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A02968	A declaration and protestation, published by the King of Nauarre, the L. Prince of Conde, and the L. Duke of Montmorency, concerning the peace concluded with the house of Lorrayn, the captaines and chiefe aucthors of the league, to the preiudice of the house of Fraunce. Also two letters written by the sayd King of Nauarre. The one to the Parliament, the other to the maisters of Sorbonne. More an epistle written by Phillipp de Morney to the French King: hereunto, for the playner declaration of the innocencie of the sayd princes, are inserted the articles agreed vpon betweene the King and the Lordes of Guyze. All faithfully translated out of French; Déclaration et protestacion du roy de Navarre, de M. le prince de Condé et M. le duc de Montmorency sur la paix faicte avec ceux de la maison de Lorraine. English.	Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.; Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623, attributed name.; Aggas, Edward, attributed name.; Condé, Henri I de Bourbon, prince de, 1552-1588.; Montmorency, Henri, duc de, 1534-1614.; Navarre (Kingdom). Sovereign (1572-1610 : Henry III) aut	1585 (1585)	STC 13109; ESTC S117933	30,651	88

right against my aduers●ries and I beseech him my Maisters to haue you in his holy protection From Mont de Marsan this 11. of October 1585. Your affectionate and assured frend Henry An Epistle to the King SIr great Captaines Kings and Emperours in olde time sought to take their surnames of those Countries that they cōquered And so came the surnames of African Asian c. Your predecessors who wanted no conquestes wherby to bee famous among the posteritie chose for them selues and you and left as an inheritance the surname Most Christian therein seeking to declare to al men that the true honour of man consisteth in being truely Christian and the very triūph of Princes whom God hath established ouer man resteth in the defence and aduancement of Christian religion Wherevpon I agree with those that say that your Maiesties scope should tend to revnite the Church a worke meet for you a labour incident to your Diademe yea such a labour as you ought to haue in no lesse ielousie then your estate But it may be that in the meanes we may somewhat differ wherein your Maiesties iudgement ouer-ruling both you are to choose the most expedient They propound the restoring of the Church to her perfection by armes but who can better iudge of the vnprofitablenesse of armes in matter of Religion then your Maiestie who hauing so fortunatly vsed thē against those whom by al meanes they endeuour to ouerthrowe could neuerthelesse in the end reape no other profit thereby then to learne that the happiest successe auaileth not against the conscience Also that weapons haue no more force ouer the soule then the Surgeans Raser ouer the mans vnderstanding and affections that guideth it The remedies ought to haue an Analogie and proportion correspondent to the mischiefes and diseases Feare naturally ouercommeth the body sound mastereth the eare and reason ruleth the soule bnt to vse force against the soule it worketh as smale effect as reason ouer the eare or sound ouer the masse of a mans body Armes therfore are a meanes not to revnite the Church but to subuert the state of the Realme not to instruct or conuert but to subuert destroy and as nothing in this world can breede mischief but it must also feele part thereof so the destruction of the one side will cost the ouerthrow of the other The ruine and rooting out of those of the religion howe easy so euer it be accompted wil proue to be the confusion and desolation of the whole Estate These great Catholickes that haue endeuoured to compell you to force your subiects who with open force haue required your Maiestie by force to reduce your subiects into the Romish Church I would fayne learne what they hope for whether more power of better successe then your Maiestie They commaunded ouer your armies armed with your will depending vpon your aucthoritie guyded with your good hap and fauoured with your owne presence and your presence I accompt a great parte of the strength of a mightie armie If your will bee not present as vndoubtedly it can not bee who seeth not those willes that depend therof very cold and quailing But especially sith your person can not bee safe among their armies who doth not euidently see that the gre●● body of this armie how grose or strong soeuer will shortly shrincke asunder by peecemeale in that it is not holden together with any respect of your Maiestie or kept in awe with your presence The child naturally beareth at the fathers handes and how good soeuer his cause be is neuerthelesse content to shunne the stripes to hold his hand before him or to get out of the way vntill the choller bee ouer In the seruaunt or straunger he shall finde as much stomacke and force as may counteruaile all reuerence yea sometime indignation wil double and that is it which naturally is to be expected of a Prince the first of your blood whom seruaunts and straungers doe endeuour to exclude out of your famelie with a million of your naturall Subiectes brought vp vnder your wing and vnder the clemencie of your commaundements whom I say the straūgers would make you roote out and driue to seeke forraine Countries Whereof to be brief such a dispaire may spring as may teach great indignities and indignations and so consequently the most extreame Counsailes that dispayre can conceiue or bring forth In olde time the lawes condemned in great fines such Carpenters as to drawe a man to enterprize a building deceiptfully perswaded him that the charges would be but small and yet that tended to building the greatest commoditie whereof redounded to the benefite of the Maister of the house and to the ornament of the Common wealth What paine then may be sufficient for those who to the ende to stirre vp your Maiestie to the destruction of your Realme are not ashamed to auow the enterprize to be very easie An enterprize whereof the losse will redounde to you the miserie to vs and the benefite to themselues Let vs therefore here speake of reuniting not of subuerting The mischiefes now in question are auncient and our elders knewe the remedies for the same which remedies are the safest so as we shal not neede these practitioners corosiues that haue replenished all Fraunce with murders mournings funeralles and lamentations and yet the disease they crye out of and the deuision that they complaine of is now in worse case then eue● before Dissentions in Religion molested the Primitiue Church sundry heresies were fostered among the people yea euen Emperours the defenders the Church were infected with them The histories of such are plentifull The Fathers found that heresie was an opinion that al opinion consisted in the head and that it was a false Image of reason which could not be defased or rased out but with the presence of reason it selfe They did therefore gather Counsayles they called a sufficient number of people out of all places euery one quietly propounded his opinion in the ende opinion gaue place to knowledge likelihoode to trueth and Sophistrie to reason Let vs not thinke Christian Religion so darck but that trueth may be found out where a Counsaile hath her assured principles stedfast maximees inuiolable consequences 〈…〉 reason her self which if it be sufficiēnt to decide the difficulties in lawes can well determine those in deuinitie and that the better because it is the lawe of one GOD which admitteth no contrarieties neither can beare any Antinomy but mans lawes doe often suffer either the inequalitie of the Lawmakers among themselues or of one onely To be briefe it is a manifest iniurie to this law which is called the true light to beleue that it can not light or leade men yea which is worse to perswade that without fire it can not shine that such as they pretend to be darkenesse must be burned rather then produced into the daylight either to take this light from vnder the Tubbe Some will shewe you that there shall

he reuiued the publication of his Edict of pacification throughout all partes of his Realme as a testimony to al but chiefly to those of the Religion that hee in no wise ment to encline to the demaunds of these men but did rather condemne them for that they sought to abolish the sayde Religion by force of armes his Maiestie knowing that to be no meet or lawfull meane as also by sundry letters he assured the King of Nauarre that he would do nothing preiudiciall either to the sayed Edict or him whose cause he acknowledged to be his owne All the premisses notwithstanding it so fell out that vpon a sudden a peace was concluded with those of this famely and league wherof proceeded an Edict wherby the former Edict of pacification so deliberatly confirmed so solemnly sworne vnto by their Maiesties the Princes of his blood all the Courtes of Parliament and the chiefe Lords officers of the crowne which also had bene so freshly reiterated and again confirmed was now vtterly reuoked all exercise of religion vnder paine of death prohibited all professors thereof condemned within the tearme of sixe months to depart the realme the townes for assurance which likewise of his owne accord and for diuers considerations concerning the welth and quiet of his estate he had proroged to those of the said religion they should now speedely habādon to the ende to buy peace at the hands of the sayed Rebels traitors so proclaymed and acknowledged by his Maiestie with the hinderance of his neerest kinsemen and which is worse the weapons committed to the hands of those men to the end to put the same in execution a matter vtterly repugnant to all lawes which doe meerly forbid the execution of any decree to be committed to the aduerse partie nay more that he shal not assist thereat notwithstanding it were to maintaine the execution of Iustice Hereupon therefore doth the King of Nauarre desire all good Frenche men in France to consider what cause he hath to to lament In their publike protestations the conspirators opposed themselues directly against him and yet he to the ende to satisfie the Kings minde and to auoyde all occasion of the peoples oppression remained peaceable and neuer would arme himselfe although he see them in armes round about him He see the Kings mind enclined to peace and that euil and ruine which they openly procured him might haue mooued him by all meanes to crosse them yet for the benefite of the realme he offered to the king some entrie to quietnesse by the declaration which expressely he published yea such as he trusteth all Christiandome will allowe of and the veriest barbarous nation would haue aceapted of They spake of the rooting out of heresie and the Christian authors fought against it with generall Counsels he submitted himselfe to a counsayle and declared himselfe to be ready to be enstructed therby and to yeeld thereto They craued reformation and alteration in some matters of estate such controuersies and differents are by the auncient statutes of the land to bee determined by the generall estates to the assembly whereof whensoeuer it should please the King to summon them hee offered to referre and submit himselfe They requested that the King of Nauarre and the professors of the Religion should immediatly habandon and depart the Townes of assurance notwithstanding the Kings prorogation of the tenour of the same to them graunted for the eschuing of al mistrust he offered without delay to yeeld thē yea which is more to dispossesse himselfe and to render into the Kings handes both he and the Lorde Prince of Conde al gouernments that they holde within this Realme conditionally that the others might doe the like notwithstanding such inequalitie as all men may easely perceiue for it is not meete to make straungers equall with the houshold children Moreouer if there were any further controuersie the decision whereof might touch or any way concerne him for the exempting of the King whose person would be too deare a price to this Realm from all daunger and care therof the sayd King of Nauarre besought his Maiestie not to mislike the determining of any such quarrell either by his power against theirs either els for the preuenting of publicke calamitie by his person against the Duke of Guyze or by more to more as he should think good within the realm or without in whatsoeuer place of free accesse adding moreouer that if his Maiestie could conceiue any more conueniēt remedie for the pacifying of the estate of the Realme the sayed King of Nauarre woulde gladly yeelde thereto and not to spare his life therein most humbly withal beseeching his Maiestie so farre to honor him as to let him vnderstande the same Howbeit nothing respecting all these his so reasonable offers thei haue in the mean time proceeded to a treaty of peace to the great preiudice of the estate and house of Fraunce yea of the King himselfe A peace to speake indifferently vnwoorthy any such title as beeing to bee rather accompted a summons of warre yea vnlesse God of his great mercie doe preuent it such a warre as will be an entry into the ruine and subuertion of the whole estate A peace made with straūgers for the rooting out of the home borne childrē with Traytors for the spoyle of the obedient Subiects with conspirators to the end to commit to their hands the sworde against himselfe to abuse at their pleasures A peace that hath not so much as the tast of any thing appertayning to peace A black peace A wofull and funerall peace and of an vnfortunate aspect A peace which the King signed not but with a quaking and shiuering hand A peace whereto the Princes of his bloud and Peers of this Realm yea the most Catholicke haue refused to sweare as being the decree of their deaths and the small ouerthrowe of the estate which moreouer procureth no comforte either to the Countrey or Townes but hath filled all the good Frenchmen of this Realme with horror and reioyced onely those that nourish them selues and feede vpō their deaths A peace to say the troth which the sayd Lord King of Nauarre acknowledgeth not to be imputed vnto the King a courteous and iust Prince from whose nature the same is too odious neither to the Queene his mother who in al her indeuours haue sought no other but the tranquilitie of the Realme but partly to the dastardlinesse of some of the Kings Counsayle and partly to the trecherie of other some who are either seruants or of kindred and alliaunce with those of this league who also as it is sufficiently knowen in the beginning lessened and deminished the mischiefe propounding it vnto him to be easely appeased least he should haue prouided remedies necessary there against But afterward euen at once when they see the power of the league waxe great did so enlarge it to his view that he was easely perswaded that himselfe might soone be by

bene brought vp in a Religion which I think holy and true neither need there any testimonie whether in hart I do professe the same For otherwise I could haue eschued so many mischiefes as I haue beene forced to suffer wherein naturally man can cōceiue no great delight I could otherwise also haue purchased the Kings fauour and loue of his people which next after Gods fauour I accompt most profitable and requisite for me The case being such it is ouer hard and so I suppose your selues will thinke to desire that without any other forme or order I should forsake my Religion force both my conscience and soule yea if I should bee so wretched as in such sort to offend your selues might iustly mistrust me in all other matters Me that shoulde sayle in that which in the iudgement of my owne soule I thinke to be my duetie to God a matter that reasonably none can require at my hands This is it that as I thinke I haue voluntarily offered and which daylie I doe still offer Namely to bee instructed in a free lawfull Counsell wherein the controuersies of religion may be thorowly dobated and decided so to yeeld to whatsoeuer shall be determined A way as your selues are not ignorant at all times practised in the Church in like cases and that by the wisest Kings and Emperours in the world A way whereunto you my Maisters haue often counsayled the Kings predecessors and whereby you haue alwaies bene able to maintaine the priuiledges and rightes of the French Church against many vsurpations To bee briefe such a waye as the Church in her greatest force neuer refused for reducing into her bosome euen meane persons yea sometimes one man onely And therfore much lesse ought she now to reiect or flee from the same now I say when it standeth vpon millions of soules vpon whole Tounes and large Prouinces vpon an infinite number of qualified persons euen of the chiefe Princes of the blood neerest to the Crowne who can not easely bee forced neither rooted out without subuertion of the estate and yet being by reason perswaded to chaunge may be a cause of firme peace in this land of a stedfast revniō of y e Catholick church with the foreiudgement of their persons and of a more happy worlde not to this Realme only which were an inestimable gayne but also to all Christendome and Europe which necessarily must haue some feeling of the miseries and calamities of so puissant an estate This my Maisters is the offer that I haue made to the King my Lord which now I doe repeate vnto you and whereof I call you to witnesse among all to whom it may appertaine to the end it may be manifest both to those that now liue and to the posteritie that I was not the cause of disquiet in this estate either any hinderance that the Church was not reduced into her former vnion peace and tranquilitie Where as it is obiected against me that I am an hereticke you are to shewe vnto the world of you haue I learned it that there is great difference betwixt heresie and error That al that hold an heresie are not neuerthelesse heretickes That heretickes are they who doe proceede either vpon ambition or obstinacie wherof neither can haue place in me whom no man euer went about to teach and whom contrariwise they haue by all meanes endeuoured to cast of alleadging no other reason then a strong ambition Besides that I haue renounced the large path to that greatnesse that by the Catholicke Romish Religion lay open vnto me and haue taken the contrary way viz. the way of persecution and contempt constantly perseuering in that which vsually is called and I doe accompt reformed But admit it were so It is against error and heresie that the Church calleth Cōsailes and consultations are houlden to cure the diseased the Surgeon vseth neither Iron nor fire but where his plaisters are to weake It it an euident argument of passion when they begin conuersion with subuersion and instruction with destruction With rooting out and Warre when they should begin with brotherly admonition and gentlenesse Neither is is enough to alledge the holding of the Counsaile of Trent wherein was condemned the religion which I professe and they tearme Heresie you all my my Masters doe knowe what maner of Counsaile that was neither did you euer allowe thereof yea there against haue the whole Estate Cleargie and Parliaments of this Realme often protested You knowe also that in case it had beene lawfully called and holden yet had that bene no preiudice to the summoning of an other Especially sith it concerneth the saluation and reestablishment of such persons and so great an estate Cōtrariwise I am giuen to vnderstand that in the generall Counsaile holden at Basill it was ordeined that from ten yere to ten yere there should be a Counsaile holden to the ende to cut off such errors as might spring in the church Much more needfull then were it for the rooting out such as alreadie are growne vp Iudge now therfore my Maisters which of vs is in the right whether of vs in this case is most to bee respected either who propoūdeth the meetest remedie for this estate The straūger craueth that the home borne childe bee cast out vnder colour of heresie Euen the straūger who long haue practised to haue his roome Mee truely notwithstāding farre vnequall with them vpon whose behauiours they can take no hold I neither haue nor doe desire but to haue my cause heard by a Counsaile to be taught the best way to doe better if I be better instructed Which then will you iudge most right either what neede the whole Realme to bee kindled herewith For who doubteth whether you will sooner choose either ciuill Warre or a Counsaile either the subuertion of the one half of this estate by the other or rather the reunion of both partes of this Realme into one which vndoubtedly wil be of great consequence to all Christiandome Now therfore I doe finally declare vnto you that I craue and am ready to yeeld to a Counsaile that I am readie to hearkē to the Church therein And therefore can you not accompt me either an Ethnicke or Publicane I doe moreouer giue you to 〈◊〉 that in default of a generall Counsalle for the pacifying of matters I do not refuse a nationall which often hath bene practised in this Realme yea and that by your owne counsaile and consent But if notwithstanding any these my offers and request they doe contrary to all order of the Church proceed by banishmēts murders and other rigorous barbarousnesse I am resolued to oppose my selfe in my iust defence against such horrible banishments and violences And the curse be vpon those that doe trouble this estate vnder the false pretence of the Church You therefore doe I call to witnesse of the reasonable conditions whereto I submit my selfe Also God for my defender who is able to debate my