Prelates of the Kingdom that he shou'd restore the Exercise of the Catholique Religion in all places from whence it had been banish'd and remit the Ecclesiastiques into the full and entire Possession of all their Goods that he shou'd bestow no Governments on Hugonots and that this Assembly might have leave to depute some persons to the Pope to render him an account of their Proceedings This Accommodation was sign'd by all the Lords excepting only the Duke of Espernon and the Sieur de Vitry who absolutely refus'd their Consent to it Vitry went immediately into Paris and there put himself into the Service of the League which he believ'd at that time to be the cause of Religion As for the Duke of Espernon he had no inclination to go over to the League which had so often solicited his Banishment from Court But whether it were that being no longer supported since his Masters Death he fear'd the Hatred and Resentment of the greatest Persons about the King and even of the King himself whom he had very much offended during the time of his Favour in which it was his only business to enrich himself or were it that he was afraid he shou'd be requir'd to lend some part of that great Wealth which he had scrap'd together he very unseasonably and more unhandsomly began to raise Scruples and seem'd to be troubled with Pangs of Conscience which never had been thought any great grievance to him formerly so that he took his leave of the King and retir'd to his Government with 2 or 3000 Foot and 500 Horse which he had brought to the Service of his late Master This pernicious Example was follow'd by many others who under pretence of ordering their Domestick Affairs ask'd leave to be gone which the King dar'd not to refuse them or suffer'd themselves to be seduc'd by the Proffers and Solicitations of the League so that the King not being in a condition any longer to besiege Paris was forc'd to divide his remaining Troops comprehending in that number those which Sancy still preserv'd for his Use and Service Of the whole he form'd three little Bodies one for Picardy under the Command of the Duke of Longuevillâ— another for Champaigne under the Marshal d' Aumont and himself led the third into Normandy where he was to receive Supplies from England and where with that small Remainder of his Forces he gave the first Shock to the Army of the League which at that time was become more powerful than ever it had been formerly or than ever it was afterwards In effect those who after the Barricades had their eyes so far open'd as to discover that the League in which they were ingag'd was no other than a manifest Rebellion against their King seeing him now dead believ'd there was no other Interest remaining on their side but that of Religion and therefore reunited themselves with the rest to keep out a Heretick Prince from the Possession of the Crown And truly this pretence became at that time so very plausible that an infinite number of Catholiques of all Ranks and Qualities dazled with so specious an appearance made no doubt but that it was better for them to perish than to endure that he whom they believ'd obstinate in his Heresie shou'd ascend the Throne of St. Lewis and were desirous that some other King might be elected Nay farther there were some of them who took this occasion once more to press the Duke of Mayenne that he wou'd assume that Regal Office which it wou'd be easie for him to maintain with all the Forces of the united Catholiques of which he already was the Head but that Prince who was a prudent man fearing the dangerous consequences of so bold an Undertaking lik'd better at the first to retain for himself all the Essentials of Kingship and to leave the Title of it to the old Cardinal of Bourbon who was a Prisoner and whom he declar'd King under the Name of Charles the Tenth by the Council of the Union At this time it was that there were scatter'd through all the Kingdom a vast number of scandalous Pamphlets and other Writings in which the Authors of them pretended to prove that Henry of Bourbon stood lawfully excluded from the Crown those who were the most eminent of them were the two Advocates general for the League in the Parliament of Paris Lewis d'Orlâ—ans and Anthony Hotman The first was Author of that very seditious Libel call'd The English Catholique And the second wrote a Treatise call'd The Right of the Vncle against the Nephew in the Succession of the Crown But there happen'd a pleasant Accident concerning this Francis Hotman a Civilian and Brother to the Advocate seeing this Book which pass'd from hand to hand in Germany where he then was maintain'd with solid Arguments and great Learning The Right of the Nephew against the Vncle and made manifest in an excellent Book which he publish'd on this Subject the Weakness and false Reasoning of his Adversaries Treatise without knowing that it was written by his Brother who had not put his Name to it The League having a King to whom the Crown of right belong'd after Henry the Fourth his Nephew in case he had surviv'd him by this Pretence increas'd in Power because the King of Spain and the Duke of Lorrain and Savoy who during the Life of the late King their Ally durst not declare openly against him for his Rebellious Subjects now after his Death acknowledging this Charles the Tenth for King made no difficulty to send Supplies to the Duke of Mayenne insomuch that he after having publish'd through all France a Declaration made in August by which he exhorts all French Catholicks to reunite themselves with those who would not suffer an Heretique to be King had rais'd at the beginning of September an Army of 25000 Foot and 8000 Horse With these Forces he pass'd the Seine at Vernon marching directly towards the King who after he had been receiv'd into Pont del ' Arch and Diepe which Captain Rolâ—t and the Commander de Chates had surrendred to him made a show of besieging Rouen not having about him above 7 or 8000 Men. This so potent an Army of the Leaguers compos'd of French and Gâ—rmans Lorrainers and Walloons which he had not imagin'd cou'd have been so soon assembled and which was now coming on to overwhelm him constrain'd him to retire speedily towards Diepe where he was in danger to have been incompass'd round without any possibility of Escape but only by Sea into England if the Duke of Mayenne had taken up the resolution as he ought to have done from the first moment when he took the Field to pursue him eagerly and without the least delay But while he proceeding with his natural slowness which was his way of being wise trifled out his time in long deliberations when he shou'd have come to Action he gave leisure to the King to fortifie his Camp at Arques a League
deceiv'd by his Spies who assur'd him that the Enemy had no Cannon and knowing himself to be twice as strong doubted not but he shou'd be able to defeat them with his Cavalry alone Accordingly having drawn up with much trouble his Parisian Infantry brisk men to appearance and well arm'd but a little out of countenance when they saw the Business in hand was somewhat more than bare Trayning and that Life was at stake he advanc'd so hastily with his Horse having Maineville on his right hand and Balagny on his left that those two great Bodies of Horse and Foot were made uncapable of relieving and serving each other in the Fight La Noiie to whom for the sake of his experience the young Duke of Longueville had intrusted the care and conduct of the Army having observ'd the countenance of the Enemy and finding the Parisians disorder'd and wavering was confident he cou'd beat them with those few Troups which he had then in the Field and who were imbattel'd in this order The Duke of Longueville was in the main Body with his Squadron compos'd of a great number of brave Gentlemen having at the Head of them the Lord Charles de Humieres Marquis d' Encre and Governour of Compeigne who had furnish'd the Army with Cannon and Ammunition which occasion'd the gaining of the Battel This was he who having soon discover'd the pernicious designs of the League serv'd the King so well against it that Henry the Fourth at his coming to the Crown made him his Lieutenant in Picardy with an extraordinary privilege that he shou'd have the full Authority of disposing all things in that Province His great Services his extraordinary Deserts his high Reputation his Performances on this great day and many signal actions during the War gain'd him without any other recommendation his Commission for General of the Artillery which was sign'd not long before his Death and he was yet in a way of mounting higher if his too great Courage had not expos'd him to that fatal Musquet shot which kill'd him at the taking of Han though the Garrison of Spaniards had small cause to boast of it who were all sacrific'd to the just sorrow of the Army for the loss of so brave a Gentleman They who came in to the Duke of Longueville with him were Louis Dongniez Count de Chaulne his Brother-in-Law the Sieurs de Maulevrier Lanoy Longueval Cany Bonnivet Givry Fretoy Mesvillier and La Tour. This Squadron was slank'd on the right and left with two gross Battalions having each of them two Field pieces which were not drawn out of Compeigne till some time after the Army was March'd on purpose to deceive the Spies who thereupon gave intelligence that they had none He plac'd on his right Wing the Cavalry of Sedan at the Head of which he was resolv'd to Fight in Person and on his left the Horsemen which were drawn out from those places that held for the King in Picardy The Duke of Aumale who made such over haste to the Victory of which he made sure in his conceipt that he left his Cannon behind him was the first who founded the Charge and Balagny with his Squadron of Cambresians and Walloons advanc'd eagerly to attacque the right Wing of the Royallists which was much inferiour to his own in strength but when he was almost just upon them the gross Battalion which cover'd the left side of that Squadron opening in a moment he was surprisingly saluted with a Volley of Cannon which carri'd off at once whole rancks of his Squadron and constrain'd him to retire in great disorder Then the Duke of Aumale who plainly saw that there was no other remedy for this unexpected mischief but speedily to win the Enemies Cannon put himself upon the gallop follow'd by Maineville and Balagny who had recover'd his disorder and all three went at the Head of their men to force that Infantry of the Enemy But they were scarce come up within an hundred paces of them when their other Battalion opening a second Volley came thundring upon them and raking them in the Flank did more execution than the former A third which immediately succeeded it shook their whole Body which having advanc'd a little farther the Musquetiers which flank'd their Horse made their discharge so justly both against Man and Horse that the Field was strew'd with dead Bodies and in the mean time the whole Cavalry of the Royallists charg'd upon them who were already wavering and half routed and the Besieg'd at the same time sallying out fell upon the rere of the Parisian Infantry who had been abandon'd by their Cavalry so that now it was no longer to be call'd a Battel but a downright Slaughter and a general defeat Never was any Victory more complete with so little loss to the Conquerours the Field of Battel remain'd in their Possession cover'd with above two thousand Slain without reckoning into the number those who were kill'd by the Peasants or such as cou'd not recover themselves out of the Marishes which are about the Abbey de la Victoire The Camp of the Vanquish'd the Merchandises and Commodities which had been brought thither from Paris the Cannon the Ammunition the Colours the Baggage and twelve hundred Prisoners were the Conquerours reward Who some few days after as they March'd towards Burgundy there to joyn the Swissers saluted the Parisians from the Heights of Montfaucon with some Vollies of Cannon and thereby gave them notice of their defeat with a truer account of it than had been given them by the Duke of Aumale and Balagny whereof the one sav'd himself in St. Denis and the other in Paris And as it often happens that one misfortune comes on the Neck of another to those who are in the way of being beaten this defeat was follow'd the very next day after it being the eighteenth of May with the loss of three hundred brave Gentlemen of Picardy whom the Governour of Dourlens Charles Tiercelin de Saveuse was bringing to the Duke of Mayenne who being met in La Beauce towards Bonneval by the Count of Chastillon with a greater strength were almost all of them Slain after having fought like Lions without asking Quarter or so much as promising for safety of their Lives that they wou'd never bear Arms against the King Such violent Leaguers were these men and above all Saveuse their Captain who being carried off to Baugency wounded in all parts of his Body where the King of Navarre a great lover of brave Men was very desirous to have sav'd him refus'd all kind of remedies for the sullen pleasure of Dying having nothing in his mouth but the praises of the Duke of Guise and a thousand imprecations against his Murtherers These fortunate events accompani'd by the great success which the Duke of Montpensier had in Normandy against the Leaguers occasion'd the King of Navarre who was advanc'd as far as Baugency with part of his Forces to return to Tours
Parliament and the other Companies no one man daring to oppose it So much had Fear prevail'd over Courage and Virtue at that time even in those who knowing and detesting in their hearts the injustice of that Oath ought rather to have dyed than basely to have acted against their Consciences But the good success of the Kings Arms was in the mean time preparing the means for them of receiving one day an happy dispensation from himself of that abominable Oath by which 't is most manifest they never cou'd be ty'd For after having made himself Master of all the Lower Normandy he made haste to relieve the Fort of Meulan and thereby constrain'd the Duke of Mayenne to raise his Siege After which having taken the Bridg of Poissy by plain force and in view of the Enemy he led his Victorious Army before Dreux which occasion'd the memorable Battel of Ivry Since the taking of that Town had extremely streightned Paris by excluding it on that side from the passage and the commerce of Normandy La Beauce and the Country about Chartres the Duke of Mayenne resolv'd to relieve it with all his Forces For this purpose having receiv'd a recruit of 1500 Lansquenets and 500 Carabines which King Philip who at the same time publish'd his Manifesto in justification of his Arms had given to the League by the Duke of Parma under the conduct of the Count of Egmont he pass'd the Seine at the Bridg of Mant and advanc'd towards Dreux yet resolving only to put succours into the Town and to keep always on this side the River of Eure that he might avoid the hazard of a Battel But upon the false intelligence which he receiv'd from his Scouts that the King who had really quitted the Siege because he design'd to Fight him was gone from Nonancour and had taken on the left hand the way to Verneüil as if his intentions had been to return to the Lower Normandy he was constrain'd against his own opinion by the clamours of the Superior Officers and especially by the young Count Philip of Egmont to pass over the Bridg of Ivry and to pursue the King in his feign'd retreat till he brought him to a Battel But as the King who wish'd for nothing more than to come to a pitch'd Field with him which he fear'd he would have declin'd was pleasingly surpriz'd to find that he had already pass'd the River so the Duke was not a little amaz'd when he perceiv'd that far from shunning the Engagement the King was marching directly towards him and that he must be forc'd to make good his challenge But as the day was already far spent that every moment there came in to the King some Gentlemen or Soldiers from the neigbouring Garrisons who were desirous to have their share of honour in the Battel and that the Duke of Mayenne on his side mov'd not forward but only kept his ground observing the nature of the Place and what advantages might be taken from its scituation the two Armies which were but a League distant from each other after some light skirmishes retir'd to their Camps resolv'd on both sides to decide the quarrel the next day which was Wednesday the fourteenth of March. Betwixt the River of Eure and that of Itton which passes by Evreux there lyes right over against Ivry a fair Plain of about a League in breadth free from Hedges Ditches Mounds or even so much as Bushes to hinder an open passage through it on all sides bounded on the East with a little Wood and the River of Eure on which the Burrough of Ivry is scituate and on the West by the Villages of St. Andr◠and Fourcanville where the King was quarter'd the Night before the Battel In this Plain the Royal Army and that of the League were drawn up almost at the same time betwixt the Hours of Eight and Nine in the following order The King advancing five or six hundred paces before the Villages of St. André and Fourcanville which he had at his back form'd his gross Squadron of 600 Horse in five Divisions each of 120 The first of which wherein he intended to Fight in Person was compos'd of Princes Dukes Counts Marquesses Blew Ribbands and great Lords for the most part Catholiques the strength of his Army consisting chiefly in those of that Religion For when it was known that the League for the maintenance of their cause was turn'd Spaniard the French Nobility and Gentry whose hearts were too generous to suffer that such a reproach shou'd be fastned on them abandon'd that Party and every day came over in great numbers to the King So that he soon found himself in a condition of overpow'ring the League and Spaniard with the assistance of their Arms even though there had not been an Huguenot in his Army who in reality were but an incosiderable number in comparison of that great multitude of Soldiers and especially Gentlemen Catholiques which came in by whole Troops together from all parts and made up almost all the strength of his Army And that which drew down the Blessing and Protection of God Almighty on it was that the day before the Engagement when it was evident that the Enemy who had pass'd the River cou'd not avoid coming to a Battel these Princes Lords Gentlemen-Catholiques and Soldiers who follow'd their example were all at the celebration of Mass at Nonancour and there communicated together The King for his part having already in his Soul great inclinations to be converted protested the same day to those Princes and Great Persons that he humbly pray'd the Almighty God who is the searcher of all hearts to dispose of his Person in that bloody day accordingly as he shou'd please to judge it necessary for the universal good of Christendom and in particular for the safety and repose of France With these pious thoughts he plac'd himself the next morning at the Head of his gross Squadron of six hundred Horse he was flanck'd on the right hand with a gross Battalion of two Swisse Regiments rais'd from the Cantons of Soleure and on the left with another Battalion of two Regiments of the Canton of Glaris and of Grisons these Battalions being sustain'd that on the right hand by the Regiment of Guards and of Brigneux and that on the left by the Regiments of Vignoles and of St. Iean The Duke of Montpensier follow'd them drawing a little towards the left with his Squadron of betwixt 5 and 600 Horse betwixt two Regiments one of Lansquenets and the other of Swisses cover'd by two Battalions which were the Flower of the French Infantry the Marshal d' Aumont clos'd his left having in his Squadron 300 good Horse flanck'd with two French Regiments and before him the light Horse in two Troops each consisting of 200 men commanded by the Grand Prior their Colonel and by Givry their Marshal de Camp and these last had on their right hand on the same Line the Baron de Biron who with
fine having by this abominable Practice driven away all those who stood suspected by them and even the Cardinal of Gondy their Bishop who together with the Curats of St. Merry and of St. Eustache endeavour'd to incline the People by gentle Perswasions to return to their Obedience they committed a most barbarous and inhumane Action which by the just Judgment of God and Men was in conclusion the ruine of that execrable Faction For to intimidate the Parliament which oppos'd their unjust and violent Undertakings and had newly acquitted one of those whom they accus'd of holding Correspondence with the Royalists and to revenge themselves of the President Brisson who had advertis'd the Duke of Mayenne that those Villains had written to the King of Spain and offer'd him the Crown on the fifteenth of November very early in the Morning they seiz'd that worthy Gentleman together with the Sieur Larcher a Counsellor of Parliament and the Sieur Tardif his great Friends and Confidents carry'd them one after the other to the Petit Chastelet and there having first declar'd them by their own private Authority without other form of Process to be attainted and convict of Treason for having favour'd the Party of the King of Navarre they order'd them to be hang'd on a Beam of the Council Chamber and the next day ty'd them to three Gibbets in the Place of the Greve having each of them an Inscription fastned to him signifying that they were Traytors to their Country and favourers of Hereticks They believ'd that by this means the People imagining that those unfortunate men intended to have sold them to the Enemy wou'd approve that action but on the contrary every one shook with horror at so piteous a Spectacle Even those who were of their Faction detested in their hearts this horrible Cruelty and there were none who had not reason to fear that their own Lives might every moment be expos'd to the fury of those Tyrants if some speedy stop were not put to the course of their outragious Proceedings For which reason when the Duke of Mayenne had receiv'd Notice of it at Laon where he then was and was withal advertis'd that those furious People had incurr'd the general Hatred and that they said openly that they wou'd do as much to him as they had done to others he came at length to be of Opinion that he might saâ—ely punish them without fear of a Rising in their Favour Upon which he entred Paris with the Forces which he had about him forc'd Bussy le Clerc to surrender the Bastile into his hands and after having laid the Faction asleep by a seeming negligence for some few days while they believ'd that he had satisfyed himself with the Reproof which he had given them in the Town-house where he only advis'd them to be more moderate he condemn'd nine of them to death without observing more formalities than they had us'd on the like occasion Four of them namely Ameline Emonot Anroux and Commissary Louchard who were apprehended on the fourth of September betimes in the morning at their houses were brought to the Louvre where the Duke of Mayenne as they were told desir'd to speak with them But upon their entrance they found the Sieur de Vitry who caus'd their Sentence to be read to them And at the same time the Executioner who stood ready with his Servants his Halters and his Ladder hung them up all four on a Beam in the Swisses Hall The remaining five amongst whom was Bussy Le Clerc having receiv'd intimation that they were to be taken sav'd themselves by flying into Flanders where they dy'd of want being unreliev'd and forsaken by all mankind The Duke was contented to punish the rest in their purses by forcing them to refund the wealth which they had scrapâ—d together during their Tyranny with so much rapine and oppression And to cut up by the roots those evils which proceeded from the licentious meetings of the Sixteen particularly at the houses of the two Curats Bouchâ—r and Pelletier as also to free the Citizens from their arbitrary power of commanding them to Arm when they thought good which they durst never disobey he caus'd to be verified in Parliament and publish'd an Ordinance by which all persons were prohibited on pain of Life and especially those who were called The Council of Sixteen to hold any more Assemblies And all the Officers Colonels Captains Lieutenants Ensigns of the Town and most considerabâ—e Citizens joyning with him to take from that accursed Race of factious men all farther power of harming either the publick or private persons they all swore and made a promise to Almighty God on the Holy Evangelists neither to take Arms themselves nor permit others to take Arms or to assemble themselves together unless by authority from the Duke of Mayenne or the Provost of Merchants and the Sheriffs who were his Creatures To fall on all such who shou'd presume to Arm or to Assemble and to use them like Traytors Mutineers and Persons guilty of Impiety and High-Treason And if they shou'd discover any attempt or secret conspiracy to give notice of it to the Magistrates to the end the Authors and Accomplices of it might be brought to condign punishment and themselves might live in peace and quietness in the fear of God and under the protection of the Laws I have seen in the Library of Monsieur Colbert which is stor'd with great numbers of excellent Manuscripts and most authentick pieces the Original of this Oath in Parchmentâ— sign'd by five hundred fifty eight Persons whereof two hundred sixty four sign'd on the fifth of September the day after the Execution of the four who were hang'd at the Louvre and the rest on the twenty third of December and the tenth of Ianuary in the year following This was the fatal blow which beat down the Faction of the Sixteen which from that time forward was so far disarm'd and weakn'd that it never durst offer at any thing more which was one of the principal Causes of the Freedom and in consequence of the peaceable Reduction of Paris to the Obedience of the King For which reason I believe my Reader will be glad to be acquainted with the Names of some amongst them who by the great Zeal which they testify'd on that occasion to assure the Peace and Liberty of Paris had the Happiness and Glory to have much contributed to the accomplishment of so good a Work I cou'd not here insert five hundred Names without tiring the Patience of my Reader who will therefore satisfy himself with those few which I have selected from so great a number be-because they appear to me to be the best known and the most remarkable amongst them Nicholay Thiersaut Le Fevre L' Huillier Parfait Rouilliard Pasquier Boulanger Blondel Rolland Hebers Des Cominges Amelot D' Aubray and P. Le Tellier The Duke of Mayenne having in this manner re-establish'd his own Authority and the security of Paris by
especially after they had begun to taste the Sweets of Peace by means of the Truce which being earnestly desir'd by the great Cities was concluded for three moneths beginning four days after the Conversion 'T is true the Duke of Mayenne fearing that it wou'd soon deprive him of the Authority which he enjoy'd as Lieutenant of the Crown procur'd in his pretended Estates that the Oath shou'd be renew'd of perseverance in the Union and obedience to the Pope's Decrees He went yet farther for in order to oblige his Holiness always to support his Party he caus'd the Estates to confirm the Declaration which he had made for the publishing of the Council of Trent though they had formerly inroll'd the Exceptions which they had made in bar of it containing 23 Articles which were held to be inconsistent with the Royal Prerogative of our Kings and the Liberties of the Gallican Church But in conclusion neither that Publication which they had no great mind to make valid had any effect neither did the Oath which they had taken hinder them from treating privately and considering of the best methods to receive the King into Paris in spight of the Duke of Mayenne But that which wholly turn'd the Ballance and made the justice of his Cause apparent in the eyes of all men reducing almost all his Subjects to their Duty was that according to his promise he sent the Duke of Nevers to Rome to render that filial Obedience which is owing to his Holiness from the most Christian Kings and to desire that Absolution which they believ'd at Rome the Pope had only power to give him This met with great Obstructions and Pope Clement being earnestly solicited by the Spaniards who us'd their utmost Endeavours to hinder him from granting it refus'd it for a long time together after a manner which was somewhat disrespectful to so great a King But when his Holiness perceiv'd that he began to be less courted for his Gift and that it was believ'd in France considering what Applications had been made that the King had done all which cou'd reasonably be expected on his part and consequently no farther Absolution was necessary he advanc'd of his own accord as fast as they went back and encourag'd them to renew that Negotiation which had been wholly given over by the Duke of Nevers whom he wouâ—d not receive as the Ambassador of the King of France and who for that Reason he was departed from Rome in Discontent The King therefore being desirous to omit nothing on that occasion which cou'd be expected from a most religious Prince nam'd two new Deputies and both great Men Iacques David du Perron and Arnaud d' Ossat whose extraordinary Deserts were not long after rewarded with Cardinalships and they acted both of them with so much prudence that after many Disputes and Difficulties rais'd by the Spaniards both concerning the Essentials and the Formalities of that Affair the Pope at length resolv'd on giving a second Absolution and to keep himself precisely within the bounds of spiritual authority without mentioning the Rehabilitation to which he pretended For they wou'd not admit that term by which it might have seem'd that the Crown of France which depends on God alone shou'd either directly or indirectly be subjected to the Pope In this manner that Absolution which had been desir'd almost two years before that time was given at Rome on the sixteenth of September in the year 1595. by which it is easie to be observ'd that the League had not the mortal blow from thence but on the contrary that which made the Pope so pliable was that he saw the League was going to destruction In effect as when the two great Pillars which sustain'd the Palace of the Philistims were overthrown by the strength of Sampson all the Building went to the ground so when those two specious pretences of the Publick Good and of Religion which the Heads of the League had taken for the Columns of their Fabrick were thrown down by the Conversion of the King and that Conversion known to be real notwithstanding all the jugglings of the Spaniards who wou'd have rendred it suspected that impious Building already more than half ruin'd and now having not the least support fell down of it self and came to nothing Insomuch that in the year ensuing almost all the Heads and all the Cities of the League made each of them their separate Treaty with the King who was better pleas'd to win upon their hearts by gentle means with his admirable clemency and Fatherly goodness granting them advantageous conditions which did him the more honour the less they had deserv'd them than to force them as he was able by his victorious Arms to return to their duty in their own despight As the Marquess dâ— Vitry was the first who forsook the Kings Party after the death of Henry the Third entring into that of the League which at that time he believ'd to be the juster Cause he was also the first who being disabus'd of that false opinion return'd to his obedience with the Town of Meaux of which he was Governor The Sieur da la Chastre immediately follow'd his example and brought back with him Orleans and Bourges The Lionnois after they had shaken off the yoke of the Duke of Nemours whom they kept Prisoner in Pierre Encise and that of the Duke of Mayenne his Brother by the Mothers side who had underhand wrought them to secure him that he might joyn his Government of Bourgogne to that of Lionnois and set up a kind of independent principality in both turn'd the Leaguers out of the Town and declar'd unanimously for the King Provence was the first of all the Provinces which openly disown'd the Party of the League taking up Arms at the same time against the Savoyards and the Duke of Espernon who had possess'd himself of that Government against the Kings Will. This voluntary reduction was made by the courage and good management of four brave Gentlemen of the House of Fourbin one of the most Noble and most remarkable Families of Provence Their Names were Palamede de Fourbin Lord of Soliers and his two Sons Iaspar de Soliers and Saint Canat and Nicholas de Fourbin Knight of Malta with whom joyn'd Melchior de Fourbin Sieur de Ianson Baron of Ville-Laure and Mane These being related by kindred and alliance to Iohn de Pontevez Count de Carces Governor and Grand Seneschal of Provence whose two Sisters were married to Ianson and Saint Canat wrought so well with him that they brought him over from the League of which he had declar'd himself Head after the death of Monsieur de Vins his Nephew who was kill'd with a Musquet Shot as he was besieging Grasse After which having perswaded the greatest part of the Nobility and Gentry to enter into their confederacy the Count without much trouble reduc'd the City of Aix and the Parliament of that place which reunited it self at the
Joyeuse prodigiously 192 193 His smart and majestical Answer to the Ambassadors of the Protestant Princes of Germany that press'd him to revoke his Edicts against the Huguenots 158 159. His Confrery and Processions of Penitents 173 His close design in the War which he is constrain'd to make against his will 333 He puts himself at the Head of his Army at Gien upon Loir and opposes the passage of the Army of the Reyters 260 He testifies his too much weakness and his too much fear of the Seditious whom he durst not punish Pag. 305 He is contented to reprehend the seditious Doctors and Preachers in lieu of punishing them 308 He incenses the Duke of Guise in refusing him the Admiralty which he had ask'd for Brissac 312 313 Makes a resolution at last to punish the Leaguers 332 333 His irresolution when he sees the Duke of Guise at the Louvre 200 201 c. Makes the Guards and the Swisses enter Paris 208 209 The excessive Demands they made him at the Barricades 359 360 361 Goes from Paris in poor equipage and retires to Chartres 363 364 He favourably hearkens to them who with Frier Ange de Joyeuse went in Procession at Chartres to ask his pardon 367 368 369 His profound dissimulation 325 375 c. Causes the Edict of Re-union to be publish'd in favour of the League 378 379 Lets loose the marks of his choler and indignation which he would conceal 382 383 Opens the second Estates where be communicates with the Duke of Guise 385 386 His Oration which checks the Leaguers ib. 387 His extreme indignation by reason of the unworthy Resolutions which they took against his Authority in the Estates Pag. 392 393 Is resolved to have the Duke of Guise kill'd 394 c. Causes him to be kill'd in his Chamber 400 401 c. Causes the Cardinal de Guise to be kill'd 410 411 Writes to the Legat Morosini and gives him Audience three days after to declare to him his Reasons 413 Maintains that he hath incurr'd no Censure and has no need of Absolution 415 In lieu of arming he amuses himself in making Declarations which are slighted and contemn'd 425 Makes great offers to the Duke of Mayenne in vain 454 Takes rigorous courses but too late 464 465 How and why he treats with the King of Navarre 466 467 Offers very advantageous Conditions to the Princes of Lorrain 472 473 Publishes and causes to be executed his Treaty with the King of Navarre 477 His Conference with this King at Tours 478 Marches in the Body of the Army with the King of Navarre towards Paris 492 Receives and dissembles the News of the Monitory against him 494 Takes up his quarters at St. Clou and is unhappily kill'd 509 510 c. His most christian and most holy Death and Elogy 514 515 c. Henry de Bourbon King of Navarre protests against the first Estates at Blois Pag. 61 His Conference with the Duke d'Espernon about the Subject of his Conversion 86 87 c. His Fidelity towards Henry III. 109 His forcible Declaration against the Leaguers 117 118 Gives the Duke of Guise the Lye in writing and offers to fight him to save the French Blood ib. Draws the Marshal de Damville to his side against the League 124 He desir'd not the ruine of Religion but of the League to preserve the Monarchy 126 Causes his Protestation against Sixtus Quintus's Bull to be fixt upon the Gates of the Vatican in Rome 137 138 His Conference with the Queen Mother at St. Brix 161 162 His Exploits against the Army at Joyeuse 197 c. His Valour and good Conduct at the Battel of Courtras 202 204 c. His Clemency after his Victory 227 He knew not how to or would not make use of his Victory 228 Assembles the Estates on his side at Rochel at the same time that the Estates were held at Blois 390 His proceedings after the death of the Guises 467 His Declaration to all Frenchmen Pag. 468 He treats with and is united to the King 470 471 His Conference with the King at Tours 478 His march towards Paris 492 493 He succeeds Henry III. and is acknowledg'd for King of France by the Catholics of the Army upon certain conditions 734 Divides his Troops into three parts and carries one into Normandy 736 His Conduct and Valour at the Battel of Arques 741 c. Attaques and takes the Suburbs of Paris 752 c. Besieges Dreux 769 Gives and gains the Battel of Ivry 770 c. His Exploits after his Victory 795 c. Is repulsed before Sens. ib. Besieges Paris 796 Why he would not attaque it by Force 800 Rejects the Proposition which they made him to surrender Paris provided he would become Catholic 809 c. Pursues the Duke of Parma just to Artois 816 817 The two Attempts he made unsuccessfully to surprize Paris 811 816 c. He takes Noyen 844 Besieges Roan 845 His Combat and Retreat from Aumale 847 Raises the Siege of Roan and a little while after besieges the Duke of Parma's Army 852 c. His proceedings after the Retreat of that Duke Pag. 861 The History of his Conversion 900 c. The Points upon which he causes himself to be instructed 918 919 c. He makes his solemn Abjuration and receives Absolution at St. Denis 927 928 Sends the Duke of Nevers to Rome in Obedience and to ask the Pope's Absolution who after having long time deâ—err'd it at last gives it him 932 933 c. His happy entrance into Paris 938 939 His heroic Valour at the Combat of Fontain Francois 948 c. Grants a Treaty and very favourable Edict to the Duke of Mayenne 954 His rare bounty in receiving him at Monceaux 955 Anthony Hotman Advocate General for the League at the Parliament of Paris is Author of the Treaty of the Right of Uncle against the Nephew 738 c. Francis Hotman a Civilian Brother to the Advocate refutes his Book without knowing that it was his Brothers ib. The Huguenots have the advantage in the first War that Henry III. made against them 7 8 They become powerful by joining with the politick Party ib. They were the first that leagued themselves against the Kings 14 James de Humieres Governor of Peronne his Elogy and what made him begin the League in Picardy Pag. 22 23 Charles de Humieres Marquis d'Encre Governor of Campeigne for the King 486 Is the cause of gaining the Battel of Senlis ib. c. His Elogy ib. c. Carries a great supply of the Nobles of Picardy to the King at the Battel of Ivry 781 I. JAmes Clement the History of his abominable Parricide 508 509 c. The President Jeannin sent by the Duke of Mayenne into Spain 830 His Elogy ib. His prudent Negotiation with the King of Spain 833 Ten Jesuits save Paris which had been taken by scaling the walls if they had been asleep as all the rest were 813
The disposal of his Army the order of the Attacque the Fight the entire defeat of the Reyters without any loss on his side The Treaty of the Duke of Espernon with the remainders of those Germans their lamentable return The Duke of Guise pursues them to the Frontiers of Germany he permits the County of Mont Beliard to be plunder'd The insolence of the Leaguers after that Victory The too great goodness of the King of which the seditious make advantage The horrible flying out of Prevost Curate of St. Severin and of Boucher Curate of St. Bennet The day of St. Severin The scandalous Decree of the faction of Doctours in the Sorbonne who were for the Sixteen The Duke of Guise is refus'd the Office of Admiral which he demands for Brissac and it is given to the Duke of Espernon his Enemy The Character and Pourtraict of that Duke The Haâ—e which is born him the Indignation of the Duke of Guise for his refusal and for the advancement of his Enemy makes him resolve to push his Fortune to the utmost The Contents of the Third Book MAny Prodigies which presag'd the evils to come The Conference at Nancy of all the Princes of the House of Lorrain The Articles of the Request which they present to the King against the Royal Authority The Dissimulation of the King finding himself prest to answer it precisely The Death of the Prince of Condè the Encomium of that Prince the King at length takes up a resolution to punish the Sixteen His preparations for it the allarm of it taken by the Parisians they implore the Assistance of the Duke of Guise who promises to give it Monsieur de Bellievre carries him the King's Orders to Soissons which are that he shou'd not come to Paris The Answer which he made to Bellievre notwithstanding that Order He comes to Paris The description of his Entry with acclamations and extraordinary transports of joy of the Parisians The irresolution of the King when he saw him at the Louvre That which past at their interview and in the Queens Garden The King commands all Strangers to depart from Paris The Leaguers oppose it the description of the day of the Barricades The Count of Brisâ—ac begins them they are carried on within 50 paces of the Louvre the Duke of Guise stops the Citizens and causes the King's Souldiers to be Disarm'd and then reconducted into the Louvre The true design of the Duke on the day of the Barricades his excessive demands The King fearing to be incompast departs out of Paris in a pityfull Equipage The Queen Mother negotiates an accommodation The Duke of Guise cunningly Reingages her in his interest the request which he caus'd to be presented to the King containing Articles very prejudicial to his Authority the dissimulation of the King the Banishment of the Duke of Espernon the new Treaty of the King with the Lords of the League the Edict of Reunion against the Huguenots in favour of the League the signs of the King's indignation which brake out from him and which he wou'd have hidden the Estates of Blois the King's Speech at which the Leaguers are offended The Duke of Guise is Master there and causes resolutions to be taken against the Authority of the King and against the King of Navarre whom the Estates declare incapable of succeeding to the Crown to which the King will not consent He at length takes a resolution to rid himself of the Duke of Guise the secret Counsell which is held concerning it The Advertisement which the Duke receives of it The Counsell which is given him and which he will not follow The History of his Tragical Death the Imprisonment of the principal Leaguers Davila manifestly convinc'd of falsehood in the relation which he makes of the conference betwixt the King and the Legat. The Note of the King to Cardinal Morosini The Conference which he had with that Cardinal concerning the death of the Guises the resentment of Pope Sixtus for the same the strong remonstrances which were made him by the Cardinal of Joyeuse The opinion of that Pope against the League and against the Guises He suspends the expedition of all Bulls till the King shall send to demand absolution What the Cardinal of Joyeuse remonstrates to him thereupon the unprofitable declarations which the King makes to justifie his action instead of preparing for War The Duke of Mayenne flies from Lyons into Burgundy where he is absolutely Master The insurrection of Paris on the news of the death of the Guises The furious Sermons of the Preachers of the League the horrible impudence of Guincesâ—re Curate of St. Gervais who Preaching at St. Barâ—holomew Commands his Auditours to lift up their hands and also the first President The horrible flying out of the Curate Pigenat in the Funeral Oration which he made for the Duke of Guise The scandalous Decree of the Sorbonne in which it is declar'd that the French are releas'd from their Oath of Allegiance made to the King The furious excess of rage in the Leaguers in pursuit of that decree against the King They commit all sorts of Outrages against him The death of Queen Catharine of Medicis her Commendation and Pourtraict The King sends the Dutchess of Nemours to Paris to appease the Troubles there The extravagance of the petty Feuillant Bussy le Clerc carries the Parliament Prisoners to the Bastille the commendations of the first President Achilles de Harley the names of the Presidents and of the Counsellours who follow'd him The President Brisson at the Head of the new Parliament of the League which makes a solemn Oath to revenge the death of the Guises The Leaguers use enchantments against the King at the same time that Guincesâ—re accuses him of magick art in a full Congregation The arrival of the Duke of Mayenne his Encomium and his Pourtraict The King makes him great offers in vain His fortunate beginnings the great number of Towns which throw themselves into his party His Entry into Paris He weakens the Counsell of Sixteen by encreasing their number He causes himself to be declar'd Lieutenant General of the State and Crown of France The King takes though too late the ways of force and rigour The Reasons which oblige him to unite himself with the King of Navarre the treaty of that Vnion the advantageous offers which the King makes to the Lorrain Princes who refuse them the fruitless Conference of Cardinal Morosini with the Duke of Mayenne The performance of the treaty of the two Kings their declarations their interview at Tours The Exploits of the Duke of Mayenne He assaults and carries the Suburbs of Tours His return without having perform'd ought beside The Siege and Battel of Senlis where the Parisians are defeated the defeat of the Troups of the Sieur de Saveuse by Chastillon The Exploits of the King his March towards Paris at Estampes he receives the news of the thundering Monitory of Pope Sixtus against
In the third Article the Associates assume to themselves to be Masters of the State while under pretence of reforming it they ridiculously take upon them to abrogate the Laws observ'd by our Ancestours in the second and third race of our Kings and wou'd establish the customes and uâ—ances which were practis'd in the time of Clovis which is just the same thing that certain Enthusiasts sometimes have attempted in the Church who under the specious names of the Reform'd and Primitive Church endeavoured to revive some ancient Canons which now for many ages have not been observ'd and gave themselves the liberty to condemn the practices and customes authoriz'd by the Church of remisness and abuse since it belongs onely to the Church according to the diversity of times and of occasions to make new regulations in its Government and Discipline without touching the capital points that relate to the Essentials of Religion To conclude from the fourth Article to the twelfth there are visible all the marks and the foulest characters of a Rebellion form'd and undertaken against their Prince particularly where there is promis'd an exact obedience in all things to the Head whom they shall elect and that they will employ their lives and fortunes in his service that in all Provinces they will levy Souldiers and raise money for the support of the common cause and that all those who shall declare themselves against the League shall be vigorously prosecuted by the Associates who shall revenge themselves without exception of person which in the true meaning is no other thing than the setting up a second King in France in opposition to the first against whom they engag'd themselves to take Arms in these terrible words without exception of person in case he should go about to hinder so criminal an usurpation of his Royal Authority Such was the Copy of the League in those twelve Articles which were Printed and dispers'd through all Christendom as we are inform'd by an Authour who was contemporary to it and has given it at large in his History of the War under Henry the Fourth But being conceiv'd in certain terms which are too bold and which manifestly shock the Royal Majesty Monsieur d' Humieres a prudent man reduc'd them into a form incomparably less odious in which preserving the Essentials of the League of which he was Head in Picardy he appears notwithstanding to do nothing but by the authority and for the service of the King Now as it is extremely important to understand throughly this Treaty of Peronne from which the League had its beginning which is not to be found in any of our Authours and the Original of which I have as it was sign'd by almost two hundred Gentlemen and after them by the Magistrates and Officers of Peronne I thought I shou'd gratifie my Readers by communicating to them a piece so rare and so Authentique which has luckily fallen into my hands They will be glad to see in it the Genius the reach and the policy of that dextrous Governour and Lieutenant to the King who in declaring himself Head of the League in his Province and procuring it to be sign'd by so great a number of Gentlemen took so much care to make it manifest at least in appearance that he intended always to give to Caesar what belong'd to Caesar and that the Imperial rights should be inviolably preserv'd in that Treaty For they protest in all their Articles and that with all manner of respect in the most formal terms that nothing shall be done but with his good liking and by his Orders though in pursuance of this all things were manag'd to a quite contrary end But it frequently happens that men engage themselves with an honest meaning and are led by motives of true zeal in some aâ—fairs whereof they foresee not the dangerous consequences which produce such pernicious effects as never enter'd into their first imagination Behold then this Treaty in eighteen Articles together with the subscriptions of the Gentlemen and Officers whereof some are written in such awkward Characters and so little legible that I could never have unriddled them without the assistence of a person very skilfull in that difficult art of deciphering all sorts of ancient writing I mean Don Iohn Hericart an ancient man in Holy Orders of the Abbey of St. Nicholas aux Bois in Picardy who having labour'd to place in their due order and to copy out the Titles and Authentique piâ—câ—s of many ancient Monasteries applies himself at present by permission from my Lord Bishop of Laon his superiour to a work so necessary in the Treasury of Chartres and in the famous Library of the Abbey Royal of St. Victor of Paris where he has found wherewithall to exercise the talent of the most knowing on a great number of Titles of more than six hundred years standing and above three thousand Manuscripts of the rarest and most Ancient sort which compose the most pretious part of that excellent and renowned Library 'T is then to this man's industry that I am owing for this piece and to deal sincerely so as not to pass my conjectures on the Reader for solid truths I have left Blanks for two of their names because the letters which compos'd them cou'd never be certainly distinguish'd The Association made betwixt the Princes Lords Gentlemen and others as well of the State Ecclesiastique as of the Noblesse and third Estate Subjects and Inhabitants of the Countrey of Picardy IN the Name of the Holy Trinity and of the Communication of the pretious body of Jesus Christ. We have promis'd and sworn upon the Holy Gospels and upon our Lives Honours and Estates to pursue and keep inviolably the things herein agreed and by us subscribed on pain of being for ever declared forsworn and infamous and held to be men unworthy of all Gentility and Honour First of all it being known that the great practices and Conspiracies made against the honour of God the Holy Catholick Church and against tâ—e Estate and Monarchy of this Realm of France as well by some Subjects of the same as by Foreigners and the long and continual wars and Civil divisions have so much weakened our Kings and reduc'd them to such necessity that it is no longer possible for them of themselves to sustain the expence convenient and expedient for the preservation of our Religion nor hereafter to maintain us under their protection in surety of our persons families and fortunes in which we have heretofore received so much loss and damage We have judged it to be most necessary and seasonable to render in the first place the honour which we owe to God to the manutention of our Catholique Religion and even to shew our selves more affectionate for the preservation of it than such as are strayed from the good Religion are for the advancement of a new and false opinion And to this effect we swear and promise to employ our selves with all our
to raise him to that high degree of power which seem'd to equal him with the King himself who in effect already look'd on him as his Rival and as such hated him without daring as yet to enterprise ought against him to prevent his designs or to shelter himself against the mischief which he apprehended from him The people united themselves to him as to their Protectour and the pillar of Religion Most of the great men at Court discontented at the Government threw themselves into his party the Ladies from whom the Minions cou'd hold nothing disclos'd to him all the secrets of the Cabinet to revenge themselves of the King whom they hated mortally for certain reasons not so fit to be divulg'd He was offer'd to have the Dukes of Lorrain and Savoy in his interests who both hop'd to draw great advantages from the League and principally so powerfull a Prince as the King of Spain who 〈◊〉 him two hundred thousand Livres of â—ension besides the Sums he wou'd furnish for the levying of his Troops These were indeed strong temptations to a Prince of his humour and who was inclin'd to throw at all But that which gave the last stroke to his determination was the death of Monsieur the King 's onely Brother who after his unsuccessfull Enterprise on Antwerp having been constrain'd to return dishonourably into France dy'd at Chateau de Thierry either of Melancholy or of his old Debauches or as the common report was of poison For about that time it was that believing the King wou'd have no Children and that the King of Navarre might be excluded with ease from the succession for more than one reason which he hop'd to make authentique rather by force of Arms than by the Writings of the Doctours of his Faction and that the Queen Mother who hated her Son-in-Law Navarre had the same inclination to exclude him thereby to advance her Grand-Child the Prince of Lorrain to the Kingdom he rais'd his imagination to higher hopes than what he had formerly conceiv'd when first the Cardinal of Lorrain his Uncle had drawn the platform of a Catholique League whereof he might make himself the Head And on these grounds without farther balancing the matter he resolv'd to take up Arms and to make War against the King But to make so criminal an enterprise more plausible there was yet wanting a pretence which in some sort might justifie his actions to the World And fortune produc'd it for him to as much advantage as he cou'd desire almost at the same time when he had taken up so strange a resolution As it was impossible that so great a Conspiracy shou'd be manag'd with such secrecy that the King shou'd not be advertis'd of it which in effect he was from many hands That Prince who had suffer'd his natural courage to be made effeminate by the laziness of a voluptuous retir'd Life was become exceeding timorous and incapable of coming to any resolution within himself to stifle in its birth so horrible a mischief by some generous action and some Master stroke had a desire to have near him his Brother-in-Law the King of Navarre whom he acknowledg'd according to the Salique Law for the Heir presumptive of the Crown and knew him to be the man who was most capable of breaking all the measures of the Duke of Guise But foreseeing that in order to this it was necessary that he who was Head of the Huguenots shou'd first renounce his Heresie and be reconcil'd to the Catholique Church he dispatch'd the Duke of Espernon to him in Guyenne to perswade him to a thing of so much consequence to the reeâ—tablishment of his fortune and his true interest both Spiritual and Temporal As that Prince had always protested with much sincerity that he was of no obstinate disposition and that he was most ready to embrace the truth when once it were made to appear such to him he receiv'd the Duke with exceeding kindness to whom he gave a private audience in his Closset in presence of the Lord of Roquelaure his Confident of a Minister of his own Religion and of the President Ferrier his Chancellour who had always lean'd to the opinion of the Huguenots of which at last he made profession in his extreme old age and some little time before his death In plain terms that Conference was not manag'd very regularly nor with extraordinary sincerity for Espernon and Roquelaure who were no great Doctours propos'd nothing but humanâ— reasons for his Conversion and alledg'd no stronger arguments than what were drawn from the Crown of France which they preferr'd incomparably beyond the Psalms of Marot the Lords Supper and all the Sermons of the Ministers But on the other side the Minister and the President who were much better vers'd in disputation than the two Courtiers to destroy those weak reasons of secular interest produc'd no motives but what they affirm'd to be altogether spiritual and Soul saving and the word of God which they expounded to their own meaning to which those Noble Lords who understood nothing of those matters had not the least syllable to answer Insomuch that the King of Navarre who piqu'd himself extremely upon the point of generosity looking on it as a most honourable action for him to undervalue so great a Crown at the rate of selling his Conscience and Religion for it the Duke was constrain'd to return as he came without having obtain'd any thing toward the satisfaction of the King But what was yet more displeasing in that affair was that Monsieur du Plessis Mornay a Gentleman of an ancient and illustrious Family a great wit whose Learning was extraordinary for a man of his Quality and who besides made use of his Pen as well as of his Sword but above all a most zealous Protestant put this conference into writing which he also publish'd in which having expos'd what was urg'd on both sides he pretends to manifest the advantage which his Religion had against the Catholique and that the King of Navarre being evidently convinc'd of the weakness of our cause was thereby more than ever confirm'd in his own opinion This was the reason why the Factious and the Catholiques who were heated with a false Zeal began to fly out immoderately against the King whom they charg'd with a thousand horrible calumnies publishing in all places that he kept Correspondence with the King of Navarre to whom he had sent Espernon not with intention of converting him but rather of confirming him in his Errours as it appear'd sufficiently by the proceedings of that conference where nothing was urg'd to the advantage of Religion but on the contrary all things in favour of Huguenotism And it hapning almost at the same time that the King in order to hinder the Huguenots from resuming their Arms against the Leaguers who had provok'd them by committing many outrages against them without punishment thought himself oblig'd to grant them that prolongation which the King
to the King who not being resolv'd what to answer them for fear of provoking the League in case he shou'd grant them their demands or of drawing on himself the united Forces of almost all the Protestants of Germany in case of a refusal to gain time took a Progress as far as Lyons while the Deputies of those Princes were at Paris which caus'd the Count of Montbeliard and the Count of Isembourg who were the chief of that Embassy to return But so did not the rest as being obstinately set down to wait the King's return who was at last constrain'd being overcome by their extreme persistance whom he well hop'd to have tir'd first to give them the Audience which they demanded He who was spokesman for the rest loosing all manner of respect made a blunt and haughty Speech reproching him in certain terms which were but too intelligible that against his Conscience and his Honour he had violated his faith so solemnly given to his most faithfull Subjects of the Protestant Religion to whom he had promis'd the free exercise of it they remaining as since that time they had always done in that perfect obedience which is due from Subjects to their Sovereigns That Prince who at other times was but too meek and patient or rather too weak and timorous was so much offended at this brutal insolence that he was not able to curb himself from breaking out into choler on this occasion For he repli'd smartly to them with that air of Majesty and fierceness which he knew well to take up whensoever it pleas'd him that as he had not taken the liberty to give Laws to their Masters of ruling their Estates according to their own liking and changing the Civil and Religious constitution of their Government so neither on his side wou'd he suffer them to intermeddle in those alterations which he thought fit to make in his Edicts according to the diversity of times and of occasions for the good of his People of whom the greatest part depended on the true Roman Catholique Religion which the most Christian Kings his Predecessours had ever maintain'd in France to the exclusion of all others Afterwards retiring into his Cabinet where after he had revolv'd in his mind what had been said on either part he was of opinion that his Answer had not been sharp enough he sent them by one of the Secretaries of State a Paper written with his own hand which was read to them and in which he gave the Lie in formal terms to all those who said he had done against his Honour or violated his Faith in revoking the Edict of May by that of Iuly after which it was told them from him that they had no more to doe than to return home without expecting any farther Audience This was certainly an Answer worthy of a great Monarch had he maintain'd it by his actions as well as by his words and had he not shewn by his after conduct the fear he had of this irruption of the Germans For in order to prevent it he seem'd to descend too much from that high and Supreme Majesty of a King by treating almost upon terms of equality with the Duke of Guise and offering him besides whatever advantages he cou'd wish in Honours and in Pensions and many Towns for his security which had made him a kind of Independant Royalty in the Kingdome on this onely condition that he would be reconcil'd to the King of Navarre and give him leave to live in quiet as if it were the Duke and not the King who had the power of giving Peace Though these advantageous proffers were sufficient to have tempted the Duke's ambition nevertheless he wou'd not accept them because he hop'd to satisfie it much better by continuing the War in which he had engag'd the King who was not able to recall his promise besides he was not willing to destroy the opinion which the people had conceiv'd of him that he acted by no motive of self-interest but onely for the Cause of God and of Religion This expedient of Peace therefore failing the King who had ardently desir'd it he employ'd another which was to intreat Q. Katharine de Medices to confer with the King of Navarre her Son-in-Law to try if by her usual arts she cou'd induce him to some accommodation which might be satisfactory to the League and stop the Germans of whose Succours his peace once made that King wou'd have no farther use The Queen Mother who at that time desir'd the peace at least as much as he because she fear'd to be left at the discretion of either of the two parties by whom she was equally hated willingly accepted that Commission grounding her hopes on those tricks and artificial ways by which she had so often succeeded on the like occasions Having then advanc'd as far as Champigny a fair house belonging to the Duke of Montpensier she manag'd the matter in such sort by the mediation of that Prince who went to visit the King of Navarre from her that it was agreed there shou'd be a Conference After many difficulties which were rais'd concerning it and which with much canvasing they got over the place was appointed to be St. Brix a Castle near Cognac belonging to the Sieur de Fo rs who was of the King's party She came thither attended by the Dukes of Montpensier and of Nevers Marshal Biron and some other Lords who were no friends to the Guises or the Leaguers to the end that Conference might be the more amicable The King of Navarre came also thither with the Prince of Condè Vicount de Turenne and some others the most considerable of their Party It appear'd manifestly at this Enterview that the Queen held no longer that Authority which had been yielded to her in the former Conferences wherein she had carried all things according to her own desire by the wonderfull Ascendant which she had over their minds And she understood but too well from the very beginning that she had to doe with such as were distrustfull of her subtilties and who wou'd not suffer themselves to be surpris'd easily as some of them had been on St. Bartholomew's day whereof they had not yet worn out the remembrance For they wou'd never adventure themselves all three together in the Chamber appointed for the Conference when the King of Navarre was there the Prince and Vicount well accompanied made a guard at the door and when either of the other two enter'd the King of Navarre and the other did the like for him that they might not put themselves unwarily into her hands on whose word they had no reason to rely and who dar'd not to arrest any of them singly the two remaining being at liberty and in condition to give themselves satisfaction on the Aggressours Thus being too suspicious and their minds too much embitter'd to act calmly and reasonably in this Conference it went off in three Enterviews which were made in resenting
be declar'd to have forfeited for ever their right of succeeding to the Crown That the Duke of Espernoâ— La Valeite his Brother Francis d' O. the Marshals of Retz and of Biron Colonel Alphonso d' Ornano and all others who like them were favourers of the Huguenots or were found to have held any correspondence with them shou'd be depriv'd of their Governments and Offices and banish'd from the Court without hope of ever being restor'd again That the spoils of all these shou'd be given to the Princes of his House and to those Lords who had ingag'd with him of whom he made a long List That the King shou'd casheer his Guard of five and forty as a thing unknown in the times of his Predecessours protesting that otherwise he cou'd place no manner of confidence in him nor ever dare to approach his person That it wou'd please his Majesty to declare him his Lieutenant General through all his Estates with the same Authority which the late Duke of Guise his Father had under the Reign of Francis the Second by virtue of which he hop'd to give him so good an account of the Huguenots that in a little time there shou'd remain no other but the Catholique Religion in all his Kingdom To conclude that there shou'd be call'd immediately an Assembly of the three Estates to sit at Paris where all this shou'd be confirm'd and to hinder for the future that the Minions who wou'd dispose of all things at their pleasure shou'd not abuse their favour that there shou'd be establish'd an unchangeable form of Government which it shou'd not be in the power of the King to alter 'T is most evident that Demands so unreasonable so arrogant and so offensive tended to put the Government and the power of it into the Duke's hands who being Master of the Armies the Offices and the Governments of the most principal Provinces in his own person by his Relations his Creatures and the Estates where he doubted not of carrying all before him especially at Paris wou'd be the absolute disposer of Affairs Insomuch that there wou'd be nothing wanting to him but the Crown it self to which 't is very probable that at this time he pretended in case he shou'd survive the King to the exclusion of the Bourbons whom he wou'd have declar'd incapable of succeeding to it For which reason the Queen seeing that he wou'd recede from no part of these Articles and beginning to fear that he wou'd go farther than she desir'd counsell'd the King to get out of Paris with all speed while it was yet in his power so to do And though some of his chief Officers as amongst others the Chancellour de Chiverny and the Sieurs of Villeroy and Villequier who were of opinion that more wou'd be gain'd by the Negotiation and who foresaw that the Huguenots and the Duke of Espernon whom they had no great cause to love wou'd make their advantage of this retreat so unworthy of a King endeavour'd to dissuade him from it yet a thousand false advertisements which came every moment that they were going to invest the Louvre and his accustom'd fear together with the diffidence he had of the Duke of Guise whom he consider'd at that time as his greatest Enemy caus'd him at the last to resolve on his departure Accordingly about noon the next day while the Queen Mother went to the Duke with propositions onely to amuse him the King making shew to take a turn or two in the Tuilleries put on Boots in the Stables and getting on Horse-back attended by fifteen or sixteen Gentlemen and by ten or twelve Lacqueys having caused notice to be given to his Guards to follow him went out by the Port Neuve riding always on full gallop for fear of being pursu'd by the Parisians till having gain'd the ascent above Challiot he stopt his Horse to look back on Paris 'T is said that then reproaching that great City which he had always honour'd and enrich'd by his Royal presence and upbrayding its ingratitude he Swore he wou'd not return into it but through a Breach and that he wou'd lay it so low that it shou'd never more be in a condition of lifting up its self against the King After this he went to Lodge that night at Trappes and the next morning arriv'd at Chartres where his Officers those of his Council and the Courtiers came up to him one after another in great disorder some on Foot others on Horse-back without Boots several on their Mules and in their Robes every man making his escape as he was best able and in a great hurry for fear of being stop'd in short all of them in a condition not unlike the Servants of David at his departure from Ierusalem travelling in a miserable Equipage after their distress'd Master when he fled before the Rebel Absalom The Duke of Guise who on the one side had been unwilling to push things to an extremity to the end he might make his Treaty with the King and that it might not be said he was not at liberty and on the other side not believing that he wou'd have gone away in that manner as if he fled from his Subjects who stopping short of the Louvre by fifty paces seem'd unwilling to pursue their advantage any farther was much surpris'd at this retreat which broke the measures he had taken but as he was endu'd with an admirable presence of mind and that he cou'd at a moments warning accommodate his resolutions to any accident how unexpected or troublesome soever he immediately appli'd himself to put Paris in a condition of fearing nothing to quiet all things there and restore them to their former tranquillity and withall to give notice to the whole Kingdom how matters had pass'd at the Barricades as much to his own advantage as possibly he cou'd To this effect he possess'd himself of the strongest places in the City of the Temple of the Palace of the Town-House of the two Chastelets of the Gates where he set Guards of the Arsenal and of the Bastille which was surrender'd to him too easily by the Governour Testu the Government of which he gave to Bussy Le Clerc the most audacious of the Sixteen He oblig'd the Magistrates to proceed in the Courts of Judicature as formerly He made a new Provost of Merchants and Sheriffs a Lieutenant Civil Colonels and Captains of the several Wards all devoted to the League in the room of those whom he suspected He retook without much trouble all the places both above and below on the River that the passages for Provisions might be free He writ at last to the King to the Towns and to his particular Friends and drew up Manifests or Declarations in a style which had nothing in it but what was great and generous while he endeavour'd to justify his proceedings and at the same time to preserve the respect which was owing to the King protesting always that he was most ready to
conjunction of the two Armies in the general review of all his Troups he saw himself at the head of more than forty five thousand Men experienc'd Souldiers with which after having possess'd himself on the thirtieth of Iuly of the Bridge of St. Clou from whence he drove the Leaguers with his Cannon he was resolv'd within two days to attaque the Fauxbourgs of Paris on both sides of the River There is all the appearance of probability that he had carri'd them at the first onset and by consequence the Town it self where they were already in extreme consternation all the passages for provisions being block'd up and the Duke of Mayenne not having about him above five or six thousand Souldiers at the most who were not the third part of the number which was necessary for the defence of the Retrenchments of so great a compass as those which he had made for all the Fauxbourgs considering besides that the King had within the Town so great a number of good Subjects who having taken courage at his approach had drawn over a great party of the honest Citizens receiving an assurance that the punishment wou'd onely fall on the Principal of the Leaguers in case the King entring the Town as a Conquerour shou'd think fit to remember the old business of the Barricades Insomuch that the Duke of Mayenne had occasion to fear that at the same time when the Fauxbourgs were attaqu'd there wou'd be a sudden rising for the King within the Town and that those who had thus risen wou'd make themselves Masters of one of the Gates which they wou'd open to him and afterwards act in conjunction with his Army To this purpose 't is reported that the Duke who notwithstanding all his temper and his slowness was very brave being sensible of his desperate condition though in outward shew he seem'd confident of good success still plying the people from the Pulpits with a thousand Lyes for their encouragement had resolv'd with a chosen Troup of his bravest men who were willing to follow his fortune to throw himself into the midst of the Royal Army with his Sword in his hand either to overcome against all appearance of probability by a generous despair which is sometimes prosper'd by the chance of Arms or to die honourably in using the onely means which were now left him to revenge the death of his two Brothers In this flourishing condition the King's affairs then stood and to this low ebb was the League reduc'd when fortune which plays with the lives of men of which she sometimes makes a ridiculous Comedy and at other times a bloudy Tragedy all on the sudden chang'd the Scene as if the action had been upon a Theatre by the most Sacrilegious blow which was ever given I say not by a Man but by a Devil incarnate 'T is not necessary that I shou'd here relate every particular circumstance of so execrable a deed which is already known to all the world 'T is sufficient that in performance of my duty as an Historian I onely say That a young Iacobin call'd Iaques Clement a man of mean capacity Superstitious and Fanatically devout being perswaded by the furious Sermons of the Preachers and by a certain Vision which he thought he had that he shou'd be a Martyr if he lost his life for having kill'd Henry de Valois was so far intoxicated with this damnable opinion that he scrupled not to say openly that the people needed not to give themselves so much trouble and that he knew well enough how to deliver Paris in due time And when it was known that the King was at St. Clou where he had taken up his quarters and was lodg'd at the House of Monsieur Ierome de Gondy he went out of Paris the next morning which was the last of Iuly with a Letter of Credence address'd to the King from the first President de Harlay who was at that time a Prisoner in the Bastillâ— 't is uncertain whether that Letter in reality was written by that illustrious person deluded by the Iacobin whom he thought a fitting Messenger to convey such intelligence as he had to send or whether it were counterfeited as an assur'd means of gaining him access and opportunity to put in practice his damnable resolution For being introduc'd the day following about seven or eight a clock in the morning into the King's Chamber while that good Prince who always receiv'd men in Orders with great kindness was reading the Letter attentively and bowing his body to listen so some secret message which he believ'd was brought him by the Fryar as was imported by his Credentials the Parricide who was kneeling before him pulling out a knife from his sleeve stabb'd him with it into the belly and left it in the wound from whence the King drawing it and at the same time rising from his Chair and crying out Thrust it very deep into the Fryar's forehead There were at that time in the room onely Bellegarde first Gentleman of the Bed-chamber and La Guesle the Attorney General who having the day before interrogated the Villain without finding any thing in his discourse that might administer the least cause of suspicion had brought him to the King by his own command But many of the forty five entring suddenly upon the King's outcry fell inconsiderately upon him in the first transport of their fury and in a moment stuck him in with many thrusts without giving any attention to La Guesle who after he had struck him with the handle of his Sword cri'd out as loud as he cou'd possibly that they shou'd not kill him The wretch immediately expiring they threw his Corps all bloudy out of the Window which the grand Prevost of the King's house caus'd immediately to be tyed to four Horses and dragg'd about till it was torn in pieces There are some who not being able to believe that one in Orders cou'd be capable of so impious an action have doubted that this Monster of a man was either some Leaguer or some True Protestant disguis'd into a Fryar and a Modern Authour to save the honour of the Iacobins has endeavour'd of late to renew and fortify this doubt in the best manner he was able But besides that the Parricide was known by some who were of his acquaintance 't is most certain that the same Iaques Clement who was examin'd the evening before by La Guesle which is agreed on all sides was introduc'd by himself the next morning into the King's Chamber for it can never be thought that the Attorney General a man of good understanding shou'd be so far mistaken as to take another man for him whom he had interrogated with so much circumspection And yet farther since the King in the Letters which he sent to the Governours of Provinces and to his Allies immediately after he was wounded says positively that when he was stabb'd by the Iacobin there were onely in his Chamber Bellegarde and La Guesle
and during the Moneth of April made himself Master of Corbeil Melun Bray Montereau-faut-Yonne Lagny Beaumont upon Oyse Provins and the Bridges of St. Maur and Charenton The Intelligence which he held in Sens having not succeeded he gave two brisk Assaults to it in both which his men were vigorously repuls'd by the Lord Chanvallon Iaques de Harlay who there commanded for the League Notwithstanding which that great Prince who was a true lover of all brave men being afterwards acquainted with his excellent Parts and his inviolable fidelity repos'd great confidence in him insomuch that he plac'd him with the Duke of Lorrain to retain him as he always did in the Interests of France But the King unwilling to loose more time on a place which was so well defended and which if he shou'd take wou'd contribute nothing to the Execution of his main Design as also knowing that by means of the Towns and Bridges of which he already stood possess'd he held shut up the four Rivers that supply'd Paris he went from thence to besiege that City about the end of the Moneth without expecting certain Conferences which the League propos'd as he believ'd either to delay or to divert him And that he might have the freedom of sending out Parties through the whole adjoyning Country on both sides of the Seine thereby to hinder the Town from receiving Provisions by Land he made a Bridge of Boats somewhat below Conâ—lans so that Paris was immediately invested on all Quarters There were some and amongst others La 〈◊〉 with the greatest part of the Hugonots who had not much kindness for the Parisians desir'd that the Town might be assaulted as imagining it might be carry'd by plain force at the first attempt and that the Citisens who are never so very stout as when they have got behind their Barricades wou'd not be altogether so couragious upon the Works This was their Opinion but it manifestly appear'd by the Skirmishes and other Tryals which were made in the beginning of the Siege and by which the Kings Party were no great gainers that those Gentlemen had taken no just measures La 〈◊〉 himself who wou'd needs attacque the 〈◊〉 St. Martin was beaten off with loss and learnt to his cost by a Musquet Shot which wounded him in the Thigh and disabled him from fighting that he had to do with galiant men who were neither to be vanquish'd at the Breach nor by scaling so easily as he believ'd There were at that time in Paris not above two hundred and thirty thousand Souls because almost half the Inhabitants apprehending the consequences of a Siege were departed out of it and the wealthier sort of Citisens who had the Courage to continue there had sent off their Wives and Children to other Places But a Garrison which the Parisians had receiv'd of 5 or 6000 old Spanish Souldiers Lansquenets Swisses and French and 50000 Citisens well arm'd and resolv'd to perish in the Defence of their Town and Religion for which they were perswaded that they fought had not easily been forc'd by that little Army which rather seem'd to block them up than to besiege them And besides the young and valiant Duke of Nemours their Governour had exellently well provided for all things during more than a moneth which he had to prepare himself for the sustaining of this memorable Siege wherein by his Courage and good Conduct he acquir'd the Reputation of an old experienc'd General For he had fortify'd all the weakest parts repair'd the Breaches of the Walls new rais'd the Ramparts and the Terrasses drawn large Retrenchments both within and without the heads of the Fauxbourgs prepar'd Chains and Barrels fill'd with Earth to make Barricades for all the Streets that the Enemies might be stopp'd at every Passage while in the mean time they were to be slaughter'd with Musket Shot and Stones from Windows after they shou'd have enterd the Town He had earth'd up the greatest part of the Gates beaten down the Houses which might have been of Service to the Enemy cast and mounted above threescore pieces of Cannon which were planted on the Ramparts and shut up the River both above and below by massy Chains sustain'd by Palisades and defended by strong Corps de Guard to preserve the Town from being surpriz'd and to hinder the Entrance into it at low water In conlusion he had forgot nothing that cou'd possibly be necessary for a stout Defence and for the repulsing Force by Force For which cause the King who understood the difficulty better than those about him who at that time listen'd rather to their Passion than their Reason being not of Opinion that his Enterprise cou'd succeed by Assault in the present condition of his Affairs always rejected that Advice besides loving his Subjects with a paternal Affection and principally Paris as he has always made it manifest he cou'd never resolve on the Destruction of the fairest Flower in his Crown and the noblest City in the Universe by taking it in the way which they advis'd which had been to expose it to the Fury of his Men of War and especially of the Hugonots who in revenge of their Massacre at St. Bartholomew wou'd have lay'd it desolate with Fire and Sword He resolv'd therefore to take it by Famine not doubting but that all the Passages for Provisions being shut up it wou'd soon be forc'd to a Surrender for want of Bread And certainly his Design was very reasonably lay'd and according to all appearances ought to have succeeded if his Expectation had not been deceiv'd by one of the most wonderful Prodigies of invincible Patience or rather extream Obstinacy in that almost unimaginable Distress to which they were reduc'd I shall not here describe it in all the exactness of its Cirâ—umstances 't is enough if I barely say what is generally known to all the World that the common Provisions which were well husbanded and distributed very sparingly were consum'd in the month of Iune that the Fauxbourgs being taken in Iuly they were shut up in the Town and restrain'd from going out to search for Herbs Leaves and Roots in the neighbouring Fields and in the Ditches that after they had eaten their Horses Asses Dogs and Cats they were reduc'd in August to Rats and Mice and then to Skins and Leather and an abominable kind of Bread which instead of Meal was made of the Powder of dead mens Bones taken out of the Church-yard of St. Innocent that there were some whom that Famine by which twenty thousand persons dyed brought to those horrible Extremities which are mention'd in the Sieges of Samaria and Ierusalem Notwithstanding all which Miseries 't is wonderful to consider that the Parisians accustom'd to Plenty and even to live luxuriously chose rather to endure this dreadful Famine to the end and to expose themselves to certain Death whose terrible Image they had dayly before their Eyes in every Street than to hear the least word of a Surrender And
questionless they had many Inducements which contributed otheir obstinate Resolution of suffering so long and so contentedly The Examples of the Princesses and great Ladies who satisfy'd Nature with a very small Pittance of Oat Bread taught them to bear those Miseries with constancy of Mind which their Superiours of a more delicate and tender Sex supported with so much chearfulness of Spirit Add to this the great Care and Vigilance of their Heads to hinder Tumults and Seditions and the immediate Execution of Mutineers Then the Awe and Terrour which was struck into them by the Sixteen who had resum'd their first Authority in the Town and who commonly threw into the Seine without judicial Process or form of Law all such as were suspected to hold Intelligence with the King or to make the least mention of a Treaty But the most comfortable consideration was the great Alms which were daily distributed amongst the Poor by the Order and at the Charges of the Legat Cajetan the Archbishop of Lions the Spanish Embassador the Wealthiest of the City Companies and the Cardinal Gondy Bishop of Paris who voluntarily inclos'd himself within those Walls for the Relief and Ease of his poor Flock Besides they had no small Encouragement from the false Reports which the Dutchess of Montpensier who was very skilful in coining News caus'd dayly to be spread about Paris and the Assurances by Letters whether true or forg'd which she said she had receiv'd from her Brother the Duke of Mayenne from time to time of speedy Succours All which Considerations serv'd not a little to encourage the People and to inure them to that wonderful sufferance of their Miseries But after all it must be ingenuously acknowledg'd that the Cause which principally produc'd this great Effect was the Zeal of Religion which was easily inspirâ—d into the People of Paris and the great care which they took to perswade them as really they did that it was no less than to betray it and expose it to the inevitable danger of being utterly destroy'd as had happen'd in England if they shou'd submit themselves to a King who made an open Profession of Calvinism For in fine they omitted no manner of Arts and of Perswasions to make this Opinion be swallow'd by the Multitude and consequently to harden them against the fear of Death it self rather than endure the Dominion of a Prince who was an Heretique In the first place they made use of the Sorbonnists which as their Liberty was then oppress'd immediately made a new Decree on the seventh of May in which it is declar'd That Henry de Bourbon being a relaps'd Heretick and excommunicated personally by our Holy Father there was manifest danger that he wou'd deceive the Church and ruine the Catholique Religion though he shou'd obtain an exteriour Absolution and that therefore the French are oblig'd in Conscience to hinder him with all their Power from coming to the Crown in case King Charles the Tenth shou'd dye or even if he shou'd release his Right to him and that as all such who favour his Party are actually Deserters of Religion and continue in mortal Sin which makes them liable to eternal Damnation so also by the same reason all such as shall persevere to the Death in resistance of him as Champions of the Faith shall be rewarded with the Crown of Martyrdom On the occasion of this new Decree a General Assembly was held at the Town-House where all the Assistants were sworn to dye rather than to receive an Heretick King This Oath was renew'd yet more solemnly on the Holy Evangelists betwixt the Hands of the Legat at the foot of the great Altar of the Church of Nostredame after a general Procession at which besides the Clergy were present all the Princes and Princesses and all the Companies the Bishops and Abbots the Colonels and Officers and the Persons of Quality follow'd by vast Multitudes of People where the Reliques of all the Churches in Paris were carryed This Oath reduc'd into Writing was sent to every House by the Overseers of the several Wards who oblig'd all persons to take it After which the Parliament made an Ordinance prohibiting on pain of Death that any one shou'd speak of making a Composition with the King of Navarre and above all the rest the Preachers of the League and the famous Cordelier Panigarole Bishop of Ast with Bellarmine the Learned Jesuit who both acted in Conjunction with them the Divines of the Legat Cajetan who preach'd like the rest during the Siege encourag'd their Auditors to suffer all Miseries rather than subject themselves to an Heretick assuring them according to the Decree of the Sorbonne that if they shou'd loose their Lives for such a Cause they dy'd undoubtedly for the Faith and were to be esteem'd no less than Martyrs There also happen'd an Accident which as fantastical and ridiculous as it appear'd was yet of use to animate the People and to fortifie them in their Belief that it was their Duty to make opposition even to Death against the setting up an Heretick King For above twelve hundred Ecclesiasticks as well Seculars as Regulars amongst whom were the most reform'd and most austere of every Order such as were the Carthusians Minimes Capuchins and Feuillants made a kind of Muster marching in Rank and File through the Streets wearing over their ordinary Habits the Arms of Foot Soldiers having William Roze the Bishop of Senlis at their Head and the Figures of the Crucifix and the Blessed Virgin flanting in their Standard to make it appear that since Religion was the Matter in dispute their Profession as peaceable as it was gave them no Dispensation in that Case from hazarding their Lives in War like other Men and that they were all resolv'd to dye with their Brethren in the Defence of Faith All Paris ran to this Spiritual Show which was like to have prov'd fatal to the Legat for making a Stop with his Coach at the end of Pont Nostredame to behold this noble Spectacle of the Church Militant while they were giving a Salve in honour of him one of those good Fathers who had borrow'd his Musket from a Citisen and knew not that it was charg'd with Bullets let fly with no worse Intention than to show his Manhood and fairly kill'd one of his men who sate in the Boot which caus'd the Prelate who lik'd not that unchristian Proceeding very well to make haste away for his own Security But this made no other Impression in the Parisians than to confirm them in their Resolution For when they beheld their Confessours and Guides of their Consciences in that Warlike Posture they believ'd such men wou'd never have appear'd in Arms unless they were satisfy'd that it was for the Cause of God in which it was their common Duty both to live and dye But what most confirm'd them in this Belief was that the King whose hour of Conversion was not yet come wou'd never hear speak of
which they built their Babel You have seen how warily the first Association in Picardy was worded nothing was to be attempted but for the King's Service and an Acknowledgement was formally made that both the Right and Power of the Government was in him but it was pretended that by occasion of the true Protestant Rebels the Crown was not any longer in condition either of maintaining it self or protecting them And that therefore in the Name of God and by the Power of the holy Ghost they joyn'd together in their own Defence and that of their Religion But all this while though they wou'd seem to act by the King's Authority and under him the Combination was kept as secret as possibly they cou'd and even without the participation of the Soveraign a sure Sign that they intended him no good at the bottom Nay they had an Evasion ready too against his Authority for 't is plain they joyn'd Humieres the Governour of the Province in Commission with him and only nam'd the King for show but engag'd themselves at the same time to his Lieutenant to be obedient to all his Commands levying Men and Money without the King's Knowledge or any Law but what they made amongst themselves So that in effect the Rebellion and Combination of the Hugonots was only a leading Card and an example to the Papists to rebel on their side And there was only this difference in the Cause that the Calvinists set up for their Reformation by the superior Power of Religion and inherent Right of the People against the King and Pope The Papists pretended the same popular Right for their Rebellion against the King and for the same end of Reformation only they fac'd it with Church and Pope Our Sectaries and Long Parliament of 41 had certainly these French Precedents in their eye They copy'd their Methods of Rebellion at first with great professions of Duty and Affection to the King all they did was in order to make him glorious all that was done against him was pretended to be under his Authority and in his Name and even the War they rais'd was pretended for the King and Parliament But those Proceedings are so notoriously known and have imploy'd so many Pens that it wou'd be a nauseous Work for me to dwell on them To draw the likeness of the French Transactions and ours were in effect to transcribe the History I have translated Every Page is full of it Every man has seen the Parallel of the Holy League and our Covenant and cannot but observe that besides the Names of the Countreys France and England and the Names of Religions Protestant and Papist there is scarcely to be found the least difference in the project of the whole and in the substance of the Articles In the mean time I cannot but take notice that our Rebels have left this eternal Brand upon their Memories that while all their pretence was for the setting up the Protestant Religion and pulling down of Popery they have borrow'd from Papists both the Model of their Design and their Arguments to defend it And not from loyal well principled Papists but from the worst the most bigotted and most violent of that Religion From some of the Iesuites an Order founded on purpose to combat Lutheranism and Calvinism The matter of Fact is so palpably true and so notorious that they cannot have the Impudence to deny it But some of the Iesâ—ites are the shame of the Roman Church as the Sectaries are of ours Their Tenets in Politicks are the same both of them hate Monarchy and love Democracy both of them are superlatively violent they are inveterate haters of each other in Religion and yet agree in the Principles of Government And if after so many Advices to a Painter I might advise a Dutch-maker of Emblems he shouâ—d draw a Presbyterian in Arms on one side a Iesuit on the other and a crownd Head betwixt them for t is perfectly a Battel-royal Each of them is endeavouring the destruction of his Adversary but the Monarch is sure to get Blows on both sides But for those Sectaries and Commonwealths-men of 41 before I leave them I must crave leave to observe of them that generally they were a sowr sort of thinking men grim and surly Hypocrites such as coud cover their Vices with an appearance of great Devotion and austerity of Manners neither Profaneness nor Luxury were encouragd by them nor practisd publickly which gave them a great opinion of Sanctity amongst the Multitude and by that opinion principally they did their business Though their Politicks were taken from the Catholick League yet their Christianity much resembled those Anabaptists who were their Original in Doctrine and these indeed were formidable Instruments of a religious Rebellion But our new Conspirators of these seven last years are men of quite another Make I speak not of their non-Conformist Preachers who pretend to Enthusiasm and are as morose in their Worship as were those first Sectaries but of their Leading men the Heads of their Faction and the principal Members of it what greater looseness of Life more atheistical Discourse more open Lewdness was ever seen than generally was and is to be observ'd in those men I am neither making a Satyr nor a Sermon here but I wou'd remark a little the ridiculousness of their Management The strictness of Religion is their pretence and the men who are to set it up have theirs to choose The Long Parliamentâ— Rebels frequented Sermons and observ'd Prayers and Fastings with all solemnity but these new Reformers who ought in prudence to have trodden in their steps because their End was the same to gull the People by an outside of Devotion never us'd the means of insinuating themselves into the opinion of the Multitude Swearing Drunkenness Blasphemies and worse sins than Adultery are the Badges of the Party nothing but Liberty in their mouths nothing but License in their practice For which reason they were never esteem'd by the Zealots of their Faction but as their Tools and had they got uppermost after the Royallists had been crush'd they wou'd have been blown off as too light for their Society For my own part when I had once observ'd this fundamental error in their Politiques I was no longer afraid of their success No Government was ever ruin'd by the open scandal of its opposers This was just a Catiline's Conspiracy of profligate debauch'd and bankrupt men The wealthy amongst them were the fools of the Party drawn in by the rest whose Fortunes were desperate and the Wits of the Cabal sought only their private advantages They had either lost their Preferments and consequently were piqu'd or were in hope to raise themselves by the general disturbance Upon which account they never cou'd be true to one another There was neither Honour nor Conscience in the Foundation of their League but every man having an eye to his own particular advancement was no longer a Friend than while his Interest
let it be remembred that as the Duke of Guise and the Council of Sixteen forg'd a List of Names which they pretended to be of such as the King had set down for destruction so a certain Earl of blesed Memory caus'd a false report to be spread of his own danger and some of his Accomplices who were to be murder'd by the Papists and the Royal Party which was a design to endear themselves to the multitude as the Martyrs of their cause and at the same time to cast an odious reflection on the King and Ministers as if they sought their blood with unchristian cruelty without the ordinary forms of Justice To which may be added as an Appendix their pretended fear when they went to the Parlâ—ament at Oxford before which some of them made their Wills and shew'd them publickly others sent to search about the places where the two Houses were to sit as if another Gunpowder Plot was contriving against them and almost every man of them according to his quality went attended with his Guard of Janizaries like Titus So that what with their followers and the seditious Townsmen of that City they made the formidable appearance of an Army at least sufficient to have swallowed up the Guards and to have seiz'd the Person of the King in case he had not prevented it by a speedy removal as soon as he had Dissolv'd that Parliament I begin already to be tir'd with drawing after their deformities as a Painter wou'd be who had nothing before him in his Table but Lazars Cripples and hideous Faces which he was oblig'd to represent Yet I must not omit some few of their most notorious Copyings Take for example their Council of Six which was an imitation of the League who set up their famous Council commonly call'd Of the Sixteen And take notice that on both sides they pick'd out the most heady and violent men of the whole Party nay they consider'd not so much as their natural parts but heavy Blockheads were thrown in for lumber to make up the weight Their Zeal for the Party and their Ambition atton'd for their want of Judgment especially if they were thought to have any interest in the people Loud roarers of Ay and No in the Parliament without common sence in ordinary discourses if they were favourites of the Multitude were made Privy Counsellors of their Cabal and Fools who only wanted a parti-colour'd Coat a Cap and a Bawble to pass for such amongst reasonable men were to redress the imaginary Grievances of a Nation by murdering or at least seizing of the King Men of scandalous Lives Cheats and Murderers were to Reform the Nation and propagate the Protestant Religion And the rich Ideots to hazard their Estates and Expectations to forsake their Ease Honour and Preferments for an empty name of Heading a Party The wittiest man amongst them to encumber and vex his decrepit Age for a silly picque of revenge and to maintain his Character to the last of never being satisfied with any Government in which he was not more a King than the present Master To give the last stroke to this resemblance Fortune did her part and the same fate of division amongst themselves ruin'd both those Councils which were contriving their King's destruction The Duke of Mayenne and his Adherents who were much the most honest of the Leaguers were not only for a King but for a King of the Royal Line in case that Duke cou'd not cause the Election to fall on himself which was impossible because he was already marâ—ied The rest were some for this man some for another and all in a lump for the Daughter of Spain this disunited them and in the end ruin'd their conspiracy In our Council of Six some were for murdering and some for securing of the King some for a rising in the West and some for an Insurrection of the brisk Boys of Wapping In short some were for a mungrel kind of Kingship to the exclusion of the Royal Line but the greater part for a bare-fac'd Common-wealth This rais'd a division in their Counsel that division was â—omented into a mutual hatred of each other and the conclusion was that instead of one Conspiracy the Machines play'd double and produc'd two which were carry'd on at the same time A kind of Spread Eagle Plot was hatch'd with two Heads growing out of the same Body such twin Treasons are apt to struggle like Esau and Iacob in the Womb and both endeavouring to be first born the Younger pulls back the Elder by the Heel I promis'd to observe no order and am perâ—orming my word before I was aware After the Barricades and at many other times the Duke of Guise and Council of Sixteen amongst the rest of the Articles demanded of the King to cashier his Guards of the forty five Gentlemen as unknown in the times of his Predecessors and unlawful as also to remove his surest Friends from about his Person and from their Places both Military and Civil I leave any man to judge whether our Conspirators did not play the Second Part to the same Tune Whether his Majesties Guards were not alledg'd to be unlawful and a grievance to the Subjects and whether frequent Votes did not pass in the House of Commons at several times for removing and turning out of Office those who on all occasions behav'd themselves most Loyally to the King without so much as giving any other reason of their misdemeanors than publick same That is to say reports forg'd and spread by their own Faction or without allowing them the common justice of vindicating themselves from those calumnies and aspersions I omit the many illegal Imprisonments of free-born men by their own Representatives who from a Jury erected themselves into Judges because I find nothing resembling it in the worst and most seditious Times of France But let the History be search'd and I believe Bussy Le Clerc never committed more outrages in pillaging of Houses than Waller in pretending to search for Popish Reliques Neither do I remember that the French Leaguers ever took the evidence of a Iew as ours did of Faria But this I wonder at the less considering what Christian Witnesses have been us'd if at least the chief of them was ever Christned Bussy le Clerc 't is true turn'd out a whole Parliament together and brought them Prisoners to the Bastille and Bussy Oates was for garbling too when he inform'd against a worthy and Loyal Member whom he caus'd to be expell'd the House and sent Prisoner to the Tower But that which was then accounted a disgrace to him will make him be remembred with honour to Posterity I will trouble the Reader but with one Observation more and that shall be to show how dully and pedantically they have copied even the false steps of the League in Politicks and those very Maxims which ruin'd the Heads of it The Duke of Guise was always oftentatious of his power in the States
Arques 748 c. at the attacquing the Suburbs of Paris 752. at the Battel of Ivry 775. at the Siege of Roan 845. he is kill'd before Espernay 862. counsels the King to put Fryer Ange and his Penitents in Prison Pag. 369 367 The Baron of Biron at the Battel of Ivry 775. at the Battel of Fontan Francoise 946 947 The Sieur de Bois-Dauphin enters into the League 105 John Boucher Curate of St. Benets a grand Leaguer and his Character 95. his Chamber is call'd the Cradle of the League 99. causes the Alarm-Bell to be rung in his Parish Church at the Sergeants and Archers that would seize the Seditious 304. preaches against the King 431 432. retires into Flanders with the Spaniards after the reducing of Paris 943 The Duke of Bouillon la Mark General of the German Army 231 233 Charles Cardinal de Bouâ—bon put by the Duke of Guise as a Ghost at the Head of the League 92. his weakness and ridiculous pretension 93 102 114. his Manifesto or that of the League under his name 114. the King declares him to be the nearest of Blood and gives him the Prerogatives of the Presumptive Heir of the Crown 382. He presides over the Clergy at the Estates of Blois 388. is seiz'd Prisoner 403. is declar'd King by the Council of the Union 739. and proclaim'd by the Name of Charles X. 764 765. his death in Prison Pag. 821 Charles de Bourbon Count de Soissons joins with the King of Navarre at Monforeau 198. his Valour at the Battel of Coutras 221 222. at the attacquing the Suburbs of Paris 753 Henry de Bourbon Prince de Conde brings an Army of Germans into France 10. is excommunicated by Pope Sixtus Quintus 132. drives the Duke of Mercoeur from Poitou 146. the History of his unhappy Expedition upon Anger 's 145 146. espouses Charlotte Catharine de la Trimoille 147. quits the Siege of Brouage where he leaves his Infantry and marches with his Cavalry to relieve Anger 's where his Army is scatter'd and how 150. his firmness at the Conference of St. Brix 162 163. his Valour at the Battel of Coutras 207 c. his Death and Elogy 329 330 c. Henry XI de Bourbon Prince de Conde a grand Enemy to the Heresie of the Calvinists notwithstanding that he was born of a Calvinistical Father and Mother 148. his Elogy ib. c. Lovis de Bourbon Duke of Monpensier manages the Conference at St. Brix 162. joins with the Troops of the King's Army at Gien 260. his Valour at the Combat of Arques 748. at the Battel of Ivry 774. Andrew Brancas de Villars maintains the Siege of Roan with great honour 845. puts all the Camp in disorder 850 851. is made Admiral of the League Pag. 872 Anthony de Brichanteau Beauvais Nangis enters into the League and why 106 107 c. re-enters into the King's favour who gives him the Signet of Admiral of France 393 394 The President Brisson head of the Parliament of the League 450. secretly protests before Notari of the violence that he suffers ib. the Sixteen cause him to be hang'd 837 Peter Brulart sent to the King of Navarre to convert him 140 141 c. his Elogy and that of his House ib. his Banishment from Court 384 William Duke of Brunswick at the Battel of Ivry where he is slain 789 Bussy le Clerc a furious Leaguer 98. takes Arms to hinder de Prevost Curate of St. Severnes from being apprehended who had preach'd seditiously against the King 303 304. is made Governour of the Bastille after the Barricades 365. leads the Parliament to the Bastille how and under what pretext 444 445. is constrain'd to surrender the Bastille to the Duke of Mayenne 838. saves himself in Flanders where he dies miserable 839 840 C. CArdinal Cajetan sent Legat into France by Sixtus Quintus 758. hinders an Accommodation being made with the King though he should be converted 766. runs the risque of being kill'd at the Shew of the Ecclesiastics and Monks during the Siege of Paris Pag. 808 Queen Catharine de Medicis engages the King in the War against the Hugonots 7. concludes a Peace at the Court of the Religion 11 12 13. she hinders the King from opposing the League at first 60. she maintains it under-hand 80. she would exclude the King of Navarre from the Succession that the Prince of Lorrain her Grandson might reign 85. she holds a Correspondence with the Duke of Guise and hinders the King from arming himself against him 117. her Conference with the King of Navarre at St. Brix's 161. she carries the Duke of Guise to the Louvre and mollifies the King's anger 344. counsels the King to go out of Paris 362. she suffers her self to be amus'd by the Duke of Guise who enters very dextrously into her Interests 371 372. her surprize at the death of the Guises 403. her Death 437. 438. her Elogy and Portrait 438 439 c. Claude de la Chastre Bailiff of Beny 105. Mareschal of the Camp in the Duke â—f Guise's Army against the Râ—yters 246 250 266. marches the first to Montargis to surprize the Reyters at Vimory 266 267 268. his advance to Dourdan to surround them in Aunâ—au 279. what part he had in the defeat of the Reyters at Auneau 268. he preserves Berry and Orleans for the League 493. is made Mareschal of the League 872. he makes his Peace and re-enters into Obedience Pag. Pag. 936 The Count de Chastillon Son of the Admiral brings assistance to the Army of the Reyters 233 258. his brave reâ—reat in the middle of an infinite number of Enemies 298. repulses the Troops of the Duke of Mayenne before Tours 482. defeats the Troops of Sieur de Saveuse 491. his Valour at the Combat of Arques 742 748. he misses taking Paris by storm 812. he 's the principal cause of the happy success at the Siege at Chartres 817 818. his Death and Elogy ib. 819 Clement VIII Pope would not receive the Catholick Deputies of the Royal Party 861. nor the Duke of Nevers that went to render him Obâ—diâ—nce 933. after having a long time refus'd to give the King Absolution he gives it at last 934 The Combat and Retrâ—at at Pont St. Vincent 246 c. The Combat at Vimoroy 267 c. The Combat at Auneau where the Reyters were defeated Pag. 277 c. Combat at Fontain Francoise 947 The Conference of the Duke of Espernon with the King of Navarre about his Conversion 87 c. Conference at d'Espernay and de Meaux 121 The Conference of Sieur Lennoncour and President Brulart with the King of Navarre for his Conversion 140 141 c. The Conference at St. Brix between the Queen-mother and the King of Navarre the Prince of Conde and the Vicount de Turenne 161 162 c. The Conference at Nancy between the Princes of the House of Lorrain 184 c. The Conference of Henry III. with Cardinal
Innocent IX Pope declares himself for the League 861 Duke Anne de Joyeuse the King's Favourite 192 193 His prodigious rise ib. His Elogy ib. He commands the Army against the King of Navarre 194 His Exploits in Poitou 195 c. His faults and presumption at the Battel of Coutras Pag. 202 203 His death ib. Henry de Joyeuse Count de Bouchage becomes Capucin under the name of Fryer Auge and why 368 369 His most extraordinary Procession from Paris to Chartres to ask mercy of the King ib. His going out and re-entring the Capucins 960 c. Francis de Joyeuse Cardinal Protector of France generously maintains the King's Rights 418 His effectual Remonstrance to Pope Sixtus upon his proceedings after the death of the Guises ib. Ivry its situation and the Battel was fought there 770 771 c. L. FRrancis de la Noue at the relief of Senlis 484 Ranges the Army and gains the Battel 485 c. His Valour at the Combat of Arques 748 Wounded and beaten back at the attaquing the Suburbs of St. Martin 353 c. M. de Launoy a grand Leaguer 75 Philip de Lenoncour Cardinal 140 The Sieur de I'Esdiguieres takes Montelimar and Ambrun where the Huguenots plunder the great Church 145 The League and Leaguers its true Original Pag. 2 3 Wherein it is like to that of Calvinism 3 The success it had quite contrary to the end it was propos'd for ib. The first that conceiv'd the design was the Cardinal de Lorrain at the Council of Trent 15 16 The occasion that gave it birth in France 22 23 c. It s Project in Form to which all the Leaguers are made subscribe 32 33 The Refutation of the Articles of the said Form 33 c. It would usurp the Authority Royal in the first Estates at Blois 60 61 c. It s horrible Calumnies against Henry III. 89 166 234 262 234 303 304 The League of Sixteen at Paris its original and progress 93 c. It s twelve Founders 94 c. The Treaty of the League with the Spaniard 102 It hinders the Low-Countries from being united to the Crown 108 In taking Arms at so mischievous a time hinders the ruine of Huguenotism which was going to be destroy'd during the Peace ib. It sends new Memoirs and a new Form of Oath to the Provinces at the coming of the Reyters 234 The Insolence of the Leaguers after the defeat of the Reyters 302 They take Arms and fall upon the Archers who would seize de Prevost Curate of St. Severin that had preach'd seditiously against the King Pag. 203 204 They take the Alarm seeing the King dispos'd to punish them and implore the help of the Duke of Guise 332 c. Their Transports and Acclamations at the Duke's coming 337 They oppose the going forth of Strangers whom the King would have put out of Paris 348 They make Barricades 352 They act openly against the King's Authority at the Estates 389 Their furious deportmenâ—s at Paris after the death of the Guises 427 428 c. They degrade King Henry III. and act â—all sorts of Outrages against him 436 They accuse him of Enchantments and Magic Charms 452 The Cities that entred into the League 461 At Tolous they massacre the first President and Advocate General 462 Their Deputies press the Pope to publish the Excommunication against the King 495 496 They become stronger than ever after the death of Henry III. 737 738 Their Power during the Siege of Paris 800 They offer the Crown of France to the King of Spain 833 834 They cause President Brisson to be hang'd 837 Four of the most Seditious are hang'd at the Louvre 839 They make it appear at the Estates at Paris that they desire nothing less than the King's Conversion Pag. 890 891 Henry d'Orleans Duke de Longueville at the Relief of Senlis 486 Gives Battel to the Leaguers and gains it 487 c. Commands one part of the King's Army 736 And at the Attaque of the Suburbs of Paris 752 753 Charles Duke of Lorrain would not have the passage of the Reyters through his Country oppos'd and why 239 240 c. Would not enter France after the Reyters ib. Obtains Peace of the King 946 Charles Cardinal of Lorrain was the first that form'd the design of a general League of the Catholics 15 16 His Portrait ib. Charles de Lorrain Duke of Mayenne makes Wars with the King of Navarre in Guyenne with little success 143 144 Ioins himself with his Brother the Duke of Guise against the Army of the Reyters 258 259 His brave Action at the Combat of Vimory 270 c. He retires to Lyon in Bourgogn after the death of his two Brothers 426 c. His Encomium and Portrait 453 c. He refuses the great Offers the King made him and goes to the Wars ib. His happy beginnings Pag. 455 His Entry into Paris 457 Weakens the Council of Sixteen by augmenting it 458 459 Causes himself to be declar'd Lieutenant General of the Estate and Crown of France 460 Acts as a Sovereign and makes new Laws 460 461 Marches against the King defeats the Count de Brienne's Troops and takes him Prisoner 480 481 c. He attaques and takes the Suburbs of Tours and returns without doing any thing else ib. His generous Resolution when he saw himself besieged by the Royal Army 507 508 Makes the Cardinal of Bourbon be declar'd King by the Council of the Union 739 He attaques the King at Arques and is repuls'd and beaten 742 743 c. He follows the counsel of M. de Ville-Roy and opposes the designs of the Spaniards 759 760 c. Causes to be proclaim'd Charles X. 764 765. Marches to the Relief of Dreux 769 Loses the Battel of Ivry 787 Breaks with the Spaniards and why 833 c. Divides himself from the Princes of his House 834 c. Is jealous of the young Duke of Guise 835 Causes Four of the principal of the Sixteen to be hang'd up at the Louvre and abates their Faction Pag. 839 Carries the Duke of Parma to the Relief of Roan 846 He assembles the Estates at Paris 862 863 c. His Declaration wherein he invites all the Catholic Lords of the Royal Paâ—ty to meet at the Estates for the good of the Religion and the State 865 866 His Speech and Design in the Estates 875 c. He creates one Admiral and four Marshals of France 873 Causes the Conference of Surene to be accepted by the Estates 878 Takes Noyen 879 Dextrously hinders the Election of a King at the Estates 895 896 Will not hold the King's Absolution good 931 Retires from Paris to Soisons 940 What he did at the Battel of Fontain Francoise 947 948 c. Obtains from the King a Treaty and a favourable Edict 954 955 c. Is very well received by the King at Monceaux 957 Henry de Lorrain Duke of Guise destin'd by his Uncle the Cardinal of Lorrain
to be Head of a League General of the Catholics 17 18 19 c. Treats with Don John d'Austria at Joinville ib. The occasion that caus'd him to begin the League Pag. ib. His Pourtrait 25 c. Takes Arms after the death of Monsieur 85 c. Makes use of the old Cardinal de Bouâ—bon as a Ghost whom he puts at the Head of the League 92 Treats at Joinville with the Agents of Spain and the Cardinal de Bourbon and the Conditions of the said Treaty 10â— 102 c. He begins the War with the sâ—â—prizing of divers places by himself and his Friends 104 c. Makes the Treaty at Nâ—mours very advantageous to the League 121 Goes and finds the King at Meaux and complains unjustly of divers matters 188 Undertakes with a very few Troops to defeat the Army of the Reyters 234 235 c. His honourable Retreat at Pont St. Vincent 246 247 c. He continually harrasses the Army of the Reyters 262 He attaques them and defeats one Party of them at Vimory 267 c. He forms a design to attaque them at Auneau and the execution of that Enterpriâ—e 277 278 c. He pursues the rest of the Reyters as far as Savoy 301 c. He let them plunder the County of Montbeliard Pag. ib. He receives from the Pope a consecrated Sword and from the Duke of Parma his Arms which they sent him as to the greatest Captain of his time 311 The refusing him the Admiralty for Brissac the which was given to Espernon his Enemy puts him on to determine it 312 c. He assembles the Princes of the House of Lorrain at Nancy and there resolves to present to the King a Request containing Articles against the Royal Authority 322 323 He resolves to relieve Paris 334 335 He goes to Paris notwithstanding the King's Orders which were sent him by M. de Bellievre ib. A description of his Entry into Paris where he was received with extraordinary transports of joy ib. c. His Interview with the King at the Louvre 343 In the Queens Garden 344 What he did at the Battel of the Barricades 356 He disarms the King's Soldiers and causes them to be reconducted to the Louvre 357 His real design at the Battel of the Barricades 358 c. His excessive demands 360 c. Makes himself Master of Paris and makes a Manifesto to justifie the Barricades 365 366 c. He dextrously draws the Queen Mother into his Interests Pag. 371 Causes a Request to be presented to the King containing Articles most prejudicial to his Authority 371 372 c. Has given him all the Authority of a Constable under another name 377 378 His Prosperity blinds him and is the cause that he sees not an hundred things to which he ought to give defiance 385 c. He is shock'd at the Speech the King made to the second Estates at Blois 386 387 He disposes of the Estates at his pleasure ib. c. Would have himself declar'd by the Estates Lieutenant General of the whole Realm independent from the King 391 392 Is advertis'd of the design form'd against him and consults thereupon with his Confidents ib. c. Is resolv'd to stay contrary to the Advice of the most part 396 c. The History of his Tragical Death 399 400 c. His Encomium 411 Lewis de Lorrain Cardinal de Guise presides for the Clergy at the Estates of Blois 388 The History of his Tragical Death 410 411 N. de Lorrain Duke de Guise escaping out of Prison comes to Paris where he 's receiv'd of the Leaguers with open Arms 835. he kills Colonel St. Paul 872 873 M. THE Marshal of Matignon Governor of Guyenne hinders the Leaguers from surprizing Bourdeaux Pag. 113 Breaks the Measures of the Duke of Mayenne dextrously 243 244 Gives good Advice to the Duke of Joyeuse which he follows not 203 Reduces Bourdeaux to Obedience 820 Father Claude Mathiu grand Leaguer solicits the Excommunication of the King of Navarre 182 Father Bernard de Montgaillard Surnam'd The Petit Feuillant a Seditious Preacher 428 His Extravagance in a Sermon 442 443 He retires into Flanders with the Spaniards after the reduction of Paris 943 Francis de Monthelon a famous Advocate is made Lord Keeper by Henry III. 384 Henry de Montmorency Marshal de Damville Head of the Politics or Malecontents for to maintain himself in the Government of Languedoc 9 Draws his Brothers and Friends to him ib. Ioins with the King of Navarre and Prince of Conde against the League 124 Protects the Catholic Religion and receives acknowledgments from the Pope 125 126 His Fidelity in the Service of the King 126 127 Is at last made Constable of France by Henry IV. Pag. ib. William de Montmorancy Sieur de Thore joins with the Malecontent Politics 9 Is defeated in conducting a Party of Duke Casimir's Reyters 25 26 Re-takes Chantilly from the League 483 The Sieur de Montausier fights most valiantly and insults agreeably over the Gascoins which were at the Battel of Courtras 217 The Sieur de Montigny enters and breaks the Squadron of the Gascoins at the Battel of Courtras 215 216 The Sieur de Morennes Curate of St. Merry labours to make the People return to the Obedience of their King 836 Cardinal Morosini Legat in France could not obtain Audience the day of the Duke of Guise's Massacre 406 407 His Conference with the King to whom he declares he had incurr'd the Censures because of the Murther of the Cardinal de Guise 414 415 He incurs the Pope's indignation for not having publish'd the Censures 417 His Conference with the Duke of Mayenne 474 4755 c. John de Morvillier Bishop of Orleans his Encomium and Pourtrait 68 69 c. He counsels the King to declare himself Head of the League ib. N. ANne d'Este Duchess de Nemours Mother of the Guises is arrested Prisoner at Blois Pag. 403 She treats by Letters with the Dukes of Nemours and Mayenne to reduce them to their Duty 441 442 The King sends her to Paris to appease the Troubles ib. The young Duke of Nemours is arrested Prisoner at Blois 403 Makes his Escape out of Prison 441 The Orders he gave for the Defence of Paris where he maintains the Siege with all the Conduct and Vigor of an old General 798 He offers the King to surrender Paris provided he will be made Catholick 809 810 He abandons his Brother and endeavours to make himself declar'd Head of the League in his place 485 486 c. Francis de Noailles Bishop of Acqs his Encomium his Ambassage and the part he had in the Conversion of Henry IV. 309 310 c. O. THE Order of the Holy Ghost and its true Origine 74 75 76 c. Lewis d' Orleans a famous Advocate a grand Leaguer 96 Author of the Seditious Libel Intituled The English Catholick Pag. 738. Is Advocate General for the League ib. The Colonel Alphonso d'Ornano
defeats 4000 Swissers Protestants in Dauphiny 230 A Confident of Henry III's 384 Counsels the King to dispatch the Duke of Guise in the Louvre 380 P. PAnigerole Bishop of Ast preaches at Paris during the Siege 806 The Parisiens enter into the League and how 91 c. Their Barricades 351 c. Their furious deportment after the death of the Guises 427 Their admirable firmness during the Siege 801 They declare against the Sixteen 840 They run in Crowds to St. Denis at the Conversion of the King 928 The History of the Reduction of Paris 938 939 c. The Duke of Parma sends Troops to the Duke of Guise 236 He sends him his Arms after the Defeat of the Reyters as to him who of all the Princes merited best the Title of Captain 311 Comes to the Relief of Paris and raises the Siege by executing his own design without giving Battel Pag. 810 His Retreat to Artois 817 He renders the Duke of Mayenne suspect to the King of Spain 821 He marches to the Relief of Roan 846 He pushes at the King at the Battel of Aumale 848 Causes the Siege of Roan to be rais'd 854 855 c. His admirable Retreat at Caudebec 853 The Cardinal de Pelleve Solicitor of the Affairs of the League at Rome 128 His Birth and Qualities ib. He presides for the Clergy at the Estates of Paris 875 His Death 944 The Brotherhood of Penitents and their Origine 170 171 c. That which the King establish'd at Paris 173. Philip II. King of Spain causes John d'Escovedo Secretary to Don John d'Austria to be assassinated and why 21 Solicits the King of Navarre and Damville to make War in favour of the Huguenots 80 110 Presses the Duke of Guise to take Arms. 81 82 c. Endeavours to cause himself to be declar'd Protector of the Realm of France 761 762 c. Makes a Manifesto and declares himself against the King 769 He supports the Sixteen against the Duke of Mayenne Pag. 822 He imprudently discovers his design he had to make the Infanta his Daughter to be chosen Queen of France 831 832 c. He endeavours to have a King chosen at the Estates of Paris 893 894 c. Francis Pigenat Curate of St. Nicholas in the Fields declaims in a furious manner against the King 431 Du Plessis Mornay makes a Writing which alarms the League 89. his Fidelity in the service of the King of Navarre his Master whom he serves extremely well with his Pen and his Sword 118. he makes the treaty of the Union of the King with the King of Navarre against the League 471. is made Governor of Saumour by the King of Navarre 476. he confers with the Sieur de Ville Roy about the Peace 858 859 c. The Politics their Party joins with those of the Huguenots 8 Dr. Poncent declaims insolently in open Pulpit against the King 179. his punishment 180 181 c. Le Pont St. Vincent the brave Retreat the Duke of Guise made there 246 247 c. The Pourtrait of Henry III. 5 6 c. The Pourtrait of the Cardinal of Lorrain 16 17 c. Pourtrait of the Duke of Guise 24 25 26. Pourtrait of John de Morvillier Bishop of Orleans 69 70 71 c. Pourtrait of the Duke of Espernon Pag. 313 314 c. The Pourtrait of Queen Catharine de Medicis 437 438 c. The Pourtrait of the Duke of Mayenne 453 The President Potier de Blanc-Mesnill is carried Prisoner to the Bastille by the Leaguers 446. his intelligence with Henry IV. and his Encomium 753 754 755 c. John Prevost Curate of St. Severines a grand Leaguer 95. declaims furiously against the King 303 The Preachers of the League declame scandalously against the King but above all after the death of the Guises 428 429 c. they encourage the People of Paris during the Siege 807 808 c. their impudence 824 825 R. THE Reyters and their Army 231 232 c. the Plundering they make in Lorrain 243 244 c. their entrance into France 257 258 c. their Consternation finding at the River Loir quite contrary to what was promised them 262 263 c. their Combat at Vimory 267 268 269 c. their Negligence and Debauchery 283 284 c. their defeat at Auneau 285 286 287 c. their whole dissipation 293 294 295 c. Francis Count de Roche-Foucault 147 John Lewis de la Roche-Foucault Count de Randan defeated and kill'd before Iâ—ioir Pag. 791 c. The Captain Roche-Mort surprizes the Castle of Anger 's and is there kill'd 149 150 Rene Vicount de Rohan 147 Colonel Rone beats up the Quarters of the Reyters Army 241. receives Commission from the Duke de Mayenne to command in Champaign and Brye 456. he seizes of Vandosme 499 480 c. he defends Paris after the taking of the Suburbs 756 757. he commands the Light Horse at the Battel of Ivry 777. is made the Marshal of the League 872 S. LEwis de Saint Gelais 147. Marshal de Camp of the King of Navarr's Army at the Battel of Coutras 207 Captain St. Paul Officer of the Duke of Guise 270 271 c. his Valâ—â—r at the Combat of Auneau 288 289 c. enters by force into the Queens Garden to defend the Duke his Master 345. is made Marshal of the League 872. his death 783 Charles de Saveuse defeated by the Count de Chastillon 491 Philip Sega Cardinal of Placentia Legat in France for the League 861. endeavors to hinder the Conference at Surene 877. forbids but to no purpoâ—e to go to St. Denis to assist at the King's Abjuration 921 922 c. he retires after the entry of the King and dies upon the way returning to Rome 944 Segur Pardaillon Steward of the King of Navarr's Houshold counsels him to be converted and afterwards dissuades him for a time Pag. 901 902 c. The ridiculous Shew the Ecclesiastics and Monks made during the Siege of Paris 807 808 c. The Siege of Brouage 149 The Siege of Senlis 483 484 c. The Siege of Paris 797 798 c. the things that contributed to make the Parisians resolve to suffer all things rather than surrender 802 803 c. The Siege of Chartres 817 The Siege of Roan 845 Sixtus Quintus Pope his Birth Fortune and Genius 130 131 132 c. rebukes the Leaguers ib. his Bull of Excommunication against the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde 133 134 c. what the Catholics said against this Bull 135 c. the Writings against it ib. 136. the King of Navarr's Protestation which he made to be fixt in Rome against this Bull 137 138 c. he praises the Generosity of this King 138 139. and sends the Cordeliers to the Gallies that preach'd against him 309. he sends a consecrated Sword to the Duâ—e of Guise after the defeat of the Reyters 311. his resentment and â—holer he put