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A01144	The association of the princes of France with the protestations and declarations of their allegeance to the King. Also a discourse vpon the surrendry of the seales into the Kings hands by M. du Vaiz [sic].	Du Vair, Guillaume, 1556-1621.; Concini, Concino, maréchal d'Ancre, ca. 1575-1617.; Mayenne, Henri de Lorraine, duc de, 1578-1621.; Bouillon, Henri de la Tour-d'Auvergne, Duc de, 1555-1623.; Vendôme, César de Bourbon, duc de, 1594-1665.	1617 (1617)	STC 11258; ESTC S102558	9,681	38

〈◊〉 ASSOCIATION OF THE PRINCES OF FRANCE With the Protestations and Declarations of their Allegeance to the KING Also A DISCOVRSE VPON THE SVRRENDRY OF THE SEALES INTO THE KINGS hands by M. du VAIZ LONDON Printed for William Barret 1617. THE ASSOCIATION OF THE PRINCES OF FRANCE WEE vnder-written weighing the miserable estate whereto this Kingdome is now reduced with the confusion which threatneth an ineuitable separation and iustly dreading that the Enemies of the same aswell Domestique as Strangers will make their vse by preuayling through the ruine thereof if good and speedy order be not taken haue thought that during the Kings minority and the keeping prisoner of the first Prince of the Bloud there was no remedy more proper to preuent and stop so great an euill then to vnite our selues most strictly together vnder these Articles which follow FIRST We protest to continue constant and neuer to depart from that loyall Obedience and most humble Submission which we owe as true and naturall Subiects of this Crowne to the King our Prince Soueraigne Lord. And because it is well knowne that Strangers and such as fauour them haue seized on the sacred Person of the King and on the whole Administration and absolute Gouernement of the Kingdome which they doe most vniustly vsurpe and exercise with great Tyrannie and Oppression and doe violently detayne the Prince of Conde prisoner for no offence or lawfull cause against the publique faith of the Treatie of Loudun it is most apparant that they haue no other end then to destroy the house of Bourbon which now only remayneth of all the Royall Houses and doe ayme at the death of our Princes and in it the change and subuersion of the State For these causes wee doe faithfully promise to employ with one mind all our power goods and liues for the conseruation thereof and to hinder the miserable effects of so pernicious dessignes and to take the publique Authority from them who vsurpe the same to restore the King vnto the dignity of his Crowne to keepe and maintayne it in all sincerity and integrity to withdraw his Maiesty from their wicked purposes and to keep him out of their hands to set the Prince of Conde at liberty to repaire the wrong done him by punishing the Authors of this violence to reuoke all those Offices and Dignities which haue been bestowed since the with-holding of them from those to whom of right they belong And to reduce the State into a due forme to establish vnder the Soueraigne Authority of the King the lawfull Counsell of the Princes of his bloud of other Princes and Officers of his Crowne and of those ancient Counsellers of State who haue gone through many great and important charges and such likewise as are descended from Noble houses and Families of great antiquity who by naturall affection and particular interest do affect the preseruation of the State to whom during the minority of our Kings or by reason of their indisposition the Administration Gouernement and Direction of publique affaires ought to be referred by the ancient and fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome by which both Women and Strangers are debarred from it And if it should so happen from which GOD in his mercy keepe vs that the King should depart this life we doe by these declare that wee acknowledge after his decease for our King and Soueraigne Lord my Lord the Duke of Aniou which is the true and lawful Heire and Successor of this Crowne and during his minority my Lord the Prince of Conde to be lawfull Regent and Gardian of the Kingdom to whom as first Prince of the bloud this preeminence doth belong with the Councell before mentioned for the common direction and administration of the affaires of the Kingdome and not to suffer any other to be admitted vnto the Regency no not the Kings Mother to the preiudice of the Lawes of this State And if it should so happen that these Vsurpers who are most expert in limitting the terme of life and in plotting the death of those who serue for obstacles to their dessignes and enterprizes who ordinarily in such cases do vse Kniues and Poyson to hasten their Deuillish ends should attempt by these most detestable meanes to take away the Kings life or the Prince of Conde's we protest before the Almighty both to seeke and prosequute the iust vengeance thereof by all lawfull meanes to the vttermost of our powers not only vpon themselues who are the chiefe Actors but vpon their Adherents also domestique Seruants and Strangers that in their persons we may leaue a memorable example vnto succeeding ages as well of the fidelity and affection of true Subiects as of the iust punishment of so abominable disloyaltie and impietie And to this purpose we will employ both our Reuenues and Liues euen as long as one drop of bloud remayneth in our bodies and will aduise our posterity to doe the like after vs. And that we may prouide for such an accident and for the safety of the Kingdome against the plots of Strangers and for the Gouernement and Administration of the same in case we want a Prince of the bloud we will call a Parliament to be assembled in a free place whither we may haue sure accesse to the end we may proceede with that order which is conuenient and necessary We doe faithfully promise to execute exactly and obserue inuiolably the Lawes of this Kingdome and in particular the Treatie of Loudun for the common good of all the orders of the State and for the security of all the good and faithfull Subiects of the King We will maintayne and continue the ancient Alliances Treaties and Confederations renewed by the deceased King with forraine Princes Potentates Cōmon-wealths Friends Allies and Confederates who are in the protection of the Crowne that we may reestablish in the conduct of the affaires of State the ancient maximes of the late King which he so happily vsed during his raigne for the security of his State and the publique peace of Christendom the which many men haue left since his death We doe further promise that we will oppose vnder the Kings authority by all meanes possible and namely by our iust Armes and with the succours of all the Allies and Confederates of this Crowne all those who would hinder the effect of this our Vnion wherin we haue no further end then to preserue the Kings Royall authority and the dignity of his Crown to establish his Scepter in his hand and in the hands of his lawfull Successors And to maintayne vnder the common liberty of French-men our Liues Goods Honors and Dignities against the disloyaltie and perfidiousnesse of those who haue conspired not only our ruine but the ruine of the Kings house and of the whole Kingdome And that we may with the more security prosequute so laudable and necessary a dessigne for the common defence of the State the obseruation of the publique and priuate Lawes thereof And for

the cause must be taken away which being knowne vnto you there needeth now no other thing then your word only to giue order that the Marquesse of Anchre with his Wife and Adherents be chased from your Sacred Person and from the Queene your Mother And to giue way vnto Iustice that it may duly punish them for those crymes whereof they are culpable touching your State Euery man well knoweth what deceit hee hath vsed since the death of the last king of most happy memory to draw vnto himselfe th' entire and absolute Administration of your Kingdome to make himselfe Master of your Councels of your Treasure of your Armes and of your Fortresses to dispose of your publique Offices and Charges your Fauours and Pardons because hee would bee the sole Iudge of Honours and Dignities and dispose of the life and death of your Subiects The courses hee hath taken to banish the Princes of the Bloud from the Court and to breed discord betweene them are not vnknowne and likewise of the rest of the Princes Officers of your Crowne and principall Lords of the Kingdome The practizes and corruptions which he hath vsed to weaken and depresse the authoritie of your Parliaments and violently to choke the lawfull freedome of their Remoustrances imprison your chiefe Officers and make a diuision through all the orders of your Kingdome that hee might haue the whole disposing of them and raigne alone within the State as he doth now with an insupportable presumption and insolency supposing that nothing can resist his ambitious Dessignes seeing that through extreme wrong and iniustice hee hath imprisoned the first Prince of your Bloud and by this audacious Action violated the publike faith of the Treatie of Loudun vpon the obseruation of which did depend the repose and tranquillity of your State which he had rather plunge into the calamities of a Warre then to haue the maske of your Royall Authority taken from him whereof hee makes his benefit and vseth it as an Instrument for the destruction of your most faithful Subiects These things are so manifest his proiects guile so plainly discouer'd that no doubt can bee made hereof And the strange proceedings and violence which he vseth euery day vnder your Maiesties name against the Duke of Neuers vpon so notorious pretexts and forged imputations that euen the voice of the people serueth for proofe enough to refute them do witnes sufficiently that the conspiracy is generall against all the Princes and Nobles of your Kingdome who will not stoupe to his tyranny and can resist his plots which he continually puts in execution thereby to subuert the State For what offence is the same Dukes sauing only that he is a Prince of the most renowned Houses of your Kingdomes one that loues his Countrey seekes the peace of it and who hath alwaies testified his zeale vnto your seruice and acknowledgeth no other Authority lawfull then your Maiesty Hee complaineth of some iniurie done him by one of his Tenants and that in contempt of the dignity of his Office he cannot freely exercise his charge in his Gouernment He hath prosecuted an execution of some feodal rights within his owne possessions by the ordinary means of Iustice as vnwilling to lose that which his Predecessors left him Perceiuing some secret enterprises ready to bee executed vpon his Houses he prouided as indeed he ought for the securing defence and keeping of them vnder your Authority and for your seruice These lawfull and necessary causes are wrested to his rebuke nay are imputed to him as a haynous crime and Rebellion We haue seen the Declaration that hath bin published against him vnder your Maiesties name and the reasonable conditions vnto which hee doth submit himselfe for his triall and make his innocencie appeare which being knowne vnto vs we most humbly beseech your Maiesty to be pleased to protect the same and not to suffer it to be oppressed violēced by the Marquesse of Anchre whose outrages and offences we can no longer dissemble because our long patience hath not hitherto serued for ought else then for to render it more audacious and insolent that we be no more vpbraided that our affection is so small vnto your Maiesty that we are so ingratefull to our Country so disloyal and vnprofitable vnto our selues and to our Posterity as to be silent when we behold the prodigious fauour of this Stranger trampling thus insolently on the throate of your State holding prisoner in his hands the first Prince of your Bloud treading vnder foot both Lawes and Magistrates emptying your Coffers by his profusions consuming your people with excessiue charges and causing your Subiects to be trecherously murthered without any punishment at all And for recompence of such trechery and disloyalty conferring vpon them the Gouernments of your places deposing and discharging the chief Officers of your Councels and Parlements bereauing them of those Titles Honors which their Age their Vertue and their Deserts haue purchased them for to establish in their places his creatures who are persons altogether vnworthy and vnexperienced for the manageing of your State being men borne in bondage and therefore enemies to all honest men and most proper to execute his passions what detriment soeuer may ensue thereby to your seruice holding nothing vnlawful which may aduance his passionate dessignes This is that which hath induced vs thus humbly to beseech your Maiesty to consider the miserable estate wherinto your Kingdome is now brought and to apply by your Wisdome and Authority the necessary remedy which dependeth vpon your own wil and not to suffer either your name or your Armes to be employed to the effusion of your Subiects bloud and oppression of your Domesticall seruants for the maintaining of Strangers to their preiudice but to banish them for euer from you and by the chastisement and due punishment of the guiltie reestablish confidence and security in your Kingdom repaire the publike Faith which hath bin broken and set the Prince of Condé at liberty And to the end that order may be taken by conuenient meanes against the disorders of your State to cause the Treaty of Loudun to be obserued call againe vnto you and into your Councels the Princes of your Bloud with the rest of the Princes Dukes Peeres and the ancient Officers of your Crowne and Counsellers of State whom the deceased King vsed during his Raigne who also by naturall affection and as being particularly interessed as strictly oblieged to the conseruation of your State And then we shall haue the happinesse to render you in all securitie euery 〈◊〉 according to his Ranke Dignitie and Place that most humble seruice and faithfull obedience which wee owe you and which whilest we liue we will yeeld you as being Your most humble most loyall and most obedient Subiects and Seruants Signed Caesar de Vendosme Henry de Lorraine Duke of Mayenne Henry de la Tour Duke of Bouillon