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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14250	The translation of a letter written by a Frenche gentilwoman to an other gentilwoman straunger, her frind, vpon the death of the most excellent and vertous ladye, Elenor of Roye, Princes of Conde, contaynyng her last wyll and testament. Doone by Henry Myddelmore gentylman at the request of the Ladye Anne Throkmorton	I. D. V., fl. 1564.; Myddelmore, Henry.	1564 (1564)	STC 24565; ESTC S105901	21,518	65

❧ THE TRANSlation of a letter written by a Frenche Gentilwoman to an other Gentilwoman straunger her frind vpon the death of the most excellent and vertuous Ladye Elenor of Roye Princes of Conde contaynyng her last wyll and Testament Doone by Henry Myddelmore Gentylman at the request of the Ladye Anne Throkmorton ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye for Humfrye Toye dwellyng in Paules Churchyarde Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis 1564. ❧ The last wyl and Testament of the Princes of Conde SO soone as reason and gods worde mighte commaund mine eies and that this paper watered ouer with my teares mighte drye it selfe I dyd take my penne in hande to answere the request that so instantlye you made vnto me to wrytte you a brief discourse of the maner course of my Ladye the Princes of Condes sicknes For the greate desier you haue as you saye that the shadowe of hyr death maye serue you for a lighte to lighten your doings against the thicknes of the darknes of oure lyfe in this perillous pilgrimage But I pray you yf I do not satisfice your expectation accordynge to the sufficiencye of the subiect accuse the basenes of my wytte rather then the good wyl I haue to content you and to gyue by this priuate letter since better I cannot do it a faythfull testimonye of hyr vertue which wel deserueth a publike setting forth The prophane auncientes were wont to saye when they dyd lose suche patternes and examples of vertue that God beinge angrye wyth men dyd beareft them of so great a good before the tyme. And you shall gyue me leaue to say to you that in very conscience I beleue he iudged vs vnworthye of a thinge of so great valure And nowe leauynge to speake of the reste of hyr lyfe of the first and furthest causes of hyr euell that is to saye the extreame sorowes whiche she was dryuen to deuoure in that firste peryllous tyme of the imprisonment of my Lorde the Prince hyr husbande and lykewyse of Madame de Roye hyr mother the same being a right worthie argument of a great historye whereby might be eternised and made perpetuall the singular graces which God had endued this noble Princes wyth and the vnspeakable force and constancye of hyr mynde in all hyr aduersities I wyll begynne with the most euidentes and freshest I doubt not but you haue harde how that after she had letfe my Lord hyr husbande at Meaux at the same tyme that he resolued to goo to Orleās as she was traualynge towardes hyr house called Muret and passynge by a vyllage named Vanderay nere vnto Lizy vpon the ryuer of Ours a companye of paisants whiche then were goinge in procession dyd set vpon hyr and the Marquis of Conty hyr eldest sonne wyth staues stones crosses and banners and that without any occasion geuen but that there was a malicious naughty priest emongest them who for the hatred that he bare to the religion incited set on the sayd troupe of paisants so to outrage hyr and hyr companye at this very tyme the fyer of the troubles for religion did begynne to kyndle and in the moste partes of all Fraunce the sparkelles thereof dyd alreadye appeare Thys furor and populous rage dyd so moue and vnquiet this good Lady that hauynge gonne to the ende of cyghte monethes she was the same daye by feare and before hyr tyme delyuered of two boyes at a village called Gandalu before she could recouer any of hyr owne houses And within fewe dayes after as she was naturallye of greate courage and harte she toke hyr waye towardes Orleans to mete wyth my Lord hyr husbande Whether she came in the ende by longe and dangerous iourneis For you must imagine that all the wayes and passages were alreadye taken and kepte And that therfore she was dryuen to vse great circumspection and to expose hyr person to verye great daunger to make that hasardous voiage Note you that of this same inconueniencye Of the second tyme of the imprisonment of my Lord hyr husbād after the cruell conflict of a battail Of the besiegyng of the towne of Orleans and so of the paynes and continuall trauailes which she dyd suffer abyde duryng the whole tyme of the troubles besyde that she dyd not diligentlye inough loke to hyr selfe when she had the last yere the smale pokes at Galleō hath growen and proceaded by course of tyme all hyr sicknes and indisposition But chyefly an Issue of bloud caused by a Carcinome or eatyng canker in the Matrice whiche hyr shamefastnes and chastitie woulde neuer suffer to be dressed as it was requisite and necessarye This fluxe of bloud which was faier redde and of good substaunce beganne the .xxvj. daye of April last past but toke hyr more aboundauntlye the thursdaye and Sonday nexte followynge and so continued and lefte of at certain times vntyll the .xxiij. daye of this present moneth of Iuly At what tyme hyr forces were so abated and weakened that she lost vtterly the power retentiue so as the same then runnyng oute vnto the droppe of that lyttell that remayned of the former great voydynges she yelded happelye vp hyr sprite to God throughe lacke of natural heate at Conde about xj of the cloke in the mornynge This euacuation was very muche hastened by a dyet whiche a lyttell before she had taken in hande and would nedes continue the same after hyr retourne from Troye where settinge asyde all other thynges she had bene in great hast to see my Lord her husband then newly fallen into a sicknes which dyet was cleane contrarye to hyr the drinke that she toke dyd greatly heate chafe hyr bloud whiche of it selfe was ouer subtil Herein I canne assure you that after the Phisitions and Chirurgiens were on s made acquainted with all they dyd omite nothynge of that that order and knowledge might commaunde And it had bene very easye at the beginnynge to haue remedyed and healed it if the matter had been so soone declared as it was requisite In the tyme of this sicknes manye accidents happened as the laske the feuer Hetique whiche was with some accesse payne of the raynes with great vnquietnes faintinges and soundings throughe the venimous vapours caried from the diseased part to the stomacke to the lyuer to the harte and to the braine You muste thynke that I cāne hardlye expresse vnto you all her griefs for they were by the iudgement of them that be most expert in that arte so dyuerse and violent that they had bene vndurable to any other Wherin I pray you marke wel how greatlye God dyd assist and strengthen her for she neuer opened her mouthe to murmur nor made any shewe or countenaunce of impacience I did alwayes see her in her greatest paines with drye eyes without cryinge without teares and without complaintes whiche be ordinary to all sicke folckes yea to the most strongest and constants And because I knowe it wylbe great pleasure vnto