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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00921	A Briefe request or declaracion presented vnto madame the Duchesse of Parme &c. regente of the Lowe Countrie of Flaunders, by the lordes and nobilitie of the same countrie with the answere and replie, and other writynges / Englished by W.F.	Margaret, of Austria, Duchess of Parma, 1522-1586.; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598.; W. F.	1566 (1566)	STC 11028; ESTC S2125	10,606	32

Ianuary 1565. Stilo curi ¶ The Proposicion made by Mounsire de Brederode to Madame the Duchesse before he presented the declaracion MAdame the gentlemen assembled in this toune and others of like qualitie in compitente nōber who for certain respectes are not here present haue staied for the seruice of the kyng and the publike weale of this lowe Countrie to present vnto your highnesse with all humilitie this declaracion vpon the whiche it shal please you to geue soche order as shalbée thought conuenient humbly besechyng your highnesse to take it in good parte And further Madam we are aduertised to haue been charged before your highnesse before the lordes of the Councell and others that this our deliberacion hath chiefly béen made for to raise vp tumultes vprores sedicions and whiche is more abhominable thei haue charged vs that we would chaunge our Prince ●auyng practises leagues and conspiracies with Princes Capttaines straungers aswell Frenchemen Almaines as others whiche thyng we neuer thought ●pon and is altogether contrary to our loyaltie and to that whiche your highnes shall finde by this declaracion besechyng neuerthelesse your highnesse to name and discouer vnto vs theim that haue so vniustly blamed so noble and honourable a company Moreouer Madame the Lordes here present haue vnderstandyng that there is some emongest them who perticularly are accused and charged to haue taken in hande and gone about to bryng to effecte the forsaied wicked enterprise aswell with Frenchmen as other straūgers whereat we feele our selues greatly greued And therefore humbly besech your highnesse and fauor as to name the accusars and accused to the ende that the wronge and mischief beyng discouered your highnesse maie make brief and manifest Iustice and by that meanes suppresse the euilles and slaunders whiche might come vpon it beyng well assured that your highnes will neuer suffer that soche a noble and honourable company should remaine charged with so greate infamies and wicked actes ¶ The request of the Nobilitie of the lowe Countrie presented to Madame the Duchesse of Parme and Plaisance c. MAdame it is well enough knowē that throughout all Christēdome hath alwaies been greatlie renowmed as it is yet at this presente the greate fidelitie of the people of this lowe Countrie to wardes their lordes and naturall Princes wherin the nobilitie hath alwaies kept the chief rācke as thesame whiche hath neuer spared neither bodie nor goodes for the conseruacion and encrease of the greatnesse of theim In the whiche we the moste humble subiectes of his maiestie will alwaies continue from good to better so that bothe daie night we kepe our selues redie for to doe hym most humble seruice bothe with our bodies and goodes and seyng in what case the affaires are at this presente haue thought beste to charge our selues with some ill will then to keepe secrete from your highnesse thynges whiche might hereafter tourne to the preiudice of his maiestie and forthwith altogether trouble the rest and tranquilitie of this countrie Trustyng that theffecte will appere in tyme that emongeste all the seruices which we might haue doen or hereafter maie do to his maiestie this same ought to be accompted emongest the moste notable and to best purpose whereby wée assuredly perswade our selues that your highnes can not take it but in very good part Although then Madame that wee doubte not but that all that whiche his maiestie hath heretofore and also nowe presently of newe doeth constitute touchyng the Inquisicion and straite obseruacion of the Placardes for the state of religion hath had some foundacion and iuste title to wit to continue that which the Emperor Charles of most high memorie decessed had established for a good intente Neuerthelesse consideryng that the difference of one time from an other bryngeth immediatly with it diuersitie of remedies and that now of late within these fewe yeres thesaied Placarde notwithstandyng that thei were not executed with all rigour haue neuerthelesse giuen occasiō to many greuous incōueniences Certainly the last resolucion of his maiestie by the whiche he forbad not onely that thesaid Placardes should not be mitigated but also plainly commaūded that the Inquision should bee obserued and the Placardes executed with all rigour doeth geue vs sufficient iuste occasion to feare that therby not onely the saied inconueniences should greatly encrease but also that in th ende should folowe a commotion and generall sediciō tendyng to the miserable ruine of the whole countrie accordyng as the manifest tokens of the alteracion of the people whiche nowe appeareth on euery side doeth geue vs plainly to vnderstande Wherfore knowyng the euidencie greatnesse of the daunger whiche doeth threaten vs haue hitherto hoped that either by the lordes or by thestates of the countrée declaracion should be made in conueniēt time vnto your highnes to thend to remedie it by taking awaie the cause originall of the euill but since hauyng séen that thei haue not executed it for some occasiō to vs vnknowen and that in the meane while the euill encreaseth daily in somoche that the danger of sedicion generall rebelliō is euen at hand we haue thought it good folowing the othe of fidelitie homage together with the good will that we beare to his maiestie and the Countrie not to tary and longer but rather to set forthe our selues with the firste to do the duetie required and so moche the more boldly because wee haue more occasion to trust that his maiestie will take our aduertisement in very good part seyng that the matter toucheth be nerer then it doeth any other seyng that wee are in more daunger of the inconueniences and calamities whiche customably come of soche like accidētes hauing for the moste part our houses and goodes scituate in the fieldes and readie to be a praie to euery man consideryng also generally that folowyng the rigour of the saied Placardes as his maiestie hath expresly cōmaunded to procede there shall not bee emongest vs any man no nor in the whole countrie on this side of what estate or condiciō soeuer he be that shall not bee founde giltie of the confiscation and forfeicture of his bodie and goodes and subiecte to the reproche of the firste enemie who to haue parte of the confiscation will accuse hym vnder colour of the Placardes not hauyng any other thyng left hym for refuge but onely the dissimulacion of the officer into whose mercie his life goodes are wholly put In consideracion whereof wee haue so moche the more occasion moste humbly to beseche your highnes as in deede we beseche you by this present requeste for to geue good order herein And for the importaunce of the matter to sende as spedely as maie bee an expresse and fitte manne to his maiestie to aduertise hym and beseche hym moste humbly on our behalfe that it would please hym to prouide as well for the tyme present as the tyme to come And forasmoche as the same can not be doen suffryng thesaied