THE most Inhumaine murther lately comitted vpon the person of the late French King , Henry the fourth of famous memory , hath much disquieted the state of Fraunce , and so busyed other kingdoms , in hunting after the true reports thereof , so fare forth , that we thinke it an in terior loue to our countri-men to haue an abstract of the most accurences that happened since that vnnaturall accydent , and fiirstto begin with the viperous homicyde the bludie actor of this deede , who stroue with the enuy of his hart draw in pieces the bowells that cherished his life . ( florishing Fraunce I meane ) that proues abortiue , in bringing forth such an vnnaturall french-man .

This paracide , Frances Rauilliack , in time past of the order of the Felician fryers , but of late a practissioner in the lawe ( by some named a petty fogger ) borne in the towne of Angolesme , a place not fare distant from the Citty of Paris , who after he had vnluckedly accomplished this bloody stratagem , by taking away the preseruer of so many liues , was vpon the 23 of May last , araingned , conuicted , and condempued by due order of law , in the great court and chamber of Turnella in Paris , before all the Assemblies , Presidents , Councellors , and Commissioners , at the Request of Du Viquit , Aturney generall to the King , whose place & authority was there then to inquire against this Francis Rauilliack , for the murther of his late soueraigne , Henry the fourth King of Fraunce and Nauare , where-vppon , this Francis Rauilliack , with a sad & deathlike countenance , holding vp his guilty hand before this great assembly , presently confessed guilty , and that he became this his countries shame , onely by the instigation of the deuill , and not any other accomplices , & confederats would he reueale , but in a Satanicall maner vowed himselfe to secrecie , wherevpon the law proceeded , and a most terrible sentence of death pronounced against him there , according to a generall decree of that great court of parliament , & so being a condemned Uillaine was with a strong gard of armed men conuayd to prison , otherwise by the violent rage of the common people , he had beene torne in peeces , such was the loue they bore to their late King .

Upon the Fryday following , being the 25. of May , ( according to their computation ) this Frauces Rauilliack was in a most vile and bace manner caried to execution as followeth .

First , ( naked in his shirt ) he was brought out of the Consergery , ( being the prison for the palace ) with a lighted Tortch of two pownd waight i none hand , and the Knife ( wherewith he killed the King ) chained to the other hand , so openly to be seene , that the least childe there present might behold it , after this , he was placed standing vpright in a tumbrell or dung-cart Duug-cart , and so from thence , conducted with a gard of Cittizens to the Capitall church in Paris , where being adiudged to do penance he had bene made a sacrafize to the rage of the rude people , had not ( there bin apoynted Officers to see his execution ) preuinted it .

After this , being accompanied to the place of execution with two doctors of diuinitie , all the way perswading him to saue his soule from euerlasting punishment , by reuealing and laying oppen his Assocyates therein , which he would not , but stiffly ( though vngraciously ) tooke the bloody burthen vpon his owne shoulders , withstanding , euen to the death , all faire promises whatsoeuer . In this manner as I sayd before , was he caried to the Greue , being a spatious streete , and about the middle of Paris , where was builded a very substanciall scaffould of strong timber , wherevpon , according to his Iudgment he was to be tormented to death : Du Viquit the Kings Aturny generall was apoynted principall to see the execution , and there to gather ( if he could ) some further light of this vnchristianlike conspiracie .

But so strongly was his flesh and ioynts knit together , that of long time , these foure horses could not dismember him , nor any way teare one ioynt from the other , so that one of the horses faynted , the which a Marchant of the Citty of Paris perceiuing , put to one of his owne , being a horse of an exceeding great strength , yet notwitstanding for all this , they were constrained to cut the flesh vnder , his armes and thighes with a sharp raysor , by which meanes his body was the easier torne in peeces : which being done , the rage of the people grew so violent , that they snatched the dismembred carcasse out of the executioners hands , some beate it in sunder against the ground , others cut it in peices with kniues , so that there was nothing lest but boanes , which were brought to the place of execution and there burned to cinders , the ashes wherof was scattered into thewind , as being thought to be vnworthie of the earths buriall . God in his Iustice I will hope in the like manner reward all such as repine at their countries safety , and desperatly attempt to lift their hands against Gods anointed .