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A09567	A famouse cronicle of oure time, called Sleidanes Commentaries concerning the state of religion and common wealth, during the raigne of the Emperour Charles the fift, with the argumentes set before euery booke, conteyninge the summe or effecte of the booke following. Translated out of Latin into Englishe, by Ihon Daus. Here vnto is added also an apology of the authoure.; De statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Caesare, commentarii. English	Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556.; Daus, John.	1560 (1560)	STC 19848A; ESTC S115937	985,386	980

and of great eloquence he toke pleasure to wryte of sondry argumentes taken out of naturall thynges and of the lyfe of men And with a certen maruelous dexteritie and style moste pleasaunt he setteth forth precpres of Godlye and vertuouse maners and noteth with all by the same occasion olde accustomed errours and vices whereof commeth this complaynte of hym In the moneth of Februarye the Frenche kyng made Annas Momorauncie Conestable of Fraunce whiche is the hyghest degre of honoure there This office had bene euer voyde synce the death of the Duke of Bourbon For the kyng beyng greuously offended with his treason had bestowed the same vpon no man vntyll this tyme. And the same office hath had but bare lucke in more than one or two whilest they abusing their authoritie haue styred vp against them either the kynges them selues or the nobilitie In the meane tyme the Protestauntes assemble at Brunswicke about the ende of Marche to treate of matters cōcernyng their league And they receyue Christiane kyng of Denmarke in to their league He was sonne of Frederick and had receiued the doctrine of the Gospell and had appointed Iohn Pomerane whome he called from Wittenberge to set ordre in his churches and by him was annoynted and crowned kyng Iohn also Marques of Brandēburg the brother of Ioachim prince Electour made meanes by the Duke of Saxon to be admitted into the league He therfore was appointed to treate with him vpon certen cōditions at his retourne home and thā to receiue hym in all their names The same requeste also made Albert Duke of Pruselande whome syxe yeares before the chamber had outlawed and that was the chiefest cause whye he was not receyued in to this societie Neuerthelesse they promysed hym all their fauour and good wyll Whan the Duke of Saxony the Lantgraue and their cōsortes were goyng to this assemblie Henry Duke of Brunswycke denied to geue them saufe conduicte whan they should passe through his countrey For euen than he imagined warre as hereafter you shall heare In the Duke of Saxons company was Maurice nephewe to Duke George by his brother Henry a young man of seuentene yeares olde Henry was of the Protestauntes Religion and therfore the Duke toke his sonne Maurice beyng his kynsman to bring vp The kyng of Denmarke hym selfe came than also to Brunswicke In the nynth booke I spake of the persecution that was in Fraūce for Lutheranisme It were long to recite al but this yeare at the Ides of Apryll whiche was than nyne dayes before Easter a young gentleman of Tolouse learned about twenty yeares of age was brent at Paris for eatyng of fleshe not alyue in dede but yet so as beinge hanged ryght ouer he felte the fyre kyndled vnder hym whiche after the maner there was accompted as a great benefite for that he in prison before he was brought forth to execution feared with the cruell wordes of Morine the iudge threatenyng hym confessed that he had done wyckedlye and agaynste Religion For the maner of repentaunce is there only that he shal suffer with the lesse torment But suche as abyde constant are moste cruelly tourmented Two younge men of Flaunders were in the lyke daunger but admonyshed therof by a certen Senatour learned and of a good iudgement they escaped death by flyeng awaye In the moneth of May the Bishoppe of Rome goeth to Nice a hauen towne in Ligurie Thyther also came the Emperoure and the Frenche kynge at his request chiefly he with a Nauie out of Spaine and the kynge by lande accompanied amonges others with a power of Almaignes whiche were lead by Wylliam Countie Furstēberge After a longe treatie albeit they coulde not throughlye agree yet a trewee was made in the moneth of Iune for ten yeares Here was the lady Margaret the Emperours bastarde daughter ensured to Octauius Duke of Parma the Byshoppes nephew by his sonne Peter whom Cosmus duke of Florence woulde fayne haue maried after the death of Alexander Medices The two kynges spake not together in this place albeit the Byshoppe desyred it muche But a fewe dayes after whan he was departed they mette at Aegnes Mortes a Towne of the Prouince in the mouth of the Riuer of Rhosne whither the Emperour retorninge into Spaine came with his Nauie at the Ides of Iulye The kinge had sent to mete him Uelius his Ambassadoure and Galleis to conduicte him Whan the Emperour came nere vnto Aegnes the Conestable of Fraunce was there readye to entreate hym that he woulde arriue there with his Nauie For he saied the kynge woulde be there within these two houres and would come into his Barke to him Whan the Emperour sawe that the rest of the Shippes which were scattered the daye before by reason of a miste were come together he putteth into the hauen And not longe after commeth the kynge also and accompanied amonges others with Anthony Duke of Loraine and the Cardinall his brother goeth streight waye to the shippes The Emperour goynge forth as farre as the ladder of the shippe to mete him receaueth him in But it can not be spoken what embracynges and gratulations were there Whan they were set downe in the Sterne of the Shippe the nobles aboute the Emperour come and salute the kinge lowly and right curtesly There the Emperour sent for Andrewe Aurie his Admirall Prince of Melphite who forsoke the kynge tenne yeares before as is mentioned in the sixte Booke to come and salute the kyng Whan he came the kynge said Prince Andrewe for as muche as you are frende and seruiture to the Emperoure And that it is his pleasure that I should speake wyth you I am contente to gratifie him herein whom I esteme as my brother After whan they had talked familiarlye and frendly together by the space of an howre the kynge departeth The next day in the mornyng As sone as it was light day the Emperour gyueth commaundement by a Trompet that no man go a lande but he himselfe garded wyth certen of his nobles saileth out to dyne with the kynge When he came to lande the kinge and the quene and his two sonnes most gently do embrace him and lead him into the Palace towardes euenynge themperour aduertiseth Androwe de Aure who remained within borde howe at the request of the kinge and the queene his syster he purposed to lie in the towne that night And the next day at after diner to retourne to his Nauie Whiche he did for this intent leste he should throughe his absence conceaue some false suspicion in hys minde Wherfore the next day the Emperour came againe to the sea accompanied with the king and all his nobles And whan they had drunken together in the Emperours cabben of the shippe they departed great frendes Which thing once knowen at Paris and other places they songe Tedeum and made bonefyers The Bishop had requested them at Nice whan the peace was concluded that they woulde go to the

the same tyme he sayed he muste nedes gooe whan in deede he fled and leafte Germany for appraye to the enemie than approchynge throughe hys faulte the yong infante of Iohn Uayuode and his owne brother Fernando and all the Realme of Hongary are fallen into thys calamitie he telleth with a brauerye as thoughe he came to Aegnesmortes to confirme the peace but yf there be any prayse in thys thynge it ought rather to bee ascribed vnto hym whiche wente fyrste in to the Shyppe to hym and after also sente hys chyldrene thyther wherein surely there was great daunger bothe of hym selfe that can truste no man and also of Androwe de Anxie hys Admirall a man of a subtyll and craftie witte After he tooke hys Iorney through Fraunce at his requeste in dede but when he had fyrste by hys Ambassadour letters and Messagers craued thys of hym and offered hym Millan he alledgeth nonne other causes but he was constrayned of necessitie for the Rebellion of Gaunte to passe that waye where he sayeth howe consultation was had to haue stayed hym it is faulse neuer came into hys thought He did the Duke of Sauoye no wronge but when he denyed him bothe hys mothers dowarye and in herytaunce and woulde not permitte hym to redeme Nice and besydes dyd euyll intreate hys Lieutenauntes and soldiours he recouered by foorce of Armes that he coulde not gette by lawe and equitie especyallye syns he wrought all thinges in a maner at the Emperours pleasure whose vse and propertye is to perswade other Kynges subiectes to reuolte after to bryng them to miserye As for example the Dukes of Bourbon Sauoye the Prynce of Salarne And Duke Henry of Brunsewicke He is also chargeable and hurtful to his kinse folkes and alies to Christierne king of Denmarke to Fernando his brother to hym chieflye whiche hathe maried his eldeste syster For that the Turke hathe of late inuaded Hongarye and taken the chyefe Cytye it ought not to be ascribed vnto hym but to hymselfe and hys brother whiche layed wayte for the yonge Heyre Uayuodes sonne and made warre agaynste hym And so aunswereth to euerye poynte of the Emperoures Letters concernynge the Turke and hys Ambassadoures sente vnto hym touchynge the Germanes Relygyon and counsell that he will seme to bee in no faulte but to deserue well the Title of the mooste Christian Kynge geuen longe syns to hys noble progenitours And in fyne desyreth the Bisshop to geue no credyte to the sclaunderous reporte of hys aduersary but to thynke howe there is nothynge that he wyll not bee glad to doe for the common welthes sake and hys and for the Churche of Roome A little before this time dyed Willyam Bellaye of Langeis of whom wee haue oftetymes mentioned a man of moche honoure and vertue and an especyall ornamente of the Frenche Nobilytye by reason of hys notable learnynge Eloquence Experyence and syngular aptnes in all affayres farre vnlyke vnto the moste parte that followe the lawe which seeke onlye to auaunce and augemente they re ryches but he was of so noble a courage that he had thys respect onely howe he myght through more vertue wynne trewe renowne and serue hys Prynce trewelye thoughe it were to hys owne hynderaunce I tolde you beefore of Fraunces Lander a preacher of Paris Whan he had made a doubtfull aunswer to the articles propounded and perseuered styll in hys Preachynge two or three dayes before Easter he was commytted to warde Thys was doone by the procuremente of the Diuines which had accused hym to the lieutenaunte Criminell Within a fewe daies after the Kynge came to Sangermane whyche is a little Towne and Castell by the Ryuer of Seine fyue myles benethe Paris and beyng infourmed of the whole matter calleth the Preacher beefore hym He whan he came thither beynge put in feare by some mennes woordes whyche sayed howe the kynge was sore offended declared not that constancye whyche many men looked for at hys hande And beynge caryed agayne vnto Parys the .xxix. daye of Aprill he was enforced to recant suche thynges as he had taught before For on that day in the Cathedral Church did assemble the Senatours and iudges of the Parlamente moreouer all the Magistrates and officers of Parys and a great nomber of Diuines After the Church dores wer made faste and men set in Armure to dryue a waye the people Whan all were placed hys opinions were recyted and beynge demaunded of euery one what he beleued therein he aunswered as pleased them confessynge howe he had erred and promyseth all obedyence from hencefoorthe and acknoweledgeth those Articles of doctryne which fryste the Diuines and after the Kynges counsell propounded vnto hym to bee trewe and godlye After the same sorte also they handled an other Preacher Depensius thoughe not with so greate a solemnitie for whan he had at the fyrste made hys retractatyon nothynge playnlye he was compelled an other daye in hys sermon beefore the people to declare eche thynge distinctelye and apertelye tyll the Divines there present were fully satisfyed In Fraunce liued Clemente Marotte who in the vulgare tounge surmounted far al Poetes that eyther wee before hys dayes or that liued also in his tyme. He had no greate knowledge in the latyn tongue but yet through the company of learned menne he profyted verye moche Neyther was there any thynge almost in the bookes of Poetes but he kneweit so that out of theyr woorkes he tooke moche and applyed it to hys pourpose Thus did he translate certē thinges couertly out of Tibullus Propertius and Ouide into hys owne elegies And our of Ga●●llus he tooke the Marriage of Hercules Duke of Farrare and Senate Armoricke Daughter to Lewes the .xij. Kynge of Fraunce He translated also moste excellently the fyrst booke of Ouides Metamorphosys And in his later dayes he bente all his writynges to holy scripture and was prefixed to haue expressed Dauid his Psalter in Frenche metre but taken away through sickenes he finished only fyfty Psalmes which now remaine and are red not without thadmiration of hys excellent wit for nothinge is more pleasaunte than hys style nothynge purer than his speache nothyng apter or more pleasaunt than hys Rythme And he set them foorthe thys yeare at Geneua whither he repaired what tyme hee myghte not safelye make longer a bode in Fraunce for suspycyon of Lutheranisme he had prynted .xxx. Psalmes two yeares before in Parys but with moche diffycultye for thys myghte he not doo beefore the Doctours of Sorbone had pronounced that there was nothynge conteyned in that booke contrary to the Chrystyane fayth Thys peraduenture maketh not moche to our pourpos but I thought good to commend the name of so excellent an Artificer also to other nations for in Fraunce hys memoryal shal endure to the last posterytie and most men be of thys opinion that it shall be ryght harde for anye man to matche hym in thys kynde of

the hylle beforesayde and there planteth part of hys Ordenaunce He placeth hys menne also on the lefte hande and on the ryghte The same did the Duke of Saxon whan he was commen thyther with hys companye ✚ The eightenth Booke of Sleidanes Commentaryes concerning the state of Religion and the common Weale during the reigne of the Empyre of Charles the fyfte ❧ The argument of the eyghtenth Booke THe Erle of Bure passeth the Rhyne by meanes of the Archebyshop of Mentz The counsell of the Lantgraue is not allowed to set vpon the Emperour The Switzers wyll not meddle in this warre Wherfore the Duke and the Lantgraue sollicite the Bohemers aunswer fully to the accusations and dissemblinges of the Emperour They remoue theyr Campe to cutte the waye from the Erle of Bure Peter Strosse kepeth not promyse to lende them money Touruert being rendred to the Emperour Duke Maurice holdeth an assemblee of his states against the Duke of Saxon vnto whome the Lantgraue aunswereth The Duke of Saxons countrey is set on fyre and destroyed by the Hongarians and Duke Moris surpriseth certen of his townes Fourtene Martyrs brent at Meanx The Protestauntes hauyng leuied their campe are pursued The Duke of Wittēberg and certen cities make their peace with the Emperour The father of Trent establish the Article of the institution of man After the death of kyng Henry the eight the Gospell had fre passage in Englande Marques Albert is taken prysoner by the Duke of Saxon. WHan Maximiliā the Erle of Bure of whō is mētioned before had assembled al the power he coulde in the lowe coūtrey which were foure thousand horsemen and ten thousand fotemen and emonges them certen bandes of Spanyardes and Italians whiche had serued the kyng of England in his warres against Fraunce marching forwarde with the same out of Brabāt in the moneth of August passeth ouer the Rhine aboue and beneath Mentz whersoeuer he coulde get shipping notwithstandinge that the Protestauntes had layde a power on the other syde at the leading of Christopher Oldenburge and Riseberge which shuld haue stopped their passage The Archbishop of Mētz was thought to haue holpen much in this matter When the whole armie of the Protestauntes was come to the forsaid place they shot of al their ordinaūce into themperours cāpe most terrible Euen ther the Lantgraue calling before the Duke of Saxō the counsellours captains of y● war if I had y● gouernmēt alone saith he as I had what time I restored y● Duke of Wirtēberg I wold first vndertake to geue y● charge vpō thēnemy with ii legiōs bring the piōners to cast down their trēches that done assaile thē with the whole force power but herein whilest thopiniōs of mē were diuers some diswaded y● thing as ful of most peril others misliked not y● same so that ther wer no daūger to be feared of the townes men which had great store of shot munition that the horsemen were also at the first charge giuen nothyng was attempted Whiche thing doubtles is so much reproued of many that this same errour is thought to be the cause and beginning of their calamitie and of the Emperours victory For they farre excelled in horsemen and than was the Emperours campe intrenched but with a lowe ditche only so that it was but of small force But what time the Emperour had susteined the shot and brunt of that day the next night followyng he so well fortified his campe that after he was of better confidēce and might endure more easely all stormes that came But they saye how in this so great a daunger the Emperours harte and courage was wonderfull good and not only declared no token of feare him selfe but also boldened others exceadingly and offered to take suche part as they did How the Emperour solicited the Switzers by his Treasurer of Burgundy I shewed in the last boke Unto those requestes was aunswere made in the assemblie of Baden holden in the moneth of August as before is mentioned How they wil not infringe the league that they haue with the house of Austriche and Burgundy Moreouer they wyll call home agayne suche as are gone forth a warfar and vnlesse they shall obeye punyshe them accordingly Thus aunswered those nyne townes that are of the popysh Religiō But they of Zurich Bernes and Basill and also the Schafusians for as muche as the Emperours and Byshoppes letters did not importe one and the same cause of this warre againe in as muche as the copy of the Emperours and Byshoppes league which was shewed them by the Byshoppes Ambassadour spake playnly how this warre was attempted to roote out the Religion of the Protestauntes they tolde the Emperours Ambassadour that they would take deliberation in makyng an aunswere and attende vntyl suche tyme as the Emperour had aduertised them whether he would permitte them to kepe styll their Religion in safitie Whan the Emperour harde of this the seuen and twenty day of August he addresseth to them his letters out of the Cāpe before Ingolstad Where they haue not made the same answer that the rest haue done he can not perceiue the cause supposeth that this is done through the craft of his aduersaries For he heareth how in the former assembly of Badē they went about to perswade with them as though he had moued war not to punish rebellious princes but against certē cities to thintēt that through the bishops aid the doctrine of the Gospel also the libertie of Germany might be oppressed he hereth moreouer how thei haue sollicited thē not only for aid agaīst him but also concerning a league wherof as he vnderstandeth they haue put them in good hope that in the next assembly they shal make thē a direct aunswer And as touching the cause of y● war for as much as they haue vnderstāden the same as wel by his priuate letters writtē vnto thē as such also as he hath published opēly it nedeth not here to be repeted For that he hath ether molested any man for Religion sake or giuen occasion of rebellion it can not be shewed nor proued but that streight wayes frō the beginning of his preparatiō vnto war he treated frēdly gently with diuerse more also thā was decent for his person to do to men of so meane estate degre Nether can this excuse their rebelliō for that the byshop of Rome doth assist him for not only the Princes of Italy but certen also of Germany and diuerse gentlemen of right noble houses emonges thē som of the religion league of the Protestauntes do ayde him now wil venter their liues spend their blud in this war Whiche doubtles thei wold not do in case the matter stode as these seditiouse persons do falsly report And that they haue alwayes gone about vnder the pretēce of religion to resiste their hygh magistrate to oppresse religiō the libertie

appertaining to faith and religion if they haue to suffer as those that are returned to their vomit he that being not conuicted but vehemently suspected of heresy shal be condēned ether tabiure or to do open penance if the same man shal be after accused of heresye he shal suffer as one that is reuolted Unto such as be spotted with heresy and stained with like crimes shal be geuen none honor nor dignity nether shall they beare anye office in the common wealth Unlesse a man bring with him a testimoniall from the Curate of the Church where he dwelt last let him not be suffered to haue any habitation or dwelling For suche ought to be had for suspected That the gouernors of peace and all other oure Clients euery man in his prouince inquire diligently for such as shall breake this law and that they assist the inquisitoures and ecclesiasticall iudges so that those whiche be founde culpable maye suffer according to che fourme prescribed excepte they so do they shall suffer for it at oure pleasure Let the common Proctoure also know whether they do their duetie and if they shal be found negligent let him commaund them to come to iudgement and if it shall appeare that they haue offended let them either be depriued of theyr office or otherwise punished as shal be thought expedient Besides this let all Bishops Archdeacons and Abbots with such other like Prelates search with all diligence if any of the Cleargy be infect with this disease and punishe it extremely They that know any man defiled with this Pestilence or in what places the Heretickes lurcke and frequent let them presente them immediatly vnlesse they do so to suffer the same punishment that the others should The promotour if the accusation be not false shal haue the one half of his goodes Which goodes in dede shall not exceade the summe of vi C. crownes For whatsoeuer shal be aboue this sōme the tenth part therof shal be alotted vnto him He that shal detect to thinquisitour priuy conticles although he were of theyr Counsell shall not be punished so that he thinke well of Religion and from henceforth refraine theyr company but he that shall present them being not of their followship shal be rewarded as before is said let the punishments that we haue appoynted be so executed accordingly nether shall it lie in any mans power to alter or mitigate the same which we perceiue is oftentimes done for the iudges that offende herein shal not escape vnpunished They that being accused of heresy and cited to appere haue fled and haue bene after outlawed whan they haue heard that the cōpanions of their offences be dead are wont to make sute that they may be suffred to make their purgation for so much as they suppose how the crime can no more be proued by this meanes it chaunceth that retourning again they sow abrode false doctrin and errors but that the same be in no wise done it is for the cōmon profit Wherfore we cōmaund that ther be no place geuen to their requests but that al such as after they wer cited haue appered but sought to saue thē selues by fleing shal be accōted for conuictes persons condemned They that shal make any sute for suspected fled banished or for Anabaptistes let them be taken for supporters of heretikes And that iudges gouernors receiue none such into fauor vnles it be ether by the permissiō of vs or of the Quenes sister Those that shal do otherwise shal be depriued of theyr gouernmēt That no printers or bokesellers do print sel or vtter any thing cōcerning the scripture but by theyr aduise consent vnto whō this charge is cōmitted for so much as there is a register of bokes which thuniuersity of Louain hath reiected let the stationers haue the same hāged vp in their shops in opē sight least after either thē selues or the biers plead ignorance again that they haue another register of al theyr bokes he that wil not obey shal lose an C. crowns Finally that no man take any children to teach vnles it be through the permission of the magistrat and the chief minister of the church authorised that he teach or instruct the youth in nothing but according to the form prescribed by the deuines of Louaine When this decre was proclamed many were sore astonied especially the high duch English marchants which occupy the traffick of marchandise in themperors townes countries especially at Andwarpe a great nōbre Wherfore they wer of this mind that vnles the decre wer mitigated thei wold remoue to another place yea mani of thē shutting vp their shops purposed to depart for thauoyding of the dāger The Senate of Andwarp also thother citezens ther which saw what a wōderful losse this wold be to thē wer in a great perplexity whē thinquisitors came thither they wtstode thē withal theyr indeuor riding to the Lady regēt declare vnto her what a losse it shuld be not to thē only but also to the whole region if this decre take place Wherfore the matter was in the same city for the which the decre was chiefly made by reasō of sōdry natiōs people there appesed for that time This decre being after trāslated into the highe duch tōg Matthie Flacie of whō mētiō is made in the former boke setteth forth most sharply tāteth Iselebie the Adiaphoristes as he termeth thē which assay to perswade the people as though religiō wer not impugned But the form of inquisition which they cal an instructiō conteineth a most ample authority For it is lawfull for them to cal before thē not only al priuate persons but the magistrates thē selues also and to compel them by an oth to answere to interrogatories to vtter what they know And the questions cōcerning religion are in nombre xxxviii wherin such ar are presented or suspected be examined amōgs others whether they beleue the sacrifice of the masse to be auailable for the dead so that they may be deliuered hereby from the pains of purgatory whether they beleue that S Peter was prince of thapostles Uicar of Christ high bishop of the church of Rome and that those also are to be accōpted for which do lawfully succede in his chaire whether they beleue that it is lawful to forsake thobedience of the high bishop being nether heriticke nor Scismatick whether they beleue that Matrimony priuely cōtracted is lawful whether they beleue the Lutherans Buceranes and suche others to be of the Churche The Cardinals of Fraunce remaind at Rome a certain space after that Iuly was elected and than they return home again Howbeit by the way whē he was come now into Fraunce before he had sene the Kinge died Ihon Cardinall of Lorayne who had bene all his life time a most pleasaunt gest and companion with king Fraunces By this occasion Robert Lenoncourt Cardinall obtained the Bishopprycke of Mentz