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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08704	The last summons, or an oration sent to the inhabitants of the towne of Rochell, to mooue them to yeild the towne vnto his Maiestie, and to obay his commandements. Written by Monsieur le Marquis de Berguille	Bergeville, Marquis de.	1621 (1621)	STC 1901; ESTC S101626	3,887	12

THE LAST SVMMONS OR AN ORATION SENT to the Inhabitants of the Towne of Rochell To mooue them to yeild the Towne vnto his Maiestie and to obay his Commandements Written by Monsieur le Marquis de Berguille 1621. THE LAST SVMMONS OR an Oration sent to the Inhabitants of the Towne of Rochell MOnsieur You that make profession to vnderstand and to know the Scriptures well if it be true I wonder how you perseuere in your rebellion and disobedience seeing that therein it is expresly sayd he that disobeyeth the commandements of Kings holy contradicteth the commandement of God whose liuely Images they are know for certaine that the Soueraigne Maiestie of God doth so much abhorre all those that reuolt and rebell against their Soueraigne Princes that if his mercy did not hinder the force and effects of his Iustice hee would suddenly discharge the arrowes of his wrath to exturpe and destroy all those that are the perturbators of the will and pleasure of there Soueraigne Kings Cast your eyes vpon him against whom you are disobedient it is nothing but shame that withholds you from it I beseech you to the end that you may put away from you all those that loue the trumpet of Rebellion and were into your eares and thereby to diuert you from so dangerous an enterprise consider with whom you haue to doe It is your King Louis the Iust Sonne to Henrie the Great who already in his young age is as great as his father great in power great in courage great in counsell great in friends and specially in these affaires and most great in Iustice the point which thereby is to be decided consisteth herein to know whether hee ought to be obayed of his subiects or not in a thing whereas he vseth no violence whatsoeuer Then it is to this great King that you are disobedient and rebellious against his Maiesties commandements who in this great and puissant Realme is beloued feared and obayed of all men vnlesse it be of a handfull of men who being prouoked and incited by diuers interests and pretences vnder a false pretence Religion seeke to molest and disturbe the state of the land Thinke not to oppose your armes against his your forces against his and your Souldiers against his In what places can you maintaine your selues against him but that the same places will put you in minde of your faults will you alwayes be those onely that resist and opugne his Maiestie in his Realme will you alwaies in some of his Prouinces warre against your Prince his Townes and his name of a King cannot be thinke you cause your armes to fall ouer off your hands and dompt the courage of your heart For my part I am not of opinion neither can I be perswaded that any of you once so much as imagine that you are able to raise a sufficient armie to withstand that which his Maiestie in a moneths time is able to bring into the field Remember I pray you what past and fell out the last yeare in those commotions that seemed to spread and extend themselues ouer the whole Realme which was a strong and puissant complet as it then fell out The King issued out of Parris accompanied onely with two thousand men but his Princely presence that was worth a hundred thousand in such maner in all places drew the courages and hands of euery man vnto him that in lesse then a moneths time hauing pacified the whole Realme of Fraunce he had so great a force about him that if then he would haue set vpon your Towne of Rochell and other places of refuge which you hold by his fauour to execute that which now you faine to feare he should not haue found any one that once durst to haue conceiued so much as a thought to shut their gates against him When Kings march through their Realmes they are like haile stones lying vpon the tops of hills and mountaines which the further you goe from them still waxe thicke and fearefull vnto those vpon whom they fall But if he had no other power then his guards of Frenchmen Switzers and Scots and his foure regiments of Souldiers continually entertained that haue no other occupation then the skill how to beate and kill their enemies It were sufficient against you Remember also that when this great Monarch would raise new troupes when he would make new regiments he can and is able to doe it with such facilitie and promptnes that you shall sooner see the ensignes displayed in the aire sooner heare the drumes beate in the fields sooner heare the horses neighy The cannons roare and the souldiers ready to assaile you then you could imagine or once conceite that any armie were raised against you I would for your sakes that your Towne of Rochell were an impregnable Rocke and Saint Iohn Dangely so strong as that the Angels were not able to ouercome it I would for your sakes that all the places wherein you enclose yourselues were not able to be vndermined not able to be scaled not to be battered and to conclude inuincible wherein I graunt you more then you your selues demaund and much more then is true The strongest of them being no other but such as tenne thousand men within the space of 6. weekes would force you to yeild It is not as it was in times past the manner of besieging of times at this present is brought to such a fashion and perfection that there is not any one which is impregnable and may not be woone If you had seene how men vse to raise Trenches how they make mounts of earth how they fill vp deepe ditches how they draw riuers drie and stop chanels of water And to conclude if you had seene how men enclose and presse vpon Townes that are besieged you would neuer say nor report that yours are impregnable They are of to good metall to be such the fields the vignes which enuiron them alway giue meanes to those that besiege them to berry them therein There is nothing impossible to our victorious Monarch Louis the thirteenth within this Realme where all men employ all their forces to execute his wil for I can assuredly tel you that if you enter not into that obedience which you owe vnto his Maiestie and giue him not free entraunce into his Towne of Rochell that you will thereby giue his Maiestie cause in short time to raise vp erect a great number of forces about your Townes of refuge according to militarie Art furnished with men Artillerie and all maner of prouisions that shall so straightly on all sides enclose you about that you must either burst or yeild In the meane time you shall want victuals you shall consume your powder and bullets you shall try the insolence of souldiers the brauadoes of Captaines the mutenies and murmorings of the poore people lesse furnished with prouision for the mouth then with riches What will you expect after all this but onely that hauing abused and refused