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A03723	A true and plaine report of the furious outrages of Fraunce & the horrible and shameful slaughter of Chastillion the admirall, and diuers other noble and excellent men, and of the wicked and straunge murder of godlie persons, committed in many cities of Fraunce, without any respect of sorte, kinde, age, or degree. By Ernest Varamund of Freseland.; De furoribus Gallicis. English	Hotman, François, 1524-1590.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581.	1573 (1573)	STC 13847; ESTC S104242	59,763	145

meaneth not of things done and past during the troubles which were before the Edict of Pacification in August 1570. that there shal be no inquisitiō therof and none shall be troubled in goods or person therfore but for that respect they shall enioy the benefit of the Edict of Pacification but that the sayd wordes extend onely to those which be found to be giltie or accessarie to the last conspiracie done against his Maiestie and estate and that other which are imprisoned shall be set at libertie And as touching them which will make profession of their faith and returne to the Catholike Religion his Maiestie desireth that his gouernours and officers shall excyte and comforte them as muche as they can to that effect and executiō of that good will and that their friends and kinsfolks should also be exhorted to doe the like for their parte And if any should hurt them in goods or body his Maiestie willeth readie and speedie execution to be done on them And to the intent that they may followe the fourme which hath bene kept in professing the faith which they doe make that returne to the Apostolike and Romishe Churche there is sent herewith a memorie thereof From Paris the xxij day of Septēber 1572. Signed CHARLES and beneath PINART THE FOVRME OF ABIVRAtion of heresie confessiō of faith which they which haue swarued from the faith and pretende to be receyued into the Church ought to make THIS IS THE ABIVRATION which they caused all of the Religion to make in France to saue their liues Printed at Paris by Nicolas Roffet dwelling in the new streate of our Ladie at the signe of the Mower with the Kings Priuilege FIrst they whiche haue swarued from the faith and desire to returne into the compasse of our holy mother Church ought to present themselues to their Curates or vicars to be instructed of that which they ought to doe that done they shal be sent vnto the reuerend ▪ Byshop of the dioces or his Chauncellour or officiall to make the sayd Abiuration and confession in maner and forme following IN. borne at c. in the dioces of c. and dwelling c. acknowledging by the grace of God the true faith Catholike and Apostolike from the which I haue through my fault gone astray and separated my selfe since c. and desirous to returne to the flocke of Christes true shepefold which is the Catholike Apostolike and Romish Church confesse to haue Abiured and cursed all the errours and heresie of the Lutherians Caluinistes and Hugonotes and all other heresie whatsoeuer wherwith I haue heretofore beene diffamed or touched and I agree to the fayth of our holy mother the Churche and desire you in the name of God of his sonne Iesus Church and of the glorious Virgin his mother Marie and of all the Sainctes of Paradice that it woulde please you to receiue me into the flocke and shepefolde of Gods people which liue vnder the obedience of the Pope ordained our Sauiour Iesus Christs vicar in the sayd Church submitting my selfe paciently to abyde and willingly to doe the pennance which it shall please you to enioyne me for the absolution of my faults committed whilest I was in the foresayd sectes whereof I aske and require pardon of God and of his sayd Churche and of you that be appoynted my pastor by God the Creator absolution with such penance as you shall iudge to be holsome for the satisfaction of my sinnes and offences And to the intent you shoulde knowe that I haue and doe make this Abiuration from my heart I confesse moreouer before God and you that I beleeue that which is contayned in the Simbole or Creede of the Apostles and Athanasius and other confessions of faith made and approued by the whole Councels of the Catholike Apostolike and Romish Church that is I beleeue in one onely God the father almightie Creator of Heauen and Earth and of all things visible and inuisible and in one L. our Lord Iesus Christ the onely sonne engendred by God the father before the constitucion of the worlde God of God Light of Light true God of true God engendred not Created Consubstantiall with the Father by whom all things were made who for vs mē and for our saluation descended from heauen c. as in the beliefe of Morning prayer I beleeue likewise acknowledge and confesse all that which is contayned in the bookes as well of the olde as of the newe testament approued by the sayde holie and Apostolike church of Rome according to the sense interpretation of the holy Doctours receiued by the same reiecting all other interpretation as false and erroneous I acknowledge the seuen Sacramentes of the sayde Catholike Apostolike and Romishe Churche that they were instituted by our L. Iesus Christ and that they be necessarie for the saluation of mankind although that all of them are not of necessitie to be conferred to all that is to say I confesse that the sayd seuen Sacramentes are these Baptisme Confirmation Eucharist which is the Sacrament of the altar Penance extreme vnction Order and Mariage and that the sayd Sacraments confer grace that of them Baptisme Confirmatiō Order can not be reiterated without sacrilege That the sayd Sacraments haue the effect whiche the sayd Church teacheth and that the forme vsage wherwith they be ministred to Christians is holie and necessarie I acknowledge also that the holy Masse is a sacrifice and oblation of the verie bodie and bloud of our sauiour Iesus Christ vnder the forme of bread and wyne mingled with water whiche substaunces of bread and wyne vnder the sayde formes are in the Masse by the words which serue for consecration sayd and pronounced by the Priest transubstanciated and trans formed into the substance of the sayd body and blood of Iesus christ Notwithstanding that the qualities and accidentes remayne in the sayd formes after the sayd consecration and that the Masse is holesome and profitable as well for the quicke as the deade I acknowledge and confesse the cōcomitance that is to say that in receiuing the body of Iesus christ vnder the forme of bread alone I likewise receiue the blood of Iesus Christ. I confesse that Prayer and intercession of Sainctes for the quicke and the dead is holie good and helthfull for Christians and is not contrary for any respect to the glory of god That prayers made in the Churche for the faithfull which are dead do profit them for the remission of their sinnes and lessening of their paines incurred for the same That there is a Purgatorie where the soules abyding are succoured by the prayers of the faythfull I confesse that we muste honor and call vpon the sainctes which raigne with Iesus Christ and that they make intercession for vs to God that their Reliques are to be worshipped That the commaundements and traditions of the Catholike Apostolike and Romishe Church as well they which pertaine to the forme and ceremonies

of diuine seruice and to assist the same which I thinke be to drawe Christian people to pitie and turning to their God as fasting absteyning from meates obseruation of holy dayes and ecclesiasticall pollicie according to the tradition of the Apostles and holy Fathers continued since the primitiue Church till this time and afterwards brought into the Church by the ordinances of Counsels receiued in the same of long and auncient time or of late be good and holy to the whiche I will and ought to obey as prescribed appointed by the holy ghost the author and director of that which serueth for the keping of Christian Religion and of the Catholike Apostolike and Romaine Church I beleeue also and accepte all the articles of originall sinne and of Iustification I affirme assuredly that we ought to haue and kepe the Images of Iesus Christ of his holy mother and all other saincts and doe honor and reuerence vnto them I confesse the power of indulgence and pardons to be left in the Church by Iesus Christ and the vse of thē to be verie healthfull as also I acknowledge and confesse the Church of Rome to be the mother and chief of all Churches and conducted by the holy ghost and that other pretended particular inspirations against the same come of the suggestion of the Deuill the Prince of dissention which woulde separate the vnion of the mysticall body of the sauiour of the worlde Finally I promise straightly to keepe all that was ordayned at the last generall councell of Trent and promise to God and you neuer more to depart from the Catholike Apostolike and Romaine Church and if I do which God forbid I submit my selfe to the penalties of the canons of the sayd Church made ordeyned and appointed against them which fall backe into Apostasie The which Abiuration and Confession I haue subscribed THE KINGES LETTER TO M. de Guyse and other Lieutenantes and Gouernors of his Prouinces by the which he wholly abolisheth and subuerteth al the Edictes of Pacification and willeth that onely the Romishe Religion shoulde take place in his Realme THe King knowing that the declaration which he made vpon the occasions which lately chaūced in the Citie of Paris the remebrances and instructiōs of his will which be sent round about to all Gouernours of his Prouinces and Lieutenants generall therin and particular letters to the Seneshals and his Courts of Parliament and other officers and Ministers of Iustice can not his therto staye the course of murders and robberies done in the most part of the cities of this Realme to his Maiesties great displeasure hath aduised for a more singular remedie to send all the sayde Gouernours into euery of their charges and gouernements assuring him selfe that according to the qualitie and power which they haue of his Maiestie they can well followe and obserue his intent the which more fully to declare his Maiestie hath caused his letters patentes to be dispatched which shal be deliuered them Besides the contentes wherof M. de Guise the gouernour Lieutenant generall for his Maiestie in Champaigne and Brye shall call before him the gentles men of the newe Religion abyding within his gouernement and shall tell them that the Kings wil and intent is to preserue them their wyues children and families and to mayntaine them in possession of their goods so that on their parte they liue quietly and render to his Maiestie obedience and fidelitie as they ought in which doyng the King also will defende them that they shall not be molested or troubled by waye of Iustice or otherwise in their persons and goods by reason of things done during the troubles and before the Edict of Pacification of August ▪ 1570. And afterwardes be shall louingly admonishe them to continue no longer in the Error of the newe opinions and to returne to the Catholike Religion reconciling themselues to the Catholike Romishe Church vnder the doctrine and obedience wherof Kings his predecessors and their subiects have alwayes holily lyued and this Realme hath ben cares fully conducted and maintained Shewing to thē the mischiefes and calamities which haue happened in this Realme since these newe opinions haue entred into mens spirites Howe manye murders haue bene caused by such which haue fallen from the right waye holden by their Auncestors First they made them separate them selues from the Churche then from their nexte of kinred and also to be estranged from the seruice of their king as a man may see since his raigne And althoughe the authors and heades of that side would haue couered their doyngs vnder the title of Religion and conscience yet their deedes and workes haue shewen well inough that the name of Religion was but a visarde to couer their driftes and disobedience and vnder that pretence to assemble and subborne people and to make and compel them to sweare in the cause vnder the title of disobedience and by suche wayes to turne them from the naturall affection which they owe to the King and consequently from his obedience being notorious that what commaundement so euer the King could make to them of the newe Religion they haue not since his raigne obeyed him otherwise than pleased their heads And contrariwise when their sayd heads commaunded them to arise and take to their weapons to set vpon Cities to burne Churches to sacke and pill to trouble the Realme and fill it with bloud and fire they which went so astray to follow them forgot all trust and duetie of good subiects to execute and obey their commaūdements VVhich things if the gentlemen will well consider they shall easely Iudge how vnhappie and miserable their condition shal be if they continue longer therein For they may well thinke of them selues that the king being taught by experience of so great a daunger from the which it hath pleased God to preserue him and his estate and hauing proued the mischiefes and calamities which this Realme hath suffred by the enterprises of the heads of this cause their adherentes and complices that he will neuer willingly be serued with any gentleman of his subiects that be of any other Religion than the Catholike in the whiche also the king following his predecessors will liue and die He willeth also to take away all mistrust amongst his subiects and to quench the rising of discordes and seditions that all they of whom he is serued in honorable places and specially the gentlemen which desire to be accompted his good and lawfull subiects and would obtaine his fauour and be employed in charges of his seruice according to their degrees and qualities do make profession hereafter to liue in the same Religion that he doth hauing tryed that discords and ciuill warres will not cease in a state where there be many Religions and that it is not possible for a King to maintaine in his Realme diuersities in Religion but that he shall leese the good will and beneuolence of his subiectes yea and they which are of a