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A54323	The history of Henry IV. surnamed the Great, King of France and Navarre Written originally in French, by the Bishop of Rodez, once tutor to his now most Christian Majesty; and made English by J. D.; Histoire du roy Henry le Grand. English.	Péréfixe de Beaumont, Hardouin de, b. 1605.; Davies, John, 1625-1693, attributed name.; Dauncey, John, fl. 1663, attributed name.	1663 (1663)	Wing P1465BA; ESTC R203134	231,946	417

burned the suburbs of Toulouse in such manner that the sparkles of that fire flew into that great City The War being thus kindled in the heart of France he shewed himself on the other bank of the Rhone with his troops gained by storms the City of St. Julien and St. Just and obliged St. Estienne en Forez to capitulate From thence he descended to the banks of the Saone and afterwards into the middle of Burgongne Paris trembled the second time at the approach of an Army so much the more formidable because it seemed to be re-inforced by the loss of two-battles and to have now gained some advantage over that of the Catholicks which the Marshal de Cosse commanded The Counsel of the King fearing to hazard all by a fourth Encounter judged it more to the purpose to plaister up a peace with that party it was therefore treated of the two Armies being near each other and concluded in the little City of Arnay-le-Duc on the eleventh of August This Peace made every one retire home the Prince of Navarre went to Bearn King Charles the ninth married with Elizabeth Daughter to the Emperour Maximilian the second and nothing else seemed thought of but Feasts and Rejoycings In the mean time the King having found that he could never compass his Desires on the Hugonots by force resolved to make use of meáns more easie but much more wicked he began to caress them to feign that he would treat them favourably to accord them the greatest part of those things they desired and to lull them asleep with hopes of his making War against the King of Spain in the Low-Countries a thing they passionately desired and the better to allure them he promised as a gage of his faith to marry his Sister Margaret to our Henry and by these means drew the principal Chiefs of their party to Paris His mother Jane who was come before to make preparations for the marriage died a few days after her arrival a Princess of a Spirit and Courage above her Sex and whose Soul wholly virile was not subject to the weaknesses and defaults of other women but in truth a passionate Enemy of the Catholick Religion Some Historians say that she was poisoned with a pair of perfumed Gloves because they feared that she having a great spirit would discover the designe they had to massacre all the Hugonots but if I be not deceived this is a falsity it being more likely which others say that she died of a Tissick since those that were about her and served her have so testified Henry her Son who came after her being in Poictou received news of her death and presently took the Quality of King for hitherto he had onely born that of Prince of Navarre So soon as he came to Paris the unhappy Nuptials were celebrated the two parties being espoused by the Cardinal of Bourbon on a scaffold erected for that purpose before the Church of Nostre-Dame Six days after which was the day of St. Bartholomew all the Hugonots which were come to the solemnity had their throats cut amongst others the Admiral and twenty other Lords of remark twelve hundred Gentlemen three or four thousand Souldiers and Burgesses and through all the Cities of the Kingdome after the example of Paris near an hundred thousand men Execrable action which never had nor ever shall again if it please God finde its parallel What grief must it needs be to our young King to see in stead of Wine and Perfumes so much Blood shed at his Nuptials his best friends murthered and hear their pitiful cries which pierced his ears into the Louvre where he was lodged And moreover what trances and fears must needs surprize his very Person for in effect it was consulted whether they should murther him and the Prince of Condé with the rest and all the murderers concluded on their death nevertheless by a miracle they after resolved to spare them Charles the ninth caused them to be brought to his presence and having shewed them a mountain of dead bodies with horrible threats not hearkning to their reasons told them Either Death or the Mass. They elected rather the last then the first and abjured Calvinism but because it was known they did it not heartily they were so straitly observed that they could not escape the Court during those two years that Charles the ninth lived nor a long time after his death During this time our Henry exquisitely dissembled his discontents though they were very great and notwithstanding those vexations which might trouble his spirit he cloathed his visage with a perpetual serenity and humour wholly jolly This was without doubt the most difficult passage of his Life he had to do with a furious King and with his two Brothers to wit the Duke of Anjou a dissembling Prince and who had been educated in massacres and with the Duke of Alenzon who was deceitful and malitious with Queen Katherine who mortally hated him because her Divines had foretold his reign and in fine with the house of Guise whose puissance and credit was at present almost boundless He was doubtless necessitated to act with a marvellous prudence in the conduct of himself with all these people that he might not create in them the least jealousie but rather beget a great esteem of himself make submission and gravity accord and conserve his Dignity and Life in the mean time he dis-engaged himself from all these difficulties and from all these dangers with an unparallell'd address He contracted a great familiarity with the Duke of Guise who was about his own age and they often made secret parties of pleasure together but he agreed not so well with the Duke of Alenzon who had a capritious spirit nor was he over-much troubled at his ill accord with him because neither the King nor Queen-mother had any affection for this Duke However he gave no credit to the ill counsel of that Queens Emissaries who endeavoured to engage his contending in Duel against him so much the rather because that he considering him as the brother of his King to whom he ought respect he knew well it would have proved his loss and that she would not have been wanting to take so fair a pretext to ruine him He shunned likewise other snares laid for him but yet not all for he suffered himself to be overtaken with the allurements of some Ladies of the Court whom it is said that Queen served her self expressly of to amuse the Princes and Nobles and to discover all their thoughts From that time for Vices contracted in the blossome of youth generally accompany men to their tomb a passion for women was the greatest feebleness and weakness of our Henry and possibly the cause of his last misfortune for God punisheth sooner or later those who wickedly abandon themselves to this criminal passion Besides this he contracted no other

but I with my Gray Jacket will give you good effects I am all Gray without but you shall find me Gold within I will see your desires and answer them the most favourably I can possible All his Prudence and all his Address were not too much to teach him to govern himself so that both the Catholicks and Pope might be content with his Conduct and the Hugonots have no cause to be alarmed or cantonize themselves His Duty and his Conscience carried him to the assistance of the first but Reason of State and the great Obligations he had to the last permitted him not to make them despair To keep therefore a necessary temperature he granted them an Edict more ample then the precedent It was called The Edict of Nantes because it was concluded the year before in that City whilst he was there by this he granted them all liberty for the exercise of their Religion and likewise license to be admitted to Charges to Hospitals to Colledges and to have Schools in certain places and preaching every where and many other things of which they are since deprived by reason of their Rebellions and divers Enterprizes The Parliament strongly opposed it for more then a year but in the end when they were made understand that not to accord that security to the Hugonots who were both powerful and quarrelsome were to rekindle new War in the Kingdom they confirmed it On the other side to sweeten the Pope who might be troubled at this Edict the King shewed him all possible manner of respect and strenuously embraced his interests as appeared in the action of Ferrara in the years 1597. and 1598. This Dutchy is a Fief Male of the holy Seat of which the Popes had formerly invested the Lords of the house of Est in charge of its reversion in default of legitimate Males Alphonso d' Est second of that name and last Duke died in the year 1597. without Children and had left great Treasures to Caesar d' Est Bastard to Alphonso the first his Kinsman He had done what possibly he could to obtain the Investiture of the Dutchy on this Bastard who not able to obtain it yet ceased not to take possession of it after the death of Alphonso the second resolving to maintain it by force of Arms. Clement the eighth was obliged to make War against him to dispossess him the Princes of Italy took part in the Quarrel and the Dukes of Guise and Nemours were upon the point to undertake the defence of Caesar whose near Kinsmen they were being the issues of Anne d' Est Daughter of Hercules the second Duke of Ferrara and of Madam Renee de France for that Anne in her first marriage had espoused Francis Duke of Guise and in her second James Duke of Nemours The King of Spain likewise favoured him underhand not desiring that the Pope should grow greater in Italy by the re-union of that Dutchy But Henry the great was not wanting to take this occasion to offer his Sword and his Forces to the holy Father The Allies knowing it were extreamly disheartned and he constrained to treat with the Pope to whom he surrendred all the Dutchy of Ferrara There remained to him onely the Cities of Modena and Regia which the Emperour maintained to be Fief of the Empire and of which he gave him the Investiture From whence came the present Dukes of Modena If the heat which the King testified in this occasion for the interests of the holy Seat sensibly obliged the Pope that care which he made dayly appear to bring back the Hugonots into the bosome of the Church was no less agreeable to him He acted to this purpose in such a manner that from day to day many of the most understanding and of the best quality were converted But that which was more important was his taking the young Prince of Conde from the hands of the Hugonots who had kept him diligently at St. John d' Angely ever since the death of his Father which happened in the year 1587. and brought him up in the false Religion with great hope to make him one day their Chief and Protector The King considering how it would be both prejudicial to the safety of the young Prince and to his own interests to leave him longer there knew so well how to gain the principal of the party that they suffered him to be brought to Court and he gave him for Governour John Marquess of Pisani a Lord of a rare merit and of a wisdome without reproach who forgot not to instruct him well in the Catholick Religion and in the truest sentiments of Honour and Vertue He was yet but seven or eight years old when he came to nine the King gave him the Government of Guyenne loving him tenderly and cherishing him as his presumptive Successour During this calm of the peace nothing was spoken of but rejoycings feasts and marriages That of the Infanta of Spain Isabella-Clara-Eugenia and of the Arch-Duke Albert was solemnized in the Low-Countries and that of Madam Katherine sister of the King with Henry Duke of Bar eldest son to Charles the second Duke of Lorrain at Paris Katherine was forty years of age more agreeable then fair having one Leg a little short She was very spiritual loved Learning and knew much for a woman but was an obstinate Hugonot The King feared lest she should marry some Protestant Prince who by this means might become Protector of the Hugonots and be like another King in France by reason of which he gave her to the Duke of Bar thinking moreover to gain more belief among the Catholicks by allying himself with the house of Lorrain Before this he had used all possible means to convert her even to the employing of threats but not being able to do it he said one day to the Duke of Bar My Brother it is you must vanquish her There was some difficulty about the place and the Ceremony of Celebration of this marriage the Duke would have it done at the Church and the Princess by a Hugonot-Minister The King found a mean he caused it to be done in his Closet whither he led his Sister by the hand and commanded his natural Brother who had for about two years been Archbishop of Rouen to marry them This new Archbishop at first made some refusal of it alledging the Canons but the King representing to him that his Closet was a consecrated place and that his presence supplyed the default of all solemnities the poor Archbishop had no longer power to resist him This Marriage being made for the good of the Catholick Religion it seemed that the Pope should have been content Nevertheless not willing to suffer an ill that a good might come of it he declared that the Duke of Bar had incurred Excommunication for having without the dispensation of the Church contracted with an Heretick nor ever could the Duke

Germans having received many checks in several places but especially at Auneau in Beausse where the Duke of Guise slew or took Prisoners Three thousand Reistres afterward at Pont de Gien where the Duke d' Espernon took Twelve hundred Lansquenets or Foot and almost all the Cannon willingly hearkened to an agreement which the King caused to be proposed to them and afterwards retired by Burgongne and by the County of Montbeliard but were still purs●ed farther in that County by the Duke of Guise Now began the year One thousand five hundred eighty eight which all Judicial Astrologers had called the wonderful year because they foresaw so great a number of strange accidents and such confusion in natural causes that they were assured that if the end of the world came not there would happen at least an Universal Change Their Prognosticks were seconded by a a number of terrible Prodigies which arrived throughout all Europe In France there were great Earth-quakes along the River Loire and likewise in Normandy The Sea was for six weeks together disturbed with continual tempests which seemed to confound both heaven and earth In the Aire appeared divers Phantasmes of fire and on the four and twentieth of January Paris was covered with so horrible a darkness that those who had the best eyes could scarce see any thing at noon-day without the help of lights All these Prodigies seemed to signifie what soon after Arrived the death of the Prince of Conde the Besieging of Paris the Subversion of the whole Realm the Murthering of Messieurs de Guise and in fine the Parricide of Henry the third As for the Prince of Conde he died in the month of March at S. John d' Angeli where he then made his residence Though there had been a secret jealousie between him and the King of Navarre even to the making of two factions in their party yet the King resented this losse with an extreme grief and having shut himself up in his Closet with the Count de Soissons he was heard to cast forth great cries and say that he had lost his right hand However after his grief was a little evaporated he recovered his Spirit and casting all his trust on Divine Protection he came forth saying with a heart full of Christian assurance God is my refuge and my support it is in him alone I will hope and I shall not be confounded It was truly a great losse for him he was now alone to Support all the weight of affairs and being denuded of this assister remained more exposed to the attempts of the League who had now only to give a like blow to his person to remain Conquerours in all their affairs He had therefore just cause to fear their attempts However the Duke of Guise had a heart so Noble and great that whilst he lived he would never suffer such detestable waies The Confidence of the League encreased wonderfully by the death of this Prince they testified extraordinary rejoycings and published that it was an effect of the Justice of God and of the Apostolick curses The Hugonots on the contrary were in an extreme consternation considering that they had lost in him their most assured Chief because they believed him firmly perswaded in their Religion but had not the same opinion of the King of Navarre In effect the Confusion and Disorder was so great amongst them that in all appearance had they continued strongly to prosecute them they might have soon ruined them The King hated them mortally and would willingly have consented but he would mannage things in such manner that their destruction should not prove the agrandizing of the Duke of Guise and his own losse but this Duke knowing his intentions pressed him continually to give him forces utterly to exterminate the Hugonots in whose ruine he infallibly hoped to involve the King of Navarre He had this advantage over the King that he had acquisted the love of the people principally by two means the first by his opposing himself to the new Imposts and the second by continually being at variance with the Favorites nor ever bending before them whilst the doing of things contrary had made the King fall into an extreme low Esteem and had likewise taken away the heat of some of his servants love See here an Example The King had two great men in his Councel Peirre d' Espinac Archbishop of Lyons and Villeroy Secretary of State The Duke d'Espernon who was fierce and haughty would treat them according to his proud humour they grew exasperated against him and thereupon change their affection to the Duke of Guise his party but without doubt still in their hearts remaining most faithful to the King and Crown of France as afterward well appeared especially in the person of Villeroy In the mean time the King lived after the ordinary manner in the profusions of an odious Luxury and in the laziness of a contemptible Retreat passing his time either in seeing Dances or in playing with little Dogs of which he had great numbers of all sorts or else in Teaching Parriquito's to speak or in Cutting of Images or in other Occupations more becoming an In●ant then a King But the Duke of Guise lost no time he made dayly new friends conserved his old ones caressed the people testified a great zeal for the Ecclesiasticks undertook their defence against all would oppress them and every where appeared with the Splendor and Gravity of a Prince but yet without Pride without Arrogancy The Parisians were intoxicated with esteem for him the greatest part of the Parliament and most part of the other Officers attended his motions and testified to him the affection they ought to the service of the King There were an infinite number of people who had signed the League and in the sixteen Quarters or Wards of Paris when they could not gain the Quarteniers or Aldermen they chose one the most violent of the Leaguers to act in their function by reason of which they afterwards called at Paris the Principal of this party and their faction the sixteen not that they were but sixteen for their number exceeded Ten thousand but all dispersed through the sixteen Quarters Now the King principally incited by the Duke d' Espernon resolved to punish the forwardest of these sixteen who in all occasions shewed themselves furious enemies of that Favorite By this means he thought to overthrow the League and absolutely ruine the Credit and Reputation of the Duke of Guise He caused therefore some Troops secretly to enter into Paris and gave order to seize on those persons The Duke of Guise being advised of it posts from Soissons where he then was resolving to perish rather then lose his friends Barricadoes were raised in the month of May even to the Gates of the Louvre and the Kings Troops were all cut in pieces or disarmed The Queen-mother according to her ordinary