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 Valesians, and the Franchecounty: But I told them, it would be a greater brag, to say, that they could see into no other Country or Dominions but their own. 2. I saw the Arsenal, little, but well stored with defensive armes. They never forget to shew the Ladders of the Savoyards, who attempted to surprize this Town by scaling, but were themselves taken and beheaded a la chaude, least some Prince should have interceded for them. 3. The Town house with the Chamber where the Magistrates (something like the Hogen Mogens of Holland) sit in Counsel. 4. They shewd me here a Library but none of the best. 5. The admirable Treuts here, able to make them wish for their Lent again, were it not, that the Capons here are full as good in their kinde.

As for the GovernentGovernment [sic] of this Town, it was anciently Monarchical, and the Bishop was Prince of it under the Duke of Savoy: but Farel and Calvin coming hither with their Anarchical Presbytery, drove the Bishop Peter de la Beaume