[247] ‘Insultus et tumultuationes . . . . auctoritati ducis damnum nobis extraneum et indignum apparet.’—Archives de Genève, MS. No. 912.
[248] Ibid. No. 886.
[249] Document addressed to Lord Townsend (seventeenth century). Berne MS. H. vi. 57.
[250] Galiffe, Matériaux, ii. p. 274. M. Galiffe refers this letter to the year 1517, at the time of Pécolat’s trial; but it is clear from the contents and from the Council Registers of May 24, 1519, that it belongs to the time of which we are speaking.
[251] This château still exists, and is inhabited, I believe, by the Marquis de Dovaine.
[252] Grolée is now in the department of Ain. Savyon, Annales, p. 89. Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 353. ‘Notice’ by Chaponnière, Mém. d’Archéol. iv. p. 54. Bonivard MSS.
[253] MS. Registers of the Council, Aug. 19, 1519.
[254] Les Mamelouks de Genève, MS. p. 149.
[255] Ibid.
[256] Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 362. Galiffe, Notices Biographiques, i. p. 10. Savyon, Annales, p. 96.