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A30330	A collection of several tracts and discourses written in the years 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685 by Gilbert Burnet ; to which are added, a letter written to Dr. Burnet, giving an account of Cardinal Pool's secret power, the history of the power treason, with a vindication of the proceedings thereupon, an impartial consideration of the five Jesuits dying speeches, who were executed for the Popish Plot, 1679.; Selections. 1685	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5770; ESTC R214762	83,014	140

for which his Successors have been since fighting a whole Age. But let us next examine how the tidings of this Massacre were received at Rome by which we may judg how fitly that part of Antichrist's Character of being drunk with the Blood of the Saints agrees to it The News was brought thither the 6th of September upon which a Consistory of the Cardinals was presently called and the Legate's Letter that contained a Relation of the Massacre being read they went straight in a Procession to St. Mark 's Church where they offered up their solemn thanks to God for this great Blessing to the See of Rome and the Catholique Church And on Monday following there was another Procession made by the Pope and Cardinals to the Minerva where they had high Mass and then the Pope granted a Jubilee to all Christendom And one of the Reasons was That they should thank God for the slaughter of the Enemies of the Church lately executed in France Two days after that the Cardinal of Lorrain had another great Procession of all the Clergy the Ambassadours Cardinals and the Pope himself who came to St. Lewis Chappel where the Cardinal celebrated Mass himself And in the King of France his Name he thanked the Pope and the Cardinals for their good Councils the help they had given him and the assistance he received from their Prayers of which he had found most wonderful effects He also delivered the King's Letters to the Pope in which he wrote That more Heretiques had been destroyed in that one day than in all the twelve years of the War Nor did the Pope think there was yet Blood enough shed but that which all the World condemned as excessive Cruelty he apprehended was too gentle Therefore he sent Cardinal Ursin his Legate in all haste to France to thank the King for so great a Service done the Church and to desire him to go on and extirpate Heresie Root and Branch that it might never grow again In order to which he was to procure the Council of Trent to be received in France and as the Legat passed through in his Journey to Paris he gave a Plenary Absolution to all that had been Actors in the Massacre The best Picture-drawers and workers of Tapistry were also put to work to set off this Action with all possible glory and a Sute of these Hangings are to this day in the Pope's Chappel So well do they like the thing that they preserve the remembrance of it still even in the place of their Worship Such a representation does indeed very well agree with their Devotion whose Religion and Doctrine led on their Votaries to the thing so expressed By this we may easily gather what is to be expected from that Court and what we ought to look for when-ever we are at the mercy of Men whose Religion will not only bear them through but set them on to commit the most Treacherous and Bloody Massacres FINIS a a In regiam Majest B●… l. 6. c. 4. sect ●…0 à quocunque privato poteris interfici In Thom. Tom. 3. D●…sp 151. q 12. p. 2. b b Romish Tre sons l. 2. cap 4. The Life of Gerson before his Works and Tom. 1. p. 375. Recog in lib. 5. de Rom. Pont. e e Philopater p. 106 107. l Greg. M. l. 2 post Ep. 38. lib. 11. Ep. 10 11 12. Siquis Regum c. contravenire tentaverit potestatis honorisque sui dignitate careat in alio honore suo privetur g g Baron a●… An. 730. n. 5. h h Bellar. de Trans Imperii Romani i i Dictatus l. 2. post Ep. 55. k k Lib 2. Ep. 5. ad Ep. France l l Liv. 8. Ep 21. m m Extra de Major Obed. cap. 1. n n Bellar. de Pont. Rom. lib. 5. c. 151. o o Cuspiman in vita Albert. p p Cap. de Major ut Ob●…d Exter b b In Vandal l. 8. c. 2. r r Chron H●…saug in vita Abb. Hartiingi s s Bar. ad Ann. 593. Num. 86. t t Bar. ad An. 730. Num. 5. u u 〈◊〉 his Di●…●… Oevres and R●…ueil General des Affaires du Cierge de France Conc. Late 3. Chap. 27. anno 1287. Tom 28. Conc. Later 4. Can. 3. Tom. 28. The same Council that established Transubstantiation Math. Paris ad An. 1253. Conc. Lugd. Tom. 28. Conc. Const. Tom. 29. Sess. 19. Sess. 15. Sess. 17. Sess. 15. Con. Sien Tom. 29. Con. Basil Tom. 29. Conc. Trid. Sess. 25 c. 19. Bud de Asse lib. 5. Diseuss Decret Con. Lateran p. 46. Bec. Controv. Angl. p. 115. Acts 20. 21. Micha 6. 8. 1 Cor. 14. Matt. 28. 19. Matt. 26. 26 27. 28. ver Heb. 9. 26 28. Acts 8. 17. Morinus Heb. 13. 4. 1 Tim. 3. 2. 4. 11. Eph. 1. 22 23. Matt 18. 7. 2 Cor. 3. 3. Can. 3. Sess. 19. Thuanus The abstract of the Books written upon the Head is in the Voluminous but Anonymous Historian of these Wars printed at Paris An. 1581. Thuanus lib. 16. Thuanus Mezeray Davila lib. 3 Thuanus lib. 49. Caten vita d●… Pio Quinto Printed at Edingburgh 1573. Mezeray Hist. Hen. the 4th Comingii Collectio p. 278. Historie de France An. 1581.

that they will not be the Instruments of their Cruelty that they shall lose their Kingdoms or Dominions is known to all that have read the Decrees of the 4th Council in the Lateran The violation of Publick Faith was also decreed by another of their General Councils at Constance in which notwithstanding the safe conduct that Sigismund had granted to Iohn Husse and Ierome of Prague care was not only taken that they should be burnt but they made it a standing Rule for the time to come That tho Hereticks came to the place of Judgment trusting to their safe conduct and would not have come without it yet the Prince who granted it was under no Obligation by it but the Church might proceed to Censures and Punishment By these Decrees Cruelty and Treachery are become a part of their Doctrine and they may join them to their Creed upon as good Reasons as they can shew for many of their other Additions The Nature of Man is not yet sunk so low as easily to hear these things without horror therefore it is fit they should be kept among the Secrets of their Religion till a fit opportunity appear in which they may serve a turn and then we need not doubt but they will be made use of If any will be so charitable to their Church as not easily to believe this the History of the Parisian Massacre may satisfie them to the full which Thuanus says was a Pitch of Barbarity beyond any thing that former Ages had ever seen And if the Irish Massacre flowing from the same Spirit and the same Principles had not gone beyond it we might have reasonably concluded that it could never be matched again But we may be taught from such Precedents what we ought to expect when ever we are at the mercy of Persons of that Religion who if they be true Sons of the Church of Rome must renounce both Faith and Mercy to all Hereticks I shall give the Relation of this Massacre from that celebrated late Writer of the French History Mr. de Mezeray only adding some Passages out of Thuanus Davila and others where he is defective But I shall premise a short representation of the Civil Wars of France which are made use of as the Arguments for justifying that Cruelty and by which they do still blemish the Protestant Religion as teaching Rebellion against Princes During the Reign of Francis the 1st and Henry the 2d the Protestant Religion got great footing in France the usual severities of the Church of Rome were then employed to extirpate it yet tho their Numbers were very great and the Persecution most severe they made no resistance But upon the death of Henry the 2d Catherine de Medici the Queen Mother with the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Duke of Guise took the Government in their Hands pretending that the King Francis the 2d was of Age being then sixteen The Princes of the Blood on the other hand alleadged That the Kingdom ought to be under a Regency till the King was at least 22 Years of Age Since Charles the 6th had been admitted at that Age to the Government as a particular mark of their esteem of him So that tho the Age of Majority was at 25 Years and that was a singular exception from a general Rule yet at furthest it shewed that the King could not assume the Government before he was two and twenty It was also an undoubted Right of the Princes of the Blood to hold the Regency during the Minority of their Kings and to administer it by the Direction of the Parliaments and the Assembly of the States Upon these Points many things were written on both sides The Princes of the Blood pretended they were excluded from the Government against Law and upon that were projecting how to possess themselves of the Power which with the Person of the King were violently kept from them But the Prince of Conde being advised to it by Coligny then Admiral of France did also declare for mitigating the Severities against the Protestants This being the Case that the Point was truly disputable no Man can blame the Protestants for joining with their Friends against their Enemies And yet this Plot was driven no further than an endeavour to take the King out of the Hands of his Mother and the Brothers of Lorrain who were all Foreigners The chief Promoter of it was a Papist Renaudy and it was discovered by Avennelles who tho he was most firm to his Religion being a Protestant yet having an aversion to all Plots revealed it out of scruple of Conscience Soon after this Discovery Francis the 2d died and his Brother that succeded him Charles the 9th was without dispute under Age he not being then full eleven years old And according to the resolution of many great Lawyers in the case of his Brother the Kingdom ought to have been under a Regency during all the Wars that preceded the Massacre for he was then but two and twenty At first it was agreed to that the King of Navarre as the first Prince of the Blood ought to be Regent but he being wrought on by the Queen Mother and her Party and drawn over to them the Lawyers were again set to examine How far the Power of the Regent did extend Many published their Opinions That the other Princes of the Blood ought to have their share in the Regency and that the Regents might be checkt by the Courts of Parliaments and were subject to an Assembly of the States The chief Point of State then under Consideration was What way to proceed with the Protestants whose Numbers grew daily and were now more considerable having such powerful Heads A severe Edict came out against them in Iuly 1561 condemning all Meetings for Religious Worship except those that were celebrated with the Rites of the Church of Rome banishing all the Protestant Ministers and appointing the Bishops to proceed against Hereticks with this only mitigation of former Cruelties That Banishment should be the highest Punishment But the Nation could not bear the Execution of this So next Ianuary there was a great Assembly called of the Princes of the Blood the Privy Counsellors and eight Courts of Parliament in which the Edict that carried the name of the Month was passed By it the free exercise of that Religion was tolerated and the Magistrates were required to punish all who should hinder or interrupt it Not long after that the Duke of Guise did disturb a Meeting of Protestants at Vassy as he was on his Journey to Paris his Servants began with reproachful words and from these they went to blows It ended in a throwing of Stones one of which hurt the Duke but that was severely revenged about 60 were killed and 200 wounded no Age or Sex being spared Upon this he encouraged the violation of the Edict every where so that it was universally broken The King of Navarre joined with him

The King ordered the Murderer to be pursued the two Servants to be Examined and all the Gates of Paris except two to be kept shut The Admirals carriage on this occasion was suitable to the rest of his behaviour and equal to what the greatest Heroe's had ever shewed Ambrose Parè the famous Surgeon dressed his Wound he madethe Incision into his Arm that he might take out the Bullet and did cut off his Finger for fear of a Gangreen But his Scissars not being sharp enough he put him to extream pain and did not cut it off but at the third reprise during all which the Admiral expressed no impatience nor anger But as Parè told Thuanus he said to Mr. Maur a Minister that stood by Now I perceive that I am beloved of God since I suffer these Wounds for his most holy Name And during the Operation he often repeated these words O my God forsake me not and withdraw not thy wonted Favour from me And whispered one that was holding his Arm in the Ear that he should distribute an hundred Crowns among the poor of Paris Next day Damvil Cosse and Villars came to visit and comfort him but confessed it was needless for he expressed great resolution of mind and readiness to die only he desired to see the King and speak with him before he died Damvil and Teligny the Admirals Son in Law carried this Message to the King who very readily yielded to it The Queen-Mother apprehending the great Genius of the Admiral and fearing lest he should turn her Son to better Councils would needs go with the King His two Brothers with twelve of the chief Persons in the Court waited also on him to make a shew of putting the more Honour on the Admiral but really to watch the King that he might have no opportunity of speaking with him alone When the King came to his Bed-side he expressed the greatest tenderness possible and in his Looks and the of his Voice counterfeited a most profound sorrow and said to him You my Father have received the Wound but I feel the smart of it and will punish it in so severe a manner that the like was never seen The Admiral thanked him and told him By his Wound he might well perceive who were the Authors of the Troubles of France He pressed him earnestly to go on with the War in Flanders and not leave all those Gallant Persons to the Duke of Alva's Insolence and Cruelty who had trusted to his Protection He complained of the Violation of the Edict in several parts of France and desired the King to consider how much it concerned him both in Honour and Interest to keep his Faith inviolated The King gave him full assurances of this but avoided the discourse of Flanders and with repeated Oaths told him he would punish this Fact against him as if it had been done against himself Then the Admiral desired to speak privately with the King which lasted not long for the Queen-Mother apprehending what the subject of his Discourse might be came to the Bed-side and told the King that so long a Conversation would much endanger the Admirals health and so broke it off Yet it seems as short as it was it made some Impression for when she asked the King what it was that he had said to him He answered He had advised him to Reign himself and he was resolved to follow it When this was over the King asked the Admirals Friends and the Physicians many questions about his Health and proposed for his greater security the carrying him to the Louvre But the Physicians said he could not be safely removed So after he had staied an hour he left him during which time he acted the part he intended to play so well that all the Witnesses were satisfied with the Sincerity and Passion he expressed The Court of Parliament examined the Maid and Lackquey that were taken in the House from whence he was shot about the Murtherer and many presumptions appeared against the Duke of Guise whose Servants they found had brought him to that House and had provided an Horse for his escape The King wrote that same day both to his Ambassadours in forreign parts and to the Governours of the Provinces shewing them what had befallen the Admiral and how much he resented it The next day being the 23d the Duke of Guise and his Uncle the Duke of Aumale came and desired leave to go out of Town The King by his Looks and Carriage seemed to abhor them and said they might do what they pleased but as they went away he said they might go whither they would but he should find them out if they appeared to be guilty of that Fact And so they mounted on Horse-back and rode to the Port St. Anthony as if they had intended to go out of Town but came back to Guise-house and began to raise a great stir in Paris They called many about them and sent their Agents all over the Town and sent Arms to divers places When News of this was brought to the Admiral he sent to the King to desire a Guard so 50 were sent under the Command of Cosseins one of his bitterest Enemies But to cover the matter better some of the King of Navarres Swisses were sent to Guard within his House The King did also order all the Papists that lay near his House to remove their Lodgings that the Protestants might have conveniency to be about him and gather together if there should be any Tumult He also desired the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde would gather about them their best Friends that they might be prepared to defend themselves in case the Duke of Guise should raise any disorders All this seemed not only sincere but kind and by these Arts were the Protestants not only secured from their fears but had great hopes raised in them And thus the greatest part of them were brought within the Net that was laid for their ruine Only the Vice-Lord or Vidam of Chartres saw through the disguise And a Council of their Party being held in the Admirals Chamber he spoke freely and told them the Admirals Wound was the first Act of the Tragedy and more would soon follow Therefore he proposed that he might be carried to Chastilion ill as he was in which there was less danger than to stay in a place where they and all their Friends would be suddenly destroyed Teligny and others that were fully perswaded of the Kings good Intentions opposed this much and said it would shew such a distrust of the King as might for ever lose him that was then beginning to favour their Party But the Vidam answered that stay who would he would not stay longer than to Morrow for he was assured their stay would be fatal to themselves and all their Friends There was a perfidious Person in that Assembly one Bouchavannes who was an Intelligencer to the Queen-Mother and carried presently an account of

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 murdered but those were chiefly Monorancy his Friends who were thought cold in the matter of Religion The most enraged of their Blood-hounds were Tanchou Pesou and Crosier a Goldsmith the two former drove many to the Mills and forced them to leap from thence into the River Pesou boasted to the King himself that he had made an hundred and fifty leap that night And Thuanus says he often heard Crosier say That with that Hand he had killed 400 by which it seems he was thought so sanctified that he would live no longer a common life but as a sacred Person went to an Hermitage where yet his cruelty left him not for during the Warrs of the League he drew a Flemish Merchant into his Cell and murdered him there Thus were the Protestants destroyed in Paris with a Treachery and Cruelty that the uncivilized Nations had never shewed to one another nor had the Heathens been ever guilty of any thing like it towards the Christians The Precedent which the Church of Rome had formerly given in the Massare of the Albigenses was the likest thing in History to it for Barbarity but never had Treachery

signified the joy in Heaven at that days work and that the Church was to flourish again by the death of the Hereticks But leaving these discantings on this seeming Miracle Morvillier that was Lord-Keeper advised That for justifying or at least mitigating the Censures that might be made on these proceedings there should be a Process carried on against the dead Admiral to prove him guilty of a Conspiracy against the King and the Royal Blood and there were some few Protestants kept Prisoners who had been taken out of the English Ambassadors Lodgings who to save themselves they hop'd might be brought to accuse the Admiral But while this Mock-Process was making there was a real prosecution of the like Cruelties in many other parts of France At Meaux a little Town not far from Paris they began on the 25th of August being Monday and spent the whole Week in shedding more Blood They killed two hundred many of those were Women whom they Forced before they Murdered them At Troye in Champaigne about the same number was killed At Orleans a thousand were also killed Six or seven hundred at Roan tho the Governour did what he could to hinder it At Bourges Nevers and Charite all they found were killed At Tholouse two hundred were killed At Burdeaux they were for some time in suspence being afraid of the Rochellers but the Priests did so inflame the Multitude that the Governour could not restrain their rage longer than the beginning of October so then they Massacred all that they could find This beginning was followed by all the Towns on the Garvinne But next to Paris Lions was the place where the most barbarous Cruelties were acted The Governour had a mind to save the Protestants and gathered together about six or seven hundred of them whom he lodged in several Prisons that so he might preserve them And to give the People some content he granted them the pillage of their Houses But they were so heated by the Clergie and by some that were sent from the Court to promote the Massacre every where that they broke open the Prisons and murdered them all dragged their Bodies through the Streets and opened the Bellies of the fattest of them to sell their Greese to Apothecaries And when they could do no more they threw ●…em into the River of Rhosne which was coloured with the Blood and filled with the Carcases of the slain These Examples were followed in many more places but detested by others who were not Papists enough to overcome Nature and all Morality The Governours in some places restrained the People and in many places the Souldiers tho more inured to Blood defended the Protestants from the Rable that were set on by the Priests The Answer the Governour of Bayonne made deserves to be remembred who wrote to the King in these Words SIR I Have communicated your Majesty's Command to the Inhabitants of the Town and the Souldiers of the Garrison I find many good Citizens and brave Souldiers but never a Hangman here And therefore in their Name and my own I humbly beg your Majesty would employ our Arms and Lives in things which are possible for us to do how dangerous soever they may be and we will spend the last drop of our Blood in your Service This gave great Offence at Court and soon after both he and the Count of Tendes Governour of Provence who had also given Orders that there should be no Massacre made within his Jurisdiction died very suddenly And it was believed they were both poisoned In all there were as Thuanas says Thirty thousand massacred over France tho he believes they were not quite so many Mezeray estimates them at five and twenty Thousand But Perefixè says that over all France near an hundred thousand were butchered And Veremundus says that besides those who were killed an hundred Thousand Persons were set a begging most of those being Widows and Orphans Many of t●●m fled to the places of strength in France and great numbers went out of the Kingdom For when they had escaped the first rage of the Massacre they clearly perceived the design of their Enemies was to extirpate them Root and Branch And tho the King at first declared he would observe the Edict inviolably they had learned from sad experience how little his Faith was to be depended on and they were further convinced of it by fresh Proofs For the King pressed the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde very hard to change their Religion the former was tractable and hearkned to instruction but the latter continued resolute and would hear nothing This put the King once into such a Rage that he called for his Arms and was going in Person either to kill him or see him killed had not his vertuous Queen who had been instructed by her Father to abhor all cruel Proceedings about Religion cast her self at his Feet and with many Tears diverted him from so ignominious an Action But he sent for him and said only these three words to him Mass Death or the Bastil Yet he generously resolved to suffer Death or perpetual Imprisonment rather than go to Mass had they not found out a Tool fit to work on him One Sureau-des Rosiers that had been Minister of the Protestants at Orleans had now to save his Life changed his Religion But to have some reputation in it pretended that he had resolved to have done it sooner tho when that fear was over he returned to them again but was never much considered after that He was therefore employed to perswade the Prince of Conde and what by his endeavours and what by fear of Death both the King of Navarre and he went to Mass and wrote Letters full of Submission and Obedience to the Pope tho they were no sooner out of that Snare than they declared that what had been obtained of them was extorted by force This being done the King sent his Orders over all France bearing date the 22d of September to turn all Persons out of any considerable Imployments that would not renounce their Religion and a long form of Abjuration was sent with it which was to be the Test both which are printed by Veremundus The Process against the Admiral was carried on before the Parliament of Paris and without any proofs that ever were published they on the 27th of October judged him guilty of a Conspiracy against the King and his Crown And therefore ordained his Body to be hanged if it could be found or if not that he should be hanged in Effigie his House of Chastilion to be razed and a Pillar set up with an Inscription to defame his Memory his Blood was also attainted and his Children declared ignoble and incapable of any Priviledges in France And the Sentence concluded with an Order for celebrating St. Bartholomews day in all time coming with Processions and publick Thanksgivings for the Discovery and Punishment of that Conspiracy There were also two other Persons

of Quality Cavagnes and Briquemaut who had been dealt with to accuse the Admiral but they would not save themselves by so base a ransom so they were both condemned as Complices with him But when the Sentence was pronounced against them Thuanus that was an Eye-Witness says Briquemaut cried out when that part of the Judgment was read that concerned his Children Ah Innocents what have they done And then he who for 50 years together had served in the Warrs with a high and approved Valour being then 70 what for fear of Death what out of pity to his Children would have done any thing to have saved himself He sent the King word first that he would put Rochel in his Hands if he would spare his Life But that being rejected he offered to accuse the Admiral to preserve himself But neither was that considered All that while his Fellow-Sufferer Cavagnes continued most serious in his Devotions and for three hours together was either Praying or reciting some Psalms and expressed no concern for his Life his thoughts being wholly employed about Eternity He encouraged Briquemaut to die as he had lived and to turn himself to God and not to stain so honourable a Life as he had led with an ignominious end And he seeing he must die recollected his Thoughts and seemed ashamed of his former abject behaviour and composed and prepared himself for Death They both were carried to the place of Execution in Hurdles where they not only suffered the reptoches of the Multitude as they went along who threw Filth and Clay at them with their most scurrilous Language but Death it self with much Christian Patience and Magnanimity They were hanged at the Greve and their Bodies after they were dead were barbarously mangled by the cruel Multitude With them the brave Admiral was hanged in Effigie whose Innocence as well as their own they did to their last Breath assert The King who delighted in such bloody Spectacles did not only look on himself with the Queen-Mother and the Court but forced the King of Navarre likewise to be a Witness of it It is needless to say much for evincing the Admiral 's Innocence for all the Writers of the time acknowledg the Process was only to cover the infamy of the Massacre And Thuanus has so fully demonstrated it that none can so much as doubt of it If the Admiral had any such design why came he to Court Why to Paris where he knew he had few Friends and a vast number of mortal Enemies and why did he desire a Guard from the King But since they could not find a better colour for so foul a Business they must make use of the best they had They took another course to stop the Queen of Englands resentments who besides the common Cause of Religion had a particular esteem for the Admiral for they shewed a Memorial which he had given the King to perswade the War of Flanders to Walsingham the ever renowned Secretary of State then her Ambassador in France In which one of the reasons was That if the King would not receive these oppressed Provinces into his Protection they would throw themselves into the Queen of Englands Hands and if the English made themselves Masters of them or of any considerable Ports in them they would be again uneasy and formidable Neighbours to France which would thereby lose the great security they had in taking Calice out of their Hands When Walsingham read this and was asked what he thought of the Admirals Friendship to his Mistress he answered as became so great a Man That he could not say much of his Friendship to the Q. of England but he was sure it appeared from that what a faithful Subject he was to the King of France A Week after this was done the King compleated the Treachery of this Precedure for by his Letters directed to the Governours of the Provinces bearing date the 3d of November He declared he would Tollerate no Religion but the Roman Catholick in all his Dominions Upon which the following Civil Wars began and in excuse of them I shall only say that besides the barbarous and persidious Treatment the Protestants had now received they had this legal Warrant for standing on their own defence That by the former Treaty the King granted them Cautionary Towns for Pledges of the observation of the Edict And it is certain that if a Prince grants his Subjects Cautionary Towns for their Security he does thereby relax their Alleagiance to him and gives them a right to defend themselves if the Agreement upon which these Pledges were given should come to be broken This is the true and just account of that foul and treacherous Massacre even as it is represented by the Historians of that Age and Church who can neither deny nor excuse the Infamy of it tho some rejoyced at it and others wrote in defence of it The King gloried so much in it that three Meddals were struck to perpetuate the memory of it In one Hercules is both with his Club and a Flambeau fighting against the seven-headed Serpent with this Motto Ne ferrum temnat simul ignis obsto On the reverse the King with his Hand supports two Crowned Pillars ready to fall with this Motto Mira fides lapsas relevat manus una Columnas Hereby intimating that Heresy was the Serpent which was to be destroyed by main Force and by Fire And that by this Act the King had supported Religion and Justice In the second the King sits in his Chair of State with a Sword in his right Hand and an Hand on the Head of a Scepter in his left And many Heads lying about his Feet with this Motto Virtus in Rebelles On the Reverse were the Arms of France between two Pillars and two Lawrel Branches with this Motto Virtus excitavit Iustitiam The third had on the one side a Woman environed with Rays and a Book open in one Hand and a Palmin the other and at her Feet many Heads in Flames with this Motto Subducendis rationibus The Reverse was the same with the first The Signification of this was Religion triumphing over Heresy But this was only a false shew of Joy for he was ininvardly tormented with the horrours of a guilty Conscience which the effusion of so much Blood did justly raise in him so that being often troubled with Visions he was frequently heard say Ah! my poor Subjects what had you done But I was forced to it The strange manner of his Death looked like a signal Judgment from Heaven for that bloody day for after a long Sickness which was believed the effect of a lent Poison given him by the Queen-Mother Blood not only came out through all the Conduits of his Body but through the very Pores so that he was sometimes found all bathed in his own Blood And he that had made his Kingdom swim with Blood died thus wallowing in his own All the servile Pens of the Lawyers