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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10984	A declaration of the Duke of Rohan peere of France, &c. Containing the iustnes of reasons and motiues which haue obliged him to implore the assistance of the King of Great Britaine, and to take armes for the defence of the Reformed Churches. Translated according to the French copie.; Déclaration de Monsieur le duc de Rohan, pair de France. English	Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638.	1628 (1628)	STC 21252; ESTC S116136	14,493	28

captiue Rochell vpon the point to bee the like all the Churches of this Kingdome threatned with bondage and for mine owne particular I was cruelly vlcered to see my selfe made so blacke with Calumnies as if I had by preuarication consented to the ruine and oppression of so many poore people the complaints whereof peirced my heart and made mee to feele a more insupportable dolour then all the rest of my sufferings Being pressed with such displeasures when all hopes of bettering our condition were taken away and that by expresse letters they gaue vs to vnderstand that the desire of changing our condition or to require it should bee for the time to come the greatest and the most vnpardonable of all our crimes and that if it wee not preuented by some bold and prompt resolution Rochell would be lost my brother protected the enterprise of Blauet from whence insued the precedent warre with such successe as is knowne to all men and which notwithstanding by the prouidence of Almighty God finished with greater aduantage for our Churches then wee should haue hoped for In regard that the King finding it conuenient that the peace should be cōcluded through the interuention of the Ambassadors of England who by vertue of their cōmissions bound their Master to the inuiolable obseruation of the treatie and that by writings and an authenticall act by them signed and sealed with their seales of Armes which were in their behalfe sent vnto vs by Monsieur de Montmartin at the time when I had conuocated the Assembly at Nismes for the acceptation of the peace in two Originals whereof the one is at Rochell and the other with me which containe in expresse tearmes as followeth That they giue vs such assurance that the King of great Britaine will labour by his intercessions ioyned to our most humble supplications to abridge the time for the demolishing of the Fort Lewis for the which they as Ambassadours gaue vs all such Royall words and promises as we could desire And the said Monsieur de Montmartin did assure mee from him in that behalfe that they being returned into England would cause to bee deliuered vnto my brother another Act signed with the Kings owne hand which should containe in expresse termes viz. That if the King should refuse or too long deferre the razing of the said Fort and the intire obseruation of the treaty of the peace the said King of Great Britaine would employ all the forces which God hath giuen him to maintaine his word and to make vs fully to inioy those things which haue beene promised by the answers and declarations of his Maiestie and by the act of the interuention of his Ambassadors Which gaue vs hope that either the conditions of this peace should be more exactly obserued then those of the former or in case of new oppressions we should haue for our warrant to sustaine vs him who made himselfe the Mediator of the treaty interpreter of words giuen and pledges for the inuiolable obseruation thereof But we haue beene so vnhappy that although it seemed vnto vs that this peace built vpon so weake foundations should continue many ages yet notwithstanding it was worse obserued then all those which haue beene violated with more licence and lesse consideration For after that the Kings Counsell had reuoked all promises which they had made to all strangers which are allied to the Crowne to signe and conclude the league against the Spanyard they made a shamefull peace with him and haue equally contemned all the the Edicts which were giuen vs to moue vs to lay downe the armes wee had then taken vp for our necessary defence For the Edict was not verified in the Parliaments but with modifications which destroyed them neither could we with all our suits euer obtaine to haue the said modification to bee read And in stead of razing the Fort of Rochell and to deliuer the gouernment thereof from souldierss according to the promises They haue on the contrary filled the Fort with new munitions giuen the keeping of it to a fauorite and multiplied the souldiers within the Isles They haue drawne and built mighty Forts to hold them in a perpetuall seruitude and to take frō Rochell all hope of liberty for the time to come they haue with impunity made enterprizes vpon the towne They would exile the Pastours which were affectionate to the conseruation thereof they haue filled the coast with shippes of warre and by land they haue hindered them frō gathering their fruits at Sea they haue arrested the ships which brought corne for their prouision They haue oppressed their merchandise with new subsidies and by this meanes doe spoile their commerce To conclude they haue made them vnder the name of peace to feele the hardest conditions which they might suffer during the calamity of the warre and for the height of all euil they maintaine within the inclosure of the walls Commissaries being armed with emiment authority who insolently doe labour to oppresse the rest of their liberties and to subuert all the foundations of their subsistance In the meane time the generality of our Churches hath not beene more fauourably vsed for the Commissaries who though they were alwayes promised neuer came within the prouinces for the execution of the Edict nor the exercise of our Religion was neuer re-established in the places where it was ordained by the declaration that it should be replanted by meanes whereof there are more then forty Churches of great importance destitute of this consolation Our Temples are by the same iniustice and violence alwaies detained from vs as they were before And euen since the peace in diuers places they haue committed new barbarous insolencies vpon this subiect among others the Cardinall of Sourdis and the Baron of Peraut all which remaine without reparation and without punishment And by an Edict of fresh date the 14. of Aprill in this yeare 1627. they tearme the liberty of our Religion a simple toleration vntill as they say that we be reunited vnder one Pastour that is to say the Pope to make vs know that wee deceiue our selues in beleeuing that the most iust liberties which haue beene granted vs should be perpetuall and inuiolable And in the same Declaration they doe intirely ouerturne all the discipline of our Churches for they doe absolutely interdict all the Pastours to make any politicke assemblies although they bee but onely for the liberty of our consciences and the assurance which is giuen vnto vs to maintaine them And by a like draught of the pen they blast all the Pastours which are not borne within the Kingdome taking away their liberty to come into the Ecclesiasticall assemblies Prouinciall or Nationall And they prohibit vs to giue or lend Pastours to strange Churches or Vniuersities or to receiue any from them without expresse permission from the King They command them that are without to returne without delay and yet notwithstanding they say that they may not re-enter into their