[267] MS. Registers of the Council, Aug. 23, 1519. Galiffe, Matériaux, i. p. 146.

[268] Compare the Council Registers of Aug. 23, 1519, and 1526. M. Galiffe junior had already pointed out this mistake of Bonivard’s. Besançon Hugues, p. 245.

[269] Bonivard, Chroniq. ii, p. 365. Savyon, Annales, p. 98. Spon, Hist. de Genève, i. p. 344.

[270] Savyon, Annales, p. 98. Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 366.

[271] Galiffe, Matériaux pour l’Histoire de Genève, ii. p. 297. Pliny, Hist. Nat. viii. p. 18. Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 366. Savyon, Annales, p. 99. A plain inscription on Cæsar’s tower (in the island) marks the place of Berthelier’s death.

[272] ‘Il faut que le bon droit tienne chambre.’—Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 368.

[273] Galiffe, Matériaux, ii. pp. 297, 298.

[274] ‘What harm has death done me? Virtue flourishes beyond the grave; it perishes neither by the cross nor the sword of the cruel tyrant.’

[275] Machiavelli.

[276] ‘Tam mansuetum principem.’