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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

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