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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02970	Three letters written by the King of Nauarre first Prince of the bloud and chiefe peere of France to the states of the cleargie, noblitie and third estate of France. More: a letter from the sayd King ot the Gouernors and communaltie of the towne of Paris. All faithfully translated out of the French.	Navarre (Kingdom). Sovereign (1572-1610 : Henry III); Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.; Aggas, Edward, attributed name.	1586 (1586)	STC 13111; ESTC S113599	9,066	23

rather bewaile them and am readie to embrace you al My greatest griefe is that those whom in minde I doe distinguish whom also I knowe to haue bene circūuented I cannot make any difference of in the hazard of armes But God knoweth my hart Their bloud be vpon the authors of these miseries For my part my Maisters I doe and incessantly will beseech him that it may please him to open the way whereby his name may be serued honored the King obeyed the State quieted and all orders and degrees of this Realme reduced to their pristinate dignitie prosperitie and eminentie Amen From Montauban this first of Ianuarie 1586. Your most affectionate and very good friend Henry To my Maisters of the third Estate MY Maisters I neede not many words to open vnto you the equitie of my cause Call to mind that when these broyles began wee liued in peace and daylie went forward better and better Remember also that notwithstanding the same tended directly against mee yet for eight moneths space I stirred not my patience passed all bounds neither forget that I sawe those armies that had bene meetest for me ioyned to my enemies and comming against me before I was resolued to defend my selfe And I sweare vnto you my Maisters that the horror of a ciuill warre and the sensible apprehension of the miserie and calamities that it bringeth foorth euen benumbed mee and tooke away my sences to my owne domage had I not perceiued that my ouer long patience redounded to the daunger and destruction of this Realme by giuing the perturbers leisure violently to haue fulfilled their pleasures In case Religion was the matter I submitted my self to a Counsaile if complaints concerning the estate to an assembly of the Estates yea I wished to drawe vpon my owne person the whole perrill of France for sauing it out of miserie voluntarily yeelding my selfe equall with those whom nature hath made my inferiours wheras they of their owne interest haue made a common calamitie and of their priuate quarelles a publicke confusion I might complaine that my iust offers were not accepted But to you I do complaine and yet for you not for my selfe I lament these extremities whereby the extreme iniurie to me done hath brought me to that passe that I may not defend my selfe without the detriment of the innocent people I bewaile my owne condition that for the warranting of my life you must feele harme and paine you for whose relief and wealth I was readie to shed my bloud if my enemies had not coueted rather to redeeme themselues from the combat whereto I chalenged them by a paricide against this Estate and by an uniuersall combustion But herein I take comfort that your selues can consider the nature of euilles to bee such as cannot bee healed but by some euilles the cause whereof you are not to attribute to the Surgeon whose purpose is to heale but rather to him that made the wound and so consequently in this wound all the griefes ensuing That in a short space God will graunt me the grace after so many labours to fee this Estate purged of those that doe molest it also to see you enioye so certaine and assured quiet as in small time may cause vs to forget all passed trauailes Iudge by the effects I beseech you of the entents of men to make you reioyce in these troubles These men would put you in hope that they reforme the abuses of the Treasorie that they would deminish taxes and subsidies that they would reduce all thinges to the tyme of 〈…〉 already if they might haue bene beleeued would haue beene surnamed fathers of the people What is come of it Their warre hauing strangely deuoured on euery side haue bene determined by a peace wherein they haue had respect onely to their perticuler profite without any mention of you and which is worse their peace is as sodenly couerted to a warre against those that remained quiet whereby the King is forced to double the Impostes the people exhibited in pray to the man of warre and France without the helpe of God boūd to bee murdered of her selfe For what other is that Edict that is wrested out but a necessitie layd vpon the King to destroye his people and with his owne hand to make away himself At the least if they mēt not to relieue the people why were they not cōtent to abuze them or what had they done that they must be ouerthrowne They couer these mischiefes with zeale to the Church The heate of this zeale ought to haue appeared in charitie charitie in the vnion of both Religions What charitie which endeuourd onely to roote out What heate of zeale which hath fiered all the Countrey and hath set a whole estate in combustion In the meane tyme vnder pretence that the Clergie hath payed some portion aforehand for the encouraging the Soldiour to begin y e wars ye see them on the way The people must couer it with some two hundred thousand Crownes or therabout which shall binde them hereafter to millions and to bee briefe some of the Cleargie to the great griefe of the King yea and of their owne members haue for their owne perticuler passions concluded vpon the bargaine and aduaunced the earnest peny then must the poore people fulfill and furnish the rest whatsoeuer it cost him that cannot doe withall who onely must beare the losse and can hope for no fruit beare the whole burden and endure all the calamitie that may come thereof My Maisters this doe I repeate vnto you I am a Christian Prince borne I haue sought out and propounded the most Christian meanes to make vp this Estate reunite the Church I am a Frenchman borne I beare part of your calamities I haue sought all meanes to exempt you from ciuill miseries I will neuer spare my life to abridge you of them I knowe that for the most part you are subiect to this violence I cōfesse your willes to be thralled I will not impute to you your actions you are Frenchmen I had rather impute vnto you your willes I desire of you all who according to your vocatiōs are more subiect to beare the mischief then to doe it only your vowes wishes and praiers Pray vnto God my Maisters that by his iudgements he will distinguish those that seeke the felicitie or mishap of this estate all publicke prosperitie or calamitie For my part I take him to witnesse that I desire only y e welth of this Realme of you al I take him for my Iudge whether ambition or particuler passion hath vrged or any whit stirred vp my weapons From Montauban this first of Ianuary 1586. Your most affectionate and very good friend Henry ❧ To my Maisters of Paris MY Maisters gladly doe I write vnto you as accoumpting you the mirror or abstract of this Realme and yet not to enforme you of the equitie of my cause which I knowe is sufficiently knowne vnto you but contrariwise to take

you to witnesse euen you who through the multitude of your good eyes are able to behold and penetrate déepest into al that haue passed in this Estate Ye wot what iudgement the King hath giuen of the authors of these miseries what in your eares he hath declared and pronounced them to be He required your assistance against them as against publicke enemies and that at such time as his will was perfect and free before violence had wonne any thing at his hands Whatsoeuer alteration hath since fallen out I know you will impute not to his wil but vnto force And in deede I am not ignorant that sone after being required to furnish the expenses of this warre you could well aunswer that these troubles were neuer begon by your aduice and that they that had begon them were to beare y e charges and not you which was such an aunswer as you neuer make in matter concerning the seruice of the King or wealth of the Realme For in such respect neuer were subiects more liberall then you But vndoubtedly when you perceiue that your money goeth not to the reparations as aforetime you haue bene perswaded but to the destructiō of the Realm when you clerely see that they request not your Iewelles to supply the raunsome of King Frances or his children or of a King Iohn but rather to extinguish the bloud and posteritie of France and to reduce your King to bondage and prison I know very well that the King hath liked of you therfore and all good Frenchmen are therein bound vnto you and especially my selfe in respect of y e degree wherein God hath ordeyned me in this Realme and for being sith it hath so pleased him of the houshold children Iudge what neede you had of this warre you knowe that this Estate daylie waxed capable more and more of peace If any thing were to be altered in matter of Religiō there needed no more without any innouation but the summons of a good Counsaile If in the gouernment of the Estate the King would not haue refused the ouerture of an assembly of the Estates And for preuenting these mischiefes you knowe that by expresse declaration I haue submitted my selfe euen by a cōbat to determine whatsoeuer these perturbers could perticulerly pretend against me Those therefore that refuse such good meanes are authors of the warre and of an vnnecessarie and therefore an vniust warre I who haue desired the same and voluntarily therto submitted my selfe doe finde my selfe discharged of whatsoeuer calamities may ensue for from lawfull meanes they haue taken pleasure to driue me into extreme extremities wherby the armes that I haue taken in hand are naturall and necessarie and so most iust To bee briefe compare my obedience with their rebellion my patience with their rash hastinesse my modest dealings with their immodest passions and with all this waye with your selues what they are in this Realme and what I am so will you conclude that they do me so extreme iniurie y t there is no Gentleman in this Realme but would enforce himself and to whome it were not lawfull to haue reuenge I speake this in trueth and doe conceiue the consequences hereof I see the innocent must beare it but still haue in your mindes that my enemies are those that haue bene declared enemies to the King the Realme that they haue troubled the quiet peace called in straungers procured the rooting out of the houshold seruaunts borrowed the enemies and employed their meanes not to my destruction onely but to the confusion of the whole Estate Then wil you my Maisters impute to their offences all such inconueniences as a iust defence may bring in you will con them small thanckes for the ensuing calamities like as you confesse thē authors and causers of the first for my selfe I shall be sorie for my owne mishap that I shall not be able to put away the vniuersall mischiefe without some mischiefes At the least I shall reioyce in my owne integritie who would haue redemed them euen with my life which euermore I shall accoumpt wel bestowed in the preseruation of this Estate and of you all Now my Maisters to conclude I will say vnto you that of you I doe and still will attende whatsoeuer maye and ought to be looked for of true Frenchmen and of the rule and example of the French nation and of me likewise expect whatsoeuer may or ought of a French and Christian Prince be expected concerning the vnion of the Church the King my Soueraignes seruice the welth of the Realme the reliefe of the people and the contentation of all good men I beseech God my Maisters to take pitie and compassion of this Realme and to graunt vnto vs all god counsaile to his glorie and our benefite From Montauban this first of Ianuary 1586. Your most affectionate and very good friend Henry