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A11934	The lyfe of the most godly, valeant and noble capteine and maintener of the trew Christian religion in Fraunce, Iasper Colignie Shatilion, sometyme greate admirall of Fraunce. Translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding; Gasparis Colinii Castilloni, magni quondam Franciae amerallii, vita. English.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, attributed name.; Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636, attributed name.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 22248; ESTC S117200	64,379	124

THE LYFE OF THE MOST GODLY VALEANT AND NOBLE CAPteine and maintener of the trew Christian Religion in Fraunce IASPER COLIGNIE SHATIlion sometyme greate Admirall of Fraunce Translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier 1576. THE LIFE OF Iasper Colignie Shatilion sometime great Admirall of FRAVNCE IN THE borders of Bresse not farre from Burgundie there is a Towne of greate antiquitie called Colonie with a castle adioyning thereto sometime of verie greate strengthe in respect whereof in the time of our forefathers it was called in the vulgar tongue the fortresse that is to say the bulwarke or defence of all the countrey about it The Lordes of that towne and castle were after the accustomed maner of their auncetors called the Lords of Colonie but afterward the name was corrupted among the Frenchmen they were called the Lordes of Colignie It is an old opinion among the inhabiters there and it disagreeth not with Caesars writings that it is the same place wherein Caesar at his arriuall with his armie in Fraunce heard the Ambassadors of the Burgonions Niuernoys complayning of the Svvitzers for comming into Fraunce with an armie and for wastinge their countrey For the next hill retayneth the name of Iulius and is called Iules mount vnto this day and the towne hard by it is named Cesaree This is certeine that the Lordes of Colignie had verie greate lands and possessions in old time in that countrie that the Townes of Naūtua and Mouluet and all the territories of those Cities were vnder their iurisdiction Whereof manie other things are a record specially the standard of measures which beare the name of Colignie measures euen vnto this day in the Townes villages and manors thereabouts and are receaued from that Colignie by the inhabitants of those partes The armes or cognisance of the howse of Colignie which they giue after the auncient maner of noble and worshipfull families is a crowned Eagle and it is certeine that that howse had the right of souereintie which after the custome of antiquitie is called Royalties so as they had power of life and death ouer the folke of their seniorie with authority to pardon such as were condemned to die and to coyne money stamped with the marke of the crowned Eagle and to rayze taxes and subsidies vpon their tenaunts and fermors when neede required Therfore according to their so great abilitie they fownded a greate nomber of Religious howses whome they indewed with verie greate reuenewes among which was the Abbey of Marent situate in the Earldome of Avvssone the Abbeys of Momerline and Shelliom in the Countrie of Bresse and Colignie in Burgundie all which they indewed with like priuiledges and fraunchizes as the house of Colignie it self had so did they also to diuers townes as Treffort Iasseron S. German Damberie Amburney Pounsignie whose inhabiters hold still the right giuen to them by the Lordes of Colignie euen vnto this day In the Abbey of Marent are certeine auncient Registers that make mencion of Hubberd of Colignie who in the yeere of our Lord a thousand a hundred and sixandfortie accompanying the Emperour Conrade the thirde then going with a greate armie into the East to recouer Ierusalem came home again for certaine causes and preparing himselfe soone after to returne thither caried with him fiue Sonnes Gvvirik VVilliam Hubberd Gvvy Dalmace and Bernard By the same Registers and by the wrytings and Registers of other Abbeyes it appeareth that Gvvirik had a Sonne called Hubberd which was Lord of Colignie and Andelot who had issue Amedey the father of Steuen who had issue Iohn and he another Steuen and he another Iohn of whome came Iames and of him VVilliam which obteyned the Baronie comonly called Mount S. Iohnes in Burgundie and was Lord of the towne and castle of Shatilion in Fraunce which towne standeth vppon the riuer of Loyng Of this VVilliam descended Iohn and of Iohn Iasper the father of this our Iasper For this pedegre of that noble and renowmed howse conteyninge welneare fiue hundred yeeres is kept safe in Registers and in the wrytings of the same familie Iasper the father of this our Iasper florished vnder Kinge Frauncis the first and had to wife Loys Memorancie the sister of Annas Memorancie high Cunstable of Fraunce and because he had a howse in the Castle that standeth by the Towne of Shatilion he was called the Lord Shatilion by meanes whereof the same syrname is conueyed to his children and posteritie Of this mans prowesse Martine Bellay a valiant gentlemā which wrate the french stories of his time giueth a notable testimonie For in the second booke of his cōmentaries he writeth in maner to this effect In the yeere of our Lorde 1522 the Admirall Bonniuet had taken Fontarabbie in the Marches of Spayne But assoone as he was returned into Fraūce had brought home his power with him the Spanyardes fell too beseeging of the Towne with a great armie By which seege when the Townsmen were brought too extreme penurie of all things for it had continewed about twelue moonethes and it is certein that a great nomber perished through famin for want of foode so that the matter stoode in greate extremitie the King hauing intelligence therof commaunded the Marshall Shatilion too leuye an armie in all haste and too go too the reskew of them that were beseeged The Shatilion hauing mustered his armye sped him thitherward in all haste Howbeeit when he came neere Bayon he was taken with a sore siknesse wherof he dyed too the greate losse of the Realme of Fraunce For he was a mā of great experience in Martiall affaires and caryed greate countenance of authoritie with him Thus much sayeth Bellay This Iasper died in a towne commonly called Ax the sixth of August in the yeere 1522. leauing behynd him three sonnes Odet Iasper and Frauncis As touching Loyse his wyfe this is woorthie of rememberance that hauing led a holie lyfe insomuch as shee was counted an example of womanhod and was Ladie of Honour as they terme it too Queene Helenor wyfe of King Frauncis the first at her death shee gaue this record of the trew and pure religion which shee had imbraced For wheras shee had this saying of Dauids Psalme alwayes in her mouth And his mercie indureth from generation too generation towards them that feare him shee warned hir eldest sonne Odet Shatilion which was then alredye made a Cardinall and vtterly forbade him too suffer anie sacrifyzer or massepreest too come in her presence telling him that it was reueled vntoo hir by Gods singular benefyte bothe how shee should woorship him after a godly maner and also how shee should depart out of the prizon of this bodie vntoo the heauenly countrie Shee deceassed at Paris the yeere of our Lord .1547 in the house which is now called Memorancie house Odet the eldest of hir sonnes was in the .xvj. yeere of his age created Cardinall as is sayd

afore by Pope Clement the seuenth who thought the noblenesse of that howse fit for the stablishment of his owne estate in Fraunce and rewarded with very great and riche benefices by the king By meanes wherof the second sonne whose name was Iasper as I said afore obteined the prerogatiue that was dew too the eldest sonne This Iasper was borne the yeere of our Lord 1517. the .xvj. day of Februarie whom for the woonderfull towardnesse of vertew and witte which he shewed being yet a chyld his moother after the decease of his father cawsed too bee brought vp in lerning from his tender yeeres putting him too schoole to Master Nicolas Berald who bare the cheef fame for lerning in those dayes through all Fraunce cawsing him moreouer too bee trayned vp in feates of armes by the skllfullest teachers and maysters of Chiualrie that shee could get Iasper being trayned vp in such instructions when he came to the .xxiiii. yeere of his age shewed woonderfull forewardnesse in the seege of Bains beseeged by King Frauncissis eldest sonne comonly called the Dolphin Bellay in the tenth booke of his Historie reporteth that about the yeere of our Lord 1543 he was striken in the throte by his enemies with a pellet of lead as he aduentured too neere the diche The same yeere when woord was browght too the King that the state of his affaires in Piemoūt was such as it was lyke that they should come too a pitched feeld with their enemies he craued leaue of him and ryding thither in poste gaue greate proofe of his prowesse in that battell which is comonly called the battell of Cerisoles as the same Bellay recordeth in the sayd tenth booke of his commentaries By reason wherof within feawe yeeres after Henrye the sonne of King Frauncis did put him in cheef authoritie For whē Annas Memorancie the Uncle of Iasper was General of the men of armes he gaue this man the charge of the Frenche footemen which office is in the comon language called the Colonell of the footemen He behaued himself in such wyze in that roome as he purchaced himself great commendacion for his Iustice Ualeantnesse and wisdome within feawe moonethes after and got the good willes of all the people of Fraunce For wheras erst it was growen intoo a moste wicked custome that the souldyers myght ronne gadding euery where vnder their antsignes and make hauocke and spoyle of all things Iasper tyed them too streyter orders of warlyke disciplyne therby too restreyne their ouer-licentiowse dealings and specially too represse the libertie of their cursed swearing and blasphemie wherthrough the seede of trew godlinesse and religion appeered alreedie in his hart And forasmuch as those lawes or orders were verye wel lyked of all good men shortly after they were proclaymed by the Kings commaundement and in his name and inrolled in the booke of the Kings lawes About the same time the same King aduaunced him too the honour which is now vtterly imbaced but at that tyme was counted a roome of greate estimation namely too bee one of the Knyghtes of the order At the same season there fell a grudge betweene Henrye King of Fraunce and Henrye King of England for the Towne of Bullen Therfore when the King of Fraunce distrusted the Inglishmen he betoke the ordering of that Countrie and almoste of the whole matter to the Shatilion Uppon the receyt of which commission he went immediatly intoo Picardie whither King Henrye had sent his hoste too beseege the Towne and by singular pollicie bwilded a forte neere the Towne which myght bee bothe a defence too the Frenchmen and a greate let too keepe the townesmen from issewing owt That forte is yet still called the Shatilion of the bwilders name and it was a greate furtherance too the winning of the Towne Therfore it was not long after ere the Inglishmen began too treate of composition the commission of the making wherof was committed wholly to the Shatilion and too his vncle Mounsyre de Rochepote When he had dispatched these matters he returned too the Court and within feawe yeeres after was made Lord Admirall of Fraunce which is counted the cheefest dignitie within the Realme bycause he hathe the cheef rule of the Sea that beateth vppon Fraunce and the charge of the Kings Nauie and of all his seamen and seamatters Also the King made him his Lieuetennant of two shyres that is too wit of Picardie and of the I le of Fraunce inhonoring him furthermore with the Capteinship of the men of armes and making him one of the Lordes of his priuie counsell The next yeere following which was the .1554 the Emperor of Germanie Charles the fifth Marie Queene of England ioyning their forces togither made sore and sharp warre vppon Henrye King of Fraunce The Shatilion was chozen by the consent of all good men as the onely man that was able to resiste so greate enemyes by his prowesse and pollicie Therefore the ordering of that moste sharp and terrible warre which concerned Picardie moste of all was committed by the Kinge to the Admirall that he shoulde rayze a power and gouerne the marches of the Lovvecountrie Through the līking together of the forces of so mightie enemies and the opinion that was had of the Emperour Charles who was renowmed ouer all the world the whole realme of Fraunce was striken in greate feare bycause the King was vtterly vnprouided both of money and of other things needeful for the mayntenāce of warre and no man dowted but that Fraunce was likely to goe presently to wrecke consideringe the greate distresse of all thinges Whereof when the Admirall had both aduertised the King and communicated it to his freendes he thought it best to salue the matter with somme truce The King and his Counsell lyking well of this his deuyse committed the handling of the matter to him and he within fewe dayes brought it to passe to the incredible ioye and gladnesse of all the Realme and to his owne singular prayse for preseruing of his countrey bicause the condicions of the truce were both honorable and very profitable to the Realme About the same time the Guyses of the howse of Lorrein which made their vaunt that the kingedome of Sicilie and Naples belonged to them of right and that it was wrongefully wrested from them by the Spaniardes made the King beleue that nowe of late yeares they had wonne the heartes of the moste part of the nobilitie of Naples partly by liberalitie partly by fayre promises and that by their meanes the King should haue easy enterance into the Realme so that if he would graunt them a part of his power it would come to passe that those kingdomes shoulde in short time be brought vnder his Dominion without any greate truble Thus through counsell of the Guyses the truce that was sworne a fewe monethes before was broken to the greate dishonour of the frenche nacion which falsehod the Admirall tooke greeuously and sore to harte oftentimes protestinge that

like as the nature of mans witte is too seeke some locall and bownded presence of the Godhead too be worshipped in some certeine places after which sort God exhibited his presence in old tyme in the arke of the couenant so the Admirall required a certeine mingled presence of Christs body flesh blud and bone in the breade and the wyne At length when he had bin at a Sermon that was made priuily to a fewe in the towne of Vateuille at the end wherof the Lords supper was to be ministred he besought such as were present that they woulde not be offended at his infirmitie but pray to God for him and therwith all he requested the preacher to treate a litle playnlier of the misterie of the supper Then the preacher spake to this effect namely that of the Lords supper there were two parts the one humane and naturall which is seene with the eyes of the bodye and the other diuine and heauenly which is seene with the eies of the minde and that the first consisted of the minister or giuer and of breade and wyne furthermore of the eating drinking of them whereof the whole action was performed after an humane and naturall maner and this other consisted of God the giuer of it of the whole frute of the crucified requickened and glorified body of Christ which frute God gaue in the supper moreouer of the faith beleef wherby the sayd frute was receyued of Christians the whole action wherof was misticall performed after a diuine heauenly supernaturall meane And furthermore that forasmuch as the same action was ordeyned not for the bread wynes sake but for the Christian mannes sake was to be referred too that end it was in vaine to be ouercurious in seeking whether any thing be mixed in the bread with the bread vnder the bread within the bread or about the bread The bread and wine belonged to the outward dooing like as water and the dipping in it do in Baptim Therfore the mindes of men ought too be lifted vp too the heauenly and inward action to consider what God woorketh in that Sacrament which thing Paule sheweth in these woords Is not the bread which we breake the parttaking of Christs body they must cry out with him It is a secret misterie importing the coniunction of Christ and his Churche And finally it is very trewly sayd of Austin that to eate the meate which perisheth not but abideth vnto euerlasting life is too beleue in Christ. Why preparest thou teeth belly beleeue and thou hast eaten And agein prepare not thy iawes but thy hart That is it wherewith that supper is to be eaten Behold wee beleeue in Christ whom wee receyue by fayth By which woords the Admirall being taught gaue thanks first to God and secondly to the congregation determining with him selfe too be present at the communion as soone as it should be ministred agein and too be made parttaker of that most holy misterie Whereof when the fame was blowen abrode ouer all Fraunce it is wonderful to say how greate ioy and comfort all the congregations conceyued For although that vntoo that tyme the followers of the reformed religion were afflicted with most rigorous edicts of the Kings and with continuall persecutions and punishments of the iudges and Iusticers of the Realme so as they were fayne too keepe priuy assemblies after the maner of the primitiue Churches yit was religion maruelously spred abrode throughout all the Shyres of Fraunce whereof a man may see many records in the Edicts or Proclamations of King Henry of King Frauncis the second who make complaint in them that the more labour they tooke after the example of Frauncis the first in repressing the religion the more it krepeth foreward from day to day sheading it selfe into all parts of the Realme and growing still stronger and stronger Ere it was long after there roze a commotion at Amboys many noblemen conspyred the destruction of the howse of Gvvyse whose ouerlustines lordlines a nomber of the french nobilitie Lords could no longer away with now when as the Prince of Condey seemed to aly that waye and there was so me likely hode that his brother the Kinge of Nauarre woulde make some stirre ere long after the howse of Guyse thought it most expedient that the King shoulde call an assembly of the noble men at the towne of Fountaynbleavve to knowe how euery man was minded concerning religion When the day of that meeting came which was the xxiiii of August 1560. and that the King desired such as sate in counsell with him to say their iudgements the Admirall rysing out of his place and comminge honorably vnto the Kinge did put vp two supplications intitled after this manner The supplication of such as vvorship God rightly godlily throughout diuers prouinces of this Realme Both the bookes were deliuered too Mounsyre de l'Avvbespyne the Kings Secretarie to reade them alowd as they were written This deede of the Admirals for the straungenesse of the matter and in respect of the former tymes that he had past and of the Kings mind which was most extremly bent against religion and of the great authoritie of the house of Guyse seemed somewhat with the boldest both to the King and too the whole counsell The effect of the bookes was this That the godly and right worshippers of God taking the opportunitie of that tyme besought the Kinges maiestie most humbly to extend his clemencie and gentlenesse towards the greatest nomber of his subiects who hauing thitherto bin combred with many distresses had abidden many miseries bitter brunts for religions sake beseeching him most humbly too vowtsafe too take intelligence of their cace and too admit the holie scripture too the iudgment of so greate controuersies for therby he should eazely perceiue how greatly they abhorred not only heresie of which cryme they had bin accuzed of late yeeres but also sedition forasmuch as in the vttermost extremitie of all their mizeries they mynded not too resort too violence and force of armes but too the only clemencie and goodnesse of the king Wherfore it myght pleaze his maiestie too inhibit the iudgments that were woont too bee executed vppon them wherthrough no part of his Realme had escaped theis former yeeres vnimbrewed with the blud of his subiects by reason wherof their state had thithertoo bin miserable forasmuch as they were driuen too pleade their cace before such iudges as being the Bishop of Romes benefyzed and feede men did rather beare the persones of aduersaries than of vpryght iudges or indifferent vmpers and therfore they prayed him too haue an eye to the greate number of the calamities of his freendes and leege people which had alwaies acknowledged him for their King and moste mercifull Lord and earnestly and godlily honored him according too Gods commaundement and would not refuze too spend their lyues herafter for the mayntenance of his estate if

neede should requyre in respect wherof it was good ryght that seing God had cōmitted them too his charge and trust he should defend them from the ouermyghtinesse crueltie of their aduersaries And their humble petition was that thensforth they myght with his good fauour openly woorship God in publicke places be instructed in the knowledge of trew godlinesse by their preachers and inioy the Sacraments that God hath ordeyned leaste for wāt of being knowen their religion myght any lōger lye opē too the malicious speeches of their aduersaries bycawse of their secret meetings Uppon the reading of theis bookes euerye man vttered his opinion howbeeit their talk was not so much of Religion as of the greate dette wherwith they complained that the king was in maner oppressed and ouerwhelmed But the Admirall spake manie things verye boldly specially concerning the men of warre which the howse of Gvvyse had gathered toogither in the hart of the realme vnder colour of garding the kings persone as thowgh the King were in a straunge countrie and not in his owne dominion and therfore needed so great a garde for the safety of his persone Saying that the name of king was of so great preeminence in Fraunce that any herault comming with commission in the kings name was able too appeaze anie vprore without further trubble It is certeine that this speeche of the Admirals sank verie deepe intoo the stomacks of the Gvvisians that it kindled their hatred ageinst him the more vehemently Dyuers other were of opinion that it were moste conuenient too summon a generall assembly of the whole Realme which they comonly terme the assembly of the States and it was shewed specially by Marilliak archbishop of Vien by Michaell de l'Hospitall Lord Chauncelour of Fraunce whose authoritie bare greatest sway at that tyme that the same had bin the most auncient and cōtinewall custome of the Frenchmen and yitnotwithstāding had bin omitted by the space of .87 yeeres through the slaunders of certein flatterers About the same tyme dyed king Frauncis the second and his yoonger brother Charles the nyneth being abowt ten yeeres old succeeded him byandby the old petition of Summoning a generall Councel was renewed Untoo that tyme Katherine Medicee the kings moother a Florentine borne had liued in such state as Queenes are woont to doo in their widowhoods that is too wit as a commaūder of hir owne women a keeper of the persone of hir sonne but in no wyze admitted too haue too doo with matters of the state and at that poynt was shee hild most streytly by the Gwisians as long as they bare cheefe sway Now forasmuch as at this tyme it seemed that the nobilitie of Fraunce woold not any longer indure the burnings tormentings and other punishments that were woont too bee executed vppon the protestants and therfore it was too bee dowted least some new commotions woold ryze therof bycause the Queene moother pretēded a mynd not ildispozed towards religiō The Admirall labored by all meanes possible at lēgth brought it to passe that she was matched as a companion partaker of that great charge of gouernment with Antonie King of Nauarre too whom the Protectorship of the Realme was committed Which deuyce of his there were many men that loued well their countrie which mislyked shewing by the hystories of all ages that the gouernment of the Realme was neuer yit committed to Queene Mothers specially if they were straungers borne but it was too the vndooing and destruction of the commonweale of Fraunce and a cause of ciuill discord When the day of the Generall Counsell came he that spake in the name of the Nobilitie did in the end of his Oration offer vp a booke of supplication too the Kings maiestie requesting that the pure religion which they terme comonly the reformed Re ligion myght lawfully bee haunted and exercyzed openly in publicke places Her against stoode vp an aduersarie called Quintin a Doctor of the Canon law and a professor of it in Paris who not making but rehercing in wryting a verie long oration in the name of the Clergie not without prōpting of somme preests that stoode redie at his elbowe too whisper him in the eare when he was at anie stoppe was so bold as too say that all such as demaunded publicke places too exercyze religion in were woorthie too bee punished as traytors and fauorers of newfownd religion Wherof when the Admirall had complayned too the kings Counsell Quintin being afrayd confessed that he had not spoken any thing of his owne head at that tyme but only reherced the booke as it was deliuered him in wryting by the Clergimen offering himself redie too protest and avow in the same open assembly before the Kings Maiestie that he ment not any thing at all of the Admirall which thing was doone within a feawe dayes after and so the Admiralles demaund was satisfyed At the last all Magistrates of Fraunce and all that had commission too execute Iustice were commaunded by the kings authoritie that they should out of hand dismisse all such as were held in ward or prizon for religions sake and they were streytly forbidden too molest any man herafter for religion As towching the publicke places where it should bee lawfull for them too haue Sermons the determination therof was put ouer too another Generall Counsell which was appoynted too bee at Ponthoyse a towne of Picardie but not performed The moneth of Ianuarie next insewing a meeting of all the Princes and noble men of Fraunce was summoned too bee at S. Germans and there by the aduyce of certeine counsellers of euery Parlament an Edict was made by the kings authoritie proclaymed throwghowt all Fraunce that it should bee lawfull too exercyze the religion in the Suburbes of all Townes When this Edict was published and the realme seemed too bee setled in quietnesse and the comon weale too haue taken somme breth ageine so as Sermons began too bee preached peaceably and quietly in the suburbes almoste of all great townes yea and euen of Paris it self newes was browght that the Duke of Gvvyse who had at that tyme withdrawen himself intoo Shampayne had made a slawghter about .200 men at Vassey as they were at a Sermon vpon trust of the authoritie of the kings Edict and were singing of Hymnes after the end of comon prayer in a certein berne The Duke of Gvvyse is reported too haue executed this butcherly crueltie vppon presumption of the new frendship of the king of Nauarre whose weake mynd he had drawen vntoo him by warranting him the kingdome of Sardinia and bownd him vntoo him by manie other promises Therfore presuming vppon that trust within feawe dayes after he came too the Court accompanied with his brothers and with a greate trayne of armed men and there tooke the yoong king and his moother who seemed too shunne that violence with greate lamentation and weeping whom he conueyed first too Melune and anon after too Paris

Queene moothers sisters sonne who had the charge of them The Admirall hoping that vppon the matching of so great forces togither the King considering the state of things would incline his mind to sum indifferency sent bookes of supplication vnto him for the Duke of Aniow would giue him no leaue to send any messēger wherin he praied and besought him in the name of the whole army that he would not harden his hart any longer but haue compassion of his afflicted and miserable subiects and consider with how great hinderance to the Realme the twentie thowsand forreiners or thereabowts which were come to the succor of both parts should raūge vp down through the realm of Fraunce if the warre were prolonged any longe tyme For the matter was nowe proceeded so farre forth as the ciuill warres were not likely to come to end by reconcylement of mennes mynds or throwgh the loue and compassion of their countrie but by the wasting of the Realme therfore it was expedient for him too spare his subiects that had indured so many discommodities so long continewing already not too trust ouermuch too the Cardinalls and Italians which bare to much sway in his court for straungers would neuer rew the miseries of frenchmen as frenchmen would The tyme was now most conuenient too treate of peace while eyther part stood vppon the trust of their owne strength And the condicion of peace was very eazie inasmuchas the whole number that were in armes with him desired nothing but fre liberty to exercize their religiō which had bin graūted them so often both by authoritie of publike counsell and also by the Kings Edicts Extreme was the madnes of the Italians and of a few others that were neerest abowt the King to warrant him that two hundred thowsand men of the reformed religion might be dispatched and rid out of the way with so small a do as they made of it wherof the successe of the former tymes might be a sufficient proof When the Duke of Aniow had taken the foresayd foyle then by the aduyce of his freends he dismissed a greate part of his armie and specially of his horsmen for the space of a mooneth or two commaunding them to returne home to refresh themselues And then VVoolrade Erle of Mansfeeld late leeuetennant to VVoolfgang was set vp in his place with the full consent of all men When things were thus set at a stay the Admirall called a counsell wherin all men thowght it good that forasmuch as all the Cities and Countries from the Hauen of Rochell and on all the Sea-coast were in possession of the Protestantes those quarters should be fortified and the winning of the Towne of Poytiers bee attempted that it myght bee as bulwarke too defend and mainteine that whole Countrie This deuyce seemed too bee greatly furthered by the yeelding vp of the Castle of Lusignian which is the strongest hold in all Fraunce and yit notwithstanding was yeelded vppe within a feawe dayes beseeging and so was newes browght abowt the same tyme that the towne of Chastelleraut had done the lyke Anon after that the seege was planted before Poytiers and all things put in redinesse for the assaulting of the towne the Admirall being ouertyred with watching and trauell was taken with the bluddy Flix wherwith he was so pulled downe for thirtie dayes todgither that he could not bee present at their dooings nor giue them counsell howe too deale By meanes wherof the Townesmen being refreshed bothe with vittelles and with newe and fresh succours that were dayly sent in and hartened with daily salyes and moreouer incoraged by letters and messages from the king bare owt the seege stowtly But all men are certeinly perswaded that had not the Admirals siknesse hindered the matter Poytiers had comme vnder his subiection Abowt the same season one Dominik Albio a Gascon borne and one of the Admirals howsehold seruaunts which being taken by the Kings side had taried certeine monethes in their Camp and custodie returned now home too his Master and resorting boldly agein too his house began too bee had in suspicion at manie mennes hands for his fond talk for the vnconstancie of certeine speeches that he cast forth bicause he commonly agreed not with himself By occasion wherof being apprehended examined he brought forth a box of poyson which he confessed too haue bin deliuered him by one Riuers the Captein of the Duke of Aniowes gard and by a certein other person which was the same Dukes secretarie that he was promized .2000 French crownes to kill his master the Admirall therwith Upon the knowledge wherof he was condemned too death wheras most men deemed him woorthie of greeuouser punishment yit was he but hanged with a rope notwithstanding that his maister sewed for his pardon Before the Admirall was throughly rid of his disease when word was brought him that the towne of Chastelleraut which was a .7 miles of from the Camp was beseeged of his enemyes he led his power thither beeing caryed himself in a horselitter and easely entering the Towne with his sowldyers did putte his enemyes too flyght sleaing a greate number of them and specially of the Italians and he ceassed not too pursew his enemyes as they fled till they were past the Riuer which for the deepenesse therof is in the vulgar tung called the Crewse In the meane whyle the yoong Duke of Gwyse which had bin Capteine of Poytiers issewing owt of the towne with a greate companie by nyght did send in other new and fresh fellowes in their sted And ere long after the Duke of Aniow hauing repayred a greate armye not only of Frenchmen but also of Almanes and Swissers came too Chinon The armie of the Protestantes began too bee weerye of the long seege of Poytiers for want of vittelles and wyne and throwgh fowle and stormie wether matched with siknesse which had greatly anoyed the footemen specially of the Germanes By reason wherof manie of the Santones had conueyed themselues home too refresh their bodies diuers had slunk away intoo the innermore part of Fraunce to Sharitie and Sancerre which were in possession of the Protestants Which whē the Admirall vnderstood he thought it good not to be ouerhastie and therfore restreined the whote corage of his sowldyers from battell Whervppon bothe the sowldyers the petie capteines did cast forth threatning speeches saying that they woold returne home and shift for thēselues for it woold be more for their ease to make warre at home in their owne coūtryes where they might help themselues with their owne houshold store than in straūge places specially seing they had the possessiō of certein townes in Aquitane Delphynoys by the riuer of Loyre wherinto they myght resort and wherowt of they myght make inuasions and easly waste the feelds of their enemyes Not vnlike theis were the speeches of the Almane sowldyers who hauing forborne their wages now certein moonethes kryed owt that the