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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61145	The history of the city and state of Geneva, from its first foundation to this present time faithfully collected from several manuscripts of Jacobus Gothofredus, Monsieur Chorier, and others / by Isaac Spon ...; Histoire de la ville et de l'état de Genève. English	Spon, Jacob, 1647-1685.; Godefroy, Jacques, 1587-1652.; Chorier, Nicolas, 1612-1692.	1687 (1687)	Wing S5017; ESTC R12216	245,550	265

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