Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...de Louis XIII. et Louis XIV., vol. i. p. 185. Then wee past over the drawe bridge where the Marquesse de Ancres was slaine by the Kings Commaundement1: Soe to Rue Pharaon, where the last King was Killed by Ravilliacke5. Hard by stands Innocents church, rounde about whose Churchyard were great Storehowses full of Deadmens bones, manifest to sight through the Barrs, also many of them made into a wall with morter; others lay scattered heere and there under mens feete. They report that the earth of this Church yard hath this quallitie more then others, that in few dayes it consumes the dead bodyes of those that are layed therein, leaveinge nothinge but the very bones3. Afterwards to the Exchange, of which little can bee said, it consistinge only of a fiew shopps, where they sell bands, gloves, girdles, Garters etts.4 And from thence to 1 The Marechal d'Ancre met his death by the orders of Louis XIII. on the 24th April, 1617. He was attacked by Vitri and his followers in the middle of the drawbridge over the fosse of the Louvre. Compare Rawl. MS. D. 1285 Travels (in 1633), "We were showen the place where Le Marsheshall d'Ancre was pistold by Monsieur de Vitry the King himselfe being at the window and looking on." For an account of the town house of the Marechal d'Ancre, see Appendix G. 2 Henri IV. was assassinated by Francois Ravaillac on the 14th May, 1610, in the Rue de la Ferronerie. The following quaint account of the murder is given in An Epitome of all the Lives of the Kings of France, p. 339 f., "This great King Henri IV. was on Friday the 14. of May, 1610 about foure in the afternoon most trayterously murthered in his Caroch with two stabbs with a knife neare the region of his heart, passing in the Streete of..."
