[822] Lettres du Conseil de Berne au duc de Savoie du dernier Septembre 1535, et au Conseil de Genève du 24 Décembre 1535. These letters were communicated to me, along with others, by M. de Steiner, librarian of the city of Berne, and M. de Stürler, Chancellor of State. [823] 'Quæ factæ sunt per Bernenses Leuteranos in Provincia Augustana, etc.' Procès-verbal de l'Assemblée du 28 Février 1536. [824] Many of these names are still to be found in Suisse Romande where the bearers of them had been forced to take refuge. [825] _Il vescovo d'Agosta allo duca di Savoia._ The author found this letter, dated from Rome, in the General Archives of the kingdom of Italy, preserved at Turin. [826] 'Di far dare il governo del Concilio, tanto da sua Santità quanto dallo Imperatore, e re di Francia, a vostra Eccellenza (the duke).'—_Ibid._ [827] _Mémoires des diocèses de Genève, d'Aoste, etc._, par le curé Besson, p. 260. [828] _Ibid._ p. 261. [829] 'Nobilis Nicolaus de Crista, Antonius Vaudan, Bartolomæus, Borgnion, pro communitate parochiæ Sancti Stephani electi, etc.' General Council of February 1536. Archives of the Intendance of Aosta. [830] 'Illa secta venenosa leuterana.'—Procès-verbal of the Assembly. Archives of the Intendance of Aosta. [831] MS. in the Archives of the kingdom at Turin. [832] Documents in the Archives of M. Martinet, formerly deputy of Aosta.—J. Bonnet, _Calvin au Val d'Aoste_, p. 21. [833] _Mémoires des diocèses de Genève et d'Aoste, etc._, par le curé Besson, p. 261. [834] The idea of Calvin's passage by this _col_ is now generally admitted, and even in Murray's Guide we read, '_Calvin fled by this pass from Aosta_.' [835] _Histoire littéraire de Genève_, i. p. 182 (edit. 1786). [836] To the inscription given above, these words have been added: 'CIVIUM MUNIFICENTIA RENOVAVIT ET ADORNAVIT. ANNO MDCCCXLI.' [837] Godefridus Lopinus, _Calvino_. MS. preserved in the public Library at Geneva. [838] Beza, _Vita Calvini_. [839] 'Divinitus perductus.'—Beza, _Vita Calvini_. [840] _Lettres françaises de Calvin_, i. p. 22. CHAPTER XVII. CALVIN'S ARRIVAL AT GENEVA. (SUMMER, 1536.) [Sidenote: CALVIN ARRIVES AT GENEVA.]