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A01991	Admirable and memorable histories containing the wonders of our time. Collected into French out of the best authors. By I. [sic] Goulart. And out of French into English. By Ed. Grimeston. The contents of this booke followe the authors aduertisement to the reader; Histoires admirables et memorables de nostre temps. English	Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; Grimeston, Edward.	1607 (1607)	STC 12135; ESTC S103356	380,162	658

into Bourdeaux and beeing possest of all without blowe stroken tooke from the Citizens by vertue of his commission all there tittles recordes and documents of their rightes and priuiledges depriued them of all their honours burnt all their priueleges caused the Court Parliament to cease disarmed all the Inhabitantes tooke downe their Belles depriued them of all their Immunities and Freedomes constrayning the principalls of the Towne to the number of a hundred and fortie to goe seeke the Bodie of the Lord of Monneins at the Carmelites and to remooue it with mourning to Saint Andrewes where it is Interred hauing first with a wax Candle lighted in their handes asked mercie of almightie GOD the King and Iustice before the lodging of the Constable L'ESTONNAC the two Brothers of SAVLX and others had their heads cut off The Marshalles Prouost with a stronge troupe ranne through the Country of Burdelois BAZADOIS and AGENOIS executing them that had caused the larum Bell to bee rung In the ende the two Colonells of the commons called TAILEMAIGNE and GALAFFRE were taken who were broken vpon the wheele beeing first crowned with a Crowne of burning Iron as a punnishment of the souerainty they had vsurpt Certaine monethes after Burdeaux was established in her former estate and after the leauying some summes of money the exactiōs that were cause of these troubles were abolished History and Annales of France vnder HENRY the second Diuers remarkable commotions happened with in this hundred yeares in diuers parts of the world you shall read GOD willing in the following volumes for this time wee present you with the precedent History as an essay of the rest Prodigious spirits IT is not long since there died one CONSTANTIA who counterfeited most sorts of voices some-times hee would singe like an Nightingale who cold not chant diuision better then hee some-time brey like an Asse some-times grumble and barke like three or foure Dogges fighting togither counterfecting him that beeing bitten by the other went crying away with a Combe in his mouth hee would counterfeit the winding of a Cornet all these things hee did so excellent well as neither the Asse nor the Dogges nor the Man that winded the Cornet had any aduantage of him I haue seene and spoken with such a one oftentimes at my owne house but aboue all that which is most admirable is that hee would speake somtimes with a voice as it were inclosed in his stomacke without opening his lippes or very little at all in such manner as if hee were neere you and called you would haue thought the voice had come from a farre and so as diuers of my friends haue beene often deceiued by him Maister PASQVIER in the fift booke of his Recherches of France There is also there recited two other examples of prodigeous Spirits which I will adde to the other The first is of one MOVLINET an ancient French Poet who reports that hee hath seene a man that sunge both the note and ditty of a songe very readily at one time The other is of a young man that came to Paris in the yeare 1445. Not aboue twentie yeares olde who knewe these are the wordes of a Notary of that time all the seauen liberall Artes by the Testimonie of all the learned Clerkes of the Vniuersitie of Paris and could play on all kinde of Instrumentes singe and sett better then any other exceeding all in Paris and there abouts in painting and limming a very expert Souldiar playing with a two hand sworde so wonderfully as none might compare with him for when hee perceiued his enemie comming hee would leape twentie or foure and twentie footes vpon him Hee was also a Maister in Artes a Doctor in Phisick a Doctor of the Ciuill and Cannon Lawe a Doctor in Diuinity And for certaine hee hath disputed with vs of the Colledge of Nauar beeing fiftie in number of the best Schollers in Paris and with more then three thousand other Schollers to all which questions asked him hee hath answered so boldly as it is a wonder for them that haue not seene him to beleeue it Hee spake Latin Greeke Hebrewe Caldey Arabique and many other tongues Hee was a Knight at armes and verily if it were possible for a man to liue an hundreth yeares without eating drinking or sleeping and continually studying yet should he not attaine to that knowledge that he had done certainlie it was a great astonishment to vs for hee knew more then in humaine reason might be comprehended Hee vnderstood the foure Doctors of the Church and to conclude not to bee parareld in the world for wisedome Behold then this prodigious spirit with some others that we haue seene in our Time amongst whom was IOHN PICVS and IOHN FRANCIS PICVS his Nephew Princes of Mirandola IVLIVS CAESAR SCALIGER and others for the most part dead some other yet liuing whom I will forbeare to name Sparkles of Fire IT hath happened in my time to a Carmelite Friar that alwayes and as oft as hee put back his hood one might see certaine sparkles of fire come from the haire of his head which continued in him for the space of thirteene yeares together Madam of Caumont if she combed her haire in the darke seemed to cast forth certaine sparkles of fire from her head SCALIGER in his excersitations against CARDAN It happened vpon a time to a certaine Preacher in Spaine that from the crowne of his head downe to his shoulders one might see a flame of fire issue which was held for a great miracle HERMOLAVS BAREARVS in the fourth Booke of his Phisickes Chap. 5. Fantastiques THere are some Nations that when they are eating they couer themselues I know a Lady yea one of the greatest who is of opinion that to chew is an vnseemly thing which much impaireth their grace and beautie and therefore by her will she neuer comes abroad with an appetite And a man that cannot endure one should see him eate and shunneth all company more when he filleth then when he emptieth In the Turkish Empire there are many who to excell the rest will not be seene when they are a feeding and who make but one meale in a weeke who mangle their faces and cutt their limmes and who neuer speake to any body who thinke to honour their nature by disnaturing themselues O fanaticall people that prize them selues by their contempt mend by their empayring what monstrous beast is this that makes himselfe a horror to himselfe whom his delights displease who tyes himselfe vnto misfortune MONTAIGNE in his third booke of Essayes Chap. 5. I cannot keepe any Register of my actions Fortune hath set them so lowe I keepe them in my fantasie I haue seene a Gentleman that did not communicate his life but by the operation of his belly One might see by him at his rising a roe of close stooles to serue for seuen or eight dayes The same MONTAIGNE Women that haue become Men. IN a place called Esquirie nine leagues

whom they did falsly accuse to haue caused the Duke of Arscot to escape beeing prisoner at Bois de Vincennes as hee suborned many witnesses against her vsing in this practise a Comissary called Bouvot but eyther of them escaped good cheape being condemned of false-hood committed in the instruction of the processe against the Countesse they did open penance thē standing on the pillory at the Haules they were banished In the history of France vnder HENRY the 2. GVY of Seruilles terming himselfe Lieutenant to the Prouost of Marshalls in the Seneshalcie of Xaintonge hauing apprehended two young men he caused them to bee hanged vpon a Sonday without finishing of their processe by the which they were found in a manner innocent He is made a partie as they are accustomed to do against Iudges which proceed Ex officio without any partie playntiue that doth accuse for in that case they hold the place of an accuser After viewe of the processe he is committed to prison by a decree of the Court and carried to the Concergery or prison at Bourdeaux there he was examined and by his answeres mayntaines that the sayd yong-men had deserued death for many causes which hee obiects where-vpon the Court at Bourdeaux were in some doubt whether they should admit him to make his proofes Some great Lawiers holding that a Iudge after execution may at neede iustifie his Iudgement by proofes and productions especially against vagabondes and picking rouges of whome the Prouost Marshalls doe iudge definitiuely Besides a Iudge may interpret declare and maintayne his sentence The Negatiue is more common for all that is aboue spoken hath place where imminent daunger is and in time of Warre else no man ought without reason to striue so much from Lawe and Iustice and a Iudge is not to bee admitted to the iustification of his Iudgement by other meanes then these which are in the processe and which are written before him for he that is condemned might haue defended and iustified himselfe or els haue reproched the witnesses so as al might haue prooued his innocency But the means of al this was taken from him with his life which ought not to be Yet notwithstanding by a decree made at Bourdeaux Seruille was allowed to make his proofes by acts or witnesses of these crimes wherewith he charged the deceased And for that afterwards he did nothing and the two yong men were found innocent by an other sentence giuen the 14. of August 1528. he was condemned and executed I. PAPON ltb 4. of his collection of sentences giuen in Soueraigne arrest 5. One terming him falsely Prouost of Marshalls in the Seneshalsie of Landes hauing caused seauen women to be executed being falsely accused and without proofe of witchcraft was beheadded by a sentence giuen at Bourdeaux the 3. of Ianuary 1525. He had cōmitted three offences The one of Iurisdiction the fact being not to betried before the Prouost The second that they were not found guilty the third that falsely hee termed himselfe a Prouost and vnder collour of a publike charge had cōmitted so many murthers The same PAPON in the same booke arrest 7. The Consull of a Towne in Suisserland I will spare his name for the present a rich man caused a stately house to bee built in the yeare 1559. Among other excellent workemen which he sought for he caused a rare cutter and Architect called IOHN to come from Trente who for some iust reasons refused to come In the end hauing receiued a promise of all safety and good vsage he came and wrought long for the other About the end of the worke the Architect comming to demand his wages they fell to some words Whereof the ende was that by the Consulls cōmandement IOHN was put in prison and by the same Consull against his faith and promise accused to haue spoken against some Ceremonies The Consull beeing Iudge and party pursued his purpose so furiously as IOHN was condemned to loose his head As they led him to execution he marched with a cheerefull countenance and died very constantly Ad ding therevnto after a long speech testyfiyng his constancy and sincere affection that the Consull who was the Author of his death should die also within 3. daies and appeere before the Iudicial seate of GOD to giue an Account of his sentence It happened as this man had fore-told for the Consull although he were in the flower of his age and very helthfull began the same day to bee tormented sometimes with a violent heat sometimes with a vehement cold to conclude he was stroken with a new disease so as the third day hee went to answere to the Innocent against whom hee had beene a most vniust partie and accuser and a Iudge beeing cast out of the Land of the liuing by a t●…rriblle Iudgement of GOD. M. IOSIAS SIMLERVS of zurich in the life of HENRY BVLLING●…R Wonderfull Fasting HENRY of Hasfeld being gone out of the Lowe Countries to Berg in Norwaie where he did traffick liued there vnmarried without blame he was very charitable vnto the poore whome hee did clothe liberally imploying some of his clothes to that vse One day hauing heard a certaine Preacher speaking indiscreetly of myraculous fastes as if it were no more in the power of GOD to maintayne any one lyuing without the helpe of meate and drinke and displeased that this preacher was a dissolute man which poluted holie things hee tryed to fast and to abstaine altogither from eating and drinking Hauing absteyned three daies he began to be very hungry He therefore tooke a bitte of bread meaning to swallowe it with a glasse of beere But all that stucke so in his throate as hee remayned forty daies and forty nights without eating or drinking At the end of this time he cast out at his mouth the bread and drinke which had remayned in his throate This long abstinence made him so weake as they were faine to restore him with milke The Gouernor of the Country hearing of this wonder calles for HENRY and enquiers the truth of him who giuing no credit to HENRYES confession would see a newe tryall thereof He therefore caused him to be shut vp and carefully watcht and kept in a Chamber for the space of fortie daies and forty nights without any thing to norrish him The which he did endure without any noyse and with lesse difficulty then the first attributing nothing vnto himselfe but all to the power and honor of GOD. By reason of so rare and supernaturall an Abstinence and for that his life was without reproche hee was surnamed of many the Saint of Norway A while after being come about his businesse to Bruxelles in Brabant a debtor of his hauing neither good money to pay him nor any good conscience accused him of heresie so as he was imprisoned where he remained manie dayes without eating or drinking in the end hee was condemned to be burned aliue without making the people acquainted with his processe who did see