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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02967	A letter written by the King of Nauarre vnto the French King concerning his innocencie against the sclaunders of his aduersaries. Truely translated out of French. Anno 1585.	Navarre (Kingdom). Sovereign (1572-1610 : Henry III); Aggas, Edward, attributed name.; Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.	1585 (1585)	STC 13108; ESTC S113575	2,889	16

A.j. A Letter Written by the King of Nauarre vnto the French King concerning his innocencie against the sclaunders of his aduersaries Truely translated out of French Anno 1585. 1585. A Letter written by the King of NAVARRE vnto the French King concerning his innocencie against the slaunders of his aduersaries Truely translated out of French 1585. MY Lord so soone as the auctors of these newe troubles had made some shewe of the purposed effects of their bad mindes toward your Highnesse it pleased your Maiestie in writing to impart vnto mee that opinion which iustly your selfe had conceiued of their entents which was that notwithstāding whatsoeuer their pretences your selfe were not ignoraunt how they practised against your person and Crowne also that they sought to grow mightie by your decay and detriment as men that purposed the totall ruine and vtter subuertion of your estate These my Lord were the very effect of the wordes of your Letters wherewith your Maiestie vouchsafed to honor me as acknowledging the vniō of my hap with yours expressely adding that they endeuoured my ouerthrowe together with yours Myne I say my Lorde the which depending vpon you as it doth thei can hardly cōpasse without yours In respect hereof it pleased your Maiestie also to commaunde your Gouernors general Liutenants Baylifes Stewardes and all other your Officers to withstande them as Rebelles and perturbers of the Common quiet Your Maiesties declarations also were herevpon sent vnto all your Courts of Parliamēt and in the same ratefied whereby they were pronounced Traytors whereof haue ensued sundrie solemne decrees and vpon the sayd decrees diuers executions of great importaunce in many partes of this Realme which remaine as presidents as well of their rebellion and conspiracie against your estate as also of that iudgement which your Maiestie your Counsaile your Courtes of Parliament had assessed of their purposes All this notwithstanding it pleased your Maiestie according to your naturall clemencie to thinke good by gentle meanes to reduce them to their dueties and therevpon vouchsafing to honor me with your Letters you therein commaunded me with pacience to suffer all whereby your selfe might haue the better leysure to enter into consideration of them and their purposes to the ende to giue to your Subiects to vnderstande how farre the very causes of their deuises did differ from their published pretences alleadging that although your selfe were not ignoraunt thereof yet that it was requisite to open the same to your people whom vnder the fayned shewe of Religion they sought to withdraw frō their dueties Your Maiestie my Lord are to call to mind with what pacience at your commaundement I haue hetherto borne and obeyed notwithstanding according to your wisedome and equitie you are not ignoraunt by how iust occasions I haue alwaies bene prouoked and my pacience mooued especially seeing my selfe chalenged as partie by your Maiesties enemies who openly haue declared that they sought only my ouerthrowe so that although I plainly found my self to be the scope of their attempts and enterprises yet in respect of that reuerence which euermore I haue endeuoured to shewe to your commaundements I durst not once stirre against them no notwithstāding I dayly beheld them marching before my face yea almost within my reach in Armes against your Maiestie in stomacke against my selfe euermore attēpting against either some Townes within my gouernment either some of my houses or els against my owne person and yet occasion so fitly seruing I might neither doe your Maiestie any seruice requisite or my selfe bee reuenged according as reason nature did require Your onely will my Lord haue I accepted for reason and your commaundement for lawe My nature and duetie haue I strained and forced yea almost my reputation and credite vnder your precepts and that the rather my Lord in respect that your Maiestie still honoring mee with your Letters did in the same promise to be as mindfull of my interest as of your owne as also that you would not graunt or cōdiscend vnto any thing that might bee preiudiciall to your Edict of peace which you purposed to be irreuocable yea and that in and according to the same you would protect and defend all your Subiects indifferently all which promises your Maiesty haue from time to time reiterated in all your Letters which beeing of your owne handwriting I do reserue as also you haue promised the same to the Lords of Cleruant and Chassincourt with other my agents resiant about your person as also haue the Queene your Mother as well by word of mouth as by Letters When therefore my Lord I heard it reported that your Maiestie had on the suddeine concluded peace with those that haue rebelled against your seruice vpon cōdition that your edict be broken your loyall subiectes banished the conspirators armed yea armed with your forces and authoritie against your most obedient and faithfull subiectes euen against my selfe who haue that honour to bee of your Maiesties blood and allyed vnto you who euer since I supposed my selfe to haue any place in your good fauour and liking could neuer bee found to haue departed therefro except by too much pacience sufferance and duetifull obedience whē this I say came to my knowledge I leaue it to your Maiesties consideration to thinke in what perplexitie I might remayne either wherein I might repose any further hope except in dispayre In that declaration which on my behalfe was exhibited vnto your Maiesty I haue motioned the most equall and reasonable conditions that might bee deuised for the furtherance of common generall quiet for your securitie for the reliefe of al your subiects Viz. If their quarell bee for Religion howbeit notwithstanding whatsoeuer Buckler they make of the same yet it is the farthest from their thoughts I haue referred my selfe to a free Counsayle If for assurances which certeinly they haue no reason to demaund I haue offered to resigne my gouernement together with what soeuer my Fortresses or houldes vpon condition that them selues will doe the like and that to the end no way to prolong the staye of quietnesse throughout this Realme If it bee my selfe that they shoote at either if vnder pretence and colour of mee they pretend to trouble the whole land to the ende your Maiestie may no longer be troubled thereabout I haue craued that this quarell might be decided betweene them and mee yea for the cutting off of common calamities euen betweene their persons and myne To be briefe I haue beyond all shew of reason and contrary to all naturall sence yeelding to whatsoeuer your Maiesties commaundemēts proceeded farther then duetie could binde and notwithstanding the inequalitie of our degrees and callings haue stooped and become equall with my inferiors to the end with my blood to redeeme so many mischifes Yea I haue abased my selfe to those parsons whome your Maiestie haue pronounced Rebelles If therefore my mishappe bee such which I wil not yet beleeue that your Maiestie haue proceeded so farre as notwithstanding all these my conclusions and submissions to cōclude such a treatie and thereby to infringe your Edictes and to arme your Rebelles against your estate against your blood yea and against your parson I can not but hartely lament and bewaile your Maiesties condition especially seeing your highnesse through contempt of my faithful seruice forced to vtter subuersion of your estate togither with the consideration of the calamities of your realme the end whereof we are in vaine to looke or hope for except in the totall ruyne of the same For that all the world doth knowe by twentie yeres proofe and more that their pretence is a vaine attempt and their building a manifest subuersion In the meane tyme I will comfort my selfe in my innocencie integritie and affectiō to your Maiestie and your estate also in that it hath not beene long of me that with my owne perill I haue not preuented this shipwarcke but aboue all I will ground my consolation vpon the Lord God the protector of my sinceritie and loyaltie who in this necessitie will not forsake mee but rather will encrease my courage multiply my meanes against all my ennemies who are yours And my Lord I beseech hym to enspire you with good counsayle and in all your affayres to assist you with his strength Also that he wil vouchsafe me his grace during lyfe to yeeld vnto you my bounden seruice as I desire also to preserue your Maiestie At Bergerac Julij 21. 1585.