the League being cast up the whole sum amounted to above seven millions seven hundred and sixty thousand Crowns More then this these good works have extended their benefits and supererogations to others who have taken lesser Towns and Villages under the chief Leader so that the Followers have been canoniz'd for the super-abounding merit of the Commander I do not bring into this rank either Merceur or Espernon They are yet to know more what it is to trust in works Now then let us see who they are that are so diligent in preseâ—ving their faith to their King and Countrey believing That the just shall live by faith These are they That do deeds worthy of Repentance but not good works not considering that faith without works al-a-mode is a dead faith Whence it comes to pass that some are starv'd to death others attend in the low Court of the Loure mangl'd Captains consumptive Majors maim'd Soldiers wooden-leg'd Engineers Spies and Discoverers with their Stockins out at heels that walk all together in the Switzers-Hall and have nothing to do but to exclaim against Madam Ingratitude in genere petitorio non suasorio Captains carrying the Basket the poor Soldiers the Mattock some shewing their wounds others numbring the fights they have been in the Estates they have lost some mutt'ring libels others modelling a Reformation and others studying where to get a meal upon the Coin of Reputation But some person or other will say have not all these poor Miscreants by your relation toil'd sufficiently Tell us some of their works I answer they were works of Iniquity in regard it is an ill thing to serve the ingrateful And Limaille reproaching the King with the long continuance of his services and his patience and how he had render'd himself irreconcileable to his neighbours for having faithfully executed his Majestie 's commands concluded his discourse with telling him he had not wherewithal to buy himself a Dinner Ventre St. Gri said the King who was not wont to swear after the Roman manner my Kingdom has been a pillaging for these so many years last past why did not you rob something for your self Rob as the rest do Nothing shews that works of that nature are not works and by consequence unworthy of reward The poor man continu'd to his dying day and considering his condition carry'd off the greatest share of the honour of the Siege of Amiens where he dy'd in the Mines of the Wall and this is call'd doing nothing He that would see this subject more learnedly handl'd let him read the King's Apology compos'd by Monsieur Catrier then chief Minister to Madam The King shew'd it me for the style of Madam de Rohan An Apology full of prevarication which Roquellaure hearing read cry'd out Mort dieu They that wrote this how much do they know of our business Some there are who accuse La Ruffie in regard that after a discourse concerning the humor of the King which was to punish good Services and recompence Crimes he said to them that complained of his Majesty you ought to blame your selves not him For since you understand his humor if you expect rewards you should do well to merit them by works worthy of recompence After that he speaks of those who have the honour to be a kin to his Majesty and those he renders worse us'd then the meaner Servants which makes me suspect La Ruffie to be the Author of this writing wherein he calls himself one of the King's kinsmen Witness the speech that his deceas'd Mother made to Madam at Bergerac I recommend said she to your care that poor knave La Ruffie You have more reason to love him then any other For the same reason that I have known the King your Father So have many others besides you reply'd Madam To which the Perigordine made answer so vostra gratia prou intendi so l'honordi die garde de la Compania Carnaument Afterwards La Ruffie was honor'd with the Office of a Spie at Chastellerault where he did a deserving act for he stole certain papers and was made Counsellor of State and Cuckold general under pay He that desires to read more of this Story may read the Last Will and Testament of Salbeuf a Gentleman of Gascognie who though he were a good Catholic accompany'd the K. in his flight from Paris untill the Siege sold seven Horses which belong'd to his Train making known to the King his daily losses At length shame drave him away from the Court But the desire he had to dye in his Prince's service detain'd him in the Army where he listed himself in one of the Companies of the Guards commanded by his younger Brother It happen'd that when the Cannons had ruin'd the shops under the Gate St. Honorè this very person desir'd to be set the outmost Sentinel in the Ruins whereupon the King visiting his Guards and his Approaches in the night-time the Captain from the corner of a house shew'd him his Eldest Brother The King seeing himself touch'd so to the quick went away without speaking one word Some few days afterward this poor Gentleman having again try'd the inclination of his Prince at length o'recome with grief and labour of body dy'd and though unlearned made his Will wherein he first beg'd pardon of God and then of the King his Master for having serv'd him in his Amours with Katharine de Luc d' Agen and several others some of whom were also themselves starv'd to death with the Children which they had by the King There was also much about the same time another Will made by the younger Son of the Chancellor of the Hospital who having left his Estate betook himself to attend the King in all his afflictions and to stick to the Faith and Religion of his party who thinking to have found a Sanctuary for his Errors at Quillebeuf which of a small Village was made a Garrison was shamefully repuls'd and disgrac'd by the Sieur du Plessis Thereupon pronouncing with his own mouth the Sentence of his death he call'd for Paper and made his Will which contain'd much of the same subject but more openly and plainly detecting the King's secrets but his servants violated the last commands of their Master and surrender'd up the Copy which as they say fully justifi'd my opinion concerning the Justification of Works CHAP. VI. Of Miracles and Pilgrimages THE Deceas'd Cardinal of happy memory in regard of his birth as being of the house of Lorrain understanding that the Marshal de Fervaques of happy memory also had discover'd a young Girl whom Belovet the Priest otherwise call'd the holy man had instructed how to counterfeit a Demoniac or person possess'd with a Devil on purpose to make out a Miracle the Easter following this great Prelate pronounc'd Fervaques guilty of a high peice of Impiety saying That though Miracles were false they were useful to make out pious frauds and certainly he did a very great kindness to the Country
haughty King after so many Armies vanquish'd so many flourishing people so many great Princes his Enemies layd at his feet at length for all his Grandeur prostrating himself at the feet of the Pope receives his commands at the hands of his Monsieur Confessor and Cardinal D' Ossat Which two were layd upon their bellies jigg by jowl like Mackarel upon a Gridiron while you might have read half a Mass They say moreover That there was the same play to be play'd over again between his Majesty and Monsieur the Legat but that was to be done gently and under the Rose They who would turn the Holy See quite out of doors instance the boldness of the Court which being a Fugitive as far as Tours yet ventur'd to burn the Bulls of his Holiness by the hand of the common Hangman After that they tell of a second piece of Audacity of the Court united together which was the Banishment of the Jesuits out of France a high contempt of the Romish See But I answer to that That we have no reason to repent of it Witness the good Catholic City of Tournon and in imitation of her the Parliaments of Tholouse and Bourdeaux who both in spight of Fate re-established these stout Champions of the Church Thus you have the proofs of the one and the other side by Consequences and Effects Now for proofs by reason and let no man wonder at this way of proceeding It has been the humor of France for many years to mind the effects and not the reason of things Then I must tell the Reader that a man may sooner venture his Neck and get a hundred thousand Crowns then disengage himself out of the labyrinth of such difficult affairs I shall therefore only say this That I believe the Pope to be more then all the rest of the World together nay then all the Saints and all the Angels I 'll shew ye certain passages which Monsieur Confessor gave me to confirm me in this opinion Bernard of Sens calls him Prince of the Bishops Heir of the Apostles for antiquity of dignity Abel and Noah as a Patriarch Abraham as to his Order Melchisedec as to his Priesthood Aaron as to his Soveraignty Moses in Judgment a Samuel in power a Peter in authority Christ I remember the words of one of the Bulls of Clement the 6th The Pope is to be admir'd The Pope is the astonishment of the World Neither God nor Man but as it were between both The Glossary upon q. Sect. 1. cap. 17. is positive That the Pope is no man I have also read the Distinct and Canon Proposuit de con prae 19. c. Si humanarum Where it is pithily observ'd That the Pope according to the latitude of his Authority has power to give a dispensation against any Law And 5. Transub Epist 5. in Gloss he explains himself farther saying That the Pope can turn injustice into justice Monsieur Confessor never admire at these last passages when I shall tell ye by way of reinforcement that the Pope can make infecta facta that is he can make Something out of Nothing and Nothing of Something By one History alone will I undertake to prove that the Pope can do all this That high and mighty Pope Sixtus Quintus who in his time caus'd above four thousand pair of shoulders to want heads and envy'd the Queen of England for nothing more but that she had the Honour to cut off a Queen's Head who put down the Bawdy houses and consequently took away fourscore thousand Duckets of rent from the Church He that was wont say There 's no trusting in this Religion for it will not last He whom the King call'd Mr. Sixtus who was made Pope that he might bring his Hoggs to a fair Market This Great Personage having unfortunately entred into a Contract with the Devil and having read how Alexander the Sixth for that he had usurp'd the Chair by force was couzen'd in his term of years made his bargain absolutely for seven years but notwithstanding all his wit the Scrivener he had to deal with found a way to get loose from his Articles For after he had raign'd five years very formidably he fell sick the last day of the five years at what time there came to his Bed-side in the sight of his chief Chamberlain a certain grave Abby-Lubber with whom the Pope entred into a very high Contest insomuch that they in the next Room could hear the Pope call the t'other perfidious asking him withal whether he had not promis'd him seven years and whether there were any more then five past To which the Devil's Envoy made answer with a loud voice 'T is true said he I promis'd thee seven years and there are but five elaps'd and yet for all that I am no perfidious Person For do but remember That when you had a desire to put to death the Son of such one for such a Crime when you were inform'd by Justice that Legally he could not be put to death till he was Seventeen years of Age I say then do but remember how you said you would lend him two of yours Now five and two make seven and therefore you must go there 's no remedy By this Story we find the absolute power of the Pope and a confirmation of the fore-mention'd Characters of his Grandeur For by putting the young Lad illegally to death he dispens'd with Law against Law That Justice which should have sav'd the Lad he turn'd into Injustice And the Devil and he made out the third point For the Bargain which was for seven years at first imperfect by the power of the Pope and the Devil became a good Contract as the Devil made it out by the Pope's own Act and Deed. And therefore that buffonly President of Beaulieu when the Pope had excommunicated the Mass which had been said when the King was crown'd together with all that assisted at the Coronation did not much amiss according to his rambling Divinity to say That where there was an Assembly of Ecclesiastics it was such because there was a God among them The Chancellor going about to reply By the body of Sir cry'd the Belswagger you shall grant me that God was present at that same Council The Chancellor not daring to deny the other demands if any Heretic were there who durst venture to bound the puissance of his Holiness Every one shrug'd up his shoulders choosing rather to allow the Excommunication of the God of Heaven then limit the power of a God upon Earth CHAP. II. Of Traditions WE puzzle the Heretics infinitely when we demonstrate to them that the Authority of the Church and Traditions teach us to acknowledge the Scriptures although the Canonical Writings teach us not to acknowledge either Traditions or the Authority of the Church In truth we must hold to the Legends of the Church and not to Canonical Scripture otherwise the Heretics will goad us to Eternity with their Texts out of
the Bible But that I may seem to have done something more I made use of this advice not to reck'n for Tradition-Mongers those ancient Doctors of the six first Ages wherein the Church was not as yet fully nobilitated when her Sumptuous Buildings were not as yet rear'd when the Popes liv'd up and down in Caverns and in short might pass for the first Promoters of her troubles at what time the Church smelt somewhat strong of Huguenotism or rather of the Faggot I say they wrote nothing boldly or over-confidently in those first times therefore I allow for Traditions the Books corrected by the devout Council of Trent For some time after that we have seen at the Court and we have still some Doctors who affecting squeamishness of Conscience play the Demi-Huguenots and Appointers of Religion This ought to be a fair example to Monseiur Benedict and his Compagnons Berenger and Chauveau in their Deaths of Melancholie or Poyson These Hero's would fain persuade the suppression of a Book entitl'd Index Expurgatorius Accordingly it was one Result of the Council of Trent whereby all Printers were commanded to expunge or correct the most boistrous passages wherewith the holy Fathers had besmear'd the belief of the Church with a Catalogue of such Sentences as it was convenient either to stifle or amend to the end the Heretics might make no use of them These Prudent Worldlings esteeming themselves wiser then the Council would needs have this Expurgatorie Index suppres'd to concealâ— as they said the shame of the Church which was not to plead for its self upon false Evidences But they have display'd the shame by thinking to hide it For about 11. or 20. years since the Book I mean a copie of it sign'd by the Council fell into the hands of the Family of Antwerp and is now carefully preserv'd among the Rarities of the Elector Palatine And which is worse some Doctors among the rest Baronius who were chosen to make this Reformation are reformed themselves and have confess'd in their printed writings that one of them had for his part alone alter'd above sixty of those passages Thus the design of the Council being discover'd in going about to suppress this Book we might suppress the Authority of the Church and make it questionable whether it be not lawful to change the Expositions of the Doctors and something of the Text of the Ancients Certainly the Affirmative is to be maintain'd and that the Church ought to change both the old and new Testament without bogling any more at the Translation of the Septuagint then at the Translation of fifteen Score if we would have all the main Principles on our side The Primates of Bourges and Lyons would discard out of the number of Traditions the Conformities of St. Francis the Pattern of Wisdom the Garden of disconsolate Souls Marial the Sermons of Menot Manipulus Curatorum Stella Lavacrum Conscientiae Summa Peccatorum dedicated to the Virgin Mary the Golden Legend the Book of Rates and the Life of Christ A Preacher whose name was Christi preach'd at Nantes to the Ladies in these words My dainty quaint Ladies if I find a Bible or a new Testament in any of your hands you shall tast of my Whip but have always between your fingers the good Vita Christi the Vita Christi who made Vespasian and Titus Christians and brought about the design of the Siege of Jerusalem to revenge the Death of Christ and then he condemn'd and vilifi'd all other Historians to establish the truth of that Book But one of those Prelats might sooner have instructed himself to believe in God then us to believe in Him and it is as difficult a thing to make us quit our love of those Books as to make him quit the love of his kind Sister For those books are the only foundation of our belief Neither do they allow the defeat of Monsieur Cayer They say that the Tales of St. Francis were made at Geneva That 's well for the Alcoran of St. Francis However the studies of these abstemious Find-faults are full of those books of the old Impressions 'T were better for them to defend them and say that they were made with a good Intention As when we read of St. Francis living with his Wife of Snow We ought to speak the best and say the good man did it to cool not only his own naturally sinful heat but as a president to his posterity When he preaches to the flesh thereby it is intimated that when his offspring should preach they would require a mute Auditory When he preach'd it up for a Miracle that God would not suffer the flesh to be drown'd in the Deluge thereby he insinuates that the Miracles of the Church of Rome ought to proceed from natural causes as Richeome labours to make out When he calls the Wolves his Brethren and stroaks them with his hand he did it to show that the Franciscans should be rough footed and surprizers of the Innocent sheep He calls the Swallows his Sisters because their Brothers like them all morning prayer time build their nests i' the Country-mens Houses When the Angel told St. Francis as he was at his devotions that Antichrist should be born of his Order that was because it should not be thought an Indignity to make the Franciscan Friers Popes And when he disrob'd himself before the Women and set up his Crucifix what was that but to display the beauties of Nature as not having eaten of the Tree of Knowledg and to lay open if not the understanding yet the nakedness of Father Adam When St. Germain raises a dead Ass wherefore should not he out of his brotherly love and Asinine commiseration being alive give life to Asses who had bin the death of so many at St. Germans de prez and Auxerrois Blase of Anjou who threaten'd his Son with Excommunication if he offer'd to read one line in the Scripture especially the Commandments at length at the intercession of Aubraye a good Catholic gave him leave to read the Maccabees As for Frier Jacopon when I was a Huguenot there was nothing made me laugh like the Legend of that pious Saint and among the rest how he made Confession of his sins to one of his Brethren by signs These things seem absurd but they work this effect among the people as to lead them into a belief that there is no absurdity in the World And therefore it is that St. Paul calls the preaching of these things the folly of preaching From whence Monsieur Cayer draws this notable Syllogism It pleases God to save Believers by the folly of preaching the folly of preaching is the preaching of Legends therefore God is pleased to save believers by preaching of Legends If any person requires the note of Universality and insists that nothing is to be concluded ex puris particularribus he may do well for the School-men However to conclude from pure particulars is rather the Logic
had any Church I alleg'd these things in imitation of that pious Father who living three hundred years before Constantine nevertheless is so prudent as to call Byzantium Constantiople to the end ye may not laugh at the letter which wrote to the Virgin Mary and that other which J. C. wrote to the three honest Catholics under the Cross at Azè in Poictou op'nly read by the Curates of the Parishes But not to injure the Chapter of Miracles and to shew you that I was not converted out of Ignorance I have read almost all Bellarmin and I took great care being resolv'd upon my Conversion not to meddle with Whitaker Lambert or Reynolds I have read the Declamations and Fictions of Campanus where I saw so many Martyrs of the new Catholic Church 'T is the best way to read that book without examination I did more for I stop'd my Eares against a Heretic that would have made me believe all those Martyrs to be lyes and fables alleging that there were two Characters of Martyrdom the one that it must be purely for Religion and the other that it be at the Parties own choice whether he will live or dye I began to swear that the Queen of Scot's was a true Martyr Oh said the Heretic what a miserable Religion is yours that hath no Martyr purer then a Homicide nor any more chast then a Strumpet I could have found i' my heart to have bang'd him but he was a man of the Sword I have read the Amorous Sermons of M. S. Panigarole but cannot find what the Heretics report of his Catamit As to his Mistress indeed ye say something for whose sake he begins one of his Sermons thus 'T is for you fair one that I dye Nor can I find fault with his Complement for presently after he added said Christ to his Church He was a bold Preacher yet not so bold neither but that I have read in some of his Sermons preach'd at Turin that although the Saints were Canoniz'd he did not beleive them all to be in Paradise A wary man not to be a general voucher for every body I have read the Thundring Sermons of the Bishop of Bizonte which hard'nd my heart for the Massacre at hand Whoever read a more substantial Clause then this Che la crudelta loro era pietosa That their Cruelty was Mercy I have read the writings of Reboul who has told tales out of School because he had bin whip'd there That book will serve excellently well for a Farce after those Tragedies which afflict the squeamish raw Conscience of a Convert newly gall'd with his Conversion I have read Dr. Boulanger who has written like a Devil all ran dan and without premeditation they that will not believe me may beleive their own eyes He is better skill'd in Logic now then when he disputed at Miot and had he now to do with that blind zealot he would conundrum him in another manner then he did For he has answer'd the Preface of Duplessis at least he gives him good words being resolv'd like the chief Captains of the holy Party to observe this maxim That in great undertakings 't is enough to shew a good intention In the same manner I could not forbear laughing when I read the I'ambonicum of Michau against him 'T is well known that the Sorbon has forbid him to write upon a Letter of M. Confessour But in the reply of Michau I blame him for saying That the Boulangers are of Troye in Champagne He was ignorant that they came from Lyons where they could not stay as being too near Provence where they had seen M. Auguste upon the Scaffold or upon the Ladder I read the beginning of Doxemel but he put me out of humour At first I was pleased with young Sponde's manner of arguing for we have a young Sponde as well as a young Nostredamus They say the Widow wrote it which causes many to admire because it was verily thought that she had made all public before I have not spoken at all concerning the Treatises of the Husband because the first disgrace the later which do not seem to be made with so good a will nor in so good an humour as the first Those are full of discourse enliv'nd only by pomp of words the first moving and persuasive ad fidem faciendam But the young man treating of consecrated Church-yards draws from the sum of his discourse this consequential Argument The Jews were very curious in reference to their Sepulchers The Turks account their Sepulchers Holy and go in Pilgrimage to Mecca The Pagans erected lofty Pyramids canoniz'd their dead and ordain'd them Supplications Ergo The Christians ought to do the like in imitation of the Jews Turks and Pagans But not to bereave any person of the honour which is due to him we are well assur'd that this was the off-spring of M. Raymund's brain or rather of his Host who is also reported to have made the preliminary Epistle to Richeome Let it be as it will both together have taught me very fine fancies First that it is a duty to carry the Pope upon our Shoulders Thus the Pagans exalted their Druids and Vestals The Romans were carry'd by their Slaves in Litters The Chineses in Tunquin carry their Religious Orders a Cock loft in the same manner and the Country people in Xantoigne upon their wedding days are hoisted after the same fashion as it is also the Custom in Lorrain Ergo We are to carry the Pope Cardinals and Bishops upon our Shoulders to shew our selves Pagans like the Chineses or Slaves as among the Romans or else in imitation of the Courtly fashion of the Country Bumpkins of Xantoigne and Lorrain The same Author tells That Madam Simonite he meant Sunamite kiss'd Elisha's feet Ergo all Kings who are Simonites ought to kiss the Pope's feet This Monsieur Raymund and his Companions speak very well to the Huguenots and their printed Complaints by declaring to them that they do not complain without a cause For as Raymund says to Rabesne contentiously wrangling to make a Huguenot Lady lose the Guardianship of her Children The Laws are not to be observ'd according to humour or to please proscrib'd persons and afterwards solliciting to have a Huguenot put to death for a Murder which a pious Catholic had committed we need not make any scruple to destroy the Estates of those whose lives are under Condemnation or to cut off particular Members where the Body is under the general attainder of the Church I have also read a book much after the same rate and which I believe to be a chip of the same block mainly endeavouring to extirpate the memory of Papes's Joan. And to shew you that I have studi'd and that I keep a Correspondence with the Learned I have sent him an Epigram upon this subject which begins Foemina quod mentita virum to which I expect his answer CHAP. VII Of the Arrogance of the Huguenots IF
I would not have them guilty of sending people meerly upon that errand Then to breed 'em up as Victims to God that looks as if we Sacrific'd them our selves and smels a little of Baal-peor Again the word Cloyster sounds like a Prison as if we kept them in Sties to force them to keep their Oaths and upon this the Heretics would be upon our bones and say of the God to whom we sacrifice them That it must be some God of this Age or else some God of the Earth for that the God of Heaven requires now no more Sacrifices at all nor never did those of human blood But that which spoils all is the word fatted or greas'd I ask'd Archbishop Valgrand what the meaning of it was he sent me to the Saturnalia of Lipsius l. 1. c. 14. There I found that the Term was proper to the Gladiators who were pick'd out of the condemn'd persons or miserable Slaves and afterwards maintain'd in their sacred or rather execrable Seminaries to the end they might purchase their fat by their death of whom Propertius Qui dabit immundae venalia fata saginae Bellarmin did very ill to put us in mind of the ninescore taken at Menerbè who every one of them chose rather to be burnt then to deny the least tittle of their Religion And Antonine did very ill to write that they gave the Prisoners their choice either to abjure their Religion and have their liberty or dye whereupon a hundred and fourscore chose rather to be burnt For which reason I would not have him that makes our book of Martyrs meddle with your ear-lulling Latin which affected persons to shew their gift make use of to our prejudice and the discovery of our business The Balderdash Latin which Monsieur Confessour uses will be good enough for us And in pursuit of our design we must gain in England some Ministers or other Officers that when they hang our people there may discourse to 'em some point of Religion and not of Warlike preparations Seditions Petars Guns Mines and Poysons from the Pope's Apothecary Then upon the Ladder they must have their choice either to turn or turn off the Ladder For those Heretics never account for Martyrs any but those who have such a choice propos'd to them and such as it appears by their Enditements that they dye for the sole point of their Religion According to this Rule they never list for Martyrs those that are arm'd for their defence but only such as have no other Weapons but their Prayers Such as were the 17000 Albigeois slaughter'd in one day and the 30 or 40000 Souls sent upon St. Bartholomews-day to the furies of St. Bartholomew But as for us who have a better view of things I am not of opinion that we should be so nice but let us muster for default of others in our Martyrology all those that are slain in Battails Seiges Skirmishes and Duels Especially such as have fought against the Heretics and all the Irish their Wives and Children that are starv'd to death in the streets of our Cities These are the Victims of that great Sacrificer Sanders and other Doctors who notwithstanding several pardons caus'd them to make use of the Bull of the Holy Father Pius the V. as Bellarmin reports by virtue whereof they made no scruple of violating their Allegiance to the Queen And as for them that lay sculking in the Niches of Pont Neuf not then finish'd and in the night time Rob'd all those that pass'd along and then threw them into the River if there be any scruple of canonizing them we must be careful what we do lest we should injure them that did no harm but only to the Heretics There are some who believe the Bishops ought to tain the poor But my thoughts are that they are for the generality very uncharitable out of a good intention to fill our Book with the sweet scented Sacrifices of their starv'd Bodys Of which number were those poor people whom the Bishop of Mayence caus'd to be burnt out of a good intention to save Corn. If the Huguenots refuse these at the Muster we will in spight of their teeths pass them for Martyrs whom we allege to have dy'd in the Wars We have a good Title to it For the Fathers of the Society of Bourdeaux have learnedly consulted about it and wrote them down by parcels in the Treatise of the Massacre at Coutras of which Pamphlets Paris was full All honest men believe that the Huguenots being forc'd to the Battel gain'd the Victory by Treachery in regard they had hid their Canon under ground and by that means made our people fly in the Air like so many Birds By this Ladder we mount to Heaven much more noble Martyrs then the Heretics can do St. Foy was made Bishop of Senlis for having plac'd the last Charles among the Martyrs If so there is a Bishopric due to me for having muster'd up such a scroll of Martyrs as I have done But to return to my Text the King said that good Preacher had so much trouble to massacre the Huguenots that he dy'd for grief because he could not finish his design nay some say that he dy'd blaspheming for madness 'T is a Gentile expression which some of our Doctours use to some concerning the Millers Bridg I mean those Catholic Bigots who beleive that God overwhelm'd that Bridge as being the Scaffold of the Butchery and that it was a notable mark of Celestial Vengeance But I say no 't was not for the Cruelties exercis'd but because they exercis'd no more by which default of theirs I warrant ye we lost above six or seven hundred fresh-water Martyrs But may we not search for those who have dy'd in cold blood Of that sort the most bright-shining Martyr is the Queen of Scots who had blown up her Husband before constantly resolv'd so to do notwithstanding all the kindness and amorous humility which he shew'd her 'T is true indeed her heart taught her what belong'd to gun-powder But 't is all one she shall be canoniz'd and in spight of the Heretics teeth she shall be plac'd in the Almanack next to St. Mary the Egyptian only for distinction sake she shall be called St. Mary Morter-peice At her feet we well place Peter Edmond and with their Company of a hundred and ten according to the account of Baronius The most part of these were brave Souldiers excellent Petardeers of the Seminary of Maurevel and the ancient de La Montagne who for a small sum would have taken any man out of your way that offended ye or obstructed your designs having always an intention against Heresie The Souls of these we must believe to be sav'd for they would fain have damn'd 'em themselves but you know what is said of them that willingly lose their Souls Maurevel was so zealous a Catholic that in hatred of misbeleivers for a small sum of money which the Queen had promis'd him