Note 519 — BOOK THE FIFTH.

The following is a list of the spoil taken by the Swiss at Granson, from Peignot’s Amusemens Philologiques:—

“1. Five hundred pieces of heavy artillery, with a quantity of ammunition, and abundance of provisions.

“2. Four hundred tents of great richness, fitted with silk and velvet, and with the duke’s arms embroidered thereon in gold and pearls. Most of these were spoiled by the Swiss, who made them into clothes.

“3. Six hundred banners and standards; 300 helmets; 300 cwt. of gunpowder; 3000 sacks of barley; 2000 baggage wagons; 2000 barrels of herrings, and a quantity of other dried fish, and salted meat, geese and fowls; and abundance of sugar, raisins, figs, almonds, and other things innumerable; and 8000 spiked clubs.

“4. Four hundred lbs. weight of silver plate, which was taken to Lucerne, and divided among the Swiss, to say nothing of that which was carried off by the soldiers.

“5. Three hundred complete services of magnificent silver plate; and so great a quantity of coined money that it was distributed by handfulls; four wagon-loads of crossbows and strings; and three wagon-loads of bed-linen.

“6. The coffer containing the duke’s archives, and his great diamond.

“7. The duke’s rosary, with the apostles in massive gold.

“8. The duke’s sword, adorned with seven large diamonds and as many rubies, with fifteen pearls of the size of a bean, and of the finest water; 160 pieces of cloth of gold and silk; with innumerable relics in rich shrines; the duke’s gilded chair, and his gold ring, and the ring of his brother Antony, and two large pearls set in gold, each as large as a nut.”