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<P>A RELATION FROM ROME OF THE MASSACRE Committed upon the French Amba&s;&s;adour And his LADY.</P>
<P>With two Letters from the French King, one to the Pope, another to the Cardinal concerning the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed for &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Year. 1662.</P>
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<HEAD>The true Tran&s;lation of what pa&s;&s;ed at the a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate Enterpri&s;e again&s;t the French Amba&s;&s;adour and his Lady at <HI>Rome</HI> the twentieth of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> la&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as for &s;ome time immediately after a tumultuous di&s;order, all the di&s;cour&s;es thereof are u&s;ually confu&s;ed: It is nece&s;&s;ary (if I may &s;o &s;peak) to let the news re&s;t a little, that &s;o it may have time to purifie it &s;elf; and &s;eeing it is not ea&s;ie, in the heat of an accident newly happened, that the fir&s;t relations &s;hould be mo&s;t true in all their circum|&s;tances; it is from the &s;econds that we mu&s;t draw the certain di&s;coveries; the knowledge of which truth having obliged the Duke of <HI>Crequin,</HI> Amba&s;&s;adour extraordinary for the King of <HI>France</HI> at <HI>Rome,</HI> to make careful inqui&s;ition, in what manner all things pa&s;&s;ed in that Enterpri&s;e that was there acted; the roll pa&s;t again&s;t him and the Emba&s;&s;adrix his Wife:
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 57 -->after an exact examination of all that hath been &s;aid thereof, by tho&s;e of each party, two things have been ob&s;erved; one, that many particulars of &s;mall con|cernment happened &s;omewhat different to what was fir&s;t written, which is very ordinary in &s;uch ren|counters; the other, that by many circum&s;tances the bu&s;ine&s;s was yet more enormous then was at fir&s;t advi&s;ed, which is a thing unu&s;ual; the fir&s;t rumour for the mo&s;t part heightning and aggravating things above what they really are: to the end therefore that you may not want the very exactne&s;s in a bu&s;ine&s;s of this nature, it is thought fit to write this &s;econd rela|tion, whereby the Reader, without doubt, will be a&s;toni&s;hed to &s;ee that in a City where the Spirit of peace &s;hould rejoyce, there hath been done con|trary to the inviolable &s;ecurity of the publick faith, and right of Nations, an action &s;o unheard of, that endeavours have been to a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate in <HI>Rome</HI> per&s;ons who&s;e quality is owned for &s;acred even in <HI>Con&s;tan|tinople</HI> it &s;elf; and that in the place where the head of the Church re&s;ides, there hath been committed again&s;t the elde&s;t Son of the Church, in the per&s;on of his Amba&s;&s;adour, an attempt whereof there hath not been any example among&s;t the very Infi|dels.</P>
<P>On <HI>Sunday</HI> the twentieth of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> about &s;ix of the clock at night, four men, which yet are un|known whether they were French men or not, and four Souldiers <HI>Cor&s;es,</HI> having quarrelled together at the end of the Bridge called <HI>Pente &s;epte,</HI> and having drawn their Swords, were pre&s;ently parted
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 57 -->by a Frenchman, who came by, and cau&s;ed them to put up their Swords into their &s;heaths. In this po|&s;ture they went on upon the Bridge, where being about the middle of the Bridge, there came to them eight or ten other Souldiers, who joyning with the four fir&s;t, fell upon the five pretended Frenchmen, who pre&s;ently putting them&s;elves on their defence, forced their pa&s;&s;age over the Bridge in de&s;pight of the Souldiers, and withdrew them&s;elves hard by the Amba&s;&s;adours &s;tables. Some of the Amba&s;&s;adours hou&s;hold Servants, with &s;ome of the Grooms, going out at the noi&s;e, and &s;eeing people pur&s;ued with drawn Swords, beat back the Souldiers; but a great number coming, the Amba&s;&s;adours people were dri|ven back with musket-&s;hot, even within the gate of the Pallace <HI>Farne&s;e,</HI> where he dwelt. There was hardly then &s;ix per&s;ons in the hou&s;e, the mo&s;t part of his Gentlemen being gone abroad to walk, or to Duke <HI>Ce&s;arini</HI>'s, who had invited them to &s;upper; the Amba&s;&s;adrix being gone to her devotion at St. <HI>Bernard,</HI> and the Amba&s;&s;adour al&s;o gone forth to &s;ee the Prince&s;s <HI>Borghe&s;e:</HI> Returning from whom, having taken leave of tho&s;e that accompanied him, he came back with a very &s;mall train to his hou&s;e, and went in on one &s;ide ju&s;t at the &s;ame time as the Soul|diers had beaten in his men on the other: As &s;oon as he under&s;tood what pa&s;t, he &s;ent two or three Gen|tlemen to cau&s;e them to withdraw; and they were no &s;ooner out for this purpo&s;e, but &s;even or eight bullets were &s;hot at them; then, as if the &s;ignal had been given, all the retainers to the Pallace were &s;eized on by the <HI>Cor&s;es,</HI> who came thither with drums beat|ing,
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 58 -->and placed thereabouts in a moment eight or ten Courts of guard: The Amba&s;&s;adour at the news thereof went up into a Balcony, and pre&s;ently they di&s;charged many &s;hots at him, whereof one killed an Italian under the windows of the Pallace; and after, for the &s;pace of an hour and an half, they cea|&s;ed not to &s;hoot from all parts, whereof there are yet many marks on all &s;ides of the Chambers. In the mean time, in all other parts of the City, the Souldiers likewi&s;e put them&s;elves in Armes, crying that the Hor&s;e &s;hould advance to charge the French, among&s;t whom three Gentlemen of the Amba&s;&s;a|dours, having been &s;et upon near the Pallace that is called <HI>d'E&s;pagne,</HI> half a league from thence, had been killed, if they had not &s;aved them&s;elves at the Cardinals of <HI>Arragon.</HI></P>
<P>But it was not the Souldiers only that took Armes; the Sbirres or Sergeants them&s;elves, to &s;hew that all was done by expre&s;s order, armed them&s;elves al&s;o; and they which never &s;hot on any occa&s;ion what|ever, wounded in the place <HI>Navone,</HI> a Gentleman of the Amba&s;&s;adours with a Musket in the belly; one of his Lacquies on the other &s;ide received a &s;hot in his body, whereof he is dead; and his Pallace remained be&s;et near three houres, without permitting any per|&s;on to &s;tir. The Amba&s;&s;adrix her &s;elf coming from Church, and being yet far off from her hou&s;e, was &s;topt near Saint <HI>Charles de Getinari;</HI> but it is too lit|tle to &s;ay &s;he was &s;topt, &s;eeing they endeavoured to kill her; the Souldiers that kept that po&s;t, having let pa&s;&s;e the Coach of her Gentlemen, di&s;charged &s;e|veral
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 58 -->&s;hot at hers, killed a Page in the boot by her an Italian, who a little before believing him&s;elf &s;afe by the Coach of the Amba&s;&s;adrix of <HI>France,</HI> had advanced him&s;elf; out of curio&s;ity to &s;ee her, was woundedd be&s;ides another of her Lacquies with a Cro&s;&s;e-bow &s;hot upon the head. It is &s;o amazing a deed, that one could not have dreamt that there &s;hould have been thoughts of &s;uch an attempt on the per&s;on of an Amba&s;&s;adour and his Lady; one is even loth to &s;peak it; but who can be &s;ilent, when on the one &s;ide we &s;ee her a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inated in this manner; and on the other, it is evident, that they &s;hot at him, and that it is &s;ince &s;aid, there were &s;eventeen <HI>Con&s;es</HI> who had order to kill him! The Amba&s;&s;adrix was con&s;trained to divert half dead, and to &s;ave her &s;elf at the Cardinal <HI>d' E&s;tes,</HI> where &s;eeing there was no &s;afety for her to go forth, &s;he &s;tayed a long time, and till &s;he was reduced to capitulate with the Ser|geants to let her pa&s;&s;e. The Cardinal conducted her home him&s;elf, marching in his Chair ju&s;t before her Coach.</P>
<P>Behold here a true Narration of the thing as it pa&s;&s;ed, whereof the Amba&s;&s;adours that were at <HI>Rome,</HI> and all Per&s;ons of honour unintere&s;&s;ed, can freely bear witne&s;s. Notwith&s;tanding after this offence done to a King in the Per&s;on of his Amba&s;|&s;adour, which cannot be expiated but by very great &s;atisfactions, the Court of <HI>Rome</HI> hath u&s;ed no endea|vours to make any; yea &s;he endeavoureth pre&s;ently to palliate the bu&s;ine&s;s by Artifices and Di&s;gui&s;e|ments;
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 59 -->and publickly in a little time &s;he will take the confidence to go further, and to &s;eek Rea&s;ons to ju&s;tifie it; but his Maje&s;ty hath this advantage, that if they do not give him the &s;atisfaction which is due to him, and which he may expect, he is in a capacity to right him&s;elf.</P>
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<HEAD>Two letters of the King; One to the Pope; the other to the Cardinals; both dated <HI>30. Augu&s;t, 1662.</HI></HEAD>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Holy Father,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>OUr very Dear and Well-beloved Cou&s;in the Duke of <HI>Crequi</HI> our Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;a|dor, having given us to under&s;tand the a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inat com|mitted on his per&s;on, and on Our Amba&s;&s;adrix, and all the <HI>French,</HI> which were found the 20 In&s;tant in the &s;treets of <HI>Rome,</HI> at the meeting of your Holine&s;s guard of Cor&s;es: Wee have pre&s;ently &s;ent order to our &s;aid Cou&s;in to depart out of the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Territories, to the end that his Per&s;on, and our Dig|nity may not longer remain expo&s;ed to &s;uch attempts, whereof to this day, there hath been no examples among&s;t the very <HI>Barbarians;</HI> and wee have at the &s;ame time ordered Mr. <HI>De Barlemont</HI> Auditor of the Rote to know of your Holine&s;s, if you approve of what your Soldiers have done, and whether you intend or not to make us &s;atisfaction proportionable to the greatne&s;s of the offence, which hath not only violated, but unworthily overthrown the right of Nations. Wee demand nothing of your Holine&s;s in this affaire; you have made it &s;o long a cu&s;tome to refu&s;e us every thing, and have demon&s;trated to this
<PB N="8" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 60 -->day &s;uch aver&s;ion, to that which re&s;pects our Per&s;on and Crown, that we judg it better to leave the&s;e re|&s;olution to your own prudence, according to which wee &s;hall regulate ours; wi&s;hing only that tho&s;e of your Holine&s;s may be &s;uch as may oblige us to con|tinue to pray to God, that he would con&s;erved (mo&s;t Holy Father) your Holine&s;s in the Government of our Mother the Holy Church.</P>
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<P>MY Cou&s;in, the a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inat committed the 20 in|&s;tant, on the per&s;on of my Cou&s;in the Duke of <HI>Crequi</HI> my Emba&s;&s;ador extraordinary, on his Lady, and on all the <HI>French,</HI> the Cor&s;e grand of the Pope could meet with that day in the &s;treets of <HI>Rome,</HI> is addeed &s;o enormous in all its circum&s;tances, that nei|ther any age, nor any people, how barbarous &s;oever they have been, can furni&s;h any example, when the right of nations hath been &s;o &s;o inhumanly violated and overturned. As you are a worthy member of that holy body, which is the natural coun&s;el of the Popes, I have commanded Mr. <HI>De Barlemont</HI> Audi|tor of Rote to vi&s;it you on this account, to let you know the ju&s;t re&s;entment that I have of &s;o great an offence, to the end that your contributing thereto, as I doubt not but you will readily doe what is in your power, may cau&s;e me to obtain a reparation proportionable to the proce&s;s of the injury; if your
<PB N="9" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 60 -->Officers find them&s;elves unable for this, there can be nothing (after this diligence) imputed to me of all tho&s;e evills, and following mi&s;chi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;es that this bu&s;i|ne&s;s will draw after it, whereof I will prote&s;t (what ever happens) to be fully di&s;charged before God and men; and referring, my &s;elf to what further &s;hall be repre&s;ented to you by word of mouth, by the &s;aid Mr. <HI>De Bourlemout,</HI> I pray God to have you my Cou&s;in, in his Holy and Worthy protection.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Written from <HI>St. Germain.</HI></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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