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A88437	The civil wars of France, during the bloody reign of Charls the Ninth: wherein is shewed, the sad and bloody murthers of many thousand Protestants, dying the streets and rivers with their blood for thirty daies together, whose innocent blood cries to God for vengeance. And may stand as a beacon tired to warn, and a land-mark to pilot all Protestant princes and states to a more secure harbour than peace with Papists. / Faithfully collected out of the most antient and modern authors, by a true Protestant, and friend to the Common-wealth of England.	London, William, fl. 1658.	1655 (1655)	Wing L2851; Thomason E1696_1; ESTC R209434	160,389	298

leaving with one La Gross his Chirurgion was by degrees poisoned and swelled so that the wonderfully and narrowly escaped with his life But these Gloves that poisoned this virtuous Queen were ordered in such a secret sort and just proportion that having worn them a while a violent Feaver seized on her which ended her life in four daies And thus died this Noble Queen bewailed exceedingly by all the Protestants for I find her Enemies say The Queen of Navar in part described She was a Lady of a noble Spirit invincible courage many degrees above most of her Sex qualities besides her Chastity and Magnificence worthy Eternal praise She was one that dived into the deep Mysteries of Divinity which raised her illustrious mind to a high pitch of Christianity being also very judicious of a ready wit invincible in adversity absolute in her actions capable of Counsel comprehending things with great vivacity of Spirit delivering her mind with an admirable grace either by word or writing her comprehension of deep things was of a treble magnitude above any of her sex neither can my pen drop her praise but her infinite merits and if it were possible for any pen to erect Trophies of Honour to the peerless challenges of her immortal praise the lustre of her incomparable merits would be the truest guide in the darkest night This noble Queens Death gave way to the Prince her Son to be King of Navar The Q. death intitles her Son the P. to be K. of Navar. to whom the Kingdome came This unhappy death was looked on by many as very ominous portending a sure prognostick of some unfortunate Catastrophe many bing struck with amazement at this sudden treochery and bloody death concluding it to be a sad Fore-runner of some mischief to come But that which made many Protestants cast away all fear was the Kings loving carriage to them insomuch that things at this time looked with a peaceable countenance throughout the Kingdom of France Now the day of marriage between the Lady Margaret and the King of Navar was appointed which was a great day of joyful hopes to all the Protestants and made all things seem more serene and calm on their side in that also the Guisans and the rest of the chief Catholicks shewed great discontent thereat for all good men judged it an assured pledge of the Kings fidelity and of peace in as much as he shewed such outward joy and declared It was not so much for the wedding as that he said it was for a strong knot of Peace and would tend to a general satisfaction of peaceable Spirits and for the Good of the whole Nation August the 17. the King of Navar The K. of Navar and Lady Margarite maried with great joy on both sides but greater sorrow succeeds and the Lady Margaret was maried with great Solemnity before the great Church of Paris on a Scaffold in sight of all the People and there was a certain form of words so ordered as agreed with both parties which by the Kings commandment was pronounced by the Cardinal of Bourbon the King of Navars Uncle and so was this mariage solemnized with the joy of all good men being kept with Banquets dancing and Masques with a strange mixture of Papists and Protestants together Thus the poor Protestants thought with joy to welcome their own comforts but alas their hopes are frustrate in a contrary success of their expectations and the Kings promises After this the Bride with great magnificence accompanied with a great confluence of Gallants was led to the Church to hear mass The Bridegroom misliking these Ceremonies did with Henry Prince of Conde the Admiral and other Noblemen of the Protestants walk and wait without the Church door for the Brides return The Queen Mother Dukes of Anjou Guise plot But the Queen Mother and her bloody Companions with the Dukes of Anjou and Guise consult about the last Tragical act which was to kill the Admiral and to divide the Protestants thus-like moles under ground they drive on their Hellish designs in Secrecy The King to delude the more speaks publickly The K. publickly declares that he gives his Sister in Mariage as a ty of Union and peace The Admiral of the Kings fleet endeavours to surprize Rochel That he gives not his Sister in mariage to the King of Navar only but as it were to the whole Church of the Protestants to join with them in a undissoluble union and as a ty to their peace and safety Oh! painted ruin whither at last will the fury of thy bloody Chariots drive thee Now while these things proceeded thus at Paris Strozzi as aforesaid Admiral of the Kings Fleet rides before Rochel and at select times sends Captains and Souldiers into the Town under pretence of buying necessaries for their Fleet and sometimes did come ashoar himself but the King had given him Commission to seize on the City although as before it was given out that he say to entrap all the supplies going from Spain to the aid of the Duke of Alva in the Low Countries The like Treachery was used in another part of France by Gonzague Duke of Nevers with a party of Horse neer to La Charite where a bridge passes the River Loyre which the Protestants then had The protestants at Lyons had their names put in a bloody Book this Gonzague requests Liberty of the Town to muster shewing the K. Letters which indeed he had The Governour of Lyons commanded he names of the Protestants to be written in a Book which in regard of their Horrid cruelties committed and devillish Bucheries committed in this City was justly called the bloody Book The Admiral The Admiral desires to depart Paris but the K. desired his stay which on some other grounds he did but sad complaints and great suspition of treason came to his cars but he believes it not after the mariage being then the time he appointed and desired to return to his own house did move the King about his departure but so great was the Court revellings that the Admiral coul not have private access to his Majesty to deal in State-matters Rochel at this time was in a manner besieged with Souldiers arriving hourly giving out terrible threats against the Town which made the Protestants begin to cry to the Admiral for succour and relief for indeed the Admiral was as a nursing Father to them in other Towns also was heard secret murmurings terrifying the most cleer-sighted Protestants giving too sure cause to think a bloody and terrible spectacle would be shewed beyond present conception which will shortly be seen in a horrible manner The Admiral knew not what to answer to all these sad complaints that uncessantly flowed in as one wave on the back of another and all to get him from the Court He answered to all the King had made us swear before him to be Friends the Lady Margaret is given in mariage

Prison to save the blood yet such was the effusion of Christian blood that it run out of prison streaming down the Gutters of the streets to the amazement of the Popish Inhabitants But now at Orleance the place of the last Treaty of peace and the place where it was solemnly proclaimed with full command for Observation of the Edict At this place I say the Kings Letters came commanding to murther all and happened to come the same day that three hundred were met together at a Sermon whereupon the Maior and Officers commanded the Companies in arms to fall on and to execute speedily the Kings command oh Tyrant and bloody command One of the Murtherers went to a noble mans house inviting himself and his bloody followers to Supper where they were made welcome with good chear no sooner was Supper ended but they blaspheming murthered him and all his family and then plundered his house There were many that lived on the outside of the Town amongst whom was heard such sad murtherings and cruelties that all night long was heard nothing but howlings and cryings of men women and children massacred shooting off of Guns and Pistols breaking doors and rumbling of Carts that conveyed away the dead bodies all which were mixed with the cryes of the bloody Murtherers crying Kill Kill them all and then take the Spoil and thus they continued all the week in these sad and bloody murthers and plundering blasphemously singing in scorn where is now their God On Tuesday they came to a Doctor of the Civil Law who being found in earnest prayer to God they had not the power to kill him only took a little plunder with them next day they came again and views his Library what books they demanded he gave them they told him he must be killed he therefore goes to prayer again and afterwards desired of them that if he must dy to murther him there which they refused they take him and lead him through the Streets and coming to the Schools he desired them to kill him where he taught so many but they led him a little further and so knocked him on the head One that was forced by hunger out of a secret place where he hid himself was presently slain Such as for fear revolted they forced to kill their friends or were killed themselves As soon as the Kings bloody Message came to the City of Tholouse the Gates were presently shut but it pleased the Lord of his good grace and Providence so to order it that the Protestants were gone that morning out of the Ciry to a Sermon and as soon as the noise of the Massacre came to their ears many returned not again to the City But others would venture so far as to go to order their affairs for a Return but poor souls they never returned back for as soon as they came to the Gates they were suffered to enter leaving their swords at the Gates amongst whom was many of great account and on wednesday morning all the poor Protestants were imprisoned with command that none should on pain of death hide any of them Amongst these were six Counsellers which like good Christians encouraged the rest at last they were all brought into one place and so the bloody Murtherers being ready with axes and knives they were one by one destroyed their bodies stripped naked and lay for two daies The six Counsellours being hung up in their long Gowns upon Elm Trees in the Palace yard which would move any one to compassion there being in this City three hundred thus murthered In Roan as soon as the Kings command came there was an infinite number slain in few daies six thousand men besides women whom they used as cruelly as can be imagined their bodies were stript and caried out in carts being put into the pits in great heaps At Bourdeaux as soon as the news of the Massacre at Paris arrived and command from the King to follow their Example The Protestants were boating over the River to a Sermon but orders followed them that they should be apprehended whereupon the Gates of the City were shut yet the Ministers through Gods good mercy and grace escaped and safely landed in England The Governour was somewhat timerous to act the Kings command in such a bloody subjection to cruelty but the Lord Monpessat assured him how acceptable it would be to his Majesty and for their better encouragement he enters the house of the Lord of Obiers and basely murthered him in his own Court And then presently the froath and Scum of the Town assembled and murthered all the rest amongst whom was a Minister that came out of the adjacent Countrey Also there was a reverend old Deacon of a church whom they dragged out of his sick bed through the Streets and so basely and inhumanly murthered As soon as the bloody Message of the Kings cruell command arrives at Angiers they fell on all the Protestants without mercy or pitty to sex or age for no sooner were the Massacres begun at Paris but one Monsorel a bloody and cruel Papist posted and soon arrived with orders from the K. to destroy all he no sooner arrives but desires a speedy conduct to one Masson de Rivers who was a Godly and zealous Pastor of a Church a very able and elaborate Disspenser of the Mysteries of the Gospel and one excelling in wisdom knowledge and learning He it was that laid the foundation stone of the first Church of Christ in Paris This bloody Monsorel meets Mr. Masson's wife at the Door and kindly saluted her demanding where her Husband was she answered in the Garden whither she conducted him who as soon as he commeth to him embraces him kindly saying doest thou know my message and the busmess I come to thee about it is said this villain to kill thee presently for the King commands it and so presents a Pistol to his Breast Master Masson replyed I know not wherein I have given his Majesty such cause but one thing Sir I humbly beg at your hands to give me so much space as to commend my soul to God by prayer which as soon as he had ended this cruel and merciless Tyger pistoled him And so this faithful Servant of Christ fell dead at his feet Not long after arrives another bloody Harbinger from Paris by the Kings Order who drowned many amongst the rest was the virtuous wife of this Godly Minister of Christ Mr. Masson a Christian getting into an obscure place of a Rock the entrance being narrow was after he got in covered with a Spiders web the bloudy Persecutors passing by some of them said it was a fit place for an escape from danger others said can any be here and this Spiders web whole whereupon they departed which may very well be remarkably observed as a special Providence of God CHAP. IX The Contents THe King prolaims pardon to all those that had escaped in Woods and Rocks who no sooner comes home but treacherously destroys

credit with other Princes By this time the Admiral understood of the noise and though he had but ten persons in his house able to bear arms and in his own chamber but two Chirurgians one Minister and two Servitors yet was he so confident of the K. promise as he could not be made afraid trusting as he often did repeat upon the Kings good will to him testified by so many and ample proofs of assurance having like confidence that if the Parisians did but once know the Kings mind to be against this tumult they would soon cease but especially when they saw Cossin the Kings own Captain waching at the gates for his defence But alas he did little think who they were and by whose command or to what intent all was don these reasons were the Admirals Remora's to stop the passage of any belief of treason hid in the Kings heart and it is commonly found that most suffer Shipwrack on the rocks of crudelity and as one saies it is no heresie to affirm That many have been saved by their infidelity The Admiral recounted the Oath and Edict of Pacification so openly and so often sworn recorded by the King Queen Mother and the rest The late League with Queen Elizabeth of England The Articles covenanted with the Prince of Orange His faith given to the Princes of Germany The mariage of the Lady Margaret his own Sister with the King of Navar being done on no other account as the King publickly declared but to keep his faith and to declare his integrity to all he professed which solemn act was but six days old and which doubrless he would not suffer to be defiled with innocent blood Lastly it would stain the glory of the Nation with Forein Princes and States and of posterity never to be believed more besides the great shame as also honour and constancy of a Prince all which the Admiral said he could not believe would ever be forgot by the King or buried in the grave of cruelty and blood And thus he perswaded himself with the Kings faithfulness to keep his promises and oaths He breathed in no other air than that which might gently fill his Sayls with belief of the Kings integrity setting say I towards the cape of good hope but alas alas he sails by this cape to his own ruin They enter the Admirals lodging kill all they meet As soon as the Duke of Guise and bloody Noblemen drew neer the Admirals lodging Cossin knockt at the Gate which he was to keep a goodly guard for the wolf to keep the Sheep he that opened the Gate was presently stabbed as soon as they enter with a number of armed men they kill all they find within the porch which were a few of the King of Navars Harquebuzeirs only one escaped to the Admirals Chamber crying Sir the Lord calls us to him when the Admiral understood it he caused those that were in his Chamber to lift him out of his bed and casting a night-gown upon him he arose on his feet and with his Minister Mr. Merlin in short ejaculations did commend their souls to God He rises goes to prayer commands his Friends servants to shift for their lives the Admiral commands all his Friends and Servants to save their lives by flight if possible and take no more care for him For that he was willing and ready to surrender his Soul to the Lord calling for his Spirits which for a time was lent for his use saying this violent and unexpected cruelty was not only intended for his destruction alone but for the dishonour of Christ and the bloody persecution of so many poor Saints and Servants of God which at the Petition of all the Godly Protestants and the Lord good Grace he had his heart drawn out to the faithful defence of the Protestant Cause through many hazards and dangers The sincerity whereof he left to the Lord to Judge and that he had no other end Then Mr. Merlin the Minister with the rest got up to the top of the House creeping out of the Windows to the Gutters to hide themselves but alas most of them were sought out and slain in the next house yet through Gods mercy the Minister wounderfully escaped as you may at large see in the reverend Author Mr. Clark his Examples a Book worth the perusal of every Christian Presently ascends up the stairs a Germain named Benvese who maried the Cardinall of Lorrains Daughter with him also Cossin the Gascoin Attin a Piccard a Familiar and Depender on the Duke of Aumale one that not long before sought to murder de Andelot by Treason as also Hamfort an Avernois These bloody Murtherers break into the Admirals chamber and blaspheming God thrust him through knock him on the head shoot him with a Pistol wound him again and so he dies all being prepared and armed with Swords Targets and Shirts of male These break into the Admirals Chamber who being no so sooner entred but Benvese advances towards him and bending his drawn Sword at his Breast said Art thou the Admiral who with a Christian countenance full of constancy and quiet satisfaction in Gods good pleasure answered I am so called and withall said young man thou oughtest to consider my age and the weak case I am now in but do what thou wilt for thou canst shorten my life but a very little But he blaspheming God thrust him through the Breast and after strook him on the head then Attin shot him with a pistol in the breast the Admiral was not with these wounds quite dead therefore Benvese gave him the third wound upon the thigh and he presently fell for dead so lying gasping death freeing him from misery wafting him with speed to the Haven of rest and happiness where all tears are wiped from his eyes His body thrown out of the window the D. of Guise with his foot kicks him on the face Now the Duke of Guise and rest of the Noblemen staied below in the Court to hear how things went the Duke of Guise with a lowd voice cryed Hast thou done Benvese who replied I have done the Duke replied our Chevalier the Kings bestard Brother will not believe it unless he see it throw him out of the Window So Benvese with the help of the rest did lift his body to the window who yet breathing laid hold with his hand on the window but these butcherly blood-hounds and cruel Murtherers whom a hundred at once durst not in his life venture to face in the field violently thrust him out of the window into the Court the Duke of Guise presently draws nigh and because his face was bloody and dirty he kneeled down the berter to know him and with a napkin wiped his face saying now I know it is him and so kicked him on the face with his Feet whom all the Murtherers in France feared so much when he was alive They proceed crying kill this is che K.

and doubtless is a firm pledge of the Kings fidelity what can be done more is not all clear from the least suspition of fraud yet he resolved to depart only waited for a fit opportunity to take leave But the Deputies that were sent from the Reformed Churches complained of the cruelties still committed on the Protestants and understanding of the Admirals intentions to depart they apply themselves with all speed to him and delivering him their books and petitions they earnestly beseech him not to absent from the Court till he had pleaded the cause of the Churches and delivered their petitions to the King and Council Hereupon he resolves like a good Advocate to stay a while and plead their cause But there was another great cause of the Admirals stay for there was on arriers to the Ruttiers of Germany great sums of money for their service under the Admiral during the Wars in which he laboured earnestly to effect But oh I tremble to enter into the ensuing narrative so full of inhumane and cruel bloodshed oh that I could enough bewail the sad fate of these poor innocent souls led as sheep to the slaughter to consider that so many brave Commanders that scorned any other death than like Souldiers must now suffer base murthers and bloody slaughters oh lamentable and to be pittied of all Protestants nay and of ingenuous Papists that so many innocent children and women should suffer for they know not what for we shall shortly see all the Protestants of France in mourning and following the Hearse of their own Ruin in the Papists unparalleled crueltie The Admiral coming from Court with a great train of Nobles and Gentlemen is treacherously shot in both the Arms with a Harqurbuss These businesses being the occasions of the Admiralls stay he did on the 22. day of August repair to the Kings Privy Council to effect his desire which day was the fifth day after the King of Navars marriage but about noon returning from the Council with a great number uf Noblemen and Gentlemen reading a petition as he went was shot thorow both arms with two bullets by a Harquebuzier out of a Window who feeling himself shot shewed no alteration of countenance saying only through yonder window it came what kind of treachery is this It was no news to the King to know his will and command was performed The Admiral speedily sends to the King a Gentleman of his company to give notice of it who being at Tennis with the Duke of Guise shewed such dislike as that in a rage he threw away the Racket that he played withall being exceedingly and outwardly vexed and taking with him his Brother in Law the King of Navar he retires into the Castle of the Lour the King swearing and promising to execute such severe justice upon the offenders Deep hypocrisie that the Admiral and all his Friends should think themselves exceedingly satisfyed The King causes the City gates to be shut pretending lest the Murtherer should escape but indeed was lest the Protestants should escape their cruelty The King therefore to delude the Admiral and Protestants caused all the Gates of the City to be shut except two only which were pretended to be open for bringing in provision yet there was careful watch kept by a strong Guard with a colour of singular care of his Majesty to find out the Murtherer and that if he were in the City he might by no means escape but the truth was lest any of the Protestants should escape this cruel plot laid for their blood by getting out of the City or net of destruction the King swearing and blaspheming that he would not by any means that they should escape which had committed such a horrid act those that durst presume to commit such a hainous crime even at the gates of his Royall Palace The Queen Mother also seems discontented for saies she Who would have thought any ones impudence could arrive so high as this affront to the great prejudice of his Majesty and if ever the King suffer this to go unpunished in the end the next attempt will be on his Royal person But alas alas for a King Queen and Court so to dissemble as if there were no God that could see into their hearts and discover to the World that this was done by the Kings special command and commission as we shall shortly see it was Presently after the Admiral was shot some Gentlemen of his retinue entered by force and violence into the house from whence the shot was where they find only the woman of the House and a Boy that was his lacquey which did the deed finding also a Harquebuss lying upon the Table in the Chamber from whence it was shot but the wretched villain they found not for that he was fled out of the back Gate Fresh horses prepared at several gates to speed away the Murtherer with security and so mounted on a Spanish Gennet which was waiting for him he speedily posted to St. Anthonies Gate where another fresh horse assisted his more swift flight and if he had gon to Marcelles gate there was also another waiting for him Now the King to perswade the Princes Admiral and all the Protestants that he was really sorry and how much it was against his will though God knows to his great satisfaction and inward content he commands sundry to post out into all parts to persue him Set a thief to catch a thief The Admiral shews himself a good Christian and patient sufferer Now the Admiral being safely conveyed to his lodging shewed great piety according to his Godly soul filled with grace and prudence most like a constant and true Christian and faithful holy servant of Christ The Prince of Conde and King of Navar had thought to have departed Paris but the Kings carriage levelled all suspitious thoughts and so turned their resolutions to a longer stay at Court Three Judges to examine the murther At request of the King of Navar and Prince of Conde the King to dissemble with more facility did order three principal men of the Parliament of Paris Thuan Morsant and Viol to examine the business whereupon it was found that the House belonged to one Villimure a Priest and Cannon of St. Germane once the Duke of Guise his Schoolmaster and now a retainer under him That the woman that was in the house being brought before the Judges did acknowledge that a few daies before there came to her one Chally once a Master de Hostel of the Duke of Guises house and now Steward of the Kings houshould commanding her to respect much the man that had done the deed and to lodge him in Villumures own bed-chamber in regard he was his Friend Several speeches there was concerning the person that did it some said it was one Manrevel who in the last Civil War traiterously flew his own Captain a most valiant Commander and Noble Gentleman in the Admirals