[602]. Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 123.
[603]. Our account of the manner in which the plot was discovered is founded on the testimony of many witnesses. Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 125; Roset (Chron. MS. liv. iii. ch. xxvii.), and the minutes or Register of the Council which were drawn up by Roset’s father. Other versions, differing from this narrative, do not appear to us to repose upon such solid foundations.
[604]. Registre du Conseil du 31 Juillet, 1534.—Chron. MS. de Roset.
[605]. ‘Faciemus hic gentem novam.’—Geneva restituta, p. 73. ‘We will make a new people here.’
[606]. Registre du Conseil in loco.
[607]. Registre du Conseil du 25 Janvier, 1537. It was not until then that D’Arlod related to the Council of Two Hundred what had happened to him three years before. Chron. MS. de Roset, liv. iii. ch. xxvii.
[608]. The soldiers played upon the word dragée—which means small-shot as well as sweetmeats.
[609]. Déposition de Jacques Maguin. Papiers Galiffe. A. Roget, ii. p. 116.
[610]. Froment, Gestes de Genève, p. 125. Registre du Conseil du 31 Juillet, 1534. Chron. MS. de Roset.
[611]. Michel Roset, MS. Froment, Gestes de Genève, pp. 123-125. Registre du Conseil du 7 Août, 1534.