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A11934	The lyfe of the most godly, valeant and noble capteine and maintener of the trew Christian religion in Fraunce, Iasper Colignie Shatilion, sometyme greate admirall of Fraunce. Translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding; Gasparis Colinii Castilloni, magni quondam Franciae amerallii, vita. English.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, attributed name.; Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636, attributed name.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 22248; ESTC S117200	64,379	124

tyrant out of the world as was alwayes raging alwayes mad alwayes thirstie of christen blud If Poltro had vttered any thing ageinst him vppon promis of pardon or intyced by fayer woords while he was in durance in the comon Iaile he ought to haue bin kept aliue like as he him self had requyred by many letters and messages while Poltro was yet alyue in the comon prizon that assoone as the warres were ended he might haue bin examined of him by lawfull order of Iustice face to face wheras now seeing he is dead nether his confession nor his deposition ought too bee of any importance in a cace of lyfe and death specially ageinst a man of such state calling as he was in that Realme Furthermore albeeit that he or any other of his armie had neuer so much inuegled Poltro too that attempt yit notwithstanding could it seeme any heynous fault for an enemie to deale enemylike with his enemie Had there bin any trewce at that tyme or was the Admirall bownd too him by any couenant or othe To what purpoze should Capteines keepe gards abowt them in their Campes but too looke too the safety of their persones To be short though none of these things were yit since that tyme peace had bin reconcyled not only betweene the souldiers of both parts but also much more betweene the capteines and officers of the bands too the benefyte of the comon weale too the which publike benefite and ciuill concord this newe kinde of quarreling was a hinderance And if they would needes haue that murther sifted out too the bottome he also would request the King that he on his syde might haue leaue too preferre iudytements agaynst them likewise For it might bee easily proued that the Duke of Gvvyse had executed vnlawfull crueltie ageinst the kings subiects broken all the holie decrees of the realme confirmed by the kings Edict and also committed hygh treason by making warre of his owne priuate authoritie and by vsurping the whole state of the realme and finally had confounded all lawes of God and man bin the firebrond of all the great broyles wherewith Fraunce had burned abowt 13. moonethes Uppon the heering of this oration of the Admiralles howbeeit that the same processe was renewed dyuers tymes by the Gwisians afterward at length the king summoned the princes and noblemē of his realme toogither with his graue counsellers and men of cheefest authoritie too meete at the Citie of Molins The Cardinall of Lorreine taking too him his brothers widowe willed hir too speake for that parte and therwithall gaue the Admiral leaue too answer what he could in his defence When the matter had bin debated on bothe sides the king by the aduice of his counsellers demaunded of them whither there were any of that assembly whom they thowght partiall and meete too bee remoued They answered that they lyked well of all Then he demaunded agein whither their desire was that he should doo them iustice in that cace whither they woold promis too stand too his iudgment or no. When bothe parties had answered that they woold verye willingly stand too the kings determinacion within a feawe dayes after the .29 day of Ianuarie 1566 sentence was giuen woord for woord in forme following The King hauing herd bothe the parties and considered the matter with his Counsell and perceyuing that the verdites and opynions of his Peeres and Counsellers consented and agreed all in one withowt anie variablenesse giueth definitiue sentence that the Admirall Shattilion seemeth cleere and giltlesse of the murthering of the Duke of Gwyse and therof dooth vtterly acquit him And therwithall cōmaundeth his Attourney generall all others too whom such matters belong neuer to speake more of it Furthermore he forbiddeth them that had bin the aduersarie parties in that cace all other his subiects too bee so bold as too haue any speeche therof likewyse all iudges ministers of Iustice too suffer that matter to be called anie more in questiō before them giuing all men too vnderstand that he hath taken bothe the parties intoo his custodie protection and therfore giueth the parties streight charge that they should thensforth liue quietly frendly vnder his obeisāce not practyze any thing one ageinst another If any of the kinsfolk countrifolk acquaintāce or frends of the aduersary parties do ageinst this Decree he shal be takē for giltie of hygh treason as a traytor too the kings person in violating the publik peace tranquillitie And therfore it is his pleasure that this sentēce be proclaimed inrolled in al his Courts of Iustice. But now must wee returne ageine to the dooings of the former yeere Within a feawe moonethes after there happened a thing which too my seeming is not too bee let passe bycawse it may bee a record of a moste gentle and meeld disposition There was a certeine gentleman called Hamberuillier borne of a woorshipfull howse whom the Admirall had interteyned manie yeeres in howsehold very familiarly and had vsed his seruis in his affayres of most credit and estimation A letter of this mannes was intercepted in the Court wherin he wrate too certein whom it is not requysite too name at this present that he woold within feawe dayes dispatch the matter that was inioyned him and giue the Admirall a drink too cast him intoo a dead sleepe When this letter was browght too the Admiralles hand he sent for the partie and willed him too wryte certein verses with his owne hand in a paper that was redie there and when he had compared them bothe toogither he asked him whither he acknowledged the letter too bee his hand or no. Which when he had acknowledged being conuicted of the wicked deede by his owne conscience he kneeled downe byandby and besowght his mayster of mercie The Admirall answered that he forgaue him howbeeit vppon condicion that he should voyd his howse out of hand and neuer comme in his syght more Herafter wee must retyre backe too the practizes of the Court the last yeere For within a feawe moonethes after the Proclayming of the peace the Queene Moother determined too make a progresse too Baion to see hir sonne in Lawe the King of Spayne and too carrye hir sonnes thither with hir for a certeine purpoze which being knowen too feaw at that time did afterward burst owt in tragicall euēts First therfore shee tooke hir iourney to Lyons which vnto that tyme was in the power of the protestants by reason of the multitude of Citizens and Countrie folkes that fauored the Religion therabowts As soone as shee came thither shee gathered toogither the Italian Carpenters Masons euerywhere and commaunded a hold which the Italians doo comonly call a Citadell too bee bwilded in all haste vppon the next hil too ouerlooke the towne A little before the plage began too growe whot had now cawght hold of the Courtyers and yit the Queene could not bee perswaded too remoue hir

sharpwitted and of very greate foresight in this one cace he was by a kynd of destinie stark blynd Howbeeit forasmuch as there is a treatise set foorth alredy intitled the declaration of the Hellish slawghter conteyning the discourse of the whole matter with the tragicall issew therof and the celebrating of the king of Nauarres mariage with all maner of pomp and royaltie of showes I will as now set downe no more but the things that concerne the last time of the Admiralles life wherof I haue gotten most certein testimonies Notwithstanding I will first set downe a copie of a letter which he wrate the self same day with his own hand from Paris too his wife then great with chyld For seing I had the originall copie in my hād which seemed to cary greate weyght with it for the setting foorth of the truth of the storie I thowght it was not to be let passe in this place And therfore I haue trāslated it thus in maner woord for woord Greeting This day my right deer beloued wife is the mariage of the kings sister of the king of Nauarre celebrated Theis next .3 dayes wil be spēt in playes bākettings masks triūphs The king hath promised me faithfulli that afterward he wil bestow some time in heering the cōplaints that are brought to him from sundry partes of his realme for violating of his edict of peace In which matter it is good right that I should imploy myself to the vttermost of my power For although I haue great desire to see thee yit wold it be a greef both to me to thee also as I think if my indeuer duetie should want in the furtherance of that matter Neuertheles this let wil not stay my departure out of the Citie so long but that I may come away the next weeke If I had no further respect thā of my self it were more pleasure for mee too bee with thee thā to tary any lōger in this Court for causes which thou shalt know of mee when I comme home But I must haue more regard of the comon weale than of priuate loue or cōmoditie I haue diuers other thīgs too impart too thee as soone as I may conueniently talke with thee wherof I assure thee I am desirous night and day But all that I can tell thee of as now is this It was this day past fower of the clocke in the afternoone ere the mariage masse was celebrated Whyle that was a singing the king of Nauarre walked vp and downe with certein noblemen of our Religion which followed him in a certein yard with owt the Churche There are a nomber of smaller things which I will deferre till wee may talk toogither In the meane while I beseeche God too preserue thee my deerbeloued and moste louing wife At Paris the .18 of August 1572. A three dayes ago I was diseased with the cholik and the stone But as God woold it lasted not past a .9 or .10 howres and as now such is Gods goodnesse I am free from all such peynes I promis thee I will trubble none of them in the thronges of their feastes playes Once agein Farewell The subscription of the letter was this Thy louing husband Shattilion The .5 day after the Date of this letter which was the .22 day of August as the Admirall went homeward frō the kings counsel abowt dinner time and passed by the house of Villemure a canon scholemaister too the yoong Duke of Gwyse he was striken with a hargabus shot owt of a Lattiswindowe and wownded in three places For the forefinger of his ryght hand was broken in peeces and hys left arme shot throwgh with two pellets of brasse which thing the foremencioned storie of the hellish slawghter hathe breefly towched Hervppon the Phisicions and Surgions were sent for owt of hand among whom was Ambrose Parey the Kings Surgion which was takent too haue greate skill in Leachecraft He that was witnesse of the things insewing did bothe see them and also hold vp the Admiralles arme as he lay vppon his bed The sayd Ambrose began his cure at the broozed finger and did cut it of not without putting his patient to great peyne For inasmuch as his pinsons were not sharp ynowgh he was fayne to open them thryce and thryce to grype them ageine togither Afterward he launced bothe the sids of his left arme where the pellets had perced through the peyne wherof the Admirall abode not only with a stowt corage but also with a stedfast coūtenāce Yea and wheras they that hild vp his armes and behild those launcings were not able to forbeare weeping the Admirall perceyuing them too bee dismayd sayd vnto them Why weepe yee my freends I thinke my self blissed in suffering these wounds for Gods name sake And therewithall looking vppon Merline a minister of Gods word my freends quoth he these are Gods benefits In deede I am full of peine but I acknowledge this to bee the will of our Lord God and I think his maiestie that he hath voutsafed me so greate honour as to lay somme crosse vppon mee for his moste holie names sake Therfore let vs pray him too graunt mee the gyft of perseuerance Then beholding Merlyne moorning and lamenting My Merlyne quoth he why dost thou not rather comfort mee Yee say truth sir aunswered Merlyne nother is there any greater or surer comfort for you than to thinke continually that God doth you greate honour in deeming you worthye to suffer these greefes for his name and religions sake My Merlyne replyed the Admirall if God should handle mee according to my deserts and woorthynesse and deale with mee according too his iustice I shoulde haue farre other maner of greefes too indure But blessed bee his Name for vsing his mercie and clemencie towards mee his moste vnwoorthie seruant O Sir quoth another hold yee still in that godlye mynd For you haue cawse too giue greate thankes too him for his goodnesse in that he hathe left you the moste part of your bodie whole and sownde Therefore you haue in these wowndes a greater warrant of Gods mercye than token of his wrath specially sith he hath lefte you your head and mynde vnwounded Then answered Merlyne You do verye well too turne awaye your mynde and conceyt from your strykers and from them that gaue you these wowndes vntoo God alone For surely it was his hand that layd these strokes vppon you and it is no tyme for you too thinke now vppon the cutthrots and murtherers As for mee quoth the Admirall vndowtedly I forgiue freely and with all my hart both him that strake me and them that did set the striker to do it For I am sure it is not in their power too do mee anye harme no not euen thowgh they shoulde kill mee for I am out of all dowt that deathe is too mee a passage vntoo lyfe which saying he repeted ageine anon after too the Marshal Mounsyre Damuyle who came too him too

visit him in the heering of Merlyne who escaped the slawghter and is yit still alyue And when the same Merlyne told him that the calamities and myseryes which happen too godly men in this lyfe do comonly stirre them vp to pray vnto God the more earnestly and quicken them vp to reuerence Gods power by and by the Admiral did burst out into these wordes with a lowd voyce and vehement corage saying Lord God heauenly father pitie me of thy mercie and clemencie and remember not the wickednesse of my former life If thou looke vppon our faults and vppon our lightnesse and vnfaythfulnes in breaking of thy Lawes Lord who shall abide it who shal be able to indure the force of thy wrath Setting aside all fabulous Gods I call vppon thee alone acknowledging and worshipping thee the etetnall father of the eternall God Iesus Christ Throwgh him I beseech thee to graunt mee thy holy spirit and the gift of pacience In thine only mercy do I trust In that only is my whole hope repozed Whither it be thy will to giue me present death or to prolong my life yit longer behold I protest my self to bee readie vnto bothe nothing dowting but that if I must die out of hand thou wilt take mee out of hand intoo thy blessed and heauenly rest And if thow suffer mee too continewe longer in this life graunte mee O heauenly Father that I maye spende the reste of my time all wholly in spreading abrode the glorie of thy name and in the reuerencing and obseruing of thy most holy religiō When he had ended this prayer Merlyne asked of him neuerthelesse whyther it could like him that his Seruants should also ioyne their prayers with his To whom the Admirall answered with all my hart and you Mayster Merlyne speake on in the behalfe of this our congregation While Merlyne was vttering a praier applied to the present cace the Admiral lifting vp his eies to heauen shewed a wonderfull earnestnesse of mynd in praying After the end of the praier when Merline alledged the examples of the auncient Martyrs and told how that euen from Abraham and Adam no man had euer imployed his seruis notably to God his Churche but he was afflicted with many inconueniences the Admirall interrupting his speeche sayd he felt himselfe greatly confirmed by his talke and tooke greate comfort by his rehersall of those Martyres and godly fathers and that his greef was much asswaged by it Soone after Mounsyre Cossey Mounsyre Damuyle the Marshalls of Fraunce came vnto him assuring him that they were very sorie for his mischaunce and that there had not happened any thing to them a good whyle that was a greater greef and corzie too them neuerthelesse it was meete and agreeable too the wonted corage of his mind that he should plucke vp his hart shew himself a man for his owne prowesse had giuen him much more than that mishapp could take away Then the Admirall turning to Cossey said You remember what I told you a while ago vndowtedly you must abide as much your selfe Then said the Damuyle my Lord Admiral I wil not take vppon me either to comfort you or to incorage you to valeantnes and constancie of mind You your self are he from whom such precepts of comfort and corageowsnesse are to bee taken But I pray you see wherin my seruis may pleasure you I maruell whence these things come The Admirall answered other than the Duke of Gvvyse I suspect none and yit I dare not affirme that for a certeintie Notwithstanding Gods goodnesse hath lately tawght mee to feare nother myne enemyes nor yit death which I knowe to be vtterly vnable to hurt me rather to be a blessed and euerlasting rest For I know that God in whom alone I put my trust is nother deceytfull nor vntrew howbeeit that in this my misfortune nothing hath happened more to my greef than that I see my selfe bereft of libertie to shewe to the King how much I was mynded to haue doone for his sake his saying so was in respect of the matter concerning Flaunders Would God I myght talke a litle with him for I haue certein things which it standeth him greatly on hand to know and I think there is not any man that dareth report them vntoo him In the meane season the King of Nauarre and the Prince of Condey complayned to the King of the heynowsenesse of the fact To whom the King answered thus I sweare by God whom I take too witnesse that I will reuenge this fact so seuerely as it may bee an example too all that shall come after The woman that was fownd in the howse wherowt of the Hargabut was shot at the Admirall and a boy of hirs were taken and cast in prizon Abowt twoo of the clocke in the afternoone the King being certified of the Admiralls desyre went vntoo him accompanyed with the Queene moother the Kings twoo brothers the Duke Mounpauncer the Cardinalls of Burbon Mounsyre Damuyle Mounsyre Tauanne and Mounsyre Cossey Marshalls of Fraunce the Countie of Rhets Moūsyre Torrey and Mounsyre Meruey the Damuyles brothers after whom followed Gonzaga Duke of Niuers At the first the King commaunded all that were of the Admirals howshold to be shet out of the chamber sauing Mounsyre Telignie and his wife and one persone that scaped alyue from the slawghter who marked aduyzedly what was doone and sayd at that time When the king was come to the bedds side I thanke your maiestie most humbly quoth the Admiral that you haue vowtsafed me so great honour and taken so great peines for my sake The King pretending gladnes for that great corage of his mynd willed him with very faire words to hope well to be of good confort Sir quoth the Admiral ther are three things wherof I was desirous to talk with your maiestie The first is myne owne faythfulnes allegeance towards your highnesse So may I haue the fauour mercie of God at whose iudgmentseate this mischaunce wil peraduenture set mee ere it bee long as I haue euer borne a good hart to your maiesties person crown And yit I am not ignorant how oft maliciowse persones haue accuzed me too your highnesse and charged mee as a trubbler of the state But as God would the matter it selfe hath sufficiently shewed thowgh I my selfe should hold my peace that the only cawse of all those greate slaunders is that I haue withstoode those mennes ouerboldnes and owtrage and defended the authoritie of your Edicts ageinst their trubblesum and violent attempts and could not beare that they should breake the promis which you had made so often with othe vntoo your subiects Of this my meening God is best witnesse who will examin the cace betweene me and my backefreends and decyde it according to his righteowsensse Agein forasmuchas I haue bin aduaunced to so greate honour and authoritie in this Realme by your maiesties father and graundfather and confirmed in the same by your

professing the purer religion should notwithstanding bee so hyghly in fauour with the Queene Moother and resort so often too the Countie Rhetes and others of the Queenes familiar freendes Abowt the third howre of the nyght there rose another occasion of suspicion throwghe Mounsyre Cossins frowardnesse who espying the Corselets of Mounsyre Telignie and Mounsyre Gvverchie too bee browght in did put backe the bringer Uppon the knowledge wherof Gvverchie being of warlike disposition and very feerce of nature went owt too Cossins and giuing him euill language was like too haue made a fray with him But Telignie appeazed the quarell with gentle speeche for as all men report he was a yoongman of a meeld and meeke dispozition and such a one as being deceiued wyth the Kings fayre words was woont to aduance and commend his sinceritie without meazure or end Therefore when as Gvverche and diuers others asked of him whither he thought it good for them to tarie and keepe watch all night in the Admiralls howse he answered them all that it was labour more than needed and gaue them thanks with very louing words By meanes wherof it fel out that none lodged in the Admirals house that night but only Cornaton Labon Yolette the Mayster of the Admiralls horses Merline the minister of Gods word Ambrose the Kings Surgion the Admiralls chamberseruants and a fower or fyue other seruants at the most For Telignie had gotten himself with his wife intoo his owne howse which ioyned wall to wall to the Admiralls lodging Neuerthelesse there watched fyue Svvissers of the King of Nauarres gard at the gate of the owtter court whom he had commaunded to tarie there all night for the Admiralles defence Sommewhat before daylyght woorde was browght to Labon that there was one at the gate sent by the King to the Admirall who desired too bee let in Labon taking the keyes ranne too the gate out of hand and opened it Byandby Cossens cawght hold of him and killed him with his dagger and being garded with his hargabuzers he rushed foorthwith into the howse killed somme running away amazed and othersomme as they met him and set all on a noize and vprore Then brake he open the doore at the stayers foote and althowgh he slew one of the Swissers with the shot of a hargabut yit was he kept from comming vp the staires by setting certeine chests in his way The Admirall and they that were with him being waked with the noyze of the pistole●s and Curriers dowting not but that their enemyes were broken in vpon them did forthwith fal flat vpō the ground began to pray for peace at Gods hand and too call vnto him for mercie The Admirall himself being lifted out of his bed and hauing put on his nightgowne commaunded Merlyne too make prayers before him and he calling vpon Christ our God with vehement sighing fell too commending of his spirit intoo his hands which he had receiued of God to inioy When the witnesse of all theis things came into his chamber being demaunded of Ambrose the Surgiō what noyze that was he turned himself to the Admirall and sayd Sir it is God that calleth vs vntoo him They haue broken intoo the howse there is no way too withstand them As for mee quoth the Admirall I haue prepared myself vntoo death afore hand Shift yow for yourselues if yow can possibly for it wil bee in vaine for yow too go abowt too saue my life I commend my sowle to Gods mercy They that are the witnesses of theis things noted that the Admirall did no more chaunge his countenance at theis dooings than if no straunge thing at all had happened vntoo him All the residew sauing only Nicolas Muskie a right trustie seruaunt of his his interpreter for the Dutche tong getting themselues away intoo the garrettes of the howse and finding a windowe in the roofe fell too shifting for their liues by flight and diuers of them scaped by the benefite of the night By that time Cossins hauing remoued the chests and the other stoppes that were cast in hys waye browght in first certein of the Swissers apparelled in longcotes garded with blacke white and greene wherby it was perceyued that they were of the Duke of Aniowes gard Theis beholding their fower countrymen vppon the stayers did hurt none of them But Cossins being armed with a Corslet a sheeld and brandishing his naked swoord in his hand did by and by commaunde the hargabuzere that was next him too shoote at them with which shot one of them was striken stark dead owt of hand Assoone as they were broken intoo the Admirals chamber one Beheme a Germane borne in the Dukedome of Wirtemberg whose father by report was the maister of the ordinance being the first that stept intoo the chamber and seeing the Admirall sitting there said Art not thou the Admirall Yis I am he quoth the Admirall and thou yoong man haue regard of my hore heade and old age But Beheme without giuing him any mo woordes strake him on the heade with his swoord and was the first that imbrued himself with the Admiralles blud After him followed Cossins Attignie and all the residew As for the rest of the things that concerne the murthers saccages that were done in Paris those .2 whole dayes togither they be recorded alredy in the foresaid discourse of the hellish manslawghter The Admiralls bodie being throwne downe out of a windowe was trampled vnder foote by the yong Duke of Gvvyse and anon after tumbled into the myre in the open streete and mangled and vsed with all the vilanie that might be and a three dayes after caried out of the Citie by the furious multitude and hanged vp by the feete vppon the gallowes of Mountfalcon There it remayned certeine dayes as a banner of the people of Parisis victorie and as a monument of their madnesse and crueltie which they executed vppon him bothe quicke deade which deede will not only neuer be forgotten but also bee the destruction of Paris as a nomber of wise and discreete men foredeeme But within a feaw dayes after the Admiralls bodie was taken downe in the night by certeine horsmen and buryed in a secret place Among diuers wrytings that were taken in the riffeling of his stuffe was fownd his will made a litle before the end of the last warres which the Queene moother commaunded too bee red before certeine of hir familiar freends In the same there was one article wherin the testator counselled the King that he should not gine his brothers too greate richesse and authoritie At the heering wherof the Queene turning too Frauncis Duke of Alaunson the Kings brother said Lo heere your odde frend the Admiral whom you loued so deerely and set so much store by To whom the Duke of Alaunson answered I cannot tell how much he was my freend but surely he hath well shewed euen by this counsel how greatly he loued the king Not vnlike too