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prince_n	conde_n	king_n	navarre_n	5,419	5	11.7990	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B16717	Advice from a Catholick to his Protestant friend, touching the doctrine of purgatory ...		1687 (1687)	Wing A632; ESTC R7268	153,167	378

Boniface the seventh was so wicked that Baronius himself that Grand Pillar of the Papal Cause saith he deserv'd the name of Thief and Murderer of his Countrey rather than of a Pope Hildebrand sainted Liberius the Arrian exercised all sorts of Cruelty cut off the Foot of a Widows Son but at last for the Impieties which he was guilty of many of which are premention'd he was depos'd in a Senate at Brixia and as he lived wretchedly so he died miserably in Exile and left the Keys to Victor the third an Italian thrust in by Matilda who was soon poyson'd by his Subdeacon in the Chalice so that you may see Christ's pretious Blood is no Antidote nor Preservative in these Cases But this is only Slaughter by retail take a view of their Massacres by whole-sail As to the Cruelties of Merindol and Cabriere they were so barbarous and inhumane that when the Advocate Aubery and other Civilians related them in the High Court of Parliament at Paris the Auditory stopt their Ears at the hideousness and horror of them take this single Example for instance among many others John Menier Lord of Oppede Chief President of the Parliament of Provence and the French King's Lieutenant General who tho he made choice of the worst Blood-hounds of the Army could not meet with Soldiers cruel enough to execute his bloody Edicts commanding them to rip up the Bowels of big-bellied Women and to trample their innocent Babes under foot and this was done before his Face to his delight who was then Spectaror and Author of this Inhumanity This was a piece of cruelty beyond that of Pharaoh to the male Children of the Hebrew Women in the old or the other of Herod to the Innocents of Bethlehem in the new Testament and yet promoted and approv'd of by the Holy Man of Rome The Parisian Massacre was so detestable and unparallel'd a Cruelty according to Thuanus that some curious Persons perusing the Annals Thuan. Hist l. 52. 53. of other Nations could not meet with the like in all Antiquity The manner of this hellish and bloody Persecution was as you find it in this ensuing Relation Catharina di Medici the Daughter of Pope Clement's Brother and Mother to Charles the ninth did Govern the Kingdom of France during the King's Minority through the supine negligence of Anthony King of Navarre with whom the said Queen's Mother was joyned in the office of Protectorship contrary to the Salique Law which denies the Inheritance or Administration of the Realm to the Spindle And she persuaded her Son to this Massacre It was very speciously carryed on and veil'd with pretences of the greatest Amity imaginable and that was a Match between the Houses of Valois and Bourbon the King resolving to bestow his Sister Margaret in marriage to Prince Henry Son to Joan Queen of Navarre the former being a Romanist the latter of the Religion But before the Nuptials were Celebrated the Queen of Navarre being then at the Court of Paris providing all things necessary for the wedding-Solemnity was poison'd by Renat an Italian the King's Apothecary with the venomous scent of a pair of persum'd Gloves by whose unnatural death the Kingdom descended to the said Henry precontracted to the King's Sister Shortly after the Marriage was solemniz'd with Royal Pomp and State in the chief Church at Paris to the great joy of his Majesty and all good Men to this wedding the Grandees of the Protestant party were courteously invited viz. Henry Prince of Conde Gasper de Coligni Admiral of France and Cousin to the King Francis de Andelot the Admiral 's Brother Captain of the Infantry and other Princes and Nobles And the Magnificence Jollity and Caresses of Entertainment were so great as are not to be expressed Nothing is seen but Banquets Balls Masques Stage-Plays and such kind of Divertisments all personated in the Night And this was the reason the Admiral had a desire to quit Paris because he could not have accesse to the King who was altogether taken up and delighted with these nocturnal Revels But those of the reformed Religion hearing of his purpose to depart with all speed delivered their Petitions to him for redress of Grievances begging of him not to quit the place till he had presented them to the King which he did on the 22th of August 1572 being the fifth day after the Marriage Returning home about noon a Harquebuzier shot the Admiral with a brace of Bullets through both the Armes out of the Window of a near adjoyning House but the Villain made his escape before they could reach the House The King was then at Tennis with the Duke when one of the Admiral 's Gentlemen acquainted him with the news which he no sooner heard but he with a seemingly violent Transport of Passion threw away his Racket and retir'd to his Castle as young as he was he made good use of the Motto of Lewis the 11th his Predecessor Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare The King swears most desperately severely to revenge this injury grants the Admiral a Guard at his request but such a one as would be sure to ruine rather than secure him and Cossin Captain of the Guards was the Man that commanded them a most Inveterate and Irreconcileable Enemy to the Admiral and his Party and a fast friend to the Guisians The Admiral hear's a noise and ratling of Armour tho altogether undisturb'd having the King 's Royal word for his security Besides he reflected on the Oath for Peace publiquely and frequently sworn by the King his Brethren and Mother the League with Queen Elizabeth the Articles with the Prince of Aurange to that purpose the King's faith ingaged to the German Princes some Towns taken in the low Countries by the King's order his Sisters marriage celebrated but six days before yet her Bridal Robes were stain'd and defil'd with innocent Blood the judgment of foreign Princes succeeding Posterity the honour and Faith of a Prince and the violation of the Law of Nations all these one would think might easily oblige a Man to beleive that it was incredible he could ever assent to so outragious and monstrous a Fact. Well notwithstanding all those Protestations Promises Oaths and Vows the Queen-Mother and the King had resolv'd upon a general Massacre throughout the City of Paris and this bloody Butchery was to be executed on the 24th of August being Sunday no matter for that the better day the better deed and accordingly it was perform'd for Cossin first brake in which the Admiral understanding caus'd those few Servants that were with him to lift him out of his Bed for he could not rise without help being so disabled by his Wounds and put on a Night-gown desiring them to make their escape he himself resolving to dy with an undaunted Courage and Christian-like Resolution These Assassines soon gain'd the Admiral 's Chamber broke open the doors and Benvese a German Miscreant educated in the House