who serve the French
for pay, from your city and canton, so that honest folk be not
corrupted and good comrades brought to sorrow, for it would not be to
the credit of the city and our lords to have an honest man and his
children stirred up to sedition and led astray. And it is also our
prayer and desire, that our lords warn the several cantons of the
dangers of such an alliance. And to this and all the articles, as here
written, and whatever else it may please our lords to add, the honest
people of this bailiwick, pledge their lives and goods, as poor folks
ought to do to their lords and masters."

"Greifensee is not at all pleased with the alliance, since the up-shot
of it would be, to make the king of France our master instead of our
gracious, loving lords of Zurich."

Duebendorf, Dietikon and Rieden declare themselves in the same way,
thanking, agreeing and resolving; H[oe]ngg likewise, the department of
Old Regensperg and New Regensperg, Neuamt; the Schultheiss, Council and
general assembly at Buelach; the burgomaster, councils and general
assembly of the department of Eglisau; the bailiwicks of Maschwander,
Freiamt and Hedingen; Waedenschweil also, and Richtenschweil with the
addition: "If our dear lords thus hold fast and keep always in the
right way, it is our prayer, though they have heretofore eaten and
drunk with the French, that they still drive them off; and that it be
done by the Councils in the city and in the country, and finally, that
they maintain the hereditary union of His Imperial Majesty, all as they
have written."

Horgen adds this request: "Even though it should result in suffering
and trial to our lords, to expel the foreign and German French from
their city and canton, yet they would then be, neither French nor
Imperial, but good Zurichers and Confederates."

"A general assembly at Thalweil has resolved firstly, that the paper
which has reached them from Luzern is in no wise acceptable, for they
do not believe that such a letter has been prepared honestly and at the
command of delegated ambassadors, lords and rulers, but suspect that it
has been hatched in corners and is chiefly the production of the German
French. Accordingly it is their will and opinion, and very urgent prayer,
that our lords will stick to their praiseworthy design not to enter into
alliances and treaties either with the French or other foreign lords and
ever boldly keep to their honest way--and then, that judgment and