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A01152	A declaration concerning the needfulnesse of peace to be made in Fraunce and the means for the making of the same: exhibited to the most Christian king, Henrie the second of that name, King of Fraunce and Polande, vpon two edictes, put forth by his Maiestie, the one the tenth of September, the other the thirtenth of October. Anno. 1574. Translated out of Frenche by G. H. Esquire.; Remonstrance au roy ... sur le faict des deux edicts ... touchant la necessité de paix & moyens de la faire. English	Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595.; Harte, George.	1575 (1575)	STC 11266; ESTC S112648	61,519	168

number about him and therin surely he did well Neuerthelesse the writers of histories find fault with him in this that he gaue too muche authoritie to his mother Mámea which otherwise had bin a good woman but that shee was not only greedy in gathering of goods from the poore people but also a couetous niggarde towards such as serued the Emperour hir sonne beside the which she was very ambitious aspiring altogether to the gouernement of the affayres euer sorie to see hir sonne so curteous gentle in his gouernemente for where hee was surnamed Seuerus hee tooke that aswell of his predecessor Septimius Seuerus as of his seuere obseruing of warlike discipline but otherwise he was the most affablest and gētlest prince in the world Neuerthelesse by his yeelding so much authoritie to his mother Mámea he so gate the euill will of hys gentlemen and men of warre as by way of a conspiracie they slew them both togyther Truely it was a spectacle very piteous to see this gentle yong Prince when the conspiratours entred the chamber to kill him runne and cast him selfe betweene the armes of his mother lamentably crying Ah mother mother you are heereof the cause So were they wretchedly flayne the one in the others armes to the greate damage of the Empire for the losse of so good and gentle a prince who in al other things gouerned him selfe aswell as might be possible through the good and wise aduises of such excellent personages as were of his priuie counsell Amongst whome the chiefe was doctor Vlpian a mā singularly learned in the ciuil law and very well practised in matters of the state and issued of the house and stocke of Alexander whome hee serued as his chanceler This mā was not an old doterd of a strāge nation ignorant of the lawes manners and customes of the countrie drawē out of Vulcans shop to deale with sealing he was one made of another manner of metall But in summe as I sayd the fault of this good Emperour Alexander in giuing his mother too much authoritie cost both him and hir theyr liues And truely that fault of his was not small For Alexander ought to haue considered what hee had learned of Heliogabalus his cosin and predecessor which Heliogabalus gouerning by his mother Semiamira without whose aduise nothing passed touching the common wealth was incontinētlye despised of all the worlde and after he had raigned not passing three yeeres was by certaine rebels slayne very yong and had his body togither with his sayde mothers drawen through the fylth of the riuer Tiber. And therevpon it was decreed by the Senate that neuer woman should enter into the counsel The gentle King Edward of England the thirde of that name gouerned himselfe farre otherwise He was sonne to Edward the seconde a cruell king that was depriued of his kingdome by his subiects and to the Lady Isabell daughter of Philip the fayre king of France This Lady Isabell Queene of England was the cause that hir sonne was crowned King by the estat●… of the Realme and therefore thought he should doe nothing but by hir councell as in very deede he dyd not for a tyme but gaue to hir the chiefe authoritie touching the gouernement of his realme But it happened that this good Queene mother to reuenge hir selfe of certayne of the nobilitie at hir pleasure caused hir sonne to committe certaine cruelties for the whyche hee was misliked and muche blamed of his subiectes Whiche when thys gentle King Edwarde perceiued iudging it best rather to loose the fauour of his mother than of his people he neyther woulde fall into like perill as did Nero and Alexander Seuerus nor yet put his mother to death as Nero did but made hir to be bestowed in a strong howebeit a very faire and pleasant castell of large circuite wherein there were many goodly courtes gardens and walkes inclosed with walles and appoynted hir a good companie of Ladies and gentlewomen with men of worship and honour to serue hir after hir state And bycause she was of the house of France and Queene mother of Englande he assigned hir a sufficient reuenue for the maintenance of hir estate And to honour hir as his mother hee went to visite hir twice or thrice a yeere But neyther woulde he euer suffer hir to passe out of the precinct of the castell nor to meddle any more with the gouernment of the realme And he was muche esteemed as well of strangers as of his subiects for his valiant and manly heart in that he would not submit himselfe vnder the rule of a woman But let vs returne againe to our former matter touching such Princes as haue vndone them selues by making warre against their subiectes The Emperour Vitellius ouerthrewe and made a great slaughter of the Romanes in his battell had against Otho his souldiers seeing so many deade bodyes in the fielde were therefore verie sorowfull but especially for that there was of them few or none that founde not amongst those deade bodies some of their parents friends for they were all Romanes whose death ministred to them muche cause of griefe vpon the which occasion they generally detested those ciuill warres had betweene Vitellius and Otho Vitellius one day walking through the field wher the dead bodies of that ouerthrow lay and seeing some stop their noses did as it were in mockage thereof and as one glad of the slaughter vtter this detestable saying the body of a slaine enimie hath a good sent but the body of a slain citizē hath yet a better But not long after that tyrant which found so muche sweetnesse in the sauour of his slaine citizens was him selfe slaine as shamefully as he possibly might be For being taken and bound by suche as conspired against him he was brought into the market place with a halter about his necke all naked from the waste vpward his apparell all to torne and his handes fastned behinde him his chin also being vnderset with a bodkin to make him hold vp his head With which furniture hee was in derision harryed through the streetes not without dirt and filth flung in his face till he came to the cōmō gibet where he was slaine and cut in peeces lastly cast into Tyber That was the rewarde that he reaped of his pleasure taken in the smel of the dead bodies of his citizens The Emperour Gallien made war against the inhabitants of Bizance his subiectes Bizance was then a goodly florishing citie which was after named Constantinople by Constantine the great This Gallien hauing gotten the possession of this goodly citie the townsmē wherof had yelded themselues to his deuotion caused to be slain murthred contrary to his word al the inhabitantes of the same yong and olde without mercie none other escaping than such as he coulde not come by And he vsed like crueltie against many other good towns wherin his maner was to leaue no male vnkilled so bestly a

for a kyng to graunt the people their willes by doing whereof sayde they he shoulde receyue lawe of them to whome he ought to gyue lawe and subiecte him selfe to them that ought to be subiecte to him but rather that he ought to make them knowe hym for their Prince and soueraigne Lorde whose office was to commaunde and theirs absolutely to obey Roboam folowing this opinion woulde needs lay great taxes and impositions on his people by reason whereof the most part of them that is to say tenne partes of twelue rebelled against him and raysed for their Kyng one Ieroboam Wherevpon the sayd Roboam prepared an armie of 80000. men for the repressing of those rebelles wherein he lost both his labour and time for Ieroboam continued King in peace And from that time forth that kingdome remained deuided in two King Lewes the eleuenth as fine subtil a prince as euer was in Fraunce at his comming to the crowne gouerned him selfe very yll in displacing and hindering of many good and ancient seruitours that had don great seruice to Charles the seuenth his father in the recouering of his realme the most part whereof the Englishmen long time enioyed Wherewith the nobles being discontented raysed against their sayde king a ciuill warre which they called the commō welth To them many townes and commonalties also adioyned them selues by reason of the great impostes that the king put vpon them But the wise king knowing his faulte sought all the meanes possible for the appeasing of that warre therein folowing the aduice and councell of his good friend Fraunces Sforze the Duke of Millaine which councelled him for the obtaining of peace to deny nothing of their demaundes And in deede by graunting their requests he appeased those ciuil warres and was al his life after serued of those noblemen gentlemen that were against him in the same towards whom he neuer reserued so much as any desire of reuēgement It may be sayd that what the king did herein was done vpon policie But howe so euer it was done the Frenchmen till these dayes were neuer so Italionated as to beare malice long in their heartes And this wise king woulde neuer hazarde his common wealth by giuing of battell vnto his people saying that he would not commit his estate which was so good and so great as the king of a royall Realme to the perill of so vncertaine a thing as a battell And after the peace made hee frankely confessed that hee sawe him selfe in great perill of loosing his kingdome and had determined in his mynd to haue saued him selfe at Millaine or else amongst the Switzers if Paris had not helde with him but bene wonne and possessed by his aduersaries Edwarde the seconde of that name King of Englande for the pleasure of Hugh Spencer his chiefe mynion made warre against his subiectes and put to death many of his Princes and nobles without anye order of iustice in so muche as Queene Isabell his wife with his sonne and hirs to shunne his furie and crueltie were fayne to flee into Fraunce who after returned agayne into Englande with hyr sayde sonne and a small force which she had gotten by the meanes of a meane Gentleman called syr Iohn of Henawd brother to the Earle of Henawd And being aryued in Englande founde all the people readie at hir commaundement as those that had taken a great displeasure agaynst the King by reason of his crueltie So as she besieged hir sayde husbande tooke him prysoner and bestowed him in the Tower of London Then caused she all the estates of the realme to be assembled by whome Kyng Edward the seconde for his crueltie committed agaynst his nobilitie was founde and pronounced vnworthy to be Kyng any longer and so was depriued of his dignitie And whyle he was yet aliue and prysoner in the sayde Tower of London the sayde estates crowned his sonne Edwarde the thyrde their Kyng of whome I haue spoken afore and shewed that he did the like to his mother Tarquine the proud a King of the Romanes was by his people driuē out of Rome as well for his gouerning ouer proudly as for suffering his sonne to violate a woman of honour named Lucrecia and being thence banished he sent his embassadours thither for the procuring of his peace and restablishement of his estate many gaue their consents to restore him and had he proceeded in gentle and tractable maner there had bene great likelyhoode of the recouerie of his kingdome But being vnable to maister his own pride he gathered together as many as he coulde get to take his part and with Porsena kyng of the Hetrurians whome he raysed vp to ayde him made warre againste the Romanes This war procured him such hatred of the Romanes which hadde bene his subiectes as they would neuer after returne vnder his obeysance in so much as both he and all his posteritie were depriued from off the kingdome and the estate of that Monarchie changed into a publike state And from that time forth the name of King was deadly hated and abhorred among the Romanes And no maruell though the name of King were so sore hated of the Romanes for one mans faulte that euen when the same state returned againe to a Monarchie vnder Iulius Caesar neither he nor his successours wold be called kings but Emperours For it hath happened so to dyuers other names The name of Tyrant which at this day soundeth so yll and is of euerie man hated was amongst our Elders an honourable name signified none other thing but lord insomuch that Virgil whose onely drift in his Aeneiad●s was to aduaunce the godlynesse vertue of his Aeneas calleth him Tyrant Likewise the name of Iudas which signifieth a Confessour was in times past reputed honourable and yet by reason of one mans faulte it is nowe taken for a traytour And before the Emperour Neroes time this name Neron which in the olde Sabin tong signifieth noble was esteemed as a glorious name especially after the days of Claudius Nero which ouercame Asdrubal Hannibals brother his 50000. men but for the offences of one only man the same is now taken for a tyrant So much may the wickednesse of one man do to the vtter defacing of a faire honorable name for euer God graūt that the vices of some of vs frenchmē do not bespot the name of Frēchman which hath heretofore bin esteemed and honored throughout al the world which thing I am sore afeard of if we mend not the soner for alreadie in Germanie they cal al frenchmen indifferently Schelmes Continuing our examples I will recite you one which is the more to be noted for that it was done by the way of iustice After the death of the great Herode king of Iudea Samaria Galile and Idumea there arose a strife and contention betweene Archelaus and Herodes Antipas his sonnes Archelaus would needs make wars against his subiectes vpon a verie slyght occasion in

suche wise as for the giuing of one blowe he caused three thousand persons to be slaine by his horsemen whome he made to trauerse and runne through the whole assembly of his people Wherevpon his brother Antipas sped him strayght vnto Rome where before Augustus Caesar he accused Archelaus for at that time welneere all the Kings of the world were subiect to the Romane Empire The Iewes also sente from Iudea to Rome fiftie Ambassadours to accuse hym before Augustus and to shewe how vnworthy he was to raigne that had vpon his people committed suche crueltie and that also there was no better curtesie to be loked for at his handes that woulde so soone after the death of his father and immediatly vpō hys entrie commit actes so cruell and vnnaturall In consideration wherof they besought Augustus to gyue them rather Antipas for their king Augustus Caesar tooke knowlege of this matter neuerthelesse for that hee bare some fauour and friendship to Archelaus be confirmed his succession in Iudea Samaria Idumea and assigned Galile to Antipas But therewith hee exhorted Archelaus to the gouerning of him selfe thencefoorth more mildly and gently towards his subiects Archelaus returning into his coūtrey with so good speede at Augustus hande behaued him selfe there more cruelly than before Wherevpon hee was agayne accused at Rome and there condemned by the Senate to whome Augustus had referred the examination of the matter in somuche that all his goodes were confiscate to the Emperour by sentence of the Senate and hee him selfe was banished to Vienna in Dauphine there to ende hys dayes as he miserably did After this iudgement Iudea Samaria and Idumea were ruled by suche gouernours as the Emperour did establishe as by Coponius and Annius Rufus in the raigne of Augustus Caesar and by Valerius Gratus and Pontius Pilate that cruell man whiche iudged our Sauiour to death during the dayes of Tiberius The conclusion is that Archelaus for his warring and ouerrigorous dealing with hys subiectes miserably ended his dayes and was the causer of the alteration of the state of hys countrie Vpon this matter of alteration of states I say by the way that it hath often fallen out and still dothe that when Monarchies haue bin excessiuely corrupted with vice they haue bin changed into common weales and likewise when the common weales haue once bin corrupted they also haue bin changed into Monarchies and kingdomes The example heereof was seene in the nation of the Iewes at whose beginning euen from the tyme of Moyses and Iosua that people was gouerned in the fourme of a Monarchie for those two were as chiefe gouernours one after another Afterwarde in the time of the Iudges was the same state chaunged to the fourme of a common weale for the people were gouerned by a chosen number of auncients except in time of warre when God alwayes raysed vp to them a Captayne which they called their iudge But againe in the dayes of Samuell it altered from a common wealth to a Monarchie at whiche time Saul was chosen king After that in the time of the Machabees it was changed from a Monarchie to a popular state howbeit that to say the truth it was a confused state whiche had no manner of forme of good gouernement and yet afterwarde it returned to the manner of a Monarchie in the raign of Herode the great and was lastly put into the forme of a prouince vnder the Romane Empire Likewise the estate of the Romanes was gouerned as a Monarchie frō the raigne of Romulus till the time of Tarquine the proud whose pride and euill gouernemente was the cause that the same state was changed into the forme of a common wealth In that state the Romanes continued vnto the dayes of Iulius Caesar at which time it was so corrupted with riot auarice ambition whereof the ciuil warres betweene Scilla and Marius and betweene Caesar and Pompei may be a witnesse that it could not but alter and come agayne to a Monarchie Since the which time that great Romane Monarchie hathe bene piteously wasted by the euill gouernmentes of many Emperours And of the wast of the same haue bin erected many common wealthes and great kingdomes as Fraunce Spayne Englande and other greater and smaller Monarchies To bee shorte these chaunges haue bene seene in the state of the Romane Empire in lesse than .1500 yeare France before the time of Iulius Caesar stood in the state of small common wealthes which gouerned themselues apart the one by the other by cōfederations that they had together to reuēge them vpon strangers as the Cantons do at this day But ambition made them bandie and make warre eache agaynste other to proue whiche shoulde be the greatest Of whome when they of Autun had gotten the vpper hand as the stronger those of Sequanois their neighbours feeling them selues the weaker called the Almaines to their succors against them of Autun The Almaines comming downe vnder the conduct of Arionistus serued them and occupied a good part of the countrie Sequanois for their wages They of Autun on the other syde demanded succor of the Romanes wherevppon Caesar came into France and vnder the colour to succour them of Autun and to chace Arionistus from the countrie that he occupied he wonne to himselfe the whole countrie of France So as it may truely be sayd that that change of the Frenche state happened through the diuision that then was in Frāce without the which deuision Caesar had neuer vanquished them what Caesar soeuer he had bin And truely we see by the histories that alwayes till then the Frenchmen had well canuassed the Romanes yea and taken and burned Rome In somuch that as sayth Salust the Romanes so feared them that alwayes when they hearde the Frenche to be in armes yong and old priestes and lay-men none excepted or excused amongst thē were commaunded to arme them Yea they would openly confesse that against all other nations they warred for the gaining of honor and glory but ageinst the French men for the preseruation of their liues But Caesar finding them in deuision added oyle to the flame of their furie partly by whiche policie and partly by his valiancie he set vppon them and ouercame them changed their state from sundry common wealthes to one only Monarchie Yea thus muche more hee did that as with the Romane power he vāquished the Frenchmen so with the French mens money he obteyned the Romane Empire another very good policie for with the money that he gate in Fraunce he corrupted the chiefe of Rome through the fauour of whome he was chosen Dictatour perpetual which is as much to say as Monarch of the Romanes So was the Realme of France by Caesar vnited to the Romane Empire from the whiche they often after soughte to cutte them selues off as in the ende they did In the tyme of the Emperour Tiberius one Iulius Sacrouir of Autun made parte of Fraunce to reuolt raysing certayne small