trieth faith and that the word should be rendred exploratorium rather then exploratio He alwaies expected troubles and prepared himself for them and put this difference between the affliction for which we are provided and others that the one are but blows on the Harnesse but the other are blows on the flesh Upon a time when an affliction was upon him which went to his very heart and in the expectation whereof he wept yet when he saw that it was the Will of God that it should be so he said to one whom he loved I will go and blesse God for I believe this shall be for my good He gave himself much to Fasting and Prayer and when he fasted his custom was to abstain from the dinner of the day before to the Supper of the day after His diseases till he was above threescore were only Feavers and these for the most part high and violent In the sixty third year of his age he had a Feaver in which there was small hope of life Doctor Oxenbridge was his Physician who waiting for the breathing out of the disease by sweating in which at last he had his desire he came to Master Dod and in the presence of divers said unto him Now I have hope of your recovery To which Master Dod answered You think to comfort me by this but you make my heart sad it is as if you should tell one who had been sore weather-beaten on the sea and conceiving he was arrived at the Haven where his soul longed to be that he must come back again to be tossed with new winds and waves In his greatest health and prosperity he would speak how he desired to be dissolved Upon a time a Gentleman blamed him for it saying he liked not servants who would have their wages before they had done their work but he seemed to be constant in this desire alledging these reasons amongst others that God had given him a setled assurance of Heaven and a sight of the excellency of Heaven and that the earth was but a prison and Heaven the Palace and there was perfect holinesse and happinesse He took all occasions to do good when he was in company by godly speeches seasoning those which came to him that unlesse it were their own fault they might be the better for him Being invited to a great feast where there were sundry Gentlemen and some of them began to swear he stopt them by discoursing of the greatnesse of that sin and that he might not burden their memories he quoted three Chapters every one was the first as the first of Zachary the first of Matthew and the first of James and he opened those Scriptures in such sort that they were all hushed and did not again offend in that kind while he was present amongst them The Word of God was his great delight his meditation was of it in the night and his discourse in the day When those that were with him were speaking of earthly things he would find out some way to bring in heavenly When he could not sleep in the night he would say that the meditation of the Word was sweeter to him then sleep When he had preached twice on the Sabbath and was aweary yet to those that came to him he would go on afresh in holy Discourses and the comforts which he found in his soul made him sometimes forget his body that he hath been speaking till he was ready to faint His eminency was in frequency aptnesse freenesse and largenesse of godly discourse in which respect it may be said of him that in the Countrey where he lived none were known who therein were equal to him But he was Micans inter omnes velut inter ignes luna minores He was very mercifull himself and to move Parents that were rich to mercy he would say thus You are caring and contriving to lay up for your children but lay up for your selves a good foundation against the time to come being rich in good works you will lay up treasure in the earth which is an unsafe place lay up treasures in Heaven that is the sure and safe place He loved and honoured those that feared God though in point of Subscription and Ceremonies they were not of his judgment and as he sowed so he reaped He was full of love himself and greatly beloved of others Doctor Preston whom good men loved for his excellent Piety and Learning was a faithfull friend of Master Dods and often entertained him at his chamber and esteemed much of him for his spiritualnesse in conference and conversation and for his ability to open Scripture and to comfort troubled spirits When the Doctors Consumption was upon him which put an end to his life he came to Master Richard Knightleys at Preston in Northamptonshire which was but a mile from Fausley where Master Dod had his abode and desired him to speak to him of death and heaven and heard him with patience and thankfulnesse Master Dod prayed by him when he lay a dying and preached his Funeral Sermon Also Master Throgmorton a pious and painfull Preacher of the Word an approved good man dying the same year of a Consumption came to Ashby not far from Fausley to have the help of Master Dods comforts and counsels He was oppressed with melancholy and a little before he gave up his soul to Christ he asked Master Dod What will ye say of him that is going out of the world and can find no comfort To whom he answered What will you say of our Saviour Christ who when he was going out of the world found no comfort but cryed out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me This speech refreshed Master Throgmorton and within a little space of time after this he went to his heavenly inheritance Master Dod as he was of a weaned disposition from the world himself so he laboured to wean others He put this difference between rich Christians and poor that for poor Christians their Father kept the purse but the rich Christians keep the purse in their own hands But it might oftner fall out and did and therefore the purse was better in the Fathers hand then in the Christians He was wont to compare wicked men to waves of the Sea those which were of a great estate were great waves those which were of small estate were small waves but all were restlesse as waves To a Friend of his that was raised from a meaner estate to worldly greatnesse he sent word that this was but as if he should go out of a Boat into a Barge or Ship but there ought to be a serious and godly remembrance that while we are in this world we are upon the Sea He often repeated this that nothing could hurt us but our own sins and they should not hurt us if we truly repented of them and nothing could do us good but Gods favour and
given out against me out of yours and others mouthes your shame shall send them home again and I will wear them about my neck as Chains and Garlands In particular for your self though I desire the love acquaintance and favour of any well-gifted Minister it will be no great disgrace to me to sit at home without your countenance except your self were in greater countenance with them that truly fear the Lord. Thus leaving you at this time to a better spirit then that which set you so greedily on work against me I commit you to the grace mercy and pardon of God and my self to his wise direction hereafter to take heed how I give mouthes so readily open to reproach my Ministry any just and direct occasion Chatham the last of April 1602. Your Fellow-labourer and Minister in the Lords work desirous of peace and if it were possible of love also William Bradshaw This Letter though somewhat large it seemed not amisse at full to relate because it representeth to the life both the Character of many such Teachers as were forwardest to oppose Gods faithfull Messengers in those times and the manner of their teaching which the most of our Antinomian party that give out themselves as the only Gospel-Preachers come so near unto now adaies and the most unequall and unchristian courses also that were by such then commonly practised to work them into disgrace with the people and to procure trouble to them from the State But the malice of the man stayed not here which of it self for ought he was able to do was not much to be regarded For being netled by this Letter upon consultation had with some of his complices a Knight of note in that County a man of some parts of learning and wit but of loose life utterly averse from and adverse to the profession and practice of piety was by them procured to come down from Rochester where he then was to Chatham on a Lords day to hear Master Bradshaw and that for no other end but to pick somewhat if it might be out of his teaching for which upon his information against him a practice most unworthy a man or his rank his mouth might be stopped or he inhibited at least from farther imployment in that place And according indeed to their wicked design and ungodly desire the plot proceeded For whereas Master Bradshaw being then entred upon the handling of the story of Christs Temptations related by two Evangelists on which his Sermons much desired by many that heard part of them and though not fully perfected by him yet by some small supplies being made up may peradventure hereafter see light had observed that this was the main scope of Satan in his first encounter to bear our Saviour in hand that howsoever he had been put in some hope by a voice as from Heaven that he was the beloved Sonne of God yet God by his present neglect of him and leaving him in such difficulties destitute of all necessaries did thereby manifest that he did not respect or regard him at all hereupon he took occasion to admonish all true Christians to arm themselves diligently against this temptation and to strengthen their Faith in the assurance of Gods favour towards them care of them and undoubted truth of his Promises made to them using this as an Argument to incite them unto the greater care in this kind for that said he If this temptation do once fasten upon us that we shall come by Satans sleights to be perswaded that there is no such matter that God hath no such respect or regard unto us it cannot but cool our love unto God Which words of his very wholesome and good the Knight perverting and misreporting enformed underhand against him that he should deliver That a man was not bound to love God unlesse he were sure that God loved him Hereupon Master Bradshaw was shortly after by a short note under Doctor Buckeridges hand bearing date May twenty six 1602. and directed unto him at Chatham made acquainted that it was the pleasure of his Lords Grace of Canterbury and his Lord of London the main prosecutor of the business against him that he should the next day by nine of the clock appear personally before them at Shorn a Town situate between Rochester and Gravesend whither accordingly he repaired and there appearing after some questions moved and answers thereunto returned the Bishop of London began to charge him with teaching of false and ungodly Doctrine such as had been suggested by the Knight before-mentioned whereunto when he answered Negatively relating withall truly and sincerely what he had delivered and offering to produce not a few of good credit who could and would testifie what then he taught that would not be admitted London affirming that what had been enformed was averred by such as were able to conceive being learned and to understand aright what it was that he delivered and received it not by report from others but had been ear-witnesses of it themselves However at last to strike all dead sure subscription was tendered to him whereat they knew he would stick which because he professed that he could not condescend unto they inhibited him to preach any more at Chatham and having bound him to appear when he should be farther called upon for the present so dismissed him The next Lords day was one suborned in the habit of a traveller to repair early in the morning to Master Bradshaws lodging at Chatham who asking to speak with him pretended that he came on purpose out of his way to hear him and demanded of him whether he preached that day or no whereunto he answering that he did not being by authority inhibited he made shew of much sorrow as being frustrated of his expectation but he was descried to be no other then a Spie sent to found Master Bradshaw what he intended to do so greedy were they to have farther ensnared him if by any meanes they might The same day Master Bearblock was observed at Strowd as triumphing after a Victory atchieved against some great adversary to have appointed to be sung before his fore-noon-Sermon the former part of the 27. Psalm Those of Chatham much affected with the inhibition of their faithfull Teacher and grieved in their souls for the restraint of that precious food which they had formerly received from him were not backward to use what means they might for the taking off of the inhibition and removal of the restraint To this purpose a Supplication was framed in the Name of the Parishoners of Chatham unto the Bishop of Rochester their immediate Diocesan in these words Right Reverend Father and our very good Lord If we were not by manifold triall and long experience assured of the love that you bear and the care that you have over that flock which the Lord hath committed unto your charge we could not with so good hope and comfort as now
but being taken with a suddain disease he died Feb. 14. 1571. not without the suspition of poyson and was buried at Canterbury being about fifty years old He was a man of rare courage candor and faithfulnesse of a sharp judgment so that few were to be compared with him in managing great affairs Guillin his Chamberlain poysoned him with an Apple at the instigation of the Queen-Mother as he confessed at the time of his death when afterwards he was taken as a Spy at Rochel for which he was hanged But all this while the Duke of Anjou was a great enemy to the Protestants and boasted every where of his Victories against them yet the King did what he could to perswade the Queen of Navarr and the Admirall of his great good will towards them that they might be induced the more to confide in him Notwithstanding which the Papists in some places made slaughters of the Protestants As in Orenge whither all the Inhabitants returned who had been driven away in the time of the late Warres the Popish Souldiers made an assault upon them and slew them without regard of age or sex Also in Roan and other places they were slain in great number by the Popish rabble Whereupon the Queen of Navarr the Princes and other Protestant Nobles sent to the King to complain of the violation of the Edict and to require satisfaction for the same The King entertained them kindly protested that these things were done to his great grief and that he would so punish the Authors of these mischiefs as should be for the terrour of others Not long after viz. Anno Christi 1571. the King wrote very flattering Letters to the Admirall giving him very honourable tearmes inviting him to his Court at Blesa intreating him that he would be an instrument of concluding a Marriage between Henry Prince of Navarr and his Sister Margaret and to prevail the more with him he sent him word by his Messengers that no surer way could be found out for establishing the publique Peace of the Kingdom and for uniting all sorts of persons then by this Marriage And the better to delude him the Guises seemed to be every day lesse welcome to him then other and Monmorency the Admirals Sisters Son was used very familiarly by the King who often protested to him his good will towards the Admirall communicated to him the counsels of his greatest affairs for the managing whereof he told him that he had need of the Admirall for to be his Captain and Minister The Queen-Mother also according to her manner protested that she liked nothing better then that a certain Peace should be confirmed upon equal conditions the memory of former matters being blotted out By these means the Admirall was drawn to the Court where he was intertained extraordinary lovingly even beyond expectation so that when he fell down on his knees to do reverence the King took him up calling him his Father saying often and openly that a more desired day never shone unto him then that wherein he saw an end put to the Warre and a firm Peace setled in the whole Kingdom by his presence adding with a smiling countenance Now we have you with us you shall never depart from our side hereafter He was intertained with the same serenity of countenance by the Queen-Mother the Duke of Anjou but especially by the Duke of Alanson who much favoured him The King also seconded his words with deeds causing one hundred thousand Crowns to be paid him out of his Treasury for his private losses in the last Warres he gave him also the Revenues of the Cardinall his Brother which were very great for one year and also the furniture and houshold stuff of the said Cardinall A few daies after the Admirals return from the Court the young Duke of Guise by the instigation of the Cardinall of Lorraine his Uncle would have put in a new complaint against the Admirall for the death of his Father but the King interposing his Authority drew up a form of agreement which he made both of them to set their Seals to and to take their oaths for the keeping of it notwithstanding which the Duke of Guise shortly after entered Paris accompanied with many armed men which the Admirall hearing of being then at his House at Castellion he moved the King by his Son-in-law Monsieur Teligni that he might have leave to keep a small Guard for his own safety Whereupon the King wrote to him with his own hand and sent his Letter by Bricmald a man of great esteem for his vertue the tenour where of was this That it was most acceptable to him that the Admirall should be exceeding cautious and carefull of his own safety and therefore he gave him power to fortifie his Castle and to raise as great a Guard as he pleased desiring him to be confident without doubting of his good will towards him and that he would be as carefull of his safety as a Father of his Childes These Letters with many such like expressions of love being written with the Kings own hand many read with great delight and were now throughly perswaded that they ought no longer to doubt of the Kings good will and sincere affections to the Admirall Hereupon Count Lodwick of Nassaw whom we mentioned before thinking this a fit time and being secretly invited to the Court moved the King in the name of his Brother the Prince of Orenge for assistance telling him that there were many Cities in the Low Countries that being oppressed and tired out with the lust covetousnesse and cruelty of the Spaniards would willingly surrender themselves into his hands And after a few daies spent in debate about this businesse the King faithfully promised Count Lodwick that very shortly he would send a great Army under the command of the Admirall thither and it was further agreed upon betwixt them that if they succeeded in that War the King of France should have all the Countrey from Antwerp to Picardy and that the Prince of Orenge should have Holland Zeland and Frisland About this very time Letters were intercepted and sent to the Admirall written from the Cardinall Peleus to the Cardinall of Lorrain to this purpose That the King was never better affected then now and therefore because of his good affections together with the Queen-Mothers and the Duke of Anjou's he hoped there would be good issue of those affairs which were resolved on in the common Councel That the King at the Admirals coming to Court had carried himself more politickly then they could have expected whereupon the King believed that he had taken away all suspition from the Admirall and had left him no occasion of doubting of his love and good will towards him which Lorrain knew to be the basis by their joynt consent upon which their future proceedings did depend That some speech was indeed raised about warring upon the King
latter-end Arminianisme began to sprout up apace in the University and he being fearfull that an Arminian might come to succeed him in his place after his death resolved if he could procure a godly and worthy man to resign his place to him in his life time which accordingly he did to famous Dr. Preston whom he yet survived and saw after him Dr. Sancroft and after him Dr. Holsworth to succeed in his Mastership He was of a very charitable disposition insomuch as if he heard of any godly Minister that was in want he would send them fourty or fifty shillings at a time Though he lived till he was very old yet his sight remained very good as may appear by this example A little before his death an old Servant of his came to see him and found him reading on a Book so that at the first he took no notice of her but when she came nearer lifting up his head he spake to her asking her what a clock it was She told him eleven I have said he here got a Book that I have been reading of ever since eight a clock for I like it very well and yet all that time he had read without Spectacles He lived eighteen years after the Resignation of his Mastership and in November Anno Christi 1640. resigned up his spirit unto God being about the age of ninety four years and was buried in S. Andrews Church Dr. Richard Holsworth the then Master of Emanuel preached his Funerall Sermon and gave him a large and deserved Commendation The Life of Master John Ball who died October 20. 1640. IOhn Ball was born about the year 1585. at Casssington an obscure village a mile from Hanborough in Oxfordshire he being set to School at Yarnton was found so apt to learn that the Schoolmaster prevailed with his Parents though of low estate to continue him Scholar there till he was fitted for the University Gods Providence by means of friends made way for his placing in Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford where he improved very much in the knowledge of the Arts and he proved a quick disputant When he was Batchelour of Arts wanting meanes for his maintenance to continue longer in the University he accepted a motion made for his removal into the Countrey and was placed in the Lady Cholmleys house in Cheshire as Tutor to her Children where many other Children also were taught by him And though he came raw and ungrounded in Religion as himself was wont to expresse it from Oxford yet within a short time there appeared with the increase of his scholastical abilities the breakings forth of the power of Godlinesse in his conversation unto them who were most religious and judicious there who thereupon took him into their society for mutual edification in the waies of Gods fear Whereas there was great scarcity of godly painful Preachers in that corner of the Countrey in those times he did much frequent the Ministry of Reverend Master John Foord whereby he was not a little edified He had few Books and therefore perused the more seriously such as he had under-hand Calvins life published by Beza and his Commentary upon the Psalms made deep impressions upon his spirit Growing into acquaintance with the most godly people in those parts who much lamented the evils of the times he often associated with them in keeping private daies of Fasting and Prayer Himself with some other honest Christians were often convented to Chester and much troubled there for keeping a Fast on Ascension day their fault being aggravated by the Bishop and his Officers because they fasted upon that holy day As he took not up any opinion or practice till he had well weighed it So was he not much moved by any trouble which assaulted him in his way When others judged him ripe for the Ministry he was not hasty in adventuring upon that Calling because he was sensible of the weight thereof and also desirous to satisfie his conscience concerning the way of entrance by Episcopal subscription And upon the serious studying of the points in controversie betwixt the Bishops and Non-conformists he was dissatisfied to yield unto that subscription which was then strictly commanded Some conflicts he had with the then Bishop of Chester about Non-conformity but though he looked upon a Bishop in those times as a formidable creature yet he came off unshaken Having resolved upon the encouragement given by judicious Divines to enter into the Ministry when God should make a fair way for his admission without subscription by the intercession of Friends he with Master Julines Herring who afterwards was famous for the work of the Lord in Salop were made Ministers by an Irish Bishop being occasionally in London with freedom from the formentioned snare About the year 1610. he was called to be Minister at Whitmore a small village near unto New-Castle in Staffordshire where he was entertained into the house of Edward Mainwaring Esquire a pious and much esteemed Gentleman Here he married a godly Wife whom God had provided as an help meet for him he himself being alwaies a meer Scholar neither much minding nor intermedling in worldly affairs beyond the bounds of his Calling by whom he had six Sonnes and one Daughter Six of his Children were born unto him while he continued in Master Mainwarings Family where he found much love and did much service for every evening he expounded a portion of Scripture which was read in course and many mornings also was helpfull in Catechizing of the Family Hither many Ministers and others had often recourse unto him for counsell where they were alwaies friendly entertained and the Lord blessed that Family very much which doth still shew much kindnesse unto the Children of this good man Afterwards he removed with his own Family unto an house which Master Mainwaring had built for him where he had his seventh and last child born to him and where he dwelt till his death He was a great lover of Learning and therefore laid out in the first years of his Ministry all the money which he could spare from necessary expences in buying good Books with which he was so well acquainted having both a quick understanding and strong memory that he could readily give an account of all passages most remarkable in them He had so well studied Bellarmines controversies that it is scarcely credible what relation he could make ex tempore of them from point to point and shew from particular to particular where the fallacy and the weaknesse of his Arguments did appear And the like might be truly attested in reference unto the Arminian disputes and the other Church-Controversies both in former and latter times It was his custom to read over a Book when once he undertook it and no man could be more cautious in entertaining opinions without much mature consideration having well weighed all arguments produced on both sides both for and
his Pancrestum or Physick for all diseases which greatly comforted his heart in all his afflictions By his first Wife he had five Children He left alive Lewis his eldest Daughter married to Monsieur Teligni who was murthered the same night with his Father-in-law then Francis Odet and Charles the two elder survived that furious Massacre the third being not eight years old in whom he took much delight for his prettinesse was taken by his enemies and taught to bear the Crosse of Christ in his tender years He left his second Wife great with child who was brought to bed four moneths after of a girl and returning to her native Countrey in the borders of Savoy was not long after committed to prison by the command of P. Philibert D. of Savoy for marrying against his consent The Life of Joane Queen of Navarr who was poisoned at Paris a few daies before the bloody Massacre Anno Christi 1572. IOane of Albert was daughter to Henry the second King of Navarr and to Margueret of Orleance Sister to Francis the first of that name King of France and by her Parents was carefully trained up in the Protestant Religion from her childhood which she constantly adhered to all the daies of her life She was married to Anthony of Bourbon Son to Charles Duke of Vendosme by whom she had Henry the fourth of that name King of France by his Fathers right and the second of that name King of Navarr by his Mothers This Anthony King of Navarr in the minority of Charles the ninth being the first Prince of the blood was to be his Protector but the Queen-Mother and the Guises seeking to draw all the power and management of affairs into their own hands laboured by all means to withdraw the King of Navarr from the Protestants that so by weakening them thereby they might rule the rost as they listed For which end they employed the Ambassadour of Spain the Cardinall of Tournon Escars and some other houshold flatterers to him who perswaded him that carrying himself a Neuter and causing the Prince his Son to go once to the Masse the King of Spain would give him the Realm of Sardinia in recompence for that of Navarr which he had lately taken from him The Pope likewise confirms him in this hope which indeed was but to take from him all means of recovering his Kingdom of Navarr when he should attempt it Yet he being drawn by those Spanish and Lorrain practises estrangeth himself by little and little from the Protestants sollicited the Queen his Wife to return into the bosome of the Romish Church and to draw her children thereunto But she being better grounded in the truth then so easily to forsake it refuseth whereupon a breach grew betwixt them and the King her Husband falls in love with one of the Queen-Mothers Maids The forenamed Guisian instruments seeing this perswade him that Heresie is a sufficient cause of dissolving marriage and that therefore he might be divorced from Joane Albert his Wife as being infected with the poison of Heresie They tell him also that notwithstanding his divorce he should retain to himself the possession of and interest in all the Dominions and Kingdoms belonging to her of which she should be deprived as unworthy of them by reason of her Heresie And instead of her he should marry Mary Queen of Scots whose Dowry say they is the Kingdom of England and as soon as the marriage is contracted the Pope would strip Elizabeth of it as unworthy thereof for the same cause and settle it upon them c. But the King of Navarr abhorring to be divorced from his Wife it remained that he should accept the conditions about the Kingdom of Sardinia for the effecting whereof they left no means unassaied and at last prevailed so far that they gulled the King of Navarr and set him at odds with his Brother the Prince of Conde Coligni the Admirall and the other Protestants The Queen his Wife distasting his change of Religion and adhering to the Popish party retired into Podium in the Countrey of Bearne where she kept her Court But it pleased God that shortly after in the siege of Orleance the King of Navarr was shot into the shoulder whereof he died about three weeks after The next design was to seize upon the Queen together with her Son Henry and her Daughter Katherine and to bring them before the judgment seat of the Inquisition of Spain and the Conspirators doubted not but that Philip King of Spain would more willingly hearken to this counsell for that this exploit would make for the advantage of his Religion the rescuer whereof he proudly boasted himself to be As also the businesse about the Kingdom of Navarr which he unjustly detained would be hereby dispatched by the taking away of the unlawfull heirs thereof They conceived also that the businesse might easily be effected by the means of the King of Spain's Souldiers that lay at Bacinona ready to be transported into Africk who by the waies of the mountains might come upon and surprize the Queen of Navarr and her Children at Podium before they were aware One Dominik a Captain born in the territories of Bearne was singled out to go to the Court of Spain to communicate these counsels with the King and to receive further instructions from him But it pleased God that this Dominik falling sick by the way Annas Hespius an honest man that tended on him smelt out the occasion of his journey and by giving timely notice prevented the effecting of it by which deliverance God shewed his watchfull providence over his handmaid this Religious Queen of Navarr Not long after in the time of the third Civil Warre for Religion this Queen having raised great Troops led them to Rochel together with her Son Henry and her Daughter Katherine from whence she wrote Letters to the King the Queen-Mother the Duke of Anjou and the Cardinall of Bourbon To the King she wrote That in the common Cause of Religion in regard of the duty which she owed to the King and the necessity of blood whereby she was joyned to the Prince of Conde she could not be wanting to him upon such an occasion having alwaies rejected the bloody counsels of the Guisian faction and especially the Ambition of the Cardinall of Lorrain from whose friendship she earnestly dehorted the Duke of Anjou beseeching him that he would not yield up himself a minister of his wicked will in cutting up the Royal stock by the roots In her Letter to the Cardinall of Bourbon she sharply chideth him for not being warned by his former danger For how long saith she will you be the Suffragan of the Cardinall of Lorrain Have you forgotten the treacherous plots that were laid by him for your Head and are you so credulous as to believe his oaths when he sweareth that he minded no treachery c. But these
The Traytor executed The young Prince of Conde born The Admirall honoured New designs against the Protestants * Roch-sur-yon The Prince of Conde and Admirall complain to the King They are answered with scorns The second Civil War Paris blocked up by the Prince A Battell The Admirall wonderfully preserved The Royalists routed They joyn with the Germans The Admirals prudence Caen besieged by the Prince Peace concluded The Admirals Wife dieth His counsell to his Children His charge to Grelleus His Wives character Popish treachery A remarkable Providence A Prediction They send to the King The third Civil War A special providence The Protestants basely murthered The Queen of Navarr assists them Niort taken Engolisme besieged A Battell The Royalists beaten A special providence The Admirals danger His valour Prince of Conde basely slain His character The Prince of Navarr in his room The Admirals piety His Authority to take up Arms. Andelot's death The Admirals Letter to his Sons and Nephews His Faith The Germans aid the Protestants The Royalists beaten The Admirall sends to the King for Peace Lusiniac surrendred Poictiers besieged The Admirals sicknesse Treachery against the Admirall The Traitor executed The Royalists beaten The Admirall forced to fight His policy A special providence He is wounded His Army overthrown His courage He is condemned by the Parliament of Paris His house plundered His contentation His justice His Letter to his Sons and Nephews They send to the King for Peace A Tyrannical speech The Admirall falls sick Ambassadours from the King The great esteem of the Admirall The Treaty goes on Peace concluded The Admirals second marriage He marries his Daughter to Teligni Coligni's death in England His character Popish cruelties The Kings dissimulation The Kings dissimulation with the Admirall Royal dissimulation The Admirals entertainment at Court The malice of the Duke of Guise The Kings dissembling Letter The King dissembles with C. Lodwick Intercepted Letters which shewed the dissimulations The Admirals security The Queen of Navarr's death Her character The King sends for the Admirall His friends advertisements His security He went to Paris Warnings to the Admirall His confident answer Royal treachery The Protestants flock to Paris Deep dissimulation Rochel blocked up The Admirall deluded The King of Navarr married The Admirals Letter to his Wife The Kings dissimulation The Admirall wounded His admirable patience and Christian courage His charity His Prayer His comfort His Faith The Kings prophane dissimulation The King visits the Admirall His speech to the King The Kings answer Deep dissimulation The Bullet viwed Psal. 32.1 A Councel held by the Protestants Presages of the Massacre Monluc's advice The Kings dissimulation Deep dissimulation An ill omen Popish subtilty Counsell that the Protestants should leave Paris A Judas The Massacre projected The Kings dissimulation with the King of Navarr The Duke of Guise excites to the Massacre Fatall security The Queen-Mothers mischievous mind The sign of the Massacre The Admirals house assaulted The Admirals speech The Admirall slain His body basely abused His Head sent to Rome Yet buried His character His piety and zeal Examples prevalent His manner of preparing for the Lords Supper His care for education of children His contempt of the world Brotherly love His age His abstinence His daily exercise Teligni murthered and his young Son Her Parentage Her marriage Popish policy King of Navarr turns Papist The Queens constancy Popish policy The King of Navarr slain Treason against the Queen Gods providence over her Her going to Rochel Her Letters to the King c. Prince of Conde slain She encourageth the Army Her Countrey surprized And regained The Kings Edict Popish subtilty The match propounded Her pious care about it Ministers dissent about it Her zeal to propogate the Gospel She goes to the Court. The Kings dissimulation She goes to Paris She is poysoned Her sicknesse and religious carriage therein Her charge to her Son James 5.14 Her conference with the Minister Long life a blessing 1 Cor. 15.55 Her Prayer A Prayer Her patience The Minister Absolves her The Admirall came to her Her death