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A18451	Remonstrances, to the Duke de Mayne lieu-tenaunt generall of the estate and crowne of Fraunce. Wherein, by way of information, are discouered diuers priueties, concerning the proceedings and affayres of that Duke, and his associates. Trulie translated out of the French coppie, printed at Paris, by Ant: Ch	Chute, Anthony, d. 1595?	1593 (1593)	STC 5012; ESTC S119236	17,880	32

REMONSTRANCES TO THE DVKE DE MAYNE Lieu-tenaunt generall of the Estate and Crowne of Fraunce Wherein by way of information are discouered diuers priueties concerning the proceedings and affayres of that Duke and his Associates Trulie translated out of the French coppie printed at Paris by Ant Ch LONDON Printed by Iohn VVolfe Anno. 1593. Remonstrances to the Duke de Mayne Lieu-tenaunt generall of the Estate and Crowne of Fraunce Wherein by way of information are discouered diuers priueties concerning the proceedings and affayres of that Duke and his Associates MY Lorde the auncient dutie that I beare to your house the seruice which after none I haue vowed vnto you commaundeth mee to make you these remonstrances which in most humble manner I beseech you to reade with such affection as I present them vnto you withal from him which after the honor of GOD hath nothing in so much esteeme as the repose of this estate and in like manner of you al which is yours VVe all aspyre vnto peace and yet there is none that hopeth it great mis-fortune euery man diuines his owne ill knoweth and seeth the cause of it I must tell you freely my opinion of the matter I haue since these troubles alwaies excused your demeanure vntill this day I say expresly excused although it may seeme that this word may fal vnrespectiuely from my pen but in regard that the question was not of smal consequence VVhether it were standing with law that a Subiect might take Armes against his King yet notwithstanding the iust passion which you haue conceiued of the death of my Lordes your two Bretheren the people whom you founde voluntarily disposed and aboue all seeing he that pretends for the Crowne is diuers from our auncient Religion al that I say considered gaue you cause to take Armes after not to desist from the bearing of them So much as concernes the first poynt the true blood cannot lie none can say how pleasing that reuenge is but he that hath receiued iniury and withall what the fashion of their two endes hath procured may be the more a meane to good minds to extinguish the memory of it though doubtles they were of great importance As touching the second cause the people had a farre off confirmed themselues in an obstinate enuie to their King which euen died of ioy to heare the newes of Bloys And as concerning the last it is very hard to take from vs the feare which wee haue conceiued of the subuersion of our auncient Religion if we submit our selues vnto a King diuers from vs therein I desire not to impeach the famous memorie of the last King neyther that of my Lords your Bretheren neither yet the proceeding of the King of Nauarre and farre lesse your owne for it is my intent to proceede with few words not of sharp intention or ceremonies to the drift of my discourse for I call God to witnes I haue no intention to write in a partiall humor You represent at this time in the infortunate Theater of Fraunce a mighty Prince think not that your proceedings by howe much the more they are apparant may not but be so much the more exposed to adulation and bee subiect to slaunderous inuectiues and surelie it is hard to iudge which of these two is aptest to preiudice your fortune Those which adapt themselues to impeach it with slaunders say That neither reuenge nor disorder in affayres beseemes you to take Armes but that they were only pretexts to culler your desseignes And as touching the new religion of the King that it is apparant by your proceedings that you take holde of it as an opportunity or masque to shadow your pretence haue vsed the same as a mist to delude our eyes withall whilst meane while you couer in your heart an vnmeasured ambition intending the subuersion of the whole state That vntill nowe they remained as blinde in conceiued passion but now that time hath taught them to see cleerly euen as before they had their eares stopped against whatsoeuer proposition might be obiected to you and that contrariwise they haue both eyes eares too great to afflict your honor and reputation For first as touching the reuenge they all affirme vna voce that your own selfe was the first and last that condemned the progresse of my Lorde the deceassed Duke of Guyse your Brother his policies And firstly because that in the yeere 1585. beeing solicited by him to enter into that part of the holy League you were sixe whole weekes before you would condiscend Lastly for that fiue or sixe daies before his death you aduertised the King of an enterprise that he intended against his Maiestie And withal these fellowes can tell that you were not of such internety with him but that to infest or hasten his death you would sette fire in the midst euery corner of the kingdom for you complained your selfe most apparantly at Vimory that hee had layd waite to butcher you though against his expectation you had had good successe at the last adiewe of you two you failed to come to the enterprise If the same be true or not you best know sure it is that who so wold enter into the demeanure of your two Bretheren with the Estates of Bloys should necessarily be inforced to confesse that there was sufficient subiect to induce the King to a dispaire They had so wel grounded their desseignments that the three parts of the Deputies of which the fourth did all was at their will and deuotion the chiefe Presidents of euery order were theyr principall partakers There past not any Holy-daie in which our Ministers preach't not amongst the Iacobins and with a holy throate tore not in peeces the honour of the King his Seruaunts From day to day Embassages went betweene Paris and the two Bretheren we continued euery day in making prouisions not against the King of Nauarre but against the King our Soueraigne The Duke of Guyse made publique protestations that he would not bee disseuered from the confederacie betweene him and the King of Spayne and al this notwithstood the vnion by him sworne with the same King vpon the holy Sacrament of the Altar Nothing was concluded in the assembly which before was not at large debated on betweene the two Bretheren in secrete which tended not to the shame confusion of the King of all which there were made braues vauntings by litle litle men which els had not dared to haue lift vp theyr eyes vnlesse vnder the protection of these two Princes The King came to prayers as wel amongst the Deputies to be amongst them more acceptable as to the Duke of Guyse to mollefie him And to all this there will be no lystning It was not aboue foure or fiue dayes before theyr two endes that the Duke of Guyse himselfe iniured the King about the Towne of Orleance It cannot bee but that some of his seruaunts euen my Lady your Mother full

of your ruine You are like the man that would holde a handfull of Ants in his fist perforce The redoubling of the late Kinges Guardes could not preuent the day of the Barricades The establishing of new Captains and Lieutenaunts made by my Lord your Brother could not for stall his ill happe when the time was come And touching the Spaniards if you hope to haue any ayde of them to resist the common hate of the people which I see altogether framed against you I doubt not but a while they will bridle thē yet at last scape It was a rule which neuer succeeded well to any Prince when he sayd Let them hate me yet they shall feare me because that it brings this comentary with it that there is nothing so long a depositaire as feare But let vs giue all fashions that wee may to our discourse for I desire nothing so much as that I may see you prosper There remaines one meanes which shall be more sweet and myld to haue recourse to Fryers which oftentimes tyrannise our consciences by places of the Scripture which they appropriate to their passions That had beene good at the fyrst when choller did transport and beare vs away for then they might haue made vs haue beleeued that you were enterd into some towne of Tours into the Suburbe of the which you were no sooner entred then you retired and as touching the battayle of Yuny sith victorie shoulde doubtedly haue been on your side and when they shold assure vs that in all the Townes of the Kings side there was publique Religion preached These were thinges which be beleeued and yet notwithstanding the tyme hath proued them false Then we were in a burning Ague which since is turned into a Tertian hauing certain dayes of respit and some hope that our Feuer will be gone The often letting of blood long dyeting which we haue kept hath now healed vs. VVee begin nowe all God be thanked to reknow our selues on al parts Euerie man is starued for want of peace and perhaps the Parisians worst starued then all the rest VVee see our great Suburbs turnd topsie turuy which before coulde compare with the greatest Townes and Citties of Fraunce VVe see our noble Colledges sometime Nurses of all nobilitie in Europe serue nowe for Milk-houses for wenches lodgings for Souldiours and stalls or Cattell That great house of Loure the auncient place of aboade of our Kings to haue serued for the pryson and execution place infinite Citties to be enoblised with the ruine of ours which now is now no more then a carkasse the greater part of the Lords of the Parliament Chamber of Accounts Generals of iustice to keepe prison in theyr houses yea and to carry their prisons with them although to please you they seeme not to doe so VVee see a multitude of Brothels Stewes almost at euery doore and that amongst the greater O the good and holy Religion If in the Courte of the King of Nauarre such a thing should be they should knowe and heare of it In this meane season the poore people die for hunger and thirst The gladdest of the Bourgesses is happy to become a Cow-heard to gette his lyuing other to liue by the sight of a little Rabbit as if this great and royall Cittie were become altogether Desert All the playne Countrie remains desolate and barren You haue promised euen from the beginning of these troubles vtterly to confounde the part of the professors and vnder these promises both you and my Lords your Brothers haue sette all Fraunce on fyre VVee see not so much as one poore Cottage where the religion was exercised which you haue brought vnder obedience to the Church It is nowe a yeere since you made vs promise to make vs Maisters of Saint Denis Pont de Gournay Corbeil and Melun vvhich stop the passage of our Conuoyes VVhere is the execution of your promise For consolation of all our ils you haue taken one poore Towne of Noyon and is not that a fayre peece of worke But what fruite haue we of it in Paris VVhat Towne haue you taken in which wee poore Catholicks haue not indured more ils then they of the Religion Haue wee not then great cause of discontentment against you that to maintain your greatnes the poore man hath neither foode nor peace VVhen I say your greatnes I most humbly beseech you my good L. to be pleased onely to open your eyes and but see what are the instruments thereof You are entituled Lieu-tenaunt generall of the Crowne of Fraunce that Crowne which without a King is but a thing imaginary You shyne outwardly but inwardly you conceiue a thousand sorrowes that oppresse your minde For notwithstanding all the Lieutenantshippe generall that you beare neither Mounsier de Nemoux your Brother nor Mounsier de Guyse your Nephew nor Mounsier de Mercliel your Cosin will scarce holde you for such in those places which they hold As concerning Townes hovv many are there which acknowledge not you but from the teeth outwarde and withall woulde neuer receiue garrison and at a neede are ready enough to deny you theyr gates These are populer estates in regarde of the King of Spayne you nourish the one against the other an inward malice among your selues He aydes you vnder a sure purpose which he hath to impatronise himselfe of our Realme and to play you such a tricke as hee dyd the Duke De Horne and the Countie De Aeiguemont after that according to your authority and guiding the King of Nauarre shalbe expulst You on the other side call him to your succour esteeming that when you are come to the height of your work you shal haue meanes enough to frustrate him of his hopes Call you that raigning or rather to bee tyrannised in your selfe by your proper conscience And after all these things you think to haue the winde at your will If the King of Spayne liue he will be weary of that if hee die where are you If he be not wearie of it the people will be weary of him and his for there is nothing so incompetible as the nature of the French with the Spanish And to seperate the will of the people from you to speake in good and true English is to cast you away Consider you not the cheer and ioy that was generally conceiued whilst yet there was nothing but euen a litle speech of peace with what good will it hath gathered together the refuges vvhich vnder the publique faith of this conference are entred into this Towne Did you not see them at the first present themselues before our Deputies in whole swarmes beseeching them in all humblenesse to haue pittie on them to be Mediators for this so much desired peace You now hinder them by deafe means Did I say deafe nay rather most open and truely this ioy these sightes the prayers and vowes of the poore for peace are but euen so many instruments of the extraordinary proces of your fortune VVe mourne most hartilie for the breach of peace and are sorry for it in our soules you by your presence make vs shed our teares God graunt that the patience of the Parisians cease not euen as the headlong downfall of some Riuer which we would stop I feare I beleeue and see that by the same progression which the King vsed by the same you will cast away your selfe He assembled estates at Bloys to ruine our house that was his owne you assemble the Estates at Paris thinking to strike the last blow at the fortune of the King of Nauarre God graunt it may be the last to your selfe I hold opinion that the Parisians of force must accord to your pleasure indeed there wants but two or three Townes which should band themselues on your side to serue for example to all other euen so as when wee forsooke the late King of Fraunce VVel I make no doubt that if to oppose themselues against a King that was their lawful and vndoubted heyre they woulde make Barracades against him they ende not like your tragedy that gourmandize in deuouring them Against you I say who from henceforth shall be accounted a most notable vsurper of that greatnes you hold You haue beene the rod of God to chastice our Kings which I trust he wil at last throw into the fire of his indignation and if he doe it not the most excellent victory which euer you can obtaine is that against Sampson to remaine amidst all the ruines of Fraunce It is there where I will end my remonstrance which I most humbly beseech you my most excellent good Lord to read and examine in your selfe which hauing done I shall haue attained the furthest of my desires but if your leysure be not such yet at the least wise let them be imparted to the people Conditionally that if anie of ours think that I haue failed in any poynt I will not be sorry that they make me aunswere promising them to shew that I haue left more behind then I haue spoken FINIS