Geneva Francis of Savoy was Arch-bishop of Aux and Anger 's This woman was kind to this Prelate as she had been formerly to several others she had a Child by him which he was loth to own whom his Relations brought up in the Court of Savoy The Duke seeing this young man as he grew in years to become neither amiable in body nor mind only gave him some lean Benefices which he held till Charles of Serssel Bishop of Geneva died upon which he determined to procure that place for him that he might use him as a fit instrument to obtain the temporal jurisdiction of Geneva when he should have advanced him to that dignity as having neither courage nor conduct enough to oppose his design It is reported before his instalment he took an Oath to resign him the jurisdiction which he desired The Duke at the same time to give less suspicion to the Syndicks requested them to grant him leave to keep his Court in the Town that he might administer Justice to his Subjects whilst he should stay there giving them a declaration in which he attests this Concession to have proceeded meerly from good will and not from any obligation neither did he intend by it any invasion of their Liberties Pope Julius not penetrating into this intrigue gave the Bishoprick at the Dukes sollicitation to John of Savoy whom the City was obliged to accept to avoid the thunderings of the Vatican He made his entrance in as great pomp as the rest although with less welcom yet howsoever they dissembled it the best they could and made their excuse for opposing his reception The Bishop likewise disguising his designs answered them with a great deal of mildness for he would not spur his horse before he was well seated in the Saddle farther when he had taken the usual Oath to testify he had forgotten all he bestowed Offices and Pensions to those who had been his greatest opponents amongst others to Berthelier whom he made Bayliff of Peny even against his will and to the Abbot of Beaumont for a reimbursment of the charge of his Election on the day of his entrance he produced the Dukes and Confederate Cantons Patents for to bring the Fairs from Lyons to Geneva with the safe-conduct for traders who should come there which were published yet were they kept at Lyons so that this appeared plainly to be but an amusement on All Saints-day having read his first Episcopal Mass with great solemnity he bestowed largesses on the people where that of Pardons was not the least Towards the end of the year the Syndicks and Councellors being met in the Common-Hall where certain persons of Berne and Fribourg entred into the Council who had followed Monsieur de Villenefve President of Dijon and the most Christian Kings Embassador to the Switzers requiring he should be stopt at Geneva making protestation if they should let him escape of the resentment of the Confederate Cantons The Council knew not what to resolve touching this matter foreseeing that if they should detain the Ambassador they should incur the Kings displeasure and if they should let him go free they would disoblige the Switzers so that not knowing what course to take it was advised to have recourse to the Bishop upon this affair but he being absent it was concluded he should have guards set over him in the name of the City Bishop and Vidame and for greater security he should be lodged in the Bishoprick that the City gates should be kept shut and a sufficient guard set to hinder violence either from one side or other and in short that a Messenger should be sent to the Bishop to know his pleasure but before they could receive his answer Deputies arise at Geneva from Bern and Fribourg requiring that the President should be delivered to them On the other hand the King of France the Duke of Angoulesme and the Duke of Bourbon writ to the City to release him in this strait the Bishop was sent to who ordered this answer to be given the Deputies that the Bishop being a Churchman he could not surrender the President for should he be put to death he should be guilty of an irregularity and degraded from his Episcopal dignity and the City deprived of its Pastour and if the Syndicks should do it in their own names it would prejudice their Liberties and Priviledges which made them Judges in Criminal causes without appeal to any person and that in granting the Confederate Cantons request they would acknowledge them their superiours by which means they would be esteemed betrayers of the peoples Liberty adding withall they would do the King wrong who perhaps might one day give them cause to repent it so that the Confederates Deputies should be desired to forbear their request That yet if they could convict the President of that which they accused him they should soon have justice done them rather out of respect to the divine Law than any other consideration Which answer was delivered them by the Syndick Levrier but the Deputies replied that the business was a matter of that nature as could not be ended by ordinary course of Law instantly urging them again to deliver the President into their hands which if they would not their Superiors should highly resent it To which it was answered that they for their parts would not deliver him to them but if they would take him they would not resist them They were contented with this shift and went to the Bishoprick to take him by force they carried him bound hand and foot to Fribourg and from thence to Berne where he underwent the Rack and afterwards was released upon an agreement The year following died John Amé of Bonnivard Prior of S. Victor and secular Abbot of the Abbys of Pignerol and Payerne to whom succeeded by resignation his Nephew Francis Bonnivard He had ordered in his Will that five great Culverines should be broken in pieces after his death which he had caused to be made to serve him in his Wars against the Baron of Viry and that one half of the metal should make Bells for S. Victors Church the Syndicks desired his Executors to let them have these pieces of Artillery and they would give them the same quantity of metal to make Bells which they refused alledging the intention of the Testator was to have them employed in the service of God and his Church for an amends of the evil he had done having made them with the Churches Treasure but the Syndicks to take away this their scruple brought to them a Divine who proved that in doing what they requested they would do God and the Church greater service than in that manner the Testator had enjoyned because the Bells should be made howsoever and those pieces of Ordnance would serve to defend the Town which was the Churches Land whereupon they were granted them Pope Leo's Brother having espoused the Duke
not acknowledge their Soveraignty have answered in the Book called the Citizen and in their Chronological Manuscripts that the Bishops have never had any other right to Geneva but as Governours of the Chruch to which belonged the City and suburbs according to an ancient Decree recited by the Author of the Citizen Notorium quod Ecclesia Gebennensis domina est princeps unica in solidum civitatis suburbii Gebennensis It is well known that the Church of Geneva is the only Dady and Princess of the City and Suburbs of Geneva That the Bishop himself when chosen was sworn to maintain the Priviledges and Liberties of Geneva that the great confidence they had put in their Bishops was the cause why they took no more notice of the encroachments on their Liberties that the Emperour could neither grant to the Duke of Zeringuen nor to Bishops the Soveraignty of an Imperial City as theirs was without the suffrage of the whole Empire That even when the Bishops were in most credit it then appeared that the right of Soveraignty was in the people That the Bishop was chief after the same manner as the Dukes of Venice and Genoâ—a for all publick Acts and Declarations ran in the names of the Bishop his Vidame or Steward the Syndicks and other good Men of the City The Bishop was chosen by the Laity as well as Clergy His Chapter consisted of thirty two Chanons of S. Peters Church the greatest part of which were Civilians he had moreover for Assistants in Secular matters four Syndicks twenty Counsellors at Law and one Treasurer who were all chosen by the people To these twenty five were added thirty five more to advise with upon any important occurrence and from hence they have risen to the present number of two hundred and have at length extended to the ta king in one out of every chief Family in the City The Bishop was obliged to confirm whatsoever passed They have farther affirmed that the Syndicks had power to coin Money and the care and charge of the Town without the Bishops intermedling the Jurisdiction and Imprisonment in the Night and Sovereign Judgment in matters of Life and Death provided the Prisoners were not Ecclesiasticks That in Cases which called for Mercy the Bishop had power of pardoning but rather by his Episcopal and Ecclesiastical Authority than Secular that in business of great concernment he could do nothing without the people that the Commonalty and Syndicks should make what Alliances they pleased without the Bishop intermedling As in the year 1285. with Amé Earl of Savoy and in the year 1515. with Fribourg with Bern in the year 1526. That the City Revenues should be divided amongst them and that the Syndicks should have one third and that in short Charles V. writing to Geneva in 1530. directed not his Letters to the Bishop but to the Syndicks Council and Commonalty of the City and treating with it as an Imperial City in these terms Honorabilibus nostris imperii sacri fidelibus dilectis nostris Syndiâ—is Consulibus ac Civibus Civitatis Imperialiâ— nostrae Gebennensis And in other Letters written in French the same year To out trusty and well beloved Syndicks Citizens and Inhabitaents of our Imperial City of Geneva But to return to our History Ardutius having held the Episcopâ—l See fifty years left Nantelinus his Successor who had the same difference with William Son of Amé Earl of Genevois Neither could it be arbitrated by the interposition of the Archbishop of Vienna so that this Bishop was forced to enter into a League with Thomas I. Third Earl of Maurienne and Savoy Which Earl set forth a Declaration wherein he asserted That he had not the least design on the Priviledges and Liberties of Geneva neither would he accept of that City if offered him The Bishop invested him with several Lands and Castles about Geneva which the Earl of Genevois pretended to belong to him And these were the Motives of the War between the Earl of Maurienne and the Earl of Genevois who had drawn to his side the Lords of Focigny of Gez and the Dauphin of Vienna The Earl of Genevois came by the worst and was constrained to yield after the death of Nantelinus to the Arbitrement of the Archbishop of Vienna and Ayme de Granson then Bishop of Geneva But between Nantelinus and this last mentioned Bishop the List of Bishops place Bernard Chabert who succeeded him about the year 1206. and became Archbishop of Ambrun in the year 1212. They of S. Martha make Humbert II. to succeed him whom we find not in the Annals of Geneva but in stead of him Lewis of S. Claude and after him Peter of Sessons Armé de Granson who held the Episcopal Seat forty years built the Fort of Peney two Leagues distant from Geneva upon the Rhosne That of La Bastie which is but a Cannon shot distant from the Town was built the year before by Gerard of Terny who did Homage to the Bishop and Church of Geneva Monsieur Lewis Moreri who made the Historical and Geographical Dictionary observed when he was at Geneva in the Arms belonging to the Bishoprick something as he thought more particularly relating to the Family of the Grandison's whence he inferred That Fort was built by that Bishop and that he was of the Family of the Grandison's in Comte But he found after he had more narrowly viewed them that these were not the Arms of the Family of the Grandèson's which bore a party par pale in Silver and azure banded with Gules charged with three Shells in Sable for the Scutcheon of these was not party par-paled neither were there three Shells in them as Monsieur Moreri imagined but three Dolphins which was the Arms of John Bishop of Râ—chetaille as we shall shew in its place Henry or Hubric Prior of the Chartreuse de Portes in Bugey who was chosen after him governed that Church seven years and had some small difference with the Lord of Gez called Simon of Joinville concerning several Villages which he held of the Bishoprick but this being composed some years after there arose the same variance between him and the Lord of Terny which was ended after the same manner At length this Prelate being sorry he had left his former manner of life quitted his Bishoprick and betaking himself again to the same Profession dyed a Chartreuâ— Monk in the year 1275. Aymé of Menthonay succeeded him and after him Robert of Geneva Channon of Vienna Son of William Earl of Genevois but he enjoyed it but two years In the mean time here had passed some acts of Hostilty between the Earls of Savoy and of Genevoiâ— The first of these who was Amé IV. came to Geneva where with threatnings he demanded they should pay him the charges of the War which he had been at against the Earl of Genevois upon the Cityes
in this particular are like sheep who when one hath leaped into a ditch they all follow without observing whether their leader hath been mistaken Three great Fires hapning in thirteen years seemed improbable which caused a friend of mine to go and inform himself by the Original from whence this hath been taken It is a Manuscript in Parchment Entitled the Dial of Wisdom written in the year 1417. but at the bottom of it was written some years after an account of the Fire which hapned in the year 1430. on the 21. of April These are the very words which though barbarous yet are authentick as having been written about the same time Anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo tregesimo die vicesima prima mensis Aprilis quae fuit dies veneris fuit integraliter combusta Ecclesia sancti Petri Gebenn excepta turri à parte lacus que permansit illesa Ipsa siquidem die igne ruit seu cecidit altum campanule vocatum Avullieta in quo fundita fuerunt duo cimbala communia in turri vero à parte curie seu Burgiforis fuerunt fundita licèt non totaliter duo magna grossa cimbala Ipsa siquidem die ibidem succubuit Campanule Orologii existens in summitate turris anterioris prope crucem lapideam supra fores ipsius Ecclesiae fuitque ibi destructum grossum magnum optimum Orologii cimbalâ—m Ipsa etiam die fuit incendio eodem combusta Ecclesia Marie Magdalenes multe domus alie quas nolo ibi ponere cepitque ignis pessima horâ in quadam grangia prope ripam lacus fortissimo borea tum regnante sitâ circa domum Petri Curtillieti aliter Pecolati consumavit predictum incendium cursum in predicta Ecclesia sancti Petri nec ultra transivit This Fire was so great that it burnt intirely S. Peters Church except the Tower on the side of the Lake and it melted down the Clock and Bells that end of the Town which is called S. Magdalens was likewise destroyed by it the fire having begun in a Farm near the Lake the wind lying Northward carried it into the very heart of the Town and this was without question the same conflagration of which Bogge Florentin relates himself to have been an eye-witness The time answers exactly for he says it was during Martin the fifths Popedom and he died but in 1431. for his nocturno quoque igne is without doubt the same in meaning with the Manuscript cepitque ignis pessimâ horâ During the Regency of Francis of Mies the Duke of Savoy Amé the Eighth aged fifty six years took a resolution to retire from the world that he might the more freely serve God and turns Hermit at Ripaille near Thonon he resigned to his eldest son Lewis the Dukedom of Savoy and to Philip his youngest son the Earldom of Genevois He would not howsoever let go the Revenues left they should grow extravagant he therefore caused his son Lewis to dwell at Thonon with small attendance and he being a Hermit besure spent little so that he gathered vast sums of mony which helped him to the Popedom having been elected by the Council of Basle in requital of Pope Eugene his obstinacy The report of his holiness of life together with the Duke of Milan his son-in-laws diligence did not a little contribute to his advancement He was named Felix the fifth and was Crowned at Basle by the Archbishop of Arles but by the opposition of Pope Eugene who was then upheld by the Princes of Germany and Italy it was some considerable time before he was acknowledged Pope unless it were in Switzerland Savoy and the neighbouring Countrys for he had not yet arrived at Rome After Eugenes death those Cardinals who had been faithful to him would not yet acknowledge Felix they therefore made Nocolas the fifth Pope so that Felix's Authority was very much lessened insomuch that he was scarcely acknowledged Pope in his own Country although he was at great expence to keep up his Authority having stript Francis of Mies of the greatest part of his Revenues after whose death he makes himself Administrator of the Bishoprick of Geneva and Lausane He resided sometimes in one City and sometime in the other but oftner at Lusane where he built the Convent of Cordeliers During his Popedom and Administration of these two Bishopricks he dispatcht several Letters and Bulls dated from Geneva and Lusane which are all collected into six great Volumes kept in the Library of Geneva Felix the fifth desirous to maintain his Authority against Nicolas the fifth sollicited very much his son-in-law Galeazzo Duke of Milan to help him to the utmost of his power but he did but laught at him saying he hath given me a wife without a portion and I have given him a Popedom without a Revenue For Amé had promised him much but had given him nothing he would also keep himself in favour with the Emperor Frederick III. who had consented to his Election It was this Emperor who when he was at Geneva caused to be painted on the top of the Arch at the entrance of S. Peters Court the Imperial Eagle plum'd with sable in a golden Scutcheon The Clergy had received him in procession and had made solemn prayers for him during three days together as the golden Writ of Frederick II. imported Pope Felix hoping to draw him to his side offered him his daughter with 200000. Crowns of gold for her portion which the Emperor refused and advised him further to lay down his pretence to the Papal dignity which he did in the year 1449. and for a recompence was sent Legat into France and Cardinal of S. Sabine Whilest he enjoyned the Bishoprick of Geneva which was since the year 1444. to the year 1451. he had a Patriarch who served as a Vicar in Geneva for there is to be seen in the sixth year of his Popedom a transaction between John of Groleé Prior of S. Victor Administrator for Felix in the Bishoprick of Geneva on one part and between the Syndicks on the other and Richard of Terny Lord also of Terny and the Lord of Montchenu on the contrary part by which it is agreed that the said Administrator Syndicks and Commonalty might make ditches and trenches at Vernets to turn the Arve from its usual passage the whole Course of this River belonging to them and that the said Lord of Montchenu should quit upon consideration of a certain sum of mony all the right which he could pretend to the said Vernets there is likewise to be seen the names of Francis of Savoy and of one Amé of Monfalcon during the Popedom of Felix the fifth It is observable the house of Savoy although then sufficiently powerful did not disturb Geneva by pretensions of dominion over it for Duke Lewis Felix's son made certain contracts wherein he quits all claim to the Soveraignty of
have Chissy seized and brought to the King that he might be made to discover all the Bishops intrigues He came then to Geneva with three or four of his brethren and staid there about fifteen days pretending their journey was only to see their friends and recreate themselves awhile In the mean time there came several into the City to help his undertaking and to lay hold on Chissy they being advertised where he lay with the Bishop as Pommieres himself was accustomed to do when he was in favour they ventured to take him in the very Bishoprick For though the Bishop had guards as is usual with great persons yet he minded not whether they kept strict watch but permitted them to go about the Town at their pleasure so that they served only for show In the morning as soon as ever the gates were opened Pommieres and his company made a shift to get entrance into the Chamber where the Bishop and Chissy lodged the latter of which they made rise and drew him out of the room in his shirt into the street where their horses were ready they set him on one his hands being pinioned and carried him thus out in his shirt through the gate of Rive the Bishop not daring to utter a word but the youngest of Pommieres brothers was wholly taken up in the entertaining some Ladies whilst his brethren were getting away The noise of this rape being spread over the Town they were immediately all up in arms which the young Pommieres perceiving too late he sets spurrs to his Horse thinking to pass through the gate of Rive as they did before him but finding it shut he turns his horse thinking to get through Corraterie but it was too late for they had began already to fasten it he endeavoured nevertheless to get out but as he was under the wicket they let fall the Portcullices which lighting on his horses crupper struck him to the ground so that he was taken and led to the Bishop who put him into the hands of Chissy's relations to keep him till the other should be restored as they were forced to do a while after The Bishop John Lewis was resolved not to pass by this affront but to be revenged whereupon he caused the Bishop of Viviers to be watched notice being given him that on a Sunday he had appointed to treat some Ladies in Piedmont he thereupon takes horse with about forty more and arrives at Piedmont where De Pommieres was enters without opposition for little did they think of him and finding him at Table immediatly killed him and some of his companions In the same year there was a great scarcity of provision so that a Bushel of Corn was valued at fourteen shillings which was likewise followed by so great a mortality that 7000. died in the City The Bishop John Lewis went the year following to Turin and died also a while after of a Pestilential feaver This Bishop was a younger brother of a couragious and undaunted spirit a lover of War but unfortunate yet of a free and generous temper amorous and revengeful against those who had affronted him but on the other side very ready to forgive when there was occasion as he made it appear by this instance for being in love with a Millers wife and the husband finding him in the Chamber with her could not refrain from thrashing him soundly till he had left him near dead on the floor yet John Lewis passed it by and gave him the Cloaths he wore when he beat him After his death there rose a great contest between the People Pope and Chapter concerning the choice of a Successor The people would have Francis of Savoy Archbishop of Aux brother to the deceased and the Chapter would have Vrbain of Chivron but the Pope not liking either of their choices gave the Bishoprick to the Cardinal of S. Clements his nephew called Dominique of la Rovere This Cardinal thinking it a hard matter to settle himself in this Bishoprick against the will of both People and Chanons he therefore makes an exchange with John of Compois Bishop of Turin But Chivron who was chosen by the Chanons not willing to resign his pretended right thereupon arose a great strife but at length this last carryed it and enjoyed it for some time Vrbain of Chivron in requital resigns his right to Francis of Savoy whom the people approved of who entred by force with his brother Philip Lord of Bresse Compois having heard of his coming got away in the night so that on the 25 of July Francis and Philip made their entrance into the Town and put therein a Garison a while after came their Nephew Duke Charles who was highly honoured and treated by them for they spent at one entertainment above four hundred Crowns which was a great deal of mony in those days On the other hand Compois goes to Rome to make his complaint to Pope Sixtus who judged he had right to the Bishoprick from which he had been unjustly thrown out which Francis not yielding the Pope excommunicated the Town which lasted three months but at length Chivron having gotten to be Archbishop of Tarantaise by Francis of Savoy's means all was pacified for Compois had given him the next presentation to this Archbishoprick whereupon he resigned the right which he had to the Bishoprick of Geneva to Francis who being sworn took upon him only the title of Administrator or Protector of the Church of Geneva Duke Charles the second of that name Duke of Savoy son of Charles the first and Godson to Amé the ninth advertised by his Uncle the Bishop of Geneva of some Acts and Decrees set forth by his Council held at Chambery to the Church of Geneva's prejudice he therefore repeals and makes void the said Acts strictly charging his Officers to forbear proceeding thereupon which was given at Pignerol the 14. of December 1489. These Letters were delivered to the Council of the Earl John of Genevois Uncle by the Fathers side to the said Charles The Earl dispatched Letters of Credence promising more care for the time to come The Duke likewise sent to the Council of Geneva intreating them to let him remain there some time as his Predecessors had done before him The Bishop being dead at Turin the Chapter chose Charles of Seyssel who enjoyed the Bishoprick for some time but Anthony Champion President of Turin and Chancellor of Savoy who had been married and was then Bishop of Mont-Devis in Piémont obtained of the Pope the Bishoprick of Geneva and Charles of Seyssel having been chosen in due form and manner would not give him place whereupon there arose a great strife and Law-suit betwixt them so far that Champion having gotten a Decree from the Metropolitan of Vienna against Seyssel and assisted by the Lord of Bresse came resolved to obtain his right either by fair means or foul There were
several small skirmishes on both sides on the Bridge of Chancy where some remained on the place and Seyssel was forced to yield to the strongest Duke Charles the Second being dead there started up in Foucigny one John Gay of Megiva who raised the Peasants into a Mutiny against the Nobility who oppressed them setting before them the hope of Liberty and the example of the Cantons of Switzerland with whom and the City of Geneva they might make a League These Peasants to the number of sixscore wore Red Coats who set upon the Gentry of the Countrey without any exception but the Lord of Bresse having gotten them of Berne and Fribourg to send to them Deputies they drew to Geneva the chief promoters of these Tumults and with fair promises softned them and sent them home but being scattered they were laid hold on and hanged Bishop Champion after the usual Oath called a Synod in which the Decrees and Constitutions of the Bishops were reviewed and amended which were Printed in the same year under the Title of Constitutions of the Synod of the Bishoprick of Geneva He dyed two years after having held the Seat but four years Philip of Savoy being but seven years of age Son of the Lord of Bresse was chosen in his stead at the suit of Blanche Mary of Montferrat Widow of Charles the First Pope Alexander the Sixth who confirmed his Election assigned Aymâ— of Monfalcon Bishop of Lausane and the Bishop of Nice to be his Guardians which Philip was Bishop under four Dukes of Savoy Charles his Uncle Philip his Father and Philbert and Charles his Brethren As he increased in years he grew more fit to be a Soldier than a Church-man as his Uncle Lewis before him 'T was commonly said of him that he was more fitting to be made a Duke than his Brother Whilst he was young and his Father alive he was forced to wear an Ecclesiastical Garb but after his death Charles then being Duke and very familiar with him he threw it off but not the Revenue Return we now to the Government of Philbert This Duke came to Geneva with his Bastard Brother René They were so greatly pleased with the City that they desired leave of the Bishop and Council to keep Courts of Justice in it only for their own Subjects which was granted them for some time Philbert giving himself over to pleasure left the management of his affairs to René a fierce and imperious young man and who watched all opportunities to make his brother Master of Geneva that he might be revenged on the Syndicks who had refused to let him have some Writings wherein the City were concerned his first attempt was the imprisoning of a Genevois called Peter Levrier by virtue of Letters Decretory from the Duke The Lieutenant of Gex had laid hold on him near the Town-house from whence he carried him to the Castle of the Isle which was the Dukes abode whereupon the Attorny-General and Syndicks made their complaints to René shewing him that such an imprisonment was wholly unlawful forasmuch as that jurisdiction and power belonged only to the Bishop his Vicar or Steward or other secular Officers so that not being able to suffer such an action they desired the Lieutenant should bring back the Prisoner to the place from whence he had taken him upon which there was an Act made in favour of the Bishop Church and Syndicks These last returned him the same measure for being informed that a Savoyard called Thomas Papuli had coyned brass mony in the City having given notice to René of the power and jurisdiction of the Church and City they sentenced the malefactor to have his right hand cut off before his own door and from thence to be led to Champel where he was beheaded and his body to hang on the gallows and his hands and head to be set up in the place called the Liberties A marriage was resolved upon between the Duke of Savoy and Yoland of Savoy his Cousin German the better to strengthen him in his Countrys but she died before the marriage could be consummated and was buried in the Chappel situated at the Cordeliers of Rive René who had the sole management of affairs intrusted him by his brother endeavoured to strengthen his Authority and make him absolute in Geneva both publick and particulars had every day some new oppression laid upon them although he received from both more respect than he deserved for he had every day Presents made him in hopes they might at length win him by kindness and keep him from enterprizing any thing against them by which means he received more profit than the whole revenue of that City amounted to all which could not make him desist from his violences For remembring there was a gentleman called Eyria who in the time of the deceased Duke had been in great credit and whom he could not then injure he was resolved now together with his whole family He therefore accuses him to have designed to poyson the Duke by a perfumed Apple for a confirmation of this produces two witnesses who make Oath they heard him together with a Physitian at Lyons contriving how they should effect it the Duke being easie to be wrought on believed it whereupon it was resolved that they should surprize the Physitian they sent therefore to Monlâ—el the Provost of the Dukes houshold who desired the Physitian by his man to visit him the poor Physitian who mistrusted nothing as being innocent came to him without delay where instead of a Patient he finds a Provost who seized on him and carried him away bound hand and foot to Geneva where he was thrown into the Prison of the Island and Judged by the Provost At which the Syndicks and people were exceedingly moved and complained to the Duke shewing him this was an infringement of their Liberties and Jurisdiction which the Duke himself was sworn to observe yet did not René forbear to pass on putting him to the Rack and made him confess and accuse whom he pleased which done he caused him to be beheaded and set up his Quarters in the Liberties notwithstanding the Citizens opposition Afterwards he seized on Eyria and most of his kindred and friends whom he had caused to be accused by the Physician and would have dealt after the same manner with them but several Persons of Quality having interposed their sentence was deferred and René began to grow odious to the people The Duke after his affianced Ladies death espoused Margaret Maximilian's daughter who was first betrothed to the young King Charles of France but being repudiated by him and married afterwards to the King of Castile after his decease she was married to this Duke Philbert They made their publick entrance together into Geneva which put the Town to great charge in Plays Masquerades and other divertisements This drew insensibly the Youth into
debaucheries and the Duke being young himself and a great lover of these pleasures it is no wonder if these pomps and divertisements were as so many charms to lay asleep the Genevoises Eyria escaping out of Prison at Chilon flies to Berne and makes his complaint to the Council there against René beseeching them to shelter him under their protection and to shew to the Duke his brothers oppressions which they did so that he began to lessen his affection towards him There was at that time a Preacher belonging to the Dukes Court of the Order of Dechausser or bare-legged called Frater Mulet who set before him one day in his Sermons The poverty and misery of his Subjects exhorting him to help them thenceforward in driving away the Thieves from about him the real blood-suckers of the People He compared the Duke to a great purse full of little purses filled with mony the biggest of which was empty meaning thereby them who enriched themselves at the Dukes cost and advising that all the little purses should be emptied into the great The Duke and those present perceived very plainly that he designed the Bastard by these words who was the greatest of those Tyrants that robbed the people and indeed his credit from that time diminisht as well for what had past in the Pulpit as his great pride for he had ordinarily a greater attendance than his Master The Duke beginning to slight him his followers likewise deserted him this abated a little his pride and fearing he should be shamefully sent away he thought it was better handsomely to ask leave than to stay till it was granted him without asking He came then one day to the Duke to whom he held this discourse My Lord I have ever been and am still your most humble Servant and Subject and moreover your poor Bastard brother for your deceased father acknowledged me as such I have served you hitherto with that zeal and devotion as might be expected from a servant and brother so that if my service hath not been such as you deserve yet hath it been to the best of my power but for as much as I perceive of late that my service hath not been acceptable to you therefore I am not willing to trouble you any longer wherefore I beseech you to suffer me to retire into my own house notwithstanding which you shall find me most ready to obey you as often as you shall please to command me To whom the Earl thus answered Bastard you say you have truly and faithfully served me be it so yet am I glad you ask leave to be gone and I will have you depart not only from the Court but likewise out of my Dominions in three days upon pain of death The wretched René finding his brother so angry departed weeping attended only by his Domesticks and made what haste he could to be gone of which the Syndicks having notice notwithstanding his oppressions came to take leave of him offering him their service He went into France to King Lewis the Eleventh whom he endeavoured to exasperate against the Savoyards At the same time Duke Philbert and Margaret his Dutchess departed for Chambery being informed by the President of Divonne and Amblard Goyet Deputies of the Town that they had no right to that City The Dutchess then perceiving Geneva belonged not to the Duke she built not there a Church and Monastery as she intended but at Brou near the Borough in Bresse After René's departure Eyria was called home and entertained in the Princes Service and thus Geneva was freed from a great deal of trouble and vexation by René and the Dukes departure but instead of this it had worser sorrows for besides the plague which raged violently in the City there hapned another sad accident the Syndicks kept in Prison one called Cotton sufficiently convicted of a crime deserving no less than death but it being customary not to pronounce sentence before the Prisoner confessed his crime he was therefore put upon the Rack but whatsoever torment he suffered he would not make any acknowledgement At length a certain Person of the Country of Piedmont informed them that the way of his Country was in such like cases to put a napkin with water in it down the throat of the malefactor to his stomach and then at one jerk they pulled it out again The Syndicks would needs try this fellows experiment which was immediately followed by the death of the Malefactor which put the Council and City into a great fear leâ—t their enemies should lay hold on this occasion to trouble them as indeed it happened for some belonging to the Duke and who had the same kindness for the City as René represented this mishap to the Duke with the greatest aggravations imaginable adding they deserved to have their priviledges taken away from them and that moreover he might justly do it seeing the City by right belonged to him the Duke hearkning to them Commanded his chief Attorny to undertake the business the Syndicks sent Bonna and Levreri their Deputies who shewed the Duke it neither belonged to him or his Council to take cognisance of that affair The Duke not much moved by this tart reply tells them it should be put to Arbitration He for his part chuses some of his Counsellors who with the rest of the Arbitrators were sworn to be impartial and judge according to Right The Titles of both parties were diligently enquired into but they of Geneva got the better the Arbitrators declaring by joynt consent that he had no right or title to the said Town which having said he plainly declared himself in these words I have been given to understand otherwise but seeing it is as you say I vow to God and S. Peter to contest no farther and touching this particular cause I confess and acknowledge it belongeth to the Bishop my brother to take cognisance of it and not to me so that I refer the whole matter to him when he shall be of age to judge of it After this manner all was pacified The plague which continued at Geneva was attended with a great want of rain which brought along with it a scarcity of provision which forced the Country people who dared not before approach the Town to come into it whether moved by devotion or urged by want for they came in procession from all parts to our Lady of Grace to desire of her Rain but they could not obtain it and the scarcity continuing the next year following a bushel of Corn which was worth before but two shillings was now valued at a Crown the Crown going but for three shillings and two pence so that the poor Peasants were forced to live on herbs and roots which sometimes they had not patience to dress One Le Mortel a famous Thief made himself much talked of in those times it was known by all what trade he followed the people about the Town securing
after it was taken down and buried in Holy Ground by some Soldiers from Fribourg who passed by that way There have been some who considering the Heroical constancy of Berthelier and the tyranny of his Judges have given him this Epitaph Quid mihi mors nocuit virtus post fata virescit Nec cruce nec saevigladio perit illa Tyranni How can death hurt since virtue death survives And Tyranny of Gibbets Swords or Knives His death affrighted them of Geneva who did not then dare to deny the Duke and Bishop any thing but it enraged the Fribourgers who had a great desire to revenge it Yet they thought it not convenient to raise an Army every time the Duke gave them cause of offence they made their complaints to the Cantons and demanded their Pay due to them for the former Levies and that he should give them satisfaction for Berthelier's death The Duke acquitted himself from this Article laying the blame on the Bishop assuring them he did it unknown to him and as to the payment he denied that he was obliged to it seeing the War had been unjust referring them to the Genevoises and demanding on his side reparation for the Damages done in his Country of Vaud This set the Genevoises in an uproar and the Princes took the advantage of their Dissentions to ruine the Eidgnots party and bring their own in credit They required the Council to be assembled and caused Eustache Chappuis the Bishops Chancellor who was afterwards sent Deputy into England to shew the people that the Election of Syndicks for that year had not been duly made by the violence of some who preferred their own private interest before the publick and who had brought into the general Council persons excluded by the Statutes and ancient Customs it belonging to none to sit there but those who were of principal Families that they did this to have persons of their own Faction which tended to nothing but to foment Rebellion that the people for this effect had made an Alliance with Fribourg which had put the Bishop their Prince upon calling in the Duke of Savoy his Cousin to his assistance who had spared neither his estate nor his person to hinder such a bad effect which would not only fall on his Countries but likewise the City it self as hath been found already by experience seeing the Fribourgers demanded yet great summs of mony which could not be raised without impovershing the City The Duke endeavoured to hinder them from paying the mony and withal shewed them there could be no good correspondence between him and them whilst they were governed by the Authors of this Alliance and concluded desiring the people to declare the said Syndicks not duly elected and to put others less suspected in their places The people desirous of Peace and that the mony should be paid easily embraced this proposal The Syndicks were discharged of their Office after a declaration made to shew this dismission proceeded from no other cause but only for want of a due Election which done they laid down their staves and others were chosen in their places they substituted likewise some Councellors who were best acceptable to the Princes especially them who were for breaking off with Fribourg They caused the general Council to retract that Alliance and deputed Richardet and Goulaz as from the Syndicks to meet the Cantons assembled at Zurich with this instruction First that they should excuse the Duke touching the execution of Berthelier and acquaint them it was done against his knowledge the Bishop having punished him according to his deserts as a Seditious person and as one guilty of the crime of High-Treason the term likewise of his Safe-conduct being expired Secondly concerning the payment to be made to them of Fribourg they should require it of them who called them who were since put out of their Office as Authors of these disturbances Thirdly that they should be urgent with the Fribourgers to renounce the Burgership contracted with Geneva The Assembly being sat the Deputies from Fribourg made their complaints and were answered by them of Geneva and Savoy according to the instructions given them The Fribourgers replied that whosoever had put Berthelier to death had done unjustly seeing he had been cleared by a definitive sentence of the Syndicks who were his lawful judges and he who had pronounced sentence against him being but a pitiful Tooth-drawer and that the Princes had broken their promise which they made them before they left Morges that they would introduce no innovations till this difference was accommodated that they had reason to desire a re-imbursement of their charges they having taken up Arms on just grounds it being to help their fellow Citizens received into their alliance according to Law the Duke nor Bishop having no power to hinder them They likewise maintained that the former Deputies were persons of worth neither would they acknowledge these latter whom the people say they have chosen by constraint There were some replies made by both parties but the Cantons decreed it after the same manner and form as at Morges to which they were forced to yield and agree with Savoy The Duke ever since he had married Beatrix the Infanta of Portugal kept his Court at Geneva and desirous to leave a man of Authority for his Lieutenant he displaced Consilii and put the Sieur Salaigne in his room who was of the family of the Beauforts In the Year following before the Election of the Syndicks on the twelfth day the Chanons were accustomed with other Ecclesiasticks to chuse one of the Chapter King by a bean with great expence now it hapned to fall to Marcossay's share who was Governour of Pillounay and being of the Country of Focigny he had brought along with him as King several of his Countrymen for his Guard at which the Townsmen who bore them ill will were displeased and specially one Matthew of Confignon Sieur of Marglie who having been heretofore wounded by one of Bonne whose name was Goudard resolved then to be revenged and being accompanied with about a dozen resolute fellows slid through the press and singled out his man who bore the Standard ran him through the back for want of armour and having left him dead on the place made his escape out of the Town through the Halbards The Duke and Bishop laid this Murther to the Charge of the Eidgnots though guiltless but they who had done it returned two years after into the City having obtained their pardon through Confignon's means The Bishop John of Savoy lived not long after these troubles he died in the Abby of Pignerol before he could arrive to S. Peters years that is to say before he had finished the twenty fifth year of his Office according to Pecolat's prediction it was thought he was poysoned search having been made accordingly but a scandalous Chronicle relates he died of the Venereal distemper which brought him into
the Gout which was accompanied moreover with filthy Ulcers that left him nothing but skin and bones It is reported likewise that after his decease his body was found to weigh not above twenty eight pound before his death he resigned his Benefices to Peter of Baume who was of the family of the Earls of Montevel in Bresse Regent of the Abby of Sure and St. Claude who declared his Predecessor died with great remorse especially for the disturbances he had occasioned in Geneva which he intended to bring wholly under the Dukes subjection Soon after him died Consilii who a while before had been discharged of his Office of Vidame His death was as tragical as his life infamous his house was the rendezvous of all debauched persons his wife serving as a Bawd by which trade she got wherewithall to keep house De Sardet one of the two hundred Gentlemen belonging to the Court of France and of the Family of the Vitry's frequented there with a hundred others more he lodged in the house whilst his mony lasted but having consumed it all in feasting and extravagant entertainments Consilii pretending to be jealous of him thought by that means to get rid of him but the Gentleman enraged at his baseness their quarrel proceeded so far that Sardet's Valet meeting one day Consilii in the open street accosted him with these words ' S Death Mr. Whoreson You have made my Master beat me and therefore now I will be revenged of you for it which said he struck him into the belly with his knife and fled out of the City Consilii was carried home and died immediately upon it The good Gentlewoman his Wife counterfeited great sorrow and pretended to be very much incensed for awhile against Sardet but he made his excuses to her and the better to make his peace with her they were married together Sardet died some time after and she becoming a widow the second time made use of that little beauty she had left her to draw young men to her house till Old Age finishing his spoils on her had wiped out all her charms and she ended the rest of her daies in an Hospital On the twelfth of April in the year following Peter of Baume having been chosen Bishop made his entrance and took the Oath given him by the Syndicks on the Bridge of Arve the people made great preparations for his reception but he would have them reserved for the Dutchess who was shortly to come there as indeed she did awhile after with the Duke and were magnificently received The Youth of the City were sumptuously apparelled in Damask Silk and in Velvet and Cloth of Silver armed each of them with a Half-Pike But the comeliest sight was a Company of Amazons who were Women richly attired their Petticoats trussed up to their knees carrying a Dart in their right hands and in their left a Buckler or Shield gilded with silver after the manner of the ancient she-Warriers They were led by a Spanish Dame the wife of Francis of S. Michael Sieur of Avoully who was to complement the Dutchess in her own Language They bore in their Colours the Effigies of a large handsom Woman the Daughter of an Apothecary called great James who could flourish a Colours with the most expert Ensign The Dutchess had desired for her welcome to have her lodgings in the Townhouse but it was denied her A rich Merchant offered her his own house which was more stately and convenient than it but she would not accept of it Their entrance was after this manner The Dutchess was carried from the Bridge of Arve in a triumphant Chariot drawn by four Horses which were covered with cloth of gold set with precious stones which dazled the sight of the beholders The Duke her Husband followed mounted on a Mule together with the Abbot of Beaumont and one of his Gentlemen all three cloathed after the same fashion with gray Clokes and Caps to pull over their necks The Dutchess having passed over the Bridge was met by these Amazons whose Captain presented her with a Spanish Sonnet full of Elogies high Encomiums and offers of the Towns service but she was so far from thanking them that she would not so much as cast her eyes towards them Afterwards she was met by the young men who receiv'd as little respect from her as the former at which the Citizens were displeased saying they paid her not these respects out of any sense of duty but only to testify their affection to her as friends Whereas on the contrary the Dutchess who was a Portugais shewed she esteemed them not only as Subjects but as Slaves after the Portugais fashion There were some who were of opinion that they should do well to pull down the Theatres and Scaffolds erected for their divertisement seeing she seemed to take no delight in what they did for her saying further It were better to employ the mony spent on these entertainments in fortifying the Town and keeping them out than in drawing of them in After which sort they wounded themselves with their own weapons Yet they continued to feast them being attended by the whole City with all the signs of mirth and jollity The Dutchesses reservedness was excused by some saying che eran los costumbres de Portugal that it was the Portugal fashion Yet she did make the Ladies a sumptuous Feast attended with Balls and Masquerades and Farces so that since Philberts time the City had seen no such divertisements There was likewise a Turney kept in which the Townsmen shewed themselves as expert as the Courtiers in short this year was spent in devising how to make the Duke and Dutchess welcome furnishing both them and their train with provision and houshold stuff as well for delight as necessity It may be truly affirmed that they were better obeyed and served at Geneva on courtesie than they would have been at Chambery by obligation The year following the Dutchess was delivered of a Son who was baptized at Geneva He was named Charles and died awhile after in Spain before his father could make him as he had vainly promised Prince of Geneva the Dutchess passionately desiring she might enjoy with this son the Sovereignty of that City for she used to say in her own Language che era muouch buona posada that it was a very good place to make an Inn of About this time the Emperor and King of France were at variance and would each of them fain draw the Duke over to their side but he kept himself Neuter being the Emperors Brother-in-law and Vassal and the King of France his Uncle The differences between Luther and the Pope began to break out about this time The Duke making use of this juncture of affairs to fish as we say in troubled waters and wholly to subdue Geneva to himself The Walls and Ramparts were no ways amended and the Bishop although well affectioned to the liberties of the
Herald came with Letters from Fribourg to demand his body which was granted them Some days after they came again requiring justice to be done not only on those who had killéd him but who were likewise present and who did not hinder the Murther and amongst others on the Syndick Coquet He answered that he was present with his Syndicks-staff according to the duty of his Office and that he had endeavoured to the utmost of his power to suppress this tumult After this Deputies from Berne presented themselves before the Council to offer their mediation and proposed that every person might be at liberty either to go hear Mass or Sermons A month after an Oath was taken to observe this proposal for the future and the agreement made on the twenty eighth of March that they might not appear disunited at the Bishops coming who was shortly expected at Geneva who in effect arrived on the first of June the Syndicks having gone a league out of Town to meet him he immediately caused several Priests to be released who were imprisoned for some misdemeanors The General Council being held after a Mass of the Holy Ghost was celebrated and a general Procession at which the Bishop assisted with the Deputies from Fribourg a President of the Franche Comté spake in the Bishops behalf exhorting the people to be faithful to him entreating them to live in unity and not to entertain the new doctrine At the same time Verly's kindred had brought with them six score Soldiers to revenge his death and having passed over the Lake they came and encamped themselves at Gaillard from whence they sent to demand justice Their suit was delayed upon the account of a difference betwixt the Bishop and Syndicks about Jurisdiction in Cases of life and death which the Syndicks would not yield to the Bishop The Syndicks at the instance of the Attorny-General drew up an Indictment against nine Men and Woman the greatest part of which were found not guilty at night there was a Watch kept left the Bishop should take away the Prisoners and bring them to answer it at his Bar. But whilst these things were doing he left the Town about the midst of July to take part with the Duke of Savoy against the City although he was so strictly bound to the contrary by the Oath which he had taken not only at his Election to the Bishoprick but likewise in making himself free of the City The Council earnestly besought him to set the City in Order but whether he feared some Tumult upon the account of the Prisoners or that he had some other secret design he coloured over his departure with a pretence of going into Franche Comté where the Emperor held an Assembly of the Estates and he promised that he would shortly return Verly's relations returned home all but two who remained at Gaillard with about twenty Soldiers who sued for justice to be done on them who were guilty of the Murther They who returned met on mount Jura Thomas Baudichon together with some Merchants of Stratsbourg Peter Verly brother to the deceased set upon him calling him Traytor and had it not been for his company his life had been in danger his horse having been already killed under him The Syndicks declared one part of the Prisoners innocent which caused the Attorney-General to make an Appeal but he was immediately told we having no Superiour do therefore admit no Appeal but at the same time Peter Thoberet was found guilty of the Murther of Verly having stabbed him in the back as he went up the Stairs of a House and was sentenced to lose his head Towards the end of the Year Guy Furbity Dr. of the Sorbon was sent for from Montmelian to Preach during the Sundays in Advent at S. Peters Church who speaking against the doctrine of the Protestants was contradicted by Froment who was returned and by another named Alexander Camus the last of these upon this was banished the City but Froment was secured and yet these disorders ceased not The Bernoises sent a Herald with Letters to the Syndicks requiring first To be paid their dues according to the agreement made in the Assemblies held in Switzerland and in the second place They complained that their servants who had Preached Gods Word to them were driven away by them whereas they ought rather to have expelled Furbity and such as he who Preached erroneous and blasphemous doctrine and thus they expressed themselves The people before ever the Letters were read imagined there were Luther an Ministers come to Town whereupon there arose immediately a great disturbance the greatest part taking up Arms and sticking small branches of Trees in their Caps for distinction The Proctor General likewise caused the Clergy to Arm themselves The Council having debated the matter would have delivered Furbity against whom the Bernoises had complained into the grand Vicars Custody but he would not receive him He left not off Preaching and affirming continually that all those who received the new doctrine were people who lived ill and that they were worse than others The Syndicks wrote to Berne the Furbity was under an Arrest and yet they knew not wherein he had offended them but if they had heard him they would not have suffered him so greatly did they value their Lordships friendship Some days after this came an Herald from Fribourg who delivered Letters to the Council to this effect That the States of Fribourg undèrstanding that Farel and others were at Geneva to Preach the new Law as they termed it they therefore requested them not to suffer him otherwise they would break off with them The first day of the following Year the grand Vicar published through all Parishes that none should Preach either in publick or private without the Bishops or grand Vicars Licence and that they who had any French or Dutch Bibles should burn them upon pain of excommunication Four days after arrived other Deputies from Berne and Fribourg These last said they understood there had been a great Tumult occasioned by the Luther an Preachers and that if they intended to suffer them they would break off with them They were answered that they designed to live as heretofore according to what they had formerly determined The Deputies from Berne urged the payment of the charges of the former War and demanded satisfaction for what Furbity had said against them The Syndicks made answer they were sorry if Furbity had done them any wrong but that they had no power over any Ecclesiastical person The Deputies were not content with this answer threatning still to break off with them and in effect they would have returned them the Letters of Association which they flung on the Table The Council instantly besought them to take them again and to satisfie them Furbity was caused to answer for himself in the Town house the Syndicks having first declared that
where they burnt the Village There were several light skirmishes and the Genevoises lost one of their best Captains named Bois a gallant and stout Soldier who was killed with a Lance which ran into his mouth The death of Henry the third which hapned about this time filled the Duke of Savoy with great hopes especially considering his great intelligence in Provence He designed first to make an end of the War with Geneva and afterwards to march with a great Army against Bonne which was kept by three Companies of Foot. The Switzers finding themselves not strong enough to relieve the besieged sat still and the place having been battered with two hundred Cannon shot the Garrison surrendred upon promise of their lives saved but in coming out they were enclosed by the Horse and cut in pieces reserving only Mercier the Minister to be flead alive which was done two years after in Bonne Some counselled his Highness to prosecute his Victory and to seize upon part of the Bernoises Country whom he had quelled but he chose rather to come to an agreement with them that he might afterwards go into Provence He endeavoured likewise to get the Genevoises to make him some offers of submission but they would not yield to it so that to keep them in he erected a Fort called S. Maurice at Versoy and raised a platform on the side of the Lake for to batter with his Cannon the Barks which should venture to set out from Geneva he left the Baron of Serra Governor there and he withdrew his Army beyond the Mounts The Genevoises having this thorn in their foot called a Council wherein it was resolved to obtain this Fort at any rate having gathered then all their Forces viz. 800. Foot two Troops of Horse two Troops of Argoulets of Light-Horsmen and 150. Volunteers under the Command of the Sieur Lubigny whom the King had sent them they set out about ten of the Clock at night after they had been at publick Prayer being furnished with Petards and scaling Ladders The Garrison of Versoy who had been harrased all day on purpose by false Alarms were a good part of them asleep The Genevoises being arrived at two of the Clock in the morning before Versoy divided themselves into four Companies The Horse made a halt and the body of Foot went to the Gate which looks directly to Copet to set the Petard against it The other party climbed up the Walls and seventeen of the resolutest of them followed a Peasant who was their guide with iron barrs on their shoulders he led them between the Lake and the Borough to a passage where there was a private entry into the place The nearest Sentinel gave the alarm to the Corps du Guard but these seventeen Soldiers not giving them time to bethink themselves knocked down several of them with their Partisans and Cutlaces Some Captains being awaked would have put themselves into a posture of defence but they were soon dispatched the Baron endeavouring to rally the rest saw himself attacked by those who had broken open the Gate and scaled the Walls All that he could do before it was day was to retire in haste with about two hundred Soldiers into the Castle having left in the Borough near two hundred of his men dead on the place This same Baron who had often threatned the Genevoises to force them by Famine to come with halters about their necks to cry the Duke mercy found himself then not a little in trouble being destitute of both Wine and Water and the most part of his Soldiers having nothing but their Wastecoats Yet to divert the Assailants and to give notice to the neighbouring Garrisons to come and help him he made his Cannon thunder the next morning till night against the houses of Versoy having continued thus the day following to little purpose against the besiegers and seeing no succours coming he came to composition They marched out with their Drums on their back their Matches put out and their Colours rolled up and were conveyed as far as Gex great store of Ammunition which was found there was carried to Geneva Sixty Turkish Slaves who had wrought at the Fort were permitted to depart the Fort was afterwards demolished and the greatest part of the houses burnt The remaining part of the Year was passed over in several exploits of small consequence On the first day of the following Year a party of Horse from Geneva beat a party of Savoyards and a body of Genevoise Foot attacked the Castle of the Bastie on the side of Versoy from which they were vigorously repelled but twelve days after they returned again bringing along with them their Cannon The Garrison surrendring the place was demolished Some days after the Genevoises surprized the City of Gex and so straitly beleaguer'd the Castle that it was surrendred the next morning The Castle of Monthoux which was full of resolute persons sworn Enemies to Geneva was forced to yield and all those who were in it were put to the sword The Savoyards on their side attacked the Fort of Arve from which they were twice beat off The Genevoises after the taking of Gex and some other small places resolved to attack the Castle of Pierre which had often molested them Lurbigny then marching out with some Troops there were 50 Argoulets or light-horsemen who set upon the first and met about 30 Harquebuzieres or Carbineers belonging to La Cluse near the Village of Farges they had taken away the Bell of the Church which they paid dearly for for the light-horse set upon them so fiercely that scarcely four of them escaped the Genevoises having only one of their Serjeants wounded D'Arsene who was Governor of the Castle of Pierre pretended he would come to their assistance but seeing the Troops come upon him so fast he shut himself up and surrendred two days after without offering any great resistance Lurbigny laying hold of this opportunity determined to try what he could do on la Cluse He dispatched away for this purpose three Companies to the other side of the Fort to block up the passages He placed at the same time People on the Mountains to roll thence great Stones on the besieged causing the Cannon to play from his side which beat down the murthering Pieces and the Cloister of Ravelin which lay before the Fort. This Ravelin was won three days after notwithstanding the vigorous resistance of the besieged and the frequent shot from the Fort of Wache on the other side the Rhosne The next Morning the Assailants seating themselves at the foot of the Fort they plied the besieged with Petards Mines and Granadoes Moreover there was thrown down into the Fort lighted Straw which almost choaked the besieged with smoke Their fellows from Wache encouraged them telling them their relief was approaching as indeed it was The Troops from Savoy gave notice of their coming to their relief
called Monsieur Picter ' s Harangue or the Mischief of the Aristocratical Government of Geneva these Books abound with sharp invectives and are good for nothing but to renew former differences Philibert Blondel who was Syndick in the Year when the attempt of scaling Geneva was on foot had been several times censured in the Council and blamed by the People for having been so careless in securing the City although the principal Syndick had put him in mind of it the Night before the execution of their design according to the notice he had brought him of the Enemies march Blondel took it ill that he should be suspected and had the impudence to complain thereof to the Council pretending much zeal for his Countries service His complaint ended in his confusion for a Cutler whose name was Guidonet whom he had heretofore sollicited to be confederate with him in his Treachery having a quarrel with him could not suffer his Pride and called him Traytor before Witnesses Blondel taking it to heart addresseth himself thereupon to the Council and obtains an order to imprison his Adversaries amongst whom was Combe who at length brought such proof and alledged so many reasons against Blondel that at length for his Neglect and Treasons he was fined 2000 Crowns of Gold for the payment of which they seized on his Mills yet did he still stand upon his justification but the Witnesses proved again their Charge so clearly and fully against him that he was fined to pay 2000 Crowns of Gold more and degraded from the Council of 25. But he valued not the Mony having gotten in a short time an Estate to the value of 40000 Crowns no Body knowing how but he could not suffer his degradation with a quiet mind He resolved thereupon rather to lose his Head than to lie under this imputation The business was so agitated that at length the truth was bolted out it having been made apparent that he held the Lordship of Compois without paying any Taxes to the Duke that since the taking of Bonne he was observed to grow rich on a suddain that he had some private discourse with a Stranger the Night before the Walls were scaled and that to avoid the Officers deposition who had seen him he had sent the said Officer to Genes and given him a Horse that he being dead Blondel now thought himself secure and that there was found a Lanthorn in the Ditch having his mark and that a certain Person from Chesne brought him oftentimes Letters from the Governor of Savoy But this Article not being proved so clearly against him as the others he was sentenced only to lie in Prison for the space of seven Years and to pay another Fine of 2000 Crowns And forasmuch as the Persons deposition who carried the Letters was the chief cause of this his Condemnation he determined therefore to send for this Peasant to try whether he could not make him retract what he had declared against him he used such means that at last this poor fellow was clapt up in Prison where he offered him a great summ of Mony to deny what he had before affirmed The Jaylor whom Blondel had won by his gifts brought him word that he would not move a jot from his former deposition whereupon Blondel offereth the Jaylor fifty Crowns to strangle him in the Night Which being done and the Magistrates coming the next Morning to hear what this Witness had to say found him dead The Physicians were called to search him and make their report that he had not killed himself but had been strangled by some other The Jaylor and Porter are thereupon apprehended the latter of which only was wont to visit the Peasant He was put on the Rack and confesses the Fact and persists in this confession till death namely That what he had done was at Blondel's instigation who being convicted of the Murder and consequently of the crime of High Treason of which he was accused was put on the Rack It was supposed that the ordinary torment would not move him wherefore he was put into an Engine made of Wood called the Beurriere and had immediately Escarpins applied to him but all these torments could not draw from him a confession of his being privy to the Enterprize of scaling the Walls but he owned the Murder and that he had offered his Service to the Duke of Savoy But this was enough to deserve death He was therefore condemned to be hanged and quartered and was led to be executed without shewing any great remorse 'T is reported that he mentioned the Name of God but once upon occasion of a Womans crossing S. Peter's place for having used some great injustice towards this Woman when he was Syndick she broke out into this Imprecation wishing that he might one time or other receive as just a punishment as that which he had imposed on her had been unjust and he hearing her reproaching him with it at the time he was leading to execution he said to her holding up his hands Alas pray to God for me you see the miserable condition I am in This was the end of this wretched Man. After this Execution the Walls were raised higher and the number of Watch-men was increased and Palisado's were drove into the Ditches and the City fortified that they might be the better prepared against such-like Enterprizes In the Year following died Theodore de Beze whose life hath been written by Anthony de la Faye The last time he preached was on the day the Peace was proclaimed 1598 and expounded the 85th Psalm Thou hast made peace Lord with the people He was present at the Conference held at Poissy and presided oftentimes in France at the National Synods The Catholicks commonly called him The Huguenots Pope He was interred in S. Peter's Cloister and not in the Cemetery of the Plein-Palais because the Savoyards gave out That they would take up his Corps and send it to Rome The King of France dispatched about that time the Baron of Luz to be Governor of Burgundy and Boisse to be Governor of Bourg and the Sieur de Nerestan for to desire the Genevoises to grant him a place where he might build an Arsenal to prevent the Cities being in the like danger for the time to come The Council was divided One part said That God shewed himself propitious to them in sending them a Foreign assistance of that importance and that in accepting of it the Enemy would have no means left for making his incursions Others opposed on the contrary That the who had such assistance did thereby bring themselves under an Obligation to them from whom they received it that perhaps this Arsenal might be given in trust to such a Person who by his liberalities and winning behaviour might gain the hearts of the Citizens and dazle their eyes with the brightness of Royalty And farther Perphaps all the Kings of France would not be so candid in their
be imbarked till a favourable Bize should carry them in a short time to Geneva As to what concerned the Horse they were to meet about Anecy under pretence of the Marriage of the Duke of Nemours But this design could not be so privately carried on but the Genevoises got some intimations thereof although they could not dive into the bottom of it The greatest knowledge they had of it was this Du Terrail having plaid at Tennis in Chambery till he sweated whilst he was rubbed and dried la Bastide and some others presented him a Paper wherein was contained a draught of Geneva discoursing together softly as in matters of great importance yet the Valet who warmed his Shirt heard them talk of Geneva which made him give the greater attention and he comprehended they talked about some Enterprize designed against it having heard these words from Terrail They are taken there is no remedy This Valet who had a Brother in Geneva went and reported this to a Merchant of that City who was then at Chambery desiring him to give his Brother notice to the end he might save himself from this danger The Merchant at his return not only advertised his Brother but likewise the Magistrates who did not slight this warning yet they held it secret and sent Spies throughout all Savoy to discover and pry into all Terrail's practices They got his Picture and having understood that he was coming to Geneva to view the City they sent Tokens to several Persons how to know him that he might be apprehended Some days being past over du Terrail and la Bastide having set forth from Turin to pass over into Flenders to take their leave of the Arch-dukes and to fetch their Baggage which they had left there and having received an Order from the Duke of Savoy to bring along with them as many as they should judge fit and able Persons to help forward their Enterprize they were discovered as they passed over the Mountains Notice hereof was given to the Bayliffs of the Countries belonging to Berne Whereas they suspecting nothing crossed over the Lake and part of the Country of Vaud lodging only in Villages and Hamlets and so arrived at Yverdun a little City belonging to the Bernoises which lay on the borders of Franche-Comté Du Terrail passing over the Bridge which leads into the City saluted the Bailiff who met him and took no notice of him but a Deacon who was in his Garden and to whom a Syndick had sent marks whereby he might know him seeing him coming afar off saluted him and doubting that he was the Person he observed whether he was bald which perceiving he went immediately to the Bayliff and gave him notice of it who sent two Men after him to watch which way they took their course and to follow them till they took up their abode Which they did and viewed them more nearly compared them with their Pictures which had been given them One of these returned to Yverdun to give notice that they had taken up their Lodgings in the Village of Villebeuf Whereupon immediately the Bailiff sent four Troopers with an Order to apprehend them by main force and to bring them away they found them ready to mount their Horses and brought them back to Yverdun Du Terrail told the Bailiff that his name was Paul de Constans and that he went to Lorrain to prosecute a suit of Law but the Bayliff took not this answer for payment wherefore he wrote to Geneva to the end there might be some person sent who knew him two Soldiers one of whom had belonged to his Company were dispatched to Yverdun and were caused to come into his Chamber when he was at Supper the Souldier knew him again Du Terrail who suspected the occasion of his being there draws him aside and promises him a thousand Crowns if he would go and advertise the Earl of Chamite in Franche Compté of the danger he was in La Bastide offered him a hundred more but the Soldier refused both their proffers Du Terrail being after this manner known was committed to prison in the Castle of Yverdun the Genevoises deputed one of their Syndicks to desire the Bernoises to deliver them into their hands which was granted and they were both conveyed to Geneva La Bastide being first put on the Rack confessed the whole design after his confession he was confronted with Terrail who at first earnestly denied it but seeing that Bastide persisted in his confession and he being threatned with the Rack likewise with tears in his eyes he confessed the whole project and requested that he might be shut up for ever between four Walls hoping that his relations would come and intercede for him as indeed they did as soon as they knew he was taken but for reasons of State the Council quickly dispatched his Tryal and condemned him to be beheaded at Molard two daies after La Bastide was hanged Du Terrail was much lamented for he was a person of a very good mien and extream courteous In his going to the place of execution he begged the peoples pardon and the people on the other hand wept bitterly for him some people blamed the Magistrates of Geneva for their severity but they replied that they did not consider them so much as Enemies but as authors of a Conspiracy in a time of peace Monsieur de L' Esdiguieres who had interceded for him and his relations were very much inraged at this execution The first of these came never after that into Geneva as he was wont and his kindred were made to believe that he had been forced to change his Religion but being informed of the contrary they comforted themselves the best they could This their design appeared very easie which they were resolved to put in execution in the time when they of Geneva make a King of the Harquebuze because then all the people are in Plein-Palais and these Soldiers upon this occasion might be taken for them who belonged to the City and it had been an easie matter to have fastned the Gates against them The Republick suffered a great loss by the death of Michael Roset who had composed a Chronicle of Geneva He was a person of great gravity and a real lover of his Country he had been Deputy in Ordinary to the Cantons having been fifty years a Counsellor and Master of a Colledge twenty years more An Italian named Giovani coming from Rome maintained that a certain honourable person of the Council was a Traytor and that he had seen his Picture in the Dukes Closet which he could easily verifie When his Lord was brought to him whom they thought he meant he said this was not the person which caused him to be hanged as a Calumniator and Impostor It appeared afterwards that they had been too rash in their judgment seeing there were two persons of the same name one of which often frequented Savoy the
not hear him He died at length being aged Eighty years and was interred in the Cloyster where is a kind of Epitaph or Testament which he left to his Children Composed by himself which is as well remarkable for its Latin as ingenuity of matter It was about this time that the Swede entred into Germany The Chevalier Rache was sent to the Switzers to engage them in this party He had likewise an order to visit Geneva to assure that City of the Kings good will. He was received with extraordinary respect and stayed there some time A while after there was a person executed whose death caused as great a noise as that of Servetus His name was Nicholas Antoine who had Apostatized from the Christian Religion Some people murmured and were displeased at the proceedings saying they were too severe to put people to death meerly for an opinion But the Council considered him not only as an Apostate and Blasphemer who treated the Blessed Trinity as a Cerberus or three-headed monster but likewise as a seditious Impostor and perjured Villain who Preached his false Doctrine contrary to the Oath which he had taken at his reception Here follows an account of his Tryal and Condemnation by which it may be judged whether the Genevoises were to blame in their proceedings against him A Criminal Process Made and formed before Us the most Honourable Lords Syndicks and Counsellors of this City at the instance and pursuit of the Lord Lieutenant in those Causes against Nicholas Son of John Anthony of Berry in Lorrain who being committed Prisoner hath freely confessed That from his Youth he had diligently set himself to the study of Philosophy and conceived damnable and execrable Opinions touching our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ITEM That about seven or eight Years since he had applied himself to the study of the false doctrine of the Jews and for to be the better instructed in it he had addressed himself to them of the City of Metz who after several Conferences had sent him to other Jews and namely to them of Venice Item He hath confessed That had it not been for fear of being discovered he had undertaken to have perswaded his Kindred and Relations to return to Judaism Item That about five Years past he went to Sedan and there perverted a young Student of that place and inticed him along with him into Italy entertaining him in their way thither with the Articles of his abominable Creed Item That being arrived at Venice they went and visited the Jews the said Anthony desiring them to admit him into their Synagogue and to Circumcise him but they refused him fearing lest they should fall under the Magistrates severity Whereat he remained satisfied being told by them That he might live amongst the Christians and yet be a Jew in his heart and that he was told the same by the Jews of Padoua Item That embracing this detestable doctrine he came to this City under pretence of studying Divinity and offered to dispute in Philosophy and for some time had exercised the charge of chief Regent in a Colledge yet all this while counterfeiting himself a Christian although privately he lived and prayed after the Jewish manner not daring to make an open profession of his belief Item That being called by a Church near the City to be their Minister after his examination and consent to the Doctrine of the Orthodox Religion he took an Oath to live and teach according to the confession of the reformed Churches although in his heart he believed in the Jewish Faith and by a cursed equivocation his meaning was different from his Oath Item That instead of preaching Jesus Christ according to the Oath he had taken he had only insisted in his Pulpit on the explication of the Old Testament and falsly wrested and applied passages thereof pointing to our Saviour and appropriated them to other Persons and above all in his last Sermon from whence it followed by the just Judgment of God that he the said Anthony became deprived of his Senses and ran about the Field like a distracted person and came bare-legged into the City uttering horrid blasphemies against our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Item That after he had been under the hands of Physicians and carefully looked after in the Hospital of this City coming again to his Senses and being out of his mad fits he had persisted in his blaspemies against the Holy Trinity and the Person of our Blessed God and Saviour maintaining as well by word of mouth as writing That Jesus Christ was an Idol and that the New Testament was but a meer fable Item He hath confessed That in Administring the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the Exhortation to the People he said only Remember your Saviour And that in reciting the words of the Apostles Creed where our Saviour is mentioned he pronounced not those words but muttered them betwixt his Teeth Finally That notwithstanding the serious exhortations and remonstrances which have been made him since he hath been in custody as well by the Magistrates as venerable Pastors of this Church tending to perswade him to renounce these cursed and damnable Opinions yet hath he persisted in his horrible and impious blasphemies having compiled and signed a Treatise in which he endeavours to combat and overthrow the Holy Trinity still obstinately denying the Deity and Incarnation of our Blessed Saviour having several times renounced his Baptism as it plainly appeared at his Trial. Here follows his Sentence The Sentence of Condemnation against Nicolas Anthony which was read and executed on the 20th of April 1632. WEE the most Honourable Lords Syndicks and Council of this City having seen the Criminal Process made and formed before Us at the instant suit of the Lord Lieutenant in the said Cases against Nicolas Anthony by which and by his own confessions it appeareth That he forgetting the fear of God hath been guilty of the crime of Apostasie and High Treason against God his Creator and Saviour having fought against the Holy Trinity denied our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ blasphemed his Holy Name renounced his Baptism for to imbrace the Jewish Religion and hath been perjured in dogmatising and teaching his damnable doctrine a case and crime deserving the greatest punishment For these and other causes moving the said Lords sitting in the Tribunal of their Ancestors according to ancient custom having the fear of God and the Holy Scriptures before their Eyes and having invoked his Holy Name that they might thereby be able to make a right Judgment beginning in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost do by this final Sentence which they have committed now to writing condemn the said Anthony to be bound and led to the place of Plein-Palais to be there fastned to a stake on a pile of Wood and strangled according to the usual manner and afterwards to have his Body burnt and consumed to ashes and thus
long conference he had with him at Rivoles in which the Duke told him amongst other things that he had a score of Pensionaries in Geneva four or five of which were of the Council that some days after his Highness said that he had considered the matter and found it too difficult and moreover this juncture of time was not proper to enter into a War yet he thanked him for his good will and had at the time ten pieces given him and to make it appear that what he said was true he produced Letters from the Dukes Secretary and from some Lords belonging to the Court. His project was to be effected in the time of Vintage-harvest at which season a great part of the Citizens are in the fields and to send on several daies and through several Gates under divers pretences four or five hundred men without Arms who as fast as they came should have their lodgings prepared for them in the Houses of their Confederates where they were to be furnished with Arms and lie hid till the day of the execution of their enterprize which was to be in Sermon time about eight of the Clock all these people who were hid coming out with their Arms were to divide themselves into several parties three of which consisting of about 80 men a piece should speedily seize on all the doors of the three Churches and not only hinder the people from coming out but in the fright would constrain them to get up upon the top of the Churches and by this means there would be no place needing a guard but only the Steeple stairs another company should scour the streets and kill the Citizens who being not at Church would come out of their Houses to rally themselves the rest were to set upon a certain Gate of the City which being not succoured by any Citizens would be soon won which done there should be let in Forces who were to march all night that they might be at the Gates at the hour of this execution He added that he was moved to make this discovery for two reasons First that the Duke had given him but ten pieces which he took as a great undervaluing of him and Secondly that having desired to be made governour of Geneva when it should be taken his Highness instead of promising him it set to scoffing at him He was earnestly desired to declare the names of those persons who were Pensionaries to the Duke but he solemnly protested he knew them not and that it might be easily imagined that his Highness would not discover to him a secret of that importance before it was time They who judged charitably of their fellow Citizens could not believe there could be any so wicked and that this was but an artifice to raise suspicions in the people against some of their Governours The lesser Council after they had heard him sent him to Prison to secure him and the next morning the Council of two hundred were assembled before whom the whole matter was opened they were not a little perplexed in their resolves about this man some would have him set at liberty seeing the Publick Faith was engaged for him although but in words others were of opinion to put him on the Rack to make him discover the Traytors this being a matter wherein the security of the City was concerned others would have have him put to death considering the apparent danger there was in setting at liberty a man of this disposition that he had not discovered his design out of any good motive but only out of spite and for money and that moreover the Publick Faith was not engaged by the promise which was made him that he might come with the same security as others before him these terms being very general and ambiguous seeing that by the last of these forementioned words might be understood that he might come with the same surety as other such like enterprizers had done before him who were put to death when they could be taken In the mean time the greatest number of voices carried it who were for avoiding both extreams to wit to save his life and to condemn him to perpetual imprisonment under which sentence he still lies The two Princes Philip and George brethren to Charles Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel came to Geneva to tarry there for a while Prince George the youngest of the two who was but eighteen years of age died there of the small Pox. The whole City was concerned at his death because that this Family holds a considerable rank amongst Protestants and hath ever expressed a particular affection to Geneva The Council having waited upon Prince Philip and the Prince now reigning ordered that for three days there should be an intermission of all publick business to testifie thereby their sorrow and respect and because that Prince Philip would have his brothers body buried amongst his Ancestors at Cassel it was therefore embalmed and laid in S. Peters Chappel where lies buried Emilia of Nassaw till the time should serve to transport it which was not till eight months after He was conveyed to the Chappel with great solemnity being carried out in the night accompanied with a great number of Torches which was not a thing usual among Protestants in those parts The Soldiers of the Garrison were placed in two rows along the Streets to keep the crowd off ten German Gentlemen carried the Bier and the four eldest Syndicks held up the Pall. The Prince who was brother to the deceased and the Prince of Chourland his cousin followed the Corps and after them the Earls of Stolberg and Dona the four Syndicks and the whole Council with the Lieutenant and Auditors all in Mourning all the Ministers and professors were in their Gowns and Mourning Hat-bands and last of all the whole body of the German Nobility About this time there hapned some differences with Savoy concerning Salt. The principal Farmers who have the Farming of the Salt of France Savoy and Geneva that is to say the only permission to sell it for which they pay the City twenty thousand Franks per annum but their time being expired in the Year 1675. There was a greater price required of them but they resolved to give no more than heretofore and so they held it no longer this so greatly moved them that they determined to resent it when occasion offered In Savoy they would have taxed the quantity of Salt which every Subject of Geneva within the limits of Savoy ought to take under pretence that there was committed an abuse which put the Council upon sending six Waggons loaden with Salt in the night to Jussy with a guard of twenty Soldiers for to keep up their priviledge in that matter this made a great noise in Savoy the Regent wrote to the Ambassador in France and to the lesser Cantons in very sharp terms against the Genevoises whom he charged with making an Invasion and entring in an
Genevoises 180 Crequi passes through Geneva 182 City divided 186 Chillon Castle besieged 111 Carolyn maintains the lawfulness of the Mass 113 Chenalat executed for Treason 172 D DVke of Savoy makes new attempts on Geneva 124 Des Plans a Traytor to the City 124 Duke advances to attack the Fort near Arve 131 Dukes Army approaches 141 Duke of Savoy desires the French King to desist from protecting Geneva 146 Duke dispatches Messengers to all parts to publish his good success 152 De Vic Ordered to assure the Genevoises of the French Kings favour 161 Duke of Rohan's Funeral 178 Discourse of the Rhosne ibid. Deodati ' s death 179 Duke of Savoy quarters great number of Soldiers round about Geneva 183 Diligence of the people in working at the Fort 185 Discovery of a late design on Geneva 187 Deputies dispatched from Geneva 190 E ENglish Church at Geneva 120 Earthquakes 125 Esgaillon beheaded 135 Ebbings and flowings of the Rhosne 184 Emperor ' s Embassador passes from Geneva 191 F FRench designed to be Massacred in Geneva 120 French Kings complaint against Geneva 121 Famine in Geneva 126 Fort of Arve demolished 144 Fire on the Bridge of Rhosne 186 G GEnevoyses sally out against the Savoyards 110 Gex surrendred ibid. Grybalde propagates Servetus his opinions 120 Gentil disputes against Calvin 120 Grimaud endeavors to spread the Plague 123 Gex surrendred 128 Genevoyses engage the Enemy 132 Gex surprized 134 Genevoyses shamefully worsted by the Savoyards 137 Genevoyses defeated 138 Genis taken by surprize 161 Giovani accuses an eminent person in the City of Treason 170 Gothefredus his Latin Inscription 179 Gautier hanged 180 Genevoyses fortify their City 184 H HEnry the third of France makes an Alliance with the Switzers 123 Hermance layes an ambush for the Genevoyses gathering their Wine-Harvest 139 I JEws request to Geneva 125 Jubilé at Thonon where the design of scaling Geneva was laid 149 K KIngs Army attached by the Savoyards 141 King of France declares Geneva comprehended in the Treaty 149 King of France comes to Lyons 181 L LA Cluse surrenders 111 Lentilles spreads the Plague in Geneva 117 La Cluse attempted by the Genevoises surrenders 134 Lurbigny defeats the Savoyards 136 Lancy demolished 143 Letter of the Genevoyses to the Sieur of Guiche 156 Letter of the French King to the Genevoyses 157 Landgrave of Hesse makes the City of Geneva a Present 166 Lectius dies at Geneva 170 M MAss abolished 111 Mare committed to Prison 114 Marquis of Vico comes to Geneva 119 Mercier the Minister flead alive 133 Maillet committed Prisoner 158 Marquis of Bade retires to Geneva 173 N NAtional Synod at Paris 172 Noroy secured 189 O OLivarez Counsel to the Dukes Embassador 127 P PEney blown up 110 Peace concluded 145 Peace concluded between the Duke and Genevoyses 163 Philippe kills a man with his Leading-staff 115 Plague at Geneva 116 Pope requested to assist the Duke 126 Prince Palatin's entertainment at Geneva 187 Prince George dies there 189 R RIchardet kills himself by a fall 115 Regiment of Soleurre attached 130 Roset Harangues the Queen and Dauphin 191 Roset dies at Geneva 169 S SAunier teaches School at Geneva 111 Saunier with others banished 114 Syndicks still Catholicks in their hearts 113 Servetus comes to Geneva 119 Spiffame his Tragical end 122 Sancy animates the Genevoyses against the Duke 127 Savoyards attack the Forces from Berne 132 They set upon three Barks bound for Geneva 135 Sonas slain 142 Sadeel dies at Geneva 143 Serres dies at Geneva 145 Sonas bleeds at Nose 151 He together with six others first climb up the City walls 152 Sarraz in compiles a Book called The Genevoise Citizen 163 A Sergeant executed 170 Spies sent into Savoy 184 Savoy and Geneva differ about the imposition of Salt 190 Spanish Embassador passes through Geneva 191 Stouppe intercedes in the behalf of Geneva ibid. T TOurnon his Harangue to the Lords of Berne 157 Terrail his designs on the City of Geneva 167 His designs on Geneva discovered 168 He sets out from Savoy for Flanders ib. Apprehended and executed 169 V VErsoy besieged 133 Valour of a Captain 140 Valour of a Taylor 155 W WArning given to the City of Geneva 149 Warning given a second time to them 150 Z ZUrich makes a perpetual Alliance with Geneva 126 THE END Ancient names of Geneva Volateran Marlian Paradin In his Opuscula Munster calls it Mirae vetustatis Vrbem Scituation of Geneva Antiquity of Geneva Derivation of the word Geneva The Genevoises formidable to the Romans 125. years before the Birth of our Saviour 122. years before our Saviour Paul. Orose 108. years before the Birth of our Saviour The Genevoises protected by the Romans against the Switzers 102. years before the Birth of our Saviour 60. years before our Saviour 58. years before our Saviour Helvetians invade the Gaules There are some marks of this to be seen near Gingin about a league from Nyons and four leagues from Geneva Julius Caesar's name yet retain'd in divers Families at Geneva A Roman Colony sent to Geneva Deseruere cavo tentoria fixa Lemanno Lucan Geneva burnt in Marc. Aurelius his time 274. years before our Saviour Geneva rebuilt Sunt qui Gebennas in Allobrogibus ab eo conditas expeditione illa Gallica dicant See the Inscriptions Scituation of Geneva Turris Botuli Geneva first received the Christian Faith. Amongst Monsieur de Peiresk's Papers 194. years after our Saviour 198. 194. Sundry Bishops of Geneva In the third and fourth Century 397. 426. 440. 466. 517. 549. 570. 573. President Fauchel mentions it 613. 620. Theodorick second Son to the French King builds several Churches in Geneva 650. 726. 773. Rhegino Abbot Genuam Civitatem veniens Synodum tenuit and Charlemain comes to Geneva and sets up there his own Statue 816. About the year 860. 876. 879. 930. 1050. 1050. Three Lords lay claim to Geneva 1120. Disagreement between the Earl of Genevois and Bishop of Geneva 1124. Bernard Epist 27. The first Letter Second Letter S. Bernard recommends to the Bishop the Religiouses of the two Monasteries in his Diocess 1153. 1157. 1162. The Bishops of Geneva's claim of Soveraignty over Geneva 〈…〉 1185. Dated 1211. 1219. 1220. Fort of Peney built by Aymé of Granson Bishop of Geneva quits his Bishoprick 1261. 1266. 1268. 1282. 1285. Articles of agreement between the Earl of Savoy and Bishop of Geneva 1290. 1291. Humbert Dauphin of Viennois assaults the City of Geneva 1291. 1303. William of Constance dies 1304. 1306. 1307. Earl of Genevois treats with the City 1307. Earl of Genevois defeated 1308. Earl of Genevois dyes 1309. The Bishop and City disagree The Bishop of Geneva's Authority over the City considered 1310. 1311. 1312. A new Bishop chosen 1313. 1317. 1319. 1320. 1321. A great Fire at Geneva 1330. A Battel fought between the Earls of Genevois and Savoy 1334. 1342. The Earl of Savoy dycs 1346. 1356. 1365. Gerard Tavel Rodelphus de Postella Peronnnet of S. Germain