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king_n	begin_v	reign_n	year_n	26,496	5	5.6170	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02976	The copie of a letter sent by the French king to the people of Artoys and Henault requesting them to remooue the forces gathered by the king of Spaine, from the borders of France, otherwise denouncing open warre. Also a declaration of the French kings proclaiming open warre against the king of Spaine and his adherents, and the causes him mouing therto.; Lettres du Roy portent declaration de la guerre aux villes de pays d'Artois, Hainaut, d'isle et autres de la subjection. English	France. Sovereign (1589-1610 : Henry IV)	1595 (1595)	STC 13119; ESTC S108571	4,829	18

bestowed many large summes of money employed and wasted his principall forces and Armyes euen so farre that he left his owne countreyes vnfurnished but also he hath enterprised vnder a colour of godlinesse and religion to attempte openly for to inuegle from time to time naturall Frenchmen to abandon their loyaltie due to their liege princes and Souereigne Lordes a practise alwaies wondered at of all nations in the world he still seeking to get the crowne of this noble realme for himselfe or for his Which matter he began to attempt immediatlie after the decease of king Frances the second and hath euer since continued the same by diuers meanes sought still triumphing and abusing the minoritie of our kinges But he especially manifested the same and made it plainelie to appear a little before the end of the raign of king Henry the third deceassed of most christian memorie in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fourescore and fiue for the Frenchmen then enioying wholie and quietlie Religion Iustice the kings great fauonr and generall rest and being like nay assured to continue in this happie estate to their owne content the K. of Spaine euen then vnder false forged shewes went about to fill all the Realme with fire bloodshed and extreame desolation arming the Catholikes one against another yea and againste as Catholicke a king as euer raigned Wherupon followed his wofull death which will bleed continuallie in the harts of those that are right Frenchmen besides other murthers spoiles and miseries which wee haue suffered vnder the heauie burden of which France and Frenchmen haue and should haue been brought to yeeld themselues yea to haue suffered perpetuall shipwracke had not the singular grace of God which neuer faileth his giuen to our K. and souereigne Lorde nowe force and valour to defend coragiouslie the right of his cause with our liberties goods liues houses and honors and to bring to naught the vniust purposes of the said king of Spaine and his confederates to his shame and their confusion So that France may nowe be in hope to recouer the former happie estate to the glorie of God vnder obedience of the kinges royall maiestie if euery body wil be readie to yeelde thereto his faithfull endeuour and his maiestie employing also the same meanes and remedies that other kings his predecessors haue in times paste practized for to defende the realme against the ancient enemies thereof Which matter considered by his maiestie together with the tender care he hath of maintaining religion his owne credite the defence and protection of his subiects whereof hee maketh more reckoning than of his owne life as he hath often hazarded willinglie and is still readie to hazard his life for their good for neither the kings turning to the same religion with the Spaniarde aboute three yeares since nor the present danger that threatneth all christendome which euerie man knoweth to haue risen through the discords and iust gelousie that the king of Spaine his ambition hath bred euery where none of these things could moderat his malitious mind against this realme the kings maiesties person his good and faithfull subiects the people of Cambray whom his maiestie hath taken into his protection against whom the king of Spaine and his people vse all hostilitie daily continuallie assaulting them violently on euerie side battering and taking townes leading away prisoners putting them to ransom killing his subiects raising taxes and fines vpon them and dealing in al things as a sworne enemy yea so far as hee hath caused attemptes to be made of taking awaie his Maiesties life by trecheries and villainous detestable meanes as appeared not many daies past and worse had it happened to the greate woe of France had not God the true protector of kings wonderfullie turned aside that horrible stroke offered by the hand of a Frenchman an abhominable and monstrous matter but driuen to that act by a spirit most voide of humanitie and indeed Spaniardlike euen againste the kings sacred maiestie The king therfore herevpon giueth notice to all those vnto whome it shall appertaine that he will no longer forbeare the maintaining of his honor the protection of his subiects to whō he is bound of the people of Cambray whose part he would defend though he did yet longer with patience forbeare the going forward with the attempts seeing those of Artoys and Henault make small account to the greefe of his maiestie of exhortations that he by his letters was about to make them that they should putte to their helping hand with him to turne awaie or appease the furie of war raised by the said Spaniards being no lesse noysome and pernitious to those of Artoys and Henault than to his subiects he hath determined and is resolued from henceforth to make open warre against the said king of Spaine his subiects vassals countries for to be reuenged vpon them of wrongs iniuries and offences that hee and his haue sustayned at their hands like as other kings his predecessors haue done vpon the like occasions vndoubtedly trusting that God who knoweth the secrets of his hart and the equitie of his cause will alwaie assist him with his diuine power will blesse him and make him prosper and al his armie with the helpe of his good subiects In regard whereof the kings maiestie commaundeth and most straightly enioyneth al his said subiects vassals and seruants to make war hereafter against the said king of Spaine by sea and by land and against his countreys subiects vassals and adherentes as against enemies to the kings person and his realme and for the accomplishing hereof that they go with forces in to his saide countries to assault and surprise townes Fortes and places that are vnder his obeisance and there to leuie taxes fines ransomes To take his subiects and seruants prysoners and put them to ransome and to deale w t them like enemies euen as they doe and would doe with his Maiesties subiectes and friendes Therefore his Maiestie hath forbidden dooth by these presents streitly prohibit and forbidde all manner of communication entercourse of Merchandise giuing intelligence company keeping or dealing with the saide king of Spaine his adherents Seruauntes and Subiectes vpon paine of being taken and adiudged Traytors He hath also reuoked and doth by thes presents reuoke all licenses pasports and safe conducts giuen aud granted by his maiestye or by his Lieutenants generall or other being contrarie to this present decree declaring them hereby to be of no value forbidding them to bee holden of Magistrates as things of no regard after fifteene daies expired after the publishing of this decree Which decree he hath therefore caused to be proclaymed with sound of Trumpette and publike Proclamation throughout the Prouinces and frontiers of the Realme to the ende that none may pretend ignorance but that euerye one may obserue and put the same inexecution vpon paine of disobedience Yeouen at Paris the xvii day of Ianuary 1595. Signed Henry Neusuille