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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

I See the Devil is suffered by the Almighty God for our sins to be strong in following the persecution of Christs Members and therfore we are not only vigilant of our own defence against such trayterous attempts as lately have been put in ure there in France but also to call our selves to repentance c. I desire to have the knowledg of as many principals as were slain and what Protestants did escape we are much perplexed with variety of Reports c. Woodstock 19. Sept. 1572. W. Burleigh In a Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham page 251. THe Lamentable Tragedy that hath been there used of late doth make all Christians look for a just revenge again at Gods hand as it hath pleased him to fear us and so pinch us in the mean time with the scourge of Correction by the sufferance of his people thus to be murthered c. That we may see as well the fall of his and our Enemies as the blood of his Saints to be so innocently spilt even for his mercies let him turn it ten fold upon their heads c. If he continue in confirming the fact then must he be a Prince detested of all honest men what Religion soever they have for as his fact was ugly so was it inhumane for whom should a man trust if not his Princes Word and these men whom he hath put to slaughter not onely had his word but his writing and not private but publick with open Proclamations and all other manner of Declarations which could be devised for their safety which now being violated and broken who can believe or trust him Sept. 11. 1572. Rob. Leicester In a Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham page 252. SIR THis sad accident in France seemeth to us so strange and beyond all expectation that we cannot tell what to say to it the matter appeareth all manner of waies so lamentable The King so suddenly and in one day to have dispoiled himself and his Realm of so many notable Captains so many brave Souldiers so wise and so valiant men You would not think how much we are desirous to hear what end these troubles will have whether it rangeth further into all France or dy or will cease here at Paris our Merchants are afraid to go now into France and who can blame them who would where such liberty is given to Souldiers and where nec Pietas nec Justitia doth refrain and keep back the unruly malice of the raging popular Woodstock Sep. 12. 1572. Tho. Smith In a Letter to the Right Honourable his very Good Lords the Lords of Her Majesties most Honourable privy Council page 253. That she was not a little astonished and perplexed upon the hearing of the late miserable and most lamentable accident in such sort as she knew neither what to say or Judge of the matter seeing those murthered without pitty and compassion without regard had either of sex or age without ordinary form of Justice who upon assurance of the Kings word laying all suspition aside did misdoubt nothing less than that which happened unto them who thought their lives then in most safety when by proof it appeared they were in most danger c. That though she was much astonished at the first report made of the great slaughter and horrible murther without regard had either to sex or age of those of the Religion who laying aside all distrust and reposing themselves upon his words did most confidently throw themselves into the arms of his Protection c. And as for the cruelty saith he exercised both here in my Town of Paris and elsewhere it is a thing that hath hapned against my will to my great grief of late saith he the like disorder hath hapenned at Roan for the which I am very sorry and therefore for the redress thereof I have all this morning been devising with my counsel for exemplary Justice to be done upon those which shall be found to be offenders c. The Marshall de Cosse hath Commission sent him as I am informed to execute as many of the Religion within his Charge as have been known in these late wars to have served the Princes and born charges If the Marshall Montmorency had been in this Town at the day of execution both he with all his Brethren the Duke de Bulloin and Marshall had been slain as I am credibly informed Paris 24. Sept. 1572. In a Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham page 262. The cruel Murthers at Roan is now long ago written unto us when we thought all had been done and by the same Letters was written unto us that Deip was kept close and the same execution of the true Christians looked for there but as then not executed howbeit Sigoigne did warrant all our Englishmen to be out of danger and not to be afraid but what warrant can the French make now Seals and words of Princes being traps to catch innocents and bring them to the butcheries if the Admiral and all those murthered on that bloody Bartholomew day were guilty why were they not apprehended imprisoned interrogated and judged but so much made of as might be within two hours of the assumation is that the manner to handle men either culpable or suspected So is the Journeyer slain by the Robber so is the Hen of the Fox so the Hind of the Lion so Abel of Cain so the innocent of the wicked so Abner of Joab but grant they were guilty they dreamt Treason that night in their sleep what did the innocent men women and children at Lyons what did the sucking children and their Mothers at Roan deserve at Cane at Rochel what is done yet we have not heard but I think shortly we shall hear will God think you sleep still will not their blood ask vengeance shall not the Earth be accursed that hath sucked up the innocent blood poured out like water upon it c. I wish you were out of the Countrey so contaminate with innocent blood that the sun cannot look upon it but to prognosticate the wrath and vengeance of God The ruin and desolation of Jerusalem could not come till all Christians were either killed there or expelled thence Reading 26. Sept. 1572. In a Letter by Sir Thomas Smith Secretary to her Majesty p. 263. The Best is we stand I thank God upon our Guard nor I trust shall be taken and killed asleep as the Admiral was c. It doth me good to see the Princely compassion that her Majesty doth take on the poor Vidame who is escaped by good fortune into England her Majesty hath written for him to the King The Copy I send you you shall do well to press the Answer and bring it with you I dare say it will do you good if you can do it Haec est vicissitudo rerum humanarum haec est communis casus hominum All that be not bloody and Antichristian must needs condole and lament the misery and inhumanity of this time God make it