[Footnote 701: Galiffe, _Matériaux pour l'Histoire de Genève_, ii. p. xxviii.] [Footnote 702: Galloix, _Salève_. The author remembers reading, since the time of his boyhood, these three words on the ruins that have been since restored, _Nasci, pati, mori_.] [Footnote 703: Spon, _Hist. de Genève_. Gautier MS. Guizot, _Civilisation en France et en Europe_. Froment.] [Footnote 704: Ordonnance de Louis Hutin. Guizot, _Civilisation en France_, v. p. 138.] [Footnote 705: Registres du Conseil du 3 décembre. Lettres de Messieurs de Berne. Galiffe fils, _Besançon Hugues, Pièces Justificatives_, p. 487.] [Footnote 706: Registres du Conseil des 15, 16, 23, 24, 28 mars.] [Footnote 707: Roset, _Chron._ MS. liv. ii. ch. ii. Registres du Conseil du 7 septembre 1526. Spon, _Histoire de Genève_, ii. p. 396. Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. pp. 446, 447. Gautier MS.] [Footnote 708: This letter will be found in Galiffe, _Matériaux pour l'Histoire de Genève_, ii. p. 489.] [Footnote 709: See above, vol. i. p. 228.] [Footnote 710: Archives de Genève. Lettre de Pierre de la Baume aux syndics, du 24 janvier 1527.] [Footnote 711: Registres du Conseil de décembre 1526, de janvier et avril 1527. Roset MS. bk. ii. ch. v. Galiffe, _Matériaux pour l'Histoire de Genève_, ii. pp. 264, 437, 439, 440. Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. pp. 452-454. _Mém. d'Archéologie_, ii. p. 11. La Sœur de Jussie, _Le Levain du Calvinisme_.] CHAPTER II. THE GOSPEL AT GENEVA, AND THE SACK OF ROME. (JANUARY TO JUNE 1527.) The bishop was about to have enemies more formidable than the duke and the League. The Reformation was approaching. There is a characteristic trait in the history of Geneva; the several surrounding countries were by turns to scatter the seeds of life in that city; in it was to be heard a concert of voices from France, Italy, and German Switzerland. It was the last of these that began. [Sidenote: LAYMEN AND CLERGY.]