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A12310 An extract out of the historie of the last French King Henry the fourth of famous memorie according to an autentique [sic] copie written in his life time. To which is added his being murdered with a knife in his coach in Paris the 14. of May last 1610. styl. Rom. With an apprecation [sic] for the safeguard and happines of our most gracious soueraigne Iames the first, &c. Seene and allowed by authoritie. Skory, Edmond. 1610 (1610) STC 22629; ESTC S117438 7,469 32

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AN EXTRACT OVT OF THE Historie of the last French King HENRY the fourth of famous memorie According to an Autentique Copie written in his life time To which is added his being murdered with a knife in his Coach in Paris the 14. of May last 1610. Styl ROM WITH AN APPRECATION FOR THE SAFEGVARD and HAPPINES of our MOST GRACIOVS Soueraigne IAMES the first c. ¶ Seene and allowed by Authoritie ¶ Jmprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO 1610. ¶ To be sold at BRITAINE BVRSE TO THE RIGHT Honorable WILLIAM Lord Viscount Cranborne sole sonne and heire to the Right Honorable the Earle of SALISBVRY L. High Treasurer of England Right Honourable THE continuall fauours J receiued from your L. at my being in FRANCE doe and shall alwayes binde me to serue and honor you in what J may And now purposing with my selfe to consecrate to this our Age and to Posteritie the memorie of Henry the 4. the late French King whose most deplorable Murder sorrow it selfe can neuer sufficiently bewaile J esteemed the Dedication thereof as well in respect of my owne particular dueties to your L. as in regard of the Qualitie of the Subiect whereof J write to belong to you more then in Part. For with whome may my Narrations of the wonderfull passages of his Life hope to finde more gracious acceptance then with your L. whom J knew to be so great an honourer of his Person an eye-witnesse of his Royall Parts and one that had receiued so many ample fauours from him being aliue The Circumstances of his being Murdered J cannot call it his Dying for they Die not but are made to Die who are so Murdered are best knowen to your L. whose speedie Letters gaue our STATE the first notice of his Fall J onely now set them downe to propose to your Thoughts the Consideration of Humane frailtie and the Weaknesse euen of greatest Greatnesse so often as you call to minde that KING then whom the Princes of the Christian world cannot haue a more ample or apposite Subiect to meditate vpon It was about Christmas last past your L. did then too throughly thinke of it J am sure euer after to forget it that the rumour of our Kings death was spread ouer the French Court which though it were but a rumour and against which all those then about you opposed themselues strooke you notwithstanding so full of dolour and affliction of spirit that J suppose how much your Noble and gentle nature was wounded with the sight of this Kings wounds Two notable occurrences that in your Lordships Trauels you should heare of the murder of your owne King which prooued otherwise and be an eye-witnesse of the Murder of another which was too true and both of them the greatest Kings of Europe Your Losse in Him was great great in loosing a KING from whom you had receiued so gracious respects great in cutting off your Honourable purpose of following his Fortunes in those Germane Warres wherein you should haue seene so warrelike Lessons read by so Excellent and profound a Master But GOD whose Prouidence and Power is as infallible as vnresistable hath diuerted him from finishing that great Affaire which he hath left I hope to be consummated by another I cease from further troubling your Lordship and so rest Euer humbly at your Honors command Edmond Skory AN EXTRACT out of the Historie of the last French King HENRY the 4. of famous memory THere being an Vnion of Vertue and Fortune in the person of this French K.H. the 4 whose life I will onely point at hath iustly gotten him all the eleuated titles of an immortall glory So many actions of his person are as so many miracles and may safely exempt him from being paralleld either in the difficultie of obtaining or happinesse in keeping so great and stirring a Kingdome And the particulars indeede of the course of his life seeme by the Diuine prouidence to haue bene conducible to the reseruation of that State which otherwise had fallen into an irrecouerable consumption His birth being amongst the barren rockes and his education comporting with the asperitie of the place were the ingredients with which his youth was tempered and wherby his body as his spirit made inuincible he was prepared fit for the accōplishment of great and glorious labours Hee had not drawen the breath of seuen yeeres in this world but his qualitie drewe him into the knowledge of the world where his royall towardnesse begot him estimation and that estimation euen then extended it selfe to the assured hope of succeeding greatnesse By the Ciuil warres was his Father the Light Conductor of his Nature and fortunes extinguisht his Mother remoued from Court his Vncle imprisoned his friends in disgrace his seruants banished and his owne ruine plotted And now these of the Religion beeing wrapped in like extremities disposing their eyes to heauen their bodies to the earth finding no other hope of safetie then in his Armes elected him their Generall the abated hopes of whom by the losse of foure Battels could not bee repaired but by the felicitie of his Generous courage At nineteene yeere old he was inueigled into his first marriage a marriage as dangerous as illegitimate for celebration of which direfull Nuptials Hymen had his garment not sprinkled but daubed all ouer with the blood of the best bloods in France his Mother lost her life his friends were banished himselfe and his seruants captiued All which mischiefes he suffred patiently and vnder-went the perils inconueniencies and labours though a Generall euen of the Common souldier vntill the time that his wisdome obtained to his partie some relaxation of euils and breathing from toiles by the meanes of a fift Edict of peace But suddenly was this calme conuerted into a storme which powred vpon him the charge of ten royall Armies in lesse then foure yeeres At the battell of Coutray his name was made terrible to the enemie who but by so apparant merit was vnwilling to haue acknowledged his Vertue A cruell tragedie ended where France was the Theatre strangers the Actors the Epilogue of which was closed with the death of two Princes who had filled the Realme with fire blood and confusion The King then reigning Henry the 3. predecessor to this King as well in being murdered as in rule being in desperate distresse and almost surprised at Tours was happily rescued by this H. the 4. whose approach like the discouery of a Land to men long at sea inspired a new courage into the Kings drooping and disheartned forces and had conducted him to the vndoubted conquest of PARIS but for that execrable King-killing Friar whose face as his disseigne was mufled with the veile of pietie by meanes whereof he was so vntimely rent from himselfe his fortunes and his friends The true naturall French men being thus desolated of their Prince and fearing many tyrant-Kings in stead of one-lawfull cast