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 quarreling about Religion.

Passing thus along, I came to Soleur (Soloturnum in Latin) a neat Town and Head of a Canton. They are all Catholiks here: and here it is that the French Embassadours to the Swissers, alwayes reside, as the Spanish Embassadours do at Lucerna. This Town is very ancient, as the Golden Letters upon the Clock testifie; for those words make Soleur to be onely yonger then her Sister Trevers, which, as Æneas Sylvius writes, was built 1300 years before Rome. As for Soleur, I find in good Cronologers that it was built 2030 years after the Creation of the world.

From Soleur I went to Murat, a little town famous for a great battle fought hard by it, by the Duke of Burgundy, and the Swissers. For the Duke of Burgundy besieging Murat, the Swissers came upon him with a great Army, and defeated him. I was told here, that the Duke seeing his army defeated, and himself environed on one side by the Lake here; and on the other side, by the Enemies conquering army, chose rather to trust