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A58432	A relation of the barbarous and bloody massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France, by the Papists, in the year 1572 collected out of Mezeray Thuanus, and other approved authors.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1678 (1678)	Wing R814; ESTC R4018	28,718	48

was intended to abandon them to the cruelty of the Duke of Alva who had intercepted and cut off a great Body of them commanded by Ienlis The Admiral pressed the King to declare the War immediately foreseeing that unless it followed suddenly his Friends that had surprized these Towns would be destroyed and the whole Design spoiled But the King put him off with delays in which he expressed much confidence in him by telling him the secret grounds he had to distrust almost every Person about him and that therefore he must of necessiity settle his Court and Councils first before he could enter upon such a War But now the Design being ripe the Duke of Guise to whom it had also been communicated was employed to gather many desperate Men about him who might be fit to execute all Orders and the thing getting into more hands took wind so that they at Rochel being informed of some suspicious Passages wrote to the Admiral to disabuse him and desired he would leave the Court and trust no more to the fair appearances he saw there since these were only the Masks of some great Mischief that was a framing To them he wrote a long answer and assured them That the King's Heart was wholly changed that there was never a better Prince in the World and that for his own part he would die a thousand deaths rather than suspect him capable of so base a Design Then he laid before them all the reasons which induced him to believe the War with Spain was really intended and theresore he desired that they would lay down their groundless Jealousies And when some that were about him pressed the same things upon him he told them plainly He would rather be destroyed than make a new Rupture and would be dragged at Horse-heels through Paris rather than begin another Civil War His Authority was so great and his Experience so approved that the whole Party submitted to his Judgment And he got some Cautionary Towns that were by the Treaty of Peace to be restored at the end of two Years to be delivered up three Weeks before the time was elapsed Only the Rochellers were a little more apprehensive and would not receive a Garrison On the 17th of August was the King of Navarre Married and four days were spent in all the gallant Diversions that are usual on such Occasions but were now performed with more than ordinary Magnificence and Joy Hitherto the Mine was working under-ground and now it was time for it to play There was nothing could be blamed in the Conduct of the Protestants but too much Candour and too great Confidence They knew they designed nothing but the quiet of their Country and the greatness of the Crown They were cajol'd with the most engaging tokens of Friendship that ever were shewed on any such Occasion they thought the King was sincere and being then but coming to be of Age was taking new Measures And he had so covered the Cruelty of his Temper with a shew of good Nature that they expected they should be most happy under him And for the Queen-Mother tho they knew her too well to put any confidence in her yet her Passion for her Family and her Revenge for the poysoning of her Daughter made them think they were also well assured of her And indeed so deep and so refin'd a Dissimulation was perhaps never before acted There was but one part of the Kings Deportment that could give any ground for Jealousie the horrid and blasphemous Oaths and Imprecations which he made use of on all occasions to persuade them of the reality of his Professions which always raise suspicion in sober and wary Persons These the King used so frequently that the Writers of that Time say That he seldom spoke three words without some terrible Oath or blasphemous Expression which from his ill Example was so spread over all France that none but the Protestants spoke in any other strain But now when it fell under Consideration how their Designs should be Executed the Queen with her two Italian Confidents the Count de Rets and Birague who next to the Protestants hated the House of Guise beyond all the World yet dissembling it most artificially intended that the business should be so managed as to ruine both the Protestants and that Family at once Therefore they thought that if some of their Followers would Assassinate the Admiral the Protestants would turn their Revenge on them and they knew the Parisians would be easily moved to rise against the Protestants and so they reckoned that if an attempt was made upon the Admiral by any of the Duke of Guise's Creatures his Party would presently take a severe Revenge on the Head of the House of Guise and the Parisians would be soon brought out to destroy them They concealed this part of their Design and in the Cabinet-Council only proposed that the Duke of Guise would find some person to kill the Admiral which should pass like an act of private Revenge and they said they did not doubt but the whole party would upon that take arms and thereupon there would be a good colour given to bring out the City of Paris upon them The Duke of Guise being young and hot and boiling with Revenge for his Father's Blood undertook it not considering that himself might perish in the first heat of action as the Queen hoped he should He pitch'd on Maurenel who had formerly assassinated another Person and placed him in the House of one that had been his Tutor near St. German of Auxerre where the Admiral used to pass as he went or came from the Louvre It was now necessary to execute their Design quickly for the Protestants were beginning to apprehend some danger They saw the King was resolved to let those who had surprized the Towns in Flanders perish without sending them any Relief The Admiral was resolved to take leave within a few days His Friend the Duke of Montmorency tho no Protestant yet saw the Storm coming and retired to his House and many little Circumstances occurred which gave them all just cause of fear So the other Party had no time to lose Therefore on the 22d of August about Noon as the Admiral was going Home from the Court reading a Paper that he had in his hand the Assassinate that was laid for him shot him from the House where the Duke of Guise had placed him his Fuzee was charged with three Bullets that were believed to be poysoned One of these carried away part of the Fore-finger of his right Hand the other stuck in his left Arm and the third missed him He received it with great presence of mind and pointed to the House from whence it came he also sent one to the King to give him notice of it and then ordered his Arm to be bound up and so went Home leaning on his Servants Some run to the House and broke into it but found none there save a Lacquey and a

Crown both at Sea and in the New-found World which was then sending over an incredible deal of Wealth to Spain in which the Spaniards who had landed in Florida and killed a Colony of the French that was setled there had given just cause to make War upon them Therefore as he had often expressed his being so averse to a Civil War that he could no longer look on and see the Miseries it brought on his Country so he was made believe the King did in good earnest intend to assist the Flemings which being both against the Spaniard and in defence of those of the same Religion he would by no means hinder Upon these Considerations there was a Peace concluded between the King and the Protestants by which the free exercise of their Religion was granted some Cautionary Towns were also put in their Hands to be kept by them two years till there were a full settlement made of the Edicts and the other things agreed to for their Security The King acted his part with all the Artifice possible he became much kinder to the Family of Momorancy and the rest of the Admirals Friends and seemed to neglect those of Lorrain He threatned the Parliament of Paris because they made some difficulty in passing the Edict in favours of the Protestants He went secretly to meet with Lewis Count of Nassaw and treated with him about the Wars of the Netherlands He married the Emperors Daughter who was thought a Protestant in his Heart He entred in a Confederacy with Q. Elizabeth and the Cardinal of Chastilion the Admirals Brother who had renounced his red Hat and turned a Protestant being then in England was employed to set on Foot a Treaty of Marriage between the Duke of Anjou and the Queen A Peace was also made with the Princes of the Empire And tho both the Spanish Ambassador and the Legat did all they could to hinder the Peace and the Marriage of the King of Navarre yet they seemed to make no account of that at Court Only the King gave the Legat great assurances of his Fidelity to the Apostolick See and that all that he was doing was for the interest of the Catholick Religion And taking him one day by the Hand He desired him to assure the Pope that his design in this Marriage was that he might be revenged on those that were Enemies to God and Rebels against himself and that he would either punish them severely and out them all in pieces or lose his Crown All which he would do in compliance with the Advices he had received from the Pope who had continually set him on to destroy them and he saw no way of doing it so securely as by getting them once to trust him having tryed all other methods in vain And for a pledg of his Faith he offered him a Ring of great value which the Legate refused to take pretending that he never took Presents from any Prince and that the Word of so great a King was a better security than any Pledge whatsoever Upon all these demonstrations of Friendship made to the Protestants it was no wonder if Persons of such candour as the Queen of Navarre and the Admiral were deceived The Admiral went first to Court where he was received by the King with the greatest shew of kindness and respect that was possible He embraced him thrice laid his Cheek to his squeezed his Hands called him Father and left nothing undone that might possess him with a firm Opinion of his Friendship Nor was the Queen-Mother less officious to express her kindness to him He was allowed to keep fifty Armed Gentlemen about him An hundred thousand Franks were sent him for furnishing his Houses that had been spoiled during the Wars And which was more than all the rest when Complaints were carried by him to the King of some who violated the Edicts great Insolencies being committed in many places the King ordered them to be exemplarily punished So that there was a general repining over all France at the King's kindness to him The King had also told him that now he had got him near him he would never suffer him to leave him any more The Design succeeding so well on the Admiral the Proposition of the Marriage was also carried on and the Queen of Navarre was next brought to Court but soon after died as was generally believed of Poison that was given her in some perfumed Gloves to conceal which the Chirurgeons that opened her would not touch her Head but pretended she died of an Imposthume in her side The Cardinal of Chastilion was also at that time poisoned which tho afterwards confessed by him that had done it yet was not then so much as suspected The King seemed more and more set on the War in Flanders He sent both to England and Germany to consult about the Preparatious for it and had agreed with the Prince of Orange about the Division of the Netherlands That all on their side of Antwerp should come to the Crown of France And what lay on the other side of it should belong to the States He sent a Protestant his Ambassadour to Constantinople to engage the Grand Signior unto a War with Spain He also furnished the Count of Nassaw with Mony and sent some of his best Captains with him to try if they could surprize any Towns near the Frontier who did their part so dextrously that Mons was surprized by the Count of Nassaw and Valenciennes by La Noiie according to Mezeray tho he seems to be mistaken as to Valenciennes for Thuanus and Davila say nothing of it but mention Mons only And Veremundus Frisius who wrote the History of that Massacre the year after says That they missed their Design in surprising Valenciennes upon which they went to Mons and carried it Upon this all reckoned that the King was now engaged and the War begun So the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde were brought to Court and received with all the Marks of a firm Friendship that could be invented A Dispensation was obtained from the new Pope for the Marriage Veremundus says Pope Pius the 5th had always opposed it but upon the Cardinal of Alexandria's return to Rome who went to assist in the Conclave where Gregory the 13th was chosen the new Pope easily granted the Bull which was believed to have flowed from the Information he received from that Cardinal of the King's Design in this Marriage which to be sure his Holiness would neither obstruct nor delay So the Bull being sent to the Cardinal of Burbon the day was set and the chief heads of the Protestants were all drawn into Paris partly to assist at the solemnities of a Marriage which they hoped would put an end to all their troubles partly to get Charges in the Army which all People believed would be commanded by the Admiral Only many of the hottest of them had followed Ienlis and La Noiie into Flanders where it

my death I make more Widows than one I have help enough in the presence of God into whose hands I commit my Soul which is soon to be discharged out of this Body All this he spoke without the least commotion or appearance of fear Then those about him left him and got up to the Roof of the House By that time the Murderers had brook in and seven of them being all in Armour came into his Chamber Besme that had been one of the Duke of Guises Grooms advanced towards him to whom he said Young Man you ought to reverence my gray Hairs but you cannot shorten my Life much They all stood a while amazed at such undaunted courage and so composed a behaviour which as one of them told Thuanus was the most extraordinary thing that ever he saw his whole Life Besme did first thrust him into the Belly and then cut him over the Face at which he fell and the others struck at him till he was quite dead The Duke of Guise being below in the Court heard the noise and called to them to throw him out at the Window which Besme and another did And either the Duke or the Count of Angoulesme for it is differently reported wiped his Face which was disfigured with Blood to know if it was he indeed and perceiving it was so trampled on his Belly and went away An Italian cut off his Head and carried it first to the Queen-Mother and then embalmed it and sent it to Rome not only as the Protestants say which is disingeniously added by Mezeray for Thuanus affirms it Then all the ignominy and barbarity possible was exercised about the dead Carcase his Fingers and Hands were cut off his Body dragged about the Streets thrown in the Sein and hanged up in Chains his Feet uppermost and a fire was set under to burn it but it only dried it and did not consume it Some days after Monmorancy caused it to be taken down secretly and buried it in his Chappel at Chantilly Thus fell the Admiral that for all noble Qualities necessary either to a great Captain or a compleat Statesman may be equalled to any of the Ancient Greeks or Romans and for Piety and other Christian Vertues was the Wonder of the Age he lived in But the Cruelty of the Duke of Guise and his Party was rather kindled than satiated with his Blood So he and his Company went out to the streets and cried aloud It was the King's command they should go on and finish what they had begun And so the Multitude was let loose to murder all that were of the Religion and the plunder of their Houses was to be their reward This was followed with the most enraged and cruel Massacre that ever was heard of It exceeded all that either the Heathens had done or their Poets had feigned Every Man seemed a Fury and as if they had been transformed into Tigres and Wolves out-did the very cruelty of Beasts of Prey The bare relation of Matters of Fact is beyond all that Eloquence can invent by which it may be aggravated and indeed a strict Narrative of what was really done will appear some Ages hence as a Tragical description of an imaginary Cruelty rather than a true History Five hundred Persons of Quality were murdered and in all 4000 according to Thuanus and Mezeray Perefixe the late B. of Paris says there were twenty Lords of note killed and twelve hundred Gentlemen and between three and four thousand others But Veremundus says they were ten thousand No Age nor Sex was spared Husbands and Wives were killed in one anothers Arms after they saw their Children murthered at their feet One butcher'd an innocent Babe as it was playing with his Beard Men of fourscore were not left to the course of Nature but hewen down Nor did a single death satisfie their brutal rage but they made them die many deaths before death relieved them One would cut off the Nose another the Ear a third the Hands and a fourth the Arms of the same Person before they would be so merciful as to kill him out-right Those that fled up to the tops of their Houses were made leap over to the Streets where they were knocked down with Halberts Such as ran out to escape through dark Passages were either instantly killed or driven to the Sein where they took pleasure to kill and drown them with much art Dead Bodies floated all along the Seine and were lying in heaps thorough the Streets In many places the Kennels ran Blood There was nothing to be heard but the howlings of mangled and dying Persons or the horrid blasphemies of their accursed Butchers They searched all the Corners of their Houses as Hounds pursuing for prey No Man delivered his Friend no Host had pity on his Guest Only one brave Man saved his Enemy The Louvre it self was full of Blood and the dead Corpes of those whom the King of Navarre and Prince of Conde had brought about them for their security but where they expected a Sanctuary they found a Massacre It is needless to reckon up the Names of those noble Persons who were then destroyed for the memory of Rochfoucant Teligny Renel Piles Pluvial Baudine Guerchy Lavardin Nompar or La Force and five hundred more will be ever sacred yet in this Nation where these Families are not known the recital would be tedious and useless Of all those Guerchy alone died with a Sword in his Hand but could hurt none of those that assaulted him they having Armour on them This horrible Confusion gave the Allarm to those who lay in the Suburbs on the other side of the Seine to make haste and be gone and they having no suspicion of the King himself were thinking to have gone over and sheltred themselves within the Louvre The Parisians had now lost all order and were fallen to plunder so that they could not be brought together Therefore the Duke of Guise sent over some of the Swisse Guards in Boats to kill them and himself followed with some Horse and had it not been for the mistake of him who brought the wrong Keys of the Gate thorough which he was to pass they had been all surprized before they had resolved what course to take But day appearing they saw enough to convince them it was not time to delay any more So in the greatest confusion possible they got on Horseback and fled away The Duke of Guise pursued them but they were out of his reach and not being strong enough to defend themselves and keep in a Body they dispersed and escaped But the fury that they fled from continued in Paris all that day and the two following days In which nothing was left undone that ingenious and desperate cruelty could suggest Six hundred Houses were pillaged And after such a glut of Blood Mens minds becoming savage they fell to revenge private Enmities even upon their Fellow Papists many of whom were in the end also