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A01160	An historical collection, of the most memorable accidents, and tragicall massacres of France, vnder the raignes of Henry. 2. Francis. 2. Charles. 9. Henry. 3. Henry. 4. now liuing Conteining all the troubles therein happened, during the said kings times, vntill this present yeare, 1598. Wherein we may behold the wonderfull and straunge alterations of our age. Translated out of French into English.; Recueil des choses mémorables avenues en France sous le règne de Henri II, François II, Charles IX, Henri III, et Henri IV. English	Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598.; Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621. Histoire des derniers troubles de France. English. aut	1598 (1598)	STC 11275; ESTC S121331	762,973	614

Venceslaus King of Bohemia and Emperour was exposed only because he suffered the Hussites to haue the free exercise of their religion Defence for the Edicts of peace The league was deuised only to breake the Edict of pacification which don it left armes when it saw it should haue bin subdued it rose vp againe and made that commotion in Parris The Kings Edicts of pacification concerning the libertie of conscience are not made but with prouiso this age is so full of all corruptions that whosoeuer seeketh to purge them the healing would be more daungerous by the remedies that should be ministred Medici plus interdu quiete quàm moriendo atque agendo prosiciunt Tit. Liu. then the paines and langures of the disease it selfe God will raise some great Monarch that will vse remedies altogither different from those which passion vengeance and chollor putteth into our hands We must let this fistula remaine for a time within the bodie if you stop it the vicious humors that abound therein will sufferate choake it vp The disease must haue her course and in the end it will cease this heresie will vannish away as all the rest haue done whereof by the grace of God there resteth nothing but the memorie the question is to thinke vppon those that seeke to sucke the sap of this estate and vnder the ruines therof to ouerthrow the pietie and the Monarchie The leagues answere In the affaires of the K. of religion all delay is daungerous To feare the mischiefes and chances that may fall out on both sides or to stand with armes crossed attending till God lendeth ayde from heauen is temerite foolishnesse and crime In rebus fide periculosa cunctatio Catholicque religion is sicke it is in great extremitie and the Phisitian stayeth to consult of her disease and to apply the remedies while she is readie to die it is great foolishnesse not to cut off inconueniences at the beginning but much more folly to neglect the mischief vnder pretence of hauing taken too deep roote it is better late then neuer it is a kinde of desperation not to know the disease and a franzie knowing it not to seeke a remedie You haue been so oftentimes tolde that two religions cannot be suffered in one Realme that this diuersitie causeth quarrels in particulars then seditions mutinies and ciuill warres which neuer end but with the subuersion of the estate This diuersitie neuer suffereth the estate to liue in peace and alwaies furnisheth sufficient courage to the most busie and troublesome vnder that large pretence to mooue their ambitions Religio timor dei solus est qui custodit hominum inter se socie tatem Lactant. Alcibiade serued his turne there within Grecia Sertorius in Rome Ennus in Siria and Selurus in Italie The tranquillitie of the Common-wealth consisteth in the vnion and accord of the Cittizens take away this concord and it is but a piracie and a retraict of robbers and theeues the strongest band that vniteth mens minds is religion it is an adament that draweth a ring and that ring draweth an other vntill at last your chaine is fully accomplished it is the wood that entertaineth the fier of our amities it is the ciment that ioyneth the peeces of the building of our estate it is the heart of the Common-wealth take the brandes out of the fire and it will bee quenched the morter and stones from a house and it will fall vnloose the boordes of a ship and it will sinke into the water take the heart out of this bodie and it dieth And God who is trueth it selfe saith that kingdomes diuided shall be desolate dispearsed and ouerthrowne This ciuill life will sooner leaue the most necessarie elements fire and ayre and liue rather without life then voyde of religion Thr first foūdation of the estate and ciuil societis hath bene religion inuiolably obserued We finde people that neuer had kings and can well liue without them there are some that haue liued without lawes without warres and without learning but there is not any people that can maintaine or continue their estate without a certaine rule of the seruice of the God whom they adore the first foundations of Townes were placad vppon this rocke of religion and the Pagans with it had not had one foote of land therein to establish their lawes if religion had not first beene harboured among them In vaine Deucalion had planted his ordinances among the Grecians Licurgus among the Lacedemonians Yon and Solon among the Athenians and Romulus and Numa among the Romanes if they had not made the people beleeue that they came from heauen and that the Gods had written them and Moyses had neuer retained the people in their duties among so many trauerses and changes if he had not spoken of Ego Dominus and therefore Princes that desire to liue in peace and cause their estates to flourish neuer feared any thing so much as that their people should leaue their opinion once conceiued of the seruice of God He that remooueth this stone shaketh all the building An answere to the reasons of the league This is good before the people haue entered into a doubt of the religion which they followed but after they haue taken more liking in the new then in the olde what will you do There are certaine things that neuer go without shame and disorder that is naturally in them there are others which neuerthelesse are tollerable and reputed for iust because of the miserable vtiliue they breed to the Commōwealth adulteries periuries thefts and oppressions are things that are alwaies euill These euils causeth common bordels to be permitted within Townes to obey tyrants to contribute to the enemie to receiue such lawe as pleaseth them to suffer iniuries and consent to robbings ransomings and yet either not to falcifie our oathes promises vnder the which those things are permitted or to shun and auoyde greater dangers and inconueniences men allowe commend and authorise them It is well knowne why the Curtizans vnder the Popes nose are so great profit to the Cittie of Rome sinne or the nature and fragilitie of our sences doth push vs forward and that it is not so execrable as their brutish horror that filled the hospitall of Saint Iaques with incurable people at such time as the Pope Pius Quintus sought to put downe the bordell in Rome To shun the renuing of massacres whererin pesle-mesle the fury killeth destroyeth both Priest Minister and to restore quietnesse to France which after two or three droppes of colde sweate which shee is readie to yeeld with her last effects for a peace for a Common-wealth a Prince may permit the diuersitie of religiō which without these considerations would not bee tollerable Iustin draue the Arians out of Constantinople and all the East parts but Theodoric king of Italie sent Ambassadors vnto him to shewe him that if he restored them not

an armie vppon the frontiers of Lorraine against the returne of the Germaines that would come to haue some recompence for the cruelties by the league committed in the Counte of Mombeliard These articles were sent vnto the king mean time This warre continued till May 158● the forces of Lorraine continued warres against the Princes of Sedan a warre that raised a thousand curses against the league the thing not beeing so well iustified as the consideration of an innocents case made it seeme execrable and detested such as enterprised the same for entering vpon other mens boūds The king stayed for a time to resolue himselfe vppon the intentions of the Princes of the league and made shewe to consent vnto them And to say the trueth he was not in estate to oppose himselfe against them for that in the beginning of the league hauing permitted them to strike their hatchet into the florishing tree of Saint Lois the blow entered and made so great an ouerture that all fell in peeces Hee acknowledged the perilous consequence of his first fault And that hee agreed to the treatie of Nemours and to the breach of peace so to approoue the league Prognostications of de Mesnil Aubri 1560. He verified that which the Cassandrian Huguenots had so often sung hee sawe that the great credit which the Duke of Guise had goten among his subiects to the great diminishing of his owne did more increase that since he had left disobedience vnpunished rebellion was auouched and that from it would proceed some straunge change to shake the estate As many sillables as hee pronounced in reading those articles so many times his heart beat and moued in his bodie with an extraordinary feare saying in himselfe Considerations by the King had touching the articles of Nancy The league will haue me to bannish my seruants that are most affected vnto mee So the wolues desired the sheep to driue away the dogges that they might worke their willes That I should binde my selfe to their deuises and why to serue them for a bridge to enter vppon the royaltie that I should hatch the vipers within my bosome that should knawe my enteralles and vnder the flower deluce I should couer the crosses of Lorraine that of a king I become Generall of an armie that the people may know that seeing I haue not the courage to bee a Maister it is reason I should bee a seruant that if I haue not the stomacke to punish such as enterprise vpon mee they neyther haue shame nor feare to proceed therein it will haue mee ouerthrow and destroy those great persons that I loue and that belong vnto mee which beeing done what aduauncement would it bee either to mee or to the Common-wealth what is a forrest when the fairest trees bee cut downe but onely a place full of fushes what is a Realme when the greatest houses are ouerthrowne and impouerished onely a desart That I should agree and consent with them to make warre against such as are not of their league Who euer heard that any estate could long endure when it is diuided in two parts that haue weapon in hand and what will become of mine induring three or foure and that these two words of leaguers and Pollititians shall be as contagious therein as those of Guelphe and Gibelin that first sprang out a little Towne betweene two bretheren and spredde all ouer Italie among all the Princes Who shall defend mee vnder his partialities from the same slaunders that our neighbours of England and Germanie haue receiued I will haue no other part but mine owne and finde there is no better nor fairer then to bee a king I meane a king of France That I should cause the Councell of Trent to bee published I am content but this publication must not bee made by sound of trumpet or noyse of Cannon-shotte Hitherto my soueraigne Courts of Parliament neuer counselled mee vnto it for the preiudice I might induce into the liberties of my Crowne and franchises of the Cleargie of this Realme and fortaine Princes haue not receiued it but as farre as it was conformable to their willes and haue taken out of it the thornes that pricked them That I should establish the Inquisition at the least in all my Townes this word breedeth a feare in euery man The Inquisition was not inuented but against Infidelles for that after my auncestors had reduced Spaine to the Christian faith and that Pelages King of Castille perceiued himselfe not strong ynough to constraine Infidelles in their consciences hee permitted them the libertie thereof for certaine yearely tribute Long after Ferdinand of Arragon perceiuing that by the patching of so many superstitions both of the Sinagogue and the Alcaron of Christian religion beganne to be corrupted he determined to constraine thē to be Baptized or to leaue the country such as to stay that made more account of their liuings then their consciences purged not themselues so well of their errors but that there rested some dregges of their first opinions which they held by succession from their auncestors and desired rather like the Duke of Friezland to go to hell with their sects then to Paradice without them For men do hardly forgo the religion by them learned from their cradles the more they are afflicted to make them leaue it so much the more they harden their mindes against torments the more the exercise is forbidden them the more they seeke it and the more they are mooued the more they stirre they began to informe against them whereof the Iacobins as then newly produced into the Church by Saint Domenicke ful of doctrine and religion had the charge who imployed prayers and exhortations and would not vse violent purgations thereby not to stirre vppe an aboundance of humours that might stop the heart or the liuer this peaceablenesse and toleration being daungerous in the Church they beganne to vse rigor against those miserable Marians vnder the name of Inquisition and since that it hath been exercised against such as are not sound in Catholicque religion The formes since that time added therevnto are very straunge as the length of proceeding to aunsweres the voluntary confessions of those that are accused the slaunders and boldnesse of their officers called Flyes the prison vnder ground soule obscure and fearefull the punishment with trochelles and wheeles the sinewes the water and the fron the yealow Casocke without sleeues painted full of diuels which they call Saubenite the myter gagge and the cord and that which is the last part of this pittifull tragedie the fire haue made this inquisition which I thinke necessary in Spaine so strange vnto the Flemmings and so detestable to the Frenchmen that the Frenchmen will rather a thousand times indure that which the Flemmings haue suffered then subiect themselues vnto it to establish this inquisition among the light toyes of the Frenchmen the liberties we possesse within these thirtie yeares and the curiosities that

are proceeded within two fingers neare to an infamous and woorthie rebellion The Duke of Guise protesting his innocencie and imputing all those mischiefes not to the will of the king but to the force and violence of his euill Councell saith that hee was extreamly sorrie that the king by his departure out of Parris had made him loose so good and happie an occasion The Duke of Guise his protestation thereby to let him see what his zeale and will was for the seruice of his Maiestie that hee was readie to make proofe thereof in his absence resolued with his life to redeeme the authoritie which his Councell had taken from him with the quietnesse and comfort of the Towne for the suretie whereof hee besought the Queene-mother to bee a meane The election of the prouost for the marchants That done they proceeded to the election of a Prouost of Merchants and Sheriffes in places of those that are lesse affected to the intents of the League then to the aduancement of the kings affaires and their oathes were taken by the Queene-mother against whose will they discharged diuers Collonelles Captaines and Quarter-maisters the litle troupe of zealous Catholicques called the sixteene busied themselues much in those publike actions eyther to shew the excesse of their ouer boyling loue or violent hatred They tooke order for the assistance of the places adioyning to Parris and among others Meux and Melun they aduertised forraine Princes and the good Townes of all that had passed still iustifying themselues they made searches in Parris against all those that were not of their conspiracie the Pollititians good Frenchmen such as foresawe the inconueniences that threatned this Monarchie by the impetuositie of her mutenies were sifted and cast into the ashes of their hatred This monster with sixteene heads that should teare the authoritie of lawes began to cause it selfe to bee feared neuerthelesse the least aduised that knew that Parris without the king is a bodie without strength lamented his departure The Capueins finde the King in their processions They sent the Capucins in procession to Chartres thereby to defend the blows of the kings chollor to put water into the fire that others had kindled to reclaim the tempests of his iust indignatiō And therwith they sent some of the most account of all the Orders in the Cittie to desire him with all humilitie not to remit the innocencie of the Citizens of Parris to the iudgement of their enemies to consider the iust causes that had constrained the people to defend themselues to bannish from his eares all contrary reports and aduises not to deferre his returne to Parris wherein hee should bee receiued with as many applaudings and reioycings as his subiects had greefes when they vnderstood of his departure and where he should finde better seruants then those that had counselled him to destroy them and so to depart The Queen-mother present deputies to the King The Queene-mother was the head of this message and when the Deputies arriued at Chartres shee presented them to the king that heard their Oration wherein they acknowledged their fault And falling downe at his Maiesties feete spake as followeth An Oration of the Deputies of Parris made to the King at Chartres SIr the dutie honour respect feare and obedience that wee owe vnto your Maiestie maketh vs desire not to come before your presence but onely in all humilitie submission to craue the happy continuance of your Graces good fauour without beeing so bolde as once to open our mouthes to vtter any complaint or daring although in a iust cause to hazard the vsing of free speeches that might neuer so litle be offensiue vnto your Maiestie and for this cause those that sent vs had determined that wee intercession for vs and for more dignitie and reuerence to interpose her selfe between vs and your Grace But it hath pleased you to will her to send vs vnto you promising to giue vs peaceable audience which hath caused vs not onely to continue the submissions due vnto your Maiestie but to satisfie your commaundement to appeare before your presence Then one speaking for all saide Sir I will not rehearse the protestations by the Princes made vnto you as well of the honour which they do beare you as of their greefe for your Graces absence neither will I preuent those which the Deputies of Parris heere present will shewe you but onely certifie your Maiestie that wee are the bearers of the memoriall which it hath pleased you to send for chosen to that end not that wee esteeme of our own sufficiencies specially my selfe or for other considerations but onely as being men notoriously exempted from any suspitions of particular passions in that which concerneth the principall poynts of this request Where if in the generall common greefe your Maiestie findeth any proposition somewhat freer and bolder then ordinary wee beseech you most humbly to remember your commaundement the proper interest of your seruice and the sorrowes of your poore subiects your clemencie permitteth vs to shew our greefe and that which most oppresseth vs is the dammage and preiudice that these last accidents among others haue procured to the seruice of your Maiestie in such sort that if wee speake otherwise then becommeth vs wee shall resemble him that hauing beene dumbe all his life beginneth not to speake but when hee seeth the sword drawne to his father and his king For then nature breaketh the obstacles and cryeth out saying Hurt not the king The passion and desire wee haue to your seruice as our father our King our Maister and our Lord causeth vs for that purpose to breake our long silence and to vse the like crie saying Hurt not the king separate him not from his good subiects his Nobilitie the Officers of his Crowne his Princes his Courts soueraigne his treasures not his greatnesse Take not from him the honour of his zeale his pietie his iustice his Clemencie his mildenesse his goodnesse and his humanitie so much renowmed experimented and commmeded For if at any time heeretofore it hath been done surely by this last accident of Parris it was in more daunger then euer it was which causeth vs to speake with much such affection in that it threatned vs with the like daunger And in such manner that if your Maiestie had knowne the sequell thereof you might haue seene sufficient whereby to discerne what cause wee haue to mourne but for that you knowe it not wee are in greater hope your Maiestie wil the better accept the humble petitions of your poore innocent subiects which appeale and inuoke your ayde in this world onely next after God against those who abusing your authoritie wold so shamefully destroy and massacre vs. The thing I haue in charge to present vnto your Maistie in the behalfe of the Princes is so true that they offer to iustifie the same when it pleaseth you to commaund In this concurrence of so many