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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14250	The translation of a letter written by a Frenche gentilwoman to an other gentilwoman straunger, her frind, vpon the death of the most excellent and vertous ladye, Elenor of Roye, Princes of Conde, contaynyng her last wyll and testament. Doone by Henry Myddelmore gentylman at the request of the Ladye Anne Throkmorton	I. D. V., fl. 1564.; Myddelmore, Henry.	1564 (1564)	STC 24565; ESTC S105901	21,518	65

body may esteame you and that I may loue you more and more as I wyll not fayle to do if you be suche a one Then he called to hym the Ladye of sainct Cir her gouernes embracinge her her daughter de Fosses he praied them to cōtinue their care in the education and bringyng vp of her as one of the thinges which were moste precious vnto hym After this puttynge his hande vpon my Lord Marquis head my sonne said he to him you are the firste testimonye which God gaue of his blessynge and fauour of the mariage of your mother and me and the greate encrease of our loue Séeke alwayes to gyue me ioye and consolation as you shall do if you wyl followe the stepps which your mother hath troden before you in the way of vertue Marke wel the path tracke therof lest you lose your selfe and fall into the wayes of the dangerous dedal of this worlde The sonnes cōmenlye conforme them selues to the doinges of the father but you shall principallye study to resemble in maners and vertue your mother For one maye tell you you may somtimes here of youre father and of his life things which you ought not to follow as in others again you oughte to imitate him but in your mother of the lyfe and death of whome God hath vouchsafed to serue himselfe you shal finde nothing that is not worthy to be followed and straitly kepte as she was most worthy to be placed in the first rancke of the moste vertuous women My sonne vertue hath made Princes the Heroicall dedes of their auncesters those that were before thē For the rest we be all the children of Adam of sinne of death to kepe well then this principalititye it behoueth vs to lyue vertuously to flée from vice as a thinge most horrible and abhominable to all noble hartes Therfore it is that a Prince should alwayes thinke that he is in this worlde as vpon a scaffolde to be beholden of al folkes So as his fautes be more séene and marked then theirs be that be vnder him And as a blote that in an other part might be hydden is easelye perceiued in the face and doth make one diformed be it neuer so lyttel so is it in the actions doinges of Princes which be howe smallye reprehensible soeuer they be séene perceyued of euery one by the highe place in degrée that they holde emongest the commen vulgare people Lo my Iuel how you may prosper and so you shal be to me an agreable childe Then in the absence of his gouernor he cōmitted him to the charge of the Seigneur de Buisson whome he gaue hym for his stuarde praying him that aboue all thinges there were good eye geuen that ther came nere him no contēpnor of God nor of the reuerēce whiche we owe to his holy commaundements On Sonday after whiche was yesterdaye her body was put into the Sepulchre of her predecessours at Muret without other pompe or ceremonie but that maister Perrucel dyd make an excelent Sermon vpon the fifty seuenth chapter of Esaye wherat there was a good nomber of nobilitie and people of the churches nere there abouts The sermon ended which was about nyne of the clocke in the mornyng some parte of the Gentilmen went fetched the body which laye leaded in a hawle nere vnto that where the preachynge was and so brought it to the place chosen and made for the reapos and rest therof vnto the consummation of the worlde The rest of the nobilitie and people followed the body in order to the graue and so after retourned in lyke sorte into the court of the Castel where maister Perrucel declared vnto thē howe worthy a worke of Christiās they had done by thys theyr accompanying of the body to his buryal of the great edification the same was to thē of the churche Howe pleasaunt a thing it was to god how agreable to my Lord the Prince thankyng them all in his name and in the name of all the kynsfolkes of the decessed Lady I could send you in this pacquet sondry consolatiōs which were sent as wel to my late decessed Lady as to my lord her husbande since her death by the most wyse learned and apparaunt personages of Christendome but I vnderstād by your good kynsman that you haue had the copyes of them frō other places This is then asmuche as you shall haue of me at this time prayinge you to excuse my wyt my eyes my memory my hande and my penne all which in their natures and offices do féele the sorowe and peyne of me their passionnate mystres who it maye please you may remaine in your fauour and good grace God graunt you to lyue wel and to dye well in his Sonne Iesus Christ From Conde in the coūtrey of Brye the last daye of Iuly 1564. Your entyer and good frind to obeye you I. D. V.

in the place of euerlastinge felicitie In the meane tyme I wyll studye to kepe wel the gages which she hath lefte me and wyl continue them in the same maner of teachinge that so christianlye they haue begonne to thintent that the vse and the propertie of the mother of the father and of the children be all to God who by his puissaūt hande hath so oftentymes deliuered and conserued this house of ours If I do consider waye the rarenes of my good fortune herin whiche doth present it selfe incessauntly before myn eyes and wherof I sée my selfe vtterlye spoyled by this separation It can not be that I cane fynde here sufficient or egall consolation when no man is able to nomber by all the milliōs that may be assembled the infinitnes of so notable a losse I will therfore haue my recourse to hym if I dare saye so that hath geuen me the wounde who shall and please hym fournishe me of aswaging plaister of his word to heale the same as it is saide of them that be bytten by the Scorpion must seale the remedie of the Scorpion And as to that she prayeth me by you to double my good wyll towardes our children I dyd feale in my harte at the very same instant that you spake these wordes to me I can not tell what maner of hydden infusiō that hath encreased in me the fyer of fatherlye loue whiche I dyd before beleue coulde not haue receaued anye encrease persuadyng alwayes my selfe that it was not possible to augment it in me You shall now retourne and saye to her I pray you that this oratiō whiche she hath made me by your mouthes hath so resolued me that I feale in me the effectes of the force of her noble courage and that I do praise God greatly for the inestimable constancye that he hath geuen her but I praye her that in any wyse she do not omitte nor forsake any of those meanes whiche God hath departed to men by art and industrie for the recoueringe of her health to thintent she do not leaue behinde her an encrease of my sorowes when I shoulde vnderstande hereafter the fault of her remedye This discourse was muche more great graue as you may well thinke but excuse I praye you the memorye of a woman so greuouslye troubled and attainted This done she caused two Notaries to come vnto her vnto whom she spake from worde to worde her last wyll and Testament commaundynge them to write in this sorte followinge COnsideryng the fragilitie and vncertaintie of this lyfe and that God by this greuous sickenes wher wyth it hath pleased him to visite me hath warned me as it were by a callynge vpon to prepare my selfe to take order in my worldlye affaires that I might be ready with spede to followe his wyll whē it shall please hym to call me I haue made sayd and ordayned this whiche followeth for the declaration of my laste will and testament reuokynge all others in any sorte made heretofore First I beseche thee my good God that when it shal please thee to delyuer me of the miseries and peynes of this lyfe to take my soule out of the prison of this bodye wherin it is closed but for a tyme that of thy goodnes mercye thou wylte vouchsafe to receyue it into thy handes and to place it in the possession and enioyinge of that felicitye whiche thy deare Sone hath bought vs by his death and passion And by this meanes to assure the stedfast faith which thou hast geuen vs by thy promisses sealed as wel by the sacramēt of Baptysme as by the same of thy holy Supper of the generall remission of oure synnes all whiche we beleue to be so defaced by the bloude obedience of thy Sonne that they shall neuer come in accompte before thee Secondly I recommende vnto thee our children praying the that accordyng to thy promisse thou wylte be theyr God theyr Father and protector that extendyng thy blessyng vpon them it may please thee to illuminat instruct them in the knowledge and feare of thy holy name and to serue thy selfe of them as thou hast donne of their father to exalte thy glory to procure and cōserue the reapose and quietnes of thy churche and to plucke vp by the roote al that which thou hast not planted therein Make them by thy speciall goodnes instrumentes and vessels of thy glorye replenishe them with thy heauenly graces commādyng them by the authoritie which thou hast geuen me ouer them that they do aduowe and dedicate all their lyfe to thy seruice and to the same of thy churche I referre the buryinge of my bodye to the good wyl pleasure of my Lord my husbande knowing wel that where so euer it doth lye it wyll reste there in a verye certaine hope of his resurrection Then she disposed her goodes to my Lordes her chyldren and gaue many charitable Legacies And emongest others one for the entertaynynge of the Colledge of la Ferté au Col which a littel before my Lorde her husbande and she had instituted and erected She dyd also ordeyne that vpon her landes a certaine pencion shuld be yerely leauyed towards the fyndynge of the Ministers of gods worde and dyd her selfe heare the accomptes of al her seruaunts to th ende she might helpe them to that that in any sorte might be due vnto them so great was her care to do right to euerye bodye and to vnderstande her houshold affaires wherunto she wold be made preuye euē vnto the last extremitie geuing as good order in them and with as sounde a iudgement as at any tyme she was accoustumed to do in her most perfect health That beinge donne she caused the minister Perrucel to be called and declared vnto hym howe glad she was to vnderstand that she shold very shortly go to her God by the ende of this sicknes And that therfore she woulde consider of the state of her consciēce Not sayd she thankes be to God that I do feele my selfe otherwyse thē well disposed towardes my creatour readye to go to hym when it shall please hym but to the end that you father whome god hath ordeyned shepheard in my Lorde my husbands house and myne may knowe the face of this shepe of your flocke and that I dye contented that I haue geuen before the Minister of the churche of the Lorde a true testimonye of my fayth hope of health whiche by hys grace and goodnes I receyue of hym Then with ioined handes and eyes lyfted vp on highe she made humble confession of her fayth declarynge that she dyd beleue confesse God to be and in beinge to be God only distinct notwithstandynge in thre persons which are the Father the Sone the holy Ghost that he is creatour conseruer and gouernour of heauen the earthe the Sea and all that is in them without whose wyll pleasure no creatures be they Aungels Dyuels or any