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Rh Bouillon General of the Army of Germans, called then in France the Reiters, who in the battle of Aulneau were beaten by the Duke of Guise and forced to fly to Geneva, having lost 1800 of their men upon the place, most of them with charmes about their necks, which they thought would have made them shot-free. Mounting up to the steeple, I saw a fair Bell with a Crucifix cast upon it, shewing whose it was; and four good pieces of Ordnance, that none may say, the Church of Geneva wants Ecclesiastical Cannons. And a little below in the Belfree, there live in several Chambers, three or four families of husbands and wives, and sucking children begotten there, contrary to the Canons of any other Church, except those of Geneva. From the top of this Church you have a fair prospect upon the lake and neighbouring Countryes; which makes them brag here, that they can see from their steeple, into six several principalities, to wit, their own, France, Savoye, Swisserland, the