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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

as for my masters of the clergie they will be somewhat loth to agree herevnto Neuerthelesse when they shall see them selues driuen to the disbursment of so great summes about a thing the successe whereof they shall finde doubtfull and incertaine they will looke better about them Herewith it may also like your Maiestie to doe them to vnderstande that if they haue such zeale to chase this newe Religion which they call heresie out of the realme of Fraunce they must shewe their sayd zeale not only in contributing of their money but also in folowing of the warres by seruing in their owne proper persons The Leuites folowed the warres and so did the Byshoppes and Prelates of Almaine The Cardinall Fernase went also against the Protestantes and why may not the clergie of Fraunce doe the lyke Set foorth the yong Monkes that are vnder three score yeeres and let those that be aboue tarie at home to say their Masses They will answere by the wordes of Dauid Zelus domus tuae comedit me The zeale of thine house hath eaten the vp That is to say say they that the Priestes ought to keepe their houses but vnder correction they take that passage of the Scripture amisse for to the keeping well of Gods house their own it behoueth them to passe through a number of dangers Of truth if these good people were but somewhat neare touched with their being set forwarde in their furnitures to marche in the warres their change of countenance would sōne be seene I● would seeme to thē a strāge Metamorphosis in lieu of a surplis to put on a corslet in place of a myter to weare a moriō or burg●ner in steade of a crosse or an holie water sprinkle to bandle a launce or an harquebouse where these were wont to be moūted vpon mules to ride vpon barbed horses or fierce coursers or else to trot on foote and as they lay erst vpon their soft beds to lodge now vpon the hard ground yea and that at the signe of the star I am wel assured that their only apprehension of so straunge an exchange would driue them to yeelde euen the leauing of their Temples to the preachers of the Gospell Marrie it is not to be doubted but that vpon this Marte they would be assured that those preachers nor their preachings should be preiudiciall to their goods and reuenues a poynt verie requisite to be agreed vpon For they haue good reason not to consent to the forgoing of their goods the sale of the same being to them forbidden vnder the payne of excommunication and their reuenues are needefull to their sustentation of life The wise Salomon that sendeth vs to the Ante sheweth vs say they that we ought not to suffer our Garners to be emptie The argument is good For if the small beasts as the Antes haue some care for what to liue by how muche more for liuing then ought to be the care of the great This way sir shal not be impertinent to make the harts of your good subiectes to consent to the acceptation of peace And if they refuse peace you are by that meanes to enioy their money wherewith they can no lesse doe than furnish you to the mayntenance of the warres that make choyce of the same But I verily iudge they will like best of peace as therevnto moued in respecte of their profite and quietnesse And this poynt being gayned that your subiectes wil agree to the exercise of both religions for the obtaining of peace all other meanes to bring the same to passe shall easily be compassed For in that the Gospellers desire a reformation of iustice the Catholiques and they agree both feeling it good to haue iustice iustly administred And it shuld be very necessarie that a good search and suruey through your Parliamentes shoulde be made as well of the highest as of the lowest members thereof among whome shoulde many be foūd napping and faultie that haue pouled and pilled good men to their vtter vndoings I meane not the sifting of the same too neare only the notorious and grosse offēders for their offences are to be touched And such a search or suruey shuld be no new thing We haue of the like many examples In the time of the Romane ciuill warres betweene Scilla and Marius Pompei and Caesar many were dispossessed of the Senators estate yea euen by those with whome they tooke part For euerie of those great contenders sought the mean to make many friends in the Senate But Augustus Caesar after he had gotten the goale from his competitours was peaceably possessed of the Empire and had established peace amōgst his subiects he streight sought reformation of the states and offices And a speciall tryall made he of the Senate as thervnto had slipped by vnlawful means purging the same of such vnworthy persons and so restored he it to the auncient beautie and dignitie The like sir were needefull in your Parliaments and other places of iustice in Fraunce For the wise and good that now be there shall not be grieued that the corrupt whiche are among them by vnlawfull meanes entred should be cut off to the encrease of the honour of such as shal remaine We reade that one of the principall charges of the Censours of Rome was the chastising and displacing of the vnwise and vnworthy Senators which were many times chastised euen for very small faultes and what inconuenience were it if at this day the office of censure were somwhat amnogst vs brought in vre Besides these points of the exercise of the Euangelicall religion and reformation of iustice there be many other necessarie points to the making and perfiting of a good peace whiche I meane to forbeare heere to touche as things not expedient I wyll nowe shew the meane howe suche a peace may be concluded vpon and made For the bringing to passe wherof it shoulde me thinkes be verie good your Maiestie dyd as your predecessours haue done when they would yeelde a rule for any good peace of iustice or policie to passe in Fraunce Their manner was to put their truste in certayne personages that were faythfull and wyse suche and so many as myght suffise to the bodye of a Coūcell to any kingly estate for their vnderstanding in the formalities of iustice in the poyntes of right and in the perticulars that in any policie were to be considered of And if it myght likewise please youre Maiestie to cōmit to a dozen or such other lyke number of personages the entreatie of all the perticulars of a peace it seemeth to be the onely waye whereby all manner of matters doubtes and difficulties might be decided and resolued But it shall sir be needefull that you shewe so muche fauour to the Gospellers as they may nominate one dozen of such persons as they shall thinke meete prouided that they be good wil● and apte men out of the which number you ●way those sixe to be of the number of the 〈◊〉 by you