way by gentle meanes that they may lyue peaceably one with another in good vnitie and concord and yeld vs the obedience whiche by all right they ought to do as the thing whiche euery man of his owne parte ought of right to desire and procure Therefore to the intent that all men may vnderstand our wil and meaning which tendeth to nothing but the benefyte and comfort of the Realme and our subiects We haue sayd and declared and do say and declare that all those whiche heretofore haue risen and takē armes against our late Lorde and brother the king last deceased and against his authoritie and ours or haue absented thēselues out of the Realm withdrawing them into strange countries without our leaue and at this present will lay a part armes giue ouer the practises of warre returne home into their houses leaue vp and put into our obeysance the townes which they hold and occupy and do as good and loyall subiects ought to do to their king and soueraigne Prince they shall fynde vs disposed and ready to admit and receyue thē into our good grace with intention and will to intreate them well forgetting the former things and prouiding that neyther presente nor to come any of those of what quality degree or condition so euer they be or for any cause that may bee pretended to haue bin done by them during the troubles shall any way be disquieted molested or sifted by vs or our officers eyther in their persons goodes or honors but shall lyue in all assurance rest and tranquilitie both they theyr families and posterities assuring them that if they will come or sende to vs to thys ende they shall do it with all suretie by vertue of these presents whiche shall serue them for safeconduit howbeit so as in their comming towardes vs they take safeconduites and pasports of the gouernours and Liefetenants of the prouinces by which they passe whom we authorise enioyn to do so without refusall or let commanding all gouernours captaines of places iusticers officers Shirefs of towns and other our subiectes according to their duties to let thē passe in all saftie towards vs without giuing or suffering to be giuen any disturbance molestation or impeachmēt And if any of them be not disposed to receiue accept this our fauour to vse the goodnesse clemencie which we offer thē but rather wil perseuer in their euil intēts purposes thē are we fully resolued to imploy al the means which God hath put into our hāds to represse their insolencies and to bring their malapertnesse rashnesse to reason wherin we hope do promise our selfs that god who knoweth our intent wil of his gracious goodnes fauour ayd vs to maintayn the authoritie which we acknowledge our selues to hold of him And that therwithal our good and loyal subiects wil not forget their duties allegeāce which they haue alwayes borne vs to the end therfore the rather to put the realme in quietnesse to reestablish it in his auncient greatnesse dignity beautie We charge cōmand al our Liefetenants general gouernours of our prouinces baylifes Stewards their deputies to cause this present Edict to be proclaimed in euery of their gouernments assemblies iurisdictions to cōtinue the keeping obseruing of the same inuiolable without impeachmēt or suffering it to be impeached in any sort or maner what soeuer it be expresly forbidding the officers of our courtes of Parliamēts to impeach it for their part putting as wel thē as our solliciters atturneys general al other persons vnto silence vpon the sight hereof for so is our pleasure In witnesse wherof we haue caused our seals to be put to these presēts Giuē at Lions the .x. day of Sept. the yere of grace 1574. of our raign the first Also signed vpon the reply by the king being in his counsell with whom there was also the Queene his mother my Lorde the Duke of Alanson his brother the king of Nauarre the Cardinals of Burbo Lorein Gwyses the prince Dolphin the Dukes of Gwyse Namors and Mayne the Earle of Charnie the great Esquire the lords of Moruillier of Valence of Lanssak of Limoges of Foys of Bellieure of Monluke and other Lordes of his priuie counsell then present Fizes And sealed vpō double labels with the great seale in yellow waxe ¶ The seconde Edict the thirtenth of October HEnry by the grace of God King of France and Polande To al that shall see this present Edict greeting Though at oure commyng into thys oure realm by our letters pattēts signed with our hand the .x. day of September last past which was sent vnto our gouernours Liefetenants generall in our prouinces iudges and officers to publishe the fame and to continue the exacte maintayning and obseruing thereof wee haue playnely and particularly ynough declared and opened the inward meaning and intente of our harte and the desyre that wee haue to imbrace and receyue all our subiects into our good fauour which wil frame them selues to their duetie and yeld the obedience that God and nature hath bounde them to being very willing to forget all that is passed Yet notwithstanding bycause many of our subiects whiche be farre off and within the townes and places possessed againste our authoritie and peraduenture not well aduertised and certified of our sayde meaning or haue hadde it misreported vnto them by some whiche haue a will to mayntayne still these troubles and disorders for the particular profite and commoditie whiche they receyue by it vnder colour that since our comming either we haue caused the Rutters Swysers and other forces to march in some prouinces of our realme whiche forces we found ready assembled to recouer the saide places withholden against our sayde authoritie and to open the passages of our prouinces intending vnder that pretence to beare men in hande that our meaning was not to pacifie the affayres of our realme according to our declaration although it be the onely thyng whiche we most chiefly seeke and we lykewise haue bin aduertised that some of them haue delayed their comming or sending vnto vs to inioy the fauor whiche we haue offered them by our said Declaration for feare of their liues and for feare to be forced and constrained in their consciences for that there was not expresse mention thereof in our sayde Declaration notwithstanding we haue both hearde and gently receyued all those which haue come vnto vs for that purpose And haue graunted perticular pasports and necessarie suerties to others which haue giuen vs knowledge of their desire to doe the like For these causes and other great considerations mouing vs therevnto and to take wholly away al doubt and scrupulositie from our sayd subiectes we haue sufficiently and as much as necessitie requireth sayd and declared and by these presentes signed with our hande do say and declare that our greatest care and desire is to restore our sayde
bludsucker he was Also this other good qualitie he had that Sardanapalus was neuer plunged more deepely in disordinate lecherie and voluptuousnesse than he These two faire properties of crueltie and lecherie caused the most part of the prouinces of the Empire to reuolt from his gouernment In so much that in dyuers countries there rose vp against him eyght and twentie captaines whereof one got one prouince another got another so as a great part of the nations subiecte to the Empire of Rome did cut them selues quite off from their obedience to the Empire which coulde neuer after that recouer againe his dominions but being extremely hated was slayne by a captaine of Sclauonie And when one came to him and sayd syr Fraunce is reuolted against you Well well sayd he shal we leaue our good chetre for those pyde coates for the Frēchmen then ware their garmēts embrodered with coloures And whē another sayde vnto him that Egypt was reuolted from his obeysance Wel wel quoth he cannot we forbeare the surplices of Egypt The like wordes vsed he of other Prouinces when tydings was brought him of their reuolting Wherevpon by the way I note howe welnere ordinarily it happeneth that when one Prouince or towne reuolteth the reuoltes of other doe easily folowe bycause naturally men desire change and are neuer contented with their present state but hope still vpon better when it turneth commonly into worse The example of which manner of reuoltment is well to be seene in this Historie of Gallien for after Fraunce was reuolted the other Prouinces ensued one after another It was also to be seene in that I sayde before of Nero from whome as firste Fraunce and then Spaine reuolted so the other Prouinces folowed When Hanniball had wonne the iourney of Cannas against the Romanes a great part of their subiectes one after another forsooke them and willingly yeelded them selues to Hanniball The like may be learned of the warres which the Romanes had againste their confederates which reuolted one after another yea and banded them selues together against them Caesar doth also write that after he had brought vnder his obeysance the townes of Fraunce they of Autun which were the first that drew him into Fraunce were also the firste that withdrewe them selues from him and made the most part of the other townes to doe the like in such sort as he founde more painefull his gouerning therin at the last thā he did his conquering of them at the first Wherevpon hee saide that the french men are naturally enclyned to reuolting when the way is once opened to thē I could alledge an infinit nūber of other examples to this purpose but the matter is cleare inough of it selfe requireth no large discourse and therefore I wil now returne to my purpose Lewes the last Earle of Flaunders for after him the Earldome fell into the house of Burgoign and from thēce into the house of Austrich wher it now tarieth made great and grieuous warres against his subiectes of Gaunt bycause they were not to him so obedient as he woulde them as people that in deede were alwayes too stubborne against their Prince He hauing then continued a long and sharpe siege by cutting off their victuals brought amongst them a maruellous famine wherethrough they were driuen into an vtter dispaire The poore people desired the Dutches of Brabant the Bishop of Liege and certaine other of the nobilitie to entreate for some good peace with the said Earle their Lorde The which the sayde Lords tooke great paynes to do but the Earle would in no wise agree to any other ende than that all the inhabitantes of Gaunt should in a certain place come before him barefoote and bare headed with halters about their neckes demaunding pardon for their rebellion and their pardonings neuerthelesse to stande vpon his pleasure Whē the poore Gauntois vnderstoode no better remedy to be hoped for thā that they desperatly determined rather than so to hazard them selues to dy with their swords in their hāds Whervpō out of the town there issued about 5000. Gauntois compelled therto by famin as the wolfe is to the wood which sped them towards Bridges where the Earle their lord then lay with his power And when they came somewhat neare the sayde towne of Bridges their captaines and certain Fryers that were with them beganne to encourage them tolde them that their case was like to the children of Israell which had humbled thē selues as much as might be vnto Pharao and yet he had neuer the more pitie vpon thē And that euen as God had drowned Pharao in the depth of the sea for his rygour reached out to the Israelites so woulde he punishe Lewes their Lorde for his crueltie extended to the Gauntois Whilest the Fryers were thus preaching to the poore hungerstarued people beholde the armie of the Earle which were fourtie thousande men in good aray came raunging towardes the sayde fiue thousande famished Gauntois who on the one side being past all hope of any fauor at their Lordes hande and on the other side readie to be swalowed vp by famine determined verily to vanquishe or to dye and therevpon fought so valyantly and desperately as they ouerthrewe the Earles armie sacked his houses and tooke his towne of Brudges and gate vnder their gouernment all his townes of Flaunders Audenarde only excepted The Earle saued him selfe within Brudges after the ouerthrowe of his armie And when Brudges was taken he hid himself in the house of a poore woman which bestowed him in a garret vnder a little couch vpon the which hir yong children were layde to sleepe The next morning he founde the meanes to steale out of the towne secretly disguised in a Costerdmongers apparell wherwith he gat into Lisle where he taryed in safetie But after that time neuer lyued peaceably in his countrey for whereas before he had but only the Gauntois agaynst him whiche hee might easily by gentle meanes haue brought vnder his obeysante he was after that banded agaynst by all the whole countrey Roboam Kyng of Israell a Prince euill aduised althoughe he were the sonne of Salomon a wise father Woulde needes put vpon his people greater tributes and subsidies than euer his sayde father dyd The people opening to him their griefes by way of complayntes shewed them selues vnable to sustayne so great charges Wherevpon Roboam brought the matter to his counsell to the ende they myght determine what best therein was to be done The olde and sage Counsellours were of opinion that his best was to graunt to his subiectes their demaunde in not augmenting of their impostes wherethrough he might at his newe comming to the Crowne winne the hearts of his people to the rendring of their obedience and franke good wil to hys seruice The counsellours whiche were yong as well in iudgement as in yeeres and suche as at this day there are too many of were of the contrary opiniō saying that it was not mete
than to agree to suche a peace as might to each parte be both profitable and agreeable which would cause it to be of continuāce In this respect the great warrior Hāniball demanded peace of the valiant happy Scipio after this maner It is I Hānibal that do demaund the peace which I would not demaunde if it might not be profitable and hauing obteyned such a one I wil willingly keepe it for the very same profit for the which I required it for to bee shorte a good peace ought not to be made in hast but rather to be digested with meere deliberation loking to none other end than the profite of the common weale And for this cause was it by Tullus Hostilius king of the Romanes saide that the mutual entercourse of commodities was the true band of peace But cōming now to intreat of those three points whiche before I proponed as subiect to this declaration Touching the first whiche is that a prince ought not to take in hand the making of wars against his subiects I set down for a true cōsequēce that a people do neuer die The perticulars or seueral parts of the same do die in deede but they leaue alwayes behind such as do succeede them not only in their inheritāces but also in their quarels passions so as seldome or neuer dieth ther any so very a caytife vnfortunate wretche that leaueth not another yea two or three eyther children brethren parēts or friēds which wil be sorie for his death seeke reuēgemēt of it if it wer violētly procured Wherfore who soeuer hath to do with a people by killing of the perticulars profiteth little bicause they leaue alwais to succede thē such as are as it were maried to their quarels The same is at thys day to be sene by the Gospellers so do I tearm them in stead of Hugonots and catholikes in stead of Papists as did the Lord of Valence in his declaratiō made to the Poloniās for within these .xv yeres what by the warres what by iustice and what by murthers there hath bene done to death more than 200000. and yet for all that there are still so great a number of them as it may seeme there hath not any one dyed There is very apparant reason why it should be so namely for that a people dyeth not bicause the perticulars haue alwayes other perticulars to succede them not onely in their inheritances but also in theyr maners instructions and other conditions But contrarywise the great Princes dye as the late king your brother is deade and many of his best seruitors are deade your selfe also are mortall and your best seruitors be mortall wherthrough it is commonly seene that great mens great deuices vanish away in the smoake bycause that for the moste parte their successours are not of the same humor and will but vse their gouernment farre otherwise the one vndoing what by the other was done In so much as it is sene that ordinarily they pull downe whome their predecessours had set vp Whereof among others master Enguerran of Marigny may be a witnesse which hauing bin in great credite and authoritie in the time of king Philip the faire was by his brother and successor king Lewes Hutin so abased as he therethrough became a poore man without any cause apparant other than for the enuie hate borne to the greatnesse that he had gotten Also the wise Courtiers which will not their liues honors and goods to depend vpon the life of one onely man are accustomed not onely to please him that presently raigneth but also him that is like to succede him For as Pompei said vnto Scilla there be moe that doe worship the sunne rising thā the sunne setting Alexander the great did in his time many wonderful incredible things For with an armie of .30000 Macedons he ouercam Darius the great monarch of al the east leuant in three battels In the first wherof Darius had 300000. mē which was twentie against one In the .2 he had .600000 which was .20 against one And in the third he had a Missiō which was thirtie against one He subdued al the Empire of Darius as the Persians the Medes the Parthians the Armenians the Babylonians with Egypt Palestine and Syria and generally all the lande habitable of Europe and Asi from Macedonie eastwarde vnto India But all those faire conquestes vanished like smoke and in the ende came to nothing for he him selfe died yong and left not successors of like noblenesse and valiācie as he was Whervpon Titus Liuius putteth forth this question If Alexander the great had taken in hande the warres of his time against the Romanes whether he should as easily haue ouercome them as he did Darius he answereth no. For though saith he Alexander was a valiant king and a stout braue warriour yet was he but one in hauing to do with Darius he had to do but with one head Where had he had to do with the Romanes he must haue fought with a number of braue Captaines one after another As Valerius Coruinus Martius Rutilius Caius Sulpicius Manlius Torquatus Publius Philo Papirius Cursor Fabius Maximus Lucius Volumnius the two Decians Marcus Curius and many other which would from hand to hande haue receyued him so as he shoulde haue knowne that they vnderstoode the mysteries of the warres And as concerning Councell Alexander whiche was a yong Prince could haue no better than they that were guided by the heades of a whole Senate The conclusion saith Titus Liuius is That the Macedons had but one Alexander but the Romanes had many captaines which woulde haue matched him of whome euerie one should haue liued and dyed without perill or danger to the state publike Whereas by the death of Alexander the state of his Monarch was rent and torne in peeces The experience of this discourse of Titus Liuius was well seene in the warres that Hanniball had against the Romanes For he was a wise and valiaunt Captaine and knewe as well howe to guide his armie as when to fight Neyther was he ignorant of the stratagemes or policies of warre And in deede he ouerthrew many of the Romane Captaines as Flamminius Paulus Emilius Terencius Varro Marcellus and many other But in the ende he was repulsed by Claudius Nero Fabius Maximus and other and last of all so vtterly ouerthrowne by the great Scipio the Affricane as he founde well that it was no small thing to haue to doe with a people which do dayly breede newe Captaines and men of warre And that wel the perticulars of a people may be vanquished and ouerthrowne but the whole people neuer According to this saying of the philosophers A generall kinde is immortall by reason of the succession of perticulars which succeede one another though euerie perticular in it selfe be mortall And this reason aduiseth a Prince not onely to forbeare to striue with his people but also to shunne the euill will of
for a kyng to graunt the people their willes by doing whereof sayde they he shoulde receyue lawe of them to whome he ought to gyue lawe and subiecte him selfe to them that ought to be subiecte to him but rather that he ought to make them knowe hym for their Prince and soueraigne Lorde whose office was to commaunde and theirs absolutely to obey Roboam folowing this opinion woulde needs lay great taxes and impositions on his people by reason whereof the most part of them that is to say tenne partes of twelue rebelled against him and raysed for their Kyng one Ieroboam Wherevpon the sayd Roboam prepared an armie of 80000. men for the repressing of those rebelles wherein he lost both his labour and time for Ieroboam continued King in peace And from that time forth that kingdome remained deuided in two King Lewes the eleuenth as fine subtil a prince as euer was in Fraunce at his comming to the crowne gouerned him selfe very yll in displacing and hindering of many good and ancient seruitours that had don great seruice to Charles the seuenth his father in the recouering of his realme the most part whereof the Englishmen long time enioyed Wherewith the nobles being discontented raysed against their sayde king a ciuill warre which they called the commoÌ„ welth To them many townes and commonalties also adioyned them selues by reason of the great impostes that the king put vpon them But the wise king knowing his faulte sought all the meanes possible for the appeasing of that warre therein folowing the aduice and councell of his good friend Fraunces Sforze the Duke of Millaine which councelled him for the obtaining of peace to deny nothing of their demaundes And in deede by graunting their requests he appeased those ciuil warres and was al his life after serued of those noblemen gentlemen that were against him in the same towards whom he neuer reserued so much as any desire of reueÌ„gement It may be sayd that what the king did herein was done vpon policie But howe so euer it was done the Frenchmen till these dayes were neuer so Italionated as to beare malice long in their heartes And this wise king woulde neuer hazarde his common wealth by giuing of battell vnto his people saying that he would not commit his estate which was so good and so great as the king of a royall Realme to the perill of so vncertaine a thing as a battell And after the peace made hee frankely confessed that hee sawe him selfe in great perill of loosing his kingdome and had determined in his mynd to haue saued him selfe at Millaine or else amongst the Switzers if Paris had not helde with him but bene wonne and possessed by his aduersaries Edwarde the seconde of that name King of Englande for the pleasure of Hugh Spencer his chiefe mynion made warre against his subiectes and put to death many of his Princes and nobles without anye order of iustice in so muche as Queene Isabell his wife with his sonne and hirs to shunne his furie and crueltie were fayne to flee into Fraunce who after returned agayne into Englande with hyr sayde sonne and a small force which she had gotten by the meanes of a meane Gentleman called syr Iohn of Henawd brother to the Earle of Henawd And being aryued in Englande founde all the people readie at hir commaundement as those that had taken a great displeasure agaynst the King by reason of his crueltie So as she besieged hir sayde husbande tooke him prysoner and bestowed him in the Tower of London Then caused she all the estates of the realme to be assembled by whome Kyng Edward the seconde for his crueltie committed agaynst his nobilitie was founde and pronounced vnworthy to be Kyng any longer and so was depriued of his dignitie And whyle he was yet aliue and prysoner in the sayde Tower of London the sayde estates crowned his sonne Edwarde the thyrde their Kyng of whome I haue spoken afore and shewed that he did the like to his mother Tarquine the proud a King of the Romanes was by his people driueÌ„ out of Rome as well for his gouerning ouer proudly as for suffering his sonne to violate a woman of honour named Lucrecia and being thence banished he sent his embassadours thither for the procuring of his peace and restablishement of his estate many gaue their consents to restore him and had he proceeded in gentle and tractable maner there had bene great likelyhoode of the recouerie of his kingdome But being vnable to maister his own pride he gathered together as many as he coulde get to take his part and with Porsena kyng of the Hetrurians whome he raysed vp to ayde him made warre againste the Romanes This war procured him such hatred of the Romanes which hadde bene his subiectes as they would neuer after returne vnder his obeysance in so much as both he and all his posteritie were depriued from off the kingdome and the estate of that Monarchie changed into a publike state And from that time forth the name of King was deadly hated and abhorred among the Romanes And no maruell though the name of King were so sore hated of the Romanes for one mans faulte that euen when the same state returned againe to a Monarchie vnder Iulius Caesar neither he nor his successours wold be called kings but Emperours For it hath happened so to dyuers other names The name of Tyrant which at this day soundeth so yll and is of euerie man hated was amongst our Elders an honourable name signified none other thing but lord insomuch that Virgil whose onely drift in his Aeneiadâ—s was to aduaunce the godlynesse vertue of his Aeneas calleth him Tyrant Likewise the name of Iudas which signifieth a Confessour was in times past reputed honourable and yet by reason of one mans faulte it is nowe taken for a traytour And before the Emperour Neroes time this name Neron which in the olde Sabin tong signifieth noble was esteemed as a glorious name especially after the days of Claudius Nero which ouercame Asdrubal Hannibals brother his 50000. men but for the offences of one only man the same is now taken for a tyrant So much may the wickednesse of one man do to the vtter defacing of a faire honorable name for euer God grauÌ„t that the vices of some of vs frenchmeÌ„ do not bespot the name of FreÌ„chman which hath heretofore bin esteemed and honored throughout al the world which thing I am sore afeard of if we mend not the soner for alreadie in Germanie they cal al frenchmen indifferently Schelmes Continuing our examples I will recite you one which is the more to be noted for that it was done by the way of iustice After the death of the great Herode king of Iudea Samaria Galile and Idumea there arose a strife and contention betweene Archelaus and Herodes Antipas his sonnes Archelaus would needs make wars against his subiectes vpon a verie slyght occasion in
countrie of Greece was wont to bee the nourishing mother It is also well knowen that the King of Moscouia is a very cruell tyrant and so cruelly and barbarously reigneth ouer his subiectes as they woulde most gladly be vnyoked from his subiection Of other countries of Christendome I speake not leauing for euery man of iudgemente to thinke whether welneere anye thing shall be impossible to your maiestie hauing linked the forces of your two realms with those of Almaine and especially when your gouernement shall be fauourable and agreeable to youre subiectes wherethrough also other nations will become desirous to submit them selues to your obeysance We read that Charlemain your predecessour was so wise so good a prince that all Italy desired him for their Lorde And it came to passe that by the meanes of that good liking which the world had of him hee was chosen Emperour Xenophon writeth that Cirus the greate Monarche in Leuant was so gentle modest in his gouernmeÌ„t y those nations that neuer sawe but had oneâ—y heard speaking of him desired to becomes his subiects and this propertie he had that he woulde leaue to euery nation their lawes customes liberties and religions without chaunging in the same any thing contrary to their consentes which the Greekes called in one word Autonomie The graunting of which hath alwayes bin and is the very ready way to walke in for any Prince that would either gaine any strange natioÌ„ or winne the harts of his own subiecte So vseâ— Aleâ—…der the great his conquests contenting himselfe with the soueraigntie ouer those nations which he subdued without altering of theyr estates or forcing of their religions The like whereof vsed the aunciente Romanes when vnder their gouernment they brought any nation for they willingly altered not the state of the countries which they conquered nor forced the people to the receyt of theyr lawes or religion if they made any change it was in diminishing the tributes for the drawing vnto them the loue of the people and Iulius Caesar did euen so in his coÌ„quests of Fraunce for hee altered nothing of the states of those Cities whiche hee conquered but vsed them with as muche curtesie and gentlenesse as he possible might If any citie rebelled by gentle meanes he soughte to reduce theÌ„ vnder his obedience And though he was oft constrayned to fetche them in by force he vsed not being victour his victories cruelly but was alwayes enclined to pardoning To the vnfaythfull he forbare the rendring of vnfaythfulnesse as one that in such 〈◊〉 woulde take no example of his aduersaries â–ª And of a trueth there was nothing more furthered 〈…〉 Alexander Cyius the 〈…〉 Caesar and suche other greate 〈…〉 â—han did the graunt of that 〈…〉 little care tooke the people for 〈…〉 resistance when they 〈…〉 by being to their gâ—ue 〈◊〉 submitted theyâ— cases shoulde rather be much 〈◊〉 shall any whit appâ—iâ—ed The Switchâ—… 〈…〉 day with muche 〈…〉 entreat their subiects saying 〈…〉 stroÌ„ger castels nor more 〈…〉 than those shal bee builded within the hands of the subiects Who so woulde take vpon him the â—…â—rring at large of the greate benefites that a good peace would bring to your crowne and poore subiects might find matâ—… 〈◊〉 to fill a great volume but I shall contente mee with what before is saide adding only thys vnto it that in hauing a good peace yâ—e shall shunne all the mischiefes and miseries that warres alwayes bring with them though there grewe therevpon none other commoditie yet were the same alone sufficiente to moue you to the procuring of peace Whych 〈…〉 grace foâ—…ke 〈…〉 of yourâ—o◠〈…〉 to the 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 people The 〈◊〉 God 〈…〉 you 〈◊〉 happy 〈…〉 Augustus which 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 warres 〈…〉 good and perdâ—… peace throughout the Empire of Romes The thirde poynt 〈◊〉 resteth nowe that I â—…ate vppon the 〈◊〉 point of the which I say that it iâ— not so muche impossible to establisâ— a good 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 as many iudge it to be for the better 〈…〉 I will first answer to the difficulties whiche therein are alledged It is sayde that a peace cannot be made throughout all 〈◊〉 withoute the permitting of the 〈◊〉 of both the 〈…〉 a thing 〈…〉 bycause it holdeth the Subiectes in â—…alities and deâ—ision I can â—…tentedly confesse that peaâ—…â—…nnot otherwise be made but I denie it to be a thing insufferable The Turkes by their Alcaron are bounde to become perpetuall sworne enimies to the Christians and to detest Iesus Christe in denying hym to be God to reiect the holy Trinitie neyther may they beleeue the holy Scriptures of the Bible and they neuer crowne Emperoure but they solemnelye sweare him to continuall warre with the Christians All the which notwithstaÌ„dyng the Great Turke doth suffer the Christians vnder his obeysance to enioy theyr Religion wherein paying their tributes they liue peaceably without controlement or murmure of the people And euery man seeth the Turquish Religion to be much more contrary to the Catholiques than is that of the Gospell For the Gospellers acknowledge Iesus Christe for God and man and to bee the mediatour betweene God his Father and men they allow of the Trinitie and holy Scriptures of the Bible Yea they agree with the Catholiques in the Articles of the Fayth Wherefore then shoulde these two religions bee insufferable the Catholiques and the Turkes being togither tollerable The Iewish Religion was and is mâ—ch contrary to that of the Painims for neuer did nation so much detest images and numbers of Goddes as dyd the Iewes notwithstanding that they haue had and yet haue an infinite number of Ceremonies perticular to them selues and contrariwise the Paganes haue had an infinite number of Gods with their temples full of images and their ceremonies and traditions cleane contrary to those of the Iewes And is there not amoÌ„gst all the nations of the Painims as Greekes Parthians Medes Elamites Mesopotamians and generally throughout all the East and West peoples Sinagogues of the Iewes Yea and it is lawfull to the Painims amongst whome they dwell to make them selues Iewes after the which done they are called by the name of Proselites We reade also of diuers Romane Emperours aswel Painims as ChristiaÌ„s which haue suffered the Iews to dwel vnder the obeysance of the Empire as Nerua Antonius Pius Constantine Theodose Valentinian Gratian Honorius Arcadius Iustinian other And at this day the Pope the VenetiaÌ„s many townes of Italy Almaine suffer sinagogs of the Iewes vnder obeysance and yet is the Iewish Religion muche more contrarie to the Catholiques than is that of the Gospellers Some peraduenture will say that the French men wyll not suffer any Iewes in Fraunce but haue alwayes expulsed them I confesse that they haue châ—…ed them away yet not for matters of religion but partly for their cruelties committed vpon yong children whom they robbed from the Christians as the histories make mention and especially for the hatred that they