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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02976	The copie of a letter sent by the French king to the people of Artoys and Henault requesting them to remooue the forces gathered by the king of Spaine, from the borders of France, otherwise denouncing open warre. Also a declaration of the French kings proclaiming open warre against the king of Spaine and his adherents, and the causes him mouing therto.; Lettres du Roy portent declaration de la guerre aux villes de pays d'Artois, Hainaut, d'isle et autres de la subjection. English	France. Sovereign (1589-1610 : Henry IV)	1595 (1595)	STC 13119; ESTC S108571	4,829	18

THE Copie of a Letter sent by the French king to the people of Artoys and Henault requesting them to remooue the forces gathered by the king of Spaine from the Borders of France otherwise denouncing open warre Also a declaration of the French kings proclaiming open warre against the king of Spaine and his adherents and the causes him mouing therto VERTIAS TVA ET VSQVE AD NUBES LONDON Printed by Peter Short for Thomas Millington and are to be sold at his shop vnder S. Peters church in Cornhill 1595 The French Kinges letter sent to the people of Artois and Henault requesting them to remooue the forces gathered by the King of Spain from the borders of France otherwise denouncing open warre MAisters and freendes it is a thing honorable and the duety of a worthy and indeed a Christian prince to spare shedding of mans bloud and to reppresse the afflicting of innocent people as much as hee may In consideration whereof God hauing made vs to be descended of a very famous couragious Christian race euen as the Kinges our predesessors haue excelled in godlinesse and vertue so we imitating them are desirous to crowne our actions our raigne with excelling glory We therefore will not only call to witnes Gods diuine maiestie who is the alone searcher of the hearts of Princes but we are content also depending on nothing but on Gods helpe and our owne sworde to make all the worlde iudge togither of our cause among other we appeale to you who can best iudge and ought rightly to censure being our nearest neighbours and such as haue more knowledge of the right of our matters than all other You know that about fiue years past God by his holy prouidēce hauing put the scepter of France in our hands by lawfull succession hee charged vs immediatly with maintaining the iustest quarrell that euer prince in the worlde could vndertake binding vs to pursue the reuenge and punishing of a most execrable murther and parricide committed on the person of the deceassed King our most honorable and Soueraigne Lord and brother of most christian memorie and to defend our royall patrimonie against the ambition and rebelliō of those which would haue vsurped the same who afterward spared not any meanes that might be to haue obtained their purpose And albeit that euer since wee haue had both courage and the same right and abilitie that we now haue to reuenge our selues vpon y e countries and subiects of the King of Spaine the principall author and enterpriser of this war yet being holden backe by many considerations of great importance to al Christendom we haue chose rather to beare much defending our selues but simply than to set vpon those forcibly to whome we could peraduenture haue procured and done as much hurt as we haue receiued at their hands but hoping to winne them or moderate them in the end through our sufferance and the equitie of our cause which was approued and warranted of God by many speciall graces and conquests that it pleased God to grant vs ouer our enimies yet the eagernes and stomachfulnesse of the Kinge of Spaine and of his adherents hath ben such euen since our turning to the Catholicke Romish religion that perceyuing the cheefe Citties and the principall Lordes of our Realme who had before made war againste vs to haue now sworne all fidelitie and obedience yet notwithstanding in steed of doing as the duty of peace and of good neighbourhood couenanted by our predecessors to be betwene our crownes countries and subiects did will him to haue donne euery man knoweth howe hee hath still maintained and openly set on fire the obstiuate indenours of the residue of our traitors hath battered our forts put our subiects to ransome hath prepared and gathered togither from all partes forces and armies for to enter afresh into our realme and only for our sake laboureth to destroy the town of Cambray and the country of the Cambresians vsing against vs our freends seruauts and subiects all deedes of an open euemy Which thing being so as we cannot nor will not any longer forbeare the protection that wee owe our subiects and our selfe Wee haue also determined to repell the iniuries and offences which we receiue by the same meanes that they are offered vs. But calling to mind the olde loue and affection of kings our predecessors toward you and your good will and duty yelded to them and moreouer it being manifest that you be a little faulty of this war you must endure the chiefest and most fierce assaults when it shall be open war We haue ben willing to dayn of the proclamatiō herof for your sakes for to giue you to vnderstande that if you can so handle the matter to obtaine that the army gathered togither neare our fronters by commandemtnt of the King of Spaine by whom shall be no lesse annoied than we doubt to be may be remooued far from vs and will assure and promise vs that they shal not enterprise any hurt against vs our subiects and countries the Cittie of Cambray and the country of the Cambresians nor that they shall not fauor our traytors then wil we not go forward with our proclamation of war so as wee may see the same take effect betweene this and the first day of the next yeare But if this be not donne wee shall bee constrained for the reasons aforesaide to proclame make open war againste the Kinge of Spaine his subiects and countries that shall abide by him and ayde him in the same war like as the kings our predesessors haue donne vpon the like occasions Protesting before God and his holy angels that we shall be very sorie therefore in regard of the euill that wee foresee like to ensew vnto Christendome For auoiding of which wee haue don that a Prince louing the weale of Christendome and to liue in concord with his neighbours could haue donne You shall receiue this present writing one of our trumpets by whome if you shall delay to make answere or by some other within the time appointed we will take it as we heare from you So we pray to God to keepe you From Amiens the xvij of December 1594. THE Kinges Proclamation A declaration of the French kings proclaming open warre against the king of Spaine and his adherents with the causes him mouing therto THere is no manne in this Realme nor that knoweth any thing of the realm but knoweth how the kinge of Spaine not hauing beene able to make open warre so to destroy France which God hath protected and defended with the Kinges thereof of happy memorie the said kinges being still ayded by their good loyall subiects hath raysed vp and sette on fire dissentions and partes taking in the same whereby he thought to bring the realme to vtter ruine and yet doe the same dissentions greatly trouble the realme For his hatred toward vs and his couetousnesse haue beene so vehement that not onely he hath spent and

bestowed many large summes of money employed and wasted his principall forces and Armyes euen so farre that he left his owne countreyes vnfurnished but also he hath enterprised vnder a colour of godlinesse and religion to attempte openly for to inuegle from time to time naturall Frenchmen to abandon their loyaltie due to their liege princes and Souereigne Lordes a practise alwaies wondered at of all nations in the world he still seeking to get the crowne of this noble realme for himselfe or for his Which matter he began to attempt immediatlie after the decease of king Frances the second and hath euer since continued the same by diuers meanes sought still triumphing and abusing the minoritie of our kinges But he especially manifested the same and made it plainelie to appear a little before the end of the raign of king Henry the third deceassed of most christian memorie in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fourescore and fiue for the Frenchmen then enioying wholie and quietlie Religion Iustice the kings great fauonr and generall rest and being like nay assured to continue in this happie estate to their owne content the K. of Spaine euen then vnder false forged shewes went about to fill all the Realme with fire bloodshed and extreame desolation arming the Catholikes one against another yea and againste as Catholicke a king as euer raigned Wherupon followed his wofull death which will bleed continuallie in the harts of those that are right Frenchmen besides other murthers spoiles and miseries which wee haue suffered vnder the heauie burden of which France and Frenchmen haue and should haue been brought to yeeld themselues yea to haue suffered perpetuall shipwracke had not the singular grace of God which neuer faileth his giuen to our K. and souereigne Lorde nowe force and valour to defend coragiouslie the right of his cause with our liberties goods liues houses and honors and to bring to naught the vniust purposes of the said king of Spaine and his confederates to his shame and their confusion So that France may nowe be in hope to recouer the former happie estate to the glorie of God vnder obedience of the kinges royall maiestie if euery body wil be readie to yeelde thereto his faithfull endeuour and his maiestie employing also the same meanes and remedies that other kings his predecessors haue in times paste practized for to defende the realme against the ancient enemies thereof Which matter considered by his maiestie together with the tender care he hath of maintaining religion his owne credite the defence and protection of his subiects whereof hee maketh more reckoning than of his owne life as he hath often hazarded willinglie and is still readie to hazard his life for their good for neither the kings turning to the same religion with the Spaniarde aboute three yeares since nor the present danger that threatneth all christendome which euerie man knoweth to haue risen through the discords and iust gelousie that the king of Spaine his ambition hath bred euery where none of these things could moderat his malitious mind against this realme the kings maiesties person his good and faithfull subiects the people of Cambray whom his maiestie hath taken into his protection against whom the king of Spaine and his people vse all hostilitie daily continuallie assaulting them violently on euerie side battering and taking townes leading away prisoners putting them to ransom killing his subiects raising taxes and fines vpon them and dealing in al things as a sworne enemy yea so far as hee hath caused attemptes to be made of taking awaie his Maiesties life by trecheries and villainous detestable meanes as appeared not many daies past and worse had it happened to the greate woe of France had not God the true protector of kings wonderfullie turned aside that horrible stroke offered by the hand of a Frenchman an abhominable and monstrous matter but driuen to that act by a spirit most voide of humanitie and indeed Spaniardlike euen againste the kings sacred maiestie The king therfore herevpon giueth notice to all those vnto whome it shall appertaine that he will no longer forbeare the maintaining of his honor the protection of his subiects to whō he is bound of the people of Cambray whose part he would defend though he did yet longer with patience forbeare the going forward with the attempts seeing those of Artoys and Henault make small account to the greefe of his maiestie of exhortations that he by his letters was about to make them that they should putte to their helping hand with him to turne awaie or appease the furie of war raised by the said Spaniards being no lesse noysome and pernitious to those of Artoys and Henault than to his subiects he hath determined and is resolued from henceforth to make open warre against the said king of Spaine his subiects vassals countries for to be reuenged vpon them of wrongs iniuries and offences that hee and his haue sustayned at their hands like as other kings his predecessors haue done vpon the like occasions vndoubtedly trusting that God who knoweth the secrets of his hart and the equitie of his cause will alwaie assist him with his diuine power will blesse him and make him prosper and al his armie with the helpe of his good subiects In regard whereof the kings maiestie commaundeth and most straightly enioyneth al his said subiects vassals and seruants to make war hereafter against the said king of Spaine by sea and by land and against his countreys subiects vassals and adherentes as against enemies to the kings person and his realme and for the accomplishing hereof that they go with forces in to his saide countries to assault and surprise townes Fortes and places that are vnder his obeisance and there to leuie taxes fines ransomes To take his subiects and seruants prysoners and put them to ransome and to deale w t them like enemies euen as they doe and would doe with his Maiesties subiectes and friendes Therefore his Maiestie hath forbidden dooth by these presents streitly prohibit and forbidde all manner of communication entercourse of Merchandise giuing intelligence company keeping or dealing with the saide king of Spaine his adherents Seruauntes and Subiectes vpon paine of being taken and adiudged Traytors He hath also reuoked and doth by thes presents reuoke all licenses pasports and safe conducts giuen aud granted by his maiestye or by his Lieutenants generall or other being contrarie to this present decree declaring them hereby to be of no value forbidding them to bee holden of Magistrates as things of no regard after fifteene daies expired after the publishing of this decree Which decree he hath therefore caused to be proclaymed with sound of Trumpette and publike Proclamation throughout the Prouinces and frontiers of the Realme to the ende that none may pretend ignorance but that euerye one may obserue and put the same inexecution vpon paine of disobedience Yeouen at Paris the xvii day of Ianuary 1595. Signed Henry Neusuille