PLOTS CONSPIRACIES AND ATTEMPTS of Domestick and Forraigne Enemies of the Romish Religion Against the Princes and Kingdomes of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND BEGINNING With the Reformation of Religion under Qu. ELIZABETH unto this present Yeare 1642. Briefly Collected by G. B. C. The second Edition Whereunto is added The present Rebellion in IRELAND the cruell Practises in FRANCE against the Protestants the murther of Henry the 3d. and Henry the 4th by the Popish French Faction PSAL. CXXIV VI Blessed be the LORD who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth IT is Ordered by the Committe of the House of COMMONS concerning Printing this 19th day of September 1642. That this Booke be printed Iohn White London Printed by G. M. for Ralph Rounthwait 1642. The Contents PHilip the second King of Spain his offer of Marriage with Q Elizabeth rejected The practice of the Guises with the Q. of Scots against the Crowne of England The Rebellion of the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland the Pope sends Letters to the King of Spaine and K. of Portugall to send an Army to invade England Leo Dacres joyning with the Rebells indevoureth to deliver the Q. of Scots after a sharp conflict with the Lo. of Hunsdon is put to flight Iames Fitz-Morris of the House of Desmond raiseth Rebellion in Ireland Thomas and Edward Stanley with others conspire against the Queene Don Iohn of Austria his perpetuall but treacherous Edict for Peace Stucley his designe against Ireland turned another way by the K. of Portugall Iames Fitz-Morris his second attempt to reduce Ireland to Popery San Iosephus an Italian sent by the Pope and K. of Spaine with 700. Spaniards and Italians into Ireland Campian Sherewin and others comming into England taken and condemned for Treason Somervile his desperate attempt against the Queenes Person Mendoza the Spanish Embassador thrust out of England for practising with Throgmorton and others to invade the Land D. Parry for practising the Queenes death executed Savage and others their attempt to kill the Queene The French Ambassador his plot to kill the Queene The Spanish Armado in Anno 1588. D. Lopez his attempt to poyson the Queene Squires practise to poyson the Queenes Saddle Tyrone his Rebellion in Ireland Garnet Catesby and others their attempt for Invasion of England The Hellish Gun-powder Treason Sir Griffin Markham and others their conspiracy against King Iames The present bloudy Rebellion in Ireland The cruell Massacre at Paris The Murther of Henry the 3d. The Murther of Henry the 4th Gentle Reader THou mayest evidently see by this ensuing discourse what are the fruits and effects of Popery how the Popes have kindled the fier amongst all the Princes and States of Europe and like Balaam the false Prophet troubled us with their wiles cursed the Church and State of England and by their Incendiaries the Priests and Iesuites for effecting their owne pernicious and divellish designes have stirred up one Nation against an other and all Christendome against the English tainted many a great House and endangered their Lives and Estates to the ruine of great and Noble Families in this Kingdome Plots Conspiracies and Attempts of Domestick and Forraigne Enemies of the Romish Religion against the Princes and Kingdomes of England Scotland and IRELAND c. THose which make descriptions of large Countries in small Tables offend not against truth though somewhat against quantity so Pliny telleth us Notwithstanding with much convenience ease to the beholder and truth of observation things are presented to our eyes in those little draughts that the very places themselves being viewed with great trouble and losse of time cannot yeeld more benefit to the most diligent oftentimes not so much Wherfore especially because the Argument cannot be now unseasonable for the abridgement of the Commentaries of large Histories is not unlike Maps of Kingdomes I have here collected out of divers Authours which have severally handled parts of this subject into one The chief conspiracies and attempts against the Kingdomes alone and immediately of great Brittany and Ireland or cls mediately through the sides of the Princes of these Countries by Traytors at home or abroad of the Romish Religion or forraigne Enemies by treacherous courses of those of the same bloody superstition The beginning I make the first time of Reformation of Religion here in England under Queen Elizabeth and the extent unto this present yeere I begin no higher then Queene Elizabeth because the Reformation of Henry the eight was but in part and the other of King Edward was an interrupted one by the sudden succession of his sister Qu. Mary the rather because for ought we know there was no great matter plotted against this hopefull young Prince that was not rather from ambition if there was any such then from a desire of subverting Religion Not but thaa the Enemies of our Religion and Kingdome had us then in their minds but other wayes there were before bloody and desperate practises were to be taken in hand to be first entred into of lesse difficulty and more hopeful successe And these are the steps the adversaries of our Religion use to tread who thirsting after England labour first to bring us back to Rome by striving to make our selves hate our own Religion and leave that God which brought us out of the Land of Aegypt bewitching us with glorious Idolatry of the golden Calvs of Rome introducing ignorance and blindnes that we may when our eyes are out patiently grind in the Mill of slavery If this course fail the next is by poyson murder and force of Arms to draw us to Sodom and Aegypt The Reformation of England and Ireland fall under one time and because that of Scotland also differeth not many yeares in age they may all be brought in one account With the Plots are joyntly handled the Deliverances which in some respect or other may very weâ—l be called great either in regard of the misery we had fallen into if God had not prevented them of the slavery of soule and body and this agreeth with all Or else for the strangenesse of the discoveries of their mischiefes sometime almost miraculous before they have come to their birth or disappointing them of their purposes when the Authours have put them in practise and these two respects the one or the other which may well denominate Gods goodnesse to us in disappointing them to be great may be found in all likewise So that for these mercies received we ought to ascribe to our Deliverer that which is due unto him the praise of his own work and continuall thankes for his mercies which even to this day is from those Deliverances of the dayes of old extended we should have bin then betrayed but we had now bin slaves both we our selves and ours one Plot had it succeeded had bin the betraying of England at once to them who love themselves too well to have lost it easily and are so wise that they endure no Traitors
letter in the street was delivered to the L. Mountâ—aâ—les man to put into his Masters hand It had neither date nor superscription and by the Lord was that night sent to the Earle of Salisbury who made acquainted with it the Lord Chamberlaine the Lord Admirall the Earle of Worcester and Northampton The Letter was this My Lord OVt of the love I beare to some of your friends I have a care of your preservation Therefore I would adviâ—e you as you tender your life to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this Parliament For God and Man have concurred to punish the wickâ—dâ—â—sse of this time And think not slightly of this advertisement but retire your selfe into your Country where you may expect the event in safety for though there be no appearance of any storme yet I say they shall receive atâ—â—rible blow this Parliament and yet they shall not see who hurt them This counsell is not to be contemned because it may doe you good and can doe you no harme for the danger is past so soone as you shall have burned this â—etter And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it to whose holy protection I commend you I 〈◊〉 â—â—llowing the King read it who considering the sentence therein expressed that they should receive a terrible blow this Parliament and yet should 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 know who hurt them and jâ—yning it to the sentâ—nce for the danger is 〈◊〉 so soon as you shall have burn'd this Letter did suspect the danger mentioned to be some sodaine danger of blowing up with Powder Afterward it was determined the Lord Chamberlaine should view both above and beneath the Parliament Houses Which the L. Chamberlaine having done found in a Vault under the upper House great store of Billets faggots and Coales and casting his eye aside a fellow standing by which called himselfe Percy's man that had hired the Cellar The K. supposing that Gunpowder might be hid under that Wood and Coales caused a further search to be made Whereupon Sir Thomas Knevet went about the Parliament House with a small number to search more narrowly the mid-night next after where he found Fawkes standing without doores booted and spurd and apprehended him then in search under the Wood and Coales 36. Barrells of Gunpowder and about the Traitor three Matches and other Instruments fit for that wicked purpose were found which wicked intent of blowing up the House he instantly confessed affirming that if he had bin in the House he would not have failed to blow up both himselfe and them In this mine wrought Catesby Robert Winter Esquires Thomas Percy Thomas Winter John Wright Christ Wright Guido Fawkes Gentlemen and Bates Catesbyes man Sir Everard Digby Ambrose Rookewood Francis Tresham Esquires John Grant Gent and Robert Keys were made acquainted with the plot but wrought not in the mine After Fawkes apprehension the Traytors poast away and pretending Religion they would fight for gathered in open Rebellion all they could which number never exceeded 80. They wandered thorough Warwick-sheire to Worcester-sheire and thence to the borders of Stafford-sheire and having gotten themselves into a House they obstinately refused to yeeld to the Sheriffe but through Gods providence a lesse quantity of Powder then 2. pounds taking fire did so mangle some disable others that having begged pardon on their knees for their crime of God they desperately exposed themselves to the peoples fury 3. of the chiefe joyned back to back and two of them were killed with one shot Catesby Percy Winter was taken alive So all of them were killed beaten or taken The conspiracy of Sir Griffin Markham and others ANno Dom 1603. George Brooke Sir Griffin Markham Watson and Clerk Priests entred into a conspiracy against K. James it was said to surprise Prince Henry to keep the King and Prince in the Tower or to carry them to Dover Castle and there to obteine their own pardons a toleration for Religion and Removall of some Councellors Divers beside these were accused and condemned but Brooke confessed he did it but by a Commission from the King to try the faithfullnesse of the Kings Subjects but he could produce no such Commission Sir Griffin Markham confessed that he intended forraine Invasion and Alteration of Religion but not to destroy the King as was in the inditement Watson and Clerk confessed they drew the Gentlemen into the plot houlding the King for no King till he was Crowned Of them all only Watson Clerk and Brook suffered death The Massacre and Treason in Ireland extracted out of the Irish Remonstrance and Irelands Teares VPon the 23 day of October 1641. a most prodigious and nefarious viper gnawing the bowels of its native-parent Ireland burst out of the womb therof visibly appeared most epidemically destructive to that whole State and Kingdome It had lien long as some of the Rebels reported undiscovered but was all that while hatching by many hot and high-built hopes both by fortaine and domestick encouragements The accursed Midwives of this bastard-birth were Popish-Priests Pryers and Jesuites together with other fire-brands and incendiaries of that State and Kingdom Their hideous and hellish hopes were mightily supported and corroborated by strong assistance from Spaine France and Flanders together with deeply engaged assurance of full correspondency in England and an equivalent party in Scotland besides their great encouragements by Popish Buls from Rome authorizing the speedy and immediate Surrender of all such places of strength as they had beleagured promising free pardon of all sins whatsoever before hand committed by any of them tending to the advancement of this great work thundring or rather roaring out excommunications against any that should refuse so to joyn with them therin terming themselves the Catholike Army and the ground of their work as all their abominable and bloody plots are the Catholike-cause Their desperate and most divellish resolution was therin not to leave a drop of English blood in Ireland and so consequently not the least sparke or glimpse of the Gospell and pure Protestant Religion giving out in words and designing in their hearts that the Tower of London the Castle of Edenborough and the Castle of Dublia were to be surpized by their Faction in all these places all upon one day In all which time this therefore might the more easily have bin done especially in Ireland there was not the least feare or suspition of treachery yet there were a little before the day of this bloudy-birth secretly gathered together about 400 Irish Papists elected out of most parts of Ireland desperate and damnably bloudy minded persons designed for this horrid and hellish attempt who had all privately convayed and sheltered themselves in severall places of the City and Suburbs of Dublin waiting and expecting the time and watch-word when to give the on-set In this plot all the Popish Nobility and men of quality in Ireland were interessed and it was professed by that most
the preamble of Irelands Tears to which I referre the Reader And secondly by the Lords most glorious and victorious over-powring the out-ragious power and petalancy of those barbarous miscreants now in open Rebellion by the hands of a very small remnant of poore Protestants there among them who by reason of the most unhappy distractions and unnaturall civill-discords raised up among us in England by the Popish Faction also and their Pontifician abettors cannot be by us so sufficiently supplyed with men and arms as is fit and much desired therfore I say the Lord of Hoasts abhorring and abominating such atrocious and hell-fomented blasphemies murthers and mercilesse cruelties makes his just indignation and wrath to prosâ—cute and pursue them at the heeles giving those small and inconsiderable companies such admirable and even almost miraculous victories over them as most evidently declare the hand of the Lord to be against them and his gracious purpose utterly to supplant and exterminate such devillishly desperate and intolerably barbarous and bloody Rebels and Traitors the lively lims and lineaments of that bloody Strumpet of Rome The most bloody Massacre at Paris Anno 1572. extracted out of the French History truly and briefly related ANd now good Reader give me leave a little to seeme to digresse not so much from the matter as from the persons and places at first propounded and to looke but a little into our neighbour Kingdome of France where I say I shall only vary from personages but the subject matter the same with the former setting forth the bloody plots and conspiracies of the Popish Faction among them also against those of the reformed Protestant Religion in France and especially in that most butcherly and barbarous Massacre at Paris where it primarily and chiefly began to be cruelly acted and executed oâ— Gods innocent lamâ—es marked out to the sâ—â—ughter bâ—fore hand And thus it was in brief In the yeares 1571. and 72. Charles the ninth then K. of France the said K. the then Duke of Gulâ—se and others of the Romish Faction bearing a most inveterate hatred which was craftily concealed against those of the Religion and in especiall against the then most renowned Admirall of France whose Piety Prudence and Prowesse was such and in so high esteem of all both friends and foâ—s also that whiles he subsisted and survived the Popiâ—h-party â—â—augre their malice could doe nothing to any purpose to the prejâ—dice of the cause of the Religion At last a plot was laid most craftily and cruelly under pretence of a marriage between the Prince of Navarr a noâ—le and pious Prince of the Religion and the Kings Sister by which snare to bring the said Prince the Admirall and the rest of the heads of the Religion to the Count and City of Paris that so these heads being first smitten-off the inferiour members therof might the more easily be destroyed Under this colour I say the King invites the Admirall to the Court at Paris pretends a faire correspondence and agreement of all matters in dâ—ffâ—rence 'twixt his Majeâ—ty and those of the Religion especially himselfe and the Admirall and a reconcilement also betweene this noble Admirall and the Duke of Guise In which interim one Lignerolles a French Gentleman was openly slain in the Court for discovering some secrets concerning this plot against those of the Religion and the Cardinall of Chastiâ—on then in England and ready to depart thence for France brother to the Admirall of France was pâ—ysoned by one of his Chamberlaines and dyed therof to the great griefe of all his friends and servants The most noble and religious Admirall on the Kings invitation comes to Paris was with extraordinary fair shows of love and regall respect most welcomely entertained both he and divers others of the Religion that came with him The fore-sâ—id marraige was not long after solemnized in Paris with great pretences of joy and content on all sides expressed in most samptuous and liberall feasts and banquets Maskes and daâ—ces the sweet innocent Princes little dreaming of such a dance to be now a leading by the King Queen-mother and Duke of Guise with the rest of their Romish bloody faction as stain'd nay steep'd all their dainties in streames of their hearts blood in so much as 't was admired to see such a seeming friendly mixture of those of the Religion with the Romish Catholiks just like so many lambs among so many greedy wolvs Now whiles every one imployed himself in such like mirth jollity divers that were sent for by the K. Q-Mother Du. of Guise that so they might be sure to be the stronger party speedily arrived in Paris the Catastrophe of all that follows having bin made not long before among them the Dukes of Guise and Anâ—on being the principall actors openly seen in this wicked work who resolved not to let the Admirall depart out of Paris but there to dispatch him and all such as should indeavour to defend him Now it so fell out that one morning the Admirall comming out of the Lonure and going to dine at his lodging being on foot and without least suspition of any villanie to be attempted against him as he was reading a Petition one shot at him with a harquebush the bullet wherof tooke away the fore-finger of his right-hand and hurt him in the left-arme the villaine that shot escaped by flight a horse standing ready to post him away after he had done the dead The noble Admirall being therupon brought to his lodging shewed most singular Piety Constancy and Patience under his Surgeons hands was visited by divers Lords and Gentlemen of the Religion the K of Navarr now the K. of France his brother in law and the Prince of Conde The French K. also though a maine plotter in the work craftily complained to these Princes of the mischiefe thus happened protesting his sorrow and swearing revenge and severe execution of Justice on the offendor whosoever he were The K. himself also went to visit the Admirall making many serious and deep protestations of his high esteem of his loyalty and fidelity to his Person and Crowne alwayes and that he held and esteemed him a most discreet and valiant Commander in Arms and that therfore he much respected him with many such like French complements Immediately after the Kings departure the K. of Navarr and the Prince of Conde were certainly but very secretly enformed of the intended massacre on all of the Religion and advised as speedily as they could to get away out of Paris and to be assured that that blow given to the Admirall was but the beginning of the Tragedy but alas good Princes they so much conâ—ided on the Kings vows promises that they rejected this advise and counsel staied ther still About Saturday evening being the 23. of Ang. 1572. certain Protestant Gen. offered themselves to watch that night with the good Admirall but Teligny his â—on in law would not suffer them but
with Horse and Foot to assist in the civill warre of Scotland who could hardly be restrained from invading England presently and first of all presuming no question on the ayde of Papists in England from intelligence held with them here For otherwise what could a 1000. Horse and not very many Foot do in respect of conquering all England Now was the Queen of Scots in France and although the Regency of Scotland was put into the hands of the Marquesse of Hamilton yet the power of the Qu. Dowager with her French faction did so increase and on the other side the authority of the Marquesse Regent so abate that after the promise from the French King of 12000. crowns by the yeare and Duchy of Castle Herald to which was added the preferment of all the Marquesses chiefe kindred the Marquesse resigned his place into the hands of Mary of Loraigne Qu. Dowager a thing for a woman to be Regent in Scotland but once before known She had made many promises unto the Scots of the freedome of exercising the Protestant Religion but being now setled in the Regency she discovered her mind wholly bent to alter Religion She told her friends in plain tearmes that though the Ministers whom she named should preach more honestly or as she called it more sincerely then they had done yet they should all be banished She expressed at the death of a young-man whom she seemed to bewaile being slain for that his father had not rather excused him being a stout defender of the reformed Religion that she was cruelly minded toward the Professours thereof Easter also was commanded to be celebrated after the Romish custome For these and divers other overtures of her Messengers were sent unto her to desire her to be good to the Protestants and to remember the many promises she had made unto them to that end But all in vaine She told the Earle of Glencarne and Sir John Cambell who were sent unto her that performance of promises was to be expected from Princes no farther then stood with their profit Upon this they told one another that they then renounced all obedience and duty toward her Violence now with art was to be used for effecting her purpose touching Religion Hereupon advice was given by Labrosse a French Commander in Scotland to put to death all the Nobility of Scotland for that the people being bereaved of their heads would after be easily brought to undergo any yoake but that things might appeare with a more pleasing colour there was a shew as if the Queen had laboured and would endeavour to convince her adversaries in Religion by no other way but by arguments Into Scotland were sent 3. Sorbon Doctours with the Bishop of Amiens But with what safety might any man dispute with them when he that did so was in the midst of his armed enemies and there was greatest feare of violence from the disputers themselves For the Bishop of Amiens counselled the Queen Regent that if any there were which should be found to dispute against these Romish Decrees he should be put to death yea even those who but seemed to be of another mind only We are not informed that the Qu. Regent put in practice the fore-going counsels perhaps the time was not altogether seasonable nor doe we take every single action which might conduce to the subverting of Religion to be a conspiracy but we may well esteem by the Queens words the Counsellours and Commanders intents and purposes the placing of such a Regent all this to be a continued conspiracy to strangle in the birth the Church of Scotland having yet scarcely taken breath in the world Not long after the Qu. Regent dyeth and although it will perhaps be said there was no discovery of any conspiracy which was in acting as to put to death all the Nobility or all that would dare dispute against the Bishop or Doctors could be no easie taske to goe about the latter because the death of their last Martyr Walter Mille did seem so grievous unto them and if any more should suffer how would such a thing be taken by French-men people of another Nation It may be objected from the above named arguments that there wanted no endeavour After the death of the Mother the Daughter returning into Scotland was married unto Henry Lord Darnley who being of the same Religion with the Queen and they both a brothers and sisters children did strongly maintain Popery against the Protestant Religion We cannot imagine here that any thing should be contrived against the lives of those Princes by a Popish party to overthrow Religion For to subvert Religion no way could be found better then by maintaining in life and honour such Princes as these two were who professed and maintained Popery as contrarily to subvert Religion Laws Liberties and the like the best means are thorough the sides of such Kings and Queens as are projectors and maintainers of them So the holy Scripture declareth by word and example I will smite the Shepheard and the sheepe shall be scattered For this Queen was so far from furthering the establishment of Religion nay from connivence at those who should goe about any such matter that she professed that she would follow the example of her cousin Qu Mary of England which was no other thing then maintaining in her dominions the Pope and Popery and punishing the contrary minded as Hereticks It will not be thought I suppose that either the Papists at home in Scotland or those in France or els where would go about to take away the lives of such Princes whose lives secured their Religion For what was attempted against the life and most unhappily succeeded of the King was not any way to subvert Popery because the deed was committed and the plot chiefly layed by Papists It rather was undertaken against the life of this Prince by some to make way for their own family to inherit the Crowne of Scotland by others to get the Kingdome and admit any Religion But those which look farther into matters judge this act to be committed against a Professour of the Romish Religion that he being taken out of the way another might succeed which had greater power and friends to bring to passe what K. Henry the Queens husband had a mind but not power enough to do And that made those which were no enemies to the King in point of Religion not dislike the Treason for the ends sake I cannot be of their minds altogether who judge that of the Queen of Scots being now in restraint in England not long before married to Earle Bothuile and presently to desire a divorce from him and to require that he should be summoned within the space of a very few days to return into the Kingdom to make answer and defence to the Queens suit of divorce to have proceeded from the changing fancy of the Queen not so much from conscience For it was as well known before her departure into England
other a sharp knife with which he violently and suddainly sheathed a thrust within the K. small ribs the K. being seriously reading the presented paper but thereupon perceiving himself wounded pluckt the knife out of the vvound and therwith struck the Monck above the eye and thereupon some of his Gentlemen hearing a noyse and much bustling within came running in most violently who seeing what vvas done and moved with vvrath at the indignity of so execrable a fact could not contain but forthwith killed the murtherer with their Svvords who there expired and vvent like Iudas to his own place being canonized and adored for this deed by those of the Romish-League but detested and abhorred by those that clave to the dignity-royall and party of the Religion The K. being carried to his bed the Physitians and Chirurgeons drest his wound and supposed it had not bin mortall but the next day he dyed of it and left the Crowne of France to his brother Henry D. of Burbon and K. of Navarr The most deplorable and execrable murther of Henry the 4th K of France by one Francis Raviliack Extracted also out of the French History HEnry the 4th D of Burbon and K. of Navarr a Prince of the most famous and glorious memory that ever France brought forth yea I say most renowned loved and feared for his piety and prowesse and many other most rare and princely virtues being right Heyre apparent and true Successour to the Crowne of France after the fore-mentioned murther and untimely death of his brother Henry the 3d yet extremely maligned and desperately opposed from the faire and peaceable possession of the diadem of France by those most impious assassinates and bloody Tygers of the most falsly pretended holy Union or Catholike Leaguers afore-said for the very same reason for which they so inveterately hated and conspired against his deceased brother viz his publikely declared good-will and affection toward those of the Religion commonly called by their ignominious name of Hugonets in France as our true professours of the Gospell in England were wont to be branded with the contemptuous name of Puritans and now by a company of base block-heads most foolishly termed Round-heads On this main if not only ground of wrath and dislike this most noble and Heroick Prince having long time bin I say kept out from the just enjoyment of his lawfull inheritance pestered and perplexed with many and tedious troubles and bloudy battles with his Subjects of France the Leaguers who were mightily animated therein and assisted by a strong Spanish Faction among them but in all these great warres and mountainous disturbances the most renowned and couragious Prince went Master of the field a most constant conquerour having as the French History records of him triumphed over his enemies in at the least 12 set-battles or pight fields still unconquerable by the greatest forces and deepest stratagems that his adversaries were able to bring against him yet such is the unstable state and wheeling condition of the best and bravest things of this life that this so renowned and so undaunted Prince especially having at the first openly profest the true Religion and long so continued yet at last moved and overcome not only to make an edict of maintaining the two Religions in his Kingdomes but in his own person to make publike profession of the Romish abomination and going openly to Masse to the unspeakable sadding of the hearts of â—is best Subjects those of the Religion this noble Prince I say at lâ—st was permitted to fall into the perfidious power of a base and despâ—cable villain to destroy him For notvvithstanding that they of the Catholick Leaguer and holy-Union is they entituled themselves I meane the Romanists had now got such hold of him in the snares of their Romish Religionâ— yet the Jesuiticall Faction being very jealous and suspitious of him and much fearing his revolt from them as indeed he stâ—ll gave them some causes thereof in the course of his regall government by his faire carriage and facile grants of many extraordinary priviledges to those of the Religion they therefore at last suborned and inticed one Fran Raviliack a French man borne in Angonlesme to kill this noble King dealing vvith him just as they did vvith that Monck fore-mentioned in the former Relation promising and protesting mighty remunerations large revvards and high preferments on the performance of the deed leading the fellow into a fooles Paradise of high Hopes they persvvaded him that it vvas a most meritorious vvorke and so at length fully vvrought him to their vvils therein seeming to admire his person already transformed into an angelicall appaâ—ition so glorious that they durst hardly behold him for the beauty and lustre that was upon him now upon this his so vertuous and valerous a resolution Thus I say this execrablâ— villain and bloody assassinate went forth from them with a most stony and immarbled heart and brazen fore head to doe this most cruell and accursed deed And watching his opportunity upon a Friday which was the next day after the Coronation of his Qu. this Henry the great for so we may justly entitle him being in Paris about 3 of the clock in that after-noone and intending to goe to his Arcenall took his Caroch and as a Prince who then seemed to live without feare or suspition of any of his people living in such a faire correspondency as he then did but this mixture of Religions being most abominable in the eyes of the Lord between both Religions but as he passed on through the City accompanied with very few of his Nobility or without taking for his better assurance either Archers or any of his usuall guard not farre from St. Innocents this villain following his Majesty and seeing his Caroch stayed by a Cart which met and stopped their passage Ravilliac taking this opportunity as having kept close by the Caroch and the King fitting in the boot therof he sodainly and desperately assaulted the King with a long and most sharp knife made of purpose for this wicked use with which he gave him 2 wounds in the left side the first was given neare the shoulder which entred not farrâ— but only razed the skin the â—d was mortall that blow entring betwixt the 5t and 6t rib cutting a sunder the veine leading to the heart and this wound was so deep that it reached into the Cava vena which also was pierced with the point of the knife This most noble and renowned Prince finding himself wounded to death lost his speech upon the instant by reason of the abundance of bloud which issued out of his mouth therefore they turned the Caroch toward the Lonure the villain Raviliac being first laid hold on and kept in safe custody where he was no sooner arrived but he rendred his soule into the hands of Almighty God the great Creatour and just disposer of all things Thus this great and invincible Prince whom neither so many nor so