[127] Registers of the Council, 25th Sept., 30th Oct., 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th. November, 1517. Spon, Hist. de Genève, i. p. 279. Savyon, Annales, p. 59. Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 299.
[128] Galiffe, Matériaux, &c. Interrog. ii. pp. 75, 77, 88.
[129] MS. Registers of the Council, 24th December, 1517; 8th, 9th, 15th, 20th January, 1518. Savyon, Annales, p. 60. Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 300.
[130] Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 300. Savyon, Annales, p. 60. MS. Archives of Geneva.
[131] Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 202. Savyon, Annales, pp. 61, 62.
[132] Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. pp. 301, 304. Roset, Hist. de Genève, MS. liv. i. ch. lxxxi. The testimony of these two contemporary authors leaves no doubt as to the reality of Pécolat’s attempt. (See also Savyon, Annales, p. 61.) This circumstance has been the subject of a long archæological controversy, whose solution is simply this: Pécolat did not cut off, he only cut, his tongue.
[133] Lévrier, Chronologie des Comtes de Genevois, ii. p. 131.
[134] ‘A denegata justitia.’—Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 306.
[135] Bonivard, Chroniq. pp. 307, 308.
[136] ‘You are inhibited, as in the copy.’—Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 309.