A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL PLOTS,; Conspiracies, and Hellish Attempts of the Booody-minded Papists, against the Princes and Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the Reformation to the present year, 1678. As Also Their cruel practices in France against the Protestants in the Massacre of Paris, &c. With a more particular Account of their plots in relation to the late Civil War, and their contrivances of the Death of King Charles the first, of blessed memory.
London: J. R and W.A., 1679. Small 4to, pp. 46. Removed from a bound volume, some soiled, contemporary name on title page, but a good copy. Wing B-4520, not in Halkett & Laing. Item #57635
from Wikipedia: "The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre took place five days after the wedding of the king's sister Margaret to the Protestant Henry III of Navarre (the future Henry IV of France). This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris. The massacre began in the night of 23–24 August 1572 (the eve of the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle), two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. The king ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and the slaughter spread throughout Paris. Lasting several weeks, the massacre expanded outward to other urban centres and the countryside. Modern estimates for the number of dead across France vary widely, from 5,000 to 30,000.
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