In provincial synods across France, local Eusebiuses were put to the task; by May 1565 the results were piling up in Geneva, ‘tantae molis’ lamented Beza ‘ut camelum, nedum asinum possint obruere’.

By this law the right of testamentation was taken away , which the inferior tenures had always enjoyed ; and all tenures from the 27th Hen. VIII.

He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

But neither leader nor followers give up the rhythms or reasons of a ranking MC, and I'm grieved to report that only “Kick Out the Jams” overcomes the formlessness of personality his detractors have always charged him with — […]