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A18484	The requestes presented vnto the Frenche Kinge and the Queene his mother, by the three rulers or triumuirat with an aunswere made to the same by the prince of Conde	Guise, François de Lorraine, duc de, 1519-1563.; Condé, Louis, prince de, 1530-1569.	1562 (1562)	STC 5042; ESTC S119254	23,946	64

so much that rather than they wyll go home they will se his realme in daunger of ruyne which they saye is euident and not possible to be auoyded This is the loue whiche they beare to theyr countrey into the which they brynge foraine power to pylle and spoyle it and if god holde not his hande ouer it to subdue and vtterly destroy it ¶ Syth they require a decree which shal remayne for euer vpon thestate of relygion And where as wee required that that shoulde be obserued whiche is alredy made vntyll the kynge shoulde come to age they aunswered that it was an vnciuyle and an vnreasonable requeste for that it is in the kynges power and wyll to change lymitte enlarge and restrayn his decrees when so euer he thinketh good And that we in requyrynge that that whiche is alredye decreed by him and his counsel should be kept and obserued durynge his nonage desyre to kepe his maiestie in pryson captiuitie And yet this notwithstanding they will that the decre which thei thre haue made shal remaine in force vnchanged for euer But if the reason which they aledge againste vs are to be receaued we wyll also by the selfe same conclude that they them selues wil keepe the king prisoner both in his nonage and lawful age But by like they thinke they are able to master and keepe at commaundement not onely the kynges person but also the whole realme Seing that in a thinge of so greate weighte and whyche bringeth with it so many incōuenience they dar● take vpon them to present a decree allowed onely by them thre what more did euer August Marke Antonius and Lepidus whan by their wicked shamful triumuirate they subuerted the lawes common wealthe of Rome If they had ben mooued with a good and peasible zeale as they say not sedicious with a zeale of religion and not of ambition they woulde neuer haue begon with rigorous punishement as they haue done they woulde haue cume vnarmed and presented them selues with all humility and reuerence They would haue declared the causes which moued them to mislike the decre of Ianuary They woulde haue humblye besoughte the kinge and Queene to consider with their counsel with the aduyse of the parlementes and of other estates If any other meane mighte be founde to remedie these troubles to the conseruation of Goddes honour with the sauegarde and encrease of the kinge and of this realme And in so speaking they shoulde haue shewed that they had ben ledde by none other affection but onely by the zele of their consciences But their maner of proceadinge sufficiently declareth that their religion serueth them to gette folowers and partakers and to so we strife and diuision amongest the kynges subiectes and with the one part hauing the straungers ther unto adioined to make thē selues lordes of the whole vnto whom I am constrained to say that the princes of the bloude royall vnto whom they haue euermore ben enemies and thrust them backe in al y t they might will in no wise suffer that strange nation and such as be not called to the gouernaunce shall take vppon them to make statutes and ordinaunces in this realme Moreouer they wyll and require that the churche of Rome which they call the catholicke and apostolicke Church be onely receaued and acknowledged in Fraunce and that they which professe the reformed religion be excluded from preaching receuing of the sacramentes It is a duke of Guise an out landishe prince a lorde of Montmorency and a lorde of S. Andre which make an ordinaunce contrary to the decre of Ianuarye which was agreed vpon by the king and the quene his mother the king of Nauarre the princes of the bloudd● royal with the kinges counsel forty of the chiefe of all the parlementes They be three whiche make an ordinaunce againste the requeste presented by the estates that is to say the nobility and the third estate at Orleans firste and sith at S. Germaine The whiche two estates require that it wyll please the kynges maiestie to giue and appoyncte churches for them that professe the forsaid reformed religion They are three whiche make an ordinaunce that can not be executed with out ciuile warre and with out putting the realme in daunger of euident ruine And they them selues see it and confesse it Lo thus is the realme bounde vnto them and this fruit bringeth forth their konwledge and good zeale or that I may more trulye speake their practises their conueyaunces and ambition of rule and commaundemēt ¶ The Duke of Guise and hys bretherne takinge vpon theym this enterprise to banishe awaye the professours of the refourmed religion what good zele so euer they pretend to haue can not deny but that they willingly go aboute to trouble and bring into daunger this realme wher as they se that in the lyke enterprise their matters had so euyle successe in Scotlande In the which contrey the one parte and the other liued in peace vnder the obedience of that good and vertuouse princesse the queene dowagier vnto such time as it was by the aucthoritie of the forsayd Guise published and proclaymed that the kyng minded not to permit that any other religion wer receaued in the sayde contreye but onely the religion of the churche of Rome whyche was cause that a certayne smal number of people of the common sort rise and put thēselues in armes who were by the prudēce of the saide lady and the helpe of the nobilitie within short time dispersed This beginninge might haue serued for an admonition to the sayde Guise of the daunger whiche mighte ensue of greater troubles if they geue not ouer theyr enterprise of whiche thinge yet not withstandinge they would take no regarde at all but contrarywise beinge in greater heate than euer they were theretofore writ vnto the sayde lady verye sharpe letters blaminge her for that she had vsed to much gentlenes especially in the quarell of religion And that for the amēdes of her faultes passed it was needeful that she shoulde bluddie her handes vpon them especially whiche were the chefe And for this purpose they sente vnto her the bishoppe of Amiens and M. de la Brosse whoo to declare theym selues at their firste cumminge good catholickes of the Romishe secte they woulde haue constrained euery man to cum to masse They obiected oftentimes to the said lady and to M. de Oysel that thei had marred al. They proclaymed their purpose which was that they would vse force and constraint in the matter The bishoppe of Amiens as the popes legate lokynge for the bulles of his legacie promised that he would refourme the most parte of them which he said were out of the way M. de la Brosse promised within the space of one moneth to banysh them which woulde not be refourmed And for so much as couetousenes is euermore the companion of crueltie they cast a pleasant eye vpon the landes and possessions of the nobilitie They