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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arm_n	king_n	war_n	1,218	5	5.8758	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64290	The history of the negotiation of the ambassadors sent to the Duke of Savoy by the Protestant cantons of Switzerland concerning the Vaudois translated from the original copy printed in Switzerland.; Histoire l'ambassade envoyée en 1686 par les Suisses au duc de Savoye. English	Teissier, Antoine, 1632-1715.	1690 (1690)	Wing T621; ESTC R10139	48,318	70

is due to their Character The Ambassadors being entred into the Vallies acquainted all the Comminalty with their Arrival who dispacth'd immediately two Deputies and two Ministers to them to whom they represented That they had employed all their utmost endeavours to make the Edict of the 31st day of January to be revoked but that all their Reasons and Instances had been unsuccessful That it had been given them to understand that his Royal Highness was so much engaged with one of the most powerful Monarchs of the whole Universe That it was impossible for him to break it And that he was resolved to do all his endeavours to unite his Subjects in the same Religion as he had promised him Therefore there were no hopes left of obtaining the revoking the Orders that had been given against them That their Sovereign Lords had commanded them that in case his Royal Highness should persist in his resolution to execute his Edict they should demand his permission to give them leave to retreat out of his Territories and to dispose of their goods But that they had not been willing to enter into any Negotiation upon this Article without being first informed about their intentions about it That therefore they should assemble to deliberate seriously about so important a business and to acquaint them afterwards with what they desired of them in the present Junctures The Deputies and Ministers having conference together about this Proposition before they resolved upon any thing they pray'd the Ambassadors to assist them with their wise Advice and prudent Council But the Ambassadors did refuse to advise them in so intricate a business telling them they were better acquainted with their own Forces with the scituation of the Places where they did intend to retrench themselves with their Ammunitition and Provisions than those to whom they did address themselves to know their Sentiments and that therefore they themselves could take the best measures about it Nevertheless not being able to defend themselves against their ardent desires and thinking that they were obliged In charity to assist them in so slippery a passage they at last granted them their desires But to be able to advise them with a full cognisance of the causes they did inform themselves exacty of the number of those that were able to bear Arms in the Valies of the experience vallour and conduct of their Officers of their passages of and avennues to their Countrey of their Ammunition and of the quality and goodness of their Arms they asked them above all if the Inhabitants of the Vallies were well united and having been informed that they all were not above 2500 fighting men that there were amongst them more than 12000 mouths only fit to consume that in some places Provisions begun already to fall short that the Troops of France and Savoy had shut up all the Passages through which they might expect Recruits that they had no hopes of any Succours that it was not very difficult either to starve them or to reduce them by force of Arms that they could not retreat to their Neighbours as in the precedent War That the French King who did formerly protect them was their greatest Enemy that with few men they were to defend a large Countrey that being separated one from another they could not speedily assist those should stand in need of it that in the very Vallies there were some Roman-Catholicks that had an eye upon their Actions and that gave advice to the Court of all their Transactions and which was worst that two great Princes were joined to their destruction They told them that they were much afraid that considering their condition they should not be able to resist so many Forces that were about to fall upon them and that it would be more advantagious for them to think of a retreat out of their Countrey provided leave could be got to sell their Goods and to carry along with them what they were able to save out of the Shipwrack that they were not positively informed of his Royal Highness's intention about it but notwithstanding he had refused it to the Inhabitants of the Vallies when they did ask it in the third Petition they presented to their Prince after his last Edict yet they were in hopes that it would be granted them in consideration of their Sovereign Lords The Ministers and Deputies having heard this advice desire the Ambassadors to grant them leave to consult together about it before they gave them their Answer and having left them they did debate about it for three hours without coming to any resolution every Party maintaining their Sentiments with very great heat Some of them were of an Opinion that they ought not to leave their Countrey but on the contrary they ought to hazard their Lives in maintaining the Privileges had been granted them in so authentical a manner saying It would be the greatest cowardize imaginable to forfeit their Courage in a Cause wererein the honour of God and their Religion was concerned They added that the favour they were to expect would be of no use to those that had nothing to defray the charges of their journey that indeed they might find some purchasers of their Estates scituate in the Plains but that no body would be willing to buy those upon the Mountains that there were no security for them during their departure that there might happen some change in the Affairs of Europo that would render their condition better than it was at present and that perhaps France that did not think they would be capable of the least resistance finding they did defend themselves with much vigor and that they did destroy a part of her Troops might recal the remainder in order to preserve them for some more considerable exploits that they were in expectation both of money and men that were to be sent to them by Captain Janavel and that they could never want provisions for making sallies from time to time they could oblige their Neighbours to furnish them with necessary Provisions Those that were of a contrary Opinion answered all their Reasons in the following manner That it is true that both Reason and Piety do oblige us to hazard our Lives in the Defence of our Liberty and the Exercise of our Religion when we have some hopes to do it with success but that when the danger is unavoidable and our Ruin certain it is Madness and Despair to precipitate our Destruction and that to take up Arms against those whom it is impossible to overcome what efforts soever we are able to make is to be our own Enemies and Destroyers that they had amongst them but few Persons capable of Defence and that how resolute and brave soever they were it was visible they could not very long Resist two Puissant Armies that were going to fall upon them from all sides that it was to feed our selves up with vain Imaginations to think that the Juncture of Affairs might change that