[871] 'Et si per Friburgenses liceret, asserit excipiendum prompte Evangelium.'—Ibid.
[872] 'In hæreticæ pravitatis suspectos severa diligentia inquireretur.'—Spanheim, Geneva Restituta, p. 37.
[873] 'Clamosa quiritatione et crebro convitio.'—Spanheim, Geneva Restituta, p. 37.
[874] 'Bernenses non ea diligentia laborant pro Christi gloria, qua Friburgenses pro pontificiis placitis.'—Zwingl. Epp. ii. p. 648.
[875] Registres du Conseil des 11, 13, 14 octobre 1531.
CHAPTER XIII.
DANGER TO WHICH GENEVA IS EXPOSED BY THE DEFEAT OF CAPPEL.
(October 1531 to January 1532.)
=GENEVA AGAIN IN DANGER.=
THE news of the war between the catholics and the reformed having reached Turin, the duke thought it a favourable opportunity for attacking Geneva. It was reported that five thousand lansquenets were approaching on the side of Burgundy, ten thousand Italians on the side of the Alps, and that all the states of his highness beyond the mountains were in motion to fall upon the city. 'There are certain heads in Geneva,' said the duke, 'that I purpose to set flying.' The Genevans lost not a moment. 'Let everything be destroyed that may obstruct the defence of the city,' said the council. 'Let all the suburbs be levelled—Eaux Vives on the left shore of the lake; St. Victor, at the other side of St. Antoine; St. Leger, up to the Arve; and the Corraterie as far as the Rhone. Let every man keep a good look-out; let no one be absent without leave; let those who are away return to defend the city; and let solemn prayers and processions be made for three days.'[876]
Thus, while Lucerne and the smaller cantons were attacking Zurich, the Duke of Savoy and the gentlemen of the Leman were preparing to attack Geneva. These two cities were in the sixteenth century the capitals of protestantism in Switzerland. Geneva, however, was still filled with priests and monks, while the choirs of all the churches reechoed with the matins and other chants of the Romish ritual,