Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

Strong measures must be taken with this
rebellious town. Its prince-bishop, Pierre de la
Baume, was absent from Geneva, and had been so
for some while. The free manners of the citizens
did not suit him, and he took up his abode at
Arbois, on the other side of the Jura, in a quiet
neighborhood, where the wine was good. The
prince-bishop cared for his Church, of course, but
he cared also for his dinner; but Geneva was on the
point of being lost; and the Pope, at the risk of
spoiling the bishop's digestion, ordered him, under
pain of excommunication, to return thither, and try
his hand at reducing to their obedience his
mutinous subjects. Pierre de la Baume had but little
heart for the task, but it was enjoined upon him
under a threat which he trembled to incur, and so,
provided with an armed escort, he returned (lst
July, 1533) to Geneva.
He but helped to ruin the cause he had come to
uphold, he would give Lutheranism, not an open
execution, but a secret burial. Accordingly, inviting
the chiefs of the Protestant movement to his palace,
no sooner had they entered it than the bishop
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