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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01144	The association of the princes of France with the protestations and declarations of their allegeance to the King. Also a discourse vpon the surrendry of the seales into the Kings hands by M. du Vaiz [sic].	Du Vair, Guillaume, 1556-1621.; Concini, Concino, maréchal d'Ancre, ca. 1575-1617.; Mayenne, Henri de Lorraine, duc de, 1578-1621.; Bouillon, Henri de la Tour-d'Auvergne, Duc de, 1555-1623.; Vendôme, César de Bourbon, duc de, 1594-1665.	1617 (1617)	STC 11258; ESTC S102558	9,681	38

〈◊〉 ASSOCIATION OF THE PRINCES OF FRANCE With the Protestations and Declarations of their Allegeance to the KING Also A DISCOVRSE VPON THE SVRRENDRY OF THE SEALES INTO THE KINGS hands by M. du VAIZ LONDON Printed for William Barret 1617. THE ASSOCIATION OF THE PRINCES OF FRANCE WEE vnder-written weighing the miserable estate whereto this Kingdome is now reduced with the confusion which threatneth an ineuitable separation and iustly dreading that the Enemies of the same aswell Domestique as Strangers will make their vse by preuayling through the ruine thereof if good and speedy order be not taken haue thought that during the Kings minority and the keeping prisoner of the first Prince of the Bloud there was no remedy more proper to preuent and stop so great an euill then to vnite our selues most strictly together vnder these Articles which follow FIRST We protest to continue constant and neuer to depart from that loyall Obedience and most humble Submission which we owe as true and naturall Subiects of this Crowne to the King our Prince Soueraigne Lord. And because it is well knowne that Strangers and such as fauour them haue seized on the sacred Person of the King and on the whole Administration and absolute Gouernement of the Kingdome which they doe most vniustly vsurpe and exercise with great Tyrannie and Oppression and doe violently detayne the Prince of Conde prisoner for no offence or lawfull cause against the publique faith of the Treatie of Loudun it is most apparant that they haue no other end then to destroy the house of Bourbon which now only remayneth of all the Royall Houses and doe ayme at the death of our Princes and in it the change and subuersion of the State For these causes wee doe faithfully promise to employ with one mind all our power goods and liues for the conseruation thereof and to hinder the miserable effects of so pernicious dessignes and to take the publique Authority from them who vsurpe the same to restore the King vnto the dignity of his Crowne to keepe and maintayne it in all sincerity and integrity to withdraw his Maiesty from their wicked purposes and to keep him out of their hands to set the Prince of Conde at liberty to repaire the wrong done him by punishing the Authors of this violence to reuoke all those Offices and Dignities which haue been bestowed since the with-holding of them from those to whom of right they belong And to reduce the State into a due forme to establish vnder the Soueraigne Authority of the King the lawfull Counsell of the Princes of his bloud of other Princes and Officers of his Crowne and of those ancient Counsellers of State who haue gone through many great and important charges and such likewise as are descended from Noble houses and Families of great antiquity who by naturall affection and particular interest do affect the preseruation of the State to whom during the minority of our Kings or by reason of their indisposition the Administration Gouernement and Direction of publique affaires ought to be referred by the ancient and fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome by which both Women and Strangers are debarred from it And if it should so happen from which GOD in his mercy keepe vs that the King should depart this life we doe by these declare that wee acknowledge after his decease for our King and Soueraigne Lord my Lord the Duke of Aniou which is the true and lawful Heire and Successor of this Crowne and during his minority my Lord the Prince of Conde to be lawfull Regent and Gardian of the Kingdom to whom as first Prince of the bloud this preeminence doth belong with the Councell before mentioned for the common direction and administration of the affaires of the Kingdome and not to suffer any other to be admitted vnto the Regency no not the Kings Mother to the preiudice of the Lawes of this State And if it should so happen that these Vsurpers who are most expert in limitting the terme of life and in plotting the death of those who serue for obstacles to their dessignes and enterprizes who ordinarily in such cases do vse Kniues and Poyson to hasten their Deuillish ends should attempt by these most detestable meanes to take away the Kings life or the Prince of Conde's we protest before the Almighty both to seeke and prosequute the iust vengeance thereof by all lawfull meanes to the vttermost of our powers not only vpon themselues who are the chiefe Actors but vpon their Adherents also domestique Seruants and Strangers that in their persons we may leaue a memorable example vnto succeeding ages as well of the fidelity and affection of true Subiects as of the iust punishment of so abominable disloyaltie and impietie And to this purpose we will employ both our Reuenues and Liues euen as long as one drop of bloud remayneth in our bodies and will aduise our posterity to doe the like after vs. And that we may prouide for such an accident and for the safety of the Kingdome against the plots of Strangers and for the Gouernement and Administration of the same in case we want a Prince of the bloud we will call a Parliament to be assembled in a free place whither we may haue sure accesse to the end we may proceede with that order which is conuenient and necessary We doe faithfully promise to execute exactly and obserue inuiolably the Lawes of this Kingdome and in particular the Treatie of Loudun for the common good of all the orders of the State and for the security of all the good and faithfull Subiects of the King We will maintayne and continue the ancient Alliances Treaties and Confederations renewed by the deceased King with forraine Princes Potentates Cōmon-wealths Friends Allies and Confederates who are in the protection of the Crowne that we may reestablish in the conduct of the affaires of State the ancient maximes of the late King which he so happily vsed during his raigne for the security of his State and the publique peace of Christendom the which many men haue left since his death We doe further promise that we will oppose vnder the Kings authority by all meanes possible and namely by our iust Armes and with the succours of all the Allies and Confederates of this Crowne all those who would hinder the effect of this our Vnion wherin we haue no further end then to preserue the Kings Royall authority and the dignity of his Crown to establish his Scepter in his hand and in the hands of his lawfull Successors And to maintayne vnder the common liberty of French-men our Liues Goods Honors and Dignities against the disloyaltie and perfidiousnesse of those who haue conspired not only our ruine but the ruine of the Kings house and of the whole Kingdome And that we may with the more security prosequute so laudable and necessary a dessigne for the common defence of the State the obseruation of the publique and priuate Lawes thereof And for

to their owne seruitude Those that haue attained to any establishment in this strangenesse doe maintaine it for feare to returne to the misery of their first condition so that it seemeth the people and Prouinces doe suffer together in this exchange by the example of the great Ones seeing that the helpe of Lawes are vnprofitable all being in disorder through bribes through violences and through corruption The Louure it selfe hath taken a new face as the Officers haue done There is nought of the old Court remaining but the wals the vse whereof is also changed for they were wont to serue for the assurance of Princes but now they serue for their prison and it may be for yours if I may freely say so It is not without some plot that they giue you when you goe forth a company of light-horse-men chosen by a suspect hand These are your Gards after the manner of the Bastille this distrust counselleth you sufficiently what you ought to doe and there needs no other aduice They hisse at me they mock me and my discourse so was Cassandra serued in Homer when she fore-told the destruction of Troy Sir I haue nothing remaining to serue your Maiesty but my tongue If I were so happy as to draw your Maiestie out of the errour wherein you are nourished I would a thousand times blesse my disgrace which had giuen me the boldnesse to speake freely yea in a time when words themselues are punished The falshood of the Alcoran is no otherwise authorised then because it is forbidden to be spoken of on paine of death Their vsurpation vpon your Maiesties authoritie hath no other footing then the danger of telling you freely of it Consider if you please Sir that those who vsurpe this power ouer your Maiestie are of that Countrey where euery one will Raigne neither is there any towne on that side the Alpes that hath not his Republique or petty king And if your Maiestie had somewhat yeerely looked into your Historie you would haue learned that the bloudiest Tragedies that euer haue been in France came from those parts the last furies are the subiect of a little booke that I published of constancie and the consolation of publique calamities I feare that contrary to my intent it wil be a worke for your Reigne if God in his goodnes haue not mercy vpon vs. Thinke not Sir that sorrow to see my selfe depriued of emploiments induced me to speake so boldly If I had beene grieued for it it is like married people that weepe when they must go from their parents power to enter into the equalitie of Marriage neuerthelesse it is true that owing my seruice vnto your Maiesty I should haue receiued greater content to haue employed it in your Councell of State then in your Parliament where matters are of lesse importance For I suppose that if the Carpenter who made the caruing worke for the Admirall where Don Iohn of Austria commanded at the Battell of Lepanto had knowne that it should haue serued for so important an occasion whereon depended the safety of the rest of Europe he would haue taken more delight in making of it then if it had been a Vessell ordained for commers Notwithstanding seeing your Maiesty commandeth me to retire in a good houre be it The lesser Starres are part of the perfection of the world although they do contribute lesse then doth the Sunne and Moone In what condition soeuer I liue I will alwaies to the vttermost of my power maintaine the good of your Maiesties seruice But if there be any of those who are neere you that lament my remoue for my sake I will tell them freely Weepe for your Children of Ierusalem that for want of courage suffered your Master to be betrayed and not for me that haue not offended vnlesse in being an honest Man Wherefore I take my leaue of you Sir praying God that he will haue pittie of your State and care of your education A REMONSTRANCE OF THE PRINCES TO THE FRENCH KING Dated the Fourth of FEBRVARY SIR YOur most Humble and most Faithfull Subiects and Seruants the Dukes Peeres ancient Officers of your Crown and principal Lords of your Kingdome seeing the dangers which inviron you and the euills which threaten your State with an inevitable subuersion if speedy order be not taken and that they are denied all accesse vnto your Person wherewith they might freely and securely discouer the causes and propound the remedies thereof doe in all humilitie beseech your Maiestie to take in good part this their most humble Remonstrance which cannot but well befit their mouthes sithence it doth testifie nothing but fidelitie and affection vnto your seruice to the conseruation of your Sacred Person and the good of your States And it is by so much the more conuenient because they are thereunto obliged both by Diuine and Humane Lawes by the Oath which they haue taken and the dutie which they owe vnto your Crowne We are not ignorant that the euill is disguised by those who doe it and who labour by all possible meanes to couer it as well as commit it still indeuouring to make those distastfull vnto your Maiestie who complaine thereof And the vnhappinesse of France is such that they hauing all the power of your Estate in their hands they cause you to hold your faithfullest seruants for Enemies But the violence of their Tyrannicall carriage is growne to that excesse that it cannot longer be indured The complaints of it are generall euery one seeth it and feeles the miserable effects And their Artifices can no longer hinder the cryes and publique griefe from striking your Maiesties eares and from mouing your compassion to releeue your People and your iustice against the Authours of so great miseries which euery one knoweth and openly detesteth And by a common vow of your faithfull Subiects are destined to iust punishment according to their demerits The insatiable ambition and auarice of the Marquesse of Anchre and his Wife is the only cause of the euils we are sensible of of the disorders we see and of that wee feare most This is the vlcer which hath festered yea spoyled the whole body of your State It is of him only that men doe complaine and of the Ministers and Executors of his violent and raging passions and no other This is the complaint of the greatest part of your Subiects who as yet haue true French hearts who seeing themselues compassed about with feare and apprehensions and exposed to all manner of dangers by the intestine conspiracies which ayme at the ruine of your State doe implore your Iustice to protect them from the oppression and seruitude vnto which those persons would make them subiect and for to free your Crowne from the many disasters which now increase to the ouerthrow of the same The remedy SIR is in your own hands and in your power which if you doe not make vse of the disease will shortly grow incurable And therefore to shunne it