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A10984	A declaration of the Duke of Rohan peere of France, &c. Containing the iustnes of reasons and motiues which haue obliged him to implore the assistance of the King of Great Britaine, and to take armes for the defence of the Reformed Churches. Translated according to the French copie.; Déclaration de Monsieur le duc de Rohan, pair de France. English	Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638.	1628 (1628)	STC 21252; ESTC S116136	14,493	28

houses without Letters Patents from the King countersigned by a Secretary of State and sealed with the great Seale To conclude they impose a yoak such as our fathers neuer heard of The Church of Roan hauing desired the Lord of Veilleux his Minister to come preach to them hee was forbidden to goe to the end to take away for the time to come the liberty of our Churches to prouide themselues of Pastours whose doctrine and piety should be for the edification of euery one and not to haue power to call others but onely such as shall be to the liking of the Ministers of the State vnto whom from henceforth wee must addresse our selues for the like affaires and so to destroy the authority of Assemblies and Synods and the order hitherto here maintained in our Churches The reprisall of our goods are alwayes in force vertue and if from the Chamber of the Edict some equitable sentence be obtained there is presently found an elusion by calling the matter into the Kings Counsel or by some contrary iudgement of the Parliament giuen at the request of a Procurator generall which doth make the former void and of none effect And they haue condemned diuers persons for cases aduowed by the Generall and abolished by the Edict and others are burthened with great fines for the like subiect and moreover there are more then 2000 warrants giuen in the Prouince of Languedoc to take prisoners in hatred of the precedent commotions which constraine a multitude of persons whose liues are without reproach to banish themselues from their ordinary habitations leauing their families desolate to goe seeke their liberty and the assurance of their liues The Townes which are yet left vs in diuers places doe serue no more for retreats for those which haue beene therein refuged in the former troubles mine owne house filled with people which are driuen from their owne habitations and exposed to all iniuries for the same subiect And in diuers places they haue detained in chaines adiudged to fines and threatned with more grieuous punishment diuers persons for speaking or writing according to our doctrine and against the opinion of the Church of Rome as at Lyons Aix Beziers and Montpelier At Nismes in hatred that I had there my retreat they haue there stirred vp all the persecutions that might be imagined They haue sent Commissaries to appoint Magistrates contrary to the priuiledge of the place And the Consuls created they haue interdicted them by Decrees and giuen out warrants for the attaching of their bodies and neuer yet in Kings Counsell could they haue any iustice and in hatred of that which Monsieur d'Aubais had done in accepting generously the charge of Consull they haue lodged in those places which belong vnto him certaine Companies of horse to eate them vp And was neuer any amongst vs who either for the generall or for the particular since the Peace suing in any request to the Counsell grounded vpon the Edict hath obtained ought but great expences vnprofitable sutes continuall mockes or brauadoes and most bitter temptations to bind him either through feare or hope to make shipwracke of his faith I doe not here set downe the persecutions which I suffer in mine owne particular as some hauing for hire sought my life and remaine vnpunished and the Auocates which plead my cause haue beene euill intreated and suspended from their charge in the Chamber at Agen and still they seeke by Diabolicall practices the meanes for to take away my life whereof I dare not complaine fearing thereby to procure some great aduantage and honour to those which make themselues instruments of such cowardly disloyall attempts And that those which haue forged the deceit by whom I was accused to haue made some enterprise vpon Somniers in the time of peace who being discouered haue receiued no kinde of punishment in such sort that the principall Officers who sate in iudgement acknowledging mine innocencie said notwithstanding that it was important for the seruice of the King not to haue it manifested And that my Lady my mother hauing sought her refuge within Rochell for her safety and to giue order for her affaires there they haue vsed all possible meanes to haue her forth telling the Inhabitants that she was the onely obstacle to the accomplishment of the promises made vnto them for their deliuerance And this instance was made after that her houses and my sisters were full of garisons who haue outragiously beaten her officers and committed all the most reproachable insolencies Which notwithstanding are things which I would hold hidden in my bosome if the persecutions which they haue made mee to suffer were not the reward of that which they think they owe me for the intire affection which I haue alwayes sincerely showne for the good and for the preseruation of all our Churches But in this cause I doe not desire that my interests should bee had in consideration if I were my selfe alone to suffer all these miseries my feeling thereof should neuer goe beyond the complaint if it might so please Almighty God only for me to be cast into the sea so the tempest might bee appeased I should alwaies bee well content to sacrifice my goods and my life for the tranquilitie of the state and for the preseruation of the Church of God more then the which I confesse that there is nothing which can be more deare and precious vnto me This is in Summe the matter of our griefe whereof euery piece might serue for the Subiect of a very long and deplorable History to those which suffer whereof notwithstanding resulteth that they will neither administer mercy nor iustice vnto vs nor no promises nor other no Edicts no Declarations nor Acts can couer vs from the persecution which vexeth Vs nor from greater calamities which threaten vs neither is there any faith how publike and eminent soeuer the breaking whereof for our destruction is not made a glory And it is more firmly resolued then euer to put in practise to our cost this sanguinarie Maxime that there is no faith to be kept with Heretickes for our enemies cannot lose the desire they haue for our perdition exepecting the opportunity and power sufficient to execute it and in the conclusion all the essentiall conditions of peace which was thought could not be denied vs without an euident iniustice and which imploreth vengeance to God and men are found in all the principall places to be infringed and violated And aboue all the euils so great and so sensible wee haue with all conuenient humilitie powred forth our complaints and Remonstrances at the Kings feete after that we had endured them with a patience without example but the practice of our enemies and the hatred which they beare vnto our Religion haue so preuailed ouer the iustnes of our Cause that the most humble supplications of our Churches both in general and particuler brought in the behalfe of a Nationall Synod and by the generall Deputies

A DECLARATION OF THE DVKE OF ROHAN Peere of France c. CONTAINING THE iustnes of Reasons and Motiues which haue obliged him to implore the Assistance of the King of Great Britaine and to take armes for the defence of the Reformed Churches Translated according to the French Copie LONDON Printed for Nathanael Butter 1628. A DECLARATION of the Duke of ROHAN Peere of France c. Containing the iustnesse of reasons and motiues which haue obliged him to implore the assistance of the King of Great Britaine to take armes for the defence of the Reformed Churches I Might content my selfe to oppose the sinceritie of all mine actions against the blame which ignorant or malicious persons will vndertake to poure vpon mine innocencie and vpon the necessitie of my resolution It might satisfie me if I had no regard but to my selfe to indeauour to doe better and to leaue enuy and slander for a chastisement to the calumniators the equitable iudgement of good people is to me in stead of an honourable recompence and will alwayes giue mee more satisfaction then the blame of wicked people is able to doe me displeasure But for as much as at the ouerture of so great and extraordinarie things which happen among men euery one discourseth according to his fantasie and oft-times euill interpretations doe surmount aboue the most sound opinions and that aboue all silence is taken for a confession of the fact and that Spirits which are facile and easie to be perswaded if they bee not instructed in the truth doe readily suffer themselues to bee surprized and drawne to error from whence commeth such diuersitie of speech among vs and the deuision of hearts torne by contrarie apprehensions alwayes accompanied with weaknesse and followed with ruine and that the comming of strangers into the Kingdome which men beleeue and I doe not deny it to haue beene procured by the care of my brother and my selfe shall bee for a long time the subiect of all the good or of all the euill which shall be discoursed of either within or without this Kingdom I haue thought it my duty to put to light this small Discourse to iustifie this action to all the world to make it appeare euen vnto our enemies that it is grounded vpon an euident right and to our friends that wee haue beene thereunto constrained by the most powerfull lawes of necessity It is well knowne to all men by what reasons I was bound to conclude the peace in the treatie before Montpellier wherein I had thought all at once to procure deliuerance and respiration to the Church of God to my King the honour and glorie which hee could desire and peace and repose to the whole State which was thereunto so absolutely necessarie to arest the progresse of the King of Spaine who outragiously spurned with his feete the best and most faithfull Allies of this Crowne that hee might the better come with greater facility to the end of this Monarchie after the which hee hath long gaped and the more easily to attaine this peace wee haue yeelded our selues with a full confidence into his Maiesties hands that we might be indebted for our deliuerance next after God to his onely goodnesse hauing for a precious gage of our reestablishment and preseruation his sacred word I was perswaded thereunto besides the reasons aboue mentioned by the Letters of the King of Great Brittaine and of eminent men amongst vs which did giue testimonie to haue yet much zeale for the Church But I know not through what Councell the word which his Maiestie confirmed vnto me all the time till hee came to Lyons and afterwards by many letters was found so suddenly altered the publike faith violated and all our deere and most necessary liberties oppressed For in stead of re-establishing according to the Acts and Conditions of the Peace of Mountpelier in its first estate the Magistracy is changed and parted in two by violence a Citadell built as a publike monument erected to condemne or to kill our Conscience and a Garrison of foure thousand men maintained within the Towne to the insupportible vexation of all the Inhabitants In stead of demolishing the Fort of Rochell according to the same promises specified in his Maiesties acts they haue augmented and fortifyed it with all things necessary for a long and perpetuall establishment and from the same doe plot many enterprises against the Towne which being discouered were authorised not onely by impunitie but euen by recompences giuen to the vndertakers The exercise of our religion is not reestablished in the places from whence it was expelled during the warre but even during the peace many other Churches are intangled in the same persecution diuers Pastors imprisoned Edicts and Declarations made against the libertie of discipline as it appeareth by the presence of Commissaries in the Ecclesiasticall Assemblies And in hatred of the Religion many places are spoyled and razed in time of peace as Caumont Castillon Pont-Orson and others The Chamber of the Edict a Court of Iustice for those of both Religions within the Towne of Castres is not reestablished as it was promised but is transferred to Beziers a seditious towne and of a contrary religion They torture torment and send to the Gallies men that are innocent and of reputation vpon vngrounded suspitions and inuented accusations They diuide our Magistrates by a decree as at Pamies they confiscate the greatest part of our goods vnder title of reprisals To conclude they doe all things otherwise then was promised by the treatie I made vnto the King most humble and reiterate remonstrances by letters and deputation but in the end they were offended with my complaints and imputed them as a crime the King by an expresse letter imposed Silence vpon mee and prohibited mee any more to releeue the interest of our Churches and proceeded so farre as to offer commissions to certaine neighbour Gentlemen of that place of my retreate with great promises to seize vpon my person either aliue or dead and for prooues of that they haue lately sent one to murther me which narrowly missing of his purpose shooting of a Pistoll at me burnt my Ruffe and kild one which stood next behind mee hauing before divulged among those of our religion by men waged and payed to that end that I had sould the libertie of our Churches and had receiued the damnable reward of their last infalliable destruction And to couer vnto strangers of our religion the designe which they had for our perdition they publish in brute onely warre against the Spanyard the league with other Princes and States interessed whilst that vnderhand by the intermission of a Legat peace is treated with him and finally was concluded as the time did make it appeare leauing for a prey vnto him those which they had animated and armed out of those hopes whilst they prepared vessels and all equipage necessary to blocke vp Rochell The affayres were reduced to such tearmes that Mountpelier was