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A01160	An historical collection, of the most memorable accidents, and tragicall massacres of France, vnder the raignes of Henry. 2. Francis. 2. Charles. 9. Henry. 3. Henry. 4. now liuing Conteining all the troubles therein happened, during the said kings times, vntill this present yeare, 1598. Wherein we may behold the wonderfull and straunge alterations of our age. Translated out of French into English.; Recueil des choses mémorables avenues en France sous le règne de Henri II, François II, Charles IX, Henri III, et Henri IV. English	Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598.; Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621. Histoire des derniers troubles de France. English. aut	1598 (1598)	STC 11275; ESTC S121331	762,973	614

vppon them in the extremitie of their afflictions and then yeelded most hartie thankes vnto his Maiestie who shewing his power ordained from aboue to rule and gouerne this Christian Monarchie with all courtesie and princely inclination hath not refused to bend his royall eares to their most humble petitions to heare their greefes and complaints and withall to shewe a most singular and speciall desire to restore his people to their auncient force to whom as then there rested but the onely libertie of speech and that very weake and feeble to reestablish holy religion in her pristinate estate by the extirpation of all errors and heresies to rule and remit all auncient orders altered by the iniurie and alteration of times vnto their first forme and manner of beeing and to comfort his poore people protesting that therein their most humble and most faithfull seruices should neuer bee wanting euen to the last gaspe which Oration beeing ended the assemblie with a maruellous contentment ended the first day of their meeting The second day of meeting vpon Tuesday the 18. of Octob. 1588. The second day of their meeting beganne vppon the Tuesday after in the same manner as it did vppon the first day and because the King had been mooued by the Archbishop of Ambrun the Counte de Brissac and the Aduocate Bernard Deputies for the three estates to renue his oathes of vnion and perceiuing their pursuite to proceede from the distrust they had in him seeing that hee hauing once sworne it within the Cittie of Roane it was as then needelesse to renue his oath againe hee went neuerthelesse to satisfie the importunitie of the League and so beganne that seconde meeting with the same action The Kings proposition made to the Senate at their meetings Silence beeing commaunded by a Herault his Maiestie saide that at their first meeting hee hadde shewed what great desire and care hee hadde that in his raigne hee might see and beholde his subiects revnited in the true Catholicque Apostolicque and Romane religion vnder the obedience which it hadde pleased GOD for their partes to giue vnto him and for that cause hauing made his Edict in the moneth of Iuly last ordaining it to bee confirmed and holden for a The Edict of vnion made a lawe fondamentall law of his Realm therby to binde both himself and them with all their posterities his meaning was as then to haue it redde openly before them all which done euery man should sweare to obserue it accordingly And with that hee commaunded Monsieur de Beaulieu his principal Secretarie to read it togither with the declaration made vpon the same so to giue it the force and authoritie of a law of his Realme and yet without derogating the liberties and priuiledges of his Nobilite The reading thereof with the declaration beeing ended the king desiring that the woorthinesse of the cause should bee preferred with as much Maiestie as it deserued thereby to mooue the whole assembly better to consider the importance of the contract which as then they were to make with God crauing his horrible and most fearefull vengeance might fall vppon all those that disloyally should falsifie their faiths therevnto giuen as assurances of the obseruation of his said Edict of vnion he commanded the Archbishop of Bourges to make an Oration vnto the states concerning the same The oration of the Archbishop of Bourges touching the Edict of the vnion This learned Prelate saide that seeing it pleased his Maiestie that the instruction of so solemne an oath should bee giuen vnto the people by the mouth of the Prelates hee exhorted all the assembly appoynted for that great and solemne actions to humble themselues vnder the mightie hand of God and to acknowledge his Maiestie togither with the effect and quallitie of the oath which they were as then to receiue considering that God is trueth it selfe and all oathes whatsoeuer which are not grounded vppon that trueth are false and vniust That the cause of the oath as then presented was for the Church the onely spouse of God The Church is visible Vniuersall Catholicque visible heere on earth because it comprehendeth all the faithfull that are the christian communaltie Inuisible in heauen where it is said triumphant vniuersall for that it maketh no distinction of persons nations quallities conditions or sects One without diuision or schisme One for that of Alexandria Ephese Ierusalem Affrica and Aegipt are but one Church and her doctrine is one Romane doctrine not in regard of the walles of the Cittie of Rome but by reason of a speciall nomination and demonstration that is saide of it that therein Saint Peter and after him Saint Clement and others their successors haue preached and announced the word of God witnessing the true christian doctrine and many other Martyrs with the price of their blood which they haue freely shed for the name and honour of God The vnion of the Church That the vnion of this Church is so strong that it cannot bee broken nor separated in it selfe beeing placed vppon the firme rocke which is Iesus Christ so that the gates of hell cannot preuaile against it it is called the Lords vinyard and the Gods sheepfolde vnder one head and shepheard of our soules That to preserue the vnitie of his Church it is conuenenient that all the children thereof should be vnited vnder Christ their Sauiour and vnder the king whose faith hath continued from posteritie to posteritie euen vnto his person and neuer separated it selfe from the vnitie of this holy and christian religion Let vs vnite our selues then said this Prelate let vs vnite our selues togither as true faithfull Catholicques let vs renue this great and solemne oath due vnto God let vs ioyne our vowes and hearts togither and so yeeld them and confirme them vnto God Obedience due to the king Let vs sweare vnto our Prince the obedience submission due vnto him by all lawes diuine and humane let vs imbrace christian charitie let vs abandon hatreds rancors both open and secret with all suspitions and distrusts which hitherto haue troubled and diuided vs and which haue hindered yea and broken so good intents and had it not beene for them France had long since enioyed a happie peace Let vs lift vp our hands to heauen to yeelde vnto that great God the oath wee owe vnto him that it may bee a memorie for euer vnto the world that our posterities may beholde our faiths and constancie in our oathes and not our periurie by the good and holy effects that shall insue And seeing it hath pleased your Maiestie most noble Prince to bee the first that heere in presence of vs all shall performe this oath for an example to all your subiects all wee with one accord will lift vp our hands to heauen and sweare by the liuing God to serue and honour him for euer to maintaine his Catholicque Apostolicque and Romane Church to defend your

both that of force he was constrained to take part with the one The king resolueth to be reuenged of the Duke of Guise because hee had been so imprudent to suffer them both and that of a King hee must become the Generall of a faction And in this manner beeing driuen heere and there by the incertitude of his conceptions feeble vnresolued and inuironed with so many distrusts by the apprehension of the mischiefe he suffered his minde to bee ledde away from the boundes of his nature And beganne to be very chollericke against the Huguenots to haue the League on his side so to ayde himself with their forces against them But those in whom hee ought to put most credit that lamented the diminishing of his authoritie and the weakning of his forces and that perceiued him bent to procure his owne destruction counselled him to make peace with the king of Nauarre Councels of peace An edict of peace 1576. and not to breake the edict of pacification which he had worne not in the field by force or imbecilitie of infancie as king Charles his bother did but after so many victories in the flower of his years in the strenth of his wit in presence of all the Realme of France putting his faith into the handes of God who is a iust reuenger of such as breake it although it be giuē vnto their enemies They propounded the same reasons wherewith in the yeare 1577. they defended the libertie of consciences inforcing them with diuers examples most certain arguments Others that for the most part are creatures of the league cōdemned the counsell at euery word they spake crying Set vpō the Huguenot religiō the church the truth wil alwaies remain The league will haue warre they braued in their discourses they perswaded the K. to continue wars to acknowledge that God had sent him those Machabes of Lorraine to resist Infidels those Herculeses against monsters that race of Monfort against the relicques of Albigios Sir said they you shall loose the name of most christian king if you yeeld vnto these heresies that draw the sap out of religion You shall be the only king among 60. of your predecessors that hath so faintly permitted suffred so pernicious detestable a mixstur of truth lies it wil be said that vnder your raigne Temples were without Altars Altars without sacrifices Churches without Ministers and God without seruice The gainsaying of those of the league Godlinesse desireth not warres The others knowing well that those faire and goodly couertures hide and keepe close most infamours rebellions and to put both fire and sword into the deepe woundes of the League said That as then it was no more requisite to decide religion by armes pietie is not ioyned to weapous men speake not of God but in blasphemie and cursing they worshipped him not but in vanities entered not into Churches but to prophane them laye hand assoone vpon the Priest and religious persons as vppon the Minister or Deacon and the fury and blindnesse of the souldier doth not distinguish that in his eye which in heart hee well discerneth And to bee short warre vndermineth religion as woormes consume trees rust eateth Iron and a feuer weakeneth mans body it ingendreth Atheists Libertines and Epicurians it maketh Cittizens of one Towne such as drinke of one fountaine and that liue vnder one ayre to become so wilde and vncourteous each to other that of men they become wolues Tigers such as desired that the leaguers sword should driue away the Huguenots as the Englishmen were driuen out of France Zozomen lib. 3. Hist tripart chap. 11. say to the contrarie that there is no warre more iust holy nor necessary then that which is vndertaken onely to procure the seruice of God by one religion saying that Constantine with weapon in hand ouerthrew the Paganisme of his Empire extirped the assemblies of hereticques Nouaciens Valentiens Marchionists and Paulianists not leauing them any means whereby they might offend the libertie of the religion that hee held Theodozius the elder made warre against the Arrians Theodozius his son against the Nestorians Marcians and Manicheens And that our kings had not attained the name of christrian Princes but by most vertuously sacrifising their liues for the defence of religion You take not the Historie said the defendants as it is to be vnderstood Warre was not made against heretiques til after they were condemned of heresie you read not that wars were made against the Arrians Nouatians Manicheens and other hereticques vntill the Councels of Nice Ephese and Calcedonia had confuted their errors and condemned their opinions Wee haue not to doo with such people they are called members of one church like vs they confesse one redemption with vs hoping for their saluation therein as we do there is neither Infidelitie nor Idolatrie in their maner of seruing God they blaspheme his name lesse then we do punishing such as offend his lawes more then we and there is nothing in their doctrine that shaketh the foundations of our faith You call them heretiques it is long since they affirme this word not to be agreeable to their doctrine ther is no sentence nor iudgemēt pronoūced against thē such as er are not therfore to be accounted heriticques heresie is the folly of an opinious minde so that false opinion and obstinacie are the two poynts that make an hereticque the one depēdeth of the vnderstāding carried away with errors and falsehoods the other of the obstinate minde perseuering in those errors If the Huguenots knew they erred or if they were wilfull in their ignorance why would they haue suffered themselues to bee slaine and massacred in that hotte caniculer month of August in the yeare 1572. If they were obstinate would they so often aske Councels eyther generall or nationall to instruct them as for vs that haue this blessing of God to be christians instructed in the Catholicque Church which wee beleeue to be Romaine we know that Huguenots haue more need of pietie thē paine of doctrine then destruction and of Catechising then imprisonment Wee take compassion vppon such as wee perceiue to bee out of their wits and that runne headlong into mischiefe and why should not wee haue the like feeling towards those that are mortally wounded with those errors that in a whole and liuely bodie beare a weake and paste soule lanquishing and spoyled by the poison that hath so long consumed it The Catholicque calleth the Huguenot an hereticque because hee beleeueth not ynough the Huguenot calleth the Catholicque hereticque because he beleeueth too much The Hoguenot beleeueth not euill in that wherein hee agreeth with vs but he beleeueth not ynough and wanteth in that which he beleeueth not hee hath nothing but it commeth from vs but there is a fault committed in the alteration and not in the essence and I say following our instructors that heresie is rather a want of

crossed that either I would bee constrained to deferre or wholly to remit it You see neuerthelesse whether I haue had that constant resolution which belongeth to a good king for the generall good of all his subiects which is so surely ankered in my heart that I desire nothing more then the conseruation of the honour of God and you This assembly of the estates is a remedie with the good counsell of the subiects and the holy resolution of the Prince to heale those diseases which tract of time and the negligent obseruation of the lawes and statutes of this Realme haue suffered to enter and to assure the lawfull authoritie of the soueraigntie rather then to shake or diminish it as some euill aduised men and full of enuie disguising truth haue made the world beleeue For that good lawes well established and obserued wholly fortifie and vphold the Scepter of a king assuring his Crowne vpon his head against all such practises whatsoeuer You may then well perceiue by this my resolution that hath resisted and withstood an infinite of impeachments which certain men would haue opposed against it the sinceritie of my intent specially for that this assembly of the estates is that which as much breaketh the euill pretences and purposes of Princes that haue their hearts trauersed with deuises and desirous of no good as mine is and alwaies shall bee most readie prompt and altogither disposed not to desire or seeke for any other thinges then your good which if I doo I beseech God confound mee eternally Seeing then that you see mee so fully bent to procure this peace and common tranquilitie of my estate and that you cannot alleadge any thing to the contrary ingraue it likewise in your mindes and iudge well of mee in regard of those that would haue proceeded in other sort Withall noting that whatsoeuer lintend cannot in any sort bee esteemed or attributed as any wales pretending to authorise my selfe either against lawe or reason for I am your king ordained by God and bee onely that may truly and lawfully challenge that right And therfore I desire not to be accounted other in this Monarchie then as I am not beeing able to wish or desire more honour or authoritie then that I haue alreadie obtained Fauour then I pray you my good subiects this true intent which tendeth onely to the furtherance and aduancement of the honour of God and our wholly Catholicque Apostolike and Romish religion to extirpe heresies in all the Prouinces of this Realm and therin to reestablish all good order gouernment to comfort my poore people so much oppressed and to erect my authoritie vniustly imbased which I desire not so much for mine owne proper interest as for the good that thereby may redound vnto you all Among all kindes of gouernments and commaundements ouer men the Monarchie excelleth all the rest and the profit which you and yours haue reaped vnder the lawfull gouernments of my predecessors forceth you continually to render thankes to God that it hath pleased him to giue you life in such a time and vnder such a Prince who beeing of the same race hath not onely enioyed their royall seate but the same and greater zeale if possible it may be to the augmentation of the glorie of our God and the conseruation of you all as I haue alwaies promised that mine actions should wholly tend therevnto That mischiefe which malice tract of time hath induced into my Prouinces ought not so much to bee atributed vnto mee not that I seeke wholly to excuse my selfe as to the negligence and peraduenture some other faults of those that heeretofore haue been assistant vnto mee wherein I haue already begunne to take order as you may well perceiue but I assure you that from hencefoorth I will bee so circumspect in making choise of those that serue me that my conscience shall bee discharged mine honour inceased and my estate reestablished to the contentment of all good people and thereby constraine those who against all reason haue placed their affections on others and not on mee to acknowledge their errors The testimonies are yet sufficient and manifest and namely by the witnesse of many of you as reaping honour by assisting mee therein both before and since I haue beene your king to shew with what zeale and forwardnesse I haue alwaies proceeded for the extirpation of hereticques and heresies wherein I will more then euer expose my bodie yea euen to a certaine death if neede requireth for the defence and protection of our Catholicque Apostolike and Romane faith the ouerthrow of heresies beeing the most sumptuous tombe wherein my body may be laid not the battel 's only which I haue wonne but that great ouerthrow and abating of the pride of the armie of Rutters wherevnto Cod for the honour of his holy name and of his Church had chosen mee for an instrument are sufficient proofes the triumphs and spoyles whereof are yet extant to be seene Is there any one then so vncapable of the trueth that will suppose more zeale and ardent desire to bee in man for the totall extirpation of such heresies when more certaine signes then mine of such intents cannot bee found And if it should be that the honor of God which to me is dearer thē my life not so much esteemed of by me whose patrimony do the hereticques occupy and disseuer whose reuenues doo they take vp and receiue from whom do they alienate the subiects whose obedience do they despise whose respect authoritie and dignitie doo they violate And should not I then as much or more then any man seeke their destruction open your eyes and iudge particularly what apparance may bee therein The revnion of all my Catholicque subiects by the holy Edict not long since made hath sufficiently testified that nothing hath had more force within me then to see God onely honoured reuerenced and serued within my Realm which I had more proceeded in as god willing I purpose to do euen with the hazard of my life if I had not beene hindered by this diuision moued by the Catholicques to the great aduantage of hereticques staying my voyage into Poitou where I am of opinion that good fortune would no more haue abandoned mine actions then it had done in other places whereby God bee thanked mine estate hath reaped both the necessarie and desired benefit And although I am perswaded you will not omit any one poynt tending to the restoring and reformation of this Realme yet will I make known vnto you by some speciall things how much I am most earnestly bent not onely by this which I will now vtter but by the effects that shall ensue to imbrace all good meanes as I am bound esteeming them most requisite for the necessitie and vrgent vses thereof both for our soules our honours and our estate The extream offence which daily is committed against God by swearing and blaspheming to him so much iniurious and wholly against my desire

which should be eyther vniuersall or nationall a most soueraigne and assured remedie prooued heretofore against more pernicious herefies then these of our time whereby the bodies of Common-wealths haue bin purged of their infected blood and filled againe with good and viguerous humours Chiections against the instruction asked by the king of Nauarre Others that commaunded both the minde of the king and all the estates said that trueth once debated and determined ought not to bee brought in question againe that it was no reason that the apperite of some newters that had withdrawn themselues from the common societie of the Church to play their parts alone and to induce the madnesse of their euill timbered braines should seeke to trouble all Christendome by assembling of a Councell the resolutions whereof can bee no other then those at other times assembled trueth hauing but one face And therefore counselled his Maiestie to prouide that his successour might bee of no other religion then his owne and to assure all his Catholicques therein that feared nothing so much as the establishing of the King of Nauarre in the succession of the Crowne of France The king had promised by his Estict to take an order touching his successor but at that age wherein hee liued and in the young and lustie yeares of the Queen his wife he hoped that God would blesse him with some masculine line that might auoyde the difference of those ambitious persons And therefore hee tooke no pleasure to heare any speech of that which in his minde seduced to imbase his authoritie and to make his graue before he was dead For that assoone as a Prince hath declared who shall bee his successor his testament is made and then in his Realme he is accounted but as the sun that goeth downe euery man casting his eyes vpon him that shall succeede It was a capitall offence in Rome to seeke to knowe what should bee done after the death of the Emperour and the Emperours of Turkie cannot indure the sight of the children their successors but send them farre from the Court and neuer see them but when they are first borne or else when they are circumcised There are diuers well gouerned peaceable Monarches wherein such are punished as are ouer serious to inquire what may happen after their Kings death The Parliament holden in England 156● The Parliament of England that solicited the Queene to nominate her successor among those houses that aspired therevnto receiued no other aunswere from her but onely that shee was of opinion that they sought to make her graue before shee was dead And to cut off such seditious curiosities she caused an Act to bee made that no man should presume to speake or dispute of the succession of her kingdome Ne quis assirmet vel existimet vel coniectet cui nam regnandi ius debeatur The death of king Francis the first 1547. The iealousie of him that is to succeed is incredible and so much distrustfull that the father cannot indure the hope of his sonne the gold of this Historie is too weake therein to place the Orientall pearles which I finde in so many notable discourses that are made concerning this last motion hee that wrote the free and excellent discourse so called rehearseth this domesticall example of our kings that the great king Francis beeing weake and sicke in his Castle of Fontainbleau about the begining of the moneth of May in the same yeare that hee died his disease increased so much that they esteemed him eyther dead or that hee would not long continue aliue Wherevppon all the Court in great haste ranne to seeke the Dauphine prince Henry who for the same iealousie of succession durst not come in his fathers presence for the space of sixe or seuen yeares before in such manner that most of all the chiefe Courtiers had left the king euery man going to worship that new son Meane time the king recouered his health and his disease beeing somewhat cured there was a Procession to bee made which is yearely obserued with great solemnitie through out the Realme of France against which time the olde King rose vp and came out of his chamber his face and haires dressed and combed not as if hee had neither beene sicke nor aged withall putting on certaine youthfull garments and in that sort was present at the processions and beeing returned he vsed this speech I will once againe put them in feare before I die And it was true for suddainly the chance turned for that assoone as the news was spred abroad that the king had recouered his health all the Courtiers by degrees repaired vnto him much abashed and in great feare and then the Dauphine for his part was left as naked without company as his father had beene before There the king shewed himselfe like a king and so hee ought to behaue himselfe like a king Non legiones non classes perinde sunt firma imperii munimina vt numerus liberorum Tacit. But to the contrary the king not onely permitted a conference touching the succession but suffered his subiects to rise vp in armes for the triall thereof and that before all the assembly there should bee a proposition put forth touching the excluding of the lawful successor Is not this as much as if they should compel him to make his testament and to striue as though hee were at the poynt of death Wherein you may beholde the extremities of the League that seeking to ouerthrow the estate would beate down the supporters with al the Princes of the blood who being aliue it is vaine for them to seem to lay hold on the tree or once to digge the myne of their pretences for neither armes nor fortresses do so well defend and maintaine an estate as the number of children of the Princes familie which is the meanes to breake a perpetuall order of succession as long as they liue choaking the ambitious hopes of such as would ouer throw and subuert it Then the League can neuer attaine vnto the end of their course nor their forces remooue the Crowne of the branches of Valois and Bourbon to the house of Vaudemont if first they procure not the degrading of all Saint Lewis race Propositions made the fourth of Nouember 1588. The king to please the inraging appetites and desires of the League consented they shuld determine of that which the greatest part of the league had alrea die resolued which was the condemnation of the king of Nauarre it was first debated among the Cleargie where by them without great resistance it was determined that this Prince should be holde for an hereticque and their leader a Relaps excommunicated depriued of the gouernment of Guyenne and of all his honors vnwoorthie of all successions of Crownes and royalties which they appoynted to be signified to the rest of the estates the Archbishop of Ambrun the Bishop of Bazas the Abbot of Citeaux and other

him by the Cardinall de Gondy to aduertise the Popes Legate which done shee went to visit the Cardinall of Bourbon that lay sicke and was kept prisoner And assoon as he espied her with tears in his eies he spake vnto her and said Ah Madame you haue brought vs hither vnto the slaughter She that seemed to be much abashed at so violent vnexpected change that then had happened assured him that shee neither had giuen consent nor aduise to any such thing and that it was a most incredible greefe vnto her soule The death of the Queene-mother vpon the fift of Ianuary 1589. But the Cardinal redoubling his complaints shee left him striken at the heart with so great greefe that presently shee went to bed and died therevppon the fift of Ianuary after much lamented by the king her sonne who as yet had need of her counsell The king going out of his mothers chamber went to heare masse where at large hee informed the Legate of the causes that had constrained him to put the Duke of Guise to death as hauing attempted against his person About euening the Cardinall and the Archbishop of Lyons were taken out of the chamber wherein they had been shut to leade them into an other stronger and darker then the first in the highest part of the Castle But sorrow and greefe had so much seized vppon the Cardinall that what apprehension of death so euer he must haue he could not chuse but sleepe assoone as hee was layde vppon the mattresse prepared for him After his first sleepe his spirits reuiued and considering the extream imbasing of his greatnesse and the fall of his house he complained to himselfe of his misfortunes The Archbishop of Lyons vsed al the meanes he could to disswade him from the thinking of any other thing then onely of death which he suspected to bee the ende of both their persons They imployed all their Philosophie to make it seeme easie and lesse fearefull thereby to dispoyle it of the horrible and straunge shape wherewith it is figured vnto vs. They confessed themselues each to other reconciling themselues to God committing their causes vnto him and in that conceit of death they only attended the commandement when and where they should receiue With that the Cardinall had desire to sleepe vntill morning that the Archbishop of Lyons rose vp left him sleeping not long after he waked him to rise to Martins The king in the mean time was counselled yea solicited by most violent reasons to put the Cardinal to death which counsel at the first Iustice regardeth not the qualities of men seemed perilous vnto him considering the quallitie of that Prelate beeing a Peer of France Archbishop of Reims Cardinall of Rome and President of his Order in the Parliament but after he had been shewed that iustice hath her eyes closed not to behold the quallities of men and that the greater authoritie a man is in the greater is his fault that treason is more apparant and a worse example in a Cardinall then in a simple Priest That the Cardinall of Guise would succeed in the credit of his brother and that hee had alreadie vsed threatning speeches hee determined to make him follow after his brother the Duke of Guise and therevppon commaunded Monsieur de Gast to kill him who excused himself of that commission saying it was not a thing conuenient for a Gentleman of his calling But in fine for foure hundreth Crownes they found foure instruments to execute that commission One of them went into the chamber where the Cardinal sat and making low reuerence told him the king sent for him The Cardinall before hee went asked if hee sent not likewise for the Archbishop of Lyons but aunswere was made that he onely must come vnto him wherevpon with an assured countenance that not seeming to thinke vpon the mischiefe that attended on him about three steps within the dore hee bad the Archbishop of Lyons farewell who perceiuing the Cardinall to go without any apprehention of death said vnto him Monsieur I pray you thinke vppon God at the which word the Cardinall ceised with feare was abashed and turned his head towards the Archbishop who at that instant fell downe vppon his knees before the Crucifix recommending his soule vnto God beleeuing stedfastly that they would do the like to him that he supposed they ment to execute vpon the Cardinall who beeing about three or foure pases without the chamber was inclosed by foure men that with blowes of rapiers poinyards and partisans dispatched him of his life and beeing slaine they stripped him The King going to Masse accompanied by the Cardinall of Vandosme and others met the Barron de Lux who falling downe on his feete offered his head to saue the Archbishop of Lyons his vncle The king that loued the Gentleman and that desired not to loose such a Prelate thinking by his meanes to attaine vnto the Quintessence of the Leaguers deuises assured him of his life but not of his libertie Not long after the king sent Monsieur Guiotard and Monsieur Languetot two of his priuie Councell with a Clarke to examine the Archbishop touching the causes and accusations layde against the Duke of Guise He said vnto them that they being Lay-men had not any iurisdiction ouer an Archbishop and that hee beeing such might not aunswere vnto them desiring them not to trouble him any more therein The answer of the Archbishop of Lyons vpon the Duke of Guises accusatiō They returned this answere vnto the King who presently sent the Cardinall de Gondy to perswade him to satisfie his commaundement and to aunswere to the propositions that should bee made vnto him the Archbishop aunswered him and saide that hee could say nothing against the Cardinall nor the Duke of Guise his brother with whom hee had imbarked himselfe that for his owne person hee neither could nor ought to aunswere before any man but the Pope or to those whom it should please him to appoynt and that as Primate of France he had no other Iudge And that that the Cardinall de Gondy himselfe beeing Bishop of Parris was vnder his primatie that if the Cadinall Morosin Legate for his holinesse by the aduise of other Prelates assembled in the parliament thought it conuenient for him to answere he wold follow their resolutiō and that so doing it shuld be they not the Arch. of Lyons that shuld break the Priuileges immunities of the church The king to the contrary esteemed that considering the quallitie and importance of the cause he was not bound to haue recourse vnto the Pope to examine the trueth of the Duke of Guises actions It was shewed him The king hath power ouer Bishops that the priuiledge which the Archbishop demaunded much derogated the soueraigntie and power of his Maiestie who at all times had iurisdiction ouer the Bishops of his Realme specially in things touching the Crowne and when processe was to be