sentences of Justice nor open warre could not find the means to do or execute in 12 years space And thus these most honourable Protestant Lords and Gentlemen falsly accused and slandered of conspiracies and practises against the King being starke naked thinking only upon their rest scarce awakened out of their sleepe utterly unarmed in the hands of infinite cruell crafty and most treacherous enemies not having so much leasure as to breath were barbaronsly slain some in their beds others on the roofes of houses and in whatsoever other places where they might be found It would be too tedious to recite at large the names and surnames of all the honorable personages of divers qualities that were then slain and butchered it sufficeth that their names are written in heaven and that their death though shamefull and despicable in the sight and presence of men of this world is precious in the sight of the Lords most holy Majesty Now let the tender hearted Christian Reader but consider and ponder in his heart how strange and horrible a thing it might be in a great Town or City to see at the least 60000 men with Pistols Pikes Courtlasses Ponyards Knives and other such bloody instruments run swearing and blaspheming the sacred Majesty of God throughout the streets and into mens houses where most cruelly they massacred all whomsoever of the Religion they met without regard of estate condition sex or age the streets paved with bodies cut and hewed in peeces the gates and entries of houses Palaces and publike places died with bloud A horrible plague of shoutings and howlings of the murtherers mixed with continuall blows of Pistols and Calivers together with the pittifull cryes of those that were murthered the bodies cast out at windowes upon the stones drawne through the dirt with strange noyse and whistlings the breaking open of doors and windows with bils stones and other furious instruments the spoyling and plundering of houses Carts carrying away the spoyles and dead bodies which were throwne into the river of Soame all red with blood which ran in great streams through the Town and from the Kings Pallace into the said river As for the King of Navarr himself and the Prince of Conde they were called into the Kings presence who must himselfe speak with them who with his own mouth certified them what had thus past all this while adding that he had saved their lives only upon condition that they should renounce their Religion and follow his otherwise that they must look for the like punishment that their Adherents had and should receive The King of Navarr besought the King to remember his promise of alliance newly contracted and not to constraine him in his Religion The Prince of Conde also more fervently answered that the King had given his faith unto him and to all those of the Religion with so solemn a Protestation and Vow that he could not be perswaded that his Majesty would falsifie such an authentick oath and that thereupon he had thus farre yeelded to his Majesties demands and faithfully performed what he had required of him on this assurance But as touching the Religion whereof the King had granted him the free exercise and God the true knowledge to whom he was to make an account therin for this his Religion he said he was fully resolved to remaine most constant therin and which he would alwayes maintain to be true although it were with the losse of his life This answer of the Prince set the King into such a choller that he began to call him rebell seditious and son of a seditâ—ous person with horrible threatnings to cause them to loose their heads if within 3 dayes they tooke not better counsell and indeed these threatnings and other crafty carriages in this way so wrought on both these Princes at last that they forsooke their Faith and first Love and turned to Romish abhominations Now the King perceiving that this massacre of Paris would not quench the fire but rather kindle it the more fearing least those of the Religion in his other Provinces and Townes might assemble and unite themselves together and so give them new worke he with the speedy advise of his Counsellours sent two Messengers with two severall Messages the one to the Governours and seditious Catholikes of his remoter Townes wherein were many of the Religion with expresse command to massacre them the other containing certaine Letters to the Governours of Provinces by which he pretended this Massacre to be perpetrated by the Duke of Guise and the Admirall to be murthered on a particular and private quarrell twixt them two and that the Kings honest meaning and intention was utterly against these things and seriously to maintaine his former Edict of a generall Pacification and therfore that his care and vigilancy had ceased it the same day it began and yet as my Authour recordeth in his History on the Tewsday following being the 26. of the same August the King accompanied with his Brethren and the chiefest of his Court went to his Court of Parliament and there publickly declared in expresse tearms that whatsoever had hapned in Paris was done not only by his consent but also by his commandement and of his own motion And as for his other former mentioned Message and Letter to other Townes and Provinces for the massacring of those of the Religion among them also his bloudy command herein was immediately put in execution at Lyons and many other places where the poore Protestants were murthered and massacred in most hideous and horrible manner by those mercilesse and inhumane Butchers of bloody Rome who knockt down the innocent Christians among them as so many doggs cut their throats mangled their bodies slash'd off their hands with great sharp knives as on their knees they held them up to the villains praying for the sparing of their lives yea and were knowne to rip up their bellies and take out their fat from their bowels and to sell it to their Apothecaries to make medicines Thus also in those remoter parts from Paris were very many thousands of the Religion murthered without any difference or distinction either of Sex or Age And so deeply enraged was the King and his adherents and so desperately resolved to root out and extirpate the memory of those of the Religion especially of any note or eminency that the King having at last got into his custody one Briquemant a noble French Gentleman of the age of seventy yeares one that had valiantly imployed himselfe in the Service of the Kings of France having been found in the House of the Embassadour of England then resident in France wherein he had hid himselfe whiles the greatest fury of the massacre was executed was by the Kings command put in close prison together with another vertuous Gentleman Cavagnes Master of the Requests both which Gentlemen bare great affection both unto the Religion and also unto the renowned Admirall and were themselves of great esteeme and
PLOTS CONSPIRACIES AND ATTEMPTS of Domestick and Forraigne Enemies of the Romish Religion Against the Princes and Kingdomes of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND BEGINNING With the Reformation of Religion under Qu. ELIZABETH unto this present Yeare 1642. Briefly Collected by G. B. C. The second Edition Whereunto is added The present Rebellion in IRELAND the cruell Practises in FRANCE against the Protestants the murther of Henry the 3d. and Henry the 4th by the Popish French Faction PSAL. CXXIV VI Blessed be the LORD who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth IT is Ordered by the Committe of the House of COMMONS concerning Printing this 19th day of September 1642. That this Booke be printed Iohn White London Printed by G. M. for Ralph Rounthwait 1642. The Contents PHilip the second King of Spain his offer of Marriage with Q Elizabeth rejected The practice of the Guises with the Q. of Scots against the Crowne of England The Rebellion of the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland the Pope sends Letters to the King of Spaine and K. of Portugall to send an Army to invade England Leo Dacres joyning with the Rebells indevoureth to deliver the Q. of Scots after a sharp conflict with the Lo. of Hunsdon is put to flight Iames Fitz-Morris of the House of Desmond raiseth Rebellion in Ireland Thomas and Edward Stanley with others conspire against the Queene Don Iohn of Austria his perpetuall but treacherous Edict for Peace Stucley his designe against Ireland turned another way by the K. of Portugall Iames Fitz-Morris his second attempt to reduce Ireland to Popery San Iosephus an Italian sent by the Pope and K. of Spaine with 700. Spaniards and Italians into Ireland Campian Sherewin and others comming into England taken and condemned for Treason Somervile his desperate attempt against the Queenes Person Mendoza the Spanish Embassador thrust out of England for practising with Throgmorton and others to invade the Land D. Parry for practising the Queenes death executed Savage and others their attempt to kill the Queene The French Ambassador his plot to kill the Queene The Spanish Armado in Anno 1588. D. Lopez his attempt to poyson the Queene Squires practise to poyson the Queenes Saddle Tyrone his Rebellion in Ireland Garnet Catesby and others their attempt for Invasion of England The Hellish Gun-powder Treason Sir Griffin Markham and others their conspiracy against King Iames The present bloudy Rebellion in Ireland The cruell Massacre at Paris The Murther of Henry the 3d. The Murther of Henry the 4th Gentle Reader THou mayest evidently see by this ensuing discourse what are the fruits and effects of Popery how the Popes have kindled the fier amongst all the Princes and States of Europe and like Balaam the false Prophet troubled us with their wiles cursed the Church and State of England and by their Incendiaries the Priests and Iesuites for effecting their owne pernicious and divellish designes have stirred up one Nation against an other and all Christendome against the English tainted many a great House and endangered their Lives and Estates to the ruine of great and Noble Families in this Kingdome Plots Conspiracies and Attempts of Domestick and Forraigne Enemies of the Romish Religion against the Princes and Kingdomes of England Scotland and IRELAND c. THose which make descriptions of large Countries in small Tables offend not against truth though somewhat against quantity so Pliny telleth us Notwithstanding with much convenience ease to the beholder and truth of observation things are presented to our eyes in those little draughts that the very places themselves being viewed with great trouble and losse of time cannot yeeld more benefit to the most diligent oftentimes not so much Wherfore especially because the Argument cannot be now unseasonable for the abridgement of the Commentaries of large Histories is not unlike Maps of Kingdomes I have here collected out of divers Authours which have severally handled parts of this subject into one The chief conspiracies and attempts against the Kingdomes alone and immediately of great Brittany and Ireland or cls mediately through the sides of the Princes of these Countries by Traytors at home or abroad of the Romish Religion or forraigne Enemies by treacherous courses of those of the same bloody superstition The beginning I make the first time of Reformation of Religion here in England under Queen Elizabeth and the extent unto this present yeere I begin no higher then Queene Elizabeth because the Reformation of Henry the eight was but in part and the other of King Edward was an interrupted one by the sudden succession of his sister Qu. Mary the rather because for ought we know there was no great matter plotted against this hopefull young Prince that was not rather from ambition if there was any such then from a desire of subverting Religion Not but thaa the Enemies of our Religion and Kingdome had us then in their minds but other wayes there were before bloody and desperate practises were to be taken in hand to be first entred into of lesse difficulty and more hopeful successe And these are the steps the adversaries of our Religion use to tread who thirsting after England labour first to bring us back to Rome by striving to make our selves hate our own Religion and leave that God which brought us out of the Land of Aegypt bewitching us with glorious Idolatry of the golden Calvs of Rome introducing ignorance and blindnes that we may when our eyes are out patiently grind in the Mill of slavery If this course fail the next is by poyson murder and force of Arms to draw us to Sodom and Aegypt The Reformation of England and Ireland fall under one time and because that of Scotland also differeth not many yeares in age they may all be brought in one account With the Plots are joyntly handled the Deliverances which in some respect or other may very weâ—l be called great either in regard of the misery we had fallen into if God had not prevented them of the slavery of soule and body and this agreeth with all Or else for the strangenesse of the discoveries of their mischiefes sometime almost miraculous before they have come to their birth or disappointing them of their purposes when the Authours have put them in practise and these two respects the one or the other which may well denominate Gods goodnesse to us in disappointing them to be great may be found in all likewise So that for these mercies received we ought to ascribe to our Deliverer that which is due unto him the praise of his own work and continuall thankes for his mercies which even to this day is from those Deliverances of the dayes of old extended we should have bin then betrayed but we had now bin slaves both we our selves and ours one Plot had it succeeded had bin the betraying of England at once to them who love themselves too well to have lost it easily and are so wise that they endure no Traitors
soon as Ordnance could be brought and Winter was returned with the Ships of war from England was on every side besieged and after 5 days taken The common Souldiers Italians and Spaniards were put to the sword the Irish hanged only the Captains of the former were preserved Three years after Desmond wandering like a vagabond had his arme almost cut-off by a common Souldier before he was known and after was slain Nicolas Sanders was almost famished in the Woods and died stark mad This yeare 1580. Priests and Seminaries much increasing in England severe Laws were enacted against them These were for the most part bred in the English Colledge of Doway founded by the procurement of Alan somtimes a student in Oxford afterward Priest and Cardinall in the year 1568. Afterward under Requesenius government in the Low-countries when the wars were betwixt England and Spain the sugitives were thrust from thence and 2. Colledges erected for them one at Rhemos the other at Rome the first by the Guises the 2d by Gregory the 13. From these places rose in England Hanse Nelson Main Sherward Priests who reported Q Elizabeth to be an Heretick and so ought to be deposed for which they suffred In the aforesaid yeare 1580. Robert Parsons a man of a turbulent spirit and impudent Campian a more modest man both Jesuites they to serve the Catholicks turns obtained of Pope Gregory an interpretation of Pius his Bull against Q Elizabeth that it bound the Q. and Hereticks always but not Catholicks till a convenient season Campian wrote a Book intituled 10 Reasons in defence of Rome M. Chark answered him soberly Parsons wrote against Chark virulently but Camp 10 Reasons were thorowly answered by D. Whitaker Campian and others condemned EDmund Campian Ralfe Sherwin Luke Kirby Alexander Briant were taken in the year 1581 as Traitors to the Q. and State and condemned for comming into England to stir up sedition Still more and more Priests came into England and for their dangerous doctrin that Princes excommunicate were to be thrown out of their Kingdomes that Princes of any other then the Roman Religion had lost their Kingly dignity that those who had taken orders were freed from Princes jurisdiction and not bound by their Laws it was enacted 1582. that it should be treason to disswade any Subject from his allegiance and from the Religion established in England c. Somerviles attempt to kill the Queen AN Dom 1583. divers Priests and Jesuites wrote dangerous books against Q. Eliz. and certain other Princes excommunicated which prevailed so far that one Somervil a Gentleman breathing out nothing but bloud against the Protestants secretly sought entrance into the Queens presence with a drawn sword set upon one or two in his way and being apprehended confessed that he purposed to have killed the Queen Ed. Arden his father in law a Gentleman of Warwick-shiere and Arderns wife and their daughter Somervils wife and Hall a Priest were condemned as guilty of Somervils practise After 3 days Somervile was found strangled in prison for fear of revealing it as was thought where he lay and Ardern was hanged the next day Mendoza the Spanish Ambassadour thrust out of England IN 1584. some English Gentlemen began to practise the delivery of the Qu. of Scots Francis Throgmorton was suspected by letters written to the Qu. of Scots and intercepted Presently Thomas Lord Paget and Charles Arundell a Courtier left the Land secretly Henry Earle of Northumberland and Philip Earle of Arundel were commanded to their houses And there was great cause of circumspection for the Papists by printed Books incited the Maids of Honour to do that against the Qu. that Judith did against Holofernes Yet was the Queens mercy such that she caused 70. Priests to be sent out of England The chief of them were Gasper Heywood who of all the Jesuites first came into England James Bosgrave John Hart and Edward Rishton who presently after wrote a book against the Queen At this time Bernardinus Mendoza the Spanish Ambassadour was thrust out of England for practising Treason against the State He having dealt with Throgmorton and others to bring in strangers to invade the Land as appeared by Throgmortons action who being apprehended sent one of his packets to Mendoza his other packets being searched there was found a catalogue of all the Havens in England fit to land in and another of all the Noblemen in England which favoured the Romish Religion And he did not deny that he had promised his help to Mendoza and the help of those Nobles it was fit he should deale with A Popish practise against Qu. Elizabeth discovered not without a miracle by Creightons torne Papers a Scottish Jesuite Qâ—een Elizabeth that rare Paragon of her Sex and that fairly flourishing Flower which Traitors though oft attempted could never nip nor crop up being a Princesse both prudent pious and pittifull seeking therefore a faire opportunity and sutable meanes to set the Queen of Scots at those times tainted with some treasonable practises against her Crown and Person at liberty and for that purpose sent Sr. William Wade who was then returned out of Spain to confer with her of the meanes therunto And the good Queen was about to send Sr. Walter Mildmay to bring this ayme of hers to further issue But some terrours and feares in the interim brake-out between them which disturbed that intention especially by a notable discovery by certain papers which one Creighton a Jesuite sailing into Scotland did then teare in peeces when he was apprehended in the Ship by Dutch-Pirates at Sea whose person being by them ceasedon he tooke forth his papers wherin it â—eems the project of a traiterous plot against Qu. Elizabeth at that time was described tore them into small peeces and with all his force threw them into the Sea But see how the Lords good providence ordered it as they slew in the ayre the winde blew stifly by force wherof they were all blowne back again into the ship even in a miraculous manner as the Jesuite himself confessed when he saw it Which papers were all kept and gathered together sent to England to Sr. William Wade aforesaid and with much labour and singular skill so joyned and set together again that he found they contained a notable new plot among many other of the Popes the Spaniards and the Guises resolution to invade England Wherupon and by reason of many other rumors of dangers intended against the Queen and whole Kingdome of England a great number of all sorts of men out of common charity and to shew their love and affectionate care of the welfare of the Queen and State bound themselves by an association as then it was called by mutuall promises and subscriptions of hands and seales to prosecute all such by all their force and might even unto death that should attempt any thing against the life of the Queen or welfare of the Kingdome Now the Queen of Scots tooke this
as a thing devised to bring her into danger and she also was so continually set upon by seditious spirits who if they may but have accesse are able to draw the greatest Princes to destruction And what have bin their practises from time to time but to bring great personages and greatest Families to ruine Lamentable experience shews openly the fruit of their malice and mischievous plots of treason which they impiously and audaciously call and count nothing els but advancing of their Catholike cause Now the Scots-Queen led on by her blind guides dealt most importunely with the Pope and Spaniard by Sir Francis Englefield that by all meanes they would with speed undertake their intended businesse namely the invasion of our Realme For the advancing wherof the Pope and Spaniard had resolved on these points 1. That Qu. Elizabeth should be deprived of her Kingdom 2. That the King of Scots a manifest favourer of heresie should utterly be dis-inherited of the Kingdom of England 3. That the Scots-Queen should marry some noble man of England that was a Catholike 4. That this man must be chosen King of England by the Catholikes of England 5. That this choice so made must be confirmed by the Pope 6. That the children of him so chosen begotten of the Scots-Queen must be declared Successours in the Kingdom All these things were confirmed to be true by the testimony of one Hart a Priest Who was that noble English-man that should marry the Scots-Queen was much enquired after by Sir Francis Walsingham with all diligence but not certainly found out yet there was strong suspition of Henry Howard brother to the Duke of Norfolke who was noble by birth unmarried and a fast favourer of that Religion and in great grace and favour with them All these things were discovered by this Creighton the Jesuites torn Papers as afore-said And all this their plotting and contriving of France Spaine and the Pope against Queene Elizabeth and King James for no other cause but for their Religion which they had now fairely begun to establish among their people Parry executed for Treason IN the yeare 1585. William Parry a Welch-man and Doctor of Law spake against that Law which in the Parliament then held was exhibited and called it a bloudy Law Presently after he was accused of practising the Queens death He confessed voluntarily in the Tower that having obtained the Queens pardon for breaking into the chamber and wounding one Hare for which he was condemned he being a sworne servant to the Queen From England he went into France and was reconciled Afterward at Venice in consultation with Benedict Palmeus he told him that he had found out a way to help the afflicted Catholikes in England if the Pope or some learned Divines would approve it as lawfull The Jesuite Palmius approved it Next in France one Morgan drew him to consent to murder the Queen if it should prove lawfull This act the Popes Nuntio Ragazonius commended Parry afterward having accesse to the Queen shewed her all and not long after Cardinall Comâ— his letter approving the enterprise Now he taketh a new resolution to perform it encouraged specially by D. Alins Book teaching that Princes excommunicate are to be spoiled of their Kingdoms and lives These with many other things Parry confessed before the Lord Hunsdon Sr. Christopher Hatton and Sr. Francis Walsingham In Westminster Hall the heads of his accusation being read he confessed himself guilty He died in the Palace-yard before Westminster Hall not once calling on the name of God At this time also Henry Earle of Northumb for entring into traiterous counsels with Paget and the Guises to invade England was east into the Tower where he was found dead being shot with 3. bullets under his left pap the chamber door bolted in the inside A pistoll was found in his chamber and himself the author of his own death Thus from time to time the most noble Families of England have bin seduced and ruined by the false and bewitching counsels of Jesuits and Seminaries Savages attempt to kill the Queen NOw againe there was a most abominable treason conspired and voluntarily confessed by the conspirators One Gifford a Doctor in Divinity Gilbert Gifford and Hodgeson Priests perswaded one John Savage a bloody fellow to undertake to kill Queen Elizabeth To hide their mischievous intents more cunningly from the Queens Counsell who were very carefull to fore-see all danger they wrote a Book in which they advise the Papists in England not to goe about to hurt the Queen For they were to use no other weapons against their Prince then the Christian weapons of Teares Fasting Prayers and the like and most cunningly also these Foxes spread a rumour that George Gifford one of the Queens Pensioners had sworne to kill the Queen and for that cause had gotten from the Guises a very great summe of Mony The Easter following John Ballard an English Priest of the Colledge of Rhemes was come into England who had bin trying the minds of Papists in England and Scotland He had dealt with Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador in France Charles Paget and others for the invasion of England And although it seemed to be a very hard work yet he had sworne to use his utmost endeavour in it and also for the liberty of the Queen of Scots At Whitsuntide in a Souldiers habit and under the name of Captain Fortescue he had a conference in London with Anthony Babington a young Gentleman of Darby-shiere Romishly affected who not long before in France had conference with Thomas Morgan and the Bishop of Glasco the Scotch Queens Ambassadour He was drawn by them shewing him most assured hopes of honour from her to addict himselfe to them and by their meanes had favourable letters from her Ballard and Babington conferred together concerning the invasion of England but it was not deemed a thing could be done Queen Elizabeth being alive Then Ballard informed Babington that Savage had undertooke to kill her Babingtons advice was that it should not be committed to Savage alone least perhaps he might be hindered but to six resolute men of which number Savage should be one Vpon this Babington took into his consideration the Ports in which the invaders should land the confederates that should joyne in the act of murdering Q. Elizabeth and delivering the Scots-Queen In the mean time a letter was brought from the imprisoned Queen to Babington in a secret character blaming Babingtons long silence but he excused it because she was under the custody of Sr. Amice Paulet a severe keeper declared unto her that which Ballard and he had resolved before and that himself with one hundred more would deliver her The purpose by her letters unto Babington was commended and it was advised that it should be undertaken considerately and nothing should be moved before they were sure of externall forces that they should make an association as if they feared the Puritans that some tumults might be
reputation in France but the King having them now fast in hould threatned to teare them in peeces upon the rack if they would not write and signe with their hands that they had conspired with the Admirall to kill the King his Brethren the Queene and the King of Navarr But they having most constantly and justly refused to avouch so horrible a lye against their owne and their godly friends innocencies were racked and cruelly tormented and by a most unjust sentence of the Court of Parliament in Paris they were both declared guilty of Treason and condemned to be hanged upon a gibbet which was accordingly executed The Queen-Mother leading the King her two sonnes and the King of Navarr her brother in law to see the Execution Her Counsellours thinking that at this last exploit what they had wickedly projected namely the false transferring of the cause of this bloody massacre on a treasonable plot intended by the Admirall and others of the Religion against the King as was fore-mentioned would now be wrought out and effected if Briquemant in presence of all the people now at the time of his expected death would aske pardon of the King withall to worke it on the more sending one to him to certifie and assure him that so he might easily save his life for the King was mercifull and that he should have pardon if he would desire it confessing this fact wherewith hee was charged But Briquemant answered boldly and with a good courage that it belonged not unto him but to the King to aske pardon of God for such an heynous offence That hee would never aske pardon for a fault wherein hee had not offended but knew himselfe to bee most innocent whereof hee called GOD to witnesse desiring him to pardon the Kings so great disloyalty and cruelty Cavagnes also the other noble Gentleman did the like untill hee dyed Insomuch that this execution contrary to the Kings expectation served to no other end but more to publish the iniquity of all those cruell homicides and of all their most pernicious counsels The treacherous murther of Henry the 3d King of France by a Jacobine Monke Anno 1589. extracted out of the French History HEnry the 3d. King of France making warre against a great association of his Subjects assembled together in Paris under the name of the Leaguers for the advancement of the Catholicks in France and under the command and conduct of the Duke de Main and other heads of that League whose wicked practises and insolencies against those of the Religion the King much distasted and discountenanced The King of Navarr also joyning with the King of France in pursuit of the Leaguers to bring them into better obedience and therby having chaced the forces of the Leaguers and put them to the worse and cooped them up at last within the wals of Paris and by that meanes brought them into much danger and distresse and feare of a totâ—ll overthrow Hereupon the Duke de Main and his confederats within Paris began to sit close in counsell to advise what was best to be done and seeing the K so neare them and strong about them either of necessity like to urge them to a battell or els to begirt them so close with a siege that there would be small or no hope to escape And considering that by these the Kings late so prosperous progressions in his affaires their own thereby went much to ruine Resolved that there was no other meanes left them to stand it out especially being proclaimed guilty of high-treason against their chief head the K. than by executing some notable exploit in procuring the death of the K. their Mr. and Soveraigne Lord Now some certaine weekes before a young Iacobine Monck by name Fryer Idques Clement a man drowned in all wickednesse having passed through the hands of certaine Confessours and conferred with some Iesuites and others of that rabble he was for a kind of promising dexterity in any villany found meet to strike so great a stroake Was urged and put forward therin yea and in the end the D. de Main himself the sister of the D Montpensicur and others of that Catholick Combination had conference with him in divers places who requested and encouraged him to persevere in this good determination of his which they said they knew to arise in him from extraordinary inspirations from above for the full performance of so renowned a service to the holy Union the Catholick Church of Rome and his deare Country they promised him also Abbot-ships Bishopricks and whatsoever els he vvould desire this wicked fellow thus divellishly documented and stimulated to this desperate deed remained for certaine dayes sometime with the Dutches Montpensieur vvho among the Parisians vvas termed the holy-vvidow sometimes vvith his Prior and sometimes vvith the Iesuites This Monck I say being thus made to drinke in fury and madnesse to the deed by so many allurements entertainments promises and protestations of felicity temporall and eternall resolved within himself and seriously promised them all to kill the K. Now in the interim the Parisians or common-people of the City vvho thought nothing nor knew any thing of their cruell practises began to talke of nothing more than of yeelding themselves to their K and had greatly rebated their spleene and choller against their Soveraigne Which the Duke de Main together with his complotters perceiving they caused the most zealous Sorbonists and Iesuites to preach and exhort that they should yet have patience for 7 or 8 days longer in which interim assuring them they should see and perceive some wonderfull matter come to passe that would make amends for their patient expectation and produce much good to their holy Union The Monck being now fully ordered and instructed for the execution of the designed plot departed from Paris and went toward St Clon As soon as he was departed the D. de Main caused more then 200 of the principall Citizens and other rich men whom he knew to have friends and credit with the K. party to be taken prisoners as a gage to save his Monck if after the attempt he were staied or arrested The Monck being come to S. Clon and presented to speak with the K. he having fained that he had letters from the president of Harlay and Credence on his part the K. caused him to be called into his Chamber vvhere was none with the K save only the L of Bellegard chief Gen. of the same and the Procurator generall whom he desired to retire a while the more privately to give eare and audience unto him the undaunted villain having addressed himselfe vvith a countenance very modest and demure neare the K. person The Monck now perceiving himself alone vvith the K. and an oportunity put into his hand to do the deed he mainly came for confirming his audacious countenance more and more fixedly drew out of one of his sleeves a paper which he presented to the K. and out of the