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A03723	A true and plaine report of the furious outrages of Fraunce & the horrible and shameful slaughter of Chastillion the admirall, and diuers other noble and excellent men, and of the wicked and straunge murder of godlie persons, committed in many cities of Fraunce, without any respect of sorte, kinde, age, or degree. By Ernest Varamund of Freseland.; De furoribus Gallicis. English	Hotman, François, 1524-1590.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581.	1573 (1573)	STC 13847; ESTC S104242	59,763	145

¶ A true and plaine report of the Furious outrages of Fraunce the horrible and shameful slaughter of CHASTILLION the Admirall and diuers other Noble and excellent men and of the wicked and straunge murder of godlie persons committed in many Cities of Fraunce without any respect of sorte kinde age or degree By ERNEST VARAMVND OF FRESELAND ¶ AT STRIVELING in Scotlande 1573. TO THE READER YOu must ceasse to maruell my good cuntreymen of Scotland that I haue caused this booke printed in our cuntrey of Scotlād to be published altogither in the English phrase orthographie For the language is vvel enough knovvne to our cūtreymē And the chief cause of my translating it was for our good neighbors the Englishmē to whō we are so hiely bound vpon whose good Queene at this present in policie dependeth the chiefe ●●aye of Gods Churche in Christendome I knovv not vvhatrespects haue stayed the learned of that land from setting out this historie Therfore supposing the causes to be such as I conceiue them I haue ben bolde to set it forthe in their language in our cuntrey And you good cuntreymē that haue receiued so honorable succors from England and frō vvhenceal Christendome hopeth for charitable assistāce must be content to yelde that this is framed to serue their vnderstanding Ye Englishmen our good neighbors frends brethrē and patrons I pray you conster rightly of my labour that my purpose is not here to offend any amitie nor violate any honor nor preiudice any truth but to set before you astorie as I found it referring the confirmation thereof to truth and prooues as in all historicall cases is lavvfully vsed How many histories written in Latine Italian French by Iouius Paradine Belleforest and other are printed in Italie Fraunce and Flaunders and published freely had and read in your land although they contain matter expresly to the sclander of your state and princes Matters of that nature are published the burden of prouing resteth vpon the author the iudgement pertaineth to the reader there is no preiudice to anye part Bokes are extant on both parts The very treatises of diuinitie are not al vvarāted that be printed you must take it as it is onely for matter of reporte on the one parte so farre to binde credit as it carieth euidence to furnish your vnderstandings as other bokes do that make rehearsals of the actes states of princes cōmō weales and peoples But howsoeuer it be good Englishmen thanke God that you haue such a soueraigne vnder vvhō you suffer no such things by the noble sincere aide that your good Queene hath giuen vs in Scotland I pray you gather a comsortable confidēce that in respect of such honorable charitie to his church in Scotland god vvil not suffer you at your nede to be succorlesse in England as by dayly miracles in preseruing your Queene he hath plainly shevved and the rather ye may trust hereof if ye be thankeful and faithful to God hir that ye pray hartily to God either by mediate operation of your Queenes iustice or by his ovvne immediate hand vvorking to deliuer his church people frō the cōmon perill to both these realms to the state of al true religiō in christēdome Farewel and God long preserue bothe your good and oure hopeful soueraigne to his glory Amen A declaration of the furious outrages of Fraunce vvith the slaughter of the Admiral IT were to be wished that the memorie of the fresh slaughters and of that butcherly murthering that hathe lately bene committed in a manner in all the townes of Fraunce were vtterly put out of the minds of men for so great dishonor and so greate infamie hath thereby stayned the whole Frēch nation that the most part of them are now ashamed of their owne countrey defiled with two most filthy spottes falsehode and crueltie of the which whether hath bene the greater it is hard to say But forasmuche as there flee euery where abroade Pamphlets written by flatterers of the Courte and men corruptly hired for reward which do most shamefully set out things sayned and falsely imagined in stead of truth I thoughte my selfe bound to do this seruice to posteritie to put the matter in writing as it was truely done in dede being wel enabled to haue know ledge thereof both by mine owne calamitie and by those that with their owne eyes beheld a great part of the same slaughters In the yeare of our Lord. 1561. when there seemed to be some perill of troubles to arise by reason of the multitude of suche as embraced the Religion which they cal reformed for before that time the vsuall manner of punishing such as durst professe that Religion was besides losse and forfeyture of all their goods to the Kings vse to burne their bodies at the request of the great Lordes and nobilitie there was holden an assemblie of the estates in the Kings house at Saint Germaines in Lay neare to the towne of Paris at which assemblie in presence and with the royall assente of King Charles the ninth which now raigneth it was decreed that from thencefoorth it shoulde not be preiudicaill to any man to professe the said Religion and that it should be leefull for thē to haue publique metings and preachings for the exercise thereof but in the suburbs of townes only At this assemblie Francis Duke of Guise being descended of the house of Loraine and at that time Grand master of the Kings houshold was not present But when he was enformed of this decree he boyled with incredible sorow and anger and within few dayes after at a little town in Champagne called Vassey while the professors of the saide Religion were there at a Sermon he accompanied with a band of souldiers set vppon them and slewe men and women to the number of two hundreth There was amōg these of the Religion for so hereafter according to the vsuall phrase of the french tong we intend to call them Lewes of Burbon of the bloud royall commonly called Prince of Conde after the name of a certaine towne a man of great power by reason of his kinred to the king Therefore when the Duke of Guise most vehemently striued against that lawe and as much as in him lay did vtterly ouerthrowe it and troubled the common quiet thereby stablished Gaspar de Coligni Admirall of France and Francis d'Andelot his brother Captaine of the Fantarie and other Princes noble men and Gentlemen of the same Religion come dayly by heapes to the Prince of Conde to complaine of the outragious boldnesse and vntemperate violence of the Duke of Guise At that time Catherine de Medices Pope Clements brothers daughter and mother of King Charles borne in Florence a Citie of Italie had the gouernance of the Realme in the Kings minoritie For though by the lawe of Fraunce neither the inheritance nor the administration of the realme is graunted to women yet through the cowardly negligence

ruffians of the Courte Finally very nature it selfe doth now as it wer expostulate with God for his so long sufferāce and forbearing and the very earth can no longer beare these monsters Nowe as touching the Admirals supposed conspiracie who can thinke it likely that hee shoulde enterprise any suche thing within the walles of Paris For in the Court there is continually watching and warding a garrison of the kings and at the entrie of his castell the guardes of Gascoines Scottes and Switzers are continually attending the king hymselfe both alwayes before and specially at that time by reason of his sisters marriage had a great trayne of Princes great Lords noblemen and gentlemen about him Moreouer it was well knowne that in Paris within three hours space might be assembled and put in armoure threescore thousand chosen armed men specially against the Admiral whom no man is ignorāt that the Parisians most deadly hated beside that the noble yōg men that came thither with the king of Nauarre and the Prince of Conde by reason of the mariage and brought wyth them their wiues their sisters and their kinswomen thoughte at that time vpon nothing but vpon triumph and exercises of pastime gaye furniture of apparell and ornamentes Finally at whither of these two times can it be likely that the Admirall attempted this conspiracie was it before he was hurt why at that time he found the king his most louing or at leaste his moste liberall and bountifull good Lord neither coulde he hope euer to haue a more fauourable soueraigne in France VVas it then after he was hurt as though forsothe helying sore of two so great woundes aged maimed of both his armes the one wherof the Phisitions consulted whether it were to be cut off accompanied with three hundreth yong men would set vpō threscore thousand armed men or in so small a time could lay the plot for so great and so long and so heynous a fact for he liued scarce fortie houres after his hurte in which time he was enioyned by the Phisitions to forbeare talke Againe if he had bene detected of any such crime was he not committed to Cossin and to his keping and so enuironed all the wayes beset about him and so in the kings power that if it had pleased the king he might at all times in a moment be caried to prison why was not orderly enquir●e and iudiciall proceeding vsed according to the custome and lawes and generall right of nations and witnesses produced according to the form of lawe but be it that the Admirall and a fewe other of his confederats and followers had cōspired why yet proceded the outragious crueltie vpon the rest that were innocent why vpon ancient matrones why vpon noble Ladies and yong gentlewomen and virgins that came thither for the honor of the wedding why were so many women greate with childe against the lawes of al natiōs and of nature before their deliuery throwen into the riuer why were so many aged persons manye that lay sicke in their beds many gownemen manye counsellers aduocates proctors Phisitions many singularly learned professors and teachers of good artes and among the reste Petrus Ramus that renoumed man throughout the world many yong students executed with out hearing withoute pleading their cause without sentence of condemnation moreouer if the Admirall had slaine the three brethren who doubteth but that all countreyes al Cities all Parliaments finally all sortes and degrees of men would haue spedily taken armor and easily haue destroyed all of the Religion hauing them enclosed within their townes hauing iust cause to render to al forrein nations for their common slaughters and killing of them As to that which toucheth the king of Nauarre what can be imagined more absurde and vnlikely had not the Admirall him foure yeares in his power Did not he professe the same Religion that the Admirall did which of those of the Religion which of them I say as Cassius was wont to reason shoulde haue gained or receiued profit by the killing of the king of Nauarre did not the Catholikes hate him and the Admirall coulde not hope to haue any man more friendly to him nor by any other mans meanes to haue reuenge of his iniurie Lastlye in their houses that were slaine what armour what weapons were foūd by which coniectures iudges vse to be lead to trace oute a facte These matters wise men throughout the towne of Paris commonlye muttered But now to retourne to our purpose At such time as the Kings prohibition abouesaide was proclaimed at Paris not only in other townes as at Orleaunce Angiers Viaron Troys and Auxe●●e the like butcheries and slaughters were vsed but also in the towne of Paris it selfe in the very gaoles that are ordeined for the keeping of prisoners if any had escaped the crueltie of the day before they were nowe tumultuously slayne by the raging and outraging multitude in which number were three Gentlemen of great reputation captaine Monins a man very famous in marciall prowesse Lomen the kings secretarie a man of greate estimation for his long seruice in the Courte and Chappes a lawyer neere fourscore yeare olde a man of great renowne in the Courte of Paris And bycause we haue made mention of Angiers we thinke it good not to omitte the case of Masson de Riuers This man was a past●r of the Church and esteemed a singular mā both in vertuousnesse of life in excellēce of wit and learning was the first that had layd the foundation of the Church at Paris As sone as the slaughter was begon at Paris Monsorel a most cruell enimie of the Religion was sente to Angiers in post to preuente all other that might carie tidings of the murdering As sone as he came into the towne he caused himselfe to be brought to Massons house There he met Massons wife in the entrie and gently saluted hir and after the maner of Fraūce specially of the Court he kissed hir and asked hir where hir husbād was she answered that he was walking in the garden and by by she broughte Mōsorel to hir husband who gētly embraced Masson and said vnto him Canst thou tell why I am come hither It is to kill thee by the Kings commaundement at this very instant time for so hath the king commaunded as thou mayst perceiue by these letters and therewith he shewed him his dag ready charged Massō answered that he was not guiltie of any crime howbeit this one thing only he besoughte him to giue him space to call to the mercie of God and to commende his spirit into Gods hande VVhiche prayer as soone as he had ended in fewe wordes he meekely receiued the death offered by the other and was shotte through with a pellet and dyed Now to retourne to Paris the Admirals body being hanged vp by the heeles vppon the common gallowes of Paris as is aforesaid the Parisians went thither by heapes to see it And the Queene mother to

a great and lamentable sedition arose therof insomuch that the Garde by me appointed for his defence about his house was set vpon and he himselfe with certaine of his Gentlemen slaine and hauock of other made in diuers places of the Citie which was handled with such a rage that I coulde not vse the remedie that I woulde but had much ado to employ my Gardes and other defence for the safetie of my self and my brethren within the castle of Louure to give order hereafter for the appeasing of this seditiō which is at this houre wel appeased thankes be to God and came to passe by a particular and priuate quarell of long time fostered betwixte those two houses VVhereof when I foresawe that there woulde succeede some mischieuous purpose I did what I could possibly to appease it as all men knowe And yet hereby the Edicte of Pacification is not broken which I will to bee kepte as straightly as euer it was as I haue giuen to vnderstand in al places throughout my Realme And bicause it is greatly to be feared that such an execution might stirre vp my subiectes one against another and cause great murders through the cities of my Realme whereby I should be greatly grieued I pray you cause to bee published and vnderstoode in all places of your gouernement that euery person abide and continue in the safegarde of his own house and to take no weapons in hande nor one to hurt another vpon paine of death commaunding them to kepe diligently to obserue our Edicte of Pacification And to make the offenders and resisters and such as would disobey and breake our will to be punished you shal assemble out of hand as great force ●s you can as well of your friendes as of thē that be appointed by me and of others aduertising the captaines of Castles and Cities in your gouernement to take heede to the safegarde and preseruation of the sayde places so that no fault ensue on their behalfe aduertising me also so soone as you can what order you haue giuen herein and how al things haue passed within the circuite of your gouernement Herevpon I pray God to keepe you Cousin in his holie safegarde At Paris the .xxiiij of August Signed CHARLES and vnderneath BRVLARD ANOTHER LETTER FROM the King to the Lorde of Prye his Lieutenant generall in Touraine vpon the same matter that the former letter was MOnsieur de Prie you haue vnde ▪ stoode howe my cousin the Admirall was hurt the last day and in what readinesse I was to do as much as in me lay for the tryall of the fact and to Wuse so gret and spedie iustice to be done as should be an example throughout all my Realme wherin nothing was omitted Since it is so happened that my cousins of the house of Guise and other Lords and Gentlemen their adherents which are no smal partie in this to wne as all men know hauing gotten certaine intelligence that the friendes of my sayd cousin the Admirall intended to pursue and execute vpon them the reuenge of this burte for that they had them in suspiciō to be the cause and occasion therof have made such a stirre this night passed that among them on both partes hath be●e raised a great and lamentable tumulte the Garde that was set about the Lorde Admirals house was distressed himself slayne in his house with diuers other Gentlemen as also great slaughter hath ben made of other in sundrie places and quarters of this towne which hath bene done with such furie that it was impossible for me to giue such remedie as was to be wished I hauing enough to do to employe my Garde and other forces to kepe my selfe in safetie in the Castle of Louure to the end to giue order for the appeasing of the whole vproare which at this houre thankes bee to God is well quenched for that the same happened by the particular quarell that hath of long time bene betwene those two houses where of alwayes hauing some doubt that some vnhappie effecte woulde e●sue I haue as is well knowne to all men before this time done all that I coulde for to appease it nothing in this last fact tending to the breache of my Edicte of pacification which contrary wise I will in all things to be mainteined as at any time heretofore as I do giue it to vnderstand thorowout my Realme And forasmuche as it is greatly to be feared that this may stirre vp and cause my subiectes to rise one against another and to commit great slaughters in the to wnes of my Realme whereof I would be maruellously sorie I pray you that immediatly vpon the receyte hereof ye cause to be published and done to vnderstande in al places of your charge that euery man as wel in towne as in countrey remaine in reste and suretie in his house and do not take armes one against another on payne of death And that more diligently than at any time heretofore yee cause the last Edict of Pacification to be kepte and carefully mainteyned and obserued To the intente aboue sayde and to punish such as shall do to the contrary and to distresse all suche as shall rise and dysobey our pleasure ye shal immediately assemble all the strength that ye are able as well of your friends being of our allowance as others aduertising the gouernors and captaines of townes and Castels within your charge that they take goodheede to the suretie and safe keeping of their peeces in such sort as there ensue no default informing me with speede of such order as you shall take therin and how all things shall proceede within the compasse of your authoritie I haue here with me my brother the King of Nauarie and my Cousin the Prince of Conde to take suche hap as my selfe I pray the creator Monsier de Prye to holde you in his holy safegarde From Paris this .xxiiij. of August Thus signed CHARLES and vnderneth PINART These letters are all of one argument as the former be and written all in one forme and al one day to Monsier de Prye the Lieutenant of Touraine THE KINGS LETTERS TO the officers of Burges vpon the same matter that the former were Ovr louing and faithfull we doubt not but by this time you knowe of the sedition which to our great griefe happened in Paris a fewe dayes ▪ sithens wherin my Cousin the Admi●all and certaine others of his side were si●i●e and a great murder committed vpon diuerse in many places of this Citie And least the newes thereof should change the quiet estate wherein Burges hath hitherto ben maintained since the Edict of Pacification if remedie were not foreseene it is the cause that we writ this letter presently vnto you wherby we commaund and expressely ordeine that euerie one of you according to his charge do see that no commotion or insurrection be against the inhabitants of the sayde Citie nor that no murder be committed as it is to be

feared by those which pretend to breake the Edict of Pacification and thereby would execute a reuenge of their long priuate grudge to our incredible vexation and anguishe of minde For this cause it is your part to giue to vnderstand and publishe throughout that Citie of ours and other places pertaining to it that euery one should quietly and peacibly kepe their houses without taking weapons in hande and offending one the other vpon paine of death and well and diligently to kepe our Edict of Pacification And if any goe about to contrarie this our intent and minde to cause them to be punished and rigorously chastised by penalties imposed on such offendours in our ordinances hauing a watchfull and diligent eye to the safegarde of that our Citie in such sort that no inconuenience arise in your seruice towardes vs as you woulde haue vs to knowe that you are our loyall and obedient subiectes Giuen at Paris the .xxvij. day of August 1572. Thus signed CHARLES and ●●●owe De neuf-ville A LETTER OF THE TREAsorer of the leagues of the Switzers written by the kings commaundement vnto the sayd Leagues of the same argument that the former letters were NOble Seigniours Monsieur de la Fontaine Ambassador for the King your assured and perfect friend confederate and I his Treasorer in this countrey hauing commaundement of his maiestie to communicate with you as with them whome he accompteth his chiefe and sure friends of a chaunce which lately happened in the Citie of Paris his owne person and court then being there wherof he receiued so much more griefé and displeasure bicause it befell on such a time as he least feared or loked for such a thing The matter is this On the .xxvij. day of August last the Admirall as he went from Louu●e was with an harquebuze shot hurte in the hande and arme whereof when his maiestie was aduertised he commaunded incontinent that search and punishment were had of the offendour and the authors of such a mischiefe whervnto when he had readilie layde his hande by his officers and committed the inhabitantes of the house where the harquebuze was shot to prison they which were the cause firste of the mischiefe as it maye easily be presupposed bicause they woulde preuente the inquisition therof heaping one transgression vpon another on the .xxiij. and .xxiiij. of the said moneth assembled a great troupe of people in the night and moued the people of Paris to a very● great sedition who in a rage set vpon the Admi●rals lodging and enforcing the Garde which his Maiestie had set for the Admirals suretie and keping slewe him with certaine other gentlemen in his companie as the like also was committed vpon others in the Citie the matter growing in the verie same instant to suche an outrage and commotiō that whereas his Maiestie had thought to prouide remedie for appeasing therof he had much a doe with all his Gardes to kepe his house at Louure where he lodged with the two Queens his mother and the Spouse the Lords his brethrē the King of Nauarre and other Princes Thinke therefore ye noble Seigniours in what a perplexitie this yong and couragious King now standeth who as a man may saye hath helde in his hande thornes in steade of a Scepter euer since his comming to the Crowne for the great troubles which haue almost euer since beene in his Realme and therefore by the good and wise counsell and assistance of the Queene his mother and the Lords his brethren thought to enioy and establishe a more sure repose in his Realme and a more happie gouernement for himselfe and his subiectes after he had taken away as he thought all occasions of dissentions amongst his subiectes by the meanes of his Edicts of Pacifications and of the mariage of the King of Nauarre to the Ladie his sister and the Prince of Code to Madome de Neuers Besides all this to the intent nothing should be lefte vndone that mighte serue for the quieting of all things and especially for the Admirals safegard his Maiestie as euery man knoweth hath done his endeuour to the vttermost to appease and reconcile his principall and most daungerous enimyes vnto him And so God the true iudge of the Kings Maiesties good and pureintent brought to passe that the peoples rage being quieted within a few houres euery one went home to his house and the king had speciall regard to nothing more than to see nothing attempted or innouated contrarie to his Edicts of Pacification and the repose of his subiectes as well of the one Religion as of the other And for that purpose hath sent to diuerse of his Gouernours and Officers in his prouinces to loke diligently to the obseruing of his Edictes with expresse commaundement to holde their handes there that euerie one might pe●ceiue that the chaunce at Paris happened for some priuate quarell and not for any purpose to alter his Edicts which his Maiestie will in no wife suffer VVhich is the principall thing noble Seigniours that his Maiestie hath commaunded vs on his parte to assure you and to let you vnderstand the daungers that depende ouer him and his neighbours not so much for this sedition for he trusteth in God that shall growe no further and his Maiestie wil kepe his Realme in as good repose as it hath bene since his last Edict of Pacification but for the great mustering and assembling men of warre in many places specially in the low coūtreyes where it is yet vncertaine on which side God will giue the victorie nor whether the conqueror will employ his force after his conquest VVherefore his Maiestie prayeth you continuing the good loue and intelligence which hath always bene bewixt the Crowne of Fraunce and his allied and confederate friendes the Seigniours of the Le●gues to haue good regarde to him and his Realme in case that neede shall require as he will haue to you and your prosperous estate if it be requisite employing in the meane whyle your great and singular wisedome to the preseruation of the vnion of the Nation in League which is the onely cause to make you not onely able to send succour to your friends but also maintaine your selues in estimation that you may be a terrour to your neighbours how great so euer they be his maiestie promising you in all occurrentes as much friendship fauour and assistance as you can desire and to be as entier and perfect a friend as euer your nation had any A DECLARATION OF THE King concerning the occasion of the Admirals death and his adherents and complices happened in the Citie of Paris the. 24. of August 1572. Imprinted at Paris by Iohn Dallier Stacioner dwelling vpon S. Michaels bridge at the signe of the white Rose by the Kings licence BY THE KING HIs Maiestie desiring to haue all Seigniours Gentlemen and other his subiects vnderstand the cause of the murder of the Admirall and his adherentes and complices which lately happened in this Citie