other Councellors hauing assisted at the iudgement of the said Nullities three Councellors of the Parlament of Dijon named by the said decree aud three others of the sayde Court of Dijon which had assisted at the iudgement giuen against the parties accused and by sixe Masters of Requests The Processe beeing in question TABOVE fearing that which after happened to fortifie his accusation or rather to hinder the decision frames newe crimes whereof no mention had beene made in the former Processe whervnto the parties accused oppose Wherevpon the King by his Letters Pattents of the 15. of September the same yeare made a declaration that sending them to the Parliament of Paris his meaning was not that the Court should take knowledge of any other cause or crimes then those for the which the parties had been condemned in the Court of Parlament at Dijon and whereof they had complayned vnto the King the Kings Atturney generall excepted who vpon view of the sayd Processe finding the accused to bee guilty of other crimes might make pursute against them at his pleasure Moreouer they were charged by the said Letters to do right vpon the repetition of money adiudged to the said TABOVE for the pursute of the Processe The said letters were allowed and regestred the 18. of September The Parties accused are againe examined and heard by the Court vpon the crimes wherewith they were charged TABOVE is allowed to make newe productions and the accused to contradict them In the ende this cause being examined in so goodly an Assembly a definite sentence was giuen in these termes that follow The Court doing right to all and without respect to the quality of the Atturney general in the court of Chambery taken by the said TABOVE in the sayd Processe but so farre as it doth touch the corruptions and falseties pretended by TABOVE against the sayd PELISSON BOISSONNE and ROZET had absolued and did absolue the sayd PELISSON BOISSONNE and ROZET respectiuely of the sayd pretended false-hoods and did condemne the sayd TABOVE for that respect in the charges of the same sute and in domages and interest of the sayd PELISSON BOISSONNE and ROZET which domages and Interests the Court for some causes them mouing hauing taxed and moderated that is to say to the sayd PELISSON two hundred pounds to BOISSONNE foure score pounds and to ROZET the like some of 80. pounds and that besids all other expences domages and Interestes which were adiudged vnto them by a sentence of the 16. of May 1555. for the paiement of which domages and interestes the said TABOVE should remaine in prison And as for all other accusations and crimes obiected by the sayd TABOVE against PELISSON BOISSONNET and ROZET the knowledge whereof was referred to the sayd Court both they the parties were discharged by the Court and freed from farther sute without any charges domage or interest of eyther party reseruing notwithstanding power for the Kings Attorney generall to proceed against the sayde decrees of the 11. of May 1539. the 9. of March the 20. of September made in fauour of the sayd Earles of La Chambery and Bishop of Morienne by way of Nullitie and for them to make their defences to the contrary And for reparation of the false and slanderous accusa tion framed by the sayd TABOVE against PELISSON BOISSONNE and ROZET and for other misdâ—…meanors appearing as wel by the ancient as the later productions made in the sayde processe the Court had condemned the sayde TABOVE to doe penance in open Court on a day of pleading the doores being open bare-headed and bare-foote on his knees in his shert and a halter about his neck holding in his hands a burning Torche of two pound waight and then to say and declare openly with a lowd and intelligeble voyce that falsely maliciously slanderously wrongfully and against the truth hee had charged and accused the saide PELISSON BOISSONNE and ROZET of the sayde pretended falseties crimes and offences for the which he was sorry and desired pardon mercy of GOD the King the Iustice and of the said PELISSON BOISSONNE and ROZET And moreouer the Court did ordaine that the petitions and complaints exhibited vnto the King by the sayd TABOVE together with the suggestions of falshood made by him against the said parties should be defaced and rent in his presence And this done to bee led in the same sort by the Vshers of the Court and set vpon the marble Stone being at the end of the Great Stayres of the Pallace there to do the like penance and so to be carted from the same place vnto the Pillorie at the Halles in the Cittie of Paris and there being set by the Hang-man to bee turned thrice about and then to be carryed backe to the Concergery or prison of the Pallace And moreouer the Court did condemne the said TABOVE to do penance in the open Court of the said Parlament of Chambery whether he should be safely conducted and to pay two hundred pounds for a fine vnto the King and to continue in prison at Chambery vntill the full payment of the fines charges domage and interest adiudged as well to the King as to the said parties after which payment made to bee perpetually confined to the said Country of Sauoy or to any other place within this Realme that should please the King And moreouer the Court did declare his other goods confiscate to whom they did belong the said fines charges domage and interests being first payed and discharged And for certaine causes and considerations then mouing the said Court did ordaine that the saide PELISSON should be sent backe to receiue those admonitions that were appointed to bee giuen him inioyning him to keepe and cause to bee kept the Kings royall ordynances in the said Court of Chambery and not to infringe them vpon paine of an arbitrary punishment Giuen in the Parlament at Paris the eleuenth of October 1556. No Reader of iudgement ought to taxe the Iudges who haue censur'd this cause with so great contrarietie as the like hath not beene heard The Court of Dijon assured themselues in their conceits to doe well without fraud or malice Those of Paris according to their custome shewed their authority which is supreme descouering it may be some thing that was newe and not before knowne It is not for mee beeing a simple Collector and who feares to speake of such assemblies to giue any reasons of the said contrarieties It sufficeth to set downe the fact and to compare the greatnesse of the Parlament of Paris with the rest yet I may not conceale what I heard a Councellour of one of the aboue named Parliaments say that in the question of Iustice of such contrary decrees vpon a crime pleaded before the King who desired to vnderstand the truth those of Dijon had iudged according to their consciences and those of Paris iustly and according vnto Lawe Before I leaue this matter which is so exemplary and of such consequence in
Algadefie was wholie ruined the houses and buildings beeing layd flat with the ground The fiue and twenty of May 1566. about three a clocke in the afternoone a clap fell vpon the Castle of Misnia burnt a floore of a Chamber melted kettles and Pannes spoiling all the Chambers entring and going out at the windowes then downe into the cellars to the great amazement of all but hurt not any person Three yeares after the nineteeneth of Iulie the thunder hauing rored from eight a clocke in the morning till foure in the afternoone the boult about one a clock light vpon the Colledge Church of the Towne-house Much Cattell and some men were found dead in the ficildes amongest other memorable accidents the lightning ceized vpon a Country fellowe who burnt all his Bodie ouer three daies after and then died The Mother of IEROME FRACASTORIVS an excellent Philosopher admirable Poet and happy Physition of our time hauing him in her armes giuing him suck was strooke with a thunder-clap and kild without any touch or hutt to the little Childe which was a presage of the glory that this excellent personage who liued long after and then died of an Apoplexie should bee crowned with Horrible fury IN the memory of our Ancestors a Carpentar of Wilsmarse a famous towne in Saxony some-times possest with a Phrensie traueling one day with some of his owne condition with out saying a worde tooke his hatchet and went towards his house where being entred he cloue in two two of his Children his Wife being great with childe hearing the noise ran to saue the third which hee left falling vpon his Wife and cut her and the fruite she bare in peeces And so being couered with bloud he returned to his companions being askt how he came so he came to his senses And then remembring what he had done he went againe to his house snatcht a knife and gaue himselfe a blow on the brest and fell downe dead vpon the ground CRANTZIVS in his 10. booke of Vandalia Of Giants IN the yeare 1511. the Emperor Mâ—…XIMILIAN 1. being at Ausâ—…ourg at an Assembly of the States they presented a man vnto him of an vnreasonable height greatnesse who at a fewe month-fulls and without any stay did eate a whole Sheep or a Calfe not caring whether it were rost or raw saying that it did but sharpen his appetite SVRIVS in his Commentary of the memorable things of our time IOACHIM the 2. of that name Elector of Brandebourg had a peasant in his Court called Little MICHEL by ANTIPHRASIS for he was eight foot high which is a great stature of a man in our time but little and small in comparison of great men in old time namely of Goliath and others about Iudea MATHEVV HORST in his collection of the combate betwixt DAVID and GOLIATH I haue seene a young mayden of a Giant-like stature whom they did carry from Towne to Towne to shewe her as a prodigious thing for the sight of whome euery man gaue some thing wherewith her Mother that conducted her and she were entertained She was in a hired Chamber by her selfe and there suffred her selfe to be seene with admiration Going as others did I inquired carefully of euery point and did learne both from herselfe and her Mother who was a woman of a meane stature that the maidens Father was not tall that in all their stocke there was not any one that exceeded the height of other persones that her Daughter vntill shee was twelue yeares olde was very little but falling at the same time into a quarten ague which had held her some monethes comming to leaue her shee beganne then to growe all her members beeing proportionable to that height so as when I did see her shee was about fiue and twenty yeares olde neither could I note from the head vnto the sole of the foote any disproportion in any of her members but a fit measure in euery one of them At this age of 25. yeares shee had not yet had her monethly Termes nature seeming to haue required and restrayned this excrementall bloud for the norrishment and preseruation of so great a body Shee was helth-full ill faced black simple and grosse writted and heauy of all her Body for the vitall vertue infused at the beginning into this body according vnto the measure due to the greatnesse of an ordinary person dispersed afterwards into so great a Masse could not with equall power shew the efficacie of his worke as in a meane bodie and experience doth shewe that vertue restrained shewes it selfe more vigorous then when it is two much dispersed for the regard of naturall causes of this extraordinary greatnesse by the meanes of the quarten ague wee will leaue the decision vnto Physitions and will not dispute with them but in a word if a person that is about the age of twelue or twentie yeares comes to growe through a sicknesse so as in proportion of Bodie shee comes to bee twise as heigh as anie other wee must confesse that this force of nature is extraordinarie and admirable We haue drawne this Historie out of MARCELLVS DONATVS a learned Physition Lib. 3. Chap. 14. Whereas he treats amply of the causes of the Giant-like height as his profession did require After the victorie which King LEVVIS the twelfth obtained at the Battaile of Lode beeing gone to Milan I found a young man in the hospitall so great as hee could not stand right vp hauing not suffycient norrishment of nature for the thicknesse of his Bodie and the proportion of his forces Hee was therefore layd vpon two beddes the one ioyned long waies vnto the other the which hee did fill with his length The Samogitiens which inhabite betwixt Prusia and Liuonia are verie talle and yet some-times they ingender Children which come to age are of a verie small stature and some-times others which growe wonderfull great SCALIGER in the 63. exercitation against CARDAN There was in our time in Bourdelois a man of an vnmeasurable heigth and greatnesse by reason whereof he was called the Giant of Bourdeaux King FRANCIS amazed to see so long a body commanded hee should be one of his Guarde Hee was a peasant of a grose spirit so as not able to applye himselfe to a Courtiers life after some dayes hee gaue ouer his Halbard and returned to his Village An honourable person who had seene him Archer of the Guarde did assure mee that hee was of such a heigth as any other man of an ordinarie stature might goe right vp betwixt his legges when hee did stride I. CHASSAGNON in his Treatise of Giants Chap. 6. In the yeare 1571 there was a Gyant seene at Paris whome euery man did runne to see Hee kept himselfe very close in an Inne and no man could haue the sight of him but in paying to see him Entring into the Chamber where hee was kept they did see with admiration a man of a strange height sitting in a Chaire but their wondring
well in regard of his sinnes as of Gods mercies in the apprehension whereof hee did quietly yeeld vp his soule in a Towne where hee had long continued and remayned Drawn out off my Memorialls IOHN CRAVEQVIN an Aduocate in the Presidiall Court at Bourges a man of a good spirit and a great practitioner but very ignorant of the written Lawe and of all good learning hauing in the yeare 1533. beene imployed in the pursute of some causes to please the appetite of a most wicked man which abused him hee fell sicke of a Melancholike humour and a wonderfull strange Frenzie imagining all that was brought vnto him to bee crawling Serpents so as after they had tryed all remedies in vaine and brought Witches and Sorcerers vnto him in the ende hee became starke madde and dyed in that estate Histories of our Time vnder FRANCIS the 1. An other learned man making profession of the Ciuill Lawe hauing done some acte vnworthy of his learning and iudgement was so possest with a Melancholike humour and with a frenzie that beeing falne sicke with-out any great affliction in his bodye for his nourishment hee did eate his owne excrements and hauing languished in this misery some time hee died without any repentance Histories of our Times A Gentleman very aged and temperate fell into a continuall feuer in the month of Iuly 1574. thē into a frēzy casting himselfe ou◅ of a window of the second Story of his house and fel vpon the necke of Mons. VATERRE ordinary phisition to the Duke of Alen◅on then to the ground where he hurt his ◅ibs made a great con◅usion vpon the bone Ischion Being carried backe vnto his bed he recouered his right wits by a transport of the matter which caused the frenzie Euen so of late a Gascon beesicke of a burning Feauer fell into a frenzie beeing lodged in the street called Pauee at Paris in the night hee cast himselfe out at a windoe into the street and was hurt in many places of his body to whome I was called to dresse him soddenly being laid in his bed he began to talke sensibly and to loose his mad fits so as within a while after he was quite cured Mons. d'Ortoman a Doctor and the Kings professor in the vniuersitie of Mont pellier did assuer me that a Miller remaining of Broquiers in Albigeois grown franticke threw himselfe out at a windo into the water from whence being drawne he presently lost his frenzie Maister AMB. PARE the last Chapter of his introduction to Surgerie ANNE Nurse to PETER Son to Maister FRANCIS BIORD Lieutenaxnt to the Prouost of Air a young woeman of a whot and drie constitution being toucht in the sharpest time of winter with a frenzie on the left side and a sharpe feuer her breath being short hauing stiches in her side and spitting nothing almost but bloud fell into a madnesse the seuenth day where-vpon she riseth out of her bed opens her cofer where by mischance there was summe Mercury and swaloes downe a bout halfe a dramme and then she giues her selfe many wounds with a knife in the belly and the thighes The same day about mid-night she runs all naked vnto a windoe and cast her selfe downe into a Court paued with very hard stone and there remaines with out any feeling with out speech and with out Pulce stiffe with cold for it was in the winter time vntill that the seruants of the house desirous to knowe what she did came vnto her bed where finding her not they cryed out In the end they found her in that miserable estate the carrie her into her chamber and call for me for that I then dwelt neere I ranne thether with her mistresse a vertuous gentlewoman who intreats me to doe what possibly I could Although I had little hope yet more to make a tryall then otherwise I vsed all diligence and applyed diuers remedies so as she came againe to her selfe and by little and little I got heate in her I prouided both outwardly and inwardly for the Sublymate the which had vlcered both her mouth and her throat and to staie a fluxe which this poisone had caused finally at the end of 6. weekes she was wholy cured of al her griefe by the speciall fauour of GOD and was after wardes more helthfull then euer shee had bene before FR. VALLERIOLA in the eight obseruation of the first booke A Romaine woman growne melancolike for that she had bene married against her will to one whom shee loued not and smothering her furie with a sad silence M. ANTHONIE BRASAVOLE a Ferrarois an excellent Phisition of our time tryed to diuert this humor by many remedies which preuailed nothing And therefore he aduised himselfe of a phisicall pollicie whereof he gaue notice vnto the husband who yeelded vnto it her parents and kinsfolks comming to visit her on a festiuall daie BRVSAVOLE enters into the Chamber salutes her louingly as if shee had beene his wife and approcheth to kisse her she being young and strong thrusts him backe hee contynues it with vehemencie and shee pulls of his Cappe and all that BRASAVOLE carried on his head fitting for his age and the fashion of that time and casts it to the ground All the company breaks out into a great Laughter at this spectacle The yong woman thinking that this Phisition being an old man had bene dronke began also to laugh with open throate After which time her melancholy began to leaue her THOMAS ZVINGER in the seuenth volume of his theater li. 2. A man of some worth about forty yeares old haunted with a spirit felt it comming the blood be ginning to boyle in his breast his sight grew dimme and presently a dizines tooke him then would he begine to crie out and to beat and torment himselfe so as they had great trouble to hold him Although they had let him bloud on the right arme and drawne much blood from him yet this frenzie decreased not He repeated many verses by harte song cryed out amaine danced and sought to cast him-selfe downe head long so as they were constrained to tye him fast and to keepe a good gard ouer him Hauing giuen him fit and conuenient phisicke in the ende he recouered his health But after some weekes he fell into the same disease finally for that the thicke fumes of blood did not ascend any more in quantitie to the head the frenzie ceased but he fell to spitt blood with a vehement ◅oughe and then to spit out his lungs so as his first disease ended with a consumption whereof he died M. RREM◅ERT DO◅ONEVS in his Phisicall obseruations obser 10. I was called to visit a young man a Iewe called RAPHAEL about the euening He was couered with swellings or kinds of Anthracs in diuers parts of his bodie amonge others he had a great one in his necke the which grew presently little againe and then RAPHAEL begane to laugh and would open a veyne to them of the Company with
touch it with my finger After shee had vomited so much water she began to cast forth lumps of haire at her mouth some as long as a mans finger some more some lesse such as wee see fall from olde Dogges in great quantitie for certaine daies enough to haue stust whole dozens of Tennice Balles She cast them vp with great heauing at the heart and much paine falling one night into wonderful transies Hauing found her in a manner like vnto one that was readie to giue vp the Ghost and carefully obseruing all things beeing layd vpon her belly I did see her cast her selfe so so dainlayd from one side vnto the other as if she had not beene presently stai'd she had beat her head against the wall oragainst the bed post She held her hands so strongly together as it was impossible to open them Sometimes she beat her breast so violently as she was like to kill her selfe This fit continued from seuen of the clock at night vntill nine and then shee knew not any one Oftentimes as in the suffocation of the Matrix she grewe wonderfully red and seemed very weary and toyled with some beginning of a Feauer Once or twise she fomed about the mouth And an other time beeing in the extremity of her fit shee fell sodainly into a great laughter and then presently wept bitterly Being come vnto her selfe and falling presently into a long extasie she began in an instant to speake as if she had addressed her selfe vnto GOD holding her hands vp to Heaueh shee spake these words in effect O great GOD seeing thy beauty is so great and incredible how long shal we remaine here when wilt thou take mee out of this World that I may inioye thee hauing said thus as it were awaking and looking on them that were about her she said Which of you hath done mee this wrong to call mee backe into this valley of misery and into the prison of darkenesse when as I did rest so sweetly and did sport my selfe in the goodliest Gardens that could be immagined I do not thinke that a simple and ignorant Maide as this was could vtter such words but in extasie In the meane time she cast vp great lumpes of hayre mixt with much white matter and very thicke and somtimes like vnto the dung of Pigions or Geese In this abundance of filth appeared little peeces of wood and shreds of Parchment A little after she had an other vomiting of a matter as black as coles you would haue said properly it had beene Inke or rather coles beaten to pouder and mixt with water the which continued a good while two or three pounds euery day sometimes with such store of white haire long hard as it would haue made a good Ball. After two dayes she did vomit about two pounds of pure bloud as if a veyne had bene opened This monstrous casting continued a whole weeke comming still at a certaine houre and then the fits of the Epilepsie wherewith she was dayly tormented ceased the which notwithstanding continued sometime once in three dayes and in the end euery seuenth day In the meane time she did still cast haire but not so aboundantlie as before but blacker and shorter as if they had beene cut small and with it a slimie humour like vnto thick matter About the middest of September she did vomit great peeces of parchment halfe a spanne long like vnto the thicke and fleshie skinne of a mans body Afterwards she cast vp others that were thinner but all black In the end shee did vomit some that were very thinne but strong amongst the which there were three a foote long made in fashion of lozenges with strange markes and figures After these skinnes followed an infinite number of stones which shee did cast vp at a certaine houre euery night with great noise and sounding such as is heard in walles that are pulled downe some were thick others pointed vnequall in forme and of a darke coullour they were all small and yet such as they did still feare the maide would haue beene strangled some were couered with Chalke and cymented together in such sort as they might be sayd to haue beene pulled out of a wall Once in my presence she did vomit a pointed stone as big as two Chest-nuts This stone remained aboue a quarrer of an houre in her throate during the which she had no pulce nor respiration so as laying a light feather vpon her mouth it did not moue her hands and feete grew colde and her body stiffe as if it had beene an Image Thinking that she had finished her course and that paine had ended all her miseries I went out of the chamber saying that she was dead when as the Mother called me sodenly back againe saying that her daughter did stirre and opened her eyes As soone as I was returned she did cast vp this stone with great violence I did see it come forth and heard the noise thereof falling into a bason the which did amaze both my selfe and all that were in the Chamber At the same instant she did spit out a peece of wood as bigge as ones thombe but with lesse difficultie then the stone and withall some black haires but few There followed after an other accident almost incredible where-with the maide had almost beene choakt for shee did vomit vp a bone of a Triangle forme sollide without and hollow and spungious within The next day shee cast vp little boanes of diuers formes and proportions Amongst all these were seene stones and haire and then peeces of Glasse and Copper CORNELIVS GEMMA sets downe the remedies which he did apply and maintaines that part of her infirmitie grew by naturall causes and part by the Impostures and illusions of the Diuill who was a chiefe Agent in these accidents which wee haue reported This Historie is written by MARCELLVS DONATVS in his second Booke of his Admirable Histories of Phisicke the first Chapter A false accusation seuerely punished MAister IVLIAN TABOVE the Kings Atturney generall in the Parliament of Chambery being incensed for some admonitions that were made vnto him by the Court goes into the Countrie and ingageth his honor by an accusation which he framed against Maister RAYMOND PELISON President IOHN BOISONNE Priest LEWIS GAVSLERANT called ROZET GRAFFINS and other councellors of the said Court charging them with many corruptions and false-hoods vnder his hand both before the great Councell and the Parliament of Grenoble vpon thirteene Acts proceeding from the foresaid President PELISSON and the aboue named Councellors The first was a sentence giuen in the sayd Parliament of Chambery for the Count de la Chambre the 11. of May 1539. The second a decree for Maister ANDREVV PILLET the 13. of Iune the same yeare Other two decrees for the Bishop of Morienne the 19. of March and 20. of December in the yeare 1540. The 5. the admonitions dated the 11. 13. and 18. of Ianuary 1541. made and deliuered to the said TABOVE
the 1. of February 1542. The 6. a Commission giuen by the said Court of Chambery to the said BOISSONNE the 6. of February 1542. The 7. the Articles sent to the said BOISSONNE the 25. of February 1542. The eight other admonitions made to the sayd TABOVE and a sentence giuen the 23. of February the same yeare The 9. a sentence pronounced in the sayd Court the 23. of December the same yeare The 10. a Commission giuen to Maister NICHOLAS de la CHESNAY Councellor in the same Court The 11. a Letter deliuered vnto vnto him and written in the name of the sayd Court to the Chancellor of France the 1. of Aprill 1545. The 12. an Answer made by the Iudges of the sayde Parliament of Chambery the 17. of December 1541. to the aduertisments sent vnto the King by the sayde TABOVE termed in the Processe the fiue points The 13. and last a sentence giuen in the sayde Court the 23. of Iune in the yeare 1540. touching a sute betwixt the Kings Atturney generall and the Lord of Eschelle This matter beeing deliuered vnto the King and found hard and of importance for the grauity of the cause and of the persons it was committed to the Parliament of Bourgondy at Dijon where the said President Councellors yeelded themselues prisoners TABOVE beeing their accuser After that their cryminall and extraordinary Processe had beene made many sentences were giuen The first was the second of Maie against GRAFFINS Councellor whome they found to be least charged who notwithstanding was condemned in a fine of three score pounds vnto the King and twentie pounds vnto TABOVE and suspended from his place for a yeare TABOVE pleaded then with great shewe thanking GOD after the manner of MOYSES IOSVA and others for the victory which hee did see comming towards him euen as sayd hee the ancient Fathers had done for the victories which GOD had sent them hee beganne and concluded his oration with a verse of DAVID Hic est dies quem fecit dominus c. But herein the poore man did singe like vnto the swanne The said GRAFFINS yeelded to this sentence and sought no redresse The second sentence was the 28. of Iuly in the said yeare 1552. against the President PELISSON by the which it was sayd that the decrees contained therein and impugned by TABOVE made by the said President were false and falsly framed declaring the said President for euer incapable to hold any royall Office condemning him to aske mercie of GOD the King and of Iustice and to paie a thousand pounds fine to the King and two hundred to TABOVE his goods to bee forfited and to passe the remaynder of his life where it should please the King The solemnity of the pronouncing and execution thereof was that the sayd President hauing one halfe of his bodie be-nummed with the palsey olde and broken with age diseases and cares was brought into the open Court the doores beeing open and the Iudges sitting in the Castell of Dijon where he was prisoner by two Archers in a chaier attired in blake taffata pinckt with a roabe of blacke satten a little night-cappe of silke and his square cappe in his hand At this spectacle and in his presence TABOVE made a speech The sentence was afterwards pronounced the poore old man was constrained with much a doe and through the helpe of his gards that had brought him to kneele downe holding in his hands a burning torch of wax weighing 4. pounds and asked pardon of GOD the King of Iustice and of TABOVE The saied decrees and other peeces that were impugned were torne in his presence which done he intreated the Court that hee might bee freed out of the Castell for the weakenesse and great infirmity of his person Answere was made him that the Court would consider of it The third sentence was the fourth of August against the aboue named BOISSONNE a Preest and Councellor by the which hee was found guiltie of fals-hood and other crimes mentioned in his processe and the decrees declarations and other pe◅ces declared false depriued of his Councellors place and condemned in a hundred pounds fine to the King and fortie pounds to TABOVE and his charges and to remaine a prisoner and for the common offence he was sent vnto his Ordinary The fourth sentence was the same daie against ROZET an other Councellor all one with the former After all this the sayd President BOISSONNE and ROZET Councellors hauing a firme confidence in thēselues that they had not offended notwithstanding these punishments they go vnto the King and shewe him that if the crimes whereof they are condemned bee proued true it were a monstrous thing to see them liue in a common-weale But if through the slander of their accuser they haue beene reduced vnto that extremity there is no reason for the dignity where-with his Maiesty had honored them in the Soueraignty of Sauoie that the cause should be referred to one Parliament aloane consisting of a small number to degrade and depriue them in that sort of their good names fortunes and honours leauing them nothing but their soules which is onely a remainder of greefe and perpetuall sorrowe They beseech him to allowe of a reuision the which is g◅aunted and the cause committed to the Parliament of Paris whereas all being wel viewed and examined it was said and iudged by a sentence of the sixteene of May 155◅ that the former decres of the 28. of Iuly and the fourth of August were voide and that the cryminall processe by the which they had beene giuen should be viewed and Iudged a newe without any respect to bee taken of the said decrees TABOVE condemned in costs domage and interests The Court at Dijon aduertised of this decree at the instance of TABOVE beeing much troubled in the beginning come vnto the King debate the reasons and maintaine their decrees she wing that it would cause impunity of crimes of importance and blemish the prerogatiue of his Parliaments They had good audience with the sayd TABOVE who pretended new matter and concealed nothing which hee thought might auaile him alledging that this accusation framed by him was alwaies with the quality of the Kings Atturney general being so receiued and neuer reproued and therefore hee ought not to bee condemned in costs domages and interests like vnto a priuate party although the accusation were not so well grounded as this was Some of the Court Parliament of Paris which had assisted at the resolution of the said decree of nullity were sent for they come and are heard with them of Dijon All being duly examined it was decreed by the Priuy Councell the 7. day of March 1555. that the sentence giuen the 16. of May vpon the said Nullities should take effect and touching the principall cause the parties should be sent to the Court of Paris to bee iudged in the presence of a President and two Councellors of the Court named in the decree and three
the Mother had also giuen him the like councell to escape but GOD by his power did so staie him as hee had no power to flie Beeing carried to prison and examined at the first hee couered his parricyde accusing his Father that hee had slaine himselfe But his excuses beeing found friuolous hee was condemned to haue his right hand cut off then to bee pinched with hot pincers and in the ende hanged by the feete vpon a gibet and strangled with a stone of sixe score pound which should bee hanged at his necke A wicked counterfet beeing prisoner with him aduised him to appeale vnto Paris But hauing freely confessed the Parricide hee reuoked his appeale and was executed The History of our times Of the Heart of man Diuers Histories thereof in our time HAuing perced an Impostume grown of a long time vpon the seauenth turning ioynt where through the venom of his corruption it had made a great ouerture and gnawne the innermost membrane of the heart those which were present beheld one part of the heart which I did shewe them A. BENIVENIVS in his booke de abditis causis Chap. 42. Two Bretheren gentlemen falling out at tables the one of them gaue the other a wound with his knife iust on the seege of the heart the hurt gentleman bleeding exceedingly was carried and layed on a bed whereas all signes of death appeered Beeing sent for I applied that to the heart which I thought â—…it to strengthen it The patient hauing beene as it were at deathes doore vntil midnight beganne to come to himselfe and hauing vsed all the meanes possible I could deuise for his preseruation at length I sawe him cured whereby I knewe the heart had not beene perished as at the first I doubted but the filme or Capsula thereof called PERICALDION by the Greekes was lightly tainted The same Author Chap. 65. We haue seene ANTHONY ALâ—…IAT hurt and hauing his Pericordian vntoucht True it is that hee did sigh very much and lowd The internall parts beeing hurt bring death foure waies either through necessity of their function and office as the Lunges or by reason of the excellency of their nature as the Hart or through much losse of bloud as the Liuer the great arteries and veines or through the malignity of Symptomes and accidents as the neruie parts the ventricle and bladder Although some parts be incurable yet are they not mortall of absolute necessity otherwise death would ensue vpon the incurable hurts of boanes gristles and lygaments The Pericordion then is not mortall of it selfe but because it is impossible to attaine it without offending many other noble parts CARDAN in his Commentarie on the Aphorismes of Hipocrates booke 6. apb 18. Anatomizing a Scholler of mine dead in the Vniuersitie of Rome I found that this yong man had no Pericardion by meanes whereof in his life-time hee swounded very often and seemed as one dead through which defect at length hee died COLVMBVS booke 15. of his Anatomy A certaine Theefe being taken downe from the gallowes where he had bene hanged and not quite strangled was carefully looked vnto and recouered But like an vngratious wretch as he was returning to his old trade againe hee was apprehended and throughly hanged Wherevpon we would needes Anatomize him and wee found that his heart was all heary Which is likewise reported among the Grecians of Aristomenes of Hermogenes the Rhetorician of Leonydas of Lysander and others namely of a dog that ALEXANDER the great had This haire denotes not onely promptitude of Courage and peruerse obstinacy but many times valour contemning all danger BENIVENIVS in Chap. 83. de Abditis causis Vpon a certaine time making the Anatomy of a man at Ferrara wee found his heart cleane couered ouer with haire and indeede he had beene all his life time a desperate ruffian and a notable theefe AMATVS the Portingale in Centur. 6 Cur. 65. Being at Venice and present at the execution of a very notorious theefe the hangman that quartered his bodie found his heart meruailous hairye M. A. Muret booke 12. of his dyuers readings Chap. 10. I haue seeâ—…e the sepâ—…um that distinguisheth the ventrycles of the heart to be a gristle in some mens Bodies in others the left ventricle wanting or so little as it could hardly bee discerned Columb booke 15. of his Anatomy I found in two mens bodies that I opened a boane in the rootes of the great artery and of the arteryall vaine CORN GEMMA in the 2. booke of his Cyclognomia pag 75. In another I found a little boane betweene the gristly circles of the heart the chiefe artery and arteriall veine like to the boane which is commonly found in the heart of a stagge CORN GEMMA in the 1. booke Chap. 6. of his Cosmocritif Doctor MELANCHTHON in his first booke of the Soule testifies of CASIMIR Marquise of Brandebourg a Prince greatly afflicted in his life time with sundry griefes and consumed with long watchings that beeing opened after his decease the humor enclosed in the fylme of the heart was â—…ound quite dried vp and the heart so scorched that it was like a peare burnt in the fire TH. IORDAN in the 1. booke of signes of the plague Chap. 16. Not long since a Romaine gentleman died after hee had languished along time Being opened no heart appeared neither was there any part of it but the fylme left the vnmeasurable heate of his long sicknesse hauing wholy consumed it BERN. IELASIVS in the 28. Chap. of the 5. booke of the nature of things A young Prince being sickly and very much troubled with a payne at the heart assembled a great many Physitions togither for to consult of his dissease Among others there was a young practitioner who declared how he had read in certaine notes that the vse of garlick euerie morning expells a kinde of worme that feedes vpon the heart But both the remedy and the young man that propounded it were despised Not long after this Prince died and his body was opened by the commandement of his Father for to see the cause of his sicknesse death The dissection made they found a white worme hauing a sharpe bill of horne like a pâ—…llets gnawing the heart The Physitions tooke it aliue and layd it on a table in a circle made of the iuyce of garlick The worme began to writh and wriggle euery way still eschuing the iuyce that compassed it about Finally surmounted by the strength and sauor of the garlick it died within the circle to the astonishment of those that had despised so easie a remedie I. HEBANSTEIF in his treatise of the plague It is not long agoe that in the great Duke of Tuscans Court a certaine Florentine beeing assistant at the merry conceites of a pleasant iester was suddainly seized with vnexpected death whereat the company and his friends being much abashed for their better satisfaction after he was knowne to bee starke dead they had him opened and there was
no cause discerned of such a death but only a liue worme which the A◅atomists found in the capsula or filme of the heart P. SPHARER Physition in his Obseruations A certaine woman hauing voyded for the space of many da◅es together a thick and purulent vrine at length died and beeing opened was found interressed in the heart with certaine impostumes and two stones I. HOVLIER Comment 1. on the 6. booke sect 2. aphoris 4. of HIPPOCRAT and the Comment on the 75. aph of the 4. booke The Emperour MAXIMILIAN the second had three little stones found in his heart of the bignes of a pease but not of equall quantity and weight In his life time hee was very much afflicted with a panting of the heart I. WIER in the 4. booke Chap. 16. of the impostures of euill spirits In the heart of IEROME SCHEIBER that died at Paris in the yeare 1547. was opened in the presence of SYLVIVS HOVLIER FERNEL professors in Physick there was foūd an hard blackish roūd stone as big as a nutmeg and weyghing Certaine drammes to the great wonder of all men AER MVRGEL Physition In diuers mens hearts there are found Cornes or hard things like vnto stoanes of the bignes of a nut in others fat in the ventricles or verie thicke Carnosities sometimes of two pounde weight or other substance like the marrowe of sodden beefe Also tumors impostumes of the bignes of an hens egge which in some haue caused co◅ruption of the membrane of the heart in others wasting of the heart it selfe in others mattory and long congealed vlcers The History of them are described by the Doctors of Physick BENIVENIVS IACOT VESALIVS ERASTVS COLVMBVS FERNELIVS HOVLIER IOVBERT and others in their obseruations Commentaries and disputations Which it shall suffise to haue touched in a worde Touching the hurts of the heart FERNELIVS in the fi◅t booke of his Panthologia Chap. 12. holds that if they bee not deepe and penetrated farre into the ventricles of the heart the person hurt dies not presently To which effect IOHN SCHENCK of Grafenberg Doctor of Phisick at Fribourg recounts in the 2. booke of his Physickall Obseruations Obserue 209. that hee had heard a learned Physition tell how a certaine scholler studying at Ingolstad beaing stabbed with a poygnard into the heart the two ventricles wherof were found pearced through and through ranne a good way bleeding and liued a full houre after speaking and cōmending himselfe to GOD. I protest I haue seene a gentleman at Thurin which fought with another that gaue him a thrust vnder the left pappe penetrating euen into the substance of the heart and yet for all that he struck diuers blowes at his enemy that ranne away from him pursuing him the length of two hundred pace and then fell downe dead to the ground After which I opened him and found a wound in the very substance of the heart so bigge that one might haue laid his finger in it and a great quantity of bloud falne vpon the Diaphragma AMER PARE in the 9. Booke Chap. 32. Of Comets IN this Section I will briefly represent the Comets seene in Europe for these hundred yeares or thereabouts adding that which GARCEVS in his Meteorologie LICHOSTENES and others haue obserued vpon this point In the yeare 1500. in the moneth of Aprill a Comet appeared in the North vnder the signe of Capricorne The same yeare Prince CHARLES was borne afterwards Emperor the 5. of that name and SOLYMAN Sultan of the Turkes Soone after folowed the spoile which the Tartares made in Polonia the famine in Swabe a plague throughout all Germanie the taking of Naples by the French A rising of the peasants in the Bishop rike of Spire against the Bishop and the Canons the taking of Modon and some other places in Morea by the Turkes ISMAEL Sophie expelled out of the kingdome of Persia by the Turkes whereof they ceazed The second yeare after the plague made a horrible spoile almost throughout all the whole world the which had for fore-runners figures of crosses falling out of the ayre vpon mens clothes A warre followed in Bauaria two yeares after this plague after the which many great men both spirituall temporal died The Emperor MAXIMILIAN the 1. vanquished the Guelders and then the Hongariens whom he reduced vnder his obedience In the yeare 1506. a Comet appeared in August towards the North couering the signes of Leo and Virgo hauing neere vnto the Chariot a thick and shining taile stretched out betwixt the wheeles of this Chariot for which cause some Astronomers called it the Peacocks taile In September after died PHILIP the 1. king of Spaine father to CHARLES and FERDINAND Emperors The same yeare the Turkes were defeated in battaile by the Persians and on the other side they tooke Modon in Morea from the Christians and defeated their fleete Then followed a ciuill warre betwixt BAIAZET and his sonne SELIM and FRANCIS SPORCE Duke of Milan was taken in Italy by the French As for that which happened in the following yeares the History of our time doth shew it as well in respect of warres Inundations death of famous men and merueilous alterations in Europe the causes whereof we will attribute to the iust iudgements of GOD punishing the sinnes of the world we say only that Comets seeme oftentimes to be fore-runners and Trumpets of the wonderfull iudgements of the Lord as a French Poet speaking of a Comet seene in the yeare 1577. said in the 2. day of his weeke O frantick France why doost not thou make vse Of the strange signes whereby the Heauens induce Thee to repentance canst thou teare-lesse gaze Euen night by night on that prodigious blaze That hairy Comet that long streaming Starre Which threatens Earth with Famine Plague and Warre The Almighties Trident and three forked fire Wherewith he strikes vs in his greatest ire But let vs consider the other Comets according to the order of the yeares In Nouember 1523. there was seene a Comet and soone after the heauens seemed all on fire casting forth infinite flames of lightning vpon the earth the which did tremble afterwards there hapned strange Inundations of water in the realme of Naples Soone after followed the taking captiuity of Francis 1. King of France Germanie was troubled with horrible seditions LEVVIS King of Hungary was slaine in battaile against the Turkes There were wonderfull stirres throughout all Europe and Rome was taken and spoiled by the imperiall Armie In the same yeare of the taking and sack of Rome which was 1527. there was seene another more fearefull Comet then the precedent there followed after it the great spoiles which the Turkes made in Hungary a famine in Swabe Lombardie and at Venice warre in Zuitzerland the siege of Vienna in Austria the Sweat in England the ouer-flowing of the Sea in Holland and Zeland where it drowned a great Country and an Earthquake in Portugall which continued eight dayes In the yeare 1531. from
neere the Village they found the child in the cradle crying and calling for meate but the poore Mother beeing opprest with payne a Feauer and with watching neither thought of her selfe nor of her little one The Phisition layes open the woman sees the section grosly sowed vp with ten or twelue stitches and prouided so well for the mother and child as both liued long after Extract out of Maist. d' AL◅EOVX letter written the 20. of December 1585 About the yeare 1550. ELIZABETH ALESPACHIN wife to IAMES NVFER a Surgion remaining in a Village called Sigers in Suisserland beeing great of her first child at the time of her deliuery beeing prest with extreame paines she called many Mid-wiues and Surgions to helpe her but all was in vaine The husband seeing his wife in that extremity tells her his minde in her care She alloweth it he goes to the Baylife of Frauvenfele acquaints him with the estate of his family and his resolution to ease his wife and craues leaue to execute what hee had determined In the ende the Bayliffe knowing his Industry and the loue hee bare vnto his Wife grants his request Hee returnes speedily to his house speakes to the Mid-wiues exhortes the most couragious to assist him and intreats the most fearefull to depart least they should faint and trouble the company for that hee did vndertake a thing which indeede was dangerous but hee hoped for a happy issue with the fauorable assistance of Almighty GOD. These women amazed at his resolution went out all except two which remayned with the Surgions to assist the Patient Her Husband hauing first called vpon GOD with an earnest prayer and shutte the Stoue carefully hee takes his Wife and layes her vpon a Table and with a sharpe Rasor makes an Incission in her belly so happily as presently the Child was taken forth without hurt to the Mother or to the little one The Mid-wiues which did hearken at the doore hearing the Child crye did knocke to enter but they forced them to stay vntill the little one was clensed and drest and the wound stitcht vp the which was closed in few dayes without any feauer or any troublesome accident to the mother who afterwardes had two Sonnes at a burthen one of the which was called IOHN NVFVR hee liued in the yeare 1583. threescore yeares olde Prouost of Sigers-Hausem Shee was brought in bedde afterwards of foure other Children As for the Sonne which was cut out of her belly he liued vnto the yeare 1577. They do yet at this day in those Quarters see the children of this Woman vnto the third and fourth generation GASPAR BAV◅IN a learned Phisition at Basill in his histories of the Caesarian deliuery I did thinke to finde in other histories which I haue among my papers that which I promised you of a Caesarian deliuery but it is among my other remembrances at my house in France I will cause it to bee brought to Montbelliard where I nowe am to send it vnto you I remember the Name of the place and of the Surgion and the yeare and month when it happened but I haue forgotten the names both of the Father and Mother The Village is in the Duchye of Bourgundy called Marsillie neere vnto Mont S. Iohn The Surgion ANTONIE ROBIN borne at Beaune and liuing at Renele Duke a man verye expert in his profession It was in Aprill in the yeare of our Lord GOD 1582. The Woman being yong and strong had beene in sore trauell two whole dayes together and yet did couragiously endure an incision the which succeeded happily The Child liued not long The mother recouered and continued long after The same Seditious Commotions caused by Exactions IN the yeare 1548. the Commons of Guyenne Santonge and Angoulemois fell into a rebellion by reason of the extorsions of the Customers and Farmers of Salt In a fewe weekes they grew to the number of fortye thousand men armed with clubbes and staues ioyning with the Ilanders By a generall consent they ran vpon the Customers and Farmers of salt although the King of Nauarre sought to appease them executing their deseigne with extreame furye against all that they could take The Commons of Gascoigne rise in diuers places the killing of certaine Officers of the Kings that had abused their places being the cause The Maior Iurates and others that bare office in Bourdeaux and the Lord of Monneins in place of the Kings Lieutenant there insteed of remedying these tumults at the beginning temporised to much especially the L. of Monneins for that he gaue way to the insolence of one of the cheefe of these Rebells called La VERGNE who grewe so bold that shortly after hee raised all the common people by the Tocsaine or larum bell Beeing shut vp in the Castle of Ha now then he sent forth certaine Harguebuziers to make the people affraide But this deuise tooke not effect for such issuings did so heate the Cittizens that hauing found la VERGNE ESTONNAC MAQVANAN and others men according to their desire they presently to armes the Customers or Exactors beeing they they sought for vnder which collour pretending they sought for the Exactors many honorable houses were spoiled vpon this the Commons being receiued into the Towne they rung the Alarum Bell no man daring to bee seene but armed and in company of some of these rebelles for otherwise they kild all they met The Counsellers of the Court of Parliament were constrained to leaue their Gownes and betake them to their Dublet and hose and Capt after the fashion of Marriners to carry a pike and march amongest the rude multitude They constrained the Lords of Saulx brethren the one Captaine of the Towne the other of the Castle called Trompette to bee chiefe and assist at the spoile of certaine of their fellowe Cittizens friends houses massacring thē before their faces The Towne-house furnished with an innumerable quantity of armes was spoiled MONEINS Lieutenant for the King verie vnaduisedly left his forte to come and make an oration to this inraged multitude where hee was by them slaine and the Carmelites in danger to haue their house spoiled for that they had buried him in their Church shortly after these spoilers beeing charged beganne to retier and the Parliament began to take courage executing some of the principall of this commotion and amongest the rest La VERGNE who was drawne in peeces by foure horses The King aduertised of this disorder writ to the Commons assuring them with speede hee would prouide for their greeuance Commanding them to cease their armes by meanes whereof euery one retired L' ESTONNAC was happely chaced out of the Castle called Trompette During this FRANCIS of Lorraine Earle of Aumale followed by foure thousand Suisses and the force of the French horse entred into Saintonges pacifying it without resistance or punnishment ANNE of Mommoran◅ie heigh Constable of France with all the forces of both armies ioyned togither in one entred by an vnaccustommed way
in Daulphine He desiring to do some seruice to the King of Nauarre as also to auoide the charge that ALLARD and his put him to aduertised the King that beside the quality of Embassador ALLARD maintayned he had assured meanes to come by fiue millions of gold and vpward ALLARD beeing come beefore the King of Nauarre and hauing presented him with letters from the Lord of Dediguieres and confirmed the contents therof by word of mouth he was reasonable wel accouÌ„ted of for a time In the meane whyle the King of Nauarre going to Rochell and ALLARD in his trayne certaine shippes of Sweath land chanced to arriue in the Hauen at Rochell The Capitaines merchants and Maisters whereof hearing of ALLARD with whom they had spoken told some of their acquaintance that ALLARD was a CoÌ„nicatching knaue which had seduced the king of Sweath-laÌ„d with a companion of his a Gascoigne borne was cause of the deuision that happened betweene the King of Sweathland his brother which had set al the realme on an vproare The impostor perceiuing hee was discouered got him presently away with his followers to the late King HENRY the 3 to the Queene mother vnto whom he declared at large what meanes hee had to serue them by putting them in possession of those fiue millions of gold before mentioned and a farre greater summe As also how hauing beene very much vrged by the King of Nauarre to shewe him the place where such great treasures lay and the meanes to come by them because hee would not be constrained so to do he had retired him-selfe as it were euen out of the closet of the Court and seruice of the sayd King of Nauarre The King and his Mother glad of such newes gaue good entertainmeÌ„t to ALLARD whose comming being published in the Court amongest many others he insinuated himselfe into the company of Monsieur de CLERVAN gaue him to vnderstaÌ„d that he had papers of great importance at Rome which hee could not well come by but by meanes of the Suissers who if they would but write vnto the Pope about them he should be sure to haue them restored againe for their sakes Wherfore he promised if they wold procure him those papers to giue theÌ„ 60000. Dollers which the towne of Nuremberg ought him with the interest of it for twelues yeares after 5. in the hundreth by the yeare so that in all it amouÌ„ted to the sum of 96. thousand Dollars CLERVAN thervpon went to his Baronny of Coppet where hauing taken order for certaine priuate affaires of his owne he rode to Berne some two daies iourney and an halfe from thence there he acquainted diuers Lords of that Canton with the whole matter desiring theÌ„ that they would take vpoÌ„ them to write vnto the Pope for to haue those papers againe and draw that profit into their Cofers They answered it was to be feared least ALLARD were some Cunnicatcher and that hauing accesse vnto the Queene Mother who was greatly fauoured of the Pope that loued not them he needed not to employ any other but her in the matter Or if ALLARD desired any other course that he should repaire to the fiue small Cantons their allyes Here-with CLERVAN returned to Coppet which was fast by Geneua where hee talked with a great Merchant called IOHN TERNAVLT about the matter requested him to communicate it to Coronell PSIFFER of Lucerne AMMAN LVCY of Vnderwald and other Lords of the 5 Cantons being at that instant in those quarters which was executed they harkned vnto it reseruing the conclusion vntill such time as they bad conferred in person with ALLARD and CLERVAN who being aduertised that these Switzer Lords were come into France which was about Nouember and December 1582. they went vnto them to Paris where hauing made some entry into the matter it was resolued they should meet at St. Iames his Hospitall to conclude this affaire All was agreed on condition that ALLARD should forth-with assigne ouer the lords of Nurembergs specialties touching thâ—… principall interest aâ—…ore said amouÌ„ting to the sum of 96000. Dollors whereof the Lords of the fiue Cantons should haue three fift parts amounting to 57600. And CLERVAN TERNAVLT the rest equally deuided betwixt theÌ„ which was 19200. Dollars to each of them Besides ALLARD was to furnish 6500. Crownes in ready money for the voyage to Rome wherin TERNAVLT was to be emploied In these agreements PSIFFER a man of â—…ound iudgement stood stiffe in his first opinion that ALLARD was a notorious Impostor Neuertheles he so oiled his toÌ„gue hauing the French Dutch and Italian naturally that in a new assembly with these Lords he declared vnto theÌ„ after a demure and graue manner as his custome was that he was about to contract with the King vnto whom hee was to lend 2. millions of gold 15. daies after the agreement made that is to say 160000. crownes in ready money and 400000 crownes to be raised on the late Lord Constables goods whose Bill he said he had had promised to deliuer it vnto the King who was there withall well pleased as ALLARD affirmed Only he had stood vpon securitie for so notable a summe of money that therefore the Councel promised to assure him the Salt pits of Brouage and the reuene wâ—…thereof where with ALLARD said he was contented onely he feared lest such assurance would be reuoked Wherfore he intreated the Embassadors of the Canton of Lucern that they would deale in such sort with their Lords that he might be receiued into the nuÌ„ber of their Burgesses offering in 〈◊〉 compence of such fauour the summe of 20000. crownes to the Seignorie of Lucern to each of those Embassadors 2500. crowns a piece Therupon he posted to Lucerne tooke his oath returned into France with 12. Switzers for his guard neuer furnishing a penny all this while but lâ—…lling the world asleep with his golden promises and plucking round sums of money both from great small in euery place wherby he maintained himself in his practises All of theÌ„ were cousened by him except the Caronel Psâ—…ffer who beeing rich regarded no promises laughed at their credulity As affaires past in this manner my Lady had intelligence of the speech ALLARD had vsed touching the late L. Constables Bill whereupon shee wrote that they should take heede of this pratler affirming her Lord was not so bad an husband as to be indebted in such a summe to a stranger who at length would proue to be a Cunny-catching kâ—…aue There came a Rocheller also that warned diuers to beware of ALLARD which moued TARNAVLT to write by a trusty messenger to Monsieur GARGOVILAR the Mayor of Rochell who returned answer that ALLARD was a notable deceiuer The Suizter Embassadors hauing sworne the league with the King left TERNAVLT in the Court for the expedition of certaine affaires they had there going to take horse ALLARD accompanied with honourable personages participants in the businesse promised
BELLAY attribute to the diuine vengeance because hee kept not the promise which hee made with such an imprecation to the Millanois His death â—…ell on the 6. of May 1527. To this purpose I will adde another Historie though it be ancient reported by ALBERT CRANT in his 6. Booke of the affaires of Saxony Chap. 45. where hee writes that the Emperor FREDERICK the first being in Saint PETERS Monastery at Erford the floore whereon hee went suddenly sanke vnder him and if he had not caught hold on an Yron barre of a window hee had fallen into the Iakes of the Monasterie wherein certaine Gentlemen fell and were drowned amongst the which was HENRY Earle of Schuartzbourg who carried the presage of his death in an vsuall imprecation If I do this or that I would said he I might be drowned in the Iakes But omitting other ancient Histories it being no part of our purpose to touch them in these collections but reseruing them for some other hand and worke I will present the examples of our time concerning imprecations and despightfull speaches eyther against GOD or our neighbours A Soldiar trauelling through the Marquisate of Brandebourg feeling him-selfe not well staied in an Inne gaue his 〈◊〉 his money to keepe Not long after being recouered he asked it againe of the woman who had agreed before with her husband to detaine it Wherefore she denyed that she had any of him and rayled at him as if he had done her wrong to aske it whereat the traueller was so enraged that he accused her of disloyaltie and theft which the Host hearing he tooke his wiues part and thrust the other out of dores who iustly incensed with such dealing drew his sworde and ranne against the gate The Host began to crie out that hee went about to breake into his house and robbe him For which cause the Souldier was apprehended carryed to prison and arraigned before the Magistrate ready to be condemned to death The day came wherein sentence was to bee giuen and executed the Diuill entred into the prison and tolde the prisoner that hee should bee condemned to dye neuerthelesse he promised him if so bee hee would giue himselfe vnto him to keepe him from all harme The prisoner answered that he would rather dye innocent as he was then be deliuered by such means The Diuil hauing shewed him againe the danger wherein hee stood and receiuing the repulse promised not-withstanding to helpe him for nothing and worke in such sort that he should be reuenged on his enemies Hee councelled him then when he should be brought to his tryall to maintaine that hee was innocent and to desire the Iudge to let him haue him for his aduocate whom he should see standing there in a blew Cap which should plead for him The prisoner accepted the offer and the next day being brought to the Barre hearing his aduersaries accusation and the Iudges opinion required according to the custome of the place that he might haue an Aduocate to plead his cause which was granted him This craftye Lawyer stood forth and very subtilly began to defend his client alledging that hee was falselie accused and by consequence wrongfully condemned for the Hoste kept away his money and had misused him besides Therevpon hee vp and tolde how the whole matter had past and declared the place where the money was locked vp The Host on the other side defended himselfe and the more impudently denyed it giuing himselfe to the Diuill both body and soule if so be he had it Where-vpon this Lawyer in the blew Cappe leauing his cause layde hold on the Host carried him out of the hall and hoysted him vp so high in the ayre that it was neuer knowne what became of him afterward I. WIER in his 4. booke of Diuelish deuises Chap. 20. PAVL EITZEN in the 6. Booke of his Morales Chap. 18. saith that this happened in the yeare 1541. and that this Souldier came out of Hungarie In the Towne of Rutlingen a certaine traueller comming into an Inne gaue his Hoste a budget to keepe wherein there was a great summe of money At his departure asking it againe the Hoste denyed hee had any and rayled at him for charging him with it The traueller sued him in the lawe and because there was no witnesse of the matter hee was going to put the Host to his oath who was ready and most desirous to take it and gaue himselfe to the diuill if euer he receiued or kept away the Budget that was in question The plaintiffe required some respite to take aduise whether hee should put the defender to his oth or no and going out of the Court he met two men that asked him the occaston of his comming thither He vp and told them the matter Well sayde they wilt thou bee contented that we shall helpe thee in the cause He answred them I not knowing what they were Ther-vpon they returned all three into the Court where the two that came last began to maintaine against the Hoste that the Budget was deliuered vnto him and that he receiued it and locked it vp in such a place which they named The periured wretch could not tell what to reply and as the Iudge was about to send him to prison the two witnesses began to say it shall not need for wee are sent to punish his wickednesse Saying so they caught him vp into the ayre where he vanished away with theÌ„ and was neuer seene more IOHN le GAST of Brisae in the 2. volume of his Table-talke pag. 131. GILBERT COVSIN of Nosereth in his Narrations PETER ALVARADO a Spanish Captaine making warre on the Indians of Peru receiued a grieuous hurt in a skirmish whereof he dyed two dayes after Lying in his death-bed being asked where he felt his paine In my soule said he it torments me when the newes of his death came to his wife BEATRICE a very proud woman then resident at Guattimall she began to rage to make imprecations and to fall out with GOD euen to say That hee could not deale worse with her then to take away her husband There-vpon shee hung all her house with black and began to mourne in such sort that shee could not be drawne to receiue any sustenance or comfort She did nothing but weepe lye along on the ground teare her hayre and demeane her-selfe like a madde woman Amidst her husbands pompous obsequies of whom GOMARA writes that he maried two sisters and was a long time polluted with foule incest and all this despightfull mourning shee forgot not to assemble the chiefest of the towne together and there to make them declare her for Gouernesse of the Country and to sweare fealtie and obedience vnto her But now let vs heere what came to passe vpon these imprecations and despightfull speeches The 8. of September 1541. it rained so mightely for 24. houres together that the next day about nine or ten of the clock at night two Indians came and
whom they did falsly accuse to haue caused the Duke of Arscot to escape beeing prisoner at Bois de Vincennes as hee suborned many witnesses against her vsing in this practise a Comissary called Bouvot but eyther of them escaped good cheape being condemned of false-hood committed in the instruction of the processe against the Countesse they did open penance thē standing on the pillory at the Haules they were banished In the history of France vnder HENRY the 2. GVY of Seruilles terming himselfe Lieutenant to the Prouost of Marshalls in the Seneshalcie of Xaintonge hauing apprehended two young men he caused them to bee hanged vpon a Sonday without finishing of their processe by the which they were found in a manner innocent He is made a partie as they are accustomed to do against Iudges which proceed Ex officio without any partie playntiue that doth accuse for in that case they hold the place of an accuser After viewe of the processe he is committed to prison by a decree of the Court and carried to the Concergery or prison at Bourdeaux there he was examined and by his answeres mayntaines that the sayd yong-men had deserued death for many causes which hee obiects where-vpon the Court at Bourdeaux were in some doubt whether they should admit him to make his proofes Some great Lawiers holding that a Iudge after execution may at neede iustifie his Iudgement by proofes and productions especially against vagabondes and picking rouges of whome the Prouost Marshalls doe iudge definitiuely Besides a Iudge may interpret declare and maintayne his sentence The Negatiue is more common for all that is aboue spoken hath place where imminent daunger is and in time of Warre else no man ought without reason to striue so much from Lawe and Iustice and a Iudge is not to bee admitted to the iustification of his Iudgement by other meanes then these which are in the processe and which are written before him for he that is condemned might haue defended and iustified himselfe or els haue reproched the witnesses so as al might haue prooued his innocency But the means of al this was taken from him with his life which ought not to be Yet notwithstanding by a decree made at Bourdeaux Seruille was allowed to make his proofes by acts or witnesses of these crimes wherewith he charged the deceased And for that afterwards he did nothing and the two yong men were found innocent by an other sentence giuen the 14. of August 1528. he was condemned and executed I. PAPON ltb 4. of his collection of sentences giuen in Soueraigne arrest 5. One terming him falsely Prouost of Marshalls in the Seneshalsie of Landes hauing caused seauen women to be executed being falsely accused and without proofe of witchcraft was beheadded by a sentence giuen at Bourdeaux the 3. of Ianuary 1525. He had cōmitted three offences The one of Iurisdiction the fact being not to betried before the Prouost The second that they were not found guilty the third that falsely hee termed himselfe a Prouost and vnder collour of a publike charge had cōmitted so many murthers The same PAPON in the same booke arrest 7. The Consull of a Towne in Suisserland I will spare his name for the present a rich man caused a stately house to bee built in the yeare 1559. Among other excellent workemen which he sought for he caused a rare cutter and Architect called IOHN to come from Trente who for some iust reasons refused to come In the end hauing receiued a promise of all safety and good vsage he came and wrought long for the other About the end of the worke the Architect comming to demand his wages they fell to some words Whereof the ende was that by the Consulls cōmandement IOHN was put in prison and by the same Consull against his faith and promise accused to haue spoken against some Ceremonies The Consull beeing Iudge and party pursued his purpose so furiously as IOHN was condemned to loose his head As they led him to execution he marched with a cheerefull countenance and died very constantly Ad ding therevnto after a long speech testyfiyng his constancy and sincere affection that the Consull who was the Author of his death should die also within 3. daies and appeere before the Iudicial seate of GOD to giue an Account of his sentence It happened as this man had fore-told for the Consull although he were in the flower of his age and very helthfull began the same day to bee tormented sometimes with a violent heat sometimes with a vehement cold to conclude he was stroken with a new disease so as the third day hee went to answere to the Innocent against whom hee had beene a most vniust partie and accuser and a Iudge beeing cast out of the Land of the liuing by a t◅rriblle Iudgement of GOD. M. IOSIAS SIMLERVS of zurich in the life of HENRY BVLLING◅R Wonderfull Fasting HENRY of Hasfeld being gone out of the Lowe Countries to Berg in Norwaie where he did traffick liued there vnmarried without blame he was very charitable vnto the poore whome hee did clothe liberally imploying some of his clothes to that vse One day hauing heard a certaine Preacher speaking indiscreetly of myraculous fastes as if it were no more in the power of GOD to maintayne any one lyuing without the helpe of meate and drinke and displeased that this preacher was a dissolute man which poluted holie things hee tryed to fast and to abstaine altogither from eating and drinking Hauing absteyned three daies he began to be very hungry He therefore tooke a bitte of bread meaning to swallowe it with a glasse of beere But all that stucke so in his throate as hee remayned forty daies and forty nights without eating or drinking At the end of this time he cast out at his mouth the bread and drinke which had remayned in his throate This long abstinence made him so weake as they were faine to restore him with milke The Gouernor of the Country hearing of this wonder calles for HENRY and enquiers the truth of him who giuing no credit to HENRYES confession would see a newe tryall thereof He therefore caused him to be shut vp and carefully watcht and kept in a Chamber for the space of fortie daies and forty nights without any thing to norrish him The which he did endure without any noyse and with lesse difficulty then the first attributing nothing vnto himselfe but all to the power and honor of GOD. By reason of so rare and supernaturall an Abstinence and for that his life was without reproche hee was surnamed of many the Saint of Norway A while after being come about his businesse to Bruxelles in Brabant a debtor of his hauing neither good money to pay him nor any good conscience accused him of heresie so as he was imprisoned where he remained manie dayes without eating or drinking in the end hee was condemned to be burned aliue without making the people acquainted with his processe who did see
him goe to execution with his accustomed countenance Hee was tyed to a great stake with a long chaine and they did fire many fagots round about him a pretty distance off supposing that hee would runne about this stake euen vnto the last gaspe But contrarywise falling vpon his knees and lifting vp his eyes to Heauen hee made a feruent prayer vnto GOD then rising vp he went couragiously o the fire enters into the flames and sits downe so quietly as no man could see him moue hand or legge or any other part of his body but with-out any stirre or tormenting of himselfe hee ended his life in the fire They could not finde any peece of his bones and many since passing by the place where hee had beene burnt held it for a place of deuotion This happened about the yeare 1545. the which I haue learned from the mouth of many men worthy of credit good friends to this man with whome they had conuersed familiarly IOHN WIER in his Treatise of extraordinary abstinence It is not long since that a Chanoine of Leege desirous to trie his force in fasting hauing continued vnto the seuenteenth day hee found himselfe so faint and weake as if hee had not beene sodenly helpt with good restoratiues he had dyed The same Author A young Maide of Buchold in the territorie of Munster in Westphalia being oppress with melancholie and keeping the house was for that cause beaten by her Mother The which did so increase her greefe as taking no rest she was foure moneths without eating or drinking vnlesse that some times shee did chewe a peece of a roasted apple and washt her mouth with a little Tisane She grew exceeding leane but in the end GOD restored her lyuing long after very modestly and indued with singular piety The same In October in the yeare 1600. Monsieur RAPIN whome I name with respect beeing a man worthie of credit did assure mee that hee had seene as manie others had done at Conflent in Poitou about the ende of August before the Daughter of IOHN BALAN a Smith called IOANE of foureteene yeares of age who had then liued eighteene monethes without eating or drinking any thing what-so-euer Her tongue was much shronke and her teeth white and cleane her bellie was shronke and shee was a little fleshie behinde When she riseth in the morning shee opens the windowe and stands looking into the a◅er spending the rest of her time in doing some little worke about the house Drawne out of our Memorialls Iustice. IHON de MARESTS hauing beene murthered by the Scignior of TALLART of a great and ancient house and a Gentleman well suported by many great allyances namely by Cardinall IHON of BELLAY who made it his owne fact it seemed that the execution of Iustice was not so speedie as the cause required The Grand-mother of the deceased hauing her onely refuge vnto King FRANCIS the first cast her selfe vpon her knees weeping before him at Fontainbleau whereat the King being amazed asked what she would haue of him Iustice answered she if it shall please your Maiestic At which word he commands her to rise speedily and turning to all that did attend him hee said By the faith of a Gentle-man it is no reason that this Gentle-woman should prostrate her-selfe before me demanding a thing which for the due of my estate I owe her but it is their duties that importune mee for remissions and pardons the which I owe them not but of my especiall grace and royall prerogatiue And after that hee had giuen her a long audience vpon the discourse of her request which which was onely to haue speedy Iustice and hauing promised it vnto her he shewed that the word of such a King was fully accomplished by the euent which followed So as not able to be moued by any sute of his fauorites nor of forraine Ambassadors he would haue punishment inflicted as the greatnesse of the offence required And so TALLART was beheaded at the Hales at Paris in the yeare 1546. Maister E. PASQVIER in the 5. booke of his Collections of France Chap. 7. A notable Theefe ABout the yeare 1503. there liued at Geneua a notable theefe called MORTAC and in French MORTEL He did inchant men in such sort as no man could preuent his theeuing nor punish him after the deed Euery one knew he was a theefe and were as warie of him as they could It was a common watch-word in all the houses of the Towne when as night came for Maisters and Mistresses to warne their seruants to shutte the doores for feare of MORTAC which grew to be an ordinary Prouerbe when as they doubted any one that had filching fingers But there was neither doore lock nor barre that could keepe him out where hee had a will to enter yet hee went not to all places but only to those that lookt sowerly on him and seemed to distrust him for he tooke a delight to steale to be admired for his abilitie and cunning neither did hee care to gather much together but contented himselfe with a little taking no more then would serue him for some 40. or 50. meales with some companions which he carried vp and downe feasting them at his charge And there was no meanes to preuent his wil for he did so inchant them of the house as they lost their speech all meanes to resist him making them like immoueable stocks when he entred into their houses Before he would seize vpon that which he pretended hee would first feed himself at his ◅ase The first thing he euer did was to light a candle thē to take the keys of the house yea from vnder the maister mistresses pillow although they were awake not that he wanted keies for his fingers serued him for his Pick-locks but in thus proceeding he would shew his theeuish authority Then would he open the Larder the Seller from whence hee fetcht meate and wine couered the Table and eate and drunke at his leasure and pleasure and yet not any one of the house did stirre eyther to hinder him or to accompany him neither to crye out nor yet to speake vnto him eyther good or bad This done he went and opened the goodmans cofers and tooke what money hee thought good to make good cheere with his Mignions for 3. weekes or a moneths space in some Tauerne The next day hee and his band would campe where was best wine and the Tauerne keepers entertained this rable very gratiously For this MORTAC did no harme in those places where he vsually frequented and where the maisters did make much of him After they had made many good meales when they came to reckon he neuer brought any money but sayd vnto the Hoste Goe and fetch thy due in the corner of such a Chamber of thy house the which perchance had not beene frequented a moneth before The which the Host doing hee found the iust summe and not a farthing more or lesse It was very strange that