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A02966	The declaration of the King of Nauarre touching the slaunders published against him in the protestations of those of the League that are rysen up in armes in this realme of Fraunce. With priuiledge. Truely translated into English according to the French copie.; Déclaration du roy de Navarre sur les calomnies publiées contre luy ès protestations de ceux de la Ligue qui se sont eslevez en ce royaume. English.	Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.; Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623, attributed name.; Hollyband, Claudius, 16th cent.; Navarre (Kingdom). Sovereign (1572-1610 : Henry III) aut	1585 (1585)	STC 13106; ESTC S115687	28,419	81

the saide instructions nor to reforme the ecclesiasticall order according to the same When his maiestie was aduertised therof and well perceiuing the harmes that might growe thereby he gaue commaundement to his Ambassadores to protest agaynst the sayd Counsell and after their protestation made to come home from thence and so they did accordingly And albeit great suite and intreatie was made vnto them by the Pope and the sayd Cardinales and the deceased Cardinall of Loraine to returne to the said counsell and stay there tyll the ende of the same yet they would neuer yéeld so to doo So that the same counsell was continued ended and concluded without them without their signet according to the custome of all times Wherby also it came to passe that for any instant pursuit that was made for the receyuing and publishyng of the same counsell in the Court of Parliament at Paris the said Court the Chambers being assembled hath alwaies withstoode it and that in the yeere thréescore and twelue after Bartholmeweday when the same séemed greatly to fauour their suite Therfore the said King of Nauarre thinketh that men of vpright iudgement cannot accompt him either an heretique or an obstinate person considering the matter is yet vndiscided and in respect he submitteth him selfe to the triall of a counsell neither can they iudge him contentious or vmust that will yéelde to the decrée of a Parliament whatsoeuer the aduocate or counseller ●vn the one partie can cauill to the contrarie ne yet déeme him for a schismatique or stubbourne offender seeing he yéeldeth this obedience and reuerence to the assemblie of the estates to be redy to make his appearaunce there both to yéelde a reason of his oppinion there and likewise to learne there yea and to chaunge to better when better shall be taught him On the contrary side he complayneth that hitherto for the space of manie yéeres he hath séene these zealous persons assembled to destroy him but not to instruct him He complayneth of a processe begynning with execution of a teaching begunne with excommunication without any kind of formalitie that eyther is requisit or may be allowed to procéede Protesting before al Princes and estates and aboue all others before the King his Soueraigne Lorde to whom he maketh his recourse for iustice before the estate of this kingdom vnto whom he intendeth to represent his actions against the aucthors and fauters of this league of so manyfest violence precipitation and iniustice The said King of Nauarre also affirmeth that the name blame of a relaps or a backslider cannot rightly be applied vnto him by vertue whereof though by a counsell he shoulde yeelde to chaunge his opinion theyr pretence is to depriue him from the succession of the Crowne whereon God graunt they thinke as litle as he And therby he referreth the cause to all mens vpright consideration to thinke with what charitie his aduersaries procéede herein And whereunto their deuise may tend to cut from him asmuch as lieth in their power the desire to procure his instruction in a counfell without entring into the depth that might ouerthrowe it both by Cannons and examples In their language they call them Relapses or backsliders that haue been heretiques and abiured there heresies and yet neuertheles after wards fall into the same againe Therefore forasmuch as the King of Nauarre as here aboue appeareth hath not by the Cannons been an heretique it is most cléere that he cannot be a relaps He further affirmeth that though he had been or shoulde be an heretique yet could he not be a relaps considering he was neuer conuerted frō the pretended heresie and considering also that no one euer thought to take any payne or seeke meanes howe to perswade or conuert him but these zealous fellowes haue shot at no other marke with all their driftes and endeuours then to ouerthrowe and destroy him They alledge here that the said Lord the King of Nauarre after Bartholmewe day sent to the Pope and yéelded to goe to masse Setting age asid euery man knoweth what kinde of conuersion this was and whether he had iust cause of scare or not lenger refutation would be friuolous The truth is if by all lawes our actions are accompted of no force when they procéede through feare or force it is most certaine that neuer had action lesse will neither euer had any action more force The truth is also that he had not so soone recouered his will but he caused she same to appeare by publique profession what it was and that in the middest of the Catholiques which were in his cempanie and seemed to possesse him at that time without either dissimulation or subtillie whereby his errour might appeare to be altogether farre from hippocrfle The saide Lord the King of Nauarre most humbly beséecheth the King his Lord that it would please him to take in good parte his modest answere also to that blame whiche they lay to his charge that he is a persecuter of the Catholique Church And touching this poynte he citeth the consciences of his greatest enimies to answere before God whether this title in any respecte can appertaine vnto him Let euery man here consider that the ciuill warres sel in the tender yéeres of the said King of Nauarre and whether there be any likelyhood that he enterprised warre with a ioyfull hart persecute the Catholikes euery man knowing their number aucthoritie and force in this kingdome to be wholy without and frée from persecution Who vnder the kinges onely name were in safetie in regard of the sayde King of Nauarre and of all that dependeth on him from all attemptes enterprises and iniuries whatsoeuer Verily there haue ben rigours and persecutions heard and spoken of in Fraunce within the space of certaine yéeres passed But no man at any time interpreted them other wise then passiuelie in regard of them of the religion and aniuely in regard of others And to vse any woord to the contrary would be so vnantly spoken that no man would vnderstand it It pleased King Charles to cause the said King of Nauarre repayre to his Coart and to honour him with Marriage of his sister He came thither in the religion wherein he was brought vp ●ut that which followed may better be shaddowed with silence then to be now againe fresh repeated When he departed from thence he went backe into his owne Countries When peace was made with my Lorde that is deceased the said King of Nauarre vsed not so muche as one woord by way of request for any thing concerning him selfe neither is there any one article to be redde therein that toucheth him And yet without doubt he had greater occasion then any other either to beare some stomacke for matters passed or to be as it were recompenced for the losses he suffered How●eit the saide King of Nauarre woulde not for his owne particular occasion hinder the peace and tranquilitie of this Realme and the succour and comfort of the

at an assemblie holden at Montanban hee had promised sworne whensoeuer the kings death shold chance to abolish the Catholique Romish religion stripping her of all her goods 〈◊〉 possessions and to depriue the professors thereof from all estates and dignities Here shall euidently appeare how easilie euery slaunder naturally shall open and confute her selfe First therefore the said king of Nauarre protesteth in his conscience before God that with all his hart he desireth and wisheth prosperous and long life to the King his soueraigne Lord and neuer entred into any conceipt or opinion to builde any deuise or purpose either vpon his death or after Whiche be thinketh were not onely offences of hygh treason that could not otherwise proceede then from a dis●oyall and miserable des●re of the death of his Prince which would be pursued with all spéedie effect if power serued thereto But also an offence in all respectes against nature and common sence for as much as his maiestie thankes be to God is in the chiefe strēgth and time of his age and ful of health and further so smal difference betwéene both their ages that it were a ridiculous matter in respect of the difference of twoo yéeres or there aboutes to take suche aduantage one ouer the other So farre hath the saide king of Nauarre alwaies been from conceyuing any imagination as the heads of the league haue done to condemne the king as readie to die by foreseeing the consequentes of his death or forty yéeres as the sayde king of Nauarre hopeth before any neede require and that vnder coulour of prouiding for the affayres of the Realme although in the meane space they cast the same into most lamentable confusion So farre also hath he euer béene from making open declarations touching the pronouncing and foreiudging of the 〈◊〉 and Quéene his wife to be barraine in the flower and best strength of their age as the said confederates haue done beinge a thing neuer practised before in the estates of christiendome and a thing also which the estates of England would not require of the Quéene of Englands yet vmnaryed reposing them selues vppon her wisedome that she hauing gouerned them in peace during her life wil leaue the same for an inheritance to their posteritie To be breef the said kyng of Nauarre neuer did se much as once require his soue raigne Lord and King to declare him to be that which naturally and lawfully he is or to giue any signe or token thereof eyther by preferring and aduancing him or otherwise although the confederates of the saide pretended holy league haue enterprised the like who haue armed agaynst him my Lorde the Cardmall of Bourbon a Prince of the age of thréescooe and sire yéeres who is also a Prince without all hope both of maringe and posterity to be his heire as though the Kinges Ma. their soueraigne Lord had not aboue a yéere or 2. to lyue to haue children and as though we shold rather expect issue from an olde man hauing alwaies liued in single life then frō the kings maiesties florishing marriage in the most chiefe and principall age of himselfe and his Quéene and wife And as though for all that the said Lorde the King of Nauarre coulde not perceiue the subtil deuises which the same persons haue a long time been in deuising against him and also the practises which they made a gainst him in the townes together with the conspiracies that craftily they entred into Italy and Spayne to barre him when the K. death should happen from the right of succession to this kingdom for the which his hope is that God wil grant him such grace giuing long life to the Kinges Maiestie as that hee shall not haue any matter of controuersre assuring himselfe that whatsoeuer it bee that L●●● or nature will giue vnto him his onimies shall neuer with all their leagues practises be able to empeach and hinder him from the obteyning of the same The saide Lord the king of Nauarre frankely confesseth that by a long space he hath perceined the indirect deuises of these confederates agaynst the Kyng and his royall estate And maketh most humble petition to his maiestie to call to remembrance the aduertismenter that the saide him of Nauarre gaue vnto his royall maiestie in that behalfe in the yéere of our Lorde M. v.c.lx and 〈◊〉 At what time he purposely sēt to his grace a gentelman with certen remembrances concorning the very same matters from poynt to poynt that this day are taken in hande to be executed When also these confederates beganne to lay their foundation under colour of the name of bretherhood and holy league That soone aster thepease concluded in the yéere M. v. c.lx and xvii he perceiued the frame and building there of exected by the stur●●● then madoamong the estates stir●od vp by thē diuers prouinces agaynst the seruice of his Maiestie so farre that they would haue enticed the very professors of the reformed religion to the same had entred into treaty with the most noble Prince Cazimire Countie Palatine of Rhyne Who as he will alwaies confesse seeing into the depth of their deuises pretended against the estate for the honour amitie which his auncesters had alwaies borne to the house of Fraunce would not harken any further to that matter That afterward as the affayres of the enemies proceeded from steppe to steppe the king of Nauarre also made discouery of their treaties in Italy Spain of the money that was receiued of the matters by them propounded in those partes and what answeres they receyned touching the same Whereunto the King his maiesty who in his mind could not conceiue so great ingratitud to lurke in their hartes towarde him made it a hard matter to be beleued neuerthelesse the said King of Nauarre vid expect some suddayne clappe of this mischiefe from day to day as a ruine throughly perceiued by him before That he reme●red the taking and execution of Salcedo who had confessed a great part of those things which are well perceyued at this daye which then were endeuoured to be obscured by craft and cunning sleightes But yet the certenty thereof stayed in the hartes of the kings true subiectes That Mounsire who is deceased hadde not without good ground giuen aduertismēt thereof to the King that vnlesse Salcedo had been gyltie of more then ordinarie crymes the King would neuer haue taken so much paines as to send two of the chiefest of his counsell of estate into the lowe countries to fetche him to his presence Neyther would haue been present at hys examinations and repetition of hys depositions c. Whereupon it followed that by the diff●itiue sentence of the Courte of Parliament at Paris hee was pulled in peeces with foure horses as a high traytor to the king and all the estate of Fraunce That by theyr memorialls proceedinges and theyr assotiations newely made in the most part of the good townes of this Realme there was

sufficient euidence giuen that theyr colour and pretence was to roote out that religion which the King of Nauarre professeth and most specially so bestroy him if it lay in their power in sort that the first stroke of their thunderbolt 〈◊〉 haue lighted first vpon his heade If his maiestie in the meanespa●e sawe not into the ende of their practises By occasion whereof the saide king of Nauarre perceiuing the king his Soueraigne Lord had giuen no order therein and foreséeing their pretence tended to destroy the protestantes was iustly moued to haue regard to his affayres And therefore about the ye●re M. v.r.lxxx and thrée he dispatched Mounsir de Segur Pardillian superintendent of his house to the Quéene of Englande the King of Denmarke the princes ●lectors of Almanie the Lantgraue of Hesse and other Princes and estates First to exhort them to séeke meanes to agrée the ●outrouersies in religiō which remayned 〈◊〉 the reformed churches and were abused to their common destruction Secondly to renewe and assure a perfect amis●●e with them without desiring or employing them any farther Thirdlye to furnishe in Almanye a good some of money therewith to prou●d whē néede should require a conueni●t succor against his mortal enimies At the which Kings Princes and estates are straighly allied to the Crowne of Fraunce with whom the King his Soueraigne Lorde hath Ambassadores with which Ambassadores the saide Mounsier de Segur had expresse charge to conferre and so did at certaine times whom he tooke for witnesses of his sayinges doinges of his propositions negotiations conclusions And after his returne the saide King of Nauarre most humbly besought his ma●estie to giue commaundement that with a● diligence information might be taken brought to his Maiestie of a● his legatiō being fully assured that therin they may most playnely beholde his french hart sincere affection true loyaltie towarde his maiesties person and Royall estate Wherefore the said King of Nauarre requireth al the aforesaid most noble kings princes to giue testimonye to the King vnder their owne signetts to his kingdome and al christendome whether at any tyme there haue been on his behalfe any letters or instructions deliuered 〈◊〉 communication had either againste the Kinges dignitye or against the wealth and felicity of hys estate or in any respect cōtrary to the duety 〈◊〉 a most humble and most deuoute seruant subiecte whether euer hee mooued them to make warre vpon the King to renue the troubles or destroy the Catholiques whether euer any ouerture hath béene directly or indirectly made vnto them touching the Kings death or any matter to followe vpon the same Also the sayde Lord the King of Nauarre most humbly beséech●th hys Maiestie that he may be tollerated to sende thys hys declaration to the sayde Princes against the aforementioned flaunders and to cause the same to bee presented by his Maiesties owne Ambassadors to wytte by euery of them in the place wher he is resident to all Christian Princes fréendes and confederates of this kingdome To thys ende that if he haue treated of any lyke matter then they nowe seeing him protest the contrary may estéeme him for a counterfeyte Prince of small fayth and troth and in all respectes vnwoorthye of theyr amity and fréendshyppe which hys abouesayd enemies goe about to make suspected And which for hys owne parts he franklie declareth that his desyre is with all carefulnes to entertayne as hee thinketh he hath most reasonably sought the same As touching the concord or agréement the aduersaryes allege it to beare date the fourtéenth day of December in the yéere 1580. and there make the sayds Mounsier de Segur present as Ambassadour from the King of Nauarre who had departed out of Almany repassed into the Lowe Countries and from thence into Englande where he soiourned two monethes and aboue and yet notwithstanding the employment of all that tyme was embarqued to returne into Fraunce before the fourtéenth day of December In which concorde they bring in the Ambassadours of the Elector Palatine and of the Prince of Orange the one dead aboue a yéere before leauing hys heyre vnder yéeres during whose mynority Duke Cazimir gouerneth the electorship the other murbered foure monethe● before by a Je●uite suborne● by such as are like to the confederates of this pretended holy league And yet nenerthelesse both the saide pr●●es as the aduersaries alledge are bound to be present this moneth of May in the towne of Basill concerning the concluding of some agréement in the controu●rsies of religion The aduersaries adde with all that the King of Nauarre on the xviii day of Aprill then next promised to enter into armes at which time forsooth they them selues were resolued to enter into them and now goe about to deriue the hatred thereof vppon this Prince who being on euery side compassed about with their conspiracies yet sturreth not at al. They date the said contract at Maidenbourgh a towne apperteyning to the sonne of my Lord the elector of Brandenbourgh and yet in the concord they remember neyther father nor the sonne And in truth it is no other but an imagniary assemblie For neither in that place nor any other canne there anye assemblie be founde to haue béen holden Further the tytles 〈◊〉 so many other 〈…〉 to much 〈…〉 to 〈…〉 with so 〈…〉 ●ncte to 〈…〉 〈…〉 for a 〈◊〉 pedlers 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Presthers 〈…〉 to 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 people inste●ius 〈◊〉 they● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with bery 〈…〉 〈◊〉 for what can they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 war●e 〈◊〉 The 〈◊〉 of Mon●anban reser 〈◊〉 more bl●●e for any thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereof nor more 〈…〉 any thing published by thē of 〈…〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 The true 〈…〉 wheir the king h●●de conclud●d prace in the yeare 〈…〉 fiue 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 seaue● withful inte●tion 〈…〉 〈…〉 should 〈…〉 〈◊〉 his Muiesty lest in the 〈…〉 of the King of Nau●r●● and the 〈◊〉 〈…〉 for the 〈◊〉 of this god 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 very many de●●●ous of nothing more then to ●●nus the troubles who after fette themselues in Ar●●● with the Authors of thys league by all meanes possible crossed the execution of the sayde evict of peace and at all houres by sundry newe enterprises gaus occasion of distrust in sorte that the wounds which they ought to haue cured wered forer and the edict of peace which in tyme past was to take effects flydde backwards ●●●ppe by steppe and was cleane cut away from the Protestants poynt after poynt By the continuaunce of which practises it come to passe that during the 〈◊〉 yéeres the peace was diuersly interrupted by surprysings and attempts yea and by open war that continued the space of a whole yéere 〈◊〉 whence issued the conferences of N● rac Flex so that the 〈◊〉 yeres which were pre●●●ed for the rendring vp of the places ●●●●ised not to work the effect wherunto they were limitted and that by reason of the impedimēt which came by means of these interruptions of