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A06362	The kings declarations vpon his edicts for combats, importing the confirmation and enlarging of the same. Published in a Parliament holden in Paris, the 18. day of March. 1613. Herevnto is also adioyned the said kings edict, importing an order for apparell, therein prohibiting all his subiects from vsing vpon the same, any gold or siluer, either fine or counterfeit; all embroderie, and all lace of Millan, or of Millan fashion: either to make any guilt workes in their houses, vnder the penalties therein contained. Published in a parliament holden in Paris the 2. of Aprill. 1613. Hereunto is also annexed, a letter from the Lord Rosny, Treasurer of France, to the Queene Regent. Faithfully translated into English by E.A.; Proclamations. 1613-01-28. English	France. Sovereign (1610-1643 : Louis XIII); Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643.; Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de, 1559-1641.; Aggas, Edward, attributed name.; France. Sovereign (1610-1643 : Louis XIII). Proclamations. 1613-03-14. English.; France. Sovereign (1610-1643 : Louis XIII). Proclamations. 1613-03. English.	1613 (1613)	STC 16830; ESTC S108822	14,549	32

THE KINGS DECLARATIONS VPON HIS Edicts for Combats Importing the confirmation and enlarging of the same Published in a Parliament holden in Paris the 18. day of March 1613. Herevnto is also adioyned the said Kings Edict Importing an order for apparell therein prohibiting all his Subiects from vsing vpon the same any Gold or siluer either fine or counterfeit all Embroderie and all Lace of Millan or of Millan fashion either to make any guilt workes in their houses vnder the penalties therein contained PVBLISHED IN A PARLIAMENT holden in Paris the 2. of Aprill 1613. Hereunto is also annexed A Letter from the Lord Rosny Treasurer of France to the Queene Regent Faithfully translated into English by E. A. LONDON Printed by Tho Creed for William Wright and are to be sold at his shop on Snowe-hill at the signe of the Harrow neere Holborne Conduit 1613. TO ALL WORTHIE AND GOOD LAW-MAmakers Rulers Iudges Obseruers Pleaders and keepers in generall past present and to come greeting vnder fauour hereby not to offend any but euer to respect and honour all of them as most especiall Instruments in any Common-wealth vnder God HErein may Fully Effectually and plainly appeare the iust and true intent of LEWES the Now French King in the behalfe and for the generall good of his Common-wealth and all his loyall and true harted Subiects therein Whereby he earnestly with a full and well intended Resolution doth desire aime at and intend the happie most flourishing Estate of that most Christion Kingdome and well-gouerned people To the great comfort of them in generall and assured hope of his most happie Raigne ouer them To his timely Infant beginning Honour by intending of their Eternall benefites For which cause let vs looke home with a speciall eye vnto the well due intended Reformation and Execution of these Lawes and Edicts lately made in Paris by their hopefull King That hath as you may hereafter see not onely renued diuers olde Lawes and Edicts concerning Combats and other lawes with speciall remedie for offenders therein But also hath inlarged and declared the same in Parliament the 18. day of March last Wherein hee hath also set downe and published for generall good the very Law of Lawes or absolute cause and directest meanes of true continuance and due performance and keeping of these or other lawes fit for any worthy Prince in any Common-wealth made for generall good to be performed and kept according to their true intents which is performed in this King Queene Regent c. Assembled in Parliament fully freely firmely and effectually set downe and made knowne within all that kingdome to all persons that they shall be duly iustly absolutely and effectually performed and kept by all persons whatsoeuer within their iurisdictions without exceptation of any person For byrth kindred affiance or any other cause whatsoeuer wherein he also taketh away all hopes of graunts fauours pardons remissions or any meanes whatsoeuer To be discharges to any of the Transgressors of the said Lawes So that those wilfull persons that will presume notwithstanding those good lawes with so due and effectuall declaration thereof are well worthie in my opinion by the lawes of God and man for their great presumption therein to vndergoe and endure the penalties in those or any other good Lawes contained These are true iust and direct meanes to shew that God gaue not vnto men lawes in vaine but that if they would presume to breake or offend against those good lawes by him or his Deputies in any Common-wealth made and ordained That then those persons so offending should suffer or forfeit according to the true intent and meaning of those good lawes what when or wheresoeuer that without any manner of hope of fauour to imbolden them therein they might make and be examples to other to beware to sinne or offend any iust lawes contrarie to their true intents for which they weare and are made and ought to be duly and truly performed and kept for the vpholding of peace plentie and vertuous actions in generall And the auoyding and beating downe of sinne and vice in generall according to the diuine founding and true intent of good lawes in generall which God grant may hereafter be well established redressed renewed declared performed and kept within these lands To the honour and glorie of God The honourable and perpetuall memorie of our King The euerlasting memorie of all the good instruments therein The beating downe sinne the rewarding of vertue the speedie doing of true iustice betweene partie and partie the most good of this great and flourishing Cōmon-wealth And happy comfort of all his Maiesties true hearted subiects therein in generall Blame me not in being long herein for in some lawfull and some law lesse proceedings which some too many too well knoweth in many causes is to great length All which I will leaue nowe to touch And so proceede to the other Lawes and Edicts lately made in Paris herein mentioned against the generall wearing of gold and siluer lace and diuers other sortes of gilt workes c. With many other things which they haue found as harmefull weedes or instruments of pride most idle and vnfitting to be suffered longer amongst them to hurt and abuse their people and Common-wealth And I trust in Cod our worthie King and his honorable priuie Councell with the Lords Bishops and Iudges and other good members of this Common-wealth will in due time of themselues and by good example from other Princes make amend renew declare and publish to a vertuous end our good and holesome lawes in this Common-wealth whereby to banish and beate downe as in their good discretions shall ●eeme best all and all manner of vanities vices idle toyes and abuses in generall according to the true intent and meaning of our good lawes in generall the rather for that ●e seldome finde loue Charitie vertue and honest dea●ing Now in that measure vnder many of those superfluous garnishes of apparell as formerly was ordinarily to be ●ound vnder a Frise Ierkin or other abilliments sutable So that I wish there were vpon many seeming Gentlemen in these our daies lesse vitious cost in them more ●ause of truely vertuous Honour and Worship which in word would become them better and be a good meanes 〈◊〉 cast off pride whereby vertue might increase which ●ride keepes lowe and to beate downe vice which it ex●lts to the generall good of all these kingdomes ouer which it hath pleased God by his mercie and grace many dangers past to make his Deputie Seruant our King and gouernour and we to be his faithful loyall Subiects duely to obey him which I desire m● long continue to Gods will and pleasure and the co●● of all his faithfull subiects soules so to liue here as to chase with Gods mercie in their departing hence eternall Farewell THE KINGS DECLARATIONS VPON HIS Edicts for Combats As also an order for Apparell Therein prohibiting all his Subiects from vsing

Order and in your Coffers Treasure sufficient to support this Estate which principally subsisteth vppon the support of these two Pillers This is it wherein I will most quietly entertaine my idle cogitations and comforte my selfe ouer the losse of my good King without being constrained if it may so please you to accept or reserue any other recompence for my Offices then my contentment to receiue none and the honour of your expresse Commandements But if neuerthelesse for a finall Resolution and that I may not shew my selfe disobedient to your willes your Maiestie doe absolutely enioyne me to the contrarie This then MADAME is the greatest fauour and that which I most desire wherewith I doe most humbly beseech you to recompence me that it may please your Maiestie MADAME immediately to command my greatest enemies to goe into the Chamber of Accounts there to verifie take view of the profites or detriments of my 12. yeares watchings Then if it be not foūd that during the saide time vnder the power and aucthoritie of my great King I haue by my dexterity and by my trauails rooted out the greatest confusion that euer was in the Treasuries of France that beside the sparing of eight Milliōs euery yéere whereof hée yerely became indebted to his Officers besides the payment of all charges and of all the ordinarie Expences of the Estate of all the wages of the soueraigne Courts of all the wages of the men of Warre of all the Garrisons Embassages the Kings house the Voyages Marriag●● giuing of Rewards Recompences with a thousand other expences too tedious to be here set downe besides also the Guardes ordinary summes without augmenting either Taxes or Impositions in the Realme Yea contrariwise If they finde not that I haue yet for the entertainment of three great Armies whereof the one recouered Amiens an other reduced Bretaigne and the third conquered Bresse and Sauoye found meanes extraordinarily to furnish aboue twelue Millions for the discharge of the debts of France growen by Treaties aboue fiue and twenty Millions for the payment of those of Switzerland Germanie Italie and England aboue thirtie Millions For the payment of Pensions both within and without the Realme aboue foure and twentie Millions For the succour of forraigne Prouinces aboue eight Millions For the refurnishment of the Artilleries Fortifications High-wayes and Buildings aboue eight Millions For the reliefe of the poore aboue sixe Millions To lay vp in the Treasurie in the Coffers of the Bastille or to leaue in Deposito in the hands of the Treasurer of the Espa●●ne aboue seuētéene Millions To satisfie many other Expences which may easily be verified aboue twenty Millions If I haue not also besides procured Contracts for the redéeming of the Demaynes of France that were engaged wherof the greatest part is daylie put in Execution Such Redemptions amounting to aboue fortie Millions Finally MADAME If I haue not in my great care by my onely Vigilancie put in practise these sparings If also to continue the same duty to Frāce I haue not at all times offred to your Maiestie to loose my life or to support the affaires that in the same eminencie yea euen to present them in a higher degrée If I say I haue not preferred all these things and more then doe I submit my selfe MADAME to any punishment for my presumtion to receiue such odious recompence that you shall appoint me as the price of my honors of my offices But if also MADAME there be not any one of these Articles found false vnlesse it be that they speake too little that my former affection hath receiued no other alteration but to be growne more ardent and strong suffer me MADAME for my more worthy satisfaction to endure the harme that you doe me without accepting the good that you offer me Reuoke and call in my offices without this gratious charge Or if necessarily MADAME you will vouchsafe yet to honor me with some fauour Let it be onely if it may so please you a perpetuall remembrance of my fidelitie A fauour which I desire of your Maiestie not that hereafter I might be recalled to the painefull trauell of the affaires but onely to leaue me in rest that I may still liue in the remembrance of her who is this day the Regent of my country the liuing soule of my maister and the mother of my King And surely MADAME it is also an honor and last acknowledgement which you Madame cannot iustly denie me for sith all they whom in my offices I may haue offended doe labour to see me depriued much more may they remember my seruices that doe triumph in them Farewell house farewell fortresse which I haue had in kéeping and gouernment aboue twelue yeares Farewell Temple of the Goddesse Mon●ta Mony who haue procured me so great enuie Let me now goe now that I am wearie of these affaires Returne me to a priuate life wherein I may no more haue such cares I am he who strong in spirit and courage hauing comprehended the very ground of the riches of the King and Kingdome haue gouerned them I am he vnto whom the felicitie of this estate augmented in new reuenewes and the coffers of our yong maisters replenished by iust and lawfull meanes stand bound for that plaine and assured order that I haue established I haue reaped great honors and large recompēce for that industrious care that I tooke vnder a great king I was of great power had great authoritie but euen in the turning of a hād in his bloody fall I haue séene all fallen and ruined In the same mishap haue I séene extinct all that enuie that made diuers many times to threaten my vndoing and vtter ruine whiles I procured the good of the estate and that I sought nothing but to purchase onely my maisters fauours without any regard of the great ones and neuer knowing what it was to séeke the fauour and good will of the people euermore bending my selfe wholy to this purpose But now in the end depart from me all troublesome carking care I am now resolued to mew vp my ship in a calme and safe hauen peraduenture the state hauing lost me shall better acknowledge wherein I haue bene profitable vnto it and the people shall finde it albeit ouerlate when fauour and affection shall succéed hatred but I doe not so highly estéeme my owne grace and good as that I should desire to obtaine it by the disasters and calamities of my countrey But contrariwise grant O God that the fortune of this Realme may euermore continue in good estate that I may neuer sée it ouerthrowne and that it may neuer haue cause to be sory for the losse of me or to wish for me againe FINIS THE KINGS Edict Importing the ordering of Apparell with prohibition to all his Subiects not to weare vpon the same any gold or siluer pure or counterfeit Embroderie Lace of Millan or of Millan fashion neither to make in their

houses any guilt worke vnder the penalties therein contained LEWES by the grace of God King of France and Nauarre To all people presant and to come Gréeting The late Kings our Predecessors to the end to restraine the great and excessiue expences growing of the excesse and superfluity of Apparell haue Enacted sundry iust and commendable Ordinances Yea euen the late King our most honored Lord and Father whome God pardon by his Edicts of the moneth of Julie 1601. and of Nouember 1606. Did forbid all manner of men whatsoeuer generally to weare in their Garments any Gold or Siluer which notwithstanding the most part of our Subiects haue suffered themselues to be led away with this vaine and vnprofitable expence and that with so much licentiousnesse and excesse that were there no prouision made to the contrary themselues would remaine either vtterly vndone or brought into such discommodities that they could haue no meanes to serue if any important occasion should fall out for the good of our Estate Vpon these considerations with the aduice of the Queene Regent our most honoured Ladie and Mother of the Princes of our Blood and of other Princes Officeers of Crowne and principall of our Councell and of our owne full power and auctoritie Royall by this our perpetuall and irreuocable Edicts haue Decréed and Ordained and doe Decrée and ordaine as followeth I. First wée doo enioyne all Church men euer hereafter to continue as now they doo in wearing of modest Apparell decent and conuenient for their profession Also all other our Subiects to abstaine from all those superfluities whereinto in time past they haue bene carryed away vnder paine of such penalties as the ordinances of the Kings our Predecessors for such causes doe import II. Wée doo expressely forbid all persons whatsoeuer generally within our Kingdomes Lands Countreys and the Dominions of our obedience of whatsoeuer Sexe Qualitie Calling or condition soeuer they be Not to weare any Garments enriched with Gold or siluer Fyne or counterfeit whether woollen or Linnen Pur●ileurs Embroderies Laces Stripedstuffs or any thing equiuolent which may serue their bodies in whatsoeuer sort or manner vnder paine of fifteene hundred Francks fine one third part appliable to our vse an other third part to the poore shut vp in this our good Towne of Paris and the Suburbes of the same and the other third parte to the Enformer Alwayes excepted the Harnesse and Saddles for Horses allready made wherein wee are content for sixe Moneths to Tollerate the workemanship of Golde and siluer III. Wée also forbid in whatsoeuer kinde of Garments all Embrodery of Golde Siluer or Silke as also the vse of Laces of Millan or Millan-fashion vnder paine of a thousand pounds Fyne IIII. Nowbeit wee meane not in these Prohibitions to comprehend the vse of Golde Siluer or Embroderie in Gyrdles Hangers for Swordes Hat-bands Garters Knots Irons Tagges and Supporters and Collers for Women and Maydes Ladies and Gentlewomen Neither also the guilding of Sword Hiltes or Chapes at the ende of the Skabberds in Armours Spurres Bittes for Horses and Stirrops V. We also forbid all workemen hereafter not to guild or cause to be guilded any Carroches vnder paine of a thousand-pounds to employed as it is aforesaid VI. We also forbid from henceforth the making of any guilt worke in any of the houses of our subiects either vpon the lead stone timber plaister or other thing whatsoeuer vnder paine of the like fine VII We also forbid all Lords Gentlemen and others of whatsoeuer calling hēceforth not to cloath their Pages or Laquies in any garments of silke whom we will haue to be apparelled in stuffes of wooll with a passement lace vpon the seames and outward edges onely VIII We moreouer forbid all Taylors Embroderers doublet makers Hosiers and other workemen as well of our owne Traine as dwellers in any Townes else where not to make or cause to be made any garments or other thing heretofore forbidden vnder paine if they be found transgressors against this our ordinance to be condemned in the somme of thrée hundred pounds Fine for the first time and for the secōd in an other fine double the former to be employed as before and for the third in corporall punishment IX We will and ordaine that this our present ordinance be strictly obserued by all persons of whatsoeuer calling or condition the same to take place at the day and feast of Easter at hand X. And the better to preuent such transgressions as may be made to the preiudice of our said prohibitions we will and ordaine that all Judges royall by preuention all Commissaries Guardes and all other Officers shall take notice Execute and cause to be kept and obserued these our present Prohibitions and that the Fines be assessed as well against the proper Owners of the things forbidden as against all concealers and paide notwithstanding any Oppositions or Appeales whatsoeuer and without preiudice of the same Wée also do command all our trusty and beloued Councellors All such as holde our Courts of Parliament and all our Bayliffes Stewards Prouosts Judges and other our Justices and Officers to whome it may appertaine that these our saide Inhibitions and Prohibitions they cause to be Red Published and Recorded in all parts and places of their Resorts Jurisdictions and Liberties and the same from point to point to maintaine kéepe and inuiolably obserue Expressely enioyning out Atturneyes generall of our said Parliaments and their substitutes in euery of our said Bayliwickes Stewardships Prouostships and other Jurisdictions to assist the said Executions and to make out all Processes and Instances thereto requisite and necessarie Our Receiuers of Fines in their Accounts to make actuall Receipt of all such as vpon this cause shal be assessed Also to all gouernors of Hospitalls and Masters of the Fyles or Records of the poore vpon their loyalties and consciences to employ the said money vpon the sustenance and maintenance of the saide poore For such is our pleasure And for that in sundry and many places they may stand in neede of these pre●●●●s Wée will that vpon the Vidimus of the same being duely collationed and examined faith shal be giuen thereto as to this present Originall Whereto in witnes hereof wee haue caused to set our Seale Giuen at Paris in the moneth of March the yeare of Grace 1613. and of our Raigne the third Signed LEWIS And vnderneath By the King in his Councell The Queene Regent being present Signed DE LOMENIE And on the side VISA And sealed with the great Seale in greene Waxe vpon Laces of Red and gréeeene and lower Written Read Published and Recorded in the hearing of the Kings Atturney generall requiring that it might take place to beginne the fiftéenth day of May in the same yeare and Decr●●d that Coppies examined should be sent to the Bayliwickes and Stewardships there to be Read Published Recorded and put in Execution by the diligence of the substitutes of the Kings Atturney generall who shall monethly certifie the Court. At Paris in Parliament the second day of Aprill one thousand sixe hundred and thirteene Signed VOISIN The Millions are of Crowns and not of Pounds