Note 355 — Chapter V · CHRISTIAN III. PROCLAIMED KING. TRIUMPH OF THE REFORMATION IN DENMARK, NORWAY, AND ICELAND. (1533-1550.)
William L. R. (William Leist Readwin) Cates translation
The white bâton distinguished those who were pardoned from those who surrendered at discretion. In the Histoire Universelle of Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné, iii. p. 35, we read, on occasion of a victory of Lesdiguières:—‘Les soldats de Gascogne rendus au baston blanc, ceux de pays à discretion.’