almost all of them perplexed with Domestick Wars disunited by Differences in Religion and consequently not in a capacity to assist the Venetians That the King of Spain was busied in reducing the Moors and pacifying the Troubles in the Low Countries That besides the League made between his Highness and the King of France this Prince was too young and his Kingdom too much weakened by intestine Wars to interest himself in this Quarrel As for the Emperor Maximilian it was not to be expected he would break the Peace lately made having experienced his Weakness and so expose himself a second time with such small Forces in hopes of the assistance of the Princes of the Empire whose Troops are seldom in a sufficient readiness to do any good Service As to the King of Poland being instructed by his Father's Example and made wise at his Neighbour's Cost he must understand his own Interest too well to break the Peace he made with the Ottoman Port so that the Venetians forsaken on all sides must inevitably lose the Isle of Cyprus before the News of it can come to the Senate Should Fortune moreover adds he favour this Enterprize a man might set on foot still greater Designs against this Republick to the Ruine of the Naval Forces of all Christendom and by this means open a way to invade all Italy a thing not unthought of by your Predecessors That the Idleness wherein the Venetians had languished this thirty years last past by means of the Peace Solyman had granted them rendered the Conquest of their whole State very easie having forgotten the Art of making War there being but few left of the ancient Officers and Souldiers so that seeing themselves in a manner lost they must submit to such Conditions as would please his Highness to impose and yield their Necks to the Yoke rather than undergo all the Calamities of War. So that in fine his Army enriched and laden with Spoil would return in Triumph to Constantinople followed by a prodigious number of Slaves and Captives making Vows and Wishes for the continuance of his prosperous Reign which would presage him a continual Series of Victories and Conquests and an immortal Glory by the Defeat of the Christians the most averse People to the Mahometan Law Piali who seconded Mustapha and Miches in their Arguments with the Emperor help'd to confirm him in the Design of this Conquest And Selim whose natural Pride was encreased by the Representation of his Grandeur the Confidence he had in his Power and the Respect of his Subjects which extends even to Adoration esteemed himself as the most mighty Monarch on Earth and despising other Soveraigns supposed there could be no Fleets opposed nor Land Armies able to resist his so that this War in his opinion must be finished from the moment Mustapha proposed it had not Mahomet who would avert this Tempest from falling on the Republick brought some difficulties for whether he feared the taking of the Isle of Cyprus would encrease his Enemies Credit or was willing to keep the Pension he received from the Venetians to keep up the Peace he made use of the pretence of Religion and told the Grand Signior he would do well to consult the Mufti on so important an Undertaking and know his Sence touching the infraction of a Treaty so solemnly sworn And being not well assured of the Mufti how his Answer would be he undertook himself to shew the Grand Signior That 't was more advantageous and honourable to carry the War into Spain to succour there a Nation that was of the same Religion and implored his Protection and in hopes thereof had already taken Arms against the Tyranny of Spain and alarm'd the whole Country by their vigorous Resistance That this Enterprize would draw no new Enemies upon him for the Venetians would not assist the Spaniards but on the contrary if the Republick was Assaulted the Spaniards would infallibly assist them That the Spanish Militia were not so valiant and brave in their own Country as out of it That all Christendom was lost when Spain should be subdued That France betwixt whom and Spain there are ancient Hatreds and Jealousies edged on by the Disgraces she received in the last War and engaged by an Alliance and several good Offices from the Port would be glad of this opportunity of Revenge and take part against the Spaniards there being also as much or more Honour in protecting unfortunate Believers related to him by the Sacred Bond of Religion than Profit in making himself Master of all Spain whereas should he abandon the Moors to the Executioners of Spain to set upon a State with which he lived in Peace he must undergo an universal Reproach of breaking his Word to his Allies and wanting Compassion for miserable Wretches forced to renounce their Mahometan Religion and embrace the Christian by the violence of Torments These Reasons moved not Selim and if he appeared less hot on the War of Cyprus 't was rather because he would not disoblige the Prime Visier whose Opinion he disliked than to determine what he was resolved to do for believing every thing just which he pleased to undertake his greatest Concern was to put it in speedy Execution The Riches of the Isle of Cyprus and the Work in which he would surpass all the former Emperors made such an Impression in his Mind that he had not the power to resist it Yet had this Undertaking been further put off by the Address of the Grand Visiâ—r had not such News arrived from Italy to Miches and Mustapha as hastened the Execution of it In the Year 1569. Italy was affiicted with such scarcity as made all the Cities thereabouts feel the smart of it and expect a terrible Famine Sicily and Pouille which are as it were the Store-houses of Italy were as empty of Corn as other Places Yet the Triumvirs thought on an Expedient which much helped the City They issued out an Order by which they promised a great Price to such Merchants as should bring Grain which brought so many Vessels laden with it to Venice that the People scarcely felt the Scarcity with which other parts were afflicted But that which was worse than this and hastened the War which the Infidels projected against the Republick was That on the 13th of September at Night in the same Year the Powder took Fire in the Arsenal of Venice and blew up the Magazines with such a dreadful Blow that all the Inhabitants dismayed at the Noise came out into the Streets and publick places lest they should be overwhelmed in the Ruine of their Houses The Sky seemed in a light Fire which caused such a terrible Consternation that several imagined Venice was threatned on all Parts and such as were most fearful reckon'd the Day of Judgment was now come The violence of this Fire made it self felt to the most solid Edifices of the City and the very Boats in the Channels were lifted up in the Air
the Spaniard as to hinder the Turkish Army from blocking up the Passage He received in his way a Command from the Senateto steer this Course and was well pleased with himself that he had prevented their orders Colonni wrote to him at the same time from Naples to the same purpose He sent out before Sancto Francis Troni and Daniel Molino with three Gallies to cruise on the Adriatic Gulph Sancto was order'd to leave the two others in the mid-way and make directly to Venice to inform such Vessels as were going to Corfou to Sail to Sicily and avoid by this means the Ottoman Fleet. He likewise dispatch'd one Benedictus Captain of a Friggat a Native of the Isle of Cyprus to the Providors Quirino and Celsi to hasten them away without any delay to the place of Rendezvous with the sixty Gallies of which he had left them the Command with whom he joyned some time after Colonni arriv'd there Pius the Fifth who was not wanting in any particular of his Duty assembled the Sacred Colledge immediately after the departure of his Fleet and nominated two Legats to wit Cardinal John Francis Commendon and Michael Bonelli Sirnamed Alexandrinus who was his Sisters Son and brought up in the order of St. Dominic The Colledge sollicited for him a Cardinals Cap as soon as his Unkle was seated on the Throne He was indeed a young Man of small experience but of such a Virtuous Temper as rendred him worthy of the Sacred Purple Commendon though absent was preferred before several of his Competitors who strove for that Honour His Piety Prudence and Zeal to the Holy See merited without doubt this Preference and none in that time at his Age acquired such an Esteem and Reputation in Nunciatures and Embassies He had negotiated with all the Soveraigns of Europe under the Pontificats of the three last Popes especially with those of Germany and Poland He had made Friends amongst the Chief Persons of each Nation and having applyed himself to the Learning the Humours and Inclinations of those Princes he had dexterously insinuated himself into their Favour He was sent to the Emperor Maximilian Sigismond Augustus King of Poland whom the Pope Vehemently desired to enter into League Cardinal Alexandrinus was dispatched to the Kings of Spain and Portugal who in his Passage to Spain went through France where he needed extraordinary Circumspection in dealing with several Great Persons of different Interests As soon as he arrived in Spain he passionately Solicited Philip the 2d to execute the Conditions of the League in good earnest Shewing him that should the Venetians grow in the least measure jealous of his Sincerity they will certainly turn their Thoughts on their own particular Interests at the Cost of his and other Christian Princes That a State which has no Inclination for War must naturally tend to the side of Peace That his Catholick Majesty had great Reasons to fear lest the weight of the War should fall on Spain by a forced Compliance of the Venetians with the Conqueror That the State of his Affairs not permitting him to manage a matter of this Importance in Person he ought to send some Person to Rome of approved Wisdom and Integrity with ample Power of regulating all difficulties which may happen on which dispatching to him continually Couriers much time is wasted by expecting his Orders and several favourable occasions lost to the Progress of the Christian Arms. That all Sincere Endeavours must be used That his Fleet and those who were to command it arrive precisely on the day and place appointed for the general Rendezvous of the whole Army That the Remora's had already cost great and unnecessary Expences and withal entreated this Prince not to commit the whole Care of this Expedition to the management of his Ministers least perhaps they abuse his Power and Trust Don Sebastian King of Portugal was a Young Ambitious Prince who was easily enflamed with a desire to do some Signal Service to Christendom in her necessities The Legat exhorted him to enter into the League by representing him how greatly he was obliged to declare himself against the Infidels and oppose their Progress in the East to preserve the Conquests of his Predecessors on the Coasts of Asia and Africa He then likewise desired him to send Embassadours to the King of Persia to make him take Arms against the Turks on supposal he would comply with this Request on account of the Allyance and Amity which the Relation of Nighbourhood had long since establish'd between them Tipoly had been already sent into Spain and Portugal to Solicite the same thing on the part of the Republick The King of Spain returned the like answer to the Legat which he had already made to Tipoly That he would never be wanting in what Christendom may justly expect from a King whose greatest Glory is the title of most Catholick and absolutely devoted to the Service of the Church Sebastian whose Youthful Heat passionately desired a War with the Turk assured the Legat his Forces should not be wanting to so Holy an Enterprize but needing time to set out a Fleet in good order this Summer he would not fail to be in readiness against the next and would in the mean time advise with his Holyness whether 't were better to make them direct their Course to Greece or conduct them himself on the Coasts of the Red Sea to divert the Ottoman Forces That he intended to charge his Embassadour at Rome to follow thereon whatsoever his Holyness should determine and designed according to his desire to send to the King of Persia although the Age and Sluggish Temper of this Prince gave small hopes of any Assistance from him The Venetians sent at the beginning of the War Vincent Alexandri to Tammas King of Persia in quality of Embassadour who having traversed Germany Poland and Moldavia embark't at Mount Gastro on the Euxin for Sinope where landing he travelled through Armenia and several other Provinces dependant on the Grand Seignior and happily arrived at Tauris then the Capital City of Persia by reason of his knowledge in the Turkish Tongue and Customs He found Tammas basking in softness encircled with Women and Eunuchs and returned to Venice without any positive answer from this Effeminate Prince Tammas although Son to the brave Ismael an avowed Enemy to the Turks and who by his Valour had meritted the Title of Sophi trembled at the bare mention of the Ottoman Arms and had caused Prince Ismael his Son who was Heir as well of his Grandfathers Virtue as Name to be carefully guarded lest he should by some means or other engage him in a War against the Turks Cardinal Alexandrinus likewise negotiated by the Popes order a Marriage between Sebastian King of Portugal and Margurita de Vallois the French Kings Sister This Allyance had been already proposed but no Prayers and Entreaty could make Sebastian change his aversion to Marriage The Pope desired he would embrace
he was only chosen to govern some Houses in quality of Prior which Employs he for no other reason accepted but he might not disobey his Superiors Cardinal Caraffa having been named Soveraign Inquisitor heard of his Merit He sent him to Bergamo to order the Process against certain Hereticks For besides his extraordinary Piety he was very Learned in the Holy Scripture and in Divinity which he had a long time taught in his Order with the Title of Doctor Cardinal Caraffa well satisfyed with his Activeness and Fidelity which were of proof against Sollicitations and Menaces sent for him back to Rome where his Service was very useful to him in the same Functions This Cardinal being after Julius the Third and Marcellus the Second who both reigned but a very little while advanced to the Churches Throne under the Name of Paul the Fourth gave the Bishoprick of Nepi to Michael Ghislieri so was he call'd amongst the Dominicans and Two Years after honoured him with the Sacred Purple though Cardinal Charles Caraffa his Holynesses Nephew opposed his Promotion He afterwards made him chief of the Inquisition giving him far greater Power than any who had before him filled that place and extoll'd his Capacity in the presence of all the Cardinals He made himself many Enemies by Honourably asserting the Interests of Religion but was nevertheless chosen Pope the Fifth day of January Anno 1566. Those who seem'd the most contrary to his Election were the first to give him their Voices He shewed so much indifference therein that when according to Custom they came to ask him whether he consented to what the Conclave had done in his behalf he for some time doubted whether he should accept it and received the Tiara with as much Moderation as he had testified little desire to obtain it In the mean time this Man full of Humility without Estate without Birth and without Favour supported only by his Innocency and the uprightness of his Intentions manifested no less Greatness of Soul than Zeal and Devotion At his Entrance into the Pontificat he set about restoring the Discipline which had been long corrupted A Work undoubtedly Laborious but which he Gloriously accomplisht by being himself the first in diligently observing his own Ordinances and severely punishing the obstinate and Refractory By proposing Recompences only to those who endeavour'd their amendment the Court of Rome was in so short a time purged of all the Vices which dishonoured it that 't was scarce credible he alone should have performed what several of his Predecessors never durst attempt The Respect and Veneration that was had for him prevented his Orders and every one amended his Manners through the Sole Fear of displeasing him The Corruption was grown so great in the whole Ecclesiastical State that Wisdom and Modesty rendred Men contemptible and nothing made them valued but Libertinism But Pius the Fifth took such good order therein that Virtue regain'd the place whence Vice had driven her The Banditi were become so formidable by their Assassinates and Robberies that the Towns themselves were not safe from their Insults This Holy Pope caused these Thieves to be punished with so much Severity that his Subjects enjoyed a Calm and Repose the like of which had not yet been seen in any State of Italy He had so little Ambition to advance his Family that 't was only at the Instant Request of the Sacred Colledge that he gave the Hat to his Nephew Michael Bonelli his Sisters Son who had also taken the Habit of St. Dominick though he loved him tenderly as being a Person of great Wit and Virtue He took from him the Office of Treasurer of the Church worth ten Thousand Crowns a Year some time after he had given him it and sold it to Cardinal Cornaro for Four Hundred Thousand Franks which were employed in Equipping the Fleet of the Holy See. His Nephew willingly parted with it offering him also whatever was left him of his Benefits for so Holy an use as that He entertain'd a young Bononian that was his Kinsman named Paulo Ghislieri who had a great inclination to the Wars and could not have fail'd of succeeding in it But the Pope understanding that he had an habit of Lying would not see him but banish'd him from Rome with Prohibition of ever returning thither whatever Intercessâ—â—n the Princes and Cardinals made in his beâ—alf By so admiâ—able a Conduct â—e merited the Esteem of all the Christian Princes though no Pope of a long time had so little Condescendence for them or more vigorously oppos'd all their Enterprizes against the Honour or Interest of the Holy See. He rejected the Counsels of those able Politicians who pretended to govern the Church according to the Wisdom of the World and said that the Vicar of JESUS CHRIST ought to be ignorant of State-tricks and to demand of GOD alone Strength necessary for the supporting this Burden This sole Confidence gave him such an Authority that he alone engag'd the King of Spain and the Venetians in the League and gave the Form and Motion to this long and difficult Work. THE CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH BOOK HUgh Buoncompagno chosen Pope under the Name of Gregory the Thirteenth His Birth and Fortune Designs of Gaspar de Coligni Admiral of France Condition of the two Fleets Louchali's great Ability Unwillingness of the two Generals to Fight Each of them slips an Opportunity of gaining the Victory The Turks shut up in an Harbour The Christians will attack them Don John carries back the Spanish Fleet into Sicily The Venetians Complaint against him 'T is refâ—rrâ—d to the Council of Ten to treat secretly a Peace The Turks make themselves Masters of a little Place and Fort. The Republicks Complaints to the Pope Great Contests at Rome about augmenting the Navy The Pope grants Don John the Liberty of Haly's Son. This Prince sends him back to his Mother without any Ransom A witty Saying of the Bassa of Negrepont Prisoner at Rome The Pope exhorts the French King to enter into the League Reasons of the Power and Greatness of the Realm of France Causes of its last Misfortunes Peace and Alliance between France and Spain Henry's lamentable Death Jealousie between Catherine de Medicis and the Cardinal of Lorrain Conspiracy of Amboise Death of Francis the Second King of Navarre declared Regent during the Minority of Charles the Ninth Duke of Guise assassinated before Orleance Battel of St. Denis Anne de Momerency Constable of France mortally wonded Battel of Jarnac Prince of Conde slain after the Fight Conduct of Admiral Coligni Cardinal Ursin Legat in France Conditions on which the Emperor will enter into the League Peace concluded at Constantinople between the Grand Seignior and the Venetians Copy of the Treaty sent to Venice All the Christian States offended at this Agreement The King of Spain receives the News of it with a great deal of Moderation The Pope drives from his Presence the Venetian Embassadour who came
Sorancio that he should part immediately from Corfou with Twenty Gallies to relieve Cataro He obeyed without delay and Fortune seconded his Fidelity for the Bassa of Epire seeing no Enemies in Condition to attempt any thing was gone to the remotest Frontiers of the Province with what Troops he had excepting Two Hundred Men appointed for the Guard of this Fort. Sorancio landed Four Thousand and after a gallant Defence made by the Garrison who were all put to the Sword took the Fort which he eas'd having first carryed away the Canon and thus the Catarians being delivered recovered the Liberty of the Sea. This Vigorous Action was performed in the year 1572. After the Return of Don John of Austria with his Fleet into Sicily the Venetians made very great Complaints against the Spaniards beseeching him to oblige all the Consederates to labour unanimously for the Defence of Christendom and to support the Interest of the Common-Cause with more Vigour than they had hitherto shewn They at the same time represented to his Holyness that 't was in vain to agree upon the Condition of a Treaty and confirm it afterwards by Solemn Oaths if instead of punctually executing it every one should either as his Caprichio or Interest might incline him presume to explain it to his own Advantage That 't was expresly agreed the Fleets should be ready to sail into Greece at the beginning of every Spring and yet the Confederates were scarce by the end of the Summer got to the Enemies in order to fight that having only shewed the Infidels the number of their Vessels they retired without daring to attempt any thing That but by staying a little longer at Sea they might easily have ruin'd the Ottoman Fleet and driven the Barbarians out of the Mediterranean That Don John usurpt to himself all the Authority contrary to an Article of the League which shares it equally betwixt the Three Generals That not content with having the sole Decision of Matters when he commanded in Person he pretended also to have the same Obedience paid to his Orders in his absence That these Contraventions were insupportable and that the Republick was in fine weary of bearing them They had private Conferences with Gregory at which they enlarged upon every one of these Grievances In the first Assembly of the Cardinals and Ministers held by the Pope touching the Affairs of the League Paulo Tipoli insisted very much on the Expedition into the Morea he demanded that they should set forth much earlier than they had done the two last Campaigns and that an hundred new Gallies should be added to the Fleet and in effect there was very great apparence the Turks would the next Summer be exceeding strong considering the news they received of the Preparations making at Constantinople for the setting forth a very great Fleet besides that 't was a piece of Policy in the Venetians to spread abroad these Reports as being advantagious to them whether they would conclude a Peace or carry on a War. Tipoli proposed further that an hundred Sayl should be chosen out of all the Christian Fleet to go as soon as the Sea should be Navigable and ravage the Grand Seigniors Territories take as many Slaves as they could and at the same time secure the Venetian Isles from the like Insult That a new Adress should be made to the Emperor and whatever he should desire promis'd him to engage him in the League That Application should be also made to the Kings of France and Portugal That Embassadors should be sent to the great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia the Polonians being then busied about a new King In fine that all Potentates and all Christian Nations should be incited to take Arms against their Common Enemy All these things were granted Tipoli and 't was resolved that the Confederate Princes should be requested to give their Agents sufficient Power to the end the Consulations might not be delayed The Cardinals afterwards proposed that the Confederates should by the same Treaty engage to have all the same Friends and the same Enemies The Spaniards who found their Advantage in this new Article willingly accepted it but the Venetian Embassadour absolutely rejected it saying That the Republick would not enter into any new Engagements and that this would put back many who had promised to sign the League Tipoli seeing them propose Innovations demanded that the common Expences of the War should be examin'd His Holyness had been long importun'd about it but discouraged by the Subtilty of the Spaniards and the over exact Reckoning of the Venetians had still put off so difficult an Account The Venetians affirmed that they were near Three Milions of Livers aforehand and pretended to be re-imburst what they were out above the share they were obliged to the Spaniards asserting the contrary the Pope could not moderate the difference because it was to be begun by making an Estimate of all the Venetians had furnisht out from the beginning of the War. However 't was apparent through these Difficulties that the Republick had expended more than his Contribution The Pope ordered that till their accounts could be more exactly stated the King of Spain should pay the Venetians Threescore and Two Thousand Crowns of Gold for the Corn they had procured of the Neapolitan Merchants amounting to that Sum and this expedient quieted for a time this Contention Then they treated about the Management of the next Campaign The Spaniards who always endeavour'd to carry the War into Africk requested that the Rendezvous of the Fleet might be appoinred at Otranto but Tipoli opposed it representing how urgent a necessity there was of preventing at the beginning of the Spring the Infidels Attempts who would attack the Islands and amongst the rest Gandy if the Chirstians were not strong enough to hinder them The Spaniards insisted no farther on it and 't was agreed that the Confederate Fleet should be compos'd of three hundred Galleys and meet at Corfou The Spaniards then propos'd that the Venetians who were nearer the Rendezvous and much better provided of Gallies than the rest of the Allies should set forth some for the King of Spain which his Catholick Majesty should at his own charge maintain But on the Republicks behalf 't was answered that 't was not just they who were scarce able to bear their own part of the Burden should be loaded with anothers That so Potent a Prince as the King of Spain who was Master of so many Coasts Maritime Places and Ports could not but have supernumerary Vessels and that not having yet reimburst the Venetians what they had advanced 't was not reasonable for him to engage them in new Expences And to prevent the Spaniards making any farther Reply they said the Catholick King ought not to reckon in the number of his Gallies the Four that were set forth by the State of Genoa nor as many more added by the Knights of Malta since they came Voluntarily to the
practice Hamanity you who so barbarously and cruelly treat our Christian Prisoners To which Mahomet made him this witty Answer Your Excellency will be pleased to pardon our Ignorance since we have been hitherto only used to take Prisoners not having yet been such our selves in the Christians School The Pope in the mean time solicited the Crowns to join their Arms to those of the Confederates and the Cardinal of Lorrain who came to Rome to assist at the last Conclave had given Gregory Hopes that the Allyance between France and the Grand Seignior might be broken This Cardinals Esteem amongst the French having giv'n him an entire Knowledge of that Kingdoms Affairs and the Kings true Sentiments His Holiness on such good assurance believed he might successfully endeavour this Dis-union He writ about it to Charles the Ninth who answered him He should willingly enter into the League but the great Revolutions which had happened in his Kingdom permitted him not to join with the Confederates France broken and shattered into different Factions was exposed to the Plunder of the Germans and the Invasions of her other Neighbors The Lorrain Princes and other Principal Persons in the Court retired into the Country being neither able to suffer the Imperious Humour of the Queen nor submit themselves to the King of Navarre But these Princes being a little after reconciled with Annas de Mommorency Constable of France drew the King of Navarre into their Party by giving him new hopes of recovering his Kingdom and of diminishing the over-great Authority of Queen Catherine and ruining the Projects of the Prince of Conde they entred Paris guarded by their Friends and Creatures and drove all those of the opposite Faction from Court. Thus France becoming the Stage of a Civil War saw more Blood shed in most of her Towns than in the Famousest Sieges and Battels of the last Age. They no longer amused themselves with Disputes and Controversies the divided Families deciding Questions of Religion by the Sword. The first Battel was fought near the Town of Dreux the Kings Army being commanded by the Constable and the Duke of Guise and the other by the Prince of Conde and the Admiral de Coligni The Success was equal on both sides the Prince of Conde and the Constable being boht taken Prisoners The Duke of Guise laid Siege to Orleans and pressed it so close that it was upon the point of yielding when a Villain came to the Camp and watching an opportunity for the execution of his Design he slew this Prince with a Shot from a Carbine as he was returning from visiting the Works attended only by Three Horsemen The Duke of Guise's Death was extreamly prejudicial to France besides his Military Perfections which rendred this Duke the greatest Captain in the Kingdom he had gain'd the Peoples Hearts by such a Charming Sweetness such admirable Liberality and Sincerity and such Courteous and Familiar Behaviour that one could not forbear loving him His Death almost ruin'd the Fortune of his House A Peace was afterwards concluded but 't was only to give both Parties leisure to make Preparation for beginning the War afresh The Prince of Conde freed out of Prison made great Levies in Germany and soon got a new Army on Foot. He endeavoured to surprize and carry away the King as he was returning from Meaux to Paris but a Battalion of Six Thousand Switzers which guarded the Court in its March and repulsed several Attacks by the way ruin'd this Audacious Design Some time after the Constable displeased with his Nephews whom he accused of Ingratitude and Revolt gave them Battel in the Plain of St. Denis routed them and raised the Siege from before Paris The Constable who was near Fourscore years old received a Mortal Wound in his Reins by a Pistol Shot as he was in the midst of the Fight charging the Enemies with a Vigour worthy his Name and his Office. The Hugonots though vanquisht made Peace on what Terms they pleased the Queen being obliged to accept them as frighted with the great Number of Forreign and Domestick Forces that filled the Kingdom This Second Accommodation was also but a Cessation of Arms the War breaking forth again with more Fury than before The Hugonots lost a Third Battel at Jarnac gain'd by the Duke of Anjou who commanded the King his Bothers Army where the Prince of Conde was slain upon the Place Gaspar de Coligny was a Gentleman of a good Family but much more considerable by that of his Mother who was Sister to the Constable de Mommorency His Unkle whom â—ecause of his singular Merit King Henry the Second honoured with his Favour had procur'd him the Office of Admiral one of the first of the Crown Coligny had serv'd under him during the Reigns of Francis the First and Henry the Second with no little Reputation He had been employed in several Important Negotiations by which he had acquired a perfect Understanding of Affairs He was a Man of a thorow Experience but close full of Address naturally Eloquent and no less a Statesman than a Soldier tho' far more cautious than advent'rous In the Year 1522. France being almost ruined there was a new Agreement made The Admiral at the same time negotiated a Marriage between the Princess Margaret the Kings Sister and Henry King of Navarre Anthony his Father dyed some years before of a Wound receiv'd at the Siege of Roan The Admiral came to Paris to assist at the Marriage followed by so great a number of Gentlemen and Vassals that the King himself could scarce have found so Magnificent a Train He was received with extraordinary Testimonies of Confidence and Friendship He had often private Conferences with the King in which 't was known they treated of making War upon Flanders and this we have since understood obliged Philip the Second to stay in Italy for fear of some Surprize from the French. In the mean time there was a Rumour whether grounded on Reallity or invented by the Queen who was laying a Snare for the Admiral as her Enemies would have it that the People he had without any Order or Permission brought to Paris under pretence of being present at the King of Navarre's Marriage conspired against the Royal Family The Queen whether the better to conceal her Design or really fearing some secret Plot caused the Guards of the Louvre to be doubled Whilst these things ware doing the Admiral returning from the King to his own House was wounded in the Right hand by a Shot from an Arquebush which was by some People said to have been done by the Procurement of the Queen or the Duke of Guise The Duke of Guise was accused because the House in which the Assassin had planted himself belonged to one of his Creatures who had some time before left it empty to prevent the discovery of this Action These Suspitions were strengthned by the irreconcilable Hatred there was between the Prince and the Admiral and
though the King had made them both promise him to keep quiet till his Majesties Return to Paris there was yet great likelyhood that the Duke of Guise attempted to destroy him Those that suspected the Queen said the Admirals Fortune and Authority created a Jealousie in this Princess That she began to fear a Man she had raised too high That she despair'd of re-setling Quiet in the State during the Life of so redoubted an Enemy and that beside the miserable Condition of the Kingdom the Murthers Battels and Perils her self and Children had been exposed to all which she laid to his Charge she yet fuâ—ther mortally hated him because of the shameful Discourses with which he blemisht her Honour That since she could neither punish him by Law noâ— Force he had recourse to Stratagem That she was as skilful in these sort of Intrigues as he could be That she had drawn him and the chief of his Party to Paris on the occasion of her Daughters Marriage the more securely to destroy him That he had been lur'd to Court by the Project of the Low-Gountry War and the fair shews of Confidence and Esteem That she had consequently pressed the young Duke of Guise to revenge on him his Fathers Murther to which this Prince was too much inclin'd having only refus'd to do it for fear of displeasing the King and losing the Friendship of the Nobility who would after this Action have look'd upon him as a Man without Honour or Faith That the Queen had eas'd him of this Scruple by representing to him that he would do a signal Service to the State in exterminating its most formidable Enemy That 't was the greatest Sign of Fidelity he could shew the King And in fine that the Duke of Guise engaged not in it till he had first got an Order written and signed by the Princesses own Hands But whether it was the Queen or the Duke of Guise or neither of them that were the Authors of this Enterprize the Admiral was no sooner carryed into his House but the Hugonots ran thither in Crouds filling the Town with Complaints and Murmurs They had the Confidence to accuse the King as well as the Duke publishing that none ' durst have committed such an Attempt without his Majesties Protection and yet the Queen had so carefully concealed it from him that he knew nothing of it till News was brought him of the Accident befaln the Admiral He went presently with the Queen to see him testifying his Displeasure and Sorrow and promising to make an exact Enquiry into it and severely to punish this Assassination He left also his Guards about his House as well for the Honor as Security of his Person but understanding at his Return to the Louvre that the Hugonots suspected him to be privy to it and accordingly were so impudent as to threaten him he fell into a terrible Transport which the Queen Mother who absolutely Govern'd him diligently fomented taking hold of this favourable Moment to make him resolve on a suddain Extirpation of his Rebellious Subjects and ridding himself of an Enemy so much the more dangerous in that he was irreconcilable They were perswaded at Court that as soon as the Hugonot-Lords were departed they would begin a new Rebellion much more Bloody than any of the former and would call in Strangers to their Assistance The Admiral himself could not forbear letting slip some little Menaces when the King comforting him about his Wound told him It was not dangerous I care not answered he coldly for losing the use of a hand for provided I keep my Head I hope all will go well It was said by some that the King held afterwards a Council with the Queen and some of their intimatest Confidents in which 't was resolved no longer to endure these Insolencies but forthwith to dispatch the Hugonots and commit the executing of it to the Duke of Guise and that the King not to awaken their Distrust sent him out of Paris on pretence of some Discontent but he returned according to Agreement the One and Twentieth of August at Night accompanyed by the Duke of Angoulême the Kings natural Brother glad of the opportunity of serving his Master and also to Revenge himself without fear of Punishment But there went at the same time a Report that the Admirals Friends assembled in his House had taken very wicked and detestable Resolutions he having himself by a very pathetical Discourse incited them to rise up in Arms That being all animated by the same Fury they cryed out to go immediately to attack the Louvre and destroy the King the Princes his Brothers and the King of Navarre whose Death they had resolved though he were of their own Religion because the Admiral feared his Wit and Courage But whilst he loses time in being too curious to take his Measures he delivers himself up to his ill Fortune and the King informed of his Practises hastens the Punishment of the Rebellion Some endeavour'd to make it be believed that this Conspiracy was a Story invented by the Queen Mother who foreseeing the Horror the destruction of the Hugonots would cause endeavoured by these Calumnious Reports to mitigate the Peoples Indignation However it was the Duke of Guise about one of the Clock in the Morning forc't open the Admirals House A young German Gentleman who had been bred a Page with the Dukes Father and was ambitious of the Honor to give him the first Blow entred his Chamber The Admiral rising out of his Bed conjur'd him to have Respect to his old Age and his Infirmities and grant him his Life But the German reproaching him with Treason and Apostasie mortally wounded him and caused him to be thrown out at Window to the Duke of Guise who guarded the entrance into the House 'T is said Coligny fell down as dead but hearing the Duke of Guise calling to have him thrown out he made some resistance against those that went to take him up and cast him forth into the Street desiring them to let him dye in quiet whereupon they dispatcht him The Rabble vomiting out a Thousand Curses against him dragg'd him for some time in the Dirt they tore him asunder and filled the Town with pieces of his Body A young Parisian cut off his Head and carryed it on a long Pole into all the Publick Places and the Trunk of his Body was hung up by the Feet on the common Gallows Thus ended Gaspar de Coligni Admiral of France who was raised to so great a Fortune that his Court was no less than the King 's He made himself redoubted by France and Spain and though he made not War upon King Philip he created him Trouble enough by stirring up the Low Countries and Germany and under-hand protecting the Prince of Orange He often imposed on the King his Master a Necessity of making Peace and War but what renders his Memory most durable is that having been twice taken Prisoner by the
Spaniards and lost three Battels he still kept the same Authority with his Party and never shewed more Courage and Constancy than in the midst of his greatest Disgraces yet it is certain he was rather a cunning than a valiant Captain very skilful in choosing his Post but distrustful of the Fortune of War in Battels and not engaging himself but in the last Extremity The Count de la Rochefoucault Teligny Pardaillan Clermont d' Amboise and several other Hugonots of Quality were slain the same Night Mongommery was for some time pursued by the Duke of Guise who eagerly sought to kill him but he fled into England at the first Report of the Admiral 's Death The Hugonots had so highly incensed the People that it was impossible to moderate their Fury till they had made a very great and lamentable Slaughter The Emperor gave always Hopes that he would sign the Treaty of Allyance though he had a very great Repugnance to make War upon the Infidels he could not resolve to break the Peaâ—e with them tho' their Faithlesness rendred it uncertain and ill assured But he desired also not to discontent the Pope nor the Venetians That which held them thus in suspense was the Passion he had to get the Prince Ernestus his Son chosen King of Poland Sigismund Augustus the deceased King having left no Heirs Maximilian consider'd this Crown as an Acquisition that would much augment his Power The Polonians were then at Peace with the Port but there was need of great Sums to purchase the Principal Electors Suffrages so that the Money and Favour of the French prevailing above the Authority of the House of Austria the Duke of Anjou was preferr'd before the Emperors Son. In the mean time Maximilian treated still with the Pope shewing the greater earnestness the surer he was not to take up Arms. The Confederates resolved to refuse him nothing that they might draw him in and all Germany granted him Five Thousand Foot more than the Troops he had ask'd of Cardinal Commendon John Delphini Bishop of Torcello the Pope's Nuncio with his Imperial Majesty had agreed That there should be given Five and Twenty Thousand Foot and Four Thousand Five Hundred Horse on condition that Maximilian should bring into the Field as great an Army as the Succour of the Confederates amounted to The Auxiliary Troops were to stay in his Service Six Months in the Year to enter into Winter Quarters with his Army in such Posts as were most commodious and advantagious for the Progress of the German Affairs and this Treaty to continue as long as the War should last the Emperor desired farther that whoever of the Confederates should break the League should be look'd upon as an Enemy and that the Pope should with all requisite Solemnities issue out the greater Excommunication against him but this last Article was refused him and in lieu thereof 't was agreed That for the Payment of the Confederate Troops destin'd to his Service Money should be sent every Three Months to Ausbourg for which the Richest Merchants of the Town should be security The Emperor on these Conditions engag'd this Year to make War on Hungary with a design to keep up the League but he was determin'd to find daily new Pretences not to enter into the Field excusing himself sometimes on the Tediousness of Assemblies and Diets and sometimes on the difficulty of raising Soldiers and Money out of the Soveraign Estates of Germany As soon as Gregory understood the Conclusion of the Treaty with the Emperor he sent for the Venetian Embassadour to whom he imparted this agreeable News giving him Order to assure the Senate of it The King of Portugal had promised to send his Fleet this Year into Greece and the Pope to encourage the Venetians made Preparations to augment that of the Holy See. These fair Hopes which the Venetians well knew would come to nothing serv'd only to make his Holiness take more heinously the Republicks Agreement with the Port. The Spring was now far advanced and the Venetians vehemently importun'd the Pope and the King of Spain to send their Fleets immediately to Corfou when Tipoli received advice from the Senate that the Peace was concluded at Constantinople Barbaro had no sooner received Power to treat with the Grand Visier but he applyed himself seriously to it He knew 't was the Intention of the Colledge of Ten whose Favour by this means he should gain He also knew the Weakness of the Commonwealth and that he should at the same time recover his own Liberty The French Embassadour at the Port concerned himself much in this Affair by Order from the King his Master and fervently sollicited Mahomet about it but these good Offices served only to render this Minister more difficult because he would not share the Honour or Profit of this Negotiation with any one Barbaro perceiving it pretended to be sick and ask'd leave for Solomon the same Jewish Physitian he had already made use of to come to him Solomon was no sooner entred the Chamber where he was kept but Marco Antonio making him Presents and Promises conjur'd him to do his Endeavour to procure an end to his Imprisonment and Repose to his Country letting him understand that 't would be no less to his Advantage than his Honour if he brought it to pass The Jew leaving Barbaro went to the Grand Visier whom the difficulty of setting forth a new Fleet rendred much more tractable He sounded him to find how he was inclined to an Accomodation and afterwards propos'd it to him Mahomet at first entred into a particular Debate upon the Articles of Peace demanding that the Republick should give the Grand Seignior the Isle of Corfou the Towns of Cataro and Budua and fhould pay him all the Charges of the War. Barbaro answered with a great deal of Constancy that the Republick would part with nothing of what they possessed before the War that they would restore Supoto and only in respect make Selim a Present of Threescore Thousand Crowns in Gold who should also cause the Lands which the Turks had taken in Dalmatia to be restored The Grand Visier receded from the Demand of Corfou but insisted on the Surrender of Cataro and Budua saying that Peace was not to be mentioned but on these Conditions and threatning Soloman to have him strangled if he did not oblige the Venetian to yield him these two Places And what added he with a fierce and angry Countenance The Venetians to obtain a Peace granted Solyman the strong fortified Towns of Nauplia and Malvafia with all they had in Peloponnesus and do they now make a Scruple of yielding the Grand Seignior Two One weak and half-ruin'd and the other dispeopled by the Spoil the Plague has made in it To bring the Venetian Embassadour to his Bow he spread a Report That the Musulman Fleet should be composed of three Hundred Gallies and as many small Vessels and that the Ottoman Emperors had never
Article altho' they knew very well that such a Report might alarm the Infidels and oblige them to make Peace on advantageous Conditions to the Venetians The Senate having examin'd the Articles of the Treaty found some of them prejudicial to their Interests and blamed Soriani for not opposing with more rigor the Spaniard's Pretentions But because he was thought to lean too much to the making of a League and War they sent him John Sorantro as an Adjutant who immediatly arrived at Rome He was a rough sort of a man positive and ignorant in Business whose Carriage so sar displeased the Pope that he had like to have sent him out of Rome had he not feared Soriani might suffer for it for whom his Holiness had a particular Esteem And in effect he was a Person of great Prudence and singular Integrity and well seen for a Venetian in Matters of Religion fit for the Employ he exercised as well for his Fidelity as Experience Sorantro was no sooner setled at Rome but he grew weary with the importunate Demands of Cardinal Granvil and other Ministers of that Faction Soriani pretended himself indisposed to excuse himself from these Conferences and this Affair grew so troublesom that the Commissioners setled to regulate it began to despair of ending it Yet the Pope discouraged by no Difficulty surmounted all these Obstacles and accommodated all things but only one particular Article The Spanlards pretended the King their Master should appoint the Generalissimo of the Confederate Army forasmuch as his Catholick-Majesty contributed chiefly to the Charge of the War and the Venetians would by no means yield to this Pius V. was for Don John of Austria's being revested with this Character because he had the Honour to be Philip the Second's Brother But the Spaniards who were resolved to exclude Colonni from his Office demanded That Don John might be impowered to name a Lieutenant General to command in his absence designing to secure this second Place to Doria or else to Lewis Requiescens Brother to Zuniga The Venetians had a horrid Repugnance to this but seeing the Pope's Authority interposed they thought their Interests could not be better managed than in his Hands Whereupon Pius declared Don John should command the Army when there in Person but would hearken to no Proposition touching the choice of him who was to command in his absence seeing this Right appertained to the Sovereign Prelate Granvil and Zuniga refused this Condition saying 't was to be communicated to the King their Master The Pope who was very jealous of his Authority dispatch'd at the same time a Courier into Spain He wrote thereon to Philip in Terms so pathetick and rational that this Prince sent an Order to his Ministers to conclude the Treaty And to shew that he would be concerned in the nomination of the Person which was to command the Fleet in Don John's Absence he proposed Mark Anthony Colonni together with Requiescens and Doria and thus preserv'd the Pope's good Opinion This Prelate was so vigorous and firm in what he believed to be equitable especially when the Honour of the See was concerned that he would not buckle to the greatest Sovereign in Europe to maintain its Interests He thanked King Philip for the Deference he paid him and gave Don John the Title of Generalissimo and to Colonni the same extent of Power in his Absence Philibert Emanuel Duke of Savoy was proposed to command the Christian Army which the Venetians much desired and the Pope had no less an esteem of his Capacity but besides that this Prince esteem'd it of dangerous consequence to leave his Estates whence his Father had been driven and of which he came now from possessing himself The Spaniards could not approve that a Sovereign Prince whose Head was full of great Projects should have committed to him such a Power They raised a new Difficulty on the Design they had on Africa maintaining the League was not only made against the Turk but against all the Mahometan People The Cardinals assembled on this Affair could not forbear smiling at the Pretention and shewed the Spaniards That the King of Persia was so far from being considered as an Enemy by reason of his Religion that he ought to be earnestly solicited to enter into the Confederacy That the Christian Princes would joyn themselves to little purpose if the War were carried any where but to Greece and on the Grand Signior's Countreys The Spaniards refused again to sign the Treaty unless therein were comprehended the Conquest of the Cities of Tripoly Tunis and Algier alledging That without this Clause the People would never be brought to consent to the levying of those Taxes which were necessary for the Entertainment of their Fleet. They would also have a Promise the Infidels should not be atrack'd but the Christians ssiould keep themselves on the defensive part foreseeing the Ottoman Army would be far stronger than the Confederates and the Venetians granted this last Article as having discovered the Meaning of these Demands The Pope being tired with the length of these Contests sent Pompey Colonni into Spain a Person of large Abilities charged with Packets and Instructions and who was moreover ordered to lay open to Philip that his Ministers spoyled the Fruit of his good Intentions by the aversion which they manifestly discovered against the Republick Colonni acquitted himself so well of his Holiness's Orders that the King of Spain ordered his Ambassador to pass over all these Difficulties and conclude the so often mentioned Treaty 'T was commonly reported the Pope acquainted this Prince with the Venetians treating with the Port making use of the Fame of this League to better their Composition which was true enough for they had sent to Constantinople and secretly negotiated with the Prime Visier In fine all Matters being regulated the Pope intended to solemnize before the Foreign Ambassadors the Confederacy between the See the King of Spain and the Venetians He gave Notice of this to the Ministers of the Allies desiring them to meet him at the Vatican where he celebrated Mass having made them first sign the Treaty But before this Cardinal Granvil being come together with the Spanish Ambassador he rose up and declared the King his Master was not in a readiness to execute this Year what he promised in his Name That the Season was too far advanced to work at the Preparatives of a Fleet He afterwards demanded that the Venetians who had several Vessels ready to put to Sea should furnish his Catholick-Majesty with them they receiving Souldiers from him and Money for all the Charges of the Campaign 'T was agreed on in the first Conferences That in expecting the Conclusion of the Treaty all possible Preparations should be made for the War to prevent the loss of Time So that the Venetian Ministers enraged at this unexpected Remora detesting a Return of this Nature withdrew to confer together and brought Answer They intended to advertise the Senate
Desperado's nor shall we find there as in Greece People exasperated by the Rigor of their Government and wholly ready to declare for us But if we must not expect any Success unless the Emperor enter into the League as the Spanish Ministers aver will he approve of turning War on the Coast of Mauritania when we should by attacking the Enemy in the Archipelago divide the Ottoman Forces which without this Diversion will all fall upon him in Hungary This Prince is undoubtedly too clear-sighted to sign the Treaty of Union as soon as he shall judge by the Attempt upon Africk that the Spaniards abandon the publick Interest to mind only that of the King their Master Tipoli in fine concluded upon the forming two Armies one by Sea and the other by Land of all the Confederate Troops and vigorously pressing the Enemies before they were recovered of their Consternation These Disputes took them up two Months without coming to any Agreement but the Parties referring themselves to the Pope he in this manner regulated all these Differences He ordered that the Fleets should repair to Corfou about the latter end of March with all sorts of Ammunition and Equipage That the Venetians should add Three Galeasses to Six others which were already in their Navy and that Greece should be invaded on the side which the Commanders should think fittest that the Holy See and the King of Spain should send the same number of Vessels as in the last Camapign That there should be embarkt only Two and Thirty Thousand Foot and Five Hundred Horse That there should stay at Otranto Twelve Thousand new-raised Men ready to pass over upon the first Order from the Generals That there should be Thirty Pieces of Canon with Powder and Ball enough for each Piece to make a Thousand Shot That there should be Twenty Thousand Muskets Thirty Thousand Swords Fifteen Thousand Partisans Two Thousand Lances and Five Hundred Iron Coats with all sorts of Utensils and Instruments necessary for such an Army The Pope did not only solicite the Emperour to joyn with the Princes of the League he sent also at the same time two Prelates Antonio Salviati and Paulo Odescalchi to the Princes of Italy inviting them to contribute every one according to his Ability towards the defraying so Holy an Enterprize They all promised to second his Holynesses Zeal Gulielmo de Conzaga Duke of Mantua offered Two Hundred Horse and a Thousand Foot the Duke of Parma engaged to send as many and the Duke of Urbin whose Power was much inferiour to that of those two Princes promised only a Regiment of Horse compos'd of Two Hundred choice Men the Republick of Lucca which had not any Troops taxt themselves at six Thousand Crowns of Gold a Year the Genoueses answered that they had lent the King of Spain Four Gallies for this Expedition and that their Militia was embark'd on his Catholick Majesties Fleet. Philibert Duke of Savoy offered Two Thousand Foot and Four Hundred Horse but at the same time he besought the Pope to consider that he had much more need for them for the securing of his own State than against the Turks being threatned by Gaspar Coligny who had put himself at the Head of the French Protestants The Duke of Savoy had reason to distrust so Potent and brave a Man. He had newly without the Dukes consent marryed a Gentlewoman born his Subject of one of the best Houses of Savoy exceeding Rich Lady of many great Castles and who for the sake of this Marriage had renounced the Romish Religion Cosmo de Medicis gave five Hundred Horse and Six Thousand Foot on condition that the Emperour and the other Confederate Princes should grant him the Title of Great Duke of Tuscany Alfonsa Duke of Ferrara offered his Holyness as many Troops as he should ask â—im without determining the Number but the Jealousie given him by the Elevation of Medicis with whom he had long been disputing about Precedency and Power and the Offers of this Redoubtable Rival oblig'd him to make a Journey to the Emperor to oppose the settling this new Title The Pope who fear'd the Duke of Ferrara would divert Maximilian from entring into the League lost all the good opinion he had of him and gave apparent Signs of his Indignation against this Prince The Cares and Authority of Pius the Fifth having surmounted the greatest Difficulties and regulated all things betwixt the Allyes the Christians might Rationally promise themselves a Glorious Success in the next Campaign and Colonni having given all Orders necessary for his Departure was setting forth for his Post when Heaven more than ever incenâ—ed against our Crimes chastised us for them by the Death of Pius the Fifth which happened a few days after He felt himself at first assaulted by Pains of which neither himself nor Physitians could Divine the Cause He had no great opinion of their Prescriptions being perswaded that all the secret Physick consisted in abstaining from things pâ—ejudicial to Health and in a simple and frugal manner of living Hence he had but one Physitian who had a long time been his Servant These sharp and continual Pains gave the Physitians to understand that he had a Stone in his Bladder But he could not be brought to use the Remedies necessary for his Cure bcause they too much offended his Modesty and himself judged that his Distemper was incurable by the Redoubling of his Pains He would not then hear of any Affairs but his Salvation and applyed himself sick as he was to continual exercise of Devotion He undertook to visit on Foot the Seven Churches maugre the Prayers and Tears of his Nephews He employed but a day and an half in this Holy Pilgrimage though he stayed a considerable time at Prayers in every Church but he returned so tir'd that the Physitians believ'd this violent excercise join'd to the cruel pains he suffered and to the Authority he used till his death would shorten the days of this Holy Man. He dyed to the great Unhappyness of all Christendom but to his own Repose and Glory on the first of May. He was a Personage comparable to the first Vicars of Jesus Christ for the Innocency and Holyness of his manners the firmness of his Faith the Ardor of his Zeal for Religion and who merited no less than those whose Memory the Church Solemnly Celebrates He was born in the Year 1504. near the Town Alexandria in a Village called le Bois His Birth and Fortune were mean enough though some Authors to flatter him have written that he was descended of the Ancient and Noble Family of the Ghislieri of Bononia He was from his Childhood educated in the order of the Dominicans of which he took the Habit and liv'd to the Age of Fifty Years in the most Religious Observation of St. Dominicks Rule This Uniformity of Conduct gained him the esteem of a perfect Religious 'T is said he never had any Office in the Order and that
Angry that the Spanish Embassadour at Rome should find more favor than his 277. Francis Barbaro a Messenger of Peace to the Venetians 364. Francis Contareni Bishop of Baffo 108. Francis the French King Successor to King Henry 349. A Conspiracy against him ibid. Dies ibid. Francis Duke of Guise slain 350. His Encomium ibid. Francis Maria of Rovere Son of Duke Vrbin who 220. Francis Prioli 11 119. His Valour and Death 120. Francis Troni conducts Abrahim to Venice 51. Francomates who 2. G Gabriel Cerbellon Councellor of Germany 218. Galeasses what they are 50. They first charge the Enâ—my 242. Gaspar de Coligny Admiral of the Protestants in France 159. Marries a Wife a Subject of the Duke of Savoy's 286. Thought to have a design upon Savoy ibid. He breeds a Discord between the two Kings 301. Kills the Duke of Guise by his Emissaries 350. His Character 351. The Queen seeks his Death 353. She commits the doing of it to the young Duke of Guise ibid. 354. He instructs his Party how to kill the King and others 355. Himself killed and thrown out at a Window 356. His Encomium 357. The names of those that were killed with him ibid. Genevre Salviati Baglioni's Wife her Love and Courage 205. Sends to Perusia to raise men in her Husbands Defence 206. Gengirus his own executioner 15. Genoeses placed after the Venetians by Petrin 9. They contend with the Venetians about Priority ibid. Conspire against the King but being detected are all killed ibid. They make War with the Cypriots ibid. They make themselves Masters of Famagusta ibid. They assist the Spaniard with Four Gallies 286. Granvil Cardinal his Birth and Character 61. He saies the Venetians ought not to be assisted 62. Contradicted by Cardinal Commendon 62 63. He hinders the League 134. He incurs the Pope's Displeasure 136. He is Governour of Naples 217. A Thanksgiving for the Victory of the Venetian Navy 260. Greeks two Fugitives from Nicosia perswade Mustapha to besiege it 87. Gregory Panteus 96. Gregory XIII made Pope 298. His Birth and by-past Life ibid. Endeavours to bring the French King into a League with the Confederates 348. Angry with the Venetians for making peace with the Turks 366. Inveighs against them in the Consistory ibid. 349. His Decree against them 369. Appeased by the Venetian Embassadours ibid. Gulielmus de Gonzaga Duke of Mantua assists against the Turks 286. Guidobaldus Duke of Vrbin offers to assist in the War against the Turks 286. Guises Adversaries to the Prince of Conde 350. Guise employed by the King and Queen to kill the Admiral of France 352. Guy de Lufignan dispossessed of his Crown purchases Cyprus 6. His Family ibid. H Hali Admiral of the Turks 86. Destroys several Islands belonging to the Venetians 231. His Exhortation to an Engagement with the Confederates 232. His Death 247 His two Sons one whereof dyed at Rome the other was begg'd of Don John by his Mother 347. Hector Martinengo slain upon the Rendition of Famagusta 211. Hector Podocatero sent Embassadour by Mustapha to Famagusta 196. His ill Treatment ibid. Mustapha kills him 197. Hector Troni cast in Prison for deserting Clissa and let go 337. Henry of France His League and Affinity with Philip of Spain 349. Henry Brother to the French King made King of Poland 359. Henry King of Navarre a Hugonot 158. His mildness 159. Hermolaus Tipoli who 50 119. He burns the City Scardoâ—a 180. Takes some Ships ibid. Hierom Grimani his last Words concerning the League 126. Hierom de Martinengo sent to succour the Cypriots 43. Savorniani's Rival ibid. Dies 81. Hierom Ragazoni Bishop of Famagusta sent to ask Aid of the Venetians 205. Hierom Venieri Podestat of Dulcino deprived of his Armour by the Turks 184. Hierom Zani General of the Navy 50. Honorius Cajetan a Commander in the Confederate Army 220. Hugo the King of Apulia's Son King of Cyprus 6. Hugonots in France a 349. ad finem Humphrey Justiniani sent to Venice with the news of the Sea Fight 255. His Entrance into the City and Relation of the Victory 257. I James Celsi 66. James Foscaâ—ini deposed from his Generalship at Sea 269 James Malateste being too veâ—turesom taken by the Turks 181. After two years Slavery released 182. James Nores Count de Tripoli Rocas's Rival 76. James Ragazone sent to treat of a peace at Constantinople 137. James Sorantio sent Embassadour to the Empâ—ror Maximilian 163. He is of opinion that the Siege of Leucade ought not to be undertaken 264. Complains bitterly of Veâ—ieri 268. He raises the Siege of Cataro 339. 〈…〉 vindicates Venieri 269. Janizaries in the War of Cyprus 86. Jews Vagrants 25. Their place of abode ibid. Driven out of Spain 26. They withdraw themselves into Portugal ibid. They lose their Liberty ibid. Driven out of Portugal ibid. They feign themselves Christians ibid. Imissa a Region of Cyprus 2. Don John of Austria 132. Made Generalissimo of the whole Army by the Pope 133. Goes over to Genoa 217. His Councellors 218. He gives the Sign to fall upon the Turks Fleet. 237. He encourages his Soldiers ibid. Angry with Venieri 255. His stay in Sicily 300. A Copy of his Letter to Colonni 304 305. Determines to return for Sicily 324. The Venetians court him to stay but in vain 325. Sets Sayl from Greece 326. Accus'd to the King for having engag'd the Turks contrary to his order 334. John Falerio who 97. Taken by the Infidels is kill'd 108. John Legio Providor of Dalmatia last in prison at Venice 123. John Sorantio sent to Rome and why 131. Ingrateful to Pope Pius 132. John Susomini a prudent man. 78. Isaac Comnenus loses Cyprus to Richard King of England 6. Ismael King of Persia overcome by Selim Soliman's Father 32. Ismael Tammas the King of Persia's Son why imprisoned by his Father 158. Italian Princes their inclination to War. 285. Julius Savâ—rniani enters Nicosia with a handful of Men. 12 13 14. He takes care for the preservation of Dalmatia 48. The Venetians put great Confidence in him 192. L. Landriani Governour of Sicily Councellour of Germany 218. Latin Vrsin one of the Heroes in the Confederate Army 220. Lauredon Doge of Venice his Death 55. Laurence Tipoli Podestat of Famagusta 74. Legates from Venice to Spain 334. Leiparus yields it self to the Infidels Burnt by the Nicosians and why 90. Lesina burnt by the Turks 187. Letters treating of a Peace sent to Rome 364. c. Letters of the Confederates intercepted by the Enemies 100. Leucade its Situation 265. In vain attempted by Venieri 266. Lewis Mocenigo Doge of Venice 56. Lewis Requiescens Governour of Milanese 277. Lewis Son to the Duke of Savoy King of Cyprus 10. Driven out by the Mamalucks ibid Liberty granted the Slaves if they obtained the Victory 243. Their outrages upon the Turks Gallies 244. Limisso a Region in Cyprus 2. Louchali an Arch-Pyrate 174. His Actions in Crete 175 176. He quits the Inhabitants of