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A11927	The three partes of commentaries containing the whole and perfect discourse of the ciuill warres of Fraunce, vnder the raignes of Henry the Second, Frances the Second, and of Charles the Ninth : with an addition of the cruell murther of the Admirall Chastilion, and diuers other nobles, committed the 24 daye of August, anno 1572 / translated out of Latine into English by Thomas Timme minister.; Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae in regno Galliae. English. 1574	Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590. De furoribus gallicis.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.; Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572.	1574 (1574)	STC 22241.5; ESTC S4897	661,140	976

Feare not hardly the iudgement of God although ye be constreyned to tremble thereat They which are condemned of you to die reioyce accounting death to be vnto them life they are nothing abashed or dismayed at your crueltie they regard not the iniuries offered vnto thē and as for death they count it a sléepe according to the Prouerbe The conquerour dieth and he that is conquered lamenteth What should it grieue me to be hanged I know Lorde that if euer any wickednesse deserued punishment and payne the wickednesse of those deserueth it euen to the full which reiect and contemne the benefite of thy sonne Christ. I imbrace O Lorde God that saying which thou hast put into the mouths of certaine of thy Martyrs namely that he is worthy of double punishment which receiueth not the offered redemption of our Sauiour No man shall separate vs from Christ what snares of trappes soeuer are layde for vs and with what paynes soeuer our bodies shall be tormented I knowe that we were appointed long ago as shéepe to the slaughter Let them therefore kill vs let them grinde vs to pouder and ashes yet notwithstanding they which dye to the Lorde liue still and shall so ryse agayne at the resurrection of the iust Whatsoeuer come to passe I am a Christian a Christian will I be Uerye earnestly will I crie that I may be hearde dying for my Lorde and sauiour Iesu christ Since the matter standeth thus why do I stay take me hangman carie me to the gallowes And repeating these wordes againe and that with such vehemencie that he made the teares to come out of the eyes of his aduersaries he spake these words to the Senators which were then present namely that he suffred death bicause he woulde not acknowledge iustification grace sanctification merites intercession satisfaction saluation to be in any other than in Christ that therfore he died for the doctrine of the Gospel And after many other words concerning this matter at y length he concluded with these words Put out put out one day those your flaming fires come vnto the lord in newnesse of life that your sinnes may be done away let the wicked man forsake his ways the wicked cogitations of his heart and then the Lorde will haue mercie In the meane time meditate and consider these thinges in your mindes Beholde I go now vnto the death When he had thus vttered his minde the hangman tied his handes and bounde him to the Cart in the which he was caried to the strete commonly called San-Iani Greuaei aboue foure hundred armed men garding him beside this the whole Citie of Paris as though it bene at the cōming of their enimies was furnished with armed men the wayes that led to the place of execution were stopt vp the frequēted places kept Yet for all this this godly Martyr was nothing abashed but abode couragious and constant When he came to the place of execution he put off his clothes himselfe and being stripte naked fetching great and déepe sighes he looked vp stedfastly into heauen And at the length vttered these few words only to the people I am not come hither either for theft nor murther but to suffer only for the Gospels sake For he had the libertie of his tongue graūted vnto him which libertie other of the faithfull had not whē they came to suffer hauing their tōgues first cut out of their heads vpō this condition the he should not speak to the people The which he promised to obserue that he might the better praye vnto god Therefore when he had made his prayers to God and shoulde nowe be sacrifised he oftentimes repeated these words with a loude voyce O my God forsake me not least I forsake thee And being strangled he was cast into the fire sealing that with his bloude and death which before he had subscribed with his hande This was the ende of that good and godlye man being of great fame among the learned both for his witte and also his learning and being also of honorable calling and great welth who had no doubt in short time attayned to greater honor and dignitie in this lyfe had not God reserued him by the pure knowledge of his name to this greatest preferment and dignitie of professing his truth which the world counteth reproch For Burgeus came of an honest familie and stocke being borne in Rionssius a towne in Auergne and brought vp in good letters who had so giuen himselfe to the studie of the lawe that he became famous in the profession thereof Afterwardes being chosen to be one of the Senate of Paris he left great fame of wit and learning behinde him among the most noble men Being therefore in the waye to come to greater honor and preferrement beholde God indueth him with more pure knowledge of hys worde whereby he fearing no perils of times ioyned himselfe to the reformed Church and woulde be present at the sermons which were then secretly made and thus dailye he was feruent more and more in godlye zeale Insomuch that he had not bene partaker of the Lordes supper passing once or twise when he spake his mind so fréely before king Henrie in the Senate house in the defence of the Gospell by whose commaundement he was cast in prison and from thence as ye haue hearde caried to execution A singular example of the efficacie and force of the knowledge of God and also of godlye constancie in so worthie a man at the which the godly hereafter shall iustly maruaile His bloude truly was the séede wherby the Church of Christ in Frāce did greatly increase and growe as may plainly appeare by those things which followe Touching the other Counsellers whom we sayd before were taken togither with Burgaeus this was the ende after a while they had diuers iudgementes giuen of them by which they were deliuered And the causes why these so escaped are these namely either the new Iudges who to vnderstande their causes examined them after another maner than the other was examined eyther the diuersitie of times in which chaunced many troubles or else truly the very inconstancie of the captiued Counsellers themselues relenting somewhat to their aduersaries About this time Nicolaus Durandus who altering his name called himselfe Villegagno that is to say a Conquerour of Cities as though he had bene a newe conquering Vlysses obtained of the King a nauie of shippes with men and vittaile accordingly to sayle to the South Indians taking with him many men which professed the reformed religion to the ende as he sayde that the Gospell might to them be preached and there planted And when he was arriued into America he sent to Geneua that Ministers might be sent vnto him from thence the which his desire was graunted insomuch that he obtained two namely Peter Richerius and George Charterius who came vnto him with a great number of those faithfull Protestantes that fled out of Fraunce in the hote time of

THE Three Partes of Commentaries Containing the whole and perfect discourse of the Ciuill warres of Fraunce vnder the raignes of Henry the second Frances the second and of Charles the ninth With an Addition of the cruell Murther of the Admirall CHASTILION and diuers other Nobles committed the 24. daye of August Anno. 1572. Translated out of Latine into English BY THOMAS TIMME MINISTER Seene and allowed DEVTERON 32. Remember the dayes of olde consider the yeres of so many Generations aske thy father and he will shew thee thine elders and they will tell thee IMPRINTED AT LONdon by Frances Coldocke ANNO. 1574. R Regard not worldly wealth I In Christ repose thy trust C Consider well thy finall end H How thou art but dust A Aske mercy for thy sinne R Reioyce in vertues lore D Detract no time for to atchieue B Beatitudes in store A Aboue where Christ doth raigne K King of imperiall power E Eche Angell his triumphant praise R Resounding euery hower T. T. To the right worshipful Sir Richard Baker Knight Thomas Tymme wisheth desired health and prosperitie with full perfection of Christian vnderstanding and godlynesse IN all Ages and times there haue bene some godly and well disposed Fathers that imployed theyr tyme and trauayle in describyng the State of Christes Churche and of the common wealth of the Lordes Israell As for example In the tyme of the law before Christ Moses Samuel Esras Nehemiah and others After the law since Christ S. Luk Theodoret Sozomenus Epiphanius Nicepho rus Iohn Sleidan and in our time Maister Iohn Foxe oure Countrey man whose godly labour hath deserued great cōmendation As these fathers and godly learned men in their times by occasion haue labored and trauailed to benefite the Church of Christ which through ignorance hath bene much endamaged euen so that notable graue godly learned Father Petrus Ramus the Authour of these Commentaries of the state of the Common wealth and Religion of Fraunce whereof this booke is but the first part hath taken no lesse paines to the same ende and shall profitte in deede no lesse than the trauaile and paine of others taken that way For in his Commentaries beside the godly lessons both concerning doctrine and manners and otherwise are conteined manye notable examples of Gods great mercyes in defending and preseruing the Christian professors of his name in Fraunce in extreme perils and also diuers experimentes of his seuere iudgements in ouerthrowing the cruel tyrants and in punishing the persecuters In consideration wherof I thought is good to translate the same into our English toung both for that I thought it should generally profit our countreymen and not those alone which vnderstand the Latin toung as your worship doth and also for that I thoughte it a meete occasion wherby I might testifie my good will and meaning towardes your worship for the freendly inclination and willingnesse to benefit me that I haue heretofore found in you Desiring you to accept the dedicatiō hereof though not for the worthinesse of the thing giuen yet as a sure testimonie of such a well willing mynd as by this which he here presenteth declareth what he would do if he had any thing of more price to giue and also to suffer my trauaile to passe forth vnder your fauourable protection and garde to the common profitte of our countreymen and the glory of God who send you long life increase of worship and the perfect felicitie of the life to come Your worships Thomas Tymme The Authors Preface to the Reader WHat a great businesse and much adoe there was of late yeares for Religion that in the Kingdome of Fraunce there is no man but he knoweth ▪ yea all men sée the same to be such that it ought with diligence to be Cronicled for euer and to be sent to the borderers of the vtmost part of the earth for all posterities But he which hath taken this labour in hand of good will desireth earnestly that it may generally take effect and turne to the profit of all men For so farre as I know there is nothing extant to be read but certaine writings which were put forth and set abrode as the matter required and certaine Commentaries in the French to●…gue and if there be any thing it is so obscurely written that the same of all men can not be vnderstoode And truly there are certaine reasons which stayed mamy men of great wisedome and experience in these matters from that publique writing For who not knowing as yet what would come to passe dare take vppon him to set foorth openly a whole Tragedie or Comedie without manifest daunger to loose his labour or at the least to séeme to lose it Furthermore who séeth not that it is a thing at this time full of perill and procuring enuie and displeasure And beside all this such laboure at this time séemeth almost vnprofitable For those matters are as yet freshe in memorie and more sensibly felt of a great manie than were to be wished and are noysed abroade by others in forreine Nations To conclude this thing séemeth almost hurt full For when as these controuersies haue ben stirred vp tho rough diuers opinions of religiō which controuersies burst forth into so great perturbations and troubles the rehersall now of these thinges shall not only séeme pernicieus but also vntimely and out of order The which also séeme to bée other causes which haue discouraged learned men who no doubt did diligently note and marke the reasons and falling out of those matters which wonderfully hapned in these our dayes from labouring to set forth this history For either the hast is vnprofitable or else the vntimely comming forth ridiculous of this so spéedie vnseasonable labor Therfore least any man should thinke that it is our purpose to write and sette foorthe a iust and true Historie of the state of the Churche of Fraunce wée giue to vnderstand that it is neyther our purpose nor yet agréeing to the time Howbeit hereafter more copions and plentifull woorkes of better learned menne so soone as the troubles and lettes of these times bée taken awaye will come abroade and will also committe to those that shall come after a perfecte and full memoriall and Chronicle of matters Let this now bée our beginning and entrance and a certaine declaration of a greater worke that we may shewe some part of that large and ample argument and that we may reduce into these Commentaries a certaine Uiew of the seuerall times of our Churches both that we may stirre vp such of greater learning and experience as may happily hereafter take this matter in hand more fully to handle the same and also that in the meane time wee may giue some fast of the greatest matters to Christian men desirous to know the truth of this thing and to men of forreine nations bewayling our estate and condition And in these thrée first Bookes of our Commentaries we set forth vnto the reader the first

114. King of Nauar forsaketh the court in displeasure 137. King of Nauar promiseth to promote the Gospell 139. L. Letters from the Princes of Germanie to King Henrie 28. Letters of Pardon 58. Letters sent to the Prince of Conde taken 107. Letters of the King. 143. Letters of Paulus Verglus to the Byshops of Italy 192. Lodowick the. 12. called the Father of his Countrey Lodowick Faurus caryed to pryson 27. Lutherans a name giuen to the Protestantes 22. Luxurie in Priestes 122. M. Man at the first perfect 66. Magistrates 76. Margaret Ryche Martyr 50. Matrimonie 204. Monsier Vidam apprehended 107 Monsier Vidam dyeth 116. Mongomery slew king Henrie 34 Mongomery of a persecutor became a faithfull Christian. 34. 35. Murther done nere to Sainte Innocentes 21. Murther at a Popishe Sermon 22. Myraculous delyuerance of the faithfull 19. N. Names of reproch 118. Nemerosius sente to dissuade Renaudius from his enterprise 54. Newnesse of life 70. Neuters 167. Nicolaus Durandus called Villegagno 45. Notes too knowe the Churche of Christ by 219. O. Obedience to Magistrates 205. Office of a King. 88. Oration of the Byshoppe of Vienna 87. Oration made by Beza 189. Oration made by the Byshoppe of Valentia 81. Obedience to Magistrates 205. P. Parliament at Paris 24. Parliament 116. Parliament breaketh vp 128. Peace after long persecution 115. Persecution in Spaine 166. Persecution in Prouance 135 Persecution in Paris and Roane 63 Peace betwene Spain Fraūce 24. Persecution stayed for a time 17. Persecutour receiue Gods vengeance 16. Persecution in the Churche of Paris 5. Planchaeus Counsell 59. Planchaeus imprisoned 60. Pope Paulus the thirde 94. Pope summoneth a Councell 128. Pope inuiteth the Princes of Germanie to the Councell 131. Pope renounced by the Princes of Germanie 134. Prince of Conde sente for too the Court. 135. Prince of Conde appealeth to hys Peeres 111. Prince of Conde taken 110. Protestants called Lutherians 21. 4. Purgatorie 71. Q. Queene of Englande aydeth the Scottes 62. Queene falleth out with the King of Nauar. 114. Queene sendeth Letters too the Pope 168. Quintius Hedius speaker for the Clergie 123. Quintius receiueth his Oration 127 Quintins dyeth for sorrowe 127. R. Reall presence 210. Rebaptizing 73. Reconciliation of the Prince of Conde and the Duke of Guise 161. Reconciliation betweene Queene and the King of Nauar. 138. Reformation wished by the Cardinall of Loraine 209. Religion 89. Religions force in mens myndes 117. Remission of sinnes 69. Renaudius Captaine againste the Guises 54. Renaudus slayne 57. Richerius minister of the congregation vnder Villegagno 46. S. Sacraments 201. 75. Sacramentall signes 183. Sagua seruant to the Prince of Cō de apprehended 107. Scottes war for Religion 61. Scriptures 64. Seditious Preachers 20. Sedition defyned 116. Shauen crounes the badges of poperie 126. Singing of Psalmes 20. Singing of Psalmes required of noble women 84. Sclaunders raysed vp againste the faythfull 7. Soule of Picardie 22. Supper of the Lorde 75. Supplication of the faithfull deliuered to the king 79. Succession of the Church 221. Successors of the Apostles 224. Synode at Paris 27. Symoniakes 94. T. Transubstantiation 202. Trent in Italy 128. Trinitie 65. Tributes 98. Truchetus slaine by a Cowhierde 157. Truce betwene the Duke of Sabaudia and the mē of the valleis 166. Tumult of Ambaxia 52. Two Pillers of the Kingdome 88. Tyrantes raigne by force 88. V. Vidam answereth to his letters 108. Vidam dismiste of Sainte Michaels order 109. Vidam dyeth 116. Villers an enimie to the Admyrall 141. Villegagno goeth to the weste Indies to plante the Gospell there 45. Villegagno a fearfull Apostata 46. Villemongius a constant martyr 56 Vnitie of the Church 72. Vocation ordinarie and extraordinarie 224. VV. VVarres betweene the Duke of Sabaudia and the men of the Valleys 125. VVorde of God. 64. VVorde of God a weapon againste Heretiques 86. VVorkes and faith 167. VVorshiping of Images 171. FINIS The seconde parte of Commen taries Conteyning the whole discourse of the ciuill warres of Fraunce vnder the raigne of CHARLES the nynth Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Thomas Tymme Minister Seene and allowed Imprinted at London by Frances Coldock And are to be sold at his shop in Pawles churchyard at the signe of the greene Dragon 1574. To the right woorshipfull Sir Richard Baker Knight Thomas Tymme wisheth health and prosperitie with full perfection of all Christian knowledge and godlynesse PArtly Experience of the former friendly acceptation of my good will right woorshipfull and partly presumption vpon the same agayne twoo bold guides haue moued me to attempt the Dedication of these two other partes of Commentaries to the which also is ioyned an Addition of the horrible and cruell slaughter of the Admirall Chastillon and other Nobles vnto you hoping that as you haue already worshipfully receyued the first part and taken the same to your protectiō so likewyse you will not refuse these other partes set foorth with such diligence as conueniently might be vsed The gyft which is my small labour in the Translation is scarce woorthy the presenting to your worship but the Argument which concerneth the affaires of so noble a kingdome as Fraunce is I boldly presume in the learned Authours name too presente vnto you especially seeing the reading and knowledge therof shall not onely redound to the profyt of our Countrey but also greatly illustrate and set forth the glory of god For whē we shall compare our happy estate with the miserable condicion of the afflicted people in Fraunce when I say wee shall call to mind the happy dayes of peace and concorde and the prosperouse successe in our ciuill gouernement which by the vnspeakable mercy and goodnesse of God wee haue enioyed since the raigne of our gratiouse Soueraigne and contrarywyse the bloudy warres the sore dissentiō and stryfe with the horrible desolation that hath ensued in the realme of France we cannot choose but we must needes be forced too magnifie and extol the great mercies of our God which hath deliuered vs from the lyke destruction no lesse deserued by our sinnes Shall we say that the Frenchmen our neighbours are greater sinners than any other Nation vnder heauen because of the great desolation fallen vppon them No verily but except wee repent wee shall in lyke manner perishe Therefore right woorshipfull by the benefite of this discourse of the ciuill warres we shall not onely be drawne to the knowledge of our selues but also bee prouoked to gyue God moste harty thankes for our quiet peaceableestate which by our Soueraign Prince we enioye These are the frutes which shall ensue to the Christian Reader by these Commentaries the which if they maye reape as no doubt they shall I may account my labour well bestowed Thus hauing boldly craued your worships courtesie in receyuing this base and simple present of myne I cease wyth thankes for your liberalitie shewed towardes me committing you my good Lady your wyfe into the handes of Almighty

body being hanged vp by the héeles vpon the common gallowes of Paris as is aforesayde the Parisians went thither by heapes to sée it And the Quéene mother to féede hir eyes with that spectacle had a mynde also to goe thither and she caryed with hir the King and both hir other sonnes But the next night following the body was conueyed away and as it is thought buried About that time where as many of the Court secretly muttered that the King shoulde by this facte incurre dishonour not onely among foreine nations but also with all posteritie in time to come for euer Moruillier of whome we haue made mention before one that is accompted the principall lewde practiser wicked sycophant of all Fraunce and the firste authour and chiefe meane of bringing the Iesuites into Fraunce came to the Quéene mother and tolde hir that it was best that some of those that were lately taken s●…eyng and hyding themselues should for manner sake be brought to open iudgement and after the accustomed manner should be enquired vpon that they might be condemned by the sentence of certayne Iudges picked out for that purpose and so openly executed in sight of the people There were called to coūsel here vpon Birage Li●…ege Thuan and Bel●…eure They not only allowed Moruilliers opinion but also gaue aduise that a man of hey made in figure for the Admirall for his bodye as we haue sayde coulde not be founde shoulde be dragged by the Boureau thorough the streates his armes and ensignes of honoure broken his memorie cōdemned his castels and ●…ermes rased his childrē pronounced in famous vn●…oble and intestable and all the trees in his woods to be hewē down to the heigth of sixe foote There was among those that were apprehended one Cauaignes maister of Requests to the King and Briquemault of whome we haue before spoken This Briquema●…lt had spente his time in seruice in the old warres in the tyme of King Frauncis and King Henry and was for the warre accompted a man of greate experience among the best now liuing and was neare about thréescore and ten yeares olde As sone as they were caried into prison there were presented vnto them all the tormenter and the hangman and they were threatned with torture and tearing their bodies in pieces vnlesse they woulde presentlye subscribe with their owne hand that they were of counsell with the Admirall to kill the King and his brethrē and the Quéene mother and the King of Nauarre They all cryed out that they were readye to suffer deathe most willingly forasmuche as the Kings pleasure was it shuld be so but so greate torture they coulde not beare and therefore humbly besought his royall goodnesse and clemencie too pardon them that torment and yet trusting vpon the mercie of God they hoped that they shoulde suffer exceeding greate paynes rather than staine themselues with so greate shame or confesse an vntrue crime against themselues They that were first assigned their iudges hearing their cries and defenses and fearing the iudgemente of the world said plainly that they would not drawe vpon themselues most assured infamie for condemning them Therefore there were newe iudges appointed in their places to them was adioyned such a tormenter and notarie as were thoughte fittest for the purpose And so Briquemault and Cauaignes were quickly condemned by a shadowed forme of lawe and led to the gibbet ▪ standing in the principall strete of the towne and in sight of many thousands of men gazing at them To this spectacle the Queene mother ledde the King and hir other sonnes and hir sonne in lawe the King of Nauarre It was thought cōmodious for playing of this last acte that Briquemault should in hearing of all the people aske pardon pardon of the King and for that purpose there were some suborned to put him in mind that if he wold he might easily purchase his life for the King was of nature ful of clemencie and mercie and if he would aske pardon of his maiestie with confessing his offence he shoulde easily obtaine it He answered with a valiant and bolde courage that it was not his parte but the Kings to aske pardon of God for his faulte and that he woulde neuer craue forgiue●…esse of that offence whereof he well knewe himselfe and hadde God so witnesse that he was cleare and innocent Neuerthelesse he ●…esought God to forgiue the King this faulte So were these two excellent and famous men with halters fastened a●…out their neckes throwne by the hangman from the ladder and hanged and therewithall also the man of strawe made for figure of the Admirall was tyed faste and hanged with them after a preposterous order of lawe whereby the Admirall was first slayne and then condemned But whereas in a manner in all townes there were great slaughters committed yet was there none more horrible nor more outrageous than the butcherly murther at Lions So sone as the letters from the court were brought to Mandelot gouernour of the towne first by a cryer and 〈◊〉 he caused to be proclaimed that all the professors of the Religion shoulde appeare presently before him at his house They without all delay repayred to him As sone as they were come he commaunded them al to suffer themselues to be led to pryson by suche officers as shoulde be assigned them They obeyed his worde and followed the officers that led them By reason of the great multitude they sorted them into sundry prysons Then Mandelot willed the common executioner to be commaunded in his name to take some to helpe him and to kyll those that were in pryson The executioner answered that he vsed not to execute the lawe vpon any but suche as were condemned and in publike and open places and therefore willed him to seeke an other slaughterman if he woulde Mandelot thus refuse●… by the executioner commaunded the garrison Souldiers of the Castle to do it The Souldiers answered that it was against their honour to vse weapon vpon men bounde and lying supplyant before them If they had raysed any rebelliō or had offended or prouoked them they sayd they would most readily haue fought with them Being thus refused by them also at the la●…t he committed the matter to the watermen and butchers Those fellowes being lette into the prysons went to it with chopping kniues and butchers axes Such as they faunde prostrate at their féete piteously holding vp their handes to heauen crying vpon the mercie of God and men they did for sport cut off their fingers and the toppes of their handes and throughout the whole town was heard suche a c●…ye and lamentable howling of women and children that innumerable people euen suche as were zelously giuen euen to the Popishe Religion did detest that crueltie and iudged that not men but outrageous sauage beas●…es in shape of men were entred into the prysons It is well knowne that a great number of honest women in the towne great with childe were so flighted with the horrour of

the same in declaring that he commaunded those murders too bee committed hauing also made protestation before that it is too his greate griefe and done by the outrage and violence of those of Guise against whome he was not able to make speedie resistance in tyme as his Maiestie desired And in this quarell wee the Gentlemen Capitaines and other that make you this answere are readie to trie it by combat man to man or otherwise to maintaine the honour of our King against all those that so p●…ophane holye things and as much as in them lyeth doe by such wordes and titles vilainously defile the excellence of his Maiestie and of the noble Princes of his bloude VVhich wee maye right well coniecture and estimate by the slaughters that are yet in doing as well in the towne of Paris as else where vpon so manye noblemen gentlemen and other men women and children and vpon a greate number of yong scholars the maintenance vnder God of Realmes and common weales in time to come and by many other barbarous vnnaturall and vnmanly actes generally committed VVe think therfore and iudge that herein treason is enterprised against the person of his Mai●…stie and of my Lords his brethren and that the Guisians meane to inuade the Crowne of the Realme as they haue of long tyme practised and how so euer it be we say that his Maiestie is forced by the power that they haue taken vpon them and vsurped by meane of the rebellious stirre of the commons of Paris As for that which they saye that the Admirall and those of the Religion had conspired against the Kings Maiestie and his brethren these be allegations of as greate truth and of as good likelyhoode as their maner of proceeding in Iustice hath bene orderly beginning at execution before examination of the fact But it is now no neede to tarrie for tyme too discouer it for the matter is plain to bee seen with eye and groped with hand and all those of the Romishe Religion that haue remaining any droppe of nature of man doe confesse it and holde downe their heads for shame cursing both with hart and mouth the cruel executers of this abhominable enterprise and the wicked disturbers of common quiet which can yet no more suffer than they hetherto haue done that this poore Realme shoulde long enioye the benefite of that peace which the King alone next vnder God had wisely caused to be made and to bee accordingly obserued whereof this Realme began to feele the good taste to the greate contentement of all persons except the enimies of peace and of this Realme namely the Guisians Finally when his Maiestie being out of their handes and power shall declare what is his pleasure wee will endeuour vs to obey him in all things wherin our consciences which are dedicate to God alone shall not be wounded in which case wee will rather forsake the earth than heauen and our frayle and transitorie houses rather than the heauenly mansions But hetherto the lawe of nature and the duetie that we owe to our naturall Prince to the preseruation of his Crowne and to the safetie of our lyues oure wiues and children doth commaund vs to stand vpon our garde and not to put vs in the mercie of those that haue receyued the same bloudy commission from the Guisians vnder the pretended name of the King to vse vs in the same manner as they haue wickedly tr●…itorously and vnnaturally done to those about his Maiestie and as it were vnder his wings and vnder the skirtes of his robe which the traitors strangers haue stained with the true French bloud without that his Maiestie hath bene able to remedie it nor too staye their cursed at●…emptes so much lesse is he able now so farre off to defend vs as he would which his Maiesties good wil being knowne vnto vs doth arme vs for our defence and for the safegarde of our liues and of the priuileges which he hath giuen vs vntil such tyme as he shall be able by himself to defend vs against his enimies and ours FINIS Iohn Sleidan Iacobs slaughter at Paris Newe deuises to abolishe the Gospell The tumult of Ambaxian The king●… Edict of pardō Sodeine alteration by the death of king Fraunces The Kings Edict cōmonly called the Edict of Ianuarye The name of Lutheranes Geneua a sanctuarie for the godly Great persecution in the Church of Paris Anno domini ▪ 1557. Wicked slaunders deuised against the faithfull Duke Arscotus a Brabantine An apologie for the faithful captiues The arrogant threatnings of the Constable Anno domini 1558. Certayne examples of Gods vengeance shewed vppon diuers persecutors of the Church Persecution stayed for a time Examples of iniuries done to the faithful 16. leafe The fruites of the sermons of the Papistes The parliament at Paris Foixius The first synode of the Churches of Fraunce The summe of the letters of the Princes of Germanie sent to the King. Annas Burgaeus examined condemned and iudged to dye The death of king Henrie The summe of the confession of Burgens A comparison betvvene the doctrine of the Gospell and the Romishe doctrine 2. Thes. 2. 3. The sentēce of death against Burgaus By the tyrant Phalaris he meaneth the Cardinall of Loraine Great afflictiō of the Church after the death of king Hērie An example of two false brethren Grieuous affliction Margaret Riche The descriptiō of the tumult of Ambaxia Villemongius he Kings ●…rs of par●…n Spirituall ●… guenotes a Temporall Huguenote The names of Princes did not appertaine to the Guises in the kingdome of Frāce Afflictions after a sort cease A description of the Scotres warre for Religion Calabria a countrie ioyning to Naples The Scripture The worde The three Credes The Trinitie Man. Originall sin ▪ Election Christ. God and man. Two natures in Christ. The death of Christ. The Sacrifice of Christ. Remission of Sinnes Faith. The grace of the holy gost Newnesse of lyfe Good works The figures of the law The doctrine of the law One onely aduocate Intercession of saintes Purgatory Ecclesiasticall discipline The vnitie of the Church What the Church is The Papacy Discipline of the Church The lawful election of mi nisters Excommunication Sacraments Baptisme The Lords Supper Magistrates The supplications of the faithfull deliuered by the Admiral to the King. The sentence of the Bishop of Valentia Bishops of Rome Lawyers Bishop●… Curates He speaketh to Queenes namely to the Kings mother and the Kings wife The singing of Psalmes The seconde remedie to appease troubles The example of the kings Carolus Magnus and Lodowicke The Gospell of diuers men diuersly receyued With what weapons in time past the Bishops resisted heretikes The oration of the Bishop of Vienna Two pillers of the kingdome The office of a King A Tyrant Religion Why a generall Councell is not to be looked for A Parliament The controuersie betwene Charles the v. and Pope Clement Forewarnings of delolation to come Couetousnes the Babilonicall beast Math.