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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

Regiment of Guards refused to Assassinate him but offered to Fight him assuring the King that he would kill him upon peril of his life But the latter Advice best pleased the King's humour at that time troubled with the Fumes of the Spleen which rendred him extreamly severe and sowre The King having resolv'd upon the Fact calls for Alfonsus Ornane Entragues Bonivet Montigny and others of the Forty Five and causes them to be brought to him by a Back Door into the Room where he was whither being come This day said he either I or Guise must die which you think best for you or most profitable for the Kingdom is in your Breasts to Judge That he is the Author of all the troubles that have tormented the Kingdom you know and no Man is ignorant That which was thought would have prov'd the End of his Wickedness was but a step to it Even against my life which formerly he only aim'd at covertly through the Misfortunes of others now openly and with an unfolded breast he levels mischief yea he threatens yours and the Ruine of all the Gallic Honour Nor is there long time to deliberate I am here kept up as you see within the Narrow Walls of this Chamber To free my self and the Common-Wealth which is in equal danger with me from a Siege so full of miserie requires a Vigorous Sallie nor is there any possibility of my escape but by your Vallor That you know I have long since set apart and selected as the Guard of my safety upon all sudden and unexpected occasions with this Confidence that your Courage would never at any time forsake me Should I have call'd you to a Private Revenge I am assured you would none of you be wanting now in my extream distress I challenge your fidelity To watch in the Trenches to keep firm Station and venture on the Canons Mouth are the daily Tryal of Gallican Virtue wherein no Man suffers himself to be out-done Now I require the Tryal not of your Valour but of your Loyaltie and Faith while the contest is not about the Limits of your Country but the life of your Prince whose safety is this day to be rescu'd from the Plague of Guise and his followers I might add that you are destin'd to the same Slaughter with my self did I not believe your love toward me and your affection to your Country a more noble incitement to your Courage than either your hatred of them or the fear of your own danger This said when he observed the Spirits of the young Men already Examined apart vigorously enflamed to dare and perpetrate after he had extolled their Fidelity and Constancy he gave to each a long Dagger made as it was thought for the same purpose And these said he are the Assertors of yours and my Liberty and consequently of the Gallican Renown which the Spaniards by means of those Religious Confederate under the Command of Guise would trample under Foot which I the lawful King of France give you full Power and Commission to make use of for the Publick safety against Traytors and Rebels without hazard of your Consciences Having thus said he planted them all to the number of Nine in a narrow Nook upon the left hand of the Passage leading into his inmost Cabinet the rest of the Forty five being hid in little Cells which he had built up against the Sides of his Chamber Before Day-break the Members of the Sacred Consistory met among the rest the Cardinals Bourbon and Gondy Marshal d Aumont Albert Gondy the Duke of Rais Rambuliet Francis d'O After them Lewis Cardinal of Guise Peter Espinac Archbishop of Lion and last of all appear'd the Duke of Guise himself who having been indulging himself that night in the stoln Embraces of a Lady belonging to the Chamber of the Maids of Honour whom he passionately lov'd came later than the rest The Report went That he was some days before admonish'd by his Friends to beware of the King 's abundant Patience for that his over-great Kindness was much to be suspected and how far it might tend the wiser sort were fearful That he look'd with an ill Eye upon the Guisian Splendour as was apparent by certain Evidences and therefore that what he despaired to do by open Force he would accomplish by Treachery To which the Duke still returned the same Answers which he had done to Gasper Schombergh before for Schombergh Count of Nantoile tho infinitely Loyal to the King and a great Lover of his Country yet out of the Respect which he bare the Duke of Guise had often admonish'd him to observe Moderation and not to provoke the King's Patience too far That his Power rested onely upon the Favour of the inconstant Rabble and that he should make a modest use of his Fortune with regard to himself and those that depended upon him For what would become of his Wife and Children of tender Age if he plung'd in Debt should be swallow'd up by the Fury of Popular Seditions Tho he valued not his own Life yet that Charity to his Wife and Children should oblige him to fear the King's Revenge To which the Duke To me said he who from my Childhood have been always bred up in War Death has frequently appear'd but never terrified me for this is that we are born to to seek Honour with the hazard of our Lives The Misfortunes of those that belong'd nearest to me I never valued and yet methinks at this present I set a higher value on them so much the more since I find that the exasperated King if any thing unhappily take me from the World will impotently wreck that Hatred which he cannot satisfie upon my Person on my Wife and Children Yet when I remember that I my self far younger at that time than any which I now enjoy was with the rest of my Brothers left by my Father perfidiously slain by the Sectaries and yet that I sprung up in the midst of my Adversaries recover'd the Reliques of my Father's Fortune and afterwards reveng'd his Death I think it enough to recommend them young as they are to the Protection of that God who preserv'd my Life For I begat them not to discompose the Methods of my Resolutions If before they grow to mature Years the Fate of War snatch me away they will be the Architects of their own Fortune as I was of mine and shew themselves worthy of their Ancestors As for the Danger which you threaten from the King lest his injur'd Patience should turn at length to Fury I judge him to understand so well his own and my Concerns that he will be careful of precipitating his own and the Kingdoms Safety into manifest Danger while he indulges his own private Revenge for trivial Causes and slight Reports Nor am I ignorant how nearly my Cause which is the Cause of Religion is espoused by all the Cities of the Provinces and the Estates of the Kingdom so that he can

order the Levying of a Noble Army for the Assistance of the French Hugonots which though it entred France with the greatest Consternation imaginable to the King himself and made great spoile where they came yet was so well waited upon by the Duke of Guise and being under the Conduct of several Commanders Mutinous and Quarrelsom was so unweildy to it self that it mouldered away to nothing without the least considerable Action done which would have been a greater dismaying to the Hugonots had not the King of Navarre reviv'd their Spirits by gaining the famous Battel of Coutras where Joyeuse lost his life with the loss of his whole Army one of the most numerous under the Command of the League On the other side the Defeat of the Germans without fighting their main Body redounded so much to the Honour of the Duke of Guise that over all Christendom all the Catholicks loudly sang his Triumphs The Pope sent him a Sword engraven with Flames as a mark of his Zeal and Vallor and the Duke of Parma a pair of Rich Suits of Armour with this Elogie That it appertained to none but Henry of Loraine to bear the Title of Chief in War All Paris was filled with the Fame of his Victory over the Germans nor did the Pulpits ring with any other noise But among all these Popular Applauses he was touch'd to the Quick to see the King seek all occasions to depress him and raise his Enemie Espernon to the highest Degree of his Favour More especially when he saw the Government of Normandy and the Admiraltie of France both Vacant by the death of Joyeuse both bestowed upon Espernon when he had so earnestly begged the latter for his Friend Marshal Brissac Tho there is no Question but he was more enraged at the Favours done his Enemie than at the Kings denial of his own request Therefore at an Assembly of the Princes of this Family and the Chiefs of the League which he had summoned to meet at Nancy he procured a Determination That a Request in Writing should be made to the King to joyn more solemnly and openly in the Holy League to remove from his Person and from the Publick Governments and Employments all Enemies to the Publick and Favourers of Heresie which they should name to publish the Council of Trent to establish the Holy Inquisition with other Demands of the same severe nature And this they were the more encouraged to pursue in regard that in the first place Espernon by a needless Quarrel had so provok'd Pierre d'Espinac Archbishop of Lyon and Villeroy Secretary of State that of two most considerable Servants they became irreconcileable Enemies to the King and in the next place for that the League was at this time not so much fortified as the Hugonots were weakned by the Death of the Prince of Conde who died at his own House poysoned by his own Domesticks in whom it was hard to say whether Valour Liberality Generosity Love of Justice or Affability were most Eminent It was now about a year and a half since the King had resolved to bring to some exemplary Punishment the Chiefs of the League in Paris as being such that had rais'd Seditions and attempted strange Enterprises against his Person They were called the SIXTEEN because they had the Government and Management of all that Party through all the Sixteen Quarters of the City and the Duke of Guise had left in the City besides Forty other Gentlemen from whom they were to receive Orders from time to time and who were also to be as their Guard to which purpose there was a private Provision of Arms and Money upon Occasion These People acquainted with the King's Design send away to the Duke of Guise to make haste to their Succour Thereupon he departs from Soissons with onely Seven Gentlemen in his Company and coming to Paris the Ninth of May 1588. about Noon alights at the Cloyster of the Penitent Virgins where the Queen-Mother was who immediately carried him through the Throng and Acclamations of the People who follow'd him as their Protector to the Louvre The King advertis'd of his coming debated then about his Death and resolv'd upon it but whether he had not leisure to give Directions or whether the Countenance of a Person so formidable and one who always carried one Hand upon the Hilt of his Sword deterr'd him there was no Attempt at that time made so that this Visit was onely spent in Accusations and Reproaches on the King's side and in Justifications and humble Submissions on the Duke's part Paris was full of new Faces in the Streets heaps of People vehement in discourse and the Houses buzzing with confus'd Murmurs that signified a Tempest at hand The Duke was not ignorant that they were trafficking for his Head and the King was made believe that the League intended him no more harm than to make him a Monk to which purpose the Dutchess of Montpensier pretended to shew the very Scissars that were provided to clip his Hair The next day the King commanded all Strangers to depart out of Paris and Ordered the Houses to be search'd which because the Parisians oppos'd he powered between five and six thousand Souldiers by Night into the City The Burgesses would have been glad that the King should have been Master of their Walls but they did not like it that for the seising of fifteen or twenty Malefactors their Houses should be in danger of Plundering or themselves be looked upon as Rebels which made them desert their Stations where they were set to Guard and as for the Common Souldiers they were driven from their Posts by the Leaguers who were prepared for the Purpose for it was now become a Street Engagement fought out with the loss of about fourscore Swisses pushing on the Barricadoes from Street to Street to the very Gates of the Louvre Nevertheless the King and the Duke as yet dissembled their Play in the midst of a Game so easie to be discovered and only felt one anothers Pulses by Messengers that carried and recarried Propositions to and fro But the next day the Duke was not a little astonish'd to understand that while the Queen-Mother was feeding him with vain hopes the King either by her advice or Counselled by his own fears had made his escape from Paris and was retir'd to Chartres while the Queen Mother staid at Paris not to pacify Affairs but to keep them in such a Fermentation as should have still need of her intermediation From Chartres the King sends to the Cities and Governours from Paris the Duke writes to his Friends and Associates but both in a different Stile The King 's Faint and Timerous the Duke 's Victorious and Triumphant extolling the Day of the Barricades as the Effect of Heavens resplendent Protection and conjuring the other Cities to follow the Example of Paris their Metropolis Of which to make the more sure the Duke displaces the old Provost of Merchants and the

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