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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00734	The Spaniards monarchie, and Leaguers olygarchie. Layd open in an aduerisement [sic], written by Signor Vasco Figueiro a gentleman of Portingale to the rebellious French: wherein is discouered the tyrannie of the one ouer the kingdome of Portingale, and the treacherous rebellion of the other in the kingdome of France, with a patheticall persuasion to the French to returne to the obedience of their naturall and legitimate king. Englished by H.O.	Figueiro, Vasco, gentleman of Portingale.; H. O., fl. 1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 10865; ESTC S102056	35,479	50

detestable vices to receiue it as in truth full well hath she deserued the paines that she hath suffered yet so obstinate is she in her wickednes that she séekes no amendment The malicious League séeing France in this doubtfull anguish gathered her spirits together to forge more craftie subtelties then euer before to cause France to runne to armes after the death of the Duke of Guise and so throughlie intrudeth her into her former errours that waxen more fellonious then euer afore she reconspireth the death of her king and yet holdeth an other course then afore And therefore bethinketh to enterprise it by treason and by such a one as might do it with least suspition so that hauing throughly discoursed of her affaires she cōcludeth that Religion should serue her as a couert to commit this damnable parricide Then was found out an execrable traitor a Iacobin Frier who driuen by a diabolicall spirite enterpriseth to the hazard of his life traiterously to murther his naturall Prince O detestable crime and so horrible that there is not a name so cruell or obhominable as may sufficientlie expresse it Damnable Monkes do you read in the holie Scriptures that it is lawful for any man to murther I say not onely his king but euen the basest man on the earth the law of God expreslie forbiddeth to defile the hands in humaine bloud God commaundeth in the booke of Deuteronomie to take the homicide frō the aultar and to slay him but as for kings he hath giuen them a particular priuiledge as he saith by the mouth of the Psalmist You shall not touch mine annointed much more you shall not kill him Dauid also forbore to lay violent hands vpon king Saul his enemie albeit he had him at aduantage Did the Apostle teach you to commit this execrable fact when he said Obedite praepositis vestris etiam discolis dare you thē in this manner tread vnder féete the law of God whereof in wordes you vaunt your selues to be so zealouslie affectionate shame befall vpon you mischieuous and traiterous hipocrites who preach vnto the people the law of God yet your selues will not follow it Euen the ethnicke Pagans shall condemne you in the latter day for albeit they were ignoraunt yet they caried this respect vnto the Princes of their land as to terme them in reuerence the liuing pourtraitures of the supreme diuinitie Harken what said one of the Poets Rex est Imago animata Dei But suppose he were so wicked as you and the treacherous Leaguers would faine him to be yet ought we to obserue this good aduertisement Principes boni voto quidem expetendi qualescunque tamen tolerandi But certaine it is that he was endued with all the perfections requisite to make a Prince worthie of the greatest prayse and the onely imperfection that he had which was but to great an imperfection in a Prince was that he showed himselfe somwhat to negligent for the maintenance of his greatnes and conseruation of his estate Now then hath the French League mischieuously caused her king to be murthered who féeling the extremitie of death to approch neare vpon him declared in the presence of all his Princes and Lords of his Realme the king of Nauarre as naturall and legitimate successour to the Crowne as in truth he is and that most apparent ending with these wordes the course of his life Incontinently all the Princes all the Lordes and all the Officers of the Crowne following the declaration and last will of the deceased king acknowledged the king of Nauarre and that according to all equitie to be king of France which all the whole armie likewise acknowledged Now France being left a widow of her king consequently mistresse of her selfe according to her owne opinion will for it is a sure maxime that the king neuer dyeth in Frāce let vs accord to her vnreasonable appetite what face setteth she vpō it doth she mourne or is she sorrowfully discōforted Doth she show any signe of sorrow in her widowhead which ou●…●…o haue bin drowned in teares No but cōtrariwise she reioyceth so extremely that she setteth publickly forth a thousand and a thousand signes of ioy as among many others her bonfires being so great that euen her furthest neighbours were lightned with the flame thereof whō notwithstanding she thinketh scarcelie aduertised by this exteriour signe of her vnmeasurable ioy and therefore will certifie them by expresse letters poore vnfortunate France which makest vertue of thy vice and glorie of thy infamie poore inchanted France which reioycest when thou shouldest swimme in teares but thou wilt not care to doe otherwise while thou art bewitched by the enchanters of this diabolicall League But now let vs sée what will become of this widow let vs sée to what Prince Frāce desireth to betroathe her selfe for I thinke she will yéeld but onely to one otherwise she should doe contrary to the nature of all other common wealths who finallie haue submitted themselues vnto one onely Monarke as approuing the gouernemēt of one to be better then of many which the Satrapas of Persia also approued when as they constituted Darius for their souueraine Monarche The Romane common wealth also after it had béen a long time furrowed and tossed by the ciuill warres of particular persons Maluit parere vni quam pluribus Furthermore in priuate families one commandeth ouer the rest as the head ouer the inferiour members Yea euen in nombers The vnitie as saith Plato is most estéemed Philo Iudaeus in his booke of the creation of a Prince teacheth that the gouernement by one onely was ordained by the commandement of God Let vs hearken vnto the iudgement of Homer Non bonum est multorum principatus vnus Princeps esto It appeareth then that there is no sort of gouernment more excellent or commendable then the Monarchie which France is not ignorant of and therefore will not be subiect to many but she will chuse one to fit her own fancie as though she were ignorant that in a Monarchie an election is perillous that nothing hath made her so redoubted and puissant as an immediat succession of Princes barring the gate to electiō which all Monarchies and well ordered kingdomes haue curiously obserued But if this poore abused France remaineth still opiniated in her election yet the expresse commandement of God forbiddeth her to elect a forraine Prince as it is written in the 17. of Deuteronomie in these wordes From among thy brethren shalt thou make a king ouer thée thou shalt not set a straunger ouer thée which is not thy brother Many examples might be produced to this purpose of common wealthes and kingdomes which haue béen destroyed onely for trusting and subiecting thē selues too much to strangers For this cause Bartholomeus Coleon reprehēded the Venetians who for his merites toward their common wealth had erected his statue in gold as hauing to inconsideratly aduentured their common wealth into the hands of a stranger The

Corinthes had not fallen into a tyrannicall gouernement if they had not submitted thēselues vnder Timophanes a forraine leader The Brittaines were chased their Realme by the English Saxons The Spaniards by the Moores and the Gréekes by the Turkes onely by crauing succour of them in their warres yet this Frēch League passeth a degrée further she not onely calleth in the Spaniard to aide to destroy her owne children but she will wholy submit her self vnto him and make him her soueraigne Lord which because she might not as yet openly and absolutly doe for some considerations she aduiseth vpon some fit expediēt to couer her mischieuous intention and to the end to cloke her theft which she secretly desireth to commit with the said Spaniard she elected for her king by forme of acquit Charles Cardinall of Bourbon a man ouerworne with age whom she had purchased to no other end but to alienate the Crowne being wel assured that he could not hinder but rather profit much for the negociatiō betwéene the Spaniard and her as before times he had alwayes done for this Prince she had expreslie reserued for this affaire But the late king hauing as it séemed foreséen this accident to hinder him from disturbing the state any more had committed him to a place where being surely guarded neither his rebels nor the Spaniard might aide him at their deuotion which meruailously disquieted them For Fraunce of her selfe could do nothing to any effect without the authoritie of her beane king as I may terme him whom she onely vsed as a couert for her traiterous monopolies and inuentions against her legitimate and naturall king albeit he had not right or title to the Crowne the king being liuing whom to be deliuered of they would euen remoue heauen and earth if it were in their power but seeing all this was to no purpose because the said Cardinall was surely guarded by the good faithfull seruants of the king she recoursed vnto force of armes and setteth a great armie in the field which charged vpon the king being at that time with a small cōpanie at Deipe and there abouts promising vnto themselues either to slay him to captiuate his person or at the least to cause him flie the Realme but God so assisted him by his own prowesse and the valour of his owne souldiers with the succours sent vnto him by the Quéene of England that his enemies had but onely the wil to hurt him the grief because they were altogether vnable to hurt him for the king defeated and repulsed them valerously and afterward searched them euen at the gates of Paris from whence they durst not appeare to answere him in battaile which he presented vnto them The Spaniard for his part continually entertaineth France with faire wordes great hope of new forces sufficient enough aswell to set the fained king at libertie as to defeate him which truely and by good title is called king And in déede fiue or six mouethes after the charge vpon Deipe was the Countie Egmond sent with a great troupe The Pope also sent his Legate to comfort encourage her In such manner that a puissant armie presented it selfe to the king who sodainely set him selfe in battaile aray in the plaine of Yury where God once againe so miraculously fauoured him although his enemies forces were twise as great as his that he gained y e victorie hauing slaine the greatest part of his enemies amōg whom was the Countie Egmond and put the rest to a shamefull flight which sore troubled Frāce and yet behold another worke of God who working for his annointed about two monethes after tooke the Cardinall to him selfe This vnexspected death of the Cardinall rechargeth her with diuers and troublesome thoughtes She saw that the king had a puissant armie which so encreased euery day that he had conquered a good part of his kingdome and which more tormented her she saw that he had blocked on all sides the Citie of Paris which then suffered an extreme defect both of victuals and other commodities which occasioned the people to open their eyes which superfluitie of ease the charmes of the League vntill then had shut vp and vailed and surely they would willingly haue yéelded to the king had not the damnable League by her subtelties the force of her partakers retained thē in their obstinacie whether they would or no. Thē began France to perceiue the fraude of the Spaniard and the illusions of the League acknowledging that being foolishly perswaded she had committed vnpardonable faultes against her king and that perseuering in her follie she had rashly takē armes against him whom she ought to haue cherished more then any Prince in the world who notwithstāding is so mercyfull that she might haue promised her selfe that he would forget all that was passed So that she fully determined to send to his Maiestie to entreate of peace but that she was so watched by the League and intāgled in her laberinthes that she might doe nothing without her knowledge or consent who counselleth her to propose vnto the king among other Articles these two following 1. That he should change his Religion into the Romish Catholike Religiō a thing that she knew well that the king would neuer accorde vnto especially at that time 2. That he should pardō all those which are coulpable of y e death of the late king a thing which he neither might nor ought to do And as touching the changing of his Religiō albeit he holdeth it for the most true and holy notwithstanding he hath alwayes protested that he would submit him selfe to the decrées of a holy frée Councell generall or nationall assembled to determine of the two Religiōs which are professed in his kingdome to the end to embrace that which shalbe iudged most Christian to reiect the other But that he is an heretike he denieth for that no Councell hath condemned the Religion which he professeth to be heresie But put case his Religion were hereticall yet it maketh not either him or any other person incapable to possesse those goods which naturally and lawfully belong vnto him and to force his conscience in regard of Religion were a thing vneasie to doe If his Religion be not good they néede not feare for that he cannot long vphold or maintaine it in his Realme séeing Iesus Christ hath said Euery plant which my heauenly father hath not planted shalbe plucked vp by the roote They may sée a faire plea vpon this question in the 5. of the Actes where a Doctour of the law named Gamaliell speaking of the Religion and doctrine of the Apostles said vnto the high Priest and to the Iudges If this counsell or worke be of men it will come to naught but if it be of God ye cānot destroy it least ye be found euē fighters against God And doe not you manifestly resist the word of God to sustaine a Religion by the point of the sword and enforce men