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A03723	A true and plaine report of the furious outrages of Fraunce & the horrible and shameful slaughter of Chastillion the admirall, and diuers other noble and excellent men, and of the wicked and straunge murder of godlie persons, committed in many cities of Fraunce, without any respect of sorte, kinde, age, or degree. By Ernest Varamund of Freseland.; De furoribus Gallicis. English	Hotman, François, 1524-1590.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581.	1573 (1573)	STC 13847; ESTC S104242	59,763	145

meaneth not of things done and past during the troubles which were before the Edict of Pacification in August 1570. that there shal be no inquisitiō therof and none shall be troubled in goods or person therfore but for that respect they shall enioy the benefit of the Edict of Pacification but that the sayd wordes extend onely to those which be found to be giltie or accessarie to the last conspiracie done against his Maiestie and estate and that other which are imprisoned shall be set at libertie And as touching them which will make profession of their faith and returne to the Catholike Religion his Maiestie desireth that his gouernours and officers shall excyte and comforte them as muche as they can to that effect and executiō of that good will and that their friends and kinsfolks should also be exhorted to doe the like for their parte And if any should hurt them in goods or body his Maiestie willeth readie and speedie execution to be done on them And to the intent that they may followe the fourme which hath bene kept in professing the faith which they doe make that returne to the Apostolike and Romishe Churche there is sent herewith a memorie thereof From Paris the xxij day of Septēber 1572. Signed CHARLES and beneath PINART THE FOVRME OF ABIVRAtion of heresie confessiō of faith which they which haue swarued from the faith and pretende to be receyued into the Church ought to make THIS IS THE ABIVRATION which they caused all of the Religion to make in France to saue their liues Printed at Paris by Nicolas Roffet dwelling in the new streate of our Ladie at the signe of the Mower with the Kings Priuilege FIrst they whiche haue swarued from the faith and desire to returne into the compasse of our holy mother Church ought to present themselues to their Curates or vicars to be instructed of that which they ought to doe that done they shal be sent vnto the reuerend ▪ Byshop of the dioces or his Chauncellour or officiall to make the sayd Abiuration and confession in maner and forme following IN. borne at c. in the dioces of c. and dwelling c. acknowledging by the grace of God the true faith Catholike and Apostolike from the which I haue through my fault gone astray and separated my selfe since c. and desirous to returne to the flocke of Christes true shepefold which is the Catholike Apostolike and Romish Church confesse to haue Abiured and cursed all the errours and heresie of the Lutherians Caluinistes and Hugonotes and all other heresie whatsoeuer wherwith I haue heretofore beene diffamed or touched and I agree to the fayth of our holy mother the Churche and desire you in the name of God of his sonne Iesus Church and of the glorious Virgin his mother Marie and of all the Sainctes of Paradice that it woulde please you to receiue me into the flocke and shepefolde of Gods people which liue vnder the obedience of the Pope ordained our Sauiour Iesus Christs vicar in the sayd Church submitting my selfe paciently to abyde and willingly to doe the pennance which it shall please you to enioyne me for the absolution of my faults committed whilest I was in the foresayd sectes whereof I aske and require pardon of God and of his sayd Churche and of you that be appoynted my pastor by God the Creator absolution with such penance as you shall iudge to be holsome for the satisfaction of my sinnes and offences And to the intent you shoulde knowe that I haue and doe make this Abiuration from my heart I confesse moreouer before God and you that I beleeue that which is contayned in the Simbole or Creede of the Apostles and Athanasius and other confessions of faith made and approued by the whole Councels of the Catholike Apostolike and Romish Church that is I beleeue in one onely God the father almightie Creator of Heauen and Earth and of all things visible and inuisible and in one L. our Lord Iesus Christ the onely sonne engendred by God the father before the constitucion of the worlde God of God Light of Light true God of true God engendred not Created Consubstantiall with the Father by whom all things were made who for vs mē and for our saluation descended from heauen c. as in the beliefe of Morning prayer I beleeue likewise acknowledge and confesse all that which is contayned in the bookes as well of the olde as of the newe testament approued by the sayde holie and Apostolike church of Rome according to the sense interpretation of the holy Doctours receiued by the same reiecting all other interpretation as false and erroneous I acknowledge the seuen Sacramentes of the sayde Catholike Apostolike and Romishe Churche that they were instituted by our L. Iesus Christ and that they be necessarie for the saluation of mankind although that all of them are not of necessitie to be conferred to all that is to say I confesse that the sayd seuen Sacramentes are these Baptisme Confirmation Eucharist which is the Sacrament of the altar Penance extreme vnction Order and Mariage and that the sayd Sacraments confer grace that of them Baptisme Confirmatiō Order can not be reiterated without sacrilege That the sayd Sacraments haue the effect whiche the sayd Church teacheth and that the forme vsage wherwith they be ministred to Christians is holie and necessarie I acknowledge also that the holy Masse is a sacrifice and oblation of the verie bodie and bloud of our sauiour Iesus Christ vnder the forme of bread and wyne mingled with water whiche substaunces of bread and wyne vnder the sayde formes are in the Masse by the words which serue for consecration sayd and pronounced by the Priest transubstanciated and trans formed into the substance of the sayd body and blood of Iesus christ Notwithstanding that the qualities and accidentes remayne in the sayd formes after the sayd consecration and that the Masse is holesome and profitable as well for the quicke as the deade I acknowledge and confesse the cōcomitance that is to say that in receiuing the body of Iesus christ vnder the forme of bread alone I likewise receiue the blood of Iesus Christ. I confesse that Prayer and intercession of Sainctes for the quicke and the dead is holie good and helthfull for Christians and is not contrary for any respect to the glory of god That prayers made in the Churche for the faithfull which are dead do profit them for the remission of their sinnes and lessening of their paines incurred for the same That there is a Purgatorie where the soules abyding are succoured by the prayers of the faythfull I confesse that we muste honor and call vpon the sainctes which raigne with Iesus Christ and that they make intercession for vs to God that their Reliques are to be worshipped That the commaundements and traditions of the Catholike Apostolike and Romishe Church as well they which pertaine to the forme and ceremonies

render into the hands of God now calling for it againe the spirit that he had lent him to vse for a time and sayd that this violent crueltie was prepared not so much for his destruction as for the dishonoring of Christ and the tormenting of so many Churches the defence of which Churches he had at the potition of all godly men with his many daungers and calamities sustained In the meane time there came vp the staires into the hier part of the house one Benuese a Germayne broughte vp in the house of the Duke of Guise and to whome it is saide that the Cardinall of Loraine had giuen one of his bastard daughters in mariage and with hym came Cossin the Gascoine Attin a Picarde a retainer and familiar of the Duke d'Aumal one that a few yeares before sought to murder d'Andelot by treason and also one Hāfort an Auernois all weaponed with swords and targets and armed with shirts of maile VVhen they were broken into the Admirals chamber Benuese came to him and bending his drawen sword vpon him said Art not thou the Admirall he with a quiet and constant countenance as we haue since vnderstode by them selues answered I am so called And then seeing the sword drawen vpō him he sayde yong man consider my age and the weake case that I am now in But the fellowe after blaspheming God first thrust his sworde into the Admirals brest and then also stroke him vpō the head and Attin shot him through the brest with a pistol VVhen the Admirall was with this wound not yet throughly dead Benuese gaue him the third wound vpon the thigh and so he fell downe for dead VVhen the Duke of Guise which stayed in the court with the other noble men heard this he cried out alowde hast thou done Benuese he aunswered I haue done Then said the Duke of Guise our Cheuelier meaning King Henries bastard abouesaide vnlesse he see it with hys eyes will not beleeue it throwe him downe at the windowe Then Benuese with the helpe of his fellowes toke vp the Admirals body and threw it downe through the windowe VVhē by reason of the wounde in his head and hys face couered with bloud they could not well discerne him the Duke of Guise kneeled downe on the grounde and wiped him with a napkin and said now I know him it is he And therewithal going out at the gate with the rest of the Lords he cryed out to the multitude in armoure saying my companions we haue had a good lucky beginning nowe let vs go forward to the rest for it is the Kings commaundement which words he did ofte repete alowde saying Thus the King commaundeth This is the Kings will this is his pleasure And then he commaunded the token to be giuen by ringing tocksein with the great bell of the palace and alarme to be raysed and he caused it to be published that the conspiratours were in armoure and about to kill the king Then a certaine Italian of Gōzagues band cut off the Admirals head and sent it preserued with spices to Rome to the Pope and the Cardinall of Loraine Other cut off his hands and other his secret partes Then the common labourers and rascals three dayes togither dragged the dead body thus mangled and berayed with bloud and filth through the streetes and afterwarde drew it out of the towne to the common gallowes and hanged it vp with a rope by the feete In the meane time those of the noble mens bandes brake into all the chambers of the admirals house and suche as they founde eyther in theyr beds or hidden they mangled them with many wounds and so slaughtered them Of that number were two young children pages of honourable birth There was also the Counte Rochfoucault which for the excellent plesantnesse of his wit and for his valiantnesse was hiely beloued of King Henry and so seemed for the same cause also to be beloued of the king Him was de Nāce abouesaid commaunded to kill but he refusing it for their old acquaintance and familiaritie one Laberge an Auernois offred him self to the king to do it but with this condition that the king should giue him the captaineship of horssemen which Counte Rochfoucault had There was also slayne Theligny the Admirals sōne in law a yong man of singular towardnesse bothe of wit and courage to whome the king these many yeares had both in words and countenance made shewe of so great good will as that no man was thoughte to be more hiely in his fauoure He crying out that it was now grieuous to him to liue for that he had euer commended to his father in lawe the faithfulnesse of the King refused not the deathe offred hym And many other most flourishing yong noble men and gentlemen were euery where butcherly murthered in that streete Then the noble mens bands and Cossins souldiers went ransacking from house to house and the Admirals house and all the other houses were all sacked and spoyled euen in like manner as is vsed to be done by souldiers greedy of pray in a towne takē by assault and many by this robberie were of beggers sodeinly become riche men For the Duke of Guise the Duke of Monpensier the Cheualier king Henries bastarde Gonzague Tauaignes and the other great Lords did with reward of the spoile and bootie encourage the multitude to the slaughter and cried out aloud that this was the kings will. So all the rest of the day from morning to euening the rascall multitude encouraged by spoyle and robberie ranne with their bloudy swords raging throughout all the towne they spared not the aged nor women nor the very babes In ioy and triumph they threw the slaine bodies out at the windowes so as there was not in manner any one streete or lane that seemed not strawed with murthered carcases VVhile these things were thus a doing in the towne the King of Nauarre and the prince of Conde whome the King had lodged in hys owne castle of the Louure were by the kings commaundement sent for and conueyed vnto him But their company their seruitours of their chamber their friends reteining to them their scholemaisters and those that had the bringing vp of them crying out alowde to the Kings fidelitie for succoure were thrust out of the chambers and by the kings guard of Switzers hewed in pieces and slaughtered in the kings owne sight But of that number of persons slayne no mans case was so much lamented of many as Monsieur de Pilles in whome it is hard to expresse whether there were more godly zeale in Religion or prowesse in warre VVhereby hauing in the late yeares specially by the defence of the towne of Saint Iohn d'Angeli which the King then besieged gotten great honoure of cheualrie he was thoughte very well beloued and hiely esteemed of the king Him and Leranne the sonne of Odou by the French Kings commaundement which was not then vnderstoode whereto it tended the King of Nauarre

feare of many that beheld it runne warme and smoking into the next stretes of the town and so downe into the Riuer of Sene. There was in that fame Archbishops prison an aged man called Francis Collut a marchant of cappes and two yong men his sonnes whome he had eucr caused diligently to be taught and instructed in Religion VVhen he sawe the butchers come towarde him with their Axes he began to exhort his children not to refuse the death offred by God For said he it is the perpetuall destinie of Religion and that often suche sacrifices do betide in christian Churches and Christians in all ages haue euer bene and for euer to the worlds end so shal be as sheepe among wolues doues among hawkes and sacrifices among priests Then the old father embraced his two yong sonnes and lying flat on the ground with them crying aloude vpon the mercie of God was with many wounds both he and his sonnes slaughtered by those butchers and long time afterward their three bodies had knit together yelded a piteous spectacle to many that beheld them In the meane time Mandelot in iest and soorne as it seemed caused to be proclaymed by the cryer that no man shoulde committe any slaughter in the towne and that if any woulde detect the doers of any such slaughter he woulde giue him a hundred crownes in reward for his information And from that time they ceassed not to kill to robbe and to spoyle The nexte day after which was the first day of September the greatest parte of the dead bodies were throwen into the Riuer of Sene and the rest of them Mandelot to feede and glut his eyes and heart with bloud caused to be caried by boate to the other side of the water and there to be throwen downe vppon the greene grasse nere vnto the Abbey called Esne There the people of Lions specially the Italians of whom by reason of the ma●te there is great store in the towne satisfied their eyes a while and did such spites as they could to these heapes of carcases and so exercised their crueltie not vppon the liuing only but also vpon the dead And there hapned one thing whiche for the abhominable crueltie is not to be omitted There came to that spectacle certaine apothecaries and among these bodies they perceiued some verye fat ones by and by they went to the butchers and told them that they did vse to make certaine special medicines of mans greace and that they might make some profite thereof VVhiche as soone as the butchers vnderstoode they ranne to the heapes and chose out the fattest and launced them with their kniues and pulled out the fat and sold it for money to the apothecaries VVhile these things were doing at Lions the king being ●nfourmed that diuers of the Religion had left their wiues and children and were fled out of the other ●wnes and ●●ked some in the woodes and some among their friends such as toke pitie on them he practised with faire words to allure and call them home againe He sent to euerie part messengers and letters affirming that he was highly displeased with those slaughters and horrible butcheries and that he would that such crueltie should be seuerely punished and if the Admirall with a fewe of his confederates had entred into anye secrete practi●e it was no reason that so many 〈◊〉 should beare the punishment due to a few Many swetely beguiled with these wor●es of the king and with the letters of the gouernours retired home againe to their dwellings and houses speciallye they of Rhoan Diepe and Tholouse There were scant two dayes passed when they were againe cōmaunded to prison where they were all shutte vp Then were murderers a new appointed of the most base and rascall of the people to torment them with all kind of torture and then to slaye them And throughout the whole realme of Fraunce for thirtie dayes togither there was no ende of killing slaying and robbing so that at this day there are about a hundreth thousande little babes widowes and children that were well borne that now fatherlesse and motherlesse live wandering and in beggerie Aboute this time the King caused to be proclaimed that such as had any office or place of charge vnlesse they would spedily returne to the Catholike Apostolique and Romishe Churche should giue ouer those their temporall roomes There was no towne nor any so small a village or hamlet wherin all the professors of the Religiō wer not compelled either to go to Masse or presently to take the sword into their bosomes and in many places it happened that such as being amazed with the sodainenesse of the matter had abiured their Religion yet notwithstanding were afterward slaine And while these things were still in doing yet the king in the meane while sent abrod his letters and messages into all partes and caused to be proclaimed with trumpet that his pleasure was that the Edictes of pacification should be obserued and although they coulde not haue freedome to vse and exercise their Religion in open places yet they should haue libertie permitted them to retaine and professe it within their owne houses and that no man should medle with or disturbe the goods and possessions of those of the Religion And the same King which but fewe dayes before had by letters directed to all the gouernours of his Prouinces signified that his cousin the Admirall was slaine by the Duke of Guise to his great sorowe and that himselfe was in great daunger the same King I say now caused it with sound of trumpet to be proclaimed that the trayterous and wicked Admirall was slaine by his will and commaundement He that in fewe dayes before had by newe authoritie confirmed the libertie of Religion permitted by his Edicts of pacification the same king did now not onely take from the professors there of their offices and honours but also prescribed them in precise fourme of wordes ● fourme of abiuring and detesting their Religion VVhich things leaste anye man shoulde doubt of we shall hereafter set downe the verie true copyes of the sayde Letters Edictes and Abiuration THE KINGS LETTERS TO the Gouernours of Burgundie wherby he chargeth those of the house of Guyse for the murder committed vpon the Admirals person and for the sedition which hapned at Paris and commaundeth that the Edict of Pacificatiō should be kept and reteined COusin you haue perceyued what I wrote vnto you yesterday concerning my cousin the Admirals wounding and how readie I was to do my endeuour to search out the truth of the deed and to punish it wherein nothing was left vndone or forgotten But it happened since that they of the house of Guyse and other Lordes and Gentlemen their adherents whereof there be no small number in this Citie when they certainely knewe that the Admirals friendes would proceede to the reuenge of his hurt and bicause they were suspected to bee the authours thereof were so stirred vp this last night that