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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

that haue drowned our companions that made libertie captiue trueth criminall rapin iust and tyrannie and inuasion lawfull See heere the first beginning of the troubles of France 47. slaine by Brisson the President that pulled the Crowne from the head of the King and the lawes from the heart of the Realme that put the weapon in the hand of a President to raise the people in his quarter that kindled the courage of the most coward to fall vppon the kings guard that lifted vppe the chin of most vile persons and caused the League to triumph in the strees of Parris as an Image accomplished with all wickednesse that put pen in hand of the sixteenth therewith to publish this wicked commotion and to qualifie that with a iust defence against the kings aduertising all the Townes of their conspiracie that God had preserued that holy and religious Cittie from a great massacre and fearefull spoyle that the Duke of Guise had turned the counsell of Polliticians specially the Duke d'Espernon that had wonne so much fauour in the kings heart that it caused him to determine the ruine and ouerthrow of the principal and most Catholicque Sedition called the image of all euill families in Parris to restraine their libertie and dispoyle them of their religion esteeming no better nor readier meanes to make his people to obey him then to weaken beate downe and spoyle them of that corpulent fatnesse which made them insolent mutinous and rebelles and that they should not beleeue the Historie of their tragedie from any but their owne lying mouthes Assoone as the Kings seruants knewe that his Maiestie was gone The Court dislodgeth from Parris The Duke of Guise is sory for the kings retrait the Huguenots neuer dislodged with more haste out of the subburbs of Saint Germaine de Prez at the dolourous day of S. Bartholomewe then they did to saue themselues some on foote some on horseback out of Parris flying in great haste many had no leisure to put on their bootes the furie of the people beeing such and so straight mooued against them that it was a great escape made to returne from the house of Guise to the Louure and no man might passe if hee held not for the Duke of Guise Illia cos intra muros peccatut extra Horatius His Lacqueys serued for Pilots and conductors of the Kings chiefe Councellours to bring them safe to their lodgings That this accident procured not most straunge corosiues to the kings heart it is not to be doubted His Maiestie hauing assembled his men at Saint Glaude hee went to Chartres where the league had alreadie sounded so many mens hearts that there they spake not of the king but in disdain that his Maiestie was greeued at the hart to see himselfe in a manner bannished in the middle of his estate and spoyled of his authoritie The Duke of Guise was much more greeued when hee knew the king was gone that suddane blowe so much abashed him that hee would willingly haue taken poste to followe after him imputing it a great imperfection of nature The Duke of Guise repenteth his hardinesse but faults are neuer knowne vntill they bee done and then wee may looke into the cause and attribute it eyther to our owne opinion that opposeth vs against the rules of reason or to our weaknesse which abateth both our courage and resolution Both of them although too late giuing vs wisdome and meanes to repent It is very hard in these commotions that are sooner seene then conceiued and where we must take counsell and armes both at one time to retaine consideration respect and necessary wisedome or that a mans minde can continue firme in one resolution This commotion of Parris was followed with great imperfections both within and without as well on the kings as on the Duke of Guises part hee fayled by letting the king escape for that holding him the tragedie of Chilperic had bin acted and the instructions of the Aduocate Dauid accomplished he failed likewise herein that hauing passed the bounds of dutie and fidelitie and vsed his Maister in that sort he beleeued that playing the part of a diligent seruant he should win fauor againe that his boldnesse wold be forgotten that a Lyon roused in that sort so cruelly wold become tame or meek at the first morsell of respect seruice and obedience that should bee offered vnto him that hee should haue his will of the king sooner by flattery and seruice then by pursuing and forcing him for that not knowing how to vse his aduantage nor in what sort to behaue himselfe in the highest step of the lather of his enterprises wherevnto hee had mounted with so long and secret pretences hee fell downe all the steppes at one time When he saw all France disliked the kings departure in that forcecible maner out of Parris hee beganne to protest his innocency and the dutie hee had shewed to restraine the furie of the people trauelling in the kings behalfe to saue his honour so straungely blemished Fault in the King The king for his part failed and his fault was so much the greater then that of the Duke of Guise as there was inequalitie between them The forme order means he found to rebate the credite of his enemie and the reputation hee had gotten among his subiects was as vnaduisedly pursued as begun He sought to purge the bodie before he had well disposed the humors some of his Councell said it was best for him to let the Duke of Guise rest as being alreadie mounted so high that he could not bee brought downe but that it would be good to breake downe the steps whereby he mounted and withdrawe those that serued him for footestooles Counsell to abate the greatnesse of the Duke of Guise The magnanimious resolution which the King should hold Wholesome Councell to reduce the people strayed into the right path of obedience loue and feare which they owe vnto their king and win so many hearts againe by the same meanes that the League had vsed to seduce them that is by peaceablenesse by a vniuersall reformation and by reliefe of miseries The king should haue said I will do as the League desireth I wil performe that which it promiseth you I will performe deedes and not wordes wherewith shee abuseth you she taketh the disorders of times for the subiect of her mutinies I will establish order in pollicie in my treasures and in my Court the shortest way had been so to preuent him by little and littled iminishing the vniuersall fauour of the Parrissians towards him but to do it vppon the suddaine at one blow and in one houre to repaire the destruction and ruines so long bred and inuented it was a great folly and seeing by so many signes and distrusts he feared the comming of the Duke of Guise to Parris and that hee had discouered his pretence Why did he not cause him to go out again

any man finde this proposition and reciprocall submission between persons which they may terme vnequall to bee straunge let them remember and receiue this for satisfaction that all whatsoeuer the one and the other hath is by your Grace and which they cannot iustly hold longer then it pleaseth you The king that sat as vmpeir in this contention by their answeres and replies still receiued some blowes yet hee knewe that their declarations were not so smooth but that the accusations in his behalfe would easilie bee aunsered and beeing pressed by the League to yeeld to their request he giueth the Cardinall of Bourbon and all the rest of the Princes in whose name it was presented to vnderstand that both in peace and warre hee had sufficiently shewed the proofe of his good will to the preseruation of the onely Catholicque religion in his Realme and to the extirpation of contrary sects without sparing his own person euen at the last ouerthrow of the Protestant Rutters entered into this Realm The victorie of the Rutters which had not happened without the presence and good conduction of his said Maiestie that stayed them vppon the side of the riuer of Louure which they had gotten with little losse and weaking as euery man knoweth That iealousies distrust had hindered him from reaping the profite of the aduantage which hee had against the Hereticques hauing sought all meanes hee could to impeach the motions of those diuisions as namely to forget that which had happened at Parris as long as the Cittizens behaued themselues like good and faithfull subiects trusting in the bountie and clemencie of their Prince whereof they haue so many times had sufficient proofe that they neede not doubt thereof That hee lamented the disorders that haue crept into the affaires of this estate as also the contentions that brake the last peace that he desired nothing so much as speedily to see a present reformation and that to the same effect hee would assemble the third estates of France as the most assured remedie which his predecessors in such occasions haue alwaies vsed That hee was resolued presently to reuoke diuers edicts and impositions wherewith his people were charged That in the assembly of the estates his Maiestie would take order for the doubt the Catholieques haue to fall into the gouernment of hereticques and that touching the particular complaint made by the saide Princes against the Duke d'Espernon his brother he would make it known that both in that and all other things hee is a Prince both equall and iust hauing speciall regard not to doo iniurie or wrong to any man And withall that hee preferred the publike vtilitie of his Realme before all other things The Court of Parliament who by their wisedome that knewe that the absence of the sunne which giueth it light would from thence forward make it become obscure and without light by reason of the thicke cloudes of diuisions would not withdrawe their helpes from that trouble and disquietnesse of the estate nor turne their backe to the king neither bring vpon themselues the infamous markes or rebellion or permit that his Councellours should be termed ouerthrowers of their Princes The Court of Parliament sent the Deputies to the King but sent their Deputies to his Maiestie to shewe him of the greefe they had conceiued at that accident and at the mischiefe that had constrained him to go out of Parris to reclaime his bountie and clemencie to diuert his iust vengeance from the heades of his subiects excuse his officers if in so great a commotion imbisilitie and feare had made them bend their necks to desire him to come thither againe to restore quietnesse and contentment to his Maiestie order in his affaires credite to their purple robes authoritie to their estate by his presence to dispearse mutenies which by diuision had beene raised The Kings answere to the Court of Parliament The king answered therevnto that he neuer doubted but that they would continue in the sidelitie and affection which they had alwaies shewed to his auncestors that if it had beene in their powers to haue taken order touching the disorders in Parris hee was fully perswaded they would haue done it that he had conceiued a most extreame greefe thereat although hee said hee had not beene the first that had fallen into such misfortunes that notwithstanding all that he would alwaies be a good father to such as shewed themselues good children that in the quallitie of a father hee would vse the Parrisians as his sonnes that had fayled in their duties and not as seruants that conspired against their Maister hee commaunded them to continue in their charges according to their duties and from the mouth of the Queene-mother to receiue the commaundements and executions of his will and pleasure The King sends for the Deputies of the Court. Wherewith the Deputies of the Parliament withdrew themselues when after dinner they were readie to depart the king sent for them and said vnto them I haue once againe sent for you that before you go I might let you vnderstand besides that I sayd vnto you in the morning that I haue beene aduertised of the allegation vsed in my behalfe that I would place a Garrison in my town of Parris I am much abashed how that entered into their heads I knowe what Garrisons meane they are eyther placed to destroy a Towne or else because of some distrust that is had in the Inhabitants they ought not to thinke that I would ouerthrowe or destroy a Towne to the which I haue shewed so many signes of great good will and which I haue inriched by my long continuance therein as hauing stayed there more then tenne others of my predecessors euer did which hath procured yea euen to the meanest Artificers therein that great trafficque which at this day they haue and so much that it might haue benefited tenne or twelue other Townes which would haue been glad thereof and where my officers haue had cause to vse my helpe as likewise Merchants and others I haue not denied it vnto them so that they may iustly say I haue alwaies shewed my self a good king in their behalfes lesse cause should I likewise haue to enter into distrust of those whom I loued and of whom I might haue assured my selfe as I verily thought So that the amitie I bare vnto them ought to haue bereaued them of this fond opinion that I would place a Garrison among them and it is wel knowne that not one souldier set foote or entered into any house to looke eyther bread or prouision whatsoeuer but to the contrary I sent them mony and other necessaries and they had not stayed there aboue foure and twentie houres at the furthest which had been till the next day but they should haue lodge else where I determined to haue made an exact search for diuers straungers that as then were in my Towne of Parris and not desiring to offend

the contrarie if age and not a most cruell and poysoned knife had not borne him to S. Dennis he I say was king in the middle of all his troupes in open field and by sound of trumpet proclaimed king of France And the Catholicque Nobilitie who by reason of their diuersitie of religion it was thought wold haue separated themselues from him were so much mooued at the detestable murther so disloyally committed against the sacred person of their most Christian Catholicque and religious king abhorring that part from whence so miserable a monster had his issue that they chose rather to preserue themselues by keeping togither then to destroy themselues by disvnion that it remained constant and faithfull to the successor of their king not once disputing of the lawful vocatiō of his Maiestie so much the rather that he imbraced the preseruation of the Cal●olicque Apostolicke and Romaine religion and promised to reciue instruction and make profession thereof No other meanes resting whereby to knit and ioyne that which by disvnion had been separated and nothing but the newe opinion of religion was the cause to place a barrier between them and the meanes that the poore people did not most willingly cast themselues into his armes And to the contrarie the feare of the alteration of religion putteth thē out of their bounds as the waues that breake into a breach hauing gotten through do runne with more noyse and force then before So he was esteemed for an hereticke his goods confiscate and his bodie punished that had not halfe a dozen of maximes or princples readie thereby with tooth and nayle openly to maintaine that Henry de Bourbon might not be king although he were a Catholicke and that the power of the Pope stretched not so farre as once to vndertake the hearing of his excuses much lesse to absolue him In this general licenciousnesse of all things whereby euery man is permitted both to speake and thinke euil which filleth France with barbarisme and monsters which maketh the Citties and Townes the gulfes of ciuill furies wherein it is easie to fall and impossible to get out againe it seemed that a whole world neither yet the raignes of foure kings would euer haue ended so great adesolation For thereby is seene the deluge of all afflictions fallen vppon the people confusion and disorder rampeth and entereth into all places councels are weake iustice despised the foote commanding the head the treasurescconsumed the estate becommeth sicker then sickenesse it selfe and which is more religion for the which they take weapon in hand looseth more in one moneth then it getteth intenne hauing nothing more contrarie to the increasing restoring and beautifying therof then the insolencie crueltie disobedience and impietie of ciuil wars And should wee suppose that during these monstrous mad rebellions the obedience we owe to God can long continue VVhat is he that knoweth not how many iniuries religion hath sustained as well by the defendors as enemies thereof both of them esteeming it a glorie to violate blaspheme and in a moment to destroy the forepassed labours of so many yeares and in two houres to saw downe the tree that hath growen vp and prospered for 1500. yeares The people by long draughts swallow downe the sweete breath of libertie they terme disorder reason they admitte no lawe but what they like best and will by no meanes heare speaking of superior Of the despising of the Prince proceedeth disobedience to God and from that impietie springeth the disobedience we shew vnto each other For that long sufferancealtereth custome and formeth immitation and the example of one that escapeth vnpunished mooueth others to commit the like offence So that among so many crimes disorders and confusions it is not straunge vnto vs to see our actions haue so hard successe For as the horse that hath newly cast his Maister to the ground broken his bridle ceaseth not to runne till he commeth to some place where with great furie he killeth himselfe so the people abandoning all dutie respect of gouernment ouerthrow themselues at the end of their most furious course and are like a ship in the middle of the wanes which beeing neuer so well rigged and furnished with warlike ammunition hauing neither saile nor rurther is readie to sincke and stirreth not but at the pleasure of a feeble blast of wind which vseth it as it list To the contrary the kings armie that as a rocke resisteth the proude and raging waters like agreat riuer passing her boundes to ouerflow the medows assiegeth Townes winneth diuers battels beareth all before it and triumpheth in all places And Spaine which ought either to vnburthen it selfe or at the least be content with the great number of roabes which it daily weareth and with so many Scepters that impeach it and rest it selfe riseth vp to put vs in feare She that feareth least our prosperitie would bee her ruine our peace her wars and that our nayles should grow so long therewith to pull that from her which she and hers hath forcibly taken from vs she bendeth her cannon shot against the battered wals of our estate and she that seeing vs transported with furie and collor ought to hide the knife and quench the fire putteth it into our hands therewith to mooue vs to destroy our selues And addeth oyle and wood more to increase the fire of our diuisions yet all in vaine for that against good Frenchmen shee sendeth Spanish shadowes But after the losse of a great battell and the long and extreame induring of miseries by the assieged townes euery man beginneth to detest wars and to seeke peace And the ordinarie meat wherewith the people were vsually serued beginneth to faile and be disliked the goodly and beautifull pretence of religion that had giuen so great an appetite to the common people to disiest arms looseth credite and it is euidently seene that the war hath more respect to the altering of estate then preseruatiō of religion And in fine when at the assembly of the league in Parris the D. of Ferrare vnder pretence and couer of religion had propounded the means to shake vtterly ouerthrow the salique law not any good Frenchman but detested the deuise as athing more cruel then death it selfe And the Court of Parliament did most vertuously resist the lamentable subuersion of that law which hath maintained this monarchie continued so many yeares and in defence wherof our forefathers died the plaines of Poctiers and Cressy with their liuely and masculine blood And in the mean time when euery man cried out and openly said the king was no king that they were earnestly busied to find an other that euery man would be and yet durst not his Maiestie by reuelation of the holy Ghost and for his owne saluation turned to the sacred and holy bosome of the Church leauing the error and new opinion that from his cradle he had alwaies holden feeling in his soule a strong and firme