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A02968	A declaration and protestation, published by the King of Nauarre, the L. Prince of Conde, and the L. Duke of Montmorency, concerning the peace concluded with the house of Lorrayn, the captaines and chiefe aucthors of the league, to the preiudice of the house of Fraunce. Also two letters written by the sayd King of Nauarre. The one to the Parliament, the other to the maisters of Sorbonne. More an epistle written by Phillipp de Morney to the French King: hereunto, for the playner declaration of the innocencie of the sayd princes, are inserted the articles agreed vpon betweene the King and the Lordes of Guyze. All faithfully translated out of French; Déclaration et protestacion du roy de Navarre, de M. le prince de Condé et M. le duc de Montmorency sur la paix faicte avec ceux de la maison de Lorraine. English.	Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.; Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623, attributed name.; Aggas, Edward, attributed name.; Condé, Henri I de Bourbon, prince de, 1552-1588.; Montmorency, Henri, duc de, 1534-1614.; Navarre (Kingdom). Sovereign (1572-1610 : Henry III) aut	1585 (1585)	STC 13109; ESTC S117933	30,651	88

he reuiued the publication of his Edict of pacification throughout all partes of his Realme as a testimony to al but chiefly to those of the Religion that hee in no wise ment to encline to the demaunds of these men but did rather condemne them for that they sought to abolish the sayde Religion by force of armes his Maiestie knowing that to be no meet or lawfull meane as also by sundry letters he assured the King of Nauarre that he would do nothing preiudiciall either to the sayed Edict or him whose cause he acknowledged to be his owne All the premisses notwithstanding it so fell out that vpon a sudden a peace was concluded with those of this famely and league wherof proceeded an Edict wherby the former Edict of pacification so deliberatly confirmed so solemnly sworne vnto by their Maiesties the Princes of his blood all the Courtes of Parliament and the chiefe Lords officers of the crowne which also had bene so freshly reiterated and again confirmed was now vtterly reuoked all exercise of religion vnder paine of death prohibited all professors thereof condemned within the tearme of sixe months to depart the realme the townes for assurance which likewise of his owne accord and for diuers considerations concerning the welth and quiet of his estate he had proroged to those of the said religion they should now speedely habādon to the ende to buy peace at the hands of the sayed Rebels traitors so proclaymed and acknowledged by his Maiestie with the hinderance of his neerest kinsemen and which is worse the weapons committed to the hands of those men to the end to put the same in execution a matter vtterly repugnant to all lawes which doe meerly forbid the execution of any decree to be committed to the aduerse partie nay more that he shal not assist thereat notwithstanding it were to maintaine the execution of Iustice Hereupon therefore doth the King of Nauarre desire all good Frenche men in France to consider what cause he hath to to lament In their publike protestations the conspirators opposed themselues directly against him and yet he to the ende to satisfie the Kings minde and to auoyde all occasion of the peoples oppression remained peaceable and neuer would arme himselfe although he see them in armes round about him He see the Kings mind enclined to peace and that euil and ruine which they openly procured him might haue mooued him by all meanes to crosse them yet for the benefite of the realme he offered to the king some entrie to quietnesse by the declaration which expressely he published yea such as he trusteth all Christiandome will allowe of and the veriest barbarous nation would haue aceapted of They spake of the rooting out of heresie and the Christian authors fought against it with generall Counsels he submitted himselfe to a counsayle and declared himselfe to be ready to be enstructed therby and to yeeld thereto They craued reformation and alteration in some matters of estate such controuersies and differents are by the auncient statutes of the land to bee determined by the generall estates to the assembly whereof whensoeuer it should please the King to summon them hee offered to referre and submit himselfe They requested that the King of Nauarre and the professors of the Religion should immediatly habandon and depart the Townes of assurance notwithstanding the Kings prorogation of the tenour of the same to them graunted for the eschuing of al mistrust he offered without delay to yeeld thē yea which is more to dispossesse himselfe and to render into the Kings handes both he and the Lorde Prince of Conde al gouernments that they holde within this Realme conditionally that the others might doe the like notwithstanding such inequalitie as all men may easely perceiue for it is not meete to make straungers equall with the houshold children Moreouer if there were any further controuersie the decision whereof might touch or any way concerne him for the exempting of the King whose person would be too deare a price to this Realm from all daunger and care therof the sayd King of Nauarre besought his Maiestie not to mislike the determining of any such quarrell either by his power against theirs either els for the preuenting of publicke calamitie by his person against the Duke of Guyze or by more to more as he should think good within the realm or without in whatsoeuer place of free accesse adding moreouer that if his Maiestie could conceiue any more conueniēt remedie for the pacifying of the estate of the Realme the sayed King of Nauarre woulde gladly yeelde thereto and not to spare his life therein most humbly withal beseeching his Maiestie so farre to honor him as to let him vnderstande the same Howbeit nothing respecting all these his so reasonable offers thei haue in the mean time proceeded to a treaty of peace to the great preiudice of the estate and house of Fraunce yea of the King himselfe A peace to speake indifferently vnwoorthy any such title as beeing to bee rather accompted a summons of warre yea vnlesse God of his great mercie doe preuent it such a warre as will be an entry into the ruine and subuertion of the whole estate A peace made with straūgers for the rooting out of the home borne childrē with Traytors for the spoyle of the obedient Subiects with conspirators to the end to commit to their hands the sworde against himselfe to abuse at their pleasures A peace that hath not so much as the tast of any thing appertayning to peace A black peace A wofull and funerall peace and of an vnfortunate aspect A peace which the King signed not but with a quaking and shiuering hand A peace whereto the Princes of his bloud and Peers of this Realm yea the most Catholicke haue refused to sweare as being the decree of their deaths and the small ouerthrowe of the estate which moreouer procureth no comforte either to the Countrey or Townes but hath filled all the good Frenchmen of this Realme with horror and reioyced onely those that nourish them selues and feede vpō their deaths A peace to say the troth which the sayd Lord King of Nauarre acknowledgeth not to be imputed vnto the King a courteous and iust Prince from whose nature the same is too odious neither to the Queene his mother who in al her indeuours haue sought no other but the tranquilitie of the Realme but partly to the dastardlinesse of some of the Kings Counsayle and partly to the trecherie of other some who are either seruants or of kindred and alliaunce with those of this league who also as it is sufficiently knowen in the beginning lessened and deminished the mischiefe propounding it vnto him to be easely appeased least he should haue prouided remedies necessary there against But afterward euen at once when they see the power of the league waxe great did so enlarge it to his view that he was easely perswaded that himselfe might soone be by

person together with the Queene his mother who in wisedome had consented to the sayed edict and through iust feare of their forces was compelled not without manifold reclayming the aide of the Princes of the bloud against their tyrannie to yeeld and in the ende to auctorize them for her patrons All this they did to the ende to entangle the Princes youth in mallice hatred and warres against his owne bloud therby to weaken the Realme and to lay it open to their inuasions to drawe to themselues both the auctoritie and force which indeede they brought to passe so liuing and raigning in and among armes which as opportunitie should serue they might abuse to their owne pretences This foundation did they lay so firme that for the space of these 25. yeres this Realme hath flowed with ciuill warres vnder the support whereof they haue exercized their mallice satisfied their reuenging affectiōs and laboured their ambition with the price of the King and his estate yea euen with the price through their accursed execrable counsayles of the honour of the French nation vnto whom are imputed al the mischiefes and calamities that thorowe the counsayle of this fatall house of Lorrayne hath beene contriued vntill the King now raigning by his wisedome foūd out that the zeale of Religion by thē published as a shield was but a pretence that the true spirite of Religion whereof him selfe hath more apprehension and feeling then they doth not perswade or counsaile the violation of publick lawes the breach of oath or the tainting of a whole estate with bloud and murder so that he perceiued that vndoubtedly it was but a practise to climbe higher for the preuenting whereof it was requisite to ende the troubles of his Realme by an equal and indifferent peace conuenient for the present time referring to God who only raigneth in the consciences all operation in the hearts of his subiects for the reuniting bringing them all to one Religion Howbeit this peace being made not by force but of the Kings meere motion and free consent which also in respect thereof he would haue called his peace this famely could not brooke it as men that could neuer finde any peace in peace and therfore did continually crosse it by al meanes and subtilties possible yea they procured their partakers by all kinde of iniuries violences and wrōgfull attempts to driue the professors of the Religiō into dispaire and impatiencie to force them to take armes whereby the King might iustly leauie warre against them Againe on the other side they sollicited the sayd professors of Religion to ioyne with them alleadging the benefite of the Common-wealth and promising them libertie of religion vnder whatsoeuer cautions or assurances that they could desire leauing no deuice or pollicie vnpractised that might returne this estate into trouble as knowing that the quiet and peace of the land fighteth against ouerthroweth all their deuises and purposes Finally finding the King more and more resolued to maintaine peace and the professors of the Religion crauing nothing more hartely thē quietnes vnder the benefite of the edicts Especially my Lord the Duke of Anieowe deceased and the King without issue whō by an imagination which cannot spring but out of desire they assure themselues to out li●e and vnto whome as all men knowe they haue prescribed and limited but a short time they resolued to rise in armes and to seaze vpon their Maiesties persons had they not beene discouered togither with the most part of the Realm so to bee the better prouided against the time of their imagined alteration Also for the drawing of the greater number of partakers to this conspiracie they haue published sundrie titles and pretences as true the one as the other therby to accomodate them selues to the diuers mindes and seuerall affections of men stil cloking their poyson and venome vnder a gorgeous title of a counter poyson the rather to abuse and confirme their adherents The pretences and titles published are these The Common wealth The discharge of the third estate The reintegration of the Nobilitie in their pristinate dignitie The reestablishing of the Church in her liberties and priuiledges The suppression of certaine persons Whom the King hath exalied The restitution of such as they pretend to haue beene euill en 〈…〉 and hardly dealt with The nominatiō of a Catholick Romish successor to the Crowne for the defence of the Romish Church The extirpation of heresie and rooting out of those whō they pretend to be heretickes All these things haue they promised to bring to passe before they cease and yet how they haue accomplished it I leaue to all mens consideration The true cause yet remaineth vnspoken of is the same that only hath already produced some effects Viz. To be armed to the end to prescribe lawes to the King vnder colour of rooting out of Heretikes and to make away the chiefe Princes of the blood and such as are their principall stumblingblockes that is those that professe the religion wherein they were borne and bread vp so the easelier to attaine to the rest and this hath the King very well marked euen from the beginning of their broyles hetherto For in sundry his Letters to the King of Nauarre he hath confessed that he knoweth well enough that this their zeale of Religion is but a pretence that their drifts do tend against his own person his house and estate And in the meane time because vnder this pretence they had abused many of his subiects he requireth the said king of Nauarre to haue pacience vntil he might euidently discipher the colors from the causes and the pretences from the purposes assuring him that hee findeth the enterprise directly against him selfe and so the offence to appertaine properly vnto him Moreouer vpon the same iudgement and foresight his Maiestie hath by his expresse Letters commaunded al gouernours and Lieutenants generall in their Prouinces and perticuler chardges to assaile their troopes and hath proclaimed and declared them Rebels Traytors perturbers of cōmon peace and enemies to the Estate Vpon the verfication of these his Maiesties commaundements in all the Courts of Parliament there haue ensued many decrees yea some haue bene executed besides that the like messages haue bin sent to all Princes allied and confederat to the Crowne with expresse commaundement to his Maiesties Embassadours to direct their speeches conformably thereunto Viz. That his Maiestie findeth by the effectes as well past as present and vnderstandeth by the demeanurs and testimonies aforesayde that the insurrection of those of this house notwithstāding whatsoeuer their pretences is one of the fruits of their first attempts that is of their conspiracie to roote out the house of France whereof none neede to plead ignoraunce that list but to looke backe vnto and call to minde their behauiours these 25. yeres and more and at once to consider well of the same At the same time also that his Maiestie proclaymed them Rebels

bene brought vp in a Religion which I think holy and true neither need there any testimonie whether in hart I do professe the same For otherwise I could haue eschued so many mischiefes as I haue beene forced to suffer wherein naturally man can cōceiue no great delight I could otherwise also haue purchased the Kings fauour and loue of his people which next after Gods fauour I accompt most profitable and requisite for me The case being such it is ouer hard and so I suppose your selues will thinke to desire that without any other forme or order I should forsake my Religion force both my conscience and soule yea if I should bee so wretched as in such sort to offend your selues might iustly mistrust me in all other matters Me that shoulde sayle in that which in the iudgement of my owne soule I thinke to be my duetie to God a matter that reasonably none can require at my hands This is it that as I thinke I haue voluntarily offered and which daylie I doe still offer Namely to bee instructed in a free lawfull Counsell wherein the controuersies of religion may be thorowly dobated and decided so to yeeld to whatsoeuer shall be determined A way as your selues are not ignorant at all times practised in the Church in like cases and that by the wisest Kings and Emperours in the world A way whereunto you my Maisters haue often counsayled the Kings predecessors and whereby you haue alwaies bene able to maintaine the priuiledges and rightes of the French Church against many vsurpations To bee briefe such a waye as the Church in her greatest force neuer refused for reducing into her bosome euen meane persons yea sometimes one man onely And therfore much lesse ought she now to reiect or flee from the same now I say when it standeth vpon millions of soules vpon whole Tounes and large Prouinces vpon an infinite number of qualified persons euen of the chiefe Princes of the blood neerest to the Crowne who can not easely bee forced neither rooted out without subuertion of the estate and yet being by reason perswaded to chaunge may be a cause of firme peace in this land of a stedfast revniō of y e Catholick church with the foreiudgement of their persons and of a more happy worlde not to this Realme only which were an inestimable gayne but also to all Christendome and Europe which necessarily must haue some feeling of the miseries and calamities of so puissant an estate This my Maisters is the offer that I haue made to the King my Lord which now I doe repeate vnto you and whereof I call you to witnesse among all to whom it may appertaine to the end it may be manifest both to those that now liue and to the posteritie that I was not the cause of disquiet in this estate either any hinderance that the Church was not reduced into her former vnion peace and tranquilitie Where as it is obiected against me that I am an hereticke you are to shewe vnto the world of you haue I learned it that there is great difference betwixt heresie and error That al that hold an heresie are not neuerthelesse heretickes That heretickes are they who doe proceede either vpon ambition or obstinacie wherof neither can haue place in me whom no man euer went about to teach and whom contrariwise they haue by all meanes endeuoured to cast of alleadging no other reason then a strong ambition Besides that I haue renounced the large path to that greatnesse that by the Catholicke Romish Religion lay open vnto me and haue taken the contrary way viz. the way of persecution and contempt constantly perseuering in that which vsually is called and I doe accompt reformed But admit it were so It is against error and heresie that the Church calleth Cōsailes and consultations are houlden to cure the diseased the Surgeon vseth neither Iron nor fire but where his plaisters are to weake It it an euident argument of passion when they begin conuersion with subuersion and instruction with destruction With rooting out and Warre when they should begin with brotherly admonition and gentlenesse Neither is is enough to alledge the holding of the Counsaile of Trent wherein was condemned the religion which I professe and they tearme Heresie you all my my Masters doe knowe what maner of Counsaile that was neither did you euer allowe thereof yea there against haue the whole Estate Cleargie and Parliaments of this Realme often protested You knowe also that in case it had beene lawfully called and holden yet had that bene no preiudice to the summoning of an other Especially sith it concerneth the saluation and reestablishment of such persons and so great an estate Cōtrariwise I am giuen to vnderstand that in the generall Counsaile holden at Basill it was ordeined that from ten yere to ten yere there should be a Counsaile holden to the ende to cut off such errors as might spring in the church Much more needfull then were it for the rooting out such as alreadie are growne vp Iudge now therfore my Maisters which of vs is in the right whether of vs in this case is most to bee respected either who propoūdeth the meetest remedie for this estate The straūger craueth that the home borne childe bee cast out vnder colour of heresie Euen the straūger who long haue practised to haue his roome Mee truely notwithstāding farre vnequall with them vpon whose behauiours they can take no hold I neither haue nor doe desire but to haue my cause heard by a Counsaile to be taught the best way to doe better if I be better instructed Which then will you iudge most right either what neede the whole Realme to bee kindled herewith For who doubteth whether you will sooner choose either ciuill Warre or a Counsaile either the subuertion of the one half of this estate by the other or rather the reunion of both partes of this Realme into one which vndoubtedly wil be of great consequence to all Christiandome Now therfore I doe finally declare vnto you that I craue and am ready to yeeld to a Counsaile that I am readie to hearkē to the Church therein And therefore can you not accompt me either an Ethnicke or Publicane I doe moreouer giue you to 〈◊〉 that in default of a generall Counsalle for the pacifying of matters I do not refuse a nationall which often hath bene practised in this Realme yea and that by your owne counsaile and consent But if notwithstanding any these my offers and request they doe contrary to all order of the Church proceed by banishmēts murders and other rigorous barbarousnesse I am resolued to oppose my selfe in my iust defence against such horrible banishments and violences And the curse be vpon those that doe trouble this estate vnder the false pretence of the Church You therefore doe I call to witnesse of the reasonable conditions whereto I submit my selfe Also God for my defender who is able to debate my

enough to spread it selfe abroad Onely God giue vs grace to leaue all our passions at the threshold of the doore and to enter in in a ful desire to see finde the trueth as being freed from all particuler interest except of our soules Consider Sir what contentation your self in your life time shal reape what honor with the posteritie you shall atchieue if in your daies and through your wisdom and exaple you maye determine a Scisme of so many yeres continuaunce and procure throughout all Christendom the singing of that song of the Angles Glory be to God on high and in earth peace When in this duetie you haue preuēted the Popes Emperours and Catholick Kings yea euen exeded your most Christian forerunners therein shewing your selfe in deede most Christian for your self Christian for France Christian for the whole church God I take to witnesse that from my harte I doe write vnto you al that I seeke which is to see in our time the Church pourged and the Temple swept to the end we may be conuersant togither All men doe agree and long haue that there are abuses among vs. Let them be taken away and cleansed and let vs not set our selues against our selues neither let vs search starting holes to our losse or shewe our selues skilfull contrary to our saluation Way●ing for this benefite at your Maiesties hand let vs one beare with another in modestie gentlenesse suffering your Edicts of Peace to rule and mens consciences to be in rest and as for those which in the meane tyme doe counsaile to surcease or forbid the exercise of the soule they shewe them selues to haue no great feeling of their owne sith thei suppose the soules can liue without their action or foode yea those that thinke it so easie a matter for others to neglect the seruing of GOD according to their consciences doe by that lawe which they prescribe to others sufficiently shew what them selues are viz. of themselues cōtemners of God deuoyde of Religion and Conscience Sir your Maiestie are to excuse my boldnesse In great inconueniences great men haue not despised the meanest voices The barking of one Dog hath preserued many a house from spoyle and the gagling of one Goose was sufficient to keep the Capitoll Duetie and daunger must iustefie my presumption Duetie for it were an offence in daunger to hold my peace Daunger also for it is plaine deceipt in seeing to seeme not to see I beseech sir the Creator with his holy spirite to assist your Maiestie to giue you the same for counsayle and conduct and after so many trauayles to see his Realme florish in yours to prosper vnder his to his glorie your praise and the peace of your people So be it Your most humble and most obedient seruaunt and subiect P. D. M. A Declaration of the Articles agreed vpon betwene the King and the house of Guyze and their adherents commonly called The holy League THE Princes Officers of the Crowne Lordes Gentlemen townes comminalties other the Catholikes of this Realme vnited being the King most humble subiectes and seruants vnderstandihg by the Queene that his Maiesties entent is to embrace the cause of Religion as being holy and iust and to roote out all heresies out of this Realme praysing God for inspiring him with so good holy a mynd do most humbly beseech him to assist thē and the Queene to continue her wonted affection to whatsoeuer concerneth the benefite and preseruation of the state to the ende to prouide for the same They doe therefore desire his Maiestie to set forth an Edict which may be perpetuall and irreuocable wherby all exercize of the newe Religion may bee abolished and the Ministers expelled the Realme Also in asmuch as libertie of conscience tollerated among subiectes maye breede much contempt and 〈◊〉 against the seruice of God It may be enioyned to all his subiectes of whatsoeuer calling or condition to professe the Catholick Apostolike and Romish Religion within 〈…〉 after the publishing thereof otherwise to departe the Realme and no way to sell or dispose of their goodes 〈◊〉 the same to remaine to their Catholicke heires in direct line if they haue any p 〈…〉 ing the iust valewe and estimate of the ●owerth part of the sayd goodes But if their heires be other then in 〈◊〉 collaterall the to pay the estimate of the third parte according to the valewation that shall be● made by the Commissioners thereunto appointed and the money hereof arising to be committed into the handes of certaine persons thereto deputed to bee employed vpon the execution of this enterprize That all Heretickes of whatsoeuer state or condition may be declared according to the Canonicall Sanctions perpetually incapable of all publicke charges offices estates and dignities and those that now haue any to be forced to forgoe resigne the same vnto Catholicke persons such as are capable and not to keepe them notwithstanding they would abiure their error except for the space of three yeres after the sayd abiuration they continewe in Catholicke life so as there may be no further doubt of fayned repentaunce or dissimulation That his Maiestie declare al whatsoeuer haue bene done by the Catholick Princes and Lordes and all other as well particuler persons as Tounes and Communalties that haue taken their partes and suc 〈◊〉 oured and fauoured them either in the seazing vpon Townes fetching of Coyne out of his receiptes taking vp of victualles and Munition or leauying of Souldiers either within the Realme or without and generally all whatsoeuer haue bene done wrought or delt in vntill this present touching the effect and execution of the premises notwithstanding the same bee not particulerly specified or expressed to haue beene done for his seruice with the assuraunce of Religion to the preseruation whereof he acknowledgeth himself to b● bound both as a most Christian King and also by that solemne oath that hee tooke at his annoynting To the ende the Catholiques may not quaile or reenter into any feare iudging the sequel hereof by others that are already past that is that this enterprize should be but couldly prosecuted and finally determined by some other Edict contrary to this by meanes whereof there were no other fruict to be hoped for thē the common mischiefe and domages ensuing of Warre They do most humbly beseech his Maiestie to ordeyne that this sayde Edict may presently bee published without any restriction or qualification vppon the secrete recordes or otherwise It may also please his Maiestie with the Peeres and other officers of the Crowne to assist the publication therof in the Parliament of Paris and the same being read to declare that as a most Christian King being bound aswell by the othe that hee toooke at his Coronation as also by that zeale which alwayes hee hath borne to the seruice of GOD togither with the request and supplication to him made by the generall estates of his Realme assembled at Bloys he hath