had taken this opportunity of coming to the Fleet. The Ship securely took her way for Candy and Quirini returned Louchali not daring to make to him for fear of being forc't to accept a Battle In the mean time the Fleets by little and little approacht each other the Infidels extending their Front to a great Length Ours where fain to do the like lest the Enemy might fall upon their Flank or Reer their heavy Vessels being always on the Wings according to their first order The Left Wing of the Turks trusting to their Swifness and Lightness and contemning the sluggishness of the Christians heavy Vessels advanced a little too forward on our Right The Galeasses and Ships gave them so warm a Reception that they were glad to retreat in Disorder Sorancio who commanded this Wing animated hereby made a sign to the other Gallies to fall upon these Fugitives and himself with incredible swiftness pursued them Angelo Soriano so vigorously followed them that falling into their Squadron he in such a manner attackt one of their Vessels as he was like to make himself Master of her The Christians had undoubtedly gained this day a signal Victory had their whole Right Wing charged at the same time as the Barbarians began to fly but except five Vessels which followed Sorantio not one seconded his Bravery Colonni transported by the Ardor and Alacrity of the Soldiers who already set forth shouts of Victory advanc'd with the body of his Fleet not considering he left the two Wings behind him Foscarini who was in the Head cried out loud enough to be heard by every one That we ought to give them Battel That the Infidels were in Disorder and that Heaven declar'd in Favour of the Common Cause but if the Enemies Disorder drew Colonni after them the Reflexion which followed this first Motion cast him into a strange Perplexity He knew not whether he should go on or return to his first Post nor was he less disturbed by the hope of Victory than by the fear of being defeated He remembred how displeasing the Honours he received at Rome at his return from the last Campaign were to Don John of Austria and what ill Offices the Spaniards had done him with the King their Master so that having no longer the same Protection he had under the precedent Pontificat he was ruined with Philip the Second though he should have gained the Victory Don John having forbidden him to make any Attempt without him These were the true reasons which hindred Colonni from attacking the Enemies though he alledged for his excuse that their Retreat was but a Stratagem to divide the Christian Fleet by drawing after them the Gallies alone which would have been defeated without the help of the greater Vessels In the mean time Sorantio complaining that he had been abandoned by his had re-gained his Post seeing the Infidels recovered and making a semblance to charge him Louchali wondred not at the routing of his Left Wing and their being pursued by ours he threatned his People with Death if they returned not to the Fight and ordered the Officers to re-settle this Disorder during a little Relaxation which the Christians gave them foreseeing that he should himself be engaged by the Fugitives if the Christians knew how to make use of their Advantage he bethought himself of a Stratagem which demonstrated him to have the Genius of an able Seaman he caus'd his Admiral Ship to be insensibly towed backward though still facing the Christian Fleet which was already at no small distance from the greater Vessels Canale who commanded the Left Wing of which many Ships were but in a bad Condition could not make so much hast as the rest of the Fleet and the Enemies on the contrary recovered of their Fright sayled in good order 'T was now the Christians turn to be in very great Consternation and smitten with a sudden Terror which presaged some Disgrace they kept silence as if they were on the point of being defeated Many of the Gallies left their first Rank for to fight only in the Rear where the Danger would not be so great so that the Front was become very thin Colonni to remedy this Disorder took a Skiff and passing round the Fleet employed his Authority joined with Reasons and Requests to make these Gallies return to their first Station he told their Officers that they had to do only with the same Enemies of whom they had kill'd above Thirty Thousand Men in the last Battel and taken almost an equal number of Prisoners though they were then commanded by excellent Generals their Army being also compleat and full of Confidence and Pride That they were now Headed by a pitiful Slave fit only to lead Thieves to a Robbery That his Fleet was Tumultuously Assembled and his Soldiers but Novices That they need only to return to their Post and the Infidels would be necessitated to fly to avoid being a second time discomfited Colonni endeavour'd by these Discourses to re-assure those that were most alarmed and recall their Courages But the Distrust Louchali had of his Forces hindred his benefiting by this Consternation and seeking no other advantage but not to be beaten he gave Canale leisure to get up with the great Vessels to the Fleet whose Arrival made the Christians take Heart again Thus these Two Generals as expert as they were committed each of them a Fault which they could never repair The Two Fleets having a long time menaced each other within the reach of Cannon Shot retired about Sun-Set with mutual Reproaches The Infidels who went first away recovered Metapan and the Christian Fleet returned to Cerigo Sorancio publickly complained against the Officers of the Right Wing whose Disobedience he pretended had pluckt the Victory out of his Hands and demanded they might be prosecuted Foscarini at his Request informed against them but the Friends and Credit of the Accused stopt these Prosecutions This Impunity encouraged the Soldiers Insolence and the Generals rendred themselves culpable by their Neglect of Discipline without which there is no Assurance of any Success in War as the Republick but too often experimented in this The Christians by the Favour of a seasonable Wind sail'd from Cerigo to Zant. Colonni thinking to meet Don John there and go afterwards against the Enemies found only the Marquess of St. Cross arrived whom this Prince had sent with Orders to the Fleet to come and attend him there They were well pleased with their having prevented this Command and flattering themselves that they should soon seehim sent back the same Marquess to beseech him to hasten his Departure Colonni had in the mean time some days before sent away a Spanish Officer named Pedro Pardo to inform himself of the Place where the Enemies were of the number of their Vessels of their Strength and â—o go and give Don John an Account of what he should have learnt and give him a particular Relation of all that had passed betwen
Venieri The Duke of Urbin's Son joyned the Captain Gally of the Church being on board that of the Duke of Savoy and Alexander Parma that of the Venetians on the Admiral of the Republick of Genoa Peter Justiniani who commanded the Gallies of Maltha and Paul Jourdan were at the two ends of this Line The Marquis of St. Cruce commanded a reserved body of Sixty Sayl to help those who had most need John de Cardone preceded the whole Army with a Squadron of eight Vessels to make discoveries He was ordered to be at no greater distance from the Fleet than four hours Sayl to send notice to the Generalissimo as soon as ever he saw the Infidels and immediately return and re-joyn the Army The Six Venetian Galleasses made a kind of a vantguard on design to disconcert the Enemy by the Fire of their Artillery which carryed very far The Confederates Vessels were separated for fear they should take in the Fight particular Resolutions and 't was decreed they should mix that they might share the Danger and Honour and mutually animate each other to combat well and ingage the strongest to help the weak The same Vessels were difpersed and sent away of which there were a prodigious number to remove all hope from the Soldiers of saving themselves otherwise than by defending their Gallies Although the Vessels of Burden were well equipt and defended by good Soldiers and Artillery yet 't was not thought fitting they should enter into the engagement lest they might not be able to follow the rest of the Fleet in case the Wind changed or they wanted it The Two Fleets were separated by the Cursolaries at Sun Rising so that one could not discover the other Ours having still continued their Course were ap-perceived by the Infidels who appeared also some time after in the same order of Battel excepting their not having a reserved Body and that their Line by consequence being of greater extent than ours was according to their Custom drawn up in form of an Half Moon Hali as being chief Bassa of the Sea was in the midst of the Army on board the Admiral directly opposite to Don John's Perteau was on one side of him in another Gally Louchali and Syroch who commanded the two Wings faced Doria and Barbarigo They were no further distant than ten miles from one another when Don John observing their Course gave the sign to Fight by setting up the Standart sent to him at Naples from his Holyness The Adorable Image of Jesus Christ on the Cross curiously wrought on this Banner was no sooner displayed but the the whole Army saluted it with shouts of Joy. Some bethought themselves of advertizing this Young Prince not to expose himself too confidently in hopes of Victory to the hazard of a Battel the advantage of which could bring no profit to the King of Spain but whose loss would lay open to the Barbarians a way into Italy But an Advice given so late and impertinently was not so much as hearkned to and Don John commanded the Soldiers should be refreshed with meat and afterwards made to take Arms and all things else prepared for a Fight The Officers to whom was committed this care had the leisure of doing this without Precipitation and Disorder whilst Don John followed by Requiescens and Cardone went in a Shallop from one Gally to another to exhort the Soldiers to behave themselves like Christians He judged of the brave disposition of the Navy by the publick Acclamations and as soon as he came on board the Admiral on design to harangue his People he lookt up to the Standart and entreated of God with Profound Humility to grant his Protection to the Christians by casting Fear and Dread into the minds of the Enemies of his Holy Name Then all the Officers gave at the same time a sign for Prayers and the whole Army on their Knees devoutly adored the Sacred Image of Jesus Christ 'T was a Spectacle admirable enough to see such a prodigious number of Soldiers armed to fight and breathing nothing but Slaughter to prostrate themselves in a moment some looking towards Heaven others having their Eyes fixt on Crucifixes and all in the posture of Suppliants fervently praying for the Pardon of their Sins and for the Grace to vanquish these Barbarians This Countenance might make some suspect that seized with Fear and Dread they had no other hopes but in the extrordinary assistance of Heaven had not the Valour and Courage they shewed in this Rencounter sufficiently justified their Humility and Devotion These Sacred Solemnities being over the Captains represented to their Men That they were at length come to that happy day in which the Christians might take Vengeance for the Outrages they had received from the Infidels and for ever deliver themselves from the rigorous Yoak they would lay upon them or open by a Glorious Death the way to Paradise and Crown themselves to all Eternity whereas their Enemies must expect the infinite Pains of Hell if they lost their Lives in the Fight That God by his Mercy promised them in this World Riches Pleasures and Honours if they survived this perilous occasion and Riches of a different Price if they lost their Lives That they ought to remember the impatient and earnest expectation which all Europe had shewed for the union of the Christian Princes and with what Horrour they detested their Mis-understandings and Divisions That they saw themselves at present at the utmost of their wishes That their Army was filled with the bravest and most Illustrious Youth of Christendom That they were now in a Condition to testifie to their Country-men as well as the Infidels that it has not been hitherto through the want of Courage or Prudence they have been worsted seeing their particular Mis-understandings have been the onely cause That the Barbarians had ever made their Profit of these Divisions and that now God by his Grace had given the Soveraign Prelat and the rest of the Confederates a Spirit of Peace and Concord who would also give them Strength and Courage against the Profaners of his Name That the Turks puffed up with Pride at their advantages in the last Campaign disdainfully offered a Combat when they might end the War by keeping themselves peaceably in their Ports That God struck them with so great Blindness on purpose to deliver them to the just Resentments of the Christians resolved on a strenuous Attack confident of Victory and animated to revenge the Death of their Brethren on their cruel Murtherers That this numerous Fleet wanting Soldiers and Seamen was now falling a Prey into the hands of those whom she thought to terrifie by the multitude of their Vessels That they were interessed to fight not only for the sake of a Victory but to save what they esteemed most dear and precious That the Liberty of all Italy was in their hands with the Honour and Lives of their Wives and Children and that they themselves would be
they are wonderful with the Wind they become useless and even cumbersom during the Calm and it would be difficult to row them back at the sight of the Enemies Fleet so that 't was not thought fit to hazard a Battle being Weaker in Gallies than the Infidels and having need of these Vessels to cover their Wings The next day they got towards the East part of the Isle and the Fleet drew up in Battalia near certain Rocks call'd Dragonares over against the Promontory of Malea as if they really design'd to engage the Enemy the Galeasses were on the Right Wing and the Ships of Burden on the Left to the end they might come to them with the Favour of the Wind in case it blew from the South The Turks far exceeded the Christians in the number of their Gallies but were much inferiour to them in Marriners Rowers and Soldiers since the Battel of Lepanto so that their Shipping was not 〈◊〉 serviceable This Weakness obliged Louchali only to shew his Fleet and carefully to avoid coming to Blows he fear'd being dishonoured and giving the Christians occasion to glory by standing too much upon his Guard And 't was an Advantage great enough for him to keep the Sea and his Enemies in Breath He no sooner understood that the Christian Fleet was in Battalia near the Dragonares but he set Sayl to make a shew of fearing nothing and leaving the Promontory of Malea he coasted the Land on the right hand of this Promontory as if he neither distrusted the Enemies Forces nor the ill Condition of his own The Wind blowing hard enough from the South to work the Great Ships they went with full Sayl against the Enemies who were making towards the West believing that they Fled and they would undoubtedly have engaged in Fight had not the Wind faln of a sudden Louchali seeing the Christians left Wing naked turned his Prows that way but Colonni speedily detacht the Frigats which had already secured the Ships of Burden The Two Fleets stood a long time facing each other within Cannon Shot yet without making any Attack The Christians fear'd being enclosed if they left their Gallies and bigger Ships and Louchali who perceived this Precaution made the greater semblance of Fierceness and Readiness to Fight In fine the Turks seeing the Night approach discharged all their Cannon and retreated under the Shelter of the Smoak The Christians coâ—â—â—nued in Battalia till the next day when 〈◊〉 went to Cerigo without any Order or Discipline on pretence of taking in Fresh Water The Negligence of the Officers was so great that the most part of the Gallies put in where they pleased not only in several parts of the Isle but even in the Ports of the Continent without obeying any Command But they were chastised for it by a terrible Alarm for not knowing what Course the Ottoman Fleet had taken word was brought them that they were within eight Miles advancing towards them They got aboard their Vessels in an hurry smitten with all the Terror such a Surprize could cause Colonni at the same time sent to gather in all the dispersed Gallies and having given the Signal of Battel lancht speedily forth into the Deep with Threescore Sayl putting the rest in Battalia as fast as they came up to the Fleet. Those that were most remote gave little Credit to the Orders and Signals which they unwillingly and very slowly obeyed However though they were throughly perswaded that Louchali would have defeated them had he took Advantage of this Disorder and though the neglect of Discipline be very destructive to an Army yet was there no example made of the Offenders Colonni and Andrada not daring to punish them because there were some Spanish Gentlemen amongst them The Infidels veering towards the West left the Christian Fleet not yet recovered of the Fright into which they were put by the hazard they had run and 't was believed they were then going to plunder the Islands and Frontiers of the Republick there being then nothing to hinder them Ours to prevent such an Affront immediately determined to follow them For this purpose Colonni chose out the best and swiftest of his Gallies and taking Equipage and Soldiers out of the others he would have sent them into Candy with the rest of the Fleet with a Resolution to fall on the Enemies who were beyond Zant or else to stay there for Don John in case he were not yet arrived and with him to pursue the Mis-believers or if it should be thought more convenient to attack some Place in Peloponesus being then in Condition to attempt great matters The Spanish General was of the same Opinion but the Venetians having debated this design amongst themselves disapproved the execution of it though for Reasons weak enough on which Foscarini had grounded his Sentiment They instantly desired Colonni to change this last Resolution and return to his former Colonni granted them this Favour for which Sorantio in full Council thanked him in Terms repleat with Praises The Reasons alledged by the Venetians were that having neither Galeasses nor great Vessels they were neither in Condition to Retreat nor defend themselves if they should meet with the Enemy but in truth they fear'd lest Don John and his Council might find some new Subterfuge to make them lose again this Campaign The Christians weighing Anchor in the Night perceived by break of Day the Ottoman Fleet. Louchali who was as well informed of their Motions as if he had been prefent at their Debates made all the advantage of this Knowledge that could be expected from a great Captain Finding himself too weak to hazard a Battle he aimed only to keep them in continual Alarm coasting always near them and presenting himself sometimes in their Front sometimes in the Rear incessantly watching to lay hold of any Advantages that might be given him by the Generals want of Experience or Disunion by the Disobedience of the Inferiour Officers or by the Accidents of Wind and Sea. He rode before the Promontory of Toenarus commonly call'd Metapan and the Christians not daring with their heavy Vessels to keep the Chanel the Barbarian made towards them on the Coast Our Fleet drew in Battalia in the same order that is with the Gallies between the Galeasses and great Ships the Infidels also ranking themselves as at first In the mean time the two Fleets descried afar off a Vessel coming with full Sayl 't was a Venetian Ship having aboard it a considerable quantity of Money for payment of the Soldiers and laden besides with Powder and other Ammunition for Candy This Vessel mistaking the Infidels for the Christians made directly to them and some of their Gallies were already advanced to invest it Ours perceiving its Error sent Quirini with the Five swiftest Gallies of their Fleet to prevent the Enemies and secure this Vessel Quirini having boarded her took out the Money and received Germanico and Mario Savorniani two Noble Venetians that
Infidels perceiving them had time enough to get into the Port of Modon The Blame was laid upon the Admirals Pylot who to excuse this ill Conduct said that he thought himself obliged to slacken his Sayls during the Night for fear of running a ground But whether the Fault were in the Pylot or whether Heaven was still angry with the Christians 't is evident that the Confederates miss'd an opportunity of gaining a compleat Victory over the Barbarians The Christians perceiving that the Enemies hasted away with Sayl and Oar Colonni proposed to Don John the sending a Detachment of Gallies to fall upon their Rear and offered to command this Detachment himself This Design was approv'd and Six and Twenty Gallies given him for the execution of it but he was scarce got half his way with great hopes of a Glorious Success when he received Orders to come and join the Fleet. Don John to justifie this sudden Change told the Officers that the Infidels made a show of coming to charge him and that 't was necessary all their Forces should be together for fear of a Surprize The most clear-sighted were perswaded that Colonni's Enemies jealous of his Reputation had done him this ill Office. He went nevertheless afterwards to view the Barbarians having with him but one Gally more and offer'd to attack two of their Gallies which lagg'd behind the rest of the Fleet but these two being assisted by Six others the Christians sent out Ten which Louchali no sooner perceived but he advanced with the greatest part of his Fleet and escaped the Affront they were like to receive before Don John could bring up his to oppose them Colonni retreated in good order and there was in this Rencounter a second opportunity lost of gaining a great Advantage for if Don John had made Head against the Enemy they would rather have abandoned their eight Gallies than have fought so weak as they were but the sluggishness of the Confederates facilitated their Retreat into the Port of Modon where they were secure Don John drew up in Battalia and presented himself before the Mouth of the Harbor He a long time defied them with Injuries and Reproaches and about Evening retired in the same order Louchali that he might not be convinced of shunning the Fight came forth out of the Port of Modon and drew up under the Walls of the place Don John returned at the same time and sounded to Battel The Turk trusting more to the Walls of the place than to his Shipping durst not come too far off nor ours approach too near them so that having a long time shot at each other the Enemies returned into their Harbour leaving the Christians Masters of the Sea. The next day Don John returned in the same order to the same place but none of the Turkish Ships appearing the Christians set Sayl with the Honour of having forc't the Ottoman Pride to yield them the Sea and went to take in fresh Water at Coron a place of the Continent not very far off Louchali landed Four Thousand Foot to drive them thence but Paul Sforza whom Don John had put ashore with a considerable Detachment so vigorously charged this Foot which already incommoded our Men that having slain two hundred of them he put the rest to Flight The Christians on the Two next days again offered the Infidels Battel and Louchali was content with putting himself a second time in Battalia under the Ramparts of Modon The Christian Fleet putting in at the Isle of Sapienza the most experienced Captains were of Opinion to get an exact Understanding of the State the Town and Port of Modon were then in Don John highly approved of this Design went aboard Colonni's Gally attended by Foscarini and some other Officers to go and take a view of it himself Having sufficiently obsered the Strength and Weakness of the place he resolved to attack the Enemies there and for this purpose sent for the Great Vessels from Zant to shelter the Gallies from the Fire of the Town there were two Bottoms joyned together and covered with great Planks on which they Built a Fort and filled it with Earth for the better securing the Gallies Don John was of opinion that the Infidels frighted with this Stupendious Machin would leave their Vessels and fly ashore and without doubt this Project would have succeeded had the Execution of it been more speedy But while the Squadron was expected from Zant and the new Building went slowly on Don John advanced to Navarin either with an Intentention to surprize the Place though the Venetians told him the taking of it would be of little Importance to them or because he thought he might more easily take in Water there through the Commodiousness of the River The Enemies who had already seiz'd the Avenues of it were ill treated by our Canon and Sforza at the Head of Five Thousand Men driving them back into the Town favoured the Christians Watring Alexander Farnese attempted to besiege Navarin by order from Don John who gave him Six Thousand Men with some Pieces of Canon already put in Battery But the place was immedily reliev'd by so great a number of Turks flocking thither from all parts the Christians got with all speed to their Ships being glad to be quit with the loss of their Cannon The Design also of setting upon the Turkish Fleet in their Harbor for which all things were ready was given over by Don John the Venetians alarmed by the Uncertainty of the Success not caring to press him any further on it They afterwards deliberated on the besieging Modon but 't was not thought fit to attempt any thing more the Turks keeping themselves close and the Spaniaràs testifying a desire to end the Campaign towards the middle of Autumn Their Impatience to return made them about the midst of October represent to Don John that he had long enough serv'd the Republick and that he ought now to think of returning towards Sicily and this Prince who was no less impatient than they to leave the Morea acquainted the Venetians that he had spent his Provisions having scarce enough left to carry him into Italy where he was resolved to put the Fleet into Winter Quarters He promised them to come the next year much earlier and far better provided and endeavour'd to perswade them that they ought to be contented with the Progress of this Campaign and that 't was no small Honour for them to have forc't the infidels to keep close within their Ports and to have held them as it were besieged there The Venetians more troubled than surprized at this Discourse and not able to comprehend that Don John having made them wait for him all the Summer should come from so plentiful a Country as Sicily with not above Fifteen days Provision earnestly besought him not to leave the Fleet in the very Moment that seemed to give the Confederates the greatest hopes of entirely defeating the Infidels and rendring the Christian
practice Hamanity you who so barbarously and cruelly treat our Christian Prisoners To which Mahomet made him this witty Answer Your Excellency will be pleased to pardon our Ignorance since we have been hitherto only used to take Prisoners not having yet been such our selves in the Christians School The Pope in the mean time solicited the Crowns to join their Arms to those of the Confederates and the Cardinal of Lorrain who came to Rome to assist at the last Conclave had given Gregory Hopes that the Allyance between France and the Grand Seignior might be broken This Cardinals Esteem amongst the French having giv'n him an entire Knowledge of that Kingdoms Affairs and the Kings true Sentiments His Holiness on such good assurance believed he might successfully endeavour this Dis-union He writ about it to Charles the Ninth who answered him He should willingly enter into the League but the great Revolutions which had happened in his Kingdom permitted him not to join with the Confederates France broken and shattered into different Factions was exposed to the Plunder of the Germans and the Invasions of her other Neighbors The Lorrain Princes and other Principal Persons in the Court retired into the Country being neither able to suffer the Imperious Humour of the Queen nor submit themselves to the King of Navarre But these Princes being a little after reconciled with Annas de Mommorency Constable of France drew the King of Navarre into their Party by giving him new hopes of recovering his Kingdom and of diminishing the over-great Authority of Queen Catherine and ruining the Projects of the Prince of Conde they entred Paris guarded by their Friends and Creatures and drove all those of the opposite Faction from Court. Thus France becoming the Stage of a Civil War saw more Blood shed in most of her Towns than in the Famousest Sieges and Battels of the last Age. They no longer amused themselves with Disputes and Controversies the divided Families deciding Questions of Religion by the Sword. The first Battel was fought near the Town of Dreux the Kings Army being commanded by the Constable and the Duke of Guise and the other by the Prince of Conde and the Admiral de Coligni The Success was equal on both sides the Prince of Conde and the Constable being boht taken Prisoners The Duke of Guise laid Siege to Orleans and pressed it so close that it was upon the point of yielding when a Villain came to the Camp and watching an opportunity for the execution of his Design he slew this Prince with a Shot from a Carbine as he was returning from visiting the Works attended only by Three Horsemen The Duke of Guise's Death was extreamly prejudicial to France besides his Military Perfections which rendred this Duke the greatest Captain in the Kingdom he had gain'd the Peoples Hearts by such a Charming Sweetness such admirable Liberality and Sincerity and such Courteous and Familiar Behaviour that one could not forbear loving him His Death almost ruin'd the Fortune of his House A Peace was afterwards concluded but 't was only to give both Parties leisure to make Preparation for beginning the War afresh The Prince of Conde freed out of Prison made great Levies in Germany and soon got a new Army on Foot. He endeavoured to surprize and carry away the King as he was returning from Meaux to Paris but a Battalion of Six Thousand Switzers which guarded the Court in its March and repulsed several Attacks by the way ruin'd this Audacious Design Some time after the Constable displeased with his Nephews whom he accused of Ingratitude and Revolt gave them Battel in the Plain of St. Denis routed them and raised the Siege from before Paris The Constable who was near Fourscore years old received a Mortal Wound in his Reins by a Pistol Shot as he was in the midst of the Fight charging the Enemies with a Vigour worthy his Name and his Office. The Hugonots though vanquisht made Peace on what Terms they pleased the Queen being obliged to accept them as frighted with the great Number of Forreign and Domestick Forces that filled the Kingdom This Second Accommodation was also but a Cessation of Arms the War breaking forth again with more Fury than before The Hugonots lost a Third Battel at Jarnac gain'd by the Duke of Anjou who commanded the King his Bothers Army where the Prince of Conde was slain upon the Place Gaspar de Coligny was a Gentleman of a good Family but much more considerable by that of his Mother who was Sister to the Constable de Mommorency His Unkle whom â—ecause of his singular Merit King Henry the Second honoured with his Favour had procur'd him the Office of Admiral one of the first of the Crown Coligny had serv'd under him during the Reigns of Francis the First and Henry the Second with no little Reputation He had been employed in several Important Negotiations by which he had acquired a perfect Understanding of Affairs He was a Man of a thorow Experience but close full of Address naturally Eloquent and no less a Statesman than a Soldier tho' far more cautious than advent'rous In the Year 1522. France being almost ruined there was a new Agreement made The Admiral at the same time negotiated a Marriage between the Princess Margaret the Kings Sister and Henry King of Navarre Anthony his Father dyed some years before of a Wound receiv'd at the Siege of Roan The Admiral came to Paris to assist at the Marriage followed by so great a number of Gentlemen and Vassals that the King himself could scarce have found so Magnificent a Train He was received with extraordinary Testimonies of Confidence and Friendship He had often private Conferences with the King in which 't was known they treated of making War upon Flanders and this we have since understood obliged Philip the Second to stay in Italy for fear of some Surprize from the French. In the mean time there was a Rumour whether grounded on Reallity or invented by the Queen who was laying a Snare for the Admiral as her Enemies would have it that the People he had without any Order or Permission brought to Paris under pretence of being present at the King of Navarre's Marriage conspired against the Royal Family The Queen whether the better to conceal her Design or really fearing some secret Plot caused the Guards of the Louvre to be doubled Whilst these things ware doing the Admiral returning from the King to his own House was wounded in the Right hand by a Shot from an Arquebush which was by some People said to have been done by the Procurement of the Queen or the Duke of Guise The Duke of Guise was accused because the House in which the Assassin had planted himself belonged to one of his Creatures who had some time before left it empty to prevent the discovery of this Action These Suspitions were strengthned by the irreconcilable Hatred there was between the Prince and the Admiral and
though the King had made them both promise him to keep quiet till his Majesties Return to Paris there was yet great likelyhood that the Duke of Guise attempted to destroy him Those that suspected the Queen said the Admirals Fortune and Authority created a Jealousie in this Princess That she began to fear a Man she had raised too high That she despair'd of re-setling Quiet in the State during the Life of so redoubted an Enemy and that beside the miserable Condition of the Kingdom the Murthers Battels and Perils her self and Children had been exposed to all which she laid to his Charge she yet fuâ—ther mortally hated him because of the shameful Discourses with which he blemisht her Honour That since she could neither punish him by Law noâ— Force he had recourse to Stratagem That she was as skilful in these sort of Intrigues as he could be That she had drawn him and the chief of his Party to Paris on the occasion of her Daughters Marriage the more securely to destroy him That he had been lur'd to Court by the Project of the Low-Gountry War and the fair shews of Confidence and Esteem That she had consequently pressed the young Duke of Guise to revenge on him his Fathers Murther to which this Prince was too much inclin'd having only refus'd to do it for fear of displeasing the King and losing the Friendship of the Nobility who would after this Action have look'd upon him as a Man without Honour or Faith That the Queen had eas'd him of this Scruple by representing to him that he would do a signal Service to the State in exterminating its most formidable Enemy That 't was the greatest Sign of Fidelity he could shew the King And in fine that the Duke of Guise engaged not in it till he had first got an Order written and signed by the Princesses own Hands But whether it was the Queen or the Duke of Guise or neither of them that were the Authors of this Enterprize the Admiral was no sooner carryed into his House but the Hugonots ran thither in Crouds filling the Town with Complaints and Murmurs They had the Confidence to accuse the King as well as the Duke publishing that none ' durst have committed such an Attempt without his Majesties Protection and yet the Queen had so carefully concealed it from him that he knew nothing of it till News was brought him of the Accident befaln the Admiral He went presently with the Queen to see him testifying his Displeasure and Sorrow and promising to make an exact Enquiry into it and severely to punish this Assassination He left also his Guards about his House as well for the Honor as Security of his Person but understanding at his Return to the Louvre that the Hugonots suspected him to be privy to it and accordingly were so impudent as to threaten him he fell into a terrible Transport which the Queen Mother who absolutely Govern'd him diligently fomented taking hold of this favourable Moment to make him resolve on a suddain Extirpation of his Rebellious Subjects and ridding himself of an Enemy so much the more dangerous in that he was irreconcilable They were perswaded at Court that as soon as the Hugonot-Lords were departed they would begin a new Rebellion much more Bloody than any of the former and would call in Strangers to their Assistance The Admiral himself could not forbear letting slip some little Menaces when the King comforting him about his Wound told him It was not dangerous I care not answered he coldly for losing the use of a hand for provided I keep my Head I hope all will go well It was said by some that the King held afterwards a Council with the Queen and some of their intimatest Confidents in which 't was resolved no longer to endure these Insolencies but forthwith to dispatch the Hugonots and commit the executing of it to the Duke of Guise and that the King not to awaken their Distrust sent him out of Paris on pretence of some Discontent but he returned according to Agreement the One and Twentieth of August at Night accompanyed by the Duke of Angoulême the Kings natural Brother glad of the opportunity of serving his Master and also to Revenge himself without fear of Punishment But there went at the same time a Report that the Admirals Friends assembled in his House had taken very wicked and detestable Resolutions he having himself by a very pathetical Discourse incited them to rise up in Arms That being all animated by the same Fury they cryed out to go immediately to attack the Louvre and destroy the King the Princes his Brothers and the King of Navarre whose Death they had resolved though he were of their own Religion because the Admiral feared his Wit and Courage But whilst he loses time in being too curious to take his Measures he delivers himself up to his ill Fortune and the King informed of his Practises hastens the Punishment of the Rebellion Some endeavour'd to make it be believed that this Conspiracy was a Story invented by the Queen Mother who foreseeing the Horror the destruction of the Hugonots would cause endeavoured by these Calumnious Reports to mitigate the Peoples Indignation However it was the Duke of Guise about one of the Clock in the Morning forc't open the Admirals House A young German Gentleman who had been bred a Page with the Dukes Father and was ambitious of the Honor to give him the first Blow entred his Chamber The Admiral rising out of his Bed conjur'd him to have Respect to his old Age and his Infirmities and grant him his Life But the German reproaching him with Treason and Apostasie mortally wounded him and caused him to be thrown out at Window to the Duke of Guise who guarded the entrance into the House 'T is said Coligny fell down as dead but hearing the Duke of Guise calling to have him thrown out he made some resistance against those that went to take him up and cast him forth into the Street desiring them to let him dye in quiet whereupon they dispatcht him The Rabble vomiting out a Thousand Curses against him dragg'd him for some time in the Dirt they tore him asunder and filled the Town with pieces of his Body A young Parisian cut off his Head and carryed it on a long Pole into all the Publick Places and the Trunk of his Body was hung up by the Feet on the common Gallows Thus ended Gaspar de Coligni Admiral of France who was raised to so great a Fortune that his Court was no less than the King 's He made himself redoubted by France and Spain and though he made not War upon King Philip he created him Trouble enough by stirring up the Low Countries and Germany and under-hand protecting the Prince of Orange He often imposed on the King his Master a Necessity of making Peace and War but what renders his Memory most durable is that having been twice taken Prisoner by the
His Speech concerning the War with Greece 283. Hated by Pope Gregory and why 368. Rome's Envy against him and the Venetians 369. His means to appease the Pope 369 370. Paul Vrsin one of the Heroes in the Confederate Army 220. He takes and ruines the Castle of Margariti 266. Peace concluded upon by the Venetians with the Turks 363. How it was taken by their Confeder s. 365. c. Pendengia a Region in Cyprus 2. Perteau Piali strangled 174. His perfidy at the Surrender of Dulcino 184. He in vain sollicites the Catarians to a Surrender 185. He infests Corfou 187. His opinion about avoiding a Battel with the Christians 232. He doubts the event before the Battel begins 241. Being overcome he makes his escape 249. Banished from Constantinople by the Grand Seignior 273. Peter Justiniani and the Knights of Malta their Valour in the Sea Fight 248. He is taken Prisoner but released ibid. Peter King of Cyprus his Character 7. Conquers Alexandria ibid. Goes to Rome to the Pope ibid. Makes War on the Cypriots ibid. Kill'd by the Artifice of a bold Woman 8. Peter Fregosa 9. He makes himself Master of Famagusta and how ibid. Pedro Pardo sets on foot a false Report That the Christian Fleet was vanquished 316. Peter Strozzi worsted by Cosmus de Medicis 161. Philip the Second his Answer to the Popes Legate about entring into the War. 127. Another to Cardinal Alexandrine 156. His Letters to Gregory XIII ibid. Receives the News of the Peace made with the Turks indifferently 265. Philip Bragadin desirous to pursue the frighted Turks by Sea is refused it by Venieri 263. Piali a Foundling 18. Selim's Son-in-Law ibid. Mahomet's Enemy 23. Deprived of his Dignity but re-inveâ—ted with it ibid. Admiral of the Sea and Navy 86. He designs first to besiege Famagusta 88. Chid by the Grand Seignior 118. His Successor who 174. Pius the V. Pope gives the Venetians leave to transport Corn from Anconia 51. Averse to the Venetians at the beginning of his Pontificate 61. Helps the Venetians in the War. 64. Instigates the King of Spain to a War. 65. Endeavours to joyn him in a League 126. Consults his Cardinals and Legates upon the same 129. Is very earnest in the business 131. Sends Philip threatning Letters upon it 132. Sends M. Antony Colonni to aid the Venetians 139. Commands Articles of a League to be drawn 154. c. Hires some Gallies of Don John. 151. Why he desired Margaret the King of France's Sister to be given in Marriage to Sebastian King of Portugal 158. Gives God Thanks for the Victory of the Navy 260. Commands Colonni to be honourably entertain'd at his return 261. His Munificence towards him and his Son Ascanius 262. Venetians counsel him to remove Venieri 269 270. Gives a reason for the carrying on the War. 285. Falls sick 287. What he thought his best Physick ibid. His Holy Death and Elogium 281. His Family and his Works 288 289. He gives the King of Spain power to levy a Fine upon the Clergy 303. Pisani rased by the Turks 184 185. Plague rages in the Venetian Fleet. 60. Podocatero besieg'd 92. Pompey Colonni 69. The Pope sends him into Spain 137. Popes Navy pursues the Enemy and why 152. Prey devided after the Victory by Sea and why 256. Prosper Colonni 257. Protheno an Island 320. Ptolemy King of Aegypt Lord of Cyprus kills himself 5. Publius Clodius taken by Pyrates 5. Let go free ibid. He made Cyprus a Province of the Roman Empire ibid. R Ramagasio Sequani Knight of Malta his Skill and Valour in Sea Affairs 250. Requiescens his Opinion about the War with the Turks 218. Rhetimo in great danger of being besieged 175. Richard King of England takes Cyprus by Force 6. Rocas Count Governour of Cyprus in the Kings absence 7. Takes upon him the King's power ibid. Accused acquitted ibid. Through his fault the Turks get upon the Walls of Nicosia 106. His Death ibid. 107. The Turks insult over him being dead ibid. Rome its gratitude and thankfulness for the news of their Navy's Victory 262. S Salt the Staple Commodity of Cyprus 4. Salomon a Jewish Doctor sent to mediate a Peace between the Venetians and Turks 265. Sapienza an Island 320. Sasines a Region in Cyprus 2. Sciara Martinengo Providor of Cataro 183. Being stript of his Arms at the taking of Dulcino he is let go 184. Scutari's being taken omitted by the Venetians 180. Sebastian King of Poland his Answer to Cardinal Alexandrine concerning the League 157. His Piety and Religion 158. Sebastian Venieri takes Supoto 58. Succeeds Zani in his Admiralship 122. He in vain attempts the taking of Durazzo 153. Loses seven Ships ibid. He Advises Don John to make hast 222. Advis'd to avoid a meeting with Don John. 230. His Valour in the Sea Fight 250. Gets in favour with Don John. 253. He is against a wholsom advice and vexes Don John again 255. Made Friends by Colonni 256. His vain Counsel after the Victory 263. He in vain attempts to take Leucade 266. Admiral of the Navy displaced 270. Commanded for his Honour to have a care of the Adriatic Gulph 271. His Fortune and Life ibid. Sedition in the Navy 226. Selim Solyman's Son and Heir of the Empire 16. Governour of Adrianople and Cilicia ibid. His ill manners ib. His Drunkenness ibid. His Intemperance in all sorts of pleasure ibid. Contemn'd by the Soldiers 20. A Favourer of the Jews ibid. He commands Mustapha to be beheaded 23. Why he design'd to invade Cyprus 51. His Inconstancy 35. Offended with Mahomet 43. His Letter to the Venetians requiring the rendition of Cyprus 52. Sforza Pallavicinus Captain General of the Land Forces 59. Admitted one of Zani's Counsel 66. His opinion about not engaging the Enemies 80. Sforza Count of St. Flora Counsellor of Don John. 218. Sinam Bassa of Aegypt 23. He accuses Mustapha ibid. Siroc sent before into Cyprus with Twenty Five Ships 92 93. Solyman takes ill Cyprus being set upon by the Turks 14. His Sons 15. He commands Mustapha his eldest Son to be killed ibid. Besieges Belgrade takes Rhodes and very much incommodes the Venetians 32. He threatens them 33. Soriani the Venetian Embassadour lov'd by Pope Pius 132. His praise ibid. Strophades 320. Suda burnt by Perteau 155. Supoto taken by the Confederates 57. The Turks re-take it 179. Taken again by the Christians 266. Restor'd to the Turks again 362. Swedish Prince 326. Salviati Bishop goes Legate from the Pope into France 302. School master makes himself head of the Cypriots 73. Spaniards disgusted at the Popes preferring Colonni before Don John. 261. They aim to turn their Arms upon Africk 280. Their Councels in War 282. Their Delays give cause to suspect their Fidelity 217. Their Opinion of the reasonableness of the War 223. Dissention between them and the Venetians 276. Spaniards generally hated 303. Ships of Burthen not to be trusted to 306. A Ship sent to succour the Christians wonderfully prevented