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A11934	The lyfe of the most godly, valeant and noble capteine and maintener of the trew Christian religion in Fraunce, Iasper Colignie Shatilion, sometyme greate admirall of Fraunce. Translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding; Gasparis Colinii Castilloni, magni quondam Franciae amerallii, vita. English.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, attributed name.; Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636, attributed name.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 22248; ESTC S117200	64,379	124

about the walles wherin too comme couertly and priuily to the ditches When the Admiral saw that the most part of the wal was cast downe with the continuall batterie and a greate breache open into the towne and the enemies readye to giue the assault he incouraged his souldiers to abide that one brunt saying that if they foyled their enemies at that time they would not be ouer hastie to aduenture againe and therupon he him selfe stoode to defence where he sawe the breache wydest assigninge the other parts of the towne to his brother and to the rest of his friends to defend The enemies beholding so strong a coūterforce on that side assaulted the towne on two other sides Whereof when tydinges was brought to the Admiral he left such as he trusted best at his standinge and hyed him to the nexte where he found his men driuen away and the place gotten by his enemies and a part of the Citie pestered with armed men There was with him a noble yong gentleman called Auentignie whome he had brought vp in his house of a child and a page and a child of a noble howse that bare his iauelin which were suddeinly assayled and inclozed about by certaine Spaniards who hauing knowledge of the Admirall tooke him prizoner and after the winning of the towne conueied him to Antvverp where being attached with sore sickenesse and vexed fortie dayes with an agewe at suche tymes as his fitts lefte him he commaunded a Byble to be brought vnto him to ease the griefe and sorrowe of his minde with reading of it And he studied so much vpon it that he began from thensforthe to haue a taste of that pure religion trew godlinesse to lerne the right maner of calling vppon God. When he had payed fiftie thousand pound for his raunsome and was come home agein frome captiuitie hauing gotten some leyzure and being weery of the broyles of the Court he set his mynd earnestly thensforth vppon Religion by the Kings permission gaue ouer his Colonelship of the footemen to his brother Mounsyre d' Andelot his Lieuetennantship of the I le of Fraunce too his Neuew the Marshal Memorancie his sisters sonne by the Cunstable And it was not long after ere he sent a familiar freēd of his too the King certifying him in moste humble wise that he was mynded too giue vp his charge in Picardie beseeching him too looke wel about him too whome he committed it The King answered that he thought this sewt of his very straunge and that he delt not wizely in dispossessing of him self of so many roomes and offices at once From thensforth manie began to suspect the Admirall that he had chaunged his religion and in deede he shewed a mynd vtterly voyd of all ambition and desyre of authoritie Within a while after King Henry dyed and his sonne Frauncis succeeded This Frauncis had taken too his wife Mary Queene of Scotts the dawghter of the Duke of Gvvysis sister by reason wherof the howse of Gvvyse grew in greate fauour and authoritie with the King and oftentymes bragged to him of the kingdome of Ingland which they affirmed to belong too their sayd kinswoman so that in the Court they were comonly called the Kings Uncles The Admiral knowing their cruel barbarous and feerce nature and perceiuing that they woulde neuer desist from troubblesum deuyses and specially that they would most eagrely persecute religion stacke to his accustomed purpoze and determined to giue vp his lieftēnantship Heruppō he brake his mind to Levvis of Burbon a Prince of the blud royal cōonly called the Prince of Codey who had maryed his sisters dawghter counselling him to sew to the King for that charge So the Admiral being discharged of diuers cares and set free from a nomber of affayres which withdrew his godly mynd from the study of religion kept himself at home in his castle of Shatilion and that so much the willinglier bycause his wife Sharlot de Lauall a woman of a noble auncient stocke was wonderfully giuen to the following of godlinesse which he tooke too be a singular benefite of God insomuch that she euen incoraged hir husband too forsake supersticion and the worshipping of Idolls and to imbrace the christian religion with his whole hart When the Admirall perceyued that she delt often and very earnestly with him in the matter he himself also determined to deale earnestly with her at once And therfore he told hir in many words that in all his life he neuer sawe or hearde of any man eyther in Germanie or in Fraunce but he was in daunger too be ouerwhelmed with great miseries and calamities if he imbraced the religion any thing earnestly and that the Lawes of King Frauncis the first of King Henrie the second being looked to most streightly in all Courts of Iustice commaunded that all such as were condemned of that Religion should be burned quicke in publike places and all their goods be forfeyted to the King and yet neuerthelesse he trusted that his heart was so settled as he should not refuze the comon cace of all the protestants nor fayle of his dewtie Shee answered that the cace of the protestants of that time was none other then the cace of the true Christians of all ages had bin nether dowted she but it should be the same still to the worlds end When they had plyghted their faithes on both sides ech to other the Admirall began by litle and litle to frame his household familiar freends to the knowledge of God by godly speeches and to deliuer them not only the holy bible but also other books written of religion in french to reade forbidding them all swearing blasphemous banning comonly vsed in the Realme of Fraunce but specially among the Courtiers Moreouer he set godly gouerners and teachers ouer his children so that within a few monethes the howse of Shatilion was of a new hewe and his other two brothers Odet whome I haue shewed afore to haue bin made a Cardinall and Mounsyre d'Andelot were greatly inflamed to religion by that example For the Admirall had alwaies euen from his yong yeares bin trayned vp in the pleazures and corrupt manners of the Kings Court and he was not thought to haue bin cleere of that infection Notwithstanding when he once began to haue a taste of the trew religion there appeered sodeinly so greate an alteration in his life and conuersation as a man might easily perceaue the force of Gods spirit in that so sodein chaūge find this saying of Christs too bee most trew that they which are indewed with Gods spirit are after a sort borne ageine and made new men And this seemeth worthy of memorie that befell him before he durst prepare too the Christian feaste and Sacrament of the Lordes supper He had oftentimes talked with al the best learned Ministers of the Frenche Churches not only of transsubstantiation as the Sorbonists terme it but also of consubstantiation

as shee could with all speede and went too Rochell carying hir sonne Henry with hir to whom the inheritāce of the kingdome of Nauarre descended after hir death and one dawghter When the foresaid matters were set at a stay as is sayd alredy the Admiral toke certein peeces of ordinance out of Rochell and went to beseege the towne of Niort within feawe dayes after tooke it by composition From thence he led his armie too Angolesme This towne stādeth vpon a hygh hill cut steepe on all sides sauing one into the which Towne the aduersaries had conueyed a greate Garrison a feawe dayes since The Admirall cawsed his batterie too bee layd too that side of the Towne where it myght bee cumne vntoo and when he had assailed it certeine dayes it was yeelded vntoo him by the townesmen Anon after there was a battell fowght at Iaseneul betweene the vawardes of bothe the parties The Captein of our vaward was the Admirall who brake in vppon his enemies with such violence that they being vnable too abyde the brunt sowght too saue themselues by flyght and drewe towardes Lusignian leauing all their caryages behynde them The pray that was taken was esteemed almoste at fiftie thowsande Crownes The next day a letter of one of the Clerkes of the Counsell named Fizie wrytten too the Queene Moother was intercepted wherin he bewayled that losse adding also that since man was first made neuer anie sonne of Fraūce it is a vulgar phraze among the Frenchmen was in so great hazard of his lyfe as he had bin Not long after the Admirall going too Iarnacke a Towne neere by was driuen too fight whither he woold or no and he was euen at the verye poynte too comme intoo his ennemyes handes For his aduersaries spyes vnderstanding that he pourpozed too passe the Riuer that ronneth by the Towne which is not verye brode vppon a bridge of Boates ambushed them selues secretly on the other side of the Riuer and assoone as they perceyued the Admirall too bee there by and by the Hargabuts began too discharge at him and other some indeuered too get ouer the bridge by force As God woold there was one Hargabutter that stopped their brunte with his often shoting of of his peece but yit was he strikē through with a nomber of shot and fell downe dead Abowt twelue other being stirred vp with his noyze succeeded in his roome The Admirall himself stepping too the banke with his naked swoord for he had no leyzure too put on his corslet did cutte asunder the ropes wherwith the boates were fastened during the which tyme his aduersaries which hild the further side of the Riuer neuer left shooting at him which thing cawsed him too haue a gard abowt him from that day foorth for the defence of his persone against such suddein chaunces A twoo dayes after when the aduersaries had passed ouer the riuer of Sharent the Prince of Condey for feare of being inclozed by them althowgh he had lately hyred thre thowsand swart Rutters and had more ouer six thowsand Swissers whom he had interteyned from the beginning of the warres yit notwithstanding being a man of a noble and stowte stomacke in battell he determined too stop them of their passage howbeeit not too fight in pitched battell In the meane whyle woord came too the Admirall that his men which had taken the Towne next their enemies the day before were beset browght too vtter perill but yit stood manfully still too their defence The Admiral minding not to abandon them gathered certein horsmen quickly togither marched to them apace Whom when the enemies knew they suddeinly cast themselues in a ringe and beset him rownd abowt with greate force Wherof the Prince of Condey being certified and being much redyer in corage then fortified with strength brake into the middleward of his enemies and there being oppressed with multitude had his horse striken throwgh so that he was ouerthrowen slayne The Admirall being soore greeued with the greate losse and distrusting what might insew to the whole retyred with his brother the Andelot intoo the towne of S. Iohn d'Angeli And wheras the foyle that he had receyued in the bodie of the Prince of Condey he could haue reuenged vppon the bodies of dyuers his enemies that were of greatest power and nobilitie and haue requyted their dishonorable dealing with like for like yit determined he to hold himself within the bownds of nature and manhod and to giue the dead their dewes and in that mind did he continue as long as the warre lasted As I told you before Ioane Queene of Nauarre was the same time at Rochell who hearing of the greate losse that was receyued went with all haste intoo the Campe where hauing comforted the cheef of the whole host and incoraged the sowldiers too be myndful of their auncient prowesse shee told them that shee gaue and deliuered vntoo them hir only sonne Henry too whom the kingdome of Nauarre should descend after hir dicease to bee their Generall protesting openly that the life of hir only sonne was not deerer vnto hir then the welfare of the whole armie Henry Prince of Condey the sonne of the foresayd Levvis late deceased was ioyned with him in societie of the honorable charge Neuerthelesse the Lords and all the Capteines and vnder capteines betooke the charge of the warres and the ordering of all martiall affaires to the Admirall with one consent as to him that was knowen to be of greatest credit and authority among the protestants For besids his singular skil in martiall affaires and besids his iustice his stayednes it was wel knowen to all men that he was the first of all the nobilitie of the Realme which imbraced the trew religion and professed it openly which reformed the order of his howse according to the order of religion which durst breake with King Frauncis the second who was hild intangled with the alyance of the howse of Gvvyse concerning the demaunds of the Churches put vp supplications in their names to the Kings counsell which gaue example of godlines to the french nobilitie whom al men knew to haue bin most horribly infected with euill manners by reason of that wicked custome of the Kings court And it is further knowen that after he had once imbraced the religion he neuer gaue any cause of offence to the reformed Churches and that wheras men resorted vnto him on all sids in the name of those Churches he alwayes gaue them the wyzest counsell and tooke weapon in hand not to rebell ageinst the King as sum reported of him but at the request and intreatance of the Queene mother which thing neuerthelesse he did not vppon his owne head or to satisfie the Queenes mind but bycawse the King was not yit full twelue yeeres old he grownded himself vppon the authority of the generall counsell holden at Orleance as is sayd afore and also vppon the Kings edict that was wrotten and proclaymed at Paris