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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10586	A legendarie, conteining an ample discourse of the life and behauiour of Charles Cardinal of Lorraine, and of his brethren, of the house of Guise. Written in French by Francis de L'isle; Legende de Charles, cardinal de Lorraine et de ses frères, de la maison de Guise. English	La Planche, Louis Régnier de, ca. 1530-ca. 1580.	1577 (1577)	STC 20855; ESTC S115805	138,427	198

sought vtterly to root out him and his Thus may you see how they enuenimed the King against his blood and people naming to him Valois in steade of Guise openly playing at King put of thy coate yet could not their cruelties stop men from casting these things in their teeth both in worde and writing being accused of weakening deuouring and wasting both the King and his Realme But al this shal more particularly be described The Cardinal was then so malepart as in the Kings presence to sweare by Gods blood that the Baron of Castelnaul should die for it and that no man should saue him In the meane time the Kings edicts posted euery way and the Duke of Guise the more to floute the King and doubting lest the executioÌ„ of so many might procure him more hatred among al men fearing also least this worde estates which already began to tingle in their eares should tickle the peoples hearts thought it best to saue the liues after the maner of a thiefe which holdeth a man in his mercy at the corner of a wood of the most part of the poore souldiers who were come on foote which was done giuing euery man closely a testorne I wil not here say that they counseled the King to slaye the Prince of Conde neither speake of the meanes which they vsed in washing and clensing them selues in innocent blood neither of the slanders which they layed vpon the dead persons or of their faire promises for time to come and al in the Kings name and yet obserued nothing for we shal haue time enough to speake thereof more largely hereafter But I wil set before the readers an other wonderful iniury which their ambition wrought against the King and his estate Their niece who was married to Francis the second was Queene of Scots Now chalenged she some title to England because she was the daughter of the sonne of one of the sisters of King Henry the eight of England pretending that Queene Elizabeth at this present reigning might easely be displaced especially because that Marie Queene before her being married to King Philippe had declared her vnlawful They caused therfore their niece to take vpon her the title armes both of EnglaÌ„d ScotlaÌ„d determining finally to appropriat to themselues the realm of England at the cost of France and in the name of their said niece whether it were by subtiltie or force Also the religion which Queene Elizabeth professed semed to them a meete pretence to winne some power in England where it is not vnknowen that there are suffred ouer many of the popes affectionate seruants Again the mightines of the King of France together with the inuincible alliaÌ„ce of both kngdomes was vnto them an other couer or cloke vnder the which they gathered together many secret seruants pensioners who sould their wicked consciences by golde weite and in scoffing at the Guisians perswaded them that for the attaining of England it was requsite first to came the Scots who for the most part were become protestants For by this goodly exploit the English Catholikes should haue a sufficient gage of their rest for time to come also that it was necessary that one of the six brethren shoulde remaine stil in Scotland During these practises there arose some trouble in Scotland about religion King Henry the second died and they seeing themselues on horsback determined to pursue this pray with horne and crye They sent therefore the Bishop of Amiens a very nimble person in the court of the Church who in one moneth should reduce said he al the strayed Scots with him la Brosse a hairebrained and furious person who should murder al in that realme These two good commissioners being arriued in Scotland began in their owne fancies to make partition of the gentlemens lands and selling the beares skinne which yet they had not taken they writte vnto the Guisians that there were waies how to draw yerely two hundred thousaÌ„d crownes out of this kingdoÌ„ by puttiÌ„g to death the nobilitie and bringing the commons into subiection also that there they might wel lodge a thousand French gentle meÌ„ who should be to do the lords of Guise seruice God knoweth whither this council clawed them where they itched and whither they maligned the Queene dowager their sister and her minion the lord of Oysel who thought it not best to ouerrunne the said Scotts who had blood in their nayles as they shewed wel making the Bishop to feele that they had nought to doe with his instructions and compelling la Brosse to returne the same way he came and to goe and bragge it in some other place driuing away the priests the Cardinalty and the Papalty al which had it not bene for the foolish ambition of the Guisians might well haue remained Also besides this blowe they susteined an other onset on the coaste of England for Queene Elizabeth made a large protestation expressely against them therein setting before al mens sight the causes of these broyles to the Kings confusion and the destruction of his realme And whatsoeuer countenances or practises that they made afterward fastening according to their custome the foxes skinne vnto the lyons yet gained they nought els on that side sauing shame to themselues and losse and hinderance vnto the King and his realme Whiles they extended their wings so farre of in France one the one side the protestants multiplied and on the otherside such as misliked the gouernement of the Guisians began againe to take heart notwithstanding the successe of the enterprise of Amboyse had in the beginninge greatly quailed the greatest part Hereupon the Duke of Guise marueilously chafed that in his gouernement of Dauphine the protestants had first lifted vp their heades brought in sixtene ensignes of the olde bands of PiedmoÌ„t together with diuers coÌ„panies of other French souldiers vnder the conduct of Tauannes Maugiron and others who made marueilous hauocke in those countreis Sone after also they brought the King to Tours where they did what they could to haue had the towne destroyed for they supposed that the inhabitants thereof had fauoured the enterprise of Amboyse and therefore a great while bare them a milke tooth Thus walking the King vp and downe causing him to taste of the baite of al pleasures they abused his youth and simplicitie dayly planting other pillers of their greatnesse for time to come the more they se they were contrariried the sorer were they enuenimed bent vnto new practises briÌ„ging the King into the hatred both of his subiects and strangers more endamaging the realme in one moneth then then before it had bene in a whole yeres warre against the Spaniard for it was incredible what exactions and debtes they procured also what goods them selues hoarded vp during the raigne of their said nephue FraÌ„cis the second These behauiours together with extreeme violence vsed brought most part of the commons in maner into despaire of euer seeing France againe in

he confessed that Gods wrath ouer France proceded of the corruption of maners in al estates and the vtter despising of all Churche discipline About the middest speaking of the King of Frances request this good orator said He requireth vs so much as we may to auoid al new quarels to omit al new and vnfruiteful questions to our power to procure all Princes countryes to absteyne from warres that we eschue al desire of mouing debate for doubt least such as haue strayed from vs should accompt this council to be holden rather to the end to stirre vp princes to take weapon also to make complots alliances of warres notwithstanding it were holy then to prouide for the vniuersal reconciliation of mindes Afterward he maketh mention of the reformation of the church and doth conclude with his own submission to the Romish Church Now let the reader consider the purpose of this speach And from that time forward he stil practised against the estate of the realme from whence he dayly receiued letters neither was there any thing in France done without him as hereafter we shal perceiue But being now in hand with the council we wil also touch some leagues Immediatly after he heard of the death of his brother the Duke of Guise vpon whose auctority his whole hope was grounded he sodenly thought neuer to returne into France but with his vsual inconstancie turned his minde towarde the affaires of Italie gratifying so farre forth as he could the Pope and al forreyn princes especially the Catholike King of Spaine Before the newes of this death he had with the Spanish Bishops stoode stifly in defence of residences vpon benefices against the Popes dispensations alleaging them to proceede of the Lawe of God but then he sone changed his copie mainteining with his adherents that they belonged to the positiue Lawe and so through the pluralitie of voyces bare it away in so much that the Archbishop of Granado cryed out that the Cardinal of Lorraine had betrayed them Also when the County de Luna the Kinge of Spaines embassador slacked his coÌ„ming to the Council because he disdained to sit vnder the FreÌ„ch embassador the Cardinal procured him to come to the end to curry fauour with the King of Spaine caused his ambassadour to inioye the more honorable place thereby causing the King of France to lose the preeminence which neuer before was called into question Now let vs marke whether his brethren whom he had left in France were anie truer seruants to the crowne The Duke of Guise kept the King and Queene mother in his hands making them to trot vp and downe also to be present in the taking of townes and so hiding him selfe vnder their authoritie stroke his blowes For the King of Nauarre he did strangely scorne and floute Wel in August he besieged Bourges and in September they yelded then did he cause the King and Queene to enter and vsed marueilous threates and outragious wordes against them that were yeelded Al the Protestants in those quarters did he worse entreat then either Turkes or Iewes The Duke of Aumale and Marquise d'Ellebeufe lay in Normandie the one before Rouen and the other before Caen and yet notwithstanding they wanted neither greace nor growing yet could they not greatly profit that way The Lord of Moruilliers was at Rouen and in S. Katherines fort was so good a garnison that the Duke of Aumale al sommer time did nought but lose men and munitions Yea the parties besieged the more to laugh at him erected certaine rampiers and bulworkes against the which he wastfully spent his pouder and pellets as if he woulde haue scared sparrowes To be briefe euerie man was a master in his campe insomuch as when a certaine boye was gotten out of Rouen to beholde and espie the demeanours of him his seeing euerie royster intrude him selfe to counsel him and to commande in his presence at his returne said that there were verie manie captaines but fewe souldiers wherefore said he you are in no danger except when the Lord of Aumale sleepeth In the meane time the Duke of Guise called in al strangers as Italians Spanierds and other the more to trouble al things But hearing that the Queene of England prepared to aide the Protestants and knowing her landing to be in Normandie he led thither his armie drawing with him the King and Queene mother together with the King of Nauarre who at the siege of Rouen receiued a wound whereof he shortly after died being therin rewarded for ioyning with the enemies both of the crowne and of his familie Rouen was taken and al extremitie therein exercised That done the Duke of Guise returned to Paris in great perplexitie for that the Prince hauing receiued succour out of Germanie was coÌ„ming to seeke him Howbeit in the meane time he receiued new supplies of Gascoynes and Spanierds and therewith intended to keepe the Englishmen from ioyning with the Prince Hereof followed the battayle of Dreux fought in December the effect whereof al men do knowe But as the Duke of Guises refusing to giue the onset when the Constable sent him word which caused the said Constables taking procured men to iudge that willingly he sought this chance so did others who supposed better to knowe his nature attribute it to his cowardlines and thereof did men take their argument to assure them selues of al that which since that battayle this braue warrier hath compassed For al men wil confesse that after this battaile of Dreux al the Protestants power consisted in the band which the Admiral kept in the fieldes and not in the citie of Orleans which was impregnable for the said Admiral remained safe And therefore it had bene reason that the Duke of Guise had assailed him who beeing ouercome Orleans would haue stretched forth her hands and not in such wise to haue wasted his men money munition forces about the taking of a towne which being wonne razed should but haue made the Admiral more strong warie and diligent about new and dangerous enterprises Thereof did men conclude that the Duke of Guise wanted both wit and courage in that he neither coulde ne durst followe the Admiral at his retire out of Normandie but did suffer him so to fortifie him self with townes holds fortresses men money and al other munitions Yea the most valiant expert captaines of France do thinke certainly that in case the warre had a litle while loÌ„ger coÌ„tinued the Admiral had giuen the Duke of Guise an immortal reproch who at Dreux durst not looke in his face neither at his comming out of Orleans to go into Normandie followe at his backe notwithstanding the said Admiral was but slenderly accompanied at his comming out of the said besieged citie and yet passed part of France and euen before the said Duke of Guises face forced certaine townes as Touque Caen Falaize Argenten Vire and other places in Normandie tooke sundrie fortresses and castles

they procured the preferring of the Duke of Neuers before the Prince of Conde concerning the charge of the light horsemen Yea within a yere after the Marshal Brissac was also preferred before the said Prince of Conde in the gouernment of Picardie The Duke of Guise hauing gotten this commission and men ouer whom to commande swelled manifestly in pride whiles in the meane time the Cardinal playing vpon his harpe in the middest of all these broyles lulled King Henry on slepe in the bosome of the villainouse Seneschall Neuertheles Henry who on the one parte vehemently loued his gossip the Constable and on the other parte had not his eyes so ouercome with slepe but that sometimes he opened them and so perceiued the Guisians taking ouer highly vpon them whereat he finally begun somewhat to be displeased with him not refrayning from discharging presently part of that which afterward he considered more largely of for he excused him self toward his gossip secretly certifying him that he had bene compelled to make the Duke of Guise his Lieutenant general also to agree to the mariage of the Dauphine with many other things against his will but that the time should doe him right This mariage of the Dauphine was in this wise The Cardinal perceiuing no man at the court able to controlle him his brother vpon his returne out of Italy the Constable prisoner began to motion the mariage of his niece the Queene of Scots for the compassing whereof he propounded that the King might during his owne natural life behold as well his sonne a crowned Kinge as the Emperour Charles had in his time seene his sonne Philippe crowned King of Englande He procured also the estates of Scotland to hasten this matter solliciting them thereunto by the lord of Oisell who had the superintendence of the Queene dowagers affaires in that countrie Also to the ende to cause the Queene of France to condescend vnto this mariage who still alleaged that he neede not be so hastie seing both the parties were in the Kings hands besides that her sonne the Dauphin was yet to yong and not all the best at ease he began to shew him selfe enemie vnto the great Seneschall Duchesse of Valentinois and her to blame so much as in him lay as disdayning the remembrance of her allyance no longer remembring or at the least counterfeiting forgetfulnes that she had bene the only ladder whereby both he and all his brethren had gotten vp so high This did he thinking it the readiest way to winne the Queenes hearte who mortally hated the said Duchesse and not without cause as all the world knoweth To be briefe this practise so well serued his tourne in the aduancement of his businesse that within seuen moneths after the taking of the Constable this mariage was accomplished thence forth Francis was called King Dauphin and so consequently the lords of Guise the Kings vncles The taking of Calais the enterprise whereof the Constable the Admirall and the lord of Senarpont had long before deuised and forecaste augmented the hatred conceiued in King Henry his heart against the Duke of Guise For hauing often heard of the easinesse of the same he had many times purposed him selfe to haue taken it in hande but the Cardinall seeking the winning of the Frenchmens hearts vnto his owne family procured the Kings minde to be altered and the charge thereof to be committed to the Duke of Guise who neuertheles made the matter very dangerous esteeming it vnpossible to bring to passe yea he stood so much thereupon such was his valiantnes that he protested that his proceeding therein was only to obey the Kings expresse commandement who incessantly motioned the contrarie affirming no difficulty at all to be therein Wherefore seing now how the commendations of the said Duke of Guise were therefore sung and published ouer his whole Realme he could not but openly affirme that the said Duke had defrauded him of an honour to him selfe only appertaining Moreouer vnder matters of goodliest shew outwardly the Cardinall still concealed strange driftes tending to the exalting of his race through the ouerthrow of France He nourrished the warres of Picardie and Italie he brake the truce he with his brother gouerned all for the satisfying of his ambition and preparing of his path to proceede further and yet was not all this sufficient He must therefore trye some other meanes The Duchesse of Lorraine motioned some peace with King Philippe whereof the Cardinal taking his aduantage as shortly we shall perceiue procured to him selfe the commission to goe to her to the end there to finde out some other meanes which was this The bishop of Arras now called Cardinall Granuelle being come as the King of Spaynes deputie to this enteruiew alleaged among other things that France was infected with Lutherans among whom some were euen of the chiefest lordes naming the lord d'Andelot adding also that some of the Princes were of the same profession who by meanes thereof lay in wayte for the crowne whereunto they might easely attaine through the ayde and supporte of the ProtestaÌ„tes as lately he had perceiued These words were not spoken in wast for the Cardinal thereby desirous to frame some practise disclosed to Granuelle all that he knew touching certaine offers which the Protestante Princes had made to King Henry togither with the meetings thereupon betwene the King of Nauarre and them This spake he now to the ende to heare the others opinion knowing that vnlesse he found some occasion to stirre vp housholds in France his owne driftes would be in vaine his family come to decaye GraÌ„uelle on the other side considering of what importance in his masters affaires the breaking of these practises with the Protestantes might be togither with the Cardinall of Lorraine layed this foundation of peace namely that their masters were either of them of such force that in case the one should ouerthrowe the other a third person might easely ouercome the coÌ„querer and therefore that it was necessary to agree them in such maner that with their whole power they might together set vpon these gospellers thereby to get the recompence for their owne losses first putting to death all such as were within the iurisdictions of both princes not sparing any For the Cardinall of Lorraine hoped that the Princes and great lordes of France which were thought to be Lutherans being dead the King and Realme should thereby be so weakened that his family might with lesse trauaile and coste enioye the same Also that their confiscations might be employed to the winning of seruants and friendes But that which most of all encouraged him to vndertake this matter was that Granuelle shewed him that he knew no knight or captaine liuing more honoured and regarded then the Duke of Guise who therefore was most worthy of such a commission For presently he began in a foolish kinde of vaine hope to swallow vp whole countries and kingdomes perswading

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