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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

of Frāce by the horssemen of Gonzague Duke of Niuers nere to the towne of la Charité whiche hath a bridge ouer the riuer of Loyre and remained till that time in the power of those of the Religion by reason of the great number of thē there inhabiting This troupe was of those horssemen whiche the King hath accustomed to keepe in ordinarie wages in euery countrey whereof the most parte were Italians countrey men to their Captaine Lewes Gonzague to whome the Queene mother had giuen the daughter and heire of the Duke of Niuers in mariage They requested of the townesmen that they might make their musters within the towne saying that they had receyued warrante from the King so to do and shewed the Kings letters therefore At Lions the gouernoure of the towne commaunded a view to be taken of all those that professed the Religion and their names to be written in a boke and broughte vnto him which booke shortly after according to the successe was called the bloudy booke After the mariage ended at Paris which was the time that the Admirall had appointed to returne to his owne house he moued the king concerning his departure But so great was the preparation of playes so great was the magnificence of banquets and shewes and the King so earnestly bent to those matters that he had no leysure not onely for waightie affaires but also not so much as to take his naturall sleepe For in the French court Dauncings Maskings stageplayes wherein the King exceedingly delighteth are commonly vsed in the night time and so the time that is fittest for counsell and matters of gouernance is by reason of nightly riottous sitting vp of necessitie consumed in sleepe So great also is the familiaritie of men and the womē of the Queene mothers traine and so great libertie of sporting entertainment and talking togither as to forein nations maye seeme incredible and be thought of all honest persons a matter not very conuenient for preseruatiō of noble yong Ladies chastitie Moreouer if there come any pandor or bawde oute of Italie or any Scholemaster of shameful and filthie lust he winneth in short time maruellous fauour and credit And such a multitude is there begonne to be of Italians commonly throughout all Fraunce specially in the court since the administration of the realme was cōmitted to the Queene mother that many doe commonly call it Fraunce-Italian and some terme it a Colonie and some a common sincke of Italie These madnesses of the Courte were the cause that the Admirall could not haue accese to the Kings speache nor entrance to deale in waightie matters But whē they that were sent from the refourmed Churches to complayne of iniuries commonlye done to those of the Religion vnderstode of the Admirals purpose to departe they did with all speede deliuer to him their bookes and petitions and besoughte him not to departe from the Court till he had dealte in the cause of the Churches and deliuered their petitions to the King and his counsell For this cause the Admirall resolued to deferre his goyng for a while till he mighte treat with the kings Counsell concerning those requests for the King had promised him that he would shortly entend those matters and be present with the Counsell himselfe Besides this delay there was another matter that stayed him There was owing to the Rutters of Germanie whiche had serued on the part of the Religion in the last warre great summes of money for their wages in whiche matter the Admirall trauelled with incredible earnestnesse and care Concerning all these affaires the Admirall as he determined before hauing accesse and opportunitie for that purpose moued the Kings priuie Counsell the .22 daye of August which was the fift daye after the king of Nauarres mariage and spent muche time in that treatie Aboute noone when he was in returning home from the coūsell with a great companie of noblemen and gentlemen beholde a Harquebuzier oute of a windowe of a house neere adioyning shotte the Admirall with two bullets of leade through both the armes VVhē the Admirall felt himselfe wounded nothing at all amazed but with the same countenance that he was accustomed he said through yonder windowe it was done go see who are in the house VVhat manner of trecherie is this Thē he sent a certayne gentleman of his company to the king to declare it vnto him The king at that time was playing at Tennise wyth the Duke of Guise Assoone as he heard of the Admirals hurte he was maruellously moued as it seemed and threw away his racket that hee played with on the grounde and taking with him his brother in lawe the king of Nauarre he retired into his castle The gentlemen that were with the Admiral brake into the house from whence he receyued his hurte there they found only one woman the keper of the house and shortly after also a boy his lackey that had done the deede and therewithall they founde the harquebuze lying vppon the table in that chamber from whēce the noyse was heard him that shot they found not for he in great hast was runne away out at the backe gate and getting on horssebacke which he had wayting for him redy sadled at the dore he rode a great pace to Sainte Anthonies gate where he had a freshe horsse tarying for him if neede were and another at Marcelles gate Then by the kings commandement a great number rode out in post into all partes to pursue him but for that he was slipped into bywayes and receiued into a certaine castle they could not ouertake him At the sure of the king of Nauarre and the Prince of Conde and other the King by and by gaue commission for enquirie to be made of the matter and committed the examining thereof to three chosen persons of the parliament of Paris Thuan and Morsant and Viol a counseller Firste it was found that the same house belonged to a Priest a Canon of saint Germaine whose name is Villemure which had bene the Duke of Guises scholemaster in his youthe and still continued a retayner towarde hym Then the woman whiche we said was founde in the house being taken and broughte before them confessed that a fewe dayes before there came to hir one Chally sometime a maister d'hostel of the Duke of Guises house and now of the Kings courte and commaunded hir to make muche of the man that had done thys deede and to lodge him in the same bed and chamber where Villemure was wont to lie for that he was his friende and very familiar acquaintance and that Villemure would be very glad of it The name of him that shot was very dilligently kepte secret Some say it was Manreuet whiche in the thirde ciuill warre traiterously slew his captaine monsieur de Mouy a most valiante and noble gentleman and straightway fled into the enimies campe Some saye it was Bondot one of the archers of the Kings guarde VVhen the womans confession was broughte to

King had in manye Edictes before that time permitted the freedome of Religion yet this meaning euer was to reteyne and cause to be reteyned of all men the onely Romishe or Popishe Religion within his Realme After manie ouerthrowes on both partes giuen and receyued whereas the ende of this thirde warre was thought likely to be the harder by reason of the breache of sayth in the yeeres before and on the other side the state of the Realme by reason of the wast that the Cities were broughte vnto and the extreme pouertie of the meane people and husbandmen did require some treatie of composition the King sent messangers to the Admirall to signifie vnto him in the Kings name that the King himselfe had at length founde out a most sure way of peace and concorde namely that the armies of both partes ioyned togither shoulde goe into the lowe countrey against the Duke of Alua which had been the author of the late calamities in Fraunce He signified further that he had great causes of querels against the king of Spayne and this principally that he had inuaded and helde by force sodenlye slaying all the souldyers there an Island of the newfound world called Florida which had been taken by the French and kept vnder his dominion and likewise the Marquesdome of Finall the inhabitantes whereof had but a little tyme before yelded themselues to the Kings subiection and allegeance He said that the most stedfast band of concorde shoulde be that forein warre and that there could no other better meane be deuised to drowne the memorie of the former dissentions in eternall forgetfulnesse To the performance hereof he sayd it was a matter of most apte opportunitie that Lodouic counte of Nassaw brother to the Prince of Aurenge had been nowe two yeeres in the Admiralls camp to whome the Admirall gaue principall credit in all things and that by him and his fellowes of the lowe countrey and other whom he vnderstoode to fauour his part it might easily be broughte to passe that certayne Cities mighte be surprised and thereby great aduantage be attayned to the atchieuing of the warre The Admirall hearyng these thyngs was maruellously troubled For albeit he doubted not of the Kings fidelitie yet therwithall many things fell into his minde to be considered as the power of the Cardinall and the rest of the Guisians who were well knowne to haue ben at all times most affectionate to the Kyng of Spayne For the Duke of Guise had lefte a sonne a very yong man called Henry to whō the Queene had giuen all the offices and places of honor that his father had borne before beyng vnfit thereto by age and against the ancient lawes and customes and also through the traiterous infidelitie of certayne of the Kings counsaylers whome she knew for their affection to Popish Religion to be most addicted to the Spanishe King and that diuers of them had great yeerely pensions of him and did disclose vnto him the affaires of the Realme He remembred howe hereby it came to passe that the same Kings Embassador whiche among strange nations seemed vtterly incredible was admitted into the priuie Counsell of Fraunce and that one Biragio ● Lumbard and as it is reported a traytour to his owne countrey otherwise altogither vnlearned and specially ignoraunt of the ciuill lawe was yet for the subtiltie of his witte aduanced to so great honour that he executed the Chauncellers office Michael Hospitall being displaced a man knowne to be such a one as there was not in all degrees of men any eyther more wise or more learned or more zelously louing his countrey Herewithall he considered the slaunderous cauillations of his aduersaryes to whome hereby might seme an occasion giuen as if the Admirall were of a troublesome nature and coulde not abide any quietnesse nor could long reste at home without some tumultuous stir Herevnto the messangers replyed as they were able and therewithall alleaged this cause of so sodayne hatred against the Spanishe King that one Albenie late returned out of Spaine had infourmed the King and the Queene mother for certaintie that King Philip a few moneths before had poysoned his wife the Frenche Kings sister and had spred rumors of hir thoroughout all Spaine such as for the honour of manye persons are meete not to be disclosed But nothing moued the Admirall so much as the cherefull earnestnesse of Lodouic of Nassaw who as sone as he was aduertised of that purpose of the King omitted nothing that he thought mighte serue to encourage the Admirall therevnto The Admirall perswaded hereby nothing fearing the infidelitie of those of the Courte gaue his minde to hearken to composition And so was the third ciuill warre ended and the peace concluded wyth the same conditions that were before that euerye man shoulde haue free libertie to vse and professe the Religion VVithin few moneths after this diuers Princes of Germanie that fauored the Religiō refourmed and among those the three Electors the Pa●sgraue the Duke of Saxonie and the Marques of Brandeburge sent their Embassadours into France to the King to gratulate vnto him for the newe reconciliation of his subiects And bycause they accompted it greatly to behoue them selues that the same concorde should remaine stedfast and of long continuance they promised that if any would for that cause procure trouble or make warre vppon him either within his owne dominiōs or without they and their followers shuld be ready to defend him To this embassage the king firste by words and afterward by a booke subscribed with his owne hande answered and gaue his faith that he would for euer most sacredly and faithfully obserue his Edict of pacification Hereby so much the more willingly the Admirall suffered him selfe to be drawne to the sayd purposes for the low countrey although oftentimes calling to minde the nature of the Queene mother he vsed to say to diuers and specially to Theligny to whome he afterwarde maried his daughter that he greatly suspected the rolling wit of that woman For said he so soone as she hath brought vs into that preparation against the lowe countrey she will leaue vs in the midst Neuerthelesse the Counte of Nassaw writeth to his brother and they conferring their aduises together send messengers to the King that if it please him to deale with the matter of the lowe countrey they will shortly so do that he shall by their many and greate seruices well perceyue their affection and deuotion towarde him The King writeth againe to them in most louing termes saying that their message most highly pleased him and he gaue to them both his harty thanks About the same time Maximiliane the Emperoure pitying the estate of the Prince of Aurenge as he said treated by his Embassadours with the King of Spayne and had in manner obteyned that the Prince should haue all hys goodes restored vnto him but with this condition that he should haue no house within the territorie of the lowe countrie but

had stayed in a wardrobe adioyning to his owne chamber and caused them to lodge there al night A little afore day hearing of the running of men and noyse of armor and cries and killings they rose in hast and immediatly de Nance whome we haue before spoken of came to them and cōmanded them in the kings name to come downe into the court and to leaue their weapons behind them and lastly to depart out of the castle VVhen de Pilles sawe himselfe thrust out among the multitude of the murthering souldiers and beheld the bodies of them that were slayne he cried out with a very lowde voyce that the king might well heare him protesting vpon the kings fidelitie and detesting his trayterous infidelitie therwith he toke off a rich cloake whiche he wore and gaue it to one of his acquaintāce saying take here this token of Pilles and hereafter remember Pilles moste vnworthyly and shamefully slayne Oh my good Monsieur de Pilles saide the other I am none of them I thanke you for your cloake but I will not receiue it with that condition and so refused to take the cloake and immediatly de Pilles was thrust through by one of the guarde with a partisan and died And this ende had this most valiante and noble gentleman And then his body was throwen into the quarrey with the rest whiche when they that passed by did behold the souldiers cryed out there they be that made assault vpon vs and would haue killed the king Leranne beeing thrust through with a sword escaped and ran into the Queene of Nauarres chamber and was by hir kept and preserued from the violence of those that pursued him Shortly after she obtayned his pardon of hir brother and committing him to hir owne Phisitions restored him both to life and health VVhile things were in doing at Paris Strozzi which as we haue aforesayd was come with all his power to Rochell sent a great number of his souldiers into the towne vnder colour of a banket to be made to his friends in the castell called la Cheine but by reasō of the iealosie watches of the townes men by whom he sawe his treason was espied he went away without his purpose But they of la Charité which as we haue before shewed were trapped by the Italian horssemen taking lesse heed to the safe keeping of their towne were a little before night surprized and within fewe dayes after put to the sweard The next day following where any that had hidden themselues in corners at Paris coulde be found out the slaughter was renewed also common labourers and porters and other of the most rascals of the people and desperate villaines to haue the spoile of their clothes stripped the dead bodies starke naked threw them into the riuer of Seane The profit of all the robberies and spoyles came all for the most part to the handes of these laborers and the souldiers and to the Kings treasure came very little or nothing The onely gaine that came to him was that which might be made of the vacations as they terme them of offices and of places of Magistrates Captaines other romes of charge wherof yet he gaue a great part freely away to diuers of the court For the Admirals office he gaue to the Marques de Villars the Chancellorship of Nauarre after the murther of Francourt he by and by gaue to Henry Memne de Malassise which had been the truchman and messenger in the treatie of the last peace the office of the maister of the Finances after the slaughter of Prunes he gaue to Villequier the office of President des aides when Plateau was slaine he gaue to de Nully the other offices he sold as his maner is to such as gaue ready money for them For it hath ben the custome now lately of certaine Kings of Fraunce such as among forein nations hath not bene heard of to put to sale all the profits rights and benefites of the crowne and to kepe an open market for money of all iudiciall offices and of all the roomes belonging to his treasure and finances according to a rate of price set vpon euerie one of them and there is not in maner one in all Fraunce that doth not opēly iustifie that he bought his office for readie money and that no man ought to maruell if he desire to fill vp the empty hole of his stock againe And therefore iustice is throughe all Fraunce vsually bought for money though there be neuer so many murders committed yet is there no processe awarded to enquire thereof till present coyne be payde to the rakehelles and scribes This butcherly slaughter of Paris thus perfourmed and foure hundred houses as is abouesayd sacked immediatly messengers were sent in post into all partes of the Realme with ofte shifting their horsses for hast to command all other Cities in the Kings name to follow the example of Paris and to cause to be killed as many as they had among them of the refourmed Religion These commaundments it is wonderfull to tell how readily and cherefully the greatest part of the Cities of Fraunce did obey and execute But the king fearing as it was likely the dishonour of false treacherie and periurie sent letters to the gouernours of his prouinces and also speedie messangers into England Germanie and Switzerland to declare in his name that there was a great commotion and seditious stirre happened at Paris which he was very sorie for that the Duke of Guise had raised the people and with armed men made assaulte vpon the band that was assigned to the Admirall for his guarde and had broken into the house and slaine the Admirall and all his companie and houshold seruants and that the king had hardly kept safe from those daungers hys owne castell of the Louure where he kept him selfe close with his mother and his brethren the true copie of which letters is hereafter inserted But the same most mightie and by the consent of all nations commonlye called the most Christian King within two dayes after came into the Parliament accompanied with a great traine of his brethren and other Princes The counsell being assembled he sitting in his throne began to speake vnto them he declared that he was certified that the Admiral with certaine of his complices had conspired hys death and had intended the like purpose against his brethren the Queene his mother the king of Nauarre and that for this cause he had commaunded his friends to slay the sayde Admiral and all his confederates and so to preuent the treason of his enimies This his testification and declaratiō the king commaunded to be written and entred in the recordes of Parliament and that it should be proclamed by the heraldes and published by Printers And he willed a boke to be set forth to this effect that the slaughter of the Admirall his adherentes was done by the Kings commaundement for so was his maiesties expresse pleasure bicause they had