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A88437	The civil wars of France, during the bloody reign of Charls the Ninth: wherein is shewed, the sad and bloody murthers of many thousand Protestants, dying the streets and rivers with their blood for thirty daies together, whose innocent blood cries to God for vengeance. And may stand as a beacon tired to warn, and a land-mark to pilot all Protestant princes and states to a more secure harbour than peace with Papists. / Faithfully collected out of the most antient and modern authors, by a true Protestant, and friend to the Common-wealth of England.	London, William, fl. 1658.	1655 (1655)	Wing L2851; Thomason E1696_1; ESTC R209434	160,389	298

ask and require pardon of God and of his said Church and of you that are appointed my Pastors by God the Creator absolution with such penance as you shall judge to be wholsom for the satisfaction of my sins and to the intent you should know that I have and do make this abjuration from my heart I confess moreover before God and you That I believe that which is contained in the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles and Athanasius and other Confessions of faith made and approved by the whole Councils of the Catholike Apostolike and Romish Church that is I believe in one onely God The Father Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible and in one Lord our Lord Jesus Christ The only Son engendered by God the Father before the Constitution of the World God of God Light of Light true God of true God engendred not created Consubstantial with the Father by whom all things were made who for us men and for our Salvation descended from Heaven c. as in the belief of morning prayer I believe likewise acknowledge and confess all that which is contained in the books as well of the Old as of the New Testament approved by the said Holy and Apostolike Church of Rome according to the sence and interpretation of the holy Doctors received by the same rejecting all other interpretation as false and erroneous I acknowledge the seven Sacraments of the said Catholike Apostolike and Romish Church that they were instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ and that they be necessary for the salvation of mankind although that all of them are not of necessity to be confererd on all that is to say I confess that the said seven Sacraments are these Baptism Confirmation Eucharist which is the Sacrament of the Altar Penance Extreme Unction Order and Marriage And that the said Sacraments confer grace and that of them Baptism Confirmation and Order cannot be reiterated without Sacriledge That the said Sacraments have the effect which the said Church teacheth and that the form and usage wherewith they be ministred to Christians is holy and necessary I acknowledge also that the holy Mass is a Sacrifice and Oblation of the very Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ under the form of bread and Wine mingled with water which substances of Bread and Wine under the said Forms are in the Mass by the words which serve for consecration said and pronounced by the Priest transubstantiated and transformed into the Substance of the said body and blood of Jesus Christ Notwithstanding that the Qualities and Accidents remain in the said Forms after the said Consecration and that the Mass is wholesome and profitable as well for the quick as the dead I acknowledge the concomitance that is to say that in receiving the body of Jesus Christ under the form of Bread alone I likewise receive the blood of Jesus Christ I confess that prayer and intercession for saints for the quick and the dead is Holy good and Helthful for Christians and is not contrary for any respect to the glory of God That Prayers made in the Church for the faithfull which are dead do profit them for the remission of their sins and lessening of their pains incurred for the same That there is a Purgatory where the Souls abiding are succoured by the prayers of the faithful I confess that we must honour and call upon the Saints which reign with Jesus Christ and that they make intercession for us to God and that their Reliques are to be worshipped That the Commandments and Traditions of the Catholike Apostolike and Romish Church as well they which pertain to the form and ceremonies of Divine service and to assist the same which I think are to draw Christian People to Piety and turning to their God as Fasting abstaining from meats observation of Holy Dayes and Ecclesiastical Policy according to the tradition of the Apostles and Holy Fathers continued since the Primitive Church till this time and afterwards brought into the Church by the Ordinances of Councils received in the same of long and Antient time or of late be good and holy to the which I will and ought to obey as prescribed and appointed by the Holy Ghost that the Author and Director of that which serveth for the keeping of Christian Religion and of the Catholike Apostolike and Roman Church I believe also and accept all the Articles of original sin and of Justification I affirm assuredly that we ought to have and keep the Images of Jesus Christ of his holy Mother and all other Saints and do honour and reverence unto them I confess the power of Indulgence and pardons to be left in the Church by Jesus Christ and the use of them to be very healthful as also I acknowledge and confess the Church of Rome to be the Mother and Chief of all Churches and conducted by the Holy Ghost and that other pretended particular inspirations against the same come of the suggestion of the Devil the Prince of Dissention which would separate the Union of the Mystical body of the Saviour of the World Finally I promise streightly to keep all that was ordained at the last General Council of Trent and promise to God and you never more to depart from the Catholike Apostolike and Roman Church and if I do which God forbid I submit my self to the penalties of the Canons of the said Church made Ordained and appointed against them which fall into Apostasie The which abjuration and confession I have subscribed And now as the Sun shines with a glorious Splendor by its beautiful rays to all the world so this bloody Kings Cruelty with a Horrible Infamy was erected to all the world Who at the first hurt of the Admital shewed an unquestionable resolution to revenge his wrong and yet done by his special commandment Then when so many thousand Protestants were cruelly murthered in Paris with the Admiral and Nobles Ladies and young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen he presently layes the sad accident to a sudden eruption by the difference of the Guisans and House of Chastillon and so sends Letters abroad to all his Provinces and to foreign Nations to that purpose yet the same day sends Letters to cut off all the Protestants according to the example of Paris and that what was done to the Admirals and his Adherents was by his special command for treason plotted and intended by the Admiral and his Complices Then those poor souls that were fled into Woods Rocks and Mountains to hide themselves from his bloody Fury he allured into a Net of Destruction by a Proclamation of Liberty Estates and Lives and they were not come home above two days but by his command basely and unworthily murthered And whereas he publickly declared and proclaimed liberty to the Protestants according to the Edict of Pacification now we see he publickly decrees no Religion to be exercised but the Romish Religion on pain of death Making

and doubtless is a firm pledge of the Kings fidelity what can be done more is not all clear from the least suspition of fraud yet he resolved to depart only waited for a fit opportunity to take leave But the Deputies that were sent from the Reformed Churches complained of the cruelties still committed on the Protestants and understanding of the Admirals intentions to depart they apply themselves with all speed to him and delivering him their books and petitions they earnestly beseech him not to absent from the Court till he had pleaded the cause of the Churches and delivered their petitions to the King and Council Hereupon he resolves like a good Advocate to stay a while and plead their cause But there was another great cause of the Admirals stay for there was on arriers to the Ruttiers of Germany great sums of money for their service under the Admiral during the Wars in which he laboured earnestly to effect But oh I tremble to enter into the ensuing narrative so full of inhumane and cruel bloodshed oh that I could enough bewail the sad fate of these poor innocent souls led as sheep to the slaughter to consider that so many brave Commanders that scorned any other death than like Souldiers must now suffer base murthers and bloody slaughters oh lamentable and to be pittied of all Protestants nay and of ingenuous Papists that so many innocent children and women should suffer for they know not what for we shall shortly see all the Protestants of France in mourning and following the Hearse of their own Ruin in the Papists unparalleled crueltie The Admiral coming from Court with a great train of Nobles and Gentlemen is treacherously shot in both the Arms with a Harqurbuss These businesses being the occasions of the Admiralls stay he did on the 22. day of August repair to the Kings Privy Council to effect his desire which day was the fifth day after the King of Navars marriage but about noon returning from the Council with a great number uf Noblemen and Gentlemen reading a petition as he went was shot thorow both arms with two bullets by a Harquebuzier out of a Window who feeling himself shot shewed no alteration of countenance saying only through yonder window it came what kind of treachery is this It was no news to the King to know his will and command was performed The Admiral speedily sends to the King a Gentleman of his company to give notice of it who being at Tennis with the Duke of Guise shewed such dislike as that in a rage he threw away the Racket that he played withall being exceedingly and outwardly vexed and taking with him his Brother in Law the King of Navar he retires into the Castle of the Lour the King swearing and promising to execute such severe justice upon the offenders Deep hypocrisie that the Admiral and all his Friends should think themselves exceedingly satisfyed The King causes the City gates to be shut pretending lest the Murtherer should escape but indeed was lest the Protestants should escape their cruelty The King therefore to delude the Admiral and Protestants caused all the Gates of the City to be shut except two only which were pretended to be open for bringing in provision yet there was careful watch kept by a strong Guard with a colour of singular care of his Majesty to find out the Murtherer and that if he were in the City he might by no means escape but the truth was lest any of the Protestants should escape this cruel plot laid for their blood by getting out of the City or net of destruction the King swearing and blaspheming that he would not by any means that they should escape which had committed such a horrid act those that durst presume to commit such a hainous crime even at the gates of his Royall Palace The Queen Mother also seems discontented for saies she Who would have thought any ones impudence could arrive so high as this affront to the great prejudice of his Majesty and if ever the King suffer this to go unpunished in the end the next attempt will be on his Royal person But alas alas for a King Queen and Court so to dissemble as if there were no God that could see into their hearts and discover to the World that this was done by the Kings special command and commission as we shall shortly see it was Presently after the Admiral was shot some Gentlemen of his retinue entered by force and violence into the house from whence the shot was where they find only the woman of the House and a Boy that was his lacquey which did the deed finding also a Harquebuss lying upon the Table in the Chamber from whence it was shot but the wretched villain they found not for that he was fled out of the back Gate Fresh horses prepared at several gates to speed away the Murtherer with security and so mounted on a Spanish Gennet which was waiting for him he speedily posted to St. Anthonies Gate where another fresh horse assisted his more swift flight and if he had gon to Marcelles gate there was also another waiting for him Now the King to perswade the Princes Admiral and all the Protestants that he was really sorry and how much it was against his will though God knows to his great satisfaction and inward content he commands sundry to post out into all parts to persue him Set a thief to catch a thief The Admiral shews himself a good Christian and patient sufferer Now the Admiral being safely conveyed to his lodging shewed great piety according to his Godly soul filled with grace and prudence most like a constant and true Christian and faithful holy servant of Christ The Prince of Conde and King of Navar had thought to have departed Paris but the Kings carriage levelled all suspitious thoughts and so turned their resolutions to a longer stay at Court Three Judges to examine the murther At request of the King of Navar and Prince of Conde the King to dissemble with more facility did order three principal men of the Parliament of Paris Thuan Morsant and Viol to examine the business whereupon it was found that the House belonged to one Villimure a Priest and Cannon of St. Germane once the Duke of Guise his Schoolmaster and now a retainer under him That the woman that was in the house being brought before the Judges did acknowledge that a few daies before there came to her one Chally once a Master de Hostel of the Duke of Guises house and now Steward of the Kings houshould commanding her to respect much the man that had done the deed and to lodge him in Villumures own bed-chamber in regard he was his Friend Several speeches there was concerning the person that did it some said it was one Manrevel who in the last Civil War traiterously flew his own Captain a most valiant Commander and Noble Gentleman in the Admirals