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OF 

THE  UNIVERSITY 

OF  CALIFORNIA 

LOS  ANGELES 


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Imprimatur, 


Qftoler  4. 

ROGER  LEST  RANGE. 


STATUS 

ECCLESUE  GALLICAN^E: 

OR  THE 

Ecclefiafticai  Hiftory 


OF 


FRAN  'C:'E. 

From  the  firft  Plantation  of  CHRISTIANITY 

there,  unto  this  Time :  Defcribing  the  moft  notable  CHURCH- 
MATTERS:  the  fe-veral  Councils  holden  in  FRANCA  with 
their  principal  CANONS:  The  moft  Famoas  Men,  and  moft 
LEARNED  WRITERS,  and  the  Books  they  have  written, 
with  many  Eminent  French  Popes  Cardinals,Prclates,  Paftours,  and  Law- 
yers. A  defcription  of  their  UNIVERSITIES  with  their 
FOUNDERS.  An  impartial  account  of  the  State  of  the  Reformed 
C  H  U  R  C  H  E  S  in  F  K  A  N  C  E  i  and  the  Civil  Wars  there  for  Re- 
ligion :  With  an  exa&  fucceffion  of  the  F  £  E  NC  H  K I  N  G  S. 


By  the  Antbour  of  the  late  Hijiery  of  t]x  Church  of 
GREAT   BRITAIN. 


Wjlori*  eft  hmtn  Veritatis,  vita  Ant i quit at is. 


LONDON, 

Printed  for  -ilona  TafingcrK.  the  Three  Bibles  on  London* 

"Bridget  and"j^/^^«f/Y/&attheSigaof  the  Bible  uh* 

der  d»-.-/  jazz*et  the  Royal  ExchaHgcin 

Cornhill.    1676. 


it 


ill 


\ 


Am^liffimis  y  &  Admodwn  Keverendis  in 
Cbnfto  Patribusac Doming HENRICO, 
Providentia  Divina  Epifeopo  Londinenfi: 
&  Joanni  eadem  Provideritia  Efijcofo 
Roffenfi )  necnon  Decano  W^fLrnonafterr- 
enfi.,  Salutem  in  Chrifto  femgitemam, 

Venerandi  Fat  res,  &  Domini  Cokndffimi ! 

A,  qua  par  eft,  fubmiffione,  Hiftoricum 
hocce  K&^KIOV,  ex  antiquis  &:  rccenci* 
bus  AuthoribusGolledum5vobis  of- 
fero,  nuncupo,  dedico  :  ut  fplendore 
clarorum  veftrorum  nominuin  lux  a- 
liqua  opufculo  huic  per  viamafFulgeret,omnifquc 
finiftra  obmurmurantium  fcaeva  propitio  veftro  fa- 
voreproctil  amoveatur. 

Flofculus  eft,  quem  Ego  pauperculus,  humilif- 
queGhrifti  Hortulanus  vobis  prcefento :  non  il!e 
quidem  Leftiffimus,  fed  is  tamen  qui  in  veftris  pri- 

6514 


E 


Epiftola  Dedicatoria. 


mum  facratis  manibus  cupiat  fua  qualiacunque  folia 
explicare.Carpent  ilium  e  veftris  manibus  alii  quo- 
que,  &  delibabunt.  Si  enim  veftro  olfa&ui  faga» 
dffiino  non  ingratus  fuerit ;  fi  veiir*  gratiz  calo- 
rcm/  fcnferit  V  non  diibito,  quin  Piis  omnibus  bo- 
iium  '  piiblicae  aedificationis  odorem  captantibus , 
gratus&jncundusfitfuturus. 

Hoc  mihi  folamcn  eft,  qiiod  viri  praeftantifllmi, 
&Honore&  Doflrina  proecelfcntcs,  non  tarn  mu- 
neris  oblati  dignitatem,  quam  gratum  offerentis 
animum  perpendere  foleanc.  Sihunclibrum  ac- 
ciperc,  &  diligenter  perlegere dignemrni,  hon'efta- 
tior  &  gra  tia  meis  laboribus  optima  refcretur .  DC 
Materia&  MethodohujusHiftoriae^odum  an  fa- 
tis  fervarim,  Vos  pro  veftris  accrrimis  Judiciis  ae- 
fiimabitis.  lllam  fiquando  forte  infpexcritis ,  & 
in  ea  aliquid  obfervabitis,  de  quo  me  admonendum 
putabitis,  illud  rogo  fignificetis :  &  quicquid  ege- 
ritis,  meam  non  modo  voluntatem,  fed  etiam  fen- 
tentiam  cum  veftraconjungam:  hoc  etiam  Bent- 
ficium,  &  quidem  fuuimumaccipiatri,  q«o  ifhWripff 
&  melior  8c  doclior  eyadam.  Deus  Amplitudil 
nemveftrarft,  in  Ecclefix  fux>  noftrasque 

u'tjlitatem,  quamdiutiflimefervet  incolume 

'  i  '    •  ' 

frfoA  Reverenti* 


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THE 

PREFACE 

T  O    T  H  E 

RT*      A      TT\    T*     TT    : 
tL  A  JJ  H  K. 

e  D*/Zg»  o/  this  Treatife  is  to  fit 
forth  the?  Slate  of  the  Galilean 
Chnrches^both  of  the  Popifh,  and  the 
Keformed.  At  to  the  Popifli  Church 
in  France,  it  it  holder*  to  be  the  heft 
Privileged  of  all  the  Churches  in  Chriftendom  nn+ 
der  the  Pope. 

As  touching  their  fon>cr\  the  Galilean  Clergy 
ftands  more  jtontly  to  their  Natnral  Rights  againft 
the  Encroachments  and  'Usurpations  of  the  See  of 
Rome,  than  any  other  that  livetb  under  the  Pope's 
Authority  ,  which  they  acknowledge  fofar  only, as  is 
conjiftent  with  their  own  Privileges,  and  the  Rights 
of  their  Soveraign  :  for  it  was  long  ere  they  could 
fnbmit  to  the  Decrees  of  the  Council  of  TRENT, 
nor  have  they  yet  admitted  of  the  Inquifition. 

'the  Do&ors  of  the  Sorbon,  are  accounted  toge- 
ther with  the  Parliament  of  Paris,  the  principal 
PiUars  of  the  French  Liberty ^  whereof  they  are  ex* 
ceedtngjealoHf)aswett  in  matters  Ecclefiaflical  as 
Civil.  When 


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When  Gcrfon  Chancellour  of  Paris ,  had  publi- 
feed  a  Boek^  in  approbation  of  the  Council  of  Con- 
ftance  ,  where  it  was  Enabled  that  the  Authority  of 
the  Council  wot  greater  than  that  of  the  Pope,  the 
Sorbon  Do&ors  declared  that  alfo  to  be  their  Do- 
Brine. For  John  Gerfon  in  his  defence  of  the  Decree 
of  that  Council,  fpeatyng  of  the  Adverfaries  faith  , 
Perniciofos  efle  admodum  adulatores,qui  Tyranni- 
dcra  iftam  in  Ecclefianvmvexcre,  quafi  nullis  Re- 
gum  teneatur  vinculis :  quafi  iieque  parere  debea t 
Conctlio  Pontifex,  nee  abeo  judicari  queat. 

The  Kings  them f elves  alfo  befriend  their  Clergy, 
in  the  caufe,  and  therefore  tmt  only  protefted  againft 
the  Council  of  Trent,  wherein  the  SpiritttalTyran- 
ny  wo*  generally  confented  to  by  the  Fopifh  faction  \ 
but  Henry  the  fecond King  of  France,  would  not 
acknowledge  them  to  he  a  Council,  calling  it  in  his- 
Letters  by  no  other  name  than  Conventus  Tridenti- 
i\u$«An  indignity  which  the  Fathers  took^grievoufly. 
Moreover,  when  King  Lewes  X/.  to  gratifie  Pope 
Pius  the  fecond,pnrpo.fedto  abolijh  the  jPragmatick 
Sanflion,  the  Sorbonnifts  in  behalf  of  the  Church 
Gallican,  and  the  Vniverfity  of  Paris,  Magnis  ob- 
fiftcbaot  aniinis  (faith  Sleidan  in  his  Commentary) 
&  a  Papa  proyocabant  ad  Concilium.  The  Council 
unto  which  they  appealed >  was  that  of  Bafil ,  where 
that  San&ion  war  made  :  fo  that  by  this  Appeal 
they  verified  their  former/Thcfis^  that  the  Council 
was  above,  the  Pope. 

And  before  the  Pragmatick  Sanction  was  ordain-  . 
edy  the  Pope  htd  yearly  drained  the  State  of  a  Mil- 

liw 


to  the  Reader. 


lion  of  Crowns,  at  the  Court  of  Parliament  manifeft* 
ed  to  King  Lewes  the  eleventh. 

Since  which  time  the  Kings  of  France  have  fome* 
times  omitted  the  vigour  of  the  Sanction,  and  fome- 
times  alfo  exaSled  it  ^according  as  their  affairs  with 
the  Pope  flood :  therefore  it  was  called  Froenum 
Pontificum. 

And  in  the  Year  1613.  -caf natty  meeting  with  a 
written  by  Becanus,  entituled  Controverfia 
Anglicana  de  poteftate  Regis  &  Papaej  the  French 
catted  an  Affembly^  and  condemned  it.  For  ,  al- 
though the  Main  of  it  was  apainft  the  Power  and  Su~ 
fremacy  of  the  King  of  England,  yet  did  it  reflect 
alfo  on  the  Authority  of  the  Pope  ovtr  the  Chriftians 
by  the  By  5  which  occafionedthe  Sentence.  So  jealous1 
are  they  of  the  leafl  circumftances^  in  which  any  of 
their  immunities  may  be  endangered* 

The  Pope  hath  no  power  in  France  to  pardon  cri-  LeRefcrfpt? 
titittals.  The  very  faculties  of  the  Legates  hereto-  9  de  Pr<> 
fore  fent  into  that  Kingdom-)  make  not  any  mention  fl/f 
it)  but  of  the  Remiffion  of  Sins  proceeding  fromcw£.2$. 
crimes.  And  though  there  jhould  be  any  fuch  thing) 
yet  they  are  jtitt  curbed  in  with  this  Bridle. 

To  ufe  it  in  fuch  things  as  are  not  contrary^  dero- 
gatory,  nor  prejudicial  to  the  Rights  and  Preroga- 
tives of  the  King  and  Kingdom,  nor  againjl  the  fa- 
cred  Councils )  the  Laws  of  the  'Univerfities  ,  the 
Liberties  of  the  Galilean  Church^  and  the  Ordinan- 
ces Royal. 

The  Clergy  of  France  do  not  hold  their  Eccleji- 
n  of  the  Pope,  but  of  the  King 
(a)  a. 


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Bellarm.  alone,  hdwfoever  the  Jefuits  teach  the  contrary,  when 
(pntrov.V  *bey  d°  not  Hfe  ^  as  they  oti^ht :  when  they  connive 
li.4-ca.24.  at-.the  punijbment  of  crimes,  whereof  they,  have  the 
Cognisance,  the  Courts  of  Parliaments  may  inter- 
pofe  by  means  of  an  Appeal,  as  from  Abufe* ,  efpe- 
f  tally  considering,  it  is  it  that  grants  them  Jurifdi- 
8ion  over  Spirituals.  And  if  the  Queflion  be  of 
granting  par  den  to  a  Prieft  ,  or  other  Ecclefiaftick^, 
not  only  inapriviledgedcafe,bnta If 9  in  a  common 
crime  by  him  committed,  it  belongs  to  the  King  only 
to  grant  it,  not  to  the  Pope,  nor  the  Eifhop.  And  fo  it 
hath  been  always  accnflomed  to  be  done  in  France. 

Moreover,  the  Pope  cannot  there  reftore  Clergy- 
P&  men  to  *he*r  farmer  State  ,  fo  as  to  free  them  from 

15.  &  16.  the  infamy  which  they  have  incurred',  nor  Lay-men 
Hnlefiit  beto  receive  them  into  Orders,  Offices  ,  and 
'  Ecdefiaftical  ARs,  not  othetwife*  As  alfo  that  with- 
in this  Realm,  he  carinot  pardoner  remit  the  Hauo- 
rary  Amends,  adjndgedby  a  Layman, albeit  the  con- 
demnation wtrc  paffedby  anEcclefiattical  Judge, and 
that  againSl  a  Clerk^,  at  making  fuch  Honorary  con- 
demnation a  part  of  the  civil  fatiffa&tQn. 

The  Pope  cannot  makg  any  ^Unions-)  or  annexations 
of  the  livings  in  France,  during  the  life  of  the  In- 
cumbents, nor  at  other  times  :  but  he  may  grant  out 
Writs  of  Delegation  concerning  unions ,  which  *4 
conccivedto  be  done,  according  to  the  form  prefcri- 
bed  in  the  Council  of  'Gonftance,  and  with  the  con- 
fent  of  the  Patron,  and  not  otherwife. 

The  Kings  of  France  have  always  refetved  this 
authority  and  prerogative  t&  thtwfelvesjo  determine 

of 


to  the  Reader. 


of  tie  Refidence  of  Bijh&pt^  to  compel  them  to  feed 
their  Flock^^and  wait  upon  their  Churches  when  need 
required^and  that  by  felling  upon  theirTemporalsyo 
call  them  from  Rome  to  return  /»f  0France5f  0  difpenfe 
with  them-)  and  approve  the  caufef  of  their  abfence. 

The  Pope,  cannot  in  France  difpenfe  for  any  caufe 
whatfoeveri  with  that  which  it  of  the  Law  of  Cod 
or  Nature,  or  with  that  wherein  the  Councils'  do  not 
allow  him  to  difpenfe.  And  the  Ordinances  of  the 
French  Kings  do  exprefly  forbid  all  the  Judges  of 
the  Land  to  have  any  regard  to  difpenfations  grant- 
ed contrary  to  the  facred  Decrees  and  Councils, 
upon  pain  of  lofing  their  places :  And  declare  fur- 
thermore, That  &ch  as  procure  the  faid  Provifo's 
and  difpenfations,  fliall  not  make  ufe  of  them ,  un- 
lefs  they  get  leave  and  permiflion  from  his  Majefty. 

The  Gallican  (Church  is  alfo  more  free  from  pay- 
ments to  the  Pope  than  the  Church  of  Spain  ,  as  alfo 
to  the  King.  'the  Clergy  ef  France  pay  only  the 
Difme  ,  whereas  in  Spain  the  King  hath  his  Terti- 
a's,  Subfidio,  Pyla,  Eicufado ;  in  att  a  moiety  of  the 
Church-livings. 

As  to  the  French  Churches  feparatingfrom  Com- 
munion with  the  Church  of  Rome,  they  have  often 
been  brought  very  low  by  the  Popifli  party. 

Sad  was  the  condition  of  the  Church  of  Merin- 
dol,  which  was  cruelly  rooted  out  by  vertue  of  an  Ar* 
rett  of  the  Parliament  of  htKjAenjyomen  andChil- 
dren  being  destroyed.  And  yet  (I  doubt  not}  but 
fome  fmaU  remainder  of  them  was  preferred.  For 
fo  the  ftory  faith  exprefly,  pauci  quidem  profugi  Ge- 
(  a  2  )  nevam 


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ofiand.Ec-  nevam  &  alia  loca  Vicinia  pervenerunt.  Some  few 
of  them  efcaped  by  flight  to  Geneva ,  and  other 
Neighbouring  places. 

What  Perfections  did  the  Waldcnfes^r  Albigen- 
fcsfufer,   when  the  Pope  fent  about  hit  Fry  an  in 
Ft&nce(itfeeweth^to  preach  Crjtfado's,vh.1hatwho- 
fiever  would  tafy  the  Badge  of  the  Crofi  upon  his 
Garment •,  and  ferve  the  Pope  forty  days  in  his  Wars 
againfl  thofe  Chriftians  who  denyed  him  obedience^ 
and  oppofed  his  Pride  and  Tyranny ,  Jhould  have  full 
•    pardon  of  all  his  fins ,   and  if  be  dyt  din  the    Wars 
Jlouldprefently  go  to  Heaven^  and  efcape  the  flames 
of  Purgatory:  and  by  this  means  (as  I  re  member)  he 
had  at  one  time  about  an  hundredthojifandof  the  filly 
-people  in  Arms,  whom  he  ufed  againft  the  mo$t faith- 
fnlChriflians/feek^g  utterly  to  extirpate  them^and 
by  this  means  mnch  Blood  was  Jbed.  Itwafeafie  for 
.    him  in  thofe  times  ofdarfyefs  to  draw  multitudes  of 
poor  blind  Souls  to  DeftrH&ion*  And  Reimond,  Earl 
of  Tholoufe,  a,  great  Prince,  and  Peer  of  France, 
wa*  ruined,  the  Pope  f  citing  on  his  Eftate  and  hold- 
ing it  unto  this  day. 

A  French  Hiftorian  fpeafyng  of  the  bloody  mtffa- 
Tiiuan.Hift.  €re  in  tfa  Rejgn  ^Charles  7X  faith, that  many  wife, 
men  that  were  Papifls  them] "elves,  did  thinly  that  in. 
*]l  Antiquity  there  could  not  be  found  an  example  of 
lil(e  cruelty.  But  even  then  remarkable  was  God's* 
Providence  towards  thofe  of  the  Reformed  Religion 
in  France.  In  the  timeof  that  cruel  maffacre  at  Paris 
thef  toizfants  being  iv  great  fear /lifted  far  them- 
fflves  here  and  there.  Among  the  reft  many  of  them 

fled, 


to  the  Reader. 


fledt+V  certain  honourable  Lady  for  prote£tionywh& 
being  near  of  kin  to  the  King,  was  the  more  bold:  but 
being  a  faithful  Chriftian^fbe  was  alfo  milling  to  re~ 
ceivethew. 

Hereof  complaint  being  made,  the  King  in  great 
difpleafure  commands  her  to  difmifi  them  ally  which 
fie  could  not  withftand :  fo  that  in  one  day  about  300 
Waggons  (for  the  M oft  part  filled  with  Women  and 
young  Children)  were  conftrained  to  diflodge^  and 
without  a  guard  to  go.  to  a  ftrong  Town  for  the  fafe- 
ty  of  their  lives.   In  this  Journey  they  were  to  paft' 
through  their  bloody  enemies  flragling  up  and  down 
in  Armes,  and  ready  to  fei%e  on  fuch  a  booty.    But 
by  the  fpecial providence  of  God,  a  certain  Troop  of 
Armed  Gentlemen  on  Horfe-back^  hapned  to  meet 
them-who  foon  perceiving  and  pitying  their  d&nger, 
conduced  them  along  in  fafttyy  and  often  rtpulfed 
their  enemies  that  were  ready  to  affail  them.    <  And 
though  the  French  Kings  (have   all  of  them)  pro* 
feffedthe  Roman  Religion,  yet  the  Lord  hath  had 
many  Instruments^  who  with   the   hazard  of  their* 
lives -,  and  outward  Eftates,  have  flood  for  the  de~ 
fence  of  his  Church^  divers  Princes  of  the    Blood*, 
Nobles,  Gentlemen  and  others ^  and  did ftrangely  raifer 
his  Church  again  after  that    horrid  maffacre^    by. 
which  it  feemed  to  havebeen\extinguifhed< 

And  King  James  of  happy  Memory ^fpeafyth  thu& 
tf'thofe  worthy  Patriots  whom  God  raifed  up  farther 
defence  of  his  Church  at  that  time>  in  his  bool^  of  the. 
defence  of  the  right  of  Kings  JL  never  fyaewyet(  faith? 
ie)  that  the  French  Proteftaats  toaj^  Arms:  againfti 

tbeirr 


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their  King.  In  the  firft  troubles  they  flood  *nly  on 
their  defence.  Before  they  took  drrns  they  were  burnt 
and  ma jf acred  every  where.  And  the  quarrel  did  not 
begin  for  Religion :  but  becaufe  when  King  Francis 
the  fecond  was  under  Age^  they  had  been  the  Refuge 
of  the  Princes  of  the  Blood  expelled  f  row  the  Court, 
even  of  the  Grandfather  of  the  King  now  reigning^ 
and  of  that  of  the  Prince  tf  Conde ,  who  knew  not 
where  to  taty  San&uary,  it  jhall  not  be  found  that 
they  made  any  other  War.  Nay  is  it  not  trne(asa  lear- 
ned Divine  of  ours  hath  well  obferved)  that  King 
Henry  lll.fent  Armies  againft  them  to  deflroy  them, 
and  yet  they  ran  to  hit  help  as  foon  as  they  faw  him 
in  danger**  Is  it  not  true^  that  they  faved  his  Life 
&t  Tours ;  and  delivered  him  from  extream  danger  ? 
And  in  the  Tear  1617.  they  had  the  'tefttmony  of 
their  fidelity  from  their  own  King  Lewes  X///. 
written  to  their  Deputies  ajjembled  in  a  Synod  at 
Vitre  in  thefe  terms  .We  have  received  with  good  fa- 
tisfa&ion  the  new  affurances  and  proteftations  which 
yon  have  made  unto  us  of  your  fidelity  &*  obedience^ 
in  the  which  if  yoHperfift^atye  ought ,  and  as  ye  have 
done  before^  yon  may  alfo'be  ajfiired,  that  we  (ball  al- 
ways have  a  care  to  maintain  and preferve  yon  in  all 
the  advantages  which  have  been  granted  unto  you. 

A  Reverend  Divine  on  the  Revelation,  fpeal\ing 
of  the  French  Churches  faithy  God  hath  made  the 
Church  of  France  a  wonder  (to  me)  in  his  proceed- 
ing toward  them  front  firft  to  loft,  and  therefore  to 
me  great  and  f pec ial  honour- would  feem  to  be  refer* 
•vedfor  them  yrt-at  the  laft.  For  the-frft  light  of  the 

Gofpely 


to  the  Reader. 


Coffel,  thefirft  andftcond Angels  preaching,  (Rev. 
14.)  which  laid  the  Foundation  ofAntichritysruine^ 
was  from  them,  namely  thofe  of  Lyons ,  and  other 
places  in  France  :  and  they  bare  the  heat  of  perfecu* 
tiony  which  was  of  great  a*  any  fince^  if  not  greater; 
Moreover)  the  Churches  of  France  have  ever  ftnce 
had  M  great  a  (bare  in  perfections ,  yea  greater  than 
any  of  the  Protefbnt  Churches.  And  although  it  be 
well  nigh  five  hundred  years  fence  they  began  to  fe- 
parate  firft  from  Antickrift,  yet  they  never  had  the 
great  honour  andpriviledge  (which  other  Churches 
have  been  fo  bleft  withy  w  to  have  a  fupream  Magi- 
flrate-)  profejfing  their  Religion,  except  one^  who  alfo 
continued  not  therein. 

Pareus  in  his  Commentary  on  the  Revelation5«?r/- 
ttng  concerning  the  deftru&ion  p^Rome,  inserts  a  Pam.Com, 
Prophecy,  tafynout  of  an  Antient  Mannfcript  found  vif.7<j 
in  the  houfe  of  Salezhnbsyitf  d  a  little  be  fore' his  wri- 
ting on  that  Chapter  fent  unto  /;/;;/,  which  if  as  fol- 
hrveth. 

ExNationelHuftrifllmi  Lilii  orictur  Rexqui- 
damv^^.  there  Jball  arife  a  King  out  of  the  Nation  - 
<?f  th-e  mofl  iUuftriotrt  Lily  (vi^.  France)  having  a 
long  for  iheadjngh  brows }  $reat  eyes->  and  an  'Eagles' 
mfe.  He  JbaU gather  a  great  Army->  and  destroy  alt 
the  Jy rants  of  his  Kingdom •>  and  flay  all  that  fl^and 
hide  themf elves  in  the  Mountains  and  Caves  from'' 
his  face.  For  Rigbteoufnefi  Jlall  be  joy ned  unto  him 
of  the  Bridegroom  to  the  Bride :  with  them  He  /ball 
wage  War,  even  to  the  forty eth  year  ,  bringing  into 
n  the  Iflanders;  Spaniards,  and  Italians:.- 

Rome. 


The  Preface, 


Rome  and  Florence  he  (ball  deftroy  and  burn  with 
jf  re 5  fa  as  fait  may  be  fowed  on  that  Land.  The 
greateft  Clergy  who  have  invaded  St,  Peter's  feat^he 
fkall  pntto  death,  and  in  the  fame  year  obtain  a  don~ 
ble  Crown:  and  at  laft  going  over  Sea  with  a  great 
Army^hefball  enter  Greece,  <W£<?  named  King  of 
the  Greeks.  The  Turks  and  Barbarians  hejballfnb- 
due,  making  an  Edify  That  every  one  /hall  dye  the 
death,  that  worfliippeth  not  the  Crucified  one: 
dndnone  Jhall  be  found  able  to  refifthim,  becanfe  an 
holy  Arm  from  the  Lord  (ball  always  be  with  him, 
and  He  jball  poffefs  the  Dominion  of  the  Earth. 
Thefe  things  being  done^  he  fhall  be  called^  The  reSi 
of  Holy  Chriftians.  Thus  far  the  Prophecy^  which 
every  one  may  credit  fo  far  as  it  litres  himy  faith  my 
Authour. 

There  if  another  common  Prophecy ,  viz.  That 
from  the  Carolingiattf^  that  is,  of  the  race  of  Char^ 
lemaigne^  and  Blood^Royal ,  fliall  arife  an  Empe- 
rour  of  France-*  by  name  Charles^  who  fhall  be  a 
great  Monarch,  and  fhall  reform  the  Church  and 
State.  He  that  if  cartons  to  fee  this  Prophecy >  may 
find  it  among  the  vulgar  Revelations.  Whether 
this  Prophecy  hath  any  height  in  it,  1  refer  my  felf 
to  other  Mens  Judgements :  When  God  hath  ap- 
pointed it  to  be  done  3  he  will  touch  their  hearts 
that  ft  all  do  it. 

.  JP.G. 

THE 


THE 

Ecclefiaftical 

HISTORY 


O  F 


FRANCE. 

Century  I. 


Eing  about  to  write  theHiftory  of  the  GatiicanCburcb,  £  ^  pa  ft 
I  (ball  begin  with  the  firft  Plantation  of  the  Gofpel  chriftiinogr. 


Some  Writers  tell  us,  that  Philip  the  Apoftle,  of 
the  City  of  Betbfaida,  firft  preached  the  Gofpel  in 
France  j  and  having  afterwards  preached  in  Tbry- 
gia,  he  was  honourably  buried  with  his  Daughters 
at  Hierapolis.    Others  fay,  that  the  Chriftian  Faith  was  firft  planted  Heylin'*  cof- 
among  the  Gauls  by  fome  of  St.  Peter's  Difciples,  fent  thither  by  him  mogr<  Li6il* 
at  his  firft  coming  to  Rome,  Xyftw^  Front 0,  and  Julianus,  the  firft  Pa- 
itors  of  Rbemes,  Peregort  and  Matttz,  being  faid  to  be  of  his  Ordaining 
in  the  Marty rologies. 

The  like  may  be  affirmed,  (but  on  furer  grounds)  of  frapbimut,  faid 
to  be  the  firft  paftor,  or  Bithop  of  Aries.  For,  afterwards  in  a  con- 
troverfie  betwixt  the  Ar.chbi(hops  of  Vienna  in  France  and  Aries -,  for 
the  Dignity  of  Metropolitan,  in  the  time  of  Pope  Leo  the  firft,  it  was 
thus  pleaded  in  behalf  of  the  Bi(hop  of  Arles^  i&od  prim*  inter  Gal- 

B  /;«» 


_j! 3$c  cccieftaftfcai  ^ifto??        Cent,  i. 

//jf ,  &c.  That  Aries  of  all  rhe  Cities  of  Gattl^  did  firft  obtain  the  hap- 
pinefs  of  having  *frofbimus  ordained  BiOiop  thereof  by  the  hands  of 
St.  Peter.  Tropbimus  was  a  partaker  with  St.  Paul  in  all  his  afflictions, 
and  his  daily  companion.  Zofimus  writeth,  that  out  of  his  Spiritual 
Fountain  all  the  Rivers  and  Brooks  of  France  were  filled.  Neither  is 
St.  Paul  to  be  denied  the  honour  of  fending  feme  of  his  Djfciples  thi- 
ther alfo  to  preach  th^  Gofpel. 

Eufeb.  Ecdcf.         Crefiens,  a  companion  of  St.  Paul,  mentioned  by  him  in  his  fecond 

Hift.Lib.j.cap.4.  Epjftk  unto  ?jMotljy^  isfaid  to  have  departed  into  Galatia^  2  lim.  4. 

10-  which  Eufebius  faith  was  France.     That  he  was  the  firft  Bifhep  of 

Vienna  forementioned,  not  only  the  Martyrologies,  but  alfo  Ado  Vi- 

ennenfu^  an  ancient  \Vritcr  of  that  Church  doth  exprefly  fay.     And 

that  it  was  into  this  Countrey  that  he  fent  Crefiens  at  that  time,  and 

not  into  Galatia'm  Afi*  Minor^  the  teftimonies  of  Epiphanim  and  7'be- 

Doroth.  de  LXX  odoret,  which  affirm  the  fame,  may  fufficiently  confirm.  Dorotheas  faith, 

that-  Crefcens  preached  the  Gofpel  in  France,  and  was  there  martyred 

and  buried  in  the  time  of  Trajan  the  Emperour. 

In  the  Hiirory  of  Lazims  and  Maximtnus^  we  find,  that  they  with 
friary  Magdalen,  and  her  fifter  Martha  came  to  Marfeitief.  Maximinus 
was-oncot"  the  feveiity  Difciples- of  Chrilt,  as  divers  Authors  tell  us. 
The  French  Antiquities  tell  us,  That  after  the  Afcenfion  of  our  Lord, 
Anno  14.  the  Jews  raifed  fo  horrible  a  pcifecution  againii  theChriitians, 
that  the  moft  part  fled  whither  they  could  :  That  Maximinur  accom- 
panied with  Laoaws^  tool^  Mary  Mogdalen^  Martba^  Marcelia  her  hand- 
maid, and  fome  others,  and  committing  themfelves  to  the  Sea  to  avoid 
the  fury  of  the  Jews,  they  arrive  at  Marfeilles^  where  the  Prince  of  Mar- 
feilles  was  baptized.  Lazarus  became  firft  Paftor  of.M<*r/>;'£V/,  and 
Maximinus  of  Aqttens.  They  were  ordained  to  thofe  Churches  in  the 
Year  of.Chtift,  46.  in  which  Year  thefe  Authors  tell  u$,  that  Simon 
the  Leper  (whom  our  Saviour  cured  of  th^finrirrDity)  was  Ordained 
to  be  Miridcr  of  Mentz,  Cc rtowanenfrtm  in  the  Latin. 

IL  the  Year  following,  Martial  was  fcnt  into  France^  who  Cwivert- 
ed  divers  Provinces  and  people,  as  the  Annals  of  France  do  plainly  te- 
ftifie. 

In  the  Year  of  Chrift  48.  Apberdifatf,  by  birth  an  Egyptian ,  and 
Governcur  of  all  E^t,  at  the  time  when  our  Saviour  being  driven 
hue  Egypt*  tlie  Idols  of  the  Temples  thert  fell  down,  being  the  Difci- 
ple  of  St.  Peter  at  A)tti»ch,  was  Conftituted  Paftor  of  Ecttrges  in  France, 
Alter  he  had  preached  there  fix  years  he  died,  and  Vrpnus  (whom 
feme  call  Natbanael)  fucceeded  him 

Anno  Cbrilh  54.  faxlus  Sergius _  was  alfo  Conftituted  Pafior  of  the 
Chuich  of  Narhon. 

Anton,  dfr  MO-        A'bcut  this  time  Clement  Sir  named  Flavins,  with  Celeftuf  2nd  Felix, 

charez.  ub.  2.  c'e  and  ouxC.QUDttty  man  Minfitetus^  camealio  into  France^  and  preached 

the  Gofpel  there  :  £b  did  Amator'vtith  others,  Eifingre- 


Cent  2.  Of  PRANCE.  .3 

'Eifmgrfniitr  out  of  divers  Authors  proveth-  that  S.*vitu*tius,  or  Sa- 
tiwtt.j  oiie  of  the  LXXII  D'ifciples  of  Chrift,  was  by  St.  F<?*er  the  Apo- 
iile  Tent  into  Fr <*;?<*,  and"  was  Bifhop  of  Sew,  when  Claudius  w.js  Em* 
perour,  AmtoCbrijli  54.  and  that  unto  him  fucceeded  in  the  Year  74. 
'^  who  afterwards  was  an  Holy  Martyr. 


IN  the  fecond  Century  under  the  Empire  of  Marcus  Anrelius,  about  Suipit.  Sever, 
the  Year  of  our  Lord,  id8.  Chriftian'Religion  began  to  fpread  in  ™J°r; Sacr* 
France,  and  then  firft  began .Jttjtttyrtrorr,*;  as  Sttlpititts  Severn's 
faith,  who  was  a  Gtf#/,  and'lived  tfezff  about  that  time.     Under  /4«- 
rffotf  Son  of  Antorimiu  (faith  he)  the  fifth  Perfecutibn  was  moved,  and 
then  firft  Martyrdoms  were  feen  in  France,  the  Religion  of  God  having 
paft  very  late  over  the  Atyes,  being  feriouily  received,  and  fircerely  en- 
tertained there. 

Many  Chrirtians  there'foffered  Martyrdom  by  die  Empcrovifs  Cruel 
Edidts,  among  whom  the  Martyrs  at  LTOHS  znd-Viekn*  '(by  bbthVUrch 
Cities  thcRiver-K/^^^w  doth  run)  were  the  mo'ft  eminent. 

The  Holy  Churches  there,  fent  a  Letter  touching  their  Martyrs'iinto 
the  Churches  throughout  A$k  and  Pbrygfa,  the  Title  of  which  Epiftle  ^| 
thus  beginneth  s  T^ke  Servant^ 'Cbrift  inhabiting  Vienna'  ar.d  Lions, 
Cities  of  France,  unto  tb'f  Br&mrtt  tbrtwgb'ottt  Afia  and 'Phr^gia,  ofttaik- 
/«f  with  us  the  fame  Faith  and  H"+>e  of  Tledtrnption,  Ffatf.  Grace  and 
Glory  from  Cod  the  father^  arid  Chriji  Jefuf-otiP  Lord^  b(  nwlttylys'd. 

Having  premifed  certain  things  by  way  of  preamble,  they  proceed 
in  thefe  words.  Thegreatnefs  of  this  our  Tribulation,  the  furious  rage 
of  tke  Gentiles  againft-the  Saints,  and  what  things  the  bJefled  Martyrs 
naive  differed,  we  are  able  exactly  neither  to  exprefs  by  word,  r.orccni- 
pyehend-  in  writing,  &c.  Then  "they  (hew,  how  (he^fec  manfully  all 
fuch  Vexations  as  the  cluttered  multitude  laid  upon  them,  viz.  Excla- 
mations, Scourgings,  Draggings,  Spoyling,  Fettering,  Stoning,  Impri- 
fonn-jnt,  and  that  being  brought  before  the  Prefident,  who  had  exer- 
cifcd  all  kind 'of  extreme  cruelty  againft  them,  Vegctius  Epagatbut,  a 
young  Noble  Man,  being  full  of  fervent  Zeal  for  God,  \vith  vehement 
motion  required  that  Audience  might  be  given  him  to  plead  for  the 
Brethren,  affirming,  that  they  had  committed  no  impiety  :  Which  was 
denied  him  i  the  Prefident  demanding  whether  he  were  a  Chriftian,  he 

B  2  con  felled 


Ct)c  ccciefiafttcai  %ifto??         Gent.  2. 

confefled  it  with  a  loud  voice,  and  fo  was  received  into  the  fellowfhip 
of  the  Martyrs,  and  called  the  Advocate  of  the  Chriftians.  Then  they 
declare,  that  Ten  weak  Chriftians,  not  able  to  bear  the  burden  of  fo 
weighty  a  combate  fell  in  time  of  Perfecution,  to  their  great  heavinefs, 
and  forrowful  lamentation.  They  add,  that  out  of  both  thefe  Churches 
as  many  as  ruled  ancPbare  the  greateft  fway,  were  taken  and  executed. 
Great  was  the  whole  rage  both  of  Pretident,  People,  and  Soldiers  a- 
gainft  Santtus^  Deacon  of  the  Church  of  Vienna^  and  againft  Maturut, 
lately  Baptized,  yet  a  notable  warriour,  and  againft  Attains  a  man  of 
Tergamus,  who  was  a  Pillar  of  the  Faith,  and  againft  filandina,  who 
at  the  time  of  her  anfwer  warfo  replenished  with  Grace  from  Above, 
that  the  Executioners  which  tormented  her  by  turns  from  morning  to 
night,  fainted  for  wearinefs,  and  ceafed,  confeffing  themfelves  over- 
come, marvelling  that  as  yet  (he  drew  breath,  having  her  whole  body 
rent  in  pieces,  and  the  wounds  open  •,  they  confeffing  withal^  that  one 
of  thefe  Torments  was  of  force  fufficient  to  coft  Her  her  life,  much 
more  fo  many  and  fo  great -fufferings  :  But  this  Blefled  Woman  like  a 
Noble  Wreftler,  was  renewed  at  her  Confeffion  >  for  as  oft  as  (he  pro- 
nounced, I  am  a  Chilian,  neither  have  we  committed  any  evil :  She 
was  refrefhed,  and  felt  no  pain  of  her  punifament.  And  fuch  was  the 
conftancy  of  SanSw,  that  in  the  rnidft  of  his  Torments,  he  uttered 
neither  his  own  Name,  neither  his  Kindred,  nor  the  Countrey  whence 
he  was,  but  unto  every  Queftion  he  anfwered  in  the  Roman  Tongue, 
lam  a  Chriftian  :  Thus  confefled  he  often,  neither  could  the  Gentiles 
get  any  other  Language  of  him.  When  the  wicked  Tormentors  a  few 
dayes  after  had  brought  him  to  the  place  of  Torment,  and  well  hoped, 
that  if  they  punifhed  him  now  (having  his  whole  body  pufft  up  with 
fwellingand  feftered  wounds,  fo  fore  that  it  might  not  be  touched,  no 
not  with  the  leaft  ringer)  they  (hould  d(fccpme.  him,  or  that  if  he  diedlti 
torment,  they  (hould  terrific  the  reft  j  none  of  all  thefe  happened  unto 
him,  but  beyond  all  mens  expectation,  his  body  was  releafed  of  the 
pain,  recovered  it's  former  fhape,  and  the  members  were  reftored  to  . 
their  former  ufe. 

Then  Bi£/ir,  a  Woman,  was  grievoufly  tormented,  who  in  the  midft 
of  her  Torments,  cryed  out  unto  the  Tormentors,  and  faid,  How  could 
they  devour  Infants,  which  were  not  fuffered  to  fuck  the  blood  of 
brute  Beafts  ?  Then  She  confeffing  her  felf  a  Chriftian,  was  brought 
to  Execution. 

They  (hew,  that  P&0f/»«^Bi(hop  of  Lions  after  great  Torments  was 
caft  into  prifon,  being  about  ninety  years  old,  being  weak  of  body, 
fcarce  able  to  draw  breath,  creeping  on  apace,  and  being  ftrengthened 
in  Spirit  for  the  conceived  joy  of  Martyrdom  which  he  defired  :  He 
was  carried  by  the  Soldiers,  and  laid  before  the  Tribunal- Seat,  accom- 
panied with  the  Potentates  of  the  City,  and. the  whole  Multitudei  and 

being, 


Cent.  a.  Of  FRANCE. 


being  demanded  of  the  Prefident,  who  is  the  God  of  the  Chriftians  > 
Anfwered,  If  thou  become  worthy  thou  (halt  underftand  :  After  this 
Anfwer,  fuch  as  were  neareft  to  him  pricked  at  him  with  "the  hand, 
and  fpurned  him  with  the  foot,  reverencing  his  years  nothing  at  all  ••> 
and  thofe  that  flood  afar  off  threw  at  his  head  whatfoever  they  had  in 
their  hands  :  He  almoft  breathlefs  is  thrown  into  prifon,  where  after 
two  dayes  he  departed  this  Life. 

Maturuf^  Santtw,  Elandina  and  Attalus ,  were  led  unto  the  brute 
beafts  in  the  publick  fpe&acle  of  the  Heathens.  Matum  and  SanUus 
were  diverfly  Tormented  with  all  kinds  of  punimmcnts,  as  if  they  had 
fuffered  nothing  before  :  At  length,  after  they  had  endured  this  grie- 
vous Tryal,  they  were  beheaded.  Tttandina  was  hanged  in  chains  on  a 
Gibbet  fo  low,  that  the  wild  beafts  might  reach  her :  after  that  (he  had 
hung  a  long  while,  and  no  Beaft  touched  her,  (he  was  taken  down,  caft 
into  prifon,  and  referved  for  further  Torment.- 

Attalut  alfo  a  Famous  Man,  and  notably  exercifed  in  the  Chriftian 
Profeffion,  was  led  within  compafs  of  the  Theatre  with  a  Scroll  be* 
fore  him,  wherein  was  written  in  the  Roman  Tongue,  This  K  Attains 
the  Ckriftiatf*  The  Prefident  knowing  that  he  was  a  Roman,  com- 
manded him  to  be  imprifoned,  and  clofely  kept  with  the  other  prifo* 
ners,  concerning  whom  he  had  written  unto  C<efar>  and  expedied  an 
,  Anfwer. 

Alexander,  a  Phrygian  born,  and  a  Phyfician,  having  dwelt  in  France 
many  years,  a  man  well  known  for  his  great  Zeal  towards  God,  and 
boldnefs  of  fpeech,  flood  hard  by  the  Tribunal-Seat,  and  comforted 
and  encouraged  many  Martyrs  at  their  Examination  ;  When  the  peo- 
ple that  flood  by  took  in  evil  part  that  they  which  before  had  recant- 
ed, did  now  confefs  Chrift,  with  one  confent  they  cry  out  againft  Alex- 
ander as  Author  thereof  :  Then  the  Prefident  demanding  of  him  what 
he  was,  he  Anfwered,  I  am  a  Chriftian  >  for  which  Anfwer  he  was  al* 
lotted  to  be  torn  in  pieces  by  the  wild  Eeafts. 

Attains  was  fryed  to  death  in  a  fcalding  Iron  Chair,  fo  that  the  fa- 
vour of  his  broiled  body  filled  their  noflrils  i  who  being  demanded  • 
what  Name  God.  had,  Anfwered,  Cod  is  not  called  after  the  manner 
of  Mett. 

Blandina,  together  with  Ponticus  (a  youth  of  fifteen  years  of  Age) 
was  brought  forth,  whom  they  would  have  compelled  to  fwear  by 
their  Idol's  Name  :  But  they  contemning  their  Idol,  the  multitude 
were  enraged  againft  them,  tormenting  them  with  all  manner  of  pu- 
ni(hments,  Pontictts  being  comforted  and  confirmed  "by  Blandina  in 
piefence  of  the  Pagans,  after  he  had  fuffered  moft  exquifite -Torments 
yielded  up  the  Ghoft. .  Laft  of  all,  Blandixa  like  a  noble  Mother,  hav- 
ing,exhbrted  her  Children,  and  fent  them  before  as  Conquerours  unto 
the  King,;  pondering  with  herfelf  allthe  punifliments  of -her  Children, 

haitened 


6  %$t  CCClefiaftiCai  ^tftOJP          Cent.  a. 

bartered  after  them,  joying  and  triumphing  at  her  end,,  as  if  (he  had 
been  invited,  and  going  to  a  wedding  dinner  :  After  fcourging,  after 
combating  with  wild  Beafts,  after  the  broiling  cf  her  body  as  it  were  in 
a  frying-pan,  at  length  (he  was  wrapped  in  a  Net,  and  tumbled  before 
a  wild  Bull,  which  fanned  and  tolled  her  on  his  horns  to  and  fro,  yet 
had  (he  no  feeling  thereof,  in  the  end  (he  was  beheaded  ••,  the  Pagans 
themfelves  pronouncing,  That  never  any  Wcman  among  them  \Vas 
heard  to  have  fuffered  io  many,  and  fo  great  Torments. 

As  many  as  were  choked  with  the  noifom  flench  of  theprifon,  were 
thrown  to  be  devoured  of  Dogs,  the  Pagans  keeping  a  watch  day  and 
night,  that  none  of  them  might  be  buried  by  their  Friends.  To  be 
(hort,  after  that  the  bodies  of  the  blotted  Saints  had  been  every  kind  of 
way  fpitefully  and  fcornfully  entreated,  lying  fix  whole  dayes  uribu- 
ried,  at  length  they  were  burned  to  afnes,  the  ames  alfo  they  gather- 
ed to'gethcr,  and  fcattered  in  the  River  T\bod*nus  which  patted  by,  fo 
that  no  jot  or  relique  thereof  (hc'uld  any  longer  remain  upon  the  earth. 
This  they  did,  that  there  might  (as  they  faid;  be  no  further  hope  of 
their  Refurre&ion, 

Iren£us  f  after  Thotixus)  was  Bifhop  of  Liont,  he  floflfifhed  in  the 
dayes  of  the  Emperour  Commodity  his  meek  difpofition,  and  peaceable 
carriage,  anfwefed  to  his  Name  'Efgsflw©',  -that  is,  -Peaceable,  and 
made  his  Name  to  be  in  great  account  among  Chriftians. 

£a/&.  Eccicf.         The  Martyrs  forementioned  did  highly  cc  mrr.er.d  Irentus  unto  E- 

Hift.Lib.4.  lextlwrius  Bithop  of  'Rome,  as  their  own  words  do  declare  in  cr.is  man- 
ners Father  Eleutherius,  voe  n>ijhyo*  health  in  all  thingf,  and  alwayet 
in  God.  We  have  requeued  Irenaeus  cur  Brother  and  Fellow-labourer,  to 
deliver  yo:t  thffe  Letters,  rvhom  we  pray  you  to  accept  ef,  as  a  zealotis 
follower  of  the  WiU  tf  C/;r/jf.  For  if  rye  underload  that  any  mam  degree 
yielded  forth,  and  delivered 'Kighteaufnef -unto  the.  Graduate,  namely,  M 
being  biinifter  of  the  Church  which  this  matt  if,  roe  would  have  chiefly 
commended  this  in  him. 

iren  Lib.?  cap.?.      'E-nfibiuf  hath  fet  down  out  of  Irentw  a  Catalogue  of  the  Roman  Bi- 
'  (hips  unto  his  time. 

iren.Lib.a.cap.  Iren£Uf  '(heweth,  how  unto  his  time  Miracles  were  wrought  by  the 
faithful  :  fome  (faith  he)  do  foundly  and  truly  caft  out  Devils,  others 
have  the  foreknowledge  of  things  to  come,  they  fee  Divine  Dreams, 
and  Prophetical  Viiions  i  others  cure  the  difeafed,  and  reftore  them  to 
health  by  their  laying  on  of  hands.  The  dead  were  raifed  to  life  (faith 
he)  and  lived  together  with  us  many  years.  Again,  in  another  place, 
Iren.ens  thus  writcth,  We  have  heard  of  many  Brethren  in  the  Church 
which  had  the  gift  of  prophefying,  which  were  able  through  the  Holy 

irea.  Lib.  5.       Ghoft  to  fpeak  with  fundry  Tongues,  which  could  re  veil  the  fecrets 

of  men  where  it  fo  behoved,  and  expound  the  dark  myfteries  of  God. 

Then  arofe  a  Controverfie  about  the  keeping  of  Eajlcr  j  for  the 

Church 


Cent.  2.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E. 


Church  of  the  Weft,  and  part  of  that  of  the  Eaft  did  Celebrate  the 
Feaft  of  Eafier  upon  the  Lord's  day  :  but  part  of  the  Church  of  the 
Eaft  did  Celebrate  it  upon  the  fourteenth  day  of  the  Moon  of  March-, 
not  looking  for  the  Lord's  day.  Towards  the  end  of  this  fecond  Cen- 
tury, Vifttfr^  the  fucceflbur  of  Eleutberius  Bifnop  of  Rome  took  that  bu- 
fincfs  in  hand  with  eagernefs,  and  for  thatcaufe  feparated  the  Oriental 
Churches  from  his  Communion.  Polycrates  BUhop  of  Epbefies  refitted 
him  •>  ViUvr  being  ir.cenfed  with  that  refinance,  excommunicateth  all 
the  Eaftern  Churches.  Eufebiuf  faith,  That  this  did  not  pleafe  all  the 
Bilhops,  wherefore  alfo  they  made  him  a  contrary  Command,  that  he 
(hould  keep  Peace,  Union  and  Charity  with  his  Neighbours.  Among 
other  Examples  he  brings  forth  theEpiftle  of  Irentus  toViftor -,  where- 
by he  accufeth  him  to  have  violated  Charity,  and  to  have  departed 
from  the  Example  of  his  Anceft ors.  Rxjfinus  relateth  the  fame. 

Eufebiuf  makes  mention  of  what  Irenxus  wrote  concerning  the  Holy 
Canonical  Scriptures,  and  the  tranflation  of  the  Septuagint.  Ireneus 
wrote  divers  Epiftles  to  confute  fuch  as  at  Rome  corrupted  the  iincere 
Rites  of  the  Church  :  He  wrote  one  to  Blaftus  of  Schifm,  another  to 
Florinus  of  Monarchy,  or  (hewing  that  God  is  not  the  Author  of  Evil, 
which  Opinion  Florintts  feemed  to  be  of,  but  afterwards  he  was  fedu- 
ced  with  the  Errour  of  Valeminus.  '  Irevtus  in  his  Epiftle  to  Florinus; 
Reporteth,  that  he  had  converfed  with  Polycarpus^  fo  that  he  remem- 
bred  the  place  where  Polycarpttf  fate  when  he  taught,  his  courfe  of  Life, 
the  figure  and  proportion  of  his  body,  the  Sermons  he  made  unto  the 
Multitude,  the  report  he  made  of  his  Converfation  with  St.  John  the 
Apoftle,  and  others  which  faw  the  Lord  '•>  how  he  remernbred  their 
fayings,  and  what  he  heard  out  of  their  mouths  touching  the  Lord,  of 
his  Power  and  Dodhine.  Thefe  things  (faith  he)  I  diligently  marked 
and  printed  them  in  my  heart :  And  I  am  able  to  teftifie,  if  that  Holy 
and  Apoftolick  Elder  had.  heard  any  fuch  thing,  he  would  have 
prefently  flopped  his  ears,  and  reclaimed  it.  To  be  ftort,  this  may  be 
reported  for  true  oat  of  the  Epiftles  which  he  wrote  for  the  Confirma- 
tion of  the  bordering  Churches,  or  out  of  the  Epitiles  which  he  wrote 
to  certain  Brethren  for  Admonition  or  Exhortation- fake.  Thus  far 
Irenxus. 

There  are  but  few  of  the  Fathers  but  have  fome  particular  Opinion 
which  the  Church  of  Rome  difalloweth  as  well  as  we.     The  Learned 
Dr.  P»  'Moulin  mcnti^neth  many  of  the  Ancieiits,  and  among  them 
Irentus^  who  faiih,  tr:t  Jefus  Cbrift  Taught  until  the  Age  of  forty  or  contr 
rifty  years.     Fevardent,  who  hath  Commented  upon  the  Book  hath  L2*? 
written  in  the  Margin,  Nivitf  fie  <etate  Chrifti ;  it  is  a  fault  of  Jren&uf 
about  the  Age  of  Chitft.      the  fame  Father  alfo  Teacheth,  that  the 
Souls  fepaiated  frjom  the  bodies  have  a  bodily  (hape,  and  keep  the  cha- 
ra&er  or  forn)  of  the  body  to  which  they  were  joyned.    The  fame  Ire- 

BSHl 


8  3Ce«crtefiafttcaiffto         Cent. 


iren.  Lib.  4.  cap.  f^ew/  fa}th,  That  the  Law  was  not  given  to  the  Fathers  that  lived  before 
the  Law,  becaufe  they  were  Righteous,  and  there  was  no  need  they 
fhould  be  warned  by  Reprehenfions  :  but  that  this  Righteoufnefs  be- 
ing given  in  Egypt,  God  then  had  given  his  Law.  The  fame  Father 
in  the  Fifth  Book,  Chap.  33  and  3  4  brings  in  bodily  Feafts  after  the 
Refurre&ion,  becaufe  Chrift  faid.  He  (hould  drink  of  the  New  Fruit 
of  the  Vine  in  the  Kingdom  of  his  Father.  The  fame  Father  oppofeth 
them  as  Hereticks,  that  hold  that  the  Souls  of  the  Faithful  departed  do 
enjoy  the  Heavenly  Glory.  His  Opinion  was,  that  at  their  going  out 
of  the  Body,  they  go  down  into  an  invifible  place  where  they  expect 
the  RefurredHon. 

Befides  thofe  Epiftles  of  Irentus  forementioned,  there  is  extant  an- 
other very  learned  and  neceiTary  Book  of  his  againft  the  Gentiles,  En- 
tituled  A  Eook^of  Science,  or,  Knowledge  :  Another  unto  Marcianuf  his 
Brother,  Entituled,  A  Declaration  of  the  Apoftles  Trenching  :  And  an- 
other Book  of  divers  Trtds,  where  he  makes  mention  of  the  Epiftle 
to  the  Hebrews,  and  the  Book  of  IVifdom,  called  Solomon's. 

,  Ex  PUtin,  ia  In  the  time  of  the  Emperour  Commodus,  Peregrinus  flourifhed,  who 
\iu  S'uti.  had  been  fent  before  by  Xiftns  Biihop  of  Rome  into  the  parts  of  France  , 
to  fupply  there  the  room  of  a  Bifhop  and  Teacher  :  Becaufe  of  the 
horrible  ^  Perfections  thereabout,  thofe  places  were  left  defolate  and 
deftitute  of  Minifters  and  Inftrudtors  ,  where  after  he  had  Preached 
with  much  fuccefs  among  the  Flock  of  Chrift,  and  had  eftablifhed  the 
Congregation  there,  returning  to  Rome  he  there  finished  his  Martyr- 
dom. Six  feveral  Synods  were  held  about  the  Obfervation  of  Eafter, 
and  the  fourth  was  held  in  f  ranee,  in  which  Irentus  was  Chief. 


Century  III. 

AFterihe  Death  of  the  Emperour  Commodus,  Reigned  Pertrnax 
but  few  months,after  whom  fucceeded  Septimius  S  events  Bunder 
whom  was  raifed  a  notable  Perfecution  againft  the  Ghriftians. 
Great  Perfecution  was  ftirred  up  on  every  fide,  whereby  an  infinite 
number  of  Martyrs  were  (lain,  as  Eufebius  reporteth. 
Lib.  n.      Vincent  Jus  fpeaketh  of  one  Andocltts,  whom  Polycarptfs  before  had 
^ent  into  France  i  which  Andoclus,  becaufe  he  fprcad  there  the  Do- 
.ftrine  of  Chrift,was  apprehended  of  Seventf,znd  firft  beaten  with  ftaves, 
and  after  was  beheaded. 

About 


Cent.   5.  Of  FRANCE. 


About  the  fame  time  died  Iren**/.  Henry  of  Erford,  Ado,  and  other 
Martyr* writers  do  hold,  That  he  was  martyred  with  many  more  for  the 
Confeffiou  and  Doctrine  of  Chrift,  about  the  fourth  or  fifth  year  of  Sf- 
verus.  This  Irewut,  as  he  was  a  great  Writer,  fo  was  he  greatly  com- 
mended of  Tertutiian  for  his  Learning,  whom  he  calleth,  Omnium  do- 
Srinarum  cttriofiffimum  exploratorem,  a  great  fearcber  of  all  kjnd  of  learn- 
ing. In  the  time  of  this  Irentus,  the  ftate  of  the  Church  was  much 
troubled,  net  only  for  the  outward  perfecution  of  the  foreign  enemy, 
bat  alfo  for  divers  Stds  and  Errours  then  flirting,  againft  which  he  di- 
ligently laboured,  and  wrote  much,  although  but  tew  Books  be  now 
remaining. 

Calixtus  fucceeded  Zepberinus  Btthop  of  Rome,  and  after  him  Vr- 
banus,  which  both  (as  fome  Writers  affirm)  did  fuffer  under  the  Em- 
perour  Alexander  Severus  :  This  Calixtus  in  his  two  decretal  Epiftles 
written  to  Benedifitts,  and  to  the  Bifhops  of  France,  giveth  forth  divers 
Ordinances  concerning  the  Bithops  and  Minifters  of  the  Church.  Vin- 
tentius  affirmeth,  that  Calixtttf  was  tied  to  a  great  itonc,  and  fo  out 
of  a  window  was  thrown  into  a  ditch. 

Under  the  Emperour  Vecius  Cas  Gregory  of  Tours  obferveth )  Gra~  Gregor.  turo- 
tian  came  to  lours  to  preach  the  Gofpel  among  the  Pagans,  Anno  Cbri-  nenf.  HHl.  Lfc.?. 
Jri  252.  Saturninus  preached  at  Iboloufe,  and  was  the  tirft  Bifhop  of 
that  place.     Dionyfius  alfo  came  to  Paris,  where  he  was  Bifhop,  and 
fuffered  Martyrdom  :  This  is  he  who  is  falfly  named  Vionyfius^  or  Ve~ 
m  the  Areopagite.    Saturninus  alfo  was  thrown  down  from  the  Ca- 
pitol of  Ibolonfe  :  RujUcus  and  Eleutberius  alfo  there  furTered  Mar- 
tyrdom. 

The  Author  of  St.  Oner's  Life  relateth,  that  Fufdanus  and  Viftori- 
ntif  the  Companions  of  Vionyftus  preached  at  the  fame  time  the  Faitf\ 
of  Chrift.  That  St.  Ijhtintin  did  the  fame  among  the  Ambianianf9 
and  furTered  Martyrdom. 

Aurelius  Probus  being  inverted  with  the  Empire,  Anno  276.  went 
into  France  where  he  regained  fixty  Towns  out  of  the  Barbarians 
hands,  and  killed  of  them  near  feventy  thoufand.  Having  quieted  all 
things  in  France,  he  went  into  Sclavonia^  and  overcame  the  Nations  in 
Scytbia  :  And  being  gone  thence  into  the  Eaft,  he  gave  battcl  to  the 
Perfians,  and  having  overcome  them,  and  taken  fome  of  their  Cities, 
as  he  was  returning  to  Italy,  paffing  through  Sclavonia,  he  was  killed 
at  Sirmium  by  the  Soldiers,  ^^282. 

A/.  Aurelius  Cams ,  born  at  Narbon  in  Trance,  fucceeded  Trolus^ 
who  foon  after  Created  his  Sons  Carinus  and  Numerianus  Ca?fars :  And 
having  fent  Carinus  into  France,  to  keep  it  in  peace,  he  with  his  Son 
Numerianus  went  againft  the  Perfians  i  there,  having  overcome  Mefo- 
fotamia,  he  was  ftrucken  dead  by  a  Thunderbolt.  Numerianus  was  flain 
by  the  confpiracy  of  Aj>er  hjs  Father  in  Law.  Car'mus  was  flain  by  a 

C  Tribunej 


10          %\yt  eceieftaftf&tl  $tfto;p 

Tribune,  whofe  Wife  he  had  defloured  :  Viocltfian  fucceedcd  him. 

T)hdefian  upon  his  Eftablilhment,  aflfociatcd  unto  him  M*ximianttt 
Hercules  in  the  Government  of  the  Empire,  and  they  both  chofe  Con- 
ftant'ms  Chlortts  and  Cdlemis  to  be  their  Colleagues,  and  they  were 
Created  Ctfars. 

In  the  time  before  the  Tenth  Perfecution,  the  Church  of  Chrift  hav- 
ing had  above  forty  years  of  outward  reft  and  peace  through  the  con- 
nivance and  indulgence  of  fome  Emperours  (viz.  from  the  death  of 
Valerian  until  the  nineteenth  year  of  Dioclefiati)  this  profperity  being 
abufed  by  the  Clergy,  and  other  Chriftians  unto  idknefs,  contentions, 
&c.  moved  the  Lord  to  fcourge  them  •,  whereupon  followed  that  fharp 
and  cruel  Perfecution  under  Dicclefian  :  Maximianxs  in  the  Weft,  and 
T>i?clefian"m  the  Eaft  bent  all  their  Forces  to  root  out  the  profellion iof 
Chriftian  Religion  i  Vioclefian endeavoured  to  den'roy  all  the  Churches 
and  Temples  of  the  Chriftians,  that  they  might  not  Aflfemble  together 
to  Pray,  and  to  ufe  Divine  Service  j  he  <burnt  all  the  Books  he  could 
get  ot  the  Holy  Scripture,  an4  would  not  permit  any  man  if  he  were  a 
Chriftian  to  hold  any  Office  or  Magillracy  :  The  Soldiers  being  Chri- 
ftiar.s,  which  would  not  renounce  their  Faith,  hecamiered,  and  depri- 
ved of  all  military  honour,  and  fome  of  their  lives.  Many  of  the  Bi- 
(hops  were  plundered,  (lain  and  martyred.  Great  Cruelties  were  exer- 
cifed.a^ainft  the  Chriftians  in  Egy/tf,  Syria,  Pbrygia,  and  in  other  parts, 
v!n«nt  in^  spe-  Vincen^us  faith,  That  at2>/>r/  (which  is  a  City  fituated  by  the  River 
cui.  ub.  12.  frfafella)  onsfiJetionariuf  exercifed  fo  great  cruelty^  that  the  River  was 
red  with  the  blord  of  the  Chriftians  that  were  flain.  In  France  like- 
wife  he  fcnt  Pofts  up  and  down  hither  and  thither  with  Decrees,  and 
exprcfs  Commulions  to  this  end,  that  in  whatfoever  place  any  Chri- 
ftian was  found,  heihould  prefently  be  put  todeath. 

But  thefe  two  bloody  Emperours,  fceiqg  the  number  of  the  Chri- 
ftians rather  to  encreafe  thaivto  diminith,  notwithstanding  all  the  cru- 
elty that  they  could  (hew,  and  having  now  (as  it  were)  their  fill  of 
blood,  they  ceafed  at  laft  of  their  own  accord  to  put  any  more  Chri- 
ftians to  death  i  and  finding  themfelves  not  able  to  deftroy  the  Church^ 
they  gave  over  the  Empire,  and  became  privafe  men. 

CoHjiantius  Cbloms^  and  t&ax'nniiws  Galenus  fuccceded  in  the  Em- 
pire. Conftantiur  parted  the  Empire  with  Galeriut^  and  would  Rule 
but  in  P-r!tainJ  Spain  and  France.  Galeri.is  cl-ofe  to  him  his  two  Sons, 
MaxirainHs  and  S events  •,  and  Conftantius  took  Coiti-antir.e  his  Son  .Ce- 
far  under  him.  Cottftantittf  was  a  great  fupporter  of  tl.c  (  hriftians  •-, 
And  when  in  the  other  Jurifdi&ions  of  the  Empire  the  Congregations 
of  the  Chriitians  weremolefted  with Pcrfecutions,  Cvqlantius  gave  li- 
berty to  the  Chriftians. 

C  L  N  T.  IV, 


Cent.     .  Of  FRANCE, 


Century  IV. 


COnftatititts  dying  at  fork^  Conflowing  his  Son  fucceeded  him  in  ANNO  J0&- 
the  Empire  :  Covftantiw  who  Ruled  France,  did  not  only  ab- 
Itain  from  (bedding  Chriftian  blood,  but  alfo  had  the  Chri- 
(tians  in  great  eftcem  :  Nazarius  and  Patera  were  elieemed  rare  Ora- 
tours  in  France,  living  at  that  time. 

The  Hiftories  of  thole  Times  make  mention  of  one  Sebaftian  a  Mar-  FOX  Act.  ft  MO-. 
tyr,  he  being  barn  in  that  part  of  Trance  called  GaVia  Narbonenfif,  was  nu 
a  Chriftian^  and  a  Lieutenant  General  in  the  Army  of  Vieclefian,  who 
alfo  encouraged  many  Martyrs  of  rhrilt  by  his  Exhortations  unto  Con- 
fiancy,  ar.d  kept  them  in  the  Faith  »  He  being  therefore  accufed  to 
Diockfian,  was  apprehended,  and  brought  into  the  open  field,  where 
of  his  own  Soldiers  he  was  thruft  through  the  body  with  innumerable 
arrows,  and  after  that  his  body  was  thrown  into  a  jakes  or  fink. 
St.  Ambrofe  makes  mention  of  this  Sebajlian  the  Martyr  in  his  Com- 
mentary upon  the  u  8.  Pfalm. 

Conftant'me  reftored  Peace  unto  the  Church,  Anno  311.  he  Reigned 
thirty  and  two  years  j  great  Tnnquility  enjoyed  the  Church  under  this 
good  Emperour.  Before  he  had  fubdued  Lichiins,  he  fet  forth  many 
Ed  ids  for  the  reftitution  of  the  Goods  of  the-  Church,  for  the  revo- 
king the  Chriftians  out  of  Exile,  for  taking  away  the  Diffemions  of 
the  Dodors  out  of  the  Church,  for  the  fetting  of  them  free  from  pub- 
lick  charges  :  A  Copy  of  his  ConfHtutions  may  be  feerun  Eufibiut  his 
Ecclefiaftical  Hiltory,  in  his  tenth  Book  and-fifth  Chapter. 

In  the  fourteenth  Year  of  Cottftantinf  there  was  hoklefi  a  Council  at 
Nice,  for  the  debating  of  the  Controverfie  about  the  Feaft  of.Ealler, 
and  for  the  rooting  out  the  Herefie  of  Arm.  There  was  like  wife  a 
Council  holden  at  Aries  under  CoKftantine's  Reign. 

Cori,iantine  left  three  Sons,  whom  he  had  by  F*«(?<*,  Maximian's 
Daughter,  Heirs  of  the  Empire,  who  alfo  divided  the  Empire  among 
thetmfelves.  A  fudden'  Sedition  after  their  Father's  -death  embroiled 
them  all  in  blood  and  wars,  by  the  commotion  and  diffimulation  of  the 
Errperour  Conftatttiitf. 

In  his  Time  the  Arr/an  Herefie,  which  for  fear  of  Co»(lantine  had 
been  fupprcifcd,  began  now  again  to  lift  up  it's  head,  for  Conftantitff 
propagates  that  Herefie. 

Hilary  BHhc.p  of  Peitiiers  in  France,  lived  under  the  Reign  of  Con- 
ilawiut,  a  man  in  Religion  conftant,  in  Manners  meek  and  courteous  \ 
he  wrote  fliarply  againft  ihe-Arians  \  he  was  banilhed  immediately  af-  Knffin.ub.  T. 

C  s  ter  csp'51* 


Ccclcfiamcal  %ttto?p         Cent.  4. 

ter  the  Council  of  Milan  into  Tbrygia,  as  fome  fuppofe.  Among  di- 
vers others,  he  dedicated  his  Book,  t>e  Synodis  fidei  Catholic*  contra 
Arianos,  to  the  Bithops  of  the  Provinces  of  Britain,  during  his  Exile 
for  the  Orthodox  Faith,  commending  them  for  their  conftancy  in  the 
profertion  of  that  Faith. 

Theodor.Lib.  3.      Tbeodoret  writeth,  'that  he  was  banifhed  to  TfbebaiJa,  and  recalled 
cap.  4.  from  Exile  again  under  Julian  :  But  k  is  more  apparent  that  he  re- 

mained in  Pbrygia  until  the  Council  of  Seleucia,  unto  which  Council 
he  was  brought  from  banimment  i  not  by  any  fpecial  Commandment 
from  the  Emperour,  but  by  a  general  command  given  to  his  Deputy 
JJJ'  Ma*3*;  Leonis,  to  aflemble  together  the  Bifhops  of  the  Eatt,  under  pretence  of 
t0'  executing  the  command  of  the  Emperour,  Hillary  being  banifhed  in 
the  Eaft,  was  brought  to  the  Council  of  Seleucia  i  from  thence  he  went 
to  Conjlatttinople  :  The  Emperour  refufed  to  hear  him  difpute  with  the 
Arians  in  matters  of  Faith,  but  gave  him  liberty  to  return  to  his  own 
Countrey  again.  He  took  great  pains  to  purge  the  Countrey  of  France 
from  the  Arian  Herefie  v  and  he  prevailed  fo  far ,  that  Jerome  com- 
pares him  to  DeucAlicon,  who  both  faw  the  flood  of  waters  overflow- 
ing Ibeflal'a,  and  the  abating  of  them  alfo  i  even  fo  Hillary  faw  both 
Hilar.  Lib.  10.  tne  growth  and  decay  of  Arianifm  in  France.  Yet  even  this  Father 
dc  Trink.  had  his  Errours,  for  in  his  Tenth  Book  of  the  'trinity,  and  upon  P/Ii/» 
138,  and  53,  he  maintaineth,  That  Jcfus  Chrift  in  his  death  fuftered 
no  pain,  but  that  only  he  would  make  us  believe  that  he  fuffered,  and 
that  the  blows  did  not  give  him  any  pain,  no  more  than  if  an  arrow 
pierced  the  water,  or  prickt  the  fire,  or  hurt  the  air,  and  that  the  vh> 
tue  of  the  body  of  Chrift  received  the  violence  of  pains  without  feel- 
ing :  The  fame  Father  faith,  That  Chrift  did  eat  and  drink,  not  out 
of  any  neceffity,  but  to  comply  with  Cuftom,  for  which  Opinion  he 
Du  Moulin  cent.  's  reProve<^  by  Claudiw  Bifhop  of  Vienna,  in  the  Book  of  the  State  of 
Perron  Lib.  i.  the  Soul.  That  Errour  fo  grofs,  hath  brought  him  to  another,  that  in 
thefe  words  of  the  Lord  [Father,  let  this  Cup  pafi  from  me.  ]  Jefus 
Chrift  defired  his  Father,  that  his  Difciples  alfo  might  fuffer  in  the  like 
manner  :  fo  that  by  his  account  St.  Teter  fclt  no  pain  in  fuflfering  mar* 
tyrdom.  It  is  alfo  one  of  his  Opinions,  that  Souls  are  Corporal.  Re- 
lived fix  years  after  his  return  from  baniftiment,  and  died  under  the 
Reign  of  Valentinian.  Stepbanus  Pafchafas  hath  thefe  Verfes  of  him 
in  his  Icones^ 

Et  ms  exbilarM  Hilari  fanttijfime  Trtfitl, 
Et  monitis  vifta  eft  Arria  feQa  ttds. 

Jerome,  although  he  was  born  in  a  Town  of  Dalmalla  called  Stri- 
don,  and  was  intruded  in  rudiments  of  Learning  at  Rome  j  yet  from 
Rome  he  went  into  France. ot  purpofe  to  increafe  his  Knowledge,  and 
to  divers  other  places* 


Cent.  4-  Of  FRANCE. 


Conllantiw  being  cfead,  Julian  his  Coufin  German  alone  governed 
the  Empire,  Anno  361.  having  before  obtained  of  Confrantitts  the  Ti- 
tle of  C<efar,  and  been  Entitled  Augujlus  by  the  Soldiers  in  the  City  of 
Paris. 

In  the  Year  57  5.  St.  Martin  was  made  Bifliop  of7»r/ttin  Frame ; 
Exuptrius  was  Bi(hop  of  Th'alottfe  i  Simpliciw  of  Vienna  i  Amandm  of 
Eottrdeaux,  Maurice  of  Anjoti,  Pbilaftrius  of  BJYHJC  •,  thefe  were  all  ac- 
counted Bifliops  of  great  fame. 

About  this  time  fprung  up  the  Seel:  of  the  Vonatijls,  who  were  fo  F"r's  prd" 
called  from  a  double  Donattts  (as  one  faith)  whereof  the  one  planted 
the  Sect,  the  other  watered  it,  and  the  Devil,  by  God's  permiilion,  gave 
the  encreafe.    The  elder  Vottatus  raifed  a  Schifm  in  Carthage  againft 
good  Cecilian  the  Bifliop  there,  whom  he  loaded  unjuftly  with  many 
crimes,  which  he  was  not  able  to  prove-,  and  vexed  with  this  dif~  Auguftad quod- 
grace,  he  thought  to  right  his  credit  by  wronging  Rcligior,  and  fo  be-  vullDeu:at 
gan  the  Heretic  of  the  Vonatijls  :  His  moft  Dominative  Tenet  was,  that 
the  Church  was  perUhed  from  the  face  of  the  earth,  the  icliques  there- 
of only  remaining  in  his  party. 

There  were  two  principal  fides  of  them '>  firft,  the  Kogxtiftf,  focal- 
led  from  Rcgatus  their  Teacher,  to  whom  St.  Augufiiite  beareth  wit- 
nefs,  That  they  had  zeal^  but  not  according  to  knowledge.  Thefe  were 
people  of  good  lives,  hating  bloody  practices,  though  erroneous  in  theif 
Doctrine.  But  there  was  another  fort  whom  they  called  Clrcttmcel- 
lions^  though  as  little  Reafon  can  be  given  of  their  Names  as  of  their 
Opinions. 

Their  number  in  fhort  time  grew  to  be  confiderable  :  Their  Te- 
net was  plaufible  and  winning,  and  that  Faith  is  eafily  wrought  that 
tcacheth  men  to  think  well  of  themfelves.-    From  Numidia,  where  Q?od  a^d  «!tn 
they  began,  they  overfpread  Africa^  Spain^  France^  Italy ,  and  Rome  it  foium  juftida  • 
felf  :  Their  greateft  increafe  was  under  Julian  the  Emperour.     This  Sj^JSj!* 
Apoftate,  next  to  no  Religion,  loved  the  worft  Religion  belli  they  pS.Uj.it 
fled  to  this  Bramble  for  fuccour,  extolling  him  for  fuch  a  Godly  man, 
with  whom  alone  juftice  did  remain  i   and  he  reftored  them  their 
Churches  again,  and  armed  them  with  many  privileges  againft  Chri- 
(Hans  :  Hereupon  they  killed  many  men  in  the  very  Churches,  mur- 
thering  Women  and  Infants,  and  raviftiing  Virgins,  &c.  The  Donatijh 
were  oppofed  by  the  Learned  Writings  of  private  Fathers,  Oftatef 
Milevitanus,  and  St.  Angu^ine^  and  by  two  Councils,  one  at  Casthage,  v ;j.  Au«ft,- 
another  at  Aries  in  France.     Pope  Miltiadet  was  by  the  Emperour  E?ift>  1^2«  • 
made  Judge  between  the  Catholicks  and  Donatifis,  and  after  him  the 
Bifhcp  of  Arler.    This  Herefie  continued  till  about  the  iix  hundrcth 
year  of  Chrid  i  and  that  which  put  a  period  to  this  Herefie,  was  part- 
Jy  their  cwndiflentions:  but  chiefly,  they  were  fupprefTedby  the  Civil 
MagilUatc  :  for  H?//0r/#;;  the  Emperour  i>y  punilhmintS;,  inixt  ivith 

Inftru&ions ; 


I 4  %ty  CCCleftalif  Cal  $tftO#  Cent.  5. 


viJeBJron  ^n  i°lis  'from  the  Church,  converted  and  reclaimed  very  many. 

nai.  LI  inn'o  '    He  caufed  the  Patent  of  Privilege  which  Julian  granted  the  J)on^tiftf9 
'-•  >;U:P  "*•  Pub'licvi  locis  aff.gendum  in  ludibr'nim^  *t&  be  affixed  to  fublick^places  for 
a  reproach  unto  them, 

Julian  was  ilain  in  battel  againft  the  Yerfiarts^  having  governed  the 
Empire  after  the  death  of  Conftantittt  one  year,  and  feven  months.  Then 
Jovian  was  faluted  Emperour,  who  being  a  profeiTorof  the  Chriilian 
Faith,  rejeded  theArians  ••,  but  he  died  of  a  furfeit  in  the  eighth  month 
of  his  Reign.  Then  Valentinian  was  Elected  Emperour,  a  man  con- 
tiant  in  the  Chriftian  Faith  -,  but  he  died  of  an  Apoplexy  in  the  twelfth 
year  of  his  Government,  leaving  his  Son  Gratian  to  fucceed  him  in  the 
Empire  =,  who  after  the  death  of  Vale,u  his  Uncle,  had  the  Govern- 
ment both  of  feaft  and  Weft  :  his  Brother  Valentin* an  was  his  Col- 
league in  the  Government  of  the  Weft.  Gratian  in  the  beginning  of 
his  Reign  reduced  from  banifhment  thofe  BiOiops  whom  Valens  that 
Arian  Perfecutor  had  baniflicd  :  Gratian  was  ilain  by  Andragathius^ 
Captain  of  the  Army  of  Maximits ,  who  ufurped  the  Empire  of  the 
Weft,  by  fraud  and  treachery  near  Lions  in  Trance^  where  he  made  his 
abode.  Rutlheodojius^  a  man  of  Noble  Parentage  in  Spain,  to  whom 
Gratian  had  committed  the  Government  of  theEaft,  being  mindful  of 
the  kindnefs  of  Gratian  toward  him,  led  an  Army  againft  Maximus  : 
The  Captains  of  Mjxm/»/'s  Army  hereupon  delivered  him  bound  to 
ybeodofius,  who  put  him  to  death  :  Avdragathiuf.,' \vhoflcw  Cratian, 
feeing  no  way  to  efcape  threw  himfelf  head-long  into  the  Sea,  and  fo 
perifhed. 

Not  long  after,  T.ugeniut  by  the  Power  of  the  Earl  Arbogaftes^  U- 
furped  the  Government,  Anno  35?!.  And  the  year  following,  the  faid 
Arbogaftes  flew  Valentinian  at  Vienna  in  Traxce  :  'Epifhanixs  faith,  he 
was  ftrangled  in  his  Palace. 


Century  V. 

IN  the  Year  401.  died  St.  Martin,  Bifhop  of  7W/X  who  following 
Hillary  into  France  from  his  banifhment,  having  there  lived  an 
auftere  and  retired  life,  was  Created  Bilnop  ot  T'ttrin,  almoft  at 
that  time  that  St.  Ambrofewzs  cllablilhed  Biuicp  of  Mitan^  viz.  in  the 
Year  375.   A  man  to  be  admired  above  all  his  PredecefTdrs  for  Piety, 
whom  the  Emperours  thcmfelvcs  have  had  in  great  efteem  •,  and  a- 

morg 


Cent.?.  0f  FRANCE.  15 

meng  the  reft  Maximw^  who  feafted  him  Anno  386.  in  a  fcaft  that  his 
Wife  the  Emprefs  had  prepared,  who  ftipplyed  the  place  of  a  Waiter 
and  Attendant  at  the  Table  herfelf.  Sttlpitius  Sfvetus  in  the  life  of 
St.  Martin  meweth,  that  when  he  was  to  be  chofen  Bifliop,  one  of  the 
people  "having  taken  the  Pfalter  in  the  place  of  the  Reader  then  abfenr, 
began  to  read  the  eighth  Pfalm,  where  there  was,  Vt  Jejlrttas  inim\~ 
cum  &1  dcfenfirrm  >  at  which  word  $efenforf>m.)  the  people  cryed  out 
againft  one  Vefenfor,  who  oppcfcd  Martin's  Eledion  to  the  Epifcopa- 
cy.  About  this  time  the  Monafiical  Profeilion  came  into  Europe,  to 
which  Jerome  at  Rome,  and.  St.  Martin  in  France  did  much  contribute. 

In  the  Year  446.  the  Pelagian  Her  ell  e  having  fpread  over  all  Bri- 
tain^ the  Wni\\)  Churches  bring  infedted  therewith,  King  Vonigern 
Cent  for  Germtwu  Bi(bop  of  Attxtrret,  and  Lupus  Bifliop  of  Tiroyes  in 
Champagne  out  of  France,  men  eminent  for  their  Counfd  and  Doctrine, 
who  confuting  the  Pelagians,  gained  to  themfelves  great  efteem  among 
the  Britafts. 

After  the  return  of  Germatms  and  Lupus  into  their  own  Countrey, 
Pelagianifm  began  to  fprout  forth  again  in  Britain  :  But  after  three 
years,  Germanus  returning  back  again  into  Britiin,  brought  with  him 
Severn* ,  and  the  Pelagian  Herefie  was  again  condemned  in  a  fecond 
Synod.  "Britain  being  thus  fettled  in  good  order,  Cermanm  went  again 
into  France,  and  died  foon  after  his  return. 

In  this  Century  flourifhcd  other  worthy  Biftops  and  Preachers  in 
Frame :,  Eucberiw  Bifiiop  of  Lions  \vas  then  eminent,  fome  of  whofe 
writings  arc  yet  extant.  About  this  time  Baroniia  fpeaks  of  a  Synod  Baron. . 
of  Anjou,  which  faith,  Let  none  be  Ordained  Priefts  or  Deacons,  but  453* 
fuch  as  have  one  Wife  only,  who  married  Virgins. 

Hillary  firft  Bilhop  of  Aries,  and  afterward  (as  appeareth)  vlVienna^ 
flouriftiecl  about  the  year  45.8.  he  oppofed  himfelf  directly  to  Leo  Bi- 
ihop  of  Rome,  and  would  acknowledge  no  Jurifdidlion  nor  Domina- 
tion of  the  Bifhop  of. Row?  over  the. Churches  of  France.  Hilary  cal- 
led himfdf  Primate  of  the  Churches  of  Gauls  fubjecl:  to  the  Roman 
Empire,  thai  is,  of  Pro-.-ence  and,  Ttaxlphine  :  for  the  refi  of  the  Gauh 
was  then  held  by  the  Vifigotbs  and  by  the  Franckj.  The  quarrel  was, 
that  Hilary,  conferred  the  degree  of  Bifnop  in  his  Diocefs,  not  expect- 
ing the  conf.nt  ?.nd  approbation  of  the  Bifhop  of  l\om?  :  but  Leo 
\vruld  oblige  him-  t,;  j-jqusir.t  ti'e  Roman  See  .with  it,'  and  to  get  his 
approbation. 

l-  -Upon  that  J*<t  . ys  to  t!.,  Bifhops  of  Paulpbbie,  where  af- 

•tex  he  butli  in  fwe'ilL^  v.  C'ignity  of  the  Roman  See  i 

he  ad  fo.frottkkdM  iV-ifc  of  i^  Church,  and  tbe  Concord  ^^^ 

f'f  I  •  -i,-l"  fot'o  fill)-  Vienneofen  pr 

^%r^ 

4pojil&P<teiii'*kjlltn&ing  :    '  ';?  Churches  in 

Gauls.  But 


Xt)c  ecdtfiaftical  $<fto?p       Cent.  5 . 

But  Hilary  came  to  K0mf,  not  regarding  the  Anathemai*sof  Leo,  and 

to  his  face  affirmed,  that  neither  did  Chrift  appoint  Peter  to  be  Head 
of  the  reft  of  the  Apoftles,  neither  had  the  Bifhop  of  Rome  a  Sove- 
reignty over  the  Churches  of  France. 

In  that  ftrife,  Leo  according  to  his  cuftom  had  his  recourfeto  Valex- 
tinian,  who  prefently  without  hearing  what  Hilary  could  fay  for  him- 
felf,  gave  fentence  for  Leo,  and  made  a  Law  which  is  extant  in  the 
T'heodoftan  Code  among  the  Novel  Conftitutions,  in  the  24th  Title  i 
the  Law  runs  in  thefe  words,  Whereas  the  merit  of  Peter,  who  is  the 
"Prince  of  the  Epifcepal  Society,  and  the  Dignity  of  the  Roman  City,  and 
Authority  of  the  Sacred  Synod.,  have  eflabli[bed  the  Primacy  of  the  Apo- 
ftolick^  See,  let  not  prefumptien  attempt  any  lawful  thing  againft  the  Au- 
thority of  that  See  ^  for  then  Jhall  the  peace  of  the  Churches  he  main" 
tained- tvtry  where,  if  the  Vniverfality  do  acknowledge  their  Governour : 
in  which  words  we  may  obferve  by  fhe  way,  that  Valentinian  doth 
jiot  ground  the  Popes  Primacy  upon  the  Word  of  God  :  He  addeth, 
We.  Decree  by  a  perpetual  Ordinance,  That  it  be  not  lawful,  either  to  the 
"Bishops  of  Gauls,  or  to  thofe  other  Provinces  to  attempt  any  thing  againli 
the  venerable  Pope,&c.  but  that  to  them  and  to  all,  whatfoever  the  Au- 
thority of  the  Apoftolicl^  See  hath  decreed,  or  (hall  decree,  may  be  a  Law, 
fo  that  what  Bijhop  foever  being  evocated  to  the  judgement  of  the  Roman 
Prelate,  Jhall  neglett  to  appear,  he  be  conftrained  by  the  Governour  of  th$ 
Yrovinse  to  makg  his  appearance. 

But  Valentinian  being  deprived  of  Africa  by  the  Vandals  of  Africa, 
and  of  Spain,  and  Guienne  by  the  Gothes,  and  of  moft  part  of  Gauls 
by  the  Franks,  nothing  remaining  to  him  but  Italy,  Sicily,  Provence 
and  Daulphine,  all  the  Eaft  being  in  the  power  of  Jheodofms,  that  Law 
was  but  of  little  force. 

How  much  that  Law  was  defpifed  in  the  Empire  of  the  Eaft  it  is 
eafie  to  fee  i  for  in  the  Yeax  47  2.  that  is,  about  22  or  23  years  after 
that  Law  of  Valentinian,  a  contrary  Law  was  eftablifhed  by  the  Em- 
perour  Leo,  which  is  the  i  <5th  Law  in  the  Code,  De  Sacrofanttit  EC- 
cleft*  :  The  words  of  the  Law  are  thefe,  Whereby  the  Emperour  de- 
creeth,  that  the  Church  of  Conftantinople  be  tbefirft'ofall  Churches,  and 
the  Bifhop  of  Constantinople  he  the  firft  of  all  Bijhops  :  We  judge  and 
decree,  that  the  moft  holy  Church  of  this  Town,  which  is  Mother  of  our 
Piety,  and  of  all  Chrifiians  of  the  Orthodox  Religion,  and  the  mo(i  holy 
See  of  the  fame  weft  Religious  City,  have  all  the  privileges  and  honours 
concerning  the  Creation  of  Bifhops,  and  the  right  of  fitting  before  others, 
6cc.  Baroniu*  declaimeth  againft  that  Law  of  Leo,  and  faith,  It  pro- 
ceeded  from  him  who  is  the  Head  over  all  the  Sons  of  pride. 

Then  lived  Sid&nius  Apollinaris ,  Bifhop  of  Clermont  in  Auvergn, 
whofe  Epiftles  are  extant,  great  part  of  which  are  written  to  the  Bi- 
fhops  of  France  his  Colleagues »  but  in  none  of  them  is  there  any  trace 

of 


Cent.  5.  Of  FRANCE. 


of  fubje&ion  to  the  Roman  See,  or  of  communication  with  the  Biftiop 
of  Rome.  The  fame  Sidonius  calls  Lupus  Bifhop  of  'froyes  Bi(hop  of 
Biihops,  and  the  ririt  Bilhop  of  the  world,  and  faith,  That  he  is  fitting 
in  the  Apoftolick^See.  This  Man  wrote  all  his  Epiftles  in  Latin,  and 
Preached  alfo  in  Latin  :  In  the  tenth  Epiftle  of  the  fecond  Book,  he 
complaineth,  That  in  his  time  among  the  Vulgar,  the  purity  and  pro- 
perty of  the  Latin  Tongue  decayed,  and  degenerated  into  barbarouf- 
nefs.  And  in  the  Epiltle  to  Pope  Perpetuus  (for  then  all  the  BKhops 
that  were  a  little  more  refpeded  than  the  ordinary  Bifnops,  were  cal- 
led Popes)  there  is  a  Latin  Sermon  made  by  the  faid  Sidonius  unto  the 
people  of  Bourges,  a  certain  proof  that  the  people  of  Bourges  under- 
ftood  Latin. 

About  this  time  flouriflied  Pro/per  of  Aquitain  ,  fo  called  from  his 
Countrey,  not  the  place  of  his  Biflioprick,  as  Baronius  faith  :  He  wrote 
De  Vita  Contemplating  Of  a  Contemplative  Life  :  In  his  Hrft  Book,  Chap. 
23.  he  prefcribeth,  That  the  Preacher's  Language  be  fimple  and  plain, 
though  it  be  not  very  good  Latin,  yet  that  it  be  orderly  and  grave,  uffer.de  Britan. 
that  it  may  hinder  no  body  (though  ignorant)  to  unclerltand  it.  He 
wrote  a  Book  De  Ingratis,  by  which  name  he  alway  marketh  out  the 
Pelagians  that  fprung  out  of  theaflies  of  that  Arch-HeretickFe7<*g/'»/. 
He  wrote  many  excellent  things  in  defence  of  the  Grace  of  Chritt  a-  fcopum  fuiifc  re- 
gainft  the  Pelagians,  and  (heweth  himklf  to  be  a  Difciple,  and  vehe-  S±rraCnt.C°Tn 
ment  defender  of  St.  Ateguiiine^  faith  Eellarmine. 

Salvianus  Bifhop  of  Marfeities  lived  then  when  the  Nation  of  the 
Goths  oppreffed  France  ,  and  many  began  to  doubt  of  the  Providence  r,ia 

i    ,  /--tiiii  i    Cat 

of  God,  in  regard  that  thole  wicked  wretches  had  got  the  upper  hand, 
and  profpered  fo  much  in  the  world  i  therefore  he  wrote  an  excellent 
Treatife,  De  Judicio  &  Providentia  Dei,  to  Salonius  Bi(hop  of  Vienna  ; 
One  entitleleth  him,  Gallic*  Gentis  Epifioporum  Magijirum,  Ihe  Majler 
of  the  B/Jhops  of  the  French  Nation. 

Salonius  wrote  upon  the  Books  of  the  Proverbs  and  Ecclefiaftes. 

Claudianus  Mammertus  Biftiop  of  Vienna  is  praifed  by  Sidonius  with  Patr.  SymH  E<> 
exceffive  commendations,  as  if  all  the  Graces  of  Jerome^  Auguftine^  tlef«Hift< 
Bafil,  Nazianzen,  and  many  other  Fathers  had  been  incorporated  irt 
him.   He  wrote  three  Books  De  S  tat  ft  Anim£^  Of  the  State  of  the  Soul^ 
to  the  fame  Sidonius,  with  two  Epiftles.  How  much  the  Popith  Bifhops 
differ  from  thofe  Famous  Bimops  that  flouriQSed  in  thofe  dayes,  the 
Reader  may  underftand  by  this  following  Epitaph  of  Claudianus  Mam- 
merttts  made  by 


Hoc  dat  cefyite  membra  Claudianus^ 
triplex  Bibliotheca  quo  Magijiro 
Romana,  Attica^  Chriftiana  fulfit  : 
Quam  totam  Monacbw  virente  in  &vo 

D  Secret* 


%tfto?p        Cent.  5 


Secret*  bibit  tnftruftione, 
Orator.  Dialettictts,  Poeta, 
yra&ator,  Geometry  Mufic^ 
Dotiw  Cohere  vincla  qurfionum, 
Et  verbi  gladio  fecare  feftas, 
Vi  qit£  Catbolicam  fidem  laceffunt. 

Tandem  Concludit  : 

At  ttt  quifqtM  doles,  amice  leQdr, 

De  tanto  quaji  viro  nihil  fuperfit, 
"Undvt  parcegettis  rigare  m  armor  : 

Mem  &  gloria  non  qucnnt  bumari. 

PauUttut  lived  about  this  time,  he  was  BUhop  of  No/*,  born  in 
France,  a  man  of  a  great  wit,  and  an  excellent  Orator  and  Poet. 
Of  both  Teftaments  he  writeth  thus  to  Severn  i 

Paulin.  Epift.  ad  Nam  qttia  latorem  dtto  "feft  amenta  per  unum 

Patta  Deum  in  Chrifto  copulat  una  fides. 

Lex  anliqua,  novam  firmat,  veterem  nova  complet  i 
In  veteri  ftes  e^  in  novitate  fides, 

Sed  vetus  atque  novttm  conjttngit  gratia  Cbrifti. 

And  upon  the  Supper  of  the  Lord,  I  will  add  thefe  myftical  Verfes 
out  of  the  fame  Epiftle, 

In  crttce  pxa  caro  eft,  quit  pafcor,  de  cruet  fangtus 
lUe  fluit,  vitam  quo  bibo,  arda  lavo. 

Came  tua  vivet,  turn  illi  pocula  fanguvs 
Preheat,  in  verbo  vivat  agatque  ttto, 

The  next  I  (hall  mention  is  John  Caflian,  the  Scholar  of  Cbryfcftome, 
and  made  Deacon  by  him  at  CoHftantinople,  afterwards  he  was  a  Pref- 
byter  of  the  Church  of  Marfeiues* 

Vincentitts  Lirinenfa  a  French  man,  fpent  the  firft  part  of  his  life  in 
Secular  and  Military  employments,  but  afterwards  he  led  a  folitary 
and  contemplative  life,  and  became  a  Presbyter,  as  the  Catalogue  of 
Gennadius  relateth  -,  he  wrote  againft  the  felagiaw  ard  Ncliurians^  and 
againft  prophane  novelties. 

In  the  Year  of  Chrift  485.  Chi-it  the  firft  of  that  Name,  and  the 
fifth  King  of  France,  began  his  Reign,  being  about  the  Age  of  fifteen 
years  i  a  Prince  of  fingular  Hope,  born  for  the  eftabliftment  of  the 
French  Monarchy  ;  He  had  the.  honou*  to  be  the  faft  Chriftian  King 


Cent.  5.  Of  FRANCE. 


of  France.  Although  Clow  was  a  Pagan  before  by  Profeflion,  yet  was 

he  no  enemy  to  the  Chrftians,  fitting  himfelf  to  the  humour  of  the 

G**/s,  who  generally  followed  the  Chriftian  Religion.    He  fuffered  his 

Wife  likewife  to  Baptize  her  Children.     Clotilda  defired  nothing  more  caufins  Holy 

than  the  Converfion  of  her  Husband,  which  happened  in  this  fort:  Cour£l  p""'a' 

The  Suevi,  a  people  of  Germany,  pafled  the  Rhine  with  great  Forces, 

Commanded  by  many  Kings,  who  were  personally  in  the  Army,  and 

came  to  ru(h  on  the  Ganls,  with  intentions  to  cleftroy  the  bt.  innings 

of  the  French  Monarchy  :  Clovtt  fpeedily  oppofeth  them  with  good 

Troops,  for  he  likewife  had  drawn  together  to  his  Aid  the  Riharoh,  . 

people  near  bordering  on  the  Rhine,  who  were  Allied  to  the  French, 

and  had  firft  of  all  given  notice  of  the  Enterprize  of  the  Suevi,  who 

in  a  near  degree  threatned  them. 

The  encounter  of  the  two  Armies  was  near  Colen,  which  was  one 
of  the  moft  defperate  that  we  rind  in  Hiitories.  The  King  undertook 
the  Conduct  of  the  Cavalry,  and  had  given  unto  Prince  Sigebert  his 
Kinfman,  the  Infantry  :  There  was  nothing  but  fire,  tempeits,  deaths, 
and  (laughters,  fo  great  was  the  refiftance  on  either  fide  :  In  the  end 
Sigebert  valiantly  fighting,  was  wounded  with  an  arrow,  and  born  all 
bloody  out  of  the  battel  by  his  Son.  The  Infantry  (through  the  ab- 
fcnce  of  their  Colonel)  was  defeated  and  put  to  rout.  All  the  burden 
of  the  battel  fell  upon  the  Cavalry,  which  did  great  exploits,  righting 
before  the  eyes  of  their  King  >  but  in  the  end,  the  fhock  of  their  ene- 
mies was  fo  impetuous  ,  that  it  brake  through  and  fcattered  them. 
Clovis  covered  with  blood  and  duft,  performed  the  duty  both  of  a  great 
Captain  and  valiant  Soldier  >  but  notwithstanding  all  his  endeavours, 
terrour  had  fo  feized  on  thefe  flying  men,  that  his  affairs  grew  defpe- 
rate :  Hereupon  Awelianm,  the  Kings  great  Favourite,  perfwadeth 
him  to  make  a  vow  unto  God  to  be  Baptized,  if  he  returned  victori- 
ous from  this  battel  •,  which  he  did,  calling  aloud  upon  the  God  of  his 
Wife,  and  promifing  an  abfolute  Converfion  to  the  Chriftian  Faith. 

The  word  was  no  fooner  fpoken,  but  that  his  Troops  rallied  them- 
felves  up,  made  head  againft  their  enemies,  purfued  them,  ran  through 
and  routed  them  with  fo  great  a  maffacre,  that  the  fields  were  all  co- 
vered with  dead  bodies  :  The  difcomfiture  fo  terrified  them  on  the  o- 
ther  fide  of  the  Rhine,  that  the  Almavs  which  furvived  yielded  them- 
felves  tributaries  to  his  Majefty. 

Clotilda  hearing  the  news  of  this  victory,  and  of  the  King's  pious 
Refolution,  went  out  to  meet  him  as  far  as  Champagne,  accompanied 
with  Rfmigiw  Biftiop  of  Rhemes,  a  man  of  great  Piety  and  Eloquence 
to  inftrud:  him  in  the  true  Do&rine,  wherein  he  was  very  ignorant.  De  Serm  HIft^ 
It  was  necelTary  he  (hould  be  inftructed  by  a  difcreet  man,  that  in  invit.  clodw* 
leaving  the  vanity  of  Pagans,  he  might  not  be  infected  wirh  the  Arian 
Herefie,  which  then  was  difperfed  in  divers  places  >  and  even  his  own 
Sifter  Lantielde  was  infected  therewith.  D  2  The 


CDe  ecflefia&ical  $tfto#       cent.  ?. 

The  preaching  of  Remigius  was  effectual  with  Clovif,  and  the  Ex- 
ample of  Clovi*  with  his  men  of  war  :  When  he  came  to  the  Church 
of  Rhemes  to  be  Baptized,  Remigius'  fpake  to  hina  thefe  words,  Bend 
thy  necl{,  to  the  ynkg  in  mildnefl,  worship  that  which  thou  haft  burnt,  and 
':  burn  that  which  thou  hail  worshipped  :  He  Anfwered ,  J  worjhip  the 
true  God,  which  u  the  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghof,  the  Creator  of  He  a- 
^  ven  and  Earth.  The  King  being  Baptized,  exhorted  his  men  to  the 
fame  belief^  they  cry  all  joyntly,  We  leave  our  Mortal  Gods,  and  are 
ready  to  follow  the  Immortal.  So  Clow  was  baptized  at  Rhemes  by  Re- 
tnigius,  and  with  him  three  thoufand  of  his  Soldiers,  to  the  incredi- 
dible  joy  of  the  Gauls,  greatly  affected  to  Chriftian  Religion  »  and 
this  perfected  the  union  betwixt  them  and  the  French,  making  their 
yoke  eafie,  and  them  tractable. 

The  firft  War  he  undertook  after  his  Baptifm,  was  againft  Gombaut 
King  of  Burgundy,  who  being  vanquiftied  became  Tributary  to  Clovif» 
Gombaut  was  an  Arian,  and  this  his  Herefie  drew  upon  him  the  ven- 
geance of  God.  Afterwards  Clovvs  encountred  with  the  Forces  of  Al<*~ 
ricus  in  Aquitain,  difcomfiteth  them,  and  kills  Alaricus.  The  hand  of 
God  thundred  and  lightened  at  that  time  upon  many  Diadems  of  He- 
retical Kings,  viz.  Gombaut,  Godemar ,  Chilperic,  Godegijilw  ,  Alari- 
cus,  and  in  the  end  on  Iheodorick^  himfelf. 

Remigius  was  a  man  of  moft  holy  Converfation,  and  befides  his  ad- 
mirable fanctity,  acknowledged  throughout  all  France,  he  had  the  re- 
putation to  be  one  of  the  moft  able  and  eloquent  men  of  his  time* 
witnefs  Sidoniuf  Apollinarim,  who  fpeaking  of  his  eloquence  with  ad^- 
miration,  faith,  He  thought  there  was  not  a  man  living  upon  the  face 
of  the  earth,  whom  Remigiut  furpaffeth  not,  without  any  elaborate 
ftudy  at  all,  through  the  experience  he  had  acquired  of  well- fpeaking: 
his  conceptions  were  unimitable,  his  language  fo  fweet  and  polite,  that 
it  refembled  a  very  fmooth  piece  of  ice,  whereon  nothing  might  be 
feen  unequal :  His  fentences  were  full  of  weight,  his  arguments  forci- 
ble, and  his  words  glided  along  like  a  river,  and  ever  bare  in  them 
(bme  flafties  of  lightning  at  the  end  of  his  periods  :  He  was  a  very 
learned  man,  as  by  the  Commentaries  which  he  wrote  upon  the  Old 
and  New  Teftament  evidently  appeareth. 

catal.Teft.ve-        Among  the  Collections  of  Aventinus,  there  is  an  Epiftle  with  this 
rit.  '  Title,  The  Epiftle  of  the  Bijhops  of  Germany  and  France  to  Pope  Anafta* 

Gus  :.  This  was  written  in  the  time  of  King  Clovif. 

Leporius  a  French  Monk  made  a  flourifh  of  the  Nejiorian  Hcrefie,  but 
being  refuted  by  Attgii\line,  he  asked  pardon  of  his  Errour. 

Fauftuf  of  an  Abbot  was  made  Bifliop  of.  Rhegium  in  France,  ^as 
Gennadiits  writeth  in  his  Catalogue  :  He  wrote  againft  the  Pelagians 
and  Epicureans.  A  contention  arofe  in  France  about  the  Doctrine  of 
IfrfdelUnation  which  had  it's  rife  out  of  the  B^oks  of  St,  Attgujline, 

being 


Cent.  6.  Of  FRANCE.  3-1 

being  ill  underftood,  Lttcidus  made  oppofition,  Fattens  chaftifed  him, 
and  brought  him  to  his  Opinion  :  Eleven  Bifhops  fubfcribed  to  the  E- 
piftje  of  Fauftus  in  the  Council  of  Aries  i  by  which  FaMJlus  himfelf  af- 
tirmeth,  that  an  hard  piece  of  work  was  put  upon  him,  of  difputing 
concerning  Grace  and  Free-Will.  About  the  fame  time  alfo  was  fo 
lemnized  at  Lions  an.  AfTembly  of  twenty  feven  Biftiops. 

Vittarinits  of  Aquitain,  at  the  requeft  of  Hillary  fet  forth  an  Eaftei- 
Circle  of  532  years,  in  the  year  563. 


Century  VI. 

THe  Province  of  Narbon,  which  was  called  the  firft  Province  of 
France,  remained  in  the  Gotbs  fubjedion,  and  thence  it  began 
to  be  called  Gotbia-i  for  Amalarictts  (his  Father  Alaricw  be* 
ing  dead)  haftily  flying  into  Spain,  he  retained  under  his  Power  Sp*ht3 
with  that  part  of  France,  which  we  have  mentioned  before. 

The  Divine  Providence  gave  to  Clsws ,  above  all  other  Princes  in  the 
world,  fuch  happy  fuccefs,  as  oftentimes  his  wars  were  miraculoufly 
confirmed  to  be  guided  of  God  >  among  which  is  that  remarkable 
thing,  That  haftening  againft  Alarictts-,  having  encamped  near  the  Ri- 
ver Vigenna^  he  found  a  (hallow  place  by  the  diredion  of  an  Hind  that 
patted  over  the  River  before  him,  through  which  he  tranfported  his 
Army  to  the  other  fide  '•>  and  after  this  victory,  preparing  to  befiege 
Angoulefm^  the  walls  of  the  City  falling  down  of  their  own  accord, 
gave  him  an  eafie  entrance  into  the  City  :  Which  things  being  known, 
the  Emperour  Anaflafms-the  year  following  the  victory  of  Vodes  fen-t 
a  Standard  to  Cblodoveus  or  Clow  :  And  he  went  in  Proceffion  in  St. 
Martin's  Church  at  7»r/#,  with  his  Belt,  his  Purple-gown,  and  his 
Diadem-,  then  coming  to  Paris  ^  there  he  eftabli(hed  his  Throne  Anm 
507,  with  fo  happy  fuccefles. 

Proeopiia  faith,  that  the  Franks  made  a  League  oifenfive  with  King 
ybeodorick^  againft  the  ~Burgundians^  and  that  the  Goths  delaying  the 
time  purpofely,  at  length  arrived  when  the  fight  was  ended  '•>  and  fo 
without  receiving  any  lofs,  they  divided  the  fpoil  with  the  Franckj^ 
equally  (baring  the  Kingdom,  which  it  is  like  came  to  pafs  about  the 
year  508,  it  being  after  the  Vifyotbt  great  defeat,  although  at  that  time 
the  Btergundian  Kingdom  was  not  utterly  extinct  in  France  i  for  Gun* 
debaut  being. defeated,  and  dead,  Sigifmond  his  Son  kept  ftill  what  re- 
mained, 


31    »  eccrteftafttcaitfto         Cent.  6. 


mained,  who  barkening  to  Avitus  BHhop  of  Vienna,  changed  his  Aria* 
Hercfie  into  the  Orthodox  Faith. 

After  this  Clodoveus  raging  againft  his  neareft  Friends,  put  them  al- 
moft  all  to  death,  and  at  laft,  in  the  year  511.  died  in  Paris.  Cloiit 
convoked  the  firft  Synod  at  Orleans. 

Then  flourimed  in  France  Ctfarius  Bifhop  of  Aries  (whom  we  read 
to  have  been  one  of  the  Council  of  Agatbm,  held  in  the  year  of  Chrift 
505.)  and  lived  unto  the  time  of  Vigilm^  of  whom  he  received  a  Let- 
ter, Anno  538. 

Alfo  Avitiu  Biftiop  of  Vienna,  by  whom  the  ~Burgundians  received 
the  Chriftian  Faith. 

Remigius  Biftiop  of  Rbeme  /,  called  the  Apoftleof  the  Franckj,  died 
Anno  534. 

In  the  fame  Year  was  held  a  Council  at  Avergnes,  wherein  was  Flo- 
vius  Bifhop  of  Rbemes  :  Then  are  Hincmarus  and  Fhdoardus  miftaken, 
in  faying,  that  he  officiated  in  the  Biftioprick  74  years,  and  lived  $6 
years. 

In  France  Lattnomarm  of  Chartres,  and  Maximinas  of  Orleans  were 
renowned  Friars,  Maximw  builded  the  Micians  Monaftery  near  unto 
the  City,  he  was  Nephew  to  Eufticius.  Clovif,  as  he  went  n"rft  to  Or- 
leans,  brought  them  both  thither  along  with  him.  Si^ebert  calleth 
that  Monaftery  of  the  Micians  Maximus's  Monaftery  •,  alfo  Avittu  and 
Carilefw,  Maximtts's  Difciples  :  But  Clovi*  being  dead,  his  four  Sons 
divide  the  Realm  into  four  Kingdoms.  Cbildebert  was  King  of  Parift 
and  under  this  Realm  was  comprehended  the  Provinces  of  Poittouy 
Main,  lourain,  Cbampaigne  ,  Anjou^  Guyenne^  and  Atfvergne  ,  Clotaire 
was  King  of  SoiJJons>  and  the  dependance  of  this  Realm  were  Ver- 
mandois^  ficardy,  F  launders  and  Normandy.  Clodamir  was  King  of  Or- 
leans, and  the  JEftates  of  this  Realm  were  all  the  Dutchy  of  Orleans  , 
"Burgundy,  Lionevs,  Daulphine  and  Provence.  Ihierri  was  King  of  Metz, 
and  to  his  Realm  was  fubjecT:  the  Country  of  Lorain,  and  all  the  Coun- 
tries from  Rhewes  unto  the  Ttbine,  and  beyond  it  all  Germany,  which 
De  Sews  in  vit.  Was  the  Ancient  Patrimony  of  the  Kings  of  France  :  He  was  received 
in  this  Royal  Partition  with  his  Brethren,  though  he  were  a  Baftard, 
the  which  hath  been  likewife  pradtifed  by  others  in  thefirfl  Line  :  And 
as  every  one  of  thefe  four  Kings  called  themfelves  Kings  of  France,  fo 
they  alfo  added  the  name  of  their  Principal  City,  where  they  held  their 
Court. 

But  there  was  a  Civil  DifTention  betwixt  the  Brethren,  thev  Leavy 
Forces  with  intent  to  ruine  one  another  :  They  Reigned  fort\  .J  two 
years  together  as  Kings  of  France,  yet  with  a  particular  T;  under 
this  general,  as  hath  been  faid  :  But  in  the  end  Clotaire  rem  .,cd  King 
alone. 

At  this  time  were  frequent  meetings  of  Bifhops  in  Aurtlia,  or  Or- 

leans •, 


Cent,  6.  Of  FRANCE.  23 

Jean/i  many  fuperftitious  Conftitutions  were  hatched  among  them,  symfcn's  church 
efpecially  about  prohibition  of  marriage,  for  this  Do&rine  had  now  got  Ji'JSit/^  *" 
the  upper  hand  in  the  Weft. 

In  the  fecond  Council  Simony  is  condemned,  and  the  receiving  of 
money  for  the  admitting'  a  tnan  to  a  Spiritual  Office  is  condemned. 

In  the  third  Council  Perjury  is  abhorred  in  a  man  having  a  Spiritual 
Calling,  but  foftly  punifhed  by  two  years,  excluding  him  from  the 
Communion. 

In  the  fourth  Council  it  is  Ordained,  That  in  the  offering  of  the  TjieB;ffiopsmrt. 
Holy  Chalice,  nothing  (hall  be  prefentcd  but  Wine  only  unmixed  with  in  the  synod  at 
water,  becaufe  it  is  a  facrilegious  thing  to  tranfgrefs  the  holy  mandate  ^eiritttcJs^us 
and  inftitution  of  our  Saviour  Chrift.  to  the  King,  TO 

In  the  fifth  Council  it  is  condefcended,  that  no  man  (hall  be  Or-  SftJ&Hw 
dained  Biftop  without  confent  of  King,  Clergy  and  People,  according  King  c/™/r,  the 
to  the  Ancient  Constitution  of  the  Church,  and  that  no  Spiritual  Of-  JhoiSchSh,. 
n'ce  (hall  be  bought  by  money.  an  the  clergy 

There  was  an  heap  of  Conftitutions  about  the  keeping  of  Lent  and  man™ed°tocomc 
Eafter,  about  the  prohibition  of  Marriage  betwixt  Chriftians  and  un-  JJjJ1^*8  Coun' 
converted  Jews,  abeut  Servants  not  to  be  admitted  to  Ecclefiaftical  Andit'isfiid  in- 
Orders  ••>  about  Aflemblies  to  be  (at  the  leaft)  yearly  Convocated  by 
Btthops,  about  Ecclefiaftical  Rents  not  to  be  dilapidated. 

Under  the  Reign  of  Theodebert  King  of  Lorattt,  burgundy  and  ?u- 
finge,  the  Fathers  who  were  prefent  at  the  Councils  of  Orleans^  con-  command our 
vened  alfo  in  the  Council  of  Overnie,  and  ordained,  that  no  man  (hould  Jj^^fJiJ1*' 
arrive  to  the  Office  of  a  Biftiop  by  the  favour  of  men  in  Authority,  eit*of0rfeoi% 
but  by  the  merits  of  an  honeft  and  unreprovable  life. 

That  the  dead  body  of  aBifhopin  time  of  his  Funeral,  (hould  not 
be  covered  with  the  Pall  (otherwife  called  Opertorium  Dominid  cor- 
poris)  left  the  honour  done  to  the  body,  ftiould  be  a  polluting  of  the 
Altar,  with  many  other  Conftitutions. 

Under  the  Reign  of  Cberebert  King  of  France,  a  Council  was  Aflem- 
bled  at  Tomt.  In  this  Council  it  was  Ordained,  that  the  Clergy  and 
People  in  every  Congregation  (hould  provide  relief  for  their  own  poor, 
and  not  permit  them  to  wander  up  and  down. 

It  was  alfo  Ordained,  that  a  Bithop  {hould  count  his  Wife  as  his  Si- 
fter, and  that  he  {hould  no  manner  of  way  company  with  her,  and  fo» 
this  caufe  fhould  have  Presby ters  and  Deacons fo  familiarly  converfant 
with  him,  that  they  might  bear  teftimony  of  his  honeft  behaviour, 
w'«.  that  he  nevr  i  companied  with  his  Wife.  The  Papifts  themfelves 
could  not  overpafs  this  Canon  without  a  cenfure. 

Moreover  it  was  Ordained,  That  no  Prieft  or  Monk  (hould  receive 
hi  bed  with  Mm  another  Prieft  or  Monk,  to  the  end  they  might  be  fo 
unreprovable,  that  the  y  would  abftain  from  all  appearance  of  evil. 

In  this  Council  were  fet  down  very  ft  rift  prohibitions,  that  no  man 

(hould) 


24  3CDceccieftafticai$ffto#       Cent.  6. 

(hould  opprefs  the  Church,  and  convert  to  his  ownufe  any  thing  duly 
.belonging  to  them,  left  he  incurr  the  malediction  of  /«<£#,  who  was  a 
Thief,  and  kept  the  bag,  and  converted  to  his  own  ufe  a  part  of  that 
mony  which  belonged  to  the  poor. 

A  Council  likewife  was  holden  at  P<*w,  wherein  order  was  taken 
concerning  admitting  of  Bifhops  to  their  Offices,  That  no  man  (hould 
be  admitted  Bi(hop  without  the  full  confent  of  Clergy  and  People, 
and  that  no  man  (hould  prefume  by  favour  of  Princes  only,  without 
the  confents  aforefaid,  to  become  Bifhop  in  any  place. 

Now  Clotaire  remained  alone  King  of  France,  his  Brethren  being 
dead,  their  Children  alfo  were  dead,  and  Cbildebert  the  eldeft  died 
without  Iflue.  The  Reign  of  Clotaire  was  (hort  and  wretched ;  He 
fought  to  extort  the  thirds  of  all  EcclefialUcal  Things  to  his  private 
Affairs  :  but  the  Clergy  oppofed  theiufelves  againft  him,  fo  as  threats 
prevailed  not.  He  dies  Anno  5^7. 

Before  that  he  Rules  as  King  alone,  he  Erected  the  little  Realm  of 
Yvetot  upon  this  occafion.  Upon  good  Fryday  he  flew  Gawter  of  Tve- 
tot  his  Servant  in  the  Chappel  where  he  heard  Service.  It  is  faid,  that 
the  King  had  raviftied  his  Wife  lodging  in  his  houfe,  fo  as  he  that  was 
beaten  faifered  the  puntthment.  Pope  Eugenius  difpleafed  with  this 
infamous  murther,  condemned  him  to  repair  the  fault  upon  pain  of 
Excommunication  :  Clotaire  for  fatisfadion  Ordaineth,  That  from 
thenceforth  the  Lords  of  Yvet&t  (hould  be  tree  from  all  homage,  fer- 
vice,  and  obedience  to  the  King  for  the  Land  of  Tvet«t  in  the  Countrey 
of  Normandy  :  And  fo  this  fmall  feigneury  hath  continued  long  with 
the  Title  and  Prerogative  of  a  Realm,  until  that  this  Title  of  a  Realm 
was  changed  into  a  Principality,  the  which  the  houfe  of  Belay  doth 
now  enjoy.  Clotairt  had  by  two  Wives  five  Sons  and  one  Daughter  i 
four  furvived  him,  viz.  Cherebert,  Cbilpericy  Sigebert ,  Gontbran  and 
Clofindehis  Daughter. 

Cberebert  was  King  of  France,  Chilperic  King  of  Soiflons,  Gontbran 
King  of  Orleans,  Sigibert  King  of  Metz  or  Lorain,  although  each  of 
them  called  himfelf  King  of  France,  and  commanded  absolutely  over 
the  Countries  under  their  obedience  :  All  of  them  Reigned  together 
Hfteen  years. 

The  fecond  Council  otMatifcan  was  convened  in  the  twenty  fourth 
year  of  King  Guntbran  :  In  it  complaint  was  made,  that  Baptifm  ufu- 
ally  was  miniftred  on  every  holy  day,  infomuch  that  upon  Eafter  day 
fcarce  were  two  or  three  found  to  be  prefented  to  Baptifm  :  This  they 
Ordained  to  be  amended,  and  that  no  man  (except  upon  occafion  of 
infirmity)  prefume  to  prefent  his  Child  to  Baptifm,  but  to  attend  up- 
on the  B'eftival  dayes  prefcribed  of  old,  that  is,  Eafter  and  Whitfunday. 
Alfo  it  was  Appointed  and  Ordained,  that  the  Sacrament  of  the  Al- 
tar (hould  be  Adminiilred  before  any  of  the  Communicants  had  tafted 
of  meat  or  drink.  That 


Cent,*?.  Of  FRANCE.  05 

That  no  pcrfon  who  fleeth  to  the  Church,  as  to  a  City  of  Refuge, 
flhould  be  drawn  back  again  by  violence  from  the  bofome  of  the  Church, 
or  be  harmed  in  that  holy  place. 

That  a  Btthop  (hall  not  be  attached  before  a  Sectilar  Judge. 
That  the  Houfes  of  Bi(hops  (hall  be  kept  holy  with  exercifes  of 
piayer  and  fmging  of  Pfalms,  and  (hall  not  be  defiled  with  the  bark- 
ing of  dogs,  and  muting  of  Hawks. 

Tint  Secular  men  (hall  do  reverence  to  thofe  of  the  Clergy,  even 
uatc  trie  lowed  degree  of  them  i  in  fuch  fort,  that  if  the  Secular  Man 
do  meet  any  of  the  Clergy  walking  on  foot,  he  (hall  honour  him  by 
uncovering  his  head  :  But  if  the  Secular  man  be  riding  on  horfeback, 
and  the  Clergy- man  on  foot,  then  the  Secular  man  (hall  light  down 
from  his  horfe,  and  (hall  do  reverence  to  the  Church-man. 

In  the  third  Council  at  Matifion,  we  read  of  nothing  but  a  conten- 
tious difputation  between  two  BHhops,  Palladia  and  'Bertram ,.  and 
foolHh  queftions  fcarce  fit  to  be  difputed  in  Grammar- Schools. 

Chilperic,  a  crafty  man,  feizeth  on  his  Father's  Treafure,  and  labour- 
eth  to  become  Mafter  of  the  City  of  Parts,  but  was  not  able  to  ef- 
feft  it. 

Cberebert  having  caft  off  his  Lawful  Wife,  and  being  Excommuni- 
cated by  German  Bi(hop  of  Paris ,  dieth  at  Blavia  in  SanQen  in  the 
ninth  year  of  his  Kingdom  about  the  year  570,  whofe  Kingdom  his 
Brothers  divide  among  themfelves. 

Chilperic  and  Sigebert  waged  War  one  againft  the  other :  Cbilperic 
enters  the  Countrey  of  Sigebert ,  and  takes  from  him  the  City  oiRbemes: 
Hereupon  Sigebert  purfues  his  Revenge,  and  takes  from  Cbilperic  Soif-  , 
/*»/,  the  Capital  City  of  his  Realm,  with  his  Son  Ibeodobert^  forcing 
him  to  retire  to  Tournay.  Sigebert  comes  a  Conquerour  to  Paris,  where 
he  is  received  by  common  confent  j  and  fo  all  the  Cities  belonging  un- 
to Cberebert  yield  him  obedience.  But  as  he  thought  himfelf  fettled, 
tehold  two  young  foldiers  Cfuborned  by  Yredegund  an  harlot  of  Cbil- 
perifs)  came  to  his  Court,  enter  freely  into  his  Hall,  and  getting  near 
unto  him,  each  of  them  ftabs  him  with  his  dagger,  and  he  falls  down 
dead  in  the  place  :  Thefe  murtherers  were  fuddcnly  torn  in  pieces, 
foas  they  could  not  be  known,  nor  declare  by  whofe  inftigation  they 
had  committed  this  murther  :  Yet  was  it  generally  thought,  it  was  the 
practice  pf  Tredegttnd  to  free  Cbilperic,  and  to  make  her  way  the  more 
fmooth  by  the  death  of  Sigebert  who  croiTed  her  moft.  Now  is  Cbil- 
peric  received  King  of  France  in  the  place  of  his  elder  Brother,  Anrto 
578.  and  Reigned  fourteen  years  at  Paris  and  SoiQius,  while  that 
Cbildebtrt  the  Son  of  Sigebert  Reigned  in  Auftrapa  or  Lorain,  and  Gon- 
tbran  at  Orleans  and  Burgongne.  He  found  Brttnbanlt  the  widow  of  Si- 
gebert at  P*w,  a  fubtil  and  audacious  woman,  whom  he  confined  to 
whither  be  likewife  fent  his  Son  Merovee  to  take  polfelfion  o 
E  the* 


CCClCftaftlCal  ^tftOJ  Cent.  6. 


the  City  »  but  there  he  was  furprifed  by  the  beauty  of  Emnebanlt  :  She 
fo  infinuated  into  the  Bifaop,  that  he  allowed  of  this  Marriage,  al- 
though (he  was  his  Aunt  :  Cbilperic  moved  herewith  came  tn  Roven^ 
degraded  and  bani(hed  the  Bifhop,  and  puts  Merovee  into  a  Cloyfter. 
Merovee  fleeing,  is  purfued,  taken,  and  flain  by  his  Father's  command  j 
and  left  Audovere  his.  Mother,  (a  virtuous  Princefs)  and  Clovis  her  o- 
ther  Son,  (hould  feek  means  of  revenge,  he  rejects  his  Wife,  and  cau- 
feth  Clovit  his  other  Son  to  be  ilain. 

For  thefe  diforders  the  Nobility  complain  againft  Fredegunde  >  here- 
upon Cbilperic  takes  Galfonde  to  Wife,  the  Daughter  of  Athanagild 
King  of  Spain  j  but  by  the  inftigation  of  Fredegonde  Cbilperic  ftran- 
gleth  his  fecond  Wife,  and  publickly  marrieth  Fredegonde. 

Cbilperic  when  he  had  feen  Clotbarius  born  to  him  of  Fredegonde^ 
the  fourth  moneth  after,  a  little  before  night,  returning  from  hunting, 
is  by  privy  murtherers  killed  Anno  584.  That  murther  was  hatched 
by  Fredegonde^  and  committed  by  LMbfertft^ftH  Adulterer  of  hers  : 
thus  died  this  deteftable  Chilperic.  Hiftorians  make  him  guilty  of  im- 
piety, as  well  as  of  -execrable  wickednefs  >  for  he  denied  the  truth  of 
the  three  perfons  in  one  Deity,  and  the  Incarnation  of  the  Son  of 
Godv-.:  •.:> 

'  Guntbran  dieth  in  the  year  of  Clirift  593.  having  left  a  good  me- 
morial behind  him  of  Piety  and  other  Virtues,  the  which  being  com- 
mitted to  Church-  Tables,  is  repeated  every  year  on  the  28th  of  March. 
His  Kingdom  came  to  Childebert. 

Cbildebert^  Anno  596.  is  taken  away  by  poifon,  together  with  his 
-Wife,  whom  Hheodoric  and  'fbeodebert  his  Sons  fucceed  ,  under  the 
tuition  of  their  Grandmother  Bruaebault.  They  fight  againft  Clotba- 
riut,  and  being  overcome  in  battel,  they  force  him  to  part  with  the 
greateft  part  of  his  Kingdom. 

Sagittarius  BUhop  of  Ebreduna,  and  Salonius  Bithop  of  Vopinga  in 
France^  for  their  wickednefTes,  and  alfo  becaufe  being  armed  they 
fought  in  manner  of  foldiers,  in  the  Aflembly  of  Lions  were  before  this 
deprived  of  their  Epifcopacy  in  the  fixth  year  of  Guntbran  i  but  they 
appealing  to  Pope  Jobn^  were  reftored  by  his  command.  At  laft,  be- 
caufe they  continued  in  hainous  offences,  they  were  again  by  the  Ca+ 
bitionian  Council  deprived  of  all  Dignity. 

At  Attguftoritiim  died  Radegund  ,  Anno  587.  in  whofe  Monaftery 
were  fome  Virgins  fprung  from  a  Royal  Stock,  who  being  lifted  up  in 
pride  againft  Leubovera  ,  the  Governefs  of  the  Nunnery,  firft  of  all 
depaifed  from  her  :  The  Guardians  beirg  fent  into  the  Monaftery,  and 
all  things  taken  away,  they  drew  out  Leubovera  by  force  from  thence. 
At  length  by  the  command  of  Cbildebert  a  Council  of  Bifhops  being 
gathered  together  in  Viftavia^  they  were  ExcomdsUnicated,  and  Lett- 
bovera  r-eftof  ed  unto  her  former  place,^ 

About 


Cent.  6.  0f  F  R  AN  C  E.    K  _  27 

About  the  year  5^0.  Serenus  Bi(bop  ofMarfeilles  feeing  his  people  fal- 
ling to  the  adoration  of  Statues,  brake  them,  and  caft  them  out  of  the 
Church  :  About  which  Pope  Gregory  the  firft  reproveth  him  in  two 
Epiftles,  faying,  That  Images  indeed  ought  not  to  be  worfiipped,  but 
that  they  ought  not  te  be  broken  neither^  becattfe  they  are  injtead  ofBookj 
unto  the  ignorant. 

But  it  was  not  long  before  the  Popes  became  the  great  Patrons  of 
the  adoratio'n  of  Images,  and  made  it  a  means  of  their  rifing-,  for  when 
the  Greek  Emperours  fell  to  the  breaking  of  Images,  Gregory  the  fe- 
cond  took  thence  occafion  to  (hake  off  the  yoke  of  the  Emperours,  as 
enemies  of  the  Saints,  and  made  Rome  and  part  of  Italy  to  revolt.from  sigon.  Lib.  j.dt 
the  Obedience  of  their  Soveraign  :  And  he  made  himfelf  a  Temporal  regnoitai. 
Prince,  under  colour  of  defending  Images,  as  Sigonius  relateth. 

Venantius^  Honorius,  Clementianw,  Fortunatus,  by  Nation  an  Italian, 
came  into  France  ,  feating  himfelf  firft  at  T0«rr,  afterwards  at  Poittiers  j 
he  was  firft  made  a  Presbyter,  then  he  became  BHhop  of  that  place. 
He  is  reported  to  have  reduced  the  French  to  a  more  gentle  kind  of 
life,  by  his  writings  and  example. 

IllyricM  make's  mention  of  one  Alcimw,  of  the  Ancient  Family  of  cataL  Teft.  ve» 
the  Aviti,  whofe  Great  Grandfather,  Grandfather,  Father,  Uncle,  Bro-  rit>  Ltb*  6' 
ther,  were  famous  and  eminent  for  Ecclefiaftical  Dignities  :  His  Fa- 
ther fucceeded  Mammertus  in  the  Bifhoprick  ofVienna^AIcimM  fucceed- 
ed  his  Father  :  Many  excellent  Verfes  of  his  are  extant  unto  this  day. 

Concerning  the  rirft  fin  of  Man,  and  the  Grace  of  Chrift,  you  may 
read  what  he  faith  in  thefe  following  Verfes  : 


vor'ri  evenittitt  hutnana  in  gente 
Vnde  brevem  capiunt  mortalia  tempora  vitam  : 
Vel  quod  potiuti  vitiantur  origine  mores, 
<j>uos  aliena  premttnt  prifcorum  fata  Parentttm  : 
Addatur  quanqttam  noftra.  de  parte  reattts^ 
Quodqtte  etiam  amijjo  dudum  peccatur  honere, 
Adfcribam  tibi,  prime  Pater  :  qui  femine  morfk 
Tollis  fuccidtt*  vitalia  germina  proli. 
Et  licet  hoc  totnm  Chrijiu*  perjoherit  in  fe, 
Contraxit  quantum  percujfa  in  ftirpe  propago  : 
Attamen  Auttoris  vitio,  qtti  debita  lethi 
Inftituit,  morbofque  fax  ac  funera  .tnifit. 
Vivit  peccati  moribunda  in  carne  cicatrix. 

And  fpeaking  unto  Chrift,  he  addeth, 

NuKttm  aliitd^  prater  te  mum,  folamen  habemiu* 

E  2  Then 


Cent.  6. 


Then  fpeakingof  Chrift  the  Mediator,  whofe  Figure  was  that  Bow  in 
the  Heaven  after  the  flood,  and  of  the  klvation  of  thofe  that  believe 
in  him,  he  faith, 

Nttnc  qttifqtw  fetnel  aliatam  fervare  falittem 
OptM,  fignatum  potiks  figno  injpice  Chrijlum  : 
Verw  enim  atque  unut  firmati  federvs  arcus 
JHe  dettm  atque  homines  inter,  qtti  virgine  carne 
Virgineo  ex  utero  fttmpta^  jam  munere  facet 
Mttltiplici  in  ctlo  Varm,  fed  fnlgidiu  omni-y 
Vitalem  menftrat  facrati  pignorit  <  arcum, 
Hunc  coram  ajpicies^  quifquw  baptifmate  tin&w 
Ad  cxlum  liber  culpis  pereuntibw  ibif. 

And  of  the  water  flowing  out  of  the  Rock,  he  thus  fpeakethj 

Nee  portentific*  aepit  me  eblivio  virg^ 
Quo  ftgno  fummus  percufia  rape  facerdof, 
Protttlit  irriguos  poculif  fitientibus  hauftus. 
InfinuaHf  Cbrijlttm  Jlabilem  confijiere  petrant, 
Percttflitf  jacttlo  larg<x  qui  pr<ebuit  undti^ 
Pvrrexitqite  futs  facro  de  vtdnere  pot  urn. 


before  his  death  called  a  Synod  j  made  up  of  the  Gal. 
tican  Bilhops  at  Prennacttm  upon  this  occafion.  The  Earl  Lettdaftef 
applyed  himfelf  to  Riculphus  a  Presbyter,  a  perverfe  man,  and  rebel- 
lious againft  Gregory  Bifhop  of  TWx,  his  own  Bi(hop  j  thefe  two  re- 
ported to  the  K-ing,  as  if  Gregory  had  faid,  that  Queen  Fredegund  had 
carnally  lain  with  Bertram  Bifhop  of  Bwdeaux  i  hereupon  Bertram  ac-? 
cufeth  Gregory  before  the  Synod,  Chilperic  being  prcfent,  Gregory  con- 
ftantly  denieth  it  :  But  the  KingafTcrteth,  that  he  could  convince  Gre- 
gory of  this  calumny  by  witnefTes  i  yet  firft  of  all  he  propoundeth  it  to 
be  debated  by  the  Synod,  whether  witnefTes  ought  to  be  admitted  a- 
gainft  a  Bifhop,  or  whether  the  bare  aflertion  ofthe  Biftioponly  ought 
to  be  believed  :  The  Synod  pronounceth,  That  they  could  not  fafely 
give  credit  to  an  inferiour  perfon  bearing  witnefs  againft  a  Biftiop: 
Yet  they  require  Gregory  to  fay  MalTes  at  three  Altars,  and  that  he 
purge  himfelf  by  Oath  :  which  being  done  by  Gregory  ,  he  was  ab- 
folved. 

But  the  Synod  excommunicated  his  Accufer,  and  certified  olher 
Bifhops  by  Letters  concerning  the  abfolution  of  Gregory. 

In  this  Century  Rttpertus  Bi(hop  of  the  Franckj,  with  twelve  other  . 
Divines  came  into  the  Country  of  the  Be//,  and  there  RupertHt,  by 
{^caching  the  .Gofpel,  converted  Tbeodonthe  Prince  of  tbc.Countrey, 

with 


Cent.  6.  Of  F  R  A.N  C  E.  09 

with  his  Son,  from  Heathenifli  Idolatry  unto  Chrift,  and  baptized  them 
both  at  Ratiibon  :  Many  others  alfo  were  converted  by  him. 

In  this  Age  flouriflied  German  BUhop  of  Paris  forementioned.  when 
he  was  an  Abbot,  in  a  dream  he  fa  w  the  Keys  of  the  Gates  of  Paw 
delivered  to  him>  and  demanding  the  caufe  of  it,  he  was  anfwered, 
That  he  thould,  as  Paftor,  feed  the  Lords  Flock  belonging  to  that 
Church.  Not  long  after  the  Btthop  of  Paris  dying,  he  was  Conftitu- 
ted  Bithop  thereby  King  Cbildebert.  with  fingular  zeal  he  provoked 
the  People  to  Godlinefs  j  great  was  his  gravity  in  preaching,  and  his 
words  were  weighty  and  powerful  j  he  was  liberal  towards  the  poor, 
and  redeemed  many.  Captives.  King  Cbilperic  after  his  death  (who 
was  wont  to  deride  and  contemn  other  Minifters)  wrote  this  honour* 
able  Epitaph  upon  him,  which  I  thought  fit  to  fet  down : 

Ecclefa  fieculum,  patri*  vigor ,  ara  reorttm  : 

Et  pater^  &  medicat,  pajior  amorque  gregit, 
Germanus  virtute,  fide,  corde,  ore  beatus, 

Came  tenet  turnulum,  mentis  bonore  pvlttm. 

The  Hiftories  of  this  Age  make  mention  of  one  Etitts  Arch-Deacon 
of  the  Church  of  Paris,  who  when  he  underftood  that  Innocent  Pr*~ 
textatuf  Bifhopof  ~R.bothomagttm  (accufed  of  Treafon  againft  the  King) 
was  in  danger  to  be  condemned  in  a  Synod  at  P<m*,  he  with  great  bold- 
ncfs  entred  into  the  Synod,  and  admoniQied  the-Bifliops  and  AffelTours, 
to  beware  of  having  an  hand  in  the  condemning  of  an  Innocent  per- 
fon,  he  told  them  they  ought  rather  to  reprove  King  Cbilperic  for  his 
(Ins. 

In  the  Reign  of  this  King  many  Jews  were  baptized  in  France,  but 
many  of  them  returned  to  their  vomit,  and  perfidioufly  renounced  the 
Chriftian  Religion. 

In  thofe  dayes  there  were  great  inundations  of  waters,  which  did 
much  hurt  in  many  places,  efpecially  at  Lions ,  where  part  of  the  walls 
of  that  City  were  thrown  down.    Horrible  earthquakes  made  great 
concuilions  in  part  of  France^  and  overturned  fome  mountains  toward 
Spain,  which  overwhelmed  many  men  and  beafts.    A  fire  falling  fronv 
Heaven  confumed  the  City  of  Orleans,  and  the  ftreets  of  Bourtteaux^ 
together  with  the  fruits  of  the  earth.    Other  places  were  forely  afflict- 
ed with  a  grievous  hail.  There  followed  almoft  through  all  France  a « 
malignant  Cough  and  bloody  Flux,  which  deftroyed  very  many  men 
and  women  i  by  which  difeafe  that  wicked  Auftigildit,  wife  of  King 
Guntbran  perifhed.    The  caufe  of  thefe  evils  was  faid  to  be  the  diiTen* 
tions,  civil  wars,  and  horrible  impieties  of  thofe  three  Brothers  fore- 
mentioned,  Sigebert,  Cbilperic^  and  Gunthran,  Kings  of  France ,  and* 
their  Counfellouis  and  Minifters,  who  provoked  them  to  thofe  i 


30  %%t  ecdeftafticai  i?tfto?p       Cent.  6. 

!•«  •  . , •  •  >.        - 

ties ;  who  were  punifhed  of  God  for  their  flagitious  pra&ices  with  moft 
grievous  judgements. 

Here  I  {hall  make  mention  of  the  various  fortune  of  Tbeodorw  Bi- 
fhop  of  Marfeilles  in  the  Reign  of  Cbildebert^  Divamm  (a  moft  wicked 
man)  being  Governour  of  that  Province  :  This  man  hated  Tbeodoruf, 
and  Jaid  divers  fnares  to  entrap  him.  And  when  Tbeodoru*  was  going 
to  King  Cbildebert  to  implore  his  help,  he  was  feized  on  by  "Divamius 
in  the  midft  of  the  City  of  MarfeiUes^  and  injurioufly  dealt  with,  and 
fo  clifmifTed.  In  his  journey  Theodora,  by  the  inftigation  of  I>ivamiufs 
is  taken  by  Guntbran  King  of  Orleans  :  then  the  Clergy  of  Marfeilles 
being  no  better  than  D'rvamm^  being  very  joyful  at  the  news  of  it,  do 
immediately  invade  and  plunder  all  the  fubftance  and  treafures  of  the 
Church,  and  load  Theodoras  with  divers  calumnies.  King  Chilperic  fet- 
teth  Theodoras  at  liberty,  and  fendeth  him  back  with  Gundulpbus  the 
Governour  to  Marfeiles,  that  there  he  might  be  reftored  to  his  former 
dignity.  At  the  coming  of  GundtttyhiK  and Theodoras,  "Divamius  and 
the  Clergy  do  (hut  the  gates,  and  drive  them  back  reproachfully.  But 
Gundxlpbus  by  Art  getting  into  the  City  with  his  Soldiers,  foon  brake 
the  power  of  Divamitts ,  and  fharply  rebuked  himi  yet  Gundulphut 
being  appeafed  with  deprecations  and  gifts,  Divamius  having  taken  an 
oath  that  he  would  reftore  Tbeodorut  to  his  Bifhoprick,  and  for  the  fu- 
ture be  faithful  to  the  King,  he  returned  to  his  houfe. 

But  Divamius  defpifmg  his  Oath,  fignifieth  the  reftitution  of  They- 
dorus  to  King  GuntbraH,  adding,  That  while  Theodoras  held  his  Go- 
vernment ,  King  Guntbran  could  never  enjoy  the  City  of  MarfeiUes. 
Guntbran  being  angry  fendeth  Soldiers  to  take  Ibeodortts^  who  feizing 
upon  the  Bifliop  unexpectedly,  they  carry  him  on  horfeback  bound 
with  chains  moft  ignominioufly  to  their  King  :  But  King  Guntbran 
knowing  the  innocency  of  Theodorus ,  without  doing  him  any  harm 
fufFers  him  to  return  to  his  charge,  beftowing  many  gifts  upon  him. 
Upon  this  occafion  great  enmity  grew  between  King  Guntbran  and 
Cbildeben  :  Many  other  calumnies,  and  grievous  indignities  did  this 
innocent  BUhop  fuffer  from  other  of  his  wicked  and  malicious  ene- 
mies. About  that  time  Mmttkricus,  Epifcopus  Ternoderenfis^  being  by 
force  taken  away  from  his  Church,  is  thruft  into  a  clofe  and  ftrong 
Tower  built  upon  the  bank  of  the  River  Rbodanus,  and  there  was 
detained  almoft  two  years,  and  moft  grievoufly  handled. 

Under  the  Jurifdi&ion  of  Gregory  Biflhop  of  Tours,  there  was  a  cer- 
tain Presbyter  who  denied  the  Refurredion  of  the  Body.     The  fore- 
faid  (jn?g<?rydifputed  againft  him,  which  difputation  you  may  read  at 
large  in  the  Hctgdeburgenfan  Hiftory.    The  difputation  being  ended, 
the  Presbyter  promifed,  that  he  would  afterward  believe  the  Refurre- 
chiw!iUg?ft'    ^ion  of  the  dead-    Tbis  Gregory  hath  put  out  thefe  works,  Hijl  Fran- 
caf.  Jo.    '        corttm  \  dff  Gloria  Martyrttm  >  de  Gloria  Confefforum  •,  de  viw  quorundam 

Patrutn. 


Cent.  7.  Of  FRANCE.  31 

Tatrum.      I  find  him  by  a  certain    Writer   thus  ftiled ,   Antiqttif-  ofiand.  Cent.  6. 
fimut  &  fideliflimxf  Francorum  fcriptor.    He  wrote  fharply  again  ft  the      ' 4<  "*' *7' 
jfemr  and  Ariant  \  yet  there  are  divers  errours  found  in  his  writings, 
which  are  mentioned  by  Ofiander.    He  was  very  intimate  with  Gregory 
the  Great,  Bifhop  of  Rome,  flourUhing  at  that  time. 


Century  VII. 

THe  Author  of  the  Book,  called  the  Catbolick..  'tradition^  firft 
in  French,  and  then  Tranflated  into  Englifh,  fearcheth  the  dif- 
ference of  all  Churches,  and  except  in  Rites  or  Ceremonies 
hath  not  marked  any  great  difference  of  the  Aby fines  and  Jacobites, 
from  our  Reformed  Churches.  And  in  his  Preface,  he  faith ,  They 
pretend  to  have  their  name  \_Jacobites~\  from  Jacob  the  Old  Patriarch, 
and  the  name  \_Cophtes~]  becaufe  they  are  circumcifed  i  and  in  git.  5. 
he  faith,  They  call  themfelves  Chriftians  of  the  firft  Converfion. 

PbocM^  a  mean  Captain  in  "fbracia,  in  a  fedition  of  the  people  did 
kill  his  Soveraign  Mauritius  the  Emperour,  ufurped  the  Crown,  and 
held  the  Empire  feven  years.  He  gave  unto  Pope  Boniface  the  Title  of 
Univerfal  Bifhop,  which  Title  Gregory  his  PredecefFour  had  difclaim- 
cd. 

Gregory  devifed  many  new  Rites,  yet  tied  not  others  to  follow  them  :• 
For  when  Auguftine  (whom  he  fent  into  Britain)  demanded  of  him, 
feeing  the  Faith  is  one,  why  are  the  cuftomes  of  the  Church  divers  > 
and  why  is  one  fort  of  Mafs  in  R0rae,  and  another  in  France  ?  Gregory 
anfvvereth  ,  Thy  Brotherhood  knows  the  cuftome  of  the  Roman 
Church,  in  which  thou  haft  been  nourifned  «  but  it  pleafeth  me,  whe- 
ther in  the  Church  of  Rome,  or  of  France,  or  in  any  other,  thou  haft 
feen  any  thing  that  may  pleafe  the  Almighty  God,  that  thou  diligent- 
ly follow  it. 

In  France  the  two  Sons  of  Cbildebert ,  T^eodorick^  and  Ibeodebert 
•(their  Grandmother  Erunehault  working  that  thing)  reigned  with  per- 
petual difagreement  among  themfelves>  and  with  Clotbaritts.  Ibeo- 
debert  being  overcome  by  his  Brother  in  Battel,  Anno  612.  is  ilain 
by  his  own  Soldiers  at  Colonia  :  T^heodoric]^  dieth  the  year  following  t. 
Brunebault  being  hated  of  the  French^  Anno  613.  Clotbarius  having 
obtained  the  whole  Kingdom  of  tfc  Frencb^  bound  ftmnebault  with 
a  Cable  rope5M  her  about  with  wild  Horfes,  and  tare  her  to  pieces. 

Thus 


3  a  5O)e  cecieftaftical  $tfto#       Cent.  7 . 

Thus  by  God's  judgement  She  died  mod  juftly,  who  had  cruelly  caufed 
many  others  to  die.  Thus  died  Brunebault,  only  commended  in  Hi- 
ftories  to  have  built  many  Temples,  and  given  great  revenues  for  the 

DC  Serres  Hift.  maintenance  thereof,  whilft  (he  wallowed  in  her  pleafures.  St.  Gre- 
gory hath  fet  down  certain  Letters  of  his  to  Brunehault^  wherein  he 
commends  her  highly  (though  bafely  flattering  her)  for  her  Piety  and 
fingular  Wifdom. 

Chtbaritu  feeing  himfelf  King  of  fo  great  a  Monarchy,  after  a  long 
and  horrible  confufion  of  inteftine  wars,  ufed  all  diligence  to  pacific 
the  Realm.  He  augmented  the  great  Authority  of  the  Maires  of  the 
Palace,  who  controlled  Kings,  and  in  the  end  ufutped  the  Royalty, 
whereas  they  were  before  but  Controllers  of  the  King's  Houfe,  not 
of  the  Realm.  He  had  one  only  Son,  whofe  name  was  Vagobert :  He 
committed  him  to  Armtlfb  Bifhop  of  Metzt  a  learned  and  good  man 
to  'be  intruded  by  him. 

'Petries church-        Agreftin  who  had  been  Clerk  to  King  Ibeodoricl^  entred  the  Abby 

•Hift.  laCent.  7.  Lexoviett  with  all  his  wealth,,  but  he  foon  became  weary  of  the  fuper- 
fUtious  Rites,  and  left  the  Abby  :,  Then  went-heto  Aquileia^  (which 
then  was  not  under  the  Romilh  yoke)  and  from  thence  he  wrote  unto 
JLujlafittf  Abbot  of  Lexovien  againft  the  Rites  of  the  Monks,  exhort- 
ing him  to  reje&  thofe  Rites.  Euftafw  and  his  Convent  exclude  him 
out  of  their  Society.  For  removing  this  Controverfie  was  AfTembled 
the  fourth  Council  at  Matifcon  in  Burgundy  -,  there  Agreftin  accufeth 
Euftafmt  of  many  fuperftitious  Ceremonies,  contrary  to  Canonical  In- 
ftitution,  viz.  That  they  did  ufe  to  lick  a  Cockle  marked  with  a  Crofs, 
Teft.  ve-  and  ufed  Hallowings  when  they  went  in  or  out  of  an  houfe  >  they 
fttf  multiplied  Prayers  and  Collects  in  the  Mafs  >  they  ridiculoufly  cut  off 

Abb.  their  hair,  and  abftained  from  the  company  of  men  :  but  the  Bimops 

.condemned  Agreftin.  Hence  we  fee,  that  fome  perfons  did  not  allow 
the  Rites  creeping  in,  and  thelnventers  of  them  were  but  private  per- 
fons, and  the  Abetters  were  pleafed  with  the  leaft  ihadow  of  Reafon. 

Clotharius  dieth  in  the  year  631.  having  Governed  44  years  from 
his  cradle,  and  patted  happily  through  many  perillous  difficulties :  He 
left  his  Son  Vagobert  for  his  Succeflbur. 

Ttagoben  at  his  coming  to  the  Crown  found  great  difficulties  among 
his  Subje&s,  being  bred  up  without  Juftice,  under  the  long  licentioui- 
ntfs  of  Civil  Wars,  and  the  lenity  of  Clotbaire  •,  whereto  he  provided 
wifely,  reducing  Ju-ftice,  fortifying  it  by  his  Authority,  with  fo  good 
a  moderation,  as  no  man  was  offended  at  his  feverity,  neither  durft  any 
man  attempt  any  thing  againft  the  Laws,  feeing  both  the  reign  and  the 
rod  in  the  hands  of  their  Lawful  Prince  :  To  this  good  Order  he  pro- 
feffed  to  love  holy  things  i  and  the  better  to  confirm  this  Opinion  in 
the  minds  of  his  Subjects,  he  builj  and  enriched  many  Temples,  efpe- 
cialy  that  of  St.  Venti,  the  which  hath  fince  been  theSqpulchre  of  the 
French  Kings.  This 


Cent.  7-  Of  FRANCE. 


This  King  was  much  ruled  by  the  forenamcd  Arnulpb  Bifhop  of 
,  and  by  Pepin  Major  of  the  King's  Palace  :    This  Pepin  was 
Grandfather  to  that  Pepin,  who  was  the  firft  King  of  the  fecond  Race 
of  the  French  Kings,  and  began  to  deal  abfolutely  in  the  Government  Fabian's  chron. 
of  the  Realm.     Vagobert  and  all  his  Realm  were  in  great  honour  and  ran-s* 
tranquillity,  till  the  death  of  Arnulpb,  after  which  the  King  began  to 
change  his  conditions  to  the  hurt  of  his  whole  Realm. 

There  were  at  this  time  great  numbers  of  Jews  in  Frame,  the  which 
were  hurtful  to  the  Realm  :  Vagobert  banifhed  them  by  a  perpetual 
Edift  out  of  the  Territories  under  his  obedience.  But  this  Zeal  of  Re- 
ligion was  blemilhed  with  the  foul  Wot  of  Adultery,  which  made  him 
infamous  both  to  his  Subjects  and  to  Strangers.  Amandut  BUhop  of 
Paris  reproved  him  for  his  fault  i  but  Vagobert  impatient  thereof  ba- 
nifhed  him  :  Yet  by  the  earned  perfwafion  of  Pepin,  he  yielded  to 
Reafon,  and  having  difmiffed  many  of  his  lewd  followers,  he  calleth 
home  Amandm  again  from  banimment.  Amandw  was  a  man  famous 
for  Holinefs  in  thofe  dayes.  At  that  time  Auftregefil  was  Bifhop  of  Bi- 
tures,  Lttput  Bithop  of  Sent,  Bavo  was  converted  from  a  robber  by 
Amandus.  Columban  likewife  being  much  vexed  by  Brttnebattlt,  lived 
under  Clotbariut,  and  his  Scholar  Galuf. 

Projetius  was  a  Martyr  in  Aquitain,  he  was  fucceflbur  to  Serenw  Bi- 
fhop of  MarfeiEes. 

Vagobert  having  Affembled  the  Eftates  of  France  in  great  folemnity 
at  Bygttage,  he  made  his  Tefiament,  and  Ordained,  that  he  made  his 
younger  Son  Clovis  King  of  France,  and  his  elder  Son  Sigebert  King  of  Fabian's  chro- 
Ateftrafia  or  Lorain.    His  Teftamen.t  he  had  caufed  before  to  be  written  nic- 
in  ifour  fundry  skins,  endented  to  be  read,  and  then  lealed  with  cer- 
tain feals  i  whereof  the  one  he  willed  to  be  kept  in  the  Treafury  of 
St.  Denis  •,  the  fecond  in  the  Treafury  of  the  City  of  Lions  ;  the  third 
in  the  Treafury  of  Me  tz,  in  Lorain  i  and  the  fourth  in  the  Kings  Trea- 
fury.   Vagobert  died  having  Reigned  fourteen  years,  and  was  buried  in 
the  forefaid  Monaftery. 

To  maintain  the  invocation  of  Saints,  the  Papifts  fay,  that  at  that 
time  the  foul  of  Vagobert  King  of  France  was  delivered  out  of  the 
hands  of  the  Devil  by  Vionyfm  and  Maurice  Martyrs,  and  Martin  jhc 
Confeflbr,  whom  Vagobert  had  Adored. 

A  Council  was  Aflembled  in  a  Town  of  France,  called  in  Latin  Al-  Symfon'schurch- 
tijidormn,  vulgarly  Aitxerre,  in  which  were  met  a  number  of  Abbots  §fc^*'  4> 
and  Presbyter's,  w^h  one  Bi(hop,  and  three  Deacons. 

In  this  Council  they  condemned  Sorcery,  and  the  confulting  with 
Sorcerers,  in  the  firft,  third,  fourth  and  fifth  Canons,  whereby  it  ap- 
peareth,  that  Sorcery  hath  been  in  frequent  ufe  in  France. 

Many  fuperftitious  Conftitutions  were  fct  down  in  this  Synod  con- 
cerning the  number  of  Maffcs  j  prohibition  of  tafting  meat  before  Mais, 

F  concerning 


34         %De  ccciefiaftical  ^tfto?v       cent.  7. 

concerning  burial  -,  prohibition  of  Baptifm  before  the  Fetfivity  of  Ea- 
fter,  except  upon  neceffity,  and  fear  .of  approaching  death  ;  prohibiti- 
on of  Matrimonial  copulation  with  their  own  Wives  to  Presbyters  and 
Deacons  after  their  Blelfing  and  ConfecratioiK,  with  prohibition  of 
Marriage  alfo  to  the  Widows  of  the  defundV  Presbyters,  Deacons,  or. 
Sub-deacons  •»  Brothers  and  Sifters  Children  are  forbidden  to  marry. 

They  Ordained,  that  it  is  not  lawful  for  a  Presbyter  to  fit  in  judge- 
ment, when  any  man  is  condemned  to  death. 

That  it  is  not  lawful  for  a  Clergy- man  to  cite  another  of  the  Cler- 
gy before  a  Secular  Judge. 

That  it  is  not  lawful  for  a  Woman  with  a  naked  hand  to  touch  the 
Holy  Eucharift. 

That  it  is  not  lawful  to  take  refrefhment  of  meat  with  an  excom- 
municate perfon. 

If  any  of  the  Clergy  receive  an  excommunicate  perfon,  without  the 
knowledge  of  him  who  did  excommunicate  him,  he  (hall  receive  the 
like  fentence,  that  is,  he  (hall  be  likewifc  excommunicated. 

That  it  is  not  lawful  for  a  Presbyter  in  Banquetting-time  to  fing  or 
dance. 

Many  Canons,  to  the  number  of  45^  were  concluded  in  this  Coun- 
cil :  But  I  (hall  not  trouble  you  with  an  heap  of  unprofitable,  unne- 
ceflary  and  fuperftitious  Canons. 

Another  Council  was  afterwards  called  at  Cabition,  vulgarly  called 
Cb'alon,  which  is  a  Town  in  Burgundy ,  not  far  diftant  from  Matifcon. 
In  this  Town,  by  the  Commandment  of  Clovif  King  of  France,  con- 
vened 44  Bifhops  :  Gandericus  Bi(hop  of  Lions  was  Prefident ,  and 
Laudilenus  Bithop  of  Vienna,  fbeodomi  Bi(hop  of  Aries,  becaufe  he 
refufcd  to  appear  before  the  Council,  was  fufpended  from  his  Office 
until  the  next  Council. 

In  this  Synod  the  Canons  of  the  Council  of  Nice  had  great  allow- 
ance. .  It  was  forbidden  that  two  Bi(hops  (hould  be  Ordained  in  one 
Town  >  that  no  man  {hould  fell  a  Chriftian  Servant  to  a  Jew »  and . 
that  two  Abbots  (hould  not  be  chofen  to  govern  one  Monaftery. 

That  no  labouring  of  the  ground,  or  other  fecular  work  (hall  be 
done  on  the  Lord's  day  i  with  many  other  Canons  coincident  with  the 
Canons  of  other  Councils. 

Clovif  the  fecond  married  a  Gentlewoman  of  Saxony ,  named  Baudour, 
a  Lady  of  good  life,  and  much  given  to  Devotion,  as  the  Abby  otSbel* 
les,  St.  Baudour^  with  other  Foundations  do  witnefe.  Whilft  (he  bu« 
fied  her  fell  in  her  Devotion ,  and  to  build  Monafteries,  Clwis  ad- 
dicted himfelfto  fenfuality  :  Yet  one  memorable  thing  is  recorded  of 
him,  In  a  time  of  great  dearth,  to  relieve  the  poor  people,  he  fuffered 
them  to  take  the  Silver  wherewith  the  Temple  of  St,  Pfw*  had  been 
covered  by.  Dageberti 

Aintc 


Cent.  7-  Of  FRANCE.  35 

Aimo  faith,  that  two  years  after,  a  famous  AiTembly  of  Bifliops  be- 
ing had,  he  appointed  the  Monaftery  of  T>ionyfiuf^  which  his  Father 
had  built  nigh  unto  the  City,  to  be  free  from  the  Jurifdi&iorrof  all 
Bifliops ,  Landeric^  the  Chief  Ruler  of  Paris  agreeing  to  it.  Cloivt 
died  Anno  660.  of  his  Reign  17.  At  the  fame  time  Ercbenwald  Ma- 
jor of  the  Palace  dying,  Ebruin  fucceedeth  him  :  From  which  time 
the  French  Kings  being  let  loofe  into  floth  and  riot,  the  Government 
of  the  Affairs  of  State  came  to  the  Majors  of  the  Palace  :  The  Kings 
being  contented  only,  with  the  Name  or  Title,  contained  themfelves  in 
their  Palace,  neither  came  they  but  once  every  year  (viz.  in  the  Ka- 
lends of  May)  into  open  view  of  the  r^bple. 

Clotbarius^  the  ddeft  Son  of  Clow  fucceeded  his  Father,  but  hav- 
ing Reigned  four  years  he  died,  Anno  66^ 

Ibeodonc]^  his  Brother  for.  a  (hort  fpace  was  Chief  \  but  the  French 
being  weary  of  this  man,  (hut  up  Theodorick^'m  a  Monaftery,  being 
(haven  at  St.  Dems  in  Paris^  and  Ebruin  at  Luxovien  :  Then  Cbilde- 
r/'d^  was  made  King,  who  after  three  years  Reign  was  flain  by  fiodil'e 
a  Noble  French  man,  whom  he  had  commanded,  being  bound  to  the 
(lump  of  a  tree,  to  be  whipped  with  rods.  His  Queen  alfo  being  great 
with  Child,  was  killed  by  the  fame  Bodille. 

Ebruin  fecretly  breaking  out  of  the  Monaftery  ,  again  invadeth  the  Petav.Hift 
Lieutenantthip  of  the  Palace,  and  killeth  Leudefms  the  Son  of  Erchen-  Llb'  *' 
wald  Major  of  the  Palace,  and  Leodegar  Chief  Ruler  of  Augttj}odunumt 
whom  after  he  had  been  tortured  with  divers  torments,  and  in  an 
AfTembly  of  Bifhops  fpoiled  of  his  Dignity,  he  commanded  to  be  fmit- 
ten  with  a  fword. 

In  thofe  times  there  were  many  in  France  flourifhing  in  Holinefs, 
among  whom  Eligius  Bifliop  of  Noviomutn,  and  Audoentts  Bi(hop  of 
Roven  are  mentioned.  Eligittt  died  in  the  feventieth  year  of  his  Age. 
Audoenus  died  being  ninety  years  old,  in  the  44  year  of  his  BHhoprick. 
Private  perfons  alfo  graced  France  with  an  exact  holinefs  of  Life,  viz. 
Furfeus,  FoftatMs^  Vltan^  who  having  come  out  of  Ireland  built  Mo* 
nafteries  in  France. 

Thierri  the  firft  is  now  made  King  of  France,  a  King  in  ftew,  who  is 
a  fpe&ator  of  divers  Tragedies.  Ibierri  dieth  having  reigned  19  years. 

Ebrttin  in  the  third  year  after  the  death  of  Leodegar  was  thruft  tho- 
row  by  Hermenfrid  j  then  Pepin  governeth  the  Kingdom. 

Clovis  the  third,  the  eldeft  Son  of  Tbierri  reigned  four  years,  an<J 
dieth  without  Children  :  His  Brother  Children  the  fecond  fucceed- 
eth him. 


F  2  :  CEf4T.  VIII, 


ecdefiattteal  $tftO#  Cent.  8 . 


Century  VIII. 


C 


Hildebert  Reigned  17  years,  and  died  Anno  711.  having  left 
two  Sons,  Dagobert  and  Clothaire. 

Pepin  made  great  (hew  oflove  to  Religion,  and  for  thiscaufe 
makes  war  againft  Rohod  Duke  of  Frifia,  .a  Pagan,  whom  he  conquer-, 
ed,  and  forced  to  receive  the  ^hriftian  Religion,  with  all  his  Subjects. 
He  reftored  Lambert  Bifhop  of  Iraift  to  his  Dignity,  being  expelled 
by  Ebrnin,  and  confined  unto  a  Monaftery  -,  and  one  of  his  chiefeft 
cares  was,  to  advance  them  that^had  charge  over  "the  Church  :  He 
commanded  abfolutely,  being-armed  with  the  Authority  of  his  Sove- 
faign,  neither  was  there  any.  appeal  from  him  to  the  King. 

Yet  ??/>//;,  befides  his  Lawful  Wife  called  Plettrtide^  held  a  woman 
named  Alptid,  for  the  which  the  forenamed  Lambert  reproved  him. 
Of  this  Alfaid  he  had  a  Son  whom  he  named  Charles  j  which  Charles 
was  after  firnamed  Martel^  and  was  very  profitable  to  the  Realm  of 
France.  Alfa  id  can  fed  Bifhop  Lambert  to  be  flain  by  her  Brother  P0- 
dm,  who  foon  after  felt  the  pumthment  of  this  blood  >  for  being  djf- 
eafed  with  Worms,  not  able  to  endure  his  own  ftench,  he  caft  hirafelf 
headlong  into  the  River  Meuze. 

Pepinupou  his  death- bed  Ordained  Charles  his  Baftard  to  fucceed 
him  in  the  Government  of  the  Realm.  But  Plettrude  after  the  death 
of  Pepin  caufeth  Charles  to  be  imprifoned  at  Colen,  and  advanceth  7l&/- 
1  katild  to  the  Government,  although  in  effecl:  She  under. his  Name  go- 
verned all  the  Affairs  of  State.  T>agobert  dying  at  this  time,  the  French 
took  a  Prince  of  the  blcod,  called  !><*«/?/,  out  of  a  Cloyfter  :  Him  they 
called  King,  under  the  Name  of  Cbilperic  the  fecond  }  and  they  give 
him  a  Noble  Man  of  France,  called  Raivfroy  to  be  his  Major,  who 
DC  Serm  hift.  having  lea  vied  an  Army,  defeated  Ihibauld^  and  his  Grandmother  Pie* 
Srude  in  battel.  But  Charles  Martel  getting  out  of  prifon  aflifteth  Pie- 
nrude,  gathereth  Forces,  and  overcpmeth  the  new  King  and  Krf/'«- 
frey. 

Charles  is  now  received  and  inftalled -Major  of  Frifttce,  and  having 
afCurcd  himfelf  of  the  Children  of  King  Dagobert^  he  caufcd  them  to 
he  gently  brought  up  in  a  Monattery. . 

At  Coleu  he  feizeth  on  Pleftrude  and  Ihibauld,  and  infli&s  no  o- 
ther  punimment  upon  them,  but  enjoyns  thenj  to  live  quiet,  and  to 
attempt  nothing  without  his  liking.  He  pardons  Rahifioy,  and  gives 
him  the  Government  of  Anji^u.  He  tiegradcth  Cbilperic^  being  ad- 
vanced againft  Law,  and  caufeth  theddeft  Son  of .  Dagobe rt  to  be  cho- 

fen 


Cent.  8.  Of  FRANCE. 


37 


fen  King,  named  Cbilperic-  the  third.  Cbilperic  dies  having  reigneck 
five  years,  and  in  his  place  his  Brother  Tbierri  was  crowned  King  :  He 
reigned  ten  years,  and  dying  left  his  Son  Cbilderick^  the  laft  King  of 
ihis  firft  race  of  t\\e$erwt»giens. 

Charles  Martd  from  Major  of  the  Palace,  is  chofen  Duke  or  Prince 
of  the  French. 

Eudo,  Prince  of  the  Gafcoigns,  to  whom  Rainfroy  -joyned  himfelf, 
called  in  the  Saracens  with  their  King  Abdiram  out  of  Spain,  Anno 
725.  whom  Charles  met,  and  killed  them  with  an  univerfal  llaughter: 
there  were  (lain  in  one  day  three  hundred  feventy  and  five  thoufand,and 
of  the  Frencb  fifteen  hundred,  among  which  were  many  of  the  Nobi- 
lity and  men  of  Note.  And  having  recovered  Burgundy  and  Lions,  in 
the  year  following  Eudo  dying^  he  invaded  Aquitain,  and  overthrew 
the  S-aracens  in  great  numbers  invading  France  in  the  year  731,  and 
regained  Avignon  taken  by  them,  and  forceth  them  to  abandon  Narbon, 
and  the  whole  Country  to  his  mercy.  At  that  time  divers  devout 
Monks  lived  in  France,  viz.  Vandegrifil  of  Fontinel,  a  builder  of  Mo- 
nafteries,  of  whom  Sigebert  makes  mention  :  Vrfmar  of  Lobia,  a 
Founder  of  a  Monaftery  :  Bertine,  Abbot  of  Sithiena,  and  holy  JLgi- 
dins. 

Childeric  was  King  in  (hew  nine  years,  five  under  the  Authority  of  Anno  744.  Agra 
Charles  MarteL  and  four  under  Pepin  the  Son  of  Charles   whodifpof*  £.thc'i,m,c,of 

*  King  Childenc, 

ICfledhim..  called  a  Council 

Charles  Martel  having  governed  the  Kingdom  five  and  twenty  years  "^^affifted 
dieth  :  He  had  four  Sons,  Carloman,  Pepin,  Giles  and  Grypbo  :  Giles  in  pcrfon,  rogc* 
was  made  Bifhop  of  Rbotoma£um,  and  lift  his  Government  affigned  ghre,tTft  Pwrs  of 
hicn  by  his  Father  unto  Carloman  and  Pepiit,  and  they  two  divide  the  the  Land; 
Kingdom,  and  Govern  each  one  his  own  part  under  the  Title  of  their 
Father,  as  is  apparent  by  the  firft  words  of  the  Council  under  Carlo- 
man  :    In  the  Name  of  our  Lord  Jefus  Chrifi^  I  Carloman,  P»%  and 
Prince  of  the  French,  in  the  year  from  the  inoarnation  of  Cbrijl  742,  on 
the  i  ith  of  the  Kalends  of  March,  by  the  advice  of  the  fervants  of  God, 
and  of  my  Nobes,  I  have  Aflembled  the  Ei/hops   in -my  Kingdom,  &c. 
Within  (even  years  after  this  Synod,  he  laid  allde  his  Princely  Autho-r 
rity,  faith  BeVarmine,  and  entred  into  a  Clnyfter,  becomes  a-Monk,  and 
fo  dieth  at  Vienna^  and.  then  all  the  Authority  was  in  Pepix  alone. 
Grypbo  had  rebelled  again  ft  Carloman.,  but  at  laft  F«/wrtook  him  in 
Italy,  and  caufed  him  to-  be  beheaded.    Atino  753.  Pepin  having  the 
Government  alone  aimed  at  an  higher  Title.. 

'Bhndus  and  others,  who  have  written  .the  Ads  of  the  French^  fay, 
that  the  Nobility  and  Ccmmonult^  of  th-c  Nation,  duly  confidering 
the  worthintfs  of  Tepin,  and  fottifbneG  of  Childeric,  confulted  with 
Zacbary  Bi(hop  of  Ko»ffv  whether  :thcy  Ou-uld  tolerate  fo  foolifh  a 
King  any  longer,  and  defraud  Pepin  of  his  dtlcrvcd  Princely  honour. 


38  3D&e  ecclefiaftical  $itto#       Cent.  8. 

'And  when  the  Pope  anfwered,That  he  was  moft  worthy  to  bcaKing, 
HiftJe?c«>ardl"  W^°  C°U'^  ^eft  ^(charge  the  Office  of  a  King,  the  French,  with  the 
publick  confent  of  the  whole  Nation,  did  pronounce  Pepin  for  their 
King,  and  Childeric^  was  fhaven,  and  made  a  Monk.  Then  the  Pope 
wrote  unto  Boniface  Bifhop  of  Mentz  to  Anoint  Pepin  King  of  France, 
and  declare  all  his  Subjeds  free  from  their  Oath  of  Allegiance  unto 
their  lazy  Soveraign.  The  Pope  was  chiefly  moved  hereunto,  with 
JauvoSS.  "  hope  to  draw  help  from  P?/>/'«  againft  the  Lumbards,  his  mortal  ene- 
mies. Pepin,  Anno  755.  called  almort  all  the  G*//ic<i».Bi(hops  to  meet 
at  the  Council  of  Vernes  the  Palace. 

About  this  time  Apon'iM  a  French  man  wrote  feveral  Books. 
In  the  Council  called  by  Carloman  (of  which  I  hinted  before)  he 
beginneth  thus,  7  Carloman,  &c.  have  Affembled  the  BKhops  which 
are  in  my  Kingdom,  with  the  Priefts  into  a  Council  and  Synod,  Thefe 
are,  Boniface  Arch-Bifliop  of  Mentz,  Bttrchard  of  Wirtzburg,  Regin- 
frid,  Gunibar'iM,  with  the  reft  of  the  Bifhops  and  their  Priefts  :  That 
they  fhould  give  me  Counfel  how  the  Law  of  God,  and  Religion  of 
the  Church  may  be  reftored,  which  in  the  dayes  of  former  Princes  hath 
been  (hattered  and  fallen  \  and  how  Chriftian  People  may  attain  the 
falvation  of  their  fouls,  and  not  perifli,  being  deceived  by  falfe  Priefts : 
And  by  the  advice  of  my  Priefts  and  Nobles,  We  have  Ordained  Bi- 
fhops  through  Cities,  and  fet  over  them  the  Arch-BHhop  Boniface^  who 
'  is  the  Legate  of  St.  Peter.  And  we  have  Ordained  that  Synods  (nould 
c«wti.  Tom,  2.  be  called  every  year,  that  in  our  prefence  the  Decrees  of  Canons,  Rites 
Edit.  crab.  and  Laws  of  the  Church  may  be  reftored.  And  wereftore  unto  the 
Churches  the  Monies  that  Wave  been  taken  from  them.  We  have  alfo 
difcharged  all  the  Servants  of  God  from  hunting  and  wandring  in 
woods  with  Dogs,  and  that  they  have  no  Hawks  nor  Faulcons.  We 
have  alfo  Decreed  according  to  the  Holy  Canons,  That  each  Presbyter 
dwelling  in  a  Parifh  be  fubjed  unto  the  BHhop  where  he  dwelleth  > 
and  that  alwayes  in  Lent  he  give  an  account  of  his  Miniftry,  whether 
of  Baptifm,  or  Catholick  Faith,  and  prayers  and  order  of  Maffes.  Then 
he  forbiddeth  facrirtce  to  the  dead,  and  other  profane  Rites  of  the  Hea- 
then. He  appointeth  punifhments  againft  the  Fornications  and  Adul- 
teries of  Monks.  It  was  alfo  decreed,  that  Monks  and  Nuns  fhould 
live  within  their  Abbies  and  Cloyfters,  according  to  the  Rule  of  their 
Father  Benedict. 

Pope  Stephen  confirmed  Pepin  and  his  Heirs  for  Kings  of  France, 
and  of  him  asked  aid  to  withftand  the  Power  of  Aijittlphus  then  King 
of  Lontbardy,  who  then  had  exadted  Tribute  from  certain  Lands  be- 
longing to  the-BHhop  of  Rome,  and  becaufe  it  was  refufed,  took  up 
Arms.  The  Pope  wrote  a  Letter,  direfted  to  the  Kings  of  France,  and 
to  all  Biihpps,  Abbots,  Priefts  and  Monks,  and  to  the  Glorious  Dukes 
and  Counts,  and  unto  the  whole  Army  of  the  Kingdom  of  France : 

Stephen, 


Cent.  8. Of  FRANCE. 39 

Stephen,  Tope,  and  all  the  "Bijkofs,  Pr ie ft s  and  T)e aeons,  T)ukf.s,  Counts , 
"People  and  Army  of  the  Romans,  all  being  in  aaguijh,  with  how  doleful 
and  bitter  grief  we  are  entompajfed  OH  every  fide ,  with  how  great  per- 
plexity and  doxbtfulnefi  we  are  drjirejfed,  and  bow  many  tears  our  eyes  do 
foed,  becaufe  of  the  continual  troubles  which  are  multiplyed  upon  us,  we 
tbink^  that  the  fmaHeft  part  of  all  the  elements  do  declare  :  for  who  be* 
holding  our  tribulations  will  not  mourn?  who  bearing  of  our  calamities 
wiUnot  lament?  Ajfli&ion  is  on  every  fide,  and  we  know  not  what  to  do  ! 
Oye  Chriftians !  behold  the  dayes  of  trouble,  the  dayes  of  mourning  and 
bitternefS  are  come  upon  w  i  It  is  come  (as  we  feared)  from  the  Lombards, 
fir  we  are  afflifted,  diftrejjed,  and  befieged  on  every  fide  by  their  moft  un- 
godly King  Aiftulph,  and  that  Nation  :  Iherefore  with  the  Prophet,  we 
pray  the  Lord^  faying,  Help  uf  0  God  of  our  Salvation,  and  for  the  bo- 
nmr  of  thy  Name  deliver  us,  &c.  And  now  becaufe  Aiftulphus  with  an 
Army  hath  pitched  his  "Tents,  and  encamped  againji  M,  and  hath  often  faid 
^tnto  us,  Open  unto  me  the  Gate  of  Salaria,  that  I  may  enter  into  your 
City,  and  give  me  your  High  Prieft,  and  I  will  foew  Clemency  unto  you  : 
If  not,  beware,  left  when  I  have  battered  down  your  walls,  I  kjttyou  al- 
together with  the  fword  \  and  let  me  fee,  who  can  deliver  you  out  of  mine 
hand  :  Wherefore  our  Beloved,  I  befeech  you,  and  (of  if  I  were  prefent) 
I  adjure  you  by  the  tnyfteries  before  the  true  and  living  God,  and  before 
St.  Peter  the- Prince  of  the  Apoftles,  that  with  great  freed  you  help  us,  left 
we  perijh »  feeing  tinder  God  roc  have  committed  all  our  lives  into  your- 
hands,  forfake  us  not. 

After  this  the  Pope  fent  another  Letter  in  the  Name  of  St.  Peter,  A  Letter  £nt  fa 
as  if  it  had  been  written  from  Heaven,  which  beginneth  thus  :  Peter  the  njroe  of  St.  ^ 
called  an  Apoftle,  Grace,  Peace,  and  Power,  to  deliver  the  Holy  Church 
of  God,  and  the  People  of  Rome  committed  to  me  from  the  hands  of 
their  enemies,  be  fully  given  from  the  Lord  God  unto  you  moft  ex- 
cellent men  Pepin,  &c.  and  to  the  moft  holy  Bifliops,  Abbots,  Presby- 
ters, and  all  Religious  Monks,  &c.  I  Peter,  the  Apofle  of  God,  who 
have  yon  my  adopted  Children,  to  deliver  from  the  enemies  band  tbii  Ro~ 
man  City,  and  the  people  committed  of  God  unto  me ,  provoking  ati  your 
Love,  do  exhort,  and  protecting  do  admonijhyou  to  deliver  the  Church  j>f 
God,  which  by  Divine  Power  is  commended  to  me,  feeing  they  fujfer  very 
great  ajfliftions  and  oppreflion  by  the  moft  wicked  Nation  of  the  Lombards. 
"Ibink^  not  otherwife,  but  certainly  believe  it,  that  I  my  felf  am  ftanding 
alive  m  the  flefh  before  you  i  and  our  Lady,  the  Mother  ef  God,  the  Vir- 
gin Mary  ,  with  w,  doth  adjure  you  with  the  greateft  Obligations ,  and 
Prote(ietb,Admonifheth,andCommandetb,8cc.  Behold,  herewith  what 
fooleries  and  impieties  they  would  bewitch  the  world. 

But  Pcpin  did  not  leavy  an  Army  until  Pope  Stephen  came  into 
France  :  And  when  he  took  his  journey,  he  commended  himfelf  to 
St.  M*ry,  and  his  flock  unto  St.  Peter  :  Pepin  hearing  of  his  coming, 

fent 


40  3CDe  cccleftattical  $ffio?p       Cent.  8 . 

fcnt  his  Son  Charles  an  hundred  miles  to  meet  him,  and  when  he  came 
within  three  leagues  of  Carifiac,  Pepin  went  forth  unto  him,  and  re- 
turned on  foot,  and  the  Pope  on  horfeback  :  Then  Pepin  was  crown- 
ed again  by  the  Pope  for  the  greater  pomp.  Pepin  went  into  Italyt 
and  forceth  Aiftulpb  to  give  hoftages  to  render  unto  the  Pope  all  due 
Right  :  But  after  the  return  of  Pepin  into  France.,  Aiftulph  with  new 
Forces  doth  more  mifchief  to  Rowf.  Then  Pope  Stephen  wrote  ano- 
ther Supplication  to  Pepin,  who  made  no  delay,  but  forceth  Aiftulph 
to  perform  the  former  conditions,  and  to  give  unto  the  Pope  the  ex- 
archate of  Ravenna.  Within  a  year  Aifiulph  dieth,  then  a  divifion 
arifeth  between  Racbu  and  Vefideriitf  for  the  Kingdom.  Then  Ste- 
phen wrote  his  fourth  Epiftle  unto  Pepin,  giving  him  thanks  for  his 
aid,  wifl^ing  many  bleflings  unto  him,  and  (hewing,  that  Aijiulph  was 
ftricken  by  the  hand  of  God,  and  drowned  in  the  bottom  of  Hell,  and 
that  by  the  hands  of  Peter  Prince  of  the  Apoftles,  and  by  thy  moft 
powerful  arm  [fpeaking  unto  Pepin~\  Defiderittf,  a  moft  mild  man,  was 
Ordained  King  of  the  Lombards,  who  had  fworn  to  reftore  unto  St. 
Peter  the  Cities,  Faventia,  Infitbres  and  Ferrara,  with  all  their  Terri- 
tories i  and  alfo  Aufimo,  Aucona,  Humana,  Eona,  with  all  their  Terri- 
tories i  and  he  had  fworn  to  keep  peace  with  the  Church  of  St.  Peter , 
and  to  be  Loyal  unto  the  Crown  of  France,  and  entreated  Pepin  to  ap- 
prove the  Coronation  of  Defiderixf  upon  thefe  conditions.  Henceforth 
the  Pope  began  to  lift  up  his  head,  and  having  large  Territories  given 
unto  him,  will  not  reft  until  he  be  Monarch  of  the  world.  When 
Stephen  had  peace  he  began  to  repair  the  Churches  which  Aiflulpb  had 
caufed  to  be  thrown  down3  and  died  in  the  fixth  year  of  his  Pa- 
pacy. 

SJ'J'8  Chronl'  Tlien  Ga'fer  Duke  of  Gttienne  impofed  a  Tribute  upon  the  Lands  of 
the  Clergy  in  his  Dukedom  without  their  cnnfent  ••>  wherefore  the  Bi- 
{hops  for  a  redrefs  complained  unto  King  Pepin  thereof  i  Pep'm  repro- 
ved tl>£  Duke  for  it  :  but  the  Duke  not  regarding  the  Kings  Admoni- 
tion, Pepin  foon  after  with  an  Army  entred  the  Territory  of  Guienne, 
wafting  and  fpoiling  the  Countrey.  Hereupon  the  Duke  hearkened  to 
him,  and  bound  himfelf  to  reftore  unto  the  Clergy  what  he  had  ex- 
torted from  them.  But  the.  King  being  returned  into  France,  the  Duke 
gathering  Forces  together,  fent  them  to  the  City  of  Chahurs  in  Bar- 
gundy,  and  did  much  hurt  to  that  Town  and  Countrey. 

The  King  being  forely  difcontented  at  it,  returned  with  his  People 
into  Gttien,  and  therein  beat  down  many  ftrong  holds  and  Caftles,  and 
took  or  won  Burbon,  Cancarvile  and  Cleremont,  and  wafted  the  Coun- 
try with  fire  and  fword  till  he  came  to  Limoger.  The  winter  coming 
on,  the  King  having  ftrengthened  the  forefaid  Cities,  Towns  and 
ftjrong  Holds  that  he  had  won,  and  then  rode  to  a  place  called  Cans,  there 
kept  his  Chriftmafs  and  Eafter.  In  the  next  Spring  he  re-entred  the 

forefaid 


Cent.  8.  flf  FRANCE,  41 


forefaid  Dutchy,  and  took  by  force  the  Cities  of  Bourges  and 

The  People  of  that  Countrcy  confidering  the  obftinacy  of  their 
Duke,  murthered  thefaid  Duke,  and  after  yielded  themfelves  and  their 
Country  to  the  King,  with  all  fuch  Treafure  and  Jewels  as  to  the  faid 
Duke  belonged  i  whereof  King  Pepin  offered  a  great  part  unto  St.  De- 
MS.  Then  this  victorious  Prince  was  vexed  with  grievous  ficknefs  i 
wherefore  in  all  haft  hefped  him  to  St.  Martin's^  where  he  made  cer- 
tain Prayers  and  Oblations  :  And  from  thence  (his  ficknefs  increafing) 
he  was  conveyed  unto  P*ra,  where  he  (hortly  after  died,  when  he  had 
reigned  as  King  there  by  the  fpace  of  eighteen  years. 

After  the  death  of  Pepiu  the  Eftates  of  France  Aflemble,  and  by  their 
confents  Charles  and  Carloman  his  Sons  divide  the  Realm  between 
them  by  equal  portions.  Charles  was  Crowned  at  Wormes^  Carloman. 
at  SoiJJoHS  :  But  by  the  death  of  Carloman  the  whole  Realm  came  to 
Charles  within  three  years  after  the  death  of  his  Father. 

Charles  was  endued  with  fingular  gifts  both  of  body  and  mind  i  he 
had  the  inftrudHons  of  a  virtuous  Converfation,  and  was  bred  up  in 
Learning  and  Arms  :  He  was  Religious,  and  reverenced  the  Churches 
and  Paftors  •,  he  was  a  great  Juftitiary,  a  reliever  of  the  poor,  and 
kept  his  Faith  both  to  friend  and  foe  i  he  was  a  lover  of  Learning  and 
learned  men  :  Paul  of  Pifa  inftru&ed  him  in  the  Greek  and  Latin 
Tongues,  and  Aimon  in  Philofophy  and  the  Mathematickes  :  He  de- 
lighted in  Poetry,  but  efpecially  in  Hiftory,  in  which  he  was  well  read. 
The  Univerfity  of  Paris  built  (or  enriched)  by  him,  doth  witnefs  the 
love  and  honour  he  bare  to  learning.  A  valiant  man,  none  command- 
ed with  more  obedience,  nor  performed  any  thing  with  greater  for- 
tune, nor  ufed  his  Victories  with  more  mildnefs  and  judgement.  Ne- 
ver did  King  reign  with  more  Authority,  nor  was  more  reverently 
obeyed  than  Charlemagne, 

About  the  Year  7^6  Charles  King  of  France  made  a  league  with 
Archaius  King  of  Scots  :  Arcbaius  fent  unto  him  Albinu^  or  Aku'inw^ 
John  Melrofe  (fo  named  from  the  Abby  Melrofe)  Claudiuf^  Clemens  and 
Anthony,  all  very  devout  and  learned  men. 

John  Melrofe  became  Abbot  of  the  Auguftinians  at  'ficino^  and  Clax-  Btleincv&r.  >* 
dins  was  Bithop  of  Attxerre-:  They  wrote  fcveral  works,  as  John  Bale    , 
fheweth. 

Alcuinus  had  good  knowledge  of  the  Latin  and  Greek  Languages :  BibHoth.rfeia  . 
Charles  calleth  him  his  Mafter,  in  an  Epiftle  written  unto  him,  T>eSe~  Biene>7'7 
ptuagef.  &  Sexagef.   He  hath  many  excellent  things  in  divers  of  his 
Books  and  Writings. 

T)efideriM  began  to  make  War  firft  againft  the  City  of  Ravenna^  and 
the  Marches  thereof,  and  took  the  Cities  of  Ferrara ,  Faventia^  and 
other  Towns.  The  Pope  fent  to  Charles  the  Great  for  aid,  who  came 
into  Italy  with  great  Forces  :  "Deftderius  fled  to  P*via9  and  was  there 

G  befieged : 


ccrttftaftical  $tfto?p        Cent.  8. 


befieged  :  Charles  leaving  an  Unkk  of  his  at  the  fiege  of  Pavia,  went 
againlt  Verona,  which  he  took  without  any  great  difficulty  :  From 
thence  he  went  to  Rome  to  kifs  the  Pope's  Foot,  and  to  hold  the  Feafr 
of  Eafter,  where  he  was  received  with  great  Solemnity. 

After  this  his  .coming  thither,  he  confirmed  to  the  Church  and  Popes 
of  Rome,  the  Donation  which  his  Father  Pepin-hzd  made  of  Ravenna, 
and  other  Lands,  and  made  another  of  many  other  places,  among 
which  is  reckoned  the  Ifle  of  Corfica,  and  all  the  Coaft  of  Genoua,  with 
the  Cities  of  Parma,  Ancona,  Vrbin,  and  many  other  Towns,  befides 
Rome  and  the  Territories  thereof,  which  the  Popes  had  already  in  pof- 
fellion  i  fo  as  to  the  Emperours  remained  only  that  part  of  Italy,  which 
is  part  of  Calabria,  and  of  Pnglia,  and  a  great  part  of  that  which  now 
is  the  Kingdom  of  Naples 

Charles  having  been  or.ly  eight  dayes  in  Rome,  returned  againft  T>e- 
jideriw,  who  after  fix  moneths  befieging  in  Pavia,  yielded  upon  compe- 
tition, and  Charles  carried  him  with  him,  and  banifhed  both  him  and 
his  Sons  into  a  certain  Illand,  and  then  took  Milan,  and  all  the  other 
Cities  in  Lombardy,  which  is  the  Ancient  Galiia  Cifatyina,  where  he 
placed  French  men  for  Dukes  and  Governours  :  So  Italy  remained  in 
his  Obedience,  excepting  thofe  Lands  and  Provinces  which  were  left 
to  the  Church  of  Rome  :  fo  ended  the  Kingdom  of  the  Lombards, 
which  had  continued  204  years  in  Italy. 

In  the  Year  787,  Charles  being  departed  from  Rome  to  come  into 
France,  as  foon  as  he  was  arrived  at  Wormet  (faith  Rhegno)  he  called 
a  Synod,  and  declared  the  Reafons  of  his  journey  to  the  Clergy  and 
Princes  of  his  Realm. 

We  find  the  French  Synods  in  thofe  dayes  oftentimes  to  have  con- 
lifted  both  of  Lay-men  and  Clergy-men,  joyntly  to  determine  of  mat* 
ters,  as  well  Ecclefiaftical  as  Civil. 

Charles  the  Great  did  the  like  in  the  Council  of  Franckford,  where 
he  difcourfed  points  $f  Faith,  and  made  them  deliver  their  Opinions 
upon  fuch  as  himfdf  ;propofed.  The  Canons  and  Decrees  alfo  run  in 
hi*  Name,  the  Emperour  (faith  he)  hath  Ordained  with  the  confent 
of  the  Synod,  &c. 

In  the  Year  794  Charles  Affembled  this  Council  at  Franckford, 
partly  in  regard  of  the  Heretick  Fcelix,  who  called  Chrift,  The  Adoptive 
Son  of  God  in  humane  nature,  and  was  condemned  in  a  Council  AfTem- 
bled  at  Ratisbon.  But  he  was  returned  to  his  vomit  again,  and  there- 
fore was  now  again  condemned  as  a  notable  Heretick  in  the  Coun- 
cil of  Franckfor  d  i  partly  alfo  in  refpeftof  the  great  contention  which 
arofe  every  where  concerning  the  worshipping  of  Images,  difallowed 
in  the  Council  of  CoHjlantmtfle,  and  allowed  in  the  fecond  Council  of 


Rfiegno.  Sub. 
AnnHm  787. 


Vide  AftaCon- 
cil.  Francf.  in 
libcllo  facro. 
Tt«.  ;.  Cstns.il, 


Not  only  the  Bifnops  of  f  ranee  ,  but  alfo  of  Germany  and  Lombardy 

(as 


Cent.  8.  Of  FRANCE.  43  f 

(as  Provinces  fubjed:  to  the  King  of  France)  were  prefent  at  this  Coun- 
cil :  The  Pope  fent  his  AmbaflTadors,  Iheopbilatt  and  Stephanus  to  the 
Council,  King  Charlet  himfelf  alfo  was  prefent  thereat. 

Alcninw  wrote  again  ft  the  Heretic  of  Foelix,  and  Elipandrus  BKhop  Akuin.  contr. 
of  Toledo,  and  in  his  fecond  Book  faith,  Shew  us  any  Nation,  Town  Fc 
or  Church,  either  Roman  or  Confiantinopolitan,  or  of  Jerufalem  (which 
was  Dedicated  by  the  prefence  of  the  Lord  himfelO  or  of  Antiocb, 
where  firft  the  Name  of  Chriftianity  is  read  to  have  been,  or  of  Alex- 
andria,  or  of  any  other  Church,  either  in  Italy,  or  Germany^  or  in 
France,  or  in  Aquitain,  or  in  'Britain,  which  agreeth  with  you  in  your 
aflertion.   Here  he  acknowledgeth  all  thefe  to  be  true  Churches  at  that 
time,  and  diftinguiiheth  them  one  from  another. 

Fcelix  continued  in  his  errour  till  Alcumw  wrote  againft  him,  and 
then  he  became  Zealous  of  the  Truth,  and  wrote  a  Recantation  unto 
the  Presbyters  and  Deacons  of  his  Church,  That  as  he  had  been  a 
fcandal  unto  them,  fo  by  his  means  they  may  be  brought  again  from 
Errour  unto  the  Truth,  as  he  himfelf  writeth  :  And  this  Recantati- 
on is  printed  among  the  Works  of  Alcuimts.  But  Eli  f  ant  Arch-Bifhop 
of  Toledo,  having  read  the  feven  Books  of  Alcuinw,  wrote  very  fliarp- 
ly  for  maintaining  the  fame  Errour. 

ft.  Hoveden  writeth,  that  Charles  the  Great  fent  over  into  England  R.Hovwfcnfh 
the  Ads  of  a  Synod  fent  him  from  Constantinople,  for  the  Adoration  of co 
Images  :  Againft  this  Adoration  (faith  he)  Akuinws  wrote  an  Epiftle 
well-grounded  on  Divine  Scriptuies,  and  carried  it  with  fome  Sy no- 
dical Ads  in  the  names  of  the  Englijh  Princes  and  Biftiops  to  the  King 
of  France. 

All  Italy  being  now  in  peace  under  the  protection  of  King  Charles, 
two  Cardinal  Priefts  of  great  account,  called  Pafcal  and  Capulw,  con- 
fpired  againft  Pope  Leo,  who  with  their  complices  apprehended  him 
on  a  day  as  he  was  going  in  Proceffion  :  Some  fay  they  put  out  his 
eyes,  and  cut  out  his  tongue,  committing  him  prifoner  to  the  Mona- 
ftery  of  St.  TLrafnm,  publifting  abroad,  that  they  did  it  for  the  crimes 
by  him  committed,  and  the  Errours  by  him  maintained.  Some  Au- 
thors affirm,  that  he  was  miraculoufly  reftored  to  his  light  and  fpeech. 
Hereupon  King  Charles  cometh  to  'Rome ,  accompanied  with  many 
great  Dukes,  and  other  Princes,  his  Subjects  :  To  him  came  out  of 
Italy,  and  from  many  other  parts,  many  Bifhops  and  Prelates.  After 
eight  dayes  abode  there,  he  commanded  all  the  Princes  and  Prelates 
which  then  were  in  the  City  to  be  AfTembled  ',  and  the  Pope  himfelf, 
and  all  the  reft  being  together,  there  were  fome  that  accufed  the  Pope 
to  the  Emperour.  Then  the  Emperour  openly  asked  every  mans  opi- 
nion concerning  thofe  accufations  i  all  anfwered,  That  no  man  ought 
to  judge  the  Head  of  the  Church  :  which  the  King  obferving,  he  ask- 
ed no  more  queftions. 

G  2  The 


44          3Efle  ccrlcfiattical  %tfto?y       Cent.  8. 


The  next  day  all  being  Re-afTembled,  the  Pope  went  up  into  the 
Eulpit,  and  taking  i  Book  of  the  Holy  Evangelifts  in  his  hands,  faid 
with  a  loud  voice,  That  he  fwareby  God,  and  thofe  Holy  Evangelifts, 
That  all  that  which  his  Adverfaries  had  laid  to  his  charge,  was  falfe 
and  untrue  i  and  that  he  had  neither  committed,  nor  thought  any  fuclv 
matter  as  they  objected  j  but  that  they  had  of  malice  and  envy  flan- 
dered  himi  and  that  he  therefore  publickly  made  this  Proteftation, 
and  confirmed  it  by  his  Oath,  feeing  that  to  them  all  the  manner  of  hi* 
Life  and  Government  was  well  known. 

His  Oath  was  allowed,  and  himfelf  commended,  and  the  King  com- 
manded his  Accufers,  Pafcal  and  Capulus  to  be  fought  out,  and  put  to 
death  :  But  the  Pope  was  content  their  lives  (hould  be  (pared,  fo  as* 
they  might  be  committed  to  prifon,  and  thence  be  condemned  to  per- 
petual exile. 

Eight  dayes  after,  the  Pope  having  confidered,  firft,  how  much  the- 
Greek  Emperours  envied  his  Greatnefs,  together  with  the  fmall  affe- 
ction they  bare  to  the  wor(hipping  of  Images,  and  other  points,  where- 
in they  were  oppofite  to  the  Church  of  Rome  j  and  then  how  requi- 
iite  it  was  to  have  an  Emperour  which  might  maintain  the  Provinces 
of  Italy  in  peace,  which  were  often  difturbed  i  but  chiefly  to  (hew 
himfelf  grateful  for  the  benefits,  which  he  and  the  Church  of  Rome 
had  received  from  him  and  the  Houfe  of  France  :  But  above  all,  for  ac- 
cepting his  Proteftation  in  his  own  defence,  for  a  proof  of  his  Inte- 
grity, he  refolved  to  make  Charles  the  Great  Emperour,  and  to  Tran- 
flate  the  Head  of  the  Empire  into  the  Weft.  And  having  ruminated 
hereupon,  againft  the  day  of  the  Nativity  of  Chrift,  he  commanded  . 
all  the  Prieits,  Cardinals,  and  all  the  other  Prelates  to  come  to  a  Mafs, 
whither  Charles  was  alfo  invited,  and  came  j  together  with  all  the  o- 
ther  Princes,  and  fo  about  the  midft  of  the.  Mats,  the  Pope  then  fay- 
ing it,  he  turned  about  from  the  Altar  to  the  People,  and  with  a  loud 
voice  faid,  That  he  did  there  Ele&,  Create  and  publifli  Charles  the, 
Great,  the  moft  Mighty  and  Victorious  King  of  Italy  ,  of  the  Germans^ 
and  of  the  Frenchmen^  Emperour  and  ever  Atfgttjlus.  Which  being. 
done,  he  fet  the  Imperial  Crown  upon  his  head,  and  all  thofe  which 
were  prefent  confented  thereunto,  with  acclamations  and  applaufes,  . 
faying,  70  the  moji  Godly  ,  ever  Auguft  us,  Great  and  moft  Viftorigus  Em~ 
perottr  Charles,  God  grant  long  life  and  vittory. 

This  acclamation  being  ended,  the  Pope  anointed  him,  and  then  . 
and  there  alfo.  anointed  and  entituled  his  Son.  Pepin  (with  the  good' 
liking  and  content  of  his  Father)  King  of  Italy.    Which  Coronations 
were  penformed  with  great  Feaftings  and  Solemnity,  upon  Chriftmafs  . 
day,  Anno  800. 

So  Charles  remained  Emperour  ?  and  the  Empire  was  tranfported  .: 
from  the  Greekj  to  the  Germans* 


Cent.  9.  Of  FRANCE. 


Pope  Adrian  with  his  whole  Synod  (which  confifted  of  one  hun- 
dred tifty  three  Biftiops,  Abbots,  and  Religious  perfons)  had  given  bi- 
fore  the  right  and  power  of  Electing  the  Pope  unto  Charles  the  Great, 
and  further  Ordained,  That  the  Arch-BHhops  and  Btthops  of  all  the 
Provinces  (hould  receive  their  inveftiture  from  him,  in  fuch  fort  as- 
no  BUhop  can  be  Confecrated  by  any  man,  unlefs  he  be  approved  and 
inverted  by  the  King,  pronouncing,  an  Anathema  againft  fuch  as  fhall 
do  otherwife, 


Century  IX. 


CHarles  having  left  his  Son  Pepin  in  Italy,  vifiteth  Germany,  fub~ 
dueth  the  Saxons^  and  reduceth  them  to  the  Chriftian  Faith. 
He  had  Wars  with  them  for  the  fpace  of  thirty  years  >  he  of- 
tentimes fubdued  them,  and  gave  them  their  Liberty  upon  condition- 
they  would  embrace  the  Chriftian  Religion  :  but  on  every  occafion 
their  Duke  Wedekjnd  caft  off  both  Loyalty  and  Chriftianity.    At  feveral  - 
times  when  Charles  had  obtained  a  Victory  he  erected  a  new  Bifhop- 
rick  :  He  founded  feven  Epifcopal  Cities  in  that  Province,  giving  ..*** 
them  Princely  Power,  becaufe  he  judged  that  thofe  fierce  people  might 
be  tamed  by  Religion  rather  than  by  Arms.     Thefe  were  Bremen,  Ver- 
da,  Minda,  Padeburn,  Ofnaburg,  Hildefiein,  Halberjladt.    The  Hiftorian 
(aith,  Although  Charles  gave  unto  the  Bifhops  power  of  Governing,. 
yet  the  Nobles  did  not  altogether  lofe  their  Power  :  whence  it  came 
to  pafs,  that  when  the  War  was  ended,  the  Secular  Power  beyond  the 
Vefer,  was  acknowledged  by  them  all  to  belong  unto  him.     At  laft,  • 
becaufe  the  Saxons  had  fo  often  revolted,  he  removed  ten  thoufand  of  - 
them,  with  their  Wives  and  Children  into  Brabant  and  Flanders,  and 
fent  and  fettled  fome  French  in  that  Province,  and  left  his  Son  Charles. 
there  with  an  Army  to  keep  them  in  obedience. 

Charles  understood  that  the  Latin  Tranflation  of  the  Bible  was  much  Baro*  Annit. 
corrupted  through  the  negliger.ee  of  Writers,  and  gave  it  in  charge  Tc$9>  ad  "''"" 
unto  Alcuiwt*  to  amend  the  Tranflation  i  who  did  Correct  both  the-*° 
Old  and  New  Teftameat,  as  'Baronm  teftifieth.  . 

Alcuinus  was  Governour  of  the  Monaftery  of  St.  Martin  at  fourf  j  . 
yet  was  he  neither  a  Monk,  nor  a  Prieft,  but  contented  himfelf  with 
the  Order  of  a  Deacon  :  He  died  on  Whitfunday,  Anno  804. 

Pfpin  King  of  Italy  and  Charles,  two  Sons  of  Charles  the  Great  died 
before  him,  .  when- 


46  3C|)e  €ttlefta(Hcai$tftoM?       cent.  9. 

When  Charles  the  Emperour  was  now  Aged,  and  faw  many  abufes 
in  the  Church,  he  endeavoured  by  all  means  poffible  to  procure  Refor- 
mation of  the  lewd  manners  of  Churchmen  :  therefore  he  appointed 
Symfon'schurch-  at  onetime,  (namely  in  the  year  813.)  five  National  Councils,  to  be 
Hift.  CM,  9,  Convened  in  divers  places  for  the  Reformation  of  the  Clergy  and  Peo- 
ple- :  One  was  Convened  at  Mentz,  a  fecond  at  'Rkemer,  the  third  at 
7W/,  the  fourth  at  Cabition  or  Cbalon,  and  the  fifth  at  Arks.  In  all 
thefe  Councils  no  oppofition  was  made  to  the  Council  of  Frankjord; 
neither  was  the  adoration  of  Images  avowed  in  any  of  the  Councils : 
So  available  is  the  Authority  of  a  Prince  for  fnppreffing  of  falfe  Do- 
drine  and  Herefie. 

In  the  Council  of  Mentz  were  Aflembled  thirty  Bifhops,  twenty  five 
Abbots,  with  a  great  number  of  Priefts,  Monks  and  Judges.  After 
three  dayes  abftinence  and  failing,  joyned  with  Litanies,  publick  pray- 
e*s,  and  imploring  Gods  affiftance,  they  divided  themfelves  into  three 
Companies. 

fn  the  firft  were  the  Bifhops  with  fome  Scribes,  reading  the  Hiftory 
of  theGofpel,  and  the  EpHHes,  and  Ads  of  the  Apoftles ,  together 
with  the  Canons  and  Works  of  the  Ancients,  and  the  Paftoral  Book 
of  Gregory,  to  the  end,  that  by  the  Precepts  contained  in  thofe  Books, 
the  enormity  of  mens  lives  might  be  corrected. 

In  the  fecond  Company  were  Abbots  and  Monks,  reading  the  Rules 
of  St.  Eenedift)  for  the  reformation  of  the  lives  of  Monks. 

In  the  third  Company  were  Lords  and  Judges,  pondering  the  caufes 
of  all  men,  who  came  to  complain  that  wrong  was  done  unto  them. 

The  firft,  fecond  and  third  Canons  of  this  Council ,  entreat  con- 
cerning Faith,  Hope  and  Charity. 

The  fourth  concerning  the  Sacraments  to  be  miniftred,  chiefly  at 
Eafterand  Whitfunday,  &c. 

The  fifth,  that  unity  and  concord  (hall  be  kept  in  the  Church,  be- 
caufe  we  have  one  common  Father  in  Heaven,  one  Mother,  viz.  the 
Church  on  Earth,  one  Faith,  one  Baptifm,  and  one  Celeftial  inheri- 
tance prepared  for  us,  &c. 

The  fixth  and  feventh  Canons  entreat  of  Orphanes  and  poor  Peo- 
ple, whofe  weaknefs  is  to  be  fupported. 

The  eighth  Canon  recommendeth  unity  to  be  kept  betwixt  men  in 
fpiritual  Offices,  and  Civil  Judges. 

The  ninth  and  tenth  Canons  prefcribe  to  the  Clergy  Precepts  of  a 
modeft  and  fober  life,  with  abftinence  from  the  delicate  pleafures  of 
the  world,  from  theatrical  fpe&acles,  from  pomps  and  unhoneft  ban- 
quets :  Ufury,  Avarice  and  Ambition,  Deceit  and  Conjurations,  and 
many  other  fins  were  alfo  reftrained. 

I'pafs  by  the  Precepts  concerning  the  behaviour  of  Monks  and 
Nuns,  and  the  fabrick  of  their  dwelling  places. 

In 


Cent.  9.  Of  FRANCE.  47 


*  In  the  32  Canon,  the  difference  bet  ween  TUTSCV^OC  and 
is  fet  down. 

In  the  33th,  the  great  Litany,  or  Rogations  to  be  obferved  three 
dayes  by  all  Chriftians,  with  fafting,  fack«  cloth,  a(hes,  walking  bare- 
footed, and  all  kind  of  humble  carriage. 

In  the  34,  35,  and  3x5,  publick  faftings,  anetkeeping  of  feftival  dayes 
is  commanded. 

In  the  37,  That  the  Sabbath-day  be  "kept  holy,  that  in  it  no  Mer- 
chants wares  be  fold,  and  no  criminal  caufe  be  judged. 

In  38  and  39,  That  Tithes  be  precifely  paid,  and  men  fleeing  to 
Churches  for  fafeguard,  are  not  to  be  violently  drawn  out  from  thence. 

In  the  40,  In  Churches  and  the  porches  thereof,  let  no  fecular  judge- 
ment be  exercifed. 

In  the  41,  That  no  Ancient  Church  be  fpoiled  of  Tithes  andPof- 
fe/Iions  for  the  building  of  new  Oratories. 

In  the  42  concerning  Church-rents  beftowed  for  reparation  and  up- 
holding of  Churches. 

In  44,  That  no  Prieft  fay  Mafs  himfelf  alone,  for  if  he  have  none 
but  himfelf,  how  can  he  fay,  T>ominus  vobifcum^  or,  furfum  corda,  or 
other  fuch  paflages  ?  All  frequent  offering  of  the  facrifice  of  the  Mafs, 
and  prefenting  of  the  Paxe  is  recommended  to  Chriftian  people. 

In  45,  That  every  perfon  be  acquainted  with  the  Creed,  and  the 
Lord's  Prayer  >  and  that  every  one  (at  leaft)  learn  them  in  their  own 
vulgar  language. 

In  4$,  That  they  who  continue  in  drunkennefs  be  excommunica- 
ted. 

In  47,  That  Godfathers  (hall  fee  that  their  Tpiritual  Children  be 
brought  up  in  the  true  Faith. 

In  48,  That  lafcivious  fongs  be  not  fung  in  Churches. 

In  4$>,  The  cohabitation  with  Women  is  forbidden  to  all  the  Cler- 

gy- 

In  50,  That  all  Bifhops,  Abbots  -and  Church-men,  have  fuch  Agents 
in  their  affairs,  who  are  men  that  fear  God,  and  hate  all  unrighteous- 
dealing. 

In  51,  That  the  dead  bodies  bf  the  Saints  be  not  tranfported  from 
place  to  place,  without  the  advice  of  the  Prince  of  the  Countrey^  or 
the  Bifhop  and  Synod. 

In  52,  That  no  dead  body  (hall  be  buried  within  the  Church,  ex? 
cept  the  body  of  a  Bi&op,  or  of  an  Abbot,  or  of  a  worthy  Presbyter, 
or  of  a  faithful  Laick  perfon. 

In  53,  That  inceftuous  perfons  be  Separated  from  the  fellowfhip  of 
the  Church,  except  they  be  penitent,. 

In  54,  55  and  56,  Marriage  in  the  fourth  degree  of  confanguinity  is 
forbidden  v  and  that  no  man  (hall  marry  his  God-daughter.,  nor  fpiri- 

tual 


3CDeeceleftafticai$«io#       Cent.  9. 

tual  Sifter  •,  neither  the  Woman,  whofe  Son  or  Daughter  he  hath  led  to 
the  Sacrament  of  confirmation  :  And  in  cafe  they  be  found  to  be  mar- 
ried, they  (hall  be  feparated  again.  And  no  man  (hall  take  in  marriage 
his  Wives  Sifter  j  neither  (hall  a  woman  marry  her  Husband's  Brother. 

-Of  the  Cornell  of  Rhemes. 

A  Council  was  alfo  AlTembled  at  TUoemes,  by  the  Commandment  of 
Charles  the  Great,  Anno  813.  In  this  Council  Wulfarius  the  Arch- 
Biftiop  was  Prefident  :  forty  four  Canons  are  rehearfed  in  the  fecond 
*jLome  of  Councils,  made  in  this  Council. 

In  the  i.  Canon  it  was  concluded,  That  every  man  (hould  diligent- 
ly acquaint  himldf  with  the  Articles  of  his  Faith. 

2.  That  he  learn  the  Lords  Prayer,  and  underftand  the  meaning  of 
it. 

3.  That  every  man  in  holy  Orders  (hall  walk  worthily  according  to 
his  Calling. 

4.  The  Epiftles  of  St.  faul  were  read  to  give  inftru&ions  to  S*b- 
"Deacohs,  how  they  (hould  behave  themfelves. 

5.  The  Gofpel  was  read  to  give  inftru&ion  to  Deacons,  to  Minifter 
worthily  in  their  Office. 

6.  Ignorant  Piiefts  are  inftru&ed  to  celebrate  the  Service  with  un- 
derftanding. 

7.  They  are  alfo  inftru&ed  how  to  prepare  the  Catecbumeni  to  the 
Sacrament  of  Baptifm. 

8.  The  holy  Canons  were  read  out  of  the  Decretal  of  Innocent  vw,  for 
ordering  the  lives  of  Cbanont. 

9.  The  Rule  of  St.  'Benedin  was  read  to  reduce  Abbots  and  their 
Convents  to  a  remembrance  of  their  Order. 

10.  The  Paftoral  Book  of  Gregory  was  read,  to  admonith  Paftors  of 
their  Duty. 

1 1.  Divers  Sentences  of  the  Ancients  were  read,  to  admonifli  both 
Prelates  and  People  to  a  holy  life. 

12.  Then  they  fet  down  a  form  of  receiving  confeffions,  and  pre- 
fcribing  of  penance,  according  to  the  Canonical  inftitutions. 

13.  They  reafoned  about  the  eight  principal  vices,  that  everyone 
might  know  what  vices  to  efchew,  and  teach  others  to  beware  of  the 
fame. 

14.  That  BKhops  (hould  take  heed  to  the  reading  of  the  Books  of 
Canonical  Scripture,  and  the  Books  of  Fathers,  and  (hould  attend  up-, 
on  the  preaching  of  the  Word  of  God, 

1 5.  That  Bithops  (hould  preach  the  Sermons  and  Homilies  of  the 
Holy  Fathers,  fo  as  the  People  might  underftand  them. 

itf.  The  fixteenth  Canon  is  coincident  with  the  twelfth. 

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17.  That  Bifhops  and  Abbots  permit  no  man  to  folace  the  compa- 
ny with  filthy  jefting  in  their  prefence  :  but  that  the  poor  be  refrefted 
at  their  Tables  with  Ledures  of  Divine  Scripture,  and  praifing  of  God. 

1 8.  In  the  i8th  Gluttony  and  Drunkennefs  is  forbidden  to  the  Mi- 
nifters  of  God. 

i p.  That  no  Bifhop  judge  raftly  in  things  fecret,  which  are  to  be 
referred  to  the  judgement  of  God. 

20.  Presbyters  (hall  cot  tranfport  themfelves  from  a  low  place  to  a 
greater. 

si.  Whofoever  by  giving  money  procureth  a  preferment  in  the 
Church,  (hall  be  depofed. 

22.  No  Church- man  (hall  cohabit  with  a  Woman,  except  it  be  with 
his  Mother  or  Sifter,  or  fuch  like  perfon,  by  whofe  company  no  fufpi- 
cion  of  uncleannefs  can  arife. 

35.  That  the  Sabbath-day  be  kept  holy,  and  no  fervile  work  be 
done  in  it. 

36.  That  no  man  beftow  upon  the  Church  that  thing  which  he  hath 
fraudulently  taken  from  others. 

37.  Nor  yet  by  lies  and  deceit  withdraw  any  thing  duly  belonging 
to  the  Church. 

38.  That  Tithes  be  precifely  paid. 

3  ?.  That  no  man  receive  rewards  for  his  Decree  and  Sentence. 

40.  That  Prayers  be  made  for  the  Emperour  and  his  Noble  Race. 

41.  In  the  41  Canon  mention  is  made  of  a  certain  Rent  left  by 
King  Pepin,  which  they  wifh  the  Emperour  Charles  mould  not  alter, 
nor  transfer  into  another  fumm,  left  many  perjuries  and  falfe  teftimo- 
nies  might  enfue. 

42.  That  no  man  (hould  be  removed  from  his  Manfion,  to  whom 
the  Emperour's  Almes  is  diftributed. 

43.  That  the  Statute  may  be  confirmed  by  his  Highnefs's  allowance, 
whereby  all  contentions  are  Ordained  to  have  an  end. 

44.  That  the  Statute  made  in  'Bononia  concerning  falfe  witnefles  may 
be  ratified ;  with  augmentation  if  need  require,  for  cfchewing  of  per- 
juries, falfe  teftimonies,  and  many  other  inconveniences. 

Of  the  Council  of  Tours. 

In  the  fame  Year  813,  at  the  Commandment  of  the  Emperour 
Charles  the  Great,  a  Council  of  many  Bifhops  and  Abbots  was  AfTen> 
bled  there  about  eftablKhing  Ecclefiaftical  Difcipline. 

1.  In  the  firft  Canon,  all  men  are  admoniftied  to  be  obedient  to  the 
Emperour  Charles,  and  to  keep  the  Oath  of  Allegiance  made  unto  him, 
and  to  make  prayers  for  his  profperity. 

2.  All  Birfiops  (hall  frequently  read  all  the  Books  of  holy  Scripture, 

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together  with  the  Books  of  Ancient  Fathers  written  thereupon. 

3.  It  is  not  lawful  for  any  Bifhop  to  be  ignorant  of  the  Canons  of 
the  Church,  and  of  the  Paftoral  Book  of  Gregory, 

4.  Let  every  Bifhop  feed  the  Flock  committed  to  him,  not  only 
with  Doctrine,  but  alfo  with  an  holy  Example. 

5.  That  a  Biftopbe  content  with  a  moderate  diet,  that  holy  Le- 
&ures  be  read  at  his  Table,  rather  than  the  idle  words  of  Parafites. 

6.  Let  (hangers  and  poor  people  be  at  Bifhops  Tables,  whom  they 
may  refrefh  both  with  corporal  and  fpiritual  repaft. 

7.  That  the  delicate  pleafure  of  the  eye  and  ear  be  efchewed,  left  the 
mind  be  enchanted  therewith. 

8.  Let  not  the  Lords  Servants  delight  in  vain  jefting,  rtor  in  hunt' 
fng  and  hawking. 

p..  Let  Presbyters  and  Deacons  follow  the  footfieps  of  their  Biftiops 
in  leading  a  pious  life. 

10.  Let  Bifhops  take  care   of  the  poor,  and  faithfully  difpenfe 
Church-goods. 

11.  That  Bifhops  may,  with  confent  of  Presbyters  and  Deacons,  be- 
ftow  fomewhat  out  of  the  Church-treafure  to  fupport  needy  people  of 
that  fame  Church. 

12.  A  Presbyter  is  not  to  be  Ordained  till  he  is  thirty  years  old. 

13.  Let  the  Bifhop  fee,  that  in  his  own  Parifh  Church,  no  Presbyter 
coming  from  any  other  parts  do  Service  in  his  Church  without  Letters 
of  Recommendation. 

1 4.  Let  a  Presbyter  leaving  a  low  place,and  prefuming  to  an  higher, 
incurr  that  fame  punifhrrient  which  a  Bifhop  taken  in  the  like  fault 
fliould  incurr. 

15.  A  Presbyter  who  gettetha  Church,  by  giving  money  for  it,  kt 
him  be  depofed. 

1 6.  Let  Tithes  beftowed  upon  Churches  by  advice  of  Bifhops,  be 
faithfully  difhibuted  to  the  poor  by  the  Presbyters. 

17.  The  Families  of  the  Bifhops  fhall  be  inftru&ed  in  the  fumm  of 
the  true  Faith,  in  the  knowledge  of  the  retribution  to  be  given  to  good 
men,  and  the  condemnation  of  evil  people,  and  of  the  refurre&ion  and  - 
laft  judgement,  eh:. 

1 8.  That  the  Bifliop  inftrinU  his  Presbyters  concerning  the  Sacra- 
ment of  Baptifm,  what  it  is  they  (hould  deftre  thebaptned  people  to 
renounce. 

19.  That  Presbyters  when  they  fay  Mafs,-  and  do  communicate,  do 
not  diftribute  the  Lord's  body  indifcreetly,  to  children,  and  to  all  per- 
fons  who  happen  to  be  prefent,  &c.    Then  Reader,  take  notice,  that 
private  Mattes  had  no  place  in  thofe  dayes,  but  they  who  were  duly 
prepared  did  communicate  with  the  Pritft. 

20.  Presbyters  (hall  not  fufftr  the  holy  Chrifm  to  be  touched  by  any 

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21.  Presbyters  (hall  not  haunt  Taverns. 

22.  BHhops  and  Presbyters  (hall  prefcribe  to  finners,  who  have  con- 
feffed  their  fins,  penance  difcreetly  according  to  the  nature  of  their 
fault. 

23.  Chanons,  who  dwell  in  one  City  (hall  eat  in  one  Cloyfkr,  and 
fleep  under  one  roof,  that  they  may  be  ready  to  Celebrate  their  Cauo« 
meal  hours. 

24.  From  the  24  to  the  32  Canon,  are  Constitutions  concerning 
Monks  and  Nuns,  which  I  overpafs  with  filence. 

32.  AllChrii*!ins  are  exhorted  to  peace  and  concord. 

33.  Lords  and  Judges  (hould  hearken  to  the  good  admonitions  or* 
their  Bifhops  i  and  Biftiops  on  the  other  fide  {hould  reverently  regard 
them. 

34.  Lords  and  Judges  are  not  to  admit  vile  perfons  to  bear  witnefs 
in  their  Judicatories. 

35.  Let  no  man  for  his  Decree  receive  a  reward. 

3  6.  Let  every  one  be  careful  to  fupport  indigent  perfons  of  his  own 
kindred. 

37.  That  Chriftians  do  bow  their  knees  in  prayer,  except  upon  the 
Lord's  Day,  and  other  Solemn  dayes,  on  the  which  the  Univerfal 
Church  keepeth  a  memorial  of  the  Lord's  Refurredion.  At  fuch  times 
they  ufe  to  ftand  and  pray. 

38.  That  none  enter  into  the  Church  with  noife  and  tumult  •,  and 
irt  time  of  prayer  and  celebration  of  the  Mafs  not  to  be  bufied  in  vain 
confabulations  j  but  even  to  abftain  from  idle  thoughts. 

39.  Let  not  the  Confiftories  of  Secular  Judges  be  in  the  Church,  or 
porches  thereof  in  any  time  to  come,  becaufe  the  Houfe  of  God  (hould 
be  an  houfe  of  prayer. 

40.  That  Merchandize  be  forbidden  on  the  Lord's  Day  :  that  the 
whole  day  be  fpent  in  God's  fervice. 

41.  That  paricides,  murtherers,  and  incefmous  perfons 
to  Order,  by  the  difcipline  of  the  fecular  power. 

42.  That  all  people  abftain  from  Magical  Arts,  which  are  the  deceit- 
full  fnares  of  the  Devil. 

43.  A  frequent  cuftom  of  fwearing  is  forbidden. 

44.  That  the  caufes  of  many  Free  Subjects,  brought  to  poverty  by 
oppreffion,  be  examined  by  the  Emperour. 

45.  That  falfe  weights  and  meafures  are  an  abomination  to  the 
Lord. 

46.  The  46  Canon  bewaileth,  that  Tithes  were  not  duly  paid  to  the 
Church,  (hewing  the  ill  effects  thereof. 

47.  When  general  Faftings  are  appointed  for  any  impendent  Cala- 
mity, let  no  man  negledfc  the  fellowthip  of  the  humble  Church,  &c. 

48.  Drunkennefs  and  furfeiting  are  forbidden,  &c, 

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4p.  Lords  and  Matters  are  to  be  admonifhed,  not  to  deal  cruelly 
with  their  fubjects  j  yea,  and  not  to  feek  that  which  is  due  unto  them- 
felves,  with  excellive  rigour. 

50.  Let  Laick  people  communicate  at  leaft  thrice  in  a  year,  unlefs 
they  be  hindered  by  feme  great  fins  committed  by  them. 

51.  In  the  laft  Canon  mention  is  made,  that  they  diligently  exa- 
mined the  caufe  of  them  who  complained  to  the  Emperour,  that  they 
were  dif-inherited  by  the  donation  of  Lands,  which  their  Fathers  and 
Friends  had  beftowed  on  the  Church  \  and  in  their  bounds  they  found 
no  man  who  did  complain  :  yet  in  that  matter,  if  any  thing  was  done 

*amifs,  they  humbly  (ubmitted  themfelves  to  be  corrected  by  their  So- 
veraign  Lord  and  King. 

Of  the  Council  of  Chalons. 

This  Council  was  Convened  in  the  fame  year  of  our  Lord  813,  by 
the  Commandment  of  Chirks  the  Great,  for  the  Reformation  of  the 
Ecclefiaft'ical  Eftate. 

Many  of  the  Canons  of  this  Council  are  co-incident  with  the  Ca- 
nons of  the  former,  which  I  (hall  overpafs,  and  mention  only  fome  of 
the  other. 

Can.  3.  LetBUhops  Conftitute  Schools,  wherein  Learning  may  be 
encreafcd,  and  men  brought  up  in  them,  that  may  be  the  fait  of  the 
earth,  to  feafon  the  corrupt  manners  of  the  people,  and  to  flop  the 
mouths  of  Hereticks. 

4.  Let  Church- men  (hew  humility,  in  word,  deed,  habit  and  coun- 
tenance. 

5.  Let  Priefts  be  unreproveable,  adorned  with  good  manners,  and 
not  given  to  filthy  lucre. 

7.  Bifhops  and  Abbots"  who  have  circumvented  fimple  men,  and 

*en  their  heads,  and  by  fuch  means  do  poflfefs  their  goods,  let  them 
abjed:  to  Canonical  or  Regular  Repentance. 

8.  If  Church- men  lay  up  provitlon  of  Corn  in  Victualling- ho ufes., 
let  it  not  be  to  keep  them  to  a  dearth,  but  therewith  to  fupport  the 
poor  in  a  time  of  need. 

it.  The  Bifhop  or  Abbot  muft  not  refort  to  Civil  Judicatures  to 
plead  their  own  Caufe,  except  it  be  to  fupport  the  poor  and  opprelTed. 
Presbyters,  Deacons  and  Monks  having  obtained  Licence  from  the  Bi- 
fliops  may  appear  in  Civil  Judgement-feats,  accompanied  with  theLt 
Advocate. 

1 2.  Let  no  Presbyters,  Deacons  or  Monks  be  Farmers  or  Tillers  of 
the  ground. 

13.  An  Oath  ufed  by  feme  in  the  time  of  Ordination  inhibited.. 

1 4.  Bifcops  in  vifiting  of  their  Pariftoners,  not  to  be  chargeable 
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1 5.  This  Canon  was  againft  the  Tyranny  of  Arch-Deacons. 

1 6.  That  BUhops  provide  Balm  and  Chrifm  for  the  Lights  of  the 
-  Church. 

17.  That  Presbyters  pay  no  Tribute  to  the  Bimop. 

18.  Againft.. taking  of  pawns  from  inceftuous  perfons,  and  from 
thofe  who  pay  not  their  Tithes,  and  from  negligent  Presbyters. 

i  p.  Let  people  give  their  Tithes  to  thofe  Churches  wherein  their 
Children  are  baptized,  and  whereto  they  refort  all  the  year  long  to  hear 
Church- fervice. 

23.  The  Ordination  of  Presbyters  and  Deacons  is  to  be  made  at  cer- 
tain prefcribed  times. 

24.  Concerning  Presbyters,  Deacons  and  Monks,  who  (hall  happen 
to  be  (lain,  let  the  Emperour  determine  to  whom  the  fatisfa&ion  of 
blood  (hall  belong. 

25.  That  the  Emperour  be  entreated,  that  the  Ancient  Difcipline 
may  be  reftored  again,  and  they  who  fin  publickly,  may  be  brought  to 
publick  repentance  j  and  every  man  according  as  he  deferveth,  may 
either  be  excommunicated  or  reconciled. 

27.  Neither  the  Sacrament  of  Baptifm,  nor  the  Sacrament  of  Con- 
firmation (hould  be  re-iterated. 

28.  Concerning  the  aegrces  of  Affinity,  and  in  what  degree  Marri- 
age may  be  bound  up,  every  one  is  to  go  to  the  Canons  of  the  Church 
to  be  refolved. 

30.  Rules  concerning  the  Marriage  of  Servants. 

31.  That  fuch  Women  as  either-negligently,  or  fraud ulentfy  prefent 
their  own.Children  to  Confirmation,  fhallbe  forced  to  do  penance  all 
the  dayes  of  their  life  >  neither  (hall  they  be  feparated  from  their  Hus- 
bands. 

32.  Let  a  finner  confefs  unto  his  Father- CbnfefTor,  alt  his  fins  which 
he  hath  committed  either  in  thought,  word  or  deed. 

34.  In  prefcribing  of"  penance,  let  favour  and  hatred  of  any  perfon 
~be  laid  afide,  and  let  the  In  junctions  be  given  according  to  the  Rule  of 
Holy  Scripture,  and  according  to  the  Canons  and  Cuftoms  of  the 
"Church. 

3<5.  Let  no  man  fin  of  purpofe,  to  the  end  he  may  abolifh  his  fins  By 
Alms-deeds  •>  for  that  is  all  one,  as  if  a  man  (hould  hire  God  to  grant 
unto  him  a  liberty  to  fin. 

37.  That  fuch  Canons  of  Councils  are  efpecially  to  be  read,  as  ap- 
pertain unto  Faith,  and  reformation  of  Manners. 

38.  Books  called  Libelli  Poemtentiales,  are  to  be  aboli(hed. 

3P.  In  the  Solemnities  of  the  Mafs,  prayers  are  to  be  made  for  the 
Souls  of  them  who  are  departed,  as  well  as  for  them  who  are  alive. 

40.  Degraded  Presbyters,  lemaining  impenitent,  are  to  Be  excom- 
municated. 

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-  41.  No  Presbyters  to  be  admitted  in  ftrange  places,  without  the  te- 
ftimony  of  the  Biftiop,  and  other  fufficient  witnefles. 

42.  Let  no  Church  be  committed  to  a  Presbyter  without  content  of 
the  Bifhop. 

43.  In  fome  places  are  found  Scotch  men,  who  call  themfelves  Bi- 
{hops,  and  they  Ordain  Presbyters  and  Deacons,  whofe  Ordination 
we  difallow. 

45.  Againft  the  going  of  the  Clergy  and  Laicks  to  holy  places,  fuch 
as  Rowe,  7»n?»,  &c.  men  imagining,  that  by  the  fight  of  thefe  places 
their  fins  are  remitted. 

46  and  47,  That  the  receiving  the  Sacrament  be  not  long  deferred  i 
and  none  to  come  to  it  without  due  preparation  :  That  when  the  Sa- 
crament is  to  be  univerfally  received  in  one  day,  none  do  neglect  to 
receive  it ,  except  fome  grievous  crime  do  hinder  him  from  receiv- 
ing it. 

48.  According  to  the  Precept  of  St.  James ,  that  weak  perfons 
fhould  be  anointed  with  oyl  by  the  Elders,  which  oyl  is  bleffed  by  the 
Bifhop. 

From  Canon  52  unto  the  66  are  contained  Precepts  of  chaft  and 
honeft  living  prefadbed  to  PriorefTes  and  Nuns. 

Of  the  Council  of  Aries. 

The  Canons  of  this  Council  were  in  number  26. 

i .  They  fet  down  a  confeilion  of  their  Faith. 

The  five  following  Canons  are  fome  of  thofe  mentioned  in  the  for- 
mer Councils. 

The  7  and  8  Canons  belong  to  the  ordering  of  Monks  and  Nuns. 

The  p1*1  pertaineth  to  the  payment  of  Tithes,  and  Firft-fruits. 

10.  That  Presbyters  (hall  preach  the  Word  of  God,  not  only  in 
Cities,  but  alfo  in  every  Pari(h.  From  thence  to  the  17th  are  fome  of 
the  Canons  of  the  other  Councils. 

17.  Let  every  BUhop  Vifit  his  Bounds  once  every  year,  and  fupport 
the  oppreffed. 

18.  Let  Presbyters  keep  the  Chrifm,  and  give  it  to  no  man  under 
pretenfe  of  Medicine. 

ip.  Parents  and  WitnefTes  {hall  bring  up  baptized  Children  in  the 
knowledge  of  God. 

20.  Ancient  Churches  (hall  not  be  deprived  of  Tithes,  nor  of  any 
other  pofleflion. 

21.  That  the  Conftitution  of  the  Ancients  (hall  be  kept  concerning 
burial  in  Churches. 

22.  That  Civil  Judgement-feats  (hall  not  be  in  Churches. 

23.  If  goods  belonging  to  the  poor  be  bought,  let  it  be  done  open- 

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ly  in  fight  of  the  Nobles  and  Judges  of  the  City. 

24.  Let  fugitive  Church-men  be  fought  out,  and  fent  back  again 
unto  the  BiShop. 

25.  He  who  hath  a  Benefice  beftowed  upon  him,  for  helping  the  fa- 
brick  of  Churches,  let  him  fupport  the  building  of  them. 

2d.  They  who  fin  publickty,  let  them  make  their  publick  repen* 
ranee  according  to  the  Canons. 

AH  thefe  Canons  were  prefented  unto  the  Emperour,  to  be  correct- 
ed by  the  wifdom  of  his  Highnefs. 

Charles  at  the  requeft  of  Pope  Adrian,  i.  Banimed  the  Ambrofian 
Service  out  of  his  Kingdom,  and  againft  the  will  of  the  French  Cler- 
gy, by  force  eftablilhed  the  Gregorian  or  Reman  Office.  By  this  change 
the  Latin  Tongue  in  the  Publick  Service  was  fully  eftabliShed. 

Here  I  mall  make  mention  of  one  notable  paflage  written  in  the  Life 
of  Charles  the  Great,  namely  when  he  made  war  againft  the  Saracens 
of  Spain.  Agoiland  one  of  the  Saracen  Kings  made  Shew  of  friend- 
ship with  Charlemagne,  and  open  hatred  of  the  other  Saracen  Kings, 
with  whom  notwithstanding  he  had  a  moft  ftrict  correfpondence  j  to 
betray  Charles,  Agoiland  feemed  to  encline  to  peace ;  After  many  Mef- 
fengers  fent  on  either  part,  they  refolve  to  parley  :  So  upon  Charle- 
tnagnfs  Faith,  Agoiland  cometh  to  the  Camp  of  the  French.  - 

Charles  told  the  Pagan  he  Should  have  his  Friendship,  if  he  would 
be  baptized,  and  become  a  Chriftian  :  Agoiland  anfwered,  That  he 
was  not  yet  fo  Abject,  nor  his  Forces  fo  weak  as  to  refufe  the  battel : 
But  becaufe  it  would  be  an  infinite  lofs  to  hazzard  fo  many  men,  he 
defired  to  make  tryal  of  the  Right  by  fome  Troops  j  and  he  that  van- 
quished Should  have  the  Right,  and  True  Religion  on  his  fide,  prote- 
ftingtoyield'to  that  Religion  which  {hould  appear  to  be  the  beft  by 
that  Tryal.  The  condition  was  accepted  by  Charlemagne  :  The  Corn- 
bate  being  made,  the  Chriftian  Troop  vanquished  the  Saracen. 

Now  Agoiland  protefteth  openly  to  be  a  Chriftian,  but  in  heart  ht 
meant  otherwife,  and  takes  this  occafion  to  break  the  Treaty.  One 
day  he  finds  Charlemagne  at  Table,  well  acccompanied  with  his  Chief 
Followers,  (for  then  it  was  the  cuftom  of  the  French  Kings  not  to 
eat  alone)  and  feeth  twelve  poor  men  ill- apparel  led,  fitting  by  upon 
the  ground  near  to  the  Table  of  the  Noblemen  :  He  demanded  what 
thofe  poor  miferable  Creatures  were  that  did  feed  .apart  :  One  anfwer- 
ed, They  were  the  MefTengers  and  Servants  of  God  :  He  then  faid, 
Their  God  was  of  fmall  account,  feeing  his  Meflengers  and  Servants 
were  fo  miferable  and  contemptible,  and  thereupon  retired  himfelf  > 
having  by  tiiis  Treaty  qualified  the  Force  of  Charles,  viewed  his  Train, 
and  made  Shew  of  his  Courage,  even  without  an  Ambafladour. 

let  Refulv^d  to  avenge  this  affront  of  the.£*r*ce#,  He  raifeth 

an 


Cent.  9  . 


an  Army  of  an  hundred  and  thirty  thoufand  men,  He  returneth  into 
Sfain^  at  the  firft  encounter  he  defeated  Agoiland's  Army  near  to  Pom- 
pelona,  and  for  a  feal  of  his  Vi&ory  carrieth  away  the  Head  of  Agoi~ 
land,  flain  by  the  hand  of  Arnold  of  'Belange^  a  Noble  and  Valiant 
Knight. 

Charles  wrote  divers  Books  :  He  began  a  Grammar  of  the  German 
Language,  but  ended  it  not.  He  changed  the  names  of  the  Winds 
and  Months  from  the  Heathenifh  manner.  In  the  Epiftle  to  Alcuinus 
before  his  Books  DeDivims  Officw,  he  faith,  when  (thrift  was  at  fup- 
per  with  his  Difciples,  he  brake  the  bread,  anjd  gave  the  cup  to  them 
in  figure  of  his  body  and  blood,  and  left  a  great  Sacrament,  which  is 
profitable  unto  us- 

L:.-.t  fsp.is.  He  faith  dfewhere,  The  Miracles  which  they  fay  have  appeared  in 
Images,  if  they  did  not  appear  truly  (as  no  Authentick  Hiftory  (hew- 
eth)  were  but  lies.  If  by  fome  imaginary  over-(hadowing  they  did 
appear  to  deceive  mens  minds,  it  is  moft  dangerous,  left  that  Old  Ene- 
my by  his  fubtilty,  through  (hew  of  wonders  perfwade  to  do  unlaw- 
full  things.  But  if  thefe  things  did  verily  appear,  we  (hould  under- 
ftand,  that  when  many  wondrous  things  are  done  at  the  pleafure  of 

Lib.  j,  cap.  25.  God  by  fome  Creatures,  or  in  whatfoever  Creatures  they  be  done,  yet 
thefe  things  are  not  to  be  worfhipped,  by  which,  or  in  which  thefe 
wonders  are  made  i  becaufe  God,  who  (heweth  many  figns  unto  men 
by  vifibleand  palpable  things,  to  mollifie  the  hardnefs  of  mens  hearts 
by  thefe  vifible  things,  worketh  not  thefe  (jgns  to  confirm  the  worthip 
of  any  Creature  »  for  he  hath  commanded  to  worfhip  himfelf  alone. 
Becaufe.  God  fpake  out  of  a  bu(h  to  Mofes,  fnould  the  bu(h  therefore 
be  worshipped  >  Becaufe  a  Woman  was  healed  by  touching  the  hem 
of  Chrift's  garment,  {hould  hems,  therefore  be  worfliipped  ?  The  Ca- 
tholick  Church  profefleth  to  ferve  God,  not  by  Images,  -not  by  men, 
nor  ethereal  powers,  but  by  Chrift  our  Lord. 

Charier  the  Emperoui  made  many  Laws  and  Ecclefiaftical  Conftitu- 
tions,  which  Angifw,  Abbot  of  Lobien^  and  then  Arch-Bilhopof  Se- 
non  gathered  together,  with  the  Conftitutions  of  his  Son  Lmif,  and 
divided  them  into  feven  Books.  •Sinderus  teftifieth,  that  they  were 
in  the  Abby  of  St.  Gattitt  ,  and  were  not  long  fince  printed  at  Pa- 
rti. 

Aicui.n.  cont.         Alcuinus  faith  thus  of  him,  Ckarlet  was  a  King  in  Power,  a  Catho- 

EUpant.  iick  in  Faith,  an  High-Prieft  in  Teaching,  a  Judge  in  Equity,  a  Phi- 

lofopher  in  Liberal  Studies,  famous  in  Manners,  and  excellent  in  all 
Honefty.  He  was  never  ferved  at  Table  with  more  than  four  dirties 
at  once  j  his  Recreations  were  hunting,  and  reading  of  Hiftories.  He 

Pedro  Mexia  died  in  February  ,  Anno  814,  .and  was  interred  at  Aix  la  CbapeVf, 
where  he  was  born,  and  his  Memory  honoured  with  a  goodly  Epi» 
taph.  The  greatnefs  of  his  Monarchy  is  admirable  ,  for  he  quietly 

enjoyed 


Cent.  p.  Of  FRANCE.  57 

enjoyed  all  France,  Germany,  and  the  greateft  part  of  Hungary,  all  Ita- 
ly, and  a  part  of  Spain.  He  left  his  Son  Lewes  fole  Heir  of  his  great 
Kingdoms,  who  was  the  weakeft  of  all  his  Sons. 

The  French  Monarchy  being  come  to  the  height  of  it's  Greatnefs, 
not  long  after  the  death  of  Charlemagne  it  began  to  decline.  The 
fooli(h  lenity  of  Lewes  was  the  beginning,  the  which  was  continued 
by  the  difordered  confufions  of  his  SucceiTors,  who  (in  fpite  one  to 
another)  haftened  the  ruine  of  their  Houfe,  making  way  thereunto  by 
their  Vices  and  Misfortunes.  Lewes  (more  fit  to  be  a  Monk  than  a 
King)  was  fo  given  to  Devotion,  and  of  fo  foft  a  fpirit,  that  he  made 
his  Authority  contemptible  both  within  and  without  the  Realm  : 
This  made  divers  Nations  fubjedt  to  the  Crown,  to  fall  from  their  obe- 
dience. ..  v 

Bernard  King  of  Italy,  an  ambitious  your/"* nan,  was  perfwaded  by 
the  Bithops  of  Orleans  and  Milan,  to  feize  upon  the  Realm  of  France. 
But  being  in  field  to  go  into  France  againft  his  Unckle,with  an  ima- 
ginary favour  of  the  French  to  be  proclaimed  King,  both  he  and  all  his 
Counfellours  were  taken  by  Leaves  his  Subjects. 

Lewes  having  both  his  Nephew  and  Counfellors  in  his  Power,  de- 
fpoils  him  of  all  his  Realm  of  Italy,  confines  him  to  perpetual  prifon, 
and  puts  out  his  eyes  :  the  like  he  doth  to  all  the  Biftiops  and  Noble 
Men  he  could  get,  and  after  a  few  dayes  caufeth  them  to  be  beheaded. 
This  ad  from  Lewes,  and  committed  againft  fuch  perfons,  began  to 
breed  a  general  diflike,  the  which  was  aggravated  by  a  domeftical  dif- 
fention. 

After  the  death  of  Bernard,  Lewes  gave  Italy  to  his  eldeft  Son  Lo- 
tloariM,  and  atfbciattd  him  in  the  Empire.  To  his  Son  Pepin  he  gave 
Aquitain,  to  Lewes  Bavaria,  and  would  have  them  all  bear  the  name 
of  Kings. 

Lewes  had  a  Son  by  Judith  his  fecond  Wife,  an  ambitious  Woman, 
called  Charles.  This  Woman  play'd  the  Emprefs  and  Queen  over  all, 
which  caufed  Lewes  to  be  hated  and  contemned.  His  Sons,  Lothario*, 
Pepiu  and  Lewes,  by  the  Advice  of  the  Bifliops  (who  were  incenfed  a- 
gainft  the  Emperour  by  reafon  of  the  death  of  thofe  Church-men)  re- 
folve  to  feize  upon  their  Father.Mother,  and  younger  Brother,to  dif- 
poflefs  them  of  all  Authority ,  and  then  to  govern  the  States  after 
their  own  wills,  wherein  they  muft  ufe  force,  and  a  publick  confent. 

Lotbarius  lieves  a  great  Army,  and  calleth  a  National  Council  of  the 
French  Church  at  Lions,  fuppofing  fooner  to  fupprefs  Lewes  by  this 
means  than  by  a  Parliament.  Lewes  appeareth,  and  yieldeth  to  the  cen- 
fure  of  the  Prelates,  which  was  to  retire  himfelf  into  a  Monaftery, 
there  to  attend  his  Devotion,  and  to  reiign  the  Empire  and  the  Realm 
to  his  Children.  So  Lewes  was  conveyed  to  Soijjons,  to  the  Monaftery 
of  St.  Medard\  his  Wife  and  her  Son  Charles  were  committed  to  other 

I  places. 


5  8         3D&e  ctrteftafttcal  $ifto?p        Cent.  9. 

places,  and  the  whole  Government  committed  to  Lotbarius  and  his 
Brethren.  And  the  greateft  of  the  Church- men  were  guilty  of  this 
Out-rage,  feeking  to  maintain  their  Decrees.  Lewes  continued  in  pri- 
fon  five  years >  viz,,  from  the  year  829,  unto  the  year  834. 

Then  Lotbarm  being  forced  to  yield  to  his  Father,  goes  to  field, 
fakes  him  prifoner  again,  a»d  leads  him  back  to  the  Convent  at  Soif- 
fws,  where  he  flayed  net  long,  for  the  French  did  bandy  openly  a- 
gainlt  Lotharios,  and  his  Brethren  abandoned  him,  ib  as  he  was  forced 
to  yield  unto  his  Father,and  to  crave  pardon.  Then  Lewes  gives  por- 
tions to  his  Children,  to  Lotbarius  he  leaves  the  Realm  of  Attjirafa, 
from  the  River  of  Metis  unto  Hungary,  with  the  Title  of  Emperour  i 
unto  Lewes  Bavaria,  and  unto  Cbmrles  Trance  \  Vefin  enjoyed  Aq*i- 
tain  without  contradiction. 

Lewes  not  content  with  Bavaria,  levies  an  Army,  and  palTeth  the 
Rhine.  The  miferable  Father  prepares  an  Army  to  go  againft  him, 
tut  he  falls  fick  and  dieth,  Anno  840. 

There  was  a  Council  held  at  Paris  by  the  Command  of  Lewes^  and 
his  Son  Lutbariw^  Anno  829,  and  three  others  at  the  fame  time  in  o- 
ther  places,  as  is  collected  from  the  Preface.  It  was  Ordained,  that 
Synods  ihould  then  be  Aflembled  in  four  feveral  places  of  their  Em- 
pire. 

In  bis  Reign,  in  France  was  ufed  of  Priefts  and  Church- men  preci- 
ous and  (hining  Veftures,  and  golden  and  rich  flaring  Girdles,  with 
Fab^s  chron.  Rings  and  other  Ornaments  of  Gold  :  \\herefore  the  faid  Lewes  pro- 
cured of  the  Pope  a  correction  for  all  fuch  as  ufed  fuch  ftrange  apparel, 
caufing  them  to  wear  brown  and  fad  colours. 

After  the  death  of  the  Emperour  Lewes^  Lotbarius  his  eldeft  Son, 
and  Emperour  by  his  Fathers  Teftament,  would  force  his  Brethren  to 
a  new  divifion.  He  quarrelleth  with  Cbjrles  King  of  France  ,and  Lewes 
Duke  of  Bavaria  >  but  the  two  Brethren  unite  together,  and  joyn  their 
Forces  to  oppofe  Lotbarius. 

Lotbarius  finding  himfelf  the  ihonger,  refufeth  t'ne  Conditions  of 
Peace  offered  by  his  Brethren :  Then  Lewes  and  Charles  charging  the 
Army  of  l.vtbartus,  overthrew  it  with  a  notable  (laughter.  Lotbarius 
atkr  this  defeat  changeth  his  humour  with  his  eftatei  he  enjoyed  the 
titulary  mask  or  the  Empirt  with  s'ui'trafia,  y;t  much  curtailed  and  di- 
vided to  his  three  Sons,  LewesjCbarles  and  Lotbarins.  Then  Lotbariuf 
having  remorfe  of  Cor.lcience  for  attempting  againft  his  Father  and 
Brethren,  profcifcth  hh  felt  a  Mor.k  in  the  Ai>by  of  Pluvierst  and  dies 
a  Monk  in  the  Year  £^5. 

Charles  and  Len>es  after  the  Vid  r^l  the  Biftops  to  take  their 
Advice  upon  Occurrents,  who  beinf,  1  ten  :,  ,  ^nt  them 

to  Concord  ;  They  hearken  to  the,1,  .  n  ih<  •  d  ccme  to 

<he  dividing  of  their  parts.  Charles  i\imixu-  .•  ^i  I'rance. 

Dantybittc 


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Daulphine  and  Provence  were  left  to  Lewes  in  his  partage,  for  the  com- 
modity of  Italy  which  was  given  him,  notwith  (landing  the  prctenfions 
of  'Bernard^  Children  :  But  he  died  foon  after  without  any  Iflue-male, 
leaving  one  only  Daughter,  called  Hermingradff,  Heir  of  all  his  great 
Eftates. 

Charles  married  his  Neece  Hermingrade  to  Bcfon  Earl  of  Ardennes,  concn.  Mef<fen£ 
brother  to  his  W  ife  Ricbilde,  who  called  himfelf  King  of  Aries.          c't>  1*-  r°M-  * 

At  the  Council  at  Meaux  held  about  this  time,  it  was  Decreed,  that 
the  Capitular  Laws  concerning  the  Church,  made  by  Charlemagne,  and 
his  Son  L«t>f/,(hould  be  ftridtly  obferved.  The  fame  Council  entreats 
King  Charles  the  Younger,  to  grant  the  BKhops  a  freer  liberty  for  the 
execution  of  their  Minifteries  in  their  Parifhes. 

Charles  called  the  Bald,  began  his  Reign,  Anno  841.   He  caufed 
himfelf  to  be  proclaimed  Emperour  after  the  death  of  Lewes,  who  fur-  council 
vived  Lothariuf,  without  contradiction  :  He  went  to  Rome,  and  Was  ^iljin 
Crowned  Emperour  by  the  Pope,  with  the  Imperial  Diadem  i  then 
railing  his  Spirit  .very  high,  after  the  cuftomofthe  Grecians,  he  walk- 
eth  with  a  Surplice.  name. 

This  King  Charles  the  Bald,  relying  on  the  Popes  help,  favoured 
the  Pope  with  all  his  Power,  and  brought  the  French  Clergy  to  the 
fubje&ion  of  the  Roman  See,  as  much  as  he  could  :  Then  began  the 
Popes  Legates  to  come  to  the  Councils  of  France,  and  there  to  pre- 
iide.  Then  alfo  the  French  Kings  began  to  tremble  under  the  thun- 
derbolts of  the  Vatican,  and  to  fear  the  Excommunications  of  the 
Pope. 

The  firft  Pope  that  made  tryal  of  his  Excommunications  againft 
them  was  Pope  Nicholas  the  firft,  who  threatned  Lethary  to  Excom- 
municate him  ,  unlefs  he  recalled  Tietberga  his  Wife,  whom  he  had 
put  away,  to  take  Waldrada  whom  he  loved,  which  alfo  this  Pope 
did  Excommunicate  :  whereupon  there  was  great  'murmuring  of  the 
Prelates  and  People  of  France  againft  the  Pope,  being  difpleafed  both 
at  the  Pope's  Ufurpations,  and  the  pufillanimity  of  their  Kings.  Thefc 
things  happened  from  the  Year  863  to  %66. 

After  that  Nicholas,  came  Adrian  the  fecond,  who  favouring  Lewes,  DU  Moulin  tont. 
Grand-child  to  L?a>et  the  Gentle,againft  Charles  the  Bald  his  Unckle,    c 
fent  peremptory  Letters  into  France,  whereby  he  declared,  That  if  any 
prefumed  to  make  an  enterpriie  upon  the  Kingdom  of  Lewes,  not  only  . 
he  would  make  void  by  his  Authority  all  that  he  (hould  do  i  but  alfo  s. 
that  fuch  a  man  being  bound  with  the  bonds  of  Anathema,  and  dc-  ™ini«tedcoant 
prived  of  the  name  of  Chriftian,  {hould  be  lodged  altogether  with  the  count  ^"Lr, 

Devil.  and  fome  other* 

*  This  is  feen  in  the  Epiftle  which  Hincmarw  Arch»Bifhop  tfRbemes  n^w^\S" 

Italy,  came  in- 

toFr««e.4»m>87o,  where  he  called  a  Synod  at  Trojet,  eonfifting  of  the  Biflwpi  of  that  Kingdom,  to  defire  the'U 
Confeuttothit  Excommunication  j  wWcb  they  accordingly  granted  him, 

I  2  writes 


6o          3D0e  eedeftattical  ^ttto??       Cent.  9. 


writes  to  the  faid  Adrian  upon  the  faid  fubjed:,  where  he  faith,  That 
both  Ecclefiaftical  and  Secular  men  being  AlTembled  at  Rhemes^  would 
fay  in  a  reproachful  way,  That  never  any  fuch  Mandate  was  fent  from 
that  See  to  any  of  the  Kings  PredeceiTors  :  Adding,  That  the  Bifhops 
of  Rome  had  never  withdrawn  themfelves  from  the  obedience  of  He- 
retical Emperours  :  Wherefore  (faid  they)  we  will  not  believe,  that 
we  cannot  otherwife  attain  to  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven,  but  by  receiv- 
ing him  for  a  Temporal  King,  whom  this  Apotf  olical  Lord  recom- 
rnendeth  to  us. 

It  was  in  this  ninth  Age,  that  the  Decretals  were  forged  by  Rzcttlpbiu 
Biftiop  of  Me»tz,  as  is  fuppofed,  who  published  them  under  a  falfe 
Title.  And  at  that  time,  and  a  long  time  after  the  Arch-Bi(hops  of 
Mentz  were  the  rirft  promoters  of  Papal  Authority  in  Germany.  And 
nothing  hath  helped  more  to  the  eftablimment  of  the  Papal  Empire, 
than  thefe  Epiftles,  which  have  for  a  long  time  been  held  for  Ora- 
cles in  the  Weft  •,  by  them  the  Father  ot  lies  hath  wrought  very  pow- 
erfully. 

Thefe  Decretals  were  forged  under  the  Reign  of  Charlemagne,  and 
of  his  Son  Lewes  the  Gentle,  being  unknown  before,  and  never  men- 
tioned in  all  Antiquity,  bearing  on  the  front  the  name  of  Ifidorus  Tec- 
eator  j  and  in  fome  Copies  Ifidorw  Mercator,  a  man  unknown,  and  a 
name  forged  at  will. 

That  Collt&ion  of  Decretals  began  to  go  about  in  France  in  the  be- 
ginning of  the  Reign  of  Charles  the  Bald.  The  firft  that  ufed  them,' 
was  Hincfynar  Bi(hop  of  Laon  upon  this  occation  :  Hinctynar  Arch-» 
Bifhopof  Rbemes  had  promoted  to  the  Bifhoprick  of  Laon  another 
Hinctynar  his  Nephew,  who  having  excommunicated  his  Clergy,  and 
hindered  the  Divine  Service,  and  the  Baptifm  of  Children  in  his  own 
BUhoprick,  and  committed  divers  crimes  and  exceffes,  was  cited  to 
appear  before  his  Unckle,  who  was  his  Metropolitan  :  But  he  would 
not  obey  nor  appear.  Upon  that  Hinckjnar  of  Rbemet  difanulled  all 
the  A&s  of  Hinc^nar  of  Laon,  and  would  fynodically  proceed  againft 
him. 

Hereupon  Cbarlet  the  Bald  Convocated  a  Council  in  France  at  Ac- 
ciitiacum,  confifting  of  ten  Bimops  i  the  Bifhops  of  lions  ^  Vafon  and' 
'friers  were  Chief  Prefidents  in  the  Council.  HtnckptarM  Bithop  of 
Rbemes  propofed  unto  the  Council  fifty  Canons,  which  he  defired  to 
be  read  in  the  Synod.  Hwcfynar  of  Laen  to  defend  himfelf  brought 
forth  the  Collection  of  the  Decretals,  of  the  ancient  Popes  made  by 
Ifidorw,  where  by  the  Popes  Decrees  fuch  caufes  are  re&rved  to  the 
Apoftolick  See. 

Hinck>nar  of  Rhemts  being  not  learned  enough  to  know  the  forgery  - 
of  the  Author  of  thefe  Decretals,  and  not-daring  to  rejed  them  open- 
ly, brought  divers  things  to  invalid  their.  Authority,  He  faid,  that 


Gent,    .  Of  FRANCE. 


of  Laon  was  miftaken,  if  he  thought  that  he  was  the  only 
man  that  had  thofe  Epiftles  -,  that  the  Countrcy  was  full  of  them,  and 
that  Riculfa  Bifhop  of  Mentz  had  publHhed  the  Book  of  Epiftles  col- 
Je&ed  by  Ifidorur^  which  was  brought  to  him  out  of  Spain. 

Hinckmar  alfo  (to  defend  himfelf  againft  thofe  EpiiUesj  faid,  that 
they  had  been  good  in  their  time,  but  that  the  Fathers  AfTembled  in 
Council  had  altered  thofe  things,  and  made  Qanons  of  greater  Autho- 
rity, which  are  to  remain  perpetually  >  and  that  thofe  Decretals  were 
never  put  in  among  the  Canons  of  the  Church.  That  ftrife  between 
the  two  Hinckmars  happened  Anno  870. 

The  Synod  forenamed,  accufed  Hincfyiar  Bifhop  of  Laon  o(  petu- 
lancy,  and  compelled  him  to  fubfcribe  obedience  to  King  Charles,  and 
to  his  Metropolitan  :  He  was  alfo  deprived  of  his  Office,  and  both  his 
eyes  wer^e  thruft  out.     But  Pope  John  IX,  under  the  Reign  of  Charles  Hift. 
the  Grofs,  reftored  him  to  his  Office  again,  being  the  more  affeclion-  Ce 
ed  to  him,  becaufe  he   had   appealed  from  his  own  Bifliop,    and 
from  a  Decree  of  a  Synod  in  his  own  Countrey  to  be  judged  by  the 
Chair  of  "Rome. 

Pope  Nicholas  beftirred  himfelf  with  violence  againft  Hinckmarof 
Rbemes,  complaining  that  he  defpifed  the  Decretals  collected  by  Z/I- 
dorut.  Hinckjnar  refifted  him  ftifly,  neither  did  he  ever  fuffer  the  caufes 
which  he  had  judged  to  be  revifed  at  Rome,  nor  any  man  that  had 
been  depofed  by  the  Synods  of  France^  to  be  reftored  by  the  Pope.  And 
all  his  life  time  he  maintained  with  great  conftancy  fo  much  liberty  as 
remained  to  the  GaUican  Church,  which  liberty  fuffered  by  his  death 
a  great  diminution.  The  Popes  durft  not  touch  him  becaufe  he  was 
the  King's  Unckle.  - 

Baronius  writing  of  this  Hincfynar  of  Rb'emes,  notably  abufeth  him, 
for  he  faith,  That  upon  the  teftimony  of  Fredoard,  Hinckjnar  had  ob- 
tained of  Pope  Leo  IV,by  the  mediation  of  the|Emperour  Lothary^  Pal- 
littm^  or  Archiepifcopal  Cloak,  with  a  privilege  to  ufe  it  every  day. 
But  Hinckjnar  himfelf  in  the  Book  of  the  fifty  five  Chapters,  faith  the 
contrary,  fpeaking  in  this  manner,  Leo  IV,  and  Benedittw  did  confer 
upon  me  fome  privileges,  which  I  did  not  ask  for.  For  the  privileges 
•which  are  conferred  upon  every  Metropolitan  by  the  facred  Canons, 
are  fufficient  for  me.  It  was  a  generous  part  of  H/#efywr,  to  declare 
that  he  had  no  need  of  the  Pope's  privileges,  and  that  he  held. his  dig- 
nity from  the  Canons,  not  from  the  'Roman  Prelate. 

As  for  the  writings  of  this  Hincfyn*?,  there  are  his  Opufiula  &Epi- 
floU  :  Admonitio  de  poteftate  Regia  &  Pontificia.  We  find  this  chara- 
cter given  of  him  :  Fuit  vir  dottw,  &  pietatij  fludiofur  ftib  Carolo  fe* 
cundo  Ludot'ici  pii  flio  circa  870 ,  'Domini  annum  •>  tametfi  &  'magni 
Caroli  tempora  adolefcens  attiger.it.  Is  dum  corrigere  vitia  morbofque  Cle- 
olefiarum  a  ^erdiu  -vitae  C/w,  eorttrnqxe  ' 


<5i  3E3)eecciefiafttcai$tao?p      cent.  9. 

ad  Papatn  appelJationibttf,  imo  &  a  Pafe  ifftftijiinuit,  Illyr.  Catal.  Tcft. 
verit.lib.?. 

In  this  Century  Claudius  Bifliop  of  Twin,  was  defamed  as  an  He- 

Petrie*  church-  retick  by  Tbeodomire  an  Abbot,  who  did  accufe  him  unto  the  Pope. 

Hift.  CM.  9.     jje  wrote  his  own  Apology,  that  it  might  appear  wherefore  he  was 

accuted,  and  to  (hew  how  Godly  men  have  been  traduced  from  time 

to  time. 

Agobard  Bifliop  of  Lions  took  part  with  Lotbariuf  againft  Lewes  his 
Father,and  therefore  was  depofed  :  after  their  reconciliation  he  was  re- 
ftored,and  being  a  man  of  wifdom  and  knowledge, was  employed  about 
the  great  Affairs  of  the  Kingdom.  His  Works  were  printed  at  Paw, 
Anno  1605.  from  which  ImpreiHon  thefe  paflfages  are  extradred,  fag. 
52.  There  is  one  immovable  Foundation,  one  Rock  of  Faith,  which 
Peter  confefleth,  7hou  art  the  Son  of  the  Living  God.  And  fag.  128, 
The  uncleannefs  of  our  time  deferves  a  fountain  of  tears,  when  fo  un- 
godly a  cuftom  is  become  fo  frequent,  that  there  is  none  almoft  afpi- 
ring  to  temporal  honour,  who  hath  not  a  Prieft  at  home,  not  whom 
he  obeyeth,  but  of  whom  he  exa&eth  all  manner  of  obedience  incef- 
fently,  not  in  Divine,  but  in  worldly  things  •>  fo  that  many  of  them  do 
fcrve  at  Table,  or  mix  wine,  and  lead  dogs,  feed  horfes,  or  attend  Hu£ 
bandry  j  neither  regard  they  what  manner  of  Clerks  thefe  be,  but  only 
that  they  may  have  Priefts  of  their  own  \  and  fo  they  leave  Churches 
and  Sermons,  and  publick  Service  :  it  is  clear,  that  they  feek  them, 
not  for  honour  of  Religion,  becaufe  they  have  them  not  in  honour, 
and  fpeak  difdainfully  of  them.  He  is  large  againft  the  worthip  of 
Images. 

Bettarm.  dc  Cri-      ~Betiarmine  faith,  that  jfojur ,  and  other  Bifhops  of  Fr a»ce  in  that  Age, 
jtorib.  EccieH     were  overtaken  with  Agob ard's  errour.   By  the  Jefuites  confeffioji  then 

many  Bifhops  of  France^  were  againft  the  prefent  errours  of  Rome. 
.catai.  Teft.  vc-      Then  Angelom^  a  Monk  of  Luxovia^  a  man  of  great  reading,  at  the 
<it.  Lib.  ro.       entreaty  Of  Drog0^  wrote  many  Books.    Drtttbmarw  of  Aqttittin  wrote 
fome  things  upon  the  Evangelifts. 

Then  Raban  MagHeutiitf^  otherwife  firnamed  Maurus,  was  famous 
Trithcm  catal  'n  t^ie  Univerfify  °^  Pdr^»  f°r  Poelic,  Rhetorick,  Aftron(;my,  Philo- 
iiluftr.  viror.  '  fophy  and  Theology,  unto  whom  neither  Germany  nor  Italy  brought 
forth  an  equal,  faith  Tritbemius.  He  became  Abbot  of  Fulda^  where 
he  was  born,  and  there  he  wrote  Commentaries  on  all  the  Books  of  the 
Bible.  He  was  fometime  Scholar  to  Alcuinus.  His  Monks  were  offend- 
ed, that  he  did  fo  much  ftudy  the  Scriptures,  and  did  no  better  at- 
tend their  Re  venues  i  therefore  after  24  years  he  left  the  Abbyi  they 
befought  him  to  return >  but  he  would  not :  He  abode  with  Letves  the 
Emperour,  until  Orgar  Biihop  vtMentz  died,  and  then fucceeded.  2&*- 
mx  Wilde*  in  the  Ads  of  Pope  Martin  V.  reckoned  him,  and  Here- 
bald,  or  Reginbald^  BHhop  of  Awene,  among  Hereticks,  becaufe  they 
favoured  Bertram.  At 


Cent.  <?.  Of FRANCE. <$5 

r  '  — — — — — — _____  ^ 

At  that  time  there  was  much  debate  about  the  Do&rine  of  Prede-  Avcnt-  Llb.-  * 
ftination.    Cottefcha!k^(by  birth  a  Franck^  or  Belgic^  as  Aventmw  call-  Al 
eth  him)  was  Ordained  a  Prieft  by  RigbuldChorepifiopw,  in  the  vacan- 
cy of  the  See  ot  Rhemfs.     The  forenamed  Hinctynar  writeth,  that  he 
held  thefe  five  Articles : 

1.  God  did  before  all  Ages,  and  e're  he  made  anything,  predefti-  Hinckmar.  tn 
nate  unto  falvation  whom  he  would,  and  alfo  unto  deftrudiion  whom  Lugd"uid  Iede^' 
he  would. 

2.  That  they  who  are  predeftinated  onto  deftru&ion  cannot  be  fa- 
ved. 

J.  That  whereas  the  Apoftle  faith,  God  willeth  that  all  men  be  fa- 
,  he  meaneth,  only  all  them  who  (hall  be  favcd. 

4.  That  Chrift  came  not  to  fave  all  men,  nor  did  he  furTer  for  all 
men,  but  only  for  them  who  (hall  be  faved  by  the  myftery  of  his  paf- 
lion. 

5.  Since  the  firft  man  fell  of  his  Free-will,  none  of  us  can  ufe  Free- 
will to  do  good,  but  only  to  do  evil. 

Remigins  BUViop  of  Liow,  in  the  name  of  the  Church  of  Lions  de- 
fended thefe  five  Articles  s  whereupon  Hinctyiar  wrote  unto  Pope  Ni- 
cbolM  agairift  Gottefchalk^  and  calleth  thefe  Articles,  the  herefie  of  the 
Predeftinarians,  which  was  overthrown  in  ^/ncJ^,  and  afterwards  in 
France,  by  Authority  of  Pope  Celefline.  When  Gottefchalk.  returned 
from  Italy^  Ttaban  Biftop  of  Mtntz  fummoned  him  to  a  Synod,  and 
when  he  could  not  perfwade  him  to  change  his  mind,  he  wrote  unto 
Hinctynar  and  others.  Hinckyiar  fummoned  Gottefcbalf^  unto  a  Sy- 
nod of  twelve  Biftiops,  and  fome  Priefts  and  Abbots  in  Carifiac  on 
Ifara,  where  four  Articles  were  ena&ed  againft  him.  He  was  con- 
demned of  Herefie  and  contumacy  >  he  was  whipt  with  rods,  and  call  vid.pctries  C6* 
into  priibn.  The  Church  of  Lions  after  fight  of  thefe  four  Articles,  Hift.a»t.>, 
fent  forth  their  cenfure  of  them. 

Remiziut,  was  a  man  of  a  moft  holy  Converfation,  and  very  learn- 
ed, as  appearcth  by  the  Comments  which  he  wrote  upon  the  Old  and 
New  fertaments. 

At  this  time  was  publifhed  a  Commentary  on  the  thirteen  Epiftles 
of  the  Apoftle  St.  P*K/,  which  was  lately  printed  at  Rome^  under  the 
name  of  Rtmigiw  of  Rhtmef. 

Ln;>&,  Abbot  of  the  Monaftery  of  Ferraria^  by  the  water  Lupa  run- 
ning into  S«*,  at  the  fame  time  wrote  fcveral  Epiftlcs  unto  King  Lew- 
e;,  ar.d  ro  HiHctynar,  which  were  primed  «<.  Pari*^  Anno  \  588.  He 
•cpnifortcth  his  Mafter  Einbard after  the  dea^  of  his  wife  :  Hefpeaks 
honourably  ot"  Marriage,  and  c»,nioitabl\  ft  of  the  Godly 

after  tb,is  life,  without  any  mcncion  01  pu     .tor)  .  ox  Mai$  ior  thede-      , 
fund. 

At  the  fame  time  alfo  was  a  <jueftion  o.t  the  prei  . .  i.  c  of  Chriil's  body 

in 


.11  flier's  Anlw.  to 
the  Jefuites 
challenge. 


-Ridl.  Pref.  at 
<  coen,  Pom. 


3Cl)e  eccieftaftical  t«lo?p       Cent.  9. 

in  the  Sacrament.  Charles  the  Bald  King  of  France,  commanded  Ber- 
tram, a  Prieft  at  Corbey,  to  (earch  and  write  what  was  the  Doctrine 
of  the  Fathers,  and  Ancient  Church  in  this  Article.  Trithemius  faith, 
"Bertram  was  fingularly  learned,  of  an  excellent  eloquence  and  utter- 
ance, pregnant  in  judgement,  and  no  lefs  famous  for  holinefs  of  life, 
and  wrote  many  excellent  Treaties.  In  obedience  unto  King  Charles 
he  compiled  a  Treatife,  De  corpore  &  fanguine  Domini,  which  is  all 
inferted  in  Catal.  left,  verit.  lib.  10.  This  Book  was  forbidden  to  be 
read  by  order  from  the  Roman  Inquifition,  confirmed  afterward  by  the 
Council  of  Trent.  The  Divines  of  Doway  perceiving  that  the  forbid- 
ding of  that  Book  did  not  keep  men  from  reading  it,  but  gave  them 
rather  occafion  to  fcek  more  earneftly  after  it,  thought  it  better  Ber- 
*f*w  (hould  be  fuffered  to  go  abroad,  but  handled  in  fuch  fort,  aso- 
ther  ancient  Waiters  that  made  againft  them  were  wont  to  be.  Bi- 
fliop  Ridley  highly  commends  this  Bertram. 

Pafchafjfa  Rathbert,  Abbot  of  Corbey  at  the  fame  time  wrote  a  Book 
of  the  Eucharift.  Remigins  Bifhop  of  Auxerre  flourtthecl  about  the 
year  8 So }  he  wrote  many  Books  :  He  was  called  Doctor  Senten- 
tiofuf. 

Chtrles  the  Bald  died  at  Mantua,  Anno  879,  being  poifoned  by  Se- 
decias  the  Jew,  whom  he  employed  for  one  of  his  Phydcians,  leaving 
the  Realm  to  his  Son  Lewes  the  fecond,  called  the  Stuttering. 

Lewes  King  of  Germany  had  vowed  that  he  would  take  both  Em- 
pire and  Kingdom  from  Charles  the  Bald,  but  was  arrefted  with  fick- 
nefs  at  Franl^ford.  There  He  divided  his  Kingdom  among  his  three 
Sons,  to  Lewes  he  gave  Saxony,  luringia ,  Fripa,  and  the  Provinces 
within  them,  with  the  Title  of  Eaft-France  :  to  Carloman  he  gave  Bo- 
jaria,  Auftria,  Bohemia,,  and  Moravia,  with  the  Title  of  King  of  Ba- 
varia :  To  Charles 'Ins  third  Son  he  gave  Suevia ,  Franconia,  with 
fome  parts  of  Lorain  (which  he  had  taken  after  the  death  of  Lotha- 
rios) with  the  Title  of  King  of  Germany. 

Charles  the  Fat  King  of  Germany  ftrove  for  the  Empire,  and  was 
Crowned  by  the  Romans.  Pope  John  would  not  confent,  and  there- 
fore was  imprifoned  i  he  efcaping  goes  into  France,  and  confirmeth 
Lewes  the  Stutterer.  He  was  courteoufly  received  by  Lewes,  ftays  in 
France  a  whole  year,  and  there  holds  a  Council  at  Troyes  in  Cham" 
f&gne. 

•  The  Pope  was  Scarce  gone  but  Lewes  dieth,  having  reigned  only 
two  years.  He  had  no  lawful  Children,  but  two  Baftards  :  he  left  his 
W7ife  with  Child.  The  Queen  was  afterward  delivered  of  a  'Son,  which 
was  falut-ed  King,  and  called  Charles. 

-During  the  minority  of  Charles,  Lewes  and  Carloman  Brothers,  the 
two  Baftards  of  Lewes  the  Stutterer,  are  chofen  by  the  States  to  Go- 
vern* the  Realm  of  France,  Lewes  was  defeated  by  the  Nor  mans,  and 

dies 


Cent.  10.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E. 

dies  for  grief.  Soon  after  his  Death  it  is  faid,  that  Carloman  fell  down 
and  brake  his  neck.  Another  Le rves  fuccecdeth  to  thefe  two  Brethren, 
but  he  quickly  dyed.  Then  the  States  called  Charles  the  Graft ,  King 
of  Bavaria,  to  this  high  Dignity.  He  began  his  reign,  Anno  885,  and 
reigned  nine  years.  His  entrance  was  goodly,  but  his  end  Tragical. 
He  was  crowned  King  with  promife  to  reftore  the  Crown  to  the  law- 
ful Heir,  and  to  govern  according  to  the  will  of  the  States.  He  was 
Son  to  Leaves  called  Germanicw,  Son  to  Lewes  the  Gentle  :  Being  de- 
feated by  the  Normans,  he  yieldeth  to  a  prejudicial  peace,  and  is  much 
hated  of  the  French.  At  length  the  French  and  the  Grrmans  refolve 
to  difpoffefs  him. 

The  Germans  made  choice  for  their  Emperour  o£drnttlph  Son  to  Car- 
loman,  the  Son  of  Lewes  the  Gentle.  The  French  likewife  reject  this 
miferable  CW/f/  from  the  Regency  of  the  Realm,  and  call  Eudes  of 
Odon,  Duke  of  Angers,  named  by  the  will  of  Levees  the  Stutterer. 

So  this  poor  Prince  is  caft  out  both  from  Realm  and  Empire,  and  re- 
mains naked  without  an  houfe  to  throwd  himfelf  in  from  this  difgracej 
being  bani(hed  from  Court,  and  driven  into  a  poor  Village  of  Suevia^ 
where  he  lived  fome  days  in  extreme  want,  without  any  means  of  his 
own,  or  relief  from  any  Man  >  in  the  end  he  dyed,  neither  pitied  nor 
lamented  of  any,  in  a  corner  unknown,  but  to  have  been  the  Theatre 
of  fo  extraordinary  a  Tragedy,  that  one  of  the  greateft  Monarchs  in 
the  World,  mould  dye  without  Houfe,without  Bread, without  Mourn- 
ing, and  without  Memory,  but  the  note  of  this  end  fo  prodigioufly  me* 
morable. 


Century  X. 


CHarles  the  Third ,  called  the  Simple ,  was  Crowned  in  the 
Year  po2.  Eudes  governing  with  him  eight  Years  from  his 
Coronation.    Charles  remaining  alone  after  the  Death  of  his 
Regent,  Reigned  2  7  Years.    His  Reign  was  miferable  through- 
out.   Now  begins  a  notable  league  againft  the  King.     Robert  Duke 
of  Anjou  becomes  the  Head  of  this  League,  accompanied  with  many 
great  Men  of  France.     This  Robert-  was  Govtrnour  by  the  Death  of 
his  Brother  Ettdet. 

K  They 


66 


They  caufed  Charles  to  quit  the  Crown,  difcharging  him  with  the 
name  of  tlmple  or  foolifh  ,  and  declaring  him  incapable  of  fo  great 
a  charge.  "Robert  arms  boldly  againft  Charles^  to  difpoflefs  him  of  his 
Eftate.  Charles  flees  to  Henry  the  third  Emperour,  and  laboureth  to 
calm  this  ftorm. 

At  the  approach  of  their  Armies  ,  Robert  (to  have  fome  Title  to 
make  a  War)  caufeth  himfelf  to  be  Crowned  King  at  Rhemes  ,  by 
Have  the  Arch  Bifhop,  who  died  three  days  alter  this  unlawful 
Coronation. 

As  the  Armies  approach  near  Soiflons^  ftriving  (in  the  view  of  Paris) 
they  joyn,  the  combate  is  cruel  ,  but  Robert  fighting  in  the  Front  is 
flain,  leaving  for  that  time  the  vi&ory  to  King  Charles  ,  who  feeks  a 
Treaty  of  Peace,  out  of  an  unfeafonable  fear.  Hebert  ,  Earl  of  Ve  r* 
mandois  ,  Son-in-law'  to  Robert,  befeecheth  Charles  to  come  to  St. 
gxintins  to  confer  together.  Charles  cometfi  thither  without  Hofta- 
ges.  Hebert  there  takes  him  Prifoner,  and  conveys  him  to  SoiJJotu^ 
where  he  had  aflembled  the  chief  of  the  Realm,  chofen  after  his  own 
humour,  where  he  makes  him  to  refign  the  Crown  to  Raoul  his 
God-fon,  the  firft  Prince  of  the  Blood  by  his  Mother  Hermingrade,. 
Daughter  to  Letves^  and  Wife  of  Bofon  King  of  Burgundy.  So  this 
poor  Prince  is  led  from  Prifon  to  Prifon  for  rive  years  and  dyeth  of  a< 
languiflning  melancholy. 

He  had  by  his  Wife  Ogin  a  the  Daughter  of  Edward  King  of  Eng- 
land^z  Son  named  Lewes.  She  takes  her  Son  Lewes  ,  and  flees  into 
JLngland^  to  her  Brother  Atbeljlan  who  then  Reigned. 

But  the  Reign  of  Raoul  was  unfortunate,  who  Reigned  thirteen 
years  during  Charleslns  imprifonment,  and  after  his  Death. 

But  Raoul  after  many  broils  dyeth  at  Compiegne  ^  Anno  936*  Now 
are  great  confutions  in  France^  there  is  nothing  facred  i  all  is  violated 
for  Rule,  all  refpedt  is  laid  afide,  every  one  plays  the  King  within  him- 
felf i  for  one  King  there  are  many  i  and  where  there  are  many  Ma- 
fters,  there  are  none  at  all.  In  this  confuiion  there  were  many  Kings, 
Dukes  and  Earls,  although  thefe  Titles  were  but  temporary  ,  having 
no  other  Title  butthe  Sword..  There  was  no  Governour  of  any 
Province  throughout  the  Realm,  which  held  not  proper  to  himfelf 
and  his  Heirs,  thofe  things  which  were  given  to  them  but  as  Offices. 
From  hence  fprang  fo  many  Dukedoms,  Earldoms,  Baronies,  and 
Seignories,  which  for  the  molt  part  are  returned  to  their  begin-nings. 
Italy  ("given  to  an  Infant  of  France  )  was  now  poffefled  by  divers 
Princes.  Germany  (withdrawn  from  the  Crown)  was  banded  into 
divers  fadions,  fo  as  the  Empire  of  the  Weft,  confirmed  in  the  perfon 
of  Charlemaigne^  continued  fcarceone  hundred  years  in  his  Race  :  for 
Lewes  the  Son  of  Arnulpb^  was  the  laft  Emperour  of  this  Blood.  In 
his  place  the  Gfm*»/  erefted  Ccwnwfc  ,  Duk&of  Eaft  Franconiat  Anm 

P20. 


Cent.  10.  Of  FRANCE. 


.920.  the  Empire  being  then  very  weak.  After  Conrade  was  chofen 
Henry  tbefotvler,  Duke  of  Saxony  ',  and  after  him  his  Son  Otbo,  Princes 
adorned  with  fmgular  virtues  fit  for  the  time  to  preferve  the  Weft. 
For  the  Emperoursof  theEaftdid  run  headlong  to  their  ruine,  who 
were  men  either  of  no  valour  ,  or  altogether  wicked  ,  attending  the 
laft  blow  by  the  hand  of  the  Mabttmftansjwhcfe  power  they  ftrength- 
ned  by  their  vitious  lives,  until  they  had  lodged  them  upon  their  own 
heads. 

In  thefe  confufions  of  State  the  power  of  the  Pope  of  Rome  en- 
creafed  daily,  by  the  ruines  of  the  Empire.  Thedefign  of  the  Popes 
was  to  ere&  a  Monarchy  in  the  Church  ,  by  Power  and  Authority, 
Seignories,  civil  Diflentions,,  Arms,  Revenues,  and  Treafon  :  And  foon 
after  they  grew  to  that  greatnefs,  as  they  fought  to  prefcribe  Laws  to 
Emperours  and  Kings,  who  refufing  it  ,  and  dlfputing  this  primacy, 
many  d  iffentions  arofe,  and  were  difperfed  among  the  people. 

After  the  Death  of  Raottl  ,  Atheljian  King  of  England  (  having 
.drawn  unto  him  William  Duke  of  Normandy}  fends  an  honourable 
AmbafTage  to  the  States  of  France,  entreating  them  to  reftore  his  Ne- 
phew Lewes  ,  to  his  lawful  and  Hereditary  Dignity.  The  French 
.content  to  it  ^  So  Levees^  the  Son  of  Charley  is  called  home  by  the  E- 
ftates  of  France,  being  accompanied  with  a  great  Troop  of  Englifh-mtn 
and  Normans. 

Lewes  hegan  to  Reign,  Anna?^,  and  Reigned  27  years. 
About  this  time,  Ambrofe  Ansbert,  a  French-man,  wrote  Commen- 
taries on  the  Pfalms  and  Canticles,  and  part  of  the  Revelation. 

In  this  tenth  Century  there  was  little  ftudy  of  liberal  Sciences  ,  the 
Schools  were  few,  and  empty  of  Languages.  The  Popifh  Priefts  and 
Clergy  (having  forfaken  their  old  Difcipline)  were  given  to  filthy  lu- 
cre, nor  were  they  refpeded  by  their  flocks  i  only  Monks  were  noted 
to  have  fome  Eloquence.  And  fuch  was  the  corruption  of  the  times, 
that  none  durft  fcarce  fpeak  of  the  Corruptions,  Idolatries,  Superftiti- 
ons,and  wickedneffes  of  that  Age,whrch  at  that  time  were  fo  luxuriant. 
Divers  Signs  were  feen  in  Heaven  :  and  great  changes  happened  almoft 
in  every  Kingdom,  The  Hungarians  opprefs  Italy  and  Germany  ,  bc- 
fides  many  other  broils  in  both  thofe  Nations.  France  will  (hortly 
have  another  Race  of  Kings:great  were  the  Wars  in  Spain  between  the 
Moors  and  the  old  Inhabitants,  and  the  Saracens  fuffered  neither  Greece 
nor  Afi*  to  reft  in  peace. 

Bellarmine  fpeaking  of  this  Century,  faith,  Behold  an  unhappy  Age, 
in  which  are  no  famous  Writers,  few  or  no  Councils,  bad  Emperours, 
and  no  good  Popes. 

Baroninf  on  the  beginning  of  this  Century,  faith,  Anew  Age  be-  fQr™'s?*.  ? 
ginneth,  which  for  rudenefs,  and  barrennefs  of  goodnefs  may  be  called 
fhe  Iron  Age  ^  and  for  deformity  of  evil  abounding,  Ibc  Leaden 

K  2  Age, 


68         3EDe  ccdefiawcai  $tfto#       cent.  .10 . . 

Age,  and  for,  want  of  Writers  is  calkd  ,  The  DarJ^  Age. 

Under  the  Reign  of  Charles  the  .Simple,  King  of  France,  a  Council 
was  called  at  Rhemes,  for  correcting  the  abufe  of  Church- rents  :  for 
Noble-men  in.  Court,  fuch  as  Hugo,  and  his  Brother  Robert,  Matter  of 
the  King'/  Horfes,  and  Vincmariw  with  divers  others ,  under  pretence 
of  fuftaining  the  King'/  Honourable  Eftate,  and  paying  wages  to 
Souldicrs,  had  converted  to  their  own  ufe  a  great  part  of  Church- 
rents,  efpecially  belonging  to  Abbeys.  Fulco,  Arch-BKhopof  Rheme? 
uttered  his  mind  freely  in  the  Council.  Vincmarius  one  of  the  nota- 
ble oppreffours  in  the  Court,  defiled  the  Council  with  Blood,  and  kil=- 
led  Fttlco  Bi(hop  of  Rhemes.  The  Fathers  of  the  Council  returned- 
unto  their  own  Churches  with  great  feai:  .for  the  like  of  this  was 
not  heard  fince  the  fecond  Council  of  Ephcfus ,  in  which  Flavians 
Bifhop  of  Constantinople  was  flain. 

Da.  Hainan  in      A  Council  alfo  was  held  in  France,  in  which  it  was  permitted  Priefts* 
to  marry  Virgins. 

At  this  time  there  was  a  great  'Famine  in  France. 

The  People  had  been  much  given  to  Gluttony  and  Drunkennefs,and 
God  punithed  them  with  penury  and  fcarcity  of  Viduals. 

Lewes  dyeth  Annop^'y.atRbemes,  hated  of  the  French  $  leaving- 
to  Lotbair,  his  Son,  a  Crown  near  the  ruine,  and  to  Charles  the  young- 
eft,  the  favour  of  his  eldeft  Brother. 

La*6<i/>detefted  of  :all  men,  died  Anno  964. .leaving behind  him  an 
execrable  memory  of  his  adions,  and  Lewet,  his  Son,  for  a  final  con- 
clufidn  of  ..his.race,  as  an  out-caft  of  great  Charlemagne. 

Lewes  V.  reigned  one  year  only,  and  dyed  without  Heir ,  leaving 
his  place  void  in  troubles  of  State,  and  confufion  of  times  horribly 
corrupted,  untotheHQufeof  Hugh  le  grand^acA  of  Parti^  God  had' 
prepared  the  means,- both  for  the  Father  to  lay  the  foundation,  and  for. 
his  Son  Hugh  Capet ^  (appointed  for  the  Regal  Dignity  )  to  finifli  thi& 
goodly  building.  . 

Now  cometh  in  the  third  race  of  the  Kings  of  France  >  called  Capetsy 
of  the  name  of  Hugh  Capet. 

Charles  Duke  of  Lorrain^  was  firft  Prince  of  the  Blood- royal,  he 
was  Son  to  Lewes  IV.  Brother  to  Lotbair,  Unckle  to  Levees  V.  the  laft 
King,  to  whom  the  fundamental  Laws  of  France  did  adjudge  the 
Crown.  But  Hugh  Capet  was  chofen  King  by  the  French  aflembled  in 
Parliament,  and  Charles  Duke  ofLorrain  was  rejected  from- the  Crown* 

This  change  happened  in  Jttly,Anno  #87.  This  new  King  ..was  fir- 
named  Capet^  or  Capitofa,  either  for  that  he  had  a  great  Head,,  or  that 
(being  young)  he  wasaccuftomed  to  catch  at  his  Companions  caps ,  as 
a  prelate  of  that  he  (hould  do  unto  Kings,  Otho  and  Henry  two  other 
Sons  of  Hugh  le  grand^  were  Dukes  of  Burgundy  ,  one  after  another  * 
his  other  Sons  were  advanced  to.  Ecckfiaftical  DigniticSjtheone 


Cent.  io.  Of  FRANCE. 


BUhop  of  fholoufe,  the  other  of  R0p<*#,and  another  dyed  young. 

Charles  of  Lorrain  gathered  an  Army,  and  cntring  France  came  to 
the  City  of  Laon,  within  which  City  he  by  the  Treafon  of  Anfilm  the  • 
Bilhop  of  that  City,  was-  taken  and  delivered  with  his  Wife  and  Chil- 
dren into  the  hands  of  his  Enemies. 

Hugh  being  crowned  King,  caufeth  his  Son  Robert  to  be  crowned 
King  at  Rhemes,  Anno  $$o.  three  years  after  his  Father's  election.  Hugh  ' 
decreeth,  that  the  elder  Son  (hould  reign  alone  among  his  Brethren  :  - 
and  fuppreffeth  the  Majors  of  the  Palace. 

He  likewife  decreed,  that  hereafter  Baftards  (hould  not  be  only  re- 
jected from  the  Crown,  but  alfo  from  the  fir-name  of  France,  the  : 
which  before  was  allowed  them.  To  him  likewife  are  due  the  good- 
ly Ordinances  of  Juftice.  ¥arit  was  the  chief  place  of  Hughes  red-' 
dence  ,  which  City  was  greatly  augmented  and  beautified  in  his' 
Reign. 

Amttlpb,  Baftard  to  Lothair,  was*  the  only  Man  which  had  favoured 
Charles  of  Lorrain,  againft  Hngb  Capet*  This  Man  was  both  perverfe 
and  dilloyal,  having  deceived  both  Charles  of  Lorrain,  and  Hugh  Ca-- 
pet,  who  had  given  him  the  Arch-bi(hoprick  of  Rovan,  in  recompence- 
of  theiervicehe  promifed  him  againft  Charles,  to  whom  (notwith- 
ftandingj  contrary  to  his  Faith,  he  gave  means  to  feize  upon  the  Cities 
of  Rbemes,Laon  and  SoiJJons.  Hugh  therefore  refolves  to  fupprefs- 
Arnttlph:  but  refpeding  his  quality,  he  aflembled  a  National  Council 
of  the  French  Church  in  the  City  of  Rhemes.  This  Aflfembly  depofed- 
Arttttlph,  as  guilty  of  Treachery,  and  a  troubler  of  the  publick  qukti' 
and  they  fubftitute  Gilbert  in  his  place,  who  had  been  School-matter- 
unto  Robert.  Afterwards  Hugh  confines  him  to  Orleans  \vithCharler^ 
of  Lorrain,  there  to  end  his  days  in  reft. 

The  Prelates  of  France  in  this  Synod,  made  a  Declaration,  that  the- 
Popes  have  nothing  to  do  to  ufurp  the  power  and  authority  of  Kings.1 
Arnalt,  Bifhopof  0/-/£v*/*.f,maintained  in  that  Synod,  that  the  Popes 
have  no  power  at  all  over  the  Bimops  of  France,  fo  as  to  have  any  cog- 
nizance of  Cafes  belonging  to  them:  and  he  declaimed  moft  ftoutly 
againft  the  avarice  and  corruption  of  the  Court  of  Rome. 

Segttin,  Arch-Bi(hopof  Sent,  was  fent  alfo  to  Orleans  ^  to  be  im~ 
prifoned,^becaufe  he  confented  not  freely  to  thedepofition  of  Arnttlph.  - 

Pope  John  12..  being  difpleafed  with  Hugh,  fox  that  he  had  not  ap-' 
pealed  to  him  for  his  confirmation  in  this  new  Royalty  ,  difanulledv 
this  Decree  of  the  Council  of  Rhemes  ,  excommunicates  the  Biftiops- 
which  had-aflifted,  reftores  Arnttlph,  and  deprives  Gilbert  of  the  Arch-- 
biihoprick  of  Rovan,  and  to  temper  'this  (harp  and  rough  pro- 
ceeding with  fome  lenity  ,  he  doth  invert  G//£*r*"with  che  Arch- 
bifhoprick  of  Ravenna*  And  this  was  a  means  to  raife  him  to  the  dig^i 
nityofpope.  . 

TFlfi 


70         3Ee  ecceaa  $to#       Cent.  10. 

The  A&s  of  this  Council  of  Rbemes  under  H«g&  C*/**,  have  thefe 

words'  Poor  Kome !  what  clear  H&hts  of  Fat"«s  haft  thou  brought 
forth  in  the  time  of  our  Predeceflbrs  >  What  horrible  darknefs  haft 
thou  poured  out  upon  our  times,  which  will  redound  to  our  (hame 
and  dimonour  in  future  Ages  > 

The  Pope  threatens  his  curfe  againft  Hitgh  ,  and  his  Son  Hole rt^ 
The  King  returned  Anfwer,that  he  had  done  nothing  in  contempt,  but 
that  he  was  willingto  juftifie  what  He  or  his  Bifliops  had  done,if  it  plea- 
fed  the  Pope  to  meet  him  at  Gratianople,  on  the  Frontiers  of  Italy  and 
France,  or,  if  rather  he  would  come  into  France,  he  promifed  to  receive 
him  with  the  higheft  honour.  The  Pope  fent  his  Legates  into  France. 
Gerebert,  Arch-Bi(hop  of  Rbemes,  fent  an  Epiftle  unto  Stguin  fore- 
Morn.  inMyft.    mentioned  (who  was  faid  to  favour  the  depofed  Arnulpb)  the  tenour 
feiqu.  whereof  is.    It  became  your  worthinefs ,  to  efchew  the  craftinefs  of 

deceitful  men,  and  to  hear  the  voice  of  the  Lord,  faying,  Herew 
-flirt.  Magdeb.  in  C£«/f , or  there  if  Cbrifl,  follow  not.  -One  is  faid  to  be  in  Rome ,  who 
Aftit  Synod?,  juftifieth  thofe  things  which  ye  condemn,  and  condemneth  thofe  things 
which  ye  think  juft.  God  faith,  If  thy  Brother  of  end  againft  tbee  ,  go 
aHdrtbukfbim.  How  then  fay  fome ,  that  in  the  deposition  of  Ar- 
wflph,  we  (hould  have  waited  the  determination  of  the  'R.omijb  Bifhop? 
can  they  fay,  that  the  Judgement  of  the  Bifliop  of  Rome  is  greater 
than  the  Judgement  of  God  >  But  the  Prince  of  the  Apoftles  faith, 
We  muft  obey  Cod  rather  than  Man.  St.  Paul  alfo  cryeth  ,  If  any  Matt 
Preach  unto  you  otberteife  than  what  you  have  received:  although  bt 
were  an  Angel  from  Heaven^  let  him  be  accurfed.  Becaufe  Pope  Marcel- 
linus  offered  Incenfe  unto  Idols,  (hould  therefore  all  Bifhops  offer  In- 
cenfe  ?  I  fay  boldly,  that  if  the  Biftopof  Rome  himfelf  fin  againft  a 
Brother,  and  being  often  admonilhed  will  not  hear  the  Church  j  even 
theRoman  Bifhop  according  to  the  command  of  Chrift,  (hould  be 
cfteemed  as  an  Heathen  and  a  Publican,  for  the  higheft  rife  hath  the 
•  j£  loweftfall.  And  if  he  think  us  unworthy  of  him,  becaufe  none  of  us 

affenteth  to  him,  when  he  judgeth  contrary  to  the  Gofpel ,  he  cannot 
therefore  feparate  us  from  the  Communion  of  Chrift  ,  feeing  even  a 
"Presbyter,  unlefs  he  confefe,  or  be  convift,  (hould  not  be  removed  from 
his  Office,  &c.  The  Priviledges  of  St.  Peter  (faith  Leo  the  Great)  are 
not,  where  Judgement  is  not  exercifed  according  to  Righteoufnefs. 
Wherefore  occafion  (hould  not  be  given  unto  thefe  our  envyers  ,  that 
the  Priefthood,  which  is  one  every  where,  as  theCatholick  Church  is 
one,  (hould  be  fubjed  unto  one  Man,  that  if  he  be  corrupt  with  Mo- 
ney, favour,  fear  or  ignorance,  none  can  be  a  Prieft,  except  whom  thefe 
virtues  recommend  unto  him.  Let  the  Law  of  the  Catholick  Church 
be  common.  Farewel,  and  fufpend  not  your  felves  from  the  facred 
Myfteries. 

Pope  Jobn  had  intelligence  of  this  Letter,  and  fummoned  the  Bi- 
fliops 


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(hops  of  frame  unto  a  Synod,  rirft  at  Rowf,  then  at  Akfn.  The  Bi- 
(hops  anfwered  ,  They  were  not  obliged  to  go  out  of  their  own 
Country.  At  laft  he  named  Mttnfon  on  the  borders  of  France:  where 
only  Gerebert  appeared,  and  boldly  maintained  the  caufe  of  the  French  • 
Church  :  fo  that  the  Legate  Leo  could  do  nothing  without  new  in- 
(tru&ions  from  the  Pope,  fave  only  that  he  appoiatcd  another  Synod 
at  Rhemef)  and  in  the  mean  time  he  fufpends  Gerebert  ,  who  wrote 
the  Apology  of  the  French  Church,  as  his  Epiftle  unto  Wilderodon  Bi- 
fhop  of  Argentine,  tefUfieth. 

Gerebert  excelled  in  Learning  ,  and  came  afterward  to  the  Roman 
Chair,  and  called  by  the  name  of  Sihe\\er  the  fecond  :  he  was  promoted 
to  that  dignity  by  the  EmperourO/^. 

tittgb  Capet  having  reigned  peaceably  nine  years  ,  died  Novemb.  22. 
996.  leaving  his  Son  Robert  his  fucceflbur  >  a  Prince  wife  ,  refolute, 
peaceable  and  continent  :  he  is  faid  to  have  been  Learned  ,  a  lover  of 
Divinity  and  humanity.  They  fing  Hymns  of  his  Invention,  the 
which  thus  beginneth.  0  Conftznti*  Martyrum  mirabilv  •,  the  which 
bearing  refemblance  with  the  name  of  his  Wife  Conjlance,  he  was  won- 
derfully pleafed  with  the  humour  (he  had  to  be  honoured  with  his  wri- 
tings, being  then  greatly  efteemed  throughout  the  World. 

He  preferred  virtue  before  the  prerogative  of  primogeniture  ,  and 
caufed  Henry,  his  younger  Son,  to  be  Crowned  in  his  life  time,  decree- 
ing by  his  Will  that  his  eldcft  Son  JLobf  n  (hould  content  himfelf  with 
the  Dutchy  of  burgundy  ,  doing  homage  for  it  to  the  Crown  of 
Trance* 


Century  XI. 


IN  the  beginning  of  this  Century,  Ar  nold  Earl  of  Sens ,  ufed  great 
Tyranny  among  the  Bi(hops  and  Minifters  of  theChurch.    Here- 
upon LeofrictK^  Bifhop  of  that  See,  -through  the  ad  vice  and  aid  of 
Keg/tf^Bifliopof  P^w,put  out  the  faid  Arnold ,  and  delivered^ 
the  City  unto  King  Rekrf.    But  the  Brother  of  the  faid  Arnold ,  with 
divers  of  his  Knights,  fled  to  the  Caftle,  and  held  it  by  force.  Then 
the  King  befieged  the  faid  Caftle,  and  took  both  it  and  Dromond  ,  the 

Brother 


7 »  Clje  CCCleftattical  $fftO?y         Cent.  1 1. 

Brother  of  Arnold,  and  fent  him  to  Orleans,  where  being  imprifoned 
,he  dyed  (hortly  after. 

This  Robert  builded  the  Caftle  of  Mwntfort :  He  founded  alfo  di- 
f  <  vers  Monasteries  and  Temples,  at  Orleans  the  Temple  of  St.  Avian,  at 
Stamps  a  Church  dedicated  to  the  Virgin  Mary,  and  many  other  in  di- 
vers places  of  his  Realm.  And  he  endowed  the  Church  of  St.  Dealt 
with  many  great- pi  iviledges,  and  had  fpecial  devotion  to  St.  Hypolite, 
above  all  other  Saints. 

At  this  time  flouri{hedF«/&frf,  Bifliopof  Cbartre/^  a  very  learned 
Man :  Sundry  Sermons  and  Treatifes  that  are  amongft  the  works  of 
St.  Auftin  are  faid  to  be  his.  He  wrote  an  Epiftle  to  Adeodatus,  where- 
in he  firft  reproveth  a  grofs opinion  of  fome  Men,  who  held  that  Bap- 
tifm  and  the  Eucharift  were  naked  figns.  Then  he  proveth  that  thefe 
mould  not  be  confidered  as  nicer  and  outward  figns ,  but  by  Faith  ac- 
cording to  the  invifiblevertue  of  Myfteries.  The  Myftery  of  Faith 
.it  is, called,, faith  he,  becaufe  it  mould  be  efteemed  by  Faith ,  and  -not 
by  fight,  to  be  looked  into  fpiritually,  not  corporally  >  the  fight  of 
•Faith  only  beholdeth  this  powerful  Myftery,  &c.  Then  he  illuftrates 
•the  fame  by  comparifon  of  a  baptized  Man,  who  albeit  outwardly  he 
r.-~-  be  the  fame  he  was  before,  yet  inwardly  he  is  another,  being  made 

greater  than  himfelf,  by  encreafe  of  invisible  quantity  ,  that  is ,  of  fa- 
ring grace,  #*c.  Here  is  no  word  of  fubftantial  change  of  the  Ele- 
ments •,  the.Bcead.is  ftill  Bread  :  But  we  rind  two  other  changes ,  the 
Faithful  are  tranfpofed  into  the  body  of  Chrift ,  and  Chrift  is  infufed 
into  the  habitation  of  a  faithful  Soul  •,  yet  fo,  that  ChriftV  body  xe- 
maineth  in  the  Heavens ;  and  by  the  Revelation  of  the  Spirit  faith  be- 
:$5briotb.j>art  Je  holdeth  Chrift  prefect,  or  lying  in  his  Mothei'/  bofom,  and  dying,  ri- 
<blgn*Tom'3'fing,  and  afcending  :  andheentreth  into  the gratious  habitation  of  a 
faithful  Communicant,  and  many  waies  refrefheth  him.  Heie  alfo 
we  fee,  that  the  fubftance  cf  Bread  remaineih,  as  the  fubftance  of 
him  who  is  Baptized  remaineth,  albeit  inwardly  he  be  another. 

Some  fay,  that  F.ulbert  compofed  many  Songs  in  praife  of  the  Virgin 
M*ry  j  and  that  he  built  a  Temple  and  dedicated  it  unto  her. 
Hiftorians  alfo  do  feign,  that  Fulbert  being  fick  was  vifited  by  the 
'?w  ?Jagdeb'  Virgin  Mary  ,  and  that  the  cherifhed  him  with  her  own  Milk. 
O  impudent  forgers  of  lies !  O  foolHh  Mortals ,  who  gave  credit  to 
fuch  palpable  lies. 

King  'Robert  dyed  Anno  1031.  His  Son  Henry  fucceeded  him;  and 
reigned  33  years.  In  his  time  the  Realm  of  Burgundy  had  an  end  in 
the  pofterity  of  Bo/0»,and  theEmperours  of  Germany  challenged  the 
right  and  title  of  it. 

Robert  Duke.of  Normandy,  had  maintained  the  Hereditary  love  of 
his  Father  with  King  Henry  ,  greatly  relying  upon  his  friendthip. 
Having  refolved  upon  a  long  and  dangerous  Voyage  to  the  Holy- land, 

he 


Cent,  ii.  Of  FRANCE. 75 

he  intreated  him  to  take  the  protection  of  William  his  Baftard  Son, 
whom  he  had  made  his  Heir,  excluding  his  lawful  Children.  Robert 
fettled  his  Eftate  before  his  departure,  appointing  him  good  Gover- 
nours,  and  putting  the  ftrongeft  holds,  and  treafure  into  their  hands. 
Robert  dyed  in  this  long  Voyage  beyond  the  Seas,  at  the  City  of  Bythi. 
w*  >  having  before  his  departure  commanded  the  Lords  of  Norman- 
dy, and  fworn  them,  and  Robert  Arch-Bifhop  of  "Rovatt ,  to  perform 
their  Allegiance  unto  his  Son  William,  and  to  take  him  for  their  Lord 
and  Duke,  if  he  return  not  again. 

When  King  Henry  had  fettled  his  Land  in  quietnefs,  he  then  builded 
the  Monaftery  of  St.  Martin,  called  Des  Champs,  betides  Paris,  and  fet 
therein  fecular  Priefts.  King  Henry  after  he  had  reigned  3 1  years  dy- 
ed, and  was  buried  at  St.  Dems. 

Anno  1046.  Gregory  VI.  created  Odilo  Abbot  of  Clmy,  Arch-Bifhop 
of  Lyont,  fending  him  the  Pall  and  the  Ring,  which  he  received  ,  yet 
without  accepting  the  dignity,  faying,  he  would  referve  it  for  him  that 
fhould  be  chofen  Arch-Biftiop. 

'Berengariw  a  French-man,  Deacon  of  St.  Maurice  in  Anjon  ,  was  the 
Difciple  of  Fulbert.  He  was  the  firft  that  was  accounted  an  Heretick 
for  denying  of  Tranfubftantiation,and  troubled  for  the  fame.  In  his 
days  it  was  broached,  that  the  Bread  of  the  Eucharift  was  the  very 
body  of  Chrift  ,  and  the  Wine  his  Blood,  fubftantially  or  properly. 
~Berengariw  on  the  contrary  ,  taught  that  the  Body  of  Chrift  is 
only  in  the  Heavens,  and  thefe  Elements  are  the  Sacraments  of  his 
Body  and  Blood. 

Adelman  BUhop  of  Brixia  wrote  unto  him.  In  the  beginning  he 
faluteth  him  as  his  holy  and  beloved  Brother,  and  Con-difciple  under 
Fulbert  Bifhop  of  Cbartre s.  Then  he(heweth,he  heard  it  reported, 
that  Berengariw  did  teach,  that  the  Body  and  Blood  of  Chrift ,  which 
are  offered  upon  the  Altar  throughout  the  Earth ,  are  not  the  very 
Body  and  Blood  of  Chrift ,  but  only  a  figure  or  certain  fimilitude, 
howbeit  indeed  Eerengarius  had  faid  nothing  fo.  To  the  intent  Adel- 
man may  bring  his  Brother  from  this  opinion,  he  entreateth  him  not  to 
depart  from  the  Dodhine  of  their  Mailer  Fulbert,  and  of  the  Catholick 
Church.  Then  he  appealed!  to  the  teftimony  of  Ambroje  ,  Augulfine 
andHierome  [who  never  taught  the  Doctrine  of  Tranfubfiantiation.] 
He  writeth  alfo,  that  the  very  Flefti  and  Blood  of  Chrift,  was  given 
unto  the  Apoftles  at  the  firft  Inftitution ,  and  are  ftill  given  unto 
faithful  Communicants.  Adelman  enlarged  much  on  this  fubjeft. 

W hat  anfwer  "Berengarw  did  return  to  him,  we  find  not.  But  he 
wrote  anEpiftle  to  Lanfran^  declaring  the  abufes  of  the  Sacrament, 
and  commending  the  Book  of  John  Scctw  upon  thatqueftion.  And 
he  wrote  exprefly,  that  the  Body  of  Chrift  is  not  in  the  Sacrament, 
but  as  in  a  fign,  figure  or  myftery.  He  fpake  alfo  in  his  Preachings  a* 

L  gainft 


74  f&  ccciefiafttcai  $ffto#     Gent.  1 1 . 

t- •  — • — ; — = . 

gainft  the  Romi/h  Church  in  the  Dodrine  of  Marriage ,  and  neceffity 
of  Baptifm.  And  Eellarmine  witnefleth,  that  "Berengariw  called  the 
Church  of  Rome  the  malignant  Church,  the  Council  of  vanity, and  the 
feat  of  Satan*  and  he  called  the  Pope,  not  PoKtrpctm,  vflEpifcopum^fed 
pompificem,  &  Tulpificem. 

It  happened,  that  'Lanfranl^  was  -not  at  home,  and  the  Convent  o- 
pened  the  Letter  of  "Beren^arins  ^  and  fent  it  with  a  Clerk  of  Rbemes^ 
unto  Pope  Leo  IX.  The  Popefummoned  a  Synod  at  Vercdet.  Eeren- 
gar'iw  wasadvifed  not  to  go  himfelf  to  the  Synod,  but  fend  fomc 
Clerks  in  his  name  to  anfwer  for  him.  The  two  Clerks  were  clapt  in 
Prifon.  5c0*Mrwas  condemned  200  years  after  his  death,  and  the 
Dodtrineof  EerengariM  was  condemned,  yet  nothing  done  againft  his 
Perfon  at  that  time,  becaufe  many  favoured  him.  Lanfrank^  pleaded 
for  him:  but  he  was  commanded  by  the  Pope  to  anfwer  him  ,  under 
Pttfies.  ch.Hift.  no  lefs  pain  than  to  be  reputed  as  great  an  Herettck  as  he.  Lattfranl^ 
teK.il,.  following  the  fway  of  the  World  (  for  afterwards  he  was  made 
Arch-Bithop  of  Canterbury  by  Wltiliam  the  Conquerour)  performed 
the  charge. 

Guitmnndt  Bimop  of  Averfa,  wrote  more  bitterly,  and  lefs  truly, 
againft  Berengariw. 

Neverthelefs  Eerengar'w  abode  conftant,  and  was  in  great  efteem 
both  with  the  Nobility  and  People  :  And  therefore  Pope  ViSor  the . 
fecond,  gave  direction  to  the  Bifhops  of  France  ^  to  take  order  with 
him*  The  Pope's  Arabafladours  were  prefent  at  the  Council,  and  B*- 
rtHgariiK  anfwered,  that  he  adhered  to  no  particular  opinion  of  his 
own,  but  he  followed  the  common  Dodrine  of  the  Univerfal  Church, 
that  is,  faith  he,  as  the  Fathers,  Primitive  Church,  and  Scriptures  have  . 
taught.  This  gentle  anfwer  mitigated  the  fury  of  his  Adverfaries : 
yet  he  perfifted  in  his  own  opinion  i  and  for  this  caufe  Lanfranl^  obje&- 
ed  againft  him,  that  he  deluded  the  Council  of  'fours  with  general 
and  doubtful  words. 

Dn  Moot  con-      Afterwards,  Pope  Nicholas  the  fceond  hearing  that  he  was  honour-^ 

tr/Pcrronii.1.  .  ed  of  many,  aflembled  a  great  Council  againft  him  at  Rome,  of  115 

Eiftops,  where  it  was  declared  and  pronounced,  That  the  Bread 

and  Wine  which  is  put  upon  the  Altar,  after  the  Confecration  is  not 

only  the  Sacrament,  but  alfo  the  true  Body  of  our  Lord  Jcfus  Chrift, 

*  it'feems  they  And  that  not  only  the  Sacrament,  but  the  Body  of  the  Lord  is  *  fenfu- 

mcantfenubiy.  a]ly  and  in  truth?  handled  by  the  hands  of  the  Prieft,  broken  and  brui- 

fcd  by  the  teeth  of  the  faithful. 

When  Eerengarm  with  many  Arguments  defended,  that  the  Sacra- 
ment Cto  fpeak  properly)  was  the  figure  of  ChriftV  body,  and  CardK 
nal  AlbertctU;Vi}\Q  was  nominated  to  difpute  againft  him,could  not  by 
g.      ,  voice  reiift  him  \  and  neither  of  the  two  would  yield  unto  the  other, 

taki!.  ?. rei    "  -^%'^K  fought  the  fpace  of  feyen  days  to  anfwer  in  writing.    And 

at 


Gent.li;  tf  BRANCH.  75 

y--.^._J. „ ,-       .         -    •-          -  -.'j^ 

at  laft  when  difputation  could  not  prevail  againft  him ,  he  was  com- 
manded to  recant,  or  elfe  he  muft  exped  to  be  burnt.     They  prefcri-  _ 

it  r  r  f*  •  r  i  •  I  111-       -»-i        OrJtun  aC  C0nj 

bed  to  him  a  form  ot  Recantation  of  his  errour  as  they  called  it.  The  fecrau  dift.  2. 
Recantation  was  penned  by  Cardinal  Humbert,  and  is  regiftred  by 
Gratian.    Neverthelefs  the  words  of  the  Recantation  are  far  from 
Tranfubftantiation. 

Thefe  are  the  words  fo  far  as  they  concern  our  prefent  purpofe,  Maffons  Annrf.*. 
faithfully  tranflated.     /  Berengarius,  do  confent  to  the  Apoftolick^  and  Fl 
Reman  See,  and  with  my  Mouth  and  Heart  confefi,  that   tie   Bread  and 
Wine  laid  OH  the  Altar ,  after  the  Ccnfecration  ,  are  not  only  the  Sacra- 
ment^ but  the  very  body  and  blood  of  our  Lord  Jefus^  andfenfibly,  not  only 
in  Sacrament  but  in  truth,  are  handled  with  the  hands  of  the  Priefi, 
broken  and  chewed  with  the  hands  and  Teeth  of  the  faithful. 

JohnSemeca,  the  deflator  of  the  Decrees,  exprefly  condemneth 
the  words  of  this  Recantation,  and  faith,  If  thou  underftandeft  not  the 
words  of  Berengarius  foundly  ,  thou  (halt  fall  into  a  greater 
Herefie  than  he  did ;  for  we  break  not  Chrift'-r  body  into  pieces, 
nifi  in  fpeciebuf.  ufler  dc  focctflf, 

Eerengarius  returning  home,  returned  alfo  to  his   former   Doftrine,  Ecclef* 
and  wrote  in  defence  of  it.     Some  have  written,  that  Berengariitr  de- 
nyed  the  Baptifm  of  Infants :  But  Arch-BHhop  Vfhcr  faith,  that  in  fo 
many  Synods  held  againft  him,  we  never  find  any  fuch  thing  laid  to 
his  charge. 

ItiyricM  gives  this   Character  of  him  ,  Tempore  Leonis  noni ,  circa 
lO4p.  Berengarius,  Vir  pietate&eruditione  Clartif,  Andegavenfis  Eccle- 
fa  Viaconw^  qunm  videret  Fontificios  Do&ores  quam  plttrimof  ingenti  faftu 
ftanfubjiantiationu  fundament  a  fternere,  quod  mentem  Augujlini  &  alio- 
rumVeterum  non  inteHigerent ,  fed  Sacrament  ales  &  Hyper  bolicas  non-  vid.Thwrtvfw 
ttitUas  locutiones  ad  novum  fenfum  inducendttm  detorquerent ,  veram  fen-  \^c°^^ 
tentiam  ex  Orthodoxo  confenfu  repetitam  his  corrupted  fppofuit ,  &  verbo 
DeiTeftimottiifqtVeterHmTheologorttMrefeVereconatiu  ejl ,  fcr/ptw  etiam 
&  evnlgatit  libris^   ut  fii  in  vera  Voftrina  confrmarentur.  Catal.  Teji. 
Verit.lib.22. 

'Berengarius  dyed  (holding  his  firft  Doctrine)  at  7o»r/,  in  the  Ide 
of  St.  Cofina^ and  was  buried  at  St.  Martins^  where  his  Tomb  was 
reared :  and  Hildebert  Bilhop  of  Cwomxn^  and  then  of  Tours ,  and 
made  his  Epitaph,  which  William  of  Malmesbury  hath  fet  down.  And 
this  is  a  part  of  it. 

§>ue m  tnodb  mlratttr^  femper  mirabitttr  orbh, 

Ille  Berengarius  non  obiturus  obit.  Gull. 

Quern  facr*  fidti-ve{ligia  fumma  tenentem, 

Httic  jam  qttinta  dies  abllulit^  an  fa  nefai. 
lla  diesdamnofa  dies,  &j>erfda  mundo, 
§>ua  dolor  &  mum  fumma  ruina  fittty 
L  2 


Cent.  11. 


?lat»n.  io  vit. 
loaoa.  15. 


Mith.PamH.ft. 
Angler.  Math- 

Wcftm. 


Sigeb;  Gcmblac. 

(Chtoni. 


Thuan.  Hift.  in 
Epift.  Dedicat. 


tlfttr  ca.  3. 


Auguft. 
3710  jotuo,. 


tatus  Ecclefit,  qua  fpett  qua  gloria  Cltri, 
Quo.  cultor  j*ris,  jure  ruente  rttit. 
foft  obttum  fecttmvfaam,  precor  ac  requiefcam^ 
Nee  fiat  meliar  fort  mtd  farte  ftta. 

TIatina  callcth  "BerengxriM^  famous  for  learning  and  holinefs.  He 
was  a  great  friend  to  learning,  and  bred  many  Studeatsof  Divinity  at 
his  proper  charge ,  and  by  means  of  them  his  Do&rine  was  fowed 
through  all  France ,  and  the  Countries  adjacent.  This  was  matter 
unto  his  adverfaries  to  envy  him  the  more.  Arbeit  he  did  waver  as 
Peter  did  >  and  although  his  Dodrine  was  fo  often  condemned  by  the 
Popes,  yet  it  could  not  be  rooted  out  of  the  minds  of  men  :  for  Mat- 
then?  Paris  writeth,  that  all  France  was  affe&ed  with  this  Doctrine, 
and  Matthew  of  Weftminfter  at  the  fame  time  faith,  That  the  Doctrine 
ofBerengariuf  had  corrupted  all  the  Englifajtalian  and  French  Nations: 
So  that  the  Eerengarianr,  that  is,  the  Preachers  of  the  true  Faith, 
(which  the  Romanics  call  HerefieJ  againft  the  rifing  errours  did  not 
lurk  in  a  Corner. 

And  Sigebert  in  his  Chronicle  faith,  that  there  mere  many  difputati- 
ons  among  diversperfons,  both  for  him  and  againft  him,  both  by 
word  and  by  writing. 

Thttanus  alfo  hath  noted,  that  in  Germany  were  many  of  the  fame 
Doctrine  ••>  and  that  "Bruno  Bifhop  of  Tivpfrx,  baniflied  them  all  out 
of  his  Diocefs,  but  fparing  their  Blood.  And  John  'tojington  a  Fran- 
cifcan,  in  his  confellion  fet  forth  Anno  1380.  faith  thus.  The  Heretical 
fcntence  which  is  raifed  of  the  dreams  of  Berengarius  affirmeth  openly, 
that  all  the  Fathers  of  the  Church,  and  Do&ors  of  the  fecond  thou- 
fand  years  (as  they  fpeak)  that  is,  who  have  been  within  380  years 
have  been  after  the  loofmg  of  Satan,  and  the  Doctrine  which  we  (faith 
he)  hold  to  be  the  Faith  of  the  Church  s  concerning  the  blefled  Eu« 
charift,  they  fay  it  is  not  right,  but  an  errour  and  herelie ,  and  the  tares 
of  Satan  being  let  loo£e. 

To  defend  the  words  of  the  former  Recantation,  which  was  given 
in  the  Synod  at  La-teran  unto  Bf rtf«g<jr/w,  thefe  flattereis  of  the  Romijh 
Idol  have  devifed  a  new  diftin&ion  of  oral  manducation,  viz.  That 
oral  eating  is  either  vifiblc  or  invifible.  And  they  called  the  opinion 
of  eating  Chrift'/  fleth  vifibly,  the  errour  of  the  Capernaitef^  and  they 
faid,  the  eating  of  Chrift  V  fie(h  with  the.  mouth  invifibly  ,  was  the 
explication  of  Chrift.1  But  the  Fathers  of  higher  antiquity  condemn- 
ed all  oral  eating  as  Capernaitifm  ;  neither  were  the  Capernaites  fo 
fubtle,  as  to  make  fuch  diftin&ions :  yea  furely  Chrift  would-  have 
made  his  corrfi&ion  according  to  their  errour.  Mark  what  St.  Ati" 
gufi ine  faith,  who  abideth  not  in  Chrift,  and  in  whom  Chrift  abideth 

not,  without  all  doubt,  he  neither,  fpiritualJy  eateth  Chrift'-f  ftelh ,  nor 


Cent.  ii.  Of  FRANCE.  77 

drinketh  his  blood,  albeit  carnally  and  vifibly  he  with  his  teeth  do  prefs 
the  Sacrament  of  the  Body  and  Blood  of  Chrift.  And  7n»ff.2S.  What  is 
it  ?  They  are  Spirit  and  Life,  they  are  fpiritually  to  be  underftood :  tin- 
derftandeft  thou  them  fpiritually  ?  they  are  Spirit  and  Life.  Underftan- 
deft  thou  them  carnally  ?  fo  alib  they  arc  Spirit  and  Life ,  but  not  to 
tfaee.  They  underftanding  fpiritual  things  carnally,  were  fcandalized. 

Here  St.  Augu^ine  oppofeth  carnal  eating  unto  fpiritual  eating  ,  and 
he  faith,  that  carnally  men  eat  not  the  flefti  of  Chrift,  but  the  Sacra- 
ment cf  his  flefti. 

Philip  the  firft,  fucceeded  his  Father  Henry.  This  Henry  had  cau- 
fcd  his  Son  Philip  to  be  crowned  King  being  but  feven  years  old,  and 
gave  him  "Baldwin  Earl  of  Glanders ,  for  Tutor  and  Regent  of  the 
Realm.  He  lived  but  a  little  time  after  his  Son'/  Coronation.  The 
King'/  Minority  paflfed  quietly  by  the  wife  government  of  'Baldwin^ 
who  having  accompanied  his  Pupil  to  the  Age  of  1 5  years,  dyeth,  ani 
leaveth  him  his  Realm  in  peace.  'Baldwin  left  two  Sons,B0/*/B>/»  and 
Robert  with  their  Mother  Richilde.  Then  their  Unckle  Robert  the 
Frifon,  pretended  the  Inheritance  to  belong  to  him ,  and  fupplanting 
his  Nephews,  feizeth  on  the  Earldom  of  Flanders  :  and  King  Philip 
forfakes  Baldwin's  Children  at  their  need,  forgetting  the  good  Offices 
he  had  received  from  their  Father. 

Now  Wftiam  Duke  of  Normandy  is  received  King  of  England.,  and 
Crowned  in  afolemn  AlTembly  of  the  Englifh  3  and  homage  is  done 
unto  him  as  their  lawful  Lord,  Anno  1066.  He  had  encountred  King- 
Harold  and  overcome  his  Hoft,  in  that  place  where  afterward  was  buil- 
ded  the  Abbey  of  Battle  in  Suffex. 

The  day  after  the  Battle  very  early  in  the  morning,  Odo  Bifhop  of 
IBaiettx  fung  Mafs  for  thofe  that  were  departed, being  flain  in  the  Battle. 

Before  this  time  Priefts  were  forbidden  to  marry ,  but  could  not  be 
re/trained  from  their  liberty. 

In  the  Year  1074.  Pope  Gregory  VII.  otherwife  Hildebrand  in  a  Sy- 
Eod  at  Rome,  condemned  all  married  Priefts  as  Nicolaitans.  He  di« 
reded  his  Bulls  (as  they  called  them)  to  Bifhops ,  Dukes ,  and  other 
Powers,  declaring  every  one  to  be  no  Prieft ,  that  had  a  Wife.  His 
Bull  was  fent  into  Italy  and  Germany.  This  Decree  being  proclaimed 
through  all  /* */y,  he  fent  many  Letters  unto  the  French  Bifhops ,  com- 
manding that  they  (hould  upon  pain  of  an  everlafting  curfe,  put  away 
all  the  Women  from  the  Houfes  of  Priefts.  But  the  refidue  of 
the  Clergy  ftoutjy  withftood  the  Pope'/  decree,  and  would  not  agree 
thereunto. 

Then  there  arofe  fuch  a  Schifm  in  the  Church ,  that  the  people 
would  not  fend  their  Priefts  unto  the  Bi(hops>  but  did  elecl:  them  a* 
tnongthemfelves,  and  put  them  in  Office  without  the  knowledge  of 
the  Bifhops,  And  ^*^{|w&ith,  that  both  Jfriefts  and  people  did 

pppofe 


Cent,  1  1. 


oppofe  the  PopeV  decree,  and  that  not  only  in  Germany,  but  in  France 
alfe.  Yea  Gebuiler,  a  late  Papift,  teftifieth,  that  hi  thofe  times  24  Bi- 
(hops  in  Germany  and  Franc*,  with  their  Clergy,  did  conftantly  main- 
tain the-  liberty  of  Priefts  marriage.  If  other  Nations  had  followed 
the  like  concord  and  conftancy  of  thefe  German  and  French  Minifters, 
the  devilifh  decree  of  this  Hildebrandhzd  been  avoided. 

About  this  time  at  Nantes  ,  a  Letter  was  prefented  unto  a  Clerk  ,  as 
directed  from  Hell  ;  in  it  Satan  and  all  that  fry,  gave  thanks  unto  all 
Math  Paris  Hift-  tne  P°P^  Clergy,  becaufe  they  were  not  wanting  to  do  their  wills 
'  and  pleafures,  and  becaufe  by  negligence  of  preaching  they  had  fent  fo 
many  fouls  to  Hell,  as  no  Age  preceding  had  fceri  fo  many. 
\  After  the  death  of  Hildebrattd,  ViUor  the  third,  Abbot  of  Cafla,  was 

made  Pope,  not  by  the  Election  of  the  Romans  or  Cardinals,  but  was 
thruft  in  by  the  aid  of  his  Harlot  Mathilda,  and  the  Normans  that  were 
of  his  faction. 

He  being  eftablUhed,  began  to  defend  Gregorie's  pranks,  againft  the 
Emperour  and  others.  But  the  haftinefs  of  his  death  ,  (hortned  his 
malice. 

When  Gregory  and  Vi8or  were  dead,  the  Bifhops  of  Germany  and 
Fnitfce,  conlidering  the  calamities  of  the  Church,  by  that  unhappy 
fchifm,  met  at  Gurftung,  to  end  the  controverfie.  There  Conrade  Bi« 
•jucntAn  (hop  of  fctowfc*  made  a  long  Oration  in  the  Aflembly.  The  Papal 
party  had  chofen  Gebhard  Bithop  of  Salisburgk,  to  fpeak  in  their  jiame, 
but.  when  he  heard  the  Oration  of  Cvnrade  ,  he  would  not  open  his 
mouth  to  fpeak  on  the  contrary.  : 

At  length  a  Synod  was  convocated  at  Mentz  ,  whither  came  the 
Emperour,  the  Electors,  and  many  Dukes,  Peter  BHhop  of  Portua. 
and  Legate  of  Clemens  ,  and  many  Bifliops  of  Germany  and  ¥raticcy 
There  the  faftion  of  Hildcbrand  by  common  fuffrage  was  condemned, 
as  contrary  unto  Chriftian  piety,  and  a  decree  was  publifiSed  ,  that  all 
Chrifiians  (hould  (hun  the  company  of  thofe  accurfed  pcrfons. 

Hildebert  Arch-Bilhop  of  Tours,  lived  under   Philip  the  firft  King 

of  France.     At  that  time  the  Kings  of  France  furnifhed  the  Churches 

with  Paftors  after  the  death  of  the  Incumbent.     Then  Hildebert  ap- 

proved the  prefentation  made  by  the  King  to  a  certain  BUhoprick  of 

his  Realm,  commending  him  in  this  manner.     1  congratulate  with  ver* 

Review  of  the  9tte*  *^at  ^at^  ^er  ren>ar^  under  our  King.     He  hath  found  that  the 

COUIK.  of  Trent  power  of  a  King  Jhines  more  bright  by  gifts  and  liberality,   than  by  the 

p>a'5'  Scepter,  and  that  it  is  not  fxfficient  for  a  Prince  to  flir  up  his  Sftbje&s, 

to  well-doing  by  Examples,  unlefithey  be  alfo  provoked  by  rewards.  Hence 

it  is,  that  your  good  manners  were  honoured  by  a  great  Pricfthood. 

The  difpofition   of  the  King  was  found  and  prudent,  confidering, 

it  could  not  better  provide  for  the  Church  than  by  placing  you 

in  it. 

AC 


Cent.  M.  Of  FRANCE.  79 

At  this  time  Iw  Arch-BUhopof  Cha rtres  in  France ,  after  he  was 
elected  by  the  Clergy,  wasprefented  to  the  fame  KingP^////?  the  firrt, 
and  received  his'Inveftiture,  and  paftoral  ftaff  from  him  ,  upon  the 
refufal  of  the  Arch-Biftopof  S«w,  he  was  confecrated  by  the  Pope  i 
whereat  the  faid  Arch-BKhop  was  highly  offended,  infomuch  that  He 
with  othet  Bifhops  at  the  Synod  of  Eftampes^  were  upon  the  point  of 
revoking  the  faid  con'fecration  made  by  the  Pope,  as  prejudicial  to  the 
Ring'/  Authority.  Sec  here  what  the  fame  Bithopfaith  of  it  in  a  Let- 
ter unto  Pope  Urban.  Moreover,! give  your  Holinejs  to  wit ,  that  the 
Arch-1>i(hop  of  Sens  being  infatuated  by  the  Counfel  of  the  %ijbop  of 
Paris,  having  fitmmonedthe  faid'Bijbop  of  Paris,  and  two  others  of  the 
fame  humour  (viz.  be  of  Meaux  and  He  of  Troycs)  did  very  indiscreetly 
accufe  me  this  prefent  Year,  becaufe  of  the  confecration  which  I  had  re- 
ceived from  you  >  faying  that  I  had  offended  againfl  the  King's  Majefty^ 
by  attempting  to  receive  my  confecration  from  the  See  Apcftolick^ .. 

This  Urban  the  fecond  ,  forbade  the  Bifhops  of  France  to  Crown  ivaEpifti  IH. 
King  ?&////>,  whom  he  had  excommunicated  :  but  they  were  readier 
to  obey  their  King'/  commands,  than  his  prohibition.  In  the  Council  of 
C/ermont'm  France  (faith  Matthew  Paris)  held  Anno  10^4.  Pope  Urban  wSihz!"1*  * 
excommunicated  Philip  Ring  of  France. 

And  another  Englijh  Authour  faith,  In  this  Council  the  Pope  ex-  will.  Malmsb, ' 
communicated  Ring  Philip  of  Trance^  and  all  fuch  as  (hould  call  him  It4' 
their  King  or  their  Lord,  and  which  mould  obey  him  ,  or  fpeak  unto 
him.  In  like  manner  Ivo  Bifliop  of  Chartres  fpeaks  of  them  botho 
By  reafonof  this  accufation  King  Philip  was  excommunicated  by 
VoycVrbatt  at  the  Council  of  Clermont ,  and  having  refumed  the 
fame  Wife  after  he  was  divorfed  from  her,  he  was  afterwards  ex- 
communicated at  the  Council  of  Poiftiers  by  the  two  Cardinals. 
John  and  Rennet.  Notwithftanding  which  Excommunication  he 
was  Crowned  by  the  Arch-Bimop  of  'tours  in  a  full  Affembly  of  o- 
ther  Bifliops.  . 

Know  you  therefore  (faith  the  fame  Bilhop  of  Ghartres  in  a  Letter  ivoEpift.a&al 
of  his  to  Pope  Urban)  that  contrary  to  the  prohibition  of  your  Legate^  Urban,  fecund, 
the  drch-Bifhop  of  Tours  hath   fet  the  Crown  upon   the  Head  of  the 
King.    He  fpeaks  afterwards  of  the  Election  of  a  Bifliop,  made  at 
the  fame  time  by  thofe  who  were  aflembled  with  the  faid    Arch- 
Bimop.  • 

In  another  Epiftle  written  to  the  fame  Vrban,  he  (heweth  him  how 
Philip  had  fent  Ambafladours  unto  him  with  prayers  in  one  hand, 
and  threats  in  the  other,  fuch  as  thefe,  that  the  King  and  Kingdom  would 
relinquijh  their  obedience  to  him,  unlefske  did  reftore  the  King  unto  hit 
Crown^  and  abfelve  him  from  the  fentence  of  Excommunication.  And 
attecwardshe  advertifeth  him,  How  the  Arch-BiJbop  o/Rhemes,  Sens 
and  Tours,  had  by  injunction,  from  the  King  ?  affl°JHtf4.  i^^r  fuffraga*t  ' 


8o         gOjc  Ccclcfiaaical  %rttoa?        Cent.  a. 


Troyes,  the  firjl  Sunday  after  All-Saints  day  ,  after  be 
Jho*ld  have  returned  his  Attfiver. 

Whence  we  colled  two  things,  i.  That  the  BHhops  of  Franctdld 
not  ceafe  to  acknowledge  their  King,  nor  to  obey  him  ,  and  commu- 
nicate with  him,  notwkhftanding  the  prohibition  from  the  Council  of 
Clermont.  2.  That  they  were  very  ready  to  put  in  Execution  thole 
threats  which  the  Ambafladours  went  to  make  unto  the  Pope,  in  cafe 
he  did  not  condefcend  unto  the  King's  pleafure. 

The  fame  ho  complains  of  the  Pope's  Legate  ,  becaufe  he  had 
chofen  the  City  of  Phyes,  there  to  decide  the  caufe  of  the  Clergy  of 
Chartres,  who  could  not  repair  thither  with  fafety  by  reafon  of  the 
populoufnefs  of  that  City. 

The  fame  Bifhop  having  a  controverfie  with  forne  of  his  Clergy, 
depending  before  the  Arch-Biftiop  of  Sens,  his  Metropolitan,  intreats 
him  to  appoint  a  place  for  Judgement,  whither  they  might  go  and 
come  in  fafety. 

The  Legate  fore-mentioned,  having  appointed  a  Council5confifting 

of  French  Bifhopsto  meet  at  Sens,  for  the  abfolution  of  King  Philip 

s'  the  iirft,  from  the  Excommunication  which  was  darted  out  againft 

him  by  the  Pope,  by  reafon  of  his  unlawful  marriage  ,  he  gives    him 

notice  that  he    might    have   done  better,  to  have  proceeded    to 

jvo  Epiit.  r*6.    that  abfolution  in  another  place  than  Sens^  that  fo   every  one  might 

have  had  means  to  fpeak  his  opinion  freely. 

The  fame  Bi(hop  of  Chartres  continuing  his  devotion  to  Pope  Vrban^ 
km.Ep.ft.ii6.  uponlheEledioiiof  an  Arch-Bi(hop  of  Rhemes  ,  affureth  the  Pope 
that  one  was  chofen,  who  was  very  zealous  for  the  See  Apoftofick,  ad- 
ding afterwards,  Nowkow  neceffary  is  it  for  the  Church  of  Rome  ,  to 
place  in  that  See  a  Minifter,  which  is  devout  and  affeftionate  unto  her  ,  it 
is  not  for  me  to  inform  your  IPifdom,  which  kpows  very  well  ^  that  this  See 
wears  the  Royal  Diadem,  and  fervesfor  a  pattern  to  ati  other  Churches  ef 
France,  either  of  Ruine  or  Refitrre&ion. 

This  Ivo  of  Chartres^  although  he  had  received  his  Invefiiture  from 
ViingPhilipi  yet  inasmuch  as  he  had  gotten  his  confirmation  from 
Pope  Urban,  he  was  always  affectionate  to  him  ,  and  the  Roman  See, 
even  to  the  prejudice  of  the  King  and  Kingdom  ,  as  may  be  collected 
from  fome  of  his  Epiftles. 

tu  E  ift  c  ^n  tne  c°ntrary  becaufe  Lupw  had  gotten  the  Abbey  of  St.  Peter  ds 
Ferriers  in  the  Diocefs  of  Sens^  by  the  donation  of  Charles  the  bald,  he 
was  always  loyal,  and  even  brags  of  it  in  one  of  his  Epiftles. 

It  happened,  that  there  came  a  French  Pilgrim  tojerufalem,  called 

Tho.Fuiier.Hift.  ?eter  an  Hermit,  born  at  Amiens  in  Trance  ;  one  of  a  contemptible 

of  the  holy  war  pcrfon,  yet  a  man  of  a  quick  apprehenfion,  and  eloquent  Tongue,  and 

hl>.  t  .  ca.  8.     one  tkat  was  countecj  very  Religious.    With  him  Simon  the  Patriarch 

of  Jerufajem  often  treated  ,  concerning  the   prefent  miferies  of  the 

Chriftians 


Cent.  ii.  Of  FRANCE.  81 


Chriftians  under  the  Turks,  what  hope  of  amendment,  and  how  the 
matter  might  be  fecretly  contrived,  that  the  Princes  in  Europe  might 
aflift  and  relieve  them.  Peter  moved  with  the  Patriarch'/  perfwaii- 
ons,  the  equity  and  honourablenefs  of  the  caufe  ,  and  chkfly  with  a 
Vifion(as  they  fay)  from  Heaven,  took  the  whole  bufinefs  upon  him, 
and  travelled  to  R0we,  to  confult  with  Pope  Urban  the  fecond  ,  about 
the  advancing  fo  pious  a  defign. 

Some  think,  that  the  Pope  firft  fecretly  employed  this  Hermit  to  be 
his  Fador,  and  to  go  to  Jerujalem  to  fet  on  foot  fo  beneficial  a  Trade 
for  the  Church  of  Rome  •,  becaufe  the  Pope  alone  was  the  gainer  by 
this  great  adventure,  and  all  other  Princes  of  Europe  came  off 
lofers. 

Pope  Urban  had  called  the  Council  of  Clermont  in  France  foremen- 
tioned,  where  met  many  Princes  and  Prelates  to  -  whom  he  made  a 
long  oration  :  which  was  to  this  effed.  Firft,  he  bemoaned  the  mi- 
feries  of  the  Chriftians  in  Afia,  and  the  vaftation  of  thofe  holy  places. 
Next,  he  encouraged  the  Princes  in  the  Council  to  take  Arms  againft  T)ruisli.i,c,i$. 
thofe  Infidels',  and  to  break  their  bonds  in  fundcr,  and  to  caft  their 
cords  far  from  them  (as  it  is  Written)  to  caft  ottt  the  Handmaid  and 
her  Children. 

Otherwife,if  they  would  not  help  to  quench  their  neighbours  hou- 
fes,  they  muft  expert  the  fpeedy  burning  of  their  own,  and  that  thefe 
barbarous  Nations  would  quickly  over-run  all  Europe. 

Now  to  fet  an  edge  to  their  courage,  he  promifed  to  all  that  went 
this  Voyage,  a  full  remiflion  of  their  fins,  and  pennances  here,  and  the 
enjoying  Heaven  hereafter.  Laftly ,  he  thus  concluded  ,  Gird  your 
Swords  to  your  Thighs,  O  ye  men  of  might:  It  is  our  parts  to 
pray,  yours  to  fight :  ours  with  Mofes  to  hold  up  unwearied  hands 
to  God,  yours  to  ftretch  forth  the  Sword  againft  thefe  Children  of 
Atnaleck;  Amen. 

This  motion  wasmoft  chearfully  entertained,  fo  that  the  whole 
Affembly  cryed  out ,   God  rvfteth  it :  A  fpeech  which  was  afterward  ^e||- An-  9» 
ufed  as  a  fortunate  Watch- word  in  their  moft  dangerous  detigns. 

Then  many  took  a  crofs  of  red  cloth  on  their  right  (boulder ,  as  a 
badge  of  their  devotion  :  And  to  gain  the  favourable  affiftance  of  the 
Virgin  Mary  to  make  this  War  the  more  happy,  her  Office  was  inftitu- 
ted,  containing  certain  prayers,  which  at  Canonical  hours  were  to  be 
made  unto  her. 

On eobferveth,  that  it  is  enough  to  make  it  fufpicious,  that  there 
were  fome  finifter  ends  in  this  War  ,  becaufe  Gregory  VII.  otherwife  racrt  beS 
called  Hildebrand  (and  by  Luther  in  his  Chronology  ,  Larva  Diaboli.} 
the  worft  of  all  that  fate  in  the  Papal  Chair,  firft  began  it :  but  death 
preventing  him,  Vrban  the  fecond  fwhom  Cardinal  Benno  called  T«r- 
&w,  for  troubling  the  whole  world)  effected  it. 

M  Now 


Si  3U)eeccleftafticai$ifto# 

Now  a  great  controverfie  was  in  Chriftendom  about  the  iuvefti- 
ture  of  Biihops,  whether  the  right  lay  in  the  Pope,  or  in  fecular 
Princes. 

Now  the  Pope  diverted  this  queftion  out  of  Princes  Heads,  by 
opening  an  i(Tue  another  way,  and  gave  vent  to  the  a&ivity  of  their 
fpirits  in  this  Martial  employment ,  and  in  the  mean  time  quietly 
went  away  without  any  corrival.  concluding  the  controverfie  for  his 
own  profit. 

Moreover,  he  got  a  Mafs  of  Money  by  it.  He  had  the  office  to 
bear  the  bag,  and  what  was  put  into  it, as  contributed  to  this  action 
from  pious  people,  and  expended  but  fome  few  drops  of  the  (howers 
he  received. 

As  the  Pope,  fo  moft  of  the  Clergy  improved  their  Eftates  by  this 
W^*'  For  the  fecular  Princes  who  went  this  Voyage,  fold  or  morga- 
ged  moft  of  their  Eftates  (idling  for  Gold,  to  purchafe  with  Steel  and 
Iron)  and  the  Clergy  were  generally  their  Chapmen.  Godfrey  Duke 
of  Bowlto»,fold  that  Dukedom  to  the  Bi(hop  of  Liege  ,  and  the  Caftle 
of  Sartenfy  and  Monfa  to  the  Bilhop  of  Verdun.  Baldwin  his  Brother 
Daniel  in  HCH-  fold  him  the  City  of  Verdun.  Yea  by  thefe  Tales  the  third  part  of 
the  Feoffs  in  France^  came  to  be  poflcffed  by  the  Clergy,  who  made, 
good  bargains  for  themfelves,  and  had  the  confcience  to  buy  Earth 
cheap,  and  Heaven  dear. 

Many  Prelates  and  Fryarsleft  their  paftoral  Charges  and  Covents  to, 
follow  this  bufinefs. 

The  total  fum  of  thofe  pilgrim  Souldiers  amounted  to  three  hun- 
dred thoufand.  The  French^  Utttcb^  Italian  and  Englijk,  were  the  four 
Elemental  Nations ,  whereof  this  Army  was  compounded.  But 
France  contributed  more  Souldiers  to  this  Army  than  all  Chriftendom 
befides.  The  (ignal  men  were  Hugh,  firnamed  le  Grand ,  Brother  to 
the  King  of  France.  Godfrey  Duke  of  'BoviHon  ,  Baldwin  and  Euftace 
his  younger  Brochers  i  Stephen  Earl  of  Bloys^  Father  to  Stephen  after- 
wards King  of  England,  j  Keymund  Earl  of  Iholoufr*  Robert  Earl  of 
Flanders  •,  Hugh  Earl  of  St.  Paul  •,  ~B*ldvem  de  Burge^  with  many  more :  . 
befides  of  the  Clergy  Aimar  Bifhop  of  Ptty^  and  Legate  to  the  Pope, 
and  WiHiam  Bilhop  of  Orange. 

Out  of  the  fartheft  parts  of  Italy ,  Boemund  Prince  of  farentHm,  and 
Ttancred  his  Nephew,  (both  of  the  Norman  feed,  though  growing  on 
the^tt/wtffoylj  led  an  Army  of  twelve  thoufand  Men.  Many 
Souldiers  alfo  went  out  of  Lombardy. 

England  alfo  (the  Pope's  pack-horfe  in  that  Age)  fcnt  many  brave 
wen  under  Robert  Duke  of  Normandy^  Brother  to  WftiamTOifto  (now 
King  of  England  after  the  Death  of  his  Father,  as  Stattcbatnp  and  o- 
thers  whofe  names  are  loft. 

All  thefe  Princes  being  called  ap  by  Pope  Z^<w,  g.'theied  together 

great 


Cent.n.  Of  FRANCE. 8| 

great  Armies  at  divers  times  and  places  unto  that  War.  After  many 
difficulties,  and  the  lofs  of  many  men  they  arrived  in  Pa/f/?*«e,  and  Je- 
rttfalem  was  won  by  the  Chriftians,  and  twenty  thoufand  X«rJy  there- 
in (lain  on  July  1 5.  Anno  109$. 

Robert  the  Npr;**;*  refafeth  the  Kingdom  of  Jtrufalem^  and  God- 
frey of  Bouillon  is  chofen  King.  In  this  choice,  that  they  might  know 
th*  nature  of  the  Princes  the  better,  their  Servants  were  examined  on 
Oath  to  confefs  their  Matter'/  faults.  The  Servants  of  Godfrey  pro- 
tefted their Mafter'/ only  fault  was  this,  That  when  Mattens  were 
done,  he  would  ftay  fo  long  in  the  Church,  to  know  of  the  Prieft 
the  meaning  of  every  Image  and  picture ,  that  Dinner  at  home  was 
fpoiled  by  his  long  tarrying :  All  admired  hereat ,  and  unanimoufly 
chofe  him  their  King. 

In  the  latter  end  of  this  Century,  "Bruno ,  Chanon  of  the 
Church  of  Colen  and  Rbemes ,  bare  the  praife  of  Learning  and 
Holinefs  ,  and  was  Mafter  of  the  Schools ,  by  whom  the  order  of 
the  Caribttfianf  was  begun. 

The  Ciftercian  Order  was  begun  Anno  i  o$>8.  by  Robert ,   Abbot  of 
^  as  Sigcbert  faith. 

Godfrey  of  Bovillon  d*yed ,  having  reigned  one  year ,  wanting  five 
days.  After  his  death,  the  Chriftians  with  a  joynt  confent  fent  to 
"Baldwin  his  Brother,  Count  of  Edejfa  ,  (  a  City  in  Arabia ,  the  Lord 
whereof  had  adopted  this  'Baldrvin  to  be  his  Heir)  and  entreated  him 
to  accept  of  the  Kingdom,  which  honourable  offer  he  courteoufly  em- 
braced, Anno  noo. 

He  was  a  Prince  of  the  largeft  file,  higher  by  the  Head  than  his 
Subjects  i  Bred  he  was  a  Scholar,  entred  into  Orders ,  anal  was  Pre- 
bendary in  the  Churches  of  Rbemes,  Liege,  and  Cambray  ,  but  after- 
wards turned  fecular  Prince,  but  Baldwin  put  not  off  his  Scholar-lhip 
with  his  habit,  but  made  good  ufe  thereof  in  his  Reign. 


M  2  Cent  1 2. 


ccrteftaftical  $tfto# 


Century  XII. 


A  Nno  1107.  Pope  Tafcal  the  fecond,  gathered  a  Council  at 
Iroyes  in  France,  to  throw  out  of  the  hands  of  the  Empe- 
rour Henry  V.  the  right  of  Inveftiture  of  Bifliops. 

In  the  beginning  of  this  Century,  Great  Hugh  of  France 

was  buried  at  larfus  in  Cilkia,  Duke  Guelpbo  at  Paphos  in  Cyprus. 

Diemo  the  Arch-Bi(hopof  Saltzbttrgbfavrhis  own  Heart  cut  out,  and 

Martyred  by  theT«r^/at  Cborazin,  fo  many  thoufand  Souldiers  were 

confumed  with  Plague,  Famine  and  the  Sword,  that  Conrade^  Abbot  of 

10  8  Vrfpurg,  who  went  and  wrote  this  Voyage,  faith,  God   manifefted  by- 

'  the  event,  that  this  War  was  not  pleafing  to  him. 

Rabbi  Solomon  Jarchi^  a  learned  French  Jew,  who  hath  commented 
on  the  whole  Bible,  to  whom  Lyra  is  beholden  for  the  Hebrew ,  dyed 
Anno  1105. 

Philip  King  of  France  having  refigned  his  Crown  to  his  Son 
Lewes  at  Orleans ,  and  caufed  him  to  be  Crowned  King,  dyeth  at 
Melun,  Anno  1 1  op. 

Calixttts  the  fecond,  before  called  Guido  of  Burgundy,  defcended  of 
the  Kings  of  England  and  France^  fucceeded  Pope  Gelafw.  He  was 
chofen  Pope  at  Clugny  in  France  by  a  few  Cardinals,  whom  Gflafiw  had 
brought  with  him,  yet  was  Pope  Gregory  alive  ,  whom  the  Emperour 
himfelf  had  created. 

Calixtits  betiegeth  Satrium,  a  Town  where  Gregory  was,  and 
having  taken  the  Town,  and  his  fellow  Pope,  he  caufed  feimto  be  fet 
upon  a  Camel,  with  his  Face  to  the  Camel's  Tail ,  fo  he  was  brought 
through  the  ftreets  of  Rome,  holding  the  Tail  in  his  hand  inftead  of 
a  Bridle:  and  afterwards  being  (horn  he  was  thruft  into  a  Mo- 
naftery. 

This  Pope  Calixtw  was  the  firft  that  eftablifhed  the  decrees  of  the 
Papal  See,  againft  the  Emperour.  He  held  a  general  Council  at  Rhemes, 
and  decreed  that  Priefts,  Deacons  and  Sub-Deacons  fhould  put  away 
their  Concubines  and  Wives :  and  whofoever  was  found  to  keep  his 
Wifer(houTd be  deprived  of  Benefice,  and  all  other  Ecclefiaftical  li- 
ving ,  whereupon  a  certain  English  Writer  made  thefe  Verfes 
following. 


Cent.  il.  Of  FRANCE.  8* 


0  btne  Calixte,  nunc  omnis  Clem  odit  te,  * 

Quondam  Presbyteri  poterant  Vxoribw  ttti. 
Hoc  defirnxifti,  pojiquam  tu  Papa  fuifti, 
Ergo  titum  merit 0  nomen  habent  odio. 

He  fate  five  years,  and  ten  months.  "Honoring  the  fecond  fucceeded 
him.  In  the  time  of  this  Honoriw ,  Armtlpb  a  fingular  preacher  of 
Chriftian  Religion  flouriflied.  Hugo  ,  Platina  and  Sabellicuf  by ,  he 
was  Bifnop  of  Lions  in  France.  Trithemius  faith  he  was  a  Prieft, 
whofe  Hiftory  I  will  briefly  fet  down.  Arnulph,  was  a  devout  ,  and 
zealous  Man,  a  worthy  preacher;  Coming  to  Row?,  he  rebuked  in  his- 
preaching  the  diflblutenefs,  incontinency  ,  avarice  ,  and  pride  of  the 
fiomijk  Clergy,  provoking  all  to  follow  Chrirt  and  his  Apoftles ,  rather 
in  their  poverty  and  purenefs  of  Life  :  by  reafon  whereof  this  man 
was  well  accepted  and  liked  of  the  Nobility  of  Row?,  for  a  true  Di« 
fciple  of  Chrift :  but  of  the  Cardinals  and  Clergy  he  was  no  lefs  ha- 
ted, than  favoured  of  the  other  -,  infomuch  that  privily  in  the  night 
feafon  they  took  him  and  deftroyed  him.  This  his  Martyrdom  Cfaith 
hejl  was  revealed  unto  him  before  by  an  Angel,  he  being  in  the  defert " 
when  he  was  fent  forth  to  preach.  '  Whereupon  he  thus  fpake  unto 
them  publickly.  I  know  (faith  he)  ye  feek  my  Life,  and  will  deftroy 
me  privily,  bccaufe  I  preach  to  you  the  truth,  and  blame  your  pride, 
avarice,  incontinency,  with  your  unfatiable  greedinefs  in  getting  and 
heaping  up  riches,  therefore  you  are  difpleafed  with  me. 

I  take  here  Heaven  and  Earth  to  witnefs,  that  I  have  preached  un- 
to you  that  which  I  was  commanded  of  the  Lord,  but  you  contemn 
me  and  your  Creator,  who  by  his  only  Son  hath  redeemed  youi  And 
no  marvel,  if  you  feek  my  death,  being  a  finful  man  preaching  to  you 
the  truth,  whereas  if  St.  Peter  were  here  this  day,  and  rebuked  your 
vices,  which  do  fo  multiply  above  meafure,  you  would  not  fpare  him 
neither.  And  as  he  was  faying  this  with  a  load  voice,  he  added,  for 
my  part  I  am  not  afraid  to  fuffer  death  for  the  truth's  fake,but  this  I  fay 
unto  you,  that  God  will  look  upon  your  iniquities,  and  be  avenged  df 
you.  You  being  full  of  all  impurity  ,  play  the  blind  guides  to  the 
people  committed  to  you,  leading  them  the  way  to  Hell.  Thus  the 
hatred  of  the  Popifh  Clergy  being  incehfed  againfthim  for  psyching, 
they  confpired  againft  him  and  killed  him.  Sabellicus  and  Platina  fay,  Fox  Aft 
that  they  hanged  him,  and  others  that  they  drowned  him.  All  num. ada 
.the  Clergy  were  defamed  for.  his  death  »  the  Pope  took  it  ill,  but  he  U3'*' 
revenged  it  not. 

H&^t  forementioned,  Arch*Bi(hop  of  Iwrs,  about  this  time 
wrote  many  Epiftles :  in  one  unto  an  Earl  going  in  Pilgrimage  ,  he 
eoHdemneth  Pilgrims  fot  vifittng.  of  Monuments.  And  fpeaking  of 

the- 


s<5  e^cdefiatttcattfto         cent. 


the  Romtnijts,  he  faith  their  bnfinefs  is  in  eafe,  their  prey  is  in  peace  > 
their  fighting  is  in  fleeing,  and  vi&ory  in  cups  :  they  regard  no  man, 
nor  order,  nor  time  :  they  are  in  Judgement  Scythians,  in  Chamber  vi- 
pers, at  Feafts  peafants-,  in  undemanding  ftones  ,  in  refpedfc  of  anger 
tire,  to  forgive  iron,  in  difcretion  pratling  Daws  >  in  friendship  Pan- 
thers, in  deceit  Foxes,  in  pride  Bulls  ,  to  devour  Minorants.  He 
wrote  to  HonoriiK  II.  refuting  appellations  to  Rome  ,  becaufe  it  was  a 
novelty  contrary  to  the  Scripture,  and  very  hurtful  to  the  Church.  He 
fheweth  the  condition  of  Rome  briefly  in  two  Verfes. 


Morn,  in  Myft.  -  ^^  fxax^  fi  vel  Vomim  urbs  ilia  care  ret, 

Ve  I  Vomin'tf  effet  turpe  carere  fide. 

He  was  apprehended,  and  imprifoned  at  Rome. 

King  Lewes  called  a  Council  of  the  Lords  and  Bifhops  of  ^France, 
at  the  City  of  Orleans  ,  where,  of  the  BUhop  of  the  fame  place,  he  was 
folemnly  anointed  and  Crowned,  but  not  without  the  grudging  of  the 
Arch-BUhop  of  Rhemes.  The  French  begin  to  fall  from  their  obedi- 
ence, and  rebellions  are  kindled  in  divers  places  of  his  Realm  : 
and  the  places  near  unto  Paris  began  theie  firft  revolts  ;  his  Reign 
was  very  troublefome. 

He  had  crowned  his  eldeft  Son  Philip,  who  going  to  take  the  Air  on 
Horfe-back,  an  Hog  patted  under  the  Belly  of  his  Horfe,  which  being 
feared  threw  him  down,  and  bruifed  him  fo,  that  within  few  days  after 
he  dyed.  Then  King  Lerves  marrieth  his  Son  Lewes  to  the  Heir  of 
Cuienne.  He  made  Henry,  his  third  Son,  Bimop  ofBeavois,  another 
Philip  Arch-  Deacon  of  P<w*,  Peter  Earl  of  Courtney  ,  Robert  Earl  of 
I>reuxt  and  married  his  only  Daughter  Conjlance  to  Reimund  Earl  of 
'fbohufe  and  St.  Giles.  Letves  the  grofs  having  thus  fettled  his  Chil- 
dren, dyed  Anno  1137. 

His  Son  Lewes  VII.  fucceeded  him  ,  and  reigned  three  and  forty 
years,  his  long  reign  was  nothing  happy,  and  contains  in  it  nothing 
that  was  memorable,  but  that  the  foundation  was  laid  for  a  long  cala- 
ipaity  for  France. 

After  the  death  of  Baldwitt,  King  of  Jerufalem,  ''Baldwin  de  Bttrgo 
his  Kinfman,  was  chofen  King. 

This  Baldwin  was  a  proper  Perfonage,  and  of  able  body,  born  nigh 
Rhemes  in  France^  Son  to  Httgb  Count  of  Rojler.  He  was  very  charita- 
ble to  the  poor,  and  pious  toward  God  i  witnefs  the  brawn  on  his 
hands  and  knees  made  with  continual  praying  ,  valiant  alfo,  and  ex- 
cellently well  feen  in  martial  affairs. 

After  the  death  of  Arntilfb^  Patriarch  of  Jgrufalem,  Gttarimond  born 
in  France  fucceeded  him. 

About  this  time  the  two  great  orders  of  Tonplefs  and  Teutonics 

appear- 


Cent.  12.  Of  FRANCE.  87 

appeared  in  the  World,  The  former  under  Hugh  de  Paganif,  and  G*«- 
fred  of  St.  Ome  r  their  nrft  Founders.  They  agreed  in  profefiion  with 
the  Hofpitallers,  and  performed  it  alike,  vowing  poverty  ,  chaftity  and 
obedience,  and  to  defend  Pilgrims  coming  to  the  Sepulchre.  It  is 
falfly  fathered  on  St.  'Bernard  ,  that  he  appointed  them  their  rule, 
who  prefcribeth  not  what  they  (hould  do,  but  only  defcribeth  what- 
they  did. 

At  the  fame  time  began  the  'teutonic]^  Order,  confifting  only  of 
Dutch-men  well  defcended,  living  at  Jerufalem  in  an  houfe,  which 
one  of  that  Nation  bequeathed  to  his  Country-  men  that  came  thither 
on  Pilgrimage.  » 

King  Baldwin  was  afterwards  taken  prifoner  ,  and  Euflace  Gremer^ 
chofen  Vice-Roy  while  the  King  was  in  durance,  ftoutly  defended  the 
Gountrey.  Baldwins,  little  before  his  death  renounced  the  World  ,  and 
took  on  him  a  religious  habit.  He  dyed  not  long  after,  viz,  in  the 
thirteenth  year  of  his  Reign,  and  was  buried  with  his  predeceffours  in. 
the  Temple  of  the  Sepulchre. 

Fw/co,  Earl  of  I'ours^  Mam  and  Anjou^  coming  fome  three  years  be* 
fore  on  Pilgrimage  to  Jernfalem,  there  married  the  KingV  Daughter, 
he  was  chofen  the  fourth  King  of  Jerufalem. 

He  was  well  nigh  do  years  old.  By  his  firft  Wife  he  had  a  Son, 
Geoffery  of  flantagenet,  Earl  of  Anjon,  to  whom  he  left  his  Lands  in 
France^znd  from  whom  our  Kings  of  England  are  defcended. 

Fulco  having  reigned  eleven  years  with.much  care  and  induftry,  was  Tyrius 
flain  as  he  followed  hisfport-in  hunting.  Thomas  Fuller  brings  him  in  ca<  ulr% 
thus  fpeaking  his  Epitaph. 

A  Hare  Ibtinted,  and  Death  bunted  me. 

The  more  my  fpeed  vpat^.tvas  tbe  worfe  my  fpeed  : 
For  as  weH-mounted  I  away  did  flee^ 
J)f4tb  caught  andkjIPd  me  falling  from  my  Steed. 
let  this,  mijhap  an  happy  mifs  I  count  \ 
That  fill  fr»m  Horfe^  that  I  to  Heaven  might 


fucceeded  hisFather.  He  was  well  learned  ,  e- 
fpeciallyin  Hi  iiory,  liberal,  witty  and  facetious.  His  mother  Mitie- 
fent  continued  a  Widow,  and  as  for  Children's-  fake  fhe  married 
once,  fo  for  her  Children's-fake  (he  married  no  more.  St.  Bernard 
and  (he  often  converfed  together  by  Letters  :  H£  extolled  her  (ingle 
Life. 

This  St.  Bernard  Abbot  of  Clarevaux,  or  Clareval,   was  famous  in 
thai  time.    He  often  complains  of  the  defection  of  the  Church. 

He  (harply  rebuked  the  vitious  lives  of  BiQiops  and  Abbots.     Yea, 
-he  did  not  fpare  the  Popes,  as  appeareth  partly  by  what  he  wrote 

unto 


ss         3CJ)t  ccciefiaftieal  ^tftojp        Cent.  it. 

unto  Pope  Eugeniiif,  and  unto  Innocent  the  fecond.     And  for  his  liberty 

Epift.i78.  ADO.  in  fpeaking  againft  the  errours  of  his  time,  he  was  reproached,  fo  that 

AbgbatdWllIerm'he  was  conftrained  to  publi(h  Apologies,   where  he  faith,  that  they 

called  him  the  moft  miferable  of  Men  ,  one  who  prefumed  to  judge 

the  World,  and  by  the  (hadowof  his  bafcnefs  infult  over  the  lights  of 

the  World. 

And  he  faith  there,  that  he  was  like  to  be  killed  every  day,  and  was 
judged  as  a  Iheep  for  the  (laughter  i  yet  neverthelefs  he  was  not  afraid 
to  fpeak  of  their  vices,  becaufe  (faid  hej  meliw  e(l  ut  fcandalunt  oria» 
«#r,  quam  veritaf  relinquatttr :  It  is  better  that  a  fcandal  Jkould  arrfe^ 
than  truth* faottld  be  relinquifbed.  who  at  the  beginning  when  the 
order  of  Monks  began  (faith  he.)  could  think  that  Monks  would  be- 
come fo  naughty  ?  Oh  how  unlike  are  we  to  thpfe  in  the  days  of  An- 
thony >  did  Macariw  live  in  fuch  a  manner  ?  did  Bafil  teach  fo  >  did 
Anthony  ordain  fo  ?  did  the  Fathers  in  Egypt  carry  themfelves  fo  >  how 
is  the  light  of  the  World  become  darknefs?  how  is  the  fait  of  the 
Earth  become  unfavoury  ?  I  am  a  Lyar  C  faith  he)  if  I  have  not  feen  an 
Abbot  having  above  fixty  horfes  in  his  train:  when  ye  faw  them 
riding,  ye  might  fay,  Thefe  were  not  Fathers  of  Monafteries,but  Lords 
of  Gaftles  >  not  feeders  pf  Souls,'  bur  Princes  of  Provinces. 

They  have  carried  after  them  their  Table-Cloths,  Cups,  Bafons, 
Candle^icks,  and  Portmantua's  fluffed  not  with  ftraw ,  but  ornaments 
of  Beds,  fcarce  will  any  of  them  go  four  miles  from  his  houfe  ,  but 
f  he'muft  have  all  things  with  him,  as  if  he  were  going  into  a  leaguer, 
or  through  a  Wildernefs,  where  neceflaries- could  not  be  had.  O  va^ 
nityof  vanities !  the  walls  of  Churches  are  glorious,  and  poor*  folks 
are  in  neceffity. 

Yet  may  it  befaid,  that  'Bernard  was  a  follower  of  the  Popes.  I  an- 
fwer,  ycsi  he  gave  them  "all  the  Titles  that  others  gave  them : ,  but  •  fee 
what  blows  he  gave  them,  as  appeareth  by  what  he  wrote  to  Innocen- 
*/«*,  and  Eugennu^  he  lays  on  them  the  blame  of  all  the  wickednefs  in 
the  Church,  In  rites  he  was  carried  with  the  fway  of  the  times  ,  but 
hisppjdhine  was  far  different  from  the  Tenets  of  the  Church  of  .Rome. 
Bern.  Epift.  91.  In  one  of  his  ^piftles  he  writes  thus.  I  would  be  in  that  Council, 
co^rcg.1" '  :f$  where  the  Traditions  of  Men  are  not  obftinately  defended,  nor  fuper- 
ftitioufly  obferved,  but  where  they  fearch  diligently  and  humbly,  what 
is  the  good,  perfect  and  acceptable  will  of  God  :  thither  am  I  carried 
with  all  my  dearer  and  there  would  I  abide  devoutly. 

in Traa.de  prz-      And  elfewhere  he  faith,  many  things  were  devifed  and  ordainedi 
«tpt.&Difptnf.    not  becaufe  they  might  not  be  otherwife,  but  becaufe  it  was  fo  expe- 
dient, and  certainly  but  for  confer  ving  charity:  therefore  fo  long  as 
the  things  do  ferve  charity  ,   let  them  ftand  without  change ;    nor 
can  they  be  changed  without  offence,  no  not  by  the  Rulers. 

But  contrarily,  if  they  be  contrary  unto  charity,  in  the  judgement 

of 


Cent.  il.  Of  FRANCE.  89 

of  fuch  only  unto  whom  it  is  granted  to  overfee,  is  it  not  clearly  moft 
juft,that  what  things  were  devifed  for  charity,  (hould  alfo  be  omitted, 
or  intermitted  for  charity,  when  it  is  fo  expedient?  or  (at  leaft)  that 
they  be  changed.to  another  thing  more  expedient :  as  on  the  other 
tide,  certainly  it  were  unjuft,  if  thefe  things  that  were  ordained  for 
charity,  be  held  againft  charity.  Let  them  therefore  hold  faft  that 
which  is  immoveable. 

The  fame  Bernard  informs  us  ,  that  then  was  held  a  Council  at  Bern<  de  conft- 
Rhemes,  wherein  the  Pope  was  prefident.  And  faith  he  ,  Brethren  I  <fcr.  ad  i 
tell  you  of  another  Synod,  where  the  Lord  God  will  fit  in  Judgement,  umlM> 
where  we  muft  aHftand,  and  there  will  God  judge  all  the  World. 
Here  (on  earth)  unrighteoufnefs  is  (hut  up  in  a  bag  i  but  in  that 
Judgement  God  will  judge  righteoufly  :  and  there  we  muft  all  appear 
whether  he  be  a  Pope,  or  a  Cardinal,  or  an  Arch-  Bifhop,  or  a  Bifhop, 
or  poorer  rich,  or  learned  or  unlearned,  that  ev«y  one  may  receive 
according  to  what  he  hath  done  in  the  body,  whether  good  or  ill. 

Moreover,  he  faid  unto  the  Council ,  that  the  Impefthume  -was 
fpread  through  all  the  body  of  the  Church,  from  the  fole  of  the  Foot 
to  the  Head,  the  Bride  was  fpoiled,and  even  they  that  were  called  the 
Bridegrooms  of  the  Church,  were  not  the  friends  of  the  Bridegroom? 
And  the  Council  fe  far  took  with  this  rebuke ,  that  fome  A&s  were 
made  for  Reformation,  though  no  reformation  followed. 

About  that  time  had  been  ftarted  that  opinion  concerning  the  Vir- 
gin Mary,viz.  of  Univerfal freedom  from  original  fin  :  which  opinion 
had  been  in  the  minds  only  of  fome  private  per/ons,  but  yet  was  not 
come  among  the  ceremonies  of  the  Church,  nor  into  the  minds  of  the 
learned.  About  the  year  1135.  the  Chanons  of  Lyons  durft  firft  bring 
it  into  the  fervice  of  the  Church.  St.  Eernard  flourifhing  at  that  time 
for  piety  and  learning,  before  all  the  Divines  of  that  Agei  and  fo  im- 
moderate in  the  praifes  of  the  bleffed  Virgin,  that  he  calleth  her,  the 
neck^of  the  Church  >  as  if  by  her  all  Grace  did  flow  from  the  Head  i 
neverthelefs  he  (harply  writeth  againft  thefe  Chanons ,  that  without 
reafon,  and  without  example  of  former  times,  they  had  brought  in 
fo  dangerous  a  novelty.  He  confefleth,  that  they  had  matter  enough 
to  commend  the  bleffed  Virgin  >  but  fuch  ambitious  novelty  (which  is 
the  mother  of  fondnefs,  the  fifter  of  fuperftition  ,  and  daughter  of 
levity )  he  faith,  could  notpleafe  her.  Receniiifimui  eft 

Em/W dyed  in  the  63.  year  of  his  Age,  Anno  1153.  From  erring  vixUqu'e  "Joft* 
Bernard  that  frequent  proverb  of  writers  erring  drew  it's  Original,  ««fir"«»»  E; 

T>  i  -I-  •  •  i        •    •  i        r    •       *      a        -n     j  P'""°P!  Romani 

Eernaraus  non  ndit  otonia :  neither  is  it  a  wonder,  iceing  he  nounihed  Tyra.ini.fcm. 
in  the  darkeft  midnight  (as  it  were) of  Popery.  He  is  much  commen-  poan^'°ecum* 
ded  by  divers  learned  Proteftants :  as  by  Btthop  M0rfo«,Bi(hop  Carleton,  Car!er  Confeni; 
Voffivs  and  others.     He  hath  folidly  difputed  concerng  the  chief  Heads  Eccicf  OMT.  * 
•of  Faith,  of  the  Scriptures  of  the  Church,  of  the  mifery  of  man  ,  of  Jfj^jj 6'  1L 

N  free  ca'.i'j. 


90  %\)t  CcrlctoRlCilt  %tftO#  Cent.  Vi.. 

free  juftification,  of  grace ,  of  new  obedience,  with  the  Catholick 
Church  againft  the  Tridentine  Fables,  to  that  nothing  can  be  found 
more  foiid. 

In  the  Council  of:  Rbemef  forementioned  (where  were  aflembled  434 
Prelats)  thefe  five  principal  adts  were  concluded. 

1.  That  no  Man  (hould  ejther.buy,  or  fell  any  Biftopikk,  Abbot- 
(hip,  Deanry,  Arch-  Deaconfhip,  Priefthooxl ,  Prebendftip,  Altar,  or 

ou  any   Ecclefiaftical  promotion,  or   Benefice,  Orders,  Confecratfon, 

Church-hallowing,  Seat  or  Stall  within  the  Q^ire  ,  or  any  Office 
Ecclefiaftical,  under  pain  of  Excommunication,  if  he  did  perfift. 

2.  That  no  Lay-perfon  (hould  give  Inveftiture,  or  any  Ecclefiaftical; 
poiTeflion^nd  that  no  fpiritual  man  {hould  receive  any  fuch.at  any  Lay* 
man's  hand  under  pain  of  deprivation. 

3.  That  no  man  (hould  invade,  take  away,  or  detain  the  goods  or 
pofleflions  of  the.Church,  but  that  they  Ihould  remain  firm  and  perpe- 
tual, under  pain  of  perpetual  curfe. 

4.  That  no  Bi(hop  or  Prieft  (hould  have  any  Ecclefiaftical  Dignity 
or  benefice  to  any,  by  way  of  inheritance.  Adding  moreover,  that  for 
Baptifm,  Chrifm,  Anointing,  Burial,  no  Money  mould  be  exacted. 

5.  Item,  That  all  Priefts,  Deacons, and  Sub-Deacons,  mould  be  ut- 
terly debarred   and  fequeftred  from  company  of*  their  wives  and 
Concubines ,  .under  pain    of  excluding   from  ,  all  Chriftian  Com- 
munion. 

The  A&s  thus  determined  were  fent  foon  after  to.Hettry  the  Empe- 
rour,  to  try  (before  t|ie  breaking  up  of  the  Council)  whether  he 
would  agree  to  the  Canonical  Elections,  free  confecration,and  invert- 
ing of  fpiritual  perfons  j  and  to  other  Ads  of  the  faidCouncil.  The 
Emperour  maketh  anfwer,  that  he  would  lofe  nothing  of  that  Anti- 
ent  Cuitom,  which  his  Progenitors  had  given  him  :  Yet  becaufe  of 
the  authority  of  the  general  Council,  he  was  content  to  confent  to  the 
refidue,fave  only  the  inverting  of  Ecclefiaftical  function  to  be  taken 
from  him,  unto  that  he  would  never  agree.  Upon  this,  at  the  next 
return  of  the  Pope  to  the  Council,  Henry  the  Emperour  was  excom- 
municated. 

In  the  Year  1142.  Pope  Enrgwu'iircame  to.  P<w*f,  where  that  he 
might  ufurp  the  right  of  inveftiture,  and  deprive  the  King  of  it,  he 
gave  the  Arch-Bifhoprick  of  Bourges,  to  his  Chancellour  of  the  Apo- 
itolical  Chancery,  named  Peter  Atmery  without  the  confent  of  King 
Lewes,  a  Prince  very  much  given  to  obedience  unto  the  Pjapal  See. 
Yet  the  King  was  (b  angry  at  it,  that  he  fvvore  upon  the  Holy  Re- 
licks,  that  never  fo'  long  as  he  lived,  Aimery  mould,  :fet  his  foot  in 
~&o:rges. 

But  the  Pope  ki  owing  the  King's  timerous  nature,  excommunica- 
ted him  ,  put  his  ^erfon  in  iat^vli^,  and  gave  oxdcr  that  in. France.,  in 

all 


Cent,  i  ^  e£FRANGF 


all  ph'^s  where  the  King  came,  divine  Service  (hould  ceafe  •>   and   all 
his  Court  were  deprived  of  the  Communion. 

This  lafted  three  whole  years  till  St.  Bernard  came  to  the  King,  and 
perfwaded  him  to  receive  the  faid  Arch-Bifhop. 

But  becaufe  by  fo  doing,  the  King  brake  his  Oath  made  upon  the 
HcJy  Relicks,,he  was  enjoyned  for  fatisfa&ion  to  take  a  Journey  to  the 
Holy  Sepulchre  .in  Syria  t  to  fight  againft  the  Saracens.  In  which 
Journey  the  King  loft  the  flower  of  the  French  Nobility,  and  re- 
turned affli&ed  and  full  of  confufion  ,  as  you  (hall  fee  more 
hereafter. 

Peter  Biihop  of  Clnqny  was  in  great  account  with  Pope  Eugeniut. 

Bernard  wrote  many  JELpiftks  to  him  :  in  one  EpiiJle  he  calleth  him 
a  Veffel  of  Honour,  full  of  Grace  and  Truth,  and  endued  with  marty 
gifts. 

Thelofsof  Edeffa  (wherein  Chrifi&anity  had  flourifhed  ever  fince 
the  Apoftles  times)  moved  Conrade  Emperour  of  the  Weft,  and  Levees 
VII.  fir-  named  the  young,  King  of  France,  to  undertake  a  Voyage  to 
the  Holy  Land. 

Pope  Eugeniw  III.  beftirred  himfelf  in  the  matter  ,  and  made  St. 
"Bernard  ftis  folicitour  to  advance  the  defign.  The  Emperour's  Army 
contained  two  hundred  thoufand  foot,  befides  fifty  thoufand  Horfe  : 
nor  was  the  Army  of  King  Lerve  s  much  inferiour  in  number.  In  Plul  ^mi,  . 
France  they  fent  a  Diftaff  and  a  Spindle  to  all  thofe  that  went  not  md.vn. 
with  them,  as  upbraiding  their  effeminatenefs.  But  by  the  way,  the 
Grecian  Emperour  did  them  all  poffible  mifchief,  by  mingling  lime 
with  their  meal,  by  killing  of  ftraglers,  by  holding  intelligence  with 
the  "furkf  their  enemies,  by  corrupting  his  Coyn  ,  fo  that  the  Dutch 
fold  good  Wares  for  bad  NAoney,  and  bought  bad  Wares  with  good 
Money,  by  giving  them  falfe  conductors,  which  trained  them 
into  danger,  fo  that  there  was  more  fear  of  the  guides  than  of  the 
way. 

The  King  of  France  followed  after  the  Emperoui,  and  drank  of  the 
fame  Cup  at  the  Grecians  hands,  though  cot  fo  deeply,  till  at  laft,  find- 
ing that  thofe  who  marched  through  the  Continent,  met  with  an  O- 
cean  of  mifery,  he  thought  better  to  truft  the  wind  and  the  Sea  than 
the  Greekj)  and  taking  (hipping,  fafely  arrived  in  ?  airline  ,  where  he 
was  welcomed  by  Reimitnd  Prince  of  Antiocb.  Some  weeks  were 
fpent  in  entertainment,  and  vifiting  holy  pb.ccs,  till  at  laft,  Elianor  The.Fuiicr  holy 
"Wife  to  the  King  of  France,  who  accompanied  her  Husband  ,  made  War-  ubt  2' 
Religion  her  Pander,  and  plaid  Bankrupt  ot  her  honour,under  pretence 
of  Pilgrimage,  keeping  company  with  a  baic  Saracen-  Jefter,  whom  (he 
preferred  before  a  King. 

The  Emperour  and  the  French  Kingbehege  Vamafius  :  but  feme  of 
the  Chriftiaiis  corrupted  with  Z»r'/$fc  Money.,  perfwadedthe  King  of 

N  2  franco 


France  to  remove  his  Camp  to  aftronger  part  of  the  Walls  >  which 
they  long  beficged  in  vain,  and  returned  home  at  laft,  leaving  the  Ci- 
ty and  their  honours  behind  t'hem.  The  French  Proverb  was  verified 
of  this  Voyage :  Much  brnit,  and  little  fruit.  Many  thoufand  Chrifti* 
ans  perifhed  in  this  adventure. 

The  French  King  coming  homeward ,  was  taken  prffoner  by  the 
Fleet  of  the  Grecian  Emperour,  and  refcued  again  by  Gregory,  Admiral 
to  'Roger  King  of  Sicily,  when  he  was  arrived  in  France,  his  Wife 
was  in  open  Parliament  divorfed  from  him.  He  gave  her  back  again 
all  the  Lands  in  France  which  he  had  received  with  her  in  portion. 
Herein  he  did  nobly,  but  not  politickly,  to  part  with  the  Dukedoms  of 
Peifiott  and  Aqttitain,  which  he  enjoyed  in  her  right :  for  hereby  he 
difmembred  his  own  Kingdom,  and  gave  a  torch  into  the  hands  of 
Henry  II.  King  of  England  ( who  afterwards  married  her)  to  fet  Franc* 
on  tire.  St.  Bernard  was  condemned  among  the  vulgar  fort  for  the 
murtherer  of  thofe  that  went  this  Voyage  •,  and  it  was  an  heavy 
B«rn.  de  confi-  affliction  for  his  aged  back,  to  bear  the  reproach  of  many  people.  In 
'  *'  "'  '*  his  book  of  Confederation  he  maketh  a  modeft  defence  of  himfelf,  whr- 
ther  we  refer  the  Reader.  Upon  the  departure  of  the  Emperour 
Conrade ,  and  King  Lewes,  Noradine  the  'fttrl^  much  prevailed  in 
Palefline. 

Peter  de  Brms,  a'prieft  at  Tholottje,  preached  in  fundry  places  againft 
the  Popes,  and  the  Doctrine  of  Rome,  calling  the  Pope  the  Prince  of 
Sodom,ar\d  'Rome  he  called  Babylon ,  the  mother  of  whoredoms  and 
confufion.  He  preached  againft  the  corporal  pretence  of  Chrift  in  the 
Worn.  myft.  *-  Sgerament5  againft  the  facrifice  of  the  Mate,  he  condemned  the  worfhip 
of  Images,  prayers  to  Saintsi  fmgle  life  of  priefts,  pilgrimages,  multi- 
tude of  Holy-days,  &o.  « 

The  fore- named  Peter,  Abbot  of  Clugny  wrote  againft  him.  This 
Peter  de  Bruif  began  to  preach  about  the  year  1126. 

After  him,  his  Difciple  Henry,  a  Monk,  continued  preaching  the 
fame  Dodhine.  Gttilerm,  an  Abbot,  writing  the  life  of  St.  Bernard 
faith  of  this  Henry,  That  he  denied  the  grace  of  Baptifm  unte  Infants*, 
he  defpifcd  the  prayers  and  oblations  for  the  Dead  j  the  excommuni* 
cation  of  Priefts  s  the  pilgrimage  of  Believers  i  the  fumptuous  buil- 
dings of  Churches  s  the  idknefs  of  Feftival-days  j  the  confecration 
of  chrifm  and  oyl,  and  all  the  ordinances  of  the  Church.  He  (heweth 
them  that  the  people  fent  for  Bernard  to  come  againft  him,  but  he 
refufed  until  Albericitf  Bifhop  of  Oiiia  was  fent  Legate  againft  him, 
and  he  pcrfwadcth  Bernard  to  go  with  him  to  'Iboloufe.  And  then 
Bernard  wrote  his  240.  Epiftle  unto  Hildefonfw,  Count  of  St.  Giles  a- 
gainft  this  Henry.  Certain  it  is  (as  the  proverb  is)  Bernard  faw  not  ^U 
things,  and  howbeit  he  wrote  bitterly  againft  him,  yet  he  commendeth 
him  as  a  learned,  man  ,  and  he  was  fo  reverenced,  that  the  people  did 

follow 


Cent.  il.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E>  93 

follow  him.     ~E>e  EraV  was  burnt  at  Iholoufe  ,  and  Albericut  canied 
Henry  into  Jf*/y.     Their  Books  were  burnt. 

In  Paleftine  King  Baldwin  was  poifoned  by  a  Jeveify  Phyficjan. 
And  /#wm'cJ^Brother  to  King  Baldwin,  fucceeded  t6  the  Crowe.  In 
the  Church  of  Jerufalcjtn  one  Almericl^.  was  Patriarch,  a  French-man 
born,  though  little  fit  for  the  place. 

King  Almerick^  againft  his  promifeinvadeth  Egypt,  but  his  perjury 
was  punifhed  with  the  future  ruine  of  the  Kingdom  of  Jerufalem,  and 
himfelf  dies  of  a  bloody- rlux. 

Baldwin  his  Son,  the  fourth  bf  that  name,  fucceedeth.     This  Bald- 
»i»JV.  had  excellent  Education  under  William  Arch-Bi(hop   of  Tyn?, 
a  pious  man,  and  excellent  Scholar,  skilled  in  all  the  Oriental  Tongues, 
betides  the  Dutch,  and  the  French  his  Native   Language,  a    moderate  Tho>  Fdlers 
and  faithful  Writer :  Fo-r  in  the  la,ttter  part  of  his  Hiftory  of  the  holy  Hift.*Hoiy  wan- 
War,  his  eye  guided  tys  hand,  till  at  laft  the  taking  of  the  City  of  Je~  u<  3tC8'  &•- 
rtffalem  fo  (hook  his  hand  that  he  wrote  no  more. 

Treafurerhe  was  of  all  the  Money's  contributed  to  the  holy  Wary 
Chancellour  of  this  Kingdom,  employed  in  feveral  Embaffies  in  the 
IPeft-y  pretent  at  the  Later  an  Council,  the  A&s  whereof  he  did  record. 
Cardinal  he  might  have  been  but  refuted  it. 

Le  tvej  the  French  King  caufed  his  Son  fJnltp  to  be  crowned  at 
Rhemes,  at  the  Age  of  14  years,  Anno  1 179.  He  betroth  ed  him  to  Ifa- 
bel  the  Daughter  of  Baldwin  Earl  of  Henault.  King  Le wes  having 
thus  difpofed  of  his  aifairs,  died  Anno  1 180. 

The  Title  of  Attguftus.  was  given  to  Philip  his  Son  and  fucce(Tour> 
In  the  beginning  of  his  Reign  he  purged  the  corruptions  that  were 
then  prevalent  among  the  people,  viz.  Blafphemies,  Plays,  Dicing- 
houfes,  publick  diflblutenefs  in  infamous  places,  Taverns  and  Tipling- 
houfes.  He  expelled  the  Jews  (ditperfed  throughout  his  Kingdom, 
and  given  to  griping  ufury  )  and  albeit  they  obtained  a  return  for 
Money  ,  yet  in  the  end  he  baniuhed  them  out  of  all  the  Territories  of 
Trance.. 

The  Patriarch  of  Jerufalem  being  arrived  in  France,  Anno  1184*- 
with  the  Prior  ef  the  Hofpital  of  Outremer,  and  the  Grand  Matter  of  Rigordas  d^»- 
the  templars,  to  demand  fuccour  of  King  Philip  AvgrftM  ag_ainft  the 
Saracens,  he  fent  out  a  Mandamus  to  call  a  general.  Council  of  all 
the  Arch- Bifliops,  Bi(hops,  and  Princes  of  the  Realm,  which  was 
holden  in  the  City  of  Paris.  Philip  alfo  calls  a  Parliament  at  Paw  : 
they  difwade  him  from  the  Voyage,  but  he  fighteth  againit  all  difficult- 
ties.  Great  charges  were  impofed  upon  fuch  as  went  not  the  Voyage, 
to  pay  the  tenth  of  all  their  revenues,  both  Temporal  and  Spiritual, 
called  for  this  occafion,  *fo  Saladines  Tenths. 

Richard  I.  King  of  England,,  and  King  Philip  of  France,  laying  afide. 
their  private  diilentions,  unite  their  forces  a&ainft  the  Turk/-, 

King,, 


94  %      CCCleCaP^tO?V          Cerit. 


v      accompanied  with  Fi/^iu'Arch-Bifhop  of  < 
terbury,  HK&T*  BKhop  of  S*w#m3',Kc£rKtL2il6f  Leicejhr  ,  Ralph  etc 
il^  late  Chief-  Juftice  of  England^  Ricksrd  de  Clare  ,  Walter  de 


•famej&c.  His  Navy  he  Cent  about  by  Sfw«  .  and  with  a  competent 
•number  took  his  own  Journey  through  Franc?.  ' 

Roger  Hovedon  At  fours  he  took  his  Pilgrim's  Staff  and  Scrip  from  the  Aich- 
URkard.i.  Biftop.  His  Staff  at  'the  fame  time'  cafually  brake  in  pieces',  which 
Come  conftrued  a  token  of  ill  Tuccefs.  L  ikewife  when  He  and  the 
Trench  King  parted  over  the  Bridge  of.Lyon  /,  oh  the  fall  of  the  Bridge 
this  conceit  was  built,  That  there  would  be  a  falling  out  betwixt  thefe 
two  Kings,  which  accordingly  came  to  pafs. 

A<  Vyons,  thefe  two  Kings  parted  their  Trains  ,'  and  went.  feveral 
•ways  irifo  Sicify.  ktMefTana'm  Sicily,  thefe  two  'Kings  meet  again, 
where  King  Richard  beheld  his  Navy  fafely  arrived.  Tankred  ,  a 
Baftard  born,  was  at  this  time  King  of  Sicily,  who  fecrdtly  applyeth 
himfelf  to  the  French,  which  King  Richard  eafily  difcov'ered.  Mean 
time  the  Citizens  of  M^i^did  theEngli/h  much  wrong:  wherefore 
King  Rrcbardtook  Mfffanaky  sftault,  ieized  on  moft  Forts  in  the  I- 
-ftand.  Tanked  gave  to  our  King  what  rich  conditions  foever  he  de- 
manded, to  pacirie  him. 

Worfe  diicords  daily  encreafed  betwixt  the  Kings  of  England  and 
france^  King  ,  Richard  (lighting  the  King  of  France  his  Sifter  ,  whom 
he  had  promifed  to  marry.  King  Philip  hafted  prefently  to  Ptolemav, 
Richard  followed  with  more  leifure,  and  took  Cyprus  in  his  way.  Cur- 
•fdc  reigned  then  in  Cy/>r«/,who  killed  the  Englijh  that  landed  there. 
But  King  Richardfyeedily  over-  ran  the  I  (land  ,  bound  Curfac  with 
filver  fetters.  The  Ifland  he  pawned  to  the  Templars  for  ready 
money  -,  and  there  took  to  Wife  his  beloved  Lady  'Beringaria^  Daugh- 
ter to  the  King  of  Nararr. 

The  City  of  Ph.'emais  was  taken,  the  Houfes  which  were  left,  with 
the  fpoil  and  Prifoners  ,  were  equally  divided  betwixt  Philip  and 
Richard.  Here  the  Englijh  caft  down  the  Enfigns  of  Leopold  Duke  of 
Aufiria,  who  had  fought  fo  longin  affaulting  this  City  ,  till  his  Ar- 
motir  was  all  over  gore-  blood,  (ave  the  place  covered  with  his  belt. 
Bat  King  Richard  afterward  paid  dearly  for  it.  King  Richard  cau- 
fed  feven  thonfand  of  his  Tirrlg/B;  Prifoners  to  be  put  to  death  ,  and 
Saladinc  in  revenge,  put  as  many  of  our  Captives  to  death.  But  the 
French  King  refer  ving  his  Prifoners  alive,  exchanged  then,  to  ranfom. 
fo  many  Chriftians. 

Philip  the  French  King  ,  Qfo  Duke  of  Rurgtti-.Jy  Duke  Leonid  ; 
ITK  ft  of  the  Dutch  ,  all  the  Genoans  and  Templars  >  fide  wnh  King 
Conrade.  .  King  Richard,  Henry  Count  tf  Cbatr^ai^f^  the  ?.?  -.&  :talers9 
Venetians^  and  Pifa/ts,  take  part  with  King  <S«v.'  But  Kir,g  Ccnrade's 
fide  was  much  weaknedby  the  departure  of  tfo  French  King. 

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i*.  Of  FRANCE.      T 


About  that  time  Conrade  King  of  Jernjalem  was  murdered  in  the 
Market,  place  of  tyre. 

Now  King  Guy  exchanged  his  Kingdom  of  Jerusalem  for  the  I* 
Hand  of  Cyprus,  which  he  had  redeemed  from  the  Templar  /,  foghorn 
he  had  pawned  it.  Bs.nry  of  Champaign  was  cholen  King  by  fhe 
procurement  of  Kii}g  Richard^  who  after  many  notable  exploits  done 
in  Palejline,  and  a  peace  made,  with  Saladine  ,  in  his  return  paffrng 
through  Germany  -in  a  difguife,  was  taken  Prifoner  in  Attflria,  fold  and 
fent  by  Duke  Leopold  to  Henry  the  -Emperour.  At  laft  he  was  ranfo- 
med  for  an  hundred  and  forty  thoutand  marks,  a  fum  fo  vaft  in  that 
Age,  that  to  raife  it  in  England^  they  were  forced  to  fell  their  Church- 
plate  to  their  very  Chalices. 

•After  this  Mone.y,  Peter  of  Blots  made  an  Apoftrophe  to  the  Duk& 
orEmperour,  fending  jhis  good  prayer. 

Bike  nmc  Avaritia, 
Dum  pttteof  Argent  eosy 

Sit  in  peraitionem. 

now  tbott  bafift  Avarice, 
*Hl  thy  Belly  burft  -, 
England  poms,  large,  filver  (howerfj 
T'o  fatiaie  thy  Tibiift. 
And  this  VPS  pray,  Iby  Money  -may, 
And  tbott  be  likf  accurfl. 

King  Richard  after  eighteen  Months  imprifonment  returned    into  - 
England.     And  inAitftria  the  Duke  with  his  Money  built    the    Walls 
of  Vienna.     But  God  punHhed  the  .Dominions  of  Leopold  >  with  fire 
and  water  ,    and  by  famine  >  for    the  Ears   of  Wheat   turned  into 
Worms  :  A  Gangreen  feized  on  the  Duke's  body  ,  who  cut   off  his  ^ 
Leg  with  his  own  hand,  and  dyed  thereof  :  who  by  his  Will  ciufed 
fome  thoufand  Crowns  to  be  reftored  again  to  King  Richard.     Soon 
after*  Henry  King  of  Jerpfalem,  as  he  was  walkingin  his  Palace,  fell 
down  out  of  a  Window,  an4  broke  his  peck. 

Roger  HoveJett  tells  us,  that  near  about  this  time  ,  there  was  in  the. 
(Eity  of  Tbolattfe  agjreat  number.  of  Men  and  Women  whom  the  Pope's  - 
Conimillioncrs,(wx.  Peter  Cardinal  of  St.  Chryfogon  ,  and  the  Pope's 
Legate,  with  the  Arch-  BiHiops  of  Nsrban^    and  Biturium  ,  Reginald 
Bifhopoif  Bathe,  ^)i&«Buhop  .oi"  -fffiai-ia  ,  Henry  Al^bpt  of  -Ctareval, 
c^c.)-jdid  -pcifecute  and'condemn  for  Hcrakks  :  of.  whom  fome  were, 
fcourgcd  naked,  fome  chaicd  awayj  (bme,  compelled  to  abjure,  . 

How-. 


33)e  emeftaftfcal  $ffi$?       Cent.  n. 

Now  fprang  up  the  Do&rine  and  name  of  them,  which  were  then 
called  Panperfs  de  Lugduno^  which  of  one  Waldur^  a  chief  Senator  in 
lyont^  were  named  IValdenfis  i  they  were  alfo  called  Lcomjlt,  &  In- 
fabbatati^  about  the  year  of  our  Lord  1 170. 

It  happened  on  a  day  as  divers  of  the  principal  men  of  the  City 
afTembled  together,  conful ted  upon  divers  matters,  that  one  of  the 
company' fell  down  and  dyed  fuddenly,  the  reft  of  the  company  look- 
ing on.  This  Walditt  being  terrified  at  the  fight  of  it,  was  converted, 
and  prefently  reformed  his  Life.  He  miniftred  of  his  Goods  large 
Alms  to  the  Poor,  he  purchafed  a  Bible,  ftudied  the  Scriptures,inftru&- 
ed  himfelf,  and  his  Family  with  the  true  knowledge  of  God's  word. 
He  admoniflied  all  that  reforted  to  him  to  repentance  and  amendment 
of  Life.  He  gave  out  to  them  that  were  ready  to  learn  certain  rudi- 
ments of  the  Scripture,  which  himfelf  had  tranflated  into  the  French 
Tongue,  for  he  was  both  Wealthy  and  Learned. 

The  Popijh  Prelates  threatned  to  excommunicate  him :  but  he  neg- 
le&ing  their  threatnings,faid,G0^w»/f/><?0%tt/  rather  than  Man.  At 
length  they  drave  both  Waldus ,  and  all  his  adherents  out  of  the 
City.  The  Articles  of  the  Waldenfet ,  I  find  in  oider  and  number 
to  be  thefe. 

1.  That  only  the  Holy  Scripture  is  to  be  believed ,  in  matters  per- 
taining to  Salvation,  #•<:. 

2.  All  things   to  be  contained  in  Holy   Scripture  neceflary  to 
Salvation. 

3.  That  there  is  one  only  Mediator  •,  that  other  Saints  are  in  no  wife 
to  be  made  Mediators,  or  to  be  invocated. 

<f.  They  rejected  purgatory,  aflerting  that  all  men,  either  by  Chrift 
are  juftified  to  Life,  or  without  Chrift  be  condemned,  and  befides  thefe 
two,  neither  any  third  or  fourth  place  to  be. 

5.  That  all  Mafles,  viz.  fuch  as  befungfor  the  dead  ,  be'  wicked, 
and  are  to  be  abrogate. 

6.  That  all  Mens  Traditions  are  to  be  rejected,  at  leaft  not  to  be 
reputed  as  heceflary  to  Salvation,  e£w That  conftrained  Fafts  ,  diffe- 
rence of  Meats,  fuch  variety  of  degrees  and  orders  of  Priefts ,  Fryars, 
Monks  and  Nuns,  fuperfluOus  Holy-days,  fomany  fundry  benedicti- 
ons, and  hallowing  of  Creatures  -,  vows,  peregrinations,  with  all  the 
Rabblement  of  Rites  and  Ceremonies  to  be  abolifhed. 

7.  The  fupremacy  of  the  Pope  ufurping  above  ill  Churches  ,  And 
efpecially  above  all  politick  Realms,  and  Governments ,  not  to   be 
acknowledged  i  neither    that  any  degree  is  to  be  received  in  the 
Church,  but  only  Bimops,  Priefts  and  Deacons. 

3.  The  Communion  under  both  kinds  to  be  neceflary  to  all  people, 
according  to  the  Indication  of  Chrift, 

.  That 


Cent,i2.  Of  FRANCE.  97 

p.  That  the  Church  of  Rome,  is  Baby  Ion  fpoken  of  in  the  Revelation, 
and  the  Pope  is  Antichrift. 

10.  They  reject  the  Pope's  pardons  and  indulgences. 

11.  They  hold  the  Marriage  of  Priefts  and  Ecclellaftical  perfons  to 
be  pious,  and  neceflary  in  the  Church. 

12.  Thatfuch  as  hear  the  Word  of  God,  and  have  a  right  Faith, 
are  the  true  Church  of  Chrift. 

John  Arch-Biihop  of  Lyons,  excommunicated  Waldo*  and  all  his 
followers,  They  were  difperfed  into  divers  places  ,  of  wliom  many 
remained  long  in  Bohemia,  who  writing  to  their  King  Illadiflaut  to 
purge  themfel  ves  againft  the  llanderous  accufations  of  one  Doctor  Au- 
ftin,  gave  up  their  confeflion,  with  an  Apology  for  their  Chriftian  pro- 
feffion  ,  defending  with  ftrong  and  learned  Arguments,  the  tame 
which  is  now  received  in  molt  reformed  Churches ,  concerning 
Grace,  Faith,  Hope,  Charity,  Repentance,  and  Works  of  Mercy. 

Reynertut)  an  Italian  InquHitor  ,  under  Pcpe  Innocent  the  third, 
writes  of  them  thus.  A mong all  the  Se£s that  ever  were,  or  now 
are,  none  is  fo  hurtful  to  the  Church,  as  thefe  poor  men  of  Lyons , 
for  three  caufes. 

1.  Becaufc  it   continucth  longeft :  for   fome  fay,  it   hath  been 
vfrom  the  days  of  Pope  Syivefter  I.  and  others  fay  from  the  days  of 

the  Apoftles. 

2.  Becaufe  it  is  moft  general,  feeing  there  is  no  Nation  where   it 
fpreadeth  net. 

3.  Whereas  all  other  are  conjoyned  with  blafphemy  againft  God, 
this  Seel:  of  the  Leowfts  hath  a  great  (hew  of  Godlinefs:  for   they 
live  juftly  before    men  ,    and   believe  all  things  concerning  God, 
and  all  the  Articles  of   the  Creed  :  only  they  reproaeh  and    hate 
the  Roman  Church-,  and  the  multitude  is    ready    to   accept    fuch 
things. 

Reyneriut  faith,  there  were  accounted  forty  Churches  defiled  with 
this  Heretic,  as  he  callefh  it :  and  inoneParilh  they  had  ten  Schools.  Verner  in  Farc}k 
So  He.  Vernerus  faith,  there  were  fome  moft  fubtil  perfons    among  «i.  Temper, 
them,  who  endeavoured  to  maintain  their  opinions.     And   James  de 
Rebiria  faith,  Becaufe  they  who  were  called  Priefts  and  Biftops  at 
that  time,  were  ignorant  almoft  of  all  things ,  it  was  eafie  unto   the 
Waldenfes,  being  learned,   to  gain  the  rirft  place  among  the    people,  catj.  Tdt.  YC- 
Someof  them  difputedfo  accurately,  that  the  Priefts  permitted  them  "' 
to  preach  publickly. 

As  for  the  continuance  of  this  Seel:  in  following  times,  one  having 
inferted  the  Confeffion  of  Faith,  which  they  fent  to  the  King  of  Hun- 
gary, Anno  1 508.  faith,  It  differeth  not  much  from  thofe  things  that 
are  now  taught  by  Some,  meaning  Luther.  And  he  addeth  ,  that  the 

O  Waldt-A- 


98  5O)e  eccieftafticai$ttto#     cent.  n. 

#— , , ___^_ 

Waldexfcs  may  be  better  known  from  that  confeffion,  than  by  the  Ca- 
talogue of  Hereticks,  fet  forth  by  Bernard  of  Lutzenburgb. 

Nauclertti  faith,  that  the  Hujites  followed  the  Se&  of  the  Walden- 
Thuan  Rift,  ad  fej.     And  Thuxnuf  faith,  that  Teter  Waldus  leaving  his  Countrey  went 
Ann.  1508.        .flto  jieigium  an(j  pjctrdy^  rind  ing  many  followers-,  he  pafled  thence 
into  Germany,  abiding  a  longfpace  in  the  Cities  of  Vandalia,  and  laft- 
ly  he  fettled  in  Bohemia^  where  to  this  day  (faith  he)  they  who  em- 
brace that  Dodlrine,  are  called    Picards. 

His  Companion  Arnold  went  into  Aquitain  ,  and  abode  in  Albium, 

whence  the  followers  of  him  were  called  Albigei,  or  Albigenfes.  Their 

liberty  of  Speech,  wherewith  they  ufed  to  blame  the  vices  and  diffo- 

Mift"navS      lutenefs  of  the  Princes  ofFn*/*ceand  the  Clergy, yea  to  tax  the  vices 

Auguft.  and  actions  of  the  Popes,  this  was  the  principal  thing  that  brought 

them  into  Univerfaliiatred,  and  which  charged  them  with   more  evil 

opinions  than  they  had. 

Philip  Augujius  intending  to  declare  his  Son  "Philip,  his  fucceifour  in 
M.  Joan.  DI.     the  Realm,  called  a  general  Council  at  P*ri/,  of  all  the    Arch-Ei(hops, 
£!ro.S>fcM.en  Bimops,  Abbots,  together  with  the  principal  Lords  of  his  Kingdom.. 
In  this  Council  they  treated  of  all  things  Temporal  and  Spiritual. 
Whence  that  appears  to  be  true,  which  a  learned  French,  manhzth  writ- 
ten long  ago,  7 hat  antiently  the  affairs  of  France,  were  managed  by  the 
Clergy^  and  Lay-men  joyntly. 

King  Pbiltp  had  put  away  Qaeen  Ifebel  his  Wife,  and  married  Alix 
the  Daughter  of  the  King  of  Hungary^  who  lived  not  long  with  him. 
She  being  dead,  he  took  Jxgerberga,  Sitter  to  the  King  of  T)enmar^ 
whom  likewife  he  put  away  ,  and  in  her  place  married  Mary  the 
Daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Moravia,  yet  after  a  long  and  bitter  contro- 
verfie  upon  the  repudiation  of  Jugerberga,  he  received  her  again  ,  and 
ended  his  days  with  her.  The  King  of  Denmark^  vehemently  purfued 
Philip  in  the  Court  of  Rome^Pbiiip  prepares  his  Advocates  to  (hew 
thereafons  why  he  had  put  her  away.  The  caufe  was  to  be  pleaded 
before  the  Pope's  Legate,in  the  great  Hall  of  the  Bifliop's  Palace  at 
oe.  Serr«Hi(V  Parif,  faith ,  de  Serres.  In  this  great  Aflembly  Thilip's  Advocates 
AugSl  I>hiUp>  pltadcd  well  for  him  againft  his  Wife,  but  HO  Man  appeared  for  her. 
As  the  Crycr  had  demanded  thrice,  if  there  were  any  to  fpeak  for  Ju- 
gerbcrga^ and  that lilence (hould  beheld  fora  confent,  loe  ,  a  young 
man  unknown,  fleps forth ot  the  prefle,  and  demands  audience,  it 
was  granted  him  with  great  attention. 

Every  man's  cars  were  open  to  hear  this  Advocate  ,  but  efpecially 
Philip's,  who  was  fo  touch't  and  ravitVt,  with  the  free  and  plain  dif- 
courfe  of  this  ycung  Advocate  ,  that  they  might  perceive  him  to 
charge  his  countenance.  This  Advocate  having  ended  his  difcourfe, 
returns  into  the  prcflfe  again,  and  v^s  never  feen  more,  neither  could 
they  learn  what  he  was,  who  fent  him,  nor  whence  he  came.  The 

Judges 


Cent.it.  Of  FRANCE.  99 

Judges  wereamaied,  and  the  caufe  was  remitted  to  the  Council.  Phi- 
lip  prefently  takes  Horfe,  and  rides  to  Boil  de  Vincennts  ,  whither  he 
had  confined  Jugerberga  :  having  embraced  her  ,  he  receives  her 
into  favour  ,  and  paffeth  the  reft  of  his  days  with  her  in  Nuptial 
Love. 

An  antient  Hiftorian  faith  ,  that  there  was  a  Council  holden  at  Ripord.  deg«ft. 
Soiffons,  in  which  King  Philip  was  affiftent,  with  the  Arch  Bifhops,  Phi!ip<  Auguft* 
Bilhops,  and  chief  Lords  of  his  Realm,  where  the  point  of  the  di- 
vorcc  or  confirmation  of  the  King's    Marriage  with  Jugerberga  was 
difcufled. 

After  the  death  of  King  Richard  I.  of  England,  Philip  Auguftns  ha- 
ving  fome  difference  with  King  J^hn  of  England ,  concerning  the 
Dukedom  of  Guyen,  and  Earldom  ofPoiciiers,  which  Philip  fuppofed 
to  belong  to  him,  becaufe  homage  was  not  done  for  them  ••>  and  con- 
cerning the  Dukedom  of  Britain,  which  was  conrifcated  unto  him  by 
the  murther  of  Arthur,  King  John's  Nephew,  whom  he  had  killed* 
he  was  fummoned  to  Rome  by  Innocent  III.  upon  the  information 
made  by  John,  fuppofing  that  the  Pope  ought  to  have  the  determi- 
ning of  their  controvertie,  by  reafon  of  an  Oath  upon  the  fettling  of 
the  Lands  formerly  made  between  the  two  Kings ,  and  the  violation 
thereof:  concerning  which,  he  writ  at  large  to  the  Bifhops  of  France, 
that  they  would  approve  of  his  proceedings,  which  was  fo  well 
liked  by  his  Succeffours,  that  they  Canonized  his  Decretal ,  which 
neverthelefs  hath  been  difliked  by  fome  Divines.  And  for  the  Cam- 
»//Ps,  fome  of  them  have  faid,  that  the  protection  which  he  makes  75. 
at  the  beginning  of  it,  contradicts  the  A&itfelf-,  inasmuch  as  he  de- 
clares he  will  not  meddle  with  the  jurifdiftion  of  France ,  which  ne- 
verthelefs he  did  :  for  the  feudal  differences  being  determined  by  the 
Peers  of  France,  betwixt  Philip  the  Lord,  and  John  the  VafTal,  yet  the 
Pope  would  have  his  Legates  to  take  cognizance  of  them  :  fur  heark- 
en how  he  fpeaks.  That  Philip  would  patiently  fuffer  the  Abbot-of 
Cafemar, and  the  Arch-Bifhop  of  Bottrges,to  have  the  full  hearing, 
whether  the  complaint  put  up  againft  him  be  juft,  or  his  exception 
legal.  See  what  learned  Cujaciw  obferveth  upon  that  Chapter.  He 
protefteth  ( faith  he)  doing  one  thing,  and  pretending  another  ,  not  to 
intermeddle,  nor  ufurp  the  cognizance  of  the  Feoffs  belonging  to  the 
King,  which  he  knoweth  to  appertain  to  the  King  and  the  Peers  of 
France,  but  only  to  have  the  cognizance  of  the  perjury.  And  he 
afterwards  adds.  All  this  he  wrote  to  appeafe  the  Peers  of  France,  „"!, 
and  bear  them  in  hand  that  he  proceeded  juftly  againft  their  King,  and  extr. 
put  all  his  Kingdom  into  an  Interdict  upon  this  occcafion,  yet  for  all 
that  he  gained  nothing  by  it. 

In  this  Century,  William  Arch-Btthop  of  Senon  ,    wrote  unto  the 
Pope  thus.     Let  your  Excellency ,  moft  Holy  Father^  hear  patiently  what 

6  2  nt 


too        3CUe  eccieftatttcai  $tao#       Cent.  u. 

»*  f<*y,forourS9ttl  it  in  bitternefs ,  and  fo  if  your  devoted  Son  ,  f&? 
AJej/f  Chriftian  King  of  France,  how  all  the  Church  of  France  w  troubled 
with  fcandali  flowing  in  time  of  your  Apojlle-Jhip  ,  from  the  Apoftelical 
See;  feeing  (<w  our  Nat/on  faith)  Sat  an  is  let  loofe  there  to  the  mine  of 
all  the  Church  j  there  Chrift  is  Crucified  again,  and  manifeftly  facrilegiou* 
per  fans  and  murtherers  go  free. 

Peter,  a  Monk  of  Paris,  being  of  great  Age  ,  dyed  Anno  1167.  he 
commendeth  God's  Word,  and  taxeth  the  idlenefs  and  impieties  of 
Priefts ,  the  curiofity  of  School- men  ,  the  multitude  and  abufes  of 
Mattes,  the  multitude  of  Men's  Traditions,  whereby  the  precepts  o£ 
God  are  made  void :  He  calkth  Indulgences  a  godly  deceit. 

Bernard,  a  Monk  of  Clugny  about  that  time  wrote  a  large  Satyr^ 
not  fparing  the  Pope  nor  Cardinals  ,  of  which  here  are  fome 
paflages. 

Pontificalia  corde  carentiacorde  probavit^ 
Pontificalia  cor  da  pecuttia  contenebravit  , 
Pontificttm  jiatttt  ante  fuit  ratus,  integer  ante 
llle+ftatum  dabat,  ordine,  nunc  lab  at  tile  lab  ante. 
^ui  ftiper  hoc  mare  debtterat  dare  fe  qttafi  poutem* 
In  Sion,omnibM  eft  via  plebibttf  in  Phlegetontem, 
Stat  fibi  gloria,  pompa,  fitperbia  divitiarttm. 
Hoc  prope.  tempore  nemo  Studeus  fore  pans  animarumi 
§tei  flat  in  agmine  primus  in  ordine  Presbyteratus, 
Eftvitio  levis,  ojficio  brevi*  ,  inguine  fraQust 

"Ehcn  of  the  Eopifli-Prelats  and  Ckrgy,  he  faith. 

Vosvolo  credere  quod  volo  dice  re ,  Pfendoprophetaft 
Nnlla  feracius  ac  mtmerofaf  hac  tulit  cetas. 
Hi*  facra  nomina,  facraque  tegmina,  cor  da  fuperba^ 
Agnus  eis  patet  in  tunica^  latet  anguis  in  Herba  \ 
Ghtilibet  improbrts  extat  Epifcopvs :  Abba  creatur 
Vi,  precio,  prece :  Dignxs  homo  nece  fceptra  lucratar. 
NnUus  ei  timor,  baudque  fui  memor,  eft  aliarum 
Non  fine  Simone,  fed  fine  Canone  dttx  animarum. 

Divers  others  he  hath  of  this  Nature,  which  I  mall  pafs  by. 

T.eter  Abai  lard  [poke  and  wrote  againft  the  Holy  Trinity,  and  a- 
gainft  the  Office  of  Chrift.  In  the  Doctrine  of  the  Trinity  he  was  an 
Ar tan  \  of  Grace,  a  Pelagian^  the  perfon  of  Chrift,  zNeftorian.  He 
•was  fummoned  to  anfwer  in  a  Council  at  Soiffons,  where  he  did  appear 
but  would  not,  anfwe-r,  but  only  did  appeal  unto  the  Court  of  Kowf, 
and  did.  glory  that  his  books  had  found  acceptance  there.  The  Biftcps 

did. 


Gent.  12,  Of  FRANCE.  101 

did  note  and  condemn  his  Errour,and  the  fentence  againft  his  perfon 
they  did  refer  unto  Pope  Innocent. 

Peter  Cantor  flourilhed  about  this  time,  he  was  of  Parti.  He  wrote 
a  Book  dc  verbo  abbreviate. 

In  that  Book,  he  not  only  taxeth  the  loofelife  of  the  Clergy,  and 
the  negled:  of  their  Office,  but  alfo  many  other  abufes  of  the  Pope  and 
his  Mafs-Priefts.  John  de  Vefalia  in  his  Book  againll  Indulgences, 
writeth  that  this  Cantor  faid,  that  Indulgences  are  pious  frauds.  A~ 
mong  other  things  he  (harply  taxeth  many  abufes  of  the  Mafs  ,  efpe<- 
cially  the  too-frequent  multiplication  ,  and  prophanation  of  it :  he 
reprchendeth  the  heap  and  impiety  of  Fopifh  Traditions  ,  faying, 
that  for  the  Commandements  of  Men,  they  made  void  the  Com- 
mandementsof  God. 

Hugo  de  Sto.  Viciore,  was  by  Nation  a  Saxon  ,  but  Abbot  of  St. 
Vi&or  at  Paris.  His  Works  are  extant  in  three  Volumns,  and  many  of 
them  mentioned  in  Oxford  Catalogue. 

Richard  of  St.  Victor,  flourilhed  at  the  (?rne  time  with  Hugo  afore- 
mentioned, and  lived  in  the  fame  Monalle      *vith  him.   His  Work/  are 
extant  in  two  Volumns.     In  that  he  was  -fteemed  for  a  very  learned-  catai.  rtft.-v»}- 
Man,  and  was  Religious  in  his  outward  converfation,  he  wrote  many  rtc>ll{>'  **• 
things,  of  which  much  is  loft. 

Peter  Lombard  Bimop  of  Paris,  at  this  time  followed  the  footfteps 
of  his  Brother  Gratian,  arrd  gathered  the  fum  of  Divinity  into  four 
Books  of  Sentences,  out  of  the  writings  of  the  Fathers,  and  he  :is  cal- 
led,  T'hs.  Majler  of  the  Sentences.  Gratian  compiled  the  Pope's xJeciees, 
or  the  Canon- Law. 

Thefe  two  Brethren  were  the  greateft  doers  in  finding  out,  and  efta- 
blifhing  the  blind  opinion  of  the  Sacrament,  that  the  only  fimilitude  of 
Bread  and  Wine  remained,  but  not  the  fubftance  of  them,  and  this  they 
call  die  fpiritualunderftanding  of  the  myftery. 

Lombard's  Sentences  were  authorized  as  the  Text  in  all  Schools, 
and  to  the  end  that  no  man  from  thenceforth  fhould  fearch  antiquity 
and  truth  any  more  from  Fathers  or  Councils,  under  no  lefs  danger 
thanguiltinefs  of  Herefie. 

Hear  what  Cornelius  Agrippa  faith  of  this  Scholaftick  Theology.     It 
is  (faith  hejof  the  kind  ot  Centattres,  a  two-fold  Discipline  blown  .up 
by  the  Sorbw  of  Taris^  with  a  kind  of  mixture  of  Divine  Oracles,  de  vanit, 
and  Philofophical  reafon  ings,  written  aft  era  new  form,  and  far  diffe-  "'  97' 
rent  from  the  Antient  Cuftoms,  by  queftions  and  fly  fyllogifmes,  with- 
out all  ornament  of  Language,  &c.     He  addeth  that  the  faculty  of 
Scholaftick  Divinity  is  not  free  from  errour  and  wickednefs.     Thefe 
curfed  Hypocrites  and  Igold  Sophifts  have  brought  in  fo  many  Here- 
fies,  which  preach  Chrift,not  of  good  will  (as  St.  Paul  faith }  but  of 
c-cntention  >  .fo  that  thereds  more  agreement  among Philofophers  than 

among., 


io  i        %ty  ccciefiaortaa  %tfto?g       Cent,  i  $. 

among  thefe  Divines,  who  have  extinguifhed  antient  Divinity  with 
humane  opinions,  and  new  errours. 

Bartholomew  Graviw,  a  Printer  at  Lovain^  in  his  Preface  before  his 
Edition  of  thefe  Sentences  telleth  us,  that  he  had  a  purpofe  to  re- 
duce all  the  Teftimonies  unto  the  firft  Fountains  fincerely  :  but  to  his 
great  admiration  he  was  told  by  the  Mafters  there  it  could  not  be  fo  i 
becaufealbeit  in  their  Editions,  innumerable  places  were  corrected, 
yet  many  errours  were  as  yet  remaining  and  thefe  not  little  ones.  And 
not  a  few  things  in  the  Edition  at  Paris  were  changed  :  not  according 
to  the  truth  of  the  old  Books,  but  in  conjecture  •-,  yea,  and  oft-times 
the  old  words  were  corrupted  through  an  immoderate  dcfire  of  a- 
mending,  and  in  many  places  the  worfe  was  put  for  the  better,  &c. 
And  feeing  thefe  Books  have  been  fo  often  changed,  little  credit 
can  be  given  to  any  of  their  late  Editions  ,  and  that  even  the 
Mafter  himfelf  had  not  written  foundly  according  to  the  Fathers 
which  he  citeth. 


Century  XIII. 


ALegat  came  into  France^  and  commanded  King  Philip  upon 
pain  of  Interdiction  ,  to  deliver  one  Peter  out  of  Prifon, 
that  was  Elected  to  a  Biflhoprrck ,  and  thereupon  he  was 
delivered. 

In  the  Year  1203.  John  King  of  England,  loft  all  his  holds  and  pof- 
feflions  in  Normandy  through  the  force  of  the  Trench  King. 

The  Pope  had  Excommunicated  King  j^tf,not  only  tor  the  pari- 
cideof  his  Nephew  Arthur  ,  but  alfo  for  the  ill  ufage  of  his  Clergy. 
King  John  fends  confiding  men  in  all  haft  to  Pope  Innocent  IV.  be- 
feeching  him,  to  protect  him  againft  the  King  of  France ,  promifing 
thereupon  to  bind  the  Realm  of  England,  and  Seigniory  of  Ireland^ 
to  hold  of  him  and  his  fucceffours,  and  in  iign  of  obedience  to  pay 
him  a  yearly  tribute  of  a  thoufand  marks  of  filver.  Innocent  fends  his 
Legal  prefently  to  abfolve  him,  to  pafs  the  contract ,  and  receive  the 
homages  of  Fealty,  as  well  of  himtelf  as  of  his  Subjects.  John  is  ab- 
folved,and  having  laid  down  his  Crown,  Scepter,  Cloak,  Sword  and 

Ring, 


Cent,  i  J.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E.  103 

Ring,  at  the  Legats  feet,  he  doth  him  homage  for  the  Realm  of  Eng- 
land^ kifling  his  Feet  as  his  Tributary, and  binds  the  Englijb  to  the  like 
duty  by  afolemnOath.  He  was  willing  alfo  to  difcharge  what  he  had 
taken  from  his  Clergy.  This  was  done,  Anno  1215. 

Then  the  Legat  returning  into  France,  requireth  Philip  in  the  Pope's 
name,  that  he  fnould  fuffer  John  to  enjoy  his  Realm  of  England  in 
peace,  and  freely  to  poflefs  the  Lands  which  he  held  by  homage  of  the 
Crown  of  France.  Moreover  that  he  mould  fatisHe  the  great  com- 
plahus  which  the  Clergy  of  his  Realm  had  made  againft  him,reftoring 
that  which  he  had  exaded  from  them  during  the  Wars,  upon  pain  of 
Excommunication  if  he  did  not  obey  prefently.  Philip  promifeth  to 
fubmit  himfelfi  and  before  the  Legat's  departure,  he  frees  the 
Clergy  of  his  Realm  of  the  Tenths  which  he  had  exacted  for  the 
charge  of  the  Wars,  according  to  the  decree  of  a  National  Council 
held  at  Soiffbnr. 

King  John  being  freed  by  the  Pope,  and  prefled  by  him  to  perform 
his  command ,  opprefleth  his  Subjects  by  extraordinary  impotiti- 
ons  ;  and  Tyrannical  exactions.  The  Engli(h  Nobility  there- 
fore rejedt  John ,  and  offer  the  Realm  to  King  Philip  ,  who  fendeth 
his  Son  Levees ,  giving  him  a  train  fit  for  his  perfon  in  fo  great  an 
exploit. 

Le w s  having  taken  Hoftages  of  the  Englijh,  for  affurance   of   their 
Faith,  paffeth  into  England^  and  fo  to  London^    where  he  is  joyfully  Mitfc.Weftnj.ifc. 
received.    In  the  mean  time  complaints  come  to  Philip  from  Pope  *.fi* »"» 1215. 
Innocent^   who    in  a   general    Council  held    at  Rome\    did   Ex- 
communicate  Levees  the  eldeft  Son  of  Philip  Auguftus  with  all  his 
adherents. 

King  jMwdyeth,  and  the  English  receive  Henry  the  Son  of  Jobnjm&. 
difmifs  Lewes  of  France. 

King  Philip  inftituted  the  Provoft  of  Merchants,  and  the  Sheriffs  at 
P<m*forthe  politick  Government  thereof :  hecaufed  the  City  to  be 
paved,  being  before  very  noifome  by  reafon  of  the  mire  and  dirt:  he 
built  the  Halls  and  the  Louvre.  He  Walled  in  Bois  de  Vimennes ,  and 
rcpleniflicd  it  with  Dear  and  other  wild  Beafts :  he  finimed  that 
fumptuous  building  of  our  Ladies  Church.  In  his  Teftament  he  or- 
dained many  notable  things  :  he  left  towards  the  winning  the  City  of 
Jernfalem  III.  C.  M.  pounds  of  Pans  Money  »  to  the  Hofpital  in 
A/0#«f/0rf ,  one  C.  M.  pounds  >  and  to  be  diftributed  among  the  poor 
Commons  of  his  Land  he  gave  XX.  M.  pounds.  But  a  pound  of 
Paris  Money  was'then  but  two  (hillings  fix  pence  fterling.  King  Phi- 
lip dyed  and  was  buried  with  great  pomp  in  the  Monaftery  of  St. 
'Dennis^  Anno  1 223.  and  Lem's  VIII.  his  Son  fucceeded  him  ,  who  was 
crowned  at  Rhemes. 

Pope  Innocent  III,  havii  0  gathered  together  an  Army  of  one  hun- 
dred; 


104          3CDe€ccleftaft<caWflo#       Cent.  15. 


dred  thoufand  pilgrims,  fet  forward  for  the  final  extirpation  oFthe 
poor  Albigenfes,  The  bed  Champions  for  the  Pope  herein  were  the 
Duke  of  'Burgundy,  the  Earls  of  Nevers,  St.  Paul,A!txfrre-,Geneva,  Poi- 
tf/w,  with  Simon  Earl  of  Mwtfort.  Of  the  Clergy,  Mih  the  Pope's 
Legat,  the  Arch-BHhops  of  Sens  and  Rovan,  the  Bifhcps  of  Clermont, 
Nevers,  Lyfieux,  Bayeux,  Chartres,  with  divers  others  :  every  Biftiop 
with  the  Pilgrims  of  his  jurisdi&iom  to  whom  the  Pope  promifed 
Paradice  in  Heaven,  but  not  one  penny  on  Earth. 

Their  work  was  to  defroy  the  Albigenfis  ,  which  were  in  great 
num^ers  in  V**tyhine>  Provence,  Narbott,  Tholoufe,  and  other  parts  of 
France.  Their  commiilion  alfo  extended  to  the  rooting  out  of  all 
their  friends  and  favourers,  whether  deteded,  or  only  fufpe&ed  >  fuch 
as  were  Reimttud  Earl  of  ybvloufe,  Keymund  Earl  of  Foix,  the  Vice- 
Count  of  Beficrs,  Gajlon  Lord  of  Bern>  the  Earl  of  Bigorre  ,  the  Lady 
of  la  Vaur,  with  divers  others- 

The  firft  piece  of  fervice  thefe  Souldiers  performed,  was  in  facking 
the  City  of  Befiers,  and  Burronghof  Carcaffbhe,  in  which  many  of  the 
Papiftf  dwelt,  and  promifcuoully  were  flain  with  the  Albigenfet.  Yea, 
Priefts  themfelves  were  cut  in  pieces  in  their  Prieftly  Ornaments ,  and 
under  the  banner- of  theCrof?. 

As  for  the  City  of  Carcajfine,  which  was  not  far  from  the  Burrough, 
whilft  the  City  was  befieged  ,  they  efcaped  out  by  the  benefit  of  a 
Vault  under-ground,  and  fo  (hifted  abroad  for  themfelves.  Hitherto 
this  War  was  managed  by  the  Pope's  Legat. 

Simon  Earl'of  Montfort  is  now  chofen  Captain  of  this  Army,  who 
fwears  to  vex  the  Lord's  enemies. 

After  he  was  ieized  of  the  Vice- County  of  Befierf,  he  took  many 
other  Caftles  and  Cities. 

When  the  Quarantine,  or  forty  days  fervice  of  this  Army  was  ex- 
pired (the  time  the  Pope  fet  them  to  merit  Paradice  in)  they  would  not 
Hayany  longer^but  ran  away.  And  though  the  Bifhops  perfwaded 
fome  few  to  (lay,  yet  could  they  little  prevail,  which  was  no  fmall  ad- 
vantage to  the  Albigeafes. 

The  Earls  of  Tholottfe,  Foix,  zndCftntninge^  and  Prince  of  Bern,  (hel- 
tred  themielves  under  Peur  King  of  Arragon,  whofe  homagers  they 
were,  receiving  inveftiture  from  him,  though  their  Dominions  lay  on 
this  iide  the  Pyrenean  Hills. 

This  King  fufpecl:ed  the  greatnefs  of  the  Earl  of  Montfort,  therefore 
lie  fomented  a  fadJion  in  them  againft  the  Holy  Army  :  he  charged  Earl 
Simon  for  feizing  on  the  Lands  of  good  Catholicks,  for  fuppofed  He- 
reticks,  and  complained  that  the  Vice-Cpunt  of  Befiers,  who  lived  and 
.dyed  firm  in  the  Rornijb  Faith,was  lately'  trained  into  the  Legat's  hand, 
and  againft  Oaths  and  promifes  of  his  fafe  return,was  kept  Prifoner  till 
his  death,  and  his  Lands  feized  on  by  Earl  Simon, 

A 


Cent.  1 3.  Of  FRANCE.  105 

Apitcht  Battle  was  fought  near  the  Caftle  of  Motet  ^  where  the 
King  of  Arragon  being  wounded  to  death  fell  from  his  Horfe ,  and 
immediately  his  Army  ran  all  away.  Simon  purfued  them  to  the 
Gates  of  T&0/0K/?,  and  killed  many  thoufands.  The  Fryars  imputed 
this  Victory  to  the  Bifliop's  Benedi&ion,  and  adoring  a  piece  of  the 
Crofs,  together  with  the  fervency  of  the  Clergyes  prayers,  that  remain- 
ed behind  in  the  Caftle  of  Moret. 

Yet  within  few  years,  the  face  of  this  War  began  to  alter,  for  young 
Tteimitnd^  Earl  of  "iholoufe^  exceed  ing  his  Father  in  valour  and  fuc- 
cefs,  fo  teftirred  himfelf,  that  in  few  months  he  regained  what  Earl 
Simon  was  many  years  in  getting.  And  at  laft,  Earl-  Simon  befieging 
yfbolotife,  with  a  ftone  which  a  Woman  kt  fly  out  of  an  Engine  ,  had 
his  Head  parted  from  his  body  :  Some  conceived,  they  faw  God's  rin- 
ger in  the  Womans  hand,  that  becaufe  the  greater  part  of  his  cruelty 
lighted  on  the  weaker  Sex  (for  he  had  buried  the  Lady  La  Vaur  alive, 
refpeding  neither  her  Sex  nor  Nobility)  a  Woman  was  chofen  out  to 
be  his  Executioner.  He  dyed  even  then  when  the  Pope  and  three 
Councils, of  Vaur^Lateran^znAMontpelier^  had  pronounced  him  Son, 
Servant,  favourite  of  the  Faith,  the  invincible  defender  thereof.  A- 
mong  other  of  his  (Hies,  he  was  Earl  of  Leicester  in  England^  and  Fa- 
ther to  Simon  Moutfort  the  Cataline  of  this  Kingdom,  who  under  pre-  s«  Camdcn 
tence  of  curing  this  Land  of  fome  grievances,  had  killed  it  with  his  aife  iJ 
Phyfick,  had  he  not  been  killed  himfelf  in  the  battle  of  Evefiam  in  the  "-(hire. 
Reign  of  King  Henry  the  third. 

Here  ended  the  ftorraof  open  War  againft  the  Albigenfes  ,  though 
fome  great  drops  fell  afterward.     And  the  Pope  grew  fenfible  of  ma- 
ny mifehiefs  in  profecuting  this  people  with  the  Holy  War.     Three  P«[J  J%**£' 
hundred  thoufand  of  thefe  croifed  Pilgrims  loft  their  lives  in  this  ex-  8 
pedition  within  the  fpace  of  fifteen  years ,   fo  that  there  was  neither 
City,  nor  Village  in  France^  but  by  reafon  hereof  had  Widows  and 
Orphans,  curfing  this  expedition.     The  Pope  therefore  now  refolves 
upon  a  privater  way,  namely  to  profecute  them  by  way  of  Inquifition. 
The  chief  promoter  of  that  War  was  Dominic^  the  Authour  of  the 
Order  of  the  Dominicans. 

His  Mother  being  with  child  of  him,  dreamed  ,  that  (he  had  a  dog 
vomiting  fire  in  her  Womb.    This  ignivomus  Cur  (as  one  calleth  him)  Du>  Molll  Corp; 
did  bark  at  and  deeply  bite  the  poor  Albigenfes^  who  put  above  two  tr.  Perron,  i.  j* 
hundred  thoufand  of  them  to  death. 

Almerick^  for  his  lazinefs  was  depofed  by  the  Pope ,  and  John  Bren 
was  made  King  of  Jerufalem.  In  the  beginning  of  his  Reign,  this 
accident  fell  out :  In  Fr<*#ce  a  Boy  for  his  years  went  about  finging  in 
his  own  Tongue. 


io5          3CJ)e€ccleftafttcai$ift0#       cent. 


I 


efits  Lord  >rt fair  ourlofs, 
eftore  to  w  thy  Holy  Croft. 


Numberlefs  Children  ran  after  him,  and  followed  the  fame  tune 
their  Captain  and  chanter  did  fet  them. 

No  bolts,  no  bars,  no  fear  of  Fathers,  nor  love  of  Mothers  could 
hold  them  back,  but  they  would  to  the  Holy  Land  to  work  wonders 
there,  but  this  merry  mufick  had  a  fad  clofe,  all  either  periling  on 
Land,  or  being  drown'd  by  Sea.  Matkew  fans  faith,  it  was  done  by 
the  inftincl  of  the  Devil. 

King  Levees  VIII.  having  compounded  with  Almery ,  the  Son  of 
Simon  Earl  of  Montfort^  for  Langucdoc^  refolves  to  unite  this  rich  Pro* 
vince  to  the  Crown. 

'  To  this  end  he  levies  a  great  Army,  fortified  with  cruel  Edifts  a- 
gainft  the  Albigenfis  as  Here  ticks,  and  Rebels.  Count  Rcymimd  fub- 
mits  himfelf  to  Pope  Honorius^  and  yieldeth  to  Lerver,  and  perf wades 
the  Earl  of  Cominges  to  the  like  obedience.  Thus  both  of  them  a- 
bandon  the  people,  and  go  to  Rome,  leaving  the  poor  Albigenfes  to  the 
mercy  of  Lewes,  who  prefently  fubdues  all  Lengucdoc  and  Provence. 
TheHoufe  of  Monthr,  one  of  the  greateft  in  the  County  of  Vivaret^ 
having  followed  the  Albigenfes  party  makes  his  peace,  by  means  of  the 
Town  ofArgetttiere,  given  to  the  Biftiop  of  Vivien^  who  enjoyeth  it 
to  this  day.  Many  Families  were  made  defolate :  Thefe  poor  mifera- 
ble  people  were  difperfed  here  and  there  ••>  and  fuch  as  remained  in  the 
Country  were  forced  to  acknowledge  the  Pope's  Authority.  Letvef 
ordered  the  Marlhal  Foy,  of  the  houfe  of  Mirepois  to  command  his 
Forces,  leaving  the  Lord  of  BeaHJetf,  for  Governour  and  Lieutenant- 
General  of  Languedcc. 

All  this  mifchief  was  contrived  by  the  Pope,  who  had  ftnt  his  Le- 
Foi.  A-a.&  mo-  gat  into  Yrance^  to  fummon  a  Council  at  Eitttre ,   whither  the  King 
*urav°1'1'       with  fix  Arch-Biftops,  and  the  BUhopsand  Suffragans  of  nine  Pro- 
vinces repaired,  to  the  number  of  an  hundred,  befides  the  Abbots, 
Priors,  and  Pro&ors  of  all  the  Covents  of  France .     Having  difpatch'd 
tthebufinefs  of  Earl  Ryt»**£yind  the  Albigenfes  ,  the- event  whereof 
hath  been  before  declared  i  Romans  the  Pope's  Legate  gave  leave  to 
all  Prodtors  of  Covents,  and  Chapters  t    return  home,  only  retaining 
with  him  the  Arch-Bi(hops,  Bi(hops,  Abbots,  to  whom  he  opened  a- 
nother  part  of  his  Commiilion  s  which  was  to  obtain  01  every  Cathe- 
dral Church  two  Prebend- (hips »  one  fcr  the  Biflicp,  tbe  other  for  the 
Chapter.     And  in  Monattaies  alfo  after  the  like  fort ,  where  the  Ab* 
bot  and  Covent  had  divers  and  feveral  portions,  to  require  two  Chur- 
ches, one  for  the  Abbot,  the  other  for  the  Covent,  keeping  this  pro- 
portion, that  how  much  (hould  fuftkc  for  the  living  of  one  Monk, 

fo 


Gent.  13.  Of  FRANCE.  107 

fo  much  the  whole  Covent  (hould  find  for  their  part,  and  as  much  the 
Abbot  for  his  likewife. 

The  Clergy  of  France  anfwerech,  that  the  thing  he  enterprized  could 
not  be  brought  to  cfFed  without  great  offence  taken,  and  incftimable 
damage  to  the  Church  of  Frauce. 

Inconclulion,  whe_n  the  matter  came  to  debating  with  the  Legat, 
the  objections  of  the  inferiour  Clergy  were  thefe  following. 

1.  They  Pledged  the  great  damages  and  expences, which  they  were  ,.    p  .,, 
like  to  fuftain  thereby,   by  reafon    of  the   continual   procurators  of 

the  Pope,  which  in  every  Diocefs  muft  live,  not  of  their  own, 
but  muft  be  (uftained  upon  the  charges  of  the  Cathredral  Churches, 
and  other  Churches  alfo  i  and  many  times  they  being  but  procurators 
will  be  found  as  Legats. 

2.  By  that  means  (they  faid)  great  perturbations  might  enfue  to 
the  Covents  and  Chapters  of  Cathedral  Churches  in  their   elections  : 
Forafmuch  as  the  Pope's  Agents  and  Fa&ors,   being   in  every  Cathe* 
dral  Church  and  Chapter- houfe,  perchance  the  Pope  would  command 
him  in  his  perfon  to  be  prefent  at  their  elections,  and  fo  might  trouble 
the  fame  by  delaying  and  deferring  ,  till   it  might  fall  to  the  Court 
of  Rome  to  give  ,  and  fo  mould  be  placed  more  of  the  Pope's  Clien- 
tele in  the  Churches  of  France ,  than  of  the  proper  Inhabitants  of  the 
Land. 

3.  By  this  means  they  affirmed,  that  all  they  in  the  Court  of  £<?/»<•, 
(hould  be  richer  and  receive  more  for  their  proportion,  than  the  King 
of  the  Realm  :  by  means  whereof  the  Court  of  Rome  would  delay 
and  drive  off  great  fuits,  and  would  fcarce  take  any  pains    with  fmall 
caufes.     Thus  would  Juftice  be  turned  afide,  and  poor  fuitors   (hould 
dye  at  the  gates  cf  Rome  :  and  for  the  better  fpeeding  of  their  caufes, 
they  thought,  feeing  it  was  meet  they  (hould  have  friends  in  the  Court 
of  Rome,  by  keeping  them  needy,  their  gifts  might  be  the   fweeter, 
and  their  caufes fooner  difpatched. 

4.  Seeing  it  is  impoffible  that   the   Fouutain   of  greedy  defires 
(hould  be  flopped  ,    it  was  to  be   feared  ,  that   either  they  would 
do    that    by    others ,   which   they    were  wont   to  do   by   them* 
felves ,   or  elfe  they   mould  be   enforced  to  give  greater  rewards 
than    before,   for    foiall  gifts   with   great   Rich    Men   are    little 
regarded. 

5.  Whereas  the  removing  away  the  (lander  was  alledged  which  go- 
cth  on  the  Court  of  Rome  i  by  this  means  rather  the  contrary  were 
to  be  feared,  wherein  that  fentence  was  aliedged. 


P   2 


cent.  13. 


gubd  virtus  red  Jit  nan  copia 

Et  Honpatfpertas,  fed  menti*  hiatus  egentem. 

'That  great  riches  flop  not  the  taking  of  much,  but  a  mind  contented 
n>itfi  a  little. 

6.  They  added,  that  great  riches  would  caufe  fadions  among  the 
£<»»<*»/,.  and  taking  of  fides  and  parties,  fo  that  by  great  pofleffions  fe- 
dition  might  follow  to  the  ruine  of  the  City. 

7.  That  though  they  would  oblige  themfelves  to  that  contributi- 
on, yet- their  SuccdTourswouldnot.be  fo  bound,  nor  yet  ratifie  that 
bond'of  theiis. 

8.  They  defired  the  Legat,  that  the  zeal  of  the  Univerfal  Church, 
and  of  the  Church  of  Rome  would  move  him :  for  if  this  oppreflion 
of  the  Church  (hould  be  Univerfal,  it  were  to  be  doubted  ,  left  an  UnK 
verfal  departing  might  follow  from  the  Church  of  Rome,  which  God 
forbid  ffaid  they)  (hould  happen. 

The  Legat  hereat  excufed  himfelf,  that  he  being  in  the  Court  never 
agreed  to  thisexadion  >  and  that  the  Letters  came  not  to  him  before 
he  was  in  France^  and  as  for  him  foe  would  ftir  no  more-  in  the  mat- 
ter, before  it  were  proved  what  other  Countries  would  fay  and  do 
therein. 

Ring  Le rves  pafling  with  a  great  Hoft  by  Eourger  and  Nhw/5march- 
ed  to  Lyons;  and  from  Lyons  to  Avignon^  which  for  difobedience  to  the 
Church  of  Rome  hadftood  accurfed  by  the  Pope  for  feven  years; 
The  Citizens  of  Avignon ,  (hut  their  gates  againft  the  King  and  his 
Army,  not  furTering  them  to  come  within  the  City.  Wherefore  the 
Ring  ajt;au]tea  the  City,  and  loft  there  many  of  his  Men,  among  which 
Guy  Earl  of  St,  P*»/,  and  the  Bi(hopof  Lcmeric^  and  others  to  the 
number  of  two  and  twenty  thoufand  there  were  flain.  In  the  end 
they  fuhmitting  to  the  King's  pleafure,  and  the  correction  of  the 
Pope,  an  agreement  was  made  i  and  the  King  and  his  Army  were 
received'into  the  City,  and  the  Citizens  received  abfolution  from  the 
Pope's  Legate. 

King  Lewes  to  avoid  the  peftilence  that  was  in  his  Camp,  went  into 
an  Abbey  not  far  off,  where  fhortly  after,  he  dyed,  and  was  carried  to 
JR<*m,  where  he  was  interred,  Anno  1226. 

Near  unto  this  time ,  Gulielmw  de  Aha.  Petra ,  Bifliop  of  P^rff, 
wrote  a  Book  de  Clero,  wherein  he  thus  fpeakerh  of  the  Clergy  of  his 
time.  No  god linefs  or -Learning  is  feen  in  them,  but  rather  all  devilifh 
filthinefs,  and  monftrous  vices  i  they  are  not  the  Church,  but  Babylon  < 
and  E£y/*,  and  Sodom :  the  Popifh  Prelats  build  not  the  Church  but 
deftroyif,  they.mockGod,  and  they  and  their  Priefts  do  prophane 
**  the. 


Cent,  i $.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E.  109 

the  body  of  Chrift  >  they  lift  up  to  the  Heavens  with  all  manner  of 
Ecclefiaftical  honour  the  limbs  of  the  Devil:  in  a  word  i  they  bring 
Lucifer  into  the  Church  of  Chrift.  He  taught  alfo  that  there  is  no 
Law  belonging  to  the  falvation  of  man,  buttheGofpelof  Chrifb 

King  Lewes  Ix.  Galled  St.  Lewes  ^  fucceedeth  his  Father  in  the  King<- 
dom  of  France,  being  but  twelve  years  old,  and  was  Crowned  at 
Rbemes. 

There  is  extant  a  coeiftitution  of  this  King  Lewes,  bearing  date,  Ann& 
1228,  jul>.  lit.  de'falM,  wherein  he  regrateth  the  Avarice  of  Pope?, 
faying,  that  cxadHons,  and  grievous  burthens  of  Moneys  are  laid  on 
the  Churches  of  our  Kingdorus  by  the  Court  of  Rome  ,  whereby  the 
Kingdom  is  miferably  exhauftcd.  We  will  therefore ,  that  thefe  be 
levied  upon  no  condition,  nor  gathered,  except  only  for  a  reafonable, 
pious ,  and  moft  urgent  neceflity ,  and  by  our  exprefs  and  willing 
confent ,  and  with  the  conf<?nt  of  the  Church  it  felf  of  our 
Kingdom. 

At  that  time  the  Senate  of  P*w,  did  prefent  unto  John  Santromav, 
the  King's  Advocate,  the  Pope's  Bull  to  be  read  and  anfwered.  He 
icplyed,  faying,  The  greateft  oonfufion  of  all  things  would  arife  upon 
the  acceptingof  that  Bull:  for  by  authority  of  fuch  in  former  times; 
the  French  people  had  in  great  numbers  gone  out  of  the  Kingdom  to 
Row?,  of  whom  fome  became  flaves  or  clients  to  the  Cardinals  j  and 
fome  living  more  liberally,  had  idly  wafted  their  Patrimony:  and  o- 
thers  in  the  City,  or  by  the  way  had  periled  with  the  badnefs  of  the 
Air,  and  frequent  peftilence:  and  fo  Franc?  was  exhaufted  of  Sub- 
jefts,  efpecially  of  Learned  men.  He  (heweth  alfo,  how  vaft  fums  of 
Moneys  were  carried  away  for  vacancies,  ad  Ad  vouzons  of  Btfhopricks 
and  Abbeys,  and  other  Titles  in  the  Churchy  fo  that  fometimes  ten  ct 
twelve  Bulls  were  fold  for  one  Piiefthood.  And  if  this  cuftom  (hall 
continue  (faith  he)  it  (hall  come  to  pafs,.  that  who  hath  any  ftore  of 
Moneys,  will  fend  to  Row*,  and  buy  a  Priefthood  unto  his  Son  or 
Coufin.  The  Re&orof  the  Univerfity  of  Parit^  fpake  to  the  fams> 
purpofe  ••>  and  having  protefted  at  length  againft  the  Bull,  he  appeakth  •> 
from  the  iniquity  thereof  to  the  next  CounciL 

The  Pope's  Legate  having  raifed  an  immenfe  fam  of  Money  in 
Trance^  Lewes  prohibited  that  tlie  Money  (  which  was  yet  in  Frame) 
mould  be  delivered  to  the  Pope's  Afligns,  or  traufported  out  of  the 
Kingdom. 

King  John  Ere»  refigneth  the  Kingdom  of  Jemfalem  to  Fre derk\  , 
thefecond  Emperour.     There  was  alfo  a  Peace  with  the  Turkj  con- 
cluded for  eight  years. 

John  got  now  more  in  a  twelve- month  than  in  feven- years  before,  P. ' 
going  from  Country  to  Country.     In  France^  befides  rich   gifts  left  phiu  2> 
so  himfelfjhe  had  the  managing, of  toy  thoufand  Cjowns,  the^  Le- 


cent. 


gacy  which  Philip  Attgttftus  the  King  on  his  Death-  bed  bequeathed  to 

the  Templars,  and  the  Holy  War.     In  'Eatfand  he  received  many  pre- 

fents  from  King  HexryllL  though  afterward  he  proved  but  unthank- 

Math.  Paris,  p.  ful  for  them.     In  SpJ  i»  he  got  a  rich  Wife,  marrying  Berijjgari*  ,  the 

^7.  Daughter  of  the  King  of  Cajtile  :  In  Italy  he  tafted  largely  of  the 

Pope's  bounty  v  but  at]aft  perfidicu%:iaifed  rebellions  againft  Frf</f- 

r/c£,  his  Son-in-Law,by  the  Pope's  inftigation.     It  is  conceived  that 

the  Pope  provided  that  match  for  Frederick^  to  employ  him  inPaleftint, 

whilft  he  at  home  might  play  his  game  at  pleafure. 

Frederick^  recovereth  all  Palejiineznd  Jerufalem  without  expence  of 
time  or  blood  :  and  concluded  a  ten  years  truce  with  the  Sultan  with- 
out  the  Pope's  confent.  And  on  Eajier-dzy  tryumphantly  entring 
Jerufalem  crowned  himfelf  King  with  his  own  hands.  For  Gerard 
Patriarch  of  Jerufalem^  and  Oliver  Matter  of  the  letnplarf  ,  with  all 
the  Clergy  abfented  themfelves  :  neither  was  there  any  Mafs  fung  in 
the  City,  fo  long  as  the  Emperour  being  excommunicated  remained 
there.  In  the  Interim,  the  Chriftians  every  where  build  and  repair 
the  Cities  of  Paleftine  ,  being  now  refigned  into  their  hands:  Jopp* 
and  Nazareth  they  ftrongly  fortified  i  the  Walls  of  Jerufalem  were 
repaired,  the  Churches  adorned.  But  (hort  were  the  fmiles  of  this 
City,  which  groaning  under  God's  old  curfe  ,  little  joyed  her  felf  in 
this  her  new  bravery. 

About  the  year  1132.  the  Greely  recover  their  Empire  from  the 
Latines^  who  had  made  an  hard  fhift  to  hold  Coxjiaxtinoplf  almoft  fixty 
years  under  rive  fucceeding  Empcrours.  i.  Balda>i»t\\e  firft,  Earl  of 
flattders.  2.  Henry  his  Brother.  3.  Peter,  Count  of  Attxerre  in 
France,  Henry's  Son-  in-  Law.  4,  Robert.  *.  Baldwin  the  fifth  and 
laft. 

At  this  time  the  Tartarian*  over-rim  the  North  of  djia,  and  many 
Nations  fled  from  their  own  Countries  for  fear  of  them.  Among 
other,  the  Corafmfs,  a  fierce  and  Warlike  people,  were  forced  to  for- 
fake  their  Land. 

Being  thus  unkennelled,  they  have  recourfe  to  the  Sultan  of  Baby. 
Ion,  who  beftows  on  them  all  the  Lands  the  Chriftians  held  in  Palefli»e. 
They  march  to  Jerufalem,  and  take  it  without  refinance.  Soon  after 
the  Corafwes  elated  herewith,  fell  out  with  the  Suit  a  n  himfelf  ,  who  in 
anger  rooted  out  their  Nation,  fo  thatnone  remained. 

The  French-men  make  War  againft  Jx.<?>w7/»^,Earl  of  Iholottfa  and 
think  to  enclofe  him  in  his  Gallic  of  Saracene:  but  the  Earl  lying  in 
A  mbum  for  them  in  Woods,  flew  many  of  them,  and  500  ot  the 
French  Souldiers  were  taken  i  and  of  their  Servitors  to  the  number 
of  2co  men  in  armour  were  taken  ,  or  whom  foine  loft  their  eyes, 
fome  their  ears,  fome  their  tegs,  and  fo  were  fent  hctr.c  :  the  reft  were 
carried  away  Pijfoncrs  into  the  Caftle.  Thrice  that  Summer  were 

the 


Gent, 1 3.  Of  FRANCE.  in 

the  French-men  difcosnfited  by    the  aforefaid   Reymunel. 

King  2>»v.rputsa  flop  to  the  persecution  of  the  Albigenfes,  faying, 
that  they  muft  perfwade  them  by  reafon,  and  not  conftrain  them  by 
force,  whereby  many  Families  were  preferved  in  thofe  Provinces. 

In  thofe  times  lived  Gulidmw  de  fantto  amore,  a  Doftor  of  Parti r 
and  Chanon  of  "Beattvois^  exclaiming  againft  the  abufes  of  the  Church- 
of  Rome.  He  wrote  againft  the  Fryars  and  their  hypocrifie,  but  efpe- 
cially  againft  the  begging  Fryars, 

In  his  days  there  was  a  moft  deteftable  and  blafphemous  book  fet 
forth  by  the  Fryars,  which  they  called ,  Evangelium  JEternttm^  or  E- 
•oangelium  fpiriths  fanfti  \  Ibe  EverlaitingGoffel,  or,1bf  Gofpel  of  the- 
Holy  Gbof.  Wherein  it  is  faid,  That  the  Gofpel  of  Chrift  Was  not  to1 
be  compared  to  it,nomore  than  darknefs  to  light,  That  the  Gofpel 
of  Chrift  (hould  be  preached  but  fifty  years,  -and  then  this  everlafting 
Gofpel  (hould  ruk  the  Church. 

He  mightily  impugned  this  peftiferous  Book.  He  was  by  the  Pope  Fox  Aa 
condemned  for  an  Heretick,  exiled,  and  his  Books  were  burnt.  His  Monum. 
ftory  and  Arguments  may  be  read  in  Mr.  Faxhis  firft  Volumn.  Pope 
Alexander  armed  Ib&ntM  Aqulms^  and  'BenAventitre  (  men  of  violent 
fpirits)  againft  him,  but  he  was  too  hard  forthefe  reprovers :  his  fol- 
lowers were  called  Amor#i. 

Pope  Gregory  fucceedeth  Innocent,  and  is  a  great  Enemy  to  Frederic!^ 
theEmperour,  who  had  entred  Italy  with  a  great  Army.  After  his 
Eledrton  he  fends  his  Nuncio  intoFr^w,  to  exhort  Lewes  to  fuccour 
him.  The  Pope  comes  into  France,  and  calls  a  Council  at  Lyons^ 
whither  he  cites  Frederick^  ^  but  yet  upon  fo  mort  a  warning  as  he-. 
could  not  appear.  Frederick^  (having  fent  his  AmbafTadours  to  re- 
quire a  lawful  time,  and  to  advertifethe  Pope  of  his  coming^)  begins' 
his  Journey  to  perform  his  promife.  Being  arrived  at  T^b^rin  ,  he 
hath  intelligence  given  him,  that  the  Pope  had  condemned  him  as; 
Contnma'x,  excommunicated  him,  and  degraded  him' of  the  Empire.- 
But  this  was  not  without  the  confent  of  the  Princes  Electors  of  the; 
Empire,  who  after  mature  deliberation  proceeded  to  anew  Eledion.- 
Thcy  chufeHipwy  Landgrave  of  'fhuring  for.Emperour  >  but  he  befie- 
gingeheCkyof'^/wpj-,  was-wounded  with  an  Arrow  whereof  he: 
dyed  Qiortly  after. 

Fm&T/c£ writes  toiheFrencb  King,againft  thefentence  againft  him-, 
at  Lyons. 

Then  the  Electors  chofe  flfilliam,  Earl  of  Holland  for  Empejour^ 
In  all  the  chief  Cities,  theGttetptfs  Faction  was  the  ftronger,  .through 
the  Authority  of  the  Council  of  Lyons.  Frederic^  ov.er-preffed  with- 
giief,  dycth,  leaving  Italy  and  Germany  in  great  combuftion. 

The'Pope  having  Canonized  Edntond  Arch-Bi(hop  of  Ctnterbury, 
foon  after .Blanv,  Queen  Regent  ofFHWcrj  came,  into  England  to 


5Cl)e  CCCltftafttCal . $1&0??  Cent.  13. 

worfliip  that  Saint,  reprefenting  to  him,  that  he  had  found  refuge  for 
his  Exile  in  France^  and  befeeching  him  not  to  be  ungrateful.  She 
faid,  my  Lord,  moft  Holy  Father,  confirm  the  Kingdom  of  Franc f 
in  a  peaceable  folidity,  and  remember  what  we  have  done  to  tbee. 

Now  Lewes  IX.  came  to  affift  the  Chriftians  in  Paleftine.  His  no- 
hility  difwaded  from  that  defign.  Lewes  takes  up  the  Crofs,  and 
voweth  to  eat  no  Bread,  until  he  was  recognized  with  the  Pilgrim's 
Badge.  Their  went  along  with  him,  his  two  Brothers,  Charles  Earl 
of  Anjou,  Robert  Earl  of.  Artois  •,  his  own  Queen,  and  their  Ladies, 
Odo  the  Pope's  Legat,  Hugh  Duke  of  Burgundy,  WilliamEzr]  of  Flan* 
ders,  Hugh  Earl  of  St.  P<*«/,  and  William  Longspatb  Earl  of  Sar'wbury^ 
with  a  band  of  valiant  Englifi-men, 

The  Pope  gave  to  this  King  Lewes  for  his  charges,  the  tenth  of  the 
Clergy's  re  venues  through  France  for  three  years  ,  and  the  King  em- 
•ployed  the  Pope's  Collectors  to  gather  it  j  whereupon  the  Eftates  of 
the  Clergy  were  (haven  as  bare  as  their  crowns ;  and  a  poor  Prie(t,who 
had  but  twenty  (hillings  annual  penfion,  was  forced  to  pay  .two  yearly 
to  the  King.  Having  at  Lyons  took  hisleavt  of  the  Pope,  and  a  blef- 
Cng  from  him,  he  marched  toward  Avignon*  Where  fome  of  the  city 
wronged  his  Souldiers,  efpecially  with  foul  Language. 

His  Nobles  delired  him  to  befiege  the  city  ,  the  rather ,  becaufe  it 
was  fufpe&ed,  that  therein  his  Father  was  poifoncd.  To  whom  Levees 
moft  chriftianly  faid,  I  come  not  out  of  France  to  revenge  mine  own 
quarrels,  or  thofe  of  my  Father,  or  Mother,  but  injuries  offered  to  Je- 
fusChrift.  Hence  he  went  without  delay  to  his  Navy,  and  fo  com- 
mitted himfclf  to  the  Sea. 

Levees  arrives  in  Cyprus  >  where  the  peftilence  raging  ,  two  hundred 
and  forty  Gentlemen  of  note  dyed  of  the  infection.  Hither  came  the 
AmbafTadours  from  a  great  Tartarian  prince ,  invited  by  the  fame  of 
King  Levee s  his  piety,  profefiing  to  him,  that  he  had  renounced  his  Pa« 
ganifm,  and  embraced  Chriftianity,  and  that  he  intended  to  fend  Mef- 
(engcrs  to  the  Pope  to  be  further  inftru&ed  in  his  Religion:  but  fome 
Chriftians  which  were  in  Tartary  difwaded  him  from  going  to  Rome. 
King  Lewes  received  thefe  AmbalTadours  cuurteoufly,  difmifling  them 
with  .bounteous  gifts.  And  by  them  he  fent  to  their  Matter  a  Tent, 
wherein  the  Hiftory  of  the  Bible  was  as  richly,  as  curioufly  depicted  in 
Needle- work,  hoping  thus  to  catch  his  Eyes,  and  both  in  his  prefenti 
pictures  then  being  accounted  Lay-mens  books. 

The  French  land  in  Egypt ,  and  Vamiata  is  taken  by  them.  Difcords 
grew  bet  ween  the  Fr^«c^and  Engli(h,  the  caufe  was,  for  that  the  Earl 
of  Sarisbury  in  facking  a  Fort  got  more  fpoil  therein  than  the  Englifh. 
Then  dyed  Meladine,  the  Egyptian  King.  Robert  Earl  o(Artois,  Bro- 
ther to  King  Levees^  righting  with  the  Egyptians,  contrary  to  the 
Counfel  of  the T.C mplars}  is  overthrown.  In  his  flight  he  cryed  to 

the 


Cent.  ij.  Of  FRANCE.  113 

—     -  — 

the  Earl  of  Saritbnry^  flee,  flee,  for  God  fighteth  againft  us.  To  whom 
our  Earl,  God  forbid  my  Father's  Son  fhould  flee  from  the  face  of  a 
Saracen.  The  other  feeding  to  fave  himfelf  by  the  fwiftnefs  of  his 
Horfe,  and  eroding  the  River  was  drowned.  The  Earl  of  Sariibury 
flew  many  a  7W^,  arid  though  unhorfed  and  wounded  in  his  Legs, 
flood  on  his  Honour,  when  he  could  not  fland  on  his  Feet  i  and  refu- 
fingall  quarter,  upon  his  knees  laid  about  him  like  a  defperate  man. 
He  fought  till  at  laft  he  breathed  forth  his  Soul  in  the  mid  ft  of  his  E- 
nemies.  Of  all  the  Chriftians  there  efcaped  no  more  than  two  'tem- 
plars,  one  Hofpitaller,  and  one  common  Souldier ,  the  Meflengers  of 
this  heavy  news.  The  Plague  fwept  away  many  thoufands  of  the  French  ; 
daily.  Mean  time  King  Lewes  lent  many  of  the  weakeft  of  the  peo- 
ple down  the  River  to  Damiata,  Melechfala  King  of  Egypt  ^  meeting 
them  by  the  way,  either  burned  or  drowned  them  all ,  fave  one  Eng- 
Itjh-man^  Alexander  Giffard  (whofe  antient  Family  flourifheth  to  this 
day  at  Cbcllington  in  Staferd-fhice)  who  wounded  in  hve  places  of  his 
body,  efcaped  to  the  French  ,  and  reported  what  had  happened  to  the 
reft.  Melecbfala  came  upon  the  reft  with  an  infinite  multitude,  and 
put  them  all  ("being  few  and  feeble  J  to  the  Sword,  taking  King  Lewet  ( 
with  his  two  Brethren,  Alpkonfe  and  Charles  prifoners.  Then  was 
there  a  general  Lamentation  over  all  Chriftendom ,  chiefly  in  France, 
where  all  were  forrowful.  ; 

Melechfala  is  ilain  by  'fargwminuf,  a  fturdy  Mattwtaittkf ,  who  fuc- 
ceeded  him  in  the  Egyptian  Kingdom.  Leaves  at  laft  was  reftored  to 
his  Liberty  upon  condition,  that  the  Chrifrians  (hould  furrender  Ua- 
miata,  and  healfo  pay  back  to  the  Turkj  many  thoufand  pounds,  both 
for  ranfom  of  Chriftian  Captives,  and  in  fatisfa&ion  of  the  vaftatipns 
they  had  committed  in  Egypt. 

Lewes  for  the   fecurity  of  this  Money  pawned  to   the  TurJ^,  the 
Pyx  and  Hoft  Cthat  is  the  body  of  Chrift  Tranfubftantiated  in  the  Eu- 
charift;  as  his  chicfeft  Jewel ,  which  he  (hould  be  moft  careful  to  re-  pu.  s«rw  Hifc 
deem.     Hence  in  perpetual  memory  of  this  conqueft,  we  may  fee  a  in  Ludt  '• 
Wafer- cake  and  a  box,  always  wrought  in  the  borders  of  that  Tape- 
dry  which  is  brought  out  of  Egypt. 

Hence  Leaves  failed  to  Ttolema'u^  being  forfaken  of  the  Pope,Fricnds, 
Subjects,  Brothers.  Alpbonfe  and  Charles,  though  fent  into  France  to 
(blicite  his  fuit,  and  to  advance  his  ranfom  withfpeed,  yet  being  arri- 
ved forgot  the  affliction  of  Jofepb.  Blanch,  the  King's  Mother,  ha- 
ving gathered  a  considerable  fum  of  money,  and  (hipped  it  for  Palejiine, 
a  Tempeft  in  a  moment  caft  that  away,  which  her  care  and  thrift  was 
many  months  in  getting.  His  Queen  Margaret  was  with  him,  which 
foanewhat  mitigated'  his  grief.  Here  the  bore  him  a  child  ,  which  be- 
caufe  another  "Benoni,  or  (on  of  forrow,  was  called  T'riftram. 

King  Lewet  being  an  excellent  Antiquary,  and  Critick   on    facred 

Mo- 


Monuments,  much  employed  himfelf  in  redeeming  of  old  facred  pla- 
ces from  the  tyranny  of  Time  and  Oblivion. 

Mean-  time,  in  his  Kingdom  of  France.,  hapned  this  ftrange  accident. 
An  Hungarian  Peafant,  who  is  faid  to  bean  Apoftate  to  Mahomet^  and 
well  learned,  gathered  together  many  thoufands  of  peoplevpretending 
they  had  intelligence  from  Heaven  to  march  to  the  Holy  Land.  Thefe 
took  on  them  the  name  and  habit  of  Paparetii,  poor  Shepherds,  in  i- 
mitation  be  like,  of  thofe  in  the  Gofpel,  who  were  warned  by  Angels 
in  a  Vifion  to  go  to  Bethlehem. 

Being  to  (hape  their  courfe  into  Paleftine  ,  they  went  into  France. 
.  cent.  They  pillaged  and  killed  the  poor  Jews  as  they  went.  But  at  laft 
j.cai'tf.coi.  rear  'Bardemtx  ilxty  thoufand  of  them  were  (lain,  and  the  reft  difper- 
fed.  A  Rhimer  of  that  Age  made  this  Epitaph  on  them. 

M.  femel,  &  bi*C.  L.  I.  Conjttngere  difce^ 
t)ttxit  Pajforum  fxva  Megtra  Chorum. 


Learn  to  pttt  together 

What   MC  C  L  1.  do  fpeV. 
When  fome  Dei'ilty  Fiend  in  France, 

Did  teach  the  Shepherds  how  to  dance. 

Anno  1254.  Lewes  returneth  into  France^  being  loaden  with  Debts- 
to  his  !*£//'*»  Creditors.  He  made  an  ordinance  for  the  banifliment 
of  common  Whores  out  of  all  Cities  and  Towns,  to  be  done  by  his 
Judges  and  Officers,  and  their  goods  to  be  feized  by  them. 

After  fourteen  years  Interregnum  Pope  Vrban  IV.  appointed  Charles. 
Duke  of  An]«n,  younger  Brother  to  King  Lewes  of  France  ••>  King  of 
Sicily  and  Je  mfalem.  Charles  fubdued  Mattfrid  ,  and  Conradin  his 
Nephew,  and  poffefled  Sicily,  but  for  the  gaining  of  Jerufalem,  he  ne- 
ver regarded  it,  nor  came  thither  at  all.  Hugh  King  of  Cyprus  9  was 
crowned  King  of  Jernfalem. 

In  the  Year  1253.  was  great  contention  between  the  Matters  of 
SorboH  in  Paris,  and  the  preaching  Fryars  ,  who  were  fo  increafed  in 
number  and  honour,  becoming  the  Confefforsand  counfellors  of  Kingv 
that  they  would  not  be-  fubje<ft  unto  the  former  Laws  and  Cuitoms. 
The  School-men  convened,  and  were  'content  to  want  fomewhat  of 
their  weekly  portion  to  fatif  fie  the  Court  of  Rome  ,  from  which  the 
Fryars  had  obtained  their  priviledges. 

-About  this  time  or  a  little  before,  arofe  a  ftrife  between  the  gray 
Fryars,  and  Prelates,  and  Dolors  of  Paris  }  about  nine  cor«clufion% 
condemned  of  the  Pielates  to  be  erroneous. 


Gent.  13.  Of  FRANCE.  115 

1.  Concerning  the  divine  offence ,  that  it  cannot  be  feen  of  the 
Angels  or  men  glorified. 

2.  Concerning  the  Eflence  of  the  Holy  Ghoft. 

5.  Touching  the  proceeding  of  the  Holy  Ghoft,  as  he  is  love. 

4.  Whether  men  gloritied  (hall  be  in  cosh  ewpyreo :  or ,  in.  cxh 
Cbryftallmo. 

5.  That  the  evil  Angel  at  his  firft  Creation  was  evil,  andtunever 
good. 

6.  That  there  have  been  many  verities  from  the  beginning ,  which 
were  not  of  God. 

7.  That  an  Angel  in  one  infiant  may  be  in  divers  places.     . 

8.  That  the  evil  Angel  never  had  whereby  he  might  ftand  i    no 
more  had  Adam  in  his  ftate  of  Innocence. 

9.  That  he  which  hath  more  perfect  ftrength  of  nature  working  in 
him,  (hall  have  more  full  meafure  of  neceflity  to  obtain  Grace  and 
Glory.     To  which  Articles  the  Prelates  anfwering,  did  excommuni- 
cate the  fame  as  erroneous. 

The    Abbot  of  St.  Denis  having  extorted  great  fums  of  Money 
out  of  his  Abbey,  to  prefent  unto  the  Pope  as  others  did,  in  hopes  Math.  Paris. 
one  day  to  be  made  an  Arch-Bi(hop,  King  Lervcs ,  as   Patron  of 
that  Abbey ,  compelled    him  to  re-pay   the  faid  fum  out  of   his 
own  purfe. 

whilft  this  King  was  gone  to  the  Holy  War,  the  Nobles  of  France, 
finding  themfelves  vexed  by  the  Pope,  made  a  league,  and  fet  forth 
a  Declaration,  againft  him,  where  they  fay  (among  other  things  )  that 
the  Clergy  (pointing  at  the  Pope)  fwallow  up  and  fruftrate  the  ju- 
rifdidion  of  Secular  princes ,  fo  as  by  their  Laws  ,  the  children  of 
Haves,  pafs  judgement  upon  Free-men  and  their  children  ,  whereas  by 
thefecular  Laws  of  our  Kings  and  Princes,  they  ought  rather  to  be 
judged  by  us. 

Another  piece  of  their  Declaration  runs  in  this  manner.  All  we, 
the  prime  Men  of  the  Kingdom,  perceiving  out  of  our  deep  judge-  Matfi.Paris  H;& 
menti  That  the  Kingdom  was  not  got  by  Law  written,  nor  by  the  iS,  wc7ft,ii.?. 
Ambition  of  Clergy-men,  but  by  the  fweat  of  War,  do  Enaft  and 
Ordain  by  this  prefent  Decree,  and  by  joynt  Oath,  that  no  Cicrk  nor 
Lay-man  (hall  fue  one  another  before  the  Ordinary,  or  Ecclefiaftical 
Judge,  unlefs  it  be  in  cafe  of  Herefie,  Marriages,  and  Ufury,  upon  pain 
of  confifcating  all  their  goods,  and  the  lofs  of  a  limb  to  the  tranf- 
greffbrs  thereof-,  for  which,  certain  Executioners  (hall  be  appointed, 
that  fo  our  jurisdiction  being  refufcitated  may  revive  again  :  and 
thofe  who  have  enriched  themfelves  by  our  poverty  Camong  whom 
God  for  their  pride  hath  raifed  up  prophane  contentions )  may  be  redu- 
ced to  the  State  of  the  primitive  t  hurch  •,  and  living  in  contempla- 

tion 


1 16        23)e  ecrteftaftfcai  $ifto#       Cent.  ij. 

tion  may  (hew  us  thofe  miracles,  which  are  fled  out  of  the  World 
long  ago  i  and  we  in  the  mean  time  lead  an  active  life  as  it  is  fitting. 
TheHiftorian  adds,  the  Pope  having  heard  thefe  things,  tighed  with  a 
troubled  mind,  and  defiring  to  appeafe  their  hearts ,  and  break  their 
courage,  after  he  had  admonifhed  them,  he  frighted  them  with  threats 
but  he  did  no  good  for  all  that. 

Tho.  Fullers  ho-  The  Chriftians  were  now  plagued  with  Bendocdar^  the  Mammalttke 
ly  War,  i.  4.  prjnce  m  Epypt^  who  fucceeded  Melechem^  and  every  where  raging  a- 
gainft  them,  either  killed  or  forced  them  to  forfwear  their  Religion. 
The  City  of  Joppa  he  took,  and  burnt,  and  then  won  Antiocb,  flaying 
therein  twenty  thoufand,  and  carrying  away  captive  an  hundred 
thoufand  Chriftians.  Thefe  woful  tidings  brought  into  Europe^ 
fo  wrought  on  the  good  difpofition  of  Lewes  King  of  France, 
that  he  refolved  to  make  a  fecond  Voyage  into  Yale(line  to  fuccour  the 
Chriftians. 

And  to  that  end  heprovideth  his  Navy  ,  and  is  accompanied  with 
Philip  and  Trijiram  his  Sons ,  Theobald  King  of  Navarr  ,  his  Son-in- 
Law,  Alpbonfe  his  Brother,  and  Guido  Earl  of  Flanders  :  there  went 
alfo  Edward,  eldeft  Son  to  Henry  \\\.  King  of  England. 

Lewes  having  now  hoifed  up  fail,  it  was  concluded  ,  that  to  fecure 
and  clear  the  Chriftians  paffage  to  Palejlive  from  Pirates ,  they  (hould 
firft  take  the  City  of  Carthage  in  Africa  by  the  way. 

This  Carthage  long  wreftled  with  Rome  for  the  Soveraignty  ,  till 
Sciph  crufhed  out  her  bowels  with  one  deadly  fall.  Yet  long  after 
the  City  ftood,  before  utterly  demolilhed  :  at  laft  by  the  counfel  of 
Catoit  was  quite  deftroyed,  it  being  within  a  days  Sail  from  Kotne. 
Out  of  the  mines  of  this  famous  City,  Tttnis  arofe,  which  was  not  then 
confiderablc  in  bignefs,  great  only  in  mifchief,  being  feated  betwixt 
Europe  i  A£a,  and  Africa ,  and  fo  became  a  worfe  annoyance  to 
Chrittian  Traffick  ,  than  a  whole  Countrey  of  Saracens  elfe^ 
where, 

Thefiege  of  Tunis  being  begun,  the  Plague  feized  on  -the  Chriftian 
HU^a?'^?^1  Army,  whereof  thoufandsdyed,among  others  Tr//?rj/»,  King  Lewes 
ea,3*.parl  '  his  Son:  and  he  himfelf  of  a  Flux  followed  after.  Many  good  Laws 
he  made  for  his  Kingdom :  that  not  the  worft  ,  He  fir  ft  retrenched 
his  Barons  power  to  fuifer  parties  to  try  their  Titles  to  Land  by  duels. 
He  feverely  puni(hed  Blafphemers,  fearing  their  Lips  with  an  hot  Iron, 
And  bccaufe  by  his  command  it  was  executed  upon  a  rich  Citizen  of 
Taris^  fome  faid  he  was  a  Tyrant.  He  hearing  it,  faid  before  many,  I 
would,  to  God  that  with  fearing  my  own  Lips^  I  could  banijh  out  of  my 
Realm  all  abufes  of  Oaths.  He  loved  more  to  hear  Sermons  than  to 
be  at  Mafs,  yet  was  he  fomewhat  fuperftitious ,  as  appeareth  by  fome 
Inftances.. 

For.  about  the  yea*  12 40t  "Bddwn  keeping  by  force  the.  Empire  of 


13.  Of  FRANCE.  117 

CoHJlantinople,  which  the  Trench,  and  other  pilgrims  of  tyri*  had  fur- 
prized,  and  held  it  by  right  of  conveniency,  being  in  great  want  of 
Money,  writ  to  King  Levees  IX.  that  the  Holy  Crown  of  Thorns  of 
our  Saviour  was  found,  and  if  he  would  help  him  with  a  fum  of 
Money,  he  would  fend  it  to  him.  This  King  being  of  eafie  belief  trea- 
ted with  the  faid  Emperour  for  a  great  fum  of  Money,  and  bought 
that  crown,  which  was  put  in  the  holy  Chappel  of  Paris  with  great 
folemnity. 

Shortly  after  theVenetians  having  bought  a  piece  of  the  true  crofs 
(as  they  faidjfor  two  thoufand  and  five  hundred  pounds,  fold  it  again 
to  the  fame  King  Lewes  for  double  the  price.  The  King  himfelf  car- 
ried it  bare- headed  and  bare- foot  to  our  Lady  of  Paris:  and  the  Pope 
gave  to  it  fourty  days  of  pardon. 

His  body  was  carried  into  France  there  to  be  buried  ,  and  was  mod 
miferably  toiTed.  He  was  Sainted  after  his  Death  by  Pope  Boniface 
VIII, and  the  25^.  day  of  Auguft  (on  which  day  in  his  firft  Voy- 
age to  Palelline  he  went  on  Shipboard)  is  confecrated  to  his  Me- 
mory. Tunis  was  furrendred  on  conditions  i  the  French  return 
home ,  whilft  Prince  Edward  valiantly  fetteth  forward  for  Ptf- 
lejline. 

Philip  the  third,  called  the  bold,  or  the  Hardy,  fucceedeth  to  the 
Kingdom  of  France.  At  the  return  of  Philip,  Queen  Jfabel  his  Wife  Annoia7i«- 
dies  in  Sicily.  And  his  Unckle  Alpbonfe  with  his  Wife  the  Countefs 
of  Tfholoufe^  dye  foon  after  at  Bologne,  without  any  children ,  fo  as  ac- 
cording to  the  contract  of  the  Marriage ,  the  Earldom  of  Iholoufa 
(hould  be  incorporate  to  the  Crown.  ^ 

Richard  Son  to  Henry  King  of  Evgland,  is  traiteroufly  flain  by  Guy 
of  Montfort^  the  Son  ot  Simon  (of  whom  we  havefpokqp)  walking  in 
St.  Laurences  Church  at  Viterbo^  a  City  of  the  Pope's. 

Pope  Clement  \V.  (\xnnin-Langtttdoc)  being  dead,  the  Cardinals  dif- 
agree  about  the  Election  of  a  new  Pope,  and  continued  in  this  conten- 
tion two  years,  nine  months,  and  one  day,  as  Platina  reporteth. 

Thecaufesof  fo  long  a  diflention  are  variouity  reported  by  feveral 
Hiftoriographers.  But  the  chief  were  as  foHoif . 

The  tiril  and  moft  forcible  of  all,  was  the  contrariety  in  the  Na- 
tures of  the  Cardinals  which  woreprefent  at  the  Election  at  Viterbv^ 
who  were  eighteen  in  number  i  all  obftinate  and  untractable,  and 
had  ftvorn  each  of  them  never  to  yeild  to  his  companion  in  -the^ 
leaft. 

All  of  them  believed  themfelves  worthy  of  the  Papacy ,  and  every 
one  negotiated  for  himfelf,  without  fpeaking  a  word-of  other  preten- 
ders, fo  that  it  was  not  poifible  among  eighteen  feveral  competitors,  to 
come  to  any  refolution.  But  that  impediment  being  removed,  in 
which. the  Cardinals  continued  obftiaate  for  above  ten  Months,  there 

arofe- 


atofe  another  which  lafted  a{x>ve  a  year,  and  was  the  fecond  occafion 
<>f  the  tedioufncfs  of  the  Election,  and  that  is,  that  the  Cardinals 
•were  divided  into  two  Factions,  one  of  them  Italians  the  other  French. 
Thefe  wouk*  Have  a  Pope  of  their  own  Natio*  ,  and  the  Ltaliant 
.would  have  him  of  theirs  >  neither  of  ttern  complying  with  the  o- 
ther,  and  the  number  of  the  French  being  equal  tc  the  Italians ,  there 
being  no  way  to  gain  the  two  thirds  of  their  Votes,  they  remained 
divers  weeks  obftinate}and  doing  nothing  but  the  heaping  diflention 
-upon  diflention. 

The  other  reafon  was,  that  this  delay  growing  tedious  to  the  Prin- 
ces, and  particular  to  Philip  King  of  France ,  and  Charles  King  of  Si- 
•ci/y,  thefe  two  Princes  refolved  to  come  in  p erfon  to  Viterbo,  and  foli- 
cite  the  Cardinals  to  expedite  the  creation  of  the  Pope.  Upon  this 
occafion  the  Cardinals  which  were  adherents  to  thefe  two  Crowns, 
having  notice  of  their  Refolutions,  would  do  nothing  till  they  were 
.arrived  :  who  when  they  did  come,  ferved  for  nothing  but  to  protract 
the  election,  though  their  defire  was  to  haften  it  >  each  of  them  re- 
'Cominending  different  perfons.  The  Princes  finding  all  their  inter- 
"Ceffions  ineffectual,  returned  as  they  came,  leaving  the  whole  bufinefs 
to  the  Cardinals. 

In  the  firft  affembly  after  the  Kings  were  departed,  John  Cardinaljof 
Porto,  obferving  the  pertinacity  of  the  Cardinals,  whilft  they  were  to- 
gether invocating  the  Holy  Ghoft,  cryed  out  publickly  ,  and  with  a 
loud  voice.  My  Lords !  let  tts  uncover  the  Roof  of  this  Chamber,  per- 
Jjaps  the  Holy  Spirit  will  not  come  where  we  are  thorow  fo  many  Roofs. 
It  would  be  neceffary  t»  Jupe  a  Holy  Ghofi  for  every  one ,  feeing  there 
is  no  two  witt  agree :  T^bttloly  Ghoft  descended  upon  the  Apoftles,  becaufe 
they  were  met  together  rvith  one  mind: .  but  bow  can  we  expect  him  that 
are  fo  firangely  divided  ? 

At  length  the  Cardinals  being  weary  of  going  up  and  -down  to  the 
places  jof  their  Aflemblies,  and  doubting  by  their  delay  to  bring  in 
fome  new  fchifm  into  the  Church,  two  thirds  of  the  Cardinals  agreed 
in  the  Election,  of  libaldo  Vtfconte^  a  Milanefe^  Arch-Deacon  of  Lodi^ 
•who  was  called  Gregory  the  tenth,  not  yet  return'd  from  his  Voyage 
into  Afitj  whither  he  wasfent  by  Innocent  IV.  upon  whofe  Election, 
Cardinal  Giovanni  del  Porto  made  thefe  Verfes. 

PapatUs  muriKS  tulit  Archidiaconw  unus, 
<jhtem  Patrem  Patrum  fecit  d/fcordia  fratrwn, 

The  Cardinals  at  odds,  and  out  of  hope, 
Arch-T>eacon  Tibald  was  created  Pope. 

Gregory  endeavouring  to  make  peace  between  the  Gcnoanr,  and 

Venttiant, 


Cent.!?.  gf  FRANCE. 


Venetians^  who  had  been  at  Wars  one  with  .  another  for  feveral.  years 
together,  went  into  France  in  the  year  1  2^3.  where  he  gave  beginnirJg 
to  the  Council  of  Lyons;  Philip  King  of  France  was  prefect  at  that 
Council,  with  an  infinite  number  of  Noble  and  Learned  perfons,  -both 
French  and  JLnglijh.  He  called  four  Bifhops  from  Germany  ,  fou»  from 
England,  four  from  France,  two  from  Spain:  from  S/cz/y:,  from  the 
Kingdom  of  the  Church,  Hungary,  Dacia^  Eabemia,  Poland,  Sweden^ 
Norway  and  Scotland^  from  each  of  thefe  one.  There  were  two  Pa-  Hift.of  CB 
triarchs,  fifteen  Cardinals,  five  hundred  Biftiops  ,  and  one  thoufand.  Sc< 
mitred  Prelates,  befides  the  King  of  France^  the  Emperour  of  Greece^ 
and  many  other  Princes. 

. 

1.  In  this  Council  the  firft  propofition  was  fortheHoly  War,  and 
for  it  they  decree,  that  a  tenth  part  of  all  Benefices  in  Chriftendorfi- 
(the  priviledged  Churches  not  excepted)  mould  be  paid  for  fix  years. 
That  all  Penitentiaries,  or  Confeflbrs  {hould  urge  offenders  to  afliit 
that  holy  bufinefs  with  their  wealth  and'  riches:  and  that  every  Chrifti- 
an,  without  exception  of  Sex  or  Quality,  (hould  pay  a  penny  yearly 
during  that  fpace,  under  pain  of  Excommunication. 

2.  For  remedying  abufes  in  the  Church,  it  was  ordained,    i.  That 
no  procurations  to  Bi(hops,rior  Arch-  Deacons  mould  be  paid  ,  unlefs  H 
they  do  vifit  the  Churches  in  their  own  perfons.     2.  No  Church-  man 
(hould  poffefs  more  Benefices  than  one,  and  (hould  refideatthe  Church 
he  retair.eth.     3.  None  of  the  Clergy  (hall  without  the  Pope's  licenfe, 
anfwer  the  impofitions  which  (hall  he  laid  upon  them  by  any  Prince  or 
State.     4.  The  mendicant  Fryars  (hall  be  reduced  to  four  Orders,  the 
Minor  ites^  Predicant  /,  Carnftlites,  and  Hermit  escf  St.  Augu\\ine,  who 
(hall  continue  in  their  prefent  Eftate,  until  the  Pope  (hail  otherwife. 
think  good.     5.  A  prohibition  was  made,  to  admit  or  advife  any  new 
order,  beiides  thefe  named.     Here  alfo  was  decreed  the  Union  of  the 
Greek  and  Latin  Church,  and  the  peace  betwixt  the  Princes  of  ChrU 
flendom. 

But  many  of  thefe  Statutes  in  a  fhort  time  turned  into  fmoak  ,  pli** 
ralltks  being  of  new  difpenfed,  with  the  claufe  of  nou  objlante  ,  whicft 
then  hift  came  in  ufe.  The  Orders  of  Fryars  and  Monks  were  reftored 
one  by  one.  ICheCJftertiaHs  redeemed  their  liberty,  by  payment  of 
5occco  Marks. 

The  Bcrnardinet  paid  600000  Crowns,  and  other  Orders  made: 
their  compofitiori..  whereby.it  appeareth,  that  the  Statutes  which 
were  enacled,  were  only  deviied  to  raife  fums  of  Money  ,  and  not  of- 
any  purpofe  to  redrefs  their  abufes.  This  Pope  advanced  the  Ddminr* 
cans  highly,  even  to  the  wearing  of  red  hats. 

fa  that  .Council  of  £JM»/J  Canons  were  jpade  for.  the  manner  of; 

electing,; 


i 20  3U)c  Cccleftafticai  $ffto#    Cent.  1 3. 

ele&ing  the  Pope  :  for  from  Sylvetie r's  time,  unto  this  Gregory's  Pope- 
dom,  they  were  not  ufed  to  be  (hut  up  in  a  conclave  ;  but  if  they  were 
ia  Row?,  the  Electors  met,  either  in  tlfe  Church  of  St.  John  Latera*t 
or  of  St.  Prt*r,  or  in  fome  other  place  as  occafion  offered  :  if  they 
were  out  of  Rome,  they  met  in  the  Cathedral  of  the  place  where  they 
were,  or  in  fome  other  Church  more  convenient.  But  the  Electors 
«!ft.ofc«dlnals  manY  times  regarded  not  expedition  in  their  Elections  of  the  Pope, 
whilft  they  had  liberty  to  command,  to  go  and  come  as  they  thought 
fit,  therefore  the  invention  of  the  conclave  by  Gregory  ,  was  rationally 
thought  very  good  and  neceffary. 

There  were  like  wife  eftabliihed  by  the  faid  Gregory,  feveral  Laws 
and  Orders  for  the  conclave,  which  were  afterwards  by  feveral  Popes 
reduced  into  better  form,  till  that  in  procefs  of  time  they  were  redu- 
ced into  that  which  I  (hall  infert  in  this  place. 

The  principal  Larvt  which  are  ufitally  obferved  in  the 
Creation  of  the  Pope. 

1.  That  the  Election  be  made  in  a  proper  and  convenient   place, 
and  ordinarily  there  where  the  laft  Pope  dyed.     If  that  cannot  com- 
modioufly  be  done,  let  it  be  made  in  that  City,  to  whofe  jurisdiction 
that  place  doth  belong,  provided  it  be  not  under  interdiction  :  for  in 
that  cafe  they  are  to  chu£e  another  City  in  the  fame  Diocefs,  or  at  leaft 
not  far  off,  &c. 

2.  That  after  the  death  of  the  Pope,  there  (lull  be  no  difcourfe   of 
the  Election  of  a  SuccefTour,  till  ten  days  be  patt,  in   which  time  the 
abfent  Cardinals  are  to  be  expededv  and  the"r.ine  days  obfequies  for  the 
deceafed  Pope  be  celebrated  with  due  refpeft,  by  all  the  Cardinals  that 
are  prefentin  the  place. 

3.  That  no  abfent  Cardinal  (hall  fend  his  Vote  in  any  manner  what- 
foever :  by  which  it  is  intended,  they  (hall  be  deprived  of  their  Voice 
as  often  as  they  are  abfent  from  the  Election. 

4.  That  the  nine  days  ceremony  for  the  death   of  the  Pope  being 
over,  the  Mafs  T)ello  Spirits  fanto  folemnly  faid ,  and  the  prayer  de 
eligendo  Pontiftce  recited,  let  all  the  Cardinals  which  are  prefent  in  the 
palace,  which  (hall  be  called,  the  Conclave^  (which  is  to  be  in  afecure 
place,  clofe  in  all  parts,  and  well  guarded)  be  (hut  in,   with  two    or 
three  fervants  only,  for  their  neceilities.     Let    it  net  be   lawful  for 
any  to  enter  after  the  conclave  is  (hut  up,  nor  for  any  to  come  forth, 
except  in  the  cafe  of  infirmity.     And  if  any  be  obliged  to  go  in  or 
out,  let  it  be  by  confent  of  the  whole  Colledge.     Nor  is  this  conclave 
to  have  any  Wall  or  partition ,  to  diftinguifti  one   chamber   from 
another :  but  let  there  be  certain  traverfes  of  Linnen  or   cloath, 
to   divide  their  Lodgings,  and  they  to  be  given   to    the   Cardi- 
nals 


Cent.  ij.  Of  FRANCE. 


nals  by    lot  ,   to  prevent  all  controverfies    for    place. 

5.  That  it  be  not  only  unlawful  to  Elect  thofe  that  are  abfent,   but 
that  it  be  not  permitted  to  the   Cardinals  to  chufe  any  but  one 
out  of  their   own  Order,   and  of  thofe   that  are  prefent  in  the 
conclave. 

6.  If  the  Election  be  made  in  Rome,  the  place,  tke  Gates  and  Doors 
of  the  conclave  (hall  be  well  guarded.     The  firft  Guards  are  to  be 
kept  by  the  Souldiers  of  the  Pope's  ordinary  guards.     After  them  by 
the  Barons  of  Rome,  and  the  Ambafladours  of  Princes,  who  are  all  to 
be  fworn  in  the  conclave  it  felf  before  it  be  (hut  up,  That   they  will 
keep  the  faid  guards  faithfully  and  diligently  •«  and  laft  of  all  in  the 
neareft  places  to  the  door  of  the  conclave,  by  the  Bifliops  and  Confer- 
vators  of  the  City.     If  the  Election  be  made  out  of  Rotne^  the  guard 
of  the  conclave  is  to  be  made  by  the  Temporal  Lords  of  that  place, 
with  the  fame  formality  and  Oath  as  in  Rome.     The  Guards  are  to  pre- 
rent  any  violence  (hall  be  offered   to  the  freedom  of  the  Cardinals 
Votes  >  to  obferve  what  provifions  come  in  ,  that  there  be  no  Letters 
conveyed  in  them  :  and  if  any  fuch  be  found,  leathern  be  confign'd  to 
the  Marihal,  to  be  kept  till  the  conclave  be  finiflied.     That  they  take 
care  that  the  Cardinals  be  not  incommoded  ,  that  they  be  all  ready  at 
their  beck  >  and  in  cafe  of  delay,  that  they    force   them  ftirft   with 
entreaties,  and  afterwards  with  threats)  to  haften  the  Election.  Thofe 
who  are  appointed  to  guard  the  conclave,  are  to  preferve  it  from  all 
violence  and  disturbance. 

7.  That  the  Cardinals  may  not  go  out  of  the  conclave  ,   or   ad- 
journ their  Afferably  to  any  other  place  for  any  perfon  whatfoever, 
the  Election  being  ended,  then  they  may  go  forth  \  if  otherwife  they 
(hould  go  out,  let  them  be   forced  back  again  by  the  guards  of  the 
conclave. 

8.  That  thofe  Cardinals  who  come  after  the  conclave  is  (hut,  and 
before  the  Election  of    the  Pope,  may  enter  and  give  their  Voices 
as  the  reft.     And  that  no  Cardinal  can  upon  any  occafion  or  pretence 
whatfoever  (although  he  be  excommunicated  )  avoid  being  prefent  at 
the  Election,  and  giving  his  vote.     But  all  this  is  to  be  done  by  the 
eonfent  of  the  whole  Colledge  ,  and  not  of  the  Governour  of  the 
conclave  only. 

p.  That  three  days  being  paft  after  their  entrance  into  the  conclave, 
if  in  that  time  the  Pope  be  not  chofen  ,  the  Prelates  and  Barons  of 
Rome,  and  fuch  others  as  are  deputed  guards  to  the  conclave,  may  re- 
quire an  account  of  the  Cardinals  tranfadtions  within,and  reftrain  them 
of  their  variety  of  difhes,  reducing  and  lefTening  them  by  degrees,  ao> 
cording  as  they  find  the  Election  delayed. 

10.  That  in  the  time  of  the  Election,  no  perfon  whatfoever, 
whether  Secular  or  Ecclefiaftick,  is  to  give,  promife,  or  en- 

R  treat, 


i  ^z         3C|ie  ectfeftafttcai  ^tflo?p       Cent.  i$. 

tteat,  thereby  to  encline  the  hearts  of  the  Cardinals  to  their  priva  te 
defires,  under  pain  of  the  Pope's  Excommunication,^. 

n.  That  noperfon  be  declared  or  elected  Pope,  if  he  hath  not 
firft  two  whole  parts  in  three  of  the  Voices  of  the  Cardinals  which 
are  prefent  in  the  conclave,  which  Votes  are  to  be  given  in  fecret,  and 
after  wards  read  publickly,  that  all  perfons  may  take  notice  who  is 
chofen. 

12.  That  after  the  death  .ef  the  Pope  all  Magiftrates  and  Ecclefi- 
aftical  Offices  are  te  ceafe,  except  fuch  as  are  in  the   perfons  of  the 
Cardinals,  which  are  perpetual.     Which  Offices  are  to  remain  unexe- 
cuted ••>  all  but  the  Office  of  the  chief  Penitentiary ,  and  the  Cham* 
berlain. 

13.  That  there  be  a  Governour  of  the  conclave,  thatiie  be  a  wor- 
thy perfon,  and  of  good  qualifications  >  that  he  be  chofen  by  the  body 
of  the  Cardinals  before  they  enter  into  the  conclaves  whofc  Office  rt 
(hal!  be  to  give  feafonable  orders,  that  things  may  go  within  as  they 
ought  to  do ,  and  that  the  Cardinals  may  not  want  any  thing  con- 
venient.. "iio? 

14.  That  an  Oath  be  given  to  the  Cardinals,  to  keep  fecret  all  the 
tranfa&ions   and  argumentations  of  the  conclave,  relating  to  the  E- 
kdion  i  that  it  be  not  permitted  to  any  body  to  bear  Arms  in  fo  fa- 
cred  a  place,  nor  to  revenge  any  injury  whatsoever,  either  with  words 
or  deeds,  but  that  they  bear  all  things  patiently ,  and  endeavour  to  a- 
void  that  mifchief. 

Thus  Gregory  being  pleafed  with  the  Introduction  of  this  form  into 
the  conclave,  difmiffed  the  Council  of  Lyons.  Then  he  began  his 
journey,  in  order  to  his  journey  into  Italy:  and  refufing  to  pafs  by 
Florence  (left  he  mould  be  obliged  to  take  off  the  interdiction  )  he 
took  his  way  towards  Ares&zo^  in  which  place  he  arrived y  fell  fick3  and 
dyed,/4««o  1276. 

Afterwards  when  the  Emperour  Paleologufdyed,  the  Grecian  Priefts 
would  not  that  he  mould  be  buried  in  any  confecrated  pVice  ,  becaufe 
he  had  confenfed  in  the  Council  ef  Lyont,tom  Union  of  the  Greek 
and  Latin  Churches. 

de  We  read  in  an  ordinance  made  by  King  Thilip  the  thitdj  Ams  1 274, 
anrt  that  if  one  Lay-man  fell  unto  another.  Lay-man,  the  Tythes  which  he 
cade  hath  bought  of  a  Clerk,  and  there  arife  a  fuk  about  the  price,  the 
Eifincs  ait»  9-  cognifance  thereof  doth  not  belong  ro  the  Ecclefiaftical  Judge.  And 
ft  is  one  of  thepriviledgesof  the  C-a- 'can  Church,  that  the  Pope 
cannot  by  any  Prop's  about  Bone ttccs  orothcrwife,  derogate  from, 
or  prejudice  Lay- foundations^  and  the  Rights  of  the'  Lay*patrons  of 
the  Realm. 

There  is  alfo  a  decree  of  this  fciiig  P/^%  dated  Amo  1 274,  which 

pro* 


Cent.  13.  Of  FRANCE.  12} 

prohibits  a  BKhop  the  granting  the  feizure  of  the  moveable  goods  of 
a  certain  Clerk,  condemned  in  a  perfonal  A&ion  ,  confidering  that 
thofe  Goods  were  not  within  his  Epifcopal  Jurifdi&ion.  There  is  alfo 
a  prohibition  to  Ecclefiaftical  Judges  to  caufe  any  execution  to  be 
made  of  the  immoveable  goods  of  any  Clerk  condemn'd  in  a  perfo- 
nal A&ion,  becaufe  the  immoveable  goods  are  out  of  his  Epifcopal 
jurifcli&ion.  According  hereunto  a  certain  Bilhop  of  Parti  was  decla- 
red not  to  be  admitted  into  the  Court,  in  apretenciure  which  he  made 
of  the  power  of  arrefting  certain  Moneys  belonging  10  a  Clerk  inhabi- 
ting in  certain  Lands,  fubje&  to  the  jurifdi&ion  Royal ,  and  he  was 
caft  for  attempting  it  by  an  Arreft  of  Parif. 

Lewv-r ,  the  eldelt  Sonof  King  P&/7//>  dyeth,  with  apparent  figns  of 
poyfon.  Queen  Mary  •,  his  Mother-in-Law,  and  Peter  de  la  Broche 
Cchief  Chamberlain  to  the  King,  and  his  Treafurer,  being  the  Queens 
favourite)  is  accufed  for  this  Fa&  :  and  being  imprifoned  he  confeffeth 
the  crime,  and  accufeth  the  Queen,  as  having  poifoned  Lewes  by  her 
command.  La  troche  alfo  is  found  guilty  of  Treafon,  by  his  Letters 
having  given  Intelligence  to  the  King  of  Caftile  of  the  Eftate  of 
f 'ranee ,  being  then  no  friend  to  the  Crown:  for  which  he  was 
hanged. 

Mary  denies  the  Fad  by  Oath.  The  King  tor  want  of  proof  fends 
a  Bi(hop  and  an  Abbot  to  a  Witch  in  Holland.  They  at  their  return 
abfolve  the  Queen  by  her  report,  but  they  free  her  not  from  the  jealou> 
fie  of  the  French,  nor  in  the  King's  conceit. 

Thornx  AquinM  and  Bonaventure ,  two  learned  School-  men  ,  dyed 
Anno  1274.  Levee /,  Bithop  of  T'holottfe ,  Son  to  Charles  the  fecond, 
King  of  Sicily,  and  Apttlia,  dyed  alfo. 

After  the  death  of  Pope  Gregory  X.  the  firft  conclave  was  in  Arexzo^ 
where  the  Pope  dyed.  The  Guards  lafted  but  one  night :  for  the  fame 
night  the  Cardinals  entred,  they  agreed  to  chufe  Pietro  Farantapo  (a 
Bttrgttndian  and  Dominican  FryarJ  Pope ,  who  took  upon  him  the 
name  of  Innocent  V.  Innocent  was  crown'd  in  Rome  forty  days  after 
his  Election. 

After  the  death  of  Innocent,  which  happened  in  the  year  1276.  fix 
months  exactly  after  his  Eledion,  Alexander  V.  who  fucceeded  him, 
being  created  in  Rome,  with  all  the  formalites  of  the  conclave ,  revo- 
ked the  order  eftablKhed  by  Gregory,  concerning  the  affairs  of  the  con- 
clave, though  in  due  form  it  had  the  approbation  of  a  general  Council. 
Divers  other  fucceed ing  Popes  were  all  created  according  to  the  order 
obferved  before  the  time  of  Gregory  X. 

King  Philip  the  third  dysth,  having  reigned  fifteen  years,  and  lived 
forty,  of  his  tirft  Wife  Ifabel,  he  had  Philip  and  Charles  remaining. 
Thtlip,  his  eldeft  Son  was  King  of  France  after  him.  Charles  was 
Earl  of  Valw^  pf  Alanfon  *  and  of  Pe rche ,  Father  to  that  Philip 

R  2  Of 


if^  who  in  his  courfe  (hall  fuccced  to  the  Crown; 
Fryar  John  of  Paw,  a  DoSor  in  Divinity,  of  the  Order  of  pre- 
dicants, wrote  about  the  year  1280. 
joann.  Paris  in      In  his  Tra<3  of  the  Royal  and  Papal  power,  he  faith,  I  am  of  opini- 

i£'&  paa     n*on>  tnat  trut^  lt  ^  hath  mac*e  a  m*A*um  nere  »  namely  ,  that  it  is 
' 


ig&  papa 

in  pro.         '  not  utterly  impoflible,  that  Clergy-men  have  Dominion  and  JurisdidH* 

on  in  Temporal  matters  i  but  yet  it  belongs  not  unto  them  by  reafon 
of  their  profeflion,  and  as  Chrift's  Vicars,  and  the  Apoftles  fucceflbrs, 
but  is  convenient  for  them  to  have  it  by  the  grant  and  permiilion  of 
Princes,  if  fo  be  they  have  beftowed  it  upon  them  out  of  devotion,  or 
if  they  have  got  it  by  other  means.  And  in  the  eighth  Chapter  he 
fets  down  this  conclufion. 

"Whence  it  appears,  that  feeing  Chrift  as  Man,  had  no  power  nor 
jurifdidrion  in  Temporal  matters,  the  Prieft  ("  be  what  he  will)  hath 
not  received  any  power  over  them  from  Chrift  i  inasmuch  as  he  did 
not  give  unto  them  what  he  had  not  in  himfelf. 

Philip  the  fair,  now  King  of  France  was  advifed  by  the  Princes  and 
French  Barons,  not  to  fuffer  the  Pope  to  make  any  Ordinances  belong- 
*n8unto  his  Kingdom,  without  the  Council  of  him  and  his,  nor  any 
egHfe  new  and  unwonted  thing  to  be  brought  in  thither.    So  faith  Mr.  John 
caiiicane  p-  5.    du  TiUet  in  his  advice  concerning  the  Liberties  of  the  Gallican  Church. 
And  it  is  the  very  counfel  which  EttdtM  Duke  of  'Burgundy  gave  him, 
which  is  yet  to  be  feen  in  the  Treafury  of  Chartres. 

This  King  loved  Juftice  and  Learning,  wherein  he  was  well  irr- 
ftru&ed  for  that  Age.  His  Wife  Joan  buildedin  her  name  that  good- 
ly Colledge  of  Navarr. 

Peter  Moronezn  Hermit,  was  chofen  Pope  ,  and  affumed  the  name 
of  Ccl((iine  V.  a  Pope  little  praftifed  in  politick  or  Ecclefiaftick 
affairs. 

The  Cardinals  in  fhort  time  (by  reafon  of  the  many  errours  that  he 
fell  into  by  his  infuffictency  for  the  Popedom)  made  feveral  Inftances  to 
him,  that  he  would  fpontaneoufly  be  pleafed  to  renounce  the  Papacy, 
and-not  cxpofe  the  Church  to  fc  many  perils. 

Hereunto  th^y  were  ftirred  up  by  the  inftigation  of  Benedetto  Gaeta- 
no  (who  was  afterwards  'Boniface  VIII.J  Who  wasa  Cardinal  of  great 
Learning  and  Experience,  but  fo  extrearnly  ambitious  of  the  Papacy, 
that  he  left  no  Stone  unturn'd  tocompafs  his  defigns.  And  becaufe 
he  faw  he  might  eafily  bring  it  about,  if  Celeftine  would  renounce,  he 
perU-aded  Celejline  to  reiign,  laying  it  to  him  as  a  fcruple  of  confci- 
cncc,  telling  him,  that  at  the  day  of  Judgement  it  would  be  imputed 
to  him,  if  any  ill  did  happen  to  the  Church.  Gaetano  like  wife  fuborn- 
ed  ibme  of  Celejline's  friends,  to  make  an  hole  ,  correfponding  with 
that  pait  of  the  chamber  in  wh;ch  the  Pope's  bed  ftood  ,  from  whence 
they  crycd  all  i  ;£ht  long  with  a  mod  difmal  voice  ,  as  if  it  had  been 

the 


Cent.  13.  Of  FRANCE.  135 

the  Judgement  of  Heaven ,  Celeftine,  Celeftine,  lay  down  the  Popedom 
for  it  is  a  charge  too  great  for  your  abilities.  Celeftine  hereupon  re- 
figneth  the  Papacy  in  the  fixth  Month  after  his  creation,  and  returned 
to  the  Cell  from  whence  he  came. 

The  fame  day  in  which  Celeftine  renounced,  the  Cardinals  without 
the  form  of  the  conclave,  chofe  the  faid  Gaetan  with  open  Votes.  He 
being  dcchred  Pope,  and  having  affumed  the  name  of  Boniface  VIII. 
began  his  Reign  with  fo  much  infolence  and  Tyranny,  that  in  a  (horc 
time  he  gain'd  the  Title  of  Nero  II. 

A  great  Aflembly  meet  in  the  City  of  Gramont,  Anno  1296.  where 
^//>HheEmperour,E^a><WKingof  England,^  Duke  of  Auftri*, 
John  Duke  of  Brabant,  tke  Earl  of  Jaliers,  and  his  Son  i  John  Earl  of 
Holland  and  Henaault,  Robert  Earl  of  Nevers ,  William  ,  Henry  ,  and 
Guy  of  Flanders ,  unanimoufly  refolve  to  make  War  againft  King, 
Philip.  The  colour  was  to  maintain  Guy  Earl  of  Flanders  ,  unjuftly 
afflicted  by  P&/%who  had  violently  taken  and  ftoll'n  away  hfs  Daugh« 
ter,  and  detained  her  againft  the  right  of  Nations,  refufing  to  reftore 
her  to  her  Father,  It  was  decreed,  that  Guy  (hould  begin  by  force,. 
and  be  well  feconded  by  the  Emperour,  and  the  Englifi. 

But  before  they  come  to  Arms,  Pope  Boniface,  (hould  make  the  firft 
point  by  the  luftre  of  his  Authority.  This  Pope  commandeth  Philip 
by  his  Nuncio  to  reftore  to  the  Englijk  and  Flemmings  what  they  de- 
manded, and  for  not  obeying,  he  cites  him  to  appear  at  Rome  upon 
pain  of  Excommunication.  Philip  fends  an  honourable  Embaf&ge 
to  Rome,  by  the  Arch-Bifhop  of  Rhemef,  anji  the  Earl  of  St.  Paul  to 
lay  open  his  right  againft  the  Deputies  of  the  King  of  England,  ancf 
the  Earl  of  Flanders,  who  were  then  at  Rome  to  complain  ,  as  being- 
wronged. 

All  parties  being  heard,  Boniface  decreeth  ,  that  Philip  (hould 
yield  unto  Edward,  and  to  Guy  all  they  demanded  both  in  Guienne 
and  Flanders,  charging  the  Arch-Bi(hop  of  Rhemes  ,  to  fignifie 
this  Bull  unto  the  King  upon  pain  of  Excommunication  for  not 
obeying. 

Philip  being  undaunted,  prepares  to  defend  himfelf,  invades  Fla»± 
ders  and  defeats  the  F lemmings fi'nah  upon  all  F landers ^nd  the  Earl 
of  Flanders  is  forfaken  by  his  confederates.  Gtty  with  his  children1 
and  followers  are  imprifoned  in  fundry  places  in  France  under  fure1 
guards.  Philip  getting  Flanders  ,  and  uniting  it  to  the  Crown  of 
France.  He  comes  to  Gaunt ,  where  he  is  received  as  their  So- 
veraign ,  appointing  James  of  Chaftillan  Lord  of  Leufe ,  and' 
Conde ,  for  Governour  and  Lieutenant- General ,  and  fo  returneth 
to  Paris. 

The  people  of  Flanders  being  oppreffed  ,  revolt  from  Pbilip.  All 
the  Cities  (Ganttl  excepttd •)  make  an  oflfcnlive  and  defenfive  League 

againft: 


Cent. 


againft  Ring  Philip  ,  and  for  their  Earl's  delivery  :     At  Bruges  the 
French  are  flain  by    their  Hofts.    .The  Nobility   joyn   with  the 
peofie. 

Philip  prepares  an  Army  of  40000  Men,  but  even  at  his  entry  into 
JlAnders,  returns  again.  His  fuddea  retreat  incenfed  this  mutinous 
people  more,  and  gave  courage  to  their  Commanders.  Philip  feeing 
hisErrour,  raifeth  another  Army  of  40000  men,  and  puts  them 
under  the  command  of  Robert  Earl  of  Artois  ,  accompanied  wkh 
the  Conftable  of  France,  and  many  other  great  Perfonages. 


Century  XIV. 


THe  Armies  forementioned  meet  near  unto  the  Town  of  Court- 
ray,  in  a  place  called  Crooning.     The  French  were  defeated. 
Of  this  great  Army  there   hardly  efcaped  three  hundred: 
not  one  Commander  efcaped  ,  and   very  few  Noble-men. 
There  were  taken  Robert  £arl  of  Artoit ,  General  of  the   Army  ,  the 
Conftable  of  France ,  James  of  Chaflillon  ,   Governour  of  Flanders, 
Job*  King  of  Majorca,  Godfrey  of  Brabant,  and  his  Son  the  Lord  of 
Viezon,  the  Earls  of  Eweja  March,  Damartin,  Anmale,Attge,  Tanfyr- 
™//>,and  many  other  great  Perfonages.     Twelve  hundred  Gentlemen 
were  flain  by  this   enraged  Multitude.     All  Flanders  now  revolted 
from  the  French.     This  happened  in  the  Year,  1302.  on  July    n. 
John  of  N amour  is  their  Governour  in  the  abfence  of  their  impri- 
foned  Earl. 

All  the  threats  of  the  King  of  England,  and  the  Emperour  now  va- 
nifecd  away:  only  Pope  Boniface  had.  Excommunicated  KingP&/7/p, 
and  interdi&ed  his  Realm  in  the  hotteft  of  thefe  Flftnmifh  arTairs,upon 
this  occafion. 

TheChriftiansEftate  was  lamentable  in  the  Eafi ,  the  T'artarianf 
encreafed  daily.  The  Pope,  Anno  1301  •  fent  Boniface  Bilhop  of  Apa- 
mt a  unto  King  Philip,  requiring  him  to  go  into  the  Holy  Land.  When 
theBifhop  faw  no  appearance  of  obedience,  he  threatned  the  King, 
that  the  Pope  would  deprive  him  of  his  Kingdom. 

Whereupon  the  Biihop  being  charged  of  Anogancy  and  Treafop, 

and 


Cent.  14.  Of  FRANCE. 


and  caft  into  Prifon,  the  Pope  fends  to  him  again  one  Pettr  ,  a  Roman 
born  fArch  Bilhop  of  Narbon)  commanding  him  to  let  the  Bifliop 
at  liberty,  and  to  take  a  Voyage  againft  the  Infidels,  and  not  to  med- 
dle with  the  Tenths  of  the  Clergy.  P  hit  if>  anfwered  ,  his  troubles  at 
home  hindred  him  from  going  into  the£^,and  cetaftrained  him  to 
impofe  a  Subfidy  upon  the  Clergy  :  and  he  Was  willing  to  difmifs  the 
Bifhop. 

The  Arch-  Bifhop  replyed,thathe  was  ignorant  of  the  Pope's  As* 
thority,  who  was  not  only  the  Father  of  Chriftian  Souls,  but  alfo  So* 
veraign  Lord  in  Temporal  things. 

And  therefore  by  that  Authority  he  did  excommunicate  him  ,  de- 
claring him  unworthy  to  reign,  and  his  Realm  forfeited  to  the  Pope, 
to  invert  whom  he  pleafed. 

Moreover,  he  brought  another  Bull  directed  to  the  Prelates  aftdi  NO- 
blemen  of  France^  whereby  he  acquitted  all  French-men  ,  and  difpen- 
fed  with  them  as  to  their  Oath  of  Allegiance  to  Philip.  And  cited  aft 
the  Prelates  and  Divines  of  the  French  Church  to  appear  before  him  at 
S.owe,difanullingaU  indulgences  and  priviledges  granted  to  the  Ytevdk 
by  any  Popes  his  pcedeceflburs. 

The  Earl  of  Artois  difdaining  this  affront,  takes  the  Bull  and  cafts  it 
into  the  fire.  Philip  was  fo  born  out  by  the  Peers  of  France,  that 
when  he  demanded  their  ad  vice,  how  he  {hould  demean  himfelf,  and 
whether  he  (hould  put  up  that  wrong  i  they  anfwered,  That  they 
were  ready  not  only  to  fpend  their  goods  (which  they  there  wholly 
offered  unto  him  for  thaf  end,)  but  alfo  to  expofe  their  perfons  evert 
to  death  for  him,  not  refuting  any  torments.  Adding  further,  and 
that  more  plainly  by  word  of  mouth,  That  if  the  King  (  which  God 
forbid  3  would  fuffer  it,or  connive  at  it,  yet  for  their  parts  they  would 
never  endure  it. 

Mr.  JohnliVet  BUhop  of  Taw  -(peaking  of  this  Fad:  in  his  French 
Chronicle,  The  impudence  of  tbfaV.man  C  faith  he  of  Boniface)  wafe 
wonderful,  who  durft  affirm,  that  the  Realm  of  Frartce  was  a  Benefice 
of  the  Papal  Majefty.  But  I  think  them  (faith  hej)  the  greater  fools 
who  difpute  the  point,  whether  the  Pope  hath  this  power  or  no  :  he 
put  our  France  under  an  Interdift  for  the  time,  bfut  the  Bifliops  took, 
the  King's  part. 

King  Philip  appealed  from  the  ufurpationsand  infolencies  of  B0#*- 
f*ce.V}\\\  to  thec  Apoftolick  then  vacant  '(as  he  faidj  and  to  a  fu- 
ture Council  as  ,  it  fain  his  Life.  The  States  of  Frame  difa- 

mulled  B<wf//V:    cxc<  irmunication.     Bomface'by  a  glofing  Letter  of  ftc.8 
his  written  inno  thcBi(hop5.endeavoureth  ro  make  them  approve  his 
unjuft  proceed  ingsagainO  i\ing  Philip  :  where  he  faith  among  othefc 
things-,  Thofcw-ho  <K*iv*  '-vat  Temporal  matters  are  not  fubjed  to 
%irkualj  do  not  iijey  ^abcuttomake  two  'Princes^  He  complains 

alfo 


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alfo  of  the  Parliament  holdcn  at  Paris,  where  it  was  ena&ed  Cfaith  he) 
by  under- hand  and  begged  voices,  that  none  mould  appear  before  him 
upon  the  fummons  of  the  See  Apoftolick  ? 

Maft.Weftm.?  He  complains  alfo  of  the  Report  which  was  made  to  that  Aflembly 
it  a.  fub.  Aan.  fey  Mr.  P^«-  F/<7»e,  whom  he  calleth  Belial ,  half  blind  in  body  ,  and 
quite  in  uoderftanding.  This  was  the  man,  who  being  fent  in  Embaf- 
fage  to  him  by  King  Philip,  to  that  faying  of  his  ,  [we  have  both  the 
on*  power  and  the  othfr~]  made  this  reply  in  behalf  of  his  Mafter^owrx 
is  verbal,  but  ours  is  real. 

This  Pope  will  have  it  neceiTary  to  falvation,  to  believe  that  all  the 
-faithful  people  of  Chrift  are  fubje&  to  the  Pope  of  Rome :  and  that 
iie  hath  both  the  fwords,  and  that  he  judgeth  all  men,  and  is  judged 
of  none.  This  Boniface  was  the  Authour  of  the  fixth  book  of  the 
Decretals. 

King  Philip  fends  back  the  Pope's  two  Nuncio's  to  Rome ,  and  for- 
fcids  the  Prelates  of  France  to  g©,or  fend  any  Money  to  Rome.  This 
-being  done,  Philip  raifeth  new  forces,  to  return  into  Flanders,  and  fub- 
dueth  the  Flemmings,  but  by  the  inftance  of  John  Duke  of  Brabant,  he 
makes  peace  with  them  upon  ftri&  conditions.  During  this  Treaty 
Guy  Earl  of  Flanders,  and  his  Daughter  do  both  dye.  Robert,  Willi- 
am, and  Guy,  Brethren,  the  Sons  of  the  Earl  Guy  of  Flanders  were 
freed  with  all  the  Prifoners.  Ifabei  the  Daughter  of  Philip  is  married 
to  Edward  the  fecond,  King  of  England. 

This  War  of  Flanders  had  wafted  above  thjee  hundred  thou- 
fand  Frencb-men  in  eleven  years,  during  the  which  it  continued! 

Adalph  was  depofed  from  the  Empire  by  a  Decree  of  the  Electors, 
and  Albert  of  Aujiria  was  feated  in  his  place ,  who  purfuing  him 
with  War,  flew  him  with  his  own  hand  in  an  encounter  near  unto 
Spire. 

Albert  being  chofen  and  inftalled  Emperour ,  Boniface  prefently 
ieeks  to  win  him  againft  King  Philip.  He  proclaims  him  Emperour, 
andinvefts  him  King  of  the  Realm  of  France  ,  giving  him  both  the 
Title  and  Arms ,  and  taking  occafion  to  fow  divifion  in  the 
heart  of  the  Realm  by  means  of  the  Clergy,  who  by  reafon  of  their 
Revenues  had  great  power  in  the  State.  He  alfo  wrote  Letters  to 
Philip  in  this  manner. 

Boniface  Bi(hop,  Servant  of  the  Servants  of  God.,  to  Philip  King  of 
Trench-men.  Fear  God,  and  obferve  his  Comrnandmens.  We  Will 
tbee  to  ttnderfland,  that  thou  art  fub]eft  unto  its  both  in  Spiritual  things, 
and  in  Temporal  i  and  that  it  be longeth  not  to  Iheeto  give  any  Prebend 
er  Benefice.  If  thou  haft  the  keeping  of  any  of  them  being  vacant ,  tboie 
mttft  referve  the  profits  of  them  to  tbt  Succejfours.  If  Ikou  baft  given 
*ny>  we  judge  thy  gift  to  be  void,  and  do  revoke,  all.  that  bqh  been  done. 

And 


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rvbofoevtr  believeth  other  wife  ,  ZPV  7«^g'  *^J»  Heretickj.  Given 
at  Lateran,  the  fourth  of  the  Now/  of  December,  in  the  fixth  year  of 
our  Popedom. 

Unto  this  Letter  of  the  Pope,  King  Philip  makes  Anfwer 
in  manner  as  followeth. 

Philip,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  King  of  France  ,  to  Boniface  ,  calling 
him/elf  the  Soveraign  Bifhsp  ,  little  or  no  health.  Let  thy  foolijhnefc 
know,  that  in  temporal  things  we  are  fubjeR  to  no  Man  ,  and  that  the 
Gifts  of  Prebends  and  Benefices  made,  and  to  be  made  by  Vs  ,  mere  and 
{ball  be  good,  both  in  time  pop  and  to  come  :  and  that  We  will  defend 
manfully  the  pojjeffbur  of  the  faid  Benefices,  and  We  thinly  them  that  be- 
Hfve  or  think^  otherwife,  fools  and  mad-men.  Given  at  Paw  the  Wed- 
nefday  after  Candlemas,  Anno  1301. 

After  thefe  and  other  Writings  had  pafled  to  and  fro  ,  between  the 
Trench  King  and  the  Pope,  within  a  year  and  an  half  after  ,  the  King 
fummoneth  a  Parliament,  fending  down  his  Letters  to  his  Sheriffs  and 
other  Officers,  tofummon  the  Prelates  and  Barons  of  the  Realm  unto 
the  faid  Court  of  Parliament  according  to  the  Tenour  of  the  King's 
Letters  Patents. 

Then  William  Nagaretta,  Knight  and  profeflbur  of  the  Laws,  made  vid  Fox 
a  large  Declaration  and  appeal  againtt  Pope  Boni/ace  VIII.  at  Paris  be-  Monum.  Tom.i. 
fore  the  King  and  his  Council.  p>4+8> 

He  taxeth  Boniface  to  bean  Intruder  into  the  Papacy,  that  entring 
not  in  at  the  door,  he  is  to  be  judged  a  Thief  and  a  Robber.  He  de- 
clares him  to  be  guilty  of  many  Heretics,  and  to  be  an  horrible  Sirno*- 
niack.  He  chargeth  him  with  curfing  and  b1afphemy,a  blood-thirfty 
man,adeftroyerof  the  Churches,  one  that  is  very  greedy  after  gold, 
and  rooted  in  all  fins,  that  he  is  the  Abomination  of  Vefolation^  de- 
fcribed  by  Daniel  the  Prophet. 

Then  he  thus  fpeaks  to  King  Philip,  I  befeech  yott,my  Lord  and  King, 
that  you  would  declare  thus  much  to  the  Prelates  ,  Doftors  ,  People  and 
Princes,  your  Brethren  in  Cbrift)  and  chiefly  to  the  Cardinals  and  all  Pre- 
lates, and  call  a  Council.  In  the  which,  when  the  aforefaid  Boniface  vs 
condemned  by  the  worthy  Cardinals  ,  the  Church  may  be  provided  of  A 
Pajlor.  And  I  befeech  and  require  the  faid  Cardinals  by  you  ,  and  Ire- 
quire  them  and  the  Church  of  God,  that  this  voiced  Man  being  put  in 
prifon,  the  Church  of  Rome  may  be  provided  of  a  Vicar,  which  may  mi- 
nifter  thofe  things  that  frail  appertain,  until  the  Church  of  God  be  pro- 
vided of  a  Bijhop,  utterly  to  takg  away  all  occapon  of  Scbifm. 

After  this  proteftation  of  Nagaretta^  immediately  enfued  the  Ap- 

S  peal 


30          3D&e  eccieftafttcal  ttfto??      cent.  1  4. 

peal  ef  the  King,  pronounced  and  publiftied  againft  the  faid  Boniface. 
The  manner  and  form  is  fet  down  at  large  by  Mr.  Fox,  Aft  &  Monum. 
lorn.  1.^.449.450.  This  was  done,  Anno.  1303. 

Inditii  one  f>rima,  June  13.  on  the  14^-  day  of  the  fame  Month  of 
June^  the  aforefaid  King  Philip  being  prefent  ,  and  alfo  the  Lords, 
Arch-Bi(hops,  Bithops,  Abbots,  Priors,  and  many  witnefles  .being  pre- 
fent, William  of  Plefiano  Knight,  objected,  propounded,  affirmed,  and 
read  out  of  a  certain  paper  which  he  held  in  his  hand  divers  Articles 
againft  Pope  Eoniface^  to  the  number  of  thirty  ,  charging  him  with 
denying  the  immortality  of  the  Soul,  with  averting  that  whore- 
dom is  no  fin,  charging  him  with  Witch-craft,  Simony  ,  Sodomy, 
Murther,  Oppreffion,  Bribery,  Adultery  ,  -and  many  other  deteftable 
fins. 

Thefe  things  being  thus  read  and  done,  King  Philip  anfwered,  and 
his  Appeal  isasfolloweth. 

We  Philip  by  the  Grace  of  God^hearivg  and  undemanding  the  Objecri- 
QMS  propounded  by  our  beloved  and  faithful  /C?i/^6/,W.o/Nagaretta<zg^/'«/f 
Boniface,  having  now  the  Regiment  of  the  Romifli  Church  ,  &c.  We 
earneftly  hefeech  and  require,  in  the  Bowels  ef  Jejus  Chriji^  you  Arch-fti- 
fyops,  and  other  Prelates  here  prefent  ,  as  Children  of  the  Church'  ,  and 
pillars  of  the  Faith  ,  that  you  would  labour  the  calling  and  affemlling 
of  tt  Council^  in  which  We  intend  to  be  perf  anally  prefent,  &C. 

Then  the  Arch-  Bi(hops,Bi(hops,  Abbots,  and  Priors,  anfwered  the 
pi  cn-iiTcs.  provoked  and  Appealed,  &c.  And  made  an  Appellation, 
Agreement,  and  proteftation  ,  as  was  contained  in  a  certain  paper, 
there  openly  and  plainly  read,  in  Tenour  and  Form  folio  wing. 


We  Arch  "Bifiops  of  Nicofen,  Remen,  Senorem.  Narbon  , 
of  Landvircn,Be1naccn,  Carolacen,  Amitidote,  Meldimen,  Nurmcn, 
Cliartres,  Orleans,  Anjou,  Cor.ltance,  with  many  others.  And  rve  Ab- 
bot? of  Clugny,  Proemorrflrator  of  the  greater  Mtotafiery  of  the  Court 
ef  St.  Denis  in  France  ,  St.  Vi&or  ,  5^rGenovcue,  St.  Martin,  &c., 
and  Fryar  Hugh,  F//r/cr  if  the  II  ttfes  of  the  Order  of  Kni»bts  of  St.  John 
of  Jerufalem  in  France,  and  the  lather  Trier  cf  St.  Mai  fir  in  thepeldt^ 
&c.  Hearing  tbcfe  things  which  were  faid^  propounded-,  and  ,  hjt  acd  yeft- 
erday.  axdtoday  by  you-  the  Lords,  Earh^  and  \\  ii.  ,i{r.\ftid  ,  ag&injt. 
Pop-'  Boniface  VIII.  frc.  We  anfeer  you,  our  lord  -.>,d  you, 

our  Lords,  Earls,  and  William,  thai  (the  Hmtur  aud  .  *f  the 

lloly  Romifli  Cburcb  faked  in  al!  points)  we  agree  /,;  yj;-r  due  Fequefi 
?*  //?;'/  behalf  for  the  calling  of  the  Ccnncil^  and  a  >fi}  to  the 

callnig  together  ef  the  faid  Council  y  according  to  tbfTecrcer  rf'ibe  Ho- 
ly Fathers,  and  to  the   lawful  Orders  ofil.  ding  by 

any. 


Cent.  14.  Of  FRANCE. 


any  menus  to  make  parties  of  tbit  matter,  not  to  Jlic^  to  any  that  maketh 
parties.  And  left  we  (hould  be  kindred  by  Any  means  by  the  faid  Boni- 
face, by  "Excommunication,  fufpenpon,  interdiction,  depofing  9  deprivation^ 
occ.  And  that  we  may  fit  in  the  fame  Council  to  judge  and  do  all  other 
things  that  belong  to  the  Office  of  Prelates  j  tbat  We  ,  our  friends,  our 
fubjefts^arifh'Cburches^&c.  may  remain  fafe.  We  provokg  ,  and  Ap- 
peal in  Writing  to  the  afore  faid  Council  that  is  to  be  gathered,  and  to  him 
that  foallbe  the  true  and  lawful  higbeji  Bijhop  ,  and  to  him  or  them  to 
whom  of  right  we  Jhould  Appeal,  and  do  earnestly  require  our  Appellati- 
ons: committing  us,  our  Parijh-Cburcbes,  and  them  that  flick,.  to  M  ••>  our 
ftate  and  theirs,  &c.  to  the  godly  defense  of  the  afore  faid  Council,  and  of 
him  that  Jhall  be  true  and  lawful  bigbejl  Bifhop.  And  we  proteft  to  renew 
this  Appellation  ,  where  ,  when  ,  and  before  whom  it  frail  be  thought 
meet. 

This  was  done  at  Parit,  at  Lupara,  in  the  Chamber  of  the  King, 
many  Lords,  and  Earls,  Knights  and  Clerks,  and  others  being 
Witnefles. 

After  thefe  things  thus  in  the  Parliament  decreed,  and  agreed  »  the 
Prelates  confulting  with  themfelves  what  to  do  in  fo  doubtful  a  mat- 
ter, and  dreading  the  Pope's  difpleafure  for  what  was  now  done,  to 
clear  themfelves  to  the  Pope,  partly  to  ccrtitie  him  what  was  done,  and 
partly  alfo  to  admonifh  him  what  he  (hculd  do,  fent  this  enfuing  Let- 
ter to  him,  thus  directed. 

To  their  moft  Holy  Father,  and  deareft  beloved  Lord,  Boniface, 
the  chief  BKhop  of  the  Holy  Romijb  Church  ,  and  the  Univerfal 
Church  :  his  humble  and  devout  Arch-Bifhops  ,  Abbots,  Priors, 
Conventuals  ,  Deans,  Provofts,  Chapters,  Covents,  and  Col- 
ledges,  of  the  Cathedral  and  Collegiat  Churches  ,  Regular  and 
Secular,  of  all  the  Realm  of  France,  being  gathered  together,  do 
offer  moft  devout  kiffings  of  your  blefTed  Feet. 

We  are  compelled  with  f  arrow  to  fignifie  unto  your  Holinefs  ,  tbat  our 
tnoft  dear  Lord  Philip  by  the  Grace  of  God  the  noble  King  of  France,  when  F 
vee  faw  the  Letters  fealed  and  fent  to  him  of  late  on  your  behalf  by  the  num.  Tom.  up. 
Cardinal  of  Nzibo,  your  Notary,  and  by  him  were  presented  to  him,  and  4>»>454* 
certain  others  of  his  Barons,  upon  the  perufing  of  theje  bloody  Letters^ 


being'read  unto  them  fitting  by  him,  both  our  Lord  the  King,  and  the 
Barons  were  highly  incenfed.  'then  the  King  commanded  to  be  c  tiled  be- 
fore him  the  other  Barons  then  abfent,  and  w  alf&  to  appear  perfonaHy, 
&c.  Being  all  thus  called,  and  come  together,  we  flood  before  the  King 
this  Wednefday  being  the  tenth  of  this  prefent  April  ,  in  St.  Mary  V 
Cbttrch  in  Paris.  Ibere  our  Lord  the  King  told  us  ^  that  it  WM  fignified 

S  2  to 


Cent. 


to  him  (  among  othe  r  things)  by  the  aforefaid  Cardinal  and  Letters,  that 
for  bu  Kingdom  (which  be  and  bit  Anceftors  hitherto  do  acknowledge  they 
bold  of  God  only)  now  ought  in  'temporal  things  to  be  fuhjeft  unto  you, 
and  hold  of  you. 

And  ye  baie  called  to  appear  before  you  the  Prelates  and  Clergy  of  the 
faid  Realm,  for  the  correQing  of  fuch  '  wrongs  07  ye  pretend  to  be  done 
to  Ecclefiaftical  perfons,  both  Regular  and  Secular  abiding  within  the 
Realm  andelfewhere,  &c. 

Te  are  charged  alfo  for  referving,  and  wilful  ordering  of  Arch  -Bi" 
(hoprickj,  Bijbopricks,andbsflowing  of  great  Benefices  of  the  Realm  upon 
Strangers,  whereby  the  decay  of  God's  Worfoip  hath  enfued,  the  pious  wills 
of  the  godly  Founders,  are  defrauded  of  their  godly  pttrpofe  ,  the  poor  of 
tb'x  Realm  are  without  their  accuftomed  Alms^  the  Realm  v  impoverished, 
and  the  Church  M  in  danger  of  Ruine  ,  the  Churches  being  unferved^ 
wbiljl  the  Prophets  are  ta^en  away,  the  fruits  of  thofe  that  ferve  them 
being  given  unto  grangers. 

Alfo  He  complained  of  new  'taxes  laid  upon  the  Churches^  with  utp- 
meafurable  exactions,  by  which  the  general  State  of  the  Church  vt  chan- 
ged, &c. 

Tiber  e  fore  he  re  quired  us  all,  both  Prelates  and  Barons  to  ordain  whole- 
fame  things,  for  the  eafmg  of  the  aforejaid  grievances  ,  and  for  redreflini 
the  Realm  and  the  French  Church  :  and  therefore  we  Jhould  regard  to  be 
ready  with  counfel  to  help  in  feafon  (as  we  are  bound  by  the  duty  of  fide- 
lity) in  thefe  things. 

Then  the  Barons  having  debated  together  on  thefe  matters  ,  coming  to 
«ur  Lord  the  King,  and  thanking  him  for  his  laudable  purpofe  9  anfaered 
with  one  voice,  that  for  thofe  things  they  were  not  only  ready  to  offer  to 
fpend  their  goods,  but  al  fo  to  yield  their  perfons  unto  death:  adding,  that 
if  the  King  would  fuffer  thefe  things,  yet  they  would  not. 

Ihen  our  anfwer  being  demanded,  we  faid  ,  that  we  would  not  offend 
againft  the  liberty  of  the  Realm,  nor  by  any  means  innovate  things  con- 
trary to  the  King's  honour  in  that  behalf. 

We  exhorted  him  to  keep  the  bond  of  Unity,  which  hath  continued  until 
now,  betwixt  the  Holy  Romifh  Church,  and  his  predeceffours  •,  but  when 
we  were  told,  that  if  any  Man  were  of  a  contrary  mind  ,  from  thenceforth 
Ixflould  be  manifeftly  counted  an  Enemy  of  the  King  and  the  Realm  }  we 
anfwered,  that  we  would  help  our  Lord  the  King  with  due  counfel  and  Aid, 
for  the  preferving  of  hit  per/on,  and  of  the  Laws  and  Liberties  of  the 
faid  Realm,  like  as  we  are  (certain  of  us}  by  the  duty  of  Allegiance 
bound  to  him,  which  hold  of  him  Dukedoms  ,  Earldoms,  Baronies,  Fees, 
&c.  by  the  form  of  the  Oath  as  all  others  do.  let  we  requeued  the  King 
that  feeingwe  were  bound  to  obey  your  Holinefs,  he  would  fuffer  us  to  go 
according  to  the  Tsnour  of  your  aforejaid  calling.  Then  it  was  anfwered 
on  the  behalf  of  tbeKittg  and  Barons,  that  in  m  cafe  they,  would  fuffer  w 
to  go  ont  of  the  Realm. 


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then  we  considering  of  fo  great  an  anger,  and  trouble  fo  jeopardow:  and 
olfo  what  things  are  attempted  againft  Churches  and  Church-  men,  to  fpoil 
their  Goods  and  Riches^  with  jeopardy  of  ltf&>  feeing  that  the  Laity  do  now 
abhor  the  obedience  of  Clerkf^  and  have  takfn  courage  to  condemn  the  EC- 
clefiajiical  cenfitrc  andprocefs^  Sec-  V/e  thought  good  in  th'n  point  of  great" 
eft  neceflity  to  run  with  figbs  and  tears  to  the  Wisdom  of  your  Holinefs^ 
befeeching  your  fatherly  mildnefs,  that  fame  wholefome  remedy  may  be 
provided  in  the  premiffes,  by  which  the  found  profitable  agreement ,  and 
mutual  love^  which  hath  continued  fo  long  a  time  betwixt  the  Church  ,  the 
King  and  the  Realm,,  may  be  maintained  in  that  old  fjyeet  Concord ,  the 
State  of  the  French  Church  may  continue  in  godly  and  quiet  peace ,  and 
that  ye  would  vouchfafe  toforefeehowtowithflandthe  dangers  and  offen- 
ces aforefaid^tbat  we  and  our  States  may  be  provided  for  by  the  afore- 
faid  Commandement  of  your  calling  ,  by  the  jlttdy  of  your  Apoftolical 
Wifdom^and  fatherly  Love,  'fbs  Almighty  preferve  yottr  Holinefl  to 
bis  Holy  Church  a  long  time. 

In  the  next  year,  viz.  1304.  about  the  Nativity  of  our  Lady, 
came  a  number  of  Hamefled  Souldiers  well  appointed,  fent  partly 
by  the  Trench  King,  partly  by  the  Cardinals  of  Columna  f  whom  the 
Pope  before  had  depofedj  unto  the  Gates  of  Arvagium,  or  Anagni^ 
where  the  Pope  had  hid  himfelf  There  Sciarra  Colonna^  Brother  to  the 
aforefaid  Cardinals,  after  many  affronts  done  to  his  perfon  and  thofe 
that  were  about  him,  and  the  plundering  him  of  all  his  Wealth  and 
Riches,. carryed  him  to  Rome,  where  at  the  end  of  3  5  days  he  dyed  of 
Anger,in  the  ninth  year  of  his  Pontificate :  fo  that  Ibme  took  occation 
to  fay,  he  entred  like  a  Fox,  governed  like  a  Lyon.,  and  dyed  like  a 
Dog,  he  dyed  0ffo£fr  u. 

The  Cardinals  went  into  the  conclave  the  21  of  the  fame  Month, 
and  the  next  morning,  they  eleded  the  Cardinal  d*  Oftia  ,  called  Fra. 
Nicholas  di  Trevifo,  of  the  order  of  the  preachers,  who  took  upon  him 
the  name  of  Benedict  l\.  but  he  dyed  in  Perttgia,  in  the  eighth  month 
of  his  Pontificate,  in  which  City  the  whole  Court  being  at  that  time, 
it  was  refolved  a  new  Pope  (hould  be  chofen:  but  they  trifled  away 
their  time  in  difputes  and  clamours  for  two  months. 

The  reafon  was,  the  Cardinals  were  divided  into  three  factions:  one 
ftuck  clofe  to  Charles  King  of  Naples^  who  would  have  a  Pope  accor- 
ding to  his  way :  another  was  for  the  principal  Barons  of  Rome ,  and 
a  third  flood  firm  to  the  intereft  of  Philip  King  of  France,  who  had 
fent  no  fmall  fums  of  Money  and  other  prefents  to  Cardinal  Pietra 
Colonna^  to  the  end,  that  with  James  his  Uncle,a  Cardinal  of  the  fame 
name,  they  might  keep  up  the  intereft  of  France. 

At  length  Cardinal  P^r-corrupted  fuch  with  his  gold,  as  he  knew 
were  covetous  of  it;  feeding  them  on  with  pxomifes  befides,  fo  that 

part 


ij4        ffifre  ecciefiattical  foifto??       ce«.  14. 

_.  .  . — ; — •• — • — 

part  of  the  Cardinals  being  faft  in  thofe  Chains,  and  part  of  them  in- 
titriidated  with  the  threats  of  the  Verugians  now  in  Arms,  Cardinal 
Colonna  propofing  the  Bifhop  of  Ettrdeaax^ho  was  a  great  lover  of 
the  King  of  France,  he  was  chofen  by  common  confent,  and  a  Courier 
fentporttohim  (who  was  then  at  his  Bifhoprick  )  to  know  what 
name  he  would  carry  :  he  replyed,  he  would  not  change  the  name  he 
was  baptized  with,  which  was  Clement,  and  fo  he  was  published  accor- 
dingly to  the  people,  and  called  Clement  the  fifth. 

After  publication  in  the  ufual  place,  the  Cardinals  difpatched  feve- 
ral  meflengersto  the  new  Pope,  to  entreat  him  to  hafkn  his  Journey 
into  Italy. 

But  the  Pope  being  intruded  by  the  King  of  Frame ,  made  anfwer, 
that  the  Flock  was  to  follow  the  Shepherd,  and  not  the  Shepherd  the 
Flock,  commanding  the  Cardinals  immediately  to  repair  to  him 
in  Frame,  and  particularly  in  the  City  of  foifliers,  as  they  alfo 
did. 

This  Clemext  was  thefirft  of  feven  French  Popes  ,  which  held  the 
See  one  after  another,  untoVrban  VI.  under  whom  the  Italians  recove- 
red it  again  with  much  trouble.  Thefe  feven  Popes  were  Clement  V. 
John  XXII.  Senedift  XII.  Clement  VI.  Innocent  VI.  Vrban  V. 
Gregory  XI. 

Clement  V.  being  chofen  Pope,  he  came  to  Lyons,  where  King  Philip 
received  him,  accompanied  with  the  Kings  of  England  and  Arragon 
in  great  pomp. 

The  Pope  was  on  Horfeback,  and  the  King  with  his  two  Brethren 
on  Foot,  holding  the  Reigns  of  his  Horfe.  He  was  crowned  in  the 
Temple  of  St.  Juftw,  where  they  had  built  a  great  Theatre  for  fo 
goodly  a  fpedhcle.  Buttheprefs  of  people  was  fo  great  ,  that  the 
Scaffold  brake ,  fo  that  the  multitude  fell  one  upon  another.  The 
Popei  King,  Princes  and  Noble  men  were  all  on  an  heap,  and  the  Scaf- 
fold faflned  to  an  old  Wall  pulled  it  down.  The  King  was  hurt  in 
the  Head,  the  Pope  in  the  Foot,  and  the  Duke  of  Britain  flain,  with 
many  Noble- men,  and 'multitudes  of  the  common  people,  that  were 
(mothered  under  thefe  ruines.  The  Pope's  Crown  fell  from  his 
Head  into  the  prefs,  where  he  loft  a  Carbuncle,  valued  at  fix  thoufand 
florins  of  Gold. 

Thus  thisfeaft  gave  no  cajfeof  joy  ,  but  was  famous  to  pofterity 
by  this  notable  accident ,  and  by  th«  tranflation  of  the  Pope's  feat 
from  Rome  to  Avignon,  Anno  1 305.  unto  the  year  137^.  under  Vrban 
VL  viz.  the  fpace  of  fcventy  four  years. 

This  unlucky  pomp  being  ended  ,  Clement  created  many   French 
Cardinals  (and  not  one  Italian)  and  removed  the  Court  prefently  to 
Avignon.     He  avouched  openly  to  keep  a  Concubine,  the  Daughter  of 
Tuxa-,  he  fent  three  Cardinals    with   Senatorial    power 

to 


Cent.14.  Of  FRANCE.  13$ 

to  govern  Rome  and  Italy.  He  ordained  ,  that  none  fhould  ufe 
the  Title,  or  exercife  the  power  of  Emperour,  until  he  were  confirmed 
by  the  Pope. 

In  the  year  1307.  a  Parliament  was  fummoned  againft  Pope  Clement 
by  King  Philip,  touching  temporal  jurifdiction  belonging  to  Princes,. 
and  Ecclefiatfical  belonging  to  the  Church.  Forafmuch  ,  as  Pope 
Clement  V.  extolled  himfeU  above  all  Princes,  as  in  other  Countries, 
fo  alfo  in  France  he  extended  his  ufurped  jurifdidion  above  the 
Princely  Authority  of  the  King,  claiming  to  himfelf  full  government 
of  both  the.  States,  as  well  Secular  as  Ecckfiaftical  '•>  the  King  there- 
fore diredteth  his  Letters  mandatory  to  the  Prelates  and  Barons  of  the 
Realm  of  France,  to  alfcmblethemfelves  together  at  Paris  in  the  Year 
afore-  mentioned  in  the  beginning  of  December. 

At  the  day  fpecified  in  thofe  Letters  the  Prelates  and  Clergy  aflem-  ^^^ 
bled  themfelves  before  the  King  at  his  palace  in  Paris,  where  after  due  "JlVa. 
reverence  done  unto  the  King,  there  fitting  in  his  own  perfon  with  his 
Barons  and  Council  about  him,  a  certain  wife  and  noble  Lord  ,  Teter 
de  Cugtie  r//V,  one  of  the  King's  Council,  (lands  up,  and  makes  an  Ora- 
tion before  the  Parliament  in  the  King's  behalf.  His  Oration  is  divi- 
ded into  two  parts.  i,  He  (heweth,  that  obedience  and  reverence  is 
due  unto  the  King.  2.  That  there  ought  to  be  a  difference  betwixt 
the  jurifdiclion  of  the  Clergy  and  Laity  ,  fo  that  fpiritual  matters 
(hould  be  defined  and  ordered  by  the  Prelates  and  fpiritual  men  •,  and 
Temporal  caufes  ruled  and  determined  by  the  King,  his  Barons  ,  and 
Temporal  men. 

All  which  he  proved  by  many  reafons,bothof  Fad  and  Law.   His  Artfci« 
Oration  being  ended,  he  repeated  certain  words  in  the  Trench  Tongue,  the  clergy  of 
which  imported,  that  the  King's  Will  and  pleafure  was  in  feme  points  Fr 
to  renew  the  Temporal  State  and  jurifdi&ion  :  and  therewith  he  exhi- 
bited a  certain  Bill  in  French,  whereof  alfo  he  gave  a  Copy  to  the 
Prelates,  containing  fixty  five  Articles,  which  may  be  read  at  large  in 
Mr.  Fox  his  Acts  qnd  Monument  s^Vol.  i.  p.  462.  463.  464.  465. 

After  he  had  fpoken,  the  Prelates  required  to  have  time  to  anfwer 
thereunto  :  whereupon  the  Friday  next  enfuing  was  appointed  for  the 
fame,  on  the  which  day  the  Eiftiop  E^itf#,and  the  Arch-Bi;r.op  of  Se 
non  Eleft,  in  the  name  of  the  whole  Clergy,  anfwercd  for  them  all  be- 
before  the  King,  holding  his  Parliament  on  that  day  at  Vkenis.  They 
endeavour  to  prove,  that  both  the  Temporal  apd  Spiritual  jurisdi&ions- 
are  compatible,  notwithfianding  the  diftindion  of  them  one  from  the 
other.  Then  they  proceed,  to  prove  that  a  perfon  Ecclellaftical,  which 
hat':,  J.'rifoiction  Spiritual,  may  alfo  have  Temporal  juriuiicrion  ,  and 
that  the  Jurifdidtton  Temporal  may  be  in  an  Ecckfiaftical  perfon,  they- 


nllcdgc  for  this  the  example  of  hfelchifedec}^,  who  was  both  King  and 
l?rieft  i  .and  of.  S0muel,\vhQ  was  both  Pxidt  and  Picghet,  and  for  a 

long; 


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long  time  appointed  Judge  over  the  people  in  Temporal  matters. 
They  affert  alfo  that  Chrift  by  his  humane  nature  had  both  powers, 
(hewing  that  he  was  a  Prieft  after  the  order  of  Melchifedeck^:  and 
that  he  had  both  in  hisvefture,  and  on  his  Thigh  written,  Khtg  of 
Kings  ,  and  Lord  of  Lords.  Many  other  places  they  cite  out  of  the 
new  Teftament. 

Then  they  offer  to  prove  it  by  the  Civil  Law,  and  by  reafon  ,  and 
many  places  in  the  Canon  LAW  :  they  {hew,  what  priviledges  of  this 
nature  Had  been  granted  to  the  Clergy  by  Charles  the  Great  ,  King  of 
Trance  ,  by  Lewes  fhefecond,and  by  other  Kings  of  France  ,  which 
priviledges  they  offered  to  (hew.  Moreover  they  affert,  that  whatfo- 
ever  things  be  offered  up  to  the  Church,  and  are  converted  to  the  do- 
minion and  property  of  the  fame,  be  God's,  and  appertain  unto  him, 
forasmuch  as  they  be  faid  to  be  dedicated  and  fandih'ed  by  him.  But 
this  jurifdi6Hon  which  is  diverfly  converted  to  the  Dominion  and  pro- 
perty of  the  French  Church,  is  God's  ,  and  therefore  to  be  referved 
to  and  for  him. 

They  urge  the  King  to  confider,  that  at  what  time  he  was  crowned 
htfware  only  thefe  things  following. 

i.  That  he  would  defend  and  maintain  the  Canonical  Law,  privi- 
ledge  and  Juftice  granted  to  the  Biftiops,  and  the  Church,  and  (as  much 
as  in  him  layj  to  enlarge  and  amplifie  the  fame.  2.  Alfo  that  by  his 
Arbitriment  all  Chriftian  people  at  all  times  (hould  keep  the  true 
peace  of  God  and  his  Church.  3.  That  he  (hould  forbid  to  all  Na- 
tions, all  kinds  of  facriledges,  fppilings  and  iniquities,  and  that  in  all 
kind  ©f  Judgements  he  (hould  will  and  command  equity  and  mercy. 
4.  That  throughout  his  whole  Territory  and  jurifdi&ion,  he  (hould 
labour  to  exterminate  and  cut  off  from  the  Church  3  the  noted 
Hereticks. 

They  argue  alfo,  that  by  the  poffeflions  of  the  Church  ,  many  Bre- 
thren and  Kinfmen  of  the  French  Nobility  be  maintained  :  Ergo,  fuch 
poffeflions  are  not  to  be  grudged  at. 

And  becaufe  a  Bill  of  many  Articles  was  exhibited,  whereof  part  did 
infringe  the  whole  Ecclefiaftical  jurifdidion,  to  the  defence  thereof 
f  they  faidj  they  would  ftand  to  the  death. 

On  the  next  Friday  following,  being  Decemb.  29.  the  Prelates 
affembled  themfelves  again  together  at  the  King's  Palace  in  P#w, 
where  the  Lord  Peter  TSertrand,  Biftiop  of  Eduen,  fpake  openly  before 
the  King,  fitting  with  his  Counfellours,  and  Barons  about  him.  In 
his  fpeech  he  extolled  the  King's  perfon,  and  his  miraculous  attaining 
to  the  Crown  of  France,  adding,  that  he  ought  to  be  the  Champion 
and  Defender  of  the  Faith,  all  which  he  proved  in  few  words  by  many 

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reafons  and  Authorities.     Afterwards  he  touched  thofe  proportions 
which  were  propounded  by  theaforefaid  Lord,  Peter  de  Gugneriif. 

He  befought  the  King  for  his  Souls  health  to  maintain  the  rights 
and  liberties  of  the  Church  i  defiring  him  to  confidef  what  commo- 
dities he  daily  received!  by  the  Church:  and  that  his  Church  never 
failed  him  yet  when  he  had  need  of  the  Laity  i  (hewing  the  dangers 
and  examples  of  them  who  did  to 'the  contrary.  Further,  he  en- 
treated the  King,  to  weigh  how  entirely  his  Lord  the  Pope  doth  love 
his  perfon  and  Realm. 

After  this,  in  the  faid  Seffion,  the  aforefaid  Bifhop  of  ILdven,  an- 
fwered particularly  to  the  Articles  exhibited  by  the  Lord  Peter  in 
writing,  to  the  King  and  Parliament.  Which  becaufe  they  touch  ^ 
more  the  fubtilty  of  the  Law,  and  ftiles  of  the  Courts,  than  are  ne- 
cdfary  to  this  our  Hiftory :  and  becaufe  I  would  not  burthen  this 
Treatife  with  them,  little  profit  being  contained  in  them,  I  have  here 
purpofely  for  brevities  fake  omitted  them. 

The  next  Friday  after  thisj  the  Prelates  affembled  at  Vicenas  before 
the  King  to  hear  their  anfwer :  Where  the  aforefaid  Peter  de  Cug- 
ner'M  (being  Prolucutor  for  the  King)  faid  that  their  King  was  to  keep 
the  rights  of  the  Church  and  Prelates,  which  they  had  by  Law ,  and 
by  good  and  reafonable  cuftom  : '  where  between  the  firft  and  fecond 
conclufion  he  went  about  to  prove,  that  the  cognition  of  civil  caufes 
ought  not  to  appertain  to  the  Church  '•>  for  that  fuch  things  were 
Temporal,  and  ought  to  pertain  to  the  Temporally,  as  Spiritual  things 
to  the  Spiritualty.  And  befides  his  other  reafons,  he  alledged  the  8tf. 
Dijlinft.  declaring,  that  for  this  intent,  the  Clerks  Crowns  were  firit 
{haven,  in  fign  that  they  (hould  be  free  from  all  worldlinefs,  and  for- 
fake  all  Temporal  things.  He  added,  that  their  Lord  and  King  was 
ready  to  hear  them,  who  would  iatirudr  him  of  any  cuftom,  and  thofe 
cuftoms  which  were  good  and  reafonable  he  would  obferve. 

The  Bimop  Edven  anfwered  for  all  the  Prelates ,  faying  that  the 
words  of  the  Lord  Peter  engendred  darknefsand  obfcurity,  and  might 
give  occafion  to  the  Temporal  Lords  to  break  and  infringe  the  Rites 
and  Cuftoms  of  the  Church.  As  to  that  which  was  fpoken  ,  con- 
cerning the  (having  of  the  crown,  it  was  anfwered,  that  the  crown  did 
betoken  rule  and  excellency  i  and  the  (having  did  lignifie,  that  they 
ought  not  to  heap  up  Temporal  things  •-,  fo  as  to  apply  their  hearts 
thereunto  i  but  that  the  Temporal  things  ought  to  be  fubjecl:  to  them, 
and  not  they  to  the  Temporalty.  After  divers  other  fpeeches,  the 
faid  Bimop  concluded,  and  befought  the  King,  that  it  would  pleafe  his 
Grace  to  give  them  a  more  plain  and  comfortable  Anfwer ,  and  that 
they  might  not  go  away  fad  and  peniiveout  of  his  prefence ,  whexeby 
occafion  might  be  given  to  the  Laity  to  impugn  the  Rites  and  Liberties 
of  the  Church.  In  the  end  it  was  anfwered  to  them  in  the  behalf  of 

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the  King,  that  his  mind  and  intent  was  not  to  impugn  the  Cuftoms  of 
the  Church. 

The  Sunday  folio  wing  theBifhopsaflenri  bled  themfelves  again  before 
the  King  at  Vkenas,  where  the  Bid)  op  of  Senon  in  the  name  of  all 
the  Prelates  gave  humble  thanks  for  it  :  and  he  befought  that  fueh  Pro- 
clamations as  were  made  to  the  prejudice  of  the  Ecclefiaftical  jurif- 
didion  might  be  revoked  and  repealed.  Hereunto  the  King  himfelf 
anfvvered  with  his  own  mouth,  that  they  were  not  publifted  at  his 
commandement,  neither  did  he  know  of  them,  nor  ratifie  them. 

Moreover,  the  Bifhop  propofed,  that  thofeabufes  which  the  Tem- 
porally complained  of,  fhould  be  fo  ordered  and  reformed,  that  every 
man  (hould  be  content  therewith.  Finally  he  befought  the  King,  that 
he  would  give  them  a  fuller  and  more  comfortable  anfwer.  Then 
anfwered  the  Lord  Peter  in  the  name  of  the  King.  That  if  the  Pre- 
lates and  Biftiops  would  fee  reformation  of  thofe  things  which  were 
to  be  amended  Cabout  which  he  would  take  refpite  betwixt  this  and 
Chriftm.x  next  following^)  his  Majefty  would  innovate  nothing  in  the 
mean  time.  And  if  in  the  aforefaid  fpace  they  would  not  correct  and 
reform  what  was  amifs,his  Majefty  would  appoint  fuch  order  and  re- 
medy, that  fnould  be  acceptable  both  to  God  and  his  Subjefts.  Then 
the  Prelates  had  leave  of  the  King  to  depart  and  went  home. 

A  brief  recapitulation  of  Bifliop  Edvetfs  anfwer,  with  certain  notes 
in  anfwer  to  his  Popijk  reafons,  may  be  read  in  the  A5s  and  -Monument* 
of  the  Church,  p.  476.  477. 

The  Ecclefiaftical  Judges  have  (ince  that  time  attempted  to  ufurp 
this  jurifdiftipn  over  the  Laity  in  cafe  of  Adultery  ,  &c.  but  the 
complaint  which  was  made  of  it  by  Peter  de  Cngnenv  ,  on  the  behalf 
°f  the  King's  Judges  f  which  we  may  read  at  this  day  extant)  did  put 

later,  an  end  to  that  trouble.    And  always  whatfoever  the  Clergy  attempted 

to  meddle  in  fuch  matters,  they  have  been  prohibited  by  the  Parlia- 
ments upon  Appeals,  as  from  abufes,  which  have  been  put  in  againft 
their  decrees. 

Pope  Clement  had  promifed  unto  King  Philip  to  abolifti  the  memory 
of  PopeBo»//^VIII.  and  to  anull  all  his  Ads,  but  by  advice  of 
Cardinal  Pratenfis,  he  delayed  unto  a  general  Council  ,  and  this  he 

Saucier,  p.  872.  fummoned  to  be  held  at  Vienna  in  France  ,  where  the  King  required 
from  the  Pope  the  performance  of  his  promife.  The  Council  did  ac- 
knowledge Boniface  to  have  been  a  lawful  Pope:  but  they  did  de- 
clare all  his  A#s  againft  the  King  to  have  been  unjuft,  and  that  none  of 
them  mould  be  prejudicial  to  the  King,  or  to  his  Succeflburs.  In  this 
Council  the  Pope  propounded  the  aid  of  the  ChrifHans  in  Syria,  the 
punifhment  of  the  Templar*  ,  and  the  reformation  of  the  Church: 
Wars  were  proclaimed,  and  Indulgences  were  offered  in  thefe  words. 
We  Will^  that  the  pHttijhment  of  Hell,  beno-tray  laidnpon  him  ,  who 


Cent.  14.  Of  FRANCE. 

fynrd  with  the  Crofs,  grant  ing  alfo  unto  every  fyned  person  power   to  ptill 
three  or  four  Souls  out  of  Purgatory  at  their  pleafure.     Hereat  the  Di- 
vines of  Paw  were  offended,  becaufe  it  waswritten  in  the  fame  Bull, 
We  command  the  Angels  to  carry   the  abfifoed  Soul  into  Paradife.     It. 
was  then  a  received  Article,  that  th^Pop'e  may  command  the  Angels 
as  his  Serjeants.     Pope  Clement  granted  great  Indulgences  to  fuch  as 
could  not  go,  but  cpuld  find  Money  for  that  ufe  i  ib  as  he  that  gave  a  Out  of  tn  oia 
penny,  was  to  have  one  year's   pardon:  he  that  gave  twelve  pence  trench  chront- 
twelve  year's  pardon :  and  he  that  would  give  as  much  as  would  cle* 
maintain  a  man  going  over  Seas,  a  plenary  pardon  for  all.     The  Pope 
appointed  certain  men  whom  he  put  in  truft  for  the  receiving  of  this 
Money.     Unfpeakable  were  the  fums  of  Money  that  were  given  for 
the  purchafing  thefe  pardons  for  five  years  together. '   At  the  end 
whereof,  when  the  good  men  were  ready  to  go,  and  perform  what 
they  had  promifed  and  vowed,  the  bufinefs  was  broke  off,  but  the  Pope 
kept  the  Money,  the  Marquefs  his  Nephew  had  a  (hare  of  it,  and  King 
Philip  the  fair,  and  his  three  Sons,  who  had  taken  up  the  crofs  to  go 
thither  in  perfon, E^w<W King  of  England,  and  other  noble  perfons 
ftayed  at  home. 

In  this  Council  it  was  ordained,  that  the  feaft  of  Corpw  Cbrifti  {hould 
be  kept,  with  many  Indulgences  granted  unto  them  who  (hould  ce- 
lebrate this  Feaft. 

In  the  fame  Council  Pope  Clement  V.  fet  forth  a  Book  of  Papal  de-  fon  Eedeti 
crees,  called  Liber  Clementiarum^  which  was  received,  allowed  and  ra-  Hift.  inCe»M* 
lifted  by  this  Council.  Nauclerus  faith,  that  Clement  before  his  death 
repented  the  fettingout  of  this  Book,  and  commanded  it  to  be  burnt. 
Yet  notwithftanding  the  fucceeding  Popes  ,  and  particularly  John 
XXII.  confirmed  and  Authorized  the  faid  Book  again ,  together  with 
the  Decretals  of -Gregory  and  'Boniface^  becaufe  thefe  Books  highly  ad- 
vanced the  See  of  Rome,  exempting  the  Bifliop  of  Rome  from  fab- 
jeclion  to  general  Councils,  and  attributing  power  to  him  to  receive 
or  reject  the  Emperour  after  hje  is  chofen,  comparing  the  Pope  to  the 
SUB,  and  the  Emperour  to  the  Moon.  Finally,  counting  it  a  thing 
neceffary  unto  Eternal  Life,  that  every  perfonbe  fubjecl:  totheBithop 
of  Rome. 

It  was  alfo  ordained,  that  Schools  (hould  be  erected  ,  and  foreign 
Tongues  (hould  be  learned,  namely,  the  Hebrew^  Chaldaick^  and  Arabic^ 
Languages.  It  was  alfo  ordained ,  that  the  name  and  remembrance  olf 
the  templars  ftiould  be  rooted  out :  which  decree  was  put  in  execution 
by  all  Chriftian  Princes. 

Know  then,  that  about  nineteen  years  after  the  Chriftians  had  loft  all  Tho.  Fuller  ftp- 
in  Palefline ,  by  the  cruel  deed  of  Pope  Clement  V.  and  toul  Fad:  of  ?!«?•  Hift. 
Philip  the  fair.  King  of  France,  the  ^mplars  were  finally  extirpated  bc 
.  out  of  all  Chriftendom, 

T  2  Pope 


MO        gcjjc  ecclefiafticai  $ffio*?       Cent.  14. 


having  long  fojourned  in  Fraxce^had  received  many 
great  courtefies  from  King  "Philip  \  yea  he  owed  little  lefs  than  himfelf 
to  him.  At  laft  Philip  requefted  of  him  a  boon,  great  enough  (faith 
my  Authour)  for  a  King  to  asft,and  a  Pope  to  grant,  namely  ,  all  the 
Lands  of  the  Knights  templars  in  France,  forfeited  by  reafon  of  their 
horrible  Herefies,  and  licentious  living.  The  Pope  was  willing  to 
f.  gratitie  him  in  feme"  good  proportion  for  his  favours  received,  and 

being  thus  long  the  King's  Gueft,  he  gave  him  the  Templars  Lands, 
and  Goods  to  pay  for  his  entertainment. 

On  a  fudden  all  the  Templars  in  France  are  clapt  in  prifon  ,  damna- 
ble  fins  wefe  laid  to  their  charge  >  as  facrificing  of  Men  to  an  Idol 
they  worftipped  >  reading  of  a  Templars  Baftard  ,  ard  drinking  his 
Blood,  fpitting  upon  the  crofs  of  Chrift,  confpiring  with  Turkj  and 
Saracens  againft  Chriftianity,they  were  charged  with  Sodomy,  Beftia- 
lity,  with  many  other  Villanies  out  of  the  Road  of  humane  corruption, 
and  as  far  from  Man's  Nature  as  God's  Law. 

The  fole  witnefs  againft  them  was  one  of  their  own  Order,  a  noto- 
rious Malefa<£ror,  who  at  the  fame  time  being  in  prifon,  and  to  fuffer 
for  his  own  offences,  condemned  by  the  Matter  of  their  Order  ,  fought 
>  to  prove  his  Innocency,  by  charging  all  his  own  Order  to  be  guilty. 

And  he  fwore  moft  heartily  to  whatfoever  was  objected  againft  their 
Order.  Befides,  many  of  the  Templars  being  brought  upon  the  rack, 
confeflfed  theaccufations  to  be  true,  wherewith  they  were  charged. 
Hereupon  all  the  Templars  were  moft  cruelly  burned  to  death 
at  a  ftake  through  all  France  ,  with  James,  the  Grand-  Mafter  of 
their  Order.  * 

Many  men  accounted  not  the  Templars  Malefactors,  but  Martyrs. 
Firft,becaufc  the  witnefs  was  unfufficient  ,  a  Malefaftor  againft  his 
Judge-,  and  Secondly,  they  bring  tortured  men  againft  themfelves. 
And  a  confcllion  extorted  upon  the  Rack  (  fay  fome  )  is  of  no 
validity. 

But  being  burned  at  the  ftake,  they  denycd  it  at  their  death,though 
formerly  they  had  confefled  it. 

A>  Templar  being  to  be  burned  at  "Bordeaux,  and  feeing  the  Pope  and 
Kofpin.de  orig.  King  fhilip  looking  out  of  a  Window,  cryed  unto  them,  Clement  thou 
Monarh.  ca.  18,  cruel  Tyrant,  feeing  there  is  no  other  among  mortal  men,  to  whom  I 
(hould  appeal  for  my  unjuft  Death,  I  cite  Thee  together  with  King 
*  Philip  to  the  Tribunal  of  Chrift,  the  juft  Judge  who  redeemed  me, 
there  both  to  appear  within  one  year  and  a  <ky,  where  I  will  lay  open 
my  caufe,and  Jufticeftiallbe  done  without  any  by  refped".  In  like 
manner,  James  Grand-Mafter  of  the  Templars,  though  by  piece-meal 
he  was  tortured  to  death,  craved  pardon  of  God,  and  thofe  of  his  or- 
der, That  forced  by.  extremity  of  pain  upon  the  rack,  and  allured 
with  hope  of  life,  he  had  accufed  them  of  fuch  damnable  fin*  where- 

' 


Cent.  14.  Of  FRANCE.  141 

of  they  were  innocent.     True  it  is,  they  were  generally  cryed  up  for 
innocents. 

But  Pope  Clement  and  King  Philip,  were  within  the  time  prefixed 
fummoned  by  death  to  anfwer  to  God  for  what  they  had  done.  Be- 
fides ,  King  Philip  miffed  of  his  expe&ation  ,  and  the  morfel  fell 
befides  his  Mouth,  the  Lands  of  the  Templars  which  were  firft 
granted  to  him  as  a  portion  for  his  youngeft  Son,  being  after- 
wards by  the  Council  of  Vienne  beftowed  on  the  Knights-Hof- 
pitallers. 

William  Vurand  Bifhop  of  MenJa  in  Lanytedoc  ,  being  fummoned 
by  Clement  V.  to  the  general  Council  at  Vievne,  to  come  and  fee  what 
was  fitting  to  be  reformed  in  the  Church  ,  made  a  Book  de  ConfiHf^ 
toward  the  beginning  whereof  he  faith.  It  feemeth  to  be  a  thing  con- 
fiderable,  and  it  is  mo(i  expedient  and  neceffary,  that  before  any  thing  elfe 
voe  foould  proceed  to  the  correction  and  reformation  of  fitch  things  as  ought 
to  be  corrected  and  reformed  in  the  Church  of  God,Mrve11in  the  head  as 
the  Members.  And  in  the  firft  Chapterof  the  third  Book.  Verify,  as 
concerning  the  "Reformation  of  the  Catholic^  Church,  to  bring  it  about 
profitably  and  ejfefiualy,  it  feems  expedient  that  it  begin  at  the  Head, 
that  is,  at  the  Holy  Church  of  Rome,  which  is  the  Head  of  all  others, 
Then  he  fets  down  in  particular,  fuch  things  as  ftood  in  rieed  of  refor- 
mation, notably  reprefenting  many  abufes  of  the  See  of  Rome  that  de- 
ferved  to  be  corredred.  But  for  all  his  learned  difeourfe  there  was 
nothing  done  therein  in  that  Council,  Witnefs  the  BHhop  of  Paxor- 
mo  in  his  advice  touching  the  Council  of  Bafil.  This  decree  concern- 
eth  the  general  Eftate  of  the  Church  j  and  the  matters  belong  to  a 
general  Reformation,  which  may  be  hindred  by  a  diflblution,  as  it  was 
by  the  diflblution  of  the  Council  of  Vienne. 

Dnrand  further  faid  in  that  Council,  that  the  Court  of  Rome,  and  the 
Colledge  of  Cardinals,  together  with  the  Pope,  woukl  have  a  certain 
allowance  of  all  Bifhops  that  are  preferred  there  \  it  feems  very  re- 
quifite  that  this  were  taken  order  with.  For  this  errour  doth  much 
corrupt  the  Catholick  Church,  and  the  common  people:  and  the 
remedies  which  have  been  apply ed  hitherto  are  quite  difregarded,  inas- 
much as  the  contrary  is  ufually  pradrifed  in  the  Court  of  Rome,  as  if  it 
were  no  fin  at  all  to  commit  Simony,  or  as  if  it  were  not  all  one  to 
give  firft,  and  then  take,  as  firft  to  take,  and  then  to  give. 

The  thing  was  taken  into  confederation  at  the  Council  of  Vienne,  fo 
as  they  were  once  ad  vifed,  to  allow  the  twentyeth  part  of  all  livings  joann  Andr  H, 
in  ChriftendomtothePopeand  his  Cardinals  :  but  at  lait  it  was  (hif-  ca.  inter  <W.de- 
ted  off,  without  refolving  upon  any  thing.     A.Do&orof  the  Canon  offie<  °'dinar- 
Law  faith, it  was  better  for  thatj  becaufe  their  covetottfmfs  is  fo  unfatia* 
hie,  that  if  that  had  been  refolved  upon,  they  would  have  takfn  both; 
This  Biftjop  of  .Mend*  mentioned  another  abufe  fit  to  be.  reformed. 


•4J        %ty  eccieftatucal  $tffcw       Cent.  14. 

.For,  after  he  had  faid.  that  every  BUhop's  jurisdi&ion  ought  to  be  pre- 
ferved  entire  to  himfelf,  he  addeth,  Ibat  Ecclepajlical  Benefices  ,  which 
belong  to  the  collation  and  difpofal  of  Bi/hops,  are  beftowed  by  the  See  Apo~ 
polic^  and  others,  tven  before  they  be  void ;  and  that  not  only  in  tht 
Court  of  Rome,  but  out  of  it  -,  howbeit^  the  Bijhops  mttft  give  account  of 
the  cure,  and  of  tbofe  that  execute  themy  whofe  Conferences  they  are  ut- 
terly ignorant  of,  inasmuch  as  they  are  none  of  their  preferring.  He 
would  never  have  demanded  the  reformation  hereof,  unlefs  the  abufe 
~  had  been  notorious. 

Vurand  alfo  perfwaded  the  abolition  of  Fraternities  ^  for  two  rea- 

fons,  for  their  diiTolutenefs,  and  for  their confpiracy  againfl  fuperiours. 

Durand  de  mo.  It  would  be  alfo  ufefiil  (faith  he,)  that  Fraternities,  wherein  both   Clergy 

lif  Ca?*'Snci"  aud  Laity  d&  nothing  but  pamper  themfelves  with  d<licates,  live  in  dijjo- 

'  lutenefs  and  drunkgnnefs,  and  bufie  themfehes  in  divers  plots  againjl  their 

fuperiours  were  abolifyed. 

Thenfpeaking  of  difpenfations,  he  faith ,  Ibat  the  very  Nerve/  of 
Donnd  de  mo-  *^  Canans  and  decrees  are  broken  by  the  difpenfatiout  which  are  made  ac- 
dp  cdcbr.  con-  cording  to  the  (lile  of  the  Court  of  Rome,  that  they  areagainft  the  common 
.^^  And  citing  the  Authority  of  St.  Hierom  writing  to  Rufticits 
Bifliop  of  Narbon,  he  faith,  Since  Avarice  is  increafed  in  Churches  as 
well  as  in  the  Roman  Empire^  the  Law  is  departed  from  the  Priefls  ,  and 
feeing  from  the  Prophets. 

He  gives  us  the  definition  of  a  difpenfation  accord  ing  to  the  Law- 
yers, which  he  (kith,  if  a  provident  relaxation  of  the  general  Law  counter- 
vailed by  commodity  or  neceflity:  that  if  it  be  otherwife  ufcdjt  it  not  a  dif- 
pcHfction  but  a  diflipationjkat  the  quejiion  is  new  about  theftaining  of  the 
jiatc  of  the  Church  \  that  thofe  who  difpenfe  up»n  unnfcejfary  cav/es ,  do 
err.  Laftly,  for  matter  of  difpenfation  he  would  have  that  obferved 
which  Pope  Leo  faid,  viz.  That  there  are  fame  things  which  cannot  be 
altered  ttpon  any  occafwn  :  others  which  may  be  tempered  in  regard  ef  the 
neceffity  of  the  times,  or  confederation  of  Mens  Ages ,  but  always  with 
this  Refoltttion ,  when  there  is  any  doubt  or  obfcurity ,  to  follow 
that  which  it  not  contrary  to  the  Gofpel,  nor  repugnant  to  the  "Decrees  of 
Holy  Fathers. 

Concerning  Exemptions,  he  further  declareth  in  that  Council,  That 
thty  give  occafjonto  the  perfons  exempted  to  live  mere  d/JJ'olutely^  and  more 
at  their  liberty.  That  they  take  away  the  reverence  and  obedience  which 
the  exempted  owe  unto  their  Prelates  and  Ordinaries  ,  a--i  makf  them 
general.  Tit.  5«  thinJ^  themfelve s  a s  good  men  as  theBifhopf,  and  other  i-  i*  fuperiours. 
'that  the  correction  and  punishing  of  faults  and  excejjes  is  ivreby  hindred 
and  brought  to  nothing*  1h  at  they  are  prejudicial  to  f/;<  whole  Church 
CathMcl^  inasmuch  as  the  exempted  cannot  be  judged  b*t  by  tL  Pope* 
and  he  cannot  do  it  by  reafin  of  his  remctenefs  from  them  j  1h at  t'--  v  rob 
men  of  the  means  of  doing  many  good  works  in  Religion  j  7 hat  they  are 


Cent.14-  Of  FRANCE. 


eanfe  of  many  feandals.  Ihat  thofe  to  whom  they  are  granted  abufe  their 
priviledges  :  fbat  they  draw  after  them  the  mine  of  Monasteries  ,  being 
rather  *  burthen  than  an  houftter  or  profit  to  them, 

The  fame  Dttrand  maintaineth,  that  the  Tote  bath  no  power  to  grant 
fuch  exemptions,  confideringthat  they  overthrow  the  general  order  of  the 
Catholick^Church,  which  proceeds  from  God,  the  Apojlles,  the  Hdly  Father  f, 
and  general  Councils,  and  which  was  approved  and  confirmed  by  Popes. 
'Ihat  by  this  order  ,  all  the  Monasteries,  Religious  places,  Abbots,  Abbeffe/, 
Monkj  and  Nuns,  and  all  other  Religious  and  Ecclefiaftical  perfons  are 
immediately  fubjett  to  th*  government  and  guidance  of  Bijkops  within  their 
Cities  and  Uioceffes,  as  unto  their  Superiours,  the  Apples  Succejfburs,and 
fuch  as  have  power  and  Authority  over  them. 

Pafqttier  faith,  there  were  thefe  remarkable  excellencies  in  William 
Vterand  :  he  was  a  great  Divine,  a  great  Lawyer,  and  an  excelleA  Po  ^r?af 
et.  He  put  out  a  Book  entiruled  Speculum  Juris,  divided  into  three  9'  «•  js 
great  Tomes.  As  Lttmbard  among  Divines  is  not  ufually  quoted  by 
his  own  name,  but  by  that  of  Mafter  of  the  Sentences  i  fo  among  the 
Lawyers  he  is  not  quoted  by  the  name  of  William  Pur  and  ,  but  he  is 
ftiled  Speculator.  Hfi  delivered  this  Sentence  about  the  Sacra- 
ment. Verbum  attdimuf^  modwn  Sfntimitf^  modttm  Jiefcimw  ,  pr<efenti* 
am  credimus. 

I  rind  this  given  as  his  Chara&er.  Gulielmw  'Dttrandus^  ornnh  ~Di- 
vitti  Humanique  juris  Confultifiimus,  Natione  Vafio,  GaVw  Epifcopitt  Mi- 
mat  enfis.  Scripft  Speculum  juris  ,  unde  fpeculator  e\\  dittns.  Mult  a 
profetib  utilia  author  tnonuit,  &pr£cipue  de  Reformatioxe  Pap&  &  Clfri. 
Illyr.Catal.Teft.  verit.lib.  16. 

Lewes  Hutin*)  called  Lewes  X.  began  to  reign  over  France,  Anno 
1315.  and  dyed  Anno  1  3  1  6.  He  left  his  Wife  with  child  ,  who  was 
delivered  of  a  Son,  which  lived  but  eight  days.  Lewes  left  one  Daugh- 
ter named  Jane,  which  was  Queen  of  Navarr,  and  Countefs  Palatine 
of  Erie  and  Champagn. 

Philip  V.  called  the  long,  fucceeded  his  Brother  Lewes,  Anno  13  id. 
He  dyed  in  the  iixth  year  of  his  P\eign,  wz.  Anno  1322* 

Pope  Clementv.  dyed,  Anno  1314.  after  whofe  death  the  Papacy 
flood  void  two  years  and  three  months.  The  Cardinals  at  laft  did 
yield  all  their  furTrages  unto  Jacob  dt  Offa  Cardurcenfis,  who  afterwards 
went  up  into  the  Papal  Chair,  and  faid,  lam  Pope.  This  was  John 
XXII.  He  was  a  Coercion  Monk,  he  fate  in  that  feat  eighteen 
years. 

This  John  believed,  that  the  Souk  do  not  enjoy  the  prefence  of 
God  before  the  day  of  Judgement-  Hefenttwo  Preachers  to  Paris, 
the  one  a  T>ominican,  the  other  a  Yrancifcau,  toafTert  ajod  maintain  the- 
fame  Herefie, 

But  one  "Ibma^  an  E«gf$r  Preaches,  withfiocd  thePope^  and  the 


144  1O)eecciefiaftitai$tfto#    Cent.  14. 

pope  threw  him  into  prifon.  Hereup  m  the  French  King  fummoned  a 
Council  unto  his  palace  in  Vintiana  Sy  ha,  the  whole  Aflembly  fub- 
fcribed  againli  the  Pope.  Immediately  the  King  fent  to  Pope 
John  to  reform  his  errour,  and  to  fet  the  Preacher  at  liberty, 
which  he  did.  Seme  fay,  that  the  Divines  of  Parit  made  him  to  re- 
cant his  errour  publickly. 

Append.to.Mar-       This  John  XXII.  ereded  the  Church  of  Jholoufe  in  France   to  an 

jMnr°i°n'fub     Arch-Bithoprick,  divided  the  Diocefs  of  Iholeuje  into  fix  Bithopricks, 

'Ana!1* 317. U  '    the  Bifaops  whereof  (hould  be  fuffragans  to  the  Arch-  Bifhop   of  Tbo- 

ioufe*  and  turned  fix  Villages    into  Cities ,  viz.  Montauban  ,  Riettx, 

Lornbez  Abbey,  St.  Papoxl,  Lavnur^  and   Mirepoix.     He   created  two 

Bifaopricksi  within  the  Arch  Bifaoprick  of  Narbon :  the  rirft  at  Li« 

mottx  whofe  Seat  he  tranflated  to  Alet  not  long  after :  the  fecond  in 

the  A%ey  of  St.  Pans,  fetting  out  their   Diocefles.     He  divided  alfo 

the  Btthoprick  of  Alby  into  two,  and  created  one  at  Caftres. 

He  ere&ed  divers  others  befides,  which  are  reckoned  up  in  parti- 
cular by  the  Authour  of  the  continuation  to  Martinw  Polonitf. 

Clement  V.  predeceffour  to  this  Pope,  had  ordained,  that  Emperours 
by  the  German  Princes  eleded,  might  be  called  Kings  of  the  Romans, 
but  might  not  enjoy  the  Title  or  right  of  the  Empire  to  be  nomina* 
ted  Emperours,  without  their  confirmation  given  by  the  Pope. 
Wherefore  becaufe  Levees  of  Bavaria  being  chofen  Emperour  ufed 
the  Imperial  dignity  in  Italy,  before  he  was  authorized  by  the  Pope, 
the  faid  Pope  John  therefore  Excommunicated  the  Emperour,  who 
ofteadefiredof  him  a  Treaty  of  peace ,  which  the  Pope  refufed  to 
hearken  to.  At  the  fame  time  divers  learned  Men  difallowed  the  do- 
ings of  the  Pope,  as  William  Ocham  ,  whofe  tranfa&ions  were  after- 
ward condemned  by  the  Pope  for  writing  againft  that  See  :  and  Marfi- 
lius  PativiniK,  who  wrote  the  Book  entituled  ,  Vefeufor  fads  ,  whieh 
was  put  into  the  hands  of  the  faid  Emperour  i  wherein  the  controvcr- 
fie  of  the  Pope's  unlawful  jurifdicltion  in  things  Temporal  is  largely 
difputed,and  the  ufurped  Authority  of  that  See  is  fet  forth  to  the 
uttermoft.  Some  Writers  fay,  that  a  great  caufe  of  the  variance  was, 
for  that  one  of  the  Emperour 's  Secretaries  (unknown  to  the  Empe- 
rour) had  likened  in  fdivers  of  his  LettersJ  the  Papal  See  to  the  Beaft 
rifing  out  of  the  Sea  in  the  Apocalypfe.  At  length  when  the  Empe- 
rour, after  much  fuit  made  to  the  Pope  at  Avignon ,  could  not  obtain 
his  Coronation  from  him,  he  went  to  Rome,  where  he  was  receired 
with  great  honour  •,  and  both  he  and  his  Wife  were  botk  crowned  by 
the  confent  of  all  the  Lords  and  Cardinals  there  i  and  another  Pope 
was  there  fet  up,  called  Nicholas  V. 

Not  long  after  Pope  John  dyeth  at  Avignon,  after  whom  fucceedeth 
Zenedift-xiLAnno  1335. 

This  Man  was  as  uncourteous  to  the  Emperour  as  John  had  been, 

he 


Cent.  t4.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E.  145 

lie  renewed  the  curfes  againft  him,  bereft  him  of  all  Regal  Dignity, 
and  by  his  fentence  deprived  him  of  the  Dukedom  of  Bavaria.  Here- 
upon the  Emperour  cometh  into  Germany ,  and  aflembleth  the  Prin- 
ces, Dukes,  Nobles 5Biftiops ,  and  other  learned  men  in  a  Council  at 
Franck^ford,  where  he  caufed  an  injun&ion  to  be  difpatched ,  wherein 
he  affirmed  the  fentence  pronounced  againft  him  un  juft  ,  and  that  his 
Excommunication  did  no  way  bind  him. 

Wherefore  he  commanded  upon  great  penalties,  that  no  man 
fhould  obey  his  cenfures  and  interdictions  in  that  behalf,  which  in- 
junction caufed  great  alterations  in  Germany ,  efpecially  among 
the  Clergy ,  fome  holding  with  the  Emperour ,  others  with  the 
Pope. 

Dantes,  a  man  of  profound  Learning,  at  that  time  wrote  a  Book, 
called  ,  the  Monarchy,  wherein  he  favoured  the  Emperour  j  for  which 
he  was  afterward  condemned,  and  his  Book  held  for  Herefie.  And 
other  great  men  wrote  Books  and  Treatifes,  defending  the  Pope's  fu- 
pream  Authority. 

Charles  IV.  Brother  to  Philip  the  long,  fucceeded  in  the  Kingdom 
of  France,  being  the  laft  Son  of  Philip  the  Fair.  He  dyed  Anno  1328. 
having  reigned  fix  years>  leaving  the  Crown  to  the  fecond  royal  Bnnch 
of  Capet  /,  whereunto  the  order  of  the  fundamental  Law  did  lawfully 
call  them. 

Philip  the  Hardy  had  left  two  Sons,  Philip  the  fair,  and  Charles  Earl 
of  Valoif  j  of  whom  it  is  faid,  that  he  was  the  Son  of  a  King,  Brother 
to  a  King,  Unckle  to  a  King,  Father  to  a  King,  and  yet  no  King.  Pfo- 
lip  the  Son  of  Charles  oiValois  is  faluted  and  proclaimed  King  of 
France,  and  anointed  and  crowned  at  KJbemes  according  to  the  ufual 
cuftom. 

Near  the  beginning  of  his  Reign,  the  Courts  of  Parliament  and  all  pe  Serro  HI 
the  Sovereign  Judges  (aflembled  from  all  the  Provinces)  made  a  gene-  |jaj^s 
ral  complaint  againft  the  Ckrgy  of  France,  accufing  them  of  fundry 
abufes,and  namely  that  againft  the  right  of  their  charges  they  inter- 
meddled with  the  politick  jurifdi&ion.  The  fuit  was  vehement ,  and 
famous  for  the  greatnefs  of  the  par  ties.  The  King  to  reconcile  this 
quarrel,  calls  a  general  Aflembly  of  his  whole  Realm  at  Paris.  The 
caufe  was  pleaded  before  him  with  great  liberty  by  Peter  de  Cugneriii 
(this  is  He  whom  in  derinon  they  call  M.  Peter  Cttgnet,  who  is  in  the 
great  Temple  in  Par//,  noted  with  a  little  Monkey's  head ,  placed  be- 
twixt two  pillars  to  put  out  the  Candles ,  being  odious  by  reafoa  of 
his  pleading)  and  as  coldly  defended  by  Peter  Eertrand  ,  both  famous 
Advocates  in  thofe  times.  The  iffue  was  doubtful ,  and  Philip  feri- 
oufly  exhorted  the  Prelates  to  reform  themfelves  i  and  in  reforming 
the  abufe  to  avoid  thefe  popular  complaints,  refering  the  matter  to  a 
further  hearing, 

V  This 


146 


This  Pope  Beneditt  took  from  the  Emperour.  the  Senatourfhip  of 
Rome  :  he  firft  took  upon  him  to  ufurp  the  preferments  of  all  Bi- 
fliopricks.  He  abridged  many  unlearned  men  of  Priefthood  :  He  re- 
formed many  Seds  of  Monks  :  He  commanded  that  all  his  Chap- 
lains (hould  lye  in  one  Dormitory  together,  and  {hould  have  no  other 
Revenues  than  for  Dyet  and  Apparel  :  He  publiftied  certain  Ads  a- 
gainft  the  Dominicans  \  he  kept  divers  Concubines.  And  leaving  great 
(lore  of  Treafure  to  the  Church,  he  dyed  -Anna  1  3  4.2  .  of  whom  theft 
verfes  were  made. 

Jjk  fuit  vtroJLaicit  mors,vipera  Clero, 
TJeviw  a  vero,  turba  Rep  I  eta  mero. 


in  Lcmonia,  by  profeffion  a  T>enedi8ine  ,  called  be- 
fore Peter  Rogert,  being  Abbot  of  Fifca,  fuccecded  Benedift  at  Avigntn. 
This-Man  Excommunicated  all  the  Princes,  Lords  ,  and  Bifhops  that 
confented  to  the  doings  of  Lewes  the  Emperour.  He  made  -Avignon 
part  of  St.  Peters  patrimony.  He  ordained,  that  the  Jubilee  {hould 
be  kept  every  fifty^th  year,  after  the  manner  of  the  Jews  ,  and  fo  it 
was  kept  at  Rome,  Anm  j  3  50. 

Now  there  were  great  Wars  in  France^  between  Edward  HI.  King 
of  Ewjg/<W,  and  the  King  of  frame. 

Robert  a  French-man  by  name  and  Nation,  a  Francifcau  'by  profeili- 
on,  the  longer  he  was  in  that  Order,  he  loved  the  Fryars  the 
worfe.  A  Treatife  in  his  name  is  Printed  with  the  Prophecies  df 
Hildegardit. 

Pope  Clement  VI.  fent  a  Letter  to  the  King  of  England  .'m  behalf  of 
(he  French-men^  whilft  he  lay  at  the  fiege  of  Calai*  ,  which  fiege  he 
continued  from  the  third  of  September^  Anno  1  346.  till  the  third  t!ay 
of  Axguft  next  cnfuing,  upon  which  day  it  was  yielded  up  to  the 
faid  King  Edward^  and  fubdued  unto  the  Grown  of  England. 

The  King  of  England  returneth  an  anfwer  to  theaforefaid  Letter  of 
the  Pope.  Then  by  the  interceilion  of  two  Cardinals,  Ambaldw  and 
Stephanas,  a  Truce  was  concluded  betwixt  E«g/Wand  France  for  a 
time. 

In  the  year  j  3  50.  dyed  Tbilip  King  of  France-,  after  whom  fuc- 
ceeded  his  Son  John  in  the  Kingdom. 

At  this  time  flourished  Francis  Petrarch,  ^Florentine  ,  Arch-Deacon 
-.^  Parma^  a  fcntentious  Poet  and  Oratour.  Hccalleth  Rome  the^whorc 
of  Robylon,  the  School  and  Mother  of  Errour,  the  Temple  of  Herefie, 
trtf  :neft  of  Treacheiy,  and  feemeth  plainly  to  affirm,  that  rhe  Pope 
?-11bS'iPE"  was  Antienr^9  declaring  that  npigieater  evil  could  happen  to.  any 
4!"  °  "  Man  than  to  be  made  Pppe,,  In  one  of  his  Epiftles  he  dire6teth  his 
Speech  to  Vtbylon  in  France  9  that  is  tp  Avignon,  thus,  Shall  Itzli  tihtt 


Cent.  14.  Of  FRANCE;  147 

a  famous  or  infamous  Whore,  who  haft  plaid  the  Harlot  with  the  Kings 
of  the  Earth  ?  Indeed  thou  art  the  fame  that  the  Evangelift  faw  in  the- 
Spirit  fitting  upon  many  Waters  :  the  people  and  the  Nations  are  the 
Waters  upon  which  thou  fitteft.     Whore,  know  thy  habit  i  a  Woman 
cloathed  in  purple  and  Scarlet ,  and  Gold  a nd  pre t ions  Stones  ,   having  a 
Golden  Cup  in  her  hand  full  of  abomination  and  uncleannefs  of  Fornica- 
tion :  Doft  thou  not  know  thy  fclf  Babylon  >  unlefs  that  deceive  thee 
which  is  written  in  her  Fore-head,  Great  Babylon,  and  thou  art  little 
Babylon  :  little  indeed  in  compafs  of  Wails,  but  in  vices  and  compafs 
of  infinite  luftsand  paffions,  and  multitude  of  all  evils  thou  art  great- 
eft.     And  what  followeth,  agreeth  unto  thce  and  no  of  her,B«ty/<w*,  the- 
Mother  of  Fornications,  and  abominations  of  the  Earth.     If  thou  wilt 
yet  difletnble,  mark  what  followeth.     And  I  favt>  the  Woman  drunken 
nith  the  Bhod  of  the  Saints,  and  with  the  Blood  of  the  Witness  of  Je- 
fa.     Why  art  thou  iilent?  either  (hew  another  drunken  with  this 
Blood,  or  deny  that  thou  art  drunken,  if  thou  canft  »  for  the  Vifion 
muft  be  true.     The  life  of  Petrarch  is  written  by   Tapiriw  Maffbnuf, 
Many  reforted  to  him  from  France,  and  all  Italy. 

About  this  time  Hayabad  a  Francifcan,  preached  in  Avignon  before 
pope  Clement,  that  he  was  commanded  by  God  to  declare  ,  that  the.  ^V  *£**  '* 
Church  of  Rome  is  the  whore  of  Babylon,  and  that  the  Pope  and 
his  Cardinals  are  the  very  Antichrift,  and  that  his  predeceflburs  Bent-  ' 
ditt  and  John  are  condemned. When  the'Pope  challenged  him,he  faid  he 
was  commanded  in  a  Villon  to  fpeak  fo,  and  therefore  he  durft  not 
fail  to  fpeak  it. 

John  Rochet alada  ,  another  Francifcan ,  preached  the  fame  ,  and 
is  (aid  to  be  one  of  them  who  were  burnt  at  Avignon.  Anno 

J353- 

At  the  fame  time  Gregory  de  Arimino  oppofed  the  Doctors  in  the 
Articles  of  ]uftification  by  works,  and  of  free  will.  At  Paris  he  taught 
that  man  hath  free  will  to  do  evil,  but  no  good  without  fpecial 
grace  :  and  that  we  are  juftified  by  Faith  only.  And  he  faid  the 
Schoolmen  deferve  to  be  called  Setnipelagians.  Andreas  de  Callro, 
and  John  Buridan ,  two  famous  Men  at  that  time ,  agreed  with 
him. 

Then  ILudo  Duke  of  'Burgundy,  perfwaded  the  French  King  that  he 
(hould  not  receive  into  his  Realm  the  new  Decretals  and  Extravagants. 
His  fage  advice  is  extant  among  the  Records  of  France. 

A  new  War  arofe  between  King  John  of  Frame,  and  Edward  the 
third,  King  of  England.  ThePope  fent  the  Cardinal  of  teregort^ 
to  thefe  two  Princes  (being  ready  to  fight)  to  calm  this  ftorm.  John 
being  the  ftronger,  demanded  that  Edward  (hould  give  him  four  He- 
(hges  i  and  as  one  vanquithed,  (hould  remain  at  his  mercy  and  dif- 
crction.  Edward  was  content  to  yield  up  all  that  he  had  taken  from 

V  2  him 


148        3Cpc  ccflefiaOfra!  %ffto?i?       Cent.  14. 

hi m,  but  without  any  blemifh  to  his  honour.  Edward  encourageth 
lymfelf,  and  prepares  to  fight  the  French ,  and  vanquifheth  them  at 
Poiftiers.  King  John  is  taken  prifoner,  and  his  Son  Philip,  by  Edward: 
the  Black  Prince,  Son  to  Edward  the  third  ,  King  of  England ,  they 
are  brought  to  Eurdeaux,  and  from  thence  fent  into  England ,  where 
they  are  lodged  in  the  City  of  London,  in  the  Duke  of  Lattcajier's  houfe, 
under  a  fure  Guard.  Many  others  of  the  Nobles  of  France  were 
alfo  taken  Captive.  1700 Gentlemen  were  flain  in  this  Battle,  a- 
mong  which  were  52  Lords.  King  jfotacontinued  five  years  a  pri- 
foner, for  he  was  taken  in  September^  Anno  1 3  56.  and  delivered  in  May, 
Ann*  1361. 

There  hapned  in  France  a  certain  contention,  between  the  French 
Prelates, and  the  Fryars  of  Part*.  The  French  Prelates  aflembling  in 
the  City  of  Paris •,  caufed  by  the  Bedles  to  be  called  together  all  the 
Students,  Matters  and  Batchellors  of  every  faculty ,  with  the  chief 
heads  of  all  the  Religious  Houfes  andFryars  of  the  Univerfity  of  Pa- 
-  rjf.  Who  being  all  congregated  in  the  Bifhop  of  Paris  his*  houfe, 
where  there  were  prefent  four  Arch-BUhops ,  and  twenty  Bifhops, 
the  Biftiop  of  "Bitterc  preached  to  the  Students  of  Paris  againft  the 
Fryars.. 

He  told  them  that  true  charity  would  compel  them  to  provide  for 
their  flocks,  to  withfland  errours  ;  that  they  were  bound  to  give  their 
lives  for  the  flock  committed  to  their  charge. 

That 'no  Man  ought  tobufie  himfelf  with  what  belonged  not  to 
his  Office.  For  thereby  (faith  hej  all  Ecclefiaftical  Order  is  difTolved. 
He  (hewed  how  the  Dominican  and  Francifean  Fryars  did  ufurp  what 
belonged  to  the  Prelates.  They  charged  the  Fryars  for  preaching 
againfl  their  wills  throughout  all  their  DiocefTes ,  and  for  hearing 
confcilions ,  faying,  that  they  have  the  Pope's  priviledge  to  bear  them, 
out  therein. 

Then  flood  up  another  in  the  publick  place  ,  and  read  the  privi- 
ledges  of  both  the  orders,  and  afterwards  read  the  conflitution  of  Pope 
Innocent  III.  written  in  the  fifth  of  the  Decretals,  which  conftitution 
was  repugnant  and  contrary  to  the  aforefaid  priviledges.  Then  rofe 
up  the  Bifhopof  Ambian^  a  great  Lawyer,  who  difcourfmgfrom  Ar- 
ticle to  Article,  there  proved  by  good  Law,  that  the  faid  conftitution 
flood  in  it's  full  force  and  vigour,and  ought  not  to  be  infringed  by  the 
Fryars  priviledges  in  any  part :  and  therefore  by  vertuc  of  that  con- 
flitution, the  Fryars  ought  not  fo  miforderly  to  hear  confeffions ,  en- 
joynpennance,and  preach  in  Churches  without  fpecial  licence  of  the 
Bifhop  of  the  Diocefs,  and  leave  from  the  Curate  of  the  Parifti :  unto 
whofe  words  none  of  the  Fryars  replyed  at  that  time.  So  the  Bifhop 
proceeding  to  the  conclufion,defired  the  Univerfity  to  affift  them  in 
that  cafe,  wherein  they  were  all  determined  to  ftand  firmly  to  the  (hed- 


Cent.  14-  Of  FRANCE.  149 

ding  of  their  blood  in  refiiUng  that  intrufion  of  the  Fryars.     This 
hapned  on  Vecemb.  6. 

The  next  day  being  Sunday,  one  of  the  Order  of  the  Minoriter ,  or 
Frawifcans,  went  to  the  Church  of  the  Majorites,  or  preaching  Fryars, 
where  he  made  a  Sermon  (which  was  never  feen  before,  for  the  one 
Order  to  come  and  refort  to  the  other)  beginning  in  the  aforefaid  mat- 
ter to  reply,  and  to  expound  in  order  through  every  Article  ,  adding 
moreover,  that  they  went  not  fo  far  in  their  priviledges  as  they  law- 
fully might.  And  faid,  that  when  they  obtained  thofc  priviledges  in 
Rome,  the  BUhopof  Ambianwas  there  prefent  himfelf,  refitting  the 
fame  with  all  his  power :  yea  all  the  Prelates  of  France  fent  and  wrote 
up  to  the  Court  againft  the  fame,  and  yet  did  not  prevail.  For  when 
the  Fryars  there  declared  to  the  Pope  how  far  they  had  ufed  their  pri- 
viledges, the  Pope  at  the  fame  time  faid,  Placet,  mewing  that  he  agreed 
uato  the  fame. 

And  now  (faith  he^)  the  Prelates  demand  of  us  to  fend  up  our  pri- 
viledges fo  the  Court,  which  were  great  folly  in  us  >  for  in  fo  doing 
we  mould  give  way  to  the  revoking  the  Authority  which  is  given  into 
our  hands  already.  Moreover,  our  Warden  and  Matter,  is  now  lately 
dead,  and  the  Matter  of  the  Dominican  Fryars  here  is  not  now  prefent  :• 
wherefore  we  dare  not  determine  in  fo  weighty  a  caufe  (touching  the 
priviledges  of  eur  order)  without  the  prefenceof  them.  And  therefore 
we  defire  you  of  the  Univerfity  to  hold  us  excufed,  who  are  not  the 
worft  part  of  the  Univerfity. 

The  next  day  being  the  eighth  of  the  fame  month  it  was  determi- 
ned that  one  of  the  'Dominic}^  Fryars  mould  preach  Jn  the  Church 
of  the  Francifcan,  or  Gray- Fryars,  and  fohe  did,  going  the  fame  way 
as  the  other  Fryar  had  done  before  in  the  other  Church. 

All  the  Heads  of  the  Univerfity  met  together  on  the  Vigil  of  St.- 
'fbomas^s  day  in  St.  Bernard's  Church  at  the  fame  time. 

A  Sermon  was  preached  by  a  Divine  of  the  Univerfity,  wherein  he 
with  many  words  and  great  Authorities ,  argued  againft  them  that 
would  not  be  obedient  to  their  Prelates.  The  Bimop  of  Ambian 
Cthe  Sermon  being  ended)  profecuted  the  fame  Argument.  And 
in  conclufion  the  Fryars  priviledges  were  in  difputation  confuted  at 
Parti. 

Certain  Articles  had  formerly  been  given  out  againft  the  Fryars 
by  the  Students  of  Paw  ,  why  they  fhould  not  be  admitted  to  their 
Society. 

r,  Say  they,  our  Society  ought  not  to  be  Co-a&ive,  but  free  and  vo-^ 
luntary. 

2.  Becaufe  we  have  often  proved  their  community  many  ways  to 
be  hurtful  and  incornodious,, 

£,  Seeing 


3.  Seeing  they  are  of  a  diverfe  profeflion  from  us  f  for  they  are  cal- 
led Regular,  and  not  Scholajlical)  we  ought  not  therefore  to  aflbciate 
together  in  one  Scholaftical  Office. 

4.  Becaufe  they  work  difTentions  and  offences,  therefore  we  ought 
to  avoid  them. 

5.  Becaufe  they   devour  Mens  houfes ,    fearching  and    facking 
the   Ethtes  and  Confciences   of  all   perfons ,  circumventing  thofe 
whom  they  find  eatie  to  be  fed  need,  and  leading  them  from  the  Couu- 
fel  of  their  Prelates. 

6.  They  faggeft ,  that  the  Fryars  are  falfe  Prophets ,  who  being 
neither  Bithops,  nor  Parifli-priefis,  nor  yet  their  Vicars,  nor  fent  by 
them,  yet  they  preach  (not  fent)  againft  the  mind  of  the   Apoftle 
Rom.  10. 

7.  Becaufe  they  are  fo  curious  in   fearching  and  enquiring  out' 
other  Mens  doings  and  fpiritual  demeanour  :     Wherefore  feeing  them 
in  no  order,  we  are  by  the  fentence  of  the  Apoftle  commanded  to  a- 
void  them. 

Befides  thefe  Articles  above  rehearfed  ,  certain  propofitions  were 
propofed  in  the  Schools  of  Paris,  folemnly  to  be  difputed  and  defen- 
ded againft  the  Fryars,  which  were  thefe. 

1.  That  the  begging  Fryars  were  not  in  a  ftate  of  Salvation. 

2.  That  they  were  bound  to  labour  with  their  hands  that  could, 
and  not  to  beg. 

3.  That  they  ought  not  to  preach,  or  hear  the  confeflions  of  any, 
although  they  be  Licenfed  thereunto  by  the  Pope,  or  by  the  Dioceflan, 
forasmuch  as  the  fame  is  prejudicial  to  the  Minifters  and  Priefts  of 
the  Parishes. 

All  thofe  aforefaid  Articles  and  conclufions,  Pope  Alexander  IV. 
had  condemned  to  be  abolifhed  and  burnt,  writing  his  precepts  to  the 
Trench  King,  and  the  Univerfity  of  Paris  in  favour  of  the  Fryars,  com- 
maadingall  Liberties  and  priviledgesto  be  reftored  tothefaid  Fryars. 
Another  priviledge  was  given  to  the  Fryars  by  Pope  Clement  IV.  who 
fucceeded  Alexander  IV.  Anno  1263. 

But  in  the  year  1281.  Pope  Martin  IV.  renewed  again  the  Canon  in 
behalf  of  the  Curates  againft  the  Fryars. 

In  the  year  I2p4.  Eomfacc  VIII.  granted  to  the  Fryars ,  that  with- 
out licence  of  Vicars  of  Churches ,  they  (hall  firft  prefent  jthemfelves 
to  the  Prelates  to  be  admitted  i  by  whom  if  they  be  refufed  the  fecond 
time,  then  they  upon  fpecial  Authority  of  this  Pope  (ball  be  privi- 
ledged  without  either  Bilhop  or  Curate,  to  preach,  to  bury,  and  to 
hear  confeffions  from  any  that  (hall  come  unto  them ;  fo  revoking  all 

that 


Cent.  14-  Of  FRANCE. 


that  was  decreed  by  his  predeceffoursto  the  contrary. 

Anno  1303.  Pope  Benedift  II.  revoked  the  conftitution  of  Boniface 
his  predeceffour.  Then  followed  Pope  Clement  V.  who  in  his  gene- 
ral Council  holden -at  View*  revoked  the  confutation  of  Be- 
nedict his  predeceffour,  and  renewed  again  the  former, decree  of  Bo,- 
niface. 

Upon  this  variable diverfity  of  the  Popes  (one  diffenting  from  and 
repugning  another)  arofe  among  the  Divines  and  Schoolmen  in  Vlni- 
verfities  great  matter  of  contention  ,  in  the  Univerfities  of  Oxford 
and  Paris  about  the  begging  Fryars,  fome  holding  one  way  fome  a- 
nother. 

Five  principal  opinions  be  noted  of  learned  men,  who  then  difpu- 
ting  againft  the  Fryars,  were  condemned  for  Hereticks,  and  their  affer- 
tions  reproved. 

The  firft  was  the  opinion  of  them  which  defended  that  the  Fryars* 
might  not  by  the  licence  of  the  Pope  and  of  the  Prelates  ,  preach  in 
Parishes,  and  hear  confellion. 

Ot  this  opinion  vtttWilliam  de  fanfto  amore  with  his  fellows,  who 
had  been  condemned. 

Thefecond  opinion  was,  that  Fryars,  although  not  by  their  own  au- 
thority, yet  by  priviledgeof  the  Pope,  and  of  the  Bifhop,  might  preach 
and  hearconfeflions  in  Pari(hes,but  yet  not  without  licence  of  the  Pa- 
riuVpriefts.  Of  this  opinion  was*St.  Bernard. 

The  third  opinion  was,  that  Fryars  might  preach  and  hear  confeili- 
ons  without  Licence  of  the  ParifiVprieftS ',  but  yet  the  faid  Parifbio- 
nersnotwitnftanding  were  bound  by  the  Canon [omnit  ntritefgtte  fex- 
ttr~]  to  repeat  the  fame  fins  again,  if  they  had  no  other  to  their  own 
proper  Curate.  And  of  this  opinion  were  many,as  Godfr.  de  familus: 
Henr.  de  Gandavo,  Joannes,  Monacb.  Cardin.  Joannes  de  Poliaco.  Pope 
John.  XXII.  caused  John  de  Poliaco,  openly  io  retradt  in  Paris.  The 
Affertions  which  he  held  were  thefe. 

The  firft  was,  they  which  were  confeffed  to.  JFryars,  -al*          .     . 
though  having  a  general  Licence  to  hear  eonfafitbds,  were  M°onum. 
bound  again  to  confefs  their  iins  to  their  own  #ari(h-  prieft 
by  the  aforenamed  Canon. 

The  fecond  was,  that  the  fakl  Canon,  ftanding  in  force, 
ParKhioners  were  bound  once,  in  a  year  to  confefs  their 
fins  to  their  Prieft.  .  For  the  doing  other  wife  importeth  a 
contiadi&ion  in  it  (elf. 

The  third  was,  that  the  Pope  could  not  give  general 
licence  to  hear  confeilions  fo,  but,  that  the  Pariihoncr  fo 
confeffed  was  bound  to  reiterate  the  fame  a>nfcifiori  made 

unto> 


152  2$e  Cccitftafttcai  $ifto#    Cent.  14. 

unto  his  own  Curate.  Which  he  proved  by  divers  places 
of  the  Canon  Law. 

The  fourth  opinion  was,  that  the  Fryars  by  the  Licence  of  the  Pope 
and  of  the  Bifhops,  might  lawfully  hear  confeffions,  and  the  people 
might  be  of  them  confefled  and  abfolved.  But  yet  notwithstanding 
it  was  juft,  neft,  and  profitable,  that  once  in  the  year  they  mould  be 
confefled  to  the  Curates  (although  confefled  before  to  the  Fryars,)  be- 
•caufe  of  the  admininiftration  of  the  Sacraments,  efpecially  at  Eafter,  of 
which  opinion  was  Wiliam  de  monte  Landutto* 

The  fifth  opinion  was.  that  albeit  the  Fryars  might  at  all  times,  and 
at  Eafler  alfo  hear  confeilions,  as  the  Curates  did,  yet  it  was  fafer  at 
the  time  of  Eafier  to  contefs  to  the  Curates  than  to  the  Fryars.  And 
of  this  opinion  was  Richard of  Armagh,  Arch- Biftiop  and  Primate  of 
Ireland, 

In  the  time  of  PopeClement  Vl.  John  King  of  France ,   invented 
Eccfcf.  the  Sect  and  Order  of  thofe  Monks,  which  are  called  Stetiati  ,  whofe 
fift.  P,  391.     manner  is  always  to  wear  a  ftar  upon  their  Breaft  ,  fignifying  thereby, 
that  there  is  nothing  in  them  but  the  light  of  perfection,  and  the  clear 
(hining  of  good  works :    yea  ,    that  they  themfelves  are  the  light 
of  the  World.     Iff  w,  That  they  (hall  rife  again  at  the  laft  day  all  (hi- 
ning and  gliftering,  as  the  moft  clear  and  pleafant  ftars  ,  according  as 
it  is  written,  Dan.  12.3.  *fbey  that  turn  many  unto  Rigbteoufitefs  5  jhafl 
be  M  the  ftars  for  ever  and  ever. 

After  the  death  of  Pope  Clement  VI.  fucceeded  Innocent  Vl.  before 
whom  the  aforefaid  Richard  of  Armagh  publifhed  nine  Articles  againft 
the  begging  Fryars.  This  Pope  builded  Walls  about  Avignon^ 
and  founded  an  houfe  of  Carthttfian  Monks  without  the  City. 

Popel/rban  v.  fucceeded  him,  Anno  1364.  Nicholas  Orem  made  a 
Sermon  before  the  Pope  and  his  Cardinals  on  Cbriftmas-evcn,  in  which 
he  rebuketh  the  Prelates  and  Priefts  of  his  lime ,  declaring  their  de- 
ftru&ion  not  to  be  far  off,  by  certain  figns  taken  of  their  wicked  and 
corrupt  life.  He  proveth  the  Popijb  Clergy  to  be  fo  much  worfe  than 
the  old  Sjiflagogue  of  the  Jeu>s,by  how  much  it  is  worfe  to  fell  the 
Church/  ahd  Sacraments-:  than  to  fuffer  Doves  to  be  fold  in  the 
Church. 

In  the  year  1370.  Peter  Kclfort  of  Lemottfm,  who  took  the  name  of 
Gregory  XI.  was  created  likewife  at  Avignon ,  who  thought  good  to 
transfer  the  Apoftolical  Chair  from  Avignon  back  again  to  Rome  ,  a 
thing almoft incredible:  for  fo  many  French  Popes  fucceeding  one 
another,thcy  had  fo  weakned  the  Italian  party,  that  these  were  fcarce 
any  Italian  Cardinals  among  them  all,  and  of  the  French  there  were 
more  than  twenty. 

Seve- 


Cent.  14.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E. 


Several  reafons  are  alledged  to  have  moved  Gregory  to  this  refoluti* 
on,  but  particularly  thefe  following.  The  firft  was,  that  he  faw  all 
Italy  in  Arms,  not  only  by  the  Wars  betwixt  Venice  and  Genoa  ,  but  by 
a  refolution  feveral  Cities  had  taken  to  (hake  off  the  yoke  of  their 
fervicude  ,  and  re-eftablKh  themfelves  in  a  fiate  of  Liberty,  which 
he  believing  to  be  occafioned  by  the  abfence  of  the  pilot 
from  the  Veffel  of  Rome^  he  began  to  think  of  refettling  his  pontifical 
refidence  in  Italy.  The  fecond  was,  That  one  day  reprehending  a  cer- 
tain Bi(hop  Chis  familiar)  that  he  left  the  BHhoprick  to  follow  the 
Court,  the  BUhop  confidently  replyed.  And  you  who  are  Pope  of  Rome, 
why  are  you  in  France  ?  Why  are  you  fo  long  from  the  place  where 
your  Church  doth  lye?  Others  will  have  it,  that  a  Letter  from  St. 
Bridget,  (whom  the  Pope  lookt  upon  as  a  true  Saint^)  contributed 
much,in  which  {he  advifed  him  as  from  God,to  return  to  Rome.He  gave 
order  for  twenty  Galleys  to  be  ready  in  the  Rhone,  pretending  to  go 
fomewhither  elfe  with  them,becaufe  he  fufpec1:ed,tnat  the  French(who 
had  fo  much  advantage  by  the  refidence  of  his  Court  in  France)  would 
obftrudt  it,if  they  had  the  leaft  notice  of  his  removing  the  See  to  Rome. 

But  indeed  they  took  not  the  leaft  Alarum  at  all  the  preparations 
which  were  made,  as  not  imagining,  that  a  French  Pope  would  put 
fuch  an  affront  upon  his  Nation.  So  that  they  had  no  notiee  of  it  till 
the  Pope  was  at  Sea,  being  pafTed  as  far  as  Genoa,  and  from  Genoa  to 
C&rnetto,  where,  being  weary  of  his  Galleys,  he  made  the  reft  of  his 
Voyage  by  Land:  and  being  arrived  at  Rome,  he  began  to  apply  fit 
Medicines  and  fpecifical  to  the  maladies  of  Italy.  But  he  dyed  Annot 
1280.  of  a  great  diftemper  in  his  Bladder,  after  he  had  fate  iix  years 
in  France,  and  five  in  Italy. 

It  is  reported,  that  at  the  hour  of  this  Pope's  Death,  the  palace  of 
the  Pope  at  Avignon  wasfct  on  fire,  and  could  not   be  quenched,  till  Bale's  Pa 
the  greateft  part  thereof  was  burnt.     Afterwards  enfued  the  greatcft  o 
fchifm  and  divifion  that  ever  hapned  in  the  Popedom. 

King  John  dyed,  Anno  1364.  to  whom  fucceeded  his  Son  Charley 
the  fifth  of  that  name.  King  John  dyed  in  England  :  for  the  Trench 
King  had  an  earneft  defire  to  fee  the  King  of  E«g/*Wagain,  becaufe  he 
had  fo  honourably  entertained  him  whilft  he  was  his  prifoner.  So 
he  went,  and  was  entertained  very  Royally.  But  (hortly  after  ,  he 
fellfick,  and  dyed  at  London.  His  Body  was  conveyed  over  into 
France,  and  buried  in  the  Town  of  St.  Denis,  the  King  of  Cyprus  being 
prefent  at  his  Funerals. 

Charles  V.  called  the  Wife,  was  crowned  at  Rhemes  ,  together  with 
his  Wife,  the  Daughter  of  Peter  Duke  of  Bourbon.  He  made  his  youn- 
ger Brother  Philip,  Duke  of  Burgundy,  who  had  been  prifoner  with  his 
Father  in  England. 

Many    Lords    in    Gafcoign    revolted    from    Prince    Edrvard 
X  unto 


unto  the  French  King.  Prince  Edward  after  his  great  victories ,  had 
carried  himfelf  roughly  toward  the  Noble-men  his  Subje&s.  But 
the  French  King  beiides  his  excellent  Wifdom  ,  was  alfo  gentle  and 
courteous,  infinuating  himfelf  into  the  affections  of  all  men. 

The  Duke  of  Arijou  marching  with  his  forces  from  Iholoufe  ,  eafily 
recovered  all  the  Towns  and  holds  that  were  pertaining  to  the  EngHJh 
in  thofe  quarters.  The  King  of  England  loft  all  his  whole  Seignc- 
ry  of  Gafcoign,  the  people  partly  rebelling--,  and  partly  yielding  them- 
felves  willingly  to  his  enemy.  PoiSiers  alfo  yieldeth  to  the  French. 
The  men  of  Rochet  yield  alfo  unto  the  French. 

King  Charles  dyed  of  poifon  taken  long  before.  He  was  a  Prince 
chro- fo  wife  and  politick,  that  fitting  in  his  Gown  at  Paris  in  eafe  and 
quietnefs, he  recovered  many  things  by  counfel  and  policy,  which 
his  predeceffours  had  loft  in  the  field  to  their  Enemies.  And  among 
other  vexations  which  hapned  to  King  Edward  at  his  laft  Voyage  that 
he  intended  into  'Britain  for  the  refcue  of  his  men  befieged,  when  he 
\vasforcedbackbytheextremity  of  weather:  this  one  thing  trou- 
bled him  above  the  reft,  that  he  muft  make  war  with  fuch  an  enemy 
as  never  bare  Arms}  nor  came  into  the  field  i  it  is  reported  that  he  faid, 
he  never  dealt  with  any  enemy,  which  ufedfp  little  armour,  and  put 
himtofo  much  trouble.  For  King  Charles ,  after  he  came  to  the 
Crown,  never  put  on  Armour  himfelf,  but  managing  all  his  affairs 
by  Wifdom  and  policy ,  committed  the  execution  thereof  to  his 
Brothers. 

In  the  time  of  Charles  V.  a  Book  was  written  in  France,  called,  Ihe 
T  ^trSsrs  Dream,  firft  in  Latin,  then  tranflated  in  French  by  his  command, 
In  the  feventh  and  eighth  Chapter  whereof  the  Clergy- man  and 
the  Knight  confer  together  on  this  wife.  I  call  (faith  the  Clerk )  and 
account  the  Decrees  and  Decretals  of  the  Holy  Fathers  of  Rome  to  be 
good  Law,  which  oblige  every  true  Chriftian  at  a.  Subject  and  Son  of  a 
Holy  Church  our  Mother.  To  whom  the  Knight  replyeth,  If  the  terms 
cf  Rome  he  Decrees,  or  Decret als,  Ordinals,  or  Conftitutions  touching  the 
Temporal  affairs  of  Kings,  Princes, or  other  Secular  Lords ,  you  Clerkj  a*> 
mong  your  felves  jhaH  caV  and  account  them  Law  ,  if  you  pleafe.  But 
the  truth  is,  That  uo  Man  can  eftablifh,  or  ordain  any  thing  where 
he  hath  no  power  nor  Authority.  So  as  the  King  of  France  hath  no 
power  to  make  a  Law  or  Ordinance  to  bind  or  tye  the  Empire  i  fo 
neither  can  the  Laws  of  the  Emperour  bind  the  King  of  France  and. 
his  Subjects.  And  a  little  after.  I  hold  it  therefore  a  frivolous  thing^ 
and  very  ridiculous,  that  the  Holy  Father  (hoxld  makf  any  Decree ^Decretal^ 
or  constitution  about  Temporal  matters. 

In  the  thirteenth  years  .of  the  aforefaid  Charles  V.    Charles  IV.  Em- 
perc'jrof  Germany  came  into  France  by  Cambray-9  to  do  certain   pil- 
grimages at  St.  Vemit  and  elfewhere  ,  arsdfo  was  conveyed  with  ho- 
nour a-. 


Cent.  14.  Of  FRANCE, 


nourable  men  unto  St.  Quintin,  and  from  thence  to  Parif. 

Matbijs,  a  Bohemian,  abode  a  long  time  in  Paris,  and  was  called  Pa- 
rienfts,  he  wrote  a  large  Treatife  of  Antichrift,  in  which  he  proveth  that 
the  Pope  is  the  Antichrift.  He  inveigheth  againft  the  Clergy  for  neg- 
ligence in  their  callings,  and  calleth  them  the  Locufts  mentioned  in 
the  Revelation.  He  complains'that  every  City,  and  almoft  each  man 
had  his  proper  Saint  or  Saviour,  befides  Chrift  :  the  Images  and  Re- 
liques  that  are  fet  up  in  Churches  to  be  adored,  he  calleth  the  Inventi- 
on of  Antichrift.  He  faith,  the  worfhip  of  God  is  not  tyed  to  per- 
fons,  places,  nor  times  i  he  rebuketh  the  Cloyfterers  for  contemning 
the  Lay-men,  and  calling  themfelves  the  only  Religious^  he  refuteth  the 
merit  of  works,  and  calleth  them  the  caufe  of  falvation  ,  ftne  qua  non. 
In  the  end  he  prophefied,  That  God  will  once  again  fend  Godly  prea-  £attaUTeft'  r* 
chers  ,  who  in  the  zeal  of  Elias,  will  openly  difclofe  Antichrift  unto 
the  eyes  of  all  the  world. 

After  the  death  of  Pope  Gregory,  the  Church  began  to  be  miferably 
torn  with  new  fcmlmes,  which  began  to  arife  betwixt  the  Fwwfcand 
Italian  Cardinals,  each  Nation  choofing  it's  own  Pope,  and  in  it's  own 
manner.  The  French  not  able  to  digeft  the  affront  they  received  from 
Gregory,  in  tranfporting  the  See  from  France  into  Italy,  departing  pri- 
vately from  Rome,  they  removed  to  Fondi;  and  being  arrived  there 
theyufed  many  inveftives  aud  Satyrs  againft  Vrban  VI.  whom  they 
had  already  with  the  Italian  Cardinals  eleded  in  Rome.  They  pre- 
tended, that  they  were  forced  to  it  by  the  people  of  Rome,  otherwife  it 
was  never  their  intention  to  make  an  Italian  Pope. 


ope. 

For  thefe  reafons,  the  Chair  (in  their  Judgements)  being  vacant 
e  favour  of  Joan  Queen  of  Sicily,  who  was  their  friend,  they  c 


by 


,  ,  chofe 

another  Pope,  one  Robert*,  a  Cardinal,  with  the  Title  of  the  Hoiy  A- 
poftles.  He  was  of  Geneva,  and  particularly  of  theAntient  Family  of 
the  Centi  :  in  that  City  he  took  upon  him  the  name  of  Clement  VII 
From  Fondi,  Clement  removed  with  his  Cardinals  to  Avignon  where  he 
was  obeyed  by  the  Frm&and  Spaniard.Thek  difputes  lafted  long  •,  the 
Legitimate  Pope  at  Rome,  and  and  the  Anti-Pope  at  Avignon  firing 
their  Bulls  upon  one  another,  and  fending  them  forth  into  all  parts  of 
the  World.  The  adherents  of  both  fides  fet  forth  feveral  fefittna- 
tory  Libels,  calling  one  another  Scbifmatiek^  Heretic^  lyrant  Ibief 
?rayt6r,Wic^ed,Son>er0f  Sediticn,SonofVelial,  and  fuch  like  Stuff: 
of  which  there  are  two  Treatifes  extant  at  this  day  i  one  of  them 
written  by  Dr.  John  de  Ligni  ,  in  favour  of  Vrban  againft  Clement 
and  the  other  by  the  Abbot  of  St.  Vajl  in  favour  of  Clement  asainli 
Vrban. 

Whilft  Clement  was  contriving  which  way  to  remove  the  Pope 
who  refided  in  Rome  ,  he  dyed,  Anno  12.  and  was  buried  in 


X  2  He 


3C|)e  cccleftafttcal  $tfto#       cent.  14. 


He  being  dead  Bsniface  IX.  who  was  Pope  at  that  time  in 
writ  a  Fatherly  Letter  to  the  French  Cardinals  exhorting  them  to  de« 
fift  from  their  Schifm,  and  return  to  their  obedience  to  the  Holy  Mo- 
ther the  Church,  of  which  he  was  (he  faid)  the  lawful  Head.  But 
theFrench  laughing  (as  it  were)  at  fuch  perfwafions,  chofe  a  focceflbur 
to  Clement,  which  was  Pietro  delta  Luna,  who  took  the  name  of  Bexe- 
di3  XIII.  who  had  argued  very  much  in  Clement's  juftification  >  and 
that  was  the  principal  point  upon  which  he  was  chofen  by  the 
Cardinals  ,  who  concluded,  that  he  who  defended  another's  caufe 
with  fuch  ardour  ,  would  doubtlefs  more  vehemently  defend  his 
own. 

Whilft  this  Ami-  Pope  had  his  refidence  in  Catalonia,  in  the  Caftle 
of  Panifiola,  adminiftring  the  Sacramentss,  and  conferring  of  digni* 
ties,  He  was  condemned  together  with  the  Cardinals  which  ele&ed 
him  by  the  Authority  of  a  general  Council. 

After  wards  he  afTembled  a  Council  at  Perpignan,  where  he  created 
feveral  Cardinals,  and  commanded  them  after  his  death  to  follow  his 
orders,  which  were  to  choofe  another  Pope  without  lofing  of  time, 
which  they  did.  For  this  Anti-  Pope  being  dead  at  Panifcola  -,  the 
Cardinals  chofe  one  Giles  Mungot  ,  a  Chanon  of  Barcelona  ,  in  his 
place,  calling  him  Clemently,  who  at  the  Inftance  of  King  Alpbonfo 
created  Cardinals  forthwith,  and  began  to  Acl:  in  every  thing  as  the 
true  Popes  ufe  to  do.. 

But  afterwards  upon  Pope  Martin  the  fifth's  accomodation  with 
King  Alphonfo,  Giles  (being  commanded  )  renounced  the  rights  of  the 
Papacy,  and  was  declared  Bi(hop  of  Majorca  :  and  the  Cardinals  which 
he  had  created,  were  likewife  forced  to  renounce  their  Cardinalitiai 
dignity.. 

Charles  VI.  fucceeded  his  Father  in  the  Kingdom  of  France  at  the 
Age  of  12  years,  he  was  crowned  in  the  year  1380.  married  in  13-84.  he. 
falls  into  a  Phren  fie,  Anno  1393.  and  dyes,  Anno  1422. 

Charles  the  Wife,  left  two  Sons  ,  viz.  this  Charles  VI.  and  Lever- 
Duke  of  Orleans.  And  Charles  VI.  had  three  Sons,  Levees,  John  and- 
Charles,  ,and  one  Daughter  named  Katherine.  Thefe  three  Sons  were 
T>a*lphins  one  after  another  in  their  Father's  Life.  And  Katherine 
was  married  to  Hemy  V.  afterwards  King  of  England,  a  mournful  gage 
of  an  horrible  confution  for  this  Kealm, 


Cent  i    . 


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Century  XV. 


CUarles  VI.  having  called  a  Council  at  Paris  to  confult  about 
the  fchifm  which  then  was  in  the   Popedom,  would  not  fuffer 
the  Arch- Bithops and  Bifliopsof  Rbemes,  Rboan,Se*s^  Paris, 
Beauvis,  and  fome  others,  to  affift  there  ,  becaufe1  they  were 
'Benedicts  partizans,  by  reafon  of  the  great  courtefies  they  had  received 
either  from  him  or  hispredecefTour. 

In  a  Decree  made  February  1 8. 1 406.  we  find  a  complaint  by  Charier 
VI.  They  take  occasion  to  referve  the  Firjl-fruits  in  the  vacancies  ,  anil 
to  extort  great  fums  of  Money ,  whereby  the  Kingdom  is  exbaufted  i  andfo 
thruft  tbemfelves  upon  the  Popedom,  for  to  enrich  both  them  and  theirs. 
And  when  there  is  any  queftion  (faith  he)  of  preferring  men  to  elective 
dignities,  they  never  ufedthofe  ways  which  ought  to  be  obferved,  and  which 
are  appointed  to  examine  and  try  them.  Whence  it  comes  topafs  ,  that  it 
being  not  poflible  that  the  Pope  Qiould  tytow  all  Men ,  and  the  ft  ate  of  the' 
Churches,  he  admit!  divers  into  thofe  dignities  who  are  unworthy  of  them^ 
and  fotnetimes  fitch  as  are  unknown  to  him  hut  by  their  money.  He  ad- 
deth,  They  infert  divers  claufes  in  their  BuVs,  which  are  fometimes  inex- 
tricable :  they  make  divers  Rules  befides  the  Law ,  or  elfe  quite  agaiaft 
Law^  which  they  revokf  at  their  pleafure  j  infomuch  that  the  tnoft  clear~ 
fjghted  cannot  difcern  who  hath  beft  right  among  divers  pretenders. 
Hence  arife  infinite  Suits  in  Law,  which  they  mujl  profecute  out  of  the 
Kingdom  with  great  expeuce  and  charges. 

In  another  Decree,  made  the  fame  year  ,  he  accounts  this  among 
other  extortions,  Impofing  'tenths,  and  other  Subsidies  at  their  pleafure^ 
without  ever  confulting  the  reft  of  the  Eijhops  about  it ,  in  the  raifing 
whereof  there  vs  no  mean  obferved  either  of  Justice  or  equity  :  It  was  then 
ordained,  that  none  (hould  pay  Tythes  to  Popes  nor  Cardinals. 

And  in  another  Decree  made  in  March ,  Anno  1408.  mention  is 
made  of  certain  prefidents  by  Charles  VI.  eftabliflied  at  a  Council  at 
Xaris. 

Not  long  Ago  ffaith  he)i*  was  propofed  and  demanded  by  our  Attor- 
ney-General at  a  Council  holdea  at  Paris  ,  confining  of  the  Bifkops  and 
Clergy,  of  the  Churches  within  our  Kingdom,  and  T>aulphiny  ,  where  our 
Coufin  Lewes,  King  of  Sicily  j  our  eldeft  Son  Vukfof  Aquitain  and  Vi- 
ennoisi  the  T>ttkg  of  Bourges  ourVncfy  by  the  Father's  fide  -,  the  T>ukf 
ef  Burgundy.  ourCoufin^  and  the  Z5«%  o/Burbon  our  Vncty  by  the 

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fide,  didpref.de  for  «f,  that  the.  Pope's  exattions  and  other  grie- 
vances formerly  rehearfed  might  be  utterly  abolijked. 

We  read  of  another  Decree  made  afterwards,  wherein  complaint  is 
made  by  the  fame  King  Charles  VI.  that  an  infinite  deal  of  Gold  and 
Silver^  and  Rents  were  transported  out  of  the  Kingdom  and  the  Province 
of  Daulphine^  to  the  prejudice  of  the  antient  Cuftoms^  and  the  undoing  of 
the  Realm  j  to  the  irreparable  lofs  and  damage  of  the  Common-  wealth 
and  the  miferable  defolation  of  the  Churches^  as  well  fttcb  as  were  of  Roy- 
al Foundation  as  others.  And  elfewherehe  complaineth,^^cfr^» 
•Coflefiors,  and  other  the  Tope  of  Rome'/  Officers  particularly  for  bvs  Mo- 
neys have  of  late  oppreffed  the  C.hmch  and  Chnrch-men  of  our  Realm  and 
"Province  of  Dattlphine,  by  an  infijferable  flavery  ,  in  feizing  upon  the 
Goods  of  the  Bifoops  and  Clergy-men^  both  Regulars  and  Seculars  ,  prefent- 
ly  upon  their  T>e  ce  afe  j  AnEdi&was  made  difcharging  the  payment 
of  Annates. 

Pope  Vrban  VI.  being  dead  in  Rome  after  he  had  managed  the 
Popedomfor  eleven  years,  with  little  fttisfadtion  either  to  the  people 
or  Clergy,  the  Cardinals  created  Boniface  the  ninth,  in  the  33. 
year  of  his  Age,  who  (he  wed  much  prudence  in  the  whole  courfe 
*>f  his  Papacy.  He  fate  fourteen  years,  and  nine  months  ,  and  dyed 
Anno  1405. 

Koubri-  -  Kjng  Charles  VI.  beftirred  himfelf  to  remove  the  fchifin  which  was 
'  between  RenediS  XIII.  and  Boniface  IX.  and  to  difpofe  all  the  Princes 
of  Chriftendom  for  the  fame  defign,  according  to  the  Teftimony  of 
an  English  Hiftorian.  He  heard  with  patience  (faith  he)  the  Legates  of 
either  Pope:  but  by  the  advice  of  his  Divines  be  would  not  fubmit  him- 
felf^  neither  to  the  one^  nor  to  the  other.  He  rather  thought  on  *  means 
whereby  he  might  relieve  the  Church^  by  removing  out  of  her  all  matter 
of  diffention.  Having  therefore  fent  his  Ambaffadours  to  the  Emperour^ 
as  alfo  to  the  Kings  of  England,  Bohemia,  and  Hungary  ,  he  conjured 
them  not  to  be  wanting  to  the  public}^  good  and  tranquillity.  He  perfwa- 
ded  Wenceflam  the  Emperour  to  come  to  Rfomes  ,  where  a  general 
Council  was  held  on  that  occafion. 

I  find  another  Ordinance  of  the  fame  King  Charles  VI.  made  by 
tne  counfel  and  affiftance  of  the  Lords  and  Clergy  of  France  ,  wherein 
p.  15,  he  faith,  'that  the  Royal  power  is  ordained  of  God  fer  the  prefervation  of 
the  Church^  and  that  the  Kingdom  of  Heai'en  increafeth  by  means  of  the 
Earthly  Kingdom,  when  th&fe  which  dejlroy  the  Church  are  crushed  by  the 
rigour  of  Princes,  "fhat  the  /acred  Canons  will  have  recourfe  to  be  made 
unto  Princes  ,  when  fucb  things  are  committed  by  great  men  in  the 
Church^  and  that  according  to  the  opinion  of  Holy  T)o8ours  the  Popf 
ought  net-to  be  obeyed  in  fucb  things  wherein  the  Jlate  of  the  Church  if 
notoriety  dijlnrbed.  And  in  another  Ordinance  of  April  17.  1410. 
Theft  things  being  covfidered  that  it  belongs  unto  ttf  who  are  the  Guardi- 


Cent.  1  5.  Of  FRANCE. 


an,  Protector^  and  Defender  of  the  Churches  of  our  Kingdom  ,  and  of 
T)aulpbirie,  an&whi  have  ratified  and  approved  the  Statutes  and  Ordinan- 
ces aforefaid^  made  in  the  Council  afore  faid^  to  caufe  all  this,  and  all  that 
followeth  upon  it  to  be  kjpt  invidlable^  &c. 

There  is  an  Arrcft  of  the  Parliament  of  Par'u  toward  the  latter  end 
of  this  King's  Reign,  wherein  it  is  faid  ,  that  Pope  Benedict  and  his 
Officers  fhould  from  thenceforth  give  over  and  abftain  from  the  ex- 
action of  Annates  in*  the  Kingdom  of  France  ,  and  the  County  of 
Vaulphine. 

ThefameC^r/f/VI.  being  excommunicated  by  Benedict  the  XIIL  * 
put  the  bearers  of  his  Bulls  to  the  *  Honourable  Amends^  making  them  mire  :  so 
to  be  carried  in  Tumbrels,  apparelled  in   painted   Coats,  with  paper' 
Mitres  upon  their  heads  ,  ami  the  Pope's  Bull  reprefented  in   their 
hands,  and  his  Arms  reverfed.     All  which  was  done  by  the  advice  of 
his  Princes,  Lords,  and  the  Prelates  and  other  Ecclefiafticks   of  his 
Kingdom,  together  with  the  Parliament  and  Univerfity  of  Paris  ,  as 
appeareth  by  the  A&s  publifhed  concerning  this  particular. 

After  the  death  of  Pope  Boxiface  IX.  the  Cardinals  created  Cofmo  di 
Sulmona  Pope,  who  took  the  name  of  Innocent  VII.  he  lived  but  two 
years  after  ,  and  dyed  ia  a  time  when  all  Italy  was  in  an  ill 
condition. 

Whilft  this  fchifm  continued,  Three  Princes  in  France  ("who  by 
reafon  of  the  King's  indifpofition  did  then  govern  that  Kingdom) 
viz.  the  Dukes  of  Berry  ,  of  Burgundy  ,  and  of  Orleans  ,  went  all  of 
them  together  to  Pietro  di  Luna  (who  was  called  Beneditl  XIII.)  to  A' 
vignon,  bcfeeching  him  to  provide  againft  this  diforder,  by  renouncing 
the  Papacy  j  urging,  that  it  was  much  better  to  have  the  publick  inte- 
reft  take  place  than  the  private  >  and  the  rather  becaufe  he  had  promi- 
fed  in  his  Election  to  lay  down,  whenfoever  things  mould  be  adjufted 
with  Rome. 

They  alfo  promifed  him,  That  that  Pope,  which  fliould  be  marie  in 
Rome  after  Innocent  fhould  do  the  like,  every  one  believing  ,  that  if 
thefe  two  favourites  (one  of  France,  the  other  of  Italy)  were  difpoiTefT- 
ed  of  the  power  of  the  Keys,  which  they  both  exercifed  at  that  time, 
a  third  ought  to  be  created,  who  fhould  be  the  certain  and  undoubted 
Pope. 

Beneeltft  replyed,  that  he  could  not  without  offending  God,  confent 
to  the  counfels  propofed  for  his  renouncing  the  Church,  and  abando- 
ning the  flock  pfChrift,  which  by  the  common  confent  of  fo  many 
good  and  worthy  perfons  andEledrors,  was  committed  to  his  cuftody, 
being  unwilling  to  brjng  a  thing  in  quelHon  which  he  had  fo  legally  ob- 
tained.. And  tor  what  refpedied  the  taking  away  the.  fcjiifm,  and  re- 
fioring  concord  to  the  Church,it  pleafed  him  very  well,  and  he  would 
«ondefc€nd  to  it  with  all  his  heart,  provided  a  fecure  place  were  cho- 

fcn,. 


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fen,  in  which  every  one  might  fpeak  his  mind  freely.  For  his  own 
part  he  fwore,  that  in  cafe  the  fchifm  could  not  be  taken  away  by  any 
other  means,  that  he  would  renounce  the  Papacy  upon  condition  the 
other  at  Rome  would  do  the  fame  j  other  wife  it  was  to  no  purpofe  to 
folicite  it. 

The  Princes  underftood  Benedict's  mind,  and  how  little  he  was  dif- 
pofed  to  anaccomodation,  and  among  themfelves  confulted  of  fome 
way  to  bring  him  over  to  their  defires.  Benedift  fearing  fome  violence, 
fortified  himfelf  in  his  palace,  and  wasbefieged  there  the  fpace  of  five 
or  fix  months. 

But  being  weary  of  fo  long  and  clofe  a  confinement,  he  imbarked 
in  the  Rhone  upon  certain  Galleys  (  which  he  had  caufed  to  be  put 
in  order  for  fuch  an  enterprize  ,  whilft  be  was  befieged  in  his  pa- 
lace) and  in  them  he  efcaped  into  Catalonia  ,  which  was  his  own 
Countrey. 

Some  fay ,  that  thefe  three  Princes  difcourfed  in  this  manner 
with  Benedict  at  the  importunity  of  the  Trench  Cardinals,  who 
hated  the  faid  Benedict ,  becaufe  he  was  a  Cataknian^  not  a 
Trench-man. 

The  Italian.  Cardinals,  and  the  Cardinals  of  other  Nations  which 
were  prefent  in  Rome ,  after  the  death  of  Innocent ,  being  entred  into 
the  conclave,  in  a  place  near  St.  Peters,  they  fwore  all  of  them  folemnly 
upon  the  Holy  Evangelifts,  which  their  Dean  held  in  his  hand ,  that 
they  would  every  one  renounce  the  Papacy  if  they  were  chofen ,  fo 
that  the  French  or  Catalonian  Anti-Pope  renounced  his  Anti-Papacy 
firft. 

The  caufe  of  this  Refolution  was  to  fatisfie  the  Trench^  who  having 
introduced  the  cuftom  of  creating  of  Popes  according  to  their  own 
mode,  it  feemed  impofiible  to  turn  them  out  of  that  way  with  reputa- 
tion, unlefs  the  Italians  refolved  to  do  the  famei  and  the  rather,  be- 
c&uk'&enedift  declared,  it  would  be  in  vain  to  think  of  a  remedy  for 
the  fcandal  of  the  Church,  without  a  renunciation  of  both  the  Popes  i 
whereas  if  they  renounced  ,  another  would  be  chofen  out  of  the 
whole  College  of  Cardinals  ,  that  would  be  true  and  undoubted  Pope, 
whom  the  Princes  and  people  would  readily  obey. 

Angela  Corraro^^Venetian^^s  chofen  in  Rome  i  he  was  Cardinal  of 
St.  Markka  and  aflumed  the  Name  of  Gregory  XII.  Before  he  came 
out  of  the  conclave,  they  made  him  promife  under  the  hand  of  the 
Notary  in  writing,  to  obferve  what  he  had  promifed  and  fubfcribed 
with  his  own  hand  j  and  at  laft  gave  him  an  Oath.  But  the  place 
where  thefe  two  Popes  were  to  meet  being  in  difpute  ,  and  they  not 
like  to  come  to  an  agreement  j  both  Gregory  and  Bencdift  alledging  a 
thoufand  difficulties,  the  French  Cardinals  refolved  to  abandon  Beue- 
&&•>  a»d  the  Italians  Gregory,  and  to  declare  them  breakers  of  their 
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The  Cardinals  both  of  Avignon  and  Ro/wf,  being  met  at  Pi  fa  ,  did 
by  common  confent  deprive  Gregory  and  Eenedift  ^  all  the  reft  of  the 
Nations  concurring  with  them,  except  Catalonia^  and  the  hither  part 
of  Spain,the  King  of  Scotf,  and  the  Count  of  Armignac  ,  who  wer,e 
favourers  of  fienedift. 

But  in  defpight  of  their  contradictions,  they  chofe  Pie  tro  F  Hards,  a 
Fryar  Miser,  and  Arch-  Bifhop  of  Milan,  who  took  upon  him  the 
name  of  Alexander  V,  a  name  fuitable  to  his  A&ions,  for  which  reafon 
it  was  pleafantly  faid  by  himfelf,  that  he  was  a  rich  Eijhop,  a  poor  Car- 
dinal^ and  a  beggarly  Pope. 

Gregory  hearing  that  Alexander  was  created  Pope^  and  understanding 
what  fentence  the  Cardinals  had  pafTed  againft  him  and  Benedict  ,  fled 
towards  Romagna,  urging  and  infifting  (  wherefoever  he  came)  upon  a 
general  Council.  He  flayed  at  Rimini  fora  time,  where  he  was  mag- 
nificently entertained  by  Carlo  Malatefte. 

Beneditt  having  held  a  Couucil  in  thc.City  of  Perpignan^  by  the  in- 
tervention of  his  own  friends  ,  retireth  again  for  his  greater  fecu- 
rity  into  his  Caftle  of  Panifcola  ,  where  he  had  been  long  before. 

But  though  thefe  two  Anti-  Popes  had  been  deprived  by  the  Coun- 
cil of  P//i,yet  they  defifted  not  from  their  Papal,  and  Ecclellaftical 
functions. 

They  created  Cardinals  ,  and  particularly  Gabriel  Cendolmtro  was 
created  Cardinal,  who  was  afterwards  Eugenia*  IV. 

Alexander  lived  not  above  eight  months  Pope,  he  dyed  in  'Bologna-* 
Then  the  Cardinals  chofe  Baltaftr  Cofla  fa  Neapolitan)  Pope,  who 
would  be  called  John  XXIII. 

Chriftendom  being  weary  to  fee  fo  many  fchifms  on  foot,  was  con- 
triving which  way  to  put  an  end  to  it.  Therefore  by  the  orders  of  ali 
Nations,  John  was  cited  to  appear  at  a  general  Council. 

Hefcnttwo  Cardinals  immediately  to  negotiate  with  the  Princes  of 
Germany  and  of  France,  about  the  choice  of  a  fit  pla<:e  for  the  .celebra- 
tion of  a  Council.  At  kngth  Conjiance  was  pitch  t  upon  as  the  moft 
convenient  City  of  all.  At  the  time  appointed,  they  met,  and  John 
among  the  reft,  who  carried  along  with  him  certain  men  very  Learn- 
ed, with  whom  he  held  fhe  Germans  for  a  long  time  in  variety  of 
difputes. 

But  the  Emperour  S/^//^«W  arriving  at  the  fame  time  many  great 
delinquencies  were  objected  againft  Jobn^  who  being  confcious  of  their 
truth,  and  fearing  corporal  punishment,  as  well  as  to  be  deprived  of  the 
Papacy,  fled  out  of  Conjl*nce3  in  the  difguife  of  a  Foot-man,and  retired 
toSbajfafen^  City  belonging  to  Frederic^  Duke  of  Auftria  ,  whkhcr 
divers  Cardinals  of  his  creation  fled  alfo. 

John  being  recited  by  the  Council,  fled  to  Friburg  ,  to  be  under  the 
protection  of  the  Duke  of  Ettrgundy.  But  he  was  taken,  and  by  order 

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of  the  Council  imprifoned  in  the  We  of  St.  Mark^  near  Conflance. 
Above  fourty  Articles  were  proved  againft  him  ;  and  a!!  the  Fathers 
concurring  in  the  fentence,  John  was  legally  depofed,  and  the  fentence 
fent  to  .him  to  fubfcribe,  which  he  willingly  did. 

Then  was  he  delivered  unto  Ljtdovico  Ea^aro  ,  to  be  kept  in  fafe. 
cuftody.  Three  years  he  continued  a  prifoner  in  thecaftlc  of  Haldel- 
ber<r.  In  this  Council  a  Decree  was  publiihe-d,  that  a  general  Coun- 
cil lawfully  affembled  was  above  the  Pope. 

Gregory  came  not  to  the  Council,  but  fent  by  Carlo  Malatefta-.  to  the 
Council  to  let  them  underftand  his  willingnefs  to  renounce.  Gregory 
was  hereupon  declared  Legate  T>eV*  M*rca,  and  went  to  his  charge, 
but  he  dyed  foon  after  at  Ricznati  of  difcontenr.  John  and  Gregory 
being  removed-,  there  remained  a  third  ftill,  which  was  Berifditl  XIII. 
who  declared  that  he  would  never  renounce.  Hereupon  Sigifmund 
the  Empercur  went  in  perfon  to  the  Kings  of  Frame  and  of  England, 
to  advife  with  them  about  forcing  "Benedict  to  a  renouncing  alfo:  Si-, 
gifmttnd having  received  afatisfa&oryanfwcr  from  thefe  two  Princes, 
he  went  toNarhon,  and  difcourfedperfonally  with  Ferdinand  King  of 
Arraffon,  whole  Subjedh  paid  obedience  to'  Bined:3. 

Bnt  Venedici  frill  alledged,  that  he  was  the  true  Vicar  of  Chrift,  fay- 
ing, that  Coxftance  was  not  a  place  convenient  for  the  liberty  of  an  Ec- 
cletiaitical  Council, feeing  that  JjhH'hzd  been  condemned  and  depofed 
from  the  Papacy,  by  thofe  very  perfons  who  had  been  formerly  his 
FTiends,and  received  him  to  the  Pontihcal  dignity. 

The  Princes  of  Spain  obferving-the  pertinacity  of  Bmofiflp,  con- 
curred with  the  opinion  of  the  Council,  which  was  managed  by  five 
feveral  Nations,  viz,  Italy,  Germany^  England  ,  France  ,  and  Spain. 
What  thefe  Nations  had  done  was  approved,  and  publimed  by  a  Trum- 
pet, or  a  publick  Notary.  Then  fynedffi's  caufe  being  difcuffed  ,  he 
was  at  laiidepofed,  and  declared  void  of  the  Papacy,  no  reckoning  be- 
ing made  of  theabfent  Scots ju\d  Count  d'  Armignttc,  who  continued 
their  rbcdience  to  him.  About  this  time  JobnHufs  ,  arid  Jerome  of 
Prague  ,  his  Difciple  ,  were  condemned  and  burnt  for  He- 
reticks. 

On  Novemb,%.Annj  1417.  thirty  two  Cardiqalsentred  the  conclave, 
with  thirty  otherjfor  the  feveral  Nations,  which  is  fix  a  piece,  and  on 
the  i  !.'*•  of  the  fame  Month,  which  was  the  Feaft  of  St.  Martin,  about 
three  in  the  Morning,  Cardinal  di  fanGregorio  fcalled  Oddo  Colonna 
beforej  was  created  Pope,  with  great  fat*sfadion  to  the  people.  The 
Empcrour  prefently  went  into  the  cor.chve,  and  having  thanked  the 
Cardinals,  kitted  the  Pope's  Feet.  The  Pope  embraced  him,  and 
thanked  him  for  his  great  induftry  in  that  affair.  This  Pope  would 
reeds  be  called  Martin,  beca^fe  his  Election  hapned  on  that  Saint's  day. 
Then  all  the  French  Cardinals  left  Pfa^/tf,  and  came  in  unto  Martin* 

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the  Scots,  and  <sP  Armignac  did  the  fame,  and  all  Chriitendom  except 
Panifcola  which  remained  divided. 

Martin  being  defirous  to  put  an  end  to  the  Council,  Anno  1418.  he 
made  a  publick  Aflembly,  after  which  by  common  confent,  but  eipe- 
cially  of  Sigifmund,  Ibaldo  Cardinal  of  St.  Vito ,  by  order  trom  the 
Pope,  pronounced  thefe  words  of  difmiilion,  Domini  ite  in  pace,  and  fo 
all  had  liberty  to  depart. 

Then  Martin  hattned  toRome,  travelling  by  Milan  as  the  ncarcft 
way.  He  fate  fourteen  years,  and  dyed  of  an  Apoplexy,  Febr,  20. 
Anno,  1 43 1 . 

When  Benedict  had  fate  thirty  years,  and  was  dead  ,  his  Cardinals 
chofe  Pope  Clement  VIII.  but  he  compounded  withMtfm;^  and  fo  the 
fchifm  was  ended. 

Henry  V.  King  of  England  had  invaded  France,  and  foon  after  at  the 
Battle  of  Agin-Court  ten  thoufand  French-men  were  flain.  Anthony 
Duke  of  Brabant,  with  his  Brother  Philip  Earl  of  Never s  ,  were  alfo 
llain  by  the  Englijh  Bow-men.  Thefe  were  Brethren  to  John  Duke  of 
'Burgundy.  Charles  Duke  of  Orleans ,  and  Lewes  of  Bttrbon :  -  the  Earls 
of  Richemont,Ett>,zndVendofme  (the  (trongeft  pillars  of  the  Orleans 
faction)  with  many  other  Noble-men  and  Gentlemen  were  taken  pri- 
foners,  and  carried  into  England.  Lerves  the  Uaalphindyeth  foon  af- 
ter this  defeat. 

The  Emperour  Sigifmttnd  cometh  into  France ,  making  fhew  of 
the  great  defire  he  had  to  make  a  peace  betwixt  the  French  and  the 
English.  - 

The  English  take  all  Normandy,  and  Taiwan  is  belieged  and  taken,  and 
allthelfleof  France  yield eth  to  King  Henry ,  even  to  the  Gates  of 
Paw. 

France  was  now  ftrangely  divided  into  divers  factions.  The  King's 
Authority  were  for  the  Queen  and  the  Ettrgnndian.  Yiccardy^  "Bttrgun- 
dy,  and  many  other  Towns  in  £ry,  Champagne,  and  Beauffe ,  obeyed 
them  abfolutely  after  the  great  maflacres  that  had  been  lately  done  in 
Paris.  Only  Sens  adhered  to  the  Vaittphin  Charles. 

The  Prince  of  Orange  (of  the  Bttrgttnrlian  Fadion)  makes  War  in 
Dattlphine  and  Languedoc,  to  crofs  the  affairs  of  Charles,  who  notwith- 
ftanding  had  the  greateft  part  of  the  Countrey  at  his  devotion  ,  with 
the  friendfhip  of  Avigmn^  and  the  fcarldpm  of  Veriefi.  The  JLnglijh 
poiTefTcd  all  Normandy,  and-a  great  part  of  Gitjenne.  But  Rochet,  Poi- 
tiers, St.  John  de  Angela,  Angonlefm^  Fontenay,  and  fome  other  Towns 
acknowledged'  the  T>anlphin, 

fi\\Anjo?t  was  his,  Avergne,  Berry,  Bttrboncis,  Forreft  and  Lionou  o- 
beyed  him.  He  likewife  took  upon  him  the  Name  of  Regent. 

The  Djuke  of  Britain  leaves  the  Englifo,  and  joyns  with  the  Daxl- 
phin.  The  people  grow  in  diflike  with  the  Duke  of  Burgundy ,  and 

Y  2  the 


Gem,  15. 


the  Parifians  mutiny  againft   the  Bttrguxdiay.  fa&ion  ,.  and  kill  hi* 
Servants. 

At  length  a  peace  is  made  betwixt  the  Uaulpbin  and  the  Ettrgundiax, 
Anno  1  41  p.  but  foon  after  the  Uaulphin  caufeth  John  Duke  of  £*>v 
£#«^  to  be  murthered  in  his  prefence.  This  John  had  flain  Charles. 
Duke  of  Orleans  traiteroufly,  and  now,  he  is  treacheroufly  flain  by 
Charles  the  Vaulfbin. 

Philip  Son  to  John  Duke  of  Burgundy,  furs  up  great  troubles  againft 
Charles  the  Dautybin  in  revenge  of  his  Father5/  death.  By  his  means- 
Jfabel^  an  uskind  Mother,  makes  War  againft  Charles  her  Son  ,  and 
peace  with  H*nry  V.  King  of  England^  then  a  Capital  Enemy  to  the 
State.  She  gives  him  bier  Daughter  Katherine  in  Marriage,and  procures 
King  Charles  VI.  her  Husband  to  declare  Henryhis  lawful  Heir,  and 
todifmherit  his  only  Son  Charles,  from  the  Realm  of  France. 

But  in  the  midft  of  thefe  occurrences,  Henry  V.  dyeth,in  the  vigour* 
of  his  age  and  fpirit  on  the  laft  day  of  AxgH^Anno  1422.  and  Charles 
VI.  the  French  King,  dyed  fifty  days  after  ,  on  the  2  2.  of  .Otfober  the 
fame  year. 

After  his  Funerals,  Henry  VI.  an  Infant,  Son  to  Henry  V,  is  proclai- 
med King  of  Fr<j*cf,and  after  is  crowned  King  at  Paris. 

Charier  VII.  after  the  deceafe  of  his  Father  Charles  VI..  took  upon 
him  the  name  of  King  of  France,  notwithstanding  the  pretenfion  of 
the  English:  He  was  2  1  years  old  when  he  began  to  reign,  and  reigned 
3P  years.  The  beginning  of  his  reign  was  troublefome,  till  he  was 
inftalled  King,  and  thereby  acknowledged  of  all  the  French. 

Afterwards  he  reduced  the  Cities  fubdued  by  the  English  to  his  o- 
bediencf,  beginning  with  the  City  .of  Parti  ,  and  fo  proceeding  to  the 
reft  of  the  Realm,  expelling  the  Englijh  from  all,  except  Calais.  In 
the  clofe  of  his  Reign  he  had  many  Domeftical  difcontcnts, 
,  which  hafkned  hinx.to  his  Grave,  after  the  happy  events  of  all  his 
difficulties. 

At  this  time  flouruhed  JobnGerfon^z  divine  of  Paris,  he  was  pre-r 
fent  at  the  Council  of  Confiance,  and  in  feme  written  Treatifes  highly 
commendeth  the  decree,  that  the  Bilhop  of  Kowrfhould  be  fubjed  to 
l^c  ^ounc^  :  and  faith,  'fbe  thiug  is  worthy  to  be  written  in  all  places  for 
a  perpetual  memory.  He  was  the  molt  learned  Man  of  his  time  ,  and 
-the  only  Doftorand  Leader  of  jfrz  Council  of  Con\}ance>  He  was 
counted  a  fubtle  difputer,  and  profound  School-Doctor.  One  calleth 
iiim  the  learned  and  devout  Chancellour  of  Farts. 

He  was  much  acquainted  with  Temptations,  and  wrote  a  Book  de 
variiStDiabeli  tentationibw.     He  was  lirnamed  Dottor  Cbriftianifitmnt. 
His  works  are  Printed  in  four  Volumes  ;  hi$  French  works  are  mcntior 
d?  c?c-  ^«d  by  Antoine  du  Verdier  in  hisBibliotbeque.  •, 

viro--.  LC-       la  his  Treatife  fa.  defefttt  i-irornm  &de$$Wtiwt)  he  fets  down  fuch 

things 


Gent.  15.  Of  FRANCE. 


things  as  oughtto  be  reformed  in  the  Church,  and  among  others,  men- 
tions this,  'that  known  Mett^  and  fuch  as  are  mop  fitting,  be  Elefted  out 
of  the  fame  Countrey  :  that  grangers  in  manners^  language,  and  educati* 
on,  be  not  fent  and  Jet  oner  Churches. 

And  in  his  Book  of  Ecclefiaftical  power,  after  he  hath  fpoken  of  theGerfon  lib.dfr. 
divers  abufes  of  the  Popes,  he  addeth,  IVhat  foall  wetbink^  if  to  be  faid  £cd«C  pote*. 
of  an  infinite  number  offucb  likf  things  that  are  done  ,  cafling  afide  all- 
care  and  regar-dof  all  Spiritual  and  Divine  matters,  which  concern  the 
Chrijlian  Faith  and  Religion  ?  What  thinly  yon  ?  What  fid!  we  fay 
for  tbeprcfent  «f  that  fa  eafie  a  difpenfatiott  M  they  fyeaf^  of,  granted  by 
the  Pope  and  the  Prelates  over  lawful  Oaths  ,  reafonable  Vows  ,  for  tbe 
exceflite  plurality  of  Benefices  ,  tbe  general  non  obftantes  of  Councils,  tbe 
privileges  <wd  exemptions  againjl  common  right  ?  Who  can  number  all  tbe 
ways  whereby  tbe  force  of  Ecclefiaftical  (yea  of  Evangelical)  T>ifcifline  j*- 
enfeebled,  confamed,  and  quite  annihilated  ? 

He  addetb  tbe  cunning  and  glazing  flattery  of  Vp-ftarts^bifperingthe 
Clergy^  but  efpecially  the  P^pe  in  the  Ear.  Ob  bow  great  vs  tbe  btigbt  of 
your  Ecclefiajiical  power  !  0  f  acred  Clergy  !  all  fecular  Authority  is  bttt 
ifo 


in  comparifon  of  tbine,  feeing  that  M  all  power  is  given  to  Cbrift, 
both  in  Heaven  and  Earth,  jo  Cbriji  bath  bequeathed  all  to  St.  Peter,' 
and  bis  Sttccejjourst 

Soth  at  Confantine  gave  nothing  to  Pope  Silvefter,  which  was  not  eri* 
ginally  hit  own  >  but  only  reftoredunto  him  what  he  ttnjuftly  detained 
from  him.  Again^  as  there  tf  no  power  but  if  of  Gody  fo  there  is  nothing 
Temporal  or  Spiritual,  Imperial  or  Regal,  which  is  not  of  tbe  Pope,  upon 
whofe  Ibigh  God  bath  Writ,  King  of  Kings,  and  Lord  of  Lords.  S* 
as  todifputehis  power  it  a  kind  of  Sacrilege. 

20  whom-  no  Man  may  fay,  why  do  you  fo?  Although  be  foottld  ex-* 
change,  purloin,  or  fell  all  the  'temporals,  the  Goods,  Lands  and  Lordjhips 
ef  tbe  Church.     Let  me  be  a  Lyar  if  allthefe  things  be   not  written  by  • 
fuch  as  feem  to  be  wife  men  in  their  eyes  j  and  if  they  have  not  been  be* 
lieved  alfo  by  fame  Topes. 

Sttpbanw  fafckafais  in  his  Icones  hath  thefe  Verfes  of  Gerfon,  - 

Quid  potuit  Sorbona,  daces  meritiflime  Gerfo-j  - 
Itt  magni  Geifoluxque^eatfque  Chart.  . 

At  the  famttimeflourUhed  Nicholas  de  ClemangM,  a  Mafter  of  P^1- 
•rk,and  Arch-Deacon  of  Baton,  a  man  pious  and  Learned,  one  calls 
him  one  of  themoft  Lcarr    •:  and  Eloquent  Divines  of  his  time.     He 
wrote  a  Book  of  the  mine  art  I  reparation  of  the  Church.     Of  which  1  detain.  "&"£" 
(hall  fet  down  fome  paiTagcs  in  general  terms.-     Firft,  (faith  he  ,   let  KS  p 
fpeak.ofthe  Head,  upon  -whom  all  the  reft  depends.     He  afterwards 
addcthjfor  the  (upream  Biihopsywho  by.  haw  -much  they  fee  -  thenv 

felves  > 


166         3£i)e  cccleftaftical  ^ifto?p        Cent.  15. 

felves  ranked  above  others  in  greatnefs,  and -Authority  ,  by  fo  much 
they  labour  the  more  to  overthrow  them,  out  of  a  domineering  hu- 
mour for  the  enlarging  of  their  primacy  and  fupreme  power,  confide- 
ring  that  the  commodities  of  the  Bifcoprick  of  Rome,  which  is  very 
large,  and  above  any  Kingdom  (though  it  hath  been  fufficiently  cur- 
tail'd  by  their  negligence;  can  noway  fuffice  to  maintain- the  great- 
nefs of  their  State,  which  they  have  purpofed  to  rajfe  high  .enough 
above  all  the  Kingsand  Emperours  in  the  World  ,  have  caft  them- 
felves  into  thofe  flocks  of  others  that  abound  in  breeding  ,  in  Wool 

de  and  Milk.     He  afterwards  fpecities  the  loofenefs,  the  luxury,  vanities, 

.fapS&ereparat!  worldlinefs,  rapines,  vexations,  ufurpations,  oppreffions  ,   and   other 

juft't.  P- i°.      fucj1  like  abufes  and  vices  of  the  Popes  and  their  Courts.    In  another 

Book  of  his  he  (heweth,  that  the  Court  o(Rome  hath  infefted  France, 

'    by  coming  there,  fpecifying  all  the  vices  and  blemifhes  that  are  com* 
tnunicated  unto  it,  and  thofe  not  a  few. 

There  was  a  time  ( faith  he)  when  the  Apoftolick  Bimop,  being  vex- 
ed with  the  Tyranny  of  the  Italians,  made  choice  of  France  for  his 
feat,  and  for  all  the  Court  of  Rome,  fuppofing  he  could  not  find  afTu- 
red  refuge  elfe- where  :  to  whom  I  could  with  (faith  ht)  the  ftrength 
of  Francs  had  not  proved  a  Staff  of  a  Reed,  as  it  was  a  long  time  be- 
fore fore-told  that  itmould.  what  was  it  elfe  that  brought  France 
upon  the  fudden  into  thefe  miferies,  making  her  fall  away  from  emi- 
nent glory  which  made  her  flourifa  above  all  other  Nations ,  but  that 
degenerating  from  thofe  Ancient  vertues  which  adorned  her  with  fuch 
an  excellency  of  Honour,  (he  is  changed  from  Valour  to  cowardife, 
from  diligence  to  iloath,  from  honefty  to  ignominy,  from  gravity  to  a 
wanton  lightnefs  v  from  temperance  to  luxury  i  from  courage  to  pre- 
fumption  »  from  liberality  to  covetoufnefs,  and  unrefirained  fpoiling, 
from  order  to  confufion,  from  zeal  of  the  publick  good  to  private 
gains,  from  corre&ion  and  difcipline  to  a  general  impunity  and 
licenfe  of  all  wickednefs  and  mif-demeanours,  and  from  Juftice  to  all 
iniquity. 

And  elfewhere  he  complaineth  thus,  So  ike  Church  which  Chrifi  hath 
Traa.  dc  prz-  takgn  for  hit  Spoufe  without  blemijh  disfigured  by  this  horrible 
fd.  p.  66  villany,  if  now  the  (hop  of  all  Pride,  of  all  grading  ,  filching  and  jlealin& 
where  the  Sacraments  are  httng  out  for  a  fhcw,  and  all  the  orders  ,  even 
the  Priefthood  it  felf:  where  favours  are  fold  for  fifoer  difpenfathns 
for  not  preaching  licences  for  non-refidence  :  Where  a»  0;j  CCT  and  Bene~ 
fees,  yea  even  fins  are  bought  and  fold:  LaiHy,  where  M-iJJes,  and  Admi- 
niftration  of  the  Lord's  body  are  fet  to  fale.  Would  any  Man  have  a 
'Bifljopricl^?  let  him  provide  hit  Money,  and  that  no  fa. ill  fum  ,  but  a 
great  one  for  fo  great  a  litle  :  and  let  him  not  ftand  apon  emptying  his 
pftrfe,  for  the  pztrcbafe  of  fitch  a  Dignity,  feeing  he  will  qvickly  fill  it  a- 
gain,  and  that  more  fiundly  than  he  could  do  by  many  fortf  of  hlerebaft- 

dize 


Cent.  1 5.  Of  FRANCE.  \6j 


Doth  any  defire  a  Prebend,  a  Provofi*s  place,  or  fame  ether  dignity  ? 
it  is  no  matter  for  \nowing  his  deferts, his  Life  and  Conversation  \  but  fo 
many  Cravens  as  he  hath  in  fa  Cbeji,  fitch  hopes  may  be  conceive  of  com* 
pfjfiag  bit  deftre.  For  what  fooztld  I  Jpeak^  of  poor  folks  ,  who  are  ac- 
counted  unprofitable  in  ali  things ,  and  unworthy  of  all  charge  or  govern" 
nient,  and  rvbo  have  m  other  hopes  but  to  rvax  old,  and  pine  away  in  mi- 
fery  difrefpetied  and  defpifed  ?  What  Jbould  a  poor  Man  go  to  Market 
for  with  an  empty  pouch ,  when  he  hath  nothing  t9  buy  the  JFares 
with  ? 

And  in  another  place  fpeaking  of  the  Popes,  he  faith  ,  They  have  ar- 
x  rotated  unto  themselves  the  right  of  difpofing  of  all  Churches,  in  all  places 
as  farts  the  Chrijlian  Religion  reacbcth,  of  all  Bifocprickj  a  nd  Dignities^ 
which  are  conferred  by  election,  voiding  and  difanulling  the  Decrees  for- 
merly made  by  the  Holy  Fathers,  with  fo  much  care  and  commodity  ,  that 
Co  they  may  by  ihitmeam  fill  their  oven  'Budgets  the  better.  And  fines 
this  cujiom  was  ufed,  there  have  been  none  but  Dunces,  Worldlings  ,  Mo- 
ney-men, and  fi-tch  ar  rvere  raifed  to  thofe  Dignities  by  .Simony.  And  a- 
gain,  To  the  end  that  the  Rivers  of  Gold  derived  from  all  parts •,  may  flaw 
nnto  them  in  a  fuller  fireamftbcy  have  taken  away  the  power  of  prefenta* 
tions,  and  th;  liberty  of  becoming  and  difpofing  of  Benefices,  by  any  means 
rvhaifoever^  fforriaU  Diocefans ,  and  lawful  Matrons,  forbidding  them 
upon  pain  of  Anathema,  rajhly  to  prefit  me  (for  fo  their  Writs  run)  to  in* 
jiitute  any  perfon  into  a  Benefice  within  their  jurifdi&ion,  till  fuch  time 
as  fame  one  be  prefented  to  />,  to  whom  by  their  Authority  they  have 
granted  it. 

And  again  f  faith  he)  What gree dim fs  is  this  (fpeaking  of  the  Car- 
dinals) to  hold  fuch  a  number  of  repugnant  and  incompatible  Benefices  ? 
Ihey  are  hlnnkf  and  Cbanons,  Regulars  and  Seculars.  Under  the  fame 
habit  they  enjoy  the  Rights^  Degrees,  Offices^  and  'Benefices  of  all  Religi- 
ons^ ef  all  Orders,  of  all  Frofeffiotts  j  not  two  er  three^  but  ten^  twenty^ 
an  hundred,  two  hundred,  yea  fometimes  five  hundred ,  and  upwards  : 
and  th  ife  no  petty  ones,  nor  contemptible,  but  of  the  bef  and  fattejL  And 
bow  great  a  number  foever  they  have  of  them  ,  they  are  never  content, 
but  dill  would  have  more.  Ihey  are  daily  ftting  for  new  Graces^ 
new  Grants.  T.hus  they  catch  up  all  the  Vacancies  s  and  go  away 
with  all. 

Charles  Vll.  now  King  of  France,  was  fo  diftreffed,  that  he  had  only 
twoentire  Provinces  kit  him^viz.  Gafcoign  and  Languedoc  ,  and  his 
enemies  were  about  them  :  and  all  the  reft  was  poffefTed  by  the  Englifa 
who  f  hcfidcs;  had  bcfieged  the  City  of  Orleans,  and  brought  it  to  that 
pafs,  that  the  higheft  hopes  of  thofe  therein  ,  was  to  yield  on  good 
terms.  Three  French  Noble-  men  conclude  to  fet  up  a  Virgin  ,  called 
Joaxof  Arc^  to  make  her  pretend  that  (he  had  a  Revelation  from  Hea- 
ven, to  drive  all  the  Englijh  out  of  France, 

By 


i <58  5C|)e  Cccleftaftical  $f(lojp    Gent.  i$  „ 

-  —  jr  •  — 

By  the  mediation  of  the  Lord  of  Eaudricourt,Q\c  is  brought  to  the 
prefence  of  King  Charles,  whom  (he  inftantly  knew,though  never  feen 
before,  and  at  that  time  of  fetpurpofedifgaifed.  To  the  King  (he 
faith  boldly,  That  this  was  the  time  wherein  the  fins  of  the  Englijh, 
and  the  fuflfcringscf  theErencb ,  were  come  to  the  height,,  and  (he 
appointed  by  the  God  of  Heaven,  to  be  the  French  Leader  to  conquer 
the  Englijh. 

Ever  after  (he  went  in  Man's  cloaths,  being  armed  Cap~a-pf,  and 

mounted  on  a  brave  fteed.     Nofword  would  pleafe  her ,  but  one  ta- 

•Poiid  virgil  in  ^e"  out  °^  theChurch  of  St.  Katherine  at  Fireboir  in  Tourain.      Her 

Henr.'vi.p.47i.  firft  fervicc  was  in  twice  victualling  of  Orleans,  whilft  iheEngli/h  made 

no  reiiftance. 

Under  her  conduct,  the  French  drive  away  the  Englijh  from  Orleans. 
Hence  (lie  marched  on  into  other  Countries,  which  intfantly  revolted 
to  the  French  Crown.  The  Englijh  in  many  skirmifnes  were  worfted 
and  defeated  with  few  numbers.  The  French  folio  wing  their  blow  in 
one  twelve- month  recovered  the  greateft  part  of  that  the  Englijh  did 
poflefs.  This  was  done,  Anno  142^. 

But  this  Joan  of  Arc  after  the  Coronation  of  King  Charles  at  Rbemes, 
feeking  to  fur  prize  St.  Honories  Ditch,  near  the  City  of  St.  Dents  ,  (he 
was  not  only  wounded  her  felf,  but  alfo  loft  a  Troop  of  her  ftouteft 
Souldiers,  and  not  long  after,  nigh  the  City  of  Compiegne ,  was  taken 
prifoner  by  the  Baftard  of  Vendofme,  who  fold  her  to  the  Duke  of  Bed- 
ford, and  by  him  (he  was  kept  a  prifoner  a  twelve-month,  and  burnt  in 
Rhoan,  being  condemned  by  the  Englijh  for  a  Witch. 

The  pragmatick  Sanction  of  KmgCharles  VII.  was  made  in  a  Sy- 
nod aiTembled  at  'Bonryes,  confiding  of  Arch-Bi(hops,  BHhops,  Chap* 
ters,  Abbots,  Deans,  Provofts,  and  other  Ecclefiaftical  perfons  ,  toge- 
ther with  Doctors  of  Law,  Divine  and  humane ,  and  other  Learned 
Men  of  the  Realm,  and  alfo  of  the  chief  Lords  of  France,  and  others 
of  the  King's  Council,  about  receiving  the  Councils  of  Conflance  and 
Bajil.  The  Sandion  hath  this  complaint  i  The  Prelates ,  and  other 
•  ordinary  difpenfers,  as  alfo  the  Patrons,  are  deprived  of  their  right,  the 
Hierarchy  of  the  Church  is  confounded,  and  many  other  things  are 
committed  contrary  to  the  Laws  of  God  and  Man,  to  the  lofs  of  SouJs 
and  the  oppretlion  of  the  Churches  of  our  Realm.  The  Council  of 
Eafil  did  provide  a  remedy  againft  this  abufe,  and  the  pragmatick  after 
it,  but  foas  the  Popes  have  caft  off  the  yoke  of  it,  having  difanulled 
jalmoit  all  the  Decrees  of  that  Council. 

The  Popes  for  a  long  time  branded  all  the  French  for  Hereticks ,  by 
reafon  of  that  pragmatick  Sanction. 
«P.  J7-  Pope  Miwf/»V.  dyed,  Anno   1431.  whom  EugemtttW.  fucceded, 

who  was  depofed  by  the  Council  of  £*///,  aflfdiobled  by  himfelf  to 
reform  the  Church.     IB  the  place  of  Eugenins9  the  Council  chofe  A- 

madeuc 


Cent.i?.  Of  FRANCE,  169 


*f*cfc»/  Duke  of  Savoy  i  who  called  himfelf  Felix.  But  Ettgeniw 
brought  againft  Eafjl  the  T>aMlpb'm  of  France^  who  was  afterward  Le&e  t 
XI.  who  in  all  things  oppofed  his  Father  Charles  VII.  and  his  confe- 
derates. He  brought  four  thoufand  horfe  againft  Eafil  to  break  the 
Council  •,  which  yet  he  could  not  have  effe&ed,  had  not  the  peftiknce 
within  Bafjl,  forced  the  Fathers  of  the  Council  to  feparatethemfelves, 
after  they  had  condemned  Eugeniw  as  an  Heretick,and  unworthy  to* 
govern  the  Church. 

But  Eugeniw  took  Arms,  and  being  held  up  by  Princes  ,  maintained 
himfelf  againft  the  Anti-  Pope  Fe  //#,  who  after  he  had  been  five  years 
Pope,  retired  to  K/^/tV,  a  pleafant  houfe  in  Savoy,  there  to  lead  a  pri- 
vate Life.  So  the  Popedom  remained  in  the  hands  of  a  Man  depo- 
fed  by  a  Council  affembled  by  the  Pope  himfelf,  where  Bifhops  met 
out  of  all  parts  of  the  Roman  Church.  Note,  that  after  this  dcpofiti- 
on,  he  created  many  Cardinals  and  Bifhops,  whofe  Office  was  null, 
fmce  they  were  created  by  an  Usurper,  who  had  by  force  maintained' 
himfelf  in  the  Office  of  a  Pope  after  his  depofition.  And  yet  thofe 
very  Cardinals,  created  by  this  llfurper  of  the  Popedom,are  thofe  very 
men  that  ele&ed  the  Succeflburs  of  Engenius,  Nicholas  and  Tint  the 
fecond,  from  \\hom  isdefcended  the  fucceilion  of  the  '  Popes  of  our 
time,  as  the  learned  Dr.  P»-M<?«/mhath  well  obferved. 

The  Arch-'Bifhop  of  Lyons  in  the  Council  of  Bafil  did  declare    that 
rn  the  time  of  Pope  Martin,  there  came  out  of  France  to  the  Court  of  Fos>  Aftand 
Rome,  nine  millions  of  Gold,  which  was  gathered  of  the  Bilhops  and  ^^"^ 
Prelates,  befides  innumerable  fums  of  the  poor  Clergy,  which  daily 
without  number  ran  unto  the  Court  of  fame,   carrying  with  them 
all  their  whole  fubftance.     The  Arch-  Bifhop  of  furemte  faid  alfo  at 
Btf/J/,  that  three  millions  of  Gold  came  unto  Rome  in  his  time  ,  within 
the  fpace  of  fourteen  years,  from  the  Prelates  and  prelacies  ,    whereof 
no  account  could  be  made,  befides  the  poor  Clergy,  which  daily  ran  to 
that  Court. 

The  Emperour  Sigifmttnd  required  Peter  de  Aliaco,  Chancellour  of 
P*w,and  Cardinal  of  Cambray,  to  put  in  form  fome  Articles  con- 
cerning the  Reformation  of  the  Church,  that  might  be  propounded  to 
the  Council  of  Conftance  aforementioned  ,  which  he  did.  In  that 
Bopkheinfiftethonfour  things,  i.  He  propounded,  that  general 
and  Provincial  Councils  be  kept,  efpecially  General,  for  amending  all 
perfons  and  eftates.  2.  That  for  Reformation  of  the  Roman  Court,  it 
Blufhcient  that  there  be  but  one  Cardinal  out  of  every  Province,  be- 
caufe  the  Cardinals  are  the  caufes  of  Schifms.  3.  That  Prelates  be 
not  chofen  young,  imprudent,  nor  ignorant.  4.  He  requireth  the 
reformation  of  Monks,  fpeaking  againft  their  multitude  and  diverfity 
he  taxeth  the  Romifh  Court,  that  they  defpife  Divines,  and  advance  on* 
ly  fuchas  can  bring  them  in  gain.  He  complaineth  alfo  of  Pagan 

*  abufes, 


•7°          ^CDetfcdetacai^iOfl?       Cent.  15. 

. — ; ' 7 . 

abufes,  and  Diabolical  fuperftitions  at  Rome.  But  (faith  he)  'as  there 
were  feven  thoufand  who  never  bowed  to  Baal,  fo  we  may  be  confi- 
dent ,  that  there  are  fome  who  are  defirous  of  the  Churches  Re- 
formation, 

Alanus  otCbartres,  Secretary  to  King  Charles  VII.  wrote  a  Book  in 
French,  entituled  the  Courtier,  in  which  he  extolleth  the  fmgle  life  of 
Priefts. 

This  King  Charles  VII.  in  the  Ordinance  made ,   Anns  1 422.  thus 

Ette'f.  GalS  complaineth.     T>i;  ers  of  our  Subjetts,  and  others  by  -venue  of  refynati- 

fcju/mate.  p.  75-  ons,  or  Apoftolic^  Bulls,  da  takf,  and  receive,  and  endeavour  to  get  and  ob- 
tain Benefices  within  this  Realm,  and  take  poffeffion  of  them,  and  labour 
to  fummon,  or  caufe  to  be  fummoned,  our  Liege-Subjects  unto  the  Court 
of  Rome,  or  before  fome  Commifiioners  or  Delegates  appointed  by  our 
Holy  Father,  which  is  down-right  to  oppofe  the  Church  and  Clergy. 
The  Council  which  was  begun  ^Ferrara,  Anno  1438.  and  conti- 

Panormit.  in  nued  at  Florence,  was  never  received  and  approved  of  in  France.  The 
B^°P°f  ?«WMM-fiftb"  the  King  of  France  did  exprefly  forbid  upon 
great  penalties,  that  any  of  his  Dominions  Oiould  go  to  Ferrara,  to  ce- 
lebrate the  oecumenical  Council.  Charles  VII.  tells  fome  Cardinals 
down-right  fo,  who  were  fent  AmbafTadours  from  Ez/g<?#/w,  and  were 
come  to  Bourges  to  get  him  to  accept  of  it  •,  and  among  others  to  pre- 
fent  him  with  this  Article.  7bat.fuice  fuch  time  as  it  was  tranflated 
to  Ferrara,  the  King  fiould  reje a  the  Council  of  Bafil ,  and  receive  the 
Council  of  Ferrara  vtitb  the  A8s  thereof. 

Whereto  he  made  Anfwer,  after  fix  days  deliberation  with  his  Pre- 
lates, and  others  affembled  at  Bourges.Thzt  he  had  received  the  Council, 
ofjfo/z/for  a  Council  indeed  »  that  he  fent  his  Amba0adoursthither> 
that  many  things  were  there  wifely  determined,  concerning  Faith  and 
Manners,  and  fuch  as  he  liked  well  of:  but  for  that  of  ferrar*  ,  he. 
never  did,  and  never  would  take  it  for  a  Council.  .This  Charles  fa- 
voured Pope  Eugenia*,  but  fo  as  that  he  profefleth  he  will  ftand  to  the 
Decrees  of  the  Council  of  Bafil. 

James  de  Paradifo^  of  Cbartres,  who  wrote  a  little  after  the  Council 

Jrob de Paradi-  of  B^j?/,  faith.  Seeing  rvehald  it  pnfibleto  proceed  to  a  Reformation  as 
"^  ?  ^ye  Hetdas  of  the  Member s^  by  fuch  as  have  Authority  and  Pre- 
fdency  both  Spiritual  and'femporal^  it  mxft  be  either  by  one  Man  or  more, 
lhat  it  foould  be  by.  one  Man  is  againji  all  re afin ,  hpn>  eminent  foever  he 
be  for  bit  virtues,  his  Knowledge }  /;/'/  worth,  although  he  be  renowned  for 
his  miracles,  nay  in  my  opinion  not  by  the  Pope  bimfelf  alone.  For  there 
are  fa  many  Canons,  Decretals  and  Conftitutions  made  by  them  already y 
at  Jure  good  for  nought  but  fiV.ing  up  Parchment  to  no  parpofi ',  witbwt- 
working  any  Reformation.  Bdides,  feeing  it  u  evident^  th'at  k'u  own 
Court  ftands  in  great  need  of  Reformat isn^  as  hath  been  well  kflorvn  by 
'!>;•[•  Common  cries  of  the  la$  General  Councils  j  which  Court  of  Hi  if  he 

either 


Cent.  15.  Of  FRANCE.  17 1 

either  cannot  or  will  not  reform,  which  he  covers  under  his  Wing,  bow  /> 
it  credible  that be  fhottld  reform  the  Church ,  which  is  of  fa  large  an  ex- 
tent ?  Befides,  it  may  beobje&ed  to  him,  Apply  the  falve  to  your  own 
fores  firft  as  being  the  Bead  j  for  when  that  if  cured ,  yon  may  with  lefs. 
difficulty  cure  the  Members  >  wherefore  Phyfician  heal  thy  jelf.  Vnfa- 
voury  fait  is  not  good  for  feafoning.  Wherefore  (  by  the  juft  judgement 
of  God)  his  "Decrees  are  fcarce  well  received  yet,  nor  ever  will  be  titt  he 
have  reformed  himfelf  and  hit  Dependents.  And  verily  I  think^the  chief 
caufe  of  the  deformation  in  the  Chujrch  is  the  wound  in  the  Head ,  which 
hath  need  to  bs  cured  in  the  firft  place. 

And  anon  after,  IVTocrefore  it  feemeth  to  me  an  incredible  thing ,  that 
the  Cathulick^  Church  foottld  be  reformed,  unlefs  firft  the  Court  of  Rome 
be  fo,  but  as  the  World  goes  worn,  we  may  fee  ryhat  an  hard  thing  that 
is.  T'hofe  who  have  the  Presidency  in  Councils  on  the  fope^s  behalf,  when 
they  fee  that  matters  in  the  Council  ma!$e  againft  tJyeirlyfofters  and  them, 
what  can  be  expefied  from  them,  but  that  they  will  withftand  the  Decrees 
of  fitch  Councils  with  might  and  main,  either  by  diffolving  them.,  or /owing 
d/jfentions  in  them ;  and  fo  the  thing  Jhall  remain  uttperfecfed,  and  we  dri» 
ven  to  return  to  the  old  WildernefS  of  Errour  and  Ignorance  :  Every  body 
knows  th'v  to  be  true,  unleft  it  be  fome  one  haply  who  is  not  experienced 
in  time  paft.  The  'tragedy  which  was  attedin  our  Age  at  the  Council  of 
Bafil  dvth  fujficiently  prove  it,  as  they  k$ew  well  who  have  laid  down  the 
fiory  before  our  eyes. 

At  this  time  flourished  the  Panormitan  Abbot,  the  moft  famous  of 
all  the  Canonifts.  In  the  Council  of  Bafil  forenamed,  Amadeas,  Arch- 
Biftiop  of  Lyons,  and  Primate  of  all  France,  a  Man  of  great  Authori- 
ty, being  toucht  with  the  zeal  of  Faith,  which  he  faw  there  to  be  fup- 
prefled,  faid,  Moft  Reverend  Fathers,  I  do  fee  here  a  new  fort  of  Prelates 
come  in,  rvhich  unto  this  prefent  have  kept  filence,  and  now  begin  to  Jj^ea^. 
Is  not  this.  like  to  a  Miracle  ?  I  would  to  God  they  came  to  defend  the  truth, 
and  not  to  impugn  Juftice. 

The  Cardinal  of  Aries  required  that  the  Concordat  of  the  twelve 
men  (hould  be  read  >  and  many  whifpered  him  in  the  Ear  that  he 
fliould  go  forward.  Then  Panormitan  as  foon  as  the  Concordat  began 
to  be  read,  rifing  up  with  his  companions  and  other  Arragons ,  cryed 
out  with  a  loud  voice,  faying  :  Tnu  Fathers  do  contemn  our  Requejis, 
you  contemn  Kings  and  princes  anddefpife  Prelates.  It  is  net  for  yon  to 
conclude:  We  are  the  major  part  of  the  Prelates  ,  wemakg  the  Council, 
and  it  if  our  part  to  conclude,  And  I  in  the  Name  of  all  other  Prelates 
do  conclude  that  is  to  be  deferred.  Then  there  was  fuch  a  rumour  in 
the  Council,  as  is  wont  to  be  in  Battles  with  the  found  of  Trumpets, 
and  noife  of  Horfcmen,  When  two  Armies  joyn  i  fome  cuffing  that 
which  Panormitan  went  about,  others  allowing  thefame. 

Then  Nicholts  Amici^  a  Divine  of  Paris,  faid  i  Panormitan ,   I   ap- 

2  2  peal 


;a  Cent. 


peal  from  this  your  conclufion  to  the  judgement  of  the  Council  here 
prefenti  neither  do  I  affirm  any  thing  to  be  ratified  which  you  have 
done,  as  I  am  ready  to  p,rove,  if  it  (hall  feem  good.  Many  grave  and 
Antient  men  exhorted  Panormitan  to  give  over  his  concluiion.  But 
'neither  the  Fathers  of  the  Council  were  determined  to  depart  without 
a  conclufion,  neither  was  Yanormitan  minded  to  alter  his  intent  and 
purpofe. 

Then  T'bomas  Rbedon^  a  French  Carmelite^  was  a  famous  Preacher  ; 
he  preached  in  England^  France  and  Italy  \  and  in  his  Sermons  faid, 
"Rome  is  the  mother  of  Abomination*:  the  Church  hath  great  need 
of  -reformation  i  Prelates  mould  leave  their  pride  and  luxury,  and  fol- 
low the  example  of  Chrifland  his  Apoftles. 

For  fuch  preaching  he  was  burnt  at  Rome  by  the  command  of  Pope 

Mantuan  d<  vit.  E*gwiw.     Baptifta  Mantuan  fpeaking  of  this  man's    Death,  faith, 

beat.  ca.  ult.       Ab  mad  envy,  what  doeft  thott  ?  Thou  baft  not  kjHedbim^  for  bis  Soul  can- 

not dye  :  but  by  hurting  bis  Earthy  body^be  is  the  faanfr  partakgr  of  E- 

ternal  Life.  , 

Stephen  Brttlifer^  a  Dodtor  of  Sorbon,  and  a  Francifcan,  taught  in  his 
Le&ures,  and  maintained  in  difputes,  that  neither  the  Pope  nor  Coun- 
Tafcicut.  rerum  cil  can  make  any  Statute  or  Article  to  bind  the  Confcience  of  a 
e*pet.  .,164.  Chriftiani  that  all  their  Authority  confifts  in  urging  of  obedience  un- 
to God's  word,  .in  preaching  it,  and  adminiftring  the  Sacraments. 
which  he  hath  inftituted,fo  that  they  bring  nothing  without  his  com- 
mand. He  called  juftification  by  merits  a  devilifa  Dodrine  fince  the 
Lamb  of  God  was  facrificedT  and  hath  fatisfied  God's  Juftice  for  us. 
The  Doctors  of  Sorbon  would  not  furTer  him  among  them.  But. 
he  went  to.  T>iether  Bifhop  of  Mentz,  which  had  beendepofed  for 
fpeaking  againft  the  Avarice  of  Rome,  and  was  rertored, 

Antonius  de  Rofettif,  was  a  famous  Reader  of  the  Laws  at  that  time, 
and  writ  feveral  Treatifes  againit  the  Pope. 

About  this  time  lived  alfo  lyeffelus  Gantsfort^  a  Mafter  innthc  Univer- 

Pctries.  church  fityof  Ftfmrwho,for  his  free  fpeaking  and  writing  was  forced  tore- 

''•  l*'     turn  to  Groning,  his  Native  Countrey.     Then  he  lived  in  the  Mona- 

fkry  of  St.  Agnes  Hill  near  Stvol,  where  he  taught  many  young  men, 

and  had  correfpondence  with  fundry  Learned  men. 

Charles  VII.  dyed  July  2i>Anno  1461.  Lfwe/XI.  his  eldeft  Son  fuc- 
ceedeth  him  in  the  Kingdom.  / 

The  late  King  Cb  tries  willing  to  follow  the  Council  of  Bafl^  had 
fummoned  a  Parliament  at  Bitures,  where  by  the  full  confent  of  alt 
the  States  in  France  both  Spiritual  and  Temporal,  a  certain  conftituti-' 
on  was  decreed  and  published,  called  the  Pragmatic^  Santtion,  wherein 
was  comprehended,  briefly  the  pith  of  all  the  Canons  and  Decrees 
concluded  in  the  Council  of  -B*///,  of  which  conftitution  I  hinted  be* 
lore.  ,  -The  fame  the  faid.KiBg.C&tfr/f/  commanded  to  be  obferved 

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Cent.  15. Of  FRANCE. 173 

and  ratified  inviolably  throughout  all  his  Realm,  for  the  honour  and 
increafe  ofChriftian  Religion  for  ever.  Now  King  Lewes  XI.  fuc- 
ceflbur  to  Charles,  had  promifed  before  (being  "Dattlphin)  unto  Pope 
F/W  the  fecond  (called  before  JEtteas  Sylviu*}  that  if  ever  he  came  to 
the  Crown,  the  aforcfaid  Pra<rmatic£  Sajittion  fliould  be  abolifhed. 
Pope  Pita  hearing  him  to  be  crowned,  fent  unto  him  John  'Balvew  a 
Cardinal  with  his  Letters  Patent,  willing  him  to  be  mindful  of  his 
former  promife.  The  King  hereupon  dire&ed  the  Pope's  Letters 
Patent  with  the  faid  Cardinal  to  the  Council  of  Paris,  requiring- them 
to  confult  upon  the  caufe. 

The.  matter  being  propofed  in  the  Parliament- houfe,  the  King's 
Attorney  named  Joannes  Romaniu,*  learned  and  eloquent  Man,  pro* 
ved  the  faid  Sandfrioa  to  be  profitable,  good,  and  neceflary  for  the 
wealth  of  the  Realm,  and  in  no  cafe  ta  be  abolilhed.     Unto  whofe 
fentencethe  Univerfity  of  Paris  adjoyning  their  confent ,  did  appeal  ^J*a<jJJ^p  j^J 
from  the  attempts  of  the  Pope  to  the  next  general  Council.  The  Car-  libcnezder  Eg-.. 
dinal  fretting  thereat,  returned  to  the  King,  his  purpofe  being  not  ob- lifc  e»nic- 
tained.     And  the  fame  King  Lewes  ,  Anno  1463.  to    fecure   himfelf 
.-from  the  cenfures  of  the  faid  Pope,  with  the  advice  of  his  Parliament^ 
ordained  an  Arreft,  that  the  Cardinal  of  Conftancc  (hould  be  puni(hed, 
hecaufe  he  had  refifted  the  Rights  and  Authorities  of  .the  King,  faith  ' 
Mr.  John  dttlillet. 

King  Lewes  XI.  caufed  a  Council  of  the  Gatiican  Church,  and  aH 
the  Univeriities  to  be  aflembled  in  the  City  of  Orleans,  to  be  more 
fully  informed  in  the  bufmefs  of  the  Pragmatic^  Sanction*  at 
which,  Peter  Duke  of  Burboa ,  Lord  of  Beavietv,  prefided  inftead 
of  the  King. 

And  the  Court  of  Parliament  in  thofe  Remonftrances  which  they 
made  unto  King  Lewes,  among  other  inconveniences,  which  they  ur- 
ged would  follow  upon  the  abrogation  of  the  Pragmatic!^  SanCnoft^  , 
fay,  By  this  means  Strangers  would  be  preferred  by  the  Pope ,  and  not 
the  Natives  of  the  Countrey,  wherein  the  Benefices  lye  >  not  of  the  . 
fame  qualities  and    conditions  with    the .  Countrey :  Whereupon 
would  enfue  queftions  and  controverfies  betwixt  the  Church-men  or 
Seculars,  to  the  great  hinderance  of  falvation  of  Souls,  and  irreverence  - 
of  the  blefled  Sacraments. 

The  Parliament  of  Paris  in  the  Remonftrance  made  .by   Lewes  XI,  - 
touching  the  defence  of  the  Pragmatick^SaqQion^  hath  inferted  this  •: 
Article  j  Item,  It  belongeth  to  our  Sovereign  Lord  the  King,  wb»  is    the 
principal  Founder,  Guardian,  Proteftor  of  the  Liberties  of  the   Gallican 
Church,  when  Jhe  fttffers  in  her  Liberties,  to  affemble  and  call  together  the  couTTe 
PreUtes,  and  other  Clergy- tnen  as  well  within  this  "Realm .,  as  of  Daul- 
phine,  and  in  the  fame   Affembly  and  Congregation  of  the  Galliean 
Church  fy  called  together,,  there  to  prefide,  and  provide,  a  remedy  agai.tyi 

fttcb 


174  $%*  CCCleftafttiCal  $lftO?l>  Cent,  i  J. 

fuch  attempts  at  miy   be  prejudicial  to  the  faid  Liberties. 

"We  find  an  Ordinance  made,  (relating  to  Abbeys,  BiftHopricks  and 
Benefices,)  by  the  fame  King,  Anno  1464.  which  runs  in  this  ftrain. 
Howbeit  that  by  Priviledges  Exprefs,  and  Ordinances  Royal,  no  Man  can 
have  any  Elective  Benefice  within  our  faid  Kingdom,  and  Daulphine  ,  it 
concerns  us  much,  that  the  Bijkoprickj,  Abbeys  and  other  "Dignities ,  and  e- 
leaive  benefices,  be  fttrnifoed  with  able  and  kjto&n  Men,  fttch  M  witi  com- 
ply with  ut,  and  be  frm  and  fure  for  w  ,  efpecially  fucb  us  bold  the  faid 
Benefices,  and  by  reafoxof  tbemdiiers  places  and  Fortrejfes  ,  for  which 
divers  duties  and  fervices  belong  unto  us  from  them :  Yet  notwitbjlanding 
our  late  picas  Father  granted  the  faid  favour  and  Patents  fo  plentifully, 
and  to  aUmannerofPerfonsof  what  Nation,  Kingdom,  or  'Religion  feever 
they  were,  without  diliiticiion  i  that  many  under  fcadow  and  pretence  of 
thefe  Licences  and  Patents,  have  insinuated  and  intruded  tbe;r'ph'es  into 
the  faid  Dignities ,  and  e leCiive  Bf  nefices  of  o.vr  faid  King'l>m  9  and  do 
hold  them  -,  Howbe it  many  of  them  are  Strangers  W&JWH^  and  nat 
to  be  trulledby  tK  ••>  and  fttch  as  neither  can  nor  oxgbt  to  perform  thofe 
Dttties  and  Services,  which  they  are  bound  to  dottnto  w  by  reafcn  of  tht 
faid  Benefices. 

In  this  Century  flourifhed  Stephen  Pafquier  ,  a  learned  ¥reuck*maHt 
cudr?  ftript?a!  a  notable  moral  Philofopher,  a  Man  well  skilled  in  the  Creek,,  and  Latin 
.biion, ,  _'. .    Tongues,  and  in  all  the  liberal  Sciences.  He  hath  publiftied  alfo  Icones, 
Epigrams,  and  Epitaphs,  and  feveral  other  works.     He  hath  writ- 
ten an  excellent  Treatife  in    French,  ftikd ,     La  Recherche  de  la 
France. 

After  the  death  of  Pope  Nicholas  V.  which  happned  in  the  year, 
1455.  the  Cardinals  entring  into  the  conclave  made  four  factions,  e- 
leven  of  them  pretend  ing  to  the  Papacy  themfelves ,  and  yet  there 
were  but  XV.  for  any  one.  After  this  there  began  ftrong  practices  in 
the  behalf  of  Cardinal  Eeffariou,  zGrecian,o£ CoMftantinople,  an  oppo- 
fite  to  the  Latin  Church.  He  had  difputed  much  againft  purgatory 
unleavened  bread,  and  againft  the  very  perfon  ©f  the  Holy  Ghoft,who 
C  he  affertedj  proceeded  from  the  Father  alone ,  and  not  from  the 
Father  and  Son. 

Cardinal  Eettone,  Arch-Bifhopof  Avignon,  laboured  tofruftrate  that 
enterpriie,  who  thus  exprefled  himfelf. 

Moft  iVuftriouf  Lords,  {hall  we  prefer  a  Grecian  to  the  Latin  Church, 
fl  caribuiif-no.  <»»«  eftablijb  a  Neophite  in  the  bigheft  place  of  the  Vatican  ?  Who  can 
part.  j.  lib.  i.  ajfure  uf  his  converfwn  is  true  ?  Heterodox  opinions  in  matter  of  ReL 

though  renounced  and  altered  with  the'f ongae  ,  do  yet  lejve  a  m*ddh:fs 
and  difturbance  upon  the  heart.  Shall  we  give  the  Kf)S  cf  Heaven  to 
$im,who  for  fo  many  years,  and  with  fo  many  Arguments  denyed  that 
there  was  a  purgatory  ?  Shall  we  maty  him  Bead  cfthe  CatholickjCbttrcb 
wbooppofeditwitbjomuckboldnefs?  Is  the  Church  of  Rome  fo  poor 

and 


Cent.  if.  Of  FRANCE.  175 

and  indigent^  that  -there  cannot  be  one  perfon  found  out  who  was  born  in 
her  bofom,  and  is  worthy  of  the  Government  of  the  flock^  of  Chrift  ?  What 
will  the  reft  of  the  Nations  fay,  to  fee  us  go  up  and  down  begging  our 
Topes  of  this  Ccuntrey^  and  of  that  ?  Roitze  up  your  fehes  moll  noble 
Companions,  and  permit  not  a  thing  fo  fiandalow  in  the  Church  of  Cbril. 
1  am  fure  of  this,  He  which  is  a  Friend  to  Cbriftianity  ,  will  not  give  hit 
vsice  for  fitch  a  Pope. 

Thefe  words  being  fpoken  with  great  energy,  had  fuch  an  effecl: 
upen  the  Cardinals,  that  they  chofe  Cardinal  Alphonfo  Borgia  ,  of  the 
City  of  Vatenz*  in  Spaittt  who  took  the  name  of  Calixtw  III. 

He  lived  three  years,  and  dyed  Auguft  6. 1458.  and  on  the  20th*  of 
the  fame  Month,  Cardinal  Mneas  ficcolomini  of  Siena  ,  was  created 
Pope  by  1 8.  Cardinals  which  were  prefent  in  the  conclave ,  in  which 
there  were  but  two  competitors  for  the  Papacy,  viz.  Cardinal  Rotema.- 
genps  and  JEneas  aforefaid  :  fo  that  for  the  four  days  time  in  which  it 
was  debated  in  the  conclave,  they  had  no  other  difficulty  but  to  make 
choice  of  the  one  or  the  other  of  thefe  two. 

It  was  ftrangetofee  each  of  thefe  two  perfons  driving  on  his  owii 
promotion,  magnifying  his  own  virtues,  and  debating  the  qualificati- 
ons of  his  Adverfary. 

Rotomagenfis  in  this  manner  went  from  one  Cardinal  to  another, 
faying,  \vhat  have  ye  to  do  with  J£.neas  >  How  can  ye  think  him  wor- 
thy of  the  Papacy  ?  What  pallion  blinds  you,  fo  as  to  confer  an  office 
of  that  import  upon  a  gouty  Beggar  >  where  is  his  Knowledge  > 
Where  is  his  Learning  ?  -will  ye  make  him  a  Popebecaufe  he  is  a  Poet  ? 
It  is  not  long  fince  he  came  out  of  Germany,  and  may  he  not  be  like- 
ly to  transfer  the  See  into  Germany  ?  Iftiouldnot  have  ambition'd  it, 
had  I  not  feen  a  perfon  ftand  for  it  of  much  weaker  parts  than  my  felh 
Befides,  I  am  the  Ancienter  Cardinal  of  the  two.  And  I  believe  you 
think  I  have  parts  and  Learning  enough  to  govern  the  Church  of 
Chrift.  Moreover,  I  am  of  Royal  extraction,  and  have  weakh,  friends, 
and  faculties  wherewithall  to  accommodate  and  alleviate  theneceflities 
of  the  Church  :  and  upon  my  Election  ,  the  many  Benefices  I  hold 
will  be  divided  among  you. 

The  Cardinal  of  Avignon  purfued  the  intereft  of  Wftiam  F,otoma* 
£?#///,  not  fo  much  as  he  was  a  French-man^  as  becaufe  upon  the  pro- 
motion the  Church  of  thefaid  Wttiam,  he  hoped,  with  his  Palace  and 
Chancery  would  fall  to  him.  He  aiTembled  therefore  certain  Cardi- 
nals in  an  houfe  of  Office,  as  in  a  fecret  place  in  the  night,  and  agreed 
with  them  about  the  way  how  William  fiiould  be  chofen. 
The  Cardinal  of  Bologna  difcovered  the  bufinefs  to  JEncas  after 
midnight. 

In  the  mornirg  early  JEneas  went  to  Cardinal  RWmgo,  a  Spaniard, 
and  one  of  the  confpirators  for  Rotomagenfo)  who  had  received  a  pro-  • 

rnife. 


Cent. 


mife  in  writing  from  the  faid  William^  and  the  Cardinal  of  Avignon^ 
that  the  Chancellour(hip  (hould  not  be  taken  from  him. 

He  excufed  himfelf  to  JEneas  that  he  had  concurred  ,  becaufe  he 
certainly  believed  he  would  be  chofen,  and  he  was  unwilling  to  hang 
off,  and  lofe  his  Chanccllours  place.  Mneat  anfwered,  will  you  then 
fell  your  Vote,  and  by  Simony  run  your  felf  into  the  difpleafurc  of 
God  >  Do  you  take  fo  little  care  then  to  obtrude  a  youth  upon  the 
Vatican,  and  one  that  is  arc  enemy  to  your  Nation?  Know  that  the 
Chancellourfhip  which  ispromifed  to  you,  is  promifed  like  wife  ,  and 
confirmed  to  the  Cardinal  of  Avignon  :  and  can  you  think  that  a 
French  Pope  will  do  more  for  a  Spaniard^  than  far  one  of  his  own  Na- 
tion. ^But  Roderigo  Borgia  gave  him  not  a  word. 

So  #,neat  departing  found  out  the  Cardinal  of  Pavia,  who  was  one 
of  the  confpirators  like  wife,  and  accofted  him  in  this  manner.  I  hear 
you  refol  veto  choofeRoftmugraftj  Pope.:  you  ought  to  be  alhamed  to 
degenerate  fo  much  from  Cardinal  "Brando  your  Uncle  ,  who  with  fo 
much  labour  and  fweat  tyred  himfelf  out  ,  to  transfer  the  Pontifical 
court  from  Germany  to  Rome:  and  you  that  are  his  Nephew  would 
tranfport  it  from  Italy  into  France.  Surely  Rotomagexps  will  never  give 
the  Italians  the  precedence  before  the  Frenchy  and  yet  you  an  Italian 
will  confederate  fooner  with  France  than  with  your  own  Coun- 
trey.  Can  you  have  the  heart  to  fee  your  felf  a  flave  to  the  French, 
when  it  is  in  your  power  to  make  the  French  obedient  to  our 
Nation  ? 

Cardinal  Tavin  replyed,  that  he  did  not  believe  that  the  French  had 
any  thoughts  againft  the  profit  of  the  Church,  they  having  given  with 
fo  much  generolity  moftof  the  Provinces  it  pofleffed,  and  they  would 
not  probably  take  away  that  which  they  had  fo  lately  given.  To  which 
JEneas  replyed  thus. 

But  fuppofe  that  (hould  be,  ought  it  not  to  ftir  up  your  heart  againft 
Rotomagenfis^to  confiderthe  infamy  of  his  manners,  who  is  given  to 
all  lafcivioufnefs.  You  have  often  told  me,  you  would  fooner  dye, 
than  give  your  voice  for  Rotomagenfis.  What  is  the  reafon  of  fo 
great  a  change  ?  Is  he  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye  become  an  Angel  of 
a  Devil  >  Or  are  you  become  a  Devil  of  an  Angel  > 

Pavia  was  aftonifhed  at  thefe  words,  and  wept,  replying  ,  All  that 
you  fay  JEneas  is  true  :  But  I  have  part  my  word  to  make  Rotomagenfif 
Pope,  and  if  I  do  not,  I  (hall  be  held  infamous  ,  and  a  Traytor.  To 
which  jEneas  anfwered.  Things  ftand  fo,  that  which  way  foever  you 
turn  you,  you  cannot  avoid  the  blemifh  of  a  Traytor  :  It  is  in.  your 
power  whether  you  will  betray  Italy  and  your  Countrey,  or  betray  him, 
and  be  faithful  to  your  Countrey  and  Italy. 

With  thefe  words  Pavia  was  overcome  ,  and  refol  ves  to  betray 
Rotogamenfis.  Then  meeting  with  Cardinal  Pittro  di  Santa  Maria 

nova 


Cent.!?.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E.  177 

nova,  and  other  Italian  Cardinals  in  the  Cardinal  of  Genoa's  chamber, 
they  all  refolved  to  prefer  JEneas  before  any  body  elfe. 

Rdtomagenfis  fearing  things  would  not  happen  as  he  expected, feeing 
JE.neas  going  to  ward  the  Schedule,  he  faid  to  him  with  an  humble 
voice,  Aneas^  I  recommend  my  felf  to  thee :  remember  me  1  befeech 
thee,  and  have  companion  on  me.  JEneaf  anfwered  him  only  thus, 
Poor  Worm,  thote  miftakfft  in  recommending  thy  felf  to  me.  The  Scruti- 
.ny  being  publiflned,  it  appeared,  that  ./Eneas  had  three  voices  more 
than  RotomagenjjSj  but  they  could  not  obtain  their  two  thirds,  this  a- 
.ftonifhed  the  French  Cardinals. 

The  Cardinals  Roderigo  and  Santa  dnaftafia  declared  JEneas  with  a 
loud  voice,  which  Cardinal  Profper  Colonna  obferving,  beingembitious 
to  have  the  honour  of  making  the  Pope  (Torasmuch  as  there  wanted 
but  one  voice)  arofe,  took  his  way  toward  A'MSM^  and  though  he  was 
reftrained  by  Cardinal  Niceno^nd  Rotomagenfis  he  cryed  aloud, I  joyn 
my  felf  to  Cardinal  JEneasjxnA  do  make  him  Pope.This  being  heard  by 
the  reft  of  the  Cardinals,  they  all  threw  themfelvesdown  ntJEneas's 
feet,  faluted  him  Pope,  and  confirmed  the  election  afterwards  with 
the  ufual  fuffrages.  Then  Cardinal  "Beffarinn  apologized  for  himielf 
to  the  new  Pope,  and  for  all  the  reft  of  the  Cardinals  who  had  fa- 
voured Rotomagejtfir. 

To  whom  JH.neas  •,  I  allure  you,  you  (hall be-all  equally  dear  to  me* 
for  I  acknowledge  my  Election,  not  from  this  perfon,  or  from  that, 
but  from  God,  and  the  whole  body  of  the  Colledge  infpir'd  by  the 
Holy  Ghoft,  from  whence  all  perfection  cometh. 

The  States  affembled  in  the  City  of  lows  ,  in  a  bill  which  they 
prefented  to  King  Lewes  XL  among  other  things,  fay,  That  if  the  King 
do  not  undertake  to  defend  them ,  confidering  the  quality  of  their 
perfons,  the  power  and  Authority  of  the  Holy  See  Apoftolick ,  they 
(hall  not  be  able  to  refift  the  ufurpations  and  impeachments  which 
any  Sub  je&  of  the  Realm,  and  others  ambitious  of  preferment,  will 
make  againft  the  Electors,  which  have  the  right  of  Election,  or  ordi- 
nary Donation  by  Apoftolick  cenfures.  And  by  this  means  all  this 
Kingdom  (which  is  already  at  a  low  ebb,  and  very  poor)  (hall  be  ftrip- 
ped  and  difpoiled  of  that  little  Money  which  remains  of  the  former 
Exactions. 

In  one  Ordinance  of  this  King  Lewes  we  find  thefe  words.  It  it 
a  grange  thing  ( faith  hej  that  the  unjuft  exaSiom  of  the  Conn  of 
Rome  Jhould  be  fnffered ;  fitch  as  their  expettative  Bulls,  and  other  10$ 
tytackf)  their  Money  for  vacancies ,  which  vt  levied  contrary  to  the  holy 
Canons  and  Decrees ,  and  contrary  to  the  determination  ef  the  Catholic^ 
Church  ,  and  facred  Councils^  that  what  is  fo  gotten  may  be  employed 
iu  pttrchafmg  of  Earldoms  and  Lordfhips ,  to  bejlow  upon  people  ef 
mean  condition ,  and  to  prefer  them  without  any  precedent  merit,  with- 

Aa  out 


178          5CDeecclefiafttcaiiWfto?p       cent.  15. 


out  any  fervice  or  ttfe  which  they  can  do  to  the  Church,  or  for  the  defence 
of  the  Faith. 

At  this  time  lived  Philip  de  Commutes  Knight,  he  was  born  ^t  'Corn- 
mines  a  Town  in  Flanders.  In  his  youth  he  fer  ved  Charles  Duke  of 
Burgundy,  and  afterwards  Levee  s  XI.  King  of  France  ,  who  employed 
him  in  his  moft  fecret  and  weightyeft  affairs.  He  hath  written  the 
Hiftory  of  France,  under  Lewes  XI.  and  Charles  VIII.  his  Son.  He 
wrote  fo  plainly  of  the  greateft  affairs  of  State,  that  Queen  Katherine 
de  Medjces  ufed  to  fay,  that  he  had  made  as  many  Hereticks  in  State-  po- 
licy, as  Luther  had  done  in  Religion.  Stephanas  Pafcbajitu  hath  this. 
Epitaph  of  him. 

•  • 
Galloruw,  &  nojlr£  Laus  una  &  gloria  gent  is, 

Hie  Commote  jaces,  ft  modo  forte  jaces, 
Hiftoriz  zitam  potuifti  reddere  -vivM, 
Extintlo  vitam  reddidit  Hiftoria. 

recueii.  des      We  find  certain  provifo's  made  by  King  Letves'Xl.  taken  out  of  TI 


3,auTItreDel' 

Lewes  by  the  Grace  of  God  King  of  France,  to  our  welbeloved 
and  faithful  Counfellour  the  Bifliop  of  Limoges,  and  to  our 
Trufty  and  welbeloved  the  Deaa  and  Chapter  of  Limoges  afore- 
iaid,  and  to  every  one  of  you,  as  well  joyntly  as  feverally,  fendeth 
greeting. 

Whereas,  our  Trttjiy  and  beloved,  the  Cba*ceVottrf,  Presents,  Maft'.rs 
of  Ordinary  Requtps  for  our  Houfiold,  Counfellottrt,  Refers,  Notaries 
together  with  our  Advocates  ,  and  Atttorney.  General  for  our  Conn  of 
Parliament,  evtryMan  in  his  place  and  Office  are  appointed  and  ordained  to 
wait  continually  upon  the  employment  and  administration  of  our  faid  Court, 
and  the  adminijlrjtion  of  Jujiice  Supream  and  Capital  for  our  faid  Realm* 
which  it  a  zery  laudable  thing  ,  commendable  and  necejj'ary  for  uf  ,  our 
Subjects,  and  the  whole  Common-wealth  of  ibis  our  Kingdom,  in  which 
our  Court,  the  Rights  and  Liberties  of  the  Church  of  France,  whereof  we 
ate  the  Guardian  and  Proteilor,  are  preferred. 

And  far  this  reafon  oar  f*id  Court  doth  cottfifl  in  part  of  CounfeVours 
awl  Oficers,  which  are  Clergy,  men,  and  Ecclefiaftical  Perfons.  And  in 
confideration  of  the  great,  and  laudable  fervices  of  the  faid  Cbancehur 
Presents,  Makers  of  Requejis,  Counfehrs,  Regijlers,  Notaries  ,  Adio. 
caies  and  Attorney,  they  or  others  by  their  nomination,  by  means  of  the  in- 
terceffion  of  our  fr^deceffars  to  the  Prelates,  and  other  Patrons  and  eon- 
ferrers  cf  Eezejices,  have  been  preferred  unto  ,  and  generally  provided  of 
-Livings  ,  which  the  faid  Prelates,  or  others  the  Patrons  ,  or  beftow- 


ert 


Cent,  15.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E.  179 

ers  of  the  fame,  have  freely  conferred  upon  them,  or  have  prefented  them 
unto  the  faid  Patrons  in  favour  and  conjideration  of  w,  and  their  own 
great  and  commendable  fenices  as  aforefaid.  Which  faid  Cbancelloitr, 
President ,  Mafter  of  Requefls,  &c.  face  our  coming  f  0  the  Crown,  nor  a 
long  time  before,  have  not  had  any  fuch  preferment  upon  our  entreaty  and 
requejl  to  the  faid  Prelates, Patrons,  and  Collatonrs,  as  they  were  wont  to 
have.  And  for  this  Reafon  the  faid  Court  hath  with  our  leave  and  Li- 
cence,made  a  cer  tain  RoV,  wherein  every  one  of  them  are  prefented  and 
nominated,  or  have  prefented  and  nominated  others  in  their  ftead,  each  one 
to  fome  other  preferment  belonging  to  you,  or  other  the  Collators  and 
Patrons  of  the  Benefices  of  our  faid  Realm. 

And  whereas  our  Irufty  and  Welbeloved  Counfellour,  Mr.  German  l 
Chartclier,  hath  nominated  hit  Son*unto  one  of  your  Collations,  and  pre- 
fentations,  We  intreat  and  require  yon,  to  give,  prefect,  and  beftew  upon 
the  faid  Mr.  German  Chartelier,  the  firft  'Benefice  that /hall  be  void  with- 
in your  "Difpofal,  Collation,  or  Prefentation,  as  our  faid  Connfel!our  fiall 
require,  or  canfe  you  to  be  required  thereunto ,  hoping  tb&t  you  will  not 
make  any  denyal  of  this  sur  Reqaell,  which  'w  maft  juft  and  reasonable,  but 
will  obey  it :  efpecially  considering,  that  our  faid  Chancellour  ,  Presidents, 
MaftersofRequefts,  &c.  are  employed  daily,  and  in  continual  trouble  a- 
bout  the  maintenance  and  defence  of  the  Rights  and  priviledges  of  the 
Churches  of  our  faid  Realm  ,  and  the  adminiftration  of  Jullice  to  cur 
faid  Subjefts  :  fignifying  unto  you,  tbxt  yon  /hall  herein  do  us  fuch  an 
acceptable  favour,  as  nothing  more,  by  means  whereof  we  take  you  and 
your  affairs  into  fpecial  recommendation.  Given  at  Mtfcon ,  Angx(l  \  8. 
in  the  fixth  year  of  our  Reign,  thus  fubfcribed.  Bj  the  King.  In  the 
prefence  of  my  Lord  Cardinal  D'  Amboife  Legat  in  France  ,  and 
others.  Robert et.  Sealed  with  yellow  Wax,  with  the  King's  broad 
Seal. 

There  is  in  the  fame  Book  an  exemplification  of  the  privy  Letters, 
which  the  Court  of  Parliament  writ  to  the  Prelates  about  thefe  no- 
minations, the  Tenour  whereof  is  this. 

Reverend  father  in  God,  We  fend  greeting  to  you, 

//  hath  pleafed  the  King  to  grant  unto  the  Prefjdents,  Connfellours  and 
other  Officers  of  this  Court,  hit  Letters  and  nomination  to  fome  Renefices, 
which  are  in  the  hands  nf  fome  Collatours  and  Patrons  of  this  Realm, 
and  'among  others  to  our  Brother ,  fuch  a  Cou»fellour  of  vur  faid  Scve- 
raign  in  thit  Court,  to  the  Benefices  which  are  in  your  gift  and  difpofal. 
Wherefore  we  earnestly  befeecb  you,  that  in  obedience  to  the  faid  Letters, 
and  in  consideration  of  the  defertt  of  our  faid  Brother,  you  would  befiow 
upon  him  the  prjl  Benefice  that  falls  in  your  gift,  being  by  him  required 

A  a    2  the  re* 


i8o        U3)e  Cccleffettfcal  $tfto#       Cent.  15, 

thereunto.  And  in  fo  doing  yon  (hall  do  us  a  moft  acceptable  couttefie, 
for  which  roe  (hall  takf  your  affairs  into  fpecial  Recommendation.  Re- 
W rend  Father  in  God,  we  befeecb  the  bleffed Sen  of  Godto  grant  you  your. 
defvre.  Written  at  Paris  in  the  Parliament,  under  the  Seafthereof, 
Septemb,  7.  The  Men  celebrating  the  Parliament.  And  this  Annotatioa 
is  written  in  the  Margin.  Antiquities  fiebant  aliter. 

voyez  k  recueii  The  laid  King  Lewes  XI.  in  an  Ordinance  of  January  8.  1475.; 
Du  Fontan.  ics  makes  this  Narration.  When  any  Queftions  or  differences  come  upon 
ces.DTom.°4.Tit".  *?» as  we^  concerning  the  ftatc  of  the  Church  of  our  Kingdom  ,  as  other, 
our  affairs,  we  that  ought  to  have  recourfi  to  them,  cannot  he  aflijied,  aid- 
td,or  advifed  therein  by  reafon  of  their  abfence,  where  we  and  the  Com- 
mNi~wealth  are  oftentimes  much  inter fjfed... 
Then  after  this  Jie  ordains  in  this  manner. 

W'eiFiti,  Ordain^  and  declare  by  tbefe  Prefents,  that  all  Arcb-BiJhfpir 
T&jhops,  Abbots, Prelates )  and  other  s^that  bold  any  Dignities  within  our 
Kingdom,  and  do  re  fide  mt  of  the  bounds  thereof ,  and  out  of  our  Ohedi- 
ence:  T>o  Retttnt  and  Repair  within  five  months  after  the  publication  of 
thefe  Prefents^  unto  their  Benefices  within  our  fald  Realm ,  or  unto  fome 
one  of  them  if  they  have  any  more,  and  there  makf  continual  TLefidence, 
there  to  celebrate  and  continue  divine  Service  as  belongs  unto  them ,  antL 
af  they  are  bound  to  do.  As  alfa  to  the  end  that  they  may  ferve  and  ajfiji 
us  in  our  Councils,  and  otherwife  to  the  behoof  of  M  ,  and  the  Common- 
wealth of our  faid  Kingdom  when  need  foall  be.  And,  tb'x  upon- pain  of 
being  deprived. of  the  Temporals  of  their  faid  Benefices. 

dirqni.  ^'n&  Lewes  falling  into  a  long  and  and  grievous  ficknefs,  gave  much 
'  Alms  :  and  in  the  Church  of  St.  JobnBaptift  in  Paris,  he  founded 
certain  Prieftstofmg  MalTes  for  him  perpetually,  for  whofe  mainte- 
nance he  gave  of  yearly  Rent  athoufand  pounds  of  Paris  Money  :  So 
he  remained  in,  a  languifhing  condition  three  years  before  he 
dyed. , 

He  dyed  Auguft^o.  1483.  and  his  Son,  Charlet  VIII.  fucceeded  him. 
in  the  Kingdom,C/^r/?/  being  crowned  at  B-hemes,  was  from  thence 
with  pomp  brought  to  Paris.     A  general  Parliament  was  held   at 
Tours,  where  the  Pragmatic^  Sanftion  was  reftored  to  ufe  it  as  they  ,- 
had  accuftomed. 

In  the  year,  14514.  jhis  King  Charles  VIII.  carried  an  Army  of 
fifty  thoufand  of  Foot  and  Horfe  out  of  France  into  Italy  ,  and  in 
two  months  fpacc,  he  became  Lord  of  the  whole  Kingdom  of  Na- 
plet,  except  fome  little/Towns  on  the  Sea-iide,  which  held  for  King_ 
Ferdinand. 

The  Pope  feejng  the  fuccefs  of  King  Charles ,  makes  a  League  with 
ttje  .Emperour  frlaximilian,  and  IhsFfWlitntt  Into  this  League,  alfc 

entred  : 


Cent  if.  Of  FRANCE.  i8r 

cntred  Lewes  Duke  of  Milan,  notwithstanding  that  by  his  procure- 
ment King  Charles  took  occailon  to  come  into  Italy.  King  Charier 
having  Intelligence  of  this  League,  refolves  to  leave  fwch  forces  in  the 
Kingdom  of  Naples,  as  might  be  fufficient  for  the  defence  thereof,  and 
with  the  reft  of  his  Army  to  return  into  France  j  and  marching  to- 
ward Rome,  he  gave  the  Pope  to  underhand,  that  he  came  to  do  his 
duty  to  his  Holinefs.  Pope  Alexander-Hot  daring  to  abide  his  coming- 
departed  from  Rome,  wherein,  and  in  other  of  the  Pope's  Towns,  the 
King's  Troops  did  much  harm. 

The  Fnr«c/;?King  departing  from  Rome,  continueth  his  journey  to- 
ward France.  Coming  near  to  Parma  ,  paffing  the  River  T'arro,  he 
met  a  great  Army  of  his  Enemies,  whereof  Francti  Gonzaga,  Marquefs 
of  Manttt*  was  General,  with  whom  they  came  to  a  Battle,  in  which 
there  dyed  a  thoufand  Men  of  both  fides,  Anno  140-5.  But  after 
fome  Treaties  between  the  two  Armies,  the  French  in  a  night  went 
toward  Afle,  where  the  King  remained  certain  days,  and  a  Peace  was 
concluded  between  him  and  the  Duke  of  Milan  >  and  Lewes  E)uke  of 
Orleans  rendring  Novarra,  King  Charles  returned  into  France,  and  Per* 
di'nand  King  of  Naples  recovered  that  Kingdom. 

Concerning  theabufesof  the  Court  of  Rome,  among  the  Statutes 
of  this  King  Charles  VIII.  I  find  in  a  Statute  of  February  18.  I4ptf. 
this  complaint.  "  Some  years  ago  the  Popes  of  Rome,  in  defpight  and  • 
''-contempt  of  the  Decrees  of  Antient  Fathers  and  General  Councils, 
1  have  brought  all  Ecclefiaftical  Dignities,  Cathedral  and  Collegiate' 
1  under  their  difpofal,  and  all  other  of  greateft  value  next  after  Bi-  cou 

*  ftiopricks :  they  have  granted  Livings  in  reverfions  upon  the  Vacan- ••!«'.  *«ca.$. 
*'"cy  to  any  that  would  fue  for  them  •,  which  hath  been  the  occafion- 

1  for  one  to  third  after  the  death  of  another.     They  have  invented 

*  abundance  of  tricks ,  whereby  they  have  utterly  annihilated  the- 
4  power  and  Authority  of  the  Bi(hops,  Chapters    and    Colledges,' 

tc  infomuch  that  there  is  none  now  ,  that  hath  the  power  to  prefect' 
"  to  a  living. 

In  the  Year,  1498.  King  Charles  VIM.  dyed  of  an  Apoplexy  at  Am- 
boife.  In  him  failed  the  dire&  Line  of  the  Kings  of  France ,  defcen- •• 
ded  from  Philip  of  Valois,  and  the  Crown  fell  to  the  collateral  Line,  of 
the  which  the  neareft  Prince  of  the  Blood  was  Lewes  Duke  of  Orleans' 
and  Valois,  who  fucceedcd  in  the  Kingdom  of  France.  He  was  an- 
excellent  Prince,  of  a  liberal  Nature,  affable,  temperate,  and  of  great, 
moderation,  and  was  happy  in  his  Reign.  Who  fubdued  under  his  • 
obedience,  Milan  ,  with  Lombardy,  m&Genoa  with  her  two  Rivers,1 
Raft  and  Weft,  together  with  the  Illands  of  Corfica  and  Chio  ,  re-- 
conquered and  divided  the  Realm  of  Naples;  with  the  King  of' 
Spain  ^  but  in  the  end  loft  it  by  his  Treachery ,  fupprelTed  the^ 
Pope's  infolency ,  and  defeated  the  Venetians.  -  Be  was  crowned- 

in- 


i8a  e  ccclefialtfcal  ifto         Cent. 


in  the  Abbey  ot   Saint  T*erivs  in   France  ,    on   the    firft     of  July 
-  following,  and    on    the    next    day   made  his  triumphant    entry 
into  Pant. 


Century  XVI. 


L 


Ewes  XII.  after  he  had  worthily  performed  the  Funerals  of  his 
Predeceflbur,  he  firft  purchafed  the  love  of  the  Noble-men  of 
his  Court,  maintaining  every  man  in  his  State  and  Dignity, 
and  the  Magiftrates  in  their  Office.  He  fought  to  cut  off  the 
tedioufnefs  of  Suits  i  he  freed  his  Subjects  from  the  third  part  of  the 
Subfidies  which  oppreffed  them :  he  put  the  Men  at  Arms  into  Garri- 
fons,  reducing  them  to  the  Antient  Difcipline  of  War.  He  made  ma- 
ny good  Laws  againft  the  abufive  charges  in  the  purfuit  of  Juftice  : 
neither  did  he  ever  publiflh  any  Edict  before  it  was  confirmed  by  the 
Judgement  of  Soveraign  Courts. 

pe  Serres  Hi/t.  His  Decrees  contained  fome  limitation  of  the  priviledges  granted  in 
in^t.  Ludovki.  0]j  t-me  to  univerfities,  the  which  they  abufed  to  the  oppretlion  of 
the  people.  Thellniverfity  of  Paris  oppofeth  againft  the  publicati- 
on thereof,  and  many  infamous  Libels  were  publifhed  againft  the  King 
and  theChancellourof  Rocbefirt.  The  Scholars  flock  together,  re- 
folding to  abandon  both  ftudy  and  the  exercife  of  Learning.  John 
Cave  being  Rcdor  ,  'forbids  the  Regents  to  read  any  more,  and  the 
Preachers  to  preach,  until  the  Univerlity  had  recovered  her  Antient 
priviledges.  The  King  hereupon  draws  many  Men  at  Arms  into 
Paris,  and  in  Parliament  confirms  the  abovenamed  ordinances  by  an 
Edict. 

The  Rector  fearing  a  check,  keeps  all  the  Scholars  within  their 
Lodgings,  and  revokes  the  commancteent  he  had  given.  John 
SfWo^aDoctorof  Divinity,  one  of  'he  chief  of  the  Fadion,was 
banilhed  the  Realm.  Ibomas  Warnet  of  Cambray  (who  in  preaching 
had  railed  againft  the  King's  Authority ;  banifhed  himfelf.  All  things 
being  thus  fettled,  Lewes  takes  upon  him  the  Title  of  Duke  of  Milan. 

He 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE.  183 

He  puts  a  way  Joan  his  Wife,  and  marries  with  Ann  5  the  \Viddow  of 
the  late  King  Charles. 

Our  Ladies  Bridge  at  Paris  fell  ,  threefcore  houfes  were  ruined 
with  it,  and  a  great  number  of  perfons  were  fwallowed  up  in  the 
River. 

As  touching  the  priviledges  of  the  Kings  of  France,  we  find,  when 
the  Parliament  of  Paris  gave  their  opinion,  and  all  the  Chambers  met 
together  about  receiving  the  Cardinal  of  Ambo'ife  ,  and  the  qualificati- 
ons that  (hould  be  put  to  his  faculties  (which  was  on  Decemb.  u. 
1501.)  the  Laws  of  the  Land  and  the  Liberties  of  the  Gallican  Church 
were  reprefented  at  large,  among  which  this  was  one  ,  That  the  King 
of  France  cannot  be  excommunicated ,  that  his  Kingdom  can- 
not be  put  under  an  Interdict ,  as  is  collected  out  of  the  Antient, 
Regifters. 

In  the  beginning  of  this  Century  ,  Mr.  John  le  Maire  one  of  the 
French  Hittorians  wrote  his  Book  of  Schifm,  and  therein  gives  us  to 
underftand,  that  there  were  endeavours  then  for  the  Reformation  of 
the  Church.  Every  good  Chriftian  (faith  he)  ought  to  pray  to  God, 
that  the  two  laft  Councils  of  the  Gallican  Church,  may  engender  one 
great,  Univerfal,  and  general  Council  of  all  the  Latin  Church  ,  to  re- 
form that  Church,  as  well  in  the  Head  as  the  Members  •-,  fo  as  the  ge- 
neral  Councils  ufe  to  do.  And  that  if  it  be  not  kept  at  Lyons,  it  may- 
be kept  in  fome  other  place  moft  expedient  and  neceflary  for  the  pub- 
lick  good  :  which  may  be  very  well  done  at  this  prefent,  confidering 
the  great  peace,  amity  and  union  which  is  betwixt  the  two  greateft 
Potentates  in  Chrhkndom,  the  Emperour  and  the  King,  together  with 
a  third  confederate  in  the  League,  the  Catholick  King  Ferdinand  of,. 
Arragon,  who  ought  altogether  to  reform  the  abufes  of  the  Church  of 
Rome,  \vhich  Reformation  muft  of  neceflity  be  made. 

Thus  he  fpeaks  of  the  aforementioned  Pragmatic!^  SanSion.  Foras- 
much (faith  he)  as  the  Pope's  are  not  content ,  that  the  Tragmatick^ 
Saj&ion  be  in  force,  although  it  be  founded  upon  the  Holy  Canons, • 
and  Authorized  by  the  Council  of  Bafil,  but  it  derogates  from  the 
unfatiable  covetoufnefs  of  the  Court  of  Rome,  therefore  they  fay  it  is 
a  pure  Heretic. 

In  the  time  of  this  King  Letve s  XII.  lived  Robert   Gsgrvin,  who 
wrote  the  French  Hitfory.     Erafintt*  his  intimate  Friend,  calls  him   a 
rnoft  difcreet  Hiftoriographer :  he  compares  him  to  Salitji  and  Livy,  Au-ertf  M 
for  purity  of  fpeechand  competition  of  his  Hiftory.     He  was  alfo  a  E'°e-Belg; 
good  Poet,  and  an  excellent  Oratour,and  a  Man  well  skilled  in  all  po* 
lite  Learning.     He  was  fent  AmhafTadour  by.,the  King  of  France  in-    . 
to  England,  Italy, zr\&  Germany. 

About  this  time  flourished  Jacabus  Faber,  skilled  in  all  Learning, 
and  efpecially  in  Divinity.  Farel  and  Calvin  were  his.  Scholars. 

Sleida* , 


184  5C|)C  CCCUftaftical  $«to#      Cent.  1 6. 

Sleidan  faith,  he  differed  great  perfecution  for  the  truth  ,  from  the 
Matters  at  P*ri*. 

He  was  very  low,  of  a  modeft  countenance,  and  a  fweetdifpofition 
his  mind  wholly  eftranged  from  all  injaftice.  I  find  him  thus  cha- 
racterized. Celebcrrimw  nojhi  feculi Philofopbw^  Eelg.  quinine  &  to- 
•tiufGafli*  unum  deem.  Przmuf  apud  ^Gdlos  (ut  Cicero  apud  RomanosJ 
Pbilofopbiamrudem&  impolitamcttm  eloquentiajttnxit.  Eft  in  dicendo 
fublimif,  in  fenteat'ris  gravis,  in  attentions  exquifitus^  in  compofitionf  di- 
ligent ac  cHfiofus.T'ritbem.de  Viris.Illutirib. 

Jodoctts  Clicbtovetts,  a  moft  learned  Man  of  Paris ,  was  contempo- 
.rary  with  Jacobus  Faber. 

serm  Hift.      King  Lftves  and  the  Emperour  being  at  variance,  a   Treaty  was  a- 

vit.  Ludov.  greed  on,  and  for  this  Treaty  the  Cardinal   of  Amboife^  Lieutenant- 

*  General  for  his  Ma jefty  at  Milan,  went  to  the  Emperour  to  'frent^ 

where  firft  they  Treated  of  the  marriage  of  Charles  the  eldeft  Son  to 

the  Arch-Duke  Philip  of  Aitftria,  with  Clattde^the,  only   Daughter  of 

Lewfff  XII.  then  about  the  calling  a  General  Council  to  reform   the 

Church,  not  only  in  the  members,    but  even  in  the  Head   doubtlefs 

there  is  (mail  aflurance  in  the  friend  (hip  of  Princes,    who   thirft  after 

nothing  but  their  own  greatnefs. 

Moreover,  feldom  (hall  we  fee  any  thing  fucceed  well  with  them, 
who  have  coloured  their  paffions  with  the  name  of  the  Church  ,  and 
the  Reformation  thereof,  which  they  did  not  really  intend.  And 
likewife  all  the  malitious  practices,  and  School-tricks  of  a  Cardinal, 
Cwhofe  ambitious  fpirit  gaped  after  the  Popedom.)  what  could  they 
produce  butfmoak  for  France ,  and  combuftion  for  Italy  > 
.  The  Arch- Duke  Philip  with  his  Wife,  Daughter  to  Ferdinand  King 
of  Arragon^  and  Ifabe I  Queen  of  Caftile,  paffcd  through  Paris  Novemb. 
2 5.  and  from  thence  to  B/o;/,  where  the  King  and  Queen  remained, 
where  they  concluded  the  marriage  of  their  children.  But  Man  pttrpo-. 
Jetb^and  God  difpofetb. 

The  Duke  of  Milan  was  foon  after  made  Prifoner  by  the  Treachery 
of  the  Suffers :  Cardinal  Afcanitts  leaves  Milan  abandoned ,  but  he  is 
betraid,  and  led  prifoner  to  Venice:  but  the  French  King  fent  for  him 
to  Venice^  and  not  only  the  perfon  of  the  Cardinal  was  delivered  to 
him,  but  alfo  all  thofe  of  Milan  that  were  taken  with  him.  The 
City  of  Milan9  which  had  revolted  from  the  Frtncb  3  fent  fpcedy  Am- 
bafladours  to  the  Cardinal  D5  Amboife  to  folicit  Cor  pardon.  He  re- 
ceived them  into  grace,  and  pardoned  the  Rebellion  in  the  name  of  the 
King,  but  under  this  bond,  to  pay  three  hundred  thoufand  Ducats,  of 
*  the  which  the  King  afterwards  difcharged  them  in  a  great  part.  He 
pardoned  alfo  other  Towns  that  had  rebelled  ,  which  he  taxed  ac- 
cording to  their  Quality,  making  the  Vi&ory  profitable,  and  the  tranf- 
greffions  of  the  Offenders  an  increafe  of  the  King's  Treafure. 

Lndevi- 


Cental  Of  FRANCE. 


Ludovicus  S/orza  Duke  of  Milan  was  carried  to  Lyons  ,  where  the 
King  was  at  that  time  :  and  entring  the  Town  at  noon-  day,  multi-  G?icci?rd!n'« 
tudes  of  people  flocked  to  fee  a  Prince  who  from  fuch  greatnefs  and  Hlft'  U'4' 
Majefty  was  fallen  into  fo  great  a  mifery.  And  not  obtaining  leave 
to  be  brought  into  the  King's  prefence,  which  he  much  defired,  he 
was  conveyed  within  two  days  after  to  the  Tower  of  Locbes,  wherein 
he  remained  prifoner  ten  years,  even  to  the  end  of  his  Life.  The  Car- 
dinal  Afcanius  followed  him  a  little  after  ,  but  he  was  both  received 
with  more  honour  and  humanity,  and  gratioufly  vifited  by  the  Cardi- 
nal P'  Amboife,  by  whofe  interceflion  he  was  fent  to  the  great  Tower 
at  Eourges^  a  prifon  more  honourable,  wherein  the  King  that  ftnt  him 
had  before  been  reft  rained  two  years  in  captivity. 

Pope  Alexander  VI.  being  dead,  Anno  1503.  Pi*f  HI.  was  chofen, 
but  he  dyed  within  27.  days.  Then  was  Julius  II.  chofen  ,  a  Man 
froward,  cruel,  factious  and  turbulent. 

Anno  1  506.  the  French  King,  albeit  the  year  before  he  was  much  dif- 
contented  with  the  Pope,  for  that  he  had  difpofed  and  inducted  the 
Benefices  which  were  void  by  the  death  of  Cardinal  Afianius,  and  o- 
thersin  the  Dutchy  of  Milan  ,  without  his  participation:  and  for 
that  alfoin  the  creation  of  other  Cardinals,  he  had  rcfufcd  to  call  the 
Bi(hopof  Acbz,  Nephew  to  the  Cardinal  D'  Amboife-y  and  the  Bifliop 
of  Baietex,  Nephew  to  Monfieur  Irimovil'e  ^  being  earneftly  folicited 
by  the  King,  who  in  thofe  regards  had  caufed  to  be  fequeftred  the  fruits 
of  the  Benefices,  which  the  Cardinal  S.  P.  adVincula  ,  and  others  of 
the  Pope's  Amity  pofTcfled  in  the  State  of  MiUn.  Yet  the  King  on 
the  other  fide  judged  it  ncceflary  to  re-enter  into  reconcilement  with 
the  Pope,  to  whom  after  he  had  rdeafedall  the  fcqucftrations,  he  fent 
the  Biihop  of  Stfteron,  the  Pope's  Nuncio,  to  negotiate  with  him  many 
plots  againft  the  Venetians,  to  whom  he  knew  the  Pope  could  not  but 
continue  to  bear  an  ill  will,  for  the  defire  he  had  to  recover  the  towns 
of  Romania. 

TheBifhopof  Sifter  on  being  received  and  heard  with  gladnefs  a- 
greeable  to  the  nature  of  his  deiire,  was  difpatched  ,  and  fent  back  a- 
gain  with  diligence,  to  folicit  between  them  a  re-union  and  amity: 
wherein  the  better  to  difpofe  the  mind  of  the  King,  and  the  Cardinal 
£>'  Amboife^  he  promiftd  by  writ  (which  the  faid  Nuncio  carried  with 
him)  the  Dignity  of  Cardinal  to  the  BUhops  of  Acbz  and  Kaieux. 
Yet  notwithstanding  in  fo  great  an  heat  of  torwardnefs,  he  entred  of- 
tentimes into  many  doubts  and  difficulties,  either,  for  a  certain  hate  he 
had  conceived  againft  the  French  King,  at  fuch  time  as  himfelf  fled 
into  France  to  avoid  the  trains  laid  for  him  by  Pope  Alexander  i  or 
for  that  it  much  difcontented  him  to  be  as  it  were  drawn  by  compul- 
fion  by  the  power  and  importunity  of  the  French  King,  to  transfer  to 
the  Cardinal  P'  Amboife  the  Legation  of  the  Kingdom  of  Frame  :  or 

Bb  lirtly,. 


•8£  ffije  eCdCfiafflCal  %tftp?p          Cent.  1 6. 

laftly,  for  that  he  fufpeded  left  the  faid  Cardinal  (who  afpired  to  the 
PopedomJ  not  having  patience  to  tarry  for  his  Death,  would  feek  to 
climb  up  to  it  by  ways  finifter  and  extraordinary.  Thefe  things 
made  him  often  to  waver  in  his  Refolutions,  determining  not  wholly 
to  joyn  with  the  French  King  •>  and  yet  without  his  conjunction  ,  he 
knew  it  was  impoffible,  that  at  that  time  any  thing  of  confcqucuce 
ftiould  fucceed  with  him. 

Pope  Ja/wrefolves  to  recover  "Bblognia  by  force  of  Arms,  for  a 
hatred  newly  kindled  againft  John  'Bentivoglo ,  becaufe  in  the  time  of 
hisadvertity,  when  he  durftnot  abide  in  Rome\  and  feeking  fafety  in 
Cento^  a  Town  of  his  Biftioprick  in  Bolognia^  he  was  driven  to  flee  away 
by  night,  hearing  a  bruit  publi(hed  that  he  fhouldbe  apprehended  pri- 
fener  at  the  inftance  of  Pope  Alexander. 

The  Pope  tcok  Cefena  and  Forolivfa,  fiomCxfar  Borgia^  the  Son  of 
Pope  Alexander  VI.  He  expelled  the  Family  of  Eentivogli  out  of 
'Bononia:  he  excommunicated  the  Venetians^  and  gave  their  Lands  to 
the  tirft  that  could  take  them.  King  Lewes  XII.  overthrew  the 
Venetians  at  Abdita:  and  albeit  he  gave  the  greateft  part  of  his  pur- 
chafe  unto  Julius ,  yet  he  envyeth  the  profperity  of  Lerves, 
and  combined  again  with  the  Venetians ,  to  expell  him  out  of 
Italy. 

Anno  1510.  died  the  Cardinal  P*  Atnboife  ,  Uncle  to  the  Lord  of 
O)Attm.mt^  a  man  of  a  great  fpirit,  and  well  experienced  in  affairs :  but 
With  thefervice  of  his  Matter,  he  did  not  forget  the  content  of  his  own 
private  ambition. 

The  Pope  reneweth  the  War  againft  thofe  of  Ferrara  ,  and  feeing, 
himfelf  unable  to  prevail  with  his  Temporal  Forces,  he  excom- 
municafes  Alfiimfo  of  Efle ,  and  all  thofe  who  were  or  (hould  come 
to  his  fuccour,  namely  Charles  of  Amboifc^  with  all  the  chief  of  the 
Trench  Army. 

rrcsHift.       This  tuiious  courfe  made  King  Lewes  toafTemble  all  the  Prelates 
'  "cf  his  Realm  ntTW/,  with  the moft  famous  Doctors  of  all  his  Uni- 
vcrlities,  as  we!!  in  Divinity,  as  in  the  Civil  and  Canon  Laws,  who 
refolveupon  eight  notable conclufions  againft  the  Pope. 


Ei  ht   concinfi-      ?•  ^at  ^  was   not  lawful  for  the  Pope  to  aiTail  any  Temporal 
ons  -.«de  by  the  Princes  by  force  in  their  Territories  not  belonging  to  rhe  Church. 
Se^Poj^'at/       2-  That  it  was  lawful  for  any  fuch  Prince,  for  the  defence  of  his 
*w*.  Subjedsand  Countrey,  not  only  to  repel  this  in  jury  by  force  ,  butalfo 

to  invade  the  Territories  of  the  Church  poffeiTed  by  any  fuch  Pope, 
n  t  with  an  intent  to  hold  them,  but  to  the  end  (the  Pope  being  difpof- 
ftiTcd  thereof J  he  thould  have  no  more  means  to  moleft  his  Elh;r>  fee- 
ing the  Pope  had  ihrough  the  aid  of  the  faid  prince  Recovered  the  fame 
panels  ufurpcd  before  by  certain  Tyrants,. 

3.  That: 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE.  187 

g.  That  forfo  manifeft  a  wrong  and  unjuft  attempt,  any  fuch 
Prince  might  withdraw  himfelf  from  the  Pope's  obedience, 
for  the  defence  of  his  Temporal  Eftate ,  feeing  he  had  ftirred  up 
many  other  Princes  and  Common-weals  to  invade  the  Domi- 
nions of  the  faid  Prince,  who  deferved  reward  and  love  from  the  A- 
poftolical  See. 

4.  That  this  fubftra&ion  being  made,  they  (hould  obfcrve  in  France 
the  common  and  Antient  Law,  and  the  Fragwatick^  SanSion  enadred  at 
the  Council  of  KafiL 

5.  That  any  fuch  Prince  might  by  force  defend  another  Prince ,  his 
confederate,  and  of  whom  he  had  lawfully  taken  the  protection  for 
thofe  Seigneuries  which  he  had  long  enjoyed  with  a  juft  Title  ,  feeing 
this  confederacy  had  been  made  with  the  confent  of  the  faid  Pope,  who 
fas  the  chief J  was  comprehended  therein  :  and  that   this  Prince  al- 
lyed  according  to  the  form  of  the  League,  had  given  aid  for  the  reco- 
very of  the  patrimony  of  St.  Peter. 

6.  That  the  Pope  pretending  any  thing  due  for  any  Rights  belong- 
ing to  the  Church  of  Rome,  and  the  Prince  on  the  other  fide  challenged 
to  hold  of  the  Empire,  and  (hould  refer  this  controverfie  to  the  cen- 
fure  of  indifferent  Judges,  as  Equity  required',  that  in  this  cafe  it  was 
not  lawful  for  the  Pope  without  further  knowledge  of  the  caufe,  to 
make  War  againft  any  fuch  Prince,  which  if  he  did,  the  faid  Prince 
might  oppofe  his  Forces  with  other  Princes  his    confederates ,  fo  as 
that  right  had  not  been  poffefled  by  the  Roman   Church   within  an 
hundred  years. 

7.  That  if  the  Pope  would  not  accept  this  honed  and  lawful  offer, 
but  contrary  to  order  and  right  (hould  give  fentence  againft  any  fuch 
Prince,  maintaining  his  right  not  to  depend  upon  the  Church  i  neither 
he  nor  any  other  by  oppoting  (hould  incur  the  cenfure  of  that  fentence, 
feeing  that  Prince  had  no  free  accefs,  neither  to  go  nor  fend  to  Rome 
to  defend  his  Rights. 

8.  That  if  the  Popeunjuftly    (the  due  courfe  of  Law   not  ob- 
fervedj  (hould  by   main  force  pronounce  any  cenfures  againft  any 
fuch   Princes,   their  Allyes  and  Subjects,  refifting  in  fuch  a   cafe, 
the  fentence  were  of  no   force ,  neither  could  it  be  by  any  means 
binding. 

The  King  hereupon  fent  Ambafladours  to  Pope  Julius  in  the  name 
of  the  French  Church,  to  admonim  him,  that  leaving  his  defigns  ,  he 
fhould  attend  to  peace,  and  reconcile  himfelf  with  the  aforefaid  Prin- 
ces, and  upon  refufal  they  (hould  fummon  him  to  call  a  Council  ac- 
cording to  the  Decrees  of  the  Holy  Council  of  Eafil.  But  the  Pope 
dcfpifethall. 

Then  the  Emperour's  and  the  King  of  France  his  Deputies,  affiftcd 

B  b  2  by 


i88 ,  3Cl)e  CCCleflafftCai  $lftO#  Cent.  16. 

by  the  Cardinals  of  St.  Crowe,  St.  Mah,  Eaieux,  Colenfe,  Albret,  and  ma- 
ny others  on  May  ip.  i  5 1 1.  publifli  a  general  Council  to  be  held  at 
Pifa  for  the  firft  of  September  following,  the  which  City  was  lately 
returned  to  the  ©bedience  of  the  Florentines. 

To  crofs  this  Council,  the  Pope  (following  the  ad  vice  ofAntbony  dc 
Mont  of  St.  Sanfovin,  one  of  the  eight-  Cardinals  newly  created  at 
Ravenna)  appointed  a  general  Council  on  May  j.  at  St.  Jobnde  Late- 
ran'm  Rome.  And  to  keep  the  King's  forces  quiet,  he  colourably 
gave  ear  to  a 'peace,  which  the  Bifhopof  livoli  his  Nuncio  ,  and  the 
King  of  Scof-r  Ambafladour  treated  for  him  with  the  Ring,  and  the 
Cardinals  of  Nantes  and  Strigonium  with  the  Pope. 

But  Julius  having  been  tick,  and  being  freed  from  the  fears  of 
death,  he  makes  a  new  League  with  the  Senate  of  Venice  ,  and  the 
King  of  Arragnn  againft  the  French  :  to  maintain  fas  he  faid  )  the  union 
of  the  Church,  to  defend  it  from  apparent  Schifm,  and  to  recover  all 
fuch  places  as  depended  either  mediately  or  immediately  upon  the 
Church. 

The  firft  day  of  September  being  come,  the  Cardinals  Attorneys  in 
their  names  do  celebrate  the  A&s  appertaining  to  the  opening  of  the 
Council  at  Pifa. 

The  Pope  being  wroth,  declared  Florence  and  Pifa  fubjedfr  to  the 
Etclefiaftical  cenfure,  by  vertue  of  the  Bull  of  the  Council  which  he 
had  caufed  to  be  publifted  :  and  he  pronounced  the  aboveaamed  Car- 
dinals void  of  the  Dignity  of  Cardinals,  and  fubje<3  to  the  puniflvments 
of  .Hereticks  and  Schifmaticks. 

The  Florentines  and  Pifans  appeal  from  this  curfe  to  the  Holy 
Council  of  the  Univerfal  Church.  At  the  firft  Seffion  the  Cardinals 
call  the  Clergy  to  affift  in  the  Cathedral  Church  :  but  not  one  appear- 
eth  :  the  Priefts  deny  their  Ornaments  to  the  Cardinals  offering  to  ce- 
lebrate the  Mafs,  and  fnut  the  Church  doors*,  fo  that  the  Cardinals 
fearing  they  (hould  not  remain  fafe  in  Pifa,  decreed  to  have  the  Coun- 
cil tranfported  to  Milan. 

They  found  the  like  d  ifficulties  at  Milan.  The  Clergy  abftain  from 
fay  ing  Service,  as  before  accurfed  perfons',  the  Commons  curfe  them 
sand  openly  deride  them,  efpecially  the  Cardinal  of  St.  Creix ,  chofen 
Prefidcnt  of  the  Council. This  dealing  of  the  Milanois,  made  them  to 
tranfport  the  Council  to  Lyons,  where  Julius  was  fufpendcd  from  his 
Popedom  :  and  prohibitions  were  made  throughout  all  France^  not  to 
fend  any  Money  to  Rome,  nor  to  bring  any  Bulls  from  thence.  Here- 
upon Pope  Julius  did  not  only  excommunicate  all  the  French,  but  al- 
fo  granted  Bulls  of  pardon  to  any  one  that  (hould  kill  a  Icrencb-man, 
giving  the  Realm  of  France,  and  that  of  Navarr  (in  hatred  of  John  of 
Albret,  allyed  to  the  King, and  at  the  perfwafion  of  Fm//?/WKing  of 
Anagon)  in  prey  to  the  iarft  conquerour. 

But.: 


Cent.  \ 6. Of  FRANCE. 189 

But  King  Lewes  XII.  beat  the  Pope  in  a  Battle  near  Ravenua, 
which  beating  wrought  this  efTe&,  that  the  King  was  fued  to,  and  re- 
ceived  with  as  many  fpiritual  graces  as  he  was  pleafed  to  have,  and  the  Lewes  in.  fol. 
Kingdom  of  France  was  reconciled  unto  his  Holinefs.  But  foon  af- 
ter  by  Treachery  the  French  King  lofeth  the  whole  Eftate  of  Milan. 
Maximilian,  Grand-  child  to  Lewes  Sforza ,  is  reftored  ,  and  named 
Duke  of  Milan.  And  Navar  is  ufurped  by  the  King  of  Arragou.  Pope 
Julius  dyeth,  February  2 1 .  Anno  1513.  and  John  Cardinal  of  Medick 
fucceeded  him,  who  was  called  Leo  the  tenth.  The  fame  year  dyed 
Ann  the  French  Queen,  and  the  next  year  Lewes  King  of  France  mai> 
rieth  the  Lady  Mary,  fitter  to  Henry  VIII.  King  of  England. 

But  as  Lewes  pleafed  himfelf  exceedingly  in  the  excellent  beau- 
ty of  his  new  Spoufe  ,  behold  a  Fever  accompanied  with  a  flux 
of  blood  frees  him  fjom  the  cares  and  troubles  of  this  World. 
So  Lewes  dyed,  on  January  i.  1514.  greatly  lamented  of  all  his 
Subjedb. 

Francis,  the  firft  of  that  name,  fucceeded  him  in  the  Kingdom  :  he 
was  before  Duke  of  Valo'vs,  and  Earl  of  Angnlefin,  Son  to  John  Earl  of 
Angolefm,  who  was  the  youngeft  Son  of  Lewes  Duke  of  Orleans^ 
(murthered  by  the  Enrgundian  at  Paris,  in  the  time  of  Charles  VI.1) 
who  was  alfo  the  youngeft  Son  of  King  Charles  V.  He  was  anointed 
at  Rhemes  being  22.  years  old. 

Wi^iam  Budeus,  born  at  Paris ,  was  Secretary  to  King  Francis  the 
firft,  and  keeper  of  his  Library,  and  afterwards  his  Counfelleur,  and 
Mafter  of  Requefts.     His  Commentaries  upon  the  Greek  Tongue,  his 
Epiftles,  Philology,  his  Commentaries  upon  the  Pandeds,  and  other  of 
his  works,  (hew  his  great  knowledge  in  the  Greek  and  Latin  Tongues. 
In  thofe  things  which,  he  wrote  before  the    preaching  of  Luther ,  he  ' 
doth  (harply  and  largely  accufe  the  Pope,  Prelates  ,  and  Popifli  priefts, 
efpecially  in  his  Book  de  AQe  which  was  publifhed  ,  Anno  1513.     He  Montacut.  Anai- 
thusdefcribeth  the  State  of  the  Church  at  that  time  \  faying,T^C/«?r-  iea.  cxercit.  5,. 
ay  are  worfe  than  the  worft  of  the  people  in  all  kind  ef  Vice  and  wanton-  $*&•*•. 
nefi :  Prelates  are  ignorant^  and  enemies  of  Learning  ,   having  no  refpett 
to  the  filiation  of  Souls^bitt  rather  thrttjiing  them  down  to  Hell  by  their 
falfe  ^teaching,  and  wicked  example.  . 

He  was  a  Man  of  great  Learning,  and  worthy  to  be  had  in  perpetual 
memory:  for  this  caufe  efpecially,  that  He  and    Cardinal    E<%,  o^Sgln^d 
Bi(hop  of  P<m*,   did  counfel   and  perfwade   this  King  Francis  to  Learning.i.3.c.8. 
do  a  moft  noble  Ad,  that  is,to  appoint  great  (Upends  for  (he  Readers  of 
Tongues  and  good  Arts  in  Paris.  Buchanan  hath  this  diftich  of  him. » 

GaVia  quod  Grtca  eft,  quod  Grtcia  Barbara  non  ffti  i  Buehan.  li.  2,  £•- 

<  Vtraqtte  Budto  debet  utrttwque  fiw .  . 


30&e  cccleftaftfcal  $ffi$?       Cent.  16. 

Stephanas  Pafcbafwmhis  Icones  hath thefe  Vcrfes  cf  him. 

Et  Lati*  nobti  debent  Gra'wqne  Camett£  : 
Laudetn  utram  qutras,  magnm  utraque  /«/*. 

He  dyed  at  Paris,  Ann*  1539. 

The  feveral  courfes  King  Francis  took  for  the  lettering  of  Learn- 
ing in  France^  Antoin  du  Verdier  mentions  in  his  learned  preface  to  his 
Bibliotheque  :  and  in  his  Book  he  faith,  he  was  xkferveclJy  called,  2& 
father  of  Learning,  becaufe  he  founded  Colleges  in  Ptf/^/for  the  in- 
ftru&ingof  youth  in  the  Hebrew^  Creek,  and  Latin  Tongues  ,  and  ga- 
thered together  Learned  men  of  good  life  out  of  all  parts  of  the 
World,  to  read  publickly  in  the  Univeifity  of  Tarit.  Ihevet  and  Po- 
fteVus  travelled  into  the  Eaft ,  to  procure  him  rare  Books  for  his  Li- 
brary. 

Through  long ufe and cuftom he  had  acquired   much  knowledge: 
for  Dining  and  Supping,  his  talk  was  commonly  of  Learning ,  and 
that  moft  eagerly,  uling  many  years  for  the  famepurpofe  James  Coline, 
a  Learned  man,  and  in  the  vulgar  Tongue  moft  eloquent :  and   after 
bimPeter  Cafielan.     Of  thefe  two  he  had  learned  whatfoever  was 
written  in  the  Books  of  Poets,  Historiographers,  and  Cofmographers. 
Moreover ,  he  attained  to  a  perfect  knowledge  of  whatfoever  Arifrotle, 
te*  ii  oFRellg.  'fbeophraftus^PliHy,  and  fuch other  like, have  written  of  the  nature  of 
andLearn.    ' '*  Plants,  Herbs,  Beafts,  Mettals,  pretious  Stones  ,  and  by  daily  ufe  and 
hearing,  did  remember  them.     He  ufed  alfo  to  confer  much  of  the 
Mathematical  Sciences,  and  often  to  reafon  out  of  the  Scriptures.     In 
his  own  Tongue  he  was  always  accounted   right  grave  and  eloquent. 
SWd.Comment.  Throughout  Greece  and  Jtaly,  he  had  thofe  that  fought  and  copied  out 
£-Qr  fam  t}1£  works  of  old  Writers,  and  he  made  a  great  Library  ,  the 
keeper  whereof  was  CajieUan. 

William  BeVay  was  a  man  of  much  honour  and  vertue  ,  and  a 
fpecial  Ornament  of  the  French  Nobility  ,  by  reafon  of  his  nota- 
ble Learning  ,  Eloquence,  Experience,  and  fingular  Dexterity  in  all 
affairs. 

Andrew  Ihevet  was  Cofmographer  to  the  King  of  France.  He  hath 
written  an  Univerfal  Cofmography  in  French  in  two  Tomes,  in  Royal 
paper,  in  which  he  doth  not  only  rehcarfe  what  he  learned  from  the 
Books  of  others,  but  what  himfelf  had  feen  by  travelling  almoft  over 
the  World,  and  by  viewing  all  the  Seas :  fo  that  fome  think  there  is  no 
thing  more  learned,  and  more  orderly  difpofed.  He  hath  alfo  written, 
Let  lies  des  hommes  ilittllres,  the  lives  of  llluftrious  men  in  French,  in  a 
great  Folio  with  their  pourtraidh. 
B5biund.de -at.  Wili&m  Poftel w  was  a  good  Linguift,  but  he  was  little  better  than 
niad jfor  he  held  that  Adanfs  Soul  was  in  him,  with  many  other  grofs 

opinions. 


Cent.  1 6.  Of  FRANCE.  191 

^ . . . . -        • 

opinions.  ~Bibliander  makes  honourable  mention  of  him,becaufe  he  was 
thefirftChriftian  man  that  publiflied  the  rudiments  of  the  Arabic^ 
Grammar  There  are  thefe  works  of  his : 

De  Littjruarum  1 2  Different  mm  Alpktb. 

Clavis  abfconditorum  £tern£  veritatis. 

T>e  fbtmcum  Lit. 

De  Or  bis  Terr*  Concordid. 

De  Etruri<e  Origins. 

Pete r  CallellaH  was  Biihop  of  Orleans  ,  a  Man  highly  efteemed  in 
France  at  this  time  for  his  excellent  Learning.  He  hath  written  four 
Books  de  efu  carmum. 

Marguerite^  Queen  of  "Navarr^  was  Sifter  to  Francis  the  firft.  There 
are  her  Memoires.  In  the  Epiftle  to  the  Reader  are  thefe  words,  gwe 
Rome  vantff  taut  qtt*  il  lay  plaira  les  Comment  Aires  de  fan  premier  Ew- 
pereur,  La  France  a  maintenant  lerMcmoires  d*  une  grand e  Roine  qui  tie 
lew  cedeni  en  riev.  Her  poetical  works  are  joyned  together. 

Claudius  Efterietttf,  a  Doctor  of  Sorbon  flouri(hed  at  this  time. 
bfone  of  the  Divines  of  Par  is  had  a  greater  concourfe  of  all  Degrees 
and  was  more  ad  mired  for  his  frequent  Sermons  to  the  people  than  He. 
There  are  many  queftions  concerning  Religion jdifcuflfed  by  him  in  La* 
tin  and  French  with  great  fub'ilty. 

He  was  very  eloquent.  His  Commentaries  upon  Timothy  and  Tf/ar/j . 
ate  well  approved,  In  his  Comment  on  2//»rhe  proves  by  many  good 
Authorities  that  Clergy- men  are  fubjed  to  Secular  Princes,  and  owe 
all  honour  unto  them  as  to  their  Lords. 

On  the  fame  Epiftle  he  fets  down  a  Lift  of  the  many  tricks  and  de- 
vices of  the  Court  and  Chancery  of  Rome ,  invented  meerly  for 
catching  of  Monty  •>  where  he  puts  in  among  t  he  reft  expe&ative  gra- 
ces or  reverfions,  fecret  reservations,  beftowing  of  Benefices  upon  the 
firft  comer,  uniting  of  many  Benefices  to  one  Chappel  ,  Prebend  ,  or 
other  Benefice,  Mandates,  preventions,  propinations,  fmall  or  ordina- 
ry favices,  conditional  resignations,  detaining  of  all  the  revenue  in 
lieu  of  penfion,anda :  number  of  fuch  like  things  which  were  not 
heard  of  for  a  long  time  in  the  Church  ,  and  which  would  be 
Grange  news  to  Peter  andP'<i«/,  if  they,  ttiould  cdrae  into  the  World 
again. 

This  learned  Divine  hath  fpoken  much  of  thefe  things. 

Ai  <!  thefe  that  defire  further  to  be  informed  herein,  1  will  refer  to 
,. ok  entitled,  faxa  CanceVarj*  Aptfdic*  ,  Printed  at  Paris  by 
is,  Anno  1520. 

And  yet  this  is  nothing  in  cotnparifon  of  the  Penitentiary  7**, 
Printed  with  the  fame  book,  where  every  iin,  every  crime,  hew  hai- 


'92  5O)e cccieftafttcal ^tftojtp    Cent.  i<$, 

*•--  — —         •_       — , — . , ! 

nous  foeyer,  hath  it's  price  fet  >  fo  that  to  have  a  Licenfe  and  impu- 
nity for  finning,  there  needs  no  more  but  to  be' rich  i  to  have  a  paf- 
porttoParadife,bothforaman'sfelf,  and  for  his  mifdeeds. 

But  that  which  might  make  Rome  Wtifti  Cif  there  were  any  (hame 
in  her  brow)  is,  that  pardons  and  indulgences  are  denyed  to  the  poor 
and  indigent,  who  are  not  of  means  Efficient  to  raife  thefe  criminal 
and  incelluous  impositions. 

It  may  fecm  that  the  Bull  of  Pope  Leo  X.  added  at  the  end  of  the 
Concordat ,  and  confirmed  by  the  Letters  of  King  Francis  I.  hath  dero- 
gated from  the  Pragmatic^  Sanction.     But  that  Bull  was  never  recei- 
•p«tp.  Rebuff  in  vcd  and  approved  in  France,  as  Mr.  Peter  Rebuffus  doth  teftifie.     fbir 
fric^'mwdat.  fi°Kfti*u**o*->  (faith  he)  as  being  about  a  money-mater,  was  never  received 
'.Apdftol.  by  the  Inhabitants  of  tbir  Kingdom.     Nor  if  it  comprehended  within  the 

CoHcordate  •,  nor  the  King's  Declaration  concerning  it  verified  in  the 
Court  of  Parliament. 

In  the  year,  i  *>  itf.  Pope  Leo  X.  under  pretext  of  collecfring  mo- 
ney to  wage"  War  againft  the  TwrJ^  fent  Indulgences  through  all  Chri- 
tfendom,  granting  pardon  of  fins  both  for  guilt  and  punishment  unto 
all  which  would  give  Money,  'fecelius  expofeth  thefe  Indulgences  to 
>(ale  in  Germany,  and  Luther  writeth  againft  the  abufes  of  them  ,  fome 
write  againft  Luther, md  others  defend  him. 

Luther  proceedeth,  and  writeth  againft  other  corruptions  of  the 
Church  of  Rome,  and  many  are  enlightned  by  him.  Charles  V.  being 
JEmperour,  calleth  a  Dyet  at  IVormes,  and  thither  is  Luther  fummoned 
AnHoi$2i.  who  ftoutly  defendeth  his  Dodtrine,  and  many  Priefts 
.began  to  preach,  and  even  in  Wormes  after  they  had  feen  the  conftan- 
cyof  Luther,  they  receive  the  preachers  of  the  Gofpeh  and  becaufe 
they  could  not  have  the  liberty  of  the  Churches,  they  fet  up  a  portable 
•pulpit,  and  heard  the  preachers  in  many  places  of  the  Town  until  the 
year  1525.  The  Gofpel  was  preached  in  Saxony,  and  embraced  there, 
as  alfo  at  Halberjiat,  Hamburgh,  Pomerania->  Liveland^  and  many  other 
places. 

Charles  Duke  of  Savoy  was  defirous  of  truth  and  purity  ,  Luther 
understanding  it  by  Annemund  Coot  a  French  Knight,  writes  unto  him 
a  confelfion  of  Faith  to  confirm  him  in  the  zeal  of  piety.  In  the 
clofure  he  faith,  IVetil  Illusions  Prince,  ftir  up  that  fpark^  which  hath 
begun  to  kindle  in  tbee,  and  let  fire  come  from  the  houfe  of  Savoy,  M 
from  the  houfe  of  Jofeph,  and  let  all  France  be  kindhd  by  thee  i  yea,  let 
that  Holy  fire  burn  and  encreafe,  that  at  lajl  France  m ay  be  truly '  called 
for  the  Goffers  fake  the  mo\\  Chrijiian  Kingdom. 

In  the  year  1 523.  the  Gofpel  began  to  be  openly  preached  in  France 
at  Gratianople  in  the  Dsulphinatc  by  Peter  Sebevilla.  Zuingliw  by  wri- 
ting encouraged  him  to  lift  up  his  voice  like  a  Trumpet  ,  and  found 
forth  the  Gofpel  in  France. 

AC 


Cent,i&  Of  FRANCE.  193 

At  the  fame  time  in  Meld*  about  ten  miles  from  P<*w,  was  Bifhop 
WtVitm  Brifonnet  i  he  was  a  Lover  of  Truth  and  Light,  he  pafleth  by 
the  Monks,  and  fought  learned  Men  to  teach  the  Gofpel.  So  from 
Par//,  he  calleth  Jacobus  Faber,  William  Farel,  Arnold,  and  Gerard  Ked^ 
who  did  moll  fervently  inftrudt  the  people  in  the  truth. 

But  the  Bi(hop'»  courage  was  fcon  abated  by  terrible  menaces  of  the 
Sorbonnifts,  neverthekfs  the  word  of  God  was  planted  in  the  hearts 
of  many,  and  by  the  wondrous  counfcl  of  God  from  the  perfccution 
of  that  one  Church  many  Churches  through  France  were  planted,  for 
both  the  Teachers  and  hearers  were  fpread  abroad. 

After  Martin  Luther  had  opened  the  way  in  Germany  ,  John  Calvin 
born  at  Noyon  [R  Piccardy,  a  Man  of  a  great  wit,marvellouily  eloquent, 
and  generally  Learned ,  departing  from  the  Faith  then  generally 
held,  propofed  in  his  Books  which  he  publifced  in  Print,  and  in 
his  Sermons  which  he  preached  in  divers  places  in  France^  one  hun- 
dred twenty  eight  axiomes  (fo  he  called  them  )  difagrccing  from  the 
Roman  Church. 

The  French  Wits,  curious  by  Nature,  and  defirous  of  Novelties, 
began  at  firft  rather  for  paftime  than  through  choice  to  read  his   wri- 
tings, and  frequent  his  Sermons.     But  as  Di*i>//tf,aPapirt  ,  obfcrveth 
in  his  Hiftory  of  the  civil  Wars  of  France,  as  in  all  bufinefs  of  the 
World  it  ufeth  often  to  fallout,  that  things  beginning  injeft,  end  in  ear- 
nef,  fo  thefe  opinions  fowed  in  God's  Church,  fo  crept  up  (faith  he)  Davila  Hiftt  ^ 
that  they  were  greedily  embraced  and  firmly  believed  by  a  great  num-  the  civil  war* 
ber  of  people  and  perfons  of  all  qualities,  infomuch  that  Calvin  came  of  FrMee  llb* r* 
to  be  reverenced  of  many  in  a  (hort  time,  and  believed  for  a  new  mira- 
culous Interpreter  of  Scripture,  and  (faith  my  Authourj  as  it  were  a 
certain  infallible  Teacher  of  the  true  Faith. 

The  foundation  ot  this  Dodrine  was  in  the  City  of  Geneva ,  fcitu- 
ate  upon  the  Lake  Antiently  called  Lacm  Lemawts ,  upon  the  confines 
of  Savoy  \  which  having  rejected  the  Government  of  the  Duke  and 
Bimop,  to  whom  formerly  it  paid  obedience  under  the  name  of  terra. 
Franca^  under  pretext  of  liberty  of  confcience ,  reduced  it  felf  into 
the  form  of  a  Common- wealth.  From  thence  books  coming  out 
daily  in  print,  and  men  furnifhed  with  Wit  and  eloquence  infinua- 
ting  themfelves  into  the  Neighbour  Provinces,  who  fecretly  fowed  the 
feeds  of  this  new  Doctrine,  in  progrefs  of  time,  all  the  Cities  and  Pro- 
vinces of  the  Kingdom  of  France  were  filled  with  it  ,  though  fo 
covertly,  that  there  appeared  openly  only  fome  few  marks  and  conje- 
&ure.s  of  it. 

This  began  in  the  time  of  King  Fn*«<:/j  thefirft,  who  though  fome- 
times  he  made  fevere  refolutions  againft  the  preachers  and  profeflTdbrs 
of  this  Doctrine,  yetnotwithftanding  being  contiaually  bufied  in  For- 
reign  Wars  took  little  notice  thereof. 

C  c  feter 


194          3O)tecrtdtafttcai$ifto?i?       cent.  1  6 


Teter  Viret  was  an  eloquent  French  Divine  ,  whom  Cj/Wtf  defired 
for  his  Col  league.  His  French  Books  are  mentioned  by  Attoine  d* 
Verdier'm  his  Bibliotheque. 

William  Farel  was  alfo  a  learned  Divine  cf  Geneva.  He  hath  writ- 
ten ~De  Vraj  V/age  de  la  Croix,  and  other  Books. 

Upond/ww,  F*r*73  and  F/Vtf,  there  is  this  -Epigram  of  Beza. 

GaVica  mirata  etl  Calvinttm  Ecclefia  nupery 

Quo  ntmodocuit  doftiHS. 
Ejl  quoque  te  nup:r  mirata,  Yartllejonantem, 

Quo  nemo  tenuit  fortijtf. 
Et  mtratur  adhuc  fundentem  mel'a  Virettem, 

Quo  nemo  fatur  dulcriis. 
Scilicet  ant  tribuf  his  firvabere  tejitbw  olim^ 

Ant  interibis  Gallia. 

Stephoi  Pafqu/er  a  French  Writer  and  a  Papift,  doth  much  extol  Cal- 
vlifs  piety,  wit,  and  learning.  Recherch.  de  la  France,  li.  8.  ca.  55. 

JobnClerk^  was  apprehended  at  Meldenin  Fra-nc*  ,  Anno  1523.  for 
fctting  up  upon  the  Church-door  a  certain  Bill  againft  the  Pope's  par- 
dons lately  Cent  thither  from  Romf\  in  which  Bill  he  named  the  Pope 
to  be  Antichrift.  For  which  he  was  three  feveral  days  whipped  ,  and 
afterwards  had  a  mark  imprinted  in  his  Forehead,  as  a  note  of  infamy. 
His  mother  being  a  good  Chrifiian-  woman  fthough  her  Husband  was- 
an  Adverfary)  when  (he  beheld  her  Son  thus  grievoufly  fcourged,  and 
ignominioully  deformed  in  the  face  ,  did  boldly  encourage  her 
Son,  crying  with  a  loud  Voice,  Elejftdbe  Chriji,  and  welcome  be  tbefe 
prints  and  markj. 

After  this  execution  and  puni(hment  fuftained,  the  faid  John  de- 
parted that  Town,  and  went  to  Rofte  in  Br/>,  and  from  thence  to  Metz^ 
where  he  was  taken  for  calling  down  Images  :  and  there  his  hand  was 
hrftcutorf  from  his  right  Arm:  then  his  Nofe  with  (harp  pincers  was 
violently  pulled  from  his  Face  »  after  that  both  his  Arms  and  his  paps 
were  likewife  pluckt  and  drawn  with  the  fame  Inthument.  He  qui- 
etly endured  thefe  Torments,  in  a  manner  tinging  the  Verfes  of  the 
1  1  5  Pfalm,  Their  Idols  be  Silver  twd  Gold,  the  rr>ork^  only  of  Man's 
band:  The  reft  of  his  body  was  committed  to  the  fire,  and  therewith 
confumed. 

Anno  I'ji'j.Do&oic  JohnCafteVaH,  after  he  was  called  to  the  know- 
ledge of  God,  he  became  a  true  preacher  of  his  word  in  France  at  Ear- 
lednc^  alfo  at  Vitte  ry  inPartorfe,at  Cbahu  in  Champagne,  and  in  the 
Tfcwn  of  Vifa  which  is  the  Epifcopal  Seat  of  the  Bi&op  of  Metz  in 
Lorrain.  After  he  had  'laid-fome  foundation  of  the  Doctrine  of  the 
Gofpel  in  Mttz,  in  returning  from  thence  he  was  taken  prifoner  by 

the 


Cent.  i<5.  Of  FRANCE.  195 

the  Cardinal  of  terrain's  fervants,  and  carried  to  the  Caftle  of  Norn- 
menie  :  from  thence  he  was  carried  to  the  Town  and  Caftle  of  Vikf, 
alwaysconflantly  perfevering  ,  in  the  fame  Doctrine.  He  was  degra- 
ded by  the  Bifhop  of  Nicopolu^  and  condemned  to  be  burnt  quick  : 
which  Death  he  (uttered,  jfo«»*ry  12.  1525.  with  that  conftancy,  that 
not  only  many  ignorant  people  were  thereby  drawn  to  the  knowledge 
of  the  truth,  butalfo  multitudes  which  had  tafted  thereof  in  fome 
meafure  already  were  greatly  confirmed  by  his  conftancy  in  his 
Death. 

Then  Wolfgangus  Scbucb,  coming  to  a  certain  Town  in  Lorrain^ 
called  St.  Bippolitus^  and  being  received  in  the  Town  for  their  Patlor, 
laboured  by  all  means  to  root  out  of  the  hearts  of  the  people  Idola- 
try and  fuperftition.  Hereupon  Duke  Anthony  Prince  of  Lorra'm^ 
threatens  the  Town  of  St.  Wppolittts.  Wolfgang  humbly  wrote  to 
the  Duke  in  defence  both  of  his  Doctrine  and  Miniftry  ,  and  of  the 
whole  caufe  of  the  Gofpel  :  and  having  confuted  the  Fryars  in  dif- 
.putation,  he  was  condemned  to  be  burnt.  Shortly  after  his  death, 
the  Commendator  of  St.  Anthony  of  Vienna,  ,  who  fate  as  fpiritual 
Judge  over  him,  and  gave  fentence  of  his  condemnation,  fell  down 
fuddenly  and  dyed.  In  like  manner  his  Fellow  ,  which  was  Abbot  of 
Clarilocus,  fuddenly  at  the  coming  of  the  Dutchefs  of  Venmarkjnto  the 
City  of  Nancy,  being  ftricken  with  fudden  fear  at  the  noife  of  Guns, 
fell  down  and  dyed. 

In  the  beginning  of  the  year,  1525.  was  the  Battle  of  Tavia,  where 
Francis  I.  the  Drench  King  was  taken  Prifoner,  and  carried  to  Madrid  in 
Spzin,  but  after  many  Months  confinement  he  is  enlarged,  and  retnrn- 
eth  into  France. 

The  Pope  underftanding  the  King  was  fet  at  Liberty  ,  fent  to  con- 
gratulate with  him,  and  to  make  a  confederation  againft  the  Empe- 
rour.  The  which  being  ratified  in  Cttgvac,  May  22.  1526.  between 
Him,  that  King,  and  the  Princes  of  Italy,  under  the  name  of  the  raoft 
Holy  League,  the  Pope  abfolveth  the  French  King  from  the  Oath  taken 
in  Spain,  fat  the  obfervation  of  the  things  agreed  upon. 

Now  followetb  a  Table  of  French 

J  .-    -.  f 

Martyrs. 


Fox,  M\  and 


i.   VAtnes   Pavane,  School mafter  at  Paris,  Anno  1524.  being 
J    taken  by  the  Bi(hop  of  Meattx,  was  compelled  by  Dr.  Ma 


firft 

Martial 

to  recant.     Afterwards  returning  again  to  his  confeiiion,  he  was  burnt 
at  Varis^  Anno  1525. 

2.  "Dionysus  de  Rieux  at  Meld*,  or  Meaux  ,  was  burned  at  UeHa^ 

Cc  2  for 


96        %\)t  Crrlcftaffical  %ifloa>        Cent, 


for  faying  that  the  Mafs  is  aplaindenyal  of  the  Death  and  Paflion 
of  Chrift,  Anno  1528.  He  had  often  in  his  mouth  thefe  words 
of  Ghrift.  He  that  denytth  me  before  M!r»,  him  rviU  I  alfo  deny  before 
my  father. 

3.  Joannes  de  Cadttrco,  Batchellourof  the  Civil  Law,  for  making 
an  exhortation  to  his  Countreymen  of  Limofin,  was  accufed  ,  .  taken, 
degraded,  and  burnt. 

4.  JohnBurges  Merchant,  the  receiver  of  Nantes,  THarthohmew  My- 
lenz  lame  Cripple,  Henry  Poiile  of  Cottberon,  CateHa  a  School-Miftrefs, 
Stephen  de  la  Fogge  Merchant,  were  condemned  and  burned  in  Parit, 
.^tftfj  1  533.  Henry  of  Couberon  had  his  Tongue  bored  through,  and. 
with  an  Iron  wire  tyed  faft  to  one  of  his  cheeks  ,  and  fo  was   burned 
with  the  other,  as  is  aforefaid. 

5.  Alexander  Canus  a  Prieft  for  the  confeflion  of  the  true  Religion, 
was  alfo  burnt  at  Paris,  Anno  \  533. 

6.  John  Pointer,  a  Chyrurgeon,  becaufe  he  would   not  do  homage 
to  a  certain  Idol  at  the  commandment  of  a  Fryar  that  came   to  con- 
fefs  him  ,  his  Tongue  was  cut    off,  and   then  he   was  burned  at 
Parti. 

^.  PettrGauJet,  a  Knight  fometimeof  Rhodes,  after  long  torments 
was  burnt  for  the  defence  of  the  Gofpel,  Anna  1533. 

8,  gstttoqtiflaed  was  burnt  for  the  Tellimony  of  Chrift's  Gofpel  at. 
"Bizanfon  in  Burgundy,  Anna  1534. 

p.  Nicholas  Scrivener,  John  de  Poix,  Stephen  Bttrlet,  were  burnt  on 
the  fame  account  in  the  City  of  Arras,  Anno  1  534. 

10.  Mary  Eecaudella  was  burnt  at  Fountains,  for  finding  fault 
with  the  Dodrine  of  a  Grey  Fryar,  in  the  City  of  Rachel  ,  Anno 


i  r.  JohnCornon,  an  Husband-  man  of  Mafcon,  one  of  fuch  wifdomT 
that  he  confounded  his  Judges3  was  condemned  by  them  ,  and  burnt, 
Anno  1535. 

12.  Martin  Gonin  in  Dautyh  lne\  being  taken  fora  Spie  in  the  &oi^ 
dersof  France  towards  the  Alpes,  was  committed  to  prifon.     In  his 
going  out  ,  his  Gaoler  cfpyed    about  him  Letters    of  FareUut  and 
Viret.      \vherefore   being    examined  of   the   King's    procurator, 
and  the  Inquidtor    touching    his   Faith,    after   he    had    rendred 
a  fufficient    reafon   thereof  ,    he   was    caft   into    the    River  and 
drowned. 

13.  Claudius  Painttr,*  Goldfmithat  Parit,  going  about  to  convert 
his  Kinsfolks^  was  by  the  Parliament  of  Paris  condemned  to  have  his 
Tongue  to  be  cut  out,  and  then  to  beJDurned,  Anno  1  540. 

14.  Stephen  Brttne,  an  Husbandman  at  Rutiers,  was  condemned  to  be 
burnt  at  Planvol,  where  the  wind  arofe,and  blew  the  fire  fo  from  him, 
as  he  ftood  exhorting  the  people,  that  he  there  continued  an  hour  in  a 

manner 


CenM6.  0f  FRANCE.  197 

manner  unharmed  i  fo  that  all  the  Wood  being  confumed,  they  re- 
newed the  fire  with  other  Faggots,  and  VefTels  of  Oyl,  and  yet  could 
he  not  with  all  this  be  burned,  but  flood  fafe.  Then  the  Hangman  with 
his  pike  thruft  him  through  the  belly  and  the  guts,  and  fo  threw  him. 
down  into  the  fire,  and  burnt  his  body  to  AQres,  throwing  away  bis 
A'fties  afterwards  into  the  Wind. 

15.  Conftantine,  a  Citizen  of  Rhoan,  with  four  others  ,  were  con- 
demned to  be  burnt,  and  put  in  a  Dung-cart,  who  rejoyced  that   they 
were  reputed  as  excrements  of  this  world  :  but  yet  their  death  was  a 
fweet  odour  unto  God,  Anno  1 542. 

1 6.  John  dtt  Bec1{.  Prieft,  for  the  Do&rine  of  the  Gofpel  was  degra-^ 
ded  and  burnt  at  froyts  in  Champagne^  Anno  1 543. 

17.  Aimond  de  Lavoy  +  a  preacher  of  the  Gofpel  in  Anjott,  after- 
nine  months  imprifoncnent  at  Bourdeaux.,  being   put  to   cruel  tor* 
ments,  he  wastirft  ftrangled,  whofc  body  was  afterwards  confumed 
with  fire. 

1 8.  Francis  Bribard  ,    Secretary  to   Cardinal   Bel 'ay  ,    was    alfo 
burnt  for  the  defence  ©f  the  Gofpel,  his  Tongue  being  firft  cut  out,, 
Anno  1544. 

rp.  William  Huffbn  an  Apothecary,  for  fcattering  Books  concerning, 
Chriitian  Dodhine,  and  the  abufe  of  humane  Traditions  ,    had  his 
Tongue  cut  out,  and  was  afterwards  burnt  at  Rboan.  Delandaa  Car- 
melite Fryar,  one  of  his  perfecutors,  was  afterwards   converted  ,  and  - 
preached  the  Gofpel,  Anno  1 544. 

20.  James  Cobard^  a  School-mafter  in  the  City  of  St.  Michael  in 
Lorrain,  was  burnt  for  the  Truth,  Anno  1 544. 

21.  Pfter Clerk^  Brother  to  John  Cler\  aforementioned,   and  14.. 
more  who  dwelt  at  Mclda^  were  burnt,  Anno  1 546. 

22.  Peter  Ckapot  was  ftrangled  and  burnt   at   Paris.     Saintinus 
Nivet,  and  Stephen  Polliot  were  alfo  burned  at  Paris^  Anno  1 545. 

23.  John  Englifo,  was  burnt  at  Sens  in  Burgundy ,  being  condemned 
by  the  high  Court  of  Paris,  Anno  1 5  47. 

24.  Michael  Michelot,  was   burnt  at  Warden  by  1'ourney ,  Anno 

1547- 

2  5.  Leonard  de  Prato,  going  from  Diion  to  Bar  in  Burgundy  with  two 
falfe  Brethren,  and  talking  about  Religion  with  them,  was  bewrayed  of 
them,  and  afterwards  was  burnt,  Anno  1 547. 

26.  John  Taffington,  Joan  his  Wife:  Simon  Marefchal^Joan  his  Wife: 
William  Micbaut^  James  Bottleratt,  James  Bretany.  Thelefeven  being 
of  the  City  of  Langres^ot  the  word  of  Chrift  were  committed  to  the 
fire,  who  dyed  comfortably,  Anno  1547. 

27.  Michael  Marcjchal,  John  CatnM^  Great  John  Carnttsy  John  Serar- 
phiv  were  burnt  the  fame  year  in  Paris. 

28^  Ofavi**-* 


3E$e  $edeftaCNcal  $ffto?p        Cent.  1  6. 

28.  O&avian  Blundel^  a  Merchant  of  precious  Stones  at  Varis  ,  was 
alfo  burnt  for  his  profeffion,  Anno  1  548. 

2p.  Hubert  Burre^  a  young  Man  a  Taylor  of  nineteen  years  was 
burned  for  the  Gofpel  at  T>iion. 

30.  FlorentVcmte,  aPriel't  at  P<zw,  after  four  years  and  nine  hours 
imprifonment,  having  endured  many  torments,  at  laft  when  there  was 
a  great  Show  in  Paris  at  the  King's  coming  into  the  City,  and  divers 
other  Martyrs  in  fundry  places  of  the  City  were  put  to  death  ,  he  ha- 
ving his  Tongue  cut  out,  was  brought  to  fee  the  execution  of  them 
all  >  and  laft  of  all  was  burnt  in  the  place  of  Maulbert  ,  Anno 


31.  Ann  Aubeft^  a  \\idow  at  Orleans,  Anno  1549.  going  to  Gene* 
va,  was  taken  and  brought  to  P<m>,  and  by  the  Council  there  judged  to 
be  burnt  at  Orleans. 

32.  A  poor  Taylo*  at  ?ari*,  dwelling  in  St.  Antbonie's  ftreet  ,   who 
boldly  defended  the  Gofpel  before  the  King  and  his  Nobles  :  he    cvas 
burnt  in  the  prefenceof  the  King,  his  ftrength  and  courage  in  '.  De- 
ling did  greatly  aftonifh  the  King  and  others,  Anno  1  549. 

33.  Claudius  Thierry  was  apprehended  coming  from  Geneva  ,    and 
\?as  burned  at  Orleans,  Anna  1  54?. 

34.  Leonard  Galimard  was  burnt  at  Paris  the  fame  year. 
3  5.  Maccettt  Morcox  was  burnt  in  7r0y«,  Anno  1  549. 

36.  John  Godeait  ,  and  Gabriet  Beraitdinw  were  burnt  at  Chaw 
beriace. 

37.  Ihomas  Sanpaulinufy  after  cruel  wracking  was  burnt  in 


38.  Maurice  Sfcenate  was  burnt  in  Provence,  Anno  1551.  Joannes  de 
teo^  {  ir-  named  Medicus^  was  alfo  burnt  at  T/sfz  in  Prwence  the  fame 

year. 

39.  Claudius  Monerius  was  burnt  at  Lyont,  he  was  meek  and  learn- 
ed :  fome  of  his  Judges  wept  at  his  death,  while  he  was  in  prifon  he 
wrote  certain  Letters,  but  one  efpecially  very  comfortable  to  all   the 
faithful.     He   alfo    wrote  the  queftions  and  interrogatories  of  the 
official  with  his  anfwers  likewife  to  the  fame,  which  being  fumma- 
rily  contracted,  you  may  read  in  Mr.  Fox.  A8.  and  Monument.  Vol.  2. 
p.i37.- 

40.  Resale  Poyet,  Son  of  William  Poyet,  which  was  Chancellour  of 
France,  for  the  fincere  profeffion  of  the  Gofpel,  was  burnt  at  the  City 
of  S  attlmure  ^  Anno  1552. 

41.  John  Joyer  ^  and  a  young  Man  his  Servant  ,    were  burnt  at 
Ibolottfe. 

42.  Hugh  Gravier  a  Sehool-mafier  ,  and  after  Minifter  of  Cortillon, 
was  burnt  at  Burge  in  Breffe  ,  a  days  Journey  from  Lyons.     Martiaf 

>  Peter  Scnba,  Bernard  Seguine  ,  Charles  Faber  ,  Peter  Navihere, 

five 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE. 


five  Students  ,  -of  the  Univcrfity  of  Lattfanna  were  burnt  a*  Lyons, 
Anna  i  553.  feterBergerius,  (hortly  after  fuffered  the  fame  Martyrdom 
at  Lyons.  Stephen  Pelcc/aine,  and  fijtoMtfifts  Ptloqttine  Brethren  fuffe- 
red at  Ville  Franche  about  Lyons  in  the  fame  year. 

43.  Le  n-es  Marfacns,  Michael  Gerard,  Stepbe  n  Granot^  fuffered    alfo 
at  Lyons,  Anno  1553.  Mtttbe&Vinttmet  Merchant  fuffered  there  alfo. 
At  his  burnirghe  (pake  much  to  the  people,  and    was  heard  with 
great  attention. 

44.  William  Neele  *n  AultinFryar,  fuffered  'at  Eurettx  in  France. 
Simon  Lake  at  ~Diion.     The  Executioner  called  Juftus  Silvefter,  feeing 
the  faith  and  conftancy  of  Laloe^  was  converted  :  and  he  with  all  his 
Family  removed  to  the  Church  of  Geneva. 

45.  Nicholas  Ntyle,  a  Shoo-  maker  was  burnt  at  Paris,    and  Peter 
Serre  a  Prieft,  was  burnt  at  'I.boloufe^Anno  1553. 

46.  Stephen  King  ,  and  Peter  VeHecbeus  were  burnt    at  Cbartres 


47.  Anto'niHS  Magnus  was  burnt  at  Paris,  Anno  i  554. 

48.  William  Alemon,  a  Bookfeller,  and  a  certain  Clothwprker  were 
burnt-at  blontpeliters,  Anno  1554. 

4p.  Pjr/V  PawVr,  a  godly    Lawyer  for  conftant  profcilio«  of  the 
Gofpel  was  beheaded  at  Do/*,  /4>/«o  1  554, 

50.  PfterditVall^  Shoo-makcr,  after  grievous  wrackings  was  burnt 
at  Nifmes^Anno  1554. 

51.  John  Filieul,  Carpenter:  Jnli»n  le  ville  Point-maker,  were 
burnt  at  Sanferre,  Anno  i  554. 

52.  Vyomfas  Vayre,  leaving  his  PopifhPriefthood  went  to  Geneva^. 
where  he  learnt  the  Art  of  Book  binding,  and  many   times  .brought 
Books  into  France.     Afterwards  in  the  ;Reign  of  Edtrard  VI.  King  of 
England^  he  preached  the  word  in  Jfrfey  :  but  after  his  death  ,  think- 
ing to  return  again  to  Geneva,  he  came  with  his  Bocks  into  Norman* 
dy  unto  a  Town  called   F#eitte  ,   where  he   was    taken   w,ith    hip 
Books,  and  after  the  fuffering  moft   cruel  torments  was  Burnt  at 
'RbMn. 

5  3  .  1'bemas  Calbwgn  Vtffttttntp  was  bu  rn  t,  Anno  1554-, 
54.  Ri*c^rrf'F*«riftf-aGoldfmith,  born  at  ZU><?4>;,  after  he  had  been 
in  London,  where  he  firft  taftcd  of  the  Gofpel  ,  he  went  to  Geneva^ 
where  he  remained  nine  or  ten  years.  From'  thence  returning  to  tyonst 
he  was  apprehended,  and  condemned.  Then  he  appealed  to  the  High 
Court  at  Parrs*,  'where  inthe  way  as  he.  was  led  fo  ?arjs,  he  was  met 
by  certain  whomheknew  not,  and  by  them  taken  from  his  Keepers, 
and  fo  fet  ac  liberty.  Anno  1551. 

After  that  continuing  at  Gener*  for  the  (pace  of  three 
years,  he  came  into  P<*«/^/#<?,  and  there  as  he  found  fault  with  the 
Graee^faid  in  L*tin,  he  was  detected  3  .  and  appithended,  The  next 

day 


200  %ty  eccleftaftical  $ffto?p    Cent.  16. 

-day  hewasfenttothe]uftice,from  him  totheBKhop:  who  ridding 
their  hands  of  him,  he  was  brought  to  the  Lieutenant,  who  fent  his 
Advocate  with  a  Notary  to  him  in  Prifon  to  examine  him  of  his  Faith: 
for,whichf  I  (hall  refer  the  Reader  to  Mr.  Fox.  Aft.  and  Monum.  Vol.  2. 
"p.  146, 'i 47, 148.  He  was  fent  back  to  the  Bifliop's  prifon,  and  from 
thence  mortly  after  to  Lyons ,  where  he  had  his  Tongue  cut  out,  and 
•then  was  burnt. 

55.  Nicholas  du  Chefite^  fuffered  at  Ory  near  Bizancon,  Anno  1554. 

56.  JobnBertrand)  Keeper  of  the  Forreft  of  Marchenoir^  was  burnt 
at  Btoir^  Anno  1556. 

57.  Peter  Rouleau,  after  three  wrackings,  had  his  Tongue  cut  out, 
and  a  ball  of  Iron  put  in  his  mouth.     He  was  drawn  upon  an  Hurdle 
all  broken  to  the  fire,  where  he  was  lifted  up  into  the  Air  ,  and  let 
down  thrice.  And  when  he  was  half  burnt,  the  ball  fell  from  his  mouth 
and  he  with  a  loud  voice,  called  on  the  name  of  God,  (aying,  Jefut 
Cbrift  ajjift  me  :  fo  he  dyed. 

58.  Arnold  Moniere ,  and  John  de  Cazes ,  were  burnt  at  Bourdeauxt 
Anno  1556. 

5p.  Philip  Cone,  James  his  fellow,  Archxmbant  Se raphon  ,  Mr.  A7*- 
tbolas  du  Roujfeau  were  burnt  at  D//0»,  Anno  1 557. 

60.  Philip  Hamlin  fuffered  at  Bottrdeaux. 

6\.  Nicholas  Sartorius^  at  Oeft  near  Piedmont ,  Anno  1 557. 

62.  George  Cardiff,  with  one  of  'lours  a  Broiderer,  Nicholas  a  Shoo- 
tnaker  at  Jenvile^  fuffered  at  'tours, 

I  muft  now  return  back  to  the  Reign  of  King  Francis  I. 

The  Lutherans  having  prefested  a  confefficn  of  their  Faith,  the 
^"nces  °f  Gerniany  being  aflembled  before  the  Emperour  in  a  Hall 
(Annoi^v)  capable  to  receive  200  perfons,  it  was  read  with  a  loud 
voice.  And  the  Cities  which  followed  the  Dodfrine  of  Z*/»g/7*x, 
prefented  apart  the  oonfeflion  of  their  Faith  ,  not  differing  from  the 
former  but  only  in  the  point  of  the  Eucbarift.  The  confeilion  of  the 
Princes  was  afterwards  from  this  place  called,  the  Auguftan  ConfeflioH. 
The  Pope's  Legate  would  not  cenfure  the  confeflion,  but  gave  order 
that  a  confutation  thereof  (hould  be  read ,  and  no  Copy 
given. 

The  Pope  was  difpleafed  with  the  Emperour,  for  meddling  in  Reli- 
gion, but  efpecially  for  promifmg  a  Council. 

He  writes  to  all  Princes,  that  he  would  call  a  Council ,  though  he 
never  meant  it :  and  his  collufion  is  difcovered  by  many.  The  Vroteft- 
tf«//likewife  do  write  to  all  Princes,  praying  them  not  to  believe  the 
calumnies  raifed  againft  them,  and  to  fufpend  their  Judgements ,  until 
thofe  that  are  accufed  have  place  to  acquit  themfelvcs  publickly.  And 
therefore  they  will  defire  the  Emperour,  that  he  will  call  a  godly  ,  and 

free 


Cent.i<S.  Of  FRANCE.  301 

free  Council  in  Germany,  asfoon  as  might  be,  and  not  ufe  force  until 
the  matter  be  difputed,  and  lawfully  denyed. 

The  French  King  anfwered  with  very  courteous  Letters ,  in  fub- 
ftance  giving  them  thanks  for  communicating  unto  him  a  bufmefs  of 
fo  great  weight. 

He  (hewed  them  that  he  was  glad  to  underftand  of  their  innocen- 
cy,  and  did  approve  the  inftance  they  made,  that  the  vices  might  be  a- 
mended,  wherein  they  (hall  find  his  will  to  concur  with  theirs  >  that 
their  requiring  a  Council  was  juft  and  holy,  yea  neceflary  ,  not  only 
for  the  affairs  of  Germany  ,  but  of  the  whole  Church  ,  that  it  was 
not  neceflary  to  ufe  Arms,  where  the  controverfies  may  be  ended  with 
Treaties. 

The  Emperour  promifeth  the  calling  of  a  Council  within  fix 
months.  The  pope  refolveth  to  make  an  Alliance  with  France  to  be 
able  to  withftand  the  Emperour. 

After  the  AfTembly  of  the  Proteftants  at  Smahald,  the  French  King 
Treateth  with  the  Landgrave  of  Haflia,  at  the  Pope's  requeft  about 
the  Council.  The  Pope  is  difpleafed  for  the  propofal  of  Geneva,  for 
the  place  of  the  Council.  Anno  1534.  Pope  Clement  VII.  dyeth,  and 
Cardinal  Farnefe  is  created  Pope,  and  named  Patel  III.  He  maketh  a 
(hew  that  he  defireth  a  Council :  he  perfwadeth  the  Cardinals  to  re- 
form themfelves. 

The  cuftom  is,  that  in  the  firft  days  the  Cardinals  obtain  favours 
eafily  of  the  new  pope.  Therefore  the  Cardinal  of  Lorrain,  and  o- 
ther  Fre neb,  in  the  name  of  the  King,  defired  him  to  grant  to  the 
Duke  of  Lorrain  the  nomination  of  the  Bifhopricks,  and  Abbacies  of 
his  Dominion.  The  Pope's  Anfwer  was,  that  in  the  Council  which 
(hould  be  called  (hortly,  it  was  neceflary  to  take  away  the  faculty  of 
nomination  from  thofe  Princes  that  already  had  it :  which  was 
fome  blemi(h  to  the  Popes  his  predeceflfours ,  \vho  had  granted 
them. 

A  Bull  is  made  for  the  convocation  of  the  Council  at  Mantua,  May 
27.  1 537.  The  Pope  prayeth  the  French  King,  and  all  other  Kings  and 
Princes  to  be  there  in  perfon. 

The  Proteftants  approve  not  the  Bull  of  convocation. 

The  Duke  of  Mantua  makes  a  Grant  of  his  City ,  and  afterwards 
recalleth  it.  The  King  of  England  oppofeth  the  Council  by  a  pub- 
lick  manifeft. 

Then  the  Pope  fent  out  a  Bull  for  the  convocation  of  the  Council  at 
Vicenza.  The  Legates  went  to  Ficenza  at  the  time  appointed  >  and 
the  Pope  to  Nizza  in  Provence  at  the  fame  time ,  to  fpeak  perfon  ally 
with  the  Emperour  and  the  French  King,  which  he  gave  out  was  only 
to  make  peace  between  thofe  great  Princes,  though  his  principal  end 
was  to  draw  the  Dukedom  of  Milan,  to  his  own  houfe,  Anno  1 538. 

Dd  The 


30  2          %ty  eccleftafttcal  $fft#p       cent, 


The  Council  intimated  is  fufpended  during  pleaffcre. 
The  Emperour  gave  order  for  a  Dyet  to  be  held  in  Germ  j«y,where 
F*«ft»<H«/  thought  good,  inviting  the  Protejlaut  Princes  to  be  there  in 
perfon,  and  promifing  publick  (ecurity  unto  all.  Cardinal  Farnefe 
hearing  of  thisconclufion  made  without  his  knowledge,  went  imme- 
diately away  :  and  paffing  by  Paris,  obtained  of  the  French  King  a 
fevereEdtft  againft  the  Lutherans:  which  being  publi(hed  was  ex- 
ecuted in  that  City,  and  after  through  all  France  with  much  rigour, 
King  Francis  commanded  that  all  mould  be  appeached  who  had 
Books  differing  from  the  Church  of  Rome,  that  made  fecret  Conven- 
ticles i  that  tranfgrefTed  the  commandments  of  the  Church  i  and  e- 
fpecially  that  obferved  not  theDodrine  of  Meats  i  or  prayed  in  any 
Tongue  but  the  Latin  >  and  commanded  the  Sorbonnitfs  to  be  diligent 
Spks  againft  them.  Afterwards  underftanding  the  Emperour's  cun- 
ning, who  aflayed  to  incite  the  Pope  againft  him,  he  caufed  the  L«- 
tberans  to  be  really  proceeded  againft  ,  and  commanded  that  a  form 
to  difcover  and  accufe  them  mould  be  inftituted  in  Paris,  propofing 
punifhments  to  the  concealers  of  them  ,  and  rewards  to  the 
Delators. 

Tii  is  was  done,  Anno  i  542. 

The  Emperour  gave  divers  orders  to  the  Prelates  of  Spain,  and 
the  Love  -Countries,  and  commanded  that  the  Divines  of  Lovain  mould 
aflemble  together,  to  coniider  of  the  Dodbrines  which  were  to  be  pro- 
pofed>  which  they  reduced  to  XX.1I.  heads,  without  confirming  them 
by  any  place  of  Scripture,  but  explicating  Magifterially  the  conclufion 
only. 

The  French  King  alfo  Aflfembled  at  Mf/«;/,  the  Parifian  Divines,  to 
confult  of  the  necefTary  poiitions  of  the  Chriftian  Faith,  to  be  propo- 
fcd  in  the  Council,  where  there  was  much  contention.  For  fome  de- 
fired  to  propofe  the  confirmation  of  whatfcever  was  conftituted  in  Con. 
fiance  and  Bafil,  and  the  re-eilabli(hment  of  the  Pragmatic}^  Sanfiion 
And  others  doubting  that  the  King  would  be  offended  by  de-* 
ftroying  the  Concordat  ,  made  between  him  and  Leo  (  which 
would  neceflarily  follow  }  gave  counfel  not  to  fet  that  difputation 
on  foot. 

And  afterwards,  becaufe  there  were  divers  opinions  in  that  School 
concerning  the  Sacramentsj  unto  which  fome  gave  effective  Minifte- 
rial  vertue  ,  and  others  not  ,  every  one  defiring  that  his  opinion 
(houkl  be  an  Article  of  Faith,  nothing  could  be  concluded  ,  but  that 
they  (hould  keep  themfelves  within  compafs  of  the  XXV.  heads  publi- 
(hed  two  years  before. 

The  Council  is  appointed  to  be  in  Trent  ,  and  thither  the  Legates 
arefent.  \\hile  they  meet  in  Trent  to  convince  Hercfies  by  a  Coun- 
cil, in  France  they  did  the  iameby  force  of  Arms,  againft  a  fmall 


Cent.  16.  >  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E. 


remainder  of  the  Waldtnfes,  Inhabitants  of  the/%?jof  Provence,  who 
fas  hath  hath  been  faid  before)  maintained  a  feparation  from  the  See 
of  Rome,  with  divers  Rites  and  Doctrine. 

Thefe  Men  after  tfae  Reformation  of  Zitingliiu  ,  enlarged  their 
Dodrine  by  his,  and  reduced  their  Rites  unto  fome  form  at  the  fame 
time  when  Geneva  em-braced  the  Reformation. 

Sentence  was  pronounced  again!!  thefe  many  years  before  by  the 
Parliament  of  Aix,  which  had  never  been  executed.  The  King  now 
commanded  to  execute  the  Sentence. 

The  Prefident  muttered  together  as  many  Souldiers  as  he  could  in 
the  places  bordering  upon  them  }  and  in  the  Pope's  State  of  Avignon, 
and  went  with  an  Army  againft  thcfe  poor  Creatures,  who  had  nei- 
ther Weapon  nor  thought,  otherwife  than  by  flight  to  defend  them- 
felves,  thofe  that  could.  They  went  not  about  to  teach  them  ,  or  by 
threats  to  make  them  leave  their  Rites  and  opinions  -,  but  firft  of  all 
filling  all  the  Countrey  with  Rapes,  flew  as  many  as  ftood  to  their 
mercy,  becaufe  they  could  not  fly  ,  without  fparing  young  or  old. 
They  rather  razed  the  Countries  of  Carriers  in  Provence,  and  of  Me- 
rindol  in  the  County  of  Viinoifin  belonging  to  the  Pope,  and  all  other 
places  in  thofe  Precincts.  More  than  4000.  perfons  were  llain.  They 
that  fled  to  the  Woods  and  Mountains,  partly  were  famifned  ,  partly 
otherwife  (lain,  partly  fent  to  the  Galleys:  twenty  five  perfons  that- 
fled  into  a  Cave  near  the  Town  of  Muffy  were  fmothered  to  death 
with  fm©ak. 

Certain  of  the  He  h  etians  fued  unto  the  French  King  to  favour  the 
Waldenfes,\Mt  no  entreaty  would  ferve.  But  the  bloody  Tyrant 
Mineriw  the  Governour  of  Provence,  efcaped  not  the  juft  Judgement 
of  God  :  for  God  fmote  him  with  a  terrible  Difeafe,  and  he  felt  as  it 
were  a  fire  burning  him  from  the  Navel  upward,  and  the  lower  parts 
were  rotten  and  confumed  away  with  Vermine,with  an  extream  (link, 
and  profufion  of  Blood  wi  place  of  his  Urine,  and  fo  with  great  tor- 
ments he  ended  his  wretched  Life. 

Lewes  deVaine,  Brother-in-law  to  the  faid  Mineritu,  the  Prefident, 
and  alfo  the  Brother  ,  and  the  Son-in-law  to  Peter  Dttrant,  Matter 
Butcher  of  the  Town  of  Aix,  thefe  three  did  flay  one  another  upon  a 
certain  ftrife  that  fell  between  them.  And  upon  the  fanae  day  the 
Judge  of  Aix  ,  who  accompanied  Minerins  in  the  fame  perfecu- 
tion,  as  he  returned  homewards  going  over  the  River  of  Durance  was 
drowned. 

By  an  Ordinance  of  this  King  Francis  I,  dated  January  1  5.  1  546. 
the  Vifitation  of  the  Hofpitalsand  other  charitable  places,  is  commit- 
ted  to  the  Judges  Roy»l,  Ordinaries  of  the  place  where  fuch  Hofpi-  de 
tals  are  fcituate.     All  Governours  and  Admini\lrators  of  Hofpitals,  or  o- 
tber  charitable  Yotmdationfifhall  be  compelled  by  our  Judges  of  the  pfa- 

Dd  2  ces 


204  3E|)C  CCClCfiafttCal  %JttO?P  Cent,  ig. 

-  •  ces  next  adjoynixg  to  give  up  their  accounts  of  the  Revenues  and  Admini- 
Jiration  of  tbefaidHofpitals,  by  what  title  foever  they  hold  them  *,  t»ge~ 
ther  with  the  Charters  and  titles  of  their  Foundation,  if  they  have  any^ 
within  two  months  after  the  publication  of  thefe  prejents.  Whom  we 
Command^  and  exprefy  enjoyn^  every  one  refpeSively  within  his  Precintt* 
and  Jttrifdittion,  that  immediately  after  the  publication  of  thefe  pre- 

Otontius  FineiH  fents,  ity  vift  the  faid  Hofpitals  and  charitable  Foundations,  to  enquire 

was  profeflbr  of  Of  tj}e  Revenue,  Eft  ate,  and  reparation  of  the  places.,  and  the  number  of. 

!&at  I*?*  beds,  and  poer  people  whom  they  (ball  find  there, 

this  time. .  There  were  four  Stevens,  French-  men,  Henry  (he  Father ,  and  Robert 

his  Son,  Henry,  Robert's  Son  i  arid  Paul  the  Son   of  that  Henry,   all 
learned  Men,  and  Printers. 

Robert  Stevens,  not  only  Printed,  but  made  many  excellent  works 
himfclf.  His  Thefaurus  Lingtt£  Latin£  is  incomparable.  Antoine  du 

•gelnec  B$Ho  Verdlef  in  his  Bibliotheque  commends  him  and  this  Work.  Diftiona- 
rium  feu  Latin*  Lingu*  Ihefaurttf,  non  ftngulas-  modo,  Vifiiones  conti- 
nent, fed  integras  quoque  Lrtine  &  loquendi  &  fcribetdi  formula  ,  ex. 
optimis  quibufque  Latin*  Li  ague  Scriptoribw.  Opus  excufum  parifiis  a- 
pud  Authorem,  divifum  inTomos  tref.  Anno  1,542. 

He  publifhed  an  Edition  of  the  Latin  Bible,  wherein  he  had  con- 
ferred the  copies  that  were  in  ufe  at  that  time  with  fome  old  Manu- 
fcripts,  and  according  to  them  he  amended  fome  errours.  The  Univer- 
fity  took  this  ill,  that  he  had  attempted  to  change  the  Tranflation.  He. 
defended  himfelf  that  he  had  changed  nothing ,  but  had  Printed  ac- 
cording to  old  Copies  which  he  had  by  him.  His  anfwer  was  tolera- 
ble in  the  Judgement  of  reafonable  men. 

Neverthelefs,  they  purfue  him  before  the  Court  of  Paris ,  and  do 

T»ref  on*  Rob.  Petition  that  he  may  be  burnt.     But  their  petition  was  burnt.   Then . 
h.  ad  cento- he  printeth  the  Bible,  retaining  the  corrupt  Tranflation:  and  in  the. 
T.'  Margin     he    addeth    the   words  of  the  Manufcripts  with  Notes, 
(hewing. the  Copies  whenceJie  had  thefe  words.     Thefe  do  accufe 
him  betore  Kin g.Fr ancis  and  his  Council,  but  were  put  to  fliame  and. 
filence. . 

Then  he  Printed  the  ten  Commandements  in  great  Letters,  and. 
in  fuch  a  form,  that  they  might  be  Hxed  upon  Walls  of  Houfes  for 
common  ufe :  and  fo  did  he  with  a  fum  of  the  Bible.  This  did  pro- 
voke them  yet  more  ,  efpecially  becaufe  he  had  Printed  the  fecond 
C.ommandcmcnt,  Ihou  (halt  not  tnakg  unto  thy  fe If  any  graven  Image, 
&c.  And  they  accufe  him.  But  the  King  gave  him  a  Warrant  to  re- 
print, both  the  Ten  Commandements,  and  the  fum  of  the  Bible  ,  both 
iriL.tt/'«and  French.  They  fummoned  him  to  appear  before  them,, 
fajing,  that  his  work  was  worfe  than  the  Teaching  of  Luther,  Fif-. 
teen  perfons  drd  approve  him,  and  added  their  feals.  unto  his  attefta- 
tiqn.  So.the  mqft  of  .them  feeing  the.  King's  Warrant,  and  .that  at- 

tefta. 


Cent.  1  6.  Of    FRANCE.  lo? 


reflation,  wereafhamed,  and  their  Deputies  did  aflbil  him. 
vewdid  firft  diftinguifh  the  Verfes  of  the  Bible  with  Arithmetical 
figures. 

Henry  Stevens  ,  his  'fhefattri  Lingttf  Grxct^  and  his  other  works,  fhew- 
his  great  abilities.  Scjcvnla  Samartbanus  in  his  fecond  Book  of  Epi- 
grams, hath  thefe  Verfes./a  Gellii  Noftes  Atticas  ad  H.  Stephanum. 

Qitis  Stcpbanwn  ejfc  neget  fbxbl  de  femine  cretum  ? 
Obfcuris  adfert  noftibus  ille  diem  . 


Henry  Sifvevs^  Roberts  Son,  macfe   alfo  the  Greek  Concordance, 
's  Works  were  Printed  in  three  Tomes  at  Yarir^AnHo  1545. 

At  this  time  flourished  Francis  Vatablus,  Regius  Prefeffir  of  the  He* 
brew  Tongue  in  Paris.  King  Francis  ordered  him  to  expound  the 
old  Teftamenf  out  of  the  Original,  and  his  Hearers  did  write  his  ex* 
pofiiion  and  his  Annotations.  The  King's  Printer  dealeth  with  the 
Hearers,  and  receives  from  them  a  new  Tranflation,  which  he  printeth- 
with  the  old  Tranflation,  and  with  the  Annotations.  This  work  be- 
ing perfected  in  the  year,  1545.  he  (heweth  it  unto  feme  of  the  IU 
niverfify,  entreating  them  to  (hew  him,  if  any  part  thereof  had  not 
been  rightly  obferved.  by  the  Hearers,  to  the  end  if  there  be  any  thing* 
amifs,  he  may  amend  it.  They  do  approve  the  work,  and  aflurehim, 
that  no  evil  could  proceed  from  the  Ledures  of  Vatablus.  But  the 
Books  being  fold,  fome  obferved,  that  the  Tranflation  and  the  Anno- 
tations were  contrary  unto  the  prefent  Doctrine  of  the  Univerfity,and 
therefore  the  Books  (hould  not  be  fold  feeing  they  were  Printed  with- 
out the  knowledge  of  the  Faculty. 

The  Printer  goeth  unto  the  Court,  and  (heweth  Peter  Caflellax  Bi- 
fliop  of  Mafcon,  that  the  Univerfity  was  offended,  and  intend  to  hindei 
the  felling  of  his  Boeks.  He  feeing  the  BKhop  doubtful  what  advice 
to  give,  faith,  if  the  Divines  will  give  him  their  cenfure,  he  is  willing 
to  Print  it  with  the  Bible,  and  he  will  neither  be  afhamed  ,  nor  take 
in  ill  part,  to.  advertife  the  Reader  of  whatfoever  errour  is  in  the 
Book. 

This  overture  did  pleafe  the  Bifhcp  ,  and  he  relates  all  unto  the 
King,  who  willeth  the  Birtiop  to  write  in  his  name  unto  the  Univerfity  ,> 
that  they  fhallrevife  the  Tranflation  and  the  Annotations  ,  and  note 
what  doth  not  pleafe  them,  and  fubjoyn  unto  every  faujt  a  reafon  of 
their  Judgement  s  and  deliver  their  cenfure  to  be  printed  either  .apart,- 
or  with  the  Bible. 

Caftellan  writes  fo  unto  them,  and  they  promife  to  obey.    But  they 
were  often  required  to  deliver  their  cenfure  :  They  evade  it  >  and  fend  : 
unto  .the  Divines  of  Lovaut,  entreating  them  to  -reckon  that  .  Tranfla- 


3O)e  ecdefiaftfcai  $ifto?y       Cent.  it. 

tion  among  the  Heretical  and  forbidden  Books. 

The  King  was  informed  of  their  (hifts,  and  of  that  Letter :  Where- 
fore he  ordereth  the  Bifhop  to  require  them  again.  After  divers  exhor- 
tations to  this  purpofe,  they  fend  fifteen  places  which  they  had 
marked.  The  Bifhop  conferred!  with  their  Deputy  Gagneius  upon 
thefe  Inftanccs,  and  Writes  a  large  Letter  unto  them  commending 
the  Annotations,  and  (hewing  what  courfe  they  fhould  obfervem  their 
cenfure. 

They  were  the  more  enraged  at  that  commendation  ,  and  would" 
not  go  on  in  their  cenfure,  but  would  have  she  Book  to  be  condensed 
which  they  had  declared  Heretical.  Then  the  King  fent  his  Letters 
patent,  and  fealed,  charging  them  to  proceed  in  their  cenfure  ,  and  to 
deliver  it  unto  his  Printer.  They  do  ft  ill  refufe,  and  at  that  time 
King  Francis  dyeth,  viz.  on  March  $  i.  Anno  1^47. 

His  Son  King  Henry  II.  who  fucceeded  him,  fendeth  the  like  charge 
unto  them  on  Augufi  16.  1 547,  They  return  Anfwer  ,  that  they  (hall 
perfect  their  cenfure  before  November  i.  But  then  in  place  of  the  cen- 
fure they  fend  a  fupplication,  craving  that  the  Books  may  be  forbid- 
den, becaufe  he  is  a  Sacramentarian,  and  had  written  that  mens  Souls 
art  mortal. 

The  Printer  is  informed  of  it,  and  addreffeth  himfelf  to  anfwer  be- 
fore King  and  Council.  Then  they  return  unto  Paris.  But  he  (hews 
•  how  folfe  their  calumnies  were. 

At  that  time  they  fent  unto  the  King  forty  fix  Articles  which 
they  had  collected.  It  was  told  unto  their  Deputies  that  they  had 
fpoken  of  feme  thoufands  of  Errours,  and  were  thefe  all  turned  to 
-forty  fix  ?  They  anfwered,  the  Univerfity  had  more,  but  had  not  as 
yet  put  them  in  form. 

The  Printer  returns  to  Tarit,  chiding  fomeof  the  Divines  for  ac- 
cufmg  him  falfly. 

The  Printer  craves  of  the  King  protection  from  the  malice  of  his 
Enemies.  The  King  grants  it  under  his  Seal.  This  ftorm  being  o- 
ver,  he  gathereth  fifteen  old  Manufcripts  of  the  new  Teftament  in 
Gree^  and  printeth  it  with  the  divers  ledions  on  the  Margin,  and 
gives  the  firft  copy  unto  Caftetian. 

The  Pope  fends  into  France  Jerome  Boccaferrius  a  Roman,  Cardinal  of 
St.Gwrg*,  in  {hew  to  condole  with  the  King  for  the  death  of  his  Fa- 
ther, and  to  give  him  joy  of  the  beginning  of  his  Kingdom,  but  with 
commillion  to  make  confederation  with  him.  The  Pope  ,  gave  the 
Legate  moft  ample  power  to  grant  the  King  all  his  demands  in  matter 
of  Benefices,  without  regarding  the  Decrees  of  the  "frideatine  Coun- 
cil :  a  ftrong  Alliance  is  made  between  the  Pope  and  the  French  King, 
and  two  Cardinals  are  created  at  the  King's  inftance ,  viz.  Charles  of 
Guife,  Arch-Bimop  of  Rhemes ,  and  Charles  of  Vand&fme ,  of  the 
Blocd-RoyaL  The 


Cent.  i(5.  Of  F  R  A  N  C  E.  207 

The  Cardinal  of  (?«(/*,  made  an  open  difcourfe'  in  publick  confifto- 
ry  in  the  name  of  the  Drench  King,  (hewing  ,   that  King  Francis  had  Hift.condi. 
never  fpared  any  coft  or  danger  to  maintain  the   liber  ty  of  other  Tridentt  hl  J* 
Princes. 

In  conformity  whereof  Henry  not  degenerating  from  the  vertue  of 
his  Anceftors,  as  fcon  as  he  had  left  to  mourn  for  his  Father's  death, 
was  willing  to  declare  his  obfcrvance  towards  the  See  of  Rome.  That 
the  merits  of  the  Kings  of  France  were  famous  ,  and  exceedeth  all 
thofe  of  other  Nations.  Eut  this  was  above  all  which  the  King  now 
doth,  promifmg  all  his  Forces  to  preferve  the  Papal  Dignity  ,  now 
when  it  is  fo  contemned.  He  prayed  the  Pope  to  receive  the  King 
for  his  Son,  and  to  promife  to  himfelf  all  affiftance  from  him  ,  and  to 
take  care  that  the  Church  fliould  receive  no  damage  nor  (hame,  in  re- 
gard that  from  fmall  beginnings  great  factions  have  rifcn,  which 
have  brought  the  Popes  into  great  calamities.  He  exemplified 
in  many  Popes  afflicted ,  who  were  defended  and  raifed  by 
the  Kings  cf  France,  concluding ,  that  the  prefent  King  will 
not  yield  to  his  Anceftors  in  prefer ving  the  Dignity  of  the  Apoftolick 
See. 

In  the  year  154^.  The  French  King  making  his  firft  entry  into 
Paris,  canfed  a  folemn  procefficn  to  be  made,  and  published  an  Edict, 
wherein  he  fignifieth  that  he  received  the  protection  of  the  Catho- 
lick  Religion,  and  of  the  See  of  Rome,  and  the  care  of  the  Ecclefiafti- 
cal  Order,  and  that  he  abhorred  the  Novity  of  Religion ,  and  teilified 
unto  all  his  will  to  perfevere  in  the  Dodhine  of  the  Church  of  Rome, 
and  to  banifh  the  new  Hereticks  Cfo  he  called  the  Troteftants)  out  of 
all  his  Dominions. 

He  caufed  this  Ed ict  to  be  printed  mFrencb,  and  fent  it  into  all 
parts  of  his  Kingdom.  He  gave  leave  alfo  to  his  Prelates  to  make 
a  Provincial  Affembly  to  reform  the  Churches  :  Which  being 
known  at  Rome,  was  thought  to  be  a  bad  example ,  and  might 
be  a  beginning  to  make  the  French  Church  independent  of  the  Church 
of  Rome. 

He  caufed  alfo  many  Lutherans  to  be  put  to  death  in  Pans,  him- 
felf being  prefent  at   the  Spectacle :    and  in  the  beginning  of   the 
next  year,  he  renewed  the  Edict  againft  them,  laying  grievous  punifh-- 
ments  upon  the  Judges,  who  were  not  diligent  in  detcctiEg  and  pu- 
nifhing  them. 

'  PopePrf«/IH.dyeth,  Anno  1549.  the  Cardinals  were  divided  into 
three  factions  about  the  choice  of  a   new  Pope,  Imperialifts,  Fremb, 
and  dependents  ori  the  dead  Pope,  and  by  confeqacnce  ,   on  his  Ne-  Hjfr>  oF .Ca^A 
phews.     Thfy  made. agreement  among  themfelves,  that  nine  Cardi-  part  3.  li.  2. 
rials  (hould  be  named,  of  tach  Faction  three  :  but  that  the  nominati- 
on (hould  be  made  by  two  only  of  the  Faction  of  France,  and  that 

after? 


2o8  3c|)c  ecrtefiaftfeai  $<fto#    Cent.  1 6. 

afterwards  it  (hould  be  lawful  for  the  Imperialifts  to  take  one  of  the 
faid  nine  at  their  pleafure ,  and  that  the  reft  (hould  be  obliged  to 
.concur. 

Of  the  French  Fadion  accordingly  were  named  ,  the  Cardinals  of 
Lorrain,  T'ortton,  and  Bellai, 

Of  the  Imperial  Faction  T'heatino,  Monte  ,  and  San.  Marcello  ,  and 
three  others  of  the  other  Fa&ion,  S4/z>wf/',RzWj/,i,  and  T'rani.  The 
Imperialifts  refufed  all  the  nine  perfons  which  were  named,  which 
gave  great  offence  to  the  other  two  Factions  ,  infomuch  that  it  was 
propofed  by  the  French  tb.the  Farnefiant,  to  unite  among  themfelves, 
and  to  choofeaPcpeinfpite  of  the  Imperialifts.  .  But  they  could  not 
agree  in  the  choice  of  their  perfons,  becaufe  there  were  feveral  Cardi- 
nal1; among  the  Farnefiant,  who  were  much  obliged  to  the  Emperour, 
and  much  afraid  of  his  difpleafure. 

But  after  a  tedious  difcullion  of  the  Cardinals  for  the  fpace  of  three 
months,  during  the  vacancy  of  the  See,Or/0  Maria  del  Monte  was  crea- 
ted Pope  on  February t  Anno  1 550.  by  the  name  of  Julius  the  third. 
And  now  the  Fadlion  of  the  Nipotifme  was  introduced  into  the  con- 
clave, having  over- powred  the  Factions  of  the  Emperour  and  King 
of  France,  with  no  fmall  reputation. 

The  Council  having  been  tranflated  toBolonia,  the  Emperour  ha- 
ving protefted  againft  it,  the  Pope  deliberates  about  the  remitting  of  it 
to  frent.  The  French  King  offered  to  the  Pope  whatsoever  he  was 
able  to  doforhim,promifed  toaffift  the  Council,  and  to  fend  the  Pre- 
lates of  his  Kingdom,  and  all  favour  and  protection  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  the  Papal  Authority. 

The  Book  of  Francis  Dttranem  a  learned  Lawyer,  -entituled  T>e  Sa* 
uris  Ecclefix  Minifleriis  came  forth,  Anno  1551. 

At  this  time  a  War  was  denounced  againft  King  Henry  the  fecond  by 

the  Pope  and  the  Emperour  ,  and  that  upon  an  unjuft  quarrel.     He 

gave  fome  hopes  (faith  Onuphrius)  of  compofing  the  differences  in 

Omiphr.  in       Religion,  when  at  the  requeft  of  the  Emperour,  he  declared  by  his  Bull 

in  the  firft  year  of  his  Popedom,  that  the  Council  (hould  be  continu- 

•  ed  at  'frent  at  the  beginning  of  the  next  May.    And  prefently  after  he 

addeth,  he  unwittingly  put  himfelf  upon  the  War  of  Parma  jmd  there- 

by  fet  all  Italy,  nay  all  Europe  on  fire. 

The  firft  Seffion  of  the  Council  on  May  i.  1551.  and  the  fecond 
upon  the  firft  of  September  were  only  for  Ladies,  for  there  was  nothing 
done.  King  Henry  II.  fet  forth  an  Edid  at  the  fame  time,  dated  the 
third  day  of  September  the  fame  year,  containing  a  reftraint  of  tran- 
U  fporting  Gold  and  Silver  to  Rome  :  where  he  fets  down  at  large  the 

occafions  of  the  War  of  Parma,  begun  by  the  Pope.  And  among  o- 
ther  things  he  faith.  Which  holy  Father  upon  a  fudden  fit  of  Choler, 
badcaufed  a  certain  company  if  MenofWar  >  both  Horje  and  Foot  to 

be 


Cent.  t6.  Dg    FRANCE. 


fbe  Uvied  and  fet  forth  :  and  alfo  enticed  and  perfwaded  the  Emperour 

(with  whom  we  were  in  good  'forms  of  Peace  and  Amity}  to  take  Arms, 

to  aid  hit  forces  in  the  defign  of  the  recovery  of  Parma.     And    after  he 

had  haraffed  and  laid  waft  all  things  wh  at  f  never  he  pleafedin  the  Conn-  Edift  du  Ro 

trey  of  Parma,  he  cattfedhis  faid  forces  to  march  toward  the  territories  ^"p^K 

of  Mirandula  :  which  hath  for  a  long  time,  even  during  the  Life  of  our  155*. 

latemojl  Honoured  Lord  andFather,  been  in  the  known  protection  of  the 

Crown  of  France,  which  he  beleagured,  ufing  mo{l  incredible  and  inhumane 

cruelties  towards  the  Inhabitants  of  the  faid  territory  i  yea  fuch  M  bar- 

barians and  Infidels  would  not  have  ufed  the  likf  :  giving  the  World  to 

know  very  (lout  ly  tkat  he  meant  them  t  o  #f  ,  who  have  not  deferved  any 

fitch  things  at  his  hands,  or  the  Holy  See. 

There  were  fix  Seflions  holden  in  the  time  of  that  War,  thoifetwo 
foreroentioned,  and  four  more:  in  two  whereof  the  mod  material 
points  of  Faith,  of  Manners  and  Church  Difcipline  ,  were  difcufled 
and  determined,  as  thofe  of  the  Sacrament  of  the  Eucharift,  Tran- 
fubftantiation,  Penance  and  extreme  Undion  '•>  as  alfo  about  the  Jurif- 
di&ion  of  Bifhops,  where  many  blows  were  ftruck  at  the  Liberties  of 
the  French  Church,  and  the  rights  of  the  Crown. 

Another  Edi&  of  King  Henry  II.  was  made  at  the  Camp  near  Wei- 
^»dg^/,Mi«)'2i.i552.andPrintedat  Taw  the  fame  year.  From 
this  time  till  the  beginning  of  the  year,  1560.  the  Council  of  Trent 
did  nothing.  What  time  Pope  P/w  IV.  asfoon  as  he  got  into  the 
Chair,  fent  forth  a  Declaration  for  the  continuation  of  it  againft  Eafle  r- 
day  the  next  year. 

The  French  Ring  makes  preparation  for  a  National  Council,   and 
protefteth  againft  the  Council  then  aflembled  in  Trent.     Jacobus  Ami-  HW.  Condi. 
otttf,  Abbot  of  BeUofana  appeared  in  the  nameof  the  Frv»c&King,  with  Trident-«-4' 
Letters  of  his  Majefty,  which  he  prefented  to  the  Legate,  defiring  they 
might  be  read,  and  his  credency  heard.     The  Legate  receiving  them, 
gave  them  to  the  Secretary  to  be  read. 

The  Superfcription  was,  Santtiflimis  in  Chrijlo  Patribus  Conventnt 
'fridentmi.  Much  fault  was  found  with  the  word  Conventns.  The 
BUhopof  M^w^faid,  if  they  would  not  receive  a  Letter  from  the 
King  of  France,  who  called  them,  Santtijimw  Conventuf,  how  would 
they  hearken  to  the  Tr&t  eft  ants,  who  called  them  Convent  us  Malignant  i- 
*m?  Then  the  King's  Letter  was  opened  and  read. 

The  French  King  difmiffeth  the  Pope's  Nuncio:  but  fearing  that 
by  his  d  indention  with  the  Pope,  thofe  that  defired  change  of  Religion 
would  make  fome  innovation,  or  that  himfelf  might  come  into  the 
bad  Qpinion  of  his.  people,  as  if  his  mind  were  averfe  from  the  Ca- 
tholick  Faith,  and  perhaps  to  open  a  way  for  reconciliation  with  K00W, 
he  made  amoft  fevere  Edi&  againft  the  Proteftants,  confirming  all  the 
ether  which  he  had  publi(hed  before  ,  adding  greater  punifliments, 

E  e  more 


210        3Cf}e  ccclcftaCHral  ^tftojp        Cent.  16. 

more  ways  to  difc  over  the  guilty,  and  greater  rewards  to  the  promo- 
ters. Hereupon  many  were  apprehended,  condemned  arc!  burnt,  as  I 
have  (hewed  before  in  the  Table  of  French  Martyrs,  concluding  it  at 
the  year  1557. 

Onthehfth  of  September,  1557.  in  Paris,  at  night  about  two  hun- 
dred perfons  were  affembled  in  an  houfe  to  celebrate  the  Communion, 
which  being  difcovered  by  the  common  people,  the  houfe  was  aflault- 
ed,  and  fomcfTed,but  the  women  and  weaker  fort  were  taken  ,  and 
feven  were  burnt,  and  the  greater  part  of  the  others  referved  for  the 
fame  pu'nifhment  to  be  inflated  when  the  complices  were  found  out.The 
SttiJJes  made  interceffion  for  thefe,  and  the  King  gave  order  that  the 
proceeding  againft  them  fhould  be  moderate3but  the  Pope  is  angry  with 
the  French  King,forufing  any  moderation. 

•  But  the  number  of  the  Trcte)ants,  being  now  increafed  in  France, 
their  courage  increafed  alfo.  And  there  being  a  cultom  among  the 
people  of  Paris  in  the  Summer  Evecings,  to  go  out  of  the  Subburbs 
of  St.  German  in  great  multitudes,  to  take  the  Frefio  ,  and  to  folace 
themfelves  with  divers  kinds  of  fports,  thofe  of  the  new  Relfgion  in- 
ilead  of  doing  fo,  began  to  ling  the  Pfalras  of"Dai'M  in  French 
Verfes. 

.*jfto  15.5?.  The  multitude  firft  laughed  at  the  Novity  V  then  leaving  the  fports 

joyned  themfelves  unto  the  lingers.  And  the  Dumber  of  thefe  who 
came  to  that  place  began  to  incrcafe  more  than  ufually.  The  Pope's 
Nuncio  told  the  King  of  this  Novity,  as  of  a  thing  pernicious  and 
dangerous,  becaufe  faid  he)theMinilteriesof  Religion,  ufually  celebra- 
ted in  the  Church  in  the  Latin  Tongue  by  Religious  men  only  ,  were 
put  into  the  mouth  of  the  common  people  in  the  vulgar  Language, 
which  was  an  indention  (faid  he )  of  the  Lutherans  ,  telling  him  that 
if  he  did  not  refifi  the  beginnings,  all  Paris  would  be  Lutheran.  The 
King  gave  order  that  the  principal  Authours  mould  be  proceeded  a- 
gainil,  wherein  they  went  not  very  far,  having  found  Anthony  King  of 
Navarand  his  Wife  in  that  number.  But  for  hereafter  it  was  forbid 
upon  pain  of  death. 

The  King  now  under/landing  that  feme  of  the  Parliament,  were 
Troteilantf^  in  a  Mercurial  (fo  they  call  the  Judicature  inftituted  to  ex- 
amine and  correct  the  adions  of  the  Counftllours  of  Parliament ,  and 
•Judges  of  the  King)  held  in  Parit,  Jwt  15  1558,  where  they  were- 
to  treat  of  Religion,  after  the  congregation  was  affembkd,  entred.  in 
perfon.  Ar,d  having  commanded  them  to  profecute  the  things  begun, 
Claude  Vide  one  of  them,  fpike  n--uch  againil  the  manners  of  the  Court 
of  Rome,  and  the  bad  cuiioms  grown  to  be-pernicions  errours,  which 
have  caufcd  the  new  Seds. 

Therefore  it  was  necdTary  to  mitigate  the  fcvete  pnnifhmcr.ts,  until 
the  diffacnees  of  Region  were  rcmeved,  and  the  Ecclcfiattkal'  Difci- 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE.  an 

pline  amended  by  Authority  of  a  General  Council,  the  only  4re- 
mcdy  for  thefe  evils  ,  as  the  Councils  of  Canftance  and  fi'afil 
have  judged,  commanding  that  one  fhould  be  celebrated  every  ten 
years. 

His  opinion  was  followed  by  Lttdwicus  F^r,and  fome  others,  Anne 
dn  fiourge,  did  add,  that  many  villanies  were  committed  condemned 
by  the  Laws,  for  punifhment  whereof,  the  rope  and  fire  were  nor  fuffi- 
cient,  viz.  trequent  blafphemies  againft  God,  perjuries ,  Adulteries, 
not  only  fecret,  but  even  cherifhed  with  impudent  licenfe  i  making 
himfelf  to  be  plainly  underftood,  that  -he  fpake  not  only  of  the  Gran- 
dees of  the  Court,  but  of  the  King  himfelf  alfo  :  adding  that  while 
men  lived  thus  dHToIutely ,  divers  Torments  were  prepared  againft 
thofe  who  were  guilty  of  nothing  but  of  publifliing  to  the  World 
the  vices  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  and  deliring  an  amendment  of 
them. 

In  oppofition  of  all  this  ,  -Egielitts  Magifttr ,  the  prime  Prefident, 
fpake  againft  the  new  Sects,  concluding  that  there  was  no  other  reme- 
dy, but  that  which  was  formerly  ufed  againft  the  Albigenfes^  of  whom 
Ybilip  Augitftus  put  to  death  iix  hundred  in  one  day,  and  againft  the 
WaldettfeS)  who  were choaked in  the  caves,  whither  they  retired  to 
hide  themfelves. 

All  the  voices  being  given,  the  King  faid,hehad  now  heard  with 
"his  own  Ears,  that  which  before  was  fold  him-,  that  the  contagion  of 
the  Kingdom  doth  hence  arife :  that  there  are  in  the  Parliament  who* 
do  defpife  the  Pope's  Authority,  and  His  :  that  he  well  knoweth  they 
are  but  few ,  but  the  caufe  of  many  evils.  Therefore  he  exhorted 
thofe  who  are  good  Subjects  to  continue  in  doing  their  duty :  and  im- 
mediately gave  order  that  Faber  and  dn  'Botfrg  mould  be  imprifo- 
ned,  and  afterwards  caufed  four  more  to  be  apprehended  in  their 
houfes. 

Butat  the  fame  time  fas  if  there  had  been  no  danger  at  all),  the 
Minifters  of  the  Reformed  (Tor  fo  the  Protepantt  are  called  in  France) 
aflembled  in  Paris  in  the  Suburbs  of  St.  German,  made  a  Synod,  in 
which  Francis  AiorH/w ,the  chief  man  among  them  was  Prefident,  or- 
daining divers  conftitutions  i  of  the  manner  of  holding  Councils, 
of  removing  the  domination  in  the  Church  j  of  the  Election  and 
.Offices  of  Ministers  i  of  cenfures;  of  Marriages,  of  Divorces,  of  de- 
grees of  conftnguinity  and  affinity,  that  throughout  all  France  they 
might  not  only  have  an  Uniform  Faith,  but  Difcipline  alfo.  And 
their  courage  did  increafe,  becaufe  the  fame  of  the  feverity  ufcd  in 
France  coming  into  Germany  ,the  three  Electors ,  and  other  Prot^jut 
Princes,  fent  Ambafladours  to  the  King  to  diilwade  him  from  that  ri- 
gour againft  the  profcftburs  of  their  Religion.  But  the  King  ("though 
he  gave  them  a  courteous  Anfwer,  yet;  remitted  nothing  cf  the  k- 

Ec  2  veriry, 


Cent, 


verity  ,  but  after  the  AmbafTadours  were  gone  ,  he  deputed  four 
Judges,  of  the  body  of  the  Parliament  ,  in  the  caufes  of  the  prifo- 
ners  ,  with  the  Bifhop  of  Paris  .,  and  the  Inquitltor  An- 
tb»Hy  df  Mocares  ,  commanding  them  to  proceed  with  all  exr 
pedition. 

Nicholas  Clinet)  one  of  the  Elders  of  the  Church  at  P^r/V,  and  TWw* 
GraveVe,  a  Lawyer,  and  Advocate  in  the  Court  of.  Par//,  and  elder  of 
the  fame  Church,  were  both  burnt  at  Paris. 

Bartholomew  He8or  was  burnt  at  1  burin.  Miftrifs  Pbjlippa  de  Lttns 
was  ftrangled  at  Paris  ^  Anno  1558.  after  (he  had  a  little  felt  the  Flame 
with  her  Feet  and  Vifage. 

Of  the  fame  company  ,  was  alfo  Nicbolaf  Gene*  Phy  fician  ,  (Brother 
to  Philip  Cene  above-mentioned  and  Martyred  at  Viion)  and  Peter  Ga* 
fort,  which  two  were  brought  forth  to  their  execution,  .08obf  2.  They 
were  holden  long  in  the  Air,  over  a  fmall  fire  ,  and  their  lower  parts 
burnt  off,  before  that  the  higher  parts-  were  much  harmed  with  the 
v  fire..  Neverthelefs  thefe  Holy  Men  ceafed  not  in  all  thefe  torments  to 
turn  up  their  eyes  to  Heaven,  and  to  (hew  forth  infinite  Testimonies  of 
their  Faith  and  conftancy..  In  the  fame  fire  many  Bibles  and  Tefh- 
Hiems  were  burn.t^ 

Among  divers  young  Scholars  and  Students  that  were  in  the  little 
Caftle  with  Peter.  Gaban^  there  were  thefe,  two,  ^iz*  Trcderick^Dan- 
vfle,  and.FraHcjf  Rebeziet,  ndthex  of  them  being  paft  20  years  of 
Age.  Haw  valiantly  .they,  behaved  themfelves  in  the  caufeof  Chrift 
What  conflicts  they  had,  difputing  with  the  Do&orsof  Sorbonne  ,  what, 
cpnfeffions  they  made,  their  own  Letters  left  in  writing  dp  make  Re- 
lation :  thefe  valiantly  fuffered  Martyrdom. 

Rftte  Sfau^  and  J»1w  Almerick^  ,  were  almoft  wracked  to  death  m 

t  otiii*  Pr^on-  >  an(^  afterwards  both  of  therrxdyed  in  prifon.     John  Bordel, 

ij|..&  Matthew  Vermeil^  Peter  Bourdon,  Andrew  defott  at  the  Countrey  of 

Brffil^  weje  alfo  Martyrs.  .   ViVegaignon,  Lieutenant  to  the  Fre  neb  King, 

btought  three  of  them  to  the  top-,  of  a  Rock.,  and.  there  being  half 

ftrangled,  without  any  Judgement,  threw  them  into  the  Sea.     The 

fourth,  v  IK,  Andrew  de  Fott,  he  caufed  by  manifold  allurements,  fomer 

what  to  incline  to  hisfayings:  fo  he  efcaped  the  danger,  Hot  with- 

out a-  great,  offence  taken  of  a  great  part  of  the  Frenchmen  in  tha,t 

Countrey. 

Bent*  Rotnain^  a  Mercer.  a$  Vragttignan.  in  Prove»cfy  was  wracked  antf 
burnt. 

Francvi  Civattx^  who  had  been  Secretary  to  the  French  Acnbafladour 
here  in  England  in  Queen  Maries  time,  after  being  defirous  to  hear  the 
word  of  God,.wentto.G*H«/a..  Alfo  he.  was  placed  to  be  Secre- 
tary to  the  Senste  of  Geneva  ,  where,  he  continued  about  the 
%3ce  of  .a  year,..  H^ving.then  certain,  bufinefr  ,  he  .  came  to  T>no*, 

where  . 


Gent.t&  Of  FRANCE.  313 

where  he  was  betrayed  by  a  Prieft,  apprehended,  and  carried  to 
prifon,  and  within  feven  days  after  was  firft  ftrangled ,  and  then 
burnt. 

Peter  Arondeau  of  Roche!  was  burnt  quick  at  the  place  called  St. 
Jcbn  in  Crete,  at  Paris.  The  Heroick  conftancy  which  God  gave  him 
and  wherein  he  endured  victorious  unto  death,  was  a  mirrour  of  pati* 
ence  to  Anne  da  B0#rg,Counfellour  in  the  Parliament  of  Parti,  and  to 
divers  other  then  prifoners,  and  wa$  to  them  a  preparation  toward  the 
like  deathv which  fhortly.  after  they  futfered. 

Ihomas  Moutard  was  burnt  at  Valenciennes,  Divers  others 
alfo  fuffered  Martyrdom  at  Park  fox  the.  profeffion  of  the 
Gofpel. 

Philip  the  fecond,  King  of  Spain,  after  the  death  of  his  Wife,  Mary 
Queen  of  England,  was  married  to  Elizabeth  eldeft  Danghter  to  King 
Henry  II.  Pbttibert  Emmanuel  Duke  of  Savoy  married  wich  Margqaritc 
the  King's  only  Sifter  :  and  Charles  Duke  of  Lorrain,  with  Clande^  a : 
younger  Daughter  of  France. 

The  King  yielded  to  Philip  all  that  he  had  taken  from  him,  as  well 
on  this  fide, as  beyond  the  Mountains.'  To  the.  Savoyard  he  re* 
ilored  BreQe  ,  Savoy.,  and  Piedmont:  to  the  Genevan  the  Ifle  of 
Corfe,  and  about  four  hundred,  places  cnore,  conquered  during  the 
late  fatal  Wars ,  which  had  made  fo  many  Provinces  defolate, 
ruined  fo  many  Caftles,  Towns  and  Villages ,  drunk  up  fo  much 
ChritUan  blood,  and  (lain  fo  many  millions  of  Men  of  all 
qualities,  retaining,  nothing  but  the  Territories  of .  Boulleu  and 
Calais. 

The  prifons  were  now  full  of  the  Yroteftants :  the  Marriages  of  the  .: 
King's  Daughters  and  Sifter  were  folemnized  with  all  the  pleafures  and  • 
fports  that  could  be   devifed.     The  Court  exceeded  •  in  fumptuous  - 
Flays,  Masks,  Dances,  and  Etonr fires :  the  people  exprefled  publicfc 
joy  by  reafon  of  the  peace,  with  loud  acclamations  in  thefe    ceremo- 
nies.    But  this  pleafant  Comedy  was  "con  verted  by  a  fad  Cataftrophe, . 
into  a  mournful  Tragedy.     The  King.on  June  i  o.  Anno  1 558^  would  i 
be  one  of  the  Challengers  at  the  Tilt  in  St.  Antbonie^s  .flrect ,  being  fe- 
conded  by  the  Dukes  of  Guife  and  Ferrara.    And  to  run  his  laft  courfec 
in  favour  of  the  Queen  his  Wife,  he  fent  a:  Lance  to   the    Earl  off 
Montgomery.    The  Earl  excufeth  himfelf  torun  againft   his  Majefly. 
But  having  a  fecond  charge  from  the  King  to  enter.the  Lift,  he  runs, , 
and  breaks   his  Lance  upon  the  King's  cuirafs,  and  with  a.fplinter- 
thereof  (his  Bever  being  fomewhat  open)  (hikes  him  fo  deep  into  the 
eye,  as  on  July  io.he  dyed  at  his  houfe  of  fournelles  in  the  .  4?  year  off 
his  Age. 

The  King  when  he  caufed  paler  and  Awtedu  IBourg,  to  be  imprifo- 
ncd,  vowed  to  fee  them  burnt  within  few  days  if  they  peififled  ID 
opinion,  but. he  was.  prevented  by  death. . 


3*4          ^e€<cte!afltcfti^fto?p       cent,  i  -e* 

The  King's  death  in  France,  which  the  Reformed  did  afcribe  to  mi- 
racle, increased  their  courage,  though  they  durft  not  (hew  themfelves 
openly  in  Paris.  For  his  Son  Francis  the  fecond,  the  ne.w  King,  after 
He  was  confecrated  at  Jtbemcs^  Septemb.  20.  gave  order  to  profecute  the 
procefsof  theCounfellours  who  were  in  prifon,  and  deputed  the  pre- 
helent  of  :St.  Andreas^  and  the  InquiGtpr  Anton'm  T)eniocares,  to  difco- 
ver  the  Proieflaiits. 

The  Judges  having  gained  feme  of  the  common  fort  formerly  pro- 
felTours  of  that  Religion,  had  notice  of  the  places  where  they  fecret- 
ly  aflembled.  Therefore  ir  iny  bttth  nrn  a  ud  women  were  imprifo- 
ned,  and  many  fled,  whofe  goods  were  ronfifcated  after  a  citation  by 
three  -Edifts.  And  the  example  of  P«rffvthe  far^e  was  done  in  Poytou, 
I'hoiotife,  arid  Aix  of  Provetice,  by  the'inn'gjtioV.  of  George  Cardinal  of" 
jArmigJtac,  who  not  to  abandon  that  cntcrnrize  ,  would  not  go  to 
Rome  to  the  eleftion  of  the  Pope,  ufing  all  diligence,  that  thofe  who 
*tvere  difcovcred  might  be  apprehended.  The  profeffours  of 'that 
Religion  bejngfiirred.  up. hereby,  and  imboldencd,  becaufe  they  knew 
they  were  many',  fent  about  many  writings  againft  the  King  and 
Queen',  and  thofe  of  Lorrain,(  by  whom  the  King  was  governed) 
Authoursof  the  perfccution,  intermixing  fome  points  of  Religion, 
which  being  willingly  read  by  all ,  as  things  compofed  by  pub- 
lick  liberty  ,  did  imprint  the  new  Religion  in  •  the  minds  of 
many. 

In  the  end  of  the  procefs  againft  the  Counfellours,after  alohgcqnte- 
fration  all  were  abfolved,  except  Annedit  Bourg,  who  was  burnt  on  the 
eighteenth  of  December,  not  fo  much  by  the  inclination  of  the  Judges 
as  by  the  rcfolution  of  the  Queen  provoked  againft  him,  becaufe  the 
-Proieftants  did  divulge  in  many  writings  and  Libels  fpread  abroad, 
that  the  late  King  had  been  wounded  hi  the  eye  by  the  providence  of 
God,  for  a  purtifl\mentof  his  words  uJed  againft  du  Euttrg,  that  he 
would  fee  him  burnt. 

But  the  death  andconftancy  of  a  man  fo  confpicuous ,  did  mak^ 
many  curious  to  know  what  Religion  that  was,  for  which  he  had  fo 
ccuragioufly  endured  this  punifhment,  and  made  the  number 
increafe. 

There  was  a  great  confpiracy  in  many  parts  of  France,  into  which 
masy  were  cntred,  'arid  the  major  part  for  caufe  of -Religion,  difdain- 
ing  to  fee  poor  people  drawn  every  day  to  be  burned  at  the  ftake, 
guilty  of  nothing  but  of  zeal  to  worfhip  God,  and  tofave  their  own 
fouls.  To  thcfe  were  joyncd  ethers,  who  thinking  the  Gui fords  to 
be-thdcaufc  of  all  the  diforchisof  the  Kingdom,  judged  it  an  Hero* 
ick  AcV  to  deliver  it  from  opprcfiion  i>y  tailing  the  publick  admini- 
'  flration  out  of  their  hands. 

Both 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE,     . 

'  Both  thefe  cloaked  themfelves  with  the  cover  of  Religion,  to igairt 
more  followers :  and  the  better  to  confirm  their  minds,  caufcd  the 
principal  Lawyers  of  Gfrmany.and  France^  and  the  moft  famous  Pro* 
tenant  Dfvmes  to  publidi  in  writing,  that  without  violating  the  Ma- 
jeity  of  a  Ring,  and  Dignity  of  the  lawful  Magiftr-are ,  they  might 
'oppofe  vvith  Arms,  the  violent  Domination-  of  the  houfe  of  Guifa. 
who  offended  true  Religion  and  lawful  Jufiice,  and  kept  the  young 
King  as  it  were  in  prifon.- 

"  Great  tumults  of  the  people  wcreraifedinPrtt'mf.Lattgaft&c,  and 
Poitou\  whither  the  preachers  of  Genev*  were  called,  and  came  wil- 
lingly. By  whofe  Sermons  the  number  of  Protdiants  did  in- 
creafe. 

This  general. combination  made  the  Governours  of  the  Kingdom 
refolve,  that  there  was  nee<t  of  an  Ecckfiaftical  remedy,  and  that 
very  quickly,  and  a  National  Synod  was  propofed  by  the  whole 
Council.  The  Cardinal  of  Armi^nac  faid,  nothing  was  to  'be  dbne 
without  the  Pope,  to  which  opinion  fome  few  Prelates  did  adhere, 
But  the  Bifhopof  Valence  faid,  that  France  had  Prelates  of  it's  'cwrf 
to  regulate  the  caufesof  Religion,  who  beft  knew-rhe  wants  of  the 
Kingdom,  that  it  would  be  a  great  abfurdity  to  fee  Paris  burn,  having 
the  Rivers  of  Some  and  Marne  full  'of  Water,  and  to  believe  that  wa- 
ter mult  be  brought  from  libitr  to  quench  'the  'fire.  The  rcfblutiori 
of  the  Council  was,  that  there  being  need  of'  a  (hong  and  fucklen  're- 
medy, the  Prelates  of  the  Ringdbm  (hould  affeonble  to  cttrfider  of 
thefe  things,  a'nd  April  id.  the  Synod  was  intimated  for  the  !  tenth  of 
September. 

A  Currier  was  difpatcht  to  Rome,  to  acquaint  tlie  Pojpe  with  this 


King  fr'om  the  National  Synod.  Tnerefore  he  difpatched  a.wiy  A-.I-* 
tomo  di  lolecto.  Prior  of  Lyons,  to  pray  htrfi  not  fo  -gb^n'-hercih.  The 
affaulting  of  Geneva  was  propofed.  But' this  propofitron  was  net 
well  taken  in  France^  becaufe  it  would  make  the  -Proiellanfs  unite  them- 
felves.  Bcfides.  none  going  to  that  War,-but  the  Cathplicks,  the  King- 
dom would  be  left  open  to  the  oppcfites.  - 

The  -'Trench  King  anfwcrcd1.  that  he  Xvoufd  not  make  a  National 
Council  to  fepatate  himfclf,but  to  unite  '  to  the 'Church  rhofe  that 
wer/ailray,  that  a  general  Council  would  more  pliafe^  and  in  : 
hood  be  more  profitable,if  his  urgent  cccafions'wouldfufFcrhim  toex- 
peel:  the  time, which  mui\  needs  be  very  long*,  that  the  National  Coun- 
cil which  he  defirah,  ,hall  depend  upon  the  Apoftolrck  See",  and  the 
Pope,w-hicbflia;!l  ccafevvhen  the  'General  ^  ail'  bbffcmblicd^  and  {IraH 
ii^  rpoiate  withit,  And1  tAat  his-  deeds  may  airfntr  to  His  words, 

he. 


3Qt)e  ecrteftattical  J?ifto?p        Cent.  i^. 

he  defired  the  Pope  to  fend  a  Legate  into  France  ,  with  power 
to  aflemblethe  BUhops  of  the  Kingdom.,  and  to  fettle  the  affairs  of 
Religion. 

The  French  King  doth  not  think  Trent  a.  fit  place  for  the  Council  * 
nor  that  the  Do&rines  already  difcufled  there  (hould  be  maintained 
without  re-examination. 

This  troubled  the  Pope,  who  thought  it  did  not  proceed  from  the 
.King's  own  motion,  but  from  the  Proteftantf. 

The  Proteftants  were  formerly  called  Hugonots ,  becaufe  the  firft 
conventions  they  had  in  the  City  of  tows ,  (where  that  belief  firft 
took  ftrength  and  increafedj  were  in  certain  Cellars  under-ground, 
rnear  Hago's-gate,  from  whence  they  are  by  the  vulgar  fort  called 

HifgOHOtf. 

Theodore  "Bex*,  a  man  of  great  eloquence,  and  excellent  Learning, 
having  by  his  Sermons  drawn  many  to  embrace  the  Refojmed  Re- 
ligion, even  many  of  the  chief  Nobility  and  greateft  perfons  of  the 
Kingdom,  their  Aflemblics  and  Sermons  were  then  no  more  celebra- 
ted in  Stables  and  Cellars,  as  in  the  Reign  of  King£fe»ry  fecond,  but 
in  the  Halls  and  ,Chambers  of  the  beft  Gentry ,  and  moft  eminent 
Nobility.  * 

Be £*'s  Tranflation  of  the  new  Teftament ,  and  his  accurate  notes 
upon  it,  have  made  him  famous. 

•His  French  Pfaltery  was  fo  well  liked,  that  it  was  well  Tranflated 
into  the  German,  Bohemian,  Englijh,  Scottijb,  and  many  Languages  : 
and  it  is  both  in  ufe  and.efteem  with  all  the  Orthodox  Churches,  X&«- 
anw  faith,  that  Eeza  would  repeat  whole  Pfalms  in  Hebrew,  and  what- 
ever Chapter  one  could  name  out  of  P*»f  s  Epiftles,  he  would  rehearfe 
it  all  in  Greek^,  for  the  things  he  had  formerly  karat ,  his  Judgement 
failed  him  not. 

He  lived  eighty  fix  years,  and  toward  his  latter  end  he  began  to  for- 
get what  he  had  fpoken.  His  French  works  are  mentioned  by  Verdier 
in  his  Eibliotheqtte.  His  Latin  are  known. 

News  was  brought  unto  the  Pope,  that  his  Subjeds  of  Avignon  had 
taken  up  Arras  againft  him,  accounting  his  fucceffion  unlawfuh  becaufe 
that  Countrey  was  not  juftly  taken  from  Kaimond,  Count  of  Tboloufei 
.concluding  alfo  that  the  Ecclefiafticks  cannot  .by  the  commandment  of 
Chrift,  poflefs  any  Temporal  Dominion.  And  refolving  to  rebel  by 
the  means  of  Alexander  Guilotimits  a  Lawyer,  they  put  themfelves  un- 
der the  protection  of  Charles  de  Montbrttn,  who  being  in  Arms  for 
Religion,  was  much  followed  in  Daulpbine.  Charles  entring  the  Ter- 
ritory with  three  thoufand  foot ,  made  himfelf  Lord  of  the  whole 
Countrey,  with  much  joy  of  the  Inhabitants.  Jamet  Maria  ,  Bilhop 
of  Viviers,  Vice-Legate  of  Avignon,  made  oppofition,  and  very  hardly 
kept  the  City,  The  Pope  therefore  fent  Cardinal  Tarnefe  to  defend 

flic 


Cent.  16.  Of    FRANCE. 


the  City.  But  the  danger  was  moderated,  becaufe  Cardinal  Tomon 
(  whofe  NeeccCharles  had  married)  made  him  deiift,  and  go  to  Gene- 
va, by  promifing  reftitution  of  his  Goods  confifcated  for  Rebellions 
and  to  be  recalled  (hortly  with  liberty  of  Conference,  if  he  would  go 
out  of  France.  So  the  Pope's  Territory,  deprived  of  that  protedion, 
did  remain  in  fubje&ion,  but  full  of  fufpicions,  and  ready  to  embrace 
every  Novity. 

Davila  faith,  that  Godfrey  de  la  Barre,  Situ?  de  la  Renattdy  ,  is  made  Davila  Hift.  of 
head  of  the  confpiracy  aforementioned,  who  was  one  of  a  defperate  *he'  Wart 
fortune,  with  whom  many  others  joyned  themfelves  ;  fome  led  by 
Confcience,  others  thruft  on  through  defire  of  change  i  and  many  alfo 
invited  by  the  natural  humour  of  the  French  Nation,  who  cannot  en- 
dure to  live  idly. 

Tothofeof  beft  quality  among  thefe  he  gave  feveral  charges  to 
raife  men  ,  and  to  bring  them  to  a  place  appointed  ,  dividing  to  all 
their  feveral  Provinces.  To  the  Baron  of  Cajielnaw  was  committed 
the  care  of  Gaf  coign. 

To  Captain  Mazaresthe  charge  of  Eearn\  To  Mefny  the  Countrey 
of  Limoges  i  To  Mirabel  Xaintonge  :  To  Coccavfle  Piecerdy  j  To  the 
Sieur  de  St.  Mary  Normandy,  and  to  Montejan  Britany  :  Men  ,  who  as 
they  were  all  of  Noble  Families,  fo  were  they  of  known  courage,  and 
reputed  principal  leading-men,  in  feveral  Cities,  and  their  own  Coun- 
tries where  they  lived. 

All  thefe  departing  from  the  Aflemblj  at  Nantes,  a  City  in  Brv- 
**ny  ,  and  returning  every  one  with  ^reat  expedition  to  the  Pro- 
vince allotted  him  ,  in  a  few  days  working  with  wonderful  fe» 
crecy,  brought  a  great  number  of  people  of  feveral  conditions  to  be  at 
their  devotion. 

The  Confpirators  prepared  a  great  multitude,  who  (hould  appear 
before  the  King  without  Arms  ,  to  demand  that  the  feverity  of  the 
Judgements  might  be  mitigated,  and  Liberty  of  Confcience  granted, 
defigning  they  (hould  be  followed  by  Gentlemen  ,  who  (hould  make 
fupplication  againft  the  government  of  the  Guifardf. 

The  Confpiracy  was  difcovered,  and  the  Court  retired  from  Blois  an 
open  place  to  Amboife  a  ftrong  Fortrefs-  This  troubled  the  Confpi- 
ratours,who  while  they  were  thinking  of  anewcourfe,  fome  of  them 
who  took  Arms  were  beaten  and  flain,  and  others  taken  and  fentenced 
to  dye  :  and  to  appeafe  the  tumult,  pardon  was  granted  by  the  King's 
Edidl,  dated  March  18.  to  all,  who  fimply  moved  with  zeal  of  Reli- 
gion, had  entred  into  the  conspiracy,  fo  that  they  difarmed  within  24 
hours. 

Then  the  King  forbad  all  Affemblies  for  Religion,  and  committed 
to  the  Biftiops  the  hearing  of  the  caufes  of  Heretic. 

Ff  !  An 


ai8         3E%e  cccleftalhcai  $tfto?p       Cent.  16. 

An  Ordinance  was  made  by  the  States  ziOrltant ,  Anno  1560.  in 
ordonnance  des  the  (hort  Reign  of  King  Francif  the  fecond,  That  the  Abbots   and  Cu- 
r^nn  I*  -io*"*  rafes  w^°  hold  many  Benefices  by  difpenfation,  or  refide  upon  one  of 
Art.  5.  5         their  Benefices  requiring  adual  fervice  and  refidence,  (hall  be  excufed 
from  refidence  upon  their  other  livings.     Always  provided,  that  they 
depute  fufficient  Men  for  their  Vicars,  of  a  good  lifcand  convention: 
to  every  one  of  whom  they  (hall  afiign  fuch  3  portion  of  the  revenue 
of  the  Benefice,  as  may  fuffice  for  their  maintenance.     Other  wife  in 
default  hereof,  we  admonifh  and  enjoyn  the  Arch- Bimop,   or   Bifhop 
of  the  Diocefs  to  take  order  for  it,  andmoft  exprefly  command  our 
Judges  and  Prodrors  to  affift  them  therein  :   to  caufe  the  Temporalt:>s 
of  fuch  Abbeys  or  other  Benefices  to  be  feiied    upon  without  diffrna- 
bling,  a  Month  after  they  (hall  have  warned  and  required  the  Prelates, 
and  other  Titulars,  to  refide,  or  caufe  fome  to  refide  upon  their  Benefi- 
ces, and  to  fulfill  the  contents  of  this  prefent  Ordinance. 

Another  Ordinance  was  to  this  effect,  That  a  Prebend,  cr  the  re- 
venues thereof,  (hall  be  afligned  for  the  maintenance  of  a  School- 
mafter,  who  (hall  be  bound  in  the  mean  time,  to  teach  all  the  youth  of 
the  City  Gratis^  without  any  wages,  which  School- matter  (hall  be 
chofen  by  the  Arch-Bi(hop,  or  Bi(hop  of  the  place,  calling  in  the  Ca- 
nons of  the  Church,  together  with  the  Mayors,  Sheriffs,  Counfellours, 
or  Capitons  of  the  City,  and  to  be  put  out  by  the  faid  Arch-Bi(hop  or 
Ba(hops}  with  the  advice  of  them  ifcre&id. 

Here  I  will  fet  down  the  Indulgences  granted  to  divers  Churches, 
Brother-hoods  and  Hofpitals,  granted  by  divers  Popes  ,  and  Printed 
about  this  time  at  Cbartres,  by  Philip  Hotot.  I  (hall  tranfcribe  the 
whole. 

j .  The  Statutes  and  Ordinances  of  the  Worfhipful  Fraternity  of  the 
moil  bkflcd  Body  of  our  Lord  JefusChrift,  newly  founded  and  erect- 
ed in  the  Church  of  St.  Hilary  of  Cbartres^  together  with  a  fummary 
of  the  Pardons  and  Indulgences  given  and  granted  by  our  Holy  Fa- 
thers the  Popes,  and  by  our  Holy  Father  Pope  Paul  the  third  of  that 
Name,  confirmed  to  the  faid  Fraternity,  and  all  others  of  like  denomi- 
nation, as  well  at  KoTif,  as  out  of  Rome  ,  erected  or  to  be  erected. 
Which  Statutes  and  Ordinances,  by  vertue  of  taking  out  of  thofe 
Bulls  made  thereupon  by  Authority  of  Pope  Julius  III.  of  that  name. 
Given  at  ROOTP,  May  6.  15  50.  (hall  beobferved  ,  and  kept  in  manner 
and  form  following. 

The  Pardons,  Indulgences,  and  Jubilee,  and  plenary  Remiflions, 
granted  to  fuch  as  vifit  the  Altar  ,  where  the  blefTed  Sacrament  and 
precious  Body  of  Jefus  Chrilr,  is  placed  in  the  faid  Church  of  St.  H/- 
l&ty-  upon  the  days  in  the  year,  and  according  to  the  manner  and  form 

here- 


Cent.  i 6.  Of  FRANCE. 

hereafter  declared  and  exprefled,  to  the  end  that  every  Chriftian  ddi- 
rous  of  Ms  Salvation,  may  purchafe  and  come  by  them. 

And  firftof  the  Declaration  of  the  Indulgences  given  and  granted 
to  the  Brethren  of  the  faid  Fraternity  found  in  the  Church  of  St.  Hilary 
of  Cbartres,  verified,  approved  and  confirmed  for  ever5but  made  valid 
by  our  Holy  Father,  Pope  Jnl'm  III. 

The  Indulgences  granted  to  the  Hofpital  of  St.  James  in  dugufta. 

The  Indulgences  granted  to  the  Church  of  St.  John  of  Florence. 
ttld  to  the  Company  and  Society  of  the  faid  Nation,  and  of  St.  Cof- 
m(K,  and  Vamiawtf  of  Rome. 

The  Indulgences  granted  to  the  Sosiety  of  the  Holy  Camp  of 
Rome. 

The  Indulgences  granted  to  the  Brethren  and  Sifters  of  St.  Saviour, 
adSan&a  Sanftorum. 

The  Indulgences  granted  to  the  Company  of  the  Charity  of 
Rome. 

The  Indulgences  of  the  great  Hofpital  of  the  Holy  Ghoft  in  Saxix, 
of  the  Order  of  St.  Auflin  of  Rome. 

The  Indulgences  of  our  Lady  del  Popolo  of  Rome . 

The  Catalogue  and  Declaration  of  the  Indulgences 
aforefaidj  and  the  Names  of  the  Pope t  that  grant- 
ed them,  and  the  days  nf  on  which  they  maybe  had. 

Firft,  our  Holy  Father  Pope  Leo,  hath  granted  to  all,  and  every  ©ne 
of  the  faid  Brethren,  which  (hafl  be  prefent  at  proceffions,  and  other 
Divine  Service  celebrated  upon  Corpw  Chrifti  day,  remiffion  of  all  their 
fins,  provided  they  be  confeffed  and  penitent,  or  have  a  full  refoluti- 
on  to  confefs  themfelves  at  the  times  appointed  by  our  Holy  Mother 
the  Church. 

Plenary  Pardon  to  tbofevf  the  Brethren  that  Jball 
name  the  name  of  Jefw  at  the  foint  of  Death. 

Itemy  He  hath  granted  a  plenary  Pardon  to  all  fuch  of  the  Brethren 
of  the  faid  Fraternity,  as  (hall  name  the  name  of  Jefus  at  the  point  of 
Death,  and  they  (hall  be  partakers  of  all  the  good  works  of  the  whole 
Church  Catholick. 


Xfteeccieftafticai^fto??    Cent.  16. 


Plenary  Pardon  upon  all  the  Feaft-days  of  our 
upon  All-Souls  day  5   and  upon  St.  Philip   and 
James  day. 


^  He  hath  granted  to  every  one  of  the  faid  Brothers  and  Sifters, 
who  upon  any  of  theFeaftsof  our  Lady,  upon  AU-Seuls  day,  and 
*  upon  Philip  and  James  day,  from  the  Vefpers  of  the  Eves  ,  until  the 
Vefpers  of  the  faid  days,  (hall,  being  confeflcd  and  penitent,  vifit  the 
great  Altar  of  St.  Hilary,  upon  which  the  moft  precious  blefled  Sacra- 
ment is  fet,  plenary  Pardon  of  all  their  fins  upon  every  one  of  the  faid- 
days, 

Plenary  Pardon  upon  all  the  fecond  days   in  June,. 
and  upon  the  fixt  tenth  of  July. 


^  Pope  Sixttu,  hath  given  and  granted  to  every  Brother  and 
Sifter  that  (hall  vifit  the  faid  Altar,  upon  the  fecond  day  in  June,  and 
the  fixteertfh  day  of  July  every  ;  year,  for  every  of  the  faid  daysa  ple- 
nary remiflion  of  all  their  fins. 

Plenary  Pardon  t&  the  Dead. 

I/*w,Hehath  granted  to  every  Brother  that  (hall  give  any  Alms, 
or  offer  any  facrifice,  according  to  his  means  and  ability,  by  way  of 
fuffrage  for  the  Soul  of  any  one  deceafed,  that  he  (hall  obtain  plenary, 
Pardon  for  the  fins  of  him  fo  deceafed, 

Plenary  Pardon  upon  our  Ladies  day  in  w/Wr 
which  is  the,  Affumption. 

Item,  Pope  Gr^gory-hath  given  and  granted  to  every  Brother  that 
fball  vifit  the  Altar  of  the  blefled  Sacrament  in  the  faid  Churth  of  the 
faid  St.  Hilary  upon,  our,  Ladies  day  in  mid-^*g»/i,  &c.  plenary  remif- 
f\qn  :of  all  hisiins,  . 


Plenary 


Cent.itf.  Of  FRANCE.  aal 

Plenary  Pardon  up  on  the  Feajts  of  our  Lady^  and  the- 
Oftaves  of  them^  &c. 

Tte  w,  he  hath  given  to  all  the  Feftivals  of  our  Lady,  and  the  0- 
Saves  of  them,  and  to  every  Feaft  of  the  Apoftles  ,  plenary  pardon-  of 
all  their  fins. 

Eajier-day,  and  eight  days  following.  \ 

Item^  Pope  Innocent  hath  granted  to  the  faid  Brothers  and  Sifters, 
upon  E<«/frr-day,  and  eight  days  following,  four  thoufimd  eight 
hundred  years  of  <$>*ar  ant  tins,  and  remiflion  of  the.  third  part  of  al! 
their  fins. 

Twelfth-day,  and  the  O&aves  of  that  Fejt~ival9  and 
the  Nativity  of  our  Lady. 

Item,  He  hath  granted  to  Tnt/ft^-day,  and  the  Octaves  thereof,  five 
thoufand  years  :  to  the  day  of  the  Nativity  of  our  Lady  ,  and  the- 
Q&aves  of  it  thirty  thcufand  years  of  true  pardon. 

Afcenfion-^5  and  the  O&aves  thereof  ^ 


^  Pope  Clement  V.  hath  granted  to  the  faid  Brothers  and  Sifters 
upon  ^jcew^ow-day,  and  the  Odtaves  thereof  two  thoufand  years  of  true 
pardon. 

PopeBoniface  VIII.  hath  gran  ted  to  the  faid  Brothers  and  Sifters 
upon  the  faid  ^/c«f/w«-day,and  theO&aves  thereof,  two  thoufand 
years  of  true  pardon. 

All-Saints  Day. 

Item^  Pope  Btnne  t  XII.  hath  granted  to  the  faid  Brothers    upon 
'dti-Saints  Day,  three  thoufand  eight  hundred  ^ttarantatns  of  true>; 
pardon. 


Cent. 


Plenary  Pardon  upon  all  the  Feftivals  of  our 
Lady,  to  thofe  that  JlalL  vifit  the  Altar  upon 
which  the  bleffed  Sacrament  ftandeth  in  the  Church 
of  St.  Hilary. 


^  Pope  Stxtus  IV.  hath  granted  to  the  faid  Brothers  and  Sifters 
that  (hall  vifit  the  faid  Altar  in  the  Church  of  St.  Hilary,  on  which  the 
bfcfled  Sacrament  of  the  Altar  ftandeth,  upon  any  of  the  Feftivals  of 
our  Lady,  from  the  firft  Vefpers  to  the  fecond,  plenary  pardon  of  all 
their  fms»  A, 
X 

All  the  Saturdays  in  Lent. 

Item,  He  hath  granted  to  the  faid  Brothers,  which  (hall  vifit  the  (aid 
Altar  an  the  Saturdays  in  Lent,  for  every  day  a  thoufand  eight  hundred 
years  of  true  pardon. 

in  Mid-Lent  till  Low-Sunday. 


Item,  He  hath  granted  to  the  faid  Brothers  and  Sifters,  Vifitingthe 
faid  Altar  as  before,  from  ThurfdayinMid-LfHf,  till  Low-Sunday,  for 
-tvery  day  athou&nd  eight  hundred  years,  and  two  thoufand  Qtta- 
rantainsot  true  pardon. 

The  day  of  enfr  anc?  into  the  f  aid  Fraternity. 

Over  and  above  the  faii  ^ardqjis  and  Indulgences  fo  granted  as 
abovefaid,  our  Holy  Father  Pope  Paul  III.  doth  give  and  grant,  as 
appears  by  his  Bull,  plenary  Indulgence  and  remiflion  of  all  their  fins 
in  manner  of  Jubilee,  to  every,  one  that  (hall  enter  into  the  faid  Fra- 
ternity, and  (hall  be  confeffed  and  penitent  for  his  fins  upon  the  day  of 
his  entrance,  and  (hall  have  received  the  moft  blefled  Body  of  our  Lord 
Jefus  Chrift. 

Plenary  Pardon  three  times  in  their  Life, 

Item,  He  giveth  and  granteth  moreover  to  every  one  of  the  faid 
Brothers,  and  Sifters  plenary  pardon,  and  Indulgence  of  all  their  (ins 
thrice  in  their  Life,  upon  what  day  and  hour  they  pleafe, 

To 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE.  223 

To  all  that  accompany  the  Body  of  our  Lord,  when  it 
is  carried  to 


Item,  He  grants  an  hundred  years  of  pardon  to  all  that  {hall  accom- 
pany the  blefled  Sacrament  of  the  Altar,  when  it  (hall  be  carried  to  lick 
folks,  and  as  much  to  thofe  who  cannot  go  themfelves,  but  (hall  lend 
one  of  their  Servants  with  a  Candle  »  and  to  thofe  that  can  neither  go 
nor  fend,  if  they  fay  one  ?<*/«•-  Noffor,  and  an  Ave-  Maria  ^  to  every 
one  an  hundred  years  of  true  pardon. 

7*0  thofe  that  flail  vifit  the  Church  of  St.  Hilary  e  w 
ry  Friday, 

Item,  He  grants  to  the  faid  Brothers  and  Sifters,  which  (hall  vifit 
the  faid  Church,  and  the  faid  Altar  of  St.  Hilary  every  Friday  ,  and- 
(hall  devoutly  fay  one  Pater-Nofter  and  an  Aye-Maria  ,  in  honour  of 
the  moft  bleffed  Sacrament  of  the  Altar,  ten  years  ,  and  ten 
uins  of  true  pardon. 


..- 


Of  cboofmg  their  ConfeffoHr. 

hath  given  and  doth  give  to  every  one  of  the  faid  Bro- 
thers and  Sifters  licence  to  choofe  three  times  in  their  life,  any  Prieft, 
Secular  or  Regular  for  their  ConfeiTour,  who  (hall  abfolve  them  from 
all  fins,  how  hainous  foever  j  yea,  though  they  be  referved  to  the  Ho- 
ly See,  al  ways  excepted  fuch  as  are  contained  in  the  .Bull  which  is  read  .- 
at  Rome  upon  Maundy  Iburfday. 

F or vifitingthe  aforefaid  Altar  every  day  in  Lent. 

Item,  According  to  the  priviledges  granted  in  the  Hofpital  of  the 
Holy  Ghoft,  and  other  places  particularly    mentioned  ,  at  which  the 
ftations  both  within  the  City  of  Ko/»?,and  without  the  Walls  of  the. 
faid  City  are  appointed  to  be,  our  faid  Holy  Father,  doth  give  unto  • 
all  the  faid  Brothers  and  Sifters  which  (hall  vifit  the  faid  Altar  ,  upon 
which  the  blefled  Sacrament  of  the  Altar  refteth  in  the  Church  of  St. . 
Hilary  aforefaid,  upon  the  days  following. 

Imprimis,  The  firft  day  ot  Lent,  three  thoufand  years  of  true  pardon^ 
and  plenary  remiflion  of  his  fins  over  and  above. . 

fkitrfJayy 


234  3Epe  CCdtfiafttCal  %lftO?g          Cent.  16. 

'fburfday,  Ten  thoufand  years.     Friday,  Ten  thoufand  years. 

The  firft  Sunday  in  Lent,  eighteen  thoufand  years  of  pardon,  and 
ttmiffion  of  all  fins  to  boot. 

Monday,  Ten  thoufand  years,  and  a  plenary  Indulgence. 


,  Twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  Q*arantaint, 
and  remiffion  of  the  third  part  of  their  fins,  and  the  delivery  of  one 
*Sbul  out  of  purgatory. 

Wednesday  ,  Twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  §>uarant*ins 
and  remiffion  of  the  third  part  of  their  fins. 

Iburfday,  Ten  thoufand  years  of  true  pardon,  and  remiffion  of  all 
their  fins. 

Friday,  Thirteen  thoufand  years  of  true  pardon,and  plenary  remiffi- 
on of  all  their  fins. 

Saturday,  Twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  ^uarantaint^ 
and  beiidcs  remiffion  of  all  their  fins* 

The  fecond  Sund'ay  in  Lent,  twenty  eight  thoufand  years  ,  and  as 
many 


Monday,  Ten  thoufand  years  of  pardon,  and  remiffion  of  the  third 
part  of  their  fins. 

lueflay,  Ten  thoufand  years. 

Ten  thoufand  years. 


'fburfday,  Friday,  and  Saturday  ,  to  each  day  ten  thoufand  years. 
And  befides  on  Saturday  remiffion  of  all  their  fins,  with  the  deliye- 
ranee  of  one  foul  from  the  pains  of  purgatory. 

The  third  Sunday  in  Lent,  Ten  thoufand  years,  and  twenty  eight 
Quarantains  of  true  pardon,  and  deliverance  of  one  foul  out  of  pur- 
gatory. 

Monday,  'fueflay,  Wednefdsy,  Ihurfday,  Friday  ,  on  each  day  ten 
thoufand  years.  Satmday  ten  thoufand  years,  and  plenary  remiffion 
of  all  their  fins. 

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Cent.  i<5.  Of  FRANCE.  225 

The  fourth  S*»^*y,remiffion  of  all  their  fins,  and  deliverance  of 
ojie  foul  from  the  pains  of  purgatory. 

Monday,  Ten  thoufand  years, 

,  Ten  thoufand  years,  and  remiflion  of  the  third  part  of  all 


their  fins. 

Wednefday,  Ten  thoufand  years  ,  and  remiffion  of  the  third  part 
of  all  their  iins.  . 

Tiburfday^  Friday^  and  Saturday,  on  each  day  ten  thoufand  years. 

The  fifth  Sunday^  which  is  thepaffion  Sunday  of  our  Saviour,  twen- 
ty feven  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  Qttarantains,  with  remiflion  of 
the  third  part  of  all  their  fins  :  and  thefe  pardons  they  may  get  Uvice 
a  day,  vifiting  the  faid  Altar  as  aforefaid. 

Monday^  'fuefday^  Wediteflay^  and  Thurfday  ten  thoufand  years.. 
Friday^  Tlic  deliverance  of  one  foul  from  the  pains  of  purgatory. 

Saturday^  Twelve  thoufand  years  of  pardon,  and  deliverance  of 
one  foul  out  of  purgatory. 

The  fixth  Sunday  being  Palm-Sunday,  twenty  five  thoufand  years, 
and  forty  eight  Quarantains  of  true  pardon,  and  befides  remiifion  of 
all  their  fins.  Upon  this  day  they  may  get  the  faid  pardons  twice,,  as 
was  faid  of  the  former  Sunday. 

Monday,  twenty  five  thoufand  years,  ^and  remiffion  of  the  fourth 
part  of  ail  their  fins,  and  befides  plenary  remiifion  of  all  their  fins. 


,  twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  -and  plenary  pardon    of  all 
their  fins,  over  and  above. 

Wednefday^  Eighteen  thoufand  years.- 

Thurfday,  Twelve  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  Q^ar  ant  aim  ,  andie? 
million  of  all  their  fins. 

Good-Friday^  great  number  of  Pardons  and  Indulgences,  and  ple- 
nary remiffion  of  all  their  fins. 


Cent.  16. 


Saturday  before  Eafter,  two  and  twenty  thoufand  years,  and  forty 
eight  Quarantaittf  of  pardon,  and  plenary  remiffion  of  all  their  fins. 

E<f/for-day  twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  ^uara»taint 
of  pardon,  and  plenary  remiilion  of  all  fins. 

Eafter-Menday  the  fame  as  on  Eajler-dzy. 
Eafter-'fuefday,  Ten  thoufand  years. 

Wednesday  ,  fifteen  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  Qxatantainsju\&  the 
deliverance  of  one  foul  out  of  purgatory. 


,  Fifteen  thoufand  years,  and  plenary  remiilion  of  all  fins. 
friday^  Fifteen  thoufand  years. 

Saturday  ,  Fifteen  thoufand  years,  and  plenary  remiffion  of  the  third 
part  of  all  their  fins.  And  they  may  have  them  twice  a  day  as  before. 

Low-  Sunday,  Fifteen  thoufand  years,  and  plenary  remiilion  of  the 
third  part  of  all  their  fins.     And  they  may  get  them  twice  a  day. 

To  thofe  that  Jhall  affift  at  Maffes  ,  Services  ,  and 
Proceffions. 


^  He  gives  unto  all  the  Brothers  and  Sifters  of  the  faid  Frater- 
nity, that  Qiall  allift  at  the  Service  and  procefiions  made  in  the  Church 
of  St.  Hilary  in  Chartres,  in  honour  of  the  blefled  Sacrament,  to  every 
one  an  hundred  years  of  true  pardon. 

The  Stations  after  Eafter  in  the  faid  Church  of  St. 
Hilary,  doing  AS  is  fet  down  before,  and  vifiting 
the  faid  Altar  of  the  bleffed  Sacrament. 

Imprimir,  St.  M^rJ^'s  day,eighteen  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  jtya- 
rantains* 

•4/c«*/wHiday,twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  tguarantaixf. 

Whit  fund  ay  t  twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  and  plenary  remiflion  of 
all  fins. 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE.  227 

Whit  fun-Eve,  fifteen  thoufand  years,  ehr. 
Wbitfitnday^  Twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  d-r. 
irbrtfrtn-MeMday,Ttmiffion  of  all  fins. 
,  Twenty  three  thoufand  years. 


Wednefday,  Twenty  eight  thoufand  years  ,  and  as     many 
tainf,znd  remidion  of  the  third  part  of  their  fins,  and  the  delivery  of 
one  foul  out  of  purgatory  befide. 

The  Stations  of  Advent//?  the  faid  Church  of  St. 
Hilary. 

The  fir  ft  Sunday  in  Advent,  twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  and  as  ma- 
ny  ^H  ar  antains  ,  and  remiilion  of  the  third  part  of  all  their  fins. 

The  fecond  Sunday,  eleven  thoufand  years,  and  plenary  remiflion  of 
all  their  fins,  granted  by  St.  Silvefer. 

The  third  Sunday,  twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  and  as  many  §«*- 
rantains,  and  plenary  remiffion  of  all  fins. 

The  fourth  Sunday,  eleven  thoufand  years,  and  plenary  remiffion  of 
all  fins. 

St.  Stephen's  day,  and  St.  John's  day,  twenty  eight  thoufand  years,and 
as  many  Quarantains^nd.  full  remiffion  of  all  fins.  Innocents  day,  fif- 
teen thoufand  years,  and  as  many  gtuarantainf^nd  remiffion  of  all  iins. 

On  New-years  day,  twenty  five  thoufand  years,  and  plenary  remiffi- 
on  of  all  fins.  twelfth-  day  t  twenty  eight  thoufand  yeass  ,  as  many 
Quarantatns,  and  plenary  remiflion  of  all  their  fins. 

Septttagefima  Sunday,  eleven  thoufand  years,  and  forty  eight  §)ua- 
rantaittf,  and  the  remiilion  of  the  third  part  of  their  fins,  with  the  de- 
livery of  one  foul  out  of  purgatory* 


A  Sunday,  thirteen  thoufand  years,  and  forty  feven  thou- 
fand Qxarantains^  and  remilfion  of  the  third  part  of  their  fins. 

a  Sunday,  twenty  eight  thoufand  years,  and  as  many 

true  pardon.                          G  g  a  And 


2  28  %\yt  CCClritafttCal  tiftOJt?          Cent.  1 6*. 

And  the  faid  Pardons  and  Indulgences  here  above-mentioned  ,  are 
granted  only  to  the  Brothers  and  Sifters  of  the  (aid  Fraternity  which 
thall  upcn  the  days  aforefaid  every  year  vifit  the  faid  Altar  in  the  faid 
Church  of  St.  Hilary  of  Chartres  in  France,  upon"  which  the  blefled 
Sacrament  and  precious  body  of  Jtfus  Chrift  is  placed. 

MedardThierfatdt,  Prieft,  Licentiat  in  the  Laws  ,  Chanon  of  Char- 
tres,  Official,  and  Vicar- General,  both  in  the  Spiritualty  and    Tempo- 
ralty  of  the  Reverend  Father  in  God  Monfieur  Lewes,  by  the  Grace  of 
God.Bi&op  of  Chartres  :  To  all  and  fingular,  the  Parfons  and  Vicars, 
of  the  Churches  within  the  City  of  Chartres  ,  fendeth    greeting,  &c. 
Pope  Paul  the  third,  did  heretofore  of  his  own  proper  motion,  for  the  b»*<air> 
of  the  blefled  Sacrament. grant  unto  the  Brothers  of  the  Fraternity  of  the 
blfffed  Body  of  Jefut  Chriti,  in  the  Minerva  of  Rome  ,  certain  Indulges 
ces,  plenary  remiffion  of  fins,  and  other  graces,  the  good  devotion,  and  upon 
petition  of  the  faithful  Cbriftian  Brothers.     Which  Indulgences  and  ple- 
nary rem}$od  of  Sins,  our  holy  Father  Julius  HI.  Pope,  to  the  end  that  aU 
Christians  might  come  devoutly,  and  honour  the  blefied  Sacrament,  of 'his 
own  Authority  hath  willed  and  decreed,  that  they  be  of  perpetual  force  and' 
efficacy.      And  thefe  Indulgences  and  other  graces  aforefaid,  at  the  inftance 
of  the  mojl  noble  Perfonage  Mr.  Chriftopher  de  Hcrovard,  the  Lieutenant 
General  of  the  M<,-i  ChriliianKing,  within  the  Eailiw/ck^of  Char  tres,  hath 
granted  them  to  the  Er others  and  S tiers  of  the  Fraternity  of  the  blefled  Bo- 
oy  °f  Jefut  Cbrtt,  heretofore  erected  and  instituted  in  'the  Church   of  St. 
Hilary  0/Char.tres :  always  provided,  that  like  grace  and  gift  wx  itotfor* 
merly  granted  to  any  other  Church  of  the  faid  City  of  Chai  tres.  And  for- 
aftnucb  as  we  have  viewed  the  contents  of  the  faid  Indulgence,  in  the  pub- 
//4.  Internment  out  of  the  Copy  of  Dominick  Eifrop  of  Hoftia,  Cardinal  of 
theh,ly  Church  a/Rome,  by  Title  Traven,  Dean  of  the  facred-Apoftoliczl 
College ,  ProteSottr  and  Patron  of  the  Fraternity  of  the  blefled  Body  of  our 
Swiour,  founded  in  tbe-Cb:ircb  of  our  Lady  of  Minerva,  •/  the    order  of 
Fry  art  Predicants  in  the  City  of  Rome,  in  manner  of  an  exemplifcatiov, 
p:!blifred,drjwn,figned  and'fealedby  Genefe  Bulter  Secretary  to  the  faid 
Fraternity.  Given  at  Rome,  May  6.  1550.  And  furthermore,  where^  by 
^certain  declaration  made  unto  the  Court  of  Rr.me,  by  the  command  an<A 
with  the  leave  of  the  Reverend  Father  in  God,  the  Lord  Bijhop  of  Chartres 
and  as  it  fiews  to  IK  truly  and  lawfully  made  ^  that  '/#  certain   the  lify 
guce-wu  never  granted  to  any  other  Church  in  the  City  of  Chart  res  .Where- 
fae  we  command  you  to  publijh,and  caufe  to  be  publijhed  in  your  Churches 
the  fa, d  Indulgences,  and  the  exemplifications  of  the  Letters  aforefaid  ac- 
ording  to  their  f,rm  and  tenure.,  Giving  leave  to  the  faid  Chriftopher  de 
Herovard,  to  caufe  the.  faid  graces  and  Indulgences  to  be  publified  within 
the  City  and  Church  of  Chartres,  whether  by  Siguis's  or  ctbimfe  the  fame- 
acrovard  fall  think,  good.  Given  at  Char  tres  under  the  feal  of  the  Cham-- 
tor  ofilefaidBificpof  Chartres,  Anno  1 5 50.  July^.Snbfcribcd. 

EJeSenewx,  Pope: 


Cent.  \6.  Of  FRANCE. 


Pope  Pius  IV.  in  his  Bull  of  the  publication  of  the  Council  of 
Trent,  which  was  forthe  continuation  of  it,  bearing  date  Decoder  30. 
1560.  flieweth  in  effed,  that  it  was  begun,  continued,  and  ended  among 
the  troubles  in  France  and  Germany.  And  (  as  Sleidan  faith  )  as  foon  skidan.  /.  16. 
as  new  broils  were  raifed  in  the  neighbouring  pans  of  Germany,  and  a 
great  war  was  kindled  in  Italy  and  France,  the  Council  was  afterwards 
fufpended  and  adjourned. 

After  the  fupprefiion  of  the  Confpirators  forementioned,  inafecret 
Council  held  in  the  Kings  chamber  it  is  refolved  to  punifti  the  favou- 
rers of  the  Confpiracy.  And  to  get  the  Favourers  of  the  Hugonots  in- 
to their  power,  it  was  refolved  to  call  an  Aficrably  of  the  States,  ac 
which  among  others  the  Princes  of  the  Blood  are  to  affift. 

But  the  Queen-Mother  and  the  Guifes  doubting  more  than  ev«r  new 
Infurreftions,  the  Prince  of  Conde  who  was  as  a  prifoner  is  difcharged 
of  his  Guard,  and  fet  at  liberty.  He  prefently  departed  from  Court, 
and  went  into  Beam  to  the  King  of  Navarre.  The  Conftable,  the 
Admiral  of  France,  and  the  reft,  were  entertained  with  kind  Letters  and 
Commiflions  and  Charges  of  trull. 

The  dhTenfions  and  iufpicions  of  the  Grandees  in  France  encreafing, 
on  thezi.of^ogw/?  the  King  called  a  very  great  Afiembly  at  Foun-  The  Affembiy 
tainbleau,  in  which  the  necerticies  of  the  Kingdom  were  declared  by  f^""'3'"' 
the  Chancellour,  which  he  compared  to  a  man  fick  of  an  unknown  dif- 
eafe.  Afterwards  Jajper  Coligni  gave  the  King  fome  Petitions,  which 
he  faid,  were  delivered  to  him  by  a  multitude  of  people,  when  he  was 
in  Normandy.  The  fumm  of  them  was,  That  the  faithful  Chriftians 
difperfed  throughout  the  whole  Kingdom  did  pray  his  Majefty  to  look 
on  them  with  a  favourable  eye:  that  they  defired  a  moderation  of  their 
punifhments  until  their  caufe  were  heard  :  and  that  they  might  make 
publick  profeffion  of  their  Religion,  to  avoid  fufpicionby  private  Aflem- 
blies. 

Tb?n  John  Monluc  Bifhop  of  faience  fhewed,  That  the  principal  re- 
medy ofthefe  diftempers  was  to  flieunto  God,  to  aflemble  godly  men- 
out  of  the  whole  Kingdom,  to  find  a  way  to  root  out  the  vices  of  the 
Clergy,  toforbid  infamous  and  immodeft  Songs,  and  inftead  of  them 
to  command  the  finging  of  Pfalms  and  holy  hymns  in  the  vulgar 
tongue  :  and  if  the  common  interpretation  be  not  good,  to  take  away 
the  errours,  fuffering  that  which  is  good  to  be  ufed  by  all. 

Another  remedy  was,  the  General  Council,  alwaies  ufed  to  com- 
pofe  fuch  differences ;  faying,  That  if  a  General  Council  could  not  be 
obtained  ,  they  were  to  aflemble  a  National  :  that  they  did  grievoufly 
err,  who  troubled  the  publick  quiet  with  Arms  upon  pretence  of  Reli- 
gion :  that  their  errour  was  as  great  who  condemned  to  death  thofe 
who  adhered  to  the  new  Doftrine,  only  for  the  opinion  of  piety,  who' 
dying  conftamly,  and  contemning  the  lofs  of  their  goods,  ftirup  the 

A  a  a  minds 


'S.lyi  cccicftaincai  iNfto?p      Cent.  16. 

minds  of  the  multitude,  and  make  them  defirous  to  know,  what  Faith 
that  is  for  which  they  endure  fo  great  punifhment.  Charles  tstfa- 
rillac,  Bifhopof  Vienna^  fpake  in  the  fame  manner,  adding,  That  the 
difeafe  of  France  was  fo  fnarp,  that  there  was  no  time  to  call  a  Phy- 
fician  from  far  :  therefore  they  were  to  call  a  National  Coun- 
cil. 

Coligni  added ,  that  requiring  thofe  wfio  gave  him  the  Petitions, 
tofublcribe  them,he  was  anfwered,  That  five  thoufand  men  would  fub- 
fcribe  if  there  were  occafion.. 

Francis  of  Gttife  concerning  the  point  of  Religion,  faid,  he  refer- 
red himfelf  unto  the  judgement  of  learned  men  \  but  protefted,  that  no 
Council  fhould  make  him  decline  one  jot  from  the  old  be- 
lief. 

The  Cardinal  of  Lorain  faid ,  That  the  Petitions  prefented  were 
moft  proud,  and  that  to  grant  the  Orators  publick  Exercife,  were  to  ap-' 
prove  their  Doctrine  :  he  faid,  that  the  greater  part  ufed  Religion  for 
a  pretence  :  and  therefore  his  opinion  was,  they  fhould  be  proceeded 
againft  with  more  feverity,  mitigating  the  punifhment  of  thofe  who 
aSemble  without  Arms,  only  for  Religion,  inftru&ing  and  admonifhing 
them  :  and  to  this  purpofe  to  caufe  the  Prelates  torefide,  hoping  that 
by  thefe  remedies  they  would  need  neither  National  nor  General 
Council. 

A  Decree  was  made  the  27.  of  that  month,  That  there  fhould  be  an  Af- 
fembly  of  the  States  at  Meaux  the  10.  efjbetcntter :  and  if  the  General 
Council  fhali  not  be  called  fuddenly,  the  Bifhops  fhall  afTemble  on 
January  13.  to  treat  of  celebrating  a  National  :  in  the  mean-while  the 
punifhments  for  caufe  of  Religion  were  fufpended,  except  againft  thofe 
who  took  up  Arms. 

The  Pope  hereupon  wrote  to  Cardinal  Townon,  to  hinder  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Bifl  :ops ,  and  if  he  could  not,  to  return  to  Rome .  The  Pope 
makes  fhewtocall  a  General  Council  fuddenly.  He  received  anfwer 
from  Tournon^  that  having  tried  all  means,  he  was  not  able  to  remove 
the  King  or  any  of  his  Council,  nor  could  hope  for  any  better  fuccefs  . 
hereafter.  The  Pope's  fecret  purpofe  was  to  ayoidthe  Council,  or 
to  defer  it,  but  makes  a  contrary  refolution  againft  his  Will,  and  is 
much  troubled  with  the  occurrences  of  France.  A  Currier  went  in 
hafteto  Romt  out  of  France^  with  proteftations  from  the  King,  that 
if  the  General  Council  were  not  called,  he  could  no  longer  deter  the 
National  :  adding,  that  if  any  place  in  France  were  chofen  for  the 
meeting  of  the  Council,  it  fhould  be  moft  fecure. 

Then  the  Convocation  of  the  Council  waspublifhed  in  the  Confi- 
ftory,  the  Bull  whereof  was  entitled,  Of  the  Intimation  of  the  Council  of 
Trent :  the  Latine  word,  was  ludiftionis..  Vergerim  wrote  a  Book 
againft  this  Bull. 

At 


Cent.i6.  Of  FRANCE. 


At  this  time  News  came  to  Romt ,  that  the  French  King  had  impri- 
foned  the  Prince  of  Conde,  and  feta  guard  upon  the  King  of  Navarre, 
which  pleafed  the  Pope  much,  as  a  thing  that  might  hinder  the  Nati- 
onal Council.  Saga  fervant  to  the  King  of  Navarre,  is  taken  at  Eftam- 
pes  with  divers  letters  about  him,  and  being  tortured  confefTeth  cer- 
tain practices  againft  the  Crown.  The  Prince  of  ConAe  had  attem- 
pted to  pofTefs  himfelf  of  Lions,  but  without  fuccefs.  The  Governour 
of  the  City  condemned  many  of  the  Hugomt s  to  be  hanged,  and  the 
reft  he  fent  alive  to  the  Court,  who  ferved  afterwards  to  con- 
firm the  Dfpofitions  of  the  Prifoners  againft  the  difcontented 
Princes. 

The  King  departeth  wiih  his  Guard  from  Fonntainblean  and  fum- 
moneth  the  States  to  meet  at  Orleans^  where  the  firft  thing  that  was 
done  was  to  make  a  profefiiou.  of  their  Faith.  Which  being  fet  down 
by  the  Doctors  of  the  Sorbon,  conformable  to  the  belief  of  the  Reman 
Church,  and  publickly  read  by  the  Cardinal  of  Tonrno#,  Prefidentof 
the  Ecclcfiaftical  order,  was  by  a  folemn  Oath  approved  and  confirmed 
by  every  one  of  the  Deputies  :  becaufe  none  fliould  be  admitted  into 
that  General  AfTembly ,  either  unwittingly,  or  on  purpofe,  that  was  not 
a  true  Catholick. 

Then  the  High  Chancellour  in  prefence  of  the  King  propofed  thofe 
things  which  were  necefiary  to  be  confulted  of  for  the  reformation  of 
the  Government.  But  this  was  theleaft  thing  in  every  mans  thought, 
for  the  minds  of  all  men  were  in  fufpence  about  the  Prince  otConde's 
imprifonment ,  who  being  interrogated,  excepts  againft  his  trial,  and 
appeals  to  the  King:  but  the  Appeal  is  not  accepted  :  and  he  was  de- 
clared to  be  held  as  convict,  becaufe  he  had  refu.fed  toanfwerthe  De- 
legates. So  they  proceeded  judicially,  until  the  very  hft  pronouncing 
offentence. 

The  Commiforws  having  pronounced  the  fentence  againft  the 
Prince  ofConde,  the  King  one  morning  being  under  the  Barbers  hand, 
was  on  a  fudden  taken  with  an  Apoplexy,  and  laid  by  his  fervajits  on  his 
±>ed,  and  on  Decemb.  5.  he  died. 

Charles  )X.  brother  to  Francu,  and  fecond  Son  to  the  Queen,  fuc- 
ceeded  to  the  Crown,  being  yet  but  about  eleven  years  old  :  in  .re- 
gard of  his  Minority  the  Government  fell  principally  upon  the  King 
of  Navarre  as  firft  Prince  of  the  Blood.  Navarre  did  almoft  openly 
favour  thenew  Religion^  and  was  wholly  governed  by  the  Counfelof 
Jafrer  Coligni  the  old  Admiral,  who  made  profeffion  of  it  :  fo  that 
the  Proteftants  were  more  confident  to  obcafn  liberty  of  Religion,  as 
theydefired.  They  afTemble^d  almoft  publickly.  Hereupon  the  King;'s 
Mother  and  the  chief  of  the  Council,  refolved  to  hold  the  States  at 
Orleans,  and  begun  to  do  it  on  the  13.  of  December,  where  the  bufi- 
nefs  of  Religion  was  debated.  The  Chancellour  (hewed,  That  there 
Aaa  s  was 


Cent.   16. 


\ 


was  need  of  a  Council,  which  the  Pope  had  promifed  :  and  that  in  the 
mean  time  it  was  not  to  be  tolerated,  that  every  one  fhould  fhapeout 
his  own  Religion,  and  bring  in  new  rites  at  his  pleafure.  He  faid, 
That  it  was  necefTiry  that  the  names  of  Lutherans,  Httgonots  and 
'Papifts  (no  lefs  fadious  than  thofe  of  the  Guelphs  and  Gibilints} 
were  to  be  taken  away  ^  and  Arms  to  be  taken  againft  thofe  who  co- 
ver their  avarice,  ambition,  and  defire  of  innovation  with  the  cloak  of 
Religion.  John  Angtlo^  Advocate  in  the  Parliament  of  Burdeaux^ 
fpake  much  againft  the  bad  manners  and  difcipline  of  the  Clergy. 
James  Earl  of  Rotchford  faid,  That  all  the  prefent  evils  did  arife  from 
the  large  donations  made  by  the  King  and  other  Grandees  to  the 
Churches,  efpecially  of  jurifdidions  :  in  the  end  he  gave  a  Petition  in 
the  name  of  the  Nobility,  demanding  to  have  publick  Churches  for 
their  Religion. 

Jacobus  Quintinut)  a  Bnrguntlian,  (pake  for  the  Clergy  :  he  faid,  The 
States  were  aiTembled  to  provide  for  the  neceffities  or  the  Kingdom, 
not  to  amend  the  Church  which  cannot  err  ,  though  the  Difcipline 
in  fome  fmall  part  may  fomewhat  need  reformation.  He  faid,  That 
they  that  demand  Churches  apart  from  the  Catholicks  ,  are  to  be  pu- 
niflied  as  Hereticks  -,  and  that  the  King  ought  to  force  all  his  Subjeds 
to  believe  and  live  according  to  the  form  prefcribed  to  the  Church  : 
that  thofe  who  have  forfaken  the  Kingdom  for  Religion,  ought  not 
to  be  fuffered  to  return  :  that  thofe  who  are  infeded  with  Herefy, 
ought  to  be  proceeded  againft  Capitally  :  that  the  Ecclefiaftical  Di- 
fcipline will  eafily  be  reformed  ,  if  the  Clergy  be  freed  from  payment 
of  Tenths,  &c.  In  the  end  he  demanded,  that  all  priviledges  of 
the  Clergy  fhould  be  confirmed,  and  all  grievances  removed, 

The  King  ordained,  That  the  Prelates  fhould  prepare  to  go  to  the 
Council  of  Trent  :  commanded  ,  that  all  that  were  in  prifon  for 
Religion  fhould  be  fet  at  liberty  ,  their  offences  until  that  time  par- 
doned,. and  their  goods  reftored.  The  Pope  fends  a  Nando  to  the 
Queen-Mother  ,  praying  her  to  be  careful  of  the  Religion  in  which  fhe 
was  born  and  bred,  and  not  to  fuffer  Schifm  to  arife  by  too  much 
licence,  nor  tofeek  remedies  elfe-wherefor  the  prefent  and  imminent 
evils,  but  from  the  Church  of  Rome,  for  which  end  the  Council  was 

imated. 

e  ofConde  was  fet  at  liberty,  and  by  an  Edid  in  the  Par- 
liament of  Aim  abfolved  from  the  imputation  laid  upon  him,  and  the 
Sentence  declared  null  and  irregular,  which  was  pronounced  againft  him, 
by  the  Judges  Delegates,  as  incapable  of  judging  the  Princes  of  the 
blood. 

In  Franct^  though  the  Queen  and  Prelates  did  defire  to  fatisfie  the 
Pope  in  referring  the  caufesof  Religion  to  the  Council,  yet  a  Congre- 
gation of  Prelates  WAS  put  in  order,  at  which  the  Pope  is  offended^ 

and 


Cent.    16.  Of  FRANCE. 


and  fendeth  for  Legate  the  Cardinal  of  Ferrtra  into  France,  giving 
him  four  particular  Commifiions ,  viz,,  to  favour  the  Catholicks,  and 
oppofe  the  Proteftaats  :  to  divert  the  National  Synod,  and  AfTerably 
of  the  Prelates :  to  folicite  the  going  of  the  Prelates  to  the  Council  : 
and  to  caufe  an  abrogation  of  the  Conftitutions  made  in  matters 
Ecclefiaftical. 

Afterwards,  it  was  ordained  in  France  that  the  Bifh ops  fhould  meet 
in  Poify  onjfaguft  10.  and  that  theProteftant  Minifters  fhould  have  a  r«/y 
fafe-condud  to  come  thither.  At  the  time  prefixed  rhe  Prelates  af- 
fembled  in  Poify ,  the  Cardinals  of  Tournon,  Lorain>  Bourbon^  Ar-  -*»» 
magnate,  and  Gnifet  many  Dodors  of  the  Sorbon^  and  other  Divines  fent 
for  irom  the  moft  famous  Univerfities  of  the  Kingdom.  There  appear- 
ed for  the  Proteftants,  Theodore  Ttezji,  Peter  Martyr ,  France  de  Saint  • 
Paul,  John  Rximond^  John  Virel,  with  many  other  Preachers,  which 
came,  fome  from  Geneva^  fome  out  of  Germany  and  other  neighbour- 
ing places,  in  number  fourteen.  Thefe  gave  a  Petition  to  the  King, 
which  had  four  parts,  i.  That  the  Bifhops  might  not  be  Judges  in 
that  bufinefs.  2.  That  the  King  with  his  Councellours  would  prefide. 
j.  That  the  Controverfies  might-  be  decided  by  the  word  of  God. 
4.  That  whatJhould  be  agreed  on  and  decreed,, might  be  written  by 
Notaries  elecwii  by  both  parties.  The  Queen  would  have  one  of  the 
four  Secretaries  of  the  King  to  write,  and  granted  that  the  King(hould 
prefide,  butfo,  that  this  fhould  not  be  committed  to  writing,  alledging 
that  it  was  not  fit  for  them,  nor  profitable/or.  the  King,  considering  the 
preCent  times.  Before  the  Parties  were  called  to  the  combate,  the  Pre- 
lates made  aProceffion,  and  did  all  Communicate,  except  the  Cardinal. 
Chaftillon,  and  five  Binhops.  The  others  protefted  one  to  another, 
that  they  meant  not  to  handle  points  of  Doctrine,  nor  matters  of 
faith..  ' 

The  fecond  of  September  they  began  in  prefence  of  the  King  VH^. 
Queen,  Princes  of  the  blood,  and  the  King's  Councellours,  together  triJei 
with  fix  Cardinals,  and  forty  Bifhops*  The  King  fpake,  defiring 
them  to  labour  tocompofethe  differences  of  the  Kingdom^  and  not  to 
depart  till  that  were  done.  The  Chancellour  fpeaks  more  largely  to 
the  fame  purpofe.  The  Queen  commandeth  Bez.a  to  begin.  Who 
bavingnfcjHii4,pn  his  knee,  jind  recited  the  profertion  of  his  Faithj  com- 
plained^fea\^  they  were  ^counted  feditious,  and  pertprbers  of  the  pub- 
lick  peace,  though  they  hadnoother  end  than  the  glory  of  God,  nor 
defired  to  afTemble  themfelves  but  to  ferve  him,  and  obey  the  Magi- 
ftrates  appointed  by  him.  Then  he  declared  in  what  the  Proteftants 
agree  with  the  Church  of  Rome,  and  in  what  they  diflent  :  he  fpake  of 
faith,,  of  good  works,  of  the  authority  of  Councils,  of  fins,  of  Eccle* 
fiafticil  pifcipline ,  obedience  to  Magiftrates,  and  of  the  Sacraments  : 
and  entring  inta  the  muter  of  the  Eucharift,  he  fpake  with  fuch  heat, 
'/  .  ljiat 

« 


%\yt  ccclefiaftical  $ifto?p       Cent. 


that  he  was  commanded  to  conclude.  Arid  Having  prefentec!  the  Con- 
fdiion  of  his  Churches,  and  defiredit  might  be  examined  ,  he  made  an 
end.  Cardinal  Tinman  dil'JaineJi  &t  Bez.**  fpeech*  The  .  ueen 
anfweredy*  thai:  nothing  was  done  but  by  the  advice  of  the  Princes 
of  the  King's  Council,  and  the  Parliament  of  Paris  ,  not  to  change 
or  innovate  any  thing  in  Religion  ,  but  to  compofe  the  difte- 


The  Aflembly  oeing  diffolvtd  ,  the  Bifhops  and  Divines  confulted 
what  to  do.  The  Congregation  being  again  aflcmbled  the  16.  of  the 
month,  the  Cardinal  of  Lor  tin  makes  a  long  Oration  for  ihe  Papifts, 
to  -whom  Bez.a  :  was  willing  to  anfwer,  hut  was  not  fuffered  .  But  on 
the  24;  day  in-  another  Aflembly  Sez^i  (pake  of  the  Church,  and  of 
the  conditions  and  authority  thereof,  Shewing  they  may  err,  and  the 
digniryofthe  Scripture. 

Efpcncem  anfwered,  he  had  alwaies  defired  a  colloquy  in  matter  of 
Religion;  and  abhorred  the  punifhments  the  Proteftants  had  endured  : 
but  he  much  wondred  by  what  authority  ihe  Proteftants  were  called 
into  the  Ecckiiaftical  Miniftery  ,  who  had  laid  hands  on  them 
to  make  them  ordinary  Miniikrs  ?  ^nd  if  they  pretended  an  ex- 
traordinary vocation,  where  -  were  the  miracles  to  demonftrate  it  ? 
Then  he  treated  of  Traditions,  Shewing  that  many  things  are  believ- 
ed by  Tradition  only,  zstheConfubftantiaiityof  the  Son,  the  Baptizing 
oflofents,  and  the  Virginity  of  the  Mother  of  Chrift  after  his  birch. 
He  added,  that  no  'General  Council  was  ever  corrected  by  another  in 
point  of  Doctrine.  Divers  Replies  and  Difputations  pafled  on  both 
fides,  fo  the  Colloquy  vftas  put  offtiJl  :^he  riext  day. 

In  which  Bez.a,  who  began  to  fpeak,  provoked  the  BiHiops.  For 
having  juftified  his  vocation  to  the  Miniftery,  he  difcourfed  of  the  vo- 
cation of  thofe  Prelates,  fhewing  what  Simony  was  committed  :  and 
pafled  from  thence  to  the  Article  of  the  Eucharift.  The  parties  not  be- 
ing able  to  agree,  aS/wz*/feJefuit«  having  reproached  the  Proteftants, 
did  reprehend  the  Queerv  for  meddling  in  matters  which  belonged 
not  to  her,  but  to  the  Pope,  Cardinals,  and  Bifhops.  Finally,  not 
being  able  to  conclude  any  thing  by  this  manner  of  parly,  it  was  orde- 
red, that  two  Bifhops  and  three  Divines  oUhe  moft  moderate,  fhould 
confer  with  five  of  the  Proteftant  Minifters,  to  fee  if  they  could  find 
out  a  way  to  make  an  agreement.  But  this  doth  as  Iktlegood  as  the 
former  :  fo  an  end  was  put  to  the  Colloquy. 

The  Pope  was  glad  to  hear  that  the  Colloquy  was  difToIved  without 
doing  any  thing,  and  much  commended  the  Cardinal  of  Lorain,  and 
Tournon  more.  The  leal  of  the  Jefuite  pleafed  him.  He  faid  the  Ora- 
tion of  the  Chancellour  was  heretical  in  many  parts,  and  threatened  to 
call  him  into  the  Inqmfawn. 

The 


Cent.   1 6.  Of  FRAN  CE. 


,  The  Cardinal  of.Ferrara  had  been  received  by  the  King  and  Qijeen 
with  much  honour,  and  acknowledged  for  Legate  of  the  Apoflolick 
See.  But  the  Parliament  having  difcovered,  that  among  his  Commif- 
fions,  one  was  to  defire  a!  revocation  or  moderation  (  at  the  leaft  )  of  the 
things  accorded  in  the  States  of  Orleans  concerning  the  diftribution 
of  Benefices,  and  particularly  the  paying  Annates.to  Rome^  and  fend- 
ing money  out  of  the  Kingdom  to  obtain  Benefices  there,  or  other 
favours,  did  immediately  publidi  the  Decrees,  which  had  hot  been 
publifhed  until  .that  time,  under  the  date  ^September  13.  that  the  Car- 
dinal might  not  obtain  his  purpofe,  and  did  refolvenotto  give  the  Le- 
gate lieve  to  ufe  the  faculties  given  him  by  the  Pope.  For  the  cuftom 
of  that  Kingdom  is,  that  a  Legate  cannot  exercife  his  office,  if  his 
faculties  be  not  firft  prefented,  and  examined  in  Parliament,  and  re- 
gulated by  a  Decree  thereof,  and  confirmed  in  that  form  by  the  King's 
Brief  :  So  that  when  the  Bull  of  the  Faculties  of  the  Legation  was  pre- 
fented to  be  approved,  it  was  refufed  by  the  ChancelJour  and  Parlia- 
ment. Befides,  Pafquins  were  made  and  fpread  abroad,  concerning 
the  loves  of  Lucretia  Bwgia  his  Mother,  and  Pope  Alexander  VI.  his 
Grandfather  by  the  Mother's  fide,  with  repetition  of  iheobfcenities, 
divulged  throughout  all/ta/y,  in  the  time  of  that  Popedom,  which  made 
the  Cardinal  ridiculous  to  the  people. 

The  firft  thing  he  undertook,  was  to  hinder  the  preaching  of  the 
Reformatift?,  who  after  the  .Colloquy  did  pradife  it  more  freely  than 
before.  To  gain  reputation  he  roade  acquaintance  with  the  Nobles  of 
the  Hugonots,  and  went  to  their  feafts,  and  fometimes  was  prefent  at 
their  Sermons  in  the  habit  of  a  Gentleman.  But  this  difpleafed  the 
Court  of  Rtrne* 

The  Queen-Moiher  underftanding  that  the  King  of  Spain  took  the 
Colloquy, in,  iil  parr,  fen^eth  -an  Ambafladour  into:  Spain-  ro  ex- 
cufe  it.  ;  . 

After  the  Colloquy.. was' ertded,  and  the  Proteftants  departed,  the 
Prelates  remained,  and  treated  of  the  Communion  ofrhe  Cup  •  the 
Bifhop  of  yalenw-viiih  confent'of  the  Cardinal  ol-Lorain,  propofing, 
that  if  it  were  allowed,  the  increafe  of  the  Proteftants  would  .be  inter- 
rupted.  But  the  major  part  would  not  confent  itfhouldk:  done,  but 
by  grant,  orf  at  lead  )  by  favour  o.f  the  Pope. 

Lieve  is  given  :to  the  Legate  by, the  ;King's  Brief,  to  exfrcitc.his  fa- 
culties, which  the  Chancellour  refufeth-to  fubfcrfoe,  according  to  the 
ftyle  of  the  Kingdom  •  Yet  was  -it  fubfcribed  by  the  Queen,  the  King 
of  Navarre,  and  by  the  principal  QfBcersofthe  Kingdom.  For  this 
favour,  he  begin, to  think  well  of  the  Comrnunion-of.ibe  Cup,  and 
to  write  thereof  tvRome-.  fn  conclufion  of  the  Affembly  at  Poify,  the  Pre- 
lates granted  power  to  the  King  to  ftll  anthundred  thou&nd  crowns  of  the 
yearly  rents  of  the  Lands  of  the  Church,  fo  that  the  Pope  would  allow  ir, 

The. 


The  Legate  informcth  the  Pope,  that  there  are  but  two  way«s  to 
preferve  Religion  in  France.  One,  to  give  fatisfadion  to  the  King  of 
Navarre,  and  to  inrereft  him  in  the  defence  of  it  :  the  other,  to  grant 
the  people  generally  the  Communion  fuh  utraque  jpecie.  And  the 
French  Ambafladour  defireth  the  Pope  to  grant  ihe  Communion  of  the 
Cup  to  the  French  men.  The  Pope  giveth  a  favourable  anfwer,  for 
which  afterwards  he  was  forry,  and  at  length  refolveth  not  to  grant 
the  Communion  of  the  Cujx  to  the  French. 

At  the  fame  time  when  the  Petition  of  the  French  Prelates  was  pub- 
lifted  in  Rome,  News  cameoutof(7m#*»y,  that  the  fame  men  had  fent 
to  the  Proteftants  there  to  perfwade  them  to  perfevere  in  their  Dodrine, 
promiiing  to  favour  them  in  the  Council  of  Trent,  and  to  draw  other 
Prelates  to  do  the  like,  for  which  they  are  fufpeded  in  Trent  and 


The  Nuncio  refident  in  France,  returned  to  Rome,  who  having  re- 
lated the  (late  of  that  Kingdom,  the  Pope  wrote  to  the  Legate,  that  he 
fhould  reprefent  to  the  King's  Council,  that  the  Council  in  Trent  was 
to  be  celebrated  for  France  only  ^  becaufe  neither  Italy  nor  Spain  had 
need  of  it,  and  Germany  did  refufe  it,  and  tell  them,  that  therefore  it  did 
concern  them  to  promote  it. 

But  the  bad  conceit  which  the  Court  of  Rome  bad  of  the  French, 
was  increafe4  by  an  advice  fent  from  farts,  that  the  Parliament  had 
with  much  folemnity  condemned  to  recant,  one  John  Tancherel,  a 
Bachelor  of  Divinity,  becaufe  with  intelligence  of  fome  Divines  he 
bad  propofed  and  defended  publick  queftions,  That  the  Pope,  Vicar  of 
Chrift,  is  Monarch  of  the  Church,  and  may  deprive  Princes  who  dif- 
obey  his  commands,  of  their  Kingdoms,  States  and  Dignities  }  who  be- 
ing ac^ufed,  cited,  and  having  confefled  the  fad,  did  flie.  And  the 
Judges  (  as  in  a  Comedy  )  caufvd  the  Bidel  of  the  Univerfity  to  repre- 
fent his  perfon,  and  to  make  a  publick  fatisfadion  and  recantation, 
forbidding  the  Divines  to  difpute  fuch  queftions  hereafter,  making 
them  go  to  the  King  to  ask  pardon  for  having  fuffered  fo  important 
a  matter  to  be  difputed  on,  and  to  promife  to  oppofe  themfelves  al- 
wayes  againftthat  Dodrine.  For  which  the  French  men  are  much 
cenfured  in  Rome.  The  Pope  promifeth  a  reformation  in  the  Court,  and 
hafteneth  the  opening  of  the  Council. 

John  Fernelitu  was  a  learned  French  man  and  Phyfician  to  Henry 
the  fecond  King  of  France.  Medicinam  Vniverfiim  dottiflimis  &  foli- 
tijfimis  fcriptif  corny  lexut  eft*  Thuan*  Hi  ft.  Tom.  i.  It.  21. 

About  this  time  alfo  flourifhed  Andrew  Tiraquel,  an  excellent 
Lawyer.  He  is  ftyled  by  Conradus  Ritterhufiusy  V'arro  tile  GalllctM. 
He  hath  written  well  upon  Alexander  ab  Alexandro  bis  Book  Gtniali- 
ttm  dierum.  What  Alexander  hath  written  briefly,  and  without  men- 
tion of  Authours,  he  hath  illuftrated  with  his  Commentary,  and 

(hewed 


Cent  id.  Of  FRANCE.  p 

(hewed  to  whom  he  was  beholden  Tor  what  he  had.  Tks.  tu  thus  ex- 
tols him.  'Cumvario  liter  ATHmgemre  excttlttu^  rttnt  cc'..'  rriw^nQ- 
ftri  At  ate  Jurif-confulttts. 

Julius  C&far  Scaliger  died  near  this  time  at  Agsn  ->.  £*•«/.         HP  was  v  >T.inftit. 
thirty  years  old  before  he  fell  to  ftudy,  yet  was,afip.giiL.-.       Jofopher,  orat>L'<4'f'J'  "• 
and  an  excellent  Greekjmd  Latin  Poei.    Voftiu*  OKI."  hun        ur&  mi~ 
racnlnmy  and  faith  thus,  Vir  itle  nunqiidw  fine  landc  dicey.         vir  ad 
unguem  fattus.     Lipfiw  highly  admires  him.     H^   was  a.    j  xcellent 
Hiftorian,  and  great  was  his  skill  in   Phyfick,  andhisPraA..       erein 
was  happy.    A  Noble  and  learned  pen  doih  thus  commend  him. 

Non  hunc  fefelllt  ulla  vis  recondite  swh  Eaetim 

Salnbrv  herb*,  ftltibvfqium  «uii* 

Ce  lat  nivofus  CancaftM^  feu  qu,<Mn$rocttl 

Riphta  duro  contigit  rupes  gelu. 

Hie  jamquefpe  ft  antes  ad  orcum  non  femel 

j&iimtu  reprejfit  vittory  &  membris  fuis 

H&rere  facets  compulitfcelicibiis, 

Nigriqiie  avarat  Ditis  eltifit  manus, 

On  Snowy  Caucafas  there  grew  no  root 
Of  fecret  Power,  but  he  was  privy  to't  ; 
On  cold  Riphtan  Hills  no  Simple  grew, 
But  he  the  force  thereof  ahd  venue  knew. 
Wherewith  (  apply'd  by  his  fuccefsful  Art  ) 
•  Such  fullen  Souls  as  would  this  world  depart, 
He  forc't  ftill  in  their  bodies  to  remain, 
And  from  death's  door  fetcht  others  back  again. 

His  skill  in  Phyfiognomy  was  wonderful.    But  his  excellent  Parts 
were  attended  with  prodigious  Pride. 

His  Son  Jofeph  Scaliger  was  one  of  the  great  lights  of  France,  and 
One  faith 


Holland  too.  One  faith  thus  of  him.  In  antiques  Scriptores 
petulant  &  protcrvus.  Mont  dent.  Exercit.  2.  feel.  10.  For  variety  bills  nifi  Jofe- 
of  Learning  and  Skill  in  the  Oriental  Languages  (  befides  his  acutenefs 
in  Chronology  )  he  exceeded  his  Father.  In  the  firft  Volume  of  the 
Lord  of  Tlejfis  his  Letters  and  Memoir  sy  Cafaubon  relating  to  him  Sea- 
tiger's  death,  faith,  This  lofs  offo  Learned  a  man,  wrought  in  him  an 
incredible  grief,  and  that  he  for  his  particular  had  loft  another  Father. 
Munfuur  flu  Plejfis  likewife  condoles  with  him  in  fo  great  a  lofs,  and 
faith,  That  Scaliger  indeed  made  one  of  the  integral  parts  of  the  better 
Learning  of  this  Age.  Thua»ns  honourably  mentions  him  in  his  Hiftory, 
and  in  the  firft  book  of  his  Commentaries  "De  vitafna  faith,he  continued 
in  a  league  of  friendlhip  with  him  thirty  eight  years.  And  faith  alfo,That 

B  bb  in 


io 


CDe  ecdefiafttcai 


Cent.  \6. 


nia*ternUate 


in  all  that  while  in  which  he  was  acquainted  with  him,  he  never  heard 
him  difpute  of  ihe  Controverted  points  of  Religion,  or  that  he  was  ac- 
cuHomed  to  write  to  others  about  them. 

Adrian  Turnebiis  was  Profefibur  of  Philofophy  and  Greek  mPa- 
Yis  under  King  Charles  IX.  ThuaNMS  calls  \\\mgrande  noftrificuli  or- 
namentum.  He  was  admirable  both  in  the  Greek  and  Latin  Languages, 
and  in  knowledge  of  all  Antiquity,  as  his  Books  entitled  Adverfaria 
do  evidently  teftifie  :  of  which  H.  Stephanus  thus  fpeaketh.  Vti- 
nam  non  tanta  brevitatc  in  fa  Adverjariorttm  librif  efftt  ufus.  Pau- 
lo enim  Ittculentior  &  flenior  qnorundam  locorum  explanatio,  &  ma- 
jor em  tilt  operi  gratiam  laudemqite  conciliaflety  &  lettori  multo  magis 
fatitficijfit.  Stephens  'Pafchafas  in  his  Iconcs  faith  thus  of 
him. 


papyr.Maflbn. 


Qnicquid  in  arcano  condelat  at)  travel  uft  at, 
Turnebits  tacit  is  erHtt  e  latebris. 

He  hathredified  P  Units  Preface  to  hii  Natural  Hiftoryby  Ancient 
Copies,  and  added  Annotations  upon  it.  He  hath  commented  alfo  upon 
Horace's  firft  Book  of  verfes,  and  upon  his  obfcurer  places. 

At  this  time  flourished  Anthony  Sadeel.  Anthony  Bourbon  King  of 
Navarre  greatly  refpefted  him,  and  was  wont  to  hear  him  Preach. 
His  friends  in  Fr<«wtf  were  cfpecially  Eez*a,  Hottaman^  Gottlartinst 
Fains  and  others. 

John  Aiiratus  ^Regius  Profeflbur  in  Paru  for  the  King  of  France  ,  was 
much  refpeded  byCharleslX.  and  was  the  chiefeft  Poet  of  his  time. 
He  was  moil  skilful  in  Greek  and  Latine.  Some  of  his  Poems  are 
publifhed. 

Auratum  nemo  te  die  at,  ntagne  Poet  a, 
Aurea  namque  tibi  Muja  Lepofyuefuit. 

Antoine  de  foandieu  was  a  learned  French  Drvine.  Beza  highly 
commends  his  Book  of  the  Marks  of  the  true  Church.  There  are  other 
works  of  his  alfo,  'viz..  De  I'  unique  facrifice,  Qjntre  les  traditions. 
Sez.a  gives  him  this  character.  De  la  trefare  erudition^  fieteentiere, 
diligence  incroyabley  &  dexterite  admirable.  £ez,e  Eptftrc  an  Rey 
decant  fon  TraikTe  Des  Marques  De  I'  Eglife  C*tholiqHe. 

Andreas  duChefnevJisiht  King  of  France  his  Geographer:  he  hath 
put  out  divers  French  Books.  Gilbert  Genebrard  was  a  Divine  of  Pa- 
rity  and  the  King's  Profeflbur  of  Hebrew.  He  was  a  moft  petulant  wri- 
ter. By  whom  f^ith  B.  Andr.  )it  is  verified,  that  much  Learning  and 
railing  may  be  accidents  in  one  Subjed. 

Papy. 


Cent. id.  Of  FRANCE.  u 


Papyrius  Maffonius  was  fuch  a  writer  of  the  French  Chronicle,  as 
Cambden  of  the  English.  There  are  four  Books  of  his  Annals.  One 
fpeaks  thus  of  him.  Non  tarn  undiquaque  Ponttpciits,  quin  -verb  Ton- 
tificttm  viti*  libere  fateatur.  sJWortoni  caufa  Regia,  cap.  3« 
Se^.  19. 

Jacobus  Cujacius  was  a  great  light  of  France.  His  Life  is  written  by 
Papyri  us  Maffontut.  He  is  pr  ailed  by  Peter  Faber  (  whofe  Mailer  he 
was  )  as  the  greateft  Lawyer  of  his  time.  Pafanier  faith,  In  many 
Univerfities  of  Germany ,  when  thofe  in  the  Ghair  alledge  Cujacius  and 
Turnebtu,  they  put  their  hands  to  their  hats  for  the  refped  and  honour 
they  bear  them.  He  was  thought  to  be  fomewhat  inclinable  to  the 
Proteftant  Religion.  But  when  any  Theological  queftion  was  askt 
him,  he  was  wont  to  anfwer,  NihilhocadEdittnm  Prater  is. 

John  Pafleratittt  was  a  learned  French  man,  the  King's  Profeflbur 
of  Eloquence  in  Parity  an  excellent  Oratour  and  Poet.  He  hath  put 
out  Orations  and  Prefaces,  a  Commentary  on  Catullus,  Tibuttus  and 
Properties,  Varia  Opufcula.  His  French  Works  are  mentioned  by 
Antoine  dit  Verdier  in  his  Bibliothcque. 

At  the  fame  time  lived  Dionyfitu  Lambinus,  a  Learned  French  man : 
he  hath  Commented  well  on  Lucretius  ,  Horace,  Plant  tu.  Turne- 
bitf  often  makes  honourable  mention  of  him  in  his  Adverfaria. 

The  Queen   of  Navarre,  Prince  of  Conde,  the  Admiral,  and  the 
Dutchefs  of  Ferrara,  having  for  many  Months    made  requeft  that 
places  (hould  be  allowed  to  the  Proteftants  for  their  Sermons  and  Ce- 
remonies ^  and  all  thefe,  and  many  more  Grandees  even  in  the  Court 
it  felf  making  Profeffion  thereof,  the  inferiour  Proteftants  AfTembled 
themfelves  apart  :   whereupon  dangerous  Popular  tumults  were  raif- 
ed  in  many  parts  of  the  Kingdom  with  flaughter  on  both  fides*    Two 
divers  tumults  were  raifed  by  Sermons,  one  at  Dijon,  the  other  in 
Paris.     Hereupon  the   Prefidems  of  all  the  Parliaments  were  called, 
and  certain  Councellours  Eleded   to  deliberate  what  was  beft  to  be 
done.  All   thefe  being  AfTembled  at  Saint  German,  where  the  Chan- 
cellour  told  them,  That  the  differences  in  Religion  fhould  be  referred 
to  the  Prelates  :  but  when  the  Peace  of  the  Kingdom  is  in  queftion, 
this  could  not  belong  to  the  Ecclefiafticks,  but  to  thofe  whom  the  King 
would  appoint  to  confult  of  it.     That  this  Particular  was  then  to  be 
confidered  of,  whether  it  were  good  fervice  for  the  King  to  permit 
or  prohibit  the  Congregations  of  the  Proteftants,  wherein  they  were 
not  to  difpute  which  Religion  was  the  better,  becaufe  they  took  not  in 
hand  to  frame  a  Religion,  but  to  put  in  order  a  Republick,    In  the 
end  they  concluded  that  the  EdidofJ///>  was  to  be  remitted  in  part, 
and  the  Proteftants  tohavelieveto  Preach.    The  Edift  contained  ma- 
ny Points.    That  the  Proteftants  fhould  reftore  the  Churches  PofTefii- 
ons,  and  other  Ecdefiaftical  goods  ufurped.    That  they  fhould  for- 
B  b  b  2  bear 


cttteOaftical  %ifto??       cent.  »6. 

bear  to  beat  down  Crofies,  Images  and  Churches  upon  pain  of  death. 
That  theyfr.ould  not  Affemble  themfelves  to  Preach,  Pray,  orAdmi- 
nifter  the  Sacraments  in  publick  or  in  private,  by  day  or  by  night  with, 
in  the  City.  That  the  Prohibitions  and  Punifhments  of  the  Edid  of 
July,  and  all  o:hers  made  before,  (hould  be  fufpended.  That  they  (hall 
not  be  mokfted  in  their  Sermon^  made  out  of  the  City,  or  hindered  by 
the  Magiftrates.  That  none  (hall  fcandalize  another  for  Religion,  or 
ufe  contumelious  words  of  Faftion.  That  the  Magiftrates  and  Offi- 
cers may  be  prefent  at  the  Sermons  and  Congregations.  That  they 
fhall  not  make  Synods,  Colloquies,  or  Confiftories,  but  with  lieve, 
and  in  prefence  of  the  Magiftrate.  That  they  (hall  obferve  the  Laws 
for  Feafts,  and  Degrees  prohibited  for  Marriage.  That  the  Minifters 
fhall  be  bound  to  fwear  to  the  Publick  Officers,  not  to  offend  againft 
this  Edid,  nor  to  Preach  any  Dodrine  contrary  to  the  Nicene  Council^ 
and  the  Books  of  the  Old  and  New  Teftament.  This  was  Regiftred 
and  published  by  way  of  Provifion,  with  this  exprefs  Claufe  and 
Condition,  Until  fuch  time  as  the  General  Council,  or  the  King  himfelf 
fhould  order  it  otherwife. 

The  Duke*  ofGttife,  the  Conftable,  and  the  Cardinals  (  among  which 
the  Cardinal  ofTottrnon  was  lately  dead)  with  the  Marflials  of  Brifac 
and  St.  Andre  being  difcontemed  hereat  left  the  Court,  contriving  how 
they  might  hinder  the  execution  of  the  Edid,  and  oppofe  the  Prote- 
ftants.  But  becaufe  they  faw,  that  whilft  the  King  of  Navarre  flood 
united  \vith  the  Regent^  they  had  no  right  to  intermeddle  with  the 
Government  of  the  Kingdom,  therefore  they  propofed  to  themfelves 
todiffolve  that  Union.  Andknqwing,  that  the  Queen  intended  to  con- 
tinue with  the  fame  power  till  her  Son  came  of  Age,  they  thought  it 
tnore  eafietogainihe  King  of  Navarre,  who  was  already  much  averfe 
to  the  Proteftaius  Religion  by  reafon  of  the  different  opinions  he  found 
among  them  about:  the  Points  in  Controverfie.  And  now  the  King  of 
Navarre  joyns  himfelf  with  the  Duke  of  Guife  and  the  Conftable. 
Thefe  three  the  Hugonots  called  the  Triumvirate.  Queen  Joan  was 
highly  difpleafed  at  this  fo  unexpected  deliberation  of  her  Husband, 
and  leaving  the  Court,  carriethwith  her  Prince  Henry,  and  thePrin- 
cefs  K*thtr;ut«  her  Children  (  whom  fhe  brought  up  in  Culvinifm  ) 
rto  Bcarn^  Kjing  determined  to  feparate her  felf  from  the  Counfelsand 
iiarion  of  h^r  Husband.  The  Queen  Regent  was  alfo  terrified 
hei\37!tb,  and  in  oppofition  to  the  Triumvirate  joyns  wuh  the 
Prince  of  fonde  and  the  Admiral.  The  Prince  otConde  takes  upon 
him  openly  to  H -i :  -.he  H-ugGixts^  who  ardently. defire  to  revenge  his 
paft  affronts  up  ^fe  that  were  his  chief  perfecurours.  'His  power 
and  boldneis  w?--  "iorated  by  the  wife  Counfcl  of  the  Admiral  of 
Chaftilion.  -Tb-.  '  vity  led  after  them,  being  of  the  fame  Faith, 
the  Prince  of/6  ,  the  Count  de  URoch-foH-caut,  Meffieurs  de 


Cent.    16.  Of  FRANCE. 


Gentif,  de  Grammont,  and  Duras  •,  the  Count  of  ^Montgomery,  the 
Baron  des  tsidrets,  Mtfieurr  de  Bouchavane,  and  Sottbize,  and  ma- 
ny other  the  Principal  in  the  Kingdom.  Thus  upon  a  fudden  the  King 
of  Navarre  went  over  to  the  Popifh  party,  and  Queen  Katherine 
(though  diflfcmblingly  )  took  upon  her  the  Protection  oftheProte- 
fhnts.  The  King  of  Navarre  flaying  in  Parit,  laboureth  to  hinder 
the  Afftmblies  of  the  Proteftants,  to  dirainilh  their  force  and  credit,  and 
finally  to  take  away  their -liberty  of  Religion. 

The  Prince  of  Conde  being  likewife  in  Paris,  on  the  contrary  en- 
courageth  the  Preachers ,  and  (as  he  could)  enlargeth  their  licence  and 
liberty.  The  King  <>f  Navarre  deliberating  to  drive  the  Prince  of 
Conde  out  of  Paris,  for  this  purpofe  fends  for  the  other  Popifh  Lords 
to  Court.  The  Duke  ofGnife  makes  a  journey  thither,  and  palling 
through  Vajfyy  his  Servants  heard  a  noife  of  Bells  •  and  having  askt 
what  was  the  reafon  of  it,  anfwer  was  made,  That  it  was  the  hour 
wherein  the  Hugonots  ufed  to  Aflemble  at  their  Sermons.  The  Pa- 
ges and  Lacquies  of  the  Duke  that  went  before  the  reft  of  the  Company, 
moved  with  the  Novelty  of  the  thing,  and  a  curiofity  to  fee  (for  then 
thofe  Congregations  began  firft  to  be  kept  in  Pubiick  )  wirh  jefting 
fpeeches  and  a  tumult  went  towards  the  place  where  the  Hiiyonots  were 
Affembled  at  their  Devotion.  Who  underfhnding  that  the  Duke  of 
Guife,  their  great  Perfecutour,  was  there,  and  feeing  a  great  Troop  come 
diredly  toward  them,  incofifiderately  fell  prefently  to  gather  npftones, 
and-  began  to  drive  back  thofe  that  advanced  firft  to  the  place  of. their 
Aflembly.  By  which  injury  the  Popifh  party  rafhly  betook  -ihemfelves 
to  Arms.  The  Duke  putting  himfelf  in  the  midft  of  them,  was  hit 
with  a  blow  of  a  ftone  upon  the  left  cheek,  which  bled  much,  which 
caufed  him  to  withdraw  from  the  hurly  burly.  His  followers  impa- 
tient of  fuch  an  affront  done  to  their  Lord,  with  their  fire-arms  pre- 
fently aflaulted  the  houfe  whither  the  Hngonots  retired  to  fecurethem- 
felves,  killed  above  fixty  of  them,  and  grievoufly  wounded  the  Mini- 
fter  -,  who  climbing  over  the  Tyles  faved  himfelf  in  fome  of  the  ad- 
joyning  houfe?.  The  tumult  being  ended,  the  Duke  of  Guift  called 
for  the  Officer  of  the  place,  fharply  reproving  him  for  fuffering  fuch 
a  pernicious  Licence  to  the  prejudice  of  PafTengers.  He  excufing  him- 
felf as  unable  to  hinder  it,  by  reafon  of  the  Edid  of  January,  which 
tolerated  the  publick  Aflemblies  of  the  Hftgonots,  the  Duke  no  lefs 
offended  at  his  anfwer  thanst  the  thing  it  felr,  laying  his  hand  upon  his 
Sword,  replyed  in  choler,  This  fliatt  foon  cut  the  Bond  of  that  Edi'd, 
though  never  fo  binding.  From  which  words  many  afterwards  conclu- 
ded, that  he  was  the  Authour  of  the  enfuing  War. 
'  But  the  Hugonots  incenfed  by  this  Chance,  now  full  of  rage,  ftirred 
up  fuch  horrible  tumults  and  bloody  Seditions,  that  (befides  theflaugh- 
ter  of  men  in  many  places)  the  Monafteries  were  fpoiled,  Images 

thrown 


'%$t€ttltft%ftit$A%iftQw       cent  16. 


thrown  down,  the  Altars  broken,  and  the  Churches  defiled.  The  peo- 
ple in  all  places  ran  headlong  to  take  Arms ;  and  the  Heads  of  the 
I  adions  went  about  gathering  Forces,  preparing  themfelves  forama- 
nifeft  War.  And  now  each  Fadion  defired  to  draw  the  King  to  their 
parry,  and  to  poflefs  the  Perfons  of  the  King-  afid-Queen.  But  the 
Catholicks  prevent  the  Hugonots,  and  kad  them  both  to  Paris  from 
Ponntatnbleau.  The  Prince  of  Condt  therefore  pofTefleth  Orleans,  and 
prepareth  for  the  War.  The  Popifh  Lords  under  the  King's  name 
likewife  raife  an  Army.  Many  writings  are  publifhed  on  each  fide, 
and  both  Armies  go  into  the  Field.  The  Queen-Mother  labours  for  a 
Peace.  To  this  end  fhe  comes  to  a  parley  with  the  Prince,  but  with- 
out fuccefs  :  notwithftandjng  fhe  continues  to  Treat  of  an  Agreement, 
which  at  length  is  concluded.  But  the  Prince  by  the  perfwafion  of  the 
reft,  again  rakes  Arms,  purpofeth  to  aflail  the  King's  Camp  by  night, 
but  miflech  of  hisdefign.  Forces  come  to  the  King's  aid  out  of  Ger- 
many, and  many  thoufands  of  Swijfes,  whereupon  the  Prince  is  forced 
to  retire  unto  the  Walls  of  Orleans,  where  being  unable  to  keep  the 
Army  together,  he  divides  it.  He  fendeth  for  fuccour  horn  Germany 
and  England,  confents  to  give  Havre  de  Grace  to  the  Englijh,  and  to 
receive  their  Garrifons  into  1>eipe  and  Roveny  to  obtain  aid  from  them. 
The  King's  Army  takes  Bloit,  'Poitticrs,  Tours,  and  Bo  urges,  befieges 
Rouen  and  takes  it,  and  facks  it,  where  Antlaony  King  of  Navarre 
received  a  Musket  fhot  in  the  left  fhoulder  -,  which  breaking  the  bone, 
and  tearing  the  Nerves,  he  prefently  fell  down  on  the  place  as  dead,  and 
died  fhortly  after. 

Succours  come  to  the  Prince  of  Co nde  out  of  Germany,  with  which 
being  re-inforced  he  makes  hafte  toafTault  Far  it  :  The  King  and  the 
pueen  arrive  there  with  the  Army  :  and  the  Prince  after  many  attempts 
is  neceffitated  to  depart.  Both  Armies  go  into  Normandy,  and  there 
follows  the  Batte!  of  Dreux,  in  which  the  Prince  of  Conde  is  taken 
Prifoneron  the  one  fide,  and  the  Conftable  on  the  other.  The  Duke 
of  Guifc  being  Vidorious ,  layes  fiege  to  Orleans,  and  is  ready  to  take 
it,  and  is  treacheroufly  (lain  by  Poltrot,  Sieur  de  Mertborn,  of  a  No- 
ble Family,  near  AngwUfmc.  He  feigns  to  forfake  the  Proteftant  par- 
ty, leaves  Orleans,  infmuates  himfelf  into  the  Duke  of  Gttifes  Court  : 
and  whilft  the  Duke  gives  order  for  an  afTault,  (hoots  him  in  the  fhoul- 
der, whereof  he  dieth.  Poltrot  aided  by  thefwiftnefs  of  his  horfe,  fa- 
ved  himfelf  in  the  neighbouring  Woods,  and  the  Duke  being  carried 
to  his  Lodging,  died  three  dayes  after  of  his  hurr.  Poltrot  was  ta- 
ken ,  and  being  taken  ,  was  by  fentence  of  Parliament  publickly 
quartered. 

After  the  death  of  the  Duke  of  Guife  an  accommodation  follow- 
ed :  Conditions  of  Peace  wereconluded  at  Orleans  March.  18.  1563. 
viz*  That  all  thofe  that  were  free  Lords  over  the  Caftles  or  Lands 

that 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE. 


that  they  poffefled ,  notholdingof  any  but  the  Crown,  might  within 
their  jurifdidions  freely  excrcife  the  Reformed  Religion  ^  and  that  the. 
other  Feaudatariesjwho  had  not  fuch  dominion,  might  do  the  fame  in  their 
own  houfes,  for  their  Families  only,  provided  they  lived  not  in  any 
City  or  Town.  That  in  every  Province  certain  Cities  fhall  be  appoin- 
ted, in  the  Faux-bourg  whereof  \hzHugonots  might  AfTtmble  at  their 
Devotion.  That  in  all  other  Cities,  Towns  andCaftles,  in  the  City 
of  Tarts  with  the  jurifdidion  thereof,  and  all  places  whatfoever  where 
the  Court  refided,  the  exercife  of  any  other  but  theRomijh  Religion 
(hould  be  prohibited.  Yet  every  one  to  live  free  in  his  Confcience 
without  any  trouble  or  moleftation.That  the  ProfefTours  of  the  Reformed 
Religion  fhould  obferve  the  Holy-dayes  in  the  Roman  Calender,  and 
in  their  Marriages  the  Rites  and  Constitutions  of  the  Civil  Law.  That 
all  the  Lords ,  Princes,  Gentlemen,  Souldiers  and  Captains  fhould  have 
a  full  Pardon  for  all  Delinquencies  committed  during  the  time  of  the 
War,  and  every  one  to  be  reftored  to  his  charges,  goods,  dignities, 
priviledges  and  prerogatives.  That  the  Germans  ftiould  be  fent  away, 
and  have  fafe-condud  out  of  the  Kingdom  :  and  that  it  (hould  be  in 
the  King's  power  to  recover  aU  his  places,  Towns  and  C aft les  from  any 
perfon  that  fhould  with-hold  them  from  him. 

This  Capitulation  being  publifhed  in  the  Camp;,  and  in  the  Court, 
on  May  18,  the  Prine  tiConde  and  theConftablf  came  out  of  Prifon  j 
and  Anddot  delivered  the  City  of  Orleans  into  the  Queen's  hands  : 
and  the  Kings  Army  recovereth  Havre  de  Grace  from  the  Englijh. 
The  King  cometh  out  of  his  Minority .  The  Queen  ufeih  divers  artifices  to 
work  the  difcontented  Princes  to  her  will.  The  King  and  Queen  make 
a  general  vifitation  of  the  whole  Kingdom.  And  from  Beam  they 
went  to  Lions,  in  which  the  Hugonots  had  fo great  aparty.  Andcon- 
fidering  the  importance  of  the  place,  the  neighbourhood  of  Geneva 
zndGermany,  they  refolved  that  a  Citadel fliould  be  built  between  the 
Rkofne  and  the  Saone  ( two  great  Rivers  that  run  through  that  Town  ) 
whereby  to  bridle  the  people,  and  fecure  it  from  the  treachery  of  its 
neighbours.  Which  being  then  begun,  was  afterwards  brought  to  per- 
fection by  the  diligence  of  Monfuur  de  Lojfe  newly  put  into  that  Go- 
vernment. From  Lions  the  King  being  come  to  faience  in  T>ol- 
fhine,  he  caufedthe  City  to  be  difmantled,  and  built  there  anewFor- 
trefs  :  that  Town  having  ever  been  a  receptacle  for  thofe  that  were 
in  Rebellion. 

From  Lions  they  went  to  the  Caftle  of  Ron/illont  where  there  was 
an  Interview  between  the  King  and  the  Duke  of  Savoy.  From  thence 
they  went  to  Avignon^  where  the  King  and  Queen  gave  anfwer  to  the 
Pope's  Arnbafly,  Ihewing  that  they  were  ready  to  extirpate  Calvinifv, 
and  to  caufe  the  Decrees  of  the  Council  of  Trent  to  be  obferved  in  their 
Dominions.  Then  they  came  to  an  Inteiview  with  the  Queen  of  S/w.^ae 


1 6  %ty  ecClCfiafttCa!  $tftO?p         Cent.   16. 


x  By  an  Ordinance  of  King  Charles}^  Anno  1563.  it  was  De- 
creed, That  none  fhould  be  admitted  to  Cue,  by  venue  of  the  priviledgc 
of  his  Clergy,  to  be  fent  back  to  the  Ecclefiaftical  Judge  in  any  Cafe 
whatfoever  whetherCv.l  ,r  Criminal,unlefs  he  were  a  Sub-deacon  at  the 
hft:  which  is  as  much  as  to  exclude  fimple  fhavclings ,  whether  they  be 
married  or  no. 

I  find  an  ordinance  of  the  f?.me  King  made  at  M.mte  on  Sep.  10.  1565. 
which  fpcaks  of  defamatory  Libels,  placards,  pafquils ,  and  fuch  like 
things  in  matter  of  Religion  :  and  as  for  the  point  of  jurifdi&ion  ordains 
as  lollowcih  }  Commanding  all  ptobliqite  JMagiftrates,  Commiffancs  of 
the  CoHmrey ,  and  other  our  officers  whom  it  way  concern,  to  have  regard 
hereunto  ^  charging  our  Proftors  in  every  place  and  Advocates  to  do  their 
endevour  herein  (  all  other  bufinefs  laid  alide  )  to  the  finding  out  and 
f  unifying  fuch  fault s  as  they  fiatt  find  concerning  this  particular.  And 
afterwards  they  are  commanded  to  obferve  the  faid  Ordinance  punctual- 
ly, and  proceed againft  the  breakers  hereot  by  the  punifhments  there  af- 
figned,  peremptorily  without  obferving  the  ordinary  forms  of  Juftice. 

For  as  much  as  many  large  Indulgences  are  moft  commonly  granted 
to  Fraternities,  as  appears  by  divers  of  the  Pope's  Bulls,  King  Charles 
IX.  required  in  his  demands  of  the  Council  of  Trent ^  a  reformation  of 
iheabutes  of  fuch  Fraternities.  The  Council  found  nothing  to  be  cor- 
rected in  them,  but  tacitly  confirm 'd  them,  by  ordaining,  That  the  Ad- 
miniftrators  of  them  fhall  give  account  of  their  adminiftration  every  year 
unto  the  Ordinary.  They  were  wary  enough  to  touch  upon  that  point, 
feeing  it  diredly  concerns  the  Pope's  authority.  By  means  of  thefe 
Indulgences,  and  the  fuperftition  which  he  ufeth  in  them,  he  gains  milli- 
ons of  men  unto  himfelf,  who  devote  themfelves  fo  much  unto  him, 
for  the  fpecialfavour  which  they  fuppofe  they  receive  by  the  means  of 
thefe  Indulgences,  that  they  do  not  acknowledge  any  other  fuperi- 
our. 

The  Ambafladours  of  this  King  Charles  fent  to  the  Council  of  Trent, 
had  fuch  Articles  as  thefe  given  them  in  their  Inftrudions  -y  as  concern- 
ing the  reformation  of  the  Court  of  Rome,  Excommunications,  there- 
ftoring  of  the  Cup,  marriage  of  Priefts,  Prayers  in  a  known  tongue  : 
and  to  demand  that  Pfalms  might  be  fung,  the  Sacraments  adminiftred, 
and  a  Catechifm  made  in  the  vulgar  Tongue.  And  befides,  to  affift  all 
fuch  as  fhould  require  a  juft  reformation  in  all  other- matters.  The 
originals  of  thefe  inftrudions  were  figned  by  King  Charles ,  the  Queen- 
Nataii*  comes  Mother,  the  Chancellour  of  the  Palace,  and  divers  OLhers.  Hereupon 
tncKing  °*  France  his  Oratour  faid,  when  they  propofcd  thefe  de- 
mands, That  they  did  wonderfully  agree  with  thofe  of  the  Emperour, 
and  for  that  reafon  they  had  deferred  the  Propofal  of  them  :  fuppofing 
that  if  the  other  were  afTented  unto,  ihey  (hould  alfo  befausfied.  But 
perceiving  the  lingrings  and  delays  that  were  ufed  in  that  behalf,  and 

with- 


Cent.  \6.  -  Of  FRANCE.  17 

withal  prefled  by  the  Letters  of  the  King  their  Mafter,  they  were  con- 
ftrained  to  make  a  motion  of  them.  They  required1  further,  that  all 
Mandates  of  provifiun  of  Benefices,  all  Reverfions,  Re-aflumptions, 
Refignatfons,  holding  of  Livings  in  Truft,  and  Commendams  might  be 
quite  taken  away,  as  contrary  to  the  Decrees,  and  that  refignations  in 
Favour  might  be  banifhed  the  Court  of  Rome,  as  forbidden  by  the  Sa- 
cred Canons.  That  acourfemighc  be  taken  for  inftruding  the  people 
what  they  ought  to  believe  concerning  the  Worfhip  of  Images,  and  to 
clear  it  from  all  fuperftitions  and  errours,  if  any  were  crept  into  it. 
And  the  like  Eflay  to  be  made  about  Indulgences,  Pilgrimages,  Reliques 
of  Saints,  and  Fraternities  :  that  not  only  the  ancient  form  of  publick 
Penance  might  be  reftored  in  the  Church  for  hainous  and  publick  offen- 
ders, but  alfo  publick  Fafts  for  the  appealing  of  God's  wrath.  That 
general  Councils  might  be  holden  every  ten  years :  that  for  abroga- 
ting of  huts  about  Benefices,  that  diftindionof  Petitory  and  Poffefory 
might  be  taken  away  :  or  rather  for  the  utter  extinguishing  of  fuch 
Suits,  that  Bifhops  might  be  enjoyned  to  beftow  them  not  upon  fuch 
as  feek  after  them,  but  on  thofe  that  are  worthy  of  them  and  avoid 
them  :  and  for  certain  proof  of  their  Merits  to  make  them  Preach 
fometimes  ;  and  thofe  fuch  as  have  taken  fome  Degree  in  the  Univerfi- 
ties,  upon  whom  only  Livings  might  be  conferred  by  theconfent  of  the 
Bi/hop  and  people. 

Angnftine*JWarlorat,  oneoftheMinifters  of  the  Reformed  Church 
at  Rhoan  in  France,  was  taken  by  the  Gni/ians,  and  hanged  upon  a  Gib- 
bet there  before  our  Ladies  Church.  He  was  a  man  excellently  learn- 
ed, and  of  an  unblameable  Life,  who  had  the  teftimonyeven  of  the  Pa- 
pifts  themfelves,  that  in  his  Sermons  he  never  uttered  ought  tending  to 
Sedition  or  Rebellion.  He  hath  written  upon  Genefis,  Jfaiah,  and  the 
'Pfalms,  and  an  Ecclefiaftical  Expofition  upon  the  New  Teftament,  which 
hath  been  well  efteem'dof. 

Clement  Marotw&s  a  famous  French  Poet.     He  turned  fifty  of  Da-  p.,rqu>  Re_ 
•uids  Pfalmsinto  French  Metre,  which  are  read  with  admiration  ot  his  cherch.de  la 
excellent   Wit.     He  fct    them   forth  at  Geneva,  for  he  might  not  FnI!lc<r>';- 7>c 
fafely  longer  abide  in  France  for  fufpicion  of  Lutheranifm. 

Marctu  Antonitu  Muretiti  was  a  very  eloquent  and  diligent  Wri- 
ter. Scarce  hath  he  paffed  by  any  Latine  Authour,  either  Hiftorian, 
Oratour,  or  Poet,  which  he  hath  not  explained,  amended,  and  reftored 
to  his  purity,  either  with  his  Commentaries,  Scholia,  or  Notes,  Terence, 
^etroniusy  Tibttllns ,  Catfilhtf,  Propertiui,  Seneca,  Salufl,  Tacittu. 
His  Book  ofdivers  readings  fheweth  how  Learned  he  was.  His  excel- 
lent Orations  (hew  his  great  Eloquence.  Gefner  mentions  his  Latine 
works,  and  Antoine  du  Verdier  his  French.  Thuanus  ftyles  him,  Mag- 
num non  [olum  G  alii  A  noftr* ,  fed  ipfius  Royta  lumen:  not  only  a  great 
light  of  our  F r^w^,butalfoof  Rome  it  felf. 

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3it)e  ffcclefiafttcai 


cent.  16. 


About  this  time  Father  Edwond'm  a  Book  of  his  Printed  tt  Paris  by 
Sebaftian  Nivette,  and  by  him  dedicated  to  King  Charles  IX.  with  this 
jie  Pedagogue     Infcription,  The  Pedagogue  of  Arms,  to  inftrutt  a  Chriflian  Prince  to 
tfAr.n«,c./.S,   Hn^rta\^  4  ^OQ^  War  well,  and  accomplifi  it  with  fuccef,  to  bt  footer t- 
ous  over  all  the  Enemies  of  his  State,  and  of  the  Catholick^Church  ~^ 
gives  fuch  Rules  as  thefe.     That  Wars  have  been  alwaies  accounted  not 
only  profitable,  but  neceffary.     That  the    Pope  u  bound  to  take    Arms 
againfl  Heretick*.     That  to  a    Monarch  undertaking  fuch  a  War,  a. 
man  cannot  urge  any  of  hisformsr  Edicts  or  Ordinances.     That  no  man 
(  howPotent  foever  he  be  )  can  Contract  with  an  Infidel,  or  one  that  hath 
revolted  from  his  Confciencf.     He  gives  this  reafon.     For  what  King  is 
there,  how  redoubted  foever  he  be,  that  can  (  without  falftfy  ing  his  Oath 
made  to  God}  permit  and  give  litve  to  the  Enemies  of  all  truth,  and 
condemn  d  by  the  general  fentence  of  all  the  world,  to  few  hcfefus  in 
his  Countries,  and  allure  fouls  ?  He  adds  further,  That  what  conditi~ 
ons  tf  Peace  foever  he  can  grant  unto  his  Rebels  in  this  cafe,  will  not 
endure  long*     Rut  it  will  behove  him  not  to  awake  fuch  flrong  and  Po- 
tent Enemies.  That  to  make  a  Peace  with  them  at  lafl,  he  mufl  refolve 
to  make  a  good  War*     And  anon  :     As  of  t  as  by  the  Articles  of  Peace 
licence  is  granted  to  every  man  to  adhere  to  which  of  the  two  oppofitc 
Parties  he  pleafe  without  being  offended  at  it,  it  is.  all  one,  in  my  opini- 
on, M  if  one  fhould  cafl  a  man  into  the  fire,  and  forbid  him  to  burn 
himfelf. 

Jnthe  feventh  Chapter  he  faith,  If  fitch  ptrfons  were  Inf 'dels  or  here- 
ticks  I  would  never  excufethe  Monarch,  that  having  ftifficient  weans 
in  his  own  hands  fhould  not  affay  by  all  waies,  even  of  fatt,  to  reclaim 
fuch  a  Kennel,  or  drive  them  far  out  of  his  Country,  out  of  the  Terri- 
tories of  Catholickj'  And  fo  much  the  more  roughly  ought  he  to 
froceed  againfl  them,  as  he  knows  them  perverfe  in  aH  rejects,  and  of 
tamp,  which  fhould  be  accounted  themoft  pernicious,  mo  ft 
ufhildtrs  of  lies,  that  ever  rofe  up  againfl  the  Church. 
Thus  he. 

In  this  Age  flourished  Gulielmus  Sallnfiiiis  B<rrtaffiuj,  sn  excellent 
French  Poet.  ISe  Poetarum.  Gallicorttm  Coryph&us  SaHuftiHS,  Bartba- 
fiiDominus,  cujus  Poemata  apttd  exteros  ctiam  in  Limle  fiutt.  He  is 
tranflated  into  many  Languages.  He  may  be  read  in  Latine,  French, 
Italian,  Englifh,  Dutch.  Pajcjuier  fheweth,  that  the  French  Poets 
imitating  the  Latins,  have  often  equalled  and  fometimcs  exceeded  them, 
Antoine  du  Verdier,w\&  Thuanus  do  commend  him. 

Near  this  time  alfo  lived  Guidode  Dres,  a  holy  Martyr.  He  hath 
written  againft  the  Anabaftifts  in  French,  of  the  Authority  of  the  Ma- 
giftrate,  and  the  immortality  of  the  Soul. 

Johannes  Quiquarboreus  was  Profeflbur  of  Hebrew  and  Chaldee  to 
the  fjrenck  King  in  Parit*.  There,  is  his  Chaldse  Paraphrafe  with 


"Wafer!  COTV- 
rnent.  ad  Mi- 
thrtil  Gciberi. 


Cent. 1 6.  Of  FRANCE, 19 

Scholia     upon     Ruth  ,     Lamentations  ,     Hojeti   ,    Joel  ,    Amos, 

FrancifcHS  Rabelcefus  was  a  witty,  but  Atheiftical  French  writer,  and 
DodorofPhyfick. 

Robert  Conftantine  was  Beta's  great  friend  :  he  was  (  faith  7%**- 
nuj)  trium  lingKtirumperitiffivus,  moft  skilful  in  three  Languages, 
efpecially  in  Greek  and  Latme.  He  lived  till  he  was  a  hundred  and 
three  years  old,  his  Senfes  of  Body  and  Mind  being  perfed,  and  his  Me- 
mory ftrong.  Thefe  are  his  Work?.  NomencUtor  infignium  Scn- 
ftornm^  Di&ionarium  abftruformv  tvocabnlornm  ,  Lexicon  Gr<tco- 
Latinum. 

John  Croy  was  a  learned  French  Divine.  He  hath  written  a  Treatife 
entitled,  Obfervxtiones  Sacr*  &  Hiftortc*  in  novum  Te ft  amentum. 
That  Book,  and  his  Specimen  conjettttrarHm  &  obfervationum  in  qua- 
dAm  loca  Origenis^  lren<ei,  Tertuttiani  &  Epiphanij,  &c,  and  his 
French  Book  emitled,  Laverite  de  la  Religion  Reformee,  declare  him  to 
be  a  good  Linguift,  and  a  General  Scholar.  He  hath  written  a  Book 
againft  Morinw,  not  yet  publiflied,  but  commended  and  quoted  by 
thofe  who  have  perufed  it.  John  Mtfinut  was  a  learned  Papift.  There 
are  his  Exercitationes  Biblicx  de  He brao  GracoqueTextu.  Exercit.  - 
EcclefiafticA. 

In  the  late  Progrefs  of  King  Charles  IX.  was  difcharged  all  Preaching 
and  exercifingof  the  Reformed  Religion  in  the  Towns  of  France ^  where- 
in it  fhould  happen  the  King  to  be,  during  the  lime  of  his  Pro- 
grefs. 

Many  new  interpretations  of  the  Edid  of  March  were  invented, 
whereby  the  liberty  granted  to  the  Proteftants  was  utterly  in- 
fringed. 

The  Prince  of  foaJe  having  heard  that  the  Kings  of  France  and  s> -»A»E«.\IU: 
Spain  had  made  a  League  for  the  rooting  out  of  the  Proteftants,  addref- 
feth  himfelf  to  the  King  on  the  behalf  of  the  Proteftants,  complaining, 
that  contrary  to  the  Edid:  of  March  they  were  injured  and  cruelly 
flain,  demanding  redrefs  for  the  fore  faid  in  juries,  and  that  they  might 
have  liberty  to  enjoy  their  Religion  without  moleftation,  The  King 
hearing  of  the  Prince's  coming  (being  with  four  hundred  Armed  men) 
with  all  expedition  and  in  great  fear  haftens  to  Paris,  and  caufed  the  Pa- 
rifiansto  give  thanks  to  God,  as  if  he  had  been  delivered  from  a  great  pe- 
ril and  imminent  danger. 

After  this  the  fecond  War  for  Religion  brake  forth.  The  Prince  of 
fandc  approached  with  an  Army  to  Parit,  and  diftrefled  it  for  w^c  of 
food.  The  Parifians  under  the  Condudt  of  the  Conftable  fally  out  of 
the  Town,  and  come  to  Saint  Denis  where  the  Prince  ofConde's  Army 
lay.  There  the  Admiral  put  the  Partfian  Souldiers  to  flight,  and  the 
Conftable  was  (hot  by  a  Scotijh  Souldier,  of  which  wound  he  died  fhort- 
ly  after. 

Ccc  z  After 


Cent  ;   \6. 


After  the  Baud  the  Prince  of  Conde  marched  toward  Lorain  to  joyn 
with  the  Gerrxan  Army,  which  was  to  be  fent  for  his  fuccour  from  the 
Count  Palatine  of  the  Rheine,  under  the  Condud  efCtjfirvire's  Son. 
This  German  Army  joyned  with  the  Forces  of  the  Prince  of  Co  nde  at 
PontamonfoHy  a  Town  in  Lorain  on  the  River  sJWoJel.  Being  thus 
eonjoyned,  they  march  to  Chartrcs  ^nd  Ufiege  it.  The  danger  of 
Chartres  brings  on  a  newTreatife  of  Peace,which  at  laft  is  concluded.  The 
Armies  are  disbanded,  and  the  Towns  by  him  fubdued  are  delivered  in- 
to the  King's  hand,  the  German  Souldiers  were  diftnifled,  and  every 
man  returned  to  his  own  houfe.  But  this  pacification  was  but  a  fubtil 
(hare  to  entangle  the  Proteftants  withal  :  for  the  Proteftants  were  com- 
pelled to  lay  down  their  Armour  when  they  entred  into  the  Towns 
where  they  dwelt,  and  ftri&ly  commanded  to  remain  in  their  houfes, 
being  not  permitted  to  vifit  one  another. 

In  all  the  parts  of  the  Country  great  cruelty  was  ufed  and  many  cruelly 
butchered,  fothat  within  thefpace  of  three  months  moe  than  three  thou- 
{and  were/lain  by  the  Sword.  All  means  alfo  were  fought  to  intercept  the 
Prince  otConde^  the  Admiral  Andelot,  and  other  principal  Perfonages. 
The  Prince  ^  Conde  and  the  ^w;/vz/  rlie  with  their  Wives  and  young 
children  to  Rachel.  God's  Providence  fo  conducted  them,  that  albeit 
all  the  Bridges  and  Paflages  were  ftridly  kept,  yet  God  provided  a 
Foord  in  theRiverZ/ojre  near  unto  Sanfer^  which  was  unknown  before, 
neither  was  any  pal&ge  found  to  he  there  two  daks  after.  By  this  way 
they  patted  fafely  to  Rochcl. 

The  Prince  of  Co  ride  had  fent  letters  to  the  King,  greatly  complain- 
ing of  the  Cardinal  of  Lorainy  who  abufed  the  King's  Name  and  Au- 
thority, and  fo  malicioufly  fought  the  lives  of  the  King's  innocent  Sub- 
jeds  for  their  Religion,  expreflyagainftthe  King's  Edid  of  Pacification, 
which  had  been  fealed  wich  the  King's  own  hand-writ,  and  ratified  with 
his  Oath.  To  thofe  Letters  no  anfwer  was  given,  but  all  the  Country  was 
in  \rrns,  and  the  Duke  of  Anjou  Brother  to  the  King  was  made  General 
Commander  of  the  Army. 

The  Queen  of  Navarre  on  the  other  parr,  adjoyned  herfelf  and 
her  Forces  to  the  Prince  of  Conde  -,  and  from  "Britany  came  Anddot 
and  his  Forces,  who  paflcd  the  Loyre  by  a  certain  Foord  not  known  be- 
fore, and  unpayable  afterwatd  ;  no  lefs  miraculoufly  than  the  Prince 
of  Conde  and  his  Family  had  done  in  another  place  of  the  fame  River  be- 
fore. After  whole  commgAngolefne  was  befitged  and  taken  by  the  Prince 
of  ^j^r.  Like  wife  Acitrim  brought  with  him  to  the  Prince  cut  of  Delphi- 
re  >H-(,ve  nee  and  L\nguedoc  twenty  three  thoufand  men. 

The  Duke  of  A»JOU  was  come  with  his  Army  to  Potttou,  and  piuhed 
his  Camp  at  Cafte  lie  ranltnczr  to  the  R'.ver  Vienna.  The  Prince  of  Con- 
de and  the  Admiral  daily  provoke  him  to  fight,  but  he  politickly  de- 
lay tth.  The  Duke  of  Anjou  receiving  ayd  from  Germany  forceth  the 

Prote- 


Cent.    \6.  Of  FRANCE. 

Proteftants  to  fighr.  A  Battle  was  fought  at  Blanfac,  wherein  the 
Prince  of  Conde  was  taken  and  flain,  and  two  hundred  more  of  the 
Proteftants,  and  forty  taken  Prifoners.  The  Admiral  led  the  reft  of  the 
Army  back  to  Saint  JojuU-Angcli*  Soon  after  Andelot  died  at  Sainetes, 
to  the  great  grief  of  alhhe  Array  :  his  body  being  opened  was  found  to 
be  poifoned. 

The  Qijeen  of  Navarre  comfurted  the  Army  of  the  Proteftantsr. 
And  her  Son  the  young  King  of  Navarre,  with  the  Prince  of Conetc's 
Son  took  upon  them  the  Government  of  the  Army,  and  fent  Count 
tJMontgomtry  to  relieve  the  Town  of  Angolefme,  which  was  then 
'  befieged  by  the  Duke's  forces ,  at  whole  coming  the  fiege  was 
raifed. 

Then  the  Duke  of  Bipont  cometh  from  Germany  to  ayd  the  Pro- 
teftants, and  takes  the  Town  of  la-Charity  in  Burgundy,  and  dieth  with- 
in two  daies  after,  having  appointed  Wolrod  Count  of  Mansfelt  to  be 
General  in  his  room.*  In  this  Army  were  feven  thoufand  and  five  hun- 
dred horfe-mem,  and  fix  thoufand  loot-men,  befides  two  thoufand 
French  horfe-  men,  wh'o  came  in  their  company,  and  ten  Enfigns  of  foot- 
men. The  Prince  of  Orange  with  his  Brothers  Lodowick^  and  He?iry± 
were  alfo  in  this  Army. 

In  the  Country  of  Poiftoa  the  Princes  had  taken  many  Towns,  and 
Peictiers  was  befiegedby  them,  but  they  were  forced  to  raife  the  fiege. 
^At  length  -both  Armies  met  and  joyned  in  a  Battel  near  Montcowtre^ 
where  the  Duke  oi<*/fnjou,  had  the  Vidory.  Hereupon  all  the  Towns 
which  the  Proteftants  had  taken  in  Poitfou  were  recovered  by  their 
Enemies.  St.  Jan-Dangely  was  alfo  befkged  and  furrendered.  At 
the  fiege  of  this  Town  AdartiQMSy  Governour  of  Britany,  was  (lain. 
This  Aiartiques  perfwaded^/*  Afatpinofa  to  yield  the  Town  to  the  King: 
and  defired  the  Town  to  remember  the  Battel  of  Momconvire,  where- 
in their  flrong  God  had  for faken  them,  and  did  it  was  time  for  them  to 
(Ing,  Help  ta  now  O  God,  for  it  is  time.  Not  long  after  this  proud 
Blafphemer  felt  that  this  ftrong  God  was  living,  able ^fhelp  the  weak, 
and  confound  the  proud. 

The  Princes'  now  refolve  to  make  Langucdoc  the  fear  of  War, 
becaufe  the  Town  of  Nimes  was  lately,  furprized  by  the  Prvtcftanw, 
and  many  Towns  in  that  Country  favoured  their  Religion. 

This  occafioneth  a  new  Edid  of  Pacification  to  be  fct  forth,  granting 
liberty  of  Religion  to  the  Proteftants  again,  and  for  their  further  fecu- 
rity  the  keeping  of  four  Towns  during  the  fpace  of  "two  years,  viz,.  Ra- 
chel, Cognack^  A4ontallAnjR&  Caritea.  Thus  was  an  end  put  to  the  third. 
Civil  war  in  France . 

About  this  time  was  a  notable  Suit  of  thofewho  with  aprefumptuous 
and  partial  Title  termed  themfelves,  ffthe  focietyofyefw^dd^d  in  the 
Court  of  Parliament,  StephJ^fquier  pleading  againft  them  for  thellniver-. 

fity. 


cent.  \6. 


fry  tfParis,  amoft  grave  Advocate  of  fo  rare  a  Caufe,  and  M.  Peter 
Vcrfarif  for  their  Company.  Their  pleadings  are  read,  and  their  be- 
ginnings, and  firft  entry  intoFr^w*,  their  advancement,  and  all  that 
concerns  their  Se&,  is  fo  learnedly  expreffed  in  an  Epiftle  of  the  fourth 
Book  of  the  faid  £P*/^w>r,  and  in  his  pleading,  as  it  is  needlefs  to  infcrr 
here. 

Then  tffe  King  offereth  his  Sifter  in  Marriage  to  the  King  otNavarre, 
and  parting  to  Bloyes  fent  for  the  Queen  of  Navarre,  whom  be  received 
fo  courteoufly,  that  the  Queen  was  fully  perfwaded,  that  this  Marriage 
would  be  a  more  fure  pledge  and  bond  of  conftant  peace.  The  Admiral' 
alfo  was  fent  for,  and  met  the  King  at  Bloyes,  whom  the  Kingfeemed 
highly  to  honour.  The  Admiral  and  other  Nobles  are  follicited  to  be 
prefent  at  the  Marriage. 

The  Queen  of  Navarre,  as  (he  was  bufied  in  making  preparation 
for  the  Marriage,  died  haftily  by  the  fcent  of  empoifoned  Gloves,  which 
fhe  received  from  an  Italian  the  King's  tlnguentary.  But  the  Marriage 
was  celebrated  notwithfta-nding  on  Anguft  1 8.  Anno  1572. 

Soon  after,  viz,.  Auguft  22.  the  Admiral,  as  he  went  from  the 
Louvre  to  hbhoufe,wasihot  with  two  or  three  bullets  in  his  arm.  This 
was  taken  in  ill  part  by  the  King  of  Navarre  and  the  Prince  of  Conde9 
defiring  liberty  to  depart  from  Paris.  But  the  King  with  lo  many  at- 
teftations  protefted  his  diflike  in  that  matter ,  and  that  he  would  diligent- 
ly fearch  out  andfeverely  punifhthe  Authours  of  that  deed,  that  in  fonie 
part  he  quieted  the  minds  of  the  complainers. 

The  King  b'kewife  came  to  vific  the  Admiral ,  pitifully  lamenting 
'  the  chance  that  was  fallen  out,  affirming  the  di/honour  to  be  done  to 
him,  although  the  Admiral  had  received  the  hurt.  He  would  alfo 
have  had  the  Admiral  tranfported  to  the  Lewvre  for  his  better  fecuri- 
ry,  to  which  the  Admiral  feemed  unwilling.  Therefore  the  King  ap- 
pointed fome  of  his  own  Guard  to  attend  upon  the  Admiral's  houfe, 
and  the  Proteftants  were  required  to  prepare  their  Lodgings  near  to  the 
Admiral's  houfe,  to  be  a  Guard  unto  him,  in  cafe  any  commotion  fhould 
happen  in  the  Town. 

The  Maffacre  of  All  this  was  done  under  deep  diflimulation,  to  put  the  Proteftants 
7if 24  *n  ^ecur*cyj  tnat  tneY  fhwiild  not  once  imagine  of  the  Tragedy  that  was 
to  come.  The  night  after  was  the  appointed  time  for  the  horrible 
MafTacre  of  the  Proteftants  that  were  in  Ptrii.  The  Duke  ofgmfe 
went  from  Court,  with  order  from  the  King  to  find  PrefidentC/?<«rro« 
Trovoft  des  Mercians,  the  chief  Head  of  the  people  of  Paris,  giving 
him  direction  to  provide  2000.  Armed  men,  who  fhould  wear  every 
one  afhirt-fleeve  upon  their  left  arm,  and  white  Crofles  in  their  hats, 
which  upon  notice  given  were  prefendy  to  execute-the  Kings  commands. 
That,  he  fhould  caufe  to  be  in  readinefs  the  Sheriffs  (  E&hcuins  they 
call  them)  of  the  feveral  Wards,  and  that  upon  raging  of  the  Bell  of 

the 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE. 


the  Palace-  clock,  lights  (hould  be  put  in  every  window  through  the 
Town  :  which  things  were  all  prefently  performed  :  the  Dukes  of 
Montfenjier  and  Nevcrs^  with  many  other  Lords  of  the  Court  took 
Arms,  aU  the  Guards  being  in  Arms  at  the  Gate,  and  in  the  Court  of  the 
Louvre.  At  die  prefixed  hour  the  Dune  of  (?#*/*,  the  Duke  of  An- 
male^  and  *J\lonfenr  d'  Angolefntc,  Grand-  Prior  of  France  ,  the  King's 
Baft  ard-  Brother,  with  other  Commanders  and  Souldiers  to  the  number 
of  300.  going  to  the  Admiral's  houfe,  forcibly  entred  the  gate  of  the 
Court,  kept  by  a  few  of  the  King  of  Navarre's  Halberdiers,  and  the 
fervants  of  the  houfe,  which  were  all  killed  without  mercy. 

The  Lords  flayed  below  in  the  Court,  and  one  Befme^  a  Lorainer, 
and  Achilla  Petmcci,*.  Gentleman  of  Siena,  one  of  thofe  Strangers  which 
he  maintained,  with  Colonel  SarlttboW)  and  the  other  Souldiers,  went 
up  to  the  Admiral's  chamber.  He  hearing  the  noife,  got  up,  and 
kneeling  down,  leaned  againft  his  Bed,  when  feeing  Cornafon^  one  of 
his  fervants  come  frighted  in,  he  asked  him  what  noife  ic  was  -  who 
anfwered,  My  Lord,  God  calls  w  to  him^  and  ran  out  haftily  at  ano- 
ther door.  They  prefently  emring,  Befwe  ran  him  into  the  Breaft, 
and  the  reft  whenthey  had  made  an  end  of  killing  him  with  their  Dag- 
gers, threw  his  body  out  of  the  window  into  the  Court,  and  prefently 
it  was  dragged  into  a  ftable.  In  the  fame  Palace  were  (lain  Teligny, 
the  Admiral's  Son-in-Law,  and  Guerchy  his  Lieutenant,  who  wrap- 
ping his  Cloak  about  him  died  fighting  manfully,  Colonel  Montau- 
WAY  and  Raura  Son  to  the  Baron  des  Adrets,.  with  all  the  reft  that  had 
relation  to  him. 

Then  the  Colonel  of  the  King's  Guards  called  the  Principal  Httgo* 
nets  that  were  in  theLouvre  one  by  one,  who  beingcomein  the  Court, 
were  all  killed  by  the  Souldiers  that  ftood  in  two  long  Ranks  with  their 
Arms  ready  for  that  purpofe.  There  died  the  Count  de  U  Rocb-fox-cant, 
the  Marquefs  de  Rentl  ,  Piles  who  had  gallantly  defended  Saint  Jean 
de  Angeli,  Pontbreton,  Pttlvianlt,  Bandine^  FrA'rito*rt  Chanceltour 
to  the  King  of  Nwivrre^  fP^rdittan^  Lavardin,  and  others  to  the  dum- 
ber Of  200. 

Then  at  the  ringing  the  Bell  of  the  Palace-Clock,  they  fell  a  killing 
the  Hugonots  throughout  all  the  Lodgings  and  houfes  where  they  were 
difperfcd,  making  an  infinite  (laughter  of  them  without  any  diftinction  . 
of  Age,  Sex,  or  Condition. 

The  King  of  Navarre,  and  the  Prince  of  Condt,  were  kept  in  the 
King's  Chamber  during  the  Ma(Tacre,  and  after  are  kept  Priioner?. 
They  are  threatened,  except  they  will  renounce  that  Religion  which  they 
profeffed,  they  fhall  furely  die. 

The  King  of  Navarre  requeued  the  King  to  regard  that  new  bond  of 
friendship  that  was  bound  up  between  them,  and  not  to  urge  him  fo  ftricl- 
ly  to  forfake  thatRdigion  wherein  £«  had  been  trained  up  from  his  youth. 

The 


14  3tffi  cccleiagfcal  %tfto?p       cent.  \6. 

The  Prince  of  Co  W*  added,  that  his  life  was  in  the  King's  hands,  to 
difpofe  of  it  as  it  pleafed  him.  But  as  for  his  Religion  he  had  received 
the  knowledge  ot  it  from  God,  and  he  would  not  renounce  it  for  any 
fear  or  danger  of  this  prefenc  life. 

Some  of  the  Proteftants  then  lodged  in  the  Fobtrs  of  S.  German,  as 
Count  ^sttor.tgomery,  and  the  Vidarae  of  Chartres,  for  intercepting  of 
whom  the  King  had  given  command  to  the  Dean  of  (?;'/</ of  Pans,  to 
have  in  readinefs  1000.  Armed  Souldiers.  But  thefe  Souldiers  were 
not  in  readinefs  ^  fo  they  efcaped.  The  Duke  ofGuife,  the  Count  of 
Angoltfmet  and  others,  purfued  them  to  tfMontfort,  which  is  eight 
leagues  diftant  from  Parti,  but  could  not  overtake  them,  and  fo  returned 
back  again  to  Parts.  Befides  the  Nobility,  more  than  ten  thoufand  per- 
fons  were  (lain,  whofe  bodies  were  laid  on  heaps  upon  carts,  and  caft  inta 
the  River  Seine,  which  was  coloured  red  with  the  blood  of  the  flain. 

Peter  Ramttf  was  (lain  at  this  time  :  he  was  the  King's  Profeflbur  of 
Eloquence  and  Philofophy  at  Paris,  in  the  36.  year  of  his  age.  In  the 
21.  year  of  his  age  he  publithed  a  Logick  with  animadverfions  upon 
Anflotle.  Being  munhered,  his  body  was  reproachfully  dragged  up  and 
down  the  ftreets,  and  many  of  his  works  unperfeded  there  pcrifhed. 
Jacobus  Pafcharius  hath  thefe  Verfes  of  him. 

fertilior  quavis  cum  ft  facer  arbor  e  Ram  us  -, 
Arbons  hie  digntu  nomine  Ramw  ertf. 

DionyfiM  Lambing,  a  very  learned  man,  was  alfo  flain  in  this  Maf- 
facre. 

John  Mercer^  a  learned  Proteftant,  a  man  well  skilled  in  the  Hebrew 
tongue,  and  Hebrew  writers,  fucceeded  Vatabltts  in  the  Profeilion  of 
the  Hebrew  tongue  at  Parti.  He  efcaped  at  the  cruel  Maffacre  at  P<*- 
r#,  being  thrown  into  the  River,  and  after  put  fonh  his  learned  Com- 
mentary on  Gencfts. 

Peter  *JUtrUn^  a  godly  and  learned  French  Divine,  who.  was  Be- 
z.0's  Scholar,  was  miraculoufly  preferved  in  that  Maffacre. 

In  many  other  Towns  there  was  a  general  (laughter  of  Proreftams. 
So  that  within  the  fpace  of  a  month  more  than  thirty  thoufand  were 
reckoned  to  be  flain.  To  all  this  Tragedy  was  added  the  defection  of 
RozAritu,  a  Preacher  at  Orleans,  by  whole  Apoftafic ,  example,  and 
perfwafions  theKingof  Afoz/*rre  and  the  Prince  of  Co  nde  were  induced 
to  renounce  the  Proteftant  Profeffion  for  a  time.  Yet  afterwards  this 
fame  &ozj*riiu,  being  gravely  admonifhed  of  the  vilenefs  of  his  Apo- 
ftafie,  departed  out  of  France  into  Germany^  and  writ  Letters  to  the 
Prince  of  Conde,  wherein  he  acknowledged  his  errour,  begged  mercy 
of  God,  for  that  he  had  been  a  fnare  and  ftumbling  block  unto  him.  I 
read  in  the  life  of  the  learned  Dr.  Peter  dn*Moulin  the  elder,  that 

his 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE. 


his  Father  Joachim  dn- Moulin,  was  called  to  be  Minifter  at  CcenHret 
near  Soiffons,  Anno  1570.    The  Proteftour  of  that  Church  was  Man-  see  the  Life  of 
four  £  Eftree,  called  fince  Marquts  deCxm'.res,   who  then  profefTed  ^^tYw^it 
the  Proteftant  Religion.    But  when  he  heard  of  jh:  great  Maflacreof  byhhScq." 
Paris,  tsfuguft  24..  1572.  and  that  the  like  was  to  be  fpeedily  exe- 
cuted over  all  france,\\e  prefently  forfook  the  Prctefcant  Profeilion,  and 
to  approve  himfelf  a  true  Convert,  expelled  the  faid  joachim  dtt-M. ;.//« 
out  of  Ccenurcs. 

Then  was  the  good  man  in  great  extremity,  and  in  this  general  MafTa- 
cre  the  murtherers  were  feeking  for  him.  And  how  to  difpofe  of  his 
Wife  and  four  little  Children  he  knew  not.  At  laft  this  he  did,  he  left 
his  Children  with  a  Woman  of  contrary  Religion  half  a  mile  from  Cce- 
ftures.  Himfelf  with  his  Wife  fled  to  tftfuret,  a  Town  belonging  to 
the  Prince  of  Conde,  and  fo  to  Sedan,  with  the  Duke  of  Bouillon  of  the 
houfe  ofde  U  March,  who  pa/Ted  that  way  flying  from  the  Court. 
The  Murtherers  that  were  fent  to  kill  Joachim  and  his  Family  (  for 
they  fpared neither  Age  nor  Sex)  found  the  Womans  houfe  where  the 
Children  were  left.  Ruffina,  the  Woman  to  whom  the  Children 
were  committed  ,  hid  the  Children  in  the  ftraw  of  a  Bed,  the  ordinary 
bottom  of  beds  of  the  lower  fort  in  France,  and  laid  a  feather-bed 
and  a  blanket  over  them.  Scarce  had  (he  laid  the  blanket,  when 
the  Murtherers  came  into  the  room,  and  fearched  it,  but  lookt  not  in 
the  Bed,  Peter  then  under  four  years  of  age,  not  liking  to  be  thus  laid 
up  would  cry  ;  but  his  Sifter  Efther  then  (even  years  old,  who  had 
been  made  apprehenfive  of  their  danger,  ftopt  his  mouth  with  her  hand, 
whereby  flie  made  him  ftruggle,  and  to  make  fome  noife  ^  which  to 
drown  with  another,  Ruffina  pretending  to  reach  fomething  upon  a 
fhelf  made  the  Pewter  fall,  and  then  took  it  up  again  with  much  ruft- 
ling  till  the  Murtherers  were  gone.  As  foon  as  they  were  out  of  doors, 
fhe  ran  to  help  the  Child,  whom  fhe  found  well-nigh  fmothered  with 
the  flopping  of  his  wind  :  but  he  foon  recovered ,  and  the  Children 
were  kept  fate  in  her  houfe  till  their  Parents  fent  for  them.  Thus  God 
doth  many  times  preferve  the  infancy  of  his  fervants  from  the  rage  of 
Satan  and  the  world. 

The  day  before  that  terrible  execution,  the  King  difparchedPofts  in- 
to divers  parts  of  the  Kingdom,  commanding  the  Governours  of  Ci- 
ties and  Provinces  to  do  the  like :  but  this  Commiflion  was  perform- 
ed with  more  or  lefs  feverity  according  to  their  feveral  inclinations  : 
for  the  fame  night  at  Meanx,  and  thedaiesenfuingat  Orleans,  Roven, 
Bfurges,  Anglers,  Tholoufe,  and  many  other  places,  but  above  all  at 
Lions,  there  was  a  moft  bloody  (laughter  of  the  Httgonots.  On  the 
other  fide,  in  thofe  places  where  the  Governours  were  either  Depen- 
dants on  the  Princes,  or  followers  of  the  family  of  Mommorancy,  the 
Order  was  but  flowly  and  remifly  executed.  And  in  Provence  the 
D  d  d  Count 


cent.  i<>. 


Count  rfTcnde  refufed  openly  10  obey  it,  for  which  caufe  being  a  while 
after  at  the  City  of  Avignon^  he  was  fecretly  made  away,  and(  as  it 
was  believed  )bytheKing'sCommiffion. 

The  third  day  after  the  death  of  the  Admiral,  the}  King  accompa- 
nied by  all  the  Princes  and  Lords  olhis  Court,  went  unto  the  Parliament, 
where  he  pretended,  that  he  hadmiraculouily  difcovered  the  confpiracy 
of  the  Admiral  and  his  Complices  to  take  away  his  life,  and  not  his 
alone,  but  the  lives  of  the  Queen-Mother,  and  the  Dukes  ofy&yoHand 
jflan^on  his  Brothers,  and  even  the  King  of  Navarre's  3.\fo,  who  be- 
caufe  he  was  alienated  from  their  party,  was  efteemed  no  lefs  their  ene- 
my than  all  the  reft.  He  gave  order  it  fhould  be  recorded  among  the. 
ordinary  Ads  of  that  Court,  that  whatfoever  had  befallen  the  Admiral 
and  the  reft  of  his  faftion,  either  in  Paris  or  any  other  part  of  [he 
Kingdom  ,  was  done  by  his  will,  order,  and  exprefs  Coramif- 
fion. 

Then  he  commanded  them  to  proceed  to  the  examination  of  Prifoners, 
to  defame  the  memory  of  the  dead  by  laying  open  their  Rebellions, 
and  by  inflifting  fuch  punifhments  upon  them  as  the  ftridtnefs  of  the 
Law  required.  And  laftly,  he  caufed  to  be  publiflied,  not  only  in  the 
Parliament,  but  likewife  in  all  the  Streets  of  Paris,  that  they  ft  ould 
defift  from  further  effudon  of  blood.  The  Parliament  condemned  Bri- 
quemald^  CVr/^we/,twoProteftant  Noble-men.  They  laboured  by 
corturing  them  to  extort  from  them  a  confefiion  of  the  fore-alledged 
Confpiracy.  But  the  Noble-men  died  conftant  in  the  true  Faith,  with- 
out any  confeflion  of  fuch  Treafon  as  was  alledged.  They  were  pub- 
lickly  torn  with  Pincers,  and  their  bodies  quartered.  Notwithftanding 
they  were  not  afhamed  in  their  names  after  their  death  to  publi/h  a 
confeffion  of  horrible  Treafon,  which  they  never  confeifed  whilft  they 
were  yet  alive. 

^e  ^n£  commanded  alfo  a  Statue  of  the  Admiral's  to  be  broken 
t  was  in  pieces,  and  burned,  declaring  him  a  Rebel,  adifturber  of  theKiug- 
of  Fnr.ce,  i  it.  5.  dom,  an  Heretick,  and  an  enemy  to  all  good  men.  The  Magistrates 
alfo  fenrenced  the  Hope  I  de  Ckaftitton  to  be  razedtothc  very  ground, 
and  all  his  Pofterity  to  be  deprived  of  Nobility,  and  made  incapable  of 
bearing  any  Office  or  poffefling  any  goods  in  the  Kingdom  of  France. 
The  King  therefore  difpatched  his  Grand-Provoft,  with  all  diligence  to 
fcife  upon  his  Wife  and  Children.  But  his  eldeft  Son,  with  the  Widow- 
Lady  his  Mot  her  *in-  Law,  the  Wife  of  Tetigni^  and  Monfle  ur  de  la  val, 
the  Son  of  Aadelot  deceafed,  were  already  fled  fecretly  to  Geneva: 
and  the  better  to  avoid  their  danger,  went  to  live  among  the  5n?///f  -f  in 
the  Canton  of  Beam.  The  younger  Children  were  condemned  to  death 
in  their  tender  years,  coming  to  {hat  end,  which  in  the  variety  of  world- 
ly affairs  accompanies  the  ruine  of  great  Families. 

Ac 


Cent.  16.  Of  FRANCE. 


At  the  fame  time  this  execuiion  was  done  in  Pariiy  laCharite,  which 
was  ftill  held  by  the  Pro;eftams,  was  furprized  by  the  Gens  d'  Arms  of 
the  Duke  of  Never*. 

The  Town  of  Rochel  was  the  Town  of  greateft  importance  of  afl  the 
reft  of  the  Towns,  that  were  yet  in  the  hands  of  the  Proteftanes.  The 
King  with  a  mighty  Army  beheged  it  by  Sea  and  Land,  which  fiege  be- 
gan in  the  Month  of  December,  and  endured  until  the  Month  vijuly 
next  following.  The  marvellous  providence  of  God  was  feen  in  this  "*' 
fiege,  for  God  fent  a  number  of  Fi'r.es,  caUed  Surdonnc^  to  the  fupport 
of  the  poor,  during  the  time  of  the  fiege  j  and  at  the  end  of  the  fiege  the 
Fifties  were  found  no  more  in  that  coaft. 

Sanferre^  a  Proteftant  Town,  after  eight  Months  fiege  was  forced 
to  lurrender  toCaftriw,  the  King's  Lieutenant  in  thofe  parts. 

Upon  the  ninth  day  of  M<*y  1572.  Henry  Duke  of  An\on^  was  with 

a  general  confent  chofen  Ttingof  Poland.     Wherefore,  he  having  long 

befieged  Rochel,  and  feeking  to  come  off  from  that  fiege  with  fuch  mode- 

ration, that  his  reputation  might  be  fafe,  and  the  minds  ofhisnewfub- 

jefts  not  unfatisfied,  from  whom  he  endeavoured  to  remove  all  fufpici- 

on  of  his  taking  away  their  liberty  of  Confcience,  he  proceeded  not 

fo   violently  agairift  the  Proteftams  ,  who  now  being  quite  tyred  out, 

defired  peace.     This  was  favoured  by  the  Duke,  and  the  City  was 

yielded  upon  chefe  conditions  :    That  the  King  (hould  declare  the  Inha- 

bitants of  Rochel,  Ntfmes,  and  Montnuban^  to  be  his  faithful  Subjects, 

pardoning  all  faults  what  foe  ver  had  been  committed  by  them  during  the 

Civil  War.    That  in  thofe  three  Cities  he  fhould  allow  the  free  and 

publick  exercife  of  the  Reformed  Religion,  they  meeting  together  in 

fmall  numbers,  and  without  Arms,  the  Officers  appointed  for  that  pur- 

pofe  being  there  among   them.     That  in  all  other  outward  matters 

(except  Baptifm  and  Matrimony  •)  they  Iftould  obferve  the  Rices  and  Ho- 

ly-daies  obferved  and  commanded  by  the  Church  viRome.  That  the  King 

fhould  confirm  all  the  liberties  and  priviledges  of  thofe  three  Towns,  not 

permitting  them  to  be  in  any  pan  diminiftied^ltered.or  violated.That  the 

Rochellers  (hould  receive  a  Governour  of  the  King's  appointment  (  but 

without  a   Garrifon  )  who  might  freely  ftay  there,  inhabit,  go,  and 

return  into  the  City  at  his  pleafure-.     That  they  fhould  be  governed  by 

the  Laws  and  Cuftoms  with  which  they  had  been  governed  under  the 

Kings  of  frame  ever  fince  they  were  Subjects  to  that  Crown.     That 

they  fliould  not  lend  any  aid  to  chofe  which  fhould  continue  up  in  Arms, 

though  of  the  fame  Religion.     That  the  ufc  and  exercife  of  the  Ca- 

tholique  Religion  fhould  be  reftored  in  thofe  Cities  whence  it  had  been 

taken  ,  leaving  freely  unto  the  Church-men,  not  only  the  Churches, 

Monafteries  and  Hospitals,  but  likewifc  all  the  Profits  and  Revenues  be- 

longing to  them.     That  all  Lords  of  free  Manours  through  the  King- 

dom might  in  their  ownhoufes  lawfully  celebrate  Baptifm  andMatri- 

Ddd  2  mony 


a8  %ty  CCCleCafttCal  %lttO#          Cent.   16. 


mony  after  the  manner  of  the  Proteftants,  provided  the  Aflembly  ex- 
ceeded not  the  number  often  perfons.  That  there  fhould  be  no  Inqui- 
fiiion  upon  mens  conferences,  and  that  thofe  who  would  not  dwell  in 
the  Kingdom  might  fell  their  Eftates  and  go  live  where  they  pleafed, 
provided  it  were  not  in  places  that  were  enemies  to  the  Crown  : 
And  that  for  the  observing  thefe  Articles,  thefaid  three  Cities  fhould 
give  Hoftages,  which  fhould  be  changed  every  three  Months,  and 
alwayes  fhould  follow  the  Court.  When  thefe  conditions  were  efta- 
blifhed,  and  the  Hoftages  given,  which  by  the  Duke  were  prefemly 
fent  to  the  Court,  tJWonfeur  dc  Byron,  the  Governour  appointed  by 
the  King,  entred  Rochclwith  one  of  thepublick  Heraulds,  tookpoflef- 
fion  of  the  Government,andkcaufed  the  Peace  to  be  Proclaimed.  Alter 
which  the  Duke  of  An']on  \  now  King  of  Poland}  having  difmifTed  the 
Army,  went  with  a  Noble  Train  of  Princes,  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 
unto  the  City  of  Parts,  where  afluming  the  title  of  his  new  Kingdom, 
and  having  received  the  Polifli  AmbaiTadours,  he  prepared  tor  his 
journey  to  go  and  take  pofleffion  of  the  Crown, 

All  the  Proteftants  dwelling  in  Languedoc,  Dolphins  and  Provence, 
were  offered  thofe  conditions  which  the  Rochetlerrnad  embraced.  But 
they  craved  liberty  firft  to  aflemble  themfelves  together  before  they 
fliould  give  their  anfwer.  Which  being  granted,  and  the  AfTembly 
convened  at  Miliald,  they  craved  thefe  Conditions,  viz.*  That  in  every 
Province  of  France  two  Towns  might  be  granted  unto  the  Proteftants  for 
their  further  fecurity,  and  thofe  Towns  to  be  kept  by  the  Guards  of 
their  own  Souldiers,  and  have  all  their  pay  out  of  the  King's  Treafury  : 
and  that  liberty  fhould  be  granted  to  all  that  were  of  their  Religion,  to 
exercife  the  fame  freely  ,  without  any  exception  of  places.  Alfo 
that  all  thofe  that  fhould  be  found  guilty  of  the  horrible  Murthers  com- 
mitted at  Paris  Auguftn.  fhbuld  be  feverely  punifhed. 

The  Queen-Mother  when  fhe  had  read  the  Conditions  which  were  re- 
quired, faid  with  great  indignation,  That  if  the  Prince  of  fonde  had 
been  in  the  midft  of  France  with  twenty  thoufand  Horfe-men,  and 
fifty  thoufand  Foot-men,  yet  would  he  not  have  required  the  half  of 
thofe  conditions.  This  great  boldnefs  of  the  Proteftants,  put  the  Ene- 
mies in  fufpicion  that  the  Nobles  of  France  were  confederate  with  them. 
About  the  fame  time  Count  Montgomery  had  returned  out  of  En- 
gland and  taken  fome  Towns  in  Normandy  ,  but  foon  after  he  was  befieged 
in  Donfront,  a  Town  of  'Normandy,  where  he  is  taken  and  fent  to  Paris, 
and  condemned  to  death.  This  is  that  Noble  man  who  had  flain  King 
Henry  the  fecond  with  a  Spear,  whom  King  Henry  would  not  fuffer  to 
be  harmed  for  it.  But  when  he  came  into  the  hands  of  this  cruel  woman 
he  muft  die.  She  caufed  divers  of  the  Nobility  to  be  imprifoned,  and 
fpared  not  her  own  Son  the  Duke  of  Alan  f  on.  The  Prince  of  Conde 
conveyed  away  himfelf  fecrcjly  into  Germany. 

,  In 


Cent.    1 6. Of  FRANCE. 


In  November  following  after  the  bloody  Maflacre  a  new  Star  was  " 
feen  in  the  Conftellation  ofCa/iopcia,  which  continued  full  fixteen 
Months,  being  carried  abour  with  the  daily  motions  of  the  Heaven.  Theo- 
dore Be  z*a  wittily  applyed  it  to  that  Star  which  (hone  at  the  Birth  of 
Chrift,  and  to  the  murthering  of  the  Infants  under  Herod,  and  warn- 
ed Charles  IX.  King  of  France,  who  confefTed  himfelf  to  be  the 
Authour  of  that  bloody  Maflacre  at  Part*  ,  to  beware  ,  in  this 
Verfe. 

Tu  vero  Her  odes  fanguinolcntc  cave.  Camlden>s  Rift. 

AnA  than  bloody  Herod,  lookjbon,  to  thyfelf.  of  3*.  EIM. 

And  he  was  not  wholly  deceived  in  his  belief,  for  in  the  fifth  Month 
after  the  vanishing  of  this  Star,  King  Charles  died  of  a  bloody  Flix. 
As  he  had  caufed  much  Proteftant  blood  to  be  fried,  fo  in  his  ficknefs 
before  his  death,great  ftore  of  blood  iffued  out  by  vomiting,  and  by  other  ^ 
paflagesofhis  body  in  the  two  laft  weeks  of  his  ficknefs,  and  in  his  bed  ^  5?. 
he  could  have  little  reft,  but  horribly  Blafphemed  the  name  of  God, 
which  he  had  accuftomed  himfelf  unto  even  from  his  Child-hood.  Such 
was  his  unquietnefs  and  affrightments  in  the  night,  that  he  endeavoured  to 
appeafeitby  Mufick. 

.Andrew  Melvin  hath  thefe  Verfes  to  Charles  IX.  dying  withanunufu- 
al  Flux  of  blood. 


Naribttt,  oret  oculisy  atque  auribus  uydique  &  ano, 

Et  fene  erumpit  qui  tibi,  Carle^  cruor  : 
N&n  tutu  ifle  cruor  y  S*wttorum  at  cade  cruorem 

Quern  ferw  haitfifti,  concoqttere  kaud  poteraf. 

In  thofe  Verfes  are  comprifed  both  the  caufe  and  manner  of  his  - 
death.    He  died  May  30.  1574.  before  he  was  full  five  and  twenty  years 
ofAge. 

As  foon  as  Henry  King  of  Toland  heard  of  his  Brother's  death, 
he  returned  privily  and  fpeedily  ,  and  was  Crowned  King  of 
France. 

Michael  H«/}>:talittt,  Chancellour  of  France  under  Charles  IX.  was  T,:H*».TM 
removed  from  the  Court,  and  made  a  Prifoner  as  it  were,  only  becaufc  '*4* 
he  oppofed  thofe  wicked  Counfels  againft  the  Proteftants  in  the  Maflacre 
at  Parit.     Beza    mentions  him  in  his  Icones  illuftrittm.  virorum.    And 
Cretins  ftilcs  him  ,  Vnicnm  <evi  noftn  dectuy  the  only  ornament  of  oor  GVw.p«f  .ad- 
Age.    Thereare  thefe  of  his  Works  publifhed.     Six  Books  of  Epiftles  Poem- 
in    Latine  Verfe.      De  Caltto   expvgnato.     Epiftola  &  carmen  cum 
*liit.     In  the  Preface  to  his  Epiftleone  faith,  it  appeared  by  a  moft 
Ancient  Coyn,  thai  he  much  refsmbled  Ariflotlc.    Summnm  iltitm  om- 

nwtn 


eccieftafttcai  ^fto?       Cent.  \6. 


ninm  Philofophornm  prtnciptm  Afiftotelemfa  ore  toto  retulit,  ut  altertttt 
tx  alt  era  Imago  exprejfa  videri  poflet* 

At  this  time  flounfhcd  A/tichnel  Afontanut,  or  sjlftchaei  de  Aton- 
ta*£>7e,  Knight  of  the  Noble  Order  of  St.  Mtchacl,and  one  of  the  Gentle- 
men in  Ordinary  to  the  French  King  [  Henry  III.  his  Chamber.  His 
elegant  Books  of  Mifcellanies  written  in  French,  are  by  him  modeftly 
ftyled  Effayes,  or  'tJtforal,  Polttic'^znd  Mtlitary  Dtfcourfes.  He 
huh  thereby  gotten  a*  great  opinion  of  his  Learning  and  Wif- 
dom,  and  Rome  hath  chofen  and  adopted  him  for  one  of  her  Ci- 
tizens. 

Charles,  Cardinal  ofL0r*/'/7,dieth  December  23.  1574.  of  a  Frenzy 
in  the  midft  of  a  cruel  tempdl,  and  violent  whirl-wind  which  unco- 
vered  the  houfes,  and  loofened  the  bars  of  Iron  in  the  Carthufans  Covenc 
in  the  Suburbs  of  Avignon. 

According  to  the  advice  of  the  Qneen-Mother,  the  King  afTaults  the 
Proteftant  Towns  in  Provence,  Laugnedoc  and  'Dolphins'*  Lufgnan 
was  befieged,  and  yielded  upon  Compofition.  Pc«//«is~befieged,  and 
taken  :  but  the  Town  of  Lihtro  in  Dolfhine.jhau$\  befieged,  was  not  ta- 
ken. In  Languedoc^  D'anville,  although  he  was  of  the  Roman  Religi- 
on, yet  hadjoyned  himfelftothe  Proteftants,  and  took  AquessJMortes^ 
a  Town  of  great  importance  in  thofe  Parts,  with  many  other  Towns. 
In  Dolphive  Mombriin  was  chief  Commander,  and  had  great  fuccefs  in 
his  attempts.  But  in  the  end  being  fore  wounded  he  was  taken  befide 
Tia  a  Town  in  'Dolphtne,  and  by  the  Commandment  of  the  King  and 
Queen-  Mother  was  carried  to  Cjrcnoble,  and  there  was  executed  in  the 
fight  of  the  people. 

The  Prince  of  Conde  had  required  help  of  Cufmrt  the  Son  of 
Count  Palatine^  who  had  alfo  condefcended  to  fuccour  the  Proteftants. 
The  Conditions  they  agreed  on  were  thefe.  That  they  ftiquld  not 
lay  down  their  Arms  until  that  liberty  were  obtained  to  the  Prote- 
ftants fully  to  enjoy  their  own  Religion.  And  likewife  that  Cafimirc 
fliould  have  the  Towns  of  ejtf  efts,  Tuition,  and  Verdum\n  his  hand?, 
befides  other  Towns  in  all  the  Provinces  of  France^  which  the  Prote- 
ftants were  to  require  for  their  further  affurance,  and  as  pledges  of  the 
King's  fidelity  and  faichfulnefs  to  them. 

The  Army  of  the  Germans  and  French  entered  into  France  under  the 
Prince  of  (bade  and  Cafmire,  and  came  forward  to  Charoffiam,  a  Town 
in  Bourbon,  not  far  from  Molins,  where  AUncon  the  King's  Brother 
joyned  with  them  :  and  the  whole  Army  conjoyned,  was  found  to  be 
of  horfe-men  and  foot-men  thirty  thoufar.d.  The  King  of  Uavarre 
at  the  fime  time  departeth  from  Court,  and  returneth  into  his  own 
Country.  The  Army  draws  near  to  Paris,  but  at  length  was  concluded 
upon  certain  Conditions.  That  Caftmire  fhould  receive  from  the  King 
a  great  fumm  of  money  inftead  of  thofe  Towns  which  (hould  have  been 

put 


Cent  1(5.  Of  FRANCE. 


put  in  his  hands  :  and  that  liberty  fhould  be  granted  to  the  Prore- 
ftants  to  exercife  their  own  Religion  openly  and  freely  without  excepti- 
on of  places ;  the  Court  and  the  City  of  Paris  with  a  few  leagues  about 
only  excepted.  They  were  alfo  declared  to  be  capable  of  places  in  Par- 
liament, *nd  Courts  of  Juftice:  and  all  Judgements  which  were  made 
againft  them  for  any  enrerprize  whatfoever,  were  declared  void  •,  the 
cruel  day  of  St.  Bartholomew  difavowed  •,  and  for  better  afiurance  2nd 
performance  of  thefe  conditions,  they  had  eight  Towns  delivered  unto 
them,  with  the  Conditions  of  their  Governments.  Aques  Mortes, 
Benecairc,  Perigneux,  Le  mat  de  Verdun,  Ni*ns,  Tiffure,  L*  grand 
tour.  The  Edid  of  Pacification  was  Proclaimed  May  10.  1576. 
and  an  end  was  put  to  the  fifth  Civil  War  in  France  for  Re- 
ligion. 

By  the  Bull  of  Pope  Gregory  XIII.  fent  into  France  Anno  1575. 
we  may  fee  all  the  Judges  Royal  both  fuperiour  and  inferiour  utterly 
defpoiled  of  the  Cognifance  of  criminal  Caufes.  The  Sixteenth  Arti- 
cle is  this,  We  Excommunicate  and  anathematize  all  and  every  one  the 
Mwiftrates,  Counfellours,  Prefidents,  Auditors,  and  other  Judges,  by 

i  r  >         I  it    i       I      f->i  r  i        "  .  . 

what  name  foever  they  be  called,  the  Chancellours,  ^tce-Chancellours,  pontif.  in  fine. 
Notaries,  Regifters,  and  Executors,  their  fervants  and  others  which  f  Jj^JjiJJfc mo 
have  any  thing  to  do,  in  what  fort  or  manner  foever,  with  Capital  orCri-  ruum  proprio- 
minal  Caufes  againft  JLcclefiafticaL  ferfons,   in  baniflring  or  arrcfting  rum* p*  5l6' 
them,  faffing  or  pronouncing  fentence  againft  them,  and  flitting  them 
in  Execution,  even  Mfider  pretence  of  any  yriviledges  granted  hy  the  See 
z^4poftolic\t->  upon  what  caufes,  and  in  what  tenoar  and  form  foever,  to 
Kings,  Duktf>  Princes,  Rcfnbliqnes,  Monarchies ,  Cities,   and  other 
Potentates,  by  what  name  and  title  foever  they  be  called,  which  we  will 
not  have  to  be  ufeful  to  them  in  any  thing,repealing  them  all  from  hence- 
forth and  declaring  them  to  be  nullities. 

The  twelfth  Article  fpeaks  on  this  fort.  We  Excommunicate  all  and 
every  the  Chancettours,  Vice-Chancellours,  Counfe Hours,  Ordinary  and 
Extraordinary,  of  all  Kings  and  Prince  s,  the  Trefidents  of  Chanceries, 
Councils,  and  Parliaments,  at  alfo  the  A'torneys  General  of  them  and 
fthtr  Secular  Princes,  though  they  be  in  Dignity  Imperial,  Royal,  'Du- 
cal, or  any  other,  by  what  name  foever  it  be  catted  -,  and  other  'Judges, 
At  well  Ordinary,  at  by  Delegation  •  as  alfo  the  Arclabtjliofs,  Bijhops, 
^.ybots,  ComrKendxtories,  fccars,  and  Officers,  who  by  thtmjehes  e/r 
by  any  other ,  under  pretence  of  Exemptions ,  Letters  of  Grgce,  or  other 
JApoftolical  Letters  do  fummon  before  them  our  Auditors  ,  Commif- 
farics  and  other  Ecclefiaftical  Judges,  with  the  caufes  Concerning  Bf- 
nefices.  Tithes,  and  ether  jpir  it uxl  matters,  or  fuch  at  are  Annexed  to  them 
and  hinder  the  conrfe  of  them  by  any  Lay-authority,  andinterfofe  them- 
felves  19  take  Cognifance  of  them  in  the  quality  of 'judges, 

This 


'ji  %ty  ccrtefiaftteai  $tfto?p       cent.  16. 

This  is  not   all,  for  in   the  following  Article  he  goes   yet  further, 
ftriking  an  heavy  blow  at  ihe  Ordinances  of  the  French  Kings.     Thofc 
alfo    Vfhich  under  pretence  of  their  Office,  or  at  the  Inftance  of  any  mart 
whatfoevir,  draw  before  them  to  their  ^Bench,  Audience  Chancery,  Court- 
cil,    or  Parliament ,  Ecclefiaftical  perfons ,   Chapters,   Covents,   and 
Colleges  of  all  Churches )  or  caufs  them  to  be  brought  in  qtteftto*  before 
them,  or  procure  them  direttly  or  indirectly ,  under  what  colour  foever, 
beyond  the  anointment  of  the  Canon  Lave  :  Thofe  alfo  which  ordain  and 
fet  forth  Statutes ,  Ordinances,  Conflitutions,   Pragmatiejues,  or  other 
Decrees    whatfoever  ,    in  general  or  in  fpecial ,  for    any  caufc    or 
colour   whatfoevery  even  under  pretence   of  jfpoftolical  Letters,  not 
now  in  practice,  or  repealed  -9  or  of  any  Cuftom  or  Priviledge,  or  any 
other  manner  wbatfoever  :  or  that  make    ufe  of  them  when  they  are 
made  and  ordained,  when  by  them  the  Ecclefiaftical  liberty  is  abolifhedy 
impaired,  depreffed,  or  retrained  in  any  manner  whatfoever,  or  who  do 
any  prejudice  to  our  Laws,  and  thofe  of  our  Sec  dircttly  or  indirectly, 
implicitely  or  explicit  ely. 

See  yet  another  which  follows  after  this.    Thofe  likewije  who  do  any 
ways  hinder  the  jtrchbifoops,   Bifhops,   and  other   Prelates  fuperiour 
and   inferiour^   and  aU  other    ordinary   Ecclefiaftical   Judges  ,    in 
the  exercife  of  thetr    Ecclefiaftical    jurifdiftion  again  ft  any  per/on  , 
according  as  the  Canons^    the  facred    Constitutions  of  the   Church, 
the  Decretals  of  General  Councils,  and  principally  that  of  Trent  do  or- 
dain.    There  is   further  in   the  fame  Bull  fome  Excommunications 
againft  thofe  which  appeal  from  the  Pope's  Sentence  to  General  Coun- 
cils :  Againft  thofe  that  hinder  Clergy  or  Lay-men  from  going  to  plead 
at  Rome,  which  is  a  remarkable   thing.    Againft  Kings  and  Princes 
which  make  the  fruits  of  Ecclefiaftical  Livings  to  be  fequeftred  upon 
any   occafion  whatfoever ,  which  concerns   the  right  of  the  Crown. 
Againft  thofe  which  impofe  any  Tenths,  Subfidies,  or  other  Taxes.  All 
this'  was  levelPd  againft  tfie  rights  of  the  King,  and  the  liberties  of  the 
Gtllican  Church. 

Rebuff,  in  praxi  A  Bull  had  been  granted  by  Pope  Alexander  VL  in  the  year  1500. 
beneSc.de  union,  for  theunion  of  the  Parifh-Church  of  Dow  ay,  with  the  Chapter  of  the 
bcnef.  num.  aS-  Cathedral- Church  of  the  fame  place.  But  the  Parliament  of  Paris 
upon  the  appeal ,  as  from  abufe,  exhibited  from  the  Curate  oiDowayy 
a.  toftopthe  Execution  of  it,  difannulled  the  union  by  an  Arreft  of  the 
rlrft  of  May  1575.  becaufe  there  wanted  a  Writ  for  Commiffion  In 
Partibw.  Divers  other  unions  befides  have  been  declared  -to  be  abu- 
five,  becaufe  they  were  made  without  the  cenfent  of  the  Lay-Patrons  -, 
and  the  Bulls  have  been  annulled,  as  well  by  the  Parliaments,  as  by  the 
Grand  Council. 

TtingCharles  IX.  in  his  demands  of  the  Couicil  of  Trent,  required 
a  reformation  oftheabufes  of  Fraternities.    That  Council  found  no- 
thing 


Cent.  1  6.  Of  FRANCE. 


thing  to  be  corrected  in  them,  but  tacitely  confirmed  them,  by  ordain- 
ing, That  the  Adminiftrators  of  them  (hall  give  account  of  their  Admt- 
niftration  every  year  unto  the  Ordinary.  We  read  ,  that  Leagues 
and  Monopolies,  and  Confpiracies  againft  the  State>  have  been  hat- 
ched in  fuch  Fraternities  as  thefe,  and  that  diforders  and  other  unlaw- 
ful things  have  been  committed  among  them.  They  have  been  prohi- 
bited in  all  well  policied  Kingdoms  and  Common-wealths  •  and  par- 
ticularly in  France:  where  we  muft  obferve,  That  as  they  have  been 
Inftruments  of  trouble  anddiflblutenefs  ,  fo  they  have  been  judged  hurt- 
ful to  peace  and  concord.  And  for  thatreafon  they  are  condemned  by 
the  Edicts  and  Declarations  of  the  French  Kings,  as  the  Mothers,  or 
(at  lead  )  the  Companions  of  Confpiracies.  For  they  are  fo  joyn- 
ed  together  by  the  fame  Ordinances  t  as  in  that  of  King  Henry  III. 
of  September  1577.  And  all  Leagues^  Affociationsy  and  Fraternities, 
made  or  to  be.  tnade^  under  any  pretence  whatfoever,  to  the  prejudice 
of  this  our  Editt^  [hall  be  utterly  void  and  of  no  effect.  And  in  that  of 
the  fame  Prince  given  the  20.  of  December  in  the  fame  year.  We  ex- 
prefly  forbid  all  our  faid  Subjects,  of  what  quality  foever  they  be,  to 
begin,  make,  or  profecure  any  League,  Aflbciation,  or  Fraternity 
among  themfelves  ,  to  the  prejudice  of  our  faid  Edict  of  Paci- 
fication. 

The  forty  fourth  Article  of  the  Conference  of  Flex  faith  in  exprefs 
terms.  All  -the  fore  faid  (  -m..  Provofts,  Majors,  Confuls,  Sheriffs  of 
Towns,  &c.  mentioned  in  the  former  Article  )  and  other  Subjects 
whatsoever  of  this  Realm,  of  what  'Condition  foever,  fliall  depart  from, 
and  renounce  all  Leagues,  AiTociations,  'Fraternities  and  Intelligences,  as 
well  within  the  Reahn  as  withour. 

Duke  Cafmire  had  RO  fooner  turned  his  back  from  France^  but  they 
began  to  find  the  Peace  tobe  counterfeit,  being  made  only  todifarm 
them,  and  to  divide  the  Commanders.  The  Prince  ofConde  firft  felt 
the  breach  of  thefe  Promifes.  They  deny  him  his  Government  of 
fPicardy.  Peronne  is  feized  upon.  Divers  enterprizes  upon  the  Princes 
perfon,  make  him  to  leave  the  Duke  of  Alan^on^  and  to  retire  into  Gui- 
ennew  the  King  of  Navarre,  (  who  had  before  declared  himfelf  for 
the  Proteftants,  )  and  whom  thofe  of  Rachel  received  into  their  Town 
with  much  honour  on  June  28.  All  fudfof  his  Train  as  they  fufpeded 
were  excluded. 

Upon  denial  of  Peronntfhe  King  granted  to  the  Prince  the  Town  ofS. 
Jean  £  An^eli:  but  the  Inhabitants  had  a  Warchword,and  a  mutual  Oath 
(after  the  manner  of  a  private  League,  made  by  fixty  Gentlemen  of 
Poitou  ,  who  would  have  no  exercife  of  any  Religion  but  the.  Catholick  ) 
to  maintain  one  another,  and  not  to  give'  accefs  to  any  one  of  what  Re- 
ligion foever,  to  the  end  their  quiet  might  not  any  way  be  di  fturbed. 
The  Prince-finding  this  repulfe,  caufed  fome  Captains  to  enter  fecretly, 
•Eee  and 


lO)e cccleflaflftal tifto?g       Cent. 


and  fo  aflured  himfelf  of  the  place.  But  finding  this  place  too  weak  for 
the  aflurance  of  his  Perfon,  in  the  end  of  October  he  takes  Brovage, 
a  ftrong  plaxre  near  unto  Rochel. 

The  Proreftants  complain  unto  the  King,  that  in  divers  places  they 
are  difturbed  in  the  exercife  of  their  Religion,  granted  by  the  Edi£L 
That  many  Preachers  move  the  people  to  Sedition.  That  the  Cham- 
bers of  both  Religions  are  not  ercded ,  and  that  juftice  is  denied 
them.  That  both  great  and  fmall  bandy  againft  them.  And  they  pro- 
duce ample  proofs  of  thefe  complaints* 

Now  thofe  of  the  houfe  of  Gttife  ftudied  to  difcover  thofe  terrible 
Projects  which  they  had  long  hatched.  Their  chief  defigns  were  to 
overthrow  the  fucceilion  brought  in  by  Hugh  Capet  in  the  full  aflem- 
bly  of  the  States,  and  to  caufe  the  naming  of  a  Succeflbur  to  be  fubjed 
unto  the  (aid  Eftates  v  to  caufe  the  Princes  of  the  blood  that  fhould  op- 
pofe  againft  the  Decrees  of  the  Eftates,  to  be  declared  incapable  to 
fucceed  unto  the  Crown.  And  the  refidue,  of  what  qualities  foever, 
Noble-men,  Gentlemen,  and  others,  to  be  degraded  of  their  Digni- 
ties v  the  money  growing  of  their  Confifcations  to  be  employed  for  the 
War,  and  their  Bodies  to  be  executed.  To  make  the  Eftates  proteft  to- 
live  and  die  in  the  Faith  fetdown  by  the  late  Council  of  Trent,  to  caufe 
it  to  be  figned  in  the  open  Parliament.  To  revoke  and  difannul  all  pub- 
lick  Edids,  in  favour  of  the  Proteftants  and  their  Aflbciates,  and  to 
purfue  them  to  the  death  that  fhould  hinder  the  extirpation  of  Here- 
fies.  To  caufe  the  King  to  revoke  the  Promifes  made  unto  the  Prote- 
iavit./Jwrj'iii.  ftants  $  and  to  prefcribe  a  certain  time  unto  their  Aflbciates,  in  the 
which  they  fhould  prefent  themfelves  before  the  Ecclefiaftical  Judges 
to  be  abfofved  •,  and  then  to  be  fent  unto  the  King ,  to  purchafe  pardon 
of  the  Crimes  committed  againft  his  Majefty.  To  caufe  the  King  to 
make  the  Duke  ofGuife  his  Lieutenant  General,  a  Perfon  fit  to  encoun- 
ter the  Rebellion  of  Princes,  that  fhould  feek  to  hinder  the  effect  of 
the  precedent  Articles.  To  caufe  Judges  to  be  appointed  to  examine 
the  crime  committed  by  the  Duke  of>4/.i»}-o«,  declaring  himfelf  Chief 
of  the  Hereticks.  To  caufe  the  faid  Duke  to  come  to  Court,  wuh  the 
King  of  Navarre,  and  the  Prince  of  Conde,  and  to  feize  upon  the  faid 
Duke,  King,  and  Prince,  and  all  their  Accomplices.  That  the  Cap- 
tains that  fhould  be  under  the  Duke  of  Guife,  fhould  put  all  Proreftants 
and  adherents  to  the  Sword,  both  in  the  Country  and  in  Walled  Towns, 
To  fubdue  the  revolted  Princes,  To  be  Mafters  of  the  Field  :  To  block 
up  the  Towns  that  were  oppofite  ,  and  to  put  all  to  fire  and  fword  that 
(hould  make  head  againft  them.  Then  to  take  exemplary  punifhment 
of  the  Duke  of  AUnt  on  ( now  henceforth  to  be  called  the  Duke  ofjtojo/ty) 
and  his  Complices.  Then  by  the  Pope's  confent  to  put  the  King  and 
Queen  into  a  Monaftery,  as  King  Pipin  in  former  time  had  done  Cbilde- 
r/cvand  in  favour  of  thzRoman  See  to  abolifh  the  liberties  and  priviledges 
ouhe,Fr*w&Church,  Thefe 


Cent.   id.  Of  FRANCE.  35 

Thefe  high  projects  were  hearkened  unto,  received  and  favoured  in 
the  Court  of  Rome ,  The  Articles  of  this  Affociation  were  firft  drawn 
ztPeronnein  Picardy,  but  difguifed  with  goodly  (hews  to  blind  them 
that  would  examine  them  more  exactly  :  which  were ,  To  maintain 
the  Law  of  Gody  to  reftore  the  holy  fervice  thereof.  To  preferve  the 
King  and*  his  Succeflours  in  the  Eftate,  Dignity ,  Service,  and  Obedi- 
ence due  unto  him  by  his  Subjects.  To  rejlore  unto  theEftatesofthe 
Realm  their  Rights,  Preheminencies  and  Ancient  Liberties.  And  for 
rhe  execution  ofthefe  Articles,  a  certain  form  of  Oath  was  propound- 
ed, inflicting  pains  of  eternal  damnation  to  the  AfTociates,  that  for  any 
pretext  whatfoever  fhould  withdraw  themfelves  from  this  League  ; 
and  a  Bond  for  fuch  fliould  be  enrolled,  to  employ  therr  goods,  perfon?, 
and  lives,  to  punifh,  and  by  all  means  to  ruine  the  enemies  and  pertur- 
bers  thereof,  and  to  punifhthem  that  fliould  fail,  or  make  any  delays  by 
the  Authority  of  the  Head,  as  he  fhould  think  good. 

This  being  done,  many  Pofts  went  to  and  fro  carrying  the  news  of 
fhefe  defigns.  They  caft  many  Libels  through  the  Streets  in  many 
great  Towns.  They  murmure  that  the  Proteftants  are  too  much  fup- 
ported  by  the  Edict.  And  under  this  plaufibie  name  of  the  Church, 
the  people  give  ear  to  fuch  as  are  ready  to  thruft  them  into  Mutiny. 
The  King  was  daily  advenifed  ofthefe  things.  But  on  the  other  fide 
he  hated  the  Proteftants,  and  fought  to  ruine  them  by  degrees,  but  not 
by  any  Inftruments  without  his.  Authority.  His  Mother  likewife  hated 
them  to  the  death.  She  caufeth  the  Duke  her  Son  to  come  to  the 
Court,  and  the  King  to  be  reconciled  to  him. 

The  King  calls  an  Aflembly  of  the  States  at  Bloyes,  where  Peter  d" 
jEy/uV/^cArch-Bifhop  of  Lions,  and  the  Baron  of  Seuecey  are  Speakers, 
the  one  for  the  Clergy,  the  other  for  the  Nobility  :  and  both  con- 
clude a  publick  Exercife  of  one  only  Religion  in  France.  Peter  Verforif^ 
Advocate  in  the  Court  of  Parliament  in  Paris,  Oratour  for  the  third 
Eftate,  infills  on  the  Union  of  all  the  Kings  Subjects  in  one  Religion, 
but  by  mild  means  and  without  War.  The  King  feemed  to  enclineonly 
to  alter  fome  Articles  in  the  laft  Edicts  of  Pacification,  and  not  to 
•abolifh  it  quite. 

But  at  length  the  King  confenteth  to  root  out  all  other  Religion  but  the 
Popiilv  to  banifh  allMinifters,  Deacons,  and  Overfeers  of  the  Reform- 
ed Religion,  and  yet  to  take  all  his  other  Subjects  of  the  faid  Religi- 
on into  his  protection,  attending  that  by  better  inftructions  they  might 
be  brought  into  the  bofome  of  the  Church.  But  the  King  of  Navarre, 
the  Prince  of  Conde?  the  Marflial  of  tJWontmorency,  dy  Anville,  and 
other  Noble-men,  both  of  the  one  and  the  other  Religion,  refufing 
to  affift  at  this  prefent  Parliament,  conclude  a  nullity  of  all  that  was 
Decreed  to  prejudice  the  Edict  ot  Pacification,  .protefttng  to  maintain 
thtmfelves  in  the  Rights,  liberties  and  Freedoms  which  the  laft  Edict 

Eees  had 


ccclefiaftical  %tftD??       cent. 


had  granted  them.  The  King  of  Navarre  befeecheth  the  Eftates  by 
the  Duke  of  Montpenfier  ("  who  was  fent  unto  him)  not  to  infringe  the 
Edid  of  Peace^  but  to  fuffer  theProteftants  to  enjoy  that  which  had  been 
fo  formerly  granted.  He  defireth  time  to  attend  the  opinion  of  an 
AfTembly  ofthofe  of  his  Religion,  and  of  the  Catholick-Affociates  which 
was  to  be  fhortly  made  at  Montaubon. 

The  Prince  of  fonde  anfwers  more  fharply,  That  he  doth  not  ac- 
knowledge the  Aflembly  at  Bloys  for  the  Eftates  of  the  Realm,  but  a 
Conventicle  ofperfons  corrupted  by  the  fworn  enemies  of  the  Crown, 
who  have  follicited  the  abolition  of  the  Edict  to  the  fubverfion  of  the 
Realm.  That  he  hath  alwaies  honoured  the  Clergy  and  Nobility,  but 
he  pities  the  people,  whom  this  Aflembly  at  Bloys  fought  to 
ruine. 

The  chief  of  the  Politicks  declare,  that  they  adhere  not  to  any  other 
Religion  than  that  of  their  Fathers,  but-  they  are  againft  the  taking  fiora 
the  Proteftants  the  publick  Exercife  which  had  been  fo  folemnly  allow- 
ed them.  The  Duke  of  tJlfontpenfier  (  being  returned)  perfwaded 
to  have  the  Edid  confirmed.  John  Bedin  ,  a  man  famous  for  Learn- 
ing and  experience  in  State-  affairs,  one  of  the  Deputies  of  the  Com- 
mons of  Verniandois,  fheweth  to  the  Aflembly  how  ruinous  and  fa- 
tal the  new  taking  up  of  Arms  would  be,  repeating  from  the  beginning 
all  the  dangers  and  miferies  of  the  late  Wars,  which  made  a  deep  im- 
prefllon  on  the  minds  of  the  third  Eftate.  But  the  other  Orders  being 
byaflfcd  and  pre-ingaged,  it  was  determined  by  plurality  of  voices,  thar 
requeft  fhould  be  made  unto  the  King,  to  eftablifh  only  the  RomijJi 
Religion  in  the  Kingdom,  and  to  exclude  for  ever  all  Communion  with 
the  Hugonots.  Neverthelefs  Bodin  procured  certain  words  to  be  en- 
tred  in  the  Records  of  the  Order  of  Commons,  to  certifie  their  defire 
of  unity  in  Religion  without  the  noife  of  Arms,  and  the  neceffity 
of  War. 

This  jW*»was  a  man  eminent  as  well  among  Proteftants  as  Papifts, 
though  himfelf  profeflfed  the  Romijb  Religion.  His  Learning  and  skill 
in  Politicks,  appears  ia  his  great  Book  de  Republican  TloHanus  high- 
ly commendeth  his  writings.  To/evinc  diflikes  his  Mctkodiu  Hiftori- 
ca,  becaufe  he  makes  fuch  honourable  mention  of  the  Proteftants  there. 
Some  commend  his  Theatrum  Nature,  for  a  choice  piece,  a  Book 
full  of  natural  curiofities. 

The  King  gives  notice  to  his  Governours,  and  publifheth  by  his  Let- 
ters Patents,  that  he  is  refolved  to  grant  the  £ftates  their  requefts 
touching  the  Exercife  of  one  only  Religion.  And  thus  the  fixth  Civil 
War  begins  in  Cjiiienne. 

During  the  Parliament  the  Deputies  of  the  Lew  Countries  demand 
fuccours  of  the  King,  and  the  Duke  of  Anjou  for  Proteftour  of  their 
Liberties  againft  the  infolencies  of  the  Spaniards.  An}on  is  now  decla- 

red 


Cent.    1 6.  jrfFRANCE. 

red  the  King's  Lieutenant  General.  They  deliver  him  a  mighty  Ar 
my,  with  which  (  contrary  to  the  Oath  taken  by  him  in  the  obfervati- 
on  of  the  accord,  and  promife  pafTd  with  the  Prince  of  Qmde  and  Duke 
fafimire  )  he  befiegeth  and  taketh  La-Charite  by  Compofuion ,  and 
Tfoire  in  Avcrgnc  by  force,  where  the  blood  of  the  Inhabitants  filed 
without  pity  by°the  Duke  of  Anjouy  confirmed  the  Proteftants  in  the  bad 
opinion  they  had  conceived  of  him . 

The  Duke  of  Alaye nne  fends  forth  a  Navy  to  Sea  under  the  Com- 
mand of  Lanfac,  which  coming  before  the  Ifle  oiRe,  retired,  feeing 
the  Iflanders  refolved  to  fight  if  they  approached.  The  Rochcllers  Arm 
feven  Ships,  thofeof  the  lllands  five,  entreating  aid  from  Holland  and 
Zetland,  to  withftand  the  force  of  the  Fleet.  The  Nobility  invite  all 
others  to  charge  themfelves  willingly  for  the  maintenance  of  this 
Army,  sjftfayenne  aflaulteth  Brovage ,  a  little  fquare  Town  built  in 
a  Marfh,  recovered  out  of  the  Sea,  fortified  during  the  third  Peace: 
and  after  the  RocheUcrs  had  cut  off  fix  hundred  of  his  men,  the  Town: 
for  want  of  Victuals  entred  into  Capitulation,  and  departed  A-.tgxft 
28.  1 577-with  their  Arms  and  Baggage,  leaving  the  place  at  the  Duke's 
devotion.  But  a  Peace  was  concluded  at  Peittters,  and  was  in  the  end 
of  September  Proclaimed  with  great  joy  of  either  party.  This  laft  Edt<ft 
cut  off  fome  Articles  of  ihe  former,  madena  mention  of  Strangers,  left 
their  confciences  free,  yet  without  exercife  of  Religion,  but  in  Towns 
and  places  where  then  it  was  publickly  ufed  :  in  the  houfes  of  Gen- 
tlemen Feudataries  or  f  as  they  call  themj  de  Haute  juflice,  free  ad- 
miffion  was  given  to  every  body  :  but  in  the  houfes  of  private  Gentle- 
men, not  above  the  number  of  feven  was  allowed,  and  in  a  prefixed 
place  in  every  jurifdiftion  and  Baily-wick,  except  in  Paris  and  ten 
Leagues  about  it,  and  two  Leagues  compafs  from  the  Court,  wherefo- 
ever  itfhouldbe. 

But  the  Marfhal  D'anvillt  (who  every  day  withdrew  himfelf  fur- 
ther from  the  Proteftants  )  ceafed  not  to  profecute  thofe  by  whom  he 
pretended  to  be  injuriedin  Langnedoi ;,  under  colour  of  reducing  the 
places  of  his  Government  under  his  own  Command.  Nor  did  the  Sieur 
des  Diguieres  in  Dolphinc  dare  to  truft  the  Peace,  nor  hazard  hira- 
felf  upon  the  King's  word  ,  remembring  what  had  befallen  Mon- 
lrnn,  inwhofe  company  he  had  made  War,  and  therefore  ftill  conti- 
nued Armed  for  his  fecurity.  And  the  Papifts  when  they -faw  the  Pro- 
teftants meet  at  their  Sermons,  could  not  fuffer  them  without  mur- 
rcurings  and  detractions  ,  which  occafioned  many  contentions,  and 
fometimes  dangerous  bloody  accidents  ,  whereby  a  great  part  of 
France  (though  the  Peace  was  made)  continued  ftill  in  broyls  and 
infurreftions.  _ 

About  that  time  the  King  created  two  Marefchals ,  men  valiant  in 
War,  and  very  prudent  in  Government,  viz.  Arwwd  Sieur  de  Byron^ 

and  : 


c  fte  <£cc!efta{hcai  %ifto#     Cent.  1 6 

and  Jttques  Sleur  de  Afatignon ,  men  free  from  the  Jnterefts  of  the 
Duke  oiGmfe,  depending  wholly  upon  the  King'swii).  And  Renato 
di  Blrago,  the  High  Chancellour,  being  made  Cardinal,  Philip  Hu~ 
rauit,  fcfcount  dt  Chivcrny  is  chofen  in  his  place. 

In  the  year  1579.  the  King  fhews  himfelf  in  publick  for  a  mirrour  of 
Reformation  and  Piety  ;  he  builds  many  Monafteries ,  Chappels,  and 
Oratories,  undertakes  many  Pilgrimages  on  foot,  confirms  the  brother- 
hood of  Penitents,  creds  the  Order  of  Jeronomtes,  is  daily  converfanc 
with  the  Capuchins  and  Fucillans,  called  Jefuites,  and  by  their  in- 
ftruftions  erttfo  many  Congregations.  He  carrieth  a  Crucifix  and 
Beads  in  Procelfion,'  with  a  Whip  at  his  Girdle.  He  caufeth  many 
Books  of  Devotion  to  be  Printed  :  And  leads  a  Life  more  befitting  a 
Cloyfter  than  a  Court.  He  inftitutes  the  Order  of  The  Knights  of 
the  Holy  Ghofl,  binding  them  to  Conditions  which  carry  a  ftrid  bond 
to  the  Church  of  Rome. 

The  Duke  of  Anjm  dies,  and  now  the  King  of  Navarre  is  by  quality 
the  firft  Prince  of  the  Blood,  and  firft  Peer  of  France,  and  mod  pare 
of  France  caft  their  eyes  upon  him  as  upon  the  Sun  rifing. 

Thisamazeth  the  Duke  of  Gttife  and  his  adherents,  they  affemble  the 
Heads  of  their  houfe  at  Sr.  Dennis,  and  endeavour  to  renew  the  Caiho* 
lique  League,  which  before  was  almoft  laid  afide  :  for  feeing  that  the 
King  ballanced  the  forces  very  carefully  with  thofe  of  the  Hugonot 
Lords,  and  that  he  would  not  fupprefs  that  piny,  which  (  as  they  be- 
lieved )  he  might  eafily  have  done,  and  that  under  feveral  pretences  he 
devefted  all  the  dependants  of  both  Factions  of  their  places  and  ho- 
nours, to  beftow  them  upon  fuch  as  fhould  acknowledge  them  meerly 
from  himfelf,  they  were  the  more  highly  incenfed.  Nor  could  it  fa- 
lisfie  them  to  fee  the  King  taken  up  with  Religious  thoughts,  and 
addicted  to  a  quiet  unaftive  life  :  for  they  knowing  his  nature,  where^ 
with  they  had  been  converfant  from  his  very  Childhood,  interpreted  that 
courfe  of  life  to  fubtil  deep  difiimulation. 

Wherefore  the  Duke  of  Guife^  a  man  of  a  very  quick  infighr,  difcern- 
ing  judgement,  and  high  thoughts,  determined  to  prevent,  and  not  flay 
to  be  prevented.  In  which  refolution  he  was  feconded  by  his  Brother 
LOHM  the  Cardinal,  a  man  of  an  high  fpiritj  and  great  wit,  as  alfo  by 
Henry  of  Savoy  Duke  of  Nemours,  and  Charles  Marquefs  of  S.w-Sor- 
iin  (  both  Sons  of  Anna,  d'  Efle,  and  therefore  his  Brothers  by  the 
Mother  )  Charles  of  Lorain  Duke  of  Aumale^  and  (lande  his  Brother, 
a  Knight  of  Jcrufalem,  Charles  of  Lorain  Duke  d'  Elbevf,  Emanxd 
Duke  de  Adercure,  and  his  Brothers,  Only  Charles  Duke  of  M*y- 
enne  proceeded  more  flowly  than  the  reft,  who  thinking  how  dange- 
rous it  would  be  to  hazard  their  fafety  by  rafh  resolutions ,  advifed 
Uiem  to  proceed  with  more  patience,  and  more  refpeft  toward  the 
lawful  pofifefibur  of  the  Crown.  But  the-Duke  of  (jhifc  refolute  in 

liis 


Cent. 1 6.  Of  FRANCE  ~   '          39 

his  thoughts,  by  the  Authority  of  his  Perfon, Vivacity  of  his  courage,and 
Eloquence  of  his  Language,drew  all  the  reft  to  hisOpinion^ and  excluding 
hi*  Brothers  advice  fetled  all  his  thoughts  upon  the  machinations  of  the 
League,  for  the  eftablifhment  whereof,  difTembling  his  difcontents  no 
lefs  than  his  jeoloufies  and  private  interefts,  he  made  (hew  of  ftirring 
only  for  the  refpeds  of  Religion,  and  the  general  good,  making  an 
ill  interpretation  of  all  the  King's  actions,  and  with  many  arcs  and  cir- 
cumftances  aggravating  that  danger  which  he  pretended  hung  over  the 
Catholick  Religion  in  France. 

He  grounded  his  fears  upon  the  death  ofohe  Duke  of  AUn^on,  and 
the  Queens  barrennefs,  which  in  the  fpace  often  years  had  had  no  Son, 
whereby  the  King  dying  without  heirs  of  the  houfe  of  Valoit,  the 
Crown  fell  to  the  Princes  ofByttrhon,  and  in  the  firft  place  to  the  King 
o?Nav*rre,  whom  he  termed  arelapfed  Heretick,  and  an  open  enemy 
to  the  Roman  Religion.  He  urged,  that  his  coming  to  the  Crown, 
would  betheuniverfalruine  of  Religion,  andfhe  total  Converfion  of  all 
France  to  theDoftrine  and  Rites  of  fitlvin,  and  therefore  (hewed  how 
all  good  Catholicks  were  obliged  to  look  to  it  in  time,  and  to  prevent  7?r>;'{  Hift. 
the  terrible  blow  of  that  imminent  fubverfion.  He  (hewed,  that  when  ^FmcZ 
fometimes  he  had  been  conftrained  to  make  War  againft  the  King  of 
Navtrrc,  he  employed  the  AfitrefckMl  de  Byron,  who  ( though  a  Ca- 
tholick in  outward  appearance  )  was  yet  by  many  former  proofs  known 
to  be  a  favourer  of  the  Hugonots ,  and  interefled  in  their  Factions, 
that  therefore  he  had  lately  taken  (jeneva  into  his  Proredion,  (hewing 
clearly  to  all  the  world  how  little  heefteemed  the  Catholick  Religion, 
and  how  much  he  was  inclined  to  the  enemies  of  the  Bilhop  and  See  of 
Rome.  That  therefore  he  had  excluded  all  the  Catholick  Lords  from 
any  accefs  to  the  Court,  or  adm;niftrarion  in  the  Government ;  par- 
ticularly thofe  who  had  fpilt  fo  much  blood  for  the  prefervacion  of  the 
Kingdom  and  Religion  ;  and  had  brought  in  a  new  people  that  were 
privy  to  his  defigns,  and  friends  to  the  Houfe  of  Bourbon.  Th.t 
therefore  he  deprived  all  the  old  Servants  of  the  Crown  of  all 
their  Oirkzs  and  Honours,  of  the  mort  Principal  Governments,  and- 
rnoft  fufpeAtd  FortrefTes,  to  put  them  into  the  hands  of  men  that  were 
Catholicks  in  (hew,  but  really  partial  to  Hereticks,  and  inwardly  adhe- 
rents to  the  King  of  Navarre.  He  added,  that  notwithftanding  the 
King's  publick  (hews  of  Devotion,  yet  in  his  private  Lodgings  he  gave 
himfelf  over  to  the  unbridled  lulls  of  the  fle(h,  and  to  the  pervcrfe 
fatisfying  of  his  loofe  depraved  appetite.  From  which  things  let  forth 
with  many  fpecious  reafons,  he  concluded  it  was  time  tounirethemfdves 
for  their  own  defence,  and  to deftroy  thofe  deiigns  before  they  were 
brought  unto  perfection. 

Now  the  Duke  of  Gitife  by  mtans  of  the  Preacher?  and  Friers  in 

Pulpits 


Pulpits  and  other  places  of  Pevotion,  labours  to  infmuate  the  Catho" 
lick  League  into  the  People. 

Among  thefe  the  chief  were  Cnilliattme  de  U  Rofe,  a  man  of  great  elo- 
quence,  who  came  afterward  to  be  Bilhop  of  Senli*  ^    Jean  Prevoft, 
chief  Prieft -of  S.  Stverin,  an  eloquent  and  learned  man  -,  Jehan   Bon- 
ch(rby  "birth   a  Partfian,  and  Curate  of  S.Benet's  Parifh  in  the  fame 
City-,  one  Ponee  t ,  a  Frier  in  the  Abby  ofS.  Patrick,.**  Me  Inn -^     Dsn 
Chrijhn  oiNiz.zjtt  in  Provence,  and  Jehan  ftnceftre,  all  famous  Prea- 
chers.    And  finally,  moft  part  of  the  Jefuites.     And  as  thefe  profecu- 
ted  the  bufinefs  of  the  League  in  Paris,  the  fame  was  done  at  Lions  by 
Claude  M*ttei,  a  Prieft  of  the  fame  Society  at  Soiffons,  by  Mat  hew  de 
Launoy    Canon  of  that  Cathedral  :  at  Raven  by  Father  Egide  Blovin 
of  the  Order  of  the  ifrtinims  ^  at  Orleans  by  Bourlate  a  very  noted 
Divine  •    at    Tboui   by  Francois  de    Rofier  ,  ArchrDeacon  of  that 
Church,  and  an  infinite  number  of  others  difper fed  through  the  feve- 
ral  places  of  France^  who  by  their  Credit  and  Eloquence,  fometimes  in 
their  Pulpits,  fometimes  in  the  Congregations  of  the  Penitents,  fome- 
times  in   their  fecret  conferences    at  Confeftions  ?  did    allure    the 
people,   and  entice  them  to  enter    into  that  Combination  j  which   it 
is  likely  very  many  did,  out  of  a  refped  to  Religion,  believing  that 
ther eby  the  Cahinifts  would  utterly  be  rooted  out,  and  the  Auchori- 
ty  of  the  Church  be  reftored  to  its  priftine    greatnefs.    But  many 
entred  into  that  League  invited  by  other  ends,  and  drawn  to  it  by  diffe- 
rent  hopes,  orelfe  neceflicated  by  their  particular  interefts,  though  all 
ihrouded  themfelves   under   the   fame  cloak  of  the  prefervation  and 
maintenance  of  Religion.    Charles  Cardinal  of  Bourbon,  the  third  Bro- 
ther of  Anthony  King  of  Navarre,  and  Lottys  Prince  of  Conde  deceaf- 
ed,  and  Unkle  to  //fwrj  the  prefent  King  of  Navarre,  is  defired  for  the 
Head  of  the  League,a  man  alwaies  moft  obfervant  ofthe-&w*/fc  Religion, 
and  an  open  enemy  to  the  Hugonots.     Then  the  Preachers  did  publick- 
ly  in  all  places  term  the  King  a  Tyrant,  and  favourer  of  Hereticks  ; 
the  people  did  applaud  them,  and  from  this  deadly  hatred  which  they 
had  conceived  againft  the  King,   his  Council   and   favourites,  fprung 
that   fury  which    foon  after    was  difperfed  over  all  the  body   of 
f 'ranee. 

On  July  15.  1582.  RerMuldofBeaitne)  Archbifhopof  Bourges^  and 
Primate  of  Aqaitain  had  then  fpoken  at  Fountainbleau  in  this  fort. 
The  whole  Church  Chriftian  and  Catholick  affiftcd  by  the  Legates 
and  Ambafladours  of  the  Emperour,  of  this  your  Kingdom,  and  of  all 
other  Chriftian  Princes  ;  Did  cal),  aflemble,  and  celebrate  the  Coun- 
cil otTrent,  where  many  good  and  wholefome  Conftitutions,  ufeful  for 
the  Government  of  the  Church,  were  ordained.  To  which  Council 
all  the  Legates  and  Ambaffadours  did  folemnly  fwear,  in  the  behalf  of 
i:hcii  Matters,  to  obfcrve  and  keep;  and  caufe  it  to  be  inviolably  kepi  by  all 

their 


Cenc.  1 6.  Of  FRANCE. 


4» 


their  Subjects:  yea  even  the  AmbafiaJours  of  this  your  Kingdom  fo- 
lemnly  took  that  Oaih.  Now  it  is  received,  and  obferved  by  all  Chri- 
ftian  Gatholick  Kings  and  Potentates,  this  Kingdom  only  excepted, 
which  hath  hitherto  deferred  the  publication  and  receiving  of  it,  to  the 
great  fcandal  of  the  French  Nation,  and  of  the  Title,  MOST  CHRI- 
STIAN, wherewith  your  Majefty  and  your  Predeceflburs  have  been 
honoured  j  fo  that  under  colour  otfome  Articles  touching  the  liberty  of 
the  Gallican  Church,  the  ftain  of  Schifm  refteth  upon  your  Kingdom 
among  other  Countries,  Wherefore  the  Clergy  doth  now  moft  hum- 
bly befeech  your  Majefty,  that  you  would  be  pleafed  to  hearken  to  this 
publication  ,  and  make  an  end  of  all  to  the  glory  of  God,  and  the  union  of 
his  Church. 

There  was  a  Nuncio  from  the  Pope  who  arrived  in  France  in  the  be- 
ginning of  the  year  1583.  who  profecuted  this  matter  with  great  vehe- 
mency  :  yet  for  all  this  he  could  not  move  King  Henry  III.  at  all, 
the  King  of  Navarre  having  written  to  King  He nry  III.  concerning  ir, 
the  King  of  France  made  him  this  anfwer. 

Brother,  Thofc  that  told  you,  that  I  would  caufe  the  Council  o/T rent 
to  be  published,  were  not  well-informed  of  my  intentions,  for  J  never  fo 
much  of  thought  it.  Nay,  I  know  well  how  fuch  fublication  would  he 
prejudicial  to  my  affairs,  and  I  am  not  a  little  jealous  of  theprefervati- 
on  of  my  Authority,  the  pnv  Hedges  of  the  Church  of  France,  and  alfo 
of  the  obfervation  of  my  Editt  of  Peace.  But  it  was  only  propofed 
unto  me,  to  cull  out  fame  cert  din  Art  ides  about  Eccle  (iaflical  Difcipliney 
for  the  Reforming  of  fuch  abn[es-  a*  reign  in  that  State,  to  the  glory  of 
God,  the  edifying  of  my  Sitbje&s,and  withal  the  difchargenf my  confci- 
ence :  A  thing  which  never  toucheth  in  thofe  Rules  which  I  have  fit 
down  in  my  Editts  for  the  Peace  and  tranquillity  of  my  Kingdom,  which 
I  will  have  inviolably  kept  on  both  fides. 

On  October  14.  1 585.  the  Bifhup  and  Earl  of  Noyon  in  the  name  of 
the  Clergy  afTembled  in  the  Abbey  of  St.  German  near  Paris,  prefen- 
ted  to  the  King  a  Book,  written  by  the  advice  of  the  Prelates  of  the 
Council  of  Trent.  They  told  him,  They  brought  unto  him  the 
Book  of  the  Law  of  God,  which  they  humbly  entreated  him  to 
receive. 

The  Provincial  Synod  held  at  Roven  made  this  inftance  to  the  fame 
Prince.  After  that  a  good  number  of  Bijhops  and  Proxies  for  thcfe  th&t 
were  abfent,  together  with  Ecclefiaftical  Per  fen*,  from  all  quarters  of 
our  Province  of  Normandy,  were  met  in  our  ^^Metropolitan  Church 
at  Roan,  they  tendered  nothing  more  than  earneftly  trfollicite  the  pub- 
liflring  and  promulgation  of  the  Council  of  Trent  within  this  Realm* 
Wherefore  this  otir  A ffembly  by  common  confent,  have  refolvedtoprefeni. 
their  humble  Petition  to  our  moft  Chriftian  King  in  like  manner  as. 
WM  formerly  done  by  the.  States  of  Bloys,  and  the  Clergy  conv'^t'Jai 

Fff  Melun, 


3C|)e  ccclefiafttcai  $ifto?p     Cent.  16. 


Melun,  that  he  wonldbe  pleafedfor  proof  of  his  true  Piety  and  Religion, 
to  cnjoyn  the  publication  of  the  fad  Council^  w  hereby  the  maintenance 
of  the  Church  is  well-provided  for  ^  vp.hich  u  obfcrved  to  be  daily  im  paired 
and  abated. 

And  the  Provincial  Council  of  ^4ix  in  Trcvencey  Anno  1585.  Pe- 
tition the  King  at  the  beginning  of  the  Afts,  That  he  out  of  his  fin- 
gular  Piety,  would  command  the  Council  of  "Trent  to  be  publiflied,which 
had  fo  exactly  provided  againft  all  dangers,  wherein  the  Chriftian  Com- 
mon-wealth was  then  impugned. 

We  ruuft  not  think,  that  tbefe  earneft  felicitations  which  the  French 
Ecclefiafticks  here  made,  did  proceed  fo  much  from  them  as  from  the 
Pope.  One  argument  hereof  which  may  be  alledged,  is  this,  that  they 
were  not  now  interefTed  herein  -,  formoftof  the  Decrees  which  con- 
cerned them,  were  admitted  •,  and  there  was  no  default  in  the  obferva- 
tion  of  them,  unlefs  it  were  on  their  part  :  and  one  company  of  them 
were  inferted  inthe  Edid  ofSloys,  the  reft  in  divers  oiher  Provincial 
Councils  holden  afterwards  in  France,  the  Canons  whereof  are  to  be 
feenin  Print  ^  ztRoven  1581.  ttBonrges  1584.  ziTeHrs  1585.  and  at 
Aix  in  Provence  the  fame  year. 

The  better  to  countenance  the  League  forementioned,  it  is  prefented 
to  Pope  Gregory  XIII,  that  he  might  blefs  it.  The  Pope  was  wcll- 
pleafed  they  ihould  attempt  any  thing  againft  the  ProLeftants,  but  he 
did  not  approve  thofe  Popular  Rebellions  which  were  made  againft  a 
moft  Chriftian  King,  neither  would  he  be  the  fire-brand  of  a  War  which 
he  could  not  quench  j  and  fo  he  fent  the  Deputies  back  without  any 
anfwer. 

The  King  of  Navarre  caufeih  the  Deputies  of  the  Proteftants  to  ak 
femble  ttMontauban,  to  refolve  of  the  means  to  maintain  themfelves  , 
if  the  League  (abufing  the  King's  name  and  authority  )  llould  feek  IQ 
offend  them.  The  Duke  oiEfternon  goeth  alfo  to  the  King  of  N+tvarre., 
to  confer  with  him  privately  in  the  King's  name,  . 

The  chief  of  the  League  prefutne,  That  the  King-  means  to  A-rm,  and 
10  employ  the  King  of  Navarre's  Forces  againft  them.  They  fend 
forth  many  Commidions  in  the  King's  name,  that  what  they  did  might 
be  thought  as  done  for  his  Majeftie's  fervice.  The  King  in  the  end  of 
March  .  difavows  then),  and  forbid*  all  Leavies  of  men  of  War.  The 
King  made  no  War  but  by  writing,  feeking  firft  by  gentle  means  to 
pacific  them,  j  Hedtdarcs  the  Zeal  he  hath  alwaies  born  to  the  Catho- 
lick  Religion,  and  the  necefiity  that  forced  him  to  a  Peace..  Then  ha- 
viug  promifed  to  reftore  the  Church  to  her  beauty,  to  content  the  Nu- 
bility, to  eafe  the  people  ^  he  entreats,  conjures,  exhorts,  and  commands 
all  Clergy-  men,  Gendemen,  Parliaments,  and  Towns  Corporate,  to 
abandon  all  Leagues  and  Aflbciations,  and  to  unite  them/elves  under  his 
obedience. 

Tie 


Cent,  1  6.  '  OFF  RANG  E~  "~4j 

The  King  ot  Navarre  likewife  fets  forth  a  Declaration  :  and  where- 
as he  was  accufed  of  Herefy,  he  anfwereth,  Thar  he  was  born  under 
the  toleration  of  two  Religions  in  Frarue  :  That  he  will  leave  that  where- 
in he  was  bred,  when  by  a  Lawful  Council  they  (hall  (hew  him  another  . 
truth  than  that  which  he  believeth.  He  faith,  he  is  notrelapfed,  fee- 
ing he  was  not  fallen  from  his  firft  Opinion.  That  he  is  no  enemy  to 
the  Catholicks,  for  that  when  the  Edicts  had  granted  Liberty  of  Con- 
•fcience  ,  he  prefemly  laid  down  Arms.  That  in  all  places  he  maintains 
his  Subjects  in  the  fame  Liberty  as  he  found  them  after  the  deceafe  of 
his  Mother.  That  he  harh  requefted  of  the  King  a  prolongation  of  the 
Towns  which  he  holds  for  aflurance  ofthelaft  Edid,  and  will  deliver 
them  before  the  time,  fo  as  the  League  lay  afide  Arms,  and  yield  un- 
to the  King  the  places  they  had  feized.  That  whereas  they  declare 
him  uncapable  of  the  Crown,  ittoucheth  him  very  near^  yet  doth  he 
think  leaft  of  it,  hoping  that  God  by  his  bounty  will  long  preferve  the 
King  for  the  good  of  his  Realm,  and  will  give  him  iflue  to  the  grief  of  all 
his  enemies. 

The  Queen-Mother  (  accuftomed  to  fifli  in  troubled  waters  )  winkt 
at  the  Duke  of  Guife.  She  was  contented  the  Duke  fhould  terrific  the 
King,  to  make  him  abandon  the  Proteftants,  and  to  force  him  to  banifh 
his  new  Minions  frcm  Court,  who  had  brought  her  in  difgrace  with 
the  King  her  Son.  Her  ambition  moved  her  hereunto,  rather  than 
any  defirelhehad  to  adv-ance  the  Duke,  and  to  bring  diforderand  con- 
fufion  into  the  State,  and  to  ftand  alone  in  the  midft  of  the  fe  furious 
tempefts. 

The  Heads  of  the  League  march  with  an  Army  of  12000-  men  to 
Vtrdun,  a  City  upon  the  Confines  of  the  Duke  of  Lorain,  which  they 
take.  And  the  Duke  o^Guije  being  entred  the  City,  drove  out  the  Go- 
vern our  with  all  his  adherents,  -and  placed  Guittald  in  his  place.  The 
City  ofT/boH/drave  out  the  King's  Officers,  and  freely  gave  up  it  felf  in- 
to the  hands  of  the  League. 

The  City  of  Afirfei  lies  rifeth  in  favour  of  the  League,  buttheCon- 
fpirators  are  fupprefled  by  the  reft  of  the  Citizens.  They  call  the  Grand- 
Prior  of  France  ,  Governour  of  that  Province,  who  was  then  at  Aix, 
at  whofe  coming  (though  with  but  200  Horfej  the  Fort  deUGxrde 
was  taken  ,  and  in  it  the  Conful  Dories  ,  and  Captain  Chabanes^  who 
rhe  next  morning  were  executed  ,  by  which  feverity  the  City  was 
kept  under  the  King's  obedience.  The  fame  happens  at  the  City  of  Bur- 


Lion$y  Bourges,  and  many  other  places  in  the  Kingdom,  fide  with 
the  League.  The  King  laboureth  to  difunite  the  League,  by  drawing 
many  particular  men  from  that  party,  as  alfo  the  City  or"  Lions:  but 
feeing  his  ckfign  fucceedeth  not  to  his  mind.  he  refolves  toTrear  an  agree- 
ment with  the  confederates.  The  Queen-Mother  goes  into  Cbjmpagnc 

F  f  f  2  to 


44          %!)e  ccciefiafttcal%itto??       cent.  16. 

to  confer  about  it  with  the  Duke  of  Guife ,  and  Cardinal  of  Bourbon.  And 
after  many  Negotiations  the  Peace  is  concluded. 

The  KingbyhisEdid  of  July  18.  revokes  all  other  Edids  in  favour 
of  the  Proteftants,  he  commands  their  Minifters  to  depart  the  Realm, 
and  all  his  Subjects  within  fix  Months  to  make  profeffion  oftheRomijh 
Religion,  or  to  avoid  the  Country.  He  approves  the  Leaguers  Arms, 
as  Levied  for  his  Service,  allows  of  their  pretexts,  and  by  fecret  Arti- 
c,les  concluded  at  Nemours,  contents  them  in  all  maters,  only  with 
this  condition,  to  leave  the  League,  andinftamly  to  lay  down  Arms* 
Yet  would  they  have  in  their  power  the  Towns  of  Ch^lon,  Verdun^ 
Thoul,  S.  Dificr,  Reims  y  Sotflons,  the  Caftle  of  Dijon,  Be*wney  Rue 
in  Ticardy^  Dinan  and  Coneq  in  Britain.  They  caufed  the  King  to 
pay  onethoufand  two  hundred  and  fix  crowns,  and  two  third  parts  for 
the  Strangers  which  they  had  Levied.  They  had  adifcharge  forvaft 
fummes  which  they  had  taken  upon  the  General  Receipts.  They  ob- 
tained an  hundred  thoufand  crowns  to  build  a  Citadel  at  Verdun, 
and  entertainment  for  Guards  on  horfeback  for  all  the  Lords  of 
the  League.  This  Peace  had  made  a  great  breach  in  the  King's 
Authority. 

The  King  of  Navarre,  feeing  this  Cloud  ready  to  break  upon  his 
party,  complains  that  the  King  hath  Armed  his  enemies  with  his  own 
forces  and  Authority,  againft  his  Eftate,  his  blood  and  himfelf.  He 
layes  open  by  a  publick  Declaration  the  caufcs  which  made  the  League  to 
rake  Arms,  the  vanity  of  their  pretexts,  the  fruit  which  all  France 
may  exped  by  the  Treaty  of  Nemours,  &c.  He  protefteth  by  a  Law- 
"  ful  and  neceffary  defence  to  maintain  the  fundamental  Laws  of  Fami- 
lies ,  and  the  Eftate  and  liberty  of  the  King  and  the  Queen  his 
Mother. 

Gregory  XIII.  being  dead,  Pope  Sixtw  V.  his  SuccefTcur,  cafts 
out  his  lightning  againft  the  King  of  Navarre,  and  the  Prince  of  Con- 
de,  he  Excommunicates  them,  degrades  them  from  all  Dignities,  efpe- 
cially  their  pretenfions  to  the  Crown  of  France,  expofeth  their  Perfons 
and  Countries  as  a  prey  to  fuch  as  fhould  firft  feize  on  them.TheCourt  of 
Parliament  declares  the  Pope's  Bull  to  be  void.  The  Princes  likewife 
proteft  againft  it,  and  appeal  from  it  as  abufive  and  kandalous, unto  the 
next  free  and  General  Council. 

The  King  of  Navarre  caufeth  the  Pope's  Bull  tobeanfwered,  and 
his  appeal  to  be  pofted  up  in  Rome  it  felf  on  November  6.  in  the  nighr. 
He  writes  to  all  the  States  of  the  Kingdom  of  France,  exhorting  them 
not  to  fuffer  the  rights  of  the  Succeffion  of  the  Crown  of  France  to  be 
decided  in  the  Confiftory  of  Rome.  Many  Volumes  were  written 
againft  and  in  favour  of  this  Bull  by  the  chiefeft  Wits  of  £«- 
rope.  g 

King 


Cent.    16.  Of  FRANCE. 


King  Henry  the  third  caufed  fome  Orders  to  be  cried  down  in  the 
City  ot  Paris,  becaufe  he  was  certified  of  the  Confpiracies  which  they 
made  againft  the  State  :  it  being  notorioufly  known  ,  that  the  League 
was  fworn  in  Tholoufe  by  the  black  Penitents,  and  that  as  many  of 
thefe  Orders  as  are  in  France,  did  all  confpire  to  the  like  ends. 

The  French  Exiles,  who  dwelt  at  Momyelgan  in  the  Dutchy  of 
Wortemberg,  &\&  in  the  year  1586.  firft  follicue  the  Divines  there,  and 
then  the  Duke  Frederick^,  That  there  might  be  a  publick  Conference 
between  the   German  and  French  Divines  about  fome  Controverfies 
between  them.     They  aflemble  in  <sJWarch  :  the  Duke  was  prefent 
all  the  time.     On  the  one  fide  was  Jacob  Andrewes  Chancellour  of  Tu- 
bing^   Luke  Ofander  of  Wortembtrg,  and  two  Civilians  from  the  Duke. 
And  on  the  other  fide  were  Theodore  Bez^a,  and  Anthony  Faius  from  °/anJ- 
Geneva,    Abraham  Muftidu*  ,  and  two  Civilians  from  Bern  ,  and  cent! 
Claudius  zsflberiu*    from    Lswfanna.       Many   were    the    Hearers. lit-  4 
The   Articles  of  which    they  were  to   Difpute,   were,     i.  Of  the 
Supper  of  the   Lord.     2.  Of  the  Perfon  of  Chrift.     3.  Of  Images, 
Temples,  and  fuch  like  things.     4.  Concerning  Baptifm.    5.  OfPre- 
deftination. 

The  firft  day,  viz,,  on  March  21.  Thofe  tfWorttmforg  gave  in  wri- 
ting Thefes  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  fhewing  that  all  do  agree  that  All 
do  eat  Chrift's  flefli,  and  drink  his  blood  fpiritually  :  all  do  condemn 
the  renting  of  Ghrift's  rlefh  with  mens  teeth  j.  as  alfo  Tranfubftamia- 
cion,  and  Phyfical  or  Local  prefence..  So  that  the  only  Queftion  is, 
whether  in  the  Supper  the  very  body  and  blood  of  Chrift,  be  verily 
and  fubftantially  prefent,  and  be  distributed  and  received  with  the 
Bread  and  Wine  by  the  mouth  of  all  them  who  receive  the  Sacrament, . 
whether  worthy  or  unworthy,  believers  or  not  believers,  yet  fo  that 
the  believers  only  receive  comfort,  and  the  unbelievers  do  eat  to  their 
own  damnation  ? 

We  hold  the  affirmative  (fay  they -t  )  that  is,  by  thofe  Words  [  In, 
with,  and  under  the  Bread,  ]  we  underftand  nothing  but  that  they  Fetr. 
who  eat  that  Bread,  and  drink  that  Wine,  do  receive  Chrift's  body  and  Cent 
blood  with  the  Bread  and  Wine.  2.  By  the  words  [  SubftjtKtiatty, 
Effentiatty,  Really,  and  Orally,  j  we  mean  no  other  but  the  very  eating 
and  prefence  of  his  body  and  blood.  3.  They  argue  from  the  trurh  of 
Chrift's  words,  \_Thuis-my  body,  ~]  and  the  Almighty  power  of 
Chrift,  feeing  his  words  declare  his  will,  and  by  his  power  he  can  give 
his  body  unto  all  Receivers.  4.  The  manner  how  the  worthy  and  un- 
worthy receive  Chrift's  body,  is  not  exprefTedin  Scripture  ^. and  we 
fay,  it  is  fupernatural  and  incomprehenfible  by  the  wit  of  men,  and  fliould 
not  be  disputed,  nor  curiouily  fearched. 

Thefe  Thefes  were  given  unto  Bez^a.,  as  it  was  appointed,  and  the 
next  day  he  brought  his  anfwer  and  Propositions.    The   Summ  is, 

i.  A  . 


i.  A  Sacrament  in  the  ftrift  fenfe ,  is  a  fenfible  thing  appointed  (  by 
Divine  inftitution  )  to  be  feparated  from  common  ufe  to  fignifie  fpiritu- 
al and  holy  things  :  and  this  fignificatron  confifts  not  in  a  bare  repre- 
fentation,  whereby  the  mind  is  admonirtied  to  conceive  the  thing  fig- 
nified ( this  is  the  ufe  of  Pidures  )  but  on  God's  part :  with  the  figns  is 
alfo  a  very  giving  of  thufe  things  which  are  fignified  and  offered  unto 
our  fouls.  2.  We  teach,  that  according  to  Chrift's  Inftitution,  by 
the  Bread  is  fignified  Chrift's  body,  by  the  Wine  his  blood  :  by  break- 
ing of  the  Bread  and  pouring  cut  of  the  Wine  are  fignified  thofe  grie-~ 
vous  torments  which  he  fuffc-red  for  us  in  his  body  and  foul :  by  out- 
ward giving  the  Bread  and  Wine,  the  fpiritual  giving  the  things  fignifi- 
ed by  Chiift  unto  our  fouls  :  by  outward  taking  the  figns  is  fignified  the 
fpiritual  receiving  of  Chrift  by  Faith  Sacramentally  and  truly.  3.  The 
Sacrameiual  union  of  the  figns  and  things  fignified  confifts  in  a  mutual 
relation  ,  as  is  now  faid  :  for  the  verity  of  Chrift's  body  (  which  is 
local,  and  circumfcribed  both  before  and  after  his  glorification  )  cannot 
confift  otherwife.  Again,  many  pafiages  of  Scripture  that  (hew  the 
true  and  Phyfical  afcending  of  Chrift  from  the  Earth,  and  his  return- 
ing from  Heaven  unto  judgement,  do  confute  the  D -drinc  of  Confab- 
ftantiation.  4.  When  the  word  Sacrament  is  taken  in  a  more  large 
fenfe,  it  confifts  of  two  things,  one  Earthly,  another  Heavenly.  We 
teach,  That  Earthly  things  are  received  by  Earthly  Inftruments,  viz.. 
the  Hand  and  Mouth  .j  but  the  Heavenly  things  are  apprehended  only 
Spiritually  by  Faith  :  becaufe  albeit  Chrift's  body  is  a  truly  Organical 
body,  yet  analogy  requires,  That  fuch  as  the  nouriihment  and  end  there- 
of is,  fuch  alfomuftbe  the  manner  of  receiving  it.  But  thenourifh- 
ment  and  end  thereof  is  fpiritual,  that  is,  they  concern  our  fpiriiual 
union  with  Chrift,  and  eternal  life  through  him.  Therefore  the  man- 
ner of  receiving  thofe  muft  alfo  be  fpiritual,  by  the  proper  Inftrument  of 
the  foul,  which  is  Faith.  And  therefore  feeing  the  bodily  receiving  of 
the  figns,  is  a  pledge  of  the  fpiritual  receiving,  thefe  words,  [Eat  and 
Drink^\  as  they  are  properly  fpoken  of  receiving  the  figns,  fo  are 
they  fpoken  figuratively  of  the  thing  fignified,  viz..  by  a  Sacramental 
Metonymy,  whereby  that  which  agreeth  unto  the  figns,  is  fpoken  of 
the  things  fignified ,  and  fo  both  thofe  receivings  cannot  be  by  the 
mouth.  Again,  if  the  fubftance  of  Chrift"  s  body  were  received  bodily, 
it  fhould  remain  in  the  faithful  at  leaft,  and  they  fhould  become  the 
fubftantial  or  bodily  members  of  Chrift,  and  fo  the  Church  were  not 
Ins  myftical  body,  but  a  body  verily  and  fubftantially  confiding  of  the 
fubftance  of  his  body,  and  of  the  bodies  of  afl  Believers.  5.  The  pro- 
per effed  of  the  Supper  is  the  falvation  of  the  worthy  Communicants 
by  confirming  their  fpiritual  union  in  Chrift :  and  another  effedufbut 
by  accident)  is  the  condemnation  of  them  who  come  unworthily  ,  that 
i*,  ignorant  of  this  myftery,  or  meerly  incredulous  and  without  re- 
pentance j 


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pentance  -y  and  this  condemnation  proceeds  not  from  the  Supper,  but 
from  the  unworthy  ufing  of  it. 

Then  unto  the  queftion  (  as  it  was  propounded  )  %£&<*  anfwered  ne- 
gatively, not  denying  that  the  body  of  Chrift  is  truly  offered  unto  all 
that  come,  but  to  be  received  by  Faith,  and  not  by  the  Mouth  :  and  al- 
beit the  whole  Sacrament  be  tendered  unto  all  that  come,  yet  unbelie- 
vers receive  only  the  figns,  and  they  are  guilty  of  Chrift 's  body  and 
blood,  not  which  they  have  received,  but  which  they  have  con- 
temned. Unto  the  two  arguments  he  anfwered,  we  deny  not  the  truth 
of  Chrift's  words,  but  we  expound  them  according  to  the  Analogy  of 
Faith  contained  in  the  Creed,  unto  which  Faith  Confubftantiation  is 
contrary.  And  although  Ghrift,  as  he  is  God,  is  Almighty,  yet  his 
Manhood  is  not  Almighty  :  and  as  he  is  God  he  cannot  do  what  he 
hath  not  decreed  to  do,  or.  what  is  contrary  unto  his  decree -,  not  be- 
caufe  he  is  not  Almighty,  but  becaufe  to  change  his  Will  (  and  fo  to  be 
mutable)  is  not  a  power,  but  an  infirmity.  But  God  hath  ordained, 
that  Chrift's  body  fhould  be  local  and  circumfcribed,  &c.  On  this 
Article  the.  Difputation  continued  three  daies,  the  one  preiling  the 
truth  of  the  words,  This  u  my  body :  and  Btz,a  urging  the  Analogy  of 
Faith,  and  the  like  phrafe  of  other  Sacraments.  Neither  of  the  two 
would  yield.. 

Then  they  pafled  unto  the  Article  of  the  Perfon  of  Chrift.  Thofe 
of  Wortemberg  agreed  that  the  Son  of  God  hathaflumed  the  nature  of 
man,  and  became  likeunrous  in-all  things  except  fin  :  that  he  hath  af- 
fumed  this  nature  into  the  unity  of  his  Perfon  j  and  he  is  one  perfon  ^ 
fo  that  the  two  natures  are  moft .  ftriftly  united^  not  by  confufion  or 
commiffion,  or  abforption,  or  tranfmutation  of  either  of  thefe  natures 
before  nor  after  his  alcenficn  :  for  unto  the  perfect  Perfon  of  the  Me- 
diatour  both  natures  are  required ,  neither  can  the  properties  of  the 
one  nature  be  the  properties  of  the  other ;  for  then  would  follow  an 
abolition  of  one  of  thefe  natures.  Alfo  the  properties  of  the  hu- 
mane nature  are  the  gifts  that  were  given  unto  him  without  meafurr , 
by  which  he  excelleth  all  men  and  Angels  :  In  the  Pcrfon  of  Chrift 
is  a  Communication  ot  properties,  whereby  the  properties  of  both  na- 
tures are  fpoken  of  his  perfon  ^  and  the  properties  of  the  one  nature  are 
given  unto  the  other  ,  by  that  Doctrine  which  is  called  Doftrina.  idio- 
matum.  So  when  it  is  faid,  the  Son  of  God  communicates  his  proper- 
ties unto  the  afiumed  nature  (viz..  his  Omnipotence,  or  Omnipre fence) 
it  is  not  meajit  a?  if  he  poured  into  the  afTumed  nature  (as  a  thing  is 
poured  from  one  VefTel  into  another)  his  properties  •  as  if  humane  na- 
ture by  it  ftlf ,  or  of  it  felf,  or  confidered  in  abftratto  without  his  per- 
fon, had  proper  Omnipotency  :  neither  mav  we  think  that  his  hu- 
mane nature  is  made  an  infinite,  fubftance,  or  uncircumfcribed ,  or  ex- 
tended unto  ail  places,  &c.  When  we  fpeakofthe  real  communica- 
tions . 


tion  of  properties ,  vvej  mean  not  that  one  nature  pattern  into  ano- 
ther, butweoppofe  real  unto  verbal  communication,  which  makes  on- 
ly names  common  unto  the  natures. 

Then  the  queftion  is,  whether   for  the   Perfonal  union  there  be  a 
real  communication  of  properties  between  the  two  natures  in  his  Per- 
fon-or  that  the  one  nature  communicates  its  properties  unto  the  other 
and  how  far  this  communication  is  extended  ?  We  believe  ( laid  they  ] 
that  upon  the  Perfonal  union  follows  Co  real  a  communication  of  pro- 
perties, whereby  the  Son  of  God  communicates  unto  theafTumed  na- 
ture his  omnipotence  ,  omniprefence,  &c.  by  which   communication 
the  Gouhead  becomes  not  weaker,  but  his  humane  nature  is  exalted 
and  not  abohlhed,  as  is  the  union  of  the  body  and  foul,  and  the  fire  and 
iron.     They  faid,   that  the  humane  nature   is  Almighty,  becaufe  the 
Scripture  alcribes  to  him  as  he  is  Man,  all  Power,  &c.     They  added  ' 
This  cur  Mediatotr  is  to  be  adored  with  all  Religious  worihip  accord- 
ing to  both   natures,  for  we  have  not   two   Chrifts  :  but  of  whole 
Chrift  it  is  faid,JLf  t  all  the  slngeh  vr  or  flip  him. 

On  the  morrow  JfeuranfweeedtbK,  There  is  ambiguity  in  the  word 
Communication  i  it  fignifies  the  Perfonal  union,  and  alfo  the  erTeds  of 
It.  U  e  believe  f  faith  he  J  a  real  communication,  that  is,  an  union 
t  natures:  in  which  union  both  natures  remain  diftind,  both  in  their 
own  properties .  and  therefore  that  communication  is  not  fomuch  as 
verbal,but  is  as  falfe,  as  if  you  would  fay,his  Humanity  is  become  his  Dei- 
&  Althoi]Sh.a  •  properties  of  the  Deity  may  be  attributed  unto 
Chnft.man,  that  is,  unto  his  Perfon  even  named  by  his  Manhood,  or 
*n  concrete,  as  we  (Jy,  The  Man  Chrift  is  Almighty  and  eternal  ; 
but  neither  may  the  natures  be  fpoken  one  of  another,  neither  the  pro- 
pernes  of  the  one  be  given  to  the  other.  For  this  is  a  fure  rule,  In  the 
Perfonal  union  both  natures  remain  diftinft,  and  they  both  diftinftly 
do  what  is  proper  unto  them. Briefly,  as  there  are  two  natures  in  Chrift, 
diftmft  in  number,  and -not  feparated  one  from  the  another,  fo  there 
are  two  wills,  and  two  workings  or  operations,  but  one  work  as  there 

I?  ^H  ^2^-YS  profcfs  alfo  that  chrift  rci'gn«h  now?  ™* 

bath  all  Power  both  in  Heaven  and  in  Earth  according  to  both  natures 
but  not  printer  in  refped  of  his  flefh  .  for  now  fas  the  Apoftle 
faith;  we  are  ftrangers  from  Chrift,  and  he  defired  to  be  out  of  the 
body,  that  Je  m,ght  be  with  Chrift.  And  it  is  faid,  he  will  come 
again  ^bodily,  and  vifibly.  Laftly,  in  that  one  adoration  of  our 
one  and  only  Mediatour  according  to  both  natures,  we  divide  not  the 
Perfon,  but  we  diftmguifli  the  natures  :  for  the  Word  is  the  true  and  ab- 
folute  object  of  our  adoration,  and  adoration  is  due  unto  God  only. 
Bur  we  exclude  not  that  flefh  from  our  adoration ,  left  (  with  Mftori- 
r<)  we  divide  his  Perfon  .  yet  fo,  that  we  wor/hip  that  flcfh  not  in 


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it  felf,   but  refpe&ively  as  it  is  the  flefh  of  the  Son  of  God.     They 
difputed  on  this  Article  other  three  daies,  but  no  agreement. 

On  March  27.  Thofe  ofWortemberg  gave  their  Propofitions  of  Po* 
pifh  Churches  ,  Images  in  Churches,  &c.  They  agreed,  That  thefe 
are  in  themfelves  indifferent,  if  theabufesbefhunned. 

Then  they  gave  Thefes  of  Baptifm,  whether  Baptifm  is  the  Laver  of 
Regeneration  in  the  holy  fpirit  ?  or  whether  it  be  only  a  fign  fignifying 
and  fealing  adoption  ?  The  Wortembergtrs  faid,  It  not  only  fignificth 
and  fealeth  adoption,  but  it  is  the  very  Laver  of  Regeneration.  They 
enlarged  hereupon.  £ez,a  gave  his  anfwer  in  writing,  viz..  That  the 
Sacraments  are  not  bare  figns,  but  the  efficacy  of  the  Holy  Ghoft  fhould 
be  diftinguifhed  from  the  power  of  the  water,  as  they  are  diftin- 
guifhed by  John  Baptift  in  Matth.  3.  And  he  declares  the 
words  of  the  Inftitution,  and  the  effeft  of  Baptifm.  Jacob  Andrew* 
held  there  is  but  one  Baptifm,  becaufe  St.  Paul  faith,  one  Baptifm. 
Bezjt  faid,  there  is  an  outward  and  an  inward  wafhing.  And  he  rebu- 
ked the  Wort emhergers,  becaufe  they  did  not  call  the  blood  of  Chrift  the 
thing  fignified  in  Baptifm.  They  asked  whether  Infants  have  Faith  ? 
Beaa  denied,  and  the  other  affirmed  it.  They  queftioned  whether  the 
Eledt  being  fanftified  may  lofe  faith  ?  Beza  denied.  They  asked  what 
foope  may  Parents  "have  of  their  Baptized  Children  ?  j?fs,dfaid,  All 
fhould  hope  well,  but  we  are  not  Prophets  to  fore-tell,  that  this  or  that 
Child  fhall  be  a  good  or  bad  man. 

Concerning  Predeftination,  ThokofWortewberg  faid,  God  from  afl 
eternity  not  only  forefawthefallofman,  but  hath  alfo  foreknown  and 
chofen  them  that  (hall  be  faved,  and  hath  appointed  them  unto  falvati- 
on,  that  is,  that  they  fhould  be  faved  by  Chrift  ;  for  the  election  was 
made  in  Chrift.  The  number  of  them  who  fhall  be  faved  is  certain 
with  God.  So  the  queftion  is  (  fay  they  )  whether  God  hath  Predefti- 
nated  hisEleft  unto  life -,  fo  that  he  in  his  hidden  and  abfolute  judge- 
ment hath  appointed  the  moft  part'bf  men  unto  eternal  damnation,  that 
he  will  not  have  them  to  repent,  nor  be  converted  and  faved  ?  We  be- 
lieve ( fay  they  )  that  fuch  Decree  cannot  be  fhewed  by  Scripture. 
They  rejed  thofe  Propofitions,  that  Reprobation  is  the  moft  wife  pur- 
pofe  of  God,  whereby  from  all  eternity  he  hath  conftantly  Decreed, 
without  all  unrighteoufnefs ,  not  to  (liew  love  on  them  whom  he  hath 
not  loved,  that  unjuftly  condemning  them  he  might  declare  his  wrath 
againft  fin,  and  fhew  his  glory.  The  caufe  of  the  Decree  of  EledHon 
or  Reprobation  ,  is  his  eternal  favour  toward  them  who  at  his  pleafure 
are  appointed  unto  falvation,  and  his  eternal  hatred  of  ill,  ordaining 
whom  he  pleafeth  unto  condemnation.  But  why  he  hath  appointed 
thefe  men  rather  than  thofe  unto  falvation  or  damnation,  there  is  no 
other  impulfive'caufe  but  his  will,  &c.  Beza  anfwered  thus,  What  ye 
deny,  [That  the  vfjfils  of  wrath,  at  well  M  the  V  eft  Is  of  mercy,  were 

G  g  g  ordaine.4 


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ordained  from  eternity,  ]  we  do  affirm,  not  only  becaufe  there  is  a 
like  reafon  of  contraries,  and  the  very  word  Election  proveth  it,  but 
alfo  it  is  declared  by  the  exprefs  word  of  God,  Rom.$.  1  1  .  And  this 
is  fo  far  (  faid  he)  from  any  ground  that  man  can  challenge  God  ofun- 
righteoufnefs,  that  he  were  not  unjuft  though  he  had  condemned  all  men, 
feeing  we  are  afl  by  nature  the  Children  of  wrath,  and  he  is  debtor  to 
none.  We  fay  further,  that  their  Condemnation,  who  in  the  eternal 
Decree  are  left  in  their  corruption,  is  not  rightly  attributed  unto  this 
Decree  :  for  albeit  that  which  God  hath  Decreed  cannot  mifs,  but 
(hall  come  to  pafs  •  and  fo  they  who  perifh  do  not  perifh  without  this 
Decree:  yet  the  caufeofthe  execution  or  of  their  condemnation,  is  not 
that  Decree  of  God,  but  their  natural  corruption  and  the  fruits  of  it, 
from  which  it  pleafed  God  to  exempt  them  only  whom  he  hath  cho- 
fen  to  falvation  .  That  there  ever  was,  and  is  a  great  a  number  of  them 
that  perifh,  the  matter  it  felf  fheweth  :  and  Chrift  faith,  Few  are  chofen, 
few  do  enter  in  at  the  ftrait  gate. 

Laftly,  that  God  will  nothavethem  to  be  converted,  and  faved,  it's 
not  to  be  underftood  as  if  they  were  willing,  and  God  refifteth  their 
defire  ;  but  that  they  will  not  be  converted,  nor  can  they  will,  being 
forfaken  of  God,  and  left  in  impenitency.  He  anfwered  alfo  to  the 
Objections.  Then  they  came  to  that  queftion,  whether  Chrift  died  for 
all  men  ?  Jacob  held  the  affirmative,  and  Bez.a  the  negative. 

Prince  Frederick,  now  thought  it  time  to  clofe,  feeing  no  hope  of 

cfMiJ.ciaA.t6.  agreement:  he  exhorted  them  togive  one  another  the  hand  of  Prater- 

M...;.  cay.  33.    pj^  ancj  to  abftam  from  bitter  writings,  until  God  fhall  give  them  more 

caufe  of  Peace.    Jacob  anfwered,  feeing  they  haveaccufed  usofgrofs 

Errours,  how  can  we  acknowledge  them  as  Brethren  ?  Lez.a  faid,  fee- 

ing you  refufe  togive  us  the  right  hand.of  Fraternity,  neither  acknow- 

ledgeus  as  Brethren,  we  do  not  regard  your  hand  of  friendfhip.    So  the 

Conference  was  ended  March  29. 

.Anthony  Fain*  one  of  Beta's  afliftants  in  this  Conference,  was  a 
French  Divine.  He  hath  written  thefe  Works,  In  Epifl.  ad  Romanes  : 
In  Prior  em  ad  Timotheum.  In  Ecclefaftem.  Enchiridion  Theologi, 
cum.  De  Vit*  &  Obitu  Thcod.  Bez.<e.  Emblcmata  &  Epigrammata 


Abraham  Faiu*y  his  Son,  hath  put  out  a  Book,  entitled,  Lingu*.  (jal- 
lica  &  Italic  A  hortulM  amcenifmita  :'&  horarumfubcifivarttm  libridito* 

Now  the  King  begins  a  War  againft  the  Proteftantsin  Guiennc. 
The  Caftle  of  Angiers  is  fuddenly  taken  by  the  Hugonots  without  much 
difficulty.  Angiers  is  a  City  fcituace  on  this  fide  the  Loire^  in  afweet 
fertil  Countrey,  well  peopled,  famous  for  the  ftudy  of  the  Law,  and 
commodioufly  ieated  to  fall  into  all  the  Provinces  ofCjattia  Celtic*^ 
which  largely  invirons  it  on  every  fide.  But  this  Caftle  of  Angiers 
was  recovered  by  the  Catholicks  before  it  was  relieved,  and  the  Prince 

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of  Conde  not  knowing  what  was  done,  coming  to  relieve  Angitnt  was 
defeated. 

The  King  fets  forth  divers  Armies,  one  under  the  Duke  ofMiyenne  : 
the  Marefchal  de  Byron  marcheth  with  another  Army  into  Xxntonge. 
The  King  fets  forth  two  other  Armies,  one  under  the  Duke  ofjeyeufc 
in  AvergnC)  the  other  under  the  Duke  of  Ejpernon  in  Provence .  he 
himfelf  goes  to  Lions,  Then  the  Proteftant  Princes  of  Germany 
raife  a  mighty  Army  to  relieve  the  Hugonots.  They  fend  an  Embaffis 
before  unto  the  King  of  France,  which  encreafeth  the  difcontents,  and 
hafteneth  the  taking  up  of  Arms.  The  Kingfeeks  toperfwade  the 
King  of  Navarre  to  turn  Catholick,  and  come  to  Court  :  he  fends  the 
Queen-Mother  to  Treat  with  him  in  Poickon  about  it.  Thofe  of  the 
League  are  highly  difpleafed  and  murmure  at  it.  And  from  that  occa- 
fion  the  union  of  the  cParifians  is  fomented,  who  provide,  and  Arm 
themfelves  fecretly.  They  plot  to  furprize  Bolougne  in  Picardy,  but  the 
bufinefsis  difcovered,and  the  Town  is  faved. 

The  Duke  of  Guife  being  up  in  Arms  in  Burgundy  and  Champagne, 
takes  Anfonne  and  Rocroy,  and  befiegeth  Sedan.  The  Queen-Mother 
returns  from  the  King  of  Navarre  to  Taris,  but  without  effeft.  The 
King  nukes  a  new  Proteftation  not  to  Tolerate  the  Hugonots  any  lon- 
ger. He  unites  himfelf  with  the  Catholick  League  to  oppofe  the  (jer- 
man  Army.  He  fends  the  Duke  of  Joyeufe  into  Poifivu  againft  the  King 
of  Navarre,  who  coming  unexpectedly,  cuts  off  two  Regiments  of  the 
fJugonot  Infantry. 

The  Duke  of  Guife  draws  his  Army  together  to  advance  againft  the 
Germans  in  Lorain*  The  King  levieth  Svpijfcs,  and  raifeth  great  For- 
ces for  the  fame  purpofe.  The  Count  of  Soijfons,  and  the  Prince  of 
Conti  go  over  to  the  King  of  Navarre's  party.  The  Duke  of  Lorain 
united  with  the  Duke  of  <?«//*  oppofeth  the  entry  of  the  Germans  into 
his  Countrey.  They  meet  at  Pont  Si.  Vincent,  but  give  not  Battel. 
The  Germans  pafs  on  into  France  j  the  Duke  of  Guife  followeth  them, 
and  the  King  with  his  Army  advanceth  to  hinder  them  from  joyning 
with  the  King  of  Navarre,  who  advancing  in  the  mean  time  to  meet 
the  Duke  of  Joyeitfe,  pafleth  the  River  Drongne.  The  Armies  face 
one  another  at  fiutrM,  and  fight  with  all  their  Forces,  where  the  Duke 
of  Joyeufe  loft  both  the  Battel  and  his  life. 

On  the  other  fide  the  Duke  of  Gitife  fights  with  the  Germans  at 
Villemory ,  and  Annean,  and  makes  a  great  (laughter  of  them.  The 
King  fallowing  the  Victory  comes  up  clofe  to  the  enemies  Army.  The 
Swijjes  yield  themfelves  unto  him,  and  the  remainder  of  the  German* 
disband,  and  betake  themfelves  to  flight.  They  are  followed  and  defea- 
ted in  many  places.  The  Duke  of  Bwillon  with  a  few  horfe  making 
his  efcape  by  the  way  of  Roane  and  Lionois,  after  many  dangers  get- 
teth  to  (jencva,  where  he  died  within  a  few  daies  after,  leaving  his 

G.g  g  2  Eft  ate 


ccdefiafticat  %itto?it     Cenc- 


Eftate  to  his  Sifter,  whom  he  recommended  to  the  care  of  the  Duke 
of  Montfenficr.  The  Sieur  de  [hafillon^  having  often  fought  with  the 
Forces  of  Burgundy  and  Lionois  with  great  fuccefs  and  valour,  got  at 
hft  into  Languedoc,  and  retired  himfelfinto  his  wonted  Government 
in  Vivarez,.  T  '\\tSieurde  Clervant^  hid  among  the  Srvijfes  that  went 
with  a  fafe-conduft,  efcaped  in  their  company  to  Bafl.  The  Prince 
of  Conti  with  a  few  Horfe,  lurking  in  remote  places,  got  at  laft  un- 
known to  his  own  houfe  :  and  the  other  Commanders  taking  leveral 
ways  ran  very  various  fortunes.  The  Reiters  divided  themfelves  into 
two  parts,  one  with  the  Baron  dy  Oeneaw,  and  Colonel  1)amartin  paf- 
fed  through  Savoy  ,  where  being  fhrunk  to  the  number  of  but  five  hun- 
dred, they  were  pillaged  by  the  Duke's  Forces.  The  other  with  the 
Baron  de  Bouck*  parting  through  Burgundy  to  the  Confines  of  the 
County  of  tJMombelUardy  was  followed  by  the  MarquefsJD#-  Poland 
the  Duke  of  I?////*,  by  whom  being  overtaken  without  the  Borders  of 
France^  they  were  all  cut  in  pieces  in  many  feveral  encounters.  Thefe 
Heads  of  the  League  alfo  facked  and  burned  the  Towns  and  Caftles  of 
that  Country.  The  Germans  fick  with  Feavers,  and  weakened  with 
bloody-flix,  falling  down  by  the  High-wayes,  and  in  the  Towns  as  they 
pafled,  were  mi  ferably  (lain  by  the  Country-people.  Eighteen  of  them 
who  were  left  fick  in  a  poor  Cottage  in  Burgundy,  had  their  throats 
cut  with  a  knife  by  a  Woman,  in  revenge  of  thofe  lofles  (he  had  fu- 
ftained. 

The  three  thoufand  Swijfes  which  were  gone  into  Daufhine,  under 
the  Command  of  the  Sieur  de  Cougyy  to  joyn  with  Lefdiguiers^  Thefe 
Sveiffes  accompanied  with  four  hundred  French  Musketiers,  as  they 
pafled  the  River  Ifare,  were  aflaulted  by  Monfieur  de  la  Valette^  Brother 
to  the  Duke  tfEJpernon,  with  the  Cavalry  of  Provence,  and  by  Colo- 
nel Alfonfo  Ornano  of  the  Ifle  of  Corfica,  with  the  Infantry  of  Dau- 
phine'y  and  fo  furioufly  charged  there,  that  all  the  reft  being  flain  upon 
the  place,  only  fixty  of  them  efcaped  from  fo  great  a  (laughter.  Where- 
upon alfo  the  Sieur  Lefdiguiers  himfelf  was  forced  to  feek  fecurity 
among  the  Mountains. 

Then  the  King  returned  to  ^Paris  armed,  andentrcd  as  it  were  in 
triumph  on  December  2$.  1587.  but  the  whole  glory  redounded  to  the 
Duke  of  Guife,  who  being  become  admired,  was  celebrated  by  the 
tongues  and  pens  of  all  his  adherents. 

The  Duke  of  Guife  caufeth  a  writing  to  be  prefented  to  the  King  in 
his  own  name  ,  and  the  names  of  the  other  Heads  of  the  League  , 
wherein  they  demanded  in  fubftance  :  That  he  would  unite  himfelf  tru- 
ly with  them,  and  fmcerely  make  himfelf  Head  of  the  League,  to  the 
extirpation  of  the  Htigonots,  That  he  (hould  put  thofe  perfons  from 
the  Court,  from  his  Counfels,  and  from  their  Offices,  who  (hould  be 
named  by  the  Catholick  Princes  as  UJ-afFefted  to  Religion,  That  he 

jvould 


Cent.    16.  Of  FRANCE. 

would  make  theCoundi  of  TRENT  to  be  received  and  obfervedThroush  " — 
the  whole  Kingdom,  only  excepting  thofe  things  which  did  prejudice 
the  prviledge  of  the  Gallican  Church.  That  he  would  grant  fome  places 
which  fliould  be  thought  fir,  unto  the  confederate  places  for  their  fecu- 
rity,  wherein  they  might  keep  Garrifons,  and  make  neceflary  Fortifi- 
cations at  the  expence  of  the  Crown.  That  he  would  maintain  an  Ar- 
my about  the  Confines  of  Lorain,  under  the  Command  of  one  of  the 
Confederate  Princes,  to  hinder  the  incurfions  of  Foreigners.  That 
he  would  caufeall  the  Eftates  of  the  Hagonots  to  be  confifcate  and 
fold,  wherewith  the  expences  of  the  late  Wars  might  be  fatif- 
fied. 

The  end  of  the  demand  was  only  to  make  the  King  contemptible,  fuf- 
pefted  to  favour  the  Hugonott,  and  furnifh  the  League  with  an  occafi- 
on  and  pretence  to  take  up  Arms,  and  profecute  their  begun-defigns, 
while  the  profperity  of  their  Fortune  lafted.  The  burdens  which  the 
War,  the  maintaining  of  fo  many  Armies,  and  his  profufe  manner  of 
fpending,  daily  increafcd,  had  loft  the  hearts  of  the  people  to  the  King. 
ThenoifeoftheDuke  ofGmfe's  Victories  hadobfcured  theMajeftyof 
the  King's  name,  hisobftinate  favour  to  his  Minions,  had  alienated  the 
minds  of  his  moft  ancient  and  devoted  Servants  :  and  the  people  of 
far  is  fwayed  by  the  ambition  of  the  Council  of  Sixteen  in  that  City 
conflicted  by  the  (j.ni{!ans  ,  could  no  longer  endure  Govern- 
ment. 

The  City  was  full  of  infamous  Pamphlets,  Politick  Difcourfes,  Satyri- 
cal  Verfes,  and  Fabulous  Stories,  which  for  the  moft  part  abufing  the 
name  of  the  Duke  of  -Eftiernon,  redounded  to  the  difgrace  of  the  King. 
On  the  other  fide  every  corner  oiParis  refounded  the  praifes  of  the 
Duke  of  Guife,  celebrated  in  Verfe  and  Profe  by  many  Writers,  with 
the  titles  of  the  new  David,  the  fecond  Mofes,  the  deliverer  of  the  fahy- 
lick^  People,  the  Prvp  and  Pillar  of  the  Holy  Church.  The  Preachers 
filled  the  peoples  ears  with  wonders  of  this  new  Gideon,  come  into  the 
world  for  the  defired  fafety  of  the  Kingdom.  Which  things  fpread 
from  the  City  of/^n*,  diffufed  themfelves  into  all  the  Provinces, 
which  received  the  fame  impreffions,  as  well  to  the  King's  difadvantage, , 
as  in  favour  of  the  League. 

The  King  declares  the  Duke  ofEftrerintJ,  Admiral  of  the  Kingdom, 
and  Governour  of  Normandy,  to  the  great  difcontent  of  the  Duke  of 
Cjuife.  The  Council  of  Sixteen  informs  the  Duke  of  Guife,  That  they 
had  twenty  thoufand  Armed  men  in  the  City  at  their  devotion,  ready  to 
be  put  upon  any  enterprize.  That  they  were  divided  into  fixteen 
Squadrons,  to  every  one  of  which  they  had  appointed  a  Commander, 
and  that  the  reft  of  the  people  would  fdoubtiefs;  follow  the  ftream  of. 
the  Chief  men,. 

Henry i, 


54 H:lje  (ECClciaatcal  ^ftO?g        Cenc.  \6. 

Henry,  Princeo;  CondejNis  poifcned  at  St.Jehan  d'  Angely  by  his  own 
fervants,  and  .died,  under  whomthe  Proteftants  conceived  great  hopes: 
and  his  deaih  raited  the  affl.dion  of  that  party  to  the  greateft 
height. 

The  Duke  o'Guifc  wrore  to  the  Sixteen  to  leffen  their  number,  and 
reduce  it  but  into  nve  quarters ,  to  which  they  ftiould  appoint  a  place, 
where  they  fhould  meet  at  the  fign  that  (hould  be  given,  and  that  they 
fliould  difpofe  things  in  fuch  a  manner,  as  might  breed  neither  diforder 
nor  confufion.  He  fent  them  five  Commanders  to  order  the  five  quar- 
ters, viz..  the  Count  of  Bnfa,  the  Sieur  deBois,  Dauphin,  the  Sieur 
de  Chamois,  the  Sic*rd'Efclawlcst  and  Colonel  Sc.P^/J,  to  whom 
the  Sieur  de  Mcnevitte  was  added,  who  had  been  a  chief  Inftrumdnt  in 
that  bufinefs.  Thefe  entred  openly  into  Paris,  under  colour  of  private 
affairs,  and  being  lodged  in  thofe  quarters  of  the  City  which  were  ap- 
pointed them,  frequented  the  Court,  leaving  the  care  to  MeneviHe  to 
bring  the  matter  to  its  conclufion. 

The  Duke  of^ttmale  is  in  readinefs  with  five  hundred  Horfetoaf- 
fift  the  Confpiracy  of  the  Parifians.  The  Confpirators  refolve  to  make 
ufe  of  the  occafion  which  the  time  of  Lent  would  afford  them,  to  feize 
on  the  King's  Perfon  then,  when  with  the  Duke  ofE/pemon  heftiould 
be  in  ProceiTion  as  he  was  wonr,  in  the  habit  of  a  Penitent  among  the 
whipping  Friers,  neither  accompanied  by  his  Guards,  nor  the  ordina- 
ry retinue  of  the  Court,  and  to  fhut  him  up  with  ftrong  Guards  in  a 
Monaftery.  After  which  the  Duke  oftsfftmale's  five  hundred  horfe 
and  his.  other  Forces  (hould  prefently  come  in,  and  take  pofieffion  of  the 
principal  places,  and  keep  them  guarded  till  the  arrival  of  the  Duke  of 
Cuife. 

But  Nicholas  Poulaiftj  who  was  privy  to  all  this  Confpiracy,  reveals 
the  whole  Plot  to  the  High  Chancellour,  and  confirms  it  alfo  to  the 
King  himfelf,  who  hereupon  feigned  himfelf  not  well,  and  foforbare 
to  go  to  any  fpiritual  exercife  with  the  Fraternity  of  the  Penitents. 
The  King  had  no  Forces  fufficient  to  bridle  the  Paripans^  whereupon 
the  Queen  faid  in  the  Italian  tongue,  Bifogna  coprifibene  il  vifo  inan- 
z.i  che ftni.z.icare  il  vefpaio.  He  that  will  ftir  up  a  Wafps  neft,  had 
need  to  cover  his  face  well  j  and  then  means  would  not  be  wanting  to 
fupprefs  the  Confpirators. 

But  the  King  to  make  himfelf  fure  of  the  Confpiratours,  blocks  up 
the  paflages  about  Paris ,  to  keep  Victuals  from  thence.  The  Coun- 
cil- of  fixteen  begin  to  fufped ,  that  their  Plot  is  difcovered,  and  the 
Heads  being  difmayed  fend  for  the  Duke  ofGnifeto  Paris:  the  King 
fends  a  command  unto  the  Duke  ofSoijJo}jsy  not  ro  come  to  Parts,  hut 
he  comes  to  Paris  at  noon  on  May  9.  1588.  followed  only  with 
eight  Gentlemen.  He  lights  at  the  Queen-Mother's  Lodging,  and 
goes  with  her  to  do  his  duty  unto  the  King.  The  people  follow  him 

by 


Cent.i'6.  Of  FRANCE. 


55 


by  troops  wiih  great  joy,  crying,  God  fa<ve  the  Guijc,  Cod  fave  the 
Ptllar  of  the  Church.  He  makes  his  reverence  to  the  King,  layes  open 
the  caufes  of  his  coming,  juftifies  his  actions  as  well  as  he  could,  and 
fo  withdraws  till  the  King  had  dined.  They  meet  both  after  dinner  at  the 
Queen-Mother's  Lodging  :  the  King  full  of  fear  and  jealoufie,  the 
Duke  with  a  refolute  countenance.  The  next  day  the  Archbifhop  of 
Lions  (  the  chief  Pillar  of  the  League  )  arriveth  :  the  Duke's  friends  and 
fervants  enter  :  The  Sixteen  bring  and  carry  away  fundry  intelli- 
gences. 

The  King  commands  the  Afar  fad  de  Byron  to  draw  his  Guards  of 
Svpifes  and  French  out  of  the  Suburbs  into  the  City,  and  Lodgeth  them 
in  divers  quarters.  The  people  grow  amazed ;  the  chief  of  the  League 
terrific  them  with  the  apprehenfiorr  of  a  fpoil  j.  they  ftiut  up  their 
fhops  ,  and  leaving  their  traffique  betake  chemfelves  to  Arras. 

The  Parifians  raifed  at  the  Ringing  of  the  Bells,  make  Barricade's 
crofs  the  Streets  ;  and  blocking  up  all  the  King's  Corps  de  Garde, come 
up  to  the  Louvre,  The  Svprffes  were  prefently  afTauhed  in  St.  Inno- 
cent's Church-yard,  where  36.  of  them  being  flain  in  the  firftonfet,  the 
reft  yielded  themfelves  without  refiftance,  and  with  great  violence  were 
pillaged  by  the  people-  AlJ  the  other  Guards,  of  the  Chaftelet,  the  lit- 
tle Bridge,  the  Butchery,  and  the  Town-houfe,  were  afTaulted  at  the 
fame  time,  the  Swifles  being  in  the  fame  manner  difarmed,  and  made 
Prifoners  at  the  peoples  difcretion.  They  made  the  French  Guards  to 
put  out  their  matches,  and  lay  down  their  Arms,  and  kept  them  in  that 
manner  till  they  had  further  order. 

The  Duke  of  Cuife  feeing  the  City  in  his  power,  and  the  King  (as  it 
were  )  a  Prifoner,  ceafeth  to  profecute  the  forcing  of  the  Louvre^  and 
appeafeth  the  people,  but  gave  order  that  the  Barricade's  fhould  be 
continued,That  the  people  fhould  be  every  where  in  a  readinefs  with  their 
Arms,  that  the  Guards  fhould  be  kept  with  great  care,  expecting  fome 
body  fhould  come  from  the  King  (befieged  and  ftraitnedjto  make  an 
overture  of  fome  agreement. 

The  Queen-Mother  goes  to  the  Duke  of  Cuife  in  her  Sedan,  being 
denied  paflage  in  her  Coach,  confers  with  him,  but  brings  nothing 
but  complaints  and  exorbitant  demands.  While  the  Queen-Mother 
returns  totheDukeof  Guife,  and  treats  with  him,  theKingwiihfixteen 
Gentlemen  leaves  Paris,  and  retires  to  Chartres,  where  the  people  re- 
ceive him  with  as  much  affedron,  as  the  Tarifixns  had  done  the  Duke  of 
Guife.  The  King  at  his  departure  from  the  Louvre  (  turning  at  Chxliot  DC  serres  Rift. 
towards  T^aw}  faid,  O  difloyal  and  ingratcfnl  City,  a  fay  which  J  ln  ™-«™o  m- 
have  alwaies  honoured  Vfith  myconftant  abode  -^  which  Lhavc  more 'en- 
riched than  tiny  of  my  PredecifioHrs,  I  will  never  enter  within -the  com~ 
fafiofthy  Walls-)  but  by  the  ruinc  of  a  great  and  memorable  breachjCurfed 
likfvpifc  beyeuall,  for  vehofe  content  I  have  p/tr chafed  the  hatred  of  fo 
many..  fhe 


Cent   16. 


The  Duke  being  angry  at  the  news  of  the  King's  fudden  departure, 
labours  to  fecure  his  absolute  power  in  Par  it,  aad  feizethon  the  Ba- 
fide.     The  Capuchins  are  fern  in  Proceflion  unto  Chartres  to  mitigate 
the  heat  of  his  fury.The  chief  of  theCity  alfo  go  to  befeech  him  to  return 
to  Paris.   'Seven  demands  are  made  by  the  League,  viz..  the  extirpa- 
tion of  Herefy  by  his  Majefties  Forces,  and  the  holy  union  :  thebanifh- 
ment  of  the  Duke  of  Efrernon,  and  of  his  Brother  deU  Palette-^  War 
in  (juicnne  by   the  King  inPerfon,  and  by  the  Duke  of  Msyennem 
i-jirte',  Abolition  of  the  tumults  of  Paris  :  confirmation  of  Offi- 
ce^ chofen  for  Civil  Caufes  fince  the  Barricade's  :     a  reftoring  of  the 
•goodly  and  anci-nt  Ordinances  of  the  Realm  ^  and  an  abolition  of  par- 
ties, gifts  ,  and  ajufes  brought  in  by  Efycrnon,  and  la  Palette. 

The  King  determined  to  give  outward  fatisfadicn  to  the  Duke  of 
•Grift  and  the  League,  knowing  that  Peace  would  never  be  granted,  un- 
lefs  he  confented  to  remove  irona  the  Court  the  Duke  oiEjpcrnon.  Who 
coming  toCourt,  being  not  received  by  the  King  with  his  wonted  favour, 
quits  his  Government  in  Normandy,  and  retires  to  jingoUfme  ,  where 
by  a  Confpiracy  ofthe  Cumins  his  life  is  in  great  danger.  He  was 
accompanied  by  the  Abbot  del  Bene  ,  who  was  no  lefs  perfecuted  by 
the  League  than  'He.  This  retreat  removed  all  impediments  that  might 
have  hindered  Peace. 

Now  the  conclufion  of  the  Peace  was  eafie  :  for  on  the  one  fide  the 
King  granted  all  that  the  League  asked  for,  or  pretended  to.v    The  con- 
ditions of  Peace    were  almoft  the   fame    that    were  contained  in 
the  writing  framed  at  Nancy,  with  the  privity  of  the  Duke  of  Lorain, 
which  had  been  prefented  to  the  King  in  the  beginning  of  the  year.    That 
the  King  (hould  again  declare  himfelf  Head  of  the  Catholick  League  : 
he  promifeth  never  to  make  a  Peace  nor  Truce  with  the  Hugonots,  nor 
any  Edid  in  their  favour.     He  (hall  by  apublickEdift  oblige  all  Prin- 
ces, Peers  of  France,  Lords  and  Officers  of  the  Crown,  Towns,  Col- 
ledges,  Corporations,  and  the  whole  people  to  fwear  the  fame  :  and 
bind  themfelves  with  a  folemn  Oath  never  to  fuffer  any  one  to  reign,  that 
was  not  of  the  Romijh  Religion  :  and  that  for  time  to  come  none  (hould 
be  admitted  to  Offices,  Places  and  Dignities  in  any  part  of  that  King- 
dom, but  fuch  as  were  Catholicks,  and  made  profeffion  of  their  Faith 
according  to  the  Doftrine  of  Sorbon,  and  the  Belief  pf  the  Church  of 
Rome.    That   the   Council  of  Trent  ftiould  be  received  and  obferved 
through  the  whole  Kingdom,  upon  the  conditions  and  exceptions  for- 
merly mentioned  ;  the  priviledges  oftbeGaBican  Church  being  within 
three  Months  to   be  declared  by  a  Congregation  of  Prelates,  and  the 
King's  Council  jivith  divers  other  Articles. 

The  Articles  concluded  and  confirmed,  the  King  prefently  fent 
forth  his  Letters  Patents  into  all  Provinces-,  and  feveral  Bailages,  to  ap- 
point the  Aflembly  of  the  States  in  Ottober  following  at  Blots,  a  place 

far 


Cent.   16. Of  FRANCE.  57 

far  from  Paris,  where  the  people  were  at  his  devotion,  far  from  any 
commerce  or  intelligence  with  the  League,  and  near  thofe  Towns  which 
were  held  bytheHugonots. 

The  Duke  of  Guife  goeth  with  the  Queen-Mother  to  Chartres  unco 
the  King,  and  is  received  by  him  with  great  demonstrations  of  honour 
in  appearance.  The  King  caufeth  the  Edift  of  the  union  to  be  pub- 
liftKd  in  his  Council,  and  fworn  to  by  every  one^  and  the  War 
againft  the  Hugonvts  to  be  openly  Proclaimed  •  for  the  profecution 
whereof  two  feveral  Armies  were  appointed  :  one  in  Dauphine  un- 
d^r  the  Duke  of  Mayenne^  the  other  in  Poittou,  under  Ludovico 
Gonz*aga  Duke  of  Nevers.  The  King  gives  the  Duke  of  Cuife  the 
General  Command  over  all  the  men  at  Arms,  of  the  Realm.  This 
( though  not  the  name  arrd  title,  yet )  in  effed  was  the  Office  and 
charge  of  Conftttblc.  He  makes  the  Cardinal  of  Guife  Legate  of 
Avignon,  the  which  he  promifeth  to  obtain  for  him  of  the  Pope.  He 
determined  to  give  the  Sea!  unto  Peter  of  Efpinac,  Archbiftiop  of 
Lions.  He  declares  the  Cardinal  of  Bourbon  nrft  Prince  of  the  blood. 
And  the  King's  late  Counfeflours  are  difmifled  the  Courr. 

But  two  things  trouble  the  League  ^  one  w,  the  news  of  the  de- 
feat of  the  Spanifli  jirmado  at  Sea  by  the  Englifo  ;  the  other  is., 
that  the  King  will  not  return  to  Parit,  hewfoever  they  importune 
him. 

Pope  Sixtiu  *V.  Writes  congratulatory  Letters  to  the  Duke  of  Guife  ^ 
full  ofpraifes,  comparing  him  to  thofc  holy  Macchabees,  the  Defen- 
ders of  the  People  oflfrael,  and  exhorting  him  to  continue  fuccefsfully, 
and  glorioufly  to  fight  for  the  advancement  of  the  Church,  and  the 
total  extirpation  of  the  Hugonoi^  Which  Letters  (to  encreafe  the 
Duke's  FameJ  were  by  his  dependants  caufed  to  be  Printed  and  di- 
vulged in  Paris  with  as  much  applaufe  in  the  people,  as  anger  and 
trouble  in  the  King,  who  could  not  be  plcafed  that  another  fhould 
have  more  Credit  and  Authority  in  his  Kingdom  than  himfelf. 

The  AfTembly  of  the  States  meet  at  &loif  at  the  time  prefixed. 
•viz..  on  Ottobcr-i6.  After  dinner  all  being  met  in  the  great  Hafl 
of  the  Caftle,  the  King  fate  down  in  a  Throne  rai fed  by  many  ftcps 
from  the  Earth,  and  covered  wirh  a  rich  cloth  of  State.  The  Queens, 
Princes,  Cardinals,  Peers,  and  OiHcers  of  the  Crown,  fa:e  upon 
Seats  fitted  for  that  purpofe  in  two  lofigrowe*  on  the  rght  hand  and 
on  the  left  ;  and  between  them  in  the  inner  part  of  the  Theatre  fate 
the  Deputies  according  tothc  Ancient  preheminence  of  the;'r  degre-s : 
and  the  Duke  of  Guife  as  Gr>nnd-M^re  with  the  Staff  otO. Tic e  in 
lus  hand,  Hue  down  upon  a  Scool  at  the  foot  of  the  State  on  he 
tight  hand  ;  ard  on  the  left  fate  the  Sifttr  de  Montbelon^  whorepre- 
ienced  the  Perfon  of  the  High  Chanceilour  of  the  Kingdom. 

<Hhh  The 


cent. 


The  King   begins   the  Aflembly  with  an  elegant  Oration  v  wherein 
attefting  the  earneft  defires  of  the  good  of  his  people,  and  (hewing  the 
dangerous    condition    wherein  inteftine  difcords  had   involved    the 
Crown,  he  exhorted  every  one  to  lay  afiffe  their  piflions,  to   forget 
their  enmities,  to  reunite  themfelves  fincerely  under  his  obedience, 
forfaking  all  novelties,  condemning  all  Leagues,  &c.  whicjb   had   di- 
fturbed  both  him  their  Lawful  Sovereign,  and  the  peace  of  the  King- 
dom.    For  as  he  pardoned  all  that  was  paft,  Co  for  the  time  to  come 
he  would  not  endure  it,  but  account  in  as  an  Ad  of  abfolute  Treafon. 
That  as   herefolvtd  to  perfecute  and  tread  down  Herefie,  to  favour 
thofe  that  were   good,  .to  reftore  the  fplendour  and  force  of  juftice, 
to  advance   Religion,  to  uphold  the  Nobility,  and  to  disburden  the 
Common  people  ';  To  he  earneftly   prayed   and  conjured  every  one 
of  them,  to  aiT$  him  wiih  their  good   Counfek  and  fincere  inten- 
tions. 

This  fpeech  of  the  King's  (lung  the  Duke  of  Gmfe  to  the  quick, 
and  all  thofe  of  his  party.     He  caufed  his  Speech  to  be  Printed  >  which 
ferved  much  to  excufe  thofe  things  which  followed  afterward.     After 
the  King's  Speech  followed  the  Oratioa  of   Monthclon,  who  profe- 
cutes  and  amplifies  the  King's  Speech.To  which  the  Archbifliop  ot.50*r- 
gts  anfwered  for  the  Order  of  the  Clergy^the  Baron  deSenejchayfai^ 
Nobility,  and  the  Prcvoft  des  Merckands  of  Paris,  for  the  third  Or- 
der of  the  Commons.    The  Tuefiay  following,  the  King  aniihe  States  . 
fwear  in  folemn  manner  to  perform  the  Edid  made  before  of  perfe- 
vering  in  the  Romifi  Religion.    The  Archbi(hop  of  TZouxgts.  (hewed  rhe 
States  the  greamefs  and  obligation  of  the  Oath  which  they  were  to  take. 
Jieaiilicu,  the  new  Secretary  of  State,  inrolled  an  Ad  of  that  Oath,  in 
memory  of  fo  folemn  an  Adion.    After  it  waa.done,  they  gave  thanks  to 
God  publickly  in  the  Church  of  S,  Saveur* 

The  Propoiition  of  receiving  the  Council  of  Trent,  made  in  the  Af- 

fembly  of  the  States,  is  generally  rejeded.  .  The  King  is  requefted  to 

declare  the  King  of  Navarre  incapable  of  the  Crown,  and.  all  others 

fufpeded  .to  be  Hugonots  :  and  after  much  oppofition  he  coldly  con- 

fents  unto  it,  and  gives  unto  the  Deputies  a    Proteftation  which  had 

been   prefented  unto  hin^.from   the   King  of  Navarre  :  who,  having 

called  a  Congregation  of  thofe  of  bis  party  &  Rachel,  had  caufcd  a 

writing  to  be  printed  ,  wherein  he  demanded  the  execution  of  thofe 

Edids  andGrzms  which  had  been  fo  often  made  to  thofe  of  his.  party  : 

the  Convocation  of  a  National  or  univerfal  Council,  wherein  he  might 

lawfully  be  intruded  in  thoTe  things  that  were  comroverted  in  mar- 

ter  of  Fauh  :  and  finally,  .he   protefted   to  count  invalid    whatfoe- 

ver  (hould.be  determined  againft  him  in  that  Aflembly  -at  .SAw.     To 

which  Propofitions  of  rhe  King  of  Navarre,  the  French  King,  added, 

:  if  juftice  requires>  no  maj?  (hould  be   fentenced  or  condemned 

with- 


Cent.    16.  Of  FRANCE. 


without  being  fummoned,  or  without  hearing  his  defence  .  it  was  noc 
good  to  Decree  fo  heavy  a  fentence,  without  giving  him  warning  to 
anfwcr  for  himfelf,  and  without  hearing  his  reafons  whatfoever 
they  were. 

The  King  feeing  the  obftinacy  of  the  States,  and  their  refolution 
againft  the  King  of  Navarre,  procures  an  abfolution  at  Rome  for  the 
Prince  of  fbnti,  and  Count  Stiffens,  of  theHoufeof  Bourbon)  which 
much  troubleth  the  Duke  of  Guife. 

The  King  being  no  longer  able  to  bear  the  infolencies  of  the  Duke  of 
Guife ,  refolves  upon  his  deftru&ion  :  and  to  bring  the  matter 
the  better  to  pafe,  (  feeming  (  as  it  were  )  to  be  ftirred  by 
devotion  )  determined  to  remove  to  a  Cell,  meaning  there  to  be  con- 
fdTed,  and  receive  theSacrament.  He  called  into  his  Chamber  four 
of  his  Council,  fuch  as  he  befttrufted*  to  whom  hedifcovered  the 
injuries  and  indignities  he  had  teceived  of  the  Duke  of  C/uifc,  his  er- 
treme  ambition  .•  the  -danger  himfelf  ftood  in  by  the  Treafons  con- 
tinually  pradifed  by  the  fakl  Duke  and  his  Confederates  againft  his 
Perfon.  He  told  them  he  was  determined  to  have  the  Duke  flain  as 
a  Traytour,  which  was  confented  to.  The  evening  of  the  22.  day  of 
December  being  come,  the  King  commanded  Monfuur  de  Larchant, 
one,  of  the  Captains  of  his  Guard,  to  double  them  the  next  morning, 
and  to  keep  the  Hall  door,  after  the  Lords  of  the  Council  were  gone 
in  j  but  that  he  (hould  do  it  in  fuch  a  manner,  as  the  Duke  of  Guife 
might  not  fufpeft  any  thing,  which  was  done. 

In  the  morning  the  King  made  himfelf  ready  before  day,  under  D.«"/.HW. .of 
colour  of  going  Perfonally  to  the  Council ,  and  pretending  he  fhould  Ot  F^e?* 
ftay  there  many  hoars,  difmifled  all  his  Servants  :  and  in  his  clofet 
there  only  remained  Revol  Secretary  of  State,  Colonel  'Alfonfo  Cor- 
fo,  and  Monfeur  de  la.  Baftide,  a  Gafcon,  who  were  all  command- 
ed by  him  to  ftay  there.  In  his  Chamber  was  St*  Prtfj  one  of  his 
old  Gentlemen-waiters  j  in  the  Ward  robe  the  Count  de  Tcrmes,  Great 
Chamberlain,  and  in  the  Anti-chamber  two  Pages,  an  Ufher  that 
waited  at  the  Councit-chamber-door,  and  LegnaCj  with  eighc  of  the 
five  and  fourty,  to  whom  the  King  had  with  very  great  Promiles. 
fignified  his  pleafure  ,  and  found  them  moft  ready  to  obey  his  com- 
mand.At  break  of  day  the  Counfellours  met,and  went  into  theGreatHall. 

The  Duke  being  come  into  the  Council,  fitting  near  the  fire ,  fell 
into  a  little  fwound,  but  quickly  recovered.  Secretary  Kcvtil  came 
into  the  Council  out  of  the  Anti-chamber,  and  told  him  the  King 
would  have  him  to  come  unto  him  in  the  Clofet.  The  Dukearofe, 
and  entred  into  the  Anti-chamber ,  which  prcfently  being  locked  af- 
ter him,  he  faw  there  only  eight  Gentlemen  of  the  King's  Guard 
which  were  well  known  unto  him  :  and  as  he  went  from  thence  in- 
to die  Clofet,  he  ftretcht  forth  his  hand  to  lift  up  the  hanging  of  the 

H  h  h  2  door  : 


60'  ffijC  CCCfcltaftiCai  friftO??          Cent..  1 6. 

•fiie  Duke  of  door  :  but  at  that  inftant  S.  Malin,  one -of -the  tight,  {fobbed-  him 
(.utjiSkx.  jnto  thg  neck  wjtjj  a  Dagger,  and  the. reft  prefently  fell  upon. him 
on  every  fide :  and  after  many  wounds  given  him  in  the  head,  be<- 
ingatlait  ftruck  by  Lwnac  (  upon  whom  he  had  moft  violently  thrown 
hhpfeh'j  he  fell  down  at  the  door  of  the  Wardrobe,  and  there  ex-  - 
pired.  The  Cardinal  of '  <juifc>  and  Archbifliop  of  Lions  are  made 
Prifoners  ,  as  alfo •  ajl  the  Lords,  and  other  chief  adherents  of 
the  Duke  of  Gu'iffy  with  *Annc  d'  Efte ,  Duchefs  of  Nemours^ 
and  Mother  to  the  Gni.fes.  Pelican,  the  Duke  ofCnife's  -Secretary, 
was  likewife  taken,  with  all  the  writings  which  •  belonged  to  his 
Lord  :  among  which  they  found  many  Letters,  containing  divers  pra- 
ftices  within  and  without  the  Kingdom,  the,  accounts  of  money  which 
he  had  received  from  Spaiv,  to  the  fumm  of  two  millions,  of  Du- 
cats. Many  whom  the  King  defircd  to  get  into  his  hands,  efcaped  the 
fury  of  that  grefent  revenge.  The  body  of  the  deadDuke  being  laidt 
up  in  a  green  cloth ,  was  carried  by  the  door-keepers  into  the 
great  room  beyond  the  King's  Clofet,  and.  there  laid  .till,  fiyrtkr 
order. 

Then  the  King  fent  Revol  to  the  Cardinal-Legate-  to  give  him. 
notice  of  all  that  had  pafled,  and  to  entreat  him  to  meet  him  at 
Mafs,  ihewing  how  great  a  defire  he  had  to  be  excufed  to  the  Pope. 
Then  having  caufed  the  doors,  to  be  opened  and  every  one  to  be  admitted, 
into  his.  Chamber,  he  faidwith  a  loud  voice,  That  from  thence-for-. 
ward  he  would  have  his  Subjects  learn  to  know  and  obey  him,  thatt 
every  one  therefore  from  that  time  fhould  forget  ftubbornnefs  and 
Rebellion:  for  he  would  be  a  King  not  only  in  words  but  indeeds> 
alfo.  .  So  with  an  angry  look,  and  fowr  countenance,  he  .went  down, 
the  flairs  into  his  Mothers  Lodgings. ., 

The  Queen  haying  .been  ill-,  lay  in  her  bed  when  the  .Khig   came 
unto  her,  to  whonuhe  King  faid,.  This  morning  I  have  made  myfelf. 
King  of  Francf,  having  put  to  death  the  King  of  Tar  is.    The  Queen, 
replyed  :  You, have  made  the  Duke  ofGttifc  to  be  ilain,  but  God  grant, 
you  be  not  now  ma4c  King  of  .nothing.     Have  youforefeen  thamif- 
cbiefs  that  are  like  to  follow,?  Two  things  are  neceflary  ;,  Sptfd  andk 
Rejblntiott.    So  being  much  afflicted  in  mind  and  with  the  Gout,  (he 
held  her  peace.  .  And  the  King  went  to  meet  the  Legate,    that  they  j 
might  go -to   Mafs  together  -,  and,  before  Mafs  the  Kingdifcotirf<th 
long  with  the  Cardinal  offfftf*rtfoi<  about  the  Duke  of  Guifes ^^ death, : 
The  King  feeing  that  the  Legate  fhewed  no  trouble^  at  the  iniprifon- 
ment  of  the  Cardinals,  CoRimandeth  that  Lews  of  Lcrain,  Cardi-- 
na)  of  Gitife,  be   aha  put   to  death.     And  Du-G.ifi,  Captain  of  the . 
King's  Guard  caufeth  the  Cardinal  of  Gmje  to  be  ilain  by  four  Soul-, 
diers  Armed  with  Partez.Ans*    His  body  was  carried  to  the  fame  place./ 
the  body  of  thje  Djukc  his  Brother  lay.  .  The  King .doybted^. 

that  , 


Gent. 1 6.  Of  FRANCE.  61 

that  if  their  bodies  were  feen ,  they  might  occafion  Come  tumult  : 
and  therefore  having  by  the  Counfel  of  his  Phyfitian  caufed  them  to 
be  buried  in  quick- lime,  within  a  few  hours  all  their  flefh  was  con- 
fumed,  and  afterwards  the  bones  w<ere  fecretly  interred  in  an  unknown 
place. 

The  Duke  of  Nemours  efcaped  out  of  Prifon  on  th«  fourth  day, 
Andj&nc  d'  Efte,  .Mother  to  him  and  the  dead  Princes  of  Lorain^ 
was  alfo  voluntarily  freed  by  the  King,  and  divers  others  were  fen  at 
liberty.  The  Cardinal  of  Bourben ,  the  Prince  of  Janville  (  now 
Duke  of  Gaife  )  the  Archbifhop  oiLions^  and  the  Duke  of  Elbeuf,  are 
all. put  into  the  Cattle  of  Amboyfe.  The  Archbifhop  of  Lions  being 
often  examined  ,  would  never  anfwer ,  alledging  that  as  Pri- 
mate of  all  France,  be.  had  no  other  Sugeriout  but  the  Apoftolick 
See. 

Chiles  Duke  of  M^yenne^  third  Brother  .to  the  Gmfn^  being  ad- 
vertifed  of  the  death  of  his  Brothers,  flees  from  Lions^  untoDijosr, 
a  place  under  his  Government.  In  his  valour  and  wifdom  all  the 
foundations  and  hopes  of  the  League  were  now  reduced.  TheQ^een*. 
Mother  died  on  January  5.  1589.  in  the  feventieth  year  of 
her  age. 

After  the  death  of  the  Duke  and  Cardinal  of  Guife,  the  City  of  Or- 
le.ans  rook  Arms,  fuppreffed  the  King's  Magiftrites,  and  afTaulted 
the  Fortrefs.  The  Citizens  of  Chartres-  did  the  fame,  though-in  the 
late  commotions  it  had  been  of  the  King's  party. 

At  Paris  the  Council  of  .the  League  being  cerae  together  in  the 
midft  of  the  City  full  of  tumults,  refolved  to  fendfor  Charles  Duke 
of  Aumale^  who  flying  from.  the.  States  at  Bloys^  out  of  a  certain  pre- 
faging  fear,  had  flayed  in  Parit,  and  that  very  day  was  mired  to  his 
devotions  to  the  Covent  ofCanhxfians  hard  by  the  City  -,  at  whofe  ar-  - 
rival  all  the  multitude  ran  to  his  houfe,  though  late  at  night,  fpending 
the  time  only  in  la'nventationi. 

The  next  day  the  whole  City  being  in  grief,  they  difpatched  di- 
vine fervice  quickly,  and  from  the  Churches  being  come  to  the  Town- 
houfe  ,  the  fame  Council  met  again   there,   at  which  were   preknt 
the   rooft  noted  Citizens,  and  many   alfo   of  the  Magiftraces  •  fome 
drawn  by  an  anxious  curiofity  ^  fome  driven  by  the  fear  of  being  torn- 
in  pieces  by  the  fury  of  the  multitude  -,  and  fonre  came  to  firxl>  reme- 
dy againft  "the  unbridled  rafihnefs  ofihe  common  people.     But  it  was 
aH  in  vain.     Charges  of  Lorain,  Dul<e   of  Aitmah)  being  made  Go- 
vernour  of  Ptiris  by  the-  City,  Arms  the  people,  and    orders   them- 
regularly    under  Commanders.     The    Preachers  from  their   Pulpits*- 
trumpet  out  the  praifes  of  the  Duke  of  Guifes  -Martyrdom,  and -de- 
reflations  of  that  (laughter  committed  by  the  King. ,  Upon   December  • 
2$.  the  Council  of.  Sixteen   caufed   a  writing  to  be  prefemed  to  the  ^ 

Collcdges 


cent.  v6. 


Colkdge  of  Divines,  called  the  Sorbonnejin  'the  name  of  the  Provoft 
and  Efchuins  of  the  City,  wherein  relating  how  much  the  Lords  of 
Guife  deferved  of  the  Catholique  Church,  and  their  being  murde- 
red by  the  King  as  Protectors  of  the  Faith,  They  demanded  whether 
be  might  not  Lawfully  be  faid  to  have  forfeited  his  Crown,  and 
whether  it  were  not  Lawful  for  his  Subjects  (notwithftandir.g  their  Oath 
of  Allegiance  )  to  withdraw  their  obedience  from  him,  as  a  Perfecu- 
tor  of  the  holy  Church,  who  had  embrued  his  hands  in  the  blood  of  a 
Sacred  Cardinal. 

The  College  of  Sorlonne,  declares  Henry  III.  to  have  forfeited 
his  Right  to  the  Crown  ,  and  his  Subjects  free  from  their  Oath  of 
Allegiance.  The  Kings  Arms  and  Statues  are  thrown  dovfcn  ;  the  Na- 
varrifs  and  Politicks  are  ilain  :  many  quiet  men  left  their  houfes  in 
ihofe  tumults  to  fave  their  lives.  All  the  Streets  were  full  of  Arms, 
ffoifes,  and  confufions,  and  the  meaneft  people  raging  againft  the 
marks  of  Royalty,  committed  intolerable  infolencies.  The  Preachers 
aggravated  the  Parricide  committed  by  the  King,  and  all  places  were 
full  of  Libels  both  in  Verfe  and  Profe,  which  contained  and  amplify 
the  fame  things  feveral  waies. 

By  the  advice  of  the  Council  of  Sixteen  all  the  Counfellours  of 
"Parliament  and  Officers  who  adhered  to  the  King  ,  are  imprifoned 
in  the  Bxftille.  And  the  Parliament  being  afterward  aflembled  to  the 
number  of  i6Q.  they  with  a  Publick  Declaration  aflented  to  the  de* 
pofing  of  the  King,  and  to  the  freeing  of  the  City,  and  fubftituted  new 
men  in  the  places  of  thofe  whom  they  had  put  out  and  imprifoned. 
They  alfo  made  a  Decree  to  unite  and  combine  themfelves  for  the  de- 
-fence  of  Religion,  calling  that  League  the  Holy  union. 

Attheinfurrection  of  the  Parliament  and  City  of  Paris,  thegreateft 
Cuies  and  moft  Warlike  People  of  France,  took  Arms  likewife,  and 
made  a  General  Commotion  j  fo  that  the  parry  of  the  League,  was 
not  only  grown  very  great  by  the  conjunction  of  the  principal  Cities, 
but  was  alfo  ftrengthened  by  the  abetting  of  the  Nobility,  in  whom  for 
the  moft  part  the  Forces  of  that  Crown  confift. 

All  the  Provinces  of  the  Kingdom  were  divided  and  difmembred,  Ci- 
ties were  againft  Cities,  Caftles  againft  Caftles,  Lords,  Gentlemen, 
and  meaner  perfons  againft  one  another  :  the  taws  were  trodden 
down,  the  bond  of  common  Charity  broken,  the  Magiftrates  dri- 
ven away  from  all  places  ,  and  a  moft  cruel  Civil  War  with  fire, 
(laughter,  blood,  and  rapine,  was  begun,  fo  that  all  commerce  being 
broken  off,  the  waies  bcfet,  the  Gentry  and  Commons  Armed,  and 
even  the  very  Clergy  incompafTed  with  Guards  and  weapons,  fome- 
Washes  rifl|$$  under  the  names  of  Hngonots  and  Catholicks,fometimes  ofRoy- 
alifts-and  Leaguers,  fometimes  of  the  holy  union  and  White  forces  , 
%ietim.€s  of  tfaitfrtf*  and  Drains,  they  were  as  With  a  fatal 

general, 


Cent.  1 6:  Of  FRANCE.  65 

general  Frenzy  bent  upon  the  definition  of  their  common  Coun- 
trey. 

The  King  diiTolved  the  Aflemblyat  Rloys ,  but  many  of  the  Lords, 
as  foon1  as  they  were  departed  from  Bloys,  joyned  again  to  the  party 
of  the  League.  Pope  Stxtxt  V.  being  toid  of  the  Cardinal  of  C"«//*V 
death,  is  highly  offended,  and  anfwereth  the  King's  Ambafladours 
very  (harply  ,  who  come  to  excufe  it  to  him,  and  chufeth  a  Con- 
gregation of  Cardinals  ,  who  were  to  confult  about  the  affairs  of 
France. 

The  King  writes  kind  Letters  to  the  Duke  of  Mayenne,  promising 
him  very  great  things  :  but  the  faid  Duke  (  notwithftanding  the  King's 
promifes)  being  perfwaded  by  tJMadam  de  Montpcrfier,  his  Sifter, 
makes  himfdf  Head  of  the  holy  union,  and  gave  order  to  the  Siturs 
de  Rhofnt,  de  S.  Paul,  Chamois,  and  d'  Efchavoles,  to  recruit  their  Re- 
giments of  French  foot,  and  began  to  fummon  the  Nobility  and  Gentry 
his  dependents,  and  to  win  the  hearts  of  the  people  in  everyplace. 
On  February  15.  the  Duke  came  to  Paris  with 4000.  Souldicr?, 
and  500.  Gentlemen  -,  there  he  is  declared  Lieutenant  General  of  the 
Crown  of  f  ranee.  On  February  22.  the  Duke  took  poffeftion  in  the 
Parliament  of  his  extraordinary  dignity,  having  taken  apublickOath 
for  the  defence  of  the  Romift  Religion  againft  every  one,  to  preferve 
entire  the  State  belonging  to  the  Crown  of  France,  to  defend  the  privi- 
ledges  of  the  three  Orders,  the  Clergy,  Nobility,  and  Commons, 
and  to  caufethe  Laws  and  Constitutions  of  the  Kingdom  to  be  obferved,as 
alfo  the  authority  and  power  of  the  Parliamentf.After  which  Oath  many 
Prayers  and  Proceffions  having  been  made,  he  chofe  and  appointed 
the  Council  of  the  Union,  confifting  of  forty  of  the  moft  eminent  per- 
fons  of  the  League, which  with  hisaififtance,  was  to  treat  of,  and  to  con- 
clude all  the  moft  weighty  affairs  j  the  Council  of  Sixteen  being  ne- 
verthelefs  left ,  and  particularly  appointed  for  the  fpecial  Government 
otParis. 

Now  the  Duke  of  his  Forces  began  to  form  an  Army,  and  in  every 
Province  he  allotted  both  Forces  and  Commanders  to  order  the  af- 
fairs of  the  League,  and  to  make  war  againft  tbofewho  were  of  the 
King's  party.  He  difpatcheth  Minifters  toRowe  to  confirm  the  Pope's 
inclination,  wh6  afterward  publifteth  a  Monuory  againft  the  King  of 
France,  and  foments  the  League  exceedingly. 

The  King  being  neceffirated  to  make  War,  agretth  with  the  King 
of  Navarre,  and  concludes  a  Truce  with  him.  TheSpariJIi .'.'Atnbaf- 
fadour  leaveth  the  Court,  and  goeih  to  refide  in  cParu  with  the  Heads 
of  the  League.  The  Pope's  Legate  departeth  atfo,  and  not  having  been 
able  to  perfwade  the  Duke  of  Afayenne  to  confent  to  Pc^cc,  goes  out 
o£  the  Kingdom. .  The  War  begins  furioufly  in  every  place.  The 

King 


64 3£lje  ccclcfiafttcai  %ifto?p     cent.  16. 

'King  of  Navarre  griws  Liberty  of  Confcience  in  thofe  places  he  had 
taken  ,  and  publi'heth  a  Afantfejto  ,  offering  to  take  Arms  againft 
thofe  that  rebelled  againfl  their  natural  King.  The  Duke  ot'Efternon 
sifter  the  death  of  the  Cuifes  returned  to  his  former  greatnefs  with  the 
King.  Captain  'Dti-Cdft^  who  killed  the  Cardinal  of  Gmfe,  treats 
about  an  accord  with  thofc  of  the  League  by  ehe  perfwafion  of  the  Arch- 
bifhopof  Lions. 

The   Truce  was  concluded    by  the  Kings  of  France  and  Navarre 
upon  thefe  Conditions.    That  the  publick  exercife  of  the  Romifo  Reli- 
gion fhould    be  reftored  in  all  places  held  by  the  Hugonots,  without 
any  exception.     That  the  goods  of  the  Clergy  fhould  be  reftored  to 
them,  wherefoever  they  were,  and  that  all  Prifoners  which  were ,  in 
iheir  hands   {hould   be  fet    at  liberty.    That  the  King  of  Navarre 
fhould  be  obliged  to  ferve  the  King  Perfonally  •  with  4000.  Foot,  and 
1200.  Horfe,    wherefoever   he  fhould  be   Commanded;  and  that  all 
die  Cities,  Towns  and  places  of  his  party  (hould  obferve  the  Laws  and 
Conftinrtions  of  the  Kingdom,  obey  the  Parliament  and  the  King's 
Magiftrates  ;  and  on  the  other  fide  that  the  King  of  Navarre  fhould 
receive  the  City  of  Sanmur,  «and  keep  it  in  his  power,  to  have  a  Paf§ 
over  the  River  Loire  -^  which  yet  he  would  be  obliged  to  reftore  at  the 
King's  pleafure  without  any  contradiction.    Which  Capitulations 
.  after   they  were  agreed  upon  and  ratified,  Beauliett  the  Secretary  of 
*State  delivered  up  Saumur  to  the  King  of  Navarre,  who  gave  the 
Government  thereof  to  Sicur  du  Pleflls  Mornay,  his  old  Confident. 
The  fame  truce  was  made  in  Daupkinc  between  Colonel  Atfonfo  Cor- 
fo  on  the  King's  part,  and  Monfeur  de  lejdiguiers,  for  the  King  of 
Navarre  ;  and  they  united  their  Forces  for  their  common  defence. 
The  Proteftams  rejoyced  exceedingly  at  this. reconciliation ,  magni- 
fying their1  Faith  and  Obedience  toward  the  King,  to  the  confufion  of 
rhofewho  till  'then  had  published  and  defamed  them  as  tumultuous  and 
difobedient  Rebels. 

The  King  receives  an  aid  of  mony  from  the  Great  Duke  QiTttfcany^ 
and  fends  to  the  Srviffes  and  Germans  to  a/fift  him  with  Forces  both 
of  Horfe  and  Foot.  Hecalleth  all  the  Prefidems  and  Counfellours  of 
the  Parliaments  of  Paris,  Roven,  and'Z)*/0«,  who  were  fled  from  the 
popular  fury,  refolving  that  the  Parliament  of  Paris  fhould  refide  in 
Tours,  that  o^Rsven  mGaen,  in  the  fame  Province  6f  Normandy^ 
snd  that  of  .Dijon  at  Chtloni,  and  then  by  a  (harp  Edid  declared 
them  all  Rebels,  who  being  chofen  to  the  dignity  of  the  Parliaments, 
fliould  continue  to  refide  in  thofe  Cities  and  places  which  had  with- 
drawn ihemfelves  from  his  obedience  ,  and  forbad  all  men  to  bave 
any  recourfe  to  them  to  feekfor  juftice,  declaring  all  fentences  to  be 
void,  whifh  they  fhould  pronounce  under  the  name  and  title  ofPar- 
liament.  Thelame  declaration  he  made  againft  tlie  Du'.e 


Cent.   16.  _  Of  FRANCE.  65 

•ne,  againft  the  Duke  of  Aumale^  and  others.     Then  having  appointed 
Governours  in  all  Provinces  he  gave  Commiffion  to  make  Levies,  to  • 
draw  Souldiers  together,  and  that  the  War  fhould  be  begun  in  every 
place. 

Th^  Pari/ians  at  the  news  of  the  Truce  between  the  King  and  the 
Proteftants  ,  befides  many  publick  figns  of  contempt,  forbid  the  King 
to  be  prayed  for  any  longer  in  the  Canon  of  the  Mafs. 

The  Duke  of  Montpenfier  begins  the  War  againft  thofe  of  the  League, 
dcfeateth  the  (jautiers  in  Normandy,  and  the  Count  of  Brifac's  Forces, 
who  came  to  divert  the  fiege  of  Palais.  The  Duke  of  Mayenne  takes 
t'endofme,  and  the  Count  de  Brienne  Prifoner.  An  interview  was  had 
between  the  French  King  and  the  King  of  Navarre  af  the  Pare  dit  Tlcf- 
fis  without  the  Walls  of  Totirs.  eJWayexne  afTauits  the  King's  Army 
at  Tours,  where  they  fight  a  long  time.  The  King  himfdf  orders  and 
difpofeth  his  Souldiers,  puts  himfelf  among  thofe  that  fight.  But 
Supplies  coming  from  the  King  of  Navarre,  he  gives  off  the  en- 
terprize. 

The  Duke  of  Aatnalc  befiegeth  Senlu  :  Monfieur  de  Longuevitle 
go^s  with  fmall  Forces  to  relieve  it,  and  raiferh  the  fiege  with  a  great 
Slaughter  of  the  Leaguers.  Aumalt  fighteth,  and  lofeth  the  day  wiih 
T«s  Artillery,  Baggage,  and  thirty  Colours, 

Monfietir  de  Saucy  having  raifed  great  Forces  in  Switzerland,  and 
begun  the  War  with  Savoy,  marcheth  towards  Paris  againft  the  Lea- 
guers, whither  the  King  was  alfo  advancing.  But  the  Count  de  Soif- 
fans  being  aiTaulted  by  the  Duke  de  Mercosur,  is  taken  Prifoner.  The 
Sieur  de  Savenfe  going  with  400.  Horfe  to  joyn  with  Mtyenne,  is 
routed  by  the  Sicur  de  Chaftillon,  and  taken  Prifoner. 

The  King  takes  (jergeau  and  Piviers*  But  foartres  fee  open  their 
Gates  ^  and  having  driven  out  the  dependents  of  the  League,  received 
the  King  with  all  his  Army. 

The  Pope  by  Monitory  declares  the  King  liable  to  cenfure,  if  with- 
in {ixty  daies  hcreleafes  not  the  Prelates,  and  doth  not  penance  for 
the  Cardinal  of  Guifes  death.  The  King  being  troubled  at  ic  fafteth 
forty  hours  :  ha  faid,  he  thought  it  hard,  that  he  who  had  ever  fought 
and  laboured  for  Religion,  fhould  berafhiy  Excommunicated,  becaufe 
he  would  not  fuffer  his  own  throat  to  be  cut  by  the  Arms  of  his  Re- 
bellious Subjeds  :  and  that  thofe  who  had  facked  R^me,  and  kept  the 
Pope  himfelf  Prifoner,  had  never  been  Excommunicated.  The  King 
of  Navarre  being  prefem  anfwered  :  But  they  were  Victorious  : 
Let  your  Majefty  ende.vour  to  Conquer,  and  afluredly  the  cenfures 
(hall  be  revoked  •,  but  if  we  be  overcome,  we  (hall  all  die  condemned 


The  King  taking  Eftampes,  hangs  the    Magistrates,  and  gives  the 
pillage  of  the  Town  to  the  Souliiers.   Montcrcan  was  alfo  taken  by 

I  i  i  Storm, 


66          ^ecccledadfcai^tfto^       cent.  16. 

Siorm,  and  facked.     Poiffy  yielded  ic  felf,  aad  now  the  King  was  Ma- 
fter  of  that  fpacious  Bridge,  which  there  gives  paflage  over  the  Seme. 
Here  Afyitfettper  joyned  with  the  King's  Army.     Tointoife  was  after 
a  bloody  afiault  alfo  forced  to  yield.    The  next  day  the  forreign  Army 
arrived  at  Poijfy- bridge,  there  the  SKitfcj  joyn  wiih  t  eKing.    All 
the  Bridges  being  loft,  all  the  neighbouring  Towns  furrendered,  all  the  - 
pafiages  of  the  River  flopped  and  ihe  City  ftraimed  on  all  fides,  there 
was  no.  other  hope  left  bur  what  the  prefence  of  the  Duke  of  Afayenne 
and  of  the  Army  afforded,  which  was  all  (hut.  up  within,  the  Circuit  o£ 
the  Suburbs  of  Paris. 

The  City  of  Paris  being  much  .ftraimed  ,and  under  great  terreur 
C  a  thing  well  known  to  the  King  by  the  frequency,  of  thbfe  who  ran 
every  hour.from.  the  City  to  his  Camp. ;  upon  thelaftday  of  July 
he  would  needs  Perfonally  view  the  EnemiesPofts,  refolvingon  the  2. 
of  t<4tig)$  to  aflfault  their,  works  on  every  fide.  In  his  return  toward 
S.  CUud  flopping  his  Horfe  upon  an  hill,  from  whence  he  faw  all  the 
CitydiftinAly,  he  brake  forth  into  thefe  words.  O  Paris,  thou  art 
the  be  ad  of  the  Kingdom  ..bat  an  Head  too  great^  and  too  Capricious  •  it- is 
necefaryby  let  ting  blood  to  cure  thee  again.  I  hapethat  within  few  *4**t 
here  fiall  be  neither  walls  nor  hottf(S>  but  only  the  wry  fcotftepsof 
Paris. 

But  now  there  was  In.Paris  one  Jaqitcs  Ctewevt,  a.  Frier  of  the  Order 
ofS,  Dominicl^,  born  of  mean  Parents  in  a  Village  called  Sorbone,  in 
the  Territory  of  the  City  of  Sens,  a  young  man  about  twenty  two  years , 
of  age,  and  alwaies  thought  by  his  fellow- Friers,  and  others  that  knew 
hitn,  to  be  an  half-witted  fellow,  and  rather  a  fubjed  of  /port,  than  to 
be  feared.     This   fellow    refolves  to  hazard  his  life  to  kill  the  King-, 
lyhomhe   called   by  the  name  of  Tyrant,  and  to  free  that  holy  City 
(as he  faidj  from  Sennacherib*  violeuce^  with  which  refolution  he: 
wftit  to  Dodror  Burgoine  Prior  of  his  Covenr,  and  imparted  this  dam- 
nable projed  to  Jiimj  to  Father  Commolet,  toother  Jefuites,   and  to 
the  Heads  of  the  League,  all  of  them  encouraging  him  to  this  deviliflr 
dehgn,  withpromife  of  Abbeys  and  Bifliopricks  if  he  efcaped,  and  if  he 
died  in  the  aftion  to  be  made  a  Martyr,   and  have  place  ia  heaven  above- 
the  Apoftks. 

To  that  end  he  goes  from  Paru  having  gotten  a  letter  of  credit  from- 
t|ie  Count  of  Br.ienne^  who  having  been  taken  at  S.,0z/jw,  was  ftilJ  Fri- 
fpnerinthe  City,  alluring  him,  that  he  was  to  fpeak-  with  the  King- 
about^  a  bufinefs  of  infinite  importance.  Upon  the  fif&ofjtopufl  in  the 
morning,  the  Frier  being  brought  in  to.  the  King,  gives  him^the  letter 
from  the  Count  de  Brienne,  which  the  King  read  :  and  having  bid  him 
proceed  to  tell  his  bufinefs,  he  feigned  to  feel  for  another  paper  to  pre- 
terit it . :  and  whilft  the  King  flood  intentively  expeding  it,  he  having 
Ofawn  hisknifeocuofhisfleeve,  ftruckjmoon_rheleft  fideof the  nave!,; 

and 


Gene.    i<J.  Of  FRANCE. 


•and  lefc  all  the  blade  buried  in  the  wound.     The  King  feeling  the  blow,  Kin?  HCW»  in. 

drew  forth  the  knife,   and  in  drawing  of  it  made  the  wound    wider,  and 

prefently  ftruck  it  hitnfelfup  to  the  haft  in  the  Frier's  forehead,  who 

at  the  fame  time  (  la  Guefle  running  him  ihorow  with  his  fword  •,)  feU 

down  dead  ;  and  was  no  fooner  fallen,  but  Momverat ,  Lognac,  and  the 

Marque (s  de  Mirefoix,  Gentlemen  of  the  King  s  Chamber,  who  were 

prefent  at  the  fad,  threw  him  out  of  the  window,  where  by  the  com* 

mon  Souldiers  he  was  torn  in  pieces,  burnt,  and  his  aflies  thrown  into 

the  River.    The  King  was  carried  toJiis  bed,  and  fending  for  the  King 

of  Navarre,  he  committed  to  him  the  care  of  the  Army.    He  told  him, 

ifcuftom  of  killing  Kings  fliould  grow  in  ufe,  neither  fhouldhe  be 

long  fecure.    He  exhorted  the  Nobility  to  acknowledge  the  King  of 

Navarre  to  whom  the  Kingdom  of  right  belonged.     His  Confeffour 

abfolved  him  and  gave  him  the  Sacrament  the  fame  night.    And  having 

embraced  the  King  of  Navarre,  having  called  his  Chaplain,  he  in  the 

prcfence  of  them   all  rehearfed  the  Creed  after  the  ufc  of  the  Roman 

Church :  and  having  eroded  himfelf,  began  the  Mfirere,  but  his  fpeech 

failing  himinthefe  words,  Redde ^mthi  Utititm  .falutis  tue,  he   died., 

having  lived  36.  years,  and  Reigned  15.  and  juft  2.  Months.    In 

tiis  death  ended  the  Line  of  Kings  ot"thehoufcof^/0tf,  and  the  pofte- 

rity  of  Philip  III.  Sirnamed  the  Hardy-,  and  by  vertue  of  the  Salique 

Law  the   Crown  devolved   to   the  Family  of  Bourbon  neareft  of  the 

blood,  and  defcended  from  Robert  Count  of  Clermont,  the  fecond  Son  &f 

St.  Lewes. 

Here  let  the  Reader  be  advertised,  that  when  the  Jefuites  have  made 
thoice  of  an  Inftrument  for  that  King-killing  fervice,  that  they  intend 
tofethim  about-  they  do  not  put  him  upon  it  till  they  have  firftraifed 
and  fitted  his  fpirit  for  the  Service  by  this  means,  Firft  they,  bring  him 
to  a  very  private  place  in  a  Chappel,  or  Oratory,  where  the  knife  lies 
wrapt  up  in  a  cloth  with  an  Ivory  (heath,  with  divers  Characters,  and 
Agnut  JD«"supon  it.  They  draw  the  knife,  and  bedew  it  with  holy 
water,  and  hang  upon  the  haft  of  it  forne  Beads  confecrated,  with  this 
Indulgence,  that  fo  many  blows  as  he  gives  in  killing  the  King,  fo  ma- 
ny fouls  (hall  he  deliver  out  of  Purgatory.  Then  they  give  the  knife  ta 
him,  commending  it  to  himinthefe  words,  O  than  chofenSon  of God, 
take  to  theethe  Sword  0/Jephte,  Sampfon,  David,  Gideon,  Judith,  of 
Macchabees,  of  Julius  the  fecond,  vtho  defended  himfelf  front  the  Princes 
ky  bis  fword.  :Go,  and  be  wifely  cow-agious,  and  Gcdftrengthen  thy 
hand.  Then  they  all  fall  upon  their  knees  with  this  prayer  :  Be  prefent, 
Q  ye  Cherubim*  and  Serajdjims,  be  prefect  ye  Thrones,  Powers,  holy 
^Angels  fillthisfcjfcl  witbgtory,  .give  him'the  fiovpn  of  all  the  holy  Mar- 
tyrs j  he  ^  no  longer  ours  but  your  companion.  And  thou,  O  GW, 
ftrengthen  his  arm*,  that  he  may  do  thy  will,  give  hi m  thy  he Imtt,  and 
f?i»gt  to  fie  from  bit  enemies,  give  him  thy  comforting  beams  y  \vhiib 
lii  Z 


cent.  id. 


may  joy  him  in  the  midft  cfhisforrorrs..  Then  they  bring  him  to  the 
Altar,  where  is  the  Pidure  ofjayues  Clement,  who  killed  King  Henry 
III.  the  Angels  protecting  him,  and  then  they  (hew  him  a  Crown  of 
glory,  and  fay,  Lord  rejpeft  this  thy  arm  and  Executioner  of  thy  jn- 
ftice.  Then  tour  Jefuites  are  appointed  privately  to  talk  with  him, 
they  tell  him,  that  th^y  fee  a  Divine  luftre  in  his  face, which  moves  them 
to  fall  down  and  kifs  his  feet ;  and  now  (  fay  they  )  he  is  no  more  a 
mortal  man.  They  envy  his  happinefs,  every  one  fighing,  and  faying, 
Would  God  I  were  in  your  room,  that  they  might  efcape  Purgatory, 
and  go  immediately  into  Paradife.  But  if  they  perceive  him  to  fhrink, 
and  to  ,be  troubled,  after  all  this  they  will  fometimes  affright  him  with 
terrible  apparitions  in  the  night  •  and  fometimes  have  the  Virgin  M<aryy 
and  the  Angels  appear,  &c. 

After  the  King's  death  ihe  Image  and  Portraiture  of  the  traiterous 
Monk  who  kilkd  the  King,  by  the  commandment  of  the  chief  of  the 
League,  was  raoft  artificially  framed  in  brafs,  and  other  painting  , 
wherewith  they  garnifhed  both  their  houfes  and  their  Churches.  Then 
was  he  Canonized,  and  among  the  Superfluous  prayed  unto  us  as  a 
Martyr,  whom  they  called  by  the  name  of  St.  Jaime  s  Clement. 

Henry  King  of  Navarr*  fuceeeded  Henry  III.  in  the  Kingdom  of 
grance.  The  Dukt  of  Mayenne  (  not  daring  to  take  upon  him- the  title 
of  King  )  caufed  it  by  publick  Proclamation  to  be  given  to  Charks 
Cardinal  of  B.ourbon^  then  a  Prifoner,  and  coined  boch  Gold  and  Sil- 
ver with  the  Pidure  of  King  Charles  X.  And  difguifing  the  ufurpati- 
on  of  bis-authority ,  he  accepted  the  title  which  the  General  Council  of 
the  union  gave  him,  of  Lieutenant  (general  of  the  State^  and  Crown  of 
France. 

TheDukeofLtf.v«w6*£  told  the  new  King,  that  the  Princes,  Lords, 
and  Officers  of  the  Crown,  together  with  the  .Cacholick  Nobility  that 
was  in  the  Army,  were  ready  to  acknowledge  him  King  of  franc* ,  to 
fcrve  him  againft every  one,  fmce  God  and  nature  had  called  him  to 
the  Crown  by  a  lawful  fucce (lion  :.but  withal  they  befoughr  him  he 
would  be  pleafed.  to  turn  to  the  Caiholick  Religion,  to  take  away 
.the  pretences  of  his  enemies ,  and  the  fcruples  of  his  fervants. 

The  King  gives  them  thanks  ,  telling  them  how  ready  he  was  to  re- 
quite  their  duty  and  fidelity,  both  in  publick  and  in  particular  ;  butd.'- 
iired  they  would  not  think  it  ftrange ,  if  he  did  not  fo  prcfemly  fatib/K 
their  firft  requefts,  becaufe  the  quality  of  the  thing-demanded,  required 
a  convenient  time  of  advice,  and  the  ripenefs  of  a  grounded  refolntioiL 
That  he  fet  a  greater  value  upon  his  Soul  and  Confidence  than  upon  all 
earthly  grearnefs. .  That  he  had  been  bred,  in  the  Reformed  Religion,  but 
r.evenhelefs  he  would  not  be  obftinate.  That  he  was  re^dy  to  fubmits 
hirnfeif -either  to  a  General  or  National  Council,  and  to  the  inftrufti- 
c.ns  which  without  palliating  ths.tnuh,  Ihould  be  given  him  by  learned 

con 


Cent.  id.  Of  PR  A  N  C  E.  69 

confcientious  perfons.  That  he  had  a  firm  refolution  to  endeavour  the 
fatisfadion  of  his  Subjeds ;  but  that  conjundure  was  not  proper  co 
put  his  good  defires  in  effed,  left  his  adion  and  declaration  fhould 
ieem  feigned,  and  extorted  by  force,  or  elfe  perfwaded  by  worldly 
interefts.  Wherefore  heintreated  them  to  flay  till  a  fit  opportunity  ; 
and  if  in  the  mean  time  they  defired  any  condition  or  fecurity  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  Catholick  Religion,  he  was  ready  to  give  them  all 
the  fatisfadion  they  could  wifti  for. 

After  their  departure  the  Stenrde  la  Novf,  a  Proteftant,  tells  the 
King,  hemuft  never  think  to  be  King  of  prance  if  he  turn  not  Ca- 
tholick. 

At  laft  it  was  concluded,  that  the  King  taking  a  prefixed  time  for 
his  turning  to  the  Rotmfj  Religion,  he  IVould  fecure  the  Scare  of  the  Ca- 
tholick Religion,  and 'thai  upon  thofe  terms  they  would  receive  and 
follow  him.  And  at  laft  a  writing  was  mutually  agreed  on  between  bo:h 
Parties,  whereby  the  Popifo  Princes,  Lords,  and  Officers  of  the 
Crown,  Nobility  and  Souldicry  on  the  one  fide,  fwear  fidelity  to  the 
King  ;  and  on  the  other  fide  the  King  f\vears  to  the  maintenance  of  the 
Popifli  Religion.  The  Duke  of  Ejpcrnon  (landing  upon  precedency, 
will  not  fign  the  writing,  but  departs  from  Courr.  Many  Lords,  and 
a  great  part  of  the  Souldiers,  following  the  Duke  ofEfpernon's  exam- 
ple, leave  the  Camp,  fo  that  in  few  daies  the  Army  is  decreafed  to  half 
ihe  number.  Many  of  the  Proteftants  alfo  disbanded  out  of  anger  and 
.difcontent,  and  returned  in  great  abundance  to  the  Cine*  of  their 
party. 

The  King  raifech  the  fiege  frocn  ?*rw,  and  divides  his  Forces  inic 
convenient  places.  The  Cardinal  of  Boarhr/j'^  taken  outofC/w/;0v., 
and  removed  \.QF,ontenayj  aflronger  place,  where  he  is  kept  with  ftri- 
cter  Guards. 

The  Duke  of  Luxembourg  isfent  Ambafiadour  to  the  Pope  by  the 
Catholick  Royalhfts  :  and  the  Kirrg  joints  the  AfTembJy  at  Tours 
which  is  made  the  Head-quarter-of  h»S'par:y.  The  body  of  King  Hen- 
ry III.  is  laid  in  the  great  Church  of  Compdgn^  with  very  little  .Pomp, 
aod  fuch  as  the  necefliry  of  the  times,  would  permit  by  King  Henry  l\\ 
who  went  towards  Normandy  with  all  poiTible  fp;ed.  The  King's 
Army  is  reduced  to  but  6000.  Poor,  and  1400.  Horfe,  yet  hemar- 
.cheth  with  good  fuccefs  as  far  as  D/V-^r,  where  he  fortifies  his  quarter^ 
pofTcffing  all  places  of  advantage. 

The  DufcetM^greww  being  come  before  the  King's  trenchcs^dra^vs 
its  Army  in  Battalm  •,  but  the  King's  Souldrers  coming  only  toskir- 
mifh,  no  Battel  followetb.  They  that  were  in  the  League  making 
figns  of  coming  over  to  the  King's  party,  are  received  by  them  at  [he 
Maladery,  bur  being  entred  in  an  hoftile  manner  full  upon  them  that, 
hid  brought  them  in,,  and  make  themfelves  maft^rs  of  <  he  pl-icc :  where- - 

UPOtVi 


cccicCaftical  %(fto?p       ccnt>  \6. 

upon  both  Armies  joyn  Bated,  and  the  Kingbftng  relieved  by  Monfa&r 
de  Chaftrflon,  recovereth  the  trenches,  and  the  Duke  of  M^tyenm  mar- 
cheih  homDicpe  with  his  Army. 

The  King  came  to  Amiens,  ihe  chief  City  of  Picardy,  where  he  was 
entertained  with  very  great  pomp,  being  met  without  the  Gates  by  all 
the  Citizens ,  who  prefemed  unto  him  aCanopy  of  State  to  be  earned 
over  him,  as  the  cuftom  is  to  do  unto  the  King,  but  he  refufed  ir,  gi- 
ving great  teftimony  of  his  prudence  and  moderation  by  an  aft  of 
Co  great  modefty. 

Whtlft  he  flayed  at  Amiens,  Elizabeth  Queen  of  'England^  firft 
Tent  him  twenty  thoufand  pounds  Sterling,  with  Powder,  Munition  fot 
War,  and  certain  Ships  alfo  to  ferve  at  his  command  :  and  caufing  a 
general  Mufter  to  be  taken  in  mod  of  the  Shires  of fLngland,  (he  fertt 
-4®oo.  Englifl)  Souldiers,  and  icoo»  Scots  very  well  appointed, 
and  furnilhedr  All  the  money  he  prefently  diftributed  among  his 
Souldiers.  The  General  of  the  Evglijl)  was  the  Noble  Peregrine  £*r- 
Ty,  Lord  Willougkby,  which  Forces  were  again  recruited  with  a  fup- 
fdy  of  three  thoufand  Foot,  which  were  fern  into  tfritany,  under  the 
Conduct  of  that  Son  of  tstfors,  Sir  John  Norris.  Thefe  joyning  with 
the  Prince  of  Dombes,  General  of  that  Province,  did  many  worthy  ex- 
ploits for  the  French  King. 

The  King  now  marcheth  towards  Paris,  having  in  Ms  Army  20000. 
Toot,  3000.  Horfe,  and  fourteen  great  Pieces.  He  afTaults  the  Sufa- 
yrbs  of  Waris  U^QH  All-Saints-day,  and  taking  them  gives  the  Pil- 
lage to  the  Souldiers.  In  the  afiault  above  900-  Parifans  were  flam, 
and  more  than  400.  taken  Prifoners,  among  which  Father  Edmond 
'Bxrgoine,  Prior  of  the  Covent  of  Jacobin^  who  being  convicted  by 
witnefs  to  have  publickly  in  the  Pulpit  praifedthe  Murder  of  Henry 
111.  and  to  have  counfelled  and  inftigated  the  murderer,  comparing  him 
alfo  in  his  Sermons  after  the  fad  to  Judtth,  and  the  dead  King  to 
Holofernes,  and  the  City  delivered  to  Bethxlia,  he  was  by  Judgement 
x>f  the  Parliament  of  Tours  Sentenced  to  be  drawn  in  pieces  by  four 
'Horfes,  tits  quarters  burned,  and  his  aflies  fcattered  in  the  wind. 
Which  Sentence  was  feme  few  months  after  feverely  exe- 
cuted. 

Yet  notwithftanding  the  pillaging  of  the  Suburbs,  charge  was  gi- 
ven roc  to  violate  either  Churches,  Monafteries  or  other  Sacred  pla- 
ces :  which  was  fo  exactly  obfervedv  that  Mafies  were  faid  that  day 
in  all  Churches,  as  if  there  had  been  no  fuch  bufinefs  •,  and  all  the'&- 
vtamjh  in  the  King's  Army  were  prefent  at  ttem  celebrating  that  Holy- 
day  with  great  rcjoydng. 

But  at  the  arrival  of  the  Duke  of  Mayenne^  the  King  leaves  the 
Suburbs  of  Parit,  and  coming  to  Eftampes ,  he  caufeth  it  to  be  difman- 
Ved.  Many  fuccefles  hapned  to  the  King's  party  through  aft  France. 

The 


Cent.  \6>  Of  FRANCE.  ?l 

The  King  takes  Vendofac,  and  gives  the  piltage  to  his  Soufdiers,  con- 
demns thexGovernour  to  death,  for  his  untaithfulnefs  :  and  Father 
Robert^  a  Cordelier  ^  who  had  there  publickly  commended  the  King  V 
murderer,  and  with  his  Sermons  excited  the  people. 

At  this  time  flourished  Lambtrtut  D^nnmt^  a  French-  Divine  of  Or- 
leans. Quin  &  Lamb.  D tin* us  virfxn:  apprime  truditm,  &  de  in- 
ftruendu  aliis  optime  merit us ',  Phyjtcam  fuaw  Theolog'tcam,  tarn  ex  Ve- 
teri  quam  novo  codice  non  in  utili labor  e  exftrxxit.  Tych.  Brah.Epft. 
Jlftron.  lib!  I. 

Henry  IV.  is  acknowledged  King  of  France  with  publiekfolemnity" 
at  Tows  •    he  defers  the  AfTemblingof  the  States  :  and  in  (hort  time- 
makes    himfelf  Mafter  oi   all   the    Towns    and    FortrefTes  of  Nor- 
mandy. 

The  Pope  refolves  to  fend  aid  to  the  League  againft  the  King.    He 
declares  Cardinal  Henrico  Gaetano  Legate  to  the  League  of  France. 
He  appointed  moreover  a  feleft  number  of  Prelates  to  accompany  the 
Legate,  men  of  good  Learning,  and  experienced  in  the  matters  of 
Government,  among  whom  were  Lorenzo  TZianchttti,  and-Filippo  Se- 
ga,   who  after  were  Cardinal,  Marco  Antonio  Mocenigo  Bifliop  of 
fi'neda,  a  man  weil  verfedin  affairs,  and  highly  efteemed  by  the  Pope, 
Pfancefco  Panigarolay  Birtiop  of  -Afli,  a  renowned  Preacher,  and  Ro*  • 
ben  Bellarmine  a   learned   Jefuite.     To  the  choice  of  thefe  men  the' 
Pope  added   Bills  of  Exchange  to  the  Merchants  of  Lions  for  three 
hundred  thoufand  crowns,  with  Commiffion  to-  the  Legate  to  difpofe 
of  them  according  tooccafion,  but  particularly  to  fpend  them  for  the 
infranchifement  of  the  Cardinal  o(  Bvitrbon,  upon  which  he  (hewed  his 
mind    was    fixed    more    than  upon    any  other  thought  whatfo- 
ever. 

But  the  Pope  by  letters  from  the  Duke  of  Luxemburg,  found,  that 
what  the  Agents  of  the  League  had  reprefented  to  him,  Was  vain  : 
whereupon  the  Pope  gave  Orders  and  Commiffions  to  his  Legate , 
to  fhew  himfelf  no  lefs  Neutral  inthefecular  pretenfions  of  the  Prin- 
ces, than  moft  zealous  concerning  Religion,  and  not  to  value  one- 
French-man  above  another,  provided  he  were  obedient  to  the  Church, 
and  generally  liked  by  the  Kingdom .-  and  that  he  fhould  not  (hew  him- 
felf an  open  enemy  to  the  King  of  Navarre,  fo  long  as  there  was  any 
hope  he  might  return  into  the  bo fom  of  the  Church. 

But  thefe  advertifements  were  very  contrary  to  the  principal  fcopeof 
the  Embaflfy,  which  was  to  uphold  the  Catholick  partyofthe  League, 
as  the  foundation  of  that  Religion  in  France,  fo  that  the  fubftance  of; 
the  bufinefs  changed  in  the  variety  of  circumftances,  did  fo  difturb  the 
Execution,  that  it  was  afterwards  governed  more  by  the  diverfny-ef  ac- 
cidents than  by  any  determinate  resolution. 


7*  -  cent.  16. 

The  Cardinal-Legate  being   come  into  France,  required  Colonel 
jiljovfo  Cor  fa,  nor  only  to  rcrbear   molefting  Greitobie  2nd  Valence-) 
(  which  Cities  alone  held  for  the  League  in  Dauphine)  but  alfo  that 
as  a  Catholick  and  ftranger,  he  fhould  forfake  the  King's  party ,  and 
joyn  with  the  union.     But  he  anfwered,  that  he  was  indeed  a  Catho- 
lick, and  an  obedient  Son  to  the  See  of  Rome  infpiritual  things  j    bur 
that  having  nude  las  Fortune  ?,s  a  Souldie-r,  in  ihe  frrvice  of  the  King 
of  France,  he  could  not  defift  from  following  him,  but  was  bound  to 
do  what  he  could  in  the  affairs  of  the  Prince  whom  he  fcrved.     This 
anftver  troubled   the   Legate,  and  the  rather,  becaufe  being  cccie  to 
X./0w,.hc   found   the  bulinefs  of  the  League  in   great  difordcr  by  the 
King's  profperous  fuccefs.     The  Count  of  Brifac,  appo;medac  iirftto 
meet  ihe  Legate,  and  fecure  his  paflage  ^  was  forced   to  face  about, 
and  employ  himfelf  in  the  affairs  of  Normandy.    The  Duke  of  Nev ers 
invited  him  to  come  into  his  State,  where  ftanding  Neuter,  he  might 
freely  take  thofe  wayes  as  might  appear  mod  convenient  to  him.     On 
.  the  other  fide  the  Duke  of ' Mayetmc  ceafed  not  to  follicite  him  to  come 
to  Ps.ris,   (hewing  him  that  without  the  authority  of  his  name,  and 
thofe  helps  which  were  hoped,  for  from  him,  the  League  was  in  dan- 
ger to  be  diflblved,  and  fubdued  by  the  King's  forces  -,  and  all  the 
reft    of  the  Kingdom   would  remain  oppreSed  by    the    fJu' 
party. 

The  Legate  having  overcome  many  difficulties,  arrives  at 
where  hecaufcdthe  Pope's  Breve  of  the  15.  of  Otto\w  to  be  publi- 
fhed,  wherein  after  an  honourable  commemoration  of  the  merits  of 
the  Kingdom  of  £ 'ranee  toward  the  See  oi  Rome^  &c.  Heattefted, 
t^at  hehadchofen  Cardinal  (jaetatw  Legate  to  the  Kingdom  of  France, 
with  power  to  ufe  all  means  fitting ,  to  protect  the  Catholick  Reli- 
gion, to  recal  Hereticks  into  the  boforac  of  the  Church  -,  to  reftore 
-the  Peace  and  tranquillity  ofth*  Kingdom  -,  and  finally,  to  proeurethat 
under  one  only  good,  pious,  and  truly  Catholick  King,  the  people 
of  Frame  might  to  the  glory  of  God  live  in  quietnefs  and  tranquillity, 
after  fo  many  calamities  of  War.  Wherefore  he  prayed  and  exhorted  all 
the  Orders  and  Degrees  of  France  to  perfevere  in  the  Catholick  Religi- 
on, andto labour  to  extinguifh  and  roocupiheevilofHerefie,to  cutoff 
the  cccafions  of  difcord^  and  that  particular  enmities,  quarrels,  and 
Civil  Wars  bting  laid  aiide,  they  (houW  refolve  to  yield  obedience 
to  a  lawful  truly  Catholick  King,  and  the  Divine  worfhip  being 
reftored  under  his  fhadow ,  to  life  in  charitable  union  and 
concord. 

Two  different  Declarations  followed  upon  the  publication  of  this 
Breve  v  one  of  the  Parliament  of  Tours,  by  which  all  ferfons  were  for- 
•bidden  to  obey  or  acknowledge  the  Legate  :  the  other  of  the  Parlia- 
ment of  Parts,  by  which  all  were  exhorted  to  receive  the  Fatherly 

love 


Cent.   16.  Of  FRANCE. 


love  of  the  Apoftolick  See,  and  to  give  due  Reverence  to  the  Legates 
admonitions.  After  which  contrary  Declarations,  many  Learned  men 
fight  for  their  Factions  with  their  Pens,  as  the  Souldiers*with  their 
Swords. 

Aid  being  defired  by  the  League  from  the  King  of  Spain,  the  Sieur 
de  la,  Mtfhe  refufeth  to  advance  beyond  ^he  Frontiers  of  France  from 
Flandtrt,  unlefs  the  King  of  Spain  be  declared  Protedor  of  the  Crown 
of  France,  with  authority  to  difpofe  the  chief  pm  of  the  Temporal  and 
Ecclefiaftical  Dignities,  which  Prerogatives  they  called,  las  ffarcatde 
jtiftitia,  marks  of  juftice. 

The  Duke  of  M*yennc  will  not  hearken  to  an  agreement  with  the 
King.  The  Archbilhop  of  Lions^  lately  imprifoned  at  esfmboife^  be- 
ing newly  fet  at  libeny  by  Captain  Du-Cjaft  for  a  great  fumm  of: 
money,  arid  come  to  Parts^  is  made  High  Chancellocr  to  the  Duke 
of  Mayenne,  and  Prefident  of  the  Council.  The  Pope's  Legate  grants 
unto  Mayenne  the  three  hundred  thoufand  crowns  brought  for  the  en- 
largement of  the  Cardinal  of  Bourbon. 

Mayenne  bdiegeth  MutUn,  a  fmall  place,  but  feated  upon  the  pafs 
of  the  River  Seine,  ,  at  the  entr  ing  into  Normandy^  which  therefore 
next  to  Pointoife,  hindered  the  bringing  of  Victuals  to  Paris  :  where 
after  2.5.  dayesfiege,  news  came  that  the  Old  Caftle  ziRovcn^  was 
feized  by  fome  Seditious  perfons,  which  caufcd  him  to  raife  the  fiege, 
and  march  to  Rouen  to  appcafe  the  trouble?. 

On  the  other  fide  the  King  befiegeth  1)rettXj  and  the  Duke  ofM^y- 
enne  being  joyned  with  the  Spamflj  fupplies  from  Flanders^  marchin'g 
towards  Dreux^  refolvethto  fight. 

The  German  Infantry  raifed  for  the  King  rfFrance,  turn  for  the 
League  under  the  Command  of  Colonel  S.  Paul.  The  Army  of 
the  League  had  in  it  four  thoufand  five  hundred  Horfe,  and  twenty 
thoufand  Foor. 

The  King's  Army  was  but  three  thoufand  Horfe,  and  eight  thoufand 
Foot, 

The  King's  Army  being  refrefhed  they  marched  toward  the  field  of 
T-vry,  appointed  by  the  King  for  the  place  of  Battel.  Here  the  Ar- 
mies joyned,  wherein  the  King  obtained  a  great  Vidory.  The  King 
all  Arnu-d  on  Horfe-  back  vifits  every  Divifion  with  great  diligence, 
and  exhort?  his  Souldiers  with  great  vehemency.  At  laft,  ftanding 
ftill  at  the  head  of  the  main  Battalion,  joyning  his  hands,  and  lifting  up 
his  eyes  to  Heaven,  He  faid  fo  loud,  that  he  was  heard  by  many,  O 
Lord)  than  knoweft  the  intentions  of  my  heart,  and  with  the  eye  of  thy 
Providence^  than  pierce  ft  into  my  mo  ft  ft  cret  thoughts.  If  it  be  tot  ft 
for  this  People  that  Ifoould  attain  the  Crown  y  vrhicb  belongs  to  me  by 
right,  do  thou  favour  and  Protect  the  juflice  of  my  Arms.  But  */ 
thy  \vi/l  hath  determined  the  contrary-^  if  thou  tak?ft  Wi*y  my  Kittg- 

K  k.k.  dam, 


74  cent.  16. 


fc)  /;/<?  alfo  at  the  fame  time,  that  I  way  fied  my  blood 
fighting  At  the    Head  of  thofe  vpho    put  themfehes  in  danger  for  my 

Jake-          *  V 

At  the  end  of  which  words  there  arofc  in  the  Front  of  the   Battel  a 
loud  acclamation  from  thofe  that  heard  him,  with  an  unanimous  cry  of 
vivf  It  R°y  •'  which  being  taken  and  redoubled  from  Squadron  to  Squa- 
dron through  the  whole  Array,  gave  anhappy  beginning  to  the  Battel. 
The  Cav-alry  of  the  League  befog  defeated,  fave  themfelves  by  flight. 
The  Swiffis  laying  down  their  Colours  and  Arms  upon  the  ground, 
had  quarter  given  them  by  Marcfch'al  de  Biron.     ^ht  Germans  wha 
having  been  raifed  by  the   King's  money,  had  revolted  to  the  Duke  of 
Lorain,  were  all  put  to  the  fword.     The  French  Infantry  that  yielded, 
had  their  lives  given  them.     The  Duke  de  Mayenne  fled    towards 
Dreitx,  and  having  entred  the  Town,  broke  up  the  Bridge  before  his 
own  people  were  all  come,  which  was  the  reafon  that  multitudes  of 
them  (  the    King's  Army  pur  fuing    themj  were  miferably  drowned. 
The  Reirers  of  the   League  fight  till  they  are  all  deftroyed.     There 
died  that  day  above  fix  thoufand  of  the  League,  among  which  were  the 
Duke  of  Brmifvyick^i  the  Sicur  de  la  Chaftaigneray,  and  the  Count  cT 
JLgmtnt,  who  was  cut  in  pieces  with  all  his  "Landers.    Divers  Lords, 
with  204.  Enfigns  and  Cornets  were  taken  by  the  King,  with  all  their 
Canon  and   Baggage.     On   the  King's  fide  there  were  but  500.  (lain, 
This  Batiel  was  tought  on  flfarch  14.  1  590. 

The  news  of  this  defeat  came  the  next  day  to  Paris,  whereat  every 
one  was  afraid.  But  on  March  16.  Father  Chriflino  dcNizjvitoQk 
an  occdion  to  difcourfe  on  thofe  words  £  Whom  I  love,  J  rebuke  *nd 
ckaflen.  ]  And  in  the  Pulpit  tells  the  Parifans  of  the  defeat,  and  by 
his  Eloquence  prevails  fo  on  them,  that  they  refolve  to  endure  any 
thing  for  the  Cathclick  Religion,  without  fearing  the  heavy  tryal  of  a 
future  liege,  or  Famine.  The  fame  didWifftam  Rofe^  "Boucher,  Pre- 
voftj  and  allthe  other  Preachers  ;  and  laft  of  i\\Franctfco  Panigaro- 
ke,  who,  though  he  Preached  in  the  Italian  Tongue,  was  much  fol- 
lowed by  reafon  of  the  fame  of  his  Eloquence. 

After  the  yielding  of  other  places,  Melun  is  taken  by  the  King's 
Army,  a  little  Town,  but  well  Fortified,  feven  Leagues  diftant  from 
Paris,  through  which  run  two  Currents  of  the  River  Seine,  and  there- 
fore is  dividedinto  three  parts  by  the  ftream,  and  only  joyned  together 
by  Bridges. 

The  Sieur  de  Vttteroy  being  come  to  Melun  to  treat  an  agreement 
with  the  King,  perfwades  him  by  manyreafons  to  turn  Catholick,  and 
propounds  a  deflation  of  Arras.  He  was  fentbythe  Duke  oft^fay- 
enne  unto  the  King.  To  which  ihe  King  gave  a  large  anfwer.  And  as 
to  the  point  of  Religion,  he  faid,  he  had  already  contented  thofe  Ca- 
tholicks  that  followed  him,  who  were  many,  of  great  wildom  and 

ftrengthj 


Cent.    16.  Of  FRANCE. 


ftrength,  and  very  great  extraftion,  to  whofe  determination  he  thought 
all  the  reft  might  accommodate  themselves.  M<rc  Antonio  Jtiofeni- 
go,  RifhopofCeneda  treats  with  the  Marefchalde  &ron,  and  propounds 
a  Ce/Tation  of  Arms,  but  it  is  rejeded. 

All  hope  of  Truce  tailing,  the  Part  fans  prepared  for  a  find:  fiege  from 
the  King's  Army.  The  people  was  already  difpokd  by  thelongexhor- 
tations  ot  their  Preachers,  and  follicitations  ofthofe  that  Governed,  to 
endure  the  (iege  :  being  wrought  upon  by  the  frequent  Decrees  of  the 
SorboK)  and  by  the  Declarations  and  Proteftations  of  the  Cardinal  Le- 
gate, that  an  agreement  could  not  be  treated  with  theHereticks  without 
damnation.  Hereby  mens  minds  were  fo  confirmed,  that  fome  were 
put  to  death  for  faying,  it  was  better  to  make  peace  with  the  King,  than 
ftarve  with  hunger*  The  Duke  of  Mayenne  by  many  Letters  allured 
them  that  he  would  relieve  the  City  within  a  few  weeks. 

To  encreafe  this  inclination  in  the  people  ,  a  folemn  Proceffion  was 
made,  by  Order  from  the  Cardinal  Legate,  to  implore  Gods  affiftence 
in  thofe  necefficies  :  in  which  Proceffion,  the  Prelates,  Prie/U,  and 
Monks  of  the  feveral  Religious  Orders,  walked  all  in  their  accuftomed 
habits,  but  befides  them,  they  were  Armed  alfo  openly  with  Corikts, 
Guns,  Swords,  Parteians,  and  all  kind  of  Arms  offenfive  and  defen- 
five,  making  at  once,  both  a  (hew  of  devotion,  and  conftancy  of  heart 
prepared  to  defend  their  lives ;  which  heightened  the  courage  of  the 
common  people. 

Af:er  this  Proceffion,  they  made  another  of  all  the  Magiftrates  of 
the  City  ;  and  among  the  Ceremonies  of  it,  the  Duke  of  Ntnwws  their 
Governour,  and  other  Commanders  of  the  Souldiers,  and  Magiftrates  of 
the  people,  fwore  publickly  in  the  great  Church,  to  defend  the  City 
to  the  laft  man,  and  never  make  an  agreement  with  an  Heretick  Prince, 
for  any  danger  or  calamity  whatfoeverfhould  befall  them.  The  King 
drew  nigh  to  Paris ,  and  fliuts  up  the  paffages  of  the  River  of  Seme  on 
every  fide,  and  the  City  is  in  great  fcarcity  for  want  of  Victuals, 
Cardinal  Gondy,  Biftop  of  Paris,  gives  v/ay  that  the  Church  Plate 
fhould  be  turned  into  money,  for  the  relief  of  the  poor  :  and  the  Cardi- 
nal Legate  diftributed  among  the  poor  30000.  crowns  extorted  from 
the  Pope  with  much  ado.  The  AmbafTadour  Adendoz.a  promifed  (ix- 
fcore  crowns  a  day  in  Bread.  The  Dutchefles  and  ihe  richeft  Lords 
fold  their  houfhold  fluff,  jewels,  and  Ornaments,  to  relieve  the  urgent 
neceftides  of  the  common  people. 

During  this  fiege  the  Cardinal  of  Bourbon  dies  at  Fontenay^  which 
produceth  no  alteration  at  ail  :  only  the  Duke  of  Mayenne  in- 
vites the  Deputies  of  the  Provinces  to  Meaux  ,  to  chufe  another 
Xing. 

The  Duke  of  sJMayenne  having  met  the  Duke  of  Parmtut  Conde, 
obtains  of  him  1500.  Spaniflj  Foot,  towards  the  relief  of  Part*.  In 

KJtk  a  that 


that    populous  City  the  Famine  was  fo  fore,  that  within  the  fpace  of 
three  Months  moe  than  an  hundred  thoufand  died  in  ir. 

The  Duke  of  Parma  cometh  with  an  Army  to  relieve  Part*  -:  at  his 
arrival  at^w«.v,  he  joyns  with  the  Duke  of  M^yenne.  The  Abbot 
del  Btne'dies,  a  man  of  great  abilitie  in  Scate  affairs,  at  which  the 
King  is  troubled.  Upon  Auguft  30.  the  King  rifeth  from  thefiegeof 
Part*.  While  the  two  Armies  lie  ftill  obfcrving  one  another,  the  Pa- 
rifans  furnifh  themfelves  with  forae  Provifions.  The  King  fends  a 
Trumpet  to  the  Duke  of  Mayenne  .  to  challenge  him  to  fight.  The 
Duke  of  Parma  drawes  his  Army  into  Battalia,  as  if  he  would  give 
Battel,  goes  away  fuddenly  to  Lagny,  and  deceives  the  King.  The 
Duke  of  Parma,  takes  Lagny  before  the  face  of  the  King's  Army, 
whereby  the  pafTage  of  the  River  tjtyfarne  being  freed,  upon  Sfptemb* 
6.  great  (lore  of  v  iduals  enter  into  Paris. 

The  King  withdraws  his  Army,  and  marcheth  towards  St.  Dtnnu. 
He  givesaScaladoto  the  City,  which  proveth  ineffectual.  TheDuks 
of  Pur  ma,  takes  Corbeil,  and  fo  abfolutely  frees  Par  if  from  want  of 
Provifion?.  The  Duke  of  Parma  marcheth  away  into  Flander-3 
in  good  order.  The  King  afiaulteth  Clermont^  tabes  it  andfacks  it. 
The  Duke  of  Parma  depardng  leaves  aid  of  men,  and  promifcth  fup- 
ply  of  money  to  the  League.  The  King  marcheth  toward  "Ticardy. 

Grenoble  in  Da^hint  after  a  long  Cege  returns  to  the  King's  obe- 
dience. The  King  aflaulteth  Corby,  and  takes  it. 

The  Parliament  of  Bordeaux,  who  with  much  ado  had  been  brought 
to  the  King's  obedience,  make  complaints  for  the  King's  perfevering 
in  falvintfm.  The  King  ftudieth  how  to  conferve  the  aftedions  of 
tbofc  of  his  party,  and  to  keep  them  in  obedience.  He  recalls  the 
Duke  of  Etyernon  to  the  Army,  and  other  Popifh  Lords  to  reconcile 
them  unto  him. 

The  Vifcount  of  Turenne  obtains  of  Queen  Elizabeth-  vi  England ^ 
that  file  fhould  fend  the  King  one  hundred  thoufand  crowns.  That 
fhe  (hould  fend  6000.  Foot  into  Bretagne,  for  the  relief  of  the  Prince 
of  \Dombfs.  That  along  with  him  fhe  (hould  fend  Horatio  Palavici* 
no  a  Genovefe  ( who  for  Religion  was  fled  into  that  Illand  ;  to  per- 
fwade  the  States  of  Holland^  and  the  Princes  of  Germany,  to  affift 
the  King  with  men  and  money  on  their  Part.  She  promifed  likewife, 
that  if  the  Duke  of  Parmaftiould  return  again  into  !Pn*my,fhe  would 
afiift  Grav c  Maurice ,  and  the  Hollande rs,  to  make  a  ftrong  diverfion, 
by  entring  into  Brabant  and  F Under s. 

Now  the  party  of  the  League  makeadifguft  againft  the  Duke  of 
Mayermc,  which  is  fomented  by  ihe  Spaniards.  And  the  Lords  of  the 
houfe  ofLorain  grow  jealous  one  of  another ;  and  the  Duke  ofAV 
lays  afide  the  Government  of  Paris..  The  Duke  oi  Mayenne 

difpac>- 


tent.  1  6.  Of  FRANCE7 


difpatcheth  Prefident  Jeannin  to  the  KingofS/w'w,  and  the  Siear  des 
Fortes  to  the  Pope  to  foliciteaid. 

The  Chevalier  d'  Aumale  goes  to  furprize  S.  Dennis  ,  and  without 
r^fiftance  enters  with  all  his  men  :  but  the  Governour  with  only  thir- 
ty Horfe  chargeth  and  routs  the  Enemy,  and  d'  Aumale  being  thruft 
through  the  throat  failed  down  dead.  Thofe'that  were  curious  obferv- 
ed,  that  he  fell  dead  before  the  door  of  an  Inn,  whofe  fignwasthe 
Ejfee  Roy  ale,  a  Sword  embroidered  with  golden  Flower-de-luces,  and 
that  his  Body  being  laid  upon  the  Bier  in  the  Church  of  the  Friers  of 
St.  Dennis  ,  his  carkafs  the  night  following  was  all  gnawed  and  mangled 
with  Rats. 

Pope  Gregory  XIV.  affigneth  fifteen  thoufand  crowns  by  the  Month 
for  the  fervice  of  the  League  :  and  Afarfilio  Lxndnano,  a  Aftlanefe, 
is  chofen  Legate  for  the  Kingdom  of  France.  Chartres  is  befieged,  and 
furrendered  to  the  Baron  de  Bircn.  The  Duke  oi'Mayenne  receives 
Chafleau  Thierry  with  the  composition  of  twenty  thoufand 
crowns. 

Then  the  Popifh  Princes  and  Noblemen  following  the  King  did  fo-  ./<».: 
licite  his  Majefty  to  turn  to  the  Romijlj  Religion.  The  Petitions  made 
to  the  King  to  provide  for  his  dutiful  Subjects  of  both  Religions  ;  to 
prevent  the  new  attemprs  of  ihe  Pope  and  his  adherents,  to  ihe  preju- 
dice of  the  Crown  of  France,  were  the  caufe  of  two  Edicts  made  at 
JM-tntc  in  the  beginning  of  July.  The  one  confirmed  the  Edicts  of 
Pacification  made  by  the  deceafed  King  upon  the  troubles  of  the  Realm, 
and  disannulled  all  that  paffed  in  July  1585.  and  1588.  in  favour  of 
the  League.  The  oiher  (hewed  the  King's  intent  to  maintain  the  Ca- 
tholick  Religion  in  France,  with  the  Ancient  R'ghts  and  Priviledgesof 
the  French  Church.  The  Court  of  Parliament  of  Paris,  refident  at 
Chalons  and  To//r.r,  having  verified  thefe  Edicts,  had  di/TannulUd  all  the 
Bulls  of  Cardinal  ^ae  tan's  Legation,  and  other  Bulls  that  came  from, 
'Rone  on  Mtrck  i.  the  Proceedings,  Excommunications,  and  Fulmi- 
mtions,  made  by  Landritno,  terming  himfclf  the  Pope's  Nuncio,  as 
abufwe,  fcandalou?,  fediticus,  full  of  impoftures  ,  made  againft  the 
holy  Decrees,  Canonical  Constitutions,  approved  Councils,  and  againft 
the  Rights  and  Liberties  of  the  French  Church. 

They  Decree,  that  if  any  had  been  Excommunicate  by  vertue  of 
the  faid  proceeding*,  they  (hould  be  abfolved  ;  and  the  faid  Bulls  and 
all  proceedings  by  vertue  thereof  burnt  in  the  Market-place'  by  the 
Hang-man.  That  Ltndriano  the  pretended  Nuncio  (  come  privily 
into  the  Realm  wirhout  the  King's  leave  or  liking)  fhould  be  appre- 
hended, and  put  in  the  King's  Prifon.  And  in  cafe  he  (hould  not  be 
taken,  he  (hould  be  fummoned  at'  three  fhort  daies  according  ,  to  the 
accuftomed  manner,  ar.d  ten  thoufand  Franks  given  in  reward  to 
'him  that  fhould  deliver  him  to  the  Magiftrate,  Prohibkions  -being  , 

made  : 


?  8          3Cl)e  ecctcftaftaal  %ttto?g       cent.  16. 

madeto  a!!  men  to  receive,  retain,  or  lodge  the  faid  pretended  Nuncio 
upon  pain  of  death.  And  to  all  Clergy-men,  not  to  receive,  publifh, 
or  caufe  to  be  publifhed  any  fentences,  or  proceedings  coming  from . 
him,  upon  pain  to  be  punifhed  as  Traytors.  They  declared  the  Cardi- 
nals (  being  at  Rome  )  the  Archbifhops ,  Bifhops,  and  other  Clergy- 
men, which  had  figned  and  ratified  the  faid  Bull  of  Excommunication, 
and  approved  the  moft  barbarous  and  dereftable  Parricide,  traiteroLfly 
committed  upon  the  Perfon  of  the  hte  deceafed  King  Henry  III.  to 
be  deprived  cf  fuch  Spiritual  Livings  as  they  held  wiihin  the  Realm, 
ciufing  the  King's  Prodor  General  to  feife  thereon,  and  to  put  them 
into  his  Majeftics  hand  :  forbidding  all  perfons  either  to  carry  or  fend 
Gold  to  Rome,  and  to  provide  for  the  difpofition  of  Benefices,  uniil  the 
Kingfhould  otherwife  Decree. 

DU  recueii  de  l'  That  of  Tours  added  this  claufe  to  the  Decree.  They  declared 
Hjftpiredcia  <]regory^  calling  himfelf  Pope,  the  fourteenth  of  that  name,  an  enemy 
to  peace,  to  the  union  of  the  Roman  Catholick  Church,  w  the  King 
and  to  his  Eftate,  adhering  to  theConfpiracy  of  Spat??,  and  a  favourer 
cf  Rebels,  ciilpable  of  the  moft  inhumane,  and  molt  deteftable  Parri- 
cide committed  on  the  Perfon  of  the  moft  Chriftian  and  Catholick  King 
Henry  II I.  of  famous  memory.  i 

The  Parliament  of  the  League  did  afterwards  condemn  and  caufc 
thofe  Decrees  to  be  burnt  at  Parift  whicHwere  made  againft  the  Bulls 
and  Minifters  of  the  Romlfo  See.  So  one  pulled  down  what  another 
built  up. 

The  Cardinal  of  Vendofme  begins  to  raife  a  third  party  of  Ca- 
tholicks,  to  make  hTmfelfttead  of  them,  and  thereby  to  bring  himfelf 
to  the  Crown.  Scipio  Balbani  is  fent  to  Rome  by  the  Cardinal  of  Ven- 
dofmt,  to  treat  with  the  Pope,  and  to  communicate  his  defign  unto  biro. 
The  Cardinal  of  Lenoncoun  gives  the  King  notice  of  the  defigns  of 
the  Cardinal  rfVcndofme.  The  High  Chancellour  thereupon  perfwades 
him  to  turn  to  the  Rowifj  Religion.  * 

Charles  Duke  ofCjwfe  having  been  long  kept  Prifoner  at  Tours, 
efcapes  at  noon-day,  and  fleeth  to  Bo  urges,  and  then  meets  with  the 
Duke  of  Mnyenne.  The  Council  of  Sixteen  falls  into  an  emulation 
with  the  Parliament  of  Paris,  and  with  the  Council  of  State  chofen 
by  the  Duke  of  Mayenne.  .  Brigard,  who  had  been  imprifomd  upon 
fufpicion  of  Plots  againft  the  League,  being  efcaped,  the  Judges  that 
made  his  Procefc,  are  by  'the  people  in  Arms  tumuliuoufly  putinPri- 
fon,  and  by  the  Councn  of  Sixteen  are  caufed  to  be  ftrangled  in  the 
clofe  Prifon,  and  the  next  day  their  bodies  are  hanged  at  the  Greve  with 
infamous  writings  on  their  Breafts. 

The  Duke  of  Mayenne  pofts  to  Taris  to  appeafe  this  tumult,  and 
caufeth  Loifcbart,  Aurcnx,  H^melin,  and  Etnmcnot,  four  of  the  chief 
of  the  Council  of  Sixteen  which  were  moft  guilty,  to  be  ftrangled. 

The 


Cent.  \6.  Of  FRANCE. 

The  Kingmarcbeth  into  Normandy,  layes  fiege to  the  City  of  Rovcn. 
The  Duke  of /^rw*  with  the  Spawfh  Army  marcheih  to  relieve  that 
place.  They  fight  at  Aumale,  the  King  is  wounded,  his  men  rourcd, 
and  he  is  put  hard  to  it  to  fave  himfeif.  VilUrs^  the  Governour  of 
Roven,  fallying  out  enters  the  trenches,  and  gains  the  Artillery.  The 
Duke  of  Parma  retiring,  the  King  returns  to  Roven  and  reneweth  the 
fiege.  The  Duke  of  Tarma  alfo  returns  to  bring  relief:  and  the 
King's  Forces  being  wafted,  he  rifeth  from  the  fiege,  and  marcheth  to  the 
Banks  of  the  River  of  Seine. 

Thofe  of  the  League  begin  to  think  of  a  peace.  The  Catholicks  of 
the  King's  party  aredifpleafed,  that  the  peace  fhould  be  treated  by  the 
Sieur  de  P  lefts,  a  Hugonot. 

The  tJMarejchal  de  Biron  is  killed  with  a  Canon  fhot  before  EJper* 
nay.  The  King  wept  bitterly  at  the  news  of  his  death.  The  Baron 
de  Biron  ,  to  revenge  the  death  of  his  Father,  fcales  a  great  Tower  at 
Efternay,  and  takes  it,  but  is  forely  wounded;  and  the  Town  is  deli- 
vered up  into  the  hands  ."of  the  Duke  of  Nevers,  Governour  of  that - 
Province.  Aaguft  9.  1592. 

Now  the  King  defireth  a  reconciliation  with  the  Catholick  Church 
by  way  of  agreement,  not  by  way  of  pardon.  The  King  takes  Dreux, 
and  being  conftrained  by  the  importunities  of  his  own  Catholick  par- 
ty, who  threaten  to  forfake  him,  refolves  to  change  his  Religion. 
And  being  inftruded  by  the  Archbifliop  of  Bonrges,  by  fane  Benoift 
Curate  of  8.  Euftache  of  Paris,  and  of  fome  other  Doctors,  delires  to 
be  admitted  into  the  bofom  of  the  Romifj  Church.  And  on  July  25. 
he  went  to  Mafs  at  St.'Dcnnif,  and  made  a  publick  and  folemn  Pro- 
fcffion  to  the  faid  Arbhbifhop,  affifted  by  Qoarlts  Cardinal  of  Bourbon 
Archbifhop  of  Roven,  and  Nephew  to  the  deceafed  •  nine  Bishops 
with  many  other  Prelates  and  Religious  men  v  protefting  to  live  and 
die  in  the  Romifi  Religion,  fwearing  to  defend  it  againft  all  men. 
Having  made  profeftion  of  his  Faith,  he  performed  all  Ceremonies 
requifite  info  folemn  an  Aft":  and  then  he  received  abfoluiion  and  blcf- 
fing,  with  wonderful  joy  and  acclamation  of  the  people. 

Prefently  after  this  Ad,  the  King  fern:  the  Duke  ofNevers,  the  Mar- 
quefs  of  Pifani,  and  Henry  of  Gondy  Bifhop  of  Pttru  to  the  Pope  to 
yield  obedience  by  them  to   the    See   of  Rome,    to  befeech  him  to 
allow  of  his  Converfion ,  and  to  countenance  it  with   his  own  blef-- 
fing. 

Whilft  Elizabeth  Queen  of  England,  upon  account  of  Religion, 
did  with  fo  great  expences  relieve  the  French  King,  a  ftrong  rumour 
was  fpread  in  England,  that  he  either  would,  or  had  already  changed 
his  Religion  ;  hereupon  was  Thom-M  Wilkes  fent  over  in:o  Fr.ince  to 
underftand  the  .certainty  thereof.  But  before  his  arrival  the  Kir;g  had 
made  a.  publick  ProfJfion  of  the  Popi.h  Religion  at  St,  Dennis  fas 

tathU 


go *£l)t  CCClcftaftlCal  ^SftCi!?        Cent.   16. 

hath  been  before  exprefied)  although  feme  Papifts  of  Religious  Orders 
at  that  time  plotted  againft  his  life.  But  he  ingcnuoully  declared  unto 
Wilkes  thecaufes  that  moved  him  to  forfake  his  Religion.  And  Mor~ 
lantc  the  French  Agent  in  the  mean  time  telleih  the  Queen  all  the  very 
fame  things,  and  with  fair  and  fpecious  words  offereth  her  all  kindnefs 
in  the  King  his  Matters  behalf. 

•  The  Queen  being  much  troubled  and  difquisted  in  mind,  fnat- 
chedup  her  Pen,  and  a  while  after  fent  this  Letter  to  him.  ts4laf'. 
fc^»hift.of  what  detp  farrow  ?  what  vehement  griff  ?  what  fighs  h*tvt 
/Kj.ii*tf.  J  felt  at  my  heart  for  the  things  which  Morlante  hath  told  we 
c  .'  A'M  I  ^  the  world  come  to  this  pafs  ?  Was  it  poffible  that  any 
VFirldly  matter  fioiild  make  you  quit  the  fear  of  God  ?  can  we  ex  felt 
any  happy  ijfue  of  fuch  a  faft  ?  or  could  you  think^that  He  who  b*th 
-hitherto  with  kti  own  right  hand  upholder  .and  preferved  you>  would 
now  forfake  you  ?  It  is  a  very  dangerous  thing  to  do  evil  that  good 
may  come  cf  it  :  Tet  I  hope  a  fiber  fp'irit  will  put  you  into  a  bttter 
mind.  In  the  mean  time  I  will  not  omit  to  wake  it  a  principal  pan 
of  my  pr-ayers,  the  recommending  you  to  Cody  befeeching  him,  that  the 
hands  of  Efau  may  not  life  you  the  blejjlng  of  Jacob.  Whereas  you 
do  Religioujly  andfolemnly  offer  Meyonrjrienctfliip,  I  know  to  my  great 
cop,  I  have  well  deferved  it  :  neither  fiould  I  repent  that,  had  you 
not  changed  your  Father.  Verily ,  from  henceforth  I  cannot  be  your 
Sifter  by  the  Father  :  for  the  truth  is ,  /  fljall  ever  more  dearly  love 
and  honour  my  own  Father  than  a  falfe  and  counterfeit  one,  which  God 
kyoweth  very  well  ;  who  ( I  bejeech  him  )  bring  you  back,  again  to  A 
better  mind.  Subfcribed, 

Your  Sifter,  if  it  be  after  the  old 
manner  :  as  for  the  new  I  have 
nothing  to  do  wiihir. 

;  Elizabeth  R. 


Yet  notwithstanding  a  Contract  was  made  between  him  and  the 
Queen  nMelun  in  the  Month  of  Angufl^  to  make  War  offenfive  and 
defenfive  againft  \ht  Spaniards  And  the  Queen  recommended  again 
and  again  the  Reformed  Religion,  and  the  Profeflours  thereof  to  his 
Care  and  Protection  by  Sir  Robert  Sidney.  He  promifed,  Th-t  as  he 
had  been  hitherto  their  Prote&our,  fo  he  would  not  for  the  future 
fail  them,  though  moft  of  the  Nobler  fort  of  them  had  forfaken 
him. 

On  Augufl  26.  'Peter  Barrier,  born  at  Orleans,  was  taken  Pri- 
foner  at  Meluny  where  the  King  then  was,  by  the  difcovery  of  a  Ja- 
cobin 


Cent.  16. OfFRANCE. 8r 

cobin  Florentine,  to  whom  he  had  confefled  himfeff  in  Lions.  He 
confefled,  that  feduced  and  perfwaded  by  a  Capuchin  of  Lions,  and  af- 
terwards confeflld  by  <s4nbry  Curate  of  St.  Andrews  dcs  Ails 
at  Par  is,  by  his  Vicar,  and  by  Father  Vtrade  a  Jefuite,  he  was  come 
thither  expreQy  to  raurther  the  King.  The  Prieft  revealing  this  Crime, 
incurs  no  Ecchfiaftical  cenfure.  The  wretch  was  found  feired  of  a 
(harp  knife  with  two  edges.  He  was  pinched  with  hot  Pincers,  his 
right  hand  burnt  off,  holding  the  faid  knife,  his  arms,  legs,  and 
thighs  broken';  and  his  body  burnt  to  afhes,  and  caft  into  the  River. 
Upon  a  general  furceafing  of  Arms  the  King  affembled  fome  of  the 
chief  of  ths  Realm  at  tJWante,  efpecially  to  hear  the  complaints  of 
fuel)  as  flood  in  doubt  of  the  King's  change  in  Religion,  and  wer* 
grieved  at  divers  contraventions  ot  his  Majefties  Edids ,  whereby 
they  fufferid  wrongs  in  all  Provinces.  For  the  Partifans  of  Spain. 
continually  exclaimed  of  the  incompatibility  of  two  Religions  in 
France,  and  many  were  of  opinion,  That  the  King  ought  not  to  be  ad* 
mitted,  but  he  (hould  promife  exprefly  to  banifhall  fuchas  made  Pro- 
feffion  of  any  other  Religion  than  that  which  he  did  embrace  •  or  at 
leaft  toaboltfh  all  publick  Profefiion.  'But  the  King  employed  all  his 
care  to  unite  his  people  in  concord. 

Vitry  defiring  to  be  the  firft  that  fhould  re-enter  under  the  King's 
obedience,  as  he  had  been  the  firft  that  hadfeparated  from  it,  brought 
back  the  City  tfMeaux.  Aixy  Lions ,  Bourges,  and  Orleans ,  furren- 
der  to  the  King. 

On  the  22.  of  March,  the  Parliament,  the  Provoft  of  Merchants, 
and  the  Sheriffs,  having  difpofed  the  City  of  fParu,  received  the  King, 
maugre  the  vain  endeavours  of  fome  remnant  of  the  faction  of  the  Six- 
teen. The  Duke  of  Mayenne  was  gone  into  Picardy :  and  Brifac,  to 
whom  he  had  committed  the  Government  of  Paru  for  fome  Months 
paft,  having  taken  it  from  the  Count  of  Be Itn,  broke  i  is  faith  with  him, 
believing  he  ought  it  rather  to  the  King  than  to  him. 

The  Kinghad  a  little  before  caufed  himfelf  to  be  anointed  ztChartres 
with  the  Cruife  of  St.  Martin  of  Tours.     The  City  of  Rbemes  was  yet 
in  the  hands  of  the  League  :   but  he  would  no  longer  defer  tys  Corona- 
tion, becaufe  he  knew  that  That  Ceremony  was  abfolutely  neceflaryto 
confirm  to  him  theaffedion  and  refped  of  his  people.    .It  was  won-| 
derful ,  how  that  there  being  four  or  five  thoufand  Spaniards  engarri- 1 
foned  in  Parts,  and  ten  or  twelve  thoufand  fadious  perfons  of  the  Ca- 
bal of  the  Sixt een,  who  all  cruelly  hated  the  King,  he  could  neverthe- 
lefs  render  himfelf  Mafter  of  it  without  ftriking   ftroak,   or  without 
(bedding  blood.    His  Troops  having  by   intelligence  feized    on  the 
Gates,  Ramparts,  and   publick  places,  he  enrred  triumphantly  into 
the  Cuy  by  the  new  Gate,  by  which  Henry  III.  had  unhappily  fled 
fix  years  before^  and  went  diredly  to  Noftrcdame  to  hear  Mafs,  and 

Lll  caufe 


ic   16, 


caufe  Tc  Deum  to  be  fung.  Afterwards  be  returned  to  the  Louvre^ 
where  he  found  his  Officers,  and  his  Dinner  ready,  as  ifhehadalwaie* 
remained  there. 

After  Dinner,  he  gave  the  Spaviflt  Garrifon  a  fafe-condud,  and  » 
good  Convoy,  to  conduft  them  as  far  as  theirs  ofGuife  in  all 
fccurity,  The  Garrifon  departed  about  three  a  clock  the  fame  day  of 
his  entrance,  with  twenty  or  thirty  of  the  raoft  obftinate  Leaguers, 
who  chofe  rather  to  fojlow  Srrangeys,  than  obey  their  natural 
;•  P5rince. 

The  fame  day  that  he  entred  into  *?*w,  the  Cardinal  de  Pcleve 
Archbifhop  of  Sens,  a  paffionate  Leaguer,  expired  in  his  Palace  of 
Scvs.  The  Cardinal  of  Placentia^  Legate  from  the  Pope,  had  fafe-con- 
dud  to  mire  home,  but  he  died  by  the  way,  Brijfac  for  recompencc 
had  tht  S;aif  of  Marefihal,  and  a  place  of  honourable  Counfellour  to 
the  Parliament.  I)'O  was  replaced  in  his  Government  of-  Parify 
which  be  had  under  Henry  III,  but  he  died  foon  after* 

That  par;  of  the  Parliament  which  was  at  Tours,  was  recalled  ^  and 
that  which  was  at  Tar  it  re-inabled  (  for  it  had  been  interdicted  )  and  both 
re-united  conjointly  co  fe.rve  the  King. 

£  By  noon  of  that  day  in  which  the  King  entred  Pttris,  the  City  was 
tyery  where  peaceable.^  the  BurgefTes  in  a  moment  grew-familiar  with 
the  Souldiers-,  the  (hops  were  opened,  and  the  Artificers  wrought  in 
diem.  And  the  calm  was  fo  great,  that  nothing  interrupted  it  but  the 
ringing  of  the  Bells,  the  Bonfires  and  the  Dances  which  were  made 
through  the  Streets,  even  till,  midnight*. 

^*  Balagny  with  his  City.of^wfer^,  turns  to  the  King's  ^  fide.  In  like 
manner  Aliens,  $tauvaist  and  Peronnc,  renounced  the  League. 
Yea  the  Duke  of  Guife  compounds  with  the  King,  and  brings  the  Ci- 
ties of  Rhe  me  5^  Vitry^  znd.Mcz.icresy  under-  his  obedience,  whetnre- 
compence  of  it,  gave  him  the  Government  of  Provence,  from-  which 
he  was  obliged  to  withdraw  the  Dake  of  Eftcrnon,  becaufe  the  people, 
the.  Parliament,  and  the  Nobility,  had  taken  Arms  againft  him, 
The  Duke  of  Lor  tin  alfo  made  his  peace  with  the-  King  on  Nwcm- 
far  26... 

Now  the  Court  of  Parliament  revokes  anddifannuls  all  other  De- 
crees, Orders,  or  Oaths,  given  or  made  fince  the  29.  of  December 
1588.  to  the  prejudice  of  .the  King's  Authority  and  the  Laws  of  the 
Realm.  And  efpeci  ally  .they  difannulled  all  that  had  been  dene  againft 
t^ie  honour  of  the  deceafed  King,  as  well  during  .his  life,  as  after  his 
deceafe,  commanding  to  inform  of  the  dereftable  Parricide  committed 
on  his.  Per/on,  and  ta>(  proceed  extraordinarily  againft  fuch  as 
fhould  be  found  culpable..  They  revoked  the  Authority  given  un- 
to ahc  Duke  otMaycnnc  under  the  Title  of  Lieutenant  General  of 
ibe  Eftate.  and.  Crown  of  fray  ft,  forbidding  alJ  men  w  acknowledjge 


'Gene.    16.  Of  FRANCE. 


him  in  that  quality,  or  to  yield  him  any  aid  or  obedience,  oponpain 
of  High-Treafon.  They  likewife  enjoyned  the  Duke  of  Mayenne  up- 
on the  like  pains  to  acknowledge  Henry  IV.  of  that  name,  for  King 
of  -France  and  Navarre,  and  their  King,  and  to  yield  him  the  obe- 
dience of  faithful  Servants  and  Subjects.  And  to  aU  other  Princes,  Pre- 
lates, Noblemen,  Gentlemen,  Towns,  Commonalities,  and  private 
menv  to  forfake  that  pretended  Faction  of  the  League,  whereof  the 
Duke  of  Mayenne  had  made  hirafelfthe  Head,  and  to  yield  unto  the 
King  obedience  and  feahy,  upon  pain  to  the  faid  Princes,  Noblemen, 
&c.  to  be  degraded  of  their  Nobility  and  Gentry  ;  and  they  and 
their  pofterity  declared  bafe,  with  confifcation  of  Bodies  and  Goods : 
and  the  razing  of  their  Towns,  Caftles  and  places,  that  fliould  infringe 
the  King's  Ordinances  and  Commandments.  Moreover  they  decreed, 
That  the  22.  dxyofMtrch  fliould  be  for  ever  celebrated,  and  the  fame 
day  a  general  ProceiYion  fliould  be  made  after  the  accuftomed  man- 
ner, where  the  faid  Court  fliould  afiift  in  their  Scarlet  Robes,  as  a  re- 
membrance to  give  God  thanks  for  the  happy  reduction  of  thisfard  City 
to  the  King's  obedience. 

Now  one  John  Caflel,  Son  of  a  Merchant-Draper  of  Paris,  aboui 
the  end  of  the  year  i$94»  having  thruft  himfelf  with  the  Courtiers 
into  the  Chamber  of  the  fair  Gabrietta,  where  the  King  was,  would 
have  ftruck  him  with  a  knife  into  the  belly  •  but  the  King  then  bowing 
to  falutc  fome  one ,  the  blow  chanced  on  his  face  only,  piercing  his 
upper  lip,  and  breaking  a  Tooth.  It  was  not  known  for  theprefent 
who  had  ftruck  it :  but  the  Count  of  Soiffons  feeing  this  young  man 
affrighted,  ftopt  him  by  the  Arm.  He  impudently  confefied  that  he 
had  given  the  blow,  and  maintained  that  he  ought  to  do  it.  The  Par- 
liament condemned  him  to  have  his  right  hand  burned,  his  flefli  torn 
off  with  red  hot  Pincers,  and  after  to  be  torn  in  pieces  by  four  Horfes, 
burnt  to  alhes,  and  caftinto  the  wind. 

The  Jeftjitcs,  under  whom  this  Mifcreant  had  ftudied,  were  accufed 
for  exciting  him  to  this  Parricide.  Among  other  things  he  heard  the 
Fathers  of  that  Society  to  fay,  That  it  was  lawful  to  kill  the  King, 
That  he  was  Excommuncated  out  of  the  Church,  That  he  was  not  to  bs 
obeyed  nor  taken  for  their  King,  until  fuch  time  as  he  was  allowed  by 
the  Pope. 

Therefore  the  Parliament  Decreed,  That  the  Priefts,  Scholars,  and 
all  others,  terming  themfelves  of  that  Society  of  Jefus^  (  as  corrupters 
of  Youth  )  fliould  depart  within  three  daies  after  the  publication  of  the 
faid  Decree,  outofP*r#,  and  other  places  where  they  had  Colledges, 
and  within  fifteen  daies  out  of  the  Realm,  upon  pain  after  the  fame 
time  to  be  puniflied  as  guilty  of  high  Treafon.  The  houfe  of  Peter 
Ctfttl,  the  Father  of  this  Parricide,  fhnding  before  the  Palace,  was 

Lil  2  razed, 


84          3D[)e eceleaical ^to??       cent.  \6. 


razed,  and  a  Pillar  ere&ed,  containing  (  for  a  perpetual  monument )  the 
caufes  of  that  ruine. 

Among  the  writings  of  .John  Gitignard  ofChartres,  were  found  cer- 
tain fcandalous   libels  againft  the  King,  for  which  he  was  executed. . 
AndonejFVvztfctf  Jacob,  a  Scholar  of  the  Jefuites  of  Boxrges,  had  lately 
faid  he  would  have  killed  the  King,,  but  chat  he  held  him  for  dead,  and 
that  another  had  done  the  deed. 

.  .  The  Duke  of  Maytnnt  and  A9f*wafr;yteW  unto  the  King,  snd  are  re- 

ceived unto  Grace.  The  King  of  France  is  now  admitted  to  a  reconcili- 
ation with  the  Church  of  Rome,  upon  thefe  conditions,  and  in  thefe 
words.  He  fhall  abjure  all  Herefies,  and  profefsihe  Catholick  Faith 
infuch  form  as  AaJl  be  here  done  by  his  Ambafladours.  He  fhall  in- 
troduce the  Catholick  Faith  into  the  Principality  of  Bearn,  and  fhall 
nominate  Catholick  Magiftrares  in  the  faid  Province:  he  fhall  pro- 
cure within  a  year  the  Prince  of  Conde  out  of  the  hands  of  the  Here- 
ticks,  whom  he  fhall  caufe  to  be  inftrufted  and.  brought  up  in  the  Ca- 
tholick Religion.  The  Decrees  of  the  Council  of  Trent  fhall  be  pub- 
lifhed  and  received  throughout  the  whole  Kingdom  of  France.  He 
(hall  nominate  to  the  vacant  Churches  and  Monafteries  fuch  as  are 
Catholicks,  and  free  from  all  fufpicion  of  Herefie.  He  fhall  do  his 
bed  endeavour  y  that,  the  Churches  and  Clergy  be  invefted  anew  in 
their  Livings  that  have  been  feifed  upon  without  any  judicial  proceed- 
ing.. In  beftowing  of  Magiflracies  and  Dignities,  he  fhall  take  care 
that  Cathoiicks  only  be  preferred,  and  that  Hereticks  (as  near  as  may 
be)  may  be  expelled..  The  Concordates  fhall  beobferved,  and  all 
abufes  removed  which  have  crept  in  contrary  to  the  fame.  The  ahfo- 
lution  in&ancc  granted  by  the  Bifhops,  fhall  be  condemned. ,  He  fhall 
write  letters  to  all  the  Princes  of  Chriftendom,  wherein  he  fhall  give 
notice  of  his  Converfion ,  and  profeilion  of  the  Catholick  Faith.  The 
Pope  granted  his  Abfoiutionon  September  16.  by  the  Negotiation  and 
purfuits  of  d*  Offkt,  and  du  Perron.,  his  Procurers  in  the  Court  of 
Rome..  Thefe  were  afterwards  upon  his  recommendation  honoured 
with  Cardinals  Caps. 

After  a  War  bet  ween  the  Fre  nch  and  Spaniards,  a  Peace  was  conclu- 
ded between  France  andS^wV/,  Anro  1598- 

Then.the  French.  King,  who  had  hitherto  flourished  in  Martial  glo- 
ry, having  now  his  thoughts  wholly  fetled  upon  peace,  did  To  promote 
the  welfare  of  France,  (  which  had  run  headlong  to  ruine  for  many  years 
through  theftorms  of  Civil  War)  by  maintaining  and  fupporting  Re- 
ligion, as  well  the.fo?wrf#  as  the  Reformed,  reviving  the  Laws,  che- 
rifhing  Learning,  reftoring  Trade  and  Commerce,  and  beautifying 
the  Kingdom  with  fplendid  buildings,  that  he  far.  furpaffed  all  the  Kings 
thai  were  before  him. 

la 


Cent.  1  6;  0|F  RANGE. 


In  the  year  1599.  the  King's  Sifter,  the  Lady  Katberintde  Bonbon, 
was  married  to  the  Duke  of  Bar,  Son  to  the  Duke  of  Lor  am.  The 
Reformed  Religion,  in  which  fhe  had  been  bred,  (he  would  not  change, 
by  reafon  (  as  fhe  faid  )  of  her  deceafed  Mother  Queen  Joxne  of  Na-. 
iwre  ,  whofs  life  and  adions  were  held  worthy  to  be  imitated,  as- 
who  had  preferred  fafety  of  Confcience  before  aflurance  of  honours  and 
greatnefs,  yea,  than  life  it  fclf  :  Being  accuftomed  ro  fay  to  them  on  her 
part,  that  Arms  fhould  not  be  laid  d0wn,  but  wiih  thefe  three  Condi- 
tions, either  an  affured  Peace,  an  abfoliitefittory,  or  an  kont  ft  'Death, 
The  Marriage  was  confummate  in  the  King's  own  Cabinet,  by  the 
Archbifhopof&?-iwz>  at  the  King's  fpecial  Command,  to  avoid  greatei 
inconvenencies. 

She  cordially  affeded  that  which  did  concern  the  Liberty  of  Con- 
fcience   throughout  all  &rance,  often    befeeching  the  King  to  let  her 
fee  the  afiurances  thereof  whilft  fhe  was  in  France,  and  not  to  fufter 
hisEdidsto  remain  without  execution  being  Proclaimed,  and  .without. 
a.  durable.  obfervation  being  executed.  . 

She  ufed  to  be  attended  in  her  houfe  by  the  Minifters  of  Par  if,  who 
ferved  her.  by  turns  every  one  a  quarter  of  a  year.  Being  then  to  gc 
into  Lorain  wJth  her  Husband,  the  Church  appointed  Monftur  de 
Aitmtigm  an  Antient  Minift^r,  to  attend  her  in  that  journey.  But 
M.  Pete  r  da-  M.oulin  then  coming  to  Taris^  the  Old  Gentleman  defi- 
red  to  be  excufed.  ^  and  that  the  new  Minifter,  as  fitter  to  travel  by. 
ssafon  of  his  age,  might  be  chofen  for  that  fervice.  To  which  moti- 
on the  Princefs  prefently  enclined,  having  a  fpecial  likingto  Du  Moulin. 
He  took  then  that  journey,  and  becauie  the  Princefs  was  entertained 
in  Biihops  Palaces  and  Abbeys;  he  did  officiate  in  the  Palace  of  the 
Bifliop  of  Muwx,  in  that  of  the  Bifhop  of  Chalons,  and  in  the  Abbey  of 
Joverre. 

The  Harbingers  of  the  Princefs  being  come  to  Vttris  It  Francois,  a 
Town  of  Cbamptgne,  addrefTed  themfelves  to  the  chief  Magiftrate 
of  the  Town  ,  to  prepare  quarters  for  the  Princefs  and  her  Court. 
Since  Du~}Motilins  eftablifhment  at-  Paris,  tilhhedeaih  of  ihe  King's 
Sifter  (  which  was  five  years  after  ;  he  made  a  journey  into  Lo- 
yain  every  Spring,  either  with  her,  or  to  her  :  and  having  ferved 
his  quarter  at  her  Court,  returned  'toPtrit  :  there  the  Princefs  wa> 
raoft  part  of  the  year. 

Thofe  of  the  Reformed  Religion  made  many  and  great  complaint?, 
that  the'King's  Edjds  were  not  kept  nor  obferved  ;  that  they  were  net 
provided  of  all  things  neceflTary  for  the  exercife  of  their  Religion, 
the  liberty  of  their  Confciences,  and  fafety  of  their  perfnns  and  for- 
tunes. That  they  were  excluded  from  all  charges  and  Oiiices  in  the 
State,  juftice,  treafure,  and  policie  ,  to  the  great  prejudice  of  their 
Children,  OTT,  The  end  of  all  their  Aflfembiies  was  to  obtain  an 


u         irije  ecefcflafttcai^taiwi?      cent.  i«. 

.  T 

Edid  from  the  King ,  fo  clear  and  plain  ,  as  they  (hould  not  be  con- 
ftrained  to  fue  for  any  other.  Then  the  King  made  an  Edid,at  Nantes, 
and  figned  it  after  he  had  reduced  that  Province  to  his  obedience, 
Containing  a  Declaration  of  the  Edids  of  Pacification,  and  of  the  trou- 
bles grown  in  France  for  matter  of  Religion,  the  which  though  gran- 
ted in  April  1598.  was  not  allowed  in  the  Court  of  Parliament  of 
'Paris  untilthe  25.  day  of  February  following,  byreafon  of  the  many 
oppofidons  and  difficulties  that  were  made  againft  it.  The  Duchefs 
of  Bar,  would  not  go  out  of  Paris  before  it  was  confirmed,  fuch  was 
her  zeal  and  affection  in  that  matter,  as  in  all  other  affairs  of  that 
nature. 

And  for  the  better  fatisfadion  of  the  Proteftantsin  matters  of  juftice, 
It  pleafed  King  Henry  IV.  to  ered  a  Chamber  in  the  Court  of  Parli- 
ament of  Pans  purpofely  for  them.  It  confifted  of  one  Prefident,  and 
Sixteen  Counfellours  :  their  Office  to  take  knowledge  of  all  the 
Caufesand  Suits  of  them  of  the  Reformed  Religion,  as  well  within  the 
jurifdidion  of  the  Parliament  of  Paris,  as  alfo  in  Jtiormandy  and  Bri* 
tain,  till  there  fhould  be  a  Chamber  crcded  in  either  of  them.  There  were 
appointed  alfo  two  Chambers  in  the  Parliament  of  B nrdeanx  andGrr- 
noble •,  and  one  at  Chaflers  for  the  Parliament  of  Thobufc.  Thefe  Cham- 
bers were  called  les  Chambret  <k  I'  Edttt,  bccaufe  they  were  eftabliftied 
by  a  fpecial  Edid  at  Nantes  in  Sritain. 

The  Duke  of  Joyenfc  wallowing  in  fenfual  pleafures,  being  at  Parifl 
after  he  had  taken  his  leave  of  the  Ladies,  and  fome  other  friends,  be- 
cometh  a  Capuchin.  The  King  commended  his  re folution,  and  dining 
one  day  where  there  was  only  the  Duke  of^fayertne^  /'  •Ef4iguiers9 
andhimfelf,  he  faid,  That  in  the  world  there  were  men  of  all  conditi- 
ons and  qualities  to  be  found,  but  they  fhould  hardly  find  four  fo  dif- 
ferent as  they  were,  Whereof  there  was,  a  Sinner  converted,  a 
,  *  Capuchin  4ivtrttJ9  and  a  Hugonot  perverted. 


Cent.1 


Cent,  17.  Of  FRANCE.  87 


Century  XVH. 


THe  Pope  preft  King  Henry  to  make  his  Sifter  turn  Catho* 
lick,  and  the  Kingtopleafe  the  Pope  ufed  his  utmoft  en- 
deavours for  it,   employing  the  moft  learned  and  fubtil 
of  his  Clergy  to  feducc  her,  efpecially  1)»  Perron,  then 
Bifhop  ofEitreux,  and  Father  fitton.    Thefe  two  had  fcveral  bicker^ 
ings  with  the  Learned  Dn-Mouliny  who  in  his  Book  entitled,  thg  No- 
velty of  Popery  oppofed  to  -the  Antiquity  of  true  Chriflianity,  giveth 
an  account   of  an   occafional  encounter  of  his  with  M.  Du,  Perron. 
But  they  had  another,  which  was  a  pitched  field.     It  was  at  the  Court 
before  a  few,  but  Grave  and  Seled  affiftants.    After  fome  difpute,  when 
Du  Perron  gave  back  to  the  force  of  an  Argument,  and  was  at  a  lofs, . 
fome  body  hid  behind  the  hangings  cried  up  One.    And  when  the  like 
hapnedto  him-  thefecond  time,  the  fame  voice  cried  upTW,and  (o 
till  F  ive.  Upon  which  Bu  P-erron  complaining  of  interruption  broke  the 
Conference. 

One  Bcatilltu  'Boujn,  a  young  Clergy-man,  having  got  fome  Ma- 
nufcripts  of  Du  Perron  about  the  Eucharift,  made  ufe  of  them  towriit 
againft  Du,  Moulin,  who  thereby  was  provoked  to  anfwer  him,  and 
confute  him.  There  are  Letters  extant,  and  Printed  among  Du  Per- 
rons Works,  wherein  he  chides  that  fame  Beaulieu  BOUJM,  both  for 
ftealing,  and  more  for  ill  ufing  his  meditations,  and  tells  him  in  fub- 
ftancc ,  that  though  he  could  get  his  weapon,  yet  he  could  not 
wield  ir. 

King  Henry  IV.  to  fatisfiethe  Court  offow*,  and  the  French  Cler- 
gy of  the  care  he  took  of  his  Sifters  Conversion,  would  often  defire 
her  to  hear  the  Sermons  of  his  Chaplains ;  which  (he  would  not  yield 
unto,  till  once  being  madefenfible  how  the  King's  credit  was  interef- 
fed,  that  (he  fhould  once  at  the  leaft ,  hear  one  Court  Sermon,  fhc 
condefcended  fo  far  to  the  requeft  of  a  King  and  a  Brother,  as  to  pro- 
mife  to  hear  Father  fitton  •,  who  therefore  was  appointed  to  preach  be- 
fore the  King  and  her  immediately  after  Du  Moulins  Sermon  j  and  in 
the  fame  Room  :  for  thofe  two  contrary  fervices  were  performed  in 
the  fame  Room,  every  Lord's  day  morning  j  as  long  as  the  PriRcefe  livedj, 
and  was  at  the  Court. 

ThePrincefs,  to  ftrengtben  her  felf  againft  that  afiiult^  gave  notice 
of  it.  to  I?*  Moulin^  and  after  bis  Sermon  brought  him  into  a  private 

Room,; 


%iftO?P       One.  17. 


Room  ,   whence   he    might  hear  the  Jefuitcs  Oratory.     His  Subject 
was  of  the  dwelling  of  the  Holy-Ghoft  in  the    Soul,   and  he  made 
his  entry  into  that  matter  after  this  manner.    I  vent  once  (  faith  he  ) 
to  vifit  the    blofyital  of  fools,  where   a  grav-.  eld  man  received  me 
kindly  at  the  door,  and  went  about  with  mete  hew  me  the  diftraded 
perfons,  and  inform  me  about  their  feveral  kinds  of  folly.     Here  is 
one  (  faid  he  )  that  thinks  himfelf  made  of  Snow,  and  will  not  come 
near  the  fire  for  fear  of  melting.    This  thinks  himfelf  metamorpho- 
fed  into  an,  earthen  Pitcher,  and  will  not  fufter  any  to  come  near  him 
for  fear   of  being  broken  with  a  knock.    Thefe  four  think  themfelves 
cop  full  with  the  fpirit  of  Prophecie  :  one  will  be  EH*s3  another  Jcre- 
miah,    another    Daniel,  another  St.  Paul.     Buc  I  that  am  the  Holy- 
Ghoft  (faid  he  )  can  allure  you  Sir,  that  they  are  all  either  Fools  or 
Impoftors,  for  I  never  lent  them.    The  like  folly  is  to  be  feen  among 
thofe  of  the  pretended  Reformed  Religion.    There  you  fhall  find  wife 
and  Religious  Princefles  [_  intimating  the  King's  Sifter  3  Wife  and  va- 
liant Treafuren  £  intimating  the  Duke  of  Sully  ]    Wife  and  valiant 
Generals  of  Armies  [[intimating  the  Duke  of  BaviUon^    Wife  and 
learned  Counfellours  of  State  [_  intimating  Mr.  Du  Plejjls  Mornay^ 
All  wife  in  all  things,  but  that  they   think    they   have  the   Holy- 
Ghoft,  but  have  it  not.     The  Sermon  was   fuitable  to  the  Preface, 
and  wrought  an  anfwerable  effed  in  the  Hearers,  making  them  all  mer- 
ry, but  no  Converts. 

The  worthy  Dr.  Peter  Du  Moulin,  Son  to  the  faid  Du  Moulin,  tells 
us  in  his  life,  that  in  the  end  of  the  year  1601.  time  and  place  being 
•appointed  fora  Conference  between  Du  Moulin  and  Cayer  >  Ibmetimes 
a  Minifter,  and  then  a  Doftor  of  Sorbony  Cayer  put  off  the  meeting 
feveral  times  till  the  King's  Sifter  going  to  Lorain,  took  Du  Moulin 
along  with  her.  In  his  abfenceC^r  put  forth  a  Book  with  this  In- 
fcription,  A  Conference  by  Minifters  grant  cd,  and  by  them  refnfed.  In 
which  Book  he  accufeth  I)H  Moulin  of  deferting  his  Caufe,  and  run- 
ing  away.  But  Du  Moulin  being  returned  in  May  to  Paris  ,  the  chal- 
lenge was  renewed  on  both  fides.  So  they  met  on  May  28.  1602.  in 
an  houfe  next  to  the  King's  Sifters  houfe.  The  Conference  held  a 
fortnight.  They  had  Scribes  on  bothfides  ^  multitudes  of  hearers,  and 
good  order  kept. 

The  Queftions  agitated   Propounded  by  Cayer  himfelf,  were,  Of 

the  Sacrifice   of  the  Mafi  -,  of  the  Adoration  of  the  Pope,  and  of  the 

veneration  of  holy  Images.   Cayer  was  aflifted  with  two  Doctors,  Carme- 

lites ..£*#  Moulin  had  no  afiiftant.     Toward  the  midft  of  the  Confe- 

rence the  Faculty  of  Sorbon  grievoufly  cenfurcd  Cayer  for  ill  defend- 

ing the  Catholick  caufe,  and  fuffering  the  Adverfary  to  wade  too  deep 

.  -into  quefi  ions  :  and  the  Bifliop  of  Paris  forbad  him  to  fign  that  which  he 

bad  indifted  to  the  Scribes. 

The 


:Cenc.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 


The  Dodors  of  Sorbon  perceiving  that  the  more  the  Conference 
continued,  the  more  their  Caufewas  difcredited,  came  in  a  body  to 
the  King's  Advocate  in  the  Court  of  Parliament,  to  complain  of  that 
Conference,  faying,  that  it  was  a  pernicious  thing,  tending  to  Sediti- 
on i.  that  they  had  contrived  how  to  break  it,  and  that  the  effeds  of 
it  would  (riortiy  appear.  This  hindered  Dtt  Moulin  from  coming  to 
the  ordinary  place ,  where  he  was  before  Cayer.  The  Matter  of  the 
•houfe  would  have  kept  him  out :  but  Cayer  coming  foon  after  ,  the 
door  was  opened  to  him-  and  the  people  preffing  in  after  him,  T>r^ 
Meulin  got  in  with  the  Crowd.  There  they  confidered  how  to  get  ano- 
ther place  for  their  meeting.  But  the  Conference  being  difcountenan- 
ced  by  Authority,  no  body  durft  offer  his  houfe  for  it.  So  the  parties 
agreed  to  continue  the  Conference  in  writing,  and  to  publifh  nothing 
but  by  mutual  confenr.  But  DH  sJWoulin  asked  two  Conditions,  up- 
on which  Cayer  brake.  The  one  that  the  Conference  fhould  be  limi- 
ted, and  that  it  (hould  not  be  permitted  to  make  replies  in  infnitu?*, 
but  Cayer  would  have  no  limitation.  The  other,  that  Coyer  fhould 
lign  the  Ads  of  that  Conference  till  that  day,  which  Cayer  utterly  re- 
fufed  ,  faying,  It  was  enough  that  it  was  fubfcribed  by  the  Scribes. 
When  Du  Moulin  reprefented  to  him,  what  difgraceheputupon  him- 
felf  and  his  Ciufe,  and  challenged  him ;  Cayer  anfwered,  that  he  ca- 
red not  for  the  talk  of  the  people,  nor  for  challenge?*  And  to  get 
out  of  that  mire  he  moved  a  queftion  to  'Dit  Moulin,  whether  he  could 
tell  afcer  what  manner  of  Creation  the  Angels  were  created.  X>« 
Moulin  knowing  that  this  was  their  laft  meeting  ,  anfwered,  that  the 
Queftion  in  hand  was  only  of  fubfcribing  the  Ads.  But  Cayer  refu- 
(ing  turned  his  back,  and  faid,  you  fliall  hear  of  me  :  and  fo  went 
away,  to  the  great  fcandal  of  the  Romanics  there  prefent.  A  Proteftant 
made  the  company  laugh,  faying,  that  Cayer  was  not  yet  of  Age  to 
fign. 

Thus  was  the  Conference  broken,  to  the  great  fatisLdionof  many 
faithful  fouls,  and  theinftrudion  of  many  ignorant  Papifls,  who  fince 
gave  glory  to  God  by  an  open  Profeflion  of  the  truth. 

The  Ads  of  the  Conference  are  extant,  publifhed  by  Archibald 
Adaire  a  Reverend  Bifhop  of  Scotland. 

The  Doctors  of  the  Faculty  QiScrbon  (lung  with  the  ill  fuccefs  of  this 
Conference,  provoked  him  to  another,  in  which  the  body  of  the  Uni- 
verfity  took  intereft.  They  were  to  oppofe  three  dates  upon  what  points 
they  thought  beft  ;  and  Dh^foulin  was  to  oppofe  three  daies  alfo, 
and  choofe  what  points  he  pleafed.  He  was  then  Refpondent  for  three 
daies,  and  found  in  theDifpute  that  bleffingof  God  which  never  was 
wanting  to  him  in  the  defence  of  his  truth*  After  the  Difpute  of  the 
third  day,  he  being  returned  home,  and  retired  to  hisftudy,  a  man  in  a 
Prieft's  habit  came  in  the  dark  evening  up  the  ftajrssandknockt  at  hisStudy 

M  m  rn  door, 


ccclcfiafttcal  %tftoiy 


door.  When  £>//  Moulin  had  opened  it,  the  man  ihruft  the  door  wub 
all  his  ftrength  to  have  ruftit  in  :  and  DM  Alwlm  with  all  his  ftrengtfi 
(  in  which  he  was  inferiour  to  few  men  of  his  fize  )  kept  him  out,  and 
called  for  help.  The  man  hearing  fome  ftirring  below,  ran  haftily 
down  the  flairs,  and  fo  into  the  Street.  It  is  fuppofed  upon  probable 
ground,  that  the  man  was  come  to  kill  him  before  he  prefented  himfelf 
to  be  opponent  according  to  the  Covenants  of  the  Conference.  But  On 
the  next  morrow  he  met  with  aProhibition  from  the  King  to  continue  that 
Conference  any  longer.  Thefe  paflages  raifed  his  reputation  very  high, 
whereby  God  was  glorifiedjhis  Truth  confirmed,.  and  his  Church  edified 
andincreafed  with  many  Converts. 

The  laft  ficknefs  of  the  King's  Sifter  gave  a  great  exercife  to  his  zeal 
and  induftry,  whereby  he  did  faithfully  and  confhntly  affift  her  in  that 
extremi.y.  DuTerron&&  his  utmoft  to  pervert  her  and  to  fright  him 
away.  Whenfhe  drew  near  to  her  end,  Du  tJJfoulin  /landing  by  her 
Bed  fide,  Du  Perron  came,  and  faid,  he  was  fent  by  the  King,  and  would 
remove  him  by  plain  force.  But  Du  Moulin  held  fad  the  Bed-poft. 
And  when  Du  Perron  told  him  he  was  to  take  place  of  him  in  all 
Companies,  Du  A&W/Tzanfwered  ,  that  his  place  was  before  Du  Per- 
rons at  the  Prince/Fes  Beds  fide,  and  in  thatfervice.  He  added,  that 
he  believed  not  that  the  King  would  offer  violence  to  his  Sifters  Con- 
fcience,  appealing  to  her  felf,  and  befeeching  her  Highnefs  to  declare  her 
pleafure.  She  declared  that  fhe  would  die  in  the  Reformed  Religion, 
and  that  (he  would  have  Du  Moulin  to  ftay  by  her.  Whereupon  DH 
Perron  withdrew,  and  the  good  Princefs  perfevered  in  God's  truth  to 
her  laft  breath.  The  King  wifht  (he  had  died  in  the  Roman  Profefr 
fion,  and  did  all  he  could  without  violence,  to  pleafure  the  Court  QiRome 
in  that  poinr. 

A  little  beforethere  was  a  Conference  between  the  Bithop  of  Eureux 
and  Thilip  de  Mornay  Lord  of  Pie  (fts  Marly,  Governour  of  Saumur, 
in  the  prefence  of  the  King,  Princes  ,  and  Officers  of  his  Crown,  Coun- 
fellours  of  State,  and  other  Noblemen  of  Mark.  It  was  touching  a 
Book  which  Monfieur  du  Pleffis  had  publifhed  of  the  Inftiiution  of 
the  Lords  Supper,  and  againft  the  Mais,  wherein  the  Bifliop  did  tax 
him  to  have  falfified  many  Authorities.  Whereupon  Du  Pleffis  pre- 
fented a  Petition  unto  the  King,  that  his  Majefty  would  bepleafedto 
appoint  Commifiioners  taexamine  every  paffage  of  Scripture  cited  in 
his  Book.  The  King  yielded  to  this  Conference,,  referring  the  care 
thereof  to  his  ChanceUour.  The  Commiffioners  appointed  for  the 
Catholicks  were  Augufiu*  Thuanus,  Prefident  of  the  Court  of  Parlia- 
ment at  Paris  :.  Pithau,  Advocate  in  the  Court,,  and  Eieurey  School- 
mafter  to  the  Prince  tfConde,  inwhofe  abfcnce  came  M.irtin  the 
King's  Phyfitian.  And  for  the  other,  the  Prefident  of  Cnugnon^ 
Chancellour  of  Navarre,  in  whofe  place  entred  DeFrffncs  Gavay^ 

Ptefi- 


Gene.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 


Prefident  of  the  Chamber  otLangnedoc  ,  and  Jfaac  Cafitubon,  his  Ma- 
jefties  Reader  for  the  Greek  Tongue.  All  men  of  great  Learning  and 
well  skilled  in  the  Tongues. 

This  Conference  began  on  May  4.  in  the  Hall  at  Fottntainblean,  in  De  Serre<  riift 
the  midft  whereof  was  a  Table  of  a  reafonablt  length.  At  the  one  end  in  Hwr>  iv;  ^ 
fat  the  King-,  on  his  right  hand  theBithop  ofEtt/etix,  and  on  the  left 
right  againft  him  Dtt  Plejfis.  Pafquier,  Vajfaut,  and  Mercier^  Secreta- 
ries of  the  Conference,  were  at  the  lower  end  of  the  fame  Table.  Some- 
what higher  on  the  right  hand  fate  the  Chancellour  and  the  Commidio- 
ners.  Behind  the  King  ftood  the  Archbifhop  of  Lions,  and  the  Bi- 
ihops  of  Nevers,  Beauvais,  and  Chaftrcs.  On  the  King's  left  hand 
were  the  four  Secretaries  of  State.  Behind  them  which  conferred,  were 
the  Dukes  of  Vandemontj  of  Nemours,  of  Mercoeur,  of  Mayenne^  of 
jNevtrty  of  Elbeuf,  of  AiguMony  and  ofjanville  ,  the  Officers  of  the 
Crown,  Counfellours  of  State,  and  other  Noblemen  of  quality. 

All  were  commanded  to  keep  filence.  The  King  faid,  that  the  Di- 
fpute  was  not  betwixt  party  and  party,  but  particular  betwixt  the  two 
Conferents  -,  not  for  any  queftion  of  Right  and  Doctrine  y  but  for  the 
literal  truth  of  fome  paflages.  He  defired  they  would  treat  with  all 
mildnefs  and  moderation  -,  without  any  bitternefs  or  paffion ,  but  that 
of  the  truth  :  Declaring  moreover,  that  he  did  not  mean  that  this 
Difpute  fhould  in  any  thing  alter  ordifquiet  the  peace  of  his  Subjects, 
as  the  Chanceilour  did  then  Declare  unto  them  at  large  by  the  King's 
Commandment. 

After  the  firft  daies  Conference  M.  Du  Pleffis  fell  very  fick,  fo  as  they 
could  proceed  no  further.  The  King  did  write  the  fame  day  unto  the 
Duke  of  Effernon  what  had  pad  in  the  Conference,  and  (hewed  by  his 
Letter  what  his  judgement  was.  My  friend,  the  Diocefs  tfEureux  hath 
vanquifhed  that  of  Saumitr.  Wherewith  Du  Pleffis  was  difcontented,fo 
that  in  a  Difcourfe  Printed  foon  after  touching  this  Conference,  he 
termed  this  Letter  A  Jpark.of  fire,  and  faid,  That  the  Bifiop  of  Eureux 
fly  wo*  made  an  Elephant. 

Some  Months  after,  Canay,  one  of  the  Commiflioners ,  and  Prefi- 
dent in  the  Chamber  of  the  Edict  at  Caftres,  a  man  learned  in  Phi- 
iofophy  and  the  Tongues,  and  well  read  in  the  Church  Hiflory, 
left  his  Profeffion  of  the  Reformed  Religion,  and  became  a  Romifh 
Citholick. 

Philip  Mornay,  Lord  of  Pleffis,  his  work  concerning  the  truth  of 
Chriftian  Religion  ,  was  written  in  French  againft  <js4theifts,  Epi- 
cures^  Paynims,  Jews^  sJWahnmetifts,  and  other  Infidels,  began  to  be 
translated  by  S'uPhilip  Sidney. m&  at  his  requeft  finiuhed  by  .AnhurCjold- 
ing:  He  publifhed  aTreatife  containing  the  reafons  why  the  Council 
ot  Trent  could  not  be  admitted  in  France.  He  was  fent  by  the  King  of 
Navarre  to  the  National  Synod  of  foray  in  BretAgne>  where  he  was 

M  m  m  2  joy- 


joyfully  received  by  the  whole  Company.  He  was  likewife  prefent  in 
the  General  Aflembly  of  she  Protdtants  held  at  Mantauban  by  the 
King's  permiilion,  Jte>  1584,  Where  he  was  defired  by  the  Af- 
fembly  to  draw  up  the  form  of  their  Complaints  againft  the  violation  of 
the  Edsd  for  P<ace  -,  which  He  together  with  tfee  Count  de  U  r*l 
preferred  afterwards  to  the  King  at  "Zlois. 

When  the  League  of  the  Houfe  of  Guifi  brake  forth,  which  was 
formed  firft  againft  the  King,  under  pretence  of  the  Defence  oftheCa- 
iholick  Religion  -,  and  afterwards  declared  againft  ihe  King  oiNavarrt 
and  the  Proteftants  :  That  famous  Declaration  in  die  name  of  the 
faid  King  was  Penned  by  DH  Plejjis.  In  the  following  Civil  Wars 
for  Religion ,  he  did  many  important  fervices  for  the  King  ofNav^rrt 
and  the  Proteftants,  both  with  his  Sword  and  Pen,  havinganfwereda, 
virulent  Book,  publifhed  by  the  League  againft  the  King  of  Navarre, 
called  the  Englifa  Catholtck^  In  the  year  1590.  he  built  a  Church 
for  the  Proteftants  in  S/mmur^  and  obtained  a  Grant  from  the  King  for 
the  in/touting  an  University  there,  which  was  afterwards  confirmed  by 
a  National  Synod  held  in  the  fame  place.  Anno  1593.  he  wrotea  large 
Letter  to  the  King,  who  then  had  changed  his  Religion  ^  defiringthc 
continuance  of  his  favour  to  the  Proteftants,  and  withal  expoftulating 
that  fudden  change.  Amo  1598.  he  Primed  his  Work  of  the  Lords 
Supper.  The  Jefuites  rtBonrdeaux  Petitioned  the  Parliament  there  that 
it  might  be  burnt. 

Jacobut  Auguft*  Tbnanit*  is  a  moft  faithful  Hiftorian..   He  wrote 
an  Hiftory  of  things  done  throughout  the  whole  World  from  the  year 
of  Chrift  1545.  even  to  the  year  1608.  in  a  moft  elegant  ftyle.    Heis 
highly    commended  by  divers  Learned  men.    Sut  &tati*  Hifloriam , 
fummo  judicio  &  fide,  fine  odio  &  gratia,  ad  Dei  gloriam  &  pub  lie  am 


ip/it  :  O^M  &  ftyli 
ejrate 


viflimarunt  rerttm  copia  ac  ntajejrate  cwn  quibitfuis  five  vecerttmy 
recentiiim  in  eo  genere  fcripttf  eowferendum.     Lanf.  Orat.    pro  (jal- 
lia.     Inter  mnlta  qn<t  in  tf  admiratura  eft  pofteritas,  ego  ittud  unite 
obftupcfcO)  unde  tibi  modo  infori  arce,  mode  in  fumrna.,  Rfpublica  ver-  • 
fantt  Iptiuw,  unde  vis  indefejfa  ammi,  ut  res  tot  ac  tantas  ant  fcriben- 
das  cognofcercs^  ant  cognitat  fcriberes.     Grot.  Epift.  16.  Jac.  Aug» 
Tbnuno.     jQucm  ego  vtrum  divinitw  datum  cenfeofacitlo  ifti  in  cxem- 
flum  pietatv,    integritatis^  frobitatis.     Cafaub.  Epift.   Append.     Vir^  . 
immortali  iaude    dignw  ,   &    HiffioricA    t^eritatis    Itwev.     Mantac.  . 
Amidiat.     Vir  non  minus  eruditione,  quam  officij  dignitate 
alius,  Vtrifiidiofut.     Mtfrton.  Caufa  Regia, 
ift,  a  fin£ 


Ifaac  fafaubon  was  a  great  Linguift,  a  fingular  Grecian ,  and  an 
excellent  Philologer.  He  hath  written  in  twelve  Books  of  his  Exer- 
citations,  Animadverfions  on  thofe  twelve  Tomes  of  Bttrcnius  his 
Annuls,.  Scaltger  in  an  Epiftle  to  Cafanban  comoacnds  his  B.ok  de  Sa- 


Cent.i/.  Of  FRANCE. 


tyra  •  and  in  another  his  Theophrafttu  his  Characters.  He  is  thus 
ftyled  by  Salwafiufj  IncomparMis  Vir,  &  fcculifui  dectu  iwmorta- 
!,e  ,  IjaacH*  Cafattbonus,  nunqtt&m  fine  laude  nominandut ,  nunquam 
fat  is  laudatm.  Salwaf.  Prsfat.  ad  Hift.  j4uguft.fcript. . 

The  Marriage  between  the  King  and  Queen  tJMxrgarite  being  pro- 
nounced void,  and  aContrad  paft  between  him  and  *JMary  of  Mcdi- 
cesy  the  Duke  of  Florence's  Daughter  :  She  being  bleflcd  of  Aidobran- 
dino  the  Pope's  Legate  at  Florence,  went  from  thence,  and  arrived  at 
ALtrfaSts,  from  whence  (being  every  where  Royally  entertained ) 
fhecameto  Lions,  and  there  after  eight  dales  ftay  met  wiih  the  King, 
where  in  St.  John's  Church  the  Nuptial  foleronity  was  performed  to 
this  Couple  by  the  Legate.  On  September  27.  1601.  theQjeen  was 
delivered  of  a  Son  which  was  named  Lewes.  The  King  bleiiinghim, 
put  a  Sword  in  his  hand,  to  ufe  ic  to  the  glory  of  God,  and  the  de- 
fence of  his  Crown  and  people.  The  Pope  fent  prcfently  unto  the  King 
a/id  Queen,  to  congratulate  with  them  of  this  Birth,  and  to  carry  unto 
the  young  Prince  fwadling  bands,  bearing  clothes,  and  other  things  bleC- 
fed  by  his  Holinefs. 

Then  the  Pope  granted  a  Jubilee ,  and  pardons  to  all  the  French  tlm 
ffaould  go  vific  the  Church  of  St.  Croix  at  Orleans^  doing  the  works  « 
of  Chriftian  Charity.     An  infinite  number  of  people  went  thither  from 
all  parts  of  France  :  the  King  and  Queen  went  thither  wirhthe  firft, 
and  gave  means  to  help  to  build  this  Church,  which  had  been  ruined  du- 
ring the  fury  of  the  firft  Civil  wars.    The  King  laid  the  firft  ilonc  of  this.- 
building. 

Then  the  King  did.  forbid  the  fuperfluous  ufe  of  Gold  and  Silver  in 
Lace,  or  otherwise  upon  .garments  -.and  made  an  Edict  alfo  againft  Ulu- 
ry  -,  and  another  againft  Combates , 

Not  long  after,  the  Duke  of  Biron's  Confpiracy  was  difcovered,  xvho 
was  fometimes  heard  fay,  he  would  die  a  Sovereign.  Refuting  to  fub- 
mit  himfelf  to  the  King's  Clemency,  he  is  feized  on  at  the  King's 
Chamber  door,  and  (his  Sword  being  taken  from  him)  is  carried 
Prifoner  to  the  Btftillc.  There  uttered  he  thofe  paffionate  words, 
That  if  they  defired  to  put  him  to  death,  they  fhould  difpatch  him  ^  that 
they  fhould  not  brag  they  had  made  him  to  fear  death ;  that  they  fhould 
fpeedily  drink  themfelves  drunk  with  the  blood  which  remained  of 
thirty  five  wounds,  which  he  had  received  for  the  lerviceof  fnzwro  . 
The  King  fcnt  his  Letters  to  the  Coun  of  Parliament  to  make  his  Pro- 
cefs.  In  ihe  end  being  found  guilty,  the  Chancellour  pronounced  the 
fentence  of  death,  which  was  infli-ded  on  him  in  the  Baftjlle ,  which  he 
took  moft  impatiently. 

King  James  of  happy  memory,  before  his  coming  to  the  Crown  of  f 
England ,  fent  exprellions  of  Royal  favour,  to  the  Confiftory  of  Paris ^ 
whochofc.the  forementioned  DH.JM&itlin  to  addrefs  their  humble 

thanks 


94 


thanks  by  Letters  to  his  Majefty.  And  when  his  Majefty  publiflit 
his  Confeffion  of  Faith,  againft  which  Coeftteau  (fince  Biihop  of  M*r- 
fillesj  writ  an  eloquent  Book,  Du  Moulin  undertook  the  defence  of 
the  King's  CwffJJiov,  and  wrote  a  French  Book  with  that  Title,  which 
was  molt  welcome  to  the  King,  and  to  the  Englifi  Clergy :  and  his 
Majefty  made  Royal  and  bountiful  cxprefiions  ot "his  acceptance.  And 
becaufe  other  Adverfaries  (  befides  Coeffeteatt  )  had  writ  againft  the 
King,  *Z)#  Moulin  wrote  another  Book  in  his  defence  in  Latine,  entitu- 
led,  De  Monarchta  Pontifcis  Romani, 

The  Duke  of  Bouillon  having  been  accufed  by  thofe  which  had  been 
examined  in  Council  upon  the  Confpiracies  of  the  Duke  of  'Biron,  be- 
ing Cent  feu  $  refuterh  to  come  to  the  King  :  but  afterwards  in  the  yeaf 
1606.  he  made  his  peace,  and  came  to  the  King  being  then  at  Ditnchc- 
ry  on  April  n.  The  King  with  the  Queen,  Princes  of  the  blood, 
and  other  Officers  of  the  Crown,  entred  into  Sedan,  where  he  was  joy- 
fully received  by  the  Duke  being  Prince  of  Sedan,  and  Protedourof 
the  Proteftant  Church  there.  The  King  promifed  that  the  Church 
of  Sedan  fhould  fuffer  no  alteration,  but  enjoy  the  liberty  of  their  con- 
fcience. 

In  the  year  1603.  tne  Duke  of  Savoy  had  an  cnterprize  upon&*tf;* 
va  •'  his  men  on  fcaling  Ladders  mounted  the  Walls  undefcried,  fur- 
prized  the  Souldier  that  ftood  Centinel,  got  the  word  of  him,  and  flew; 
him,  being  alfo  Mailers  of  the  Streets  about  two  hours.  But  they 
were  difappoinred  :  thirteen  were  by  the  Towns-men  taken  alive 
(  among  whom  was  the  Baron  of  Attigna*  )  which  were  condemned 
to  be  hanged,  whofe  heads  (with  the  heads  of  thofe  that  were  killed,  in 
-all  feventy  feven  )  were  fet  upon  the  Gallowes,  and  their  bddies  thrown 
into  the  River  of  Rhofnc,for  which  deliverance  they  made  a  folemn 
thankfgiving  to  God,  concluding  a  peace  with  the  Duke  in  July  the 
fame  year. 

The  fame  year  the  King  being  at  e/fefc te  ,  there  came  unto  him 
four  Jefuites ,  to  obtain  their  re-efhblifhment  in  France. 

In  October  there  was  a  National  Synod  held  at  Sap  by  thoPe  of  the 
Reformed  Religion,  which  Treated  touching  Doftrine,  Difciplins,  and 
the  Government  of  Churches. 

The  King  made  Monfttur  Alexander  (  his  Baftard  Son  )  of  the  Or- 
der of  the  Knights  of  Malta.  A  great  number  of  Commanders  and 
Knights  being  aflembled  at  Paris,  where  he  was  inverted  into  the  Or- 
der in  the  AHguftinet  Church  by  the  Grand-Prior  of  France,  who 
fet>upon  his  Breaft  a  Plaftron  of  black  Satten,  with  a  white  Crofs : 
So  ihe  Ceremony  ended  with  great  joy  and  founding  of  Trumpets. 
The  new  Knight  feafted  the  Grand- Priors  of  France  and  Champagne, 
ty ijh  the  Commanders  ang  Knights  at  the  Temple. 

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Cent.    17.  Of  FRANCE. 


The  King  having  promifed  to  reftore  the  Jefuites,  Father  Cotton 
came  to  Paris  by  hi*  Majefties  Command,  with  Father  Armand  the 
Provincial,  and  Father  Alexander :  and  the  King  grew  prefently  in-j 
tofuch  a  liking  with  Firher  Gotten,  as  he  did  nothing  but  he  was  cal- 
led ,  and  in  the  end  his  Majefty  granted  their  return  upon  certain 
Conditions :  and  theEdid  madefor  their  eftablifhment,  (  notwithftand- 
ing  any  oppofirions  made  unto  the  Cuufc  to  hinder  the  confirmation 
thereof)  was  confirmed  in  the  beginning  of  the  year  1604*  and  their 
Colledges  were  reftored  at  Lions,  Raven,  "Bonrges^  andD//W.  The 
Signeur  of  Varenne,  (  Controller  General  of  the  Ports,  and  now  Go- 
vernour  of  the  Town  and  Caftle  of  Aigcrs,  who  loved  them  of  this 
company  ),  befought  the  King  to  build  anew  Collcdge  at  LA  Fleche 
in  AnjoH)  with  priviledgeslike  to  the  other  Univerfities  of  that  Realm, 
the  which  the  King  made  of  a  Royal  Found  ition,  and  gave  them  his  own 
Houfe  with  Pen(ions,for  the  inftrudlion  of  a  good  number  of  young  Ger- 
tlemen,  whom  his  Majefty  would  have  bred  up,  and  inftcucled  there  in 
all  Profeffions,  Tongues,,  and  Exercifes. 

But  Father  Cotton  returning,  one  rugju  fomewhat  late  (about the 
end  of  February  )  and  parting  by  the  Street  of  the  new  Bridge,  to  gQ 
unto  the  Louvre,  there  were  certain  Pages  and  LicquieSj  which  cal- 
ling for  him  at  the  door  of  ihe  Coach,  wounded  .him  with  their  Rapiers, 
giving  him  one  great  wound  in  the  fhoul-d^r  going  toward  the  neck  and 
throat,  whereof  he  was  foon  after  cured.  There  was  great  fearch 
made  for  this  attempt.  Some  were  taken  and  examined.  Cotton  re- 
quefted  the  King  to  pardon  them,  yet  were  they  banifhed  the  Court, 
and  forbidden  ever  to  come  there  upon  pain  of  death. 

In  the  year  1606.  the  King  made  fpecial  orders  on  the  behalf  of 
thofe  of  the  Reformed  Religion,  enjoyning  them  to  carry  themfelves 
according  to  the  Edid  of  Nantes  ,  avoiding  all  occasions  of 
fcandal. 

About  Eafter  this  year  were  fuch  violent  winds  and  ftorms  through- 
out all  France^  as  the  tops  of  houfes  being  caft  down,  many  were  fliin 
and    fore  hurt    in  cParis.     Not   long    after    there  was    a    violent 
Blague    in    the   fame   ,.  and  in  the   beginning  of    the.  following  / 
year.  . ' 

In  the  year  1608.  were  the  Jefuites  admitted  into  Navarre  aixl 
Beam,  whereat  all  the  Judges  and  Officers  of  the  Country  were  dif- 
contentedr.  as  who  hated  the  Jefuites  above  all  Creatures  living  ^  ani 
had  in  former  times  put  them  to  death  like,  Spies,,  if.  they  found  any  wuh- 
in  their  limits. 

The  Prelates  of  France  in  like  manner  Petitioned  the  King  once 
again,  that  the  Decrees  of  the  Council,  of  Trent]  might  be  ob- 


"9*6™  ^C€CCleCafficaiitrtO?P       Gene, 


On  Afril  1  1  .  Anno  1  609.  there  was  a  Conference  between  Man- 
ficur  DH  Moulin^  one  of  the  Miniftersof  the  Reformed  Church  ofP*- 
ritj  and  Father  Gonticr  a  Jefuite,  being  feconded  by  the  Baronefs  of 
SitlignAr  .-  after  which  ii  was  bruited  abroad,  that  Cornier  had  confu- 
ted Du  Moulin  in  divers  points  which  the  Proteftams  held,  Cjontier 
himfelf  writing  a  fpecious  Letter  to  the  King  to  that  effeA.  1>u  Moulin 
finding  his  Reputation  touched,  and  the  truth  mifreportedj  was  forced  to 
publifh  a  true  Difcourfe  of  the  whole  Conference. 

In  the  year  1610.  another  attempt  againft  Geneva  was  difcovered, 
whereof  the  Authour  was  Candis>  one  of  their  own  home-bred  and  na- 
tive Citizens,  a  man  not  meanly  reputed  of,  both  for  his  knowledge 
in  Phyfick  and  the  Languages  :  whereof  being  found  guilty,  and  of  ano- 
ther before,  he  was  condemned,  and  his  body  broken,  and  fo  laid  half 
dead  on  a  wheel  -unbound,  he  was  caft  from  thence  to  be  burned  in  a  fire 
-under  him. 

On  May  13.  the  Queen  was  folemnly  Crowned  at  St.'Dcnnis  by  the 
'Cardinal  of  Joyeufe.  On  Fridny  May  14.  the  day  after  the  Queens 
Coronation,  the  King  was  treacherouily  munhered  by  thecurfed  hand  of 
a  bloody  villain. 

The  King  being  advertifed  of  fome  ominous  influence  and  Prediction 
which  did  threaten  him  that  day,  went  to  fee  Mafs  with  great  devotion. 
At  his  return  they  brought  him  fome  of  his  Children,  among  the  reft 
t'le  Duke  diAn]ou  whom  he  dearly  loved  :  but  being  then  very  penfive,h€ 
commanded  theyihould  carry  him  to  breakfaft.     Then  being  very  fad 
he  caft  himfelf  upon  his  bed  to  lleep  if  he  might  :    but  not  being  able  to 
take  any  reft,  he  fell  upon  his  knees,  and  began  to  pray.    Then  he  lay 
down  again,   and  prayed  again,  and  thus  he  did  three  times.    In  the 
end  he  went  and  walked  in  the  Gallery  till  dinner  time.  After  dinner  many 
Noblemen  came  into  his  Chamber,  and  began  to  tell  fome  tales  to  make 
him  laugh.     Having  foiled  a  little  with  the  reft  (being  naturally  of  a 
pleafant  difpofition  _)  in   the  end  he  faid,  We  haveUughed  enough  for. 
Friday^  vce  may  well  weep  on  Sunday.     Hereupon  he  caufed  fome  to  go 
to  the  Arfentl  at   four  of  the  clock.    Whereupon,  they  fay,  that  the 
Duke  of  Vendofme  told  him,  that  he  had  been  warned  to  beware  of  the 
14.  day  :  yet  making  no  account  thereof,  he  went  down  into  the  Court, 
where  a  man  of  a  mean  condition  entertained  him  a  quarter  of  an  hour. 
Then  he  went  into  his  Coach  by  the  Duke  of  Efterncn  (  who  fate  in  the 
tirft  place  of  the  Boot  on  the  King's  right  hand  )  *JWoKtbaz.oniht  Mar- 
(hal  of  LAvareHn,  U  Force  and  Franlin^  being  followed  by  two  Foot- 
men, and  one  of  his  Guard  on  Horfe-back,  having  commanded  Mon- 
fcur  de  Vitryy  and  the  reft  of  his  Guard  to  ftay  behind. 

Being  between  the  Draw-bridge  and  the  Port,  a  miferable  wretch, 
nci*  RaviUac,  born  at  An^oulefmy  by  Profeflion  a  Lawyer,  watch- 
his  opportunity,  dre^  near  unto  the  Coach  on  the  right  fide,  think. 

ine 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 


97 


Ing  his  Majefty  had  been  there  j  but  feeing  he  was  on  the  left  hand,  and 
hearing  them  command  the  Coach-man  to  drive  on,  he  went  the  near- 
eft  way  by  narrow  Lanes,  and  met  with  the  Coach  again  in  the  Street 
called  ferroniere,  near  Innocents  Church,  where  flaying  to  make  way 
for  a  Cart  to  pafs,  the  King  leaned  down  on  the  one  fide  towards  the 
Duke  of  Eftcrnon,  preiling  him  to  read  a  Letter  without  Spectacles. 
Montbaz.on  with  the  Mardchal  de  la  Vardin  was  in  one  of  the  Boots, 
who  turned  toward  them  •  and  one  of  the  Footmen  was  bufiein  tying 
up  his  garter  on  the  other  fide  •  fo  that  this  Monfter  had  the  opportu- 
nity to  ftab  the  King  in  the  left  Pap  ;  but  the  wound  was  not  great* 
Whereupon  crying  out,  O  my  God  lam  wounded,  he  gave  him  a  fe- 
cond  blow  which  was  mortal -,  the  knife  entring  between  the  Fifth  and 
Sixth  Rib,  it  cut  afunder  the  Vein  leading  to  the  heart.  And  the 
wound  was  fo  deep,  that  it  entred  into  CAVA  Vena^  the  which  was  pier- 
ced; wherewith  the  King  did  prefently  fpk  blood,  lofing  all  appre- 
henfion  and  knowledge  for  any  thing  they  could  perceive  •  who  being 
carried  back  into  the  Louvre,  was  laid  upon  a  Couch  in  his  Cabinet, 
where  prefently  after  he  gave  up  the  ghoft.  After  whofe  death  the 
Queen-Mother  was  declared  Regent  in  France  -,  by  whofe  Command>- 
ment  the  King's  heart  was  delivered  to  the  Jefuites,  to  be  laid  up  in  their 
'Colledge  of  la  FUche,  as  the  King  himfelf  had  long  before  refolved. 
The  firft  Edict  at  Nantes  was  alfo  confirmed ,  for  the  entertainment 
whereof  a  Declaration  was  made  by  Le wes  the  young ;King. 

The  Murtherer  being  arraigned  was  put  totheRa<rkon  Mayl$. 
and  on  the  27.  had  the  Sentence  of  death  given  againft  him.  His 
execution  was  after  this  manner.  He  was  brought  out  of  the  Prifon  in 
his  fhirt,  with  a  Torch  of  two  pound  weight  lighted  in  one  hand-  and 
the  knife  wherewith  he  had  murthered  the  King,  chained  in  the  other. 
Then  was  he  fet  upright  in  a  Tumbrel  or  dung  Cart  ;  and  fo  he  was 
conducted  with  a  good  Guard  to  our  Ladies  Church,  where  he  did  pe> 
nance.  After  this  lie  was  accompanied  to  the  place  ef -Execution  by 
two  Doctors  of  Divinity ,  who  ftill  perfwaded  him  tofave  his  foul  from 
everlafting  puniflimcnt  by  revealing  his  Aflbciates  ^  the  which  he  would 
not.  In  this  manner  he  was  carried  to  the  (jreye,  where  there  was  a 
ftrong  Scaffold  built  for  his  Execution.  At  his  coming  up  on  the 
Scaffold  hecrofifed  himfelf,  in  token  that  he  died  a  Papift.  Then  was 
he  bojjnd  toan  Engine  of  wood  :  which  done,  his  hand  with  theknife 
chained  toit  (  wherewith  he  had  flain  the  King)  was  put  into  a  Fur- 
nace tjien  flaming  with  Fire  and  Brimftone,  wherein  it  was  in  a  terri- 
ble manner  confumed  •,  and  yet  he  would  not  confefs  any  thing,  but 
caft  forth  horrible  cries  like  a  foul  tormented  in  Hell.  Then  the  Ex- 
ecutjoners  having  made  Pincers  red  hot  in  the  fame  Furnace,  they  did 
pttfchhis  Paps,  the  brawns  of  his  arms  and  thighs,  with  the  calves  of 
his  legs,  and  other  flefliy  parts  of  his  body,  pulling  out  collops  of  flefli, 

N  n  n  and 


^IjCCCClefmfttcal|tftO^         Cenc    17. 

and  burning  diem  before  his  face.     Then  they  poured  intothofe  wounds- 
fralding  Oyl  •,  Rozen,  Fitch,  and  Brimftone  melted  together.     Af- 
ter which  they  fet  a  hard  roundel  of  Clay  upon  his  Navil,  having  art- 
hole  in  the-mkUt,  into  the  which  they  poured  malten  Lead  •,  yet  he 
revealed  nothing  ,  but  roared  out  moft.  horribly.    Then  they  caufed 
four  ftrong  Horfes  to  be  brought  to  tear  his  Bftdy  in  pieces.    But  thefe 
•Horfes  could  not  of-aJong  time  pull.  him  afundir  (though-  another  very 
ftrong  Horfe  was  put  in  the  place  of  one  of  the  four,  who  drained'  but 
faintly  )  until  they,  were  conftrained  to  cut  the  veins  under  his  arms  and 
thighs,  by  which  means  his  body  was  the  eafier  torn  in  pieces.     Then 
the  enraged-  multitude  pulled  this  difmembred  Carkafs  out  of  the  Ex- 
ecutioners hand,  which  they  dragged  up  and-  down  through  the  dirt  : 
and  cutting  off  the  flefh  with  their  knives  -,  the  bones  which-  remain- 
ed were  burnt  at  the  place  o£  execution  and  the  afhes  fcattered  in 
the  wind..   His   Father  and  Mother  were   commanded  to  depart  the 
I,and,.  and  never  to  return  again..    His  Brethren,  Sifters,  Uncles,  and 
others  his  Kinsfolk,  enjoined  to  take  another  Name.     His  goods  were 
declared  forfeited  to  the  King,  andthehoufe  where  he  had  been  born 
to  be  beaten  down. 

This  wicked  Parricide  confeffed  no  other  motive  of  his  Crime,  but 
the  Bpok  of  Mariana,  a  Spanifh  Jefuite^.  Which  Book  by  a  Decree 
made  by  the  Colledge  of  Sor  -bonne  ,  and  confirmed  by  a  fentence- 
from  the  Courts  of  Parliament,  was  for  that  caufe  by  a  fentence 
condemned  to  be  publickly.  burnt  before  our  Ladies  Church  in 


After  the  execution  of  RwiBaa,  there  was  a  foul  imputation  laid  on. 
the  Jefuites  ;.  and  many  condemned  them  as  Abettors  and  favou- 
rers of  the  Murtherers  of  Princes  :  for  which  caufe  Father  Cot  ton  em- 
ploys aU  his  Wit  and  Eloquence  to  wipe  it  off,  in  whofe  behalf  the 
Bifhop  tiParis  wrote,  which  (  as  a  Preface  )  was  prefixt  before  his  De- 
claration, and  Printed. 

Bui;  the  Learned  2)*  Moulin  put  forth  thus  famous  Book,  called  • 
j^jticoton^.m  which  he  proved  that  the  Jtfukes  were  Authours  ©f 
that  horrible  Parricide.  Though  he  put  not  his  name  to  ir,  yet  the 
Jefuites  foon  knew  that  it  was  his  Work,  and  made  an  anfwer  to 
it  directed  unto  him  ,  becaufe  there  was  in  the  ^Anticoion  an  Ana- 
gram. of  Father  C</W?,  which  fathered  the  King's  death  upon  him 


PIERRE 


Cent.   17,  Of  FRANCE. 

{PIERRE    COTON.    ? 
PERCE   TON  ROY.  f 

They  alfo  made  this  Anagram  upon  DH  Moulin  s  name, 

fPETRUS    DU    MOULIN.  •> 
LERIT    MUNDQ    LUPUS.    S 

WiththefcVerfes. 

Petri  boftispctrtuChrijii  inpdiatur  ovili, 
Quo  deglnbere,  quo  dilaniare  qucat, 

MoreLupi:  &verc  Lupus  eft,  cut.  nomen  &  omen] 
Etmorct  infant  ingenihmque-Lupi. 

Which  Verfes2?0  Moulin  anfwcred  thus , 

Qmqui*  es  infttlfo  quifundis  acuminc  verffts, 

HeUefpontiaco  vittima  digna  Deo : 
QuawfrH/tra  vacuum  ft  alffift  if ncifitt  ?  o  quos 

RijtM  Hybrida  vox  femilatrlna  movet  ! 
Dwn  tua  men*  varie  turbata  element*  pererrat, 

€t  fpargis  virtu  nomen  in  innocuum: 
Quin  &  in  hoccafit  qu<tdam  eft  indtiftria^  ditm  tu 

In  laudent  imprudent  nomina  nojlra  trahif. 
Namquc  Lttpo  cohibemw  tqnos,  agitator  equormn 

Jmfrobioris  equi  comprimit  or  a  lupo. 
Qui  ingyrum  cogit,facilique  peritttshabcna 

C ompo fit  osgre fins  agglomerare  docet. 
Ergo  Input  mundo  efl^  qnifr<wans  or  A  lupato 

Dura^  per  erromm  dcvia  monflrat  itcr» 
^Jec  minim  ft  nos^  Papalit  verna  culiney 

Si  cimflo  Satan*  dixerit  effe  lupos. 
Cum  Chriftum  Satanam  Pharifaw  die  at  apella, 

Nemo  bonw  fccum  mitihs  optet  agi. 
ErgoDeifervum  vanis latrattbtts  urgent y 

tupum  appellant  defnat  effe  canit. 


Atthistime  flouridied  Jacobw  Sirmondus,  a  Learned  frcnth  Jefuitt, 
he  was  Confcfibur  to  King  Lewes  XIII.  'Dafltta  faith  he  was  a  moft 
Learned  and  moft  diligent  man,  Natione  Callus*  Rettor  olim  Collegii  T^-  Bl^5fji 
ripen/is,  vir  totitu  antiquitatif  cttrioftts  invcftigator^  &  Latinc  Gr£ce- 
que  impcnfc  doftw,  &   in  omni  "pene  liter  arum  generc 

Nnn  2 


ioo         3E$ee«le8aftfcaiJNfi:o$>       cent,  17. 

qui     humaniores     liters     theologicas    admodum    decor  e    conjunxit,  , 
As  fur  his  Works,  there  are  his  Euchariflicon  fro  Adventoria  de  Re-  . 
gionibw  &  Ecclffa  fubtirbrczriis.     Cenfurz  conjecture  Anon.  Scri-- 
ftcris  de  fubHrbicariisRegipnibM  &  Ecclefiis  .     PropempticHrn  Cl.  Sal- 
ntafo  adverfiim  tjtu  Ekcharifticon  :  and  other  \Vorksofhis.      We 
owe  unto   him  (  faith  Dr.  DitMojtlin)  the  Works  of  FacHndtu  an 
African  Bifhop,    who  lived  in  the  time  of  the  Empereur  Jufti- 
nian. 

Claudin*  Salmajius  was  a  Learned  French  Critick.  Vir.  inco.mpara- 
bilis  ,  maximHt  SalmafiHf  de  primatu  Papa,  poft  quern  Hotnerum  fyuis 
llixda  confer  there  velit,  inutile  m  labor  em  Ju/cipiet  .  Rivet—  -  Grot. 
Diffuf.  Dial.  Sett.  5;  Vir  nun^.imfatis  laitdatus,  nee  rtvtere  fi- 
ne laudc  nominal?  dus,  fatid.  £alm<n(ins.  fojf.  de  Orig.  &  frogreff. 
idol.  li.  4.  ca.  91  .  .  Noftri  feculi  iriritcul^fn^  &  antiqKttsitis  prawns 
condus.  Cut.  Rivet.  Pr<efat.  ad  vindic.  E'yung.  Nan  C  alii  A  fu& 
duntaxat  ^  fed  jam  &  bujtis  B$tavi&  ingtns  decits^  atquc.  adeo  .totiuz 
Republic*  liter  or  it  fr&pdiHW.  Voff.  de  ana!,  li.  3.  ca.  46.  Clariff, 
SalmaftHS  nctis  ad  ffopifcut*.  ubi  fvft  Gtiil&idinum  &  Dalecampiunt 
in  Vlinium^  AC..  Scaligeri  Diatribam  adverfus  GuildndinHW,  pulchrc 
indiilaque  aliif-,  de  hoc  diffcrit  argument  o.  f^ojf-  de  an.  Gram,  li* 
l.ca.  38*  Vtr  alioqttin  ad  lite  rat  fmtmo  honor  c  tratkindaS)  &  illu- 
firandat  natus^  fi  modefliam  adhibere  ,  &  arroganti  de  fe  pcrfHaJ?- 
cfiey  ac  ergo,  aliof  inalignitate  cxcujfa,  mentem  animi  in  its  fedulo- 
cccHpare  potuiflet.  Herald.  aninJtdverf.  in  Salmaf.  obf<rvat.  Ad  jus 


Defderim  Heraldus  a  Learned  French  man,  hath  written  a  Com-. 
ment  onAfcrfw/,and  the  other  Books  forecited,  and  other  Learned 
Works. 

francifcus  V.itta  was  a  Learned  French  Mathematician.    There  are 
his  Opera  Mzthematica.   Vol.  2.  Relatio  Calendariiwre  Gregoriani,  , 
cum  aliis  opufc.  Vniverfalium    inJpcttionHm  a4  Canonem  lMntht7nati~ 
cttm  lib.  fingularis.  De-vEquatione,  recognition  &  emendatione.  Thu- 
4  anus  thus  faith  of  him.  Vir  ingeniofa  &  frofunda  meditations,  cttjusvi  , 
nihil  illi  inaccejfii'm  in  abftruporibu*  fcientiis,  nihil  quod  acuminc  men- 
tis poflit  confici,  difficile  confeftusfttit.Thuan.Hift.Ton).<$.  part.i.li.  129.  . 

Nicholas  Vignerim  was  a  Learned  F  re  neb  Hiftoriographer.  There 
are  To.  3.  de  labibliothe^.  Hifl.  and  other  works  of  his.  vid.  Teuton. 
Hi  ft.  Tom.<$fli.  ilj.  part.  I. 

His  Son,  Nicholas  Vignerws^  was  a  Learned  Divine.  He  hath  pub- 
lifhed  an  excellent  Treatise  in  Frfnch,  RykdTheatrc  del'  Anticbrifl  • 
aad  a  Diflertation  inLatine  of  the  Excommunication  vihsVtnttiuns^ 
againft  Cardinal  Baronius.  AndThefcs  of  the  fatisfadion  of  Chrift, 
which  Rivet  highly  commendech,  and  annexeih  unto  his  ownDifpu- 
ucions, 


Gent,  17.  Of  FRANCE.  101 

Benedict  Turretine  wa3  alfo  a  Learned  French  man.  Thefe  Books 
of  his  are  publiflicd  in  French*  Deftnfe  dc  la  fide  lite,  dcs  traditions 
delaS.  bible  faith;  a  Geneve.  Recheutc  duJefititePlaigiaire.  Pro- 
fit  des  Cba  fitments.  ^ttod  adverjus  Pctri  Cottoni  Jefuitt  flagiariam 
Genevan,  manifeftttm  fecit  ,  vir  dnt»  viveret^  doclijpmtts  &  accuratif- 
Benedittu}Tnrretims»  Atidr.  Rivet.  Apologet.yro  verapacc. 


The  Works  of  Cardinal  'David  Du  Perron  are  in  four  Volumes  in 
Tolio  in  French.      RepliqHC  A  la   Rtfyonfe  du  Screniflime  Roy  dclai 
Cjrand  Bretagric.     LesDiverfes  Oevrcs,  &TC.    Du  faintt  facreme  nt  ds 
I'  EUchariftie.    Les  Anbaffades  &  Negotiations,     He  is  well  anfwer- 
ed  by  Du  Moulin^  Rivet  and  BlondeU 

The  Jcfuites  feek  to  be  incorporate  in  the  Univerfity  of  Paris,  whom 
the  Univerfity  oppofed  by  ail  rowans,  prefenting  a  Petition  unto  the 
Queen  Regent  againft  them,  therein  laying  down  at  large  their  dam- 
nable Doftrine,  and  ftrange  Equivocations.  Hereupon  Factions  be- 
gan in  Paris,  fome  (landing  for,  others  fiding  againft  rhe  Jefuites.  But 
thefc  Clouds  were  quickly  difperfed,  and  the  State  preferved  ,  for  the 
continuance  wh«eor"Afo«/w«r  Pafquier,  one  of  the  Matters  of  Rrquefts, 
a  man  of  great  Learning  and  Judgement,  wrote  unto  her  a  Difcourfe  of  ? 
advice. 

The  Abbot  of  Sals  in  his  Sermons  treating  of  the  Queftton,  Whe- 
ther it  be  Lawful  to  kill  a  Tyrant,  and  refuting  Mar  tana's  Book  and 
others,  he  made  an  exhortation  to  the  Jefuites,  that  they  fhould  here- 
after have  a  great  care,  that  no  Book  fhould  be  publifhed  -to  the  pre- 
judice of  France,  under  the  name  of  their  Society,  nor  with  the 
approbation  of  their  Superiour.,  if  they  would  not  willingly  expofe 
themfelves  to  thofe  dangers,  which  all  their  wifdoms  fortified  with  the 
Authority  of  their  confident  friends,  could  not  avoid.  For  this  did 
the  Jefuites  complain,  and  informed  againft  him,  who  anfwered  for 
himfelfboth  wifely  and  difcreetly.  . 

OQober  17.  the  young  King  was  Crow-ned  KRhentcs  by  Cardinal 
Joyettz.e.  On  November  26.  the  Great  Chamber,  the  Turnelle^  and 
the  Chamber  of  the  Edict  being  aflembled  by  a  motion  made  by  Mon- 
fieur  Servin  the  King's  firft  Advocate,  againft  BeHar  mines  Book  touch- 
ing the  Pope's  Temporal  Power  ,  made  a  Decree  againft  the  fame, 
whereat  the  Pope's  Nuncio  did  mightily  ftorm. 

On  May  27.  1611.  .began  the  AfTembty  of  the  Reformed  Churches 
at  SaHmur,  whereat  many  Dukes  and  Noblemen  of  the  Reformed 
Religion  were  prefent  ,  where  Du  Tlejfis  was  chofen  Prefident 
Which  AfTembly  was  diflblved  September  29.  MM  fieur  de  Bullion* 
letting  them  underftand,  that  their  Majefties  had  given  him  in  charge 
to  fay,  that  all  their  juft  requefts  fhould  be  favourably  anfwertd,  and 
whatsoever  had  been  promifed  ihould  be  paid.. 

T!fc 


i  o  i  HHje  CCClcfmfttCal  %lftOjt?          Cent.   17 


The  Duke  of  Effiernon  to  manifeft  his  gratitude  to  King  Henry  III. 
•hre  Mailer  and  Benefactor,  begged  of  the  Queen  Regent  to  give  him 
leave  to  perform  his  Funeral  Rices,  behaving  formerly  after  the  death 
•of  the  faid  King,  attended  his  Body  to  Com^eigne^  where  the  misfor- 
tunes of  War,  and  the  confufions  of  the  times  permitted  not  at  that  time 
<4,he  performance  thereof. 

The  Queen  readily  confented  to  his  requeft,  fo  that  the  Duke 
with  a  great  company  of  Lords  and  Gentlemen,  went  to  fetch  the  bo- 
•dy  from  Cowytigne,  from  whence  he  conveyed  ittoSr.  Dennis,  where 
it  wasdepofited  in  the  ancient  Sepulchre  of  the  Kings  of  France.  A 
little  before  his  death  the  Duke  caufed  a  Marble  Pillar,  one  of  the 
mod  excellent  pieces  of  Architecture  of  thefe  late  times,  to  be  carri- 
ed and  fet  up  in  the  Church  of  S.  Clony  wherein  he  was  fo  curious, 
as  to  make  it  to  be  wrought  in  his  own  houfe  ,  and  almoft  in  his  own 
light  •  his  defign  being  to  found  a  Revenue  ef  a  thoufand  Liuvres  year- 
ly for  the  fervice  of  the  Chappel  where  it  was  erefted  ^  which  was 
alfo  adorned  with  Pictures,  and  paved  with  Marble  at  his  own  charge. 

But  fome  difficulties  arifing  about  the  fettlement  of  that  foundation, 
which  could  not  be  cleared  before  his  death,  the  thing  (to  his  great 
•grief  )  remained  unperfeft. 

In  the  end  of  the  year  1611.  the  fuit  between  the  Univerfity  of 
I'aris,  and  the  Jefuites  was  decided  ,  Monfieur  Servin  concluding  for 
the  Univerfity  againft  the  Jefuites  :  to  whom  thefe  four  Articles  were 
propounded  to  be  by  them  fubfcribed. 

i  .  That  the  General  Council  was  above  the  Pope. 

2.  That  the  Pope  hath  no  Temporal  Power  over  Kings,  and  could 
not    by    Excommunication   deprive    them    of   their    Realms   and 
Eftates. 

3.  That  Clergy-men  having  heard  of  any  Attempts  or  Confpiracies 
againft  the  King  or  his  Realm,  or  any  matter  ofTreafon  in  confeili- 
on,  are  bound  to  reveal  it  to  the  Magiftrate. 

.4.  That  Clergy-men  are  fubjeft  to  the  Prince,  or  Temporal  Magi- 
ftrare. 

Anno  1612.  by  a  Decree  of  the  Court  of  Parliament  a  certain  Book 
written  in  Latine  by  Gafpxr  Scopptus,  entituled  Ecdeftajticus,  tending 
ro  the  Rebellion  of  Subjects  againft  Sovereign  Power,  and  containing  an 
infinite  number  of  execrable  blafphemies  ,  and  fcandalous  afTertions 
againft  the  glorious  memory  of  the  deceafcd  King  Henry  IV.  was 
burnt  by  the  Hang-man  publickly  in  the  Paiace-yard, 

Near  this  time  Houriflied  A>n*ld  Offnt  a  French  Cardinal.  His, 
arid  Cardinal  Perron's  French  Letters  are  efteemed  ufeful,  both  for 
the  underftanding  of  Ecclefiaftical  and  State  affairs.  He  was  Scholar 
te  Peter  R<imtu.  One  gives  him  this-  charafter.  Cardinal**  OffttHt, 

fir 


Gene.   IT.  Of  FRANCE.  ,oj 

Fir  eruditione,  'prudentiaj  integritatcy  fMwitate  morum  tximit  confpi- 
CHHS.  Gaflend*  de  vit.  Piereski]-,  li.-i. 

Whilft  M.  Dit  Moulin  lived  in  Paris,  he  was  invited  by  many  Uni- 
verfities  to  accept  of  the  Chair  of  Divinity  j.  but  the  Church  ot  Par- it 
would  never  part  with  him. 

The  Univerfity  of  Ley  den  did  moft  con  ftamly  court  him,  confider- 
ing  him  ftil)  as  a  member  of  their  Body.  They  began  in  the  yeari6ir. 
and  offered  him  the  place  of  Armmins  then  newly  dead.  And  not 
only  the  Curators  by  frequent  addrefles  to  the  Church  of  Parti  and  to 
him,  but  the  States  by  their  Ambaffadours,  and  the  Prince  Q{  Orange 
by  his  Letters  did  from  time  to  time  demand  him. 

Before  the  death  of  King  Henry  IV.  Du  Pleffls  dcfired  leave  ofthat* 
King  to  retire   himfclf,  which  the  King  unwillingly  granted,  withal > 
defiring  him  to  come  fometimes  to  Courr.     Being  returned  ro  his  Go- 
vernment at  Sanmur,  he  began  his  work  of  the  Myftcry  of  Iniquity* 
Anno  1607.     which  he  finilhed  in  nine  Months. 

Then  he  began  to  fet  OH  thofe  great  Volumes  of  Btronius,  to  which 
he  intended  a  Confutation.  Dtt  Perron  was  much  prefTed  by  the  King 
to  anfwer  'DurPlcflis.  His  Friends  told  him  thai  the  Adion  at  F00»- 
tainblcan  was  little  to  his  Credit,  and  iCDuPlfjps  Ihould  rfie,  it  would. 
be  then  too  late  to  anfwcr  him,  becaufe  men  would  be  ready  to  fay, 
he  dur'ft  not  do  it  in  his  lifetime  :  wherefore  he  promifcdand  under- 
took the  bufinefs  :  and  going  to  Rome  ^  fequeftred  himfelf  from^other 
bufinefs  to  perform  it,  promifing  the  Eope  at  his  arrival  in  France  to 
Print  his  anfwer,  which  he  faid  was  ri fen  to  a  great  Volume.  Upon- 
his  return  the  King  demanded  of  him  when  he  would  Print  it  ?  he  told 
his  Majefty  that  he  ftayed  but  for  fome  Manufcripts  from  Rome.  Which 
anfwer  the  King  (  feeing  his  delays  )ufed  as  a  Proverb  to  fome  under- 
takers ,  whofe  work  went  not  forward,  making  idle  excufes  to 
him  :  Yes,  faith  the  King,  I  fee  you  (lay  for  Manufcriprs  from 
Rome  too, 

fafiusbon)  who  was  about  the  Cardinal;  wrote  to  *Jtf<wpeur  DH 
PJcjfis  concerning  this  anfwer,  telling  him  that  it  was  finished,  and 
that  himfelf  had  feen  it.  1)tt  Pleffis  defired  Cafattbon  to  give  him  from 
him  the  farneCounfel  which  Chrift  did  to  Judo*  intheGofpel,  What 
tkondofti  do  quickly.  But  this  Volume  of  anfwer  never  appeared  ;  the 
Cardinal  after  the  King's  murther  accounting  htmCelf  to  be  difengaged 
from  his  promife.  Du  Pifjfa  turned  his  Myftery  of  Iniquity  into  Latine, , 
which  he  dilated  fo  fafl,  that -his  Amanuenfit  had  much  ado  with  his 
pen  to  keep  pace  with  him. 

After  ttiehonid  Murther  oftto  King,  he  took  fo  good  order  as  to 
keep  the  people  about  his  Government  in  quiet :  and  as  Toon  as  he-had 
received  an  Edift  for  the  Regency  of  the  Queen-Mother,  he  admini- 
ftred  the  Oath  of  fidelity  toall  the  Clergy  and  People,  within  his  jurif- 

didtion  .ji 


io4  %\yt  CCCleflattical  %lftO#       Cent.  17. 

di&ion  j  making  a  fpeech  uruo  them,  in  which  he  dcfired  them  to  for- 
.gec  the  diftinguifliing  names  of  Papifi  and  Proteftant. 

Afterwards  a  dilTention  arofe  between  Monpeur  Du  Moulin  Minifter 
of  the  Church  at  Paris,  zndTtlenus,  ProfefTour  at  Sedan,  about  the 
effects  of  the  union  of  the  natures  in  Chrift.  The  making  up  of  this 
difference  was  by  a  National  Synod  held  at  Tonneinx,  referred  to  Men- 
fieur  Du  Pltjfis,  who  proved  the  happy  Authour  of  a  full  reconciliation 
between  them  in  the  year  1614.  Yet  had  this  difference  like  to  have 
bro'^e  forth  again  the  year  following,  by  indifcretion  Tor  malice  rather) 
cif  fome  particular  perfons,  had  not  sJWonpcur  Du  Pleffis  in  time  flop- 
ped itsprogrefs. 

In  the  year  1615.  King  James  fern  by  Sir  Theodore  tjlfayerne  to 
invite  *!>*  Moulin  into  England,  to  confer  with  him  about  a  Method 
of  uniting  all  the  Reformed  Churches  of  Chriftendom,  to  which  he 
had  been  often  folicited  by  Monpeur  Du  Plcjfis.  The  ifiue  of  which 
voyage  was,  That  King  James  refolved  to  fend  Letters  to  all  Proteftant 
Princes,  to  invite  them  to  Union  ;  and  defired  the  Trench  Churches 
to  frame  aConfeffion,  gathered  out  ofallthofe  of  other  Reformed 
Churches,  in  the  which  unneceflary  Points  might  be  left  out,  as  the 
means  of  begetting  difcord  and  diflention. 

Two  Months  before  Du  Moulin 's  coming  into  England,  Du  Perron. 
had  made  an  Oration  in  the  States  afTembled  at  Blou;  where  he  had 
maintained,  that  the  Pope  had  power  to  depofe  Kings,  and  had  ufed 
King  James  very  ill;  and  having  publiflied  it  in  Print,  he  fent  itte> 
hisMajefty.To  anfwer  that  OrationKing  James  made  ufe  ofDaMotilin's 
fervice  for  the  French  Language  ;  and  it  was  Printed  the  firft  time  in 
French  while  2)«  Moulin  was  in  England  in  that  year  1615,  before  it 
was  Printed  in  Englijk.  The  King  going  to  Cambridge,  carded 
D«  Moulin  along  with  him  ,  and  made  him  take  the  Degree  af 
Dodor. 

The  Do&or  at  his  return  into  France  Landed  at  Sullen,  where 
MffnfteurdeComyagnoles  was  Goternour  for  the  Duke  of  EJpcrnan. 
It  was  the  time  when  the  French  Princes  began  to ftir  againft  Mary  the 
Queen-Mother  of  France. 

And  becaufethe  Princeof^ff^  was  courting  the  Reformed  Chur- 
ches to  joyn  with  him  in  that  defign,  the  Doftor  was  fufpefted,  as 
having  taken  that  journey  to  procure  help  from  England  im  the  Prin- 
ces. Wherefore  Camyagnoles  was  charged  to  arre.ft.hrm  at  his  Land- 
ing, which  he  did,  and  committed  him  to  the  Guard  of  two  Souldiers, 
icized  upon  his  Trunks  and  Papers,  and  fearched  them,  Bet  after  two 
daies,  he  releafed  him,  defiling. him  to  tell  no  man  of  the  wrong  he 
had  done  him. 

The  Doftor  finding  at  his  return,  that  the  Proteftants  began  to  en- 
gage with  the  Princes  againft  the  Queen-mother,  and  in  effeft  againft 

the 


MCent    17.  ""5F  FRAN  GET 


IOJ 


the  King,  who  was  then  declared  Major  by  the  Parliament,  he  diflVaded 
them  from  it  (as  much  as  he  could;  both  by  Letters  and  Sermons. 
And  unto  him  the  Court  was  obliged,  that  all  the  Proreftant  Tows  on 
this  fide  the  Loire  kept  .in  the  King's  obedience.  He  (hewed,  that  he 
did  it  not  to  ferve  the  times,  but  to  ferve  God.  The  declaring  of  the 
Politick  AfTembly  of  the  Proteftants  for  the  Prince  of  Conde  in  the  year 
1616.  was  the  greateft  error  that  ever  they  committed  ^  and  they 
(mined  for  it,  as  foon  as  the  young  King  had  got  more  Age  and 
vigour. 

In  the  mean  time  DuPleffis  laboured  much  in  procuring  the  peace 
of  the  Proteftam  Churches,  endeavouring  to  keep  a  good  correfpon- 
dence  between  the  King  and  them,  which  was  continually  ready  to 
be  interrup:ed  :  in  which  bufinefs  he  carried  himfelf  with  fo  much 
prudence  and  fidelity  in  all  occurrences  between  them,  that  he  was 
admired  and  praifed  by  all.  Yea,  even  Cardinal  Du,  Perron  himfelf 
(heretofore  one  of  his  grea«ft  enemies  )  (hewed  him  great  refped  in 
the  AflVmbly  ot  Sutes  held  at  Rwcn,  Anno  1617.  Speaking  of  him 
in  all  companies  with  an  excefsof  Praifes  'j  and  telling  the  King  him- 
felf, ihat  thole  men  had  done  him  wrong,  who  had  kept.pff  Monfieur 
DM  Plejfis  from  having  a  greater  Power  in  the  management  of  his  af- 
fairs :  And  that  his  Religion  ought  not  to  render  him  unprofitable  in 
the  exercife  of  thofe  graces  which  God  hid  given  him  ;  and  that  .his 
Majefty  ought  to  keep  him  near  his  perfon  fo  long  as  he  fhould 
live. 

After  the  return  of  Dr.  DM  tjMoulin  out  of  England,  the  Jefuite 
Arnonx  a  Court  Preacher,  fent  a  challenge  to  the  Miniftersof /V/V  to 
appear  before  the  Queen-Mother  to  give  account  of  their  Religion, 
preacht  fire  and  fword  againft  them  before  their  Maj.fttes;  and  fent 
them  a  Pamphjf  t  full  of  heavy  accufations.  The  Dodor  was  charged 
by  his  Colleagues  to  make  an  anfwer  to  it ;  which  he  did,  and  addref- 
fed  it  to  the  King. 

In  that  anfwer  by  way  of  juft  recrimination  he  affirmed,  that  he-- had 
feeninthe  Colledge  of  the  Jefimes  at  Uflcfbe,  a  Pidure  of  the  Mar- 
tyrs of  their  Order  -  and  in  that  rank  fome  Traytorswhoh  d  beeh 
executed  for  confpiring  againft  the  Life  of  their  Kings.  That  the 
maxims  of  the  Jefuites  were  pernicious  to  Kings,  whereas  the  Do- 
ctrine of  the  Proteftants  maintained  their  Life,  their  Authority  and 
their  States. 

And  the  Paftours  of  the  Reformed  Churches  taught  their  people  fi- 
delky  and  obedience  to  the  King.  Then  he  reprefented  the  many  Pe- 
rils and  Combates  which  the  Proteftancs  had  fuftained  tor  the  defence 
of  King  Henry  IV.  till  they  had  brought  him  to  the  Crown.  Of 
which  fervices  they  that  had  been  the  King's  enemies  received  the 
reward.  This  anfwer  of  the  Minifters  was  prefented  to  the.  King  by 

Ooo  the 


Cent.  17. 


the  Duke  of  foJw».  This  bold  addrcfs  to  the  King  irritated  the  great 
jMtK.  Qfl^g  Of  tfce  Crown,  of  whom  not  a  few,  or  [heir  Fathers,  had  been  of 
the  party  of  theLeague.The  Jefuites  therefore  letting  their  challenge  fall, 
indicted  the  Miniftersof  Treafon,although  all  the  ground  they  could  find 
for  it  was,that  the  Minifkrs  called  the  Reformed  Churches  their  people,** 
if  they  had  pretended  fome  Soveraignty  over  them.  The  Minifters 
being  fummoned  before  the  Council,  the  indiftment  of  Treafon1  was 
not  much  urged,  as  being  bur,  a  Cavil.  After  grave  Admonitions 
and  high  thrcatnings  by  Chancellour  Brnflart  ,  they  difmiflcd' 
them* 

Thac  challenge  of  j4rnoux>  and  <a  Pamphlet  of  his  again  ft  the  confeffiqn 
of  Faiih  of  ihe  Reformed  Churches  in  franc*  ,  occafioned  the  Dodor  co 
writehis  Ruckltr  of  Faiih. 

A  Jefuiiecame  to  ihe  Doftors  Study  to  difpute  with  him.  tx^/0»- 
fuur  de  Mvngivotj  a  famous  Phyfitian,  was  prefent  at  the  Conference, 
wtfercby  he  w.-.s  converted,  and  fetout  an  excellent  Book  of  the  rea- 
fons  why  he.  a.  jurcd-.Poptry.  He  had  many  encounters  -,  and  to  relate 
all  h;s  Conferences-  mighi  ful  a  great  Volume.  Scarce  was  he  a  week 
without  one,,  while  he  1  ved  in  Paris,  and  fome  of  them  were  very 
long.  He  was  the  objcd-of  the  publick  hatred  of  the  Romanifts. 
His.  name  was.  the  general  Theme  of  Libels  cr^ed  :  UP  in  the  Street?, 
of  railing  Sermons.  in  all  Pulpits,  and-  of  the  curfes  of  ignorant 
Zealors. 

The  Popifli  Clergy  in  the  year  1617.  being  aflembled  at  the  houfe: 
tfa&*£iir*Fr?m  in  Paris  (  as  every  two  years  they  ufed  to  do  )  be- 
ing to  take  their  leaves  of  the  King^  elected  the  Bifbopof  *Aire  to  be 
their  Spokef-man,  and  to  certifie  his  Majefty  of  jheir  grievances.  In 
performing  .which  bufinefs,  the  principal  thing  of  which  he  fpuke  was 
to  this  purpofe,  That  whereas  his  Majefty  was  boundi  to  give  them. 
Fathers,  he-gave  them  Children.  That  the  name  of  jlbbot  fignifies  a 
Father,  and  the  Function  of  a  Bifliopwas  full  of  Fatherly  authority  : 
yet  France  notwithftanding  was  now  filled  with  Bill,  ops  and  Abbots,. 
which  are  yet.  in  their  Nurfes  arms,  or  elfe  under  their  Regents  in 
ColUdges,  Nay  more,  that  the  abufe  goerh  before  the  Being,  ChiU' 
dren  being  commonly  defign'd  to  Biflioprkks  and  Abbacies  before  they 
wei»e  born. 

He  alfo.made  another  complaint,  that  the  Soveraign  Courts  by 
their  Decrees  htd  attempted  upon  the  Authority  which  was  Commit- 
ted >to  the  Clergy^  even  in  that  which  concerned  meerly  Eccleliafti- 
cal.  Discipline  and  Government  of  the  Church.  Tt>  thefe  complaints 
he  gave  them  indeed  avery  gracious  hearing,  but  it  never  wenr  fur- 
th«rthan  a  hearing,  being  never  followed  by  redrefs.  TheCoLtt.of 
ParlbmentJinew  too  well  'the  ftrength  of  their  own  Authority  :  ani 
she  King  was  Joth  .to  take  fr8m  -himfelf  tbrefe  -excellent  advantages  of 

binding 


Cent.  17.  Of  F  R  A  N 'CE.'™  107 

binding  to  himfelf  his  Nobility ,  by  the  fpeedy  preferring  of  their 
Children.  So  the  Clergy  departed  with  a  great  deal  of  envy,  and  a  lit-, 
tleoffatisfadion. 

In  the  fame  year  the  States  of  the  United  Provinces  defired  the 
Churches  of  England,  (jermany,  France,  &c.  to  fend  fome  able  Di- 
vines to  the  Synod  of  T)ort,  whereupon  the  Churches  of  f 'ranee  named 
'four,  viz,.  Dr.  Du  Moulin,  Chamier,  Rivet,  and  Chaune.  But  when 
the  Dodor  was  making  ready  for  his  journey,  he  was  forbidden  by 
a  mefienger  of  the  Council  of  State  of  France  to  go  out  of  the  Kingdom 
upon  pain  of  death.  The  like  prohibition  was  made  to  the  three  other.  v 
•Divines. 

'Andrew  Rivet  was  a  Godly  and  Learned  French  Divine.  He  hath 
very  well  expounded  Genefis,  Exodw,  the  Prophetical  Pfatms  and 
Hofea,  and  wrote  Learnedly  againft  the  Papifts  in  his  Catholics  Or- 
thodox in,  and  againft  Grotiw.  Critictu  facer,  feu  cenfura  Patrum, 
'Ifagoge  in  'S.  Script Hram,  Synopps  dottrin&  de  natura  &  gratia.  He 
tiath  publifhed  other  Learned  Treatifes  \nFrench  and  Latin. 

WiHtanr  Rivet  his  Brother,  hath  alfo  publifhed  a  Learned  Treatifc 
De  fufttfcatione  •,  an  exad  French  Treatife  De  invocatione  &  ttdora- 
tione  Santtornm  defunftorum.  Epift.  Afologet, 

Daniel  Chamier  was  alfo  a  Learned  French  man,  who  in  his  Parr- 
firatia  fatholic*  hath fo  Learnedly  refuted  the  Papifts,  that  none  of 
them  hath  made  any  anfwer  to  it.  His  EpiftoU  Jefuiticx,  and  Cor- 
ptts  Theologix  alfo  mew  his  great  abilities.  There  is  alfo  a  Work  of 
tlis  m'French,  entitled,  La  confufion  des  Difputes  Pstpiftes,  Tar  Dani- 
el Chamier.  And  another  in  anfwer  to  fome  queft ions  of  Cotton  the 
Jefuite.  He  was  killed  to. tfftontaubon  with  a  Canon  Bullet  (which 
had  a  C.  on  it  )  on  the  Lords  day.  Being  asked  by  one  before,  whe- 
ther he  Preached  on  that  day  ?  he  faid  it  was  his  day  of  repofe  or 
reft  :  and  fo  it  proved,  though  he  meant  it  in  another  fenfe. 

In  the  year  1618.  the  Lords  States  and  the  Curators  of  the  Uni- 
verfity  of  Ley'den  renewed  a  former  demand  of  theirs  concerning  Dr.  DM 
Monlin  to  be  their  Divinity  Reader.  The  Learned  Erpenim  was  *^ 
fent  twice  into  France  on  that  errand.  And  when  he  could  not  be 
obtained  from  the  Church  of  Paris,  they  demanded  by  the  fame  Erpe- 
nitu  the  famous  'Rivet,  and  had  him. 

The  Queen-Mother  makes  an  efcape  from  the  place  of  her  confine- 
ment, and  is  received  by  the  Duke  of  EJpernon,  Anno  1619.  And 
'being  arrived  at  Lockes,  flie  endeavours  to  juftifie  her  efcape. 

Cardinal  Da  Perron  died  Anno  1618.  charging  his  friends,  upon 
Vis  death-bed,  then  about  him,  to  fend  a  folemn  Farewel  by  him  to 
Monpe ur  Dtt  Pleflis,  and  tomanifeft  his  forrowfornot  having  made  a 
ftrider  League  of  friendship  wich  him,  having  fo  high  an  efteem  of  his 
Conference  and  integrity. 

O  o  o  2  The 


i o 8  3C!)e  CCCUflMtcal%lftO?p          Cent    17. _ 

i     The  Queens  affairs  having  ill  fuccefs,  all  thofe  who  had  engaged  in  . 
her  party,  were  abandoned  to  the  King's  mercy  :  but  as  for  her  felf . 
'(he  was  permitted  to  come  to  Court.    The  Duke  of  Efpernonlyyts 
down  his  Arms }   and  the  Martjuff  de  VMejtey  by  the  Command  of 
tb.e  Duke  his  Father. 

f  he  Duke  of  M*ymne  refufeth  to  accept  the  Peace,  and  endeavours  . 
-to  engage  the  Duke  of  Efytrnon  in  hisdifcontents  :  but  he  refufeth  ^o 
ftir. 

In  the  yea?  1620.  a  National  Synod  of  the  Proteftancs.  being  cal- 
led at  M*it  ia  Langnedoc.,  Dr.  DH  Moulin  was  fent  Depuiy  to  V.  • 
and  he  made  account  in  his  return  to  go  out  of  the  w*y  to.  fes  &»- 
chel.  A  little  before  he  rook  that  journey,  the  Lord  Herbert  qfC^r- 
bury  then  Ambuffirdour  of  England  in  France,  urged  him  iq.wrke  W 
the  King  his  Mailer,  to  exhort  him  to  undertake  vigoroufly  the  de- 
fence of  his  Son  in  Law  the  King  of  Ti-ohtrnia.  So  the  Doctor  writ  to 
the  King,  and  delivered  his  Letters  to  the  Lord  Ambafladour's Secre- 
tary :  then  immediately  he  went  to  Alais,  where  he  was  chofen  Pre- 
fiduit  of  the  Synod. 

In  the  mean  while  his  Letters  to  King  Jawss  were  delivered  to 
the  Council  ofStateinFr*w*,  how  or  by  whom  the  Doctor  could  ne- 
ter  learn.  Scarce  was  he  in  Langttedocy .when  it  was  concluded  at 
Prfrtfinthe  ouncil  of  State,  that  he  rtiould  be  apprehended,  andcom.- 
mitted  Prifoner,  lor  exhorting  a  foreign  King  to  take  Arms  for  the  . 
de.ence  ofihe  Pro: eftant  Churches..  And  becaufe  the  Council  was iq?. 
formed,  that  the  Dodor  would  return  by  Rochtl  (a  place  which  then 
gave  great  jealoufies  to  the  Court)  they  would  not  take  him  before 
he  had  been  there  ^  the  informers  againft  him.  intending  to  make  his 
going  to  Rachel  an  Article  of  his  indidment. 

The  affairs  of  Beam  were  now  of  fuch  a  nature  as  that  the  King's 
prefence  feemed  to  be  very  neceffary  there -,  therefore  he  determines 
to  move  that  way,  and  goes  to  X^ntonge.^  and  from  thence  paffeth 
over  into  (jnic.nne.  He  is  magnificently  entertained,  by  the  Duke  of 
Efpernon  two  dates  at  Cadillac,  and  departs  from  thence,  to  go  into 
Btarv.  He  was  made  believe,  that  the  Council  of  this  little  Country 
would  fubmit  to  his  Ro\'al  pleafure,  without  obliging  him  to  perform 
that  voyage  •,  but  the  King  muft  undergo  that  trouble.  He  went 
thither,  where  his  prefence  produced  the  fame  effcd  it  had  done  in 
other  places.  He  over-ran  all  this  little  Province,  fcizing  (as  he  pafled ) 
on  Navarrcns  the  ftrongeflr  place  in  it,  as  he  did  alfo  of  Ortez.,  and 
Olleron^  Principal  Cities  of  that  Country.  He  fubverted  all  iheir 
antient  Cuftorne?,  reftor'd  the  Biffiop  and  other  Ecclefiafticks  to  their 
Eftates  and  Dignities  ^  took  away  the  Adminiflra^ion  ofiifairs.  of  the 
Country  from  thofe  of  the  Reformed  Religion,  andre-eftabliihed  hjs 
own  Authority  :  but  he  left  the,  Government  of  the  Province  in  the 

hands 


Gene.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 

hands  of  the  Maiquefs  deU  Force  fince  Marefchal  of  Prance  •  who 
impatient  to  fee  his  Authority  cut  fofiiortby  ihcfe  alterations,  could 
hardly  forbear  till  the  King  was  got  back  to  Paris,  from  reducing 
things  again  to  the  fame  pofture  they  were  in  before.  He  therefore 
Uboured  all  the  Winter  to  drive  out  the  Garrifons  of  Ortez.  zn^OIle- 
ran^  fo  that  excepting  Navarrcns,  which  was  kept  by  the  Marquefs 
of-  Poianne^  whom  the  King  had  left  Governour  there,  he  overthrew 
whatever  his  Majefty  had  done,fhufHing.  all  things  again  into  their  for- 
mer coni  uiion. 

During  the  Reign  of  Henry  IV.  who  would  not  fee  it,  and  the 
troublefora  minority  of  Levee s  XIII.  who  could  hot  moieft  them,  the 
Prot  eftants  had  made  themfelves  Matters  of  Ninety  nine  Towns,  well 
fortified  and  enabled  for  a  liege.  In  the  opinion  of  their  Potency  they 
call  Aflemblies  (  Parliaments  as  it  were  )  when  and  as  often  as  they 
pleafed.  There  they  confulted  of  the  Common  affairs  of  Religion, 
made  new  Laws  of  Government,  removed  and  exchanged  their  gene- 
ral Officers,  the  King's  leave  all  this  while  never  fo  much  as  formally 
asked.  .  In  this  licentious  calling  of  Affemblies,  theyabufed  their  Power  ; 
intoa  negled  ;  and  in  not  diflblving  them  at  his  Ma-jefties  command- 
ment,  they  encreafed  their  negleftintoadifobedier.ee. 

The  AiTembly  which  principally  caufed  the  War  and  their  mine, 
was  that  ot"  Roc htl,  called  by  the  Proteftants  prefently  upon  the  King's 
journey  into  Seam.  This  general  meeting  the  King  -prohibited  by 
his  fpecial  Edifts,  declaring  all  them  to  be  guilty  of  Trcafon  j  which 
notwithftanding  they  wsuld  not  hearken  unto,  but  refolutely  went  on  • 
in  their  purpofes. 

Being  Affembled ,  they  Tent  the  King  a  Remonflrance  of  their  grie- 
vances, to  which  the  Duke  L'  Efdeguicrsy  in  a  Letter  to  them  writ- 
ten, gives  them,  a  very  fair  and  plaufible  anfwcr,  wherein  alfo  he  en- 
treats  th^rn    to  obey  the    King's  Edict,  and  break  off  the  AfTembly. 
Upon  the  receipt  of  this  Letter  thofe  ot  the  AfTembly  publiflud  a  De-  . 
claration,  wherein   they  verified  the   meeting  to  be  Lawful,  and  their - 
purpofenot  to  difmifs  themfelves  till  their'defires  were  granted.  . 

This  rTront  done  to  the  King,  made  him  g  -ther  together  his  Forces  -^ 
yet  at  the  Duke  of  Lefdiguier's  requeft,  he  allowt-d  them  twenty  four 
dales  refpue  before  his  Army  fhould  niarch  towards  them.  He  offered 
them  alfo  very  fair  and  reafonable  Conditions,  fuch  almoft  as  their 
Deputies  had  foliciied  ;  but  far-  better  than  thofe  which  they  were 
glad  toaccepr,  when  all  the  Towns  were  taken  from  them.  In  their 
Aflembly  iluy  made  Laws  and  Orders,  that  no  peace  fhould  be  made 
without  the  confent  of  the  general  Convocation,  about  paying  of  the 
Souldiers  wages,  for  the  detaining  of  the  Revenues  of  the  King  and  the 
Clergy 7and  the  like, 


109 


The  Synod  at  ./4/d#  being  ended,  Do&or  Z>#  sjtfoulin  hearing 
liow  the  the  Proteftants  would  keep  a  Politick  Afiemb4y  at  Rochet 
againft  the  King's  will,  judged  that  it  was  an  ill  conjuncture  of  time 
*for  him  to  .go  to ~Rochel,  and  took  the  way  of  Lions.  In  that  refoluti- 
on  he  was  guided  by  a  good  Providence  ;  for  if  he  had  gone  to  Rochtl, 
he  (hould'have  been  apprehended  not  far  from  that  Town  after  his 
corning  out  of  it.  At  'Lions  lie  received  a  Letter  from  Monftenr  Dre<* 
lincourt  Minifter  of  Paris.,  which  gave "him  notice  of  his  danger.  This 
warning  mid e  him  baulk  the  high-way  :  yet  he  went  to  Parts,  and 
entring  the  City  in  the  night,  went  diredly  to  the  Lord  Herbert,  who 
bad  him  to  flie  in  hafte  for  his  life,  which  was  in  danger  by  the  inter- 
ception of  his  Letters  to  the  King  his  Matter.  That  very  night  with- 
out going  lo  much  as  to  his  own  houfe,  he  went  out  of  Paris,  with 
iiis  Brother  Captain  John  Du  Moulin  to  Lumigni,  a  houfe  of  the 
Count  de  la  Snae,  ten  Leagues  from  the  City.  Thither  came  two 
Elders  of  the'  Church  of  Paris  to ihim  from  the  Confiftory,  to  defire 
him  to  remove  himfelf  out  of  the  reach  of  thofe  who  waited  for  his 
life.  Which  he  did,  and  the  next  night  travelled  toward  Sedan,  a 
place  "then  acknowledging  the  Old  Duke  of  Bovillon  (a  Prottftant 
Prince  )  for  'Sovereign.  To  Sedan  he  came  fafe  in  the  beginning  of 
the  year  1621.  and  was  kindly  received  by  the  Duke  to  his  houfe  and 
-Table. 

This  was  hk  parting  with  the  Church  of  Paris,  where  he  had  lived 
one  and  twenty  years.  And  although  -great  means  were  made  to  ap- 
p:afe  the  Court,  and  albeit  many  years  after  the  indictment  againft 
him  was  taken  off,  and  leave  was  given  him  to  liye  in  France,  yet 
was  it  with  that  exception,  that  he  fhould  not  live  in  Paris. 

At  Sedan  he  was  prefently  defired  to  accept  of  the  place  of  Minifter 
of  that  Church,  and  of  the  Chair  of  Divinity,  then  lately  left  by  Tile- 
nut  in  difcontent,  and  by  Andrew  Mcfain  by  death.  He  accepted  of 
thefe  places,  tut  conditionally,  in  cafe,  thathecoul'd  not  obtain  his  re- 
flitution  to  Parn.  He  found  at  Sedan  much  love  and  refpect  from  the 
Prince  and  the  Academy,  as  alfo  from  the  Church. 

Daniel  Tilenui  was  a  Learned  man.      He  hath  written  Notes  and 

Obfervations  upon  Bdlarmines  Difputation,  De  'Chrifto  Capite  -,  And 

on  his  Book  'De  Summo  Pontifice.,  and  his  Book  De  Verbo  Dei.     Other 

.Works  there  are  of  his,  as,  ParAnefis  adScetcs.     Arnica,   collatio  77- 

lent&  Cameronis.     De  gratia   ($•   volnntxtis  \nimam  concurfn.   Di- 

\fput.de  Afitichriflo.     Conftderatio  fer.t.     j ac.  Arminii  dc  Trtdcfti- 

natione,  gratia  Dei^  &  libtro  Arbitrio.     Syntagma  Difputationum  in 

Academia  Sedanenfi, 

I  The  Government  of  the  Town  and  Caftle  ofSauwur  was  continued 
unto  'Du-Pleffis,  until  this  year  1621.  whentheKing  falling  mto  dif- 
and  fufpicion  of  the  Proteftants,  by  reafon  of  rfieir  high  de- 
port- 


Gent.   17.  Of  FRANCE. 


ponment  in  the  AiTembly  at  Rochet,  difplaced  him  at  firft  but  for  three* 
Months,,  with  a  promife  of  reftoring  him  fo  foonas  affairs  fhould  bo 
quieted  in  fome  meafure.  But-thefe  difcontents  growing  to  anopea 
War,  he  could  never  procure  a  re-eftabli(hraent  ,  though  it  were-con- 
tiaually  folicited  by  him.  Wherefore  retiring  himfelf  to  his  Houfs 
in  the  Foreft  upon  Dayure,  he  continued  there  till  the  day  of  his  death^ 
which  followed  in  the  year  1623.  there  applying  himfelf  to  holy  me- 
ditations and  Exercifes  of  Patience. 

Dodor  Du  Moulin  having  had  time  and  occafion  whilft  he  was 
Prefident  of  thejSynod  tfAlais^  and  in  his  long  journey  to  it  and  froo 
it,  to  know  the  evil  pofture  of  affairs,  he  found  himfelf  preftin  Spirit? 
to  write  to  the  AfTembly  of  Racket:  and  becaufe  that  Epiftle  is  a  piece- 
that  giveth-mucb  light  to  the  Hiftory  of  that  time,  and  a  good  IdTcn- 
to.  all  that  pretend  Con  fcience  and  .Religion  for  their  refiftance  to  their 
Soveraign  by  force  of  Arms,  I  will  give  fome  account  of  it  in  this- 
phce.  . 

Gentlemen, 

/  do  not  write  to  you  to  four  tnyforrows  intoyoitv  bofom^  or  totnttr^  ?f 
tain  yon  with  my  private  crojfes^  &c.     JL  more  [mar  ting    care  hath  ^"JtSs  by  '£' 
moved  jns  to  write  to  you,  and  forced  me  to  go  beyond  my  natHre,  which  5^n. 
vcaf  alwaics.awrfe,  from  medling  with  pitblickJhftfine]fest'  and  from 
moving  out  ofthefch.ere  of  my  prefer  calling.     For  feeing  the  general 
boldy  of  the  Church  in  eminent  danger  ,  and  upon  the  brink.'  of  'a  difnml 


. 

Precipice,  it  was  not  poffible  for  me  to  k^ep  ftlence,  &c.     It 
me  not  indeed  to  takg  upon  me.  to  give  Couvfel  to  an  Affembly  of  Per  » 
fons  chofen  out  of  the  whole  Kingdom  to  bear  tht  burden  of  the  pnblick^ 
rfffttirs  in  a  time  fo  full  of  difficulty  :  yet  I'lhink^it  is  ufcful  for  you 
to  be    truly   informed  what  the    fenfe,    and   what    the    dtfpofition  if. 
of  our     Churchij^y    by   perfont  that    have   a  particular 
of  it. 

The  Queftion.  then  being  whether  you  ought  to  feparafe  your 
fembly  to  obey-  hu.JMtjtJfy,  or  k?cp  .  together  to  give  order 
to  the  affairs  ofthf  Churches  ^  I  am  obliged  totellyott,  that  the  gineral 
defire  of  our  Churches  is,  that  it  may  pleaje  God  to  continue  our  pc.icr 
in  cur  obedience  to  his  Adajefty.  And  that  feeing  the  King  refolvcA 
to  make  himjelf  obeyed  by  the  force  of  his  Asms^  they  truft  that  you- 
wi/l  do  your  be  ft  to  avoid  that  ftortn,  and  rather  .yield  unto^ncceftity*. 
than  to  engage  them  in  a  Wmr^  which  m  aft  -certainly  will  ruin*  gre^t- 
part  cfour  Churches^  &CC.  Ey  obeying  the-  Kit)gyon  fliall  rake  aw*? 
the  pretence  ujed  by  thoje  that  fet  on  his  JMajefty  to  perfecutt  M^ 
And  ifw-emnftbe  psrfecntedy  all  that  fear  (jod  defir*  tk.rt  it  may 
be  for  the.  prof  clfion  of  .the  (jojfiel,  and  that  our  perfecxtxm  may 
be  the  crofiofChr.ift,  I  Cx.n~.affiireyou.that.  thegrw.iefl  a?td-bctf 


xije  ecclefiaflical  %ifto?y       cent.  17- 

of  our  Churches  w* fret  h  for  your  fcparation,  ifittnay  i  c  with  the  fafe- 
ty  of  your  perfons  :  yea  that  many  of  the  Roman  Church  de fir  mg  the 
pub'iick.  peace  ^  are  continually  about  Hi,  befecching  and  exhorting  us, 
that  we  do  not  by  cafttng  our  felvcs  headlong  involve  them  in  the  fame 
mine.  Generally  our  poor  foe kf  are  frtghted  *nd  difmaied,  cafting 
their  eyes  upon  you  as  per  fans  that  may  procure  their  reft  -%  and  by 
yielding  to  the  prefent  necejfityblow  away  the  form  hanging  over  their 
heads.  Many  already  have  for fake n  the  Land;  many  have  for -fakgn 
their  Religion  -,  whence you  may  judge  what  ttiffipxtiosis  like  tofottow^ 
if  this  exafperation  go  on  further'  No  more  do  I  need  to  recommend  un- 
to you  to  have  a  tender  care  of  the  prefcrvation  of  our  poor  Churches, 
knowing  that  you  would  chufe  death,  rather  than  to  draw  that  reproach 
upon  you  ,  that  you  have  haflened  the  perfection  of  the  Churchy  and 
destroyed  that  which  the  x,eal  of  our  Father  shad  pi  anted,  and  put  thii 
State  in  confufion,  &c. 

finfider  then  whether  the  fubfiftence  of  your  Affembly  can  heal  all 
thefe  fores :  whether  your  fitting  can  give  a  flicker  to  our  Churches^ 
provide  all  things  neceffaryfor  a  War,  where  the  parties  arefo  unequal  -, 
raife  Forces,  and  makf  a  flockof  money  to  pay  them  ;  whether  all  the 
good  that  your  fitting  can  produce^  can  countervail  the  difftpation  of  Jo 
many  Churches  that  lie  open  to  the  wrath  of  their  enemies  ^  whether 
when  they  are  fallen  you  can  raife  them  again  •  whether  in  the  evi- 
dent divifion  that  u  among  *#,  you  are  able  to  rally  the  fcattered 
parts  of  that  divided  body  ^  which  if  it  were  well  united,  yet  would  bt 
too  weakjoftand  upon  the  defenfive  part. 

Pardon  me,  Gentlemen,  if  I  tell  you,  that  you  fidl  not  find  all  otrr 
Troteflants  enclin'd  alike  to  obey  your  resolutions-^  andthat  the  fire  be- 
ing kindled  all  about,  you  fiall  remain  helplefi  beholders  of  the  ruine 
you  have  provoked.  Neither  can  it  be  unknown  to  you,  that  many  of 
the  be  ft  quality  among  *#,  and  beft  able  to  defend  ut,  do  openly  blame 
your  aftions,  prof  effing  that  fuffering  for  this  caufe  u  not  fuferingfor 
the  caufe  of  Cod.  Thefe  making  no  refiftance,  and  opening  the  Gates 
•of  their  places,  or  joining  their  arms  with  the  King' s>  you  may  eafily 
judge  what  /<?/,  and  what  weakening  of  the  party  that  will  be.  How 
many  of  our  Nobility  will  forfake  you,  fame  out  of  confidence,  fome  out 
ff  treachery,  fame  out  of  weafyefi-  /  Even  they  who  in  an  Affcm\>ly  art 
moft  vehement  in  their  votes,  and  to  ft  iw  thcmfelves  Zealom  are  alto- 
gether for  violent  waies,  are  very  often  they  that  fir  ft  revolt  and  be- 
tray their  Brethren.  They  bring  our  diftreffed  Churches  tothehotteft 
danger  and  there  leave  them,  going  away  after  they  have  fet  thehoufe 
onfire. 

Jf  there  be  once  fghting,  or  befieging  of  our  Towns,  whatfeever  may 
the  iffne  be  of  the  Cotnbatc  or  the  fiege,  all  that  while  it  will   be  hard 
the  people  animated  tgainft  M  from  falling  *f  on  oar  Churches, 

that 


Cent.>7.  Of  FRANCE 


that  have  neither  retreat  nor  defence,  And  what  order  foever  the  Ma- 
giftrates  of  contrary  Religion  take  about  it  9  theyfiall  never  be  able  to 
compafi  it, 

Certainly  M  flirring  of  yours  is  altogether  unfeafonable,  and  yen 
fet  fail  again  ft  wind  and  tide*  If  Anything  can  help,  it  muft  be  the 
X,eai  of  Religion,  &c. 

But  in  this  caufe  you  fjatt  fnd  that  zeal  languishing,  be  caufe  mo  ft  of 
cur  people  believe,  that  this  evil  might  have  been  avoided  without  any 
breach  to  our  Conscience,  &c. 

When  I  call  to  mind  ortr  fever  alh/fes,  at  that  of  Le&oure,  Privas,<ufc4 
Beam,  /  find  that  we  our  felves  have  contributed  to  them  :  and  it  if 
no  wonder  that  our  enemies  take  *<>  car*  to  remedy  cur  faults,  and  join 
witb  w  to  do  ut  harm.  But  hence  it  fellows  not,  that  we  mttftfetour 
houfe  on  fire  our  felves,  becaufe  others  are  refolved  to  burn  i>.  or  take 
in  hand  to  remedy  particular  loffesby  means  too  weak,  to  redrefthem,  but 
ftrong  and  certain  to  ruine  the  general.  God  who  hath  fo  many  times 
diverted  the  Counfels  takgn  for  our  ruine,  hath  neither  lof  his  Tower, 
,fior  altcrcd'huWill,  w  cjhall  find  him  the  fame  J}iRy  if  we  have  the  grace 
to  wait  for  his  afjiftance,  not  cajling  our  /elves  headlong  by  our  impati* 
cnce,  or  fetttng  our  minds  ebftinately  upon  impojfibilities.  Certainly, 
tit  hough  our  enemies  feek^  our  ruine,  yet  they  wiU  never  undertake  it 
openly  without  fome  pretence,  other  and  better  than  that  of  Religion, 
which  we  mitfl  not  give  them.  For  if  we  kffp  our  [elves  in  the 
obedience  which  Subj  efts  owe  to  their  Sovereign,  you  fliall  fee  that  whilft 
our  Enemies  hope  in  vain  that  wefiattntaks  our  felves  guilty  byjome 
difobedience,  Gadwillgive  them  fome  other  work^,  and  afford  w  occtfans 
to  f  jew  to  his  Madefy,  that  we  are  a  Body  ufefnl  to  his  State  ,  and  put 
him  in  mind  ofthefignal  fervicesthat  our  Churches  have  done  to  the 
late  Kingof  ghriotu  memory.  But  if  we  are  fo  unfortunate,  that  whilft 
we  kffp  our  /fives  to  our  duty,  the  calumnies  of  our  enemies  prevail  ^ 
at  leaft  we  Jh^U  get  fo  much,  th*t  we  fall  k^ep  all  the  right  on 
our  fide  ,  and  maks  **  appear  that  we  love  the  peace  of  the 
Statt. 

Not  with  /landing  att  this,  Gentlemen,  you  may  and  ought  to  tnkf 
•rder  for  the  fafety  of  your  perfons.  For  whereas  his  Mayfly  and 
his  Council  have  [aid  often,  that  if  you  feparate  your  felver,  he  mil 
let  our  Churches  enjoy  peace,  and  the  benefit  of  hti  £ditts,  &c.  And 
whenfoever  youTetition  for  your  fafe  diffoltttion,  I  truft  it  will  be  e*pe 
to  obtain  it,  if  you  make  poffible  rcqitefts,  andfuch  as  the  miffry  of  the 
time  and  the  prefent  nccefiity  can  bear.  And  in  the  me  an  time  you 
may  advife  before  you  part,  what  jhottla1  be  done,  if  notwithstanding 
your  feparation  we  jliottld  be  9ppreft.  That  order  your  prudence  may  find, 
*nd  it  it  not  my  part  tofuggtft  it  unto  you* 


if 


Gent. 


Jf  by  propounding  theft  things  twto  you,  Ikaruf  exceeded  the  limits 
of  discretion?  /  hope  you  will  impute  it  to  my,  zsal  for  the  good  and  pre- 
fervation  of  the  Church.  And  if  this  advice  of  m'mt.is  ratted  >  this 
comfort  I  Jhatthtve,  that  I  have  difch/trgcd  my  Confc  tenet  :  and  reti- 
ring wyfelf  unto  fome  foreign  Country  ,  there  I  will  end  thofe  few  daics 
I  haveyettolive^  lamenting  the  loft  of  the  Church^  and  the  dtflruSion 
of  the  Temple,  for  the  building  whereof  I  have  laboured  with  much  mart 
courage  And  fidelity  than  Jitccef.  The  Lord  turn  away  his  wratk  ., 
from  w,  dirclk  your  csfffembty.,  and  yreferve  your  Perjans^  I; 


From  Sedan 

I2»   1  02  1 


H.his  Thefc  men  not  only,  gave  Audience  to  Ambaffadours,  and  received 
to  206.  ^etters  frornforreign  Princes,  bur  alfo  importuned  his  Majtfty  to  ha««. 
a  general  liberty  of  going  into  any  other  Countries,  and  affinging  in 
their  Councils  a  matter  of  fpecial  importance.  And  therefore  the 
King  upon  a  forefight  of  the  dangers,wifely  Prohibited  them  PO  go  to  any 
AfTemblies  without  a  particular  Licence,  upon  pain  to  be  declared  Tray- 
tors..  Since  that  time  growing  into  greater  ftrength,  whenfoever  they 
bid  occafion  of  bufincls  with  King  Lewes  ^  they  would  never  Treat 
with  him  but  by  their  AmbafTadours,  and  upon  fpecial  Articles.  AD 
ambition  above  the,  quality  ofthofe  that  profefs  themfelves  S&rbonets^ 
and  the  only  way,  <  as  De  Serres  noteth  )  to  make  an  Eftate  in  the 
State,  But  the  anfwers  made  unto  the  King  by  thofe  oluilerack  and 
tJftfontauban,  are  pregnant  proofs  of  their  intent  and  meaning  in  this 
kind..  The  firft  being  fummoned  by  the  King  and  Array  July  2,2.. 
Anno  1621.  returned  thus,  That  the  King  fliould  fiaSer  them  to  enjoy 
their  Liberties,  and  leave  their  fortifications  as  they  were  for  them  for 
their  lives,  and  fo  theywould  declare  themfelves  to  be  his  good  Sub- 
jeds..  They  of  Montauban  faid,  That  they  were  refolved  to  live  and  ; 
die  in  the  Union  of  the  Churches  ;  but  faid  not  for  the  fervke  of  the* 
Xing. 

This  Union   and  Confederacy  of  theirs,  King  Lent;  ufed  to  call^. 
tfo  Cotown-veealthoffachel:  for  the  overthrow  of  which  he  alwaias 
protefted,  that  he  had  only  taken  Arms.    On  the  fecondof  A}ril  before. 
Ire  had  as  yet  advanced  into  the  Field,  he  published  a  Declaration  in  fa- 
vour^of  all  thofe  of  the  Proteftant  Religion^  which  would  contain 
themfelves  within  duty  and  obedienc*  a    And  whereas   fome  of  Tours 
at  the  beginning  of  ihe  Wars  had  tumultuoufly  molefted  the  Proteihnts, 
at  the  burial  of  one  of  their  dead,  five  of  them  by  the  King's  fpecial  - 
Commandment  were  openly  executed, 

When 


Cenc.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 

When  the  War  was  hotteft  abroad^  thofe  of  the  Reformed  Religion 
at  Parif  lived  fecurely,  and  had  their  accuftomed  meetings  at  Chtrcn- 
ton-,  fohadthofealfo  of  other  places.  Moreover  when  tidings  came 
to  Paris  of  the  Duke  otMaycnnes  death,  (lain  before  t&fontanb(wy 
and  the  French  according  to  their  hot-headed  difpofition  breathed  out 
nothing  but  mine  to  the  Hngonots  -  the  Duke  of  Montbawn,  Gp- 
vernour  of  the  City,  commanded  their  Houfcs  and  the  Streets  to  be  fafe- 
ly  Guarded*  And  when  this  Rabble  had  burnt  down  their  Temple  at 
Charenton,  the  Court  of  Parliament  on  the  day  following  ordained  that 
it  fhouldbe  built  up  again  in  a  more  beautiful  manner,  and  that  at  the 
King's  charge. 

The  foreraentioned  Letters  of  Dr.  Du  Moulin  being  read  in  the  Af- 
fembly  at  Rocbcl,  raifed  much  conteftation.  In  the  end  the  violent 
Party  prevaling,  it  was  refolved,  i\nx.  Monfitur  dt  U  Mtllitiere  flrould 
write  to  Dr.  DH  Moulin  in  the  name  of  the  Aflembly,  to  defire  him 
that  he  would  not  impart  the  faid  Letters  unto  any,  and  to  tell  him  that 
his  advice  was  not  approved.  Yet  bis  ad  vice  was  fo  relifhed  byfome 
oftheAffembly,  that  they  arofe,  and  prcfently  left  it,  and  never  re- 
turned to  it  again. 

But  the  violent  men  in  the  Aflembly  did  good  fer  vice  to  the  Conr't 
by  their  violence,  and  were  feed  by  the  Court  to  thruft  their  Brethren 
into  a  precipice,  and  give  to  the  King  the  long  defired  occafion  co  take 
from  the  Proteftants  the  places  granted  to  them  by  his  Father's-  Edid. 
The  forenamed  Millititre  was  one  of  thofe  violent  men,  who  after- 
wards forfook  his  party  and  his  Religion  •  and'  by  his  working 
and  unhappy  wit  he  hath  created  much  trouble  unto  the  French 
Churches. 

The  Duke  of  Effcrnon  now  .receives  a  Commifiion  from  the  King  to 
tnarch  with  an  Army  to  reduce  Bearn^  (  which  the  Marquefs  de  U 
force  had.  excited  to  new  Commotions-)  to  their  duty  and  obedience* 
The  Marquefs  having  intelligence  that  the  Duke  was  coming  againfl 
him,  fends  to  divert  the  Duke  from  coming  into  Beam  :  but  that  not 
taking  effect,  he  fends  oneC/wr/w,  the  principal  Minifter  of  Beam  unto 
him.  Thisperfon  in  the  quality  of  a  Deputy  from  the  Country,  was 
fen«  to  reprefent  to  him  the  fterility  of  the  Country,  the  poverty  cf 
the  inhabitants ,  and  difficulty  of  the  waies,  -and  the  refolution  rf 
the  people  to  make  a  fmar.t  refiftancc,.  (liould  they  (who  were  in  a  very 
good  difpofition  at  prefent)  be  urged  tothelaft  extreains..  But  the 
Duke  having  flatly  told  him,  that  the  end  of  his  Expedition  w.astocaurc 
the  King  to  be  obeyed,  and  to  chaftife  all  thofe  that  fliould  rebel! 
againfl  him,  he  was  fent  back  very  much  aftonifhed  at  fo  brisk  a 
reply. 

The  BtArmls  now  gave  themfelves  for  loft  :  their  high  vaunts  but  a 
few  daies  before,  that  they  would  defend  their  Religion  and  their  Coifn- 

Ppp  z  tries 


soQe  ecciefiafttcai 


tries  liberty  to  the  laft  man,  were  converted  imo  a  pannick  fear  ^  fo 
that  on  a  fudden  whole  Cities  were  left  defolate  ,  men  of  the  beft  qua- 
lity among  them  with  their  Wives  and  Children  ,  feeking.  their  fafety 
in  their  flight,  out  of  a  juft  apprehenfion  ofaUthepunifhmems  an  offen- 
ded Prince  might  reasonably  infl'idupon  a  ftubborn  and  mutinous  peopfr. 
In  this  general  confternation  of  thcBearnois  the  Duke  drew  near  to 
Ortez,,  the  Caftle  whereof  was  very  ftrong,  and  had  of  late  been  for- 
tified, and  furnifhed  with  all  neceflaries  of  War,  which  alfo  fhut  up 
the  pafsof  the  whole  Country,  and  was  of  fo  advantageous  a  fcituation, 
as  was  very  eafic  to  be  defended.    But  thofe  wiihin  no  fooner  heard 
that  the  Duke  bud  fent  for  Cannon  from   Navarrcns  to  force  them, 
but   they  prefently  furrendered  without  flaying  till  they  could  be 
brought  up. 

The  Marquefs  dt  U  Force  having  intelligence  of  the  furrender  of 
Ortcz,,  made  hafte  to  begone  :  and  the  Duke  immediately  advanceth 
from  Ortez.  to  OUerony  where  fome  Fortifications  had  lately  been  made, 
which  were  alto  at  his  appearing  deferted,  without  the  leaft  (hew  of  op- 
pofition. 

At  length  the  fear  of  the  Duke's  feverity,  that  had  before  frighted 
every  one  from  his  habitation,  being  converted  into  an  abfolute  confi- 
dence in  his'  Clemency  and  goodnefs,  every  one  retum'd  to  his  own 
home.  The  Cities  which  at  his  coming  had  been  almoft  totally  defert- 
ed, were  on  a  fudden  re-inhabited,  infomuch  that  from  thtt  time  for- 
ward all  the  Duke  had  to  da,  was  only  to  receive  the  tenders  and.pro- 
teftations  of  their  obedience,  and  to  fet  down  Rules  for  their  Civil  Go- 
vernment, which  were  ordered  with  much  wiWom  and  juftice.  He 
tookfuch  care  to  reconcile  the  interefts  of  Religion,  that  both  parties 
,were  fatisfied  with  the  equal  fliarei  he  divided  betwixt  them  in  the 
.;  publick  adminiftration.  And  all  this  was  performed  in  lefs  than  three 
weeks  time  -,  his  journey  thither,  his  ftay  there,  and  his  return  thence, 
being  in  all  not  two  month  '$  expedition. 

The  Marquefs  de  U  Force  had  fled  from  ?a*  in  fo  great  hafte,  that 
he  had  left  his  Wardrobe,  Cabinets,  and  Papers  at  random,  of  all  which 
the  Duke  took  care  to  have  an  Inventory  taken,  leaving  them  fafe, 
feal'dup,  in  the  cuftody  of  a  pcrfon  in  whom  he  knew  the  Marquefs 
repofed  an  eptire  truft. 

Now  the  Duke  retreats  out  of  Beam  to  St.  Jc*n  d'  AngtU,  a  Prote- 
ftant  Town  in  France.  In  this  Town,  one  Mr.  Welfi  a  Scctc  h  man, 
was  Preacher  to  the  Proteftant  Church,  where  his  Ministry  was  blefled 
with  mych  fuccefe.  That  Town  had  been  twice  bcfieged  :  and  God 
fo  ordered  things  ,  that  the  .King  did  parley  with  the  Town  on  favou- 
rable terms,  and  did  only  himfelf  wiih  his  Court  come  into  the  Town 
Without  doing  any  violence.  On  the  following  Lord's  day  fome  of 
rtc  Proteftaots  iiuhat  place  fearing  Mr.  Wtfjh  his  hazard,  earneiHy  de-' 
i  fired 


Cent.  17. Of  FRANCE. n7 

fired  him  not  to  Preach,  the  Court  being  there  :  but  he  adventured  to 
Preach  the  Word  unto  his  people,  and  on  that  day  had  a  great  Audito- 
ry both  of  friends  and  others  -t  but  in  Sermon  time  a  Great  man  of 
the  Court,  with  fome  of  the  King's  own  Guard,  were  fent  to  bring 
him  forthwith  before  the  King.  Whilft  he  was  entring  the  Church, 
wherein  he  found  fome  difficulty  by  reafon  of  the  multitude,  Mr.WV/Jfr 
turned  himfelf  towards  that  entry,  and  defired  the  people  to  give  way 
to  one  of  the  great  Peers  of  France,  who  wss  coming  in.  But  when 
he  drew  near  the  Pulpit  to  execute  his  Commifiion,  by  putting  force  up- 
on Mr.  Wetfoj  he  did  with  great  authority  fpeajc  to  him  before  all  the 
people,  and  in  the  name  of  his  M after  Jefut  Ckrift  charged  him  not  to 
difturb  the  worfhip  of  God  j  whereat  the  Nobleman  was  fo  ftartled, 
that  he  fate  down  and  made  no  further  trouble. 

The  Sermon  being  ended,  Mr.  Weljh  with  much  fubmifiion'  went  t» 
the  King,  who  was  then  greatly  incenfed  j  and  with  a  threatning  coun- 
tenance asked  what  he  was  •,  and  how  he  durft  Preach  Herefie  fo  near 
his  Perfon,  and  with  fuch  contumacy  carry  himfclf.  To  which  with 
due  reverence  bowing  himfelf,  he  did  aofwer^  I  am  (  Sir  )  the  Servant 
and  Minifter  oijcftu  Ckrift,  wfcofe  Truth  I  Preached  this  day  -,  which 
if  your  Majefty  rightly  knew,  ye  would  have  judged  it  yout  duty  to 
have  come  and  heard. 

And  for  my  Dodrine,  I  did  this  day  Preach  thefe  three  Truths  to 
your  people,  i .  That  man  is  fallen,  and  by  nature  in  a  loft  condition  -y 
ieaby  his  own  power  and  abilities  is  not  able  to  help  hirafelf  out  of 
that  eftate.  2.  That  there  is  no  falvation,  or  deliverance  from  wrath 
by  our  own  merits,  but  by  Jefus  Chrift  and  his  merit  alone.  3 .  I  did 
alfo  Preach  this  day  the  juil  liberties  of  the  Kingdom  of  France  •  that 
your  Majefty  oweth  obedience  to  Chrift  only,  who  is  Head  of  the 
Church-  and  tha;  the  Pope ,  as  he  is  an  enemy  to  Chrift  and  his  Truth,  fo 
alfo  to  the  Kings  of  the  Earth,  whom  he  keepeth  under  flavery  to  his 
ufurped  power.  Whereat  the  King  for  a  time  keeping  filence,  with 
great  aftonifhment  tamed  to  fome  about  him,  and  faid,  Surely  thts 
is  4  man  of  God.  Yea,  the  King  did  afterwards  commune  with  him,  and 
with  much  refpedt  difmifled  him. 

The  year  following,  whilft  the  differences  between- the  King  and  the 
Proteftant  party  did  grow,  the  City  was  again  befieged,  taken,  and  in 
part  facked,  as  Mr.  Wcljb  hadpublickly  foretold-,  at  which  time  tie 
King  paffed  a  find  order,  that  none  fhould  in  the  teaft  wrong  Mr- 
FfWffr,  or  any  thing  that  belonged  to  him,  under  higheft  pain«,  ar,d 
did  after  give  a  fafe-condu&  to  him  for.  traufpoi  ting  himfelf  into  £»» 
gUndy  where  de  died. 

The  Duke  of  Ejpernon  having  now  received  the  Command  of  the  Ar- 
my, fets  down  before  Rochcl  attheendof  July  :  but  the  taking  of  this 
City  was  refeived  for  the  King  himfelf*. 


Whilft  the  Duke  hy  before  Rochel,  the  King  had  with  extraordinary 
vigour  presented  hisdefigns  mCuienne^  where  he  had  compell'dmoft 
of  the  places  polTcfTed  by  the  Protcftants  in  that  Province  tofubmitto 
his  Power,  He  had  reduced  Bergcrac,  St.-foy,  Fuimiroly  Tottrnon% 
Monfljnejuin,  with  feveral  others:  befieged  and  <takenCY«-4c,  and  at 
hft  laid  liege  to  Momauban,  though  herein  he  had  not  been  fo  lucccf- 
ful  as  in  hisother  enterprifes  :  fo  that  the  year  ending  with  this  variety 
of  accidents,  hisMajdly  was  conftrained  to  return  to  Paris,  where  he 
abode  until  the  cnfuing  S^ing, 

The  Winter  being  fcarce  over,  Monfedr  Sonbize  having  fortified 
birafelf  in  the  Ifleof  Ree\  and  fome  other  Iflands  of  Poitton,  thought 
the  difficulty  of  their  acccfs  would  proteft  him  from  the  Royal  power  : 
but  the  King  patted  over  the  mari&es,  and  gave  him  fo  notable  a  defeat, 
that  he  could  not  of  a  long  time  after  recover  that  blow,  nor  puthim- 
•felf  again  into  any  tolerable  pofture  of  War. 

In  the  beginning  of  the  year  1622.  the  Count  of  Soiffons  had  the 
charge  of  the  Array  which  lay  before  Rachel,  conferred  opon  him  : 
and  the  Dtike  of  £^rm?;ns  fent  to  lay  fiege  to  Roy  an ,  which  is  a  lit- 
tle City  built  upon  a  very  high  Rock  by  the  Sea  fide,  inacceffibk  on  that 
<(ide  toward  the  water,  the  height  whereof  breaking  off  the  impetuofi- 
ty  of  the  winds,  at  the  foot  of  the  Precipice  affordeth  a  very  fecurc 
-'harbour  to  fo  many  veflels  as  it  could  contain.  This  harbour  was-def*^ 
ded  by  an  ancient  Caftle  rvs'd  upon  the  eminence  of  the  Rock ;  and 
tn  therpidft  of  it  a  little  way  was  levell'd,  that  led  to  the  harbour  by 
one  of  the  Gates  of  the  City,  On  that  fide  toward  the  Land  the  fcitiP 
ationwas  more  even,  but  there  alfofo  well  Fortified,  that  it  was  thought 
to  be  one  of  the  moft  tenable  places  for  its  Circuit  in  franct.  And  it 
was  almoft  without  danger  to  be  defended,  forafmuch  as  after  their 
outworks  (hould  be  taken  (which  could  not  be  till  after  a  long  fiege} 
the  convenience  of  the  Sea,  and  the  vicinity  of  Rocbcl,  rendered  their 
retreat  at  any  time  fo  eafie  and  fo  fecure  that  it  was  to  be  defended  to  the 
lad  extream. 

But  by  the  Dukes  admirable  Condud,  and  the  valour  of  his  Souldiers, 
this  place  was  in  a  few  weeks  reduced  to  the  King's  obedience. 

The  King's  Army  now  marcheth  into  Guicnne,  where  at  .his  Ma* 
jefties  arrival  he  found  Momaiet  taken  by  the  Duke  d'  Elbauf .  and 
'Tkemeins  after  a  long  and  obftinate  refiftancc  furreodered  to  the' fame 
Duke.  Le  Mom  de  Mxrfw  with  feveral  other  confiderable  places 
\vere.alforeduccdtohis  obedience  by  theMarquefs^/*  forct^eLtt- 
fgnan,  and  deCtfelnaudcCbaLofa  who  had  taken  them  in, 

His  Majefry  pafTed  fpeedily  from  Cjui cane  into  Langutdoc.  Nigri* 
fobjfe,  a  little  Town  of  ^MWtlpoa  his  way,  was  fo  impudent  as  to 
ftand  aiiege  ;  but  it  was  foon  taken  by  afTauIt ,  and  there  the  Soul- 
diers  flicwed  the  very  rigour  of  fe verity, which  either  abarbarous  Vidor 

could 


Up, 


Cent.    17. Of  FRANCE. 

could  inflid,  or  a  vanquifhed  people  fuffer  :  for  they  fparednfitheTmanT" 
woman,  nor  child,  all  equally  fubjed  to  the  cruelty  of  the  fword  and  the 
Conquerour :  the  Streets  paved  with  dead  carkaffes^he  channels  running 
with  the  blood  of  Chriftians  ^  no  noife  in  the  Streets  but  of  fuch  as  were 
welcoming  death,  or, filing  for  life.  And  when  the  Souldiers  had  made 
the  Women  the  fubjcds  of  their  lufts,  they  made  them  after  the  fubjcds 
of  their  fury :  in  this  only  pitiful  to  that  poor  and  diftrefTed  Sey,  that  they 
fyfiered  them,  not  to  furvivc  their  honours.  Such  of  them  who  out  o£ 
fear  and  faintnefs  had  made  but  little  refiftancex  had  the  favour  to  be 
ftabbed  :  but  thofe  whofe  venue  and  courage  maintain'd  their  bodies  va- 
liantly from  the  rape  of  thofe  villains-,  had  the  fecrets  of  nature  filled 
with  Gun-powder,  and  fo  blown  into  afhes.  St.  Antonin  having  after 
a/iege  furrendercd  to  mercy,  the  neighbouring  places  thought  it  con- 
venient to  flie  to  the  King's  Clemency,to  evade  the  trial  of  his  victorious 
Arms. 

Then  the  King  befiegeth  t&fmtpflier,  and  after  much  blood  fpilc. 
the  Duke  of  Rohan  was  glad  to  make  ufe  of  a  jundure  wherein  his  par- 
ty had'fome  little  advantage,  to  procure  a  mo*e  favourable  peace,  which 
was  accordingly  figned  before '  Montpelifr,  October  22.  1622.  and 
Calonge*  furrendred  up  the  place  to  his  Majeftie's  hand,  who  if  he 
had  by  his  courage  won  himfelf  a  great  reputation  in  the  fiege,  he  ob- 
tained no  lefs  by  his  ingenuity  in  thehandfom  manner  of  his  fubmiflioa 
to  the  King.  The  King  made  his  entrance  into  the  City,  and  having 
taken  order  for  the  defence  of  the  City,  he  returned  towards  Parv  :  and 
in  the  year  1623.  the  Duke  ofE/pcrnon  arrives  at  Paris  with  a  nu- 
merous train,  where  he  was  received  by  the  King  and  the  Queens  with 
great  kindnefs.  All  his  accompts,  and  the  other  affairs  that  moft  re- 
quired his  presence  at  Paris,  were  in  lefs  than  four  Months  difpatched, 
fo  that  towardihe  latter  and  of  April  in  the  year  1624.  he  began  to  think 
of  his  return  into  Guicitne. 

Cardinal  Richlieu  was  after  his  departure  made  Prime  Minifter  of 
State,  who  foon  (hews  himfelf  to  be  oppofite  to  the  Duke. 

The  peace  that  had  been  concluded  before  Jldampelicr  in  the  year  v;j.  Tie x<}  •> 
16.22.  had  hitherto  continued  the  affairs  of  the  Kingdom  in  fome  re-r;  °"r'1/>Iil 
pofe  :  and   although  thofe  of  the  Reformed  Religion  expre&d  fomcpj,,,.". 
difpofcions  to  a  new  Commotion,  .there  was  as  yet  no  manifcft  breach. 
Soubiz.cy    by  an  attempt   made  upon   the  King's  Shipping  at  BUvet^ 
made  the  firft  breach.    All  the  reft  of  the  party  broke  into  Arms  at  the 
fame  time,  and  the  Duke  of  Rohan,  who  had  long  been  known  to  be 
the  Head  of  that  party,  ftirredthem  into  infurredion.    A  promptitude 
in  his  Partisans  fo  much  the  mere  to  be  wondered  at ,  as  he  com- 
manded a  fort  of  people  whofe  obedience  was  only  voluntary. 

MantMtban  was  one  of  the  Cities  not  only  of  Cuitnne,  but  alfoof '• 
the  whole  Kjngdom,  ifeu  engaged  the  deepeft  in  ihis  rsvolr,  the  Inha- 
bitants •- 


no         3O)eeccleflaftteai$tfto?j?       Cent.  \?. 


bitants  whereof  by  having  had  afiege  raifed  from  before  their  Walls* 
and  by  having  baffled  a  Royal  Army,  even  when  animated  by  the  pre- 
fcnce  of  the  King  himfeif,  began  to  think  themfelves  invincible,  and  their 
City  a  place  not  to  be  t^ken. 

The  King  therefore  fent  order  to  the  Duke  oi£$ernm  to  take  Arm?, 
which  he  did,  and  laid  wafte  the  Country  about  Monttuban.  Many 
fmart  engagements'  there  were,  with  great  lofs  of  men  on  the  fide  of 
the  bcftegcd ,  who  made  a  vigorous  refinance.  Many  lamentable  ob- 
jeds  were  every  where  to  be  feen  i  from  Picq Hero s  (*  place  famous 
for  having  been  the  King's  quarter  during  the  fiege  vi MontAvbun^  and 
from  whence  the  whole  Plain  betwixt  the  Rivers  Tarn  and  Vtiran  lay 
open  to  the  view  )  fo  foon  as  the  obfcurity  of  the  night  gave  colour  to 
the  fire  that  had  been  kindled  by  day,  one  might  have  feen  a  thoufand 
fires  at  once :  the  Corn,  Fruit-trees,  Vines  and  houfes  were  the  aliments 
that  nourished  this  flame. 

Soubiz.c  in  the  mean  time  endeavours  to  divert  the  Duke  from  his 
emerprize  by  Landing  three  thoufand  five  hundred  Foot,  and  fome 
few  Horfe  in  the  lower  Cajcony  in  the  Country  of  iMedoc.  This  lit- 
tle Country  (  which  is  almoft  all  the  Duke's)  environs  a  great  part  of 
the  Metropolis  of  Bttrdcaux,  extending  it  felf  to  the  very  Gates  of  the 
City  :  but  Soubiz.e  was  fharaefully  repulfed  ;  his  Forces  routed  ;  the 
fcw  that  efcaped  the  Victors  hands  with  much  ado  recovered  their  Ships, 
leaving  their  dead,  their  Arms,  Artillery  and  Baggage,  as  infallible  tcfti- 
tnonies  of  a  total  defeat. 

About  the  year  1623.  the  famous  Book  of  Cardinal  1)uTerron 
againft  King  James  of  famous  memory,  came  forth.  That  Book  was 
extolled  by  the  Romanics  with  great  brags  and  praifes.  His  Majefty  be- 
ing efpecially  interefTed  and  provoked  by  that  Book,  was  pleafed  to 
recommend  the  confutation  of  it  to  his  old  Champion  Dr.  Du  Moulin^ 
who  undertook  it  upon  his  Majefties  Command.  And  that  he  might 
attend  that  work  with  more  help  and  leifure,  his  Majefty  invited  fcim 
to  come  into  England.  And  together  being  moved  with  companion 
by  the  adverfuies  the  Doftor  had  fuffcred  for  his  fake,  he  offered  him  a 
refuge  in  England,  promising  to  take  care  of  him,  and  to  employ  him 
in  one  of  his  Univerfities.  He  accepted  that  Royal  favour.  He  fet  out 
of  Sedtn  in  March  1624.  and  went  to  Sntxels  and  Antwcrfy  and  fo 
to  Holland  :  whence  afcer  fome  daies  ftay  at  the  HitgKc  with  his  wor- 
thy Brother  in  law  Dodor  Rivet •,  he  took  Shipping  for  England.  He 
wasgracioufly  received  by  his  Majefty. 

God  vifited  him  with  a  grievous  ficknefs,  by  an  heavy  oppreffionin 
his  Hypochondries,  with  an  inflammation  of  black  choler,which  feldom 
let  him  fleep,  and  kept  him  in  perpetual  agony.  Yet  even  then  he  fpenc 
Biuch  time  in  his  great  work  againir  Cardinal  DM  Perron,  and  preached 
often  in  the  French  Church.  In  the  depth  of  his  pain  and  anguifh  he 

was 


17. 


Of  FRANCE.  m 


was  beyond  raeafure  afflicted  with  the  perfections  that  ruined  the  Chur- 
ches of  France,  and  the  divifions  then  increafmg  in  the  Churches  of 
England. 

There  was  at  London  at  that  time  the  Marquefs  ,d'  Effiaf,  extraordi-  seethe  Life  of 
nary  Ambafladour  of  'France,  a  zealous  Papift,  who  upon  a  falfe  infor-  Dr.  ^«  /«"'*'  " 
mation  of  Fijher  and  other  Jefuites  that  were  about  him,  that  Doctor 
DM  *JMoulin  by  his   long  watchings  and  other  melancholy  fumes, 
was  decayed  in  nis  Intellectuals,  did  malitiouily  invite  him  to  his  houfe, 
to  engage  him  in  a  Conference,  and  infult  over  his  weaknefs.    After 
dinner  the  Ambafladour  defired  him  to  hear  a  Scottif)  man,  who  would 
tell  him  thereafons  that  made  him  leave  the  Proteftant  Religion  to  em- 
brace the  Catholick.The  Scott  iflj  man  then  aflifted  by  Ft/he  r,and  others  of 
his  fort,  made  an  elaborate  Difcourfe  half  an  hour  long  of  the  Church 
of  St.  Peter's  Primacy,  of  fucceflion  of  Chairs,  and  the  like.    When 
he  had  done,  the  Doctor  refumed  all  his  points  and  allegations  in  the 
fame  order,  and  anfwered  them  with   his  ordinary  vigour,  and  pre- 
fence  of  wit.     And  becaufe  the  principal  matter  in  queftion  was  about  the 
Marks  of  the  true  Church,  he  maintained  that  the  Profeffion  of  the  true 
Doctrine  was  the  Mark  of  the  true  Church  :  and  thence  took  occafion 
to  lay  open   the  foulnefs  of  the  errors  of  Popery  with  fo  much  pregnan- 
cy, that  the  Ambafladour  a  Cholerick  man,  rofe  from  his  feat  in  great 
fury,  and  gave  many  foul  words  to  the  Doctor,  who  thereupon  went 
out  and  returned  home. 

But  the  Ambafladour  fent  his  Coach  to  him  the  next  day,  and  invited 
him  to  dinner.  And  after  dinner  the  ScottiJJi  man  fpake  again  of 
the  fame  points  :  and  when  the  Doctor  in  his  anfwer  had  turned  his  Di- 
fpute  againft  the  grofleft  errours  of  Popery,  incompatible  with  the  true 
Church,  Fifljc  r  would  have  taken  the  Scottiflt  man's  part  .:  but  the  Am- 
bafladoer's  paffion  gave  him  no  time  to  anfwcr,but  broke  vehemeiulyouc, 
faying,  that  he  could  hear  no  longer  that  one  fliould  revile  before  him 
the  Catholick  Religion,  and  maintain  to  him  that  he  did  wilfully 
damn  himfelr,  his  Wife  and  his  Children.  Then  the  Doctor  went  out  of 
his  houfe, 

Soon  after  King  James  fell  fick  of  the  Sicknefs  whereof  he  dice?. 
That  death  of  his  Royal  Patron,  and  the  Plague  raging  in  London,  fooa 
perfwaded  the  Doctor  to  return  to  Sedan*  The  labour  of  the  journey, 
and  the  intolerable  heat  ofthefeafon  increafed  his  ficknefs:  which  to 
heal,  the  Phyfitians  of  Sedan  made  him  drink  Sfuw-waters,  which 
were  brought  to  him  from  S^H?  to  Sedan.  Thefe  waters  brought  him 
to  a  rr.oft  violent  Feaver,  and  the  Fcaver  confunaed  all  thofe  humours 
and  winds  that  oppreft  him,  and  left  him  in  health.  So  he  re- 
turned to  his  former  Function  in  the  Church  and  Univerfity,  ferving 
God  with  cheartulnefs  and  afliduity,  and  blefled  with  great  fuccefs. 
He  lived  at  Sedan  thirty  and  three  years  from  his  reiurn  mo  Engirt 

untfc 


CCCltftaftitai  ^tftOJV          Cent.   17* 

umohis  death,  without  any  notable  change  in  his  condition,  but  one 
of  puhlick  concernment  by  the  miferable  change  of  the  Duke  of  Ro- 
villon., 

Tiiat  Dute  being.  Prince  of  Sedan,  the  Protedour  of  a  flourifning 
Proteftant  Church,  and  the  refuge  of  many  opprefled  Proteftants  in 
France^  was  perverted  by  falling  in  love  with  a  beautiful  Lady,  a  Sub- 
ject born  of  the  Sptwi.iril,  and  a  Papift  of  the  deeptft  Jefuitifh  dye, 
which  feduccd  and  turned  him  both  to  the  Romifj  Religion,  and  to  the 
Spatiift)  Party.  Soon  after  the  Duke. declared  himfelf  a  Papift,  to  the 
incredible  lofsofthe  Prorefbnt  Party. 

Se4*tt  was  grown  by  the  perfections  in  France.  The  greateft  num- 
ber and  the  riche/l  foit,  confifted  of  the  Pofterity  of  per  Tons  that  had 
tranfporced  their  Families  and  their  Eftates  to  S*dan,  during  the  Wars* 
of  Religion^  and  that  place  was  a  refuge  at  hand  for  the  Proteftams 
when  any  trouble  arofe  in  France.  This  change  therefore  in  the  Prince 
wrought  a  great  coniternadon  in- the  people  of  Sedan,  and  a  great  grief 
in  the  generality  oi  all  the  jFV^c/JProtefhnt?.  Which  the  Duke  of  Be- 
i>//fcpercc!Ving-,and  judg<ng,that  as  they  lived  at  5ft&f»up.on  the  account 
of  their  Religion,  they  might  retire  from  it  upon  the  lame  account,  he 
called  the  Church  and  the  Univerfity,  and  told  them,  that  he  would  lend 
them. the  fame  Protection  as  before,  and  innovate  nothing.  Only  where- 
as he  gathered  theTyihes'oF  his  Dominions,  and  therewith  gave  wages 
to  the  Minifters,  ProfeiTours,  and  Regents,  as  alfo  Stipends  to  the  Priefts ; 
now  the  Priefts  muft  have  the  Tythes  as  their  ancient  right,and  he  would 
pay  to  the  Minifters,  ProfefTours,  and  Regents,  their  ordinary  Stipends 
eut  of  his  own  Eftate. 

Sedan  enjoyed  that  reft  for  a  year  or  two,  till  the  Duke  won  by  his 
Wife  to  forfake  the  Protection  which  he  enjoyed  under  the  King  of 
France  who  paid  his  Garrifon,  agreed  with  the  Spanis.rdto  put  himfelf 
under  his  Protection,  to  turn  out  the  French  Garrifon  and  receive  his : 
Which  Plot  being  difcovered  by  fome  o{ Sedan,  was  made  known  to 
the  French  Court,  and  fuch  order  was  taken,  that  the  Duke's  defign 
was  prevented,  Himfelf,  his  Lady,  and  all  his  Retinue,  were  turned  out 
of  Sedan,  and  are  kept  out  of  it  to  this  day,  and  the  place  continutih  un- 
der the  fubje&ion  of  Fnwct. 

This  year  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Valtoline  were  much  diftreffcd.  The 
Valtoline  is  a  Country  fcituate  at  the  foot  of  the  sflpes,  not  unlike  a  great 
ditch,  feparated  by  the  high  Mountains  from-  the  Cjrifons,  and  thofe 
which  are  on  the  Coaft  of  Italy.  It  is  not  of  very  large  extent,  not 
above  twenty  Leagues  in  length,  and  one  in  breadth,  but  is  very  fertile., 
and  of  great  importance,  ferving  a>  a  Gite  to  the  Spaniards  and  Vcne- 
ttans,  to  bring  Forces  out  of  Germany  into  Italy,  as  well  to  defend  as  to 
increafe  their  States.  The  Venetians  were  not  ignorant  of  it,  when 
fbcy  were  embroiled  with  Pope  Pwl  V.  Awo  1603.  They  madea 

League 


-Cent.  17-  Of  FRANCE. 

League  with  the  Cjrifonsy  who  are  natural  Lords  of  it,  to  have  free  paf- 
fage  through  it,  as  their  occafions  fhould  require,  though  France  had 
the  only  power  to  difpofeof  it,  according  to  the  Treaty  made  with 
them  by  Lewes  XII.  and  renewed  by  Henry  IV.  Anno  1602.  du- 
ring the  time  of  his  own  life,  the  life  of  Lewes  XIII.  and  eight  years 
after  his  deceafe. 

Which  Alliance  with  them  gives  great  offence  to  the  Spaniards  jn\\\d\ 
ciufed  them  to  make  another  League  with  the  Cjfifonsyw  whom  the  fame 
paflages  were  aflured  for  the  fafeguard  of  Milan.  But  after  a  long 
Treaty  made  in  the  year  161 3.thefe  two  new  Alliances  were  overthrown, 
and  that  of  France  re-fetled,  which  was  not  for  any  long  time  :  for 
from  the  year  1617.  to  the  year  1621.  there  were  nine  infurredions 
among  them.  Atiaft  the  Valtolints  made  a  general  revolt,  and  at  the 
perfwafion  of  the  Governourof  Milan,  maflacred  all  the  Proteftants 
they  met  with.  In  July  1 620.  the  Governour  of  Milan  fent  them  Soul- 
dicrs,  and  builded  them  Forts  in  their  Valley. 

The  French  King  then  being  engaged  in  re-taking  thofe  Towns  which 
the  Hngonots  had  gotten  into  their  pofleflion,  could  not  fuccour  the. 
Grifons  with  his  Armies,  but  fent  the  Marfhal  de  Baffompiere,  exrra- 
ordinary  Ambafiadour  into  Spain,  in  his  name  to  demand  that  the  V"al- 
toline  might  be  reftored,  and  all  things  replaced  into  their  former 
ftate.  It  was  obtained ,  and  accordingly  it  was  figned  at  nJWadrid  in 
May  1621.  on  condition  that  certain  great  liberties  might  be  accord- 
ed to  the  Catholicks  there  ^  and  with  a  Provifo,  that  the  Cantons  of  the 
Swiffes  and  the  falto  lines  ftiould  encline  theGrifonsio  confent,  to  what 
had  been  agreed  upon. 

But  the  Spaniards  procured  the  Catholick  Cantons  to  deny  their  con- 
fents,  which  being  wanting  they  would  put  off  the  execution  of  the  whole 
Treaty  -,  and  moreover  made  one  at  Mila*n  with  the  Deputies  of  the 
Gri/ons,  and  two  others  with  the  fame  Grifons  and  the  Arch-Duke  Leo- 
pold, by  which  they  got  great  advantages  in  thofe  Countries,and  fo  kept 
to  themfelves  the  power  of  paffing  any  Forces  through  that  Country. 

France  never  made  any  difficulty  of  according  to  any  thing  which 
might  contribute  to  the  exercife  of  the  Catholick  Religion  in  the  Val- 
taline,  or  for  fecurity  of  all  fuch  as  nude  profeflion  thereof.  But  they 
would  never  agree  to  thofe  demands  which  the  Spaniards  made  con- 
cerning thehaving  of  pafTjges,  withfo  much  peremprorinefs.  During 
which  time  Pope  Gregory  XV.  died,  and  Vrban  VIII.  being  fet-in 
his  place,  propofed  new  Articles  of  Accommodation,  which  comprifed 
as  much  a?  could  be  of  advantage  for  the  Church  and  Catholicks,  which 
were  readily  accepted  of  by  France.,  but  as  ftoutly  rejected  by  the 
Spaniards,  for  that  it  did  not  grant  to  them  the  enjoyment  of  the  pafla- 
ges.  Then  Cardinal  Richlieu  advifed  the  King  not  to  ftand  dallying 
upon  the  means  of  a  Treaty,  as  formerly,  but  forthwith  to  make  ufe 

Q,qq  2  of 


3£l)e  ccclefiafttcai  %ifto?p     Cent.  \r 

of  his  Arms  to  reduce  them  to  terms  of  jufticc.  The  King  refblves 
to  Tend  the  Marquefs  de  Coenurts  to  the  Cantons  of  the  Swjfis  for  the 
Grifons  affairs,  at  the  fame  time  that  the  Situr  de  JSethttnt  was  difpatch- 
ed  toward  Rome.  His  inftructions  w^rc ;  firft  to  rc-umte  all  the 
§wife  Cantons  with  his  Majefty,  to  difpofe  the  Catholicks  to  give 
their  aflent  to  the  Treaty  of  ^iadrid^  andtoefpie,  if  in  this  re-unioir 
there  might  not  feme  way  be  found  out,  for  to  re-place  the  Garrifonsinto 
the  Soveraigmy  of  the  J^altoline.,  The  fecond  was  to  be  kept  private 
ifthefirft  took  effed  ;  el fe  he  was  commanded  to  encourage  the  GW- 
fons  to  rife,  who  (hould  receive  afiiftance  from  his  Majefty,  offuch 
Troops  as  (bould  be  neceflary,  according  to  fuch  orders  as  ftiould  be 
received. 

Then  the  French  King,  Duke  of  Savoy  y  and  Common-wealth 
of  Venice ,  made  a  League  for  the  rcftitution  -  of  the  fttlto- 
line. 

The  Marquefs  deCaenurct  takes  the  field:  to  make  hirafelf  Mafterof 
the  Fons  in  the  Vultoline,  which  were  all  taken  in  tht  three  firft  Months 
of  the  following. year.  New  Orders  are  fent  to  the  Marquefs  to  pro- 
fecuie  his  Conquefts  there.  The  Pope  feems  to  the  Cardinal  de  U 
Valette  and  the  Situr  de  BcthHne,  to  be  very  angry  that  the  King  fhould- 
attempt  upon  the  Forts  in  the  Vaholine  which  were  in  his  keeping,  and 
fends  the  Sieur  Bernardino  .RUry  to  his  Majefty,  tateftife  to  him  his 
great  difcontent  at  it ,. 

The  King  of  Sfam.  to  break  the  League  between  the  French  'King,  the 
Puke  ofS<*-z/0y,.andthe  Venetians,  negotiates  another  between  himfelf 
and  the  Princes  of  Italy.  The  Spaniard  fpreads  abroad  defaming 
Libels  againft  the  League  tfFrancey  Venice^  and  Savoy. 

Thofe  great  lofTes  which  the  Proteftants  had  fuftained  for  fome  pre- 
ceding years  in  Beam  and  Lmgusdoc.^  alwaies  kept  them  waking, 
efpecially  after  the  Peace  of  zJMqntyelier .  they  well  perceiving,  that 
thofe  fmall  Routs  which  they  had  fuffered,_dui  threaten  their  Party  witK 
an  utter  deftruction. 

The  Spaniards  therefore  laboured  very  much  to  get  the  Situr  deSoubiae 
undRohan  (who  were  the  only  eminent  perfonsjto  Command  their  Arm$i 
Their  defign  took  effed.  Thefe  two  Brothers  being  met  at  Caftres,  re- 
folved  to  raife  thofe  of  tbeir  Party  ;  the  one  by  Sea  at  Guicnne,  and  the 
other  in  Langued&c,.  The  attempt  upon  the  Fort  of  ^/^-yff  fotherwife 
Port  S.  Lewes  )  of  which  we  havefpoken  before,  was  an  effeft  of  that 
cefolution,  as  alfo  the  endeavours  of  the  Duke  and  Duchefs  vtRokan  be* 
gan  at  the  fame  time  in  L&nguedot  to  draw  in  more  Towns  in  to  their 
Party. 

But  the  Marqyefs  <&  &#«y  was  fent  inaU-haik  'wto&Mgue&c  with 
certain  Regiraen.es  to  .oppofc  the  fir  ft.  Commotions .  and"  to  employ 
avany  perfons  of  difcretion  to  affure  himUlf  of  the  Cou&fds  of  th* 

chief- 


Cent.   \7-  Of  FRANCE. 


chief  Towns,   and  by  this  means  moft  of  them  kept  within  their 
duties. 

Soubizt  piiblitht  a  Manifeft,which  founded  an  Alarm  to  alltheProtei 
ftant  Party,  making  them  to  believe  that  their  utter  ruine  was  concluded 
on  in  the  King's  Council.  That  the  lofs  of  their  Religion  was  inevi- 
table, if  they  did  not  defend  themfelves  by  Arms  :  and  that  the  raifing 
of  Fort  Saint  Lews  built  by  Rachel,  was  a  fignof  it.  He  fuggefted 
to-  them,  that  the  Catholicks  were  of  opinion  in  moft  or  their 
Books,  that  they  were  not  obliged  to  keep  Faith  with  He* 
reticks. 

Moft  were  taken  with  thefe  reafons,  becaufe  the  -Duke  of  Rohan 
clapt  into  fome  Towns  certain  Gentlemen  and  Captains  of  his  own  Re- 
ligion, to  encourage  them,  and  to  ftir  up  the  Popular  Minifters,  who 
after  this  looked  for  nothing  but  when  to  rife  $  not  confidering  that 
the  infarredions  which  they,  were  carried  to,were  contrived  by  the  Spa- 
niards, who  pretended  not  to  make  ufe  of  them,  but  only  to  divert  and 
draw  ofEthe  King's  Arms  from  Italy-. 

That  fomentation  which  the  Spaniard  give  to  the  Hugonots^  wherei 
by,  to  force  the  King  to  draw  off  his  Army  from  fotValtoline,  oblige^ 
the  FrenchKing  to  do  the  like  by  the  Spaniard  in  aflaulting  theCommon- 
wcalth  of  Genoa. 

The  Pope  fends  the  Cardinal  liarburino  in  the  quality  of  a  Legate  irr- 
to  France,  to  negotiate  the  Peace  between  the  French  King  and  the  King  • 
of  Spain. 

The  Hugonots  by  the  Spaniards  inftigatron  arm  themfelves  very 
potently  againft  the  French  King.  The  Duke  of  Rohan  took  tlte 
Command  upon  himfelf  of  thofe  Forces  in  Langwdoc,  Sw^/'&e  thofe  in 
Poittott*  Although  Sottbize  had  been  repulfed  from  before  the  Port  of 
Bktyet,  yet  by  that  means  he  made  himfelf  matter-  of  fix  great  Ships 
whick  were  the  King's,  and  the  Duke's  of  'Nemours,  which  gave  huh 
opportunity  of  doing  very  confiderable  damages. 

He  had  formerly  got  together  about  eleven  Ships  of  War,  and  ma- 
ny Shallops  and  fmall  Boats,  and  with  thefe  roved  up  and  dowa 
the  Coafts  of  JV/tftw-and  Guiennc  ,  as  hatlv  been  before  hinr- 
ed  ar. 

The  Duke  of  Rohan  got  together  about  two  thoufand  men  near  Cafresu 
He  gave  out  that  the  Rochcllers  had  taken  Arms,  and  fworn  a  League 
with  the  Churches  of  his  Party,  that  he  might  by  this  prerence  get  ?. 
like  intereft  in  fome  other  Towns  which  he  had  ~an  eye  upon.  And 
accordingly  he  went  to  Puilaurens^  Rkel,  Soreae,  Sr.  Panlf,  Leviate, 
and  Mriffj&y  and  made  the  Confuls  fwear  to  the  Confederacy  ;  after- 
wards he  came  to  the  Gates  Q£ Lavaur  to  furpr'f  it,  tut  his  defi£n 
took  -ng, 


cent. 


The  Count  of  Ca.rma.in  Goverirour  of  Foix  got  into  Rucl  and  Sorest, 
after  the  other  had  forfaken  them,  and  fo  dealt  with  the  Confute,  that 
they  confefled  their  faults,  and  protefted  nor  to  cake  part  wuh  him  any 
more.  A'  Procefs  was  made  in  the  Parliament  of  Tholonfe  againft  him 
and  all  his  Adherents. 

The  Marquefs  dc  Cragny  and  the  Count  ofCarmain  marched  againft 
the  Duke  ;  and  whilft  thofe  who  made  [he  firft  Encounter  were  at  it>; 
!the  reft  got  into'P/4««,  who  were  however  fo  clofely  purfued  by  the 
Marshal's  Forces,  that  the  Regiment  of  Normandy  was  hard  at  their 
heels,  entring  into  the  Town  with  them.     Thus  he  remained  Mafter 
1  of  Peyrefqu.-idcj  where  there  were  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  of  the 
Rebels  Souldiers  killed  and  hurt  ;  all  which  the  Duke  of  Rohan  beheld 
from  a  Fort  in  Wanes  where,  he  then  was,  from  which  time  forwards 
"tie  began  to  defpair  of  doing  any  great  matters  for  the  future,  efpecial- 
•ly  fince  he  faw  hirafelffo  clofely  followed  •  and  that  the-Cardinal  had 
taken  fuch    a   courfe    in  Languedoc,  that  the  King  could  have  raifed 
'more    men   in    twenty  four    hours    than    the  Duke    in   a  whole 
'•  month. 

Sonbize  finding  little  aflurance  on  the  main  Land,  had  fortified 
himfelf  in  the  liles  of  -Ret  and  Olleron  :  it  was  the  more  important  to 
remove  him  thence,  becaufe  otherwise  it  would  be  impofiible  to  reduce 
'Rocket  unto  its  obedience,  fo  eafily  -and  abundantly  might  he  recruit 
them  with  necefiaries  from  thofe  fertile  I  (lands  :  but  the  Duke  of  Mont- 
morency  the  King's  Admiral  made  himfelf  Matter  of  the  Ifle  of  Rec'9 
after  a  three  daiesCombate  with  a  great  deal  of  obftinacy  on  both  parts. 
The  Duke  of  Montmortncy  Landed  at  Olleron^  where  he  met  with  no 
refiftance. 

Tbe5*«*r  de  Soubize  having  withdrawn  himfelf  into  England,  lived 

at  aHoufe  called  Burgate  in  Hampshire,  near  the  New  Foreft,  fordi- 

vv:rs  years  after.     The  whole  Province  was  now  fetledin  quiet  both  by 

Sea  and  Land,  of  all  which  King  Levee  s  was  informed,  who  received 

the  news  with  much  joy. 

Cardinal  Barbarini  Legate  from  the  Pope  arrived  in  France,  and 
came  to  M^feitlt$,  where  he  was  received  with  great  honour,  as  alfo 
at  Lions  according  to  the  Orders  fent  by  the  King.  He  came  to  Paris 
on  May  21.  and  entred  in  great  pomp.  He  is  bound  by  the  Laws  of 
the  Kingdom,  before  he  officiate  the  Function  of  a  Legate,  toprefent 
the  Brief  which  the  Pope  hath  given  him  for  the  employment  to  the 
Parliament  of  Paris.  The  Pope  having  omitted  in  this  Brief  to  give 
the  King  the  title  of  King  of  Navarre,  the  Parliament  refufed  to 
acknowledge  it,  and  obliged  him  not  to  proceed  any  further  in  the  bu- 
•ilnefs  till  that  were  amended. 

The  Legate  coming  to  Paris,  alighted  at  St.  James  de  £fattt-paj,  where 
-the  Clergy  of  the  City,  thcconcourfeofthe  Court,  and  other  Officers 

to 


Cent.    17.  Of  FRANCE.  "u/ 

to  the  number  of  twelve  thoufand,  went  to  falute  him,  and  receive  InV~ 
Benediction,  After  this  the  Prelates  of  Paris  came  to  pay  their  re. 
fpefts  to  him.  There  was  a  little  difpute  in  what  habit  they  fhculd  ap- 
pear before  him,the  Legate  defiring  they  ftiould  be  in  their  Rochets  and 
Camail  covered  over  with  a  Mantlet,  as  a  mark  that  they  had  no  power 
in  his  prefence.  But  the  Prelates  refufing  to  ftoop  to  this  Order,  ic  be- 
ing  contrary  to  the  Rules  of  the  French  Church,  took  a  middle  courfe. 
They  went  fo  habited  to  falute  him,  and  accordingly  accompanied  him 
in  the  Cavalcade  to  Noftre*  Lhime,  whither  being  come,  they  took  off 
their  Mantlets  :  bat  all  was  done  under  a  Provifo,  of  Giving  their  ami- 
cnt  right! 

He   propofed  to  the  King  what  the  Pope  had  given  him  in  charge,, 
He  urged  the  King  in  general  terms  to  peace  •  to  reftore  things  in 
the  Valtoline  to  their  former  date,  as  they  were  before  the  Army  of 
the  Confederate  Princes  entred  into  ir,  and  defired  him  to  grant  a  Cefla- 
tion  of  Arms  in  Ifaly. 

The  King  anfwered  to  the  three  Propofitionsr  That  he  was  ever  en- 
clin'd  to  Peace,  and  that  he  would  ftill  be  induced  to  it,  provided  it 
were  for  the  publick  fafety,  and  honourable  for  him  and  his  Allies, 
That  as  to  what  concern 'd  the  Faltoline,  the  late  Treaty  ^{^(adnd 
had  made  provifion  for  all  thofe  difficulties  which  have  rifen  ever  fince, „ 
and  that  he  dcfired  the  execution  of  it.  As  to  the  CefTaiion  of  Arms, 
that  he  could  by  no  means  hearken  to  it,  becaufe  of  the  great  prejudice 
it  would  be  to  himfelr'  and  his  Allies,  and  the  great  advantage  thofe  of 
the  adverfe  Party  might'  make  out  of  it.  Thereupon  the  Legate  un- 
expededly  departeth  from  the  French  Court ,  and  goeth  toward 
Rome. 

The  Hugonofs  now  begged  his  Ma  jeftie's  pardon  by  their  Deputies,' 
whom  they  fen.t  unto  him  to  teftifie^the  fenfe  they  had  of  their  fault,  and 
to  allure  him  of  iheir  future  fidelity  and  obedience.  His  Majefty  was 
well  pleafed  with  it  -,-  and  the  Deputies  coming  to  him  at  Fwntainbfe'an 
about  the  end  of^n^ufl  whilft  the  Legate  was  there,  there  was  no  kind 
of  acknowledgements  and  fubmillions  which  they  did  not  make,  both  in 
behalf  of  themfelves,  asalfoofthe  Diike  of  Rohan,  and  the  Sieur  de  Sou* 
bizji)  who  fent  to  Tupplicaie  him  by  their  particular  Deputies,  that  he 
would  be  pleafed  to  employ  them  in  the  War  of  Italy,  that  they 
might  teftifie  by  their  paftion  to  ferve  him,  that  there  was  not  any  dan-  i 
ger  by  Sea  or  Land,  to  which  they  would  not  cheerfully  expofe  them, 
{'elves,  to  contribute  to  his  glory.  Hiting  made  their  fpeeches,  they 
prefented  the  paper  of  their  Complaints,  which  they  faid  were  ground- 
ed upon  feveral  Graces  which  had  been  conferred  upon  them  by  the 
Edift  of  Nantes,  and  feveral  other  grants.  The  King  received  it,  and  » 
appointed  it  to  be  examined* . 


After  the  paper  of  their  grievances  had  been  examined,  tte-Frertfh  King 
-confirmed  to  ihem  whatever  had  been  granted  to  them  by  the  Edid  of 
frantes,  granting  them  free  liberty  for  the  exercife  of  their  Religion  in 
•fjch  Towns  where  they  had-Churchesand  Church-yards,  and  anAdof 
Oblivion  for  any  thing  done  in  the  War  :  but  he  would  not  confent  to^ 
the  demolifhing  of  Fort  Le  we  /,  as  being  of  great  importance  for  the 
keeping  of  foc^/ in  awe  and  obedience. 

Thefe  favours  were  accepted  by  the  general  Deputies  of  the  Prote- 
ftantsin  the  name  of  all  their  Towns,  excepting  thofe  of  Rechel^  Mon- 
tauban,  Caftns,  and  MUhaud,  who  having  been  gained  by  the  Duke  of 
Rohan  and  Sieur  de  S<wbiz.e  -,  and  finding  that  their  Leaders  had  obtain- 
ed only  a  (ingle  Pardon,  without  any  other  advantage,  and  without  <be- 
ing  employ '-d  in  Italy,  according  as  they  defired,  they  'entreated  his 
Majefty  upon  other  pretences,  that  he  would  be  pleafed  to  grant  fome 
time,  till  their  two  chief  Officers,  and  thofe  four  Cities,  werejoyned 
with  them.  The  King  granted  to  them  that  delay,  upon  condition  it 
were  not  over  long,  who  prefcntly  fent  away  the  heads  of  thofe  refolu- 
tions  which  had  been  taken. 

But  the  Dukeoffote  excufetb  himfetf  from  accepting  thofe  Arti- 
cles which  were  granted  to  thofe  of  his  Party.  He  did  his  utmoft  to 
furprize  fome  places  in  Langnedoc.  He  made  an  attempt  upon  Tillet  in 
Albigtois.  He  had  fome  time  before  caufed  the  Towns  of  A4afd*z.il, 
Pamiers,  and  feveral  other  of  Few,  to  revolt,  from  which  places  he 
tent  out  his  Scouts,  who  committed  great  havocks  in  the  plain  Coun- 
trey.  But  the  Marfhal  de  Themines,  and  the  Count  de  C/trm*in  fell  up- 
on the  HugonotS)  charged  and  killed  many  of  them,  and  took  divers 
places  from  them,  fome  by  ftorm,  fome  by  compofition.  Hereupon 
the  Duke  of  Rohan  went  to  the  Aficmbly  at  Milhtud,  where  he  made 
thofe  of  his  Party  fend  a  Currier  to  the  King,  to  accept  of  the  Articles 
of  Peace  which  his  Majefty  had  granted  to  them.  His  Ma jefty  confirm- 
ed them,  though  they  had  rendered  themferves  unworthy  by  their  new 
Ads  of  Rebellion.  But  it  was  neceflary  fo  to  be  ,  for  the  betteroppo- 
fmg  of  the  enterprizes  of  S-patn,  though  Rachel  was  ftill  excepted,  by 
reafon  of  the  little  inclination  they  had  teftified  of  keeping  themfelves 
within  their  duty. 

Then  the  Btfhops  and  Clergy  of  Prance  aflembled  at  T+ris.  The 
chief  intent  of  their  meeting  was  for  the  renewing  of  that  Contrad  which 
they  made  every  tenth  year  with  the  King,  for  the  payment  of  thofe 
Rents  which  are  impofed  on  them.  They  alfo  condemned  certain  Li- 
bels fent  abroad  by  the  Spanifi  ambition ,  which  had  been  fent  into 
France.  They  condemned  the  Authours  of  them  as  enemies  to  the  pub- 
Jiek  quiet,  and  feducers  of  the  people  to  Sedition.  And  they  granted 
to  the  King  Six  hundred  thoufand  crowns  upon  the  Churches  ofFr^cr, 
as  a  Contribution  toward  the  Wars  in  which  the  State  was  engaged, 

as 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 


-as  alfe  to  preferve  the  Catholick  Religion  in  its  fplendour,  and  to  main- 
tain the  glory  of  the  Crown. 

But  many  fordid  fpirits  grudged  at  it,  who  confidering  but  one  of 
thofe  ends  for  which  Lands  were  given  to  Churches,  began  to  oppofe  it  ; 
as  if  the  Church  (  which  is  part  of  the  State,)  were  not  bound  to  con- 
tribute to  the  good  of  thofe  Corporations  of  which  they  were  members; 
and  as  if  the  publick  neceffities  were  not  more  confiderable  than  the  pri- 
vate profits  of  fome  particular  people,  who  often  employ  their  Reve- 
nues to  bad  ufes. 

The  Cardinal  now  endeavoureth  the  procuring  of  Peace  for  thofe  of 
Rochet.  And  the  fame  rcafons  which  enclined  his  Majefty  to  fliew  his 
Clemency  to  the  reft  of  that  party,  did  alfo  perfwade  him  to  do  the  like 
to  thofe  of  Rachel.  The  King  conferred  that  the  Town  mould  be  delivered 
into  the  hands  of  the  Corporation,  on  condition  that  they  kept  no  Ships 
of  War  ;  that  they  obferved  thofe  Orders  for  traffique  which  were 
eftabliihed  in  the  reft  .of  the  Kingdom.  That  they  mould  reflore  to 
the  Ecclefiafticks  all  the  goods  which  had  been  taken  from  them.  That 
they  mould  fuffer  the  Catholicks  to  live  freely  and  quietly  in  the  exer* 
rife  ofthe&/04#  Catholick  Religion,  and  in  the  enjoyment  of  thofe 
goods  which  appertained  to  them.  That  his  Majefty  (hould  leave  what 
Garrifon  he  thought  fit  in  Fort  Lewes,  and  the  Iflands  of  Re  e  and  OUe- 
rort,  only  prominng,  that  he  would  fettle  fuch  a  courfe  in  it,  as  thofe 
of  Rocket  might  receive  no  trouble  by  it,  either  in  their  Commerce,  or 
in  the  enjoyment  of  their  goods,  Thefe  Articles  were  agreed  on  about 
the  beginning  of  February,  and  the  next  day  the  General  and  particular  M.  1626. 
Deputies  ratified  and  confirmed  them. 

King  Lervcs  made  a  fevere  Edid  againft  Duds,  and  took  a  folemn 
Oath  not  to  fliew  any  favour  to  thofe  who  mould  break  it. 

About  this  time  there  arofe  very  great  Difputes  in  the  Univerfity  of 
Paris,  efpecially  between  the  Dodors  of  Divinity,  about  a  certain  Book 
compofed  by  SanttareUut  a  Jefuite,  which  treated  of  the  power  Popes 
had  over  Kings  :  which  Book  had  been  approved  by  their  chief  Prefi- 
dent,  by  the  Pope's  Vicegerent,  and  by  the  Matter  of  the  holy 
Palace. 

His  Do&rine  was,  That  Popes  had  a  power  of  direftion,  or  rather 
correction  over  Princes,  that  they  might  not  only  Excommunicate 
them,  but  deprive  them  of  their  Kingdoms  too,  and  abfolve  their  Sub- 
jeds  from  their  Oaths  of  Allegiance,  whether  it  were  for  Herefie,  Apo- 
ftafie,  or  any  other  great  publick  crime  ;  whether  it  were  for  the  in- 
fufficiency  of  their  perfons,  or  for  their  not  defending  the  Church,  ami 
that  the  Pope  might  at  laft  give  their  States  to  fuch  as  he  mould 
think  fit. 

For  the  prefent  it  made  a  great  noife  among  the  Doctors,  and  was 
oppofed  by  fevcral  Books  which  then  were  publifhed.  The  whole 

R  r  r  Body 


dje  CccteGafticaliNfto??       cent,  *r- 

Body  of  Divines  did  condemn  it  :  forae  indeed  of  the  old  League  feemed 
to  favour  ir.  But  the  Parliament  called  the  chief  of  the  Jefuites  before 
them,  and  obliged  them  to  figna  Declaration,  by  which  they  ftould 
condemn  the  faid  Book  ^  and  to  caufe  another  of  the  Hke  to  be  fubfcri- 
bed  by  all  the  Provincials  and  Reftors,  and  by  Six  of  the  moft  ancient 
of  every  one  of  their  Colledges  in  France  ;  and  fo  ordered  the  Book  to 
be  burnt  by  the  common  Hangman,  with  prohibition  to  the  Stationers 
to  fell  any  of  them. 

At  this  time  there  were  Combinations  of  divers  Grandees  of  the 
Court  againft  the  King  and  State.  *JV*dxmdcCbevurufe  being  dif- 
contented  that  her  private  intelligences  wkh  \htEnglijh  Ambafladour 
were  fo  publickly  taken  notice  of,  did  not  a  little  promote  the  under- 
takings, by  her  animating  of  -Mwfw  the  Grand  Prfor,  andflabis, 
to  execute  it,  both  which  were  engaged  by  love  to  her .  as  alfo  that 
the  Colonel  d'  Ornano  abufing  Mmfour's  goodnefs,  and  the  credit 
which  his  place  gave  him,  did  abfolutely  divert  him  from  the  Mar- 
riage which  his  Majefty  had  fo  earneftly  defired  fhould  be  cele- 
brated. 

The  Cardinal  difcovercd,  that  CktUis  was  one  of  chief  Inftruments 
of  the  Emerpnze,  and  that  Colonel  Ornano  was  the  Ring-leader  of 
the  Plot.  That  their  chief  end  was  to  unite  all.  the  Provinces  fo  clofe 
together,  that  they  might  enforce  his  Majefty  not  to  remove  anything 
from  the  Court,  and  withal  to  permit  them  to  live  in  rhe  fame  licentiouf- 
nefs  that  they  had  a  long  while  formerly  enjoyed.  That  to  this  ef- 
fect, they  endeavoured  the  breaking  of  the  match  between  M>nfeur 
and  Madantoifellc  de  tJKontfenfar  ,  and  to  bring  on  that  of 
sJMadamotfelle  de  &wbo»,  which  would  more  nearly  engage  Ma- . 
fteur  to  their  Interefts  ;  or  elfe  to  perfuade  him  to  marry  fome  other 
ftranger  Princefs,  which  might  be  a  means  to  (belter  and  defend  their 
defigns,  by  the  forces  and .  affiftances,  which  they  might  reafonably 
expeftfrora  fuch  a  Family.  That  this  once  eroded,  they  intended  the 
Count  de  Sotffons  fliouJd  Marry  M*damoifell<  de  Montpe^er^  that 
rfie  Houfes  of  Gttife  and  Bourbon  might  be  united  together,  and  in  this 
manner  they  would  in  a  moment  huddle  up  together  all  the  leading  po« 
tent  perfons  of  the  Court. 

The   Marfhal  de  Ornano  is  arrcfted  at  Fwntainbtea^  and  carried,: 
Pnfoner  to  the  Caftle  s&BotsdtVincenncj^  where  he  died  a  few  months 
after  of  a  ftoppage  in  his  Bladder. 

The  Cardinal  befeechetkthe  King  to  permit  his  retirement  from  the 
Court.  And  the  King  caufeth  the  Duke  deVe«dofmy  and  the6r*/7^ 
Prior  of  France,  his^ Brother,  to  beimprifcned  at  Bloif. 

The  Marriage  of  Monpeur  w&  Madamoifette  de  Monttenftty 
was  celebrated  foon  after  ro  the  quiet  and  content  of  the  whole 
Kingdom. 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE.  ^ 

Chalait,  the  Matter  of  the  King's  Wardrobe,  is  arrefted  from  the 
Chamber  of  Juftices  at  Natites,  who  condemned  him  of  Treafon, 
and  fcmenced  him  to  be  beheaded  ;  which  was  done  accordingly.  Then 
was  the  Sieur  de  Bar  ados  removed  from  the  Court,  who  had  been  much 
in  favour  with  the  King. 

About  the  end  of  this  year  great  differences  arofe  between  the  Bifliop 
imdthe  Officers  of  Verdun.  This  being  a  Frontier  Town,  was  then 
lookt  upon  as  considerable,  in  regard  Monfieur  de  Lorrain  (eemed  to 
be  active,  and  able  to  attempt  fomcthing  upon  France,  which  obliged 
the  King  to  go  on  with  a  defign  which  he  had  long  before  refolved  of, 
the  building  a  Citadel  there. 

The  Abbey  otS.Vannes  was  ever  reputed  the  moft  fit  place  of  aU  the 
City  for  that  purpofe :  whence  it  happened,  that  in  the  Charter  of  the 
faid  Abbey  there  had  been  divers  Articles  concluded  between  the  Bi- 
(hop  of  Verdun  and  thofe  to  whom  that  place  hath  ever  belonged,  in 
which  they  bound  themfelves  to  build  their  Church  in  fome  other  place, 
if  it  (hould  be  found  neceflary  to  make  ufe  of  fome  part  of  it  for  the 
raifing  of  a  Citadel.  However  the  lines  were  fo  contrived,  that  the 
Church  was  faved  :  but  .that  of  the  Capuchins  was  forced  to  be  taken 
down,  which  was  afterwards  done,  and  rebuilt  in  another  place. 

Now  the  Bifliop  of  Verdun  being  Lorrains  kinfman,  was  wholly 
moved  by  him  •,  fo  that  not  confidering  what  dependence  he  had  upon 
the  King,  he  fuffcred  himfelf  to  be  engaged  by  the  Duke,  to  prevent 
the  building  of  the  Citadel.  On  December  30.  he  publi&ed  a  Mom- 
torinmy  fixed  upon  all  publick  places,  againft  all  fuch  as  (hould  Ubour 
about  it.  This  proceeding  was  lookt  on  as  a  ftrange  thing  by  the  King's 
Officers* 

TheSieur  CuiUet  presently  called  a  Council  of  his  Ma jefties  Officers 
of  the  Town,  to  confider  of  what  was  to  be  done,  where  it  was  conclu- 
ded to  tear  down  fuch  Papers  as  had  been  any  where  pofted  up,  and  to 
fet  otters  in  their  places  of  a  contrary  tenour  in  the  King's  behalf, 
which  was  prefemly  done.  The  Bifhop  offended  at  it,  thundered  out 
an  Excommunication  the  next  day  againjft  Guillct,  which  he  fattened  in 
divers  places  :  and  having  given  order  to  his  Vicars  not  to  ad  any 
thing  in  prejudice  to  bis  pretended  authority,  he  departed  from  Verdun^ 
and  rode  Poft  to  Cologne.  In  the  meanwhile  the  Sieur  Char  Rentier 
his  Majefties  Prefident  in  Mctz,,  Tkoid,  and  Verdiw,  being  acquainted 
with  the  whole  proceeding,  he  declared  the  faid  Monitorium  to  be 
ahifive  and  fcandalous,  and  commanded  it  to  be  torn  and  burnt  by  the 
Hangman.  That  the  faid  Bifhop  {hould  be  fent  Prifoner  to  Parus* 
That  his  Benefices  in  the  mean  timefhould  remain  in  his  Majefties  hands, 
and  that  he  fhould  pay  a  fine  of  ten  thoufand  livres  for  his  faid  fault. 
This  Judgement  was  put  in  execution  with  the  ufual  form,  excepting 
only  as  to  the  Bifhop's  being  fent  to  Ptris  ^  fo  that  he  revolving  not  to 
Rrrz  fuffer 


fqffer  hirafelf  to  be  thus  defpoiled  of  his  goods,  thought  it  his  beft  ccurfe 
to  fend  to  the  King  to  pacific  him,  for.his  raflinefs :  healfogave  order 
to  one  of  his  Vicars  to  abfolve  the  Situr  Cnillety  and  to  licence  the  go* 
ing  on  of  the  Fortifications. 

Intheytar  1627.  thofeof  Rtchcl,  could  not  endure  to  fee  the  Ar- 
ticles of  Peace  which  the  King  had  accorded  to  them,  put.  in  executi- 
on :  they  could  not  permit  that  the  Rules  of  Commerce  .obferved 
over  all  France ,  fhould  be  taken,  notice  of.  among  them..   The 
cutting  ofFof  that  abfolute  authority  which  they  had  made  life  of  in  the 
Ifles  of  Ree  and  Ollerony  and  other  places  bordering  upon  their  Ci- 
ty,  was  looked  on  as  an  outrage.    The  exercife  of  tire  Catholick  Re- 
ligion amongft  the/n,was  efteemed  as  a  great  flavery,and  a  rigorous  con- 
ftraint  impofed  upon  that  whereof  they  made  Profeffion.They  complain* 
ed'.of  thofe  Souldiersin  Fort  Lewes,  and  the  Ifles  of  £e£,and  0/kro»,left 
there  only  to  prevent  their  relapfinginto  thejr,  former  infolencies,  as  a 
moft  unfufferable  Tyranny.    They  refenied  his  Majeftie's  Coramiffaries 
A  As  in  order  to  the  execution  ,of  the  Treaty,  as  fo  many  unjuft  at- 
tempts up,on  their  Liberties.    Wi.ih.  thefe,  complaints  they  filled  their 
ManifefW 

They  made  ufe  of  thefe  .Motive  to  perfwade  the  reft,  of  the  Hugonot 
Tjpwns  to  revolt,  to  form  themfelves  into  a  Common-wealth,  and  to 
obtain  that  by  force  from  the  King,  which  with  juftice  they  could  not 
expeft. 

The  DukeofR&^»  difcontented  for  that  he  had  made  no,  advantage  by 
the  Peace,did  not  a  little  foment  thofeMutinies  of  the  &>chcllers-tto  which 
end  he  under-hand  fowed  divifions  among  theConfuIs  of  the  chief  Hn- 
gtnot  Towns  in  Langucdocy  and  fomc  he  made  for  his  own  Party,  but  his 
defign  took  little  effeft  in  thofc  parts* 

The  French  King  animated  by  the  fageCounfels  of  Cardinal  Richlittt, 
refolves  on  the  fiege ^of  Rechd,  and  from  that  time  forwards  preparati- 
ons were  made  in  all  the  adjacent. Provinces  of  Warlike  Ammunitions, 
great  ftore  of  Cannon  were  fent  before-hand  towards  the  place,  that 
ihey  might  he  inreadinefs  when  time  (hould  ferve.  Divers,  means  were 
thought  on,  to  block  .up  the  Channel,  and  to  begin  with  thofe  of  lefk 
charge  to  prevent  greater  expences,  in  cafe  they  might  do  the  work. 
Private  Computation  was  made  of  what  Horfe  and  Foot  would  be  requi- 
fite  to  inveft  the  place,  and  fecure  the  neighbouring  Ifles.  And  eve-* 
ry  thing  was  difpofed  to  ihe  beft  advantage  for  the  carrying  on  of  the 
fiege. 

The  Duke  of  terrain  comes  to  the,  King  at  Paw,  tocomplain  of  his 
Majefties  adions  towards  the  Bifhop  of  ^r^/««  his  Kinfman.  He  was 
anfwered,,  that  Bifhops  being  his  Majeftie's  Subjeds  owerefped  and 
dbedience  to  him.  That  when  they  fall  off  from  their  dutiet,  it  is  the  more 
)uftto  puniflji  their  faults.  That  enjoy  fog  their  Tempos!  Siaxes;  only 

^ 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE 


in  order  to  the  Oath  of  AlJegiance,  which  they  all  fwear  tohisMajefty, 
they  do  moft  efpecially  deferve  to  be  deprived  of  them  when  they  break 
their  faid  Oath.  That  his  Majefty  was  more  efpecially  concern 'd  to 
maintain  his  right  it\yerdnny  which  was  a  Frontier  Town,  andlike- 
wife  becaufe  the  Bifhop  had  attempted  againft  his  Royal  Authority  in 
hindering  the  building  of  the  Citadel,  though  it  were  a  thing  only  re- 
lating to  the  Soveraignty,  and  in  which  he  was  not  at  all  concerned. 

But  this  was  not  .the  chief  end  of  his  journey.  He  pretended  to  do 
homage  in  his  own  name  to  the  King  for  theDutchy  of  Bar,  as  apper- 
taining to  him  in  Fee,  and  not  in  right  of  his  Wife.  But  he  therein  met 
with  greater  obftacies,  than  in  that  of  the  Bifhop  of  Verdun.  The 
Duke  obtained  his-requeft  for  the  Bifhop,  upon  condition  he  fhould  re- 
voke the  Cenfures  againft  the  King's  Officers,  and  for  the  future 
fhould  comport  himfelf  with  more  moderation.  The  Duke  willingly 
became  bound  for  his  performance,  and  the  King  difcharged  the  feizuresj 
and  fetled  all  things  in  their  former  ftate , 

The  Ertgtijb  and  others  endeavour  now  to  divert  the  French  King 
from  his  refolution  againft  Rachel.-  Qnjuly  28.  1627.  the  £«£/*/& 
Fleet  arriveth  before  Ree.  They  Landed  ten  thoufand  men.  The 
Sieur  de  Thoyrts  was  then  Governour  of  the  Citadel  St.  Martin  in  the 
Ifle  of  Ree'  j  Roflaincler  v  the  Baron  of  Chatttail,  Navdillet,  and  divers 
other  Gentlemen  and  light  Horfe,  and  about  one  hundred  and  fifty 
French  Souldiers  refitting  the  Engliff/j^ were  (lain  in  the  encounter,  moft 
part  of  the  Officers  being  wounded.  Fifteen  Officers  of  the  Englifo 
Army  were,  faidalfo  to  be  killed,  befides  divers  Lieutenants  and  En- 
figns.  They  likewife  loft  one  of  their  Colours,  and  had  five  or  fix  hur> 
dred  killed  and  wounded.  . 

The  Duke  of 'Buckingham  ftormeth  the  Citadel  of  Sr.  Martin,  but 
could  not  take  it.TheCardinal  (ent  toBayonne  for  fifteen  flat  Veflcls  called 
Primaces,  built  both  to  (ail  and  row  withal,  and  very  fleet  and  able  to  en* 
dure  a  ftorm.In  the  end  tfAuguft  Captain  BAflin  who  Cbmmanded  thefe 
Primaces,  came  with  them  to  the  Sands  of  Olonne,  where  the  Abbot 
of  MAffillac  received  .him  joyfully:  and  his  Veflcls  being  well  ftored 
with  Victuals  and  Ammunition,  he  lent  him  Sixfcore  men  of  the  Regi- 
ment de  Champany,  with  fome,  Voluntiers.  On  September  $•  he  fet 
fail  in  the  head  of  his  little  Fleet  about  fix  n  clock  at  nighr.  Soon  after 
he  knew  that  he  was  near  the  Englift  Fleet,  he  fpread  abroad  his 
great  Sails,  and  was  eafily  difcovercd.  But  the  Primaces  going  very 
fwift  could  not  be  flopped  by  the  Englifl}  VefTels.  They  went  with- 
out lofs"-,  only  fome  Sails  and  one  or  two  Mafts  were  fliattered,  and 
one  (hot  through  with  a  Bullet.  Baflirt  having  thus  pafled  the  Englif>-> 
fell  upon  the  Barricado  which  they  had  made  to  hinder  Relief  •.  which 
confided  of  .great  malts  linked  together  with  Iron  Chains,  and  tied  with 
Gables  faftned  to  great  Anchors,  But  many  of  the  Primaces  byreafon 


Cent. 


of  their  lightnefs  and  fwifaefs  pafled  over  :  the  reft  lighted  on  a  cer- 
tain place,  where  the  foregoing  night  a  Tempeft'had  broken  part  of 
their  Warri&mloj  through  which  they  pafod  without  difficulty,  fo  that 
about  two  in  the  night  they  ran  a  fhorenear  one  of  the  JBaftilions  of  the 
Citadel,  a  place  where  the  Engliflj  could  not  hurt  them.    The  Relief 
was  great  both  for  their  reputation  and  affiftance.    Ten  other  Pinna- 
ces  were  got  from   Bayonne^  which  the  Count  de  Grant-mont  rigged 
out,  and  fent  under  the  Command  of  Captain  Audnm,     Ottober  4.. 
they  came  on  the  Sands  of  Olonne,    They  werefoon  laden,  and  accom- 
panied with  twenty  five  other  little  Veflels.    Three  hundred  Souldiers 
went  aboard  them,   and   fixty  choice  Gentlemen.    'Upon  Ottobcr-$, 
they  put  off.     Two  daies  p»ft  (  the  wind  changing  )  before  they  came 
to  Rec9  and  that  by  day  too.    The  Englift  Fleet  engaged  them  in  a 
rough  Tight.     But  their  courage  furmouming  their  danger,  twenty 
nine  of  the  Veflcls  got  clear  to  the  Citadel,  where  they  ran  afliorc  : 
on  Friday  morning  Ottober1$.  five  of  their  Veflels  were  forced  to  give 
back.    One  only,  in  which  were  thcSieursdc  Beanlieu  and'&KJfy, 
was  taken  by  the  Englifi.    Who  were  fo  incenfed  at  it,  that  they  made 
in  twenty  four  hours  above  twothoufand  great  (hot  upon  the  Port  Saint 
JMartin^  fo  that  there  were  only  five  Pinnaces  and  one  Traverfinin  con- 
dition to  fail.    But  the  Veflcls  were  unladed,  *nd  the  -Gentlemen  and 
Souldiers  fafeiy  landed  in  the  Citadel. 

Jhtfrtnch  King  having  been  fkk,  after  his  rec6very  comes  to  Ro- 
chel  to  drive  the  %agKjk  out  of  Ree.  The  Duke  of  Buckingham  re- 
folves  to  make  his  laft  attempt  upon  the  Citadel  of  St.  Martin.  The 
'Engltfh  began  an  aflault,  but  were  repulfed.  It  is  faid,  that  the  befieged 
took  all  the  Xadders  of  the  -Englift^  fifty  Prifohers,  of  which  were  di- 
vers Captains  and  Officers,  that  they  had  killed  four  or  five  hundred, 
without  lofing  above  eighteen  or  twenty  men,  andfomefew  wounded, 
among  which  were  the  Siettrs  de  Sfirdaigmes,  and  Gran  foi,  who  being 
(hot  through  the  bodies  died  within  a  few  daies  after.  Tht-IDtf/^v 
doubting  their  Trenches  would  not  fecure  them,  forfook  the  one  naif 
of  them,  and  fhordy  after  refolved  to  go  back  for  England. 

The  Marfhal  de  Schowhfrg  fhortly  after  landeth  there  with  fifty 
Barques  about  three  in  the  morning,  without  beingdifcovered  by  the 
Enemy.  Thefe  being  conjoyned  with  other  Souldiers  fell  upon  the 
'EngUjfij  and  routed  them.  Their  Horfe  were  loft  in  the  Marifli* 
Their  Cornet  and  twenty  four  Colours,  and  four  Cannon  were  taken. 
About  five  hundred  were  killed  on  the  place,  befides  thofe  that  were 
drowned  in  the  Sea.  Many  Gentlemen  of  quality  and  Officers  ^wcre 
killed.  And  r  as  the  French  Hiftory  faith  )  three  thoufand  Arms  were 
taken  in  the  Field,  and  above  one  thoufand  five  hundred  Souldiers  laden 
with  the  fpoils. 


Cent.    17.  Of  FRANCE. 


It  is  reported- that  the  £;/£/*  (J>  fcarce  carried  off  onethoufend  men 
the  reft  being .  either  dead  with  ficknefs,  or  killed:  and  moftof  them 
alfo  diedfoon  after  their  return  into  England,  by  reafon  of  the  difcom- 
modities  they  there  endured. 

After  the  King,  had  obtained  this  fignal  Vi&ory  againft  the  Englijh, 
he  bent  all  his  thoughts  toward  the  befieging  of  Rachel.  The  order  of 
the  whole  Grcumvallation  was  prefcribed  by  his  Majefty.  He  raifed 
thirteen  Forts,  and  feveral  Redoubts  upon  the  Trenches,  the  Circuit  of 
which  were  three  Leagues  or  thereabout,  all  out  of  Musket  or  Falcon 
(hot,  but  not  of  Cannon.  This  Circumvallation  being  finUhed  cut  off 
all  relief  by  Land,  and  fhortly  after  they,  were  blocked  up  by 
Sea  too. . 

At  this  time  the  Duke  of  Rohan  finds  means  to  make  an  Afferably  in 
tbeftlk  d'Vfez^  where  divers  of  their  Deputies  met  together  :  and  as 
he  had  no  lefs  Eloquence  than  Courage,  he  perfwaded  them  to  what- 
ever he  had  a  mind  to. ,  They  approved  of  thofe  fuccours  which  he  had 
negotiated  in  England  as  Juft  and  neceflary  -,  and  they  aflured  him  not 
to  enter  into  any  Treaty  of  Peace  with  bis  Majefty,  without  the  Con- 
fent  of  the  £#£/i]k,  and  his  own  in  particular.  Whereupon  they  de- 
puted fome  of  the  chief  of  their  Party  to  go  to  the  Towns  of  Langucdoc- 
and  Gitiennc:  they  alfo  wrote  to  thofe  of  Dauphin  e  and  Vw&fe?^  to 
encourage  theauo  unite  with  them  for  the  good  of  the  Caufe.  -  Thty 
drew  up  the  form  of  an  Oath  to  be  (worn  by  the  Confuls,  the  Gover.- 
nours ofTowns,  Lords,  and  Gentlemen,  who  would  engage  with  them, 
An  union  very  ftrange,  which  divided  Members  from  the  Headend  lo 
feparated  Subjeds  from  their  Prince* 

After  the  Dukeof£^*«  had  ufed  all  his  devices,  and  ken  the  £»-  - 
gUffi  Land  at  £*/,  he  took  up  Arms  and  appeared  in  the  Field.     He-, 
furamoned  the  Duke  of  Savoy  to  (end  .thofe  Forces  which  he  hadpro- 
mifed  :  but  he  could  not   obtain   them.     All  that  he  could  draw  from 
him  was  a  promife  of  fifty  thoufand  crowns.     Thofe  Towns  which  were 
delivered  up  to  him,  were  Nifaes,  Vfes,  St.  Amkroft,  Men,  Andufr^  , 
IsVignany  $t.  Hippolfte,  Sr.  jcande  Gr<w4amcnque,S{tmens,  la  Salic, 
and  other  fmaller  places  :  and  with  thofe  Forces  drawn  together  be 
took  during  this  year  R(alrKont,Re>iel)Naves,JMaz.(ires,Pxmiers>CAftrfSj 
Soyon,  and  other  Towns  upon  the  Rhofere^  and  in  Vi-vwez.  •   and  more 
he  had  done  if  the  .Cardinal  under  -the  King's  Authority  had  not  pre- 
vented him.    It  cannot  be  imagined  with  how  much  care  and  trouble 
he  kept  thofe  together  who  were  engaged  in  his  Party  ;  how  low  he 
was^faintoftooptowork  upon*  the  meaner  fort  of  people  -,  how  many 
impertinencies  he  wasiorced  to  bear,  how  many  inconfiderate  difcour- 
fes  he  was  necefiitated  to  hear,  and  to  how  much  conftraint  he  was  com-  - 
pelled    to   fubjed  himfelf.     He  hath  fince  protefted  to  divers  of  his 
friends,  that  ,there  .is  no  care  like  that  ofretaiaing  a  rautinous. people 


In  that  order,  which  is  necefl^ry  for  him  to  make  them  follow,  Who 
would  raife  any  advantage  to  himfeli  by  their  revolt. 

Then  the  King  by  the  advice  of-  Cardinal  Richlien,  fent  the  Situr  Gal- 
land,  Privy  CounfeUour  to  his  Majefty,  toward  thofe  Hugomt  Towns 
which  the  Duke  of  Rohan  had  attempted  to  revolt,  that  he  might  confirm 
them  in  their  obedience.  This  man  was  one  of  their  own  Religion, 
which  gave  the  King  reafon  to  hope  they  would  be  directed  by  him. 
Having  received  his  Commifiion,  he  went  diredlyto  Montauban,  the 
chief  Town  of  their  Party  next  unto  Rochcl,  and  by  which  moft  of  the 
other  Towns  wouM  be  guided.  Upon  his  firft  arrival  he  called  the 
Inhabitants  together,  he  gave  them  his  Letter  of  Credence  writ  by  his 
Majefty  to  them,  and  began  to  confirm  them  in  their  obedience.  He 
laid  before  them  the  duty  of  Subjects  toward  their  Prince ;  the  mife- 
ries  and  calamities  which  they  'had  fuffered  whilft  they  feU  off  from 
their  obedience  :  he  represented  to  them  the  difaftcrs  which  would  in- 
evitably fall  upon  them  if  they  fhould  revolt  :  4ie  informed  them  of  the 
fm all  reafon  they  had  to  believe  the  Duke  of  Rohan's  promifes,  or  the 
aid  of  the  Englijk  Fleet,  which  (  he  faid  )  tould  not  hinder  the  relieving 
of  the  IJle  otRee'.  His  words  fo  wrought  on  them,  thatthey  fubfcri- 
bed  a  Declaration  which  they  delivered  to  him,  in  which  they  profeffed 
to  live  and  die  in  that  Loyalty  which  they  owed  unto  his  Majefty. 
And  all  the  other  Towns  unengaged  in  the  revolt  did  the  like.  And 
his  Prudence  was  fo  fuccefsful,  that  the  Towns  of  Briatefe,  Caftres, 
Pamicrsy  Puylaurens,  M*z*aresy  St.  Amand^  Cabarede,  ^faz.ares9 
M*fdaz.ilt  tsfrlat,  and  many  others,  made  the  like  declarations  under 
their  hands  and  Seals.  But  the  misfortune  was,  that  having  left  divers 
Factious  Spirits  of  *JMonpcttr  de  Rohan's  Party  in  faflre j,  Pawiers, 
and  fome  other  of  thofe  Towns  before  named,  they  remained  not  firm  to 
thofe  refolutions  he  hadinfinuated  to  them,  by  which  means  the  Duke 
of  Rohan  foon  after  became  Matter  of  them, 

£  The  King  unable  to  ftop  the  D.  of  Rohan's  proceedings  by  fair  means, 
makes  ufe  of  force.  He  commanded  an  Army  to  be  raifed,  and  commit- 
ted the  Conduct  of  it  to  the  Prince  of  Conde,  fending  him  a  Commiflioft 
of  Lieutenant  General  of  his  Forces  mLttngttttbcj  DanfhineyGuicnnc9 
and  Lyonnois.  He  divided  the  Army  into  two  parts,  the  Prince  of 
Conde  had  the  better  half,  the  other  being  committed  to  the  Duke  of 
Montmorencie's  care,  then  Governour  ofLanguedoc.  Svyon,  aftrong 
place  upon  the  Rhone,  was  aflaulted ,  and  in  two  daies  forced  to  fur- 
render.  The  Prince  alfo  ftormed  another  little  Town  near  to  Saint 
u4ubin^  and  put  all  the  Souldiers  in  it  to  the  (word.  Then  they  marched 
againft  certain  places  which  the  Duke  of 'Rohan  had  refolved  to  defend  , 
but  the  fear  which  the  Inhabitants  and  Souldiers  apprehended  on  fight 
of  the  Army,  made  them  open  their  Gates,  fo  they  entred  without  re- 
fiftance. 

The* 


cent.  17.  cf  'FRANC'S. 


Then  they  became  Matters  ^.Corconne  and  ^itbetta,  Afontmoren* 
•cy  purfued  the  Duke  of  Rokan^  and  conftrained  him  to  flight  :  he 
maintained  the  fight  about  two  hours,  and  faw  about  an  hundred  of  his 
Souldiers  killed,  fifteen  of  his  Guard,  feven  or  eight  Captains  (lain,  and 
divers  others  wounded.  In  fine  he  Taw  at  the  years  end,  that  he  had  ve- 
ry little  advanced  his  defign. 

The  Roehellers  now  fend  to  the  King  of  England  to  demand  fuccour. 
Order  was  given  for  the  Rigging  out  a  Fleet  in  behalf  of  the  Roehellers^ 
and  the  Command  to  be  given  to  the  Earl  of  Denbigh. 

The  King  goes  from  Rachel  to  Part*,  to  diflipate  thofe  Factions, 
which  began  to  rife  thereabouts,  by  the  Hugonots  in  Picardy,  Cham- 
pagnie,  and  Brie.  Richlieu  Commandeth  the  Army  in  his  Majeftie's  ab- 
fence.  The  English  Fleet  being  now  ready  to  hoife  fail  for  Rochet,  the 
King  refolveth  to  return  thither.  The  Roehellers  are  fummoned  by  an 
Herauld  to  furrender  to  the  King  :  but  their  minds  and  anfwers  were 
full  of  infolency,  fo  that  the  King  bent  all  his  thoughts  to  prepare  for 
the  fighting  with  the  Englifi  Fleet  at  their  firft  coming.  About  the 
eleventh  of  May  they  were  defcriedtwo  Leagues  off  the  point  of  CV- 
reille.  An  order  was  refolved  on  by  the  King,  aflifted  with  his  Gene* 
rals  and  Sea  Captains,  and  fo  delivered  to  the  Commander  of  ^alencay^ 
who  diftributed  it  among  the  Officers. 

The  Englifj  attempt  t0  relieve  Rochel,but  in  vain  ^  and  when  thefo* 
chettcrs  were  embarqutd,  after  the  exhortations  of  their  Minifters, 
and  their  Captains  had  folemnly  fworn  to  pafs  the  Bank  in  fpite  of  all 
oppofition,  or  die^in  the  attempt,  they  were  ftruck  with  fuch  faint-heart- 
cdnefs,  thatjiot  a  man  durft  ftir  his  hand  :  and  Vincent  their  Mini- 
fter  could^no  longer  fpeak  unto  them,  as  himfelf  confeflfed  in  a  Letter  to 
a  friend  of  His. 

The  Englifj  Fleet  now  departeth,  whereupon  greatdifTentionsarifc 
among  the  Rechellert.  Then  the  King  fent  another  fummons  to  them 
to  yield.  Breton,  Herauld  at  Arms,  was  commanded  to  do  it  in  form, 
with  his  Coat  of  Arms,  who  went  into  the  City,  required  them  to  lay 
down  their  Arms,  afTured  them  of  Pardon  for  their  part  Crime,  rand 
rhreatning  them  with  the  contrary  in  cafe  they  fhould  now  refufe  it. 
But  they  being  animated  by  their  Preachers,  the  Town  continued  obfti- 
uate  in  their  in(olencies. 

After  a  feigned  Treaty  between  the  King  and  the  Rocheilers,  the 
Town  was  reduced  by  Famine  to  extream  miferies. 

The  Cardinal  perfwaded  his  Majcfty  to  fettle.divcrs  Catholick  Prea- 
chers in  the  Hugonot  Provinces,  and  wrought  upon  the  Duke  of  Treme* 
vlllc  to  for  fake  the  Proteftant  Religion. 

The  Roehellers  when  they  faw  there  was  no  hopes  of  fuccour  from  the 
at  they  died  by  thoufands  of  the  Famine  t^ade  divers  pro- 
S  f  f  .    pofais 


5PfcCccU6aflftai3Utofl>       cent  .  »T. 

of  accommodation.    Since  thelaft  fix  months  there  had  died  about 
ten  thoufand  of  the  Famine. 

The  Cardinal  declared  to  them,  they  muft  not  think  of  any  other 
condition,  than  abfolutely  to  fubmit  to  his  Matter's  will..   At  laft  they 
chofe  twelve  of  the  principal  among  them,  moft  of  which  could  hardly 
creep,  to  beg  hisMajeftie's  pardon,  toaflure  him  that,  they  would  live 
and  die  in  the  obedience  which  they  owed  to  him,,  without  demanding 
any  oihtr  conditions,  than  what  his  Majefty   (hould   pleafe  to  give 
th.ra.     The  King  granted  them  the  pardon  which  they   deiired,  and 
theS/Vwr  of  Herbaut   Secretary   of  State,  read  the  Patent  to  them,  by 
wrr.ch  his  Majdly  pardoned  their  Rebellion,  difchargcd  them  of  all 
AdsofHoftility,  ordained  ihat  they  (hould  be  reftored  to  their  goods, 
granted  them  the  Exercife  of  their  Religion  in  the  City,  and  command- 
ed  har.  alhhe  Souldiers  in  theCicy  fl-.ould  enjoy  the  fame  Grace  ;  and 
tha.  .he  ehaf  Captains  and  Gentlemen  (hould  go  out  with  their  fwords 
by  their  fides,  and   the  Sotldiers  with  Cudgels   in  their  hands  ;  but 
firft  they  were  to  fwear  never  to    bear  Arms  againft  his  Majeftie's 
fervice. 

.  Upon  October  30.  the  Duke  oi  tsfngolefa,  the  Mar  foal  de  Scom~ 

iog.  berg,  the  S/V#rj  de  U  Curte^  Vtgnolle^  H$llier^  St.Chaumont,  and  di- 
vers other  Lords,  fourteen  Companies  of  the  Regiments  des  Cjuardcf), 
and  fix  of  Swiflrs^  began  about  fix  in  the  morning  to  enter  into  Rochel. . 
The  King  placed  himfelf  upon  the  Fort  de  Beaulieit  to  fee  the  Forces 
march  into  the  Town..  They  who  Commanded  thefe  Forces,  feized 
on  all  the  Gates  of  the  Town,  the  Ramparts,  Cannon,, and  Munition, 
and  fent  away  the  Souldiers,.  the  Englifo  by  Sea,  and  the  French  by 
Land,  who  looked  more  1  ike  ghofts  than  men.  There  were  as  many  Cita- 
dels as  Gates,  and  as  many  Caftles  as  Towers,  and  this  was  it  that  made 
the  City  be  efteemcd  impregnable,  efpecially  feeing  it  had  an  outlet 
by  Sea,  which  could  never  have  been  broken  up,  but  by  his  Majeftie's 
extraordinary  power  and  prudence  j  yet  all  ferved  but  as  Trophies  raif- 
ed  to  his  Majeftie's  glory. 

On  November  i.  the  King  mside  his  entrance  into  the  City.  Thofe 
poor  Creatures  of  the  City  proftrated  themfelves  as  he  rode  by  them, 
that  they  might  the  more  acknowledge  the  mercy  he  had  (hewed  thera«. 
He  had  his  Arms  on,  and  rode  in  on  Horfe-back  without  any  Ceremo- 
ny •,  only  four  Companies  of  his  Guards,  two  of  Swffes,  his  two  Troops 
or  Light  Horfe  Armed  Cap-a-pc  -9  his  Dragoons  and  the  Life-guard  mar- 
ched before  him,  all  the  Nobility  following  him,  without  any  order,  to 
avoid  the  difputes  of  Precedency. 

of     The  Inhabitants  caft  themfelves  on  their  knees,  as  his  Majefty  paiTed 
Card.Kif«r«.    a|ong  the  Streets,  crying,  Godfave  the  K'mg,  veho  hath  becnfograciotu, 
»nto  HS.     And  he  frequently  faluted  thofe  who  feemed  to  be  of  the  bet-- 
ter  fo$t  among  them.    But  thofe  fubmiffions  and  acknowledgements- 
were 


Cenc.  IT.  Of  FRANCE.  ,J9 

were  much  more  increafed,  when  they  received  the  ten  thoufand  Loaves 
of  Bread,  which  the  King  diftributed  among  them  the  fame  day,  toge- 
ther with  divers  other  Alms.  But  when  they  faw,  that  there  came  three 
thoufand  Carts  laden  with  Wheat  and  other  Provifions  into  the  Town, 
with  a  proportionate  number  of  Beafts  and  Cattle,  which  his  Majefty 
commanded  to  be  brought  and  fold  at  the  ufual  rates  of  the  Army, 
they  rhen  confefled,  that  he  knew  how  to  pardon  as  well  as  to  vanquifli. 
The  King  alighted  at  S.^rg*r*VsChurch,which  had  been  Confecra- 
ted  by  theBifliop  of  Bordeaux,  and  where  the  Cardinal  had  with  divers 
Ecclefiafticks  that  morning  celebrated  Ma/s  by  way  of  doxology  for 
that  happy  Victory.  He  was  received  by  the  Archbifhop,  affiftedby 
the  Clergy  and  divers  other  Religious,  who  fung  the  Tt  'Deum  •,  and 
the  King  himfelf  alfo  fang  it  with  great  devotion.  About  two  daies  after 
the  King  cauf.d  theHoaftto  be  carried  in  Proceffion,  which  was  per- 
formed with  a  pompous  Devotion.  He  alfo  wrote  to  the  Archbifhop  of 
Paris,  that  a  publick  than\fgiving  m  ght  be  made  :  and  himfelf  return- 
ing to  Parts  paflld  by  Nuftrc  Dam  des  Ardilliers,  that  there  he  might 
pay  his  Vows :  for  to  his  Devotions  there  he  alcribed  his  firft  Victories, 
as  that  of  the  relieving  &  /,  upon  which  the  whole  fuccefc  depended. 

The  King  before  he  left  Rachel,  publifhed  a  Declaration,  wherein 
was  contained,  that  the  Roman  Catholick  Religion  fliould  be  freely 
Exercifed  there,  both  in  the  City  and  Government  of  Aitlnu.  That 
the  Churches  which  had  been  lately  deftroyed  thereaboutSj  fhould  be 
re-edified,  and  reftored  to  them  in  whofe  Pofleflion  they  formerly 
were,  together  with  all  their  appurtenances.  That  afuffic  ent  main:e- 
nancc  fhould  be  given  tofuch  Curates  as  had  noc  means  LO  live  on,  out 
of  thofe  lands  which  belonged  to  the  Town-houfe.  That  the  Reli£  ICHX 
delacharite  &  les  Religicufcs  fJojpitaliers,  fliould  be  re-eftabl  fhed 
in  the  Hofpitals  of  the  Town,  to  attend  upon  all  fic.<\  perfons.  Tha^a 
Crofs  fhould  be  raifed  in  the  Caftle-yard,  at  the  Foot  of  which  an  In* 
fcription  of  the  taking  the  City  fhould  be  inscribed  ;  and  ^hat  every 
firft  of  November  a  Proceflion  general  fhould  be  made,  to  give  God 
thanks  for  his  mercies.  That  the  Church-yard  Confecrated  in  the 
Lands  of  Coreille,  where  thofe  of  the  Camp,  who  died  dur ing  th t  fiwge, 
had  been  buried,  fliould  Mill  beconfervedtothat  ufe.  That  a  Govern: 
of  Religieux  tJMinimes  fhould  be  built  there,  who  might  pray  unto 
God  for  them,  and  perpetuate  the  memory  of  the  thing. 

The  King  took  this  courfe  to  keep  Rochet  in  obedience.  He  depofed 
the  Mayor,  and  difcharged  the  Shrievalty  and  Commonalty  of  the 
Town  without  hopes  of  refhuration.  He  ordained  that  the  moft  Se- 
ditious perfons  of  the  City  fhould  forfake  ir,  and  among  o:hersG'x//0» 
JMayre,  godefray,  Salehret,  and  Deferbrieres,  not  fo  much  as  except- 
ing the  Dame  de  Rohan,  who  was  carried  to  Niert,  by  the  Sieur  de 
Lannay  Lieutenant  dts  Gardes  des  Corps.  Next,  he  revoked  all  the 

S  f  f  z  Privi- 


5LljeCcclefiafticaU^ifto?p     Cent.  -1.7". 

Priviledges  and  Charters  heretofore  granted  to  the.City.     He  com- 
manded the  Walls,  the  Ramparts,  and  the  reft  of  the  Fortifications  to. 
be  razed,  and  the  Ditches  to  be  filled  up,  leavingonly  the  Towers^?. 
S.  Nicholas )  dc  la  Chains,  &  de  la,  lantern  (landing,  with  that  part  of , 
the   Wall  toward  ihe  Sea,   to  preferve  the  Town  from  Pirates.     He. 
appointed  alfo,  thaj:   no   flranger  (hould  have  an  Houfe. or  Family  in. 
the  Town,  without  his  Maje^lie's  permiffion  had  and,  obtained  :  or. 
that  any  Hereticks  (as  the  Proteftants,were  called  )  (hould  return  to 
their  former  dwellings.     And  for  the  better  keeping  them  in  their  obe- 
dience, he  ordained,  that  there   (hould  be  anlntendenc  of  juftice  in  the 
City,Country,  and  Government;  of  Anting  who  fhould  fee  the  Execu- 
tion of  his  Ordinances,  and  have  an,  eye  to  that,  which  concern 'd  his 
fcrvice,  ajl  which  wasinferted  in  thefaid  Declaration; 

He  then  commanded  the  Inhabitants  to  be  difarmed,  and  that  certain 
Regiments  fhould  remain  .in  the  Town  until  it  were  quite  demolifhcd.  Af- 
ter aU  thefe  things  he  returned  to  Pstiris,  where  he  was  magnificently  re- 
ceived, the  Companies  of  the  City  making  Orations  unto  him.  The 
expences  of  the  Siege  of  Rochel,  are  faid  to  have  amounted  unto  forty, 
millions  of  Livref, 

Then  Monpeur  the  Prince,  the  Dukes  of  Montmorency  and  V^inta- 
dour,  who  Commanded  his  Majeftie's  Forces  \nLanguetloci  became 
Mafters  6f  the  Field,  and  before  the  end,  of  the  year  repoflefTed  them- 
felves  of  all  thofe  places  in.a  few.daies,  which  were  capable  of  being, 
forced. 

9.  The  King  in  the  year  following  having  rcfolved  upon  going  into 
Italy,  commits  the  Government  of  the  State  to  the  Queen  his  Mother. 
And  before  he  goethjnto  Piedmont,  he  compelleth  the  Hugonots  ia 
Languedcc,  to  lay  down  their  Arms,,  and  to  declare  in  form  before  his 
Parliaments  and.  Judges,  that  they  wiUlivein  all  duties  and:obedience 
hereafter.  His  Majcfty  caufed .  his  Declaration  to  this  purpofe  to 
be  read  in  Parliament  ,  himfelf  being  prefent,  which  put  a  (lop  to 
all  the  Hufonots  affairs,  until  after  the  taking  of  Suz^t. 

Whilft  the  King  is  in  Italy.,,  the  Duke  of  Rohan  takes. Ar,m$  in  .the 
Seventies.  And  with  the  affiftance  of  the  Cities  of  Montnuban,  Ntfmes^ 
Millajit,  Caftrcs,  VY'VUM^  Vfetz.,  and  fome  others,  had  got  fuch  a 
body  of  an  Army  together,  as  therewith  .he  hoped. to  maintain  himfelf 
in  that  little  angle  of  the.  Kingdom  ;  and  either  prefently  jo  obtain 
Come  advaotagious  Conditions,  or  to  exped  a  more  favourable  time  for 
the  re-eftabli(nment  of  his  deprefled  Party, 

In  the  mean  time  he  treated  fecretly  with  theKing  of  Sju/»,from  whom 
he  had  alfoobtain'd  apromife  of  fome  fupply  of  money.  But  the  King 
who  had  intelligence  of  his  praftice,  returning  wich  the  fame  celerity 
QUC  of  Italy  into  France  in  the  mod  violent  neats,  of  Summer,  with 
which  he  had  paired  out  QfEranct  mo.Italy  in  the  greateft  extrem,ity 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 


•£  Winter,  ,pr«fented   himfelf  before   Privat  (one  of  the 
Cities  )  in  June,  which  at  his  firft  coming  he  cjrried  by 
after  which  Alet^  another  of  the  fame  Principles,  furrendered  with- 
out refiftance. 

The  Duke  of  Rohan  obferving  what  a  terrour  the  taking  of  thefe 
two  places  had  infufed  into  his  whole  Faction,  and  knowing  on  the 
other  fide  that  a  Peace  with  Italy  and  England  was  already  conclu- 
ed,  began  to  apprehend  atlaft  hefhould  be  totally  defertcd  by  all  his 
Confederates  and  Friends,  and  lefc  alone  to  bear  the  (hock  of  all  his 
Majefties  Victorious  Arms  ;  which  made  him  in  time  ferioufly  apply 
himfelf  to  his  mercy,  to  avoid  the  fevere  effects  of  his  juftice. 

A  Peace  was  concluded  in  July  1629.  with  the  Duke  of  Rohan,  whicir 
all  the  other  Cities  of  his  Party  likewife  accepted  ,  except  Momauban, 
which  for  fome  daies  flood  out,  but  afterwards,  was  furrendered  to- 
Cardinal  Richlieu,  who  fettled  alhhings  in  peace,  to  the  great  happi- 
nefs  of  the  King  and  the  whole  Kingdom. 

The  next  year  the  French  King  procured  from  the  Pope  the 
nals.Hat-s  to  be.  beftowed,  on  the  Archbi(hopofl/w»j,  and 
Bagni  the  Pope's  Nuntio.  , 

Now  new  ftirs  are  at  Court  qccafioned  by  ths  difeontentsof  the 
Queen'Mother  and  the  cJMonfaur.  The  Queen-  Mother  profcflcth 
open  hatred  to  the  Cardinal  :  £he  directly  oppofeth  all  his  Counftls, 
which  how  well  foever  they  fucceeded,  fhe  ftill  found  matter  enough  to 
render  them  fufpeded  to  the  King,  and  to  difcredit  them  by  finifter  in-- 
terpretations. 

The  Duke  of  Savoy  was  grown  by  this  time  fenfible  of  the  difho- 
nourable  Peace  he  had  concluded  at  Sttz.e  ;  to  which  the  lofs  of  Mont~ 
ferrat  ftuck  mainly  in  his  ftomach.  The  Duke  therefore  feizeth  up- 
on all.  the  French  in  his  Territories,  not  fo  much  as  excepting  the  Mer- 
chants and  Religious  Orders.  The  Marfhal  of  C^qau  hereupon  ad- 
vanceth  to  ?igmrol  with  one  thoufand  Horfe,  fix-  thoufand  Foot  and 
fome  Cannon,  and  reduced  the  Town  and  Citadel  to  the  obedience 
of  the  French  King.  And  the  paflages  from  France  to  Piedmont  were 
open  after  the,  reducing  of  certain  Towns  of  the  Duke  of  Savoy*  In 
Inort  time  the  King  makes  hiojfelf  Mafter  of  all  Savoy. 

The  Cardinal  offered  allfort&of  fubmifiion  to  the  Queen-M-other  to 
reconcile  himfelf  to  her  favour,  but  all  in  vain,(he  was  ftill  fo  implacably^ 
bent  againft  him,  that  the  Peace  of  Italy  being  now  concluded,  and  the 
time  come,  wherein  the  King  had  promifed  her  to  remove  the  Cardinal, 
(he  was  importunately  inftant  with-  the  King  for  the  accomplishment 
of  his  Royal  word.  At  laft  the  order,  was  iigned  for  the  Cardinal's 
removal. 

The  Cardinal  withdrawes  himfelf  a  little  time  from  the  Court,but'  by 
tbe  advke  of  the  Cardinal  dt  la  palette  reSores  himfelf  again  with  ii 


the  King  i  and  fo  the  Queen-Mother  no.  only  fell  from  her  hopes,  bur 
alfo  from  her  credit  with  the  King,  whereupon  (he  departeth  out  of 
France ,  and  goeth  to  'Snivels, 

Monfaur  the  King's  Brother  requefteth  the  Parliament  to  indi&  the 
Cardinal,  fo  doth  the  Queen-Mother.  But  the  King  juftifies&Vfc/>>« 
by  his  Letters  and  Declarations. 

The  Duke  of  Efternon  ftops  the  progrefs  of  a  new  Infurre&ion  by 
difmamling  feveral  ftroRg  Cities  of  the  Hugonot  Party  ,  as  M&ant, 
St.  Jlfrique,  Pont  de  (awares,  Saint -Rome,  Tarn,  and  feveral  other 
places. 

The  King  of  Sweden  having  invaded  Germany,  the  french  King 
makes  an  Alliance  with  him-  he  eftai  lifheth  a  Chamber  of  juftice  in 
Paris ,  who  give  judgement  againft  feveral  perfons.  Then  is  the  Cardi- 
nal Richtitxixtvxi  Duke  and  Peer  of  France. 

The  French  Protefhnts  had  obtained  permillion  by  the  King's  Bre- 
viate  about  the  beginning  of   this  year  to  make  a  National  AlTembiy 
of  their  Minifters  of  France  for  the  maintaining  of  their  Order  and 
*  worfhip.    The  Cardinal  was  of  opinion  that  his  Majefty  fhould  require 
them  to  meet  at  Charfnton,  becaufe  being  within  his  view,  they  would 
have  the  lefs  freedom  to  renew  fuch  Cabals  as  they  had  formerly  made 
imheir  Afiemblies  of  Guienne  and   Langnedoc.     This  Order  was  fol- 
lowed, and  the  Sieur  de  Galland,  CounfelJour  to  his  Majefty,  wasfent 
to  be  Prefident  in  the  King's  behalf  •  his  Loyalty  was  not  to  be  fufpe- 
ded-,  and  they  were  obliged  to  accept  of  him  in  regard  of  divers  au- 
thentiqirc  teftimonies  which  made  appear,  that  this  Order  was  confor- 
mable to  that  cf  Councils  aflembled  in  the  Primitive  times,  which  they 
profefled  to  honour.    The  King  efpecially  commanded  him  to  be  care- 
ful, that  no  Proportion  were  made  which  did  not  concern  their  Faith 
or  Difcipline  :  to  filence  them  in  his  Majeftie's  name,  in  cafe  they 
fliould  difcourfe  of  any  other  affairs,  and  to  eftablifh  fuch  Rules  as 
the  Cardinal  had  propofed  to  keep  that  Party  in  fubmiflion.     To  this 
end  he  ufed  his  utmoft  Prudence  and  Loyalty,  he  perfwaded  them  to 
enaft,  that  there  fhould  not  any  more  National  Aflemblies  be  made,but  in 
the  preknce  of  a  Commiffary  from  the  King,  who  might  (  by  teftifykg 
their  obedience  jbe  a  means  of  continuing  them  in  quiet.  Befides,  he  in cn> 
ced  them  to  refolve  upon  the  abfolute  excluding  of  all  StrangerMinifters, 
this  being  intended  ot  all  that  were  not  naturalfm^and  to  inhibite  their 
Miniilers  from  leaving  the  Kingdom  without  his  Majeftie's  Licence,  by 
this  means  to  prevent  all  intelligences,  aflociations,  and  correfpondcn- 
eies  with  the  enemies  of  the  State,  according  to  the  Laws  of  the  King- 
dom, and  his  Majeftie's  particular  prohibitions.     In  fine  he  ufed  fo 
much  prudence,  that  they  required  their  Minifters  not  to  intermeddle 
in  any  affairs  Politick  or  Military,  and  condemned  a  Book  of  Bcrrart 
Mmifter  of  }Aft8M*foi  as  erroneous,  becaufe  he  maintained  that  Mi- 
nifters 


Cenc.    17.  Of  FRANCE. 


nifters  bad  a  particular  call  from  God  to  bear  Arms.    Divers  Or- 
dioances  were  made  there  for  the  fubfiftence  of  their  Party. 

The  Emperour  of  Germany  fendeth  Cardinal  Ptfma'n  to  Rorr.e ,  to  1652. 
endeavour  to    break  the  French  King's   Alliance  with  the  King  of 
Sweden. 

TheErench  King  having  lately  been  in  Lorrain,  after  his  return  the  T!:C  Adminit 
Cardinal  undertook  to  compofe  a  difference  between  the  Bifhops  and  °: "carA*Llt'/'fcV' 
Fjiers,  which  had  made  a  great  noifefor  fundryages  together.     The 
Friers  relying  upon  their  priviiedges  obtained  from  Rome,  pretended 
to  have  power  both  to  Preach   and  confefs ,  without  permiliion  from 
the   Bimops.    And  the  Bifhops  unto  whom  all  people  within  their 
Diocefs  are  fubjed  by  common  right7  did  perpetually  thwart  that  pre- 
tenfion.    They  could  not  down  with  the  Friers  Priviiedges,  alledging; 
they  ought  to  be  declared  void,  as  being  repugnant  to  the  Primitive 
Conftitutions  of  the  Church.     This  quarrel  had  beenefpecially  fomen- 
ted during  the  laft  year,  by  reafon  feme  Books  had  been  published  in 
the  name  of  the  Ertgltjh  Catholicks,  which  preferred  the   Monaflical 
life  before  thai  of  the  Prelates,  andfeernedto  imply  that  Friers  were 
more  necefTasy,  at  leaft  more  ufeful,  to  the  Church  than  the  ordinary 
Eaftors,     Was  it  probable  that  the  whole  Society  of  Friers  would  re- 
linquifh   the  Priviiedges  they  had  obtained  from  the  See  of  &me  ?  On 
the  other  fide,  what  reafon  was  there,  that  the  Prelates  fhould  have  fo 
little  Authority  over  them  in  Admirtiftration  of  Sacraments,  and  the 
Word  of  God  ;  feeing  of  old  Friers  were  only  mixed  among  the  Laity, 
and  addrefled  themfelves  unto  the  Bifhops  Congregations,  to  receive 
the  Sacraments  from  their  hands,  or  thole  who  executed  their  charge  r- 
The  Cardinal  took  upon  himfelf  to  end  this  difference,  though  he  was  at 
that  time  employ'd  in  the  moft  important  affairs  of  Chriftendom. 

He  therefore  caufed  the  Superiours  of  the  Orders  to  come  before  him 
one  by  one,  .well  knowing,  that  to  negotiate  fuch  abufinefsin  a  publick 
Aflembly  would  be  a  labour  in  vain.  He  was  a  perfon  well  verfedin 
all  Antiquities,  and  accordingly  he  reprefented.  to  them,  how  that  in 
the  firft  inftimtion  of  Monks  they  were  Confecrated  unto  God  by  the 
mediation  of  Bifhops,  who  received  their  Vows,  intruded  them,  and 
directed  their  Confcienc.es.  He  laid  before  them  the  Original  of  the 
whole  affair,  and  (hewed  them,  how  that  the  Son  of  God  had  fubjeded •• 
all  thofe  who  fold  their  goods,  and  followed  him,  unto  the  Apoftles,- 
whofe  SuccefTours  the  Bifhops  are,  whereupon  they  making  a  drift  ' 
profeflion  of  leading  an  Evangelical  lifey  were  more  particularly  obli-  •- 
gedto  obferve  the  Order  eftablifhed  in  and  by  the  Gofpel  :  not  that 
lie  would  queftion  the  validity  of  thofe  exemptions  granted  from  the 
See  of  Rome,  unto  which  he  owed  much  more  refped  and  obedience, 
than  to  debate  the  Ordinances  thereof-  yet  that  he  muft  needs  inform 
,  that  they  could  not  be  diipenfed  with  frojn  following  the  Or- 


1  44 


der  eftablifhed  by  Jefus  Chrift,  or  his  Apoftles,  in  Adminiftringthe 
Sacraments  and  Word  of  God.  That  in  fine,  themfelves  could  not  de- 
ny, but  they  were  obliged  to  relinquifh  fume  part  of  their  pretenfions 
for  the  avoiding  of  trouble  to  the  Church,  which  was  likely  to  enfue 
upon  this  account,  and  whereof  the  Hagonots  difcourfed  with  much 
freedom.  That  this  peace  would  be  more  acceptable  to  God,  than  all 
the  advantages  it  could  otherwife  procure  unto  particular  perfons. 
That  k  would  tend  unto  their  honours,  by  teftifying  unto  the  world 
the  moderation  of  their  minds,  and  humility  of  their  fpirits,  and  that 
the  world  would  efteem  the  better  of  them.  That  he  fhould  not  wil- 
lingly propofe,  that  the  Bifhops  fliould  have  ordinary  jurifdidion  over 
their  perfons,  or  power  to  vifit  their  Monafteries  -,  but  that  leaving 
them  fall  liberty  to  execute  their  Monaftical  Functions,  'it  feemedfu 
unto  him,  that  they  (hould  not  refufe  to  be  dependent  upon  them  in 
matter  of  Adminimng  the  Sacraments,  of  Thankfgiving  and  Pe- 
nance (  as  he  called  them  )of  Preaching  the  Word  -,  and  to  admit  them 
to  have  ypwer  to  repeal  this  Priviledge  which  was  derived  from  them, 
according  as  the  Council  of  Trent  had  prefcribed. 

Accordingly  each  one  addrefled  himfelf  to  obfervc  the  Cardinals  di- 
rections :  and  although  fome  unreafoeable  perfons  began  at  firft  to 
create  fome  difficulties,  yet  his  prudence  foon  prevailed  over  them, 
infomuch  that  they  could  riot  be  thought  the  fame  men,  who  had  fo 
lately  and  fo  ftiffly  maintained  their  Independence  on  their  Ordina- 
ries. Hecaufed  a  Declaration  to  be  drawn,  wherein  they  acknowledg- 
ed themfelves  uncapable  to  Preach  without  Examination,  Licence,  and 
Approbation  from  their  Bifliops  firft  had  and  obtained,  and  that  the 
hid  Bi  lops  might  at  any  time  revoke  the  faid  Licences  :  withal,  that 
they  neither  could  nor  ought  to  hear  the  Confeflions  of  Secular  men 
without  approbation  •  which  the  faid  Bifliops  might  Hkewife  repeal, 
in  cafe  of  any  incapacity,  or  publick  fcandal.  Every  one  fubfcribed 
thereunto. 

The  Bifbops  difpatched  Copies  thereof  into  all  parts  :  and  thus 
the  Cardinal  ended  a  difference  which  had  made  fuch  a  noife  fo  many 
Ages  together. 

The  Duke  of  Montmortncy  having  raifcd  fome  ftirs,  was  encoun- 
tred  by  the  Mart  jkal  de  Scomber  £,  defeated  and  taken  Prifoner.  The 
Parliament  ofTheloufe  by  the  King's  appointment  having  made  pro- 
cefs  againft  him  with  ail  legal  proceeding,  condemned  him  to  be  be- 
headed.  The  Cardinal  dt  I*  Valette  befought  the  King  to  allow  him 
a  Confeflbur.  And  the  King  gave  order  to  the  Marflial  de  £rcz.c,  to 
conduct  Father  drnoux  fupcnour  of  the  Jefuites,  to  aflift  him.  Ha- 
ving made  his  Confeffion,  and  communicated,  he  made  his  will  •  he  be- 
queathed unto  Mn/itur  the  Cardinal  one  of  the  rareft  PiAures  of 
,  representing  Saint  Stlrajlian  dying.  He  was  executed  in  the 

.Court 


'Cent/I/.  ofFR'ANCE.  145 

Court  of  the  Town-houfe,  where  the  King  commanded  it  to  be  per- 
formed. 

The  Duke  of  Montmorency  had  acquired  fo  great  credit  in  Langue- 
docj  that  he  not  only  drew  on  divers  men  of  quality  from  his  Majeftie's 
fervice,  but  feveral  Bifhops  alfo,  and  perfwaded  feven  or  eight  to 
lubfcribe  unto  the  Declaration  of  the  States.  Some  recanted  what  they 
had  done  •  and  became  conformable  to  what  the  King  had  ordained  in 
his  Declaration  •  but  others  ftood  out  in  their  Rebellion,  among  whom 
were  thofe  of  Alby  and  Vfcz,  who  had  delivered  their  Cities  into 
Monfaur's  hands,  ofNifmcs,  who  would  have  done  the  like,  of  Alets? 
and  S.P0«r,welI-willers  to  the  Rebellion,  either  by  raifing  of  Forces,  or 
Provifions  to  be  fent  to  places  already  revolted. 

The  Archbifliop  of  Narbotty  Prefident  of  the  States,  had  not  been 
defective  in  endeavouring  to  divert  them  from  their  defigns,  reprefen- 
ting  to  them  how  contrary  it  was  to  their  Profeffion,  which  ten- 
ded to  procure  Peace ,  and  to  (hew  examples  of  obedience  unto 
others. 

The  King  finding  them  who  fhould  have  prefer  ved  the  people  in 
obedience  both  by  exhortation  and  example,  to  excite  them  to  Rebel- 
lion, could  not  put  up  fuch  diforders,  but  appointed  Colledors  in  their 
feveral  Bifliopricks  to  receive  their  Revenues,  and  to  employ  them  in 
reparation  of  Religious  houfes  and  Epifcopal  Sees  :  and  thinking  it 
improper  to  intruft  the  care  of  Souls  with  fuch  difloyal  perfons,  he 
procured  a  Breviate  from  the  Pope,  addreffed  to  the  Archbifhop  of 
Aries,  the  Bifhops  of  St.f/o«r,  and  St.  Malo,  to  draw  up  their  Pro- 
cefs  againft  them.  The  Bifhops  of  Alby  and  Nifafs  were  depofed, 
death  preventing  the  Bifhop  of  Vfez.  from  receiving  the  like  punifh- 
rnent.  The  reft  were  reftored  to  their  Biilopricks,  there  being  not 
evidences  fufficient  to  condemn  them. 

The  Duke  of  Efpernon  had  been  advertifed,  that  it  was  principally 
the  Archbifhop  of  'Burdeaux  who  had  exafperared  Cardinal  Riihliete 
againft  him,  and  who  had  rendred  his  vifit  at  Bourdeaux  (  when  he 
went  to  fee  him  attended  by  his  Guards )  fufpeded  te  him.  A  thing, 
that  had  offended  him  to  the  bft  degree,  and  he  had  publickly  com-  D^ 
plained  of  that  proceeding  (  for  his  pafiions  were  never  concealed  )  *-"•  Lit..  10. 
which  was  alfo  reported  to  the  Archbifliop,  who  was  at  this  time 
obliged  to  come  into  his  Diocefs  to  make  fome  refidence  there. 
He  departed  therefore  from  Court,  and  took  the  way  of  Gui~ 
enne. 

The  Archbifliop  being  on  his  way  toward  Burdeaux^  turned  a  lit- 
tle out  of  the  ordinary  Road  to  go  into  a  Territory  belonging  to  his 
Bifhoprick,  called  Monrwel,  where  being  arrived,  he  was  informed, 
that  one  of  the  Dukes  Guards  had  been  afiifting  in  the  Execution  of 
fome  Actsof  juftice,  wherein  he  was  himfelf  immediately  concern 'd, 
Tt  t  and 


,46         3EIje  €cdc(mftical$ifto?p       cent.  17-. 

and  which  woul-d  other  wife  perhaps  have  met  with.forae  oppofition. 
He  therefore  fent  a  Gentleman  to  the  Duke,  to  return  his  thanks- for 
fo  opportune  a  kindnefs.  What  ever  thedefignofthis  Complement 
might  be,  it  wis  very  ill  received..  The  Duke  made  anfwer  to  th* 
Gentleman  who  came  from  the  Archbifhop,  thac  thanks  wereneiiher  ne- 
ceffary  nor,  due  toaperfon,  who  had  no  dcfign  to  .oblige^  That  if  any 
thing  by  his  orders  had  been  done  to  his  Matter's  advantage,  ic  had 
been  done  upon  no  oiher  account  than  the  meer  consideration  of  jufticej 
without  any  refped  to  his  friendship  •,  and  fodifmifled  him. 

The  Archbifhop  fent  to  Court  to  acquaint  the  Cardinal  what  bad 
paffed  between  the  Duke  and  him,  and  to  receive  inflruftions  from  him, 
how  he  was  to  behave  hi mfelf,  if  nutters  fhould  grow  to  a  greater 
height  between  them.  To  which  the  Cardinal's  anfwer  was,  that  he 
aflured  him  of  a  powerful  Protection  :  whereupon  the  Archbifhop  enga- 
ged in  the  Afluir  to  fuch  an  height,  as  even  to  be  himfeif  the  Aggref- 
for ,  at  the  firft  dafli  giving  him  very  fenfible  and  public* 
affronts. 

The  Duke  of  Efernon  had  in  Propriety,  as  Lord  of  the  Mannour 
of  FitiptiHliny  the  Royalty  of  the  CKt  of  Bureaux  (  which  is  the  Fifn' 
Market  there}  fqas  that  he  might  lawfully  forbid  any  to  enter  there* 
into  xvhom  tie  had  no  mind  to  admit.  He  therefore  commanded  the 
Archbifhop's  Officers  one  fifth  day  to  be  excluded,  that  they  rwghc 
be  conftraincd  to  take  their  fifh  without  the  Bar,  with  the  reft-of  the 
people..  Thefe  menrefufed  to  receive  ic  after  that  manner,  and  other- 
wife  they  could  not  have  it.  Tjie  Duke  alfo  knowing  it  would  b& 
brought  in  from  other  places,,  caufed  his  Guards  moreover  to  watch  all 
the  avenues  to  hinder  it,  by  whom,  fome  were  turned  back  that  would 
have  done  the  Archbifhop  that  fervice  •  and  in  theend  fomeofhisown 
Domeft'icks  were  very  roughly  handled. 

The  Archbifhop  bypublick  declararions  complain 'd  of  the  violence 
had  been  offered  to  him  by  a. fort  of  men  purpofcly  fetontodoit,  de- 
fcribing  them  by  the  name  of  the  Rttffet  Caffocks,  which  was  the 
Duke's  Livery,, demanding  of  the  Magiftrate  protection,  and  aid  to 
oppofe  them,  and  preceding .to  retire  with  his  Clergy  if  they  would 
not  provide  for  his  fafety. 

Then  the  Duke  commanded, the  Lieutenant  of  his  Guards,  the  nfxt 
day  after  the  Archbifhop  had  exhibited  this  injurious  Bill  againfthis 
Guard§,  togowith  alibis  Souldiers  to  prefent  himfeif  before  ^him,  and- 
to  ask  of  him,  if  among  all  thofe  he  knew  any  one  man  who  was  like- 
ly to  commit  an  unhaadfom-adion  ?  The  Lieutenant  did  as  he  was 
commanded,  and  waited  neaj:  to  the  Archbifhops  Palace,  his  return 
from  the  Cityfi  who  feeing  him  come  in  his  Coadvpreftnted  hitn- 
felf  to  fpeak  unto  him.  The  Archbifhop  feeing  fo  many  Souldiers 
attending  the  Lieutenant,  commanded  his  Coach-maa  to  drive  01?. 

The 


Pent.  17.  Of  FRANCE.  ,47 

The  Lieutenant  with  his  hat  in  his  hand  was  urgent  with  theArch- 
bifliop  to  hear  him,  a/Turing  him  he  had  nothing  to  fay  that  could 
any  way  offend  him.  But  all  was  in  vain,  the  Coach-man  was  ftill 
called  unto  to  drive  on.  The  Lieutenant  called  in  the  end  to  one  of 
his  Companions  to  lay  hold  on  the  reins,  and  to  flop  the  Horfes : 
which  being  accordingly  done,  the  Archbifhop  immediately  went  out 
of  his  Coach,  crying  out  there  was  violence  offered  to  his  Perfon,  and 
fo  retired  himfelf  into  his  Houfe. 

The  Archbifhop  in  the  afternoon  of  the  fame  day,  being  Ottober 
2p.  fummoned  in  all  the  Orders  and  Societies  ofEcdefiafticks  in  the 
City,  he  there  expofed  before  them  the  open  violence  he  pretended 
had  been  offered  him.  Moft  of  the  Clergy  fir'd  by  his  Rhetorick, 
concluded  upon  an  Excommunication  :  and  upon  Novcmb.  i.  he  thun- 
dred  out  his  Excommunication  againft  the  Lieutenant  of  the  Guards, 
and  aK  his  Companions,  and  tacitly  againft  the  Duke  himfelf.  Cardinal 
Ricklieu  endeavours  an  Accommodation  betwixt  them,  but  in  vain. 

The  Duke  of  Efternon  calls  an  AfTembly  of  feveral  Learned  Divines 
in  his  own  houfe,  and  all  the  Profeflburs  of  the  Canon  Liw,  to  have 
their  advice  upon  this  Cenfure.  The  moftpart  of  them  were  of  opi- 
nion, That  there  was  fome  Exception  to  be  taken  againft  the  Cenfure, 
and  faid,  that  all  the  forms  being  not  obferved,  they  thought  that  thofe 
againft  whom  it  was  pronounced,  were  not  obliged  by  it.  The  Duke 
prefently  publifhed  their  opinion  by  found  of  Trumpet;  at  whichrhe 
Archbifhop  was  fo  incenfed,  that  he  cited  thefe  men  to  appear  be- 
fore him. 

The  Doctors  furprized  at  this  Citation,  flie  to  the  Duke's  Prote- 
ction ,  who  iflued  out  an  Ordinance ,  wherein  he  prohibited  all  fores 
cf  perfons,  of  what  quality  or  profeflipn  foever,  to  meet  in  an  extra- 
ordinary Affembly,  either  in  the  Archbifhop's  Palace,  or  elfe-where, 
without  his  fpecial  Licence,  excepting  neverthelefs  the  Religious  and 
Ecclefiafticks  immediately  belonging  to  the  Congregation  of  the  Arch- 
bifhopj  and  whofe  Counfels  he  cuftomarily  made  ufe  of,  for  the  bet- 
ter  ordering  the  Diftipline  of  his  Diocefs. 

The  Archbifhop  iflued  out  a  fentence  againft  all  thpfe  who  had  been 
of  that  opinion  which  the  Duke  had  publi/hed,  whereby  they  were  inter- 
did^djt^eir  Charges  and  Ecclefiaflical  Functions,  prohibited  to  Preach 
the  Word  of  God,  to  hear.Confeifions,  to  Adrainifter  Sacraments  in 
the  Diocefs  of  Burdcaux ,  Commanding  the  fuperiour  Provincial  to 
chaftsfethem,  and  expell  them  out  of  the  Governs  of  Bureaux.  By 
the  See  of  Rome  all  Prelates  are  inhibited  to  make  any  Cenfures  agaiaft 
Religious  Orders  ,  upon  penalty  of  drawing  that  Excommuni- 
cation on  their  own  heads,  which  they  intended  to  inflift  open 
others. 

Ttt  z  The 


IHjc  eccieftafticai  l^iftojp     Cent.  \T* 

The  Religious  hereupon  appealed  from  this  fentence  to  the  Pope, 
But  the  Archbifhop  afTembled  the  Superiours  of  the  Religious  houfes 
in  his  Palace  to  condemn  that  opinion  which  they  ha4  given  in  favour 
of  Naugai  the  Lieutenant. 

The  Duke  hereupon  placed  the  Archers  of  the  Watch  of  the  City  up- 
on all  the  Avenues  and  Gates  of  the  Archbifhop's  Palace,  to  hinder 
fueh  as  would  obey  the  Archbifhop's  fummons.    The  Archbifhop  ha- 
ving notice   hereof,  immediately  puts  on   his  Pontifical  Robes,  and 
cauling  himfelf  to  be  followed  by  fome  Ecclefiafticks,  together  with 
what  people  he  had  about  him,  went  on  foot  outoftheHoufe,  crying 
out  in  the  Streets  as  he  pafled  along,  To  me  my>Pfofle,  There  is  no  wore- 
fiberty  for  the  Church.     In  this  pofture  he  went  to  feveral  Religious 
Houfes  of  the  City,  gathering  after  him  a  great  number  of  people 
(who  ran  from  all  parts  to  the  novelty)  as  he  went  along,  and  ift- 
the  end  returned  back  towards  his  own  Palace,  without  being  able  to 
raife  any  commotion  in  the  City. 

Whilft  thefe  things  were  in  doing,  the  Duke  was  at  the  Ctptttciats, 
in  one  of  the  remoteft  parts  of  the  City,  and  having  news  brought  hin\ 
by  two  Prefidents.  of  the'Parliament  what  had  patted,  the  Duke  fpeedi- 
ly  mounted,  his  Coach,  following  that  way  the  Archbifhop  was  gone, . 
having  in  company  with  him  the  Count  de  t&faille^  and  htCommenda- 
tor  de  U  juftice.  The  Duke's  Coach-man  drave  on  through  all  tilth? 
came  near  the  Archbi(hop's  Palace,  where  he  overtook  him. 

The  Archbifhop  ftill  continuecj  on  his  pace  ;  the  Duke  demanded 
of  him  by  what  Authority  he  ftirred  up  this  Commotion  in  his  Govern- 
ment ?  he  was  by  the  Archbifhop  interrupted,  who  cried  aloud,  Strike 
Tyrant,  thy  blowes  will  be  tomeFlovrers  andRofes,  Thou  art  Excom- 
municated,   In  this  buftle  the  Duke  catching  him  by  the  hand,  lifted  ; 
it  up  twice  or  thrice,  and  fet  it  againft  his  BreaiL     But  the  Archbi- 
fhop with  his  hat  on  ftill  provoking  him  with  injurious  language,  the 
Duke  with  a  Cane  he  had  in  his  hand  touched  the  brim  of  his  hat  and  : 
thruft  it  off  his  head  to  the  ground,  telling  him  at  the  fame  time,  he 
did  not  know  the  refpeft  he  ought  him.     But  if  the  Reverence  to  his 
profeffion  did  not  reftrain  him,  he  would  make  him  know  it.     Then, 
the  Duke  being  return'd  to  his  own  houfe,  the  Archbifhop  forthwith 
repaired  to  hi*  Church,  and  pronounced  the  fentence  of  Excommuni- 
cation againft  him,  and  ail  that  were  with  him. 

The  Archbifhop  fends  away  a  difpatch  thereof  to  the  Court,  where- 
in he  gives  the  Cardinal  an  account  of  the  violence  that  had  been 
offered  to  him,  at  which  the  Cardinal  was  highly  incenfed.  The 
Court  fides  with  the  Archbifhop,  and  the  Parliament,  of  Bordeaux 
alfo,  who  draw  up  an  information  againft  the  Duke. 

The  Duke  likewife  fern  te  the  King  informations  of  what  had  pafTed, 
whereupon  the  King  fent  Order  to  the  Archbifhop,  to  takeaway  the 

inter- 


Gent.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 


'49 


interdidton  ;  and  to  the  Duke   to  depart  out  of  his  Government,  and 
retire  to  bis  houfe  of  flaffacy   which  is  out  of  the  Diocefs  of  Bur- 


toexped  the  Pope's  refoiution,  to  whom  thedecifionofthat 
Gontroverfie  belonged,  feeing  they  had  appealed  to  him,  which  hung  in 
fufpence  about  five  or  fix  months. 

After  the  Dukes  retirement  to  Plaffac,  the  Archbifhop  ofBurdeaux  l 
goes  to  Parts,  who  being  arrived  in  Court,  all  the  Prelates  who  were 
then  in  Part*,  affemblcd  after  an  ufual  manner,  to  deliberate  among 
themfelves  what  was  beft  to  be  done  in  the  Archbifhops  behalf: 
Which  convocation  the  Duke  having  notice  of,  hefentto  them  his  ab- 
folute  fubmiffion  to  the  Church.  . 

The  Duke  ds  la  Valett  t,  who  was  returned  back  to  Court,  demand- 
ed Audience  in  the  Affembly  in  the  name  of  the  Duke  his  Father.  . 
Which  being  granted,  he  there  hid  down  fuch  reafons  before  them, 
that  of  five  and  twenty  Prelates  which  were  there  prefent,  thirteen  were 
of  opinion  to  take  upon  them  the  quality  of  Judges  under  the  good  - 
pleafure  of  the  Pope  and  the  King,  the  Duke  having  abfolutely  fubmit- 
ted  himfelf  to  their  determination.     But  this  refoiution  was  not  for 
the  guft  of  the  Court. 

They  afTembled  then  again  at  the  Palace  of  the  Archbifhop  of  Burde- 
aux,  and  from  thence  fent  a  Deputation  to  the  King,  wherein  the 
Archbifhop  of  Aries  was  to  fpeak  for  the  reft,  .  The  Bifhop  in  his  Ora- 
tion ufed  all  the  odious  terms  he  could  invent,  to  poffefe  the  King  with 
the  higheft  fenfe  of  -the  Duke's  mifdemeanour.  Upon  which  occafion 
Cftjpian  Bifhop  of  Nantes,  one  of  the  moft  vertuous  Prelates  of  his 
time,  cried  out,  That  if  it  were  poffible  for  the  Devil  to  fubmit  him- 
ft  If  to  Cod  Almighty  ,  tofuch  a  degree  AS  the  Duke  did,  he  would 
infallibly  obtain  pardon  for  a/I  hi*  offences  :  and  that  notwithstanding 
the  Church  deny'd  this  fardan  to  a  Chriftiari)  who  had  everferved  God 
and  his  Church. 

Upon  t,he  Complaints  of  the  Clergy  prefer  'd  to  the  King  by  the 
mouth  of  the  Archbifhop  of  Arles^  the  Cardinal  who  was  prdent  at  the 
Council,  was  of  opinion,  That  upon  the  Duke's  fingle  confefifion  con- 
tained in  his  anfwer,  he  ousht  to  be  reputed  Excommunicate  :  and  as 
fo,  that  the.  King  ought  to  declare  himlapfed  from  all  his  Offices  and 
Dignities,  till  by  venue  ofbisAbfolutionhe  fhould  be  re-united  to  the 
Church. 

The  Duke  now  fends  his  Secretary  hota-Pta/fac  to  Rom  to  pro-- 
cure his  Abfolution.  But  fo  many  rubs  from  France  were  laid  in  his 
way,  that  four  whole  months  were  laps'd  before  the  Duke  could  receive 
his  Abfolution. 

The  Duke's  Abfolution  being  refolved  on,  and  order  given  to  the 
Archbilhop  to  give  it  him,  and  the  day  for  Abfolution  being  a-ppoin- 
ted  ,  the  Duke  of  E/frernoti  atten&d  by  .the  Duke  ds  la  Palette, 

and 


cent. 


and  fcveral  perfons  of  quality,  went  loCctitras,  whither  beingcome, 
the  Archbifhop  who  was  already  there,  accompanied  with  his  Eccle- 
fiafticks,  went  firii  tothe  Church,  where  the  Duke  folFowing  alter,  and 
prcfenting  himfclf  before  him,  kneeled  down  upon  a  Velvet  Cufhion 
laid  ready  for  that  purpofe.  In  this  pofture,  and  in  the  prefence  of 
fiveCcunfellours  of  the  Parliament  cf'Burdeauxt\vho  were  by  theXing's 
order  to  be  aftifting  at  this  Ceremony,  the  Archbifhop  pronounced  hii 
AbfoluJon  in  thefe  words. 

Et  E^o  Author  it-ate  Ecclefaj  &  e"a  qitafttn^or,  ab/olvo  te  a  vine*- 
lo  -ExcommHHicationif,  quam  inwrrifti)  qnia  immunitatcm  EccUfie 
we  A  Metropolitan*  pcrjregifti  ,  manum  armatam  miHtum,  ut  me  cnr~ 
ritmque  mewn  in  via  fifterent,  mififti  :  Statione  diffofta  Palatium  no- 
flrum  'vallajti-  J-urifdtttionem  Ecclcfaflicam  viola  fit;  eamque  tibi  ar- 
rogafti  :  Nos,  Clcrumque  mflrurn  tnpgnibHty  &  indignis  contwneliu 
fi/tctfti  :  In  nomine  Patris,  &  FHii,  &c. 

•  Though  the  Duke  was  no:  great  Latinift,  he  had  neverthelefs  fo  much, 
as  to  underftand  many  words  of  this  Abfolution  ,  by  which  he  ob- 
ferved  they  wer«  not  according  to  the  ordinary  ftile  of  the  Church. 
The  Duke  after  his  return  received  by  an  exprefs  Currier  from  Court, 
his  Majefties  orders  to  return  into  Cuienne  to  his  former  Government. 
And  it  happened  well  not  to  the  Duke  alone,  but  as  much  alfo  to  the 
Province,  and  to  the  whole  Kingdom,  that  the  Duke  was  at  this  time 
reftored  to  his  Command. 

'1655.  ^oon  ^tcr  a  Sreat  Sedition  was  raifed  in  Bordeaux  by  reafon  of 
ihe  Excife  upon  Victuallers.  The  Duke  oppofeth  the  Seditious, 
forceth  divers  Barricade's,  wherein  divers  of  his  men  are  Jlain  and 
wounded,  and  beateth  down  their  Barricade's  ,  and  reduccth  the  Ci- 
ty to  its  obedience  to  the  King.  The  whole  Province  ofCttien  except 
Montauban,  brake  out  into  open  Arms,  committing  every-where  all 
the  barbarous  Ads  of  an  inhumane  fury.  The  Duke  fends  his 
orders  into  all  parts  of  the  Province  ,  which  a  little  quiets 
them, 

The  commotions  of  the  City  were  no  fooner  appeared,  but  that  madnefs 
diffufed  it  felf  into  the  Villages  of  the  adjacent  Country.  The  Boors  in 
great  numbers  got  into  the  Suburb  of  Bordeaux,  called  S.  Surin^  "to 
which  place  the  Duke's  houfe  was  near  enough  for  him  to  hear  their 
Clamour?,  and  from  his  Chamber-  window  that  looked  into  the  fields 
to  fee  the  fires  they  had  kindled  in  feveral  houfes,  of  which  thegrea- 
ceft  part  were  miferably  confumed.  The  Duke  being  under  great  indif- 
pofition  got  out  of  his  bed  ,  mounted  to  horfe  by  night,  and  with  forty  or 
fi  ty  Gentlemen,  his  Guards,  and  fome  of  the  Town-Companies,  went 
out  toward  thefe  Mutineers.  They  had  fortified  therafelves  in  feveral 
places  of  the  Suburb,  tnd  Barricado'd  the  Church,  and  made  afhew 
of  defending  tbemfclves.  But  at  the  Duke's  arrival  they  almoft  all 

disband- 


Cent,    17.  Of  FRANCE. 


disbanded  and  ran  away,  none  fave  thofe  in  the  Church  making  any 
refirtance  ,  who  alfo  at  the  firft  Volley  difcharged  upon  them  fled 
after  their  fellows  j  forty  or  fifty  of  them  werelUinby  the  Civalry 
purfaing  them ,  at  whofe  death  the  Duke  was  greatly  afflicted.  The 
report  of  this  execution  difperfing  it  felf  in  a  moment  throughout  the 
whole  Province,  caufed  a  aim  every-where. 

Now  the  Cardinal  de  la  Palette,  Son  to  the  Duke  ofE/pcrnon,  was 
fent  at  the  head  of  a  great  Army  inro  Cjermany,  the  Command  where- 
of was  equally  divided  between  him  and  Duke  Weimar  :  The  Duke 
oiEfrfrnon  was  diffatisfied  that  the  Cardinal  de  In  Palei;?  advanced  in- 
to the  Church  by  his  Learning,  Birth,  and  Fortune,  to  fo  eminent  a 
degree  of  dignity  and  reputation,  that  (hould  wholly  have  applied' 
himfdfto  herfervice,  that  he  (hould  hazard  his  life  in  fo  dangerous 
a  profefsion.  He  ever  apprehended  it  would  be  fatal  to  him,  and' 
therefore  had  done  all  he  could  to  diflwade  him  from  it,  employing 
alfo  the  endeavours  of  feveral  his  moft  intimate  friends  and  fervanrs, 
but  alt  in  Vain.  Either  the  humour  of  the  time,  the  inclination  ofhis 
Son,  the  neceflky  of  his  deftiny,  or  all  together  (till  prevailing  with 
him  above  the  fears  or  forelight  of  fo  affectionate  a  Father. 

In   the  mean  time  the  Duke  of  Rohan  was  fain  from  Lirrain  into- 
Alfatia,  where  he  took  Ruffach  by  ftorm.     Then  CommifTary  BuHion 
had  private  directions  to  go  along  with  (Jffotiftcyr  ds  Lande  Ambaf- 
fadour  and  Governour  of  the  French  Forces  which  were  in  Rhctia^ 
to  the  enterprize  of  the  Valtoline.     The  French  Forces  marched   to- 
ward the  Mountain  Sfluga^  and  came  to  Chiavena,.  advanced  to  Rha, 
and  pafling  over  Saflocorbe,  (  which  is  a  Rock  between  the  Mountai  i 
and  the  Lake,  by  which  way  they  are  to  pafs  jwho  will  go  from  thence 
by  Land  into  the  Valley,  which  is  averyftrait  pa/Tage;  they  came  to 
Traon,  not  meeting  with   any  hindrance.     For   the  State  of  Milan 
wanting  neceflary  Forces  for  maintaining  it  feif,  was  rather  thinking 
upon  felf  defence,    than  how  to  fet  upon  another.     Andbecaufe  the 
French  mensdefign  was  to  (hut  up  all  pafTages  inro  that  State,  in  fucft 
fort  as  it  (hould  be  impofiible  for  the  Emperour  to  fend  them  any 
fuccour  by  the  way  of  Tyrol,  theDakeof  Rohan  came  thither  on^v'/ 
24.  with  two  Regiments  of  Switz.ers,  and  five  Companies  of  Horfe, 
and  made  himfelf  Mafter  ofthe  reft  of  the  Valley.     Bur  after  Rohan  had ' 
held  it  divers  months,  the  Grifon  Colonels  and  Caprains  laying  claim 
to  much  money  ;  and  others  who  were  dcftined  to  have  the  Govern- 
ment, claiming  the  reftitution  of  the  Valtoline  according  to  promife, 
they  mutiny  *d,  and  betaking  themfelves  to  Arms  throughout  all  Rhetia^ 
they  fecured  the  Duke  of  Rohan  in  the  Fort  of  'Adayxfclt ,  and  enforced: 
the  French  to  forfakc.  them,  ar.d  to  return  to  their  own  King's  domiV- 
ruons.. 


Then  the  Grifors  emred  into  this  Valley,  and  recovered  their  liber 
ty.     Rohan   not  being  able  to   efcapc  from  £oir*9  whither   he  was 
brought  from  MaynfeLt  as  an  Hoftage,  remained  there  until, fuch  time  as 
his  men  were  gone  out  ofRhctia. 

The  d- a&  rfthe  Afterward  Duke  -Rohan  wounded  in  theBattel  ofRinfcUdiedi.  Ke 
DukecfK.-*jT.was  a  Duke  and  Peer  of  France ^  being  bred  up  in  the  Wars  under  King 
Henry  IV.  he  attained  to  fuch  experience,  as  following  the  opinion 
and  Party  of  the  Proteftants,  he  was  by  them  chofen  to  be  their  Gene* 
ral,  in  which  charge  he  alwaies  ftoutly  behaved  hknfelf  till  fuch  time 
as  he  got  his  Pardon  from  KingLrnw  XIII.  Of  a  civil  and  courte- 
ous deportment  to  all  perfons  :  of  a  (harp  wit,  wary  in  his  proceed- 
ings, and  in  his  Counfels  well  advifed.  He  was  free  from  pride  and 
ambition,  Noble  in  his  expenfes,  contemning  an  increafeof  wealth  and 
riches.  He  died  to  the  great  grief  of  Duke  Weimar ^  and  all  the  other 
Commanders,  and  of  all  the  Proteftants. 

In  the  year  1617 .-Franc it  C"ftf*  a  Doctor  of50r&*»,  wasconvcrted 
to  the  Reformed  Religion,  whereupon  the  faculty  of  Theology  pronoun- 
ced this  rigid  decree  againft  him. 

It  is  very  propcrly,and  with  great  reafon,that  the  Apoftle  ranks  Here- 
6"  among  Crimes  and  carnal  (ins,  becaufe  we  often  perceive  that  by 
a  fecret  judgement  of  God,  thofe  ufe  to  fall  and  tumble  into  them  , 
who  fwelling  with  the  vanity  and  confidenceof  their  own  fenfe,  or 
walking  according  to  the  flefh,  fuffer  not  themfelves  to  be  led  by  the 
fpiritof  God,  nor  believe  that  they  are  tyed  to  any  rule,  but  they  tafte 
nothingbut  what  pleafeth  man  as  he  is  a  fenfitive  Animal.  Whereof, 
Francis  Cttpif  of  vdngrrs^  whom  the  facred  Faculty  had  nourifhed 
before  in  her  bofom,  and  at  laft  unhappily  received  into  the  number 
of  herDoclors,  to  the  great  fcandal  of  all  good  men,  and  the  applaufe 
•of  the  enemies  of  the  Crofs  of  Chrift,  hath  lately  given  an  horrid  and 
moft  deplorable  example.  For  according  to  the  honour  that  was  con- 
ferred upon  him  in  our  School,  not  minding  the  law  he  had  received 
from  fo  good  a  Mother,  which  might  have  drawn  down  upon  his 
head  all  graces  from  God  and  men;  and  having  quite  forgot  the  Oath 
he  had  made  fo  oft,  and  whereunto  according  to  ancient  inftitution  all 
•new  Graduates,  and  all  fuch  who  are  promoted  to  the  degreeofDo- 
ctorfhips  are  folemnly  obliged  ;  He  is  miferably  fallen  (laid  they  ) 
from  the  holy  Catholick  Church,  whereby  he  hath  drawn  uponhim- 
felf  the  lofs  of  his  foul  before  God,  fhame  and  infamy  before  men,  and 
malediction  from  all  parts  -  This  imprudent  Son  is  become  the  grief 
and  fadnefs  of  his  Mother,  then,  when  by  a  perfidious  prevarication 
abjuring  the  true  Doctrine,  he  hath  moft  impudently  turn'd  Here- 
tick,  giving  up  his  name  to  impiety  and  falfhood.  But  whence  can 
it  proceed,  that  he  fliould  fo  eafilyfall  intofo  fearful  a  precipice,  but 
from  the  natural  preemption  of  his  own  judgement,  and  from  the  ar- 
dour 


Cent.  17,'  Of  PRANCE." 

dour  of  unbridled  pleafure,  &c  ?  Whence  it  comes  to  pafs,  that 
tcing  blinded ,  and  walking  continually  according  to  his  own  co- 
vetoufnefs,  having  fhaken  off  the  fweet  and  light  Yoak  of  Jefus  Chrift, 
he  is  become  a  voluntary  (lave  to  Herefie,  which  is  the  height  of  all 
fins.  It  being  therefore  true ,  that  as  the  Chriftian  Emperours  faid, 
Whatfoever  is  attempted  againft  Divine  Religion,  becomes  injurious  to 
all  :  with  greater  reafon  the  Sacred  Faculty  of  Theology  hath  believ'd, 
That  the  wrong  which  is  done  Jefus  Chrift ,  and  to  the  Catholick 
Faith  by  this  degenerate  Child,  did  concern  her  fo  far  as  to  pronounce 
a  grave  Cenfure  according  to  the  atrocity  of  the  Crime,  againft  fuch  a 
notorious  infamy,  and  to  feparate  him  totally  from  Her,  and  her 
Nurfery,  though  it  be  nothing  at  all  to  be  fear'd  that  fuch  Baftard 
Plants  will  take  any  deep  roots.  Curfed  be  thou  degenerate  Child, 
which  goeft  on  after  thine  own  Counfel,  not  according  to  mine,  which 
warpeft  a  web,  but  not  by  my  direction,  which  doft  add  fin  to  fin, 
which  goeft  down  to  Egyft,  and  to  the  Synagogue  of  Satan,  andcon- 
fulteft  not  with  me,  nor  remembreft  my  Precepts.  Thou  haft  reje- 
fted  my  Difcipline,  hoping  for  fuccour  in  the  help  otCalvin  and  his 
followers,  and  haft  confidence  in  the  fiiadowof  Egyp,  that  is  to  fay, 
in  the  Conventicle  of  Hereticks  :  but  this  imaginary  ftrength  (hall  be- 
come thy  confufion  -,  and  the  confidence  of  this  fhadow  which  thou 
followeft,  in  defpifing  the  Body  of  the  Orthodoxal  Church,  fh all  turn 
tothyfliame.  So  Anathema  was  pronounced,  and  publickly  fix'd  up 
againft  him. 

The  Queen  of  France  was  brought  to  bed  of  a  Prince  on  September 
5.  1638.  at  St.  German  de  lay,  he  was  born  in  the  twenty  third  year 
after  the  Marriage  of  the  King  and  Queen.  1  he  King  upon  news  there- 
of, threw  himfelf  upon  his  knees  before  a  Crucifix,  and  returned  bum- 
ble thanks  and  acknowledgements  to  God  for  his  fo  great  goodnefs  to- 
ward him. 

All  France  was  full  of  jollity,  as  they  exprefTed  by  their  voices,  ge- 
ftures,  and  actions.  Yea  this  gladnefs  difperfedit  felfupand  down  all 
places  of  Chriftendom  ( that  were  Friends  to  Fr*nce)  and  -(truck  a  kind 
of  wonderment  into  the  world* 

In  Rome  there  were  divers  invention?,  and  curiofities.  found  cut  toex- 
prefs  a  congratulation*  Before  thejFrrzc^  Ambafladour's  Palace fwho 
was  then  the  Marfml  d'  Eflre )  there  was  a  triumphant  Obelisk  with 
the  Arms  ofFr^ffcr,  and  this  Oftentous  Infcription  underneath. 


U  u  u 


%\yt  cccIeQaftical%ifto#       cent  17 

Lttdovico  XIII* 

Chriftianiffimo  Gtttiarum  &  Navarrtfagi, 
Qul 

Pulluianttnt  per  avita  regn*  H*rtticnm  Hydram 
Pctulantew  in  orbe  Chriftiano  novum  Geryoncm 
HercHlca  elava  cemprejfit  : 


per  impetat 
Principes  per  Tyrannidem 

ietatt  rcftituit 
Hcroit  Jujliti*  debitel  . 

Dftphino, 

Inter  aurtalilia  nafcenti, 
Inter  paternos  Unros  vagicnU, 
future  fitturorum  monftrorum  Atcidiy 

In  afflttt0r*mftibfaliHm9 

JsTyrannorum  excidiMM9 

In  liliorum  aternttm  germen^. 

In  EcclepA  invittHm  colnwen, 
&  calo  in  t  err  is  ft  upend  a  rationefdemiffoY 

PLtuftu,  acclamationes?  Troph&a 
future  gloria  argument^  Prafenti*  UtitU  monuMent/i? 

jfatottit)  tdjungit,  erigiti 
Francifcw  Hannibal  Eftr&tt*)  &c. 

For  publick  arguments  of  >oy,  Prifoners  and  Galley-flaves  were  rer 
leafed.  Two  were  ennobled  in  every  Generally  throughout  the  King- 
dom. And  four  Matters  were  created  in  every  Trade  throughout 
francs  ,  with  divers  other  priviledges  afforded,  to  them  of 
Paris. 

In  the  year  1640*  a  great  combuftion  happened  in  Catalonia,  which 
grew  fo  furious,  that  the  Viceroy  with  his  Wife  and  fome  of  his  Fami- 
ly were  murthered,  and  his  houfe  burned  to  the  ground.  This  tumult  by 
degrees  turned  to  an  abfolute  revolt  from  their  Sovereign  natural  King, 
infomuch  that  they  fled  to  France,  The  French  quickly  hearken  unto 
sheen-  fo  there  was  a  Treaty  at  Nttrbcn^  whither  they  fent  twelve  per- 
fons  of  quality  for  Hoftages  -  and  an  Order  lifted  out,  That  He  fhould 
be  branded  with  an  hot  Iron,  who  fpake  of  any  accommodation  with 

Ctftit. 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 

«  — ' ———  t 

Caftile.  It  was  agreed  on,  that  upon  putting  therafelves  under  the 
Royal  Protection  of  the  moft  Chriftian  King,  he  fliould  furni/h  them 
witn  an  Army  of  fix  thoufand  Foot,  and  two  thoufand  Horfe,to  be  main- 
tained by  the  Catalans.  Hereupon  three  Commiffioners  were  fcnc 
to  Parity  one  for  the  Clergy ;  another  for  the  Nobility,  and  a  third  for 
the  Gentry  and  Commonalty. 

The  chiefeft  Incendiaries  were  the  Preaching  Friers  and  Monks,  who 
in  lieu  of  obedience  and  conformity  to  Government,  and  compliance 
with  the  King,  having  fo  many  Irons  in  the  fire,  did  teach,  and  obtrude 
to  the  people  nothing  more  than  common  Priviledge,  and  refumption  of 
Liberty,  whereby  the  affection  oftheVaflal  was  withdrawn  from  his 
Prince. 

There  came  a  Meflenger  of  State  to  Paris,  who  brought  news  of  the 
Great  Turfy  death  in  the  flower  of  his  youth,  though  of  a  robuft 
conftitution.  He  died  by  exeefs  of  drinking  forae  forts  of  Wine, 
wherewith  he  was  ufed  to  be  oft  diftempered,  not  withftanding  the 
ftrictLaw  of  Mahomet,  who  oftenjPreached  this  Doctrine,  That  there 
wot  a  Devil  in  every  berry  of  the  Grape  ;  and  therefore  absolutely  in, 
terdicted  the  ufeof  Wine  in  \\\sAlchoran. 

Soon  after  Don  John  of  Braganfa  was  (upon  a  general  revolt  of  the 
Portuguefes  )  within  lefs  than  a  month  fully  fetled  in  the  Kingdoms  of 
Portugal  and  the  Jlgarves,  without  any  oppofition  at  all .  This  Re- 
volt of  Portugal  was  no  great  news  tomtPrtnch  Cardinal,  who  had 
his  fpirits  walking  there,  as  well  as  in  Barcelona,  and  every  where 
elfe. 

The  Spanifh  AmbafTadours  negotiate  at  Rome,  that  the  Duke  of 
JBraganfa  be  Excommunicated  for  an  Ufurper.  If  this  had  taken  effect, 
it  had  made  the  King  of  France  incapable  to  aflift  him  being  an  Excom- 
municated perfon.  But  France  had  fuch  a  powerful  Faction  in  the  Con- 
fiftoryj  and  the  Pope  was  fuch  a  friend  to  the  French,  that  the  Catho- 
lique  King  could  do  little  good  in  this  point. 

Then  was  France  blefTed  with  another  Mafculine  Royal  OfFfpring, 
the  Duke  of  Anjou. 

In  the  year  1642.  Mary  dc  Me  dices,  Queen-  Mother,  and  Dowager 
of  France ,  expired  at  Colcn*  She  had  been  Regent  of 'France  rruny 
years,  during  which  time  ftie  difcovered  great  abilities  tranfcending  her 
Sex.  vShe  was  afterwards  twice  in  Arms  againft  her  Son  •,  and  (hi 
came  at  length  to  conceive  fuch  a  Junonian  indignation  again/I  the 
Cardinal  Richlieu,  who  had  been  chief  of  her  Counfel?,  and  her 
Creature  afterwards  in  point  of  greatnefs  (  for  (he  firft  preferred  him 
to  the  King)  that  the  breach  could  never  be  made  up  between  them. 
And  (he  was  ufed  to  fay,  that  the  worft  thing  flic  ever  did  was  the 
advancement  of  Richlicu.  In  the  fenfe  of  this  indignation  flieforfook  ' 
France,  and  drew  a  voluntary  Exile  upon  her  fdf.  She  firft  retired 
Uuu  2  *  to 


'55 


!56  %ty  CCClctatttCal  %lO#        Cent.  17, 

co  Flanders  •,  thence  "(he  removed  to  Holland^  thence  to  England ^ 
and  her  laft  retirement  was  to  Colen^  where  (he  died. 

The  Cardinal  of  Richlicu  wasfick  that  time  that  the  Queen -Moiher 
died  ztColen  :  yet  he  forced  himfelf  to  creep  to  the  Altar,  and  offici- 
ated many  Church-duties  for  her  foul.  From  that  time  he  was  never 
perfcdly  'recovered,  and  now  more  like  a  Skeleton  than  his  Eminence, 
being  carried  upon  the  fhoulders  of  men,  hathhoufes  broken  down  to 
make  him  room  to  come  in  at,  fo  much  French  blood  lo&at  home, 
fo  much  (bed  in  the  field, difquiets  and  deje&s  his  fpirit,  now  imprifon- 
ed  in  a  languilhing  body.  Cinque-Marl  the  Grand  Covftable,  and 
de  Thoithte  Mafter  of  Requefts  were  apprehended  at  Narbon  the  very 
day  that  the  King  had  but  in  the  morning  embraced  and  kifTed  CtH^ar- . 
M*rsy  and  bad  talked  very  courtcoufly  to  de  Thou.  The  fame  was  done 
lode  Bovillany  ztCaJailles. 

The  Prifoners  are  brought  to  Lions r  where  by  chofen  Judges  they 
are  condemned,  and  upon  a  Scaffold  beheaded.  DC  Bouillon  got  off 
with  the  furrender  of'Sedan. 

At  lengih  Cardinal  Richlieu's  fcarcely  breathing  Corpfe,  nothing 
benefited  by  the  Waters  of  Borhogney  is  brought  to  Paris,  he  died  in 
the  end  of  the  year  1 642. 

XicblieHWK  no  great  Zealot  in  his  own  Religion,  but  as  he  made  it 
fubfervient  to  his  political  ends  :  nor  would  he  ever  employ  any  Je- 
fuite  :  He  had  a  moderate  opinion  of  the  Refprmifts,  which  made  him 
to  be  called  the  Hugonot  Cardinal.  And  he  would  have  often  in  his 
mouth  this  faying,  Mane  at  morale  benevolcntia,  inter  difcordes  fen- 
tentia.  Yet  he  wrote  a  Book  againft  them,  which  is  extant.  He  did 
them  more  mifchief  by  Complementing  with  them,  than  by  com- 
bating. 

He  was  a  great  cherifher  and  promoter  of  vertuous  men,  and  would 
find  them  out  wherefoever  they  were,  infomuch  that  he  gave  every 
year  in  Penfions  little  lefsthan  an  hundred  thoufand  Franks.  He  ere- 
cted two  Academies,  oneinP^r^,  cs\\edf  j4cadewie  dc  Beaux  Eftrits, 
wriere  the  Prime  Wits  of  the  Kingdom  met  every  Monday  •  and  ano- 
ther at  Richlieu,  where  the  Mathematiques  and  other  Sciences  were 
read  in  the  French  Language  ;  the  difficulty  of  the  Latine  deter- 
ring many  of  them  from  ftudying  other  places.  He  did  fo 
oblige  all  the  Wits  of  the  Kingdom,  that  they  ftrove  who  fhould 
magnifie  him  moft  :  never  were  there  fuch  hyperbolical  expreffions 
of  any  m^n,  and  not  without  fome  mixture  of  profanenefs.  Someblaf- 
shemoufiy  faid,  That  God  Almighty  might  put  the  Government  of  ths 
World  into  hU  hand.  That  France  in  God>  andthf  Cardinal's  hands 
were  too  ftrong.  That,  what  the  foul  wot  to  the  body,  the  fame:  he  WM 
iff  France, 


Gent.  17.  _  Of  FRANCE.  i?7 

.   '       i  " 

Siforet  kicnullw,  Calif  a  nttllaforet. 

Some  appropriate  the  reduction  of  the  Rochetters  folely  to  him. 
Therefore  to  fdoth  him,  one  French  Chronicler  impioufly  writeth,  that 
in  the  taking  of  that  Town,  Neither  the  King  nor  God  Almighty  him- 
felf  had  any  (hare  in  the  Aftion,  but  Cardinal  Richlien,  Thereupon 
Another  made  this  Diftich, 

Rickelii  etdventh  port*  patuere  RupelU, 
Ckrifto  infernalesut  pat  Here  fores. 

The  Gates  o/Rochel  opened  to  Richlieu, 

As  thofe  ofHctt  to  Chrift  tfttnderfew. 

Divers  other  Latine  Diftichs  there  were  of  like  nature.  And  in  the 
French  Language  there  are  abundance  of  fuch  Hyperboles.  I  will  in- 
fiance  in  fomc. 

Etfinowfaifons  des  ghirlandes, 
C'  eft  pour  en  couronner  un.'Dieu^ 
jQuijoubs  le  nom  de  Richlieu 
Recoit  not  VCSHX>  &  nos  ojfrandrts*- 

'Another.' 

fferos  a  qnl  la  France  crigt  de:  Attelsj 

teprevoit)  &  fjhifais  lebon  heurdes  wertels, 
tifcaif  mieux  I'  adventr^  tjue  Its  chofespaj/eef^ 
fenetre  dans  mon  Ame>  &c. 

Anpther, 

Si  tjHelef  un  dans  ces  vers  parle  de  Richlieu, 
jQuious  I'  habit  d'  un  homme  ilnow  defcrive  un-dieu  ^ 
eftes  point  fact  a  I'  httmaine  impitiffancc,  &c,    . 


A  Royal  Chronologer  attributes  more  to  him  than  to  his  Mafter  the 
King  himfelf.  He  calls  him  the  Grand  Director,  and  moft  puiflant 
Genius  of  France,  the  perfedeft  of  men,  who  doth  penetrate  things  to 
come,  and  is  ignorant  of  nothing  :  great  and  incomparable  Cardinal,  the 
moft  eminent  among  mortals  •  to  whom  the  crabbed'ft  and  moft  my- 
fterious  affairs  ofSrate  are  but  paftimes  :  vifibieGod,  and  tutelar  An- 
gel of  t^ie  Univerfe  ^  a  fpirit  that  moves  the  Heavens  and  and  the  Srars  • 

the 


,5  8  Sftf  CCCU'afttCal^iftog          Cent,   iy, 

ihe   blifs  of  ihe  world  ,  the  Supreme    Intelligence,  the  Phpnix  of 
the  earth,  who  never  had,  nor  ever  (hall  have  his  paralkl. 

As  there  were  a  number  of  fuch  profane  Sycophants  among  the  Wits 
of  France,  that  idolized  fcm  in  that  manner,  fo  there  wanted  not  others 
that  afperfed  him  by  P.  fquilsand  Libels. 

One  calleth  the  Capuchin,  the  Cardinal,  and  the  Devil,  the 
greesofComparifon. 

One  hath  made  this  Epitaphical  invedive  on  hrtn 


viator  ^  quo  proper  a*  ? 
nufyuam  videbis,  ant  audies.  heic  IcgitHr, 

Johannes  de  Plejfis  Cardinal^  dc  RichtieH, 
1  Clarw  Origins^  magnns  ingenio^fortuna  emiftentiffimttf, 

Qupdque  mirere, 

Sacerdos  in  Cajiris,  Theologw  in  AuU^  Epifcoptu  fine  plcbe^ 
Curdinalit  fine  tirnlo.  Rex  fine  nomine  ,  unw  tamen  amnia. 
NatHram  habtiit  innumerato^fortunam  inconfilio, 
<s£rariumin  ptctilio^  fecuritateminbettoy  victor  iar»  fab  Jfgnit 
Sociosin-prjicinCtu,  civcs  in  fervitHte, 
u4micos  in  obfequio,  inimicos  in  carcere* 
Hoc  tamen  uno  mifer,  quod  omnes  miferds  fecit  t 
Tamfeculifoi  Torment  um^  tjuam  ornamemttm. 

Gallitmfttbfgit,  Italiam  tcrruit,  Germaniam  qutflavit, 
jffflixit  Hifpaniant^  coronavit  BrigawLam,  cepit  Loth 
Acctyit  fittaloniam,  fovit  Suecitm,  truncavit  Flandriam, 
Turbeivit  Angtiam^  luff  Europam. 

Potta  purpHrattu, 
Cuifctna  mnndwy  gloria  ftipariunt,  Regia  gaz.<t  Chortgiuntfiiitj 

Tragicus  maxime  quam  fabulam  mtlefolvit. 
tofl  regnum  Teftamento  (nit  diftribntum,  ptHpertrtem  popttlo  im* 

peratam, 
Dijfipatos  Principe^  nobilitatemfHpfliciu  cxhattftam, 

y  exteras  Gentcs  bello  &  incendiis  is*- 


Pacem  terra  marine  profltgatam, 
Cltmfatjfcente  carport,  animum  gravioribtu  confiliis  fgre  vegf- 

taret, 

EtnttUiut  non  interest  tpfum  A  fit  vivere  ant  mori, 
Jamqne  bona  fm    parte  monuuf  ,    niiorwn    tantum   morte   t//- 

pirafe  defut  &  timtri. 


Gent.   17.  Of  FRANCE. 


Offtxa  mortalitas  ! 
Quant  tentte  momentum  eft  inter  omnia  &  nihil  f 

JMortuj,  corpta  rbeda  extulit, 
SfCftti  equitcSf  peditefqtte  magno  numero 
faces  pratitlcrttnt  Ephebi,  crucemncmo,  qttia  cmnu 
rebat. 

Dcniqite  kunc  tumnlmn  intplet  non  tot  urn, 
Quern  tota  Europa  non  implcbat. 
Inter  Theologosfttu  ingens  difrutandi  argument  urn, 
§fyo  migravit  facr amentum  efl. 

Hw  tf3  lettor  volui,  heic  te  ntetirc,, . 
Et  abi. 

Stay  paflfenger,  where  haft'neft  thou  ? 

Here  maift  thou  read  what  thou  male  not  fee,  nor  hear  any  where 
dfe, 

Armeind  John  dn  Plefps,  Cardinal  vfRicblieu 

Noble  by  defcent,  great  in  wit,  moft  eminent  in  fortune, 

And  what  thou  maift  admire^ 
A  Prieftjn  the  Field,. a  Divine  at  Court*  . 
A  Bifliop  without  a.Cure>  a  Cardinal  without  a  Title,  a  King  without 
name, 

Yet  one  who  was  all  thefe. 

He  had  nature  in  all  her  numbers,  Fortune  in  his  Counfels, 
The  Royal  Treafure  in  pofTeflion,  (ecurity  in  War,  Vidory  under 

his  Banner, 
He,  kept  his.  Confederates  in  compafs,  his^Countrey-men  in  ftr- 

vitude, 
His  friends  at  a  diftanre,  his  enemies  in  Prifon, 

In  this  only  wretched  that  he  made  all  men  fo, . 
Being  as  well  the  torment,  as  the  ornament  of  his  time. 
He  fubdu'd  France,  he  fcarM Italy,. be  fliook  the  Empire, 
He  affilided  Sp#jnt  he  Crown'd  Braganza,  he  took  Loxrain, 
He  accepted  of  Catalonia,  he  fomented  Sweden,  he  maim 'si 
Flanders, 
He  troubled  England^  he  coufened  afl  Europe. 

A  purpled  Poet, 
Whofe  Stage  was  the  world^  glory  his  Curtain,  the  Exchequer 

his  tyring  houfe, 
His  fubjed  for  the  moft  .part  tragical,  to  which  he  put.  anill  Ca>, 

taftrophe.. 
Having  turn'd  the  Kingdom  to  Legacies,  bequeathed  poverty,  to.  ihc.t 

people, 

Difibated  the  Prioces,  exhaufted  the  Nobility  with  puni.fliraents, 

Bercfi 


Bereft  the  Parliament  of  power,  deftroy?d  other  Nations  with  fire 
and  fword, 

Driven  away  peace  by  Sea  and 'Land, 
.His   body  now  fainting,   his  mind  not  recreablc  for  reftlefi 

thoughts, 

When  it  concern'd  every  one  that  he  {hould  five  or  die, 
Being  in  good  part  already  mortifi'd ,  and  living  only  in  c;hcr$ 

death, 
He  iuddenly  ceas'd  to  breath,  and  to  be  feared. 

O  the  frail  things  of  fnortalit  yl 

What  a  fmall  moment  is  there  betwixt  fomething  and  nothing  ? 
The  Corpfe  were  carried  in  a  Chariot,  Horfe  and  Foot  followed 

in-great  numbers, 
Pages  carried  Torches,  none  the  Crofs,  for  the  Chariot  carried 

ike  publick  Crofs. 
In  fine^  he  hardly  fill'd  up  his  grave, 
Whom  a  11  Europe  could  not  fill. 
'He  lies  among  the  Sorbonifts, 
Of  Difpute  a  mighty  Argument, 
Whither  he  is  gone  'tis  a  Sacrament. 
Reader,  this  is  all  I  would  have  with  thee, 
Hereby  meafure  thy  felf,  and  be  gone. 


He  died  at  Paris  "December  4.  1642.  in  the  57.  year,  and  third 
month  of  his  Age. 

After  the  deceafe  ofRicbUev,  Cardinal  Julitu  M*tz.arin,  a  Gentleman 
of  an  ancient  Roman  Extraction,  was  put  to  fit  at  the  Helm.  He  toge- 
ther with  Leo  iJouthiller  Chavigni,  and  Soublet  Noyer,  both  Secreta- 
ries of  State,  were  the  Cabinet  Counfel  to  the  King.  Mazarin  was 
a  bofom  friend,  and  a  great  intrinfick  Confident  of  Ricklien  before,  who 
had  imparted  his  deligns,  infufed  all  his  Maxims  into  him,  and  open- 
ed unto  him  all  the  Arcana  Iwpcrii,  He  had  been  an  aftive  Politi- 
cal Inftrument  employ 'd  by  the  Pope  before  in  fundry  Treaties,  and 
difficult  traverfes  of  State,  wherein  he  had  good  fuccefs ,  and  in  all  his 
negotiations  he  was  difcoveredtobea  Perfon  of  excellent  addrefs  and 
rare  endowments. 

Five  months  after  the  death  of  Cardinal  Richlictt,  the  King  fell  fie  k 
at  S.  German's,  and  died  on  May  14.  1643.  the  fame  month,  the  fame 
day  of  the  month,  and  about  the  fame  hour  of  the  day  that  his  Father 
died  thirty  three  years  before,  but  with  this  mark  of  difference,  that 
the  one  went  out,  the  other  was  fent  out  of  the  world  about  the  fame 
time.  His  bowels  were  prefently  carried  to  be  interred  at  Saint  Den- 
nis y  whither  his  Body  followed  after  in  the  height  of  all  folemnity 

an<4 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE.  161 

and  magnificence  that  his  Queen  could  dcrife,  whom  he  left  Regent  of 
the  Realm. 

He  was  a  great  Zealot  in  the  Religion  and  Ceremonies  of  the 
Church  of  Rome.  When  the  Queen  found  her  fclf  quick,  he  caus'd  a 
foleran  Declaration  to  be  publiflied,  wherein-he  made  the  blefled  Vir- 
gin Proteftrefs  under  the  holy  Trinity  of  all  his  Eftates,  all  which  he 
confecratcd  to  her  4  and  for  an  immortal  Mark  of  this  Confecration, 
fee  commanded  the  great  Altar  in  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Part*  to 
be  built  anew,  with  the  Image  of  the  Virgin,  which  fliould  hold  in  her 
Arms  that  of  our  Saviour^  and  the  K.  to  lie  proftrate  before  the  Son  and 
Mother,  offering  them  his  Crown  and  Scepter.  The  Archbifhop  of 
farif  was  enjoyn'd  to  Commemorate  this  Declaration  once  every  year 
upon  Afiumpt  ion-day  at  the  Altar  in  the  Morning  ^  and  that  in  the 
Eyening  a  general  Proceffion  fliould  be  made,  wherein  the  Provoft  of 
Paris,  ind  all  the  Sovereign  Companies  (hould  be  affiftant  with  the 
Court  of  Parliament.  This  Command  extended  to  all  other  Archbi- 
fhops  and  Bifhops  throughout  Franc*,  that  they  fhould  in  every  Ca- 
thedral Church  ered  one  fpecial  Altar  to  the  Virgin  Mary  for  this 
end,  and  in  commemoration  of  this  Aft  to  pepetuity. 

One  Inftance  more  I  (hall  add  of  his  Zeal  to  the  Romifi  Religion. 
When  the  Old  Marjhal  de  la  Force  a  Proteftant,  was  admitted  to  fee 
him  a  little  before  he  expired,  he  told  him  on  his  death-bed,  That 
he  thought  God  Almighty  fuffer'd  him  (  meaning  the  Marfhal )  to 
live  folong  upon  Earth  expedinghisConverfion,  as  he  had  done  that 
of  Lcfdiguicrs. 

He  put  out  fundry  Proclamations  againft  Swearers,  againft  Pride  in 
apparel  ,as  alfo  againft  Duels :  and  the  laft  was  fo  ftrid,  That  both  the 
appellant  and  defendent  whofoeverdid  furvive,  fhould  fuffer  death  with- 
out mercy,  and  be  deprived  of  Chriftian  burial,  but  both  rot  upon  the 
Gallows  with  their  heels  upwards. 

Here  I  (hall  put  down  a  Lift  of  divers  Books  that  were  Printed  in 
France  for  fundry  years  paft. 

Francifti  Garcia  Evangeliciu  concionator.  Printed  at  Lions,  Ann* 
1622. 

Petri  Damiani  Cardintli*  opera.      Printed  ViLions,  1623. 
Bibliothica     Vtterum     Patrum    (jrxcorunt  ,     Printed    at: 
1624. 

Dent ,  Natura^  &   Gratia^  by  Saint   fara,   Printed  at  Lions ,' 
1625. 

PHteani  fimmentari*  in  futttmam  D.  Thorn*,  Printed  at  Tboloufc, 
1627. 

Biblia,  Scftuaginta  cumCrfca  Teftamcnto  Gr;t.  Lot.  inthree  Vo- 
kmies.   Printed  at  Paris,  1628. 

Xxt  Stilt* 


6T""       Hffi  ccclefmftical  %ifto?p       cent.  17. 

#£//;*  VidgAta,  Printed  1628. 

Bibliothtca  Ordini*  Pr&monfrdtenps  fer  Job.  le  P*v*z>f,  Printed  at 
Prfrtf,  1633, 

Ludov.  Dole  de  Concurfibtu  Del  &  creatur<e>    Printed  at  Lionf^ 
1634. 
Concilia,  Generdia  Gr&c.    Lat.  ten  Volumes,  Printed  at  Tar  is. 

Franc.  Lanovii  Ckronican  generals  ordinis  Minimorum,     Printed  at 
P,wtf,  1635. 

Didacw  'Bj.z.a  de  Ckrifto  fgurato  in  Vet.  Teftaw.  Printed  at  Lion^ 
1636. 

franc  is  Hallicr  de  .far  is  cletiionibui  &>    ordinrtionilfuSj  at  Paris, 
1636. 

H1' florin  Ecclefa  Gallic 'an '*,at  Paris,  1636. 

Franc.  Bouquet  de  PovtificibM  Rvmanis  I  Gaflia  oriundis. 

Jacobi  Sirmondi  propemptrion  contra  Eitcharift.  CL  SalmtfiL 
-  Jac.  Sirmimdt  opufcula  'Dogmatum  -veteritm  Scriptornm. 

Andrew  de  Saitfy  sJMs.rtyrologium  Gallicanum^  at  Pjris,   1637, 

JM*irt.R.na.ci.nn&  ap-ra  cmnict^  Printed  at  Paris}  1633. 

Jacob i  Saliani  Ainales  Ecclefaftici. 

Steph.  Fagundez,  in  Decalog.  at  Lions,  1640. 

Thefts  Theologies  Proteft.     ^cademin  SalmHrienps,    at-  Saulmuy^ 
3641. 

Hottingeri  Hifloria  Ecclefinftica,  five  Volumes  compleat. 

ticttingeri  Analefta  Htftorico-Theologica,\  Oftavo. 

Afterwards  Anno   1646.  there  was  publifhed  AnnaHum  Ecclcfaftico- 
YMm  £pitomey  at  Rovcn. 

•Noviffiwa  GaHite  Concilia  a  Tewporc  CoKcilii  Trident iniy  ad  Annum 
1646,31  Paris. 

Lewes  XIV.  the   prefent  French  King  fucceeded  his  Father  in  the 
Kingdom,  being  about  five  years  old. 

Mazarine  cafting  with  himfelf  what  is  hurtful  and  profitable,  paft 
this  fentence upon  the  Clergy. 

Thefe  are  his  words  counfelling  the  Queen  Regent  :  The  Sacred 
Order  for  thefe  many  years  hath  had  but  a  thin  harveft  of  excellent 
Perfons,  however  it  come  to  pafs.  Men  follow  after  nice  Queftions, 
live  idly,  do  not  embrace  ferious  Studies.  All  is  done  with  pomp,  nay 
if  any  Sermons  be  to  be  made,  and  the  very  venerable  facrifice  offered. 
Of  their  Office  they  lay  claim  to  nothing  but  their  Rents :  the  duty  of 
Preaching,  which  is  the  principal  dignity  of  a  Bifhop,  they  quit  to 
any  one  though  never  fa  infufficienr.  They  think  themfclves  Bifhop 
enough,  if  they  can  but  ride  in  fine  Coaches  with,  their  Arms  fet  on, 
out-vie  one  another-  in  rich  Liveries  and  Lacquies,  and  punifh  with  ri- 
gour thofe  that  tranfgrefs  in  the  lead  matters.  Perpetual  haunters  of 
ladies  Couches,  not  without  undervaluing  the  Paftoral  fhff.  This  is 

for 


Cent.  17-.  Of  FRANCE.  163 

for  the  moft  paft,for  there  are  Come  that  lead  holy  and  unreprovable  lives. 
Hethat  fhall  take  offence,  will  own  himfelf  not  to  be  oneof  thefe,  but 
thofc  other.  So  much  power  hath  Religion  over  the  minds  of  men, 
that  as  often  as  among  men  in  holy  Orders  any  eminent  vertue  hath 
got  up,  and  overcome  the  common  attainments  and  the  vices  of  mankind, 
it  is  adored  like  a  Deity.  At  that  time  that  company  was  of  no  weight 
nor  moment  in  prance,  faid  Mazarine* 

There  was  Francis  PaulGondy,  by ^  extraction  a  Florentine,  but  born 
in  France,  Abbot  of  Rhetz,,  afterwards  Coadjutor  to  the  Biftiop  of 
Paris,  Archbifhop  of  Corinth ,  one  that  if  occafion  had  offered,  would 
feate  afpiredhigh,  as  Cardinal  Mazarine  confefied  he  was  perfw^ded. 
Over  and  above  an  honourable  Family,  he  had  eloquence  and  learning 
friih  prompmefs  of  fpirit. 

All  vvas  now  profperous  and  quiet  in  France ,  whofe  power  reached 
over  Almanit  from  the  Maz.elin  Brink  beyond  the  Rhine..  By  the 
Vidory  at  Norlingue,  the  parts  confining  on  the  Danube,  were  after- 
wards invaded,  and  terror  ftruck  on  all  fides.  In  Spain  by  feizing 
Tortofa  and  Flix  the  French  got  to  the  River  Iber.  Their  Fleets  ranged 
over  the  Mediterranean  and  Ocean. 

All  Italy,  from  the  Pope  (  who  then  was  Vrban  VIII )  to  the  leaft 
Princes,  bore  reverence.  The  Dukes  of  Savoy,  Mantua,  and  *JWo- 
dena,  then  rather  Inftruments  of  French  flavery,  than  free  Princes. 
The  Kings  of  Sweekn  and  Denmark^  boafted  of  their  friendfhip  :  the 
Pole  fued'for  ir.  The  Eltfdors  of  Germany  fougtit  to  intereft  themfelves 
in  their  favour.  Portugal  rent  from  Spaifr,  depended  on  the  looks  of 
France,  whofe '  YoakCatalonia  had  put  on.-  being  weary  of  the  Spantft 
Dominion.  The  Low  Countries  ftuck  clofe  to  them  :  Ml  Europe  with 
aftonifhment  fto'odgazmgat  fuch"  afta'teofthe^m«;^  affairs:  nothing 
was  then  wanting  to  compleat  their  happinefs  befide's  moderation,  and 
the  art  of  en  joy  ing  it. 

Paul  Gondy  defigned  A? chbifhop  of  Tarts,  is  confecrated  of  Co- 
rinth  ( it  is  tne  Bifliop  of  Rome's  practice,  that  fo  the  whole  world 
may  bethought  depending  <5n t neT^f ;'c-*b  Oratle,  to  exercifc  his  au- 
thorhyeven  upon  the  diffenting .parts.)'  That  day  was  firft  occafion  of 
much  enfuing  mifchief . 

Ferrario  Pallavicini,  a  Canon  Regular,  a  Parmefan,  of  a  Noble 
houfe,  fharply  inveighing  in  libellous  Pamphlets  againft  the  practices 
of  the  Rowan  Court,  loft  his  Head' at  Avignon  \\\  France,  and  gave  ir- 
ftance  how  unfafe  a  thing  it  is  to  touch  upon  the  Kowaa  State  in  writing, 
though  never  fo  truly. 

The  Divifions  of  Italy  being  clofed  up,  Pope  Vrban  VIII.  died 
July  29.  1644.  after  he  had  fate  twenty  one  years  and  fopac 
months. 

Xxx  2  .Then 


,^4  3O)e  ecc!cfiatttcau?tfto?p     Cent.  17* 

Then  do  Battifta  Pampbilio,  a  Noble  Roman,  was  Proclaimed  Pope, 
after  the  See  had  been  vacant  45.  daies.  He  alfumcd  the  name  of  Inno* 
cent  the  Tcmh. 

Ti*Hift.of          Tnis  Election  was  not  at  all  difpleafing  to  the  French,  though  they, 
cardinal's         were  not  a  little   difpleafed  at  Cardinal  Antonio,  who  for  his  own 
jun.j.  itt.  2.     prjvat:c  intereft  had  by  his  reiterated  inftances  perfwaded  that  Crown 
co  the  exdufion  of  Pamphilio,  and  afterwards  confented  to  it  contrary, 
to  the  King's  order ,,  and  without  expecting  the  return  of  the  Currier, 
which  was  difpatched  to  that  Court,  that  they  might  confult  upon  the 
bufinefs.    For  which  the  French  King  thought  fit  to  degrade  Cardinal 
Antonio  from   the  honour  he  poffeffed  of.being  Prote&or  of  Franc  f,. 
and  to  take  away  his  Royal  favour  from  Teodoli,  and  the  Marquefs  of 
San  Fit*  his  Brother,  and  torecal  his  AmbafTadour  San  Simon  into 
France,  torender  an  account  of  his  proceedings  -,  yet  in  the  mean  time 
the  moft  Chriftian  King  fail'd  not  with  aU  aSions  of  goodnefsandge- 
nerofity  to  endeavour  a  correfpondence  with  the  Perfon  and  Houfe  of 
the  new  Pope,  giving  him  to  understand  that  the  chaftifement  of  the 
afowefaid  perfons,  proceeded  from  the  averfion  they  had  to  his  Ele&t-i 
on  :  or  at  leaft  for  that  they  had^  per f waded  that  Crown  to  his  exclufi-. 
on,  with  arguments  much  contrary  to  the  truth. 

About  the  end  of  the  year  1646.  died  Henry  Bourbon  Pjrince  ofC0»- 
dc,  not  yei  fi&y  years  old.  Nothing  was  more  methodical  than  the 
whole  courfe  of  hi*  life  :  every  action  had  its  proper  feafon,  and 
each  year  they  returned  in  their  due  Periods,  as  by  a  Kalendar.. 

The  young  King  fell  dangeroufly  Tick  of  the  fmall  Pox,  but  he  recove- 
red, and  grew  up  under  the  inftruftions  of  Hardovin  Ptrtfx  Abbot  of 
Beaumont,  a  man  of  a  pleafant  gravity  and  wifdom,  afterwards  Archbi- 
fhop  of  Paris ,  who  might  have  been  ftiled  the  King's  Seneca,  but  that 
he  hapned  upon  a  Trajan. 

In  the  year  1647.  Whores  and  Bawds  of  al]  forts  were  banifhed  out 
of  Par  is  ;  not  by  an  Aft  of  Parliament,  but  by  an  Order  of  the  Provoft 
Marefchaf.. 

A  Writer  of  that  ftory  faitb,  It  was  a  ftameful  thing  to  ftir  thofe'mat^ 
tcrs,  which  having  been  ftirred  would  have  ftunk  filthily  :  and  to  be 
fierce  agahift  poor  Whores,  when  Noble  Ladies  did  proftitute  them-* 
felves  without  punifhment. 

Now  tstfazarinc  furnifheda  t-ibr-ary  in  fivour  of  the  Studious  witb 
Boofe  to  be  read  over  in  many  ages.  One  might  behold  (helves  raik 
ed  up  to  the  top  oftheRoof,  wherethrough  a  luxury  of  literature  was 
fct  up  a  learned  Pile,  not  as  Ornaments  of  a  Palace,  but  as  Inflruments, 
of  Wifdom,  not  ranked  for  a  fhsw,  but  for  ufe, 

In  the  year  1648.  a  Civil  War  in  France  was  unfortuoately.com* 
",  and  ail  France  was  fet  in  a  combuftibn,        Arthe  fame  time  * 

malig-- 


Cent.  i/»  Of  FRANCE. 


malignant  Star  did  influence  many  Kingdoms,  as  England,  Naples, 


Great  commotions  were  in  Par  if.  Peter  Seguier  Chancellour  of 
France,  is  difpatched  to  the  Parliament,  to  carry  them  the  King's  Or- 
ders,' or  in  truth,  to  try  what  was  their  intention. 

He  was  like  to  be  torn  in  pieces  by  the  Rabble.  But  t&fifcray  en 
Horfcback  with  Dart,  break  through  the  Seditious  crew,  and  having 
refcued  the  Chancellour  from  that  imminent  danger  ,  convey  him  back 
fafe  to  the  Queen  in  a  Coach  lialf-torn,  the  Guard  being  frighted  7 
and  fome  of  them  (lain.  The  Sedition  breaks  out  farther,  andthemad- 
nefs  of  the  people  rifeth  to  higher  exafpcration, 

f.  Paul  ^endy^y  defigned  Archbifliop  of  Parts,  (  commonly  ftyled 
Coadjutor  )  in  his  Pontifical  Robes,  carrying  with  him  a  veneration 
as  he  pafled  along  the  Streets  ,  moderated  the  people  with  Language 
and  gefture.  Some  there  were  that  taxed  Gondy,  as  if  in  his  heart  he 
bad  been  fomewhat  favouring  alterations.  However  the  matters  were 
in  truth,  that  was  the  firft  dayof(7<Wy'5  withdrawing,  and  the  caule 
of  all  thofc  evils,  which  that  Prelate  eminent  in  Mind,  Birth,  and  Me-* 
ritSj  fell  into  afterwards  i  from  this  time  he  (hall  be  ever  after  called 
the  Archbifliop  of  Corinth. 

Mazarine  took  care  to  have  the  King  conveyed  to  Ruel,  two  miles 
out  of  Town,  under  pretence  of  taking  the  Air.  The  Ring-leaders  of 
the  Sedition  fretted,  and  could  not  digeft  to  have  the  King  refcued  from 
their  fury.  The  firft  remarkable  Aft  of  the  retirement  to  Rue  /,  was  the 
imprifonment  and  banifhment  oiChavigny. 

Here  begins  a  general  ftorm  to  gather  over  Mazarine.  Orleans 
ftepsin  as-  a  Mediator  between  Ccurt  and  Parliament.  Conde  returned 
from  the  Campaignc,  elated  with  his  frefh  Victory,  at  firft  dealt  rough* 
ly  with  the  Senate,  afterwards  flattered  their  Leaders.-  pretended  at 
leaft  to  Conftable  or  Admiral.  Longueville  inftigated  his  Brother-in- 
Law,  boafting  that  he  had  obtained  Havre  de  Grace^  the  famous 
ftrength  of  Normandy,  fo  taking  occafion  to  fall  from  his  former  Par- 
ty.. The  Archbifhop  of  Corinth  put  LongHevilkQn  to  fuch  courfes,  op»- 
on  a  vain  expectation,  as  if  he  fhould  be  declared  by  an  Ad  of  Parlia- 
ment Prince  of  the  blood.  Anne  Bourbon,  the  Wife  ofL&ig*evtSf, 
was  of  great  moment  to  the  Faction  :  flie  carried  along  with  her  the 
Archbifhop  of  Corinth,  the  Duke  of  Rftz,  her  Brother  Conti,  with 
RochfoMcaulty  .wlio  was  then  that  Ladies  Cabinet  Counfellour.  Thofc 
all  pretended  thepublick  and  private  good.  That  their  Tyranny  mini 
be  abated  with.  Arms,  who  had  put  the  King  upon  cruel  Gountels,  and: 
rendr-ed  the  Princes  odious  to  him,  and  fufpe&ed. 

The  Queen  fees  Her  felf  &ruck  at  through  the  fides  of  -M.*t..irinef 
She  compofeth  her  mind,  recollecting  her  thoughts  ho-v  to  provide 
for  the  future.  J&tzjirwe  applies  hi?  raujd-  to-  art  accoasaiodatton. 

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cent. 


The  fubftance  of  the  Articles  was,  That  many  Taxes  were  to  be  abated 
in  Towns  and  Countrey  :  The  Provinces  weretobeeafed  of  them  by 
the  Matters  of  Requefts  :  no  man  might  be  kept  in  Prifon  above  the 
fpjce  of  one  natural  day,  without  anfwering  to  his  charge  in  the 
Houfe  :  which  was  eagerly  disputed  and  approved  even  by  the  Court 
Party.  C^z//^  is  releafed,  and  turns  afide  tvTpurs.  Thus  the  iirft 
heat  of  Paris  was  afiwaged.  About  the  end  of  Ottober  the  King  re- 
turns to  Paris. 

But  the  Faction  having  got  ftrength  through  his  Ma  jeftie's  Clemen- 
cy, and  the  obtaining  their  Petitions,  as    being  now  eftablifhed  by 
Law,  maketh  the  former  concefiions  but  a  ftep  to  higher  demands. 
The  Parliament  boiled  up  with  new  defigns.     The  ftorm  of  envy  dif- 
chargeth  it  felf  on  *JMaz.arinc  :  it  is  openly  cried  out,     That  the  Axe 
wttft  be  laid  to  the  root  •  the  Stranger  muft  be  excelled  out  of  the  King* 
dow.     At  length  the  Thunder-  clap  broke  over  the  head  of  Mazarine. 
He  is  Voted  in  a  full  Houfe  guilty  of  High  Treafon,  and  the  difturber 
of  the  publick  Peace.     Every  Age,  Condition,  Sex,  is  commanded  to 
aiTault,  (hoot,  or  ftab  him  :  Whoever  harboured  him  in  the  fame  houfe 
with  them,  fhould  be  guilty  of  the  fame  Crime  with  him.    In  the  City 
came  out  divers  libels  againft  Mazarine. 

On  December  26.  Monfettr  du  Bofquet  (  heretofore  Lord  Chief- 
Juftice  in  the  Province  of  Languedoc,  as  alfo  for  that  of^uienne  )  had 
the  Bifhoprick  of  Lodeva  beftowed  upon  him  by  his  Majefty,  and 
was  tranfmitted  into  holy  Orders,  and  after  confecrated  bytheArch- 
bifliop  otNarbonne,  having  for  his  Afiiftants,  the  Bifhopsof2tau>r.f 
and  Mcz.. 

Then  was  a  Letter  fent  from  the  Court  of  Parliament  at  .JV#,  to  all 

Majors,  Bailifs,  Sheriffs,  and  other  publick  Officers  in  rhe  Kingdom  of 

france,  craving  of  them  to  aid  and  aftift  the  City  of  Paris  with  fuch 

Provifions  whereof  it  might  ftand  in  need,  and  with  fuppltesof  men 

and  other   War-like  necefTaries,  to   preferve  the  City  for  his  Maje- 

ftie's  fervice.    They  declared,  that  Mazarine  as  an  utter  enemy  to 

the  Kingdom,  fought  by  all  means,  yea  by  open  violence  and  force'  of 

Arms,  to  fupprefs  the  King's    Authority,  that  of  their  Court,  with 

the  publick  liberty.    And  to  that  effect  had  caufed  the  City  of  Parit 

to  be  inverted,  and  the  King  to  be  conveyed  from  thence  at  two  of  the 

clock  in  the  morning.     Upon  the  news  ofthefe  combuftions  in  Paris  at 

fame,  Monfiexr  M*z.wine  wrote   to  his  Son   the  Cardinal,  telling 

him  of  his  faults,  and  giving  his  Fatherly  advice. 

The  Court  now  between  Paris  and  Rovtn  (the  two  molt  power-' 
ful  Cities  of  the  Kingdom  )  was-  diftrefTed  wkh  the  want  of  all  things, 
cfpecially  of  money,  the  Aids  coming  in  but  flowly  from  all  parts. 
The  City  Militia  grew  every  day  more  unwilling  to  fubmit  to  Orders  : 
and  all  people  were  full  of  murmuring  complaints.  Thereupon  the 

Arch- 


Cent.    17.  Of  FRANCE. 


Archbifliop  of  Corinth  gets  up  into  the  Pulpit  at  St.  "Pauls,  and  faith  • 
/  tt'0«/^  ^z/*  fc^  you  in  fofety  ^  /  would  have  had  you  Victorious  • 
and  thegoodncf  of  the  caufe  had  acquitted  you,  itnlefl  your  repentance 
and  tamencp  did  plead  guilty.  Then  having  inveighed  much  a»ainft 
the  Government  and  Mtwrinc,  be  cometh  down  out  of  the  Pulpit  : 
and  having  put  off  his  Mitre  and  Surplice,  he  puttethon  his  Armour. 
Often  he  Tallied  out  of  the  Town  to  charge  the  Enemy,  without  any  re- 
gard to  his  Function.  Great  uproars  and  tumults  followed  j  but  at 
St.Cfermant  the  principal  Lords  of  the  King's  Council  did  earneftly 
treat  of  Peace  with  the  Parliaments  Commillioners,  A4jz.arim  bein» 
excluded,  as  already  pre-conderaned  by  publick  Ads,  fome  Courtiers 
driving  th.it  way,  that  they  might  engrofs  to  themfelves  the  honour 
of  having  procured  the  quiet  of  the  State.  The  Qu/en  oppofed  it 
ftrongly,  and  at  length  when  he  was  taken  in  March"n.  1649.  the 
Articles  were  agreed  to  the  great  joy  of  the  Common  people.  That 
an  Aft  cf  Oblivion  for  pafl  mifcturriages  be  made.  That  all  things  be 
re  flared  to  their  former  eftate.  That  the  King  be  brought  home  a /rain, 
to  Paris.  Taxes  tobe  diminified.  *A  Treaty  of  "Peace  \viththe  "Spa- 
niard confented  to  :  and  fome  Worfliipfxl  Member  of  the  Ho>tfe  for 
Age  and  Experience,  be  ioyned  in  the  tranfation^  to  fee  it  concluded  HV- 
on  good  and  firm  terms. 

The  Sedition  at  Paris  was  fcarce  quiet,  but  the  Faction  works  in 
new  Plots.  There  is  a  Rifing  in  Provence,  and  efpechlly  in  Guicnne 
againft  their  Governours,  which  Conde  underhand  abetteth.  Condty. 
Conti^  and  Longueville^  are  imprifoned.  Thrice  they  alter  their  Pri- 
fon  in  thirteen  months.  Various  tranfaftions  patted  in  the  mean  time 
in  Normandy,  Burgundy,  and  Guienne.  Great  conrefts  there  were 
cither  about  releafing  or  detaining  the  Prifoners.  The  Cardinal  and 
the  Slingers  fell  at  odds,  foas  to  betray  one  another,  and  treat  with 
the  Prifoners  about  Marriages,  and  in  a  manner  fharing  the  who!e 
Kingdom.  At  length  a  Peace  is  concluded  and  published  on  v^;,;/?  2. 
1650.  and  all  things  are  fetled  inGtiienne.  The  King  cnrers  The  Ci- 
ty of  Bordeaux  with  a  Guard  of  four  thoufand  choice  men.  The 
Cardinal  had-  Lodgings  with  the  King  in  the  Arcbbiiliop's  Pa'ace^ 
Efyernon  the  caufe  of  the  Infurreftion,  was  excluded,  who  mi^hr  K~ 
his  (ingle  vertue purchafe  a  Government.  The  Life-Guards  weredi>- 
tnifTed,  and  the  King  trufled  himfelf  to  the  Guard  of  his  Suhjrfts, 
Which  took  much  with  their  Ambitious  temper.  The  Court  parted 
from  thence.  The  King  flayed  at  Fountainblsan,  all  being  in  an  up- 
roar in  ?ari&  j  at  his  fuccefs  in  Guienne  ,  the  Fadion  were  en- 
raged. 

On  November  15.  165 Ok  Conde,  Conti,  and  LffngttfviBt,  wrre 
conveyed  in  eleven  daies  journey  through  the  mid^t  of  Norwandy  to. 
Home  de  Grace,  where  they  were  kept  in.clofe  euRody. 


1 68         1Oje  cccieftaffreal  ^iftojp Cent.  \?. 

"  ftcured  the  conveyance  with  four  hundred  Horfe,  and  the  like  number 
of  Foot. 

On  February  6.  1651.  in  a  dark  night  the  Cardinal  Incognito,  in 
a  difguifed  habit  guarded  by  about  20O.*Horle,  riding  himfelf  on 
horfeback,  retired  to  St.  Gvrm*ns>  fdarcourt  beating  the  way.  He 
purfues  his  journey  through  the  midft  of  Normandy  to  H*vre  dc 
Grace  with  a  pompous  train  ,  gazed  at  by  all  the  people  as  he  pafled 
along.  M*z.arine  having  difpofed  his  Cavalry  into  the  neighbouring 
Villages,  enters  into  Havre  de  Grace  with  his  retinue  of  menial  fer- 
vants.  He  goes  into  the  Caftle  alone  with  only  two  others,  he  deli- 
vers the  Queens  Letters  to  the  Governour  for  the  releafing  of  the 
Princes,  which  was  done  accordingly.  Longuevillc  went  out  firft, 
then  Contiy  and  both  of  them  leaped  mtoGrammont's  Coach.  Conde 
ftaid  a  little  while  after  with  the  Cardinal  in  the  Prifon  Chamber,  where 
they  had  Conference  together. 

The  enlarged  Princes  return  to  Partsy  where  the  Souldiery  at  the 
fight  of  Conde  weep  for  joy.  Great  was  the  concourfe  of  the  City, 
and  fo  great  was  the  joy,  as  though  the  Pillars  were  reftored  to  the 
Kingdom. 

fJtfazarMe  withdraws  from  France,  and  comes  in  fafety  to  Srovel, 
the  Palace  of  the  Eledor  of  Cologn.  Thence  he  writes  to  the  Queen, 
and  the  Count  dc  Eriennc,\\\s  Majeftie's  Secretary.  This  Letter  be- 
ing read  with  an  audible  voice  in  the  Privy  Council,  brought  fome  to 
relent,  but  exafperated  more.  Mazarine  is  Voted  in  a  fulJhoufe  guil- 
ty of  High  Treafon,  the  difturber  of  the  publick  peace,  and  enemy  of 
Prince.  Strid  prohibitions  are  made,  that  no  French  man  fliould 
hold  eorrefpendence  with  him,  impofmg  a  fevere  penalty  on  alJ  that 
fhould  prefume  to  tranfgrefs. 

Mazarine  was  in  ill  condition,  againft  whofe  return  were  ftriA  Or- 
dinances, to  which  the  Queen  Regent  gave  her  affent  :  nay  by  A&  of 
Parliament,  not  only  foreign  but  home-born  Cardinals  and  Eccleli- 
afticks,  in  what  degree  foever  dignified,  are  rendred  uncapable  of  be- 
ing admitted  Members  of  the  King's  Council.  No  man  can  pay  a  di- 
vided Allegiance  to  his  natural  Sovereign,  and  the  Bifhopof  Rome. 
For  Cardinals,  if  the  account  be  rightly  caft  up,  are  but  Curates  in 
Purple.  They  fhould  attend  the-Confiftories,  and  over-fee  ftieir  Flock, 
the  charge  whereof  cannot  be  negledcd  without  the  hazard  of  fouls. 
Corinth  drew  againftthe  Bill,  that  only  foreigners  fhould  be  excluded 
from  the  Government,  left  hi«  expe&ed  Hat  not  being  lined  with 
that  Miniftry  to  which  he  afpired,  might  be  deprefied  by  his  meaner 
contemplations. 

Obuffon,  Archbiihop  of Twrdon,  in  behalf  of  the  Clergy  made  an 
eloquent  Oration  for  the  priviledges  of  the  Church,  but  without  fuc- 
cefs.  Yet  the  reputation  of  Ob  fan  grew  by  this  means  higher,  and 

paved 


C  ent.17-  Of  FRANC  E. 


paved  him  a  path  to  future  preferments.  The  main  fcope  of  his  Ora- 
tion lay  in  amplifying  the  obligations  that  Cardinals  had  laid  upon 
France,  whofe  good  fervices  were  confpicuous  all  over  the  World. 
The  Parliament  anfwered,  that  the  fame  Cardinals  were  infatiable  in 
Ambition  and  Covetoufnefs.  This  (  faid  they  )  is  incident  to  Ecclefi- 
aftic.il  dignities,  a  flighting  of  heavenly  matters,  and  an  affedation  of 
domineering  on  earth,  and  eminency  over  great  Princes,  in  all  which 
they  write  after  the  Copy,  and  come  as  near  as  they  can  to  the  Roman 
Court,  overcoming  all  the  world  in  pride.  They  added,  that  they 
turn  the  greatnefs  they  have  received  againft  their  very  benefadors, 
and  aim  at  nothing  lefs  by  their  Canonifts  and  Emiflaries,  than  the  total 
(uppreffion  of  the  Secular  power.  That  if  their  immoderate  advance 
proceed,  the  Authority  of  Church-men  will  become  Emprefs  of  the 
world,  and  the  Secular  power  muft  be  its  Lacquey,  which  is  fcandalous. 
The  Queen  tolerated  thefe  and  fuch  like  disorders,  and  others  che- 
riflied  them.  The  Parliament  condemned  them  as  prejudicial  to  their 
Authority.  The  Princes  could  not  well  digeft  the  hardinefs  of  the 
Parliament  of  Tarts.  The  Council  of  the  Nobles  flighted  both  Court 
and  Parliament,  and  joyned  with  the  Clergy.  Conde  removes  divers 
Minifters  of  State.  He  takes  the  Government  of  Guiettne,  rejedinghis 
prefent  one  of  Burgundy.  He  withdraws  from  Court.  The  Civil 
commotions  break  out  afrefh,  and  a  third  Bourdeaux  war  arifeth  .  Now 
Mazarine  is  revoked  upon  this  ground,  to  fuccour  the  King,  who  was 
again  diftrefled  by  the  fadion. 

The  day  of  the  Kings  Majority  approached  -,  The  King  with  the 
Queen  Regent  came  into  the  Parliament  on  September?.  1651.  with  a 
folemn  pomp.  The  Queen  having  made  a  fhort  recital  of  her  Regency, 
delivereth  up  her  Government  to  her  Son. 

Thefirft  Adion  of  the  new  King  was  to  fall  on  Conde's  Forces  at 
Marie,  Guife  and  Vervain.  They  were  partly  routed,'  and  fome  flain  -, 
part  under  the  command  of  Tavan  recovered  Stenay*  From  thence 
was  the  rife  of  the  Civil  War. 

Then  did  Comtf&conapafs  that  Hat  fo  often  promifed,  and  fo  often 
put  by  j  which  Pope  Innocent  granted,  not  fo  much  for  gratifying  the 
King,  as  the  eclipfing  Mazarine,  by  fetting  up  an  equal  to  him  in  dig- 
nity. No  longer  is  he  called  Corinth,  but  de  Rbetz.  fliall  he  be  hereaf- 
ter called. 

The  King  leaving  St.  Germans,  goes  and  falls  upon  Conde's  Forces  at 
Sflamfes,.  They  having  barricadoed  up  the  place,  make  a  ftout  de- 
fence, and  elude  the  afTaults  of  Tkurenne,  who  upon  the  approach  of  the 
Lorraineris  forced  to  draw  off,  and  convey  the  King  to  Corheil.  The 
Armies  meet,  and  fight  from  five  in  the  morning  till  five  in  the  evening 
with  great  fury.  There  were  flain  on  both  (ides  men  of  quality,  befides 
an  innumerable  company  of  common  fouldiers.  The  port  of  S.  Anthony 

Y  y  y  being 


X^c  Cccleftaftica!  l^tftozp       cent.  JLT. 

being  clear,  finde  with  his  mangled  Retinue  comes  into  the  City. 
Conde  draws  off  into  FUndtr*.  And  M*z*arint  counterfeits  a  depar- 
ture into  Spam,  to  divert  the  blame  of  the  troubles  upon  Conde  alone  : 
The  fadion  declines  :  The  King  returneth  to  Paris.  Orleans  with- 
draweth  without  waiting  on  the  Kmg. 

DeRhetzis  impriSoned  uFmcennes.  He  was  brought  to  Nantes, 
and  he  efcapes  from  thence,  and  afterwards  affifted  at  Rome  at  the  ele- 
ction of  Pope  Alexander  V II.  Then  returning  to  France,  he  volunta- 
rily laid  down  the  Arch-biQioprick  of  Paris  to  gratifie  the  King  :  he 
lives  quietly,  in  Splendour  Suitable  to  his  difpofition. 

Maz^arin  after  his  return  purfues  nothing  So  eagerly  as  the  peace,Set!eth 
France,  makes  a  peace  with  Cromvce^  and  reduceth  his  enemies  to  ex- 
tremities. 

1656.  Complaint  was  made  unto  the  King  againft  the  Proteftants  of  the  Ci- 
ty of  Montauban,  accufing  them  for  beating  a  Prieft,  and  making  a 
tumult,  to  the  breach  of  the  Kings  peace.  The  King  upon  the  com- 
plaint of  the  Clergy  appointed  Monfieur  Afelian  mafter  of  Requefts,  by 
fpecial  commiffion  to  go  and  make  enquiry  at  Momauloan,  touching  the 
truth  of  what  paffed  there  between  the  Proteftants  and  the  Catholicks, 
Whereof  the  Deputy  of  the  Proteftants  refiding  at  Paris  being  inform- 
ed, he  addrefTed  himfeif  to  Monfieur  Mdian,  and  gave  him  an  account  of 
alJ  paflages  according  to  the  teftimonies  and  depositions  that  had  been 
already  taken  about 'the' bufineSs :  as  how  that  they  were  moft  of  them 
Papifts  that  were  in  the  Tumult  at  the  death  of  the  Woman.  And  in 
cafe  this  were  not  true,,  then  he  dcfired  himSelf  might  Suffer  the  Same 
punifhraent  that  the  offenders  do  deferve.  In  themean  time  he  prayed 
the  Said  Commiffioner,  that  the  Proteftants  might  have  a  full  and  fair 
hearing  from  him,  when  he  fhould  arrive  at  Montauban. 

In  Auguft  1656.  the  Affembly  of  the  Clergy  fitting  in  Paru7ihey  re- 
folved  that  the  Deputies  of  the  Province  of  Paris  fhould  go  to  Court,  to 
reprefem  to  his  Majefty  theftate  of  the  Church  of  Paritf*  the  great  need 
that  there  was  of  his  countenance  and  direction  to  put  all  things  in  order, 

The  Deputies  of  the  (aid  Affembly  having  conferred  with  the  Chan- 
eellour,  and  the  other  Minifters  cf  State  there  refiding,  could  not  then 
come  to  any  condufion  upon  thofe  pretenfions  which  the  Clergy  alledged 
againft  thofe  of  the  Reformed  Religion.  And  therefore  the  Arch-> 
bifhop  of  Sens,  the  Biihop  of  Movtftelier,  and  two  Abbots,  Spent  Some 
time  at  Court  to  Sollieite  the  King  to  put  forth  Some  Decla- 
ration in  favour  of  the  Clergy  and  Catholick  Religion.  Madam, 
theDutchefs  of  Orleans  arrived  at  foartres  to  perform  a  Vow  which 
£he  h  d  made,  which  was,  that  once  every  year  fhe  would  vifit  the 
Church  of  Chartres^  there  to  make  her  devotion* 

On  Auguft  9.  the  Deputies  of  the  AfTembly  of  the  Clergy  went  with 
the  Chancellour^  to  confider  of  the  differences  and  quarrels  which  they 

bad 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE.  171 

had  againft  thofc  of  the  Reformed  Religion,  the  King  having  deputed 
the  Chancellour  to  joyn  with  them  in  the  examination  of  that  bufinefs. 

In  the  fame  month  the  Bifliop  of  £Wrwdiect  at  Pam.  He  had 
beenConfeflfour  to  Cardinal  Richlitut 

It  was  then  affirmed  by  letters  fromT^x^,  that  the  King  bad  con- 
fented  to  a  declaration  drawn  up  in  favour  of  ihe  Clergy  and  Carho- 
licks,  to  be  prefented  to  the  Parliament  for  their  verifies' ",n;  revoking 
his  declaration  of  the  year  1652.  which  was  made  in  favour  of  the 
Proteftants. 

The  Abbot  of  Marolks  was  apprehended,  and  Cent  prisoner  to  the 
'Sajiille  for  words  fpoken  againft  Cardinal  Mazarine.  • 

Chriftiantt,  late  Queen  of  Sweden  having  renounced  the  Proteftanf 
Religion,  and  revolted  to  the  Catholick  Religion,  came  into  France^ 
and  on  September  4..  1656.  lodged  at  fontambleau ,  where  fhe  was 
complemented  with  an  Oration  by  the  Sieur  Hambrocui,  the  Kings  Pro- 
feffbur  extraordinary  for  the  Hebrew,  Syr  lack,  and  Arabick  Tongues, 
he  being  prefented  to  her  by  the  Duke  of  (?/<//>.  On  the  fixth  (he  wai 
at  the  Houfe  of  Monfieur  He  filing  who  entertained  her  with  all  manner 
of  divertifcments  in  that  moft  delicious  place.  On  the  feventh  ihe  was 
at  Conflans  in  the  houfe  of  the  Duke  of  Richlien  •  where  (he  was  like- 
wife  very  nobly  treated  by  the  Duke  arid  DuchelV,  who  at  night  gave 
her  a  Comedy*  On  the  eighth  (he  made  her  entrance  into  Paru  on 
Horfeback,  palling  through  ten  thoufand  Cftiz? nsjw^o  flood  in  Armes 
to  receive  her.  Before  her  went  an  hundred  Swiraers  of  the  Kings 
Guard,  with  drums  beating.  At  the  Gate  of  S.  Anthony  fhe  bad  a 
fpeech  made  her  by  the  Sieur  de  Scve,  Provoft  of  Merchants,  in  head 
of  all  the  companies  of  the  City.  Then  £he  nr  rcficd  on  (  with  a  Ca- 
nopy carried  over  her,  the  great  Guns  being  difchargecP,  and  tire  Srrects 
all  adorned  wiih  rich  hangings  )  towards  the  Church  of  NoftrttDame* 
At  the  entrance  whereof  (he  was  entertained  wif'h  an  Oration  by  the 
Dean,  all  the  Clergy  giving  attendance,  and  then  pa/ling  to  the  Qm're, 
they  fang  Te  Deum  with  admirable  rhufick  -.after  which  fhe  Was  moft 
magnificently  conducted  to  the  Louvre. 

The  Archbiftiop  of  Roven  having  moft  unjuflly  proftfcuted  an  Advo- 
cate of  that  Parliament, called  Monfieur  ^f  Co^W,  a:  ProiefTdir  of  the 
Reformed  Religion,  for  writing  a  Book  by  order  and  with  apprdtati- 
onof  the  Synod  of  Normandy,  \n  anfwer  to  a  book  full  of  calumnia- 
tions and  falfi:ies,  written  by  a  Phyfitian  of  that  place,  who  from  a 
Protefhnt  had  a  little  before  turned  P^pift  :  And,  the  {aid  Archlrft  p 
by  liis  violent  perfecmi^n-  having  obliged  the  faid  Coward  to  lehve 
this  City  r  'by  -a  juft  judgement  of  Gbd,  who  life^n'  ordir.nriiv  to  puniflr 
men  in  the  very  things  wherein  they  have  finned,  He  the  fa  id  Arch- 
billiopfeU  info  the  fame  pit  which  he  had  digged  for  another,  having  at 
Rovcn  publifhed  a  moft  dangerous  Pamphlet,  containing  this  feditiou* 

Y  y  y  2  doctrine, 


1 7 ^  lO)e  ffcciefiatttcal  %tfto?p    cent,  17. 

dodrine,  That  in  is  lawful  to  fall  on  the  Hereticks  j  and  granting  ei- 
ther by  his  Archiepifcopal  authority  or  otherwife,  an  Indulgence  or  Par- 
don of  an  .hundred  years  to  any  one  that  .(hould  fall  on  any  pretended 
Heretick.  This  curfed  doftrine  coming  to  the  knowledge  of  the 
Trench  Court  •  and  the  dangerous  confluences  of  it  having  been  there 
ferioufly  weighed,  the  King  fent  order  to  the  Duke  of  Longueville^ 
Governour  of  that  Province,  to  apprehend  the  faid  Archbifhop  :  but 
he  timely  hearing  of  it,  ran  away,  and  abfented  himfeif  from  thence. 

An  English  man  was  imprifoned  at  Bourdeaxx,  having  been  taken  as 
he  was  endeavouring  to  feduce  divers  perfons  to  turn  to  the  Se<fr  and 
Opinions  of  the.  Quaker  sy  a  thing  not  heard  of  in  France  before  thai 
time. 

Great  talk  was  in  ^tris  of  a  Miracle,  which  (  they  fay  )  hapned  in 
the  Monaftery  of  Port- royal  in  that  City,  upon  one  that  was  a  Penfio- 
ner  belonging  to  that  Monaftery,  who  was  (aid  to  have  been  cured  of  a 
Eiftula  in  the  eye,  called  FiftuU  lackrymalis,  by  the  touch  of  one  of  the 
thorns,  which  the  Priefts  fay  was  taken  out  of  the  Crown  of  our  blefled 
Saviour:  But  how  it  came  into  France  I  cannot  tell  you.  And  albeit 
in  this  prying  age  the  Church  of  Rome  hath  not  been  very  forward  to 
broach  any  new  miracles,  efpecially  on  this  fide  the  Alpes,  yet  this 
hath  been  much  cried  up.  The  Grand  Vicar  of  the  Arch-bifhoprick 
of  Paris  was  the  firft  that  was  Patron  of  it,  and  afterward  it  was  ap- 
proved by  the  Curat  of  S.Severin  the  prefent  grand  Vicar,  affifted 
therein  by  five  Dodors  of  the  Sorbon,  and  a  publick  mafs  and  thankf- 
givingwas  celebrated  for  it^  Hereupon  many  were  drawn  to  the  faid 
Monaftery  to  be  cured  by  the  holy  Thorn. 

The  Affembly  of  the  Clergy  lay  fo  heavy  with  their  importunities 
«pon  the  King,  that  it  was  yielded  at  length,  that  a  Declaration  fhould 
be  ifTued  forth  contrary  to  the  fence  of  former  Declarations,  which 
were  made  in  favour  of  the  Protcftants.  Hereupon  the  Parliament  of 
Tholoxfe  proceeded  fo  far,  as  to  ratifie  the  faid  Declaration  againft  the 
Proteftants  of  Franse,  and  ordered  that  two  Counfellours  fhould  go  in- 
to upper  and  lower  Languedoc,  to  put  it  in  Execution  .  and  tocaufe  fuch 
Churches  to  be  demoli/hed  as  had  been  built  fince  the  Wars. 

Soon  after  theBifhopof  Soijfons  died,  a  Prelate  of  much  reputati- 
on, who  .hadferved  King  Henry  IV.  in  the  quality  of  Almoner.  He 
was  promoted  to  the  faid  Bifhoprick  in  the  year  1623.  He  had"  the 
honour  to  confecratc  the  prefent  King  at  his  Coronation. 

Since  the  Declaration  forementioned,  another  Declaration  of  the 
French  King  was  publifhed  at  far  is  in  behalf  of  the  Proteftants,  inti- 
mating that  the  Edifrof  Nantes  fhould  be  punctually  obferved  :  and 
that  two  Commiffioners,  one  Proteftant,  one  Papift,  fhould  repair  to 
the  places  where  any  innovations,  or  contraventions  had  been  made,  to 
reform  the  fame. 

Some 


Cent.  I/.  Of    FRANCE. 


17} 


Some  Bifhops  of  the  Aflembly  of  the  Clergy,  viz..  thofe  of \JMon- 
tattban  and  ex^/fy,  reprefented  to  the  faid  Aflembly,  that  the  anfwer 
made  in  the  behalf  of  the  Prote ftants  to  the  late  fpeech  of  the  Archbi- 
fliop  of  Sens,  ought  to  be  burnt,  as  a  Book  pernicious  and  injurious  to 
the  King,  as  they  reported  ^  and  other  Bifhops  affirming  the  contrary, 
for  the  proving  of  the  truth,  the  fame  anfwer  was  read  in  their  Aflem- 
bly by  the  Secretary  from  one  end  to  the  other  :  and  upon  reading  of  it 
the  Aflembly  concluded,  ttm  there  was  no  juft  ground  therein  to  com- 
plain of  it  to  the  King  •  and  fo  the  faid  Aflembly  diflblved  without  pro- 
lecuting  the  bufinefs  any  farther  at  that  time. 

Not  long  after,  a  certain  Popifh  Prieft  difcourfing  one  day  with  a 
French  Proteftant ,  with  defign  to  draw  him  over  to  the  Church  of 
Rome  •,  he  thought  he  had  brought  him  into  a  very  hopeful  way,  when 
the  Proteftant  had  told  him,  that  all  the  Proteftants  in  France  would 
fubmit  themfelves  to-the  Pope,  if  the  Pope  would  fubmit  himfelf  to  the 
Councils :  to  whom  the  Prieft  reply  ed,  it  will  be  neceflary  then  that  a 
Council  be  called ,  and  fuch  rules  eftablifhed  by  common  confent ,  as 
(hall  be  thought  neceflary  for  the  Government  of  the  Church..  To 
which  the  Proteftant  replyed  a  little  fiercely,  How  will  the  Pope  obferve 
the  Decrees  of  a  Council,  that  cannot  be  kept  from  violating  the  Prc* 
cepts  of  the  Gofpel  ?  but  if  yon  will  undertake  to  bring  the  Pope  to  a  fub- 
wiffion  to  them,  I  do  not  qucftion  to  convert  all  of  my  Religion  to  the 
Pope  :  far  to  tell  you  the  truth  Str,  7  hold  one  as  ftafible  as  the  other.  • 

After  the  taking  of  Dunkirk,  by  the  £>z£//j7jand  French,  and  put  in*  - 
to  the  hands  of  the  Englijh,  fiequi  is  fent  Embafiador  to  0.  Cromwel, 
with  tJMazarine's  Nephew  in  his  pompous  train  :    Cromvrel  died  noc 
long  after. 

Divers  places  in  Flanders  were  furrendered  ta  the  French  :•  but 
amidftthefe  profperous  fuccefles  thefrench  King  falls  into  a  Fever  at 
falaisy  judged  to  be  mortal.  Supplications  were  made  for  him  at  all 
Altars,  and  prayers  for  his  recovery  were  publickly  enjoyned. .  e^/rf- 
zjurine  day  and  night  fate  by  his  bed  fide,  to  make  him  governable  in 
taking  Phyfick,  which  he  would  tafte  himfelf,  either  to  take  off  .the  un-*. 
pleafantnefs,  or  to  make  proof  of  it.  The  eleventh  day  accounted  Cri- 
tical, the  King  feemed  at  the  point  of  death,  could  fcarcely.lift  up  his 
eyes,  that  now  appeared  almoft  fet  in  his  head.  His  Majefty  having 
1  Antimony  with  judgement  given  him  by  Geunault,  recovered  j  and  be^ 
ing  conveyed  to  Paris,  pay'd  his  Vows  in  Noftre-Dame  Church.  An 
heart  of  mafly  Gold  was  hung  upon  the  wall  as  an  oblation  :  afterwards 
to  confirm  his  health,  he  removed  to  fontainbleau,  .  Afa&aarint  ftayed 
fome  time  behind  to  advance  the  fiege  of  (jraveling.  The  taking  of 
Graveling  was  the  laft  Monument  of  the  French  glory  before  the  conclu- 
fion  of  the  peace. . 

At  twenty  *our  Seffions  the  bufinefs  -of  the  peace  between  France  and 
Spain  wascompkated,  and  at  lengthen  Novembe r  7.  1659,  the  Ankles 

agree u  , 


174  %l)£  CCCii ftafticai^lftD??         Cent.  17. 

agreed  on  by  the  two  Minifters,  were  figned,  and  publifhed. 

The  Cardinal  at  Tholoufe  rendered  the  King  and  Queen  an  account  of 
the  peace  concluded,  whereat  they  received  much  fatisfaftion. 

From  hence  the  Court  made  a  Progrefs  into  Provence  (.  till  the  King 
of  Spam  fhouldcome  with  his  daughter,  who  was  to  be  married  to  the 
French  King  )  to  compofe  the  di (orders  at  AdtirfeilUsj  which  had  broken 
out  about  the  Priviledges  of  their  Confuls. 

Gafton  Duke  of  Orleans,  born  of  Henry  IV.  and  MatJ tJW<dictfy 
only  Brother  of  King  Lewis  XIII.  having  laid  down  the  Civil  Arms, 
would  pafs  off  the  difcoments  that  were  rifen  in  his  mind  tor  the  ill 
fuccefs  of  hisddign,  by  miring  to  Blois.  On  a  fudden  he  turns  Anti- 
quary and  Htrbalift  •,  he  delighted  in  Dogs  and  hunting,  and  ranging 
the  Woods.  He  heareih  MaiTes  frequently,  fe.s  all  the  City  oCBloys 
imo  a  Religious  humour  :  openly  profefieth  himfelf  a  devout  Votary. 
Among  thefe  and  the  like  courfes  he  fell  fick,  and  having  Antimony  un- 
duly adminiftred,  within  a  Week  dieth  of  a  Lethargy.  The  Corpfe  of 
G*Jlo»  is  depofked  at  Sr.  Denh  among  the  Tombs  of  his  Anceftors 
with  a  private  burial. 

The  Kings  ofS/w'#  and  France  meet>  and  the  French  King  is  married 
to  Maria  lerffe,  daughter  to  the  King  of  Spain.  The  Gofpeis  were 
laid  on  Stands  on  both  fides  with  a  Crucifix.  The  Kings  kneeling 
frcore  upon  them,  that  they  would  religioufly  obferve  the  Articles  of 
the  peace  concluded,  which  were  at  the  fame  moment  read  by  the  Se- 
cretaries. 

Thefe  Kings  having  left  the  Ifland  where  they  met,  they  were  thus 
parted,  never  more  to  return  to  the  fight  of  one  another.  Ar  Sr.  John 
deLuz.^  next  day  a  folemn  Wedding  was  kept  with  unufual  fplendor. 
Then  without  any  fhy,  that  barren  coaft  and  unhofpitable  quarters  are 
abandoned.  The  King  and  Queen  ftaya  while  at  Fontainblesn,  there- 
by giving  the  Tc.rifinns  refpue  to  provide  for  the  pompous  folemnity. 
The  King  with  the  Qneen  Confort  haftens  his  entry  into  Taris. 

The  entry  was  next  to  a  triumph.  In  a  Domo  fet  up  in  the  Suburb  of 
•S1.  Anthony ,  both  their  Majefties  were  congratulated  by  the  feveral  Or- 
ders coming  forth  decently  marshalled.  Firft  Came  the  Ecclefiafticks 
CTrying  Images  with  them,  and  Antique  Gods  of  rude  workmanfhip. 
The  Tradefmen  followed  in  their  feveral  Companies.  Then  proceeded 
theMagiftrates^  and  afterwards  the  Parliament  in  their  Robes.  Next 
the  Chancellor  laid  over  with  Gold,  the  Maftersof  the  Requefts  guard- 
ing the  Royal  Seal,  charged  upon  an  Horfe  laden  with  trapping?.  The 
'  Soldiers  and  the  Heralds  in  rich  Coars.  All  had  fpotted  Plumes  in  their 
Hats.  The  Captains  marched  in  the  Head  of  their  Companies  with  the 
Knfigns.  All  forts  of  riches  are  difphyed,  and  the  ornaments  of  the 
City  are  brought  forth  to  grace  the  publick  joy.  A  Coach  embellifried 
with  allthebadges'ofMnjefty  is  brought  to  the  Q^een  •  {Tie  is  fet  in  it 
abne.  The  King  would  not  go  in  a  Coach,  but  mounted  on  3  gallant 

Steed, 


Cent.  17-  Of    FRANCE. 


Steed,  rode  before.  The  Princes  on  Horfeback  followed  immediately 
after.  In  the  way  all  along  as  they  came  were  Quires  of  excellent  Mu- 
fitians,  refound  ing  cheerful  Airs  in  Conforts  of  Inftrurmntal  and  Vocal 
Melody.  The  new  married  Couple  came  amidrt  this  Pomp  to  the  Ci- 
ty-Gare.  At  the  entrance  was  fet  up  aloft  an  Image  of  Peace,  holding 
forth  divers  Vcrfes  in  its  right  hand.  They  proceeded  from  the  Port 
through  the  High-Streets-  of  the  City  unto  the  Louver  even  tired 
with  joy. 

Scarce  were  fix  months  expired  after  the  Entry  of  the  King,  when 
M*z.Arint  was  taken  defperately  with  all  the  fymptoms  of  extreamcft 
pain.  His  Liver  and  Lungs  diftempered,  cauied  a  general  feeblenefs  in 
all  his  limbs.  .  The  Phyfirians  difcovering  there  was  no  hope  of  his  re- 
covery, he  retireth  to  Vincennes^  there  to  dye.  The  King  commanded 
hefhouldbe  left  to  his  reft,  and  difturbed  with  no  bufinefs.  He  is 
reported  to  have  fuggefted  many  things  of  the~various  Schemes  of  Po- 
licy to  the  King,  who  commonly  fate  by  his  bed  fide.  Many  fecrets  he 
iuftilled  into  the  King,  and  wifely  admonifhed  him,  That  himfelf  would 
undertake  the  Government  of  his  State,and  not  create  apublick  jealoufie 
by  ill-chofen  Favouri.res.  That  he  fhould  have  the  fame  Genius,  and 
the  fame  Divine  affiihnce  of  hiscounfel,  as  he  had  to  obtain  his  Victo- 
ries. As  they  were  thus  difcourfing  together,  many  times  he  fainted 
away  :  All  hope  being  paft,  the  King  departed.  The  fame  fetled  look 
which  the  Cardinal  had  when  he  was  well,  accompany^d  him  at  his 
departure. 

He  adopted  Dit  Porty  the  only  Son  of  Mdlleray  intorhe  Priviledges 
of  his  blood,  to  whom  he  gave  his  Niece  in  marriage,  and  conveyed  to 
him  his  Nime  and  Arms,  being  for  his  merits  taken  into  equal  dearnefs, 
as  if  he  had  been  his  own  Son.  He  advanced  his  Nephew  Mancini  in- 
Lordfhips,  Riches  and  Governments.  Thefe  were  to  (hare  equally. 
Of  his  Attendants  and  Menial  Servants,  fcarce  was  any  left  without 
a  Legacy. 

He  ordered  the  building  of  a  Colledge  for  the  training  up  the  you:  h 
of  the  gained  Provinces,  to  have  this  Matto,  At^fonument  of  the  Em- 
pire tnUrged. 

He  particularly  recommended  John  Bxptifta  Colbert,  whom  he  loved 
for  bis  many  good  qualities,  unto  the  King,  Having  a  vaft  quantity  of 
Jewels,  he  iiftributed  them  among  divers  perfon?.  To  the  Prince  of 
*Condt,  in  teftimony  of  injuries  forgotten,  he  gave  a  Dhmond  of  no 
mean  price.  To  the  King  he  left  eighteen  that  were  ineftimable,  ftyh  d 
fj^faz.arinesj  to  propagate  his  Name  and  Renown  to  pofterity.  He 
dyed  on  March  1  5  .  in  the  year  of  his  life  5  9.  of  his  power  1  8. 

He  was  obfervantof  the  Romijli  Religion,  as  to  the  Externals  of  it. 
B  -ing  near  his  end,  he  folemnly  received  the  Eucharifty  and  with  a  de- 
vout Litany  received  Extreamllndion:  and  further  requeffrd,that  Mattes 
Blight  be  kid  for  him*  All  was  diligently  performed  in  the  Temp  U<,  and 

tke 


30&e  cctlefiaftt'cal  l?iao?p      cent.  \7. 


the  Hoaft  expofed  upon  the  Altars.  Supplications  were  made  before  all 
the  Saints.  Zealous  he  was  for  the  See  of  Rome  beyond  meafure  j  and 
at  his  earned  rcqueft,  the  Pope's  Nuntio  bleft  him. 

After  the  death  of  M^arine,  the  King's  Cabinet  Counfellers  were 
MtchadTettier,  Hugh  Lyonne,  both  Secretaries  of  State,  vnd'frhnBa- 
ptifta  Colbert,  Lord  Treafurer,  men  of  great  fame  and  venue. 

•  Ac  the  end  of  the  month  of  July  1 66 1 .  Nicholas  Fouquct  was  arreft- 
,ed  as  he  returned  from  the  Kings  Council.  He  was  carried  into  the  Caftle 
of  singers,  from  thence  to  Vincennes,  and  at  laft  to  the  TZaftilc.  His 
penalty  at  laft  was  banifliment. 

The  French  and  Spaniard  having  fent  their  Minifters  into  England, 
there  arofe  a  contention  in  London  between  Eftradc  the  French ,  and 
'Battevitte  the  Spanifh  AmbafTador,  whofc  Coach  fhould  take  place  in  the 
proceeding.  Batteville  with  his  company  falls  violently  upon  the 
Attendants  of  Sftrade,  and  wounds  his  Coachman  tnd  Horfes,  and  fome 
of  his  Servants.  Tht  French  King  difchargeth  his  indignation  upon 
^Batteville,  and  banifheth  Count  Fuelfaldagrtc  from  the  Verge  of  the 
Court,  not  refpeding  his  integrity,  and  that  he  had  been  Condudor  of 
the  Queen,  who  was  the  Pledge  of  Peace.  He  alfo  denyed  Caracene 
( that  was  difcharged  of  the  Government  of  the  Low  (,'ountreys )  a  paf- 
fage  through  France-,  moreover  he  orders  the  Archbifhop  ofTvtrdon 
(who  was  then  at  Madrid  upon  ihe  Kings  account )  not  only  to  de- 
mand of  King  Phi  Up  himfelf,  that  Battevitte  might  be  punifhed  accor- 
ding to  the  hainoufnefs  of  the  offence  :  but  to  cut  off  all  contention 
about  precedency  for  the  future,  that  the  Spanifi  Renunciation  of  all 
Priority  might  be  eftablilhed  by  a  publick  Ad. 

The  Marquefs  Fuentes  is  now  fent  toParif  with  a  great  Train.  The 
King  caufeth  the  Popes  Nuntio,  the  AmbafTadors  of  Venice^  Sweden,  Sa- 
voy, the  Vnited  Province*,  and  all  Forreign  Minifters,  to  beprefenti 
as  alfo  the  Peers  of  the  Realm,  the  Chancellor,  and  four  Secretaries, 
to  regifter  it.  In  this  concourfe  fuentes  thus  fpake  to  the  King. 
There  being  nothing  more  upon  the  King  my  ^/H afters  heart,  than  Re- 
ligioufly  to  obferve  the  Laws  of  Confanguinity ,  He  hath  fent  me  hither 
with  a  charge  to  confirm  them,  which  At  his  Perfonal  f  re  fence  he  efta- 
'blijhed  with  his  Royal  month.  His  Perfon  I  fnftain  this  day,  not  re- 
frefenting  aKing,  that  knows  not  to  yield,  but  a  Father,  whofe  fpirit 
only  nature  works  to  a  complyance.  He  hath  thought  fit  voluntarily  to 
quit  to  you  thofe  "Tranfitory  honours  which  he  hath  enjoyed  fo  long,  fince 
Jlwrtly  death  is  like  to  put  a  period  to  them  :  Thefe  Gallantries  may 
become  your  <*s4ge.  Such  youthful  Ambition  an  old  -man,  and  your 
Father-in-law  envies  not.  The  London  outrage  hath  funk^  deeper  into 
his,  than  your  heart.  He  could  not  more  effett if  ally  redrefs  it,  than, 
by  punifoing  the  Author.  The  revocation  of  Batteville,  is  a  public^ 
declaration  of  inflicting  punifoment  on  him.  Bat  what  could  have  been 
added  wore  to  this.,  than  w  layftritt  in]nn^ions ,  that  his  Embajfadors 


•Cent.  17.  "TofF  RANGE.  177 

for  the  future,  do  not  contend  with  yours  about  precedency?  This  is  the 
occafon  of  thj£mbaffie,  wtych  1  the  rather  perform,  becaH/c  the  Peace 
latUy  conduced,  is  her  thy  confirmed.  May  it  fland  in  full  force  to 
all  generations. 

The  King  receiving  fatisfaction  in  his  due  honour,  gave  him  a  nod1 
when  he  had  concluded  his  fpeech.  He  advifed  the  Embafiadors  to  be 
mindful  of  what  had  paired,  and  to  report  to  their  refpective  Princes 
what  they  had  feen  and  Jieard. 

Now  Dunkirk.1^  contract  is  delivered  up  by  ^Englifh  into  the  hands 
of  the  French. 

A  Book  had  been  publifhed,  entituled,  The  Journal  of  Monfeur  de  St. 
Amour ,D.  of  Sorbonnc, containing  a  full  account  of  all  theTranfactions  both 
in  frame  and  at  Rome,  concerning  the  five  famous  Proportions  contro- 
verted between  the  Janfenifls  and  ihtMolinifts,  from  the  year  1646. 
till  1653.  and  an  addition  was  made  to  this  Journal  in  the  year  1662. 
The  fame  year  the  King  by  Proclamation  commanded  the  Tenets  of  the 
Javfsnifo  condemned  by  Pope  Innocent  X.  and  Alexander  V1L  to  beFwnf.^,;,w 
abolifhed.     The  Janfenifls  received  their  denomination  from  Cornelius  wasc: 
Janfen  Bifhop  of  Tpres,  who  about  the  fortieth  year  of  his  Age  put  out  Jjjj 
a  Book  about  Grace  and  Free-will.  SSS/if  fei 

About  this  time  an  affront  is  offered  unto  CrfgriK  the  French  EmbafTk-  fclSkaedfo  •. 
dor  at  Rome.    The  Corf  ( the  Soldiers  that  are  the  Popes  Guard  )  up-  jjii,  ^J^, 
on  pretence  of  fome  trivial  quarrel  with  fiequi's  Pages,  flioot  Piftolls  affiSiiai  intbe 
in  at  his  windows,  fet  upon  his  Wives  Coach  as  ftie  is  coming  home,  >ear  l6^« 
and   offer    all  forts  of  injuries,  trampling  upon  the  Sacrednefs  of 
thcEmbafly.    -Crequi  departeth  from  Rome  unfatisfied,   and  the  Corf 
triumph. 

Hereupon  the  King  his  Mafter  applyeth  himfelf  to  the  Colledge  of 
Cardinals  for  redrefs>  and  his  Letter  was  exactly  as  followeth. 


Coufin, 

THe  aflault  that  was  made  the  twentieth  currant  upon  the  perfon  of 
my  Coupn  the  Duke  o/Crequi,  my  Embtffador  £xtraordinary,  his 
Lady,  and  all  the  French  the  Corfi  of  Rome  could  meet  with  in  the 
Streets  that  day^  is  an  envrmity  fo  great  in  a/I  its  circumstances,  that 
perhaps  in  no  time  nor  place,  even  among  the  Barbarians  thenifclves^ 
can  an  inftance  be  found,  in  which  the  jus  Gentium  hath  been  with  fo 
much  inhumanity  'violated  and  abufed.  And  forafmuch  as  your  Emi- 
nence is  a  member  of  that  [acred  body^  that  is,  the  natural  Council  of 
the  Popes,  I  have  charged  Monfignor  Burlemont,  Auditor  of  the  Rota, 
lo  wait  upon  you  in  this  conjuncture ,  and  acquaint  you  with  my  refent- 
mentof  fo  great  an  offence,  to  the  end,  that  by  your  inter po/it ion  (vrbiib 
/  doubt  not  but  you  mil  willingly  undertake  as  farasyoufoall  be  able  )  / 

Zzz  may 


cccicftatttcai  %tfto?p      cent. 


may  receive  a  fatisfattion  adequate  to  ths  quality  ,  and  extravagance  of 
the  affront.    But  if  your  Eminence*  good  offices  Jbottl/i  happen  to  be  in-  . 
fffethialj  they  frail  not  be  imputed  to  me  (  after  t  hit  application  )  what-  . 
foever  mifchiefs  or  calamities  fraH  happen  ,  affuring  my  J'elf  1  frail  be 
excuf  able  both  to  God,  and  to  man,  whatever  the  conferences  be.    ./£#// 
thus  referring  the  reft  to  what  Monfignor  Burlemont  will  prefent  to  you 
try  word  of  nwutht  Jbefefch  God)  my  good  Confin^  to  preferve  you  in 
his  holy  favour. 

Sl.  Germans  en  ley, 
Auguft.  20.  1662, 

J.EWIS, 

De  Lorainie: 

This  Letter  was  read,  and  deliberated  in  the  Sacred  Coiledge,  and  the 
Cardinals  anfwerto  the  Kings  Letter  was  as  followeth3 

Moft  Chriftian  and  moft  Royal  Sir, 

Am  very  fenfble  of  the,  tranfccndent  favour  your  JMajefty  katb 
done  we  ,  in  vouchsafing  to  impart  to  me  your  resentment  for  the 
unhappy  accident  between  the  Corfes  And  certain  of  the  Dukf  of  Cre- 
qui'j  train  ^  bejtdes  the  honour  you  have  done  me  by  the  benign  confi- 
dence exprefled  in  your  Letter  ,  andby  the  mouth  of  Monfignor  Burie- 
mont,  your  jMajefty  alfo  hath  given  me  occasion  with  all  reverence  to 
reyrefent  the  great  difyleafure  conceived  by  our  whole  Court  t  .but  wore 
efpecially  his  Holinefs^  in  who  fe  he  art  there  is  already  fo  great  anim- 
freflion  of  efteemy  and  fo  tender  an  affection  for  your  Mbtjefty,  pro* 
duced  and  augmented  by  fo  many  glorious  attions,  Jo  many  perpetual  te* 
ftimonies  of  your  valour  and  piety  ,  in  demolifring  the  Garrifons  of 
Hfretickjt  and  Abutting  their  Churches  in  places  under  their  Command^ 
So  that  his  Holinefs  could  not  evidence  with  more  paternal  dinwnftra- 
tiony  the  difguft  that  aft  ion  hath  given  you,  which  he  hath  net  only  de~ 
dared  publickly  in  his  Brief  j  upon  thut  occafion^  bttt  in  the  Confiflory  al- 
foy  and  in  his  private  difcoiirje,  but  much  more  in  his  atlions^  bending 
all  his  thoughts  to  your  Majeftie  s  fat  is  faction,  as  he  hath  alwayts  de~ 
figned,  1  hope  therefore  your  Afajefly^  with  your  WQVtedgexetvfoy  will 
reflect  upon  the  juft  motives,  and  remain  fatisfied  even  for  the  entire 
quiet  and  confolation  of  your  fervants^  among  which  1  being  not  infer  i- 
our  to  any  in  point  of  obfervance,  neither  have  failed^  nor  will  fail  i;t 
my.  obedience  to  your  Majefty,  nor  in  employ  ing  my  [elf  to  the  utmefiof 
my  abilities  in  your  Male  flits  fervice.  On  the  other  pdc  iil'^wife  I 
frail  rejeyze,  if  in  your  Mayflies  Resolutions^  your  Makefiles  Royal 
.Bounty  and  Prudence  doth  more  and  more  appear,:  So  th&  to  make  rr.c 

perfectly 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRAN  G  E. 

perfectly  happy,  there  remains  nothing  fat  your  MAJefliesfrejk  commands  % 
which  I  moft  cbfeqmoufly  do  beg  of  your  Majefty,  and  make  wy  mo  ft 
humble  obeifance. 


170 


Rome,    24. 
1662. 


The  Count  de  Brienne  was  fent  by  the  King  of  f  ranee  to  the  Popes 
Nuntio  at  t\\z  French  Court,  to  Command  him  to  leave  Paris,  and  to 
retire  to  Mcattx,  and  not  to  ftir  from  thence  till  further  Order  from 
his  Majefty,  pretending  it  as  an  expedient  to  fecure  his  perfon  againft 
fome  fuch  tumult  as  hapned  in  Rome. 

Piccolomini  replied  with  all  poffible  refped,  that  he  would  obey  his 
Majefties  Order,  but  he  defired  firft  to  be  heard,  and  went  therefore 
that  very  night  to  Court.  But  being  heard  by  no  body  but  Monpeur 
Lyon,  he  declared  the  fentimems  of  the  Pope,  the  order  he  had  ta- 
ken for  the  punifhment  of  the  offendours,  the  demonftrations  of  kind- 
nefsthe  Pope  had  made  to  the  Ambafiadour,  endeavouring  with  alhhe 
Art  of  Rhetorick  to  clear  the  bufinefs,  and  by  contrary  Relations  to 
what  came  before,  to  let  him  underftand  he  could  not  receive  a  relega- 
tion. The  next  morning  the  Nuntio  retired  to  St.  (jermans,  and  ftirred 
not  out  of  the  Caftle,  that  he  might  not  ftem  to  difobey  the  Orders 
of  the  King.  Monfieur  Tellicr  came  to  fpeak  with  him  by  his  Maje- 
fties permiffion.  But  being  ftiff  and  inflexible  to  the  requefts  of  the 
Nuntio,  who  by  all  his  fabmifiions,  by  laying  before  him  the  reflection 
the  ill  ufage  of  his  perfon  would  have  upon  the  Church,  not  being  able 
to  prevail  for  the  protraction  of  his  departure,  as  foon  as  he  was  return- 
ed to  his  houfe,  he  Wrote  thisJLetter  to  him. 


I 


Moft  excellent  Sir, 

Can  by  no  means  admit  that  the  Kin^s  relegation  of  me  is  a  favour. 
If  it  befaid,  that  'tis  in  order  to  my  fecurity,  how  great  a  reflection, 
will  it  have  ttpox  the  Grandeur  of  his  IMajefty,  when  itisreyortedtk.it; 
an  innocent  perfon,  and  his  Holinefi  Nuntio  could  not  befafe  in  Pa- 
ris ?  Let  it  be  Lawful  therefore  for  me  with  all  due  reverence  and 
Jubmifjlon  to  fay,  that  indeed  it  is  at  the  Kings  plea  fur  e  to  retain  or 
command  me  whither  he  pleafeth.  But  it  isnotin  my  power  to  confab 
without  particular  fimmijjion  from  his  Holinefi,  or  at  leaft  an  apparent 
neceffity  for  me  to  do  it.  His  JMajefty  cannot  afcribe  it  to  any  want  of 
profound  obedience  in  me,  which  for  ny  part  Jjhall  alwaies  flew  with 
the  greateft  demo?ipration  ef  humility  and  fervice  I  am  able  :  and 
Zz.z.2,  there- 


3ui)e  ecciefiafticai  $fftgp     cent.  17. 



therefore  I  conceive  he  cannot  in  juftice  impofc  any  penalty  upon  a. 
Nuntio,  for  fo  contingent  an  accident t  ejjpcidly  his  Holinefi  having  al- 
ready declared  his  resolution  to  chaftifc  the  ojfcndoHrs,  and  begun  t» 
execute  that  re  faint  ton.  I  hope  your  excettence  will  have  fo  much 
cotvpujfion ,  M  in  this  cafe  to  endeavour  the  frottftioy  vft 

Yours,  &c. 

The  Nuntio  perfifted  ,  that  there  ought  to  be  an  apparent  and  pre- 
cife  neceflky  for  his  departure,  and  accordingly  he  received  letters 
from  Monficitr  4e  Lien  with  reiterated  orders  from  his  Majefty,  for  bis- 
removal  to  Meaux :  fo  that  all  the  Interceflion  of  foreign  Minifters, 
w^io  endeavoured  to  mitigate  the  bufinefs,  being  in  vain,  by  their  ad* 
vice  he  went  out  of  Taris,  but  went  (  infoad  of  Meaux )  to  Saint' 
D.tnnis,  that  he  might  not  feem  to  confent  to  his  difmiffion  :  and  by 
the  mediation  of  the  Minifters  about  the  King,  and  the  interpofiti- 
or*  of  foreign   reprefentatives  he  obtain'd,  that  his  resolution  was 
allowed,  at  Court  without  further  irritation  to  his  Majefty. 

On  September,  7,,  the  Nuntio  found  himfelf  befet  by  a  party  of 
forty  Souldiers  on  horfe-back,  drawn  by  order  out  of  his  Majeftie's 
Mufquetoons,  who  guarded  all  the  paflages  into  the  Covent  of  the 
Dominicans,  where  he  Lodged,  and  accompanied  the  Nuntio  and  all  his 
fervants  whenever  they  went  forth.  He  complained  to  the  Court  of 
this  A&ion  •,  but  he  was  anfwered^  that  they  knew  nothing  of  4r,  The 
Nuntio  diflembling  .the  bufinefs,  pretended  to  take  no  notice  of  it,  but 
gave  Order  that  the  Souldiers  as  ftrangers  fhould  be  invited  to  dinner, 
and  to  what  civilities  the  HoufecouUL  afford.  But  they  refufedthe  in- 
vitation with  reciprocal  civility. 

The  fame  night  there  arrived  a  Courrier  to  the  Nuntio  from  Rome 
with  the  Popes  firft  Breve  written  to  the  King,  with  more  diftinft  in. 
formation  of  what  was  paft  againft  the  Delinquents  thereby  the  Popes 
Orders,,  as.  the  price  that  was  fet  upon  their  Heads,,  the  deputation  of 
two  Congregations^  the  vifit  Cardinal  Chigi  made  to  the- Duke  of  Cre~ 
qtti,  and  a  long  Letter  of  narration  to  Monfieur  de  Lion. 

Tbe  next  morning  the  Nuntio  difpatchcd  it  to  Monftcur  Lion,  with  a> 
Sillet  of  his  own,  defiring  him  to  prefent  this  Breve  to  his  Majefty, 
to^ive  him  anaccount  of  the  reft,  and  to  prevail  that  the  Nuntio  might 
bft    admitted  to    fpeak,  with  him   himfelf.     Mon fie ur.  de  Lion  re- 
ceiving the  Billet,  carried  both  the  one  and  the  other  to  his  Majefty, 
^xpeding  what  he  would  command.     After  he  had  read  the  Breve  to- 
his  Majefty,  he  return 'd  hinj  this  anfwer,     That  he  (hould  read  the 
r-eftof  the  difpatch  that  day.totheKing.    And  accordingly  fcs  appoint- 
ed 


Cent.  17. Of  FRANCE.  18 

ed  a  Conference  with  the  Nuntio  at  Turennc,  whither  the  Nuntio  paf- 
fed  the  fame  night  attended  with  forty  Mufquetiers. 

The  Conference  was  long,  the  Nuntio  laying  before  him,  whit 
upon  the  foundation  of  truth5reafonand  the  paternal  inclination  of  hisHo- 
linefs,was  like  to  appeafe  his  Majefty.TheSieur  W*  Lion  aflured  the  Nun- 
tio>  thauhe  King  at  the  reading  of  the  Breve,  exprefled  much  fatisfa- 
ction,  to  fee  his  Holinefs  fo  well  difpofed  to  an  Accommodation  -, 
and  at  laft  it  was  concluded,  that  on  Sunday  i  o.  of  'Decembtr,  he  fhould 
have  an  anfwer.  The  Nuntio  had  intelligence  that  the  Breve  being 
read  in  Council  they  began  to  beappeafed. 

But  at  the  fame  time  a  Gentleman  arriving  from  the  Duke  ofCrtqui, 
with  advice  that  he  was  Commanded  out  of  the  Popes  Territories, 
incenfedhis  Majefty  fomuch,  That  as  foonas  he  was  gone  out  of  th£ 
Council,  Orders  were  difpatched  immediately  to  the  Nuntio  to  depart 
that  Kingdom  the  next  day.  And  albeit  he  fent  another  Breve  from 
the  Pope,  and  an  an£wer  to  de  Lion  from  himfelf,  thtre  was  no  further 
Treaty  to  be  had. 

The  Letters  from  the  Nuntio  to  Lion  and  Tc liter,  were  not  open- 
ed at  all.  The  Nuntio  departed  under  the  Conduct  of  fifty  Mufque- 
tiers  on  Horfe-back,  twenty  five  before  his  Coach,  and  as  many  be- 
hind, not  fuffering  him  to  difcourfe  wich  any  body,  forcing  him  to. 
march  ten  Leagues  a  day,  and  carrying  him  every  nighc  out  of  the 
Roady  without  acquainting  him  which  way  he  was  to  pafs.  In  ten 
dales  time  he  arrived  in  Savoy,  and  ftayed  there  for  fome  time  in  the 
Cbambery,  till  he  could  receive  further  Order  from  his  Hnlincf?, 
to  whom  he  had  given  particular  advice  of  all  that  had  paflTed. 

The  King  of  France  took  into  his  power  Avignon,  a  City  of  the 
Popes  in  France,  threatens  to  ufe  extremity,  and  prepares  an  Army 
againft  Italy.  After  divers  Treaties  it  was  concluded  at  Pi  fa,  Thac 
for  the  appealing  the  Kings  wrath,  the  Corf  be  perpetually  banifhccf 
from  Rome .  That  a  Pyramid  be  built  for  an  everlafting  Monument 
of  the  Action.  And  that  a  Legate  a  Latere  be  fent  alfo  to  the  King 
in  fubmiffive  terms ,  to  give  fatisfaction  for  the  hainoufnefs  of  the 
fact;  Which  was  decently  performed -by  Cardinal  Chigi,  the  Popes 
Nephew* 

At  the  time  that  accident  happened  to  the  Duke  ofCrrqui  in  Rewe, 
among  all  the  Cardinals  there  was  none  that  ftuck  fo  zealoiifly  ro  the 
French  party  as  the  Cardinal  d#  Retz,  :  to  the  admira  ion  of  every 
body,  that  a  perfon  that  had  been  turn'd  out  of  his  Church,  and  other 
Benefices,,  had  been  imprifoned,  perfecuted,  and  banifhed,  flioutd  ap- 
pear with  fuch  ardour- in  the  defence  of  that  intereftthat  was  the  caufe 
of  his  troubles  :  and  ( which  is  worfej  refolved  never  to  re-admir 
him  to  the  Dignities-he  had  -k)ft.:  The  King  or -France  unwilling  re 
j«t  the  conftancy  or  generofity  of  de  Retz.,  with  which  he  maintained 


Cent.  i?. 


the  juft  priviledges  cf  his  Crown,  to  go  unrewarded,  he  admitted  him 
again  into  his  favour  ,  which  he  enjoyes  to  this  day  (if  he  be  yet  liv- 
ing )  but  with  fome  conditional  limitations,  as  retaining  ftill  in  his 
mmd  the  prejudice  he  did  formerly  to  the  Crown,  though  he  often 
declared,  that  all  his  defigns  were  againft  Mazarine. 

Afterwards  Carlo  Robert  i  a  Raman,  was  created  Nontio,  and  fent 
into  France.  And  though  the  grofs  of  the  quarrel  forementioned 
was  compofed  by  the  Treaty  at  Pi(a,  yet  there  were  certain  reliques 
remaining,  that  without  good  managing  might  have  unravelled  all 
again.  Therefore  above  all  the  Pope  gave  Roberti  in  charge,that  he  (hould 
(as  much  as  in  him  lay  )  redintegrate  into  the  favour  of  hisMajefty, 
and  the  principal  Officers  in  his  Court  the  opinion  that  Cbigi  had  loft 
in  France  -,  and  that  he  (liould  endeavour  to  make  them  appear  inno- 
cent, and  full  of  affedion  for  that  Crown.  Pope  Alexander  VII. 
in  his  laft  promotion  made  him  a  Cardinal  with  the  reft  of  the  Nun- 
tio's,  and  fent  him  his  Cap  to  Paris.  Before  his  Nuntiature  into 
France,  this  Prelate  was  much  inclined  to  the  Intereft  of  Spain  :  but 
when  he  began  to  be  acquainted  with  the  French  Kings  entertainment, 
and  the  civility  of  the  F  rench  Court,  he  changed  his  mind,  and  followed 
the  humour  of  the  French. 

Afterwards  certain  Jefuites  difobliged  by  fome  check  which  they 
had  received  in  Paris  about  the  Jefuite  Anthony  Sancterelli's  Book, 
de  Hdrep,  Schifmate,  Apoftafia  (  in  which  he  fpake  to  the  difparage- 
ment  of  the  power  of  Princes,  but  magnified  and  exalted  the  power 
and  Authority  of  the  Pope  )  fell  publickly  to  maintain  before  the 
Kings  lace  the  queftion  of  the  Infallibility  and  inpeccahility  of  the 
Pope. 

The  French  Divines  thought  themfelves  concern'd  for  the  honour  of 
the  Crown  ,  and  confervation  of  the  anticnt  priviledges  of  their 
Church,  to  anfwer  them  with  a  moftjuft  and  well-grounded  Cenfure, 
wherewith  they  rigorouily  condemned  thedodrine  of  the  Jefuites,  as 
too  remote  from  the  general  opinion,  and  of  great  prejudice  tothe  Sove- 
*raignty  of  Princes. 

Pope  Alexander  VII.  having  notice  of  what  pafied,  certified  to  King 
Levees,  his  diilike  of  this  proceeding.  The  King  recommending  the 
examination  of  the  matter  to  the  wifdom  of  the  Parliament  of  Paris, 
they  upon  mature  deliberation  concluded  ,  that  the  Popes  Infallibility 
was  not  to  be  admitred  in  France,  as  being  an  innovation,  andincon* 
iiftcnt  with  the  ancient  priviledgeofthe  GallicAn  Church  :  and  there- 
fore they  faw  no  reafon  to  admit  a  new  opinion  ,  known  only  to 
iuch  as  depended  on  the  Court  of  Rome,  and  rejed  that  which  was 
of  greater  antiquity,  and  had  been  owned  by  fo  many  Popes.  Which 
determination  fo  netled  his  Holinefs,  that  he  fell  immediately  to  his 

Bulls, 


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185 


Bulls,  and  with  great  threatning  and  curfes  forbad  the  Printing  or  read- 
ing of  the  abovefaid  Cenfures. 

Among  other  expreflions  in  his  Bull,  there  were  thefe,  Pr«fata< 
cenfnras>iui  pr&fttt*ftnofa,  temer -aria*  atquc  [candalofas.  It  was  very 
well  known,  that  thofe  Cenfures  were  made  by  the  Sotfarijhi  the 
King's  principal  Divines,  by  the  Parliament  it  felf  ^  which  is  as  much  as 
to  fay,  by  the  Kinghimfdf.  Notwithstanding  the  Pope  fpiresno.  any 
revilings  v  but  throws  forth  peals  of  invedives  indifcriminacely ,  as 
if  from  a  Pope  nothing  is  injurious.  This  is  the  refped  the  Popes  bear 
to  the  moft  Chriftian  King,  and  to  fuch  a  State  as  France. 

Lewes  Duke  of  Pendojmt ,  a  French  man,  is  defcended  from  a  Natu- 
ral Son  of  King  Henry  IV.  who  Marrying  with  Frances  of  Lorr*in9 
Dutchefs  of  Mercoeivr,  had  this  Lswes  by  her.  He  had  no  great  en- 
clination  to  the  Ecdeflaiiical  habit,  his  mind  running  more  after  Ma- 
trimony, and  the  affairs  of  the  world.  Accordingly  when  he  arrived 
at  a  competent  Age,  he  Married  a  Niece  of  Cardinal  M*z.Arinc's,\\Q- 
ping  by  means  of  his  favour  to  open  away  to  fome  honourable  employ- 
ment. This  Lady  lived  not  many  years  with  the  Duke  her  Husband,  to 
whom  (he  left  two  hopeful  Sons. 

This  Lord  being  a  Widdower,  changeth  his  mind,  being  now  alto- 
gether for  the  EccUfiaftical  habit  -notinsmy  penitential  way,  but  only 
to  capacitate  him  for  the  Cardinalfhip,  which  he  alwaies  aim'd  ar.  Fi- 
nally, the  French  King  according  to  the  Prerogative  of  his  Crown,  be- 
ing to  nominate  a  pcrfon  in  the  laft  promotion  of  Pope  Alexander, 
preCented  this  as  a  perfon  of  great  Merit,  and  fit  to  be  an  Ornament 
both  to  the  Cap  and  Colledge  :  and  the  rather  becaufe  in  his  Viceroy- 
ill  ip  in  Catalonia,  and  in  his  Government  of  Provence,  he  had  ihevved 
great  diligence  in  his  Majefties  fervice. 

A  few  daies  after  he  had  received  his  Cap,  the  tidings  of  [he  Popes 
languishing  condition  arrived  :  fo  that  with  directions  from  the  King, 
he  parted  immediately  for  Rome,   to  be  prefent  at  the  new  Conclave,  . 
where    he  met    exadly  with    aU  the   reft    of  the    French    Car- 
dinals. 

In  the  year  1667.  Pope  Alexander  Vlf.  dieth,  and  Clement  IX,  , 
fucceedeth  him.  The  Election  being  made,  the  Cardinal  rfVtnfafm. 
(  who  in  this  Conclave  had  behaved  himfeif  with  great  prudence,  and 
perhaps  more  than  was  expected  by  the  elder  Cardinals,  that  had 
been  a  longtime  acquainted  with  the  Intrigues  of  the  Conclaves )  pre- 
pared for  his  return  into  France  :  but  firft  he  recommended  to  his 
Holinefs  -the  Intereftsofhis  Mafter,  particularly  in  the  bufinefsofthe 
difcameration  of  Caftro,  according  to  the  Treaty  at  Ptfa,  in  which  ic 
was  Articled,  that  fiftro  (hould  be  delivered.  The  Pope  fenr  a  Bull  • 
to  Cardinal  Vendfffme,  declaring  him  Legate  .;  Lot  ere,  and  [hereby  qua- 
lifying him  for  that  Function. 


fart  followeth  a  Delation  oftlx  Vrejent  Eftate  of  the  Re- 
formed Churches  in  France,  tranjlated  out  of  French, ' 
and  fublijhed  Anno  1668. 

T  Shall  only  in  brief  relate  the  proceedings  of  theAdverfe  party 
J[    againft  them. 

The  firft  and  moft  confiderablc  Meanufcd  againft  them  by  the  Po* 
pifh  Clergy  is  that  of  Commiffions. 

For  under  pretext  of  executing  the  Edict  of  N<tntcs,  and  the  De- 
crees made  in  confequence  thereof,  and  providing  againft  the  breaches 
of  the  fame,  they  have  engaged  the  King  to  fend  Commiffioners  into 
all  Provinces.  For  clearing  whereof,  wt  muft  remember  that  Henry 
IV.  of  happy  memory  ,  having  found  it  convenient  (  for  the  quiet  of 
his  Subjdes  )  to  make  this  Edid  as  a  particular  and  irrevocable  Law, 
did  fend  Commiflioncrs  into  all  the  Provinces  to  execute  the  fame, 
and  after  thofe  Commiffioners  had  eftablifhed  all  things  m  due 
form,  they  returned  their  Executions  into  the  hands  of  the  King,  to 
ferve  as  a  Rule  in  all  future  debates,  which  could  arife  on  that 
fubjed. 

Thefe  Commiffioners  (  although  the  Httgonots  have  ufurped  nothing 
fm«  the  fu  ft  execution  oftheEdid,  but  on  the  contrary 'have  fuftain- 
ed  innumerable  loflcs )  have  now  altogether  perverted  the  bufinefs :  for 
concealing  the  firft  execution  of  thcEdid,they  have  compelled  all  theRe- 
formed  Churches  within  the  Kingdom  to  appear  before  thofe  Commiffio* 
ners,  and  to  reproduce  their  Titles,  to  verifie  their  Right  for  the  publick 
Exercife  of  their  Religion,  and  to  be  judged  a  fecond  time,  as  if 
the  Edid:  had  never  been  put  in  execution.  And  albeit  particular  Chur- 
ches produce  Ads  made  in  their  favours  by  the  firft  Commiffioners 
(  Executors  of  the  Edid  )  yet  thofe  new  Commiffioners  without  any 
regard  thereof  rejed  the  fame  as  utterly  invalid. 

The  Council  paft  an  Ad  Anno  1662,  by  which  h  was  Ordained, 
That  the  Proteftants  fhall  not  be  admitted  before  the  Commiffioners 
to  prove  the  Rights  for  the  Exercife  of  their  Religion  by  Inquefts  or 
Witneffes,  even  although  the  WitneiTes  be  Roman  Catholiques.  Now, 
befide  that  this  manner  of  probation  was  never  rejcded,  yet  arc  they  de- 
prived of  the  only  Mean  which  in  moft  places  is  left  them  to  juftifie 
their  Titles.  For  during  the  late  Wars,  many  Churches  being  pil- 
laged or  burnt,  they  cannot  otherwife  evidence  their  polTeffion,  than 
by  the  teftimony  of  Ancient  men  yet  alive,  who  can  depofe  the  condi- 
tion wherein  Affairs  flood  in  the  years  1596.  and  1597. 

More- 


Cent.  17-  Of   FRANCE.  185 

Moreover,  each  Province  hath  two  Commiffioners,  one  a  Papift, 
the  other  a  Proteftant.  And  from  the  Popifli  Commiffioners  what  ju- 
ftice  can  they  expect  ?  They  ( in  effed  )  proceed  according  to  the 
inftrudions  ofMenierthe  Jefuite,  who  hath  Printed  a  Book,  wherein 
faftning  impertinent  Expositions  uponthe  plaineft  terms  of  the  Edid, 
and  changing  hisMajefties  Authentic  k  and  Royal  Words  intojefuiti- 
cal  Equivocations,  he  hath  perverted  all  things  according  to  his  own 
inclination.  So  that  their  ftrongeft  reafons  are  fcorned,  and  their 
beft  Titles  rejeded  as  Trifles,  whilft  the  falfe  Allegations  of  theic 
Adversaries  are  admitted  as  the  bed  of  Arguments.  And  they  condemn 
fome  Churches,  which  produce  the  like  and  much  better  Titles,  than 
thofe  all  edged  by  fome  other  Churches,  whofc  Priviledges  they  have 
ratified. 

And  for  the  Proteftant  Commiffioners,  what  juftice  or  protection 
can  they  exped  from  them,  becaufe  the  greateft  part  of  them  are 
chofen  by  direction  and  recommendation  of  the  Popifli  Prelates. 
And  fome  of  thofe  Commiffioners  have  parted,  or  fhared  the  places 
of  Publick  Worfhip  between  the  Papifts  and  the  Proteftants.  And 
this  fharingof  Churches  is  alwaies  determined  in  Council,  by  advice 
of  the  Popifh  Commiffioners,  their  Proteftant  Colleagues  being  ne- 
ver either  called  or  heard  j  and  hereupon  the  Hugonots  have  loft 
three  pans  of  four  of  all  their  Churches.  And  a  multitude  of  Ads 
have  been  published  by  the  Council,  which  have  been  very  grievous 
to  them. 

One  Ad  hath  bereaved  them  of  the  liberty  of  praifing  God,  by  for- 
bidding  the  fingingof  Pfalms,  even  privately  in  their  houfes,  though  it 
be  an  eminent  part  of  Chriftian  Worfhip. 

Another  Ad  compelleth  them  to  bury  their  dead  clandeftinely, 
and  in  the  night,  forgetting  that  the  very  Heathens  had  refped  to  the 
Tombs  of  their  enemies,  &c. 

Another  hath  divefted  Proteftant  Magiftrates  (  whatever  be  their  0JM%$.  166^. 
charge    or  quality  )    of   the    priviledge    of   presiding    in    their 
Courts. 

Another  hath  taken  away   all  means  of  inftruding  and  educating  Fei.  Z6.  \66^ 
their  Children,  leaving  them  at  moft  (  and  that  only   in  fome   pla- 
ces )  the  ftnaller  Schools,  where  is  only  taught  to  Read,  Write,  and 
C  ompt. 

Another  hath  reftrained  the  liberty  of  Printing  any  Books  in  favour  3**.  19.  iff}. 
of  their  Religion,  by  impofing  upon  them  a  neceility  of  obtaining  Licen- 
ces from  the  Kings  Council,  which  cannot  be  had. 

Another  ordaineth  Parents  to  give  Penfions  to  their  Children  who  Deciar.o.7o\n. 
change  their  Religion  •  even  although  the  faid  Children  will  not  dwell  ^^^f* 
with  them:  as  if  Paternal  Authority  were  nulled  by  Childrens  Apo-  «6Ss-   J 
ftafie. 

A  a  a  a  Ano- 


Cent. 


.5.  1663.  Another  prohibits  the  exercife  of  Charity  toward  their  Brethren,  who 
are  in  want. 

Another  difchargeth  payment  of  debrs  by  thofe  of  the  Commonalty 
who  iliall  turn  Papifts. 

aa.i$&(.  Another  prohibits  Minifters  to  Preach  without  the  place  of  their  Re- 
fidence  ;  thereby  depriving  rhe  Hugonots  of  the  benefit  of  Annexations  -^ 
that  is,  the  priviledge  of  one  MimlKrs  fupplying  two  Churches^  which 
fingly  are  not  able  to  afford  a  competent  maintenance. 

-.  i?.  i&o.  Another  deprives  them  of  the  liberty  of  their  Claffical  meetings  in 
the  Intervals  of  Synods^  whereby,  the  Exercifcof  Difcipline  is  reftrain. 
ed,  chr. 

b.  5.  1663.  '  Another  prohibits  the  Cenfuring  of  Proteftant  Parents  by  the  Paro- 
chial Elderlhip,  or  otherwife,  for  fending  their  Children  to  be  educa- 
ted by  Jefuites  or  Popifh  Tutors. 

S.  1664..    'Another  gives  liberty  to  Priefts  and  Friers  to  enter  the  houfes  of 
••*   Pfot'eftants,  and.  to  come  to  their  Bed-fijes  when  fick  or  dying,  to  fo- 
ficite  them  to  change  their  Religion.     And  after  their  death,  they  car- 
ry away  their  Children,  .alledging  falfly,  that  their  Parents  at  their 
death  gave  fome  fign  of  willingnefs  to  embrace  the  Romift  Religion. 
30.  1663.       Another  makes  it    Criminal  in  M,inifters  to  flyle   themfelves  Pa» 
flors,  or   Minifters  of  the  Word  of  God.     They  forbid  Minifters  to 
wear  a  long  Garment,  that  they  might  have  nothing^o  diftinguifh  them 
jjcom  the  Common  people-. 

>£«?•        And  in  the  Declaration  of  pretended  R'elapfes,  it  is  Ordained,  Thit 
.        ihofe  among  the  Hugonots^  who  have  once  embraced  the  Popifb  Religi- 
on, Hiall  never  again  return  unto  them,  under  pain  of  perpetual  banifhr 
rnent  from  the  Kingdom.    This  is  uttexly  to  deftroy  all  liberty  of  Coa- 
^A..M,  fc.ience. 

They  feem  alfoto  forbid  ttiem  all  hope  of  being  heard1  in  their  own 
defehce.  And  there  is  little  hope  of  being  heard  at  the  Council  it 
fcif,  where  all  their  Affairs  have  their  1  aft  Appeal  and  audience.  For 
it  hath  often  come  to  pafs,  that  the  Proteftant  Deputies  fent  by  the 
Provinces  and  Cities  to  plead  their  Caufe,  have  been  exprefly  corm- 
manded  to  return,  without  fo  much  as  only  liberty  to  appear.  And  fome 
have  fpent  fix  months,  fome  a  whole  year  to  procure  an  hearing^ 
vvbilft  the  Afts  fued  againft  them  by  the  Catholick  Clergy  have  been 
obtained  in  lefs  thin  twenty  four  hours  ^  and  in  fine  after  a  thoufand 
caresy  they,  have  only  had  the  grief  to  return  to  their  Provinces, 
with  the  news  of  the  lofs  of  the  Caufe  which  they  folicited. 

The  Clergy  alfo  do.endeavour  to  intimidate  and  affright  the  Proteftant 
Minifters  :.,fome  they  have  violently  filenced  :  others  they  feek  to  en- 
£nare  on  every  hand  :  fome  they  criminally  indift  for  very  trifles  , 
&me.  are  .  'bjni/hed,  others  are  tranfported  whither  their  Adverfaries 

pleafe  ;. 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE.  187 


pleafe :  and  they  vex  them  fo,  to  the  end  no  man  may  be  willing  to  em- 
brace the  calling  of  a  Minifter. 

Thofe  Cities  where  Proteftams  for  number  are  mod  confide- 
rable,  feera  to  be  the  principal  Objed  of  their  Enemies  fury.  Of 
thefe  nJWontanban,  Rochel,  and  MiUn^  (  formerly  three  flourishing 
Cities)  are  now  brought  very  low,  and  expofed  to  fuffer  ings  of  di- 
vcrs  kinds. 

Their  Adverfaries  vex  them  alfo  with  Civil  and  Criminal  Law- 
fuits,  as  well  againft  the  Body  of  their  Church,  as  particular  perfons, 
fometimes  in  the  name  of  the  Kings  General  Atturneys,  ortheir  Subfti- 
tutes  :  fometime  in  the  name  oi'Diocefan,  or  Monaftick^  Attorneys, 
or  their  Chapters  .•  and  all  this  frequently  for  things  utterly  falfe . -9 
as  that  they  have  fpoken  irreverently  of  the  Sacraments,  or  fuch  like 
grofs  impoftures  :  for  proving  of  aU  which,  they  never  want  fubor- 
ners  and  falfe  witnefTes.  And  if  at  any  time  the  Forgery  be  discovered, 
the  Judges  feldom  punifh  the  Authours  :  or  if  they  inflid  any  punifh.. 
mem  at  all,  it  is  but  fuch  as  through  the  flighcnefs  thereof,  giveih 
greater  liberty  and  encouragement  to  luch  perfons  ^  whereof  there  are 
many  notorious  Inftances. 

A  liberty  is  alfo  granted  to  Priefls  and  Monks  (  whofe  nature  with- 
out encouragement  is  forward  enough  )  to  infult  over  the  Hugonots^  to 
commit  all  manner  of  violence  without  fear  of  punishment,  yea  and  to 
execute  theconciliary  Ads  againft  them,  as  they  have  done  in  Poicioit^ 
where  the  Priefls  have  in  divers  places  demolifned  Churches,  digged 
up  and  fearched  the  very  lowed  flones  of  the  foundation,  broke  open 
Chefts,  carried  away  the  poors  moneys,  pulled  down  particular  men* 
houfes,  and  the  Caftles  of  the  Proteftant  Gentry,  abufing  them  with 
injurious  words  and  moft  violent  adion?. 

They  alfo  take  ftrange  waies  to  make  Profclytes  :  fornegleding  in- 
ftrudion  and  good  example  (which  are  the  only  proper  and  lawful 
means  of  gaining  fouls  to  God)  they  only  ufe  promifes,  thrcatnings, 
and  labour  to  catch  men  by  divers  kindsof  fnares. 

They  alfo  deprive  the  Hugonots  of  all  means  of  acquiring  a  Liveli- 
hood, and  all  hopes  of  preferment,  there  being  no  admittance  of  them 
into  any  publick  Office  >  except  thofe  of  the  Chambers  oftheEdid) 
no,  not  fo  much  as  to  the  petty  Offices  of  a  Notary,  Attorney,  or 
Serjeant,  nor  yet  to  learn  Arts  and  Trade?. 

The  Relator  concludes  thus ;  Unlefs  we  be  wilfully  blind,  we  can- 
not but  fee,  that  they  defign  to  drive  us  ("by  defpair)  into  forre  In- 
furredion.  But  that  we  (hall  never  do  ;  preferring  ra.her  to 
fuffer  the  great  eft  extremity,  and  our  very  blood  to  be  fhed,  tban 
in  the  leaft  to  violate  the  refped  which  we  o^ve  to  our  Prince. 
And  if  they  cannot  overcome, our  Patience  (as  afTuredly  they  n^ver 
Aaaa  2  '  fiialJ) 


Cem.i7. 


fhall  )  then  their  Refolution  is,  by  continual  importunity  to  prevail 
with  his  Majefty  to  drive  us  out  of  the  Kingdom.  But  we  hope  the 
King  is  fo  good  and  juft,  that  he  will  never  gratifie  them  infuchathing 
without  a  Parallel.  And  if  we  fhould  be  called  to  fuch  a  Trial,  we 
hope  God  will  give  us  fuch  ftrength  and  courage,  as  without  Regret 
to  abandon  our  native  Land,  that  we  may  ferve  Him,  where-ever  his 
Providence  fhall  call  us-  And  this  in  effed  is  the  general  refolution 
of  all  the  P  R  O  T  E  S  T  A  N  T  S  within  the  Kingdom. 

Since  the  writing  the  precedent  Relation,  which  is  but  an  Epitome 
of  fome  of  the  Principal  matters  tranflated  out  of  French,  and  Printed 
by  eX.  *JMaxvpcUi  Anno  1668.  there  lately  came  to  my  hands  2 
Pamphlet,  which  containcth  a  Narrative  of  the  prefent  deplorable  eftatc 
of  the  Proteftants  in  France,  which  declareth  (  among  divers  other 
things  )  the  proceeding  of  the  Parliament  at  Raven,  againft  the  Lady 
$Mtrogtr  and  her  Daughters,  and  Mr.  Le  Maine  Paftor  of  the  Prote- 
ftant  Church  at  Raven,  occafioned  by  the  flight  of  MadamoifeUe 
Barques  out  of  France  into  England.  \  (hall  refer  the  Reader  for  fuller 
fctistadion  therein  totheforefcid  Narrative,  lately  Printed  at  London*. 


Here 


Ccnt.i7.   Of  FRANCE. 189 

Here  followed  a  Lift  of  the  Trotcftant  Qturdes  that 
been  clemolifred. 


B 


1661* 

<Y  a  Decree  of  March  24+  St.  Jtav/inthe  Diocefs  of 
was  demolished, 

Anno  i66z. 


By  a  Decree  of  July  2  1.  Lucque  :  and  twenty  three  Churches  by  » 
Decree  ofAuguft  23,  in  the  County  of  CV,vwere  demoHlhed.i/**,. 
Gex.  Chalet.  'Peron.  Divone.  Gritty.  Crajjy. 
fottgny.  Colonges.  Farges.  Ctffy.  Crcqui. 
Soverny.  fouler.  Verfoy.  Crojfet.  C^wry*  Poully* 

Vtrgnitr*  Pregny.  Saconnay.  Thoiry*  St»  Gian. 

Anno  1663. 

by  a  Decree  of  Jantttry  1  1  .  In  Provenct  thirteen  Chur- 
ches by  a  Decree  of  March  4.  viz* 

Lants.  LaCaflc.  Gignac. 

D'  Onglcs.   D'  Offcdettes, 

Stgnarques*  Roquefin.  (Jordes. 

La  Baftide,  'Dts  Gros.  La  'Breoufc. 
SoHliers. 

Montagnac  by  a  Decree  of  June  15. 

Eighty  nine  Churches  condemned  by  fix  Decrees  Ottober  5.  in  the 
Diocefs  olVfcz.,  Nifmes  and  Mande^  fcil. 

Betttgarde  in  the  Diocefs  of  Nifmes:  Marvejols  teiGardon 

Putchredon*  Lougrian* 

St.  Nazaire  des  Garlics. 

Orthou.St.Jeandc  Serres. 


les  Anduae  . 
Bourbies..  Aguz.tin.  St.  Breffon.. 
St.'Benez.et.   S.  Saviour  de  Ponrcils 
St.  John  of  Criculon.  GAtiiz.iercs>- 
St.  Bonet  de  Salcndrengucs* 
Gaujac  near  Anduz.e. 
St.  Jolon  de  'Btuffcls. 
Candtac*. 


Bragaffarguet.  'Brouz^et.    Rouret. 

S/.  fallen  de  la  Nef.  Rcquedan. 

Coftrbes.   Sendras.   St.  John  da  Pin* 

Marve±ols  in  Vatinagc. 

'Boxrdie  in  the  Diocefs  of  Ufez,. 

'Benez.et.    Concoules. 

S,  John,  of  Cer  argues. 

Vitkfort.  Combos.  Youfet.    Me  jane. 

St.  ffippolite  de  Caton.  faftclnatt. 

DeJ  plane  ,    Afontcils.  tJWartinjrgues. 

Tone  on  the  Luffan.  St.  72  az.il  oi  Vfez.. 

Brueys.   Roubiac.    Serignac.    Ave)(in. 

faunfs*    OZ.OH.   S.  Manin  of  Valgalges.  '• 

Gadargues.    zJMcgrane.    Arlande. 

Verfevil.    Move.    Pogitadorefte. 

St.  Vtftor  of  Malfap.  St.  Stephen  of  Fervent. 

Fotffac.    Afonmiraille.    Fefe,  Miugteres. 

La  Rovinierc. 

In  the  Diocefs  of  Mandc. 


Crifac.  Caftelbove.  Balmc 
JMonvaillam*  jM*z.aribal.  Time  lac. 
Mandenaur  of  Rottjjes. 
Fraifnet  of  Fourgues.   St.  <dsidiot. 
?t.  Andre  of  Lancifc. 
5r.  iJMfchaelof  DC  zee. 
St.  Laurence  of  Trebe. 
St.  Julian  of  Points. 
Pont  of  Monvert.  Ribxutes.   St.  Cafine. 
GeneyrM.   St.  Julian  of  the  N(jf. 
St.  John  of  ROCCJUCS.     LJ.  Roiiviere. 
La  Brugiere.    Cincc;:s.    1>iz*arre. 
Ardaittors.   Cros.     Tallcyrac. 
Salargues.    rBrea\v.  Bjuviliargues. 
(jucyfargucs.   Mar  ign  argues. 
Rodillan.    S.  fiz.aire.    CoHrwfllic. 
Montrcdon.    Lecques.   S  aline  lies  the  leicr. 
Galarques.   Afreres. 

Buz.in  argues,  t'tllatelle.    Colorges.    Labours. 
Cruvieres.    Gujane.   Crcfpien.    fto.   Satinet. 
Rachegttde.    Seynes.    Dattmefargucs.    Bov:J]ct. 
l  Campelade. 


Cent.  17,  Of    FP.ANCE.  191 


Anno  1664. 


Seyne  by  a  Decree  of  «*ftty  12. 

Landouzy.    Gere  if.  Sernay.  Ruedes'Boheins.  Ltval.  Septemb.  22 

St  .  CW.v  <k  C<™dele-  fabavr.  Veftric.  'Malhavr,   Oftob.  3. 

Alen  on.  Oftob.  20. 

New-Church  of  Montauban.  Odob.  29. 

The  Cburch  at  Nifmes.  Novemb.  28. 

tslnno  1665. 

Churches  demolifhed  in  Bretagne.  Jan.  19. 
5^fl».  Croifficy  LaRochebibnard.  Dtnan*  Ptoer.    St. 

In  Picardy.  Jan.  27. 
Salonel.  Cant  fur  -es.  Lindeboeuf.     April  2  3 


-      Forty  Churches  demolifhed  in  Poi£tu\>y  a  Decree  of 
JBelabre.  Chavigni.  Exoitdne.  St.  Gclaif. 
CourteiQ.es.    Benay,  £oube.*JWarcillac. 
Puigni.   Pefelechat.   Parthen^y.  Leyigean. 
St.'Benoir.  ^nybeliart.    Lucon.  LaChaune. 
'Belleville.  Poire.   St.  Hermine*  Le  Bonfire. 
Chantaunay.  St.  Giles  Survye. 
'Talmont.  Aidrerv'ille»  L>a  Jtndoviniert. 
MwUleron.   St.  Fulgent.  St.  Jovin  de  Milli. 
Bsnet.  La  Brajftirdiere.  Lachataigneray. 
Fan  flay*    L<*  TZuardiere.    Cenay.    Aubanie. 
Gitire.  LaBoucheticre.  Lande  Blanche. 
.La  Aditliere.  Boifrttgon.  La  Chape  lie  Temet.  La  Aforiniere*- 

Many  Churches  have  been  deftroyedfince  1666.  yet  few  of  theiraames 
arc  come  to  our  hands,  unlefs 

In  1672. 
St.  Andre  of  Beauffe>  Decemb.  20. 

In  1673.- 
By  a  Decree,  5^.  3*. 


*Uhct.  Galftpian.Favilict.  Aimmet. 

,.  S.'jBarthelmyde  la  Bcrche*- 


3D[)e  Ccflefiaftjcal  %tfto?p    cent,  i/. 


of  t)ti  later  Councils  of  France,  ctle* 
bratedfrom  tbe  time  of  the  Council  of  Trent. 

e  Heads  of  the  Statutes  of  the  Provincial  Council  of  Rhe*rcs, 
Charles  Archbifhop    of  Rhcmtt,    Cardinal    of  Lor  rain   being 
Prcfident. 

Statute  i  .  Of  the  Refidence  of  Curates. 
2.  Of  the  Office  of  a  Curate  in  choofing  and  preaching  found  Do- 


3  .  Of  ihe  Office  of  Curates  in  the  Adminiftration  of  the  Sacra- 
ments. 

4.  For  what  ends  fpiritual  alliance  (hall  be  thenceforth  contracted  by 
Baptifm. 

5.  Of  the  lawful  times  of  Marriage. 

6.  Of  the  life  and  honefty  of  the  Curates. 

7.  Of  providing  fit  Clerks  for  the  fupply  of  Vacant  Churches,  who 
are  to  be  examined  by  fix  Doftors,  or  Licentiates  in  Divinity,  or  in 
the  Canon-law  ;  or  other  Clerks,  either  Secular  or  Regular. 

8.  Of  promotion  to  holy  Orders. 

9.  Of  the  firft  Tonfure.    No  youths  are  to  be  admitted  to  the  firft 
Tonfure,  unlefs  they  have  received  the  Sacrament  of  Confirmation,  and 
the  rudiments  of  faith,  and  (hall  learn  to  read  and  write. 

10.  Of  reftoring  the  offices  of  Minor  orders  by  the  Churches,  from 
a  Deacon  to  a  door-keeper. 

1  1  .  Of  the  diftind  collation  of  the  things  of  the  Orders,  and  the 
qualities  of  thofe  that  are  to  be  ordained. 

12.  That  all  Clerks  be  appointed  to  fotne  certain  Church. 

1  3  .  Of  the  Age  and  quality  of  thofe  that  are  to  be  promoted  to  the 
greater  orders.  None  to  be  admitted  to  the  Order  of  a  Sub-deacon, 
till  he  be  two  and  twenty  years  of  age  :  none  to  the  Order  of  a  Deacon, 
till  three  and  twenty  years  of  age  :  nor  of  a  Prieft  till  five  and  twenty 
years  of  age. 

14.  Of  the  Examination  of  thofe  to  be  promoted  to  the  greater  Or- 
ders :  concerning  their  perfons,  age,  education,  manners,  faith  and 
dodtrine. 

15.  Of  the  Office  of  a  Sub-deacon,  and  Deacon,  and  Prieft  about  the 
Church  to  which  they  are  admitted. 

16.  All  Orders  arc  to  be  conferred  Gratis. 

17.  Of  the  Vifitation  of  Arch-deacons,  and  ihe  office  of  Rural 
Dean?. 

1  8.  Of  the  reparation  of  Churches,  and  the  ufe  of  Images. 

Thefe 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE^ 


Thefe  Afts  of  the  Council  were  perfe&ed  after  nineteen    feveral 
Congregations. 

Ifhall  omit  the  names  efthofe  who  were  either  pr'efent  in  this  Pro- 
vincial Council  of  Rhemcs,  orfem  their  Procurators. 

Some  Decrees  of  the  Synod  concerning  Marriages,  and  Ravifhers  of 
Women,  were  approved,  but  not  publilhed. 

I  fhall  alfo  pafs  over  the  proc carton?  of  the  Archbifhop 
through  the  Cities,  Diocefs,  and  Province  of  Rkcmcs. 

TbeConftitutions  o f 'the  Synod  of 'Melum,  Anno 

i.  /Concerning  the  profcffion  of  the  Catholick  faith. 
\*j    2.  Of  the  diligence  to  be  ufed  by  Paftors  againft  Hereticks. 
j.  Of  the  punifhing  of  rafh  fwearers. 

4.  Of  Magical  Arts  in  general,  and  of  divinations  prohibited  by  Law. 

5.  Of  the  Vifitationof  Churches. 

6.  Of  the  Celebration  of  Feftivals. 

7.  Of  the  Sacraments  in  general. 

8.  Of  the  Sacraments  in  fpecial. 

9.  Of  Confirmation. 

10.  Of  the  holy  Sacrament  of  the  Eucharift. 

1 1 .  Of  the  things  pertaining  to  the  Celebration  of  the  Mafs. 

12.  Of  Penance* 

13.  Of  fsfting. 

14.  Of  Extream  Undion. 

15.  Of  Matrimony. 

1 6.  Of  the  Sacrament  of  Order.    And  firft,of  the  life  and  hcnefty 
of  the  Clergy  in  general.    Of  the  caufes  of  the  reproaches  caft 

the  Clergy. 

17.  Of  promotion  to  Holy  Orders. 

1 8.  Rules  given  to  Bifhops  to  walk  by. 

19.  Of  Canonifts. 

20.  Of  Parifh-priefts. 

21.  Of  Refidency, 

22.  Of  the  reformation  of  Regulars. 


Bbbb 


f?4         J£ffi  cccleftaftical %ifto#      cent  \?> 

Tf:e  Laws  of  &  Seminary  (j&^ge,  mfczcfc  is  to  be  inftituted 
in  every  Dioccfs,  according  to  the  Decree  of  the  Council  of 
Trent,  Seff  23.  c.  ij. 

Chap.  i.  /^"\F  thofe  that  are  to  be  admitted,  and  thofe  that  are  to  be 
V>/  difcharged. 

2 .  Of  thofe  things  which  refped  piety. 

3.  Of  the  things  which  pertain  to  obedience* 

4.  Of  the  things  which  pertain  to  modefty. 

5.  Of  the  things  which  refped  ftudies. 

6.  Of  thofe  who  fhall  have  the  charge  of  the  fpiritual  affairs  of  a 
Seminary,  and  things   pertaining  to  learning,  as    alfo  of  temporal 
things. 

7.  Of  Hofpitalsfor  fick  folks.     Of  a  Procurator  appointed  for  pi- 
ous caufes,  whom  fome  call  a  Procurator  of  Souls. 

8.  Of  the  trimming  and  adorning  of  Churches, 

9.  Of  the  funerals  and  burials  of  Catholicks. 

10.  Of  the  prefervation  of  Church-goods. 

11.  Of  the  things  that  pertain  to  outward  jurifdi&ion, 

R[pw  concerning  the  Correction  of  fullick  Crimts, 

1 .  Of  Whores,  Bawds,  and  Panders, 

2.  Of  Concubinaries. 
3-  Of  Ufuries. 

Here  they  pray  and  befeech  all  Prittces  and  Magiftrate^  tint  they 
Would  itfe  their  utmofl  endeavours  to  remedy  thefe  evils. 

12.  Of  the  office  of  foraneous  Vicars,  and  Arch-presbyters, 

13.  Of  a  Diocefan  Synod,  and  of  Synodal  witne/Tes. 
14..  Of  School-mafters. 

1-5..  Of  the  reftraining  of  immoderate  charges* 
16 f  Of  the  Sealingsof  Notaries* 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE. 


'95 


The  Canons  and  Decrees  of  the  Provincial  Council  of  Cam- 
bray,  Anno  1565. 

Chap.  i.  /^\F  the  fufpe&ed  and  prohibited  books  of  Hereticks. 

V_x     2.  Of  Divinity-lectures  in  Chapters,  and  Monafteries, 

3 .  Of  Schools,  and  of  the  books  to  be  taught  in  them,  and  the  man- 
ner of  teaching  youths. 

4.  Of  a  Seminary  :  and  of  the  age  of  youths  to  be  admitted  into  a 
Seminary. 

5.  Of  Doctrine,  and  preaching  the  Word  of  God, 

6.  Of  Worfhip,  Ceremonies, and  Divine  Service, 

7.  OfEcclefiafticalMinifteries. 

8.  Of  the  life  and  honefty  of  the  Clergy. 

9.  Of  the  Examination  of  Bifhops,  and  of  the  Examination  of"  Pa- 
ftours. 

10.  Of  the  Refidency  of  Bifhops  and  Curates. 

11.  Of  the  residency  of  Paftors and  their  Office. 
j  2.  Of  a  Vifitation. 

13.  Of  Ecclefiaftical  power  and  jurifdiftion. 

14.  Of  Matrimony. 

15.  Of  Purgatory,  and  fuffrages  for  the  dead, 

1 6.  Of  the  Monafteriesof  Men  and  Women. 

17.  Of  the  Saints,  of  their  Veneration,  Worfhip,  and  Invocation. 

18.  Of  Images :  of  thelmagesof  Chriftand  the  Saints  to  be  ufed 
in  Temples :  none  of  which  are  to  be  admitted  without  the  confent  and 
judgement  of  the  Bifhop. 

19.  Of  Indulgences :  none  are  to  be  offered  that  are  new  and  un- 
known, and  fuch  only  as  are  approved  by  the  Ordinary. 

The  Decrees  of  tie  Provincial  Synod  of  Roven,  An- 
no 1581. 

i.  HpHat  profefiion might  be  made  of  the  faith  of  the  one,  holy,  Ca- 
.1  tholick  and  Apoftolick  Church,  we  excommunicate,  and  anathe*- 
matize,  according  to  the  Lateran  Council  i  faid  they  )  all  herefie  exalt- 
ing it  felf  againft  the  Orthodox  and  Catholick Church  :  and  all  who  do 
aflert,  and  belkve  othcrwife  than  the  Catholick,  Apoftolick,  and  Ro- 
man Church  doth  believe  and  teach. 

2.  They  fet  down  a  form  of  Profefiion  of  faith.  I  A7,  do  with  firm 
faith  believe  and  profefs  all  and  every  thing  which  is  contained  in  the 
iymbol  of  faith,  which  the  holy  Roman  Church  ufeth,  &c.  Concluding 

Bbbb  2  thus: 


ccclriiattical  ^tflo?p    Cent.  \7, 


thus  :     And  I  moft  firmly  believe  and  embrace  the  Apoftolick  and 
Ecclefiaftical  Traditions,  and  the  reft  of  the  obfervations  and  confti- 
turions  of  the  fame  Church.     Item,  I  admit  the  holy  Scripture,  ac- 
cording to  that  fence  which  our  holy  Mother  the  Church  hath  held 
and  holdeth,  whofe  right  it  is  to  judge  of  the  true  fence  and  interpre- 
tation of  the  holy  Scriptures  :  neither  will  I  ever  receive  and  inter- 
pret, it  but  according  to  the  unanimous  confent  of  ths  Fathers.     I 
alfo  profefs,  that  there    are  feven  facraments    of  the   new   Law, 
inftituted  by  Jefus  Chrift  our  Lord,  viz..  Baptifm,  Confirmation,  the 
Eucharift,  Penance,  Extream  Unftion,  Order,  and  Matrimony,  and  that 
they  do  confer  grace  :  and  of  thefe,  that  Baptifm,  Confirmation,  and. 
Order,  cannot  be  reiterated  without  facriledge.    And'l  receive  and  ad- 
mit the  received  .and  approved  rites  of  the  Catholick  Church  in  the  fo- 
lemn  adminiftration  of  all  the  forefaid  Sacraments.     I  embrace  and.  re- 
ceive all  and  every  thing  which  have  been  defined  and  declared  in  the 
holy  Council  of  Trent  concerning  Original  lin  and  Juftification,    Like- 
wife  I  profefs,  that  there  is  offered  upum6  God  in  the  Mafs,  a  true,. 
proper,  and  propitiatory  Sacrifice  for  quick  and  dead,  and  that  in  the 
moft  holy  Sacrament  of  the  Eucharift,  there  is  truly,  really,  and  fub- 
ilantially,  the  body  and  blood,  together  with  the  Soul  and  Divinity  of 
our  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  and  that  there  is  made  a  converfion  of  the  whole 
fubftance  of  the  Bread  into  the  Body,  and  of  the  whole  fubftance  of  the 
Wine  into  the  Blood.    Which  converfion  the  Catholick  Church  calleth 
Tranfubftantiation.      I  confefs  alfo  that  under  one  kind  only  whole 
Chrift,  and  the  true  Sacrament  is  received.     I  conftantly  hold,  that  there 
is  a  Purgatory,  and  that  the  fouls  detained  there  are  helped  by  the  fuf- 
iragesof  the  faithful.    Like  wife,  that  the  Saints  reigning  together  with 
Chrift,  are  to  be  Worfhipped  and  called  upon,  and  that  they  do  offer 
up  prayers  to  God  for  us.    And  I  aflert,  that  their  Relicks  are  to  be 
Worfhipped.    That  the  Images  of  Chrift,  and  the  Mother  of  God  al- 
wayes  a  Virgin,  and  alfo  of  other  Saints,  are  to  be  had  and  retained, 
and  that  due  honour,  and  veneration  is  to  be  given  to  them.    And  I  af-r 
firm  thatihe  power  of  Indulgences  was  left  by  Chrift  in  the  Church, 
and  that  the  ufe  of  them  is  very  comfortable  to  Chriftian  people.     I  'ac- 
knowledge, that  the  holy  Catholick,  and  Apoftolick  Roman  Church, 
is  the  Mother  andMiftrefs  of  all  Churches.    And  I  freely  promife 
and  fwear  true  obedience  to  the  Roman  Biftiop,  the  Succeflbur  of  the 
bltfled  Peter,  the  Prince  of   the  Apoftles,  the  Succeflbur  of  Jefus 
Chrift.    And  I  undoubtedly  receive  and  profefs  all  other  things  deli- 
vered by  the  Sacred,  Canonical,  and  Oecumenical  Councils,  and  efpeci- 
ally  the  holy  Council  of  Trent.     Moreover  I  condemn,  rejed,  and 
anathematize  all  contrary  things,  and  herefies  whatfoever  condemned, 
rejected,  and  anathematized  by  the  Church.    And  this  Catholick  faith, 
wiihout  which  no  man  can  befeved,  which  I  freely  profefs,  and  truly 

hold 


Cent.  \7.  Of    FRANCE. 


"97 


hold  for  the  prefent,  the  fame  I  will  retain,  and  profefs  conftantly  unto 
the  end  of  my  life  by  the  help  of  God,  &c.  And  this  I  promife,  vow, 
and  fwear,  fo  help  me  God,  and  his  holy  Gofpels. 

3.  The  third  Decree  was  concerning  Divine  Worfhip  in  general. 

4.  Concerning  the  Sacraments.     As  for  the  Sacrament  of  Confirma- 
tion, it  was  to  be  done  frequently, and  Gratisby  the  Bifhops  through  the 
Towns  in  their  DiocefTes. 

5.  Concerning  Bifhops,  where  diverfe  qualifications  are  pre-requi&e 
before  any  one  be  admitted  to  the  Office  of  a  Bifhop. 

6.  Concerning  the  Offices  of  Bifhops. 

7.  Concerning  the  Offices  of  Curates,  and  other  Presbyters  and'PaT 
rifh-Priefts. 

8.  Concerning  Monafteries,  wherein  divers  Inftrudions  and  Rules  art 
prefcribed  to  the  Abbots  and  Priors,  for  the  better  governing  themfelves, 
and  their  Monafteries. 

p.  Concerning  Ecclefiaftical  Jurifdidton. 

There  were  alfo  divers  Statutes  made  in  the  fame  Provincial  Synod,, 
concerning  the  foundation  of  Schools  and  Seminaries, 

The  Decrees  of  the  ^Provincial- Council  •  of  Rhemes, 
Anno  1585. 

i .  /Concerning  the  Catholick  faith,    and  the  reafon  of  profcffing-. 
\^J  the  fame.  m 

2.  A  Form  of  Confeflion  is  Tet  down. 

3 .  Concerning  Divine  Worfhip. 

4.  Concerning  the  Breviary,  MiiTal,  and  Manual. 

5.  Concerning  Feftival  Dayes. 

6.  Concerning  Divination  by  lots,  and  other  things  contrary  to  Chri- 
ftian  piety. 

7.  Concerning  the  Sacraments,     i.  Of  Confirmation.     2.  Of  Pe- 
nance.     3.  Of  the  Eucharift.      4.  Of  Order.      5.  Of  Matrimony. 
Whereunto  is  added  the  Decree  oif  the  Council  of  Trent  concerning 

the  reformation  of  Matrimony,     cxSeff.24. 6.  Of.  Excreaou 

Unftion. 

8.  Concerning  Seminaries, 

9.  Of  the  Clergy  in  general. 

10.  Of  Regulars,  and  their  Monafteries, 

1 1.  Of  Curates. 

12.  Of  Chapters  and  Canons. 

13.  Concerning  Bifhops. 

14.  Concerning  Simoniacks  and  Fiduciaries, 

15.  Concerning  Burials, 


198 %ty  €ccleftaftfral%stto:p      cent.  t>. 

1-6.  Concerning  Ufury. 

17.  Concerning  Jurifdi&ion. 

1 8.  Concerning  a  Vifiration. 

19.  Concerning  a  Diocefan  Synod. 
20  Of  a  Provincial  Synod. 

The  Decrees  of  tfa  Provincial  Council  of  Bourdeaux  ,' 
together  with  tfa  laws  of  the  Seminaries  >  Anno  i  j8j. 
all  approved  by  the  (Pope. 

3,  /Concerning  a  Confelfion  of  Faith. 

\^t    2.  Of  thofe  things  which  have  refped  to  Divine  Worfhip  and 
Religion. 

3.  Of  Ecclefiaftical  Prayers, 

4.  Of  the  Breviary,  Miflal,  and  other  Books  pertaining  to  Divine 
Offices. 

5.  Of  thofe  things  which  either  are  to  be  obferved,  or  to  betaken 
heed  of,  in  the  holy  Sacrifice  of  the  Mafs   (  as  they  caU  it)  and  in 
Divine  Offices. 

6.  O'i  Feftival-dayes. 

7.  Of  Magick  Arts,  and  other  things  contrary  to  Cbriftian  Reli- 
gion. 

8.  Of  the  Sacrament. 

9.  Of  Baptifm. 

10.  Of  Confirmation. 
li.Of  theEucharift. 

12.  Of  Penance. 

13.  Of  Extream  Unction. 

14.  Of  Order. 

15.  Of  Matrimony. 

16.  Of  Bifhops. 

17.  Of  Chapters  and  the  Canons   of  Cathedral  and   Colkgiate 
Churches. 

1 8.  Of  Parifh-Priefts. 

19.  Of  the  Residency  of  Paftors. 

20.  Of  preaching  the  Word  of  God. 

21.  Of  the  life  and  manners  of  Clergy-men. 

22.  Of  the  Examination  of  thofe  that  are  to  be  promoted  to  benefices 
with  cure. 

23.  Of  Simoniacks  and  Confidentiaries* 

24.  Of  Monafteries. 
2j .  Of  Seminaries. 

26.  Of 


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26.  Of  the  not  alienating  the  things  of  the  Church. 

27.  Of  Schools,  Printers,  and  Book-fellers. 

28.  Of  Hofpitals. 

29.  Of  Ufuries  and  unlawful  Comrade 

30.  Of  Burials. 

31.  Of  Jurifdi&ion. 

32.  Of  a  Vifration. 

33.  Of  a  Diocefan  Synod. 

34.  Of  a  Provincial  Council, 

35.  Of  Punifrrments. 

Of  the  Inftitution  and  Laws  of  the  Seminaries  of  tbe  Pro* 
vince  of  Bourdcaux. 

F  tkcHoufes  of  a  Seminary.  ~]  That  they  be  built  in  a  large 
and  fpacious  place,  near  unto  the  Cathedral  Church.  That  there 
be  a  Chappel  wherein  the  Clergy  may  meet  at  prayers.  That  the  dor- 
mitory be  open  and  common,  in  which  every  one  may  have  his  own 
bed,  &c.  That  an  Hofpital  be  appointed  in  an  open  place  for  lick  folks, 
in  which  all  things  may  be  provided  for  the  iick,  with  fingular  piety 
and  charity. 

2.  Of  the  manner  of  admitting  Clerk*  into  Seminaries.  3  The  ele- 
ction and  admiffion  of  Clerks  fhall  be  in  the  power  of  the  Bifhop:  or 
of  thofe  to  whom  this  care  (hall  be  committed  by  name.  That  out  of 
all  youths  very  fit  youths  may  be  choiYn,  the  Bifhop  fhall  caufe  it  to  be 
proclaimed  through  all  the  Cities  and  Towns  of  theDiocefs  (  efpeciaUy 
where  there  are  Schools )  that  if  any  be  poor,  and  born  of  lawful  Ma- 
trimony, whodefire  to  be  promoted  to  the  Priefthood,  and  who  have 
attained  to  the  age  of  twelve  years,  and  have  not  exceeded  the  twentieth, 
and  have  madefome  progrefs  iiuhe  Grammar,  that  they  appear  to  be 
examined  at  the  time  and  place  which  he  fhall  appoint  them.  The  Bi- 
(hop  (hall  not  admit  any  to  be  examined,  whom  he  fhall  behold  to  be 
maimed,  or  deformed.  Then  (hall  he  enquire  diligently  concerning  the 
condition,  eftate,  manners,  and  religion  of  the  Parents*  And  he  (hall 
try  what  progrefs  the  youths  have  made  in  learning,  he  fhall  alfohave 
regard  to  their  wit,  vertue,  ar.d  difpofition  either  to  good  or  evil.  And  — ' 
whom  by  manifeft  conjedures  he  fhall  judge  to  be  unfit  for  learning, 
piety,  and  the  Priefthood,  he  (hall  by  no  means  admit  into  tbe  Seminary, 
Before  any  one  be  admitted  into  the  Seminary,  he  is  to  be  often  admo- 
nifhed,  that  he  may  not  be  educated  and  nourished  in  the  Seminary,  if 
he  propound  to  himfelf  any  other  kind  of  life,  than  an  Eccleihftica! 
life.  Therefore  let  him  by  oaih,  vow,  and  holily  promife,.  that  he  will 
aevsr  depart  te  any  other  couxfe  of  life  3  but  will  alwayes  faithfully 

ffnrtc 


ferve  the  Church  of  Chrift  in  that  degree  and  Order  which  fhall  be  af- 
figned  to  him  by  the  Bifhop.  He  fhall  alfo  proroife  to  obey  the  Cover- 
nour  of  the  Seminary,  and  his  Subftitutes  in  ail  things,  and  that  he  will 
obferve  all  the  Laws  and  Statutes  of  the  Seminary,  which  (hall  be  read 
unto  him,  e^c.  Let  none  be  received  till  he  be  inftructed  concerning 
his  Bed,  Gown,  Cap,  Wafkcoat,  and  other  Garments,  Surplice  and 
Breviary. 

-  Prefident,  and  Overfeers  of  a  Seminary.  ]  None  are  to  be 
adt;..  cd  into  any  Office  in  a  Seminary,  uniefs  lie  be  firft  diligently 
examined  and  tryed  by  the  Bifhop.  Great  care  (ball  be  taken,  that  the 
Governours  of  a  Seminary  be  men  grave,  prudent,  and  adorned  with  all 
kind  of  venue,  who  by  their  example  and  exhortations  may  provoke 
thole  that  are  under  their  charge  to  the  ftudy  of  Piety  and  Vertuc. 
Let  all  firft  put  the  confeflion-of  their  faith,  according  to  the  form  ex- 
prcfTtd  in  the  Provincial  Council,  in  the  hands  of  the  Buhop.  In  the 
Seminary  there  fhall  be  one  Prefidentof  venerable  gravity,  andaPrieft 
of  fingular  piety,  whom  all  in  the  Seminary  fhall  obey,  as  well  in  Spi- 
rituals as  Temporals.  And  to  the  Prefldent  two  other  Priefts  fhall  be 
joyned,  whereof  one  fhall  be  an  Overfeer  of  all  bufinefTes  of  the  Se- 
minary ;  the  other  fhall  have  the  care  of  the  houfhold  affairs,  and 
(hall  be  called  the  Under-Mafter  of  the  Seminary.  In  the  Seminary 
lhall  be  fo  many  fervants  as  the  Bifhop,  or  thofe  delegated  by  him  fhalJ 
think  fit.  The  Governours  of  the  Seminary  fhall  diligently  require  of 
their  Scholars  a  repetition  of  the  Lecture ,  and  direct  them  in  their 
manners  arid  behaviour.  And  one  of  them  fhall  teach  the  Clerks  an 
Ecclcfiaftical  Song.  Let  the  Prefident  be  daily  in  the  Seminary,  and 
with  his  prefence  and  care  contain  all  in  their  duty  :  and  to  the  Bifhop 
let  him  often  give  an  account  of  the  whole  Seminary.  Let  the  Prefi- 
dent have  a  Book  in  which  he  may  fet  down  the  names,  firnames,  con- 
dition, the  day  and  year  of  the  reception  of  all  thofe  who  fhall  be  ad- 
mitted into  the  Seminary,  and  whacfoever  houfhold-ftuff  every  one 
fhall  bring. 

4.  Of  the  O economy i  or  Honfiold-Cjwernmem  of  the  Seminary,^ 
A  skilful  Procurator  fhall  be  fet  over  the  houfe  in  temporal  matters, 
who  (i  all  take  care  of  affairs  at  home  and  abroad  :  he  fhall  gather  in 
time  all  the  yearly  rents  and  profits  of  the  Seminary  :  and  the  moneys 
collected  he  fhall  ftnightway  deliver  to  the  President  to  be  kept  in  a 
cheft.And  hefhallluve  a  Book,in  which  h*  (1  all  diligently  and  fauhfuU 
ly  fet.down;whatfoever  profits  and  moneys  he  fhall  receive,and  of  whom, 
and  for  what  caufe,  and  lhall  note  the  day,  the  month  and  the  year.  He 
fhall  give  an  account  to  the  Prefidcnt  of  what  he  receiveth  and  expend- 
cth  every  month  4  and  (he  Pr efident  fhall  fign  the  book  of  accounts  with 
liis  own  hand:  and  the  fame  accounts  fhall  the  BifLop  examine  every 
ihird  month,  &c.  Heihat fhall  buy  in  food  and  other  things,  fhall  be 

one 


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101 


one  that  is  found  to  be  a  man  faithful  and  confcientious,  who  (hall  every 
day  receive  fo  much  money  as  is  neceflary  from  the  Procurator,  and 
every  day  give  an  account  to  the  Procurator  of  what  is  received  and  ex- 
;  pended,  and  that  particularly  and  by  piece-meal.  The  hou  hold-fturl,anj 
all  the  feveral  Veflels  and  Inftruments  of  the  Seminary ,  (hall  the  Procu- 
rator fet  down  in  a  Book,  and  (hail  give  an  account  of  them  co  the  Go- 
vernour  in  the  fixth  month.  Moderate  food,  frugal,  and  not  very  deli- 
cate, fhall  be  defcribed  by  the  Bi(hop  and  his  Delegates. 

5.  Of  the  Difcipline  of  the  Seminary  ;  and  fir Jt  of  Piety.  J  Let  the 
Clerks  be  excited  to  Piety  and  Religion.     Let  every  one  be  raifcdup 
at  four  a  clock  in  the  morning,then  let  them  come  together  in  one  place, 
and  with  bended  knees  apply  themfelves  to  Prayer  for  tulf  an  hour , 
and  they  (hall  rehearfe(  one  going  before,  others  anfwering  with  a  clear 
voice)  the  hourly  prayers  oftheblefled  Virgin.  They  who  (hall  be  ini- 
tiated to  facred  orders ,  (hall  recite  the  Breviary  in  convenient  time, 
and  with  great  atcention.  Before  nine  a  clock  in  the  evening,  before  they 
lye  down  to  reft,  they  (hall  all  together  rehearfe  the  Litanies,  and  by 
and  by  (hall  fearch  and  examine  their  confciences  &c.    Every  month 
(hall  every  one  confefs  his  (ins  to  the  Pried :  and  being  prepared  lee 
them  receive  the  holy  Eucharift  with  great  devotion,  unlefs  their  Gon- 
feflbr  fee  caufe  to  with-hold  it  from  them.  Every  holy  day  going  out 
two  by  two  out  of  the  Seminary,  and  putting  on  their  Surplices,  let 
them  come  together  to  the  greater  Mafs,  and  Vefpers,  of  the  Cathe- 
dral-church of  the  City,  in  which  the  Seminary  (hall  be,  and  there  let 
them  (land  and  fit  in  places  appointed  for  them,    and  ling  with  the 
Quire  ;  and.  on  thofe  days  they  (hall  beprefent  at  the  publick  Sermon 
in  the  fame  Church,  or  another  place.   The  Prefident  alfo  ihall  diverfe 
times  in  every  month  give  brief  exhortations  to  the  Clergy,  concerning 
the  dignity  of  Vertues,  and  the  tilthinefs  of  Vices,  with  the  remedies 
thereof,  concerning  bleffednefs,  the  pains  of  Hell,  concerning  death, 
the  laft  judgement.     In  the  beginning  of  Dinner  and  Supper  one  of  the 
Priefts  fhall  pray  for  a  bleffing,  and  give  thanks  after  Supper  or  Dinner, 
all  modeftly  anfwering  the  Prieft  going  before  them .     The  Pfalm  deyro- 
fundis^&c.  is  to  be  added,  and ocher  Collects  for  the  Founder  and  Be- 
nefadors.     In  the  time  of  Dinner  and  Supper  let  one  read  by  fuggeftion 
fome  Chapter  out  of  the  holy  Bible,  to  which  may  be  added  the  read- 
ing of  fome  pious  Book,  which  they  (hall  ail  diligently  hear  ,   that 
whilft  the  body  is  refrefried  with  focd,  the  mind  may  never  be  idle. 
Among  other  Writings  of  Pious  and  Learned  men,  let  them  often  read 
privately  and  publickly  that  famous  Epiftle  of  S.  Hierom  to  Ntfotian^ 
de  Vita  Clericornm^  that  unto  that  Rule  every  one  may  endeavour  to 
dired  himfelf. 

6.  Of  obedience ,  and  other  duties  of  the  Clerks  of  the  Seminary. ~\ 
The  Clerks  of  the  Seminary  are  to  be  obedient  to  their  Governours  in 

C  c  c  c  all 


202         ^l)t ercitaica!  %io?p       cent.     - 

all  things.  Let  none  go  out  of  the  Golledge  without  leave,  and  a  compa- 
nion joyned  tobim,  with  whom  let  him  alfo  return  back  again  into  the 
Seminary.    Let  none  fend  or  otherwife  receive  Letters,  unlefs  by  the 
hind  of  ihe  Prefident,  who  (hall  diligently  read  them,  &c.  None  (hall 
eat  wiih  any  one  whhout  the  Seminary,  unlefs  with  his  Parents  and 
Kindred,  and  that  very  feldome,  and  with  leave  ^  neither  (hall  he  deep 
our  of  the  Seminary.    If  any  go  forth,  and  abide  without,  the  Prefident 
being  ignorant  of  ir,  he  may  not  be  admitted  without  confulting  theBi- 
(hop,  whofe  right  it  is  to  appoint,  whether  he  be  to  be  received  into 
the  Seminary  or  not.    Let  none  touch  another  fo  much  as  in  jeft,  but 
every  where  and  among  all  preferve  modefty  and  gravity.      Let  filence 
every  where  be  kept  religioufly,  in  the  Temple,  in  the  Schools,  in  the 
Chamber,  between  going  to  and  returning  from  the  School,  and  in  all 
places  let  Ecclefiaftical  modefty  appear.     They  (hall  not  difcourfe  with 
thofc  they  meet,  except  by  decent  andmodeft  falutation,  which  may  be 
done  in  palling  by.     As  often  as  they  (hall  go  either  to  the  Temple  or 
the  School,  they  (hall  proceed  modeftly  two  by  two,  their  Governour 
following  them  to  whom  they  are  committed.     When  they  are  at  ftudy, 
let  none  {'peak  with  other,  neither  in  the  morning  before ,  nor  in  the 
evening  after  prayer.     AH  (hall  go  to  bed  at  nine  a  clock,  and  rife  at 
four :  all  (hall  lye  (ingle  in  their  beds  ,  that  they  may  preferve  their 
health.     Afcer  Dinner,  and  after  Supper,  they  (hall  fpend  one  hour  in 
honeft  recreation,  &c.     Let  them  keep  their  clothes,  chambers,  beds, 
books,  clean:  let  them  make  up  their  beds  early  in  the  morning. 

7.  Of  their  Learning.  ]    Let  all  firft  learn  the  Compendium  of  the 
Caiholick  Catechifm  fo  exadly,  that  by  mutual  interrogations  concern- 
ing it,  they  may  be  able  to  render  an  account  of  the  Catholick  Faith 
to  every  one  requiring  it.    And  to  that  end  a  repetition  of  it  (hall  be 
made  twice  in  a  Week.    And  when  they  (hall  be  advanced  herein,  let 
the  reading  of  the  Roman  Catechifm  be  diligently  commended  to  them, 
that  from  thence  they  may  learn  the  higher  Doftrine  of  the  Sacra- 
ments.    Let  them  alwayes  keep  the  Law  of  fpeaking  Latin,  and  let 
them  be  diligent  in  learning  their  leflons,  and  getting  them  by  heart  in 
the  time  prefixed,  &c .    Let  none  be  abfent  from  School  in  the  appoint- 
ed time.     In  the  School,  let  the  Clerks  who  (hall  be  of  the  fame  form, 
fit  together  ,  and  endeavour  to  excel  others  with  all  modefty.     Let 
them  neither  buy  nor  have  any  Books,  but  thofe  whom  the  Prefident 
(hall  judge  to  be  profitable  for  them.     Books  that  are  condemned  by  the 
holy  Apoltolical  Chair,  and  immodeft  Books ,  let  them  not  fomuch  as 
know  them  by  name,  much  lefs  let  them  dare  ever  to  read  them.    They 
(hall  be  ezercifed  in  all  kind  of  Difciplines,  which  do  efpecially  help 
to  the  knowledge  of  Divinity,  and  when  they  (hall  learn  more  humane 
Learning  and  Philofophv,  they  are  to  be  chiefly  intruded  in  that  part  of 
Divinity  which  unfoidcth  cafes  of  confcience.Let  them  alfo  learnEcslefi- 

a&ical 


Cent.    17-  Of  FRANCE. 


aftical  Books  diligently,and  thofe  which  they  'ill  Rituairer  all  liTex- 
ercifed  in  their  order  in  making  Orations  and  Exhortations  concerning 
the  commandments  of  God  and  of  the  Church  jConcerning  the  Articles  ol' 
faith,  Venues  to  be  followed,  and  Vices  to  be  fhunned  ,  or  fome  oiher 
fentence  of  Scripture,  &c. 

8.  OfCorrettion.~\    If  any  be  wayward,  and  fiwcy,  efpecially  who 
infed  and  corrupt  the  manners  of  others,  all  endeavours  are  to  be  ufed, 
left  they  bring  any  detriment  to  the  Seminary,  if  the  Moderators  are 
fomewhat  indulgent  toward  them  :  neither  are  they  who  are  of  a  crabbed 
nature  long  to  be  retained  in  the  Seminary  ,unleis  they  fhail  reform  them 
by  words  or  correction.     As  they  are  not  to  be  born  in  a  Seminary,  who 
are  ignorant  andflothful,  fomuch  lefs  they  whonegled  piety,  who  vio- 
late the  Statutes  of  the  Seminary,  who  enter  into  fociety  with  diffolutc 
perfons,  who  are  delighted  in  the  difcourfes  of  thofe  that  are  without, 
who  are  wont  to  whifper  and  backbite,  &c.  who  art  wont  to  lye,  and 
excufe  their  own  faults,  who  impatiently  bear  punifliraenrs  injoyned, 
who  fpeak  or  anfwer  malapertly,  undecently,  or  ironically.     Thefe  and 
the  like  Vices  are  firft  of  all  to  be  ftopt  by  the  whole  Seminary,  and 
fharply  to  be  corrected,  without  excepting  any. 

9.  Of  the  reafon  of  promoting  Clerks,  and  difmifling  them  from  the 
Seminary.    As  often  as  Orders  (hall  be  celebrated,  the  Prefident  (hall 
give  to  the  Bifhop  a  Catalogue  of  thofe,  who  for  their  age,  piety,  and 
learning,  may  be  promoted  to  fome  Order. 

In  examinations  which  fhall  be  had  to  vacant  Benefices,  the  Seminary. 
Clerks  if  they  be  fit,  let  them  be  preferred  before  all  others.  They 
(hall  be  fent  at  the  pleafurc  of  the  Bifhop  to  Churches  deftitute  of  Pi- 
ftors,  or  to  govern  Schools,  or  to  undergo  o:her  Ecclefiaftical  Offices, 
for  the  neceffuy  of  times  and  places.  Whofocver  Hull  be  fent  away 
from  the  Sen.inary,  (for  whatcaufe  foever  )  let  him  render  an  accounc 
of  his  OiTict  to  the  Prefident,  which  he  hath  exercifed  at  home,  and  re- 
ftore  all  things  to  its  place  which  have  been  committed  to  him. 

Thofe  who  have  been  educated  in  the  Seminary  ,  and  without  the 
licence  of  the  Bifhop  have  delivered  up  themfclves  to  any  place  or  per- 
fon,  or  have  fled  out  of  the  Diocefs  in  which  they  ought  to  ferve  the 
Church,  fhall  be  bound  to  make  reftitution  of  that  maintenance  which 
they  have  received  in  the  Seminary.  They  who  depart,  if  they  come 
to  better  preferment,  yet  are  they  to  remember  thar  they  ought  to  be 
beneficial  and  grateful  to  the  Seminary.  Departing  ,  let  them  take 
their  leave  of  the  Lord  Bifhop,  if  he  be  in  the  City,  his  Vicars  ,  the 
Prefident,  the  Priefts,  and  the  reft  of  their  companions,  and  let  them  ear- 
neftly  enireai  tlxorali  to  pray  for  their  profperity. 


C  c  c  c  2  77* 


cent.  \7. 


The  Decrees  of  another  (Provincial  Synod  follow  y  made 
partly  at  Tours  in  the  month  o/May  1583.  and  part* 
ty  at  An  jou  in  the  month  of  September  ,  I  fiall  only 
jet  down  an  Index  of  the  1  itles. 

i.  ~r~He  Prologue  of  the  Synod. 

1       2.  Supplications  to  the  Pope,  and  the  Mod  Chriflian  King* 

3.  Of  the  care  of  defending  the  ProfelTion  of  Faith. 

4.  A  Form  of  Confedion  of  Faith  is  fet  down* 

5.  Or  the  Extirpation  of  Simony. 

6.  Of  the  Sacraments  and  their  ufe* 

7.  Of  Bapnfm. 

8.  Of  Confirmation. 

9.  Of  the  Eucharift,  and  Sacrifice  of  theMafs. 

10.  Of  Matrimony. 

11.  Of  Order. 

12.  Of  the  celebration  of  Feftivals  ,  the  Veneration  of  Reliquesv, 
and  of  Images. 

13.  OfEcclefiafticalDifcipline  :  the  Reformation  of  the  Clergy,  as 
well  as  the  people. 

14.  Of  Chapters,  Dignities,  and  Canons. 

1  5  .  Of  Parifli-Priefts,  Presbyters,  and  other  Clerks. 

16.  Of  Chrifts  frithful  Laity. 

This  Synod  re"quireth  Women  not  to  go  abroad,  and  efpecially  not 
to  come  into  the  Church,  without  their  heads  and  breafts  veiled.  In- 
dignum  eft?  &c+  It  is  an  unworthy  thing  (  fay  they  )  that  Chriftiaa 
women,  whom  it  becomech  to  be  adorned  with  modefty  and  fobriety, 
to  profefs  piety  by  good  works,  after  a  whorifh  manner  to  expofe  thtm- 
telves  to  the  people  with  curled  hair  and  naked  breafts. 

They  forbid  all  temporal  bufwefTes  to  be  done  in  the  Church,  where 
Prayers  and  Divine  Offices  are  to  be  performed.  They  require  all 
Chriftians  not  to  eat  without  firft  confecrating  their  Table,  and  not  to 
depart  from  Table  without  pious  and  humble  thankfgiving  unto  God.. 
If  any  one  hath  taken  counterfeit  money,  though  ignoramly,,  and  he 
know  not  the  perfon  from  whom  he  received  it,  yet  he  (hall  not  pre- 
fume  to  put  it  away  to  another,  becaufe  it  cannot  be  done  without  ap- 
pearance of  evil.  All  Laicks  are  forbidden  to  walk  in  the  Church 
(  efpecially  during  the  time  of  Divine  Offices;  under  pain  of  Excom- 
munication.. 

1.  or 


Cent,i7T" OfFRANClT  105 

17.  Of  Monks,and  Monifteries :  of  the  manner  of-  the  admiffion  of  No- 
vices into  Abbies,  Monafteries,  and  Convents.     None  is  to  be  admitted 
to  that  profeffion  before  the  year  of  probation,  and  before  the  fixteenth 
year  of  his  age.     Of  the  antient  Ceremonies -and  Cuftoms  of  the  Mo- 
nafteries  -y  the  habits  of  the  Monks,  and  their  fhaving  their  beards,  and 
having  a  round  ring  of  hair  on  their  heads.     The  Laity  are  forbid- 
den to  fie  among  the  Monks,  whilft  the  Divine  Myfteries  are  celebrated. 

1 8.  Of  Nuns  and  their  j-Iabits.     A  Prohibition  to  men  to  enter  into 
the  Monafteries  of  the  Women. 

19.  Of  Burials.     The  bodies  of  Hereticksnot  to  have  Chrifti:n  bu- 
rial.    Thofe  who  deny  the  Oblations  or  Legacies  of  the  dead,  or  refufe 
to  pay  them,  or  conceal  their  Wills  and  Teftamtnts,  or  deceitfully  re- 
tain them,  are  to  be  excommunicated. 

20-  Of  Jurifdidion  and  Vifitation. 

21.  Of  preferving  Church-goods,  and  not  alienating  them. 

22.  Of  Seminaries,  Schools,  and  Univerfities. 

The  Decrees  of  the  (Provincial  Council  of  Aquicain  cele* 
brated  at  Bituriges  in  the  month  of  September^ 
Anno  1584. 

IN  the  firft  place  there  is  a  Form  of  Confeffion  of  Faith,  by  thofe  who 
were  prefent  in  this  Provincial  Council. 

The  Index  of  the  Titles. 

1 .  Concerning  the  Adoring,  Worfhipping,  and  Calling  upon  God. 

2.  Concerning  Faith. 

3 .  Of  the  Preaching  and  Expofition  of  the  Word  of  God. 

4.  Of  taking  away  the  abui'e  of  the  Scriptures. 

5.  Of  avoiding  Hereticks. 

6.  Of  Invocation  of  Saints,,  and  of  Feftival  dayes. 

7.  Of  Pilgrimage»to  holy  places.   No  Clerk  miy  prefume  to  vific 
fuch  places  without  having  obtained  a  licence  from  his  own  Bifhop,  or 
his  Vicar  in  writing;   and  before  he  begirr  his  journey,  he  is  firft  to 
confefs  all  his  fins,  and  to  receive  the  holy  Eucharift.     None  is  to  vific 
holy  places  out  of  curiofity  ,  or  out  of  pleafure,  or  to  view  divers 
Towns  and  places,  but  for  the  amendment  of  his  life,  and  the  fulfilling 
of  Vows. 

8.  Of  Vigils  and  Failings. 

9.  Of  Churches  and  Temples. 

10.  Of  the  Reliques  of  Saints:   The  firft  Canon  was,  that  the  B:- 

firops. 


cccltfiaftical  %iftojt?       cent  >/. 


(hops  take  care,  that  the  honour  of  Reliques  be  preached  to  the  people 
of  God.  That  Reliques  are  not  to  be  (hewed  out  of  the  Box,  except  it 
be  done  out  of  a  folemn  manner  and  cuftom  of  feme  Cburch,  but  they 
are  to  be  kept  with  honour  and  reverence.  The  Reliques  of  Saints 
may  not  be  tranfiated  without  the  authority  of  the  Pope,  or  the  Bifhop, 
or  a  Council.  They  are  to  be  carryed  by  Ecclefiaftical  perfons  in  pub- 
lick  prayers,  not  by  Laicks,  unlefs  perhaps  it  be  granted  them  out  of 
an  antient  and  laudable  cuftome  of  Churches"and  phces. 

u.  Of  Images* 

12.  Of  the  celebration  of  the  Divine  Oifice,  of  Canonical  hours,  and 
the  Ecclefiaftical  Hymn. 

1  3.  Of  daily  distributions. 

14.  Of  Boy«-Chorifters  :    of  their  age,  manners,  habit,  and 
learning. 

1  5.  Of  the  Ornaments  and  Veflels  of  the  Cfurch. 

1  6.  Of  Ccemeteries,  the  care  of  the  Dead,  and  of  Purgatory. 

17.  Of  Traditions. 

15.  Of  the  Sacraments  in  general. 

1  9.  Of  Baptifro. 

20.  Of  Confirmation. 

21  .  Of  Penance,  and  the  parts  of  it. 

22.  Of  the  Eucharift. 

23.OftheMa&. 

24.  Of  Order. 

2  5.  Of  the  Clergy. 

26.  Of  Priefts. 

27.  Of  Matrimony. 

2.8.  Of  Extream  Un&ion. 

29.  Of  the  greater  and  lefTer  Seminaries,  of  Schools  and  Univer- 
fuies. 

30.  Of  Jurifdidion. 

3  1  .  Of  Excommunication. 

32.  Of  Archbifliops  and  Bifliops. 

3  3.  Of  a  Vifitation,  Procuration,  and  the  perfons  to  whom  the  power 
of  Vifiting  is  given. 

34.  Of  Canons  and  Chapters. 

35.  Cf  the  Redors  of  Parifh  Churches. 

36.  Of  Benefices. 

37.  Of  Monkeries  and  Religious  Houfes. 

38.  Of  things  pertaining  to  the  Church. 

39.  Of  Blafphemies  ;  of  an  Oath,  and  of  Perjury* 

40.  Of  Divination  by  lots,  Enchantments,  Conjurations,  and  fuch  like 
Superftitions. 

41  .  Of  Simoniacks  and  Fiduciaries 

42.  Of 


Cent.  17.  Of  FRANCE.  107 

42.  Of  Concubinaries. 

43.  OfHofpitals. 

44.  Of  Confraternities,  and  Fellowships.  I 

45.  Of  Laicks. 

46.  Of  Councils. 

This  Council  was  concluded  with  acclamations  to  Pope  Gregory 
XIII,  to  King  Henry  III,  to  the  Patriarch  of  Bituriges  ,  and  to  all 
the  Bifhops  that  were  prefent  in  that  Council  ,  wifhing  them  long  life> 
and  an  happy  return  to  their  Churches. 

An  Indulgence  of  fourty  days  was  granted  by  the  Patriarch  to  all 
who  were  prefent  in  this  Synod,  and  to  all  people  which  favoured  fo 
holy  a  work  with  their  wifhes  and  prayers. 

. 

M  Index  of  the  Titles  of  the  Decrees  of  the  Provincial 
Council  e/Aqucris,  Anno  15 85. 

. 

i.  /Concerning  the  Profeffion  of  the  Catholick  faith, 
\^J    2.  A  Form  of  confeflion  of  faith. 

3.  Of  the  Rudiments  of  faith,  and  the  Schools  of  Chriftian  do&rine , 

4.  Of  prohibited  Books. 

5.  Of  the  Sacrament?. 

6.  Of  the  Sacrament  of  Baptifm. 

7.  Of  the  holy  Chrifme. 

8.  Of  Confirmation. 

p.Of  thofe  things  which  pertain  to  the  Sacrament  of  themofrholy 
Eucharift. 

10.  Of  the  celebration  of  the  Mafs. 
i  i.  Ofr  the  Miffal  and  Breviary. 

12.  Of  thofe  things  which  pertain  to  the  Sacrament  of  Penance. 

13.  Of  Matrimony. 

14.  Of  thofe  things  which  pertain  to  the  Sacrament  of  Extream 
Unftion. 

15.  Of  thofe  things  which  belong  to  the  Sacrament  of  Order, 
r6.  Of  the  Worfhip  of  Feftival  dayes. 

17.  Of  the  life  and  honefly  of  Clerks. 

1-8.  Of  Bifhops  :  of  thofe  things  in  which  the  Bifhop  out  of  the 
Council  o/iTrfnt^  as  delegate  of  the  Apoftolical  Chair,  may  and  ought 
to  proceed. 

19.  Of  a  Visitation. 

20.  Of  Sermons,  and  Preaching  the  Word  of  God~ 
2i..  Of  Canonifts- 

22.  Of  Chapters.. 


%l)t  etclcfiafttcai  $ifto#     Gem. 


23.  OfBeneficed  perfons,  or  Manfionaries. 

24.  Of  Parifh-Priefts,  and  Curates. 

25.  OfRefidency, 

26.  Of  Churches  and  their  Ordaining. 

27.  Ofthe  Quire. 

28.  Of  the  Altar. 
'29.  Of  the  Sacrift. 

30.  Of  the  Coemeteries,  Bell,  Obfequies,  and  Funerals. 

31.  OfProceffions. 

32.  Of  Indulgences. 

33.  OfReliques. 

34.  Of  Excommunication. 

35.  Of  thofe  things  which  pertain  to  the  Collationof  Benefices,and  the 
preservation  of  rights  and  goods. 

36.  Of  a  Seminary. 

37.  Of&Diocefan  Synod. 

38.  Of  foraneous  Vicars. 

39.  Of  Monasteries. 

40.  Of  Nuns,  and  their  Vows  of  Chaftity. 

41.  Of  thofe  things   which    generally  belong  to  thefe  Conftitu- 


T7;e  Titles  of  the  Decrees  of  the  (provincial  Council  of 
Tholoufe,  Anno  1590. 


Part    i. 

i .  /Concerning  a  Profefllon  of  Faith. 
V_>  2.  Concerning  Bifhops. 

3.  Concerning  Chapters. 

4.  Concerning  Pariih-Priefts. 

5 .  Of  Presbyters  and  Clerks. 

6.  OfPreachers. 

7.  Offoraneous  Vicars. 

8.  Of  Nuns. 

• 

Part    2. 

1.  Of  Sacraments,  and  things  belonging  to  the  Sacraments. 

2.  OfBaptifm. 

3.  Of  Confirmation. 

4.  Of  Penance,  and  Confeffion. 

S.  Of 


Cent.    17.  Of  FRANCE.  209 

5.  Of  the  Eucharift,  and  the  holy  Communion. 

6.  Of  the  celebration  of  MafTes. 

7.  Of  the  Sacrament  of  Order. 

8.  Of  Matrimony. 

9.  Of  extreme  Unftion. 

10.  Of  care  to  be  had  for  the  dead,  and  of  their  Funerals  and  bu- 
rials. 

1 1 .  Of  the  Relicks,  and  Images  of  Saints. 

12.  Of  Indulgences. 

13.  Of  prohibited  meats  and  a  difpenfation  of  them. 

14.  Of  Holy-daies  and  their  veneration. 

15.  Of  Vows,  and  Religious  Pilgrimages. 

Part  3. 

1.  Of  Churches  ,   Chapels,   Altars,   and    oiher  things  of  like 
fort. 

2.  Of  Oratories  fcituate  in  the  way. 

3.  Of  Schools  andFellowfhipsofChriftianDodrine. 

4.  Of  Univerfities  and  Colledges. 

5.  Of  Seminaries  of  Clerks. 

6.  Of  Hofpitals,  houfes  for  Lepers,  and  other  pious  places. 

7.  Of  confraternities  and  fellowfhips. 

Part  4. 

1.  Of  Excommunication. 

2.  Of  Ecclefiaftical    jurifdidion  ,  and   the  judicial   Court  of  a 
Bifliop. 

3.  Of  letting  to  hire,  or  the  Alienation  of  Benefices,  and   Ecclefi- 
aftical things. 

4.  Of  Tenths  and  Oblations. 

5.  OfSimony. 

6.  OfProvifions,  and  renouncing  of  Benafices. 

7.  OfRefidency. 

8.  Of  a  vifitation. 

9.  Of  the  right  of  Patronage. 

10.  Of  the  holy  Inquifition. 

11.  Of  prohibited  Books. 

12.  Of  Hereticks,  Magicians,  Soothfaiers,  and  Aftrologen, 
15.  OfBlafphemy. 

14.  OfUfuries. 

15.  Of  pious  Teftaments  and  Legacies. 

Dddd  •  16.  Of 


210 


16.  Of  exempt,  and  priviledged  perfons. 

17.  Of  the  things  which  generally  belong  to  thefc  Decrees. 

The  Admonitions  of  the  Synod  of  the  Clergy  of  France, 
Jjfemtied  at  Paris,  in  the  year  159 5.  and  1596. 
Jent  into  the  Provinces  of  France,  for  reftoring  the 
ftate  of  the  Qwck 

The  Index  of  the  Tttks* 

i.  TP\.&  conchies  Provinciatt.v,  concerning  Provincial  Councils. 

JL-/   2.  "De  la,  Vtcance  *ux  Prematures  t   of  Vacancy   to   Bi- 
Ihopricks. 

3.  Des  Provifons  abufives  de  ee  temps?  of  the  abufive  Provifions  e§ 
Benefices. 

4.  Of  Simonies  and  Confidences* 

5 ..  Des  Syndics  Diocefains :  of  Diocefan  Cojpmiffioners. 

Then  follow  tth, 

'ddvisde  /'  ^4fem\>lee  dit  C  LERGE  de  /'  An.  1598.  cnvoye 
aux.  Tr evinces,  centre  Us  Oecwomtts  Jpirtfuels,  &  confutations  des 
Jtcnfons  aux  ferfonnes  fecnliers fur  les  Benefices.. 

The  Admonition  of  the  Afl[embly  of  the  Clergy  of  France  at  Par  if, 
*Anno  1 59&.  fent  into  the  Provinces  of  Franca,  againft  fpirituat  Oeeo- 
aomies,  and  Pcnfions  upon  Bienefices  granted  to  Lay  perfons. 

The  Statutes  of  the  Affembly  of  the  Qugy  of  France  at 
Paris,  Anno  1606.  for  the  ddwintftration  of  Bale* 
pajlkal  jurifditlion. 

Then  fatten, 

THe  Decrees  of  the  Provincial  Council  of  2&rhit+.   Which  are  of 
the  fame  nature  with   the  Decrees  of  Divers  of  the  former 
Council?. 

This  Council  aflembled  Anno  1609* 

A  Council  AfTembled  at  Aquens,  to  cenfure  a  Book  ~De  Ecdefi- 
a/kca.&  PoliticAfottftate,  of  Ecclefiaftical  and  Politick  ;  ovwr.. 

Ano- 


Of  FRANCE.  _  in 

Another  AfTemblyof  the  Clergy  of  France  met  at  Paris^Anno  1615. 
for  the  reception  of  the  Council  of  Trent. 

A  Provincial  Council  was  congregated  at  Bordeaux,  Anm  1624.  in 
the  month  of  September  :  the  Decrees  whereof  were  of  the  fame  kind 
with  fomeof  the  foregoing  Councils. 

There  wasalfo  a  General  Council  of  the  Clergy  of  France,  AfTera- 
bled  at  Parisy  Anno  1625. 

Divers  Propositions  were  collected  out  of  a  Book  fet  forth  in  Englifo, 
Entitled  ,  Apologia  pro  modo  procedendi  Santt*  fcdi*  Apoftolica,  in 
regendis  Catholici*  Anglix,  dnrante  ferfecutionis  temporc  j  cum  dc- 
fen/tone  Status  Religiofi.  Autlore  Daniele  a  Jeftt. 

Then  followeth  an  Epiftle  of  the  Cardinals,  Archbi/riops,  and  Bi- 
fhops,  then  adting  at  Paris,  to  the  Cardinals,  Archbifhops,  and  Bi- 
fhops  through  France,  concerning  the  condemning  of  two  Volumes, 
to  which  thefe  Titles  are  prefixed, 

i  .  Traittez,  des  Droifts  &  Liber  tez,  de  I'  £gtife  GaKicane. 
2.  Pretlue  da  Libertez.  de  V  Eglife    Gallictne.     February    14. 
1639. 

The  firft  Council  of  the  Province  of  Prfn>,under  Francis  de  Cjondyjhz 
firft  Archbifhop  ofP<*m,  in  the  time  of  Pope  VrbanVlW.  and  King 
Levees  XIII.  was  celebrated  in  the  year  1640.  againft  a  Book  enti- 
tuled,  Optati  GaUi  de  cavendofckifmate,  &c. 

Whofoever  fliall  defire  to  be  fatisfied  fully  concerning  the  French 
Cardinals,  I  (hall  refer  him  to  a  Book  entituled,  GalUa  Pttrpurata. 

Of  the  Kriirverfities  of  France. 


PArit  (the  Metropolis  )  is  the  firft,  and  mofl  antient  Univerfity  of 
France.  Era/mm  faith,Thac  Lutet  ia  Academiaruw  omnium  Reg  inay 
'Paris  is  the  Queen  of  all  Univerfuies.  The  Emperour  Charles  the  Great 
inftituted  this  famous  Univerficy.  Having  made  a  League  with  Ar- 
cbaiws  King  of  Scots,  he  entreated  that  King  te  fend  unto  him  Pro- 
feflours  of  the  Greek  and  Latin  Tonguts,  and  of  other  Learning  for 
his  Univerficy  of  Paris.  Arcbaiu*  fent  unto  him  the  forementioned 
Alcttinus,  wAlbintts,  John  Melrofe  (  fo  named  irom  the  Abbey  Mel- 
rofe)  Claudiw,  flemensy  and  Anthony.  Fhrentiw  reckoneth  them 
among  Hereticks,  who  followed  the  Greek  Church,  becaufe  they  op- 
pofed  the  Romift  Rite?.  The  Kings  of  France  have  beautified 

this  Univerfity  from  time  to  time,  with  many  fumptuous  Edifices,  en- 
dowed it  with  many  great  Priviledges   and  Princely  Revenues.    The 

Dddd  2  princt- 


211 


%\y&  ecrtefiafticai  $ffittp 


principal   Col! edges  are  the  Scrborng  3   and  the  Colledge  -of  Na 


King  Lewes  IX.  by  the  Counfel  of  Robert  ofSorbon(  which  took 
his  firname  as  they  fay  from  the  place  of  his  Nativity  )  his  Almoner 
and  Conft  flour,  erected  a  Colledge  of  Divines,  which  retains  the 
name  of  Sorbon*  Pupe  Clement  IV-  confirmed  the  foundation  of  this 
Colledge.  He  that  anfwereth  there  cominueth  from  morning  to 
nigbr. 

The  Colledge  of  Navtrre  was  founded  by  Joan  Queen  of  France 
and  N.warrf,  Amo  130-}..  She  like  wife  enriched  this  Colledge  with 
an  excellent  Library. 

The  greateft  pa-rt  of  the  young  Princes,  Lords,  and  Gentlemen  irv 
Fnzwc^are  cuftoraarily  nourished  andinftruded  in  this  Colledge.  Peter 
de  _/4///<*a>Chancellour  of  Paris,  hath  beftowed  fo  much  on  this  Colledge,, 
that  he  is  eftcemed  as  a  fecond  founder. 


Poictiers  is  an  Univerftty,  efpeeially  for  the  Civil  Law,  and  a  See 
Epifcopal.  It  was  ereded  under  Charles  VII.  King  of  France,  and 
confirmed  by  Pope  Ettgenius  IV.  Scaliger  in  his  Cities  thus  fpeaks 
efir, 

Si  ftudiftmeftanimt,  veniunt  acovpore  vires  j 

Galliaquc  ameritispejcit  utrumqiLe  fibi. 
H&c  ftndiu^  alt*  belli  exercentur  amore. 

Pickavium  eft  Animus  ,.  c&ttra  corpus  grunt  v 

John  Capaion,  and  Cbriftopborw  Longclitu^  were  Profeflburs  here^ 
Liaas. 

Lions  K  pleafantly  featedonthe  confluence  of  the  Soajne,  and  the. 
&kofney  anciently  a  Raman  Colony  (teltified  by  many  old  InfcriptionsJ* 
and  honoured  with  a  magnificent  Temple,  dedicated  by  the  Cities  of 
France  to  Jfrttuftu  C&jar  •  now  the  moft  famous  Mart  of  France, 
and  an  Univerfity,  which  is  very  ancient,  being  a  feat  of  Learning 
in  the  time  of  Caiut  C/tligula.  For  in  thofe  times  before  an  Altar 
confecratetf  to  ^Hgnftm  C<cfar  in  the  Temple  forementioned,  this  Ca- 
ttgnla  did  inftituce  fome  Exercifts  of  the  (JmJ^and  Roman  Eloquence  : 
the  Vidor  to  be  honoured  according  to  his  aierit,  &c.  The  Archbi- 
fiiop  hereof  is  the  Metropolitan  of  all  Erance, 


Of  FRANCE. 


•, 

In  it-Is  anUniverfity  founded  by I/w^1  the  Second,  Duke  of 
the  Son  of  King  John,  about  the  time  that  Rupertm  Palfgrave  of  Rheine 
founded  Heidelberg  in  Germany^  about  the  year  1346.  It  flourifheth 
in  the  Study  of  the  Latine  efpecially.  HenrjVa.lois>  Brother  to  King 
Charles  IX.  augmented  the  fame.  He  invited  thither  many  very 
Learned  Scholars,  among  the  which  was  Francis  Baldwin,  who  there- 
in eftablifhed  the  profefiion  of  the  Civil  Law.  Out  of  this  Univerfity 
came  Johannes  Bodinns. 

Avignon.. 

It  is  an  ancient  City  otTrovence  fcituated  on  the  Bank  afRhoelaniu, 
wherein  is  an  Univerfity  of  long  continuance.  In  this  City  arefaidto 
be  feven  Palaces  }  feven  Parifh- Churches ;  feven  Monafteries  •,  feven 
Nunneries  :  feven  Inns,  and  feven  Gates.  Pope  Clement  y.  tranf- 
ferred  the  Papal  Seat  from  Rome-  into  this  City,  where  it  remained 
feventy  four  years.  It  was  made  an  University  at  the  time  of  the 
Pope's  firft.  fetling  here,  and  fo  it  ftill  continueth. 

Alciat  the  great  Emblematift  was  here  Profeflbr,  and  taught  the 
Law.  Pe t rw  Caftrenfa  a  Lawyer,  by  fundry  Learned  Works  he  wrote, 
much  ennobled  this  Univerfity. 

Orleans, 

It  is  a  rich  and  plentiful  City  pi  -ced  on  the  Bank  of  the  River  Loir?, 
Some  write,  That  the  foundation  of  this  City  was  laid  by  Akrelmn 
the  Emperour,  Anno  276.  and  from  him  was  called  Anrelia,  which 
name  it  retaineth  unto  this  day  :  In  this  City  was  ereded  an  Univer- 
fity by  Philip  the  fair,  King  of  France,  Anno  1312.  Here  the  Civil 
Law  is  Learnedly  profetfed,  and  this  Univerfity  by  divers  Learned. 
Writers  hath  been  often  entitled  the  Nurfe  or  Mother  thereof. 

Bo  urges.. 

It  is  a  famous  Univerfity,  called  by  Learned  men  the  Ornament  o* 
tetters,  and  habitation  of  the  Mutes.  It  was  long  fince  founded  by  a 
certain  Duke  ofBottrges,  but  afterwards  in  procefs  of  time  falling  to^ 
decay,  and  being  almoft  utterly  extincl:,  it  was  again  reftored  by 
fundry  Kings  of  France.  It  was  authorized  and  endowed  with  many 
great  priviledges  and  high  prerogatives  by  Pope  Paul  the  fecond  of 
that  name..  Here  Alci*tey  Rebuff™,  Dnarenwy  Hotoman,  Ronellas, 

and. 


and  Cnjaciw  (famous   Lawyers)  lived  and  taught  with  great  ap- 
plaufe. 

Caen. 

It  is  a  City  of  Normandy^  featedupon  the  River  Orne,  fecond  in  re- 
putation of  the  whole  Province,  and  famous  for  the  Sepulchre  of  Willi- 
am the  Conquerour.  An  Univerfity  was  erected  here  by  Henry  V. 
King  of  England,  who  after  many  glorious  Conquefts  atchieved  againft 
the  French  King,  heat  laft  bereaved  him  of  Normandy^  Anno  1418. 
In  token  and  memory  of  which  Viftory,  as  a  perpetual  Trophy  and 
Monument  of  his  glory,  hecaufedtobe  hidinCaen  the  foundation  of 
this  Univerfity.  The  Archbifhop  of  Dublin  was  the  firft  Reader  of 
Divinity  there.  In  this  Univerfity  lately  flourifhed  Bochart  that  Learn- 
ed French  Divine* 

Rbemes. 

It  is  the  Metropolis  of  Champaigns,  wherein  not  long  fince  was 
ere&ed  an  Univerfity  by  Charles  Guife^  Cardinal  of  Lorrain,  Arch- 
bifhop and  Duke  of  Rhemes.  In  this  Univerfity  among  other  Colledges, 
there  is  one  appointed  for  the  education  of  young  Englifj  fugitives. 

The  Archbifhop  of  this  See  is  one  of  the  twelve  Peers  of  France.  The 
French  Kings  are  anointed  at  Rhemes  (it  is  faid)  with  the  oyl  wherewith 
St.  &m(g«iM  had  anointed  Clovis  the  firft  Chriilian  King  of  France. 

Bourdeaux. 


It  is  the  chief  City  QfAquitain,  feated  on  the  South  Bank  of  the  Ga- 
not  far  from  the  Sea,  among  the  Marifhes.  An  Univerfity  was 
founded  hereby  King  Lewes  ^1.  and  a  large  Cathedral.  Here  A*- 
fonius,  that  famous  Poet,  was  born  and  educated. 

Tholoufe. 

It  is  the  chief  City  of  Languedcc,  and  one  of  the  greateft  in  all 
France  ;  fo  ancient  that  fome  report  it  to  be  built  when  Deborah  Judged 
Ifrael.  It  is  the  feat  of  an  Archbifhop,  and  an  Univerfity.  Pops  John 
XXII.  firft  inftituted  the  Univerfity,  which  enjoyeth  the  fame  priviled- 
ges  that  heretofore  have  been  granted  unto  Paris. 


Of   FRANCE  115 


It  was  amiendy  a  Colony  of  the  Romans ,  now  a  Bifhops  See,  where 
there  remain  fome  marks  of  the  Roman  greatnefs,  efpecially  the  ruincs 
of  a  fpatious  Palace  built  by  the  Emperour  Adrian  -,  in  it  an  Univer£- 
ty  was  lately  erected. 

Mont fc  Her. 

It  is  a  Cky  in  Languedoc,  not  far  from  the  Mtditerranean  Sea  \  it 
is  fcituate  on  a  high  Mountain,  as  the  name  imponeth.  Here  is  an 
Univerfity  for  the  Study  ofPhyfick,  and  for  that  very  commodioufly 
feated  ^  the  Country  round  about  affording  great  variety  of  medicinal 
Herbs.  Out  of  this  Univerfity  many  famous  Phyfitians  have  proceeded, 
•viz..  Gentilis,  infignti  Avicenn&  Comment 'at  or,  Falco,  Argent erias,, 
ittSj  Rondeletint,  Valeriola,  Jacobu*  Fontantts,  Laurentim- 
Andreas  Laurentitu,  inpgnis  Anatomufcripor. 

Bifanfon* 

It  is  the  Metropolis  of  Burgundy,  feated  between  two  Mountains  oiv 
the  Banks  of  the  River  Doux,  by  which  it  is  almoft  encompaflcd.. 

In  the  year  1540.  a  fmall  Univerfity  was  founded  here  by  the  autho- 
rityofPope  Julius  III.  and  the  Emperour  Charles  V.  which  hath  fincer 
flourifhed  exceedingly. 

Dole. 

It  is  a  City  in  Burgundy.  Anciently  it  was  an  Univerfity  for  the 
Study  of  the  Civil  Lawes  ^  here  Carolus  Molinxm  publickly  taught 
the  Law.  But  now  the  Univerfity  is  devoured  by  a  Colledge  of  Je- 
fuites,  who  fearing  left  the  Dodrineof  the  Reformed  Churches  might 
creep  in  among  the  people,  not  only  have  debarred  them  the  ufe  of  the- 
Proteftants  Books,  but  have  exprefly  forbid  them  to  talk  of  God,  ei- 
ther in  a  good  fort  or  in  a  bad. 

Valence. 

It  is  a  City  mDaulfhine'^  the  chief  City  heretofore  of 
then  a  Roman  Colony,  now  a  Bifhops  See,  and  an  Univerfity  for  the. 
Civil  Laws. 


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A. 


Page 

ABbeyof  st.ftzdour.          34 
Abbey  of  Lexovien.  3  2 

Abbey  of  Shelles.  34 

Abbey  of  St.  Callus.  56 

Agelom  a  Mon^ofLuxovia.     62 
Agobard  Bifiop  of  Lyons.          62 
Agoiland/foSrfmm^  bis  Treache- 
ry and  Death.  5  6 
Alcuinus,  a  Learned  Man  ,  in  the 
time  of  Charles  the  Great,  p.  41 
Governour  of  the    Monadery  of 
St.  Martin.                             45 
Alcimus  Bijhbp  of  Vienna.          27 
Amandus  Bijhop  of  Bourdeaux.  13 
Amandus  Bijhop  of  Paris.  33 
D'Amboife,  and  Afcanius  Cardi- 
nals.                                       185 
The  Bifiop  of  Ambian,  a  great  Law- 
yer, againft  the  Fryars  hearing  of 
ConfeffionS)&c.                     148 
The  Bat t el  at  Agin- Court ,  where 
ten  thoufand  French  were  flain. 

163 
Alanus  of  Chartres  3  Secretary  to 

King  Charles  VII. 
Antonius  de  Rofellis,  a  famous 
Reader  of  the  Law.  172 

Andoclus  a  Martyr.  8 

Angifus  Abbot  of  Lobien.  56 

Ambrofe  Ansbert  *  good  Writer. 

67 


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Anfelm  Bijhop  of  Laon  3  betrayeth 

Charles   -of  Lorrain    with   hit 

Wife  and  Children  unto  his  Ene- 

wies.  69 

The  Cardinal  of  Aries.  1 7 1 

An    AJfitnbly    of   the    Prelates    at 

Tours,   called  by    King    Lewes 

xrr.  1 36 

AponiuSj  a  Writer  of  divers  Book/. 

38 

Jacobus  Amiotus,  Abbot  of  Belle- 
fona.  209 

Aphordifius3  frft  Paftor  of  Bour- 
ges  in  France.  a 

A  great  Army  againft  the  Albigen- 
fes.  104 

Arnalt,  Bijbop  of  Orleans,  again  & 
the  Pope's  power  over  the  French 
Bifiops.  69 

Arnulphj  BJjbepofMtVt,  a  Learned 
and  good  Man.  3  2 

Arnulph,  a  pngular  Preacher.     85 

George,  Cardinal  of  Armignag. 

214 

Avitus,  Btjhop  of  Vienna  5  he  con- 
verted the  Burgundians  to  the 
Faithof  Chrijl.  22 

Audoenus,  Bifiop  of  Roven.       3  5 

Auftregelil,  Bzfiop  of  Bourdeaux, 

33 


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Bavo 


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B. 


BAvo,  a  Fibber  3  Converted 
Amandus.  33 

Cardinal  Bettone,  Arch-Si/hop 

Avignon.  174 

Peter  Bertrand3  Bijhop.  of  Edven 
his  Speech.  1 36 

Theodore  Beza,  a  Learned  Prote- 
ftant  Divine,  his  Worlds.        216 
frequent  Meetings  of  Biftops  at  Or- 
leans. 22,23 
Bertram.,  an  Holy  Mtn^  and Jingular 
Writer.  64 
Berengarius,*£e  firftthtt  was  ac- 
counted an  Heretic!^  for  denying 
Tranfubftantiation.-  73 
Bernard,  a  Monk^oj  Clugny.    190 
St.  Bernard,  Abbot  of  Qarevaux 
hisjlory.                     87,88,89 
Ann  du  Bourg3  a  famous  Prote- 
ftant,  burnt  for  the  Truth.     214 
William  Briffanriet^  Godly  French 
St/hop,                                   193 
Peter  de   Bruce,    he  Preacheth  a- 
gaivjl  the  Topes.                         92 
Pppe  Boniface  VIII.  affrmeth   that 
the  Realm  of  France  is  a  'Bene- 
fice of  the  Papal  Majejiy.  p.  1 2  7. 
He  put  France  under  an  Inter- 
djtf.ibld.    Hsinvejlcth  the  Em* 
perour  Albert,  King  of  France. 

128 

Bruno,  the  Pounder  of  tt+e  Order  of 
the  Canhufians.  83 

orhjeth  St*  Ed- 


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mond  at  Canterbury.  112 

William  Budseus3  Secretary  to  King 
Francis  I.  his  Library- Deeper,  and 
afterwards  his  C  oun fell  our  ^  his 
work*-  189 

Cardinal  Bellay.  ibid 

William  Bellay9  a,  Learned  Noble- 
man.  IQC 

Stephen  Brulifer3  a  Dotfor  of  Sor- 

172 


JOhn  Calvin,  hit  Learning  and 
Indtiftrioufnefs.  195 

Dr.   John     Cartel  Ian  ,    a    ftncere 

Preacher  of  the  Word  in  France, 

and  Martyr.  19^. 

the  beginning  of  the  Ciftercian  6V- 

der.  83 

Clovis  I.   the  firft  Chritftan  King 

of  France,  his  jiory  from       1 8 
ad  22 

Gefarius  Eifoop  of  Aries.  22 

Charles  the  Great  made  Ewperour 

of  the  Weft  by  the  Pope.  44 

•He-  fubdutih  the  Saxons,  and  redii- 

ceih  them  to  the  Chriftian  Faith. 

45 
Claudius,  Bifoop  of  Auxerre.     41 

Jodocus  Clichtoveus,  a  Learned 
Man  of  Paris.  184 

Philip  deComoiines,  **  Hiftorio* 
grapher.  i78 

King  Charlts  VIL  redtcctb  all  to  his 
obedience.,  which  was  fubdued  to 
the  Englilbj  except  Calais.  164 


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When  the  Cardinals  were  frfl  Jfjttt 

up  in  a  Conclave  at  the  Ekftion 

of  the  Pope.  120 

Charles  of  Guife,  Arch-ZiJhop  of 

Pvhemes,  and  Charles*?/  Ven- 

dofme  made  Cardinals.          206 

Crefcens  one  of  ike  frft  Preachers 

in  France.  2 

Columban.,  an  Holy  Man.  %  3 

Councils  at  Matifcon.  24^25 

A  Council  at  Orleans.  23324 

A  Council  at  Poiftiers.  26 

A  Council  at  Auxerre.  3  3 

Councils  at    Cabillon.,  or  ChaloD3 

34  d*  52 

A  Council  at  Franckford.  42 

A  Council  at  Mentz.  46 

Councils  at  Rhemes.  48,  68, 

69>  84,  89 

A  Council  at  Clermont.  80 

A  Council  at  Tours.  49 

A  Council  at  Aries.  54 

Councils  at  Lyons.    57.1 1 1  €^119 

Councils  at  Paris.  58^93 

A  Council  at  Meaux.  59 

A  Council  at  Piftis.  ibid 

A  Council  at  Acciniacum.  60 

A  Council  called  by  Pope    John  in 

France.  64 

A  Council  at  SohTons.  9  9 

A  Council  at  Bourges.  106 

The  Council  of  Conftance.     There 

it  was  decreed ,    that  a    Council 

lawfully,  affembled   if  above  the 

Pope.  162 

Charles  the  Great  baniflnlh  the  Am- 

brofian  fervice^  and  cjlablifketh 


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the  Gregorian.  5  5 

A  general  Complaint  made  againft 
the  Clergy  of  France,  by  the  Court 
of  France.,  and  all  the  Judges  of 
France  accujing  them  of  many  a" 
bufes.  145 

D. 

King  Dagobert  built  the  Temple 
of  St.  Denis,  which  hathfince 
been  the  Sepulchre  of  the  French 
^  Kings.  32 

Francis  Duraneus.,  a  Learned  Law- 
yer.  208. 

Durandus,  'a  fatftota  Lawyer  and 
Divine.  1423 145 

Dionifius,  Bijhop  of  Paris.  9 


E. 


ELigias,    a  frfiop.  35 

Claudius  Efpencasus,  «  DotJor 
of  Sorbon5  hff  Learned  Writings 


Eucherius,  Ei/hop  of  Lyons.  1  5 
Euftafius,  Abbot  of  Lexovien.  32 
Exuperius.  Bifoopof  Tholoule. 


13 


F. 


T  Acobus  Faber,*  learned  French- 

J    man.    Farel  and  Calvin  wcrv 

his  Scholars.  183 

Fauftus,  of  an  Abbot  wade  Biftop 

of  Rhegium  in  France.          20 

France  divided  into  divers 


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ens  in  the  time  when  King  Hen- 
ry V.  invaded  it.  1 6% 

Fulco  5  Arch-Bifhop  of  Rhemes 
tnurthercd  if*  the  Council  of 
Rhemes.  68 

Fulbertj  Bijhop  of  Chartres3  a  lear- 
ned Max.  7  2 

Furfius,  Foilan^  and  Ultan  3  built 
Alonatf  cries  in  France.  35 

King  Francis  the  frft^  a  Founder  of 
Learning  in  Paris.  190 

A  contention  between  the  Fry  art  of 

Patis,  and  the  French  Prelates. 

148,149,  150 

G. 

GAndericuj ,  Etfiop  of  Lyons. 
34 
Robert  Gagwin,.*  French  Hijio- 

rian.  i3% 

John  Gerfon3<<*  famous  l>ivi»e  of 

Paris,  his  Learning  and  Works. 

164,  165 

Gereberr,  Arch-Bifiop  of  Rhemes. 

p.jo.tU  wrote  the  Apology  of  the 

French  Cburc b.  71 

Gpttefchal k,  lis  opinions.,  6% 

Godfrey  of  Bovillon,  chofen  King 

of  Jerusalem. _  83 

Grati3n5  a  Preacher  at  Tours.  9 
Gratian.,  the  compiler  of  the.  Pope's 

Decrees.  10 1 

Gregory,  Bifhop  of  Tours.  30 
A  ftrife  between  the  Cry  Fryars^ 

Prelates^  and  Dotfors  of  Paris. 


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Gregory  de  Arimino  oppofeth  tfo 
Parifian  DoCtors  in  the  Article  of 
Juftjf  cation.  Pope  Gregory  XH. 
tranflates  hit*  Seat  bacf^  again 
from  Avignon  to  Rome.  152, 

155 

When  the  Gofpel  began  to  be  Preach- 
ed in  France  by  Peter  Sebevilla. 

192 

Gul.  de  Sto.  Amore  9  a  DoBor  of 
Paris.  ,If 

Gul.  de  aha-  Petra3  Bijhop  of  Pa- 
ris- 108 

Guilem,  an  Abbot  9  he  wrote  the 
Life  of  St.  Bernard.  91 

WeffelusGansfort,  a  bhfterin  the 
Vnivcrfity  of  Paris.  172 


H. 


HAyabad  a  Francifcan,  Pre ach- 
ed in  Avignon  before  Pope 
Clement,  that  the  Church  of 
Rome  x  the  Whore  of  Babylon^ 
and  the  Pope  and  his  Cardinals 
are  Antickrift.  147 

King    Henry    II.     kjfrd    by  Earl 
Montgomery    with    a.     Lance. 


King  Charles  VI.  puts  the  bearer  of 
the  Pope's  EnUs  to  thepnnijhment 
called  the  Honorary  Amends* 

ibid 

King  Henry  V.  of  England  warreth 

in  France,  anddyeth  there.   164 

Henry  VI.  an  Infant,  is  Crowned  K. 

at  Paris.  ibid 

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Herebalda  Si/hop  of  Auxerre.     62 
Hildebert,  Arch-BiJhop  of  Tours. 

78 

Hinckmarus  Arch-bijhop  */Rheme 

60, 6 1 

Hinckmarus,  Bijfjop  of  Laon.      60 

Hilary  5    Bijhvp    of   Poitiers    in 

France,  1 1 

Hilary,  frtt  Bijhop  of  Aries.       i  $ 


I. 


T  RencEUs,  hff  ftory.  G3  7,  8 

I  Jews  banifhed  out  of  France,  by 
King  Dagobert.  p.  33.  And  by 
Philip  Auguftus.  93 

Ivo,  drch'BifiopofChartres,  a  Vaf- 
fal  to  Tope  Urban  II.  He  wrote 
divers  Epiftles  to  him.  79,  80 

Joan  of  Arc,  her  Story >  her  Valour •, 
Succefand  Dettb.  1 68 

Indulgences  granted  to  divers  Chur~ 
ches,  Brother-hoods.,  andtiofpi- 
tals.  218,219,220 

Pope  John  XXII.  ercttedthe  Church 
of  Tholoufe  into  an  Arch-Ei- 
jhoprick^ :  and  divided  tkc  Dio- 
cefsof  Tholoufe  into  fix  Bi- 
fiopricks.  144. 

King  John  and  his  Son  Philip  are 
taken  Prifonens  by  Edward  the 
Black^  Prince^  and  carried  into 
England.  148 

James  de  Paradifo  of  Chartres,  he 
wrote  a  little  after  the  Council  of 
Bafil.  170 


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IAndilenuSj  Bijhop  of  Vienna. 
34 
Lazarus,  frft  Pajlor  of  Marfeilles. 

2 

Good  LAWS  ena&ed  by  King  Lewes 
IX.  116 

A  League  among  the  French  Mobi- 
lity again  ft  the  Pope.  n^ 

Launmarus  of  Chartres,  a  renown- 
ed Fryar.  2  2 

Leporius  a  French  Mon^  a  Nefto- 
rian.  20 

A  Letter  fent  in  the  name  of  St. 
Peter.  39 

Vincentius  Lirinenfis.  He  wrote  a- 
gainft  the  Pelagian?  and  Nefto- 
rians.  18 

The  Emperonr  Lewes  imprisoned  in 
the  Monastery  of  St.  Medard  at 
SoifTons.  5  7 

Lotharius  becctneth  a  Mtnk^  in  the 
Abbey  of  Pluviers.  When  the 
Pope's  Legates  came  firft  to  the 
Councils  of  France.  59 

tang  Lewes  \XJoft  all  his  Arm)  and 
Liwfelfj  with  hif  two  Brethren^ 
Alphonfo4»<j/  Charles,,  aretafyn 
Prifoners  in  Egypt.  1 1 3 

"he  Principal  Laws  obferved  in  the 

Creation  of  the  Pope.      i2O3  1 2  I 

upusj  BiJJjgp  of  Troyes.  1 7 

u pus,  Biffiop  of  Sens.  33 

.upus.  Abbot  of  Ferraria.  .        63 
Letters pojfid  between  King,  Philip 

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the  fair.,  And    Boniface   VIII.    Maxirmnus,  frjt  Toft  or  of  Aquens. 
128,129  2 

A  Letter  of  the  French    Prelates  \  Maximinus,  a  Frjar  of  Orleans. 
fent  to  Pope  Boniface  VIII.    1 3 1 ,  22 

132   John  M&rgCC)  Abbot  of  the  Augu- 

Many  Lutheran?  commanded  to  be       ftinians.  41 

put  to  death  in  Paris  by    King    Francis  Morel Ius3  President  in  a  Sy- 
Henry  II.  207!      nodofthe  Proteftants.          211 


M. 


/*">Laudius  Mammertus  -Bijhop  of , 
V_^  ,  Vienna.  17  i 

Margaret  ^tteen  of  Navar,  Sifter  to 
King  Francis  i.  her  memoires^  and 

poetical  workj.  191 

A  Table  of  French  Martyrs.     175, 

ad  200 

Martyr 3  at  Lyons  and  Vienna  3, 

4,  &c. 

Ma  u  rice.  Hi/hop  of  A  n  j  ou .  13 

Martial  converted  divers  Provinces 

and  People  in  France  to  the  Faith. 

2 

Rabanus  Maurus,  famous  in  the  V- 
mverfity  of  Paris.  62 

St.  Martin,  Bijhop  of  Turin.        13 

The  Monaflery  of  St.  Martin  near 
Paris,  called  des  Champs.  73 

John  le  Mayre,  a  French  Hiftorian 

183 

Miner ius3  a  cruel  Perfectttor  of  the 
Albigenfes  in  the  Town  of  Aix 
in  Provence.  203 

Maximus,  builder  of  the  Micians 
Aionatfcry,  2  2 


N. 

William  Nagaretta,  Profcjfiur 
of  the  Laws ,  his  Declara- 
tion and  Appeal  againfl  Pope  Bo- 
niface VIII.  at  Paris,  before  the 
King  and  his  Council.  1 20 

Nicholas  de  Clemangiis,  a  learned 
French-man,  he  wrote  againft  the 
abufes  of  the  Popes.,  and  Court  of 
Rome.  i  6.6 

O. 

ODilo,  Abbot  of  Clugny,  made 
Arch-Bifhop  of  Lyons.     173 
Odo,  Bilhop  of  Baieux.  77 

Nicholas  Orem,  he  Preacheth  before 
the  Pope  and  hff  Cardinals  at  A- 
Vignon.  152 


M 


P. 

Athias   Parifienfis  3  proveth 
that  the  Pope    if  Antichrijl. 


The  Paftordli,  and  their 
on> 


1  14 

Pafcha- 


The  Table. 


Page 

Pafchafius  Rathbert,  Mot  of  COT- 

bey.  64 

Paul  of  Pifa,  Tutor  to  Charles  the 

Great.  4  c 

Peregrinus5  when  he  flour ijhed.   1 7 

Philaftrius,  Bijlwpof  Breux.       13 

Philip  f^e  Apojile^  faid  firft  to  have 

Preached  the  Gofpel  in  France. 

I 

PoftelluSj  a  learned  French-man. 

190 

Peter  Caftellan.,  Bifiop  of  Orleans. 

191 

Peter  Abailard3<*#  Antitrinitarian. 

100 

Peter  3  Bijhof  of  Clugny.  91 

Peter,  a  Monk^  of  Paris.  loo 

Peter  Cantor3  he  wrote  aga'wft  the 

Pope.,  and  the  Adafi-Priejls.      io  I 

Peter  Lombard,  Bijhop  of  Paris, 

the  Majier  of  the  Sentences.    I  o  I 

Peter  de  Cugneriis    his    Oration. 


The  Appeal  of  King  Philip  the  Fair 
agAinft  Pope  Boniface  VIII.  at  Pa- 
ns. "  130 

Articles  of  William  de  Plefiano 
Knight^  read  agaiujl  Boniface 
VIII.  At  Paris.  '  ibid. 

Peter  de  Aliaco.,  Cardinal  of  Cam 
bray.,  and  Chancellottr  of  Paris. 

169 

The  Pragmatic  San&ion  of  King 
Charles  VII.  firft  made  in  a  Sy- 
nod affern'oled  at  Bourges.  168 

An  Arrcft  of  the  Parliament  of  Pa- 
ris?  againfl  the  Popes  exaffions 


Page 

of  Annates  in  France.  1  59 

Projeftus,  Bijhop  ^/Marfeilles.  33 

The  St&ry  of  Peteu  the  Hermit,  a. 

French  Pilgrim.  80,  8  r 

Profper    of  Aquitain  D   when    he 

flour  ified.  1  7 


T.  Quintiii;  a  Preacher  and  Mar- 
tyr.  9 


D  Emigius,  Bijhop  of  Rhemes  he 
*•*-  baptized  King  Clovis  3  and 
3000.  of  his  SoMiers  with  him. 

20 

Remigius,  Eijhopof  Lyons,  he  de- 
fended the  Dottrine  of  Gottef- 
cha4k.  63 

Robert  the  Norman  refnfith  ths 
Kingdom  of  Jerufalem.  83 

John  Rochetalada  Preacheth,  that 
the  Church  of  Rome  //  the  Whore 
of  Babilon,  &c.  and  is  burnt 
at  Avignon.  147 

Rufticus5  a  Mtrtjr.  q 

Thomas  Rhedon3  a  French  Carme- 
lite. 1 7-2 


S; 


QAIvianus,  Bijfjop  of  Marfeilles.\ 

17 

Solonius  a  good  Writer.  ibid 

Salonius,  Bffiop  of  Voptnga.      26 
Sagitarius , 


The  Table. 


Sagitarius,  Bijhop   of 


p 
Ebred 


age 
una. 


Saturninus3/£e  frft  BiJJwp  o/Tho- 
loufe.  9 

Paulus  Sergius,  flrft  Bijfwp  of  Nar- 
.  bon/#  France.  2 

Sebaftian,  a  Martyr.  1  1 

Sidonius  ApolliBariSj^Fr/Z  Brjhopof 
Clermont.  16 

Henry  Stevens,***/  Robert  htf  Sea, 
Henry,  Robert's  Son.,  and  Paul 
the  Son  of  that  Henry3  all  learn- 
ed Men,  and  Printers.  204 

Great  contention  between  the  Mt- 

Jlers  of  Sorbon  in  Parisa  and  the 

Preaching  Frjars.  1  1  4 

Serenus,  Siftop  ^/Marfeilles.      27 

.The  Setts  **&  Order  of  Movies  cal- 
led Stellati  ,  inftituted  by  King 
John.  152 

The  great  Schifa  between  the  French 
and  Italian  Cardinals^  After  the 
Death  of  Pope  Gregory  XL  about 
the  choice  of  the  Pope.  155 


T. 


TRophimus ,  firft   Bijhop   of 
Aries.  i 

Theodorus  5  Bijhop  of  Marfcilles. 

30 


page 
Thevet  3  v   learned  French-man. 

190 

V. 

Vl&orinus  of  Aquitain.     21. 
A  Synod  at  Verceles  againft 
Berengarius.  74 

An  Affembl}  of  Bijhops  at  Vicenas. 


A  book  Britten  in  France,  called  the 

Vergers  Dream.  154 

Peter  Viret,  an  Eloquent  French 

Divine.  194, 

Francis  Vatablus,  Regis  Profe/or 

of  the  Hebrew  Tongue  in  Paris, 

htiWorkf*  205 

W. 

WUlfarius,     Arch-bijhop     of 
Rhemes.  48 

William,  Arch-bijhop  <?/Tyre,  4 
very  learned  Man.  95 

The  Waldenfes,  their  Original,  and 
Do&rine.  96 


x 


X. 

Yftus,  frft  Paftor  tf 


The  end  of  the  Table  of  the  firft  part. 


The  Table  of  the  Second  Part, 


page 


A. 


AN  AJfimbly  of  the  Clergy  in 
the  Abbey  of  St.  German. 

41 

A  provincial  Council  at  Aix  in  Pro- 
vence. 42 
AnAjfewbl]  of  the  State/  at  Blois. 

Antoine  du  Verdier.  1 1 

An  AJfimbly  of  the  Reformed  Ckur- 

A  National  AJfimbly  of  the  Prote- 
ftants.  142 

An  AJfimbly  of  the  Bijhopf  and  Cler- 
gy of  France,  at  Paris.  128 

Johannes  Auratus, Regius  Profejjbr 
in  Paris.  1C 

Anthony  Sadeel,  a  good  Preache 
and  Writer.  ibid 

Adrian  Turnebus,     Profe/or    oj 
Philofophy  and  Greek^  in  Paris 

ibid 

Andrew  Tiraquel ,  an   excel/en 
Lawyer 

Antoin  de  Chandieu,  a    Learned 
French  Divine.  ic 

Andreas  de  Chefne,   Hittoriogra 
phcr  to    the  King    of  France 

10 


page 


B. 


T  He  Abbot  of  Bloys  writes  *• 
gaiftft  the  bool^  of  Mariana 
the  Jefuit.  101 

The  Lady  Katherine  de  Bourbon, 
Sifter  to  King  Henry  IV.  marrj* 
ed  to  the  Duke  of  Bar,  Jhe  was  A 
frm  Proteftant.  85 

A  Woman  of  Burgundy  kiUeth  18 
ick  German  Souldiers.  5  2 

Briquemald  and  Cavagnes  ,   dyed 
conftantlyin  the  Faith.  26 

John  Bodin,  a  great  Statefman^  hif 
fyeech  audworkj*  %6 

Renauld  of  Beaune,  Arch-bi[hop  of 
Bourges,  hif  fpeech.  40 

The  Duke  of  Bovillon  5  Prince  of 
Sedan,  tttrnetk  Pafitt.  122 

Rirth  of  the  prefent  King  ^/France. 


Guido  de  Bres5  an  Holy  Martyr. 

16 

Gulielmus  Saluftius  Bavtaffius,  an 
excellent  Poet.  ibid 


Ffff 


John 


The  Table. 


Page 


C. 


TOhn  Cable  fierceth  King  Henry 

J    IV.  his  upper  Lip  3  &c.  and  is 

executed.  83 

Father  Cotton,  hff  ridiculous  Ser- 

nton.  88 

A  conference  between   Da  Moulin, 

and  Caver.  88 

Conference  between    the    Bijhop  of 

EvereuxWDu  PlefSs  Morney 

90 

A  newC&ttedge  built  by  King  Hen- 
ry IV.  at  la  Fledie.  95 

rexce  between  Du  Moulin3 
Father  Gontier,  A   Jefuit. 

96 

A  Congregation  of  French  Prelates. 

4 
A  Colloquy  at  Poify  ?#  France,    be- 

tween the  PopiflvD^r/.,  andlhe 

Proteftant  Miniflers.  5,  6 

John  Croy3  a  Learned  French  Di- 

vine. IO. 

A  Conference  at  Flex.  53 

A  Conference  between  the  German 

and    French  Divines  at  Mom- 

pelgart.  45 

A  Council  cf  Jlxteenin  Paris.      53 
Robert    Conftantine  .,    tf  Learned 

French  -man. 
^«  affront  put  upon   the 

Crcqui  at  Rome, 

thereof.  177^  178 

Jacobus  CujaejuSj  <*  ^retff  Lawyer. 

J  I 


Page 


Du^e 


1.9; 

of 


D. 


1"  Ambertus  Danams  9  4  French 

L  Divine  of  Orleans.         '71 

The  Death  of  the  si/hop  of  Char- 

tres,  who  had  been  Confeffonr   to 

Cardinal&ichlieu*  171 

Dionifius  Lambinus  3  a   Learned 

French-man*  24 

The  French  Divines    dvfwer  and 

cenfure  the  "Book^  of  Sanfterellus 

r^ejefuit.  182 

The  Death  of  King  Lewes  XIII. 


Daniel  Charmer^  learned  French- 

man. icy 

Daniel  Tilenus3  Profe/br  at  Sedan. 

104 


A 


E. 

N  Ediff  made  agtinft  Duels* 
129 

Father  Edmonds,  Prior  of  the  Co* 
vent  of  Jacobines  executed. 

70 

gueen  Elizabeth'/  Letter  to  King 
Henry  IV.  upon  change  of  his 
Religion,  So 

French  Exiles    at  Mompelgaft. 

45.; 


Amhony 


The  Table. 


Page 


F. 


r  A  Nthony  Fains,  a  good  French 
Jr\  Divine ,  and  Abraham  hit 

Son^  their  workj.  50 

John  Fernelius,  a  learned  French 

fbjfiftan. 
A  difference  between  the  TSijhops  and 

the  Fryars  in  France.  143 

A  fore  Famine  in  Paris.  76 

Francis  Cupif  a   Sorbon   Do&or, 

tttrneth  Proteftant :  his  Cenfure. 

152 
Fijhes  called  Surdonnes  5  fent  by 

Cod's  providence  to  the  relief  of 

the  Poor  at  Rochel  3  during  the 

Siege.  27 

G. 

THe  Duke  of  Guife  s  and  the 
Cardinal    of   Guife  ftain. 
59,  60 
A  League  of   the   Guifian  faftion. 

34.35 

Gilbert  Genebrard  3  a  Divine  of 
Paris.  10 

Paul  Gondy,  Arch- Lift  op  of  Co- 
rinth, and  Cardinal  de  Rhetz. 

165 

Henrico  Gaetano  3  fent  Legat  by 
the  Pope  to  the  League  ^France. 

71 
The  Guifian  League  fworn  in  Tho- 

Ioufe3  by  the  blac ^Penitents.  45 


Page 

Many  places  in  France5  fide  with 
the  Guifian  FaSion.  43 

H. 

King  Henry  III.  ctorfetk  the  Citj 
'  of  Paris,  p.   55.  he  if  mur- 
thered  by  a  Jacobine  Monk*     67 
Michael  Hofpitaiius,  ChanceUour  of 
France,    an    oppofer  of  wick/d 
Counjels  againji  the  Proteftants. 

29 

King  Henry  IV.  embraced  the  Ro- 
man Catholic^  Religion,  p.  79.^ 
if  murthered  by  Ravillac.  97 


f. 


TfJeJefoJts  rejloredin  France. 
95 

Julius  Car-far  Scaliger,  and  Jofepii 
Sca4iger3  very  letrncd  Mtn.      9 


L. 


A  Lift  of  the  Proteftant  Char- 
ches  in  France  lately  demoli- 

fied*  189,1903191 

The  latter  Councils  of  France,  ft»ce 

the  Councilof  Trent.  192,  &c. 
The  Laws  of  a  Seminary  College,  p. 

194.  aadthatoj  Bourdeaux  in 
,  particular.  19:?,  200 

A  Letter  of  King  Henry  III.  to  the 

K.ing  of  Navar.  41 


Ffff  2 


Charles 


The  Table. 


Page 


M. 


CHarles  Marillac  Eijhop  ef  Vi- 
enna. 2 

Auguft.  Marlorat,  Minifter  of  the 

Reformed  Church  at  Roven,  ban* 

ged  by  the  Guifians.  17 

Clement  Marot,  A  famous  French- 

Poet.  1  7 

ike  bloody  Maffacre  of  the  Prote- 

ftants  at  Paris.  23324 

Peter  Merlin,  a  learned  French 

Divine.  24 

John  Morinus,  a,  Learned  Papift. 

'9 

Muretus,  an  eloquent  Writer.       17 
Duke  of  Montmorency  beheaded. 

144 

Papyrius  MaflbniuSjtf  Writer  of  the 

French  Chronicle.  i  1 

dount  Montgomery  tak£xy  and  put 

'  to  death.  28 

Andrew     Melvin,     kif 


Michael  Montaign3  his  Workt^  and 
when  he  flottrified.  30 

Cardinal  Mazarine  made  prime 
Mnijier  of  State,  p.  164.  he 
raifeth  a  ftately  Library,  p.  1  64. 
hit  Death.  175 

John  Mercer  5  a  learned  French- 
man ,  Succe/or  of  Vatablus, 
<K  Hebrew  P.rofeJJor  at  Paris. 

24- 


Page 


N. 


King  of  Navar5  and  Prince   of 
Condej  excommunicated   by 
Pope  S'ixtus  V.  44 

Their    Proteflation    agaittjl     it. 

ibid 

The  King  of  Navar's  Declaration 
againft  the  Guifian  League. 

44- 

O. 

OBuffon,  Arch-bifiop  of  Yver- 
don. 

A  Form  of  an  Oath  ,  prop9unded 
by  tkofe  of  the  Guifian  League. 

^  C 

D'  OfTat  and  Du  Perron  made  Car- 
dinals. 84 

Some  Orders  cryed  down  in  France, 
because  of  their  Con/piracies  a- 
gainft  the  State.  45 


P. 


PEter  de  Efpignac  Arch-Eifiopof 
Lyons.  95- 

Peter  VerferiSj  Advocate  in  the 
Court  of  Parliament  at  Paris. 

The  Proteftant  Princes  of  Germany 
raife  an  Army  to  defend  the 
French  Proteftants.  51 

John.Pafleratms3  an  exeeSeitt-Or*-- 
tor,  and  Poet.  u 

Du 


The  Table. 


Page 

Du  PIcffis  Morney^xr  story.  103, 
104, 105 

Proteftants  difturbedin  the  exercise 
of  their  Religion.  34 

A  Popifh    Form    of  Profejjion    of 
Faith.  195  ad  203 

The  Worths  of  Cardinal  Du  Per- 
ron. ioi 

Q: 

JOhn  Quinquarboreus,  Profeffor 
of  the  Hebrew  and  Chaldee  to 
the  French  King  in  Paris.  1 8 


R. 

A     Relation  of  the  prefettt  Eft  ate 
of  the  Reformed  Churches  of 
France.  1 84  ad  1 88 

The  Dukf  of  Rohan  3  his  military 
A&ions  in  France,  p.  140.  his 
Peace  made  with  the  King.  141 
his  Death.  152 

The  Siege  of  Rochel. .'.  137 

The  Englifti  attempt  to  relieve  it, 
but  in  vain.  ibid 

It  is  yielded  to  the  King.  138 
Cardinal  Richlieu  his  death. 
The  Chara&ers  given  of  him. 

156,157 

Francis  Rabatefus,  a  Winy  but  A- 
theijlical  Writer.  19 

Peter  Ramus/^/ff  in  the   Parifian 
^acre.  24 


Page 

Rozarius,  a  Preacher  at  Orleans, 
Apojiatiz,eth^and afterwards  re- 
cant eth.  24 
Andrew  Rivet  and  William  Ri- 
vet, two  Godly  French  Divines. 

107 
A  Provincial  Synod  held  at  Roven. 


S. 


SEdan,  a.  Refuge  for  the  Prote- 
ftants. 122 

A  Star  feen  in  the  CouJleUation  of 
Caffiopea.  29 

A  National  Synod  held  at  Tonneinx 
p.  104.  another  at  Alais  in  Lan* 
guedoc.  1 08 

Gafpar  Scoppius,  his  Book  tending 
to  the  Rebellion  of  Subje&s  a- 
gainft  the  Soverajgn  power  burnt 
by  the  Hangman.  102 

The  Spanilh  Renunciation  of  all 
Priority  to  France.  176 

Claud,.  SalmafluSj  a  learned  French 
Critic^.  loo 

Jac,  Sirmon3us,  a  Learned  French 
Jefuit.  p.  99.  his  works >  IOD 


B 


T. 

EnediftTurretine,  a  learned? 
Frenck-man.  100 


Francia 


The  Table. 


T^Rancis  Vieta,  A  learned  French 
r    Mathematician.  IOO. 

Nicholas  Vignerius,     a    Learn- 
ed   French    Hi&oriografher. 

100 


Page  Page 

Nicholas    Vignerws  ,     Junior, 
4    Learned    French    Divine, 

loo 
The  &Jhop  of  Verdun  imfrifoned. 

131 


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