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Admirable and memorable histories containing the wonders of our time. Collected into French out of the best authors. By I. [sic] Goulart. And out of French into English. By Ed. Grimeston. The contents of this booke followe the authors aduertisement to the reader; Histoires admirables et memorables de nostre temps. English
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Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; Grimeston, Edward.
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the Iudges did not punish him He was often put in prison but the Iudges durst not exceed the lawe the which did forbid them to condemne any one accused before he had confessed the fact And this MORTAC was so constant in denying the trueth as it was impossible to draw any thing from his owne mouth whether it were that he felt no torments or that hee did contemne them for he apprehended no more to be strained with a corde then to dance If they gaue him a sharpe strapadoe hee seemed to endure much and would crye out Let mee downe and I will tell the trueth Being let downe and vntied he would say vnto the Gouernors what will you haue mee say There-vpon they asked him who hath done this or that and he mocking them would repeate this question saying Doest thou know who hath done this or that and then he would adde in scoffing manner giue me once more the Strappadoe for the loue of the Ladies so as they were forced to let him alone He committed infinite thefts after the manner before mentioned but hee dyed not so shamefully as he deserued yet most cruelly for the plague hauing so seized vpon his throate as he could not speake his Mother who tended him fearing he would scape and be hanged afterwards buried him aliue And so liued and dyed MORTAC Extracted out of the Annales of Geneua Liberalitie THE Emperor MAXIMILIAN the first committed the managing of a great summe of mony to a Gentleman that was exceeding prodigall and a very bad husband whereof being aduertised he called for him and demanded an account of a remainder amounting to 2000. crownes and vpward The other required some respite to make perfect his account which was granted him Hauing considered throughly of the matter the next day hee went and presented himselfe vnto the Emperour who wondring at his sodaine returne referred him to the time prefixed the day before Sacred Maiestie then said the Gentleman I will briefly shew you the trueth of the case to the end you may not be troubled long about it You are good to all men I confesse I haue imployed the most part of your money in the entertainment of whores buying of Horses gaming and bankets and without farther excusing of my selfe I haue done ill I haue deserued to bee punished by the lawe But I besecch you to beare with my youth and for my friends sake to pardon me if it may please your Maiestie to vse me I will be wiser here after The Emperor hearing this free and open confession began to smile presently commanded his Barber to be sent for to whom he said cut me this Gentlemans hayre and with thy Rasor make him a faire large crowne on the top of his head for I will presently make an Abbot of him At the same instant the Emperor was aduertised of the vacancie of an Abbey by the death of the Abbot they were deuising in MAXIMILIANS presence vpon whom it should be conferred marry vpon him yonder quoth the Emperor pointing to the Gentleman that was in the Barbars hands Then calling him vnto him he sayd I giue thee such an Abbey If thou continuest as thou hast begun thou wilt consume both Monkes and Couent The Gentleman vnto whom good fortune came sleeping like vnto a Câ—…anoine of LEVVIS the 11. hauing accepted this Collation with great reuerence and thankes hee tooke possession of the Abbey became a good husband and gouerned his Monkes to their content I. le GAST of Frissac Tom. 2. of his Table-talke GEORGE of Amboise Cardinall a chiefe Councellor to the good King LEVVIS the twelfth did enioye Gaillion depending of his Arche-bishopricke of Rouan the which hee did in-large and beautifie all hee could as a house of pleasure to delight him after his serious occupations There was a gentleman a neighbor of his some-what distressed who to free himselfe spake to one of the Cardinalls followers to be a meanes vnto his Maister to buy his land the which laie very conueniently for Gaillion As the disposition of all Courtiars is readie for such negotiations he presently aduertised his Maister perswading him that he might buie this Land good cheape To whom the Cardinall answered with a smyling and cheere-full countenance that he desired nothing more then to conferre with the gentleman about that purchase commanding him to inuite him to dinner This commandement was presently put in practise by the Courtiar Some fewe daies after the gentleman hauing dyned with the Cardinall the table being taken vp and euery one retired to giue them place for their priuate talke The Cardinal began to fall into discourse vpon this Land aduising him as a neighbour a friend not to sell that place which was his ancient inheritance the other insisted to the Contrary alledging for his reasons that hee did hope to reape three commodities by this sale the one was in getting his fauor by this meanes the other was that with a part of the money hee should marry a Daughter of his and the last that he should imploy the rest of his money in rentes which should profit him as much as the reuenewes of his whole Lands And therefore my Lord sayd he for that it lies more conueniently for you then any other I haue addrest my selfe vnto you to make you what price you please But neighbour answered the Cardinall if you might borrowe money to marrie your Daughter well would you not be much better pleased to keepe your Lande whervnto the gentleman replyed that it would bee an other difficultie to pay the money at the prefixed day But if you might haue such a time giuen you sayd the Lord as without strayning of your selfe you might free your debt what would you say O my Lord replyed the other you say well but where are such lenders And so being fallen into a still discourse of selling and lending in the ende this good Legat sayd truelie I wil be the Man and no other that will performe what I haue said The which hee did for hee lent him money for so long a Terme as this gentleman married his Daughter to his owne minde and yet saued his Lande As all Courtiers are carefull of their Maisters profit though it be to an others hurt comming from their secret conference this Mediator comes who demandes in priuate of his Maister if hee had agreed vpon the price I sayd hee and I thinke I haue gayned more then you will beleeue For insteede of the Lordshippe whereof you did speake I haue purchased a friend desiring rather to haue a good neighbour then all the Lands in the world The poore Courtier being confounded did no more dreame of any such bargaines I would to GOD that all Noblemen would consider well of this Historie And yet this Cardinall dying did Lament with teares the time which hee had spent rather in following of a Kings Court then in teaching of his flock M. E. PASQVIER liber 5. de ses recerches Chapter 5.
make her complaintes to almightie GOD the world she would force him to the execution of his promise seeing that hee would not willingly performe it The Knight grewe more amazed then before and made her answere that hee vnderstood nothing of her Language and that she mistooke herself for that hee had neuer had any secret conference with her had promised her nothing neither could shee demande any thing at his hands The Gentlewoman mad with this answere in replying sayd Do you not remember that you did this and this with mee repeating euery thing that had happened vnto her with the Imposter in the Knights shape adding withall you cannot auoide it to bee my husband and I your wife The Knight beeing much amazed beganne to protest that shee was much deceiued to thinke it to be true and contending thereon the Gentlewoman did note vnto him the day of the promise which was vpon a sollemne feast daie Then the Knight sware vnto her that vpon that daie nor three weekes before nor three weekes after he had not beene in the Towne neither in his house nor in hers the which I will prooue vnto you so plainely as you shall rest satisfied and if any one hath deceiued you in my name I am not to bee blamed But to the ende you should not doubt of the truth of my saying I will presently verefie it Then not departing from her hee caused seauen or eight of his house-hold seruants and others to come who vnacquainted with the cause did sweare that the Knight had spoken the truth and that all that time hee had beene aboue fiftie Leagues from thence The Gentlewoman much troubled with this deposition beganne to remember some particularities and to apprehend that no mortall man could haue done them but that they were Imposturs of Satan so as soone after the retreate of the true Knight shee beganne to finde the cause of this abuse and detesting her foolish concupiscence humbling her-selfe shee resolued not to thinke anie more of marriage but ended the remainder of her daies in a Monasterie In the same Booke A bloudie sweat THE Plague beeing in the Towne of Misnia in Saxony there died a great nuÌ„ber of people in the yeare 1542. in the moneth of Iuly It happened that an honest woman 〈◊〉 AGATHE ATERMAN fell sicke and for the space of foure daies swete great droppes of bloud at her for-head so as as soone as euer they had wipt her others came presently shee died aboute the twenteth of September GEORGE le FEVRE in the Annales of Misnia Booke 3. A Miserable Rashnesse CLAVDE Bastard Daughter to SINEBALD FIESQVE Earle of Lauagne being married to a Gentleman of Chiauari neere vnto Genoa called RAVASCHIER was much courted to her dishonour by a Gentleman of the same place named IHON de la TOVR who abusing the loue RAVASCHIER did beare him did seeke to robbe him of his Wife But this vertuous Gentle-woman hauing often-times reiected him hee was so blinde as to imagine that her denials were but allurements and setling this vnworthy conceit in his braine finding his friend to be one day absent hee went and lay vnder the Gentle-womans bed hoping that night being come and she lying alone he might easily inioy her Being retyred and layd to her rest before her Chamber-maide went away into a neere Closet shee commanded her to looke about if there were not any thing that might disquiet her rest in the night The 〈◊〉 auing searcht euery where in the end she cast downe her eyes and spyed vnder her Mistresse bed a black thing She cryed out and both fled out of that Chamber into another ouer it where-as the Gentle-womans Father in lawe was LA TOVR seeing him-selfe discouered opens the Chamber windowes speedily and casts himselfe into the streete where hee was pittifully broken and bruized and by the helpe of a friend of his that came by chance hee was carryed home to his owne house Some houres after this Tragedie is knowne for that Chiauary is but a small place The Father in lawe sends letters to RAVASCHIER and to LEVVIS of Fiesque Brother to the Gentlewoman who sent CORNELIVS their Brother with RAVASCHIER and some Soldiars who come secretly in boates being strong and well garded by the Geneuois they presently force IOHN de la TOVRS house and finding him very lame in his bedde of his fall they cut his throate hewe him in peeces and then flie Such was the ende of his rashnesse History of Italie Treasors found spoiled lost sought for againe vainely and dangerously ABout the yeare 1550. neere vnto Deue a Towne in Transiluania the raine and ruines of water hauing beene very great and the weâ—…her growne faire some peasants going forth to worke descouer by the reuerberation of the Sun a great Treasor which did shine vnder a rotten tree which lookt red through age There was first of a la serpent all of gold the which after the death of a Monke called GEORGE who had seized thereon and was slaine came to the hands of the Emperor FERDINAND There was also found a great number of Medailles of gold of the waight of three Crownes a peece hauing the figure of LYSIMACHVS King of Thrace of the one side and on the other side a victory The peasants had the value of twenty thousand Crownes for their shares The rest was sent to FERDINAND then King of Bohemia by IOHN BAPTISTA CASTALDE his Lieutenant with two Medailles of gold of NINVS and SEMIRAMIS giuen to the Emperor CHARLES the 5. This treasor was valued at aboue a hundred thousand Crownes ACS. CENTORIVS Booke 4. of the war of Transiluania A poore fisherman remayning at Bresse called BARTLEMEVVE Grandfather to ANTHONY CODRE VRCE a learned Gramarien in our time digging in the ground found a great vessell full of siluer with the which he purchased lande sufficient to entertaine his family which was great honestly and moreouer he did set vp a goodly shoppe of spices and became one of the richest men in the Country BARTHE LMEVVE of Bologne in the life of ANTHONY CODRE VRCE The Marquis of Pescara hauing taken Tunis from BAREAROVSSE and being brought into the Cittadel by the ChristiaÌ„â—… that were prisoners there one of theÌ„ being a Geneuois borne descouered vnto him a treasor that was put into sackes and cast into a Cisterne where they found aboue thirty thousand ducats in gold the which the Emperor CHARLES the 5. gaue vnto the Marquis P. IOVIVS Booke 34. of his Histories of our time The treasor of CHARLES Duke of Bourgondy wonne by the Suisses in the battailes which they gaue him neere to Gransoa Morest amounted to great sums of gold and siluer both coined and vncoyned the true value whereof was not iustly known for that at that time the Suisses did more esteeme the heads of their pikes halberds and their swords then the gold or siluer of forren Princes About the yeare 1520. a yong man simple in all his behauior called