possess, to have been born either at Tudela, in the old Spanish kingdom of Navarre, or at Villaneuva, in that of— Aragon; but whether here or there, and in the year 1509 or 1511, is an open question. In the course of the Trial he stood at Vienne in Dauphiny, in the spring of 1553, he says himself that he is a native of Tudela, and forty-two years of age; which would make Navarre the country, and 1511 the year, of his birth. But in the Geneva Trial, only four months later, he declares that he is of Villanova, and fortyfour years old; which would give us Aragon as the land, and 1509 as the date, of his nativity. When he spoke of himself as a Navarrese at Vienne, it may have been done to conciliate his French judges, Navarre having once been a province of France, and the natives of the two countries having still much in common. It was at a moment, too, when |