Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

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duty_n	affection_n	good_a	love_n	1,128	5	5.0684	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02976	The copie of a letter sent by the French king to the people of Artoys and Henault requesting them to remooue the forces gathered by the king of Spaine, from the borders of France, otherwise denouncing open warre. Also a declaration of the French kings proclaiming open warre against the king of Spaine and his adherents, and the causes him mouing therto.; Lettres du Roy portent declaration de la guerre aux villes de pays d'Artois, Hainaut, d'isle et autres de la subjection. English	France. Sovereign (1589-1610 : Henry IV)	1595 (1595)	STC 13119; ESTC S108571	4,829	18

THE Copie of a Letter sent by the French king to the people of Artoys and Henault requesting them to remooue the forces gathered by the king of Spaine from the Borders of France otherwise denouncing open warre Also a declaration of the French kings proclaiming open warre against the king of Spaine and his adherents and the causes him mouing therto VERTIAS TVA ET VSQVE AD NUBES LONDON Printed by Peter Short for Thomas Millington and are to be sold at his shop vnder S. Peters church in Cornhill 1595 The French Kinges letter sent to the people of Artois and Henault requesting them to remooue the forces gathered by the King of Spain from the borders of France otherwise denouncing open warre MAisters and freendes it is a thing honorable and the duety of a worthy and indeed a Christian prince to spare shedding of mans bloud and to reppresse the afflicting of innocent people as much as hee may In consideration whereof God hauing made vs to be descended of a very famous couragious Christian race euen as the Kinges our predesessors haue excelled in godlinesse and vertue so we imitating them are desirous to crowne our actions our raigne with excelling glory We therefore will not only call to witnes Gods diuine maiestie who is the alone searcher of the hearts of Princes but we are content also depending on nothing but on Gods helpe and our owne sworde to make all the worlde iudge togither of our cause among other we appeale to you who can best iudge and ought rightly to censure being our nearest neighbours and such as haue more knowledge of the right of our matters than all other You know that about fiue years past God by his holy prouidēce hauing put the scepter of France in our hands by lawfull succession hee charged vs immediatly with maintaining the iustest quarrell that euer prince in the worlde could vndertake binding vs to pursue the reuenge and punishing of a most execrable murther and parricide committed on the person of the deceassed King our most honorable and Soueraigne Lord and brother of most christian memorie and to defend our royall patrimonie against the ambition and rebelliō of those which would haue vsurped the same who afterward spared not any meanes that might be to haue obtained their purpose And albeit that euer since wee haue had both courage and the same right and abilitie that we now haue to reuenge our selues vpon y e countries and subiects of the King of Spaine the principall author and enterpriser of this war yet being holden backe by many considerations of great importance to al Christendom we haue chose rather to beare much defending our selues but simply than to set vpon those forcibly to whome we could peraduenture haue procured and done as much hurt as we haue receiued at their hands but hoping to winne them or moderate them in the end through our sufferance and the equitie of our cause which was approued and warranted of God by many speciall graces and conquests that it pleased God to grant vs ouer our enimies yet the eagernes and stomachfulnesse of the Kinge of Spaine and of his adherents hath ben such euen since our turning to the Catholicke Romish religion that perceyuing the cheefe Citties and the principall Lordes of our Realme who had before made war againste vs to haue now sworne all fidelitie and obedience yet notwithstanding in steed of doing as the duty of peace and of good neighbourhood couenanted by our predecessors to be betwene our crownes countries and subiects did will him to haue donne euery man knoweth howe hee hath still maintained and openly set on fire the obstiuate indenours of the residue of our traitors hath battered our forts put our subiects to ransome hath prepared and gathered togither from all partes forces and armies for to enter afresh into our realme and only for our sake laboureth to destroy the town of Cambray and the country of the Cambresians vsing against vs our freends seruauts and subiects all deedes of an open euemy Which thing being so as we cannot nor will not any longer forbeare the protection that wee owe our subiects and our selfe Wee haue also determined to repell the iniuries and offences which we receiue by the same meanes that they are offered vs. But calling to mind the olde loue and affection of kings our predecessors toward you and your good will and duty yelded to them and moreouer it being manifest that you be a little faulty of this war you must endure the chiefest and most fierce assaults when it shall be open war We haue ben willing to dayn of the proclamatiō herof for your sakes for to giue you to vnderstande that if you can so handle the matter to obtaine that the army gathered togither neare our fronters by commandemtnt of the King of Spaine by whom shall be no lesse annoied than we doubt to be may be remooued far from vs and will assure and promise vs that they shal not enterprise any hurt against vs our subiects and countries the Cittie of Cambray and the country of the Cambresians nor that they shall not fauor our traytors then wil we not go forward with our proclamation of war so as wee may see the same take effect betweene this and the first day of the next yeare But if this be not donne wee shall bee constrained for the reasons aforesaide to proclame make open war againste the Kinge of Spaine his subiects and countries that shall abide by him and ayde him in the same war like as the kings our predesessors haue donne vpon the like occasions Protesting before God and his holy angels that we shall be very sorie therefore in regard of the euill that wee foresee like to ensew vnto Christendome For auoiding of which wee haue don that a Prince louing the weale of Christendome and to liue in concord with his neighbours could haue donne You shall receiue this present writing one of our trumpets by whome if you shall delay to make answere or by some other within the time appointed we will take it as we heare from you So we pray to God to keepe you From Amiens the xvij of December 1594. THE Kinges Proclamation A declaration of the French kings proclaming open warre against the king of Spaine and his adherents with the causes him mouing therto THere is no manne in this Realme nor that knoweth any thing of the realm but knoweth how the kinge of Spaine not hauing beene able to make open warre so to destroy France which God hath protected and defended with the Kinges thereof of happy memorie the said kinges being still ayded by their good loyall subiects hath raysed vp and sette on fire dissentions and partes taking in the same whereby he thought to bring the realme to vtter ruine and yet doe the same dissentions greatly trouble the realme For his hatred toward vs and his couetousnesse haue beene so vehement that not onely he hath spent and