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A18451	Remonstrances, to the Duke de Mayne lieu-tenaunt generall of the estate and crowne of Fraunce. Wherein, by way of information, are discouered diuers priueties, concerning the proceedings and affayres of that Duke, and his associates. Trulie translated out of the French coppie, printed at Paris, by Ant: Ch	Chute, Anthony, d. 1595?	1593 (1593)	STC 5012; ESTC S119236	17,880	32

should haue no greater enemy then your selfe in flattering your selfe more then needed But to vvhat purpose is this preamble To tell you that by this expedient of Rome which nowe is proposed you diuert the course of the peace I denounce and prognosticate vnto you not a taxe for the King of Nauarre was neuer familier with such a beast but a ruinous end and that as certain as the end of the late King or as that of my Lords your Brothers Indeed this is somewhat boldly sayde and yet such as beseemes a loyall and faithful seruaunt towards his good Lord I doubt not but since you swallowed or receiued downe the whole authority of Sixteene and since lost the obiect of the Prince of Parma that you may haue gained 45. to the aduantage I on the otherside feare very much that that on which you shall establish your fortune will be the cause of your mis-fortune For the iust punishment which you layd on the 16. was a blood-letting very necessary for the health of the people and to purge that euill spyrite of which they were possessed And the life of the Duke of Parma nourisht an ambitious feauer of our estate in the body of his Maister knowing that so long as he was liuing he woulde hinder your incroach vpon his intentions and now that he is deade it is vnpossible to meete with any man of his own forces which were a man of like vallor He which would not make himselfe a stocke of mockery to all strange Nations it is very easie to be thought that he will haue finer conceits when he shall see that all his hopes depend but vpon you onely which haue another mark in your head and yet seeme to shoote at him Yet neuerthelesse I pray you my Lord let it be considered of in your minde the meanes by which you haue aspired so high Hath it beene by your owne grauity I would willingly say it was by a popular fury but I dare not Hath it beene by your prowesse which I hold most high Pardon me if I sette before your eyes a good part of that which is past betweene the King of Nauarre and you All that which was done at Deepe the battaile of Pure the vnexpected surprise of our Subburbs the reducing vnder the Kings power the Country of Maine Alancon of the greater part of Normandie teach vs the cleane contrary I represent this vnto you in grosse not standing to particularise them for I woulde be humblie sorry that it shoulde be thought I woulde obscure anie thing of your glory Needes must I affyrme thus much that in matter of ruine against a poore inhabitant that knowes not what warre meanes we onely haue the Superficies but from VVarriour to VVarriour I cannot say it If there be any notable theefe hee makes himselfe cheefe in one Country vnder the Standard of punishment which hee awaits from vs if so it be that by any meanes whatsoeuer hee afflicts the contrary parte vvithout exception of persons but when we shal haue leaue to enioy a rightful combat then will vve leaue the lystes because that euery one that makes profession of theeuery neuer makes profession of a lavvfull quarrell In this there lyes gayne of golde and Siluer in that nothing els but bare blovves I wil not say but that at one time or other vve may haue good successe in vvarres for vvarres resemble the fortune of the Dyce but so it is that mis-fortune vvils thus much ill reporte to be sayd of you That you neuer durst encounter with the King of Nauarre but you vvent by the worst which I coniecture to haue beene the cause vvhy you vvould not come to combat any more although he hath oftentimes sommoned you And yet O God forbid that I should blame you for hauing conquered a great part of Fraunce without any blowes it is passing wisedome not to hazard all by decision of one battaile Let vs then if it standes with your good lyking acknowledge howe you came to this highnes of your degree and estate which you enioy heere amongst vs The Towne of Paris vpon the modell of which all other are ruled put it selfe in Armes and made you her chiefe not so much for any amity or familiarity which it hath had with you or your house as for an extreame hate conceiued against the late King And withall remembring vs of the day of the Barrecades and other things which insued that we were put in feare to be most grieuously punished hauing lost Mounsier De Guyse our chiefe stay rather chusing to play to loose all then to see our selues exposed to so ignominious a punishment And so between quaking fearefull and bloody hatefull muzing what might haue become of your Bretheren vvhich ought to haue mou'd you either by honor or by iust desire of vengeaunce we and by our example all other Townes had recourse to you Loe heere in generall the cause why you are entituled Lieu-tenaunt generall of the estate and Crowne of Fraunce to whom after the deceasse of the late King all the sway of the people generally inclined And in all this you knew so well to demeane your selfe that you had diuers Fryers ready which in their Pulpits did openly declaime against the late King and the King of Nauarre which was no small secrete in matter of ciuill warre It followes then my good Lord that you acknowledge to hold in faith and homage to the people both your promotion the progresse thereof and your workings vnder-hand yea euen that you had no power of your selfe to bring in the Spaniards into Paris which nowe seekes to sette foote on her throate but by the consentment of the same people after the siedge and that for the conseruation and surety thereof If this foundation be true then withall you must agree with me in this that in like quantitie as the loue of the people diminisheth towards you euen so your greatnes must agree with the same since it is a generall and infallible rule of nature that all things haue their decrease with the decrease of humor from which they haue life and increase themselues But as touching the hate betweene the late King and the people it lies buried with his body And as touching that which remains towards the King of Nauarre thinke not that if hee abiures his error and that we see him goe to masse and submit himselfe in as full sort as we we would thinke himselfe lesse Catholicke then eyther you or yours Nay but you will say O he leaues the way of Rome so doth the Common-people to when we say in common prouerb Good Horse or ill man till the day of Doome Shall nere amend because he was at Rome So that then the cause of that hatred ceasing in lyke manner the effect shall ende VVell may you redouble your Guardes disperse them in corners create new Marshals haue recource to the Spaniard and yet al these shal be but so many instruments

REMONSTRANCES TO THE DVKE DE MAYNE Lieu-tenaunt generall of the Estate and Crowne of Fraunce Wherein by way of information are discouered diuers priueties concerning the proceedings and affayres of that Duke and his Associates Trulie translated out of the French coppie printed at Paris by Ant Ch LONDON Printed by Iohn VVolfe Anno. 1593. Remonstrances to the Duke de Mayne Lieu-tenaunt generall of the Estate and Crowne of Fraunce Wherein by way of information are discouered diuers priueties concerning the proceedings and affayres of that Duke and his Associates MY Lorde the auncient dutie that I beare to your house the seruice which after none I haue vowed vnto you commaundeth mee to make you these remonstrances which in most humble manner I beseech you to reade with such affection as I present them vnto you withal from him which after the honor of GOD hath nothing in so much esteeme as the repose of this estate and in like manner of you al which is yours VVe all aspyre vnto peace and yet there is none that hopeth it great mis-fortune euery man diuines his owne ill knoweth and seeth the cause of it I must tell you freely my opinion of the matter I haue since these troubles alwaies excused your demeanure vntill this day I say expresly excused although it may seeme that this word may fal vnrespectiuely from my pen but in regard that the question was not of smal consequence VVhether it were standing with law that a Subiect might take Armes against his King yet notwithstanding the iust passion which you haue conceiued of the death of my Lordes your two Bretheren the people whom you founde voluntarily disposed and aboue all seeing he that pretends for the Crowne is diuers from our auncient Religion al that I say considered gaue you cause to take Armes after not to desist from the bearing of them So much as concernes the first poynt the true blood cannot lie none can say how pleasing that reuenge is but he that hath receiued iniury and withall what the fashion of their two endes hath procured may be the more a meane to good minds to extinguish the memory of it though doubtles they were of great importance As touching the second cause the people had a farre off confirmed themselues in an obstinate enuie to their King which euen died of ioy to heare the newes of Bloys And as concerning the last it is very hard to take from vs the feare which wee haue conceiued of the subuersion of our auncient Religion if we submit our selues vnto a King diuers from vs therein I desire not to impeach the famous memorie of the last King neyther that of my Lords your Bretheren neither yet the proceeding of the King of Nauarre and farre lesse your owne for it is my intent to proceede with few words not of sharp intention or ceremonies to the drift of my discourse for I call God to witnes I haue no intention to write in a partiall humor You represent at this time in the infortunate Theater of Fraunce a mighty Prince think not that your proceedings by howe much the more they are apparant may not but be so much the more exposed to adulation and bee subiect to slaunderous inuectiues and surelie it is hard to iudge which of these two is aptest to preiudice your fortune Those which adapt themselues to impeach it with slaunders say That neither reuenge nor disorder in affayres beseemes you to take Armes but that they were only pretexts to culler your desseignes And as touching the new religion of the King that it is apparant by your proceedings that you take holde of it as an opportunity or masque to shadow your pretence haue vsed the same as a mist to delude our eyes withall whilst meane while you couer in your heart an vnmeasured ambition intending the subuersion of the whole state That vntill nowe they remained as blinde in conceiued passion but now that time hath taught them to see cleerly euen as before they had their eares stopped against whatsoeuer proposition might be obiected to you and that contrariwise they haue both eyes eares too great to afflict your honor and reputation For first as touching the reuenge they all affirme vna voce that your own selfe was the first and last that condemned the progresse of my Lorde the deceassed Duke of Guyse your Brother his policies And firstly because that in the yeere 1585. beeing solicited by him to enter into that part of the holy League you were sixe whole weekes before you would condiscend Lastly for that fiue or sixe daies before his death you aduertised the King of an enterprise that he intended against his Maiestie And withal these fellowes can tell that you were not of such internety with him but that to infest or hasten his death you would sette fire in the midst euery corner of the kingdom for you complained your selfe most apparantly at Vimory that hee had layd waite to butcher you though against his expectation you had had good successe at the last adiewe of you two you failed to come to the enterprise If the same be true or not you best know sure it is that who so wold enter into the demeanure of your two Bretheren with the Estates of Bloys should necessarily be inforced to confesse that there was sufficient subiect to induce the King to a dispaire They had so wel grounded their desseignments that the three parts of the Deputies of which the fourth did all was at their will and deuotion the chiefe Presidents of euery order were theyr principall partakers There past not any Holy-daie in which our Ministers preach't not amongst the Iacobins and with a holy throate tore not in peeces the honour of the King his Seruaunts From day to day Embassages went betweene Paris and the two Bretheren we continued euery day in making prouisions not against the King of Nauarre but against the King our Soueraigne The Duke of Guyse made publique protestations that he would not bee disseuered from the confederacie betweene him and the King of Spayne and al this notwithstood the vnion by him sworne with the same King vpon the holy Sacrament of the Altar Nothing was concluded in the assembly which before was not at large debated on betweene the two Bretheren in secrete which tended not to the shame confusion of the King of all which there were made braues vauntings by litle litle men which els had not dared to haue lift vp theyr eyes vnlesse vnder the protection of these two Princes The King came to prayers as wel amongst the Deputies to be amongst them more acceptable as to the Duke of Guyse to mollefie him And to all this there will be no lystning It was not aboue foure or fiue dayes before theyr two endes that the Duke of Guyse himselfe iniured the King about the Towne of Orleance It cannot bee but that some of his seruaunts euen my Lady your Mother full