My colleagues salute you all.
[_Lat. orig. autogr._--_Library of Geneva._ Vol. 106.]
[423] After five years of embroilments and continued struggles
between Berne and Geneva on account of the disputed territories then
in litigation, peace was at length re-established between the two
towns by the definitive sentence of the deputies of Basle, chosen
as arbiters, (January 1544.) This decision, accepted equally by
both parties, divided between them the jurisdiction of the lands
belonging to Saint Victor, and the Charter granted to the Genevese
fourteen cures or benefices out of the dependencies of the ancient
bishopric, with power to place ministers; discharged the Bernese
from the oath which those of Geneva pretended to be due to them on
account of the occupation of the bailliages of Gex and of Ternier;
and last of all stipulated for the free return of the banished
exiles of Geneva, after the troubles of 1540.--See the _Chronique_
de Roset, l. iv. c. 65; and Ruchat, _Hist. de la Réf._ tom. v. pp.
240, 241.