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A11927	The three partes of commentaries containing the whole and perfect discourse of the ciuill warres of Fraunce, vnder the raignes of Henry the Second, Frances the Second, and of Charles the Ninth : with an addition of the cruell murther of the Admirall Chastilion, and diuers other nobles, committed the 24 daye of August, anno 1572 / translated out of Latine into English by Thomas Timme minister.; Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae in regno Galliae. English. 1574	Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590. De furoribus gallicis.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.; Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572.	1574 (1574)	STC 22241.5; ESTC S4897	661,140	976

be chosē to the same by lawfull election if so be the same may be had We adde this if bicause sometime as in oure time also when the Church hath bene troubled and persecuted many haue béen constrayned without ordinarie callyng by the motion of Gods holye spirite to take vpon them to repaire the ruinousnesse of the decayed Church notwithstanding howsoeuer the matter be we doe beléeue that this rule ought to be followed that all pastors and ministers maye haue sufficient testimonie of their calling 32 We doe beléeue it to be necessarie that they which are chosen to be the chiefe ouerséers of some one Churche doe diligently waye and consider among them selues by what waye or meanes the whole body of the same Churche may be best gouerned Notwithstanding so that they swerue in no poynt from that which our Lorde Iesus Christ hath appointed And this letteth not but that certaine places maye haue their peculiar and speciall institutions to them appertaining as it shall séeme best 33 And we doe exclude all humane inuentions and lawes whiche vnder the pretence of the worshippe of God doe bynde the consciences of men and we doe onely admit and alow those which tend to the maintaining of concord the keping of euerye one in due obedience in the which thing we thinke it méete to follow that which our Lord sauiour Christ appointed concerning excommunication the which with the circumstances also we allow thinke necessarye 34 We doe beléeue that there are Sacramentes ioyned to the woorde for further confirmations sake as pledges and seales of the grace of God by which our infyrme and weake faith may be stayed and holpen For we confesse these externall signes to be such that God by them worketh with the power of his holy spirit that nothing there might be set before vs in vaine Notwithstāding we doe thinke that al the substance veritie of them resteth in Christ Iesu frō whō if they be separated they are nothing but vayne shadowes 35 We doe confesse that there belong onely two Sacramentes to the whole Church of the which the first is Baptisme giuen vnto vs to testifie our adoption bycause thereby we are grafted into the body of Christ as beyng washed with his bloud and are also renewed to holynesse of life by his spirite This also we affirme that although we are but once baptized yet notwithstanding the fruite of Baptisme doth appertaine to the race of our whole life to the ende that this promise mighte be sealed in vs by a sure and certaine seale namely that Christ will be alway our sanctification righteousnesse and redemption Furthermore althoughe Baptisme be a Sacramente of fayth and repentaunce yet notwithstanding seyng God doth recken and accounte the children wyth the parentes to be of his Church we affirme that infantes borne of holy and godly parents ought by the authoritie of Christ to be baptized 36 We affirme that the holy Supper of the Lord which is the other Sacrament is a testimony vnto vs of our vnion with our Lorde Iesus Christ bicause he did not thinke it sufficient for vs onely to dye and to be raysed agayne the third day for our sinnes but also féedeth vs still ▪ and nourisheth vs with his fleshe and bloude that being made one with him we maye be partakers of life with him For although he be now in heauen and shall abide there vntill he come to iudge the worlde yet notwithstanding we beleue that he doth by the secrete and incomprehensible power of his spirite nouryshe and quicken vs wyth the substance of hys fleshe and bloude apprehended by faithe And we saye that this is done spiritually not that we go about to put fantasie and imagination in steade of efficacie and veritie but bicause this misterie of our vnion and knot made betwene Christ and vs is sodaine and far paste our reache that by no meanes we are able to comprehende it To be shorte séeing it is a thing so diuine and heauenly it can not be by any meanes apprehended but by faith onely 37 We beléeue as it is saide before that the Lord as well in the Supper as in Baptisme doth giue vnto vs in verye déede that is to saye truely and effectually whatsoeuer is therin figured Sacramentally and therfore we ioyne with signes the true possession and fruition of that thing which is so offered vnto vs Therfore we affirme that they which bring a pure fayth as a vessell with them to the holy table of the Lorde doe verily receiue that which the signes doe there testifie for the body and bloude of Iesus Christ is no lesse meate and drinke to the soule than bread and wine is the sustenance of the body 38 In like maner we saye that the element of water although it be corruptible doth truely testifie vnto vs the inward washing of our soule in the bloude of Iesus Christ by the efficacie of the holy Ghost And therefore we reiecte all those fanaticall persons which reiect these outward signes when as our Sauiour Christ him selfe spake these wordes saying This is my Body and This Cup is my Bloud 39 We beléeue that it is Gods will that the world shoulde be ruled and gouerned by lawes and politique gouernement that there may be some meanes by which the immoderate desires of the worlde may be bridled and restrained and that therefore he hath appointed kingdomes common weales and other kindes of dignities whither they come by inheritance or otherwise and not onely that but whatsoeuer pertaineth to right and equitie the author whereof he himselfe woulde be counted Therefore also he hath put the swerde into the hands of Magistrates to punishe offences not onely against the seconde table but also against the first Wherefore we must for his sake which is the author of this order not onely suffer that they may rule whome he hath set ouer vs but also honour and reuerence them as his Ministers appointed by him to take that lawfull and holy office vpon them Therefore we affirme that lawes and statutes ought to be obeyed tribute and taxes payed and all other burthens discharged and voluntary subiection yelded to magistrates yea although they be infidels so that God be not dishonored Therefore we detest all those that denie rule and gouernment and refuse to obey desiring a confusion and to haue all things common and going about to ouerthrow all lawe and good order This therefore was the plaine and simple confession of the faythfull Christians of the reformed Churches of Fraunce and a plaine explication of that Doctrine for the which they were so greatly persecuted by the Popishe Bishops Thus endeth this first Book ¶ The seconde Booke of Commentaries of the state of Religion in the kingdome of Fraunce IT was prouided and appointed as we haue shewed before by the kings Edict that there should be a Parliament by which the great perturbations which at that time all men sawe

how For if we beholde the same in the representation of a certain general Councell first it is not likely that all the force and vertue which the holy Ghost hath powred out vpon the Church is restrained to a certaine number of prelates which are oftentimes neuer the more learned nor any whit the better although they represent all those of whō they are sent For how oftētimes may it come to passe that some one man altogether vnlearned shall haue more wisedome thā all the learned of the whole cōpany beside Ane therfore is it writtē in the Glose Thou hast declared concerning elections that one priuate faithfull mā which bringeth better reasons ought rather to be beleued than the whole coūcel the Pope But rather in the great Nicene coūcell who did let that law of chastitie which from that time brought so manie corruptions into the Church that it might not be established One onely Paphnutius not greatly learned as the storie maketh mention Furthermore at what time was there euer so generall a Councell gathered together but that not onely the greatest part of learned men and of godly men but also of Prelates was left behind And who will denie but that they which are absent haue oftentimes had the more sound and better iudgement thā those that were present Beside these things ye also my Lordes doe know what great confusion raigneth in the Church and specially in the greatest offices of the Prelacie in so much that we may say The greatest corruption hath bene in that part which ought to haue béen more per●…ect and sounde Of late we had many examples and the holy Bishoppes haue fet suche déepe sighes for these things that the sounde of them is hearde as yet And truely the saying of S. Bernard is no lesse knowne than true when he sayth Oh Lord they which loue the hyest romes and desire principallitie are the first which persecute thee they haue taken mount Sion they haue taken the arke of the couenant and by force haue set fire on the whole Citie But let this be spoken my Lordes not that I touche or meane any of you but onely to declare that seyng the principall vocations in the Churche are so fowly corrupted it cannot be that the generall Councels after so long time established by a multitude of such wicked men should be so gouerned by the holy Ghost that it cannot erre A certaine ancient Priest prophecied also although he were vngodly and wicked but it was the holy Ghost that prophecied in him being ignorant what he sayd being driuen to speake by the contrarie spirit that is to say by the spirit of the Deuill in appointing to kill an innocent namely Christ Iesus the sonne of God. Furthermore if a general Councell haue this priuiledge that it cannot erre neither in the rule of doctrine nor in the forme of maners we demaunde when and at what time it obtained this priuiledge For there was neuer at any time but one faith one Church And the Prophetes do plainly declare and the histories doe euidently confirme the same that the ancient Church in the tyme of the olde Testament hath erred All the beholders thereof are blinde sayth the Prophet they knowe nothing they are dumbe dogges And the Prophet Ieremie sayth From the Prophet to the Priest all haue gone astray And least this should be restrained to the life of singular men it is expressely sayde in the fourtene chapter of the same Prophet They prophecie lyes and set forthe a false vision Also the Prophet Esay sayth The wisedome of the wyse shall perishe and the intelligence of those that vnderstand God shall put out the eyes of the prophetes Moreouer in Ezechiel it is sayde The lawe shall departe from the Priest. But who slewe the Prophetes who put the sonne of God to death who cōdemned the Apostles but onely the Prelates and hie Priestes of the Iewes If any man obiect and say that these things happened in the time of the olde Testamente we reply that this is no answere for bicause it shal be alwayes a strong conclusion that the congregation of the Prelates or Papistes of the Church although it be vniuersal at the last is gouerned rather by the spirite of error than by the holye Ghoste Secondly if we come to the newe Testament hath not the Apostle Paule plainely admonished the Churche in the person of the Ephesians that wolues shall come forthe from among the shepeherdes and also that the sonne of perdition shall sit in the Temple of God And certainely yf the councels be compared one with another manye contrarieties shall be found in them in so much that we must néedes confesse that they were not alwayes led and ruled by the holy Ghost but rather that Sathan hath transfigured himselfe into the lighte of the generall Councels to couer and hide his lye and error There is also another place of S. Augustine in the which he hath these words The Epistles of particular Bishoppes are corrected by prouinciall Councels and the Epistles of prouinciall Councels by generall Councelles when as by experience that which was before hidden is now manifest and knowne This place I alledged before in my firste oration to the which my lord Cardinal made answere that it ought to be vnderstoode of external matters which might ought to be altered as necessitie shuld require But y who le matter being more diligently considered it shal appéere that the worde corrected which Austine vseth doth presuppose some error which was afterward amended And S. Austine in that place dothe not intreate of externall discipline but of one speciall point of doctrine namely of the sentence of Ciprian and of the councell of Africa which concerned Rebaptizing If also this place be obiected against vs as where our sauiour Christ saith that He will be in the middest of two or three that are gathered togither in his name hereby to proue that this promise doth appertaine rather to a general councell than to a fewe men We answere that we may thus thinke of this promise but there is great difference betwéen our imagination a most certaine knowledge For seyng the wickednesse of men is growne to that passe that it abuseth the name of God to a lie there may be some which hauing the name of God in their mouth carry his aduersarie the Deuill in their heartes we do affirme that in so great infirmitie of humane wit amidst so many troublesome desires he is in gret daūger to be deceiued which only leaneth to mēs iudgements and to the external shew of a councell What thē shal we say that the doctrine of the Church seing the Church may erre is vncertaine Nothing lesse For we confesse that although we sée in part as S. Paule saith and so error may be ioyned with the truth yet notwithstāding God wil not suffer the knowledge of the principal groūdes of our saluatiō

batter a Tower of the side of the gate du Barle right against the watring●… place the same continuing so vehemētly two full 〈◊〉 that at the ●…econd dayes end a corner of the Tower fell to the earth The Wednesday the twelfth day he remoued foure of his péeces of the side of S Pere thunderinge a new battery against the gate called the wicket aboue the which eyght Ensignes of footmen came and pitched the thirtéenth of this moneth remaininge there till the whole army discampped The fouretéenth day he remoued also two of his péeces and planted them agaynst a Tower called the Columbes to the end with more ease to batter the said wicket against the which the batterye endured till the next daye When hauinge now beaten two breaches hée gaue the assaulte to them both at one instaunt offering to scale on that side of the Cordeliers His assaultes were resisted and his people so repulsed that they were out of hart eftsoones to returne therefore the night following aboute midnight he raised hys s●…éege and retired to Auallon hauing lost at the assaultes and in the tyme of their sieege thrée or foure hundreth men as wel footemen as horsmen Of the Protestants side there were slaine and hurt onely ten men whereof the Lord Sarazin was killed with the canon beinge in the first Tower that they battered whom the Lord de Blossar succéeded in place and charge chosen by the common voice and opinion of the multitude in respècte of his vertue and wisdome in defence of the Towne The Lord of Sansac raised not his siéege for other purpose thā to prouide other Canones all his others being either crackt or burst in these batteries The Princes being at Sainctes assoone as they were enformed of the siéege of S. Iean d' Angely determined to go into Gascoygne with two or thrée thousand harquebushears on foote and all their horsmen leauing the remeinder of their footemen to aide the Townes wherein were Garrisons they had two principall reasons to induce them to this iourney as to drawe the siege from S. Iean de Angely esteeming the campe woulde followe them and also to ioyne with the Uicountes forces ouer whome as is sayde the Montgomery commaunded They departed from Sanctonge aboute the beginning of the siege and with their horsemen as well Frenche as Almayns who after this voyage had sent their cariage to Roch●…ll and sho ton foote wherof some were led by the Lorde de Rouray tooke their waye towardes Montauban And bycause the Ryuer of Dordonne by which they must passe was not at that tyme passeable without vessels the Lorde de la Bessonniere by whose meanes as is afore sayde the Towne of Oryllac was taken departed wyth a hundred horses and gathering together as manye boates as he coulde fynde a long Dordonne caused them to be brought to Argentall to the ende the Princes army stayed not at the passage there albeit comming thether aboute the. xxv of thys moneth they were constrained to staye there almoste eight dayes afore their whole armye coulde passe In which meane while certaine of their army summoned the Towne of Sourd in Auergne to be rendred to the Princes to the obedience and vse of the king Wherevnto as they refused at the first so considering the condition of their owne state with the present force of the enemye yéelded vpon couenaunt to set open the gates and paye sixe thousande Frankes not to be committed to pillage the Lorde of Montbrun and Mirabell beyng come to Oryllac as is sayd their compayes lodged within a league of the towne in a village called Arpaion to rest their horses which were weary wyth long trauail where there Lorde de Montbrun fell sicke of a continuall ague the same partly causing the aboade and staye of the armye albeit féeling by the course of his sickenesse that he was not able to make presente departure from thence imparted the same with the Lorde Mirabell to the ende the voyage lingred no longer wherevpon the Lorde Mirabell with foure hundred horsemen put himselfe on the way the. 24. of the same moneth to performe his iourney into Languedoc he had amongst others in his company the Lord Foulques who not manie dayes before came to the said Oryllac with lx horsemen of purpose to accompany the Lord Mirabell their departure was neyther so secrete nor their iourney so surely conueyed but the Papistes which were in certaine townes and Castels aboute Oryllac were speedely aduertised who commaunded the townes men of euery village to sounde the Alarum bell to the ende to warne and discouer the place they passed by and so set vpon and discomfyt them According to this charge the Tocsain was sounded at the same instante that the Lorde Mirabell and his troupe discended from the hill two leagues from Oryllac wherevpon the garrison of Roilliac hauyng séene the troup passe by them in negligent order and leauing withal their own charge made no small spéede by a crosse waye a thwart the hill and set vppon them sodainely in the village where the Tocsain was sounded and the same in suche subtill season and sorte as afore they were discryed they killed sixe or seuen of the Mirabels company and so retired leading with them certaine prisoners the troup notwithstanding mounted aboue the village where being ringed and drawen into battell order they discouered in the tops of the hils concours of people from all parts to intercept them in a straite by whiche they should passe their guides besides bringing them further increase of feare daunger by general flocking of the popular sort to set vpon them in that straite wherevpon they were constrained to turne backe and retyre to their quarter of Orpaion and there to consult of a safe meane to passe The Lorde Uerbelet in the meane while remayned at Oryllac as gouernor in Auergne vnder the Princes according to the authoritie giuen him at his departure from the Campe. Within fewe dayes after his comming to the town and being acknowledged of the garrison as their gouernour ordeyned that thrée hundreth Harquebusears on foote and thrée hundreth pykemen shoulde be entertayned for the garde of the towne for whose pay he leuied of the inhabitáts a loane of Lord de S. Heran sayd he was come thither to bestow●… garrison in the Castell the gentlewoman aunswered that this errand was without néed because that as the place was already furnished so her husbande as shee thought would not admit any newe numbers wherewith as she offered to haue shut the gate and returne into the Castle the Lord S. Heran thrust so rudely at the gate that the Gentlewoman being thrown to the groūd he entred the gate by force vpon her by whose skrike or crye one of the houshold seruaunts descended spéedely and séeing his mistresse vpon the ground discharged his pistoiet and hurt the Lord S. Heran in the arme who also fearinge further perill flong out of the posterne which immediatly was shut vpon him albeit he

Pilles sent out by the Port Matta the same Gentleman whom he vsed afore in the supplye of succoures by whose second diligence the Lord de S. Auban a Gentleman of Daulphine accompanied with xl horsmen enterprised to come to the reliefe and succour of the sayde towne who notwithstandinge was so encountered in the way as hée was forced to retire with the losse of thrée of his people and also the Gentleman his guide The xxix day of Nouember Sebastian Luxenburge counte de Martiques knight of the order Captayne of fifty men at armes and Lieuftenaunte generall to the King in his Dutchie and countrey of Britaine being at the battery was stroken in the head with a harquebushot whereof he dyed to the generall griefe of the Papistes In the beginning of December about ix of the clock in the morninge the Catholiques demaunded to parley with the Lord de Pilles wherevnto he listened with lesse difficulty in respect he was not furnished with munition of warre for one assault more if it had bin offred ney ther had he hope to be so spéedily succoured as his perill required which was the cause that the ii of this month after hée had established extréeme actes and prouisions for the Gard of the said towne he was enforced to render it vppon the couenantes following 1 That the Protestants should depart the town their goodes saued with their horses and armour and banner displayed 2 That they should not beare armes for the generall cause of Religion in foure monethes after 3 That their whole companies as well Straungers as inhabitaunts might retire whither they would in al surety 4 That they should be safe conducted to their place of suerty where so euer it were by the Lorde de Byron according to which composition the morrow after the iii. of this moneth S Iean de Angely was yéelded into the handes of the Lord de Guitiniers The lord de Pilles departing the same day about noone by the Port de Matta with eyght hundreth footmen of all sortes and about C. horsmen ▪ taking his way towardes Angoulesme Not withstanding the conduct and presence of the saide lord de Byron the most part of the footemen were spoiled and dyuerse slaine and the baggage of the horsemen taken against their promysse of faith During this siéege died in the towne about a hundreth Souldiours and certain numbers of labourers of the catholikes side without the towne dyed aswell of the hand of the enemye as by diseases about two thousand amongst which were many great lordes Gentlemen and Captaines slayne as the great maister of the artillery whose office was giuen to the saide lord de Biron the gouernment of the towne was giuen to the lord de Guitiniers and for the garde of it the King bestowed eight companies of footemen The same day the King the Quéene mother the Cardynall of Loraine wyth dyuers great lordes of the Courte entred the towne and visited as wel the forte of the gate Aulnis and the castell as the first breach of the tower on the wall and so returned to their places where they were lodged afore Certaine of the Catholikes immediatly after the towne was giuen ouer wente towardes the yles of Marans and Marennes holden of long by them of the religion from whence they were now withdrawen by speciall commaundemente from Rochell whereby the Catholikes entred and seased vpon them wythoute resistance In this tyme were executed in Fraunce certayne iudgements diffinitiue pronounced afore against those of the reformed Religion whose processes were begon and pursued by the Kinges procurers from the begynning of the warres aswell against such as were out of the Realme as those that maintayned parte with the Princes The first sort forsooke the Realme immediatly after the second peace as being denyed to enter their houses goods contrary to the couenaunts of the same ▪ and lesse able to liue withoute mortall perill to theyr persons in the townes of their proper habitation being filled with garrisons of the contrary factiō as hath bene touched in the beginning of these discourses the other sort forsed estsoones to fal into armes were knit and tyed to the army of the Princes to resist the voluntary infringers of the peace and coniured enemyes to the whole Realme both the one and other were procéeded against by personall adiornements in three shorte dayes and for defaulte of apparance their goods were seased to the Kings vse and gouerned by speciall Commissioners of sequestration many ydle officers busied themselues to effect the execution of their goods in many prouinces the sayde iudgements dyd suspend hang vntill after the battell of Montgontour whē they awarded generall and spéedy processe against all men by defaultes procéeding to execution in Effigie and adiudication of their goods to the King wherein suche was the liberal zeale of the iudges that they executed by Effigie such as were dead long time before It hath bene sayd before that the Lord de Sansac lefte the siege of Uezeley by reason his Cannons miscaryed and now hauing got newe prouision of Artillery to the number of twelue or thirtéene péeces and beyng wythall aduertised by certaine of the Towne of Vezeley that the Lorde de Traues with a great part of the Nobilitie present at the firste siege were departed and lefte the Towne came to besiege it of freshe He battered still the tower of the Port du Barle righte against the watering place soone after he remoued his batterie to that fide of the gray Fryers following with so vehement an assaulte that they came to hande strokes vppon the breaches albeit he was repulsed During thys siege Albert de la Chasse a Bourgeys of the town wrote letters to the Catholikes reuealing the particular state of the Towne He threw his letters ouer the wall into a fielde where the Catholikes came and found them and as he was going to the Wall with a letter readye to conueye to the enemie he was taken with the facte and charging a scholemaister as partie to his treason were both hanged forthwith The batterie was such as thee wer spent aboue thrée thousand and fiue hundreth shottes of canon and al not able to force the Protestantes whiche made the Lorde Sansac raise his siege the. xvii of December 1569. loosing in this siege about xv hundreth men amongst whome the Lord de Foyssy Colonell of his footemen was hurte to death with a shot vppon the trenches Within the Towne amongst others M. Iaques Perrin a Minister was killed with a Canon The warre dyd still aggrauate in diuerse places of the Realme contrary to the opinion of such as thought it should haue ben qualified vtterly quēched by the battaile at Montgontour They of Charyte whereof hathe bene spoken before strēgthened themselues with great numbers of men of warre come with the Lord de Bricquemau and Borry with their retinue they maintayned ordinarie warre against the garrisons of the catholikes thereaboutes making many enterprises and one winning of another

The Lorde de Lespau a gentleman of Berry and one called la Rose Sergeant maior to Sanserre attempted an enterprise vpon the Towne of Bourges in Berry by meane of intelligence with a Souldiour of the towne called Vrsin Pallus to whome was promised a greate summe of money with a bill for the assurance payable within two moneths after he had satisfied hys promise This enterprise had bene of long practised and for the execution of it the parties to the practise imparted it with the Lord de Bricquemau de Guercy Liuetenant to the Lord Admirall ouer his men of Armes and gouernour at the present of Charite for the Kinge vnder the princes to the Lord de Borry Barō of Reury des Essarz with others Lordes and Captaynes in those quarters Who vnderstanding the enterprise at large wyth the meanes to execute it iudged with it as a thing very cōuenient to be pursued This Vrsin Pallus in the meane while reuealed it to the Lord de la Charstre gouernour of the towne of Bourges and countrey of Berry and also to Captaine Martyn kéeper of the tower of Bourges who aduised hym to entertayne the enterprise and assure to them of Charite day place and meane to effect it who likewise applyed himselfe to their instructions In the meane while the said Gouernour of Charstres omitting no preparatiue fitte to welcome them deuysed gynnes of fire traines of pouder within the ditches of the place assigned he bestowed also two grates the one at the entry of the little Forte and the other at the dore or false port by which they enter into the great tower bringing lastly into the towne dyuerse horsemen and footemen Italians for their better suerty and defence The day and houre speciall for this purpose was assigned by the said Pallus on S. Thomas night the on and twenteth of December at two of the clock at after midnighte whiche they of Charite fayled not to obserue in poynt And bycause they were dispersed in diuerse places the place of generall méeting was at Baugy a castle taken before by tht Barron of Reury about six leagues from Bourges There met about a thousande or twelue hundreth harquebushears on foote of the troupes of the Lorde Borry and Loruaye with thrée cornets of horsemē guyded by the Lorde Bricquemau all which in very good poynt obserued both the houre and place asseigned called la Grange Francois half a league from Bourges where where likewise met thē the saide Vrsin Pallus ▪ assuring thē still of the facilitie of the enterprise that he could bring thē to the great tower without daūger wherunto to couer all cause of doubte he offered to be their first leader They of the Religion vnder the saith of his worde made march first and formost with him the Lorde de Lespau accompanyed with twelue aswell Captaines as souldiers and entred by a wicket toward the fort of the false port where they pitched ladders to enter within the false porte which was siue foote aboue grounde After him entred the Baron Reury with fiue twenty men and then the Lord de Sarts with fifty souldiers to sustaine the first but as his troupe entred the cordes of the grate were cut when they also within applyed their seuerall engines to vse and put fire to the traines and at the instant the artillery bestowed in flanks thūdred vppon them that were to enter as also Captaine Martyn with his nūber of armed mē charged such as were vnhappely entred who séeing themselues their enterprise betrayed deuised and labored for their safetie aswell as they could some lept from the wall down some gat oute of the grate the same being somewhat hyer because Buysiere stewarde to the late Lord de Autricour was inclosed vnder it being notwithstandyng taken from thence by his company who not able other wise to effect their enterpryse were constrayned to retyre They killed of them of the Religion twelue or fourtene aswell Captaines as Souldiers almost as many kepte prisoners within the towne besides suche as were hurt the Lord de Lespau the Baron of Reurye de Lessartes des Milles with certaine other were taken within the grosse tower After this they of Bourges fearing the courses that they of the religion made euen to their gates aduertised the king of their necessitie who succoured thē spedely with fixe cornets of horsemen which had bene before at the siege of S. Ian d' Angely they arryued at Bourges vpon the ende of December The Princes being come to Montauban as is said executed the cause of their comming adioyning to their armie the forces of the two Uicountes and Montgomerie In this time the King sente backe to Poyctyers the Duke de Aumall with thrée Canons and one coluerine guyded by the Lord de Gouas and his regiment of footemen And so bestowing his garrisons to winter lycensing afore the Italian to go home his Maiesty came to the Towne of Angiers After these long vexations and troubles all men be gan to desire peace the which as it was greatly desired of the faithfull so there were manifest reasons why the Catholiques should desire the same For although the losse and ruine of the faithfull was more hard to be recouered Notwithstanding they that were staine of the Papistes side were not the lesser number And their spoyles made knowne too many in diuers places caused them to feare the desolation and calamities to come the more if warre should be taken in hand againe which séemed to such as wisely beheld al things not hard to be renued of the Princes part séeing among great difficulties they had both renued warres with encredible spéede and also made them with greater force then before the stirred mindes of the subiects being daungerous weapons But all being weary of the continuall troubles wished for peace and quietnes and would the kyngdome take weapon against it selfe to her owne destruction It was sayd that the Kyng was enclined to peace and yet angry for his former losses and moued with the letters of the Emperour the Princes of Germany concerning a mariadge to bée made betwéene him and Maximilian the Emperours daughter vnto whom the Emperour would not consent but vppon condition of peace And so the matter beinge handled of both partes for certaine monethes at the length in the moneth of August with the great expectation and prayers of all men peace was concluded and by the Edict all men of both Religions were commaunded to liue quietly thorow the whole Realme Which Edict after our long and lamentable vnquietnes it shal be good to set forth in maner and forme following VVheras saith the King we perceiue that the troubles of warre which were spread abrode before this time and also now did threaten present ruine and destruction to our realme and subiects to preuent so great a mischiefe and to bring our kyngdome to her former tranquilitie and quietnes by the aduise and consent of our sister our bretheren and