[47] Bonivard, Chroniq. i. p. 22; ii. p. 230.
[48] Manuscript archives of the Gingins family. Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 157. Savyon, Annales, pp. 44, 45.
[49] It has been supposed that he was brought up at Angers, but I found in the Archives of Geneva a letter addressed to John, dated 2nd September, 1513, by J. A. Vérard, a jurisconsult of Nice, wherein the latter congratulates the new bishop ‘inclitæ civitatis Gebennanum in qua cunabulis ab usque nutritus et educatus es.’ Archives de Genève, No. 870.
[50] Bonivard, Chronique, i. p. 25; ii. pp. 227, 228. Ibid. Police de Genève, Mém. d’Archéologie, p. 380. Savyon, Annales de Genève, p. 45.
[51] ‘Misso legato Johanne de Sabaudia, episcopo postea Gebennensi.’ Monumenta Historiæ Patriæ, Script. i. p. 848, Turin. The instructions given by the duke to his cousin may be seen in the MSS. of the Archives of Geneva, No. 875.
[52] See the letters in the Archives of Geneva, Nos. 872 and 873.
[53] Ibid, No. 876.
[54] ‘Leo X. Sabaudianum ducem ad affinitatem ineundam multis pollicitis invitavit.’—Monumenta Historiæ Patriæ, Script. i. p. 814. Turin, 1840.
[55] ‘Omnia expectare quæ ab optimo filio de patre amantissimo sunt expectanda.’—Letter of Bembo in the pope’s name, 3rd April, 1513.
[56] I found this MS. in the library at Berne (Histoire Helvétique, v. 12). It is entitled, Histoire de la Ville de Genève, by J. Bonivard. The history is not by Bonivard: it was copied at Berne in 1705 from an old MS. in the possession of Ami Favre, first syndic. Although not known at Geneva, it contains many important circumstances that Spon and Gautier have omitted either from timidity or by order, says Haller. I shall call it the Berne MS. v. 12.