Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	knight_n	sir_n	thomas_n	83,699	5	9.3263	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

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

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 Seene and allowed DEVTERON 32. Remember the dayes of olde consider the yeres of so many Generations aske thy father and he will shew thee thine elders and they will tell thee IMPRINTED AT LONdon by Frances Coldocke ANNO. 1574. R Regard not worldly wealth I In Christ repose thy trust C Consider well thy finall end H How thou art but dust A Aske mercy for thy sinne R Reioyce in vertues lore D Detract no time for to atchieue B Beatitudes in store A Aboue where Christ doth raigne K King of imperiall power E Eche Angell his triumphant praise R Resounding euery hower T. T. To the right worshipful Sir Richard Baker Knight Thomas Tymme wisheth desired health and prosperitie with full perfection of Christian vnderstanding and godlynesse IN all Ages and times there haue bene some godly and well disposed Fathers that imployed theyr tyme and trauayle in describyng the State of Christes Churche and of the common wealth of the Lordes Israell As for example In the tyme of the law before Christ Moses Samuel Esras Nehemiah and others After the law since Christ S. Luk Theodoret Sozomenus Epiphanius Nicepho rus Iohn Sleidan and in our time Maister Iohn Foxe oure Countrey man whose godly labour hath deserued great cōmendation As these fathers and godly learned men in their times by occasion haue labored and trauailed to benefite the Church of Christ which through ignorance hath bene much endamaged euen so that notable graue godly learned Father Petrus Ramus the Authour of these Commentaries of the state of the Common wealth and Religion of Fraunce whereof this booke is but the first part hath taken no lesse paines to the same ende and shall profitte in deede no lesse than the trauaile and paine of others taken that way For in his Commentaries beside the godly lessons both concerning doctrine and manners and otherwise are conteined manye notable examples of Gods great mercyes in defending and preseruing the Christian professors of his name in Fraunce in extreme perils and also diuers experimentes of his seuere iudgements in ouerthrowing the cruel tyrants and in punishing the persecuters In consideration wherof I thought is good to translate the same into our English toung both for that I thought it should generally profit our countreymen and not those alone which vnderstand the Latin toung as your worship doth and also for that I thoughte it a meete occasion wherby I might testifie my good will and meaning towardes your worship for the freendly inclination and willingnesse to benefit me that I haue heretofore found in you Desiring you to accept the dedicatiō hereof though not for the worthinesse of the thing giuen yet as a sure testimonie of such a well willing mynd as by this which he here presenteth declareth what he would do if he had any thing of more price to giue and also to suffer my trauaile to passe forth vnder your fauourable protection and garde to the common profitte of our countreymen and the glory of God who send you long life increase of worship and the perfect felicitie of the life to come Your worships Thomas Tymme The Authors Preface to the Reader WHat a great businesse and much adoe there was of late yeares for Religion that in the Kingdome of Fraunce there is no man but he knoweth ▪ yea all men sée the same to be such that it ought with diligence to be Cronicled for euer and to be sent to the borderers of the vtmost part of the earth for all posterities But he which hath taken this labour in hand of good will desireth earnestly that it may generally take effect and turne to the profit of all men For so farre as I know there is nothing extant to be read but certaine writings which were put forth and set abrode as the matter required and certaine Commentaries in the French to●…gue and if there be any thing it is so obscurely written that the same of all men can not be vnderstoode And truly there are certaine reasons which stayed mamy men of great wisedome and experience in these matters from that publique writing For who not knowing as yet what would come to passe dare take vppon him to set foorth openly a whole Tragedie or Comedie without manifest daunger to loose his labour or at the least to séeme to lose it Furthermore who séeth not that it is a thing at this time full of perill and procuring enuie and displeasure And beside all this such laboure at this time séemeth almost vnprofitable For those matters are as yet freshe in memorie and more sensibly felt of a great manie than were to be wished and are noysed abroade by others in forreine Nations To conclude this thing séemeth almost hurt full For when as these controuersies haue ben stirred vp tho rough diuers opinions of religiō which controuersies burst forth into so great perturbations and troubles the rehersall now of these thinges shall not only séeme pernicieus but also vntimely and out of order The which also séeme to bée other causes which haue discouraged learned men who no doubt did diligently note and marke the reasons and falling out of those matters which wonderfully hapned in these our dayes from labouring to set forth this history For either the hast is vnprofitable or else the vntimely comming forth ridiculous of this so spéedie vnseasonable labor Therfore least any man should thinke that it is our purpose to write and sette foorthe a iust and true Historie of the state of the Churche of Fraunce wée giue to vnderstand that it is neyther our purpose nor yet agréeing to the time Howbeit hereafter more copions and plentifull woorkes of better learned menne so soone as the troubles and lettes of these times bée taken awaye will come abroade and will also committe to those that shall come after a perfecte and full memoriall and Chronicle of matters Let this now bée our beginning and entrance and a certaine declaration of a greater worke that we may shewe some part of that large and ample argument and that we may reduce into these Commentaries a certaine Uiew of the seuerall times of our Churches both that we may stirre vp such of greater learning and experience as may happily hereafter take this matter in hand more fully to handle the same and also that in the meane time wee may giue some fast of the greatest matters to Christian men desirous to know the truth of this thing and to men of forreine nations bewayling our estate and condition And in these thrée first Bookes of our Commentaries we set forth vnto the reader the first

of the sworde He made manye incursions into Poytou and anoyed them with such generall perill that the princes to ouercome him this troupes dispatched thither the Lord de la Roche●…ard with vii cornettes of horsemen and the regiments of footemen of the L. la Mousson Saint Magrin Montamma whose strength and trauell was to small purpose bicause the enemye had a speciall saüetie in hys singular swiftnesse as knowyng well the straites and compasse of that countrey The princes being at Sainctes got intelligence of the enterprise whiche the Kings brother mente to execute within Angoulesme and therevpon knowing also that he was vpon his waye thyther dispatched to intercepte that purpose the Coūtie Montgomery with ten cornets of horsemen ouer and besides the regimen of footemen of the Lord Montbrun and Mirabel sent thither all readie The Montgomery the better to execute his charge in the beginning of Aprill sommoned the sayd ten cornets of horsemen to be before him at Pons the monday being the fourth of April in the euening At his cōming he founde onely vi cornets with whom he departed after some expectation for the other whiche were not yet come he trauailed all that night and the next morning was receyued within the towne of Angoulesme without any let or impediment by the way the other fower cornets comming somwhat late to Pons hasted on the way after their copanie albeit as they were neere Chasteauneuf neither fearing nor for séeing any perill they were charged by a great troup of horsemē layd of purpose in amb●…h to intercept thē ▪ so pursued as the chase came to Coygnac from whence they returned and found safetie in the swiftnesse of their horsses At this encounter the L. de Chaumont captaine of one of the sayde cornets with certaine other common souldiers were takē prisoners and about xxx or xl slaine The Countie Montgomery was no sooner within Angoulesme than he begā to deuise and prouide for the safetie of the towne wherein for his first pollicie he surueyed the wardes and warders of the towne And bycause that those which afore made the view and search of the towne passed not by the Parke which is a newe building ioyned to the towne which cut of all aduertisment of any thing done there the place it selfe also not vnapt to receiue companyes foysted in by night without knowledge to them of the towne The said Montgomery made pierce the walles and open the gates of that syde towardes the parke so that alwayes after the searchers of the towne passed and visited the gardes of the same He remoued also the Captaine of the sayde Parke to auoyde treason with order that euery nyght the warders of that place should be changed The Duke de Roauois beinge led prisoner as you haue heard to Rochell and there continuing til the moneth of Ianuary was deliuered vpon this promis to pay within thre mo nethes after twentie thousand frankes to raunsome or in default of eyther the time or summe to returne prysoner to Rochell Hee failed and therefore was sommoned to make good his worde which he refused clearing himselfe by the death of the prince of Conde to whom as he had giuen his faith so his death acquited his promise ▪ The Kinges brother kepte still about Angoulesme al be it vnderstandinge of the precise direction of the Montgomery gaue ouer his further attempt and depar ted from thence the xii of Aprill taking his way to Perigueux and passing by Aubeterre he tooke the castle by composition ▪ for whose garde the L. of the place did entertaine about a hundered men who enduring only cer tayne shot of the cannon yéelded themselues their liues saued wherein notwithstanding they were abused for that dyuers were killed and the L. of the place arested as prisoner from Aubeterre he drue to Mucedan a town of Perigueux afore the which as the Lord de Montlue attended him with his forces so the army being arryued they began to batter with such furie as a breach was spéedely enforced There were within the towne seuen or eyght score popular Souldiours who dispairing eyther to fill up the breach or to kepe it longer in respect chiefly of their small nombers abandoned the Towne and closed themselues within the castle being sufficient ly strong the catholikes being within the towne bent their batterye against the castle where they had no sooner battered a breache than they cryed to the assaulte They within susteined the first assault and likewise ii others in the necke of it repulsing at last the catholiks wherof a great nomber left their dead bodies in paune then the Kings borther vnder their word of assurance came to Parle with them wherein he so preuailed as they yéelded reseruing only their liues which notwith standinge were violently taken away from them all without exception ▪ contrarye to his faith and woorde of honour hee loste at these assaultes a great company of souldiours with sundry Lords and captaynes of choice amongest which was the countie Brissac striken with a harquebush shot in the left chéek he was a gallant gentleman and of great hope amongest the people of xxv yeares of age when he died and of great calling function in France For first he was Knight of the order cap taine of fiftie men at armes of the Kinges allowance Colonell general ouer the french footemen in the Kinges campe and gouerned also in this iorney a regimen of xl ensignes of footeman his brother succéeded him in most of his charges sauinge the estate of Colonell generall which was giuen to the Lorde of Strossie there dyed at that slege the contie Pompaden with many other to the number of v. or vi hundred Mucedan being taken in this moneth of Aprill ▪ the Kinges brother toke way againe to Angoulmois the Lorde of Montluc returned to his gouernemente and charge The Princes horsmen being thus viewed and mustered they would also suruey their footemen in which businesse the d' Andelot was chiefly vsed and theréfore immediatly dispatched to the end he might puruse the garrisons in euery towne of their obedience he began his first trauaile in this charge vppon the end of Aprill following the garrisons and mustring them in his own presence In the beginninge of May hee returned to Sainctes féeling himselfe somewhat sicke the same growing so vpō him as he dyed the Sarterday the seuenth of the same 1569. to the lamentable griefe and displeasure of the whole army as being noted a most wyse and valeant Gentleman called commonly the knight with out feare his office of generall Colonell of the Frenche footemen was giuen to the Lord d' Acyer ▪ his company of men of armes since his death hath bin gouerned by the Lord of Beauuais his Lieuftenant It was thought he was poysoned and the phisitions that viewed his bo dy were of the same opinion Immediately after in the same moneth and at the same place dyed the Lord of Boccarde hauing lyne long

with the late Duke of Deux Pons was sicke in this time at Angoulesme of a hotte Ague the same pressyng him so sore that within few dayes he dyed in the sayd towne The Countie du Lude gouernour of Poyctou hauing assembled certaine troupes aswel of Touraine Aniou as of Poyctou departed from the Towne of Poyctiers and the twelfth of thys moneth of Iune planted hys seige before Nyort wherein was gouernour the lorde de la Brosse The first daye of the siege the lorde de Pluuean wyth his Regiment of footemen and hys companye of lyghte horsemen entred the Town in despite of the Lorde de Lude who notwythstanding those succoures began his batterie the next mornyng on the side of the Toure de la Pigalle and followed it forthwyth wyth an assaulte whiche was so valiantlye repulsed that he séeynge the breache filled vp with suche spéede remoued his batterie and forced a breach in an other place albeit he durst not make it good with an assault but vnderstanding of supplies of succour at hande raysed his seige the xxii of the moneth of Iune He had foure Canons and two meane péeces Comming againe to Poyctiers he lefte within S. Meseut the lorde de Anuony maister of the Campe of the Regiment of the late Countie Brissac wyth such companies as he had wyth the said Regiment wyth two Canons two field peeces and certaine other munitions leadyng the rest to Poyctiers At this siege the lord de Pluueau was lightly hurte with a shotte and soone healed againe Of the du Ludes syde were slaine the Captaynes Flogeat Gorbon a Gentleman of Sainctonge Fresouet la Marche the Captayne Colonel of the sayd Regiment the maister of the mines and Morlou guider of the artillerie cariage with a great number of footemen The Lord of Teligni was sent for to go to the reskue of Nyort with foure cornets of Reisters with certayne other cornets of Frenchmen and the regiment of footmē of the Lord Bricquimi●… the yonger Notwithstanding afore he came there the siege was raised wherevppon they went to the saide S. Mesent to intercept the artillerie which in the ende they abandoned as hereafter shal be noted The Princes armie being in the countrey of Perigueux was still pursued but farre off by the catholiques kéeping on the left hand The Princes entred by composition within the towne of Branthome thei tooke also two Castles in the sayd Countrey the one belonging to the Bishop of Perigueux and therfore commonly called the Bishops castle the other called la Chapelle in which wer killed about two hundred and thrée score men with like number of the popular sorte withdrawne thyther and thereabout Upon the beginning of Iuly the Princes army departed from the countrey of Perigueux drawing to Confluence or Confolance a little towne vpon Uienne Neare vnto the which is a Castle called Chabaucy then in question betwéene the Uidame of Chartres and the Lord de Montluc within the castle was a companie of footmen whose Captaine refused to open the gates to the vittailers of the Princes army and therefore the vauntgard came and besieged them and the same day battered and tooke the Castle by assault putting the souldiours to the sword The Captayne onely was taken who promised for his raunsom twenty thousand Frankes and withall to cause to be sent home ▪ M. Pierre Viret minister of the gospel taken prisoner in the territories of the Quéen of Nauarre The castle after it was taken the sixth day of Iuly was burnt to the ground Within two dayes after the Lorde de Mouy entered by composition the towne of S. Genays in Poictou One chéefe couenaunt in the composition was that the Towne promised to pay ten thousand Franks so that their goods were not put to the pillage or spoyle wherein they were duely dealt withall as they also payd truely their money You haue heard how the Kings brother pursued the princes Camp into Perigeux who now séeing as it séemed into their seueral purposes turned away and passing by Lymosin and Berry came into Touraine Being at Loches he licenced a great number of his horsmen to recreate themselues abroad vntill the first of October by which occasion his camp so diminished as he had not about him of the French nation aboue a thousand e or xii C. horsemen and very few footemen almost all the Captaines went to relieue increase ther companies The princes being aduertised that the town of Chastelleraut conteyned not aboue thrée score souldioures in garde dispatched thither the Lord de la Loue with his re giment of horsemen and a company of Harquebuziers on horsebacke At his first comming hée sommoned the towne which withont much resistance was rendered vnto him reseruing onely that their goods should not be sacked nor any the inhabitants hurt vpon which agrée ment the gates were opened and the Lorde de la Loue entered at one gate and the lord Uilliers Knight of the order and Gouernour of the Towne ▪ issued out of another Upon the end of this moneth the Lord de Sansac with iiii or v. M. footemen and certaine horsemen of the Catholiques besieged the towne of Charite he battered it so vehemently that within small tyme hee made a breach and sodeinly marched to the assault from whēce he was repulsed with the losse of v. C. men the reste retiring from the assault to the artillerie whereof one of small experience let fall his match within a cask of cānon pouder which in a moment flusht vp suche a general flame and fire that it burned a great number of the said souldiours and blew one on the other side the riuer of Loere vpon the grauel and so burned him to death in euery mans sight They that defended the town made great resistance and gréeued many of the Catholiques by their sallies whiche they made out of the Towne whereupon the Lord de Sansac not able to force them was constrained to raise his séege hearing withal that the Princes had prouided to succour them with thrée or fower thousand horsmen which notwithstanding was rather incertayn than a true report After the takinge of the Castle of Chabaney the princes army tooke way to Luzignan a strong castle and as it is said builded louge since by Mellusigne the garde of this castle were two hundreth souldiours vnder the Lord de guron captaine and kéeper of the same who beinge sommoned to render it refused by reason whereof it was besiéeged the fourtéenth daye of the sayde moneth when the battery began very furiously with sixe Cannons on that side to the parke they within beinge sore shaken with the cannons and almost iiii score of their souldiours slayne a breache being beaten open and flat and the regiment of footeme in order of battayle ready to offer the assault began to faint in hart demaundinge Parley and immediatly rendered the place vnder this cōposition that the said Lord Guron with the Lord de Cluseaux should depart with bag and

Chastelleraut amongst whom were specially the lord of Boniuets companyes sonne to the Lord of Creuec●…ur and of the baron of Numburg a Normande which being knowen to the garrison of the sayde Chastelleraut together with the certaine place where the sayd lord Boniuet was wonte to come the tenth of August two or thrée hundreth horsemen with certaine shot of the Captaine Norman made a sally vpon them and toke the sayde L. Boniuet with his company in a village néere to Liguers ▪ where they entred withoute let as kéeping negligente garde and were founde layde and lodged after the french maner the Lorde Boniuet was prisoner and almost all the rest of his company either killed or taken About the same time the Marquis of Rancon an Italian was takē néere to Myrebeau as he bayted and was led prisoner to Nyort The lord of Tarrides gouernour for the King in Quercy maintayned war all this while in Bern a country belonging to the Quéene of Nauar hauing almost brought all the country vnder his authoritie wherfore the countie Montgomery sent as is saide into Gaseoyne assembled the forces of the ii vicountes to apply spéedely to the succours and rescue of the Citie of Nauarre in Bearn besieged by the said Lord of Tarrides he deuided his iorney into such diligence and spéede as about the 7. of August he was very néere Nauarreis at whose so sodaine comming the Lord Tarrides raised his siege and retyred into a towne there ioyning where the Montgomery besieged and toke him with his brother and the lord de S. Colombe and of Negre-pelisse with many other great lordes and knightes of the order and captaines to the number of xxx The Lord of Tarrides lost his artillerie with a great number of his horsemen footemen The countie Montgomery by meane of this discomfeit restored the whole country of Bearn to the obedience of the Quéene of Nauarre Touching the siéege of Poictiers they within were in greate amaze with the breaches made in the Abbottes meade the rather bycause they could not defend them whervpō entring into counsail they found it most best and necessarye to stem the ryuer of Clyn to the ende to make it runne ouer his cannell and so drowne the said meade this counsaile was put in spéedy execution and plantinge stakes and pales proper for the purpose beneath the arches of the bridge of Rochereul they dāmed the riuer so that in a moment the mead was all ouerflowen with water about thrée cubites high the same so troubling the protestants as it driue them from their determinations notwithstanding after they had considred wel of the subtilty they began as in a couuter polli cye to beate the pales and giue vent to the water and therefore the next morning discharged so many shottes of artillery against the said waterworke as the water retyred and left the meade drye which the catholiques the night following restored and countergarded in this order they cast behind the said damme vnder the arches a very thicke wall fastening certayne fléeces or balles woll to the pales to receyue and dampe the cannon shot which made the water swell and ouerflow more highe than afore Notwithstanding the catholiques were closed very nere and straight yet made they many sallies vpon the Protestantes who skowred them back again euen to the verye posternes of their Citie not without great losse to the one and other side Amongst these sallies they made one of such a sodaine the xii of this moneth that they tooke a cornet of Reistres and caried them without let into the towne In this moneth the town of Orillac in Auuergne ▪ was taken by night by the L. de la Roche and Bessonniere professoures of the religion in that countrey accompanied onely with seuen or eyght score men This was their meane and pollicie there is in the saide Orillac a gate of quarrie in the wall towardes the ryuer which the in habitauntes of the place caused to ramme and wall vp leauinge onely a posterne so straighte that one person could scarcely enter This posterne was cloased with two portes or gates of wood the one within and the other without the town the saide Lord of la Roche and Bessonniere came to the gate without the postern and with a great yron instrument made a hoale or creuish by the which they cast in about a hundreth poundes of cannon pouder betwéen the said two gates and then closing vp the●… said hoale or creuish and making vnder the said first gate a train to the same pouder they put fire to it which forthwith flushed with in the saide two gates and blewe them both vp the one caried forty pace of and throwen vppon a house within the towne and the other inforced with the violence and strength of the pouder rushed against a wall without the towne and brake a breach containing his own compasse by which thei entered the town wherein was no other garde than of the inhabitantes whereof they killed a hundreth or sixe score resisting them in armoure The Lord of S. Heraut gouernour of the countrey appeared certaine dayes after afore the towne thinkinge to recouer it but finding such warme resistance hee returned forthwith to S. Floure The longe continuance of this stéege afore Poyctiers brought the Catholiques in a great necessitie and want of vittailes aswell for men as horses and aboue al forrage was so scant with them that thei were driuē for to turne abroade parte of their horses to the vynes medowes landes and other voyde places of the towne whereof the Princes hauing vnderstanding by certain stragling souldiours issuing out of the towne determined to breake the mylne in the bottome of the medowe néere to the port de Tyson And for this purpose planted ouer ii Canons in that quarter which they discharged against the sayd mylne and after retyred them as beyng discouered and anoyed by the Catholikes who pinched now with an extreme want of vittailes determined to thrust out of the town a great number of vnprofitable persons which as they beganne to execute the. xvi of this moneth so the Protestantes to pine and sterue the towne more driue thē backe with force to enter the towne againe For want of pouder and bollets the batterie ceased for a time wherof the Princes hauing receyued a new prouision from Rochell renued also the batterie the. xx of August on that side towardes the Abbottes meade where the breach being forced they sent in the euening to surueye it by certaine numbers of Souldiers wherof xvi or xvii entred by y breach into the sayd medow from whence beyng discouered by the watch in S. Peters steple who ronge the alarum bell they were constrained to retire with spéede The night following the protestants builded a bridge vpon Clyn towardes the suburbes of S. Sornyns to passe to the Byshops meade stretching towardes the temples of S. Rudegonde and S. Sulpiee the bridge was made of quarreis of wood hurdles pypes earth and plankes

campe Secondlye he was instantly persuaded and pursued as well by one Laurence de Ruze Secretary to the Duke d'Aniow as by the sayde la Riuiere to kill by poyson or other wayes the sayd Lord Admirall whiche he might be bolde to do say they without feare of the Admirals children who also shoulde be rooted vp to the vttermost of their race neither néede he stande vpon any dreadfull respect of any his friendes or kinsmen séeyng they assured him that no one of them shoulde euer be well receiued or welcomed to the court as first the Marshall Montmorancy his Cosine shoulde be committed to prison where he should neuer come out with honor and that of the rest of the sayde Mashals brethren there shoulde not remaine one Finally the rather to allure him to such an horrible acte they sealed their last offer with a dampnable promise of xxx thousand crownes in recompence and. xxx thousand Frankes of perpetuitie oute of the towne of Paris besides the fauourable good will all dayes of hys life as well of the Quéene mother Duke d'Aniow as Cardinall of Loraine and the whole court Dalbe yéelded so farre to their murderous enticementes as he gaue his word and promise to kill the Admirall Wherevpon was deliuered him by the sayde la Riuiere certayne white pouder whiche was knowen afterwardes to be eyther Reagar or Arsenicke with a large pasporte from the sayde Kinges Brother wherewith he departed and came to the Lord Admsrall his maister at the siege of Poyctiers his long aboade in the Catholikes campe together with other suspicious circumstaunces appearing at his arriuall persuaded a ielous iudgement of his dealing and therevpon was committed to prison his processe pursued and ended sentence lastly pronounced in these termes Iudgement pronounced the. xx of September 1569. in the councel established by the Prince of Nauarre and Conde present and assisted with the Printe of Orange the Countie Wolrard de Mansfelde Lieuetenant generall of the Almaignes vnder the sayd Princes the Counties Lodouike and Henry de Nassau brethren Menard de Chomber Marshall of the Almaignes camp Hans Boucq Renard Gracco Henry Destam Hans de There 's Colonels of the Reistres Guieryn Gangolf Baron of Grelesee Colonell of a regiment of Launceknightes Theodore Wegger professor of the law and Embassadour frō the Duke de Deux ponts with many other lords knightes Colonels and Keistremaisters of Almaigne the Lord of Corras Councellour to the King in the Parliamente of Tholouse and Chaunceller to the Quéene of Nauarre and the armye the Lorde of Francourt Bricquemau de Mouy de la Noue de Renty de Soubize de Mirambeau de la Caze de Puch-perdillan de Biron de Lestrange with manye other Lordes Gentlemen and Captaynes of Fraunce Séeing the processe made by the commissaries deputed by the said Princes of Nauarre and Conde againste Dominique Dalbe groome of the chamber to the L. Gaspard Counte de Coligny lord of Chastillon and Admirall of France the iii. examinations of the sayd Dalbe afore the Prouost general of the campe and two other afore the Commissioners assigned for that purpose lassly the confessions of the said Dalbe relterated viii ▪ seueral times wherein he acknowledgeth to haue hen instantly sollicited vrged and pressed by la Riuiere Captayne of the garde and one Laurence de Ruze Secretary to the Kings brother to practise and procure the death of the sayd L. Admirall eyther by sword or poyson which hée promised to the sayd la Riuiere to effect with poyson only receyuing to that end of the said la Riuiere certayne money and poison in forme of white powder which he hath shewed since to the said Prouost and Commissioners séeing also the verification and proofe of the sayde poyson tryed by Phisicions and Apotecaries assembled at la Haye in Touraine the xiii of this moneth togyther with a very large pasport graunted to the saide Dalbe the 30. of the last moneth by the Kings brother lying thē at Plessis les Tours and nowe for due punishment and reuenge to such a traiterous and detestable attempt so often acknowledged as well in his priuate confessions as publike assembly the said councell hath and doth con dempne the said Dalbe to be deliuered into the hands of the executioner of high Iustice who tying him vppon a hurdell with a halter about his necke shall drawe hym thorow the stréetes corners accustomed of this towne de Fay la Vineuse with this inscription in parchement about his body This is Dominike Dalbe traytour to the cause of God his Countrey and Maister trayling him first to the lodging gate of the sayd Lord Admiral and there with no other garments than his shirte the halter remayning still about his necke holding in his hande a torche of burning waxe shall demaund pardon of God the King the law and the Lorde Admirall confessinge there that wickedly disloyally and trayterously he had professed promised and practised to kill by poyson the said L. Admirall his maister and at the same instant in his presence the said poyson which he confessed to bée giuen vnto him by the said la Riuiere to be cast into the fire and burned All which being done he shall be ledde keeping still the inscription about his body to the place of publike execution and ther to be hanged and strangled on a gallowes set vp for that purpose And that also humble sute be made to the King to do iustice vpon the sayd la Riuiere and Laurence with their complices and withall if his maiestie be of mind to verifie more ample their said conspiracie with the said Dalbe the same notwithstanding resembling a sufficient trueth against them by his voluntary confession to procéede agaynst them with punishment due to so horrible a fact and the same both to terrifie hereafter others of like villanious humour and also to remaine to all nations as a President of the noble nature and disposition of Fraunce in abhorring such traytrous attemptes declaring the said la Riuiere and Laurence with all other sectes and sortes of traytours kéeping schole and open shoppe to poyson persons of name and vertue to be traytours villayns and men vnworthy of honour either in them selues or their posteritie to the 4. generatiō Lastly it is iudged that afore the execution of iudgement the sayde Dalbe shal be put on the racke to the ende to confesse further practises with his said confederates with other things contayned in interrogatories gyuen to the Prouost This sentence thus pronounced the morrow after being the xxi of September the rack was vsed accordingly where he confirmed his former confession and so the same day the sentence was put in execution Whilest the Kings brother kepte at Chynon in the Countrey of Touraine whether he was retired as is sayd great numbers of men of warre flocked to hym from many partes of the Realme togyther with the horsemen to whom he gaue libertie for recreation and the xx enseignes of footemen Parisiens wherof