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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

himself he commaunded one day to be giuē a hundred thousand pounds of his owne treasure in recompence of his former losses VVhen his brother the Cardinall Chastillion endowed with many great and welthie benefices was departed his life the king gaue him the fruites of one whole yeare Also the kyng wrote to Philibert Duke of Sauoy that he should do him a most acceptable pleasure if he did not onely deale more gently with those that in the former warres had ayded those of the Religion but also would vse clemencie and mildenesse toward all other that professed the same Religion within his dominions And for that there was old enmitie betwene the Guisians and the Admirall wherby it was to be doubted that perillous contentions wold arise in the Realme of Fraunce the king willed it to be signified to them both in his name that they should for his sake and the common weales giue ouer those displeasures and he prescribed them a certaine fourme of reconciliation and agrement the same whereof the foundations had bene layed almost sixe yeares before in the towne of Molins where the king calling to him the greatest estates of his realme after consultation and deliberation had vpon the matter pronoūced the Admiral not guiltie of the death of the Duke of Guise wherwith he was charged by the yong Duke of Guise and his kinsmen and so the king by the aduise of his Counsell had ended that controuersie Furthermore the Cardinall of Loraine who as we haue sayd was the very forger of all the former warres to take away al ielousie of new practises was departed to Rome toke with him his familiar friend the late created Cardinall Peluey one reputed a most subtil craftie persō vnder pretēce of goyng to the election of a newe Pope in place of the olde Pope then lately deceassed But there was none greater and more assured tokē of publique peace quietnesse than this that the king purposed to giue hys sister Margaret in marriage to the Prince Henry the sōne of the Queene of Nauarre which Prince had in the last warre defended the cause of the Religion and bene soueraigne of their armie VVhiche mariage the kyng declared that it should be the most streight bond of ciuill concorde and the most assured testimonie of his good will to those of the Religion Yea and also bicause it was alleaged that the sayd Prince Henrie was restrayned in conscience so as he might not marrie the Lady Margaret being of a contrary Religion a Catholike and giuen to the rites of the Romish Church the king for aunswere sayd that he would discharge hir of the Popes lawes and notwithstanding the crying out of all his courtiers to the contrary he permitted him that withoute all ceremonies in the porch of the great church of Paris the mariage shoulde be celebrate in such a fourme as the ministers of the refourmed Church misliked not VVhiche thing being by reporte and letters spread through the world it cannot be expressed howe muche it made the hearts of those of the Religion assured and out of care and howe it cast out al feare ielosies out of their minds what a confidence it brought them of the kings good will toward them Finally how muche it reioyced forreine Princes and states that fauored the same Religion But the Admirals minde was much more stablished by a letter which about the same time Theligny brought him with the kings owne hand and sealed wherein was conteined that whatsoeuer the Admirall shuld do for the matter of the intended warre of the lowe coūntrey the king would allow and ratifie the same as done by his owne commaundement About that time Lodouic of Nassaw with the Queene of Nauarre a Lady most zelously affected to the Religion came to the Frenche Courte The league was made betweene king Charles and the Prince of Aurenge and the articles thereof put in writing The mariage was appointed to be holden in the towne of Paris For whiche cause the Queene of Nauarre during those fewe dayes repaired thether to prouide things for the solemnitie of the wedding For the same cause the king sente to the Admirall one Cauaignes a man of an excellent sharpe witte whome for the Admirals sake the king had aduanced to great honoure requiring the Admirall to go before to Paris as well for the said preparation as also for the matter of the warre of the lowe countrie promising that he himselfe would within fewe dayes followe after him assuring him that there was now no cause for him to feare the threatnings and mad outrages of the Parisians For in asmuch as the same towne is aboue all other giuen to superstitions and is with seditious preachings of Monks and Friers dayly enflamed to crueltie it is hard to expresse how bitterly they hated the Admirall and the professors of that Religion VVherto was added a griefe of their mind conceiued certaine dayes before by reason of a certaine stone crosse gilted and builte after the manner of a spire steeple commonly called Gastignes crosse whiche the Admirall with great earnest sute obtayned of the king to be ouerthrowne for he alleaged that being erected in the midst of the rage of the ciuill warre as it were in triumph to the reproch of one of the Religion it was a monumente of ciuill dissention and so a matter offensiue to peace and concord The King well knowing this deadly hate of the Parisians to the Admirall wrote his letters to Marcell the prouost of the marchauntes whiche is the highest dignitie in Paris with sharpe threatnings if there should be raised any stirre or trouble by reason of the Admirals comming To the same effect also the Duke of Aniow the kings brother and the Queene mother wrote to the same Marcell and the rest of the magistrates of Paris so that nowe there seemed vtterly no occasion lefte for the Admiral to feare or distrust And within few dayes after the king sente Briquemault a man of greate vertue and estimation to the Admirall with the same instructiōs saying that the matter of the lowe countrey could not well be delt in without his presence The Admirall perswaded by thus many meanes and filled with good hope and courage determined to go to Paris where so sone as he was ariued and had bene honorably and louingly entertayned of the king and his brethren and the Queene mother and consultation entred among them about the preparation for the low coūtrey he declared to the king at large how the Duke of Alua was in leuying of great power and preparing an armie and that if the king should dissemble his purpose it would come to passe that many thereby wold shew themselues slower and slacker to the enterprise and that nowe were offered greate meanes to do good whiche if he let slippe hee should not so easily recouer the like againe hereafter And therefore it was best to take the aduantage of this opportunitie A fewe dayes before Lodouie of Nassaw

render into the hands of God now calling for it againe the spirit that he had lent him to vse for a time and sayd that this violent crueltie was prepared not so much for his destruction as for the dishonoring of Christ and the tormenting of so many Churches the defence of which Churches he had at the potition of all godly men with his many daungers and calamities sustained In the meane time there came vp the staires into the hier part of the house one Benuese a Germayne broughte vp in the house of the Duke of Guise and to whome it is saide that the Cardinall of Loraine had giuen one of his bastard daughters in mariage and with hym came Cossin the Gascoine Attin a Picarde a retainer and familiar of the Duke d'Aumal one that a few yeares before sought to murder d'Andelot by treason and also one Hāfort an Auernois all weaponed with swords and targets and armed with shirts of maile VVhen they were broken into the Admirals chamber Benuese came to him and bending his drawen sword vpon him said Art not thou the Admirall he with a quiet and constant countenance as we haue since vnderstode by them selues answered I am so called And then seeing the sword drawen vpō him he sayde yong man consider my age and the weake case that I am now in But the fellowe after blaspheming God first thrust his sworde into the Admirals brest and then also stroke him vpō the head and Attin shot him through the brest with a pistol VVhen the Admirall was with this wound not yet throughly dead Benuese gaue him the third wound vpon the thigh and so he fell downe for dead VVhen the Duke of Guise which stayed in the court with the other noble men heard this he cried out alowde hast thou done Benuese he aunswered I haue done Then said the Duke of Guise our Cheuelier meaning King Henries bastard abouesaide vnlesse he see it with hys eyes will not beleeue it throwe him downe at the windowe Then Benuese with the helpe of his fellowes toke vp the Admirals body and threw it downe through the windowe VVhē by reason of the wounde in his head and hys face couered with bloud they could not well discerne him the Duke of Guise kneeled downe on the grounde and wiped him with a napkin and said now I know him it is he And therewithal going out at the gate with the rest of the Lords he cryed out to the multitude in armoure saying my companions we haue had a good lucky beginning nowe let vs go forward to the rest for it is the Kings commaundement which words he did ofte repete alowde saying Thus the King commaundeth This is the Kings will this is his pleasure And then he commaunded the token to be giuen by ringing tocksein with the great bell of the palace and alarme to be raysed and he caused it to be published that the conspiratours were in armoure and about to kill the king Then a certaine Italian of Gōzagues band cut off the Admirals head and sent it preserued with spices to Rome to the Pope and the Cardinall of Loraine Other cut off his hands and other his secret partes Then the common labourers and rascals three dayes togither dragged the dead body thus mangled and berayed with bloud and filth through the streetes and afterwarde drew it out of the towne to the common gallowes and hanged it vp with a rope by the feete In the meane time those of the noble mens bandes brake into all the chambers of the admirals house and suche as they founde eyther in theyr beds or hidden they mangled them with many wounds and so slaughtered them Of that number were two young children pages of honourable birth There was also the Counte Rochfoucault which for the excellent plesantnesse of his wit and for his valiantnesse was hiely beloued of King Henry and so seemed for the same cause also to be beloued of the king Him was de Nāce abouesaid commaunded to kill but he refusing it for their old acquaintance and familiaritie one Laberge an Auernois offred him self to the king to do it but with this condition that the king should giue him the captaineship of horssemen which Counte Rochfoucault had There was also slayne Theligny the Admirals sōne in law a yong man of singular towardnesse bothe of wit and courage to whome the king these many yeares had both in words and countenance made shewe of so great good will as that no man was thoughte to be more hiely in his fauoure He crying out that it was now grieuous to him to liue for that he had euer commended to his father in lawe the faithfulnesse of the King refused not the deathe offred hym And many other most flourishing yong noble men and gentlemen were euery where butcherly murthered in that streete Then the noble mens bands and Cossins souldiers went ransacking from house to house and the Admirals house and all the other houses were all sacked and spoyled euen in like manner as is vsed to be done by souldiers greedy of pray in a towne takē by assault and many by this robberie were of beggers sodeinly become riche men For the Duke of Guise the Duke of Monpensier the Cheualier king Henries bastarde Gonzague Tauaignes and the other great Lords did with reward of the spoile and bootie encourage the multitude to the slaughter and cried out aloud that this was the kings will. So all the rest of the day from morning to euening the rascall multitude encouraged by spoyle and robberie ranne with their bloudy swords raging throughout all the towne they spared not the aged nor women nor the very babes In ioy and triumph they threw the slaine bodies out at the windowes so as there was not in manner any one streete or lane that seemed not strawed with murthered carcases VVhile these things were thus a doing in the towne the King of Nauarre and the prince of Conde whome the King had lodged in hys owne castle of the Louure were by the kings commaundement sent for and conueyed vnto him But their company their seruitours of their chamber their friends reteining to them their scholemaisters and those that had the bringing vp of them crying out alowde to the Kings fidelitie for succoure were thrust out of the chambers and by the kings guard of Switzers hewed in pieces and slaughtered in the kings owne sight But of that number of persons slayne no mans case was so much lamented of many as Monsieur de Pilles in whome it is hard to expresse whether there were more godly zeale in Religion or prowesse in warre VVhereby hauing in the late yeares specially by the defence of the towne of Saint Iohn d'Angeli which the King then besieged gotten great honoure of cheualrie he was thoughte very well beloued and hiely esteemed of the king Him and Leranne the sonne of Odou by the French Kings commaundement which was not then vnderstoode whereto it tended the King of Nauarre