Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

franchises of Geneva. He saw in the sufferings he
was enduring the punishment of his misdeeds; he
implored forgiveness, and hoped God would
pardon him in purgatory.[3]
But Charles III, Duke of Savoy and Piedmont,
still lived, and unwarned by the miserable end of
his accomplice, he continued to prosecute his
guilty project.[4] Another martyr of liberty was
now to offer up his life. The man who most
embarrassed the duke still lived: he must be swept
from his path. Charles did not believe in patriotism,
and thought to buy Levrier.[5]
The judge spurned the bribe. Well, the axe will
do what gold cannot. He was arrested (Easter,
1524) at the gates of St. Pierre, as he was leaving
after hearing morning mass. "He wore a long
camlet robe, probably his judicial gown, and a
beautiful velvet cassock."[6] Mounted hastily upon
a wretched nag, his hands tied behind his back, and
his feet fastened below the belly of his horse, the
judge was carried, in the midst of armed men, who
jeered at and called him traitor, to the Castle of
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