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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

wente secretly into the frontiers of the lowe countrey and toke with him as partners of his iourney and priuie to his counsell thre Frēchmen of great credite with the Admirall namely Saucourt la Noue and Genlis to whom the king had giuen in charge to see if they coulde by any meanes attēpt and possesse any townes bordering vppon his realme They gathering diuers other gentlemen into their companie went speedily into the lowe countrey the Admirall not knowing of it VVho as soone as he vnderstode of their going thether wrote vnto them that he much maruelled what they mēt saying that he well knewe there coulde be no power gotten readie before .xl. dayes end and that they should be wel aduised to do nothing rashly nor to ouerthrowe with hast their deuises that seemed not ripe to be executed The countie of Nassaw inflamed with the sighte and desire of his countrey and fearing the mutablenesse of the king did firste at the soden set vppon Valentiennes but being repulsed by the Spanish souldiers that were in garrison in the Castell he hastily departed to Montz and toke the towne being a place very strong by nature and well furnished with all things necessarye for the warre VVhiche thing beyng by reporte and messangers spred abrode in the lowe countrey and caried into Fraunce and Germanie both encouraged all them of the Religion with great hope and also seemed to haue now playnely and openlye deciphred disclosed the mind of the French king Moreouer Genlis returning to Paris when he had made reporte to the king of all the matter as it had proceded easily obtayned of him that by his assent he might leuie certaine bandes of footemen and horssemen of Fraunce and carie them to succoure Montz But by the way when he was entred into the bounds of the lowe countrie hauing with him to the number of foure thousand footemen and aboute foure hundreth horssemen they were beset by the Duke of Alua and the most parte of them distressed which thing was well knowne to haue ben wrought by the meanes of the Guisians which by dayly messages and letters aduertised the Duke of Alua of theyr purposes and preparation VVhich falsehod of theirs many most affectionate to the Romish Religion were highly offended with bycause a great number addicted to the same Romishe Religion were in that companie VVith this losse and with the rescue of the towne of Valentiennes the King seemed to be much troubled for he feared least his counsels being disclosed to the Spanish king would at length breede some cause of querel and warre Howbeit when he began to remember that a great parte of his secrets was already reuealed to the Duke of Alua he oftentimes resolued to vtter his minde plainely and to make open warre But he was withdrawne from that purpose by certaine men whiche the Admirall had long before conceyued that they would so do Howbeit he gaue the Admirall libertie to send whatsoeuer he thoughte meete to further the Prince of Aurenge his enterprise and as great supplie either of footemen or of horssemen as he could to the armie which the Prince of Aurenge had leuyed in Germanie VVhen the Admirall for that cause had made request that he might leauie thirtie troupes of horssemen and as many ensignes of footemen he easily obtayned it For the entertainement of these footemen it behooued to haue money wherefore at the request of the Admirall the king called for his Tresurer and commanded him to deliuer to the Admirall so much money as the Admirall should thinke meete and charged him that he should not in any wise after the vsuall manner of the accompts of finances write the causes of the receipt but only set it downe in this forme This summe of money was payde to the Admirall suche a day by the kings commaundement for certayne causes which the king hath commaunded not to be written and to thys warrante the King subscribed with hys owne hand Also the King wrote to Monducet his Embassadoure in the lowe countrey to trauell as earnestly as he could for their deliuerance that were taken at the ouerthrowe of Genlis which commaundment it is said that Monducet did most faithfully and diligently execute Not long before this Ioane Queene of Nauarre aboue mentioned died in the Courte at Paris of a sodaine sicknesse beeing aboute the age of fortie and three yeares where as the suspition was great that she died of poyson and hir body was sort hat cause opened by the Phisitions there were no tokens of poyson espied But shortly after by the detection of one A. P. it hath bene found that she was poysoned with a venomed smell of a pair of perfumed gloues dressed by one Renat the Kings Apothicarie an Italian that hath a shop at Paris vppon sainte Michaels bridge neare vnto the pallace which could not be espied by the phisitions which did not open the head nor loked into the brayne It is well knowne that the same man about certayne yeares past for the same intente gaue to Lewes Prince of Conde a poysoned pomander which the Prince left with one le Grosse his Surgion le Grosse delited with the same was by little and little poysoned therewith and so swelled that he hardly escaped with his life By hir deathe the Kingdome came to the Prince Henrie hir sonne to whom as is abouesaid the Kings sister was promised and contracted Things being as it seemed throughout all Fraunce in most peacible estate and the concord of all degrees well established the day was appointed for the marriage of the king of Nauarre which day all they that fancied the Religion esteemed so muche the more ioyfull to them bycause they sawe the King wonderfully bent therevnto and all good men iudged the same a most assured pledge and stablishmente of ciuill concord whereas on the contrary part the Guisians and other enimies of common quietnesse greatly abhorred the same marriage VVhen the day came the marriage was with royall pompe solemnized before the greate Churche of Paris and a certaine fourme of words so framed as disagreed with the Religion of neither side was by the kings commandement pronounced by the Cardinall of Burbon the king of Nauars vnkle and so the matrimonie celebrate with greate ioy of the king and all good men the bride was with greate trayne and pompe led into the Church to heare Masse and in the meane time the bridegrome who misliked these ceremonies together with Henry Prince of Conde sonne of Lewes and the Admirall and other noble men of the same Religion walked withoute the Church dore wayting for the Brides retourne VVhile these things were in doing at Paris Strozzi who as we haue said had the charge of the kings power at sea houering vpon the coast of Rochell did now and then send of his captaines and souldiers into the towne vnder colour of buying things necessarie and sometime he came thither also him selfe The like was done at the same time in another part

speede deliuered ouer the same bookes to those of whome they had receyued that commaundement After noone the Queene mother lead out the King the Duke of Aniow Gonzague Tauaignes the Countie de Rhetz called Gondin into hir gardens called Tegliers This place bicause it was somewhat farre from resort she thoughte most fit for this their last consultation There she shewede them how those whom they had long bene in waite for were nowe sure in hold and the Admirall lay in his bed maymed of hoth his armes and coulde not stirre the king of Nauarre and Prince of Conde were fast lodged in the castle the gates wer kept shut all nighte and watches placed so as they were so snared that they coulde no way escape and the captaines thus taken it was not to be feared that any of the Religion woulde from thencefoorth stirre any more Now was a notable opportunite said she offred to dispatch the matter For all the chiefe captaines were fast closed vp in Paris and the rest in other townes were all vnarmed and vnprepared and that there were scarcely to be founde ten enimies to a thousand Catholikes that the Parisians were in armour and were able to make threescore thousande chosen fighting men and that within the space of one houre all the enimies may be slayne and the whole name and race of those wicked mē be vtterly rooted out On the other side saith she if the King do not take the aduantage of the fitnesse of this time it is no doubte but that if the Admirall recouer his health al Fraunce wil shortly be on fire with the fourth ciuill warre The Queenes opinion was allowed Howbeit it was thought best partly for his age and partly for the affinities sake that the king of Nauarres life shuld be saued As for the Prince of Conde it was doubted whether it were best to spare hym for his age or to put him to death for hatred of his fathers name But herein the opinion of Gonzague toke place that he should with feare of death and torment be drawen from the Religion So that counsell brake vp with appoyntment that the matter should be put in executiō the nexte night early afore day and that the ordering and doing of all shoulde be committed to the Duke of Guise The Admirall being en●ormed of stirre and noyse of armour and threatnings heard euery where through out the towne and preparation of many things pertaining to tumult sent word therof to the King who aunswered that there was no cause for the Admirall to feare for all was done by his commaundement and not euery where but in certaine places that there were certaine appointed by him to be in armor least the people should rise and make any stirre in the towne VVhen the Duke of Guise thoughte all things readie enough he called to him the abouesayde Marcell and charged him that he should a little after midnight assemble togither the maisters of the streetes whome they call Diziners into the towne house for he had certaine strange and speciall matters in charge frō the king which his pleasure was to haue declared vnto them They all assembled bytime Carron the new prouost of merchaunts guarded with certaine Guisians and among the rest Entragne and Pnygallart made the declaration He sayd that the kings meaning was to destroye all the Rebels which had in these late yeares borne armes against his maiestie and to roote out the race of those wicked men it was now very fitly happened that the chieftaynes and ringleaders of them were faste enclosed within the walles of the towne as in a prison and that the same night they should first begin with them and afterward for the rest assone as possibly might be throughout all partes of the Realme the King would take order and the token to set vpon them should be giuen not with a trumpet but with tocksein or ringing of the great bell of the pallace which they knewe to be accustomed onely in great cases and the marke for them to be knowne from other should be a white linnen cloth hanged aboute their left arme and a white crosse pinned vpon their cappes In the meane time the Duke of Guise made priuie thervnto the Captaines of the Kings guarde both Gascoignes Frenchmē and Switzers and bad them be readie to goe to it with good courage Shortly after the Duke of Guise and the bastard sonne of king Henrie commonlye called the Cheualier with a great band of armed men following thē went to the Admirals house which Cossin kept besieged with harquebuziers placed in order on both sides of the streate The Admiral aduertised of the stirre and the noise of the armour although he had scarcely ten persons in his house able to beare harnesse and in his chamber onely two surgions one preacher and one or two seruitors yet coulde not be made afraide trusting as he oft rehearsed vpon the Kings good will toward him approued by so many and so great meanes of assuraunce hauing also confidence that the commonaltie of Paris if they once vnderstode the King to mislike of their madde furie howe much so euer they were in outrage yet so sone as they saw Cossin warding the gate they wold be appeased He repeated also the other for keeping of the peace so ofte openly sworne by the King and his brethren and their mother and entred in publike recordes the league lately made with the Queene of Englande for the same cause the articles of treatie couenanted with the Prince of Aurenge the kings faith giuen to the Princes of Germanie some townes attempted and some taken in the lowe countrey by the Kings commaundement the mariage of the Kings sister solemnized but sixe daies before which it was not like that he wold suffer to be defiled with bloud finally the iugement of forain nations and of posteritie shame and the honor constancie of a Prince publique faith and the sacred respect of the law of nations all which it seemed monstruous and incredible that the king could assent to be stained with so outragious a cruell deede Cossin when he sawe the noblemen drawe neere knocked at the gate which as is abouesaid he was commaunded by the Duke of Aniow to kepe VVhervpon many applyed the olde prouerbe A goodly guarde to make the woolfe keper of the sheepe VVhen he was entred without in maner any difficultie he caried in with him a great companie of armed men and after those followed the great Lords Such as Cossin found at the entrie of within the porch of the house he slew with a partisan that he had in his hand VVhich when the Admirall vnderstoode he caused those that were about him to lift him out of his bed and casting on a nightgowne vpon him he rose vpright on his feete he bad his friends and seruantes to flee and make shift for them selues and to take no more care for him for he sayd that he was readie with most willing hearte to

settling his residence and dwelling elsewhere he shoulde freely enioy all his reuenewes VVhich matter being reported to the French King he immediatly sent messengers to the Prince of Aurēge willing him to loke for nothing by that dealing of the Emperour saying that it was but a fraud and guilefull deuise intended for this purpose only to breake vp his leuying of souldiors that he had begon in Germanie and assuring him that if he woulde credite and followe him hee would giue him ayde sufficient to recouer hys estate The Prince of Aurenge perswaded by these promises of King Charles continued his musters and determined a while to bear the charges thogh they were heauie to him while such things as were necessarie for the warre were in preparing In the meane time Lodouic in disguised apparell went to Paris to the king Forasmuch as the season of the yeare by this time seemed not commodious to leuie an armie for the winter was at hande by assent they deferred the matter till the next sommer These things thus hanging the Prince of Aurenge his capitaynes by sea did oftentymes set vpon the Spaniards and Portingals such ships as they toke they brought into the hauen of Rochell which then was in the power of the Prince of Condees part and there they openly vttered and solde their prizes to the men of the towne and other merchantes of Fraunce wherevppon the Embassadoure of Spayne made often complaintes to the Kings priuie councell And forasmuche as they thought it very auaylable to this enterprise that Elizabeth Queene of Englande might be broughte into league with them the King comitted the dealing in that matter to the Admirall For a fewe moneths before the King had with most swete alluring letters gotten him to the Court where he was most honorably entertayned and to take from him all occasion of distrust vppon his aduersaries or of otherwise suspecting of the Kings or Queene mothers affection towards him first all the Guisians of a set purpose departed the court Then the King gaue the Admirall free libertie to take with him what companie and with what furniture he would and bycause it was thoughte that he had more confidence in the Marshall Cosse than in the rest therefore the King commaunded the saide Marshall to be euer at hand with the Admirall and to assist him in the Kings name if any nede were The matter of the league with Englande the Admirall so diligently and industriously handled that within short space after by Embassadours sent and by faith giuen and receyued and othes solemnely taken on both parts it was confirmed Concerning the procurement of other leagues and amities suche as mighte seeme to further the enterprise of the low cuntrie the Admirall also trauelled in the kings ●●ame and by his commandemente and had in a manner brought all these things to an ende And of all those leauges the first and principall condition was that the libertie of Religiō shuld continue and that the king shoulde most diligently and sincerely obserue this Edict of pacification Though these things seemed to be handled secretly yet by the letters both of Biragio the vicechancellor of whom we made mentiō before and of Moruilliers whom for his hipocriticall leanenesse children commonly called the Chimera or bugge of the Court and by aduertisements of Cardinal de Peiue a man most fit either to inuent or execute any treason they were caried to the Byshop of Rome who by aduise of his Cardinals sent by and by one of their number called Alexandrine in the midst of most sharpe winter into Fraunce with these instructions to perswade the king to enter into the societie of the league of Trent whereof the first and principall article was that the confederats should ioyne their powers and make warre vpon the Turks and Heretikes meaning by the name of Heretikes all those Princes that did permitte the vse of the reformed Religion within their dominions The Cardinall Alexandrine was honourably receyued in the courte but yet dismissed without atchieuing his purpose For so was it bruted among the people and commonly beleeued throughout Fraunce albeit he himselfe secretly seemed to returne very mery cherefull to the Pope and as it is reported did sometime say that he receyued such aunswere of the King as was needfull not to be published and that the King and Queene mother had largely satisfied him Forasmuch as it was thought a matter greatly auayling to the enterprise of the lowe countrey to sende certayne ships into the Englyshe Seas that if any ayde shoulde be sent into the lowe countrey to the Duke of Alua oute of Spayne it might so be stopped Strozzi and the Baron de la Guarde were appoynted for that purpose to whome the king gaue in commandement to rigge for the certayne ships of Burdeaux and Rochell well armed and well appoynted and to prouide with all spede al things needfull for those ships The Ambassador of Spayne somewhat moued with this preparation made diuers complaints to the kings counsell on the behalfe of the king his master and yet neuer receyued any other answere but that the king thought it not likely and that he wold send Commissioners to Burdeaux and to Rochell with letters and commaundemente that there shuld be no preparation made to the sea and if any had bene made it should be enquired of VVhat instructions were secretlye and closely vnder hand giuē to these two captaines of that nauie we do not certaynly know But this no man can doubte of but that they had commission to distresse all such ships wherein any Spanishe souldiers should be transported into the lowe countrey and that all this preparation to the sea was ordayned against the Spanish king and the Duke of Alua. And moreouer that the Admiral at the same time receiued commaundement frō the king to send espials into Peru an Islaind of the new found world most plentifull of gold aboue all the other now being in the Spaniards dominion to learne if there were any good enterprise to be attempted or atchieued for the get●ing of it VVhich matter was committed to a certayne gentleman one of the Admirals trayne who went thither accompanyed with a certayne Portingall a man most skilfull of those Nauigations whome the Admirall had ioyned with him by the kings commaundement and is not yet returned Nowe it can not be expressed how manye and how great tokens of most louing mynde the king at that time shewed to the Admirall and to the Countie Rochfoucault and to Theligny and to the rest of the chiefe noblemen of the Religion First all such things as in the former warres had bene taken away in the townes fermes and castels of the Admirall d' Andelot the king caused to be sought oute and restored If there were any other whome the king vnderstoode to be beloued and esteemed of the Admirall or to haue attayned anye speciall honour in the sayde late warres those he liberally benefited and rewarded To the Admirall