Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	good_a	king_n	people_n	13,375	5	4.9419	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94307	A true history of the Roman Catholicks designs and bloody contrivances for the subversion of the Protestant religion in England. And how by the wonderful providence of God their treasonable and bloody conspiracies and designs have been discovered and prevented.	Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617.; Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1678 (1678)	Wing T1077A; Wing T1075; ESTC R185008	52,235	75

lastly they were beaten the first blow being given by a Gascoign and one of them having received a blow the rest fell upon them Which the * She lived to procure the extirpation of all her Posterity and to see the death of all her sons but Anjou who survived her but few months being after a surious rebellion against him by Guise and this faction murdered by a Fryer August 24th Queen understanding being impatient of all delay she thence took occasion to tell the King that the Souldiers could not now be restrained that he should command the sign from the Palace presently to be given for it was to be feared that if it were delayed any longer all would be in a confusion and things would fall out otherwise than he desired Therefore by his command the Bell of St. Germans Church is tolled before break of day ix Kal. VII br which day is the Feast of St. Bartholomew and fell upon a Sunday And presently Guise with Engolesme and † He was slain in March following before Rochel l 55. Aumale go to Coligny's house where Cosserius kept Guard Mean time Coligny being awakened he understood by the noise that they were risen into sedition yet being secure and even sure of the good will of the King whether through his own credulity or through the perswasion of his son-in-Son-in-law Teligny he thus thought with himself that the people were stirred up by the Guisians but as soon as they should see the King's Guards under the command of Cossenius for the defence of him and his as he supposed they would immediately fall off But the tumult growing on when he perceived a Gun discharged in the Court-yard of the house then at last but too late conjecturing what the thing indeed was he rose from his bed and putting on his night-gown he raised himself upon his feet to his Prayers leaning against the wall La Bonne kept the keys of the house who being commanded by Cossenius in the King's Name to open the Gate he suspecting nothing immediately opened it strait-way * He was slain 18 Apr. following before Rochel l. 56. Cossenius going in la Bonne meeting him is stabbed with daggers which when the Switzers who were in the Court-yard saw they fly into the house and shutting after them the next gate of the house they barracado it up with Chests and Tables and other houshold-stuff one only of the Switzers being slain in that first conflict by the Cossenians by a Musquet discharged At last the Gate being forced open the Conspirators strive to get up the stairs They were Cossenius Abinius Corboran Cardillac Sarlaboun chief officers of the Companies Achilles Petruccius of Siena all clad in Coats of Male and Besmes a German educated from a child in the Family of Guise for Guise himself with the rest of the Nobles and others remained in the Court-yard In that noise after Prayers ended by Merlin the Minister Coligny turning to those who stood about him who were for the most part Chirurgeons and a few of his retinue I see saith he with an undaunted countenance what is doing I am prepared patiently to undergo that death which I never feared and which I have now long since embraced in my mind Happy am I who shall perceive my self to die and who shall die in God by whose Grace I am raised to the hope of eternal life Now I need not humane helps any longer You my friends get ye hence with all the speed that may be lest you be involved in my calamity and your Wives hereafter wish evil to me being dead as though I were the cause of your deaths The presence of God unto whose goodness I commend this soul which shall shortly fly from my body is abundantly sufficient Which as soon as he had said they go into an upper room and thence through the roof every one his way Mean while the Conspirators breaking open the Chamber-dores rush in and when as * He was killed about two years after l. 60. Besmes with his sword drawn asked of Coligny who who stood by the dore Art thou Coligny He with an undisturbed countenance answered I am he but young man reverence my gray hairs whatsoever thou doest thou canst not make my life much shorter Whiles he said so Besmes thrust his sword into his breast and drawing it forth struck him with a back-blow over the face whereby he quite disfigured him then with repeated blows he fell down dead Some write that these words shewing his indignation fell from Coligny as he was dying If at least I had died by the hand of a man not of a scullion But Atinius one of the Assasines repeated it so as I have written and adds that he never saw man in so present a danger bear death with such constancy Much otherwise did Guise bear the sense of his less apparent approaching death For when after his conspiracy and rebellion in the H. League against the next King he was with such like arts as had been here used brought into the snare which the King had laid for him and having before neglected the warnings of his friends at last began to be suspitious of his danger though nothing visible appeared his vehement fear so prevailed over his dissimulation whereby be endeavoured to conceal it that his whole body though he sate by the fire shaked and trembled and to immind him of this present fact a stream of bloud flowing plentifully from his nostrils as he called for a napkin he was fain to call for some Cordials to comfort his spirits but yet nothing of danger visible when in the midst of this his fear and languishing he was by one of the Secretaries who knew nothing of the design called into the Kings Privy Chamber whereupon having saluted each of the company as if he took his last farewell of them going directly thither he was no sooner entred but the dore was boulted and one of those who were appointed for the business struck a dagger through his throat downward into his breast whereby his mouth was presently filled with bloud and stopped that he could not speak but only fetch so deep a groan as was heard with horror by those who stood by This stroke was seconded by many others upon his head breast belly and groyn And to this end he came not as Colinius from his Prayers but after all his other wickedness from his whore with whom he had indulged the night and therefore came later than the rest this morning into the Counsel Thu. l. 93. It was their different lives and actions which made this difference in their deaths for otherwise Guise was a man of great courage as well as Colinius Then Guise asking Besmes out of the Court-yard whether the thing were done when he answered it was done he could not perswade Angolesme unless he saw it Therefore Guise replying and bidding him throw down the body it was thrown out of the window

by a speech fitted to the present time and place rather than from his heart The advising of the King to enquire into this conspiracy is thought to have been from James Morvillerius Bishop of Orleans who had left his Bishoprick to give himself wholly to the Court a man of a cautious nature but moderate and just and who was never the author of that bloudy counsel But when as that which was done could not be undone he thought it was best for the reputation of the King and for the publick Peace that since the odium of it could not be wholly abolished yet that it might by some means be mitigated he perswaded the King and Queen that to the things being now done they should though in a preposterous manner apply the authority of Law and that proof being made of the conspiracy judgment should be passed upon the conspirators in form of Law which thing Thuanus himself approved being consulted about it by Morvillerius upon the King's command Two days after a Jubilee is appointed and Prayers are made by the King and a full Court in a great assembly of people and thanks were returned to God for that things had succeeded so happily and according to their desires And the same day an Edict was published wherein the King declared that Whatsoever had happened in this matter was done by his express command not through hatred of their Religion or that it should derogate from the Edicts of Pacification which he would have to stand still in force and to be religiously observed but that he might prevent the wicked conspiracy of Coligny and his confederates Therefore that he did will and command that all Protestants should live at home quietly and securely under his protection and patronage and did command all his Governors to take diligent care that no violence or injury should be offered to them either in their lives goods or fortunes adding a sanction that whosoever did otherwise should understand that he did it under pain of life To these things a clause was finally added which the Protestants did interpret to contradict what he had said before that Whereas upon the account of their meetings and publick Assemblies great troubles and grievous offences had been stirred up they should for the future abstain from such meetings whether publick or private upon what pretence soever till further order was taken by the King upon pain of life and fortunes to those that disobeyed 26. These Edicts and Mandates were diversly entertained in the Provinces according to the divers natures and factions of the Governors for those that were addicted to the party of the Momorancies made a moderate use of them but great was the rage and fury of others to whom secret commands were brought not in writing but by Emissaries following the example of the Parisian Massacre The beginning was at Meaux as being nearest where the same day that the Massacre had been at Paris above two hundred were thrown into prison by Cossetus Advocate of the Treasury an impudent man who was chiefly assisted by Dionysius Rollandus an Apparitor and Columbus a Mariner The next day they set upon the Market that is out of the City and the men being slipt away they fell upon the women whereof 25 were slain and some of them violated by the rude murderers The day following after they had every where rifled the houses of the suspected they come to those that were imprisoned who being called out one by one by Cossetus himself were there slain as Oxen by Butchers in a Slaughter-house and thrown into the Castle-ditch and the greatest part of them the cut-throats being wearied were drowned in the River Marne And then Cossetus exhorts the neighbouring places that they should proceed in what had been so happily begun But the presence of Momorancy President of l'Isle la France who was then at Cantilia not far from thence did hinder the seditious from stirring at Senlis But great was the rage at Orleans which being once or twice taken by the Protestants the sad ruines of the demolished Churches lying open to the eyes of all did enkindle the minds of the people to revenge their injuries being yet fresh the day following therefore they began upon Campellus Bovillus one of the King's Counsellors whom being ignorant of what had happened at Paris Curtius a Weaver the leader of the seditious with some of his party went as it were to visit in the evening he thinking that they came as friends to sup with him entertained them as at a feast which entertainment the murderers having received they acquaint him with what was done at Paris and withal demand his Purse which being delivered they in the midst of their entertainment slay their Host From thence as if this had been the sign given they flock together for three days to murder and spoil above 1000 men women and children as it was thought were slain part were cast into the river Loire those that were slain without the City were thrown into the ditch Great was the plunder that was taken in all that time and especially the copious Library of Peter Montaureus a learned man who died four years since of grief of mind at Sancerra furnished with Books of all sorts especially with mathematical Manuscripts the greatest part of them Greek and corrected and illustrated by the labours of Montaureus himself as also with instruments useful in that Science contrived with admirable artifice was with a most barbarous outrage taken away Also some were slain at Gergolium the people raging through the neighbouring Cities Towns and Villages after the manner of the Inhabitants of Orleance The same was done at Angiers they beginning with Johannes Massonius Riverius who was most barbarously slain as he walked in his Garden by a cut-throat let in by his Wife who suspected no such thing as also others Barbeus Ensign of the Prince of Conde's Regiment 〈◊〉 the danger by flight as also Renatus Roboreus Bressaldus one that was very troublesome to Priests many of whom he had unworthily maimed was after wards executed The Townsmen of Troyes of whom Coligny had a little before complained to the King when they heard of the tumult at Paris presently set guards at the City-gates that none might slip sorth and having upon 3 Kal. VII bris August 30th cast all the suspected into prison five days after by the command Anna Valdraeus Simphalius Governor of Troyes upon the instigation of Petrus Bellinus who as was believed came lately from Paris with private commands they were brought out one by one and slaughtered by the cut-throats and buried in a ditch digged in the very prison and presently after the King's Proclamation wherein they were commanded to leave of killing and spoiling was published by Simphalius who as it is said received it before the slaughter was committed At Vierzon when as at the yet uncertain report of the news the Gates of the City were shut up by the diversity of Letters that