feared more mischief from the Assembly than perhaps the Assembly designed to do and on the other hand the Assembly apprehended more harm from the Court than was there prepared for them Thus in dubious Affairs Fear is often mutual and there is a kind of emulation who shall shew most Resolution and Courage when really the Fright is equal on both sides The King severely complained to the Assembly by his Letters and laid openly the Fault at the doors of the Dukes of Bouillon and Trimouille but there happened such Divisions in the very Assembly as did e'en almost ruin their Affairs It may be 't was â—n effect of the usual Intrigues of the Court who designedly had drawn the Assembly nearer home the better to have them within the reach of its Caresses and Favours Not but that it might be also the effect of that Misfortune commonly attending the union of divers Persons differing in Genius Abilities and Interest who tho' agreeing in a general Design do often fall out about the choice of necessary Expedients It is with them as with that Harmony by which the World subsisteth through a correspondency of several discording Causes which might easily break out of that just proportion whereby they agree if they were not preserved and maintained by an Almighty and Divine Hand Thus the union of many Men who aim at different ends may break of it self tho' they often have the same Motives for acting concertedly when each one wou'd regulate the Conduct and Interest of all others by his own Maxims and Prejudices The Assembly who ascribed the Progress of those Disorders to the influence of the Court to prevent more Mischief thought it fit to remove elsewhere and accordingly came to Saumur on the Fifth of March This removal might be agreeable to both Parties to the King to whom du Pâ—â—ssâ—â— might be very serviceable there in allaying with his Wisdom the Heat of the most forward and accordingly the King had sent for him a while before and commanded him to go to Vendome and endeavour to bring them to a better Temper and it was agreeable to the Reformed also in that the Authority of du Plessis his Prudence and Equity might heal their Divisions and bring them all to an unanimous Effort for the common Cause In the mean while Matters went on slowly and the Assembly being very little satisfied with the Commissioner's delays which were supposed by several Members to be designedly made they carried their Discontents along with them to Saumur Nay on a Report spread abroad that the King was secretly treating of a Peace with the Arch-duke their Jealousies increased and they thought that the Court used so many delays to the end that if a Peace could be made before any thing was concluded with the Reformed the King might be in a condition to grant them only what the Catholicks pleased But a little while after the Assembly was settled at Saumur there happened an Accident which did extreamly allarm all sorts of People the Spaniards having surprised Amiens the defence whereof was left to its Inhabitants they defended it very ill This Blow made a great noise through all Europe France was counted lost the old Caballs began to revive and the consternation was so great that People knew not what course or resolution was best to take the King himself was disheartened in this Misfortune and fell from that greatness of Soul he had always been Master of before In short one may judge what condition France was thought to be in by what happed in Britany Brissac who was Deputy Lieutenant in that Province and a late reconciled League man caused an Assembly of the Nobility to be held there in his presence being therein as 't was said countenanced by Mompensier and the Dukes of Bouillon and la Trimouille There they proposed to put themselves under the Protection of the Queen of England by the Name of the good French People bons Francois taking it for granted that the King after that loss was no longer able to keep his Kingdom and defend his Subjects against a foreign Invasion The same accident occasioned great Agitations amongst the Reformed some were for taking up Arms and endeavoured to draw to their Opinion all such as were capable to bear them insomuch that one moved for an Attempt upon Tours whither some Troops were to be sent in the Name of la Trimouille others thought that they ought not to make use of such a dismal occasion and that it was even more honourable for them to desist from their former Demands than to make new ones As for the two Dukes they pushed on briskly their Proposals and endeavoured to perswade them that War was the only remedy they had left But almost all the Churches rejected it the great Towns whose example might have drawn in the rest and the best part of the Nobility were deaf to it so that the Project of the two Dukes fell to the ground It was nevertheless reported abroad that Discord had alone hindred the Reformed from voting the War because the Nobility and Consistory men renewed their old Quarrel and fell out about the management of the Money that was to be raised the Nobility claiming it as their right and the Consistory men being for Commissioners to be appointed by the respective Churches for the safe management of it But all these Intrigues as it was given out miscarrying through the dissention of the different Parties every one at Court after the retaking of Amiens valued himself for having no share therein and strove very hard who should make the first discovery to the King so that all the odium fell upon the two Dukes who had been the authors and promoters of the whole matter From whence it follows that their misdemeanour might be misrepresented and made a great deal more than really it was since in Reports of that nature Men use to say more than they know and consequently run the hazard of telling more than the truth As for the Motive of the two Dukes 't is not easie to guess at them The Catholic Writers charge them with designing to make advantage of the Disorders of the State that they might get by force those Preferments that were denied them but the President de Thou who saw the matters nearer than any body else as being present in all these Transactions gives us a more innocent Motive of those two Dukes He ascribeth their Design to Necessity and the Publick Calamity because in the General Confusion of the Kingdom every one did almost despair of his own safety and thought he ought to seek his security from himself for the proof of which he saith that as soon as Amiens was retaken they submitted to what Terms the King was pleased to prescribe to them because then their former hopes of enjoying Peace under a King capable to defend them were without doubt revived That is in a word that we may
tenderness which they ever had for their Protector and they expected from him yet greater Actions then the expressions were obliging 'T is the greatest Privilege of a King who holds his Subjects by the Heart that he is assur'd of 'em when he pleases and that to disperse all the Jealousies they could have of him he is oblig'd to no greater expence then a few flattering Words He never loses the Fruit of the tender expressions that he makes use of and the Hearts prepossess'd with the Love of him believe yet more then is told ' em But as the King fear'd la Trimouille who besides the General Credit he had in the whole Party and the share he had in the Foreign Intrigues as Brother-in-Law to the Prince of Orange and Marshal de Bouillon was also very powerful in Poitou by the places he held by the great Number of Nobility that paid him Homage by the Neighbourhood of Du Plessis who was become formidable since he had been injur'd because he was a Man of Brains and Governour of a good Place and in fine by the great Number of Reformed that were in that Province The King therefore to Counterpoise this Power gave the Government to Roni who having the mony and the Authority could easily break the measures of those with whom the Court was dissatisfy'd He did it may be more then was hop'd and la Trimouille did not live long after this Favourite was Establish'd in the Province But that did not happen till toward the latter end of the year and before the King had lost his good Sister Elizabeth Queen of England and the Prince that succeeded her being by that the most Powerful of all the Protestants it was of great Consequence to know him and to prevent him and to see how far his Alliance might be depended on Roni was Employ'd in this Commission and went over to England to see what might be hop'd for from him He found this Court quite chang'd They durst not there speak of Elizabeth whose Memory the people Ador'd And King James the first would not suffer 'em there to mourn for that Princess Roni had Orders not to Communicate the King's designs to him if he found not his Temper inclin'd to assist him or capable of great things He only Renew'd a Treaty of Alliance which hinder'd not the English from presently making another like it with Spain But upon the whole he came back with a bad Opinion of the Affairs of England and time made it appear that this new King would be no great help to the other Princes of Europe For he was Fearful Irresolute a Dissembler Occitant and Scrupulous He lov'd not to talk of Business and he suffer'd himself to be Govern'd by two or three of his Council His Wife was Imperious and Bold and he had not Courage to Command her He was more delighted with Contemplation then Action and he lov'd Theological Disputes better then War Hunting was his only Passion and after he had taken the pleasure of it in the Morning with a Violence that tir'd all his people he slept all the Afternoon It was a great complaint during his Life that instead of endeavouring to break the Bonds that the House of Austria prepar'd for all Europe he lost his time in studying Theology and that he almost never remembred that he was a King He thought to undo the United Provinces by the disturbances he Created there And tho he had given occasion by that to Assemble the Synod of Dordredcht against the Remonstrants he mingl'd so many politic Intrigues with those matters of Doctrine that we are but imperfectly oblig'd to him for the Sage Decisions of that Assembly The Heat of Disputes and the Animosity of Parties did more Hurt then the Judgment of the Synod produc'd good Fruit and Schism remain'd after the Decision This Prince Writ a Book concerning the Power of Kings upon the occasion of an Oath which he had exacted of his Catholic Subjects But this Work serv'd for no more then to shew the little Account the Catholics made of the Author It was not look'd upon in Spain 't was burnt in Florence The Inquisition at Rome put in the Number of Prohibited Books 't was ill receiv'd in France by the Catholics and the King forbad it should be Translated or Printed 'T was only at Venice where the Reading it was not prohibited These Qualities acquir'd him the Title of Captain of Arts and Clerk of Arms And the Spaniards to make him out of Conceit with France endeavour'd to perswade him that it was Henry the 4th who had given it him Charles his Son had no Inclination to the Spaniards but he was Weak and Unconstant Whereas the Queen was a Spaniard in Affection and inclin'd her self to the Roman Religion so that she wanted but a little of draying her Husband and all England after her In the mean while the Edict was not carry'd on in France in a manner so Uniform and Sincere but that there was occasion every day to make new Complaints This is the Reason why the Deputies General presented a Paper to the King wherein were contain'd some that were important enough They took notice of an Attempt of the Governours and the King's Lieutenants in Provinces who upon a bare Petition of the Catholics commanded the discontinuance of the exercise of the Reformed Religion without taking Cognisance of the Cause The Count of St. Paul had done it in some places of Picardy Marshal de Biron who had no Religion but was resolv'd to play the Bigot so far as to come out of his Coach or to light from his Horse that he might kneel every time he met a cross during the course of his Conspiracies had done the same thing in Burgundy before his practices were discover'd And Matignon had very lately provok'd 'em in Normandy The Inferiour Officers by their Example took the the same Liberty As among others the Lieutenant General de Mortagne in the Province of Pâ—rches who in spite of many Orders of Council which gave the second place of that Bailliage in one Suburb of the City without heeding the oppositions of the Catholics forbore not to hinder 'em from holding their Exercise peaceably The Bishop of Eureux a little while after did the same thing at Aigle which was in his Diocess He caus'd the Catholics to oppose the establishment of a place of Bailliage in their Town and tho the Lady of the place had said she would not be backward in consenting to it he forc'd her to disown this consent which the Reformed pretended to have had of her In this Paper was likewise to be seen that the contest for the Precedency had not bin determin'd notwithstanding all the Regulations possible which had bin made to that purpose To these and some other Articles the King made 'em as favourable Answers as they could desire This was the Year that the Duke of Rohan saw the Foundation of
were sharp and violent more especially the Answer to the Duke 's Manifesto savour'd of a sordid base insolent Spirit full of Gall and Venom and sprinkl'd with Quirks and Quiddities borrow'd from the most lewd Scurrility of the Rabble a piece becoming the Jesuit Richeâ—me to whom it was attributed Never did any man write with more Fury nor more Insolence nor renounc'd more openly in his Writings the character of an honest man But more formidable Enemies were embattel'd against the Duke then this same Scribler For besides the Armies that were set oâ— foot to fall upon him on every side among which that commanded by the Prince of Condé committed unheard of Cruelties Galand was sent into Upper Languedoc to prevent the Cities from taking Arms as those of the Lower Languedoc haâ— done the 10th of September according to the Resolution of aâ— Assembly of the Nobility and Deputies from several Cities which met at Vsez However Galand wherever he could safely go drew Promises of Obedience and within the space oâ— a Month brought Montauban Briteste Puilaurens Sorezâ— â—â— Maz d' Azil Carlat Pamiers Mazeres Saverdun la Bustide St. Amant Mazamet la Cabarede and several others to declare 'T is true that the Duke caus'd some of 'em to change their Opinions that he surpriz'd others and that others which had not suffer'd themselves to be coax'd by the fawning Cant of Galand were surrender'd into his hands so that at length the War became general on that side Pamiers was one of those Cities which the Duke surpriz'd but the Prince of Condé having retaken it very badly observ'd the Capitulation which he had made for he imprison'd put to death and condemn'd to the Gallies several persons to whom he ow'd both his life and his liberty All this was the reason that the Duke lost time who might have bin able to have perform'd greater Exploits if Galand's Negotiation had not brok'n his measures nor would they have ventur'd the Siege of Rochel had not Galand succeeded as he did in drawing off those other Cities from the Union But while the Duke of Rohan carri'd on the War with an extraordinary Courage and with good Success Buckingham seeing Fort St. Martin reliev'd rais'd his Siege was defeated in his Retreat and return'd into England not a little suspected to â—e bin careless of those things which he might have done â—…ch more to his Master's honour Upon this Rochel was more â—…ly begin and reduc'd to extremity At what time a seâ—d English Fleet commanded by the Farl of Denbigh appear'd â—…on the Coast only to make a shew of that Relief which the 〈…〉 expected but retreated more basely then the former withâ—… so much as acrempting the least Enterprize While they â—re setting forth a third Fleet Buckingham was slain by a priâ—e person whom he had particularly injur'd This caus'd a â—â—â—ge of Affairs and the Command of the Fleet was given the â—arl of Lindsey But this Fleet did less then the rest and â—m'd only seâ— forth to be Witness of the Surrender of Rochel â—…d indeed it may be said of the three Fleets sent to the Succor 〈…〉 that unfortunate City that the first famish'd her by taking â—ay her â—… the second amus'd her with the shew of Relief â—t was never intended her and the third sold her Perhaps 〈…〉 the blame of these ill Successes was not to be laid upon the â—…g of England only that he was to be accus'd of great â—â—akness in suffering himself to be govern'd by his Queen with 〈…〉 much pâ—iableness However that Princess had the Knack 〈…〉 disappoint all the King her Husband s Designs and someâ—…es she did it so openly that People could not refrain from â—ieving that he himself was not at all troubl'd at it She it â—s that prevented the Effects of those Orders which the King â—e to those who commanded his Naval Forces She it was â—…o in the heart of England held and protected all the Corresâ—â—ndencies with Cardinal Richlieu and she did so much that 〈…〉 not only drew upon her own head the implacable hatred of 〈…〉 her Subjects but embarrass'd her own Husband in those unâ—ward Affairs that brought him at length to the Scaffold Afâ—… this Cardinal Richlieu thought it proper to make a peace â—ith England which it was no hard matter to do by throwâ—â—g upon Buckingham all the past misunderstandings And the â—ore easily to vanquish the Obstinacy of the Rochellois he inâ—sâ—d Suspicions on both sides that the one Party treated without â—e other And thus Rochel having held out a Siege of very â—â—ar a year in length and carri'd on their Resolutions during a long and the most Cruel Famine that could be imagin'd beyond what could be expected from Nature was forc'd to surrunder at discretion upon the 28th of October And no sooneâ— was it surrender'd but a Tempest ruin'd the Mound which had stopp'd up the Entrance of her Channel and shew'd that thaâ— same mighty Work that so much redounded to the Honour oâ— the Cardinal who undertook it could never have contributed to the subduing that City had she not bin more enfeebl'd by heâ— Friends that in a manner robb'd her of her Provisions theâ— incommoded by all the Toil and Labour of her Enemies During this long Siege and these terrible Extremities thâ— City being sollicited to submit to the King of England woulâ— never heark'n to it To say she had any such design was â— meer Calumny of the Monks and Jesuits And they who writâ— the particular History of this Memorable Siege relate that thâ— Cardinal declar'd to the Deputies from this City That Hâ— knew very well that the Deputies who were sent into Englanâ— had resisted several Temptations upon that occasion that thâ— King return'd 'em thanks for it and that it was the main reason which confirm'd him in those Sentiments of Mercy which hâ— had for the Town More then this the Cardinal found a waâ— to engage Spain to be serviceable to the King in the Siege oâ— that Place 'T is true the Council of Spain saw well the baâ— consequence of taking the Place and fain would have preventeâ— it especially after the Marquiss of Spinola who had seen thâ— state of the Siege had given an accompt of it in Spain Anâ— 't is said that the first time he came into Council that he prâ—pos'd it as one of the greatest stroaks of Policy that could bâ— thought of to succour that Place But the Council of Conscience carri'd it above reason of State and the Pretence of Religion always useful to the Court of Spain since Ferdinand's Reigâ— was at this time the ruin of her Affairs 'T is true that thâ— Fleet which she sent against Rochel came thither so ill provided and staid there so small a while that she had as good have seâ— none at all And it is as true that she attempted to relieve thâ— Duke of Rohan's Party with whom she had concluded
Declaratory of April 17. 1623. set forth upon the Holding of Synods and Colloquies with express Prohibitions to treat of Politick Affairs Nor shall they for the Future raise any Fortifications of what sort soever they be to enclose our Cities without our express Permission by our Letters Patents Nor shall they raise any Money upon our Subjects upon any occasion whatever without a Commission under our Great Seal All this under the Penalty of High Treason and forfeiture of our Present Favours XII It is our farther meaning also that the Articles by Us decreed which concern the City of Rochel the Islands and Country of Aulnix be observ'd and put in Execution without delay and that the Cities and Castles which shall have been taken by those of the said Pretended Reformed Religion since the present Troubles shall be surrender'd up into our Hands within fifteen days after the Publication of these Presents Declaring all such of our said Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion who shall scruple to submit themselves to this our Will and Pleasure depriv'd by just Forfeiture of the Benefit of this our present Favour So we command c. And to the end that this may be for ever firm and stable we have affix'd c. Giv'n at Paris in March 1626. and 17th of our Reign Sign'd Lewis And below De Lomenie Register'd April 13. 1626. Du Tillet A Declaration of the King against the Sieur De Soubise and other Adherents to the Party of the English Confirming the Edicts of Pacification in favour of those who should continue in their Duty and Allegiance Given at Villeroy August 5. 1627. and Publish'd in Parlament the twelfth of the same Month. LEwis by the Grace of God King of France and Navarr To all c. Since it has pleas'd God to call us to the Government of this State our Conduct has made it manifest with how much Care we have labour'd to preserve the Publick Peace and Tranquility either in observing and preserving a sound Amity good understanding and correspondence between this Kingdom and Forreign Princes either by employing as we have done several times in divers parts and upon various occasions our Royal Mediation to lay asleep and extinguish the Contentions and Differences arisen between the said Princes or by giving Assistance and Protection to our Ancient Confederates when we thought it necessary to re-establish or maintain 'em in those Rights and Properties that appertain'd to 'em in order by that means to stop the ill Consequences of those Troubles which the Innovations happ'ning in their Dominions might produce Wherein if our Intentions were lookt upon as good and sincere we also judge those which we have had being grounded upon the same Considerations of the Publick Tranquility and of the Establishment of the Repose of our Kingdom in contracting several Great Alliances by the Marriage of our dearest Sisters are worthy of a higher applause But we cannot but observe without a most just Resentment that the last which we have made with England has not hitherto had that good success which we expected from it But that instead of knitting faster as we promis'd to our selves the knot of that ancient Amity which has long continu'd between the two Crowns it should so fall out that the notorious Breaches on the Part of England of the Articles of Marriage of our Dearest Sister with the King of Great Britain the English should come to invade us and Land in the Isle of Re with a numerous Fleet and Army without any cause any Ground any Pretence or Declaration And in regard we see that in order to second their unjust Designs they have already treated with some of our Subjects have sent the Sieur De Soubise into our City of Rochel to perswade the Inhabitants to join with their Party and that they continue the same Artifices and Practices with others of our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion to draw and engage 'em under several Pretences and vain Hopes to unite their Arms with theirs tho' we are willing to believe that our said Subjects will have so much Constancy and Judgment as not to suffer themselves to be deceiv'd by such sort of Artifices and for that considering that they peacefully enjoy the full Liberty of the Exercise of their Religion the Benefit of our Edicts and whatever else has been promis'd by Us they will conclude that this enterprise of the English has no aim or end that really tends to the good of their Religion but that it is a voluntary Invasion of our Dominions in Enmity to our Crown and the Honour of the Nation in the Defence of which all true French Men as well Catholicks as those of the Pretended Reformed Religion are equally oblig'd to venture their Lives and Fortunes Nevertheless that our said Subjects may be rightly inform'd of our Intentions upon the present Occurrences and that they may not be circumvented by the Artifices that are made use of to with-draw 'em from their natural Duty We declare that for these Causes and other weighty Considerations Us thereunto moving We have with the Advice of the Queen our thrice Honour'd Lady and Mother our most Dear and most Beloved only Brother the Duke of Orleance the Princes c. said and declar'd and do say and declare by these Presents the Sieur de Soubise and those of our Subjects of what Quality or Condition soever they be who shall adhere to or join with the English or shall favour or assist 'em directly or indirectly or that shall keep Intelligence Association and Correspondence with 'em in any sort or manner whatever or shall otherwise depart from that Obedience which they owe us Rebels Traitors and Perfidious to their King Desertors of their Countrey Guilty of High Treason in the highest Degree And as such we declare their Goods as well Moveable as Immoveable their Offices and Employments Forfeited and Confiscated to our self and all the Inhabitants of our Cities who shall adhere to the Enterprizes Rebellion and Disobedience of the above named or who shall afford 'em Entrance Passage Retreat or Quartering or shall aid 'em with Arms Victuals Ammunition or any other necessaries guilty of the same Crimes and under the Forfeiture of all Decrees Honours Priviledges Franchises Immunities and Rights which may have been granted to 'em either by the Kings our Predecessors or by our Selves past all Hopes of being ever regain'd It being our Will and Pleasure that they be proceeded against with the utmost Severity of the Law by Imprisonment of their Person Seizure of their Estates Demolishing their Houses Cutting down their Woods and that they shall lose the Benefit of our Edicts and of all Appeals to our Chambers created by the same Unless within eight days after the Publication of this Declaration upon the Coasts of Poitou Saintonge and Aunix they do quit their Rebellion and make their Appearance before our Officers of the Cities of Saintes Niort Fontenay Brouage and others more
their Brethren for the Court-Interest But yet still the Division was not so great as very much to weaken the Princes Party who sometime after the Queen had disowned them having called a Council of Conscience of sixty Ministers to consult whether it were lawful after that to continue the War they came to this Resolution That since those Arms were at first taken up by Order of that Princess whilst free against the Enemies of the King and the State and the Violaters of Edicts they were lawfully taken up and ought not to be laid down by any Counter-Order proceeding from her whilst under the force of hers and their common Enemies This War was very cruel in many places because there were some Commanders on each side that prosecuted it without any Mercy For Des Adrets on the Protestant side was noted for his Cruelties and Monluc on the other would spare no body Nay and Mompensier too signalised himself not a little by his Inhumanities However this difference there was between the Cruelties of the Two Parties That those of the Catholicks were a continuation of what they had exercised for near 40 years past by so many Butcherly Executions and those of the Protestants were but actions of men made desperate by so long and barbarous a persecution Which by the way deserves to be remarked against the Roman Catholick Historians who always excuse as much as they can the Excesses of their own people though never so villainous but represent the Violences of the Princes Forces much horrider than they were And indeed the Protestants found no mercy at all No Faith of Treaties was ever kept with them and not being content to destroy them by Fights and Massacres The Catholicks wherever they had power further employed against them he forms of Justice But nothing more furiously incensed the People against them than their breaking of Images and burning of Relicks in several places That likewise occasioned many bloody Edicts against them and the Parliaments would needs stretch the severity of those Acts of the Council yet to a higher pitch by their Decrees especially those of Paris Roan Dijon and Tholouse And tho the Catholick Armies were guilty of as many outrages as the others yet the Protestants bore the blame of all and were charged with the Sacriledges even of their Enemies A new Massacre of the Protestants which hapned at Sens by the Cardinal of Lorrain's fault who was Archbishop of that Town broke off the Negotiations for a Peace and the War was continued a fresh both by Arms and Writings In which the Catholicks were the first that had recourse to Foreign Aid and the Protestants imitated them by procuring assistance from Queen Elizabeth of England who seised of Havre de Grace for her security But before her Forces could joyn the Princes Army a Battle was fought near Dreux the success of which on both sides was so equal that the Duke of Guise was the only gainer by it The King of Navar died some time before of a wound he received at the Siege of Roan the Marshal de St. Andre was Killed and the Constable taken in this Battle so that the Duke had now neither superiour nor competitour at Court The Prince of Conde was likewise taken Prisoner but that hindred not his party from standing upon such high conditions that no Peace could be agreed upon The Duke afterwards laying Siege to Orleans was there Assassinated by one Poltrot which miserable wretch being taken Accused the Admiral and Beza and several others as his Instigatours to that enterprise and tho he often varied in his answers upon Examinations yet he accused the Admiral with a little more constancy than the rest However he was willingly credited in that point and the young Duke of Guise continuing ever from that time a resentment against that Lord as guilty of the Charge revenged himself nine years after upon several thousands of Innocents whose blood he mingled with the Admirals to expiate the death of his Father The Tragical Death of that great Man dampt the vain thoughts of the Cardinal of Lorrain then at Trent whither the Council had been removed the third time by a Bull of Pius IV. where the French Ambassadours had waited a good while for the coming of the Bishops of their Nation but the Cardinal came thither at last attended with some Prelates with a full Resolution to insist upon thirty four Articles of Reformation which seemed to be much desired by the Queen and especially the Restitution of the Cup and the Marriage of Priests The same accident likewise put the Court upon other Measures and disposed matters to a Peace for which an Edict was agreed upon at Amboise The Prince took advice only of the Nobility of his Party who were weary of the War and would not hearken to the Counsel of threescore and ten Ministers who would have persuaded him to abate nothing of the Edict of January The Admiral was not at all content with this proceeding But however he was forced to seem to approve of what he could not hinder and to accept an Edict much less favourable than the former and where the Distinction of Rights of Exercise by vertue of Fiefs Possession and Bailywicks was introduced The Peace was followed by an Event at which the Court of Rome was highly offended The Cardinal of Chatillon Bishop of Beauvais which is one of the most antient Peerages of the Kingdom turning to the Religion of the Admiral his Brother quitted both the Name and Habit of his Ecclesiastical Dignity and retain'd only that of Count of Beauvais The Pope thereupon cited him and depriv'd him of his Cardinals Hat But that Lord to shew how little he valued the Papal Censure immediately took up again his Cardinals Habit and wore it at all Ceremonies at which he was present and even at the Registring of the Kings Declaration upon the Subject of his Majority nay and to carry his contempt further he Married a Lady and wore his Cardinals Habit on his Wedding day The same year the Cardinal of Lorrain called a Synod at Rheims where the Cardinal of Chatillon appeared not tho he were Suffragan of Rheims as Bishop of Beauvais They who were present at it were content only to agree upon a resolution to give notice to the King that that Prelate was Excommunicated at Rome for a Heretick But that was put off till 1569. when the Parliament Declared him a Rebel and deprived him of all his Dignities turning him over to the Judgment of his Superiour as to what concern'd the Common Crime But they durst not at first explain what they meant by the term Superiour for fear of offending the Pope but in another Decree they plainly owned that by Superiour they meant his Metropolitan the Archbishop of Rheims with the Bishops his Suffragans conformably to the Liberties of the Gallican Church And in fine when this Cardinals Widow moved
after the passing of that Edict to have her Marriage confirmed she could not obtain it as I shall shew more fully in time and place The pretence urged against her was That there appear'd no Evidence neither by writing nor witnesses to prove it an Authentick Marriage and not Clandestine It 's true indeed it was then 40 years since it was done and there remain'd but one man alive that could witness it but yet that hindred it not from being very true that the Marriage was celebrated by the consent and in the presence of the Cardinals Brothers and with all the Solemnity that the Simplicity of the Reformation and the circumstances of that juncture of time could permit That Cardinal passed in the time of the following Wars into England to demand assistance from Queen Elisabeth but as he was about to return into France he was basely poysoned by one of his own domestick Servants The Chancellor took his opportunity after the Edict of Peace to publish another commanding all the King's Subjects to pay Tithes as before to the Church-men And it was not doubted but that Edict was the preservation of the Roman Church because had the Protestants been suffered to escape free from paying those dues all that had any Goods or Estates lyable to pay Tithes would have wheeled about to their Party out of greediness to augment their Revenues at one jerko a full tenth part Yet for all that it appears by the repeated complaints of the Clergy in all their Assemblies that they had much ado to enjoy the benefit of that Edict And 't is only since the Edict of Nants that they have been established in the full possession of those dues And then indeed that question was contradictorily decided to the advantage of the Church-men and the recompense granted to the Protestants to indemnify them for what they paid in Tyths took from them all colour of renewing any more pretences on that Subject for till then the Clergy had not been able to keep possession of those Rights because the Protestants paid them nothing in places where they were strong enough to avoid it and the Catholicks in many places and especially the Gentry paid them but ' en what they liâ—ted But that Edict fortifying them with a new Title they recovered by little and little the full enjoyment of all their Rights and under pretence of explaining or confirming them against the pretensions of the Protestants they often procured orders which they made use of to the Disadvantage of the Catholicks themselves So that they that for time out of mind had been obliged only to pay certain fixed Tythes were then forced to pay Tyths of the Artichokes Melons Pumpions nay and of their Marjoram and in a word of all the Herbs of their Gardens And for the obtaining those Orders the Clergy was not ashamed to vacate the old customs that were confirmed by an interrupted possession of 2 or 300 years After the Peace both Parties contended which should be most active in re-taking Havre de Grace from the English who had a mind to keep it and the Protestants seemed to espouse the cause with more heat than the others the better to wipe off the reproach cast upon them of having given new footing in the Kingdom to a Foraign People that had been so long its mortal Enemies At his return from that Expedition the King was declared Major at Roan and put forth a new Edict to confirm that of Amboise which was again renewed towards the end of the year by another which explained some dubious Articles of it But when the King was return'd to Paris the Admiral was impeacht for the Murther of the Duke of Guise the affairs was very difficult to decide at that Juncture of time because of the equal Ballance that seemed to be between the power of the Accusers and that of the Accused and therefore after several insignificant proceedings it was cunningly put off for three years The same year likewise there began to appear at Tholouse and elsewhere some seeds of a League against the Protestants and the famous Council of Trent was at last terminated which having been long desired as the only salve for the Divisions of Europe was for sometime as 't were the Shittle-cock of the Policy of Princes and the Terrour of the Court of Rome which was afraid that in such a ticklish time in which she was so much cried down a Council would in spite of her attempt a Reformation of her intolerable Errours and Abuses But yet at last that Court found its account well enough here and that Council degenerated into a manifest Cabal confirmed all Abuses to the advantage of the Roman See exalted her above Princes and made the yoke of the Roman Church more heavy than ever upon mens Consciences The next year the Spaniards did what they could to re-kindle a new War but the time was not yet seasonable to hearken to them In expectation therefore of a better occasion they conspired with the Catholicks of Bearn to seise the Queen of Navar and her Children and to deliver them to the Inquisition for Hereticks which if effected would have given a fair occasion to Philp Iâ— to make himself Master of the rest of their Dominions which had escaped from the Ambition of his Great Grandfather The Conspiracy was discovered but yet Queen Katharine had particular reasons worthy of her self not to order the person to be taken up that was the chief Intriguer in it Four years after the Queen of Navar who was forced to provide for her own and her Childrens safety by flying to Rochel from the fury of the same Revolted Subjects sent from thence Montgomery to chastise them after which she Banisht quite out of her Country all exercise of the Roman Religion under the pretence of which such a horrid Treatment was design'd her And that was done by the consent of the States without which nothing can be legally done in that Principality So that the Catholicks lost all their Priviledges there by a just punishment for their furious Attempt in going about to deliver their Lawful Soveraign Princess into the Power of a Foraign Jurisdiction and the Reformation was by this means received there by the concurrence of that double Authority in which the Legislative Power of that Country Resides We shall see afterwards what respect was had to those considerations under the Grand-child of that Princess But in France the Protestants were not long at quiet without new occasions to be jealous of the Court for they were ill treated almost every where and saw their Tranquillity openly conspired against And the Pope the King of Spain and Duke of Savoy loudly demanded by their Ambassadours that the Edict might be Revoked and the Decrees of the late Council Publisht to which the King's answer was in such general and ambiguous Terms that the Protestants could not but be
excused himself upon the Parliaments being of a contrary Advice which he had consulted about it and upon that he desired the Affair should be debated in a full and solemn Company Mean while he sent the Bishops into their Diocesses The Clergy passionately desired to send to Rome to engage the King by that means into a Negotiation with the Pope the Success of which would oblige him to change his Religion or else would deprive him of the Service of the Catholicks if he refused to turn They would also have him sometimes for the same reason to write himself to the Pope for to tye the Party the more strictly The Reformed opposed both because they dispaired of their own Safety if the King should engage in any Commerce with Rome Their Reasons for to hinder him were drawn from Considerations of State and from the Kings Reputation which would be in hazard thereby what-ever Success it should meet with because that in that Juncture of Affairs he could make no Offers to the Pope but what wou'd be a prejudice to his Dignity So that for that time they had the Advantage over the Passion of the Catholicks This was the year that the Viscount of Turene being supported by the Recommendations of the Queen of England rais'd for the King a gallant Army with the Protestant Princes of Germany with whom from that time forward his Merit got him such Ties as he kept all his Life-time This Service added to so many others that he had rendred the King a long time was the Cause that he was pick'd out to be the Man to espouse the Heiress of Sedan whom it was of the King's Interest to marry to a Man of Trust by reason of the important Places she held And it was by this Marriage that this Principality entred into the House of the Tower of Auvergne in as much as the Princess who died without Issue a little while after left it by her last Will to her Husband The King for to bind more and more to his Service this Lord made him a Marshal of France tho' the Catholicks were mad to see a Reformed rais'd to so high a Dignity This new Grandeur augmented much the Credit he had already amongst Protestants and which sometimes had appeared so great as to give some Jealousie to his Master But this Army set the Catholicks very much upon thinking they fearing least the King with these new Forces should easily conquer his Enemies and afterwards forget the Promise of getting himself instructed They therefore did their utmost to hinder it's entring into France or to disperse it after it should enter there So as that they us'd all their Endeavours to divert the Fund which was kept for the payment of these Troops But du Plessis who was the Master of this Fund because it proceeded from the Alienation of the Dominion of Navarre managed the business so well that he kept the best part on 't notwithstanding the hard and severe Letters the King sent him upon that Subject There was that same year a kind of a Pragmatick drawn by form of an Interim for the distributing and administring Benefices The Reformed were satisfied with it as with a Preparative for a general Reformation The Parliaments upheld it as profitable for the good of the State The Archbishop of Bourges did accept it because he hoped to be made a Patriarch And if all the Clergy had been ruled by this new Discipline they had easily induc'd the Pope who thereby would see that he could be dispens'd with to make the King the Offers which they would fain oblige the King to make him But the Clergy chose rather not to serve the King than to disoblige the Pope and never would consent not to depend upon Rome The following Year pass'd as the former in Military Expeditions and in Negotiations that availed nothing if we except the Reformed who always lost somewhat thereby thro' the Instances of the Catholicks for what they called the King's Conversion For that they spared neither Cabals nor Artifices They attributed all the ill Successes to his Religion whereof for the most part they were themselves the Cause because they were not willing to see things ended before the King had accomplished the Catholicks Desires They ever-more represented unto him that his Religion alone was the Pretence of the League and the third Party's Obstinacy Tho' in truth it had been better for the Ring-leaders of the League to treat with Henry IV. a Hugonot than when a Catholick for to have better Conditions from him It appear'd even in time that it was not his Religion that held them seeing after that Pretence was remov'd by his turning they grew more difficult than ever and held out the War for Four years longer The Queen of England had unthinkingly said and to some Catholicks too That the King had not done well to give the Edict of Nantes in favour of the Reformed and that that was out of season This Princess's Intention was not to blame the King for doing something for those ancient Servants of his but because she did not doubt of the King's Constancy in matter of Religion she thought he could take a more convenient time for to content them than that wherein his Favours to them were neither sufficient for to reward them nor pleasing to the Catholicks who mortally hated them But the Queens Words were wrested as if they had intimated that she did not stick at Religion and that she blamed the King for preserring it to Policy Whence it was concluded that tho' the King should change his Religion he wou'd not be a whit the less in her Favour This Craft was dangerous because it took from the King one of his chiefest Reasons to persevere in his Religion next to those of his Conscience to wit the fear of offending Foreign Protestants whose Succours were so necessary for him He fear'd likewise the alienating the Hearts of his Reformed Subjects who with the rest of the same Religion made at least the two Thirds of his Army But for to cure him of his Fears they did represent what the Character of the Reformed was Men easily satisfied provided they had Liberty of Conscience given them and such as never had blotted the Names of Kings out of their Prayers at the very time that they were persecuted by them D' O. made the best he cou'd of these only Considerations and made use of them from the very first Speech that he made to the King after the Death of King Henry III. But that which most annoyed the Reformed was a joint Discourse between du Plessis and Villeroy which indeed ended without concluding any thing by reason of the Insolent Propositions of the Heads of the League yet notwithstanding it prepared things for the changing the Kings Religion which happened the following year The Heads of the League whereof Janin was the Interpreter did not intend said he to be treated
still more by their sharp and unjust Coâ—testations which they had upon each Article of the Memorial So that the remembrance of past Cruelties and Treacheries suffered not the Reformed to rely on the goodness of Enemies whose hatred nothing could asswage Therefore they represented to the King the insufficiency of the Articles granted them but all was in vain The Council permitted not that any addition should be made to the things agreed on and the King who had reason to manage the Catholicks more then ever durst not incense 'em by giving the Reformed too much Satisfaction The Deputies of the Churches were therefore forc'd to retire as if it were to give those that sent 'em an account of their Negotiation and they carri'd into their Provinces the Articles granted without either accepting or refusing 'em as if they were to consider 'em more at large with their Brethren 'T is true the King gave them leave to call a Provincial Assemblies there to make a Report of their Deputation and to prepare them for a general Assembly which they held at St. Foy the ensuing year They also obtained leave to call a National Synod to regulate their Ecclesiastick affairs which were in some confusion But that which most favoured them was that even before the King's face and with his Approbation they renew'd at Mantes the Union of the Churches to live and to dye in the maintainance and defence of their Confession of Faith as they had already sworn at the Assemblies of Nimes Millaud Montauban and Rochelle But these former Oaths had been made under the authority of a Protector of their own Religion That of Mantes was the first they made with the â—onsent of a King that had embrac'd a contrary Communion Du Plessis put this Notion in their heads and advis'd them to let the â—ing know it They did so and the King whether in that he â—â—llow'd his own Inclinations which favour'd 'em in the main 〈…〉 that he judg'd it was not a time to disapprove it not onâ—â— permitted them to renew their Union but exhorted 'em 〈…〉 it as a thing necessary for their Preservation and said nothing 〈…〉 them that might make 'em think he believ'd their Oath was preâ—â—dicial to his Service For this clause was always inserted in the Acts 〈…〉 the Union that it was made under the Kings Obedience and without quitting the fidelity that was due to him It would have â—een difficult I grant but on t'other hand it would not have â—â—en just to oppose such an Union seeing that in effect to hinder â—â—ople from uniting themselves for their own safety when they â—â—ve formidable Enemies to deal with would be a direct Dearation that they were resolv'd to destroy 'em thereâ—â—re this Union of the Churches which has made so great a noise and which has serv'd Lewis XIII for a pretence to ruine the Reformed was in its beginning equally innocent and necessary Since natural right of self-preservation grounded the necessity of it and for that the Approdation and Exhortation of the King who authoriz'd 'em was lawful and no way to be blam'd This hinder'd not but that whilst the Deputies of the Reformed stay'd at Mantes great endeavours were us'd by the force of Intrigues to corrupt some of 'em either to sow division amongst 'em or to colour the King's Change by some new Prevarication of the Ministers Matters had been prepar'd for it by procuring the Deputation of some Provinces for such Persons as were judg'd most plyable to the Promises of the Court Rotan a famous Minister was suspected to help on these Artifices whether he was really charmed by the expectance of some Favours or that he feign'd as if he hearken'd to 'em that so he might be made a Deputy because that Commission then was of no small consequence to honour those it was given to A Conference was therefore begun to which du Perron was admitted as assur'd of Victory by the Collusion of his Adversary The dispute ran upon the sufficiency of Scripture and upon the Interpretation of the 16 verse of the 3 Chapter of the 11 Epistle of Paul to Timothy But Rotan not daring either in Honour or Conscience to be so base as he was reported to have promis'd feign'd himself sick which freed him from that trouble Beraud a Minister of Montauban took his place but the Conference was soon at an end when they saw that there was nothing to be expected from the fraud agreed upon with Rotan The Clergy sound out the means to break it without seeming to shun it and the Ministers on their part offer'd to take it up when ever occasion should offer But by reason these offers hinder'd not the Clergy to boast that they had made the Ministers give ground Berand and Rotan got the National Synod held aâ— Montauban the following year to approve what they had done aâ— the Conference Beraud perswaded Rotan to lay all upon himself and this approbation stifled mens suspicion that the latter held any fraudulent Correspondence with the Adversaries and to shew that they did not stand in fear of the Bishops the Synod nam'd one and Twenty Persons of their Body to whom they gave authority of châ—sing Twelve of their own number to continue the Conference whenever the Catholicks would re-assume it Amongst these Electors were three Foreign Ministers one from Geneva one from England and one from Holland The departure of the Deputies put an end to these dangerous Intreigues but the Reformed soon after were set upon by new Artifices And secret Orders were sent into the Provinces to hinder their Ministers from using in their Sermons too hard Expressions against the King's Change and they were forbid to call it a Revolt Thus whilst on the one hand the Suffrages of some Preachers of the League were bought off with ready Money to engage 'em to speak advantagiously of the King's Conversion in their Pulpits the same means was mostly us'd to stop the Ministers Mouths and to make 'em speak modestly concerning the same thing Hereby it was expected that the Reformed People coming to hear this Action of their Prince spoken of with so much Moderation might be the more easily inclin'd to imitate Him Moreover there arose a World of Reconcilers of Religion who looking upon the Accomodations as very proper to flatter the King's Conscience by these unworthy means aspir'd to Rewards â—nd Salaries These Reconciliations wrought upon some Ministers but that which was most surprizing was that a whole Province was taken with these illusory Projects and had the Boldness to charge their Deputies to carry a Proposal of the â—ame to the Synod of Montauban These Artifices corrupted maâ—y People and occasion'd much trouble to several wise and â—onest Men that were for preserving the advantages of Religiâ—n and the Rights of Conscience without disturbing the Peace of â—he Churches On the other hand the King's Negotiations with the Pope gave new Alarms to the Reformed who fear'd
and the same Religion The Reformed complain'd of these Articles which were granted directly to their Prejudice But the Proctors endeavour'd to excuse one part by saying that certain Expressions were added in favour of the Edicts and that they were forc'd to be contented because it would have been impossible for 'em to have obtain'd clearer or more precise Expressions to explain their meaning So that all the Security of the Protestants in respect of these Articles depended upon certain equivocal Words the Explanation or Interpretation of which was reserv'd to those who had concluded the Treaty Thus it was that they gave an Account of that same Clause of the Sixth Article touching the Publication of the Council which had been ill receiv'd by the Reformed because they could not look upon the Publication of a Council call'd on purpose to condemn 'em otherwise then as a fore-runner of their Ruine The Proctors upon this alledg'd that they could not explain that Article more at large But that the Pope knew and very well understood that the Clause not to disturb the publick Repose was added in favour of the Edict of Bearn and that he neither could nor would explain it better for fear he should be thought to approve it In like manner in reference to other Articles that seem'd to press the King too furiously to certain things more difficult in France then Rome imagin'd they affirm'd that the Pope had no design to force the King to Impossibilities but that he would always be contented with what lay in his Power Thus they oblig'd the King to whatever the Pope should please and left it to the Popes good Humour to excuse the King tho' it were impossible for him to perform the Penances which he had enjoin'd him In the mean time we may judge by the Cruelties that were committed at Rome upon those that were call'd Hereticks that they were not in the least become more equitable or more moderate toward any other People of the same Character A Fleming was burnt alive in the Field of Flora and an Englishman who had thrown the Host to the Ground and had us'd the Sacrament like an Idol was punish'd at the same rate after they had cut out his Tongue and dismember'd him of one of his hands And for fear his Punishment should be too gentle they sing'd him continually by the way with burning Torches from the Prison of the Inquisition to the place of Execution The Reformed might gather from thence what they were to expect if the Sincerity of the Edicts that were granted 'em depended upon the Inspirations that came from Rome But they had other Reasons to be afraid of every thing For they had Intelligence also from Rome that there were other Secret Conditions upon which the King was absolv'd which were spread about there whether it were an Artifice of the Spaniards to sow new Seeds of Distrust in the Minds of the Reformed or whether the Pope had demanded 'em and that the Proctors had verbally promis'd certain things which they thought not convenient to put down in Writing 'T was reported at least that the King was ty'd by those Conditions to exclude the Reformed from all Offices and Employments whatever Promises he had made to admit 'em to Preferment to marry the Princess his Sister to a Catholick Prince and to make War upon the Hereticks of his Kingdom till they were utterly extirpated And the Marriage of the Princess with the Duke of Lorrain which happen'd some years after confirm'd the Suspicions of all the rest so much the rather because she would have been courted by Princes of her own Religion if the King would have listen'd to it Certain it is that the Reformed were convinc'd that these Articles were real and that du Plessis also wrote to the King that his manner of Proceeding was imputed to his Compliance with the Popes Demands and that it was believ'd of all that was propos'd against 'em there was none but the Article that concern'd their Destruction that he ever refus'd to hearken to The End of the Third Book THE HISTORY OF THE Edict of Nantes BOOK IV. The CONTENTS of the Fourth Book The Massaker at Chataigneraye excepted by Letters Pattents out of the Acts that were to be comprehended in the Amnesties Artifices to perswade the Reformed to deliver up the Prince of Conde Interests of the Prince of Conti and Count of Soissons Duke de la Trimouille suspected by the King The Princess's Process removed to the Parliament of Paris whether Pisani carries her with the Prince her Son Precautions taken for the Princes Religion ill observ'd Justification of the Princess Deputies of the Assembly at Saumur attend the King paid with general Promises War declar'd with Spain League with the Queen of England who would needs have one Article inserted in favour of the Reformed Marshal de Bouillon opposes it Discontents of the Reformed the Effects Whence the King's Coldness proceeded Suggestions of the Catholicks The Popes Address Different Language from the King his Desires Reports of the Reformed being out of Favour the Original of it Assembly of the Clergy Edict of Travercy Edict in favour of the Duke of Mayenne Revenge of Henry the Third's Murder neglected State of the Kingdom and Project to dismember it Assembly meets at Loudun with leave New Suspicions and new Complaints Deputies sent to the Court. Resolution of the Assembly to defend themselves till a Conclusion ill taken of the King who orders the Dissolution of it Effect of this Rigour Du Plessis's wise Expedient succeeds in the Assembly is approv'd by the King who revokes the Order of Dissolution and promises a Commissioner Patïence of the Reformed Continuation of their Instances Legat in France revives their Fears Garrisons retrench'd or ill paid â—oni's Jealousies Synod at Saumur It 's Resolutions Their Letters to the King Commissioners to the King Complaints to the King Constancy of the Assembly which is translated to Vendosme Releases upon the Generality of Free Exercise Obtains by way of Compensation the Second Place of Bailliage and the right acquir'd by Possession of the Year 1596. The Edict of 1577. verify'd at Rouen The Reformed not contented with it The Pope complains and D'Ossat appeases him The Assembly discontented at the Return of the Commissioners who write to the King the necessity of satisfying ' em Reciprocal Suspicions and Distrusts Divisions in the Assembly which returns to Saumur Surprize of Amiens Confusion of Affairs Proposals of War to the Assembly Motives of de Bouillon and de la Trimouille The King at a Nonplus His various manner of writing to the Assembly before and after the Surprize Answers of the Assembly which 〈◊〉 translated to Chastelleraud more numerous then before Excuses for the Assemblies Constancy in requiring Securities Their Conduct in respect of the Siege of Amiens Various Advices Reformed serve at the Siege Actions of Bouillon and de la Trimouille Change of Commissioners The Treaty continu'd
we may enjoy what is common to all your Subjects that is much less than what you have granted to your furious Enemies your rebel Leaguers An Edict which may not constrain you to dispose of your Dominions but as you please which may not force you to exhaust your Treasure or to burthen your People with Taxes It is neither Ambition nor Avarice moves us but the Glory of God the Liberty of our Consciences the Tranquility of the State the Security of our Lives and Fortunes these are the heighth of our Desires and the only aim of all our Petitions Altho' the reformed Courtiers in a manner disowned these Complaints as I observed before yet it is certain that they could not deny the truth of the several Facts contained therein nor that there was a necessity to put a stop to so many Injustices and Violences but they imbraced the Opinion of the Court which was much offended at the Form of those Complaints and would fain have had the Reformed to wait for another time to publish them but upon the whole the generality of the Reformed spoke their Minds in that Book and it cannot be doubted but it had been viewed by the ablest Men of the Party nay it may be easily perceived by the Style that the greatest amongst them had notice of it and even given to the Subject a great part of its Form What most vexed the Court in the printing of it was their being now and then upbraided in it with bitter Reproaches of past Services which were so much the more insupportable because they were just and well-grounded that the warm Strain of this little Piece made them sensible they had to do with Men who took the thing to Heart and whose Courage was not yet lost and that in fine such a long Series of Injustices Outrages and Violences made them ashamed of their so long delaying to satisfie those who deserved at their hands a more favourable usage insomuch that the Court's dissatisfaction served only to make them resolve to handle this Affair more seriously and put an end to such an important Negotiation But before we proceed any farther it behoves us to make at least slightly some Reflections upon this Abridgment of their Complaints First They make it appear That this Business of the Reformed was no trifling Matter and that their Fears and Jealousies were but too well grounded which is the more observable that in complaints of this nature as every body knows commonly no other Facts are related but such as are most notorious and important and that a great deal more are buried in oblivion either because the Complaints thereof have not been made by the Parties concerned or that they appeared less clear or of a less moment in their circumstances Secondly These Complaints do well answer the Reproaches made to the Reformed That they followed the King too close when he was in his greatest Perplexities But this must not be wondred at since 't was at that very time they were used worst and that the Facts here mentioned except perhaps thirty were all recent and had happened either in this or the foregoing Year giving therefore just causes of Fears and Jealousies to the Reformed who were from day to day by so much the greater sufferers as the Peace and Re-union of the Catholicks was more forwarded by the reduction of the Leaguers In fine Those Complaints may serve to shew the Injustice of those Tricks used to elude the Edict in these last Years since that the Edict having been granted upon Complaints made by the Reformed of such-like Vexations it was impossible to renew them without acting directly against the intention of that irrevocable Law In the mean while the Year was spun out with tedious Delays as I observed before and though the Reformed had with a wonderful patience overcome their grief occasioned by them the minds on both sides were nevertheless grown sour and much exasperated the King himself expressed sometimes his resentment nay he would now and then let out some menacing words very pat to the purpose and he had once written to his Commissioners that it would grieve him to the very heart to come to Extremities with the Reformed whom he loved more than they loved themselves This new Language the King had been taught of late since the retaking of Amiens had a much worse effect than it was thought at Court and the Reformed who found it so different from that which was used with them when the King stood in need of their assistance and when he invited them to shed the rest of their Blood at the Siege of that place they drew I say very sad Consequences from that change which seemed to them to imply as much as if they were told that their Tranquility could never agree with the Prosperity of the State since they were cajoled only when the King's Affairs were embroiled but that when the same began to clear up they were told they must surrender at discretion that when the success of the King's Enterprises was dubious fair Promises Prayers tender and pathetick Intreaties were used to them but that when the Court was puffed up with some advantagious Success then their most just Petitions were answered with Shiftings and Menaces from whence they concluded that since new Causes of Mistrust were given them they ought also to take new Precautions against the ill Designs of their Enemies The Dukes of Bouillon and La Trimouille were the most exasperated of all because they were sensible that the Court's Threatnings chiefly aimed at them being looked upon there as the Authors of those Motions made in the Assembly contrary to what the Catholicks called the Publick Good and the King's Service but what the Reformed called the Artifices of the Council and the Oppression of their Consciences Therefore the Assembly was no less importunate than before They had sent new Deputies to Court with full Instructions which were altered as new Difficulties arose besides they seriously examined the Answers sent them by the King's Commissioners and as they had sent some Gentlemen to England and to the Vnited Provinces in order to beg the Intercession of those faithful Allies of the Crown they also expresly charged their Deputies to wait upon the Protestant Embassadors now at the Court of France and represent to them how necessary it was to satisfie the Reformed that the King might be able to give the Spaniards or the Duke of Mercoeur some considerable Blow to make them sensible that the Affairs of Religion instead of being forwarded were delay'd at Court insomuch that they knew not when the end of such a tedious Negotiation might be hoped for and to engage them by the general Interest of the Protestants to see it brought to a happy conclusion The Points left still undecided were not so little important but that they well deserved this warm pursuit The Council started new Difficulties about the Right of Exercise in respect to
doubted but of which he had given assurances to the Synod They forbad Ministers to be the first Aggressors in Disputes of Controversie It seem'd by the Measures that were taken in this Assembly to hinder the Abuse of removing Causes to the Chambres Miparties or Chambers half Protestant half Catholics that Litigious Cavils had made their advantage of their Institution But what was most remarkable of all that there pass'd is that the Brevet for 45000 Crowns for the Payment of Ministers having been given to the Churches but three years before Roni was so little â—zact in paying his brethren that there was due to 'em the Arrears of this Sum for three years Some Months after the seperation of the Synod the King Answer'd some Papers sufficiently Large that had been presented to him of which principal Articles were that the Reformed in Dauphine were Tax'd for the places of their Churches and of their Church-yards that in many places they depriv'd their poor of the General Alms and thrust their Sick out of the Hospitals that at Bourdeaux and Xaintes the Juâ—ats and Judges would have seiz'd upon the Money that was gathered for the poor at the Church-Doors that at Rouen they refus'd the Petitions presented in the Name of a Reformed Church Body or Community that at Orleans and elsewhere they tendred to the Officers at their Admission Oaths to live in the Roman Religion That at Gâ—rgeau the King's Proctor had Depos'd his substitute for the Sole Cause of Religion That at Lions the Chevalier du Guet would by Force accompany the Attendants at Funerals anâ— exacted excessive Fees and those who kept the Hospital of the Bridge of Rhone disturb'd these Funeral Attendants as much as they were able Upon all which they had all they could desire Granted 'em to Wit most severe Prohibitions against continuing to do 'em the same Injuries Nor were their two last Articles less favourably Answer'd By one of which the King was oblig'd to preserve the Churches of the Country of Gex in the same State in which he found 'em when he United it to the Crown and the other that the Reformed might Traffick in all the Duke of Savoys Dominions without fear of being disturb'd for their Consciences The King promis'd to the Inhabitants of the Country of Gex Liberty of Conscience and the exercise of their Religion as to the Rest of his Subjects This was as much as to say that he Granted 'em the Protection of his Edicts according to which the Roman Religion ought to be Re establish'd there and that for the rest things should remain there in the same condition in which they were found Because that was properly the General Rule for Executing Edicts In Effect he re-establish'd the Mass there in some time after and he sent the Baron of Lux on purpose to make this Re-establishment But he left the Reformed Churches in Possession of those Priviledges which they enjoy'd when the Country was yielded to him He refer'd the Reformed for the other Article to the Fifty third of the particulars of the Edict where what they desir'd was intirely Granted ' em At that time there was a Great business a Foot at Rome in which they would fain have engag'd the King It concern'd the Succession of England which the Pope labour'd to have settl'd in the Hands of a Catholie There was in prospect a Prince of the House of Parma and a Church man was sent over into that Island with the Title of Arch-Priest to incline the Catholics of the Country to it The King of Spain would have gotten this Crown for himself or for a Prince of his House and there were Writings dispers'd wherein the Jesuits did Impudently maintain that it was devolv'd to him The Motive of this Intrigue was Queen Elizabeths Age who in all probability 't was thought could not live long It wasnot known how she would dispose of the Suucession But it was well known that she would never leave it to a Catholic Prince And 't was fear'd that the King of Scotland her next Heir coming to the Crown might be capable of doing a great deal of hurt to the Roman Religion if he had an Affection and Zeal for the Reformed He was yet but young and as he had hitherto liv'd under a kind of Guardianship his Genius and his Inclinations were not yet known But they alter'd their measures when they knew how to hit his Humour and they carried things so far that they made use of him himself to endeavour the reducing of England to its former Obedience to the Pope But while they expected that things should come to that the King did not Rellish the Intrigue He gave his hand to the project of reducing this Kingdom to the Catholic Religion and during the rest of his Life he was the Mediator and confident of this design But he was not willing to aggrandize his Enemies by this change The other designs which he had in his Head did not require that there should be no more Protestants in Europe Chaâ—illon the Admiral 's Grandson was taken off this year by a Cannon shot in Ostend besieged by Arch-Duke Albert Never did a young Lord give greater hopes He was born for War and among the good Qualities that are necessary to a Commander he had the knack to make himself belov'd by his Souldiers whose Hearts and Confidence he had gain'd 'T is said that he had so great a Credit in thâ— Army of the Statâ—s that Prince Maurice could not forbear being Jealous Nor was he of less Authority amongst the Reformed of France who lov'd in him Virtues equal to his Fathers and Grandfathers He was continually talking of their Actions and aspir'd to no more then to imitate ' em The most Ardent of his desires was that of being like his Grandfather at the Head of the Reformed and to fight one Battle for their Interest His Merit made him lamented by the King when he heard the News of his Death But when Courtiers who always speak of the Dead or Absent what they durst not of people in a capacity of revenging themselves had drawn to the King what Picture they pleas'd of the Ambition and the Designs of this young Lord he took for a Sign of Prosperity what immediately before he look'd upon as a Subject of Grief It was in this year too that the Dauphin came into the World His Birth gave great Joy to all true French Men who by that saw all the Seeds of War suppress'd which the several pretensions to the Succession might have produc'd But that did not hinder the Spaniards from preparing all occasions of disturbance nor prevented from time to time the spreading of a Rumour that the King having promis'd Marriage to the Marchioness of Verneuil there was a doubt whither the Succession belong'd to the Children of Mary de Medicis There were some Spanish Casuists that made it a Question whether the Dispensation was fairly obtain'd In
a great promoter of that Siege and had made vast Preparations for the taking of that Place But the Marshal's submission broke all the Measures of that envious Person He deliver'd up the Castle of Sedan to the King who was to restore it to him at the end of four years but the King only took it out of Ceremony and return'd it to the Marshal almost as soon as he had delivered it into his hands This Reconciliation was made without the Duke of Sully's participation which prov'd a great Mortification to him Whether the King designedly conceal'd it from him lest he should oppose it or whether Velleroy who was the manager thereof would have the Marshal solely oblig'd to him for it at least Sully complain'd that Villeroy had sent him the King's Letter by an indirect way whereby he was desir'd to share in that Treaty insomuch that he was ignorant of the Project till after it was concluded However it is most certain that the Marshal was a necessary Person for the King's Design by reason of his credit among Foreign Protestants who plac'd an intire confidence in him and whose Friendship the King was resolv'd to preserve at any rate Therefore the Marshal was observ'd the very next day after his Reconciliation to be as far in the King's favour and Familiarity as ever he had been During these Transactions the Court continued to cause the Edict to be put in execution where it was necessary The Commissioners had re-establish'd the Mass at Rochel but that Worship had been so long interrupted there that the People being no longer accustom'd to it the renewing thereof was very much thwarted The Clergy appli'd it self to the King to obtain greater Liberties But the Court was at a great loss to Answer their Petition not daring to do it favourably for fear of occasioning some Commetion at Rochel nor harshly lest the Ecclesiasticks should thereby lose the hopes of returning thither The thing was referr'd to an Arbitration and Sully was chosen Mediator The Rochelois had some confidence in him perhaps because some among them receiv'd Pensions Some Effects of that Confidence had appear'd in the Affair of the Pancarte The demands of the Clergy were reduc'd to Six Articles Sully made them desist from the two first which related to their Houses and Revenues He obtain'd a grant for them upon the Third for leave to visit the Sick in the Hospitals and Criminals and others in the Prisons and to administer Confession and the Communion to them on condition that it should be perform'd secretly and without Pomp and he prevail'd with the Ecclesiasticks not to accompany the Criminals to the Place of Executition Upon the Fourth he perswaded the Reform'd to allow that the Ecclesiasticks should assist at Burials provided it were not in the Form of a Procession carrying the Cross on high but that they should have leave to wear their Canonical Habits in the Streets and that the People should be hindred from insulting or abusing them Upon the Fifth he advis'd the Catholicks not to pretend to Places unless call'd to them by the usual way of Suffrages but at the same time that no difficulty should be made to admit them to Arts and Trades and that the Catholick Journy-men should not be turn'd out of the City lest the Catholicks should do the same in those Places where they were the strongest Upon the Sixth By which the Catholicks desir'd a Place of Worship pretending that the Commissioners had assign'd them one he gave his Opinion for leave to build a Church there provided the Place were neither suspicious nor troublesom that in that case it would be fit to prevail with them to accept another that upon their refusal it would be proper to offer a Petition to the King to obtain a Regulation and to abstain from ways of Fact These Advices which had been agreed upon by the King and the Catholicks and which serv'd partly as a Law until the renewing of the Troubles show that the grand Maxim that was observ'd in the Execution of the Edict was to leave things in the same Condition into which the Edict had found them and to preserve to the Reform'd Religion the Priviledge of Superiority in those Places where they injoy'd it at the time of the Edict as the Roman Religion enjoy'd it in those Places out of which they had not been dispossess'd One would have thought that the King's Reconciliation with the Pope and all that he had done since to perswade that he was a sincere Catholick should have remov'd all the Scruples of the Bigots and brought back every body to their Duty However there still were some Clergy-men so much disaffected to him that they did not pray for his Person in the publick Service Moreover there were several Churches under the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Thoulouse where they made use of Mass-Books in which that Prayer was omitted and the said Books were so much in Vogue that three Impressions of it had been sold during the Wars one of Lyons another of Paris and the third of Bourdeaux The Parliament of Thoulouse was oblig'd to remedy it that year by a Decree which they gave on the Month of June whereby the use of the said Mass Book was prohibited and the Priests were commanded to mention the King in the Prayers of the Mass But an Affair of far greater consequence occasion'd a great deal more noise The Jesuits had of late imbroil'd all Europe by their Intrigues and had promoted Bloody Tragedies in Sweden Muscovy Poland Prussia and Hungary But that which they had design'd for England was far more worthy of them had the Success answer'd their hopes They had design'd to blow up the King and Parliament with Powder which they had laid to that purpose under the House where they Assemble which was to have been fir'd at the King 's coming in The said Conspiracy was discover'd upon the very point of Execution and some Jesuits who had a hand in it were punish'd High-Treason being fully prov'd against them which did not hinder their Order from placing them among the Martyrs The King's Complaisance for the Court of Rome could not hinder them from forming that horrid Conspiracy against him Altho he us'd his best endeavours to perswade the Court of Rome that he inclin'd to their Sentiments and that he express'd as much by his Publick and Private Discourses and that there was a kind of a Secret Negotiation between the Pope and him about Religion which Henry the 4th was Mediator of the Court of Rome did not confide in him whether they had no good Opinion of his steadiness or whether they thought his Complaisance was only an effect of Policy to oblige the Catholicks of his Kingdoms to remain quiet in hopes of a better Condition But he quite ruin'd his Reputation there by the Oath he exacted from the Catholicks by which he made them acknowledg that they had no dependency on any
to the King's Desire and to be pleas'd in the mean time to accept the two Deputies which were nominated to him by the Synod they were Villarnoul and Mirande Persons of great credit amongst the Reform'd and very zealous for the Publick Good Tho the Synod had positive orders to treat about nothing but what related to their Discipline it did not hinder them from examining several things relating to the advantage of their Churches which passed under the notion of the Instructions they were to give their Deputies and the Articles of their Petitions The deliverance of several Prisoners that were detained at Paris and elsewhere upon the account of Religion The pursuit of the establishment of the Churches where the free liberty of the exercise of their Religion was either hindered or contested The naturalization of the Reform'd Refugies of the Marquisate of Saluces The care of restraining the insolence of the Monks who often made seditious Enterprizes as it happened at Alencon where a Capuchine had affix'd injurious Libels and at La Roche foucault where the White-Fryars had often insulted the Reform'd The Affair of one Mascla who had a great Suit depending about his Mothers Burial which had cost him 7 or 8000 Livers Foreign Ministers who desired Letters of Naturalization The removing of Causes granted to the prejudice of the Jurisdiction of the Courts notwithstanding the Regulations that had been often promis'd upon that Subject were the main things the New Deputies took upon them Above all the exemption of the Ministers was recommended to them for which Letters Patents had already been obtained which the Court of Aids had already verify'd The Synod allow'd the Deputies of the City of Rochel to assist at their deliberation about the Affair of the Deputies and their Instructions by reason that it was a Political concern and that Rochel held the Rank of a Province in the Assemblies in which they treated of Affairs of that nature That Synod enjoy'd the same Liberty others had had in relation to Strangers They receiv'd Letters from Princes and from Protestant Universities and some Ministers either actually assisted at the Synod or were invited to it by the Churches tho no Natives of France But Rochel gave the Court some Discontents by their calling one Malwin a Scotch Minister He was a Prisoner in England upon the account of some Words or Writings he was accus'd of against King James and his Council That Prince to get rid of him granted him to the Rochelois declaring positively that he only gave him his Liberty on condition that he should depart his Territories and that he should go to exercise his Ministry in France This was a happy kind of Banishment in which Malwin would have found considerable advantage But one Primrose another Foreign Minister call'd to the Service of the Church of Bourdeaux reveal'd that Secret to the King in order the better to obtain leave to settle himself in that advantagious Post He might well be positive in the Matter since he was the person that had been employ'd to carry the Letters from Rochel to the King of England and who had brought that Prince's answer back again Thus Private Interest began to divide the Party and even the best among them suffer'd themselves to be drawn into little Infidelities against the General Cause The King found fault with two things in the proceeding of those of Rochel in the Case of Malwin First the manner because they had call'd him without the King's leave Secondly The person by reason that the man who was a Prisoner in England for an Offence against the Government was not proper for France where the disposition of Affairs did not permit to tolerate Persons of that Character and yet less at Rochel than any where else considering their inclination for Liberty which they indulg'd more than they ought to have done according to the Policy of Monarchies Sulli writ to the Rochelois to come to justify themselves in case they were accus'd wrongfully or to beg pardon if they were guilty But the Affair stop'd there without being attended with any ill consequences During these Transactions Chamier lost his time at the Court where he had been sent by the Synod to offer the King the Nomination of Villarnoul and Mirande and the Remonstrances of the Assembly upon the dependencies of that Affair He had been there above six Months and yet had not been able to obtain the honour to speak to the King His Person was dislik'd he being one of those Fools of the Synod the King had an aversion to one of those hard Sculs that nothing works upon of those hearts which neither threats or promises could move tho they are the strongest Machines of Courts Neither perhaps was he more acceptable to Cotton the Jesuit with whom he had formerly had a conference at Nimes in which both of them as it is most usual pretended to have the better of the other The truth is that the Jesuit had dazl'd the Auditors by Eloquent Digressions which made them lose every moment the Subject of the Dispute and that Chamier whose Arguments had much more solidity and Scholarship in them had reduc'd the Jesuit to save himself by that Artifice Those who have written the Life of that Jusuit say enough to show us that the sharpness of Chamier would have put that Hero to a stand had he not warded the Blow by Eloquence and Discourses wide from the purpose which he had at command But the Affairs Chamier came about were yet more disagreeable than his Person The King refus'd to accept the Nomination that had been made by the Synod because it was not according to the Form prescrib'd in the Brief The Council disapprov'd two things alike one of which was of necessity to be allow'd They were oblig'd either to receive the Deputies the Synod presented which could not be done handsomly the King having so positively declar'd that he did not like that Nomination or to allow a General Assembly as the only way to accommodate that Affair which was a thing the Council never did willingly They would perhaps have been glad to tire Chamier's patience by making him wait and so oblige him to give over his Suit but it was difficult to send him back without some satisfaction by reason that the Reform'd having no body at that time to mind their Affairs they daily grew worse La Noue and du Cros had no longer any power being discharg'd by the Synod Villarnoul and Mirande could not do it neither because the King would not accept them Thus the Complaints made by the Reform'd remain'd unanswer'd The Evils that requir'd speedy remedy receiv'd none Therefore all things rightly consider'd the Council thought it best to allow them to call an Assembly but that Permission was accompanied with such Limitations that no considerable Advantages could be expected from it The Matters they were to treat of were prescrib'd to them they had not
tho at the same time the Splendor in which he appear'd before the King did not suit with his Description of the said Desolation Besides a numerous Train of Bishops he was attended by whose Air express'd no Misery he had Five Cardinals in his Company and this pompous Deputation resembled much more an excess of worldly Prosperity than an afflicted Church over-whelm'd with great Adversities The earnestness the Clergy express'd again that time for the Publication of the Council of Trent was not well receiv'd The King answer'd with more Resolution than ever he had done and upon their alledging the Promises his Attornies had made in his Name about it he made no difficulty to disown them He complain'd of their having promised it without his knowledge and said That that Publication would be a step for others afterwards to desire the Introduction of the Inquisition He made them sensible that if Francis I. Henry II. and Charles IX who had no such Solemn Ingagements with the Reform'd as he had and had not receiv'd such Services from them had not approv'd that Counsel he had much less reason to do it for fear of renewing the Troubles of his Kingdom This comforted the Reform'd in some measure for the grief they receiv'd that year in seeing the Dauphin's Education committed to the Care of Cotton the Jesuit since they could oppose the assurances of the King 's good Will to the fear of his being succeeded one day by a Prince who being fallen in such ill hands was not likely to prove favourable to them The King put the Change agreeably upon the Clergy in another Affair That rich Body had often sollicited him to establish a Fund out of which Pensions might be taken for the Ministers that should change their Religion and whereas they had but inconsiderale Sallaries at that time the Clergy whose over-ruling Passion is Interest did not question but that in bettering the Condition of those that should change they would invite several to immitate them But the King being desirous That the said Fund should be taken out of the Pockets of the Clergy and not out of his Exchequer caus'd the Pope to write a Brief to the Clergy to desire them to raise that Fund themselves The Brief was presented to the Assembly by the Cardinal of Joyeuse They agreed to make a Fund of 30000 Livers a year out of which they should take Pensions for Ministers only and made a Rule excluding all such as had not been Ministers or Professors from those Recompences and all those who having embrac'd the Reform'd Religion since the 6th of August should return to the Catholick Church By the said Rule those who were to injoy the benefit of those Pensions were oblig'd to bring in yearly Attestations of their good Behaviour to the Agents of the Clergy the manner also of paying them the Sums that were alloted them was prescrib'd in the same This Sum was inconsiderable and yet the Clergy has never made a sufficient number of Conquests to exhaust it And some years after it they took out of the said Fund the best part of which was not us'd Sallaries for certain Laick Missionaries who troubled the Reform'd in a thousand manners and recompences for People whose Trade was to sollicit the Common People to change their Religion During those Transactions the Council of Spain persecuted the Moors whether it proceeded from the Councils own movement or from the advice Taxis had given Those Wretches offer'd to submit to the King of France if the King would take them under his Protection But that Prince not confiding in those People that are naturally false and inconstant thought fit first to send a Person among them to see what might be expected from that Overture He made choice of Panissaut for his Envoy a Gentlman of Gascony and one of the Reform'd He repair'd thither in the Habit of a Franciscan with an Obedience that was given him by the Guardian of some House of that Order He did negotiate with so much success that some considerable Advantage might have been expected by it had he been suffer'd to go on But the Bigots told the King That he inspir'd them with the Doctrine of the Reform'd which might be true and would certainly have been of great use that Doctrine removing from the Mahometans the pretences of the Aversion which the Worship of the Roman Church has inspir'd in them against Christianity Insomuch that Panissaut might have made them Christians and good Frenchmen but the Catholick Zeal thought it more reasonable that they should remain Mahometans than turn Huguenots Therefore Panissaut was recall'd and Claverie a Gentleman of the Roman Persuasion and of the same Country sent in his room but whereas he proceeded upon other Principles which the Moors did not relish his Negotiation met with no success Lesdiguieres obtain'd that year the Staff of Marshal of France His Services had sufficiently deserv'd it but it was not granted so much in regard to his Merit as to make him forget the Discontents he had receiv'd from the Court. In the mean time the Spanish Faction was not a sleep and lost no opportunities to sow Divisions in all parts to excite some Troubles in France The Royal Family was very much imbroil'd The King and Queen did not agree That Princess cross'd him continually and that which was most unaccountable she adher'd with the Spaniards whose Interests were espous'd by Five or Six Italians who serv'd her The Marriage of the Dauphin with the Infanta of Spain and that of one of the Daughters of France with the Infant had been propos'd to her as a means that would for ever secure the Succession to her Off-spring In order to draw her the sooner into that Project they exasperated her mind by black Calumnies against the King they perswaded her that he design'd to be rid of her after which the Charms of the Marchioness of Verneuiel and the Promises of Marriage the King had made her afforded reason to fear that he would raise her Children to the Throne to the prejudice of hers Those Jealousies proceeded so far that Conchini and his Wife dress'd themselves in their own Chamber what that Princess was to eat as if she had been in danger of being poyson'd Sully sometimes advis'd the King to send back those pernicious Spirits into Italy to stop the torrent of those Disorders and to send the Marchioness and her Brother into England to the end that the Queens Jealousies and her Evil Counsellors being remov'd she might be the sooner reduc'd to live peaceably with the King But that Prince neither being able to remove his Mistress nor willing to exasperate the Queen by taking her Confidents from her while her Rival still remain'd before her eyes encreas'd the Evil by his irresolution and daily gave the Queen new Causes of Quarrel On the other hand he did not relish the Marriage propos'd the Project whereof did not
of Conde that they are sued by several of those who during the Troubles have bought Temporal Estates belonging to the Church requesting that no Actions may be allow'd the Purchasers against them or any of those who by their Command have made the Contracts of the said Sales It is granted to them in his said Majesties Name that all necessary Letters Patent to discharge and indemnify them for the said Sales shall be particularly expedited for them on condition that the money shall be reimburs'd as it is specifi'd in the General Articles of the Edict XXIII His Majesty shall promise and swear to observe and maintain the Edict that shall be made upon the said General Articles and to let those of the said Religion and others that have been ingag'd in their Party injoy the benefit of the same He shall also oblige the Queen his Mother and the Duke of Anjou his Brother to promise and swear to keep and observe the said Edict XXIV The same shall be done by the King of Navar and the Prince of Conde XXV All which Promises and Oaths shall be made in writing sign'd by the Hands and seal'd with the Arms of those that shall make them the which shall be reciprocally put and deliver'd into the hands of his Majesty and of the said King of Navar or such as shall be by them deputed to receive them XXVI The said King of Navar shall be allow'd after the Conclusion of the Peace to send to the Queen of England and to Duke John Casimir to acquaint them therewith and Passes and Convoys shall be given by his Majesty to those that shall be sent thither by the King of Navar. XXVII All such of the said Religion as are still in possession of Benifices shall be oblig'd to resign them within the space of Six Months to Catholicks and those who have promises of Pensions upon the said Benefices dated before the 24th of August 1572. shall be henceforward paid for the same and the payment of the said Pensions continued and those who owe the said Pensions shall be oblig'd to pay the Arrears in case any are due provided they have actually injoy'd the Fruits of the said Benefices excepting the Arrears due in the time of the Troubles XXVIII And as for those who are not of the said Religion yet have follow'd them during the time of the Troubles they shall re-enter into the same Possession and Injoyment of their Benefices as they had before the 24th of August 1572. And those who by private Authority without order or gift from his Majesty have enjoy'd and receiv'd the Fruits of the said Benefices belonging to the abovemention'd shall be oblig'd to return it to them and to resettle them into the same XXIX Upon the Request of those of the said Religion and others who have been ingag'd in their Party to annihilate all the Bonds Notes and Promises made by them together with all Judgments given upon the same against them upon the account of the Imployments Places and Offices resign'd unto them before the last Troubles or since for which they have not been able to obtain Letters Patents by reason of the said Troubles the which said Imployments and Offices have in the mean while been granted to others they also requesting the reimbursement of the Money paid by them for the same either into his Majesty's Exchequer or to the Resigners It has been declar'd That upon their giving his Majesty an account of the particulars of the Cases in question his said Majesty will remedy the same and cause Justice to be done unto them XXX The Officers of Justice shall also decide the particular Debate and Request of the Parties about the Annihilation desir'd by those of the said Religion and others who have been ingag'd in their Party of the Leases made by them of their Estates and Inheritances since the said 24th of August in order to re-enter into the Premises returning the Fines by them receiv'd XXXI His Majesty's Officers in the City of Rochel the Mayor Sheriffs Consuls Common-Council and other Inhabitants of the said City shall be continu'd and maintain'd in their Ancient Rights and Priviledges and shall neither be prosecuted molested or troubled for their Orders Decrees Imprisonments both within and without the City the Execution of their Judgments afterwards as well upon the account of some pretended Enterprizes attempted against the said City in December 1573. as by a Ship call'd the Swallow and the Execution of the Judgments given against those that were on Board of her or for any other Acts whatever of all which they shall be absolutely discharg'd They shall have no other Governor but the Seneschal neither shall any Garison be put into the said City and Government Neither shall any be put into the Cities and Places belonging to the Government of Languedoc except such as had Garisons in the time of the late King Henry XXXII His Majesty shall confirm the Declaration granted by the late King to the Inhabitants of Pamiers professing the said Religion for the Annihilation of the Decrees given for some Excesses committed in the said City in the Month of June 1566. and the said Declaration shall be presented to that end to his said Majesty XXXIII The keeping of Eight hundred men to be paid by his said Majesty has been granted to the said King of Navar and others of the said Religion to put into the Cities that are allow'd them for their safety in which his said Majesty shall not be allow'd to put any Governor or other Garison And he shall also Charge the Governors and Lieutenant-Generals of his Provinces that whenever they shall pass through the same to visit them they shall avoid all occasion of dispute with those of the said Religion XXXIV The said King of Navarre shall present unto his said Majesty those he shall design to employ for the guarding of the said Cities the which shall be employ'd there accordingly by him And in case any of the said persons so employ'd should behave themselves insolently there and abuse their said Office not observing the said Edict of Pacification the said King of Navarre shall be obliged to turn them out and to present others to his said Majesty to be put in their place XXXV The City of St. John d' Angeli shall be left to the Prince of Condé for his Abode during the Time and Term of Six Years until he may effectually enjoy his Government of Picardy in which his Majesty will have him continued XXXVI The said Prince shall promise unto his said Majesty well and faithfully to keep the said City of St. John and at the end of the time abovesaid the same to redeliver together with the Castle into the hands of the person deputed by his Majesty to that end in the same condition it now is without any innovation or alteration and without the least delay or difficulty upon any account whatever Moreover it is his Majesty's Will and Pleasure
in some other adjacent Countries as by their Canons and Ecclesiastical Laws they are appointed and as by the Supreme Power of the Right Honourable the Senate of Zurick they are authorized with the Orders of that Church Published with the Approbation of several Bishops Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE TO THE First Volume A. ABsolution of the King the pope rigorous Pag. 136. desir'd by the King 166. the Pope's high pretensions 167 Accommodation of Religion propos'd 10 Alva Duke of his bloody advice 38 Alenson Duke of Protector of the Reformed 44. he retires from Court 45 Alliance with Spain Sentiments thereupon 440 Amboise the Enterprize what it was 23 359 Amience 139. surpriz'd 224. and the effects of it 235 d'Amours Chaplain to Henry IV. 74 Amiral de Chastillon in great favor with the Queen 32. accus'd for the death of Guise 34. impeacht for the same 36. attackt by Calumnies 38. reconcil'd with the Guises 39 he re-establishes his Party 40. the Catholics resolve to destroy him by treachery 40. wounded 42 d'Andelot his Courage 18. dies 40 St. André President signal for his Cruelties 21. assassinated Pag. 22 Annexes their anciént use 38. what they are 306 Antichrist the Pope so call'd by du Plessis 309. the Question about Antichrist discuss'd in the Synod of Gap 455. so inserted in the Confession of Faith 457. Question renewed about Antichrist 427 Appeals of the Orders 423 Armand Jesuite order'd to come to Paris 454 Army the King's disbands of it self 60 Artifices of the Queen dazle the Admiral 32 39. incredible Artifices of the Court 41. of the Catholics to gain the King 106. continued to shake the King's Conscience 112. Artifices to hinder the Deputies from seeing the King 129. and to hinder him from satisfying 'em 131. of the Court to corrupt the Ministers 134. to per suade the Reformed to deliver up the Prince of Conde 176. Artifices of the Court to gain the Reformed 303. Artifices of Perron against du Plessis 405. Artifices of the Catholics to incense the King against the Reformed 443. to hinder the Ecclesiastics from changing their Religion 414 to renew the Civil War Pag. 440 Assembly at Melun 72. at Gergeau 433. at Milhau 44. at St. Foy 133 145 157. permitted by the King 424. at Loudun 205. commanded to separate 209. the Effects of it 210 211. remov'd to Vendosme 218. returns to Saumur 224 Assembly General at Saumur 162 164 c. remov'd to Chastelleraud 230 again assembled 423 Assembly another permitted at St. Foy 133. A General Assembly at St. Foy 434. Complaints there made 436 c. which remain'd a long time in the hands of the Council 442 Assembly General at Chastelleraud 230. they beg the Intercession of England and the United Provinces 239. alarm'd by the King's march into Britany 268. Complaints of the alterations made in the Edict 238. particular Complaints exhibited 340 Assembly General at Chastelleraud 477. redoubles the Suspicions of the Court 482. Affairs to be there handl'd ib. suffers Bouillon's places to be taken from him 411 Assemblies Politic du Plessis Sentiments of 'em 78 456 410 Assemblies at Paris 17 16 Assemblies of the Clergy at Paris 436. at Mantes 79. at Chartres 102. favors the third Party 103 412 Aubespine Inventer of the Gag his lamentable death 15 Aubigne 411 B. BAilliage second place in the Balliage allow'd for free exercise Pag. 219. places of Bailliage freed from being places of exercise 421. a second place in each Bayliwick no new thing 275. the second place deny'd 452 Baptism forc'd 254 Bar Dutchess of Vide Madame Battel of Dreux 34. Moncontour 40. Arques 61. Courtras 50. Yvri 74. of which they lose the fruit St. Quintin 16 Battus the Fraternity of 'em 441 Bearn a Revolution there 35. they introduce the Reformed Religion into the Country of Gex 415 Bellujon 409 Beraud a famous Minister and one of the Deputies of the Assembly at Chatelleraud 326 Berquin Lewis 9. Bettier's warmth 323. rebuk'd by the King 324 Beza accus'd for the death of Guise 34. call'd Father by the King 415 Biron Marshal 76 432. he demands the Soveraignty of Perigord 55. concern'd in Conspiracies 432. his death 444 Bishops of France favour the Reformation 8 Book setting forth the Grievances of the Reformed 243 c. Reflections upon this Book 264. a Book found at la Fleche 444 Books sought for in Booksellers houses 252 437 Bordes a Monk accus'd of Assassination 443 Bonillon Duke of his Character 143. 145. presses the War ' against Spain 181. sent to Queen Elizabeth ibid. opposes the Queen of Englands Mediation ibid. he will not trust the Kings generosity 200. Duke of Bouillon 226. raises Souldiers for the King 234. exasperated 265. His Disgrace 444. His intreagues against the Court 481. his Places taken from him 411. he makes his Peace 516. King afraid the Protestants would take him for their Protector 477 Bourbon Antony King of Navarr his Inconstancy 31. dyes of a wound 34 du Bourg a Counsellor of Parliament condemned to be Burnt 22. Breaches of the Edict 452 Brevet for keeping the Hostage Cities 411. Brevet brought to the King for the nomination of Deputies 429. Breef from the Pope to the Clergy presented by Cardinal Joyeuse 437. Brevet for 45000 Crowns for payment of Ministers 528. for the Reformed to continue their places four years longer 411. another of the same day for a year more ibid. Brisonet his Inconstancy 8. Brochard Baron 432. 433. Bull of Gregory XV. 79 Bulls obtain'd to support the War against the Hereticks 40 Burying places rigorous upon 'em in reference to the Reformed 111. Difficulties concerning 'em 277. the affair of Burying places refer'd to Commissioners 345. 421. C. CAball of which the Reformed are rendred suspected 200 Cabrieres Affairs there 14 Caheirs or Papers delivered in by the Reformed 340. answered 342. answer'd 428. presented to the King 434. answered 435. much larger at Sre Foy 436. full of complaints ibid. and 437. c. Calumnies cast upon the Reformed 355. Calumny against Rochel refuted 455. Calvin 11 du Frene Canaye 404 Capuchin his Tricks upon the Birth of the Dauphin 431 Capuchins conspire against the Life of Hen IV. 314. a Mission of Capuchins sent into Piemont by the Duke of Savoy 314 Cardinal de Chatillon marrys and despises the Popes Censures 35. his end ibid. the Process of his Widow c. 478. de Joyeuse 206. justifies the King to the Pope 333 de Soudis 438 of Vendome 100 Casaubon 404 Catherine de Medicis vid. Katherine Catholics their persidiousness at Court 46. Catholick Nobles 56. Catholick Lords their various affections 59. Catholick Royalists their different dispositions to a Peace in Religion 69. their Infidelity 71. their Passion 76. their Affronts put upon the Reformed 128. their suggestions to the King 183 Cavils of the Proctor General 161 Cayer a famous Minister 113. Chambers Burning 21 Chambers supprest 18 Chambers half one half
Factions raigning in the League Kings party 69. Factions new in France 481 New Factions in France 481 Ferrier a famous Minister 455 456. his Character ibid. teaches the Pope to be Antichrist 455 Fevre a Protestant Minister 8 Fleche the Quibble about it concerning the King's heart 425 Formularie refus'd by the King 119. another sent in the King's Name to the Pope 120 Foreigners call'd into France 34. and the English let into Havre de Grace ibid. Foreign Ministers admitted into the City of Rochel 431 Francis I. enclin'd to favour the Reformation 9. enrag'd against the Protestants 12. refuses to read Calvin's Dedication 11. publishes an Edict against the Lutherans 12. his death 13 Francis II. 20. the state of the Court in his time ibid. his sudden death 28 G. GAbriela d'Estrees Henry IV's Mistress 166 Gagg invented 15 Garisons of the Reformed retrench'd 213. the Consequences 214 286 287. the payment of 'em 290. Garisons or places which the Reformed had in their keeping 298. lost by the Reformed 4â—5 Geneva the Ministers of Geneva pay their Respects to Henry IV. 414. the King's Civility to the City 415 Gex state of the Country of Gex 415 416. the Country of Gex solicits the confirmation of their Regulations c. 477 Gigord a Minister of some Repute scandalized by Cotton 435 Giraud a Counsellor of Tholouse accus'd of Assassination 443 Gonzier a Jesuit his impudent Preaching before the King 442 Governors of places reformed upon the Frontiers of Italy 416 Gratification 371 Gratifications and Promises 412 Guise Duke of his resentment against the Admiral 34. kill'd at the Siege of Orleance ib. Guise Duke of the Son his boldness 49 50 51. forces the King from Paris 50. his death and that of the Cardinals 51 H. HArangues of the Clergy 321. their Character ibid. their common stile 412 Harangue of the Reformed Deputies at Folembray 201. Harangues of the Deputies 321 Havre de Grace retaken from the English 36 Henry VIII of England 9 Henry II. of France persecutes the Protestants 13. protests against removal of the Council back to Trent 13. his death 19 Henry of Valois elected King of Poland He returns into France 44. he makes peace with the King of Navarre 46. he renews the War against the King of Navarre 49. he swears a second time to the Edict of Vnion 51. extremity of his affairs ibid. he makes a Truce with the Reformed 52. lays Siege to Paris ib. assassin'd ibid. Henry of Bourbon King of Navarre runs a great Riseo 42. he retires from Court and his good Omen 45. he disclaims what he had done for fear of death He receives the Addresses of the States 47. he upbraids Henry III. 49. his Appeal against Sixtus Quintus ibid. meets with great difficulties 54. his uncertainty 58. his resolutions upon the Conditions propos'd by the Catholics 59. offended at the Proposals for another Protector 66. he writes a Letter with his own hand upon the same Subject 67. his dissimulation 115. his conversion 119. wounded in the mouth by Chastell 156. his Sentiments of the Assemblies 158. his Proctors unfaithful 169. Articles of Penitence 170. complain'd of by the Reformed 171. his coldness to the Reformed 183. his Wishes 186. his Perplexities and Distress 226 227. he alters his Language to the Reformed upon the taking of Amience 265. his remarkable words 322. Another remarkable Saying of his 326. his Expedition into Savoy 414. he calls Beza Father 415. his Civilities to Geneva ibid. his exchange for the Marquisate of Saluces ibid. his favourable and equitable mind toward the Reformed 442. his Severity to the City of Rochel 445. offended about the business of Antichrist 458. he strives to hinder the Article about Antichrist but cannot 459. he answers the Papers of the Reformed favourably 476. he talks openly of making War against Marshal de Bouillon 482. he deals doubly with the Jesuits 424. he refuses the Nomination of Deputies 433. his domestic vexations 439. his formidable power 448. his designs in his latter end conjectur'd at 449. he causes the Queen to be crown'd 450. his mild Answers to the Reformed 476. assassinated ibid. Huguenots the derivatiâ—â—â—f the word 25. I. JAmes Stuart King of Scotland his weakness 449. he would not suffer mourning for Queen Elizabeth 450. his Character 451. his Book of the Power of Kings ibid. Jane Queen of Navarre Conspiracy against her 37. dyes poyson'd 42 Jannin advises the King of the third Party 103 Jannin Minister of State his discourse about Liberty of Conscience 444 Jesuits setled at Paris 30. they creep into favour 140. their establishment sollicited 313. their boldness and credit ibid. Reasons why the King favor'd 'em 315 Jesuits recall'd into France 453. the Conditions of their Reâ—oration 462. Satyrs against it 463. they advance their Affairs in France 417. solicit the King that his heart may be bury'd at la Fleche 425. their power settl'd in Bearn 441. favour'd highly in France 481. the chief of the Council devoted to 'em and fear'd by the King 425 Images abominable Superstitions toward 'em 21 Infidelities 31 45 48 252 418 452. Injuries 214 248. unpunish'd 436 Injustices 31. 36 37 119 140 175 200 c. 256. Inquisition attempt to bring it into France 27 Inscriptions prejudicial to the Huguenots 476 Instructions of the King the different prospect of 'em 108. vain Ceremonies of 'em 117. of the Prectors contrary 168. new ones given by the King to his Commissioners 238 Interests various at Court 18. political to shake the Kings Conscience 112 Interests of the Prince of Conti and Count of Soisons 177 Intreagues strangely carry'd on in France 235. of Spain in the Court of France 469 Jurisdiction of the Party Chambers encroach'd upon 443 Seigneural Jurisdiction damanded in Episcopal Cities 437 Justice deny'd ibid. K. KAtherine de Medicis 17 20. her double dealing 29 Kings may treat with their Subjects 384 L. LEague Triple between the Pope King of Spain and Guises against the Protestants 33. at Tholouse against the Protestants 36. Guisian League 46 Leagues against the Reformed 442 Leguers boldness 50 Legat in France renews the fears of the Reformed 213 Lesdiguieres his Character 143. his letter to the Assembly of Saumur 227. his Religion 308. recommends Cotten the Jesuit to the King 454. enters into the Vnion of Nantes 413. made a Marshall of France 438. his Fears 470 Letter of St. Germans to the D. of Bouillon 402. of du Plessis to the the King 125 Letters from Q. Elizabeth in behalf of the D. of Bouillon 445. from the Synod of Rochel to the D. of Rohan 429 Liberty of Habitation denyed the Reformed 256 Lorrain Cardinal of his Inconstancy 31. he goes to the Council of Trent 34 M. MAdam the Kings Sister her Marriage sollicited 315. her Constancy 316. the King severe to her 317. the Pope's scruples upon the Match ibid. marry'd without a dispensation 318. advantages the Reformed got by her perseverance 320 her Death 468 Malwin a Foraign Minister called
to Rochel 431 Marriage of Hen. IV. the dissolution of it carry'd on 349. c Of Cardinal de Chatillon 35 Of Ecclesiasticks Marie Brosiere 346 Marie Stuart Q. of France and Scotland 20 Marsac Lewis Martyr'd 15 Mass re-establishd in the Country of Gex 419 Massacre at Vassi 32. at Sens 34. of St. Bartholomew 42. at Chastaigneray 175 Maxim of the Catholick Court 71. of the French Court 71 Mayenne Duke of escapes and relieves the Leaguers 51. pursues the King 61. his Justice 324 Meaux and other Towns reduc'd 138 Melancton invited into France 9. Mercoeur Duke of his pretentions 155. he Treats with the Reformed 237 Merindal vid. Cabrieres Metz. Ministers Protestant 113 Ministers excluded from the general Deputation Ministers of Geneva 414 Ministers Foraign 431 Mirande 433. 436 Mission Dragoons 314 Mistrusts from the Kings change 122 Montgomerie his Death 44 Monks hate the King 313 embrace the Reformed Religion 414 Montmorancy Constable huddles up a Peace at Cateau 18. his Death 39 Montholon his Sentiments of Religion 70 Morvillier Bishop of Orleans 45 Moors hardly us'd in Spain 446 Mouchards 21 Moulin a famous Minister 316 N. KIng of Navar vid. Antony K. of Navar Negotiations three Important ones with the Pope 311. c. Nobility Catholick their various Affections 59 de la Nove Fracis 72. 429 433. 409 Nuncio Popes 99 O. D'O Marquis of his character 56. his saying 141. 147 Occasion of this History 5 Oath requir'd of the Reformed Oath of Vnion renew'd 124. Precautions against the Order of the Holy Ghost and of the Coronation 132. of the Consecration 139. difference touching an Oath referr'd by a Reformed to a Catholick 350. exacted from the Catholicks of England 419 Observations General upon the Edict of Nantes 354 Orange Prince of assassin'd 48 Government of Orange tak'n from Blasons 404 d'Ossat his Testimony of the Reformed 157. Commissioner for the Kings Absolution 167. appeases the Pope 220. he justifies the King to the Pope 333. d'Ossat 434 Outragious Affront committid against the Consecrated Host 414 P. PAncarte what 445 Parabere a Reformed Lord 406 Parliament of Paris Counsellers of it suspected for their Religion 19 Parliament of Paris joyns with the Clergy to oppose the verification of the Edict 224. disgusted at throwing down the Pyramid 401 Parliament of Aix 250 Of Bourdeaux 249. 257 Of Bretagne 350 Of Grenoble 439 Parliaments their Rigour 438 of Tholouse 418 of Tholose and Bourdeaux 437. they uphold the Jesuits 313. of Tours 79. 102 Patriarch threatned to be created in France 155 Peace at Amboise 34. at Chartres 39. Peace with the Reformed a third time 43. Peace as soon broke as made 46. Peace for five years such as it was 48 Peace propos'd between the two Crowns Peace of Religion a new project of Peace for the Protestants 75 Du Perron Author of the 3d. Party 102. ambitious and unfaithful 103 Perron 113. Bishop of Eureux ibid. Commessioner for the Kings absolution 167. accepts du Plessis challenge 397. his foul play to Plessis 399. juggles with Plessis 405. his advantages over du Plessis 407 Progress of his fortune 469. a Cardinals Hat procured for him ibid. Petition particular from the Province of Normandy 425 Petitions of the Reformed favourably receiv'd by the King 421. Petitions answered 441 Philip II. K. of Spain 21 Piles one of the Valiantest of the Protestant Army 111 Placards 11 Places belonging to the Reformed disputed 401 Platform and Design of this History 5 du Plessis Mornai his saying to H. IV. 75 du Plessis Mornai 76 77. his â—â—sire in the Kings behalf 119. his Character 145. he procures the sitting of the Assembly at Saumur 162. useful to the King 224. Presides at Saumur 230 he writes the King a long Letter concerning his change 125. he writes a Treatise of the Eucharist 309. consequences of it ibid. c. it makes a great noise 394. Mortifi'd by the King for writing it 395 he challenges his Accusers 397. fowl play shewd him 399 a snare laid for him 401. more fowl play offer'd him 403. condemn'd in nine Passages 407. he falls sick 409 Politicks a Faction in France their nicknames given 'em by the Synod of Rochel 428 Pope Gregory XIV his Bull of Excommunication 79 The Pope makes overtures of Reconciliation with the King 157. his cunning dealing with the King 185. complains of the verification of the Edict 15 77 200. Poor to participate without distinction of the benefit of Hospitals and Alms 423 Powder Plot 418 Power Arbitrary a Project against it 23 Pragmatic 106 du Prat Cardinal 11 Prayers for the King order'd by the National Synod 146 Preachers seditious 436 476 Precedency disputed by the Parliament of Tholouse 340 Priests refuse to pray for the King 418 Preparations for the King's change 116 Primrose a Foreign Minister 432 Princes of the Blood their Characters and Interests 55 Processions 12 Project of an Edict 130. not had by the Reformed 133 Protector 61 145 Psalms sung publicly 17. prohibited and the Psalm-Book burnt by the Hangman 252 Publication of the Council of Trent 336 337. resolutely deny'd by the King 437 Pyramid erected 156. thrown down 480 Q. Quarters see Annexes R. REflections general and particular upon the Conference of du Plessis c. 408 Reflections upon the Complaints of the Reformed 354 Reformation Interests that oppos'd it 4 5. the beginning causes and progress of it 7. the entrance of it into France ibid. received at Meaux and Bearn 8. Progrss of it in Germany 9. progress of it 19 Reformed not long quiet in France 37. New occasions of Jealousie 38. progress of their Churches 48. they enter into a third War 40. their hopes of Henry III. 54. Reformed their interests after the death of Henry of Valois 56. and their Suspicions 57. flatter themselves about the King's instruction 59. they propose chusing a new Protector 61. what they understood by Protector 63. their jealousies and the grounds of them 65. their dispositions in regard to a peace 72. reasonableness of their demands 76. excluded from employments 110. afraid of the King's reconciliation with the Pope 137. Acts of Injustice done 'em 140 c. declar'd capable of offices 160. testimony concerning their past and present services 168 Reformed why accus'd not to love Monarchy 23. reported to be quite out of Favour with the King and why 200. new Suspicions and Subjects of Complaint 206. their patience 212. a a continuation of their requests 213. the Reformed excus'd 231. they serve the King before Amience 233. put off with new delays 265. they forbear insisting upon several Articles of the Edict 326. in a condition to treat with the King 386. their negligence and their prejudices 418. particular complaints by them made 441. they desire they may not give themselves the name of pretended Reformed 461. a Boon granted to the Reformed 419. strive to discover the designs of the Cabal 475. they fear the King gives too much way to the
Jesuits ibid. disgusted at pulling down the Pyramid 480 Refugees 431 Reiters defeated 50 Religion what sort of variety in Religion Policy ought not to tolerate 367. Religion reformed the nature of it 368 Rights of Conscience 377 Rights Seigniral in Mannors encroach'd upon 443 Rigors of the Catholics as to the burying of the Protestants 111 Rochel besieged 43 Rohan Duke of the Foundations of his Fortune laid 453. displeas'd by the Court 480 Rome Court of the Ignorance of it in Religion 136. laughs at the misfortunes of France ibid. the designs of it upon England 429 Roni his jealousies 214. his advancement discontents the Court 344. his dignities 345. Roni 431. receiv'd into Rochel 445. made Governor of Poictou 450. sent into England ib. sent the King's Commissioner to the Assembly at Chastelleraud 403. his Instructions 403 c. his Speech to the Assembly 407. he excuses the Consequences of the Vnion of Nantes 410. he obtains other advantages of the Assembly of Chastelleraud 412. congratulated for his Negotiation by Perron in the Pope's name 413. his Ambition very singular ibid. made Duke and Peer of France 415. he abuses his Authority without Fear or Wit 444 des Rosieres his Inconstancy 43 Rotan a suspected Minister 113 Roussel a Protestant Minister 8 S. SAvoy Duke of his persecution in Piedmont 314. and in the Marquisate of Saluces ibid. his Character 434. his continual Attempts upon Geneva 465 Scaliger Joseph 460 Schism in England 9 Schombergh Count Commissioner to the Assembly of Saumur 227 228. he treats with the Assembly 236 Sedan besieg'd 416 Sedition at Paris 31. at Rochel 445 428 Seditious terms complained of by the Reformed 476 Seguiran Jesuit his attempt to preach at Rochel 424 Sepultures disputes about 'em 340 Sieges of Rochel and Sancerre 43 Siege of Paris 74. reliev'd 75 Soissons Count 159 470 Sorbonne lets flie against the King 73 Soveraigns their chief obligation the preservation of their Subjects 379. may treat with their Subjects 384 Spaninards press the Destruction of all the Reformed in Spain 446. with a prospect to divert the Kings Forces by a Civil War 447 State of the Forces of the Leaguers and the Kings Party 68 State of France 204 States General demanded 45. conclude to destroy the Protestants 46 St. Germans Letter to the D. of Bouil lon 402 St. Marie du Mont charges du Plessis with false Accusations 396 Subjects their Preservation the chief Obligation of Soveraigns 379 Succession of England 429 Successors bound to observe the Treaties of their Predecessors 396 Sulli Rom's Title after his new Dignity 416. chosen Mediator between the Rochelois and the Clergy 416. 417. blam'd by Cotton the Jesuit 425. suspected by the Reformed 434. and why ibid. Superstition to extremity 21 Synod at Paris 11. at Bourges 10 Synod first Protestant National at Paris 429. National at Rochel held by the Protestants 41 Synod at Rochel 426. renew the Question about Antichrist 429. Affairs treated on there 431. breaks up and sends respectful Letters to the K. 436 Synod of St. Foy 47 at St. Maxiant 442. treats of the business of Antichrist ibid. At Saumur 215 Synods at Gap 455. Question about Antichrist their discust ibid. other matters of the same Synod 461. at Montauban 146. c. at Monpelier 304 Synod at Rochel 426 Synod of Gnap justifies Antichrist to be Antichrist 456. they admit forraign Ministers and receive Letters from the Palatinate c. 461 T. TAxis the Spanish Embassadors 446 447. 448. Third Party and its designs 102 de Thou President 226 227 234 235 299 Tithes confirm'd to the Roman Clergy 35 Toledo Cardinal 136 Tournon Cardinal opposes Melanchton's comming into France 9. he signalizes his Zeal against the Reformation 10 remov'd from the Government 14 Treatise of the Eucharist 309 Treaty's to the prejudice of the Reformed 138 Treaty express or Tacit between Master and slave Soveraign and Subject 380 Treaty with the Rochellois 216. with the Moors persecuted in Spain 438 Trent the Council there 12 13 translated to Bologna but remov'd back to Trent 13. remov d a third time by Pius IV. 34. and end put to it 36 Trimoville Claudius Allies himself with the Prince of Conde 50 Trimoville 143 144. suspected by the King 178. stands upon his Guard 200. his motives for War 226. raises Souldiers for the King 234 exasperated 265. Trimoville incurs the Kings hatred but the esteem of his party 299. made a Peer of France 351. his Genius 477. his death 478. his Death 478 Trissvirat the rise of it 29 Truce for six Months granted the Reformed 45. Truce with the League to the Kings prejudice 137 Turenne raises a Foraign Army 105. Marrys the Heiress of Sedan ibid. made Marshall of France ibid. V. VAlentinois Dutches exasperates the K. against the Protestants 13 La Varenne 123. a principal Prop of the Jesuits 454 Vernueil Marquis 470 Marchioness of Vernueil 439 Marchioness of Vernueil brought to Justice 470 Vignier his Book called the Theatre of Antichrist 442 Villarnoul 433 436 Villeroi suppos'd to be a Pensioner to the D. of Guise 49 Villeroi gives the King advice of the Third Party 103 Villeroi his Conferrence with du Plessis fruitless 107. Caballs against Roni 344. suspected to correspond with Spain 469. Suspected to be of the Spanish Caballs 469 471. Treason of one of his Officers 471 Violences against the Reformed 429 437 244 248 Union of the Reformed renew'd with the Kings approbation 133. Vnion of Nantes renewed 410 Vulson sent to Court 208 W. WAr every where in France 43 Wars about Religion most cruel 366 War with Savoy and the success of it 414 415 Writings about the point for taking up Arms for Religion 73 Y. YEar of Placarts and Libells 11 A TABLE Of the Edicts which serve as Proofs to the Part of this History THe Edict of Charles IX upon the most proper means to appease the Troubles and Seditions arising upon matters of Religion Jan. 1567. 457 Edict of Charles IX of the year â—57 about the Pacification of the Troubles in the Kingdom 466 The Kings Declaration and Interpretation of some words and Articles VI. and VII continued in the present Edict of Jan. 17. 1561. 462 Edict of Pacification made by Hen. III. for putting an end to the Troubles of his Kingdom and to the end that all his Subjects from that time forward might live in Peace Vnion and Concord under his Obedience Read and publish'd in the Court of Parliament Octob. 8. 1577. 477 Private Articles of Septemb. 17. 1577. The Articles of the Conference at Nerac between the Queen Mother and the K. of Navar and the Deputies of the pretended Reformed Religion 594 The Kings Edict upon the Pacification of the Troubles containing Confirmation Amplification and Declaration as well as of the proceeding Edicts upon the said matter in the Year 1577 as of the Articles agreed upon at the Conference at Nerac publish'd at Paris in Parliament Jan. 26. 1579. 515 The Kings Edict upon the
his side 〈…〉 make a show of his Power and to render himself considerable to the United Princes He prevail'd with the Provincial Council of the Lower Guyenne to Conveâ—… an Assembley at Tonneins of three Deputys of every oâ—… of the other Councils and the Letters of it were dispatch'd towards the end of March The day on whiâ—… they appointed the Assembly to meet was the same tâ—… had been taken to hold a National Synod in the same Plaâ—… Insomuch that had those two Assemblys concurr'd in 〈…〉 same Resolutions it might be said that the Reform'd 〈…〉 never taken such general ones We will observe 〈…〉 where why it did not succeed I will only say that 〈…〉 Princes only making use of the Duke de Rohan's goâ—… Will to render themselves the more formidable to 〈…〉 Queen they concluded a Peace in the presence of â—…tefontane his Envoy to whom they daily gave a thousaâ—… Assurances that they had no thoughts of it The Sumâ—… of Money that were offer'd them made their Swoâ—… drop out of their Hands They obtain'd the usual 〈…〉 of Grace and the greatest thing they got was a promâ—… to Assemble the Estates Amboise was delivered up 〈…〉 the Prince of Conde as a Place of Surety The other profited by it according to their Quality The oâ—… Duke of Rohan paid the Scot and got nothing but tâ—… Queens Indignation by it The Duke de Vendome held â—ut longer than the rest and the Queen was foro'd to â—o into Bretagne to reduce him to Reason This Treaty being concluded at Ste. Menehould on the â— 5th of May was forth with put in Execution but the Peace which was but just concluded had like to have been broken by an affront the Prince of Conde receiv'd at Poiâ—…ers He was disatisfy'd with the Bishop to whom he â—nt some smart Letters by a Gentleman of his Retinue The said Gentleman was ill us'd by the consent and perhaps at the Instigations of the Bishop The Prince being inform'd therewith in a Journey of which no body knew the Secret resolv'd inconsiderately to go to Poitiers to revenge that affront Whereas he was only Arm'd with his Quality at that time and not very well attended â—e was not much in a Condition to be fear'd and therefore the Inhabitants shut their Gates against him and refus'd him Enterance This seem'd to be done by the Bishop's Credit but it was thought that he had receiv'd secret orders from the Queen about it Moreover some Persons some which were Ingag'd in the Princes Interests were turn'd out of the City whereupon he did whatever lay in his Power to Assemble his Friends and to lay a kind of Siege before that Insolent City But he could hardly Assemble Men enough to annoy the Inhabitants a little whom he hindered from going to and fro by keeping of some Passages He neither had time enough nor means to renew his Correspondence which the Peace had broken and the Queen being gone from Paris with her Forces the fear of her marching against him oblig'd him to remove from before Poitiers He was forc'd to submit that affair to Justice and to suffer Commissioners to be nominated to examine it and the Bishop was sent for to Court as it were to be reprimanded for his proceedings It was not so much to punish him as to put him in safety and the Queen having brought the King to Poitiers improv'd that occasion to put her Creatures in the Chief Imployments there in order to secure that City to herself The Reform'd resolv'd in that Progress to show the King that he was as much Master of the places of Surety as of all the other Cities of his Kingdom He was received with his Forces in all those where he came Moreover he was invited to come through such as he seemd to avoid on purpose left it might create some jealousie Soon after the Treaty of the Princes the Reform'd held a National Synod at Tonneins Several affairs were handled in it which neither related to their Doctrine nor Discipline They receiv'd Letters from the King of England who embrac'd all occasions to concern himself with Divinity as much as he neglected to mind the general affairs of Europe The Subject of his Letters was a dispute between Tilenus and du Moulin who accus'd each other of Error about the Mistery of the hypostatick Union Besides Tilenus had Sentiments that were not very Orthodox about the concurrence of Grace with humane Will The Marshal de Bouillon who did esteem him and who had call'd him to Sedan to give a reputation to the College he had founded there declared himself publickly his Protector which gave a great deal of discontent to the Churches That affair occasioned several Conferrences after which Tilenus was finally abandon'd and left the Churches of France in quiet untill he took upon him to write against the Assembly of Rochel during the Civil Wars As soon as the Synod received the King of England s Letter they resolv'd to open it but before they read it they resolv'd lest their keeping a correspondence with a foreign Prince might offend the Court to send a Copy of it to Rouvray one of the Deputies General who remain'd with the King while la Miletierre was come to Tonneins to the end he should show it to the Ministers incase it should create any jealousie in them and they protested at the same time that incase the said Letter did mention any thing but what related to Religion they would not treat about it without express leave from the King It was a medium which seemed to reconcile the divers pretentions of the Court and of the Synod The Court would not allow the Reform'd to keep any Communication â—ith Foreigners and the Synod thought that they ought to â—ave the freedom of that Correspondence in things which â—…lated to their Doctrine Therefore they thought that â—…ey should satisfie the Court by keeping within those bounds â—…d by tying their own hands in affairs of another â—ature The Council of the Lower Guyenne was oblig'd to give â—…e Synod an account of the Convocation they had made which I have spoken of That way of proceeding was not â—…proved of every where because it exceeded the bounds 〈…〉 the regulation made at Saumur That the Province had â—…t a sufficient grievance to have recourse to that remedy That even in that case it would have been sufficient to invite the Deputies of five adjacent Provinces and â—…ally That since a General Assembly was expected which â—…e Deputies General endeavour'd to obtain leave for the â—…d Convocation could not be look'd upon as necessary They â—…ledg'd reasons for it which freed them from a Censure The Church of Pujols in the precinct of the Assembly of Agen â—hich is part of that Province had refus'd to submit to â—…e resolutions of that Council Complaints were made â—f it in the said Assembly where after having heard the â—arties they had censured the disobedience of
that incase a new Heresie should arise which might be oppressed without danger by reason of its weakness they would not fail to deprive the professors of it both of their Estates and Lives he show'd clearly enough that it was only the power of the Reform'd which he meant almost every where in naming them Heriticks which made their safety This alone might suffice if men were equitable to apologise for their Precautions and Difidences since nothing can be more natural and just when People are threatned with Punishments and Masacres than to take â—easures to prevent them He did not forget in that place 〈…〉 relate the usage Servet had receiv'd at Geneva and the â—…rians in England Speaking of the fourth inconvenience which he found in 〈…〉 Doctrine of the Third Estate he reduc'd his about the â—…ety of Kings to distinctions of Tyrants by Usurpation and Tyrants by Administration and some others which might â—…cover how much those pretended Sureties were illusive â—…e Case was not to preserve the Lives of Kings against the â—…rts that are Lanc'd in the disputes of Colleges where â—…ose distinctions might have been of some use but against Assassinates whose fury could not be repell'd by a Distinguo This subject requires and I say the same of most of those which â—…ate to practice in important matters Principles Independent â—…all such subtleties which may at once give the most ignorant a clear Idea of the Duties that are impos'd upon â—…em In order to end that long discourse by a conclusion worâ—y of the rest he endeavour'd to persuade that it was a â—…eat moderation in the Popes to suffer such to remain in â—…e Communion of the Church of Rome which held the Doctrine of the Third Estate and according to him they were very much oblig'd to the Court of Rome for not being Excommunicated by them and declar'd Hereticks Finally to dispose his Auditors the better to relinquish that Article he â—…cus'd the Reform'd of being the Authors of it and to have â—…pt in that proposition which he call'd the Apple of Discord 〈…〉 the Cahiers of some Provinces to sow Division among â—…e Catholicks He said that they had long threatned that â—nterprise That the said project came from Saumur That nevertheless both the Synods and Ministers would refuse to â—…gn that Doctrine which he prov'd by their Confession of â—…aith by the exceptions which they added to the protestations of their Obedience and Fidelity and by their taking 〈…〉 Arms when ever the Court had attempted to deprive them of the Liberty of their Consciences Whereupon we may observe first That he apply'd their Doctrine to his with a great deal of malice since there 〈…〉 a great deal of difference between not obeying Kings wheâ—… they will force Consciences or making them lyable to deposition by virtue of an Eeclesiastical Censure and exposing them to the Daggers of Murtherers under the pretence oâ— Anathema's The one was the Sentiment of the Reform'd the other was the Opinion of the adherents of the Couâ—… of Rome the impudent pretentions of which the Third Estate would suppress Secondly that the Reform'd in taking Arms never intended to revoke the Oath of Allegiance they haâ— sworn to their Kings but only to secure themselves againâ—… violence and oppression being still ready to lay down theâ—… Arms as soon as their persecutors had done the like â—…nally that the Cardinal justified against his will according to his principles those Wars which the Catholicks have 〈…〉 often reproach'd since they never did take Arms but wheâ—… their Princes violated that Oath made to God and to theâ—… to make them live in peace and liberty under the protectiâ—… of their Edicts It was a usual thing among the most violeâ—… Votaries of the Court of Rome to impute those very thing to the Reform'd as high Treason which that Court teachâ—… as a duty to the Catholicks This Discourse produc'd no effect in the Chamber of the Third Estate by reason that Miron who presided in it maintain'd the importance and necessity of the Article with Vigour and Capacity He neither wanted Wit Learning oâ— Courage and as he equall'd the Cardinal in that he had the advantage of a great probity over him Moreover he was seconded by the Parliaments whose Heriditary Doctrine he design'd to pass into a Law and all the good French whether Reform'd or Catholicks were very desirous that his proposition might be converted into a Law of the State So that he would perhaps have carryed it in spight of the Clergy and have disabus'd the Nobility had the Court taken care of their own Interests But the Queen stood in need of the Clergy either to maintain her Authority or to accomplish the Marriages with Spain which she earnestly desir'd â—…e was oblig'd to pleasure the Court of Rome and the Spaâ—…rds who interess'd themselves very much in that dispute â—…e one to take the advantage of the weakness of the Governâ—ent and to make some Incroachments upon the Kings of â—…ance who had preserv'd their Independency better than â—…ers against their pretentions The other to sow jealousies â—…d difidences in the Kingdom which they might take the â—…vantage of in favourable occasions The Jesuits who were 〈…〉 Popes faithful Servants at that time and very powerful at â—…urt where they had the direction of the Consciences of the â—…g and Queen and of the principal Ministers did not beâ—… themselves on that occasion being sufficiently concern'd 〈…〉 the Assassinations which the Third Estate had a mind to â—…vent to think it necessary to prevent the Condemnation â—…he Doctrine which authorises them Therefore the Clerâ—… obtain'd of the King under pretence to avoid disorder and â—…susion to refer the said Dispute to himself and his Council 〈…〉 whereas the said removal only suspended the question â—…n which the Third Estate seem'd resolv'd to press the King 〈…〉 give his judgment they thought fit to silence them quite â—…n that Article They were commanded to put that Article â—…te out of their Cahier where they design'd to put it at 〈…〉 head of all the rest Thus the Queen sacrific'd the Interâ—… of the King her Son to her particular ambition and hinâ—…d him from improving the greatest example of fidelity â—…t Subjects can give to their Prince The Clergy nevertheless in order to acknowledge that â—…mplaisance and to show that they were not Enemies to 〈…〉 safety of Kings put an illusive proposition in lieu of the â—…icle of the Third Estate of causing the Doctrine of the â—…uncil of Constancia upon that matter to be published a â—…ctrine which maintaining the interest of Crown'd Heads 〈…〉 appearence submits them nevertheless to the Censure of 〈…〉 Popes and exempts them no longer from the Rebellion 〈…〉 attempt of their Subjects than while the Popes maintain 〈…〉 favour them In effect the Council only condems this proposition All Tyrants may and ought Lawfully and Meritâ—…ously to be kill'd by any of their
to Paris But things were so imbroil'd before he could come away that he durst not follow his Inclination for fear of making himself Criminal by Communicating with a prohibited Assembly His Prudence in this point avail'd him nothing the Court would have him guilty Right or Wrong He receiv'd notice at Lions by a Letter from Drelincourt his Colleague that he would be taken up as soon as he came to Paris This News oblig'd him to take a by way to go home where he tarry'd but one Night and went from thence to Sedan where the Duke de Bouillon gave him the place of Professor in Theology and of Minister in Ordinary Tilenus his Enemy did not fail to Write Violently against that retreat which he endeavour'd to represent as a Mercenary flight The pretence the Court had to seize upon him was that the English Ambassador had desir'd Du Moulin to Write to the King his Master to exhort him to assist the Elector Palatin his Son-in-Law That Prince having too soon taken the Name of King of Bohemia which had been offer'd him by the People lost a Battle near Prague and his New Kingdom together with his Ancient Patrimony which the Emperor diveâ—ted him of as a Rebel France suffer'd it calmly by â—eason that the Policy of Spain and of Rome prevail'd in their Council and represented that War as a War of Religion Jeannin himself remember'd that he had been a Member of the League and Writ a Pamphlet to hinder â—…he King from succoring the Bohemians in which he urg'd so many Reasons to prove that all the Advantage of that War would remain to the Protestants and all the damage â—…o the Catholicks that France lost that opportunity of ruinâ—…ng the House of Austria in Germany and that they look'd â—…pon the Ruin of an Ancient Aâ—ly of France as a Triumph of the Catholick Church The King meddled no farther with this War than by a Solemn Embassy at the Head of which he plac'd the Count d'Auvergne And that serv'd â—â—ly to render the Catholick League the stronger and the Emperor more formidable But the Coldness of the King of England Scandalized even those that profited by his Weakâ—…ers He did not relish certain Maxims of Honour which he was continually put in mind of and he thought it a â—…iece of Policy not to assist Subjects against their Soveraigns â—…ven in the Case of a manifest oppression He apply'd that â—…e Policy which no other Prince ever bethought himself â—…f to the Affairs of his Son-in-Law And his Ambassador who was sensible that he was despis'd every where for that false Prudence had a mind to draw him out of that Error He look'd upon Du Moulin as a Man capable to revive the Courage of that Prince by whom he was very much respected Du Moulin writ after having excus'd it a while and his Letter was given to the Courier the Ambassador sent into England But it was soon after put into the hands of the Ministers of the Cabinet Council whither it were â—…one designedly by the Courier or by the Ambassador or whither it were intercepted by some Wile or finally whither King James himself who had particular Ingagements with the King of France had Communicated it to the Ministers of that Prince The said Letter was look'd upon as being very Criminal by Reason that the Condition of the Churches of France was set out in it and their approaching Ruine alledg'd as a proper Reason to excite the King of England to assist his Son-in-Law whose Prosperity was a Refuge to the Reform'd as his Ruine was a Presage of Decay for them The Jesuits whose Bane Du Moulin was were glad of that Opportunity to ruine him and having neither been able to Corrupt him by fair Offers nor to destroy him by divers Conspiracies against his Life they imagin'd that he could never scape them that time But they were deceiv'd and he scap'd that Snare by the Diligence of his Retreat It was from Sedan he writ to the Assembly of Rochel It is uncertain whether he did it of his own accord or by the Order of the Mareschal de Bouillon who was of the same Opinion with all the Grandees of the same Religon or whether his Friends perceiving that his Enemies had a mind to represent him as a Seditious Person who inclin'd People to Rebellion by his Advice advis'd him to disprove them by such a Letter But it is certain that it was written with great Vigor and that he declar'd in it that the Assembly would be answerable for the Ruine of the Churches in case their refusing to break up should occasion it The Effect of that Letter was That it increas'd the Divisions to the utmost Extremity Some Members of the Assembly withdrew and never could be prevail'd upon to come again Others acquainted Du Moulin that his Letter had been read but not approv'd of and begg'd of him not to communicate it to any body lest it should serve as a Pretence for those who had a mind to withdraw out of the Union It were to be wish'd that the Assembly had follow'd that Advice only to try what the Court would have done after their Separation in order to render the Cause of the Churches the clearer by removing the Pretence of Disunion from those who had too much Faith and Credulity The Event show'd that if those Members of the Assembly who would not break up without Security were not the most prudent yet they were the best inform'd and those who hinder'd them from taking such Measures for their Safety had cause to repent at leisure their being too Credulous Two things â—…opt the Negotiation The one was that the Assembly â—…ould not resolve to beg Pardon for meeting at Rochel by reason that they pretended that they might lawfully do it after â—…o positive a Promise as they had receiv'd for so doing at London from the King That Confession of having done ill was of greater consequence than it seem'd to be at first since 〈◊〉 imply'd a tacit Acknowledgment that the things promis'd had been perform'd The Consequence of which was that 〈◊〉 would stop their Mouths for the future upon the Business of the two Councellors of Leitoure and of Favasâ—…sisted â—…sisted upon those Considerations with great Vehemency The other was that they were willing to see at least something done upon their Complaints before their Breaking up for fear of being shortly oblig'd to begin all things a new as it had happen'd more than once Moreover the Decay of the Reform'd Religion in the Kingdom of Bohemia which those who were for the Dissolution of the Assembly made use of to make them dread the Events of War was taken in another Sence by many who look'd upon it as a good Reason to take Precautions against the Oppression of which the Affairs of Germany gave a Presage Nevertheless the Assembly not being able to withstand the Advice of all the Grandees from whom they
then ordinary nay if 〈…〉 do but sigh and bemoan themselves their very Groans and â—â—ghs are not to be endur'd In the mean time the Dukes of Rohan and Soubise who had â— long time refus'd to yield to the Importunities of the Assembly having bin disgusted by the Court where the Prince of Coâ—dé 〈…〉 the Constable were the Duke of Rohan's Enemies resign'd themselves wholly to the Orders of the Assembly and after some Submissions on their part and some Offers from the â—ourt which signifi'd nothing they resolv'd to hold out St. â—ohn a' Angeli to the last The Duke of Rohan left his Brother â—â— the place and after he had furnish'd it with Men and Ammunition went into Guâ—en to raise more Forces On the other side the King after he had summon'd Subise by a Herald besieg'd the City and Subise by the foul Practices of Loudrieres who discourag'd both the Soldiers and Inhabitants by his discourses â—nd his counsels being constrain'd to surrender the place march'd out sooner then he would have done had he not been afraid of being forsaken All the security which either the City or the Garison had was a wild and general Capitulation by which the King promis'd only in writing to the Inhabitants their Lives their Estates and the Liberty of their Consciences and Persons reserving to himself the disposal of every thing else as he should think convenient declaring at the same time that he did not pretend to make any Treaty but only to grant a Favour However the Capitulation as slight as it was had the hard fate to be but very ill observ'd The Soldiers plunder'd the Town and yet constrain'd the Mayor the Sheriffs and the principal Inhabitants to give 'em a Certificate and forc'd another from the Minister that they had behav'd themselves civilly On the other side the King retiring to Cognac set forth a Declaration which was verifi'd at Bourdeaux wherein to put the greater value upon his Clemency which had spar'd their Lives and Estates and given Liberty of Conscience to the Reformed of St. John d'Angeli he order'd the Fortifications and Walls of the City to be raz'd and the Moats to be fill'd up He took away their Charters and their Franchises and made the Town liable to Taxes for the future He cancell'd their Government by Mayor and Sheriffs and and annex'd the common Stock of the Town to the Royal Demesnes leaving 'em out of his special Grace and Favor their Election and ordinary Jurisdiction Upon which Declaration a certain Historian very much devoted to the Roman Church observes That it would have been taken for a just punishment of that City had they not since that us'd many very Innocent and Catholic Cities after the same rate The End of the Seventh Book THE HISTORY OF THE Edict of Nantes THE SECOND PART THE EIGHTH BOOK A Compendium of the Eighth Book MArshal Bouillon's Letter The King marches into Guyenne the Siege and reducing of Clairac The King's word ill observ'd The Pope's Breve to the King The Reformed every where unfortunate The Siege of Montauban La Force defends the Place The King raises his Siege Chamiere's Death The Duke of Mayenne dies The blame falls upon the Constable The Jesuit Arnoux's disgrace The Duke of Luines dies Assembly of the Clergy A violent Harangue of the Bishop of Rennes The History of Dominic de Jesus Maria. Sedition at Paris The Church at Charenton burnt The Reformed forsake their Houses They are accus'd of setting Fire to the Bridges of Paris and the Prison at Lion The Circle of Lower Languedoc displaces Chatillon Great Confusion in that Circle The Condition of the Court The King returns to Paris A remarkable Writing of Jeannin advising Peace The Opinion of those who were more enclin'd to War The Reformed take new Courage The King departs from Paris His Success in Poitou in Guyenne where he treats with la Force The sack of Negrepelisse and St. Antonin Lesdiguieres interposes for Peace Factions at Mompellier Sedition against the Catholics Bitter Harangue of the Bishop to the King Remarks upon the Stile of that Harangue The Church of Foix laid waste Attestation given to the Monk Villate The King forbids the Reformer to forsake their Houses Count Mansfeild treats with the Reformed Proposals of the Marshal de Bouillon to the Duke of Rohan upon that occasion The Court gains Mansfeild The King makes use of Foreign Catholics in France The Negotiations for Peace renew'd A Writing set forth upon that occasion Siege of Mompellier Capitulation made by Lunell ill observ'd Small Cities ill defended Success of the War in several Places Chatillon made a Marshal of France Seditions at Orleans Fronsac and Lion The Original of the word Parpailler Other Originals Of the word Hust Violence of the Sedition The Reformed are disarm'd War against Rochel Soubise sollicits for Succor from England Treaty of Peace reassum'd near Mompellier Conclusion of the Treaty with an Edict Rigour of the Parlaments Advantages of that Peace Qualifications of the Edict of Peace All the Cities accept the Peace which is ill observ'd by the Court. Treaty at Mompellier The King returns to Paris De Puisieux in Favour The Bishop of Luson made a Cardinal Character of that Prelat After what manner he receiv'd the news of his Promotion Excessive Flatteries Foul Play offer'd the Rochelois Enterprises of Valence at Mompellier where he takes the Duke of Rohan Prisoner and makes a division of the Consulship General Papers Extravagant Answers Exercises forbid The Reformed excluded from Dignities in the Vniversity of Poitiers The singing of Psalms in the Streets and in Shops forbid A common Soldier deprived the Benefit of an Oblate Attempts upon paternal Right A Declaration establishing a Commissioner in Colloquies and Synods A National Synod Galand the first Commissioner ever present to a National Synod He is admitted out of pure Obedience Deputies sent to the King who sends back the Deputies laden with his Orders The Court inclin'd to favour the Arminians A Writing publish'd by la Militiere Answer of Tilenus Authority attributed to the Kings of France Imposture set up against the Synod of Dordrecht Obedience of the Synod of Charenton A Tignations ill paid Propositions made to the Synod by Galand on the King's behalf A new Deputation to the King and the effect of it Oath of Vnion A Citadel built at Mompellier Mariald opposes it in the name of the Reformed of the City Presages of a new War The death of du Plessis The death of Marshal de Bouillon WHile the King lay before St. John d'Angeli he receiv'd the Submissions of the Duke of Tremouille who had surrender'd Taillebourg without much entreaty On the other side Marshal de Bouillon at the same time sent him a Letter full of smart Remonstrances of which the principal Heads were The retiring of the Reformed which he attributed to the notorious violation of the Declaration of the 24th of April He observ'd how the
probability however the word was lookt upon as â—ery seditious And I have seen Petitions presented to the Magistrates which have produc'd Informations Sentences and Decrees of Parlament which forbid the use of that word the â—…nely Crime mention'd in the Complaint 'T was the same thing with the word Parpaillot of which the Reformed complain'd as of a heinous Injury though perhaps they would have found it a hard task to have told what was so â—â—ensive in it unless it were that they from whose foul mouths 〈◊〉 came spoke it with a design to affront ' em The Reformed then being assail'd at Lion by that seditious Rabble were among other foul language call'd Parpaillots and threaten'd with the Halter To which while some were a â—â—ttle too forward to return as good as the other brought they â—â—nflam'd the fury of those that were already sufficiently heated and whose number was already swell'd to three or four thousand by the concourse of Lacqueys Children and the Rifraff of the People so that at last they broke into the houses of the Reformed plunder'd whatever was of value burnt what they could not carry away beat wounded and kill'd several of those that fell into their hands This Fury lasted three days neither the Magistrates nor the Governor being able to stop the Career of those Violences And yet to say the truth considering the condition the City was in at that time they must needs have bin very remiss or else it ne're could have bin so difficult a matter to have reduc'd that Canaille to reason For d'Alincourt the Governor of the City had his Guards the City was divided into Quarters which had every one their Captains and their Streamers and could have easily rais'd men enow to have dispers'd those Rakehells The Queen and the Queen-mother were both at Lion together with the Bishop of Lusâ—â— soon after made a Cardinal with some Soldiers to guard ' em But at Lion as well as at Paris they were much afraid of spilling Catholic Blood Otherwise they might have drawn together a little Army able to have done much more then stop the Insolence of a handful of Lacqueys But they would not take any other course to suppress the Mutineers then by Remonstrances and perhaps they would not have put themselves to the trouble of giving 'em any molestation had they not him afraid lest the Rabble having once tasted the sweets of Pillage should have flown upon the Catholics after they had got what they could from the Reformed All the severity of the Magistrate went no farther then to place Guards in some places and to threaten some of the most tumultuous to send 'em to Prison At length indeed the Queenmother caus'd herself to be carri'd to the place where the disorder was most violent and then the seditious Rout already almost aweary began to retire But there was no body punisht for all this Insolence but the Reformed for instead of giving 'em satisfaction d'Alincourt disarm'd ' em Nor was there any care taken to revenge the death of those that were massacr'd or to repair the damages of those who had bin plunder'd and burnt Nay they were made believe they had a great Favour done 'em that so much care had bin taken to prevent their being torn in pieces by the multitude As for the Catholics there were some indeed committed â—o Prison but releas'd agen in a few days after without either Fine or any other punishment The only harm that was done â—em was only their being forbid to use the word Parpaillot for the future A little violent Rhetoric would have made these Acts of Injustice look very odious And had the Reformed â—appen'd to have done such a thing in the very sight of both their Queens all the blood in their bodies would not have sufâ—â—'d to have expiated their Crime While the King lay before Mompelier the Count of Soissonsâ—ress'd â—ress'd hard upon Rochel by Land and the Duke of Guise by â—ea and that potent City was every way hard beset The Count laid the Foundations of Fort-Lewis which was like to â—rove a great Annoyance to it in regard it commanded the Channel so that the Sea was no longer open to her nor could he be reliev'd on that side but with great difficulty Nevertheless the Assembly stood their ground and issu'd forth the â—est Orders they could for the support of the common Cause they held Correspondences in several places and sometimes â—â—me of the Nobility and some Soldiers of good Note got into the City to defend it However several of their Enterpriâ—es had no success and though Rochel had bin the occasion of sufficient damages to the Royal Army and Navies both by Sea â—nd Land she was at last reduc'd to fight for her own Walls â—he Duke of Soubise after the Overthrow he had receiv'd went into England and left no Stone unturn'd to procure some considerable Succor from the King but that Prince always obstinate in his Maxims would not hear a word of it but forbid his â—ubjects to assist the Reformed whom he made no scruple to all Rebels Nevertheless he offer'd his Intercession with the King of France for obtaining a tolerable Peace between him â—nd his Subjects In short he order'd his Ambassadors to make 〈…〉 their business as he had done before when Montauban was â—esieg'd where Hay his Envoy had already made some Overâ—â—res and when the Conditions were resolv'd upon as a ground work for entring into a Treaty he earnestly prest the Duke of Rohan and the Rochellers to submit to ' em In the â—ean time the English were not of his mind as to the War of France for they gave such considerable Assistance to the Duke Soubise that he got together a Fleet of ten or twelve Sail laden with all things necessary for the relief of Rochel But that Fleet was unfortunately cast away in the Harbor before it set Sail so that when the Duke came to take shipping he found nothing but the ruins of his warlike Preparations and all the marks of a terrible Shipwrack But before Mompelier things did not succeed according to the King's Wishes The City held out stoutly the Season spent apace and the ill success of the Siege of Montauban was not forgot and though on the one side the Reformed had reason to fear that the King at last would take the City on the other hand the King had as much reason to believe that he should be forc'd to lose all his labour and go without it These Fears on both sides bent their Inclinations to Peace but the Prince of Condé would by no means so much as hear talk of it and therefore the design of concluding it was to be kept private from him Lesdiguieres created Constable but a little before undertook the Negotiation once again and after several Obstacles surmounted which had like several times to have dash'd the whole Negotiation to pieces at length it was decreed and the Constable
would bring all things to pass In short Cameron was call'd next year to the Academy of Montâ—â—ban but dy'd within a little while after before the second War brake out Du Moulin returning from England was discover'd at Dieppe though in disguise and had Orders to stop there though 't is true they were not very exact in pursuit of him After that he liv'd quietly at Sedan even after the King had dispossess'd the Duke of Bouillon of it As for Bergerac she had â—…r share of the severity of the Court which forbid the Synod 〈…〉 allow any thing toward the maintenance of the Colledge of â—â—at City But the Commissioner never hinder'd the Synod â—om reviving the Oath of Union in Discipline and Doctrine â—â—r was the Court offended at it The second Act of Injustice done the Reformed was the building a Citadel at Mompelier directly contrary to the Treaty 〈…〉 Peace and the Breif granted in pursuance of it Nor was â—â—e Artifice made use of to justify the doing it very much to the honour of the Authors of it For Valence permitted the Solâ—â—ers of the Garison to live as licentiously as they pleas'd themâ—elves on purpose to give an occasion of making Complaints â—nd because it seem'd a difficult thing to suppress 'em he â—ackt an Assembly of the Citizens who were to consult upon expedients most proper to restrain 'em within the Bounds of their Duty Now the Catholic Consuls order'd as many of their own Religion as they could to be there But as for the â—eformed who were wont to rely upon others for the Government of the City and knew not the Mystery of that Consultation for the greatest part they never came and others durst â—ot appear so that the Catholics were far superior in number 〈…〉 the others among whom also many were gain'd which â—ave an occasion to say that the Reformed and the Catholics were agreed in the same demand Now then the Question being put which was the best way to secure the Burgesses from the Insolencies of the Soldiers the Catholics presently embrac'd the Propoâ—al of demanding a Citadel where the King might lodge his Garison and discharge the City of quartering Soldiers 'T was â—n vain for the small number of Protestants that were at the Meeting to oppose it and so the business was decided as it were â—y plurality of Voices and Deputies were sent to Court to obtain the King's consent who was not very scrupulous of giving it But Maniald who was one of the Deputies being inform'd of this Enterprize and entrusted with the Memoirs of the Reformed of Mompelier made a Speech to the King upon this Subject the 14th of September complain'd of the foul Play that had been us'd declar'd that the Inhabitants of Mompelier were forc'd to make this demand protested that their Names were abus'd requir'd the demolishing of Fort Lewis and produc'd the Reports of the Works demolish'd by the Reformed according to the Treaty of Peace to the end there might not be a pretence of their not having done their duty But they would not be better inform'd at Court they were resolv'd to believe Valencé and the Catholicks to the contempt of the Protestatioâ— which the Reformed made and the Decree of the Parlament of Tholouse put forth on purpose to elude their Obedience pasâ—… for a conviction that they had not done fairly as to the demolishing their Fortifications 'T was impossible that all these Acts of Injustice should be committed without causing great alterations in the minds oâ— men so that the Court expected to see the Peace suddenly broken Nevertheless as yet she had no great inclination to the War because the Government was not as yet well setled The Old Cardinals were jealous of Cardinal Richlieu The high Favour wherein Puisieux and the Chancellor his Father-in law were began to totter And there wanted a little longer time of Peace for every one of those who sought the advancement of their Fortunes to secure and settle their Affairs But the Council of Conscience the Spanish Faction that still held up its head the Clergy unanimous were all for a War And Cardinal Richlieu who would not seem to be lukewarm so soon after his Promotion nor offend the Queen Mother who embrac'd the same Interests lean'd that way as well as the rest Therefore as a foreboding of the Troubles that were suddainly to revive agen a Declaration was given out the 10th of November against those who went from Province to Province to sow Jealousies of the Infidelity of the Court furnish'd with Letters and Instructions of the Dukes of Rohan and Subise The King however declar'd That he would not believe that either of those two Noblemen were any way concern'd in those Intreagues or that the Reformed in general had any thoughts of turning aside from their Obedience However to give 'em more perfect assurances of the reality of his Intentions he confirm'd the Edicts and his last Declarations he order'd that the Commissioners should continue in the Provinces till they were absolutely fulfill'd and forbid all manner of persons to speak â—…ite suggest persuade or give ear to any thing that was conâ—…ry to his good Intentions or the Publick Tranquility to go 〈◊〉 send into the Provinces or to Assemblies that might be held the same effect and to act nothing that tended toward a War â—…on pain of being punish'd as Disturbers of the Public â—…pose Du Plessis lay drawing on when this Declaration â—…ear'd and God took him out of this World before the â—…ond War to spare him the grief of seeing the Ruin of â—…se Churches brought to perfection to which he had so â—…g been serviceable by his Writings by his Counsels and â—…his Example He had a little before come to an agreement â—…th the Court about the Recompence which he was to have 〈◊〉 all his Labours which after he had been so long put off and â—…de the sport of his Enemies was reduc'd to a hundred thousand Franks Marshal de Bouillon dy'd some months before him 〈◊〉 upon his Death-bed recommended nothing to his Children 〈◊〉 perseverance in the Reformed Religion and never to bear 〈◊〉 against the King so long as he secur'd the Peace of the Churches Which last Injunctions of his his Daughters obey'd â—…ch better then his Sons For his eldest Son forsook his Religion and quitted the King's Service betimes The End of the Eighth Book THE HISTORY OF THE Edict of Nantes THE SECOND PART THE NINTH BOOK The Heads of the Ninth Book THE Commissioners impair the Condition of the Reformed Gergeau at Remorentin at Tours Commissioners Poitou and Saintonge The Character of Amelot who 〈◊〉 the Churches by outward Shews of Honesty and Probity Writing of the Clergy of Saintonge The Malignity of 〈◊〉 Articles Complacency of Chalac Enterprises of the Catholics at Rochel Alterations at Court Maxims of Cardinal Richlieu Proposals of Marriage between the Prince Wales and the Infanta of Spain fruitless A Match 〈◊〉 for
the Match was not concluded The Cardinal therefore seeing the Treaty of that Alliance broken off and England disgusted was willing to make the best of the Conjuncture and to fasten that Crown to the Interests of France by the Marriage of a French Princess The second of Henry the Fourth's Daughters had bin deny'd the Prince of Wales who had demanded her while Lewis the Thirteenth's Council was in the House of Austria's pay and the Prince of Piemont was preferr'd before him But the Cardinal altering the Design had chang'd the Maxims of the Court and he thought good to make the first Offers to a Prince for whom they had had so little value before Nor did he find any great trouble in causing the Overtures to be accepted William de Hugues Archbishop of Ambrun had a great share in that Negotiation and if there be any credit to be given to the Relation of what he did in England which he drew up by the Cardinal's Command he had almost brought the Religion and Kingdom of England to the brink of a general Revolution He relates that before the Cardinal came into favour he had bin sent into England to persuade the King to return to the Pope's Communion That he disguis'd himself to go incognito and took upon him the Name and Habit of a Counsellor of Grenoblâ— That at his arrival he found the Duke of Buckingham inform'd both of his Disguise and his Commission of which both the King and the Prince had giv'n him notice That the King appear'd to him fully resolv'd to embrace the Catholic Religion That he came to an agreement with him upon the greatest part of the Articles in controversie more particularly concerning the Soveraignty of the Pope over all Christians That upon this Occasion he wrote a large Letter to the Pope that it was sent privately by an English Gentleman who was a zealous Catholic That he promis'd to declare himself openly so soon as he had taken order for certain things which were concluded on That the principal reason of his making so many delays was the desire he had to be sure of the King of Denmark his Brother-in-law to the end he might be the better able to prevent the Troubles that might arise by reason of the Changes in his Kingdoms That he had invited him under other Pretences to take a Voyage into England and that when he came he made no question but to convert him too That he desir'd the Pope to suffer the English Lords to enjoy the Church-Lands that were now become their Inheritance for fear they should oppose his Designs if he went about to disturb 'em in their Possession That he promis'd there should be no farther â—earches made after any Priests that should be sent into the Kingdom either by the Pope or the King of France That he excluded the Jesuits only from that favour because he lookt upon em as the Authors and Contrivers of the Powder-plot by which they design'd to have blown him up in his Parlament-House That he shew'd the Archbishop several Favours while he was in England That he gave him leave to Confirm in the French Embassador's House above 18000 Catholics who were exempted from all prosecution upon it tho there were many of the English that saw the performance of the Ceremony so little did the Archbishop care to be openly seen That some of the more Zealous Protestants having made their Complaints to the King about it the King stopt their mouths by telling 'em it was done with his permission That the Duke of Buckingham had promis'd to imitate the King his Master and that he was really engag'd in the Intreage In a word The Archbishop had Letters from him which shew'd him too deeply concern'd to believe that all this Negotiation was no more then a feigned Business This was the Condition of Affairs when they began to treat of the Marriage of the Prince of Wales and it may be easily judg'd by the bending of the King's Inclinations that they should not meet with any great opposition So that the Cardinal obtain'd what he pleas'd himself and drew from him Conditions more advantageous to the Catholicks then those which the King of Spain had demanded Also after all that was concluded there was a way found to add new Clauses which the King was so complaisant as to condescend to without any hesitation 'T is true Berulle who was afterwards made a Cardinal being sent to Rome to sollicite the Dispensation suffer'd some things to be slipt in which went a little farther then what had been agreed upon But they who drew it up were easily pardon'd upon making a shew of being sorry for it and imputing it to the simplicity of the Prelate whose Zeal for his Religion had made him exceed the Bounds of his Power But the Court of England being in a good humour to refuse nothing suffer'd her self to be vanquish'd without the least Resistance and was willing to take any Excuses for the Alterations in good part But the unexpected Death of King James put a stop to the Rapid Course of the Prosperities of the Catholic Religion and suspended for some time the accomplishment of the Marriage propounded But Charles his Successor would not retract from his Engagements during the Life of his Father so that the Marriage was accomplish'd to the great satisfaction of the Court of Rome England in some measure beheld the Catholic Religion sprouting up agen in her Bosom For the new Queen was permitted to have a Chappel in all the Royal Houses to keep in her Family a Bishop and twenty eight Priests without any preferring one Order before another that they should have liberty to wear the Habit of of their Order publickly and that all her Domestic Servants should be of the same Religion besides that she should have the Education of her Children till they came to be Thirteen years of Age. But God permitted the Jesuits to spoil all by their unquiet and Seditious Politicks and to put the Kingdom into such terrible Jealousies of their Practises that order was taken for the suppressing ' em However the Treaty of this Marriage was spun out till May 1625. tho because I would not interrupt the series of the Story I was forc'd to insert it in this place In the mean time there were several particular Affairs that were regulated after a different manner among which that of the City of Pamiers in opposition to her Bishop was one of the most considerable That Prelate took upon him to dispose of the Consulship and Council of that City and to make himself Master of the sole Power of rating the Taxes upon the Inhabitants And his Zeal for Religion serv'd for a Pretence to justify his undertaking He would have no body in those Employments but Catholics and the Parlament of Thâ—louse whither he had remov'd the Cause were not wanting to â—our his Pious Design But for the bringing it to pass there â—s a necessity
Auâ—ority would give him leisure and to apply himself to the Foâ—ign War so soon as he had stifl'd the Seeds from whence Doâ—estic Troubles might again spring up For the first he made use 〈…〉 the continu'd Importunities of Holland and Carleton to induce â—m to use the Reformed with less severity to the end he might 〈…〉 more at liberty to carry on the Foreign War On the other â—de those Embassadors press'd the Reformed to accept the â—eace upon the Conditions that were offer'd 'em and assur'd â—â— that the King their Master would be Guaranty for the perâ—â—mance of those that were promis'd ' em Particularly they â—omis'd Rochelle that the King of England would so earnestly â—llicit the Demolishing of Fort Lewis and so moderate the â—ard Conditions that were impos'd upon 'em that he question'd â—t but to bring it to pass They farther told 'em that the â—ing of France had given 'em his Word to demolish the Fort 〈…〉 convenient time upon Condition that Rochelle return'd to â—r Duty These Sollicitations and Promises made Rochelle at length â—etermin to humble her self And the rest of the Cities as â—ontauban Castres Nimes Vsez which had not refus'd the â—eace but only because she stood out follow'd her Example 〈…〉 soon as she had accepted it Thereupon it was concluded the â—6th of February However all that was alter'd in the Laws â—â—pos'd upon Rochelle was that the Second Article which â—ention'd the settling an Intendant of Justice in that City was express'd in these Terms That they should admit Commissioners to see the Peace perform'd who might reside there as long as they plea'd There was nothing said either of the Fourth which imported that the King should be admitted whenever he pleas'd to enter or of the Seventh which concern'd the Interest of certain Merchants of Orleance But they put instead of them the Restoration of the Catholic Religion in the full Liberty of its Exercises and a Declaration that Fort Lewis could not be raz'd but that such Order should be given to the Garison and to the Garisons of the Islands of Ré and Oleron that the Trade of the City should be no way prejudic'd Instead of demolishing the Fortifications which had been decree'd at first in General Terms nothing more was requir'd then the demolishing the Fort de Taden And to soften the Article which enjoin'd the Merchants Vessels to take Passes from the Admirals of France 't was only ordain'd that they should observe the Laws of Traffic without prejudice to their Priviledges There was an Act of these Articles drawn up at the bottom of which was a Promise that the Reformed should enjoy the benefit of the Answers return'd to their Papers at Fontainbleâ—â— in July 1625 provided that on their part they setled things in the same condition as they were in at the same time But for fear lest Rochelle should take any advantage of this Promise that City was expressly excepted And it was declar'd That the King did not thereby engage himself to any other Favour then what was mention'd in the Act which went before The Deputies of the Reformed had sign'd in that Place But underneath there was yet a third Act sign'd by the said Deputies as well in their own as in the name of the Deputies from the Dukes of Rohan and Soubise of Languedoc Rochelle Montauban Castres Nimes Vsez Milhau and Cevenes wherein they protested that they had besought the King with all the duty and most humble submissions that Subjects could pay to their Soveraign to pardon what was past and to grant 'em Peace with a promise of great Fidelity for the future from which they would never swerve and Offers of all manner of Services All which the King had graciously harken'd to and upon which he had given his Royal Word for Peace and the observance of the Answers return'd to the Paper deliver'd at Fontainbleau Out â—â— which however he had excepted Rochelle in reference to â—hich he had declar'd his Will and which they said they accepâ—d as the most signal Mark of Clemency and Goodness that Subâ—cts could receive from a Soveraign and they promis'd to â—and to it inviolably and to cause the Places taken since Julyâ—st â—st to be surrender'd The Court although they desir'd Peace with an extraordinary â—assion exacted these Submissions to make the Reformed own â—â—at they were in the wrong to levy War and that they might â—ke advantage of their own Confessions if any new Quarrels â—ake forth And the Reformed who were not ignorant of â—â—e Court-Politics past these Infamous Acts either because â—hey had bin wrought over or because they found they lay at â—he mercy of the Court as the Duke of Rohan well foresaw â—â— else because they were in hopes of obtaining greater Favours â—y these Extraordinary Submissions or lastly in compliance with those who could not like it that Subjects should take Arms against their Prince upon any Occasion whatever However to â—ssure themselves of the King of England's Protection whom â—hey believ'd to be Guarantee of the Peace they drew up an Act â—gn'd by the Embassadors and dated Feb. 11. wherein they declar'd that the Razing of Fort Lewis was promis'd in time conâ—enient provided the Rochelois return'd to their duty and that without that Promise neither Rochel would have accepted the Peace neither would the Reformed have relinquish'd those things which the Instances of the King of England made 'em â—elinquish by reason of which they put 'em in hopes of a powerful Intercession on his part that they might have satisfaction giv'n ' em This Paper was ill drawn up nor did it clearly express the Guarantie of which the King of England boasted Nevertheless it cannot be deni'd but that it must have oblig'd that Prince either to have disown'd his Embassadors or else to take care that what was granted the Reformed should be faithfully perform'd since he acknowledg'd that the sole force of his Sollicitations had vanquish'd their good nature to be satisfi'd with the King's Offers An honest man needs no more to engage him to make another man's business his own but that it was himself who caus'd the other to miscarry either by his Authority or Persuasion And in this sense it cannot be deni'd but that the King of England was Guarantee of the Peace since it was upon his word and in hopes that he would be answerable for it that the Reformed accepted it But this Important Ceremony wanted due formality and the Council of France had so well order'd their Business that nothing appear'd from whence any evident Conclusion could be drawn that the King of England interpos'd in this Treaty as a Mediator or as a Guarantee In a word Policy will not permit Princes to suffer that another Prince should be Guarantee of Treaties which are made between them and their Subjects To consent that Subjects should have recourse to the Garantie of a Foreigner for their Security in things that concern the
great freedom I my self have seen several printed Sermons some of which enlarg'd themselves very far to shew that the Design 〈…〉 the French was to extinguish the Reformed Religion and â—…thâ—â—s added after a Prophetical manner that as the Provincesâ—…nâ— â—…nâ— their Ships and Men to the Reformed of France the time â—ould one day come that the Reformed would revenge themâ—…lves upon the Provinces and bear Arms under their King to â—…stroy their Religion and Liberty But Preachers Reasons â—…r agree with those of Politicians besides that the Vnited 〈…〉 were not in a condition to slight or disgust the Alliâ—… of France Toward the end of July Buckingham appear'd not far from 〈◊〉 with a Fleet considerable enough to have done great â—…ings had the Chieftain had as much Courage as Pride or 〈…〉 much Wit as Presumption He presently made himself Maâ—…er of the Isle of Ré but he lost himself miserably before Fort â—… Martin where Toiras with a few men and less Provision â—…ld out a Siege of above two Months which if any other then Buckingham had manag'd it could not have stopt him three â—…ys Rochel was a long time also before she wou'd declare whether it were because the Mayor and the Court were agreed â—â—gether or whether it were that she was willing to avoid new â—…etences of making war upon her Insomuch that at first â—…e would not so much as hearken to Buckingham's Propositions or admit the Commissioners which he sent to her So that â—…bise who had shelter'd himself in England ever since his last â—efeat but had embarkt himself in the English Fleet was conâ—…ain'd to go alone to the Gate of the City with Beaker sent by â—…e Duke to desire leave to speak to the Inhabitants But the Citizens refus'd to open the Gate to him and had not his Moâ—…her come her self to take him by the hand and bring him into he Town he must have return'd as he came The respect which the Rochelois had for that Lady made 'em forget their â—esolutions So that they let Soubise pass and Beaker follow'd him After which they gave him Audience in the Council â—here he set forth at large the Reasons which oblig'd the King â—f England to take Arms And he endeavour'd to make 'em â—elieve that it was only upon the score of Religion He excus'd the small Assistance which he had hitherto given the Reformed and declar'd that the King of England found himself too much engag'd by his Conscience by his Honour and his Word to assist 'em more powerfully more especially because it was through his Intercession that they had accepted a disadvantageous Peace This Speech produc'd nothing at first Nay the Rochellois offer'd Comminges to fight the English provided Fort Lewis might be put as a Pledge into the Hands of la Force Chatillon or Trimouille One would have thought that Offer should not have bin acceptable to the Court seeing that both la Force and Chatillon were brought off from the Common Cause and that Trimoville was treating about his returning to the Roman Religion at least he embrac'd the Communion of that Church within a year after and renounc'd the Reformed Religion in the presence of the Cardinal before the taking of Rochel In recompence whereof he had the Command of the Light Horse and serv'd some years in that Employment during the Warâ— of Italy where he receiv'd a wound in the Knee so that hâ— lost the use of the Joint Some years after being disgusted by the Court he retir'd to his Palace of Thouars became a Bigoâ— and a great dealer in Controversies and at length dy'd in the Roman Profession after he had liv'd to a very old Age but very ill maintain'd the Reputation of his Father In the mean time the Court which had other Designs gave no other answer to the Proposal but a company of Fair words with which the Rochellois suffer'd themselves to be amus'd for some time However they intercepted a Pacquet of Letters from the Court directed to the Duke of Angoulesme who had obtain'd Orders to raise Forces to oppose the English and who had actually block'd up Rochel as close as it could be at a time when the Design of besieging it was kept secret One of those Letters are an express Approbation of what had bin done in order to the blocking up of the City and gave the Duke advice about several things and among others about the Passports which he gave to all those who had a mind to leave the Town because said the Letter it was best to let out as many as they could that so none but the most Mutinous might be left behind There was also a Letter for Marshal de Marillac which handl'd very nice matter The Question was Whether the Huguenots were to be suffer'd in the King's Army The Answer was â—hat the thing was very doubtful because that if there were me persons of worth and no way to be suspected there might 〈…〉 others whose chiefest business it was to be Spies 'T was â—…ded That the Public Affairs requir'd that it should be made â—…t by Effect and Demonstration that the War was a War of are and not of Religion and then it might be lawful to adâ—…it Huguenots that would enter into service 'T was said That without excluding 'em out of the Army there might be a watchâ—… eye upon 'em and then 't was but confiding in those that â—…ere honest amusing others and keeping the main Resolutions â—…cret especially those which concern'd Rochel or else if such Toleration seem'd dangerous 't was advis'd that they should 〈…〉 dismiss'd under some fair Pretence And these were the â—…tters which discovering the secret Intentions of the Court â—…etermin'd the Rochellois to join with the English But this Conâ—…nction was so ill order'd and so scurvily manag'd that if we â—…y judge by the event no body could believe it resolv'd upon 〈…〉 any other end then to furnish the Court both with a pretence â—…nd with the means to facilitate the destruction of that unfortunate City For Buckingham after he had drain'd her of all her â—rovision of Corn some of which he was constrain'd to burn â—…ter his defeat left the rest which should have reliev'd the City 〈…〉 relieve the Victor that expell'd him out of the Island and â—unning away with ignominy from a handful of men made the condition of the City far worse then it was before In the mean time Rochel publish'd a large Manifesto whereâ—… resuming things for a good way backward she endeavour'd â—o justify her Conduct to display the Frauds and Artifices of the Court but chiefly to make good her Pretensions and Priviledges The Duke of Rohan also betook himself to Arms â—nd set forth another Manifesto little different in the main from that of Rochel only that the City insisted more closely upon â—…er own proper Affairs and the Duke spoke more at large of things in general The Answers to these Writings
the Harbour 352. Meditates great designs 395. Betray'd by Nouailles 396. He disingages himself 397. His success alters the face of Affairs 398. His Manifesto 399. Answer'd 400. He prospers 402. Spanish Fleet before Rochel 444. States General of France meet 168. The third Estate oppress'd by the Nobility and Clergy Ibid. St. Mark Commissioner in the Synod of Alenson 401. Substance of the General Cahier of the Assembly of Saumur and of the Answers to it 73 c. Sulli Duke of made a Marshal of France 502. He takes false measures 6. He is advis'd to look to himself 7. His disgrace 19. Remov'd from the Exchequer and Government of the Bastille 20. He writes to the Queen 21. His Affair examin'd 25. An anonimous Answer to his Discourse 27. His Speech to the Assembly 48. Synod at Alenson 401. The Commissioners Speech there Ibid. And his Instructions 402. The Moderators Answer 404. Their Deputation to the King 407. The Deputies how treated at Court 410. Nomination of General Deputies 411. They make particular Deputies 412. They condemn Militieres Projects 412. And approve Daille's writings Ibid. They appease the Dispute about universal Grace Ibid. Synod National at Charenton 370. Send Commissioners to the King 372. Their Obedience 375. Proposals made there by Galand Ibid. They send a new Deputation to the King 376. Synod National 420. Synod of Realmont 422. An Article drawn up in that Synod for discovery of all such as had a hand in the Spanish Treaty it offends the Churches and is disown'd by the National Synod 425. The National Synod names General Deputies 428 429. And come to divers Resolutions 429. National Synod at Charenton 480. The Commissioners Speech Ibid. Answer'd 482. They send Deputies to the King 485. Their Papers Ibid. The Deputies favourably receiv'd 487. Important Resolutions taken by the Synod 488. Synod National at Alenson 540. Synod at Blois 90. Synod National of Privas 99. Complaints of the Synod of Blois 103. Care of the Synods for the Reconciliation of the Grandees 105. National Synod at Tonneins 158. Synod National at Vitre 266 c. Synod National at Aletz 349 c. T. TIerache the Reformed Inhabitants there treated favourably 117. Titenus writes against the Assembly of Rochel 308. He answers Milletiere 373. Tonneboutonne Mass resettl'd there 447. Tonneins derided for her Civility 314. Treatise entitl'd The Eucharist of the Ancient Church 500. Tremoville Duke of submits 313. Troubles in France renew'ed 394 129. Troubles end 143. Troubles of Privas 354 c. At Nimes occasion'd by a Jesuit 376. New Troubles in Bearn 402. V. VAlence's Credit 365. Valence Bishop of persecutes the Forreign Ministers 469. Vatan the Lord of it dies 94. Vendosm Duke of foil'd before Britesse 346. De Vic 329. Vieville his ingratitude and ill success 388. Villarte a Monk sent to Foix and his Behaviour there 338. Attestations given him Ibid. His Triumph but a Chimera 402. Vitrè the Church there pull'd down 443. Union sign'd and sworn 100. Treated of between the Prince of Condè and the Assembly of Nimes 216. United Provinces send succour to France 438. University of Poitiers the Statutes reviv'd 421. Vniversity regulated 450. Voices and Opinions divided in the Court of Castres and the Issue of it 429. Ursulin's of Loudon the Farce acted upon 'em 504. W. WAtons besieg'd taken 379. Retaken and restor'd 380. War against the Reformed the Reasons for it prevail 332. The success of it in many Places 346. Civil War new Seeds of it 470. War new in France the Presages of it 378. William de Hugues his Negotiations in England 390. A TABLE of the Edicts Declarations c. Serving for Proofs to the Second Part of this Work THe Kings Declaration upon the Edict of Pacification May 22. Page 455. General Regulation drawn up in the Assembly of Saumur August 29. 1611. 458. Writing of the Assembly at Saumur Anno 1611. and Answer 462. A Declaration of the King touching the Assemblies of any of his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion confirming the Edict of Nantes and the Particular Articles At Paris April 24. 1612. Register'd in Parlament May 25. of the same Year 482. A Declaration of the King in favour of those of the Pretended Reformed Religion confirming the Preceding Declaration of April 24. Given at Paris July 11. 1612. and verifi'd August 8. 484. A Declaration of the King and Confirmation of the Edict of Nantes given at Paris December 15. 1612. and verifi'd Jan. 2. 1613. 486. A Declaration of the Kings Majority containing a Confirmation of the Edict of Pacification and Prohibiting Duels At Paris Octob. 1. 1614. Verifi'd the 2. of the same Month and Year 489. A Declaration of the King touching the renewing of all the Edicts of Pacification Articles agreed Regulations and Decrees in pursuance of the same Publish'd in Parlament the last of April 1615. 491. A Declaration of the King upon Arms being taken by some of his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion containing a new Confirmation of the Edicts and Declarations formerly made in favour of those of the said Religion Given at Bourdeaux Novemb. 10. 1615. 494. An Extract of the Kings Edict for the Pacifying the Troubles of his Kingdom given at Blois May 1616. Verifi'd June 13. the same Year 499. Private Articles granted in the Kings Name by his Deputies sent to the Conference at Loudon to the Prince of Condè to obtain the Pacification of the Troubles after that seen approv'd and ratifi'd by his Majesty 500. A Declaration about the Edicts of Pacification given at Paris July 20. 1616. And verifi'd August 4. the same Year 503. A Declaration of the King containing a Confirmation of the Edict of Loudun and the Private Articles of it Given at Paris the last of September 1616. and verifi'd Octob. 25. 504. A Declaration of the King against unlawful Assemblies of any of the Pretended Reformed Religion at Castel-jaloux and Bearn given at Paris May 21. 1618. and verifi'd May 25. 506. A Declaration of the King confirming the Edicts of Pacification and the Assemblies of Castel-jaloux and Orthes approv'd dated May 24. 1619. 508. A Declaration of the King against those of the Assembly at Loudun together with a Confirmation of the Preceding Edict of Pacification Dated Feb. 26. 1620. 510. A Declaration of the King in Favour of his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion who shall remain in their Duty and Obedience dated April 24. 1621. 514. A Declaration of the King by which all the Inhabitants and other Persons within the Cities of St. Angeli and Rochel are declar'd guilty of High Treason Publish'd June 7. 1621. 517. A Declaration of the King containing Prohibitions to all his Loving Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion remaining in their Obedience to stir from their Houses either in the City or Countrey under the Penalties therein express'd dated July 25. 1622. 520. A Declaration of the King upon the Peace which he gave his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed
Religion confirming the Preceding Edicts of Pacification Dated October 19. 1622. 521. A Paper presented to the King by the General Deputies with the Answers 524. A Circulatory Letter of the General Deputies of the Reformed Churches 535. The Kings Declaration providing against the Propounding or Treating of any Affairs in the Assemblies of the Pretended Reformed Religion but such as are permitted by the Edicts Dated April 17. 1623. 536. A Declaration of the Kings good Will to his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion Verifi'd in Parlament November 27. 1623. 537. A Declaration of the King against the Duke of Soubize and his Adherents Given at Paris Jan. 25. 1626. 539. A writing given by the English Embassadours to the Deputies of the Churches to make the King of England Garranty of the Peace in 1626. 542. An Edict of the King upon the Peace which it pleas'd his Majesty to give his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion Dated March 1626. 543. A Declaration of the King against the Sieur de Soubize and other Adherents to the Party of the English c. Given at Villeroy August 5. 1627. 548. A Declaration of the King after the taking of Rochel to his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion Given at Paris December 15. 1628. 551. The Kings Edict upon the Grace and Pardon granted as well to the Duke of Rohan and the Sieur de Soubize and to all his other Rebellious Subjects of the Cities c. Given at Nimes in July 1629. 553. FINIS The Creasion and Design and Platform of this Work 1517. 1520. The beginning of the Reformation its progress and its causes 1520. It s entrance into France 1523 How it came to be received at Meaux and in Bearn 1523 The Execution of John Clerk and of Lewis Berquin 1529. The state of the Protestant Religion in Germany 1528. The Schism of England The Inclination of Francis I. tâ— the Reformation 1534. 1535. From which the Cardinal de Tournon diverts him 1535. An accommodation proposed 1285. The Synods at Bourges and Paris 1534. The beginning of Calvin's Doctrine 1534. The year of the Placards or Libels 1535. Devotions accompanied with Executions An Edict against the Lutherans 1546. The Council of Trent 1545. 1544. 1547. The Council translated The King's death 1548. Hen. II. persecutes the Protestants 1549. 1551. The King protests against the Removal back of the Council to Trent The Dutchess of Valentinois cruel â—â— the Protestants The great Credit of the Clergy 1550. 1545. The affairs of Merindol and Cabrieres 1550. New Executions do but advance the progress of the Reformation 1553. Churches firmâ—d at Paris and many other places 155â— 1556. The Spirit of Moderation prevails over some Judges 1557. A Protestant meeting at Paris The Character of Queen Katharine de Medicis Calumnies against the Protestants Singing of Psalms in publick The Original of the Factions 1559. The couragious behaviour of Andelot And his disgrace 1559. The Counsellers of the Parliament of Paris suspected about their Religion The Death of Henry the 2d The first French Protestant National Synod Francis II. succeeds The state of the Court The Nature of the Intrigues and Characters of the chief persons God assists the first Christian. How Religion came to be conceru'd in those Intrigues Courts of Justice called Burning Chambers erected Abominable Superstitions towards Images A project against Arbitrary Power 1560. The enterprise of Amboise The Cruelty of the Court. The Original of the wâ—rd Huguenot 1560. A false appearance of Moderation The P. of Conde imprison'd The sudden death of Francis II. falsly imputed to the Protestants Charles IX succeeds The Estates assembled who seem to favour the Protestants The Rise of the Triumvirate The Conference at Polisy 1561. 1562. The setling of the Jesuits at Paris The inconstancy of the Cardinal of Lorrain and of the K. of Navar. 1561. A sedition at Paris against the Protestants The Massacre at Vassi after the Edict of January Chief Nobility The strength of the Protestants The French term for Protestant Meeting places The short favour of the Admiral with the Queen The first war undertaken by the Queens Orders and afterwards disown'd The Triple League between the Pope the K. of Spain and the Guises against the Protestants The Cruelties of Monlac and Des Adrets and of the Catholicks in general The Massacre at Sens. Foreigners called into France The battel of Dreux 1563. The Siege of Orleans The Murther of the Duke of Guise charged upon the Admiral by the Wretch that did it A Peace concluded 1564. The Marriage of the Cardinal of Chatillon and its consequences * i. e. Heresy 1568. 1571. 1563. Tythes confirmed to the Roman Clergy A Tholouse 6. 8. March 1640. theâ—3 â—3 Feb. 1658. The re-taking of Havre de Grace The end of the Council of Trent 1563. 1564. 1568. A Revolution in Bearn 1569. 1565. New occasions of jealousy given the Protestants The voyage of the Court and advice given them by the Duke of Alva The progress of the Protestant Churches 1565. 1566. The reconciliation of the Admiral with the Guises The attempt at Monceaux and its consequences 1568. A peace made before Chartres without any intention to keepit The third War 1569. The death of Andelot and of the Prince of Conde Battels lost The Admiral re-establishes the party 1570. A fraudâ—lent Peace Incredible Artifices of the Court. 1571. 1572. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew â— The Princes change their Religion by force The Inconstancy of des Rosiers Siege of Rochel and Sancerre Factions in France 1574. The Duke of Alenzon Protector of the Reformed and the Politicians The death of the King Henry III. at his return continueth the War 1575. The Princes Retreat 1576. Peace as soon broke as made The League The King's Oath Who notwithstanding makes peace Edict of 1577. Synods 1579. Conference of Nerac and Fleix 1580 The King eludes the Peace and â—et makes a shew of keeping it Outrages done to the King by the League Is forced to a War with the Reformed La Trimouille becomes reformed 1587. The Battle of Coutras Defeats of the Reiters 1588. Thedeath of P. of Conde Edict of Vnion The boldness of the Leaguers The Estates at Blois Death of the D. of Guise and the Curdinal his brother The Duke of Mayenne being escaped relieves the Leaguers party Extremity of the King's affairs The King makes a Truce with the Reformed His affairs grow better He lays siege â—â— Paris Is assassin'd by a Monk Change of Affairs What the Reformed hoped from the dead K. The trouble of the New King The Intreagues of the Army And of the Court. The Characters and Interests of the Prince of the blood The Officers of the laâ—â— King The Catholick Nobles The Reformed And their suspitions about the King's Religion The hopes of the Ministers The uncertainty of the King His resolution upon the conditions proposed by the Catholicks The Protestants flatter themselves about the King's Instruction The various affections of the
Catholick Lords The dispersion of the Army The fight of Arques Effects of the King's promiseâ— in some Provinces What the Keformed understood by Protector Protection reciprocal between the K. of Navir and the Refoâ—med The Protestants jealousies and their grounds The King offended at the proposition of taking another Protectour And the Wiser Protestants find â—t both unjust and unseasonable 1589. A Letter written by the King 's own hand upon that Subject The state of the Forces â—â—th of the Leaguers and of the King'â— party The divisions reigning in each party The 〈…〉 â—nâ— aâ—spâ—sâ—â—â—oâ—s of the Catholick Royalists â—â— a Peace in Religion The disposition of the Protestants in regard to same matter Writings about the point of taking up of Arms. for Religion 1589. 1590. The battel of Yvri 1590. The Siege of Paris A new project of peace for the Protestants The reasonableness of their demands And the passion of the Catholicks 1590. The project is at first approved And afterward rejected Remonstrances about it 1590. 1591. The effect of these Remonstrances Gregory the 14th's Bull. 1591. â—â—â— Edict of Mantes 1591. Cavils raised about its Verification * Whereof the Reformed complain The 3d. party and its designs 1521. 1591. Propositions of the Clergy that fâ—lâ—â—â—ed the King A Foreign Army Viscount of Turene marries the Heiress of Sedan And is made Marshal of France 1591. 1592. The Catholicks Artifices to gain the King Fruitless Conferences between du Plessis and Villeroy Their different prospects upon the King's instruction â—… Rigors on their Burying 1593. Continuation of the artifices to shake the King's Conscience Political Interests that tended to the same end Mutual Policy of the Catholicks and the Reformed The King â—… Preparations for his change Preparations for his Charge â—… The King's Conversion A Formular that the King refuses 1593. Mistrusts proceeded from this change Boldness of the Leaguers A renewing of the Oath of Union Barriere's Conspiracy The Rebels Pretence The Deputies of the Reformed on their march The King's Precautions against their reproaches Insults of the Catholicks Artifices to hinder the Deputies from seeing him Project of an Edict And to hinder him from satisfying them Precautions against the Oaths of the Order of the H. Ghost and the Coronation The Reformed dissatisfied of the Project neither accept nor refuse them Assemblies permisted Union renew'd with the King ' approbation Artifies to corrupt the Ministers A design of re-uniting The Duke of Nevers obtains nothing at Rome The fears that the King and Popes reconciliation gave the Reformed Truce to the King's prejudice Reduction of Meaux and other Towns Clauses in the Treaties that prejudice the Reformed * The Circuit of a League from any Town being within the Precinct or Jurisdiction of it Oath of the Consecration The Jesuits Answer Injustices done to the Reformed 1594. 1593. 1594. Synod at Montauban Orders and Prayers for the King's Prosperity And to bring him back to the Reformed Religion Disowns the Province of the Island of France in several particulars Proposals and Regulations for the General Council Provincial Councils Sedition of the Croakers Deputies amus'd at Court Pretensions of the D. of Mercoeur Overtures of Reconciliation with the Pope 1595. Testimony which d' Ossat gave the Reformed Sentimentâ— of the Court touching the Union of the Reformed Sentiments of the King upon the Assemblies Causes why they would not declare the Reformed capable of Offices The Prince of Conde taken out of their hands Ways to bring it to pass The Article about Offices passes with some trouble The Proctor-General's Cavil ill taken Cause of new Distrusts He at last permits it Reasons for his so doing Necessity of importuning the King The Assembly demands a new Edict and Securities Absolution desir'd by the King His reasons for yielding first Commissioners elected to treat D'Ossat and Perron High Pretensions of the Pope The Proctors Instructions quite contrary A Testimony given of the pâ—st and present Services of the Reformed Provocations of the Proctors in the terms and matter Articles of Penitence Complaints of the Reformed Excuses of the Proctors Secret Articles thought to be promis'd to the Pope Massacre aâ— Chastaigneray Excepted by the Patents out of the Acts which should be compriz'd in the Amnesties Artifices to perswade the Reformed to deliver up the Prince of Conde Interests of the Prince of Conti and Count of Soissons Trimouille suspected by the King Pisani carries her away with the Prince her Son Precautions taken for the Prince's Religion ill observ'd The Deputies of the Assembly at Saumur attend the King Paid with general Proâ—ises War declared against Spain League with the Queen of England who would have an Article inserted in the Treaty in favour of the Reformed The Duke of Bouillon oppos'd it Discontents of the Reformed and their effects Whence the King's colaness proceeded Suggestions of the Catholicks The Popes Address His wishes 1695. Reports of the Reformed being quite out of favour and the Sources of it 1596. The Assembly Edict of Travercy An Edict in favour of the Duke of Mayenne The Estate of the Kingdom The Project of dividing The Assembly meet at Loudun with permission New suspicions and subject of complaint * Which was a Court for the benefit of Protestants one half Roman Catholicks and the other half of the Reformed Vulson sent to Court An Effect of this Rigour A wise Expedient of Du Plessis to reunite the Assembly Is approved of the King who revokes the Order of dispersing and promises a Commissioner The Patience of the Reformed A continuation of their Requests A Legat in France renews their fears Jealousies of Roni A Synod at Saumur Their Resolutions Their Letters to the King Commissioners appointed Complaints of the King The Firmness of the Assembly which removeth to Vendome They desist about a general Exercise A second place of Exercise granted in each Balliwick and their right acquired by Possession in the year 1596. confirmed The Edict of 1577. verified at Rouen doth not content them The Pope complaineth of it D' Ossat appeaseth him 1597. The Assembly is discountenanced at the return of the Commissioners Mistrusts and Jealousies on both sides Divisions in the Assembly They return to Saumur Amiens surprised Confusion in the Affairs A Motion for War in the Assembly The Motives of the Dukes of Bouillon and Trimouille The King's perplexity His different manner of writing to the Assembly before and after the taking of Amiens The Answers of the Assembly Which is removed to Chatelleraud more numerous than before The Reasons which may excuse the firmness of the Assembly in their Demands about the Article of Security Their Conduct in respect of the Siege of Amiens Difference in Opinions The Reformed serve the King before Amiens The Actions of the Dukes of Bouillon and la Trimouille The Commissioners changed The Treaty continueth and they slacken on both sides A new Possession acquired in 1597. Articles granted by Count Schomberg with submission to the King's
pleasure A Debate whether to accept them provisionally or definitively The Council's Shiftings about the Articles The Treaty is interrupted New Instructions Disputes put to an end by the King's firmness The Assembly beggeth the intercession of the Queen of England and of the Vnited Provinces New Delays partly malicious partly innocent A Book setting forth the Grievances of the Reformed Elamed by some The Importance of its Contents It beginneth with excusing the freedom of those Complaints Maketh Remonstrances to the King about the Delays of his Council and the general State of the Reformed By what degrees the King had been drawn from them The Design of their Petion General Complaints made by them against all â— French Against all the Orders of the State Against the Clergy in particular The publick Exercise of the reformed Religion obstructed and private Devotions hindred And in their private Devotions Instances of great Violences The boldness of the Parliament of Bourdeaux The Exercise interrupted or forbid in several places by divers Decrees In the Army At Rouen the King being there Complaints upon the account of the places Against the Catholick Gentlemen Against the Treaties with the League Singing of Psalms hindred Books seized and burnt Comforting of the sick Consciences forced The Prince of Conde The keeping of Lent and Holidays Colledges The Poor ill used Places where the Reformed dare not dwell A remarkable Injustice done at Lyon Trades Violences Injustice done to the Reformed about Offices * The Council of State is not meant here but a Court of Judicature in Paris where some Special Matters are debated Seditious Words and Speeches Passion of Judges and Parliaments Difficulties in reestablishing the Edict of 1577. Special Instances of the ill will of the Parliaments Burials made difficult Hindred A strong free and moving Conclusion Reflections on that Book New Delays And Difficulties upon particular Places The breaking up of the Assembly The state of the Garrisons The naming of Governors The Annual renewing of the state of the Garrisons Private Interests 1598. The Edict delay'd till the Month of August when there were no more Leaguers The Assembly allarmed The King grants the Edict being armed Different Opinions about the Edict The Conclusion at Nants The Particulars of the Difficulties on each Article They first demand a new Edict Reasons pro and con The second Demand a free Exercise and its extent The advantage secured to the prevailing Religion A second place in each Bailiwick was no new thing Difficulties about the Places of Exercise Upon the Proofs Difficulties about the Burials The Third Demand the Subsistence of the Ministers A Sum of Mony promised by the King The Schools The 4th Demand the possession of Estates and Rights of Succession The fifth demand impartial Judges Chambers Miparties or of the Edict The sixth Demand to be admitted to Offices The extent of this Concession * The Offices wherein Notaries Public allow'd by Authority ingross and register private Contracts The Sham of this Concession The 7th Demand Securities 1598. How they were useful to the King â— The payment of the Garrisons Gifts to private Persons Contestations touching the Form of the Concessions which is diverse according to the nature of the thing The manner of Payment The Conclusion * Chambre Mipartie is a Court of Justice Erected in divers good Towns of France in favour of and for the righting them of the Religion one half of the Judges being of the Reformed the other Papists 〈…〉 Edict Artifices to gain ' em A Synod at Mompelier The number of the State of the Churches Forming a Church what it is Several Churches United into one Causes of contenting themselves with the Edict as it was obtain'd Lesdiguieres's Religion Treatise of the Eutharist Consequences of the publishing of it Three Important Negotiations with the Pope The Establishment of the Jesuits Their boldness and Credit The Monks all hate the King Persecution in Piedmont The Marquisat of Saluces Reasons why the King favour'd the Jesuits 3d. Mâ—…age of Madame Her Constancy The King's Severities toward her Scruples Rais'd by the Pope His Reasons The King proceeds to the Marriage without staying for the Dispensation The issue of the Negotiation till the Death of the Princess The Advantages which the Reformed got by her Perseverance Difficulties about the Verification of the Edict Their Proposals upon the Edict The Transports of some Prelates The Nuncio's Moderation The Opposition of the Parliament The Justice of the D. of Mayenne 1599. The Reformed forbear insisting upon several Articles Obstinacy of â—â—â— Clergy Chambers of the Edict at Rouen Chamber Mipartie â—n Guien * A kind of a New-years Gift given for the contiance in an Office Verification of the Edict The Pope makes great Complaints to stop the Spaniards Mouths Answers of the Cardinals de Joyeuse and d'Ossat Accommodated to the Popes liking Edict for the Principality of Bearn Which is receiv'd â—rmplaints of the Alterations made in the Edict Particular Complaints Precedency pretended by the Catholic Officers that compos'd the Chambres Miparties ever the Reformed Verbal demands concerning Chappels in Gentlemens Houses The Papers answer'd Precedency preserv'd to the most â— Ancient President Article of Church-yards Brossiereâ—eigns â—eigns her self possess'd by the Devil The Sequel of this Comedy within and without the Kingdom Dissolution of the Kings Marriage A Decree of the Parlament of Bretagne touching the Oath referr'd by a Reformed to a Catholic Trimouille made a Peer of France 1600. Roni's Advancement not much wondred at Commissioners for the Execution of the Edict and their Power General Observations upon the Edict Reproacheâ— of the Catholics thrown upon the Reformed Answers Questions upon the Nature of the Edict The Benefit of the Edict The condition of the Kingdom hoth before and after the Edict Warâ— abovt Religion the most Cruel What sort of variety Policy ought not to suffer in a Kingdom What is the Nature of the Reformed Religion The Justice of the Edict Justice of Reward after Service done What Reward is The Edict Grants nothing to the Reformed c. The Concessions for this reason so much the more Just What the Edict grants the Reformed does no body harm The Catholics Gainers by the Edicts The Edict ought to be Irrevocable Considerations upon the Word And upon the things Rights of Conscience The Force of Edicts that maintain Liberty And of these that are granted for the preservation of the Societies The preservation of Subjects the chief Obligation of Soveraigns An Express or Tacit Treaty naturally between Sovereign and Subject Also between Master and Slave The Force of Treaties The Edict of Nantes a Treaty The Form of the Edict renders it more Venerable Two things relating to a Treaty in the Edict 1. Between the King and the Reformed 2. Between the Catholics and the Reformed The Reformed Treats with the King 1. â—â—r Recompence for their Services 2. Touching their being secur'd against their Enemies Places of Security Kings may Treat
Benefit of a Monk's place assign'd a Soldier grown impotent and maim'd in the King's Service Attempts upon Paternal Authority A Declaration establishing a Commissioner in Colloquies and Synods National Synod He is admitted in Obedience to the King They send Commissioners to the King Who return laden with Orders The Court inclin'd to favour the Arminians Writing of la Milletiere Answer of Tilenus Imposture advanc'd against the Synod of Dort The Obedience of the Synod of Charenton Assignations ill paid Proposals made to the Synod by Galand A new Deputation to the King Oath of Union A Citadel at Mompelier Maniald opposes it in the name of the Reformed Presages of a new War Death of Du Plessis The Commissioners make the condition of the Reformed worse at Gergeau At Remorentin At Tours Commissioners in Poitou and Saintonge He raines the Câ—â—rches under appearanceâ— of Honesty Paper of the Clergy of Saintes The Malice of several Articles Chalas's Complaisance Enterprises of the Catholics at Rochel 1624. Cardinal Richlieu's Maxims Proposals for marrying the Prince of Wales to the Infanta Fruitles Marriage concluded upon Conditions advantageous for the Catholics Process of the City of Pamiers against the Bishop Cavils upon the Right of pursuing the Payment of Legacies and Donations Troubles renew'd Enterprise of the Dukes of Rohan and Soubise Discover'd Soubise gets possession of the King's â—â—â—p◠〈…〉 thought lost and disown'd by every body 1625. The King's Declaration upon this occasion Soubise disingages himself Which changes the Face of Affairs Politic Devotions of the Duke of Rohan Seconded by his wife Manifesto of the Duke of Soubise Dispute about the Privileges of Rochelle Peace discours'd of Cruelties of the Royal Army in Foix. Soubise prospers A Paper of the Reformed presented to the King Answers to their Paper The Reformed not satisfi'd The Court recovers her Affairs An Assembly of the Clergy They give money with an ill will The King excepts Rochel out of the Peace Which retards the conclusion of it Particular Laws which the King would impose upon that City A powerful League against Spain The Cardinal's Designs Of which he is forc'd to defer the execution The English Embassadors importunate for the Peace of the Religion Rochelle accepts the Conditions somewhat mollify'd Why the Court exacted such Writings All Pass'd by the Embassaders of England In 〈…〉 England was â—… A new Edict confirming all the rest France plays foul with the Confederates Jealousie between the Cardinal and Buckingham The Cardinal's blind-side Enterprises of the Catholics of the Queen of England's menial Servants Conspiracies against the Cardinal The Cardition of Rochel A National Synod The Commissioners Instructions Answers of Chauve the Moderator Masuyer'â— faâ—se dealing The Catholics trâ—â—â—â—â— They would have involv'd the Ministers in the Duke of Rohan's Treaty with Spain Article of the Synod of Realmont for the discovery of such as had a hand in the Treaty Which offends all the Charâ—â—es And is disown'd iy the National Synod Leave to nominate General Deputies From which the Synod desires to be exempted And send Deputies to the King Remonstrances of the Deputies Maniald dyes Hardi put in his room The Deputies return with the King's Answers The Synod names General Deputies The Synod names General Deputies Divers Resolutions of the Synod Castres refuses to receive the Duke of Rohan's Deputies A Memoir of Grievances Burial of Gentlemen who were the Founders of Churches Legacies given to the Poor adjudg'd to Hospitals A Marriage of a Knight of Maltha vacated The Assembly of Notables 1627. Forc'd Conversions in Bearn And at Audenas At St. Amand Extraordinary Acts of Injustice Innovations at Mompelier The Foundation of Mompelier Declaration against Foreign Ministers Rochel still blockt up England declares war The United Provinces send succonr to France The English land in the Isle of Ré The Irresolution of the Rochelois Court Letters intercepted A nice Question Whether Huguenots were to be suffer'd in the King's Army Rochel Resolves Rochel publishes a Manifesto The Duke of Rohan does the same thing Intrigue of Galand against the Duke 1628. Defeat of the English A second English Fleet of no use to Rochel A third Fleet more useless A Treaty of Peace with England and the surrender of Rochel This City refuses to submit to the English â—â—e Fleet of Spain at the Siege of Rochel Rejoycing among the Catholics Cruelties Insulting and Executions Personal Enmity between the Prince of Condé and the Duke of Rohan A new Sedition at Lion against the Reformed The pretended Conversion of a Sick Person that fell into a Phrensie Decrees and Declarations against the Duke of Rohan The King and the Cardinal take a Journey into Italy 1629. The Siege of Privas the Inhabitants of which were betray'd Cruelties exercis'd upon the City The pretences of the Catholics Conversions of soldiers tak'n Pris'ners A Declaration upon the taking of Privas A Treaty of the Duke of Rohan with Spain An Assembly permitted at Anduse and translated to Nimes Peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Edict of Grace Contents of the Edict The King's Letter to Queen Mother about the Peace The Duke of Rohan retires Montauban reduc'd Assembly of the Clergy Particuâ—â—â— Acts of Injustice 1630. Mlssiionaries The Duke of Rohan accus'd of the Ruin of the Churches Cavils about the Right of Exercises The Bishop of Valence persecutes the Foreign Ministers The Original of the Injustice done upon occasion of the Annexes New Seeds of a Civil War 1631. The Queen withdraws into Flanders Alliance with Gustavus King of Sueden Projects of Reunion With which the Cardinal closes Intreagues of Joseph the Capuchin caught he Pro. How the Synods were to speak Inclinations of the Ministers And the People Difficulties Petit's Projects And Melitiere Difference in their intentions Issue of the Project in general The truth of this Project A National Synod The Commissioners Speech Ministers suspected by the King excluded from the Synod The Answer to the Commissioner's Speech The Commissioner in vain opposes the Union of the Churches of Bearn with the rest Several Proposals of the Commissioner The Synod sâ—nds Deputies to the King Papers The favourable Reception of the Deputies The Nomination of General Deputies The Reformed fear'd at Court â—mportant Resolutions of the Synod Annexes Exercise forbid Consulships The Puâ—… Liberty opprâ—… 1632. Civil War of the Duke of Orleans The Bishops of Languedoc side with him The Reformed faithful The Duke of Rohan serves the King in Italy Affairs of the Annexes in the Dauphinate referr'd to four Commissioners Consulship of Alets Exercise forbid A shameful Cavil An inconsiderate Curiosity of two Scholars The Death of Gustavus 1633. Great Troubles in the Kingdom Advice of the Commissioners of the Dauphinate upon the Annexes Re-establishment of Privas Treatise intitl'd The Eucharist of the Ancient Church Exercises forbid Partiâ—-Colledges 1634. The Continuance of the Public Oppression Pretensions of France to all Europe Answer'd The Duke of Sulli made a Marshal of France Decrees upon several occasions Preâ—â—â—â—â— adjudg'd