More than threescore were either slain, or dangerously hurt, as well in St Innocent’s church-yard, as below on the place Maubert, without giving quarter, till Brissac (who with his sword in his hand was continually pushing forward the barricades) arriving there, and beholding those poor strangers, who cried out for mercy, with clasped hands, and both knees on the ground, and sometimes making the sign of the cross, in testimony of their being Catholics, stopped the fury of the citizens, and commanding them to cry out _vive Guise!_ which they did as loud as they could for safe-guard of their lives, he satisfied himself with leading them disarmed and prisoners into the Boucherie of the new market, by the bridge of St Michael, which he had already mastered. It cannot be denied, but that this count was he, amongst all the Leaguers, who acted with the most ardour against the royalists on that fatal day; as being infinitely exasperated, because the king had refused him the admiralty, and refused it in a manner so disobliging, as to say openly he was a man that was good for nothing either by sea or land, accusing him at the same time, that he had not done his duty in the battle of the Azores, where the navy of Philippo Strozzi was defeated by the marquis of Santa-Cruz, he burned inwardly with desire of revenge. And when he saw the soldiers inclosed on all sides, by the barricades, which were of his raising, and the Swissers at his mercy, it is reported, that he cried out, as insulting on the king, with a bitter scoff, and magnifying himself at the same time; “At least the king shall understand to day, that I have found my element; and though I am good for nothing, either at sea or land, yet I am some body in the streets.” In this manner it was, that the people, making use of their advantage, still pushed their fortune more and more and seemed to be just upon the point of investing the Louvre; while the Duke of Guise, by whose secret orders all things were regularly managed amidst that horrible confusion, was walking almost unaccompanied in his own house, and coldly answering the queen, and those who came one on the neck of another, with messages to him from the king, intreating him to appease the tumult, that he was not master of those wild beasts which had escaped the toils; and that they were in the wrong to provoke them as they had done.