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A02951	A declaration set forth by the Frenche kinge, shewing his pleasure concerning the new troubles in his realme. Translated out of French into English by E.A.	France. Sovereign (1574-1589 : Henry III); Aggas, Edward.; Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589.	1585 (1585)	STC 13092; ESTC S119791	14,687	34

of townes exempt frō garrisons and the poore townes eased of subsidies and impositions that it now beareth His maiestie therefore warneth and exhorteth his subiectes in this case to look about them and not to perswade themselues that this war can be finished so soone and easily as is giuē out but rather to weigh and déepely to consider the euent and ineuitable consequence thereof and not to suffer their reputations to be stained their weapons to seeme as an instrument to the destruction of their countrie and to the increase of the power of the enimies fherof who onely wil triumph and reape benefite by the miseries calamities of the same For while we blinded in our own benefit shall warre one vpon another and be succoured in outward appearance but in effect fed on by their assistaunce they shall raigne prosperously and establish their power They complaine also of the diuision of the offices and houses of this said realme saying that such are put from them as haue better deserued of the estate and his Maiesties seruice A weak foundation and of no great honor to build the ruine and saluation of so florishing a realme whose kings were neuer bound to vse the seruice of one more then of an other For there is no law that bindeth him therto except as the benefite of his seruice requireth Neuerthelesse his said Maiestie hath at all times greatly honored and cherished the princes of his bloud as much as any of his predecessors and hath shewē a will to preferre others into credit honor and reputation by vsing their seruice for so oft as his said Maiestie hath leuied any power or army he hath stil by preferring them committed the charge and cōduct of the same vnto thē and if we do cōsider who at this present haue the greatest and most honorable roomes in the realme we shal find that they ar said to be the authors of such cōplaints haue cause rather to commend his maiesties goodnesse and fauor then any way to complaine depart frō him But say they they haue but the name and in effecte are depriued of the prerogatiues depending vpon their saide offices which other men do vsurpe Before we iudge of the merite of such complainant it were good to sée déepely to looke into the rightes and preheminences to euery office attributed and then to consider how and by whome they haue bene administred in the time of the kinges predecessors A matter which his Maiesty hath often propounded when he hath endeuored to set order in euery mans office and had long since bene determined and decided if those that haue interest therein had accordinge to their dueties aided and assisted him as they ought But shal it therefore be now saide and so left to the posterity that priuate interests and discontentations should be the cause of troubling a whole estate and replenishing the same with bloud and desolation This is not the way that should bee taken in séeking to redresse those abuses which they complaine of sith they haue to do with so mercifull a Prince who still would preuente the inconuenience and willingly would accept of all méete and cōuenient remedies which may be offered to him for the redresse of the same Let therfore the weapons be laide downe forrein power countermanded this Realme deliuered out of that daunger which now it is like to incur by this rising taking of armes and in lieu of proceeding in this way which is full of stumblinge blockes miseries and both priuate and publike calamities let the path of reason duely be sought out vndertaken followed whereby Gods holy Church the enemy of all violence may more easily be restored to her power and beauty and the Nobility satisfyed and contented as it ought to be For which of the kings his Maiesties predecessors haue in effect shewed any token of more loue or cherishing the order thereof then his Maiesty hath done as not being contented with preferring it before the aunciente and principall honors and degrées of this realme but hath expresly erected and made others new which he hath consecrated to the illustration of true nobility as hauing excluded and depriued all other estates from the same His Maiesty will also effectually prouide with al speede for the ease of his people like as he hath already very well begon and wisheth to his power to continue Moreouer notwithstanding the Captaines of this warre do promise that their power and forces shall liue so orderlye that all men shall like thereof and withall that they exhorte the cities and towns not to admit any garrisons yet doe wee sée that the souldiours when they haue gathered together do already commit infinite oppressions and excesse also that they haue placed forces in those townes and holdes which they haue seised vpon to the end to rule and keepe them in their obedience Besides al this it is euident that many vagabonds idle persons will as hath bene accustomed rise vnder the name coulor of either part who will commit infinite sacrileges and mischiefes In such sort that in lieu of stopping the daunger which threatneth the destruction of Gods seruice and all good men as by this warre they do promise it will replenish the whole realme withall impiety and vngodlines They doe also geue out that their liues are in daunger and that that is one of the causes that moueth them to rise No man can thinke that this complaint any whit concerneth hys Maiesty aswell in respecte of the good and fauorable vsage that at all times they haue receiued at his hāds as also in that his said Maiesty is naturally so farre frō all sort of reueng that the person is yet vnborne that can iustly complaine of him for the same notwithstanding whatsoeuer offence against him committed wheras contrarywise there are many that hauing proued his clemency may serue for a perpetuall remembrance to the posterity In consideration her of his said Maiesty desireth and exhorteth the Captaines of the sayd risings spéedely to disperse their bandes countermaund the straungers and depart from al factions and as his kinsmen and seruants to repose assured confidence in his loue and good will which in so doing he offereth to continue vnto them by honoring them with his fauour and making thē partakers of such honours as he is accustomed to bestow vpon men of theyr calling to ioyne and revnite themselues vnto him to the ende duely and effectually to prouide for the restoring of Gods seruice and the common wealth of his said subiectes in suche order as shal be thought méete and cōuenient whereto his Maiesty is willing to herken He also warneth all Ecclesiasticall persons and gentlemen his subiectes wel to weigh the consequence of these stirres sincerely to embrace his entent and to beleue that his minde alwayes hath and still shall tend to do good to all and harme and displeasure to none He doth therfore most straightly command them and all other his subiectes to depart and withdraw themselues from all leagues assotiations and to revnite themselues vnto him as nature duety and their owne wealth and health doth bind them to the ende that if these commotions do procede any farther which he beseecheth the goodnesse of allmighty God not to permit he may haue assistaunce and succor in their counsaile weapons and commodities to the preseruation of the Realme wherevnto is linked the Catholike Apostolike Romish Church therein their honor reputation persons famelies and goods Offering and promisinge vnto them in so doing the continuance of his fauor with recōpence for their fidelity and seruice And vnderneath Giuen at Paris in the moneth of Aprill 1585. Signed HENRY And vnderneath De Neu-fuille

war they were forced to be at for preseruing them selues from being surprised The Citizen depriued of his owne and wandring ouer the countrey with his familie is by meanes of the said peace reentred into his possessions The Marchant likewise hath againe begunne his trade of trafficke which by the saide troubles was wholy interrupted The poore husbandmā groning vnder the weight of the supportable burden a rising of the vnbridled licence of the souldier hath meanes to breath haue recourse to his ordinarie labor for the sustentation of his poore life To be briefe there is no estate or person but doth effectually participate in the benefits of the saide pacification Moreouer as his Maiestie hath alwaies béene most ielous of the honor of God carefull for the common wealth of his said subiects as much as in a Prince most Christian truly good can by acknowledging all euils and calamities of any estate to arise principally throgh want and default of true godlinesse and iustice hath since the said peace continually labored to raise vp two pillers which the violence of the saide troubles had almost subuerted and laide along For the compassing whereof he hath begunne by naming méet capable persons such as the holy decrees do appoint to ecclesiasticall promotions hauing charge of soules He hath also by his owne example inuited his subiects to reformation of their manners and to haue recourse to the grace mercy of God through prayer and austeritie of life which haue confirmed the Catholikes in the duetie to his deuine Maiestie and moued some of those that were seperated from Gods Church to reconsiliation to the same He hath likewise entended greatly to giue eare to the declaration and complaintes of the Clergie giuing them libertie to assemble them selues to that effect and hauing largely fauorably prouided for them hath rather discharged then ouercharged them with extraordinarie tenthes without respect to the necessitie of his owne affaires notwithstanding whatsoeuer is published to the contrarie and is sorie that hee can not likewise relieue them of the payment of their ordinarie because he found them at his comming to the crowne morgaged for the payment of the rents of the towne of Paris The said Prelates and Clergie haue also through his said Maiesties permission had oportunity to call hold their prouincial Councels whereby they haue consulted prouided for the reformation of abuses brought into the Church during the saide troubles made good and holy rules to the welth of the same which his saide Maiestie hath confirmed and authorized These are the fruites and common and generall commodities which Gods Church the Catholike Apostoliike Romish religion haue reaped of the said pacification besides infinite other priuate perticuler benefits which would be too long to rehearse Concerning iustice euery man knoweth what paines his said Maiestie hath taken to withdraw the same out of darknesse wherein the troubles had plunged to the end to restore the light thereof to his former force and auncient brightnesse hauing by death suppressed all superfluous offices and withall prohibited and ceased the sale of the said offices which the want of money had forced his predecessors to bring in nothing regarding his owne neede which is nothing inferiour to his predecessors Besides all this his Maiestie hath excluded all remissions and euocations which aforetune were dispatched of his proper motion in consideration that he perceaueth how great hope to attaine the same did autorize euil deedes and the small difficultie that was made in graunting others did bring confusion into Iustice Moreouer since the said pacification he hath had opportunitie to send into sundry prouinces of his realme sundry chambers composed of officers of the parliament of Paris to minister iustice vnto his said subiectes euen in the saide place whereof is growne such fruit as all men haue tasted which yet would increase to the contentation of the good if his good meaning had bene better assisted by those who naturally and by especiall bond of their vocations were bound thereto But as the iniquitie of the time hath emboldened some to burden his Maiestie with other mens faultes and that corruption malice are so replenished with boldnes and impudencie that many haue euen taken pleasure in defacing his most holy best actions wherby to cause his subiectes to mislike of them and so to get to them selues their good wils with the expense of his reputation yea so farre as sometimes to dare enterprete the most commendable zeale that he hath had to cause the decrees and sentences of the said chambers against euil doers to be executed vnto ouer great rigor and seueritie His said Maiestie had therfore begun by the meanes aforesaid to prouide for the erecting of these two true pillers the onely foundations preseruation of euery Monarchy and had conceaued some assurance wholy to set them vp restore them to their perfection through the cōtinuation of the peace if it had pleased God to haue giuen his grace to make his realme subiectes worthy therof This also it séemeth those men which séeke to moue the subiects to take armes and yet vnder coulor of prouiding for both the one and the other did as soone feare as foresée They do also giue out that they take armes to the end to withstād the troubles which they say they feare should happē after his Maiesties decease in the establishing of a Royall successor to the disaduantage of the said Catholique Apostolique and Romish religion Being perswaded or at the least so giuing forth that his said Maiestie or they that are about him do fauor the pretences of those that haue shewed themselues persecuters of the said religion A matter whereof his Maiestie desireth and warneth his subiects to beléeue that hee neuer thought as being thanks be to God in the flower and strength of his age and likewise the Queene his wife and so hopeth that God will graunt them issue to the generall contentation of his good and loyal subiects besides it séemeth to him that they séeke to force both nature and time and withall doe to much mistrust the fauour and goodnes of God the health and life of his Maiesty and the faithfulnes of the said Ladie Quéene his wife in motioning at this time any such question but much more in prosecuting the decision therof by force of armes For in liew of warranting and deliuering y● realme for the mischiefe which they say they feare will one day ensue hereof the entry into warre presently for that cause is properly as much as to hasten the griefes of the same as being assured shortly to replenish the realme with forraine power partialities and innumerable discords besides bloud murther and infinite robberies oppressions Here may you sée how the Catholike religiō shall be restored the Clergie discharged of their tenthes the Gentlemen liue quietly and safe in his house and enioy his rightes prerogatiues the Citizens inhabitants