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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	brother_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	39	3	9.4231	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07054	A true report of the taking of Marseilles by the fauourers of the league togither with the rescue therof by the kings faithful subiects, wherin may be seene the woonderfull prouidence of almighty God in the deliuerie of them that trust in him from the trecherous and bloudie deuises of their aduersaries. Lately translated out of French.	Aggas, Edward, attributed name.	1585 (1585)	STC 17468; ESTC S105605	9,380	26

against the protestāts but god so quickned y e minds of good men y t they taking armes displaced y e body of the garde set others in y e roome yet w tout violence so to sée what y e captains of y e town would do of whom two wer partakers in y e cōspiracy but they seing so many new mē which wold not obey thē began to quaile as did also the Consul aforesaid because wheresoeuer they became they still found such as would resist them which caused the said Consul to get into the watch of Canaillon turning tossing all night like a moth about a candle and so comming within the view of the Tower of S. Iohn he drew thitherward and so to the chaine where he purposed to receiue the 200. Harquebuzieres which y e forenamed 4. Gallies of Florence brought thither at the break of day but in that place he found fiue hundred harquebuziers whom whē he beheld he purposed to embarke himself in a Squiffe so to haue fled to the said Gallies but he was by them stayed and word sent to the gard of the Lodge of his being at S. Iohns wherupon thither resorted a band of mē who demanded of him by whose authoritie he committed these murders but he séeing himselfe thus cast away could make no answere and so was conueyed to the towne house where at y e same instant euen before his face they chose 24. of the chief men of the town to order their affaires togither with y e yongest Consul who was but an idiot and they so chosen did immediatly appoint new Captaines who had quickly assembled fiue or six thousand Harquebuziers in the towne and the same once armed and the town assured to the king they presently dispatched a messenger to the Lorde great Prior then lying at Aix very sorowfull for the losse of a town of such importance whom they desired spéedely to come to them and in the meane time they seazed vppon the fort of our Lady of the gard which was soone yealded when they that kéept it perceiued the towne to be lost so Claud. Boniface was also brought to the towne house the rest saued themselues The Consul being degraded from his hood office was committed to the kings prison with the said Boniface The Lord great Prior ariued about a leuen of the clocke at night immediatly they began to prosecute the processe of the Consul and his adherents which was not perfected before ten of clock the next night and within one houre after the saide Consul and Captaine Boniface were both hanged before the gate of the late general Boniface the people hauing continued in armes from the time they were apprehended vntill their execution This was the end of these two Traitors who were punished according to their deserts and reigned but 48. houres The saide Consuls practise tended to become Lord of the towne and not to vse the Lord of Vins power except vpon necessitie being also determined to sacke the same and he had chosen for himselfe and his chiefe adherents thréescore houses the rest should haue fallen to his souldiers but God would not permit such mischiefe who as we may say wrought mightely and sauing vs preserued also the Protestants whom y e Lord great Prior did set at libertie the same night that he arriued By this little may we euidently sée that the words and writings of these men are no perfite images of their euents and therfore y t we must rather haue recourse to their actions which do more liuely expresse them and as effects do necessarily plead their cause The dog and the Woolfe are very like but their déeds do bewray the difference the one being by thē knowne for a kéeper the other for a murderer of the flock and saith great Alexander oftentimes such as outwardly are clothed in white do vnderneath weare purple garmentes so many times these preachers of religion and reformation of the estate doe inwardly hatch Atheisme and destruction of the countrie and herein we sée that it is not religion but ambition neither the welth but subuertion of the estate that causeth them to take armes This Consuls zeale was tyranny ouer Marselles and the religion of Captaine Boniface was successour to his brother the rest of these zealous people togither tended to the spoile of their town and destruction of their countrie But nowe to enter into consideration of this hypocritical Consuls pretence The Protestants saith he had intelligēce in the towne The like speech vseth the Cardinal of Vaudemount in the discourse of the taking of Verdū which he hath procured to be printed Antragues vseth the same language to exclude the duke of Montpensier out of Orleans whether is maiestie sent him Neither is it to be maruelled that they all agrée in one phrase as being wholly possessed with one the same spirit who hath ben a lyer from the beginning But least they should be daunted at ouer strait examination of matters I woulde aske them what intelligence the protestants had in Chaalon Diion Rheins Maisiers and Argenteau It is all as true as the league of Magdeburge in Germany lately concluded by the Lorde of Segur as they say with the County Palatine who dyed 8. years before Segar euer set foote in Germany also with the protector of Scotland who deceased 5. yeares before yea as true as that the protestants brake the crosse of S Martins in the field néere to Paris whē within few nights after the Captain of that quarter surprised one that was making an end of the breaking thereof thereby to prouoke the people to sedition They must vse some better colours in their affaires for God by his iust iudgmēt hath vndoubtedly giuen them ouer to a spirite of astonishment and therefore O poore nation beware least they vnder the like pretence abuse thée in the same maner Consider in what predicamét this zealous reformer doth constitute the king the princes of his blood and generally al that follow not his faction when he depriueth them of their titles of Catholike Christian appropriateth the same to his like This is the honour that he yeldeth to his maiestie for his so often aduenturing his life in such a quarrel Thou shal not slander the law the Prince or the people and yet these great zelators do not onely in words but also in writing continually slaunder the king yea so far forth that the Cardinal of Vaudemont endenoreth to perswade the king that he mindeth to vse the help of the protestants Turks for the subuertion of Catholike religion let vs therefore enter into the view of this Consuls conscience who for the establishing of his tyranny renting this flower from the crowne of France purposeth to vse the weapons of the Lord of Vins though but as a scafolde which builders vse and which when the building is done they pul downe againe and these trecheries do they learne of that euill spirite that