(AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1519.) The Bishop refuses a legal Trial--All done in one Day--Six hundred Men in line of battle--Unjust and illegal Condemnation--Berthelier’s Death--Procession through the City--Emotion and Horror of the Genevans--Struggles and future Victory--The Blood of the Martyrs is a Seed--The Bishop desires to revolutionise Geneva--Mameluke Syndics’ silent Sorrow--First Opposition to Superstitions--St. Babolin--De Joye’s Examination--Threatened with the Torture--Princes of Savoy crush Liberty--Voice of a Prophetess PAGE 261 CHAPTER XXI. STRUGGLES OF LIBERTY. LUTHER. DEATH OF THE BISHOP. HIS SUCCESSOR. (1520-1523.) Lévrier’s Protest in the Name of Right--Huguenots recover Courage--Their Moderation and Love of Concord--Clergy refuse to pay Taxes--Luther’s Teaching--His Example encourages Geneva--Great Procession outside the City--A Threat to shut the Gates against the Clergy--Bonivard set at liberty--Pierre de la Baume Coadjutor--Death of the Bishop--Despair and Repentance--His Successor--The new Bishop’s Letter to the Council--Reception of Pierre de la Baume--Hopes of some of the Genevans--The Bishop’s Oath and Tyranny PAGE 278 CHAPTER XXII. CHARLES DESIRES TO SEDUCE THE GENEVANS. THE MYSTERIES OF THE CANONS AND OF THE HUGUENOTS. (AUGUST 1523.) Beatrice of Portugal--Vanity of the Genevans--Magnificent Entry of the Duke and Duchess--Beatrice’s Pride offends the Genevans--Proof that Geneva loves Popery--Representation of a Mystery--Invention of the Cross--Banquets, Balls, and Triumphs--The Love of Independence seems checked--New Testaments sold in Geneva--New Authority, new Doctrine--Memoir to the Pope on the Rebellion of Geneva--Huguenots represent a Mystery--_The Sick World_--The Bible unerring, a true Remedy--Disorders of the Clergy--Luther and the Reformation--The World prefers to be mad--Quarrels between Genevans and Savoyards--Lévrier and Lullin--Carters before Princes--Birth of a Prince of Savoy--Duke’s Efforts to obtain Geneva--Disorders in the Convents--God keeps watch for Geneva PAGE 295 CHAPTER XXIII. AIMÉ LÉVRIER, A MARTYR TO LIBERTY AND RIGHT AT THE CASTLE OF BONNE. (MARCH 1524.)