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A68221	Antisixtus An oration of Pope Sixtus the fift, vppon the death of the late French King, Henrie the third. With a confutation vpon the sayd oration, wherein all the treacherous practises of the house of Lorraine, are largely described and layde open vnto the view of the world, with a briefe declaration of the kings death, and of many other things worthy the noting, which neuer yet came to light before. Translated out of Latin by A.P.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.	1590 (1590)	STC 14002; ESTC S114241	39,544	58

bring to passe his long deuised practises when Fortime almost dashed and threwe hym downe vnawares For reporte was spread that a great armie of high Germanes was come already into the frontiers of the Realme to the ayde and assistance of the reformed Religion And moreouer how the king of Nauarre hauing repulsed and driuen backe nine armies in the spare of two yearus and ouerthrowne the Duke of Ioicuse made haste for to goe méete the Germanes wyth his chrefest and chosen forces Which reporte made the Duke his alies and conspirators not a little amazed fearing that the king now better aduised and hauyng gotten a fitte opportunity to reuenge hymselfe vppon their pride and arrogancie might turne both the armies vppon them vnsufficient and altogether vnable to resist and wythstand so great a power as also that they might be discomfited before ere euer they shoulde perceyue it And their seare was not vaine altogether For at the same tyme the King of Nauarre had sent his Ambassadours vnto his Maiestie requesting hym to vse his and the Germaine forces against the common ennemie of the Realme But héere it manifestly appeareth that the King was neuer more betrayed then at that present Here sure tokens are to be séene of his corrupted and disloyall counsell which if hée had vsed the benefite of the tyme shoulde haue wythout any daunger recouered altogether his former libertie restored his realme to her former grace and established an euerlasting peace amongest his Subiectes But God had otherwise appoynted it The Duke of Guyse at this tyme was forced to rest and pawse a whyle but soone after incouraged agayne by the counsell of his especiall friendes whom hée had alwayes about the kings person and who were priuie vnto all hys secretes setting aside his fathers practises had recourse vnto his mothers pollicies Hée writeth Letters vnto his Maiestie and wyth an humble style indeuoureth to prooue his mind to haue bin gentle and tractable alwayes and neuer repugnant vnto any contract of peace Further prayeth him to impute rather all things past vnto the destinies then vnto the malice of men protesting also that he and his were alwayes minded to honour ayde and assiste their Prince whose death they feared therefore the more because his successor was vnknowne and like to be farre inferiour vnto him and if they were resolued of one doubt that his Maiesty néeded not to doubt but that all things then should prosper and succéed according vnto his owne wishing Promiseth him also a strong aide against the inuading and approching Germans with many words declareth that the ancient enimies of the Realme were to be driuen out who héeing once put to flight they were like to enioy an eternall and a ioyfull peace This is easely perswaded vnto the king his greatest friendes about him and especially his mother stopping vp the way alwayes vnto good counsell And by these means the King of Nauarre his aduice most profitable vnto the Realme being reiected and neglected an entrie was made againe vnto all deceit and disloyalty The king assembleth a great armie together and with his presence doth incourage it sendeth the Duke of Guyse before to stop the passage vnto the Germanes and if he coulde not bring them to a battel should at the least weary them with continuall I kirmishes and inuasions The king remained in the meane time about the riuer of Loyre The German sorces marched forward and were come into the inwarde parts of the Realme wythout any resistance to the great feare and terrour of all the country When the same fortune which not long before had almost ouerthrowen the Guyse presenteth vnto him a farre brauer occasion luckely to procéede in his enterprise For the ennemy béeyng brought by some crosse lucke betwéene the Loyre and the Seine and wearied wyth a long winter continuall flouds and raines want and distresse of al necessaries were forced for their better safetie without delay to go ouer the riuer to ioyne themselues wyth the king of Nauarre his forces But the Duke of Guyse preuented and surprised them vppon a sodaine in the night made a great slaughter amongest them and killed about twelue hundred of them taketh many and putteth the rest to flight and if Monsieur Chastillion had not béene there at that present all this great army shoulde haue béene scattered and ouerthrowen in one night yet not wythstanding the weake remnaunt marched forward And the King iealous of the victorie committeth one parte of his forces vnto Espernon to pursue the ennemy and hymselfe followed not farre behinde But hauing vnderstoode the Germanes shamefull yéelding returneth againe to Paris All stormes of feare now ouerblowne and past the duke of Guyse imboldened wyth this vnlooked for and good successe thought good not to séeke herehy so much praise as thereby to procure all hatred and enuy vnto his Maiestie To that effect secret reportes were spread abroad whereby this new conquering Captaine was exalted and lifted vppe vnto the skie The Germaine spotles to wit their horses weapons and all other array were ledde and carried in triumphe through the Citties And when the people were flocked together in great troups to sée this new sight ther were alwaies certaine declarors and tellers of the battaile among them The number of the dead persons and ensignes was augmented the manner of the fight was made very difficult bloudy and dangerous for the conquerors and most of this was fals for it is wel knowē that the companies of Collonel Donon now heauy with wine and sléepe were surprised and oppressed where they had no place to fight or to escape And that not one of the duke of Guyses souldiers were found wanting Besides after the great ouerthrowe of so mighty an army that such small remnants haue béen able to ouercome so many distresses and come in safety to their iournies end that it came not by any fault that might haue béene in the duke of Guise but by the kings and the duke Espernons negligence and small care vnto whom he had left the chase of the weake remnand of pages and scullions onely hauing atchieued himselfe all the difficulties of the warre and either slaine or taten the chosen and valliant Captaines and souldiers therof And notwithstanding al this that by their meanes they were al safely arriued to the king of Nauarre to depriue the victorie of her due honor and prayse and to hinder therewith the more the good commodities that might haue ensued herby vnto the whole realm That they at the first followed then for very shame but so slackely that they that were already vanquished might easely escape without running And now when they sawe that the hurt wearie and sicke men could not fly away or escape who should haue al béene put to the sword or at the least imprisoned by the lawes of armes and ordinances of the Realme to haue giuen and graunted vnto them for a counterfaite yeelding and submission onely their lifes horses and furniture

learned by experience that pittie preuailed more then fauour Finally that hereupon they néeded not long to beate their braines but that hee was to be conuayed away and dispatched out of hande Hereunto they all condescend Now vpon the death of their Lord the seruantes determine the annointed of the Lord and reuerented of so many Nations is bequeathed vnto their bloudie swordes The day nowe appointed and their desperate wickednesse sealed with an oth they all depart It was not néedefull to haue any bewraying hereof for it was not vnknowen but vnto them which were remooued into the vtmost partes of Europe that this was the Guises pretence and had béene long since To what end tended else the arming of his rebellious bandes so often against his Prince But certaine it is that he was aduertised by the Duke de Mayne yet liuing of his brothers vngodly practises wyth these words that his Maiesty should take héede of a furious and desperate mind And one of the conspirators as it is most alwayes séene in such-like actions moued in conscience disclosed vnto his Maiesty the whole conspiracie the day appointed the tokens the conspirators themselues but in so short a tyme that he had scarce opportunitie to escape this imminont daunger The king now destitute of al meanes of deliberation and beaton wyth his owne rod ouerthrowed not the conspirators but preuented them in one day There was hope that this burning fire of ciuill broyles should haue bin quenched séeing that the flaming torches of these tumults were now extinguished And it pleased God Sirtus that France should nowe enioie peace but not thy Holinesse Hereupon the conspirators who were not the better but the greater parte beganne to hang downe theyr heades to séeke holes to hide themselues and through feare to runne to their holdes and places of defence One parte gaue ouer their enterprise and brake their faith giuen But shortly after when they saw that the Prince by some fatall and disasterous leuitie vsed no further rigour against them that he was satisfied wyth the punishment of two only that he had but imprisoned sixe and had sent away the rest vntouched and that the siege of Orleans which hée had begunne to batter but slackely was raysed by the comming of the Mayne Then suddenly they beganne to runne as mad men beganne to strike alarme to surprise Citties to slaunder the name and credite of their Prince wyth diuerse outragious speaches To disanull and abolishe the Lawes the Magistrates and all that was royall in the Realme all that was sacred and auncient and to induce newe strange and intollerable ordinances Finally driuen wyth a senslesse fury to exercise tyranny and crueltie against themselues insomuch that almost no Citie or towne hath escaped their owne Citizens massacres robberies banishments proscriptions and yet farre greater cruelties then the enemy himselfe coulde haue imagined And this through a iust iudgement of God iustly taking vengeance for so many murthers sheading of innocent blood and innumerable villanies by them committed And by these moanes a more desperate and bloodie warre then euer was before is nowe renewed The Mayne who a little before had béene the bewrayer and accuser of his brothers treason is chosen chiefe of these inraged and desperate companies When uppon suddenly the whole Realme beginneth to rebell And truly freely I would haue it to be spoken by the kings owne fault who euer had reiected al good wholsome and profitable counsell before he was driuen to these extremities Parts gaue vnto the rest an example of rebellion as it was reason she being the first inriched with sundry gifts of kings and the imperiall of the Realme All the rest followed few onely excepted And as they were before striuing who shoulde be more affectionated vnto his prince so nowe they contend who shal excéed in outragiousnes against him And to the end that nothing should be wanting to the fulnes of their treacherie they require and séeke for thy authoritie Sixtus for the iudgements of the diuines for the consent of the clergis and al was presently at their command Urban one of the Magistrates in Paris demaunding in the full assemblie of th●se of the Sorbonne Whether the Frenchmen could be godly and honestly released from their other made vnto the king Answere was made that they could This answere is brought vnto the Magistrate and with drawne swords is commaunded to approoue the same The Senat flatly denieth such a wicked acte to be lawfull worthy of the ancient loyaltie of France And sitting a little vpon it the mutinous people brake opē the gates of the pallace and selfe not vpon one or two of the Magistrates but vpon them all and cast the whole bench in prison the onely maiestie of the Realme Presently a newe Counsell is chosen which approouing the answere of the vngodly diuines dischargeth the people of their othes thrust the king out of his kingdome The Clergie commendeth this new counsel and presently hereupon the noyse of the Popes thunderbolte is heard rowling from the high Capitoll and threatening foorthwyth as they sayde the ouerthrowe of all the principall mountaines of France In the yeare 1589. the king beeing at that instant at Blois tydings was brought vnto his Maiestie that Paris Roan Lions Tholouse and the cities of the Realme were all reuolted and that not one was remaining which was not insected with some notable treacherie It was told vnto his maiestie also how Brisac Boidaulphin and the lorde Chastre whom he had suffred to goe home vntouched vpon their othes vpon the Guyses death had broken their promise so solemnely confirmed were reuolted to the enimy Moreouer that the Spanyard the Italian Princes the Dukes of Loraine and Sauoy together with the inraged furious people had sworne the Guises reuengement That he was not in safety in Bloys wheresoeuer be turned himselfe that all places were surprised and vntrustie That at the one side the conspirators did presse him at the other side the king of Nauarre wyth a great power came to inuade the realme being alreadie at Samure and had taken all the cities thereabout The king thus crost with so many troubles and aduersities at once pensiue what to do and put aside from al other hope is forced to apply the vttermost remedy to an extreme fore disease and that which he had neglected in the ful prosperity of his wealth power and gouernment craueth now voluntarily being almost dispossessed of his crowne kingdom Calleth not without gods appointment to his aid the king of Nauarre his mortall enimy but his most necessarie and profitable friend if long before he had vsed him He although greatly-iniured and offended although so oftentimes at the Guyses request by him assaulted with war presently vnlooked for commeth to the king his brother with a chosen army not only great in number but also in valor so that euery cōmon souldier might haue supplied the roome of anie officer A great change is

dayly increases of tallages and tributes and that the people were altogether vnable longer to endure this beauie burthen Besides nothing Something by the way as concerning religion and Heretikes For vndoubtly they would not that so many ennemies should be raysed vp at once thinking that the king had drawen hatred and enuie enough vppon his head by the gouernement of his realine and that therefore they had sufficient matter and occasion of warre It is most euident truly through the priuate grudge which they did beare vnto their king the Duke Espernon that some small and casuall trisles of anger haue beene the first cause of these last troubles In reuenge whereof so many dead bodyes so many murthers and finally the death of the king himselfe and the ruine of the whole Realine haue all scarce suffised But warned by a Spaniard who milli●●ed the order of making the accounts of the Realine as also by thée Sixtus that looked for no benefite to fall vnto thy share by this warres but by the ouerthrowe of the Heretikes they chaunge their Ensignos and proclayme open warre against those of the reformed Religion Héereuppon presently the Pope sent his thunderboltes whereby he excluded the king of Nauarre at this present ruling in Fraunce and the Prince of Cond● vnheard innocent and thinking nothing such from his Apostolicke blessing but hereby may easely appeare that God and none of the Apostles were present at the rash iudgement of the cause They nowe hauing turned their long spake nothing more of the king or his gouernement but only in his singular cōmendation Extolled the prime of his age admonished him of his former valour and prowesse and with exquisite wordes shewed that the memorie of so many victories wherewith he had so ostentimes repressed abated the courage of the Heretiks was yet recont fresh That his time of rest was not yet come and that vnto such a valiaunt and strong Prince the victory of the battaile and the slaughter of a whole nation belonged Moreouer they laide before his eies his 〈◊〉 and want of children and their miseries wherin they were like to fall if after the desease of such a most Christian king with dissembling wise they saide that they greatly seared they should be forced to submitt themselves vnder the yoke and bondage of an hereticke Finally desired his Maiesty that it woulde please him to appoint Charles of Borbon Cardinal being weakned with age and sicke●●●● haste vnto the Crown reiecting Nauarre And breaking the alliance and treaty of peace with the hereticks should take armes against them which if he liked would perform they neuer would refuse any due obedience vnto him their lawful prince Showed besides that they had their swordes ready and sufficient wealth and aide wherewith they might not onely reuenge themselues ●ppon the Heretickes but also vpon their fauourers The duke of Guise hauing spoken thus not farrying if the King would further determine hereupon hauing gathered forced for to assault those of the reformed religion made them indeede to march agaynst the King himselfe dispossessed him partly by force and partly by pollicy frō such Citties as hée could where the name of Luther or Caluin had neuer béen hearde robbed their treasure imposed new tributes vpon them and finally where no ennemy was exercised all hostshty and eruchresse The king in the meane time destitute of courage and good counsel rather then of force distristed himselfe for his corupted friends told him wonders of the Ginses power and army and feared him that the catholikes should but once heare the name of Hereticks they would presently all retire and goe backe from him That he should linger therefore a while vntill he had hearde the counsell of his néerest friendes who with all spéede if néede required would soone prouide all necessaries for the warre and ouercom by the coūsell of his mother who alwaies had fauoured the contrarie side and fraighted by the Iesuites vaine superstitions was not brought but drawen therevnto And so the articles of peace were agreed vpon and concluded betweene him and the duke of Guyse and warre intended against those of the reformed religion vnto whom by generall proclamation was commanded to departe at the appointed tyme out of the realme otherwise to stand to the aduenture and hazard of their liues About the end of the same yeare great forces were raysed vp and enrolled the duke de Maine was ordained chiefe ouer them and being sent into Guyan or Aquitane returned next yeare againe wyth little good successe recalled as they say by his brother who impatient of all delayes was 〈◊〉 alike with enuy anger and ambition cryed that the ennemie was not for to be sought for that hee was at hand and stoode before the doore that the head of a Prince onely gréeued him and hindred his enterprises and finally that he onely was to be assaulted emitting and leauing the other And so riseth againe against the king being occupied in other warres and that hee coulde not obtaine by his first rebellion by this he forceth it Complaineth that his brother was forsaken in Aquitane frustrated and destitute of men money and munition as also that hee was not sent sooner against the enemie before all the treasure of the realme was spent for to lacke nothing That these were sure arguments that the Catholikes were betrayed that his Maiesties mind was corrupted by ill counsell and those whome he should loue and embrace that hee hated and despised them and that therefore it could not be but hee had intelligence with the Heretickes And finally if hee reiected and disherited not the king of Nauarre and the Prince of Condy and openly would appoint and declare a successor that there was nothing remayning that all good and godly catholickes should any longer commit their liues and safety vnto the protection of a dissembling Prince who did all things wyth delay and proclaimed warre wyth his tongue agaynst them and called for peace wyth his hearte This was spread abroade Souldiours are taken vppe and agayne a newe contracte of Peace was to bée made for agréement The King at one tyme cumbred wyth two enemies thought it necessarie that wyth one of them an appoynment was to be concluded gaue care againe vnto his mothers counsell and againe by her meanes agréede wyth the Guyse Hée demeth him little deliuereth vnto him the demaunded Cities and commaundeth newe forces to be taken vppe to inuade Aquitane the dwelling place of those of the refournied Religion and publisheth agayne newe and cruell Ordinances and Statutes against them The Guyse nowe hauing obtayned his purpose and thinking that he was crept farre enough in the peoples fauour to vndertake and enterprise whatsoeuer pleased him and that the Prince was brought into sufficient hatred that all thinges were sette in a hurlie burlie that the heartes of the Communaltie were dismayed and that now but little hindered hym to come vnto his pretence watched for a fitte opportunitie to