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A01143	Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, to ioyne together, and take armes speedily (by commandement of the King) against theeues and robbers, which are now abroade ruining the poore people setting downe an order and policie how they should take armes, to auoide all disorder and confusion amongst them. Whereunto is adioyned, a declaration published by the Duke de Mont-pencier for the reclaiming of the cleargie and nobilitie of Normandie, vnto his Maiesties obedience, &c. With certaine newes of the ouerthrow of the Gautiers, and diuerse other rebels against the French King, by the said Duke of Mont-pencier, on the sixt, and on the twentieth daie of Aprill. 1589. Translated out of the French into English, by I. Eliote.	Eliot, John.; Montpensier, François de Bourbon, duc de. Copie d'une lettre contenant le progres des choses advenues au voyage de duc de Montpensier. English.	1589 (1589)	STC 11256; ESTC S120926	33,284	60

expedient for all Catholikes if the effectes were correspondent to the wordes but in stead of making an vnion of Catholikes they haue vsed this holie pretext to haue a cast onelie at the king to diuide the Catholikes by this meanes into sides bringing in by this diuision al the disorder and riot that you see at this present in this Monarchie that yet you are like to see if God put not to his helping hand speedelie This is the cause that the Catholiks are now diuided and at variance among themselues that the honester sort call this league an vnion of rebels and a faction of conspirators the reason why they call it so is because they haue ioined their drifte to reforme the estate with the pretext of the holie League whereby they haue plainly medled with the king and called his authoritie in question that which the more vertuous and honester sorte cannot allowe for that as I haue said before in the second Chapter of the book that I haue already setforth and as I will shewe you hereafter more at large is not permitted of God see for certaine that which hath caused all true Catholikes to hate contemne this league alliance although they neuer found one word of truth in all that the Lorraine Princes promised beeing the first authors of this conspiracie They haue sworne and protested to you to encourage you to make you thinke well of their factious fetches proceedings that they wish the ruine of heretikes and vnder this false pretence they haue attempted against their King They let their armies take vp the best places of this Realme and lodge themselues and their souldiers where neuer anie souldiers came before and the profit that you reape therby is their troupes of souldiers are round about your Cities who vse and entreate you as Turkes and not as their Catholike brethren they promised to cause the Kings souldiers to kepe good rule yet you neuer saw more detestable theeues then these that go to the wars now for thē these are say they Catholiks of the holy League yet they force women they rauish the daughters of Catholiks they beat Priests they prison thē hang them vp by the heeles to make them giue money they warre saie they to ruine heretikes which haue retired themselues into their houses to cleere the Countrie of them but if anie one shewe a countenance as though he would defend himselfe they let him alone and seeke but those that are without all defence and cannot resist and specially aboue all those that are full of money who haue reconciled themselues within the compasse of the Church and are retired vnder her protection and safegard those are they that they seeke they take them first he that embraceth the Church with them hath no better assurance than he that renounceth her It is inough to be an heretike say they if a man haue at this present a good purse and a naughty swoord they made an abatement of taxes to be proclaimed but for euery penny that they haue abated they make it cost a crowne for in many places they haue begun to leuie and taxe for the maintenance of their forces for the m unition of their fortresses in summe see how they haue performed nothing of all that they promised and so farre are they from leauing their fellonie and rebellion that they doo what they can euery daie to make you commit their detestable insolencies and villanies The Duke of Maine in stead of going to besiege Niort that the Hugonites haue taken in speaketh of nothing but assailing his King if he could assemble but forces sufficient his adherents cause now to be proclaimed in diuerse Prouinces and chiefly in Normandie that the pesants and Countrimen haue to arme themselues without anie leaue or consent of the Nobles who are not of their side and they saie it is for the defence of the common people Know you what craft and subtiltie they meane euerie one of them which hath a good place already hath no lesse hope than to make himself soueraigne Lord of the Bishopricke Bailywicke and Vicountie where his fortresse is situated yea and to climbe higher if opportunitie serue and for this occasion they would be ridde of those Gentlemen that dwell neare them of whom they cannot be assured but hauing no forces strong in ough to set vpon thē they will make at your costes and deniers a company in euery hundred and vicounty at the least of twelue or fifteene hundred men well armed and hauing once armed you by the helpe of your owne purse-strings and appointed Captaines and gouernours ouer you at their owne deuotion pleasure they shal win quickly a great number of you to thē who shall serue their turne to kepe the other vnder and to ruine if they can euery one whom they thinke is not for them from whō they thinke you might haue some assistance when you should be a weary of supporting their tyrannie and euen as they haue set a great part of the Nobilitie together by the eares so will they doo you to that this is most true ye see alreadie the great diuision that is happened amongst you and how in diuerse places your next neighbours haue murthered one another in taking of partes where they are diuerslie affected and when you shall be armed and ioyned together vnder these Leaguers themselues and when you shall haue helped to establish them to the preiudice of good Catholikes the Kinges true and faithfull seruantes to bee briefe when they shall be setled peaceablie in their gouernments doubt not but yee shall fall into greater miserie then so for the ambition wherewith they are carried headlong receiuing no limite will bring them on to warre one against the other and euerie one will labour to make himselfe greater by suppressing his neighbour and trust vppon his intelligence that he shal haue with forain Princes in the meane while that these Princes of Lorraine shall iarre with those that they shall finde able to aunswere them and as you see euerie Prince of Lorraine seeketh to haue as good parte in the Cake as another and will not referre all that they doo to one sole mans authoritie euen so if you looke neere into the matter do there adherents also for euerie man thinketh hee hath as good right to haue a peece as the Duke of Maine to haue all the whole himselfe The chiefe gouernours amongst them doo saise vpon the receit of taxes for themselues in euery quarter and vse them as if they were their owne proper they graunt out Commissions as they list to leauie souldiers in their owne names they enroll and cassere whome they list they fetch downe the bels out of the Church steeples to cast them into Cannons they take vp and dismisse souldiers as they thinke best they giue protections and safegardes as they please they set prisoners at libertie and they entertaine gardes for their owne bodies

ADVISE GIVEN BY A CATHOlike Gentleman to the Nobilitie Commons of France to ioyne together and take armes speedily by commandement of the King against theeues and robbers which are now abroade ruining the poore people Setting downe an order and policie how they should take armes to auoide all disorder and confusion amongst them Whereunto is adioyned A declaration published by the Duke de Mont-pencier for the reclaiming of the Cleargie and Nobilitie of Normandie vnto his Maiesties obedience c. With certaine newes of the ouerthrow of the Gautiers and diuerse other rebels against the French King by the said Duke of Mont-pencier on the sixt and on the twentieth daie of Aprill 1589. Translated out of the French into English by I. Eliote LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe 1589. Aduise giuen by a Catholike Gentleman of France c. ALthough few daies since I set forth a booke in print containing foure Chapters in the which I did at large aduertise my countrymen of France of that which they had to do in this dangerous time of reuolting yet seeing their ruine to draw nigh daily and that the greatest harme falleth chiefly on the Nobles and on the poore pesants who as it were vtterly ruined and vndone remaine benummed not able to helpe them selues anie thing at all poore men beeing vtterlie spoiled of the forces that God giueth them for their maintenance defence I haue bethought my selfe to open them a way and to aduertise them once againe how they may liue peaceably one with another and to set them downe the meanes howe they may disturbe and hinder the quartering canto●ning of this state that to their great preiudice so many go about It is then to you my Lords of the Nobilitie and to you poore Countrie people that I addresse my selfe labouring to make you knowe how both your interests go in this matter and that you must not now forsake one another as you doe considering that now you haue need to ioyne your forces together for your common safegard defence It is to you I saie that I speake Nobilitie of France but yet more particularly to you pore countrimen full of affliction for you make my soule full of pitie and compassion seeing you beaten pilled and ransomed by the souldiers of this time on the one side and seeing you on the other side pinched and gnawed to the very bones by these Townes-men which laughe in their sleeues and make a ieste beeing safe themselues within the compasse of their walles at your miserie and calamitie You are the cause that the teares trickle downe from mine eies when I consider howe all the worlde doeth cosin and deceiue you and when I see none that doo take in hande to defende your cause to bee short you make mee die for verie sorrowe seeing you onely beare the burthen of the greatest parte of miseries that haue chaunced to light on this desolate kingdome For although God hath made mee a Gentleman borne and that I see those that are of the same qualitie menaced to haue their part of the same dommage that you suffer yet must I needs pitie you a greate deale more then them for that a great parte of them haue beene so miserable as to helpe to worke their owne mischiefe and procured yours besides by the rebellion which they haue practised against their king they had wit and vnderstanding to know that they did ill and neuertheles suffered thēselues to be blinded through their ambition auarice wherwith their aduersaries verie crastilie serue their turne to draw them to their partie some of them toke money other some contented themselues with vaine promises that they should haue some dignities and honorable charges but those are yet possessed of them whom the king hath thought good to place therein and with these baites and deceitfull persuasions of the mutinous preachers which are nowe infinitely scattered ouer this Monarchie were they induced to offend God to hurt their Prince the libertie of their Countrie their posteritie their particular friendes and by consequent their reputation without the which they are vnworthie of the title of honour that they beare ye poore men did not offend vppon a iollitie as they did but if you haue borne armes for these rebellious persons you haue done it onely following the exāple of your vnaduised superiors who haue made you beleeue that it was the only means to asswage the vehemency of the euil that did afflict you in that you haue done as he who feeling him selfe vexed with anie grieuous disease taketh euerie thing that is proffered him in likenes of a remedie or medicine although it be sometimes verie poison or death it selfe so you thought that they were skilfull Phisitions who knowing your diseases woulde heale them they are but counterfait fellowes that making their profit by your disease seeke to make it incurable to poison it and that this is most true you see that after they haue named the good medicines needefull for you they haue applied other that are cleane contrarie bringing you no ease or comfort at all thereby as they did promise you but so made your woundes to rankle and growe more grieuesome and painefull vnto you dailie My friends it is now high time that you resolue your selues to withstand the tirannous proceedings and pretences of those who haue hetherto deceiued you with faire promises to make you consēt to their establishing your own ruine it is now high time or neuer poore people that ye go about to seeke some remedie for the euil you suffer I can see none more fit for you thē to take armes not with a confusion disorder as some amongst you haue done alreadie but with some good pollicie in vniting your selues together vnder the obedience of your King ioyning vnto you such Gentlemen as you shall find desirous of your good for euen as in extreame diseases it is requisite oftentimes to vse extreame remedies so the oppressions that you feele being too rigorous and violent you must needs disburden your selues of them by a forcible and violent endeauour and this is the reason why I would haue you to take armes according to the order that I shall set downe anone and not to suffer your selues to bee blinded and deluded by the faire promises of the Lorraine Princes and their adherents for they are those counterfait Phisitions that I spake of euen now vnto whom the prolonging of your maladie is profitable In the beginning of their reuolt they made you beleeue by their bookes made for the purpose and by the Sermons of their Apostaticall preachers that they Catholikes had then great need to conclude a league alliance among themselues to ruine the heretikes to preuent the succession of anie heretical Prince after our king leauing out I warrant you nothing that might make to confirme this proposition to make it be liked of al that they could Which proposition is verie good and most

a chiefe ruler and Prelate of the Church but as vnto a wicked and vngodlie subiect an enemy to the common wealth a disturber of publike peace and tranquilitie who had oftentimes attempted agaynst the lyfe and estate of his Soueraigne Prince But if they replie that the Cardinall was not vnder the correction of the King I praie you let vs see what Salomon the sage saith in his booke of Wisedome The marke of a King and soueraigne Prince saith hee is the power to make lawes for all men in generall and for all men in particular also and this power he receiueth of none other but of God who is the iudge of Kings and who maketh informations against them when they doe anie thing amisse with all rigour The Prophet Dauid whom I should haue alleaged first who did not speake but by inspiration of the holy Ghost said that the King and soueraigne Prince hath such authoritie and power ouer his subiectes that hee may dispose their liues and goods at his pleasure and no man to gainsaie him in aniething And Isidore in one of his passages vseth these wordes The kingdome of God saith he draweth nigh by reason of this terrestriall kingdome to the end that those which are of the bodie of the Church if they offend may bee punished by the rigor of Princes and that the discipline to the which the Church cannot binde them be neuerthelesse kept by the power authoritie of Kings and Princes This sheweth that the Cardinall of Guise might be iudged by his King and being as he was guiltie of treason it is not a thing nowe to bee called in question or doubt anie more And yet this is the point wherupon our mutinous Cleargie-men doe ground the reason and equitie of their rebellion and yet they haue small reason God wot for to defend it And that it is most true to proue by all manner of waies that they are guiltie of fellonie I will graunt them against my conscience and the truth that the King hath vniustly caused the Cardinall of Guise to be slain but is it for them then to take vengeance and to prohibit his subiects to shew to him that obedience that they owe to the●r Prince Let them reade what Saint Iohn Chrisostome saith in his booke of the dignitie of Priests The Ministerie of the Church saith hee is a charge committed of God to teach louingly without any taking of armes and not a power to giue or take away kingdomes and to make lawes for ciuil policie And Iesus Christ in his Gospel by Saint Mathew said to his Apostles The Kings of the earth raigne ouer nations but it shall not be so with you And in another place Yee shal be carried before the Princes of this world and before their gouernours c. If then the Apostles and other Saintes chosen of God haue bin subiect to the power and authorities of soueraine Princes as Saint Ambrose affirmeth what are our Cleargie men more at this present daie then they were who would if they could dispossesse their King Who attempt publikely against his authoritie and honour Are they priuiledged of God more then others are Or hath Sathan more power ouer them then he hath ouer others For a truth I beleeue they are not assisted with the holy spirite of God for I cannot thinke that Gods spirit doth inspire them to speake so vnworthilie of him whome his maiestie hath commanded them to obey They call the King tyrant and none ought to be accounted such a one except hee violate the lawes of God and the lawes of nature as they do or else vsurpe the soueraigntie ouer his fellowes and superiours without expresse cōmandement from God as the Duke of Maine doth They say the king is the protector of heretikes and yet cannot proue that euer he refused to warre vpon thē or that he did ayde them in anie of their affaires but they knowe very well and they cannot denie but that he hath oftentimes hazarded his owne life which is deare vnto him against them And that moreouer he hath day by day made edicts and proclamations against them and greatly to their preiudice if they were well put in execution and if as great care were had to make them take effect as they haue to rebell against his Maiestie They say moreouer that the king serueth his owne turne and hath intelligence with heretikes that he seeketh nothing more then to establish their sect in his kingdome yet can they not shew tha this maiestie hath euer made any of them captaine of any of his forts or that he hath any of that side which is a seruant of his housholde or an officer of his crowne nay but say they he serueth his own turne with their forces which ill beseemeth a prince most Christian such a one as hee is and they can wish so full of loyaltie are they that he should cōmit himself to the gard protection of his euill minded subiects who seeke nothing else but his ruine to be short they alledge all things that they thinke might perswade you that the king mindeth nothing els but to plant heresie in all the territories vnder his obedience But to shewe that what they can say are but lies and impostures let them proue the intention of his maiestie if they cannot content themselues with the profes that he hath alreadie made of the feruent zeale that he beareth to the Catholike religion by sending to him some that shall protest for them that they shall reconcile themselues towards him and that they shall obey him as good and loyall subiects ought to doe so that it would please his Maiestie to pardon them and to permit them to warre vpon the heretikes and I assure them if they doe so the king shall receiue them into his fauour with al his heart and shal augment their forces as farre as his authoritie shal be able to further so laudable a purpose and if he do not then shall they haue occasion to blame him worthily But if they refuse this meanes of reconciliation then may all Catholikes that are neare his royal person and all those besides that are his seruants thinke with themselues verie well if they perseuer in their presumptious rebellion no good Catholikes would be offēded though he serued his turn with the heretikes of this realme but cōtrariwise they would wish him to call the Turke to his aide if he thought he might haue any help at his hand See then all the benefit that their reuolt should procure shal serue but to put the heretiks in assurance of their affaires to make them liue in tranquillity by reason of the great diuision that shal be brought in amongst the Catholikes They preach vnto vs as I haue told you that we are quite discharged frō the obedience that we owe vnto our king for that say they he is wicked you must vnderstand that if their false accusations impostures be true as though we were but

boūd vnto him cōditionally that our obligatiōs were limited according to his good wicked life moreouer they stop and take vp cause to be taken vp the taxes tributes due to their king yet we read in S. Mat. 22 that on a time the Pharisies and Herodians seeking to entrappe our Sauiour Iesus Christ went to find him out and vsed these speaches vnto him Maister tell vs is it lawfull to pay tribute vnto Cesar or not Shew me sayeth he the tribute money and they gaue him a peny Then he asked them whose image and superscription is this And they answered him Caesars then quoth he giue vnto Caesar those things which are Caesars vnto God those things which are Gods See then who tels them that they do not well to saise vpon the tribute of the King What are they able to answere him It is Iesus Christ himselfe that speaketh those wordes and yet he of whom hee spoke beleeued not in him Was there euer anietyrant more detestable then Nabuchodonozer who hauing forced the Citie of Ierusalem spoiled wasted and razed the houses and wals thereof burned the temple defiled the sanctuarie of God and more than all this caused an image of golde made after his owne likenes to be erected worshipped vpon paine of being burned aliue to those that would refuse the same yet God called him his seruant promised to make him a greate Prince and gouernour And the Prophet commanded the people to praie for this monster of nature and for his children that they might raigne after him as long as the worlde should stand Let vs proceede and see more particularly what the Apostles and other Saintes doe teach vs concerning the obedience that we owe vnto our Kings and Princes that she may certainly knowe if it be lawfull according to Gods lawes to warre against our King or not or if you ought not notwithstanding your mutinous preachers to keepe inuiolablie the fidelitie that is due vnto him for this is the chiefest point that you ought to know perfitly before you take armes to make choice of the best and surest side for that in arming your selues it most necessarie to choose out some side to ioyne vnto if you couet to hinder these great maisters amongest you from quartering out the estate which they would easily doe if they had no souereigne heade to answere and make account vnto Saint Peter the chiefest heade of the Church after whose example all true ecclesiasticall persons ought to rule themselues did not teach vs that wee ought to measure the faith respect that we owe vnto our king by the equiualence and measure of his loyaltie for when he sawe Nero the verie enemie of God commit a thousand execrable cruelties yet did he cōmand Christians to praie for him and in his first Epistle his second Chapter hee sayeth Submit your selues vnto all maner of ordinance of man for Gods sake whether it bee vnto the King as vnto the superiour or vnto gouernours as vnto them that aresent of him and in the same Chapter sayeth he feare God honour the King and your Superiours That which Saint Paul dooth commaunde vs also vsing these tearmes obey your Kinges although they bee wicked And writing vnto Titus in his third Chapter hee sayth thus Pet them in remembrance that they bee subiect to principalities and superior powers and that they be obedient to their gouernours And to the Romanes the 13. Chap. he saith let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers for their is no power but of god and the powers which are are ordeined of God wherfore he that resisteth the higher power resisteth the ordinance of God they which resist bring vpon themselues damnation for the prince is the minister of God for thy good but if thou dost euil feare for he beareth not the sword in vaine for he is the minister of God to take vēgeance on him that doth euil wherfore ye must be subiect not because of wrath onely but because of conscience also for for this cause ye pay tribute also because they are Gods ministers seruing for the same purpose Giue to all men therefore their due tribute to whom tribute feare to whom feare custome to whom custome honor to whō honor belongeth These are the words of S. Paul vnto whom the preacher agreeth Eccl. cap. 20. saying we must not speake ill of our king nor offend him in any thing Tertullian in the 30. 37. of his booke called the Apologie sheweth vs clearely that true christians ought neuer to think for any occasion whatsoeuer to reuolt rebell against their kings and souereigne princes He saith that the Christians that liued in his time did alwais so faithfully obey their Emperors and pray vnto God for them although they were the professed enemies of Iesus christ that they would not rebell against their maiesties although oftē times it lay in their power to do far surpassing therein the pagans other nations that were in subiection vnder the said Emperours forasmuch as saith this holy man that they did not find this to be lawful by the permissiō of God We pray vnto god saith he for the safe gard prosperitie of our souereigne princes for we know that the imperial maiesty is ordeined of God and that it ought to be loued honoured reuerenced for this cause also do we reuerence the Christian prince whose maiesty is next after Gods from whose hand he hath his authority These words of this holy personage are inough to teach vs as I thinke my deare friends that the euil life of the prince doth no whit discharge the people of their fidelity S. Amb. also did not blame the christiās that did yeeld their due obediēce to Iulian the Apostata he bad thē not although they liued vnder the most disloiall prince of the whole world that they should rebel against him but did pray thē only to do no thing against the honor of God rather to depart the territories of his empire then to suffer their cōsciences to be forced What will our doctors say to this what wil they answer to these words of these holy mē They do not say as you may perceiue that it is lawful for the subiect to attempt against the life authoritie of his prince if he be an euill l●uer but they all command to the cōtrarie that we obey our souereigne princes what soeuer they be that we pray vnto God for thē without any prescribing to our selues the limits of the honor that is due to them and to make it conditionall People of France these words of God of his seruants ought to resolue you to keepe firme footing in the loue feare and fidelity that ye owe vnto your king and moreouer you may see thereby that our Clergie-men other rebels that are leagued together are out of the Church rather then those that they condemne whilest they go cleane against al that god