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A11934	The lyfe of the most godly, valeant and noble capteine and maintener of the trew Christian religion in Fraunce, Iasper Colignie Shatilion, sometyme greate admirall of Fraunce. Translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding; Gasparis Colinii Castilloni, magni quondam Franciae amerallii, vita. English.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, attributed name.; Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636, attributed name.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 22248; ESTC S117200	64,379	124

visit him in the heering of Merlyne who escaped the slawghter and is yit still alyue And when the same Merlyne told him that the calamities and myseryes which happen too godly men in this lyfe do comonly stirre them vp to pray vnto God the more earnestly and quicken them vp to reuerence Gods power by and by the Admiral did burst out into these wordes with a lowd voyce and vehement corage saying Lord God heauenly father pitie me of thy mercie and clemencie and remember not the wickednesse of my former life If thou looke vppon our faults and vppon our lightnesse and vnfaythfulnes in breaking of thy Lawes Lord who shall abide it who shal be able to indure the force of thy wrath Setting aside all fabulous Gods I call vppon thee alone acknowledging and worshipping thee the etetnall father of the eternall God Iesus Christ Throwgh him I beseech thee to graunt mee thy holy spirit and the gift of pacience In thine only mercy do I trust In that only is my whole hope repozed Whither it be thy will to giue me present death or to prolong my life yit longer behold I protest my self to bee readie vnto bothe nothing dowting but that if I must die out of hand thou wilt take mee out of hand intoo thy blessed and heauenly rest And if thow suffer mee too continewe longer in this life graunte mee O heauenly Father that I maye spende the reste of my time all wholly in spreading abrode the glorie of thy name and in the reuerencing and obseruing of thy most holy religiō When he had ended this prayer Merlyne asked of him neuerthelesse whyther it could like him that his Seruants should also ioyne their prayers with his To whom the Admirall answered with all my hart and you Mayster Merlyne speake on in the behalfe of this our congregation While Merlyne was vttering a praier applied to the present cace the Admiral lifting vp his eies to heauen shewed a wonderfull earnestnesse of mynd in praying After the end of the praier when Merline alledged the examples of the auncient Martyrs and told how that euen from Abraham and Adam no man had euer imployed his seruis notably to God his Churche but he was afflicted with many inconueniences the Admirall interrupting his speeche sayd he felt himselfe greatly confirmed by his talke and tooke greate comfort by his rehersall of those Martyres and godly fathers and that his greef was much asswaged by it Soone after Mounsyre Cossey Mounsyre Damuyle the Marshalls of Fraunce came vnto him assuring him that they were very sorie for his mischaunce and that there had not happened any thing to them a good whyle that was a greater greef and corzie too them neuerthelesse it was meete and agreeable too the wonted corage of his mind that he should plucke vp his hart shew himself a man for his owne prowesse had giuen him much more than that mishapp could take away Then the Admirall turning to Cossey said You remember what I told you a while ago vndowtedly you must abide as much your selfe Then said the Damuyle my Lord Admiral I wil not take vppon me either to comfort you or to incorage you to valeantnes and constancie of mind You your self are he from whom such precepts of comfort and corageowsnesse are to bee taken But I pray you see wherin my seruis may pleasure you I maruell whence these things come The Admirall answered other than the Duke of Gvvyse I suspect none and yit I dare not affirme that for a certeintie Notwithstanding Gods goodnesse hath lately tawght mee to feare nother myne enemyes nor yit death which I knowe to be vtterly vnable to hurt me rather to be a blessed and euerlasting rest For I know that God in whom alone I put my trust is nother deceytfull nor vntrew howbeeit that in this my misfortune nothing hath happened more to my greef than that I see my selfe bereft of libertie to shewe to the King how much I was mynded to haue doone for his sake his saying so was in respect of the matter concerning Flaunders Would God I myght talke a litle with him for I haue certein things which it standeth him greatly on hand to know and I think there is not any man that dareth report them vntoo him In the meane season the King of Nauarre and the Prince of Condey complayned to the King of the heynowsenesse of the fact To whom the King answered thus I sweare by God whom I take too witnesse that I will reuenge this fact so seuerely as it may bee an example too all that shall come after The woman that was fownd in the howse wherowt of the Hargabut was shot at the Admirall and a boy of hirs were taken and cast in prizon Abowt twoo of the clocke in the afternoone the King being certified of the Admiralls desyre went vntoo him accompanyed with the Queene moother the Kings twoo brothers the Duke Mounpauncer the Cardinalls of Burbon Mounsyre Damuyle Mounsyre Tauanne and Mounsyre Cossey Marshalls of Fraunce the Countie of Rhets Moūsyre Torrey and Mounsyre Meruey the Damuyles brothers after whom followed Gonzaga Duke of Niuers At the first the King commaunded all that were of the Admirals howshold to be shet out of the chamber sauing Mounsyre Telignie and his wife and one persone that scaped alyue from the slawghter who marked aduyzedly what was doone and sayd at that time When the king was come to the bedds side I thanke your maiestie most humbly quoth the Admiral that you haue vowtsafed me so great honour and taken so great peines for my sake The King pretending gladnes for that great corage of his mynd willed him with very faire words to hope well to be of good confort Sir quoth the Admiral ther are three things wherof I was desirous to talk with your maiestie The first is myne owne faythfulnes allegeance towards your highnesse So may I haue the fauour mercie of God at whose iudgmentseate this mischaunce wil peraduenture set mee ere it bee long as I haue euer borne a good hart to your maiesties person crown And yit I am not ignorant how oft maliciowse persones haue accuzed me too your highnesse and charged mee as a trubbler of the state But as God would the matter it selfe hath sufficiently shewed thowgh I my selfe should hold my peace that the only cawse of all those greate slaunders is that I haue withstoode those mennes ouerboldnes and owtrage and defended the authoritie of your Edicts ageinst their trubblesum and violent attempts and could not beare that they should breake the promis which you had made so often with othe vntoo your subiects Of this my meening God is best witnesse who will examin the cace betweene me and my backefreends and decyde it according to his righteowsensse Agein forasmuchas I haue bin aduaunced to so greate honour and authoritie in this Realme by your maiesties father and graundfather and confirmed in the same by your

king was gone out the Lord Iohn Ferrers the Uidame of Sharters entering intoo the Admiralles chamber and comforting hym with manie woordes added at the last that his enemyes had openly bewrayed their cowardlinesse in that they durst not assaile him otherwise than at a Lattiswindowe and that the Admiral was blissed and happie in that he had hild owt in renowme of so greate prowesse vntoo that age Too whom the Admirall answered Nay I think my self blessed in that God hath vowtsafed too powre owt his mercie vpon me For they bee rightly happie whose sinnes and wickednesse God forgiueth Not long after by the aduice of the king of Nauarre of the Prince of Condey the cheef Lords went toogither intoo a parlour vnderneathe the Admiralles chamber too see what counsell might bee taken as the matter and tyme required There the Lord Ferrers shewed wyth manie earnest woordes that the best was too get them spedily owt of Paris for it was not too bee dowted but that this was as the first pageant of some tragedie wherof the rest should followe soone after Others reasoned ageinst it saying it was ynowgh if they demaunded Iustice at the kings hand so as he should commaund an inquirie too bee made of the fact and iudgment too bee executed accordingly in which opinion Mounsyre Telignie stoode very stifly affirming that he knew the kings mind throwghly and assuredly and therfore that they owght not too think amisse of his good will. The next day certeine of the Admirals freends hauing aduertizement that there was much huffling and shuffling in the Citie and priuie conueying of armour weapon togither in manie places thought it very expedient too consult of the matter betymes and that no good was too bee looked for of such turmoyling and huddling toogither Hervppon charge was giuen to one of them that are witnesses of theis things too go too the king and too certifie him of the stirring of the people and the clattering of armour and therwithall too request him too cōmaund somme competent nomber of his gard to kepe watch at the Admiralles gate for his defence As soone as the king herd that byandby beeing sore displeazed with it as it seemed and marueling at it he began too inquire of him who had told it him and whither it were reported so too the Admiral and therwithall commaunded the Countie Rhetes to call the Quene his moother The Queene was scarce come in but the king being in a greate chafe as it should seeme sayd what a mischeef What a doo is heere This man telles mee that the people are in an vprore and redy too put on armour They bee in no vprore sayd shee nother doo they arme themselues but you know you haue giuen commaundment that euery man should keepe himself within his owne warde till the breake of day least any tumult myght perchaunce insew That is trew quoth the king but yit I gaue charge that no man should put on armour Then the other man too go throwgh with the rest of his errand desired the king too send sum part of his gard too the Admirall Too whom the Duke of Angeow who was comme thither with his moother sayd very well take Mounsyre Cossins too yow with fiftie Hargabuttes No quoth the other it is ynowgh for vs if wee may haue but six of the kings gard with vs For they shall beare as much sway with the people as a greater number of armed men Nay mary quoth the King and so said the Duke of Aniow too take Mounsyre Cossins too yow yow cannot chooze a fitter man At which woordes vttered as it should seeme with stomack inough the messenger who knew Mounsyre Cossins to be the Admirals deadly enemie was notwithstanding stryken dumb And ere he was gone farre from the chamber he fownd Mounsyre Thorrey the Marshall Memorancies brother who whispering in his eare sayd there could not a more hatefull keeper haue bin appoynted too yow Too whom the other answered yow see how skornfully the king commaunded it wee haue committed our selues too his courtesie but yit yow are witnesses of my former answer too the kings appoyntment Within a feaw howres after Mounsyre Cossins came too the Admirals lodging accompanied with 50. hargabutters and choze twoo howses next it for himself to place his warders in And anon after folowed Rambulet the knyght Herbinger who according too the Duke of Angeowes mynd which he had giuen foorth in his former talk commaunded all the noblemen and gentlemen that were Catholikes too remoue owt of that streete and too lodge sumwhere else and distributed those lodgings too the Admirals freends acquaintance Than the which deuice none could be inuented either more suttle or fitter for performance of the things that came to passe afterward Towardes the euening there happened a thing that gaue many men no small occasion of mistrust A certein lad browght a cupple of borespeares to the Admirals lodging by the commaundmēt of Thelignie whom Cossins bade backe and woold not suffer the borespeares too bee caryed in The matter was reported to the king of Nauarre who was within with the Admirall Whervpon he came downe and asked of Cossins how he durst be so bold as to do so Mounsyre Cossins answered him flatly that he did it by the kings commaundment appoyntment Neuerthelesse quoth he seing it is your pleasure let them bee caryed in The same day the king of Nauarre had sent secretly too his freends and often warned them too repaire as manie as myght bee neere vntoo the Admiralles lodging too fill all that warde Within feawe howres after there was a counsell called vnder the Admiralles chamber Where Marline renewing the former opinion was very earnest too haue the Admirall conueyed owt of Paris and that his freendes and familiars should depart with him for he sawe manie things euery howre which did greatly increace his mistrust of bad meazure Contrariwyse all the residew for the moste part were of opinion that Iustice was too bee demaunded at the Kings hande and that request was too bee made that all the Gwisians should departe owt of Paris bycawse they bare too muche sway wyth the people of the Towne Which opinion the king of Nauarre and the Prince of Condey and well neere all the rest allowed and refuzed the other so much the rather bycawse Mounsyre Telignie auowched that the king should bee wronged if any man should dout of his faithfulnesse and vpright dealing wherfore it should suffyze too demaund Iustice meeldly and quietly at his hand for the matter was yit greene and if any ouergreat stoutnesse should bee vzed it were too bee feared least the king woold bee offended at it In that Counsell was present one Bucauan a Picard and it was marked that he spake not one woord but hild his peace noted euery mannes opinion which dealing did greatly increace the suspicion that had bin conceyued of him nowe long ago For manie thowght it straunge that he

professing the purer religion should notwithstanding bee so hyghly in fauour with the Queene Moother and resort so often too the Countie Rhetes and others of the Queenes familiar freendes Abowt the third howre of the nyght there rose another occasion of suspicion throwghe Mounsyre Cossins frowardnesse who espying the Corselets of Mounsyre Telignie and Mounsyre Gvverchie too bee browght in did put backe the bringer Uppon the knowledge wherof Gvverchie being of warlike disposition and very feerce of nature went owt too Cossins and giuing him euill language was like too haue made a fray with him But Telignie appeazed the quarell with gentle speeche for as all men report he was a yoongman of a meeld and meeke dispozition and such a one as being deceiued wyth the Kings fayre words was woont to aduance and commend his sinceritie without meazure or end Therefore when as Gvverche and diuers others asked of him whither he thought it good for them to tarie and keepe watch all night in the Admiralls howse he answered them all that it was labour more than needed and gaue them thanks with very louing words By meanes wherof it fel out that none lodged in the Admirals house that night but only Cornaton Labon Yolette the Mayster of the Admiralls horses Merline the minister of Gods word Ambrose the Kings Surgion the Admiralls chamberseruants and a fower or fyue other seruants at the most For Telignie had gotten himself with his wife intoo his owne howse which ioyned wall to wall to the Admiralls lodging Neuerthelesse there watched fyue Svvissers of the King of Nauarres gard at the gate of the owtter court whom he had commaunded to tarie there all night for the Admiralles defence Sommewhat before daylyght woorde was browght to Labon that there was one at the gate sent by the King to the Admirall who desired too bee let in Labon taking the keyes ranne too the gate out of hand and opened it Byandby Cossens cawght hold of him and killed him with his dagger and being garded with his hargabuzers he rushed foorthwith into the howse killed somme running away amazed and othersomme as they met him and set all on a noize and vprore Then brake he open the doore at the stayers foote and althowgh he slew one of the Swissers with the shot of a hargabut yit was he kept from comming vp the staires by setting certeine chests in his way The Admirall and they that were with him being waked with the noyze of the pistole●s and Curriers dowting not but that their enemyes were broken in vpon them did forthwith fal flat vpō the ground began to pray for peace at Gods hand and too call vnto him for mercie The Admirall himself being lifted out of his bed and hauing put on his nightgowne commaunded Merlyne too make prayers before him and he calling vpon Christ our God with vehement sighing fell too commending of his spirit intoo his hands which he had receiued of God to inioy When the witnesse of all theis things came into his chamber being demaunded of Ambrose the Surgiō what noyze that was he turned himself to the Admirall and sayd Sir it is God that calleth vs vntoo him They haue broken intoo the howse there is no way too withstand them As for mee quoth the Admirall I haue prepared myself vntoo death afore hand Shift yow for yourselues if yow can possibly for it wil bee in vaine for yow too go abowt too saue my life I commend my sowle to Gods mercy They that are the witnesses of theis things noted that the Admirall did no more chaunge his countenance at theis dooings than if no straunge thing at all had happened vntoo him All the residew sauing only Nicolas Muskie a right trustie seruaunt of his his interpreter for the Dutche tong getting themselues away intoo the garrettes of the howse and finding a windowe in the roofe fell too shifting for their liues by flight and diuers of them scaped by the benefite of the night By that time Cossins hauing remoued the chests and the other stoppes that were cast in hys waye browght in first certein of the Swissers apparelled in longcotes garded with blacke white and greene wherby it was perceyued that they were of the Duke of Aniowes gard Theis beholding their fower countrymen vppon the stayers did hurt none of them But Cossins being armed with a Corslet a sheeld and brandishing his naked swoord in his hand did by and by commaunde the hargabuzere that was next him too shoote at them with which shot one of them was striken stark dead owt of hand Assoone as they were broken intoo the Admirals chamber one Beheme a Germane borne in the Dukedome of Wirtemberg whose father by report was the maister of the ordinance being the first that stept intoo the chamber and seeing the Admirall sitting there said Art not thou the Admirall Yis I am he quoth the Admirall and thou yoong man haue regard of my hore heade and old age But Beheme without giuing him any mo woordes strake him on the heade with his swoord and was the first that imbrued himself with the Admiralles blud After him followed Cossins Attignie and all the residew As for the rest of the things that concerne the murthers saccages that were done in Paris those .2 whole dayes togither they be recorded alredy in the foresaid discourse of the hellish manslawghter The Admiralls bodie being throwne downe out of a windowe was trampled vnder foote by the yong Duke of Gvvyse and anon after tumbled into the myre in the open streete and mangled and vsed with all the vilanie that might be and a three dayes after caried out of the Citie by the furious multitude and hanged vp by the feete vppon the gallowes of Mountfalcon There it remayned certeine dayes as a banner of the people of Parisis victorie and as a monument of their madnesse and crueltie which they executed vppon him bothe quicke deade which deede will not only neuer be forgotten but also bee the destruction of Paris as a nomber of wise and discreete men foredeeme But within a feaw dayes after the Admiralls bodie was taken downe in the night by certeine horsmen and buryed in a secret place Among diuers wrytings that were taken in the riffeling of his stuffe was fownd his will made a litle before the end of the last warres which the Queene moother commaunded too bee red before certeine of hir familiar freends In the same there was one article wherin the testator counselled the King that he should not gine his brothers too greate richesse and authoritie At the heering wherof the Queene turning too Frauncis Duke of Alaunson the Kings brother said Lo heere your odde frend the Admiral whom you loued so deerely and set so much store by To whom the Duke of Alaunson answered I cannot tell how much he was my freend but surely he hath well shewed euen by this counsel how greatly he loued the king Not vnlike too