Montreux, painted by JHardwicke Lewis & May Hardwicke Lewis; described by Francis Gribble . he Priory of St. Victor, on the hastyassumption that Prior Leonard de Tournabousmust have been killed in the disturbances at far so good. Unfortunately, it was one thingto take the chair at the banquets in the Prioryrefectory and another to collect the revenues be-longing to the benefice. These were derived fromlands situated in the dominions of the Duke ofSavoy, and Bonivard had no means of getting atthem except by violence. He made up his mind,therefore, to go to war, and the story of his cam-
Montreux, painted by JHardwicke Lewis & May Hardwicke Lewis; described by Francis Gribble . he Priory of St. Victor, on the hastyassumption that Prior Leonard de Tournabousmust have been killed in the disturbances at far so good. Unfortunately, it was one thingto take the chair at the banquets in the Prioryrefectory and another to collect the revenues be-longing to the benefice. These were derived fromlands situated in the dominions of the Duke ofSavoy, and Bonivard had no means of getting atthem except by violence. He made up his mind,therefore, to go to war, and the story of his cam-paigns may be read at length in his Chroniquesde Geneve. The Chateau de Cartigny—a small propertybelonging to him, situated on a hill above theRhone, a couple of leagues from Geneva—was theprincipal scene of his enterprises. It was, he admits, rather a country seat than a castle; but lie beganhis operations by garrisoning it with six men underthe command of a certain Guillaume Castes ofFribourg. The enemy did not molest them ; there A PEEP OF OLD MONTREUX, OVERVERAYE: WINTER EVENING. BONIVARD 1 was always serious danger of reprisals when citizensof Fribourg were assailed. Emboldened by im-punity, the whole garrison sallied forth one day todo their marketing in a neighbouring village, leavingonly an old woman as caretaker of the in the course of the afternoon, theyfound the gate locked against them, and the Dukeof Savoys soldiers in possession. Instead of makingthe attempt to storm it, they walked back to Genevaand reported themselves to Bonivard. He re-proached them for their carelessness, and proceededto engage mercenaries for an expedition on a largerscale. His commander-in-chief on this occasion was acertain Bischelbach, a butcher by trade, who hadmigrated to Geneva from Berne, because the re-formers of the latter city had made it illegal formistresses to be kept by married men. The secondin command was a certain Canon Vuillaumin, alsoof Berne, an eccl
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