Note 425 — Chapter IV · THE BATTLES OF GRANDSON. (1531-1532.)
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'Fratres qui huc venerunt in messem missi sunt.'—Farellus Andronico, Jan. 27, 1531. Choupard MSS.
[426] 'Quam difficiles eradicatu supersunt radices, antequam novale jaciendo semini sit idoneum.'—Farellus Andronico, Jan. 27, 1531. Choupard MSS.
[427] 'Aureos montes polliceri nolo.'—Ibid.
[428] Matthew xxiii. 23.
[429] 'Sine vanis controversiis vel aquæ vel panis aut censuum aut decimarum, in quibus pars Christianismum putat.'—Farellus Andronico. Choupard MSS.
[430] Non est quod otium expectes sed negotium.'—Farellus Andronico, Feb. 12, 1531.
[431] 'Labores plurimi.'—Ibid.
[432] 'Sed in ipso pugnæ æstu, robustos ac plenis viribus hostes alacer aggrediaris, collocata in Deum fiducia, cujus est victoria sicut et pugna; non enim nos pugnamus, sed Dominus.'—Farellus Andronico. Jan. 27, 1531. Choupard MSS.
[433] 'Pugnam fervere, cum hostibus consertas manus jungere, victoriam suis impartire, sed non citra sudorem.'—Farellus Andronico, April 1531. Choupard MSS.
[434] 'In medios hostes prosilire, jacula vibrare, hostes hinc inde prosternere ac dissipare.'—Ibid.
[435] 'Nec tantopere curandum quid uxor velit et poscat, sed quæ Deus ipse petat et jubeat.'—Farellus Andronico, April, 1531. Choupard MSS.
[436] Warlike musical instruments.
[437] Chronique de Neuchâtel. Chant de bataille, par un Lucernois. Müller, Hist. de la Conféd. Suisse.
[438] Chroniqueur, p. 112.
[439] 'Duræchet, gebalgets, verschmæht.... Gott gelæstert.'—Berne to the bailli of Grandson, June 7.
[440] Sommaire, etc. p. 181.
[441] The Choupard MS. gives the sentence of Berne under the date of 17th June 1531.
[442] Mém. du Sire de Pierrefleur, p. 167.
[443] Choupard MSS. Stettler MSS. Mém. du Sire de Pierrefleur.
[444] Mém. du Sire de Pierrefleur, p. 74. Ruchat, iii. p. 45.
[445] Mém. du Sire de Pierrefleur, pp. 82-85. Choupard MSS. Ruchat, iii. p. 47.