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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11934	The lyfe of the most godly, valeant and noble capteine and maintener of the trew Christian religion in Fraunce, Iasper Colignie Shatilion, sometyme greate admirall of Fraunce. Translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding; Gasparis Colinii Castilloni, magni quondam Franciae amerallii, vita. English.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, attributed name.; Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636, attributed name.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 22248; ESTC S117200	64,379	124

visit him in the heering of Merlyne who escaped the slawghter and is yit still alyue And when the same Merlyne told him that the calamities and myseryes which happen too godly men in this lyfe do comonly stirre them vp to pray vnto God the more earnestly and quicken them vp to reuerence Gods power by and by the Admiral did burst out into these wordes with a lowd voyce and vehement corage saying Lord God heauenly father pitie me of thy mercie and clemencie and remember not the wickednesse of my former life If thou looke vppon our faults and vppon our lightnesse and vnfaythfulnes in breaking of thy Lawes Lord who shall abide it who shal be able to indure the force of thy wrath Setting aside all fabulous Gods I call vppon thee alone acknowledging and worshipping thee the etetnall father of the eternall God Iesus Christ Throwgh him I beseech thee to graunt mee thy holy spirit and the gift of pacience In thine only mercy do I trust In that only is my whole hope repozed Whither it be thy will to giue me present death or to prolong my life yit longer behold I protest my self to bee readie vnto bothe nothing dowting but that if I must die out of hand thou wilt take mee out of hand intoo thy blessed and heauenly rest And if thow suffer mee too continewe longer in this life graunte mee O heauenly Father that I maye spende the reste of my time all wholly in spreading abrode the glorie of thy name and in the reuerencing and obseruing of thy most holy religiō When he had ended this prayer Merlyne asked of him neuerthelesse whyther it could like him that his Seruants should also ioyne their prayers with his To whom the Admirall answered with all my hart and you Mayster Merlyne speake on in the behalfe of this our congregation While Merlyne was vttering a praier applied to the present cace the Admiral lifting vp his eies to heauen shewed a wonderfull earnestnesse of mynd in praying After the end of the praier when Merline alledged the examples of the auncient Martyrs and told how that euen from Abraham and Adam no man had euer imployed his seruis notably to God his Churche but he was afflicted with many inconueniences the Admirall interrupting his speeche sayd he felt himselfe greatly confirmed by his talke and tooke greate comfort by his rehersall of those Martyres and godly fathers and that his greef was much asswaged by it Soone after Mounsyre Cossey Mounsyre Damuyle the Marshalls of Fraunce came vnto him assuring him that they were very sorie for his mischaunce and that there had not happened any thing to them a good whyle that was a greater greef and corzie too them neuerthelesse it was meete and agreeable too the wonted corage of his mind that he should plucke vp his hart shew himself a man for his owne prowesse had giuen him much more than that mishapp could take away Then the Admirall turning to Cossey said You remember what I told you a while ago vndowtedly you must abide as much your selfe Then said the Damuyle my Lord Admiral I wil not take vppon me either to comfort you or to incorage you to valeantnes and constancie of mind You your self are he from whom such precepts of comfort and corageowsnesse are to bee taken But I pray you see wherin my seruis may pleasure you I maruell whence these things come The Admirall answered other than the Duke of Gvvyse I suspect none and yit I dare not affirme that for a certeintie Notwithstanding Gods goodnesse hath lately tawght mee to feare nother myne enemyes nor yit death which I knowe to be vtterly vnable to hurt me rather to be a blessed and euerlasting rest For I know that God in whom alone I put my trust is nother deceytfull nor vntrew howbeeit that in this my misfortune nothing hath happened more to my greef than that I see my selfe bereft of libertie to shewe to the King how much I was mynded to haue doone for his sake his saying so was in respect of the matter concerning Flaunders Would God I myght talke a litle with him for I haue certein things which it standeth him greatly on hand to know and I think there is not any man that dareth report them vntoo him In the meane season the King of Nauarre and the Prince of Condey complayned to the King of the heynowsenesse of the fact To whom the King answered thus I sweare by God whom I take too witnesse that I will reuenge this fact so seuerely as it may bee an example too all that shall come after The woman that was fownd in the howse wherowt of the Hargabut was shot at the Admirall and a boy of hirs were taken and cast in prizon Abowt twoo of the clocke in the afternoone the King being certified of the Admiralls desyre went vntoo him accompanyed with the Queene moother the Kings twoo brothers the Duke Mounpauncer the Cardinalls of Burbon Mounsyre Damuyle Mounsyre Tauanne and Mounsyre Cossey Marshalls of Fraunce the Countie of Rhets Moūsyre Torrey and Mounsyre Meruey the Damuyles brothers after whom followed Gonzaga Duke of Niuers At the first the King commaunded all that were of the Admirals howshold to be shet out of the chamber sauing Mounsyre Telignie and his wife and one persone that scaped alyue from the slawghter who marked aduyzedly what was doone and sayd at that time When the king was come to the bedds side I thanke your maiestie most humbly quoth the Admiral that you haue vowtsafed me so great honour and taken so great peines for my sake The King pretending gladnes for that great corage of his mynd willed him with very faire words to hope well to be of good confort Sir quoth the Admiral ther are three things wherof I was desirous to talk with your maiestie The first is myne owne faythfulnes allegeance towards your highnesse So may I haue the fauour mercie of God at whose iudgmentseate this mischaunce wil peraduenture set mee ere it bee long as I haue euer borne a good hart to your maiesties person crown And yit I am not ignorant how oft maliciowse persones haue accuzed me too your highnesse and charged mee as a trubbler of the state But as God would the matter it selfe hath sufficiently shewed thowgh I my selfe should hold my peace that the only cawse of all those greate slaunders is that I haue withstoode those mennes ouerboldnes and owtrage and defended the authoritie of your Edicts ageinst their trubblesum and violent attempts and could not beare that they should breake the promis which you had made so often with othe vntoo your subiects Of this my meening God is best witnesse who will examin the cace betweene me and my backefreends and decyde it according to his righteowsensse Agein forasmuchas I haue bin aduaunced to so greate honour and authoritie in this Realme by your maiesties father and graundfather and confirmed in the same by your