According to those four Objections, the Lord _Sponde_ in the third Volume of his _Annals_, made him this Epitaph in the year 1566. _Mortuus est hoc anno nugax ille toto orbe famosus ~Michael Nostradamus~, qui se præscium & præsagum eventuum futurorum per astrorum influxum venditavit, sub cujus deinceps nomine quivis homines ingeniosi suas hujusmodi cogitationes protendere consueveruent, in quem valde apposite lusit qui dixit. ~Nostra damus~ cum falsa damus_, &c. In _English_. In the year 1566. died that Trifler so famous through all the World, _Michael Nostradamus_ who boasted while he lived, to know and foretell future things, by the knowledge he had of the influences of the Planets, under whose name afterwards many ingenious Men have vented their Imaginations, insomuch, that he that made that Distick, Nostra damus _cum falsa damus_, &c. seemeth to have very well said. CHAP. VI. _Proofs setting forth evidently that ~Nostradamus~ was enlightned by the Holy Ghost._ In consequence of these objections forged by calumny, _Nostradamus_ name hath been so cried down, that I have thought me self oblidged to make his Apology, to give the greater credit to his Prophecy, the exposition of which I do here undertake, and to proove, that effectually he was enlightned by the Holy Ghost: first, by writting the History of his Life, as I have done in the beginning of this Book; Secondly, by answering to all the said Objections; Thirdly, by alledging the Elogies given him by several Grave and Authentical Authors. First, I maintain that he was enlightned by the Holy Ghost, by an unanswerable reason, drawn out the Theology, but before we discourse of it, let us suppose that _Nostradamus_ hath foretold many things, which absolutely depends from the free will of men, and cannot be known, neither by judicial Astrology, nor by Satan himself, such are for exemple the proper names of Persons, which nevertheless he doth in his Prophecies. He nameth the Lord of _Monluc_, the Sprightful _Gascon_, the Captain _Charry_, his Camerade, the Lord _de la Mole_, Admiral of _Henry_ the II. Galleys, _Entragues_, who was beheaded by order of _Lewis_ the XIII. the Headsman of the Duke of _Montmorency_, named _Clerepegne_; the Bassa _Sinan_, destroyer of _Hungary_; the Murderer of _Henry_ the III. named _Clement_; the Attorney _David_, the Captain _Ampus_; the Mayor of the City of _Puy_ in _Gelay_, named _Rousseau_, under Henry the IV. _Lewis_ Prince of _Condé_, under _Francis_ II. _Sixtus_ V. calling him the Son of _Hamont_; _Gabrielle d’Estrée_; the Lord _Mutonis_ sent to _Paris_ by those of _Aix_, under _Charles_ the IX. the Lord Chancellor of _France_, named _Antony de Sourdis_; the Queen _Leuise_: _Antony_ of _Portugal_: the Governour of _Cazal_ under _Henry_ II.