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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

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