Chapter XII: French

Six cens & cinq tres grand nouvelle,
De deux Seigneurs la grand querelle,
Proche de _Gevaudan_ sera,
En une Eglise apres l’offrande,
Meuttre commis, prestre de mande,
Tremblant de peur se sauvera.

English.

In six hundred and five shall be great news;
The quarrel of two great Lords,
Shall be near _Gevaudan_,
In a Church after the Offering,
A murder committed, the Priest shall ask,
And quaking for fear, shall save himself.

ANNOT.

This (like the former) is a particuler accident, of which the publick History taketh no notice; it seemeth that in the year 1665. in _Gevaudan_, a Province of _France_ near _Languedoc_, there was a great quarrel between two Lords who meeting at Church, did about the time of the Offering set one upon another, and one of them was killed, whereupon the Priest being terrified, ran away.