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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

sorrowe was seene in al the Campe but greate ioye among the ennemy whose reioysing voices were hearde at that instant demanding one of another whether the Friars knife was sufficiently sharpe or not The King thus wounded was laid in his bed wher he yeelded by his ghost vnto God the next night following hauing before made his will and set al things in good order Here haue you hearde the ende of this mighty Prince and here may you beholde as in a looking glasse the ouerthrowe of a whole Realme I see many thinges in it to bee lamented Wheresoeuer I turne my selfe I can perceaue nothing but a dreadfull horrour a cruell and blouddy spectacle yet nothing more heauily doth present it selfe afore vs then thine Oration Sixtus an ouerplus to the common griefe Farre bee such a shame from vs lette it suffice vs to haue lost a good Prince and that by our owne faulte and negligence as to suffer the name of the dead to bée slandered and defamed and the Monuments of so many worthy acts destroyed Therfore I demand first of thée Sixtus by what lawes that I shall contend with thée With Christian lawes But what hast thou to doe with Christ whose birth and buriall thou ●landerest with a most detestable murtherers comparison With the lawes of nature but by what bandes of nature can bee vpholden the maintainer of willfull murther Howe then with the ciuil lawes The statutes of Princes and the ciuill lawes haue enacted diuers and seuere punishmentes vnto those that offended but by chaunce but vnto those that reuenged their priuate quarrell by their own authoritie fearfull torments What punishments doe they alot then vnto those who violat ouerthrow the welfare af a common wealth truly almost incredible But I see that I am constrained to séeke out new lawes to deale with thée I am ready for it Thou the autor of new offences shalt bée my lawe and witnesse Europe the court and the Heauens the Iudges and vpon these equall conditions I will pleade against thée Come then and hearken first vnto this It séemeth verie straunge vnto mee and therefore make me somewhat better acquainted with it that thou so oftentimes vsurpest the worde of Gods iudgement Could not this suffice thee to know God to bée the best of all goodnesse but to say that hée willed such a detestable and wicked act In déede wée sée euerie where his wonderful iudgements and we know that Princes the larger their gouernement hath béene the greater accounts they haue to make Besides if kinges had committed any offence that not onely themselues did smart for it but sometimes all their subiects felt the punishment thereof Both is to be séene in the holie Scriptures I will not deny but that this prince hath suffered deserued punishment if thou doest regard God onely in whose eies all thinges are corrupt naught and crooked nothing entire or vndefiled But leaue the iudgement hereof vnto God not vnto thy selfe Sixtus How knowest thou whether this is in stéede of a blessing and benefit which thou thinkest to be a curse and a punishment Did not Iosias also die an vntimely death doth not God most often cal them first vnto him whom he loueth Are tirants not séene oftentimes to raigne and liue longest and good princes seldome come to great age Superfluous nay too curoius it were Sixtus to search examin these things more impious to iudge them But let it be so I grant this vnto thée Shall therfore the excuse and cloake of Gods iudgement protect defend the cause of a murtherer the king of France for his offences hath deserued some heauy punishment at Gods hāds doth it follow therfore the he is to he accounted godly great famous happy and worthy the title of an Emperor whosoeuer of the common people the most abiect and vilest shall haue murthered his Prince Then with thée that sonne shall be accounted innocent that is a reuenger of his fathers offence by his fathers death and the indignation of those children estéemed iust spilling the bloud of their parentes in Gods quarrell What is he worthy any longer to be reuerenced and honored with the title of a father who liketh the example of naturall affection violated and quite extinguished Herewith thou art touched Sixtus but wherfore art thou so soone afeard thou hast no cause yet to tremble these are but toyes and trifles come but néere for to heare that which shall not make thée pale but altogether senselesse Let first the lawes of bloud and nature which are the sacred bandes of humaine societie depart and goe aside for as long as they are present I haue no reason to speake any word at all I grant againe that it is lawfull by thy lawes to kill parents condemned by iudgement and an executioner not to be wanted in the citie as long as the offenders sonne is found present Let thy iudge then pronounce sentence and say That lawfully the sonne may kill the father but let him adde vnto it at the least accused noted and condemned of a notorious offence as an enemie vnto the cōmon wealth that by these meanes the priuate lawes of a familie may be disanulled by those which concerne the publike vtilitie But contrariwise if thou destroyest the publike commoditie by a publicke offence away with thy lawes for they cannot be exogated with the welfare of a common wealth Let vs now sée then Here lyeth wallowing in his bloud not the father of a priuate familie but hée of a great kingdome not the griefe of one household but the heauinesse and sorrow of a whole realme most trecherously procured And yet doest thou commende this and sayest that he is murthered worthely Well let it be so so that he for whom we mourne be too worthy for to die after such a manner But what was the offence in the reuenge whereof the diuine the ciuill the common and priuate lawes did cease and loyter Thou sayst that he hath commanded Lodouick the Cardinall the Guise his brother to be executed whose consecrated head was not to be touched but only by full authoritie from the Bishop of Rome Thou cruell beast dost thou say that it is not lawfull for a King ruling onely by Gods grace and authoritie to punish traytors against his Maiestie and conuicted so oftentimes to haue troubled the publike peace and that it is permitted vnto a gracelesse Friar to stabbe a Prince for to haue iustly executed a Cardinall What say ye to this O ye Princes of Europe vpon whose neckes this cruell and bloudie Lyon treadeth If he were to be punished it was not to be done after that order witnesses were to be produced the offender was to be heard iudges to be chosen no hast was to be made vpon the execution of so great a Potentate As if he wanted witnesses by whose ambition now 3. yeares together France hath béene disquieted with ciuill warres but his execution was to be delayed to what end To the

therewith to inuade the Realme againe and moreouer vnto some of them all their goods By these deuises hatered and enuy being procured and prouoked the ill aduised Prince but to late acknowledging his errour in vaine began to wishe for this most fitte and neglected opportunity of reuengement yet being come to Paris spendeth the rest of the winter in repayring and renewing of his forces publishing an expedition against those of the reformed religion which he himselfe prepared the next Sommer following either by these meanes to drawe againe vnto him the heartes of the commonalty altogether affectionated vnder the coullour of religion vnto the Guyse or that hée had determined to doe it importunated thereunto by the Iesuites continuall outcries assuring him daily of certaine argumentes of Gods wrath against the Heretikes and in briefe a happye end and issue of all his warres against them In the year eightie eight which was feared should haue béene fatall vnto all the Worlde the Guise taketh new aduise and counsaile howe to come to a happie end of his long continued hope and to enioy the fruites thereof Complaineth that so oftentimes ciuill warres haue béene moued in daine against the king of Nauarre whereof the issue was doubtfull the profite vncertaine or to late at the leaste That his Maiesty could not bee deceiued but coulde be oppressed and the one of two ennemies once being dispatched that with lesse labour the other was to be ouerthrown and vanquished That he had al thinges ready to suppliant the first and then afterwarde would fall vppon him who was yet remayning That it was to bee hastened and not to bee slepte vppon Beginneth therefore now no lesse to hate and enuy the King then before he had done the Heretickes That Fortune had offered him this good opportunity which if hee shoulde let it slippe by hee might wishe afterward for it when it was past recouery Moreouer the Germaines nowe repulsed that nothing was remaining that might cause him to feare That al hope of out landishe aide and assistance was cut off vnto the King of Nauarre by whose faulte all Germany and England did crie out that so great an army so many Nobles and such number of valiaunt Captaines and souldiers were discomfited and slaine And that the king himselfe was sore wearied and broken with long during warres and although Conquerour of many battailes yet had lost notwithstanding all the chiefest of his souldiers and those that were escaped either for want and néede or for a desire of quietnesse wished onely for peace And that with them therefore hee shoulde haue but litle to doe hereupon thinking most expedient not to make any further delayes furiously taketh now the thirde time the weapons in hand message is brought vnto his M. and reports euery where spred abroad not as before that Citties are surprised that the people rise in armes that musters are taken and such like signes of mischiefe yet far off and to be preuented diuers waies but that the Duke commueth in person himselfe And no sooner was it spoken but he was séene in déede arriueth in Paris very troublesomely where the king was at that time where hee had laid long before ready and trusty ambushes partly for the mutinous mindes of that common people as also for the great number of conspirators in that Citty as it is most certaine that no where kinges and princes can be more easier oppressed then in their imperiall Citties But the first night of his arriuall he was quiet wearied God hauing so disposed it for the Prince his safegard yet altogether vnprouided that all thinges were not yet currant and ready But next day morning soundeth alarme putteth the kings garrisons to the sword and marcheth directly to the Louure his Maiesties pallace with the mutinous bloudy people to besiege their sworne Prince The king amased at this sudain accident and vpror vnto whose honor it stood not to fly away not to his safety to expect his enemy w e disaduantage in no indifferent place yet w e the lord chiefe Iustices souldiers and with his gard of Switzers resisteth their assalts for a day or twaine But séeing the people to arm themselues against him al things to go backward w e him and no hope of any helpe or succour escaped safely among the inraged clamours of the desperate multitude crying nothing but sworde and fire and came to Lions The wel-minded and affectionated subiects vnto their King coulde not brooke and beare such an outragious iniury Their hearts turned therfore vppon a suddaine the case now altered doe pitty their Prince The pillers of the Realme the nobility the commons and the better and sounder part of the cleargie came in poste vnto his Maiesty They exclaime all against the house of Lorraines great presumption and said that punishment was to be done which should equal or rather excéede the greatnesse of the offence They pronuse vnto the king all aide and furtherance if it woulde onely please him giuing ouer all other yea rather the heretikes themselues who neuer dared the like to ouergoe this gréefe The king subiect vnto his destiny séemeth to bee tourhed with this readinesse of his affectionated subiectes but yet is nothing moued with it But thanketh euery one very soberly as if he had had no néede at all aunswereth quietly vnto them that hée wanted neither courage nor force to reuenge his priuate iniuries and that it was not néedefull to sustaine two ciuill wars in one realme where one sufficed was rather too much And herwith sent thē al home againe intending againe reconciliation If the posterity wil beleue one telling the truth let it without doubting beléeue this with mée that nothing more touched and moued the hearts of Frenchmen then to see their Kings great patiency not despising but scarce approuing the most ready mindes of his subiects in the reuengement of the publike and common shame and dishonor Let the posterity also vpon my word holdly say that Ouéene Katherine his mother was the only cause of his deadly sound and vnsensiblenes vnto whose faithfull helpe and aide the Guyse tooke his refuge as soone as hée perceaued that his matters wold not forge and that the commō people were altered for this 〈◊〉 done vnto the king and that the Nobility and the chiesest of his beganne to bée discomforted discouraged and drawe backe from him Now this third time Henry giueth place vnto his mothers aduice and hearkeneth vnto her counsell now this third time an agréement is concluded with great ioy of all the conspirators who thought it to be no smal fauor thus easily to haue escaped deserued punishment for their mutinie and rebellion But the wise yet feared in generall that this wound could not be closed vp and healed without a foule searre remayning or that hee who had once presumed to beate his Prince out of his Imperiall Citie should not want audacitie to attempt some further matter All things now pacified a Parleament

nowe againe to be séene for at the arriuall of this mightie prince and vnlooked for armie the hearts of all the good being herewith incouraged and of the conspirators terrified de Maine himselfe to represse and stay by his presence the common report of the people complaining already against the intollerable insolences of the souldiours and féeling a dearth of all maner of victuals and necessaries commonly the only causes of vproares and sedisions in great cities is constrained to returne again to Paris with his mutinous companies which hee had brought from thence into the territories of Tours to place them euery where in garrisons His departure was not vnlike a cowardly running away the K. of Nauarre following him so neere vpon his héeles that he put al the hindermost of thē all straglers to the sword His maiesty in the meane time fortified with a power of Switzers incoraged with some good successe against the rebelles commeth in person in his camp and marcheth directly to Paris with al his forces to punish them for their treacherie rebellion Help commeth to him from all parts his bands increase dayly in number fame and power The state of the realm thus suddenly chāged as the hearts of men are commonly inconstant and wauering the chiefe cities beginne to intreate vpon peace the German and Italian Princes to send ambassadors to wish wel to his M. to promise him mony and men and some of the first conspirators also through dispaire flie to his mercy All thinges finally fal contrary vnto the Guises expertatiōs now out of all hope to looke any more as long as the King liued for any condition of agréement or surety of life The conspirators all begin to tremble at this new and suddaine chaungement doubtfull what to doe or to vndertake yet the ring-leaders of the rebellion assemble togither in counsell to determine vppon the extremitie of their affaires One among the rest whose name shall be knowen and spread abroade by his execution declareth the daunger wherein they liue what they haue in France lesse trustie That the minds of the nobilitie were mutable and inconstant falling alwayes on fortunes side That the fearefull Cities coulde not bée kepte faithfull vnto them vnlesse they were partakers of the like rebellion and treachery if liberty were giuen vnto them that ere long they woulde reuolte to the king again That the cleargie was couetous and neuer did giue but little of their own vnto their kings that therefore there was but small hope that they woulde giue more vnto them that could and might but intreate for it That this was their case at home from abroad lesse hope was to be looked for That the Spaniard was olde carefull for the quietnesse of his owne family vnto whome it was more surer that France were troubled then vsurped by any but himselfe That the Italian Princes were circumspect and wise and those of Germany couetous and misers That the Pope was subtill crafty and inconstant gréedy for his own gain turning with euery blast of Fortune That therefore all his hope stoode in himselfe if they had any good successe that they should want nothing but otherwise that they néeded not to looke for any help safety but in their héeles and flight Finally that by the death of one King all their affaires might bée repaired and that only was to be intended and labored how by what meanes the Prince was to be dispatched or murthered That there was no other remedie for the redresse of their distressed estate Hereunto they apply all their witte and industry and there are not found wanting some who offered themselues to be ministers of this villanous trechery Many are solicited and prouoked thereunto by great promises according as they had a quicknesse of hand to performe such an act a desperate audacitie of mind to dare vndertake it Amongst them al Sixtus is found Clement th● welbeloued a Friar Iacobin fit and ready for such a trecherous enterprise yer trusting not so much vppon his owne boldnesse wherin not withstanding hée greatly did excell all his fellow-friars then knowing that Friars but chiefely those of his order had alwaies had a frée acces vnto his Maiesty wher other verie seldome were admitted but at certaine howrs This from his youth of hauing béene brought vp in the monasterie very-poorely hath giuen oftentimes notable tokens of his vngodly inclination and vilde disposition which many haue heard out of the Deanes owne mouth and for his lewdnesse by their order of discipline hath béene often diuersly punished yet nothing to his amendement was most often taken in stews and whore houses oftentimes assaied to runne away No godlinesse piety or learning hee had no not so much as the knowledge of the French letters which any wayes might haue commended him Which I think good to be spoken of this accursed murtherer that our posterity may iudge whether thy words are worthy of a sacred mouth that doth not make God only himselfe priuy of manslaughter pardon I craue O Iehoua but farther dost presume to say that he hath communicated vnto a desperate bloudshedder the giftes of his spirite and such motions of the minde which haue beene graunted only vnto his Prophetes and Apostles This Friar nowe sent out of Paris goeth directly to the Campe vppon this prouiso notwithstanding that all those that were suspected to bee of the Kinges side should be kept fast within the Cittie wherevppon his life did stand altogether Those whom bee met first solde them that he brought letters and writings from certaine Parisians who were greatly affectionated and known vnto the King that they contained matters of great importance And that hee besides had other things to be disclosed vnto none but vnto his Maiesty heruppon was brought vnto the king with like facillity as all the rest of his order were before Gréeteth the king but risen and yet scarse ready and at such a time as he was wōt to bee alone deliuereth the letters the which when his M. had perused demanded him what newes he brought The Friar falleth vpon his knées the king at that present sitting in a chaire and inclining his eare to heare what hee would say stabbed him with a knife which he had made poisoned for that purpose The prince hereuppon crieth out the Lordes presently come running into his chamber after many wounds slay this cursed and most miserable wretch Clemens as also him that came with him although the king did most earnestly forbid it for to learne by them the order of the conspiratis the signes tokens and conspirators who if they were knowen as no double they shall be yet hereafter I can not tell Sixtus whether● thou shalt bee able to shake from thy souldiers the suspition of this bloudy crime or at the least to haue béene the inuentor of this vngodly counsell But the author of truth hath kept it to himselfe till the time of thy punishment Great heauinesse and