most bigotted Huguenots nor any bitter Enemy to the Catholiques But as he cou'd not believe after what had been done against him that he had reason to rely on these fair promises that he fear'd to fall to the Ground betwixt two Stools nay if once he was perceiv'd to Waver to be soon abandon'd by his party which already lean'd extremely towards the Prince of Condè who was Known to be a much better Protestant than himself and moreover that he thought himself secure of great Succours from the Germans he wou'd not lend an Ear to any of those Proposals and gave a quick dispatch to the King's Envoys with an answer worthy of his ingenuity and of his Courage That his Enemies desir'd nothing less than his Conversion because they took Arms for no other reason than to Exclude him from the Succession of the Crown and to cantonize the Realm amongst themselves under pretence of preserving the Catholique Religion which he wou'd maintain in it much better than themselves That he most humbly besought his Majesty to permit him to decide that Quarrel with the Princes of the League without his Majesty's giving himself the trouble to interpose in it and in three Months time he shou'd have Fifty thousand Men with which he hop'd Almighty God wou'd do him the favour to reduce the Leaguers in a short time to their Duty and to bring those Troublers of the publick Peace and those Rebels to the terms of Obedience which they ow'd their Sovereign This answer put the King into an extreme Agony of Spirit not knowing where to fix his Resolutions nor which of the three Parties he shou'd Espouse For in case he shou'd stand Neuter betwixt the King of Navarre and the League he ran the risque of being at the disposal of the Conquerour if he rang'd himself with the King of Navarre's Party against the League as some time after he was constrain'd to do he fear'd to pass for an Heretique or for a favourer of Heretiques as the League endeavour'd already to make it be believ'd by their Calumnies against him and in the sequel to draw upon himself the power of Spain and all the Thunderbolts of Rome which in that conjuncture he dreaded more than the League and the Spaniard put together Thus as he believ'd not himself to be singly strong enough to force both parties to Obedience that latter fear determin'd him though contrary to his Inclinations against the King of Navarre's Party as judging it to be the juster excepting onely their Religion which that Prince had solemnly protested was no ingredient of the present Quarrel Insomuch that following the advice of the Queen his Mother and some few of his Council who out of their hatred to Heresie were favourable to the League he joyn'd himself with those whom he regarded as his greatest Enemies to make War with his Brother-in-Law whose good intentions he well knew for the publique wellfare A War which drew from both parties both much Bloud and many Tears the various events of which will be the Subject of the following Book THE HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE LIB II. THE King according to his Custome pass'd the Winter of this Memorable Year 1587 partly in Feasts Gaming Ballets and Masquerades and such other divertisements and partly in his Processions his Fraternities his Retirements and his Penances among the Feuillants whom he had founded at the Fauxbourg St. Honore among the Capuchins and especially in his little Cells of the Monastery of Bois de Vincennes wherein he had plac'd the Ieronimites who were come from Spain and wherein afterwards were plac'd the Minimes But to his great grief at the beginning of the Spring he was forc'd to quit the Pleasures and Exercises of that sort of Life with which he was infinitely satisfied and rowze up himself to make War in conjunction with the League against the King of Navarre and the Germans who were coming to joyn their Forces with him To this effect the Duke of Guise who till that time had been making War with the young Duke of Bouillon la Mark without any considerable advantage return'd to the Court which was then at Meaux and after having assur'd the King that there was a great Army of Germans in readiness to take their March towards our Frontiers and demanded Forces which might be capable of stopping them he made great complaints of the Breach which he pretended to be made of some Articles in the Treaty of Nemours Those of the League maintain'd that these complaints were just the others on the contrary made it evident that they were altogether unreasonable He complain'd amongst other things that the Count of Brissac was not restor'd to his Government of the Castle of Anger 's But to that it was answer'd that the King had retaken it from the King of Navarre's Forces by whom Brissac who held it for the League against his Majesty's intentions had suffer'd it to be surpris'd He added that such as were his Dependants and in his interests were not treated so favourably at Court as others as if the King had been oblig'd not onely to forgive but also to bestow particular favours on those who had taken Arms against him and to reward them for having discharg'd their Cannon against his faithfull Servants as Francis de Balsac d' Entragues had done against the Duke of Montpensier whom his Majesty had sent to Orleans In conclusion he took it exceedingly ill that the temporal Estate of Cardinal Pellevè Archbishop of Sens had been seiz'd into the King's hands as if the World were not satisfi'd that this Prelate a Pensioner of Spain and who was a declar'd Enemy to the King was not then at Rome doeing him all manner of ill Offices with the Pope eternally decrying his conduct and blasting him with his sinister interpretations and venemous aspersions Nevertheless the King had the goodness not long time after to grant him Possession of his Revenues and that to gratifie His Holiness who had desir'd it of him by his Nuncio Morosini but at the same time he desir'd the Pope to admonish the Cardinal in private that he shou'd beware of relapsing into so hainous an Offence which if he shou'd he then hop'd his Holiness wou'd hold himself oblig'd to punish him with the same Severity as if the crime were committed against his own person For the present he was content to mollify the Duke of Guise with a parcel of fair words assuring him that he wou'd take such order that he shou'd have reason to be satisfi'd in all things After which having again exhorted him to make Peace with the King of Navarre and finding him still obstinate in the Negative he took at last the resolution to dispose of the Forces he had already on foot and of those he expected from the Catholique Cantons of Swisserland in such manner that he might find a way to make himself Master of all by weakning the King of Navarre and the League and by
Dame a man commendable for his Integrity and Learning and to whom the Chapter of the Metropolitane of Paris is much acknowledging for his rare Library which he has bestow'd on it This then was the snare which Bussy Le Clerc laid for the Parliament thereby to pick an occasion of treating them with the most unworthy usage which they cou'd possibly receive For without expecting an answer to his insolent request finding that they debated it much longer than he thought fitting he return'd into the great Chamber with his Sword in his hand follow'd by five and twenty or thirty men arm'd Breast and Back and with Pistols and after having told them at the first that the business was delay'd too long and that it was well known that there were those amongst them who betray'd the Town and held correspondence with Henry de Valois he added that he had order to secure them and commanded with an imperious voice that they whom he shou'd name shou'd immediately follow him if they had a mind to avoid worse usage At which when looking over his list he had nam'd the first President Achilles de Harlay the Presidents de Blanc Mesnil Potier de Thou and the most ancient Counsellours all the rest rose up as by common consent protesting that they wou'd not abandon their Head whom they follow'd to the number of about threescore of all the Chambers walking two and two after Bussy Le Clerc who led them as it were in triumph through an infinite multitude of people to the Bastille where those of them onely were imprison'd who were known to be inviolably faithfull to the King's service The most considerable of them in desert as well as dignity was the great Achilles de Harlay whom to name is to commend a Magistrate every way accomplish'd and of that illustrious house which having for four hundred years together signaliz'd it self in Arms has since added to that glory all that can be acquir'd by the highest preferments of the long Robe and of the Church I shou'd be ungratefull to their memory if I did not justice to the merit of those Senatours who follow'd their Head and if I made not their names known to posterity which are not found in our Historians but which I have collected from the forementioned Manuscripts of Monsieur Loysel the Advocate who knew them all Besides the Presidents already nam'd the Counsellours who were imprison'd in the Bastille with them were Chartier Spifame Malvault Perrot Fleury Le Viry Molé Scarron Gayant Amelot Iourdain Forget Herivaux Tournebu Du Puy Gillot de Moussy Pinney Godard Fortin Le Meneur and the Sieur Denis de Here. This last was a man of Wit and of Quality one of the most resolute of the whole Company who from a warm Leaguer as formerly he had been out of an ill guided Zeal was now become a great servant of the King having discovered at last the pernicious designs of the League of whose extraordinary merit Henry the Fourth after his conversion made great account Insomuch that he had the credit to get his name struck out of the Catholicon in which the Authour of that witty Satyr had plac'd it but little to his advantage For whereas in the first Edition of the year 1594. Machaut and Here were nam'd as great sticklers for the League in all the rest of the Editions we find Machaut and Baston That hot-headed Baston who was so furious a Leaguer that he sign'd the Covenant with his own bloud drawn from his hand which remain'd lame after it and who after Paris was reduc'd to the King's service chose rather to go out of it with the Spaniards and retire to Flanders where he di'd sterv'd than to stay in France and live at his ease under the Government of his lawfull King Thus you have the names of those Loyal MEN WORTHY of the Parliament who were clapt up in the Bastille with their first President There were others of them whose names I cou'd not recover but who well deserve to be known and had in veneration by the world The rest of them whether they turn'd Leaguers for company or seem'd to turn for fear of Death or that by such their dissimulation they thought they might put themselves in a way of doing the King some considerable service having engag'd to be faithfull to that party were left at their liberty and continued in their stations with the President Brisson who from the next morning began to sit and take the Chair as Head of the new Parliament of the League with which it was believ'd he held correspondence on purpose to procure himself this new dignity An action much unworthy of a man who had so high a reputation for his rare learning who ought rather to have lost his life than to have so basely abandon'd his King and to have made himself a Slave to the passions of his mortal Enemies under pretence that all he did was onely to shelter himself from the violence of the Faction as he privately protested But so it is that the greatest Clerks are not always the wisest Men and that good sense accompanied with constancy of mind and an unshaken fidelity in our duty is imcomparably more usefull to the Service of God and of the State than all the knowledge of Books and Learning of Colleges huddled together in a Soul without integrity and resolution And truly it manifestly appear'd that all these good qualities were wanting to this pretended Parliament at that time for about nine or ten days after that action all the Members of it to the number of an hundred and twenty comprehending in that account the Princes and the Prelates swore upon the Crucifix that they wou'd never depart from their League and that they wou'd prosecute by all manner of ways their revenge for the death of the two Guises against all those who were either Authours of it or accomplices in it This protestation which was dispatch'd away to all the Towns that held for the party of the League increas'd the fury of the people who every day grew worse and worse even to that degree that some of them by an abominable mixture of Sacrilege Paricide and Magical Enchantments made Images of Wax resembling the King which they plac'd upon the Altars and prick'd them in divers parts pronouncing certain Diabolical words at every one of the forty Masses which they caus'd to be said in many Churches to make their charms more powerfull and at the fortieth they pierc'd the image to the heart as intending thereby to give their King the stroke of death And in the mean time their Bedlam Guincestre shewing in the midst of his Sermon certain little Silver Candlesticks made an hundred years before and curiously cast into the shape of Satyrs carrying Flambeaus which had been found amongst the rich ornaments of the Capuchins Oratory and the Minimes of the Bois de Vincennes lately plunder'd by the Rabble accus'd the King himself of Sorcery saying that
Prelates of the Kingdom that he shou'd restore the Exercise of the Catholique Religion in all places from whence it had been banish'd and remit the Ecclesiastiques into the full and entire Possession of all their Goods that he shou'd bestow no Governments on Hugonots and that this Assembly might have leave to depute some persons to the Pope to render him an account of their Proceedings This Accommodation was sign'd by all the Lords excepting only the Duke of Espernon and the Sieur de Vitry who absolutely refus'd their Consent to it Vitry went immediately into Paris and there put himself into the Service of the League which he believ'd at that time to be the cause of Religion As for the Duke of Espernon he had no inclination to go over to the League which had so often solicited his Banishment from Court But whether it were that being no longer supported since his Masters Death he fear'd the Hatred and Resentment of the greatest Persons about the King and even of the King himself whom he had very much offended during the time of his Favour in which it was his only business to enrich himself or were it that he was afraid he shou'd be requir'd to lend some part of that great Wealth which he had scrap'd together he very unseasonably and more unhandsomly began to raise Scruples and seem'd to be troubled with Pangs of Conscience which never had been thought any great grievance to him formerly so that he took his leave of the King and retir'd to his Government with 2 or 3000 Foot and 500 Horse which he had brought to the Service of his late Master This pernicious Example was follow'd by many others who under pretence of ordering their Domestick Affairs ask'd leave to be gone which the King dar'd not to refuse them or suffer'd themselves to be seduc'd by the Proffers and Solicitations of the League so that the King not being in a condition any longer to besiege Paris was forc'd to divide his remaining Troops comprehending in that number those which Sancy still preserv'd for his Use and Service Of the whole he form'd three little Bodies one for Picardy under the Command of the Duke of Longuevillâ— another for Champaigne under the Marshal d' Aumont and himself led the third into Normandy where he was to receive Supplies from England and where with that small Remainder of his Forces he gave the first Shock to the Army of the League which at that time was become more powerful than ever it had been formerly or than ever it was afterwards In effect those who after the Barricades had their eyes so far open'd as to discover that the League in which they were ingag'd was no other than a manifest Rebellion against their King seeing him now dead believ'd there was no other Interest remaining on their side but that of Religion and therefore reunited themselves with the rest to keep out a Heretick Prince from the Possession of the Crown And truly this pretence became at that time so very plausible that an infinite number of Catholiques of all Ranks and Qualities dazled with so specious an appearance made no doubt but that it was better for them to perish than to endure that he whom they believ'd obstinate in his Heresie shou'd ascend the Throne of St. Lewis and were desirous that some other King might be elected Nay farther there were some of them who took this occasion once more to press the Duke of Mayenne that he wou'd assume that Regal Office which it wou'd be easie for him to maintain with all the Forces of the united Catholiques of which he already was the Head but that Prince who was a prudent man fearing the dangerous consequences of so bold an Undertaking lik'd better at the first to retain for himself all the Essentials of Kingship and to leave the Title of it to the old Cardinal of Bourbon who was a Prisoner and whom he declar'd King under the Name of Charles the Tenth by the Council of the Union At this time it was that there were scatter'd through all the Kingdom a vast number of scandalous Pamphlets and other Writings in which the Authors of them pretended to prove that Henry of Bourbon stood lawfully excluded from the Crown those who were the most eminent of them were the two Advocates general for the League in the Parliament of Paris Lewis d'Orlâ—ans and Anthony Hotman The first was Author of that very seditious Libel call'd The English Catholique And the second wrote a Treatise call'd The Right of the Vncle against the Nephew in the Succession of the Crown But there happen'd a pleasant Accident concerning this Francis Hotman a Civilian and Brother to the Advocate seeing this Book which pass'd from hand to hand in Germany where he then was maintain'd with solid Arguments and great Learning The Right of the Nephew against the Vncle and made manifest in an excellent Book which he publish'd on this Subject the Weakness and false Reasoning of his Adversaries Treatise without knowing that it was written by his Brother who had not put his Name to it The League having a King to whom the Crown of right belong'd after Henry the Fourth his Nephew in case he had surviv'd him by this Pretence increas'd in Power because the King of Spain and the Duke of Lorrain and Savoy who during the Life of the late King their Ally durst not declare openly against him for his Rebellious Subjects now after his Death acknowledging this Charles the Tenth for King made no difficulty to send Supplies to the Duke of Mayenne insomuch that he after having publish'd through all France a Declaration made in August by which he exhorts all French Catholicks to reunite themselves with those who would not suffer an Heretique to be King had rais'd at the beginning of September an Army of 25000 Foot and 8000 Horse With these Forces he pass'd the Seine at Vernon marching directly towards the King who after he had been receiv'd into Pont del ' Arch and Diepe which Captain Rolâ—t and the Commander de Chates had surrendred to him made a show of besieging Rouen not having about him above 7 or 8000 Men. This so potent an Army of the Leaguers compos'd of French and Gâ—rmans Lorrainers and Walloons which he had not imagin'd cou'd have been so soon assembled and which was now coming on to overwhelm him constrain'd him to retire speedily towards Diepe where he was in danger to have been incompass'd round without any possibility of Escape but only by Sea into England if the Duke of Mayenne had taken up the resolution as he ought to have done from the first moment when he took the Field to pursue him eagerly and without the least delay But while he proceeding with his natural slowness which was his way of being wise trifled out his time in long deliberations when he shou'd have come to Action he gave leisure to the King to fortifie his Camp at Arques a League
most infamous of mankind onely for renouncing Calvinism By how many Forgeries and Calumnies have they endeavour'd to ruine the repute of all such Catholiques as have the most vigorously oppos'd their Heresie History will furnish us with abundant proofs and we have but too many in the Fragments which Monsieur Le Laboreur has given us of their insolent Satyrs where they spare not the most inviolable and Sacred things on Earth not even their anointed Soveraigns For which Reason that Writer in a certain Chapter of his Book wherein he mentions but a small parcel of those Libels after he has said that the most venomous Satyrists and the greatest Libertines were those of the Huguenot party adds these memorable words I should have been asham'd to have read all those Libels for the Blasphemies and Impieties with which they are fill'd if that very consideration had not been ayding to confirm me in the belief that there was more wickedness than either errour or blindness in their Doctrine and that their Morals were even more corrupt than their opinions He assures us in another place that these new Evangelists have made entire Volumes of railing of which he has seen above forty Manuscripts and that there needed no other arguments to decide the difference betwixt the two Religions and to elude the fair pretences of these reforming Innovatours So that all they have scribbled with so much I will not say violence but madness against the Sieur Cayet immediately upon his Conversion cannot doe him the least manner of prejudice no more than their ridiculous prediction wherein they foretold that it wou'd not be long before he wou'd be neither Huguenot nor Catholique but that he wou'd set up a third party betwixt the two Religions For he ever continu'd to live so well amongst the Catholiques that after he had given on all occasions large proofs both of his Virtue and of his Faith he was thought worthy to receive the order of Priesthood and the Degree of Doctor in Divinity and was Reader and Professour Royal of the Oriental Tongues Now seeing in the year 1605 ten years after his Conversion he had publish'd his Septenary Chronology of the Peace which was made at Vervins in the year 1598. Some of the greatest Lords at Court who understood his Merit and had seen him with the King by whom he had the honour to be well known and much esteem'd oblig'd him to add to the History of the Peace that of the War which that great Prince made during Nine years after his coming to the Crown till the Peace of Vervins which he perform'd in the three Tomes of his Nine years Chronology Prinâ—ed at Paris in the year 1608 in which before he proceeds to the Reign of Henry the Fourth he makes an abridgment of the most considerable passages in the League to the death of Henry the third And 't is partly from this Authour and partly from such others as were Eye-witnesses of what they wrote whether in Printed Books or particular Memoires that I have drawn those things which are related by me in this History I am not therefore my self the witness nor as an Historian do I take upon me to decide the Merit of these actions whether they are blameable or praise-worthy I am onely the Relater of them and since in that quality I pretend not to be believ'd on my own bare word and that I quote my Authours who are my Warrantees as I have done in all my Histories I believe my self to stand exempted from any just reproaches which can be fasten'd on me for my writing On which Subject I think it may be truly said that if instead of examining matters of Fact and enquiring whether they are truly or falsely represented that consideration be laid aside and the question taken up whether such or such actions were good or bad and matter of right pleaded whether they deserv'd to be condemn'd or prais'd it wou'd be but loss of time in unprofitable discourses in which an Historian is no way concern'd For in conclusion he is onely answerable for such things as he reports on the credit of those from whom he had them taking from each of them some particulars of which the rest are silent and compiling out of all of them a new body of History which is of a quite different Mould and fashion from any of the Authours who have written before him And 't is this in which consists a great part of the delicacy and beauty of these kinds of Works and which produces this effect that keeping always in the most exact limits of truth yet an Authour may lawfully pretend to the glory of the invention having the satisfaction of setting forth a new History though Writing onely the passages of a former Age he can relate almost nothing but what has been written formerly either in printed Books or Manuscripts which though kept up in private and little known are notwithstanding not the Work of him who writes the History As to what remains none ought to wonder that I make but one single Volume on this Subject though the matter of it is of vast extent I take not upon me to tell all that has been done on occasion of the League in all the Provinces nor to describe all the Sieges the taking and surprising of so many places which were sometimes for the King and at other times for the League or all those petty Skirmishes which have drawn if I may have liberty so to express my self such deluges of Bloud from the veins of France All these particulars ought to be the ingredients of the General History of this Nation under the Reigns of the two last Henries which may be read in many famous Historians and principally in the last Tome of the late Monsieur de Mezeray who has surpass'd himself in that part of his great work I confine my undertaking within the compass of what is most essential in the particular History of the League and have onely appli'd my self to the discovery of its true Origine to unriddle its intrigues and artifices and find out the most secret motives by which the Heads of that Conspiracy have acted to which the magnificent Title of the Holy Vnion has been given with so much injustice and in consequence of this to make an exact description of the principal actions and the greatest and most signal events which decided the fortune of the League and this in short is the Model of my Work As for the end which I propos'd to my self in conceiving it I may boldly say that it was to give a plain understanding to all such as shall read this History that all sorts of Associations which are form'd against lawfull Soveraigns particularly when the Conspiratours endeavour to disguise them under the specious pretence of Religion and Piety as did the Huguenots and Leaguers are at all times most criminal in the sight of God and most commonly of unhappy and fatal Consequence to
Joyeuse prodigiously 192 193 His smart and majestical Answer to the Ambassadors of the Protestant Princes of Germany that press'd him to revoke his Edicts against the Huguenots 158 159. His Confrery and Processions of Penitents 173 His close design in the War which he is constrain'd to make against his will 333 He puts himself at the Head of his Army at Gien upon Loir and opposes the passage of the Army of the Reyters 260 He testifies his too much weakness and his too much fear of the Seditious whom he durst not punish Pag. 305 He is contented to reprehend the seditious Doctors and Preachers in lieu of punishing them 308 He incenses the Duke of Guise in refusing him the Admiralty which he had ask'd for Brissac 312 313 Makes a resolution at last to punish the Leaguers 332 333 His irresolution when he sees the Duke of Guise at the Louvre 200 201 c. Makes the Guards and the Swisses enter Paris 208 209 The excessive Demands they made him at the Barricades 359 360 361 Goes from Paris in poor equipage and retires to Chartres 363 364 He favourably hearkens to them who with Frier Ange de Joyeuse went in Procession at Chartres to ask his pardon 367 368 369 His profound dissimulation 325 375 c. Causes the Edict of Re-union to be publish'd in favour of the League 378 379 Lets loose the marks of his choler and indignation which he would conceal 382 383 Opens the second Estates where be communicates with the Duke of Guise 385 386 His Oration which checks the Leaguers ib. 387 His extreme indignation by reason of the unworthy Resolutions which they took against his Authority in the Estates Pag. 392 393 Is resolved to have the Duke of Guise kill'd 394 c. Causes him to be kill'd in his Chamber 400 401 c. Causes the Cardinal de Guise to be kill'd 410 411 Writes to the Legat Morosini and gives him Audience three days after to declare to him his Reasons 413 Maintains that he hath incurr'd no Censure and has no need of Absolution 415 In lieu of arming he amuses himself in making Declarations which are slighted and contemn'd 425 Makes great offers to the Duke of Mayenne in vain 454 Takes rigorous courses but too late 464 465 How and why he treats with the King of Navarre 466 467 Offers very advantageous Conditions to the Princes of Lorrain 472 473 Publishes and causes to be executed his Treaty with the King of Navarre 477 His Conference with this King at Tours 478 Marches in the Body of the Army with the King of Navarre towards Paris 492 Receives and dissembles the News of the Monitory against him 494 Takes up his quarters at St. Clou and is unhappily kill'd 509 510 c. His most christian and most holy Death and Elogy 514 515 c. Henry de Bourbon King of Navarre protests against the first Estates at Blois Pag. 61 His Conference with the Duke d'Espernon about the Subject of his Conversion 86 87 c. His Fidelity towards Henry III. 109 His forcible Declaration against the Leaguers 117 118 Gives the Duke of Guise the Lye in writing and offers to fight him to save the French Blood ib. Draws the Marshal de Damville to his side against the League 124 He desir'd not the ruine of Religion but of the League to preserve the Monarchy 126 Causes his Protestation against Sixtus Quintus's Bull to be fixt upon the Gates of the Vatican in Rome 137 138 His Conference with the Queen Mother at St. Brix 161 162 His Exploits against the Army at Joyeuse 197 c. His Valour and good Conduct at the Battel of Courtras 202 204 c. His Clemency after his Victory 227 He knew not how to or would not make use of his Victory 228 Assembles the Estates on his side at Rochel at the same time that the Estates were held at Blois 390 His proceedings after the death of the Guises 467 His Declaration to all Frenchmen Pag. 468 He treats with and is united to the King 470 471 His Conference with the King at Tours 478 His march towards Paris 492 493 He succeeds Henry III. and is acknowledg'd for King of France by the Catholics of the Army upon certain conditions 734 Divides his Troops into three parts and carries one into Normandy 736 His Conduct and Valour at the Battel of Arques 741 c. Attaques and takes the Suburbs of Paris 752 c. Besieges Dreux 769 Gives and gains the Battel of Ivry 770 c. His Exploits after his Victory 795 c. Is repulsed before Sens. ib. Besieges Paris 796 Why he would not attaque it by Force 800 Rejects the Proposition which they made him to surrender Paris provided he would become Catholic 809 c. Pursues the Duke of Parma just to Artois 816 817 The two Attempts he made unsuccessfully to surprize Paris 811 816 c. He takes Noyen 844 Besieges Roan 845 His Combat and Retreat from Aumale 847 Raises the Siege of Roan and a little while after besieges the Duke of Parma's Army 852 c. His proceedings after the Retreat of that Duke Pag. 861 The History of his Conversion 900 c. The Points upon which he causes himself to be instructed 918 919 c. He makes his solemn Abjuration and receives Absolution at St. Denis 927 928 Sends the Duke of Nevers to Rome in Obedience and to ask the Pope's Absolution who after having long time deâ—err'd it at last gives it him 932 933 c. His happy entrance into Paris 938 939 His heroic Valour at the Combat of Fontain Francois 948 c. Grants a Treaty and very favourable Edict to the Duke of Mayenne 954 His rare bounty in receiving him at Monceaux 955 Anthony Hotman Advocate General for the League at the Parliament of Paris is Author of the Treaty of the Right of Uncle against the Nephew 738 c. Francis Hotman a Civilian Brother to the Advocate refutes his Book without knowing that it was his Brothers ib. The Huguenots have the advantage in the first War that Henry III. made against them 7 8 They become powerful by joining with the politick Party ib. They were the first that leagued themselves against the Kings 14 James de Humieres Governor of Peronne his Elogy and what made him begin the League in Picardy Pag. 22 23 Charles de Humieres Marquis d'Encre Governor of Campeigne for the King 486 Is the cause of gaining the Battel of Senlis ib. c. His Elogy ib. c. Carries a great supply of the Nobles of Picardy to the King at the Battel of Ivry 781 I. JAmes Clement the History of his abominable Parricide 508 509 c. The President Jeannin sent by the Duke of Mayenne into Spain 830 His Elogy ib. His prudent Negotiation with the King of Spain 833 Ten Jesuits save Paris which had been taken by scaling the walls if they had been asleep as all the rest were 813