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A narration, briefely contayning the history of the French massacre especially that horrible one at Paris, which happened in the yeare 1572. In the passage of which, are handled certaine questions both politike and ethike, properly fit for courtiers and states-men. The condition also of this present time is discouered, by comparing it with the state of those lamentable times. ...; Oratio perstringens brevitur historiolam Lanienæ Gallicæ. English
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Bruyn, Ambrosius de.
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resolutions That force by force is to be beaten backe from your bodies and liues For this defence Reason to the Learned Necessity to the barbarous Custome to all Nations and Nature it selfe hath prescribed to the bruite beasts What need I speake more let vs haue no league with this brood of Antichrist but warre rather Let vs bethinke our selues all and euery one of vs who haue any care and liking of Religion or of the safety renowne and liberty of their Countrey that we ought to beware of the Popish traines and entrappings For sooner or later whatsoeuer they now intend and couer will they at their time effect and bring to passe Whosoeuer thinkes they haue giuen ouer thinkes farre amisse seeing that rule so old true and religious doth neuer faile There is no peace with the vngodly Therefore let it be so farre from vs to hold consederacies with these Iesuited Traytors that we rather account them conspiracies which although they lye hid perhaps for a time yet at last they appeare and are as easily discerned by their actions as the Lyon by his clawes What Is there for vs greater security now then was in those French vproares when these Iesuites these plagues of men haue lowly insinuated themselues into very many Prouinces Cities Townes Castles yea and into the Courts of Princes and their familiarity for so exceedingly well do these runnagate common Barretors know at first how to humilitate themselues as also to faigne Pouerty and aboue all things to seeme godly that these coyne-mongers haue not onely by their forged name gotten incredible wealth and opinion of true Religion but like Bloud-bounds of better scenting then euer Verres had any they haue also cunningly smelt out the purposes of Princes and their secresies and mysteries of State All which as soone as afterwards they haue in particular beene related to their fellowes and by common aduise handled and discussed then presently are sent into sundry Prouinces such men as some call the Kings some the Popes Legats others the Apostolicall Nuntioes and others call them with other Titles but as for me by what name I may call them I know not vnlesse peraduenture in that they tempt and sollicite some by rewards and briberies some by hope and promises some by feare and threatnings they may rightly be called Traitors and betrayers of their Countrey who if in the beginning the consines and entrance of Kingdomes and Regions had beene forbidden them and commandement to abstaine hereafter they had beene deliuered by the consent of all the States either these Mountebanckes had not at all brought their poyson into diuers Prouinces or else they had receiued condign paiment for their paines But after it was lawful for them to betray Kings and Princes to effect their busines either by gold or siluer to send intelligencers abroad to retaine Pentioners and to turne and returne at their pleasure to what place soeuer infinite mischiefes did presently ensue thereupon and doe daily Let euen Spaine her selfe the chiefe nurse of these Waspes and Locusts beare witnesse be Italy also witnesse let France speake and the not meane Cities of Germany and Low-Countries from my very soule I reioyce that the Iland of England is blest and free from these Flyes and Locusts vnlesse some that perchance lurke and lye close in corners and I pray God it may so remaine euerlastingly Meane while most noble King Iames most mighty valiant and constant defendour and reuenger of the faith goe on to chase out thy kingdome this Vipers-brood men mockers and contemners of God from whose onely power all mans power is deriued which goe about vnder the pretext of Religion vtterly to roote out all iust and lawfull dominion Your Maiestie according to your singular wisedome doth see what that wicked desire of the Pope went about to doe with your selfe your children your posteritie and your subiects Hath not that Romane gulfe long since deuoured all the wealth bloud and life of England Are not these holy men the fathers of the Societie such as striue to enter not onely vpon our goods chests and money but vpon the liberty also and safety and as it were the very bones and marrow of vs all Are not these the men that were accustomed not onely to set vpon but to sell our liues and soules and heauen it selfe at a price To these men then must we listen of these and none other are Kings and Princes to be iudged if they refuse and doe not of their owne accord accept of any most vnequall condition they strait cry out that they are to be pursued and persecuted to death Are not these those companions that euery-where labour with tooth and naile to bring in that Spanish Inquisition which at first was practised onely against the Sarazens and Infidels and I pray you what good comes of it of what vse is it Truely none vnlesse as miserable wretches wee shall be constrained to looke for murther vpon murther and most cruell slaughters But God forbid most gracious King and you all vertuous and great Princes that we who by so long and large distance of ground seuered from Spaine haue no communitie at all with the Religion manners and custome of that Nation liue in a well gouerned Kingdome Commonwealth should beare the same yoake as this people doth or that the same euill should be put vpon vs or any good people which hath in it all euils The Spanish Inquisition For this is that if any man knowes it not already which not onely by poysoning takes away the liues of famous men the Countries best commoners teares in peeces the ciuill lawes of Commonwealths but also breakes in sunder the very lawes of nature and Nations Listen further and vnderstand ye Princes could euer yet euen Spaine her selfe and Arragon could they of Granato the Castellans the Neapolitans the Italians the French-men and amongst all the most miserable men of the Low-Countries nourish that direfull and vgly monster with so many sheddings of their bloud so cruell a wilde beast so vntamed and so vnsatiable is that Spanish-Romane beast which cannot I say be fattened nor so much as haue her paunch filled vp with Christians bloud And to this Beast so wilde and sauage will the curteous French-men the wise men of the Low-Countries and the Gentles and Nobles of England refuse to yeelde obedience with good reason Set before your eyes examples which for the most part doe chiefely moue consider them call to remembrance the late and fresh memory of the French Germanes and Low-Country-men and you shall haue cause great enough oh Princes to defend your right your priuiledges and especially Christian Religion purged from the Popish dregs and filth All which truely according to your faith and dutie wish to be protected by your prouidence and cannot be forsaken of you without the manifest destruction of all that's Gods or mans Neither is it likely that that Stoicall numbnesse is so ingrafted imprinted in your
A NARRATION BRIEFELY CONTAYNING the History of the French Massacre especially that horrible one at Paris which happened in the yeare 1572. In the passage of which are handled certaine Questions both Politike and Ethike properly fit for Courtiers and States-men The condition also of this present time is discouered by comparing it with the state of those lamentable times Which in true loue and sincerity are by Gods grace set downe to be publikely read and examined by the Nobility and Gentry of England France Germany and the Low-Countries PROV SALOM 24. They that say to the wicked man thou art iust the people shall curse them and the companies shall hate them They which rebuke him shall be praised and vpon them shall come a blessing Ibid. Cap. â—9 A righteous King raiseth the earth and righteous men abhorrâ— the vngodly man LONDON Printed by Thomas Snodham 1618. To the RIGHT REVEREND Father in God and most worthy Prelate Doctor N. F. the famous Patron of Learning and learned men I doe humbly giue and dedicate as a Monument and small Pledge of my great loue and dutie this little Historie touching the lamentable slaughter of godly men throughout the Kingdom of FRANCE which happened in the yeare 1572. on the Feast day of S. Bartholmew and the next dayes following * ⎠* A NARRATION CONTAYNING THE Historie of the French Massacre especially that horrible one at PARIS which happened in the yeare 1572. Right Reuerend I Thinke that no man is ignorant vnlesse he be altogether a stranger to worldly affaires that many haue written many things touching the famous persons in Learning or Warre whom this our Age hath brought forth as also touching the sundry occurrences befallen in this blessed Kingdome of England as also in France Italy and the higher and lower Germany But in so great a number of ancient and Moderne Writers I doe wonder there hath beene none that as yet hath particularly set sorth that cruell butchery of good men made in the Kingdome of France in the yeare 1572. on Bartholmew day Truely if I knew it had beene done by any though it were but by snatches or in parts and peeces I had rather be silent after the passage of so many yeares then bring forth any thing vnseasonably that might either breed offence to your Lordship or the Reader But as I haue formerly said seeing I am fully perswaded there is none that already hath purposely dealt in this Argument I deemed it as free and as lawfull for me as for others to runne in this race and in this Field to make tryall of my slender ability Let it please you therefore my good Lord at this time when others out of a plentifull rich haruest haue brought to this Bartholmew Faire abundance and store enough of fruit That I out of my little barren and poore Garden may with a pure heart and hand offer a few leaues to your liking And I beseech you vouch safe to assist and further me with your honourable good will and fauour in the discourse and discouery of this businesse according to your accustomed piety and your remarkeable vertue and Learning so famoused both in your owne Countrey as also in forraigne Since then the whole matter is so plaine and euident to all good men and of vpright iudgement it shall not be amisse if in the beginning wee seeke out the cause from whence so hainous and barbarous an Act proceeded It is certaine if wee may beleeue Caesar in his Commentaries that the French Nation was of old so fierce and cruell that they did be-smeare euen their Altars with humane blood they would hale and teare innocent and harmelesse men to be sacrificed Nay more that robberies and out-rages done out of the Walles and borders of their Cittie they did not account dishonest or to be blamed But from the time that it was once reformed by lawes and worthy discipline and that it learned to obey one King it presently fell from that rude and barbarous kinde of life to humanity and Ciuility So as at this instant we may truly and not vnfitly terme Fraunce the Mother of Ciutill courtesie and that from our selues by our owne experience But before I wade further into other things me thinks this one cause should be first chiefly examined namely from whence that Nation once so cruell and sauage and now styled with the praise of Courtesie and Ciuility should draw the matter and ground-worke of this wicked and perfidious deed we now speake of And more what should moue Charles their King then of greene and tender yeres from whom nothing but Acts of glory and Nobility were expected both in regard of his excellent forwardnesse as of his most Royall disposition both in body and minde that he should so fauour these men which vnder the pretext and counterfait zeale of ancient Religion bring about and compasse any thing with the simple people From hence it is that these griefes arise by this onely bait was King Charles caught by these circumstances and by-wayes was that Prince led and misse-led being in his first yeares Noble milde and gentle That hee with griefe I speake it in whom as Buchanan the Prince of Poets in our age saith godly and truely the Image of the most high God ought to be and shine should abandon himselfe to wickednesse and villany and all manner of impudency and periury But that Christ the mouth of Truth hath fore-told it should be so that Religion which should be the bond of Peace and Society yet often through the subtilty of Sathan and malice of men proueth the occasion and matter of vproares debate and tumults And verily he that writ this writ not vainely neither did hee write toyes or fables when hee said Quod saepius lim Relligio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta That Religion of yore hath brought Forth deeds vile wicked and nought And in another place Tantum Relligio potuit suadere malorum Religion hath the skill To perswade to much ill But that we may come to the purpose and our speech may returne from whence it hath digressed he is farre out of the way that perswades himselfe or imagineth that this deed so detestable was bred or forged in any other place then in the shop of the Bishop of Rome the Anuile of all wickednesse Neuerthelesse it is not to be thought that this Pylote sate alone at the Helme in this Shippe so fully fraught with all impiety but that he had Mariners and Sea-faring fellowes enow of that sort carefully trained vp in any villany For first what parts in this Act and deed may not the Conspiracie of the Councell of Trent challenge to it selfe What Company in this Army doth not the encouragement of the Cardinals and Spaniards lead What hath not the furie and rage of the cut-throat Iesuits attempted in these Tents and fields of vngodlinesse who make their daily vowes and prayers to spill the life and bloud of godly Kings and Princes