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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19891	A summe of the Guisian ambassage to the Bishop of Rome, founde lately amongst the writinges of one Dauid and aduocate of Paris, and translated out of French into Latin, and from Latin into English	David, Advocate of Paris.	1579 (1579)	STC 6319; ESTC S106678	9,329	32

the day of the Parliaments shall come before any thing is referred to the assembly an oath shall be exacted in order of euery one that whatsoeuer shall be agreed vpon decreed in the Parliaments shall be kept and obserued The Citizens moreouer shall binde their brotherhooddes to beare the charges of all the warres Lastly his Holines shal be entreated that it woulde please him by his authority to allowe and ratify whatsoeuer shal be decreed in these Parliaments and that it woulde please him that there maye be lyke force of these decrees as hath bene accustomed to bee of the pragmaticall decree betweene the holye Sea and this Realme as heretofore it hath bene done in those things which haue ben agreed vpon betwene the Kings and the Bishops Moreouer to the entent the right of the royal inheritaunce may be conuayed away from the kinred stocke and family of Caper and that deposing of them maye according to the manner and custome of our Forefathers be left in the power of the Parliaments A decree shall be made that if any Prince of the blood royall if any peere or noble man shall refuse to obey the same decree of the Parliaments The Prince from that daye forwarde shal be Proclaymed vnworthy the inheritance of the kingdome The peere or noble man shall be iudged vnworthy of all his honours and tytles their goods shall be confiscated to the ende that mony of the sale therof gathered together maye be employed to the vse of the warre and they them selues shall be adiudged to die And if they be apprehended they shal be put to death if not their counterfaits or pictures shal be made fast vpon the Gallous gibbets and rewards shal be proposed publikely to such as shall slaye or kyll them These thinges being establyshed and an oath to the same exacted and geuen the States of the Realme shal yeeld to the successour of Saint Peter a new oath of fidelity and shall professe that they wyl lyue and die in the forme of that faith Religion which hath bene prescribed by the Counsell of Trent the States of the Realme in these Parliaments shall iudic●ide to the sayde Counsell and shall pronounce and protest all Edicts which in this Realme hath bene made against the authority of that Counsell to be taken for voyde vnlawfull and as if they had neuer bene writtē But on the other side all those Edicts which haue bene made to the rooting out and abolyshing of heresies to be kept and obserued The King by the authoritie and dispensation of the holy Sea shal be discharged and absolued from that oath which hee hath made to Heretikes and their associates and confederates And to the Heretikes shall a certaine day be appointed before the which they shall professe before the Ecclesiastical Magistrats that they are sory for their enterprise to the entent they maye obtaine Absolution for so great an offence they shal entreat the Prince to pardō them of high treasō And because the execution of this Article may be hindred and stayed by certaine rebellious Prouinces which haue taken Armes supplication must be made to the king that he woulde make some Viccar generall or Viceroy of his kingdome which must be a fytte Prince and skylfull of warres able and lustie for courage age and body apte to geue counsayle and aduise of him selfe and to endure the paynes of warre especiallye such a one as hath alwayes kept him selfe pure and vnspotted from all stayne contagion and company of Heretiks And briefly he shall be requested that he woulde geue this honour vnto the Duke of Guise whome it is well knowen to be furnished and endued with all helpes of wytte and bodye and skyll of warfare to take in hande such an office Then the Kinges Brother must be admonished and tolde what a great offence he hath commytted in that hee forsooke his Brother the King to ioyne him selfe to Heretikes yea and to be their Captaine and to leade an Armie against his Brother the King and in that he forced his Brother to graunt vnto him not onely a parte of his kingdome and very large and excessiue allowaunce but also to suffer him to haue a Relygion of so execrable impietie And forasmuch as this is the fyrst and highest poynt of treasō against Gods Maiestie and the Kinges for that it is not in the Kinges power to pardon so greeuous an offence request shall be made to the Parliamentes that Iudges may be appointed to the Duke of Alanson which maye heare and determine of so great a fault and the memorie of the most holy godly example of the Catholique King shal be renued which dyd not spare his onely Sonne Finally at the day that the Parliaments shal be dissolued from all parts of the Realme shall the Armies of the Parishes and other bandes aswell extraordinarie as ordinarie discouer them selues to put in execution the decree of the Parliaments and they shall apprehend the Duke of Alenson and the rest which haue taken parte with him in his gouernement and wicked warres By this practise the Duke of Guise hauing gathered a strong Army shal set vpon such Prouinces as haue rebelled the which he shal conquer either by force and Armes eyther by pollycie and deuices and he shall with terrour ouerrunne both farre and wide spoyling the Country and surprising all strong Townes by hunger force and want by buylding and raysing vp Castels and Holdes neare about by making often outroades vpon the inhabitants and he shall not to lyttle purpose spende tyme in subduing by force and Gunshotte strong Citties as it came to passe at the assaulte of Rochell When the Duke of Guise hath gotten this famous and noble Victorie and hath made his entraunce way into the chiefest Cities of the Realme hauing the nobility lincked to him he shall finde meanes to make inquisition of Duke Alenson the kinges Brother and other his associates and at the last by the lycence and counsayle of his holinesse shall thrust the King and the Queene into a Monasterie following the example of his great Grandfather king Pepin Who draue Childerick the king entrapped by the lyke meanes into a Monastery and by this deuice the secular inheritance of the Crowne of Fraunce together with the Apostolicall blessyng being recouered he shal restore without exception and restraint vnto the holy Sea the auncient dignitye power and authoritie and shall repeale and reuoke the Priuiledges of the Church of Fraunce as they are commonly called yeelding his fayth and oath fyrst that he wyll when he shall haue gotten vnto him selfe the kingdome religiously and inuiolably performe all these thinges ¶ An Addition LEast good Reader the effect of this Legacie should not be knowen vnto thee I haue thought good to annexe to this Reporte the famous eyther inuention or declaration of Pope Stephan wherby the weake confirmation of the Guisian right maye be knowen

malediction of the said Apostolicall Seate from the which curse so great falsehood theft and rebellion against the holy Sea haue sprong to the destruction ouerthrow wherof that detestable law and ordinaunce hath bene enacted and put in vre which commonly amongst the French men is called the freedome or liberty of the French Church which in former tymes hath bene a refuge ayde to the Albigenses and beggars of Lions as they termed them and now in our time to the Lutherans and Caluinistes hath geuen occasion and matter of rebellion In somuch that it is not to be maruailed that the victories of those kings which these .16 yeares past haue vndertaken warre for the Catholike church haue had no happy successe neither at any time shall as longe as the Crowne shall rest in the family of Capet That it may seeme that God in this conclusion of the last shamefull peace hath as it were called home the rightfull and lawfull heires of the Crowne vnto their right and to haue offered occasion and beginning to restore the Crowne vnto the heads of the ryght heires of Charles Of whome there is not one vntill this day found which hath not shewed vnto the holy Sea fidelity obedience and due reuerence and by that faithfulnes and dutifulnes hath declared him selfe to be the true right and lawfull heire of the Apostolicall blessing bestowed vpon the crowne of Fraunce That it is well knowen now to all men that the stocke of those that descende from Capet is caried headlong into a reprobate sence by the iust plague of God for that some of them are hartles and wytles of no wisdome or courage some other reprobate reiected hated of God and men Heretikes excommunicate and cast of from the holy fellowship of the church That it is a token of this malediction fyrst that some of them are borne of an euyll shape of body of fowle and stained blood Further that in the flowre of their age they dye leauing no heyres of their body to enioye the kingdome and that there remayneth no hope of their stocke and yssue and therfore the inheritaunce of the kingdome is like to paste away to Heretiks and excōmunicants to the great hurt of the Apostolicke Sea. That where great daunger now is at hand all the endeuour of all the catholickes ought to be employed that the crowne of Fraunce be restored to the true and lawfull heires of Charles especially seeing they are so fresh and florishing in mind and body that they are well knowen to be most fyttest to atchieue and enterprise the greatest matters and of most accompt That the late warres hath aduanced them to attaine honors rules and offyces but that peace shall restore againe to them the lawfull inheritance of the kingdome with great good will and lyking of all the French Nation Wherfore it is not to be doubted but that the couenants and conditions of this dishonourable peace which are graunted to the Heretikes by their new Edict of Pacification although they may seeme profitable and conuenient to the Heretikes yet are they framed and deuised not by mans counsell but by Gods that the prayse honour and glory of the vanquishing of the Heretikes may rest vpon God onely and the blessing of his holy Vicar in earth Wherfore it is to be prouided that in all catholicke citties wholsome Sermons maye be made meete to styrre vp the citizens mindes and to let the assemblyes of the abhominable secte permitted by the last Edict That the king is to be warned that the new styrres which he shall heare euery where to be continually raysed do not disquiet and trouble his minde and that he put the Duke of Guise in trust to compose and pacify them who hauing authority from the king with a stoute and valiant corage shall make confederacies betweene the nobility and the cities so shall bynd each one with an oathe that they be not onely bound to solow his authority but also priuatly and properly his fayth and shall sweare that they wyll acknowledge no other chiefe of the confederacie but the Duke of Guise himselfe These things being established the Duke of Guise shal take order that the Parish Priests not onely in townes but also in villages and hamlets doo write out and in bookes set downe the names of all such as are of yeares to beare armour and doo sende those bookes vnto the sayde Duke of Guise who incontinēt shal appoint out Captaines into those Parishes which shal see and take a view what kinde of armor or weapons euery one is fyt and meete to beare The Priests also shall be wylled that in auricular confession they instruct euery one that is enrolled of the iust cause of this warre which is for defence sake of their conscience and shall exhort them that they with all speede prouide them selues of Armour and weapons The king in the meane whyle shall prouide that Parliamentes or assemblies of al Estates and degrees of his Realme be called summoned which is a pyt made by the Heretikes for thē selues to fall in and thervnto shall ordaine very great preparation pompe and solemnity according to the manner of his Predecessors and shall send vnto euery prouince of his kingdome such councellours as are most faithfull and trusty to him which shall by their counsayle direct and gouerne the particular assemblies of euery iurisdictiō Euery one of these shall consider what is most meete for the kings purpose according to their wisdom and for the faith and oath wherwith he is bound to God and his holynes and the catholyque king The Queene mother in the meane tyme shall go to her yongest Sonne who is lewde a chaungling whom she shall easily perswade that he come to his brother the King go with him to the Parliaments of his kingdom and shall labour by all meanes to entice thyther the king of Nauar her sonne in lawe and the Prince of Condie and she shall threaten them that if they present not them selues at the Parliaments they shall be proclaymed rebels and obstinate And to the intent that all the occasion of suspition and feare be taken away from them the Duke of Guise and all his Brethren shall first depart from the Court as if it were for some displeasure conceyued against them the king departing out of Paris shal betake him selfe to some such place where shall seeme to be most free accesse vnto him shall receyue entertaine his Brother all the rest which shall come vnto him with all pretence of good wyll and curtesy About the time of the Parliamēts the Captaines of the Parishes shall euery one take a muster and view of his soldiours and of those bands shal chuse out such a number as the chiefe of the holy League shall appoint that they may be in a readines to do those thinges which shall be commaunded them When