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A11930	The fourth parte of Co[m]mentaries of the ciuill warres in Fraunce, and of the lovve countrie of Flaunders: translated out of Latine into English, by Thomas Tymme minister. Seene and allowed; Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicæ in regno Galliæ libri. Part 4. English	Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.; William, Prince of Orange, 1518-1581. Sendbrief. In forme van supplicatie aen die Conincklicke Majesteyt van Spaengien. English.	1576 (1576)	STC 22243; ESTC S117191	156,825	228

vewed and put in inuentorie the whiche is alwayes the beginning of Confiscation so that the goodes of the Religious beyng absent were almost put in an Inuentorie but yet were not confiscate the cause whereof was the contrary successe whyche the Kyng looked not for If the Kyng had had such successe in his warre at Rochel as hee desyred it seemed that confiscations shoulde haue flowed wyth murders beyonde all measure thoroughout the whole Realme vppon them of the Religion to theyr vtter destruction Vnder the collour and pretēce of that Edict the king sought to bryng to passe by hys Legate mons Belleure with the Switzers which professed the Religion that those Frenchmen of the Religion whych were fled into theyr countrey myght be constrayned to forsake the same for many were fled especially to Bern and to Basile Notwithstandyng the Ambassadour lost hys labour for they extended still that same humanitie that they dyd before towards those fugitiues Almost about thys tyme a daughter was borne to the king Wherevpon he intreated Elizabeth the Queene of Englande that she would promise for his yong daughter in the holy Sacrament of Baptisme whiche we call the office of a Godmother To this request the Queenes Maiestie graūted and sent the Earle of Worceter into France to the king to be hir deputie for the same There was no man but he saw well ynough that the kyng at that doubtful time wēt about to coorry fauour with the Queene of Englande least she shoulde help the poore Inhabitants of Rochel and to this end the league was made We said before that they of Rochel answeared mons Biron that they woulde not receyue him into the Citie before suche time as the kyng hadde prouided for theyr securitie by assured pledges not minding to come to composition with bare words But the Kyng purposed to make those at his commaundemēt by dint of sworde and open force whome he could not wynne with wordes and deceyt Therefore hee deliuereth letters to mons Biron by whych hee banisheth them from his protection and fauour except they obey this his last commaundement as Rebelles traytors and the troublers of the common peace protesting that he woulde persecute them with mortall warre accordingly he commaundeth all hys gouernours and officers to persecute them with warre and by al other meanes euē as if they were giltie of high treason and pronoūceth that whatsoeuer they do herein against them shal be allowed and maynteyned At the same time mons Noe a noble man and in the former warres one amongst the rest most valiant came out of the lowe Countrey of Flaunders called Belgic and was reconciled to the Kyng and in token of his recouered fauour the king gaue vnto him the goodes of Teligni whose Sister mons Noe had maried whyche otherwise had bin confiscate as the goodes of others that were slayne were in the slaughter of Paris The king gaue hym in charge to perswade with them of Rochel that hee mighte bring them if it were possible to take those conditions of peace which he offered vnto them They of Rochel wondering at his comming after thys sorte sente vnto hym their letters of safeconduct that he might come to the village called Tadon the fyfth day of Nouember and to do vnto them that message which he had brought vnto thē from the king Thither came mons l' Noe and the Burgeses of Rochell Lāguilleir Rechenart Villers and Merelle Mons l' Noe declared vnto them that he had receyued commaundemente from the King Queene to tel thē that it appertayned greatly to their profite to yeeld vp the Citie into the kings hand and power that they mighte thereby deliuer themselues from that destruction presently like to ensue by the siege at hand and might also obtayne great peace for other Churches that he propounded thys condition in the kings name whome if they woulde admit to be their Gouernour according to the kings appoyntment they had free libertie to vse and enioy the Religion Notwithstanding mons l' Noe hauing declared hys good wyll and loue whiche he bare to Religion priuately perswaded them of Rochel to admit none in the kings name into the Citie before such time as they were sufficiently assured of their securitie and safetie The Burgeses of Rochel had onely authoritie and leaue to heare but no licence at all to determine any thing Wherefore they returning certifyed the Senate of the condition offered by mons l' Noe and mons l' Noe being come into the Citie receyued this answer That Rochel would not admit mons Biron beseeching the king that hee woulde poynt some other whiche loued the refourmed Religion to be their ouerseer or els to suffer them to lyue peaceably vnder the obedience of hys lawes In the meane time mons l' Noe being solicited both by the Senate it selfe of Rochel and also required by certayne other Ministers of the Church to imbrace the Religion sayeth that he was no lesse feruent towards the Religion than he had bin afore time and that he determined in him selfe to returne vnto them so soone as he hadde done his ambassage vnto the king The whiche hee perfourmed within few dayes after and was louingly enterteyned of them of Rochel After this they of Rochel cōsulted how they might get the Isle of Rhe the whyche was both neere and also commodious for them The charge to atchieue thys enterprise was cōmitted to mons Essarz He beeyng furnished wyth certayne Shyppes loosed from Rochel hauen about the dead tyme of the nyghte that he myghte deceyue the enimie ryding at anker not farre from hym Nowe there were come nere to the Citie two Shyppes of the Kyngs nauy vnder a colour to bryng letters to them of Rochel in the name of mons d' Guarde but in very deede they were sounding or plumming for the depth of the water for the whych cause they had one wyth them very expert in the same Whyles they were thus occupyed they were boorded by the Shyppes of Rochel the whych hauing slayne one of theyr chiefe Cpptaynes tooke one of the Shyppes and sente all theyr tackeling and cariage into the Citie the other Shyp being afeard escaped away Then they of Rochel returned into the Citie agayne Thys was a foretoken that they shuld haue good successe in the warre whiche was prepared against them THE fourth day of December mons Biron came to the citie wyth seuen cornets of horsemen and eyghteene ensignes of footemen hauyng also wyth hym two great brasse peeces to begin the seege In the meane tyme dyuers came dyuersly to this warre frō al parts of the Realme of those also not a fewe which aforetime had serued the Prince of Conde in the war and had nowe forsaken the Religion shewyng them selues to be more mortall enimies to the same than the Catholiques them selues They of Rochel held those villages that bordered vpō theyr Citie as Maraim Mose Nouaille whych were vnder the charge

feared both for that the same was addicted to the Romish Religion and also an enimie to the house of Nauar. The King said that he would not haue the manner of royall mariages altered which were wont to be celebrated there and the rather bicause the same did greatly make for the assured signe of peace when the same should be seene to be openly celebrated in the Metropolitane citie of the realme as it were in the face of the whole worlde And now although both partes were perswaded that this maryage might bee made very profitably yet notwithstandyng there was great doubt concernyng the manner of celebratyng the mariage The Queene of Nauar beyng zelously addicted to the reformed religion would in no wyse consent that the maryage should bee celebrated after the Romish fashion neyther the Queene mother would condiscend that they should bee maryed after the order of the reformed Religion Thus there was greate dissention betweene the two women whereas they were agreed of the principall matter The King at the fyrst intreated the Queene of Nauar to graunt vnto him and to his sister this libertie for that it appertayned to his dignitie that the forme of the auncient Religion which he had receyued from his auncetors might bee vsed in the mariage of his sister When the Queene of Nauar had constantly excused hir selfe and that the King perceiued he preuayled nothing at all it is reported that vsing his accustomed othes he sayd that he would set his sister at libertie from the lawes of Rome and also from the rytes of the Religion and that hee him selfe would celebrate the mariage than the which there could not be a more pompous celebration The which rumor was spred abroad among the Courtiers and this new imagination pleased many very well for whatsoeuer the King saith or doth that doth the Frenchman lyke insomuche that they frame both their speach and their apparell according to the Kings guise To remooue this doubte respite was taken on eyther parte The Kyng sente letters vnto Pope Pius the fyfth to obtayne lycence for hys Syster to marry with Henry Borbon hys Coosyne leaste the respecte eyther of consanguinitie or of Religion might hinder the mariage for that it was for the wealth of the Realme Furthermore that it would please his holines to giue them leaue to vse such rytes in celebrating matrimonie as might best serue theyr turne The Pope altogether misliketh of the Kings request the which he often tymes denyed to graunt affyrming the same to be most vnlawfull On the other parte also the Queene of Nauar consulted with the ministers of the reformed Religion what might be done in this matter Of the which diuers verdictes and iudgementes were giuen Some vrging the simplicitie of the word of god thought it wicked by any manner of meanes to contracte such matrimonie the which was therefore muche more daungerous in noble personages bicause the affayres in hand did not belong to one house alone but also almost to the whole Realme The which speaches notwithstanding were not gracious and acceptable to the Queene of Nauar and to the rest of the nobles perswading themselues that they should all generally receyue great profite by that maryage Therefore the matter was committed to a fewe by whose determination the same was to be ended and they concluded nothing but that which they knew would please the Queene of Nauar the nobles Then the matter being approued vppon their sentence determination began to grow in greater likeing to please more of the ministers whose iudgemēts were afterward required in publique assēblies of the churches of Frāce Thus the woorser counsaile tooke place and not only the Queene of Nauar but also the greatest part of them of the religiō earnestly wished that mariage All the cōtrouersie stood on this poynte by what way most conueniently and with lest offence of eyther parte the mariage might be solemnized THE Admirals wyfe being dead hee maryed another of the noble house of Royen being daughter to the Countie of Entremont and heyre to greate possessions This stocke belongeth to the Countie of Sauoy and thys riche noble woman was desired in maryage of many noble men and peeres also of Sauoy Notwithstanding the Admirall preuayled both by the meanes of the Kings letters to Philibert Duke of Sauoy whose authoritie was greate in makyng that noble maryage and also by his owne fame and name of Religion which was most acceptable to that heroicall Lady and so tooke hir to his wife which many gathered to bee an argument of most fyrme peace THE Admirall thought it necessarie for the expedition of the affayres in the lowe countrey to enter into league with Elizabeth the Queenes maiestie of Englande And good occasion as he thought was offered for that hir maiestie is single and the Duke of Anjou the Kings brother wanted a wyfe The Duke of Anjou thought him selfe woorthy so great a maryage both for that hee was the Kyngs brother and also bicause he had wonne to him selfe great renowne and prayse by his valiant actes in martiall affayres The charge to bring this matter to passe was committed to M. Momorencie a wise man and one of the chiefe nobles and gouernours of France The ende declared the causes of this league both that by this practise the myndes of the Admirall and of all the rest which ought necessarily to be blynded for the better finishing of the wicked facte might be deceyued all the whole matter being cloked with prouident care for the dispatche into the lowe countrey and also that Momorencie a man of sharpe wit myght not through hys familiaritie and conference with the Kyng smell out the counsailes of the tragedy which was in hande and finally that England being bounde by the name of this league might not stirre as offended at the wickednes of the facte the which also came to passe These were the reasons why the league was made with the Queenes maiestie of Englande as hath since appeared by the successe it selfe AVTVMNE of this present yeere was very vnseasonable flowing with continuall vehement showers of rayne A great parte of the houses and buildings of Feraria fell downe to the present ruine of the whole Citie Nere vnto Geneua at the straytes of Ecluse a great parte of a hyll was broken down with the freat and violence of the waters and fel down into the Riuer of Rosne with the which the water was so stopte that it dyd ouerflowe and the sayd Ryuer was so checkte with the floude that the streame hauyng hys contrary course backewarde caused the wheeles of those milles that stoode vppon the same to runne amisse and to turne the Milstones the wrong waye to the woonder of suche as sawe the same the lyke whereof was neuer seene before There was also so greate an Earthquake in a certayne village neere vnto Geneua that all the houses in the same were ouerthrowne and a certayne peece of

God playing with cornets and trumpets ioyning therto the noyse of Gunnes In the nyght they burnt vp the greatest parte of the drawe bridge The next day Monsieur Oars brought the kings answere from the Duke of Anjou to the Rochellians concerning theyr demaunds In the nighte followyng the townsmen brake out of their countermine into the Catholikes myne and dryuing from thence the Catholiques and placyng watche and warde there they ouerthrew the same The two nexte dayes were spente with two fortunate eruptions with taking consultation concerning the kings answere Euery townesman without exception had leaue to come to this consultation and the daye and place of meeting was appoynted The fourth day of this moneth the Nauie spoken of before was more playnely to be seene at the syght whereof the Catholiques withoute delaye armed themselues For it was Countie Mongomerie with fiftie sayle greate and small And thus it fared with Mongomerie Mongomerie comming into Englande laboured by all meanes to obtayne ayde at the handes of Elizabeth the Queenes maiestie of England The whiche hir Maiestie denyed bycause of the league whiche she had made with the king Therfore Mongomerie tooke an other way getting into his handes partly by loane and partly by gift of English Frenchemen and the lowe countreymen of Flaunders fortie thousande frankes and got leaue of the Queenes maiestie to furnishe a nauie so well as he coulde Thus after long trauayle he furnished fiftie shippes But occasion fell out whiche delayed for a tyme that expedition and preparation The Earle of Worcester a noble man of Englande went into Fraunce in the Queenes name to baptize the newe borne daughter of the French king and to be one of the sureties or witnesses for the sayd child in hir highnes name In this passage certayn Frenchmen and Flemings set vppon him taking from him one of his shippes and killing certaine of his men Hir highnesse taking displeasure hereat commanded the matter to be enquired after for the which inquisition she sent the Lorde Admirall who setting vpon all the shippes of the Frenchmen and Flemings toke caried away whatsoeuer came to his hāds So that twentie of Mongomeries ships were loste So he came to the coast of Rochell with twentie ships of his nauie diminished When he sawe the kings nauie prepared and newe ships also to be furnished with other soldiours he durst not procede in this enterprise wherfore without assayling his enimies he directed his course an other way and vnloked for at Bell'Isle and there landed and took both the Isle and the castel The Rochellians perceiuing that Mongomerie was departed and therfore being without hope of ayde fortifyed the hauen all that they coulde wyth newe garrisons Notwithstāding before Mongomeries departure they sēt out one vnto him in a skyffe wylling him not to put himselfe in peryll for theyr sakes for they trusted yet in the goodnesse of GOD and were of that mynd that they would rather suffer any maner of extremitie than to yelde themselues into the handes of suche men as were full of all treason falshood and periurie After the which message Mongomerie sent a ship vnto the Citie with goonpouder and victuall which came safely into Rochell notwithstanding the kings force And after this as we sayd Mongomerie tooke a new viage After he had taried in the foresayde Ilande certayne dayes and knew not wel which way to take his souldiers also being obstinate and disobedient returned into England hauyng lost his trauayle with a fewe shippes the rest beyng left vppon the sea to robbe and spoyle one of the whiche whereof Monsieur Hippinnill was captayne went to the enimie To fortifie the siege of Rochel there came into the kyngs campe the fifth day of May foure thousand Switzers Therfore certaine dayes following were spent in skyrmishes losse of men beyng sustayned on both partes And amongst the chieftaines that were slaine Monsieur Cossine captaine of the kings garde beyng one of those whiche slew the Admiral was one CERTAINE Catholiques got vp vnlooked for vpon the bulwarke l'Euangile and tooke the watch of the same the warders being a sleepe some of the which they slew Whervpon if the townsmen had not succored them in time and resisted the other or if a greater number of the Catholiques had bene present the citie had bene in great daunger The next daye the townsmen gaue a woorthy charge vpon the Catholiques of whom they slew many There brake out of the citie fiue hundred at Cogne gate and charged the enemie being intrenched and suspecting no such thing by reason wherof they slewe many of them and put the rest to flight choked three of their great gunnes by driuyng into them crosse barres of iron As they were thus occupied there came succours from the kings campe and then began a sore skirmish Notwithstanding the townsmen brought with them into the citie eight of the catholikes Ensignes great plēty of armour apparel There were slayne in this skyrmish two hūdred catholikes or thereabouts twentie only of the townsmen were wāting The townsmen with great triūphe set vp on their walles those Ensignes which they had taken from their enemies The sixe and twentie day of this moneth the Catholiques began a newe batterie after the whiche they giue a freshe assaulte to the towne beyng the most notable of all the reste that happened in this siege The commyng of the Switzers was the cause of this assaulte who craued leaue of the Duke of Anjou that they might gyue an assaulte to the citie thereby to declare theyr loue towarde the king Therfore al theyr bandes set themselues in battaile aray betwene the well le Rouze about seuē of the clocke The which they of Cogne perceyuing discharged fiue great peeces the shot wherof fel among the thickest of them to theyr great damage Therefore they shyfted their standyng Also other bandes of the Catholiques were set in battayle aray in diuers places euē as if they would giue an assault In the meane tyme the great gunnes went off lustely on eyther part But the greatest hope of the Catholiques rested in their mines which were made in three seueral places The first myne hauing fire giuen vnto it did small hurte makyng a breach no bigger than for twoo men to enter at whiche breache the townsmen stopte with greate diligence Straite after the second was blowen vp with great force and the thyrde made a greate noyse ouerthrowyng a great parte of the wall notwithstanding so that the rubbell matter of the wall fell into the towne by the conuenient falling wherof the passage into the Citie was stopte agaynst the Catholiques The Duke of Anjou was present himself that by his presence he might encourage the souldiers And the firste onset was giuē by Mons d'Gaste but the townsmē so receyued him that he was constrayned to retire with great losse of hys men After him followed Mons d'Goaz who with his bande entring the breach with