Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

purpose in hand. The matter had been nicely
arranged between the Pope, the duke, and the
Bastard.[3] "John of Savoy swore to hand over the
temporal jurisdiction of the city to the duke, and
the Pope swore he would force the city to submit to
the duke, under pain of incurring the thunders of
the Vatican."[4]
From that time there was ceaseless and bitter
war between the citizens of Geneva on one side,
and the duke and the bishop on the other. It is not
our business to record the various fortune of that
strife. Now it was the bishop who was besieged in
his palace, and now it was the citizens who were
butchered upon their own streets by the bishop's
soldiers. To-day it was the Bastard who was
compelled to seek safety in flight, and to-morow it
was some leader of the patriots who was
apprehended, tortured, beheaded, and his ghastly
remains hung up to the public gaze as a warning to
others. But if blood was shed, it was blood that
leads to victory. The patriots, who numbered only
nine at first, multiplied from year to year, though
from year to year the struggle grew only the
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