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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68068	A discou[rse] of the ciuile warres [and] late troubles in Fraunce, drawn into Englishe by Geffray Fenton, and deuided into three bookes ... Seene and allowed	Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608. rans.	1570 (1570)	STC 11271; ESTC S100266	87,061	236

forbeare the assalt but also raised forth with his siege retired his army reping notwithstāding of so redy obediēce but a bloudy peace promise full of infidelitie if also during the same sturre the morrow after the battel at Sainct Denys where both the Prince had the better the Constable principall leader of the army was slaine The said Prince dispatched to your maiestie the Lord de Theliguy aswel ●o warne you of the ruine and desolacion threatning from the instaunt your realme if the straungers were suffred to enter houering there vpō the frōtiers as also to mediate and sollicite in means and remedies to knit an absolute peace onely in the cause of religion if in short your edictes haue bene alwais published the peace accorded at such times as they of the religiō if they would haue abused the opinion of your purpose might in respect of their forces persuade and beleue that aswell in all your parleyes and treaties of peace there was no other mencion than of the matter of religion as also that their enemies haue not bene brought to it but by necessitie being vnable by open force to maintain any longer against them in what conscience or with what face or countenance may it be sayd that these troubles moue and continue for the matter and cause of religion And yet neuerthelesse the more to choke and conuince the Cardinall of Loraine and other his adherentes of their lies slaunderous impositions which they publishe daily the said Princes Lords knightes gentlemen and others of their companies forgetting the infidelitie and all disloyall attemptes heretofore conspired against them declare and protest this day both before God your maiestie y what so euer hath bene done or offred to thē in euill from the beginning to this houre they neither haue nor will once impute it to your maiestie as knowing your nature to be nothing touched with such iniust seuerities wherof you haue giuen so many publike experiences that there is now no cause of doubt neither haue or do they thinke to chaunge or diminishe in any respect their duetie and naturall regarde which they haue alwayes bente to the true aduancement of your greatnesse royall estate wherin also in so many effectes aforesaid if it be both knowne and seene that they enterteine no other purpose nor meaning than vnder the obedience and authoritie of your Edictes to serue God according to his will and as they are instructed by his holy word with desire to be maintained with equall care as your other subiectes in their honours liues and goodes they are now ready to geue such further manifest proofe witnesse as their most enemies shall haue lest cause henceforth to doubt thē And y neither to enter into any iustification of their actions passed as their innocencie iustice of their cause being sufficiently known to your maiesty al other kings princes potētates what strangers so euer they be if they be not of the faction partie of Spain and much lesse to seke to capitulate with your maiestie knowing god be praised what is the duety of good and faithful subiectes to their sou● raigne prince natural lord But sir in respect of the large peny worthes and common marchandize which heretofore hath ben made of the faith and worde of your maiestie which aboue all ought to be holy sacred and inuiolable and withall with what vnseming boldnes your authoritie name hath ben abused to the extreme peril of all your people of the reformed professiō it nede not seme strange if the sayd Princes with their cōsociates do humbly besech you to declare by an edict solemn per petual irreuocable your resolute wil in a libertie exercise of their religiō to the ende y by the same such as heretofore at ● seueral times both rashly with al impunitie haue infringed and violated your former constitutiō in the cause may by this third be more brideled restrained wher in because such as wer not able to endure the vnitie vniversal rest maintained amōgst your people by the good obseruaciō of your edicts haue takē occasion to alter corrupt thē by new constructiōs modificaciōs contrary to the true substace of the same sincere meaning of your maiestie And y also the sayd Princes with the rest of their factiō confesse to haue borne a most iust iudgemēt of god in more sorts of afflictiōs in time of peace than when it was opē war as in cōsenting to easily to y treaties of peace which haue ben made the same prouiding a general contentmēt on all sides y good should be serued only in certein places of the realme by certain persons as though in a soūd conscience there belonged no other thing to the seruice of God. They most humbly besech your maiestie to accord and graunt generally to all your subiectes of what qualitie and condicion so euer frée vse of the said religion in all cities villages and boroughes and all other places corners of your realm and countreys within your obediēce and protection without any exception reseruacion modificacion or restraint of persons times or places and that with suerties necessary in so high a cause and besides to ordeine and enioyne to make manifest profession of the one or other religion to the ende to cut of hereafter all meanes and occasions to many who abusing such benefite and grace are slipt into Atheisme and carnall libertie and who standing vpon no exercise and profession of religion desire nothing more than to sée an vniuersall confusion in this realm and all order pollicie and Ecclesiasticall discipline reuersed and abolished a thing so daungerous as not to be tollerated in any christian state And because sir we doubt not at all that those who hetherunto haue pitched the foundacion of their deuises vpon slaundrous reproches impudently published to make vs hatefull euen to such as God be praysed bée free from the seruitude and tyrannie of Antichrist will not sticke to impose vppon vs an inctuile obstinacie rather to defende without reason that we haue once resolued to beléeue touching the Articles of Christian Religion than to correct or retract our erroures Wée declare and proteste as hereunto we haue done that if in any point of the cōfession of faith heretofore presented to youre maiestie by the reformed Churches of your realm it may bée found by the word of God comprehended in the Canonicall bookes of the holy Scripture that wée swarue from the doctrine of the Prophetes and Apostles we will foorthwith lend our handes and giue place to such as will instructe vs better in the word of GOD if we erre in any Article than we haue bin from the beginning For which cause and the better to effecte so happie a purpose wée desire nothing more than a conuocation of a councell frée and generall and lawfully called wherein as euery one may haue hea●●ng scope to deduce his reasōs at