^ PRINCETON, N. J. '^^ 
 
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 Division N-<^ . . 
 
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 •S'/5i?^ Number V , (^ 
 

 A Compendious 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 Reformation in France^ 
 
 ANDOFTHE 
 
 Reformed Churches in that Kingdom. 
 
 FROM 
 
 The Firft Beginnings of the Reformation-, 
 T o T H E 
 Repealing of the Edidt of NANT!2. 
 
 WITH 
 
 An A CC O U N T of the late Perfecution of the 
 French Pfoteftants under Letsois XIV. Extradled 
 out of the beil Authorities. 
 
 A WORK never before Publifhed. . 
 
 By the Reverend ^ 
 
 STEPHEN ABEL LAVAL, 
 
 One of the Minifters of the United Chapels of Cajile-Jireet 
 and Berwlck-Jireet. 
 
 ^~ Vol.1l 
 
 Bifcite Jufiitiam monitiy nee temnite Numen. 
 
 LONDON.' 
 Printed by H. Woodfall, for the A U TH O R 
 Mdccxxxvjhi. 
 
O ye Meriy are not Women ftrong P great 
 is the Earthy high is the Heave?!^ fwijt is 
 the Sun in his Courfe, for he compaffeth the 
 Heavens round about, and fetcheth his Courfe 
 again to his own Place in one Day. Is he 
 not great that maketh thefe Things ? I'herefore 
 great is the %ruihy and Jlronger than all 
 things. All the Earth calletb upon 'the T^ruth, 
 and the Heaven blejjeth it, all Works /hake 
 and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighte- 
 ous thing. Wine is wicked, the King is wicked^ 
 Women are wicked \ all the Children of Men are 
 wicked, andfuch are all their wicked Works ; 
 and there is no Truth in them ; in their Un- 
 righteoufnefs alfo they fhall perifi. As for the 
 Truth it endureth, and is always Jlrong., itli- 
 veth and conquereth for evermore. With her 
 there is no accepting ofPerfons, or Rewards, but 
 Jhe doth the things that are jufl, andrefrai- 
 nethfrom all unjuji and wicked things, and all 
 Men do well like of her Works. Neither in her 
 yudgtnent is any Unrighteoufnefs, and fie is the 
 Strength, Kingdom, Bower and Majejiy of all 
 Ages, Blefed be the God of Truth. The firil 
 Apocryphal Book ofEJdraSy ch. iv. 17.34,-40. 
 
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(ix) 
 
 THE 
 
 PREFACE 
 
 WE have obferved in the former 
 Volume, that from the tenth Cen- 
 tury, the Chriftian World groan- 
 ed under the tyrannical Yoke of the Roman 
 See ; the grofs Errors that had almoft fwal- 
 lowed up the true Dodtrine of the , Gofpel ; 
 the enormous Corruption of the Difciplinej 
 the exorbitant Ufurpations of the Popes ; 
 their tyrannical Government ; their Pride, 
 Avarice and Luxury j the Clergy's Igno- 
 rance and DifTolutenefs, had rendered the 
 Face of the Church entirely defpicable, and 
 called aloud for a Reformation in the Head 
 as well as in the Members ; when Luther, 
 full of Indignation, on account of Teze- 
 lius's Impudence in publifhing the Indul- 
 gences in Germany, oppofed him publickly 
 in the Year 15 16. He was foon after fol- 
 lowed by the moft eminent for Learning and 
 
 Piety 
 
^he P R E I* A C E. 
 piety all over Europe : for the Time ap- 
 pointed by God was come, and the Son of 
 God's Harveft was full ripe. 
 
 We have feen that, efpecially in France, 
 the Light of the Golpel was kindled a-new, 
 whereto they oppofed, as in every other 
 place, Fire and Sword. Neverthelefs Fran- 
 cis 1. was almofl: perfuaded to confent to a 
 Reformation in tlia Church ; and even he 
 fent into Germany, Langey, one of the 
 greatefl Men of his Age, in order to confer 
 
 with' Me L AN CH TON, BUCER, OECOLAM- 
 
 PADE, »and fome others j nay, he wrote to 
 them, deiiring their beft Advice upon that 
 Subjei^l. But whereas he flood in need of 
 the Pope againft Charles V. he dropt that 
 Defi^n, and th^ Perfecution grew fiercer 
 than before. 
 
 Henry II. his Son went on in perfecuting 
 the- Reformed, even with a greater Fury 
 than the King his Father, fave only that 
 while he flood in need of the Proteflant 
 Princes of Germany againfl the Pope and 
 the Emperor, he was obliged to relent du- 
 ring that Time ; but Peace being made be- 
 tWcert .Pr^nct and Spain, the Perfecution 
 grew fiercer, and would have exceeded thofc ' 
 of Decius and Dioclelian, had not tht un- 
 expected Death of that Prince put an end 
 to it. 
 
 'Tis true, thdt und^r Francis II. Fires 
 were altiiofl: extinguifli'd throughput the 
 Kingdom J but it was for pet-fecu ting the 
 Reformed more cruelly in anothet Mariner 
 
 and 
 
The Preface. )^ 
 
 and under other Pretences, whereby they 
 intended to deprive them of the Glory of 
 Martyrdom. 
 
 And whereas they were affociated with 
 thofe that complained of the Mal-Adminif- 
 tration of the Government, and petitioned 
 for Redrefs, they were charged with High 
 Treafon, and the Perfecution fell more ef- 
 pecially upon thofe of the higheft Rank, 
 being very fenfible that thefe being once 
 taken out of the way, the reft would fall 
 of it felf. The Providence of God inter- 
 vened again on that occalion, and at the 
 very nick of time, when the fatal Blow 
 was ready to ftrike oiF the Chief, the young 
 King Francis departed this Life ; the Car- 
 dinal of Lorrain wondering at this providen-. 
 tial Prefervation of one of the firft Princes of 
 the Blood, could not forbear exclaim- 
 ing as the Magicians of Egypt, Certain- 
 ly HERE IS THE FiNGER OF GoD ! 
 
 Soon after the Face and Council of France 
 feemed quite altered. 
 
 Charles IXth fucceeded to the Crown, 
 and the Reformed of every Rank were in 
 fuch vaft numbers in all the Provinces of 
 the Kingdom, notwithftanding the for*, 
 mer bloody Perfecutions they had un^ 
 dergone, that it was thought proper for 
 the Welfare of the State to preferve them, 
 and to hearken to their juft Petitions, 
 Therefore it was advifed to confer with 
 them about the Points controverted between 
 them and the Catholicks (and left the Pope 
 I ihould 
 
^\i I'he Preface. 
 
 (hould be offended at the Name of a Na- 
 tional Council, it went by that of a Col- 
 loque or Conference) and then to alfemble 
 the General States of the Kingdom, to re- 
 folve.upon what ihould be determined in 
 that, Conference. Accordingly it was held 
 at PbiiTy in September 1561, and lafted 
 three Months : There the Minifters enter'd 
 in Djfputation with the Prelates, before the 
 King, the Queen-Regent, the Princes of 
 the Blood, and a numerous Affembly of the 
 greateft Lords, and the Notables of the 
 Kingdom j they agreed upon the Refor- 
 mation of feveral Articles, and even upon 
 that of the Holy Supper, which they con- 
 ilrued in fuch Words, that both Parties 
 were ready to fubfcribe, when the Sorbonne, 
 at the Cardinal of Tournon's inftigation, 
 difavowed what had been done by the Pre- 
 lates and Divines, holding to that Maxim 
 of i Rome, ^hat to CQiiJhit to the Reformation 
 of any Jingle Artie hy is to declare ones felf 
 guilty of Error in all others. 
 
 Therefore, as- they could not proceed 
 any further, it was refolved to put the Sub- 
 jed:s in a way of living peaceably together ; 
 and for that end the Edi6t of the 17th of 
 January 1562, was publifhed, whereby the 
 free and publick Exercife of their Religion 
 was granted to the Reformed. 
 
 But the boundlefs and reftlefs Ambition 
 ofthe Houfe of Guife, would not fuffer 
 fhem to forefee the Peace and Tranquillity 
 
 ■^M hi- which 
 
 -ni 
 
The Preface. xiii 
 
 which the Kingdom was to enjoy on ac- 
 count of that Edid:, without fretting and 
 gnafhing their Teeth. Had the two Par- 
 ties, the Catholicks and the Reformed, a- 
 greed together in a mutual Forbearance, and 
 mutual Endeavours to procure the Welfare 
 of the Kingdom, and reftore it to its ■ an- 
 cient Splendor, the Cardinal of Lorrain 
 and the Duke of Guife his Brother, would 
 have feen their vaft Projedis falling to the 
 Ground. Therefore they muft devife fome 
 Pretence or other for defeating the good 
 and piouslntentions of the wholefomeft,nay, 
 the greateft Part of the Kingdom : None 
 but that of Religion could anfwer their 
 Ends J it is a very tender Point to every 
 Man that has any Confcience left j fo they 
 took hold of that, and Men that had no 
 Senfe at all of Duty or Religion, began to 
 cry out, that the Church was in Danger ; 
 that Keligion was upon the Brink of its ut~ 
 ter De/iruBion, ij not timely fecured from it. 
 They wanted not EmifTaries in every Pro- 
 vince, who took care to inftil fuch Fears 
 and Jealoufies in the Minds of the People, 
 and having fecured to their Intereft the firft 
 Prince of the Blood, the Conftable, and 
 the Marlhal of St. Andrew^ and taken other 
 Meafures without the Kingdom, which 
 they thought neceffary, they began the Tra- 
 gedy by the cruel and bloody Mallacre of 
 the Reformed at VafTy, which was, as it 
 were, the Specimen of their rebellious Dif- 
 
 pofitions_, 
 
^Jy ^he Preface. 
 
 pofition?, the Alarm-Bel 1 which excited all 
 the Kingdom, and armed the French one 
 againft another, and the Signal of all thofe 
 dreadful Calamities concomitant with the 
 Civil Wars, efpecially when Religion is the 
 Pretence thereof. 
 
 Of thefe Things I have undertaken to 
 give a (hort Account in this prefent Volume. 
 It would be needlefs to apologize here for 
 this firft taking of Arms by the Reformed, 
 fince all the Conditions that may ren- 
 der lawful fuch an Ad:, are to be met 
 with in this their Condud: : The manifeft 
 OpprefHon of fome petty Tyrants that 
 endeavoured to raife their Graiideur upon the 
 Ruin of their Sovereign's, and to fettle their 
 Authority at the cofl of the King's ; the 
 exprefs and politive Command of the high- 
 eft Power, to whom the fupreme Authority 
 of Governing was devolved by the Ge- 
 neral Confent of thofe that had an undoubt- 
 ed Right of chufing their Governor during 
 a Minority, I mean the Queen-Regent: 
 Laftly, their Readinefs to lay down their 
 Arms, whenever they could forefee, that 
 in fo doing, the Peace and Tranquillity of 
 the Kingdom, and the Liberty of their Con- 
 fciences could be fecured. Thefe Things, I 
 lay, are more than fufficient to vindicate 
 their Innocence, without any further Apo-^ 
 logy -y and if any of my Readers think pro- 
 per to fubjoin to this, King Charles IXth's 
 Letter to the SenefchaKhip of Thouloufe, as 
 
 related 
 
related in the Article of that City, aad his 
 Thanks to the Inhabitants of Nimes after 
 the publifhing of the Edid: of Peace, he will 
 find in both Matter for wondering at the 
 Boldnefs and Barefacednefs of fome Jefuits, 
 who did not fcruple to charge the Reform- 
 ed with being the Authors and Abettors of 
 this firft Civil War, and take occalion froofi 
 it for fpeaking of them as if their Principles 
 tended to Sedition and Rebellion againft law-* 
 ful Powers. 
 
 But fome will fay, perhaps, What need 
 have we to renew the Remembrance of 
 thefe pall Calamities? Would itnot have been, 
 better to have them buried in an eternal Ob- 
 livion ? To what purpofe to recall the Me- 
 mory of fo many tragical Events, which 
 can only fill the Mind with Sorrow, Grief 
 and Indignation ? For the Honour of the 
 French, nj^y, of the Chriftian Name, was ijt_ 
 hot to be wifhed for, that the Memory of 
 all thofe Barbarities fhould be aboliflied, 
 and that the Books written upon that Sub- 
 ject fhould be cafi: into the Fire ? So it may 
 be that I fhall be charged with an Intent 
 and Defign of awakening and exciting the 
 Pafliops, and of keeping up the Fire of Hatred 
 and Revenge, when I relate in this Hiftory 
 the blackeft Adions traniaded and perpe- 
 trated in France in the i6th Century. A- 
 bominable Time indeed ! in coraparilbn of 
 whijsh.the prefent Age may be reckoned as a 
 
 Golden 
 
xvi ^he PRBF AC£. 
 
 Golden Age, tho* very far remote from 
 true Virtue. 
 
 This is an Objedlion which Bayle hath 
 propofed to liimfelf in the Article of his 
 Di6lionary wherein he fpeaks of Macon. 
 Richard Dinoth did the fame about a 
 hundred Years before ; each of them has 
 anfwered and endeavoured to fatisfy his Rea- 
 der as well as himfelf, according to his pe- 
 culiar way of Reafoning. 
 
 This is indeed a fpecious Objection ; I 
 own that a Man who has any Senfe of 
 Humanity left cannot read without Horror 
 the Relation of fuch cruel and barbarous 
 Actions as thofe perpetrated, efpecially in 
 this firfl: Civil War : For how little foever 
 Inclination he hath to the Peace of the 
 Church, he will avoid carefully whatever 
 is apt to renew Wounds that are not well 
 healed 5 and one muft be adluated by an 
 evil Spirit, who undertake sto renew the Re- 
 membrance of certain Adlions odious by 
 themfelves, moved to that only by the Plea- 
 fure (unworthy of an upright Man) of 
 publiming them, or for making a Show of 
 his vaft Reading. 
 
 But this is not the Cafe at prefent j the 
 Sores of the Reformed Church are not heal- 
 ed at all J they are grown wider and wider 
 fince the middle of the laft Century ; the 
 Roads of Sion mourn ftill. As yet there is. 
 no Agreement at all between the Proteftant 
 or the Reformed, and the Catholick. Nay, 
 
 fuch 
 
The Preface. xvii 
 
 fuch an Agreement is impoffible, unlefs 
 the one or the other do renounce his Prin- 
 ciples 5 unlefs the Catholick would renounce, 
 or the Reformed would fubmit himfelf to 
 Human Authority in matters of Faith. 
 
 We may then very lawfully i nay, we 
 are bound in Duty and Confcience to pub- 
 lifh the many Injuftices and Cruelties we 
 have undergone 5 and whereas thofe by 
 whom we have been fo hardly dealt with, 
 have done nothing in that refpe(5t, but out 
 of Principles of their Religion, thofe for the 
 fake of whom we have written an Account 
 of them, ought to be thankful for the 
 Warning we do give them here, and which 
 is grounded upon our own fad Experience, 
 to the end that they fhould be cautious how 
 they treat with the Roman Catholicks, and 
 that they would take fuch Securities with 
 them, as it fhould be out of their Power to 
 break their Faith ; feeing that it is hifto- 
 rically demonftrated, that they will fland 
 by their Treaties no longer than they (hall 
 find their account in them, or be out of 
 Condition of breaking them. 
 
 That Decree of the Conftantian Council^ 
 That Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks ; 
 hath it ever been repealed ? This Decifion, 
 That one may do any things howjoever unjuji 
 in it felf\ if it is done for the good of the 
 Churchy (whereby the Roman Church is 
 meant) it becomes lawful-, hath it ever 
 been condemned } And tho' the Pope's Au- 
 VoL. IL b thority 
 
xviii The Preface. 
 
 thority doth not ftretch itfelf fo far noW^a- 
 days, as it did in the i6th Century, hath 
 he not ftill Power enough, to difturb the 
 Peace of Chri fiend om, by the means of his 
 Enaiflfarics, whenever he lliali be pleafed to 
 make ufe of them ? Alas ! a fingle trufly 
 ConfefTor is enough for that : For if a Prince 
 of the Roman Communion takes a Fancy 
 for another Man's Wife, the Proteftant and 
 Reformed will be at that ConfefTor's mer- 
 cy, becaufe, in order to expiate his Peni- 
 tent's Crime, he will enjoin him for a Pe- 
 nar.ce, to invade his Neighbour's Dominions, 
 to carry Fire and Sword into Countries, 
 where they thought of nothing elfe but to 
 Hve quietly, and to deflroy utterly what he 
 calls the Hereticks. JVhy, is it fo long 
 ilnce we have feen Inftances of this, to have 
 them fo foon forgotten ? Or the Principles 
 and Maxims of the Church of Rome in that 
 refpe6l, are they fo far altered from 30 or 
 40 Years ago, that we might believe that 
 w^hat hath happened heretofore, fliall not 
 happen any more hereafter ? As long as the 
 fame Principles do fubfifl, as long as the De- 
 crees of the Councils are not repealed, is it 
 not reafonable to think that the fame Caufes 
 will produce the fame Effecfls ? 
 
 It is then needful to fet forth thele dread- 
 ful Effedis before the Eyes of thofe, who 
 / for having felt them but very little, or not 
 at all, have but very indifferent Notions of 
 them, and even but fuch a one that the leafl 
 
 Breeze 
 
1'he Preface. xix 
 
 Breeze of Profperity, is able to blot it out 
 of their Minds j it is proper to let them 
 know, that after God, they are beholden 
 to the excellent Conftitution of their Go- 
 vernment, that Liberty whereof they enjoy 
 for the Temporal, as well as for the Spiri- 
 tual. Had it not been for that Conftitution, 
 they would have been expofed, as many of 
 us have been, to the Miferies of a tedious 
 Exile, or they would groan under the Yoke 
 of a Slavery, which neither we nor our Fore- 
 fathers could bear with. 
 
 Befides that, what Dinoth cfeferves is very 
 true. Wars are Scourges whereby God Al- 
 mighty punifhes the Sins of Men; and the 
 Relation of the great Calamities they bring 
 upon Nations, are fo many Demon flrations 
 of his Providence and Juftice, whereby Peo- 
 ple ought to be brought to a ferious A- 
 mendment of Life. 
 
 Whoever fhall rightly confider every 
 Tranfacflion in the War, will evidently fee 
 the mighty Providence of God. For what can 
 we fay, when we fee that after feveral ma- 
 ture Confutations and Deliberations, all the 
 Schemes of the Cabinet Council fo wifely 
 laid for the Management of an unavoidable 
 War, or the Operations of a Campaign, are 
 defeated by unforefeen Accidents ; nay, 
 fometimes by the moft trifling ones, when 
 what feemed the propereft means for a- 
 voiding a Danger, prove to be the reverfe 5 
 when ftout and refolute Men^ inured to 
 b 2 ArmSj 
 
XX *^^^^ Preface. 
 
 Arms, feiz'd with a Panick, forget that 
 they are Soldiers, and fuffer themfelves to 
 be {lain Uke Cowards : What can we fay to 
 this, but that human Prudence is fometimes 
 over-ruied by Providence ? Cato wondered 
 at the Victories of JuHus Casfar Enemy to 
 his Country, and Pompeius queftioned 
 whether there was any Providence at all s 
 becaufe they knew not that, for the Sins of 
 the Land, Kingdoms are transferred, and 
 that all States and Commonwealths have 
 fome fatal Period. Boadicea fighting for 
 the Liberty of her Country, bemoaned the 
 Fate of the Roman Empire, to be gover- 
 ned by fuch a Monfter as Nero, becaufe flie 
 knew not that for the Sins of the People, 
 and by a jufi: Jr.dgment of God, who pu- 
 nifhes Sins by other Sins, he fuffers the 
 Wicked to be exalted and rule. When 
 we fee the Tyranny of Princes and Great 
 Ones to h't chaftifed by the Fiercenefs of 
 their Subjects j and the Haugbtinefs and 
 Infolence of a Nation humbled by the 
 Courage of valiant Heroes; are we not for- 
 ced to acknowledge that the Lord God is 
 juft, and righteous his Judgments, becaufe 
 there is no reJ^eSi of Perjbns with him. When 
 the mighty Cities are overthrown, wealthy 
 People plundered and pillaged, and invin- 
 cible Nations forced to bear the Yoke of 
 an Enemy ; is it not plain that God is a 
 fevere Avenger of Pride, Luxury and Info- 
 lence } Wars are then fo tnany Decrees of 
 
 God's 
 
Jhe Preface. xxi 
 
 God's Juftice, which we cannot avert but 
 by Repentance, and a fincere Amendment 
 of Life. 
 
 Whereas then we fee that the Vices and 
 deteflable Ads whereat Princes and Ma- 
 giftrates connive, do not go unpunifhed, 
 but are feverely chaftifed at the Hands of 
 God, by the greatell Calamities of the War, 
 fhall we not learn to fear his mighty 
 Wrath, and to avert his Judgment by a 
 fmcere Repentance? That is the great Be- 
 nefit we muft reap from our reading the 
 Hiflory ; thefe things we muft obferve ; 
 thereupon we muft dwell, rather than upon 
 the Triumphs and Trophies of the Great 
 Captains and Heroes. 
 
 Certain it is, that the Crimes of the 
 French Nation were come to their height, 
 in the 50 laft Years of the Houfe of Va- 
 lois, the Corruption of the Court which 
 fpreadeth it felf over all the States of the 
 Realm, and from the Plead communicated 
 itfelf to all the Members, efpecially under 
 the two laft Reigns, was fuch, that Mdr^ 
 ^oilliers Biiliop of Orleans, tho' a great Fa- 
 vourite, and not over fcrupulous, declined 
 to write the Hiftory of his own Time, un- 
 der Pretence, that he was too faithful a Ser- 
 "uant to the Kings his Majiers, for under- 
 taking fuch a Work. He could find nothing 
 in the whole Courfe of Charles IX. and 
 Henry Ill's Reigns, but what would reflea- 
 a Shame upon their Memory. No wonder 
 
 then 
 
xxii 'The Pre FACE. 
 
 then if God grieved with that Generation, 
 dealt with the Houfe of Valois, and t^e 
 whole Kingdom, as if he had fworn unto 
 the firft, their utter Deilrudion, and unto 
 the latter their Slavery under the Spanifh 
 tyrannical Yoke, to be no more a Nation, 
 a brave and wealthy People, but the Drud- 
 ges of the Spaniards ! 
 
 Happy thofe who gratefully acknowledg- 
 ing the ineftimable Bleffings they enjoy, 
 endeavour to fecure them to themfelves and 
 their Pofterity, by a conftant Application 
 to their feveral Duties, as Chriftians, as 
 Patriots, and as Men, in the feveral Stations 
 of their Lives, and the feveral Relations 
 they have in the Society, and carefully a^ 
 void all thofe Vices and Crimes, Impiety, 
 Profanation, Luxury, Lewdnefs, and other 
 fuch, which are a certain Prognoftick of 
 the near Fall of the greateft Empires, 
 when tolerated or countenanced. 
 
 Nov^^ I mufl fay a Word of this Volume; 
 it contains only the Hiflory of the iirfl 
 Civil War in France of the i6th Century. 
 I intended at firft to infert in this Volume, 
 the Hiflory of all our Civil Wars, from 
 1562, down to the Edid: of Nantz, in 1598, 
 but fuch an Abridgement would not have 
 anfwered our End, viz. the Information of 
 thofe that have not had Opportunity of read- 
 ing the Hiflory of our Country written by 
 7bua?jusy2ind fome other impartial Hiflorians. 
 Therefore, thinking my felf obliged to be 
 more particular in feveral Articles, than a 
 
 bare 
 
T/&^ Tr E F A CE. xxiii 
 
 bare Abridgment could allow, I Kavc di- 
 vided into two Volumes, what I defigned 
 at firft to publiih in one ; and if any one of 
 my Subfcribers fhould think that a fordid 
 Interefl hath been the Reafon that hath in- 
 duc'd me to alter my Scheme, my Com- 
 fort is, that there is not one of them with 
 whom I have the Happinefs or Honour to 
 be acquainted, but w^ill readily acquit 
 me from fuch a bafe and fliameful Inten- 
 tion. As for the remaining Volumes, 
 there will be two and no more, as big as 
 the firft. 
 
 Belides I'huanus, Bezaj lyAubigne^ &c. 
 out of which efpecially I have extracted 
 what I have written in the Firft Volume, 
 in this I have made ufe of the Memoirs 
 o{ Michel de Cafielnau Lord of Mauviff'erej 
 La Noue's political and military Difcourfes, 
 Richard Dinoth of the Civil Wars in 
 France^ and a few other co-temporary 
 Hiftorians. The firft was a Man no 
 lefs confpicuous for his Integrity, and 
 his great Sagacity in the Management 
 of the publick Affairs, wherewith he was 
 intrufted, than for his Birth, and the great 
 Employments to which his great Merit 
 had raifed him : He was much diftinguifh- 
 ed in Queen Elizabeth's Court -, and that 
 great Princefs, who was certainly a good 
 Judge of true Merit, had a very great value 
 for him : He came over to England feveral 
 times as AmbafTador of France, and was 
 charged with Negociations of the nicefl 
 
 na- 
 
XXIV 
 
 ^he Preface. 
 nature : Such as, the Marriage of one oi 
 the King's Brothers with Queen Elizabeth, 
 and the Affairs of Mary Queen of Scot- 
 lajid and Dowager of France. He wrote his 
 Memoirs for the ufe of his Son, but he does 
 not go further than the Year 1570. They 
 were publiflied for the firfl Time in 1659, 
 by Agricola (he Labour eur) Prior of "Ju^ 
 ^vigncy with confiderable Additions, , and 
 Commentaries of his own. He was a Man 
 in every refpedl quahfied for fuch an Un- 
 dertaking, fave only that he had too much 
 of that Pride common to the Roman Ca- 
 thohck Authors, whenever they write any 
 thing concerning the Reformed Party, that 
 mufl be forgiven to their Education ; efpe- 
 cially when in other refped:s they do Juf- 
 tice to every one without partiaUtyj and 
 it is what the Prior of Juvigre has done 
 in many places of his Additions. The 
 2d Edition of 173 1, printed at Bruxelles, 
 in 3 Volumes Folio, is that whereof I have 
 made ufe in this Volume. The Great and 
 Illuftrious Francis De La None, furnamed 
 Iron-Arm, wrote his political and mi- 
 htary Difcourfes in a Dungeon, where he 
 was kept by the Spaniards always very 
 little acquainted with Humanity j he was 
 taken by them Prifoner of War at Ingel* 
 monfter, in the Year 1580, detained and 
 ufed very cruelly till the Year 1585: He 
 was a Man of luch Integrity and Honour, 
 that one might entirely depend upon his , 
 
 Word 
 
^e Preface. xxv 
 
 Word and Credit 5 his Character will find 
 its proper Place in our Fifth Book, which 
 fhall be the firft of our next Volume. As to 
 Richard Dinoth he was a Norman, and pub- 
 'lifhed his Hiflory in Latin in the Year 1582. 
 He tells us himfelf that he hath received 
 a great Help in his Compolition, efpecial- 
 ly from two other Authors; the one has 
 written the Ecclefiaftical Hiflory from 
 the Year 1522, to the Year 1563, (afid 
 that is the Hiflory that goes under the Name 
 of Beza:) The other has written the Hi- 
 flory of Fr^zwf^, from the Year 1550, to 
 the Year 1577, {and that muft be LaPope^ 
 liniere.) Befides that, he was himfelf Eye- 
 witnefs of many things he has related. 
 Bayle tells us in his Article of Dinoth, That 
 that Hiflorian has written without being too 
 much prepofTefTed with Paflion, and certainly 
 every one that reads this Hiflory, muft fub- 
 fcribe readily to Bayle's Judgment ; he did 
 likewife publifh a Hiflory of the Civil Wars 
 of the Low-Countries, printed at Bafil, in 
 1580, or 1586; for I have not feen this, 
 and the Catalogue of Oxford don't ag ee 
 with the Edition which Bayle did make ufe 
 of in his Time, 
 
 Whereas I have afcribed the Critical Re- 
 marks on Bayle's Didionary, to the Learned 
 jSociety of Trevoux, I think my felf obliged 
 in Honour to declare here, that I have no 
 other Authority forfuch an AfTertion, oiUy 
 
 Vol.il c Lkar- 
 
^]^vi ^e Preface.' 
 
 Hear-fay j but if I am miftaken, I am ready 
 to give whatever Satisfaction fhall be thought 
 proper, by irppartial Judges. 
 
 Tho' this Volume is more corredl than 
 the firfl, as to the Language, neverthelefs 
 I could not quite forget that I am a French- 
 pian ; and therefore I beg the Forbearance 
 of my Reader for the Galli^ifms. 
 
 HISTORY * 
 
Errata. 
 
 *the ^Reader is ntoji humbly defired to take Notice 
 of thefe Errata, in thefirfi Vol. 
 
 PAge 21. Line 21. Wirtemberg, read WitLemberg. pu 
 327. 1.6. fpeaking of Baron de Ranty, itisfaid, (who 
 was afterwards Duke of Sully) that is a grofs Miftake j t 
 can't tell whether it is my own, or thp Copift's fault j how- 
 ever the leaft underftanding Man in the French Hiftory, 
 knows, that the firft Duke of Sylly, was Maximilian of Be- 
 thune. Baron of Rofny, created puke of Sully, by Hen- 
 ry ly. as we Ihall fee hereafter! 
 
^he Reader is mcji humbly defirei to take Notice^ 
 of tbefe Errata, for this Second Volume, 
 
 PAge 1 8. Line \\. fecure readfafe. p. 22. 1. zo.ijuhyfo? 
 hadf read why fo, had. p. 41. 1. 26. leaji read left. p. 
 49-1. 10. lojing read loofing. p. 55. 1. i5./r/?read fifth. 
 ■p. gz.l. '^l. CaJlelnaUf d^ Jrry, read Caftelnau d'Arry. p, 
 94. 1. 35. to leave, read to avoid, p. 100. 1. l- frighted, 
 read frightned. p. 104. 1. 6. to your, add Service, p. 1 15. 
 1. 18. lajfy, read Talfy. p. 116. 1. 2 & 3. /^ ^hkh he 
 nvas to rule him/elf, read whereby he was to govern him- 
 felf. p. 145, laft line, //i««</(i?r^d', read plundered, p. 15?. 
 1. 28. that be, read that fhould be. p. 173. 1. 2. for fear 
 leaji, readied, p. 187.!. 10. Jlbret, read D'Albret. p. 
 208. \.f).fenJibleofit. Ne'verthelefs, r^Zid. fenfible of it, ne- 
 vertheleis. p. 238. l.j. ^whence, iffr . read thence he came 
 to a place unknown to him. p. 239. 1. 13. hinted at, read 
 hitted at. p. 245, I. z. todeed, read indeed, 1. 3. alqnxjed 
 read allowed, 1. i^.nuUe, read quite, p. 249. 1. 16. leafi 
 the Princess Underjianding, read left the Prince's Party un- 
 derftanding. p. 253. 1. 22. add .3dly before. That the 
 Reformed, p. 264. 1. 36. after Rheims add, and Sens, p . 
 278. 1- 23. fpread, read fpreadeth. p. 279. 1. 8. after fe- 
 €ond, add, it p. 296. 1. 35. thofe read ^^{q. p. 303. 1, 
 2©. after of Sorgues, add, that had been retaken, and was. 
 p. 305. 1. 37, 38. ^ /i'f ^«fi, rcadby the rear. p. 308 1. 16. 
 Cm/fol's Tea.d Curfol's. p. 311- 1- 25. 1563. read 1562. p^ 
 314. 1. 35. attacked them, read he attacked them. p. 321J. 
 1. 8. Bourgard, read Bourgarel. p. 336. laft Line, Inhai- 
 tants, read Inhabitants. p. 359. 1. 6. of La Foy, read 
 OF THE Faith, p. 361. i. 28. eleded, read admitted 
 to the Miniliry. p. 377. 1. 30. toXaintonge, read ioto. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 REFORMATION 
 
 AND OF THE 
 Reformed Churches in France. 
 
 Vol. II. 
 
 Book IV. 
 
 Containing the Hijlory of one Tear^ two 
 Months and ten Days^ from the 17th of 
 January 1562, to the 27th of March, 
 1564. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 l7itrodu5fion. I. Great Oppojition to the EdiB. 
 il. The Parliament of Paris regifters it with 
 fome ReJlri£lions. III. Conferences about the 
 Images. IV. The Guifes abfent from Court. 
 They keep Correfpondence with Spain. V. They 
 made f if re of the King of Navarr^ who forfakes 
 by degrees the Reformed. VI. The ^een of 
 Navarfs great Courage. VII. The Guises 
 Conferences with the Duke of Wirtemserg. 
 VIII. Their Reafons for taking that Step. 
 Vol. II. B IX 
 
11 
 
 C O N T E^N T S. 
 
 IX. '^'hey refohe to perfecute the Reformed. 
 X.Tbe Majfacre of Vajfy. XI , l^he Duke ofGuife 
 Author and Ahtttor of it. Fronted by fame 
 Confiderations upon matters of Fci^. XII. 
 I^he Jefuits of Trevoux mif-reafon when they 
 'vindicate the/aid Duke. XIII. How the News 
 of that Tragedy was received in France. XIV. 
 The Duke comes to Nanteuil. XV. The 
 keen's Orders to the Duke and the Marfhal of 
 St. Andrew. How received by them. XVI. 
 The Reformed fend a Deputation to Court. 
 XVII. How received by the ^een. XVIII. 
 How received by the King of Navarr. XIX. 
 Beza'j Reply to the faid King. XX. The 
 Duke's publick Entry at Paris. XXI. The 
 Reformed of Paris entreat the Prince to pro- 
 teh them, which he promifes to do. XXII. The 
 ^een Mother's Perplexity. XXIII. Four of 
 her Letters to the Prince of Conde'. XXIV. 
 They have their effect upon the Prince. XXV. 
 He afks Money of the Parisians Reformed, 
 and is refufed. XXVI. The Triumvirs fent 
 a Deputation to the j^een. XXVII. The ^een's 
 Anfwer. XXVIII. The King of Navarr 
 goes to Paris ; and the Prince goes out of it. 
 XXIX. The Duke of Guise goes iK> Font a in- 
 BLEAU. XXX. The Trixsmyirs bring for- 
 cibly the King and ^teen to Paris. XXXI. 
 The Confiable's Violences againfi the Reformed. 
 XXXII. The Licentioufnefs of the Mob increa- 
 fed by that Example. XXXIII. The Triumvirs 
 refolve upon a War againfi the Prince, 
 
 XXXIV. Great Changes in theKing^s Council. 
 
 XXXV. D'Aubigne's Account for the Admi- 
 rals Delays. XXXVI. The Prince fent D'A n- 
 DELOT to Orleans. XXXVII. The Prince 
 
 fets cut from Me Avx. XXXVIII. The Ene- 
 my amufeshini upon the Road. XXXIX. Or- 
 leans 
 
CONTENTS. iii 
 
 leans furprized by D*Andelot. XL. The 
 Prince* s Entry into it. XLI. The Princefs 
 ofCondS alfaulted on the Road. XLII. The 
 
 Dowager of Roye retires to Strafbourg. 
 
 XLIII. Violences againft the Reformed at 
 Paris. XLIV. Some general Conftderations on 
 the pajl TranfaBions. XLV, Of the Lords 
 adhering to the Prince. XL VI. Of the Prince 
 c/ PoRciAN. XLVII. Of the Count of 'La 
 RocHEFoucAULT. XLVIU. Of the Vifcount 
 0/ Rohan. XLIX. Of the Count of Gkau- 
 MONT. L. Of the Count i?/" Montgomery. 
 LI. Of the Lord of Soubise. LII. Of the 
 Lord of MouY. LIII. Of the Lord Ester- 
 nay. LIV. Of the Lord of Genlis. LV. 
 The Princess Letters to the Reformed Churches. 
 LVI. EffeB ofthefe Letters. LVII. The Con- 
 du5l of the Rochellers' on this Occafion. 
 LVIII, The Princess firfi Manifefio. LIX. 
 He fent a Deputy to the Pro'tefiant Princes of 
 Germany. LX. Articles of his Affociation. ' 
 LXI. The Guifes Anfwer to the Prince's Mani- 
 fefto. LXII The Nobility fummoned by the 
 Court. LXIII. The Prince's warlike Prepa- 
 rations. LXIV. The Parliament of Paris, 
 Anfwer to the Prince. LXV. The Prince's 
 fecond Declaration. LXVI. The Triumvirs 
 reject his Propofitions^ and make very tyrannic 
 cal ones of their own. LXV II. The King's 
 Council takes a middle way. LXVIII. The 
 S^ueen writes to the Prince. LXIX. Agri- 
 cole's Refie^fion on the Prince's ConduB. LXX. 
 The Reformed' s great Increafe \ their prepofie- 
 rous Zeal againft Images. LXXI. The third 
 National Synod of the Reformed Churches. 
 LXXII. Deliberations in the Prince's Council. 
 JTbeyfend two Deputies in Germany. L XXIII. 
 ^''} , . B 2 - - Thf 
 
iv C O N T ENT S. 
 
 Ths Prince feizes upon feveral Cities^ and 
 firengthens himfelf at Orleans. LXXIV. Ne- 
 gociations for Peace Jlill on foot. The 
 Prince writes to the ^een, and publifhes 
 a fecond Manifefio. LXXV. The Triumvirs 
 Anfwer. LXXVI. The King's Councils An- 
 fwer. LXXVI I. The Prince's third Mani- 
 fefio. LXXVIII. The EffeSls of it. Reformed 
 feverely handled at Paris. LXXIX. The 
 Prince's Mildnefs towards the CathoUcks.- 
 LXXX. The Triumvirs Army begins to march. 
 LXXXI. The Negociations renewed by the 
 
 ^een -, firfi Conference without Succefs. 
 
 LXXXII. The Prince's Anfzver to the §lueen. 
 LXXXIII. His Letter to the King of Navarr. 
 LXXXIV. He writes again to the ^een. 
 
 LXXXV. A Meffage fent to the Prince. 
 
 LXXXVI. Both Parties difpofe themfelves to 
 War. LXXXVII. Stri5l Bifcipline of the 
 Prince's Army. LXXXVIII. Negociations of 
 both Parties in Germany and Switzer- 
 land. luXXXlX. Conferences for Peace pro- 
 pofed a-new to the Prince \ Unfaithfulnefs of 
 the Catholicks. XC. The Prince marches out 
 ^Orleans j he is mollified by his Brother of 
 Navarr, and begins the Conferences, XCI. 
 Navarr's Tricks for deceiving the Prince ; 
 how avoided by the Prince. XCII. Raflj Pro- 
 pofttions of the Prince to the ^een i accepted by 
 her Majefiy. XCI 1 1. The Prince's Party dif- 
 fatisfied ; he draws back his Word without 
 Breach to his Honour. XCIV. UAvila re- 
 futed. XCV. Murmurs of the Prince's Army. 
 XCVI. The Prince refolves to fur prize the E- 
 nemy j he mif carries in the Attempt. XCV 1 1. 
 He re-takes Baugency by Storm. XCVI II. 
 . The Triumvirs furprize feveral Cities ; their 
 excefjive Cruelties agginji the Reformed, XCIX. 
 
CO N T E N T S. 
 'The Prince returns to Orleans. C. How he 
 prevented the General dijbanding of his Army. 
 CI. Ways devifed in his Council for hindering 
 the JunSlicn of the Auxiliaries of Germany, 
 &c. with the Triumvirs. ClI. Several Decla- 
 rations of the Parliament of Paris againfi the 
 Prince's Party. CI II. The Rhingrave ar- 
 rives at Court with Auxiliaries. CIV. The 
 ^een writes again to the Prince. The Princess 
 Anfwer. CV. Anew Decree of the Parliament 
 (?/ Paris. CV\. The King and ^4een come to 
 the Triumvirate's Army. CVIJ. All the Ca- 
 tholicks are ordered to depart from Orleans. 
 CVIII. A fad Accident happened at Orleans. 
 CIX. The Prince's laft Manifeflo \ hut of none 
 effe^. ex. A Warrant iffued againfi the Ad- 
 miral \ great Diforders occaficned by it at 
 Paris. Several cruel Murders committed in 
 that City. CXI. The Prince's Army makes fe- 
 ver al Sallies upon the Enemy by Detachment. 
 CXI I. An Account of 'QovYt.G-E.s; it isbefieg'd; 
 it fur renders by Capitulation ; Yvoy'j Dif- 
 grace -, the Capitulation not kept. CXIII. Rea- 
 fons why the Army marched to Rouen rather 
 than Orleans. CXIV.^^^;^ Elizabeth'.; 
 Treaty with the Prince of Conde j that Prin- 
 ce f 's Manifeflo. CXV . Effc^s of that Treaty. 
 CXVI. The Triumvirate's Army arrives near 
 Rouen, CXVI I. The State and Condition of 
 that City. CXVIII. The faid Army hefieges 
 the City \ they carry Catherine'^ Fort by 
 Treafcn j the Englifh Fleet arrives j firfi Af- 
 fcult\ a new SuriWions from the King -^ fecond 
 AJJmU. CXIX. Mr. De CivilleV provi- 
 dential Prefervation. CXX. The King of 
 Navarr wounded. CXXI. A new Summons 
 from the King ; Rouen fends fome Deputies to 
 the King. CXXII. Conferences without Sue- 
 B 3 cefs^ 
 
VI 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 cefs. CXXIII. A third Jffault, CXXIV. 
 A fourth Jf/ault ; fifth Affault \ fixth Affault -, 
 the lajl Jjault. CXXV. Horrid Defolation 
 of the Inhabitants. CXXVI. Navarr makes 
 his piblick Entry into the City •, he grows 
 worfe aiid worfe of his Wounds. CXXVII. 
 His Death. CXXVIII. Further Reflexions 
 upon his CharaRer. CXXIX. CharaSler of 
 Jane ^een of Navarr. CXXX. Several 
 Perfons tried and executed at Rouen. CXXXI. 
 Sapin and Gatines executed by Reprifal at Or- 
 leans. CXXX II. The Court inith part of the 
 Army comes back to Paris. CXXXIII. Situ- 
 ation of the Princess Affairs. CXXXIV. Of 
 James Spifame Lord of Fassy. CXXXV. 
 D'Andelot leads the Auxiliaries to the Prince. 
 CXXXVI. The Auxiliaries of Guienne routed 
 hy Montluc. CXXXVII. The Prince difpofes 
 every thing for his March ; the Minijlers Ex- 
 hortations to his Highnefs , the Army marches 
 out of Orleans -, and takes feveral Places in its 
 way. CXXXyill. Debates in the Princess 
 Council ; the worft Opinion followed. CXXXIX. 
 He comes near Paris. CXL. The ^een 
 amufes him with new Conferences, CXLI. He 
 feigns to have a mind to block up that City. 
 CXL II. A new Conference which comes to no- 
 thing. CXLIII. GenlisV Defer t'wn very pre- 
 judicial to the Prince. CXLIV. The Prince 
 leads his Army into Beausse. CXLV. The 
 Triumvirs follow him. CXL VI. Debates in 
 the Prince's Council. CXLVII. The Battle 
 <?/ Dreux ; theMarfhal of St. Andrew, killed •, 
 the Prince and the Conftable taken Prijoners. 
 CXLVIII. Admiral de Coligny named Ge- 
 veraliffimo of the Princess Army. CXLIX. i/^ 
 leads the faid Army to Orleans. CL. He goes 
 /;7/o Normandy -, his Exploits in that Pro- 
 vince. 
 
CONTENTS. vii 
 
 vince. CLI. 'The Duke of Guise heJiegesOR- 
 LEANS. CLII. Hejs wounded by FoLT ROT, 
 and dies of it •, Addition to his Chara£ier. 
 CLIII. PoLTROT taken \ interrogated -y char- 
 ges the Admiral, Beza and fever al others. 
 CLIV. He is brought to Paris -, varies in his 
 Dfpofitions \ he is tried, condemned and execu- 
 ted, CLV. The Admiral and others Vindica-^ 
 tion. CLVI. The ^een*s Anxiety ; fl}e fends 
 a Deputy to the Duke of TFirtemberg ; that 
 Princess Anfwer. CLV II. Negociations for 
 Peace. CLVIII. The Minifiers Remonfirances 
 to the Prince. CLIX. The Prince concludes a. 
 Treaty with the ^een. CLX. Edi£f of Pa- 
 cification. CXLI. The Prince's Army dif- 
 banded. CLXII. A View of the State of the 
 feveral Provinces of the Kingdom. Picardy, 
 Amiens, Abbeville. Of the Ifie of Vrakce, 
 Senlis, Meaux. Champaign, TroyeSy Bar- 
 fur -Seine, ha Charite, Sens, Burgundy, Di- 
 jon, Macon. Lyonnese. Of Baron Des 
 Adrets, Of Dauphine. Of Orange. 
 A fhort Account of the Princes of Orange. Of 
 the Lords ofBaulx. Of the Houfe of Chalons. 
 How that Principality came to the Houfe of 
 Najfau, Mornas, Vaureas, Pont of Sorgues. 
 Firfi Siege of Grenoble -, fecond Siege. Of 
 Provence. Cifieron^s firfi Siege ; fecond 
 Siege : The Cifieronians Retreat. Of Lan- 
 GUEDoc ', Tumult at Thouloufe-, King Charles 
 IXth's Apology for the Reformed. Of Marfhal 
 Blaife of Montluc. Of Montauban •, firfi 
 Siege •, fecond Siege •, third Siege. Limoux, 
 Beaucaire. Rout of St. Giles. Of Nimes. 
 Of Montpelier. Firei's Letter to the Church 
 of Montpelier. Of Viva re tz. 0/ Gui- 
 enne. Bourdeaux. The glorious Feats ofthetwa 
 Heroes Piles and Riviere. Of Xain- 
 
 B 4 TONGE. 
 
viii CONTENTS. 
 
 TONGE, Oleron, St. Jean d'Angclv, Sain- 
 tes. 0/Orleanese, La Rochelle and Coun- 
 ty of Aulnix, Re', Allevebt, Poitou, 
 Anjou, Le Maine, Mans, Tours, Bri- 
 TANY, Normandy. The Conclufion. What 
 ConJhu5iion the ^een- Mother did put to the 
 four Letters above mentioned. 
 
 THE 
 
Book IV. Hijiory of the Reformation^ &c. 9 
 
 TH E Edidt of January laft, which Charles 
 had been thought, by the wifer fort / 
 of People, to be a remedy for heal- pope Pius 
 ing the difeafes of the Kingdom, had IV. 
 an Effedl quite contrary, and through the ma- 'T"*"^'***' 
 lignant Humours which eat up that Political duaion. 
 Body, it occafion'd greater Mifchiefs, 
 
 The Execution of this Edift moved great dif- I- 
 Acuities, efpecially on the part of the Roman ^^r^* ''^' 
 
 ^ , ,. , ^ A 1 T-. r J 1 1 pojitton to 
 
 Catholicks. As to the Rerormed, though many ^^ Edia^ 
 of them complained of being hard dealt with, 
 becaufe they were ordered to go out of the Ci- 
 ties for the performance of their religious Wor- 
 /hip, neverthelefs their Minifters and Deputies 
 at Paris having cleared their doubt as to this 
 and fome other points, and wrote to their re- 
 fpedive Provinces upon that account, they fub- 
 mitted themfelves to the King's Will. 
 
 The Roman Catholicks were very far from 
 fhewing the like regard for the King's Orders. 
 The Parliaments, two or three excepted, made 
 a long Refiftance : That of Dijon refufed obfti- 
 nately to obey, at the Inftigation of the Duke 
 of Aumale, Governor of Burgundy, and Bro- n 
 ther to the Duke of Guife. 
 
 That of Paris could not be prevaii'd upon to ^^• 
 regifter and publifh it, but after the third J^^f^^?' 
 Command from the King, and even when they Paris r^^/- 
 obeyed, at the Inftances of the Cardinal difters it 
 Bourbon, and the Prince of La Roche- fur- yon, ■^■'^y^/"?* 
 it was with this provifional Claufe ; 'That they ^^ " 
 obeyed only in Conjideration of the prefent jun^ure 
 of Affairs^ without approving the new Religion \ 
 find that the faid Edi5l fhould remain in force no 
 longer than "till the King fhould order other- , 
 wife (a). ' 
 
 The 
 CqJ Beza Hift. des Egl. Ref. lit. iv. Thuan. Hift. lib.xxix. 
 
I o Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol .11. 
 
 Charles The Winds that made them turn, blew from 
 I^- the Conftable and the Duke of Guife, and yet 
 Pope Pius ^^^y would have done very little or nothing' at 
 IV. all, had not the King of Navarr fuffercd him- 
 «— V— 'felf at that time to be feduced by his moft dead- 
 ly Enemies, who made ufe of the Spanijh Em- 
 baflador, the Cardinal of Tournon^ the Pope's 
 Legate, aided by two of his own principal Ser- 
 vants, Des Cars, and the Bijhop of Mendes ; they 
 unhappily met with all the Succefs they wifh'd 
 "" for, to the misfortune of that Prince, and the 
 
 ruin of the Kingdom. 
 III. During thefe Debates, the Queen-Mother held 
 Conferen- fome Conferences between Montluc Bifliop of 
 ces about Valence, Duval Biihop of Seez, Drs. Defpence, 
 '^'^'^^"^'•'•Bouthelier, and Picherel, and thofe of our Mi- 
 nifters who were ftill at Court, at the Head of 
 whom was Beza. 
 
 The following Propofitions were agreed upon 
 by the Bifhops and the Divines •, That whereas 
 (according to St. Aujiin) Errors were to be 
 - plucked out of the Minds of Men, rather than 
 out of the Churches and other Places, the Bi- 
 fhops fhould labour by the Means of Priefts to 
 inftruft the People about the right ufe of Images, 
 fo as to take ofF all occafion of OiTence, the 
 King granting an Edid for that Purpofe, fup- 
 ported by the Church's Authority ; which, who- 
 ever Ihould oppofe, would be treated as a Difiur- 
 ber of the publick Peace, and Difobedient to his 
 facred Majefty's Laws. 
 
 That the Images of the mofl: Holy Trinity 
 fhould be taken away from the Churches and o- 
 ther publick Places as forbidden by the Holy 
 Scripture, the Councils and the Ancient Fathers •, 
 they having been tolerated only by the Conni- 
 vance, or rather Carelefihefs of the Biibopsand o- 
 therPaftors. The fame was agreed upon with re- 
 
 fpedt 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Frai^ce. ii 
 fpedt to the Images of thofe Saints whofe Names Charles 
 are not recorded in the Martyrologies receiv'd by ^^^ 
 the Catholick Church, and the Images drawn in p^pg Pius 
 a lafcivious Attire, or reprefenting Brutes. That IV. 
 no Crowns, Garlands or Garments {hould be put ' 
 on them. That no Frankincenfe fhould be burnt, 
 no Tapers lighted before them. That they 
 fhould not be carried in Proceffion. That no 
 Vows or Offerings fhould be made unto them. 
 That they fhould not be worshipped by bowing 
 to, or kneeling before them, becaufe all thefe 
 things are parts of Adoration. That Images 
 ought to be removed from the Altars, where the 
 Crofs only fhould remain, and to be affixed in 
 the Walls of the Churches, infomuch, that for 
 the future, they fhould be out of the People's 
 reach, and not be faluted by them, or other- 
 wife worfhipped, either by Kneeling or Kifling, 
 by Vows or Offerings. That, according to a De- 
 cree of the Provincial Council ofSens, their Shrines 
 fhould not be carried about the Streets, nor in 
 the Churches, as it had been ufual heretofore. 
 
 Beza, in his own and his Colleagues name, 
 fhewed himfelf ready to fubfcribe thofe Articles, 
 that about the Crofs excepted ; for, fays he, that 
 Cuflom is not of an older date than Confiantine 
 the Great, whereas the Church had no fuch ufe 
 before ; and whereas it might prove of a perni- 
 cious confequence (as experience fheweth forth) 
 therefore he could not confent to it. 
 
 But Nicholas Maillard, Dean of the College 
 of Divinity, put an end to all manner of Con- 
 ferences upon that point, hotly oppofing what 
 had been concluded concerning the Ufe of Ima- 
 ges, and fliiBy maintaining, that they ought not 
 to abate a Tittle of what the Roman Church 
 had once authorized, though he owned many 
 things to have been introduced by evil Cuftom. 
 
 And 
 
I 2 Hiflory oftkeReformatlon^anaoj ir^e v ui^.n. 
 
 Charles And fo the Clergy in Lewis the XIVth*s time, 
 
 ■^^' have obftinately adhered to that Maxim, that they 
 
 Tope Pius would never confent to purchafe the return of 
 
 IV. the Reformed to their Communion at the price of 
 
 '— ~\^"~-'any of the leaft Abufes tolerated by the Roman 
 
 Church. So the Conferences ended the 14th of 
 
 February without deciding the Matter {b\ 
 
 IV.- Xhe Cardinal of Lorrain and his Brother the 
 
 J^^^'^'^Duke of Guife, had abfented from Court ever 
 
 fromCourtS^^CQ the latter end of November 1561. The 
 
 Duke went to his Seat at Joinville, whither the 
 
 Cardinal his Brother went to meet him, to con- 
 
 fult together about the Meafures they were to 
 
 take in the prefent Occurrence (r). 
 
 They keep They kept a ftrid Correfpondence with Spain, 
 
 Correfpon- from whence they expedled great Succours ; for 
 
 ^[^'""^'^"'^ Kins Philip, always attentive upon every thing 
 
 bpatn. I-, -111 1 • {• • c ^ ' A 
 
 which might help to the gratifying or his Am- 
 
 • bition, mifled not this Opportunity, to fill up the 
 
 .Princes of Lorrain with great hopes, and to 
 
 heighten the Jealoufies between the Heads of 
 
 both Parties, in which he was extraordinary well 
 
 ferv'd by his Embafladors at the Court of France, 
 
 particularly by Chantaunay, the bafeft and the 
 
 moft impudent Fellow that ever was feen, in fuch 
 
 an employment •, if the Letters of Queen Catharine 
 
 to Bochetel Biihop of Rennes EmbafTador of 
 
 France at the Emperor's Court, may be credited : 
 
 They are to be found in the Additions to the 
 
 Memoirs of Cajfelnau (d). 
 
 The made Befides that, the Guifes knew very well they 
 
 fure of the had nothing to fear from the King cfNavarr; for 
 
 •^% "/ though, at their Departure from Court he had not 
 
 Navarr. ^^ ^^^ openly declared for their Party, neverthelefs 
 
 being 
 
 fl)J Beza ibid. Thuani ibid- fc) Thusn. lib. xxviii. fd) 
 /^ddit. auxMcm. de Caftelnau, liv. iii. ch. 9. p. 777. Edii;^ 
 de Bruxelles, 1731 • 
 
 X 
 
Book IV. Tteformed Churches m France. 13 
 being continually befet by the Conftable, the Charles 
 Marfhal of St. Andrew, the Pope's Legate, the ^^^^ 
 SpaniihEmbafTador, and above all by Des Carsp^^^PiJ, 
 and the Bifhop of Mendes, his Favourites, they IV. 
 doubted not but that weak Prince would in courfe '— — v-*-* 
 fall into the Snares laid for him, and forfake, like 
 the Dog in the Fable, the Reality to run after a 
 Shadow, as he did a Httle after ; for having fent 
 d'Anduze into Spain, and Des Cars to Rome, as 
 foon as he had received an Anfwer from thence, T?""^^* 
 he began by little and little to withdraw him-"2„^/^^/^^, 
 felf from the Reformed, and to abufe his Queen, Reformed, 
 who was a moft wife and virtuous Princefs, that 
 ufed all manner of means to reclaim him, but to 
 no purpofe. 
 
 She was much entreated by the Queen-Mo- vi. 
 ther, to follow her Hufband*s example and go The ^etn 
 to Mafs 1 but being ftedfaft in her Refolution, °f ^^f" 
 fhe anfwered her Majefty, l^hat rather than fol-'^^g^f Cou- 
 low that example^ if Jhe could hold her Kingdom ofrage. 
 Navarr in one hand, and the Prince her Son in 
 the other i Jhe would fling them both into the Sea, 
 not to he temped out of her Duty to God. The 
 Queen-Mother feeing that that Princefs was 
 not to be moved to any Compliance, (poke 
 no more of it to her. A few Days after fhe 
 departed from Court with Prince Henry her 
 Son, and Princefs Catherine her Daughter, and 
 retired into Beam ; the King her Hufband be- 
 ing little or not at all concerned at that Sepa- 
 ration, which freed him from a great reftraint 
 in his. Amours with the fair Rouet a Maid of 
 Honour to the Queen-Mother (e). VII. 
 
 But what perplexed the Guifes, was how to ^^ Guifes 
 find out ways of depriving the Reformed Party ^""firen- 
 in France, of the Succours they could reafon- J/^^ ^^'^^^ 
 
 ably o/'vVirtem- 
 (e) Bfezaibid, berg. 
 
1 4 Hijlory of the Reformatio?!, and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles ably exped from the Protefl-ant Princes in Ger- 
 
 / many. For that end, they bethought them- 
 
 Tipe Fius Selves of this Expedient to create greater Jealou- 
 IV. fies between the Germans and the Reformed of 
 
 *-'*v**-' France, .and blind the Eyes of the former: They 
 fent a Meflenger to the Duke of Wirtemberg, 
 defiring to have a Meeting with hini at Saverne ; 
 (a Town in Alfatia,) and that he would be plea- 
 fed to bring along with him fome of Jiis bed 
 Divines, that they might hear them upon the 
 Auguftan ConfefTion. 
 
 The Duke of Wirtemberg, judging of others 
 by himfelf, readily agreed to the Propofition, and 
 came with two of his Divines, Brentius and An- 
 drew to the appointed place, in full hope of 
 jSromoting the Intereft of his Religion by fuch a 
 Conference, becaufe of the great Sway which 
 the Cardinal bore in France, he thought that 
 no fooner he would declare himfelf a Lutheran, 
 but many would follow his Example (/). 
 
 Their Conferences lafted three days, the Cardi- 
 nal and his Brother magnified their Good- will 
 towards the faid Duke and the Princes of the 
 Empire ; the Cardinal fet forth the part he had 
 a<5led in the Conferences of Poifly, and how far 
 he had countenanced the Auguftan ConfeiTion ; 
 and that he had required feveral times the Re- 
 formed to fubfcribe to it, but without Succels, 
 becaufe they fought nothing elfe but to propa- 
 gate their pernicious and monftrous Tenets, 
 rather than a thorough Reformation of Docflrine 
 and Difcipline in the Church ; and that, for no 
 other end than to difturb the Peace of Germany, 
 as they had done in France : That the King of 
 Denmark had been very fenfible of it, therefore 
 : Ll'^Q.- ,..Li ziu^'-i'-) he 
 
 ''^'^ ^ "-!,.:,'- 6^jBeza ibW. Thuan. lib. xxix. Dinothi. HiftGal- 
 •S'" lica, p. 72. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches //z France. 15 
 he had ordered his Ambaflador to let the King Charles 
 of Navarr know, that he was very glad to hear ^ ^ 
 that they were about to reform the Religion in pgZ pfuj 
 France, but was very much concerned left they IV. 
 fhould follow Zwinglius or Calvin, rather than' 
 Luther, that he had carefully warned of it the 
 faid King of Navarr. That the Duke of Wir- 
 temberg and the Princes of Germany who ftu- 
 died the Peace of the Church, and the Welfare 
 of their Country, ought to be afraid of the fame, 
 and endeavour to put a flop to the Progrefs of 
 the Zwinglian Dodrine, as they themfelves in- 
 tended to do in France ; and for that end they de- 
 fired him to afford no help to the Reformed, 
 and to do his endeavours that the Princes of Ger- 
 many might take their Defign in good part. 
 
 The Duke of Wirtemberg having confidered. 
 the Matter with Brentius and Andrew, (great 
 Sticklers for the Auguftan Confeffion, who left 
 no Stone unturn'd to hinder left the Zwinglian. 
 or Calvinian Confeffion fhould be received in 
 France) thanked the Cardinal and his Brother 
 for the Good- will they bore to him and the Em- 
 pire ; and faid, that he approved of their Defign 
 of hindering the Reception of the Helvetick 
 Confeffion in France, provided withall. That 
 it might be done, without persecuting 
 those who had renounced the roman 
 Church. 
 
 The Cardinal preached before the Duke, who 
 was extremely well pleafed with it, and as he 
 did not miftruft him, he doubted not but that 
 he would proted: the Auguftan Confeffion. 
 
 But the MafTacre of Vafiy, which happened a 
 few days after their parting, as we fhall fee pre- 
 fently, undeceived the Duke of Wirtemberg, and 
 opened his Eyes upon the Charader of the two 
 Lorrain Princes, efpecially the Cardinals, 
 
 Two 
 
1 6 Hijhry of the Reformation^ and of the Vol .11. 
 
 Gharles Two Other Reafons befides that above men- 
 
 ■^^- tloned, moved them to take that Step. The one, 
 
 Pote plus ^^ keep the Queen in awe, under the apprehen- 
 
 IV. fion of another Party which they might form in 
 
 *— ^^r^— ' the State, if fhe continu'd to carefs the Re- 
 
 VIII. formed fo much as iTie did at that time, and to 
 
 fans for negledl them. She had taken an extraordinary 
 
 taking that StQ'p, jointly with the King of Navarr (if the 
 
 Step. Cardinal St. Crofs may be credited") for Ram- 
 
 bouillet had been fent to Germany, to know of 
 
 the Proteftant Princes, what Succours of Men 
 
 k and Money they could afford whenever the 
 
 King fhould change his Religion; and had been 
 
 anfwered, that in fuch a cafe his Majefty might 
 
 depend upon as many Forces, as he fhould be 
 
 able to keep on his own Pay. The Spanilh 
 
 Ambafladot hearing of this Step, complained of 
 
 it to the King of Navarr, who told him that it 
 
 was impoffible, that what had been done fhould 
 
 not be done, but that for the future they would 
 
 follow a very different Method {g). 
 
 The other Reafon was, that they might make 
 fure of fome Friends, in cafe the King of Na- 
 varr fhould refufe to fide with them ; for the 
 Cardinal w^ould not have fcrupled to declare for 
 the Auguflan Confeffion, had he found his In- 
 tereft in it ; and this Step may be accounted for 
 one of the caufes of the great uneafinefs and ap- 
 prehenfion which the Court of Rome was under, 
 when fhe heard that the Cardinal was coming to 
 Trent a few Months after {h). 
 IX. However the two Brothers, having received 
 
 They re- the agreeable News of the King of Navarr's ac- 
 falw to ceffion to the Triumvirate, were not over-nice 
 
 perjecute 
 
 the Re. ^^ 
 
 formed. (g) Dinothus ubi fupra, Lettres du Cardin. de Ste. Croix 
 
 au Cardin. Borromee, lett. xi. (h) Fra. Paolo Hilt, du 
 
 Concile de Trente. liv. vi. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fr an CE . 17 
 
 in performing what they had promlfed to the Charics 
 Duke of Wirtemberg, they relblved to perfe- ^ ^^ 
 cute the Reformed with the utmoft Rigour, p^^^ Pius 
 looking upon them as fo many Spies, who 1\ . 
 watched too narrowly their Actions ; which De- '— — v-'-' 
 fign of theirs, was plainly dii'covered by the 
 Slaughter of the Reformed at V.'.iTy (/). 
 
 VafTy is a Borough of Champaign not far from x. 
 the Principality of Joinville, belonging to the77v Maf- 
 Duke of Guife, (and where his Mother Anto-.^^''' °f 
 nia of Bourbon Dowager of Guife rciided :) '^"^' 
 There was in that Tov/n a Reformed Church 
 of about twel\^e hundred Members, either In- 
 habitants or others, who reforted thither from 
 the adjacent Places j their Meeting- houfe was a 
 large Barn, granted to them for that purpofe ; 
 Mr, Leonard Morel was their Minifter (J). 
 
 Now that Liberty which the Refonred took 
 upon them, of performing publickly their Di- 
 vine Service, accordi^ig to the Tenour of the 
 Edidl of January, was highly refented by the 
 Catholicks, efpecially by the Clergy of the place, 
 and above all, by the Duchefs Dowager. She 
 had very often under fevere Penalties forbid her 
 Vaflals and Tenants to go to the Affembly of 
 Vaffy, but all her Threatnings were to none, or 
 little purpofe -, upon which Ihe fent to them the 
 Biihop of Chaalons, (in whofe Diocefs that Place 
 was) with a Monk of great Repute, in order 
 to fupprefs that Afiembly, by interdifcing the 
 Minifter. But that Gentleman ftood his ground, 
 and being bid by the Biihop to come down 
 from the Pulpit, finc'e no body had a right to 
 teach the People in Religious Matters without 
 his fpecial Licence -, he anfwered, that he could 
 not fcrfiike an Office, which he had received 
 from God, that he defirsd him to wait till hi? 
 
 Vol. II. C Sermon 
 
 [j) Beza ibid. (/) Jd. ibid-. 
 
1 8 Hijiory of the Reformatio?!, and of the Vo l . II 
 
 Charles Sermon was ended, and if he could find any 
 11:62 ^^^"g "^ it contrary to the Do6l:rine of the 
 Pope Pius Scripture, he would readily fubmit himfelf to his 
 IV. Cenfure. As the Bifhop's coming in was out of Sea- 
 fon, fo it was without any Succefs, for he efiedled 
 nothing of all that, which he had promifed to do* 
 Being come back to Joinville, he complained 
 that he had been abufed by the , Reformed of 
 VafTy, and wrote accordingly to the Parliament 
 of Paris -, but upon a diligent Inquiry, nothing 
 of what the Bifhop complained of could be made 
 out ; and notwithftanding all the Threatnings 
 of the Duchefs, the Reformed went on think- 
 ing themfelves very fecure under the Protedion 
 of the faid Edid ; but that Princefs thinking 
 herfelf fcorned by their Behaviour, was exafpe- 
 rated to the laft degree, and refolved to be fe- 
 verely revenged (/). 
 
 Therefore the Duke her Son was no fooner 
 arrived from Alfatia, but fhe intreated him to 
 deftroy thofe People, whom fhe ftyled Contemp- 
 tors of God, and Enemies to the Chriftian Re- 
 ligion : Her Hatred againft them was much 
 increafed by the indifcreet Zeal of fome, who, 
 unable to do worfe, vented their Refent- 
 ment by opprobrious Names, which they gave 
 her and her Sons {iv). But let us hear Thuanus 
 upon this Event. 
 
 „ The Duke, fays he, incited by the urgent 
 „ Intreatics, and importunate Complaints of An- 
 „ tonia of Bourbon,' Dowager of Guife his 
 
 „ Mother who being much addided to 
 
 „ the Religion of her Anceftors, could not bear 
 
 5, the too near Vicinity of the Reformed Meet- 
 
 5, ing at Vafly, and upbraided her Son for his 
 
 ; ,, Patience, by which the Divine Majefty was 
 
 ',, offended, and his own Reputation leiTened. 
 
 ,, Therefore 
 {J) Beza ibid. {m) Dinoth. lib. 2. p. 7J, 74. 
 
B o o ic IV. Reformed Churches /;/ F r a n c e . 19 
 „ Therefore the Duke fetoiit forVafly the firft Charles 
 3, of March, with a great Retinue, and his Brother / 
 
 Lev^ is Cardinal of Guife, v/ith La BrofTc and Pope Pkis 
 his Son,rat;her W I T H I N T E N T I O N IV. 
 
 {p-ay obferve this) TO DISSOLVE 
 thefe Conventicles by his Prefence, than to 
 ,, hurt any body. As he came near the I'ov/n, 
 5, he heard the Bell ringing at an unufual Hour, 
 ,, and asked what was the matter ? He was told, 
 ,, that it was to call together the Proteftants 
 ,, to Church ; then a loud but confufcd Voice 
 ,, was heard amongft the Pages and Scullions, 
 5, wantoning, as if they had been going to a 
 „ certain Vidory and Prey ; nevcrthelcfs the 
 „ Duke went on, and being entered the Town, 
 ,, to receive there 60 light-armed Men cf 
 ., his Company, he was met on the Market- 
 ,, place, by the Provoil, the Curate, and the 
 5, Prior, who defired him earneftly to turn from 
 „ the ftrait Road to Efclaron, where he was 
 ,, to dine, and go through the Place where the 
 ,, Proteftants were aflembled. 
 
 ,, Mean while, many of his Attendants, (ob- 
 „ ferve this) INCENSED EITHER 
 „ BY THEIR HATRED, OR BY 
 „ THEIR GREEDINESS A F- 
 ,, TER BOOTY, and fome out of Cu- 
 ,i rioiity, v/ere gone before ; who begun the 
 ., Work by outragious Nam.es, calling the Peo- 
 ,, pie aflembled there. Dogs, Rebels to God and 
 „ to the King. As the Proteftants retorted, 
 ,, from Words they came to Blov/s, and the 
 ,, Pages threw a ftiower of Stones -, then feve- 
 5, ral of the Duke's Attendants alighted off their 
 „ Horfes, and having broke open the Doors of 
 ,, the Place, which was a large Barn, and had 
 ,, been fhut up at the firft Tumult, by thcfe 
 ,, who were within, they rufhed in by main 
 C 2 35 Strength, 
 
Hijiory of the Reformat ion, ajidofthe Vol .II. 
 
 , Strength, and ftruck with their naked Swords 
 as many as came in their way, few of them 
 ,, making RefiflanGe. Nothing was to be 
 „ lieard but the doleful Lamentations of Wo- 
 „ men. Children, and all the poor Wretches 
 „ begging for Mercy, but in vain, and the 
 5, Shrieks of thofe who ran up and down, look- 
 5, ing for a way to come out •, many^ who en- 
 „ deavoured to fave themfelves through the 
 „ Roof, were annoyed by the continual cafting 
 „ of Stones, and firing from without. The 
 „ Noife was fuch, that it was heard by Anne 
 „ D'Eft the Duke's Confort, that went before 
 ^, in a Litter by the fhorteft Way. That Pn'n- 
 „ cefsSUSPECTING WHAT HAD 
 „ HAPPENED, (and being of a meek 
 „ Temper, and not averfe to the Proteftants, 
 ,, as it was rumoured \ at leaft fhe had learned 
 „ of the Duchefs of Ferrara her Mother, to 
 „ hate them not) fent immediately a Meflenger 
 „ to the Duke, befeeching him to fpare the 
 5, Lives of fo many Wretches, The Meflen- 
 „ ger met the Duke before the Barn-Doors, 
 „ whither he hadhaftened to quell the Tumult ; 
 „ but having been flightly wounded in the 
 5, Cheek with a Stone, his Attendants feeing 
 „ the Blood on his Face, (either out of Indig- 
 „ nation, or having found the Pretence whicli 
 „ they waited for,) they fell a killing, and 
 „ could not be rtilrained from it, (tho' the 
 „ -Duke commanded them with a loud Voice to 
 5, forbear from it, adding Threatnings to his 
 „ Intrcaries) 'till the Multitude being flipt out, 
 „ fome by the Door, but the greateit part by 
 ,, rhe Roof, the Fury intirely ceafed. Sixty 
 ,, Men or Women loll their Lives in that Tu- 
 „ mult, fome murther'd upon the fpot, and 
 ,, others dying the fame day or the next, of 
 
 „ their 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 2 r 
 
 ^, their Wounds ; more than two hundred Charles 
 
 • • TV 
 
 J, were wounded : Leonard Morel then- Mi- ^ ^; 
 
 „ nifter (tho* forely wounded in many places) p^pg Y\ms, 
 
 „ was put in the Cuftody of a Soldier, and IV. 
 
 5, then fent Prifoner to St. Dizier-, the Pews^-^'v*"' 
 
 „ and Pulpit were broken, the French Bible 
 
 „ torn to pieces, and fome Houfes in the Neigh- 
 
 3, bourhood plundered. Tho' this happened o- 
 
 „ therwife than he had thought, and ordered, 
 
 „ neverthelefs to difculp himfelf and his At- 
 
 „ tendants, the Duke c^-dered feveral of the 
 
 „ chief Prifoners to be brought before him, and 
 
 „ bitterly chided them, for having given occa- 
 
 5, iion to that Tumult by their unlawful Af- 
 
 ,, femblies •, particularly, he feverely reprimand- 
 
 5, ed the Steward of Mary Queen of Scots, (who 
 
 ,, had the Enjoyment of the Ufe and Profit of 
 
 „ VafTy and of the Baffigny) for granting Li- 
 
 „ cence to fuch fadlious People of meeting to - 
 
 „ gerher-, and in the mean whIle,hetook care to 
 
 „ get Affidavits of the Faft drawn up and cer- 
 
 „ tifiedbyMen DEVOTED TO HIM, 
 
 „ by which they certified that the Proteftants 
 
 ,3 had been the Aggrefibrs («) ", 
 
 This is the Account, which Thuanus gives us XT. 
 of that horrid Tragedy, Now whoever knows "^^-'^Jp^^^^ 
 that noble Hiftorian's Character, his great ^^'^-j„tima,!({ 
 lities, his Integrity and l"hining Virtues, laftly, Jbettc- of 
 the high Poft which he enjoyed, will readily it- 
 own that as he was in a Condition by his high 
 Station, to be thoroughly informed of every 
 thing material which concerned the Kingdom of 
 France, during his whole Life-time, fo he was 
 too honeft and fincere to impofe willingly upon 
 his Reader. ^ ^ Proi>ed by 
 
 Now he tells us three Things which are \\dAnfome Corijl- 
 proof, that the Duke was very far from being as ^^^^^^-'^'^■f 
 
 r> • ^ titon mat' 
 
 C 3 innocent ^. ,^- 
 
 («) Thuani'Hift. lib. xxix. p. 78. Ta^ 
 
22 H'ljlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.U. . 
 Charles innocent of the Blood fpilt at Vafly, as he would 
 
 make the Woild believe to the end of his 
 
 Life. 
 
 I. According to Thuanus, the Duke at the 
 Inftigation of his Mother came to VafTy with an 
 intent of dilTolving by his Prefence the Reform- 
 ed Conventicles in that place, rather than for 
 doing any injury to any private man amongft 
 them. (Vdffiacum venit^ ed mente, ut prafentid 
 fud POTIUS convent icuJa tlladiJfiparet^^AM 
 ut cuiqiiam frivatim injuriam inferret.)' What 
 can be the meaning of this ? but that -the Duke 
 intended not to make ufe of any violent means, 
 if by fair ones, he could fuccecd in his At-, 
 tempt? 
 
 II. According to the Umie Author, the. Duke's 
 Pages, Servants, Scullions, ^c. were overJQy*4 
 when they heard that the Reformed wereaftu- 
 ally affcmbled for their Devotion at VafTy : But 
 Whv io ? had they not heard before, their Ma- 
 ker's Threatnino-s as-ainll the Reformed ? How 
 could they be fo eager after Booty, had they not 
 been put in fome hopes of gratifymg their Greedi- 
 jiefs ? 
 
 III. Mow could the Duchcfs his Confort guefs 
 at what was doing at Vaffy, when fhe heard 
 the noife at fome diftance from the Place, had 
 fne not had fome notice (underhand or other- 
 wife) of what had been hatched at Joinviile a- 
 gainft the Reformed Inhabitants of the former 
 X-'lace ? I have tranflated Thranus's words, 
 fr.-eler opmionem (^ vohmtatem, by, othevji^ifs 
 than he had thought and crdcred, rather, thati 
 againft his opinion and will; becaufe, methinks, 
 this v/ould not anfwer the true meaning of the 
 lliilcrian : for he tells us f'"om the beginning, 
 tliat the Duke did fit out of Joinviile with a full 
 intent ojdijjolving bv his prefincc the Conventicle 
 
 /■•■-' ^ "i 
 
Book IV. Reforjned Ckircbes m France. s '^ 
 ofVaJfy. But could he exped; to compafs his Charles 
 end without any refiftance ? Was he ignorant -' ' 
 of the number of the Reformed reforting to Vaf- p^pg pjug 
 fy ? that is not probable -, he could not but ex- IV. 
 pedl to have a ftruggle before he could accom- '«— v^**' 
 plifh his Defign. But may be, he expeded that 
 his Attendants would proceed more orderly* 
 and being difappointed in that expedlation, Thu- 
 anus exprefles himfelfvery properly, when he 
 fays, that. That had happened otherwife than 
 he had thought and ordered, -prater opinionem ^ 
 voluntatem. 
 
 It is true, Thuanus was not nine years old in 
 the tim.e we are fpeaking of, but he was Son to 
 Chriftophle Thuanus iirft Prefident in the Par- 
 liament of Paris, by whom he had learned many 
 Fads and Anecdotes which are not to be found 
 elfewhere but in his Hiftory. Therefore what 
 Beza, Dinoth, and other Hiftorians contempo- 
 rary to this Event have related, and has-been 
 confirmed by this great Man, muft be certainly 
 true. 
 
 If it is fo, the Tefuits of Trevoux (o) misht XTf. 
 have laved much trouble, had they not under- y-^"' 
 took, to clear the Duke ofGuife, as to any pre- ^^^^ j^^ir 
 meditated defign againll: the Reformed, when reafin 
 he came to Vafl}'. They quote for their Vouch- "'•'^^"^ ^h^ 
 ers, ift, Allthe Catholick Hiftorians: (hut^lfi^^' 
 they ought to have excepted Thuanus out of the jO^l^. 
 Number.) 2dly, Two of the Reformed Hifto-^ 
 rians. La Popeliniere, and D'Aubigne. As to 
 the firfi: I have nothing to fay, becaufe I have 
 not his Hiftory in hand ; but if I can prefume to 
 judge of the ad vantage they pretend to draw from 
 hisTefl:imony by that which they pretend to draw 
 from D'Aubigne, I mufl: infer, that they liave 
 C 4 mif- 
 
 (o) Remarqiies Ciit. far le Di>w^ion. de Baylc, Tom. HI. 
 "f rt. franfois Puc de Guife. » 
 
Hijlory oftheReformation.andofthe Vol. 11. 
 
 mifreprefcnted La Pope]!niere,as muchasD'Au- 
 
 bigne ; let us fee what Account this lad Hifto- 
 
 rian gives us of that tragical event. 
 
 ,, For that end, fays he, (fpeaking of the 
 Triumvirs and their new Adherent's defign, 
 to break openly the Edi6t of January) they 
 haftned the Duke of Guife, who going 
 thro' VaiTy, with the Cardinal his Brother, 
 and all their Retinue, found the Reformed af- 
 fembled, who few days before had received 
 the Sacrament, to the number of three thou- 
 fand at the fame place ; the Monks led the 
 Scullions (Laquais) to provoke them ; after 
 the Scullions, the Mob feeing themfelves 
 ftrengthned by Horfe and Foot, (which ivere 
 with the Duke) grew hot. The Bifhop of 
 Chaalons had been there fome days before to 
 convert them by Difputations, and was come 
 back with fhame, having rendered himfelf ri- 
 dk:ulous, either for his ignorance or other- 
 wife. This Prelate incenfed the Duke of 
 Guife i and the Cardinal of Guife incenfed the 
 young La Brofle, who went thither with two 
 Companies of Gendarmes, ordering the 
 Charge to be founded by three Trumpets, and 
 altogether cut to pieces thofe who could not 
 efcape, either by the Barn- Windows, or by 
 the Town-Walls. The Priefts were very di- 
 ligent in fnewing the Soldiers all thofe who 
 endeavoured to make their efcape through the 
 Roofs of the Houfes. The Princes and the 
 Ladies are charged with the fame. 
 ,, I leave to the Hiflories, written on purpofe, 
 to defcribe and give an Account of all the 
 TragicalA6ls of that day ; for my part, I fiiall 
 fay only this, that more than three hundred 
 people murdered on this occafion, afforded to 
 the one the firfl example of murdering with 
 
 », im- 
 
Bo o K I V . Reformed Churches inVRANCE. 25 
 
 ,, impunity, and to the others of expefting no Charles 
 „ mercy at all (p). ^ ^ /^; 
 
 Now let every fober and judicious Reader judge, p^pg pjuj 
 whether D'Aubigne's account justifies the li)uke IV, 
 as to the Fa£V, which he ftands charged with ? 
 And, whether referring himfelf to what other 
 Hiftorians had faid, his Silence upon the Duk.e*s 
 intention when he came to Vaffy, is not a tacit 
 confent to what they have related ? Futhermore, 
 if D'Aubigne is to be credited, we may fee how 
 far we may depend upon La Popeliniere's rela- 
 tion, fince he charges him with having been 
 bribed for to prevaricate. ^Slavery (fays he in his 
 Preface) wiib which I upbraided the Author himfelf 
 tohisface^ and he owned the fa^ with tears in his 
 Eyes : If that is fo, who can afTure us thatLaPope- 
 liniere had not received a Bribe for to prevari- 
 cate on the Subjed in hand (q). 
 
 To proceed, the Trevoufian Fathers infift 
 much upon the Duke's Teftimony, who con- 
 flantly denied even on his Death-bed, that he 
 had ever had any hand in the Maflacre of Vafly. 
 But as long as they could not produce any Proof 
 of that Lord's Sincerity, fufficient for to deftroy 
 thofe which we may afford of his difingenuity, 
 when he thought that a plain confefTion of truth 
 might hurt his Reputation or Intereft, the rea- 
 fons alledged by Bayle to invalidate fuch a De- 
 nial, remain in their full force. Now the Hi- 
 ftorians of both Parties tell us, that the Duke de- 
 nied to the Prince of Conde, before all the Court 
 under Francis II. that he had any hand in the 
 charge laid againft hh Highnefs. He de- 
 nied likewife under Charles IX. that he had 
 had no hand in the imprifonment and profecu- 
 tion of the faid Prince ; and neverthelefs he was 
 Complice in the Plot laid againfl the King o£ 
 
 Navarr 
 fp) D'Aubigne Hid. Univ. Tom. I. liv. iii. ch. i. (jj 
 1 dexn, fa pref, p. 4. 
 
Wftory of' the Keformation.andof the Vol.11. 
 
 Navarr to murder him in the King's Chamber, 
 while the Prince of Conde was Prifoner, and 
 he vented out his Indignation againft his Mafter, 
 by very difrefpedlful words, becaufe the King 
 very likely abhorring even the thoughts of fo 
 bafe and barbarous an Aftion, difapnointed them 
 in their expectation, as we ha vefeen in the i Vol. 
 Bookll.Page 327. Now what truft can we put in 
 a Man of fuch a Charafter, let his AlTeveration 
 be ever fo conftant and pofitive ? 
 
 Furthermore, thofe learned Fathers infer from 
 the Condemnation of the Reformed of Vaffy by 
 the King's Council and the Parliament of Paris, 
 that they were guilty of being the Aggrefibrs, 
 and that the Duke was innocent. Thuanus has 
 already warned us, that the Information about 
 the Fadi; was drawn by People entirely D E V O- 
 TED TO THE DUKE's INTEREST, a- 
 niongvt whom Beza names La Brofle one of the 
 Murderers, Le Sain Provoft of the Place, one 
 oftheir moil f.cry profjcutors, ISc. Now, becaufe 
 the Jefuits Vi/ere fenfibie that we may with good 
 reafon challenge fuch an Information, Judg- 
 ment and Condemnation, as being drawn and 
 given by Perfons entirely devoted to the Duke, 
 who v/as the Soul of the King's Council, and 
 who had fuch a majority of Votes at his devo- 
 tion in the Parliament, that he obtained what- 
 ever he pleafed, they exclaim againft fuch a 
 Challenge a:nd fay, ^hat the Fact ivould have 
 been fo enormous^ and fo notorious, had it hap- 
 pened as the Huguenots puhlifhcd it, that by no 
 7ncans it could have been palliated. It is true, 
 fuch a P'acl was fo enormous and fo notorious, 
 that it ought not to have been palliated, much 
 leOjuftiflcd by the King's Council, or the Par- 
 liament -, but it happened otherwlfe, and the 
 very fame Fathers, who make here fuch an Ac^ 
 
 know- 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 27 
 
 knowledgment, are fo little fenfible of the enor- Charles 
 mity of that Fa6t, that a few Pages after, re- ^^^ 
 iiedmg upon what Bayle faid, (r) That had the pA Y\\i% 
 Duke owned the Fa5f^ he would have declared IV. 
 himfelf the firfi caufe of the misfortunes which he 
 fell the Kingdom, and would have been the ohjeSi 
 of the Publick Execration ; they obferve, that 
 thefe laji Words, PUBLICK EXECRATI- 
 ON, are a manner of [peaking, which impofes 
 fcarce hut upon thofe of the fame Party, Nothing 
 more ufual in all what we call Books or Speeches 
 of Parties, than for the Authors , to imagine them- 
 fclves, that they have all the World, all honeft 
 Men, all wife and fob er Men, learned, difcreety 
 judicious, equitable, in a word, all that we call 
 the Publick on their fide. They make no account 
 of what is in the contrary party. It is in that fenfe 
 we mufl take here BayWs expreffon, when he fpeaks 
 of the PUBLICK EXECRATION. Lis 
 very certain, (pray obferve this) that moji part 
 of the Catholicks had no fooner heard only inge-ne- 
 ral, and without knowing the particulars of the 
 Fail, that the Duke had done, going through 
 Vafjy, an execution againji the Huguenots, but 
 they had a greater Efieem and Attachment for that 
 Lord. And for that very reafon, he was received 
 in a kind of Triumph, when he arrived at Paris, 
 every one crying, LONG LIFE TO GUISE, 
 &:c. Thai is very certain, &c. But if this is 
 very certain, as I make no doubt of it, how 
 can this behaviour of the CathoHcks towards the 
 Duke of Guife, even before they were acquain- 
 ted with the particulars of the Vafliacan tranfac- 
 tion., agree with that Horror for the fad which 
 the King's Council and the Parliament of Paris 
 would have been ftricken with, had that Tranf- 
 ^dion proved to be fuch as the Huguenots re- 
 
 prefented 
 ^r) See Bayle's Didion. Art. Francis Duke of Guife. 
 
2 8 mjlcry of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. II. 
 
 Charles prefented it ? How this AfTertion of the learned 
 
 ^^* Jefuits can agree with the former, let the good 
 
 Pope Piiis Fathers anfwer for themfelves, and make agree 
 IV. the beft they can their manifeft Contradidions. 
 
 •■"■"V*^ Furthermore, they give themfelves much 
 trouble to prove that the Reformed Hiftorians 
 have contradifted one another in their relation 
 of the Fad-, but after a thorough examination, 
 it evidently appears that there is none : but one 
 
 ' has reckoned only thofe who were killed upon 
 
 the Spot, while another reckons thofe who died 
 of their Wounds the fame day, or the days en- 
 fuing; one relates a Circumftance which had been 
 cither unknown, or forgotten or negleded by 
 another. Is that a Contradidion ? 
 
 The Reverend Fathers of Trevoux are much 
 miiiaken in the account they give us of D'Avila, 
 for if he was not born at this time we are fpeak- 
 ing of, if he wrote only feventy years after this 
 Event, as they fay in two places, that is in the 
 year i63'2, he muft: have been a good Officer 
 m the Service of France at nine years old j for 
 he lived but 59 years j and he was in King 
 Henry Ill's Service, in 1582. He muft have 
 been juft born when the Turks conquered the 
 Ifland of Cyprus, which was in 1573 j but his 
 Biographer tells us, {s) that their Tyrannical Go- 
 vernment forced D'Avila to fly with his Family 
 into Spain, from whence having not met with 
 that encouragement which he expeded from his 
 relation, he came into France. Therefore I 
 reckon him amongH: the Hiftorians contempo- 
 raries to the Mafiacre of Vafly. Mean while I 
 am entirely of the Learned Critick's opinion, that 
 fuppofing with D'Avila, (/) that the Duke had 
 really uttered thefe Wprds, fpeaking to the 
 
 Judge 
 
 (^) Baudodin vie de D'Avila, at the head of his Hift. 
 (a) D'Avila II, h des Guerres Civiles, liv. i-ii. p.83. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 29 
 
 Judge of VaiTy in a fit of Paflion when the Charles 
 execution was over, THE EDGE OF THIS, ^'^• 
 
 (clapping his Hand upon his Sword) WILLp'Jp^_ 
 SOON CUT ASUNDER THAT iv. 
 EDICT, ':;z2:. of January, their meaning can' 
 be only that he intended to do all his endea- 
 vours to have that Edict repealed ; they cannot 
 be an Indication of his having premeditated the 
 Maflacre of Vafly, already perpetrated when 
 the words were uttered. But I don't underftand 
 well the meaning ot the learned Criticks when 
 they fay, not only, that no body hath charged 
 the Duke with the words juft mentioned •, but 
 alfo that no body hath charged him with the 
 fadt which is in queftion. Pray what fadl do 
 they mean ? For if it is of the Maffacre, the 
 Prince of Conde charged him diredly with it 
 in one of his Manifeftos, which I fhall tranilate 
 in its proper place {v). But if it is of what 
 D'Avila relates, they are in the right ; for I 
 have not feen it any where elfe but in that Hi- 
 ftorian, and thofe who have tranfcribed it out 
 of him. I own like wife that Varillas was not 
 a proper Author to quote for proving the charge 
 againft the Duke ; he has written above one hun- 
 dred years after ; and fmce the moft material 
 part of his Evidence which concerns the Duchefs 
 Dowager's entreaties and the Duke of Guife's 
 compliance, is extradied out of Thuanus, Bayls 
 methinks would have done better, had he quoted 
 that noble Hiftorian rather than Varillas. 
 
 But I am forry to fee the learned Criticks a- 
 bove named, undertaking the defence of fo odi- 
 ous a Caufe, and afierting it by Arguments no 
 
 (v) Spifame Lord of Pafiy charged him likewife with it 
 five or fix months after, in his Speech to the Emperor and alt 
 the Princes of the Empire affembled at Francfort. 
 
o o Hijtory of the Reformat i072, and of the Vol.11. 
 Charles lefs, if not more odious than the fadl it felf, and 
 
 ^^- from judicious Criticks becoming Calumnia- 
 Pote Pius tors J as it is very clear by the opprobrious names 
 
 IV. they beftow, efpecially upon Beza, calling him 
 Hypocrite, Wolf, Lyar, ^c. which names he 
 has never deferved, as many fincere and equi- 
 table Authors even amongft the Catholicks do 
 acknowledge. And likewife when they affirm. 
 That ALL the Catholicks were convinced that the 
 true and Jirfi caufe of the troubles in France, was 
 the new Religion which they endeavoured to in- 
 troduce •, its Profejfors obfiinacy, and THE AT- 
 TEMPTS MADE, ARMS IN HAND, 
 AGAINST THE CATHOLICKS, BE- 
 FORE THE PRETENDED MASSACRE 
 OFVASSr. But let them give a fmgle In- 
 ftance of any like attempt It is true, in the Ci- 
 ties where the Reformed were the ftrongeft, they 
 kept themfelves upon their Guard, and afted 
 defenfively •, but the Jefuits will never be able 
 to prove that the Reformed have been the Ag- 
 greflbrs before the Mafliicre of Vafly. They 
 go farther, and they fay with great Coniidence, 
 It is UNQUESTIONABLE that the HU- 
 GUENOTS had obtained the Edi5l of January 
 with Force in HAND. That is utterly filfe, as it 
 appears by Caftelnau's Memoirs, and hyThuanus, 
 both Catholicks; the Reformed, tho'they were 
 in fuch great Number at Paris, had no other 
 Forces, nor Arms in the Month of January, but 
 what the Queen-Mother, and the King of Na- 
 varr had allowed to them, for to defend them- 
 felves againft the Infults of the Catholicks, who 
 ufed to aflault them whenever they met them go- 
 ing to their AfTemblies ; and we fhall fee prefent- 
 iy, hov/ little they were prepared, when the firft 
 Civil War broke out. 
 
 I 
 
Book TV. Reformed Churches zVz F r a n c e. 31 
 I have thought my felf indifpenfably obliged to Charles 
 infift To much upon that affair of VafTy, which pj^pj^g 
 occafioned the firft Civil Commotions, or rather jv 
 haftned them, that the Reader might be the better 
 enabled to judge who were the AggrefTors, the 
 
 Reformed or the Cathohcks? and be upon his \ 
 
 Giyard againft the Jefuits, who either by their *\ 
 
 Cavils, or even by downright Lyes, endeavour to | 
 
 obfcure the moft evident Truth, to blaft the Re- \ 
 
 putation of the beft Men, and to falfify the \ 
 
 moil: confpicuous Teftimonies. Let us take a- i 
 
 gain the thread of our Narration. \ 
 
 The news of that Tragedy being foon fpread „'^^^': | 
 abroad. People talk'd of it according as they ftood J^^ /J 
 affefted for one or for the other Party : Some that Ira- 
 
 fretted at it and complained, that it had been^^'iV/'^i'^-f { 
 
 done againft all right and equity -, for, faid they, '/'^"'^"^ ' 
 
 to what purpofe have the Editfts been granted, ' ! 
 
 by which all manner of Penalties againft the i 
 
 Reformed have been fufpended, if, what is for- \ 
 
 bidden to the Magiftrate, is allowed to any pri- i 
 
 vate Man, if he is at liberty to gratify his hatred ] 
 
 againft them ? Others, on the contrary, faid it i 
 
 was well done, to ftrike a Terror in the minds of '! 
 
 thofe People, who not being fatisfy'd with their \ 
 
 prefent condition, went every day farther than I 
 
 they were allowed, for to increafe their advan- '■ 
 
 tages -, that by fuch means the Licentioufnefs of < 
 
 few being reftrained, the Generality fhould be ■ 
 
 kept in the bounds of their Duty. ; 
 
 But the wifer fort, without entring into the ; 
 
 merit of the Caufe, nor judging whether it was i 
 
 right or wrong, thought that fuch an AcT: could i 
 
 not but give birth to Seditions, and incite the - 
 
 Seditious throughout the Kingdom to take up i 
 
 Arms (//). ] 
 
 However, j 
 
 (uJThnzni ubi fupra. Memoiresde Caftelnau, liv, iii. \ 
 
 ch. 7. I 
 
 I 
 
Bifiory of the Reformation, and of the Vol.IL 
 However, after that fine Exploit, the Duke 
 taking his way through Rheims, where the Car- 
 dinal of Lorrain ftayed for him, came to Nan- 
 teuil, whither a vaft number of Friends and Ad- 
 herents flock*d for to welcome him j the Con- 
 Th^^Duke ^^^^^ ^^"^ likewife a Meflage to him upon the 
 comes to fame Errand, as alfo to know his Mind up- 
 Nanteuil. on the prefent Pofture of Affairs, and what was 
 to be done. 
 
 The Court was gone by this time to Mon- 
 ceaux, whither the Prince repaired for to make 
 his Complaints to the King, and require that 
 Juftice fhould be done againll the Infringers of 
 the Edid, and the Difturbers of the publick 
 Peace -, and that the Duke of Guife fhould be 
 forbidden to come to Paris, for fear of a Sedi- 
 tion. 
 
 XV. The Queen, very well acquainted with the 
 7J^%«f«VDuke and the Cardinal of Lorrain's Temper, 
 Orders to ^^g jj^ ^ great perplexity to know what courfe 
 *and the ^ ^° take. She wrote to the faid Duke, intreating 
 Marjhal oj\iYCC\. to come diredly to Court with a fmall Re- 
 st. An- tinue, without going to Paris. But the Duke 
 ^^^' fent her word. That being too bufy for receiving 
 ce'iZriy his Friends, he had no time as yet for inaiting 
 them. Upon the King {x). The Marfhal of St. An- 
 
 drev/*s Anfwer was ftiil more haughty and dif- 
 refpedful, confidering that it came from fuch a 
 Man ; the Queen bid him to repair immediately 
 to his Government of Eyonnefe, and to take 
 care that the King's EdiA fliould be ftrid'y 
 kept. But he told her Majefty,- That in the -pre' 
 fent juncture of Affairs, it was his Duty not to 
 ■ part from the King's Pre fence (y). 
 
 XVI. Many of the Reformed Nobility and Gentry 
 ^he Re- of the Kingdom, having heard of the MafTacre, 
 formed fent ^^^ the PHucc at Paris. They confulted toge- 
 ^Deputa^ ther 
 
 tatton to 
 
 Court. (x) Thuani ibiJ. (y) Idem, ibid. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fr an c E.' 33 
 ther upon what was to be done ; and after fbme Charles 
 Debates, they refolved to fend a Deputation ^^ \ 
 to the King, to complain of their Enemies p^pg ^\^^ 
 Violence, and require that they fhould be brought IV. 
 to a condign Punifhment •, Barbier de Fi-ancourt '— •%'"-J 
 was deputed for the Nobility, atid Beza for the 
 Churches. 
 
 They met with a mod gracious Reception xvir. 
 from the Queen, who told them, ^bat ijohen jhe ^^<^'^' "'■ 
 JImild be thoroughly informed of the Fa6ts, fl^^Z^'^^o)^f^^ 
 would give them fo reafonable a Satisfa^ion^ that "^ 
 they would have no Occafion for Complaints., pro- 
 vided ivithal, that they fhould live peaceably ; 
 that fhe had earnejlly intreated the "Duke by her 
 Letters not to come at p'efent to Paris, and was 
 in hope that he lOould comply. 
 
 But the King of Navarr received them frown- XVIII. 
 ingly ; he bitterly inveighed againft all the Re- ■^^'^ '■^- 
 formed in general, /jr, fays he, they goto their ^f-"l^lcinpof 
 femblies in Arms, contrary to the King^s Edi5ls. Navarr, 
 He obftinately affirmed^ that thofe of VafTy had 
 been • the Aggreflbrs, having affaulted the Duke 
 of Guife's Servants with Stones ; adding that, 
 the Duke was not a Man who could bear with 
 fuch Indignities. 
 
 At this Beza replied, that if it was fo, the XIX. 
 Tiuke might have had jufiice done againji thofe BezaV Fi- 
 who in fuch a vile manner had offended GgaijifiH^.^fJ^ 
 his Perfon and Dignity, but that he ought not to 
 have fuffered his own Servants and Attendants to 
 do themfelves Jujiice. 
 
 Then he added, SIR, It is mcfl true that it 
 behoves the Church of God {in whofe Name I fpeak) 
 to endure, raiher than to give Blows, for fhe 
 ferves unto Chriji under the Crofs, and yields he*' 
 Neck to the Perfecutors. But jnay it pleafe youf 
 Majefly to remember, that fhe is AN A N- 
 
 VoL. II, D VIL 
 
Hijiory of the Reformation^ andof the Vol.11. 
 
 V.IL THAT HATH ALREADY 
 BROKEN MANY HAMMERS. 
 
 The Deputies made fhort with the faid King, 
 feeing his Difpofitions quite altered, and that he 
 bore no gccd-wlll to the Reformed, they came 
 back to Paris (z). 
 
 From that time, the State of France may be 
 
 wei] compared with the Sea that begins to rife 
 
 by degrees, 'till it rages in every place, for in 
 
 • every Province great and ftrange Commotions 
 
 and Seditions began to rife, and lafted in feve- 
 
 ral of them till Henry the IVth's Reign. 
 
 XX. Now the Duke of .Guife, without any re- 
 
 Ihe Duke" s g2ixdi for the King's Orders came to Paris, at- 
 
 ^E^!^\t ^^"^^^ by t^s Conftable, the Duke of Aumxale, 
 
 Paris. 2,nd the Marfhal of St. Andrew -, he affedled 
 
 to come into the Gity through St. Denis's Gate 
 
 as in a Triumph, whereas his fhorteft .Way ■ 
 
 coming from Nanteuil, was to enter by St. 
 
 Martin's Gate. He was met by William Marie 
 
 de Verfigni, Provoft of the Merchants, and the 
 
 Sheriffs, and was received by the People with 
 
 Tranfports of Joy, and the greatefl: Marks of' 
 
 Love, Zeal, Rcfped: and Duty, and with great 
 
 Shoutings of Long Life to Guife ^ juft as if he 
 
 had been the King {a). 
 
 XXT. Nothing could be more unpleafant to (.he 
 
 The Re- Prince of Conde, than that Reception the Duke 
 
 formed of j^g^ with, nor of worfe Omen to the Reformed, 
 
 tnat 7he ^^"^° ^^'-^ every thing to fear from the Catho- 
 
 Prince to licks, whofe Number was much greater than 
 
 frotea theirs. Therefore they intreated • his Highnefs 
 
 them. ^^ receive them under his Protecflion, and to 
 
 undertake their Defence •, that it was a Thing 
 
 honed and juft, to defend the Innocent Lnder 
 
 the Authority of the King's Edids, that thofe 
 
 could 
 
 [z] Beza liv. vi p. i, 2. 3. Dinoth. lib. ii. p. 75, 76. 
 7'iiuan. lib. 29 p. So. (a) Thuan. ibid. 
 
"Book IV. Reformed CJmrches in France. 
 
 could not be deem'd -Traitors or Rebels, who 
 endeavoured to prefer ve the Privileges granted 
 to them by their King againft the Violence 
 the Tyrants. 
 
 The Prince promifed them his Protedion, zr^Ay . 
 was fo much the more encouraged to it, that^ ''^^•L'^L 
 he receiv'd leveral Mellages one upon another ^-(j. 
 from the Queen- Mother Regent, whereby ihe 
 intreated him to undertake fpeedily the Defence 
 of the Kingdom, and of the Mother and the 
 Children^ meaning the King, his Brethren and 
 Sifter {b). 
 
 And in truth, that Princefs was vexed to i:he^,-^^^^- 
 heart, when fhe heard that without any reo;ard ^^io^r''s 
 to her Orders, ' (or rather In treaties) tlie Duke Perplexity. 
 was come to Paris, and had met with fuch a 
 Reception from • the Citizens. She was much 
 more perplexed, when fhe confidered, that after 
 fuch a Step, the Duke would very likely ftick 
 to nothing, but that he v/ould improve fo fair 
 an Opportunity of making himfelf Mafter of the 
 Government, and for that end feize upon the 
 King and her own Perfon. For avoiding the 
 threatning Danger, fhe thought that her befl 
 Courfe v/as, to cafl herfelf and the King into the 
 Prince of Conde's Arms ; therefore fhe wrote to 
 him the four following Letters, which for very 
 good Reafons, I do tranfcribe here Word for 
 Word {c). 
 
 THE FIRST LETTER. 
 
 My Ccufm, 
 
 HAVE heard by the Baron -de la Garde XXIII. 
 what you have told him, of which, my fX^{^// 
 
 D 2 ^OyJi^W:.., ths PriTjce 
 
 (h) Thi:an. ubl fupr. (c) Beza Hv. vi. p. 50, 5 1. they ^ ^^^"^^• 
 are likewife to be found in Agricola(Le Laboareur) Auditions 
 aux. iMenioires de Calklnau, liv. 3. ch. 8. 
 
3 6 Hi/lory of the Reformation , and of the Vol.11. 
 Charles Coufm, I have been and am fo fure, that I do 
 J. ^2 not take more aflurance on my felf: and that \ 
 Pope ' ^all never forget what you fhall do for the King 
 Pius IV. my Son and my felf. And becaiife he (the Ba- 
 ' ron) goes back for the occafion he will tell you, 
 I fhall not make a long Letter, only I defire you 
 to give a ftdl Credit to whatever he fhall tell you^ 
 from one to which you may truft, and on which 
 you may depend, as if fhe was your own Mo- 
 ther, and who is vour good Coufin, 
 
 CATHARINA. 
 The Superfcription was, To my Coufin the Prince 
 of Conde ; audit was dated as the three others 
 from Monceaux. 
 
 THESECOND LETTER. 
 
 My Coufm, 
 
 I Have fpoken with Ivoy as freely as if ft Was 
 with your felf, truftlng my {€[{ on his Fide- 
 lity, and that he fhall fpeak to no body but to 
 your felf, and that you will never betray my 
 Secrets ; and that you will remember only to 
 preferve the Children and the Mother, and the 
 Kingdom, as one who has fo great an Intereft in 
 them, and who may depend upon it, that it will 
 never be forgotten. Burn this Letter im- 
 mediately AFTER THE READING OF IT. 
 
 Your <2;ood Coufin, 
 
 CATHARINA. 
 The Superfcription, To my Coufm, Mr. Le- 
 Prince of Conde. 
 
 THE THIRD LETTER, 
 
 My Coufin, 
 
 I Thank you for the trouble you are at, for let- 
 ting me hear of you fo often, and fince I hope 
 to fee you very foon, I lliali not -make a longer 
 Letter •, I defire you only to be fure that I will 
 »icv(2r forget what vou do \<i^ my fiike ^ and if I 
 
 die 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in VRAtzcE. 37 
 die before I fhould'be able to /how you my gra- Charles 
 titude as much as I am wiiring to do it, I fhall ^ ^^ 
 give a memorandum of it to piy Children, Ip^o^Pius 
 have charged this bearer with fomething to tell JV, 
 you. I defire you to beheve him; and fure I ^-'^"v-""' 
 am that you will know, that whatever I do, it 
 is to reftore every thing in peace and quiet- 
 neis ; I know that you wifh for it as much as 
 your good Coufin, 
 
 CATHARINA. 
 The Superfcription as the former. 
 
 THEFOURTHLETTER. 
 
 My Coufin, 
 
 I See fo many things difpleafing unto me, that 
 if it was not for the truft I put in God, and 
 the dependance I have on you, that you 
 will help me to preferve this Kingdom, and 
 the King my Son's Service, in fpite of thofe who 
 feek only to overthrow every thing, I would be 
 ftill moreforry than I am : But I hope that we 
 fhall remedy every thing by your good Coun- 
 fel and Aid ; and becaufe I have told my Opi- 
 nion of it at large to the Bearer of this Letter, 
 therefore I fhall not repeat it here ; I defire ye 
 to believe whatever he wili toll you, from your 
 Good Coufin, 
 
 CATHARINA. 
 The Superfcription is the fame. 
 
 We fhall fay in its proper place what Con- 
 {Irudion the Queen put upon thefe Letters, 
 when fhe flood no more in need of the Prince of 
 Conde, or durfl: not fpeak her real Sentiments, 
 much lefs own them. XXIV. 
 
 However they worked upon the Prince, and ^''-'0' ''^^■"-'^ 
 prevailed fo far with him, that he thought in 'f"'' Y' 
 iJ 3 earnelt/^^P;-,>t<k 
 
38 HiJioryoftheReformation^andofthe Vol.11. 
 Charles earneft to put himfelf in a condition ofwithjRiand- 
 6- ^"S ^^^ Triumvirate's efforts, and be before- 
 Pc/IpIus hand with thern.^ 
 
 IV. But feveral things obftruded his good Inten- 
 
 ^— '•^'* — ' tions, efpecially the Want of Money, and the 
 
 _^ Irrefohitions, and long Delays of the Admiral. 
 He de-' To fupply his want of Money, he defired the 
 fires Mo- Reformed of Paris to lend him ten thoufand 
 ney of the Crowns. But, who will believe it 1 he v/as re- 
 ^R^^f^T^j fufed, either out of parcimony, or hecaufe they 
 ^jj^/j ,.^'' flatter'd themfelves that matters would be ad- 
 fufett. jufted without a War, or becaufe they would 
 not be deemed the iirft Authors of the Civif 
 Wai-, (many there were who afcrlbed the true 
 reafon of their denial to their niggardlinefs.) 
 However in fix days time the Prince could ^et 
 no more than fixteen hundred Crowns railed 
 amongft twenty thoufand Reformed at the leall:, of 
 each Sex and Condition then at Paris, But fuch 
 a parcimony*, join'd with a kind of duncery, 
 cod them very dear afterwards ; for at the very 
 beginning of the War, they were turned out of 
 their Houfes, feveral loit their Lives, and all of 
 ^ them loft their Goods and Riches. The wifer 
 fort wondered at fuch a piece of Stupidity, feeing 
 that few days before they had begged for the 
 Princt's Protcdion, and now they v/ere fo blind- 
 ed, as to think they could fave their Goods and 
 Riches, and chofe to truft the Prince with their 
 • Lives, rather than 'with their Money {d). 
 XXVI. Two or three days after the Duke's Entry at 
 The T ri- p^j.jg^ j{. ^gs thought proper by tlie Triumvirs, 
 fent aDe-^^ fend to the Queen the Provoft of the Mcr- 
 /.a/«//o« /o chants, 'and one of the Sheriffs, to remoh- 
 the^ecn. ftrate to her Majefty, the danger which the City 
 was in, becaufe the Prince was in it with many 
 
 Atten- 
 
 (d) All that paragraph is taken out of Bcza, liv. vi. p 4. 
 
 andDinoth. lib. ii. p. 76, 77. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches iri r R A n c e. ,^29. 
 Attendants, and to intreat her to bring over im- CKarles 
 mediately the King to Paris -, ^d v/hereas the •^^• 
 Prince had fo many Men in Arms,^they befoi^gKt p^'Ap^'us 
 '■her Majefty to reftore to the Citizens their Arms, jy. . 
 which, by the Duke of Montmorency their Go- <— v-«-j 
 vernor's orders, had been lodged in the Town- 
 houfe. 
 
 The Queen, without denying the firft point, XXVII. 
 put it only to another time ; but as to the fe- ll-^e 
 cond, by the advice of the Chancellor (he grant- ^'^en's 
 ed it : for flie forefaw that tho' fhe fnould deny ■^^J"^'^" • 
 it, they would take their Arms againft her 
 •willff;. 
 
 From thence the Court came to Fontainbleau, 
 there to confult more at eafe about the courfe fhe 
 •ought to take ; for fhe was not as yet refolved 
 whether fhe fhould go to Orleans, where the 
 Prince and the Admiral promis'd her a fafe re- 
 trea,t -,. or repair to Paris, having ftrengthened 
 the King's and her own Authority againft the 
 Triumvirs (/J. 
 
 Mean while the King of Navarr was gone to XXVUf. 
 "Paris at the Triumvirate's inftances, they held e- '^^-^ ^^"g 
 very day a Cabinet Council, Vv'hich they were °' ^^^^^'^f^- 
 pleafed to term the King's Council, with- p^^j^iJ'' 
 out admitting into it- the Prince of Conde. He 
 endeavoured to perfuade the faid Prince to avoid 
 Paris, but being not able to prevail upon him, 
 he wrote to the Queen, defiring 'her Majefty to 
 fendpofitive Orders to the Prince upon thatSub- /^nd tU 
 jeft •, file comply'd, and the better to fjcceed, Princegoej 
 file fent the Cardinal of Bourbon, who came at ^''^ '^^"'• 
 laft to this agreemient with the Prince, that for 
 his honour's fake, 'the Duke of Guife fiiould de- 
 part the City at the fame time, that he (the 
 Prince) fhould do the fame by another gate. The 
 Duke having agreed to this, the Prince ftt out 
 D 4 v/ith 
 
 (e) Thuani ibid, (f) Idem ibid. 
 
40 
 
 Charles 
 
 IX. 
 
 1562. 
 
 Pope Pius 
 
 IV. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 The Duke 
 ^/"Guife 
 ^oes to 
 I'ontain- 
 
 XXX. 
 
 7he Tri- 
 umvirs 
 iiringfor- 
 ribly the 
 Kirg and 
 S^tt en to 
 
 Paris. 
 
 Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol.11. 
 with his Retinue and Attendants, to the number 
 cf nine hundred or a thoufand Horfe, intending 
 to go to Fontainbleau ; but as he was upon the 
 Road the Queen fent him orders not to come to 
 Court j fo he went to Meaux. He was no foon- 
 er gone out of Paris, but (by the Duke's direfti- 
 on) a Garifon of fifteen hundred Men ftrong 
 was received into it, for to keep the Gates and 
 other Paflages, apd oppofe the Entrance of 
 tlie Prince, in cafe he had a mind to come 
 backf^j. 
 
 The DukeofGuife had neither the fame dif- 
 cretion nor the fame modefty as the Prince -, in- 
 deed he fet out from Paris, as he had promifed, 
 but it was for to go direcftly to Fontainbleau, 
 with the King of Navarr, the Conftable and St. 
 Andrew, with a great Retinue and Troops, to 
 make a Show of his Superiority, and to keep the 
 Queen in awe (b). 
 
 The King of Navarr and St. Andrew having 
 undertook in vain to perfuade the Queen to 
 come to Paris, where flie and her Children 
 v/ould be more fafe (as they faid) ; at laft, after 
 inany debates, (the Triumvirs having got intelli- 
 gence, that the Prince, at the Queen's inftances, 
 was ready to come and inveft the Court) they 
 boldly attempted to force the Queen into a Com- 
 pliance. 
 
 For that end (by the Duke's diredlion) the 
 King of Navarr told her Majefty, that becauf? 
 of his rank, being the firft Prince of the Blood, 
 he could not gonfent, that the King ihould ftay 
 any longer in fuch a place, therefore he defired 
 her to v/oik upon his Majefty, that he would 
 con fent to his removal to Paris (j). That is 
 Caftehiau'§ account of that Tranfadlion ; but 
 
 Thuanu^ 
 
 Cg) Thunni ibid. Mem. de Call. liv. Hi. ch. 8. Bcze 
 hV. vi. f/jj Idem ubi fupra. (J J Callclnau Ztideni. 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches zVz France. 41 
 
 Thuanus adds, that as the Queen ftagger'd, and Charles 
 the Triumvirs being fenfible of the danger they yS' 
 were in of being furprized by the Prince of Con- p^A p{^^ 
 de, if he came at that nick of time, becaufe the IV. 
 Chancellor would not fail to perfuade the Queen 
 to cafl her felf and the King her Son into that 
 Prince's Arms, the Duke of Guife with a bold 
 ftroke cut afunder the knot, advifing the Kingcf 
 Navarr (whofe nature he turned at his pleafure) 
 to tell the Queen IMPERIOUSLY, that 
 knowing for certain that his Brother of Conde 
 was coming on purpofe to feize upon the King 
 and her {elf, he was refolved to carry the King 
 in all hafte to Paris ; that as to her Mf, fte 
 might ftay, or follow him, juft as fhe pleafed. 
 Navarr obeyed exadly, and without giving her 
 Majefty any further time for confulting, he or- 
 dered the Baggage to be got ready, and they 
 came that day to Melun, the Queen being obli- 
 ged to follow. The King, by the Triumvirate's 
 orders, was lodged in the Caftle, wherein no 
 body had inhabited for a long while, except the 
 Keeper and fome Prifoners ; they fet Guards e- 
 very where with a ftrift charge to watch nar- 
 rowly ; for they were under great apprehenfions 
 lead the Queen fhould ileal the King away in 
 the Night-time. 
 
 Here again her Majefty fpent the whole night 
 in confultations with her moil trufty Counfellors; 
 ihe had fecretly got a Boat ready, to the end, 
 that if it was thought proper, they might 
 deceive their Guards and make their Efcape. 
 
 The next day the Queen promis'd every thing 
 to the Triumvirs, in hopes that by that means 
 fhe might obtain liberty of coming back with the 
 King to Fontainbleau.^-Butthe Duke of Guife, 
 who knew her perfedly well, fruftrated her 
 expe(5lation ; he let her know by the King of 
 
 Na- 
 
42 Hijiory of the Refor?natio7t, and of the Vol .II. 
 ' Charles Navarr, that they muftproceed without any further 
 ^^•^ delay to Paris, producing a Letter from the Pro- 
 P^Jpjus voft, who gave him notice, that unlefsthe King 
 IV. fhoald come in hafte, the City was in great dan- 
 ^^-'■v— ' ger. Therefore on the' fame day, the King, 
 Queen-Mother and " the Duke of Orleans, were 
 brought to the Caftle of Vincennes, about a mile 
 from Paris •, the Queen bore a doleful Counte- 
 nance, not able to refrain from Tears •, and the 
 young King crying like a Child, as if they had 
 been both led into Captivity. The Conftable 
 went before ; and on the Evening he arrived at 
 Paris (/). /■ ' '' 
 
 The next day very early in the Morning the 
 
 ^'^^ ^""^.-.faid Conftable riding through the City with a 
 
 Jia e s ^'Yxoovi of Gendarmes, he arrefted one Ruze Ad- 
 
 gainft the vocate m the rarliament, and lent him to Jail, 
 
 Rrfonned. becaufe he had been too free in the Aflembly of 
 
 the General States againft thofe of the Nobility, 
 
 who had had heretofore the Management of 
 
 Affairs. 
 
 Then he proceeded, as In Battle-array, to a 
 place called the Temple of Jerufalem, out of St. 
 James's gate, where the Reformed ufed to re- 
 ' -fort ; there he made a heap of the Pulpit and 
 Pews, and fet fire to them, to the great Joy of 
 the Affiflants, who made loud and repeated huz- 
 zas. From thence he came back triumphantly 
 into the City, and after dinner he went to Popin- 
 court, another place out of St. Anthony's gate 
 where the Reformed reforted, and did the fame 
 there as he had done to the other in the morn- 
 ing ; but the fire took to the adjacent Houfes, 
 and burnt them to the ground •, then he came 
 back with the fame Pomp and the fame Accla- 
 mations of the Mob through the Streets, where 
 he paffed, ^ if he had got a great Vi(5tory over 
 ' . . tlie 
 
 (r) Thuanilib, xxix. p. Si, 82. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 43 
 
 the Enemies of the State. But many looked Charles 
 with indignation upon fuch a proceeding, and ^^-^ 
 could not bear to fee the firft Officer of the Ar- p,pl ^(^ 
 my ftooping fo low, in order to Ingratiate him- IV 
 felf with fuch a vile Mob, By fuch Exploits' 
 he expofed himfelf to the Scorn of , the wifeft, 
 and amongfh many Nick-names beftowed upon 
 him, he got that of Captain Burning-Pews 
 
 {k). ^ \ .; 
 
 This Example Increafed the LIcentioufnefs of XXXn. 
 the Mob, they aflaulted in the Streets, the moQi'l^f' ^''i% 
 toppmg Qnes of the Reformed, and many ^ytio, theUobin^ 
 very ill treated on account of their Religion, cr^^/f.;i'^ 
 The next day the Triumvirs brought the King,/^-'^' '^'^■ 
 the Queen-Mother, and the Duke of Orleans to'^"'^''' 
 the Louvre, as If they had not been fafe e- 
 nough out of the City, or rather becaufe they 
 thought that they were not enough at their X)If- 
 cretion. . . 
 
 Then they deliberated In the Council,' whether XXXIII, 
 they fhould declare Waragainft the Prince oi'TheTn- 
 Conde and his Adherents. The Chancellor ^'^^^''^J 
 oppofed the Proportion v/ith all his might ; for"^ j^yj. ^. 
 v/hich caufe, the Conftable iniifted that he fhould o-a/;// //-^ 
 be excluded from the Councils of War. The ^^■'''''^^• 
 Chancellor told him, that truly he underflood 
 not the method of Fighting, but that he, and 
 thofe like him knew very well, whether and 
 v/hen the War was neceffary. But for all that, 
 the Violence of the Confederates prevailing, he 
 was excluded. 
 
 They then admitted Into the King's Council, XXXIV. 
 Goufficr Marquefs of Boifly, Honorat of Savoy Great 
 Count of Villars, both nearly related to the Con- ^^''^"J" 
 fiable ; Lewis Provoft de Sanfac, and (at the Councif. 
 Recommendation of the King of Navarr) the 
 two Gentlemen who had fo dcxterouQy managed 
 
 their 
 
 (k) Beza lib. vi. p. 12. Thuani ibid. p. 82. 
 
ia 
 
 ys. 
 
 '^^ Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vo l .II, 
 
 Charles their Mafter to do fuch a fine piece of v/ork, viz. 
 
 ^^- Des Cars and Lenoncourt Bifhop of Auxerref/j. 
 
 pj/pius Now tho' the Prince of Conde had wrote to 
 
 IV. the Admiral, defiring him to repair to Paris, 
 
 *— *v— '^with as many Attendants as he could find, whom 
 
 ^^^Y- he might depend upon, neverthelefs that Lord 
 
 reV ^A^' could not be prevailed at firft to fl:ir, and by his 
 
 taunt for Dclays, he occafioned the lofs of a very fair 
 
 the Admi- Opportunity of getting the upper hand of the 
 
 raVs De- Xriumvirs. Let us hear D'Aubigne's Account 
 
 of this, he relates fome Particulars which I found 
 
 no where elfe but in his Hiftory. 
 
 „ Several Lords, fays .he, being come to vifit 
 ^, the Admiral at Chatillon upon the Loin, in 
 „ order to prefs him to join himfelf with the 
 „ Prince •, that old Captain found the Paflage 
 „ of that Rubicon fo dangerous, that after ha- 
 5, ving debated the matter for two days with 
 „ them, and cooled their Heats by feveral learn- 
 „ ed and fpecious Arguments, he brought them 
 ,, over to his Opinion, and there was fcarce 
 „ any hope left that he could be moved to 
 ,, enter upon A(5lion J when it happened that 
 „ one night, two hours after he was a-bed, he 
 „ was awakened by his Lady*s Sighings and 
 „ Sobbings -, he afked her what was the matter, 
 5, and fhe anfwered to the following purpofe, 
 „ 'That it 110 as ivith regret that Jhe dif- 
 „ turbed hhn from his Sleep by her Sighings, but 
 ,, feeing that the Members of Chrifi were torn 
 „ to pieces, and that they were of the fame body 
 ■„ ivith her, Jhe could not be infenfible to it. I 
 ,, know. Sir, that you have -no lefs fenftbility 
 , , than others, but you have mere flrength for 
 „ concealing it % foall you take it amifs, that your 
 „ faithful Comfort fljould with more Liberty than 
 „ Refpe£f, ped her Complaints and 'Tears into 
 
 „ your 
 
 (I) la. ibid. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France." 4^ 
 „ your Bofom ? We lie here foftly, ^hile our Charles 
 „ Brethren's Bodies^ who are flejh of our flejh and ^^-^ 
 „ bones of our bones ^ are fome of them in Dun- pf^l^i^^ 
 „ geons^ and others lying in the open Fields at IV. 
 „ the mercy of the Dogs and Croivs : This Bed^ 
 „ is a Tomb for me^ ftnce they are not buried ; 
 „ can we fleep at reft without hearing our Bre- 
 „ thren's lafi groanings ? Repeat as mnch as you. 
 ,, pleafe thofe fine Speeches, with which you con- 
 „ fute your Brethren's * Arguments, and put 
 ,, them to a non-plus ; but have ycu a mind ta 
 „ difhearten them likewife? I'm much afraid^ 
 „ left fuch a wifdom be nothing better than a 
 „ worldly wifdom, and that to be fo wife after 
 ,, Men ftoould not be to be wife after God, who 
 „ has beftowed ufon you the talents requifite to bs 
 5, an excellent Captain ? Can you in good Con- 
 „ fcience refufe to employ them in behalf of the 
 ,, Children of God? Tou have own'd to me, that 
 5, fometimes that Confidence awakens you out ofi 
 ,, your Sleep ; It is God*s Ti'uchman : Are you 
 „ afiraid to become guilty befiore God in fiollcwing 
 3, its Dilates ? The Knight's Sword which you 
 ,, bear, is it defined to opprefis the diftreffed, or 
 „ to deliver them firom the clazvs ofi the Ty~ 
 ,, rants F Tou did own the Juftice ofi their Aryns 
 „ ftnce they were fiorcedto come to that Extremity. 
 ,, Could you renounce the love ofi Juftice and 
 ,, Equity, fior fiear ofi the Event? Has not God 
 5, deprived ofi their Sen fie s and Judgment thofie 
 „ who refiifted unto him, under Pretence ofi fiparing 
 ,, the Blood? He knows hoiv to prefierve the Life 
 ,, ofi thofie who are willing to lofie it fior his Ser- 
 ,, vice, and how to deftroy thofie, who fior Saving 
 „ it difiobey him : Sir, fio much Blood already fihed 
 ,, flicks to my Heart : That Blood and your Spoufie 
 , , crieth above unto God firom the Ground, and 
 
 „ /;/ 
 ♦ D'Andelot and the Cardinal of ChatlUon. 
 
Hlfiory of the Refonnatio?!^ and oj the Vol.11. 
 
 ,, in this Bed cgainft you, it declares that you 
 ,, pall be the Murderer of all thofe which you do 
 ,, not preferve from being murdered. 
 
 The Admiral anfwered, „ That fine e his Ar- 
 
 „ guments againft the Vanity of popular Commo- 
 
 „ tions 5 the uncertainties attending a Tarty not 
 
 ,, formed asyet\ the difficult beginnings, not againfi 
 
 „ the Monarchy, but againft thePcffeJfors of a State 
 
 5, already confirmed in their Ufurpations -, fo many 
 
 .„ People concerned in their prefervation ; no War 
 
 „ abroad, but a general Peace made of late ; 
 
 ,5 and what was wcrfe, made on purpofe with 
 
 5, Neighbours confpiring to our ruin ; fince 
 
 „ the defer tion of the King of Navarr, and of 
 
 ,, the Conftable ; fo great ft rength on the Ene~ 
 
 ,, mies fide ; fo great weaknefs of ours; fine e all 
 
 5, thofe Qonfiderations are not able to convince you^ 
 
 „ put your hand upon your bofom, try your confian- 
 
 „ cy •, look how you fhall bear with a general Over- 
 
 „ throw, with the fcorn of your Enemies, and even 
 
 „ of your own Party •, the Reproaches of the Peo- 
 
 „ pie that judge commonly of things by the Event;- 
 
 „ the I'reafons of your own ; your Flight ; your 
 
 „ Exile in foreign Countries ; the abufive Lan- 
 
 „ guage and Manners of the Englifh ; the ^lar- 
 
 „ rels of the German; your own Shame, Nakednefs, 
 
 „ Hunger; and what is worfe, that of your own 
 
 „ Children ; furthermore^ try ^whether you can 
 
 „ bear to die by the comtncn Hargman*s hands, 
 
 „ after having feen yourHufvand dragged and e-K- 
 
 „ pofed to a publick Ignominy ; laftly, your Chil- 
 
 ,, drcn degraded and made to fcrve as Scullions to 
 
 „ your Emmies, increafed by the War, and triuni- 
 
 ,, phing over your own misfortunes. I give you 
 
 ,, three Weeks for to confider, and when you floall 
 
 „ have firengthened your felf againft fuch acci- 
 
 „ dents, I will go to perijh with you and our 
 
 ,, Friends. To 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fran c e . 47 
 
 To this fhe replied, 'ihat thofe three Weeks Charles 
 „ were at end : Tou will never he vdnquijh^d by y cur ^^• 
 „ Enemies Virtue ; make ufe of your own, and do p ' J ^ixxi 
 ^y\.not charge your felf with the Murders that JJj all iv. 
 ^l be committed during thefe three weeks, I beg in ^—^v^-^ 
 „ the name of God, do not deceive us any longer, 
 „ M elfe IJhall witnejs againfi you in the Doom's- 
 ,,_D.ay.. 
 
 „ The Admiral could not withftand his La- 
 ,, dy's Eloquence, he fet out for to meet the 
 5, Prince at Meaux. There were many De- 
 „ bates to know how they ought to begin; 
 ,, fome regretted the lofs of Paris, and compa- 
 „ red the Prince's going out of it, to that of 
 ,, Pompey when he left JRome. But they were 
 ,,.anfwered, that the King of Navarr having 
 ^, deferted their Party, and the Mob being- 
 ,, grown infolent and furious, there was no 
 ,, means left of withftanding them. Others 
 ,, were of opinion, that they ought to make 
 ,, themfelves Mailers of the King's Perfon, 
 ,, (for he was as yet at Fontainbleau) but 
 „ that was thought by others too odious and 
 ,, uncertain. Others were for engaging the E- 
 „ le6lor Palatine to fend his Forces to their 
 ,, Adiftance, but that opinion was rejeded. 
 
 ,, At laft tli/cy refolved to fcize upon fome 
 „ Cities, and to begin by Orleans, where the 
 „ Reformed had the Majority (m). " 
 
 Accordingly the Prince fent D'Andelot to that XXXVI. 
 City to prepare every thing, and to difpofe "T/je Prince 
 the Inhabitants for the Reception of his High->f'f ^''^"* 
 nefs; and that Lord entered into it m. Difo-uife. 1 ^■°''''' '' 
 Monterud Lieutenant to the Prmcc of La 
 Roche- fur- Yon, Governor of the City, com- 
 manded in it in his abfencc. That Gentleman, 
 - knowing not as yet ' what Party the Queen Re- 
 gent 
 (tn) D'Aubigne Hift. Univ. Tom. I. lib. iii, ch. z. 
 
Htflory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.IL 
 
 gent would take, countenanced the Reformed, 
 and made ufe of them indifferently with Catho- 
 licks for the City-Guard. But when he heard 
 that the King had been brought td Paris, and 
 'that the Queen was with the Triumvirs, he took 
 immediately another courfe, and as he got In- 
 telligence that fomething was hatching within 
 the City, he let in fecrfetly the Company of Ci- 
 pierre, hoping by their means to be the ftrongeft. 
 XXXVII. The Prince fet out from Meaux, at the head 
 p^^'''«^^of fifteen hundred Horfe, the twenty ninth of 
 V^^J"' March, after having received the Sacrament ; 
 Meaux. and underftanding that the Court was removed 
 from Fontainbleau, he paffed in fight of Pa- 
 ris, at which the Inhabitants were much a- 
 larmed. The Cardinal of Bourbon his Brother, 
 fent him word, that he hoped he would not be- 
 gin the Hoftilities, nor undertake any thing a- 
 gainft the City. He anfwered that it was not 
 his Intention, provided they fhould give him a 
 free Pafiage through the Bridge of St. Clou ; 
 and that being granted, the Prince received there 
 a Reinforcement of three hundred Horfe, and 
 two hundred more between Eftampes and An- 
 ger vi lie. 
 XXXVIII At Angerville, the Prince received the fe- 
 His Ene- cond day of April, very early in the Morning, 
 mies amuje c^veral Letters from the K ing and Queen, de- 
 ihe Road, ^ring him not to proceed any farther, and that 
 they would come to an Agreement. But this 
 v;as only a Device of the Guifes to get time, 
 amufe the Prince, and hinder him from going 
 to Orleans -, for while they defired his Highnefa 
 not to proceed, they difpatched in all fpeed 
 Monf. D'Etrees, Great Mafter of the Artillery 
 of France, to feize upon that City •, which be- 
 ing luiderftood by the faid Prince, after having 
 JoS three hours on that account, and having re- 
 ceived 
 
Book lY. Reformed Churches ifi Fran ct^ 49 i 
 
 ceived an Exprefs from D'Andelot, who let him Charles j 
 
 know, that without being immediately relieved, ^"^ 
 
 they could not withftand any longer, and would pop^ pjus ; 
 
 be entirely cut to pieces by their Enemies ; the IV. | 
 
 Van of the Prince began to run full Gallop, and 'TTtT^C^ 
 
 the reft followed without any order, which af- Orleans ' ' 
 
 forded good fport to tiie travellers who went the furpri/e J \ 
 
 fame road, feeing fuch a vaft number of hcrfe- fy D'An- \ 
 
 men running with fuch fpeed, fome tumbling off^^ " j 
 
 their horfes, others lofing their hats, caps, coats ' 
 
 and caiks, they took them for mad -men or : 
 
 drunkards, and laughed heartily at them (n). ; 
 
 The Van arrived at the very nick of time, at 
 
 the Gate of St. John, which was forced imme- : 
 
 diately, and with the help of fuch reinforcement, < 
 
 it was eafy for D'Andelot to get the better of 
 
 his Enemies. . \ 
 
 The Prince arrived at the fame time, and XL. ; 
 
 made his Entry into the City the fecond of A- ^^f^ 
 pril about eleven before noon, amidft the accla- v]lt" l^tg 
 mations of the People, who fung the 124th ^v, i 
 
 Pfalm, When he was alighted, Monterud came 
 to pay his duties to him, but at the fame time i 
 
 he af^ed leave to retire, which was eafily granted 
 to him, tho' the Prince offered to protetft him in ' 
 
 his Government as far as the King's Service < 
 
 could allow it. Then the Magiftrates came in I 
 
 a body for to welcome his Highnefs, in the i 
 
 mean time for to befeech him to provide for the \ 
 
 fafety and welfare of the City under the King's j 
 
 obedience, and not to take amifs if' they fent , 
 
 notice to his Majefty of his arrival, and of what ". 
 
 had happened. ' ' 
 
 The Prince anfwered, that far from intending , 1 
 
 any thing to the detriment of the City, or to • 
 
 raife any commotion in ' the Kingdom ; nothing | 
 
 but the fervice of his Majefty had moved him I 
 
 Vol. II. E to \ 
 
 {?■) Thuen, lib xxix. p. 83. Eeza liv. vi. p. 7-— 10. 
 
50 Hiftory of the Refcrmat'wn, and rf the Vol. II. 
 
 Charles to coms to Orleans, defiring them to exert them- 
 
 ■I'y^ felves in their refpedive Offices, to hinder left 
 
 Folevius ^'"'•y commotion ihould arife in the City, and to 
 
 ' W. caufe that the Edift of January, which had been 
 
 ^-^ — y'-"'*-^ publifhcd only the day before at Orleans, fhould 
 
 be religiounv kept -, as for the reft, he would 
 
 fend likcwife notice of every thing to his Ma- 
 
 jeftyT''). • • • 
 
 Laft of all came the Great Mafter of the Ait.l- 
 Jcry,ns the Prince was- ready to fit down toDinner. 
 As this Gcntleinan was arrived too late at Or- 
 leans to execute his Commiifion, he went back 
 the ^rjTie day, with Letters of the Prince to 
 the Qijecn, wherein he accounted for his ccming 
 into Orleans,- and declared what he intended'to 
 do-. • 
 ^,^^ The Princcfs of Conde fat out from MeauK 
 
 .T^^' /5,;;;.tht fime' day as the Prince, intending to lie in 
 ,refi rf at Murct, onc of the Prince's hoiifes •, flie took 
 jCondc ^f- along -wi'th her the Marquefs de Contyhcr eldeft 
 A"' n" ^? Son, and a vcrv fmall retinue ; but as fhe went 
 through a' Village caiicQ Vaudray, Ihe met wim 
 a proccilion, and becaufe none of her Servants 
 pulled oft" their Hats, the Prieft inCenfed the 
 N i-'ca.tanis, who, without any regard to the Quf>- 
 
 lity of the Princef?,- nor "the Condition ftie was 
 v,ss in, r.fiaulted her in her Litter with Stones. 
 Her Highnefs v;as {o much frightned, that /he 
 fell in Labour at a Village called Gandelee, and 
 was delivered before her time (for fh« was but fe- 
 ven months gone) of two Princes ; from thence ftie 
 went to Murer, where ftie ftayed till the Civil- 
 War broke out, then flie came to Orleans with 
 the Marquefs of Conty her Son, who was about 
 
 nine vears of £<>;£ (/•;. ■ ^ 
 
 The 
 
 (a) Eoza liv vl, p. JO, 11, Thiun. ibid. (p^ Be?a Uv. 
 Yi- p, I I. 'i"])uan. ibid. ; ■ ■ . . r 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /« F r a n c E . 51 
 
 The Countefs Dowager of Royc, Mother-in- Charles 
 Law to the Prince, went to Strafburg with Fran- ^^• 
 cis fecond Son to the Prince, the two Twins, and p^^^ ^-^^^ 
 MademoifeJle de Bourbon his Daughter, there jv. 
 ilie ftayed 'till the Edi<S of Peace in 1563. v--^^— j 
 
 At Paris, the Reformed continued their Af- /^^y^^* 
 femblies. The Provoft iteing that nothing could ^ ^^' 
 deter them from meeting together for their re- Roye re- 
 ligious Worihip, fent, by advice of the Conftabic, *^>'" '° 
 fome Raices to the place where they reforted» '^"^^o'-'^'S- 
 who fell upon them as they came from their Af- XLIIT. 
 lemblies, and wounded many of them {q). yioknas 
 
 The outrages, which the Parifian Mob mAdiQ''£JfJ'J' 
 to the Reformed of that place with impunity, ^/p^irii. 
 increafed every day, and when thefe laft came 
 tor to make their Complaints of it to the Con- 
 ftable, they were fent back with opprobrious lan- 
 guage. The Minifters were forced to retire into 
 Orleans, where they were fkfely conducted by 
 their friends. The Mob exafperated at it, ran 
 almoft mad, they went and pillaged their houfes, 
 and were fo ridiculous as to carry the Slippers of 
 Mr. Malo, one of the Miniiters, in a proceffion 
 upon a Pitch-fork ; they were particularly exaf- 
 perated again ft hlm,becaufe he had been former- 
 ly a Vicar of the Parilh of St. Andrew des 
 Arcs (r). 
 
 Before we proceed any further, let us make XL IV. 
 fome particular Remarks on the Tranfadi- '^'^-''^^ g''"e 
 ons of the three laft month's, fince the Edict 'j[ ^'f' '^'^- 
 was granted on the feventeenth of January, 'ti\\'o,',"h^"i!ai 
 the coming of the Prince into Orleans, by which Tranjac- 
 we may be enabled to judge who v^/as the firft '^''''•'■• 
 Author of the Civij War, either the Prince, or 
 the Triumvirate. 
 
 I. It cannot be d-enied that, before the Car- 
 dinal of Riclielieu.''s Miniftry , whenever the 
 E 2 Crowa 
 
 (1) Bc7^ ibid. ()■) Beza liv. v:i. p. 13. 
 
5 2 Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vox . IIC^ 
 Charles Crown of France was devolved to a Prince who 
 ^^' was not of age for governing by himfelf, the 
 Po^Vias General States v/ere convocated for fettling the 
 IV. Adminiftration cf the Government during^ the 
 King's Minoritv, and that fuch a fettlement or-. 
 dered by the General States, was locked upon as 
 a (landing law, to be in force and; inviolablv 
 kept during thz faid Minority, and 'till the King 
 was proclaimed to be of age with the ufual Ce- 
 remonies ; that is matter of fadt, which does not 
 require any further proof. Now becaufe the 
 General States which ^had been.fummoned at Or- 
 leans bv Fraiicis II. had not as yet began 
 ..their Selfions when he died, after fome debates, 
 it was agreed they fhould . open their SeiTions } 
 but the circumftances of the times obliged the 
 Court to adjourn them 'till May next at Pon- 
 toife; fo they feparated without having, done 
 fcarce any thing elfe of moment, befides the af- 
 cribing of the Regency to the Queen-Mother, 
 and the general Lieutenancy of the Kingdom to 
 the King of Navarr. But being afTembled again 
 according to their Adjournment, they agreed 
 upon thefe four Articles, : ; :: - 
 
 Fir/r,They confirmed the Regency, to the 
 Queen-Mother, and the General Lieutenancy of 
 the Kingdom to the King of Navarr. . 
 
 ■ Secondly^ They exclud'ed from the .King's 
 Council, ^11 Cardinals, BiJdiops, Abbots, and ge- 
 nerally dll Ecclefiaftical Perfons, becaufe of their 
 icath to the Pope. TwoiBrothers could not be 
 admitted into it : tmcL they excluded Hkewife 
 thofc 'who had. enjoyed the Superintendericy 
 of the Finances under the former Reign, 'till they 
 had given an account of their Adminiftration ; 
 and-thofe whbhad received large donations con- 
 trary to the' Ordinances, 'till they had made ref- 
 titUiiori of the fame. This concerned cfpecially 
 
 the 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches in 'pRA'i^iCT., 53 
 the Gardinal of Lorrain, the Duke of Guife, the Charles 
 Marlhal of St. Andrew, &c. ^^• 
 
 Thirdly, The faid Eftates did referve to them- ^^^5 ^-^^ 
 felves, the power of making War and arming iv. 
 the King's Subjeds during his Minority, becaufe ' 
 to them belonged the cognizance of the reafons 
 for declaring War, whether they were juft or un- 
 juft, hz. 
 
 Fourthly, As to Religion, they ordered that' 
 none for his Religion's fake fhould be condemn- 
 ed as feditious and a rebel,, but it iliould be lawfui 
 for his Majefty's Subjeds, to chufe what of the 
 tv/o Religions, the Catholick or the Reformed 
 they lliould like the better ; all manner of Vio- 
 lence, publick or private, was ftridtly forbidden 
 both to the Catholicks and the Reformed, one 
 a3;ainft another. And the Governors and Ma- 
 giArates in the feveral Provinces of the Kmg- 
 dom, were ordered to allow Temples to the Re- 
 formed for their religious Worfnip, whither they 
 might refort freely, and from whence they might 
 come back without any molertation, all Ed ids 
 heretofore given to the contrary,being made void*. 
 
 That Refolution taken at the General States, 
 ferv'das a bafisto the Edid of January, granted by 
 the Notables, that is by a feledl number of Pre- 
 fidents and Counfellors of all the Parliaments of 
 the Kingdom, befides the King's Council, and 
 feveral of the Nobility. 
 
 But tho* that very Aflembly had been fum- ' 
 moned by the Guife's advice, neverthelefs, as 
 the fecond and the fourth Articles agreed to by 
 the General States, (which lieth heavy upon their 
 hearts, more efpecially the fecond) could not be 
 repealed, they refolved to revenge themfelves 
 E 3 at 
 
 * See Britain's Speech, &c. in the firft vol. of this Hift. 
 Book III. Art. 47. efpecially pag. 465. 
 
Hi/iary (ftheRcJormation, ard of the V01..IL 
 
 at any rate, of thofe whom they looked upon as 
 their Enemies, I mean the Reformed (i). 
 
 II. It muil be acknowledged, that Princes and 
 Magiftrates liavc a Natural Right of granting to 
 their Subjeds what privileges they thijik pro- 
 per, for fettling peace and tranquillity amongfk 
 them, (provided thofe gmnts be not of fuch a 
 nature, that they fubrert the very fundamentad 
 Conftitution of the Government) when k i& e- 
 vident that it cannct be fettled by any other 
 Methods That being granted, it follows of 
 courfe, that Charles IX. or his Tutors, had x 
 right of granting to his Subje^ of the Reform- 
 ed Religion the E^difl of January, unlcfs k ihould 
 be proved, that fuch Edl<5l fubverted the very 
 Conftitution of the Kingdom ♦, but in order to 
 prove that the faid Edid was contrary to ths 
 fundamental Conftitution of the Government, 
 it is requilke to prove, that the State of Religiosi 
 was the farue in Erance as to the Do6lrine, Dif- 
 cipline and Worihip> in the times of Clovis, rs 
 in the times of Eraacis il. and Charles IX. 
 That the Worftiipping of Images, Tranfubftarv- 
 tiatlon, the Communion under one Species only„ 
 the Service in an unknowa Tongue, Corpus 
 Chrifti day. Purgatory fucb as it is believed 
 now in the Roman Church, and other fuch like 
 Stuff" that have been impofed upon the people; and 
 were, as they are now received, believed and prac- 
 tifed iiiFrance in the Sixteenth Century ^were like- 
 wife received^ believed and prai^tifed in- Erance in 
 the fifth Century, and made any part of the fun- 
 damental Conftitution of the Government, info- 
 much that tlie Kings of France were bound l>y 
 their Coronation-Oath to keep them unviokble •, 
 no fuch thing can be made out. It is true the 
 
 Kiaigj 
 
 fs) See Spifame's Speech to the Diet of FrnJicfort, in trie, 
 AdUitionato the Mem. -of Calielnau, Book iv. ch, 3,. 
 
Book IVi Reformed Churcles /^z F r a n c: i; , ^^ 
 Kings of France are obliged to protect tlie Charles 
 Church, and maintain the Religion which had 
 been derived unto them from Clovis j and ^^poolfiMs 
 defire no better, than that It pleafes his mofl: ' iv 
 Chriftiail Majefty to perform fuch an engage- 
 ment : for that tvA, he is obJIged to reftore thd 
 Religion upon the fame footing as it w^s in Clo-^ 
 vis's days, and protect thofe who undertake to 
 f eftore the Church of God into the hiftre r n i 
 fplcndor which fl.e enjoyed in thofe day?. Nov/ 
 if any iincere Man will be at the trouble of 
 comparing the Dot5lrine, Worfhip and Difci- 
 inline of the Reformed, v/ith the Doftrine, Wor- 
 ship and Difcipline of the firft Century, he fna'.l 
 find that they are infinireiy more agreeable oni 
 with another, efpeclally in the moft cficntial 
 points, than is the Doflrine, Worfhip and Dif-^ 
 cipline of the Roman Church of thefe days. 
 Therefore the granting the Edic^t of January was 
 very agreeable to the fundamental Conflitatloii 
 of the Realm ; it was nothing elfe but to approve 
 the Chriftian Religion, as it was taught and prc^ 
 fefs'd in France in Clo vis's time. 
 
 III. Whereas that- Edi6t had been granted by 
 the free Confent of i\\t great Lords, and . moll 
 Notable Men in the Kingdom after full ar.d 
 mature Confiderations, and without being con- 
 ftrained to do it by any fuperior force, except 
 that oUJLUS POFULI, it ought to be kept 
 religloufly, atleall till the King (liould have been 
 at age, and had maturely and freely debated in 
 his Council, v/iiether it was- proper to keep it: 
 any longer, or to repeal it. 
 
 IV". Is not a Subjeft bound to fubmit himfclf 
 to the King's Edids, tho' he has not confented 
 to the framing and publifhing of them \ nay, tho* 
 they have been framed and publilhed aq;aini!: nis 
 private inclination and opinion ? Can he infringe 
 
56 WJlory of the Reformation, and of the Y 01. .11 . 
 Charles them under any pretence fcever, without reii- 
 1 1:62 ^^ring himfelf guilty of high Treafon, and incur- 
 PopeYiMs ring the deferved Punifhment ? Now the Duke 
 IV. of Guife and the Cardinal of Lorrain his Brother 
 had confented i nay, they had advifed the Queen 
 to hold the fald AfTembly of the Notables, in 
 hopes that their refolution would turn to their 
 account, and over-rule that of the General States; 
 but having not ajfull certainty of fucceeding when 
 they left the Court, they thought that it was 
 prudent to have more than one ftring for their 
 bow j for that end, they entred into Confedera- 
 cies with foreign Princes, fome of them mortaj 
 Enemies to the Kingdom -, and having made 
 themfelves fure of the King of Navarr, they un- 
 dertook to deprive the Reformed of the benefit 
 of the King's Edifts. They aflaulted, without 
 provocation, thofe of Vafiy, afiembled without 
 arms, as not expeding fuch a vifit ; they mur- 
 dered part of them and wounded many others, 
 though they were affembled according to the 
 terms of the Edid, if Caftelnau and Thuanus are 
 to be credited ; (and this I obferve againft the 
 Jefuits of Trevoux, who with a ridiculous fo- 
 phiftry have undertook to prove that they did 
 not conform themfelves to the faid Edift). Then 
 without any regard to the Queen Regent's repea- 
 . ted orders, or rather prayers, and againft the King's 
 will, they enter'd into the Capital more like 
 K nigs than Subjeds, amid ft the acclamations of 
 the People, and at the head of fifteen hundred 
 men, there they fettled a Council in oppofitioii 
 to the King's Council, without calling into it 
 one of the firft Princes of the Blood, they forc'd 
 the faid Prince to go out from Paris, they garifon'd 
 that City v/ith 1500 Men, they went in a bra- 
 vado to Fontainbleau, they forc'd the King a- 
 gainft his will to come to Paris, that they might 
 
 execute 
 
Book IV. Refortned Churches i?r France^ 
 
 execute more eafily their wicked and pernicious 
 defigns under his Royal Name and Authori- 
 ty ? 
 
 Now, who are the Rebels ? who the Aggref- 
 fors, and Authors of the fir ft Civil War r Let 
 the Jefiiits difplay their R hetorick to prove, that 
 to infrins:e in the moft violent manner the Kind's 
 Edids, to felze upon his Royal Perfon and carrv 
 him whither he has no mind to go, to diftur'b 
 the publick tranquillity, and turn every thing 
 topfy-turvy, in order to gratify their PalTions 
 and private Intereft, it is to be a good Patri- 
 ot, and a faithfnl Subjedl to the King? No, every 
 fober man will think to the contrary, that he 
 Is only a true Patriot and faithful SubjetS:, who 
 endeavours to procure the peace and tranquil- 
 lity of the Kingdom by a due obfervatlon of the 
 King's Edidls. Consequently , the Prince of 
 Conde and his Adherents afted the part of good 
 Patriots and faithful Subjedls, when they put 
 themfelves in a conditioj; ,to oppofe the tyran- 
 nical Government of their Enemies. 
 
 V. VaiTy was not the only place where the 
 Reformed were moft inhumanly maflacred by 
 their Enemies, before the Civil War broke out j 
 atCahors, Sens, Auxerre and Tours, the Catho- 
 licks murdered in the moft cruel manner about 
 1 200 of them. At Tours three hundred Re- 
 formed were fhut up in their Church in the Sub- 
 urbs, for three days together, without eating or 
 drinking i then they were tied two by two, and 
 brought near the River there to be murdered in 
 different manner, more barbarous ont than ano- 
 ther ; the Children were fold at a Crown a piece. 
 A young Woman of great beauty, being brought 
 to the Haughter, he who brought her was mov- 
 ed to pity, but another fnatched her out of his 
 hands, and ftript her ftark naked, and after hav- 
 
j8 Hijlory of the Reformation, and'of the Vo l . ll. 
 
 Charles ing gratified his brutifh appetite, he murdered hen 
 A Woman having mifcarried as fhe was murde- 
 red, the Child was feen floating upon the Rivef 
 with his right I^and Hfted up. The Prefident of 
 Tours was tyed to two ^Yillows, and being a-* 
 hve he had his Belly ripp'd up, thinking they* 
 fhould find fome Gold in his Bowels. Befides 
 thofe four places mentioned, the fame Cruelties 
 were ufed againft the Reformed at Aurillac, 
 Nemoiirs, Grenade, CarcafTone, Villeneuve d'A • 
 vignon, Marfillargues, Senlis, Amiens, Abbe- 
 ville, Meaux^ Chdlons, Troye, Bar-fur-Seine, 
 Efpernai, Nevers, Chatillon-fur- Loire, Gienj 
 Moulins, IfToudun, Le Mans, Angers, Cran, 
 Blois, Mer and Poitiers, as already faid in Vol. I. 
 pag, 625, To which I may add Roiien and 
 fome other places •, but with this difference^ th^ 
 maflacres in the places already mentioned cccafio- 
 ned the firft Civil Warj and this War was the oc- 
 cafion of the others *. 
 
 Now could the Prince of Conde and the Re- 
 formed Lords of his Party fee fo much innocent 
 Blood every day fpilt, even againft the King's 
 Will, Edi6ls and Declarations, without taking 
 their defence, efpecially being in a condition td 
 prote6l them } And as the Admiral's Lady right-^ 
 ly obfervedi would they not have been account- 
 able to God for all that Blood unjuftly fpilt, 
 when they could hinder it ? Neverthelefs, had 
 the Maflacre of Vafly not happened, the Prinoe 
 and his Adherents would have been obliged td 
 forfake the Realm and lofe their All, becaufe 
 they never thought upon their defence before 
 that time, much lefs to attack •, th^ Edidt of 
 January, and the Queen's promifes tying up 
 their hands. But when the Reformed Lords and 
 Gentlemen difperfed throughout the Kingdom, 
 
 had 
 * D'Aubitrne liv. iii. ch. «. 
 
 f 
 
Bo o K I V. Reformed Churches in France. r-^ 
 
 had once heard of that cruel exploit perpetrated Cirarles 
 by the Duke of Guife, they came to the Prince's ^^-^; 
 Affiftance. PopeVwk 
 
 Amongft thofe who came with or after the *IV. 
 Prince to Orleans, there were the Admiral, D' An- ^"TT^C*^ 
 delot, of whom I have already fpoken, the q^ ^j^ ' 
 Prince of Porcian, the Count of La Rochefou- i,;;,.,?'/ ^.^^ 
 cauk, the Vifcount of Rohan, the Count of Gram- hering to: 
 mont, the Count of Montgommery, the Lords (bcPy^'^i^^ 
 of Soubife, of Mouy St. Phale, d'Efternay, and 
 Genlis ; of whom, to oblige the Reader, I fliall 
 give here in few words, the following account, 
 extracted out of Le Laboureur*s Additions to 
 the Memoirs of Caftelnau {t). 
 
 Anthony of Croy Prince of Porcian, tho' re- xr>"^'"I. 
 lated to the Houfe of Lorrain, was one of the Of the 
 greateft Oppofersto thedefignsof the Guifes; Iiq ^''"'^.^ ^-^ 
 was one of the greateft Captains in his time, and 
 joined with the Prince of Conde, who lov'd him 
 entirely becaufe of his amiable qualities ; his Con- 
 fort Catherine of Cleves Countefs of Eu was 
 Neice to the Prince of Conde, the Sifter where- 
 of, Margaret of Bourbon, had married Francis 
 of Cleves Duke of Nevers •, the Prince of Por- 
 cian died at Paris In the year 1564. It is faid 
 that his hatred againft Henry Duke of Guiie, 
 Son of Francis, went fo far, that fufpe^ing his 
 Confort to have fome affedlion for him, he in- 
 treated her not to marry Jiim ^ I'ou areyowig, fays 
 he unto her, you are fm?-y and you are rlch^ all 
 thefi qualifications put together, with that of an 
 ilhifirious Extrauiion^ •vcill make you courted by 
 many. 1 confejit that you jhoidd marry again ^ I 
 leave to you the choice, hut cf all the Kingdom , I 
 challenge only a fingk Man, and that is the Duke 
 of Guife, he is the Man ivhom I hate the mcji ; 
 and I beg as a favour of you, that my greatefi 
 
 Enemy 
 
 (t) Liv. iij. ch, S. 
 
Hiftory of the Reformation^ and of the Vo l . I [ . 
 Enemy Jhould not inherit what has been the 
 mofi dear to me in my Life-time. Neverthelefs 
 fix or {tYtn years after, fhe married the faid 
 Duke. 
 
 Francis Count of La Rochefoucault Prince of 
 Qf- fj^g ' Marcillac was the greateft Man not only by his 
 Count of birth and dignity of all Guienn, but likewife the 
 La Roche- richeft and moft potent in Poitou, he could 
 foucault. jnak:e ^n Army of his Relations, Friends and 
 VafTals •■, he fignaliz*d himfelf in the defence of 
 Metz, where he commanded lOO light Horfe; 
 then at the Battle of St. Quintin, where he fought 
 at the head of the Company of Gendarmes belong- 
 ing to the Duke of Lorrain of which he was 
 Lieutenant. He was taken prifoner of war, and 
 paid a hundred thoufand Livres for his ranfom. 
 'Being returned to Court, he took part againft the 
 Houfe of Guife, embraced the Reformed Reli- 
 gion, and follow'd the Prince of Conde his Bro- 
 ther-in-law, by his fecond Wife Charlotta of 
 Roye Countefs of Roucy, younger Sifter to the 
 Princefs of Conde, whom he married in 1557. 
 He was an old experienced Officer, valiant, 
 courteous, generous, and of a very agreeable 
 converfation, much beloved by Henry II. and 
 Charles IX. and inhumanly murdered in the maf- 
 facre of Bartholomew's day, as we' fhall fty here- 
 after. 
 XLVIII. Rene Vifcount of Rohan and of Leon, Count 
 0/ the of Porrhoet, Son of Rene Vifcount of Rohan, 
 yifcountof^^^ Elizabeth of Albret, Daufrhter to John Lord 
 Koha». ^^ Albret, and to Catharina Queen of Navarr, 
 and Countefs of Foix, ^c. was Coulin-german 
 to Jane of Albret Queen of Navarr, Wife of 
 Anthony. By her means he was inftruded in the 
 Reformed Religion, of which he made an open 
 Profeffion \ that Queen made him her Lieute- 
 nant-General in all the Countries belonging to 
 
 \ 
 
BaoK YSf .Reformed Churches //? France. . 6i 
 her, during the Minority of Prince Henry her Charles 
 Son, afterwards King of France, and whom he t" 
 ferved with an inviolable Fidelity; of his mar- p^ J Pius 
 riage with Catharine of Partenay I^ady of Sou- IV. 
 bife, he got Henry Duke of Rohan, Peer of '—-v^*^ 
 France, Prince of Leon, &c. who has been the 
 moft accomplifhed Hero of his age. 
 
 Anthony Count of Grammont and of Guiche ^^ ^y ' 
 helped much the Prince's Party, he was in great Count of 
 Efteem amongft them, as much on account of Gram- 
 his valour, as for his credit ; he had particularly ^°"^'' 
 fignalized himfelf at the taking of Calais and of 
 the Bolonois i he led at Orleans fix thoufand 
 Gafcoons, all of them old and brave Soldiers, as 
 much as can be, who had ferved in the former 
 Wars and had retired into their Houfes fince the 
 Peace : He was related to the Prince of Conde, 
 the Coniiable of Montmorency and the Admi- 
 ral de Chatillon by his Lady Helena of Cler- 
 mont, Siiter by the Mother's fide to Francis of 
 Vendome Vidame of Chartres ; he followed the 
 fame Party againll the Houfe of Guife ; he em- 
 braced the Reformed Religion,, and was one of 
 the chief of tiie Reformed in the Civil Wars. 
 
 Gabriel Count of Montgommery was no lefs L- 
 confidered -, he fupplied by his valour, prudence 9/ r 
 
 J r • ^1 ^ r 11- Loufit of 
 
 and lagacity, the want ot power and credit ne- Mont^om- 
 ceffary to fupport tiie intereft of his party after merj!' 
 the death of the Prince of Conde,ofthe Admiral, 
 and feveral other great Captains. He had had 
 the misfortune to kill King Henry II. in a Tour- 
 ney;> and had been obliged fince that time, to 
 abl'ent: from Court, not to be expofed to the ven- 
 geatice of Queen Catharina. After twelve years 
 of continual .fatigues, having acquired a great 
 name, he was taken prifoner of war at Domfront, 
 ■brought to Paris, where Quden Catharina, to 
 gratify her Revenge, caufed him, under manv 
 
 falib 
 
62 WftoryoftheReformathn^ajidoftheVoLll. \ 
 Charles falfe pretences, to be moft cruelly tortured and ; 
 then beheaded -, nothing could be laid to his j 
 charge, but that he had not been penitent enough \ 
 for having killed the King, tho' accidentally, ; 
 ' and that he had not kept the Treaty of Ortez, ; 
 made with the Lords of Terride, of St. Colombe ; 
 and Favas, the Baron of Pordiac and fome o- 
 thers who had furrendered themfelves to him i 
 upon his word, as we fhall fay m its proper j 
 place. 
 ^^- John Archbiihop Lord of Soublfe, Knight of 
 
 Urflf ^^^ King's Orders, was the laft of the moft iliuftri- 
 ^1%. ous Houfe of Partenay in Poitou, whofe name 
 wa$ extindl in the perfon of Catharina of Parte- \ 
 nay his Daughter, Wife of Rene Vifcount of , 
 Rohan, and Mother to Henry Duke of Rohan, j 
 It is faid tliat the Surname of Archbifhop was • 
 taken by the Lords of Partenay, becaufe they | 
 were defcended from William, who hrft took ! 
 that Surname in the year i lOO, becaufe he was.' 
 Son to Jofielin of Partenay Archbifhop of Bour- | 
 deaux ; c\nd that W^illiam having fix Brethren all 
 earned De Partenay, for diftinftion fake he took | 
 the Surname of Archbifhop, that is, Son of tha 
 Archbifhop ; which being fo, it affords us a '\ 
 ilrong and -convincing argument, that the celit j 
 bacy of the Priefts, was not as yet obferved, at , 
 leafi in the Galilean Church, at the beginning of j 
 the twelfth Century ; but let this be faid en i 
 paflant. i 
 
 - This John Lord of Soublfe was a great Cap- ; 
 tain, he commanded in chief the Army in TuU \ 
 cany for Henry II. and was very adive, diligent i 
 and prudent in the difcharge of his Duties, havr j 
 Vig been inilruetcd in the Reformed Dodlrine at! 
 tile Coiirt of the Duke of Ferrara, when Rcneaj 
 of France, Daughter to Lewis XII. and Wife to 
 the faid I-^ukc, kindly entertained the. i\iinill:e;;s 
 
 of 
 
 J. 
 
Book IV. ReformedCJoiirches ?'« F r a n c e . 63 
 
 of tlie Reformed Religion, and embraced their Charles 
 jDodrine. Being returned into France, he em- g* 
 ployed himfelf with great Zeal in the propaga- p^ J pi^g 
 tion of that Dodlrine, and even Queen Catharina IV. 
 was like to have been his Profelyte. As the '-f»' _,-] 
 Civil War bi'oke out, the Prince of Conde fent 
 him to command at Lyons, and he fully anfwer- 
 ed his Highnefs's expedations. He was charged 
 by Poitrot of being accefibry to the murder of 
 the Duke of Guife, but the mod impartial Hifto- 
 riansamongft the Catholicks have fully difcharged 
 him, as we ihall fee in its proper place. He died 
 in 1566, being about 54 ye?irs of age. 
 
 Lewis of Vaudray known in the Hiftory by LIT. 
 the name of Lord of Mouy St. Phale, was one ^f *^'^, 
 of the greateft Heroes of his time, and one ofj^.J^^,^ 
 the moft confiderable of the Reformed Party ; 
 it is he that made the firft charge at the battle 
 pf Preux \ it is he that led the Duke of Deux- 
 Ponts with his Army throughout France into 
 Guienn, in the very fight of the King's Armies, 
 and took by the way, the important place of La 
 Charite, notwithftanding fo many obftacles he 
 met with, and made many other Exploits, which 
 we fhall have occafion to fpeak of in the fcquel 
 of this Fliftory ; he was murdered by treafon in 
 1569, by bne Morevel a Gentleman of Brie, the 
 fame that wounded the Admiral de Coligny at 
 Paris in 1572. - 
 
 - Anthony Raguier, Knight, Lord of Efternay Lirr. 
 and of La-Mothe de Tilly, followed the Prince 0/" ''^'^ 
 of Conde, and brought over to the fame Party, ^ 
 and the fame Religion, his Brother-in-law Fran- 
 cis of Bethune, Baron of Rofny, Father to the 
 Duke of Sully. 
 
 Adriain de Hangeft, Lord of Gcnlis, begot i-IV- 
 thirty two Children by his wife Frances du Maz, ?^J'^'l 
 fo it was very like that that illuftrious and an- Genlit 
 • ' ' cient 
 
Hiflory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. If. 
 
 cient Houfe of Picardy, would recover its former 
 fecbndity by a greiat number of branches, but 
 it happened othctwife ; for they all died with- 
 otit Iffje, but not without having diftinguilhed 
 themfcH-es in all the Wars of their times, in I- 
 taly.and in Flanders-, and then in the Civil 
 Wars i Vv'herein they in gaged thro* their affec- 
 tion' for the Prince oj Conde. The eldeft na- 
 rried Francis de Hangefi:, Lord of Genlis, Knight 
 of the King's Orders, came to Orleatis with the 
 Prince, where th6 young Genlisj aiid'-fhe Sieur 
 D'Yvoy his Brothers, came Toon after. 
 Ly_ The .Prince did not fit ftill at Orleans, but 
 
 T/^? i*r:;?ff knowing that all that he could gfet from Paris 
 m-vitcs to amounted tcr no more than fixteen hundred 
 the Re- Qvo'^Ti's,^ and beino; in extreme want of Monev 
 
 formed ^ ... . . ^ . „ , , . •- 
 
 "ci'iti-cbes. for diicnafgnig the necemry expences ot his Un- 
 dertaking, he fent circular Letters -to' the Re- 
 forrned Churches, which were to the following 
 'purport. 
 
 r 
 
 ' " ^GenJtemen and Beloved Friends^ 
 
 I N C E it is requifite now to withftand 
 the violences and efforts which our Ene- 
 y mies, who keep the King and Queen -in Cap- 
 , tivity, make ufe of to hinder their Majefties 
 \ Deliverance, and execute their Deffgns, which 
 , tend only to the ruin of the faithful Subje6LS, 
 „ and by confequence of the Kingdom, I fend 
 „ you this Gentiernan bearer of ■ this fetter, to 
 I, know what Men well arm 'd and difciplin'd 
 ,, you can afford now, defiring you to fend them 
 „• with all fpeed to this place. I beg you would 
 „ do your utmoft at prefejit, as you defire to 
 ,, fhow your felf well-affe6led to the Service of 
 „■ God, and that of the King and Queen; and 
 „ ■ if you have no Men fit for Service, at leaftdo 
 • ' ,, contribute 
 
B ookIV. Reformed Churches i/iW RANGE. >6< 
 
 „ contribute with Money towards the levy of Charles 
 „ Troops, as this Gentleman will tell yoii more ^^\ 
 „ particularly from me, to whom I defire you pp J Vius 
 ,, to give credit as to my felf, &c. Done at ly. 
 „ Orleans the feventh of April 1562 " (r). .^T""^*'''"*"' 
 
 The Churches to whom thbfe Letters were di- - LVI. 
 refted, hurried not to give their Anfwer; they -^'^'^''^^/ 
 thought themfelVes obliged to be thoroughly and ^J:^^ 
 certainlyinformed of the matterjbefore giving their 
 confent to what the Prince required of them. 
 For that purpofe, they fent forae Deputies at 
 Court to inquire , whether the King and 
 Queen were in the Condition that the Prince 
 faid they were in ; and if fo, to oixer their 
 Majefties all the aff-itance they could afford for 
 their Deliverance. But the Triumvirate's In- 
 fluence was fo powerful, that thefe Deputations 
 came to very little eifed, fome of the Deputies 
 were caft into Prifon, and even m^urdered as thofe 
 of Guienn ; fome were fent back without being 
 admitted to an Audience, as thofe of Ncnrian- 
 dy •, very few had the honour of fpeaking with 
 the Queen, and that too v/ith great ado, thro* 
 the Vigilance of the Triumvirs, who were extra- 
 ordinary foliicitous to hinder, lell: any body 
 fhould be acquainted with the truth of the mat- 
 ter. Amongft thefe laft, were the Deputies of 
 La Rochelle : And becaufe their Tranfa(5lions 
 with the Queen is a clear evidence, that the 
 Prince of Conde did not impofe upon the Pub- 
 lick in any of his Declarations or Manifefios, I 
 fhall fet theni here at large, as I found them re- 
 corded by the Rev. Mr, Phihp Vincent. LVIf. 
 
 He tells us that on the twenty ninth of March ^'-"^ ^^'^• 
 Mr. Des Ors Gentleman, came from the ^^'^^^^"^cLJu^? 'n 
 to La Rochelle, and having attended the Con- fj^rs scca- 
 
 Vol. II. F fiftory, 
 
 (r) Beza ibid. 
 
Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vo l. 
 fiftory, he delivered his Commifllon, and faid, 
 that the Prince's intent, was to fet the King and 
 Queen at Hberty, and that he aded on this oc- 
 cafion by the Queen's Orders, requiring to be 
 affifted for that purpofe. The matter being of 
 great Importance, they defired to confider of it 
 maturely ; their Deliberation was put off 'till the 
 thirty-firll; of the faid month, and after having 
 weigh'd duly all the Arguments pro and con,, it 
 was thought proper, before coming to any Re- 
 folution, to be thoroughly acquainted with the 
 fa6t, and certainly know whether the King and 
 Queen were captive, as it was faid ; and for that 
 purpofe it was refolved in the Con fiftory, To 
 fend a Man exprefs to Court with 'dll fpeed^ for 
 to offer to the King and ^een-Mother^ in the 
 Churches name^ all the Service owed unto them \ 
 and the Lives and Goods of the Members of it. 
 And Monf. Thihaidd Guillon^ Judge of the Seal 
 was appointed for that Deputation. 
 
 Monf. Guillon having received his Inftruc- 
 tions and Credentials, fet out without delay, and 
 made fuch great diligence, that he came back in 
 very few days. On the twelfth of April he at- 
 tended the Confiftory, where the other Churches 
 of the Government were prefent by-their Depu- 
 ties. He gave account of his Legation, and faid, 
 5, That in confequence of the Charge given unto 
 ,, him by the Confiftory, he had been at Court 
 „ for to fpeak with the King, the Queen-Mo- 
 5, ther, and our Lords the Prince of Conde and 
 ,, the Admiral, with Letters direfted to them, by 
 J, which the Church offered their duties to 'their 
 ,, Majefties and the faid Lords ; that being ar- 
 „ rived at Melun, he defired to tender to the 
 5, faid Queen the Letters direded to the King,"' 
 ,, and thofe directed to herfelf, which fhe re- 
 5, fufed to receive, or even that they fhould be 
 
 „ read 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /;z F r a n c e. 67 
 read by himfelf, but fhe bid him to addrefs Charles 
 himfelf to the Prince of Conde as foon as g; 
 poiTible, becaufe he was not SAFE as to his pope Pius 
 Perfon, if he made any longer ftay at Court ; IV 
 for a few days before they had put to death one ' 
 Deputy of the Churches of Guienn, who was 
 come to Court upon a hke Errand : That the 
 Prince of Conde would difpatch him, which fhe 
 could not do herfelf, becaufe ofHERCAPTivi- 
 TY : and to the end that the Prince fhould know 
 that he came from her Majefty, {he gave him 
 a Token for to deliver it into his Highnefs's 
 hands ; which he did accordingly, and upon 
 that, the Prince had entrufted him with the 
 Letters and Credentials, whereof he was the 
 Bearer.,, 
 
 A Letter of His Highnefs the Prince of 
 Conde to the Church of La Rochelle. 
 
 Gentlemen and good Friends^ 
 
 IH A V E received the Letters you have fent 
 to me, by the Gentleman bearer thereof: Li 
 anfwer I fhall tell you that I have fully explained: 
 my mind to him, and what the prefent Jundiure 
 of the Times doth require, that you may mani- 
 feft in this occurrence, your AfFeition to the Ser- 
 vice of God, and your Fidelity towards the 
 King and Queen now detained in Captivity, 
 doubting not in the leaft, but he will give you 
 a full account of every thing, and that you will 
 believe him upon his Word, I beg of you that 
 you would be more ready to grant the neceffary 
 Relief, than to difcourfe about it. Done at Or- 
 leans thefixth of April 1562. 
 
 Tour very good Friend , 
 
 Lewis of Bourbon^ 
 F 2 Befides 
 
68 Hi/lory of the Reformation^ andofthe VoL.II> 
 
 Charles Befides that Letter, MonC Guillon tendered 
 
 '^- another from the Admiral of the fame date and 
 
 A^. p^ius P'^'fpoi't. His Commiffion from the Prince con- 
 
 fifted of thefe four Articles. Firfi^ That the 
 
 'Church fhould fend to him as many Men, and 
 
 as much Money as they could fpare, or if, be- 
 
 caufe of the great Importance cf the Place, they 
 
 could fpare no Men, that they would fupply 
 
 him with Money. Secondly^ That they fnould 
 
 put themfelves under Arms, and be watchful 
 
 againft any Surprife. 'Thirdly^ That they fhould 
 
 not give credit to any Letter or Letters that 
 
 might be written to them in the King or Queen's 
 
 name, becaufe they were kept under reftraint. 
 
 Fourthly^ That they fhould receive no body in 
 
 their City for to command them, either their 
 
 Governor or any body elfe, unlefs they fliould 
 
 be fully latisfied as to their Fidelity to the King, 
 
 and that they were of the Reformed Religion. 
 
 Thefe Letters having been read, &c. the Com- 
 pany refolved that the Churches of the Govern- 
 ment of La Rochelle and Country of Aulnix, 
 &c. fhould contribute eight hundred Livres per 
 month tovvavds the relief of the Prince, and 
 that ?.n advance of two months Ihould be paid 
 down immediately, and all that for to rcftore 
 the King and ^^{ee?i to their Liberty. On the 
 twenty fecond of April, Monf. D'Aubigny 
 Lieutenant Civil of Coignac, attended the Con- 
 fifbory Vy'ith fame other Letters from the Prince, 
 notifying to them, that fincc his firft Letters^ he 
 had been obliged to take up Arms, and defiring 
 them to fupply him with Men and Money. Upon 
 v/hich it was refolved, that infiead of eight hun- 
 dred Livres, they would contribute iixteen hun- 
 dred, and that two months advance fhould be 
 paid down immediately to the Prince. 
 
 7. - This 
 
BookIV. Reformed Chunbe^m France*- 69 
 
 This is all that the Churches of that Govern- ^^^^'5^ 
 ment did for the Prince's Service during the .^^^ 
 firft Civil War ; of which the Rochellers were Poj,e Pius 
 only Spe<5lators, at the Inftigation of the Lord of IV. 
 Jarnac their Governor : for tho' he was a Re- ^-— "v"*-^ 
 formed, and that by his Authority the Images 
 had been pulled down in his Town of Jarnac, 
 neverthele{s he refufed to join himfelf with tl c 
 Prince. Nay, he went fo far, that his Brother, 
 Lord of Ste. Foy, having been killed by the 
 Prince's Party near St. John of Angely, he per- 
 fuaded as many as he could to foriake the faid 
 Party. As to the Rochellers, the Count of La 
 Rochefoucalt wrote to them on the eleventh of 
 September, for to oblige them to declare them- 
 felves, and to receive him ; but Jarnac difiuaded 
 them, and prevailed fo far, that they (hut up 
 their Gates to manyFugitives of the Prince's Par- 
 ty, for whom ncverthelefs the Church provided, 
 but in the Suburbs. In all the following Wars, 
 the Rochellers made fo full amends for this Re- 
 mifliiefs, that it was evident that on this occa- 
 fion they had adedout of Fear, rather than out 
 of their Inclination, as v/e fhali fee in its proper 
 place (s). 
 
 On the eighth of April, that every one might ^Y^^^- 
 know the juiHce of the Caufe, v/hereof he un- p^.;^/^'^ 
 dertook the Defence, the Prince publilhed a De-/;-^ Mafij- 
 claration and a Proteft together, which he feiat/{/o. 
 the fame day to the King and the Parliament, 
 whereby he fhews forth. That tho' his Enemies 
 who had firfi taken Arms, ought to fliew caufe 
 and account for their Doings ; neverthelefs, for 
 to prevent Calumnies, he was willing to de- 
 clare why he undertook .by force of Arms to 
 maintain theKing's Authority and of his LdicTts, 
 F 3 coiir 
 
 (s) See Phil. Vincent Recherches fur les commencemer.s 
 Si progres de la Reformadpn en la Ville de La Rochelle. pa^. 
 
70 Hijlory of the Reformafton, and nf the Vol. II. 
 
 Charles conjointly with his Relations, Friends and Cli- 
 ents, being obliged to it as much by the Queen's 
 repeated Orders, as by the Rank which his Birth 
 gave him in the Kingdom ; protefting before 
 God and his Majefty, and all the Princes and 
 Potentates allied to the Crown, that nothing elfe 
 but the Confideration of his Duty towards God 
 and the Kingdom, and the only defire of refto- 
 ring his Majefty to his former Liberty, and his 
 Edids to their former Vigour, had obliged him 
 to arm defenfively for that purpofe ; defiring 
 the Help and Aftiftance of all the good and 
 loyal Subjefts of his Majefty, for fuch a good, 
 juft and holy Caufe. And whereas for difcharg- 
 ing the King's Debts, the General States had 
 promifed certain Sums of Money, he doth pro- 
 teft a gain ft his Enemies, who have undertaken 
 a Civil War willingly, and without Provocation, 
 that if they do make ufe of the faid Money, 
 ' he will call them to an account for it at one time 
 or another. He protefted Likewife, that tho' he 
 would not be, for any thing in the world, behind 
 any Man, as to the Obedience he owed to the 
 King, neverthelefs as his Majefty was furround- 
 ed by his Enemies Armies, and by confequence 
 his lawful Council was kept in awe, fo he would 
 not fuffer himfelf to be trod upon under pre- 
 tence of any Command or Letters Patents fent 
 to him under his faid Majefty's Name and Seal, 
 *dll his faid Majefty ftiould be fet at liberty, 
 and his lawful Council reftored. Laftly, he pro- 
 tefted with all his Adherents then prefent, that 
 as foon a^ the King, being entirely free, would 
 command both Parties to lay down their 
 Arms, and retire into their own Habitations, 
 tho*, becaufe of his Rank, he ought not to be 
 obnoxious to fuch Orders, neverthelefs, out cf 
 the carneft Pefire he had of feeing the Kingdom 
 
 in 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fr an c e. 71 
 
 in Peace and Tranquillity, he would readily obey, Charles 
 whenever his Enemies fhall do the fame, and ^* 
 the Edi<5t of January fhall be inviolably kept. />^y,/pius 
 But if fuch Terms are not accepted, and if con- IV. 
 tinning to keep the King and his Council in a^-*^'"**' 
 kind of Captivity, they make an ill Ufe of his 
 Royal Name, and opprefs his Subjeds, he does 
 protefl: on his behalf, that he cannot, nor will 
 endure it, and that all the Evils, Miferies and 
 Calamities which fhall befal, fhall lie at their 
 doors, as being the fole Authors and Caufe 
 thereof (/). 
 
 This is the Subfliance of the Prince's firft Ma- LIX. 
 Jiifefto, being fenfible that his Enemies would ^'^■^'|' '^ 
 not fail to reprefent every where his Condud in the P rote f- 
 a falfe light, he deputed one of his Gentlemen tant Prirm 
 with his Letters to the Eledlor Palatine, and Q.^>^^ofQ^r' 
 ther Proteftant Princes of Germany, to let them"^"^* 
 know the Reafons of his rifing in Arms, and re- 
 quire their Flelp and Afliftance for the Relief of 
 the King and the Kingdom, and for the Deli- 
 verance from the threatning Danger the Re- 
 formed of France were in. He fent them like- 
 wife, a Copy of the AfTociation made a few days 
 before, between him and the Reformed Lords 
 and Gentlemen then at Orleans, which was pub- 
 lifhed only the eleventh of April, and contained 
 four Articles. 
 
 I. That this Aflbciation was made for juft LX, 
 Caufes and Reafons, viz. for maintaining the "^I'^'^J^! °f 
 State of the Kingdom, the Liberty of the King jj^-^^^*'"' 
 and Queen, and the due Execution of the Edicfts, 
 
 and would laft between them 'till the King's 
 Majority, to whom they were in hopes of gi- 
 ving one day a good account of their Condud:. 
 
 II. They fwear to maintain the honour of God 
 and His pure Worfhip, to puniili all manner 
 
 F 4 of 
 
 (t) Beza liv. vi. Thuan ibid. 
 
Wjiory of theRefor'matiori^and of the Vol.1L 
 of blafphemiea and profanations, and other vices ? 
 a::d for that end they would keep amongft them 
 the Minlftry of the word of God, to be taught 
 in his ways and entertained in his fear. 
 
 Hi. They chufe for their Chief and Leader 
 the Prince of Conde,, as one of the firft Princes 
 of the Blood, and one of the natural Protedors 
 cf the Crown, to .vv'hom they promifedan entire 
 , -obedience, fubmitting themfelves to his Cor- 
 xedions and Punifaments whenever they fhould 
 deferve them, as he on his part promifed them 
 to perform dihgently and faithfully all thQ Du- 
 ties belonging to a Chief. 
 
 IV. A 11 the Members ofthe Privy-Council were 
 invited to enter into this AiTociation, and could 
 be comprifed in it, thofe only excepted who kept 
 the King and Qaeen captive, againft their Duty 
 and Allegiance. 
 
 Thefe Articles were fworn, confirmed, and 
 figned by all the Company, who promis'd to 
 meet the Prince and ailill him with Money, 
 Aims^ Plorfes and all other warlike Ecjuipage, 
 Vv'hcncver, and v.herever he or his Lieutenant 
 , lliould order them, to help and protect all thofe 
 who for the fake of this Caufe fnould be moleft- 
 _ed, to detcd and reveal all thofe who out of 
 cawardife, or ouf of malice and treafon {hould 
 llvow themfeivcsdirabedientor refradloryto what 
 they had {o folemnly pvomifcd upon theirOath(i;). 
 The EiedorPalatineanfwer'd to the Prince the 
 2 7th of May, he promis'd all that was in his Power 
 to reilorc the Pea;;e and Tranquillity ofthe King- 
 dom ; but he exhorted him withal, to make ufe 
 jj^-j of all faic means for avoiding a Civil War, as 
 tr'- GA-/;./j-iJ'nuch as poffible. . , . 
 
 Jn/iver •,_ The Guih^ havlqg fepa the Prince's Declara- 
 ^n ^.'^\ •, ticn, caufed a pretended Letter Patent ffoili 
 Dt'cZla- ^'^" ^"'£» ^^ ^^ publifned and regiilercd in Par- 
 / ^». litimcntj 
 
 (■z'j Bcz'a ibid. Thuan. ibid. 
 
Book: IV. Reformed Churches in France. 7J 
 liament, by which bisMajefty was made to fay, Charles 
 that he enjoyed a perfedt freedom and was at ^ ^'^ 
 full liberty, that therefore the rumor of his Cap- p^/^ Pius 
 tivity was falfe, and a meer Calumny contrived iV. 
 by the Prince for to ferve his ends, fince he was **-■'%**-' 
 come willingly with his Mother to Paris. 
 
 And for to obviate the bad impreffions which 
 the Conftable's Violences againft the Reformed 
 Churches of Paris could make on their Minds, 
 they caufed other Letters Patent to be publifh- 
 ed and regifter'dthe 15th of April, by which the 
 King was made to fay. That having got notice, 
 that many of his Subjeds were gone to Orleans 
 and other places, moved to that by a panik, 
 that they would be deprived of the benefit of 
 the Edi6t, he declared that his Intention and 
 Will was, that the Edicl of January fhould be 
 kept and obferved in all its Contents throughout 
 the Kingdom, the City of Paris, its Subuabs and 
 Precindls excepted. Thefe Letters were fpeedi- 
 ly regifter'd, with this Re,4ri6lion however, 
 that it was only confidering the circumftances of 
 the times, and by provifion. Which fhe wed what 
 was to be expeded for the future, fince that Ex- 
 ception againft the City of Paris, &c. was an e- 
 vident breach of the Edi6l of January. 
 
 At the fame time the Sheriffs of Orleans v/ere 
 introduced to her Majefty the Queen-Mother, '• 
 
 the Chancellor being prefent ; ihe feemed well 
 .pleafed with what had happened in that C'ltv^ 
 and afk'd them, whether the Prince*s Forces were 
 numerous ? 
 
 Neverthelefs the 20th of the fame Month of ^'^^J-. 
 April, orders were fent to all the Nobility to re- V.'^/^'' 
 pair immediately to the King, with their VafTals mcned h' 
 in arms, for to oppofe the Seditious, and thofe iIj( Court. 
 v/ho entertained bad opinions about the Articles 
 of the Chriilian Faith. 
 
 Two 
 
Lxiir 
 
 The 
 
 Prince's 
 
 nvarlike 
 
 freparw 
 
 tions. 
 
 Hiftory of the Reformation.andof the Vol.11. | 
 Two days before the Reformed at Paris, being : 
 charged with rifing in arms, and with denying to] 
 pay the impoils, tendered a Petition to the i 
 King for to vindicate their innocence about the 
 fads laid to their charge, befeeching his Ma- \ 
 jefty to receive them under his Royal Protec- J 
 tion. That was promisM, but never kept. 
 
 All this while the Prince levied fome Com- \ 
 
 panics of Foot in all the adjacent places of ' 
 
 Orleans, under feveral Captains, Notwithftan- ■ 
 
 ding the ftrid Guard which was kept at Paris, to ; 
 
 hinder the Reformed of that City to inlift them- j 
 
 felves in the Prince's Service, many Officers • 
 
 and Soldiers dipt away every day and came to '\ 
 
 Orleans. Several Churches likewife fejit fome j 
 
 Money to the faid City, which was immediately j 
 
 kid out for the maintenance of the Troops, But < 
 
 very few ftrived to contribute liberally, and as ; 
 
 the urgent Necellity required ; fome for ' fear 
 
 of being put to trouble for it one time or ano- . 
 
 ther i fome preferring their Money before the , 
 
 Liberty of their Confclence •, others excufmg { 
 
 themfelves, and not without reafon, upon the • 
 
 great charges they were at for to keep and defend ; 
 
 themfelves in the Places of their habitations {u). \ 
 
 The 2 1 ft of the fame Month the Parliament of 1 
 
 Uamen'tof P^rls fent their Anfwer to the Prince of Conde*s j 
 
 Paris'^s Declaration, and thanked his Highnefs, for hav- I 
 
 Anfnverto ing been pleafed to let them know in a friendly ^ 
 
 '^'''^^' manner his Will and Intention. ,, That they were \ 
 
 „ much grieved to fee fo flourlfliing a Kingdom : 
 
 ,, upon the point of being miferably torn to i 
 
 „ pieces by a Civil War. As for what he faid, j 
 
 ,, that he took Arms for no other end than to \ 
 
 ,, reftorethe King to his Liberty, as in that re- ' 
 
 ,, fpevfl, they could but commend his Highnefs's i 
 
 ,, good and fmcere affcdion, will and intention -, 
 
 ,, on the other hand, they could but acknow- \ 
 
 „ ledge 
 
 (ii) B:za ibid. I 
 
 LXIV. 
 
 The Par 
 
"BookIV. ReformedChurchfs in France. 75 ■! 
 „ ledge that the Plea was entirely falfc, and Charles 
 
 „ invented by fome wicked People, ill afFeft- ^- 1 
 ,, ed to the welfare of the Kingdom, fince the p^.^ P^^^ 
 
 ,, Queen and the King of Navarr had the Ad- iv. j 
 „ miniftration of the Government, as ufual, v— v-— ^ 
 
 „ and confulted chiefly with the Cardinal of I 
 „ Bourbon ; that they were both his Brothers ; 
 
 „ and that no body queftioned their fidelity and j 
 
 „ good-will towards the King. As for the ! 
 
 „ Edift of January that occafioned the prefent ■ 
 
 „ troubles, he ought to know, that it was no ). 
 
 „ more perpetual than that of July laft, both 'I 
 
 „ publifhed to compofe the Tumults ; this be- : 
 
 ,, ing too much offenfive to the Reformed, had 1 
 
 ,, been repealed ; and therefore the laft could 1 
 
 ,, be likewife abrogated, if it was found too \ 
 
 5, hard upon the Catholicks. That to the King } 
 
 5, only it belongeth to confirm or cancel his \ 
 
 „ Edids, and not to his Subjedls, who have no ' 
 „ Right to rife in Arms without the. King's 
 „ Command (x). 
 
 Had this last Maxim been strictly 
 
 FOLLOWED BY THE GuiSES AND THEIR Ad- | 
 
 HERENTS, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO Oc- j 
 
 CASION FOR THIS LeTTER. ! 
 
 After the reception of-th is Letter, the Prince ^j-^^ : 
 
 being informed that the Day before the date Prince's ' ' 
 
 thereof, the Orders above mentioned *, y^hich. fecondDe- I 
 had been fent on the 12th into all the Provin- '■^^'■^^''"'• 
 ces of France, had been publifiied through the 
 
 Streets of Paris ; he fent a fecond Declaration .* 
 bearing date of the 25th, '-and direded to the 
 King and the Parliament, by which he fhewed 
 forth. That according to his wonted Zeal and 
 Refped for their Majefties, which he had manife- 
 
 fted efpecially, when upon the King's firft Orders, ] 
 
 he ^ \ 
 
 (x) Thuan. ibid. ' I 
 
 * Summoning the Nobility, t!fc. to take up Arms, againll \ 
 
 the Prince and his Adherents that were Itiled Rebels. ; 
 
7 6 Hiftory of the Reformation^ and of the. Vol, II. 
 Charles he was fet out from Paris with his Attendants, 
 in hopes that his Enemies would have done the 
 fame, as the King had likewife commanded 
 them to do ; he had been willing to flibmit 
 himfelf to the terms of laying down his Arnjs 
 for the Reftoration of the publick tranquillity, 
 if on thctr part his Enemies would do the 
 fame : But as he was afraid left the Reafons by 
 him fet forth, had not been faithfully reprefented 
 to their Majefties, or left his Enemies with 
 their wonted artifices, had mifreprefented the 
 fame, in order to feed and entertaia the prefent 
 Commotions, he had thought very proper to 
 publifh this fecond Declaration, deliring the Par- 
 liament of Paris to regifter it, that the King when 
 at age, might be able to difcern and judge who 
 had been his moft humble and faithful Subjects 
 and Servants in the prefent Circumftances. 
 
 He fheweth forth, that he could not be deem- 
 ed the Author of thefe Commotions, -but rather 
 his Enemies, who had refufed to fubmit them- 
 •felves to fuch reafonable terms as thofe he had 
 been willingto fubmit himfelf to -, and no wonder 
 indeed, fince that from the time they had fet 
 foot in France, they had been the occafion, 
 and even the caufe, by their violent Counfels, of 
 fo many difturbances that had put the Kingdom 
 more than once upon thevery brink of its utter 
 ruin, as the late Kings Francis I. and iknry IT. had 
 been made very fenfible of by fad experience. He 
 recalled to her Majefty's mind the Reign of 
 Francis II, and compared the turbulent Admini- 
 ftration of the Guifes Government v/ith that of the 
 King of Navarr, fince the time of his being rc- 
 ftored to his Birth-right. 
 
 Then he cleared himfelf as to the breaking of 
 Images at Tours, Blois and other places, and 
 faid, that far from approving fuch deeds he had 
 
 fent 
 
Book W , Reformed CJMrcbes ?« France. 77 
 fent word to the Judges and Magiftratcs of the Charles 
 iaid Places, defiring them to puniih examplarlly ^^^ 
 all thofe, who had infringed the Ediv^l s. That p^^J p^^g 
 he had fettled fuch good Order at Orleans, that the IV. 
 Clergy had not had occafion, as yet,ofmak.ingany '— *v-~^ 
 Complaint. As for the Cities whofe Inhabitants, 
 being for the moft part Reformed, had under- 
 took to guard themfelves, he faid that this had 
 been done for the King's Service, for the Re- 
 'ftoration of his Liberty, as well as for keeping 
 themfelves from the violence of their mortal 
 Enemies, Then he required that the Edidl of 
 January fliould be religioufly kept without any 
 fraud, till the determination of a free Council, or 
 till the King's Majority. If at that time his Ma- 
 jelly did not think proper to grant any more to 
 his Subjedls the Liberty of Confcience, then he 
 (the Prince) with his Confederates and Allies, 
 ihould be allowed the liberty of retiring into forae 
 .other Country, without any prejudice either to 
 their Honour, or to their Efhates and Goods. 
 That the loffes fuftained, by thofe who quietly 
 lived under the protedtion of the King's Edidls 
 by the artifices, malice and violence of their Per- 
 fecutors, fhould be immediately repaired. That 
 the Duke of Guifo and his Brethren, the Con- 
 ftable, the Marihal of St. Andrew, having laid - 
 dov/n their Arms, fnould repair to the'r Govern- 
 ment, or retire into their own Koufes, which he 
 would do likewiie himfelf -, and for a Pledge of 
 the fait^hful performance of all and every Article, 
 he offered his own Cliildren, provided his Ene- 
 mies would do the like (y). 
 
 The Triumvirs v>?ere not at all pleafed with lxVI. 
 this Declaration of the Prince ; theyabfolutely T/je Tri- 
 rejedled the conditions thereof, and prefented a ufn^^'^f 
 Petition to the King; and Queen, whereby thev-^n'^^/"^. 
 • , . required,^,,; ' 
 
 . (y) Beza & Thuan. ibid. 
 
 rs te- 
 
rannical 
 Propojiti- 
 ons. 
 
 LXVII. 
 
 TheKhtg^s 
 Council 
 takes a 
 middle 
 
 Hijlory of the Reformation, andof the Vo l . IF. 
 
 required „ That the Edid of January fliould 
 ,, be entirely repealed by another Edid ; That 
 ,, his Majefty fhould declare pofitively, that 
 
 for the future he would not fufFer any other 
 
 Religion in his Kingdom but the Catholick ; 
 
 That he would follow the Steps of his An- 
 „ ceftors, who had always adhered to the Ro- 
 ,, man See •, That he would order that all the 
 ,, Members of his Council, all his Houfhold, 
 „ his Brethren and Sifters, all Governors of 
 „ Provinces, all thofe in general who had any 
 5, place or preferment, either Civil or Military, 
 „ fhould profefs publickly the Roman Catho- 
 ,, lick Religion, and whoever fhould refufe to 
 „ comply, fhould be deprived of his Office, 
 „ Place or Preferment •, That all EcclefiafticaJ 
 ,, Perfons fhould be obliged to fign a Confeffion 
 ,, of Faith conform to the Dodrine of the 
 „ Church of Rome ; That thofe who had in- 
 „ fringed the King's Edids, prophaned and pil- 
 ,, laged the Churches, fhould be feverely puni- 
 ,, fhed ; That the Churches deftroyed fhould 
 „ be re-built ; and thofe who had rifen in 
 „ Arms without the King of Navarr's exprefs 
 „ command, fhould immediately lay them down, 
 „ or ^\{q be deemed Rebels and Enemies to the 
 5, King and the Kingdom -, That the Troops 
 „ levied by the King of Navarr's command 
 „ fhould be kept on foot under his Authority. 
 „ The Premifes being granted jufl as they re- 
 ,, quired, they offered (if the King thought it 
 ,, proper) not only to retire into their refpedive 
 5, Government or in their Houfes, but even to 
 „ leave the Kingdom and to exile themfelves 
 ,, for ever. 
 
 The King anfwered not prefently to this Pe- 
 tition -, but the matter of it having been deba- 
 ted in his Privy Council, it was thought proper 
 
 to 
 
Book IV. Reformed Chtircbes z;^ France. 79 
 to take a middle way, between the Demands of Charles 
 the Prince and thofe of the Triumvirs ; there- ^ ^^• 
 fore it was anfwered to the Prince, That it was pgpg p^g 
 his Majefty's pleafure that the Edid of January IV. 
 fhould be obferved to all its intent and purport, <«— -v— ^ 
 in all its Articles, and ihould be a Law every 
 where throughout his Kingdom, Paris excepted i 
 that even in that Place, no body fhould be di- 
 fturbed or perfecuted for his Religion, but every 
 one fhould enjoy the liberty of Confcience ; that 
 no body jfhould be put to any trouble for pad 
 Offences, thofe only excepted who fhould be 
 found guilty of wilful murder, or having robb'd 
 and pillag'd either the Churches or fome private 
 Houfe. As for the Duke of Guife, the Con- 
 flable and the Marflial of St. Andrew, the King 
 could not difmifs them, becaufe their Prefence 
 was requifite for performing their refpedive 
 charges at Court. 
 
 That Anfwer was fent to the Prince in theLXVIII. 
 King, the Queen, and the King of Navarr's '^^-'^^-^^ 
 name -, but the Queen wrote to him in private, thePrince. 
 and thanked him for his fpeedy diligence, fide- 
 lity and good-will towards her and the King her 
 Son; fhe promifed never to forget the great 
 Services he had done to her. 
 
 It is certain that that Prince could do nothing L^I^; 
 better, nor more a propos for the Interefc of that'f^'l'f^^^ 
 Princefs, than what he did ; for as foon as the Q^'fh, 
 Triumvirs faw him at the head of an Army, Prince's 
 which he had got together in a little time, they Candua. 
 began to have more regard for her, feeing that 
 fhe was in a condition to fide with v/hat Partv 
 fhe pleafed -, and that too with Succefs, there- 
 fore he deferved all her Thankfulnefs and Grati- 
 tude. B'jt fhe has not been the only Example 
 that fhows hov/ heavy a fignal Service hes upon 
 the Breaft of one at the head of the Govern- 
 
 meat 
 
LXX. 
 
 n-e Re- 
 formed" s 
 great in- 
 rctafe. 
 
 Ilijiory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. 11. 
 
 ment, it is a Load which cannot be born with- 
 out an extraordinary virtue ; becaufe the Po- 
 litick withftand to it, and frames malicioully a 
 thoufand Dreams, a thoufand horrid Chi- 
 masras, or it ftains the image of that good OfEce 
 by the apprehenfions of the Power of him from 
 whom it has been received. It is for that rea- 
 fon that a great Man will rather forgive a thou- 
 fand Injuries to an Enemy, than be grateful to 
 one who has laid the greateft obligations upon 
 him ; and if he is of a Condition to take advan- 
 tage of it, he is in great danger, if he is not 
 very prudent and cautious. (This is not my 
 own, but Agricola's reflcdion upon the occalion 
 in hand.) The Queen received great advantages 
 from the firfl: Armament of the Prince of Conde, 
 tho' file difavowed it afterwards ; and he undid 
 himfelf by it, becaufe of the necefiity he was in 
 to ftay in the Reformed Party, whereof he was 
 obliged to take, the ProtecSlion, when he could 
 pretend no longer the Queen's Defence. She 
 miftruJiLed the King of Navarr and his Confede- 
 rates ; that was the true Caufe of the firft Civil, 
 War, to which that Princefs contributed much, 
 notwithftanding whatever Ihe had publiHied in 
 the World to the contrary, either by the Bifnop 
 of Rennes the King's Ambafiador at Vienna, or 
 by her Letter to Chriilina of Denmark Duchefs 
 Dowager of Lorrain, to juftify herfelf, and cad 
 the Odium of it upon the Prince of Conde 
 
 (2). 
 
 During thefe Contefts between thofc at Parig 
 and thofe at Orleans, the number of the Refor- 
 med increafed apace in every City whereof they 
 were poflefled •, there were very few ofthe In- 
 habitants who followed not that Dodrine, per- 
 
 iuad ed 
 
 (%) Lc Laboureur Addit. aux Mem. de Caftdnau, liv. 
 iii. ch. 8. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /;2 Fr a n c e . 8 1 j 
 
 fuaded to it by the hearing of the Sermons, or Charles ^ 
 
 other mild ways, without any violence oiFer'd ^ / 
 
 to them, either in their Bodies, or in their p^pe pius 
 
 Goods, efpecially at Orleans, where the Prince IV. 
 
 of Conde would not allow, that their Allemblies ^— -v'— ^^ [ 
 
 ihould be kept in any Church belonging to the , i 
 
 Catholicks ; nay, he fent for the Clergy, and afiu- ; 
 
 red them, that they fhould not be hindered at ! 
 
 all from performing their Service as ufual. And 
 
 even the Reformed had many more Soldiers ! 
 
 quartered upon them, than the reft of thelnhabi- I 
 
 tants. Neverthelefs moft part of the Clergy chofe , ; 
 
 to leave the place, miftrufting the Prince's word, ■» 
 
 and retired whither they thought proper •, and 
 
 thofe v.'ho ftaid, either out of fear, or for fome \ 
 
 other reafons, kept their Church-Doors fhut. ] 
 
 But that State of tranquillity lafied not long, '7'^^^^> Z'-^- 
 
 notwithftanding all the Prince and other Lords ^''-^^/'^''^ i 
 
 endeavours to keep the People quiet. The 2 \u. gavijl I- ■ 
 
 of April fome of the Churches were found to mages, \ 
 
 have been broken open in the night, and fome j 
 
 of the Images pulled down, and from that day i 
 
 no flop could be put to fuch diforders by any i 
 
 means. One day the Prince, the Admiral, and \ 
 
 feveral other Lords, underftanding what the com- j 
 mon fort of People amongft the Reformed In- 
 habitants werea-doing in St. Crofs's Church, ha- 
 
 ftened to it, and endeavoured with their Canes i 
 
 and Swords to refrain that madnefs. Nay, the ■; 
 
 Prince, feeing one of them about to pull down ! 
 a great Statue, took a Mufket and was going ' I 
 
 to fire at him, when he told his Highnefs, Pray, ! 
 
 Sir, have a little patience, 'till I have done with ■ 
 
 thisjobb, then kill me, if you pleafe (^). From; -! 
 
 that day there was no exercife of the Roman \ 
 
 Religion at Orleans, tho' the Reformed made \ 
 
 no ufe as yet of the Catholicks Churches. As ^ 
 Vol. II. G to 
 
 (a) Beza ibid. \ 
 
 \ 
 \ 
 
^2 HiJIory of the Reformation, ^nd of the Yol.1L 
 
 Charles to the Plate, Relicks, Ornaments and Treafury 
 
 ^ ^^ of thefe Churches, the Prince avoided as long as 
 
 Poj>e Pius ^^ could to feize upon them ; but at laft, be- 
 
 IV. ing forced by extream want to do it, he made 
 
 ^■■■"^'~"*^ an Inventory of the value of every thing. 
 
 LXXI. The third General Synod that had been ap- 
 
 ^e third pointed at Orleans before the Troubles, met ac- 
 
 National cordingly, tho' feveral Deputies of the Churches 
 
 the Re- ^^^^ ^"^^t attend, becaufe of the Civil Commo- 
 
 formed tions \ but a good number of Minifters and El- 
 
 Ckurda. ders being prefent, the firft Seffion began on the 
 
 twenty feventh of April, at which the Prince, 
 
 the Admiral, and other great Lords then at 
 
 Orleans affifted, as much for hearing the Speeches 
 
 made and the Refolutions taken, as to give them 
 
 a greater Weight and Authority. 
 
 Monfieur de Chandieu Lord of La Roche, 
 one of the Miniders of Paris was chofen Prefi- 
 dent, tho' he was but twenty three Years old j 
 he was a Youth, fays Thuanus, in which Nobi- 
 lity of Birth, Comelinefs of Face, Learning, Elo- 
 quence and a fingular Modejiy vyed with one ano- 
 ther (z). 
 
 I cannot help faying, that this Synod deviated 
 a little from the Sim.plicity of the two former, 
 inafmuch as inftead of being fatisfied with the 
 title of a National Synod, they took that of a 
 GENERAL COUNCIL. Here is the 
 Article drav/n for that purpofe, which is the firfl 
 of the General Matters. 
 
 „ The Minifters and Elders convocated in 
 ,, this Affembly of Orleans for the General 
 „ Council of France, following the Determina- 
 5, tion of the laft Synod held at Poitiers, are of 
 „ Opinion, that the PrK^fent Aflgmbly fhall have 
 „ the N A M E and AUTHORITY of 
 „ A COUNCIL GENERALof the 
 
 ,, Deputies 
 (%) Thuan. lib. xxix. p. 94.. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /« F r a n c E. 83 
 4, Deputies of this Kingdom, &c.'* I do not Charles 
 know how that matter was debated in the Sy- ■^^* 
 nod of Poitiers, for Vv'c do not fee a title of it in PouYviys, 
 the Ad:s of that Synod publifned by Mr. Quick *IV. 
 and Mr. Aymoti •, we find only that in the new 
 Articles added to the Difcipline, they {ay, that 
 the GENEP.AL COUNCIL Jhall deter- 
 mine of all Church-Matters, nor Jh all there be any 
 Appeal admitted from it, fuch points excepted, as 
 it fdf (hall ju^ge needful to be turned over to the 
 vext GENERAL COUNCIL of all the 
 Churches of this Kingdom, and of O I" H E R 
 PERSONS who may think fit to come unio it^ 
 &c. That is Quick's Englifh Tranflation ; 
 wherein certainly he hath miftaken the French 
 Original, which runs thus, I'he Provincial Synod 
 fhall determine of all Church-matters without Ap- 
 peal, except fuch points, as it felfjhall judge necef- 
 fary to be turned over to the UNIVERSAL 
 Council of all the Churches of the Kingdom, and of 
 other NAT IONS fand not P E R S O N S) 
 who jhall think fit to come to it, &c. Now the 
 Decree of Orleans methinks goes further, it feems 
 to infinuate, that thofe AfTemblies were made up 
 of the Deputies of all the Kingdom, Catho- 
 licks as well as Reformed, or at leail; that the 
 Reformed made the major part of the King- 
 dom •, it feems likewife that the Synod of Poi- 
 tiers had determined the Title they were to 
 take ; in fhort it muft be owned, that the Ex- 
 preffions are not accurate enough, and fay more 
 than they were intended at firft, but let this be 
 laid by the v/ay (a). 
 
 The Book of one Morelli, who pretended 
 
 that the Minifter's Eleftion ought to be made 
 
 by the Congregation, contrary to the Determi- 
 
 G 2 nation 
 
 (a) Aymcn Synod Nationaux des Egl. Ref. de France, 
 Tom. I. Quick Svnodicon in Gallia Ref'ormata. Vol. 1. 
 
84 Hijlory of the Reformation^ and oftheYo-L .11 . 
 Charles nation of the Difcipline, was cenfured and con- 
 ^' demned, and its Author being refradory was 
 Pope plus excommunicated by the Synod {b). One Boli- 
 IV. fer made a publick Recantation of his Errors 
 '— "v""^ in the fame Afiembly ; but feeing afterwards 
 that the Reformed Churches were threatned with 
 a Perfecution, he perfevered not in his Repen- 
 tance. They made feveral Additions to the 
 Church- Difcipline, they ordered a publick Faft- 
 Day, and publick Prayers to be put up to divert 
 the heavy Judgments of God, which they faw 
 ready to fall upon the Kingdom, and made fe- 
 veral other good Regulations. 
 LXXII. Now as the Civil War feemed unavoidable, 
 Delihera- ^nd whercas Religion was the Pretence thereof, 
 t^s of the -^^ ^^g propounded in the Prince's Council, whe- 
 CounciL ther it would not be proper to defire the Pro- 
 teftant Princes of Germany to fend a fpeedy 
 Succour, and a fufficient number of Troops 
 to withftand the Efforts of the common Enemy. 
 But the Admiml of Chatillon, or Coligny, op- 
 pofed with all his Might the Propofition, and 
 faid, that he chofe rather to die, than to con- 
 fent that theReformed fhould be the firft that in- 
 troduced foreign Forces into the Kingdom (c). 
 They fend Therefore it was only refolved to fend two 
 tivo Depti- Gentlemen into Germany for to watch the Mo- 
 ties into tions of their Enemies, and the Steps they would 
 Germany. ^^1^^^ and to be ready to confute their Calum- 
 nies •, and to defire the faid Princes to fend their 
 Embafladors in France, to make an Agreement, 
 if it was poflible, between the two contending 
 Parties, to the end that during the King's Mi- 
 nority, the Blood of his Subjeds fhould be fpa- 
 red. The next day the Council gave charge to 
 the faid Gentlemen, to remain in Germany 'till 
 the Peace fhould be reflored in France, and if 
 
 th« 
 (b) Beza liv. vi. (c) ibid. 
 
BookIV, Reformed Churches m France. 85 \ 
 
 the pofture of affairs fhould oblige them to re- Charles ,; 
 
 quire the Affiftance of the Proteftant Princes, ^^^ j 
 
 they would receive new Inftru6lions. _ p^pe pius '. 
 
 Thefe two Deputies took their way through IV. < 
 
 the County of Burgundy, which was the fafeft, '— v-«^ | 
 tho' the longeft ; and this I do obferve, becaufe '• 
 
 tkey were near prejudicing- their Affairs by their ; 
 
 long Journey, for the King's Embaflador was ' 
 
 beforehand with them , and had prepoflefled , | 
 
 the minds of the Emperor, and of many Princes I 
 
 of Germany. , 1 
 
 The Prince of Conde thought proper to feize LXXIII. ' 
 upon the neighbouring Towns, lying upon the V'.^ Prmce \ 
 River Loire-, Mun and Baugency received '^'^- fe^Hal ■ 
 
 lingly the Garrifons fent to them by his High- Cities. \ 
 
 nefs without any tumult ; only a few days after, ^ i 
 
 fome of the Roman Clergy running,up and down 
 to retire into fome other place, miftrufting ■ 
 
 the Prince's word, who had took them under \ 
 
 his Proteflion, they were much abufed by the i 
 
 Soldiers, nor were the Images and Altars better 
 refpeited here than at Orleans ; nay, they exceed- | 
 
 ed furioufly at Clery, moved to it by their ha- | 
 
 tred againft the Superftition towards an Image 
 of the Virgin, which was worfhipped at that 
 place, whither abundance of People from the ■ 
 
 remoteft Countries reforted every day {d). [ 
 
 When the Prince, the Admiral and other | 
 
 Lords heard of this at Orleans, they were much \ 
 
 incenfed againft thofe hot-headed Zealots, being 1 
 
 very fenfible that nothing could be of greater \ 
 
 prejudice to their caufe than fuch indifcreet be- \ 
 
 haviour, by which they deftroyed at once, all i 
 
 that the Prince could fay for to juftify his ; 
 
 taking up Arms, for the due Obiervation of the " \ 
 
 Edifts •, and they expofed themfelves to the re- ^ 
 
 fentment of their Enemies, who would not fail " '; 
 
 G 3 to ^ < 
 
 (d) Beza ibid. DinoUii Hift. Gal. lib. ii. p. 82. 
 
S 6 Wfiory of the Reformatio}!^ and of the Vol. II. 
 
 Charles to revenge themfelves feverely, "whenever they 
 
 ^^' fhould have an opportunity of doing it. But 
 
 Pope ?'ms ^or all what the Prince could do to refrain that 
 
 IV. licentioufnefs, either by his Exhortations, or his 
 
 '— ~v-*— ' Threatnings, or Punifliments, he could not put 
 
 a ftop to it. 
 
 He made himfelf mafter in the fame manner 
 
 (that is, without reliftance) of the other Towns 
 
 lying upon the fame Riv^er, above and below 
 
 Orleans, and opened a free PafTage from that 
 
 City to Lyons. 
 
 Jn^i He fent Mr. Feugieres to Tours to bring 
 
 Jlref^gtherts from thence fome Ammunition, of v/hich they 
 
 hmfelfat ^^^j-j^g^^ much at Orleans. They made in this 
 
 laft place an Arfena!, in the Cordeliers Convent, 
 
 where afterwards they cafe Canons ; they like- 
 
 v;ife erecled a Mint to coin Gold and Silver 
 
 Pieces v/ith the King's Stamp. 
 
 ] XXIV. Notwlthftanding all thefe military Prepara- 
 
 Negociaii- tions at Paris and Orleans, the Negotiations for 
 
 ons for Peace v/ere ftill on foot. The Countefs Dowa- 
 
 Peacejizli ^^^ ^^ Roye had been defired by the Cardinal of 
 
 if./oc . Lorrain, to perfuade the Prince to forfake that 
 
 Party : but fhe declined that Commiflion, fhe 
 
 confented only, that the Abbot of St. John of 
 
 Laon might take a tour to Orleans, to try to 
 
 ■ brino; the Prince to fome terms of Ag-reement. 
 
 The faid Abbot bemg come into that City 
 
 with Letters from the Qiieen, the Prince an- 
 
 ^;.^^;-';f fwered her Majefty the firft of May ; he ac- 
 
 the (^iietn^ quainted her of his earneft deiire of feeing Her 
 
 and fends duly reverenccd and obeyed by every one, as 
 
 a fecond ^g]] ^g j^y himfelf, and the Peace and Tranquil- 
 
 ^f^ifyo. jjj.y, ^£ ^^^ Kingdom fully reftored. To this 
 
 Letter he fubjoined a Memorial fetting forth the 
 
 ways and means of reftoring the Peace and 
 
 - IVanquillity, which w^ere much the fame as the 
 
 former. 
 
B o K I V. Reformed Churches ///France. S 7 
 former, that is, the ftrI6l: obfervation of the E- Charles 
 <li(5l of January, and the reth-ing ot the Triumvirs . Jv" 
 from Court-, protefting hkewife, as in the former, p^pg pjus 
 that if they did not accept of fuch reafonable IV. 
 terms, they ihould be anfv/erable for all the Ca- v— -v-— ^ 
 lamities which might befal the Kingdom. 
 
 To this Memorial the Triumvirs oppofed two LXXV. 
 Petitions dire(5ted to their Maiefties the King and '^'^^ . ' 
 
 ueen Regent, including ways and means or j„h^^er to 
 their own for reftoring the Peace of the King- to the 
 dom, as they bragged, and which were quite ^' ^'^^^^ 
 contrary, to thofe propofed by the Prince, and ^^'«'""''''^- 
 much to the fame effed: as the former, viz. the 
 repealing of the Edid: of January ; the publifh- 
 ing of another, by which the King fliould de- 
 clare, that he v/ould not tolerate in his King- 
 dom, the exercife of any other Religion, befides 
 the Roman Catholick, &c. See the reft of the 
 Articles in the former above related. By the 
 fecond, they declared that expedling that all the 
 Articles of the firft fliould be granted without 
 exception, they offered to retire into their re- 
 fpedive Governments, or into their Houfes ; but 
 added, that far from requiring that the Prince of 
 Conde fhould do the fame, they defired that he 
 would ftay at Court by their Majefhies Perfonn, 
 and befought their faid Majefties, that they 
 would be pleafed to recall him from fuch a Com- 
 pany Vs^hich he was with, as foon as poflible, ex- 
 peding nothing from fuch a Prince, but what 
 w^as entirely worthy of his high Station. Dated 
 at Paris the fourth of May. 
 
 The King , by the advice of his Council, an- lxxVI. 
 fweredthe fame day to the Prince, and his Let- The King's 
 ter was entirely to the fame effed: and purport C°'^»^^'-'^ 
 as the former. f-^T'. '° 
 
 The Prince having received the King's Let- 
 ter, and the Triumvirates Petition, publiflied a 
 G 4 lt:ng 
 
S8 Hijioryof the Reformation, and of the Yo-lM. 
 
 Charles long Manifefto the twentieth of May, wherem i 
 
 ^ ?■ he upbraids the Triumvirs with many things i 
 PopeVms Sufficient for rendering their Memory execrable 
 
 IV. to Pofterity. 
 ^-Tv-j*-' He fays, ,, That having held correfpondence 
 
 *" ^j^^ ■,, and took counfel with the Pope's Legate, .and. j 
 
 Prince's 5> the EmbafTadors of Spain and other foreign | 
 
 third Ma- ,, Princes, and being moved by their private ! 
 
 pifejlo. ^^ Paffions, rather than by any Senfe of Reli- j 
 
 ,, gion, they had prefented not a Petition, but i 
 
 ,, a Decree which they had had the boldnefs to j 
 „ tender to the King ; that by the ■ advice of 
 
 5, the faid Embafladors, they were come in arms i 
 
 „ to Court, and having feized upon the King j 
 
 5, and Queen, they had undertook to form a \ 
 
 5, new Council, removing the old Counfellors, j 
 5, and filling their places with new ones without 
 
 ,, experience, the which was evident by the E- \ 
 
 3, ]e6Hon they had made of the fix late Coun- : 
 
 5, fellors ; an Eledion fo ridiculous in it felf, - 
 
 „ that it became the People's Talk. They had re- j 
 
 ,„ folved toput fome others to death, and had . ', 
 
 ,, profcribed for^le others to be fent into exile; J\ 
 
 ,, amongft the firft was the Chancellor de L'Hof- i 
 
 5, pital, a man fcarce to be parallelled for his \ 
 „ Gravity, Prudence, Learning, Probity and 
 
 „ Honefty, and fome other Members of the \ 
 
 ,, King's Council, who could brook no more : 
 
 ,, than the faid Chancellor their violent Coun- j 
 ,, fels. That they would not have fpared the 
 ,, Queen herfelf, whom they had refolved to 
 
 ,, fend to Chenonceaux, to hufband the gardens, \ 
 ,, had they fucceeded in their Attempts, or had 
 
 ,, he not undertook her Defence ; i.hey had j 
 
 „ threatned* her Majefly to murder her in her j 
 
 ,,. bed .' 
 
 * If Brantome is to be credited, St. Andrew propofed in , 
 
 Council, to (hut up that Princefsin a Sack and drown her in A 
 
 the River, which would have been executed, had it not been | 
 
 for the Duke of Guife who oppofed the propcfition. l 
 
B o o K I V . Reformed Churches z;^ F r a n c e .' 89 
 bed if Hie did not comply with them in every Charles 
 thing -, laftly, they had refolved.to remove 
 from the King's Perfon, the Prince of La 
 Roche-fur- Yon his Governor, and to put 
 others in his place, who would train up his' 
 Majefty to Riding, Dancing, Fencing and 
 Playing, and the gratifying of his Senfes, Ap- 
 petites and Luxury, without mentioning any 
 thing concerning God or Religion, nor teach- 
 ing him how to fign the Letters, nor even 
 how to read them, nor to hear the complaints 
 of his Subje6ls, nor to be prefent ih the Coun- 
 cil and learn how to manage publick Affairs 
 and govern his Kingdom ; to the end that 
 their ill adminiftration fhould be concealed 
 from him, and to deter him from the pradlice 
 of Virtue, and of what is good and honeft, 
 as if it was a thing unbecoming and unplea- 
 fant to a Prince •, and that being once imljued 
 with thefe fine Maxims, he fhould chufe for 
 his Favorites, Men without repute or merit, 
 and raife them above thofe who have well 
 deferved of him, &c. After that he comes to 
 the main 'pointy and without denying the perfonal 
 Merit of the Triumvirs^ he charges them with 
 an unfatiable Avarice, by which they had ex- 
 cefTively increafed their Patrimony, ufing all 
 manner of methods juft or unjuft for that pur- 
 pofe, without waiting for the King's recompence 
 for their pafl: Labours, jind whereas they faid 
 that the Ediul of January would be the caufe of 
 the Kingdom's Ruin, he confuted this ,, by the 
 „ confideration of the flate and condition where- 
 „ in Paris was before the Duke of Guife,and the 
 „ Conftable came into the City, and when it 
 „ was governed by the Marfhal of Montmo- 
 5, rency, every one living peaceably, the Catho- 
 55 licks found their account in the Edid, as well 
 
 „ as 
 
^o Wftorx of the Reformation, mid of the Vol. II. 
 Charles „ as v/ell as the Reformed : that it was very 
 J^- ,, well known by every one, that as the States 
 ' Pius " General airembled iirft at Orleans, then at 
 IV. '» Pontoife, and laftly at St. Germain, the No- 
 bility and the Commons had petitioned the 
 King to grant Temples to the Reformed 
 „ where they mjght afiemble together for the 
 5, publick exercife of their Religion. Now a 
 „ Duke of Guife who is a Foreigner, a Lord 
 „ of Montmorency, and a Lord of St. An- 
 „ drew make a Decree of their own, againft 
 „ the Edi6l of January, granted by the King, 
 „ the Queen Mother, the King of Navarr, the 
 „ Princes of the Blood, with the King's Coun- 
 „ cil and forty of the moft Notables, chofen out 
 ^, of all the Parliaments. Three Men draw a 
 „ Decree againft the Petition of all the body of 
 „ the Nobility and Commons, that is againft 
 „ the much greateft part of the Kingdom ! 
 „ Three men oppofe and undertake to fubvert 
 ,, an Edid:, to which even two of them, viz. 
 „ the Conftable and St. Andrev/ had fubfcribed, 
 „ and had fworn in the mofb folemn manner 
 „ the obfervation of it ! Thefe three make 
 „ a Decree of their own, which cannot be exe- 
 „ cuted without kindling a Civil War, and putr 
 „ ting the Kingdom upon the very brink of 
 „ utter ruin ! As long as they thought that the 
 „ Reformed would not be fatisfied with the Pro- 
 „ vifion m.ade for them by that Edid, they have 
 „ been well pleafed with it ; but when they have 
 „ {q.q\\ themfelves deceived in their expectation, 
 „ and that the Reformed had fabmitted them- 
 „ felves to the King's Will and Pleafure,then they 
 „ have undertook to ftir up the contrary Party : 
 ,, neverthelefs they fucceeded not at firft ac- 
 „' cording to their wifhes, wherefore the Duke 
 „ of Guife was obliged to fet himfeif at work 
 
 „ at 
 
^ooK IV. Reformed Churches in France. 9^ 
 
 „ at Vafly, and cut to pieces thofe poor wretch- Charles 
 „ es who were aiTembled to pray to God. The ^ .^ 
 5, Conftable not finding the Reformed aflem- Pofe 
 J, bled at Fan's, as he expedled, vented his an- Pius IV. 
 „ ger upon the PuIpitSi, Pews and their Meet- 
 „ ing-Houfes. And is it a wonder, if the Re- 
 „ formed Populace did fall upon the Images in 
 ,, many places for to revenge themfelves ? 
 
 5, When the Guifes petition or rather com- 
 ,, mand the repealing of the Edid of January, 
 „ and the publication of another quite contrary, 
 ,, it is the fame as if they had a-mind to con- 
 ,, found the divine with the human Rights, and 
 ,, by that means to fubvert entirely the King- 
 5, dom : And this they know themfelves by 
 5, a fad Experience. For having kindled a 
 „ War in Scotland, and having fent thither La 
 ,, BrofTe and the Bifliop of Amiens, againfi: the 
 „ Queen their Sifter and Monf. D'Oyfel's Opi- 
 5, nion, they fell very fhort of their hopes, and 
 3, iriftead of extirpating the Reformed name out 
 ,, of that Kingdom, they did efficacioudy extir- 
 5, pate the Pope's Authority, and have been ob- 
 ,, liged to accept of Terms not much honour- 
 „ able (h). Furthermore, when they pretend 
 5, to impofe aProfeffion of Faith upon all thofe 
 „ who are in fome publick Employments ; 
 „ what precedent have they for fuch a thing ? 
 ,, they ought to have better confidered what 
 „ they were a-doing. 
 
 ,, Every one may fee that fuch a thing is 
 
 ,, quite contrary to the Decrees of the Councils 
 
 „ and the ancient Fathers, who have required 
 
 ,, no other Confeflion of Faith befides the Ni- 
 
 5, cene -, but we may fay that under this pre- 
 
 3, tence they had a mind to introduce the Spa- 
 
 5, niHi Inquifition, fo odious to all Nations ;' 
 
 5, which 
 ChJ See Me^ioires de Caftelnau, liv. ii. chap. iv. 
 
mjlory of the Reformatio?:, and of the Vol. 11. 
 
 which they have attempted more than once 
 to fettle in this Kingdom ; and what preju- 
 dice fuch a Settlement would be to this Realm; 
 what miferies and calamities it would bring of 
 courfe upon the Subjeds, every one knows. 
 But let the Duke of Guife, and the Cardinal 
 of Lorrain his Brother, clear themfelves from 
 all fufpicion on account of Religion, before 
 they fhould be admitted to charge others 
 with Herefy ; Itt them abjure the Auguftan 
 Confeffion, to which they promised but lately 
 to fubfcribe ; (when they had their Confe- 
 rences with the Duke of Wirtemberg at Sa- 
 vern) let the Cardinal recant what he had 
 oftentimes afTerted before her Majefty, con- 
 cerning Tranfubftantiation, thekeepingand the 
 carrying about of the Sacrament, the Invoca- 
 tion of Saints, the Purgatory and the Image- 
 worihip, contrary to the Tenets of the Ro- 
 man Church. 
 
 „ As to the Profanation of Churches, and 
 breaking of Images, the Prince Jays^ That he 
 had very often teftiiied his Sorrow for what 
 had happened, which is very evident, fince 
 he had condemned to death fome who had 
 been taken, and who were guilty of the fa(5t. 
 But on the contrary, no Punifhment has been in- 
 flidedon thofe who have barbaroufly murdered 
 fo many innocent Perfons,the living Images of 
 the living God, at Vaffy, Sens, Amiens, Ab- 
 beville, Caftelnau, d'Arry, and of late at 
 Angers. And when the Triumvirs do re- 
 quire that thofe who have taken up Arms 
 fhould be declared Rebels ; what can be the 
 meaning of this .^ Is it not a certain Indication 
 that they intend to involve the Kingdom in 
 an inextricable War, leaving no room to a 
 reconciliation -, for they do not fay that thofe 
 
 ,, who 
 
'Boo'^W. Reformed Churches in France. ^3 
 
 who have taken up Arms, and refufe to lay Charles 
 them down, but thofe who have taken up ^^• 
 Arms, But fuch a point deferves to be an- p ' 5 ^.-^ 
 fwered otherwife than by Pen and Ink, and I ly. 
 hope to be foon with them, and we fhall fee 
 whether it was lawful for a Foreigner and 
 two Scoundrels to condemn a Prince of the 
 Royal Blood, and the greateft part of the No- 
 bility.,, 
 
 And whereas they made ufe of the King of 
 Navarr*s name, thePrince deftres him to remember^ 
 how unworthily he had been treated at Orleans 
 by the Guifes, and the great danger which he 
 was expofed to during their violent Adminiftra- 
 tion. Then he taunts upon the Parliament of 
 Paris, becaufe the Triumvirs referred over to 
 them many things which were not contained in 
 their Petition ; he upbraids many of them with 
 receiving Bribes, and being adluated by fear or 
 hopes. Laftly, he repeats the fame Conditions^ 
 and f aid ^ ,, That he requires no more but that 
 „ the King fhould be reftored to the fame liber- 
 5, ty which he enjoyed fix Months before ; that 
 „ the Queen-Mother {hould have that free Ad- 
 „ miniftration of the Kingdom, together with 
 ,, the King of Navarr, as it had been fettled 
 „ by the General States ; that the Edids fhould 
 „ be kept, and the Subjeds preferved from all 
 ,, violence and oppreflion (/). 
 
 The Bifhop of Valence was much fufpedled 
 of being the Author of this Manifefto ; he was 
 at Court and kept correfpondencewith the Prince 
 of Conde, to whom he fent his Advices and 
 Anfwers; he knew many things about the Guifes 
 defigns, as one who had been very privy with 
 the Cardinal of Lorrain, he had pryed into his 
 opinions about Religion, and was then in very 
 
 great 
 (i) Thuan. lib. xxix. p. 91, &c. 
 
Hijlory of the Reformatwi^ and of the Vol . IL 
 
 great favour with the Queen. De Beze fays, 
 that the Duke's or the Triumvirs Petition was 
 fent fecretly to the Prince from Paris, which 
 feems to confirm Thuanus*s fufpicions upon that 
 matter {j). 
 
 However, that Anfwer was (tnt to the Par- 
 liament of Paris, with his Letter diredled to 
 them, by which he required them to read it pub- 
 licity, and to regifter it. 
 
 The Prince had wrote before to the Duke of 
 Savoy on the 12th of May, and fent to him a 
 Copy of thofe Writings, to the end that the faid 
 Duke fhould not be impofed upon by the Calum- 
 nies of his Enemies, and fhould be enabled like- 
 wife to judge thoroughly of the truth of the 
 matter (k). 
 
 The Minifters had already wrote to the Elec- 
 tor Palatine on the 4th of May, befeeching 
 him earneftly to ufe all his beft endeavours to 
 prevent the evils which their Enemies threatned 
 them with ; and left any Auxiliaries Should be 
 fent from Germany to be employed not only a- 
 gainft themfelves, but even againft the King 
 and the Kingdom ; and to interpofe his good 
 Offices with- their Majefties, that they might en- 
 joy that Liberty of Confcience and other Privi- 
 leges granted to them by the Edidls, 
 ^^^ff^a The Prince of Conde's Manifefto having been 
 of that ^^^^ ■'^^ Court, the Triumvirs thought proper to 
 Princess anfwer other wife than by writing ; and whereas 
 Jtifwer. the War was already kindled in feveral Provin- 
 ces of the Kingdom, either out of fear, or to 
 gratify the People, they advifed the King ofNa- 
 varr to publi/h an Ed id whereby the Reformed 
 fliould be ordered to leave Paris in two days 
 time, without fojouriiing any longer, nor com.ing 
 into it any more till further Orders i or elfe they 
 
 Ihould 
 
 (j) Id. ibid. Beza liv. vi. (k) Bcza liv. vi.p. 52. 
 1 
 
Book IV. Reformed Clmrcbes Z;^ France. 95 
 
 fhould be treated as Rebels to the King. This Charles 
 Order was publifhed the 26th. ;^ 
 
 The 27th, upon the Remonftrances of Ni-p^^^Pius 
 cholas L'Huillier Lieutenant Civil of the City, IV. 
 the King of Navarr publifhed a Declaration ^"^^y^^ 
 whereby he ordered all the Tithing-Men to give a^J^^T 
 in to the faid Lieutenant, the Names o^ ^Xthoic handled at 
 known or fufpedled to be Reformed, for to no- Paris. 
 tify to them the Orders abovefaid ; the King's 
 Officers in his Sovereign Courts excepted, who 
 fhould receive the faid Orders by fome of the 
 Members of their refpeflive Courts. Indeed the 
 faid King forbad by the faid Edi(5t, upon pain 
 of Death, the Roman Catholicks to molefl in 
 any wife the Reformed who fhould retire, or to 
 obilrud: their Paffage ; but that Defence was very 
 ill obferved ; and the time allov/ed to them be- 
 ing fo ihort, there was no manner of injuftice, 
 depredation and cruelties which were not ufed 
 againft them before and after the Expiration of 
 that term •, their Houfes and Goods were plun- 
 dered, their Perfons expofed to many kinds of 
 indignities and cruelties, not only from the Mob, 
 but even from the Magiftrate, who feized upon 
 as many as they could find, dragged them into 
 Jail, and ufed them as if they had been the worft 
 of Criminals, without any regard to the treat- 
 ment and good ufage which the Roman Catho- 
 licks received from the Reform.ed in the Places 
 w^hereof they were Mailers (/). 
 
 Therefore it was debated in the Prince's Coun- LXXIX. 
 cil at Orleans, whether the Roman Catholicks p^'^.,^^ , 
 fhould be expelled from Orleans, as the Reform- mildnefs 
 ed had been from Paris ; and whether, in all to^vards 
 other refpeds, they fhould ufe reprifals upon the ^j:^ Catho- 
 Cathollcks, or at leaft, whether they fhould ob- ' 
 Iige the Catholicks to pay for the Charges of the 
 
 War, 
 (0 Beza ibid. 
 
g6 Hiftory of the Reforination^ and of the Vol. 11. 
 
 Charles War. But it was refolved, that they Ihould not 
 ^g do what they condemned in others, but on the 
 P(7/>/pius contrary they fhould render good for evil, leav- 
 IV. ing the vengeance to God. Accordingly two 
 '— "V— ^ Soldiers were executed for a Robbery commit- 
 ted in the Houfe of a Canon of St. Crofs. In- 
 deed it was refolved, that the Clergy either pre - 
 fent or abfent fhould be taxe^ in proportion to 
 their Income {in). 
 
 The fame day, that is, the 27th of May, a- 
 nother Decree was publifhed by the faid King of 
 Navarr, ordering the Sheriffs and all the Roman 
 Catholick Inhabitants to take up Arms, and to 
 chufe amongft themfelves, Captains, Serjeants 
 and Corporals in fuch a number as they fhould 
 think fit, and put themfelves in a readinefs for 
 ferving the King, under the Command of Na- 
 varr. 
 
 And whereas the MarfKal of Montmorency, 
 becaufe of his meek and moderate temper, was 
 fufpeded by the Triumvirs, he was obhged to 
 follow the Army ; the Marfhal of BrifTac was 
 made Governour of Paris, the Cardinal of Bour- 
 bon, who had enjoyed that Charge five or fix 
 Weeks, finding himfelf too unequal for fuch an 
 Ofiice, readily confented to that Change {n). 
 ^ Now the Army which had been afl'embled in 
 
 TheTrium-^^'^^ adjacent parts of Paris under Navarr's Com- 
 -virs Army mand, who had under him theConftable and the 
 legim its Duke of Guife, with St. Andre v/, marched to 
 march. Chateaudun *, (being four thoufand Foot and 
 three thoufand Horfe ftrong) in its way to Or- 
 leans. 
 
 The Prince, not to be (hut up in that Place, 
 and for the Reputation of his Arms, came out of 
 
 Orleans 
 
 (m) Id. ibid, (n) Beza liv. vi. p. 75. 
 * Thuan. lib. xxx. p. 95. but Beza calls the place Monfi- 
 lehery. 
 
Book IV. JR.eformed Churches tnF ran CE* 97 
 Orleans at the fame time, at the head of his Charles 
 Army, which was fix thoufand foot, and two ^^^ 
 thoufand horfe ftrong ; and encamped about pope Pius 
 four Leagues diftant from Orleans. The Si- IV. 
 tuation of his Camp was very advantagious, the' 
 back of it being free to receive commodioufly 
 the Convoys that might be fent to them -, it was 
 very difficult for the King of Navarr- to go any 
 further without forcing their retrenchments. 
 
 Tho' the Generals of the Royal Army, when LXXXI. 
 they fet out from Paris, were fully refolved to ^j^fijf°^g_ 
 attack the Reformed, neverthelefs they ^^v^ncivedby 
 puzzled at the Party which the Prince of Conde the S^tceenl 
 had taken ; for the attack of a Camp well re- 
 trenched feem.ed to them very dangerous, and 
 the fuccefs very uncertain. The Queen, who 
 was come to the Army, improved this oppor- 
 tunity for engaging the Triumvirs to renew the 
 Negociations, and with their confent, ihe fent 
 the Bifhop of Valence to the Prince of Conde, 
 to invite him to a Conference, which he accept- 
 ed of, notwithftanding the intreaties of his 
 friends, who were afraid of fome treafon againft 
 his Highnefs ; nay, a Fafting-day was extraor- 
 dinarily publifhed at Orleans on that account (m). 
 
 The place and time of that Conference being Firji Cciih 
 appointed, hoftages delivered on both iides, 2indfirence. 
 the number of armed men, which they might 
 bring along with them on both fides being a- " 
 
 greed -, the Queen came on horfeback to a place 
 between Angerville and Touri; the King of Na- 
 varr and the Lord of Damville, Son to the Ccn- 
 ftable, attended her. 
 
 The Prince of Conde came likewife, with 
 the Admiral, and the Cardinal of Chatillon his 
 Brother. Damville comm.anded the party for 
 the Queen's guardjand the Count of laJRochefou- 
 
 VoL. II. H cault 
 
 ( :n) Beza ibid. Thuan. lib. xxx. p. 96. 
 
9 8 W/lory of the "Reformation^ and of the Yoh. 11, 
 Charles cault that for the Prince cf Conde •, there was 
 
 ^^' about three quarters of a mile diftance between 
 Pope Pius t^^ ^'^^ troops ', it had not been thought proper 
 
 IV'. that they fhould be nearer one another left they 
 fhould quarrel, and from words come to blows. 
 
 Neverthekrs about half an hour after, the 
 two Parties having hardly obtained leave of their 
 Captains to come nearer one another, all of them 
 ran one to another for to embrace, fome their 
 Brethren, others their Kinfmen, others their 
 Friends, Relations and Acquaintances •, and after 
 mutual falutation, they reciprocally exhorted one 
 another not to engage themfelves inconfiderately 
 in a pernicious War, wherein the Vidory was 
 equally fatal to the Vanquifher and to the Van- 
 quifhed. A moving fpediacle indeed to fee them! 
 two Parties divided and almoft pulled afunder, 
 now embracing heartily one another, and giving 
 one to another mutual marks of good- will, and 
 for all that, being ready to deftroy one another 
 at their Chiefs firft word of Command (n). 
 
 During thefe demonftrations of Joy mixed 
 with tears, the Queen and the Prince of Conde 
 conferred together for a long while. The Prince 
 infifted that the Triumvirs fhould leave the 
 Court, and that the Edidl of January fhould be 
 kept. As to the firft, the Queen anfvvered that 
 it was not lawful to expel after that manner, the 
 firft Officers of the Crown during the King's 
 Minority. To which the Prince reply'd, that 
 the States General of the Kingdom, had already 
 expelled them of late, 'till they had given an 
 account of the Sums received and managed by 
 them. As to the fecond article, the Queen 
 having anfwered that it was impoflible to have 
 two Religions without occafioning greater Trou- 
 bles than before, becaufe, all the Catholicks were 
 
 already 
 (n) Thuan, ibid. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Cburcbesm France. 99 ' 
 
 already in Arms on account of the Edi6b of Ja- Charles ',, 
 
 nuary ; the Prince replyed, that it did not g-^, i 
 
 belong to three private Men to repeal an Ordi- p^pe pius \ 
 
 nance drawn by the States General, when it was IV. \ 
 a queftion of the publick Welfare. That the *— *-\r"*J 
 
 Edid had been granted by all the Princes of the ; 
 
 Blood, and all the Lords of the Privy Council, I 
 and fworn by the Conftable and the Marfhal of 
 
 St. Andrew. Laftly, that indeed there ought ' 
 
 to be but one Religion in the world, to wit, that ■> 
 
 which he and his Confederates profefled, which \ 
 
 was agreeable to the Purity of the Gofpel which J 
 condemns all manner of Idolatry and Superfti- 
 
 tion : neverthelefs, that it was not contrary to i 
 
 reafon, to tolerate two Religions in the King- i 
 
 dom 'till the Controverlics fhould be determined | 
 
 by a free General Council. That fhe ought to "^ 
 
 call to mind feveral Examples of the fame, as ; 
 that of the Pope himfelf, who tolerates the Jews 
 
 in his Dominions, the Turks tolerate the Chrif- 1 
 
 tians, the Emperor Charles V. after having tryed '■ 
 
 in vain to reduce Germany to the fame Religion ; 
 
 as he himfelf profefs'd,was at laft obliged to. pub- i 
 
 lifh the Interim *. That thefe things had been i 
 
 duly coniidered in that Affcmbly of Notables, \ 
 
 by whom the Edidt of January was granted ■• 
 
 io)- . : 
 
 How weighty and reafonable foever thefe Con- J'^^ithot,^ ' 
 fiderations were, they remained fruitlefs, the '^'«'-"^9^^- 
 
 refolution had been taken at Paris, and at Cha- < 
 
 teaudun too, or Montlehery according to de '■ 
 
 H 2 Beze, | 
 
 * So was called a Book publiiTied by Charles Vth's Au- I 
 thority in 1 548, to pacify the Commotions of Germany 
 
 about Religion ; wherein very few Articles, as the Marriage i 
 
 of Priefts, the Communion with the two forms of Bread and 1 
 Wine, were granted to the Protellants : it was call'd I N T E- 
 
 R I M, that is, for a -ivhik, becaufe it was to laft only 'till ' 
 the determination of a free general Council. 
 
 (0) Beza ibid, ^ 
 
too Hificry of the Reformation, and of the Vol. .11. 
 Charles Beze, not to recede at all from what the Trlum- 
 11:62. ^''^^ ^^^ required, or rather ordered by their 
 Pope Pius Petition, and the Queen being frighted by their 
 IV. Threatnings, durft not fpeak her own mind. 
 '^'~'~' -' Thuanus obferves that fhe feemed to deny the 
 Prince's demands much again ft her will ; and 
 that the King of Navarr affected a great rug- 
 gednefs, and as much as he had fhewn him felf 
 before of an eafy and tradable temper, as much 
 did he fhow himfelf furlifn on this occafion. 
 However, after two hours Conference, they 
 broke up abruptly, and parted without deciding 
 any thing, only the Prince was to communicate 
 to his Conncil, what had been faid in the Con- 
 ference; which he did. 
 LXXXII. On the eleventh of June he wrote to the 
 ^^'^ ^''f''^^ Queen, to let her know that having confulted 
 'jnfiivcrio "^^^^^^ ^^^^ Confederates, they were all of opinion 
 t/?e ^lecfi.th^t no means at all could be devifed to reftore 
 Peace and Tranquillity in the Kingdom, as 
 long as the contrary Party fliould keep the King 
 and Herfelf under conftraint, and furround them 
 with their Arms: therefore they humbly be- 
 fought their Majefties not to take it amifs, if 
 they did not think proper to lay down their 
 Arms, which they had taken up for their com- 
 mon Liberty againft the violences of their com- 
 mon Enemies. That they could not bear that 
 thofe, who of late had proclaimed him and his 
 adherents throughout the Kingdom Rebels to 
 the King, fliould fit as umpires of their Diffe- 
 rences ; that they could not bear that an Edidl 
 granted by an Affembly of fo many grave and 
 wife men, fnould be violated or infiinged at the 
 pleafure of a Mob, which their Enemies them- 
 ielvcs had iiicenfed againft them. That for that 
 caufe they had took up Arms, which they 
 would not lav down 'till the Triumvirs ihould 
 
 ba 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Franc e ." i o i 
 be gone from Court. And whereas 'till now Charles 
 
 O , TV 
 
 they had refufed to comply, and chofe to facri- t" 
 fice the Welfare and Profperity of the King- p^pg pi'^s 
 dom, rather than their Ambition and the gratifi- IV. 
 cation of their otherPaffions; he was indifpenfably 
 obliged to take a courfe which might be fafe and 
 ufeful to the King and the Kingdom, as well as 
 to himfelf (p). 
 
 He wrote likewife two days after to the King 
 of Navarr his Brother to this efFec5b. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 „ fTT^HO* I could forefee long ago part ofLXXXlll 
 5, Jl^ the prefent and future Miferies, never- -^'-f Let- 
 5, thelefs I fee now that the evil is worfe than^^i^^" ^^'' 
 ,, I expe(5ted. For the Teftimony, which myjvjavarr. 
 5, Confcience hath always born unto me, as to 
 ,, the innocency of the Reformed Churches, 
 5, and as to your own good-nature, and as to all 
 J, my adlions, had perfuaded me that, compa- 
 ,, ring the Authors of thefe Commotions with 
 3, me, who has the honour to be your Brother, 
 ,, who have been always fubmiflive and obedient 
 ,, to you 'till now, as you know, you would 
 ,, have been more inclined at leaft to follow 
 „ juftice and a brotherly affedlion, rather than 
 55 the perfuafions and artifices of thofe who have 
 ,, received of you all their increafe and gran- 
 5, deur, (and feem not able, even to this day,) 
 „ to maintain themfelves but by the ruin of you 
 „ and yours. And indeed. Sir, I am not as yet 
 „ out of hopes that you will be fenfible of it ; 
 „ which is the only caufe that has moved me to 
 55 write to you more with tears dropping from 
 5, my eyes than with Ink ; for what more fad 
 35 thing could befall me, than to he^r that you 
 H 3 came 
 
 (p) Id. ibid. Thuan. ibid. 
 
102 HiJIory of the Reformation, and of the Vol.11. 
 Charles „ came with a Lance bucliled againft one who 
 5; " ■^o'-^^d expofe his own life to fave yours! and 
 PopcV'nxs ■>■> that you take fo much trouble to take away 
 IV. „ the lite of one, who had received it from the 
 ,, fame Father and Mother as you, and had 
 „ never fparcd, nor v/ould ever fpare it for the 
 „ prefervation of your own ! Sir, I beg that 
 5, you would confider what occafion you have 
 „ had for behaving yourfelf after fuch a man- 
 ,, ner ? If Religion is the queftion, no body can 
 5, be a better judge than you, whether we are 
 ,, fuch, as we Ihould deferve to be treated with- 
 ,, out any regard to the laws of nature, equity, 
 „ and humanity, as if we were the moft exe- 
 5, crable People in the world ; if your confcience 
 ,, does not allow you to believe all the articles- 
 5, of our Confeffion of Faith, I am fure that 
 ,, your good-nature cannot approve that we 
 ,, fliould be ufed in fo cruel and inhuman a man- 
 ,, ner as we are, far from being the Author and 
 3, Abettor of thefe Perfecutions. If the wel- 
 3, fare and grandeur of the King is fet forth, 
 „ who is the Man, Sir, who after you and your 
 „ Offspring, can be more concerned in it than 
 „ I ? Pray, do judge who is more careful of it, 
 ,, he who is ready to be tryed upon all occa- 
 ,, fions (provided that the authors of thefe 
 ,, troubles abfent thcmfelves, that they might 
 5, not be judges and party) or thofe who fubvert 
 ,, every thing, and have already caufed fomany 
 ,, murders and miferies, rather than to procure 
 ,, by their abfence, the reftorition of peace and 
 „ tranquillity,v/hich tliey have bani/hed from the 
 „ Kingdom by their prefence ? Judge likewife 
 ,, whether this Crown ihall be fafe (in cafe they 
 ,, fhould fticceed according to their wifhes in 
 ,, deftroying thofe who oppofe themfelves to 
 
 „ their 
 
B o K I V . Reformed Churdm /« F r a n c e . 103 
 
 „ their Ambition) and what ftrength fhall re- Charles 
 
 „ main in your hands for the prefervation of it, ^y 
 
 5, in cafe of need ? If the queftion is of your p^^^ pjus 
 
 „ Reputation and Grandeur, you may remem- IV. 
 
 5, ber that they are thofe who intended about " 
 
 5, two years ago, to deprive you of it in de- 
 
 5, priving you of your Life. Whether, fince 
 
 „ that time they have altered their mind, that 
 
 5, I cannot tell, time will ihow it. But as to 
 
 ,, me. Sir, God forbid that the refpe(5tl profefs 
 
 5, for you fhould ever die but with me, and 
 
 ,, even it will revive in thofe v/ho are naturally 
 
 „ the neareft Relations of your blood and 
 
 5, your Servants. Neverthelefs you will be 
 
 „ pleafed to confider, how thofe men can be 
 
 5, your friends, who feck for the fecond time after 
 
 „ the life of your dear Brother, and are fo bold 
 
 „ as to make you the Miniller and Inftrument 
 
 „ of their il'-will. Now, Sir, let this be faid, 
 
 „ to the end that, if not for my|fake, at leaft 
 
 „ for the honour of God, for the regard of our 
 
 „ Country, and for your own Intereft, you 
 
 ,, would confider before proceeding any farther 
 
 5, againft me, who, by a natural right am ano- 
 
 „ ther yourfelf, and who, with God's grace, 
 
 „ will never be deficient in my Duty, and 
 
 „ chufe rather to die than to furvive the Ca- 
 
 ,, lamities that will follow of courfe the event 
 
 ,, of fuch a Battle, whatever fide the vi(5lory 
 
 ,, fhould declare itfelf for. But if inftead of 
 
 5, hearkening to reafon, the Authors of thefe 
 
 ,, Miferies fhould perfifl, and if you do not 
 
 ,, think fit to refrain their paflions by the au- 
 
 ,, thority which you have received frorn God, 
 
 „ v/e hope, Sir, that with the Almighty's help, 
 
 ,, v/hofe honour we fhall defend till the laft 
 
 3, drop of our blood, you will fee, without con- 
 
 55 cerning yourfelf in their bufmefs, (which is 
 H 4 „ a 
 
Hijiory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.11, \ 
 „ a thing fo unworthy of you) fome things by 
 which you will be inform'd of all their Plots | 
 and Defigns, and by which you will be con- I 
 vinced better than ever with what afFe6lion,not 
 only I, but all my Confederates, which are, after : 
 ,, God^the King and ^een^mtiroXj dtwottd to yoxiT \ 
 „ Written atOr'eans the 13th of June 1562 (q). \ 
 \^^^^^' '^^^ (^.m^ day he wrote again to the Queen 1 
 c^Tain to ^y Francis Du-Fou Lord of Vigean, defiring I 
 the s>ueen. her to avoid the prefent danger, and by confe- 
 quence the flaughter, and to interpofe her autho- 
 rity, and prevent the wicked defigns of thole 1 
 ambitious Men, who facrificed the puhlick wel- ■ 
 fare to their private refentment and intereft ; and j 
 not to expofe herfelf to the reproach, that by a 
 fatal negligence flic had been the caufe of fo ' 
 great calamities ; and while fhe had been kept i 
 in awe by the threatnings of four or five Men, ' 
 fhe had not been afraid of incurring the hatred 1 
 of all People of France, and that by a prepof- "1 
 terous prudence, fhe had haftened the ruin of ! 
 the whole Kingdom (r). 
 Lxxxv. The day before thofe letters were fent, Flori- 1 
 ^ Mejfage ^^^A^ Robcrtet Sieur de Frefne, one of the Se- ' 
 Piince. ^ cretaries of State, had been fent to the Prince • 
 by the advice of the Triumvirs, with orders 
 fubfcribed by the Queen and the King of Na- i 
 varr, enjoining his Highnefs atid his Conte- ! 
 derates at Orleans to lay down their Arms, and \ 
 reftore to the King the Cities, Towns and Strong- { 
 Holds occupied by them ; which done, the -j 
 Duke of Guife, the Confiable and Marfhal of 1 
 St. Andrew, would immediately retire, every j 
 one to his own houfe as they had already pro- 
 mifed, by a writing publifi^ied on the third of 
 May. That the Army fhould remain under the 
 
 Command 
 
 (q) Beza liv. vi. p. 78, &c. Thuan. ubi fupra. (r) Thuan. y 
 ibid. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 105 
 
 Command of the King of Navarr, who would Charles 
 keep out of the Prince's Army as many as he ^^• 
 Ihould think fit, to pacify the Kingdom, and p '^ p^^^ 
 oblige all the Subjeds to pay a due obedience to iv. 
 the King, according to their Allegiance : pro- 
 mifing pofitively, that if thefe orders were fub- 
 mitted to, what was paft fhould be intirely for- 
 got, no Violence done to their Confciences, and 
 no body be profecuted for his Religion's fake. 
 Francis de la Vieuville and the Count of Villars 
 were fent likewife to treat with the Prince. 
 
 His Highnefs's Anfwer was almoft the fame 
 as the precedent, he added only, That whereas 
 in fome places the fury of the Mob was fuch, 
 that they were in danger of a Sedition, he re- 
 quired that liberty Ihould be granted to the Re- 
 formed of building Churches within, and not 
 without fuch Cities,Towns or Places,according to 
 the Petition of the States General j that all the 
 Decrees of the King's Council made after the 
 return of the Duke of Guife to Court, fhould 
 be repealed and made void ; that the Cardinal 
 of Ferrara Legate of the Pope, nearly related 
 to the Guifes, and the fuel of the flames and fires 
 then kindled in the Kingdom, fhould depart 
 from it immediately, and go to Rome, there to 
 notify to the Pope, that if he appointed a free 
 Council, either at Lyons, Avignon or Befan- 
 9on, as the King had formerly poftulated, they 
 were ready to repair thither with the King's Li- 
 cence. That they wanted not any pardon for 
 what was paft, fince they had took up Arms 
 not againft, but for the King, and fo they thought 
 that they deferved rather to be honoured and 
 recompenfed than to be pardoned. That they 
 required the writings and anfwers that pall be- 
 tween the Prince and the Triumvirs Ihould be 
 regifter'd in the Records of the Parliament. 
 
 That 
 
1 6 HJJicry of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charks That there Vv'as no need to keep ftanding Armies 
 fince the Triumvirs would no fooiier be gone 
 from Court, but Peace and Tranquillity would 
 of courfe be reftored in tlie Kingdom, they be- 
 ing the only Authors of all the mifchiefs. As 
 to the Cities, Towns, &c. that were in their 
 pofleiTioii, they acknowledged and will always 
 acknowledge, the King for their Sovereign Lord, 
 whenever he fhall be delivered out of the Bon- 
 dage wherein he was kept by the Enemies of 
 the State •, therefore there was no occafion for 
 ftanding Armies to attack them, no more than 
 for fending for the Foreigners affiftance, as the 
 Triumvirs had done already. That he required 
 that the Emperor, the Princes of the Empire, 
 the King of Spain, the Queens of England and 
 Scotland, the Duke of Savoy, the Republick of 
 Venice, the Switz Cantons, fhould be requi- 
 red to be Guarantees for the Performance of the 
 PremifTes (r). 
 
 The Prince ftnt an account of a.'l thefe tranf- 
 
 a6lions to the Eledtor Palatine on the i6th of 
 
 June, and defired him to undertake the Defence 
 
 of fo juft a Caufe. 
 
 Lxxxvi. All thefe writings on both fides, ferved only 
 
 Boih Par-^Q exafperate them more one againft another, 
 
 ys '^'M^ ^^^^ fo every thins; came at laft to an open 
 
 ihemfel-ves Jo. r 
 
 ti>ff'an Vvar. 
 
 The Triumvirs relyed chieay on the King, the 
 Queen-Regent, and the King of Navarr*s name, 
 the People's Affections, and the Authority of the 
 Parliament of Paris. But the Prince had a 
 greater number of Troops, and the beft part of 
 the NobiUty that fided with him, either out of 
 their attachment for their Religion, or out of 
 hatred againft the Guifes, or becaufe they had- 
 been fecrctly ftirred up by the Queen Regent. 
 
 Tht? 
 ff) Thuan. liv. 3c. p. 97. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /;z F r a n c e . 107 
 The Count of Grammont commanded the Gaf- Charles 
 coons, the Vifcount of Rohan the Troops raifed ^^ 
 in Dauphine and Languedoc, and P' Andelot p^.g p-'yg 
 General of the Infantry commanded the French IV. 
 Troops. <— -V— — > 
 
 Great Order and ftrid Difcipline was at firfl ^^^^b 
 exadlly obferved in the Prince's Army ; each cipline of 
 Regiment had its Minifter to make prayers every thePrmcis 
 morning and evening ; no fwearing, norcurfing, ^'''^• 
 nor quarrelhng were to be heard amongfi; the 
 Soldiers, the Camp refounded with finging of 
 Pfalms ; no hazardous play, no debauchery was 
 to be feen ; the Merchants, Hufbandmen and 
 Landlords were in a perfe6t fafety j the Soldier 
 kept to his Colours without running a foraging 
 or plundering about •, all manner of mifchicf 
 was feverely punifhed. A fingle Gentleman by 
 name Gabriel de BoulainviUiers, Baron of Cour- 
 tenay, efcaped the Punifliment he deferved for 
 having ravifi^ied a Peafant's Daughter, but it 
 was only at the flrong intreaties of his Friends 
 and Relations j and afterwards he was beheaded 
 at Paris for fome other crime, God Almighty 
 not leaving un punifhed thofe crimes which Men 
 do overlook (j). 
 
 Affairs being in the Situation we have faid, Lxxxviii 
 we muft fee now what both Parties were a doing, '^'^f&^'^^^^i- 
 in order to procure to themfelves the AfTiftance pL,- ^^ 
 or the neighbouring Powers, either m Switzer- Germany- 
 land or Germany. ^.r«rf'Swit- 
 
 As to Switzerland, Freulich Colonel of the ''^'"^^"'^• 
 Switzers in the King's Pay, being arrived at Paris 
 the 2 2d of February by the King of Navarr's or- 
 ders, ftayed in that City 'till the coming of the 
 Duke of Guife, and having received from him^ 
 his Inftruflions, fat out for Switzerland on the 
 eighth of April. A Courier had been difpatched 
 
 before 
 (0 Thuan. ibid. p. 97, 98, Bezaubi fupra. Dinoth. lib. 2. 
 
1 08 Hiftory of the Reformation, and of the Vol . II. 
 
 Charles before to Coignet the King's Embaflador to the 
 
 ^^* Leagues, to require them to appoint a Gene- 
 
 Pote Pius ^^^ ^^^^ °^ ^^ ^5^^ °^ ^^^ ^^"^^ month, for ob- 
 IV. taining fifteen Companies for the King's Guard. 
 The Diet was appointed accordingly, wherein 
 was prefent one Pafquier Envoy extraordinary 
 from the King, who had been difpatched to 
 haften that Levy, and even to encreafe it with 
 five more Companies, if it was requiiite to com- 
 pleat the number of fix thoufand Men fliipulated 
 by the Treaty of Alhance. 
 
 However fome of the Members of the Diet 
 reprefented in the Prince's name, that what the 
 Leagues thought to do for the King's Service, 
 was really againft him, requiring that if they 
 doubted of the juftice of the Caufe which the 
 Prince upheld, befides the Queen's own Letters, 
 and the Teftimony of many very creditable Wit- 
 nefles, which may be heard in the faid Prince's 
 behalf, they would be pleafed to fend into France 
 fome Deputies, at the faid Prince's own Charge, 
 to enquire into the Truth of the matter. 
 
 Furthermore, the Deputies of Zurich, Bern, 
 Bafil, Schaffaufen, Claris and Appenzel remon- 
 ftrated, that they ought rather to endeavour to 
 extinguifh the fire than to foment it. But Freu- 
 lich willing to perform what he had promifed 
 inconfiderately, and the Embafiadors of Spain 
 and of the Pope to the Cantons of Lucerne, 
 Ury, Switz, Underwalden and Zug, prevailed 
 fo far, that on the 21ft of May the Levy was 
 granted, upon this condition, that a full Year's 
 Pay fhould be advanced to them and brought 
 to Soleurre : the nth of June they named their 
 Captains, and on the 23d they marched thro' 
 the County of Burgundy, having obtained leave 
 for it from the Duchefs of Parma, Governefs of 
 the Low- Countries. 
 
 The 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fr an ce. 109 
 
 The Conftable having received the agreeable Charles 
 News of their march, it was the reafon why the ^ .^; 
 Triumvirate broke up the Conferences, and all pope"' 
 hopes of Peace vanifhed away, becaufe they Pius IV. 
 thought that the Prince and his Confederates 
 would fubmit to any terms, when they fliould 
 be acquainted with the Succours granted by the 
 Switzers. 
 
 As to Germany, the two Gentlemen fent thi- 
 ther the i5throf April as aforefaid, having took 
 the longeft way becaufe it was the fafeft, found 
 the Proteftant Princes much prejudiced againfl 
 the Prince, of Conde and his Adherents, the 
 Triumvirs having been very cautious to indifpofe 
 them by their falfe reports, infomuch that they 
 were fomewhat froward to do any thing in fa- 
 vour of his Highnefs. They prom.ifed however 
 to fend their Embafladors into France to treat 
 of a Peace, and if they found that the King and 
 Queen- Regent were really captive, as it was 
 reported, then they would take fome other courfe 
 to procure their Liberty. 
 
 Accordingly, they fent a Gentleman to Court 
 for obtaining a Paflport for their Embafladors, 
 but ;^he was baffled for a long time, and on the 
 5th of June the Court fent to Strafbourg (where 
 the Embafladors were waiting for an Anfwer) 
 inftead of a Pafs, a Compliment from the King, 
 who let them know that the Queen his Mother 
 was gone to Orleans, in a fure expedation of 
 pacifying every thing, and that there was no oc- 
 cafion for them to put themfelves to the trouble 
 and charge of a Journey into France ; defiring 
 them however to perfevere in that good-will, 
 which they fliewed for the reftoration of peace 
 in his Kingdom. 
 
 The Duke of Guife (as aforefaid) had done 
 his befl: endeavours to win the Duke of Wir- 
 
 temberg 
 
1 1 o Hiftory of the Reformatio?!, and oftheYoL. II, 
 
 Charles temberg to his Intereft ; he had wrote to him on 
 
 ^^' the 19th of March and the loth of April, with 
 
 Pope Pius ^"-ich tamiliarity, that it feemed as if they a6led 
 
 IV. together in concert ; and he even caufed one of 
 
 thefe Letters to be publifhed. At which the 
 
 Duke of Wirtemberg was much offended, and 
 
 with good reafon, having been deceived by him 
 
 and his brother, fince they had performed none 
 
 of their promifes. Nay, they endeavoured to 
 
 make him an accomplice of the MafTacre ofVaf- 
 
 fy, and of all its confequences, for they made 
 
 ufe of thefe very words. 
 
 „ Monfteur my Coufin, you know how much 
 „ thoje new Cahimjis deferve punijhment^ and 
 5, you will he ^leafed to remember the difcourfes 
 J, we have had together upon that fiibje^l. 
 
 Courtelary the King's Interpreter arrived al- 
 moit at the fame time, as the two Gentlemen, 
 fent by the Prince, he had letters under the 
 King's name dire6led to five Princes of Germany, 
 and bearing date the 17th of April i by which, 
 charging the Prince and his Adherents of being 
 CalumniatorSjRebels and Ufurpers,he endeavour- 
 ed to prove tiiat the Edidt of January was 
 flridly obferved, that the King and Queen-Re- 
 gent were at full liberty ; therefore he was in 
 hopes that the faid Princes,inflead of countenan- 
 cing . fuch an unnatural rebellion, would allift 
 him in fuppreffing it, and give credit to wh;'t- 
 ever his Envoy would tell them on that account 
 
 The original of that letter having been pre- 
 fented to the Duke of Wirtemberg, the Prince's 
 Agent who was at his Court, made him obferve 
 the Cheat, for the Letter was fealed with a pri- 
 vy-feal, and the date was of a different ink 
 from the refl, by which it was evident that the 
 
 Letter 
 
 , (i) Beza ibid. p. 86, kc. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. i i i 
 Letter was not from the King, but forged by Charles 
 the Prince's Enemies. Beiides, that the Secre- ^ ^^ 
 taries of State ufed not to write after that man- p^pg Yim 
 ner a Letter in common to fo many Princes of IV. 
 that Rank, nor to charge a Man of fo low con- 
 dition as Courtelary was, with a Commifiion of 
 fuch importance. 
 
 Thefe Letters were no better relifhed by the 
 four other Princes to whom they were fenf ; each 
 of them anfwered to the King in private, and 
 exhorted him . to keep reHgioufly the Edi(5t of 
 January, and not to ftain his reign with the Ihed- 
 ing of innocent blood, but to protedb impartially 
 his Subjeds of both Religions. 
 
 As to the Queen, it appears by a Letter which 
 the Duke of Wirtemberg wrote to her at that 
 time, that fhe had a mind to fide with the Re- 
 formed, and therefore that fhe approved not of 
 the Triumvirate's Prcceedings •, for he told her 
 pofitively, I'hat he was very forry for the trou- 
 bles She ■ and the King her Son had been expo fed to 
 of late, hut was much comforted by hearing from ■ 
 herfelf thai foe perfevered in the profeffion of the 
 holy Dc^rine of the Gofpel, and exhorted her to 
 loidenake nothing detrimental againji the Reform- 
 ed, but to protest them as well as the other Suh- 
 jeEls, and to punip feverely_ the Infringers of the 
 King's Edi5ls, &c, {u). 
 
 Suth being the pofture of Affairs, and one of 
 the Prince's Agents being come back to Orleans, 
 the Triumvirs fent the Count of Rokendolf to 
 Germany to raife there four Cornets of Reifcers *, 
 and the Count Rhingrave to receive twenty En- 
 fignsof Lanfquenets -f. One of the Prince's A- 
 gents ha.ving got notice of this, thought proper 
 likewife to make the requifite preparatioiis for 
 
 raifing 
 
 (u) Beza ibid. * They were German Korxe. -|- They 
 were Foot of the fame Nation. 
 
i 1 2 Hifiory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.. II. 
 Charles raifing Troops, Horfe and Foot for the Prince's 
 ^^- fervice, and was fo fuccefsful, that tho* he had 
 jjA^P^us "o Money, the Proteftant Princes furnifhed him 
 ly. with forces, and lent one hundred thoufand flo- 
 
 *— — v~' rins of Gold to the Prince. The Landgrave of j 
 
 HefTe particularly fignalized his Zeal for his Re- ; 
 
 ligion on this occafion {y). \ 
 
 Lxxxix. j^g to the Prince who was at Orleans, his • i 
 
 cesfor"' Council and even all his Troops defired earneftly : 
 
 feacepro- that he fhould march direftly to Paris. But as j 
 
 pofed anehv f^YQvy thing was ready for his march, on the ' 
 
 p^.^^ 20th of June, he received a Letter from the ■ 
 
 King of Navarr, who required of him to agree \ 
 
 to a fix days Truce, in order to confer about the ; 
 
 means of fettling a folid Peace •, and for that end ; 
 
 he was defired to deliver the Town of Baugency ' 
 
 into his hands, which fhould be faithfully re- ; 
 
 ftored to him, if they could not agree upon the .' 
 Conditions {x). 
 
 XJnfaith' The Prince, for his Brother's fake, confented i 
 
 *^A^"r^ f ^° ^^^ propofal, in hopes that they would come i 
 
 licks ' ^^ fome reafonable agreement. But the Catho- | 
 
 licks were no fooner entered the Town of Bau- | 
 
 gency, than they fell a plundering the Reformed \ 
 
 Lihabitants, and abufing them in all refpe6ts. \ 
 
 XC. When the Prince faw himfelf deceived by his ' 
 
 ^ ,'^^ Enemies, and that they had no mind to come J 
 
 marches • n i ij-ii'a 
 
 cut of Or- to a juft agreement, he marched with his Army j 
 leans. out of Orleans, fully refolved to improve the 
 
 firfl opportunity of giving Battle. ; 
 
 The King of Navarr, in order to mollify his \ 
 
 Brother, wrote to him, and excufed himfelf as ' 
 
 to what had been done at Baugency, declaring \ 
 
 that it was done without his Orders and Know- - 
 
 ledge, and that he would take care to have every . 
 
 thing ■ 
 
 ('v) Beza ibid, (x) Id. ibid. Thuan. ubi fupra. Dinothi 
 " Hift. Gall. lib. 2. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France.' 113 
 thing reftored to their owners, and the licen- Charles 
 tioufi-iers of the Soldiers feverely punifhed. g^. 
 
 The Prince was fatisfied with thefe Excufes p^/f Pius 
 from his Brother, and they began again to talk IV. 
 of an agreement. After many debates, at laft ^:^' ^ 
 the Duke of Guife, the Conftable and St. ^^- nJi/Jfy' 
 drew agreed to this, viz. That having laid dov^n his Brother 
 their Arms, they would retire from Court, and e/'Navarr, 
 go each of them to his own Houfe or Govern- "jf^Q3"! 
 ment, and that the Prince (hould remain as hof- ,.^„^^j/ 
 tage in the Queen and the King of Navarr's 
 power. The Triumvirs left the Army and went 
 to Chateaudun fix Leagues diftant from the 
 Camp. 
 
 The King of Navarr came to the Camp, and xCL 
 told the Soldiers that the Peace was made, ne- Navarr's 
 verthelefs he difcharged none of them. The ^''^^^'^ .Z^'" 
 Prince came to Baugency, where the Queen ^^"^^ de pri^^d, 
 the King of Navarr were, and was brought im- 
 mediately into the Camp, to the end, that the 
 Troops fhould be the better perfuaded that the 
 War was at an end, feeing that the chief Leader 
 of their Enemies was in their power. 
 
 But the Prince was fecretly warned of the How a- 
 fraudulent dealings of the Triumvirs, who Mn- '^'^^^^ h 
 derftanding that he had fell of his own accord ^'^^^''"'^^* 
 into their nets, were ready to come back to their 
 Camp [a). 
 
 However, the Prince difTembled fo wifely, 
 that the Queen fufpeded not that he was ac- 
 quainted with the Plot \ he obtained leave from 
 her Majefty of fending for the Chiefs of his 
 Army, who would let her know their Intention : 
 but warned them under-hand of the danger he 
 was in, and defired them to come with the 
 greateft number they could, without giving Suf- 
 picion. 
 
 Vol. n. I On 
 
 (a) Dinoth. ibxd. 
 
1 14 Hifiory of the Reform at ion, and of the Vol .11. 
 Charles Oil the 29th of June arrived near Baugency, 
 ,'^62 (where the Queen and the Prince had dined to- 
 PopeVm^ gether; the Admiral, D'Andelot, La Rochefou- 
 IV. cault, the Prince of Porcian, Rohan, Soubife, 
 ^—'V"*-' Gen lis, Grammont, Piennes, and other Lords 
 and Gentlemen, attended with a greater Compa- 
 ny than the Queen expeded •, fhe received them 
 very gracioufly, and thanked them for the great 
 fervicesthey had done to the King and herfelf, but 
 after fome other Complim.ents, fhe declared openly 
 to them, 'That they ought not to expe^^ that the 
 Edi5i of January JJoould be kept^ or that any o- 
 ther Religion hcfides the Catholick fhould be tole- 
 rated in the Kingdom^ bccaufe the Catholicks were 
 the Jirongeji, and furioujly incenfed againjt the 
 Reformed, efpecially at Paris, therefore it ivas 
 impoffible to keep that Edi^ : hewever, every one 
 would be allozved to live in his own houfe after his 
 own way, without being profecuted for his Reli- 
 gion, provided that they Jhoiild make no publick 
 Jfjembly {a). 
 XCII. To this the Prince anfwered, That Jhe knew 
 Rajh Pro- very well, that they had took up Arms only at her 
 pojition of Command, for the King^s Defence, and for the 
 *^''l7"" ^^^P^^S k ^^^^ Edi^, and that they could not 
 ^JL. ivithout unfaithfulnefs to the King, difidonour to 
 themfelves, and wounding their Confciences, agree 
 to the terms propounded unto them. That they 
 would choofe to Uave the Kingdom, rather than to 
 live in it without a publick Profejfwn of their Reli- 
 gion, and therefore they befought Her Majejiy to ap- 
 prove of their Refolution, and grant them leave of 
 exiling themfelves, if by no other means the Peace 
 of the Kingdom could be reflored. 
 Jccettcd Then the Queen, who defired no better than 
 h her Ma- fuch an offer as they made, diffembled at iirft, to 
 JJ^y- know whether they were in carnefl, and feemed 
 
 fur- 
 (a) Beza ubi fufra. Thuan. ibid. Caftelnau liv.iii. ch. 1. 
 
Book TV. Reformed Churches /« F r a n c e. i i 5 
 furprized at It ; but they having infifted upon Charles 
 it, fhe took them at their word, and promifed ^^; 
 to give them the neceflary Pafles and Safe-Con- p^.J p^'g 
 duds, and Licence of felling or mortgaging their iv. 
 Eftates, or of farming them, and receiving their"^— "v— ^ 
 Rents wherever they fbould go •, fhe told them 
 further, that their abfence would be only 'till the 
 King's Minority was over, and that fhe would 
 caufe him to be declared of Age at fourteen 
 Years, and then he would not fail to recall 
 them. 
 
 That Conference being ended, the Prince with 
 the Lords and others of his Attendants came 
 back to his Camp very glad to have efcaped the 
 danger ; the Queen likewife was much pleafed 
 that fhe had brought matters to that point, that 
 they had chofe of their own accord to go cut of 
 the Kingdom. Being returned to Taffy, fhe 
 was impatient to fee the execution of their Pro- 
 mife ; for that end, fhe fent that very night, 
 Monf. de Rambouillet that he might be at the 
 Prince's Levee the next morning, and haflen his 
 parting, or at leafl, to know what day he would 
 fet out on his' Journey with the other Lords his 
 Attendants, promifing to fend him ten thou- 
 fand Crowns for that purpofe. 
 
 Now fuch a ftep of the Prince and the Lords, ., 
 was generally difapproved by his Party, as evi- q-j^ * 
 dently tending to their utter ruin, and that oi Prince's 
 the Reformed in France. Som.e v>^ays or other P^rfy ^'f- 
 ought to be devifed to break thefe meafures ■J'^^'{P^^' 
 but Providence offered them one. Some Letters 
 of the Duke of Guife to the Cardinal of Lor- 
 rain his Brother were intercepted at that very 
 time, by which he fent him word, that the 
 Prince being come to the abovefaid agreement 
 with the Queen, now they could be mafrers of 
 every thing, and the Reformed woukl be ex- 
 I 2 tirpated^ 
 
Ii6 Hijiory of the Reformation, and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles tirpated. A Memorial written by the Triumvirs, 
 
 ^ .'^ and fent to the King of Navarr, by which he 
 
 Pope Pius was to rule himfelf, was Jikewife intercepted 
 
 IV. and prefented to the Prince ; amongft the Arti- 
 
 ^■"■""v"*^ cles there were the following. 
 
 Not to allow to thofe of Orleans to come near 
 the place where the King and Queen fhould be. 
 
 Not to engage himfelf to any thing concern- 
 ing Religion. 
 
 To keep the Guarant (that is the Prince) and 
 give orders to the Troops to march immediately. 
 Not to countermand the foreign Troops 'till 
 every Article fhould be fully executed. 
 
 Concerning the Town-Officers who have call- 
 ed to their Affiftance thofe who have pofTefTed 
 themfelves of them (that is the Reformed.) 
 
 Concerning Des Adrets and others, who have 
 difpofed of the King's Officers {b). 
 
 ?^ f'l^'^^ Thefe things having been confidered in the 
 
 ^^^j " Prince's Council, to which the chief Officers of 
 
 ivithout J^is Army had been invited, it was unanimoufly 
 
 ireacb to rcfolvcd, that the Prince could not in Honour 
 
 huHonour. j^qj. Confcience forfake his Party, with whom he 
 
 was obliged by his Aflbciation-Oath to ftand ; 
 
 vv'hich Oath could not be diflblved, but by the u- 
 
 nanimous Confent of all the Aflbciates. And as to 
 
 the offer made to the Queen, it was conditional, to 
 
 wit,if by the faid Prince's abfence the Peace and 
 
 Tranquillity of the Kingdom could be reftored. But 
 
 it was plain that quire the contrary would happen, 
 
 that his Abfence would occafion the utter ruin of 
 
 the Kingdom, leaving the King in hisMinority ex- 
 
 , pofed to the Ambition of fome foreigners, and 
 
 forfaking a vaft number of People, all good and 
 
 loyal Subjects to the King, to be the vidims of 
 
 • Uie unfatiable Cruelty of thofe, v/ ho had always 
 
 fliewn 
 (}>) Beza ibid. 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches in V rah ce, 117 
 fhewn themfelves thirfty after their Blood. And Charles 
 as to the Queen who had altered her mind, re- / 
 proving the Edidl of January, and approvingp^^^ P^js 
 all that had been done under the King of Na- lY 
 varr's name, it was anfwered. That a greater*" 
 Regard ought to be had for what had been law- 
 fully and folemnly eftablifned according to the 
 requeft of the General States, than for what the 
 Enemies could have extorted by force from their 
 Majefties. Befides, that it was well known that 
 without the Authority of the faid States, the 
 Queen could not confent to a War, much lefs to 
 a Civil War, nor the King of Navarr, as Lieu- 
 tenant-General o^ the King, could not rife up 
 in Arms during his Minority, much lefs upon 
 fuch an Occafion {c). 
 
 Thefe things being maturely confidered, the 
 Prince delivered his Anfwer accordingly to the 
 Gentleman fent by the Queen (Beze names him 
 de Rambouillet, and Thuanus du Frefne) who, 
 feeing that his Highnefs had altered his Mind, 
 intreated him to come again to talk with the 
 Queen upon that fubjedl, which the Prince 
 granted readily, for he defired no better than to 
 have an opportunity of calling in his Word and 
 Promife. Therefore he went to the Queen with 
 the fame Company as before [d). 
 
 After fome Debates with her Majefty, he told 
 her in fhort,thathehad quite altered his Mind-, and 
 the Queen having challenged the Promife which 
 he had done for the Welfare of the King and 
 the Kingdom, he excufed himfelf, fetting forth 
 the abovefaid Letters intercepted. At the fame 
 time another Letter written to the King of Na- 
 varr, was intercepted and brought to the Prince, 
 by which the Triumvirs defired the faid King, 
 to treat no longer about the Edid of January, 
 I 3 but 
 
 (c) Be7,a Ibid, (ti) Thuan. lib. xxx. p. 100. 
 
Hiftory of the Reformatton, and of the Vol.11 
 
 but to iniifl upon the Reftitution of the Cities 
 and T ;wns in the Prince's pofTefTion, and that 
 if HE ARRESTED THE SAID 
 PRINCE WHILE HE WAS IN 
 HIS P O W E R, he would do a thing very- 
 worthy of himfelf. 
 
 By thefe means, all hopes of pacifying matters 
 vanifned away, and the Reformed began to 
 miftruft the Queen {e). Therefore tiie Prince 
 and his Company returned to their Camp. 
 XCIV ^ ^'^ "'-'^ know where D'Avila lias lound the 
 D'Avila Tale he relates, and which had been copied after 
 refuted. ]-,ini by Father Daniel, viz, That for difinga- 
 ging his Word, the Prince's Adherents thought 
 that the belt way was, that during his Confe- 
 rence with the Queen, the chief Officers of his 
 Array fhould feign an Infurrecftion, and would 
 fiirround him and carry him away by force into 
 his Camp, and that by this feigned Violence his 
 Honour would be fafe, and he fliould alTure the 
 Queen, that he v/as no longer mafter of per- 
 forming his Word. That being gone to meet 
 the Queen at Baugency, that Comedy was ac- 
 tually play'd jufl as it had been concerted, &c. 
 
 What furprnes me the moft in this Account is, 
 that none of the Hiltorians of thofe davs, D'A- 
 Vila excepted, fpeaks of that Fad:. Not a word of 
 it is to be found neither in D'Aubignc, nor Thua- 
 nus, nor Ditioth, nor Caftelnau, nor Beza who was 
 in the Prince's Camp at that time : Therefore we 
 muft not give credit to fuch an idle Tale, no more 
 than to many Reflexions that the faid Father 
 -Daniel makes againil the Prince of Conde, the 
 Admiral and other Chiefs of his Party, nor 
 thofe which he lejids to them, juft as if he had 
 
 been 
 
 ('^^ Momoires de CaAclnnu liv. iii. ch. ii. (f) D'Avil 
 Hilt, dts Guerres Civiies iiv. iii. p. loi. 
 
B o o K I V. Reformed Churches /« F r A n c e . 119 
 been prefent in their Councils, but which are no Charles 
 better than the produdions of his fecond Genius. ■'^• 
 See particularly page 746, where fpeaking of the p^v,^ piyg 
 Promife the Prince had made to the Queen, of IV. 
 leaving the Kingdom, if the Triumvirs left the 
 Court, he fays. That that news which the Chiefs 
 of the Huguenot Fadion expedled not, confound- 
 ed them entirely, and the Prince was mighty 
 forry to have been fo forward. The Exile to 
 
 WHICH HE HAD CONDEMNED HIMSELF BY HIS 
 
 OWN Writing, the Command which he 
 
 RELISHED SO V/ELL, AND THE GREAT De- 
 LIGHT he TOOK in SEEING HIMSELF AT THE 
 
 HEADOFA STRONG PARTY, 
 THE GREAT PROJECTS HE 
 HAD GROUNDED UPON 
 THAT, &c. For God's fake what great Pro - 
 jc<5ls had he grounded upon the Civil-War ? 
 Could he be greater than he was, being the firfj; 
 Prince of the Blood, after the King of Navarr ? 
 Did he ever afpire to the Crown, of France, to the 
 prejudice of the King's Brothers and his own ? 
 no fach things had ever been laid to his charge. 
 What Delight could he take in the Civil- Wars, in 
 which he engaged himfelf fo much againft his will, 
 according toCaftelnau and Thuanus,and which he 
 did all his Endeavours to avoid,according to the 
 fame Hiftorians, and wherein he had to fuffer 
 fo many inconveniencies, and even he faw him- 
 felf expofed to the greateft ftraights for want of 
 Neceflaiics. What then ! He defired to fee the 
 Reformed enjoying of the benefit of an Edid 
 granted to them in the moft folemn manner ; 
 he defired to enjoy all the Privileges due to his 
 Birth j is fuch an Ambition blame worthy ? Fa- 
 ther Daniel would have done much better, to 
 keep all thofe refined fl:rokes of his Rhetorick 
 for defcribing to us in their native colours, the 
 I 4 Pride, 
 
Hijlory of the Reformation J and of the Vol, II. 
 Pride, Ambition, Avarice and other PafTions of 
 the Triumvirs, which put the Kingdom to the 
 very brink of its utter ruin j but they were too 
 good Servants to the Pope. 
 
 Now to come back to our main Subjed, the 
 XCV. Pi-Jnce*s Troops were much exafperated, when 
 
 Murmurs , , ^ r y ^ i i t r i 
 
 ^f f^g they heard or the great danger he had expoied 
 Prince's himfelf to, even by the advice of his Council •, 
 ^rmy. ^^ey Complained loudly that they were amufed, 
 and that all thofe Parleys and Conferences were 
 no better than a trick of their Enemies to get 
 time for affembling their Forces, and fall upon 
 them unawares. That they loll the faireft op- 
 portunity of ending the Troubles, by attacking 
 with great advantage their Enemies Army, That 
 they could chufe any thing elfe rather than thofe 
 Delays. That they defired no better than to be 
 led againft the Enemy, of whom they m ould 
 give a good account in half an hour's time {g). 
 XCVI. The Prince having called his Council, it was 
 Ihe Prince agreed not to part from that place without doing 
 refol-ves to ^Q^Q^Y^^y^^ extraordinary, which might give re- 
 the Enemy puf^^i^'"^ ^o their arms -, therefore they refolved 
 to attack in the night-time the Enemies Camp, 
 while the Triumvirs were ftill at Chateaudun. 
 
 That Enterprife could not be better contrived 
 
 than it was, and would have been of infinite 
 
 Be mif- advantage to the Reformed Party, had it been 
 
 carries in executcd as it had been concerted : But by the 
 
 the At- unfkilfi-ilnefs of the Guides, they were fo mif- 
 
 tanpt' \q^^ ^}jat tho^ they had marched all the night, 
 
 they found themfelves at the break of Day, only 
 
 at a league's diilr.nce from their own Camp •, 
 
 •and the Marfhal of Dam vi lie Son to the Con- 
 
 ftable, who had his quarters at the front of his 
 
 Father's Army, having got Intelligence of the 
 
 Prince's Af>proaches, hred two guns to give a 
 
 / Signal to the other Chief Officers^ who imme- 
 
 (g) 7'huan. ibid. dktely 
 
Book IV. Reformed Chufches in France. 12 r ^ 
 diately came from all quarters to the King of Charles 
 Navarr's affiftance, whereby that nightly expe- _^" 
 diticn, and the hopes grounded on it vaniftied poL pjus 
 away. IV. 
 
 The Prince of Conde ftood his ground with ^ -tf-*-^ 
 his Army facing that of the Enemy, 'till about 
 one a Clock, but the two Armies parted after 
 ibme Skirmifhes, the Prince retreated in good 
 order to Lorges, about a league's diftance from 
 the Enemies Camp. The King of Navarr, 
 having fent for the Triumvirs, who were ftill 
 at Chateaudun, marched out of his Camp the 
 next day, with his Army in battalia. 
 
 The Prince vexed for the lofs of Baugency, XCVIL 
 which was not reftored to him as he had been ^^^^^" 
 promifed, was obliged to attack it, and took it^rfora/. 
 by ftorm. All the-Garrifon of two Companies of 
 Foot, and forty Horfe ftrong, which the Duke of 
 Guife had lodged in it, was put to the fword, very 
 few excepted, and the Town given up to be plun- 
 dered by the Soldiers. Here, for the firft time, 
 that excellent Difcipline which had been obferved 
 'till then in the Prince's Army as abovefaid, was 
 infringed. Here was the firft beginning of the 
 Rapines and Licentioufnefs of the Soldiers, 
 which came by degrees to fuch excefTes, as can- 
 not be parallelled in Hiftory, but by thofe of 
 their Enemies, and which caufed fo much grief 
 as well as fhame to the Chiefs, who were not 
 able to reftrain it (h). 
 
 While the Prince was before the Camp at XCVIir. 
 Talfy, and on the 3d of July, the Enemy made ^'^^ ^^^'^w- 
 ufe of a ftratagem; they detached fome Companies '^"^^ f^"^' 
 out of the Rear, and fome pieces of Ordinance, ^^/^^ 
 which they fent diredlly to Blois, (the Prince 
 miftrufting nothingj and made themielves maf- 
 ters of that City on the 4th of the fame Month, 
 
 the 
 
 (h) Thvian. ibid. Beza ibid. 
 
 itliS. 
 
122 Hifiory of the Reformation, and of the Vol . H. 
 Charles the Garrifon having took a fright, thinking that 
 ^^* the whole Army was there. Tours, Meaux, 
 Po/^Pius Poitiers, Saumur, Angers, &c. followed that 
 IV Example, and furrendercd themfelves without 
 ^— — V"^ refiftance, except Poitiers and Angers, that could 
 not withstand long •, in flioit, they made them- 
 felves mafters of theLoire from Orleans to the Sea. 
 Vmr ex' It is impoffible to defcribe the Cruelties and 
 ceffiwCru- Barbarities committed for ieveral days in thefe 
 elties a- Xowns, efpecially at Tours, Angers and Poi- 
 ^Reformed ^iefs, fome Were drowned in the River, others 
 Jnhahi- inhumanly murdered without diftindlion of Age, 
 tants. or Sex : at Blois a Gentleman having efcaped 
 the fury oi the water, could not efcape the fury 
 of the Murderers. Mer near Blois was given up 
 to be plundered for nine days together, and the 
 Minifter was drowned in the River. The 
 Prince complained of thefe Inhumanities to the 
 King of Navarr, but he was anfwered, '^hat fuch 
 things ought to he excufed by the neceffity of the War, 
 Now the Prince after the taking of Baugency, 
 XCIX. came back with his Army to Orleans, feveral of 
 Ihe Prince ^j^g Nobility and the Gentry being tired with 
 Orleans.^ the War, were upon the point of difbanding 
 themfelves, and that on different pretences ; 
 fome were extreamly difTatisfied with the many 
 blunders the Chief Leaders had committed fince 
 the beginning of the War till then ; others en- 
 tertained fome fcruples about the lawfulnefs ©f 
 that War, others had been underhand bribed., by 
 the Court during the Parleys and Conferences, 
 for it was obfervable that none of them ever 
 went to Court upon fome Errand, but he was 
 quite altered in his mind at his return, and alj 
 his Zeal was almoft quite cooled -, others were 
 moved by an unreafonable Ambition and Jea- 
 loufies, becaufe they were not preferred to others 
 in the Employs,andout of fpitc they afked leave 
 
 2 to 
 
Book IV. ReformedChurches m France. 123 
 
 to withdraw ; others had a more fpeclous pre- Charles 
 tence, for they faid, that in their abfence, their ^^- , 
 Houfes and Families were expofed to the fury p^ J ^im 
 of their Enemies, who plundered them, and u- IV. 
 fed the grcateft Barbarities againft their Wives "— 'v— ^ 
 and Children; iaftly,many who were come to the 
 Prince's affiftance at their own Charge, were at a 
 Jofs how to find money for fubfifting any longer. 
 However, feveral forfook him upon receiving 
 Letters of remiiTion from Court, and repaired to 
 their own Houfes or to Court. All thefe In- 
 conveniences would have been prevented, had 
 the Prince followed the Admiral and other princi- 
 pal Chiefs Advice, and given Battle to the Ene- 
 my, at leafl: after the firft Conference at Toury, 
 when he faw that the Triumvirs fought nothing 
 tKo. but to prolong the time, *till the Germans and 
 Switzers (hould be arrived in France. 
 
 In order to remedy thefe Inconveniencies, the „ *-'• 
 Prince called his Council, wherein after fome^^^^^„^^^ 
 Debates, it was refolved to leave at liberty v^ho- the general 
 ever fhould have a mind to retire. Then it was ^'^fianding 
 hkewife refolved to fend Soubize to Lyons, La^ ^" ^' 
 Rochefoucault into Xaintonge,Duras into Guienn, 
 Ivoy to Bourges, D'Andelot was fent into Ger- 
 many to |iaften the Succours, Briquemaut and 
 the Vidame of Chartrcs into England on the 
 fame errand ; the Prince of Porcian into Cham- 
 paign •, as to the Prince cf Conde, he flayed at 
 Orleans with the Admiral, and feveral Lords and ^ 
 Gentlemen, with 22 Enfigns of Foot, and they jjr ^^^ 
 began to repair the Fortifications of that place, 'vi/ed in 
 and to add fome new ones. '^-'^ Council 
 
 They had took before into their confideration, ^^J^"':^"*" 
 the means of hindering the Auxiliaries of Ger- tion of the 
 many, from joining with, the Triumvirate's Ar- AuxHia- 
 my. And whereas, to engage them in their ^'^-^ e/'Ger- 
 Party, the Triumvirs had given to underfland^.^J)J'^//* 
 
 to Irium^irs, 
 
1 
 
 124 mjiory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. U^ ■ 
 
 Charles to feveral of the Proteftant Princes by their E- i 
 
 ^^' miflaries, that none but the Prince of Conde and 
 
 Popl ?'ms J^^is Adherents oppofed the reception of the \ 
 
 IV. Auguftan Confeflion in France ; it was thought | 
 
 ^"'>/'"*-^ proper to fend them an abftrad of their Con- \ 
 
 leflion of Faith, which was fubfcribed by the : 
 
 Prince in his Camp atBaugency on the 5th of Ju- 1 
 
 ly, and delivered to Rockendolf, who was already ■ 
 
 on the Frontiers with his Reifters. 
 
 That writing being read in the Camp, about '■ 
 
 one hundred and forty of. them refufed to march , 
 
 againft the Prince, and went to join him at Or- J 
 
 leans under the Command of Gafpard de Torn- ' 
 
 berg and Henry de Bunau, two brave Captains, 1 
 
 who were very ferviceable to the Prince. No- ■ 
 
 thing was attempted to win the Switzers, who \ 
 
 were in march to the Triumvirate's afliftance, \ 
 
 under the command of Colonel Freulick, becaufe ' 
 
 moft part of them were Roman Catholicks. ■ 
 
 CII. All this while the Profecutions againft the 
 
 Several Reformed were carried to the higheft degree of | 
 
 Peclara. Injuftice and Fury. The Parliament of Paris, ' 
 
 *mJ^^ the COMMAND of the Triumvirs, but ; 
 
 ment of cfpccially of the Cardinal of Lorrain, pubiifhed ' 
 
 Paris a- feveral Decrees againft them i by that of the i 
 
 4f'"-^f^ jaft day of June, all the Image- breakers were: 
 
 Party. out-lawed, their Goods and Lives forfeited with- ' 
 
 cut taking any cognizance of the caufe, as guilty 1 
 
 of High Treafon. ^ 
 
 In confequence of that Decree, more than •; 
 
 fourfccre Perfons were murdered at Paris, tho* ; 
 
 no Image had been broken there, but one at St. \ 
 
 Honore's Gate, which had been pulled down by ■ 
 
 fome unknown perfon in the night-time. By a- ; 
 
 nother Decree of the 8th of July, which re- \ 
 
 fleded efpecially upon the Cardinal of Chatiilon, ; 
 
 all the Benefices and Livings of thofe who fided . 
 
 with the Prince at Orleans, were declared vacant 
 
 and ' 
 
Book W .Reformed Churches in France. 125 
 and impetrable. By another of the nth of the Charles 
 fame month, the CommifTaries of the Wards ^^• 
 were enjoined to make a ftrid Inquiry into the p^l p^'^g 
 Goods, Eftates and Revenues of the Abfentees, IV. 
 and make their report to the Court, By another 
 of the 1 3th,all the Judges and the King's Officers 
 were obliged to deliver their Confeffion of Faith 
 under their hand, according to that which had 
 been framed by the Sorbonne under Francis I. 
 in 1544, and to obey in a fortnight's time after 
 the publication of that Decree, or elfe their 
 Charges or Offices would be forfeited. The 
 fame day another Decree was publifhed, by which 
 the Populace either in theTowns or in theVillages 
 were allowed to rife in Arms againft all thofe 
 who fliould moleft the Priefts, or met together 
 publickly or fecretly for their Divine Worffiip, 
 and to feize upon the MInlfters, Elders or Dea- 
 cons, or any other, who had any charge or of- 
 fice in the Reformed Churches, to be tried as 
 guilty of High Treafonj forbidding on the fame 
 penalties, any perfon, of what quality foever, 
 to conceal them. By another of the 27th of the 
 fame month, thofe who had taken up Arms at 
 Orleans, Lyons, Rouen, and other places, were 
 declared Rebels, Enemies to God and the King, 
 and their Goods were forfeited, unlefs they fhould 
 lay down their Arms immediately, Tho' the 
 Prince had protefted againft fuch a Decree before 
 it was publifhed, and challenged many of the 
 Prefidents and Counfellors of the abovefaid Par- 
 liament, neverthelefs, all the favour he received 
 was, that he was excepted out of that Adl, be- 
 caufe they were willing to fuppofe, that he was 
 detained by force, and aded againft his will. 
 Laftly, the 29th of July, another Decree was 
 publifhed, declaring that the Goods and Eftates 
 of the Reformed above mentioned, were forfeited 
 
 to 
 
126 Hijlory of the Reformation y and of the Vol. II. 
 
 Charles to the King, and for that end, that fuch Goods 
 
 ^^- and Eftates fhould be adminiftred by Commif- 
 
 PoJpius Varies, and the produd thereof put into the hands 
 
 IV. of the King's Receiver-General (/). 
 *— v""-^ Upon the firft of Auguft the Rhingrave ar- 
 T} Rhin- ^'^^^'^ ^^ Court with twenty Enfigns of Lanfque- 
 grwvear- "^^s, and received very great Prefents, which 
 ri-ves at were more efficacious, than all the Promifes he 
 ^^f''l A ^"^^ made to the Elector Palatine and the Duke 
 Tiiaries ^ °^ Wirtemberg, that he would not make ufe of 
 his Troops againfl the Reformed, having him- 
 felf profefTed the fame Religion; (for he had com- 
 manded in the Proteftant Princes Army againfl , 
 Charles V. and had been for that reafon banifhed 
 from the Empire.) 
 
 He brought news of the great Levies which < 
 were made in Germany for the Prince's Service ; , 
 for which reafons, the Triumvirs demanded great | 
 Succours of Men and Money from the Pope's i 
 Nuncio and the EmbafTador of Spain. They * 
 promifed to fend fome Auxiliaries in time \ and ; 
 as to the Money, they offered two hundred j 
 thoufand Crowns, which Sum the Clergy war- ! 
 ranted at the inflances of the Cardinal of Lorrain. , 
 *t'hey doubted not in the leafl, but that they ' 
 would fubdue entirely the Reformed, before they 
 could receive any afTiftance from Germany -, and 
 it had been to oppofe it, that D'Oyfel had been 
 fent into that Country, but all his endeavours 
 proved ineffedual, as we fhall fee in its proper 
 place. 
 ^jy The Queen feemingly follicitous for the fafety 
 
 The^'een of the Prince and the Lords his Adherents, ef- 
 turites a- pecially becaufe the Plague raged at Orleans, 
 gain to the ^j-ote to his Highnefs, defiring him not to flay 
 "' till he fhould be proclaimed a Rebel, with the 
 reft of his Confederates, and to accept of a Pafs 
 
 for 
 (i) Beza liv. vi. p. 107, &c. 
 
ince s 
 Ikver. 
 
 Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fr an CE. 1 27 
 for his going out of the Kingdom, fince fhe Charles 
 could do nothing better for him and his Ad- ^ ^^ 
 herents. pope pTas 
 
 The Prince anfwered on the fecond of Au- IV. 
 gufl, that he was very forry that he had fuffer- 
 ed himfelf to be impofed upon by fo many Par- p^.J'^ 
 leys and Conferences with Her and the King oi Anjhx 
 Navarr, who were perfectly Slaves to the Tri- 
 vimvirs. That to exile a Houfe of the firft 
 Princes of the Blood, in order to fettle in the 
 Kingdom a Houfe of Foreigners, was a thing 
 not to be fuffered. As to the reft, he wonder- 
 ed at the Threatnings of the Spaniards and Ita- 
 lians, to whom the Kingdom was made a prey ; 
 that they ought to know that he had the Great 
 God, Ruler of all Nations, for his Protedor 
 and Defender {k). 
 
 Three days after, that is, the fifth of the fame CV. 
 month, it was ordered by the Parliament of Pa- -^^ecwDe- 
 ris, that theHoufes of thofe who had fled t.o'^"fj^' 
 Orleans, or elfewhere, for the Prince's Service,, ^^^^^^^ 
 fhould be opened and lett to the King's Profit •, Park. 
 which Order occafioned many plunders and rob- 
 beries. And i^if the Cardinal of St, Croix, the 
 Pope's Nuncio is to be credited, and why not, 
 fmce he was upon the place!) every day afforded 
 him the diverfion of feeing fome Reformed 
 burnt alive at Paris ; the fourth of this month 
 four fuffered that cruel death, and he expected 
 on the fifth another fuch like Spedlacle (J). 
 
 Now the Triumvirs, either out of Sufpicion CVI. 
 againft the 'Queen, that fhe would come to fome ^"^^ ^^'^S 
 fecret agreement with the Prince to their '''"^^^7 
 
 . J . '^ . , . , come to the 
 
 prejudice, or to give a greater credit and vt-Triumrui- 
 putation to their Arms, and dazle the ^o-ratisjr- 
 reigners as well as the Nation's eyes, in -'-'->'• 
 fiiied warmly upon the King and Queen's 
 
 coming 
 (k) Beza ibid, (I) St. Cfoijc Lettre 25. Mem. Seer. 
 
128 Hiflory of the Reformatiojt, and of the Vo l . IL 
 
 . Charles coming to their Camp near Blois. Therefore the 
 ^ ^ ' King of Navarr, intirely at their devotion, went 
 Tope Pius <^o ^etch them, the Cardinal of Ferrara Legate 
 IV. of the Pope, and the Cardinal of Lorrain at- 
 *—*v-*-' tended their Majefties, and were efcorted by the 
 twenty Enfigns of the Rhingrave, ten French 
 Companies, and fome pieces of Ordinance. The 
 eighth of Auguft they arrived at Chartres, where 
 (at the Cardinal of Lorrain's inftances) the Cler- 
 gy of that City gave a round Sum of money to 
 the King. The Parifians had prefented his Ma- 
 jefty with five hundred thoufand Livres, and he 
 demanded a million of Gold of the Generality 
 of the Cities of the Kingdom, which for the 
 moft part were raifed on the Reformed. 
 
 The King went through the Country of 
 
 Beaufle, without any bad rencounter, and arrived 
 
 at Chateaudun, where he was received by the 
 
 Duke of Guife, who defired his Majefty to give 
 
 orders, that for the future, his Camp fhould be 
 
 no more called the Camp of Guife, but the 
 
 King's Camp ; which was readily granted, his 
 
 Majefty being not fenfible as yet of the confe- 
 
 quence. 
 
 CVIT. The Prince fuppofing that the Triumvirs 
 
 AlltheCa- would lay fiege to Orleans, commanded all 
 
 tholtcks are ^^ Roman Catholicks to leave the City in a 
 
 "dep'alt " ^"^t time prefcribed on pain of death, and con- 
 
 from Or- tinued the Fortifications in good earneft, no body 
 
 leans. being exempted from work, not even the Ladies 
 
 and Gentlewomen, who carried the DolTer as well 
 
 as others, tho* the Plague encreafed daily, of 
 
 •which many Soldiers and People of all ranks 
 
 died ; amongft the Nobility were the Vidame of 
 
 Chalons, the Lord of Toury and his Son, but 
 
 chiefly by their own fault, for by a frolick, much 
 
 out of feafon, they would be carried thro* the 
 
 Streets 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches tnFRAi^cEl 129 j 
 
 Streets in the fame Tumbrel wherein the Corpfe Charles \ 
 bf the infecfted were carried. ^ ' 
 
 Another fad Accident happened at the fame p^^^ Pius \ 
 time at Orleans ; a fire broke out at the Convent IV. 
 
 of the CordeUers, wherein was the Powder- Mill, ^—ip.'"*-' .1 
 
 whereby the Choir of their Church was ^r^^i^^iy ^ .^^^_ '' 
 
 deftroyed, and feveral neighbouring Ploufes ^/,/^^;^ ;^^^. I 
 
 fhaken ; and fome people killed, it was unknown/rw-^ at 1 
 
 who had been the Incendiary, tho' fome were^^^^^*^**^ j 
 
 arrefted upon fufpicion, but ^ afterwards releafed j 
 
 for want of evidence. But for all that, the cou- ■ 
 
 rage of the Prince and his Adherents was not < 
 at all flackened, they provided for every thing 
 
 neceffary inward and outward of the City, and ■ 
 
 the eighth of Auguft they fent the following Re- ■' 
 
 monftrance to the King, occaiioned by the De- I 
 
 cree of the Parliament of Paris publifhed on the j 
 27th of July, declaring Rebels thofe who had ", J 
 
 rifen in Arms as abov^e fiid. And becaufe of its i 
 
 Singularity, and the ftrength of the Reafons, to ] 
 
 oblige the Reader, I fliall tranfcribe the greateit i 
 
 part thereof. j 
 
 ^ .J 
 
 „ ry^ HOUGH the feveral Writings "pub- CIX. ' 
 ,, X liHied heretofore, in the name of his ^^^ 
 
 „ Highnefs the Prince of Conde, and all the ^ j^^'^^'^.^ j 
 
 5, Princes, Lords and others his Adherents, in/j/?^. "'^"'* ' 
 
 ,, vindication of their Condud, are fufficient to | 
 
 ,, evince the juftice and equity of their taking I 
 
 „ up Arms for the King's Service, and the Pre- j 
 
 5, fervation of his Majefty, as well as for the : 
 
 ,, maintenance of his Edids, publifhed in behalf i 
 
 „ of the Reformed Churches of this Kingdom : ' 
 
 ,, neverthelefs, fince the Enemies of God and 1 
 „ of the publick Peace, ceafe not to attack the 
 
 „ faid Prince and his Adherents by new calum- *i 
 5, nies, whereby they pretend to opprefs his and , • 
 
 „ their Innocence, it is but reafonable, that if ; 
 
 Vgl. II. K „ the ' 
 
1^0 Hijlory of the Rejormation, and of the Vol .II. I 
 Charles ^^ the Wicked are never weary to aflail Juf- j 
 „ tice and Equity, the Good Ihould never br 
 5, weary to defend it. ; 
 
 „ Now, whereas by the Sentence given on ' 
 ,, the 27th of July in the Parliament of Paris, i 
 „ they are bold enough to declare Rebels thofe j 
 „ who have took up Arms for the King's Ser- ; 
 5, vice, the prefervation of the General States 1 
 5, Authority, and to withftand the Violence 1 
 -i, and Tyranny of the Lords of Guife and their : 
 ^, Adherents, it is neceflary to fhow forth the 
 „ iniquity of that Judgment to Foreigners as | 
 ,, well as to the Natives of this Kingdom -, nay, 1 
 „ to tranfmit it to the remotell Pofterity, by i 
 „ the means of this Remonftrance. For it will i 
 5, ferve as a memorable example of the great per- 
 ,, veriity and corruption of the Enemies of God, ; 
 5, and Perfecutors of his Church. 
 
 „ By this, I fay, it may be feen, how thofe 
 j, who oppofe their Errors and Lyes to the holy ; 
 5, Truth of God, are fo far befotted, as to pro- : 
 „ claim feditious, thofe who endeavour with all j 
 „ their might to reftore Union and the publick 
 „ Peace •, or to condemn as Rebels thofe, 
 ,, who havq forfook their eafe, expofed their 1 
 ,, Goods and their Life, to the end, that the ; 
 „ King fhould be obeyed, and his Edids ftridly ■ 
 „ kept. 
 
 „ And to the end, that fuch a declaration of 
 5, Rebellion might be more eafily deemed unjuft 
 ,, and calumnious, the Prince and his Adherents 
 5, have thought proper to publifh the following 
 ,, Reafons. 
 
 ., Firft, as to the exception of the fiiid Lord, 
 „ the Prince's perfon, his Affedlion to the King's 
 ,, Service Is too fuicere and too great, not to 
 ,, rtfent and be wounded by the iame weapon 
 „ with thofe who, as he knows perfedly well, 
 
 „ have 
 
B Ob ic I V. Reformed Churches Inr ran ce. 131 
 ,, have never had, nor have as yet any other Charles 
 „ view in their Adions but the Defence and ^^' 
 „ Prefervation of this Crown. And the faidp^.^pj^, 
 „ Prince does declare, that far from thinking iv. 
 „ himfelf to be gratified by that exception, that 
 „ contrary- wife he is offended at it, fince it is 
 ,, only intended to feparate him from fo many 
 ,, good and loyal Subjeds and Servants to the 
 „ King. 
 
 „ Therefore, being certain before God and 
 „ Men that their Innocence is fuch, that all the 
 ,, Lyes and Calumnies of the wicked, are not 
 ,, able to imprint a fingle Spot of Difobedience 
 ,, and Rebelh'on in their Actions, no more than 
 „ in his own -, he defires to fare no better than 
 ,, they, having the fame Caufe to maintain, pro- 
 5, fefling the fame Religion, being of the fame 
 „ Mind and Will with them to lay down his 
 ,, Life for the King's Service, the Prefervation 
 ,, of his State, and the Settlement of the true 
 „ Worfhip of God in this Kingdom. 
 
 „ And as the faid Prince cannot, or ought 
 „ not to be difavowed by thofe, at the command 
 „ of whom he had been ready to rife in Arms, 
 ,, fo he will not depart from thofe, who at his 
 ,, requeft, have armed themfelves with him, 
 ,, and with the fame Intention. 
 
 ,, Furthermore, he is too well acquainted with 
 „ the Devices and Artifices of his Enemies, to 
 „ be ignorant of their Defigns, and the Views 
 ,, they do aim at by fuch an exception, as it is 
 ,, very eafy to judge by the circular Letters they 
 ,, have fent to the feveral Bayliwicks, wherein 
 ,, his Highnefs is comprifed in the Declaration 
 ,, as well as the others. 
 
 „ Now that it may be evident that thofe 
 
 „ only are guilty of Rebellion, who, of their 
 
 „ own Authority, have rifen in Arms to in- 
 
 K 2 „ frings 
 
Hijlory of the Reformation y and of the Vol.11, 
 fringe the King's Edi(5ls, and difturb the 
 Peace of the Kingdom, and not thofe who 
 have armed themfelves for oppofing fuch per- 
 nicious an attempt, we fhall briefly repeat 
 here what we have faid more at large in our 
 precedent Writings, 
 
 „ Every one knows that the Edid of Janua- 
 ry had procured fo great a tranquilhty through- 
 cut all the Kingdom, that there was great 
 hopes of feeing it reftored to its fcymer Hap- 
 pinefs and Splendor, when on a fudden, the 
 Maffacre of Vafly perpetrated by the DUKE 
 OF GUISE'S O R D E R S, ■ evinced 
 plainly, that the faid Lord bid open defiance 
 to the King, and had a mind to fubvcrt the 
 Kingdom. 
 
 ,, Every one v/as furprifei at fuch an At- 
 tempt, none could conceive how a Subje6l 
 could be {q daring and bold, as to infringe an 
 Edi6t of his Prince, and even an Edid made 
 according to the Deliberations and Petitions 
 of the General States, authorifed by the King's 
 Council, with the mofl: Notable Perfons that 
 could be found in the Kingdom, and regifter'd 
 by the Parliaments of the Realm. 
 „ And tho' the faid Prince had a right by his 
 Pirth, and the Rank he holds in the King- 
 dom, to oppofe fuch Violence, neverthelefs, 
 he forbore from undertaking any thing on 
 that account, 'till he received a pofitive order 
 of his Superiors. 
 
 ,, Upon which, the fiid Prince moft humbly 
 befeeches the Qtieen's mofl: excellent Majefly 
 to remember, that being at St. Germain-en- 
 Laye, fhe got notice of the Views of the 
 Houfe of Guile, which tended diredly to di- 
 veft her of her Authority, and deprive her 
 of her mofl faithful and affedionate Servants, 
 
 ,, that 
 
B o o K I V . Reformed Churches /;2 F r a k c e . 133 
 „ that they might ufurp more eafily the Go- Charles 
 „ vernment of the Kingdom, to which they .'^ 
 „ have afpired long ago. The Queen having ^^fe Pius 
 „ got that Intelligence,and likewife of the League IV. 
 „ that was on foot and ready to be concluded * 
 „ by the means of the Spanifh Embafiador {ni) 
 „ for their Support, and the Execution of their 
 „ Scheme, her Sorrow and Vexation was equal 
 „ to the merit of the caufe, and the danger fhe 
 „ was in. Wherefore one Evening fhe defired 
 „ the faid Prince, to afTemble as many Gentle- 
 „ men as he could, to oppofe the efFe6t of an 
 ^, attempt fo dangerous. He obeyed faithfully 
 „ the Queen^s Command, confidering his Duty 
 ,, towards the King, and the Obligation he was 
 „ in of fupporting his Crown with all his might, 
 ■- ^, Now that Obedience of his, has been the 
 „ chief ground of all his Condud: afterwards, 
 ,, oppofing himfelf to thofe, which the Queen 
 „ deemed to be her Enemies, And for a greater 
 „ argument of the Sufpicion fhe entertained a- 
 ,, gainft them, fne will be pleafed to remember 
 „ the Command which fhe fent to him fome 
 5, times after, concerning the Secretary Marcel. 
 „ Furthermore, when the faid Guifes had openly 
 „ difcovered by their dealings at Paris and €i{^'^ 
 „ where, what they had kept concealed hereto- 
 „ fore, the Queen not only confirmed, but reite- 
 „ rated (by fcveral Letters and Meflages) her 
 3, Orders to the Prince, to oppofe the Violence 
 „ they intended to do to herMajefty ; and he 
 ,, befeeches her to call to her mind, what (he had 
 ,, wrote to him with her own hand, and which 
 ^5, he is now obliged to produce in his own 'De- 
 ,, fence, that every one might be convinced of 
 3, his Innocency, by reading the very Let- 
 K 3 „ ters 
 
 (m) See the Queen's Letters above mentioned, to the King's 
 ^mbailadcr at Vienne, related by Agricola. 
 
Hifiory of the Refbrmafwt, and of they ol, 11 
 
 ters of herMajefty. P'or fure fhc could not have 
 forgotten what ih.e wrote to him from Fon- 
 tainbleau, in the month of March laft, how 
 fhe recommended to his care the prefervatiou 
 of the King and her own Perfon, in, thefe 
 very words, I do recom^nend to you the Mother 
 and the Children ; nor what fhe wrote to him 
 at another time by Monf. De Bouchavanes, 
 when the Guifes were at Paris with their 
 Troops, that he ought not to difarm 'till their 
 Enemies had difarmed firft, and that fhe might 
 fee what would be the effedl of their Confpi^ 
 racy. Upon which, the faid Prince defires 
 that it may pleafe her Majefty, to remember 
 how many times fhe had told him, that fhe 
 looked upon what he did as a great piece of 
 Service, which fhe would imprint in the King's 
 mind, to the end that he fhould recompenfe 
 the fame when at age. 
 
 ,, To which does agree what fne faid to the 
 Admiral a little while before he left the Court, 
 that fhe knew him fo faithful a Servant to the 
 King, and fo affetftionate to herfelf, that fhe 
 doubted not in the leaft but that if there was 
 any occafion for it, he would ufe all poflir 
 ble means for preferving her from the faid 
 Guife's Tyranny ; as likewife fhe wrote to him 
 lately by Moniieur De Rambouillet, that (he 
 took him for fo good a Servant to the King, 
 and Well-wiAier to the Welfare of his King- 
 dom, that ihe would make ufe of his Coun- 
 ifels for pacifying the prefent Troubles. 
 .,, Belides that, her Difcourfes with, the faid 
 Prince and the Lords who attended him near 
 Baugency, are fo clear an evidence of her 
 ConCent and Approbation, that it would be 
 needlefs to quote fo many other arguments 
 which we have in hand to the fame purpofe. 
 
 » pQr 
 
Book IV. Rcfor?ned Churches in France. 135 
 „ For then in the prefence of feven Knights of Charles 
 5, the Order, and foniq Secretaries of State, fhe ^ ' 
 „ gave thanks to the faid Prince and his Adhe-p^^^ Pius 
 5, rents, for the great Services they had done to IV. 
 5, her, acknowledging that the King's Life and' 
 „ her own, had been preferved by their means. 
 (/ take this to be a fimple Compliment, her Life 
 was certainly in danger, if we believe Brantome, 
 but not that of the King her Son) „ Thefe things 
 3^, being duly confidered, upon what reafon the 
 „ Enemies of the Prince and his Confederates, 
 „ fhall they, I do not fay, ground their judg- 
 5, ment, but only fettle a bare fufpicion of Re- 
 „ bellion ? By whofe Authority fhall they be 
 „ proclaimed Rebels ? Shall it be by the King's 
 „ and Queen's, but it is by their Orders that they 
 5, have took up Arms for their Majefties Pre- 
 „ fervation. It is fhe who by word of mouth 
 „ and letters, and her thanks for the great Ser- 
 ,, vices they had done to her and the King her 
 5, Son, had entertained them in that good-will 
 ,, to continue their Services. Befides that, every 
 ,, one knows that the Enemies of the faid Prince 
 „ abufe the King and Queen's name, forcing 
 „ them by threatnings to follow their directions, 
 „ and to a(5t in a way contrary to their mind ; 
 „ for that caufe, the faid Prince and his Con- 
 „ federates have already protefted, and do now 
 „ ftill proteft, by thefe prefents, againfl all E- 
 3, di6ls. Decrees, Ordinances whatever, which 
 „ may be publifhed in the King's Name, as long 
 ,^ as his Liberty fliall be conflrained by the Vio- 
 „ lenccs and Arms of their Enemies. And what 
 „ her Majefty hath repeated fo many times by 
 ,, her writings to the faid Prince, is a very plain 
 ,, indication cf the truth of this afTertion ; 
 5, fhe could not grant, fhe fays, what they re- 
 j, quired, becaife the contrary Party was 
 
 K 4 5, THE 
 
136 Uljlory of the Refonnatkn, and of the Vol. IL 
 
 THE STRONGEST, AND THE PeoPLE INCEN- 
 SED. 
 
 „ From thence it follows, that the Sentence 
 of Rebellion given, and every thing elie done 
 under the King's Name and Authority, againft 
 the faid Prince and his Confederates, ought to 
 be deemed as done by their Enemies, fince 
 the King is in their power, as it is evident 
 even by the Queen's own Confeffion. Now 
 let every one judge of what force and weight 
 can a doom be, pronounced by the Parties and 
 Enemies of the condemned ? 
 „ But let us fee what is that great Crime 
 which they are pleafed to term R E B E L- 
 L I O N, and upon what ground they charge 
 with it the faiJ Prince and his Confederates. 
 It is, fay they, becaufe they will not lay 
 down their Arms. If it be fo, I aflc what name 
 fhall be given to thofe who are come in i^rms 
 to Court (tho' they had not there a iingle E- 
 nemy armed againft them) and refufed to lay 
 down their Arms, tho' the King fent them 
 feveral Mefl'ages on that account, and do ftill 
 perfifl in their difobedience, with the fame 
 obftinacy and boldnefs ? And who is the man 
 who will lay down his Arms at his Enemy's, 
 requeft and inftance, as long as he keeps his 
 Sword in hand to fight him ? To afk that the 
 fiid Prince fhould difarm, while his Enemies 
 lemain armed, is it not to ail<, that his Ene- 
 mies become his Mafters, that his Goods and 
 Eftates fnould be a prey to their Avarice^ 
 and his Ljfe expofed to their Cruelty. In a 
 word, that he fhould receive the Law at the 
 hands of thofe, who being without I^w, 
 ought tareceive it from others ? And belides 
 that, is it not to break the Wall, wherewith 
 it has pleafed God to furround the Reformed 
 
 ,, Churches 
 
Book W : Reformed Churches in Tvi ah ce. 137 
 Churches of this Kingdom for their defence, Charles 
 and to leave them expofed to the Rapaciouf- ^^' 
 nefs of thofe who have been, and are ftillpj/pfus 
 thirfty after their Blood ? IV. 
 
 ,, Furthermore, every one knows that the' 
 faid Prince has always offered to difarm, when- 
 ever his Enemies fhall have done the fame, . 
 and /hall have reftored the King to his former 
 Liberty. And was it not reafonable, that, 
 thofe who had firft rifen in Arms without 
 Order, without Authority, nay againfl: the 
 King's Orders, and againft his Edidts, fhould 
 be the firft to Jay them down, before others, 
 who have armed by the King and Queen's 
 pofitive Orders, Command, Confent and Au- 
 thority, for the Defence of their Majefties, 
 and of the Edidls, againft the oppreffion and 
 violence of others ? 
 
 „ In ftiort, let every one examine all that the 
 faid Prince has done, and it will be found, 
 that his Anfwers and Protefts, his Offers and 
 all his Condudl are as many witnefles of his 
 Innocence. For has he not endeavoured to 
 reftore the Peace of the Kingdom, and deliver 
 it from the threatning danger it is in of its 
 utter ruin ? What reafonable terms of Peace 
 has he ever refufed .? or rather, what reafonable 
 terms has he not offered himfelf ? How many 
 times has he not endeavoured to avoid the 
 introdudion of foreign Troops in the King- 
 dom, for fear of the confequences which at- 
 tend them ? Has he not informed the foreign 
 Princes of the State of the Kingdom, efpe- 
 cially the Allies of this Crown, defiring them 
 to interpofe their good offices for compofing 
 the differences which were arifen, and fettling 
 a folid and lafting Peace and Tranquillity ? 
 With what Modefty has he not behaved him- 
 felf 
 
Hiftcry of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. IT. 
 felf in the Cities, in order to preferve to the 
 Inhabitants Liberty of Confcience, and the 
 free Profeirion of their Reh'gion, as much as 
 it had been in his power ? Can he be charged 
 with any ad of Violence or Injuftice ? 
 „ Neverthelefs, his Enemies ftorming the Ci- 
 ,, ties, have not been fatisfied with depriving the 
 „ Inhabitants of the benefit of the Januarian 
 „ Edidl in regard of their Religion, or with the 
 j, plundering of their Houfes, but they have 
 ,, committed fo many murders, that the Streets 
 ,, have been paved with dead bodies, and the 
 „ ground has been dyed with the innocent blood 
 ,, they have flied. 
 
 ,, Now let every one judge, who are thofe, 
 „ who by their Deeds and Anions deferve to 
 ,, be proclaimed REBELS, either the Prince 
 „ and his Confederates, who have took up 
 ,, Arms for the maintenance of the King's E- 
 ,, diets granted by the advice, and according to 
 „ the Petition of the General States, for his own 
 ,, and the Queen Mother's Liberty and the Wel^ 
 ., fare of the Kingdom; or their Enemies, who 
 ,, haying rifen in Arms in defiance of his Ma^ 
 ,, jeftv's Orders, have infringed his Edids, 
 ,, plundered his Towns, murdered his Subjedls, 
 „ and publiihed Ordinances quite contrary to the 
 ., King's, and efpecially to the Ed id of January, 
 „ fo folemnly made and fwcrn as abovefaid, re- 
 „ ceived generally throughout the Kingdom, and 
 „ much applauded by the Foreigners. 
 
 „ Thefe things being impartially confidercd, 
 „ it is plain that the faid Prince and his Adhe- 
 „ rents have been falfely declared Rebels by thofe 
 „ who are truly fuch themfelves ; or feditious, 
 5, by thofe who fince King Henry ll's Death, 
 „ have been the authors of all the Troubles that 
 ,5 happened in this Kingdom ; or guilty of High 
 
 „ Treafon, 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 139 
 „ Treafon, by thofe who deprime themfelves the Charles 
 •>, King's Majefty, make void his Ordinances, T[^ 
 5, and abufe his Name and Authority, for efta- Pope Pius 
 », bUfhing their Grandeur upon the ruin of his IV, 
 s, own. Thofe only are guilty of High Trea-^ 
 3, fon towards God, who have manifefted by 
 r, their Aflions, that Ambition alone was their 
 5, God, Gold their Religion, and the Pleafures 
 3, of this World, their Paradife and ultimate 
 3, Happinefs : who have proclaimed war againft 
 3, the Son of God, his Word, and Thofe who 
 3, follow its Prefcriptions, whofe Houfes are full 
 3, of Rapines, and their Hands all bloody with 
 3> their Cruelties. Thofe only are guilty of 
 3, High-Treafon towards Men, who have vio- 
 3 3 lated the King's Edidls, and feized upon his 
 33 Perfon by main force ; and what ihall I fav 
 3, more, Thofe are guilty of High-Treafon, who 
 13 of late had plotted in Provence to fcize upon 
 3 3 that Country, by the means of one Lauris 
 33 Prefident in the Parliament of Aix, Complice 
 33 \Vith one Fabricius Cerbellonne Governor of 
 3) Avignon, who were to raife fifteen thoufand 
 33 Men, of which the faid Fabrice engaged him- 
 3) felf to furnifh a thoufand foot and two hun- 
 ,, dred horfe, and all thefe Troops were to be 
 „ difpofed of, at the pleafure of the Duke of 
 ,, Guife ; which Confpiracy having been dif- 
 5, covered and fully proved in the Parliament of 
 ,, Aix, Enfragues and Laidet, two of the Chief 
 ,5 Leaders, were beheaded for it, by Sentence of 
 „ that Court. And if this is not enough, I fhali 
 ,, add, that the faid Guifes had made a like plot 
 5, in Dauphine by the means of Captain Mantil, 
 ,, in hopes to raife that Province in Arms, as 
 5, well as that of Provence, and to have them 
 ,, both at their devotion. However, thofe 
 ,, Plots contrived to aboliih the preaching of the 
 
 33 pure 
 
Hiftory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.11. 
 pure Word of God, thofe Levies of Troops, 
 that folemn Oath taken to march at the Duke 
 of Guife's Command, do proclaim aloud the 
 faid Guife and his Complices, Rebels, Sedi- 
 tious and Traitors ; and on the contrary, that 
 „ thofe are Trufiy and Faithfull Servants to the 
 „ Jting, who have oppofed and do oppofe them- 
 ,",'fdveS vigoroufly to their Rebellion, Seditions 
 ,V'and Attempts againft the King's Majefty and 
 5j 'the Welfare of the Kingdom.,, 
 
 Then he inveighs againft the Parliament of 
 Paris, that had condemned his Adherents as Re- 
 bels 'to; the King, and he fets forth in their na- 
 tive colour th.e Injuftice, Difloyalty, and Corrup- 
 tion of that Court of Juftice, who received bribes, 
 or \V(^i:e ealily work'd into a bafe Compliance with 
 every thing that' the -Enemies of the State de- 
 iired. ' ■■'-■^ '' ' 
 
 ,, You, Gentlemen, fays the Prince, who 
 ,,'" call yourfelves Judges' j' I defire to knov/ what 
 ,-,- is Injuilice and Corruption, if the Judgment 
 ,, you have paft is not fo ? for what form of 
 ,-,' Juftice have you cbferved ? Where are the 
 j,' reafons by which the condemned have been 
 ,, convidled ? What is become of that antient 
 ,, and wholefome Law, by which an Enemy is 
 ,, forbidden to fit as Judge in any Tryal ? Why 
 „ did you take upon you to judge thofe who 
 ,, have challenged you, having as many good 
 ,, Reafons for it, as there are Defefls, Injuftice 
 ,, and Corruption in you? And indeed v*'as you 
 ,, not defervedly challenged, you, that have ex- 
 „ pelled from your Company all thofe whom 
 „ you fufpeded not to be favourable to your 
 „ Defigns ? You, who by a Decree of the laft 
 ,, day of June, have armed the furious Mob a- 
 ,, gainft all divine and human right, nay, con- 
 si trary to your own Laws and the univcrfal 
 *?:!■ ' ,, Welfare 
 
"Booj^ IV. Reformed Cburcbes in France. 141 
 
 5, Welfare of the Kingdom ? You, that have Charles 
 5, proclaimed guilty of High-Treafon the Mi- ^■^• 
 „ nifters of the Reformed Churches, whom p^lj Plyg 
 „ the King had received under his royal Pro- IV. 
 ,, tedlion by the Edid of January, and who had' 
 ,, taken oath for that purpofe in your hands ? 
 5, You, that have been fo daring as to declare 
 5, to the King, even with great threatnings by 
 „ Mei^ieurs Chambon and La Faye your Depu- 
 ,5 ties, that you found very ftrange the agree- 
 5, ment which his Majefty had a mind to make 
 ,, between the faid Prince and his Adverfaries, 
 „ and that you would never confent to it, nor 
 ,, endure it ? Did you not betray by fuch a ftep, 
 ,, your hatred againft the faid Prince and his 
 „ Adherents ? Did you not confequently debar 
 ,, yourfelves from being Judges in their Caufe ? 
 ,, What more fhall I fay, let us take a view of 
 „ the chief City of the Kingdom wherein your 
 5, Tribunal (lands, let us take notice of the Bar- 
 „ barities committed every day by the Popu- 
 „ lace, with your Knowledge and Approbation, 
 ,, nay, at your own Inftigation ? Did you not 
 ,, reject the Marfhal of Brifac*s requeii, when 
 ,, he defired you to publllh fome wholeforae 
 ,, Ordinance, by which thefe popular Commo- 
 „ tions and Riots could be fupprefled ? Is it not 
 ,, a farther Indication, that you do not intend 
 ,, to do juftice any lo^^ger, but to make ufe of 
 „ force and violence, that moft part of you from 
 „ being Prefidents and Counfellors are become 
 ,, Gendarmes, and changing their Pen for a 
 ,, Sword, and their long Gowns for a Corflet, 
 „ do the office of Captains, walk publickly in 
 „ Arms, and aft in every other refpedl, in a way 
 „ as much unworthy and unfuitable to -their 
 5, Profeffion, as becoming to the corruption of 
 3, their Morals ? Let then every one confider 
 
 -, well 
 
Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. IL 
 „ well the premises; and if it is true, that Rebek 
 ,, are not fit for judging concerning Rebellion, 
 ,, nor Difturbers of the publick Peace for taking 
 ,, cognizance of Sedition, nor Infringers of the 
 ,, King's Edicts concerning the crime of High- 
 „ Treafon. If it is fo, fays I, That thofe who 
 ,, deferve to be condemned, are not fit for con- 
 ,j demning others j then you cannot deny but 
 5, thofe you have condemned, have a juft reafon, 
 „ not only to challenge you, but likewife to call 
 „ you to account in due time, and infli(5l upon 
 j^ you the punifliment you deferve. ,, 
 
 The reft of this Remonftrance includes a fur- 
 ther declaration of the unjuft and heinous Pro- 
 ceedings of the faid Court of Parliament againft 
 the faid Prince and his Adherents \ a folemn 
 Proteftation of their Innocence, and the Upright- 
 nefs of their Intention and Defigns, and Exhorta- 
 tion to the Auxiliaries, German or Switzers pro- 
 fefling the Proteftant or Reformed Religion, and 
 who were come to the Triumvirate's Afiiftance, 
 to confider, whether it was honourable for them, 
 to fight for a bad Caufe againft a good one •, for 
 the King's Enemies againft his faithful Subjefts \ 
 foreign Princes, againft a Prince of the Blood ; 
 for the Pope and the Church of Rome, againft 
 the ProfefTors of the pure Gofpel of our Lord 
 Jefus ; and nottoexpofe themfelves by fo doing 
 to the Scorn of their common Enemy. Then 
 follows a folemn Promife of the Prince to all his 
 Adherents prcfent or to come, to ftand by 
 them to hislaft Breath, to prote<5l them, and fpare 
 neither his Goods nor his Life for their Defence, 
 exhorting them to follow his Example, and. 
 tread in his Steps. It was fubfcribed, Lewis of 
 Bourbon (n). 
 
 It 
 
 (n) Beza liv. vi. p. iii. 127, 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in F r an ce. 14'^ i 
 It is certain that the matter of this Remon- Charles j I 
 ftrance, was entirely matter of fadl, which cannot . ' ; 
 be, nor is not denied by the beft Hiftorians ofp^^^^Piuj ; 
 the Roman Church. The Triumvirs had been IV. \ 
 excluded from the Council by the General States, *— -v— ^ ■ 
 until they had accounted for their paft Admi- 
 niftration, efpecially under Francis II. and re- 
 funded the vaft Sums of Money they had extor- \ 
 tioned from the King, one way or another. i 
 It is certain, that Queen Catherine had been \ 
 named Regent of the Kingdom, during the Mi- \ 
 nority of the King her Son, by the faid States. ' 
 It is certain that the Duke of Guife had infringed \ 
 the Ediftof January, by the violences committed "j 
 at ValTy. It is certain that the faid Duke, with \ 
 t\\Q Conftable and St. Andrew, had armed con- ! 
 trary to the King*s pofitive Orders, to which they j 
 had fhown themfelves fcornfully difobedient. It | 
 is certain, that they had carried by main force, j 
 his Majefty to Paris, &c. So much the Roman 1 
 Catholick Hiftorians do own. But then they I 
 pretend, that it was a wholefome violence, abfo- j 
 lutely neceflary to fave the State, and efpecially j 
 the Church. A wonder indeed ! if the State 1 
 cannot be preferved without fubverting the fun- ' 
 damental Taws of the State, if two or three i 
 Men underftand better the true intereft of the 1 
 State, than the wifeil: Men of the Kingdom af- ; 
 fembled in a Committee for that very purpofe, i 
 viz. to confider v/hat v/as the true Intereil of 1 
 the State, nay, than the States General them- ; 
 felves ! 
 
 That Remonftrance ferved only to exafperate Bui nvith- \ 
 
 the Triumvirs, at whofe Inftances, feverai Cen-^"^^'^^ : 
 
 fures and Excommunications were publifned by ""^"j^- \ 
 
 the Bifbops and Officials in their refpeclive Dio- ■ 
 cefes, againft thofe who had h^tn prefent in the 
 
 Reformed Aflemblies. ; 
 
 Letters 
 
1 44 Hiflory of the Reformation ^ and of the Vo l . IT. 
 Charles Letters were Jikewife direded in the King's 
 ^ ' name from Blois to the Sheriffs of Orleans, com- 
 Tope Pius nianding them to attend at Court, but the Prince 
 IV. refufed to grant them leave, and he wrote to the 
 *— ~v — -'King on the 13th of Auguft, to acquaint his 
 Majefty with the reafons of his oppofition. 
 ex. On the i8th of the fame month, the Parlia- 
 ^ ^''^■'ir d^^^^ °^ ^2iX\?, publiflied a Warrant, at the re- 
 againftthe^^^ of the King's Attorney, againft the Adr 
 Jldmiral, miral, D'Andelot, La Rochefoucault, the Prince 
 *^c. of Porcian, Montgommery, the Vifcount of 
 
 Rohan, Genlis, Grammont, Piennes, Soubize, 
 Morvilliers, Yvoy, Mouy, and many other Gen- 
 tlemen then at Orleans •, as likewife againft many 
 Counfellors, Judges, Officers, Sheriffs and Ma- 
 giftrates \ for feizing and bringing them Prifo- 
 ners to Paris, and if abfent for furamoning them 
 to make their appearance there in three fhort days 
 time, upon pain of Baniihment and Forfeiture 
 of all their Goods and Eftates for the King's ufe, 
 and of being deemed guilty of the Grimes and 
 Mifdeameanors laid to their charge in cafe of 
 non-appearance. 
 Great Dif- That Decree occafioned a terrible diforder, ef- 
 ^'^f'^ 7l pEcially at Paris, where it was enough to be cal- 
 S'parlsJed HUGUENOT for being drowned in 
 the River, of whatever Religion one fhould be. 
 Two Magiftrates^one of Pontoife and the other of 
 Senlis (Men of irreproachable Life) being charged 
 with having had fome Sermons and Chriftnings 
 in their Houfes, were hanged for it, and the 
 Mob was fo enraged againft them, that they 
 dragged their Corpfe along the Streets, then cut 
 off their heads and burnt them, after having 
 made a foot-bail of them for a long while. Many 
 Prifoners detained for Religion's fake were alfo 
 condemned to the Galleys, but refcued upon the 
 
 Road. 
 
 Thofe 
 
- B o K I V. Reformed Churches /;; F r a n c e . 145 
 Thofe Diforders were the fame in all the Charles 
 Country round about Paris, efpecially in the ^^• 
 Country of Vexin, where almofc all the Gentle • p' ^ ^^.^^ 
 jmen's Houfes were plundered, and feveral horrid iv. 
 
 Murders committed. All which was done under a < r-^-f 
 
 fhew of Juftice -, one Roffet Provoft of Pontoife ^^"^^f^ 
 running up and down the Country Vv-ith about ^^^^^'^ ^^JJ_' 
 three hundred armed Men, to feize or murder 2.s,nittcd a- 
 many as came in his way, fufpeiiled of htiwg^hout Paris; 
 Reformed. Amongft the perfecuted in thofe 
 parts, there was the Lord of Berthi, whofe houfe 
 having been broke open, they murdered one of 
 his Children, and the reft: were carried to Prifon, 
 after having bruifed them all over, without fpa- 
 ring his own Lady, they were detained in goal 
 for a long while,in great Wants and Miferies, and 
 releafed after much ado after the firft Civil- War * 
 
 was over. Monfieur de Hodrencourt, another 
 Gentleman of the Vexine, being returned from 
 Orleans to refrefh himfelf in his houfe, was af- 
 faulted in it by a Company of Foot, that efcorted 
 the Artillery going to Rouen, and after a ftout 
 refiftance, being at laft forced by the iire to jump 
 out of the window in the Street, and from thence 
 to throw himfelf into the Seine to crofs it by 
 fwimming •, as he was near the oppofite fhore^ 
 he received an Arquebufs-fhot through his head, 
 and died upon the fpot -, his two Daughters Avere 
 put ftark naked upon one of the barks, and car- 
 ried in that condition into the Prifonsof Vernon, 
 from whence however they were releafed the next 
 day. 
 
 All this while the Prince fent {everal Detach- CXr, 
 ments, who made frequent Incurfions in the E- V^'' , 
 nemy's Country ; in one of them they went ^^ jr monads 
 far as Chambourg near Blois ; at another time,yH'/r^/ 
 they fummoned Pithiniers, took by florm and-^^/-'»-s «;- 
 thundered the Caftle of Laz, belonginp; to the^^'^'^S n' 
 VoL. II, L MarlhaL,, /,,;,,,, ^ 
 
146 Hiftory of the Refonnafiojit andofthe Vol. II. 
 Charles Marfhal of St. Andrew. But the moft memo- 
 
 ^^- rahle of alJ, was that of the firft of September, 
 Pop'e plus which would have been of infinite advantage to 
 
 IV. the Prince's Party, had not Yvoy Governor of 
 Bourges been bribed by the Triumvirs, (as it was 
 rumoured.) It happened as follows, his High- 
 nefs having got intelligence, that thirty-fix Carts 
 loaded with Gun-powder, fix Cannons, and a vaft 
 quantity of Boml)S, were upon the road from 
 Paris to Bourges which was befieged, fent the 
 Admiral on the laft day of Auguft ; he went out 
 of Orleans at eight o'clock in the evening with 
 eight hundred Horfe, and made fuch diligence, 
 that the next day at noon, he met the Convoy 
 at a League's diftance from Chateaudun, efcorted 
 by four Com^^anies of Gendarmes and two En- 
 figns of Foot, who being afiaulted brifkly by 
 one hundred and twenty Horfe only, command- 
 ed by Genlis and de Mouy, were routed at the 
 firft Onfet, and purfued fome of them as far as 
 Chateaudun, and others as far as Chartres, many 
 were killed, and as many taken Prifoners. As 
 to the Foot, all of them were almofi: cut to 
 pieces. And whereas, as foon as the Carriers 
 had feen the Admiral and his Troops coming, 
 they had cut the Harnefies and fled on the Hcr- 
 fes, the Admiral v.'as obliged to fet fire to the 
 Powder *, but as it was impoifible to make the 
 Cannon burll-,he left tlicm upon the road. Throg- 
 iiiorton the Englifh Embaflador, who was going 
 to meet the King at his Camp before Bourges, 
 was amongft the Prifoners, and was brought to 
 Orleans, where he met with a moft honourable 
 and gracious reception from the Prince, and ftay- 
 cd in that City 'till the Battle of Dreux. 
 
 Tliat happy Event caufed great Joy to the 
 Orleanefe, they were in hopes that it -would oc- 
 cafion the raifing of the ficge before Bourges, but 
 
 it 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches //? Fr an c e 147 
 it happened quite the contrary, and the very Charles 
 fame day it was furrendered by compofition •, I : 
 am going to give a ihort account of that City, p^^^ pjyg 
 and of its Condition from the beginning of this IV. 
 Year 'till this time. v— — .^,^^ 
 
 There were two Parties in that City, as almoft .^^J^* 
 in all others of the Kingdom, one of the Re-^J^^^^^' 
 formed, and the other of Catholicks. They hadBourges. 
 Jived peaceably together fmce July 1561, and 
 the Edid:of January being ftridlly kept, the Re- 
 formed, far from being difturbed in the Enjoy- 
 ment of the Privileges granted to them by the 
 fame, held their religious AiTemblies even within 
 the City, without any oppoiition, the common 
 People being ufed to It. But when the News of 
 th^ Maflacre of Vafly came into the City, each 
 Party began to ftand upon his guard. Never- 
 thelefs the publick peace v/as not at all difturbed, 
 'till the Bailif of Berry being too hot headed, 
 feized upon the great Tower of the City, which 
 he ftored immediately and openly with all forts 
 of Ammunitions; of which the Reformed having 
 fent their Complaints to the King and Queen- 
 Mother, Orders under the Privy-Seal were fent 
 to the Baiilf to defift, but inftead of obeying, he 
 received in that Tower feveral Gentlemen known 
 to be fworn Enemies to the Reformed ; at which 
 the Inhabitants of both Religions were fo much 
 provoked, that they agreed to guard the City- 
 Gates by themfelves, with an equal number of 
 Reformed and Catholicks. But that Expedient 
 proved to be unefFedual, for thofe who had fhut 
 up themfelves in the Tower, having planted fome 
 Artillery-pieces againft the City, no body duril 
 come near it, thofe whom they liked excepted. 
 Befides, that the Canons of the Cathedral made 
 provifion of Arms and Men, and caufed the 
 great Gates of their Cloyftcrs to be mured up, 
 L 2 leaving 
 
148 Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Yol, II 
 Charlss Jeaving only a fmall Door open. The City of 
 ' g^ Orleans having been feized upon by the Prince 
 Pope Pius at this time, Monterud Deputy Governour of 
 IV. that City and of Berry, came to Bourges, and at 
 ' firft gave very fair words to the Reformed In- 
 habitants, but it was only a Bait, fince the Bai- 
 lif difcontinued not keeping Correfpondence with, 
 feveral Gentlemen of the Neighbourhood, all 
 fworn Enemies to the Reformed, and who threat- 
 ned them to come with main force in three days, 
 and ravifh under their eyes their "Wives and 
 Daughters. Therefore the Reformed, feeing 
 that they could not truft in the Fidelity of many 
 of their Fellow- Citizens, fent to the Prince at 
 Orleans, befeeching him to receive them under 
 his Protedtion. He fent to Bourges Monfieur 
 de Selves, with credential Letters dated the 17th 
 of May, exhorting the Reformed to be ftedfaft 
 in their Religion, and to keep ftridly the Edi6t 
 of January -, he exhorted likewife the Catho- 
 licks not to moleft their Fellow-Citizens, nor to 
 join themfelves with the Difturbers of the pub- 
 lick Peace, and the Infringers of the King's E- 
 di(5ls, who abufed the King's Minority and Au- 
 thority. Finally he exhorted them both to live 
 together in a ftrid Union and Concord, and of- 
 fered to help them in cafe of need. 
 
 Thefe Letters being read in the Town-houfe 
 before the Lleutenant-General for the Civil, with 
 the Advocates and the King's Attorneys, they 
 anfwered, that they never had any other Inten- 
 tion or Defire than to live according to thefe In- 
 fl:ru6lions. They fent notice of the Prince's 
 Mcfiage, and of their Refolution to the Bailif, 
 defiring him not to receive in the Tower, any 
 foreign or fufpedled Pcrfon, He anfwered the 
 next day, that he had done notliing but by the 
 King's Commaiid -, and that he intended to re- 
 ceive 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 149 
 ceive into the Tower feveral Gentlemen of the Charles 
 Neighbourhood, (who were known to be fworn ^' 
 Enemies to the Reformed) which Anfwer putp^Jpjus 
 them in a greater Trouble than before. Monf. IV. 
 de Selves having afTembled the chief Inhabitants' 
 with the Sheriffs at the Lieutenant's Houfe, 
 they agreed upon certain Articles, which were 
 to be ftridly kept by both Parties, giving re- 
 fpedively twelve Securities one to another, for 
 the due Performance of them. But the Clergy 
 refufed obftinately their Confent, and de Selves 
 went back to Orleans. 
 
 At the fame time, a Man was arrefted at Or- 
 leans, bearing fome Letters and Memoirs diredled 
 to the Duke of Guife and the Cardinal of Lor- 
 rain ; they were defired to fend to Bourges three 
 hundred Horfe and three or four Companies of 
 Foot, by which means they promifed to extirpate 
 immediately all the Huguenots out of Berry. 
 Upon this, the Prince difpatched immediat-jly a 
 Meffenger to the Reformed of Bourges, to warn 
 them of the threatning Danger, and fent like- 
 wife the Count of Montgomraery with a hun- 
 dred and twenty Horfe, who made fuch dili- 
 gence, that he entered the City the fecond day. 
 in the morning after his parting from Orleans. 
 The Reformed Inhabitants put themfelves in a 
 pofture of defence, if there was any occafion for 
 it i but Montgommery, having caufed his Trum- 
 pet to publifh in the crofs Streets, in the Prince's 
 name, that none fhould flir on pain of Death, he 
 was admitted as Governor of the City, without 
 the leaft Commotion. The Archbifhiop (a de- 
 crepit Man) was fo much frightued at this change, 
 that, tho' he had not been able to walk for four 
 Years paffc, he walked then to tlie great Tower, 
 caufmg all his Plate to be carried there before 
 him. The Canons being fummoned by Mont- 
 2 L 3 gommcry, 
 
1 50 Hiftory of the Refer mat'ton, andoftht Vol .11. 
 Charles gommery, opened the Cloyfter's great Gates, and 
 ^ ' that Count took his Lodgings at the Dean's 
 Pofc Pius Houfe ; then he fet guards at the City-Gates, and 
 IV. in the publick Places, and on the evening. Thanks 
 ' were pubhckly given to God for that happy Suc- 
 cefs. The next day the 2 8th of the fame month, 
 having received three Companies of Foot, he 
 difarmed all the Catholicks, but without any Vi- 
 oJence ; the fame day the Im.ages were pulled 
 down, the Relicks were feized upon, and inven- 
 torized in prefence of the faid Count, of 
 the Magiftrates, of fome Goldfmiths, snd publick 
 Notaries, and afterwards delivered to the Count. 
 The fame day the Tower was fummoned to fur- 
 render, and upon their refufal, Montgommery 
 (cho* without any hopes of fucceeding fo foon, 
 becaufe of its Strength, and the vaft quantity of 
 all forts of Ammunition it was ftored with) 
 feigned as if he was willing to attack and batter 
 it, having caufed fome large pieces of Artillery 
 to be drawn near, and having lodged fome Ar- 
 quebufiers in a Steeple, that commanded the 
 Court of the Towers at which the befieged were 
 fo much frightned, that they furrendered by Ca- 
 pitulation, and the Count put the Tower under 
 the guard of the Sheriffs, to keep it under the 
 King's obedience. ' 
 
 Several Cities and Towns of Berry, having 
 got notice of the Tower's Reddition, offered to 
 Montgommery, to receive Garrifons, but that 
 General thought not proper to accept that Offer, 
 though it would have proved of a vaft Advan- 
 tage for the Defence and Prefervation of Bour- 
 ses : and having received feventy one thoufand, 
 five hundred forty three Li'vres, which were in 
 the Cuftody of the King'sReceiver-General and of 
 fome others, he went back to Orleans, and delivered 
 the faid Sum to the Piincc, with the moft part of 
 '6 the 
 
B ooK IV. Reformed Churches /;2 F r a n c e . 151 
 
 the Relicks, having left the reft, which belonged Charles ] 
 
 to the holy Chapel, at Bourges. J^- ; 
 
 The City being in that condition, and thepA^P^j|jg I 
 
 Prince feeing that the Triumvirate's Army, in- iv. ; 
 ftead of coming diredly to him, endeavoured v— — y— J \ 
 
 to feize on a Bridge a-crofs the Loire, to pafs into j 
 
 the Country of Sologn, and withal being fenfi- 'I 
 
 ble of what Importance was the City of Bourges, 1 
 
 he commanded . Yvoy, Brother to the Lord of { 
 Genlis, to repair thither fpeedily with two thou- 
 fand Foot. He being arrived, made the bell 
 
 Preparations that could be delired for a long and | 
 
 ftout Reliftance. On the 1 5th of Auguft, the j 
 
 City was fummoned by a Trumpet from the i 
 
 King to furrender, which having been refufed, : 
 
 the Triumvirate's Camp removed nearer the City. i 
 Yvoy having commanded the Inhabitants of the 
 Suburbs, to remove into the City with their beft 
 
 Effeds, caufed the faid Suburbs to be burnt to , 
 
 the ground. : 
 
 On the 1 8th, the Van of the Befiegers ar-;>/^/i^_ \ 
 rived near the Bridge of Orran, and were routedyZf^M. 
 
 by ^!! the Befieged, who fallied upon them -, the i 
 
 19th all the Army encamped before the Place, \ 
 
 which they began to batter, and continued with • 
 
 great fury 'till the 22d, vs^hen the Befiegers fee- j 
 
 ing that tliey would hardjy force the City, and 1 
 
 even that they wanted Gun-powder, they un- i 
 
 dertook to tempt the Sefieged by fair Words and | 
 
 Promifes. \ 
 
 The Duke of Nemours was fent to them for ■ 
 
 that purpofe, but being unfuccefsful, and the X 
 
 Triumvirs having got notice of the Admiral's ) 
 
 Expedition above mentioned, they fent the Count ,! 
 
 Rhingrave, who had a long Conference with \ 
 
 Yvoy, and very likely he prevailed upon him ; ; 
 for a Httle after, a Trumpet was fent to the City, 
 
 who having afilired them of the King's Arrival ^ 
 
 L 4 in .; 
 
UiJIory of the Reformation, and of the Vol .11. 
 in his Camp, required only two Things, viz. 
 That he could report to his Majefty, that he 
 had heard from the Soldiers own mouths, that 
 they did not fight againft the King. Secondly, 
 that he fhould be brought to the Archbifhop, to 
 know of himfelf what Ufage he received. 
 
 Thefe things being granted by Yvoy, the 
 Trumpet was led upon the Rampires near the 
 Battery, and having afked the Soldiers for whom 
 they did fight .? they anfwered for the King, and 
 cried fo loud. Long Life to the King, that 
 they were heard from the Camp. As to the 
 Archbifhop, then lodged in the Deanery, he an- 
 fwered, that he was not ill ufed, as it had been 
 falOy reported to the King, but that his Palace 
 had been deftroyed, that he had loft part of his 
 Plate, and had been obhged to lend two hundred 
 Crov/ns. 
 
 Then the Queen feeing that every thing con- 
 - curred to her Satisfaftion, and being intreated by 
 the Triumvirs, to grant whatever Demands the 
 Befieged could make, (for they knew very well 
 that they would perform but what they fhould 
 like) ihe fent for Yvoy, but he would not go 
 without the Confent of his Captains and the In- 
 habitants, which he obtained on condition, that 
 the Prince fliould be firft acquainted with 
 every thing that be propofed in that Conference, 
 to the end, that nothing iTiould be done without 
 his Will and Confent. 
 
 The next day, Yvoy being admitted into the 
 King's Prefence, was ftrongly follicited to capi- 
 tulate, and very likely he made but a very flight 
 defence, being cautious only to fave the appear- 
 ances, and to engage the Inhabitants to confent 
 to his Agreement. Therefore, having agreed 
 upon certain Articles(in which doing he had gone 
 further than had been allowed by his Captains 
 
 and 
 
Book IV. Refprmed Churches in France. 153 
 and the the Inhabitants) he ftipulated this Con- Charles 
 ditlon, that the Prince Ihould have notice of ^^• 
 them, which was granted, and the Queen fent ^ pLl^l^s, 
 Gentleman exprefs to the Prince ; but the matter IV. 
 had been fo well contrived, that that Meflenger <■■-%— ii * 
 was ftopt upon the road by the Duke of Ne- 
 mours's Orders ; it is not certain whether Yvoy 
 was not confenting to it. So as the Prince 
 could not anfwer, fince he knew nothing of thefe 
 Tranfadlions, on the firft of September, the 
 Queen- Mother fent the Marfhal of Montmo- 
 rancy to know Yvoy*s laft Refolution, but he 
 found the matter in fuch forwardnefs, that the 
 Articles were already agreed upon, and had been 
 iigned the day before, which was the laft of Au- 
 guft. 
 
 By thefe Articles, Yvoy, the Captains zndi ^^ f"''^^"- 
 Soldiers, and the Inhabitants had their Lives and ^^^^^ F"" 
 Goods fafe,with Liberty of Confcience as to their 
 Religion, without being molefted on account of 
 their taking up Arms, or of their Religion, or 
 of any thing done in that occafion. 
 
 The Garrifon was allowed to come out with 
 all the military marks of Honour, they were 
 promlfed full Security in the King's Camp, and 
 at liberty to ferve in hisArmy or to retire elfewhere 
 provided itfhould be in a place commanded by the 
 King's own Officers, and that they fhould pro- 
 mife upon their Oath not to bear Arms for the 
 future againft his Majefty. Yvoy with the Of- 
 ficers, were admitted to kifs the King's hand ; 
 he was farther allowed to go to the Prince to draw 
 back his Oath. 
 
 That Capitulation being figned by Yvoy, there Vvoy's 
 remained nothing more but to perform the Arti- Difgrace. 
 cles. Therefore on the fame day, the firft of 
 September, the Prince of La Roche-fur- Yon 
 entered in the City, and at one o'clock in the 
 
 Afternoon 
 
I ^4 Hijiory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol . II. 
 
 Charles Afternoon, the Garriron began to march out, and 
 
 IX. went twelve miles far from the place, where 
 
 „ ^5 ?• many took party in the Triumvirate's Army, 
 
 Pope FlUS , ., 1 n n i r^ ^ i i "' 
 
 while the reft ned to Orleans, where they ar- 
 rived, after having efcaped many Dangers, As 
 to Yvoy, who was arrived in one of the Suburbs, 
 the Prince having been told that he delired to 
 come in the City, to give an account of his 
 Condu(5t •, his own Brother Genlis required that 
 he fhould be tried and punifhed according to his 
 Demerits, and the Prince's Council were very 
 near to condemn him, but at laft he was ordered 
 to retire, which he did. 
 
 In the mean while the King had made his 
 publick Entry in Bourges, wherein he was re- 
 ceived with loud Acclamations of the Magif- 
 trates and the People •, his Majefty caufed a Pro- 
 clamation to be publifhed, forbidding all the 
 Soldiery or others of his Attendance, to do any 
 Hurt or Damage to the Inhabitants, of what 
 Religion foever, either in their Perfon or their 
 Goods, on pain of Death. But for all that, the 
 inhabitants were taxed to twenty thoufand Li- 
 vres, for the Expences of the War, which Sum 
 was raifed for the moft part on the Reformed. 
 The King ftayed but five days at Bourges, from 
 whence he went with the Army to befiege 
 Rouen, whither we Ihall follow him prefently. 
 7he Cnpi- The King was no fooner gone, but all thofe 
 tulaihn who were fufpeded for their Religion, were or- 
 7ioi kepi, dered to avoid the City, their Goods having 
 been plundered •, and even fome of them were 
 murdered, and many wounded as they came out 
 of the City. All this was done by the Duke 
 of Guife and the Conftable's Orders, without 
 the King's knowledge. Being not fatisfied with 
 fuch ill Uiiige, they charged them v/ith three 
 things. Firi^, That fuice they were gone out 
 of the City, they had endeavoured to furprize 
 
 it. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches zwFrance. 155 ' 
 
 it. Secondly, That they had hindered the Pea- Charles 
 fants from bringing Provifions into it. Thirdly, ^^• 
 That they were Debtors of the Sum of twenty Pofe plus 
 
 thoufand Livres. Under thofe Pretences, which iv. j 
 were entirely falfe, they fent to goal as many u — t,— i * 
 
 as they could find in their way. i 
 
 Furthermore, they publifhed an Ordinance \ 
 whereby it was forbidden to the Reformed to talk 
 together, either in the City or in the Fields, if 
 
 they were more than two together. Such was ^ 
 
 the Condition of Bourges, which lafted not only ■ 
 
 'till the Edidl of Peace in 1563, but fome time ' 
 
 after (0). t 
 
 The King, as we have faid, was fet out v/ith CXIII. j 
 
 his Army of twelve thoufand Foot and three ^bf ^^e \ 
 thoufand Horfe ftrong, on the 6th of September, j^^^, , 
 
 and had took the road of Normandy in order to ^^ Rouen \ 
 
 befiege Rouen. That ftep may feem extraordi- rather \ 
 
 nary •, it was more natural to go and lay Siege ^^^^^ *'^ \ 
 
 to Orleans, where the Prince with the Chief ^ ^^"*' . 
 of his Adherents and his main Forces were in a 
 great Confternation for the lofs of Bourges ; the 
 
 taking of that City and of the Chief, would have \ 
 
 put an end to the Civil War. It was the opinion \ 
 
 of the Conftable and of the Duke of Guife, but \ 
 the Queen- Mother was of a contrary Opinion, 
 
 and caufed the Siege of Rouen to be refolved ; 
 
 upon for the following Reafons. i 
 
 Briquemaut who had been fent by the Prince \ 
 
 into England, had concluded a Treaty in his : 
 
 Highnefs's name with Queen Elizabeth, wherein \ 
 
 there was fome Articles much prejudicial to the ; 
 
 Kingdom, not being able to avoid it. \ 
 
 That Princefs, who was not behind any Prince i 
 
 then reigning in Europe for her great Abilities, i 
 
 had already fettled and well ftrengthned her Au- ' 
 
 thority in her own Dominions, and by the wife ■ 
 
 find 
 
 (0) Dinoth. Jib. ii, Beza liv. vi. Thuan. lib. xxx, i 
 
1 56 Hi/lory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. II.' 
 Charles and ufeful Regulations ftie had made for Trade, 
 had entirely won the Love and Efteem of her 
 Subjedls. Her chief Care was to improve all 
 means for preferving and increafing them both ; 
 therefore (he thought, that the fureft way for 
 obtaining that end, was to open a Gate for her 
 People, by which they might enter again into the 
 Kingdom of France. 
 
 She hated particularly the Duke of Guife, not 
 only becaufe he commanded the French Army 
 at the taking of Calais, but above all, becaufe 
 Mary Queen of Scots his Neice, who could not 
 fupport herfelf, but by the Power which the 
 Houfe of Guife had at Court and in the King- 
 dom of France. 
 
 Befides that, fhe had a new Grudge againft 
 that Houfe, fhe was acquainted with the great 
 Efforts the Duke of Guife had done at Rome 
 to have her excommunicated, and declared un- 
 capable of fucceeding to the Crown of England, 
 and to give a new Life to the Catholick Party 
 of this Kingdom, in behalf of the young Queen 
 of Scotland his Neice. Therefore, as much out 
 of her own Inclination, as out of her own In- 
 tereft and thofe of her Subjefts : Elizabeth could 
 not be more favourably difpofed than /he was in 
 behalf of the Reformed of France, and of the 
 Prince of Conde their Chief. 
 
 She was hkewife in a condition to afford them 
 fpeedy and powerful Succours, becaufe for fome 
 of the late Years, fhe had laid out mofl: part of 
 her Revenues in building of Ships and Men of 
 War, that flie might be independant of the Re- 
 publicks of Venice, Genoa, Lubeck, Hamburg, 
 and Dantzick, who were ufed to fupply King 
 Henry her Father with them ; fhe had caft a great 
 ' quantity of Cannon, bought Arms, flored her 
 Magazines with abundance of Ammunition of 
 
 all 
 
B o o K I V . Reformed Churches Z;^ Fr a n c e .' 157 
 all forts, augmented her Garrifons, and ftreng- Charles 
 thened her Places bordering on Scotland, and fince ^ ^ 
 the laft Year, feeing the Troubles of France in- Pope piu's 
 creafed, ihe had armed by Land and Sea to be IV. 
 ready at all Events. ,u— v-*J 
 
 She anfwered favourably to Briquemaut and CXIV. 
 the new Vidame of Chartres the Prince's Envoys, ^een Eli 
 and promifed them to fupport him with all her z^beth's 
 might -, there was no Difficulty but in the man- c^Ji^^the 
 
 ner. Prince of 
 
 Thefe two Lords afked Troops and Money, Conde. 
 fhe confented to their Requeft ; but fhe declared 
 withal, that fhe would grant neitli£r, unlefs they 
 would give her fome Places for the Security of 
 her Troops, and that they fhould engage them- 
 felves, that in cafe they became Matters of Ca- 
 lais, they would reftore that Town to the Crown 
 of England. 
 
 Thefe Proportions having been fent to the 
 Prince, they were examined in his Council, many 
 were offended at them, and faid it would be bet- 
 ter to take any other courfe, than to deliver any 
 Place to the mortal Enemies of France. 
 
 That fuch a flep would reflect a Shame and 
 Ignominy upon their Party, and expofe them to 
 the Scorn and Execration of every true French- 
 man. Neverthelefs, after many Debates, as they 
 faw no other way of avoiding the threatning 
 Danger they were in, of falling into the hands of 
 their Enemies, they fent full Power to the En- 
 voys, to do whatever they fhould think fit. So 
 the Treaty was iigned at London upon the fol- 
 lowing Terms. 
 
 Firft, That Havre de Grace fhould be deli- 
 vered to the Queen of England, that fhe fhould 
 keep in it a Garrifon of three thoufand Men, 
 and that no French Soldier fhould remain in that 
 
 Place 
 
1 58 WJlory of the Reformation, and of the Vo l . II. 
 <:harles Place without the Englifh Governor or Com- 
 mander's Confent. 
 
 Secondly^ That fhe fhould reftore that Place 
 to the King when after the War, and by the 
 Prince's Mediation, Calais fhould be reftored to 
 the Crown of England -, that fhe fliould fend 
 three thoufand Men more to affift the Prince in 
 the Defence of Rouen and Dieppe. 
 
 Thirdly^ That fhe fhould pay to the Prince 
 one hundred thoufand Crowns, feventy thoufand 
 to be paid down at the Delivery of Havre de 
 Grace, and thirty thoufand a Month after, be- 
 iides forty thoufand more for the Garrifons of 
 Dieppe and Rouen. 
 
 Fourthly, That fhe or the Prince fhould never 
 treat with the contrary Party without the mutual 
 Confent of both. 
 
 Thefe were the principal Articles of that 
 Treaty. The fame day it was figned, Elizabeth 
 publifhed a Manifeflo, declaring the Reafons 
 which obliged her to afhft the Reformed. 
 ThatPrin- She faid, „ Her Intention in fending Troops 
 cefs^s Ma- ^j into Normandy, was not to recover that 
 nifefio. ^^ Province, the antient Patrimony of her An- 
 „ ceflors, and unjuftly wrefted from them, 
 ,, but to preferve it for the King of France du- 
 „ ring his Minority, and refcue it from the 
 ,, Ambition and Tyranny of the Princes of 
 „ Lorrain, That fhe was the more concerned 
 ,, to endeavour to prevent that Province falling 
 „ into their hatids -, as it v/as evident their De- 
 ,, fign was to feize the Ports of Normandy, and 
 3, from thence invade her ov/n Dominions, after 
 „ the Extirpation of the Reformed in France. 
 „ That for thefe Reafons, fhe thought herfelf 
 „ obliged to afTift the young King, hinder his 
 „ Subjeds from being oppreffed by the Guifes, 
 
 ;, proted 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches Z;^ France.' 159 
 
 „ protedl the Profeflbrs of the Reformed Reli- CJiarks 
 „ gion, and provide for her own Safety (p). ^* 
 
 There is a Miftake in Rapin*s Hiftory about p^^/ Pi J3 
 the time when that Treaty was made with Queen IV. 
 Elizabeth. He fays. That the Reformed having '— v— «• 
 been unfuccefsfiil in the firfi Campaign^ fent the 
 Vidame of Chartres to Elizabeth j now it is cer- 
 tain that Briquemaut and the Vidame of Chartres, 
 were fent to England at the beginning of the 
 firft Campaign, viz. in July, or at the beginning 
 of Auguft. 
 
 As to the Refledlions he makes on Queen E- 
 lizabeth's Manifefto, I leave to the judicious and 
 dij'interefted Reader to judge how far they are 
 juft and reafonable ; and I do appeal to himfelf, 
 whether King James I. could have fo good and 
 juft Reafons for undertaking the Protedlion and 
 Defence of the Reformed of France or the Pro- 
 teftants of Germany, neverthelefs he upbraids 
 that Prince with a kind of negled ; Certainly, 
 fays he, James s Conduffy "who in fome Men^s O- 
 ■pinion paffed for the Solomon of his Age^ was very 
 extraordinary. Under 'colour of his being in peace 
 with all the Worlds he yneddled not with a7iy 
 foreign Affairs. He beheld without concern 
 FRANCE openly labouring the 'DefiruEiian of 
 the Huguenots^ &c. -f But what could that 
 Prince do in that cafe ? he ought to follow the 
 Example of Queen Elizabeth, that is very like- 
 ly what Rapin meant ; then if it be fo, he ought 
 not to have cenfured that Princefs*s Condud: j 
 let this be faid by the way. 'CXV 
 
 That Treaty with Queen Elizabeth gave new Efecis of 
 life to the Reformed, tho' it produced another *^^at free^ 
 
 efFed^y- 
 
 (p) Beza. Thuan. Caftelnau, 
 
 -f- Compare what Rapin fays upon Elizabeth's Manifefio, 
 with what he fays on King James J. in the Year 1616, and 
 King Charles I. in the Year 1G26. 
 
1 60 Hijlory of the Reformatiojiy and of the Vol . IT. 
 Charles efFe(5t Upon feveral Gentlemen, who could not 
 
 ^^- endure to fee Foreigners put in pofTeflion of any 
 Pope Yins P^^^ °^ ^^^ Kingdom. Therefore, that Treaty 
 
 IV. ferved as a Pretence to fome like De Piennes, 
 'to forfake the Prince and follow the Triumvi- 
 rate's Party, while fome others as Morvilliers, 
 who was Commander at Rouen for the Prince, 
 refigned his Commiffion, and without fiding with 
 either, retired to one of his Country-Seats in 
 Piccardy. 
 
 It was the Intelligence the Queen-Mother got 
 of that Treaty, that made her to refolve upon 
 the fiege of Rouen, and the very fame thing 
 produced a great Alteration in her Mind towards 
 the Prince and the Reformed. She and the 
 King of Navarr made the Conftable and the Duke 
 of Guife fenfible of what great Importance it 
 was, that the Englifh fhould not make them- 
 felves mafters of the chief City of Normandy, 
 for v/ere they once fettled in it, Paris it felf 
 would be in danger ; that the Siege of Orleans 
 would take a long time, that in the mean while 
 the Qiieen of England would fend as many 
 Troops as ihe pleafed into Normandy, and con- 
 quer that Province with the help of the Reform- 
 ed, which were in a vaft number in it ; that the 
 Duke of Aumale having but few Troops v.ith 
 him, could not be able to oppofe thefe Under- 
 takings, and fo they ought to be prevented by all 
 means. 
 
 That fiege was then refolved upon, and the 
 Army marched that way. The King of Navarr 
 left fome Troops by the way in Chateaudun, 
 Baugency, Pluviers, Eftampes, Chartres and Jin- 
 ville, to block up Orleans, hinder the Provi- 
 fions from coming in, and put a Itop to the In- 
 curfions of the Garrifon. 
 
 The 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches in VRAiiCEi i6r 
 The Army encamped in /ight of Rouen, m Charles 
 the Borough of Dernetal on the the 25th of Sep- ^' 
 tember, and the Quarters were immediately di- p„pe pi^s 
 ftributed. Now as the King approached near IV. 
 Rouen he fent a Herald to the City to fumnion ' — vT^ 
 the Inhabitants to fiirrender themfelves, and fub- a-i t ■ 
 
 1 • n /r I'll- 1 lit Ihelnum' 
 
 mit to his Mercy, which domg they would be .■uirate's 
 forgiven all paft Offences, but if they prov'd ^rmy ar- 
 obftinate they ought to hope for no Mercy. ^^^{^^''^ 
 They anfwer'd, that they kept the City for the 
 King under the Prince ofConde's Authority, and 
 that they own'd no other Lord befides his Ma- 
 jefty : but as they faw amongft the Courtiers 
 their fworn Enemies who had ufurped all Au- 
 thority and Power, they could not admit his 
 Troops in the City, without expofing them- 
 felves to utter Ruin. That Anfwer being repor- 
 ted to the King, his Army encamped about 
 the City, and he laid fiege to it ; the chief 
 Circumftances whereof I fhall relate, when I 
 fhall have given an Account of the State and 
 Condition it had been in from the beginning of 
 this Year. 
 
 There had been a Provincial Synod of the ^^^~^ 
 Reformed Churches of Normandy held at Rouen andCondi- 
 this Year on the 25th of January, to which the atwo/'/W 
 Queen had fent Monfieur du Buiflon, to congra- C'{y> 
 tulate them on account of the Peace which they 
 cnjoy'd, and which fhe intended to preferve ; 
 but whereas fhe forefaw that the King's and hf-^: 
 own Good-will towards them, would draw upo.i 
 his Majefty the Hatred of fome, fhe defired to be 
 particularly acquainted v/ith the Number of For- 
 ceSj Horfe and Foot they could fupply his Ma- 
 jefty with, in Cafe of Need, and how long they 
 could maintain the fame. 
 
 They anfwered, that they could afford fixthou- 
 fand Foot and fix hundred Horfc. 
 
 Vol. II. M The 
 
Hiftory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. U. 
 
 The 27th of the fame Month the Edid of 
 January was publiihed at Rouen, and every 
 thing done according to its Prefcription. On 
 the 8th of March happened fome Riot in the 
 City, occafion'd by the breaking of fome Images, 
 which A61 was nevcrthelefs afcribed to fome 
 Prieds, who had a-mind to raife a Sedition. 
 
 The 29th of the fame Month of March ar- 
 rived Letters which the Prince of Conde di- 
 rected to the Church of Roiien, giving them 
 Notice of what had happen'd at VafTy, and re- 
 quiring their Affiftance. But the Church would 
 not undertake any thing till they knew more 
 particularly the Queen's Pleafure : They fent for 
 that purpofe a Deputy with Offers of their 
 humble Services to his Majefty ; but he could 
 not be admitted to an Audience, no m.ore than 
 the Deputies of feveral other Provinces, who 
 had been fent to Court by the Churches upon 
 the fame Errand, and were fent away by the 
 Triumvirs i nay, fome of them were murdered 
 at Paris, as above faid. 
 
 On the 15th of April, the Reformed under- 
 ftanding that their Enemies were hatching fome 
 Plot againft them, feized the Keys of the City- 
 Gates, the Town-Houfc, the old Palace, th» 
 Caftle, and all the Munitions, and expelled the 
 Bailiff Viilebon, and the Sieur de la Londe-, they 
 ordered four Captains, and fent Garrifons into the 
 ftrongeft Places. 
 
 The Duke of Bouillon Governor of Norman- 
 dy hearing of thefe Changes came to Roiien on 
 the 19th of the fame Month ; he had counte- 
 nanced the Reformation before, but for all that 
 he was one of the Time-fervers. Having met at 
 his coming in the Reformed under Arms, he 
 endeavoured to perfuadethemto lay them down, 
 promifmg that they would be maintained in their 
 
 Ffivi- 
 
fiooicIV. Reformed Churches ifi France i61[ 
 Privileges, according to the Edi(5l, without any Charles 
 Hindrance. But they anfwered the next Day, ^^^ 
 that whereas the King and Queen Regent were Pope Pius 
 detained in a kind of Captivity by the Trium- ^ iV. 
 virs, who in the moft violent and cruel manner 
 had infring'd the King's Edid, and difcov^ered 
 by their Condudt that they fought eagerly the 
 Extirpation of the Reformed Religion ; nay, 
 whereas there was feme Reafon of fufpecfting 
 that they intended to attempt upon the King 
 and his Crown, becaufe the ParHament of Paris 
 had luffered the Sorbonne to difpute publickly, 
 whether a Prince fufpeded of Herefy could not 
 be deprived of his Crown ? they thought them- 
 felves obliged to arm for the Defence of their 
 King, fince he had as yet no Means for to pro- 
 tect his Subjedls againft the Violences of their 
 Enemies, ^c. 
 
 That Anfwer was fent to Paris by the Duke 
 of Bouillon j the faid Duke intended to lodge in 
 the old Palace .with his Troops, but was de- 
 nied, and he himfelf with only fix of his Ser- 
 vants were allowed Admittance, which he took 
 very ill, and the next Day he departed from 
 Rouen. 
 
 The 217th of the fame Month the Inhabi- 
 tants feized upon the Fort and Mcnaftery of Sr. 
 Catherine. As to the Declaration above faid 
 the Triumvirs were incenfed at it, and they 
 fent the Duke of Aumale to Normandy with as 
 full a Power as if the King had been there in 
 Perfon, without any Regard for the Duke of 
 Bouillon whom they miitrufted, nor for Ville- 
 bon, for whom they had no great Regard. 
 
 On the 3d of May the Populace rofe up a- 
 
 gainft the Images, and broke them all ; they de- 
 
 llroy'd more in 24 Hours, fays de Beze, than 
 
 one would think, could have been made in 24 
 
 M 2 Weeks, 
 
164 Hijlory of the Reform at ion y and of the Vol.11 
 Chaj-les Weeks, and they took out from all the Churches 
 J / of the City thofe Objeds of Superftition ; there- 
 of? Pius fore, from that day till the taking of the City, no 
 Mafs was faid in it. 
 
 The 9th they took two Gallies returned of 
 late from Scotland, v/hich were of great Service 
 to them afterwards. The next Day was made a 
 Review of four thoufand Citizens of the Refor- 
 med. Religion, all in good Order and Condition ; 
 there was, befides thefe, a greater number ftill 
 who exerted themfelves in good time. For 
 which Caufe the Parliament, or the moil part of 
 them profefTing the Catholick Religion, thought 
 proper to avoid the City, under Pretence of pro- 
 viding for the Safety of their Perfons, (tho' none 
 of rhem had received any Hurt or Damage ei- 
 ther in their Perfons, or their Goods) and with the 
 King's Approbation, they kept their SeiTions at 
 Louviers. 
 
 Villebon feized a Town called Pont deL'Arche, 
 by which means he ftopt the Provifions which 
 came to Rouen that way •■, but the Inhabitants 
 of the laft feized upon Caudebec, by the means 
 of one of the Gallies, whereby they opened a 
 free Paffage from Roiien dov^n the River, but 
 they did not keep it long, becaufe they ncglecH:- 
 ed to difmantle the Town. The fame Day they 
 received three hundred Soldiers fent from Dieppe, 
 LiQebonne, Montevilliers and other Churches of 
 the Country of Caux •, and three Days after ar- 
 rived Captain Blondet with one hundred Men 
 with him. At that time there was a Ccfiation, 
 not only of Trade and Handy-Craft at Rouen ; 
 but even of Juflice, therefore the Inhabitants 
 being fummoned to the Archbifhop's Palace, 
 they elcAed twelve of the mod; confiderable a- 
 mongft them, for the Chief Council of tlie City, 
 and one hundred Citizens, that is twenty-five 
 
 for 
 
Book IV. ReformedChufxhesin'FRA^cii^, i6^ 
 for each Ward, to confult together and pro- Charles 
 vide for every thing, as the Cafe fhould require, . 
 by the Advice of the twelve. There was ^ Pope F'ms 
 Fight between the Inhabitants and thofe of Dar- IV 
 netal on the 17th of May, wherein the latter 
 were worfted and their Borough much damaged. 
 Then they fet to work for repairing with alJ Di- 
 ligence the Fortifications of Roiicn, and of St. 
 Catharine's Fort •, they had likewife to guard 
 themfelves againft the Incendiaries, which they 
 did effediually. 
 
 The 26th of May they received a Letter from 
 the Queen, requiring them to lay down their 
 Arms, and reftore the City to the fame Condi- 
 tion it was in three Months before, by which 
 doing they might depend upon her Protecftion. 
 They anfwered, that they could not depend up- 
 on thofe Letters, nor do what they were bid, 
 until the Guifes, Authors of all thofe Evils, 
 fhould have laid down their Arms, and had took 
 their Trial. 
 
 That Anfwer was never delivered to the 
 Queen, becaufe the Poft-boy was ftopt upon the 
 Road by Villebon. Therefore Monfieur D'Oy- 
 fel being come to Rouen upon the fame Er- 
 rand, he received the fame Anfwer on the 2d of 
 June. 
 
 The 2 7t:h of May St. Catharine's Fort was 
 ■fummoned by the faid Villebon to furrender to 
 the Governor (ent by the King: He was anfwe- 
 red, that the faid Governor would be very wel- 
 come, provided he fhould come unarmed, and 
 vvith fix Attendants only ; then began a Skirmiih, 
 wherein Villebon was worfled. On the laft Day 
 of May there v/ere fome other Skirmifhes be- 
 tween fome of the Duke of Aumale's Troops, and 
 thofe of the Fort, but without any Advantage 
 oil the Enemy's fide, 
 
 M 3 Oa 
 
Hiftory of the Re formation^ and of the Vol.11. 
 
 On the iflof June the faid Duke fent aSafe^ 
 condudt to the i'rcridentD'Emendreville for com- 
 ing to a Parley ; but he was anfwered, that fuch 
 a thing could not be granted, till they had laid 
 down their Arms on both Sides : Which being 
 underftood by the Duke, he broke the Channels 
 and Pipes of the Fountains, and afiaulted the 
 Fort, but was repulfcd with the Lofs of five and 
 twenty Horfe. AH thefe warhke Difpofitions, 
 the Devaftation of the Country, a;id the Pre- 
 parations made for the Siege of Roiien, being 
 related at Orleans, the Prince, at the Requell: 
 of the Inhabitants of the former, appointed 
 and difnatched Monfieur de Morvilliers for to 
 be their Governor, a Lord in all refpeds quali- 
 fied for fuch an Employment, as he /hewed forth 
 by his wife Condui^V, and the brave Actions he 
 did at Roiien, where he arrived with three 
 hundred Horfe the nth of June, after having 
 efcaped many Dangers, and put the Change up- 
 on the Duke of Aumale who purfued him, 
 for hindering his Entrance into that City. 
 
 He made feveral good and wife Regulations at 
 the Requeft of the Inhabitants, for to fupprefsi 
 the DifTolutenefs of the Soldiery -, for to put St. 
 Catherine's Fort in a better Pofture of Defence-, 
 and for to put a Stop to the Under-dealings of 
 the Roman Catholicks in the City, who fup- 
 plicd the Enemy with many warhke Provi- 
 iions. 
 
 On the 29th St. Catherine's F^ort was be- 
 fiegcd again by the Duke of Aum.ale, af- 
 ter feveral Skirmillies wherein he got always the 
 word i at lafi: he gave a general AfTault on the 
 nth of July, but was fo couragiouriy repul- 
 fed and brifkly purfued even into his own Camp, 
 that he was obliged to raife the fiege. After that 
 happy Deliverance, fur which publick Thanks 
 
 v/ere 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /;? F r a n c e. i 67 
 s were given to God, the Inhabitants of the Fort Chalres 
 repaired every thing, and put themfelves in a ^' 
 better Pofture of Defence than before. Pope Vius 
 
 The Duke having attempted in vain to fur- IV. 
 prize the City by Scalado, and loft all Hopes of ^ 
 taking it, laid the Siege before Pont-A'udemar, 
 which he took by furprize during a Parley, and 
 committed in it all manner of Hoftillties, ef- 
 pecially agalnft the Minifter, who was ficka-bed; 
 they cut off his Ears, pulled out his Eyes, and 
 dragged him to a Gibbet, Honfieur was like- 
 wife taken by the faid Duke, without much 
 Refiftance, and the Inhabitants fled to Havre 
 de Grace. 
 
 The 26th of July the Queen wrote again to 
 Rouen, but without fuccefs, becaufe her Cheat 
 was difcovered. A Month after, the Parliament 
 of Rouen, who kept their fittings at Louvlers, 
 publifhed a very bloody Declaration agalnft the 
 Reformed. Agalnft which Declaration the In- 
 habitants of Rouen fent their Proteft, but it was 
 not regarded at all ; the Parliament proceeded 
 alfo agalnft feveral Reformed, who were con- 
 demned and executed for their Religion fake, a • 
 mongft v/hom was an Attorney named Quille- 
 boeuf, who fuffered with an uncommon Con- 
 ftancy. They iffued another Proclamation com- 
 manding all Reformed to leave the Town of 
 Louviers in twenty-four Hours, upon Pain of 
 Death and Forfeiture of all their Goods. 
 
 At Rouen, the Auftin-Fryars and other Monks 
 were baniftied the City, and whereas fome of 
 their Party had inlifted Men, fome of them were 
 arrefted and others fled, whofe Goods and Ef- 
 tates were fold, part for the ufe of the Poor, and 
 part to pay the Troops,whofe Expences amount- 
 ed to above five and forty thoufand Livrcs per 
 Month.^ 
 
 M 4 It 
 
l6B HiftorycftheRefonnation^andofthe Vol.11. 
 It was about this time, that Monfieur de Mor- 
 villiers much difliking the Treaty concluded 
 with Q^iteri Elizabeth, out of a motive of Con- 
 fcience, left Rouen, and retired into one of his 
 Country-Seats in Piccardy, where he Jived quiet- 
 ly as long as this War lafted, profefiing openly 
 the Reformed Religion, without being ever pre- 
 vailed on by any Intreaties of the Court, to take 
 party againft thofe whom he had fo bravely de- 
 fended. Before he left the Service, he endea- 
 vpured to en^;ag'i tha Inhabitants of Dieppe to 
 oppofe the Reception of the Engiifli Troops, but 
 he was not hearkened to. I do not know whe- 
 ther he was aay ways related to the mofl: cele- 
 brated John Morvilliers Bifhop of Orleans (^). 
 
 Rouen having lofl its Defender with that 
 Lord, they fent to the Prince to defire him to 
 fend them another Governor •, but in the mean 
 time, either fuppofing that the Count of Mont- 
 gommery, who was then in Low- Normandy, 
 would be the Perfon appointed by his Highnefs 
 for that purpofe, or becaufe they were afraid that 
 another could not come ffme enough for their 
 relief, they fent a Mefl'enger to the faid Lord, 
 defiring him to come and be their Governor. But 
 the Prince appointed Briquemaut an old, brave 
 and experienced OfRcer, (the fame who had con- 
 cluded the Treaty with Queen Elizabeth j v/ho 
 arrived at Rouen on the 13th of September, 
 where he muftered the Troops, and repaired as 
 he thought proper the City and St. Catherine's 
 Fort. 
 
 The Count of Montgommery arrived alfo at 
 Rouen four days after, and- was not at all pleafe4 
 to fee another Governor in the City befides him- 
 felf, and if either of them had been led by his 
 Ambition, very likely that would have been of 
 
 vafl 
 (q) Dinoth. Thnan. 
 
BooFL IV. Reformed Churches in France. 169 
 
 vaft Prejudice to the City ; but they were both Charles 
 fo moderate, that they came to an Agreement, ^^• 
 Montgommery remained Governor of the City, pJ^ p^^^ 
 and Briquemaut who was to receive the Auxiliaries IV. 
 which were expeded every day, took upon him- *— -v— ^ 
 felf the care of fending Succours to Rouen, 
 which he performed with great Diligence during 
 the Siege (r). 
 
 A Trumpet came in the King's Name to fum- ' 
 mons the City to difarm and fubmit themfelves 
 to his Clemency, the Duke of Aumale pro- 
 mifing to follicit earner!: ly their Pardon, and that 
 he would obtain it. But Montgommery anfwer- 
 ed, that he the faid Duke of Aumale and his 
 Companions Authors of thefe Commotions ftood 
 in need of that Pardon, as the King would be 
 made fenfible of it when he would be of age ; 
 and that by the Prince of Conde's Command, he 
 kept the City for the Kind's Service, and the 
 Trumpet was forbad to come another time nearer 
 the place than a Cannon-fhot. The reft of the 
 Month was employed in making Preparations 
 for wjthftanding the fiege. 
 
 The 28th an Herald at arms was fent uponcXVIIL 
 the fame Errand as the Trumpet, but was dif- The faid 
 mifled with a, like Anfwer, and the next day the ^'■^ ^'^^^ 
 King's Army laid fiege to the City. The^fcJ^^ 
 King and the Queen-Regent, the King of Na- 
 varr, the Conftable and the Duke of Guife were 
 there in Perfon j as to the Marlhal of St. An- 
 drew, he had been fent with a body of Troops 
 to hinder the Paffage of the Germans, who came 
 as Auxiliaries to the Prince of Conde. The 
 King's Army was fixteen thoufandFoot and two 
 thoufand Horfe ftrong, befides the Reifters and 
 other Germans, with a vaft quantity of Cannons. 
 
 The 
 ^r) Beza, Thuan. Dinoth. 
 
Hijlory of the Reformatio?:, and of the VoL.IL 
 
 The Inhabitants made a Sally the very firft 
 day, and a fight enfued, which lafted all the day 
 long to the great Detriment of the Befiegers. 
 The lafl day of September there was a Skirmifti, 
 wherein they were worfted again, and the firft 
 day of Oftober thofe of St. Catherine's Fort 
 made a Sally upon the Enemy and killed many 
 of them. 
 
 Montgommery had built a- new Fort which 
 was called by his name -, the Enemy was feniible 
 that they muft take poffeflion of it before they 
 could brmg their Artillery near the City- Walls ; 
 they attacked it, but as they made very little 
 Progrefs, they undertook to carry before all St. 
 Catherine's Fort, and having battered it for four 
 or five days together, they began to defpair of 
 fuccefs (for in all their Aflaults they were always 
 repulfed with lofs, and the Belieged made fre- 
 quent Sallies upon them with great advantage^ 
 ^ey make when by the Treafon of an Officer of the Fort, 
 them/elves |;hey were let into it while the Officers and Sol- 
 ^■^-^^'l^-^diers were refrefhing themfelves at Noon •, (o 
 riiie's Fort they carried it on the 6th of Odober, and made 
 ty Treafon. a. terrible Slaughter of the Garrifon and of the 
 Inhabitants, amongft whom were found twenty- 
 eight Women ; the Traitor was killed him- 
 felf by one of his Soldiers, as he was helping by 
 the hand fome of the Enemies to come up ; then 
 they ftormed Montgommery's Fort. 
 7)&^ En- The Englifh Fleet which had been long de- 
 gliili Fkef t3.inQ.d by contrary Winds, arrived at lafi at Ha- 
 arriws. ^^^ ^^ Grace on the third of the fame Month 
 under the Command of the Earl of Warwick, 
 of which thofe of Rouen were immediately in- 
 formed by eighty Scotch Horfe that were fent to 
 their Relief-, but the Gentleman which ths 
 Prince of Conde had difpatched to Rouen, to let 
 them know that his German Auxiliaries were en- 
 tered 
 
Eo K I V. Reformed Churches /« F r A n c e , 171' 
 
 tered into France, and that he would come in Charles ' 
 
 Perfpn to their Relief with all his Forces as foon ^^- | 
 
 as poffible, was intercepted upon the road andp^^^pj^^ '\ 
 beheaded. IV. 
 
 The two Forts being taken, the Befiegers im- '■ ' " -^- ^ ! 
 mediately carried all their Artillery againft the j 
 City, which they ftormed by two different pla^ i 
 ces, to oblige the Citizens to come to a Compo- ; 
 fition. But tho* they faw themfelves expofed to i 
 the greateft Danger, neverthelefs they were not i 
 diflieartened j they applied themfelves entirely I 
 to the Defence of their Walls, repairing dili- 
 gently all fhe Breaches. ; 
 
 They made Ilkewife a Sally upon the Befiegers i 
 
 in two different places with great Succefs and \ 
 
 without lofs. They were much encouraged by ; 
 the Arrival of five hundred Englifli Soldiers, 
 
 who entered the City the 9th of Odober under f 
 
 the Command of my Lord Grey, having over- * 
 
 come all Oppofitions in their way from Havre i 
 
 de Grace to Rouen, efpecially at Caudebec. ^ 
 
 The 13th of Odober a large Breach being /r/^y? jr. * 
 made in the Wall, there was a general Afraulty2r«//. 
 which lafted from tzn in the Morning to fix in 
 
 the Evening, with great lofs on both fides i but ^ 
 
 at lafl by the great Valour of the Englifh, the ii 
 
 AfTailants were repulfed. During that AfTault, \ 
 
 the Womea exerted themfelves above what could i 
 
 be expected from their Sex, for making no ac- i 
 
 count of the Mufketry or Swords, they fupplied ; 
 
 their Hufbands or others, with the Neceflaries \ 
 for their Defence. 
 
 The next day Monf. de Vely was fent from A ne-w ■'. 
 the King to the Inhabitants, to fummon them Summons 
 to furrender. They required time 'till the Even-/^'^^ ^^^ 
 
 ing to deliver their Anfwer, but while they were ^' i 
 
 about confulting, the Befiegers gave a new Af- 1 
 
 r^ult with greater Fury, which lafled fix Hours,^'^^^Jf'^'^' ; 
 
 and '* ' 
 
172 Hi /lory of the Refarrnatmi^ and of the Vol.11. 
 Charles and had already planted three of the King's Co- 
 ^^* lours upon the Battlement of the Walls, when 
 Tote Piiis they were repulfed again, with the lofs of about 
 IV. eight hundred Men ; nevertheiefs, they mads 
 ^-"■"V^^themfelves Mailers of the fu per ior part of St. 
 Hilary's Gate, whereby they difcovered the 
 Streets of the Celeftinesand of St. Claire \ the Be- 
 fieged loft on .this occafion about four hundred 
 Men and fcveral Women, there were about two 
 hundred wounded. 
 CXIX. A very memorablc^ Accident happened in this 
 JV/^.de (.i-skirmi{h, which deferves to he here mentioned. 
 "^'^ fV/' Francis de Civille a Gentleman of tiie Neigh - 
 Frefer-va- bourhood, was amongft the Bsftegcd at the head 
 tion. of his Company, he was wounded with a Muf- 
 ket-Ball that went through the Jaw-bone into the 
 hinder part of the Neck, he fell down in the 
 Ditch, the Pioneers who were below the Ram- 
 pires miftaking him for dead, immediately un^ 
 drefied him, and put him but half dead with a- 
 nother into a Hole, which they covered wkh 
 fome earth ; it was about Mid-day. On the E- 
 vening when the fight was over, as every one 
 retired, his Servant inquired about his Mailer, 
 whether it was true that he had been killed. The 
 Count of Montgommery told him that it was fo, 
 and that by his Orders his Corpfe had been bu- 
 ried. The Servant defired earneftly to know the 
 place, that he might go and dig him out of the 
 Ground, in order to carry him to his Relations ; 
 which being granted, he went with one of the 
 faid Count's Guards upon the place, they digged 
 out the Bodies, but they were fo bcfmeared 
 with Blood, that he could not diftinguilh his 
 Mafteri therefore defpairing of Succefs, they put 
 them again in the fame place, and covered tht-m 
 as before, but as they went home, they turned 
 their heads accidentally towards the place, when 
 
 they 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 173. 
 
 they faw one of the Arms uncovered ; then out Charles 
 of pity for fear kvift the Dogs fhould be invited ^^• 
 by that to dig up the Corpfes, and devour them, p '^ y\\x% 
 they went again to the place, but as they covered IV. 
 the Hand, they {2.^ by the Moon fhining a Dia- 
 mond which Monfieur de Civille was ufed to 
 wear \ at which Token, the Servant knew his 
 Mafter, and having put his Face to his, he found 
 that he breathed ftill, and by confequence, that 
 there remained In him fome fparks of Life, there- 
 fore he put him upon his Horfe and carried him 
 to St. Claire, where the wounded were taken 
 care of at the publick Charge. But the Surgeons 
 faying that it was rieedlefs to take Trouble and 
 ufe Remedies for one in the Condition he was 
 in, efpecially when there was fuch a great mul- 
 titude of wounded : Therefore his Servant car- 
 ried him back into an Inn, where he lived for 
 four days together without Meat or Drink. At 
 laft having called for William Guerante and Le 
 Grofs (or Le Gras) two famous Phyficians, by 
 their Advice they wrenched his Teeth open, and 
 poured fome Drops of Broth into his Mouth, 
 and dreffed his Wounds, by that means h€ began 
 to recover his Senfes little by little. But the 
 City being ftormed a few days after, his Brother's 
 Enemies came into that Inn to revenge fome old 
 Quarrels, and finding him not, they refolved to 
 wreak their Anger upon tliis wretched Gentle- 
 man almoft half dead, and having forced his 
 Chamber, they threw him out of the Window 
 into the Yard ; but very happily he fell on a 
 Dunghill, where, being fcrfaken by all Men, he 
 lived for three days without eating or drinkingr, 
 *till one of his Relations, with the help of fome 
 Soldiers, fetched him out of that place in fecret, 
 and carried him into a Farm, wherein he had 
 time enough to recover perfedly well, and was 
 
 ftill 
 
cxx. 
 
 *rhe King 
 of Navarr 
 nuounded, 
 
 CXXI. 
 Anenv 
 Summons 
 from the 
 King. 
 
 Rouen 
 
 fends fame 
 Deputies 
 t a the King 
 
 Wijiory of the Reformation, and of the Vol.H^. 
 
 ftill living when Thuanus wrote his Hiftory 
 which was about forty-feven Years after (*.) 
 
 The next day as the King of Navarr, adiho- 
 in a way much below his Dignity (as he had been 
 told many times by his moft private Friends and 
 Servants,even the day before) vifited the Trenches 
 in his turn, he was wounded with a Mufket-fhot 
 in his left Shoulder while he was making water. 
 The Duke of Guife hearing his Cries, ran to his 
 Afliftance, and caufed him to be carried out of 
 the Trenches by fome of his Servants, upon a 
 lingle board, whereupon they ufed to carry away 
 the Pioneers wounded or killed. They brought 
 him to the Rhingrave's Lodging with great dif- 
 ficulty, becaufe of the acutenefs of his Pains ; 
 two Surgeons having examined the Wound, 
 learched forthe Bullet, which they could not find, 
 and made fome fmall Incifion, Immediately 
 after he was vifited by the Queen-Mother, the 
 Prince of La Roche-fur- Yon and the Conftable, 
 and then put into a Litter, he was carried to his 
 Lodging at Darnetal, where we fiiall leave him 
 for a while. 
 
 The 1 5th of Oflober another Herald was (tnt 
 to the Inhabitants, commanding them tofurren- 
 der the Town to the King. Montgommery 
 having called the Council in the Celejftine's 
 Convent, it was unanimoufly agreed and fworrl 
 by the Captains, Soldiers and Burghers, to die 
 rather than to put themfelves at the Guifes Dif- 
 cretion, who abufed the King's Name and Au-- 
 thority ; and to leave no room to Calumnies, 
 they fent two Deputies to his Majefty with Of- 
 fers of their Duties and Services, and to fhew 
 forth the Juftice of the Reafons which moved 
 them to defend themfelves againft the Guifes 
 and their Adherents, befceching his Majefty to 
 
 fend 
 C^) Thuan. lib. xxxiii p. 195, 196. 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches inFRANCE. ly^ 
 fend them away with the Army nine Miles far Charles 
 from the City, which done they were ready to obey ^ ^ 
 him in every thing, agreeable to the Edids. Pope Pis^ 
 
 The next Day the Deputies were admitted to IV. 
 the King's Audience, and gracioufly received •, ^"^C^ 
 but the Queen told them, that the King's Plea- Conferen- 
 fure was to be received in the City without any cesix'ifhoni 
 Condition, with all his Court and great Lords <S'a^<^^t. -j 
 whom he had always found trufty and faithful ; 
 that he would take care leaft any Violence fhould 
 be done to their Confcience,and that they might 
 live quietly and pray to God in their own 
 Houfes ; but that the King commanded them to 
 difmifs their Minifters who were the Authors 
 of thefe Civil Commotions, till his Majefty 
 fhould order it otherwife. 
 
 There were feme Debates upon that Anfwer, 
 the Deputies fhewing forth that there was very 
 little Hopes that the Inhabitants would confent 
 to receive in the City their mortal Enemy -, 
 or ever confent to forfake the Miniftry of the 
 Gofpel which had been granted by the Edidl, 
 and live without Religion. To which the Queert 
 replied in thefe very Words •, We know well enough 
 how one is to live, and you come very late to 
 teach us upon that Point •, it muji be fujficient for 
 you to obey the King, and live as he does ; and I 
 give you this further Warning, that if you refufe 
 to do it willingly, he has Means of remaining 
 Mafter, and refenting allwhat is pafi. Then they 
 delivered to the Deputies five Articles, and they 
 v/ere ordered to deliver a peremptory Anfwer in 
 the next Morning. 
 
 The next Day the Inhabitants being affembled, 
 they unanimoudy chofe to die rather than to 
 forfake the publick Exercife of their Religion, 
 or to fubmit themfelves to the Tyranny of the 
 Guifes. That Anfwer was fent to the Kmg by 
 
CXXIII. 
 A third 
 4jfault. 
 
 CXXIV. 
 
 A fourth 
 Afault. 
 
 Hijiory of the Reformation^ and oj the Vol. II. 
 
 a Lieutenant of Montgommery, and one of the 
 former Deputies ; they were very iJI received 
 by the Queen, who difmifled them with great 
 Threatnings. 
 
 Neverthelefs the AfTault was delayed till the 
 next Day, the 17th of O6tober, which was re- 
 pulfed with a great Lofs on the fide of the Be- 
 liegers. Therefore, on the 1 8th the Queen in- 
 vited them again to a new Conference, and the 
 Prefident D'Emendreville was deputed for that 
 purpofe twice in the fame Day. But he could 
 obtain no better Terms than thofe already pro- 
 pofed, which being reported to the Citizens, they 
 refolved to come no more to any Parley, but to 
 defend themfelves till Death. 
 
 The fame Day four hundred Foot, coming 
 from Dieppe to the Relief of Rouen, were inter- 
 cepted and routed, in Paviily's Wood, by the 
 Lord Damville. 
 
 On the 19th the Queen fent again in the City 
 Monfieur de Durefcu to endeavour fome new A- 
 greement •, the abovefaid Prefident with Mon - 
 fieur de Bauquemaure, who had been fent to the 
 Queen, came back with the Articles agreed 
 and iigned, that concerning Religion excep- 
 ted. 
 
 Mean while the Befiegers offended becaufe they 
 had heard the finging of Pfalms upon the Ram- 
 parts, gave a new Afl'ault which lafted only 
 two Hours, becaufe of the heavy Rain which 
 fell at that time : A Mine, which the Befiegers 
 made under St. Flilary's Gate, took air by a 
 Cannon-fliot fired from the City : But they 
 turned away the Waters to render the Mills ufe- 
 lefs, and to drain the Marfhes. 
 
 The 2Gth the Deputies having been heard in 
 
 the Town's Council, it was refolved that they 
 
 (hould return to the Queen with a Petition to 
 
 2 this 
 
fiooK I V. Reformed Churches /« F r A n c e ." 177 
 this purport. That the King would be pleafed ^^^^^ 
 to fend Letters of Safety to the Prince ofConde, ^ /^ 
 that he might come to Court, with whom they Pope Pius 
 might treat not only of the Reddltion of the IV. 
 City, but of fettling a folid and lafting Peace ^— ^'— *■ 
 in the whole Kingdom. But they were fnubbed 
 very haughtily by the Conftable, who fent 
 them back without any Anfwer. But Durefcu, 
 who had remained as Hoftage in the City, pro- 
 mifed, that when he fhould be gone, he would 
 fend an Anfwer in two Hours time. Which he 
 did, and let them know, that fince they would 
 abfolutely have their Minifters with them, then 
 they ought to leave the City along with the 
 Minifters, So the Inhabitants having loft at 
 once all Hopes of coming to fome Agreement, 
 they refolved to defend themfelves to the laft 
 Drop of their Blood. 
 
 The 2 1 ft, another Aftault more brifk th2in. F'ph AJ\ 
 the former was given to the City, wherein the^^"^'' 
 Aflailants were Worfted. 
 
 The 2 2d, the Befieged filled up the Trenches 
 made by their Enemies upon the Caufeway of 
 Martinville, to turn away the Waters and drain 
 the Fields ; they put likewife in good Repdr 
 the Tower of the Colombier, which had fuifered 
 above two thoufand Cannon-Shot. 
 
 The 25th, they ftormed a-new the City zt^i^t^* 
 St. Hilary*s Gate, and Were repulfed, and three 
 Mines were fprung, but to little purpofe. 
 
 At laft, the 26th, the French Soldiers being TZ-^ /«/ 
 either tired with the Fatigue, or diftieartned,the ^''"*'* 
 City was carried by Storm, notwithftanding the 
 ftout and brave Refiftance of the Burghers,but efpe- 
 cially of the Englifti, who behaved themfelves on all 
 occafions in the moft gallant manner. Captain 
 St. Colombe of the Province of Beam was the 
 firft who entered the City throUgh the Breach ; 
 
 Vol. II. N but 
 
lyS Hijlory of the Reformation ^ and of the Vol.. II; j 
 Charles but having been fhot in the Face, he died of i 
 
 ^^- his Wound a few Days after; the Count of 
 PoL pfus Nanfay followed him, he was forely wounded | 
 IV. ' in the Thigh. Then the others having forced ' 
 *— ^v*^ their Paflage, went to plundering. 
 CXXVir. Now, whoever can conceive, that no Spec- 
 l^oTIttonl'f^'^'^^^ more frightful can be offered to the Sight, 1 
 the Inha- than that of a City taken by Storm, which for ' 
 hitants. its being the more opulent and peopled, is the ' 
 more apt to tempt the Rapacioufnefs and Cruelty 
 of the Soldiery, and as much as it has been hap- i 
 py during its Profperity, as much it is unhappy i 
 in the time of its Adverfity, will have an I- ' 
 mage of the Condition the unfortunate Rouen i 
 was in then : And all that, becaufe they chofe to ■■ 
 die or to fuffer the laft Extremities, rather than ' 
 to endure a bafe and cruel Slavery from the i 
 Guifes *. ! 
 
 Montgommery, having got a Galley to be 
 ready at all ^^Events, embarked in it with the ' 
 Englifh Troops and his Family, and having pro- 
 mifed Liberty to the Slaves, they made fuch Di- j 
 ligence, and were fo happy, that having pafTed \ 
 over the Stackado at Caudebec, they landed fafe • 
 at Havre de Grace, 
 
 As to the Chiefs of the City which remained 
 in it, they retired into the old Palace, which ■ 
 was foon furrendered to St. Efteve, with many ; 
 Minifters that were found in it, befides thofe.i 
 belonging to the City •, but the greateft part ! 
 found Means to efcape the following Night, \ 
 while the Soldiers were gone a plundering a- 
 bout. i 
 
 The Prefident D'Emandreville was likewife ! 
 taken ; and when he thought to have bought 
 his Liberty with that of Auguftine Marlorat ' 
 firft Minifter of Rouen, for two thoufand Crowns \ 
 
 which : 
 
 * Th^n. ibi^l. r lo-. Ecza liv, viii. ' 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches //z Fr a n c e . 170 
 
 which he had promis'd to St. Efteve -, the Trai- Charles 
 tor having got what he defired, that is, know- ^^• 
 ing where Marlorat lay concealed, he fent for p ^^^ p^j^j^ 
 him, and put him clofe Prifoner with the Pre- iv. 
 fident. 
 
 The next Morning they were both brought 
 before the Conftable, who feverely upbraided 
 them, charging them with a Defign of placing 
 the Prince of Conde upon the Throne of France, 
 and of creating the Admiral Duke of Norman- 
 dy, and D'Andelot Duke of Britany •, and or- 
 dered them to be kept in a clofer Confinement ; 
 fwearing to Marlorat, that within a few Days he 
 would be made fenfible that His God was 
 not able to deliver him out of his 
 Hands. 
 
 It was a doleful Sight to fee the poor People, 
 Men, Women and Children wandering* along 
 the Shore of the River Seine, endeavouring to 
 efcape the Fury of the Soldiers -, many who 
 took Boats, or croffed the River by fwimming, 
 were either drowned, killed or ftript and brought 
 back Prifoners, very few excepted. It was rec- 
 koned that this Siege coil the Lives of Four 
 thoufand Men on both fides. Tho* by the 
 King's Proclamation the plundering was to laft 
 only twenty-four Hours, neverthelefs it laft- 
 ed for many days with the fame DifTolutenefs and 
 Fury *. 
 
 As to the King of Navarr, whom we left at 
 Dernetal, his Wound was in the left Shoulder- 
 blade, the Bullet adhering to the Joint, a fmall 
 part of the Bone being betwixt the Bullet and the 
 Orifice of the Wound, in fo,jnuch that it was 
 impoffible to take it out, and the Flefh growing 
 upon it, the Medicaments could not penetrate 
 to the bottom ; he fpent all his time in 
 N 2 * Plays 
 
 *■ Id. ibid. Dinoth. lib, 2,. 
 
i8o Hijlory of the Reformation, and the ofVoiW, 
 
 Charies Plays and other Diverfions, and in feeding hrs 
 
 1562. wandering Soul, with the vain Hopes of the 
 
 P^/f Pius Kingdom of Sardinia, which the King of Spain 
 
 IV. ^ had promifed him, fancying to hixnfelf that Fo- 
 
 refts of Citron Trees, and golden Apples, like 
 
 thofe of the ancient Hefperides, Streams of Gold, 
 
 fine Rivers like the Seine, the Loire, and the 
 
 Garonne were to be found in it : He repeated fo 
 
 often thofe idle Tales, that he tir'd the Patience 
 
 of thofe who came to vifit him *. 
 
 cxxviii. He no fooner heard that the City was taken j 
 
 ^i^XTL ^^^" ^^ ^''^'^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ °^ h'^ Chamber to be 
 pub lick En-W^^^^ down, and from thence he was carried 
 tty into them his Bed upon his Switzers Shoulders, (for he 
 ^'0'- • ould not get up out of his Bed without evi- 
 dent Danger) and made his Entry through the 
 Breach in a kind of Triumph, Drums beating 
 and the Timbrels founding after the German way, 
 and fo he was carried by the fame Breach to the 
 Lodgings prepared for him ; there he waited 
 for his laft Hour, in the fame Diverfions, a 
 beautiful young Lady above named, viz. Rouet, 
 one of the Queen-Mother's Maids of Honour, 
 whom he loved defperately, never flirring from 
 his Bed -fide : it wasfaid that the Queen had brib'd 
 her fome Months before, on purpofe to dive in- 
 to his moft fecret Thoughts. 
 He ^roi'js The Inflammation of his Wound increafed, and 
 nvotfe^ and fgjjie (j^ys after, whcu he was thought better,he was 
 Tas'iKw-J. f'^izc'i with a violent Fever, and the Surgeons hav- 
 ing cut the Excrefcencies,the purulentMatter ilTu- 
 i ng out ofit, exhaled fuch a Stink, that even the Sur- 
 geons themfelvescould hardly bear with it; but for 
 allthat theFcverrclented not: therefore bcingfen- 
 fible of his approaching Death, he renounced en- 
 tirely all manner of Diverfions •, and Perrenot 
 de Chantonay, theSpaniih AmbafTador, being 
 
 come 
 
 * Thuan, Tom. II. lib, .\xxiii. p. 197. 
 
B o o K I V. Reformed Churches //2 France i8i 
 come to vifit him, he complained very bitterly Clurles 
 Ui him, that he knew but too late, that he had ^ - • 
 been fadly abufed and deceived, and blamed his p^^^ Pius 
 Credulity, for having been fo raih as to believe IV. 
 one Word of the King of Spain's Promifes.' 
 Then he wrote to the Queen his Confort, warn- 
 ing her to provide for the Safety of Beam. Af- 
 ter that he began to think more narrowly of him- 
 i^Vi^ and he, who till then had wavered in 
 Matters of Religion, pretending the Danger of 
 the Kingdom, now his approaching Death 
 makes him more follicitous for his own Salva- 
 tion than for the Kingdom. Neverthelefs he 
 was diftradled by two Phyficians, (who have al- 
 ways a great Power with Princes unhealthful, or 
 drawing near their Death) viz. Vincentio Lauro 
 a Calabrian, who had been formerly Phyfician 
 to the Cardinal of Tournon, and Raphael de 
 Mezieres, who adhered to the Reformed Doc- 
 trine. The firft perfuaded him to have a Con- 
 ference with the Official of Rouen, on the 9th 
 of November, and he received the Sacrament 
 after the Roman way, before the Prince of La 
 Roche-fur-Yon,andthe Bifhop ofMendes, but 
 none of his Servants was prelent, at which he 
 was very angry. This afforded to Mezieres an 
 Opportunity of telling him of his Duty, and e- 
 ven he fpoke to him about the Sin againft the 
 Holy Ghoft -, to which he faid nothing, but was 
 very thoughtful. The Queen having been told 
 by the Phyficians, that it was time for his Maje- 
 fty to think of his Confcience, llie vifited him, 
 and fpake to him to this very purpofe, My 
 Brother^ What do yon think of? 'You ought to 
 have fomebody to read by you. Madam, fays 
 he, moft p^rt of thofe who attend me are Hu- 
 guenots ; fhe replied, they^are no lefs your Ser- 
 vants for that. Then the Queen being gone, 
 N 3 he 
 
1 82 Hijhry of the Reformation, and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles he ordered Mezieres to read the Book of Tob, 
 f^'^ and was touched to the quick by that reading, 
 Pope Pius ^"<i ^aid. to that Vhydc'iTin, Mezieres you have been 
 IV. in^ny Service thefe twenty Tears paji, and now you 
 ^"""'V^ fee the unhappy End of my Life. Then he afked 
 Pardon of God, with Tears in his Eyes, and 
 made a Confeffion of his Faith after the Refor- 
 med way, protecting that if he fhould recover, 
 he would caufe the Gofpel to be purely preach'd 
 throughout the Kingdom : He found himfelf 
 fomething better in the Night, and the next 
 Morning he faid to the Affiftants, / know that 
 you will fay every where, theKingofNavarr 
 DIED AN Huguenot ; do not take notice of 
 whatever I am, I will live and die in the Au- 
 guftan Confeffion. From that time he grew 
 worfe and worfe, and caufed the Bible to be 
 read to him by Mezieres. 
 CXXX. Then he made his laft Will -, and againft the 
 fiisDeath- Advice of his Phyficians, he infifted to be car- 
 ried by Water to St. Maur des P'oflez a Borough 
 near Paris, where he had been told, that, per- 
 haps, he might recover, becaufe of the Whole- 
 fomenefs of the Air. When he was in the Barge 
 he found himfelf better, but a little after, he 
 felt great Shiverings, and a cold Sweat •, in his 
 raving he faid, / will fend Mezieres to Geneva 
 to be a Minifier, where is he ? let him come to 
 pray by w.e. Mezieres, who was at the Bed's- 
 fide, kneeled down, and made a Prayer ex 
 tempore, the Prince of La Roche-fur- Yon and 
 the reft of the Company, the Cardinal of Bour- 
 bon, the Prince of Mantua and another excepted, 
 kneeled down likewife. Mezieres went on ex- 
 horting and comforting his Majefty 'till about 
 four Hours before his Death, when, having loft 
 almoft his Speech, the Cardinal called for a Ja- 
 cobine who was in a Lay-drefs in the Barge ; the 
 
 King 
 
B o K I V. Reformed Churches /;z F r A n c e T 183 
 King knew by the Sound of his Voice that it Charles 
 was not Mezieres, therefore he ail^'d him who ^^^ 
 he was, and who had fent him to him ? Upon Pope Pius 
 which Mezieres defired him to hearken to the IV. 
 Man, that he would tell him nothing, but what' 
 was for his own Profit. At his laft Agonies, he 
 took his Valet de Chambre by the Beard, and 
 bid him to be trufty to his Son, and to exhort 
 him in his Name to be faithful to the King •, 
 which faid, he expired (a). 
 
 So died Anthony of Bourbon, King of Na- 9^^^^- 
 varr, on the 17th of November, the 35th 'D^y £flea;ons 
 after his Wound, and in the 42d Year of his upon his 
 
 ^ pre . CharaSler. 
 
 He was welJ-fhap'd and of a Majcftick Coun- 
 tenance, but efpecially endowed with a frank 
 and generous Soul, ready to forgive the great- 
 eft Offences upon the leaft Application •, his mi- 
 litary Virtues and Atchievements made him to be 
 reckoned amongft the great Captains of his Age; 
 he was naturally a Lover of Juflice, and want- 
 ed not of Induftry for the Management of Af- 
 fairs ; had he been more fteady in the Party he 
 had once embraced, moft likely he would have 
 attained his Ends in a way infinitely glorious to 
 himfelf, and advanta2;ious to the Kingdom : But 
 as Senfuality impaired the Faculties of his Mind, 
 fo it made him fickle and inconftant, lazy, and 
 avoiding Application as much as he could, eafy 
 to be carried away by his Adulators; who, hu- 
 mouring him in his Ways of Living, knew per-, 
 fedly well how to improve his Failings and 
 Vices to their beft Advantage. Des Cars had 
 the greateft Afcendant over him, and governed 
 him juft as he pleafed. Which being known at 
 Court (that defired no better than to be able to 
 difpofe of a Name and a Perfon of that Lnpor- 
 N 4 tance, 
 
 (a) Beza liv. viii. Thuan, lib. xxxiii. 
 
I S4 Hiftory of the ReformaUon^ andofthe Vol.11. 
 Charles tatice, at a fmall Expence, and by fome Gratifi- 
 cations confiderable enough for a private Man, 
 but unworthy of a great Prince) his Credit and 
 Reputation began to fink apace, and he could 
 reckon amongft his Friends only thofe whofe 
 Condition and Fortune obliged them to depend 
 on a Favourite, whofe Intereft it is to engage 
 his Mailer into a Compliance with everything. 
 When a Prince is once brought to that Extre- 
 jnity, one may fay that he has loft all the Me- 
 rit of former Works, and that all his good Quali- 
 fications are gone away (b). 
 
 That Prince's unfortunate Death, and the fad 
 Circumftances it was attended with, ought to be 
 a Caution for others, to avoid Flattery, Senfua- 
 lity, and every thing elfe which might corrupt 
 their Morals-, and to like to retain God in 
 THEIR Knowledge, if they are curious of 
 reigning glorioufly, and of leaving a good Name 
 ^fter them. 
 
 He had had three Princes and a Princefs by 
 Jane of Albret his Queen Confort. The two 
 firft Princes died in the Cradle by very extraor- 
 -dinary Accidents. The firft was fmother'd with 
 Heat, becaufe his Governefs, who was very 
 chilly, kept him too warm. The fecond loft 
 ills Life by the Folly of a Nurfe ; for one day 
 as ftie made a Sport with tofling of him from 
 her to a Gentleman, they let him fall upon the 
 Floor, of which having lingred for fome Weeks 
 he died. Henry Prince of Bearn,and King of Na- 
 var, after Queen Jane his Mother's Death, and 
 King of France, under the Name of Henry IV. 
 of which more hereafter. The Princefs, v/as 
 Margaret, who was married to the Prince of Bar, 
 Son to the Duke of Lorrain. 
 
 An« 
 
 (b) See Le Laboureur Add. aux iMem. de Caftelnau, liv. 
 iii. ch. 13. 
 
BookIV. ReformedChiirches 2;2 France. 185 
 Anthony*s Death could not be miich lamented Charles 
 in the Kingdom, his own Menials excepted •, ^■^■ 
 the Queen-Mother faw herfelf freed from a Tool p^pl ^{^^ 
 which the Triumvirs made ufe of to controul her IV. 
 A<ftions, and to check her Ambition. The 
 Triumvirs had obtained their ends, having got, 
 by that Prince's Authority, and under his Name, 
 their Adverfaries proclaimed as Rebels by the 
 Parliament of Paris, and feveral others, and fo 
 they wanted no more of him for the Execution 
 of their Scheme. The Queen of Navarr his 
 Confort had been of late fo ill ufed by him, and 
 fhe faw him fo defperately bent to his own ruin, 
 that nothing but the fad Circumftances of his 
 Death, could move her to deplore his Fate ; the 
 Reformed in general were fenfible, that his Un- 
 fteadinefs and Change had occafioned all the In- 
 juftice and Cruelties ufed againft them, all the 
 Sufferings and Miferies they underwent, and it 
 was hut too true, that if he approved not of them, 
 at leaji he was the occafion of them ; no wonder 
 therefore if fome of them vented their Indig- 
 nation after his death by feveral fatyrical Wri- 
 tings; amongft which I have picked the follow- 
 ing Verfes which I prefent here to my Reader. 
 
 DE LA MORT DE TROIS ROIS. 
 
 DI E U par fon Chrifl; voulant regner en 
 Gaule, 
 Pour I'empecher trois Rois fe font pouflez ; 
 Mais tot par lui ont ete repouffez, 
 En leur frapant, I'oeuiJ, I'oreiile & I'epaule. 
 
 POUR perdre les Chretiens trois Rois fe font 
 forcez, 
 Mais on voit leurs confeils fur leurs Chefs ren- 
 verfez j 
 
 Car 
 
1 S 6 Hiftory of the Reformation, and of the Vo l . IlJ ; 
 
 Charles ^Car Henry voulant voir du Bourg reduit en ' 
 cendre, 
 Blefle en Poeuil s'en va au Sepulchre defcendre. 
 Francois qui ne daignoit aux Chretiens audience ; 
 Preter, eft mort du mal d'oreille en fon enfance : j 
 Antoine promettant les chaffer hors la Gaule \ 
 Par I'epaule, eft frappe d'un boulet en I'epaule ; 
 Aprenez done vous Rois, que Dieu punit peche. 
 En cela par quoy Thomme a contre lui peche. 
 
 They were turned into Latin in the following 
 manner. j 
 
 Tres populum Chrifti conjurant perdere Reges, 
 
 Hos cafus ftibitus ftiftulit ante diem. j 
 
 Ante oculos Burgum flammis torrere parabat ' 
 
 Henricus, hunc oculo lancea frada petit. ' 
 
 Franciscus, miferis qui fauftam denegat aurem*, i 
 
 Auribus, hie vitam perdidit Aureliac. 
 An TON I us, fpatulis promittens pellere Chriftos, ; 
 
 In fpatula vindex hunc catapulta ferit. i 
 
 Difcite terrifici Reges, juvenefque fenefque, i 
 
 Quod hasc irato fadla fuere Deo. 
 
 The meaning of thefe Verfes is, That God i 
 had puniftied of late three Kings by the parts of ; 
 their Bodies by which they had offended againft ; 
 him ; Henry II. had fworn that he fhoul4 fee j 
 Counfellor Annas du Bourg burning, but being I 
 wounded with a Lance in his Eye, he died % \ 
 few days after. Francis II. refufing to hear the i 
 Complaints of his Subjects, and efpecially the j 
 Reformed, died with an Impofthume in one of ! 
 his Ears. And Anthony King of Navarr I 
 having faid in banter, that he would expel the j 
 Reformed by the Shoulders out of the King- \ 
 
 dom^ \ 
 
 * Inflead o? fan flam denegat aurem, we read in Le Laboil- i 
 rear furdam denegat, &c. which is not Senfe. \ 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 187 
 dom, was woundedln his Shoulder and died of Charles 
 it ; therefore all Princes ought to take warning ^^• 
 at thefe Examples {c) f. Pc/7pfus 
 
 I could have put oiF the Charadler of Jane iv. 
 
 Queen of Navarr to the beginning of the next ' /— «^ 
 
 Book, but whereas xDne of the greateft Ornaments 
 of Anthony of Bourbon was, that he had fuch 
 an excellent Princefs for his Confort, I fhall in- 
 fert It here. 
 
 She was Daughter of Henry- Albret King of cxxxii. 
 Navarr, and of Margaret of Valois, Sifter to Charader 
 Francis I. born in the Year 1^20, endowed ^S '^"'^r 
 with all the Perfedlions of Body and Soul, efpe- jsjavarr. 
 cially with an extraordinary Fortitude much a- 
 bove the reach of her Sex, which upheld her in 
 the midft of her Diftrefles. She was not yet 
 eleven Years old, when her Uncle Francis I. 
 married her to the Duke of Cleves. That Mar- 
 riage was celebrated at Chatelleraud, with an ex- 
 traordinary pomp on the 15th of July 1540, but 
 was declared void fome time after. It had been 
 concluded notwithftanding that young Princefs's 
 Proteft, and againft the Will of her Father and 
 Mother. In Oftober 1 548, fhe was married to 
 Anthony of Bourbon Duke of Vendome, by 
 whom Ihe had four Children. The third time 
 that fhe was big with Child, the King her Fa- 
 ther having promifed her to put into her hands 
 his Teftament, as foon as fhe fhould be deliver- 
 ed, ypon condition however, that at the time of 
 her Delivery fhe would fmg a Song, left^ fays 
 he, thou hringeft forth a IFeeper and crabbed 
 
 ChilcL 
 
 (c) Add. aux Mem. de Cafleln. liv. iii. ch. 13. 
 
 •f- Mr. Perefixe miltakes, when he fays that had the Kirg 
 of Navarr lived any longer, the Huguenots would certainly 
 have been feverely handled in France, &c. that is quite con- 
 trary to what Thuanus and others relate of his Sentiments, 
 in the lalt days of his Life. Perefixe Hiil. de lienry le grand, 
 p. 22. 
 
Hiftory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. 11. 
 Child. She told her Father that fhe would com-r 
 ply, and indeed was fo courageous, that tho' fhe 
 had a very hard Labour, the King being come 
 into her Chamber, as foon as fhe heard him, in 
 the midfl of herPainsfhe began a Song in Bearnefe 
 Language, thefe are the words; Noste Donne 
 
 DEOU CAP DEOU PON, ADJOUDA ME EN AQUES- 
 
 TE HouRE, that is. Our Lady at the Bridge's 
 end, help me at this hour. She became Queen 
 of Navarr by the Death of her Father Henry, 
 the 25th of May 1555. Tho* fhe was at firft 
 much indulgent to the Reformed as well as her 
 Hufband, neverthelefs fhe diffembled, efpecially 
 during the Guife's tyrannical Adminiflration un- 
 der Francis II, being affraid of perfecution, and 
 fhe faid once to the King, That if he had a mind 
 to ruin himfelf yet Jhe would not do the fame (d). 
 
 But what is very furprizing, Anthony be- 
 gan no fooner to decline and grow cold towards 
 the Reformed, but fhe began to grow warm and 
 zealous for that Religion, and became the conftant 
 Protedrice of all the ProfefTors of it (e). 
 
 The Thunder-bolts of the Vatican, nor the 
 Efforts and ynder-dealings of the Spaniards, nor 
 the Rebellion of her own Subjeds, were not able 
 to deter her from her Refolution •, fhe abolifhed 
 the Mafs all over her Dominions in Beam •, fhe 
 outwitted Blaife Montluc Marfhal of France, 
 who was bent to her Ruin and Deflruflion •, in 
 a word, none but Queen Elizabeth could be pa- 
 rallelled with Jane for thofe fhining Virtues which 
 adorn the Throne, as well as for their mutual, 
 good luck in difcovering and defeating the Plots 
 of their Roman Catholick Subjedls : Jane was no 
 Jefs dillinguilhed in her times for her Learning 
 
 than 
 
 (d) Brantome Vie dcs Capitaines Fran9oiSitom, iii. p ?38. 
 B;"-ic Hv iii. p- i-i- 
 j'^f j Beze liv. iv, .^-c. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fr an ceJ i 8^ 
 
 thart for her other Royal Virtues ; amongft fe- Charles 
 veral other Tongues, fhe fpoke perfedlly well ^^- , 
 Latin and Spanifh ; fhe had a particular regard p^^^ p^J 
 for the Learned, whom fhe invited to her Court ; iv. 
 and as an iiiftance of her love for all ufeful 
 Knowledge and Arts, I fhall infert here a Stanza 
 which fhe made extempore the 21ft of May 
 1566, when fhe went to fee the Printing-houfe 
 of Robert Stephens. 
 
 Art fingulier, d*icy aux derniers ans, 
 Reprefentez aux Enfans de ma race. 
 Que j'ai fuivi des craignans Dieu la trace ; 
 Afin qu'ils foient les memes pas fuivans. 
 
 That is. Singular Art, fhow forth from thence 
 to the remoteft times, to my furtheft Poflerity, 
 that I have followed the Steps of thofe who 
 fear God, to the end that they fhould do the 
 fame. 
 
 Robert Stephens, who was a Reformed, an- 
 fwered likewife extempore her Encomium on the 
 Art of Printing, by this Sonnet. 
 
 PrincefTe que le Ciel de grace favorife, 
 A qui les craignans Dieu fouhaitent tout bonheur, 
 A qui les grands Efprits ont donne tout honneur. 
 Pour avoir dodement la Science conquife. 
 
 S'il eft vray que du tems la plus brave entreprife, 
 Au devant des Vertus abalfle fa Grandeur, 
 S'il eft vrai que les ans n'offufquent la fplendeur. 
 Qui fait luire par tout les Enfans de I'Eglife. 
 
 LeCiel,les Craignans Dieu,& lesHommes ffavans, 
 Me feront raconter aux Peuples furvivans, 
 Vos graces & votre heur, ^ loiiange notoire. 
 
1 90 mjlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. 11. 
 
 Charles Et puis que vos vertus ne peuvent prendre fin. 
 Par vous je demeurray vivante, a cette fin, 
 Qu'aux peuples a venir j*en porte la memoire (/). 
 
 ThatPrincefs wrote finely in Profe, as we 
 fhall fee in its proper place, by a Letter fhe wrote 
 to Prince Henry her Son from Blois, where fhe 
 was gone to conclude his Marriage-Contrad with 
 Margaret of Valois, youngeft Daughter of Hen- 
 ry II. and Sifter to Charles IX. Her Zeal for 
 her Religion, and her Charity towards her Sub- 
 jefts of Bifcay went fo far, that in order to pro- 
 cure their Inftru6lion, fhe caufed the new Tef- 
 tament, the Catechifm and the Common- Prayers 
 ufed at Geneva, to be tranflated in their Mother- 
 tongue (fcarce underftood by any of their Neigh- 
 bours, and which was thought before impoffible 
 to be fet in writing or to be fpelt) and to be 
 finely printed at La Rochelle, all at her own 
 Charge •, fhe took care likewife to provide them 
 withMinifters and Teachers who could fpeak their 
 own Language, to preach and inftru6t themf^). 
 
 She left her Dominions at the beginning of 
 the fecond Civil-War in 1568, in order to join 
 the Chief of the Reformed, and had an Inter- 
 view with the Prince of Conde at Cognac, to 
 whom Jhe prefented her Son the Prince of Navarr^ 
 *ivhom Jhe vowed fo young as he was, (about 1 5 
 Years old) to the Defence of the Caufe, with her 
 Rings and Jewels, which were fold or mortgaged 
 cfterwards for helping to pay the Charges of the 
 War^ and wrote to the foreign Princes. When 
 fhe came to La Rochelle, Jhe fent to ^.een Eliza- 
 beth a full Account of the Defolations of France, 
 and of the great Miferies which it was expofed 
 to, befceching her to pity fo many People unjijlly 
 
 opprejjed, 
 
 (f) Le Labour. Addit, aux Mem de Cafleln. liv. iii. ch.13. 
 (gj Thuanus lib. li. p. 791. 
 
Booic IV. Reformed Churches in France; 191 
 opprejfed, and to believe that Jhe was moved to take Charles 
 lip Arms, only by a great and extreme Neceffity ; ^^• 
 Jhe fent thefe Letters the i^th of O^ioher 1568 hy Poplv\M% 
 Monfieur de Chaftelier (h). IV. 
 
 AH the beft Hiftorians, Roman-Catholicks as ' 
 well as Reformed, agree as to the Charadler of 
 that Princefs, that fhe was one of the moft ac- 
 complifhed PrincefTes of her Age. One thing 
 only ean be juftly laid to her charge, as a ble- 
 mifh to her Charafter, viz. a Breach of Faith 
 after the Capitulation of Orthez, whereof I (hall 
 fpeak in its proper place. Indeed fuch a Breach 
 (tho* very frequent in thofe times) was very un- 
 worthy of her Rank and the Profeflion fhe made 
 of ftrid: Juftlce ; it afforded a Pretence to Mont- 
 luc of gratifying his Cruelty a little after at the 
 Mont of Marfan (i). 
 
 As to her clandeftine Marriage after Anthony's 
 Death, with a Gentleman by whom fhe got, it 
 is faid, D'Aubigne the Hiflorian, it is a Tale fo 
 much the more ridiculous, that the faid D'Au- 
 bigne was eleven Years and more than fix Months 
 old when King Anthony died ; he being 80 
 Years old when he died at Geneva on the 29th 
 of April 1630 ('/^). Nevertheiefs a Genealogift 
 received orders in the reign of Lewis XIV. to find 
 the Defcent of Madam de Maintenon^ Grand- 
 Daughter of this Mr. UAubigne, out of Jane 
 ^ieen of Navarr, who after the death of Antho- 
 7iy, had married one of her Gentlemen^ who as it 
 is 'pretended^ was Father to Mr. U Aubigne [l)^ 
 
 But 
 
 (h) Olhagaray Hift.de Foix, Beam & Navarre. 
 
 (i) Thuan, lib. xlv. p. 584. 
 
 (k) Spon. Hill, de Geneve torn. ii. p. 387, 388. Edit, of 
 Lyon 16S0. 
 
 (I) Galanteries de R.oix des France torn. ii. quoted by 
 Bayle in his Difl. Art, Jeanne de Navarre, rem.'QJ p. 331. 
 Tom. iv. Edit. Trev. ' 
 
192 WJlory of the Reformation, and of the Vo l . If. 
 Charles But the Falfhood of that AfTertion is evident 
 *^; by Mr. D'Aubigne's Age. That Princefs died 
 Tope Pi*us ^t Paris on the loth of June 1572, in the 44th 
 IV. Year of her Age. If D*AviIa is to be credited, 
 *—-v—' certainly fhe was poifon'd by Charles IXth's 
 Orders : Thuanus is not pofitive as to that, but 
 feveral other Hiftorians deny the Fa(5t, (might be 
 deceived by the report of the Phyficians and 
 Surgeons v/ho opened her Body, but not her Head, 
 thinking that it would be too cruel to fearch 
 that part) now D'Avila pretends, that the Poi- 
 fon had been fo well prepared, that it could af- 
 fe6t only the Brains, without offending any other 
 part of the Body (m). 
 cxxxiii. After this long DigrefTion, which I hope will 
 Ferfon ^^^ ^^ tcdious to my Reader, I come now to the 
 tried and niain Subje6l. The Parliament of Rouen that 
 executed ai\i2A kept their fittings at Louviers, came back to 
 Rouen. Rouen ori the 29th of October, with their Hearts 
 full of Hatred and Revenge againft the poor In- 
 habitants, efpecially thofe of the Reformed Re- 
 ligion. The Queen-Mother fent for the Prefi- 
 dent L'Alemand, to whom fhe forbad to at- 
 tempt any thing againft the Reformed, before 
 a Lift of thofe who were deem'd to be the Au- 
 thors of the paft Refiftance fhould have been 
 drawn ; becaufe the King, by his Proclamation, 
 had pardoned generally all the Inhabitants. The 
 Conftable, the Dukes of Guife, and Aumale and 
 Villebon, with fome of their Adherents, had 
 took upon them to draw that Lift. On the o- 
 ther hand L'Alemand, tho' he had countenanc'd 
 the Reformed before the Troubles, aud kindly 
 received their Remonftrance upon the necefTity 
 of Publick Aflemblies, and who had been one 
 of the Notables aifembled at Paris when the 
 
 Edift 
 
 (m) D'Avila Hift. des Guerrrt Clvilcs de France, Tom i. 
 liv. 5 p. 266. 
 
B o o K I V . 'Reformed Churches //z F r a n c e . 193 
 did of January was drawn, and had caufed it Charles 
 to be regifter'd in the Parliament of Rouen ; ~ /^ 
 r.everthelefs, having quite altered his mind, he po^e Pius 
 not only made his report to the Parliament of IV. 
 the Orders he had received, but added further ' 
 at the Conftable and others inftigation, that the 
 Queen had acquainted him, that the Amnefty 
 pubhfhed in the King's name, was only a De- 
 vice, and that fhe pretended that Juflice fhould 
 be executed againft all the Captains and Ring- 
 leaders as foon as poflible, without appealing to 
 the King or to Herfelf. Accordingly it was re- 
 folved, that the Captains and Leaders fhould be 
 brought from the old Palace to the Parliament's 
 Jail. 
 
 On the 30th of Odober John Du Bofc Lord 
 D'Emandreville, Prefident in the Court of Aids, 
 Vincent de Gruchet Lord of Sequence, antiend 
 Counfellor of Rouen, Noel Coton Lord of Ber- 
 thonville, Jikewife a Counfellor of the faid City, 
 ■ and Auguftine Marlorat Minifter, were brought 
 one after another before the Court. 
 
 They were principally interrogated about the 
 Treaty made with Queen Elizabeth, why they had 
 refufed to obey the King's Commands and his 
 Governors ? why they had ri fen in Arms ? 
 
 They faid in their own Defence, That they 
 had took up Arms in theDefence of their Liberty 
 againft the Violators of the King's Edi6ts, by 
 the Prince of Conde's Orders, who was impow- 
 er'd to do it by the Queen's fecret ComraaiKls, 
 as it had been reported to them. As to the 
 Treaty with the Englifh, they knew nothing 
 elfe of it, only that the Prince had dealt with 
 Queen Elizabeth, as with a Princefs allyed to the 
 Crown of France, defiring her^ that according to 
 the Good- Will and Friend ihip flie bore to the. 
 King, and his Subjeds profefling the pure Reli-j 
 
 Vol. II. O gion,i 
 
194 Hiftory of the Reformation, andofthe Vol. IL 
 
 Chalres glon, and who were expofed to the Violence of 
 
 11:62 ^o"^^ ambitious Men, fhe would be pleafed ta 
 
 Pot>e Pius grant her powerful Affiftance. They were all 
 
 IV . condemned to death, as if they had been guilty 
 
 ' of High-Treafon and Difturbers of the publick 
 
 Peace. 
 
 Du Bofc to be drawn in his Shirt upon a Hur- 
 dle to the old Market- Place, there to be behead- 
 ed, and his Head fixed on a Pole upon the 
 Bridge, and his Corps quartered, and the Quar- 
 ters fixed to four Gibbets at the Avenues of the 
 City. Gruchet, Coton and Marlorat were like- 
 wife condemned to be drawn in the fame manner 
 to the place before the Town-Houfe, there to be 
 hanged, flrangled, and their Heads being fever'd 
 ihould be affixed on the City Bridge, and their 
 Bodies hanged in Chains. All their Goods were 
 forfeited to the Crown. 
 
 Thefe Sentences were executed with great In- 
 humanity, efpecially againft Marlorat, who was 
 an excellent Divine ; in whofe behalf, even the 
 Roman Catholicks bore witnefs, that he had 
 never preached any thing tending to Sedition or 
 Rebellion ; nevertheJefs the Conftable himfelf and 
 the youngeft of his Sons, were fo bafely cruel 
 as to infult him in his Misfortunes when carried 
 to the place of execution, and Villebon beat hirrt 
 with a wand : but for ail that, he was led like a 
 Lamb to the Shamble, exhorting and ftrength- 
 ning the two Counfellors, and fufFered to the laft 
 with a chriftian-like Conftancy, and a full Refig- 
 nation to the Will of God, as did like wife the 
 three former. Marlorat left a Widow and five 
 little Children. 
 
 The following Epitaph was made fiDr him^ 
 and is to be found at the head of his excellent 
 Work, Totius Divinas ac Canonicce Scriptural 
 
 The- 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in ¥ra^cie.» 19^ 
 Thefaurus &c. publiflied after his Death by Chajks 
 William de Feuguieres. 
 
 OR E gravi dum facra tuo myfteria pandis, 
 Auguuilne gregi, Taturato pedore nedar 
 Mellifluum bonus excipit, improbus illud 
 Rejecifle nefas cenfebat : at obiuta poftquam 
 Vita boni vifa eft, luget pius,. impius horret ^ 
 
 Se infandum patrafle fcelus, cefumque parentem 
 Flent nati, ablentemque ferox defiderat hoftis. 
 Occifum ergo licet te terque quaterque beatum 
 Marlorate caiiam, quum nee tibi vivere trifte 
 Contigerit, nee turpe mori, cui fama perennis 
 Grata bonifque malifque viget poft fata fuperftes. 
 
 Captain John de Crofes, Captain Rene de Pro- 
 vanes, and ten or twelve others were feverally 
 condemned and executed, Provanes excepted, 
 becaufe he obtained his Pardon ; De Crofes was 
 beheaded, and the reft were hang'd and quarr 
 ter*d. 
 
 At laft, the Parliament Was forbidden to pro- 
 ceed any further, and to condemn any body with- 
 out good and ftrong Evidence. 
 
 They went on plundering and committing a 
 thoufand Outrages againft the poor Inliabitants, 
 they re-baptized Children with Drums beating, 
 they married again thofe who had been married 
 before by a Minifter ; nothing was to be heard, 
 or {^QVi m the Streets but dillblute Songs, Blaf- 
 phemies or impudick Ads ; nay, they bragged 
 that the Mafs and Brothels were come again into 
 the City by the fame Breach {?i). 
 
 The News of thefe cruel -Executions being cxxxiv. 
 come to Orleans, occafioned the Condemnation ^^}^''^ '^ 
 and Execution of Baptifta Sapin Counfcllor Clerk exesureJh 
 
 O 2 in reprih: at 
 
 . , « ,. ■•• , r, , ,., ... Oileans. 
 
 (n) Bezaliv. vm. p 651, &c. Ihuan.lib. xxxni p. 197, 
 
 198. 
 
HiJIory of theKeJormalion^and the o/* Vol. II. 
 
 in the Parliament of Paris, and of John of 
 Troyes Abbot of Gatines in Touraine,an Auftiii 
 Fryar, who had been taken a Month before 
 going to Spain v/ith Odet de Selves upon a pri- 
 vate CommifTion from *the Triumvirs. The 
 Prince's Party at Orleans were fo incenfed at the 
 unjuft and cruel Proceedijigs of the Parliament 
 of Rouen, that notwithftanding the ftrong Op- 
 pofitions of D'Aubigne Father to the Hiftorian, 
 and of fome others of the Prince's Council, they 
 were condemned to be hanged and executed at 
 the publick Place of Orleans ; and it was with 
 much ado that De Selves efcaped the fame Fate 
 at the Intreaties of his Brother who was in the 
 Prince's Service, but he died a little after with 
 the Fright he had been put in on this Occafion 
 
 {0). 
 
 When they heard at Paris what had been 
 done at Orleans againft thefe two Gentlemen, ef- 
 pecially againft Sapin, the Court of Parliament 
 went with their red Gowns to the Holy Chapel 
 of the Palace, and caufed a folemn Funeral-Ser- 
 vice to be performed for the repofe of his Soul. 
 His Corpfc was brought to Paris, and buried in 
 the Auftin-Fryar's Church, where, by the Parlia- 
 ment's Orders, his Epitaph was fet, engraved 
 upon a Copper- Plate. Amongft many Poem^ 
 done to his honour ; Agricola has chofen this 
 Complaint, which he is fuppofed to make to the 
 Parliament of Paris, which contains an account 
 of his being taken by a Party of the City of 
 Orleans. 
 
 o 
 
 R D O Togatorum cujus dum falva mane- 
 bant 
 Jura, Salus populi Religioque ftctit ! 
 
 Ordo 
 
 l^oj Thunn Ibid. Ecza liv. vi p. 2^8. D'.Aublgnc 
 Tom. I. liv. iii. ch. lo. 
 
Book IV. Reformed CJmrches i?i France 
 Ordo Togatorum, regni nomenque decufque, 
 
 Cujus eram nuper de grege, quifquis eram. 
 Accipe crudelis prsnantia carmina fati, 
 
 Fati, quo tibi laus, lux mihi rapta fuit. 
 Accipe qu^ celeri committo noviffima verito, 
 
 Carmina flebilibus fa;pe canenda modis. 
 Urbe foroque procul, Ligerim patriofque Turonas 
 
 Dum fequor & medium carpo quietus iter •, 
 Seditiofa cohors ; Armifque rebellibus auden? 
 
 In patriam & fuperos bella c ere DeoSj 
 Irruit & ftridli minitans immitia ferri 
 
 Vulnera, correpto me remoratur equo. 
 Mox trahit Aureliam, hoftiles ubi territus iras 
 
 Experiorque gravi probra ferendo reo. 
 Quid faciam?prctio-ne caput precibufve repeiidam? 
 
 Non audit blandas gens truculcnta preces. 
 Nil peccafie probem ? dirum bene vivere crimen 
 
 Et culpam, vitii labe vacare, putat. 
 Aut Regis magno demum me nomine tutor ? 
 
 Ludibrio Regem, juflaque Regis liabet. 
 Quid plura ? horribiles fubeo fine crimine poenas, 
 
 Quas mihi turpe pati, fed mage turpe loqui. 
 H^c igitur memori fint verba infcripta fepulchro ; 
 
 Una mihi mortis caufa, SENATOR E- 
 RAM ip.) 
 
 After the taking of Rouen, the City of Di- 
 eppe accepted of the Conditions which had been 
 offered to them by the Qtieen, (the fame as thofc 
 granted to the City of Bourges) they humbly 
 petitioned the King to grant them the following 
 Articles, That they iliould not be called to an 
 account for the Damages done to the Catholick 
 Churches ; that all the Decrees of the Pavliament 
 of Rouen publifhed againft them fhouid be re- 
 verfed ; that the Englilh Auxiliaries fhouid be 
 allowed time and all the neceffary Provifions to 
 O 3 retkfi 
 
 (^) Add.aux Mem. de Calldn. liy. Iv. ch. z. 
 
198 Wftory of the Reformation, and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles retire into their own Country •, that a ftop fhould 
 be put to all manner of Depredaticns and Hofti- 
 lities In the Province •, k'il'y, that they {hould 
 he allowed the Liberty of meeting publickly for 
 their religious Worfhip. His Majefty fubfcribed 
 to all theie Articles, the laft excepted; nevertjie- 
 lefs he granted them Liberty of Confcience, pro- 
 inlfing that they fhould not be profecuted for 
 their Religion's fake, provided they fhould ab- 
 flain from publick AfTemblies. But at the Mar-, 
 fhal of Montmorency's Inftances, the Queen 
 granted them the further Liberty of meeting in 
 private and in fmall numbers to hear Sermons, 
 and perform their Divine Service. Tlie City of 
 Caen received tlie fame Caoitniarion by the Dnke 
 of Bouillon's Mediation, but ail their rvlinifters 
 were obliged to avoid the City for feme time. 
 And if the King's Army had proceeded any 
 further, very likely all the Province of Nor^ 
 mandy would have been fubmifted again to the 
 Roman Yoke. But the Court thought proper 
 to feparate the Troops, and to come back with 
 the befl" part of them to Paris {(f). 
 cx:<xv. Two great Reafons obliged the Court to take 
 "^^'^ /^""''^ that i'tep -5 Firft, the long Fatigues the Army 
 cf the Jrmy^'^^ Undergone by Marches and Counter-marches, 
 tme, hack and efpeclally at the Siege of Rouen and the 
 to Paris, badnefs of the Weather, Secondly, but the 
 cliief Reafon was, that the Court got intelligence 
 that D'Andelct was arrived at Orleans with the 
 German Auxiliaries, and that the Prince of 
 Conde was refolved to be no longer upon the 
 defenfive,^but to attack. For thefe Reafons, the 
 Conftable, the Duke of Guife, and the whole 
 Court thought necefTary to repair with all fpeed 
 to Paris, leaving only the Rhingrave with part 
 pf the Reiillers and fome French Regiments to 
 
 keep 
 (^) Thuan. Hid. lib. xxxiii. 
 
BooKi'IV. Reformed Churches inFKAiiC'E,', I99 
 keep Rouen, and oppofe the Incurfions of the Charles 
 Englifh, who were Mafters of Havre de Grace. "V" 
 
 It was not without much trouble that D'An- p^pe piuj 
 delot had obtained of the German Princes the IV. 
 Auxiharies, which he led to the Prince at Or- ^*:rr^)C!r' 
 
 ^S^"S. Situation 
 
 That Lord was gone to Germany as zhovQ- of the 
 faid (Art. C.) to haften the Succours, and met Pj^^^/^ 
 with great Difficulties : for Courtelary the King's -u^^''^' 
 German Interpreter, D'Oyfel and Rambouillet 
 fent one after another to the Emperor and the 
 Princes of Germany by the Triumvirs, had (o 
 far prevailed, that the faid Princes were almoft 
 refolved to deny their AlTiftance to the Prince 
 of Conde, But his Highnefs underflanding that 
 the Diet of the Empire was to be held at Franc- 
 fort in November, for the Inauguration of Maxi- 
 milian King of the Romans, he fent thither 
 James Spifame formerly Bifhop of Nevers •, a 
 Man eloquent and zealous for the Caufe. 
 
 He had foriaken his Bifhoprick in the Yearcxxxvir. 
 I559j ai^d had fled to Geneva to avoid the Per-^J^"^" 
 fecution, and for profelling freely the Reformed i^^.^ ^^ 
 Religion, as is faid in our firft Volume, there hePafly. 
 went by the name of Paffy. He was received 
 Minifter, and it is faid, that he coveted fuch an 
 Employment, in order to be more eafily ad- 
 mitted into the Councils and have a greater ihare 
 in their Affairs, but that is unlikely . The Par- 
 liament of Paris publifhed a Warrant againft him 
 in 1559, ^^ feize him wherever he could be 
 found. He was very ferviceable to the Reform- 
 ed Caufe in Germany, as we fhall fee prefently. 
 His Nobility, Wit, Learning and great Abili- 
 ties, might have entitled him to the higheil Dig- 
 nities in France, had he perfevered in the Ro- 
 man Catholick Religion. But his end anfwered 
 not to the beginning, he was beheaded at Ge- 
 O 4 neva 
 
200 Hi/iory of the Reformation^ andrfthe Vol. 11 , 
 Charles neva on the 23d of March 1565 for High 
 
 ^^^ Crimes and Mifdemeanours, being found guilty 
 Tope plus ^y ^^'^ °"^" ConfeiTion of haying got a Child 
 
 lY. when Bifhop of Nevers, by the Gentlewoman 
 which he married afterwards, and to avoid that 
 the Child fhould be declared, a Baftard, he had 
 made a falfe ^4arriage-Contra^51: which was ante- 
 dated, and fealed with falfe Seals, His own 
 Nephew was come to Geneva to proiecute him. 
 He was above 70 Years of Age when he was 
 executed, and died very penitent {s). 
 
 It is utterly falfe that he was condemned for 
 Adultery, as a Reformed Hiftorian has fuppofed 
 (/). Calvin cannot have had any hand in this 
 Affair, as Morery will have it, fince he was dead 
 nine Months at lead before this- Execution {v). 
 And Beza has fo plainly vindicated himfelf as to 
 the Charge laid upon him, that out of Hatred 
 and Jealoufy againft Spifame, he had procured 
 his Condemnation and Execution, that had A- 
 gricola read Beza's fecond Apology to Claudius 
 de Saintes, he would not have iniilted any longer 
 upon that Calumny {u\ 
 
 Such v/as the Gentleman whom the Prince of 
 Conde made ufe of for his Negociationsin Ger- 
 many. Being admitted to Audience, he pre- 
 fented the ConfeiTion of Faith of the Reformed 
 Churches, and fully vindicated them from the 
 falfe Afperfions of their Enemies. Then he 
 made three different Speeches, the firft in pub- 
 lick to Ferdinand, to whom he exhibited the 
 Queen's Letters above-mention*d, and defi'd 
 that a Copy of them fhould be kept in the Re- 
 gifters of the Aulick Chamber, diat Pofterity 
 
 might 
 
 (f) Spon. Fill, de Geneve liv. iii. 
 
 (t) Roccolc'S Hill, veritable du Calvinifme, p. 444. 
 
 \ v) Morery Diet, au mot Spitaine. 
 
 ( uj /^gric. Add. aiix \km. dc Ciiil. Tojr..II. liv. iv. cIlj. 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches /« France. 201 
 
 might be thoroughly informed of the Truth of Charles 
 the Matter. The fecond Speech was made in ^^• 
 private to Maximilian King of Bohemia, and pA^ p^^g 
 then inftalled King of the Romans. The third iv. 
 was to the Princes of the Empire, whom he re- 
 quired to undertake the Defence of the King- 
 pupil, and to grant their AfTiftance to the 
 Prince of Conde, who had taken Arms for his 
 Majefty's Liberty and Prefervation, and to 
 countermand the Troops which had been rais'd 
 under the Command of Rokendolf, and of the 
 Rhingrave (x). 
 
 He prevailed fo far by his Eloquence, and 
 the Strength of his Arguments, that feveral 
 Princes promifed their AfTiftance to the Prince 
 of Conde, the Reifters and Lanfkenets were re- 
 called by the Emperor's Orders, the Count of 
 Rokendolf and the other Chiefs who command- 
 ed them were banilh'd from the Empire, not- 
 withftanding the Efforts and ftrong Sollicitations 
 pf Bocketel the French Ambaflador*. 
 
 But another Thing happened which perplex- 
 ed much D'Andelot's Affairs in Germany. The 
 Prince of Conde had made an Agreement with 
 Ratzemberg and Schachtin at Orleans for a cer- 
 tain Number of Troops which were to be led 
 to his AfTiftance •, and in that Expedation 
 much time had been loft. Now, thefe two 
 Gentlemen, either perfuaded, or rather bribed 
 by the Court of France, excufed themfelves 
 from performing their Promifes, under Pretence 
 that the Winter being at hand, the Roads would 
 be too bad for the Troops, fo they would have 
 delay'd their March 'till Spring (yj. 
 
 But 
 
 fx) Thuan. Hift. lib. 33. 
 
 * Agrlcola Ibid. 
 
 fyj Thuan, lib. xxxiii. p. 210. Bez4 liv. vi. p. 184^ 
 
 &^ 
 
Prince. 
 
 Hiflory of' the 'Reformation, and of the Vol.11. 
 But the Landgrave of HeiTe who was fincere- 
 ly and entirely attached to the Reformed ReH- 
 glon overcame that Difficulty j he difcharged 
 with Shame thefe two Officers, whom he ufed 
 to call afterwards by Derifion the Summer 
 ^w V/1 Captains, and fent at the Head of the Troops 
 leads the already levied his own Marlhal, under the Con- 
 Juxilia- dudl of wliom D'Andelot was at laft enabled 
 to the ^Q rnake ^ general Review of the Auxiliaries at 
 Baccara, on the lOth of Odlober, and he found 
 three thoufand three hundred Horfes under 
 nine Cornets, and four thoufand Foot under 
 twelve Enfigns : They were joined by the 
 Prince of Porcian with one hundred French 
 Horfe, who met them at Strafbourg, which 
 Number increafed every Day. A little befove 
 that D'Andelot had fallen fick with a Quartan 
 Ague; but for all this he deferr'd not the 
 March of the Troops, being carried himfelf in 
 a L-itter. They took their way thro' Lorrain 
 and Burgundy, and having crofTed the River 
 Yonne, to avoid the Troops of the Duke of Ne- 
 vers Goverhour of Champaign, and thofe of tlie 
 Marfhal of St. Andrew, which had been fent a- 
 gainft them to hinder their Paffiige, they arrlv'd 
 at Crevans. They deilroyed in their way St. Cyr, 
 and Ifi'y, becaufe they had denied Pafiage, and had 
 'given a very haughty Anfwer, when they had 
 been afked for Proviiions : I'hey took like wife 
 .Chateau -Vilain, where fome of the Francifcan 
 Friars were killed. Laftly, D'Andelot came by 
 Montargis to Orleans, with a Cornet of Horfe, 
 on the 6th of November, having left the reft of 
 the Troops in feveral Places about Orleans. 
 That Lord was very kindly received, as he de- 
 ierved by the Prince of Conde and the Admiral 
 
 his 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Franc£. 203 
 
 his Brother, who went to meet him Tome Miles Charles 
 out of Orleans (%). •^^• 
 
 La Rochfoucault and Duras were arrived at^A^/l^g 
 Orleans fince the firft of November, with three iv. 
 hundred Horfe and fifteen hundred Foot, the*"^— v-— ' 
 Remainder of the Army of Gafcony, which had ^j^^^^^ 
 been intercepted and routed by Montluc. After z/^^,-^"^" 
 the fad News of the taking of Rouen, and the Guienne 
 Rout of the Army of Guienne, nothing could h&f'°"f^^ h 
 more comfortable and pleafing to the Prince than "^^ 
 the Arrival of the Auxiliaries from Germany, 
 and of the abovefaid broken Remnant, thefe 
 Forces being his only Help after God {a). 
 
 He had difpofed every thing for his March CXL. 
 before their Arrival. The City of Orleans had J^^ '^''''''■' 
 granted ten thoufand Crowns, being not ^ble to J^^^J^y^' 
 do better, or to afford any Supply of Corn, Z-Sforhis 
 the Prince had required of them, becaufe the March, 
 Plague had reduced them very low. The 
 Prince's Council made fuch other Regulations as 
 they thought heceflary, either for the better dif- 
 charging the Expences of the War, or for 
 the more effedtually fupprelTing of Sedi- 
 tions. 
 
 Then a publick Faft Day was publifhed, and "TheMini- 
 the Miniflers came to the Prince, to the Num--^^^^ ^^' 
 ber of Fifty, then at Orleans, requiring two to his 
 Things of his Highnefs ; firfl, that he would Highnefs, 
 endeavour to fupprefs all manner of Robberies, 
 DifTolutenefs, Impurities and fuch other Vices 
 in his Army, to avert the Judgments of God, 
 which had fell heavy upon the Churches, fince 
 none of them remained f^anding all over the 
 Kingdom, but thofe of ferae Iflands, of Mon- 
 tauban in Guienne, of Havre de Grace in Nor- 
 mandy, of Orleans in BsaufTe, of Lyons, and 
 
 few 
 
 ' (x) Eid. Ibid. 
 (a) Thuan. &^lrza ubi fupra. 
 
'2 04 Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. II. 
 Charles few others in Languedoc, and Dauphine, Se- 
 ■^^* condly, that he would be pleafed to order fome 
 pope Piiis Minifters to each Regiment, to preach the Word 
 IV. of God and make Prayers in the Army. The 
 u .'- v — J Prince granted their Demand, but he was not 
 able to perform but part » he recommended him- 
 felf to the Prayers of the Church, and left at 
 Orleans the Princefs his Confort, and the Prince 
 his eldeft Son {b). 
 The Army On the 7th and 8th of November the Army 
 marches marched out of Orleans, and the Prince foUow'd; 
 Orleans. ^^1 went to Pithlniers, which was guarded by 
 four Companies of Foot, who refolved to ftand 
 And takes a Siege, and made the neceflary Preparations for 
 fe^'tral that purpofe ; but after fome Cannon Shot, the 
 itsWa '" ^^^^^^ being large enough, they furrendered at 
 Difcretion the next Day after the Siege. On the 
 iit"h of the faid Month the Prince entered the 
 Place with four Enfigns of Gafcoons, and or- 
 dered Genlis and Grammont to feize upon all 
 the Munitions and Provifions which they found 
 in great Abundance. The Inhabitants offered 
 to convey to Orleans three thoufand Quarters of 
 Wheat, and one thoufand Punchions of Wine, 
 which Offers were readily accepted, and exadl- 
 ly performed. As to the Soldiers which were 
 found in the Town, they were fhut up in the 
 Church, and there ftript of every thing, and 
 then fent back upon their Oath, that they would 
 never bear Arms againft the Prince or the Re- 
 formed Caufe. As to the Priefts, they killed as 
 many as fell in their Hands, efpecially becaufe 
 they had been the Authors and Inftigators of 
 the Refiftance which that Town had rnade {c). 
 A Cruelty however which ivas of a very had Con- 
 Jet^uence, and which I think iefs pardonable in a 
 
 PrG'~ 
 
 (h) Eid. ibid. 
 
 ^c) Thuan. lib. 33. p. zu. Beza liv. vi. p. 195. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches //z France.' 205 
 Proteftnnt^ who profejfes himfelf to be the Difciple Charles 
 ofhim^ who faySy Learn of me, for I am ^^2. 
 MEEK.) Two Officers, one of them an Italian, po/^ Pius 
 who having been taken formerly and brought IV. 
 to Orleans, and releafed upon his Word that 
 he would not bear Arms againft the Prince du- 
 ring tlie prefent War, and the other formerly a 
 Merchant of Paris, guilty of niany Cruelties 
 againft the Reformed, were both hanged in the 
 Market-Place, while the Army marched out to 
 go to Eftampes. 
 
 Mean while Monfieur de Gonnor, known af- 
 terwards by the Name of Marfhal de Cofle^ 
 was come from the Queen to the Princess Ar- 
 my, in order to amufe him by fome new Con- 
 ferences, he told his Highnefs that he wonder'd 
 at the vaft Number of Foreigners which he had 
 called to his AlTiftance, feeing that he had fo 
 often declared that he was a faithful Servant and 
 good Kinfman to the King. To which the 
 Prince anfwered in few Words, That fo he had 
 been, and was, and would be always, and then 
 fenthim away {d). The Garrifon of Baugency 
 hearing of the Prince's Approach, fled with all 
 fpeed in the Night time to Chateaudun, and was 
 fucceededbythat ofMeun, 
 
 At this Time the Conftable and the Duke of 
 Guife were arrived at Paris. The Marfhal of St. 
 Andrew, feeing that he had not been able to 
 hinder D'Andelot from joining the Prince with 
 the Auxiliaries, was come to the City of Sens, 
 whofe Inhabitants were terribly frightned, left 
 D'Andelot ftiould come and revenge the Blood of 
 fo many Innocents which they had fo cruelly 
 and inhumanly fpilt. But when he heard that, 
 he took another way ; he went to Eftampes, 
 thinking to ftay there, and to make of that 
 
 Place 
 
 (d) Beza ibid. 
 
CXLL 
 Debates 
 
 in the 
 
 Prince's 
 
 Council. 
 
 Hijlory of the 'R.eformation^ and of the Vot.II, 
 
 Place a Magazine for the Triumvirat*s Army, 
 but underftanding that the Prince's Army was in 
 full March to that Place, he thought proper to 
 diflodge without Delay, leaving however two 
 Enfigns in it, who retreated into the Caftle as 
 foon as the Prince's light Horfe came in, and 
 the next Day they furrenderedand weredifmifs'd 
 with only their Sword and Dagger. The Plun* 
 der could not be avoided at firft, by the Fault 
 of thofe who indifcreetly opened the Gates, with- 
 out having provided Quarters for the Army i 
 but a Stop was foon put to the Licentioufnefs of 
 the Soldiery : And whereas that Place abounded 
 in all manner of Provifions, Commifiaries were 
 ordered to diftribute it in the Prince's Camp 
 
 Here the Prince held a Council of War, to 
 confider which was the moft proper, either to 
 go diredlly to Paris and befiege it, or to feize 
 firft upon the neighbouring Towns. Strange it 
 is to fee how varioufly the Hlftorians relate this 
 Circumftance ; Caftelnau and D'Avila fuppofe, 
 That that Council was held at Orleans before 
 the Army marched out of that City, but Caftel- 
 nau pretends that the Refolution was taken 
 there, of going direflly to Paris (/). 
 
 On the contrary D'Avila fays, that the Ad- 
 miral and other chief Officers oppofed fo warm- 
 ly that Propofition, that it was rejeded by the 
 Majority, and they followed the fecond Scheme; 
 and I can't forbear laughing when I read in that 
 Hiftorian the fine Speeches which he puts in the 
 General's mouth pro and con, on this Occafion, 
 and in feveral others, juft as if he had been Se- 
 cretary of their Councils, or had been intruftcd 
 
 with 
 
 (e) Be7,a & Thuanus ibid. 
 
 (f) Mem. de Caft. liv. iv. ch. 
 
 Z 
 
B o o ic I V . Reformed Churches /« Fr a n c e . 207 
 
 with their Notes {g). But D'Aubigne (h), De Charles 
 Thou (0, deBeze (^), Dinoth (/), fay pofitively ^^-^ 
 that it was at Eftampes, at leaft after the taking pope pi'us 
 ofPluviers (or Pithiviers according to others) that IV. 
 that Council was held, and that there were fome '-*'^^^ 
 Debates about the Courfe they were to take ; 
 either to go diredly to Paris, or to attack the 
 Places near that Capital, from which they were 
 but 14 fmall Leagues diftant, and would certain- 
 ly have thrown the Parifians into a general Con- 
 fternation, had the Opinion for attacking di- 
 redlly that City prevailed. If I may fpeak my 
 Mind, Agricola methinks puts us in the right 
 upon that Subject ; and indeed it is not likely, 
 that the Prince and his Generals would have fjt 
 out from Orleans with their Army, without ha- 
 ving firft confidered what Courfe they fhould 
 take {m). 
 
 However, the worft Opinion was followed ; ^^' war/? 
 they fpent feveral Days in taking La Ferte, 2fj"'°"^ 
 Dordans and Montiehery, and attacking Corbeil, 
 where they found a ftouter Refiftance than they 
 expected ; and by this time the Triumvirs had 
 fortified the Suburbs of Paris, and put them in 
 a Condition of withftanding the Prince's Ef- 
 forts when he came to attack them, after 
 having been obliged to raife the Siege before 
 Corbeil. 
 
 While he was encamped before that Place, the 
 Queen fent to him M. de St. Mefme to amufe 
 him with the vain Hopes of being acknowledo'd 
 *as Lieutenant of the Kingdom, in the room of 
 
 his 
 (g) D'Avila Tom. I. liv. lii. p. 117. 
 (h) D'Aubigne tlift. Univ. Tom. 1. liv. iii. ch. 12. 
 (i) Thuan. lib. 33. p. 211, 212. 
 (k) Beza, ubi fup. 
 (I) Dinoth. lib. 2. p. 103. 
 . , (m) Agric. Add. aux Mem. de Caftelnau, Tom. II, 
 liv. iv. ch. iii. LaNouedifc. 26, 
 
2o8 Hijlory of the Reformation, midof the Vol. If < 
 Charles his Brother the late King of Navarr, provided 
 however, that he fhould attempt nothing againft 
 the Town of Corbell. A ftrange Thing ! tho' 
 the Prince was fore- warned that fuch Steps tend- 
 'ed only to prolong the Time, to the End that 
 they might fortify the Suburbs of Paris, and re- 
 ceive the Auxiliaries which they expedted every 
 day from Spain, tho* he himfelf was very fen- 
 fible of it. Neverthelefs, fome of his Council 
 flattering themfelves that their Enemies, urged 
 by Neceffity, would come to fome realbnable 
 Compofition, perfuaded the Prince to grant a 
 Sufpenfion of Arms, provided that the next Day 
 the Articles propofed by him for a general Paci- 
 fication fhould be anfwered. Even the Enemies 
 themfelves laughed at fuch a Behaviour, and 
 ceafed not to fire on the Prince's Camp. Robert 
 Stuart was wounded in the Thigh by a Cannon- 
 fhot, of which neverthelefs he was fo perfedtly 
 cured in a few Days, that he walked without 
 hobbling {n). 
 
 In the mean while the Parliament of Par is con- 
 demned the Admiral and his Brother D'Andelot 
 to be beheaded in Effigy, but they durfl not ex- 
 ecute the Sentence ; they vented out their Fury 
 upon a Gun-fmith of the Reformed Religion, 
 who was hung, and being not flrangled was cafl 
 into a Fire, out of which being efcaped, he was 
 knock'd down and killed with Halberds and 
 Swords i fo he died by a Rope, by the Fire, and 
 by the Sword. Befides that they caufed four 
 Gentlemen, Reformed, of the Bailiwick ofSenlis 
 to be beheaded. 
 
 All this while the Prince was inaftive, and fo 
 he remained till the 2 2d of November, when 
 Monfieur de Gonnor was fent to him from Paris, 
 who gave him to underitand that the Queen de- 
 
 fued 
 
 (n) Thuan. Hift. & Beza, bothut fupra. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /« F r a n c E . 209 
 fired earneftly to fpeak with him, and confer Charles 
 about the Articles of Peace. ■^^• 
 
 The Prince feeing that he could not aflault p^L^pfj^ 
 the Place without an evident Danger of being iv. 
 repulled with great Lofs, took this Opportunity >— -v— J 
 of railing the Siege, and came diredlly to Paris, u^^\^' 
 the two Armies marching with the River Seine j^^^^p^"' • 
 between them, they could net forbear to infult 
 one another during their March, and firing fre- 
 quently one upon another. At laft two Days af- 
 ter, the Prince arrived at Ville- Juif, and the next 
 Day, which was the 25th of November, became 
 to the Abbey of La Sauflaye, which the Nuns 
 had defcrted. 
 
 There the Queen fent him word that (Tie de- cxrJir 
 fir*d to confer with him at a Place called Port-a- The ^een 
 V Anglois, which was granted, and a new S[x(- '"^'"f''\ 
 penfion of Arms was agreed ; but at the Time ap- ^^ '^ 
 pointed, the Prince, either becaufe of his Health, /^^^^^^^^^ 
 or becaufe he got Intelligence that fome Snares 
 were laid for him in the way, fent word to the 
 Queen that he could not go to the Rendezvous, 
 but that he would fend the Admiral, who would 
 confer with the Conftable his Uncle ; fo he did, 
 they conferred for tv/o Plours together, but could 
 not agree -, for the Conftable obftinately rejefted 
 any thing tending to the free Exercife of the 
 Reformed Religion, and the Admiral would 
 have that Article to be the Bafis of the Confe- 
 rence i which for that reafcn was put off till 
 the next Day, when the Prince, the Admiral 
 and feveral other great Lords came to the River's 
 Bank, where they waited a long while for the 
 Queen, who came very late in the Evening ; 
 but the Prince fainting away, he could not crofs 
 the River ; therefore the Conftable, with two of 
 his Sons, and the Duke of Nevers came to him. 
 After fome Compliments pafled between them. 
 
 Vol. U. P the 
 
210 Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.IL 
 Charles the Prince told the Conftable, that the ill State 
 1 c62 °^ ^^^ Health did not allow him to fpeak much. 
 Pope Pius but that he entreated him, that he would fhow 
 IV. ^ by his Ad:ions, that really he defired no better 
 (as he pretended) thjin to fee Peace, Union and 
 Concord rcjiored in the Kingdom. This Confe- 
 rence v/as as unfuccefsful as the former. Before 
 they parted, the Duke of Nevers paying his Du- 
 ties to the Prince his Uncle \ his Highnefs took • 
 him afide, and upbraided him with the breaking 
 of his Promife, and ading agaiiift his Confcience. 
 Nevers excufed himfelf, faying, that he had 
 done many things againft his Will, out of Ne- 
 ceflity, but fince the Peace could not be made, 
 he gave him his Word, that he would retire to 
 his own Houfe ; which, however, he did not per- 
 form, for he was killed at the Battle of Dreux 
 
 CXUV. The 28th of this Month, the Prince's Army 
 ejtigm gj^^^g^j^pgj^ before Paris, which the Triumvirs 
 
 to have ^••j^'-.^, iiii rr -n 
 
 tttbid to had fortified, and made all the neceuary Prepa- 
 block up rations to withfland the Prince's Efforts, having 
 that City. Y)^fi^ j-jj^g enough for that purpofe, the Van- 
 c;uard led by the Admiral, In Vv'hich were the 
 Prince of Porcian and Mouy, ftormed the Sub- 
 urbs of St. Viftor, which threw the Parifians in- 
 " to fuch a Confternation, that had not th^ Sub- 
 urbs been flrengthened, or had the Prince 
 com.e with all his Forces to fupport the Admi- 
 ral, it was generally believed that they would 
 have deferted the City and opened their Gates. 
 The Prcfident Le Maitre, who had been one of 
 i\\z moft violent Perfecutors of the Reformed, 
 . , bJng ficka-bed, and hearing the Uproar, was 
 put into fuch a Fright, thinking the Hugue- 
 nots lurked for him every where to hang him, 
 as he fdid, that he died of It a httle after ; Chri- 
 
 ilophorus 
 
 (9) Eidem Ibid. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fr an c e J 211 
 ftophorus de Thou, Father to the Hiftorian fuc- Charles 
 ceeded him *. ^ 
 
 Satisfied with having frighten'd the Parifians out p^^/piiis 
 of their wits,the Prince's Army took up their Quar- IV. 
 ters, the Foot in the Valleys of Mont-rouge and 
 Vau-Girard, the Prince of Porcian at Gentilly, 
 Genlis at Mont-rouge and the neighbouring Vil- 
 lages, the Prince and the Admiral at Arcueil, 
 and the Reifters at Caflan and other commodious 
 Places. The whole Army am.ounted to eight 
 thoufand Foot, and between five and fix thou- 
 fand Horfes, two Cannons, a Culverin, four 
 Field-Pieces and no more ; the Triumvirs Army 
 was encamp'd without the City by the Trenches 
 and the Caufey which they had made to cover 
 the Suburbs on that fide. For two confecutive 
 Days the Prince came out in a Battle Array, to 
 try whether he could provoke the Enemies to 
 fight ; but in vain, they fired only upon him 
 from the Rampires, whereby a File of fix Horfe 
 was carried off by a Cannon-fiiot (p). 
 
 The next Day in the Morning the Prince a- 
 greed to a new Conference propofed to him by 
 the Queen, a new Sufpenfion of Arms enfued, 
 and the next Day, the 2d of December the 
 Queen came in the Afternoon to the appointed 
 Place which was a Wind-Mill, with the Prince 
 of La Roche-fur- Yon, the Conftable, the Mar- 
 fhal of Montmorency and Monfieur de Gonnor. 
 The Prince came likewife with the Admiral, 
 Genlis, Grammontand Efternay. After feve- 
 ral Debates, the Propofitions of the Prince were 
 briefly fet down in Writing by Secretary de 
 L'Aubefpine, and reduced to the five following 
 Articles. 
 
 P 2 I. The 
 
 * Beza & Thuan. ubi fupra. 
 
 (p) Be/aliv. vi. 196, ---7' Thuan. lib. 33, p. 212, 21 3. 
 
Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. II. 
 
 I. The Prince fays, that the only and beft 
 Way of pacifying the Troubles, was to grant 
 the free public ProfefTion of the Reformed Reli- 
 gion in every place where it would be required 
 by his Majefty's Subje6ls, but in the Places where 
 it fhould not be required by them, there would 
 be no publick Exercife of the faid Religion. 
 
 II. That fo doing, the Englifh and other Fo- 
 reigners (hould leave the Kingdom i and the 
 Cities, Towns, Caftles, Strong-holds, ^c. 
 fhould be reftored to their former Condition. 
 
 III. That all his Majefty's Subjeds {hould en- 
 joy a perfedl Freedom and Liberty as to their 
 Confcience and Religion, and a full Security as 
 to their Lives and Eftates. 
 
 IV. That a free General Council fhould be 
 held in fix Months, to compofe the Religious 
 Differences ; and if a General Council cannot 
 be obtained, a National one fhould be held up- 
 on the fame account, to which every one would 
 be freely admitted. 
 
 V. And for the due Performance of the Pre- 
 miffes, proper Securities fhall be given re- 
 fpedively. 
 
 The Queen took thefe Proportions for to advife 
 with the Council what Anfwer to give, and the 
 next Day, the 3d of December, ilie font Mef- 
 iieurs de Gonnor and d6 L'AubefpIne, with the 
 following* Anfwer, 
 
 1 . It is the King's Pleafure that the City of 
 Lyons, and the Frontier Towns, fhall be excep- 
 ted out ofthefiril: Article, as well as all the Par- 
 liamentary Cities, and thofe Places wherein there 
 was no publick Exercife of the Reformed Religi- 
 on before the Edidl of January. 
 
 2. That all Church- men lliall be reftored to 
 the PoflelTion of their Churches, Goods and Ef- 
 tates, and the Divine Service fhali be performed 
 
 in 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches //z France. 213 
 in fuch Churches, as formerly, before the Trou- Chaires 
 bles. Likewife every one fhall be reftored to ^riz. 
 the Pofleffion of his Eftates and Goods, to Pope Pius 
 enjoy them freely without any Moleftation at IV. 
 all. 
 
 3. As to the 2d Article concerning the Eng- 
 Jifh and other Foreigners, it is agreed. 
 
 4. And likewife that concerning the Coun- 
 cil. 
 
 Thefe Articles having been examined in the 
 Prince's Council, to which the Minifters who 
 were in the Camp had been called, they drew 
 the following Reply: 
 
 I. His Highnefs defires fo earneftly to fee the 
 Peace reftored to the Kingdom, that if his Majefty 
 will not confent that the free Exercife of the Re- 
 formed Religion fhould be fettled in the Frontier 
 Towns, after having remonftrated that the faid 
 Towns will be expofed to a greater Danger, if 
 the Reformed Inhabitants met together without, 
 than if they met within, he befeeches moft 
 humbly to grant, that, at leaft, they might 
 meet in the Suburbs of the faid Town's, and 
 where there is no Suburb, that they might do 
 it in fome convenient Place near the faid Towns, 
 which {hall be exprefly fpecify'd. 
 
 II. Furthermore the Prince confents that the 
 Reformed Religion fhall be publickly profefTed 
 only in the Places wherein it was fettled before 
 thefe laft Troubles and Tumults. 
 
 III. That however all Gentlemen, either Ba- 
 rons, Caftellans or High Juftices fhall enjoy 
 the Privilege of a free Exercife of their Religi- 
 on in their Houfes and Caftles, to which their 
 Vafials fliall be freely admitted if they have a 
 mind to come. As for the Places wherein no 
 publick Exercife of the faid Religion had been 
 fettled before the Troubles, the Reformed In- 
 
 P q habitants 
 
2 1 4 Hijlory of the Reformation, andof the Vol. II. 
 
 Charles habitants fhall be allowed all Secarlty as to their 
 
 ^ . Perfons and Eftates, without being molefted, or 
 
 Pule i'lus conftrained to do any thing againil their Con- 
 
 i\' . fcience -, and fhall be at liberty to repair to the 
 
 <— -V — -^ neighbouring Ci:ies or Towns to attend their 
 
 Religious Woriliip. 
 
 TV. As to the other Articles, whereas they 
 are as good as granted, they are not mentioned 
 here. 
 
 The Queen having confidered that Reply, and 
 taken upon it the Advice of the Council, orde- 
 red that only thefe Words fhould be added at 
 the bottom of it, 
 
 As TO Paris and its Suburbs, they 
 
 SHALL BE EXCEPTED BY ALL MeANS, 
 
 And underneath Granted by the Queen in the 
 King's Council held at Paris the 3d of December 
 1562. And the faid Paper was fent back to the 
 Prince, figned by De L'Aubefpine, with this 
 further Addition, that the next Day the Queen 
 would declare herfelf more expreily in the 
 Mill. 
 Which Accordingly, on the 4th of December, the 
 
 tn^r.e to Quecn aud the Prince came again to the Mill 
 nothing. ^j{.|-j ^^ fame Attendance, and the Paper juft 
 now mentioned was read over again, and agreed 
 to •, but v^hereas no mention had been made 
 therein of the Securities to be given for the per- 
 formance of the Articles •, and like wife, becaufe 
 it was thought neceffary to explain fome Words 
 of the faid Articles, the Prince tendered new 
 ones, which were fent to Paris, there to be exa- 
 mined by the King's Council, who anfwcrcd them 
 one by one (^) ; which Anfwer and the Prince's 
 Reply, becaufe of their Length and Tediouf- 
 jiefs, I fhall emit here, efpecially fince it ap- 
 peared 
 
 (q) Bcxa liv. p. 196, 214. Thuiin. hb. xxxiii. 
 
 a- 3. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches iJiF r an ck. 215 
 peared that the Queen was not in earneft, and Charles 
 that fhe defired only to fpin ouc the time, that ^■^• 
 fhe might receive the Aiixiharies coming from p^.^ pjyg 
 Spain, which were expeded every day. IV 
 
 Caftelnau is an unceptionable Witnefs of this, 
 „ It was advifed, fays he, very prudently not to 
 „ venture any thing againfi People who put all 
 5, their Hopes iu the Event of a Battle^ and he- 
 5, fore the chief City of the Kingdom \ hut rather 
 „ to come to a Parley with them,, while the Anx- 
 ,, iliaries from Spain and Gafcony, fhould arrtve 
 ,, and join with the King's Army (r). The 
 Prior of Juvigne, this noble Hiftorian*s Com- 
 mentator, confirms the fame Truth ; and he af- 
 cribes the great Condefcenfion of the Prince, 
 and his Eafinefs, to the Refpe(5l which the 
 French efpecially are remarkable for to their 
 King •, and which prevails fo far above all po- 
 litical Reafons, that they never refufe a Negoci- 
 ation with their King whenever it is offered (s). 
 For that Reafon, tho' the Prince knew by paft. 
 Experience what would be the Succefs of the 
 propofed Conferences ; neverthelefs he confen- 
 ted to hold them, and agreed to a Sufpendon of 
 j^rms, by which Step it was evident, that he 
 cooled the Ardour of his Troops, difl.eartned 
 them, and loft his Advantages. 
 
 It aDoears by the Darticulars of that Nco:o(.ia- 
 tion, that the Queen was too cunning for the 
 Prince ; for ths Treaty was worded after fuch a 
 manner, that the Court was left at liberty to 
 interpret the Articles juft as sTie plcafed, ac- 
 cording to the Circuniftanccs, and efpecially the 
 Article concerning the Foreicrn Troops •, for it 
 was not ftipulated that the King fhouid be obli- 
 P 4 ged 
 
 (^r) Mem. de Cnflelnrm liv. iv. ch. 3. 
 (j) Le Laboureur Add. aux Mem. de Cafielnaii liv. if, 
 ch. 3. dernier Article. . 
 
HiJIory oftheReformation^andof the Vol.11. 
 
 ged to difmifs them, which was rightly obferved. 
 by the Prince's Council •, wherefore his High- 
 nefs infifted more warmly upon this, than upon 
 the reft, and required that the King {hould fend 
 away all his Foreign Troops, which was abfo- 
 lutely denied. 
 
 The Denyal of that Article, and of fome o- 
 thers, upon which they would have agreed 
 more eafily, occafionedthe breaking off the Con- 
 ferences (/). 
 
 The Prince, to juftify his Conduct, publiftied 
 the Articles of the Treaty, with his own additi- 
 onal Remarks, his new Demands, and the An- 
 fwers made to them j and in the Title-Page of 
 that Writing," he took upon himfelf the Name 
 arfd Chara6ler of Lieutenant-General of the King- 
 dom, pretending that it was devolved unto 
 him iince the King of Navarr*s Death. 
 
 All Hopes of a Pacification being vanifheda- 
 way, the War begun again with more Fierce- 
 nefs than before. The Prince had attempted 
 two different Affaults-, the firft to be given to 
 the Suburb of St. Marceau : But it was prevent- 
 ed by the Duke of Guife's Vigilance and Dili- 
 gence ; the fecond was to be given to the Suburb 
 of St. Germain, but it came to nothing becaufe of 
 CXLV. the Lord of Genlis's unexpected Defertion {u). 
 Genhs J That Lord pretended to be moved with feme 
 njeryfre- ScHiples about the Lawtulneis or the War, ei- 
 ^^1 ni-ial fo pecially fmce the Court had made fo many Ad- 
 tbePnnce. vances tor a General Pacification ; he approved 
 much of the Terms offered by the Queen in the 
 laft Conferences •, and was heard to fay. That 
 Peace, even upon the hardefl Terms, ought to 
 be preferr*d before a Civil War, how juft fo- 
 
 ever. 
 
 (t) Beza liv. vi. Addit. aux Mem. de Caft. liv.iv. ch. 3. 
 (s) D'Aubigne 'Jom. I. liv. lii. ch. 13; and the 0- 
 thcrs above mentioned. 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches /« France. 217 
 ever. But indeed the true Motive of his De- Charles 
 fertion, was, that he could bear no longer to be ^" 
 continually twitted in the teeth with his Bro- PcpeV'ms 
 ther Yvoi*s Bafenefs in the furrender of Bourges. IV. 
 Two or three days before, he begun to be fuf- 
 peded, becaufe he fpoke with great Encomiums 
 of the Duke of Guife, by whom he had been 
 much carefied during the laft Sufpenfion of 
 Arms, he had been {ttn likewife talking very 
 privately with Damville at the laft Conference. 
 Therefore the Prince's Council thought not pro- 
 per to intruft him with the Secret of the fecond 
 Enterprize j and whereas the Troops deftin'd 
 for it, were obliged to pafs by his Quarter which 
 was at Montrouge, it was ^refolv'd that they 
 fhould take him by the way, without giving him 
 any previous notice of what they went about. 
 But it happened, that while they were upon that 
 Confultation, Genlis arriv'd, and the Prince by 
 inadvertency difcover'd the Secret; for inquiring 
 of him whether Damville flood well affeded 
 for Peace ? Genlis told him. Yes ; and that on 
 the next day his Highnefs would receive from 
 Court the laft Articles which he had propofed, 
 and which had been agreed. At this unexpeded 
 News the Prince was furpris*d, and with an Al- 
 teration in his Voice, he faid to Genlis, Then that 
 "joill he done after we jhall have faid a Viftt to 
 the 'Triumvirs in their Trenches, Thefe few 
 Words were enough, Genlis underftood very 
 well their Meaning, and diffembling his Refent- 
 ment, told the Prince that he would be one of 
 the Company, and that he was going home to 
 put on his Habits of Ceremony -, and indeed he 
 was no fooner arrived in his Quarters at Mont- 
 rouge, that he 'took his Armour, and rode the 
 beft of his Horfes. 
 
 Avaret 
 
Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Avaret his Lieutenant furpris'd to fee him on 
 horfeback fo late in the Night, rode hkewife 
 under pretence of attending him, but in truth, 
 to watch over him (for he was in the Prince's 
 ' Secretj) when they came near the Enemies Corps 
 de Guard, Genlis opened his Defign to Avaret, 
 and told him that he intended to retire to one 
 of his own Houfes, {ince the Prince was averfe to 
 the Conditions offered to him ; but however,that 
 he would never forfake the Reformed Religion, 
 and exhorted him to do the fame, which he re- 
 fufed •, being parted, Genlis was brought to the 
 Louvre, where he was kindly received by the 
 Queen- Mother, and Avaret rode with full fpeed 
 to the Prince's Quarter, to give him notice of 
 what had happened. 
 CXLVI. Now as he fufpeded that Genlis fliould have 
 *Ihe P'-'«<:f difcovered his Secret to Court, hedifpatched im- 
 leadi his j^-je(j}a^fe]y through all the Quarters of his Camp 
 JBeaufTe, ^^^ altering the Word, and ordered his Troops 
 to watch narrowly. Two days after the Treaty 
 was renew'd, the Prince made nev^ Propofitions, 
 which being rejeded, he retreated on the loth 
 of December, and marched with his Army .in 
 very good order, taking his w^y through the 
 Country of BeaufTe, in order to go into Nor- 
 mandy (?/). 
 
 Tho* the Prince in raifing his Camp had for- 
 bad his Troops under very fevere Penalties, even 
 Death, to commit any Plunder or Difordsr in 
 their Qr-.arters, nevertheless tlie Reifters, out of 
 fpite againft Genlis in whofe Quarter they were, 
 fet fire to Montrouge, having firH: plunder*d his 
 Baggage. Rohan of Fcntenay did the fame at 
 Arcueil, and burn'd ibrr;c; Houfes; the fame thing 
 happened at Callan. The Vanguard miftaking 
 
 (u) Bezaliv. vi. p. 216,217,5^0. Thuan, lib. xxxiii. 
 
 p. 2.14- 
 
B o o K I V . Reformed Churches /« Fr A n c e . 219 
 thefe Diforders for a Command, they fet fire to Charles 
 feveral Houfes as they went through St. Antho- ^' 
 ny*s-Bridge, at which the Prince was fo much p^if Pius 
 offended, that feeing a Soldier coming out of a IV. 
 Barn which he had fet on fire, he caufed him to '*-— v^—* 
 be apprehended and hung upon the fpot. 
 
 The nrft day the Army came to Palezeau ; the 
 fecond, which was the nth of December, to Li- 
 mours, a Country-houfe of the Duchefs of Va- 
 lentinois, but tho* Ihe had been one of the 
 greateft Perfecutrix of the Reformed in the reign 
 of Henry II. neverthelefs his Highnefs took, 
 her Houfe under his Prote(5tion and Safe-guard, 
 and would not fuffer any damage to be done in 
 it; nay, he obliged fome Scotch OfBcers and Sol- 
 diers who were arrived before him, to reftore fe- 
 veral things which they had ftolen away. 
 
 On the 13th of December the Prince came to 
 St. Arnoul upon the road of Chartres, the In- 
 habitants whereof (at the Infligation of the 
 Priefts) having refufed to open their Gates, they 
 were forc'd, plunder'd, and feveral Priefls were 
 kiird i the Prince ftay*d two days in that Place, 
 becaufe he v/anted Carriage for his Artillery (x). 
 
 In the mean while the Triumvirs came but CXLVII 
 from Paris with their Army, and following the The Tri- 
 Prince's, arrived at Eftampes, as if they had 2itim--vhsfol- 
 mind to befiege it, and whereas the Place wasp":"'^' 
 not ftrong enough to withftand a Siege, the Gar- 
 rifon was upon the point of forfaking it, when 
 on a fudden the Triumvirs took another way, 
 to be nearer the Prince. 
 
 Then his Highnefs called a Council of WarcxLvnr 
 to confider what courfe they ought to take. Debates in 
 Some were of opinion to go diredly to Chartres, ''^'^^'■''''^^< 
 but that was found impracticable, becaufe that '^'"""^''^' 
 Ciry was too ftrongly garrifon*d, and that it 
 
 would 
 
 (n) Thuan. lib. xxxiv. Beza liv. vi. 
 
Hi ft or y of the ReformaUon, and of the Vol. II. 
 
 would be eafy for the Enemy to come to its re- 
 lief. The Prince voted for going back diredlly 
 to Paris, becaufe the Triumvirate's Army being 
 abfent, the Trenches and the Suburbs would be 
 carried without refiftance -, that Opinion would 
 have prevailed had it not been for the Admiral, 
 who {hewed forth that the Enemy's Army 
 would pofl: themfelves between Paris and Orleans, 
 and cut off his own Army's Provifions with great 
 eafe, and may be befiege Orleans j or elfe inclofe 
 the Prince in his own Trenches, infomuch that 
 he would have Paris at his back, and the Tri- 
 umvirs at his front. „ Befides that, fays he^ 
 ,, the Reifters and Lanlkenets begun to com- 
 ,, plain, becaufe they are not pay'd •, till now 
 „ they have been fed with hopes of receiving 
 „ their Arrears, as foon as the Money expeded 
 ,, every day from England fhould arrive, &c.'* 
 After many Debates, it was refolved to follow 
 the Admiral's Advice, and to march diredtly 
 into Normandy for receiving the expeded Mo- 
 ney, and for re-inforcing their Army with as 
 many Englifh Troops as the Places held by their 
 Party could afford with Safety, and for divert- 
 ing the Enemy from the Siege of Orleans (y). \ 
 On the 15th the Prince encamped at Ably ■^ 
 two Leagues diftant from St. Arnould ; the next ' 
 day he came to Galardon, which refufmg Ad- i 
 mittance at the Inftigation of the Priefts and of a -, 
 certain Regifter, was forcibly taken, and the Re- j 
 giiler condemned to he hang'd and executed j on ; 
 the I 7th the Prince marched towards Dreux,and i 
 as he paffed over a fmall River hard by the Caftle 
 of Maintenon, an old Woman ftepping a good 
 way into the Water, took him by the Boot, ; 
 ftayinghim and looking upon him, fhe faid, Go \ 
 
 CM, O HfRO, THOU MUST SUFFER MANY HaRD- i 
 
 SHIPS, ^ 
 (y) Eid. Ibid. J 
 
Boo K IV . Reformed Churches i« F r a n c e . 221 
 
 SHIPS, BUT God IS WITH THEE. He anrwe;-ed, Charles ; 
 
 Good Woman -pray to God for me. And proceed- ^ / \ 
 
 ing, he arrived the fame day at Ormoy. Pope Pius ' 
 
 That Night being a-bed, and talking with IV. ■ 
 feme Gentlemen, he told to Beza, that had faid *— ^•'-— ' 
 
 Prayers before him ; / knoisj ive are not to give ^ 
 
 credit to Dreams, yet I miiji tell ye of one which j 
 / had laft Night. Methought I had given three 
 
 Battles one after the other, and in the end, I oh- \ 
 
 tained Victory, and faw my three Enemies dead \ 
 
 before me, myfelf being wounded to death : and I 
 
 that caufing the three Bodies to be lafd upon each \ 
 
 other, I lafd myfelf upon them, and fo yielded, up \ 
 my Soul to God. Being anfwered, That the great 
 
 Affairs which filled his Mind, caufed him to \ 
 have that Dream, and that whether he lived or 
 
 died, he could but be vidorious : He faid, / j 
 
 pray God it may he fo. But fure it is, that Time ;. 
 
 verified his Vifion, for that his three Enemies ' 
 
 were all flain one after the other, the Marfhal of j 
 
 St. Andrew the next day, the Duke of Guifc \ 
 
 before Orleans, and the Conflable at the Battle , 
 
 of St. Denis, and he himfelf after them was - 
 
 flain at the Battle of BafTac (2). : 
 
 On the 19th of December, the two Armies^^-'-'p-^- 
 approached near each other. That of the ^l^n- J^jy^^^^ ' ' 
 umvirs was nineteen thoufand Pbot and two ' I 
 thoufand Horfe, befides twenty-two pieces of \ 
 Artillery (a). That of the Prince about five ] 
 thoufand Foot and four thoufand Horfe, with : 
 the few pieces of Artillery above-mentioned. | 
 The Battle being very furious on botli fides, ,; 
 lafted for fix Hours. Among other Particulari- 
 ties thereof, I (hall obferve the following. ,| 
 Firjl, That the Triumvirs willing to improve j 
 the Opportunity of giving Battle, but unwilling j 
 
 to ; 
 
 C~) Thuan. lib. xxxlv. p. 216. B;za liv. vi. Dinoth. ; 
 
 lib. ii. p. 109. \ 
 
 (a) Caftelnau reckons but 13 or 14000 Foot. .1 
 
222 Tiifl ory of the Keformatioriy and of the Vo l . II. ' 
 Charles to be anfwerable for the Succefs, had fent Caftel- 
 
 nau Author of the Memoirs, an Exprefs to Court, I 
 which was then at Vincennes, to know their '■ 
 Majefty's pleafure upon the prefent Occurrence. 
 
 The Queen-Mother was in great perplexity ; 
 when fhe heard the MefTage, and told Caftelnau, I 
 'That Jhe wondered at the Conjiable^ Duke of Guife i 
 and St. Andrew^ that being fo Great and Expe- \ 
 rienced Captains, they Jhould chufe to fend to a ' 
 Woman and a Child, who were full of Grief at j 
 feeing Affairs reduced to that extremity, to ask \ 
 their Advice, whether they ought to give Battle 
 cr not. Then enter'd the King's Nurfe (fhe was ' 
 a Reformed) and as the Queen brought Caftel- i 
 nau to the King, repeating the fame words as | 
 above, (he told him in a banter. Let us ask the I 
 Nurfe whether our Generals fhould give Battle or \ 
 no ? and calling her, Nurfe, fays flie, now the time i 
 is ccnie, that the Women are confuhed whether it \ 
 is proper to give Battle -, what do yen think of \ 
 it, Nurfe? Then the Nurfe following the Queen \ 
 in the King's Apartfnent, as fhe was us'd to do, ' I 
 faid feveral times, That fine e the Reformed would 
 not accept of the reafonable Terms tenurr^d to them, ■ 
 it was her opinion to give them Battle. The i 
 Queen-Mother having called a Cabinfet-Council, \ 
 it was refolved to leave the Triumvirs in full ■ 
 Liberty of doing in this refpe6>, whatever they i 
 jfhould think the more conducible to the Wei- \ 
 fare of the Kingdom {b). \ 
 
 Secondly., That the Generals in the Prince's \ 
 Army committed tv/o Blunders ; They did not •; 
 fend to reconnoitre the Enemy, aid inftead of 1 
 taking up their Quarters in the beft Villages (i- ; 
 tuated along the Banks of the Eure, every one j 
 went quietly to reft in his own Qinrters, while \ 
 the Enemy took pofieflion of thofe Villages ^ 
 
 without ' 
 i (b) V.tra. ce Cafitlnan, liv. iv. ch. 4. • .^ 
 
Boofc IV. Reformed Churches in France. 223 
 without any Difturbance, and even unknown to Charles 
 the Prince, tho* there was not two Leagues dif- -^^• 
 tance between the two Armies ; and made in thep^^Jp^J^ 
 Night-time all the neceflary Preparations to at- IV. 
 tack them the next Morning, as they did : to 
 which I may add, that by the Inadvertency of 
 the Quarter-mafters, the Battaha led by the 
 Prince was quarter'd at the Front, and the Van- 
 guard led by the Admiral at the Rear about a 
 League diftance from the Prince, infomuch that 
 the next Morning they were obliged to lofe much 
 time in fetting things a-right. 
 
 Thirdly^ May be that was the reafon why 
 there was no Skirmifh between the two Armies, 
 tho* they ftay'd within a Cannon-fhot one from 
 the other, for the fpace of two Hours, as wejj 
 to range themfelves, as to determine upon the 
 Attack. 
 
 Fourthly, The Switzers difplay'd on this oc- 
 cafion their great Courage, for they withftood 
 four Charges before they could be broken, having 
 loft feventeen Captains and the third part of their 
 Men, that is, about three tljoufand. 
 
 Fifthly, The Moderation of the Duke of 
 Guife upon this occafion, is much to be com- 
 mended ; for tho' he knew that the Conftable 
 had been taken Prifoner, and part of the Army 
 overthrown, yet he ftay'd and waited for the 
 opportunity of attacking the Battalia of the 
 Prince ; and when he faw the nick of time, he 
 behaved himfelf in fuch a brave and gallant 
 manner, that he not only reftor'd the Battle, 
 but took the Prince prifoner, and got the day. 
 
 Sixthly, There were loft on both fides at leaft 
 feven thoufand Men, befides many Prifoners and 
 Wounded, whereof moft part died. The Prince 
 loft about 2200 Foot and 140 Horfe, Reifters 
 or French, fome Colours and part of his Artil- 
 lery i 
 
224 Hiftory of the Reformat ion^ and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles Jery ; the greateft Lofs was on the Catholick's 
 
 ^^" fide, for they had the greateft number of flain ; 
 
 Pope ?ia5 amongft them there were feveral Perfons of the 
 
 IV. firft Rank, as the Marfhal of St. Andrew, the 
 
 Duke of Nevers, Montberon Son to the Confta- 
 
 ble, and feveral others. The Duke of Au- 
 
 male was forely wounded in the Shoulder. But 
 
 the Prince loft but very few of his chief Officers, 
 
 amongft whom were D'Arpajon, De Chandieu, 
 
 De Liancourt, De Lignery, &c. 
 
 Seventhly^ D'Auftun a noble Gafcoon of the 
 Catholick Army, tho* a brave Officer, who had 
 given feveral proofs of great Fortitude and Cou- 
 rage, was fo much frightned out of his Wits at 
 the firft Charge, that he ran full gallop to Paris, 
 where he arrived the next Morning, crying, 
 that every thing was undone, that they had loft 
 the day, and that their Army had been entirely 
 routed. At this News the Court fell into ftrange 
 Commotions, the Qaeen-Mother excepted, who 
 faid coldly, Then for the future we shall 
 PRAY TO God in French. But when De 
 LofTes arrived the next day, and brought a true 
 account of every particular, D'AufTun was fo 
 much affiam'd for his pretended Cowardice, that 
 notwithftanding all that the Duke of Guife could 
 fay to comfort him, he refolv'd to ft:u-ve hinifelf 
 to death, and fo he did a f^^w days after the Bat- 
 tle. 
 
 Eighthly^ What is very remarkable, is the 
 takipg of the Generals of the two Armies Pri- 
 foners of War, the Conftable by the Prince's 
 Party, who was brought under a ftrong guard 
 to Orleans, and delivered into the Princefs of 
 Conde's hands, as an Hoftage for the Prince 
 her Huft)and ; and the Prince himfelf by the 
 Catholick Party, who was delivered by Dam- 
 ville, one of the Conftable's Sons, into the Duke 
 
 • 3 ^f' 
 
Book: IV. Rcfonned Churches //2 F r A N c E ." 2 :2 j 
 of Guife's hands. By that means the Field of Charles 
 Batt-e remained to the faid Duke of Guife, who ^^ 
 re-enter'd into it, aftet having purfu'd the Ad- />^ J Pius 
 miral foT a little time in his Retreat. But the IV. 
 next day, the 20th of December, the Admiral 
 Came in again, and offered a-new the Battle,but to 
 no purpofe, fo he made his Retreat in very good 
 ordet-. 
 
 'Ninthly^ The Duke of Guife's Behaviour to- 
 wards the Prince was a:s kind and civil as could 
 be defired in fuch tircumftance ; they not only 
 tupped together, but whereas there was no fpare 
 Bed, and that his Baggage had been taken or 
 difperfed, the Duke offered his own to his High- 
 nefs ; but the Prince was pleafed to fhare it with 
 him, and would not accept of the offer upon 
 any otjier terms, fo they lay that Night in the 
 fame Bed : and I do not know which to admire 
 more, the Duke*s Moderation in the Ufe he 
 did make of his Advantages, or the Prince's 
 Confidence in trufting himfelf {o far to a Man, 
 "whom hie looked upon a little before -as his 
 greatefl Enemy {c), 
 
 TefUhly^ The Marfhil of St. Andrew had 
 been taken prifoner of War, but was (lain in 
 cool blood, by one whom he had very ungrate- 
 fully treated ; his name was Bobigny, his Father 
 had often been Caution for the Marfhal, but 
 feeing that he ran into fuch extravagant Expen- 
 ces, that he would ruin himfelf and his Family 
 if he continued to be Security for him, he de- 
 fifted on a fudden. The Marfhal feeing that h^ 
 had nothing more to expe(5l from the old Gen- 
 tleman, and that his Creditors came upon him 
 every day, he thought that there was no better 
 way to be rid off thefe Troubles, than to render 
 
 Vol. II. Q^ Evil 
 
 (c) Beza liv. vi. Thuan. lib. 34. p. 216, 217, 218, Ajc. 
 LaNoueDifc. 26. p. 847. 
 
226 Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vo L .Tj. 
 
 Charles Evil for the many good Offices he had received 
 from him ; therefore looking upon his Son who 
 was in his Service, as upon an importune Cre- 
 ditor, tho' he afked nothing, he refolved to dif- 
 mifs him with a great deal of Scorn and Con- 
 tempt : for that end, a Quarrel having been 
 pick'd up between Bobigny and Sanforlin, one 
 of the MarHial's Favourites, by the faid Mar- 
 fhal's Diredion -, the firlt was deadly affronted 
 by the other, of which he made his Complaint 
 to St. Andrew ; but inftead of giving him any 
 Satisfa6lion, he told him that he was forry for 
 what had been done to him, but whereas there was 
 -fo vaft a difference in their Extradions, Sanforlin 
 being a Nobleman and he a P]ebeian,he could not 
 exped: to receive the fame Satisfadlion as if he 
 had been Noble. At this, Bobigny more exafpei-a-^ 
 ted than before, left the Marfhal's Houfe,and hav- 
 ing found an opportunity, he aflaulted Sanforlin 
 and kill'd him. Tho* the Marihal was very forry 
 for the lofs of Sanforlin,. neverthelefs being glad of 
 thisopportunity of getting for himfelf the vaftEf- 
 tate of Bobigny, he caufed him to be fummoned 
 before the King's Council at three different timesy 
 and for his non-appearance, he caufed him to 
 be condemned to death, and his Eftate and 
 Goods to be forfeited to the King, which For- 
 feiture he obtained for himfelf by proper appli- 
 cation to his Majefty. Bobigny exafperated to 
 the laft degree by thefe twofold Injuries, and the 
 lofs of his Eftate, defpaired not however to find 
 a proper Opportunity of revenging himfelf, and 
 he was not long before he met with it-, for St. An- 
 drew having been taken prifoner as abovefaid, 
 and being carried on horfeback out of the field, 
 Bobigny perceiving him at that time, came and 
 kill'd him with a Mufket-lhot in the Head, ii» 
 
 th3 
 
SookIV. Reforjfied Churches in Vv.a^c^. 'ti±f 
 the fight of the Soldier who had taken the faid Charles 
 Marfhal Prifoner. ,.52. 
 
 So died James D'Albon of St. Andrew, Mar- poi Pius 
 /hal of France, who by his great Capacity IV'. 
 rnight have rendered himfelf very ferviceable to' 
 his Country, had he not ftain'd his Talents by 
 his Vices and odious Crimes ; for he was no lefs 
 confpicuous for his Pride, Luxury and Extor- 
 tions, in the latter end of Henry li's Reign, and 
 thofe of Francis II. and Charles IX. as he had 
 been formerly by his Military Virtues and At- 
 chievements. He felt in due time the EfFeds of 
 the Indignation of that God Almighty Avenger 
 of fuch Wickednefs as his was j and that by a 
 Man whom he fear'd the leaft, which is a good 
 warning to all great Men rais'd in Dignities and 
 Offices, not to abufe their Authority and Credit 
 to the Opprelfion of thsir Inferiors, alld to re- 
 fpedl their own Station and Fortune {i). 
 
 The Conftable being taken prifoner, and the 
 Mar(hal of St. Andrew being (lain, the Duke 
 of Guife was declared by the King liis Lieute- 
 nant General to command in his Armies-, he 
 was no fooner invefted with that high Office^ 
 than he order'd feventeen new Companies of 
 Lanciers to be rais'd, and ten others were aug- 
 mented with ten Men per Company ; he created 
 alfo twelve Knights of the Order, v/hich being 
 done, he threatned the Reifters and the Marfhal 
 of HefTe to cut them in pieces, and to hang the 
 faid Marfhal, if they would not join with him,or 
 depart without delay out of the Kingdom. But 
 they fcorn'd his Threatnings, and anfvvered him 
 almofl in the fame tune. ^Y^ 
 
 As to the Admiral, having been acknowledg'd Adnhal 
 |is General of the Army during the Prince's ab- deColigny 
 fence, he marched into Beaufie, and made feveral reamed Qe~ 
 0^2 Lxcurfions^^^^;^^^, 
 
 (d) Thuaiit, ^ib. xxxiv. p. ^19. . ?»>. 
 
228 Hijlcry of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.11. 
 Excurfions in that Country during the remainder 
 of this Year. 
 
 The fecond of January 1563 he befieged 
 Selks in Berry, and within five days after took 
 it by compofition. The Count of La Rochefou- 
 cault took likewife the Town of St. Aignan in 
 the fame Country, and the Prince of Porcian 
 that of Mont-Richard in Touraine. 
 
 The Duke of Guife marching likewife into 
 B?aufle,took Eftam pes, wherein the Lord of Du- 
 ras commanded in the Prince's name, but feeingr 
 that the Place cowld not withftand, he had been 
 obliged to leave it and retire toPluviers, wherein 
 he was furrounded by feven or eight hundred 
 Horfe, upon whom he made a fally as if he had 
 a mind to ftand a fiege, but in the night-time 
 he retreated to Orleans. 
 
 The Duke of Guife having made himfelf 
 mafter of all thofe Places which ftood for the 
 Prince, nothing remained in that Country for his 
 Highnefs but the City of Orleans, whofe CuC-, 
 tody was committed to D*Andelot, with four- 
 teen Enfigns of Lanfkenets and Frenchmen, and 
 four others of the Inhabitants, with a great num- 
 ber of Gentlemen fully refolvcd to withftand the 
 Siege -, and indeed the Dake of Guife being en- 
 camp'd near Baugency, fent his light Florfe as 
 far as Orleans -, but Avaret making a Sally upon 
 them, fome were flaiti, others taken prifoners, 
 and the reft put to iiight {e). 
 
 At the fime time, the King and his Mother 
 were brought to Chartres, with all the Privy- 
 Council and fome Deputies of the Parliament of 
 Paris, in order to try the Prince (as it was ru- 
 mour'd) who was kept by a Company of Lan- 
 ciers and three of Foot. But Damville, one of 
 the Conflable's Sons, guefling at the Duke of 
 
 Guife's 
 (^jBeza liv. vi. p. 246^ 247, <S:c. 
 
B o K I V . Reformed Churches /« F r a n c E . 22^ 
 Guife's Meaning, to ftrike two blows with one Charles 
 {lone, and not doubting but that the fame ufage ^\ 
 that the Prince fhould receive at Chartrcs, thep^^^pfJs 
 fame would be received by his Father at Orleans, IV. 
 worked (o well, that tlie Duke's iVleafurcs were*— '"v-"^ 
 broken, and that Aflcmbly difperfed ; the Court 
 went to Blois, where the Prince was brought, and 
 from thence conveyed to the Caftic of Ozaiii 
 near Amboife. 
 
 On the other fide, the Admiral having re- ^^ ^''f-^^ 
 ceiv'd new Promifes and Oaths of the Reillers, '^^^ -'^"^ 
 marched to Orleans, and taking his way through Orleans. 
 Mont-Richard and Romorantin, he came to 
 Gergueau, which La RochefoLicault had feized 
 upon before, for to have a jmflage over the Loire, 
 and ten days after the Town of Sully was for- 
 cibly taken, and the Caftle the fame day by com- 
 position i then he came to Orleai-is. 
 
 A few days before fome Articles of Peace had 
 been tendcr'd to the Princefs cf Conde, but 
 whereas their mean fcope was only to procure 
 the Conftable's Liberty by an exchange With 
 the Prince, his Highnefs himfclf rtjeded thdm, 
 for fear left fome Mifchicf fliould be hid in the 
 bottom againil: his Perfon ^either by Poifon or 
 otherwifej to be executed when the Conftable 
 fhould have been fct at Liberty, 
 
 Now, whereas the Duke of Guife's Army en- 
 camp'd in the Neighbourhood of Orleans, and 
 that it w^as fery likely that he would foon lay 
 fjege to that City ; the Admiral in order to 
 procure a divcrfion, and oblge the Duke to di- 
 vide his Troops, as well as for receiving the 
 Money (o long expedled, refolved by the Ad- 
 vice of the Council of War to march into Nor- 
 mandy with the Reifters and a good number of 
 the French Nobility, leaving his Foot with rhe 
 French Horfc at Orleans, kd by Duras, Boucha- 
 
^3P Mijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. \l. 
 
 Charles vafies, Biijfy^ St. Cyr, Jvaret and feveral others 
 
 •^^- under the Command of D'Andelot, who with 
 
 Pope Pjiis rtiuch ado accepted of that Charge becaufe of 
 ' IV. his Sicknefs. The Reifters, at the inftance of 
 
 ^=*-''V*-^ their General the MarHml of Hefle, i"hewed 
 themfelves i'o ready to execute that Refolution, 
 that they left their Waggons at Orleans, and! 
 caufed their Boys to carry their NeceiTaries upon 
 the Waggon -Horfes, whereof they made a Cor- 
 net of four hundred indifferent Mtii {/). 
 
 The Duke of Guife having; got intelligence 
 of this by his Spies, he deured the Queen to 
 fend Orders to the Marfhal of ErilTac Gover- 
 nor of Paris, to repair irr m-diately into Nor- 
 mandy for the defence of Ro :en, with the Lord 
 pf Vieille-viile and the Rhingrave. Letters- 
 Patents were likewife publiihed in the King's 
 Name throughout all the Parifhes of Normandy, 
 commanding all the Pealants in the Villages, to 
 retire quickly into the fortified Towns with all 
 their Cattle, Provifions and Goods -, ftveral o- 
 ther Orders were taken for the defence of that 
 Province, and at the fame time a thoufand Ex- 
 tortions were commited againil the Reformed, 
 efpecially at Paris, where divers cruel Murders' 
 were perpetrated. A Declaration was likewif^ 
 fent to the Reifters, figned by the King, the 
 Queen-Mother, and all the Princes of the Blood 
 then at Court, exhorting thtm tp fprfake the 
 Admiral. But it had no better effecl: than the, 
 Queen's Letter to the faid Admiral, by which 
 fhe defired him to de.rift from his Enterprize, and 
 to agree to a Conference, wherein Matters could 
 be fairly adjured. He anfwered her Majefty, 
 that he could not be inipoi'cd on any longer by 
 fuch Parleys, but that it v.as his Opinion, tha;: 
 
 if 
 
 Cx} Thuan. lib. 34. p. 230. Bcza. liv. 6. p. 255. \C. 
 Jiilt. CoIIeitioris prsuced in London 15'^^?= 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches //? F r a n c e . 231 ; 
 
 if the Prince had a Conference with the Confta- Charles I 
 ble alone, they would come to fome Agreement V" ' 
 
 for the Pacification of the prefent Troubles, p^l p^g 
 That Letter was intercepted, and never came in IV. 
 the Queen's hands, as fhe declar'd akerwards, of— *v—^ ; 
 which the Conftable complain'd likewife ; and j 
 
 the Princefs of Conde his Neice, talking upon ; 
 
 that fubjed, told him, that their common Enemy ) 
 
 dealt with the Prince her Hufband and him, 1 
 
 juft as the Parifians did with the Shrines of St. ■ ,' 
 
 Genevieve and St. Marcel, which they would * . 
 
 never fufFer to come near one another, becaufe of 
 the People's odd Notion, that by reafon of their j 
 
 Affinity they would embrace one another fo ; 
 
 clofe, that it fhould be impoffible to feparate them \ 
 
 afterwards {g), \ 
 
 The Prince of Conde had attempted his Ef- J 
 
 cape, and would have fucceeded with the help | 
 
 of two of his Guards, but was difcover'd by 
 one of them, and the other was hang'd for it, \ 
 
 yet he fainted not, but on the contrary he ipoke 1 
 
 more boldly than before, his nature being fuch, \ 
 
 that the greater were his Adverfities, the more j 
 
 his Courage was invincible. \ 
 
 Every thing being ready for the Admiral's qjj \ 
 
 March, he departed from Orleans on the 1^0? He goes \ 
 
 February with four thoufand Horfe, without any ^"^° Nor-. , j 
 other Carriages than about 30 Waggons lightly "^^^^" i 
 
 Jaden. On the 4th he came before Evreux, a- 
 long the Walls of which, after feme Difputes 
 and Skirmiflies, the Inhabitants fuffer'd hitii to ' 
 
 march peaceably ; on the loth, he arriv'd within , 
 
 two Leagues of Bernay ; where the Peasants led ' 
 
 by a Gentleman of the Country, endeavour'd to \ 
 
 ftop him in the paffage, but to their cofl, as ! 
 
 well as of others who followed their Example, \ 
 
 and had committed many Outrages againil: the ^" ; 
 
 0^4 Reformed a . 
 
 (g) Beza liv. vi. p. 256. Thuan. lib,.xx;xiv. p. 23,0. 
 
Jiis Ex 
 fjoits 
 
 232 'H.ijlory of the Reformation^ ajtdof the V o l . 11. 
 
 Charles Reformed, fince the beginning of the Siege of 
 ^^^- Rouen till then. 
 
 Pofe Pius The Admiral being arrived at Dives, he ftay'd 
 IV. there to \,ait for News from the EngHfh, ta 
 whom he fent Notice of his Arrival, not only 
 to thofe of Havre de Grace, but even to Eng- 
 
 'f/^at Coun -^nd. The Winds continuing contrary, the Suc- 
 
 <f^- cours expefted from that Country could not ar- 
 
 rive, which hinder'd not the Reiilers from com- 
 plaining. 
 
 While the Admiral was in that place, the 
 Prince of Porcian being requiit'd by feveral of 
 the Reformed Inhabitants of Pont L^Eveque, 
 was fent to their Ailiftanee. live Town of 
 Honiieur was likewife fummon'J, but they a- 
 greed only to grant fome Provifions. The In-. 
 habitants of Caen having defir'd the A.dmiral to 
 affift them againft the Marquefs of Elbeuf, whom 
 the Duke of G\:iit his Brother had fent thither 
 to kee' ■ that City in fubjedion, and who mo- 
 leRed them continually -, he refus'd them at firft,, 
 and told them that if he did grant their Re- 
 queft, it would be more prejudicial than advan^. 
 tageous to them, becaufe he was fully refolv'd. 
 to march back to Orleans, as foon as he fhould 
 receive the Succours expefted from England, 
 tho' he fhould have befieg'd the Caftle of their 
 City and be fure of Succefs j and fothey would be 
 expos'd not only to the Scorn, but alfo to the 
 Fury of their Enemies* who would revenge 
 t hem felves feve rely upon tiiem. Neverthelefs, as. 
 they infifted, he fent thither t-he Lord of Mouy 
 (noi long before released out of his Prifon) with 
 his Company and fome Mufketeers, to make 
 themfelves mafters of the City, and do the beft 
 they could (b). 
 
 Ai- 
 
 (h) Ec^^n 5. Tiuan Ibid 
 
Book I V . Refon7ied Churches /;z Fr a n c e . 233 
 
 At laft, the Winds proving fair, the Englifti Charles 
 Fleet arrived at Havre de Grace, there was on ^^• 
 board five Enfigns of Englifh, two of French 5 p^^^ p^-'^^ 
 eight Pieces of Artillery with their Provifion of iv. 
 Powder and Bullets, befides a round Sum of'— v-*-* 
 Money. Thefe things being brought to Caen, 
 where the Admiral had repaired as foon as he 
 had notice of the Fleet's Arrival, he batter*d the 
 Caftle of Caen on the firft of March, and the 
 next day he took that ftrong Place by Compo- 
 fition. That goodSuccefs tempted him to make 
 further Conquefts in that Province ; Mouy and 
 Colombiers took Honfleur and Bayeux ; Mont- 
 gomery recovered St. Lo, Vire and feveral other 
 Places ; in fhort, the Admiral put under Con- 
 tribution almoft all the Towns and Burroughs 
 of Normandy, where we fliall leave him till we 
 have related what happened about this time to 
 the DukeofGuife, and the Motions and Pro- 
 grefs of the Army under his Command {j ). 
 
 The faid Duke, notwithftanding the Queen CLIL 
 and feveral of the Courtiers Opinion, who were ^e Duh 
 for following the Admiral into Normandy, and °f^'<-^fi 
 putting a Stop to his Progrefs in that Province, y^^^^f^^ '^' 
 and for blocking up Orleans, while the Queen 
 fhould treat of the Peace with the Prince {k)\ 
 blinded by his Fate, he infilled on his Refoluti- 
 on to befiege that City. So on the fifth of Fe- 
 bruary he approached it, and the next Day with 
 much Refolution, and by the Cowardice of the 
 Lanlkenets who forfook their Poft, he took the 
 Portereau, one of the Suburbs, wherein thofe of 
 the Town loft eight hundred Men, and the Lofs 
 
 would 
 
 (i) Eid. Ibid. Mem. de Cr.ftelnau, liv. iv. ch. viii. 
 (k) La Noue Difcours polit. & militaires, Difc. 26. p. 
 862. He w:is prefent at tliat A»5tion j but; others, as Beza^ 
 
234 Ji^flory of the Reformation, and of the Vo l . II. 
 Charles would have been much greater, had it not been 
 I-^- for the Courage and Prudence of D'Andelot (/). 
 '503. On the 9th he took the Turrets by Surprize, 
 l\j and having received a great Quantity of Artil- 
 u -v-*.^ lery from Paris and Nantz, he batter'd the liles 
 of the Town, without ceafing, but with little 
 effea. 
 ^ At laft, on the i8th of the fame Month, after 
 
 jj^ -J ' the Duke of Guife had taken the Meafures which 
 nvouttcied he thought necelTary for making himfelf Mafter 
 ^' i't?///-^^. of the City in twenty-four Hours, with a cer^- 
 tain AfTurance of Succefs, (as he wrote to the 
 Queen-Mother, defiring her Majefty's Pardon, 
 if being once Mafter of Orleans, he fliould fpare 
 no body of either Sex or Age, but would put 
 them all to the Sword, and deftroy entirely the 
 City) as he was going to his Quarters in the E- 
 vening to refrefh himfelf, he was wounded by 
 Poltrot, Lord of Mere, of the Province of Angou- 
 mois ; he was carried to his Quarters by his Ser- 
 - vants, wherein, notwithftanding all imaginable 
 
 ^f-f^ ' care taken for his Cure, he died the 24th of Fe- 
 bruary. 
 
 No body, methinks, can deny that he had 
 been the greateft Captain of his Age, and as 
 ^t^' c7 - &^^^^ ^ Politician •, but ! can't imagine how 
 racier. Thuanus can fay, 'That for certain that Lord 
 "was born for the Welfare and Glory of the King- 
 dom^ had he lived in more quiet 'Times ^ and under 
 a better Government. Pllofecto GALLii^ 
 
 BONO ATQUE ORNAMENTO NATUS, SI IN PA- 
 CATIORA TEMPORA E T RECTI US ADiMINlSTR A - 
 TAM REMPUBLICAM INCIDISSET (w). 
 
 That noble Hiftorian's Reflect ion would have 
 been more jull: nnd true, had the Duke of Guife 
 pegun to be known in the World only under the 
 
 Reign 
 
 (I) Thuan. lib. 31 p. 232. Eeza liv. vi. p. 263. 
 (m) Thuan. lib. 34- p. 235. 
 
B p o K I V. Reformed Churches i;2 France. "^ 235 
 Reign of Francis II. and Charles IX. which were Charles 
 tumultuous Reigns, but that of Henry II. was ^ ^ 
 not the fame •, indeed it was troubled much by Pope Pius 
 Wars abroad, but not by inteftine Commotions IV. 
 as that of his Sons ; and yet the faid Duke, at 
 the Inftigation of the Pope's Nephew, the Car- 
 dinal Caraffe, was one who advifed the King 
 Xo break, the Truce with the Emperor Charles V. 
 by which he expofed the Kingdom to the very 
 brink of its utter Ruin. The Cardinal of Lor- 
 rain his Brother^ had a great afcendant over him ; 
 he was a profiigate Man^ of a very violent Tern- 
 pep, and what the Duke did amifs, he did it at 
 bis Brothers Perfuafion. I will allow all that, 
 but how can this juftify the Duke, and oblige us 
 to fay that he was born for the Welfare and 
 Glory of the Kingdom, when by all his Adlions 
 from two or three Years before Henry IId*s 
 Death to his own Death, that is for five years 
 together at the leaft, he has proved to be the 
 Occafion of the Ruin and Defolation of the King- 
 dom ^ And it is no matter whether he has beeri 
 the Author, or only the Tool and Inftrument 
 of tlie Miferies of France during thofe five laft 
 Years of his Life, to pronounce that far fron^^ 
 being born for the Kingdom's Welfare and Glo-? 
 ry, he was born for its Deftrudion ; feeing that 
 it is plain that had it not been for his daring 
 Genius, and his boundlefs Ambition, the King- 
 dom would have enjoy 'd Peace and Tranquility, 
 at leaft fince King Francis lid's Acceffion to 
 the Crown. He himfelf was very fenfible of 
 this on his Death-btd i for tho' he had always 
 oppofed himfelf to Peace in his Life-time, and 
 especially fince the firft Civil War had broke 
 out, yet he thought proper now to exhort the 
 Queen-Mother to make Peace with the Refor- 
 med, faying, Thai^^ it was fo necej'ary, thatwho- 
 
 e'vet 
 
236 liijiory of the Reformation^ and of theVo-L. II, 
 
 Charles ever Jhould oppofe it^ ought to be deemed an impi- 
 I^- ous Man, and an Enemy to the King, 
 
 P.iyus AND THE KiNGDOM {fl). 
 
 IV. In a word, I afk, whether a Man who ad- 
 'vifes his King to dip his Royal Hand in the . 
 Blood of his near Relation, and who charges 
 him with Pufillanimity, becaufe of his Abhor- 
 rence of fuch a cruel Deed -, who, ufurping the 
 Royal Authority, breaks of his own accord, an 
 Edi(5t granted at the Inftance of the General 
 States of the Kingdom, and caufes, or at leaft 
 occafions the Maflacre of fo many unarmed In- 
 nocents •, who treats with the ancient Enemies 
 of the Kingdom j who forces his King to go 
 whither he had no mind, and to comply with 
 every thing he requires •, who oppofes every 
 Overture of Peace, not conformable to his own 
 private Intereft. I aik, I fay, whether fuch a 
 Man can be faid to be born for the Good and the 
 Welfare of the Country where he lives, and 
 wherein he exercifes his ufurped and tyrannical 
 Authority ? But fuch was Francis Duke of Guife> 
 as the Reader may be convinced by what we 
 have faid in our firft Volume, and in this ; ta 
 which I fhall fubjoin part of a Letter written 
 by the Queen- Mother to Monfieur de Gonnor, 
 dated the 9th of February 1562-3, wherein 
 thefe very Words are to be found : Burn this 
 Letter, nnd do fiot make mention of me •, and for 
 making Peace, as you did write to me, I mujl ne- 
 £effarily flay here ; for a hundred Things happen e- 
 *uery day, ' ivhereby all would be undone, for 
 Monsieur de Guise's sake, was I too far from 
 the Army ((9).She miftrufted him, becaufe ihe knew 
 
 hinL 
 
 (n) Id. p. 234r 
 
 (0) Additions iiux Mem. dc Caflelnau, liv. iv. cL g,. 
 
Bo0K IV. Reformed Churches in France. 237 
 him too averfe from Peace ; or at leaft, that he Charles 
 would not conclude it before the taking of Or- ^ ^"^^ 
 Jeans. His Corps was carried to Paris, and from Pope Pius 
 thence to Joinville, where he was buried with IV. 
 hisAnceftors. '"'"■" 
 
 The Reformed, at lead the moft heated a- 
 mongft them, carried their Indifcretion fo far 
 on this Occaiion, that they did not fcruple to 
 make a Saint and a Martyr of Poltrot, who at 
 the beft was but a melancholick Fanatick ; they 
 might have received the Benefit of his Crime, 
 even in fhewing their Deteftation of it ; but not 
 fatisfied with that, fome blinded by a falfe Zeal, 
 extolled that Adion by their Verfes made in 
 Poltrot's praife : whereby they drew upon the 
 whole Party the Indignation, not only of the 
 Houfe of Guife, but likewlfe of all the Catho- 
 licks, who made them feel the frightful EfFedls 
 of it about ten Years after, upon Bartholomew's 
 Pay. 
 
 The Death of that Duke fubverted all the 
 great Projeds of his Brother the Cardinal of Lor- 
 rain, who intended to have him declared Head 
 of the Catholick Party in France, and to form a 
 kind of Correfpondence with the Pope, and all 
 the Houfe of Auftria -, which he was in hopes 
 to engage by his own Interefls to employ in 
 Germany the Forces of the Proteftant Princes, 
 and in England thofe of Queen Elizabeth, by 
 managing the Marriage of Mary Stuart his 
 Niece, Queen of Scots, with the Archduke 
 Charles, one of the Emperor's Sons ; that great 
 Affair was on the Carpet when he received that 
 melancholick News. 
 
 As to Poltrot, having perpetrated the wicked CLIV. 
 Adion, he fled into the neighbouring Woods, Poltrot ta- 
 wherein he could hot be purfued, and likely, ' 
 frightned by the Horror of his Crime, tho' he 
 
 rode 
 
 ?n. 
 
^ 3 8 Hijlory of the Reformafton, and of the Vol . 11 < 
 
 Charles pode all the Night long on a fine Spanifh Horfe, 
 
 g" yethe found hi mfelf the next Morning at Olivet's 
 
 Po/f Pius Bridge, near the Place where he had committed 
 
 IV. the Murder, when he thought to be very far oiF, 
 
 *— "V— ~' from whence he came the next Morning to a Place 
 
 unknown to him, and having alighted he fell a- 
 
 fleep, and was taken on Sufpicion by one of the 
 
 Duke's Secretaries, and owiied the Fad. Two 
 
 Days after he was brought to the Queen in the 
 
 Jnterroga- Camp, and was examined before the Cardinal 
 
 of Bourbon, the Duke of Eftampes, and feveral 
 
 others of his Majefty's Privy Council, about the 
 
 Fad, for what Reafon, and by the Iriftigation 
 
 of whom he had committed it '^. 
 
 Hechar es ^^ ^^^^' ^^^^ ^' ^^ Soubife being at Orleans 
 the Ad mi- With the Princc of Conde in July laft, he was 
 raly Beza, come thither himfelf, and had been introduced 
 and/eve- ^q ^^g Admiral by Feuquieres and Brion -, that 
 ers. ^Y^^^ ^YiQ faid Admiral propofed to him to mur- 
 der the Duke of Guife, which he had refufed 
 to do •, that he had been with Soubize to Lyons, 
 and there remained till after the Battle of Dreux, 
 when at the Admiral's Requeft he was fent to 
 him by Soubize \ that when he came he met the 
 Admiral befieging Celles, and being come with 
 him to Orleans, he the faid Admiral renewed 
 the fame Propofition of murdering the Duke of 
 Guife ; and at laft being perfuaded by Theod; 
 Beza. and another Minifter, whom he refufed to 
 name, he confented to do the Fad, and having 
 received Money, he came to the Duke's Camp^ 
 pretending to be a Deferter from the Prince's 
 Army -, that afterwards, repenting himfelf of 
 his Prom ife, he was come back to Orleans, for 
 to excufe himfelf and repeal his faid Promife ; 
 but that having been perfuaded again by Bcza, 
 he had perpetrated the Fad .after the manner 
 above faid, and had been taken afterwards. To 
 
 this 
 
BookI\^. RefortnedChurches in France." 239 
 this he added, that he thought the Count of Charles 
 La Rochefoucauld was privy to the Plot for -^^ 
 murdering the faid Dulce \ but he entirely dif- Popg p^jyg 
 charged the Prince, D'A ndelot and Soubize ; and IV. 
 faid, that they.had no Notice of it. Befides that, ^— v"**' 
 he warned the Queen to take care of herfelf for 
 the future, becaufe the Reformed thinking that 
 ihe had betray*d them, were extreamly incenfed 
 againft her fince the Battle of Dreux ; that the 
 Admiral had fent feveral Spies and Aflaflines into 
 the Catholick Camp, whom he had feen himfelf ; 
 that the Duke of Montpeniier and Sanfac were 
 particularly hinted at. 
 
 The next Day being upon his Oath, he con- 
 fefled and declared the fame things, and figned 
 his Depofition. 
 
 A Copy of that Depofition was fent to the 
 Reifters, and by them to" the Admiral, who was 
 ftill at Caen ; and we fhall fee his Anfwer when, 
 I fhall have related the Trial, Condemnation 
 and Execution of this Wretch. 
 
 The next Day he was brought to Paris, - and A'^ h 
 a Proclamation was publifhed from the King at ^^'°^i^^ ''* 
 Blois, forbiddijig all Reformed of what Qua- ^''''''' 
 Jity foever to come nearer the City than ten 
 Leagues. 
 
 Poltrot being examined before fome Prefi- Farias in 
 dents, Counfellors, and others of the Court of ^^'^ Depa^ 
 ParliamxCnt, he declared, that whatever he/'^'"*-^' 
 had faid, in his firfl: Cojifeflion, to the Charge 
 of the Admiral, Beza and others, was entirely 
 falfe ; that he had committed the Murder of his 
 own Accord, thinking, in fo doing, to ferve 
 God and his Country. Then a little after he 
 charged a-new the Admiral, but perfifted in 
 difcharging Beza and others. He was put to 
 the Rack, but faid the fame things. 
 
 He 
 
'240 Hi/iory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. IJt. 
 He was condemned firH; to be pinched with 
 red hot Pincers, then to be drawn and quartered 
 by four Horfes, then to have his Head fever'd, 
 and the Trunk of his Body burnt to Afhes. At 
 the place of Execution he varied again ; for at 
 ^onlmn-^^'^^ he declared, that ths Admiral, or any body 
 ed, and ex- ^^^^ knew nothing of his Defign ; then after hei 
 ecitted. had been pinched, he faid the contrary, and 
 charged again the Admiral, D'Andelot, Soubize 
 and the others, Beza excepted ♦, then he denied 
 it ; and at laft being tied to the Horfes, and up- 
 on the point of being drawn, he defired to be • 
 releafed a while, which being granted, he char- 
 ged a-new the Admiral, D'Andelot, and Sou- 
 bize ; which done, he was drawn •, and becaufe 
 the Horfes could not disjoint his Members, they 
 were obliged to cut the Flefh with an Hatchet; 
 and being quartered, his Head was fever*d, and 
 the Trunk burnt to Afhes. 
 
 For certain that Wretch turned mad as foon. 
 as he had committed the Crime •, his Guilt filled 
 up his Mind with fuch Horror, that he knew 
 not what he did, or what he faid, as it is evi- 
 dent by his Behaviour from the time he was ta- 
 ken, to the time of his Death •, and befides the 
 Horror of his Guilt, the very Thought of the 
 fevere and cruel Puniftiment he knew he defer- 
 ved, was enough to put him entirely out of his 
 Senfes. 
 
 I (hall fubjoin here the Charader which the 
 Prior of Juvignc gives us of the Man. „ He 
 „ was, fays he, an inconfiderate Man, intoxi- 
 „ cated with a {falfe) Zeal for a new Religion, 
 „ as it were with Wine newly brew'd, and who 
 „ for a long while had pafTed for a Fool a- 
 5, mongft thofe of his own Party, who had o- 
 „ ther Interefts in view, befides their Confci- 
 „ ences ; and who, feeing that he was fuch a 
 
 „ FqoI, 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fr a n c e . 2'^.t 
 
 . 3, Fool, charged him with dangerous Commif- Charlea 
 i, fions, whereby he fliewed himfelf able toun- ^ y^" 
 „ dertake any thing. He had bragged that hep^Jplu^ 
 „ would kill the Duke of Guife, and departed IV. 
 „ from Lyons with that Intent ; which, ac- 
 „ cording to the Verfes afcrlbed to the learned 
 „ Turnebus and feveral others, came on a fud- 
 ,, den into his Head, when he had heard from 
 ,, the Duke, that in three Days he would force 
 5, Orleans and ranfack it -, That he owned in his 
 3, Depofition. — - — — He had fome Commiflion 
 ,, to execute from M. de Soubize, Governor of 
 „ Lyons, with tlie Admiral, and came to Or- 
 „ leans, from whence D'Andelot fent him to 
 „ ferve as a Spy in the Duke of Guife's Army, 
 3, with whom he feigned to be a Deferter and 
 ,, a Convert^ till he met with an Opportunity 
 3, of executing his Defign. Theod. de Beza 
 ,5 and forrie otKer Minifters, fed him with the 
 5, Hopes of acquiring as much Glory by this 
 3, Adion, as Judith when flie ftruck off the 
 „ Head of Holophernes. (/ can't imagine 
 ivhat has induced this learned Commentator^ in 
 many other refpe^s judicious and fincere, to charge 
 Beza or any other Minijier, with being the Lijii- 
 gators of that' Crime, whek it is certain by Pol- 
 trot's Depoftlions at Paris^ that he difcharged 
 Ihem conjiantly, without ever varying ^-s to them^ 
 and declared pofitively, that whatever he hadfaid 
 againjt them^ when he was examined before the 
 '^een, was utterly falfe.) 
 
 Several Lords and Ladies of (he Court hav- 
 ing had the Curiofity to fee the Execution, one 
 of them, viz. Leonor de Humieres, Wife to" 
 Monfieur de Thore, fifth Son to the Conftable, 
 Was ftruck w'ith fuch a Fright at that fight. 
 
 Vol. II, R Shaft 
 
Hijlory of the Reformation ^ and of the Vol.11. 
 thatihe fainted away and died upon the fpot 
 
 Now, as to the Admiral and others who had 
 been charged by Poltrot in his firft Depofition; 
 ' the firft denied upon his Oath, that he had ever 
 Th^M ' • ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^" ^^^^ ^^^ Month ot January 
 ralando- ^^^j "^^ heard any one fpeaking of him before 
 thers Fin- that time i that he had never abetted any body 
 dication. fo murder the Duke of Guife, tho' it was true, 
 that fince he had been convinced by many Wit- 
 nefles, that the faid Duke and the Marfhal of 
 St. Andrew had appointed certain Perfons for 
 murdering the Prince of Conde, his Brother 
 D'Andelot and himfelf, whenever he has been 
 told that fuch or fuch a one had a mind to mur- 
 der the faid Duke, he had done nothing to hin- 
 der it ; but that upon his Life and Honour, he 
 had never fuborned or follicited any body to do 
 it, either by Words or Money, diredlly or in- 
 direftly, either by himfelf or by another : And 
 as to the twenty Crowns, which the faid Poltrot 
 owns to have received from him, it is true, that 
 about the latter end of January laft he ordered 
 fuch a Sum to be given to the faid Poltrot, be- 
 caufe, upon the Recommendation of M. de 
 Feuquieres, he fent him as a Spy into the Ene- 
 mies Camp : As to the othei: Sum of one hun- 
 dred Crowns, it is true that the faid Poltrot re- 
 celv'd it from him, in order to buy a better 
 Horfe, that he might make greater Diligence 
 to give Notice of v.'hat he difcovered in the 
 Camp: And he recolleds himfelf alfo, that at 
 this fecond Time, which was about the Begin- 
 ing of February, the faid Poltrot hinted to him 
 fomething about the eafmefs of murdering the 
 faid Duke, to which he gave no Wtzd^y becaufe 
 
 he 
 
 (f) Addit. aux Mem. de Caftelnau, Tom. II. liv. 4. ch. 
 .10. p. 219. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in TRA'iic^l 24 jf 
 he thought fuch an Undertakina: too rafh. At Charles 
 iaft, he befought her Majefty, to keep the faid g ' 
 Pokrot clofe Prlfoner in a Place of Safety, till p^pe Piils 
 the Peace fliould be concluded, to the end that iV. 
 he, as well as others charged by him, might be 
 brought face to face with the Prlfoner, challeng- 
 ing however the Parliaments and other partial 
 Judges who have openly declared againft them. 
 Furthermore he fays, that whenever the Judges 
 of the Parliament Ihould proceed to give Judg- 
 ment againft the faid Poltrot, and execute their 
 Sentences before fuch a Confrontation fliould 
 have taken place, he declares his Innocence^ 
 Integrity and good Fame, notwithftanding all 
 that they could fay to the contrary (r). 
 
 That Anfwer was dated at Caen the 12th of 
 March, 1562, Q, S. and fubfcribed thus, Cha- 
 TiLLoN, La Rochefoucaud, Theodore de 
 Beze. It was fent to the Queen by a Trumpet, 
 with a Letter from the Admiral to her Majefty. 
 But fhe had little Regard to the Requeft he 
 made, as to the keeping of Poltrot ; inftead of 
 which, fhe fent Orders to try, judge, condemn 
 and execute him without Delay; 
 
 Such a v/ay of Dealing, befides the plain 
 Confefiion of the Admiral in regard of his 
 Sentiments towards the Duke of Guife, have 
 been a fufficient Indication of his Innocency y 
 for feveral unprejudiced Hiftorians, even of th& 
 Roman Communion, fuch as the Prior of Ju- 
 vigne, who fpeaking on the Point, affirms po- 
 fitively, Certainly Admiral de Chatillon^ the Count 
 of La Rochefoucault^ the Lords of Soubize and 
 Feuquieres zvere not privy to Poltrofs Plot ; that 
 cannot be believed of Perfcns of that ^ality, and 
 it is fo ill proved by the Murderers Artfwer in the 
 R 2 feveral 
 
 (r) Beaaliv. vifroni p 291, to 309. Thuan. lib. 34. 
 j:.234. 
 
i244 Hijiory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. IT. i 
 ^yy'^^ fi'^^ral Examinations^ that it is plain, that he \ 
 5* had no other View, when he charged them, than \ 
 TopeVins to frighten his Judges, by naming fuch great Men ; 
 IV. who had Arms in hand, as Chiefs of that Con- . 
 fpracy {s). And again, it is utterly falfe that ; 
 the Admiral, the Count of La Rochefoucault, or \ 
 any . other Chief of that Party, have had any \ 
 hand in that Confpiracy [f). A gricola's Grounds : 
 of his Opinion in this AfFair, are taken firft : 
 from the Variations of the Deponent, and then ; 
 from the Quality of Perfons accufed, and j 
 their Charader •, I will fay nothing againft that. ' 
 But, why, if thefe Reafons are good and fuffici- 
 ent for the Difcharge of the Admiral, &c. why \ 
 are they not fo for Beza's Difcharge ? Was not i 
 Beza a Nobleman ? Yes, fure he was, of a Fa- ^ 
 mily as ancient as that of Feuquieres, nay the , 
 Admiral himfelf Has Poltrot varied only on i 
 the Admiral's, &c, account, and not upon Be- ] 
 za's ? But, if he has been conftant on that Mi- | 
 nifter's account, it has been for difcharging i 
 him ; indeed he charged him before the Queen, ; 
 but he was no fooner arrived in the Prifons of "• 
 Paris, than he conftantly declared that whatfo- i 
 ever he might have faid againft the two Mi- ; 
 nifters, when he was before the Queen, he ' 
 had fpoken it out of fear, and for the Prefer- \ 
 vation of his Life ; but that it was utterly • 
 falfe, that Beza or the other had ever been [ 
 privy to his Defign. What is there then in: ■ 
 Poltrot's Depofition that could make the Ad- \ 
 miral innocent and Beza guilty ? Nothing : on \ 
 the contrary, if Poltrot is to be credited, the '\ 
 Admiral is guilty, and Beza innocent ; for he , 
 has difchargcd the Admiral but once, and he \ 
 has charged Beza but once. But Beza was a ? 
 
 Mi-' 
 ^ (sj Addlt. aix Mem, de Caftelnau, liv. 4. ch. lo. p. 2t2.\ 
 (/) p, 220. 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches ijiTRA^CEl 245 
 Mjnifter, therefore he is guiity ; a fine thing Charles 
 lodeed ! Agricola himfelf would not have al- ^" 
 qwed fuch a Confequence ; for he fpeaks in p^pg p^yj 
 nuite a different Strain of the Minifters of IV. 
 his own time in another place which I Ihall *— •v'*'^ 
 quote elfewhere. But fome Minifters and fome 
 karned Men wrote in the praife of Poltrot's 
 Adion ; nay, prevailed fo far upon the com- 
 mon People, that he was looked upon by them 
 as a holy Martyr ; very well : But is that to 
 prove that Beza and Ehe other were accefTory 
 to the Murder of the Duke ? They ought to 
 prove firft. That Beza was the Author of thofe 
 Verfes or other Writings publiflied at that time 
 upon that account ; but he has never been char- 
 ged with them that I know of ; befides, it is 
 one thing, methinks, to write or fpeak in 
 the praife of a certain Adion, and another 
 thing to be the Advifer or Abettor of that 
 Adion. Therefore to charge a Man with being 
 privy to that Aftion becaufe he does not blame 
 it, is, in my humble Opinion, to be very indif- 
 creet and unjuft. There is no Evidence a- 
 gainft Beza, at leaft his Accufers did not pro- 
 duce any. Poltrot himfelf has fully difcharg- 
 ed him, then Beza is innocent, at leaft, as much 
 as the Admiral and others. I know that the 
 Joy which the Reformed fhewed on this 
 Occafion, by too great imprudence and indii^ 
 cretion, afrbrded a Pretence to their Enemies, of 
 looking on Poltrot's Crime, as the Crime of all 
 the Reformed •, but that was unjuft, and fo 
 much the more fo, that I do not think they 
 could fingle out any other Inftance of that 
 :kind fince that time. I fliall not infift anymore 
 upon this Vindication, tho' many other Rea- 
 
 fons might be" offered to the fame purpofe. 
 
 ■ 
 
 \ ^ 3 Before 
 
246 Hiftory of the Reformation^ an^of the Vol . II, 
 
 Charles Before the Duke was wounded, the Queen 
 ; had ah'eady fent to Orleans the Bifhop of Li- 
 ''ope Pius iTioges and M. d'Oyfel to confer about Peaces 
 but all thefe Conferences came to nothing by 
 
 T^ the Duke's Means and Under-dealings, becaufe 
 tj-j^^ ' he was adverfe from Peace. When he was dead, 
 Queerts the Conferences were renewed in earnefi:. The 
 Jaxhty. Queen was in fach Anxieties for fear lead the 
 Prince of Conde and the Conftable fhould agree 
 and engrofs to themfelves the whole Admini- 
 ilration of the Government, that fhe took the 
 mbft extravagant Refolution that could hardly- 
 come into a Woman's Head •, for fhe refolved 
 to call in a Foreigii Prince, to be the only Ar- 
 bitrator of Peace or War, and fhe pitched for 
 that purpofe upon the Duke of Wirtemberg, 
 one oi the four Proteftant Princes of Germanv, 
 who had fent their Auxiliaries to the Prince of 
 Conde. She thought that he could not be fuf- 
 picious to the Guifes, fince the late Duke and 
 the Cardinal his Brother had conferred with him 
 the laft Year at Savern j and that he would be 
 lefs fo to the Reformed, who took him for one 
 of their beft Friends ; befides that, fhe was fa- 
 tisfied in the great Moderation and Juftice of that 
 Prince. 
 Shejendsa Therefore being fully refolved, fhe fent in all 
 Veput^i to hafte Rafcalon, one cjf the King's Valets de 
 *^fw^^^ Chambre in Ordinary, who being arrived at 
 icmber'z Stutgard, was admitted to the Duke's Audi- 
 ence on the 13th of March; he prefented to. 
 him his Credentials, and having opened his Com- 
 miirion by a fet St..^i.'h, he delivered it in Wri- 
 ting •, the fum of v/hich was, That the King 
 and Q^ieen gratefully acknowlcdg'd the many 
 and great Services the Kingdom bad received 
 from him and from the Eledor Palatine, in the 
 Reign of Francis I. and Henry II. and would 
 2 • nev?r 
 
B o o K I V . Reformed Churches /« F r a n c e . 247 
 
 never forget them ; that the fald Kingdom be- Charles 
 ing now rent by Civil Wars, (lie befought ^^' 
 that he would be pleafed to come to them, PopeY\\x^ 
 that he might be fully facisfied as to the true IV. 
 Caufes and Reafons of thefe Commotions, which 
 very likely had been mifreprefented to the Princes 
 of Germany ; that if he could not come into 
 France, at lead he would come to the Frontiers 
 of Champaign, where the Queen would meet 
 him. Then the Duke afked him how and why 
 he was defired to comie into France ? To which 
 the Envoy replied. That by the Death of the 
 King of Navarr, and of late of the Duke of 
 Guife, the whole Authority in the Kingdom was 
 devolved to the Qiieen, during the King's Mi- 
 nority ; that fhe (aw no body in the Kingdom 
 whofe Credit and Authority was great enough 
 to keep the Subjects in awe, becaufe of the Li- 
 centioufnefs to which they had given themfelves, 
 refufmg to pay the Fees to their Lords, and 
 feizing upon the King's Revenues ; that for 
 thefe Caufes his Highnefs was intreated to come 
 into France, with threethoufand Horfe and Foot 
 at the King's Charge, to take upon him the Ad- 
 miniftration, and that the Queen would c^ufe the 
 Subjefts to obey him. To this the Duke faid, 
 that he had been told the true Caufe of the War, 
 was the Infringement of the Januarian Edid ; 
 and fnice thofe who had been the Occafion, or 
 even the Authors of it were dead, it was to be 
 hoped, that the Commotions proceeding from 
 thence could be eafily appeafed \ that it was his 
 Opinion that the Emperor fliould be defired to 
 interfere •, and that he himfelf had already took 
 upon him to enter upon that Subjei^ in the Jaft 
 Diet of Francfort. Rafcalon replied, That there 
 were other Caufes of the War, as it was very 
 phin, fines tho% not only the faid Edi(^, buc 
 H 4, even. 
 
2 4^ Tliftory of the Refonnatio'n, and of the V o l .ijf. 
 
 Charles even new additional Terms had been offered to 
 • ; the Prince ; {that was utterly falfe :) neverthelefy 
 fope^im '^^ ^'^^^ hztn till then impoffible to come to any 
 IV. reafonable Appointment with his Party. As to 
 .1bf''"'>'^'*~''the,reft, That the King and Queen defired fo 
 eagerly his coming into France, that if in com- 
 pliance to them, he would fet upon that Jour- 
 ney, he was commanded to deliver to him, for 
 the Difcharge of his Expences, the Money 
 v.'-hich vvas at Mefia, deftin'd for the Payment 
 ot the three thoufand Reifters of Groubach i and 
 that he would meet him and bring to him his 
 Commiffion, ligned by the King and Queen 
 with the Advice of the Privy Council ; That, 
 fit leaft, he would be pleafed to come to Bar- 
 le-Duc or to MefTa with Frederick Eledlor Pala- 
 tine, Volfang Puke of Dei-x-Ponts, William 
 Landgrave of Hcfie, and Charles Marquifs of 
 Baden ; and that the Queen would meet him 
 there with the chief Princes and Lords of the 
 Privy Council, 
 <That The Duke took four Days for confidering, 
 
 Orifice's and delivering his Anfwer, which he did at the 
 Jnfxvcr. appointed time, and faid, that he thanked their 
 Majeflies, and was much willing to do Service 
 to the King, as he had done to his PredecefTors; 
 that he pitied much the fad Fate of the PCingdom, 
 for the Welfare whereof he caufed public^ 
 Prayers to be put yp every Day, as he did 
 himfelf in private ; That he could not accept of 
 the Commiifion offered unto him, finding him- 
 feif too unequal for it, and his Health being fo 
 much impaired ; and for that lafl Rcafon, not 
 Able to undertake a Journey upon the Frontiers. 
 However, "it was his Opinion, that the Prince's 
 Party had armed themfelves only againfl the 
 Infringers of the King's Edidls, and not for any 
 other Reafon \ therefore the Q^ijeen could do no- 
 thing 
 
Book IV. ReformedChurches m France, 240 
 thing better for averting the juft Judgments of Charles 
 God, than to take care that the pure Worlhip ^^• 
 of God, free from Error and Superftition, fhould p^!^^ p^.' 
 be fettled in the Kingdom, taking away all man- iv. ^ 
 ner of Scandals ; That in order to fettle a Ge- v — ^-i^j 
 neral Pacification in the Kingdom, they ought to 
 agree upon a certain Confeffion of Faith, and 
 publifh it, after the Example of the Auguftan 
 Confeffion, which having been pubHfhed in the 
 Year 1530, the Peace was fettled in Germany 
 in the Year 1555, &c. (1;). 
 
 Such was the Succefs of that Negociationg 
 which was kept fo fecret, that the Prince at Ou- 
 zain, the Princefs nor D'Andelot at Orleans^ 
 liad no notice of it ; and that was done on pur- 
 pofe, leaft the Prince's underftanding the vaft 
 Troubles the Queen was in, they fhould improve 
 that Opportunity to their beft Advantage, to 
 avoid which, the Queen fhewedasgood a Coun- 
 tenance as ever, and the Catholick Army pufh- 
 ed on the Siege of Orleans with all poflible Re- 
 folution. 
 
 The Difficulties which the Queen laboured 
 under were not fmall ; there was no Money in 
 the King's Coffers, and the Troops being not 
 paid, ffie vt'as not in a Condition to pufh on the 
 War. She was afraid, and may be not without 
 Keafon, that the Engliih having already fet 
 their foot in Normandy, they fhould take a fan- 
 cy to improve their Conqueft, and re-take Pof- 
 feffion of all thofe fine Provinces bordering up- 
 on the Ocean, which they had lafl under Hen- 
 ry of Windfor, and Charles VII. of France ; 
 The Emperor on the other fide, infifled warm- 
 ly upon the Reflitution of the three Bifhopricks 
 Metz, I'oul and Verdun ; and having his 
 
 Troops 
 (•vj Thuaii- lib, 34. p. 235, 236. Beza liv. vi. p. 372, 
 
250 mjiory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol . II. 
 Charles Troops ready, it was not unlikely, that improv- 
 
 ^^- ing the Opportunity of the prefent Troubles, he 
 vlte Pms would get by Force, what he was fenfible enough 
 
 IV. he fhould never obtain by Agreement. Thefe 
 Confiderations, efpecially the two laft, had 
 made a very deep Impreflion in the Queen*s 
 Mind, which lafted even till fome Months af- 
 ter the Peace with the Reformed, as it is evi- 
 dent by her Letters to Monfieur de Gonnor, and 
 the Bifhop of Rennes, then Embafladors of 
 France to the E^raperor («), Therefore, in or- 
 der to get herfelf rid of all thefe Troubles and 
 Anxieties, fmce the Battle of Dreux, having 
 the Prince Priibner, (he had begun to make fome 
 Overtures of Peace, and had felt his Pulfe by 
 feveral Perfons upon that Subjedt. 
 
 At firfl-, his Highnefs, tho' not averfe from 
 Peace, neverthelefs propofed fuch high Terms 
 which could not be accepted ; but many things 
 concurred together to mollify his Heart, befides 
 his own Refiedlions upon the prefent State of the 
 Kingdom. And firft of all, his Soul was notinac- 
 cefTible at this time to a certain Jealoufy againft 
 the Admiral ; that General*s great Parts and 
 Capacity had fupplied the Prince's Abfence, at 
 leaft in the Minds of the Party, in fo much that 
 his Highnefs begun to think that he was not fo 
 much regarded fince he was a Prif.'ner, as be- 
 fore i and that they thought they could do as 
 well without as with him. Secondly, the Junc- 
 tion of the Admiral with the Englifli in Nor- 
 mandy, and the great Progrefs he made in con- 
 junction with them in that Province, really grie- 
 ved the Prince. It had been with the greateft 
 Reludancy that he had confented to the Treaty 
 made with Queen Elizabeth j and as well as 
 
 the 
 (u)'Yq be found in the Addlt. to the Mem. of CalklaaUj 
 Tom. II. liv. iv. ch. 12. from Page 234, to 249. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /;z Fr an c e . 251 
 
 the Queen-Mother, he was afraid left if they Charles 
 had once fet their foot in the Kingdom, it would ^^• 
 not be an eafy matter to diflodge them : But p '^ p^^^ 
 thirdly, what prevailed the more over him, was iv. 
 the Promifes made to him in the Queen- Mo- ^ - v ^ 
 ther's Name, that he fliould fucceed his Brother 
 the late King of Navarr as Lieutenant General 
 of the Kingdom, and enjoy- all the Prerogatives 
 and Privileges of a firft Prince of the Blood, till 
 the Prince of Navarr his Nephew fhould be at 
 Age. All thefe Confiderations, which the 
 Queen-Mother took care to keep alive in his 
 Mind, prevailed fo far upon him, that, at laft, 
 he confented in earneft to come to a Treaty 
 
 The Queen and the Prince being fo difpofed, CLVII, 
 her Majefty, who was not at ail difpleafed Negod- 
 with the Duke of Guife's Death, had a Qonh'f""^'"' 
 rence at St. Mefmin with the Princefs of Conde, 
 whom (he received with the greateft Demonftra- 
 tions of Love and Good-will, and flatter*d her with 
 the Hopes of feeing the Prince holding the fame 
 Rank and Place at Court, and in the Kingdom, 
 as his Brother the King of Navarr had formerly 
 done : All this was only a Show, whereby the 
 Prince as well as the Princefs fufFered them- 
 felves to be impofed upon too eafily and too 
 haftily. 
 
 However, the 7th of March was appointed 
 to hold a Conference between the Prince and 
 the Conftable at a Place called Vljle aux Bceufsy^ 
 near Orleans, where being brought both under 
 a ftrong Guard, they began the Conferences, 
 which were put off till the next Day ; and the 
 Conftable having declared that he would never 
 confent to have the Januarian Edidt reftored, 
 
 new 
 
 (x) Idem Ibid, efpecially p. 238, ^nd 39, of the fam© 
 
 \ 
 
Hijlory of the Refonjiafhn^ and of the Vol. II, 
 new Terms were propofed, at which feveral of 
 the Reformed Party, when they heard of them, 
 made a great nolfe, becaufe the Rights and 
 Privileges granted to them by the Edid: of Ja- 
 nuary wefe much reftrained by thefe new Pro- 
 pofitions, and their Innocence in rifing in Arms 
 for the Prefervation of the faid Edicft was there- 
 by expofed to be called in queftion. Neverthe- 
 lefs, in order to conclude the Treaty with more 
 Eafe and Expedition, the Prince obtained leave 
 to go to Orleans, upon his Parole, there to 
 confer with his Council about thefe Points ; 
 the Conftable likewife obtained leave to go into 
 the Catholick Camp, and a Truce for fome days 
 was publifhed. 
 
 The Prince being at Orleans, defired to have 
 a Conference with the Miniliers, and three of 
 them were deputed to his Highnefs for that 
 purpofe, viz. Melfieurs Defmeranges Minifter 
 of Orleans, Pierius Minider of Blois, and La 
 Roche Chandieu Miniller of Paris. The Prince 
 propofed two Queftions to refolve, t/?. Whe- 
 ther he would do well to declare to her Maje- 
 fly, that having armed for the Obfcrvation of 
 the Edid: of January, it was reafonable, that 
 the faid Edidt fhould be reftored to its full 
 ^porce. Meaning and Purport, before he fhould 
 lay down his Arms. 2^/)', Whether being not 
 able to obtain that Point, he could defire the 
 Queen to propofe what fhe thought the mod 
 conducive to the publick: Welfare, and the Re- 
 ftoration of Peace and Tranquillity. The Mi- 
 nifters feeing that the Prince had a mind to make 
 Peace at any rate, remonftrated to his High- 
 nefs that they could not recede the leaft in the 
 World from the Rights and Liberties granted 
 by the faid Edid, without an evident Ruin of 
 /^.heir Religion ; the Prince told theryi, that he 
 
 woul4 
 
Book IV. Reformed Ckii-ches in Yrat^ice. 2^3 
 would do it, and bad them go and confer a- Charles 
 bout thefe two Points with their Brethren, and ^\' 
 to bring in their Anfwer on the next Day, the p^pe Piv© 
 9th of March. IV. 
 
 The Minifters being afTembled to the Nuniber'^!-"v~' 
 of 72, after having confidered the Matter, ^^' q-;jg Mim'- 
 livered their Opinion to the Prince in Writing ',jiers Re- 
 the fum whereof is as follows, monfiran- 
 
 I. That the Januarian Ed id granted by the^^^ .^"J^' 
 Confent of the Deputies of all the Provinces, 
 and according to the Intention of the General 
 States of the Kingdom, and publifhed and re- 
 giftred by the Parliaments, iliould be reftored 
 without the leaft Reftridion or Exception. 
 2. That in order to prevent the Propagation 
 of Herefies and of all monftrous Opinions, the 
 King would be pleafed to receive under his Royal 
 Protection the ConfeiTion of Faith tendered to 
 his Majefty in June 1561, and the Profefibrs of 
 it, and to provide that the Atheifts, Libertines, 
 Anabaptiftsand Servetifts fhould be feverely pu- 
 hifhed. That the Reformed fhould be at li- 
 berty of meeting together, and of holding Con- 
 fiftories and Synods according to their Ecclefi- 
 aflical Difcipline, without being oppofed by the 
 Governors, Magiftrates, or any other Officers. 
 4. That Children baptized by a Minifter fhould 
 not be baptized again, nor Perfons married by 
 a Minifter, married again by a Prieft, and Chil- 
 dren born of fuch Perfons married by a Minifter, 
 fhould be acknowiedg'd as lawful Heirs. 5. That 
 their Religion ftiould no longer be called New, 
 ftnce it is grounded upon the ancient Dcdrine 
 of the Prophets and Apoftles. 6. That thofe 
 who for Religion's fake have been deprived of 
 their Eftates, Goods, Offices, Dignities or Ho- 
 nours, fhould be reftored to the fame \ the Sen- 
 tence given againft them repealed j and thei-r 
 
 Cafe 
 
2 54 'H-lflory of the "Reformatiojiy and of the Vol. IL 
 Charles Cafe examined and tried again by Perfons of an 
 ^^' iinqueftionable Probity. 7, That the Authors or 
 PopeY\\xh Abettors of the MafTacres of VafTy, Sens and 
 IV. fuch other Places, fhould be profecuted and pu- 
 '■^'^v— ^niflied after their Deferts. Such were the Heads 
 of the Articles tendered to the Prince by the Mi- 
 nifters. But the Nobih'ty being tired with the 
 Civil War, and the Prince inclining fo much to 
 Peace, who could have infifted upon fuch Terms 
 whereby they were in a NecefTity of continuing 
 the War ? 
 CLIX. Therefore the Prince having publickly decla- 
 The Prince xQ,^ that he would follow no other but the Nobi- 
 "he Treat ^^^^ ^"^ Gentry *s Advice, the Minifters werd 
 ivith the ^o more confulted, and he concluded the Trea- 
 ^een. ty with the Queen on the 12th of March, ad- 
 mitting all the Exceptions and Reftridions to 
 the Bdi6t of January, which had been propofed-. 
 And on the 19th, the King being at Amboife, 
 fubfcribed the Edidl of Pacification, which 
 was called after the Name of that Place. 
 CLX. By that Edi6l the Nobility, and all thofe who 
 £^i^of j^^^ £^jj po^ej. in ti^eir Jurifdidlion, were al- 
 
 tion lowed the free and publick Exercife of the Re- 
 
 formed Religion, in their Caftles or Houfes for 
 their own Family, and of all thofe who ihall 
 have a mind to meet with them. 
 
 The Nobles and Gentlemen having any Fief, 
 are allowed for themfelves and their own Family 
 the free Exercife of their Religion in their Hou- 
 fes, provided that they fhould not inhabit 
 Towns, Boroughs or Villages fubjedl to a higher 
 Jurifdidtion. 
 
 In every Bailiwick, Senefchalfhip and othei* 
 Government, from whence there is Appeal to 
 any fuperlor Court of Parliament, as PeronnCj 
 Mont-Didier, Roye and La Rochelle, there 
 (hall be a Town, in the Suburbs whereof, the 
 
 Re^ 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 255 
 
 Reformed fhall have the free and publick Exer- Charles 
 cife of their Religion, {by the Edili of January ^^• 
 a convenient Place was allowed to them for that p^.^-p^' 
 Purpofe, in the Suburbs of every City, Town or iv. 
 Borough:) And in the mean while it fliaJl be' 
 allowed to every one to live peaceably in his own 
 Houfe, without being profecuted, molefted or 
 conftrained in any thing as to his Confcience. 
 
 In all the Cities wherein the Reformed Re- 
 ligion was publickly profefTed on the 7th of this 
 Month of March, the fame fhall be continued 
 in one or two Places of the faid Cities, as the 
 King fhall think meet to order it, the Vifcounty 
 and Precinfls of Paris excepted. 
 
 Then follows an Ad; of Oblivion for all paft 
 Offences ; the Prhice is difcharged from giving 
 any Account of the King's Money he had le- 
 vied for the Expences of the War ; he is ac- 
 knowledge as a faithful and trufty Kinfman to 
 the King, and well-intentioned for the good of 
 the Kingdom. All the Nobles, Gentlemen, 
 Officers, and others who have followed him, in 
 whatever they have done, are declared to have 
 done it for the King's Service, and with a good 
 Intent (y). 
 
 Such was the Edict of Pacification agreed up- 
 on the 1 2th of March, figned by the King at 
 Amboife on the 19th, and pubUfh'd in the 
 Camp before Orleans on the 22d, with fo great 
 a Difiatisfadion of the Inhabitants of Orleans, 
 efpeciiilly becaufe the Prince had not waited till 
 the Arrival of tlie Admiral, that the Soldiery, 
 notv/ithitanding the Execution of fume of them, 
 could not be kept from demolifni ng the remnant 
 of feveral Churches. 
 
 We 
 
 (y) Thuan. lib. 34. p. 23;,— 8,-9. Beza liv. vi. p. 
 2S0, — - 290. 
 
256 Hiftory of the Reformat ion ^ and of the Vb l . II, \ 
 We muft come now to the Admiral, whom ' 
 we have left at Caen ; after the Surrender of that \ 
 City, he fent feveral of his Captains into many ' 
 parts of the Provinces, who made feveral Con- 1 
 'quefts. Amongft others, Captain de Colombieres j 
 was ordered to march to Bayeux, and was join'd ] 
 by Captain Pierre-Pont ; he endeavoured to en- | 
 ter the City on the 17th of February, but was ! 
 repulfed by Captain Giulio Ravilia RufFo, who had 
 taken PofleiTion of it fome few days before, hav- ■ 
 ing got fome Soldiers from Renouart Governor 
 of Caen; that Refiftance lafted till Colombieres, | 
 having received three Cannons from Caen, \ 
 made a Breach in the Wall, then the Inhabi- 
 tants fent to the Admiral afking a Capitulation, ' 
 which was granted on condition that they fhould ; 
 pay ten thoufand Livres towards the Expences ' 
 of the Army. But, as they debated by fome ,1 
 other Deputies in order to obtain fome Abate- . 
 ment of the Sum, the faid Captain Giulio, con- ■ 
 fcious of the many Crimes he had committed, ' 
 hid himfelf; his Soldiers hearing of this, open- ; 
 ed the Gates to the Befiegers upon the 4th of 1 
 March, who committed many Outrages in the ! 
 City, entering the Houfes and murdering fome ■ 
 of thofe who had been remarkable for their ob- 
 ftinate Refiftance •, fome others were publickly ; 
 executed by Sentence of the Provoft of the 
 Camp, amongft whom was an Overfeer of the , 
 Demcfne, who had been formerly a Ref rmed, 
 and having abjured, was one of the Advifersand I 
 Afliftants to the faid Captain Giulio, but elpecial- 
 ly the Priefts were very ill ufed. As to that * 
 Captain, he was betrayed by one of his Servants, 
 and found concealed in a Canon's Houfe, where- 
 in he had caufed himfelf to be mured up with a! 
 certain Quantity of Ganimons and Flaiks of i 
 the bcft Wines, and a young beautiful Maid 
 
 which 
 
Book IV. Reforjncd Churches /;? Fr A N c e i 257 
 
 Maid which he had ftolen away hy-force. Frorh Charlea 
 thence he was brought to Caen^ where, being ^• 
 convidled of divers Crimes^ and efpecially of the p^p^ pjjj^ 
 faid Rape, at the Inilances of the GirPs Father, IV. 
 who profecuted him, he was condemned to be' 
 hung and cxecutfid (z). 
 
 St. Lo^ Vire, Ilonileur, Pont-Audemar, and 
 feveral other Places were taken by the Admi- 
 ral's Troops, infonnich that there remained to 
 the Catholick Party but three Towns in Low 
 Normandy, viz. Cherbourg, Granville, and St. 
 Michael-Mont, when the Admiral was obliged 
 to leave that Province by the Prince's Orders, 
 He received an Exprefs from his Highnefs, who 
 Jet him knoW that the Articles of Peace were 
 almoft agreed upon^ and that he deiired him 
 to come in hade to be prefent at the Conclu- 
 fion. Therefore he departed from Caen on the 
 14th of March, with his Cavalry only, which 
 he divided in two Bodies; the Van comoofed 
 of four Cornets, was led by the Prince of Por- 
 tian ; and the Admiral led the Rear. On the 
 1 8th he took his way thro* Falaife and Argen- 
 tan, which furrendered by Capitulation, and 
 paid ten thouf^nd Livres ; he took fome other 
 Places in his way to Orleans, where he arrived 
 on the 23d with all his Forces, which were 
 very confiderable, and in abetter Condition than 
 they had ever been feen before. 
 
 He was much furprized to fee that the Treaty 
 had been agreed, drawn, figned and fealed in 
 his Abfence, and without his Participation, five 
 Days before •, the next Day he fpoke freely his 
 Mind in the Prince's Council. He faid, that: 
 they ought to remember, that at the beginning 
 of thefe Commotions the Triumvirs had offered 
 to reftore the Edift of January, Paris only ex- 
 VoL. II. S cepted^ 
 
 (x) Thuan. & Bcza, ubi fupra. 
 
258 Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol.IT. 
 Charles cepted •, and that confidering the prefent, the 
 ^ ^* State of the Reformed Churches had never been 
 Pope Pius fo good, and in a way of growhig better and bet- 
 IV^ ter than now, two of the three Authors of the 
 'prefent War being dead, and the third Prifoncr 
 of War, which was a fufficient Pledge for the 
 Prince's Safety -, that having reftrained the 
 Churches to the Number of one in every Baili- 
 vick, with fuch other Reftridions and Excep- 
 tions to the Edi6l of January, they had ruined 
 more Churches by that (ingle Stroke of their 
 Pen, than the Enemy would have done in fe- 
 veral Years with their Army, and fo on. In a 
 word he fpoke fo well to the purpofe, that not 
 only thofe who had not been waited for to be 
 confulted were much difcontented, but even 
 thofe who had given their Confent were almoft 
 afhamed of what they had done ; and all were 
 upon the point of making a new Confederacy 
 for breaking that Treaty : (It was rumour'd that 
 the Prince had been enticed to make that 
 Peace by the Charms of the Queen's Maids of 
 Honour :) and tho' the Prince oppofed to all this 
 the Promifes which the Queen had made to him, 
 that in a fhort time he would fucceed to his Bro- 
 ther the King of Navarr as Lieutenant General 
 of the Kingdom ; and that then, conjointly with 
 the Queen, they would obtain whatever they 
 would aflc, as he had been told ; neverthelefs, 
 the Complaints of the Gentry would not have 
 ceafed, had it not been for the Admiral, who 
 wr.s obliged to interpofe (a). 
 
 Indeed, if we confider the Circumftances of 
 Times, they could not be more favourable than 
 they were now for the Reformed ; the Queen, 
 as we have obferved, was not in a Condition to 
 
 refufe 
 (a) B:za liv. vi.p. 335. D'Aubigne Tom. I. liv. 3. 
 ch. 26. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /« Fr A N c E ," 259 
 refufe them any juft Demand ; there was no Mo- Chnries 
 ney in the Exchequer for continuing the War ; ^■^' 
 her Troops were ill paid, and in great Mifery /j^^^' PiJ^ 
 for want of Necefi'aries, as the Duke himfeif IV. 
 had wrote to Monfieur de Gonnor a few Weeks 
 before his Death j the faid Duke, who by his 
 Credit and Authority fupphed fo many things, 
 and was the main fupport of the Army was 
 dead •, and the King of Navarr and Marihal of 
 St, Andrew being dead likewife, and the Con- 
 ftable Prifoner, there remained none who had. 
 Experience, or Credit enough to truft him with 
 the Command of the Army. 
 
 On the contrary the Prince had received a 
 plentiful Succour from England in Money and 
 warlike Stores-, his Army under the Command 
 of the Admiral was much increafed •, his Caval- 
 ry numerous and well mounted, his Reifters 
 paid off their Arrears, and chearfully difpofed 
 to do good Service : Had he waited only till the 
 Admiral's Arrival, before he concluded the 
 Treaty, he would have obtained the Reftoration 
 of the Edi6t of January. And indeed he com- 
 mitted two great Faults in putting himfelf iii 
 fuch Hurry, ift, He gave the Publick room 
 to fufped that he had afted only for his pri- 
 vate Intereft Vv'hen he had taken up Arms, and 
 not for the Prefervation of that Edicft, as he 
 had fo often publifhed to the World, feeing 
 that the Oppofers of his Grandeur were no 
 fooner dead, but he had forfaken the Caufe, 
 for the Defence whereof he had declared often- 
 times, that he chofe to lay down his own Life, 
 2. He expofed himfelf and the whole Party to 
 the juft RefentmentofQueenElizabeth, to whom 
 he had engaged his Word, never to hearken to 
 any Agreement with their Common Enemy 
 without her Confent •, and who had proved fo 
 S 2 faith- 
 
2 6o Hiftory of the Refonnation, and of the Vol .II. 
 Charles faithful and generous a Friend to him and his 
 
 Pope Pius True it is, that he had been extremely againft 
 IV. that Term required by the faid Queen, that fhc 
 'fhould be put in pofTcffion of Havre de Grace, 
 &c. But whereas he had confented to it at laft, 
 and that the Queen had faithfully performed 
 whatever flie had promifed, he ought to have 
 done the fame : But Ambition and Senfuality 
 were, at this time, two Stumbling-Blocks againft 
 which he fplit {b). 
 
 However, the Queen-Mother being fenfible, 
 that if the Admiral arrived before the Con- 
 clufion of the Treaty, he would never con- 
 fent to it, had made fuch hafte, that it was 
 regiftered and publifhed in the Parliament of 
 Paris, in the Court of Aids, in the Chamber 
 of Accounts i and was proclaimed in the 
 Streets of Paris by his Majefty's Heralds, 
 all on the fame Day, viz. the 27th of March. 
 "We fball fee in the next Book how it was recei- 
 ved in other Provinces (c). 
 
 But before we leave Orleans we muft relate a 
 ftrange but juffc Execution of an Adulterer and 
 Adultrefs, by Sentence of the Governor ; that 
 Gentleman was Monfieur Puygreffier, Lord of 
 St. Cyr, whom the Prince had conftituted Go- 
 vernor of Orleans when he marched out of that 
 City with his Army : Now Dcflandes Lord 
 Du Moulin being accufed and convi6led of hav- 
 ing had a Carnal Converfation wich one Mrs. 
 Godard, Wife to John Godard, a Lieutenant of 
 the Provoft of the Marfhals of Blois, while her 
 Hufband was in the Army, they were both con- 
 demned to be hung and executed together in 
 the publick place at Orleans, on the 26th of 
 March i which being reported at Court, feveral 
 
 Cour- 
 
 (h) Aubigne ibid. Mer.er.iy Tom. V. p. 75. 
 (() TJiuan. lib. 35. p. 24.1. Ueza ibid. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /« France. 261 
 Courtiers of both Sexes, were not afhamed to Charles 
 fay. That if it were but for the Stridnefs of ' 
 
 Morals and Rigidity of the Reformed Reli- p^] Ym% 
 gion, they would be always averfe from it IV. 
 
 Peace having been proclaimed at Orleans, and CLXI, 
 the Reformed having received the Sacrament ^ . , 
 on the 28th, the Troops marched out of the^''' ^^ 
 City, and every one retired to his ov/n Houfe. bunded. 
 As to the Reiiiers, they were fent into Cham- 
 paign, under the Condudl of the Prince of Por- 
 cian, where they remained till paid, to the great 
 Detriment of the Country People, and offeveral 
 Abbies. 
 
 I could not relate what was done in the fe- CLXir. 
 veral Provinces of the Kingdom during this firft^^'^'^'^ 
 
 D _ ^ D the otate 
 
 Civil War, and iix the various Events upon^^/.^^^. 
 their proper time, without breaking too often ■verali'ro- 
 the Thread of this Hiftory, which Digreffions "^'"'^s. 
 ■ would have been difpleaiing to the Reader j 
 therefore I thought that the beft Method was, 
 firft to give an Account of whatever had any 
 Relation to the two main Armies, that of the 
 Prince, and that of the Triumvirs i and then 
 come to take a general View of the State and 
 Condition of all the Provinces, beginning with 
 Picardy. I do not intend to enter into all the 
 particulars ; it would be an endlefs Work was 
 I to o;ive an exad: Account of all the Injurtices, 
 Periidies, Treafons, Murders, Barbarities and 
 other Enormities of that kind, which have been 
 committed during this firft Civil War, efpe- 
 ciaily in the Southern Provinces, where the two 
 Pa; ties were the moft exafperated one agalnft 
 the other. 
 
 That Province was not much troubled with Pi car- 
 thefe Civil Commotions, becaufe the Catholicks o^. 
 
 S 3 found 
 
 (d) Id. Ibid, 
 
262 Hiftory of the Reformation , and of the Vo l . IL 
 
 Charles found almoft no body that refifted them. Ne- 
 \i:6% verthelefs the Reformed were not allowed tp be 
 
 Pcpn Pius ^t reft, for as many as did fall into their Ene^ 
 IV. mies hands, were murdered or fent to Goal, 
 
 '*^*^'"*^ their Goods were forfeited, fome exiled them- 
 felves, and a few who cc-iild not take this Courfe 
 found a Refuge amongft their Friends of the 
 
 \Amiens. Cathoiick Religion. At Amiens the Catholicks 
 fearched the Reformed HoufeS, and carried a- 
 way their Bibles, Pfalm and Prayer-Books •, they 
 Jikewife entered the Meeting-houfc of the Re- 
 formed, on the 13th of May 156:, broke th© 
 Pulpit and Pews, - took away the Bibles and 
 Pfalm-Books, and burnt them publickly ; they 
 ordered the Reformed to depart the City ; they 
 forced thofe who obeyed not to go to Mafs, and 
 
 '^hhefilk. murdered thofe who refufed to comply. At Ab- 
 beville the Sedition of the Catholicks was much 
 greater j for the Governor having defred the 
 Magiftrate to reprefs in time the Fury of the 
 Mob, who forced and pillaged the Houfes of 
 the Reformed, the Populace came in Arms to 
 the Town-houfe, and flew, in the moft cruel 
 manner, the Governor with nine Soldiers that 
 waited upon him ; and with the fame Fury they 
 ran to the Caftle, where they murdered all thofe 
 they met with, amongft whom v,?as the Gover- 
 nor's Son {e). 
 0/ineof No doubt but Paris, the chief Town of the 
 ^^^^^- Kingdom, wherein the Triumvirates, main force 
 refided, exceeded all others, and committed du- 
 ring the firil: War, many great and terrible Spoils 
 upon the Reformed, many were publickly exe- 
 cuted, feveral being burnt alive. On one fide 
 the Populace were hungry a^ter Spoils, and 
 thirfty after Blood: And on the other, the Par- 
 liament 
 (f) Beza liv. 7. p. 5^4, 45, ^'c Dinoth. lllp. 2 p, 
 143. 
 
B oo K I V . 'keformed Churches /;z F r a N c e . 263 
 
 Jiament fpared no body that ^^\\ into their hands, Charles 
 without any regard for Age, Sex or Condition, ^^• 
 who were taken returning from Orleans, or thep'^pj^^ 
 Prince's Army, or from any Town belonging iv. 
 to his Party. Several Deputies of the Parlia-<— — v— J 
 men t were fent to divers Towns and Cities, to 
 proceed againil the Reformed without Appeal. 
 At Senlis the Reformed met with very hard '^'?"'^^"-f« 
 Ufage, from the 12th of April till fome time 
 after the Edidt of Pacification, by the means 
 of Claudius Strcg and William Berthaut Govtr- 
 nors tliereof, upholden by Terouenne and Fa- 
 vier Counfellors of the Parhament of Paris ; 
 many were murdered with great Cruelty, feve- 
 ral unjuftly condemned and executed by Sen- 
 tence of the Judge, others redeemed themfelves 
 paying great Fines, fome were condemned to be 
 whipt and the Sentence executed upon them 
 unmercifully ; others fent to the Gallies, and a 
 vaft number were kept prifoners in Jail. At 
 Meaux the Reformed were in great numbers, Meaun. 
 and continued their publick Exercife of Reli- 
 gion, till the end of June, v/hen the Images 
 were broken to pieces, and the Priefts with- 
 drew themfelves without any Moleftation or 
 Hindrance. Bat the Parliament of Paris pub- 
 jithed a Decree againft the Reformed Inhabi- 
 tants, whereby their Perfons, their Houfes and 
 Goods were forfeited to the firft Occupier who 
 would or could feize upon them. Another 
 Decree of the 13th of July was publifhed a- 
 gainO: the Minifters, Elders, Deacons and other 
 Otlicers of the Church ; notwithftanding which 
 the Reformed Inhabitants ceafed not to alTemble, 
 and refuted to comply with the faid Orders i 
 therefore at the Inftances of the Parliament, 
 Monfieur de Lioux, Brother to Montluc, was 
 lent to Meaux, wherein he enter*d on the 25th 
 3 S 4 cf 
 
■2 ^4 Jiijlory of the Reformation, and oftheYoi.. II. 
 
 Charles of July, with about 120 Men of Strofly's Regi- 
 g ment, and with the Confent of the Inhabitants, 
 
 Pope Pius'vvhich was the occafion of their ruin -, for the 
 IV very next Dsy the Mafs began to be fiid again 
 
 s^fv^'m the City. The 6th of Auguii Orders were given 
 to the Inhabitants, to bring "all their Anns and 
 Weapons into the Town-kouie, whereunto many 
 obeyed -, others, to the Number of threehundred 
 Foot, and one hundred Horfe, went out of the 
 City under the Command of Captain Bithinie, 
 and went thro* Champaign to Mcncornet, where 
 they thought to meet the Prince of Porcian,but 
 he was gone a little before to tfie Frontiers of 
 Germany, to meet D'Andelot v/ith the Rtiilers-j, 
 {o being obliged to feparate themf.ives, becaufe 
 the Country was furrounded by Enemies, they 
 perifli'd in different manners ; and of all that 
 number about thirty-five only efcaped, who fled 
 to Orleans. 
 
 La Chafells ciux Urfras fucceeding Lioux \\\ 
 the Government of Meaux, the Reformed had 
 fome Refpite, which was but of a fhort durali- 
 pn ; for dc 5^(/5',whofacceeded him upon the 21ft 
 of September, caufed the Walls of the great iVIar- 
 kettobepu'l'd down, and the Gates thereof to be 
 broken. Some time after, there came two Com- 
 panies of Soldiers that committed a thoufaud 
 Enormities, forcing Women and Virgins, mur- 
 dering in an inhuman manner the poor, old, 
 Decrepits, and dafning to pieces the poor inno- 
 cent Babes -, feveral Men arid Women were un- 
 juftly executed in publick. Thefe Cruelties kill- 
 ed till after the Edi(5c of Peace. 
 
 Cham- Whereas this Province was for the moil: part 
 
 yAiGN, under the Jurifdidion of the Duke of Guife, 
 the Cardinals of Lorrain and Guife, Archbilhops 
 of Rheims, and the Grand Prior of France, no 
 wpndcr if the Reformed Inhabitants were ex- 
 
 pofed 
 
 V- 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Y'^A'tiCY. 265 
 pofed to many Hard(hips,during this firft War ; Charles 
 many cruel Murders were committed againft / 
 them at Troyes, Chaalons, Bar-fur-Seine, Ef- pope p^s 
 pernay, and feveral other places. The 19th of IV. 
 Novembera Duke of Lunebourg( who -when in the «— -v-— J 
 Service of K. Henry II. had had a Quarrel with 
 the Duke of Guife :) being arrived at Rameru, 
 five Leagues diftant from Troyes, with only 
 eighteen Horfe, in order to go to Orleans, as it 
 was thought, Bufly d'Amboife Governor of 
 Chaalons having notice of it, fent after him an 
 Officer with feme Men, who overtook him at 
 the faid place -, they came to his Lodging, where 
 he was fitting by the Fire, fix of his Servants or 
 Attendants were (lain, and himfeif wounded, 
 with thirteen Piftol-fliot; which done, they 
 carried him in a Litter to Chaalons, where he 
 dieda few days afterof his Wounds. His Baggage 
 was plundered by the faid OfHcer, named Mal- 
 fontaine. an Apoftate from the Reformed Reli- 
 gion, who triumphing on that worthy Exploit, 
 he caufed eighteen Horfcs, eighteen Cloaks, 
 eighteen Pair of Boots, and eighteen Pair of 
 Piftols, to be led, and carried before him. 
 
 At Troyes they were quiet enough as long as 
 Anthony Caraccioli Bifhop of the place was in '''^'^• 
 the City ; but having been obliged to quit it 
 becaufe he followed the Reformed Do(5lrine, he 
 was fucceeded by D'Efclavoles, a Dependent of 
 the Duke of Guife, and an Enemy to the faid 
 Doftrine \ then the Duke of Nevers, Governor 
 of Champaign came into the City, about the 
 beginning of Auguft ; that Lord had publickly 
 profeffed the Reformed Religion ; he was Ne- 
 phew to the King of Navarr and the Prince of 
 Conde, by his Mother's fide, Margaret of Bour- 
 bon, and had promifcd upon his Honour by fe- 
 veral Letters and Mefiages to his Uncle of 
 
 Conde, 
 
S.6& Hijiory of the Refor?nation, and of the Vol. II. 
 Charles Conde, that he would come and join him at Or- 
 leans, with a ftrong Body of Nobility and 
 Troops, and even of late he had renewed his 
 Promifes to James Spifame, formerly Bidiop of 
 Nevers, and now a Minifter, who had been fent 
 to the faid Duke by the Prince -, neverthelefs be- 
 ing enticed by Defbordes, one of his Favourites, 
 and Vigenaire his Secretary, he forfook the 
 Prince, and took party againll: liim ; and in or- 
 der to ingratiate himfelf with the Triumvirs, and 
 to wipe oifall manner of Sufpiclon of his ftill 
 adhering to the Reformed Party, he deprived 
 them, at his Arrival at Troyes, of the Liberty 
 of meeting together, granted to them by the 
 EdiA. Then the Populace encouraged by this, 
 firft took away their Bibles and Prayer-Books, 
 tore them to pieces, and burnt them publickly. 
 The Cuirafiicrs of the faid Duke, with other Sol- 
 diers, forced the Houfcsofthe Reformed and took 
 away their Arms. Thofe who were known to 
 have been at Orleans, or to have armed in the 
 City, were fent to Jail, and their Houfes were 
 plundered j the Children were re-baptiz'd, tjiofa 
 ■who had been married by a Minider were ob- 
 liged -to be married again. Such being the Con- 
 fufion in the City, many went out ot it, in the 
 Houfes of whom Soldiers were quartered at Dil- 
 cretion ; and thofe who wtre gene without a 
 Licence were condemned to a perpetual Exile. 
 The Furnitm-e and Goods of many were fold by 
 Auction, and forfeited •, thofe who remained in 
 theCity were either hang'd, or drowned, orflain 
 by the Soldiery, th.c Magifirate commanding 
 thefe Violences, or at leaft, conniving at 
 them. 
 Bar-fur-'" -^t Bar-fur-Seinc, the Reformed had made 
 Seine. themfelves Mafters of the Town at the begin- 
 * ing of th|^ War, without any Tumult i and. 
 
 " where - 
 
Book YV .Reformed Churches in France. 267 ] 
 whereas no Violence had been done to the Ca- Charles 
 tholicks, either to their Perfons or Goods, many ^^• 
 Reformed fled to this place, as to a certain place pig p-'yg 
 of Refuge i for they did not think that thofe iv. 
 who maintained Peace and Union with their 
 Neighbours, even in the midft of the Civil War, 
 would be profecuted with open Force. They 
 lived for a little while in that State of Peace and 
 Quietnefs one with another, Catholicks and Re- 
 formed, till the Catholicks of the neighbouring 
 Places, zealous of their Happinefs, came with 
 about three hundred Foot, and laid fiege before 
 the Town. The befieged made a Sally upon them, 
 and killed a great number of them. That Lofs 
 obliged the Befiegers to fend for Succours to 
 Troyes, and Nevers fent them his Company of 
 Cuiraffiers, with fome Pieces of Artillery, which 
 were pofted againft the Citadel. The Troops in 
 the Town, feeing they were not ftrong enough 
 to wlthftand, went out of it, and fome of the 
 Inhabitants went along with them unarmed. By 
 this means the Befiegers made themfelves Mafters 
 of the City, without much ado, there being no 
 body to refift i they murdered without any Di- 
 ftindion of Age or Sex, the reft of the Inhabi- 
 tants Reformed j there is no manner of Cruelties 
 and Barbarities which they did not put in ufe 
 againft them, dafliing to pieces the Babes, rip- 
 ping the Bellies of Women, plucking out the 
 Hearts of fome Men, and devouring it raw as it 
 was ; nay, there was a Father, a Sollicitor of 
 the Exchequer, (his Name was Ralet) fo unna- 
 turally inhuman, that he caufed his own Son to 
 be hangM. But a few Months after the Town 
 being taken again by a Party of the Prince, that 
 Monfter was condemned to be tied upto the Roof 
 qf his own I^oufe, and there fhot to death, and 
 
 foin ^ 
 
268 Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol . IlJ 
 Charles fome of thcfe who had been fo barbaroufly cruelj 
 ^" were likewife put to death. 
 
 Pope Pius The Town of La Charite being in the Pofl'ef- ; 
 fion of the Reformed, was befieged by a Lieu- 
 ' tenant of the Duke of Nevers, and theBefieg- 1 
 ed having withftood an AfTauit, confidering, 
 their number, they thought that they were not i 
 in a condition to refift any longer, therefore \ 
 they furrendered upon honourable Terms, which i 
 were not kept, tho* the chief Officers had pro- 
 mifed upon their Oath to obi^rve them. The = 
 principal Condition was this. That the Refor- ■ 
 med that were in the Town Ihould enjoy a per- ; 
 fed: Liberty of Confcience, and be free from all ' 
 Harm. But the next Day the Officers confujt- | 
 ed together, whether they ought to keep their \ 
 Faith with Huguenots ? They confidered that \ 
 every honeft Man is bound to keep his Faith, ; 
 tho* it were to his own detriment, when he 
 has to deal with an honeft Man \ but that I 
 there was no fuch Obligation with Infidels. \ 
 After feveral Debates, they concluded unani- ' 
 moufly. That they were not obliged to keep i 
 their Promifes with thofe who had rebelled a- I 
 gainft God and the King. Then they fell upon >! 
 as many as they could find, clap'd them in Goal, \ 
 tried and condemned them as guilty of Rebel- i 
 lion. Sedition and Herefy, part o\ them were ex- ; 
 ecuted, a,nd the reft forfeited all their Goods. j 
 
 Bens. The Mafliicre of Sens was peij etrated on the ! 
 
 1 2th of May i^^i-^ and Jaded for three Days | 
 together, whereby above a hundred innocent I 
 Perfons unarmed loft their Lives in difi^erent 
 manners, fome more cruelly than others -, one 
 Mr. Landry, a noted Merchant, was thrown 
 out of a Window and received upon the point 
 of Halberd«i, then caft alive into the commoij 
 Sewer ; a Serjeant of the Provoft was brought 
 
 ■ tQ 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches /V/ France. 269 
 to the publick place and there ftoned to death. Charles 
 A Gentlewoman, Wife to a Doftor in Phyfick, ^^' 
 named Ithier, was undrefled by them ftarkp Jpjjj ^ 
 naked, had her Breafts cut off before the Face iV. 
 of her two young Daughters, and after having 
 ufed her in the moft brutifh Manner, they cail 
 her alive into the River. On the 13th ofMay* 
 the fecond Day of the Maflacre, a rumour was 
 fpread in the City at nine in the Evening, of a 
 Miracle happened in St. Hillary's Church, near 
 the Gate thro' which the Reformed pafled 
 when they went to their Meeting, viz. That 
 the Crucifix had turned its Back, of its own 
 accord, to the Reformed Church ; the Priefts 
 certifying v/ithal, that they had {^tn it weep- 
 ing. That Rumour being fpread, all the Bells 
 of the City were fet a ringing, many Women 
 brought Candles as an Offering •, and they took 
 that as an evident Token of God's Approbation 
 of the Maffacre, therefore they began it a- 
 new. 
 
 In a v/ord, there was no City, Town, Bo- 
 rough, Village or Hamlet, in all that Province, 
 wherein the Reformed Inhabitants were not 
 cruelly perfecuted, at the Guifes Inftigation, but 
 efpecially the Cardinal of Lorrain's and the Car- 
 dinal of Guife's (/). And it is very obfervabie, 
 that at the very fame time that thefe things 
 were doing at Sens, by the Connivance and e« 
 ven the Commands of the Guifes, the Trium- 
 virs caufecl a Declaration to be publifhed at 
 Paris in the King's Name, wherebv he was 
 made to fay, that his Will and Pleadire was, 
 that his Edid of January fhould be ftridly kept 
 
 through-* 
 
 (f) All this is extrafted out of Dinoth. lib. 2. p. 145',^ 
 
 146. Beza liv. vii. p. 337, 500. Thuan. lib, 
 
 xxxi. p. 123, — ! — \ 26, 
 
270 Hiftory of the 'Reformation^ andoftheYo-L.H.l 
 Charles throughout his Kingdom, Paris and its Suburbs i 
 only excepted. ; 
 
 The Reformed fared no better in Burgundy ^ 
 than in Champaign : The Duke of Aumale, ! 
 Brother to the Duke of Guife, being Governor j 
 of that Province, left no Stone unturned to ex- j 
 tirpate them out of that Country. Notwith- ! 
 landing the King's repeated Orders to the Par- j 
 liament for pubhfhing and regiftering the Ja- ' 
 nuarian Edid:, the Credit of the Governor pre- | 
 vailed over the Obedience due to his Ma- ■ 
 jefty. _ ^ : 
 
 Dijan. '^^^ Mayor of Dijon, with a Canon of the i 
 
 Cathedra], who took the Title of Syndick for | 
 the Clergy, having falfly given the Court to ' 
 underftand, that the Reformed held no manner , 
 of Aflembly at Dijon, nor in any other Place : 
 of the Dukedom, (tho' at Dijon only they were i 
 much above two thoufand in Number :) Orders ; 
 were fent to M. de Tavanes, Deputy Governor ; 
 of that Province, to forbid the Reformed Af- ; 
 {emblies at Dijon and other Frontier Towns. '■ 
 Neverthelefs, on the 8th of April 1592, up-: 
 ©n proper Application, they obtained from ' 
 Court Orders contrary to thefe ; and on th» I 
 J 2th, new Orders were fent to the Parliament, j 
 and to Tavanes for regiftering and pubhfhing i 
 the Edid of January ; but all that was only a \ 
 Show, for the Guifes influencing the Parliament, j 
 they did not obey. Tavanes (who was after- ! 
 wards Marfhal of France) improved this Oppor- j 
 tunity of enriching himfelf, and fparing the j 
 Blood he fpared not the Purfes of the Reform- : 
 cd. After the Maflacre of VafTy he forbad 1 
 them to aflemble together for hearing Sermons, •■ 
 praying, finging of Pfalms, either in publick ' 
 or private. Then he banifhed the Reformed ; 
 out of the City, and above two thoufand of 1 
 
 both ! 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 271 
 
 both Sexes, and of all Conditions and Ages went Charles 
 out. I^- 
 
 Being obliged to go to Chaalons, he charged p^L^pfjs 
 the Mayor and the Sheriffs with the Care of the iv. 
 City, with full Liberty of expelling all thofe" 
 whom they fhould fufpeft ; accordingly many 
 Outrages and Cruelties were committed, a great 
 number of Men, Women and Children being: 
 expelled, even the Sick and Lame, many of 
 whom were reduced to the greateft Straits. On 
 the 7th of July, they caufed a Proclamation to 
 be read, whereby the Peafants were allowed to 
 rife in ArmiS, and to purfue the Huguenots, 
 (as they called them) to plunder and murder 
 them at their pleafure. The Catholicks were 
 forbidden under very fevere Penalties, to receive 
 in their Houfes any of the Exiles, or to afford 
 them the NecelTaries of Life, as Meat, Drink, 
 or any help whatfoever. The fame thing was 
 done in other Cities or Towns of that Govern- 
 ment j and the Articles of Faith drawn by the 
 Sorbonne fome years before, were every where 
 pubHQied and received, inflead of the Januarian 
 Edift. 
 
 It is true that few were publickly execu- 
 ted, amongft whom there were five Gentlemen 
 who were hang'd, a young Girl of fixteen years 
 old that was beheaded, and a Woman whipt, for 
 having been found faying their Prayers ; thirty- 
 eight were executed in Effigy, and above a hun- 
 dred and fixty clapt in Goal, where they had 
 many great Hardfliips to undergo. Such was 
 the Ufage the Reformed met with in the chief 
 City of Burgundy; and all this at the Inftances 
 of the Mayor, bribed by the Guifes, and under 
 Pretence of Sedition, tho' they had lived very 
 quietly, without ever rifing in Arms. 
 
Hiftory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.11. < 
 It is true likewife, that generally fpeaking, a I 
 much greater Humanity was found in the com- i 
 mon fort of People of that Country, than in ' 
 the People of any other •, nay, than in their ■ 
 Governors and Magidrates themfelves : for pity- ! 
 ing the Fate of fo many of their innocent Coun- •! 
 try Men, whom they knew to have been peace- i 
 able and good Neighbours, not only they for- 
 bore to do them any harm, but they aflifted 
 them, as much as they could in fecret. \ 
 
 It would be too tedious to give here a par- i 
 ticular Account of all the Injustices, Vexations, 
 Wrongs and Plunders committed by Tavanes^ > 
 the Parliament of Dijon, the Mayor and other ;j 
 Magiftrates, and Officers Civil or Military at ' 
 Dijon, Autun, AufTone, Auxerre, Chaalons i 
 Sur-Saone, and other places in Burgundy. But ' 
 I can't pafs over the Siege of Macon without i 
 mentioning the horrid Cruelties ufed againft the ; 
 Reformed Inhabitants. I 
 
 ilacon. In the Year 1560, they had a fettled Church J 
 
 in that City, which increafed to fuch a number, 
 that in 1562, the MafTacre of VaiTy having ob- j 
 liged them to provide for their own Preferva- 
 tion, they made themfelves Mafters of the City 
 on the 3d of May, without much trouble j but 
 cfpeclally without fliedding of Blood. Three \ 
 Days after, having heard that the Images had \ 
 been broken at Lyons, the Minifters and the j 
 Elders, notwithftanding their Remonftrances 
 and Exhortations, could not prevail upon the 
 Minds of the People, nor hinder them from do- 
 ing the fame at Macon •, and from that time the 
 publick Exercife of the Romifh Religion was fup- 
 prefTed in the City. Tavanes endeavoured feveral 
 times to recover that Place, but without Succefs ; 
 but at laft, by the means of fome Traitors he 
 furprized it on the 19th of Auguft, by a De- 
 tachment- 
 
Book IV. Refontied Churches /;? F R a n c e . 273 
 tachment of his Troops, and made himfelf Mafl:er Charles 
 of it, after having withftood fome hot Skir* ^^' 
 mifhes in the Streets. Befides the plundering p^^J pi^g 
 of the Houfes, they ufed moft bnrbaroufly all IV. 
 the Reformed Inhabitants who could not re- 
 deem their Lives, or who had not Money e- 
 hough tofatiate their Greedinefs •, they beat them 
 unmercifully, they flit their Nofes, cut their 
 Ears, dragged them along the Streets, kicking 
 them, and pricking them with their Swords, 
 then they drowned them in the Saone, ftoning or 
 fhooting thofe who endeavoured to efcape. The 
 Strumpets of the Priefls that had been banifhed 
 the City fince the Month of May, being return- 
 ed with the Army, to revenge themfelves were 
 very careful to (how the Soldiers the Houfes be- 
 longing to the Reformed, which were immedi- 
 ately forced and plundered. As to the Catho- 
 licks, they were preferved, their Doors being 
 marked with a white Crofs. 
 
 Tavanes arrived the 21ft, with his L^idy ; and 
 tho' the Houfes of the Reformed had been fo 
 well pillaged, that it feemed impoliibis to find 
 any thing in them, neverthelefs (lie caufed them 
 to be fearched a-new, and in the mod: fecret Re- 
 cefles, whereby fhe got for her own Share about 
 180 Trunks full of Houfhold Goods, befides a 
 vaft Quantity of Linen of ail forts, and Thread 
 which Macon abounded in, and was renowned 
 for above all the Cities of France, As to her 
 Hufband, it v/as confidently faid, that he had 
 got enough for his Share of the Plunder, in 
 ready Money, to buy an Eftate of ten thoufand 
 Livres per Annum, Tavanes left tor Gover- 
 nor of Macon one St, Poind, a cruel and bloody 
 Man, born in Adultery of a Prieft, as his owa 
 Mother declared it before the Magidrates, for 
 the difcharge of her own Confciencs. This 
 
 Vol. II. T Maa 
 
Hiflory of the Reformation, a7id of the Vol. II. 
 
 M.in for his Diverfion and Paftime's fake, when 
 he had treated the Ladies, ufed to afk. Whe- 
 ther the Farce was ready ? By which he meant, 
 whether fome of the Reformed Prifoners had 
 been brought upon the Bridge, to leap over in- 
 to the River ? and one or two, and fometimes 
 more were brought ; then he came with the 
 Ladies, and havinc^ put fome comical Queftions 
 to the poor Wretches, he caufed them to be 
 thrown into the Snone and drowned. He was ufed 
 alfo to give falfe Alarms, to have a Pretence to 
 drown or fhoot to death fome of them, charging 
 them with a Defign of betraying the City. 
 Thefe Cruelties continued till the Month of Ja- 
 nuary 1563. A little time after the Edid of 
 Pacification, St. Poindl, that profligate Man, re- 
 turning to his own Houfe near Macon, (where 
 he had carried Goods to the Value of twenty 
 thoufand Crowns for his Share of the Plunder) 
 was met by D'Achon, Nephew of the late Mar- 
 fhal of St. Andrew, with whom he had a Quar- 
 rel of a long {landing, who /hot him dead 
 upon the Spot, {g), 
 
 Now^ I come nearer the Southern Provinces, 
 where the Reformed being in a much greater 
 number than in the Northern, they afford us 
 alfo a greater number of the mofl tragical 
 Scenes of Cruelties and Barbarities. 
 .,!?!* We have taken notice in the Year 1551, un- 
 
 der K. Henry II. that thofe of Lyons who had 
 embraced the Reformation had continued thtir 
 fecret AfTemblies under the Care of Peter Four- 
 nelet, and Claudius Monier their MIniflers •, the 
 laft of whom was burnt alive in that fame year, 
 notwithftanding which the Reformed continued 
 to meet together, having for their Minilters 
 
 Mef- 
 (^) Bezaliv. xv. Dinoth. Ub. ii. p. i37> ^'<^- Thuan. 
 lib^xxxi. p. 126, 127. 
 
 NESE. 
 
Book IV. Reformed C/jurches m France. 275 
 Meflieurs la Rochebouillet, Semide, a|id James Charles 
 Ruffi, fucceeding one after another ; their num- ^" 
 ber Increafed apace ; and in the Year i 561, un- p^pl pjys 
 derftanding that in moft parts of the Kingdom, JV, 
 and even at Court, the Reformed met and 
 preached publickiy, they undertook to do the 
 fame. On the 19th of Odober 1561, the Count 
 of Sauk was {^nt to Lyons, as Deputy Gover- 
 nor to the Marlhal of St. Andrew ; he coun^ 
 tenanced the Reformed as much as he could, 
 and perfuaded them to keep their Af?>:niblies in 
 the Suburbs of la Guillotiere. The Edid of Ja- 
 nuary having been publifhed at Lyons, the Count 
 of Sault, fearing left he ihould be op^ofed by 
 the Catholicks, dared not to execute the Ar- 
 ticle whereby the Reformed Inhabitants of the 
 Frontier Towns were allowed to keep their Af- 
 femblies within the faid Towns ;, whereupon he 
 refolved, with the King's Leave, to make him- 
 felf the ftrongeft in the City, for to obviate the 
 Infurre(5lion of one of the Parties againft the o- 
 ther. Therefore he fent Captain Mormoiron into 
 DauphinCj there to make a Levy of two hun- 
 dred Men, and he himfelf levied in the City 
 five hundred, viz. three hundred Catholicks and 
 two hundred Reformed, and difpofed of them 
 after fuch a Manner, that the Gates and the 
 more important Places of the City were trufted 
 to the Catholicks. Such was the Condition of Ly- 
 ons, the Inhabitants not miftrufting one another, 
 till they received the News of the VaiTiacan Maf- 
 facre i for then the Reformed began to provide 
 for themfelves the beil: they coili, and to 
 Watch more narrowly over their Enemies. 
 
 Captain Moreau was fent Deputy to the Prince 
 by the Churches of the V^naifTm County, Lan- 
 guedoc, Dauphine and Lyonnefe, to know from 
 his Plighncfs what they xhad to do for the King's 
 T 2 Ser- 
 
276 WJlory of the Reformation y and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles Service, and the Welfare of the Kingdom. The 
 Prince fent back immediately the faid Captain 
 with two others, to let the Reformed know, ef- 
 pecially thofe of Lyons, that he defired them ear- 
 'neftly to fend him what Forces they could fpare, 
 and to keep the City of Lyons for the King, un- 
 der the Command of the faid Count of Sault, 
 provided that he fhould keep no other Troops, 
 but what were of the Reformed Religion. 
 
 On the 29th of April the faid Envoys arrived 
 at Lyons, and having confulted with the Chief 
 of the Reformed Inhabitants, they refolved to 
 make themfelves Mafters of the City that very 
 Night, which was executed with all the defired 
 Succefs, and almoft without fhedding of Blood, 
 feeing that only two Men were flain in the 
 'Fray. ^ . 
 
 The next Day, the 30th of April the Refor-^ 
 med fent a Deputation to the Count of Sault,[| 
 for excufing and juftifying what had been doneij 
 the laft Night, and defiring his Excellency tosj 
 continue as before ; and that they would pay a.^ 
 due Obedience to all his lawful Commands. But i 
 the Count rebuked them feverely, and told them; 5 
 that he would fend Notice of every thing toi 
 the King; and that uhlefs they would lay down ' 
 their Arms, and fend away all their Foreign i 
 Soldiers, he would not be their Governor any.j 
 longer ; which Condition was refufed by thd 
 Deputies. T^he next Day, the firft of May, all 
 the Officers (^ Juftice, with the Sheriffs of thej 
 City, and forhe of the chief Burgeffes of thcf^ 
 Catholick Religion, went to him upon the fame^j 
 Errand; and after many Sollicitations, at lafl ; 
 he confented to be their Governor, 'till ^ had 
 roceived an Anfwer from the King upon wha^ 
 had been done ; and mean while it was agreed 
 that the Forces (hould remain iu the Reformed*^ 
 
 hands ; 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /« F r A n c E. lyy 
 hands ; and that both Parties fliould contribute Charles 
 equally towards the keeping of twelve hundred ^' 
 Men, under the Command of fix Captains, all of p^^^ Pius 
 the Reformed Religion. IV. 
 
 On the 3d of May arrived in the City, Captains ^— — v***-^ 
 Blacons and Condorcet, with fome Gentlemen 
 and their Companies ; and in the Evening 
 came Francis Lord of Beaumont Baron 
 PES Ad rets, who underftanding from the a- 
 bove faid Captains Moreau, Aifle and Grille, 
 what the Prince had commanded to be done for 
 the King's Service and the Prefervation of the 
 Provinces ofDauphine, Venaiflin, Provence and 
 Languedoc, they fet out the next day to exe- 
 cute their refpe(5tive Commiflions, having fent 
 notice to the Prince of the State and Condition 
 the City of Lyons was in. 
 
 Baron des Adrets was a Man fo extraordinary, Q/'Ba- 
 that he deferves to be taken notice of for the Sin- '^°^ °^s 
 gularity of hisCharader. He wasoftheliluftrious 
 and Ancient Houfe of Beaumont in Dauphine, he 
 had learned the Military Art in Piedmont, the 
 beft School in the world for that purpofe, at 
 that time ; he was but fifteen Years old when 
 he began, being of the two hundred Gentlemen 
 of Dauphine, that were in Qdet de Foix Lord of 
 Lautrec*s Army in the Year 1527, fo he was 
 born in the Year 15 12, and made himfelf fa- 
 mous very early. At the time we are fpeaking 
 of, he was Colonel of the Legionaries of Lyonnefe, 
 Dauphine, Provence and Languedoc. As to 
 his Features, Thuanus who faw him at Grenoble 
 in 1572, gives us this Defcription of him; Erat 
 jam totus canus, fed crudd adhuc ac viride fence- 
 tute^ oailis truculentis, nafo aqiiilino^ facie ma- 
 Client a, fed ruborihus interfufd, iit lutmn fangu'me 
 mac era turn, quod in P. Corn. Sulla ohfervaium ejl, 
 cri infperfum diceres -, de catero corporis hahitu 
 
 T 3 mi' % 
 
Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. II. 
 
 inilitari. That is, he was all gray, but ftill of 
 a ftrong Complexion, of a fierce Look, a 
 hooked Nofe, a thin Face, but befprinkled 
 with red Spots, much like to Publius Corn. 
 Syllu, and to the reft he had a Warrior's Air 
 {b). As to his Parts, he was vigilant as much 
 as could be, bold and fuccefsful in his Under- 
 takings, and truly he had feveral good Quali- 
 ties required to make a great Captain ; but he 
 was exceedingly ambitious and cruel, as his 
 Adlions evince {j). Brantome fays, that he 
 was compared to Montluc, both very brave 
 and valiant, both very humourfome and capri- 
 cious, both very cruel, both Companions in 
 Piedmont, and both great Captains (/). Nothing 
 but a revengeful Spirit againft the Guifes, obliged 
 him to fide with the Reformed, and nothing but 
 a revengeful Spirit againft the Reformed obliged 
 him to forfake them before the firft Civil War 
 was over, and fide with the Catholicks, to whom 
 he adhered thenceforward to his laft Breath. 
 A^ long as he fided with the Reformed, the Ter- 
 ro.- of his Name fpread it felf not only in all the 
 S )uthern Provinces of France, but it reached 
 R jme it feif, v/here the Confiftory were once in 
 a terrible Fright, left he fhould come by Sea 
 ?l,\^d pay them one of his Vifits, as it was ru^ 
 raoured. But as foon as he fided with the Ca- 
 tholicks againft the Reformed, being always un- 
 fuceefsful, his Reputation funk apace, and he 
 was fcorned by both Parties, D*Aubigne gives 
 us an Account of a Conference he had with him 
 in 1574, at Lyons, when K.Henry III. came 
 from Poland. He put thefe three Queries to 
 him, i"'", IVhy he had ufed fo mavy and great 
 
 Cruelties^ 
 
 (h) Thuan. in vita fiia lib. i. (j) Brza liv. xi. (i) 
 Brnntcmc Kioge dc Montluc, quoted by Agricola, Add. aujc 
 Mem. dcCaltoinau, liv iv ch. 2. 
 
Book IV. Refonned Churches Z;^ France. 279 
 
 Cruelties, unbecoming fo great Courage ? 2'"', Charles 
 Why he had forfaken a Party wherein he had fo ^^• 
 great Credit ? 3'^°, IVhy he had been fo unfuccefs- p '^ ^'^^^ 
 ful in all his Undertakings againji the Reformed ? iv. 
 He anfwered to the fir ft Query, that no Man 
 muft be deemed cruel when he does ufe Rcpri- 
 fals j that the Aggreflbr is truly cruel, but in the 
 fecond is an A61 of Juftice. Upon which he 
 gave him an horrible Account of more than four 
 thoufand Perfons who had been flain and mur- 
 dered in cool Blood, and of feveral Tortures 
 of a new Invention, and unheard of before ; 
 efpecialiy the Leapings of Macon, the Governor 
 ■whereof was at great Expences in feafting, and 
 took his Diverfion in feeitig the unfortunate Re- 
 formed that fell into his hands, leaping from 
 a Bridge into the River ', and inured Boys and 
 Girls that were prefent at that Spe6lacle, to fee 
 the Huguenots murdered, without any Senfe at 
 all of Mercy or Pity. He added further, that 
 he had ufed Reprifals, tho' not in fo great a 
 number, to revenge the Murder of his faithful 
 Companions, and for obliging his Enemies to 
 be more civil and kind, for the future, to Pri- 
 foners of War ; and told him, that fome time 
 ago, three hundred Cavaliers had been fent back 
 to the Enemies Camp, each having had one of 
 his Hands and one of his Feet chopped off", to 
 oblige the Enemy to change his Method. As to 
 the 2d Query, he owned that Spite and Defire of 
 Revenge had occafioned his Delertion, and 
 complained bitterly of the AdmiraPs proceed- 
 ing towards him, as unjuft. He anfwered to 
 the 3d Query with a Sigh, and faid. Child, 
 nothing is too hot for a Captain who is no more 
 concerned in theVidory than his Soldiers •, I had 
 Soldiers under my Command while I fided with 
 the Reformed, but iince that time I had but 
 T 4 Mer- 
 
2 8 o JJijlory oj the Reformation^ and of the V o l . II . 
 
 Charles Merchants, who mind only to get Money ; the 
 ' formerftoodin awe without Fright, were paid with 
 Pope Plus "^^engeance, Paflion and Honour : I had not 
 IV. Eridks enough for the firft, and the Jaft have 
 worn all my Spurs {k). He died the jd of Fe- 
 bruary, in the Year 1586 at la Frette one of his 
 Houfes. He left three Sons, who were all of a 
 very cruel Temper. Notwithftanding his 
 great Services to the Reformed while he fided 
 with them, they have looked upon him as ano- 
 ther Goliath that defied the Army of Ifrael. 
 
 Des Adrets being; at Valence on the 28th of 
 April, the Day after the Sedition happened in 
 that City, wherein la Motte Gondrin Governor 
 of Dauphine was flain, -as we fhall fay hereafter, 
 he was unanimouQy chofen Adminiftrator of that 
 Province by the Nobility and Gentry, till the 
 Prince fhould order it otherwifc. And having 
 heard what was come to pafs at Lyons, he came 
 thither, and took upon him the Diredion of 
 Affaijs, pretending that it was his Right, and 
 being not oppofed by the Inhabitants, confider- 
 ing that he was a Man of Expedition, and think- 
 ing that after he had given them his Advice, he 
 would return into Dauphine. But it happened 
 quite otherwife -, for he took upon himfelf all the 
 Authoritv, commanding, ordering and doing e- 
 very thing juft after his own Will and Pleafare. 
 Whereupon the Count of Sault, after having 
 waited for fome time, obtained at lafl: the King's 
 I .eave to retire into his own Houfe, which he 
 did accordit'gly on the lafl Day of June 1562. 
 About the fame time arrived at Lyons Poncenat 
 and Changy, fent by the Piince from Orleans, 
 the firft to command the Horfc, and Changy 
 the Foot, as Quarter- mailer General i but fome 
 
 dif- 
 (k) D'Aubigne Tom. I. liv. iii. ch. 9. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches //z Fr an ce. 281 
 difpute arifing, Changy was fatisfy'd to accept Charles 
 of the Government of Valence in Dauphlne, Bla- ^^• 
 cons remained Quarter-mafter, and the City ofpj^^pfjg 
 Lyons was chofen to be their Place of Arms. iv. 
 Des Adrets went afterwards into Dauphine to' 
 attack the Lieutenants of Sommerive, Suze, 
 Carces, Maugiron and others, who committed 
 great Diforders in that Province, and was very 
 fuccefsful in his Expedition. Then coming back 
 to Lyons in the beginning of July, he refolved 
 to attack two places in the Country of Foretz, 
 viz. Monton and Montbrifon, in which Expe- 
 <^tion he imployed almoft all his Forces, and 
 fucceeded to his Wiflies in this Undertaking ; 
 but he blafted the Glory of his Vidory by his 
 exceeding Cruelty j for on the i6th of July 
 being in cool Blood, and only for Diverlion's 
 fake, after his Dinner, he caufed feveral of the 
 Prifoners of War, among whom there were 
 fome Gentlemen of Note, to leap over from the 
 Top of the great Tower of Montbrifon, not- 
 withflanding the prefTing Intreaties of Blacons, 
 Poncenat, and others his Captains, who endea- 
 voured to deter him from fuch a Barbarity. 
 But he told them that it was the only way to 
 oblige their Enemies to deal with them with more 
 Humanity, than they had done at Orange. From 
 thence he returned to Lyons, where he found a 
 great Alteration, for the Prince had fent thither 
 the Lord of Soubize to be Governor of Lyons, 
 and of the Lyonnefe, who being arrived on, the 
 19th of July, he opened his Commiflion to Des 
 Adrets, when he arrived a few Hours after j and 
 in the mean time he remonftrated unto him with 
 all Meeknefs, what a Blaft that cruel Execution 
 would caft upon his own Reputation, and the 
 Prejudice it would be to their common Caufe. 
 Then he declared openly to all the Officers and 
 
 'SoK 
 
282 Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol .II, 
 
 Charles Soldiers there prefent, that whofoever fhould fol- 
 1563. ^°^ ^^^^ Example, ought to depart from Lyons 
 Tope Pius immediately, or elfe they would be feverely pu- 
 IV. nifhed. 
 
 At firft Des Adrets could not help to vent 
 out his Anger, but being acquainted with the 
 Prince's Intention, as well by Letters from his 
 Highnefs as by Soubize, he thought proper to 
 diflemble his Refentment, for the prefent, and 
 refolved to go into Dauphine, where Montbrun 
 ftood much in need of him ; he fet out with 
 four French Enfigns, and a Company of a hun- 
 dred Switzers foF his Guard. 
 
 The greateft Perplexity of Monfieur de Sou- 
 bize during his Government was, to know where 
 to find Provifions for fupplying Lyons, and how 
 to have them carried into the City \ but he hap- 
 pily overcame all thefe Difficulties, tho* not with- 
 out much trouble. He was befieged twice, the 
 firft time in Auguft 1562, by Tavanes; but 
 tho' he had a great Army, compofed of Italian 
 and French Troops, and many Pieces of Artil- 
 lery, neverthelefs he approached not the City 
 nearer than fix Miles, rather, as the Even: prov- 
 ed it, for hurting the Vintagers, than for aflault- 
 ing the City. He ftaid at the fame Place for a 
 Month together, during which time there were 
 feveral Skirmifhes. Then the Duke of Nemours 
 was fent by the King to command his Armies 
 in thofe parts ; Tavanes being difpleafed at it, 
 retired into his Government of Burgundy. Ne- 
 mours did not attack the City immediately, but 
 he went with all his Forces into Dauphine, there 
 to try whether he could not make a Conqueft of 
 that Province, feize upon the Magazines of Cora 
 which Soubize had gathered to. tranfport them 
 to Lyons, and come afterwards with a greater 
 Force to lay Siege to that City. But his 
 
 De^ 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 283 
 Defigns vanifhed away -, for Des Adrets, who Charles 
 had gone into Dauphine for raifing fome Re- ^ '^; 
 cruits, had been fo diligent, that in a Httle time Pope Pius 
 he got an Army of about five thoufand Foot, IV. 
 and four thoufand Horfe, which being reinforced 
 with two thoufand Switzers, three thoufand 
 Foot of the French Troops, and three hundred 
 Horfe fent from Lyons by Soubize, he pitched his 
 Camp between Lyons and Vienne in Dauphine, 
 where he ftaid for three Weeks together, during 
 which Time there were fcveral Skirmifhes, 
 wherein Nemours was always worfted. 
 
 But it happened at this time, that a Meflen- 
 ger, whom Soubize had fent to Orleans with 
 Letters from him and the Cardinal of Chatillon, 
 then in Languedoc, dire(5led to the Admiral, 
 inftead of coming back to Lyons with the Ad- 
 miral's Anfwer, went diredlly to the Marfhal of 
 BrifTac, and delivered his Packet to him, where- 
 in there was found a Letter from the Admiral 
 concerning Des Adrets ; the Subftance whereof 
 was, That his Gulls ought to be borne, with as 
 much Patience as poffible ; and that he ought 
 not to be irritated, left from being an Infolent, 
 he fhould turn a Mad Man; BrifTac had no 
 fooner read thofe Letters, but he difpatched a 
 Gentleman of Dauphine, St. Servin by Name, 
 firft to Nemours, and opened him a Way for 
 tampering with Des Adrets ; and, from thence to 
 Des Adrets himfelf, to whom he wrote about 
 that matter. 
 
 Des Adrets having received thefe Letters, it 
 is eafy to conceive what EfFeds they had in a 
 Man of fuch a Temper -, and had it not been 
 for the great Vigilance of Soubize, very likely 
 he would have revenged himfelf in a terrible 
 manner, but he was prevented from doing 
 any great mifchief j for the next day that St. 
 
 Servin 
 
284 tiiftory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol . II, 
 Charles Servin was come to deliver his Letters to him, 
 Soubize came into his Camp, under pretence of 
 reviewing it, and of calking with him about fome 
 Enterprize ; he was not long with Des Adrets, 
 before he took Notice of a great Alteration in 
 him •, therefore he charged fome Gentlemen ta 
 watch over him, and to fend him Notice of e- 
 very thing they could difcover, which Commif- 
 iion they difcharged faithfully, as we (hall fee in 
 fpeaking of Dauphine, 
 
 Des Adrets having had fome private Confe-r 
 fences with the Duke of Nemours, broke up his 
 Camp, and dilbanded his Army ; then the faid 
 Puke came to encamp at St. Genis, a League 
 diftant from Lyons, and by frequent Skirmifhes 
 he did hinder all manner of Provifions to come 
 into the City, and ftaid till the time appoint- 
 ed for putting him in PoflefTion of Romans and 
 Valence was at an end ; he went to Ville-franche, 
 and put Garrifons every where in the Country 
 of Dombes, in fo much that no body could go 
 out of Lyons by ^l. Sebaflian's Gate, without 
 great danger of lofing his Life, or at leaft, 
 his Liberty. Lyons was by this time reduced 
 to great Straits, when by the too great Confi- 
 dence of Nemours, it was relieved. That Ge- 
 neral depending entirely upon the flrid: Corre- 
 fnondence he kept with Des Adrets, was in hopes 
 of fucceeding happily in every thing ; and made 
 his Account, that being foon Mafter of Dauphine, 
 it would be an eafy Matter for him to take pof- 
 fertion of Lyons. Therefore the time appoint- 
 ed being come, he went diredly to Vienna with 
 his Army, which being not ftrong enough he 
 could not divide it in two. Seubize being ac- 
 quainted by his Spies of Nemours's March, fent 
 immediately, and at the very nick of time, three 
 thoufand Foot, and about four hundred Horfe, 
 
 to 
 
"BooviV^. Reformed Churches in France.^ 2S5 
 to bring over from the Principality of Dombes Charles 
 into the City, the Corn he had bought in that ^^• 
 Country. On the other hand, he difpatched p ' ^ ^3.-^^ 
 Mouvans and Clery into Dauphine, to arreft Des iv. 
 Adrets, which was executed, as we fhall fay— ^r^ 
 hereafter. Thofe who had been -fent into 
 Dombes, to clear the Country of the Garrifons of 
 Tsemours, and to bring over the Corn, perform- 
 ed every thing according to their Wifhes, with- 
 out any great Oppofition, the Caftle of Trevoux 
 excepted, wherein forty Men fhut themfelves 
 up, in order to defend it, but it was forced by 
 Captain Moreau •, the aflailed went into a Tower, 
 and with a Ladder they went up to the upper 
 Floor, fully resolved to die rather than furren- 
 der on any Terms, whereby the AfTailers were 
 obliged to blow up the Tower ; that being done, 
 they brought to Lyons five thoufand Loads of 
 Corn. Mean while Nemoui^ having been very 
 unfuccefsful in his Enterprize upon Dauphine, 
 and underftanding that Des Adrets had been ar- 
 retted, and likewife having notice of the Troops 
 that were marched from Lyons into Dombes, 
 fent OrderS'to St. Chaumont for efcalading the 
 City, but he miffed his' Ends. The Duke hlm- 
 felf being returned to St. Genis, undertook the 
 fame thing, but with no better Succefs. In a 
 word,that Siege lafled from the beginning of No- 
 vember to the latter end of March, or the begin- 
 ning of April, when the Peace having been pro- 
 claimed, the Duke of Nemours raiftd the Siege, 
 and difoanded part of his Army (/). 
 
 The Januarian Edi'fl having been publifhed inO/DAc^ 
 the Parliament of Grenoble, the Reformed dtd*""^^^- 
 meet together in , the Suburbs, in a Yard be- 
 longing to a Merchant. They increafed vaftly 
 in a few Weeks time, notwithftanding the great 
 
 Ef- 
 
 f/J Beseliv. xi. Pinoth. lib. z. Thuan lib- 31. 
 
Hijiory of the Reformafibn^ ajtdoftheVoL. IL 
 forts of their Adverfaries, who ceafed not to 
 moleft them -, at laft they complained of it to 
 the Prefident des Fortes, and to Bucher the 
 King's Attorney ; but inftead of any Relief^ 
 they were ordered not to meet together above 
 the number of ttn Perfons ; and that under the 
 fpecious Pretence of not provoking their Ene- 
 mies againft them. On another fide. La Moth e 
 Gondrin, Deputy Governor of Dauphine^ did 
 his utmoft Endeavours for molefting the Re- 
 formed ; in fo far, that being gone to Romans, 
 caufed and ordered a Houfe to be pulled down, 
 only becaufe the Reformed had had fome Meet- 
 ings in it ; whereupon the Reformed of that 
 Place were fo much incenfed, that had he not 
 fled by a back. Door full Gallop to Valence, 
 he would have been made a Vidim to atone for 
 his manifold Injuftices and Cruelties. Never- 
 thelefs he obtained from the Parliament of Gre- 
 noble a Warrant againft fome of the Ringleaders 
 Reformed of Romans^ but by the Count of Cruf- 
 foi's Interpofition, they were put to the Deci- 
 lion of the King's Commiflaries. Suze and Vi- 
 nay, after a Conference with Gondrin, went 
 diredly to the Duke of Guile, who wrote to 
 Gondrin, and exhorted him to take his Revenge 
 of the Reformed of Romans, and to hang their 
 Minifter, without any Form of Law ; telling 
 him further, Tou are a Soldier^ and you cannot 
 mifs to take the fat d Minijlcr^ if you do watch 
 him zvith ten or tivel've of your Attendants, The 
 Reformed having been acquainted with the Con- 
 tents of thofe Letters, they were in a great Per- 
 plexity how to find Means of providing for 
 thenifclves •, and having received Notice of the 
 AfTociation nnde at Orleans, which was pub- 
 lifhed in all the Reformed Churches, they re- 
 
 folved 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churches in France. 287 
 folved to fpend their Goods and their Lives for Charles 
 the Defence of fo juft a Caufe. ^^• 
 
 Now it was an ancient ufage at Valence to ele6t p^^^ Jj^^ 
 new Confuls and Counfellors for that City, on iv. 
 Mark's Day, the 25th of April ; Gondrin will- 
 ing to make himfelf Mafter of the Elediohs, 
 had ordered the Gates to be fhut up, and fur- 
 rounded the Place of Ele<5lion with his At- 
 tendants, whom he had armed for that purpofe, 
 which being perceived by eighteen or twenty 
 Reformed, they met together in a Houfe fully 
 refolved to defend themfelves till death, if they 
 were aflaulted -, which being reported to Gon- 
 drin, he fent a Captain with his Men to drive 
 them out of it, and he himfelf came to the 
 place of the AfTembly with his Arms, and fhot 
 to death one of his Secretaries whom he met 
 there. Mean while thofe that were there aflembled 
 found means to efcape by a Back-door, and came 
 to one of the City Gates, which they opened for 
 thefe of their Brethren who had a mind to fly ; 
 for there was a Rumour in the City, that the Re- 
 formed were all to be mafTacred. But Gordrin, 
 to prevent their Flight, had fent by another 
 Gate part of his Horfe to cut them to pieces ; 
 and having not met them in their way, they fell 
 upon fome Peafants who came to the Market 
 with their Provifions, and murdered fome of 
 them, who were carried upon Ladders into the 
 City ; at which fight all the Inhabitants, Catho- 
 lick and Reformed, were moved, and cried for 
 Juliice : the Catholicks being appeafed by the 
 Vicar of the Bifhop, and the Reformed by their 
 Minifter, every one went into his own Houfe. 
 The next Day, the 26th of April, the Rumour 
 of what had happened havipg reached the neigh- 
 bouring Towns and Villages, a great number of 
 Men arrived at Valence from every Quarter, all 
 
 re- 
 
288 Hiftory of the Reformat ion y and of the Vol.11. 
 
 claries refolved to aflift their Brethren ; but the Refor- 
 med fearing left the Remedy fhould prove worfe 
 than the Evil, thanked them for their trouble ; 
 and furthermore, tho' it was a Sabbath-day^ 
 ' they refolved to have no Sefmon upon that Day. 
 Neverthelefs Gondrin thinking to have met with 
 a proper Opportunity of expelling the Reformed 
 out of the City, and by that means of remaining 
 himfelf Matter of it, becaufe they ufed to af- 
 femble in the Suburbs, according to the Edift, 
 infifted earneftly that they ftiould meet after 
 their ufual manner, faying, that by that means 
 every one would be convinc'd, that they had a 
 mind to live according to the Edidl. But the 
 Evil which he prepared for others, fell on his 
 own Head ; for the Gate-Keeper having been 
 furprized juft at the time he was fhutting the 
 Gates, the Inhabitants, as well as Foreigners, 
 waiting not till the Sermon was over, came on 
 a fudden on the City, and feiz'd the Gates, and 
 notwithftanding all the Endeavours of the Wifeft, 
 the Tumult increafed. On Monday the 27th, 
 feveral Gentlemen of the Reformed Religion, 
 Des Adrets, Mirabel, Montbrun, andMontoux, 
 arrived at Valence, while the Tumult lafted ftilj, 
 and that Gondrin was befieged in his own Houfe, 
 the People roaring and crying, fome complaining 
 of his manifold Outrages and Concuflions, while 
 others aiked that the Murderers, who had maf- 
 facred the poor Peafants the day before, ihould 
 be brought to condign Punifhment. That Com- 
 motion lafted (notwithftanding the Endeavours 
 of the Magiftrates and the Minifter to appeafe 
 it) till two o'clock in the Afternoon, when the 
 Houfe having been fet on fire, Gondrin went 
 to the next .Houfe, wherein he was murdered, 
 with feven of his Servants \ and even the Fuiy 
 of the Populace could not be appeafsd, till they 
 
 had 
 
Book IV. "Reformed Churches z;z F R a n c e . 289 
 had feen his Corps hanging at the Window-pofts, Charles 
 fo much was he hated by all the Inhabitants, ^ ' 
 Catholicks as well as Reformed. -When that Se- p^^^ i^ius 
 drtion was over, the Wifeft, coniidering the IV. 
 Confequence of it, fent to Grenoble, befeeching 
 the Parliament to fend fome CommifTaries to 
 take Information of the Fadv, and accordingly 
 a Counfellor was fent for that parpofe. Now, 
 whereas that Tumult feems to have be n the 
 lirft Ad of the Civil War. in Daupnine, ir will 
 not be amifs to confider how the Affairs ftoodiii 
 that Province. 
 
 The Parliament fhewed them (elves very par- 
 tial, fince the 6th of April, v/hcn they derocja- 
 ted from the Edict, forbidding all the King's Of- 
 ficers to affiil: in the Reformed Afiemblies, and 
 the 18th of the fame Month they went further, 
 above their Power ; for they forbad, upon pain 
 of Death, to abfent from the City without a 
 fpecial Licence from the Vice-Bailift : And on 
 the 27th they commanded all Officers of the 
 Army and other Gentlemen, to repair immedi- 
 ately to Paris for the King's Service \ and to be 
 there before the 20th of May, with their war- 
 like Equipage, under the pain of High-Trea- 
 lon. 
 
 Now the Guifes had fo well contrived their 
 Plot, by the means of Maugiron, Sommerive, 
 Fabricius Serbellonne, and the Governor of 
 Grenoble, that very likely they would have fuc- 
 ceeded to their Wiflies in the Attempt they 
 made not only to deftroy the Reformed in the 
 Lyonnefe, Dauphine and Provence, but alfo to 
 make themfeives Mafters of thofe Provinces, 
 and to reftore the ancient Kingdom of Aries. 
 But Gondrin's Death put a flop to thofe vaft" 
 ProjecS:s, tho' the manner of his Death cannot 
 be excufed. 
 
 Vol. II. U Such 
 
2g6 Hl-flory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.. \l, 
 Charles ^ Such being the Pofture of Affairs, the Gentle- 
 ^v" men who were come to Valence, eleded Baron 
 Tope Pius Des Adrets for their Chief, the very fame Day 
 IV. of Gondrin's Death, and adhered to the Aflbci- 
 ation made at Orleans, on the nth of April. 
 Furthermore it was enafted in the fame Aflem- 
 bly, that the Goods belonging to the Church, 
 jfliould be entirely preferved without any Da- 
 mage till further Orders ; and for that end that 
 the Churches fhould be fliut up to avoid all 
 manner of Diforders -, which was executed ac- 
 cordingly, till they received News of the break- 
 ing of Images in other Provinces of the King- 
 dom ; for then it was not poffible to keep the 
 People from doing the fame in Dauphine. 
 
 Des Adrets, an adtive Man, confidering of 
 what Importance the Cities of Lyons and Gre^ 
 noble were to his Party, fent word to the Re- 
 formed of the laft place to provide for their 
 own Safety the beft they could •, and that he 
 would aiTid: them in proper time : And as he 
 knew thofe of the Parliament who were the bit- 
 tereft Enemies to the Reformed, he wrote on 
 the I ft of May to the faid Parliament, to no- 
 tify to them his Eledion, and commanding them, 
 as a Man wlio knew how to make himlelf be o- 
 bey'd, to expel the Seditious out of the City, 
 and amongil: others the fccond Prefident, the 
 Attorney General, the fourth Conful and fome 
 others, threatning them that they would be 
 hang*d if they did not leave the City immedi- 
 ately. 
 
 That Order havinp; been executed, the Re- 
 formed feiz'd upon the City-Gates, and guarded 
 them, without molefting any body, either in 
 their Perfons or their Goods ; then fearing left 
 they fhould be aftauited, they, with the Con- 
 fent of the Deputies of the Parliament, and 
 
 Cham- 
 
B o o K I V. Ref or fried Churches hi Trance. 291 
 Chamber of Accounts, and other Magiftrates, Charles 
 feiz'd upon the Jacobines Cbnvent, to whom ^^• 
 they granted leave to carry out every thing pj'.^ p^-^j 
 that beionged to them. Then they proceeded iv. 
 to the Eledion of four Confuls, three of v/hom 
 were Reformed -, they named one Aynemont Col: 
 to he Captain of the City, a:nd gave him leave 
 to levy two hundred Men, which fhould be 
 entertained at the charge of the City. 
 
 Such being the State of Grenoble, Maugiron 
 v/as making at Chambery all the neceflkry Pj-e- 
 parations for attacking it ; which being under- 
 ftood by the Inhabitants, they difpatch'd a 
 MefTenger to Des Adrets, who was then at 
 Lyons, befeeching him to come immediately to 
 their Relief. Upon, which he fent a Company of 
 Foot commanded by Captain Commung, then 
 he came himfelf with fifty Horfe, and followed 
 by feveral other Companies of Foot command- 
 ed by Captain Furmeyer. Thefe Troops being 
 arrived, it was not pofiible to preferve the re- 
 maining Images in the Churches, part of which 
 was burnt in the publick Places. Des Adrets 
 caufed a Proclamation to be read, whereby he 
 forbad to acknowledge Maugiron as Lieutenant 
 General, or to afford him any AfTiftance, and 
 to profecute and purfue him tiil taken dead or 
 alive, as a Seditious, and an Infringer of the 
 King's Edidts. Then he took a View of the 
 City, and ordered what he thought necefiary 
 for its Defence, caufing fome Houfes near the 
 City-Walls, to be pulled down •■, he made like- 
 wife feveral Regulations for the Police, which 
 were very ill kept -, which done, he fet out for 
 Lyons on the 27th of May, and came back to 
 Grenoble on the 2d of June. On the 5th, the 
 Great Charter- Houfe, three Leagues diilant 
 from Grenoble, was taken by the Reformed 
 U 2 Troops, 
 
. 1 
 
 292 Uiflory of the Reformation^ and of the V o l . II . 
 
 Charles Troops, and burnt to the Ground. Des Adrets 
 
 ,-52 having received the Nev/s of the plundering and 
 
 Pope Pias facking of the City of Orange, by the Count of 
 
 IV. Suze j and the cruel and barbarous Ufage the 
 
 ^'*''v~--' poor Inhabitants had met with, refolved to go 
 
 into the Low Dauphine i therefore he fet out on 
 
 the 7th of June, and left Monfieur de Brion at 
 
 Grenoble to command in his ftead, with four 
 
 Companies, 
 
 Tho' the Relation of the Sieg^e of Oranse be- 
 • - 
 
 jongs properly to the Hiftory ol Frovenct;, yet 
 
 we ihall inferc it here, becaufe of its near Affini- 
 ty with the Affairs of Dauphine, as well as v/ith 
 thofe of Provence. 
 0/ O- That City, which then enjoyed the Title of 
 
 RANGE. 2, Sovereign Principality, is (ituated in the 
 Account ^o^'^^y '^'^ Provence, whereof it makes a part. 
 tf the It appears by very authentick Monuments, that 
 Fri'ices it was formerly fubjeft to the Gallico-Germaa 
 cf Orange. Ej^^^pij-e, gyt when that Empire began to de- 
 cline, the faid County became the Prey of feve- 
 ral petty Princes. 
 0/ the The Principality of Orange devolved at 
 
 the Lords |^ ^j^^ j^^^.^^ of Baulx in Provence, either 
 by Inheritance or lome other Title, v/ith the like 
 Prerogatives and Immunities as the Princes of 
 the Empire enjay now a-davs, whereof a Deed 
 was drav/n by Bsrtrand de Baulx in December 
 1242. The Knighrs of Jerufdlem had a Share 
 in that Principality, granted to them, very like'y 
 by fome of the Princes, in Confideration of their 
 Valour, and of the perpetual War they did en- 
 gage themfelves to wage again ft the Saracens, 
 (IS it was ufual in thofe D^^ys -, and that is proved 
 by feveral IViedals, whereon the Arms of the 
 Prince of Orange are to be fcen on onedde, and 
 thofe of the Knights of Jerufalem on the other. 
 
 Such 
 
Boo K I V. Reformed Churches /« Fr A n c E !" 29 3' 
 Such was the Condidon of the City, till the Charles 
 Year 1256, v/hen Charles of A njou, Brother to ^ / 
 Lewis IX. King of France, having married Be- p^^^ Pius 
 atrix, Daughter to Raymond Berenger, the laft IV. 
 of the Count of Barcelonne's Houle, Count of 
 Provence altered it, and obliged William de 
 Baulx, Prince of Orange, to pay him Homage 
 as his VafTal, which Ceremony was performed 
 by Odo De Fonttnay great Senefchal of Pro- 
 vence. 
 
 Charles II. fucceedingto his Father, and fuf- 
 pefting the Power of fo many petty Princes, 
 bought for an equivalent from the Knights of 
 Jerufilem that Share they had in the Principa- 
 lity of Orange, in October 1307, and gave it to 
 Bertrand de Baulx, upon Condition that for the 
 future, he and his Fleirs or Succcfibrs fhould pay 
 Faith and Homage for the v.'hole Principality to 
 the Counts of Provence, as Vafials of the faid. 
 Counts •, and accordingly a Deed was drawn 
 of the whole Matter, with ail the requiiite 
 Forms, in March 1308. Accordingly the very 
 next Year Bertrand de Baulx was obliged to pay 
 F\iith and Homage to Robert, Son and Succef- 
 for to Charles 11. And two Years after, the 
 fame Bertrand tranfafting with the Syndick of 
 Orange about the Privileges and Immunities, 
 the Rights of the Roman Empire belonging to 
 the Counts of Provence, were exprefiy refer- 
 ved . 
 
 William fucceeded to Bertrand, who paid his 
 Faith and Homage to Robert upon the fame 
 Terms. Raymond fjccceded to William, and 
 Raymond II. to Raymond I. his Father, and 
 both did the fame Homage to Johanna Qaeeii 
 of Naples and Sicily ; and even this laft was 
 fued by Foulques d'Agoult, great Senefchal of 
 J^rovence, for fonie Violences bv him committed 
 '•■ . U 3 ' at 
 
2 94 Hijlory of the Refonnation, and of the Vol. l\. 
 
 Charles ^t Courtaiibn, a little Town in the Principality 
 
 / of Orange, and had his Eilate fequeftrated •, nor 
 
 Pope Pius could he re-enter into full PofTellion of it, till he 
 IV. had afic'd and obtain'd Paidon of Queen Jo- 
 
 ^^'V^^ hanna. 
 
 Whereas that Queen had no Children, fhe a- 
 dopted Lewis I. of Anjou, Son of John King 
 of France-, after him Lewis IL his Son, then 
 Lewis III. Duke of Calabria, to whom all the 
 Princes of Orange paid flomage. 
 
 9f f^ Raymond de Baulx dying without MalelfTue, 
 
 Chalons. ^^^7 ^^^^ Daughter transferr'd the Principality 
 into the Houfe of Chalons, having married John 
 of Chalons ; this happened in the Year 1410, 
 and Lewis of Chalons their Son, was obliged 
 to pay Homage to Rene of Sicily, and lent to 
 him fifteen thoufand Livres in the Year 1436, 
 when the faid King of Sicily was detained Pri- 
 fonerat Dijon by Philip Duke of Burgundy. 
 On the other hand, Rene gave to Lewis his 
 Right of Sovereignty over the Principality of 
 Orange as a Security for his Money ; and when 
 he was releafed, tho' he was willing to return 
 the faid Sum, neverthelefs by the Shufflings of 
 Chalons that Affair was not finilhed. 
 
 William of Chalons fucceeded to Lewis, who 
 abufing his Authority at Orange, at laft by the 
 Interference of the neighbouring Nobility, it was 
 enafted, that the Inhabitants had a Right to ap- 
 peal from the Prince •, this happened in Janu- 
 « ary 1471, when Lewis XI. was King of France, 
 who fucceeded to Rene and Charles of Anjou, 
 Counts of Provence, and -he tranfafted with Wil- 
 liam of Chalons upon thefe Terms, that for the 
 future he flioald pay Homage to the King and 
 the Dauphin of Viennois, in confideration of 
 forty-five thoufand Crowns, which Sum he 
 fnould receive immedfately i and that his Sub- 
 
Book IV. Refortned Churches /wFrance^ 293: 
 
 je(5ts of Orange fliould have the Right of appeal- Charles 
 ing to the Parliament of Grenoble ; as for the ^ ' 
 reft, he might ftile himfelf like other Sovereign pope p]us 
 Princes j that is, by the Grace of God Prince of IV. 
 Orange, coin Money, forgive the Criminals, '"-"'V**^ 
 and do all fuch like Ads of Sovereignty. Up- 
 on thefe Terms he was admitted to do Homage 
 to the Crown of France, in May 1475, and 
 fince that time the Parliament of Grenoble took 
 Cognizance of the Appeals of the Princi- 
 pality, till the Year 1590, when K. Lewis 
 XII, who was very fond of John of Chalons, 
 Son to William, and gratefully remembring his 
 good Offices, and extraordinary Feats of Arms 
 at the Battle of St. Aubin in Britanny, where 
 they were both taken Prifoners, he remitted 
 his Sovereign Right to him \ this was not done 
 without contradidion, for the King's Attorney 
 made his Oppofitions, and appealed from the 
 King to the Dauphin, and the Governor of 
 Dauphine, and enter'd his Proteft in the pub- 
 lick Regifters, the of September. 
 
 But for all that, John of Chalons, went on and 
 improving the King's Good-will towards him, 
 he ufurped (fays my Author, the Sovereign Au- 
 thority in that Principality, and eftablifhed in 
 it a Court of Parliament, to decide all Matters 
 without Appeal. This lalled till Lewis the 
 XII's Death ; for Francis I. who fucceeded him, 
 repealed the Gi ant of his Predeceflbr, and Phi- 
 libert SuccelTor of John was obliged to pay 
 Homage to the faid King, and the Parliament 
 of Grenoble took again Cognizance of the Ap- 
 peals. This Philibert died without Iffue, and i^ooy //af 
 iniiituted for his Heir Rene of Naffau, his "HQ-Piindpr.- 
 phew, by his Sifter Claudia's fide. This Frince^'-^ ^^-f^ 
 having left France to enter into the Service g^ u,ufe of 
 the Houfe of Aiiftria, found means by that Pro- Naj/liu. 
 U 4 tedion 
 
-^9^ 'H'ljlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles tcdioii to be reftored to the full Rio;hts of So- 
 ^ , vereignty in Orange, granted to John by King 
 Poi>t! i'lMs Lewis XII. and after the Battle ofFavia, it was 
 IV. flipulated by the Treaty of Madrid, that, with- 
 out any Regard to the Fretc-nfions of the Kings 
 of France upon the Primiprdity of Orange, the 
 flud Principality fliould he reftored to the Princes 
 of that Name, to be by them enjoy*d in fuU 
 Sovereignty \ and tho' during the Wars betv/eea 
 the Emperor Charles V. and King Henry II, 
 the King's Officers did always feize upon that 
 Principality, and the Parliament of Grenoble 
 took cognizance of the Appeals, neverthelefs , by 
 the Treaty of Peace made in 1559, it was ftipu- 
 iated that the Prince of Orange ihould enjoy the 
 full Sovereignty thereof according to the Ar- 
 ticles of Mad rid •, (the fame thing has been ohfer- 
 ved under the Reigns of the Houfe of Bourbon^ 
 efpecially under Lewis XIV. whene-ijer he has made 
 War againft the Allies of the nwji illiifirious 
 Jicufe of N^iJpiM, and in the fubfeqtient Treat ies^) 
 and William Son to William, Coufin-german to 
 Rene, eftablifhed a Governor in the City, and refto- 
 red theParliament,whojadged withoutAppealfw): 
 (/^nd that City has Juifijled in the fame Condition 
 as to its Ciovern.:}ient^ without any other Alteration^ 
 but what was occaftcned by the IVars.^ till the lafi 
 Treaty cf Utrechty when the King of Pruffia made 
 a Cifficn of his Rights to the King of France upon 
 certain T'enns.) I hope this Dij;relTion, tho* it 
 has no diredl Relation to this Hiftory, will not 
 be difpleafing to my Reader, who keeps frefh 
 in his Memory the Remembrance of the Great 
 King William, the glorious Deliverer of thofe 
 Nations, and who has any Regard for his moll 
 Serene Higlinels tiie preicnt Prince of Orange. 
 
 How- 
 
 ("«; Thuan. lib. 31. p. 1J2, 133, 134. 
 
Book IV/ Reformed Churches inFRAKcer, 297 
 However, that City, famous for two Councils Charle* 
 held in it, is an Epifcopal See, filled up at the ^'^• 
 time we are fpeaking of by Philip de la Chambre, p^Jpius 
 of the illuftrious Houfe of the Marquifles de la IV. 
 Chambre, a great Enemy to the Reformed : They 
 had begun to hold private Aflemblies in the latter 
 end of Henry IPs. Reign, and had a Minifter in. 
 the Year 1561. They lived peaceably enough 
 under the Governments of Cauflans and de la 
 Tour fent by Prince William of NafTau, but 
 being frightned with the News of the Vaffiacan 
 Mafiacre, and underftanding what Fabrice Ser- 
 bellonne, who commanded for the Pope in Avig- 
 non, plotted againft them, they thought proper 
 to make themfelves matters of the City. 
 
 Serbellonne had been joined in the latter end 
 of May by Sommerive Lieutenant to his Father, 
 the Count of Tendes Governor of Provence, the 
 Count of Carces, Flaflans, Ventebran, Sental, 
 Laverdiere, Mondragon, Venterol and other 
 Captains, (moft of whom had been condemned of 
 late as fpditious by the Commifiaries fent by the 
 King at Aix) with the Troops under their Com- 
 mand, 
 
 All thefe Forces were aflembled at Cavaillon, 
 waiting for an Opportanity cf entering the City 
 by the means of a Traitor, who had promifed 
 to introduce them. The Reformed having been 
 reinforced with 600 Men, it happen*d that 
 Monfieur Perrin de Parpaille, President of O- 
 range, who had been at Lyoas for making Pro- 
 vifion of Arms, was betray'd by his Waterman, 
 as he came down the River, and deliver'd with 
 his Boat into the hands of his Enemies, who 
 fent him Prifoner to St. Andioi, five Leagues 
 from Orange. This being underftood in that 
 City, they fent almoft all their Forces to that 
 Place to recQver the Prefident, As foon as they 
 
 were 
 
29^ H^fiory of the Reformation^ attd of the Y ol . IL 
 Charles were gone, the Catholicks fent notice of it to 
 Serbellonne, who marched with all his Forces, 
 and arrived on the 5th of June, with two Can- 
 nons and fome Field-Pieces. He fummoned the 
 ' City to furrender •, but the Terms propofed be- 
 ing too hard, the Inhabitants, at leaft the Re- 
 formed, chofe to withftand to their laft Breath. 
 Thereupon Serbellonne began to batter the Walls 
 fo furioufly, that he made that very fame Day 
 a large Breach •, when it was dark, the Reform- 
 ed feeing that they were too fmall in Number to 
 refift any longer ; and that the Catholicks dif- 
 pofed themfelves to attack them, part of them 
 left the City in the Night, and retreated to Se- 
 rignan with their Wives and Children, and thofc 
 who ftaid in the City prepared themfelves for 
 the Defence of their Walls, and for oppofing 
 the Enemy who endeavoured to force the Gates, 
 or to enter by the Breach i but they were be- 
 trayed by the Catholicks, who opeijied an Iron 
 Grate v^ hereby the Enemy entere/i the next 
 Morning beinp; the 6th of June, 2ii well as by 
 the Houfes adjoining the Walls, and even by 
 the City Gates, which were burnt to the ground. 
 Then, as it was impollible to refift, great part 
 of the Reformed retired into the Caftle, the 
 reft fled, thinking to hide themfelves. The E- 
 nemy being entered, they fell upon that Mul- 
 titude unarmed, and were fo barbaroufly inhu- 
 man, that they fpared neither Age, Sex or Con- 
 dition, they murdered old Men of fourfcore 
 years, and fucking Babes, even Paralyticks, and 
 all the Sick whom they found in the Hofpital, 
 the Women big with Child they hung at their 
 Windows,and fliot them to death, or ripped their 
 Bellies i and lell; any thing lliould be wanting to 
 their Cruelties, they invented new Kinds of Tor- 
 ture. Some they murdered by pricking them 
 
 with 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Vvlai^ce, 299 
 with their Swords, and Hieing them piece by Charlw 
 piece with their Hangers-, others they threw ^^^ 
 from the Windows, and received them upon the Pope pjus 
 Points of their Halberds •, others they hung with IV. 
 a Hook thro* their Chin in the Chimney, and ' 
 lighting a Fire, they fmother'd them with the 
 Smoak. Their Watch- word whereby they in- 
 cited one another, was no lefs barbarous than 
 their Deeds, viz. I do curse God three 
 TIMES, which execrable Words they uttered 
 running along the Streets with frightful bowl- 
 ings. Nay, their Rage was fuch, and they 
 were fo far blinded by their Fury, that they 
 did not know thofe of the Citizens who fided 
 with them, and had introduced them in the City, 
 but they murdered them all to one without dif- 
 tindion of Sex. Thofe who had retired into the 
 Caftle having furrendered themfelves upon Pro- 
 mife of Prefer vation of their Lives, were cruelly 
 murdered, part being ftabbed while the others 
 were caft head- long from the Rock whereupon 
 the Caftle was built. The Goods which could not 
 be exported, were fquander'd away, they ftaved 
 the Cafks of Wine, they threw away the Corn 
 and other Grains ; and in the Evening, Suze 
 caufed the Caftle, the Parliament-Houfeand the 
 Biftiop's Palace to be fet on fire, whereby three 
 hundred adjacent Houfes were burnt to the 
 Ground, and feveral Perfons that were con- 
 cealed in them •, and if it had not been for a 
 great Rain that fell in the Night, the whole City 
 would have been intirely reduced to Afhes. The 
 next day the 7th of June, the Walls were beaten 
 down, and part of them clean razed to the 
 Ground. Thofe that had fled to Serignan, went 
 to Montelimar ; and as to the Prefident Par- 
 paille, he was beheaded at Avignon on the 8 th 
 of Auguft following by the Vice-Legate's Orders. 
 2 Cap- 
 
'^00 Hiftory of the Reformation, a?2dofthe Vol. IT, 
 Charles Captain La Co ft e, Meflieurs De La Caritat, and 
 
 De La Rays were brought Priloners toTarrafcon. t 
 That Defolation of Orano-e lafted till the 21ft of !) 
 March 1 56^, when the Count of Curfol, afterwards i 
 Duke of Ufez, appointed Governor of Dauphine, i 
 being come with main Force into the City, re- | 
 ftored the Reformed, and appointed Monfieur I 
 de St. i\uban to be Governor of the Place, and 
 on the 26th of September in the fame Year, the ! 
 publick Exercife of both Religions was fettled a- 
 gain, according to the Articles of the King's 
 Edi6l of Peace. 
 
 Then Serbellonne divided his Army in three | 
 Bodies, and retired himfelf with one to Avig- 
 non, loaded with the Spoils of Orange, ' 
 
 Now Des Adrets, who was fet out from Gre- 
 noble on the feventh of June, fully refolved to i 
 revenge fo many Innocents from their cruel E- i 
 nemies,and to keep the lower Dauphine trom the ! 
 Incurfions of Suze, and the higher from Maugi- 
 ron's •, being arrived at Montelimar, where he ' 
 formed a body of Troops with the remnants of 
 Orange, and came diredly to Pierre-late, which ' 
 he forced in an inftant, and put to the fword all j 
 thofe whom he met in Arms : three hundred ! 
 Soldiers whom Suze had left in the Place for j 
 its defence, retired into the Caftle, which being ! 
 fituated on a fteep Rock, was thought impregna- ; 
 ble ; but Des Adrets with his ufual Impetuofity, ! 
 made himfelf fuddenly mafter of the Gate there- j 
 of, whereupon thofe who were within, being much ; 
 frighted, de(ired to come to a Parley •, but as they | 
 were part of the fame Troops that had committed ; 
 fo many and great Barbarities at Orange, thofe of ■ 
 that City who attended Des Adrets, fell with i 
 fuch Fury upon them, that not one of the three ' 
 hundred efcaped, but all to one were killed ei- i 
 ther with the Sword, or being caft headlong from ; 
 
 thQj 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 301. 
 
 the top of the Caftle down to the foot of the Charles 
 Rock. From thence Des Adrets went to 5o/<rg- ^'^• 
 and St. Efprit-Bridge^ who furrendered them- p '^ p^'^^ 
 felves, then he came to Boulene which he forced ; iv. 
 he was refolved to befiege Avignon', but the news 
 he received from Grenoble., obliged him to come 
 back to relieve that City . 
 
 On the 14th of June Maugiron had taken 
 pofieffion of it, while Des Adrets was abfent, by 
 the connivance of fome Magiftrates and Mem- 
 bers of Parliament ; he had ufed the Reformed 
 very cruelly, murdering and drowning feveral of 
 them, De.'^ Adrets underftanding that, took his 
 way thro' Valence^ and with an incredible Cele- 
 rity arrived at Romans with all his Forces jufb at 
 the nick of time, when Maugiron was approach- 
 ing to feize the Town, which he dared not to 
 execute. The next Morning Des Adrets marched 
 to St. MarcelUn^ v/hich he ftormed at his Arri- 
 val, and cut to pieces the Garrifon of three hun- 
 dred Men ftrong-, he defired earneftly to meet 
 Maugiron in the field, in order to fight him, but 
 that General, inftead of waiting for him, fled di- 
 redly into Savoy, and from thence into Burgun- 
 dy, without fo much as taking his leave of his 
 Friends of Grenoble, 
 
 The News of this good Succefs of Des Adrets, 
 and of Maugiron's Flight, being arrived at Gre- 
 noble on the 25th of the fame Month, all thofe 
 who were confcious of their Mifdemeanours du- 
 ring his Abfence, waited not for his coming, but 
 left the City with all fpeed, curfing Maugiron 
 and his Cowardice -, the Prifoners of the Reform- 
 ed Religion were immediately releafed, and the 
 Reformed who remained in the City, being af- 
 fembled, they refolved to go out and meet Des 
 Adrets, to befeech him to forgive the Populace 
 ^n(;J their Fellow-Citizens \ which being granted, 
 
 he 
 
5 02 P'ftory of the Reform athn, anUfthe Vol . If. 
 
 Charl'^ "lie entered into the City on the 26th without any 
 
 ^^- Refiftance, being attended by feven hunaied 
 
 _ 7pfus ^^^^^ ' ^^ S^"^'^ ^"^^' Orders to his Army of fix 
 iv!"^ thoufand Foot ftrong, that they did iio hur!: to 
 
 <u.«v--^ the Inhabitants ; he reftored the C'ty in the fame 
 Condition it was in when he had Jeft it before, 
 and marched out with his Army on the laft day 
 of June, and went into the Country of Foretz. 
 
 Mornas. On the eighth of July Montbrun befieged 
 Mornas belonging to the Pope and ftormed it -, 
 the Soldiers of Orange who were in Montbrun's 
 Army, fpared no body, but revenged their Fel- 
 low-Citizens, who had been fo barbaroufly mur- 
 dered, upon all the Inhabitants of Mornas with- 
 out exception, notwithftanding Montbrun's Re- 
 monftrances and Intreaties, they threw theCorpfe 
 of the murdered in the Rhone, whereby they 
 were carried to Avignon and found, having this 
 Bill fet upon their Stomach, Let pass the 
 Bearers, for they have paid the Toll at 
 Mornas. One of the poor Wretches having 
 been caft headlong from the top of the Caftle, 
 catched a piece of the Rock in the middle of 
 the way from the top to the bottom, and remain- 
 ed fo hanging with his Hands ; ar.d tho' they 
 fired at him many times, neverthelefs he could 
 never be hit, whereupon Montbrun ordered to 
 relieve and fave him, and took him into his Ser- 
 vice. 
 
 This Viclory of Montbrun's frightned the In- 
 habitants oi Caderoufe, Pyoulene, Orange, Cour- 
 talfon, Bederrides and Chateauneuf to fiich a de- 
 gree, that they forfook their Habitations and fled 
 to Avignon, Carpentras, Vaifon, and other ftrong 
 Places. Montbrun could not purfue his Viftory, 
 tho* he knew that his Enemies were in a terrible 
 Fricrht, becaufc he was obliged to fend part of 
 his Troops to Cijteron which was befieged ; he 
 
 went 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churcbes in Fv-AiiCE, 303 
 went to Bolena, and was there attacked by Suze, Charles j 
 
 but the Montbrunians fallied upon him with fuch ^' j 
 
 fury, that he was obliged to retreat, having loft p^J pju, i 
 
 great part of his Foot. IV. | 
 
 Montbrun marching out of Bolena, took pof- '— v— -J • 
 
 feflion of Vaureas on the 23d of July, where ^'««^^^-^' 1 
 
 he flayed 'till Des Adrets arrived, who trulling ! 
 
 on his good Fortune or on the Valour of his ^ .j 
 
 Troops, refolved to give battle, and fallied upon ' 
 
 Suze v/ith fuch Violence and Ardour, that he ] 
 
 routed him in a little time ; then without giving : 
 
 his Army a full day of reft, he came to the Pont Pof^t of ; 
 
 of Sorgues, and carried by ftorm the Town and ^°^l»^^' \ 
 
 the Caftle all at once. Thofe of Avignon were \ 
 
 fo much terrified at this Succefs, that they were ' 
 
 afraid left they ftiould not be able to keep their 1 
 
 City, and it was confidently faid, that had Des 
 Adrets attacked it at that time, he would have \ 
 
 carried it, which would have been of very great 
 advantage to his Party : but inftead of that, he ' 
 
 went to Carpentras, which having befieged in ^ 
 
 vain, he came back to Valence. i 
 
 There he was oftentimes intreated by Mou- 1 
 
 vans's Letters, who was befieged in Cifteron, to 
 come to his relief; and at laft he affembled his I 
 
 Army,mufter'd it,and marched towards Cifteron-, i 
 
 he forced in his way St. Laurent des Arbres and \ 
 
 Roccamaure,and burned to the ground the Caftle 
 of the Bridge of Sorgues, kept by Italian Troops, 
 who perifhed in the Flames. The next day 30th i 
 
 of Auguft, Serbellonne fent fome Frigates loaded I 
 
 with Soldiers up the Rhone, thinking to amufe ( 
 
 Des Adrets on that fide, while he would attack .; 
 
 him on another ; he came out, being attended .! 
 
 by all the Nobility of Avignon and three hun- ] 
 
 dred Foot picked out of all the Companies : But 1 
 
 Des Adrets gueffing what he intended to do, di- \ 
 
 vided his Troops, part of whom attacked the \ 
 
 Frigates, j 
 
3 04 Hijiory of the Reformation^ and of the Vo l , 11. 
 
 Charles Frigates, while the others Tallied upon the Ene" 
 
 ^^' my with fuch Fury,that Serbellonne efcaped nar* 
 
 Pope ?ias J'owly, having had his Horfe killed under himt 
 
 IV. and loft moft part of his Foot. 
 fc-*v-^ Des Adrets took his way along the Durance ; 
 when he arrived at Cavaillon, he received news, 
 that a great Body of Enemies was {een coming 
 to Orgon over againft Cavaillon, whereupon he 
 forded the River with his Armv, and falling 
 upon them, he routed them. There he put a ftop 
 to his Vi(5lories ; for either out of Refentment for 
 the ill Ufagc he pretended to have received from 
 • the Prince, or out of Jealoufy againft Mouvans, 
 inftead of marching to the relief of Cifteron, and 
 may be, thinking to be time enough before that 
 Place, he took another way, and fo was the oc- 
 cafion of the lofs of that important Citv. For 
 Montbrun, who had been another way more eafy 
 for the Artillery, endeavouring to enter into Cif- 
 teron, was routed by Suze with the lofs of all his 
 Ammunition and Artillery and part of his 
 Troops. Therefore Mouvans having loft all 
 hopes of relief, was obliged to leave the City, and 
 retire thro' the Mountains in the night-time with 
 moft of the Inhabitants. We will give a parti- 
 cular account of that Siege and Retreat, when 
 we ftiall come to the Article of Provence. 
 
 The taking of Cifteron and the Retreat of 
 
 Des Adrets, caufed a great Revolution in the 
 
 Affairs of Dauphinc-, Gap was fo much fright- 
 
 ned, that the Reformed deferted it, and the Ca- 
 
 tholicks took poffeffion of it -, the fime thing 
 
 t-.fl ^y^„^happen*d in fevera! other Places. As to Greno- 
 
 tfGreno- t>le, the Catholicks did their utmoft Endeavours 
 
 ble. to recover it, and efpecially Maugiron, who be- 
 
 fieged it twice in four Months time ; the firft 
 
 time about the middle of September, by his 
 
 Lieutcnj^nt the Baron of Sjfleynage, with an 
 
 Arm y 
 
. ^00 K IV. "Reformed Churches Z;^ France. 305 
 Army of fix thouiand Men -, there was not two Charles 
 hundred Soldiers in the City, who had almoft ^^' 
 no Provifions nor Ammunition, and the City- p^ J Ywss 
 Walls were not ftrong enough to refift the Can- IV. 
 nons ; that Siege lafted about twenty Days, but 
 two things were of great Advantage to the Be- 
 jfieged. I ft. The Enemy had no Cannon. 2dly. 
 TheCommanders did net agree among themfelves, 
 for Safieynage having no Experience, the Offi- 
 cers who underilood the Military Art did not 
 obey him willingly. Captain La Coche, com- 
 manding Officer in the Place, feeing that the 
 City was put to great ftraits for want of Provi- 
 fions, and that he could not ftand a long Siege, 
 fent fome of his Men in the night-time to Des 
 Adrets, to give him notice of the State they were 
 in, but the MefTehgers minding only theirSafety, 
 and not that of their Fellow-Citizens, went not 
 whither they had been fent. La Coche defpairing 
 to be relieved, propofed feveral times to theEnemy 
 to decide the matter by a fingle Combat of an 
 hundred, twenty or ten of each fide, and that 
 whoever fliould be vidorious, fhould be mafter 
 of the City \ but that extraordinary Propofal was 
 not hearkened to ; therefore he propofed other 
 terms: but while they were debating about them, 
 a Succour unexpected coming from Romans and 
 Valence, and led by Captain Furmeyer arrived. 
 The Befiegers hearing of this, refolved to meet 
 and fight them ; the River Drac was between 
 them, and Furmeyer was obliged to ford it, in 
 order either to attack the Camp, or to enter into 
 the City. Therefore Safieynage fent a .Detach- 
 ment of his Troops in order to hinder the Paf- 
 fage -, four hundred Horfe and a Company of 
 Foot concealed themfelves in a Wood beyond 
 the Ford, in order to afTault FurmiCyer by the 
 back,as he would be crofTmg the River. But that 
 Vol. II. X Captain, 
 
3 o 6 Hijiory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. 11,' 
 Charles Captain, who had paffed the whole night in a 
 V neighbouring Village, having fet his Troops in 
 ,^ Battle- Array early in the Morning, began his 
 March towards the River, not doubting but the 
 Enemy would come and oppofe his Paflage ; but- 
 as he was entering the River, turning accidentally 
 his Head towards the Wood, he faw the Ene-; 
 my coming out of it, then without telling his 
 Troops what he had feen, left they Ihould bo^ 
 frightned,he commanded them to go back, to the 
 Place from whence they were come, under Pre- 
 tence that the Waters were too deep. Now the 
 Enemy feeing that Motion, thought that Fur- 
 meyer was frightned and fled^ infulted him and 
 his Troops, calling them Cowards. Furmeyef 
 did not think proper to delay any longer, leftj 
 other Troops fhould crofs the River, and that hd 
 fhoujd be betv/een two fires, but he attacked thd 
 Enemy with fuch Bravery, that he routed andl 
 kill'd moft part of them, having loft but very, 
 few of his Men-, then coming back to the Rivera- 
 he fell with fuch fury upon theMufketeers who op- 
 pofed his Paflage, that they were routed and moft 
 part flain by the Horfe who purfued themj 
 Thofe who had been left before Grenoble, under- 
 ftanding what had happened, ftay'd not 'till Fur- 
 meyer fhould be with them, but raifing the Siege 
 in all hafte, fled into Savoy. 
 Second Three Months after, viz. the 28th of Febru- 
 
 '•^^* ary 1563, that City was befieged again by Mau- 
 giron in perfon, with an Army of eight thoufand 
 Men, Horfe and Foot, two Cannons, and three 
 Field-piece*;, which played for three days toge- 
 ther. Captain la Coche had with him. nine other 
 Captains, fome Noblemen, and fix hundred brave 
 Soldiers, bcfides the Militia of the City, and 
 they worked night and day chearfuliy, carrying 
 
 Fafiint:! 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches inYRANCE.. 307 
 Fafcines and Earth to raife Trenches within the Charles 
 
 City. • /^^:^ 
 
 Part of the Wall being thrown down by the pgj,^ ^\^^ 
 Cannon-fhots, Maugiron caufed an Affault to be IV. 
 given, whereupon they endeavoured three times 
 to carry the Placejfome entering thro'" the Breach, 
 while others made ufe of Ladders, but they were 
 repuls*d every where with great lofs. The Count 
 of Curfol, who was then at Valence, underftand- 
 Jng the great Danger the City was in, fent to 
 their relief with all fpeed. But thofe Succours 
 being arrived within eight Miles of Grenoble, 
 the Duke of Nemours, who was then befieging 
 Lyons, ordered Maugiron to come without de- 
 lay to join him with his Troops, whereupon he 
 was obliged to raife the Siege. 
 
 As to Des Adrets, we have faid above how 
 difpleafed he had been at the Prince fending 
 Monf. de Soubife to be Governor of Lyons, and 
 efpecially how exafperated he was, when he faw 
 the Admiral's Letters to Soubize, and which by 
 the Treachery of the Bearer thereof, had been 
 delivered into theMaffhal of Briffac's hands, and 
 fent by him to the Duke of Nemours, and to 
 Des Adrets himfelf ; fince that time,he not only 
 was difhea'-tned, but even began to think of re- 
 venging himfelf. And indeed it was a great piece 
 of Imprudence in Soubize, proceeding from Jea- 
 loufy, to write as he did to the Admiral againft 
 Dc;s Adrets, and to truft himfelf to a Man who 
 had been formerly in Marfhal De Briflac*s Ser- 
 vice ; what could be expeded from a Man of 
 Des Adrets's Temper, who knew very well that 
 his Houfe was as noble and ancient as Sou- 
 bize*s, and that his Capacity was not a tittle in- 
 ferior to his, and who had already given fo many 
 ■Proofs of his Zeal for that Party, and had fo 
 well fucceeded *till then in his Undertakings ? 
 
 X 2 Indeed 
 
3 o8 'Hijiory of the Reformation^ and of the Vo l .11 
 Indeed a Man muft not be always judged by 
 his Adions, but alfo by the Circuniftances he is 
 in, and the Reafons which induce him to a(5t 
 after fuch and fuch a manner-, but if that is a 
 rule, then Des Adrets will not be deem'd quite 
 unexcufable, when he fuffered himfelf to be led 
 
 aftriy by the Duke of Nemours, However, he j 
 
 had feveral private Conferences with that Lord, ] 
 
 and having agreed with him upon a Truce of ] 
 
 twelve Days, which was prorogued for four \ 
 Months, he endeavoured to perfuade the States 
 
 of Dauphine to receive Nemours as Governor of \ 
 
 that Province, and infifting upon that, was arreft- '■ 
 
 ed Prifoner at Romans on the loth of January \ 
 
 1563, from whence he^was brought to Valence j 
 
 by Mouvans, from thence by the Count of Cul- j 
 
 fol's Orders he was brought to Nimes, from j 
 
 thence to Montpelier, and then again to Nimes, i 
 
 where he was Ihut clofe Prifoner in the Caftle, ; 
 
 where he remained 'till the Peace was publifhed ' 
 
 at the be2;inning of the enfuing April, when he j 
 
 was releafed without being condemn'd or clear'd ; j 
 
 and indeed if Beza is to be credited, it appears i 
 
 by his Examination, that there was no plain Evi- ; 
 
 dence againft him but Sufpicions only. He turn*d, j 
 
 and died a Roman Catholickas abov'efaid {a). ' 
 
 Of Pro- This Province was one of the moft expofed ! 
 
 vHNCE. to the Fury of the Catholicks,its Parliament was i 
 
 the moft unjuft, and the bloodiell: of all others in ■ 
 
 the Kingdom-, and it is not pofhble to give a pai* ■ 
 
 ticular Account of the numberlefs Injuftices, \ 
 
 Cruelties and horrid Barbarities committed either ' 
 
 by the Orders or Connivance of that Court : it is i 
 
 enough to fay, that befides thofe that were flain 1 
 
 in the War, beifig armed for their juft Defence, : 
 
 there 1 
 
 (0) See upon the ^Article of Dauphine Beze liv. xii. ! 
 
 Dinoth.. Jib. ii. p. 125, &:c. Thuan. lib. x.\\i. \ 
 
B o K I V . Reformed Churches /;^ F r a n c e . 309 
 there were above {zYzvi hundred Men, near as Charles 
 many Women or Maids of all ages, and about a ^'^\ 
 hundred Children from three Months to twelve p^^g ^^^ 
 Years oi age that were murdered in diiTerent IV. 
 ways more cruel one than another. Some Men ^^-v^^— ' 
 and Women v/ere hung by their Feet, and being 
 Hill alive, had their Belly ript ; others were 
 burned alive after having been unmercifully bea- 
 ten •, others were dragged thro* the Streets, tyed 
 by their Feet at their Afs's Tail \ others were 
 ftoned to death •, others were fcourged to death 
 ftark naked, v/ithout diftindion of Sex \ others 
 had their Eyes plucked out, their Nofe and their 
 Ears cut off, then caft headlong upon the Rocks ; 
 others v/ere buried alive ; others, without dif- 
 tIn6lion of Sex, were impaled ; others had their 
 Members chopt to pieces ; others were drowned ; 
 others were caft half dead to be devoured by 
 Dogs and Hogs •, others were ftarved to death 
 with Cold and Hunger. This Defolation lafted 
 from the taking of Cifteron to the Edidl of 
 Peace, and even then the Reformed faw not an 
 end of their Miferies, the Parliament conniving 
 at all thefe Injuftices and WickednelTes. Several 
 were flaln only becaufe they bewailed the Fate of 
 their unhappy Feliow-Citizens •, fome were burn- 
 ed alive by pining away, but the great Diverfion 
 of the Provencal Roman Catholicks was to cut 
 off the Men's Privy-parts, to tye them up in 
 their Mouths, then to make them walk along the 
 Streets, and atter having tortured them in many 
 ether ways. If they were weak enough to yield 
 .to the Temptation and go to Mafs, then they 
 murdered them, faying, that they ought to think 
 themfelves very happy to die when they were 
 reconciled to the Church. All thefe Barbarities 
 • were put in ufe againft the Reformed of Provence 
 
 X 3 at 
 
3 I o Hi/lory of the Reformaiiony and of theVo-L.W. 
 Charles ^x. the Infligation, or at leaft the Connivance of 
 j.^^' the bloody Parliament of that Province. 
 
 Pope Pius When the Edid of January was granted, Fu- 
 IV. mee and Ponat were fent CommiflarJes to Aix, 
 
 y^'i^W^ to examine the Deportments of the Judges and 
 Counfellors. Claudius of Savoy Count of Ten- 
 des was Governor of Provence, a very good 
 ■ Man indeed, who was not averfe to the Reform- 
 ed Religion, and who fought fincerely and ear- 
 neftiy the Welfare of his Country ; he had two 
 Sons and a Daughter, the eldeft by his firft Wife 
 was PJonorat de Sommerive, the youngeft by a 
 fecond Wife was Rene de Cipierre ; he was very 
 fond of this, becaufe of the likenefs of Temper 
 and Inclinations, but the eldeft was very proud, 
 and of a very rough and troublefome Temper j 
 his Daughter Anna was married to James Cardet 
 of the illuftrious Houfe of Saluces •, he was very 
 curious in pleafing his Father-in-law in every 
 thing, and countenanced the Reformed. Now 
 the Houfe of Pontcvez bore a great fway in that 
 Country, tiie chief whereof was the Count of 
 Carces, FlafTans his Brother was Governor of 
 Aix and firil Conful, which Honour was beftow- 
 ed only upon thofe of the firft Nobility. Carces, 
 who v/as always ready for any new Troubles 
 and Commotions, feduc'd Sommerive, and offer- 
 ing to him the Guife's Friendfhip and Proteftion, 
 he told him, that whatever he would afk he 
 Ihould obtain, if he forfook. his Father (who had 
 an ill report amongft the People, becaufe he coun- 
 tenanced the Reformed) to fide with the Catho- 
 lick Party and become their Chief; that in fuch 
 a cafe, the Kinor would sive him the Govern- 
 ment of the Province. That ambitious and furly 
 Youth was eafily perfuaded by that crafty Man, 
 >vho cftrangcd him from his Father. 
 
 Meai^ 
 
Book IV. Reformed Ckirchesm France, 311 
 Mean while the Count of CurfoJ, together Charles 
 with the Count of Tendes, canie to Marignan, '^^ 
 four Leagues from 4-ix. From thence they fent p^pe Pius 
 the Vifcount Caderiet to that City, but he found IV. 
 the Gates fhut up by Flaflans, which however" 
 were opened at the Vifcount's fecond coming, and 
 fome Counfellors and Confuls were fent to the 
 faid Count's to excufe the Fafl, laying the fault 
 upon Flaflans. The Inhabitants, at the Ponte- 
 vefian's Inftigation, had been exceedingly unjuft, 
 outragious and cruel againft their Fellow-Citizens 
 of the Reformed Religion, and having placed 
 their Cannons in the great Streets, and upon the 
 Towers and the Church -Steeples, and hired fome 
 Troops, they had mured up the City-Gates, two 
 excepted. But the Vifcoimt de Cadenet having 
 been admitted, caus*d all the Gates to be opened, 
 the Soldiers to be difbanded, and the Artillery to 
 be drawn back, and Flaflans had orders to wail^ 
 upon the Count of Curfol ; but he refufed to o- 
 bey and avoided the City, for which caufe he 
 was deprived of his Confulfhip. Then the faid 
 Count having fent in the City as many Forces as 
 he thought neceflary, came in himfelf on the 5th 
 of February 156^, and the next day opened his 
 Commiflion before the Parliament, and inftall'd 
 the Commifl*aries fent with him from the King 
 in the exercife of their Office ; then he acquainted 
 the Parliament with the King's Will, and let them 
 know, that thefe Commiflaries were ordered to 
 take cognizance of the many Extortions and 
 Violences committed by the Judges, whereof 
 Complaints had been made to his Majefty. Then 
 having caufed the Januarian Edidl to be pub- 
 lifh'd and regifter'd,he order'd a place to be fitted 
 up without the City for the Reformed religious 
 Meetings, and left they fhould be infulted, he 
 difarm'd all the Populace, and caus'd their Arms 
 X 4 to 
 
3 1 2 Hi /lory cj the Reformation^ and of //6f V ol . 11 . 1 
 Charles to be carried into the Tovvn-Houfe. Laftly, he \ 
 deprived tlie Confuls and thofe Counfellors of \ 
 Parliament who had fided with Flaflans, and lill'd j 
 up their places with others not fufpeded. j 
 
 Rallans full of rage went to Brignoles with ! 
 the Forces he had levy'd, with Colours difplay'd, 1 
 bsaring the Pope's arms, and being preceded by ; 
 a Francifcan Fryar, who bore a large wooden i 
 Crofs, juft as at the Funerals, each of his Sol- \ 
 diers had a Rosary hanging at his neck. Then \ 
 having told them, that every one <^i them fhould ~ 
 hunt after the Hereticks to murder them, or elfe \ 
 keep them to do with them at their pleafure ; ! 
 that Order was fo exaftly obey'd, that where- j 
 ever they could meet with any Reforrhed, they 
 murder'd them unmercifully, fometimes upon the ; 
 fpot, and at other times after they had kept them j 
 long in prifon and extorted their Money from I 
 them. I 
 
 Amongfi ether Cruelties, this piece muft not 
 
 pafs unmention'd, for it furnilhes us with a great \ 
 
 Argument of their Zeal for their Religion. One ' 
 
 of Flaflans*s AfTociates, an intimate Friend to ,| 
 
 him, being enter'd into Signe, a Town of Pro- i 
 
 vence, and having met his own Sifter in his \ 
 
 ^vay, caufed her to be deflowred in the Street, ■• 
 
 firft by that Crofs-bearer, and then by fix others, \ 
 
 and at laft had her Belly bafted with hot drop- : 
 
 ping Lard, becaufe fhe was a Reformed. j 
 
 The Flaflanians having for fome time made \ 
 
 feveral Incuriions in the Country, committed ] 
 
 many Plunders and Ravages, were befieged at j 
 
 Barjols, and part of them taken, the Town being \ 
 
 ftormed on the fixth of March, four hundred \ 
 
 v;ere put to the fword, amongft whom was that : 
 
 FrancifcanFryar,and the reft being taken Prifoners | 
 
 (Flaflans excepted, who had fled) fome of the ^ 
 
 more feditious v/ere hang'djDe Guillerame, D'En- j 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /« Fr an ce. 313 
 
 trages and Laide were beheaded at Aix by Sen- Charles 
 tence of the Commiflarles, The Behaviour of ^^' 
 two Companies of the Waldenfes, one of ^OT--pope Plus 
 marin and the other of Merindol, defervcs to be IV. 
 taken notice of*, the Town being ftorm'd, inftead'-^'v— ^ 
 of running a plundering Hke the reft of the Ar- 
 my, they went into a Field, and devoutly kneeling 
 down, gave God thanks for the Viflory they 
 had got. They were met in that Pofture by 
 Cardet Son-in-law to the Count of Tendes, who 
 ^fked them why they did not follow the exam- 
 ple of others, and take their fhare of the Spoil ? 
 IVe have taken Arms, ■ fay they, for the Glory of 
 Cod and the Service of the King, we have endea^ 
 njour^d to perform our 'Duty when we have been 
 called to fight, and whereas we are not covetous of 
 Othefs Goods, we have retired into this place to 
 give God thanks for the Vi^ory.^ waiting for our 
 General's Commands. 
 
 After that Vidory, it would not have been a 
 difficult tafk to reftore the Tranquillity in Pro- 
 vence, had not Monf. de Curfol been ordered by 
 the Queen-Mother to go into Languedoc, and 
 tilen to repair immediately to Court. Never- 
 thelefs, before the two Counts parted, they put 
 Garrifons into the feveral Cities and Towns of 
 the Province, v/hereby the Country remained 
 peaceable enough for a little time (p). 
 
 But after the Vaffiacan Mallacre, the Guifes 
 failed not to write to Sommerive, Carces, Flaf- 
 fans and others of that Party, defiring them to 
 make themfelves ready for executing the Orders 
 which would be fent to theqi. * The Count of 
 Tendes likewife received orders from Court on 
 the latter end of Apiil for difbanding the Garri- 
 fons, which orders he obey'd. Then arrived a 
 
 Warrant 
 
 (p) Thuan. lib. xxxi. p. 139, 140, Beze liv. v. p. 894, 
 to the end of the Book. 
 
Hi/lory of the "Reformat ton ^ and of the Vol. II, 
 Warrant to Sommerive, conftituting him Govern 
 nor and the King's Lieutenant General in Pro- 
 vence m his Father's abfence -, FlafTans and others 
 his Aflbciates, were likewife reftor'd to their Ho- 
 nors and Dignities, and receiv'd Commillions for 
 raifmg Troops, Horfe and Foot, as much as they 
 could ; whereby from the beginning of May all 
 the Country was in arms againfl: the Reformed, 
 and numberlefs Evils and Diforders enfu*d. 
 
 I will not enter into the Particulars of the 
 Sieges, Fights, Battels, Murders and Maflacresj 
 and other Enormities perpetrated in that Pro- 
 vince, but whereas the retreat of the Cifteronians 
 had fomething in itfelf fo marvellous, that it can 
 be only paralleled in Pliftory by the ten thou- 
 fand Grecians Retreat under the Condudl of 
 Xenophon, I fhall infert here an account of it. 
 Ci'Te-rors Cifteron, a Towii in Provence, was belieged 
 #i' '^%^- twice by Sommerive -, the firft time on the loth 
 of July, which he was obliged to raife on the 
 iSth, after having furioufly battered the Place, 
 and having made a large Breach in the Wall 
 ivhereby he endeavour'd to ilorm it, but was al- 
 ways repulfed with lofs ; at laft fearing left De? 
 Adrets,after his Vidory at Vaureas, would come 
 and relieve the place, he raifed the Siege as above 
 faid, and encamped about nine miles frorn 
 So<onid Cifteron. The fecond time was on the 27th of 
 ^icge, Auguft by the fame Gentleman, with an Army 
 of a hundred and two Enfigns, and a great num- 
 ber of Cornets, the whole Army could not be 
 lefs than twenty thoufand Men, Horfe and Foot, 
 and whereas he fa>v that he could do nothing 
 without being mafterof two Hillocks which com- 
 manded the Town, attacked them, but without 
 fucceis, 'till the befieged underftanding that 
 Montbrun came to their relief, forfook thefe two 
 Hiilocks to feize the Bridge upon the ^ivep 
 
 Bucclva 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in 'Fi^A'iiC'E. 31^ 
 Bueck, which way Montbruii was to pafs ; but Charles 
 Sommerive having fet a Battery upon the Hil- •*•^- 
 locks, came and drove them from that Bridge ; p^p] p^ug 
 by which means the Town was furrounded on IV. 
 all fides, one excepted, which lieth upon a high 
 fteep Rock. On the fourth of September, Som- 
 merive battef-ed the Town in a moft furious man- 
 ner, fo far that at ten in the Morning, the Breach 
 was of one hundred and fourty Paces, without 
 any Ravelin to oppofe it, then the Town was^ 
 aflaulted by thirty-three Enfigns and a Cornet^ 
 the fight lafted nine hours, having been renew'd 
 five times with equal Obftinacy and Fury, in fo 
 much that the Afiailants and the Aflailed, for 
 want of Powder, fought with their Swords and 
 with Stones -, at laft the Aflailed's Conftancy o- 
 vercame the Aflailants Obftinacy. Sommerive fee- 
 ing that he had been repulfed with great lofs, 
 caufed his Canon to be remov'd to another place, 
 and batter'd the place a-new. Whereupon Mou- 
 vans (tho' not yet cur'd of a Wound he had re- 
 ceived in his Leg by a Cannon-fhot)and the other 
 Captains were in great perplexity, knowing not 
 what to do for want of Gun-powder and all o- 
 ther kind of Provifions, having loft a great num- 
 ber of their Men, and being without any hopes 
 of relief, and confidering on the other hand the 
 great Strength and Obftinacy of their Enemies ; 
 befides, they were touch*d to the quick with the 
 Mifery of the poor Inhabitants, whom they could 
 not defend by any human means, nor bring into 
 any place of Safety, fince there was only that by- 
 way between the fteep Rock above- mentioned, 
 which was not furrounded by the Enemies. At 
 lafl having earneftly pray'd to God, feeing that 
 there' was no other way of efcaping, they refolv'd 
 to follow that Path, and gave the neceilary Or- 
 ders to the Inhabitants, Men and Women cf all 
 
 ages. 
 
mjlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. 11 
 ages, to be ready for departing at eleven o'clock 
 at nifiht. 
 
 Tbo' that Refolution had been taken in fecret, 
 neverthelefs a Traitor who had been prefent at 
 their Confultation, flipt away into the Enemy's 
 Camp, and informed Sommerive of the Refolu- 
 tion taken in the City ; whereupon he refolved 
 to oppofe the execution of it, and for that end, 
 to fend twenty or twenty-five Horfe and fome 
 Foot to guard that Path, which was more than 
 enough for the purpofe. That Refolution had al- 
 moft pafs'd in the Council of War, when God 
 by his mighty Providence, averted the evil pre- 
 pared for thofe poor Wretches, permitting that 
 Monf. de Cental v/as fo far incredulous, that he 
 voted that fuch a Man as the Deferter was, ought 
 not to be credited -, that fuch a Retreat was im- 
 poffiblc, and that the relation of it was a Trick 
 oi the Inhabitants, to oblige them to fend a De- 
 tachment to that place, and in the mean while 
 to make a Sally upon their Camp and feize their 
 Artillery; therefore his Opinion was, to fcorn fuch 
 an idle Tale, and not to ftir out from the place 
 they were in. However ridiculous that Opinion 
 was, neverthelefs it prevailed in the Council, and 
 no body did ftir out of the Camp. 
 
 All this while, the Cilleronians were a packing 
 up whatever they could carry along with them, 
 loading their AlTes, Mules and Horfes, with the 
 old ones, children, fick, lame and wounded^ 
 v/hich could not be done without mucli noife, 
 and the whole Town being lighted by Lamps 
 put at the Windows, it was very furprifing that 
 the Camp took no notice of them. 
 
 The Hour appointed being come, they began 
 
 VjeUJle- ^j^^jj. march thro' a Gate out of ufe, to go tb the 
 
 ^Retreat. Bridge, and from thence thro' another fmall Gate 
 
 into the by-way, and fo they v/alkcd oi^e after 
 
 anotlier 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches inFR an ce, 2^7 
 another all the Night long, which was between Charles 
 the fourth and fifth of September 1562, with- ,,5!^ 
 out being difcover'd by the Enemy. The fifth Pope Pius 
 of Septemberjat break of day, Sommerive caus'd ^^'• 
 fome Horfe and Foot to crofs the River, who 
 charged fome Women that had ftay'd behind, 
 murdering fome of them, and leading the others 
 Prifoners, for they did not care to go any fur- 
 ther for fear of lofing their fhare of the Spoils of 
 Cifteron : And indeed at ten a clock in the 
 Morning, Sommerive entered into the Town not 
 without fear, for he fufpedted ftlll that this Re- 
 treat was but a Stratagem. He gave pofitive 
 Orders to fpare no body of either Sex or Reli- 
 gion ; true it is, that very few Men remain'd, 
 but about four hundred Women or Children were 
 cruelly murdered by 'thofe Monfters, and the 
 Town having been ranfack'd, Sommerive fet out 
 leaving in it a Garrifon of ftven Companies and 
 Montagut for their Governour. 
 
 Now to com.e back to our poor Adventurers: 
 Having walk'd all the Night, and the next Day, 
 the 5th of September, through feveral By-ways, 
 they arrived at four in the Afternoon, harailed 
 with Fatigue, at Barles, a fmall Village, feven 
 long Leagues diftant from Cifteron ; they ftaid 
 there till dark, waiting for their fick and wounded^ 
 and fome poor Women ; fome of whom had been 
 even delivered upon the Road : and a Review 
 having been made, there was found four thou- 
 fand in all, a thoufand and no more of whom 
 were able to bear Arms and fight. Then by 
 Mouvans's Orders, part of the Arquebuners 
 marched in the Van, and the reft in the Rear; and 
 the Women, Children, Sick, &c. in the Centre ; 
 fo they came to Sallonet, a Village, where they 
 refted for the remaining part of the Night. The 
 next Morning, on the 6th of the fame Month, 
 I they 
 
Wjlory of the 'Reformation^ aniofthe VoL.tl. 
 they Tet out in order to go to Gap, which is only 
 eight Leagues diftant from Cifteron by the 
 Itreight Road, inftead of which they had four- 
 teen to walk, by the By-ways they went through. 
 But being come to Baye for crolling the River 
 Durance, they underftood that their Enemies 
 had laid Ambufhes upon two Hills, between 
 which they were obliged to pafs, if they went 
 by the fame Road they had taken ; a young 
 Gentlewoman was fo much frightned at it, that 
 ihe mifcarried upon the Spot. So they were ob- 
 liged to come back by another way, becaufe the 
 Country People had made the Hue and Cry af- 
 ter them in the former ; fo they took their Way 
 through a Place called i.e Pas du Lozet^ 
 which is a big large Rock fplit afunder, be- 
 tween which one muft pafs as thro* a Gate to go 
 into a Valley called Terreneuve,. which led from 
 Provence into Piedmont ; therefore the Arque- 
 bufiers, fearing left that Road fhould be ob- 
 ftrudted by their Enemies, went before to take 
 Poffeflion of it, which being known by the In- 
 habitants of Lozet^ a fmall Village, they were 
 upon the point of rifing in Arms in earneft ; but 
 Senas and Mouvans being arrived, they came to 
 an Agreement with them, that the Women and 
 Children only fhould enter into the Village, till 
 they had received an Anfwer from their Prince^ 
 which they waited for on the other fide of the 
 Mountain. Neverthelefs when the. Inhabitants 
 iaw that the Women, which they had received 
 into their Village, paid ready Money for what- 
 . ever they took •, and feeing befides, that they 
 were not themfelves the ftrongeft, they gave 
 leave to the Men to come in, and fo they refled 
 there all the Night. The next Morning, the 
 7th of the fame Month, having refolved to go 
 to Grenoble, they fet out with flormy Wea- 
 ther, 
 
BookIV. Reformed Churche^n'FViA^cU. 31^ 
 
 ther, which lafted till Mid-day ,neverthelefs they Charles 
 marched, and with the greateft trouble arrived at ^^" 
 St. Paulo, a Village where they lay that Night, p'^ p^;^ 
 On the 8th, as they went on the Road to Dau- jy. 
 phine, they had notice that the Archbifhop of' 
 Embrun had laid a great Ambufh for them ; 
 whereupon they were forced to take the Road 
 of Pragela in a very barren Country, fo they 
 arrived at a Village called La Cbaji^u, which 
 they found quite emptied of all the Inhabitants, 
 and Utenfilsj they were forced to lie there that 
 Night, and feed upon Cabbages. On the 9th , 
 having crofled the ftrait way of La Guel^ one 
 of the fteepeft Mountains of all that Country, 
 they came to Molieres a Village, where they 
 found another Ambufh laid for them by thti 
 Governor of Briancon, whereby they were for- 
 ced to march ftill, till they arrived at Broias^ 
 another Village, where they refted, and fed up^ 
 on Bread and Milk. On the loth, they went 
 thro' the ftrait Way of UArgentiere, and came to 
 Sanze, a Village a League diftant from Prageh^ 
 where they fojourned four Days, becaule of the 
 Plenty of Victuals. On the 1 5th, they arrived 
 at Pragela, where they were fupplied with every 
 thing necefiary, and refted there eight Days j 
 the Inhabitants of the place were part of the an- 
 cient Waldenfes. Now the Captains who led 
 them, feeing that the Country was not abundant 
 enough, and could not feed the Women and 
 Children,they cam_e back to the Village ofSauze^ 
 being efcorted by three hundred Men of Pragela 
 and of the Valley of Jngrogne, from whence they 
 received fome Provifions of Gun-powder. On. 
 the next Day. the 2 2d of September, they ex- 
 ped;ed to arrive at Gre?2oMe or Vale7ice -, but 
 Mouvans and the other Captains fufpedling that 
 
 the 
 
320 Hiftory of the Reformation, dfidofthe Vol. 11. 
 Charles the Governor of Brian f on would hinder their 
 
 I^- Paflage by feme Ambufhes, had Tent feme of 
 Pote Pms ^^^^'"^ ^^'^ about Midnight for to reconnoitre^ 
 
 IV. and difpofed every thing in fuch a manner, that 
 the next Morning the whole Troop was at the 
 break of Day near Brianfon's Walls, in order to 
 crofs the Durance over a Bridge, lying about a 
 Mile from that City -, but having to . (land a 
 Skirmifh, they were obliged to fend back their 
 Troop while it lafted, and to make them go to 
 another Bridge about a Mile from that place ; 
 but that Bridge being broken, they were almoft 
 ftupified, till Senas and Mouvans, who ftood in 
 Battle Array between their Enemies and their 
 Troop that waited for them at the broken Bridges 
 being arrived, and their EnemJes withdrawn, 
 ordered their Horfe to ford the River, and to 
 draw themifelves in a Battle Array on the other 
 Bank of the River, then by means of fome Planks 
 and Pearches, they crofied the River with all 
 their People in three hours time, in the Sight 
 of the Brian conefe, who never dared to attack 
 them ; fo they came to the Village of Fref- 
 finieresy three Leagues from Brianjon, through 
 very fteep and barren Mountains, the Inha- 
 bitants whereof were Reformed of a long 
 (landing. They fet out from that Place a- 
 bout Mid-night, and arrived before Mid -day, 
 on the 23d of September at a poor Village call'd 
 Orjiere, where they found no Inhabitants nor 
 Bread or Wine, but only fome few Sheep that 
 the Peafants could not carry along with them, 
 when they had fled into the Mountains •, there- 
 fore they Were obliged to feed upon them the 
 beft they could, for they had neither eat nor 
 drunk fince their fetting out. The fame day 
 they came to the Village of St. Bennet, three 
 Leagues diftant from Gap, and fo they were but 
 
 eleven 
 
Book IV. "Reformed Churches in V^AiiiCt. 321 
 eleven Leagues from Cifteron, and only three Charles 
 from their Enemies, who had took poffeltion ' of -^^ 
 Gap. Befides, that they were expofed to a very p^^^ y{\x% 
 threatning danger unknown to them, for Vi- IV. 
 NAY having had a falfe notice of Senas and 
 MouVans befieging Brianjon, had left without 
 delay the Siege of Grenoble, and was arriv*d with 
 eight Enfigns at Corp, only two Leagues diftant 
 from St. Bonnet. Neverthelefs, Senas and Mou- 
 vans thinking that Grenoble was ftill befieged, 
 and having refolv'd to march to a place two 
 Leagues only diftant from Grenoble, from whence 
 they thought to fend their People to Valence, fet 
 out from St. Bonnet very early in the Morning, 
 in order to go to Corp, taking it to be the fafeft 
 way, and marched without any order *ti!l they 
 were arriv'd at a quarter of a League from that 
 Village, in a narrow way over againft a Moun- 
 tain ; but then St. Martin Son-in-law to Senas, 
 and D*Efpinafle going before, and minding of 
 nothing lefs than of what they met, they faw a 
 Peafant whom Vinay had fet as Centinel, who 
 knowing them not, and taking them to be fome 
 Gentlemen of the Neighbourhood, told them, 
 ! that Vinay was at Corp with his Troops. Which 
 1- being immediately related to Senas and Mouvans, 
 ithey order*d the Women and Children to be fet 
 j afide with fome Arquebuziers, cauiing them to 
 jcrofs the River, and with the reft they marched 
 I towards Corp in battle-array ; but being arrived 
 jat the place where they had met the Centinel, 
 Ithey found him not, and faw that Vinay having 
 got notice of their coming, had took pofteiTion 
 of the Path, a:nd caufed fome of his Soldiers to 
 |go up the Mountain to roll Stones from the top 
 of it dov/n upon them. V/hereupon they went 
 back, and crofted the River over the fame Bridge 
 IS their People, who waited for them on the other 
 Vol. li. Y fide 
 
322 HiJIory of the Ref ormatwt J and of the YoL. II, I 
 Charles fide of the Water, fo they encamped all together | 
 
 ^^* over againft Corp, in the fight of their Enemies, ; 
 PopeViiis expedling to be relieved from thtTrieveSf which I 
 
 IV. Country was held by the Reformed, and was \ 
 
 'only two Leagues diftant ; but having waited in ! 
 
 vain for fome time, and being not able for hunger j 
 
 to ftay any longer, they caufed the Women and j 
 
 Children to march in the Front, and they in the j 
 
 Rear, fo they arriv'd at Alens m Trieves, and j 
 
 were very kindly receiv'd by the Inhabitants, i 
 
 They refted there a whole day, and on the 27th, i 
 
 they continued their Journey without any Ob- ; 
 
 ftacle, and arriv'd well and fafe at Grenoble, prai- \ 
 
 fmg God and finging of Pfalms adapted to their ^ 
 
 Circumftances. They were quartered at a place i 
 
 call'd Giery, half a League diftant from Greno- j, 
 
 Me, where having refted three days, and left part , 
 
 of their fick in that City, they fet out the firft , 
 
 of Odober for Lyons, where thofe poor diftrefled ' 
 
 People had been invited by the Reformed, who \ 
 
 even had fent one of their Minifters to meet ■ 
 
 them at La Mure. The Lord of Soubize had I 
 
 likewife written to Senas and Mouvans, defiring j 
 
 them to make all the hafte they could to join him j 
 
 with their Men. Therefore, being fet out on 
 
 the faid day, they lodged that Night at Moy- \ 
 
 rants -, the next day they came to Vtrieu, where ' 
 
 Des Adrets met them, and led them all the night 
 
 till they came upon the Road of Cremieu, for 
 
 avoiding Nemours's Ambufhes -, they arriv*d in i 
 
 that place on the third in the Morning, and from ( 
 
 thence they went by Water to Lyons, that had 
 
 fent thither fevcral Boats, and arrived in that 
 
 City on the fourth of Odober, where they were 
 
 moft kindly receiv'd, and with the greateft De- 
 
 monftrations of Commiferation, Joy and Love. 
 
 So ended that Journey, after having travelled for 
 
 a Month, being fet out from Ciiteron en the 
 
 fourth 
 
Book JV. Reformed Churches in'pRK'tiCE] 323 
 fourth of September, and having gone through Charles 
 many Hardrfiips and efcaped many threatning '^ 
 Dangers. This is the true Account of that moft Pope PiJs 
 famous Retreat given by Thuanus and Beza, IV. 
 with fome httle difference in their relations, too' 
 inconfiderable to be infifted upon. I fhall add 
 only, that they ftay'd at Lyons 'till May 1563, 
 when Peace being made, they went back to their 
 former Habitations (q). 
 
 Before I leave the Government of Provence, 
 I will fubjoin here another Tnftance of the great 
 Barbarities wherewith the Reformed were ufed 
 In it. 
 
 The Lord of Mandols*s, Son having married the 
 Daughter of the Baron of Bormes, and being 
 with his Father-in-law and his own Lady at the 
 Caftleof Mount in the latter end of May 1562, 
 the Lord of Briatifonnet^ taking upon himfelf 
 the Title of Deputy-Governor in thofe parts, 
 (under pretence that fome Reformed were fled 
 from Hieres and Bonnes into that Caftle, in order 
 to fave their Lives) beiieged the faid Caftle, and 
 a i^vj days after having been admitted into it on 
 certain Terms, inftead of keeping his V/ord, he 
 fhut up in a Cellar about thirty Men that were 
 found in it, amongft whom were two Minifters, 
 where they fuffered all forts of Miferies •, and as 
 to the Lords of Bormes and Demandols, he fent 
 them Prifoners to his own Houfe at Grajje^ a 
 League diftant from the place. Then he refolv'd 
 to beiiege hkewife the Caftle of the Lord De- 
 mandols the Father, who having notice of it, 
 and thinking to avoid the Siege by fending away 
 all his Servants and other People able to defend 
 themfelves, becaufe Brt^anfonnet ufed that Pre- 
 tence for attacking him, had accordingly fcnt 
 Y 2 them 
 
 (q) Beza liv. xiii p. 320 to J36: Tliuan. lib. xxxi p. 
 )4-5, 146, 14- . 
 
324 Hijlory of'fbe'Reformation, and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles them into Savoy under the Condu6l of one o^ 
 
 ^^ his Brethren, but as they wfent near the Village 
 
 Tote Pius ^^ ^^' ^'^^^^^'5 three Leagues from Demandols^ 
 
 IV. feventeen of them with their Chief, wtre barba- 
 
 roufly murdered by the Peafants, in the fight and 
 
 at the inftigation of the Lord and Lady of that 
 
 place, who were cruel enough to ftahd at their 
 
 Caftle-Windows to fee the Execution. 
 
 In the mean while, fome of Brian^onnet's Men; 
 led by one /d^z(;Z?^,having joined a Troop of Mur- 
 derers fent by the ^ifhop of Senez, came to D^- 
 mandoh^ wherein no body could make any re- 
 finance, but what could be cxpeded from an old 
 decrepit Gentleman and fome Women and Chil- 
 dren. Now the Caftle commanding all the ad- 
 jacent Country, thefe Murderers were difcover'd 
 from afar, whereupon that good Nobleman 
 walked out thro* rugged Mountains, to a place 
 called Fcrgons, with his Lady, a Daughter of 
 theirs of about 12 Years of age, his Sifler-in-law 
 with a Child of fix Months old, another Woman 
 with two Children, a young Chamber -Maid, a 
 Servant-Maid and two Laquais, in hopes that 
 thofe Robbers (for fo they defer ve to be called J 
 having found his Caftle opened, and having plun- 
 dered it, would be gone ; but not fatisfied with 
 having ranfack'd it, they fet fire to it, and to the 
 Stables, Barns and Mills, cut down the Trees 
 and Vinyards, and walled every thing •, then 
 having heard what happen'd at 67. /luban^ they 
 went thither to take their fliare of the Spoils. 
 All this while, the Lord of the Mannor was con- 
 cealed in a Wood near Fergons, with all the a- 
 bove-mentioned Terfons, .and received their Food 
 from the Bailif of Vergons a Roman-Catholick, 
 but an old Acquaintance and Friend to the faid 
 Lord. This tryal laftcd ^till fome of Deinavdols 
 Inhabitants prctending a readinefs to pay their 
 
 Services 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches ?> Fr an c E . 325 
 Services to their good Lord, and having met Charles 
 with one Michel Bourearel, defir'd him to in- , . ' 
 quire where their good Lord was, and to let him p^p'g p^s 
 know, that if he would meet them, at Charcupety IV. 
 a place o^ his own Demefn, they would bring 
 •him back to his own ruined Caftle. The Lord 
 Demandols, having receiv'd this Meflage, failed 
 not to come with all his Company, and Bourgard 
 himfelf, to the appointed place ; and being tired 
 with the fatigue, lay down near a Rivulet and 
 fell a-fleep, till they w^ere awakened at break of 
 day with an Arquebufs-fhot ; then the faid Lord 
 ftood up, called them by their names, and thank- 
 ed them for their good Office *, but thofe Tygers 
 fell upon him and his Company, and wirhout any 
 .regard for Age or Sex murder'd them. However 
 Bourgarel efcaped, for having took in his Arms 
 his two Children, he ran away with them for a 
 while, and being tir'd hid them under a Bufh, 
 where they remain'd without crying 'till about 
 t^n a Clock ; when their Father coming back, 
 took them out of that place, and from thence 
 going upon the fpot where the murder had been 
 committed, he found his Wife murdered, and 
 the Corpfe of his Lord and Lady, their Daugh- 
 ter, Maids and Servants lying ftark naked upon 
 the ground. Befides that Man and his two Chil- 
 dren, the Prefer vation of the Lord Demandols's 
 Sifter-in-law and his Nephew of fix Months old, 
 was very providential. As the Murderers were 
 .bufy in killing others, fhe took her little Baby 
 in her Arms, and went to a Biifh where fhe 
 put him and lay down upon him to cover 
 him ; there they beat her fo unmercifully, that 
 they left her for dead, being covered all over 
 *with Stones : and whereas it was fidl Day-light, 
 they did not mind to undrefs her, and fo they 
 Aiid not fee the Baby, who had been all the while 
 Y 5 under 
 
3 ?6 Hiftory of the Reformation, andof the Vol. II, i 
 Charles under his Mother very quiet without crying, and ' 
 fo both the Mother and ChlJd were faved (r) i 
 Such were the Defolations of that Province i 
 'till the Edi(5t of Peace was pubiiOied, and even ■ 
 then by the Connivance and at the InRigation of 
 feveral Members of the Parliament of Aix, thofeJ 
 Murderers ceafed not for a while to commit many 
 Diforders, notwithftanding the King's Prohibi- j 
 tions, when he came thither in Perfqn, and the ' 
 Execution of feveral of their Gang, 
 
 0/Lan- On Friday the fixth of .February^ic62, the: 
 ''^^°°'^' Januarian Edi6t was publifhed and regidered in' 
 the Parliam.ent of Thouloufe without any great j 
 Reluflancy ; and accordingly the Minifter Du I 
 Nort qualified himfelf, and took the Oath before j 
 the Magiftrate, as prefcribed by the Edid, and j 
 preached without the City ; the Capitouls and j 
 V iguier of Thouloufe {they are Magijlrates \ 
 whofe Office avfwers to that of Alderman and She- . 
 riff, they are eight in number, ele^ed every Tear) .j 
 being prefent. Thefe beginnings were very quiet •, 1 
 then by the Parlianient's Orders, the AfTembly 
 was removed to another place, and for teezing 
 the Reformed, it was again removed. 
 tumult at But to put a ftop to thefe Changes, they built 
 V^ouloufe. ^ Church at their own Charge, large enough to 
 hold eight thoufand People, which even was not 
 fufficient, for more than that number wereoblig'd 
 to {land without doors in the Church- Yard. • 
 Whereat the Priefts and others concerned in the 
 prefervation of theRomifn Superrtitions,were much 
 difpleafed, and began to tamper with the People. 
 They prevailed fo far, that the Reformed were a-[ 
 bufed as they went to or came back from their Ai-ii 
 femblies, and at laft they came to Blows. To a,- j 
 void which, theCapitouls and Vlguier thought prorfa 
 
 (rj Bez2 liv. xiii. p. 377: — ^So. 
 
Book I V . Reformed Churches /« F r a n c e . 327 
 per to accompany the Minifters with their Serjeants Charles 
 and Archers to hear the Sermons -, and there is , * 
 no doubt but had the Parliament been as well p^^g ^wis 
 intentioned as the Magiilrates, the IVanquillity IV. 
 of the City would have been prefer ved. But' 
 feveral Members of it poftponing the publick 
 Good to their private Intereft, and underftand- 
 ing how the Court ftood affe6led,and the Pradti- 
 ces of the Conftable Governor of Languedoc, 
 and of the Guifes for bringing the King of Na- 
 varr over to their Party, inftead of providing 
 for the publick Welfare, ufed all their Endea- 
 vours for obftrud:ing the Obfervation of the E- 
 di6l, even lb far as to releafe fome feditious, who» 
 had been put in Prifon by the Capitouls ; and e- 
 very day thofe Magiftrates were fummoned to 
 appear either at the Parliament-houfe, or at fome 
 of the Counfellors Hcufes, there to be cenfured 
 and frightned out of their Duty. 
 
 The Priefts, /upported by fuch sn Authority, 
 waited only for an Opportunity of raifmg a Tu- 
 mult in the City ; at laft they met with it at the 
 Funeral of a Reformed Woman, who being car- 
 ried to the Grave with a very fmall Attendance 
 according to her Defire, the Priefts took the Corps 
 in order to bury it after the Roman Church's way, 
 and caufed the Bells to ring, in order to raife the 
 People in Arms ; they were fo well obeyed, that 
 the Catholicks came from all Quarters, and fell 
 upon the Reformed where-ever they met with 
 them with Stones and Swords, wounded many 
 and killed fome of them. The News of this 
 Infurredion having been brought before the Par- 
 liament, they fent two Counfellors to inquire a- 
 bout the matter, and endeavour by all means to 
 pacify every thing. Inftead of which, as they 
 were of the feditious Party, they kindled a-new 
 the fire which was almoft quenched, exhorting 
 y 4 that 
 
3 2 B Hijiory of the Reformation, and of the Vol.11, 
 Charles that frantick Multitude of Priefts and rude Mob, 
 
 ^-^- to kill all the Hugonots, and giving them licence 
 j>lpg p^ijjs for plundering their Houfes,telling them further, 
 
 IV. that the Parliament ordered it fo. The Rabble 
 incited by thole grave Senators Exhortations, 
 rufhed into the Houfes of the Reformed, and 
 plundered whatever they could find. Where- 
 upon the Reformed frightned, ran in Arms to 
 the Town-Houfe, imploring the Prote(5lIon and 
 Affiftance of the Capitouls, againft the Violence 
 offered to them. The Capitouls fent for the 
 Captain of the Watch, and ordered him to fup- 
 prefs that Fury of the Rabble, left fomething 
 worfe fhould happen. He being accompanied by 
 his Satellites and fome Students o^ the Univerfity 
 who join'd with them,ruf]i*d in upon the faidRab- 
 ble,and put them to flight ; neverthelefs, the Peo-^ 
 pie flocking again from every part of the City, 
 the Tumult was rei^ewed, which lafted till night. 
 The next day feme of the Senators met with 
 the Capitouls and fome Counfellors, Advocates, 
 and the moft confiderable amongft the Citizens, 
 and confulted together about the propereft means 
 of appeafing the Tumult, left it fhould break 
 out in an open Sedition, After fome Debates, 
 they agreed that the Reformed fhould have the 
 free Exercife of their Religion in the Suburbs,ac- 
 cording to the Edid : and that the Capitouls 
 ftiould be prefent in their Church with a Guard 
 of one hundred Men, armed with all forts of 
 Arms, Arquebuffes and Piflols only excepted-, and 
 for the good Behaviour of thefe Men, the Re- 
 formed fhould enter caution. That the Catho- 
 licks fhould keep likewife two hundred Men at 
 their own Charge for the City-Guard, and fhould 
 enter caution for them. That the Priefts fhoulci 
 be forbidden to ring the Alarm-Be 11 for exciting 
 the Feople to take up Arms, an4 if they did it 
 
 ^n4 
 
Bo o K I V . Reformed Chu rcbes z« Fr a n c e . 329 
 and were apprehended, they fhould be burnt C^^*"^^* 
 ah've. That all Soldiers and Vagrants who had 5 
 neither Domicil or Mailer in the City, ftiould Pope Pius 
 leave it in twenty-four Hours. That the Capi- IV. 
 to'uls together with the Seneichal, fhould judge 
 ■without appeal of all manner of Sedition. That 
 the Citizens ward by ward ihould guard the 
 City-Gates, 
 
 Thefe Articles were wifely agreed upon, and 
 publifhed in all the Streets, but without effed. 
 For the Priefts filled up the Churches and Cloi- 
 fters with Arms and Soldiers, the Catholick 
 Citizens, fome Prefidents and Counfellors of the 
 Parliament, caus'd Gun-powder and other Am- 
 munitions to be brought into the City, On the 
 other hand,the Reformed feeing all thefe military 
 Preparations, and frightned by the Ma fiacre lately 
 perpetrated at Cahors, and by the Infurredion 
 of the Catholicks againft them at Caftelnau d'Ar- 
 ry, thought proper to put themfelves in a pofture 
 of Defence j but the Catholicks fearing left the 
 Reformed being once Mafters of the City, they 
 would not fpare their old fuperftitious Stocks, 
 were grown very audacious againft them, incou- 
 raged to it by the Example of other Cities, efpe- 
 cially thofe two juft mentioned. But it happen- 
 ed, that the Reformed thro' the Imprudence and 
 Over-haftinefs of fome amongft them, efpecially 
 of Barelles one of their Minifters, hurried them- 
 felves along to the greateft Calamities (s). 
 
 A few days before, Peter Hunault Lord of 
 Lanta, one of the Capitouls, coming from Court, 
 had had a Conference with the Prince at Or- 
 leans, to whom he had promifed to deliver the 
 City, (at leaft he was charged with the fadl, by 
 Letters fent to Montluc at Faudouas, from Monf. 
 
 La 
 
 (s) Thyan. lib. xxxii. p. 171. Be?;a ibid. 
 
33© Htjlory of the Reformation^ and of theVo\..\\ 
 Charles La Roque des Arts) Montluc underftanding this, 
 
 ^^' fent thefe Letters by an exprefs to Mafencal, firft 
 Po*f Pms Prefident of Thouloufe, with one of his own, 
 
 IV. whereby he let him know what Orders he had 
 given for the rehef of the City, and what they 
 were to do for receiving that rehef, and for en- 
 abHng themfelves to withftand their Enemies. 
 
 The Prefident thought proper to read the{e 
 Letters in full Parliament, the Contents whereof 
 having been examined, they decreed to arreft the 
 faid Lord of Lanta, who retired into a Country- 
 Houfe {t). 
 
 Now the Reformed having publifhed on the 
 loth of May a Sacrament- Day for the next Sun- 
 day, and Barelles having preached a feditious 
 Sermon, the next day three of the Capitouls were 
 fent for by the Parliament, and ordered to re- 
 ceive in the Town-Houfe four Companies of 
 Footi furthermore, to caufe all the Foreigners of 
 the Reformed Religion to avoid the City, and to 
 inhibit the Celebration of the Lord's Supper {v)^ 
 Thefe things being come to the notice of the 
 Reformed, they met to confult together upon 
 their prefent Circumftances ; but the Opinions 
 were divided, the wifeft were for remaining ftiU 
 and quiet, but others, not confidering the Con- 
 fequences, were for making ufe of violent means, 
 fo they parted without taking unanimoufly any 
 Refolution. But after Supper, Barelles a coura- 
 geous and zealous Man, but very inconfiderate 
 and hot-headed, and who was not always diredl- 
 ed in his Doings by the Spirit of God C«J, per- 
 fuaded thofe of his Fadlion, to feize upon the 
 Town-Houfe that very Night, becaufe their 
 Advcrfaries were to take poOeflion of it next 
 
 Morning. 
 
 (t) Memoir, de Montluc. Hv. v. p. 368. Thuan. ibid. 
 (v) Thuan. ihid. Beze liv. x. p. i \. 
 (uj Beze ibid. p. j i, iz. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fran ce. 33 1 
 
 Morning. Therefore Captain Saux having took Charles 
 upon hfm the Execution of that Enterprize, ^^^ 
 went thither with feveral Soldiers Gafcoons p^^^ p^^^ 
 well armed, and without any Noife, he knock*d iv. 
 at the Door, which was opened by the Capi- ^ 
 touls, and entered with his Men and took pof- 
 fefllon of the fame, wherein they found a vaft 
 Quantity of Arms and feveral Cannons •, he 
 feized likewife upon three Colleges in the Neigh- 
 bourhood, without any fhedding of Blood-, then 
 he caufed feveral Tons full of Earth to be laid 
 4own crofs the adjacent Streets {x). 
 
 The Parliament exafperated at this Audaci- 
 oufnefs, fent notice of it to Montluc, and to all 
 .the Nobility of the Country, intreating them to 
 fend with all fpeed what Troops they could af- 
 ford 5 that the Town-houfe and other ftrong 
 Places in the City had been feized upon by the 
 Huguenots -, that they intended to proclaim the 
 Prince of Conde King of France ; and to mur- 
 der all the Catholicks, even Children of fevea 
 Years old ; that it was full time to oppofe their 
 Perfidioufnefs, and their barbarous Cruelty. 
 They wrote likewife to the neighbouring Towns, 
 and incited the Peafants of the adjacent Country, 
 bidding them, hi the King's Name, to rife in 
 Arms and fall upon all the Reformed they could 
 meet with, and kill them, then come to Thou- 
 loufe to have their Share of the Spoils. The 
 Prefidents and Counfellors of the Parliament ha- 
 bited in their Scarlet Gowns, with their Arms 
 over, were a running thro' the Streets like mad 
 Men, proclaiming by a Trumpet, _ that they 
 deemed the Huguenots to be Enemies to God 
 and Traitors to the King •, therefore it was al- 
 lowed to every one to treat them as fuch -, or- 
 (i^rincT the Catholicks to wear a white Crofs o- 
 ^ ver 
 
 (x) Id. Ibid. Dinoih. lib. 2./. 174. 
 
332 Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. \l. 
 
 Charles ver their Coats, that they might be diftinguilh'd 
 
 from the others, and to put the fame Mark 
 
 upon the Ports of their Doors, without which 
 
 their Houfes might be expofed to Plunder. 
 
 Mean while the Reformed, vv'ho had feized 
 
 upon the Town-houfe, ftined not for all thefe 
 
 awful Proclamations, endeavouring to appeafc 
 
 the Tumult, and to come to an Agreement with 
 
 their Enemies upon fome reafonable Terms, by 
 
 the Capitoul's Means i but no fuch thing could 
 
 be done, thofe of the Parliament, who defired 
 
 no better than to fee the utter Deftrudlion of 
 
 the Reformed, oppofing all ways and means of 
 
 a Reconciliation. 
 
 Now whereas they had .proclaimed in the 
 Streets, That whoever fhould kill the Hugue- 
 nots, or plunder their Houfes, fhould not be ac- 
 countable for it, feeing the Pope, tlie King and 
 the Parliament approved of it : Upon fuch an 
 Encouragement, the furious Mob rufhed into 
 the Houfes of the Reformed, or thofe whom 
 they fufpeded to countenance them, and plun- 
 dered them i they fell upon them and murdered, 
 drowned, or otherwife put to death, a great 
 number ; and it was deemed a Piece of Cle- 
 mency in them, when they were fatisfy'd with 
 cafting them into dark Dungeons loaded with 
 Irons, after they had been unmercifully bea- 
 ten. 
 
 Thofe of the Reformed who were in Arms,, 
 feeing that there was no Hopes left of coming 
 to an Agreement, raifed in ha'fte fome Works 
 in nine different Places of the City, for the 
 Guard of the Streets, whereby the Enemy could 
 pafs to come to the Town-houfe. On the other 
 hand, the CathoHcks fortified the Towers of the 
 Churches, and the loftieft Houfes of the Citizens i 
 and whereas they had the greateft Number of 
 
 Troops J 
 
Book IV. Ueformed Churches ttiV'SLAJ^c'E. 333 
 Troops, and feveral Captains of Note to com- Charles 
 mand them, (they were no lefs than eight thou- ■'^• 
 fand, reckoning the Auxiliaries fent by Mont- p^ J Pi J^ 
 luc :) they aflaulted frequently the Reformed at JV. 
 thofe Places wherein they had fortified them- ' 
 felves, but they were always worfted. This 
 Conflid lafted for four Days, the Reformed ne- 
 ver giving place, tho' they were far inferior in 
 Number to their Enemies. But when they heard 
 of Montluc's coming with more Troops, as they 
 were in great want of Gun-powder and other 
 Ammunitions, and that they expeded no Af- 
 iiftance, having accepted of the Terms propofed 
 to them by their Enemies, they refolved to de- 
 part the City ; accordingly, having left the 
 Arms they had found in the Town-houfe, moft: 
 part of them went out upon a Sunday, the 17th 
 of May, being Whitfuntide, after having received 
 the Sacrament. But many were flain upon the 
 Roads by the Peafants, and the Gentry who 
 guarded the Paffages, and their Corps left to 
 be devoured by Wolves and Dogs ; thofe who 
 could efcape were received at Montauban, Caf- 
 tres, Lavaur, and Puy-Laurens. It is reckon'd 
 by Bezaand Dinoth, that four thoufand of both 
 fides loft their Lives in the feveral Skirmilhes 
 during thefe four Days, tho' Thuanus reckons 
 but three thoufand, befides above 200 Houfes 
 burnt to the ground. 
 
 Monduc came into the City the next day, at»- 
 tended by about two hundred Gentlemen beiides 
 his Company. At his Arrival he caufed the 
 Church built by the Reformed, to be pulled 
 down and burnt ; then he had the Diverfion of 
 feeing feveral Heads cut off the next Day. It 
 is he himfelf who fays fo. Early in the Morni?ig^ 
 fays he. Folio 372, of his Memoirs, it was the 
 28th of May, before break of Day, as 'we began 
 
 our 
 
334 'H'lft^n 9f ^^^ Reformation, ciiid of the Vol. IT.' 
 Charles our March y Mr. Diirdes one of the Capitouls of 
 
 .■^^' Thoidoufe arrived with a Letter from Monfieitr 
 Tohe Pms -^^ Frefident^ and Monfieur de Bellegarde^ notify- 
 
 IV. ing to us the Departure and Flight of the Ene- 
 mieSt whereat 1 Was very forry -, for had they 
 waited for me^ not one of thcfe Daftards would 
 have efcaped^ and God knows whether I had not 
 a good mind to make a Riddance of them ; and 
 whether I would have fp are d any of them. Then 
 Folio 373, the very next Day, fays he, they be- 
 gan to do Juftice, and I never faw in rny Life 
 fomany Heads jlruck off as I faw there. We 
 fhall fee prefently the particular Character of that 
 Man ; we muft make an end of the fad Cata- 
 ftrophe of the Reformed of Thouloufe. 
 
 The Parhament feized immediately upon the 
 Town-Floufe, from whence they fent to Prifon 
 many who had taken Refuge in it, and even 
 one of the Capitouls, named Mandinelli, who 
 had had no hand at all in the laft Infurredlion ;• 
 they tore in pieces and burnt the Records where- 
 in they found regiftered the Proteft of the Capi- 
 touls againfl what the Parliament had under- 
 taken and executed of late in defiance of their 
 Privileges •, and they fent Prifoners the Regi- 
 fter and Publick Notary, who had entered them 
 in the Books. Then they proceeded to give! 
 Judgment againft the Prifoners, four hundred 
 of whom were publickly executed under the 
 Pretence of the late Tumult, tho' it was evi- 
 dent that many of them had no hand at all in 
 itj as Mandinelli, who was beheaded after having 
 been tortured j the Regifter and the Publick 
 Notary, who had done nothing but obey their 
 Superiors Orders •, two young Boys, the one 
 .of thirteen and the other of fifteen Years old 
 were hang'd, only becaufe they would not for- 
 fake their Religion j Monfieur Terond, Attor- 
 ney, 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches inFRAKCE. 2^S 
 
 ney, guilty of nothing elfe but of having gi- Charles 
 
 ven fifty Crowns for the ufe of the Poor, was ^^• 
 
 beheaded. The Sentence being very extra- p^p^g p-^^ 
 ordinary in it felf, and fetting forth in their full IV. 
 Light the Wickednefs and Violence of the Par- 
 liament, I Ihali infert it here : 
 
 Monfieur Terondy (fays the Counfellor who 
 read itj j The Court y after the hearing of your 
 Caufe, do not find you in any wife guilty : 
 Neverthelefsy as the said Court is very 
 
 WELL INFORMED OF THE INWARD DISPOSI- 
 TION OF YOUR Conscience ; and that 
 
 YOU WOULD have BEEN VERY GLAD, HAD 
 
 those of your wretched and reprobate 
 Sect got the upper Hand (and alfo that 
 you have always countenanced them) the faid 
 Court condemns you to be beheaded, and your 
 Goods and EJiates to be forfeited without any Di^ 
 Jlra^ion. 
 
 Captain Saux and another were quartered 
 alive, feveral either Counfellors or Advocates, 
 or Notaries, Printers and Bookfellers, were be- 
 headed or hanged. Twenty two Counfellors 
 were expelled out of the Parliament by their 
 Colleagues -, the (tv^n other Capitouls having 
 been fummoned at three different times by the 
 publick Crier, to appear and take their Trial, 
 were outlaM'ed and hanged in Effigy in the 
 publick Place of St. George, their Goods for- 
 feited to the King,, deducing one hundred 
 thcufand Livres for the Damages and Interefts 
 of the City. Befides that it was ordered, that 
 a Marble Table fhould be fet up in the Town- 
 Houfe, v/hereon their Names fnould be engrav- 
 ed ; that their Children fhould be degraded, and 
 declared uncapable of bearing any Title of No- 
 c: ' bility, 
 
33^ tiijlory of the Refbrniatwn, and of the Vol . II. 
 Charfes bility, or of exercifing any publick Office ; and 
 ^3' that the faid Decree fhould be publickJy read 
 Pope pL yearly, upon the fame Day, the 29th of July. 
 IV. Befides thofe publickJy executed, many died 
 
 'in the Prifons by the cruel Tortures they had 
 undergone, and in great Miferies and Wants, 
 and feveral died of the Plague; and near four hun- 
 dred others were outlawed, not only of the In- 
 habitants, but likewife feveral Lords and Gentle- 
 men who had their Eftates in the Jurifdiclion of 
 the Parliament. 
 
 And whereas the War was made in feveral 
 Places by the Diredion and under the Autho- 
 rity of the faid Parliament, which could not be 
 done without great Charge and Expence, in or- 
 der to raife the neceffar)' Sums for that purpofe, 
 they publillied on the 21ft of Auguft, a very 
 cruel and bloody Edid againft the Reformed, 
 and thofe who countenanced them, which occa- 
 fioned fo many Plunders and cruel Murders in 
 fo many Places of their Jurifdidlion. 
 
 Bot on the other hand, it occafioned likeWife 
 the Com-plaints brought before the King and 
 his Council, by many oi thofe who had fled 
 from the City, and had been outlawed 5 and 
 to whom the King was gracioufly pleafed to 
 grant Letters of Discharge and AboHtion, which 
 being {b full of their own Innocence, and of the 
 Wickednefs and Malice of their Enemies, I fhall 
 infert them here, word for word. 
 
 „ /CHARLES, by the Grace of God, 
 „ \^ King of France, unto all prefent and 
 „ to come. Greeting. Whereas in Confide- 
 „ ration of the Januarian Edi6t by Us publifh- 
 5, ed for appeafing the Troubles and Commo- 
 „ tions happened in Our Kingdom, fome of 
 5, Our Subjeds, Inhaitaiits ot Our City of 
 2 ,i Thou- 
 
3» 
 
 Boo K IV". Reforfned Churches in France. 337 
 3, ThoLiloufe, who had followed the Nev/Re- Charles 
 ,, Jigion, becaufe they had been given to un- ^ ' 
 5, derftand that it was the only way to Sal va- p^^^ Pi, "is 
 ,, tion, have readily obeyed the iaid Edid, IV. 
 „ and made their AfTembiies without the City/ 
 „ defiring no better than to ferve GOD and 
 Us with all Modefty ; and for the Exercife 
 of the faid Religion they had fent for more 
 Minifters than they had before, whom they 
 have fed and ente'tained in their own Houfes, 
 being prefent in their Church for making or 
 heaiing of Sermons, Exhortations, Prayers, 
 and other Devotions in ufe among them, 
 and even for adminiflring and receiving the 
 Holy Supper ; and fome of them have ac- 
 cepted of Offices in their Church, fuch as they 
 call Deacons, Overfeers and others, and had 
 met in their Councils, Synods and Confi (lo- 
 ries in the faid City, and in other adjacent 
 Places; behaving themfelves always peaceably 
 and without Tumult ; till having uiidcrftood 
 that thofe of the ancient Religioii had com- 
 mitted feveral Outrages, Violences and Mur- 
 ders in the neighbouring Tovv^ns and Places, 
 againft thofe of the fame ProfelTion as they -, 
 and that the faid Catholicks prepared them- 
 felves to ufe them as others had been iifed in 
 other Places, they took Refuge under our 
 Officers Protection (the Capitouls is^ho lodged 
 in the Town-houfe) who, for obviating the iliid 
 Enterprizes, gave them leave to raife and keep 
 fome Forces for their own Defence, which 
 they did. Notwithftanding which, they were 
 aflaulted, and fome of them (lain in the 
 Month of April by thofe of the ancient Reli- 
 iigion, with v/hom they came afterwards to 
 an Agreement, and promised to lay down 
 their Arms and to live according to the E- 
 VoL. II Z „ did: 
 
338 Hifiory oftheRejortnafion, and of the Vol .IL 
 Charles ,^ di6L,which was notobferved by thofe of thean- 
 ,, clentReligion •, fortheyfent for and introduced 
 „ in fecret, into the City, a great number of foreign 
 ,, Soldiers, which they quartered in the Churches 
 ,, and other Houfes of the City, waiting for 
 ,, an Opportunity of doing what they have done 
 „ afterv;ards : During which Time, thofe of 
 „ the new Religion, being in fear left they 
 ,, fhould undertake fomething againft them 5 
 5, and befides that, being told that We and Our 
 „ moft honoured Lady and Mother were de- 
 „ tained in Captivity, and that many of Our 
 ,, Subjeds had armed, and feized upon fome of 
 ,, Our chief Cities in OaR Kingdom for Our 
 5, Deliverance, they afieffed themfelves, and 
 5, contributed willingly and chearfully towards 
 ,, the Charge of the War which was kindicdv 
 ,, thinking it was for Our Service, and for 
 ,, paying their Allegiance to Us, and fo they 
 ,, did ; and vyithal reftrained themfelves, till 
 ,, feeing every day that thofe of the ancient 
 ,, Religion ftrengtliened themfelves with Arms 
 „ and SoldierSy they fent likewife for a cer- 
 y, tain number of Soldiers in their own Defence, 
 5, Neverthelefs fmce that timCj, fome of them, 
 „ either out of Fright, or becaufe they knew 
 5, not what to do for their own DeferKC, had 
 ,, feized in the Night-time upon the Town- 
 ,, houfe of Thouloufe, wherein the Arms and 
 ^, Ammunitions of the faid City were kept, 
 ,, and fome other Houfjs adjacent to this, 
 ., which they had feized Jikewile, and fortified 
 5, themfelves in them, fo far that for whatever 
 ^, Threatnings or Commands from Our Of- 
 ,, iicers and orliers of tiie Court of Parliament, 
 ,,, they rcfulcd to lay down their Arms, till 
 3, thofe of the ancient Religion had done the 
 ,, fame, and v/cidd obfervc the ILditl j till We 
 
 7> being 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /.^France. 339 
 being certified of every thing, fhould have Charles 
 given proper Orders. Bit inftead of com- g. 
 plying with thefe Terms, thofe of the ancient p^^^ Pius 
 Religion fell a ringing the Alarm Bells, not JV. 
 only in the faid City, but even in the Villa- ' 
 ges {tVQw or eight Leagues round about it, 
 and had aiTcmbled the People in Arms, and 
 fell indifferently upon thofe they thought pro- 
 per, chargitig them v/ith beiPig of the faid 
 new Religion, who on their fide had put 
 themfelves in a Poflure of Defence j and in 
 the Confiid: many of both Sides had been 
 killed and outraged, and feveralHoufes burnt; 
 wiiich Sedition lafted for feveral Days toge- 
 ther, during which thofe of the faid new 
 Religion were gone from the Tov/n-Houfe 
 to fome Churches and Convents, from v/hence 
 they had c -pelled the Priefts and Monks, 
 broken the Images, CrofTes and Altars, taken 
 the Shrines, Jowels and Ornaments, and car- 
 ried them into the faid Town-Houfe v/here- 
 in they retired, and in the adjacent paris, 
 fighting Day and Night, till feeing the Obfti- 
 nacy and Fury of the People, Vv^hom they 
 might have hurt a great deal more, eitiier 
 with the Artillery vdiereof they were in pof- 
 feffion, or by fom*; other means -, for avoid- 
 ing a greater Evil, Defolation and Ruin of 
 the faid City, they chofe to depart it, forna 
 of them being armed with Corflets a;il 
 Spears they had taken in the Town-Houfe'^ 
 without carrying away any of the Reliquts 
 and Jewels : But were furiouiiy purfued, 
 and many of them, Men, Women and Chil- 
 dren cut to pieces, drowned, murdered atid 
 maffacred in the faid City, as well as in the 
 Fields, Country Towns and Villages ; others 
 in great numbers have been taken Prifoners', 
 ? Z 2 . „ as^init 
 
34© Hijlary cf the Reformation y and of the Vol .If, 
 Qarles ^ againft whom OuR faid Court of Parliament and 
 other Officers have proceeded in fuch a man- 
 ner, that they have condemned and put to 
 death about 200 of them, and they detain 
 300 and more ftill Prifoners j and others 
 who have fled in much greater Numbers, for 
 fear of the Rigour of Our faid Officers, or 
 for the Fury of the Rabble, are miferably 
 wandring in the Country, in the greateft Po- 
 verty and Calamity -, in fo much, that were 
 it not for the Truft they put in Our Clemen- 
 cy, they would chufe rather to die than to 
 live exii'd from their own Country and Eftates, 
 befeeching and nioft humbly requiring that 
 (conlidering that whatever they have done 
 it was only out of Zeal to the faid new Re- 
 ligion, and for the Quietnefs of their own 
 Confcience, having been brought up and 
 taught in that Way by their Minifters •, and 
 that they never had a Mind or Will of with- 
 drawing themfelves from the Fealty, Subjefli- 
 on and Obedience they owe unto Us, where- 
 in they defire to hve and die) We would 
 be pleafcd to fhew Mercy and Compaffion 
 
 , upon them, and upon the Widows and Or- 
 
 , phans of the decealed, and to impart unto 
 them Our Grace, Pardon and Mercy. We 
 do notify hereby, that We defiring to govern 
 Our Subjeds with all Meeknefs and Bounty, 
 for thefe Caufes and others moving Us, with 
 the Advice of Our mod: honoured Lady 
 
 , and Mother, and thofe of Our Privy Coun- 
 Council, We have remitted and forgiven, 
 and do remit and forgive to the Petitioners 
 all the Cafes above mentioned, &c. We do 
 
 , abfolve and difcharge them, making void all 
 Defcds, Sentences, Judgments and Decrees 
 
 , given p.2;ain{l; thwm, in what Form foever : 
 
 .. And 
 
J> 
 
 3» 
 
 9> 
 
 Book IV. Reformed Churches /« France. 341 
 
 jj And We do reftore them to their good Name Charles 
 and Fame, in their own Country and Towns, ^^• 
 and to their own Goods and Eftates, as ifpA^p^ius 
 they had not been forfeited. And wherever iv. 
 the laid Petitioners fhould be detained Pri- 
 foners for the abovefaid Caufes, We do 
 command, and it is our Pleafure that they 
 fhould be immediately releafed, and reftored 
 to their Goods and Eftates. Whereupon 
 We do command a perpetual Silence to Our 
 Attorney General prefent and to come, &c. 
 &c. Provided they fhould live hereafter ac- 
 cording to the Conftitutions of Our Holy 
 Mother the Church j and that they fhould 
 ,, not bear Arms or countenance directly or in- 
 „ diredlly thofe who Ihall take them up againft 
 „ Our Authority and Will, &c. &c. &c. Given 
 ,, at Romiville, in Odober 1562. Of Our 
 ,, Reign the Second. 
 
 • Now the Suggeftion of this Declaration fhows 
 evidently that thofe who petitioned for Grace 
 and Pardon, ought rather to have petitioned for 
 Juftice, feeing that they had been affaulted firfl: 
 and received fo many Provocations, before they 
 thought upon a Defence, but the Jundture of 
 the Times did not allow them to do other- 
 wife. 
 
 However thefe Letters of Abolition being 
 arrived at Thouloufe, no Serjeant or Notary, 
 or any other Officer could be found that dared 
 prefent them to the Parliament •, a poor Woman, 
 whofe Hufband was detained Prifoner, was bold 
 enough for that •, but far from paying any Re- 
 gard to the King's Letters, the Parliament, on 
 the 27th of Odlober, having deprived the Pe- 
 titioners of their expedled Effed, condemned to 
 death two famous Attorneys, viz. Tabart rjnd 
 Z 3 Gay- 
 
342 Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. II. 
 
 Charles Gayrat, and they were beheaded. That Difo- 
 
 .; bedience and Pvebellion being reported to the 
 
 Pope PzV/jKing, other Letters were fentin all hafte, dated 
 
 iV. the 9th of November, whereby ferting forth his 
 
 ^'-''''"^'''**^ Indignation againft their undutiful Behaviour and 
 
 unjull: Proceedings, he charged them exprefly 
 
 to obey his Commands, and execute the Orders 
 
 he had Tent them by his former, or elfe he iliould 
 
 call them to an Account, and make an Example 
 
 of them. Thefe Letters were prefented to the 
 
 Parliament by a young Boy whofe Father lay 
 
 dangeroudy fick in Goal ; but they took nq 
 
 further Notice of them, than to refolve to fend 
 
 two Deputies to the King, as they Vv^ere bid, for 
 
 better informing his Majefty ; and mean while 
 
 they continued their Enormities. 
 
 The Counfellors who had been deprived of 
 their Office by their Brethren, had obtained of 
 the King Letters of Restoration, which had 
 been prefented to the Parliament on the 2 2d of 
 Oftober, but they were read and regiftered only 
 on St. Martin's Day. 
 
 In a word, the City was all in Confufion -, no- 
 thing v/as to be fcen in it hut Violences and Ex- 
 tortions-, whereof the Kinghaving notice, hefent 
 the folio wi no; Letters to the Senefchal and 
 Judges in ordinary of the Senefchaliliip on the ' 
 24th of December. 
 ^X- , , f^ H A R L E S, by the Grace of God, 
 So^^X-' ^^ -^"^S of France, to Our well-beloved 
 ibe Refcy- » and trufty the Senefchal of Thouloufe, Our 
 ined. , Judges in Ordinary, or their Lieutenants, each 
 , of them in his private Name, and as it fhall 
 , belong to him. Greeting and Diledion. At 
 , Our. Acceffion to the Crown, feveral 
 , Troubles and Difputes were moved amonglt 
 , Our Subjeds, even upon Matters of Religi- 
 . on, which Wr have been willing to reme- 
 
 J tiy, 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /;z France. 343 
 5 dj, and be refolved upon with the Princes •<-'hafies 
 , of Our Blood, the chief OfEcers of Our ^-^^ 
 5 Kingdom, and other Perfons confpicuous for p^p] p*jyg 
 ^ their Probity and Learning ; whereupon We IV. 
 , pubhfhed Our Edid of January laft, for to be 
 , inviolably kept and obferved. Neverthelefs, 
 , inftead of fo doing, and paying the Obedienc-e 
 , due unto Us, fome Enemies of the publick 
 , Peace, ambitious Men, diffatisfy'd with the 
 , faid Edidl, have plotted and committed feve- 
 , ral Murders and Cruelties againft thofe of tiie 
 5 new Religion, (This and what follows, 
 
 DESERVES TO BE WRITTEN IN GoLDEN LET- 
 TERS, Here King Charles becomes our 
 Apologist, oh ! had he had alv/ays 
 THE SAME Mind!) , infomuch, that for want 
 , of Juftice done to them, they have occanoned 
 , a greater Sedition and greater Murders in Our 
 ^ City of Thouloufe, bandying thernfelves and 
 , arming one againft another, having forfakcn 
 , Our Help and Afliftance, and remembring fp 
 , little the Duties of Neighbours and Country- 
 , men, that they have murdered and killed one 
 , another as if they v/ere Enemies, and have 
 , created to Us a Civil War, in our faid King- 
 9 dom j and not fatisiied with that, they have 
 , plundered, robbed and pillaged thofe of the 
 , laid new Religion : and for the Execution of 
 , their Malice, the Confuls and Jurates of the 
 , Towns and Villages of Our faid Senefchai- 
 , ihip, havmg a Criminal Juriididion, have 
 , made thernfelves Party and Judges in the 
 s Caufcs of thofe of the nev/ Religion, and have 
 , bribed falfe Witneffep againft them ; they have 
 , levied Money, eleited Syndics, and made all 
 , manner of Purfuits and Proceedings, without 
 , any Regard for Our faid Edid. Further- 
 ^ more, they have condemned and put to death 
 Z 4 , moil 
 
IX. 
 
 1563- 
 
 P.pe Pius 
 IV. 
 
 344 Wfiory of the Reformtition^ and of the V l . II . 
 
 Charles . nioft part of them ; and the Clergy as well as 
 the Nobility, have armed themfelves with the 
 R.abble without Our Command, they have 
 muftered their Troops, inducing and inciting 
 them to aSedition,treading OuRSubjev5ls under 
 their Feet, tho* they were no ways the Caufe 
 or Occasion of their private Pailions and Quar- 
 rels, and Night and Day ranfacking,- robbing 
 and plundering their Moveables, Cattle, and 
 deilroying- their Houfes and Habitations •, 
 and all that under Pretence that they vvere 
 Huguenots who had bore Arms -, they have 
 forced their Wives and Daughters, killed and 
 murdered tlieir fdcking Babes and Children, . 
 and pretending to be Captains, and chief of 
 Arms and Juftice, they have extorted and ex- 
 a6led Money from the People, they have gi- 
 ven cruel and intolerable Sentences and Judg- 
 ments, fubverting thereby Our Scate and 
 Kingdom, and abufing of their Authority ; 
 Of thefe Inhumanities, Cruelties and other e- 
 normous Deeds, we are fully refolved to take 
 fuch a Vengeance, that it fhall be an Exampk 
 to Pofterity, and will be remembred in the 
 Ages to come. Therefore, to the end that 
 Our Subjects may live in Peace and not be 
 opprefled. We are refolved to fend into every 
 chief City of Our Kingdom fome impartial 
 Judges, not fufpedled of countenancing fuch 
 Enormities, for to proceed againfl: them accor- 
 ding to Our Intention. 
 
 , For that Caufe, and for the greater Expedi- 
 tion, and the fpeedier Reftitution to whom fo- 
 ever it (hall belong. We do command you 
 and every one of you in his own Jurifdidion, 
 Reffort and Extent of the faid Senefchal- 
 iTiip, do charge and exprefsly injoin you by 
 thefe Prefenrs, that, under the Penalty of 
 forfeiling your OfFices, and of being an- 
 
 , fvverable 
 
Bo o K I V . Reformed Chttrchei 7*;^ Fr a n c e . 345 
 fwerable in your own Perfons, as Abettors of Charles 
 thefe Enormities, as foon as you fhall have re- ■^^• 
 ceived thefe Prefents. to caufe them to be pro- p^pl pj^^ 
 claimed in the ufualForm and Manner, and to IV. 
 let know the Grief and Sorrow We do feel for ' 
 what hath happened, and that thofe Crimes 
 muft ceafe, that the Wrath of God might be 
 appeafed ; and further, thaj you do receive all 
 the Complaints publick or private, and make 
 all proper Enquiries and Informations of the 
 matter, without fparing, dilTembling, exempt- 
 ing, excepting no body of Our Subjedls, of 
 what Quality or Dignity foever, who are guilty 
 of fuch Deeds ; and to fend thefe Information;* 
 to Our Privy-Council, that having been exa- 
 mined, they may be put into the hands of 
 Our abovefaidjudges, that Ihall inflicfl Punifh- 
 ment according to the Demerits : and if you 
 find that the Guiity are not fettled or fofvable, 
 you /hall arreft them and proceed againft them, 
 even to the giving Sentence of Death againft 
 them, according to their Guilt, and to execute 
 it notwithftanding all Oppofition or Appeal, 
 whereby We will not have you to delay in any 
 wife ', which Sentences and Judgments of your 
 own, given by the Advice and Deliberation of 
 kvtn of Our Counfellors or Advocates be- 
 longing to your Courts, We do authorife and 
 ratify by thefe Prefents, by the Advice of 
 Our Privy-Council, &c. &c. And We do 
 forbid Our Court of Parliament to take any 
 cognizance of fuch Caufes, &c. &c. Given 
 at Paris the 24th day of December 1562, and 
 of Our Reign the third, the King being pre- 
 fent in his Council (j).^ 
 
 De L'Aubespine. 
 
 What 
 
 (y) See thefe two Letters in their full length in Baza, liv. 
 
 y. and they have been abridged by Thuan. lib. :o:iii. p. 
 
 »73. 174' ^7^' 
 
3 46 Hijhry of the Reform at ion ^ and of the Vo l .1 f. 
 
 Wliat Wronger Argument could be defired for 
 evincing the Mifdeameanors of the Parliament, 
 than thefe Letters ? What ftronger Argument 
 could be defired for evincing the Innocence of the 
 Reformed, even when they took up Arms in this 
 firft Civil War, fince the King himfelf, that is, his 
 Council did acknowledge, that they did it only in 
 their own juft DefencCjthey bore witnefs to them, 
 that they have been quiet and peaceable, (land- 
 ing exadly to the Terms of the Edidl, till they ' 
 have been forced againft their own Will, and 
 by the repeated Violences of their Enemies, to 
 put themfelves inapofture of Defence. And could 
 our Apologifts antient or modern, have better 
 defended our Caufe than King Charles had done ? 
 When ? Four days after the Battle of Dreux, when 
 the Court Party, or rather the Guifians thought, 
 that tfae entire Deftrudlion of the Reformed was 
 unavoidable. Let then the Maimbourgians,and all 
 their Tribe, bark as much as they pleafe againft 
 tlie Reformed of thofe days ; the unqueftionable 
 Teftimony of Charles IX. on this occafion, is 
 more than fufficient to wipe off ail the Crimes 
 laid calumnioufly to their charge. 
 
 That Mandamus frightned thofe whom it con- 
 cerned i the People whom they had ftrangely a- 
 bufed for deftroying them one by another, be- 
 gan to murmur againft them. But inftead of 
 mending their way, and altering their courfe, they 
 went on in gratifying their Paffions, and being 
 afraid of the People, undertook to inclofe the 
 Parliament-houfe with a W^all. But they had no 
 fooner begun, than a Rumour was fpread in the 
 City, that the Parliament wei-e fortifying them- 
 felves again 0- the City ; whereupon the People 
 iofc up, headed by three of t'HQ Capitouls, (tho* 
 they v^'ere all of the Parliament's choice) and ran 
 on the 19th of January 1563 to the Parliament- 
 Houfe, and demoliilied the Work that Vv'as be- 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in FRAiiCE. 347 
 gun. Neverthe]efs, the Court ordered the Wall <-'Harles 
 
 - • • rt TV 
 
 ihould be made again, which being underftood , 
 by the People, they tumultuoufly affembled again p^pg pjus 
 on the 20th of the fame Month, being Faft IV, 
 Day, and with a greater Fury than before, aflault- 
 ed, plundered and pulled down the King's Houfe, 
 where the Viguier ufed to refide, occafioned by 
 one of tlie Militia-Officers, a Tayern- Keeper, 
 who being come into that Houfe, wherein the 
 Architeft and feveral Workmen lodged, drew 
 malicioufly a Bone of Mutton out of his Pocket, 
 and cryed to the M.oh^See thefe wicked Huguenots 
 ivho eai Flefh on this day -, whereupon they broke 
 open the door, and the Architecft narrowly ef- 
 caped with his life, and an excellent Workman 
 was murdered in the Streets. The next day, the 
 Parliament caufed a Proclamation to be read, for- 
 bidding all fuch tumultuous AfTemblies on pain 
 of Death. But the People fcorned fuch a Prohi- 
 bition. 
 
 On the 15th of February, the City was put 
 upon the brink of its utter ruin by another Sedi- 
 tion,occaiioned by fome Letters fent by Nostra- 
 damus, the famous Aftrologer, to fome of his 
 Acquaintance at Thouloufe. whereby he gave them 
 warning to ftand upon their guard, becaufe the 
 City was in danger of being taken that day. 
 Whereupon the Guard was reinforced in the City, 
 and the common People feeing themfelves armed 
 by the Authority of the Parliament, caufed fuch 
 a great Tumult that very night, that the City 
 was very near to be ranfack'd. 
 
 Befides all thefe Evils, the Cardinal of Armag- 
 riac the King's Lieutenant of the Province, and 
 of theSenefchalfnip of Thouloufe, and Archbifhop 
 pf that City, with Cardinal Stroffy, Montluc, 
 Terrides, NegrepelifTe and Fourquevaux, figned 
 a League on the fecond of March 1563^ (which 
 
 was 
 
3 4^ Jii/iory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. II. 
 
 'Charles was communicated afterwards to Monf. de Joy- 
 ^•^ eufe another Deputy Governor of Languedoc,) 
 
 pipe Pius between the Nobihty, Clergy and the Commons 
 IV. of Guienne and Languedoc, whereby they en- 
 gaged themfelves upon their Oath, to raife Troops 
 and entertain them at their own Charge, and 
 keep them in readinefs to fall upon the Reformed 
 and their Abettors, and defiiroy them. 
 
 That League was prefented to the Parliament 
 of Thouloufe to be approved, and fo it was, tho* 
 by provifion only, and without confequence, un- 
 der the King's good Pleafure, commanding to all 
 the Magiftrates and the King's Subjedls, to keep 
 and obferve it ftridly to all its Intents and Pur- 
 port. 
 
 But three days after, viz. the 24th of March, 
 came the News of the Peace already made, for 
 which many were very forry, feme fell fick a-bed 
 of it, others faid aloud, that they would not re- 
 rifter it, and that they would rather chufe ano- 
 ther King. And even there were fome who had 
 a mind to addrefs themfelves to the King of 
 Spain, that he would be pleafed to take the 
 Church of France and the antient Religion of the 
 Kingdom under his royal Prote<5bion. But that 
 Scheme was defeated by the threatning Letters 
 which were fent from Court, and the pofitive Or- 
 ders they received to publifh and regifter the E- 
 did of Pacification ; whereof they read only the 
 Preamble, and publiOied only the Articles the 
 moll favourable to the Catholicks, and never ob- 
 ferved a tittle of it, but what was to their own 
 Advantage (2). 
 
 After having related what happened at Thou- 
 loufe fince the Januarian Edidl, and during the 
 iirft Civil War, we muft take a general View of 
 what happened in other parts of Languedoc -, 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches inFvLASCE. 349 
 and whereas Montluc has had fo great a fhare Charles 
 in all the principal Events in that Province, it Is ^^■ 
 very proper that wefhouldgive the true Charader ^ '^ ^r 
 of a Man no lefs, iFnot more extraordinary and jy 
 violent in the Catholick Party, than Baron des '— v"-«j 
 Ad rets was in the Reformed. 
 
 Blaife of Montluc, Marilial of France, was 0/ Mar- 
 horn in the Year 1502 or 1503, for we have uxopal Blaif& 
 certain date of the Year of his Nativity, much ^■^^"'^"^^''*^' 
 lefs of the Month and Day that I know of ; he 
 was fprung out of a noble but decayed Family 
 in Gafcony, his Grandfather having fold all his 
 Eftate, fave only eight hundred or a thoufand 
 LIvres yearly Rent, as he tells us himfelf in the 
 fecond folio of his Memoirs. His Father's name 
 was John of Montluc, and his Mother's Fran- 
 ces of Stillac ; he was the eldefl of fix Brethren ; 
 he enter'd Page to Duke Anthony of Lorrain, 
 and being fifteen or (ixteen Years old, got a place 
 of Archer in his Company, whereof the famous 
 Bayard was Lieutenant. Soon after he had a mind 
 to go into Italy, incited to it, by the rumour of 
 the great Feats of Arms daily done in that Coun- 
 try ; being come into Gafcony, and having re- 
 ceiv'd fome Money and a Spanifh Horfe of his 
 Father, he fst out for his Journey ; he was then 
 feventeen Years old, and m.et two of his Uncles at 
 Milan, by whofe means he got a place of Archer 
 in the Company of the Marfhal of Lautrec •, he 
 went thro' ail the degrees •, from a Centinel he 
 was made Enfign, then Lieutenant, then Captain, 
 then Colonel, then Commander of Towns or 
 Strong- Flolds, afterwards King's Lieutenant \\\ 
 Tufcany and Guisnne, and at laft Marflial of 
 F'rance. One may fay in truth, that his great 
 Courage, Prudence and Sagacity In the Manage- 
 ment of Affairs, were the only means whereby he 
 , arrived to that high degree of military Prefer- 
 ments, 
 
3 50 Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. IT, 
 Charles ments. As to his Morals, he fays himfelf, that 
 ^'^* he was neither a Gamefter nor Drunkard, and that 
 Fope Pius ^^^ Charms of a Miftrefs have never been power- 
 IV. ful enough to make him forget his Duty -, but 
 in other refpeds he was fel-f- conceited to the laft 
 degree, as is plainly evinced by his own Me- 
 moirs, whereof almoft every Page is full of the 
 biggeft Encomiums and largeft Commendations 
 of himfelf, as if he had been the only Man in the 
 World. It has been truly faid of him, Plura 
 FECIT, MULTA scRiPsiT, that is, he has done fe- 
 veral things and wrote many more, or that he had 
 faid of himfelf more than he had done. By the 
 relation of his own Deportment it appears, that 
 he had been very paffionate, and he owns, that he 
 was very cruel in the Civil Wars, having com- 
 monly two Executioners that followed him, for 
 putting to death ignominioufly thofe who were fo 
 unhappy as to fill into his Hands •, had he fol- 
 lowed in the foreign Wars thofe Maxims he did 
 follow in the civil, not only he would not have 
 been fo fuccefsful as he was, but he would have 
 acquired no more glorious Title than that of a 
 cruel and fierce Executioner. Charles IX. hinted 
 at him in his laft Mandamus to the Senefchal of 
 Thouloufe above-mentioned. I cannot fay that he 
 has not been either too credulous in matters re- 
 lating to the Reformed Opinions about the Re- 
 fped andObedience due to Sovereigns and Lords j 
 or a Calumniator, feeing that he charges them 
 with fpeaking moft opprobrioufly and traitorouf- 
 ly of the King during his Minority, fee liv. v. 
 fol. 358, and fays further fol. 360. T:hai the Mi- 
 nijlers preached puhlickly^ that if People would 
 turn Reformed^ they would not be obliged to pay- 
 any Diuy, Rent or Service to the Nobilily or Gen- 
 try^ nor even any Tax or Subftdy to the King, but 
 "ivhat Jbculd be ordered by them. Others preached 
 
 that 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches ;'« F r a n c e . 351 
 
 thai Kings had no other -power but what is allowed Charles 
 them by the People. Others, that the Nobility ^^^' 
 ivere nothing better than thetnfelves. yiid indeed, Pof,e Fins 
 fays he, when the Gentlemen^s Ste'Wards came to IV. 
 afl: the Rent of the I'enants, they were anfwered, 
 jhew us firji in the Bible^ whether we are obliged 
 to pay them or no, and that if their Fathers had 
 been fuch Fools, they would 7iot be like them. Sure 
 the Marftial had better ftudied the Amadis de 
 Gaule, and other fuch Books, than our ConfefTion 
 of Faith and our Difcipline, or the Books of our 
 Divines, and it would have been better for him 
 to confult with his Brother,the learned Bilhop of 
 Valence, who certainly would have better inform- 
 ed him of the true and real Sentiments of the 
 Reformed upon thefe Points. He died aged jc; 
 YearSjin 1 57 7;it is near to aMiracle how he could 
 livefo long,for tho' he was of a very ftrong Com- 
 plexion, he went thro' many great Fatigues and 
 Hardiliips, he was expofed to many great Dan- 
 gers, and was wounded in every part of his Body, 
 his right Arm excepted, fays he, Jiv. vii. folio 
 606 ; but efpecially at Rabailens in the Year 1 5 70, 
 where he had his Cheeks pierced thro' and thro' 
 with an Arquebufs Shot, of which Wound he 
 never was well cur'd. Thuanus gives him tiie 
 Chara(5ter of a Man as courageous, induftrious 
 and fuccefsful as any great Captain of his time -, 
 and fpeaking of his Memoirs^ he fays, that they 
 were publifhed after his death much to the ho-" 
 nour of his Family, and that they might be very 
 ufeful to thofe who afpire to a Military Glory by 
 the path of Virtue. I faall have an Opportunity 
 hereafter of fpeaking of his Brother the Biiliop 
 of Valence (a). 
 
 The 
 
 (a) Add. aux Mem. de Gift. liv. iv. ch 2. ch. 6. liv. vi. 
 ch. 12. D'Aubigne Tom. I. liv. iii. ch. 17, 18, liv. iv. 
 h. 13, & alib'i. Thuan. lib. Ixiv, 
 
3 ^2 Hl/iory of the Reformation, and of the Vol. II. 
 
 Charles The fecond City whereof we muft take notice 
 
 J^- is Montauhan. Whereas that City was a place of 
 
 pJe Piiis R^^'Jg^ ^o^ ^^ Exiles of the Reformed Religiot), 
 IV. fo it was expo fed to greater Hardfhips than all 
 
 «—-\^—' others of the Province, during the firft Civil 
 MoN- ^^2,r ; for it was befieged three times in lefs than 
 
 "^'^^^^^'eleven Months, and the worft was, that it had 
 not only to defend itfelf againft the Enemies 
 without, but alfb againft its own Inhabitants with- 
 in, being difcording amongft themfelves, and 
 having brought matters to a Sedition more than 
 once. 
 
 It was aflaulted by its Enemies with fuch 
 Fiercenefs and Obftinacy, that tho' Peace had been 
 proclaimed in other parts of the Kingdom, ne- 
 verthelefs, they continued to befiege it a Month 
 longer. And notwithftanding the violent At- 
 tempts of all its Neighbours, it withitood them 
 all with Glory, and came out happily of all the 
 Snares laid for her Deftru6tion : Every one won- 
 dering at this, that a City almoft without defence, 
 and having almoft no other Troops but Militia, 
 could withftand the Efforts of fo many potent 
 Enemies. 
 
 FirJiSieze. Montluc was the firft who befieged it on the 
 24th of May with a thoufand Horfe and five 
 thoufand Foot. Before the Attack, he fent to the 
 Inhabitants to afk a free Paflage thro' the City for 
 himfelf and for his Troops, or elfe to propofe 
 themfelves what terms they would think m.ore 
 juft. The Inhabitants anfwered, that they had 
 never refufed to obey the King, neither had they 
 done any thing that could defcrve to be befieged 
 in that manner. That if he would be pieafed to 
 come into the City with no more than 30 At- 
 tendants, he would find the Gates open and be 
 very welcome, but that they could not allow hiai 
 paflage thro' the City v.'ith To many Troops. 
 
 Having 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /« France. 353 
 Having fent back the Trumpet with this An- Charles 
 fwer, they fet fire to the Monafteries of the ^ .' 
 Francifcan and Dominican Fryars, left the E- Pope Pius 
 nemy (hould take pofieilion of them. On the IV. 
 next D:'.y, Montluc approached nearer the City, •— "V"*^ 
 and placed his Artillery ; he had nine Cannons, 
 two large ones, five leiTer, and two Culverines. 
 There were alfo two Skirmifhes in different 
 Places that Day, wherein the Montluccians were 
 worfted. The next Day, the 26th, the Befie- 
 gers were taken with fiich a Panick, that hav- 
 ing raifed the Siege, they fled in great con- 
 fufion -, the Inhabitants did not think proper 
 to pnrfue them, fufpefling that it was a Device 
 of Montluc to furprize them. Such was the 
 Succefs of the firft Siege, wherein the Enemy 
 loft fixty Men, Montluc fays, that they were 
 fix or feven Days before the City ; that they 
 fired fome Cannons ^ he charges Burie with hav- 
 ing advifed that Enterprize, which he looks up- 
 on as a temerary one j he don*t fpeak of the 
 Panick ; but what he fays amounts, at leaft, to 
 the fame {h)^ and Thuanus contradicts intirely 
 and exprefsly Montluc, as to the Number of 
 the Befiegers *, 
 
 The fecond Siege was begun on the 14 of Sep- 2d Siege\ 
 temper, by Montluc and Bnrie, with nine 
 Troops of Cuiraffiers, and a great number of 
 Nobility and Gentry that came as Voluntiers ; 
 bef.des that, nine Enfigns o: Arouebuficts Horfe 
 and Foot, three Companies of Spaniih Foot, 
 compofed of twelve hundred Men, five great 
 Cannons, three great Culverines, and five lefier. 
 At their firft Approach there v,'as a Skirmifh, 
 wherein the Montluccians were worfted, and the 
 befieged loft twelve Men, feveral were wound- 
 VoL. II. A a ed 
 
 (b) Mem. de Montluc liv. V. Folio 402. * Thuaa. 
 lib. xxj^ii, p. 176. 
 
354 Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.I'I. 
 
 gCharles ed on both fides. On the two following Days 
 ^^' there were alfo fome Skirmifhes, wh'^rein the be- 
 
 Pope A'a/'^^g^^ 'WQXQ always vidorious. 
 
 IV. Mean while the Baron of Duras going to Or- 
 
 'leans with a great Army, and having took his 
 Way hard by Montauoan, fent the Mafter 'This 
 Camp to Montluc, deiiring him to apcoini:aDay 
 and a Place for deciding the Matter by a Battle. 
 But Montluc had no mind to accept of the Chal- 
 lenge at that time, he waited for a better Oppor- 
 tunity, which he met with afterwards, to the 
 great Lofs of Duras. When he faw that he 
 could make no Progrefs before Montauban, he 
 raifed the Siege, having loft fix hundred Men, 
 and the Befieged thirty. Whereupon Duras con- 
 tinued his March towards Orleans -, his coming 
 by Montauban, v/as rather prejudicial than be- 
 neficial to that City •, for at his parting, two 
 Companies of Foreigners that had defended it 
 during the Siege, followed him, Befides that, 
 the Captains endeavoured to difhearten and; 
 frighten the Inhabitants, fetting forth, that if 
 they were befieged a third time, it was impof- 
 fible torefift, againft fopotent^n Enemy, being 
 thernfelves fo few in number, and without any 
 Hopes of Affiftance •, that therefore it would be 
 better for them to forfake their City and follow 
 them to Orleans, or to agree with the Enemy for a 
 round Sum of Money, or to receive a Garifon of 
 Montluc J nay, Marchaftel, one of the Prince's 
 Agents in Languedoc, went fo far as to give 
 them abufive Language, calling them Obsti- 
 nates and Blockheads, that they ran wilfully 
 to their utter Ruin ; and they not only caufed 
 the two Companies to march out (which was 
 'very unjufi, feeing that they had been raifed and 
 voere entertained at the City's Charge) but they 
 carried away likewife from the City two large 
 
 Cannons, 
 
Boo K I V. Reformed Churches /« F r a n c e . 355 
 
 Cannons, two Field Pieces, and moft part of their Charles 
 'Ammunition. ^^" 
 
 However, tho* they were forfaken by Men, p^p^ Pius 
 God did not forfake them, and their own Cou- IV. 
 rage fupplied the want of other means. They 
 took an Oath among themfelves to defend and 
 keep the City to the laft Drop of their Blood. 
 So being all refolved on a ftout Refiftance, they 
 eleded Laboria for their Governor -, he made a 
 Review of the Inhabitants, and found fix hun- 
 dred among them able to bear Arms, who pro- 
 mifed all upon their Oath to defend and keep 
 their Walls to their laft Breath. But the Defer- 
 tion of one of his Officers named Fontgh ave, 
 troubled them very much ; for being gone into 
 the Enemies Camp, he acquainted the General 
 with the Scarcity of Ammunition that was in the 
 City, and the fmall number of Inhabitants able 
 to defend their Walls ; and that it would be an 
 eafy matter to take it, if they would feign only 
 to attack the Walls in feveral Places at once, and 
 on a fudden ftorm a Fort lying by the Jacobin es 
 Convent. He fpoke fo, becaufe he knew that 
 the Inhabitants were ufed to run immediately to 
 the Place where the Alarm was firft given. Ac- 
 cording to Fontgrave*s Advice, on the 9th of 
 Oftober, at two o'clock in the Morning, the E- 
 nemy attacked the W^alls at three different Places, 
 with Ladders, and made a terrible Noife with their 
 Mufketry \ and when they faw the Inhabitants 
 bufied in thofe Places, a Company well armed 
 approached without Noife, near the Fort of the 
 Jacobines, thinking to furprize the Guard, while 
 the Inhabitants were elfe where. But the Cen- 
 tinels having difcovered them before they were 
 at the foot of the Wall, they gave the Alarm. 
 Neverthelefs, tho' they were difcovered, they 
 went on, and put the Ladders to the Wall i then 
 A a 2 witk 
 
3 5^ Uiftory oftheReJortnatmi, and of the Vol .II. 
 
 Charles vvlth a Battering-Ram they made a Breach in it, 
 
 ^^ and they planted two Colours upon the Curtain, 
 
 Pope plus "^^if^"^ ^ great Noife of Drums and Trumpets, as 
 IV. if they had been Mafters of the City ; but they 
 
 ^ — V"— ^vvere fo brilkly received by the Inhabitants, that 
 they were forced to retire, having loft two hun- 
 dred Men, and the Inhabitants only onej they left 
 behind them their Battering-Ram and their 
 Ladders. 
 
 ^d Siege. Whereas they could do nothing by Stratagem, 
 they refolved to befiege the City for the third 
 time. Therefore on the very fame Day, the 9th 
 ofOdober, Ter hide approached the City with 
 twenty-one Companies, two great Cannons and 
 feven Culverines •, he made himfelf Matter of the 
 Suburb of $^ Anthony, wherein plunder and all 
 manner of Cruelties and Lewdnefs were put in 
 ufe ; a Gentlewoman big with Child having re- 
 fifted a RufFxan, had at laft her Belly ripped, 
 and the Child being taken out quick, was cut 
 to pieces. 
 
 TJiey battered the Walls furioufly with their 
 Artillery, but their Efforts were fruit lefs, for the 
 Inhabitants of both Sexes, young and old, re- 
 ftored immediately the Breaches, carrying Dung, 
 Fafcines, Earth and other things fit for thatpur- 
 pofe j whereby they fuccceded fo well, that tho* 
 'the Enemy had caft above five thoufand Iron 
 Bullets, there were but five Men killed by them. 
 As the Bef.egers faw that they could not advance 
 by thefe Ways, they refolved to turn the Siege 
 into a Blockade, and ereded feveral Towers and 
 Forts round about the City, to hinder all man- 
 ner of Relief from coming into it, in a certain 
 Hope that they Ihould take them by Famine, or 
 ^hat being tired with the length of the Siege, they 
 would chufe to farrender themfelves. 
 
 2 
 
 Ne. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /;? France. 357 
 Neverthelefs, v/hereas that length of time be- Charles 
 came tedious to themfelvcs, they endeavoured '' 
 by proper Perfons to bring over to their Party p^p^ p-yg 
 Labor I A Governor of the City, who promifed IV. 
 to deliver it into their hands j many of the Sol- 
 diers and of the Citizens, even one of their MI- 
 nifters confenred to it, provided they fhould en- 
 joy the free and publick Profeffion ot the Refor- 
 med Religion, which was promifed to them. 
 But that Party being oppofed by the major part 
 of the Citizens, there arofe a great and dange- 
 rous Sedition amongfl: them, and the Governor 
 fent feveral of them to Goal, efpecially feme of 
 the Soldiers who had called him Traitor, and had 
 threatned to kill him. with their Spears. How- 
 ever, as he fdw he had not the Majority for him, 
 and that his Party was not the ftrongeft, he 
 deferted the City, and came openly to the Ene- 
 mies Camp*, and a few Days after he led therri 
 to the Jaccbines Fort in the Night-time, think- 
 ing to carry it eafily, becaufe before his Defer- 
 tion he had pulled down a Ravelin adjoining to 
 a Gate, which he had caufed to be mured up. 
 But the Inhabitants made fuch a f^out Refift- 
 ance, that after a FiiTht which lafted two Hours, 
 they repulfcd the Enemy with a great Lofs^. 
 and v/ithout any on their fide. There were fe- 
 vtral other Skirmiihes, oui of Vv^hich the Be- 
 fieged came always vidlorious. At laft, on the 
 15th of April the Befieged were delivered, on 
 account of the Ed 161 of Peace, which tho* rcgiftred 
 and publifaed at Paris and Orleans on the 26th of 
 March, was kept a Secret in the Camp till the 
 abovefald Day. So this lafl Siege lafted for fix. 
 Months and fix Days, from the 9th of Odlober 
 to the 15th of April ; and it was reckoned, that 
 in the three Sieges the Enemy loft two thoufand 
 A a 3 Men, 
 
358 Hiflory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.11. 
 Charles Men, and the Befieged not above Sixty Sol- 
 diers. 
 
 It will not be amifs to fet down here the Rules 
 whereby they governed themfelves at Montau- 
 ban, efpecially during the two laft Sieges. Firft^ 
 as to the Spoils made upon the Enemy, it was 
 enaded on the 31ft of July, That whatever had 
 ferved to fome fuperftitious Ufe in the Roman 
 Churches, whereof the Form could not be alte- 
 red, as Tapeftries exhibiting fome fuperftitious 
 Hiftories or Embrems, or Copes, or other fuch 
 thingjs, they fhould be burnt •, but as to thofe 
 things, the Form whereof could be altered, and 
 the matter whereof could be converted to fome 
 better ufe, and likewife all other publick things 
 lawfully taken from their fworn Enemies, as 
 Tythes and other fuch things, they fliould be 
 divided in three Parts ; one for the Poor, and 
 the wounded Soldiers-, another for the difcharg- 
 ing the Expence of the War ; and the laft for 
 the Officers and Soldiers that had got thofe 
 Spoils. 
 
 As to private things, if it was Corn or Wine, 
 they ftiould be laid in the Publick Magazine, 
 and be divided in two equal parts, one tor the 
 City, the other for thofe who had brought them •, 
 not being lawful, however, for them, on pain 
 of Death, to fell or carry any of the Fruits of the 
 Earth out of the City. 
 
 It was further forbidden to make any Incurfion 
 in the Villages, or to plunder any private Houfe, 
 tho' they were Catholicks, if they were not in 
 Arms againft the Reformed, 
 
 Laftly, all unlawful Prizes, and thofe which 
 had not been made upon open Enemies, ftiould 
 be entirely reftored to the Owners. 
 
 Thefe Regulations were drawn and fworn un- 
 to in the City, but very ill kept. Befides that, 
 
 during 
 
lUS 
 
 B o o K T V . Reformed Churches /;? F R a n c e . 3 ^<) 
 
 during the laft Siege, the Minifters divided a- Charles 
 mongft themfelves the feveral Garifons of the ■^^• 
 City, there to make Prayers and overfee the Be-p^^^ ./' 
 haviour of the Soldiery (r). IV. 
 
 After the Tumult at Thouloufe, the Parlia- 
 ment had fent the Marfhal of La FoV to Li-Limoux 
 Moux, a large and v/ealthy City ; which hav- 
 ing battered in vain for feveral Days, at laft he 
 was let into it by Treafon ; there was no Adl 
 of Cruelty, Avarice and Licentioufnefs but what 
 was committed by his Troops againft the In- 
 habitants, without any regard for Religion, fpa- 
 ring neither facred or prophane ; and for com- 
 pleating the Work, there came two Counfellors 
 of Thouloufe, who condemned the abfent to 
 death, after having feized upon their Goods 
 
 At Beaucaire, the Reformed having pulled Beau- 
 down the Altars, and torn to pieces the Images, ^^**^^' 
 the Catholicks incenfed thereat, fent for Affift- 
 ance from Tarafcon, a neighbouring Town ; 
 from thence came about fixteen hundred Men, 
 who enter'd into Beaiicaire in the Night-time, 
 and murdered as many Reformed as they met in 
 their Vvay : Neverthelefs the major part took 
 Sandluary in the Caftle, amcngft whom was their 
 Minifter, who let down his Son with a Rope by 
 the Caftle's Wall, and bid him go to Monfrain^ 
 and require the Governor to fend them fome 
 Succour. There was then in that Town two 
 Troops, that came with all fpeed to Beaucaire, 
 and arrived at the very nick of Time, when 
 the Tarafconians were gathering the Spoils, in 
 order to march out of the Place ; 'the Monfrai- 
 nians fell upon them with fuch Fury, that they 
 A a 4 killed 
 
 (c) Dinoth. p, 169,— — 172. (d) Eesaliv. X, Thuaii, 
 lib. xxxii. s 
 
360 Hijiory of the Reformation, and of the V o l . It . 
 
 Charles killed above twelve hundred of them, the rem- 
 nant efcaped by Flight. From that time, to the 
 end of the War, the Belcarians enjoyed Peace 
 and Tranquillity, 
 
 It was not the fame elfewhere, for Des Adrets 
 having crofled the Rhone was come to Latte, 
 in order to relieve Beaudifner, Governor of the 
 Reformed in J-.anguedoc, who was put in great 
 Straits by Joyeufe. Suze and Sommerive crofs'd 
 likewife the River, and encamped on the i6th 
 of September at Fourques, two Leagues diftant 
 from Aries, their Army was three thoufand 
 Foot and four hundred Horfe ftrong, with two 
 Cannons andaCulverine. When Benudifnerunder- 
 ftood this, he fent fix hundred Horfe, and eight 
 hundred Foot, under the Command of Captain 
 Grille to fortify St. Giles againil the Efforts of 
 
 The Rout Suze and Sommerive. 
 
 ojSt.G\\^s They took in their way three Pfifoners, two 
 whereof having been (lain, the laft, in order to 
 fave his Life, difcovered the Condition the E- 
 nemy's Camp was in, miftrufting nothing, and 
 lying unawares in the Field ; when they perceiv- 
 ed the Reformed coming down the Mountain, 
 and marching with their Horfe in the Front, 
 which covered the Foot, they thought that it 
 was only the Van of the Army, and that the 
 Battalia led by Des Adrets was following •, 
 whereupon they were put into fuch a Fright, 
 that without thinking upon their Defence, they 
 ran away in Confuiion. Bouiliarques defcry- 
 ing that, infiead of going the ftrerghtway to 
 to St. Giles, fell upon their Foot that were not 
 able to follow the Horfe, and made a terrible 
 Slaughter of them; no lefs than two thoufand of 
 the Enemies were flain or drowned, all their Bag 
 and Baggage, and Cannons, twenty two Pair of 
 Colours, and a Cornet were taken. Grille and 
 
 Bouil- 
 
Book IV. Refor?ned Churches inTiL ah ct, 36^ i 
 Bouillarques loft but two Men, which even were Charles 
 
 fiain by their Companions, becaufe they had for- ^^ ) 
 gotten the Watch- word j this happened on thep^^^Piug j 
 
 27th of September. IV. ] 
 
 The Affairs in thofe Parts were in an uncer- u.i«y^— i*/ ! 
 
 tain Condition, feme times the Reformed, and \ 
 
 fometimes the Cathohcks got the better, till the \ 
 
 Count of Critssol's coming into the Country. '; 
 
 That Lord had been defired by the Reformed to ' 
 
 take upon him the Government of Languedoc, j 
 
 which he had declined ; but being intreated by the 1 
 
 three States of the Province, at laft he accepted of | 
 
 it. Then he put ftrong Garifons in feveral | 
 
 Places, that they might be in a Condition of ] 
 
 withftanding Joyeuse, who fided with the Ca- i 
 
 tholicks ; and whereas both Parties were more ; 
 
 follicitous for their own Defence, than for at- [ 
 
 tacking others, there were no great Tumuits in ; 
 
 thofe parts during that War. i 
 
 The Reformed having reftored the Churches Nimks,, 1 
 
 to the Catholicks, on the 20tli of January 1562, • ! 
 by the Count of CrufTol's Command, they held 
 their publick Meetings in the Hofpital without 
 the City. About the fame time a Provincial 
 
 Synod of the Churches of Lower Langue- ! 
 
 doc was held at Nimes, wherein were pre- i 
 
 fent feventy Minifters, befides thofe that were ' 
 
 eledled. The Januarian Edid: arrived in that ' 
 
 City on the nth of February, and was very I 
 joyfully received, tho' difadvantageous in fome 
 Points. But their Joy was ofihort Continuance, 
 
 having received the News of the Vaffiacan Maf* ] 
 
 facre, and a little after arrived a Gentleman \ 
 
 from the Prince, that came for informing the ] 
 
 Churches of Languedoc of the Situation of A f- 1 
 
 fair«5, and for requiring their Supply of Men and | 
 
 Money. j 
 
 On the other hand, the Count of CrufTol was I 
 
 no fooner fet out for Court, but the Catholicks , ; 
 
 be- i 
 
3 62 liiftvry of the Ueforffiatwt^ and of the Vol. 11* 
 Charles began to ftir up every where, efpecially in Pro- 
 
 ^ vence, as already mentioned \ therefore the Re- 
 Pope ?i\is foi'tt^ed of Low-Languedoc, having enough to 
 
 IV. do to provide for themfelves, were not in a Ca- 
 pacity of fending to the Prince all the Succours 
 of Men and Money that they could have wifh- 
 ed. However, they granted five thoufand Li- 
 vres for the beginning, and five Companies of 
 Foot, under the Command of five Captains j 
 which Companies were joined by four others 
 coming from Provence, after the taking of Bar- 
 jols. Affairs remained at Nimes in a State 
 peaceable enough till the Month of May. 
 
 It was not the fame in feveral other Places of 
 Languedoc. At Ca/ielnau d'jf^rry, intheLau- 
 ragueze, the Reformed were affaulted in their 
 Church by the Catholicks, and many of them 
 of both Sexes were cruelly murdered, among 
 whom were two Confuls, a Counfellor, the Judge 
 in ordinary, the King's Attorney, a Comptroller, 
 and the Minifter, whofe Belly they ripped after 
 his Death. 
 
 At Carcajfonne^ Renei, &c. they were treated 
 by the Catholicks with the fame Cruelty. But 
 at Beziers the Reformed that were in great- 
 er number than the Catholicks, had not Difcre- 
 lion or Moderation enough to ufe well their 
 Advantage, but they were outragious, calling 
 the Catholicks Popijh^ Gregorians, and other 
 fuch Names, which was retorted by the Catho- 
 licks, who called them Huguenots^ Lutherans 
 and Gregous ; then on the third of May they fell 
 upon the Images and tore them to pieces. Ne- 
 verthelefs I do not find that they were expofed 
 to any great Hardfiiip, only they were obliged 
 to be upon their guard, being threatned two or 
 three times with a Siege. On the 2 ift of Febru- 
 ary 1563, the City was upon the point of being 
 
 taken 
 
Bo o K I V. Reformed Churches /« Fr a n c e . 363 
 
 taken by Scalado, the Enemies having kept In- Charles 
 telligence with Tome Priefts , but they were re- . 
 pulfed, and all the Priefts obliged to depart the p^ J 
 City. It is very obfervable, that in November 
 of the laft Year, all the Nuns that were at Be- 
 
 ziers Pabjured the Catholick Religion, and em- ] 
 
 braced the Reformed •, and that of their own ' 
 
 Accord and without any Violence at all. \ 
 
 To return to Nimes, the Reformed Inhabi- I 
 
 tants that were in greater Number than the ) 
 Catholicks, and were Matters of the City, un- 
 
 derftanding how hardly their Brethren were ufed ' 
 
 at Ayguemortes and feveral other Places beyond i 
 
 the Rhone, and whereas from every Part they ' 
 
 reforted to them for Relief, as being the princi- j 
 
 pal Seat of the Senefchalfhip, they levied Troops, \ 
 
 Horfe and Foot ; whereupon the Priefts depart- ] 
 
 ed the City of their own accord, without being ^ 
 
 molefted in any ways ; and the Citizens elected \ 
 
 unanimoufly fix Perfons amongft the Magiftrates ' 1 
 
 and the Burghers, to be joined to the Confuls, j 
 
 with full Power to do whatever they Ihould \ 
 
 think requifite at any Emergency for the pubiick I 
 Good and Welfare. • ! 
 
 On the 27th of May the Lord Beaudifner, i 
 
 youngeft Brother to the Count of CrufTol, was e- '\ 
 
 lefted Chief and Protedor of the Churches of \ 
 
 Languedoc, under the King and the Prince's j 
 
 Authority ; which Eledion was afterv;ards ap- j 
 
 proved and ratified by all the Nobility, and ge- \ 
 
 nerally by all the Reformed Party in thofe I 
 Parts *. 
 
 At Montpeiier the number of the Reformed Mc7///^/zV/' 1 
 
 was increafed to fuch a degree, notwithftanding ,1 
 
 all the Oppofttion of the Bifhop and the Canons, \ 
 
 that in the Month of Odober, 1561, upon the | 
 fame Day that the Count of Villars was inter'd 
 
 in ! 
 
 * Beze liv. x. Thuan.. Ifv. xxxi. ] 
 
364 Hijiory of the Reformatio?!^ and of the Vol.IL 
 Charles in the City the Year befare for deftroying the 
 ^^- Reformed Church there-, Montpelier wasintirely 
 P \ P^iis c^^"^^*^ ^''O"^ ^ Objeds of Superftition,theMonks 
 ]V. having departed the City of their own accord, 
 carrying off whatever was deareft to theni, with- 
 out any Hindrance ; which happened by the 
 Fault of the Canons and Monks, having plotted 
 againft the City, and armed themfeJves in order 
 to deftroy the Reformed therein ; and refufed 
 not only to obey the Magiftrates Orders, but 
 even to hearken to any Terms of Agreement, 
 and abufed in a fhameful manner the Deputies 
 that had been fent to them on that account* 
 without any Regard to their Charadler : where- 
 upon the Reformed, in concert with the moft 
 fober among the Catholicks, feeing themfelves 
 obliged to repel Force by Force, attacked them 
 fo brifkly, that fome of the feditious having been 
 flain, the Reformed remained Mailers of the 
 City. 
 
 An Account of all thefe Tranfat^ions having 
 been fent to the King by the Confuls and Magi- 
 ftrates of the City, his Majefty anfwered very 
 gracioufly and favourably for the Reformed \ 
 but he injoined withal, all the Inhabitants to 
 bring their Arms into the Confular-houfe, and 
 the Reformed were to reftore all the Churches 
 with xXy^ Relicks, &c. to their Owners i thefe 
 Letters were of the 1 5th of November, where- 
 to the Reformed fubmitted themfelves. But on 
 the 2 2d of the fame Month, the Clergy of their 
 own accord came to an Agreement with the Re- 
 formed, whereby they parted the Churches a- 
 mongft themfelves •, and thefe laft had three al- 
 lowed for their ov/n Ufe, viz. that ofLaLoge, 
 of St. Matthew, and of St. Paul, the Deed 
 of that Ceffion was drawn in due Form by a 
 publick Notary on the 14th of December. 
 
 The 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches inT^Aiic-E. 365 
 The Count of Cruflbl being arrived at Fille^ Charles 
 fieufve d* Avignon, wrote to Montpelier ordering ^^• 
 them to fend him two Counfellors of the Pre- p^Jpfus 
 fidial, two Confuls, and two Burgefles of the iv. 
 Roman ReJigion, and a Minifter with an Elder '-—v—*^ 
 of the Reformed, that he might notify to them 
 the King's Will and Pleafure. Thefe Orders 
 being obeyed, the faid Count told the Deputies, 
 that his Majefty commanded the Reformed 
 Inhabitants to reftore immediately the Churches 
 and every thing belonging thereto, to their Ow- 
 ners, and not to difturb them in the full En- 
 joyment of all their Rights and Privileges. 
 
 Peter ViRET, one of the moft renowned Mi- 
 nifters in thofe Days, who was then arrived in 
 thofe Parts, wrote likewife to the fame Purport 
 to the Church of Montpelier -, and becaufe his 
 Letter is a plain Argument of the true Opini- 
 on the fober Men among the Reformed enter- 
 tained about the breaking of Images and other 
 Violences committed by more rafh and incon- 
 fiderate People of that Party, I fhall infert it 
 here at large. The Superfcription runs thus ; 
 
 To MY GOOD Lords and honoured BRE-Virct*jr 
 
 TKREN OF THE ChURCHES OF LaNGUE- ■^*''''' 
 
 DOC, assembled TOGETHER IN THE CoL-^, , ^ 
 
 - . ^ _, Lhurch of 
 
 I.OQUE AT MoNTPELIEP,<jRACE AND PeACE Monipe^ ' 
 
 BY OUR Lord Jesus Christ. lier. 
 
 DEAR AND HONOURED BRE- 
 
 T H R E N, 
 , nr^ H E Gentlemen CommifTaries deputed 
 , J^ to my Lord of Cruflbl by the Colloaue 
 , of Montpelier have communicated to me what 
 , Anfwer they had received, which is fuch as 
 , I expedled. Since then it is decreed for the 
 , prefent, that we muft reftore the Churches, 
 
 and 
 
IX. 
 
 1563. 
 
 "iope Pius 
 IV. 
 
 366 Hi/iory of the ReformatioTiy and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles . and Jay down Arms, we cannot contravene 
 without firft difobeying God, and being 
 held for a mutinous, feditious and rebellious 
 People, without greatly provoking the King 
 and his Council, and obliging the faid Count 
 of Cruflbi the King's Lieutenant, for that 
 Purpofe, to ufe Rigour and main Force againft 
 us ; whereas they have an Inclination of fa- 
 vouring and protcding us againft our Adver- 
 faries, for nothing material but only acceflbry 
 is nov/ in queftion -, fince we are not forbid 
 to affemble, and to perform whatever belongs 
 to the true Divine Service in our Aflemblies, 
 but only to feize upon the Churches \ and 
 even upon fuch a Condition that we are pro- 
 mifed that we fhall have convenient Places 
 allowed to us for meeting together ; and that 
 by the King's Authority, which muft be well 
 obferved, for till now, our Aflemblies have 
 not been authorized by the King, as they will 
 be hereafter, fince we have now a full De- 
 claration of his Good-will towards us, which we 
 have not had heretofore, only by PermifTion, 
 or fpeaking more properly, it was only a con-< 
 niving at, and an overlooking of what we were 
 a-doing. Therefore we have great reafon to 
 praife God for his Mercies towards us, and 
 efpecially becaufe no notice is taken of many 
 things done rallily by fome of our own Peo- 
 ple that dderve Death, were the King's E- 
 di(fts ftridly executed •, and, may be, would 
 be fo punillied, if, by our prefent Obedience 
 we do not make amends for paft Offences, 
 committed by the too great Raftinefs and Li- 
 centioufnefs of the Guilty : For when every 
 thing fhall be duly weighed and confidered, 
 it will be found a very dangerous Precedent, 
 5 that the Subjeds ^Quld take upon themfelves 
 
 ,the 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches inF rah ce. 367 
 , the Liberty and Authority of undertaking fuch Charles 
 great things (the feizing upon the Properties of ■^^* 
 others^ and deftroying the Altars^ Croffes^ I- p^l pi^s 
 mages, Reliques, ^c.) and of ufurping the IV. 
 Power, Authority and Execution belonging ' 
 only to the King, and the Magiftrate appointed 
 by him, as the Holy Scripture teaches us. For 
 the Cafe is very different in extraordinary Cal- 
 lings (fuch was the Cafe of Elijah with the 
 Priefs of Baal ; ofjoftah with the Golden Calves 
 in Dan and Bethel, and fome others related in 
 the Holy Writings) which could not be drawn 
 in confequence, and under the Pretence where- 
 of, it would be a very dangerous thing to un- 
 'dertake any thing, without a fpecial Certain- 
 ty of God's Will and Approbation; As to us, 
 we have no evident Teftimony in the Holy 
 Writings for an extraordinary Calling, but we 
 muft confider our felves in the Cafe of the 
 ordinary ones. We have then matter to praife 
 God for our being tolerated and fpared, to 
 the end that the heavieft Judgment fhould 
 fall upon our Adverfaries. Therefore we muft 
 be fo much the readier to obey, feeing that 
 our Obedience will ferve not only as a Co- 
 vert for concealing the paft Offences, and in- 
 titling us to a greater Share in the Favour of 
 thofe great Pcrfons that have favoured us already, 
 but likewife will afford them a better Oppor- 
 tunity of difcountenancing our Adverfaries, 
 and punifhing thofe amongft them that de- 
 ferve it. Therefore, as heretofore, I have al- 
 v/ays exhorted my Hearers to obey the King's 
 Edidts, as far as that Obedience is not con- 
 trary to that due unto God, and to their 
 Confciences ; fo have I exhorted them to do 
 the fame in the prefent JunAure, and fubmit 
 
 , them- 
 
Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. JI, 
 themfelves to what is now required from us, 
 feeing that we cannot refufe to comply, with- 
 out infringing our Duty, and without giving 
 Scandal, and expofing the Church and all its 
 faithful Members to great Danger, and giv- 
 ing our Adverfaries great occafion of rejoi- 
 cing ; for they defire rather our Rebellion, 
 whereby we fhould afford them a fair Pretence 
 of fpeaking evil of us, than our Obedience, 
 whereby we fhall fhut their Mouths. I have 
 written to you at large upon this Subjed:, be- 
 caufe I don't doubt but feveral will think this 
 Reflitution very hard and grievous, and much 
 backwarding the Progrefs of the Gofpel •, but 
 we ought rather to hope, that God, in hum^ 
 bling us after that manner, intends our future 
 Exaltation, and the deprefllng of our Ene- 
 mies. Therefore let us not be moved by 
 their Arrogance, but let us wait patiently for 
 the Good- will of the Lord, forbearing the 
 making any ill ufe of his Gifts and Graces, 
 and worfhipping and honouring him as it is 
 meet ; to whom I recommend you, befeeching 
 him that he would be pleafed to direct you 
 by his Holy Spirit in every thing, and that he; 
 would keep and proted you. 
 
 From Nimes, the 15th of January, 1562. 
 
 Your Brother and Servant, 
 
 PETER VIRET. 
 
 So on the 2 2d of January 1562, the Keys of 
 the abovefaid Churches (according to the King's 
 Will) were delivered into the Hands of the 
 Judge Criminal. The Reformed held their 
 Meeting a Month after, in the great School and 
 
B o OK T V . Reformed Churches /« F r a n c e . 369 
 in the old Court, as formerly. Viret being come Charles 
 to Mont feller for the fake of his Health, per- ^^' 
 formed there his Minifterial Fundions ; the p^pl puis 
 Januarian Edi6t having been publifhed in that IV. 
 City on the 7th of February, in Conformity 
 to which the Reformed held their AfTemblies in 
 one of the Suburbs, at a place called the Gate of 
 hates *. 
 
 Neverthelefs the Roman Catholicks dar'd not 
 to begin again the Performance of their religious 
 Service, till the coming of the Count of CrulTol, 
 who arrived in the City on the 9th of March, 
 and the next Day he fummoned the Officers of 
 the Prefidials, the Confuls, and the Elders of 
 the Reformed Church, with the Roman Clergy, 
 and notified to them the King's Will about the 
 peaceful and publick Exercife of bcth Religions, 
 whereupon both Parties declared their readinefs 
 to live in Peace one with another ; and for ob- 
 viating ail manner of Inconveniencies a Gentle- 
 man was appointed by the faid Lord to remain 
 in the City and be Super-intendant, withaGiard 
 of twenty five Soldiers, and was impowerc;d to 
 raife more, if there was occafion for it. 
 
 It is obfervable, that v/hile Peter Viret preach- 
 ed at Mcntpelier on Eafter-Day, the 29th of 
 March 1562, three Suns were {t^r\. in the Sky, 
 for an Hour and a half together, being furround- 
 ed with a Rainbov/, which was taken by many 
 in thofe Dnys, and hath been about fifty Years 
 after by the great Thuanus, as a certain Omen 
 of the Commotions that began in. the Kingdom 
 that very Day in feveral Parts, and continued fo 
 Jong afterwards \ but I fuppofe that our Natu-- 
 ralifts will not be more fuperftitious than I am 
 my felf upon fuch things. 
 
 Vol. II. B b On 
 
 *^Beze liv. v./. 88j, -^888. 
 
37^ Hijlory of the Reformation, and of the Vol A\, 
 
 Chades On the 13th of April the Roman Clergy be- 
 
 1563. g^J^ ^o perform their Service at Montpelier in 
 
 Pcfe Pius St. Firmin's Church •, but they were interrupted 
 iV. by a very odd Accident, a very fmall Stone fell 
 from the Roof, upon the Head of one that was 
 in the Church, whereupon he was put in fuch a 
 Fright, that with his Shrieks, joined with thofe 
 of a young Lad forced into the Church by his 
 own Uncle Captain Rat, all the Congregation 
 was alarmed, and the Priefts were the firft to 
 run away. From thenceforward they lived 
 quietly enough, confidering the times ; the E- 
 nemy madjg feveral Attempts againft the City, 
 but always without Succefs ; and at laft Peace 
 being made, it was publifhed at Montpelier on 
 the nth of May 1563 •, and by a mutual Agree- 
 ment between the Catholicks and Reformed, 
 thefe laft were allowed three Churches in the 
 City, viz. La Loge's, St. Paul*s, and St. Firmin's, 
 inftead of St. Matthewf. 
 
 Yllf' NoNNAY in Vivaretz had much more to fuf- 
 fer ; at the beginning of the War, the Reformed 
 Inhabitants having took upon them the whole 
 Adminiftration of the Town, in fpite of the 
 Catholicks, they broke to pieces the Altars, and 
 tore the Images, whereby they drew upon them- 
 felves the Hatred, not only of their Fellow- 
 Citizens, but alfo of their Neighbours, who 
 were extremely incenfed againft them. Never- 
 thelefs there was no further Difturbance in the 
 Town, till the latter end of Auguft, when Cap- 
 tain Sarrafs was fent by Des Adrets to be Go- 
 vernor of the Town. He did find it unpro- 
 vided with Arms, therefore to fupply it, 
 he went in the Night-time, on the 7th of Odo- 
 ber, to St. Stephen in Foretz, a neighbouring 
 Town, wherein all forts of Arms were forged, 
 
 and 
 f Bezeliv.x.p. 143, Sec, Thuan. lib. xxxii. 
 
 RETZ. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 371 
 and having fet fire to the Gates, he entrcd the Charles 
 Town, and took away feveral Loads of Arms, ^ ^' 
 without any further Violence, But as he was p^pe Pius 
 coming back to Nonnay, he was attacked and IV. 
 obliged to fight v/ith fo great Difadvantage, that' 
 120 of his Men were partly wounded and part- 
 ly killed; his own Brother was dangeroufly 
 v/ounded, and he himfelf taken Prifoner. 
 
 Four Days after St, Chaumont, feiit by th^ 
 Duke of Nemours, arrived before Nonnay on 
 the laft Day of Osflober, and while he was treat- 
 ing with the Inhabitants for the furrcnder of that 
 Place, he enter'd it by Force, and committed 
 in it all thofe A6ls of Avarice, Cruelty and 
 Lewdnefs that could be expecfced from a fierce 
 Enemy ; twenty two Houfes were burnt to the 
 Ground •, and had it not been for the Bailiff, the 
 whole Town would have been laid in Afhes. 
 The Inhabitants running away, the Town was 
 almoft deferred for feveral Weeks. But the Con- 
 fuls and the King's Attorney, who was retired to 
 Tcurnon, petitioned the Count of CrufTol for fome 
 Relief, and Captain St. Martin was fent thither 
 with 400 Men, Horfe and Foot, v/ho repaired 
 immediately the Walls and fortified the Gates, 
 and prepared every thing necefTary for the De- 
 fence of that Place. But St. Chaumont being 
 fent again by Nemours, with four thoufand 
 Men and two Cannons, St. Martin came back to 
 Tournon with moft part of his Horfe, leaving 
 the Guard and Defence of Nonnay to the Care of 
 three Captains, St. Chaumont having battered 
 the Walls, made a Breach •, hut feeing tliat it 
 v/as very difficult to give an Aflauk, he en- 
 deavoured to engage the three Captains to 
 come to a Parley. After feveral Debates they 
 came to this Agreement, i{^. That the OfRcers 
 and Soldiers fhcu'd march out of the Town with 
 B b 2 their 
 
372 Hiftory of the Reformation^ and of the V o l . II . 
 Charles their Horfe and Arms, their Colours excepted. 
 2d, That the Inhabitants fhould receive no Da- 
 mage from the Soldiers. Thefe Conditions were 
 fworn upon and fubfcrlbed by the two Parties, 
 but violated by the Catholicks \ for St. Chau- 
 mont was no fooncr Mafter of the Town, than 
 without any Diftiiidllon of Sex, he cruelly mur- 
 dered all tlioic that fell into his hands, plunde- 
 red the Houfes, and wafted whatever he could 
 not carry away. Such was the State of Langue- 
 doc till the Edict of Peace, and in many Places 
 till feveral Months after {d). 
 Of Gui- The War v/as kindled in Guienne almoft eve- 
 ^^^^- ry where, and carried v/ith very different Suc- 
 cefs, by four Chiefs. Two of whom on the 
 Catholick Side, were Men of Note and great 
 Authority, viz. Montluc and Burie ; This, Go- 
 vernour of Bourdeaux and of the upper Guienne, 
 and the other Governor of all Aquitaine. The two 
 on the Reformed Side were not very confider- 
 nble for their Birth, Rank, Eftate or Credit ; 
 but they were very confplcuous for their Probi- 
 ty, Courage and Fortitude, and whofe Names 
 deferve to be mentioned with the greateft En- 
 comiums to the remoteft Pofterity ; the one Vv-as 
 Captain Piles, a private Gentleman of Berge- 
 rac ; the other Was La Riviere, v/ho was a 
 Student at Thouloufe at the beginning of the 
 War, and was come with the Count cf Gram- 
 n\ont to Orleans. Thefe two Gentlemen fup- 
 jTOVted the Reformed Party in thofe parts with 
 the {jrcateft Glory, and put a Stop to the Ene- 
 mies Progrefs. We fhall mention their glorious 
 Exploits pipfently. 
 BouR- At Bourdeaux,' tho* the Reformed were quiet, 
 
 DEAux. neverthelefs M. De Nouallles, with fo me J:*refi- 
 dents and Counfellors, feeing that the iaid Re- 
 formed 
 
 (d} Dinoth. lib. ii.adfin. Beza liv. x. 
 
Boo K IV. Reformed Churches //^ Fr a n c e . 3 73 
 formed were in a greater Number and ftronger Charles 
 than the Catholicks, introduced into the City ^\ 
 two Companies of Foot, to which the Parliament p^^,^ Piu 
 added another -, whereupon the Reformed elcd- IV^ 
 ed fome Captains, who with their Companies 
 took upon them the Guard of the City Gates, for 
 hindering the Country People from coming in, 
 in a tumultuous manner, not having forgotten 
 the Sedition of 1548. However, no Hoftility 
 was committed, and they fent to Nouailles for 
 accounting for what they had done. Burie iin- 
 derftanding this came fpeedily toBourdeaux, and 
 at his coming he difbanded the Company of 
 the Parliament, but afterwards being bribed in- 
 to the Triumvirate's Party, he made fevcral 
 warlike Preparations, notwithftanding the Re- 
 monftrances of the Reformed Inhabitants, who 
 on the other hand received frequent Advices 
 from the Prince to provide for their own Securi- 
 ty. Therefore they refolved to feize upon the 
 Government of the City, They fent to Baron 
 de Duras, who was in the Neighbourhood, af- 
 fembling his Troops, in order to lead them to 
 Orleans, defirjng his Affifcance for executing 
 their Scheme, which he promifed. But being 
 pot come at the Day appointed, as they knew 
 that Burie was informed of their Defign, moil 
 part of them departed the City and went to 
 Duras ', thofe who remained becaine the Prey of 
 their Enemy ; for Burie's Troops rufhing into 
 their Houfes, plundered them, and murdered all 
 thofe they could meet, as guilty, in their Opinion, 
 of Sedition and Rebellion (^). 
 
 Every thing being pacified at Bourdeaux, 
 Montluc and Burie refolved to purfue Duras, 
 and to give him Battle upon the firft Opportu- 
 nity •, whereof Duras having got Intelligence by 
 Bb 3 hts 
 
 (e) Dinoth. ibid. Beze liv, viii, p. 75 j, e^^c. 
 
374 Hijlory oftheRejormatton^andof the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles hi3 Spies, he encamped on a level Ground, 
 ^^ wherein having v/aited in vain all the Day long. 
 
 Pipe Pill', ^^^ Burie, he refolved to continue his March to 
 IV. Orleans. He was hardly gone a Mile and a half, 
 
 ^— v— ' when Montluc fet upon the Van led by Duras 
 himfelf -, he withftood the Onfet, and ?/[ontluc 
 was obliged to retire, having loft 300 Men, and 
 Duras 30 only. 
 
 Montluc having quitted the Field to Duras, 
 he went and ftormed the Town of Monfegur, 
 where he gave way to all manner of Cruelty, 
 I^ewdnefs and Avarice. The Reformed of y^^w, 
 frightned by that Example, departed the City, 
 which Montluc and Burie underftanding, they 
 came into it and plundered their Houfes. Mean 
 while Duras, going to Orleans by fmall Journies, 
 ilormed Lauzerte in Quercy^ wherein a vaft num- 
 ber of Priefts had taken Sanftuary, he plundered 
 it, and there were about fix hundred of the In- 
 habitants put to the Sword, amongft whom near 
 two hundred Priefts were reckoned. On the 
 other hand, Montluc came to Pcrae^ which he 
 found quite deftitute of Inhabitants, becaufe they 
 had retired into the Caftle, which by reafon of 
 its Situaticn and Fcrcification was thought im- 
 pregnable ; but that General having battered it 
 for three Days together, took it at laft by ftorm, 
 and rpared no body, not even the fucking Babes, 
 but put them all to the Sword \ he was fo much 
 the more incenfed, that he had loft feventy Men 
 in the feveral Aflaulrs. 
 
 Tue T^cut Duras having carried av/ay two Cannons and 
 
 «/"Dura5. other Pieces of Artillery from Montauban, as 
 abovefaid, continued his March to Orleans *, but 
 Montluc having received fome Companies of 
 Spaniards, ftormed in his way 'Taraiibe^ and re- 
 ceived L.edoiire by Ccmpofition, followed him 
 with great Celerity, and met him in the Peri- 
 
 gord\ 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /« F r a n c e . 375 
 gord -, he encamped at a Place called Sliiavere, Charles 
 half a League diftant from Fer, where Duras ^^• 
 was. The Vanguard of the Montluccians hav- Poplf]' 
 ing been difcovered on the 9th of Odlober early IV. 
 in the Morning by the Duraffians, they gave 
 immediately the Alarm in their Camp. Where- 
 upon Duras, who thought not that his Enemy 
 was fo near, enquired about the Matter, and 
 was told that it was only a Troop of the Go- 
 vernor of Perigort, that had a-mind to fall upon 
 his Rear ; and that as to Montluc he was at ten 
 Leagues diftance from the Place. Duras, in- 
 ftead of fending to reconnoitre^ commanded a 
 hundred Muiketeers and thirty Foot to lie in 
 ambufh in a Wood, to fall upon the Rear of 
 that pretended Troop, if it proceeded any fur- 
 ther. Montluc feeing that Duras had no mind 
 to fight, fent two Troops of Arquebuiiers to 
 ftop him, till he might come himfelf with all his 
 Forces. Thefe Troops being gone beyond, the 
 Wood, the Duraffians that lay in Ambuih came 
 out and fell upon them ; but having avoided 
 the Engagement, they went back to their Ar- 
 my. 
 
 Montluc, defiring to bring Matters to a decl- 
 flve Battle, caufed all his Troops to march for- 
 ward. Pardaillan, one of Duras's Officers, who 
 thought that Montluc was very far off, went 
 himfelf to reconnoitre^ and being come back, 
 told Duras that the Enemy's Army was not a 
 Mile off; and that they could by no means a- 
 void the Battle ; therefore he thought it was ab- 
 folutely neceflary to difpofe their Troops in fuch 
 a manner that they might withftand the Onfet. 
 But Duras gave no heed to Pardaillan's Advice, 
 and ordered his Foot to turn their Backs to the 
 Enemy, in order to crofs the River, and avoid 
 the Battle by that means ; whereat Pardaillan ex- 
 B b 4 claimed* 
 
 lUS 
 
37^ Hijlory of the Reformation y and of the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles claimed, and fhewed forth by feveral Examples, 
 ^^' that when two Armies are in Prefence of one 
 Popg P/^j another, the firft that retreats is certainly van- 
 IV. quifned ; but all his Remonftrances were in vain. 
 'Montluc and Burie very glad to fee Duras de- 
 clining the Battle, fet their own Army in Battle- 
 Array, and having fired with their Field-Pieces 
 amongft the Muflceteers of Duras, they put them 
 to rout •, then they fell upon his Foot, which 
 endeavoured to efcape by flight, and made a 
 great (laughter of them : They took all his Ar- 
 tillery and Baggage, and while the Montluccians 
 were bufied in plundering the Camp, part of 
 Duras's Foot had time enough to crofs the Ri- 
 ver Dordogne. They endeavoured to retreat 
 into Montauban, but moft of them v/ere taken 
 Prifoners upon, the Road, and carried to Agen, 
 where they were hanged like Highwaymen. 
 It was computed that Duras loft in that Day, 
 above two thoufand, either Soldiers, or Soldiers 
 Boys -, feveral were wounded, amongft whom 
 were the Baron of Montandre, the Lord ofCau- 
 mont, and the Baron of Duras's Son. As to 
 the Baron himfelf, having gathered the fcatter*d 
 Remnants of his Army, he continu'd his March 
 to Orleans. He had hardly march'd fix Miles, 
 when he was ftt upon by a new Troop of Ene- 
 mies, to the number of four hundred, whom 
 he attacked with fuch Fury, that he put them 
 all to the Sword, three only excepted. Then 
 he continued his March without any great Di- 
 fturbance. 
 
 The Count of La Pvochcfoucault, v.ho wasbe- 
 fieging St. Jean d'Ar.gely, underftanding that 
 Montluc haxi routed Duras, thought proper to 
 raife the Siege, and havhig joined his Troops 
 with the Duraftians, they came to Orleans, but 
 a great number of them deferted upon the Road, 
 
 in- 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /;z France. 
 in fo much that there was but three hundred 
 Horfe, and fifteen hundred Foot when they ar- 
 rived in that City. 
 
 After the Battle of Ver^ Burie went to Bour- 
 deauXy and Montluc into Gafcony. The Refor- 
 med in all thofe Parts of the Parliament of Thou- 
 loufe's Jurifdi6lion, were in a very wretched Con- 
 dition, deftitute of every Comfort of Life ; they 
 were obliged to fly from place to place, almoft 
 naked, ftarving with Hunger, and in a perpe- 
 tual Fqar. 
 
 Such being their Condition, there arofe a De- 'The glori- 
 liverer unlooked for, viz. Armand de Cler- ^"^I^"^'-^ 
 MONT Lord of Piles. Who, tho' he could ^^^J^^'^*''' 
 not entirely reftore the Reformed Party in Piles 
 Guienne, neverthelefs he gave fuch check to the^^"^^'-'- 
 Catholicks, that they dared not attempt any^*^'^^" 
 thing, but what turned to their own Detriment, 
 in the Country wherein he lived. 
 
 This Gentleman being at Orleans with the 
 Prince, and underftanding that Montluc and 
 Burie made fuch great havock in Guienne, that 
 none of the Reformed dared to cope with them, 
 nor even to remain fafe in their own Houfes, in- 
 flamed with a defire of relieving his Country, fo 
 miferably affli(5led, and having perfuaded fomc 
 Soldiers to follow him, he came by Jong Jour- 
 nles to Xaintonge. There, tho' he endeavour- 
 ed to engage fome of the Gentry not to forfake 
 their own Country, his Intreaties prevailed not, for 
 fix Soldiers only remained with him, all the reft 
 went to join the Prince at Orleans. However, 
 tho' in fuch DIftrefs, he was not wanting to him- 
 felf, but whatever Misfortune might befal him» 
 he refolved to relieve his Country and Religion ; 
 therefore he v^ent to his own Houfe near Ber- 
 gerac with thofe fix Soldiers, and enquired as. 
 fecretly as he could, whether he could find 
 
 fome 
 
3 7 S Jii/iory of the Reform aft on, and of the Vol . II. 
 Charle; fome Reformed, thinking fas it was truej that there 
 ■ were Tome of them remaining in the Country, 
 Fope Pius ti'-it they were concealing themfelves, or flying 
 IV. fi-om one Place to another; however, having 
 ^ met with fome, he exhorted them not to be de- 
 fponding •, and if they knew any other of their 
 Communion able to bear Arms, to engage them 
 to t-ikethem up, that he v/ould be their Chief -, he 
 appointed like wife fome Places, where they might 
 be found whenever he fhould have occafion for 
 them. He did not fit ftill in his own Houfe, 
 but went from one Place to another, waiting for 
 an Opportunity of entring on A6lion. It offer- 
 ed it felf foon after ; for underftanding that fe- 
 vcral Reformed detained Prifoners at Bergerac, 
 were to be foon executed, he refolved to refcue 
 them. Therefore having picked out thirty 
 Men, whom he thought the moft refolute and 
 courageous of all thofe who had offered their 
 Service to him, he canle to Bergerac, and un- 
 expededly being entered into the Town, he 
 went to one of his Houfes there, thro' the middle 
 of the Place, all the Citizens and the Garifon be- 
 ing frightn'sd out of their Wits at fuch an un- 
 common Boldnefs, and fearing le^ he would be 
 followed by fome greater Forces ; therefore, in- 
 llead of their Arms, they made ufe of Prayers 
 and Intreaties, befeeching him to depart the City 
 with all His Men ; and that whatever was in 
 their power was at his Service, and that they 
 would do any thing to oblige him. But Piles 
 anfwered. That he was not come to go out fo 
 foon \ and that he would put them all to the 
 S'vvord, if in a Minute they did not deliver into 
 his hands all the Prifoners they had for Religi- 
 on's fake. Whereupon, feeing that he required 
 nothing more, and unwilling to engage in Fight 
 with Desperadoes, they ^granted his Requefl, 
 
 and 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches /?2 France. 379 
 and having received the Prifoners, he went ^iiarles 
 back with them to his Country-Houfe, without ^^ 
 doing any further harm or damage to the Inha- pJe piug 
 bitants. IV. 
 
 Now, whereas he intercepted every Day fome 
 of them, who went onhorfeback upon their pri- 
 vate Bufinefs, and took their Horfes to beftow 
 upon his own Followers, all the Country rofe 
 againft him ; therefore he was obliged to leave 
 the Place, and left in his ftead Riviere for 
 protefting thofe that remained concealed in thofe 
 Parts againft the Violence of their Enemies. 
 This Gentleman underftanding that the Town of 
 St. Foy upon the Dordogne, had been furpriz- 
 ed by Rezat one of theMontluccian Officers ; 
 and that the Reformed of that Place, were in 
 great danger of their Lives, took along with 
 him only three Arquebufiers, fourteen Crofs- 
 Bow-Men and fome Peafants with their Forks, 
 and came in the Night-time to the Walls of 
 the Town, and having fet Ladders in a proper 
 Place, they enter'd into it without being difco- 
 vered j they went diredly to the Market-Place, 
 where Rezat had left a Corps de Guard, and 
 put them all to the Sword before they could be 
 relieved. The Troops that were quartered 
 upon the Inhabitants, hearing the Noife, dared 
 not ftir out from their Houfes for an Hour, 
 thinking that the Town was full of Enemies, 
 but afterwards feeing that every one was quiet 
 again, and hearing no noife in the Streets, fome 
 of them came out to the Corps de Girard, to 
 know what was the matter ; but inftead of their 
 Companions, they met their Enemies ; and 
 whereas they came in fmall numbers, two or 
 three together, they were all jQain as they came 
 in. As Rivere fiw that no body ftirred any 
 more in the Town, he rulTied with his Men in- 
 to 
 
380 Hiflory of the ReformafioHy and of the Vol Al. 
 
 Charles to the Honfes, took feveral Prifoners, and Re- 
 ZAT himfelf, who had been fo cruel as to keep 
 alJ the Day long the Miniller of the Place tied 
 up to the Poft of his Bed, in order to haveJiim 
 publickly executed on the next Day» Rezat 
 then being then taken Prifoner, was put by Ri- 
 viere under the Care of his Men, who (becaufe 
 he had been unmercifully cruel towards the Re- 
 formed who fell into- his hands, being always 
 followed by an Executioner who bragged that 
 he had hanged for his Share (tytn hundred, by 
 his Matter's Orders) murdered him about Noon, 
 notwithftanding Riviere's Intreaties to the 
 contrary. This happened about the i8th of 
 December 1562 -, there were fourfcove Rezatines 
 killed on this occafion, befides their Chief, but 
 not one Man was killed on the other fide. Now 
 Riviere feeing that the Town was not ttrong 
 enough to withftand a Siege, marched out with 
 his Men. 
 
 Montluc and Burie underftanding thefe Pro- 
 greffes of Piles and Riviere, who undertook 
 ilich great Feats, and fucceeded with fo fmall 
 a number of Men, thought that it was neceHary 
 to put a Stop to them, before they fhould be 
 flrengthened with a greater number. There- 
 fore they detached fome Companies of Foot a- 
 gainft them, which made a terrible Havock at 
 Bergerac and in the adjacent Country. Riviere 
 vexed at fuch cruel Treatment ufed againft the 
 poor Inhabitants by the Montluccians, ran up 
 and down the Villages, to aflemble thofe whom 
 he could find courageous enough to join with 
 him •, and having made a Body of one hundred 
 and twenty Peafants, with only twelve Soldiers, 
 he attacked in the Niglit-timc, one Captain La 
 Sale, belonging to Montluc, in a Village called 
 Cajiain, where he arrived the Day before with 
 
 three 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fran ce. 381 
 
 three hundred Men ; the Aflailors were fo fuccers- Charles 
 ful at firft, that they killed one hundred and forty ^^• 
 Men of La Sale's, and would have deftroy*d them pLl pj^g 
 all had they followed Riviere's Orders: Not IV. 
 one of his Troop was mified ; from thence he re- 
 treated into the Suburbs of Bergerac. 
 
 There was in the Neighbourhood five Compa- 
 nies of Montluccian Foot, and a Cornet of 
 Horfe, who defiring to be revenged of the 
 Slaughter of their Companions,put themfelves in 
 battle-array in an open Field, waiting till Ri- 
 viere fhould march out of the Suburbs of Ber- 
 gerac^ in hopes that they fhould -rafily cut him to 
 pieces, if he was fo rafh as to engage with them ; 
 and if he declined, he could not avoid falling 
 into the hands of fome of the Parties they in- 
 tended to fend after him. Riviere, very fenfi- 
 ble of the threatningi; Danger he was in, beinoe 
 furrounded every where by the Enemies, and 
 having not Forces enough for engaging, feeing 
 befides that, that he could not lead his Men fafe 
 in the Enemy's fight, found himfelf in a great 
 perplexity. But at lafl he thought of a Device 
 which fucceeded to Wifhes. He had a Trumpet 
 along with him, which he caufed to fland hard 
 by behind a Village, and there to found as loud 
 as he could, to make the Enemy believe he had 
 a Troop of Horfe lying in Ambufcade, and by 
 that means hinder them from falling upon his 
 Men, whom he caufed to crofs the River in good 
 order, which they did, having met fome Boats 
 for that purpofe ; the Enemy's Florfe not daring 
 to purfue them, for fear of the pretended Am- 
 bufcade. When they had crofted the River, 
 Riviere did the fame v^ith his Trumpet, in the 
 fight of the Enem.y that gnafhed their Teeth for 
 having been his Cullies. 
 
 Mean 
 
382 mjiory of theReJormatlon^and o/ the Vol.IL 
 
 Mean while Piles wandered in the Agenois 
 and Perigord with fome Soldiers he had ga- 
 thered together •, having got intelligence by his 
 Spies, that a Troop of light Horfe was at Mon- 
 Hagnac^ in order to go and join the Duke of 
 Guife, tho' he was far inferior in number (for he 
 had but fifteen Horfe and as many Foot, where- 
 as that Troop was of one hundred and twenty 
 Horfe) he refolved to attack them, becaufe he 
 thought to furprife them, while they fhould be a- 
 fleep miftrufting of nothing, but he was difcover- 
 ed by the Centinels, neverthelefs he was un- 
 willing to retreat, and refolved to have them by 
 open force •, whereupon, his Foot having heard 
 the Trumpets founding, and feeing that they 
 could not execute their Scheme, without expofing 
 themfelves to an evident Danger, forfook their 
 Chief and went away -, but being not at all 
 moved by their Confternation, Piles with his 
 Horfe only affaulted the Enemy who were rally- 
 ing under their Standard, with fuch a fury, that 
 he routed them immediately, and put them to 
 flight, fifteen of them were killed in that En- 
 gagement i the Horfes were very ufeful to Piles 
 for remounting his Troop, that had but very in- 
 different ones. 
 
 Montluc flirred up by the unexpeded and 
 wonderful Succefs of thefe two Gentlemen, af- 
 fembled Troops from every quarter for fubduing 
 them, or at leaft for expelling them out of his 
 Government. Which being underftood by 
 Piles, feeing that he had not Forces enough to 
 keep the Field, refolv*d to feize upon fome tor- 
 tified Town, aad was fo favoured by Providence, 
 that being entered by Efcalado in the night-time 
 into Mucidan {11 pretty ftrong Town, well enough 
 fortified for thole daysj witii only thirty Men, 
 he made himfelf miiflcr of it •, and v/ith the fame 
 
 Force, 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches zVz Fr an ce. 383 
 Force, having aflaulted the Caftle,. (wherein there Charles 
 was a ftrong Garifon) with only fourteen of his ^" 
 Men, he carried it. pgpg \>\^^ 
 
 The Reformed of that Country hearing the IV. 
 News of that ViAory, came by Bands to Piles, 
 for they all knew Mucidan was a flrong Place. 
 However, he did not: keep them all, becaufe 
 the Town could not aftord Provifions enough, 
 but he pick'd fix hundred out of that Mukitude, 
 judging, That that Number was fufficient for the 
 Defence of the Town : And whereas he knew 
 that Montluc was a Man that would make ail his 
 Efforts, and leave no (lone unturn'd, till he had 
 recover'd the Place, he gave all his Attention 
 and Care for providing the Town with every 
 thing neceflary for withftanding a Siege. 
 
 That being underfhood by Montluc, he af- 
 fembled his Troops, and fent word to the Sq^q- 
 fchal of Perigord to do the fame, to the end, 
 that having joined their Forces together, they 
 might attack vigoroufly Mucidan. But the Se- 
 nefchal, out of Jealoufy againft Montluc, waited 
 not for him ; he went with one hundred and 
 twenty Horfe, and as many Foot, and encamp- 
 ed in a Place ftrong enough by its Situation, 
 waiting for the reft of his Forces. Now, in or- 
 der to draw Piles to an Engagement, he ap- 
 proach'd the Town with his Horfe, and laid 
 his Foot in Ambufcado in a Mill thereabout, 
 coming nearer and nearer the Walls with a Con- 
 fidence fo much the greater, that he knew that 
 Piles had but a very few Florfe. This laft had 
 marched out of the Town with eighty Foot, and 
 had fent before thirty-four Horfe to reconnoitre 
 what number and what fori of Troops were 
 thofe of the Enemy. When the Perigordans 
 defcried them, and judging rightly that Pii^es 
 followed with a greater number they retreated. 
 
 Piles 
 
384 Mijlcry of the Reformation, aJid of theVo-L. 11. 
 Charles Piles purfued them f*ull gallop, but could not 
 
 •'^ come at them •, but he affaulted the Foot lying 
 p^.^ pjyj in Ambufcado, that had difcovered themfelves 
 
 IV. by their firing upon his Troop; they made a 
 itout Refiftance, but at laft the Mill having ta- 
 ken fire, they periilied all to one, either by the 
 Flames, or by the Sword. Piles loft one Man 
 on this Occafion. The Senefchal not thinking 
 himfelf fafe in the Place v/here he had encamp- 
 ed, retreated with his Horfe only, having loft 
 all his Foot, and fo Mucidan was not belieged 
 for that time. Piles feeing himfelf delivered, re- 
 folved upon fome new Expedition, 
 
 Therefore he made an Attempt upon Ber- 
 gerac in the Night-time, which at firft fucceeded 
 not, becaufe the Key which he had caufed to 
 be made for opening one of the Gates, did break 
 of it felf in the Lock; therefore he went back 
 to Mucidan^ four Leagues diilant from Bergerac. 
 But on the 12th of March 1563, he came a- 
 gain, and by the means of an Intelligence, who 
 had his Houfejuft next to the Wall, he enter- 
 ed the Town, put all the Garifon of three hun- 
 dred Men ftrong, to the Sword, and made him- 
 felf Mafter of the Place ; and after having given 
 proper Orders for the keeping of it, he came 
 back to A-Iucidan^ and ftrengthened it every Day 
 with Men and Provifions. Montluc fiirprized 
 at thefe unexpeded Conquefts, fent Orders to 
 Captain Feyrot^ his Son, to march diredJy, and 
 without further Delay to befiege Mucidan with 
 three Cannons. 
 
 But while they were preparing at Bourdeaux 
 the neceflary things for that Siege, the Peace 
 Was concluded between the King and the Prince, 
 which was proclaimed at Bourdeaux^ and Mont- 
 luc having fent notice of it to Piles, h ■ 
 full of Glory into his own Houfi. 
 
 3 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches z« Fr an c e . 385 
 As to Riviere, after that wonderful Re- Charles 
 treat above related, he came the next Day to ,' 
 Boejfe^ in order to go and meet Piles, and was ^^^^ Pius 
 in great danger at Biron^ from whence he ef- IV. 
 caped by letting himfelf down the Wall. A few ' 
 days after, as he was alone, in fearch of Piles, 
 riding a very bad Horfe, and having no other 
 Accoutrement but a Jerkin, he was met and at- 
 tacked by a Party of twenty Horfe, knocked 
 down and taken, after having received a Piftol- 
 Ihot that went quite through his Reins j and 
 in that Condition was led by them over a fmall 
 Bridge upon the Drot, in order to bring him 
 into a fmall Village thereabout. But as they 
 went over the Bridge, being led by two Men, 
 who held him under his Arm-pits, he flipt from 
 them, and threw himfelf into the River, and 
 fwimming betwixt two Waters, till he was tired, 
 he came to one of the Banks, then his Enemies 
 iired at him feveral times, but mifs'd him al- 
 ways, and whereas they were afraid of being 
 difcovered by thofe of Eymet, where Piles was, 
 they perfifted no longer. Riviere being come 
 out of the Water, found himfelf very weak, after 
 the great quantity of Blood that he had loft ; 
 and was in a great perplexity, knowing not that 
 Piles was Mafter cf Eymet. Neverthelefs, as 
 he was not able to walk any longer, he refolved 
 to deliver himfelf Prifoner to the Centinel at the 
 Gate, who brought him to the commanding Of- 
 ficer i but he was very agreeably fur prized to 
 find in his Perfon, his intimate Friend Piles, 
 who received him with all the Dcmonitrations 
 of Joy and Friendihip, but withal of Compaffi- 
 on and Sorrow, becaufe he was forced to fet 
 out from that Place that very Night, or elfe he 
 was in danger of falling into his Enemies hands. 
 Therefore his Wound having been dreft, and 
 Vol. II. C c hav- 
 
386 Hiftory of the Reformation, and of the V o l . 11 . 
 
 Charles having refrefhed himfelf a little, Piles took him 
 ^,g" up behind him on horfeback, and carried him to 
 Pope Pius t^^ Place of his Retirement, from whence he 
 IV. found means of fending him to Pardaillan^ where 
 ^— "V^^he recovered himfelf fo perfe<5ll/ well, that fe- 
 venteen Days after he was able to ride with 
 his Arms on his Back (f). 
 Xain- Immediately after the News of the Vafliacan 
 
 T N G E . Mafiacre was heard in Xaintonge, the Count of La 
 Rochefoucault received Letters from the Prince 
 of Conde, hisBrother-in-Law, whereby he de- 
 fired him to come and meet him at Orleans, as 
 foon as pofhble, with all the Forces he could 
 raife, for delivering the King and Queen from 
 the hands of the Triumvirs, and for the De- 
 fence of the Liberties granted to the Reformed 
 Churches by the Januarian Edid, 
 
 Accordingly the faid Count wrote to the 
 Churches of Xaintonge, and on the 25th of 
 March 1562, moft of the Nobility met toge- 
 ther at St. Jean d*/l}igel)\ for being firft of all re- 
 folved by the Word of God, about the Lawfulnefs 
 of that Undertaking. That Point having been ma- 
 turely debated, it was agreed. That it was law- 
 ful to rife in Arms for the Deliverance of their 
 MajeOies, and the Defence of the Religion op- 
 preiTed by the Triumvirs and their Adherents, 
 iti defiance of the Edidls folemnly fworn and 
 publilhed. 
 
 Whereupon, on the 3d of April, the Nobi- 
 lity afTembled at Briou^ having eledled the Lord 
 St. Martin de La Coudre for their Chief, till 
 they could be joined with the Count of La 
 Rochefoucault, who was already -marching with 
 the Nobihty of Poitou and Angoumois : they 
 
 fet 
 (f) Whatever I have related of thofe two Heroes, is 
 
 extraded out of Beza liv. ix. p. 794, 809. Dinoth. 
 
 lib. ri. p. 164, ■■ '■ 169. Thuan. lib. xxxiv. p. 225, 
 224. 
 
Boo K IV. Reformed Churches /;7 F r a N c e. 3 S7 
 fet out a few Days after, to the Number of Charles 
 three hundred Horfe, having Mr. Charles Leo- ■[^• 
 pard for their Chaplain. They arrived lafe atp^Jp^^'g 
 Tours^ where they received Orders from the IV. 
 Prince to remain for guarding that City till fur- ''-"" V**^ 
 ther Orders. 
 
 Another AfTembly was held at St. Jeand^An- 
 gely, on the 25th of April, to confider of the 
 propereft Means for the Security of the Coun- 
 try during the War •, and that Province was 
 quiet enough for fome time ; only, that for fear 
 of the Seditious, they were obliged in feverai 
 Places to keep their religious Afiemblies within 
 the Towns. The Lord of Martron v/as the firft 
 that difturbed the publick Peace, endeavouring 
 to feize upon the City of Angculeme ; he was re- 
 pulfed by thofeofXAiNTONGE that came to their 
 Relief 
 
 During their Abfence fome Catholicks ofOLEROw.; 
 Oleron, at the Inftigation of fome Priefts, hav- 
 ing feized upon the Fort of St. Andrew de Doius^ 
 gave the beginning to the Wair in thofe Parts. 
 But the Inhabitants of St. Peter* s-Borough fent 
 to Marennes and other adjacent Places, for two 
 Companies of Foot and three Field- Pieces, and 
 having fummoned in vain the Enemies to fur- 
 render, they battered the Fort, and at laft 
 carried it, and many of the Befieged were killed ; 
 but fome time after that, the Ifle was forced to 
 furrender by Compofition, whereby the free Ex- 
 ercife of the Reformed Religion was forbid to 
 the Inhabitants. 
 
 On the 23d of September St. Jean d^AngelySt. Jean 
 was likewife furrendered to the Catholicks by^^^i^^^- 
 Compofition ; but a few days after Richelieu 
 the Monk being come into the Town, he ufed 
 all manner of Cruelties againft the Reformed In- 
 habitants. In the Month of Odoberit wasbe- 
 C c 2 iieged 
 
IV. 
 
 3 8 8 Hijiory. of the Reformat ion y and of the V o l . II, 
 
 Charles fieged by La Rochefoucault •, but Duras having 
 
 !'6:. ^^^'^ routed at the fame time, as above faid, he 
 
 Pope Pius was obliged to raiie the Siege, becaufe of the 
 
 "' Defertion of his Troops. 
 
 All the Province of Xaintonge was put in a 
 terrible Confternation by the faid Rout, and the 
 luddea Departure of I.a Rochefoucault. Many of 
 the Reformed Inhabitants o^ Saint es departed the 
 City, and one Captain Nogaret having taken 
 pofTellion cfit, he treated mod cruelly thofe that 
 remained. 
 
 The Duke of Montpenfier, having conferred 
 with Burie and Montluc, came again intd Xain- 
 tonge, and finding the Country unprovided, and 
 in fo great a Confternation, he made himfelf fure 
 of La Rochelley wherein he found means to en- 
 ter with feveral Companies of Foot and Horfe, 
 and forbid them the free Exercife of the Refor- 
 med Religio!!. Thofe of Marennes frightned 
 thereat, came to an Agreement with the {aid 
 Duke. 
 
 Thofe of Allevert were more courageous, and 
 would not hearken to any Propofition that tend- 
 ed to deprive them of their Liberty, or engaged 
 them to a6l againft their Brethren of the fame 
 Communion. In fhort, almoft all the Reformed 
 of that Province were put under the Yoke for 
 about five or (\y. Months together, by the means 
 of Montpenfier, Montluc and Burie, Allevert 
 only excepted, of which more in the next Ar- 
 ticle (^). 
 
 The Government of Orleanois was expofed the 
 
 LEANEsr.fj^Qfl. QjT j.jj j-y ^Yit Fury of this War, the two 
 
 contending Parties having their chief Armies 
 
 in it ; and having already fpoken at large a- 
 
 bout their Operations, and the terrible Devafta- 
 
 tions 
 (g) ExtraftcJ oat of Bc7a liv. ix. p. 821, &c. 
 
 Alievcrt. 
 
 or Or- 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Frai^ce, 389 
 tions caufed by them, I fhall make this Article Charles 
 fo much the fhorter. -^^ 
 
 Tho* La Rochelle holds of the Parliament ofp^Af Pm^ 
 Paris ; neverthelefs, becaufe it is inclofed in the IV. 
 Government of the Orleanois, and the firft City'— ~v^ — ^ 
 to be met v*'ith North-Eaft, as you come from , ,, , 
 Xaintonge, 1 Ihall mention it here the nrit. ^'^ ^ Countn of 
 have taken notice in the 57th Article of the Rc-Auln'ix. 
 fufal that City made, at the Inftigation of Jar- 
 nac, to enter into the General A (Tociation of the 
 Reformed Churches for this prefent War, any fur- 
 ther than by a voluntary Contribution of 1600 
 Livres per Month. 
 
 But they had occaiion to repent of it after- 
 wards ; for having ihut up their Gates to the 
 Count of La Rochefoucault, notwithftanding 
 their Intreaties and free Gifts to the Duke of 
 Montpenfier, the faid Duke entered into the 
 City, in Odlober, as above faid, and reftored 
 the Roman Religion on the fame foot it had 
 been three Years before, and put in Garifons of 
 his own Troops in the Villages and Boroughs 
 round about it, which was againft their Privi- 
 leges. Now fome of the Citizens fenfible of 
 their Folly, but too late, refolved to make them- 
 felves Mafters of the City, by the means of a 
 Correfpondence they kept with Captain Chenct, 
 who fince the taking of Oleron Jived in the 
 Neighbourhood -, having then found means to let 
 him into the City, he ordered every thing to be 
 ready for his Enterprize the beft he could -, and 
 at laft, on the 8th of Februaty 1563, he came 
 out in the Streets early in the Morning, and 
 cried aloud Prosperity to the Gospel, 
 Whereat above three hundred Men well armed 
 having joined with him, .he feized upon the City 
 Gates, and the Toivtr of the Chain ^ v/herein he 
 put a ftrong Guard % he arrefted Prifoncr C!a%i- 
 C c 3 dius 
 
390 Hiftory of the Reformation, and of the Vol.11, 
 Charles^ Jius D'Angliers and fome others, and gave 
 ^ / them to the Cuftody of fome whom he trufted 
 Pope P/a^beft, wherein he was much deceived; for they 
 IV. were foon fet at Hberty -, and then tiiey work'd 
 '•""'V'^^'fo well upon the Mayor, who kept himfelf con- 
 cealed in a Stable, that he took his Arms with 
 fome others, and went along the Streets, crying 
 like Chenet, Prosperity to the Gospel ; 
 whereupon he was in an inftant, followed by moft 
 part of the Citizens, even of many, that had be- 
 fore joined with Chenet : then the Mayor feeing 
 that he was the ftrongeft, he arrefted Chenet and 
 fome of his Adherents, giving, however, fair 
 Words to the Reformed for fome Days, till his 
 Party being entirely fuperior to them, by the 
 means of the Auxiliaries (twt to him by Burie, 
 fome of the Prifoners were hanged ; and while 
 they were upon the Trial of Chenet and fome 
 others, the News arriving of the Peace being con- 
 cluded, they were releafed. 
 Re-. In the Ifland of Re, the Catholicks under- 
 
 ftanding that their Fellow Countrymen of the 
 Reformed Religion continued to meet together, 
 tho' in the Night-time, they made all Diligence 
 for fuppreffing thefe Meetings, and in a riotous 
 manner ran over the Ifland, and rufhing into 
 the Houfes of the Reformed, they plundered and 
 ranfacked them all. 
 AtLE- But for all that, the publick Meetings could not 
 
 vtRT. be fuppreficd in all the Iflands, thofe of Alle- 
 vert were always inflexible, being much encou- 
 raged by their Minifter Charles Leopard -, and 
 their Courage and Fortitude was fuch, that they 
 put to fright their very Enemies that came into 
 their Town, and kept them in awe, chiding them 
 freely for their Curfing and Swearing ; nay, a 
 notable Woman was fo courageous as to give a* 
 Slap in the Face to a Soldier whom fhe had 
 2 heard 
 
Boo K IV. Reformed Churches //z Fr a n c e ." 391 
 heard fwearing in the Streets. Neverthelefs they Charles 
 efcaped very narrowly being furprized and ut- ^^- ' 
 
 terly deftroyed ; for Charles Guitard, Senefchal p^^ P^-yg \ 
 ofXaintonge, fent feven hundred Foot under IV. "! 
 
 the Command of Captains Barbe and Bochereau, '-*">r'— ' .1 
 that came by a Place called La Maire^ where 
 the Fort. ftood, and himfelffet out from Saintes, \ 
 
 at nine in the Evening, on the firft of February • 
 
 1563, with one hundred Horfe. Another 
 Gentleman came at the fame time by Sea with ' \ 
 
 fome Galliots, while another ftaid at Mareiines^ ; 
 
 to hinder left any Succour fhould go X.Q Allevert\ i 
 
 therefore their Ruin was unavoidable, had not ' 
 
 Almighty God fent a Panick to the Land For- 
 ces, who having met with only twelve Men .; 
 armed in the Foreft, miftook them for an Army ' 
 of twelve thoufand, and ran away with full i 
 fpeed. As to the Galliots they were fo brifkly i 
 received at their Landing, that they were very \ 
 glad to get on board again ; fo that Ifland was " \ 
 delivered by thefe providential means {h). \ 
 
 The City of Po/Z/Vrj enjoyed Peace and Tran-p^jj^Q^^ \ 
 quillity at the beginning of this War, and till 
 the 20th of April, the Inhabitants of both Re- ; 
 
 ligions obferving ftridlly the Articles of the Ja- ■ 
 
 nuarian Ed id •, they gave free Paffage thro* 
 their City to the Troops of both Parties ; and : 
 
 were come to this Agreement on the 17th of 
 April, that the City Gates fhould be guarded 
 Night and Day by two Captains, one Catholick 
 and the other Reformed. The Count of La \ 
 
 Rochefoucault going to Orleans^ tarried all J 
 
 Night long with his Troops in the City ; and \ 
 
 three Days after, the three Companies of Horfe .: 
 
 from Xaintonge, as above mentioned, took the \ 
 
 fame Road in their -way to Orleans; On the \ 
 
 19th of April the Count of Lude, Governor of ' 
 
 C c 4 Poi- 
 
 (h) Beze liv. ix. p. S21, to theend of the Book. \ 
 
392 HiJloryoftheKeformation^andofthe Vol.11. 
 
 Charles PoiTou and a great Enemy to the Reformed, 
 •^^ arrived at Poitiers^ and on the 20th, one Belle- 
 Pope rius ■^^^^'^ g^"^g ^° Orleans with his Company, went 
 IV. thro' the City, and pafled by the Houfe of the 
 faid Count, Drums beating and Colours flying, 
 whereat he was much affronted, and went out 
 of the City. After his Departure, the Inhabi- 
 tants began to fall out one with another •, never - 
 thelefs there was no great Tumult excited till the 
 Images were broken, on the 8th of May. On 
 the 22d, the Lord of St. Gemmes was fent by 
 the Prince to be their Governor, and they re- 
 mained in the peaceable Poffefiion of the City 
 till the i2thof July, when the Count of Villars 
 fent an Herald to fummon them to furrender. 
 St. Gemmes anfwered. That he knew not what 
 A'dt,hority Villars had to fend fuch a Summons \ 
 that he had been fent by the Prince to keep the 
 City under the King's Obedience^ and for defend- 
 ing it againfl all Violence •, and that accordingly 
 he was refolved to withfland^ with two thoufand 
 Soldiers^ and as many Gentlemen that were with 
 him^ all the Ajfaults of the Enemy. On the fam.e - 
 Day he received a Reinforcement of a Company 
 , of Foot and fixty Horfe. On the 13th, he re- 
 ceived feven Companies of Foot, and fix hun- 
 dred Muiketeers on horfeback, with fome Can- 
 nons. Thefe Troops were fled from Angers^ 
 Saiimur and Loudun. In the Night there was an 
 Alarm given in the Suburbs adjoining to the 
 Caftle j and there was reafon enough to fuf- 
 pe(5l, that a Party of the Enemy had been trea- 
 cheroufly admitted into the faid Caftle. St. 
 Gemmes underftanding this, caufed the Cannon 
 to be brought the ney t Day before the Caftle, to 
 force PiNEAU the Governor to furrender it ; and 
 having battered part of the Wall, he made himfelf 
 Mafter pf the Inner Court ; whereupon Pineau, 
 
 being 
 
lUS 
 
 Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 393 
 being frighten'd, defired a Sufpenfion of Arms Charles 
 till the next Day eight o'clock in the Morn- ^' 
 ing, which was granted, notwithftanding thep^Jfi' 
 Opinion of many to the contrary •, but the ap- IV. 
 pointed Hour being come, the perfidious Pi- 
 neau faid. That he would keep the Caftle for the 
 King. The next Day, the 1 7th of July, the 
 Count of La Rochefoucault coming from Orle- 
 ans, caufed a new Aflault to be given to the 
 Caftle, but Pineau by his Allurements and fair 
 Words prevailed fo far upon him, that he de- 
 fifted. On the 1 9th the Count made a general 
 Review of the Forces, either Natives or Fo- 
 reigners, and finding that they were not ftrong 
 enough for the Defence of fo large a City, he 
 exhorted them to do their beft, till he could 
 fend them a Reinforcement ; and fo he fet out 
 for Xaintonge, in order to make new Levies. 
 
 No fooner was he gone, but a Herald came 
 again for fummoning the City to furrender to 
 the King. He was anfwered. That they kept 
 it for the King •, and that they did acknowledge 
 no other but his Majefty. The next Day, and 
 on the 2 2d of July he came again upon the 
 fame Errand, accompanied by two Trumpets. 
 Then the Mayor went to St. Gemmes's Houfe, 
 and having not met him, he told the Herald, 
 Thaf the Keys of the City were not in his aijiody, 
 and therefore he could not deliver them to the 
 Count of Villars^ that however they would be al- 
 ways faith fd Subjeifs to the King. But while 
 the Herald was fpeaking with the Mayor, five 
 Companies of Horfe and two of Foot arrived 
 at the Gate of Rochereul, which were repulfed 
 by the Garrifon. On the 24th the Company of 
 Villars approached the Gate of St. Lazare, in 
 hopes of being introduced into the Caftle by 
 feme Intelligence ; but after a Skirmiili which 
 
 Med 
 
394 "Riliory of the Reformation, andofthe\o\..\\. 
 Charles ]afl;ed four Hours, they were forced to retire. 
 
 , g* The very fame Day the City was reinforced by 
 P<?/<?Pius ^ome Companies coming from Niort and St. 
 IV. Maixant, with fome Fauccnets^ and three Days 
 'after they received a Cornet with Forty Horfe. 
 The Count of Villars feeing that the Garifon 
 grew every day ftronger, thought proper to at- 
 tack the City before the Count of La Roche- 
 foucault, who was coming with a great Body of 
 Troops, could be arrived. Therefore havit^g 
 caufed the Cannon to be brought on the laft 
 Day of July, he battered the Walls at two dif- 
 ferent Places -, and on the firft of Auguft the 
 Marfhal of Stv Andrew being arrived in the 
 Camp, ordered a General Aflault,^ which was 
 bravely withftood by the Befieged, and the Af- 
 failors were retreating, when the Traitor Pineau 
 gave them a Signal from the Caftle, for coming 
 back •, and in the mean time he leveU'd his Can- 
 non againft the Garifon and Inhabitants that came 
 for the Defence of the Walls. The Garifon fur- 
 prized at this, and fufpeding left fome greater 
 Treafon was ready to break out, forfook their 
 Pofts, and not knowing what to do, they ran 
 away through the Gates which were not aflaul- 
 ted ', then the Enemy entring into the City, 
 without any further Refiftance fell a plundering, 
 murdering and committing the moft horrid Av^s 
 of Cruelty and Barbarity againft the poor Inha- 
 bitants for eight Days together, without any Di- 
 ftindion either of Sex or Age •, nay, one of 
 them was fo monftroufiy brunfh, that he made 
 a FricalTee of the Ears he had cut off, and in- 
 vited with horrid Blafphemies, his Companions 
 to eat with him of that execrable Mefs : moft 
 of thofe who fled, falling into the Enemies 
 hands, were murdered -, and none but thofe who 
 rode hard upon fwiftHorfes could make their 
 
 efcape. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches znFR ah ceI 39^ 
 efcape. They ranfacked not only the City, but Charles 
 the Country twenty Miles round about ; no ^^• 
 more than fix hundred Horfe arrived fafe in the p^^; p\^^ 
 Count of La Rochefoucault's Army, who was not IV. 
 far ofF(/;. ' /^-« 
 
 The greateft Cruelties were likewife ufed in^j^.Q^. 
 the Country of Anjou againft the Reformed. 
 The City of Angers having been trufted, by the ^ngtrs. 
 unanimous Confent of all the Inhabitants, to the 
 Care of a Nobleman named De La Barbee, re- 
 mained in a peaceable State for fome time ; but 
 feveral of the Reformed Inhabitants being gone 
 to meet the Prince at Orleans, the Catho- 
 licks improved this Opportunity for taking up- 
 on themfelves the whole Government of the 
 City. 
 
 For that end they deputed fome of them to 
 the Duke of Montpenfier, Governor of Anjou, 
 who fent Puy-gaillard with fome Companies of 
 Soldiers : He entred tht City on the 5th of May, 
 and made himfelf Mafter of it without much 
 ado ; and in order to opprefs more eafily the In- 
 habitants, whereof many being frighten'd had a 
 mind to depart the City, he ehfnared them by 
 a fham Reconciliation between the two Parties, 
 Reformed and Catholick i by the chief Articles 
 whereof they were both obliged to lay down 
 their Arms, and he was to be the only Gover- 
 nor of the City i and the Reformed were to en- 
 joy the free Exercife of their Religion, as the Ja- 
 nuarian Edi6t direded them. But about two 
 Days after, the Catholicks rufhed into the Houfes 
 of the Reformed, and took Prifoners thofe 
 whom they met in their way. Having found 
 many Books in a Merchant's Houfe, they were 
 burnt in publick, a fine Bible excepted, which 
 
 they 
 
 (i) Dinoth. lib. ii. p. 157, &c. Beza liv. vii. p. 601, 
 1609, Thuan. lib.xxx. p. 115, \i6, 117. 
 
• 3 96 Hiflory of the ReformaUon^ and of the Vol . 11. 
 Charles they carried upon the Point of a Halberd along 
 ^^ the Streets, crying in a horrid manner. Here 
 IS THE Huguenots Truth hanged, the 
 Truth OF ALL the Devils j and being come 
 'to the Bridge, they threw it into the River, cry- 
 ing, Here is the Truth of all the 
 Devils drowned. They plundered all the 
 wealthieft Houfes ; and as to the Prifoners, fe- 
 ven of them were beheaded, and fifty-feven 
 hang'd by Sentence of the Judges ; befides 
 which forty-four were murdered by the Soldiery, 
 amongft whom were found fome Catholicks, 
 that had been miftaken for Reformed. A Noble- 
 man, Des Marets by Name, having poflefled 
 himfelf of a Strong-hold about eight Miles from 
 Angers, was befieg'din it three times -, the two 
 firft times he repulfed the Enemy with great 
 Lofs on their fide -, but at the third he was 
 forced, taken Prifoner, and brought in a trium- 
 phant manner to Angers, where he was broke a- 
 live upon the Wheel. 
 TheCoun- The Reformed Inhabitants of Mans having 
 *Ky "f heard the News of the VafliacanMaflacre, feized 
 LM^' ^?^^ ^^^ City-Gates, and having fummoned 
 thofe of the neighbouring Towns, they held a 
 general AfTcmbly of all the Citizens, wherein it 
 was agi'eed by the two Parties to afTift the 
 Prince of Conde in his Undertaking for deli- 
 vering the King, Queen-Mother and Royal Fa- 
 mily out of the Triumvirate's hands. And tho* 
 the Clergy had no AffeAion for the Prince, becaufe 
 , he took the Reformed under his Protedlion, 
 neverthelefs they promifed willingly a round Sum 
 of Money towards the Expences of the War, 
 and appointed a certain Prieft for colleding the 
 faid Sum : But when the two Noblemen that 
 were to lead the Troops to the Prince at Orleans, 
 ■went to the faid Prieil's Houfe, two Days after, 
 
 for 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches ?« Fr an c e . ^97 
 
 for receiving the Money, at firft he received Charles 
 them very gracioufly, and entertained them ^-^ 
 elegantly at Dinner : But after that, as they pJ^ p^y^ 
 went out of the Dining-Room, he fired a iv. 
 Piftol at one of them behind and murdered him;' 
 he attempted to do the fame with the other, 
 but he efcaped by Flight, and running into the 
 Streets, he alarmed the whole City, telling how 
 his Friend had been treacheroufly murdered by 
 the Prieft, whereupon the faid Houfe was in an 
 inftant aflaulted, and forced by a vaft number o£ 
 the Inhabitants, Catholicks as well as Reformed ; 
 they fearched every Corner of it, and found the 
 Corpfe of the Deceafed in the Cellar. The 
 Murderer was taken and carried to Goal, and 
 all his Goods were feized. Several Canons were 
 likewife arrefted upon Sufpicion, but afterwards 
 releafed the very fame Day. Seven Days after 
 the Prieft having been tried and condemned to 
 be hang'd, was executed in the publick Place. 
 Whereat the Clergy- being frightened, they for- 
 fook their Churches and Houfes and departed 
 the City. The Bifhop retired into a Caftle he 
 had four Miles diftant from the City, wherein 
 he ftrengthened himfelf with Men and Arms, 
 and committed all manner of Hoftilities againft 
 the Inhabitants of Mans, plundering their Coun- 
 try-Houfes, hindering the Provifions from com- 
 ing into the City, flopping the Merchants and o- 
 ther Travellers that went by his Caftle, and 
 fhutting them up clofe Prifoners therein, if 
 there was the Icaft Sufpicion in the World that 
 they had followed the Reformed Party, and 
 they were treated moft inhumanly in their Con- 
 finement. 
 
 But for all that the Inhabitants of Mans were 
 not much moved, becaufe they knew that the 
 Bifliop had not Forces enough to undertake any 
 
 thing 
 
3 9 8 Mijiory of the tteformatmi^ and of theVo-L. 11. 
 Charles thing againft the City. But when they under- 
 
 ^^ flood that Chavigny, one of the Duke of Mont- 
 Pote ?i\xs penfier*s Lieutenants, and a very cruel Man, 
 
 IV. raifed Troops for aflaulting them, they fent to 
 the neighbouring Places for Succours, which was 
 readily granted, and Chavigny having notice of 
 it, defifted from his Enterprize. 
 
 Now thefe Troops that were come to the 
 Affiftance of the Reformed of Marts, being freed 
 from the Fear of the Enemy, ran into all manner 
 of Licentioufnefs, and drew upon themfelves the 
 Deftrudlion which they might have averted by 
 their Modefty and Forbearance ; they rufhed in- 
 to the Churches and pulled down the Altars, 
 tore to pieces the Images, opened the Tombs to 
 fteal away the Lead, and committed a thoufand 
 other pieces of Villany that expofed them de- 
 fervedly to the juft Indignation of the Country 
 People, who fell upon them where-ever they 
 could meet them, and killed many that were 
 loaded with Spoils ; but for all that, the others 
 defifted not from their Wickednefs, notwith- 
 ftanding the Exhortations and Admonitions of 
 the Minifters. 
 
 The Inhabitants much difpleafed at fuch De- 
 pravation of Manners, fent to the Prince of 
 Conde, to let him know, that if a ftop was not 
 fpeedily put to it, that would be the occafion of 
 the Deftru6tion of the City. His Highnefs 
 appointed a young Nobleman of his Houfnold 
 to command the Troops that were In Mans ; 
 but for want of Skill and Experience, he was 
 not able to put the Soldiery under any Re- 
 ftraint, efpecially not being fupported by the 
 Officers. Therefore having gathered as much 
 Money as he could, he went back to Orle- 
 ans< 
 
 After 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 399 
 After he was gone, the News came to- the Charles 
 City, that the Duke of Montpenfier was levying I^'<^- 
 Forces to join with the Bifhop's, and come to- _ '563. 
 gether to aflault the City ; that the Triumvi- jy|"* 
 rate*s Army having aheady advanced as far as 
 Blois, -they could expedl no Succour from the 
 Prince ; whereupon all the City was in an Up- 
 roar, and thofe who a little before feemed to fear 
 nothing, had now quite different Thoughts, and 
 were the forwardeft in providing for their own 
 Safety. There was an Afiembly between the 
 Officers and the chief Inhabitants, for confulting 
 together about what was to be done in the pre- 
 fent Jundure : No body voted for waiting the 
 Enemy's coming, but they unanimoufly agreed 
 upon a fpeedy flight. 
 
 Therefore, on the 12th of July, at eight 
 o'clock in the Evening, they departed the City 
 in fuch a Hurry, that moft part of them had 
 no time to take any of the Neceflaries for travel- 
 ling. There were about eight hundred Arque- 
 bufiers, and a Multitude of Men unarmed. Wo- 
 men and Children i the Arquebufiers were un- 
 der the Command of three Captains, two where- 
 of took party with the Biihop ; the other named 
 Lamote Tibergeau, took rhe Road of Norman- 
 dy j and having led that Multitude to,Alenfon, 
 they took different Parties -, thofe who were a- 
 verfe from War, fought Refuge wherever, they 
 could i fome went to Dieppe, and from thence 
 moft part came over to England j the befl: part 
 of the Soldiery went to join Montgomery, 
 who was then upon the Frontiers of Britanny. 
 Thofe who would not follow them, went to the 
 Duke of Bouillon at Caen. 
 
 The next Day, viz. the 13th of July, the 
 Catholick Troops headed by the Bifhop entered 
 into the City oi Mans with the Priefts and Monks 
 
 that 
 
^o o Hijlory of the J^ejormation^ and of the Vo l .11. 
 
 Charles that had been gone from it fince the Execution 
 IX. of that Prieft, as above mentioned ; and no 
 P * Pms ^°^^^ ^"^ they were revengM feverely for all the 
 IV. Injuries and Wrongs they had fufFer*d, but the 
 'Innocent paid for the Guilty, and the Houfes of 
 all the Reformed Inhabitants, without any Di- 
 ftindbion having been entirely ranfacked, they 
 fell upon the poor Inhabitants of that Religion, 
 filled up the Prifons with them, and tho' they 
 had had no hand at all in the Crimes of thofe 
 profligate Soldiers, that were fled like Cowards 
 the Day before, yet, without Diftindlion of 
 Age or Sex, they were tried, condemned and 
 executed ; feme beheaded, fome hanged, fome 
 drowned, fome cut into fmall Pieces, fome burnt 
 alive, and their Goods forfeited. Nay, their 
 Hatred went fo far, that even the Catholicks 
 who were any wife related to, or had any tie 
 of Friendfhip with fome Reformed, fuffered 
 for it ; and a Midwife, tho' a violent Catho- 
 lick, was condemned to be hanged and execu- 
 ted, only, for having delivered a Reformed Wo- 
 man fome Months before. They had corrup- 
 ted falfe WitnefTes, that charged the Inno- 
 cents with whatever Crime that came in their 
 mind, and the Accufed were not allowed to 
 challenge any of the WitnefTes, or any of the 
 Judges [k]. 
 
 The Bifhop (according to Thuanus) was the 
 great Promoter of thofe unjuft and cruel Pro- 
 ceedings, He was born of a moft noble and 
 ancient Family, and had been brought up in the 
 Reformed Religion, (according to Beza) but af- 
 ter his Mother's Death he turned Catholick. 
 Thuanus fays, that very often he delighted 
 
 m re 
 
 (k) Dinoth.lib. ii. p. \z,i, 154, 1^5. Ecze liv. vii. p. 
 514.* 530. Thuan. lib. XXX. p. 104, 105. 
 
fiooK iV. Reformed Cburches hi FraijcuI 401 
 better in Military Exploits, than in the Perfor- Charles 
 mance of his Paftoral Duties i that he ufed the / 
 Clergy no better than others, condemning them p^p^ pjuj 
 to very large Fines upon th'e leaft Sufpicion •, IV. 
 that he obliged every one to contribute equally 
 towards the Expences of th<;: War, which Mo- 
 ney, however, was laid out in extravagant Ex- 
 pences, as Gluttony, &c. by himfelf and his 
 Emiffaries. There was in the Cathedral, the 
 Statues of the twelve ApO'ftles, all of Silver, of a 
 great Weight, and fet with precious Stones, 
 which the Bifhop caufed to be carried into his 
 own Caftle at 'Touvoy for a greater Security, 
 when he left the City for the firft time, and the 
 Caftle being taken afterwards, the Statues had 
 the fame Fate ; but it was loudly rumoured in 
 publick, that they had been flolen av, ay by the 
 Biftiop's Orders, to the end that, under that 
 fpecious Pretence, he Ihould not be obliged to 
 reftore the Treafure he had been intruded with ; 
 and that when he went this Year to the Council 
 of Trent, with a very grand Retinue and Mag- 
 nificence, it was faid by Jeft in the Province, 
 ^hat the Bijhop could not be 'wanting of the Holy 
 Ghoft^ Jince he carried Along with him the twelve 
 Jpeftles. 
 
 But amongft thofe who were the moft cruel 
 Perfecutors of the Reformed in that Country, 
 none could beparai.elled to one Rene de Cham- 
 pagne, a compleat Knave in every refped, tho' 
 noble by his Birth, and immenfely rich, who 
 being unable to bear Arms, becaufe of a Lame- 
 nefs caufed by a Luxation of both his Haun- 
 ches, was exceedingly more cruel and inhu- 
 man than any Dragoon. This Gentleman liv- 
 ing at Pefchefevil^ (it was the Name ox hi% 
 Country-Seat) caufed, upon the leaft Sufpicion, 
 
 Vol. II, D d , aU 
 
40 2 Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol. II, 
 Charles ^\[ ^j^ofe that fell into his hands, to be caft in- 
 ic6i to a large Fifti-pond, which he ufed to call in 
 Poj>e Pius Jeft his LARGE Cup ; and it was confidently 
 IV. faid, that he had killed that way above fifty. A- 
 '-*'V*^bout three Years after the King being come to 
 PefchefeviU afked the Man, How many Refor- 
 med he had invited to drink, in his large 
 Cup ? He anfwer*d in a Jeft, that he never 
 kept Account of fuch Trifles. There was ano- 
 ther Man of the fame kin vvith this, named 
 Bois-jordan^ in the Ponds of whom fifty Corps 
 were found, which he had drowned there- 
 in (/). 
 ^^^^' As foon as the News came to .Blots, that 
 the Prince was Mafter of Orleans, the Reform- 
 Blais. ed took the Caftle and the Gates of Blois into 
 their Cuftody, as well as the whole Adminiftra- 
 tion of the Government, till that time that the 
 Prince, having mifcarried in his Undertaking at 
 Talfy, came back to Orleans. For then the 
 Triumvirate's Army, having fenta Detachment 
 to take pofTeffion of Blois, as the Inhabitants of 
 the Reformed Religion were not ftrong enough 
 to refill:, their Troops went out of the City, 
 with their Colours flying, thro* a Gate oppofite 
 to that whereby the Enemy were coming, and 
 retreated to Orleans ; but in fuch a Hurry, and 
 with fuch Conilernation, that the Wcalthiefl: 
 had no time to take any thing out of their 
 Houfes. So the Enemy entered the City on 
 the I ft of July, and turn'd every thing topfy- 
 turvy. 
 
 • Thofe Reformed that were found in the City 
 were murdered, the Women and Virgins were 
 forced, many being tied together to feveral 
 
 Poles, 
 (I) Thuan. ubi fupra. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in France. 403 j 
 
 Poles, were call into the River and drowned ; Charles \ 
 
 others fhut up in Dungeons, where they fufFered ^ / 
 
 many Hardfnips, even for feveral Months after />o^^ Pms ' 
 
 the Edid of Peace. iV. 
 
 At Mer^ about ten Miles from Blois, moft ^^jj^''"^ ' 
 of the Inhabitants being Reformed, a Party of 
 Horfe and Foot was fent thither ; and tho* they 
 met at the fecond time, with no Refiftance, ne-* •■ 
 verthelefs they ranfacked the Borough for nine , 
 Days, murdered forty Men, (Beza reckons but ' 
 four) and having gathered together the Women 
 and Virgitis, and having picked out the faireft, ' 
 they abufed them in the moft brutifh manner, 
 fome whereof died with Sorrow ; and a young j 
 Gentlewoman of about twenty Years, having 
 htzv). tied up to a Bench, died in their hands -, 
 the Minifter of the Place was caft into the Ri- 
 ver and drowned, according to Thuanus, but j 
 according to Beza, he was hang'd by the Duke \ 
 of Guife's Orders {^»?). , 
 
 The City of Tours enjoyed peace, obferving Tou- 
 the Januarian Edift, 'till the Duke of Montpen-^^^^^''^* , i 
 
 fier Governor of it, arrived about Mid-Lent ; he i 
 caufed the City-Gates to be fnut up, two only 
 
 excepted, which were kept by a party of his : 
 
 own Guard •, then he fummoned the chief. In- - ; 
 
 habitants Reformedj and (tnt fome into Prifon, • ; 
 without acquainting them with the reafons of 
 
 their Confinement, and waited for the Triumvirs \ 
 
 Orders •, but he was much furpriied at the num- \ 
 
 ber of the Reformed in the City, v/hich v/as a- i 
 
 bove four thoufand, which number encreafed e^ ] 
 
 very day fmce his coming : Therefore he iiTued \ 
 
 out a Proclamation in the King's Name, order- " 
 
 ing all the Inhabitants to bring their Arms into i 
 
 D d 2 the I 
 
 (m) Dinoth. p. 156, 157. Bezeliv.vii. p. 577, 5?Q. 
 Thuan. lib. xxx. p. 101 . 1 
 
Hiftory of theReformationy and of the Vol. II. 
 the Town-Houfe, which was executed. Never- 
 thelefs, the King's Officers having refufed to con-. 
 demn the Prifohers, he fet out from that City 
 the day after Palm-Sunday, and went to his Seat 
 at Cbampigny, twelve Leagues diftant from Tours, 
 from whence he fent orders to Chavigny his 
 Lieutenant, for affembling his Company with all 
 fpeed, with as many of his Neighbours as he 
 could, in order to go to Tours and chaftife the 
 Rebels, as he termed them,and thofe Judges that 
 had refufed to punilh them. Which being un- 
 derftood by the Reformed, they thought proper 
 to be beforehand with the Duke, and feize on 
 the City i which they did on the 31ft of March, 
 however without any Diforder or Confulion, fave 
 only, that it was impoffible to hinder the People 
 from breaking the Images. When the Prince had 
 notice of that Expedition, he fent a Gentleman 
 into the City to be Governor. And whereas his 
 Highnefs received but very little Money frbm 
 the Churches, not fufficient for difcharging the 
 neceflary Expences -, he fent the Count of Ll 
 Rochefoucault with Genlis and Du Vigean with 
 their Companies to Tours, to make an Inventory 
 of all the Relicks, and other fuch things belong- 
 ing to the Churches of St. Martin, St. Gracian 
 and others, and for carrying them to Orleans, td 
 make ufe of them as neceflity fhould require. 
 That was executed in the prefence of proper Ma- 
 giftrates : Amongft the Relicks, two very odd 
 ones were found, which I fhall defcribe here for 
 their Singularity. The one was a long and large 
 Crofs over-laid with Gold and enamelled, of a 
 rery fine Workmanfliip •, there was a fine round 
 Agate of a very large fize fet in, wherein the 
 Goddefs Venus and Mars were ingraved with a 
 Cupid between theiw ; and a fmall piece of red 
 
 wood. 
 
B o o K I V . R eformed Churches /« F R A n c e . 405 
 wood, which they faid was taken from the very Charles 
 Crofs. All thofe Fineries were fhewed only upon ^ ^ 
 great Feftivals, to be worfhipped by the People Pope Pius 
 that flecked and kifled very devoutly that Image. IV. 
 The next Relick was ftill more odd, it was two 
 fham Sleeves of a violet Taffety, fet in Cryftal 
 feparately, which Sleeves the Priefts affirmed to 
 have been carried down from Heaven by an An- 
 gel, to St. Martin Bifhop of Tours for covering 
 his Wrifls when he lifted up the Sacrament. That 
 Story joined with feveral Bulls and Pardons grant- 
 ed by the Popes, had prevailed fo far upon the 
 People's Minds, that upon certain days in the 
 Year, they came in vaft crouds, bringing their 
 OiFerings to the Shrines -, and it is not eafy to i- 
 magine what vaft Incomes thefe twoRags of Taf- 
 fety brought to the Lawyers for about 70 Years 
 together, becaufe of an A6lion enter'd by the 
 Canons of the two Chapters of St. Martin and 
 St. Gracian againft one another, to know to whom 
 they ought to belong. But the Count of La 
 Rochefoucault decided very wifely the matter, 
 for he caufed the Relick to be burnt ; there was 
 found in the Shrine of St. Martin, fome Bones, 
 Hammers, Nippers and Nails. In two other 
 Shrines there were found the Stone whereupon the 
 Virgin Mary wafhed the Infant Jefus's Clouts ; 
 ar.d another Stone fpotted with fome Drops of 
 the Blood ifTuing out of Jefus's Body upon the 
 Mount Olivet. All thefe things were thrown a- 
 way^ but the Gold, Silver and precious Stones 
 were inventorifed and carried to Orleans (m). 
 
 Thefe things ferved as a fpecious Pretence for 
 every profligate Wretch to take up Arms, and 
 make Incurfions into all the Bofoughs and Vil- 
 lages with main force, and plunder the Houfes, 
 D d 3 the 
 
 (m) Beze liv. viil. p. 583, 584. 
 
4o6 Hiflory oftheReJGrmdtion.andof the Vol.11. 
 
 Charles the Magiftrate conniving at it. This occafioned 
 ^^' li'iewife that fevere Edid of the Parliament of 
 
 Pope Vi\ii Paris, whereby, the Reformed were outlawed, 
 IV. and the Catholicks of all Ranks and Degrees fo- 
 
 *— "V— *evcr ordered to ring the Alarm-Bells, and fall 
 iipon them wherever they could be found, and 
 murder them v/ithout mercy. That Edift being 
 read every Sunday in the Pulpits by the Duke of 
 Montpenfter's Orders in his ov/n Government ; 
 the Peafants encouraged by that, leaving their 
 Hufbandry-work, ran a plundering, having made 
 choice of ibme of the moft defperate Fellows a- 
 mongft themfelves to be their Captains. Part of 
 them C3.mQto Ligneuily a Borough upon the Indre, 
 m the Country of Touraine,where they ftrangled 
 ibme Men, and having piuck'd out the Eyes of 
 the Minifter, of; the Place, they burnt him little 
 by little ; others went to Cormery, Loches, Ifle- 
 Bouchard and: Azc,. and ranfack'd almoft every 
 ^Mce-/ where they.w.i^nt through. The Inhabi- 
 tahts of Tours underfbanding this, fent the Pro- 
 voft to punifh the guilty, two whereof were 
 hatiged, but the faid Provoft was obliged to run 
 awiayii -; ■:,,: .,:",■'.; ■■ . ... ;,'.. -: 
 
 ;JV.bout the; fiftl^ibf^ July, after the taking of 
 ^joisj an Herald was- fent to Tours in the King's 
 Name,,^ to fi.mnion them to diiband their Troops, 
 to lay^down their Arras, and to receive a Garri- 
 fon from the lii^ing, /declaring unto them, that in 
 calJi 'pf Difobodience,: their . City would be ran- 
 ffac^'d. - They .gave no Anfwer to the Herald, 
 but they fent .ibme Deputies .td the King, that 
 •pjipmired tp obfy;^f,a.nd excufed the taking up of 
 Anns, that they had done it only for the King's 
 5prvice, to keep the City under his Majefty's O- 
 .bedience, and defend themfelves againft the Vio^ 
 •Jgi^ce of their Enemies. That they had hurted 
 
Bo OK IV. Refor??2ed Churches in F'Bl an ce, 407 
 or wronged no body. That it was eafy to Charles 
 judge' by 'their Adlions, that they had taken up ^^ 
 Arms not for entertaining the War, but for main- p^/)^ PiJs 
 taining Peace. Tlrat therefore they befought no.t IV. 
 to be treated as Rebels and Difturbcrs of the pub- <— -nt-^' 
 lick Peace, lince they had never deviated from 
 their Duty arid Allegiance. 
 
 The Neceffity they were under, obliged them 
 to fpeak at that r^te -, they knew very Well that 
 th^y had no Affiftance to expedi from the Prince 
 of Conde, Accot-ding to thfeir Promifes, they^^ 
 received a Garrifon from the Kipg, and difmifled 
 their own' Trodps. Three Companies of Foot 
 and two of Horfe left the Ci,ty, and took the 
 road of Poitiers; but they were hardly fix Miles_ 
 off, when they found that the Peafants had ob- 
 ftrufted their way, by pitting Carts and Trees 
 crofs the Road . That Obftacl^ being removed, 
 they were almoft arrived at Poitiers, when on a 
 ^dden, they were Overtaken by fome Companies 
 of 'Hbrfe'i whereat, moft part furrendered them- 
 felves without refiftance, thofe that refifted were 
 routed or taken prifoners, thefe laft were brought 
 to the Count of Villars at Chatelkraiid, whereof 
 fome by Money, others by Friends, and others 
 by the Negligence of their Ke-epers were releafed. 
 Thofe who had furrendered themfelves bein^ 
 • fen t back to Tours without Arms, upon their 
 Parcle^ were either murdered upon the road by 
 the Peafants, or moft forely wounded, or routed 
 and put to flight. About three hundred affem- 
 bled together, thought to be fafe in the Sub- 
 urbs of Tours, but were no fooner arrived, than 
 the Alarm-Bell rung in the City, whereupon, part ■ 
 of them ran away for their Safety, about two hun- 
 dred ti-ed with fatigue, unable to follow their 
 Companions, were ftut up in the Church of the 
 D d 4 fciid 
 
4o8 Hiftory oj the Reformation^ andofthe Vol. IL 
 
 Charles faid Subu'/bs, fome of whom were redeemed by 
 
 ^ their Friends in the night-time ; but others to 
 
 Pope Piiis *he number of one hundred and forty, were 
 
 IV. drown*d next day in the River. 
 *•— ^'~~-' Thofe who had never ftirred out nor taken up 
 Arms, were no better ufed. For as many of 
 them as could be apprehended during fix days, 
 time^ without any Diftindion of Rank, Sex or 
 Age, ended their Lives in the fame manner-, their 
 Number was fo prodigious, that the Banks of 
 the River Loire feveral Miles down was covered 
 with Corps ; their Houfes were plundered, and 
 their Eftates fold by Auftion. I have already 
 fpoken in the 44th Article, of the great Barba- 
 rity ufed againft the Prefident of Tours, I fhall 
 not proceed any further into this horrid fcene of 
 Blood (<?). 
 Brita- Biirany was not at all expofed to the Hprrors 
 NY. of this War. The Duke of Eftampes Governor 
 of it, was a Man of a very meek Temper, and 
 knowing how the Queen- Mother flood afFeded 
 towards the Reformed at the beginning of the 
 Year 1562, was very kind and civil with them, in 
 his Government. Butfince the Vifcpunt of Mar- 
 tigues his Nephew was join'd with him in that, 
 Government, the \ Reformed were forbid to 
 afiemble together in publick -, and the Minifters 
 were ordered to depart the Province, whicl^ 
 they did. And the Duke having received Or- 
 ders from the Queen to levy as many Troops 
 as he could and march ngainft the Prince, ac- 
 cordingly he and Martigues went into Norman- 
 dy, with about four thoufand Men j and the 
 
 Re- 
 
 ((7)Dinoth. p. 156, 157, Beza Xw. viii. p. 581 — —599- 
 Thuan. lib. xxx. p. loi. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in Fr an ce. 409 
 Reformed were not at all molefted in th?ir own Chwles 
 Houfes (/>). 1563, 
 
 We have already fpoken enough of the hard Pope pius 
 and cruel Ufage which the Reformed received IV. 
 from the Catholicks in Normandy •, I Ihall fub- Jj^^T*^ 
 join here, only this further In ftance of Brutifti-^j^jjoy. 
 nefs, viz. that at the fackir g of Vire, the Bowels 
 of the Reformed that had been flain and mur- 
 dered were publickly expofed to Sale in the 
 Streets C^-). 
 
 And fo the French Nation, which was deem- 
 ed one of th,e moft kind and polite, became on 
 a fudden one of the moft bruthh wild and cruel, 
 by a Zeal for Religion, which inftead of taming 
 the Fiercenefs of Men, as it is apt to do, when 
 rightly ufed, ferved only to the embittering of all 
 their bad Difpofitions. The Catholicks were fo 
 much aftonifhed and frightened at the very Name 
 of Reformation, that they thought them- 
 felves to be fallen Into Captivity ; and the Re- 
 formed, who for the preferving of the Liber- 
 ty of their Confcience, and the maintaining of 
 the true Worfliip of God, had taken up Arms, 
 brought upon themfel ves Slaughters and Miferies, 
 and rnade no Progrefe at all as to the Propaga- 
 tion of the Reformed Religion ; fo true is this 
 old faying, Christum et Martem ex ^^quo 
 coLERE, iMPOssiBiLE EST: It IS ImpofTible to 
 ierve equally Christ and Mars. 
 
 Indeed, tho' the Reformed were Indifpenfibly 
 obliged, even by their Oath of Allegiance to 
 wage War againft the firfl Infradlors of the 
 King's Edids, the Perturbators of the publick 
 Peace, that trod under their Feet the Royal 
 
 Au^ 
 
 /^//Beze liv. viii. p. 748. Dinoth. p. 152. (q) Eidem 
 ibid. 
 
IX. 
 
 4 T o Hiflory of the Reformation^ and of the Vo l . II. 
 
 Charles Authority, and all Right Divine and Human ; 
 yet they carried it with fuch Heat and Paflion, 
 and many of them defended a good Caufe with 
 fuch unlawful Means, that really they were a 
 'difgrace to their own Profeflion, and loft the 
 Merits of their paft Sufferings. 
 
 It is true, they did not carry Lewdness 
 and Cruelty not near fo far as the Catholicks ; 
 nay, their Abftinence from thofe Crimes might 
 be juftly reckoned amongft the Char act e- 
 RisTicKs of the Reformed, even at that time- we 
 are fpeaking of j but as to the other Vices 
 they were much alike (I mean among' the Sol- 
 diery) and Plundering, Swearing, Cutfing, Ga- 
 ming, Drinking, &c. were as rife amongft them 
 as amongft the Catholicks. And y/hat ftiall we 
 ]fiiy ''df that Franticic Zeal which carried 
 fliem to that Degree of Madnefs, as (without 
 any Authority, nay againft the pofitive and fe- 
 vere Prohibitions of their Superiors either rn 
 State or Churchy to tear down the Images and 
 pull 'do wh the Altars, to break in pieces the 
 Crafl^s; not confidering, that for an Image or 
 a Crofs, they expofed fo msny hundred of their 
 innocent Brethren that condemned fuch bad 
 Methods, to the utmoft Hatred of their Ene- 
 mies ? Were they aduated on thefe Occafions 
 by the Spirit of Stw'Paul, when he was at A- 
 thens ? No, to be lure. Thefe and other like 
 Mifchiefs, are the natural Fruits of Civil Wars, 
 efpecially when Religion is any wife concerned 
 in them, that is true : But it is true likewife, 
 that fuch Wars ought never to be undertaken 
 ■without an urgent Neceffity, (as for certain this 
 was) and then it muft be ufed as a Caustick, 
 and not continue long upon the Body, left it 
 fhould deftroy the very Vitals of it. 
 
 It 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches in ¥ rah ce. 411 
 It was high time that Peace ihould fucceed Charles 
 to War, for reftoring the Ecclefiaftical Difci- ^^- 
 line almoft entirely decayed, and for heaHng p^epf^ 
 the large and fore Wounds which Vice and iv^. 
 Corruption of Manners had made in the Church's 
 Body, whereby the Comelinefs and Beauty of its 
 Face was almoft quite defaced. 
 
 And if fome over-refined Politicians of thofe 
 Days relifhed not the Terms and Conditions of 
 that concluded in March between the King and 
 the Prince, it was becaufe fome of them poft- 
 poned the pubhck to their private Intereft ; 
 while others that were fighting only with their 
 Tongues and Pen, were not fenfible enough of 
 the Miferies which Fire and Sword carry along 
 with them. 
 
 Better Terms could have been obtained, haci- 
 not the Prince been in fuch a Hurry, had he 
 waited for the Admiral's coming ; fo was it faid, 
 and {o muchhavel ownedabove. Then it would 
 have been better to continue the War, till we 
 had obtained our ends. Such an Inference fup- 
 pofes, I ft. That the King of France was actually 
 in an Impoflibility of receiving any Afliftance 
 from his Allies, to put him in a Condition of 
 withftanding the Prince's Efiorts, nay, of ruin- 
 ing him utterly ; the Abfurdity of which Sup- 
 pofition,r is obvious to every confidering Man. 
 2dly, It fuppofes, that the Roman Catholicks 
 can ever be tied up with any String ftrong e- 
 nough to be indiftbjuble for them. But they 
 do not confider, that it is with them, as it was 
 with Samfon, they break the feven Withs as a 
 Thread of Tow, when it toucheth the Fire ; 
 and new Ropes like a Thread ; and can never 
 be tied faft enough, no, not tho' the feven 
 Locks of their Head were weaved with the 
 Web, and fj^ften'd with the Pin, they would go 
 
 away 
 
41 2 Hijlory of the Reformation^ and of the Vol.11. 
 Charles away with the Pin of the Beam, and with the 
 IX. WcId ; A NoN OBSTANTE, AH Aesolvo from 
 p'5°3- fj^^g Pope goes fo far with them, that it is im- 
 iy_ poffible to follow them, or to have any Depen- 
 ' dance upon their Word. The Januarian Edi6t 
 ,was no fooner granted but it was broken ; that 
 of March 1568 had the fame Fate; that of 
 Auguft 1570, was drawn and granted to no 
 other Purpofe than for wheedling the Reformed, 
 in order to maflacre them unmercifully two 
 Years after, as it happened on Bartholomew's 
 Day : And the famous Edidt of Nantz, which 
 the Cathollcks themfelves had thought for fo 
 many Years irrevocable, the Obfervation where- 
 of had made a part of the Coronation-Oath cf 
 the two Lewis's, XIII. and XIV. was moft 
 bafely and fhamefully repealed by this laft Lewis, 
 ftiled by bafe Adulators, or unthinking Men, 
 Lewis the Great. But what fignify thofe 
 kinds of Security with a Roman Catholick ? 
 thofe Bonds that tie Men amongft themfelves, 
 an4 are ftronger than an Iron Chain for People 
 of any other Perfuafion, even for Pagans ; 
 are they not like a Straw for him, who believes 
 that Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks, 
 but as long as his own Intereft obliges him to 
 keep it ? Now then, what would have availed 
 for the Reformed to have obtained better 
 Terms by this Edidl of Peace than they did ? 
 Nothing. For if this Edid, fo difadvantageous 
 to them, and advantageous to the Catholicks, 
 was not kept, what could have been expeded 
 cf another done to their a,dvantage ? Nothing 
 again, but may b?, a general Maffacre. They 
 ftood in need of Peace, and a Peace upon 
 better Terras was of no ufe to them, when no 
 Good-wi.ii nor Good-ihtention was to be found 
 . in the Peace giver, for maintaining his Edidt, 
 and keeping his Faith. What 
 
IV. 
 
 Book IV. Reformed Churches inFRAHcE. 413 
 
 Charles 
 
 What Construction Queen Cathe-^ ^^• 
 rine put upon the four Letters Pope pius 
 fhe wrote to the Prince, as men- 
 tioned in the Art. xxiii. of this 
 Volume. 
 
 The Firil LETTER. 
 
 WHAT Monfieur Le Prince had fent to 
 the Queen Avas, that he defired no bet- 
 ter than to dbey her ; of which the Queen wrote 
 tfo him, that fhe depended entirely upon it, and 
 that as a Token of the Sincerity of his Words, 
 ihe defired him to depart Paris, and to come and 
 W^it upon the King her Son and herfelf; being cer- 
 tain that if he would do that, the King of Na- 
 varr and the other Lords that were then at Pa- 
 ris would do the fame. 
 
 The Second LETTER. 
 
 HIS Letter was written becaufe the 
 
 Queen had notice that the King of Na- 
 
 varrandthe other Lords, affembled a vaft num- 
 ber of Men from every part. Therefore fhe 
 defired him to depart Paris, that, they might 
 have an Opportunity of doing the fame ; for 
 fhe forefaw that if things were carried any fur- 
 ther, it would prove the Ruin of the King, her- 
 felf, and of the Kingdom, whereof fhe defires 
 him not to be the Caufe, becaufe he only Was 
 the Occafion of it. 
 
 The Third LETTER. 
 
 IT fhews forth the Meaning of the two pre- 
 ceeding, and proves plainly that whatever 
 fhe did, was only to this Intent, and to oblige 
 
 him 
 
414 Hifiory of the Reformation, and of the Vol .1 1. 
 him to depart Paris, as he had fent to her, that 
 he would do, when her Letter was written, 
 tending only to pacifying every thing. 
 
 The Fourth LETTER. 
 
 TH E Queen having fent fo many times 
 to the Prince, that fhe intreated him to 
 difarm ; he wrote to her, that fhe was deceiv- 
 ed ; and that ^e might depend upon it, that 
 if he departed Paris the firft, and laid down his 
 Arms, fhe would fee things very unpleafing to 
 her. Whereupon fhe anfwered, that fhe had 
 feen fo many things unpleafing to her, as the 
 taking up of Arms, the keeping them againft 
 her Will, and refufing to Jay them down at 
 her Command ; that thefe Things would in- 
 creafe her Vexations, was it not that fhe was in 
 hopes that he would obey, and not follow the 
 Example of others ; and that were they any|longer 
 contending who fhould difarm the firfl, fhe 
 forefaw the Ruin of the Kingdom : And that if 
 the others, thro* their Obflinacy, had a mind 
 to lofe all, fhe defired him not to do the fame ; 
 being certain, that when they fhould be toge- 
 ther with the King, they would meet together 
 for taking a good Refolution, whereby they 
 would heal all the Difeafes, and prevent the 
 Evils which fhe forefaw would befall; . And 
 that if he had produced a Letter fubfequent 
 to this, in anfwer to what he wrote in one of 
 his own, that his Honour obliged him not to 
 difarm the firft, one would fee that fhe told him, 
 that. Honour was in him who will obey the 
 firfl, and not in him who fhall remain the lafl 
 . in Arms *. 
 
 What 
 * Addit. aux Mem. de Callelnau, Tom. I. liv. iii. clx. 
 viii. p. 763, 764. 
 
Book IV. Reformed Churches In France. 
 
 W H A T a fine thing it is to be a Floren- 
 tine! Had this good Queen produced thePrince*s 
 \ Letters or Anfwers to her, fhe would, to be 
 fure, have better cleared herfelf as to the Im- 
 putations laid to her charge, than fhe was able 
 to do by all thefc refined Conftrudlions fhe put 
 upon her own Letters. 
 
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