syndic; 'we know why you are distributing in Geneva the keys of those Turks (_Turcanorum_), the Faucignerans.... You had better say your prayers and not meddle with politics. You pretend to renounce the world, reverend brethren, and then do nothing else but intrigue for the things of this world. You intend, we hear, to carry away your property, your relics, and your jewels; gently ... we will spare you that trouble; we will take care of them in the grotto of St. Pierre, and put your persons in a place of safety.'... The council ordered an inventory of the goods of the convent to be drawn up, and generously left the monks three chalices for the celebration of mass. They banished Chappuis, Gringalet, and Levrat, and placed the other brethren under the surveillance of two deputies of the council. The monks had their wings clipped, and the Reformation was beginning.[790] [Footnote 782: Registres du Conseil des 23 et 30 avril; 24 mai; 2, 9, 14 juin; 7 août. _Journal de Balard_, pp. 160-170. La Baume's letters, _Archéologie_, ii. p. 15. Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. p. 493. Gautier MS. Bonivard, _Ancienne et nouvelle Police de Genève_, p. 384.] [Footnote 783: 'Il s'en donnait jusqu'à _passer trente et un_.' This proverbial expression refers, possibly, to the months whose days never exceed thirty-one.] [Footnote 784: 'A soft answer turneth away wrath.'] [Footnote 785: Registres du Conseil du 25 août. _Journal de Balard_, p. 178. Bonivard, _Chroniq._ ii. p. 495.] [Footnote 786: Gazzini, _Mémoire au Saint Père_. Archives of Turin, Roman Correspondence. Gaberel, _Hist. de l'Eglise de Genève_, i. p. 95.] [Footnote 787: 'Ils nous lavèrent bien la tête.'] [Footnote 788: Letter of B. Hugues. Galiffe, _Matériaux_, ii. pp. 525, 526.] [Footnote 789: Letters of Vandel and Girard. Galiffe, _Matériaux_, ii. p. 533.] [Footnote 790: Registres du Conseil des 10, 11 et 20 octobre 1528. _Journal de Balard_, p. 183.] CHAPTER VIII. DEATH OF PONTVERRE. (OCTOBER 1528 TO JANUARY 1529.) [Sidenote: PONTVERRE MOWS FOR BONIVARD.]