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A01152	A declaration concerning the needfulnesse of peace to be made in Fraunce and the means for the making of the same: exhibited to the most Christian king, Henrie the second of that name, King of Fraunce and Polande, vpon two edictes, put forth by his Maiestie, the one the tenth of September, the other the thirtenth of October. Anno. 1574. Translated out of Frenche by G. H. Esquire.; Remonstrance au roy ... sur le faict des deux edicts ... touchant la necessité de paix & moyens de la faire. English	Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595.; Harte, George.	1575 (1575)	STC 11266; ESTC S112648	61,519	168

for a kyng to graunt the people their willes by doing whereof sayde they he shoulde receyue lawe of them to whome he ought to gyue lawe and subiecte him selfe to them that ought to be subiecte to him but rather that he ought to make them knowe hym for their Prince and soueraigne Lorde whose office was to commaunde and theirs absolutely to obey Roboam folowing this opinion woulde needs lay great taxes and impositions on his people by reason whereof the most part of them that is to say tenne partes of twelue rebelled against him and raysed for their Kyng one Ieroboam Wherevpon the sayd Roboam prepared an armie of 80000. men for the repressing of those rebelles wherein he lost both his labour and time for Ieroboam continued King in peace And from that time forth that kingdome remained deuided in two King Lewes the eleuenth as fine subtil a prince as euer was in Fraunce at his comming to the crowne gouerned him selfe very yll in displacing and hindering of many good and ancient seruitours that had don great seruice to Charles the seuenth his father in the recouering of his realme the most part whereof the Englishmen long time enioyed Wherewith the nobles being discontented raysed against their sayde king a ciuill warre which they called the commō welth To them many townes and commonalties also adioyned them selues by reason of the great impostes that the king put vpon them But the wise king knowing his faulte sought all the meanes possible for the appeasing of that warre therein folowing the aduice and councell of his good friend Fraunces Sforze the Duke of Millaine which councelled him for the obtaining of peace to deny nothing of their demaundes And in deede by graunting their requests he appeased those ciuil warres and was al his life after serued of those noblemen gentlemen that were against him in the same towards whom he neuer reserued so much as any desire of reuēgement It may be sayd that what the king did herein was done vpon policie But howe so euer it was done the Frenchmen till these dayes were neuer so Italionated as to beare malice long in their heartes And this wise king woulde neuer hazarde his common wealth by giuing of battell vnto his people saying that he would not commit his estate which was so good and so great as the king of a royall Realme to the perill of so vncertaine a thing as a battell And after the peace made hee frankely confessed that hee sawe him selfe in great perill of loosing his kingdome and had determined in his mynd to haue saued him selfe at Millaine or else amongst the Switzers if Paris had not helde with him but bene wonne and possessed by his aduersaries Edwarde the seconde of that name King of Englande for the pleasure of Hugh Spencer his chiefe mynion made warre against his subiectes and put to death many of his Princes and nobles without anye order of iustice in so muche as Queene Isabell his wife with his sonne and hirs to shunne his furie and crueltie were fayne to flee into Fraunce who after returned agayne into Englande with hyr sayde sonne and a small force which she had gotten by the meanes of a meane Gentleman called syr Iohn of Henawd brother to the Earle of Henawd And being aryued in Englande founde all the people readie at hir commaundement as those that had taken a great displeasure agaynst the King by reason of his crueltie So as she besieged hir sayde husbande tooke him prysoner and bestowed him in the Tower of London Then caused she all the estates of the realme to be assembled by whome Kyng Edward the seconde for his crueltie committed agaynst his nobilitie was founde and pronounced vnworthy to be Kyng any longer and so was depriued of his dignitie And whyle he was yet aliue and prysoner in the sayde Tower of London the sayde estates crowned his sonne Edwarde the thyrde their Kyng of whome I haue spoken afore and shewed that he did the like to his mother Tarquine the proud a King of the Romanes was by his people driuē out of Rome as well for his gouerning ouer proudly as for suffering his sonne to violate a woman of honour named Lucrecia and being thence banished he sent his embassadours thither for the procuring of his peace and restablishement of his estate many gaue their consents to restore him and had he proceeded in gentle and tractable maner there had bene great likelyhoode of the recouerie of his kingdome But being vnable to maister his own pride he gathered together as many as he coulde get to take his part and with Porsena kyng of the Hetrurians whome he raysed vp to ayde him made warre againste the Romanes This war procured him such hatred of the Romanes which hadde bene his subiectes as they would neuer after returne vnder his obeysance in so much as both he and all his posteritie were depriued from off the kingdome and the estate of that Monarchie changed into a publike state And from that time forth the name of King was deadly hated and abhorred among the Romanes And no maruell though the name of King were so sore hated of the Romanes for one mans faulte that euen when the same state returned againe to a Monarchie vnder Iulius Caesar neither he nor his successours wold be called kings but Emperours For it hath happened so to dyuers other names The name of Tyrant which at this day soundeth so yll and is of euerie man hated was amongst our Elders an honourable name signified none other thing but lord insomuch that Virgil whose onely drift in his Aeneiad●s was to aduaunce the godlynesse vertue of his Aeneas calleth him Tyrant Likewise the name of Iudas which signifieth a Confessour was in times past reputed honourable and yet by reason of one mans faulte it is nowe taken for a traytour And before the Emperour Neroes time this name Neron which in the olde Sabin tong signifieth noble was esteemed as a glorious name especially after the days of Claudius Nero which ouercame Asdrubal Hannibals brother his 50000. men but for the offences of one only man the same is now taken for a tyrant So much may the wickednesse of one man do to the vtter defacing of a faire honorable name for euer God graūt that the vices of some of vs frenchmē do not bespot the name of Frēchman which hath heretofore bin esteemed and honored throughout al the world which thing I am sore afeard of if we mend not the soner for alreadie in Germanie they cal al frenchmen indifferently Schelmes Continuing our examples I will recite you one which is the more to be noted for that it was done by the way of iustice After the death of the great Herode king of Iudea Samaria Galile and Idumea there arose a strife and contention betweene Archelaus and Herodes Antipas his sonnes Archelaus would needs make wars against his subiectes vpon a verie slyght occasion in

number about him and therin surely he did well Neuerthelesse the writers of histories find fault with him in this that he gaue too muche authoritie to his mother Mámea which otherwise had bin a good woman but that shee was not only greedy in gathering of goods from the poore people but also a couetous niggarde towards such as serued the Emperour hir sonne beside the which she was very ambitious aspiring altogether to the gouernement of the affayres euer sorie to see hir sonne so curteous gentle in his gouernemente for where hee was surnamed Seuerus hee tooke that aswell of his predecessor Septimius Seuerus as of his seuere obseruing of warlike discipline but otherwise he was the most affablest and gētlest prince in the world Neuerthelesse by his yeelding so much authoritie to his mother Mámea he so gate the euill will of hys gentlemen and men of warre as by way of a conspiracie they slew them both togyther Truely it was a spectacle very piteous to see this gentle yong Prince when the conspiratours entred the chamber to kill him runne and cast him selfe betweene the armes of his mother lamentably crying Ah mother mother you are heereof the cause So were they wretchedly flayne the one in the others armes to the greate damage of the Empire for the losse of so good and gentle a prince who in al other things gouerned him selfe aswell as might be possible through the good and wise aduises of such excellent personages as were of his priuie counsell Amongst whome the chiefe was doctor Vlpian a mā singularly learned in the ciuil law and very well practised in matters of the state and issued of the house and stocke of Alexander whome hee serued as his chanceler This mā was not an old doterd of a strāge nation ignorant of the lawes manners and customes of the countrie drawē out of Vulcans shop to deale with sealing he was one made of another manner of metall But in summe as I sayd the fault of this good Emperour Alexander in giuing his mother too much authoritie cost both him and hir theyr liues And truely that fault of his was not small For Alexander ought to haue considered what hee had learned of Heliogabalus his cosin and predecessor which Heliogabalus gouerning by his mother Semiamira without whose aduise nothing passed touching the common wealth was incontinētlye despised of all the worlde and after he had raigned not passing three yeeres was by certaine rebels slayne very yong and had his body togither with his sayde mothers drawen through the fylth of the riuer Tiber. And therevpon it was decreed by the Senate that neuer woman should enter into the counsel The gentle King Edward of England the thirde of that name gouerned himselfe farre otherwise He was sonne to Edward the seconde a cruell king that was depriued of his kingdome by his subiects and to the Lady Isabell daughter of Philip the fayre king of France This Lady Isabell Queene of England was the cause that hir sonne was crowned King by the estat●… of the Realme and therefore thought he should doe nothing but by hir councell as in very deede he dyd not for a tyme but gaue to hir the chiefe authoritie touching the gouernement of his realme But it happened that this good Queene mother to reuenge hir selfe of certayne of the nobilitie at hir pleasure caused hir sonne to committe certaine cruelties for the whyche hee was misliked and muche blamed of his subiectes Whiche when thys gentle King Edwarde perceiued iudging it best rather to loose the fauour of his mother than of his people he neyther woulde fall into like perill as did Nero and Alexander Seuerus nor yet put his mother to death as Nero did but made hir to be bestowed in a strong howebeit a very faire and pleasant castell of large circuite wherein there were many goodly courtes gardens and walkes inclosed with walles and appoynted hir a good companie of Ladies and gentlewomen with men of worship and honour to serue hir after hir state And bycause she was of the house of France and Queene mother of Englande he assigned hir a sufficient reuenue for the maintenance of hir estate And to honour hir as his mother hee went to visite hir twice or thrice a yeere But neyther woulde he euer suffer hir to passe out of the precinct of the castell nor to meddle any more with the gouernment of the realme And he was muche esteemed as well of strangers as of his subiects for his valiant and manly heart in that he would not submit himselfe vnder the rule of a woman But let vs returne againe to our former matter touching such Princes as haue vndone them selues by making warre against their subiectes The Emperour Vitellius ouerthrewe and made a great slaughter of the Romanes in his battell had against Otho his souldiers seeing so many deade bodyes in the fielde were therefore verie sorowfull but especially for that there was of them few or none that founde not amongst those deade bodies some of their parents friends for they were all Romanes whose death ministred to them muche cause of griefe vpon the which occasion they generally detested those ciuill warres had betweene Vitellius and Otho Vitellius one day walking through the field wher the dead bodies of that ouerthrow lay and seeing some stop their noses did as it were in mockage thereof and as one glad of the slaughter vtter this detestable saying the body of a slaine enimie hath a good sent but the body of a slain citizē hath yet a better But not long after that tyrant which found so muche sweetnesse in the sauour of his slaine citizens was him selfe slaine as shamefully as he possibly might be For being taken and bound by suche as conspired against him he was brought into the market place with a halter about his necke all naked from the waste vpward his apparell all to torne and his handes fastned behinde him his chin also being vnderset with a bodkin to make him hold vp his head With which furniture hee was in derision harryed through the streetes not without dirt and filth flung in his face till he came to the cōmō gibet where he was slaine and cut in peeces lastly cast into Tyber That was the rewarde that he reaped of his pleasure taken in the smel of the dead bodies of his citizens The Emperour Gallien made war against the inhabitants of Bizance his subiectes Bizance was then a goodly florishing citie which was after named Constantinople by Constantine the great This Gallien hauing gotten the possession of this goodly citie the townsmē wherof had yelded themselues to his deuotion caused to be slain murthred contrary to his word al the inhabitantes of the same yong and olde without mercie none other escaping than such as he coulde not come by And he vsed like crueltie against many other good towns wherin his maner was to leaue no male vnkilled so bestly a

he had .50 tables of Cedar with their trestles and frames of yuorie and so muche syluer vessell and tapistry as furnished euery house that he had throughly He inueyed agaynst whoredome when he enterteyned the Empresse and delighted in the company of Bardasses He cried out and stormed agaynste flattery and ther was not a finer nor craftier courtier in that qualitie than he for he could make the court to euery body yea euen to the Pages and varlets of the chamber from whome any commoditie was to be drawē And lastly he exclaymed against ambition and in the meane while woulde needes gouerne all himselfe suffer nothing to passe but through his hands Moreouer to heare him speake was nothing else but hony but eloquence but holynesse but wisedome and knowledge And to be short if he were now liuing he woulde deserue to bee the greatest Cardinall of all Fraunce But now to come again to our matter Seneca hauing let lose the reynes to the Emperour Nero and suffering him so farre foorth till he had done a thousande mischiefes and cruelties agaynste one and other great and small as his fansie led him began to doubt least the like might happen vnto himselfe Also Burrus Ruffus Sulpitius and Flauius and diuers other great Lordes that folowed the court by reason of their estates and offices entred into the like feare and mistrust especially after they had seene him do to death his mother Agrippine vppon displeasure only that she woulde still take vpon hir the dealing with the matters of the Empire They then to auoyde hys crueltie made a conspiracie to kill him but the enterprise was discouered in such sorte as contrariwise he caused all them to be killed Neuerthelesse before they were executed he woulde needes talke with Sulpicius one of the Captaynes of his guarde and with Flauius the generall of the same Of Sulpicius he demaunded wherefore hee had broken hys othe in conspiring agaynste him For that answered he there was no other meane to heale thee of thy naughtinesse He lykewise did aske of Flauius wherfore he had conspired against him I haue sayd he loued and hated thee about any man in the world Loued thee so long as there remained any hope that thou wouldest become a good Prince and hated thee when I sawe there was no more hope of thee but that thou wouldest growe euery daye worse and worse For so long as thou deseruedst to bee beloued thou hadst not a more faythfull and louing seruant than I but when I sawe thee once to become a manqueller a murtherer a player of enterludes a fencer and a touneburner I could not but hate thee extremely Those braue answers of those two captiues or captayne prisoners made Nero more afrayd thā any other thing as one maruelously astonied to heare that they durst speake vnto him so boldly In the ende after he had put them to death and all other that were but neuer so little suspected of that conspiracie hee made great sacrifices of thankesgiuing vnto Iupiter his deliuerer as one that thoughte hymselfe nowe to haue gotten the vpperhand of all his enimies and in place of amendment he gaue him selfe to doe worse than before assuring hym selfe to raigne then fortie yeeres and more through the prophecyings of his Magiciens and deuines which had willed him to take heede to the yeare of his age 73. and he had then skarsely accomplished 29. But as he continued his naughtie disordered course beholde Vindex became a reuolter from his obeysance togither with all the prouinces and countries vnder his gouernemente whereof though the losse were not small yet was not Nero therwith much troubled But when he vnderstoode that the olde Captayne Galba hys gouernour of Spayne was reuolted he was greatly astonied fearing least that which the magiciens had sayde vnto him touching the age of .73 was to bee vnderstanded not of hys owne yeeres but of Galbas whiche was then of the same age Corbulo which was then with a great armie in the East was greatly prouoked to do as Vindex and Galba had done But he as one that would neuer thereto cōsent continued alwayes so faithfull trustie to Nero as he gate therfore euill will was blamed of al mē which said he was a maintainer of tyrannie Yet for all this Nero fearing least he should doe as his other felowes did sent for him by louing letters to come speake with him Corbulo making no doubt of the matter tooke the iourney in hand but before he was come to the place where Nero was he was at Cenchre betrayed taken by the assailaunts whiche Nero before had sente thither to kil him who seing how the world went weying his fault in the not doing as other did drewe out his dagger therwith strake himself to the hart with vttering these for his last wordes I am worthy Nowe sir by this short digression it may be gathered that the best meane to make a Prince to be well and faythfully serued of his seruauntes and officers is to be a good and faythfull Prince towards them withoute mistrusting of thē and to vse clemencie and gentlenes and not rigour crueltie in his gouernment For a good master maketh a good seruant And yee haue not so good a seruaunt but hee will bee discouraged when he seeth his maister to mistrust him or his seruice not to please hys master specially whē the case concerneth the seruice of a prince who hath power of lyfe death ouer his subiects and seruants For let the seruant of a prince receyue a sowre countenance of his maiestie and by and by he entreth into the feare of the losse of his life or at the least of his goodes and estimation But before I passe out of this matter of Nero I wil on the contrary part set downe an example of the gentle and curteous Prince Alexander Seuerus of whome your maiestie hath heretofore borne the name And that is to shewe that those two Emperous haue both of them fayled the losse of theyr lyues by following of two extremities For Nero hauing a will to gouerne all vpon hys owne head was cast headlong into the mislikyng and hatred of his people to the losse of his life And Alexander by suffering him selfe to bee ruled by the fantasies of other men wonne the euill will of his nobilitie and mē of war which vnhappily slew him And of a trueth a man muste alwayes keepe an euen hande and eschewe extremities in all things and specially in matters of state and gouernmēt For as Horace sayth Oft whilst the foole doth one fault flie He falles into the contrarie Nero as I saide had good and wise seruants about him to his officers But whē he had suffered thē to beare authoritie awhile hee fell into misliking of them and therevpō would not be ruled any more by them Cōtrariwise Alexander woulde doe nothing at all but by the councel of wise men of whom he had a great

cruelly with passing rage him whipt Now Bandil stout and fierce of minde conceyuing more disdayne Of so outrageous villanie than passing for the payne And feeding in his pensiue hart on purpose to requite Will wisely for a time let slip the wreaking of that spite But afterward the shamefulnesse so sore his hart doth sting He burning in disdaine and rage against the cruell king And hauing no regard at all of scepter crowne or state Will pay him home his hastie mode with stroke of blouddy fate His hart will neuer be at rest vntill his hand haue shed His lord and maisters bloud and wrought reuengement on his head And is it not to be presumed that there be at this day a thousād Bandils which feel thē as much offēded as he did your maiestie perseuering in the taking away of their goods and liues And shall ye not as readily finde Ronsards to prayse and set them forwarde in such enterprises Be there not nowe also Magiciens that can torment and by little little consume a body by his image or coūterfait as well as were in the time of Valens and Valentinian the Emperours Yes this worlde is at this day more poysoned with Magitiens Enchauntours and Sorcerers than it was these fiue hundred yeeres past But these Hugonots will some say be of too good conscience to vse those kynde of people I answere therevnto that there be of diuers sortes some haue a right good conscience and some none at all There be wise there be foolish there be sufferers there be reuengers but moe without comparison out of order than reformed And be there not numbers also of Catholikes not contented and of Atheists not satisfied which will make small scruple to employ those Magiciens in reuenging of them selues But to encounter with those enterprises you shall do well sir to take councell of that gentle prince Arnus sonne to Porsena King of the Hetrurians Porsena in the quarell of another that is to say to maynteine the tyrannie of Tarquin the proude vndertooke the warres against the Romanes who seeing this King to make them warre for a thing that nothing touched him tooke the matter verie haynously in so much as there was founde amongst them three hundred Gentlemen whiche conspired to goe in counterfet apparell to King Porsenas campe to the ende there to kyll him Q. Mutius was one of the conspirators who being come inot the saide campe seing one of the kings seruantes set in a chayre brauely furnished taking him for the king him self killed him with the stroke of a dagger hauing giuen this blow he was taken and caried to the king who demaunded of him for what cause he had so slayne his seruant to whome Mutius wyth a greate courage putting his hande into the fire that then presently there burned answered after this manner This is the hande that committed the faulte in killing thy seruant where I ment to kyll thee and therefore it is reason it suffer the payne due to such desert Hereat was none more abashed than Poisena him selfe who seeing the magnanimitie of this iolly yong gentleman commaunded him to be set at libertie Mutius who looked for none other than death seeing the Kyngs noble disposition sayde vnto him Sir for as much as thou hast towardes me vsed a farre greater clemencie thā I could in any respect haue looked for I wil in recōpence of that thy goodnesse do thee truly to vnderstand that there are of vs .300 Romane Gentlemen which haue conspired thy death for the preuenting wherof it shal be good that thy guard haue a good eye vnto thee Porsena vpon those words more astonyed than before caused an assembly of his councell to consult what guarde he might best entertayne for the keeping of him from those conspiratours Amongst whome the gentle Prince Arnus his sonne was of opinion that he was not so muche to consider of what guard he shuld vse as he was to prouide for his hauing no neede of a guard Then his father asked hym how that myght be done in making sayth he the Romanes of enimies to become your friendes which you may and were best to doe if you make more account of your life than ye do of the maintenance of Tarquins wicked cause The King beleeued his sonne made peace with the Romanes and departed in safetie A number of other miseries and calamities that hang on ciuill warres myght heere be discouered whereof when I thinke me semeth to see a Chimere or other hideous monster accompanyed with all the euils mischieses and miseries that are in earth sea or hell whereof as of a detestable thing it grieueth me to speake or once to thinke neyther woulde I serue as a Nosterdame to our poore Realme of Fraunce in the foreshewing of those calamities and desolations whiche dayly doe threaten vs if oure sayde ciuill warres continue but had rather to stande as a Ionas in praying vnto God for his dealing towardes vs as hee dealt towardes that great citie Niniuie from whome for one amendment he turned away the destruction before threatned vnto them we haue already endured miserie inough both to make vs wise and to prouoke vs to amendment if neither wisdome nor amendment haue folowed thereof let it nowe doe It is better late than neuer I wil herevnto adde as it were in the detestatiō of war a sentence of the great Emperours Augustus Caesar worthy by al princes to be noted That good Prince was wont to say that warres should neuer be taken in hande but where hope maketh more shewe of profit than feare can do of losse meaning where victorie may bring great profite and vanquishment small losse for those sayth he which will seeke small profite and hazarde therefore great losse may well be likened to him that fisheth with a hooke of golde which broken off and caryed away bringeth more losse to the fisher than much fishe can recompence Let vs a little consider I pray you sir what aduantage may growe to you by vanquishing all the Gospellers is it the chasing of the Religion quite out of youre realme Let it be so yet can you not for all that so chase it out of the worlde but that it may after your time returne agayne into Fraunce And before ye attayne to that smal profite ye are like inough to lose what of your nobles and of your commons an infinite number of Catholikes as the late king your brother in his warres late passed the more is the pitie hath done For let it be counted a small losse the losing of so many braue Gospellers as the curteous and right noble Lewes of Burbon Prince of Conde the valiaunt Dandalot the wise Admirall the good Count Rochfoucault the honest Teligni the braue captaines Bruoquemauds father and sonne Pilles Monius the Pardillans with a number of like other Yea let the Bartholmewe iourney be reckoned for a braue politike exployre although the Gospellers so confesseth not but doe rather in their