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A63523	The True history of the Duke of Guise extracted out of Thuanus, Mezeray, Mr. Aubeny's Memoirs and the Journal of the reign of Henry the Third of France : published for the undeceiving such as may perhaps be imposed upon by	Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617.; Mézeray, François Eudes de, 1610-1683.; Aubigné, Agrippa d', 1552-1630. Mémoires.; L'Estoile, Pierre de, 1546-1611. Journal de Henri III. English.	1683 (1683)	Wing T2703; ESTC R23195	25,198	38

drooping Credit of the Popish Plot rais'd almost from the Grave the Horror of Popish cruelty and disloyalty destroyed all that R. L. has been labouring to make good almost these two twelve months and may truly be said to be another Titus Oates bringing new Lights into the World and new Discoverys of Jesuitical Massacre and Treason However it is a Tragedy For that all the World must grant because 't is Lamentable all over of which there needs no more be said then what the Poet himself has been pleas'd to say of it in his Epilogue with a little small Amendment Much Time and Trouble this Poor Play has cost And faith I doubt me that the Cause is lost THE HISTORY OF THE Duke of Guise FRANCIS the First King of France was the first who Erected the County of Guise into a Dukedom and Peerdom in favour of Claudius of Lorrain in the year 1527. In the Reign of Henry the Second his Successour the House of Guise grew into Splendour more and more by the Accession of new Honours and Dignities and the increase of its Power and Authority in the Court of France at what time Duke Claudius and John his Brother Bishop of Metz called the Cardinal of Lorrain being dead Francis Duke of Aumale took upon him his Fathers Title and Charles his Brother whom they called the Cardinal of Guise assumed both his Uncles Title and all his Benefices The Duke in that Estate advanced his own and the Power of his House not so much by his own merit which however was very high in esteem as by his Complacency and Observances toward the King's Mistresses by whose assistance he easily depriv'd Peter Lizet first President of the Parliament of his Employment for presuming to thwart his Designs and brought him upon his Knees to beg some small Benefice for his subsistance in the World But that which much more added to the Fame and Renown of this growing Family was the great Prosperity of Charles the Son of this Frances in seats of Arms as being the Person who had first defended Metz against the Emperour who after he had lain two Months before the City in the extremity of Winter was forced to raise his Siege with the loss of 30000 men His next Exploit was the recovery of France from that Consternation it was in after the loss of the Battel of St. Quintin with the Title of Lieutenant General of the Armies of the King both within and without the Kingdom After that he took Calice from the English and utterly expell'd them out of France so that the Misfortune of France was his Happiness and the waining of the Constable's Reputation was his Exaltation it being then the general Opinion that the Armes of France could prosper under no Mans Conduct but that of the Duke of Guise But that which mounted his Authority yet higher was the Marriage of his Sisters Daughter the young Queen of Scots with the Dauphin afterwards King for a short time Henry the Second being unfortunately kill'd in a Tournament by the Earl of Montgomery the Breath was no sooner out of his Mouth but all the Factions which had been forming during his Reign began to shew themselves in Motion And unfortunately to strengthen them in their various Motions there concurr'd the differing Parties in Religion the great number of Malecontents sundry Desirers and Lovers of Novelty and great numbers of Military Persons who being out of Employment sought it at any price whatever On the one side the Princes of the Blood and the Constable of France united in Interest on the other side the Princes of the House of Guise between which two Parties the Queen-Mother chaffer'd the best she could for her own advantage flattering now this then the other Party while the King as Feeble in Mind as Body lay expos'd to the first Occupant and the Prize for which they contended was the Government of the Kingdom The Princes of the Blood were Anthony of Navarre Voluptuous and Timerous more considerable for his Quality than his Power Lewis Prince of Conde Bold and Hardy whose Courage and scantness of Fortune were sufficient Motives to incite him to great Enterprizes Of the Guises there were six Brothers the Duke of Guise the Cardinal of Lorrain the Duke of Aumale the Cardinal of Guise the Marquis D'Elbeuf and the Grand Prior but the two first were the most considerable and had the other four at their Devotion The Duke was Signal for the Reputation of his Valour his Liberality and Affability the Cardinal of Lorrain for his Eloquence and Learning The one had all the Greatest and most Eminent Souldiers the other the chiefest part of the Clergy at his Command The Guises seiz'd upon the Person of the King as having Married their Niece Mary of Scotland under the specious pretence of the Catholick Religion The Princes made sure of the Malecontents and Disbanded Officers under pretence of protecting those of the Reformed Religion whose despair was more formidable however than their Number With the Guises join'd the Marquis of St. Andre Valiant and Witty but Prodigal and in Debt and the Constable Montmorency who having been Chief Minister of State could not well brook to be the Second but bearing the Title of First Christian Baron of France took part at length with the Guises as Defenders of the Catholick Religion To the Princes adher'd the Admiral Coligny with his Brother Dandelot Colonel of the French Infantry In the mean time the Guises together with the Queen-Mother were Masters of the King and all the Authority at Court the King declaring that he had given up the Administration of the Government into the Hands of his two Uncles The Constable finding his Authority was quite marching sends away in all haste to the King of Navar to come and assume that Authority which he claimed by his Birth and Quality but he being slow and irresolute and diffident of the Constable made no haste which was look'd upon as one of the principal Causes of the Troubles and Misfortunes of France While he delays the Guises banish the Dutchess of Valentinois the late King's Mistress the Constable is sent home to his House and by various and specious Pretences the rest of the Princes that stood in the way of their Designs are honourably dispatch'd abroad and the Duke of Guise made Grand Master of the King's House which Employment was taken from the Constable on purpose to bestow it on the Duke To make themselves the more formidable or rather to root themselves more deeply in the Favour of the Catholicks they persuaded the young King to publish an Edict prohibiting the Protestants to meet in publick or private upon the score of Religion on pain of Death and erected a new Court to take cognisance of their Crimes which was called by the name of Chambres ardentes The Burning Chambers because they sent all to the Fire that were convicted of the Reformed Religion These outragious Proceedings caused them

order the Levying of a Noble Army for the Assistance of the French Hugonots which though it entred France with the greatest Consternation imaginable to the King himself and made great spoile where they came yet was so well waited upon by the Duke of Guise and being under the Conduct of several Commanders Mutinous and Quarrelsom was so unweildy to it self that it mouldered away to nothing without the least considerable Action done which would have been a greater dismaying to the Hugonots had not the King of Navarre reviv'd their Spirits by gaining the famous Battel of Coutras where Joyeuse lost his life with the loss of his whole Army one of the most numerous under the Command of the League On the other side the Defeat of the Germans without fighting their main Body redounded so much to the Honour of the Duke of Guise that over all Christendom all the Catholicks loudly sang his Triumphs The Pope sent him a Sword engraven with Flames as a mark of his Zeal and Vallor and the Duke of Parma a pair of Rich Suits of Armour with this Elogie That it appertained to none but Henry of Loraine to bear the Title of Chief in War All Paris was filled with the Fame of his Victory over the Germans nor did the Pulpits ring with any other noise But among all these Popular Applauses he was touch'd to the Quick to see the King seek all occasions to depress him and raise his Enemie Espernon to the highest Degree of his Favour More especially when he saw the Government of Normandy and the Admiraltie of France both Vacant by the death of Joyeuse both bestowed upon Espernon when he had so earnestly begged the latter for his Friend Marshal Brissac Tho there is no Question but he was more enraged at the Favours done his Enemie than at the Kings denial of his own request Therefore at an Assembly of the Princes of this Family and the Chiefs of the League which he had summoned to meet at Nancy he procured a Determination That a Request in Writing should be made to the King to joyn more solemnly and openly in the Holy League to remove from his Person and from the Publick Governments and Employments all Enemies to the Publick and Favourers of Heresie which they should name to publish the Council of Trent to establish the Holy Inquisition with other Demands of the same severe nature And this they were the more encouraged to pursue in regard that in the first place Espernon by a needless Quarrel had so provok'd Pierre d'Espinac Archbishop of Lyon and Villeroy Secretary of State that of two most considerable Servants they became irreconcileable Enemies to the King and in the next place for that the League was at this time not so much fortified as the Hugonots were weakned by the Death of the Prince of Conde who died at his own House poysoned by his own Domesticks in whom it was hard to say whether Valour Liberality Generosity Love of Justice or Affability were most Eminent It was now about a year and a half since the King had resolved to bring to some exemplary Punishment the Chiefs of the League in Paris as being such that had rais'd Seditions and attempted strange Enterprises against his Person They were called the SIXTEEN because they had the Government and Management of all that Party through all the Sixteen Quarters of the City and the Duke of Guise had left in the City besides Forty other Gentlemen from whom they were to receive Orders from time to time and who were also to be as their Guard to which purpose there was a private Provision of Arms and Money upon Occasion These People acquainted with the King's Design send away to the Duke of Guise to make haste to their Succour Thereupon he departs from Soissons with onely Seven Gentlemen in his Company and coming to Paris the Ninth of May 1588. about Noon alights at the Cloyster of the Penitent Virgins where the Queen-Mother was who immediately carried him through the Throng and Acclamations of the People who follow'd him as their Protector to the Louvre The King advertis'd of his coming debated then about his Death and resolv'd upon it but whether he had not leisure to give Directions or whether the Countenance of a Person so formidable and one who always carried one Hand upon the Hilt of his Sword deterr'd him there was no Attempt at that time made so that this Visit was onely spent in Accusations and Reproaches on the King's side and in Justifications and humble Submissions on the Duke's part Paris was full of new Faces in the Streets heaps of People vehement in discourse and the Houses buzzing with confus'd Murmurs that signified a Tempest at hand The Duke was not ignorant that they were trafficking for his Head and the King was made believe that the League intended him no more harm than to make him a Monk to which purpose the Dutchess of Montpensier pretended to shew the very Scissars that were provided to clip his Hair The next day the King commanded all Strangers to depart out of Paris and Ordered the Houses to be search'd which because the Parisians oppos'd he powered between five and six thousand Souldiers by Night into the City The Burgesses would have been glad that the King should have been Master of their Walls but they did not like it that for the seising of fifteen or twenty Malefactors their Houses should be in danger of Plundering or themselves be looked upon as Rebels which made them desert their Stations where they were set to Guard and as for the Common Souldiers they were driven from their Posts by the Leaguers who were prepared for the Purpose for it was now become a Street Engagement fought out with the loss of about fourscore Swisses pushing on the Barricadoes from Street to Street to the very Gates of the Louvre Nevertheless the King and the Duke as yet dissembled their Play in the midst of a Game so easie to be discovered and only felt one anothers Pulses by Messengers that carried and recarried Propositions to and fro But the next day the Duke was not a little astonish'd to understand that while the Queen-Mother was feeding him with vain hopes the King either by her advice or Counselled by his own fears had made his escape from Paris and was retir'd to Chartres while the Queen Mother staid at Paris not to pacify Affairs but to keep them in such a Fermentation as should have still need of her intermediation From Chartres the King sends to the Cities and Governours from Paris the Duke writes to his Friends and Associates but both in a different Stile The King 's Faint and Timerous the Duke 's Victorious and Triumphant extolling the Day of the Barricades as the Effect of Heavens resplendent Protection and conjuring the other Cities to follow the Example of Paris their Metropolis Of which to make the more sure the Duke displaces the old Provost of Merchants and the

whom they called the Bucklers of Religion and the Fathers of the People Having thus fir'd the Zealous stirred up the Factious and perswaded the simple they began to List Souldiers keep their Publick Meetings name Commanders appoint places of Rendezvous and to give form and shape to their late contriv'd League in which the Duke of Nevers was a Chief Actor And now the Leaguers being ready to declare there wanted nothing but a Confirmation of their Rebellion from the Pope with the Draught and Memorials of which Father Claude Matthieu a Jesuite was sent to Rome Cardinal Pelve presented them to the Holy Father and the Spanish Cardinals held them Midwise-like in their Arms. The Holy Father did not absolutely deny his Assent but whether he was unwilling to Alarum the Protestant Princes at a time when the King of France had entred into League with them or for what other cause is uncertain however he would not Confirm it by any Publick Act thinking it sufficient to keep the Leaguers in hopes and to give them the satisfaction of a Connivance at present Besides the pretence of Religion the extraordinary Oppression of Impositions and Taxes favoured them extreamly On the other side the King understanding that the Guises had gained the favour of the People by their Civilities made it his business for some Months to appear Popular he shewed himself in Publick with a Smiling and Gracious Aspect Caressed the Deputies of the Cities and the Principal Burgesses of Paris and went frequently to the Parish Masses But this gay humour lasted not long and then he shut himself up in his Retirements as he was wont to do before In the mean time the Duke of Espernon with some of the Council had made a Party with a resolution to Arrest the Duke of Guise of which he having Intelligence retired to his Government of Champaigne whither the Cardinal his Brother soon after followed him The Spanish Agents took advantage of this Conjuncture and never ceas'd till they had concluded a Private League Offensive and Defensive with the Confederates of the Holy Union to preserve the Catholick Religion as well in France as in the Low Countries To advance the Cardinal of Burbon to the Throne upon the Death of Henry III and to exclude all the Heretick Princes of the Line To which purpose the Spaniards were to furnish the French Princes with 50000 Pistolets a Month and advance them 400000 from six Months to six Months Besides which Sums the Spanish Agents paid to the Duke of Guise several other Sums which he was to Employ for the gaining of such persons as he stood in need of Which done the Spaniards pressed the Duke of Guise without ceasing to declare himself Who thereupon having secur'd the Cardinal of Burbon who was the choicest Card in his Pack he Published a Declaration in the Cardinals Name and so the sport began The Kings Council were divided Espernon and his Party were fot setting upon the Leaguers without delay and giving no Quarter those that either feared the Duke of Guise or hated Espernon were for temporising The King enclin'd at first to Espernon's Advice but his old Melancholy seizing him he relented of a sudden and fell as it were asleep only he sends to the Duke of Guise to offer a Treaty on Condition he would Disband his Forces The Duke delays till he had got his Troops together but then positively declares that he would not lay down Arms till the Publick demands were satisfied In the mean time the King of Navarre Publishes his Manifestoes to assert the Justice of his Cause defies the Duke of Guise and challenges him to fight hand to hand for the determination of the matter But Guise was too cunning to hazard a general Cause upon a particular Combat The Sword being thus unsheathed the Leaguers had much the worst of it at first through the Valour of Mompensier Joyeuse and Espernon insomuch that the Duke of Guise sent his Request to the King demanding only an Edict against the Hugonots But as if the refusal or delay of it at least had added new life to the Catholick Cause he takes the Field again with fresh Vigour Upon this the King who thought the Storm had been over from a profound Security falls into a deep Consternation and desires the Queen Mother to make Peace at any rate to which purpose a Conference was appointed between her and the Duke of Guise the Issue of which was That the King accorded to the Chiefs of the League not onely the Edict demanded against the Religionaries but the Command of the Armies for the Execution of it puts several Cities and Fortresses into their Hands grants them the Liberty of Guards severally for the Security of their Persons and 600000 Crowns to reimburse their German Levies The Publication of this Accord causes the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde to look about 'em and to enter into a new League with the Marshal de Montmorency and to send into Germany for new Levies of Men. The King fearing to be crush'd between these two Parties who were going Tooth and Nail together by the Ears sends for the King of Navarre to assist him at Court But he and the Prince of Conde had enough to do to keep their own and to make Head against two Armies which the King had put into the Hands of the Duke of Guise and the Duke of Mayenne for the Destruction of the Hereticks and Execution of the Edict though to his other Governours he had given under-hand Orders to proceed remisly enough as to that Affair in their several Governments and by joyning with the two Dukes to obstruct their Proceedings as much as might be The Guises therefore observing that the sole aim of the King was to ruine them and support the Hereticks in opposition to their Designs did by their Emissaries Preachers and Consessors cry him down as a Favourer of Hereticks and that he held a Correspondence with the King of Navarre for the Destruction of the good Catholicks which they might the better do for that the King had sent the Queen-Mother to treat with the King of Navarre but a little before Upon this Espernon now mounted to the highest Degree of his Favour from whence Joyeuse was beginning to totter fail'd not without ceasing to spur the King on to the utter Extirpation of the Guises as they in revenge had vow'd his and for that purpose had laid many Trains to compass their Designs Espernon was so successful in his management as to overperswade the King that all the Designs of the Guises were against his Sacred Person and by that means wrought him to have always about his Person that famous band of Forty Five of which the Duke of Espernon made choice himself being all Gascoyners which the eager desire of raising their Fortunes prompted to any undertaking and of which Lognac was Captain In the heat of this War the German Protestants having met at Lunenburgh