Note 1142 — Chapter XII
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The question of payment of the Swiss still remained to be settled and Charles IX was at his wits’ end and actually offered a mortgage of his frontier towns, save Lyons and the frontier of Burgundy, paying 5 per cent. interest in order to quiet the importunate demands of the cantons.—Revue d’histoire diplomatique, XIV (1900), 49, 50.