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A62475 The history of the bloody massacres of the Protestants in France in the year of our Lord, 1572 written in Latin by the famous historian, Ja. Aug. Thuanus ; and faithfully rendred into English. Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617.; Stephens, Edward, d. 1706. 1674 (1674) Wing T1075; ESTC R10093 52,145 74

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Guise and this faction murdered by a Fryer August 24th Queen understanding being impatient of all delay she thence took occasion to tell the King that the Souldiers could not now be restrained that he should command the sign from the Palace presently to be given for it was to be feared that if it were delayed any longer all would be in a confusion and things would fall out otherwise than he desired Therefore by his command the Bell of St. Germans Church is tolled before break of day ix Kal. VII br which day is the Feast of St. Bartholomew and fell upon a Sunday And presently Guise with Engolesme and † He was slain in March following before Rochel l 55. Aumale go to Coligny's house where Cosserius kept Guard Mean time Coligny being awakened he understood by the noise that they were risen into sedition yet being secure and even sure of the good will of the King whether through his own credulity or through the perswasion of his Son-in-law Teligny he thus thought with himself that the people were stirred up by the Guisians but as soon as they should see the King's Guards under the command of Cossenius for the defence of him and his as he supposed they would immediately fall off But the tumult growing on when he perceived a Gun discharged in the Court-yard of the house then at last but too late conjecturing what the thing indeed was he rose from his bed and putting on his night-gown he raised himself upon his feet to his Prayers leaning against the wall La Bonne kept the keys of the house who being commanded by Cossenius in the King's Name to open the Gate he suspecting nothing immediately opened it strait-way * He was slain 8 Apr. following before Rochel l. 56. Cossenius going in la Bonne meeting him is stabbed with daggers which when the Switzers who were in the Court-yard saw they fly into the house and shutting after them the next gate of the house they barracado it up with Chests and Tables and other houshold-stuff one only of the Switzers being slain in that first conflict by the Cossenians by a Musquet discharged At last the Gate being forced open the Conspirators strive to get up the stairs They were Cossenius Abinius Corboran Cardillac Sarlaboun chief officers of the Companies Achilles Petruccius of Siena all clad in Coats of Male and Besmes a German educated from a child in the Family of Guise for Guise himself with the rest of the Nobles and others remained in the Court-yard In that noise after Prayers ended by Merlin the Minister Coligny turning to those who stood about him who were for the most part Chirurgeons and a few of his retinue I see saith he with an undaunted countenance what is doing I am prepared patiently to undergo that death which I never feared and which I have now long since embraced in my mind Happy am I who shall perceive my self to die and who shall die in God by whose Grace I am raised to the hope of eternal life Now I need not humane helps any longer You my friends get ye hence with all the speed that may be lest you be involved in my calamity and your Wives hereafter wish evil to me being dead as though I were the cause of your deaths The presence of God unto whose goodness I commend this soul which shall shortly fly from my body is abundantly sufficient Which as soon as he had said they go into an upper room and thence through the roof every one his way Mean while the Conspirators breaking open the Chamber-dores rush in and when as * He was killed about two years after l. 60. Besmes with his sword drawn asked of Coligny who who stood by the dore Art thou Coligny He with an undisturbed countenance answered I am he but young man reverence my gray hairs whatsoever thou doest thou canst not make my life much shorter Whiles he said so Besmes thrust his sword into his breast and drawing it forth struck him with a back-blow over the face whereby he quite disfigured him then with repeated blows he fell down dead Some write that these words shewing his indignation fell from Coligny as he was dying If at least I had died by the hand of a man not of a scullion But Atinius one of the Assasines repeated it so as I have written and adds that he never saw man in so present a danger bear death with such constancy Much otherwise did Guise bear the sense of his less apparent approaching death For when after his conspiracy and rebellion in the H. League against the next King he was with such like arts as had been here used brought into the snare which the King had laid for him and having before neglected the warnings of his friends at last began to be suspitious of his danger though nothing visible appeared his vehement fear so prevailed over his dissimulation whereby be endeavoured to conceal it that his whole body though he sate by the fire shaked and trembled and to immind him of this present fact a stream of bloud flowing plentifully from his nostrils as he called for a napkin he was fain to call for some Cordials to comfort his spirits but yet nothing of danger visible when in the midst of this his fear and languishing he was by one of the Secretaries who knew nothing of the design called into the Kings Privy Chamber whereupon having saluted each of the company as if he took his last farewell of them going directly thither he was no sooner entred but the dore was boulted and one of those who were appointed for the business struck a dagger through his throat downward into his breast whereby his mouth was presently filled with bloud and stopped that he could not speak but only fetch so deep a groan as was heard with horror by those who stood by This stroke was seconded by many others upon his head breast belly and groyn And to this end he came not as Colinius from his Prayers but after all his other wickedness from his whore with whom he had indulged the night and therefore came later than the rest this morning into the Counsel Thu. l. 93. It was their different lives and actions which made this difference in their deaths for otherwise Guise was a man of great courage as well as Colinius Then Guise asking Besmes out of the Court-yard whether the thing were done when he answered it was done he could not perswade Angolesme unless he saw it Therefore Guise replying and bidding him throw down the body it was thrown out of the window into the Court-yard as it was all besmeared with bloud when * He was afterwards stabbed to death l. 85. Angolesme not believing his own eyes wiped off the bloud from his face with his handkerchief and at last perceiving it was he and as some add kicking the corps in scorn going out of the house with his fellows into the way