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A68221	Antisixtus An oration of Pope Sixtus the fift, vppon the death of the late French King, Henrie the third. With a confutation vpon the sayd oration, wherein all the treacherous practises of the house of Lorraine, are largely described and layde open vnto the view of the world, with a briefe declaration of the kings death, and of many other things worthy the noting, which neuer yet came to light before. Translated out of Latin by A.P.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.	1590 (1590)	STC 14002; ESTC S114241	39,544	58

dayly increases of tallages and tributes and that the people were altogether vnable longer to endure this beauie burthen Besides nothing Something by the way as concerning religion and Heretikes For vndoubtly they would not that so many ennemies should be raysed vp at once thinking that the king had drawen hatred and enuie enough vppon his head by the gouernement of his realine and that therefore they had sufficient matter and occasion of warre It is most euident truly through the priuate grudge which they did beare vnto their king the Duke Espernon that some small and casuall trisles of anger haue beene the first cause of these last troubles In reuenge whereof so many dead bodyes so many murthers and finally the death of the king himselfe and the ruine of the whole Realine haue all scarce suffised But warned by a Spaniard who milli●●ed the order of making the accounts of the Realine as also by thée Sixtus that looked for no benefite to fall vnto thy share by this warres but by the ouerthrowe of the Heretikes they chaunge their Ensignos and proclayme open warre against those of the reformed Religion Héereuppon presently the Pope sent his thunderboltes whereby he excluded the king of Nauarre at this present ruling in Fraunce and the Prince of Cond● vnheard innocent and thinking nothing such from his Apostolicke blessing but hereby may easely appeare that God and none of the Apostles were present at the rash iudgement of the cause They nowe hauing turned their long spake nothing more of the king or his gouernement but only in his singular cōmendation Extolled the prime of his age admonished him of his former valour and prowesse and with exquisite wordes shewed that the memorie of so many victories wherewith he had so ostentimes repressed abated the courage of the Heretiks was yet recont fresh That his time of rest was not yet come and that vnto such a valiaunt and strong Prince the victory of the battaile and the slaughter of a whole nation belonged Moreouer they laide before his eies his 〈◊〉 and want of children and their miseries wherin they were like to fall if after the desease of such a most Christian king with dissembling wise they saide that they greatly seared they should be forced to submitt themselves vnder the yoke and bondage of an hereticke Finally desired his Maiesty that it woulde please him to appoint Charles of Borbon Cardinal being weakned with age and sicke●●●● haste vnto the Crown reiecting Nauarre And breaking the alliance and treaty of peace with the hereticks should take armes against them which if he liked would perform they neuer would refuse any due obedience vnto him their lawful prince Showed besides that they had their swordes ready and sufficient wealth and aide wherewith they might not onely reuenge themselues ●ppon the Heretickes but also vpon their fauourers The duke of Guise hauing spoken thus not farrying if the King would further determine hereupon hauing gathered forced for to assault those of the reformed religion made them indeede to march agaynst the King himselfe dispossessed him partly by force and partly by pollicy frō such Citties as hée could where the name of Luther or Caluin had neuer béen hearde robbed their treasure imposed new tributes vpon them and finally where no ennemy was exercised all hostshty and eruchresse The king in the meane time destitute of courage and good counsel rather then of force distristed himselfe for his corupted friends told him wonders of the Ginses power and army and feared him that the catholikes should but once heare the name of Hereticks they would presently all retire and goe backe from him That he should linger therefore a while vntill he had hearde the counsell of his néerest friendes who with all spéede if néede required would soone prouide all necessaries for the warre and ouercom by the coūsell of his mother who alwaies had fauoured the contrarie side and fraighted by the Iesuites vaine superstitions was not brought but drawen therevnto And so the articles of peace were agreed vpon and concluded betweene him and the duke of Guyse and warre intended against those of the reformed religion vnto whom by generall proclamation was commanded to departe at the appointed tyme out of the realme otherwise to stand to the aduenture and hazard of their liues About the end of the same yeare great forces were raysed vp and enrolled the duke de Maine was ordained chiefe ouer them and being sent into Guyan or Aquitane returned next yeare againe wyth little good successe recalled as they say by his brother who impatient of all delayes was 〈◊〉 alike with enuy anger and ambition cryed that the ennemie was not for to be sought for that hee was at hand and stoode before the doore that the head of a Prince onely gréeued him and hindred his enterprises and finally that he onely was to be assaulted emitting and leauing the other And so riseth againe against the king being occupied in other warres and that hee coulde not obtaine by his first rebellion by this he forceth it Complaineth that his brother was forsaken in Aquitane frustrated and destitute of men money and munition as also that hee was not sent sooner against the enemie before all the treasure of the realme was spent for to lacke nothing That these were sure arguments that the Catholikes were betrayed that his Maiesties mind was corrupted by ill counsell and those whome he should loue and embrace that hee hated and despised them and that therefore it could not be but hee had intelligence with the Heretickes And finally if hee reiected and disherited not the king of Nauarre and the Prince of Condy and openly would appoint and declare a successor that there was nothing remayning that all good and godly catholickes should any longer commit their liues and safety vnto the protection of a dissembling Prince who did all things wyth delay and proclaimed warre wyth his tongue agaynst them and called for peace wyth his hearte This was spread abroade Souldiours are taken vppe and agayne a newe contracte of Peace was to bée made for agréement The King at one tyme cumbred wyth two enemies thought it necessarie that wyth one of them an appoynment was to be concluded gaue care againe vnto his mothers counsell and againe by her meanes agréede wyth the Guyse Hée demeth him little deliuereth vnto him the demaunded Cities and commaundeth newe forces to be taken vppe to inuade Aquitane the dwelling place of those of the refournied Religion and publisheth agayne newe and cruell Ordinances and Statutes against them The Guyse nowe hauing obtayned his purpose and thinking that he was crept farre enough in the peoples fauour to vndertake and enterprise whatsoeuer pleased him and that the Prince was brought into sufficient hatred that all thinges were sette in a hurlie burlie that the heartes of the Communaltie were dismayed and that now but little hindered hym to come vnto his pretence watched for a fitte opportunitie to

to stirre vp the rest to ciuill iarres with a hope of spoile and such like nouelties Call moreouer Philip King of Spaine and thy predecessor Sixtus vnto their ayde Promise vnto the king then occupied in the Lowe Countries that France should nothing hinder or molest him and vnto the Bishop of Rome an euerlasting warre against the enemies of the holy Sea For they perswaded vnto themselues that their intent could neuer or hardly at the least be brought to passe as long as the common wealth flourished with peace and quietnesse but it being once troubled and with seditions disquieted should make it easie and this their thought was not amisse For the Princes of the Royall bloud being all dispatched the strongest and mightiest of whom was now assaulted with open warre they hoped that the rest should eyther die in warre or for the affinitie which they had with the Prince of Conde in hope of the Crowne would soone depart from the Court and finally that then Charles and his brethren but children might be without labour conuayed away and murthered And to that effect they began warre and with these torches haue kindled first the fire of ciuill discorde in France but the last destinies and extreme calamities of the Realme were not yet come for as in our bodies a dangerous disease is oftentimes long felt before and with diuers paines and grieues the forces thereof are assaulted and wearied before they are broken and ouercome euen so the like befalleth with Empires and kingdomes But both the brethren departed first out of this world before they could accomplish and make an end of their long practised enterprises Francis died at the siedge of Orleans at the thréescore and thrée yeares of his age hauing left behind him thrée sonnes Henry Duke of Guise Charles Duke de Mayne and Lodouick a Cardinall not yet come out of their childhoods But in whom as there appeared sparkes of domesticall prowesse so in them séemed to be no feare of vice Vnto whom he left not onely good store of treasure and great reuenewes but also a hope of a large Empire his damnable practises and sparkles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 warre But in the meane while the king his brethren grew in age before the Lions whelpes were capable of their fathers ferocitie and so France turning her former mind began to worship honor obay her Princes now come to full age and full of courage magnanimitie whom she neuer before had séene but children But chiefly respected Henry whom comlines of body perfect age valure in armes commended aduanced to the gouernment of outlandish Nations And thus by little and litle their vaine ambition hath béene repressed but in tract of time other occasions of euill were presented Charles dieth whether by destime or poyson it is vncertaine And I haue no leasure at large to discourse vpon this point to rehearse from the beginning this tragidie but yet this is most true a litle before his departure out of this worlde séeing his estate greatly weakned by the tediousnes of war cruel murthers massacres euery day cōmitted vpon his subiects the treasure of this Reamle consumed spent Italy Spain laughing at it inuaighed with sharpe threatning words against the authors hereof and this was peraduenture the occasion of his vntimely death Henry the third succéeded him whom whether Polonia hath suffred with greater griefe to depart from thence or France receiued him with more ioy it is doubtfull He warned by his brothers example as soone as he had set established the affaires of his realme in good order gaue his mind wholly to the studie of peace knowing very well that riuill broyles are alwaies good for them that affect crownes and kingdoms but naught to them the raigne weare thē From hence is come the first originall of this mischief for thou thine Sixtus would neuer commend the kings most wholsom counsell thy drifts tending to nothing els but by sword fire to confirme thine own sauegard litle regarding by what law or with what condition one rained so the those perished together with their crowns whom thou didst hate couldst not abide And so by litle litle the remēbrance of so many victories and so many bloud-sheds committed for the Sea of Romes sake grew stale presently after enuie began to swel in the peoples minds dasly corrupted by the seditious fermons of Friars not delaying only the most godly vow of their Prince but infecting it And so it was easie to make an entrie for mischiefe to follow The Duke of Guise in the meane time with his two brethren increased in age power and fauor by the Catholikes as their father was before at the first cōmended thēselues sundrie wayes vnto them and hauing prospered reasonably vnder Henry being not yet come to the crowne saluted courteously euery one that met thē although one of the simplest amongst the cōmon people spake to them left nothing vndoone to steale away the hearts of the commontie all true signes tokens of an ambitious mind practising attempting some nouelties Spread abroad false reports to rayse priuie grudges displeasures amongst the Nobilitie and finally Francis the kings youngest brother being now departed out of this life either by sicknes or fraud ietted to fro through all cities beraied yet with the bloud of those of the reformed religion fearing for their massacres a iust reuenge Lamented the cōmon miserie vnlesse there should be looked vnto in time affirmed that after the death of the king which too true they sayde should be ere long they all should become subiects againe of an Heretike endure all bondage miserie flauery whatsoeuer But that they would display their power against it the promised and ready succor of Spaine Italy to defend protect by it their liberties and the Catholike religion these things are knowen vnto euery man the king himself hath bin aduertised of thē by diuers spyes since the yeare 77. yet for lacke of punishment as it is often seene grew maruellous strong Let therefore the posteritie iudge whether this is come to passe through too great a clemency or by some fatall negligence of all French men In the yeere 1585. Ianus temple being shut vp in France a happy peace flourishing in all the realme no external or domesticall enemy once knowne the Duke of Guise withall the house of Lorraine hauing conspired together take the weapons in haude the only cause therof was a crowne their cloake and probable occasion pietie religion a care for the realme now ill gouerned a pitte to see the commontie with exactions pould and oppressed and an intent to reduce all things in good order They hauing put this vizard vpon their rebellion by their first writinges published in theyr names complayned of the publicke calamities of the weakenesse of the kings friendes of the Realmes treasure wasted and spent notwithstanding the