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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01154	A discourse of all such fights, skirmishes, exploites, and other politike attempts which haue happened in France since the ariuall of the Duke of Parma, and the ioyning of his forces with the enemies Wherein is most truelie declared the good successe of the Kings Maiestie, and the manner of the entrenching of the said Duke with all his forces in a moore, neere vnto the castle of Brou. Trulie translated, and published according to the originall sent by the French King to his embassador heere in England.; Sommaire discours au vray de ce qui est advenu en l'armée du Roy Tres-Chrestien depuis que le duc de Parme s'est ioint a celle des ennemis. English.		1590 (1590)	STC 11268; ESTC S112654	10,622	20

A DISCOVRSE OF ALL SVCH FIGHTS Skirmishes Exploites and other politike attempts which haue happened in France since the ariuall of the Duke of Parma and the ioyning of his Forces with the Enemies Wherein is most truelie declared the good successe of the Kings Maiestie and the manner of the entrenching of the said Duke with all his Forces in a Moore neere vnto the Castle of Brou Trulie translated and published according to the originall sent by the French King to his Embassador heere in England Printed at London by Thomas Scarlet dwelling at the signe of the greene Dragon in Adling street and are to be sold by William Wright A true discourse of all that hath happened in the most Christian Kings Armie since the ariuall of the Duke of Parma in France and the ioyning of his forces with the enemie vntill the fifteenth daie of this present moneth of September 1590. AFter that great and happie victorie which it pleased God to giue the King against his enemies néere to Eury the fourtéenth of March last past he also vouchsafed to grant him such peculiar fauour vnto conquerors not vsuall as therby to be no whit puffed vp either in déede or word but contrariwise to growe the more gracious and tractable as may appeare in his releasing of a great part of the rigour of his Edicts and declarations against his rebellious townes subiects after the said victory more then before Which cause was worth vnto him fiftene or sixtene good cities townes whereof only one held out the batterie and all the rest yéelded vppon friendly composition and haue since continued most firme constant and resolute in his seruice as hauing tried that transferring themselues from a tyranous vsurpation to a lawfull dominion their state was greatly amended A fewe daies after this ouerthrowe the Lord of Villeroy one of the chiefe of the contrarie faction séeming desirous to reclaime himselfe and to prouide for his particular safetie drewe néere to Mant where through his maiesties permission he had some communication with Monsieur du Plessis Mornay who for his part vsed him with such fauorable spéeches concerning not onely his own particular cause but also the generall that he fained himselfe willing to enterprise some treatie of peace Afterward he returned openly while the siege laie about Melune and albeit his maiestie were aduertised that this his legation was nothing but deceit also that the Embassadour might bee first deceiued yet with this onelie confidence that with his sole discretion and franchize he might conuert them from their bad purposes into contrarie resolutions as many times it hath fallen out that set conspiracies haue ben confounded by the innocent presence of those against whom they should haue bene put in execution he forbare not to receiue him with as great humanitie as if he had bene assured that his Commission imported as good purposes as he was certaine of the contrarie whereby the said Lord of Villeroy found himselfe so surprized that hée did halfe confesse this his conuersion and protested that hee woulde more faithfully emploie himselfe thereabouts then before hee had done In the meane time his Maiestie hauing in a short space recouered all that laie vpon the riuers of Sein Marne Yonne and Oyse he determined to drawe néere vnto the Citie of Paris in purpose to recouer it and to roote out the rebellion in the same place where it first began yet with a milde and naturall death deuoide of violence terror or conuulsion which he found so weakly defended that he might haue carried it with as small labour as anie of the least towns in his kingdome which his abilitie continued the space of foure moneths that he enuironed it yea it not onely so continued but became daily more easie in that they that were within had towarde the end lost three parts of their men of seruice and his maiesties armie was strengthened and augmented the one halfe howbeit so oft as it came to deliberation as there might be diuersitie of Councels his maiestie considering that Paris was the head Citie and principall ornament of his Realme that therein remained so many Princesses that were allied vnto him so many good and ancient families so many Churches and religious houses with persons appertaining to the seruice of the same who for the most part peraduenture were innocent of this rebellion and yet the said towne being taken by force could not be exempt or fréed from such excesse and violence as in so furious an accident can no waie be eschued could neuer bee induced to consent to that resolution before he had attempted all other meanes yea hardly would he grant to take the suburbes not as a matter vnnecessarie to be done but for feare least the one might draw on the other Also that the souldiers séeing themselues so néere to so good a bootie should haue ben hardly restrained from procéeding farther as in déed it was the greatest labour that the king and the chiefest of his Captaines had during the whole siege to restraine their souldiours from anie farther enterprise for there was no difference to be made betwéene the attempting to execute it and the taking of the suburbes which was performed at once without anie resistance Also that which since hath bene séene albeit repugnant to rule viz. that the lesse containeth not the greater yet seuen or eight thousand souldiers that lodged in the suburbs kept inclosed aboue thirty thousand armed men that were in the sayd towne ought to be proofe sufficient that the taking thereof perforce could not haue béene auoided Herevpon his Maiestie to the end not to lose the said town but to preserue the honor of so many families and to spare the shedding of such innocent blood as might haue bin spilt resolued to tame them with want of foode and rather with patience to beare out the delay of whatsoeuer siege then to practise any farther indeuour wherein he had two purposes either that it would fall out through the said siege that vpon the said want they that were within should not be able to hold out or else that the Duke of Maine would approch to their succour whereby he might haue oportunitie to fight with him which was the thing that he most desired as séeking thereby rather to plucke vp the roote of the mischiefe then to cut off the branches And had his maiestie béene as resolute and implacable in the first as he hath shewed himselfe most carefull in the second the towne had vndoubtedly bene his Indéede the reason of war willeth that being once resolued to fight and conquer the obstinacie of the besieged with fasting and abstinence we should not suffer any victuals whatsoeuer to be brought in by any whomsoeuer also that we should shut in al that were within and not suffer any so much as one to come forth to the end that the more there were within the sooner the victuals might be consumed and this rule ought to haue bin obserued with