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A63523	The True history of the Duke of Guise extracted out of Thuanus, Mezeray, Mr. Aubeny's Memoirs and the Journal of the reign of Henry the Third of France : published for the undeceiving such as may perhaps be imposed upon by	Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617.; Mézeray, François Eudes de, 1610-1683.; Aubigné, Agrippa d', 1552-1630. Mémoires.; L'Estoile, Pierre de, 1546-1611. Journal de Henri III. English.	1683 (1683)	Wing T2703; ESTC R23195	25,198	38

who was with Bellegard in the said Chamber Lognac seeing him coming only held out his Sword in the Scabbard which the Duke no sooner run against but he fell with his whole Body upon the Carpet and without any Convulsion breath'd his last Gasp Where he lay exposed for some time to the Mockery of the Courtiers who call'd him the Brave King of Paris Which Name the King gave him Who being in his Cabinet and being told the business was done came forth and gave the dead Duke a spurn in the Face with his Foot as the Duke had done before to the dead Body of the Admiral Chastillon The King having viewed him a while cry'd out Good God how great he looks greater than when alive In the mean while the Cardinal of Guise hearing the Hurly-burly and conjecturing the truth rose from his Chair in so much haste that he over turn'd it and without any thoughts of assisting his Brother made to the Door of the Council-Chamber thinking to escape But the Arch-bishop of Lyon ran to the inner door of the Kings Bed-chamber as one that intended to assist the Duke or was else resolv'd to dye with him as being the person who had been the pernicious occasion of his stay at Court But they were both stopt both Arrested and carried up into a Chamber next the Tiles where they were kept all that Day and the next Night which caus'd them to spend their time in Prayers and mutual Exhortations not without some menacing words uttered by the Cardinal which being convey'd to the Kings Ears by the Guards hastened his ruine Then the King caus'd his Bed Chamber to be unlock'd and admitted the Lords Among which turning to the Cardinal Vendosme Now said he I am King and 〈◊〉 resolv'd to prosecute the War against the Sectaries more eagerly than e●er th● Prosecution of which th●se turbulent F●ries w●o ha● al●ays th● cause of Religion in the●r M●uths h●●e hith 〈…〉 the mean while let those wh● da●● presume to 〈…〉 or weaken my Authority learn by ●●is Example wh●● they are to expect from my just Indignation And so saying 〈…〉 to give the Queen-Mother an accompt of the Fact Who not so much astonish'd at the hainousness of the deed as that it was done so contrary to all probability with a compos'd Countenance ask'd the King whether he foresaw what Commotions would follow and whether he had provided against what might happen To whom when the King answered He had taken care for all things She added no more but only prayed to God that all things might turn to the best There was Eminent in this Duke a wonderful Affability joyn'd with Gravity which allur'd the good will of all Men an Eloquence more perswasive in private Counsel than in publick Harangues a profuse Liberality and an apparent Civility to the meanest His Person tall his Countenance comely his becoming Gate and Gesture Majestick added not a little to the endowments of his Mind and plainly shewed the greatness of his Thoughts and the exalted accomplishments of his Soul He patiently endured Heat or Cold Thirst or Hunger and though bred in the midst of Court Delecacy when he was in the Field thought nothing too mean or homely no more than the meanest Souldier He was sparing of Sleep Indefatigable so ready in business and dispatch that he seemed to play in the midst of serious Affairs and to be idle in dispatches of highest Importance But these too many rare endowments of Nature were sully'd with an Exorbitant Ambition which allowed no Bound to his Thoughts nor limit to his Designs For carrying on of which he had a crafty reaching and intreagueing Wit and being an Artist at Dissembling and Deceiving would uphold one untruth by telling another so that when he intended to deceive most he always found out new Methods and Means to deceive and execute the Deceit still laying the blame on others Which being observed by his Intimate Friends rendered them his Enemies by degrees so that many for that reason forsook him not finding that Faith and Cindour in his Deeds which he pretended to in Words The Duke of Mayenne was not inferiour to him either in Fame or Vertue if he did not far exceed him in the latter Guise depended more upon his Fortune Mayenne upon his Prudence The Duke of Guise cared not how far he ran in Debt so he had wherewithal to supply his Expences Mayenne ordered his Expences always according to his Income The Elder profuse in his Promises but sparing in his Performances The Younger sparing of his Promises but what he promis'd he inviolably perform'd The Duke of Guise being therefore remov'd out of the World the King did not think his Work effected unless he could get Mayenne into his Clutches And therefore sent away Ornan presently to Apprehend him But he having timely notice seasonably withdrew himself The next thing was what to do with the Cardinal They who had advised the Murther of the Duke made no Question but the King might take the same course with the Cardinal and were therefore the more urgent because he well understood the Kings disposition and were afraid least the King should be overcome with compassion Thereupon they thus Discourst it That the Cardinal was a haughtie Person who had spent his Touth free from the dangers of War in all the labyrinths of Court Intrigues and would therefore run on with more precipitancy where the Violence of his revenge carried him That he was no way hamper'd in the Pleasures of Matrimonie nor obnoxious to those tendernesses of Affection that fetter other Men with the considerations of Mutual Compassion and therefore there was no Person in all the Guisian Family whom the King had more reason to expect would be more cruel in his revenge than the Cardinal That his Complaints were uttered full of threats while his Brothers Blood was yet warm and the Example of a Punish'd Traytor reaking hot What would he do when he should find himself free from the fear of Death that roar'd out danger like a Lyon in his Den To this they further urg'd That when the Secret Council of the Party propos'd the thrusting the King into a Monastery and one of the Council more moderate demanded Who would be so adventurous as to undertake it The Cardinal of Guise having first reproach'd the Cowheartedness of the other declar'd aloud That if they would but bring the King to him he would hold him Neck and Shoulders between his own Knees and set a Monks Crown upon his Head with the Point of a Dagger The King who had not yet taken Breath in the hot pursuit of Publick Revenge easily suffered himself to be convinc'd by these Arguments and to command the Death of the Cardinal The next day therefore the Execution was committed to Duguast one of the Captains of the Regiment of Guards who procur'd Four Soldiers to do the Business upon a Promise of 100 Crowns apiece With these Assistants Duguast goes to the Chamber where the Cardinal was kept together with the Archbishop of Lyons and calling him forth as if the King had sent for him carried him into a Bie-place where the Soldiers after a little respite given him to recommend his Soul to Heaven fell upon him and beat out his Brains with their Halberts Richlieu the Ordinary Judge of the King's Houshold took the Bodies of the two Brothers and having burnt them scatter'd their Ashes in the Air to prevent the People from turning their Bones into Reliques Mezeray makes three Remarques upon the Fall of these two Great Men. 1. That almost all those who had a hand in the Murder perish'd miserably 2. That they who were most oblig'd to the House of Guise had the chiefest hand in it 3. That the two Princes were drawn into the Nooze under the Pretence of the Publick Faith and by the same Artifices and Dissimulations which themselves had us'd to ensnare those of the House of Bourbon and the Admiral Colligni in the Parisian Massacre The Character of Henry the Third of France by Mezeray THE Softness of his Disposition and his Slothfulness deliver'd him into the Hands of those Persons that effectually enfeebled whatever remain'd of Steady and Steadfast in his Mind and dissolv'd him altogether in Voluptuousness so that they utterly defac'd the Lustre of all those famous Actions of which he carried away the Honour And indeed it might have been question'd whether he ever had any share in those Noble Enterprises but that several Royal Qualities sometimes brake out and glitter'd thorow the gloomy Clouds of his Miscarriages It is a thing almost incredible what excessive Sums his Profusion wasted and upon what Magnificent Gewgaws he emptied them He plaid and lost in one Evening Fourscore thousand Crowns He was seen to run about in the Habit of a young Virgin with all the Trinkets of a vain Gossip Among many others he made one Feast where the Women serv'd at Table in Mens Apparel clad in Green the Guests all wearing the same Livery In requital of which the Queen-Mother made him another where the fairest Ladies of the Court waited at Table with Breasts naked and their Hair disshevell'd In short his Reign was commonly call'd at that time The Ruine of Favourites fit Character to make a Parallel with one of the best-deserving Princes in Europe FINIS

first to betake themselves to their Pens and to publish several of their Writings against the Queen-Mother and the Duke of Guise but at length the Prince of Conde the Admiral and Dandelot united together to consult of a way to extinguish these Flames that threatned such a general Conflagration Thereupon they sent to all the Reformed Churches to send their Deputies to Nantes where it was agreed That they should send a certain number of Persons unmarried to present their Grievances to the King and to endeavour to seise the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorrain to the end they might be brought to answer to such Articles as should be exhibited against them But the Imprudence of la Renaudie discovered the Design which made the Guises provide for their own Safety with all the Care imaginable The Duke caus'd the Title of Lieutenant-General to be confirmed to himself as well in the Presence as Absence of the King and rode always accompanied with a chosen Guard of Horse by which means the Conspiracy intended to have been put in execution for seising the Duke and the Cardinal at Amboise came to nothing onely that abundance of poor People were thereby destroy'd and ruin'd of which near 1200 were hang'd drown'd and beheaded in the Streets of Amboise that can with Blood while the Queen-Mother her three young Sons and all the Court-Ladies beheld the fatal Tragedy from the Battlements of the Castle The Prince of Conde was accus'd for being guilty of this Design urg'd further upon him with an intention to have surpriz'd the King But being admitted to his own Defence he not onely made it with a wonderful Eloquence but gave the Lie to all that durst assert him Culpable Which tho the Duke of Guise heard and knew at whom the Prince aimed yet with a profound Dissimulation he prais'd the Princes Generosity and told him he would be the first that should maintain his Innocence himself tho in private he had a little before given the Queen Advice to arrest him Soon after another Design was detected by the Weakness of la Sayne for which the Prince of Conde was arrested and condemned to lose his Head and all by the Power of the Guises Nor did any thing protect the Prince from being executed but the imprudent Carriage of the Cardinal toward the Queen-Mother who thinking his Capital Enemy was now irrecoverably lost began to contemn her as one of whose Assistance there was now no longer need So that she perceiving her own Authority so much in danger first deferr'd the King's signing the Warrant and then the King's Death immediately ensuing set the Prince at full Liberty To Francis the Second Charles the Ninth succeeded at ten years of Age and a little more than five Months And now in stead of destroying others the Guises had enough to do to preserve themselves For the Prince of Conde is restor'd and takes his Place in the Privy-Council and by Order of the Parliament of Paris is declared Innocent of all things laid to his Charge And at the same time the Admiral Colligni was also restor'd to Favour The Courage of the Guises was not at all abated by the Advancement of their Enemies being upheld by the Catholick Party Navarre takes a slight occasion to quarrel with the Dake of Guise and carried it so high that he was about to have departed for Paris with the Princes of the Blood and the Constable there to deliberate about the Government of the Kingdom This alarms the Queen and the Guises Thereupon she closes with the Constable and causes the King to lay his Commands upon Navarre not to leave him and the more to please Navarre enlarges the Power of his Lieutenancy The Constable thus half gain'd was at length quite brought over from the Princes Party by the Persuasions and Importunity of the Dutchess of Valentinois and some others and so joyns again with the Guises and the Marshal de St. Andre And this Union was by the Hugonots call'd The Triumvirate However Honour not permitting the Constable to joyn openly with the Duke of Guise while the Prince of Conde was his Enemy thereupon they were by the King commanded to embrace each other and to promise one toward another most sincere and cordial Friendship Now as for the Admiral as it was by his means that the King of Navarre had confirmed the Regency to the Queen-Mother she did not suffer her self to be altogether guided by the Triumvirate but gratefully submitted likewise in several things to his Advice and for his sake procured several Favours in behalf of the Hugonot Party which was the thing he aim'd at And indeed the Services which the Admiral did her were so considerable that she gave order to her Embassadour at Rome to desire Liberty of the Pope and the Cardinals that the Communion might be administred in both Kinds and Mass said in French within all the King's Dominions The Triumvirs could not endure the great Credit which the Admiral had with the Regent and therefore retire from Court but in a short time after they make themselves Masters of the King's Person upon which ensu'd a Bloody War between the Hugonots and the Catholicks in which War Conde was taken Prisoner at the Battel of Dreux and the Duke of Guise having laid Siege to Orleans the Head Quarter of the Hugonots was assassinated by one Poltron with a Pistol discharg'd through his Shoulder of which he died in six days after And thereupon follow'd a Treaty and then a Peace Not long after the Death of Charles his Son Henry Duke of Guise appears upon the Stage of the World newly returned from Poland whither he went to serve his first Apprenticeship in War first at Saumur next at the Seige of Poitiers which he defended against the Admiral Coligny for the War now broke forth again between the Hugonots and Catholicks with a Courage equal to what his Father shewed at the Seige of Metz. The next thing we hear of him not so much to his Honour was that the Parisian Massacre which was resolved upon at the Instance of this young Duke of Guise was first taken into deliberation in that very Chamber at Blois where the Duke was afterwards murdered himself No question but he was signally engaged in the Massacre and took particular care concerning the Admiral and his Son in Law Teligny that they should neither of them escape a thing so well known to the King and Queen-Mother that it was afterwards concluded in the Cabinet Council to throw all the Odium of the Massacre upon the Guises as being the most proper Subjects to bear the Reproach However the Duke and his Brother apprehending as well they might lest the Queen-Mother should one day lay the Accusation of the Massacre upon their Backs to their Destruction insisted upon it so powerfully having the Power in their Hands the Catholick Nobility the Duke of Mompensier and the Parisians on their sides that they constrained the King