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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

himself he commaunded one day to be giuē a hundred thousand pounds of his owne treasure in recompence of his former losses VVhen his brother the Cardinall Chastillion endowed with many great and welthie benefices was departed his life the king gaue him the fruites of one whole yeare Also the kyng wrote to Philibert Duke of Sauoy that he should do him a most acceptable pleasure if he did not onely deale more gently with those that in the former warres had ayded those of the Religion but also would vse clemencie and mildenesse toward all other that professed the same Religion within his dominions And for that there was old enmitie betwene the Guisians and the Admirall wherby it was to be doubted that perillous contentions wold arise in the Realme of Fraunce the king willed it to be signified to them both in his name that they should for his sake and the common weales giue ouer those displeasures and he prescribed them a certaine fourme of reconciliation and agrement the same whereof the foundations had bene layed almost sixe yeares before in the towne of Molins where the king calling to him the greatest estates of his realme after consultation and deliberation had vpon the matter pronoūced the Admiral not guiltie of the death of the Duke of Guise wherwith he was charged by the yong Duke of Guise and his kinsmen and so the king by the aduise of his Counsell had ended that controuersie Furthermore the Cardinall of Loraine who as we haue sayd was the very forger of all the former warres to take away al ielousie of new practises was departed to Rome toke with him his familiar friend the late created Cardinall Peluey one reputed a most subtil craftie persō vnder pretēce of goyng to the election of a newe Pope in place of the olde Pope then lately deceassed But there was none greater and more assured tokē of publique peace quietnesse than this that the king purposed to giue hys sister Margaret in marriage to the Prince Henry the sōne of the Queene of Nauarre which Prince had in the last warre defended the cause of the Religion and bene soueraigne of their armie VVhiche mariage the kyng declared that it should be the most streight bond of ciuill concorde and the most assured testimonie of his good will to those of the Religion Yea and also bicause it was alleaged that the sayd Prince Henrie was restrayned in conscience so as he might not marrie the Lady Margaret being of a contrary Religion a Catholike and giuen to the rites of the Romish Church the king for aunswere sayd that he would discharge hir of the Popes lawes and notwithstanding the crying out of all his courtiers to the contrary he permitted him that withoute all ceremonies in the porch of the great church of Paris the mariage shoulde be celebrate in such a fourme as the ministers of the refourmed Church misliked not VVhiche thing being by reporte and letters spread through the world it cannot be expressed howe muche it made the hearts of those of the Religion assured and out of care and howe it cast out al feare ielosies out of their minds what a confidence it brought them of the kings good will toward them Finally how muche it reioyced forreine Princes and states that fauored the same Religion But the Admirals minde was much more stablished by a letter which about the same time Theligny brought him with the kings owne hand and sealed wherein was conteined that whatsoeuer the Admirall shuld do for the matter of the intended warre of the lowe coūntrey the king would allow and ratifie the same as done by his owne commaundement About that time Lodouic of Nassaw with the Queene of Nauarre a Lady most zelously affected to the Religion came to the Frenche Courte The league was made betweene king Charles and the Prince of Aurenge and the articles thereof put in writing The mariage was appointed to be holden in the towne of Paris For whiche cause the Queene of Nauarre during those fewe dayes repaired thether to prouide things for the solemnitie of the wedding For the same cause the king sente to the Admirall one Cauaignes a man of an excellent sharpe witte whome for the Admirals sake the king had aduanced to great honoure requiring the Admirall to go before to Paris as well for the said preparation as also for the matter of the warre of the lowe countrie promising that he himselfe would within fewe dayes followe after him assuring him that there was now no cause for him to feare the threatnings and mad outrages of the Parisians For in asmuch as the same towne is aboue all other giuen to superstitions and is with seditious preachings of Monks and Friers dayly enflamed to crueltie it is hard to expresse how bitterly they hated the Admirall and the professors of that Religion VVherto was added a griefe of their mind conceiued certaine dayes before by reason of a certaine stone crosse gilted and builte after the manner of a spire steeple commonly called Gastignes crosse whiche the Admirall with great earnest sute obtayned of the king to be ouerthrowne for he alleaged that being erected in the midst of the rage of the ciuill warre as it were in triumph to the reproch of one of the Religion it was a monumente of ciuill dissention and so a matter offensiue to peace and concord The King well knowing this deadly hate of the Parisians to the Admirall wrote his letters to Marcell the prouost of the marchauntes whiche is the highest dignitie in Paris with sharpe threatnings if there should be raised any stirre or trouble by reason of the Admirals comming To the same effect also the Duke of Aniow the kings brother and the Queene mother wrote to the same Marcell and the rest of the magistrates of Paris so that nowe there seemed vtterly no occasion lefte for the Admiral to feare or distrust And within few dayes after the king sente Briquemault a man of greate vertue and estimation to the Admirall with the same instructiōs saying that the matter of the lowe countrey could not well be delt in without his presence The Admirall perswaded by thus many meanes and filled with good hope and courage determined to go to Paris where so sone as he was ariued and had bene honorably and louingly entertayned of the king and his brethren and the Queene mother and consultation entred among them about the preparation for the low coūtrey he declared to the king at large how the Duke of Alua was in leuying of great power and preparing an armie and that if the king should dissemble his purpose it would come to passe that many thereby wold shew themselues slower and slacker to the enterprise and that nowe were offered greate meanes to do good whiche if he let slippe hee should not so easily recouer the like againe hereafter And therefore it was best to take the aduantage of this opportunitie A fewe dayes before Lodouie of Nassaw

feare of many that beheld it runne warme and smoking into the next stretes of the town and so downe into the Riuer of Sene. There was in that fame Archbishops prison an aged man called Francis Collut a marchant of cappes and two yong men his sonnes whome he had eucr caused diligently to be taught and instructed in Religion VVhen he sawe the butchers come towarde him with their Axes he began to exhort his children not to refuse the death offred by God For said he it is the perpetuall destinie of Religion and that often suche sacrifices do betide in christian Churches and Christians in all ages haue euer bene and for euer to the worlds end so shal be as sheepe among wolues doues among hawkes and sacrifices among priests Then the old father embraced his two yong sonnes and lying flat on the ground with them crying aloude vpon the mercie of God was with many wounds both he and his sonnes slaughtered by those butchers and long time afterward their three bodies had knit together yelded a piteous spectacle to many that beheld them In the meane time Mandelot in iest and soorne as it seemed caused to be proclaymed by the cryer that no man shoulde committe any slaughter in the towne and that if any woulde detect the doers of any such slaughter he woulde giue him a hundred crownes in reward for his information And from that time they ceassed not to kill to robbe and to spoyle The nexte day after which was the first day of September the greatest parte of the dead bodies were throwen into the Riuer of Sene and the rest of them Mandelot to feede and glut his eyes and heart with bloud caused to be caried by boate to the other side of the water and there to be throwen downe vppon the greene grasse nere vnto the Abbey called Esne There the people of Lions specially the Italians of whom by reason of the ma●te there is great store in the towne satisfied their eyes a while and did such spites as they could to these heapes of carcases and so exercised their crueltie not vppon the liuing only but also vpon the dead And there hapned one thing whiche for the abhominable crueltie is not to be omitted There came to that spectacle certaine apothecaries and among these bodies they perceiued some verye fat ones by and by they went to the butchers and told them that they did vse to make certaine special medicines of mans greace and that they might make some profite thereof VVhiche as soone as the butchers vnderstoode they ranne to the heapes and chose out the fattest and launced them with their kniues and pulled out the fat and sold it for money to the apothecaries VVhile these things were doing at Lions the king being ●nfourmed that diuers of the Religion had left their wiues and children and were fled out of the other ●wnes and ●●ked some in the woodes and some among their friends such as toke pitie on them he practised with faire words to allure and call them home againe He sent to euerie part messengers and letters affirming that he was highly displeased with those slaughters and horrible butcheries and that he would that such crueltie should be seuerely punished and if the Admirall with a fewe of his confederates had entred into anye secrete practi●e it was no reason that so many 〈◊〉 should beare the punishment due to a few Many swetely beguiled with these wor●es of the king and with the letters of the gouernours retired home againe to their dwellings and houses speciallye they of Rhoan Diepe and Tholouse There were scant two dayes passed when they were againe cōmaunded to prison where they were all shutte vp Then were murderers a new appointed of the most base and rascall of the people to torment them with all kind of torture and then to slaye them And throughout the whole realme of Fraunce for thirtie dayes togither there was no ende of killing slaying and robbing so that at this day there are about a hundreth thousande little babes widowes and children that were well borne that now fatherlesse and motherlesse live wandering and in beggerie Aboute this time the King caused to be proclaimed that such as had any office or place of charge vnlesse they would spedily returne to the Catholike Apostolique and Romishe Churche should giue ouer those their temporall roomes There was no towne nor any so small a village or hamlet wherin all the professors of the Religiō wer not compelled either to go to Masse or presently to take the sword into their bosomes and in many places it happened that such as being amazed with the sodainenesse of the matter had abiured their Religion yet notwithstanding were afterward slaine And while these things were still in doing yet the king in the meane while sent abrod his letters and messages into all partes and caused to be proclaimed with trumpet that his pleasure was that the Edictes of pacification should be obserued and although they coulde not haue freedome to vse and exercise their Religion in open places yet they should haue libertie permitted them to retaine and professe it within their owne houses and that no man should medle with or disturbe the goods and possessions of those of the Religion And the same King which but fewe dayes before had by letters directed to all the gouernours of his Prouinces signified that his cousin the Admirall was slaine by the Duke of Guise to his great sorowe and that himselfe was in great daunger the same King I say now caused it with sound of trumpet to be proclaimed that the trayterous and wicked Admirall was slaine by his will and commaundement He that in fewe dayes before had by newe authoritie confirmed the libertie of Religion permitted by his Edicts of pacification the same king did now not onely take from the professors there of their offices and honours but also prescribed them in precise fourme of wordes ● fourme of abiuring and detesting their Religion VVhich things leaste anye man shoulde doubt of we shall hereafter set downe the verie true copyes of the sayde Letters Edictes and Abiuration THE KINGS LETTERS TO the Gouernours of Burgundie wherby he chargeth those of the house of Guyse for the murder committed vpon the Admirals person and for the sedition which hapned at Paris and commaundeth that the Edict of Pacificatiō should be kept and reteined COusin you haue perceyued what I wrote vnto you yesterday concerning my cousin the Admirals wounding and how readie I was to do my endeuour to search out the truth of the deed and to punish it wherein nothing was left vndone or forgotten But it happened since that they of the house of Guyse and other Lordes and Gentlemen their adherents whereof there be no small number in this Citie when they certainely knewe that the Admirals friendes would proceede to the reuenge of his hurt and bicause they were suspected to bee the authours thereof were so stirred vp this last night that

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