[327] ‘The Swiss republics first came forward; and to the spirit of the Reformation, as the remote cause, is the American Revolution to be itself attributed.’—Smyth, Eccl. Republicanism, p. 102, Boston.
[328] Council Registers, Feb. 19, 1524.
[329] Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 353.
[330] Council Registers, Feb. 19, 1524. Lévrier, Chronologie des Comtes de Genevois, ii. p. 198.
[331] Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 395.
[332] Galiffe, Matériaux, ii. p. 242.
[333] Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. p. 395.
[334] ‘Cum non essent magnæ facultatis.’—Registres du Conseil du 9 février 1524.
[335] ‘De festinationibus factis dominabus civitatis.’—Council Registers, Feb. 9, 1524.
[336] ‘De recolluctione graciosa et amicabili sodalium in tripudiis.’—Ibid.