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A58432	A relation of the barbarous and bloody massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France, by the Papists, in the year 1572 collected out of Mezeray Thuanus, and other approved authors.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1678 (1678)	Wing R814; ESTC R4018	28,718	48

Maid and the Fuzee which the Murderer left behind him when he made his escape The King was in the Tenis-Court when the news were brought him He personated a deep resentment and said in a Tone that seemed full of affliction and with a terrible Oath Shall I never have quiet and so threw away his Racquet and went out in a rage The Duke of Guise did also counterfeit some Surprise But they missed their designs both ways for neither was the Admiral killed nor did the Protestants fly out into any disorder The King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde came upon this to the King to complain and desired leave to go out of Town since Men were not safe so near the Court. The King seemed to resent it more than they did and with the horriblest Oaths he could think of swore he would execute such a Revenge on all that were found guilty of it whoever they were that it should never be forgotten and desired them to stay and be Witnesses of it The Queen-Mother made also shew of inflaming his Rage with most vehement Expressions so that they were persuaded to stay The King ordered the Murderer to be pursued the two Servants to be Examined and all the Gates of Paris except two to be kept shut The Admirals carriage on this occasion was suitable to the rest of his behaviour and equal to what the greatest Heroe's had ever shewed Ambrose Parè the famous Surgeon dressed his Wound he made the Incision into his Arm that he might take out the Bullet and did cut off his Finger for fear of a Gangreen But his Scissars not being sharp enough he put him to extream pain and did not cut it off but at the third reprise during all which the Admiral expressed no impatience nor anger But as Parè told Thuanus he said to Mr. Maur a Minister that stood by Now I perceive that I am beloved of God since I suffer these Wounds for his most holy Name And during the Operation he often repeated these words O my God sorsake me not and withdraw not thy wonted Favour from me And whispered one that was holding his Arm in the Ear that he should distribute an hundred Crowns among the poor of Paris Next day Danivil Cosse and Villars came to visit and comfort him but confessed it was needless for he expressed great resolution of mind and readiness to die only he desired to see the King and speak with him before he died Damvil and Teligny the Admirals Son in Law carried this Message to the King who very readily yielded to it The Queen-Mother apprehending the great Genius of the Admiral and fearing lest he should turn her Son to better Councils would needs go with the King His two Brothers with twelve of the chief Persons in the Court waited also on him to make a shew of putting the more Honour on the Admiral but really to watch the King that he might have no opportunity of speaking with him alone When the King came to his Bed-side he expressed the greatest tenderness possible and in his Looks and the tone of his Voice counterfeited a most profound sorrow and said to him You my Father have received the Wound but I feel the smart of it and will punish it in so severe a manner that the like was never seen The Admiral thanked him and told him By his Wound he might well perceive who were the Authors of the Troubles of France He pressed him earnestly to go on with the War in Flanders and not leave all those Gallant Persons to the Duke of Alva's Insolence and Cruelty who had trusted to his Protection He complained of the Violation of the Edict in several parts of France and desired the King to consider how much it concerned him both in Honour and Interest to keep his Faith inviolated The King gave him full assurances of this but avoided the discourse of Flanders and with repeated Oaths told him he would punish this Fact against him as if it had been done against himself Then the Admiral desired to speak privately with the King which lasted not long for the Queen-Mother apprehending what the subject of his Discourse might be came to the Bed-side and told the King that so long a Conversation would much endanger the Admirals health and so broke it off Yet it seems as short as it was it made some Impression for when she asked the King what it was that he had said to him He answered He had advised him to Reign himself and he was resolved to follow it When this was over the King asked the Admirals Friends and the Physicians many questions about his Health and proposed for his greater security the carrying him to the Louvre But the Physicians said he could not be safely removed So after he had staied an hour he left him during which time he acted the part he intended to play so well that all the Witnesses were satisfied with the Sincerity and Passion he expressed The Court of Parliament examined the Maid and Lackquey that were taken in the House from whence he was shot about the Murtherer and many presumptions appeared against the Duke of Guise whose Servants they found had brought him to that House and had provided an Horse for his escape The King wrote that same day both to his Ambassadours in forreign parts and to the Governours of the Provinces shewing them what had befallen the Admiral and how much he resented it The next day being the 23d the Duke of Guise and his Uncle the Duke of Aumale came and desired leave to go out of Town The King by his Looks and Carriage seemed to abhor them and said they might do what they pleased but as they went away he said they might go whither they would but he should find them out if they appeared to be guilty of that Fact And so they mounted on Horse-back and rode to the Port St. Anthony as if they had intended to go out of Town but came back to Guise-house and began to raise a great stir in Paris They called many about them and sent their Agents all over the Town and sent Arms to divers places When News of this was brought to the Admiral he sent to the King to desire a Guard so 50 were sent under the Command of Cosseins one of his bitterest Enemies But to cover the matter better some of the King of Navarres Swisses were sent to Guard within his House The King did also order all the Papists that lay near his House to remove their Lodgings that the Protestants might have conveniency to be about him and gather together if there should be any Tumult He also desired the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde would gather about them their best Friends that they might be prepared to defend themselves in case the Duke of Guise should raise any disorders All this seemed not only sincere but kind and by these Arts were the Protestants not only secured from

their fears but had great hopes raised in them And thus the greatest part of them were brought within the Net that was laid for their ruine Only the Vice-Lord or Vidam of Chartres saw through the disguise And a Council of their Party being held in the Admirals Chamber he spoke freely and told them the Admirals Wound was the first Act of the Tragedy and more would soon follow Therefore he proposed that he might be carried to Chastilion ill as he was in which there was less danger than to stay in a place where they and all their Friends would be suddenly destroyed Teligny and others that were fully perswaded of the Kings good Intentions opposed this much and said it would shew such a distrust of the King as might for ever lose him that was then beginning to favour their Party But the Vidam answered that stay who would he would not stay longer than to Morrow for he was assured their stay would be fatal to themselves and all their Friends There was a perfidious Person in that Assembly one Bouchavannes who was an Intelligencer to the Queen-Mother and carried presently an account of their Consultation to her She and her Party were now pressed with time therefore the execution of their Design could be no longer delayed than the next Night So the Council met and resolved that not only the Persons of Quality of the Religion should be killed but that every one of what condition soever that were of that Profession should be Massacred It was debated long whether the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde should perish with the rest for the Duke of Guise his Party had a great mind to destroy the whole Family of Bourbon but as for the King of Navarre it was thought contrary to the Laws of Nations of Hospitality and of Nature to murder a King that had come under trust to the Court and was now so nearly allied to the King and was guilty of no Crime but what he had from his Education So it was resolved he should be spared and made change his Religion But for the Prince of Conde he was naturally fierce and that temper joined with the memory of his Father made them less inclined to save him Only the Duke of Nevers who had married his Wifes Sister interposed vigorously for him and undertook that he should become a good Catholick and a faithful Subject And he prevailed tho with great difficulty that he should be spared But for the rest it was agreed on to raise the Town of Paris and set them upon them who were inflamed into such a rage against that Party that they knew it would be an easy work to engage them in any sort of Cruely against them The conduct of it was committed to the Duke of Guise who undertook it very chearfully He did first communicate it to the Guards and ordered them to keep a strict Watch both about the Louvre and the places where the Admiral and his Friends were lodged that none might escape then he desired the Provost or Major of Paris and the chief Magistrates and Officers of the City would meet at Midnight in the Town-house where they should receive their Orders They met accordingly and it was intimated to them that the King was now resolved to destroy the Hereticks who had so long distracted his Kingdom that therefore every one should go to his Quarter and have all People in readiness with the greatest secrecy that might be and that they should have many Torches and Flambeaus ready to light out at their Windows The Sign should be a white Linnen Sleeve on their left Arm and a white Cross in their Caps and at the tolling of the great Bell of the Palace which should be done near the break of Day they should light their Torches and march The King in the mean while was under great irresolution The horror of the Fact the infamy that would follow it and the danger he might be in if it either miscarried or were not fully executed could not but fill him with Confusion But the Queen who had overcome all the impressions of Tenderness and Pity that are natural to her Sex hearing of it came to him and studied to confirm him in his former resolutions representing to him all the trouble they had given him in the former Wars and that he might expect yet worse if he would let go this opportunity of securing the quiet of his whole Reign She knew how to work upon him so well that in end she prevailed and the King swore deeply he would go through with it Upon that she being impatient and fearing a new turn in the Kings Thoughts made the Bell of St. Germans be tolled which was the warning for tolling that in the Palace This fatal Signal was given the Morning of the 24th of August St. Bartholomews day being Sunday and was followed with a general Rising of the whole City of Paris The March of Souldiers the noise of their Arms and the lightning of so many Torches awakened the poor Protestants who now saw visibly that their ruine was both near and inevitable Some of them went out to the Streets and asked what the matter might be of so great a Concourse and so many Torches and armed Men at such an hour Some answered as they had been instructed to say till all things should be ready that there was to be a Mock-Siege of a Fort in the Louvre for the Kings Diversion So they went forward to satisfy their Curiosity but quickly found it was a real Massacre and not a Mock-Siege that was intended and they were the first Sacrifices of that bloody Festivity There were now about threescore thousand Men brought together The Duke of Guise which his Uncle Aumale resolved first to satisfie their revenge on the Admiral and therefore went to his Gate where Cosseins kept guard on design to betray him the more effectually He called to open the Gate which being done they killed the Porter and broke into the Court But the King of Navarr's Swisses barricado'd the next Gate and made some resistance This dismal noise awakened the Admiral who at first apprehended it might be some Tumult of the Populace which he hoped the King's Guards would easily disperse But when he perceived it encreased then he saw he was to be destroyed So he took his Night-Gown and got up Those that were about him were amazed at the constancy of his mind his Minister Merlin prayed and when that was ended He said to those that were about him I see now what this will end in but I am prepared to meet Death which I have often looked for but was never afraid of I account my self happy since it is so near me having in this my Death through the Grace of God the hope of Eternal Life I need no more the help of Men therefore farewel my Friends and try how you can save your selves that you be not involved in my ruin lest by

was intended to abandon them to the cruelty of the Duke of Alva who had intercepted and cut off a great Body of them commanded by Ienlis The Admiral pressed the King to declare the War immediately foreseeing that unless it followed suddenly his Friends that had surprized these Towns would be destroyed and the whole Design spoiled But the King put him off with delays in which he expressed much confidence in him by telling him the secret grounds he had to distrust almost every Person about him and that therefore he must of necessiity settle his Court and Councils first before he could enter upon such a War But now the Design being ripe the Duke of Guise to whom it had also been communicated was employed to gather many desperate Men about him who might be fit to execute all Orders and the thing getting into more hands took wind so that they at Rochel being informed of some suspicious Passages wrote to the Admiral to disabuse him and desired he would leave the Court and trust no more to the fair appearances he saw there since these were only the Masks of some great Mischief that was a framing To them he wrote a long answer and assured them That the King's Heart was wholly changed that there was never a better Prince in the World and that for his own part he would die a thousand deaths rather than suspect him capable of so base a Design Then he laid before them all the reasons which induced him to believe the War with Spain was really intended and theresore he desired that they would lay down their groundless Jealousies And when some that were about him pressed the same things upon him he told them plainly He would rather be destroyed than make a new Rupture and would be dragged at Horse-heels through Paris rather than begin another Civil War His Authority was so great and his Experience so approved that the whole Party submitted to his Judgment And he got some Cautionary Towns that were by the Treaty of Peace to be restored at the end of two Years to be delivered up three Weeks before the time was elapsed Only the Rochellers were a little more apprehensive and would not receive a Garrison On the 17th of August was the King of Navarre Married and four days were spent in all the gallant Diversions that are usual on such Occasions but were now performed with more than ordinary Magnificence and Joy Hitherto the Mine was working under-ground and now it was time for it to play There was nothing could be blamed in the Conduct of the Protestants but too much Candour and too great Confidence They knew they designed nothing but the quiet of their Country and the greatness of the Crown They were cajol'd with the most engaging tokens of Friendship that ever were shewed on any such Occasion they thought the King was sincere and being then but coming to be of Age was taking new Measures And he had so covered the Cruelty of his Temper with a shew of good Nature that they expected they should be most happy under him And for the Queen-Mother tho they knew her too well to put any confidence in her yet her Passion for her Family and her Revenge for the poysoning of her Daughter made them think they were also well assured of her And indeed so deep and so refin'd a Dissimulation was perhaps never before acted There was but one part of the Kings Deportment that could give any ground for Jealousie the horrid and blasphemous Oaths and Imprecations which he made use of on all occasions to persuade them of the reality of his Professions which always raise suspicion in sober and wary Persons These the King used so frequently that the Writers of that Time say That he seldom spoke three words without some terrible Oath or blasphemous Expression which from his ill Example was so spread over all France that none but the Protestants spoke in any other strain But now when it fell under Consideration how their Designs should be Executed the Queen with her two Italian Confidents the Count de Rets and Birague who next to the Protestants hated the House of Guise beyond all the World yet dissembling it most artificially intended that the business should be so managed as to ruine both the Protestants and that Family at once Therefore they thought that if some of their Followers would Assassinate the Admiral the Protestants would turn their Revenge on them and they knew the Parisians would be easily moved to rise against the Protestants and so they reckoned that if an attempt was made upon the Admiral by any of the Duke of Guise's Creatures his Party would presently take a severe Revenge on the Head of the House of Guise and the Parisians would be soon brought out to destroy them They concealed this part of their Design and in the Cabinet-Council only proposed that the Duke of Guise would find some person to kill the Admiral which should pass like an act of private Revenge and they said they did not doubt but the whole party would upon that take arms and thereupon there would be a good colour given to bring out the City of Paris upon them The Duke of Guise being young and hot and boiling with Revenge for his Father's Blood undertook it not considering that himself might perish in the first heat of action as the Queen hoped he should He pitch'd on Maurenel who had formerly assassinated another Person and placed him in the House of one that had been his Tutor near St. German of Auxerre where the Admiral used to pass as he went or came from the Louvre It was now necessary to execute their Design quickly for the Protestants were beginning to apprehend some danger They saw the King was resolved to let those who had surprized the Towns in Flanders perish without sending them any Relief The Admiral was resolved to take leave within a few days His Friend the Duke of Montmorency tho no Protestant yet saw the Storm coming and retired to his House and many little Circumstances occurred which gave them all just cause of fear So the other Party had no time to lose Therefore on the 22d of August about Noon as the Admiral was going Home from the Court reading a Paper that he had in his hand the Assassinate that was laid for him shot him from the House where the Duke of Guise had placed him his Fuzee was charged with three Bullets that were believed to be poysoned One of these carried away part of the Fore-finger of his right Hand the other stuck in his left Arm and the third missed him He received it with great presence of mind and pointed to the House from whence it came he also sent one to the King to give him notice of it and then ordered his Arm to be bound up and so went Home leaning on his Servants Some run to the House and broke into it but found none there save a Lacquey and a