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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	france_n	king_n	13,454	5	4.0142	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01173	Practises touching the state of France, discouered by an Italian, a gentleman of Florence	Gentleman of Florence.	1575 (1575)	STC 11287; ESTC S116023	6,019	30

Â¶ PRACTISES touching the state of FRANCE discouered by an ITALIAN a gentleman of FLORENCE Printed 1575. Â¶ To all Princes Lordes Gentlemen and all other good and legitimate Frenchmen as wel of the one as of the other religion c. IN the Moneth of May this last yere 1574. trauayling froÌ„ FloreÌ„ce towards Millan I by chance met with a Florentine gentleman who after certayne embrasinges and acquaintance taken by reason of some former knowledge both at the court and at Paris vsed such courtesy and honesty towards me that of force I was compelled not to leaue his companye before I had visited hys mansion house whereas hauyng for the space of two dayes enterteyned mee with very good cheere I hauing pulled on my bootes determining to returne whither as especially my way lay and being ready to take my leaue of him he brought into my chamber a pourse conteyning by estimation coÌ„sidering the greatnesse and weight of the same a thousande or xii hundred crownes desiring me to take so much thereof as my selfe thought good for the which notwithstanding I had thereof great neede yet determining to make of necessitie vertue according vnto my duetie I thanked hym perswading my self thaâ— at Millan I shold meet some frend who would lend me so much But he hauing shewed me that knowing from how long and tedious a iourney I now was returned he was not also ignorant how sore it had consumed my coyne wherefore he earnestly entreated me not to conceale my necessitie but willed mee in any wise to take my commoditie of his store as him selfe in lyke case would doe with mine wherevpon doubtynge leaste some of my trayne had reuealed vnto hym my estate as in very deede the nexte day I learned who had committed this offence I made hym answear that seing he would needes doe me such a pleasure I wold willingly borow of him two hundred crownes I had scarcely sayd the word but presently he told me out three hundred pistolets vpon my own band which I deliuered vnto him sealed and subscribed with my owne hande which with great dificoulty I forced him to take and besides that hee vsed toward me so much verteous and honest communication with suche thanckes for that I had so muche pleasured him as to come and visite his house and so largely opened my selfe vnto him that if the opinion of Pithagoras were as certayne as in deed it is false I shuld haue occasion to thincke that the soule of some Frenchman of the former time reteyning yet the tasâ—â€¦ of his former Adam had bene lodged in the body of this man euen from the day of his birth Wherevpon I am so greatly bound vnto him that I doubt I neuer shal be able sufficientlye to discharge my selfe and yet is it but small in respect of that wherein all Frenchmen are bound to him generally and my selfe perticulerly in that after large communication of the miseries of France with the water in hys eyes he drew out of a smal boxe two leaues of paper written in Italian speach and letter and deliuered them vnto mee to read wherin I satisfying hys expectation and being come vnto the last syde not geuing me leaue to finish the same he desired mee to keepe and translate it into French to the ende I might send the copyes vnto my frendes bicause he knew it most necessary to publishe the contentes therof Oh how good a man he was I would to God that all Italians which be in France were lyke to him and that they were as good Christians as I know hym to bee Wherefore seeing that although the promise which I made vnto him that in this his request I would not faile him touched no other but him self only yet could I not be quiet â–ª before I had accomplished hys entent so highly doe I finde my selfe bonnde vnto him with much more reason theÌ„ ought I now to proceed in the same least I should to greeuouslye swarue from my duetie toward my countrey in as much as indifferently it concerneth all frenchmen in generall also bicause the effecte of the publishing of the same may stoppe the course of the most cruell and tirannous practises that euer were conspired in Christendome as all men may perceaue in taking so much peyne as to read my translation of the afore named two sheetes of paper The which to the same ende I haue dedicated vnto all my Lordes the princes of the blood other Princes Lordes and gentlemen and vnto all other good and legitimate FreÌ„chmen of what estate or condicion soeuer they bee as well of the one religion as of the other according to the counsell of this honest Florentine with most humble supplication vnto all such as I doe owe the same and most earnest request vnto all other that they wil accept the zeale and good will as well of the Florentine as of the translator hereof with as good a harte as the translator doth pray vnto God long and blessedly to preserue theÌ„ in health and prosperitie attendyng hys owne opinion herevpon which he will place in the ende of the aforesayde discourse The preface of the Florentine SInce Saint Bartlemewes day at what time the most cruell and detestable murthers whyche euer were committed had driuen mee out of France by reason of the simple safetie which I perceyued that honest men should in time to come enioye in those countreys I haue diuers tymes thought vpon a discourse which once I heard geuen in the presence of the Kyng the Q. mother my Lorde the Duke â–ª since K. of Poole and now King of France and the Countie of Reâ—z being at Bloys in the yeare 1572. a litle before the Q. of Nauarre lately deceased came thether and it was made by a gentleman named the Knight Poncet whom as I haue since learned the Countie of Retz had sent for into Germany for that he had heard him accompted to be a man of great forecast iudgemeÌ„t and discourse who also had lyued eight or nine yeares in Turquye and now hauyng sundrye tymes with my selfe weyed the sayde discourse I perceiue that out of the same might be spronge the originall of the aforesayd murders rather then of any other thing And therefore bicause that by diuers thinges which since the same discourse haue chaÌ„ced all men might more assuredly iudge of the same vnlesse my opinion deceiueth mee I thought my selfe bound to put the same in writing and to the end that I might shake of all name of vnthanckfulnesse for suche great courtesies fauours and benefits as in the space of 18. yeares which I spent in that countrey I had receiued of the good and myld FreÌ„ch nation to giue the same vnto some suche person as might admonishe them thereof to the ende that fynding my iudgement not to be far amisse they might take heede vnto them selues and looke better to their own affayres then hetherto they haue done and so to preuent such pernicious practises as might be put in

execution agaynst theyr persons and estates The sayde Knight Poncet in his discourse dyd fyrst let them vnderstand in howe many Countreys Principalities Kingdomes and Monarchies he had bene then that in anye of the same he could neuer fynde anye perfect obedience vnto the souerayne except in Turquy only and that the same there proceeded principally of the causes which hereafter shall be expressed First the Turke hath no prince or great Lord throughout his Empire but such as him self haue created and made of his owne liberalitie and proper cost neyther suffreth he any such to ascend so high but that he may plucke down and dispatch them at his owne wil and pleasure Secondly he permitteth no other nobilitie to be in estimatioÌ„ through out his empire but hys Ianissaryes who being from their chyldehood by him brought vp and enterteyned as his owne creatures are so bound to his deuotion that by their meanes and by the auctority of hys ministers and officers all kynde of obedience is presented vnto hym as well by the meane man as by the welthy person neither is there any kinde of accompt of preeminence by reason of any antiquitie or greatnesse of houses and families nor any excuse for any man not to obey him whom the Turcke putteth in office Thirdlye hee neuer permitteth throughout his owne dominions any other religion then him selfe doth exercise except in those countreis which he hath lately conquered whom he will not constrayne to alter theyr profession bicause by such meanes he may the more easely enlarge his limittes and yet there no man is permitted to dispute of religion Moreouer in all the couÌ„treys of his dominions are no Lordships nor seigniores for all the landes belong to hymselfe and those doth he by his officers ferme out vnto his subiectes for a few yeares which being expired the farmers or possessors are dryuen to purchace a newe graunt and the same to acknowledge from fyue yeares to fyue yeares insomuch that no man can say that that which he possesseth is his owne and so euery man endeuoureth more and more to shewe his obedience to the end that therby he and hys children may continew in possession in the sayde farmes and by this means the great Turcke is continually so well stored with riches that vpon no kind of occasioÌ„ he euer is forced to rayse taxes or subsidies of his subiectes Moreouer there be neyther fortresses neyther any wauled townes in the harte of hys Empire nor in any other places but only on the borders and a fewe other in the which his officers and Cap pleasures of Kinges whereby the sayd Princes and great Lordes may rightly be termed controulers and hinderers of the Kinges willes and this proceedeth of the vnitie and agreement of the sayde three estates and therefore it is sayde that Kinges be chiefe Lords and masters in outwarde apparence but in effecte they are as it wer subiect to their own subiects in that they can not accomplishe their owne desires and that theyr own mocions and reasons for the most parte be neuer accepted notwithstanding diuers tymes they tende to the augmenting of theyr liuing and sometimes to the ayde of the necessitie of their affayres and therefore the soner to dispatch himselfe of the sayde Princes and great Lordes with the rest of the nobilitie to the end by that means the straightlier to subduce the rest and so to dispose alter all things after his owne pleasure and will it were necessary to vse the troubles for religion for that they bee the best instruments that might be wished to murder and slay on all partes and yet not to reiect suche meanes as the peace might minister and which might be executed as well by the parties greeued as by such as be ingaged and bound to his maiesties seruice as the affaires may best minister occasion also that hereof they shall fynde choyse of deuises and inuentions inough among the ashes of debate and hatred which the sayde troubles and deuisions haue brought forth In the meane tyme to labour by all meanes possible for the deminishing of the sayde Princes Lordes and nobilitie as well in persons as in goodes and not to graunt them any thing whereby to obteyne greater numbers of seruants and bondslaues to them at his maiesties charges it is necessary that his maiestie absteyne from giuing any rewardes and recompences at the suites of the sayd Lordes or of any other then of such as shall be founde trustie and whom his maiestie myndeth to preferre vnto their dignities Also that if it were possible it were good that such as receiue any liberalitie should come to hys owne presence to the ende they might perceiue vnto whom they were principally bound and this ought especially to be obserued among those vnto whom his maiestie shal commit any publick offices who also after theyr dispatches should be brought to take their leaues of his maieste whereby he might let them know him selfe to haue bene the only motioner of this honour and commodity also that he might commaund them whatsoeuer hys maiesty should thinck good for this be aling would greatly binde them vnto him and be very profitable Moreouer that the decayed and ruinous castles and charges shold be giueÌ„ to the said Princes Lords and noble men which should remayne vntill the tyme were come that they might bee dispatched Also that in the meane tyme none of their estates pentions or wages should be geuen to any other of them then to such as his maiestie should see good and that so by all meanes possible their commodities might be taken away or at the leastwise hindered for that by those meanes he might be the better assured of them keepe them from practising any great enterprises but all must bee wrought artificially and vnder fayre preteÌ„ces Also that his maiesty should not permit any assembly of estates to be holden eyther generally or perticulerly â–ª for that they serue only to bridle Kinges more more but rather he ought seuerely to punishe all procurers of the same whereby the Kinges shall neuer be without occasion to dispatche such as should be odious vnto theÌ„â— and thus after that his maiesty be dispatched of all hys Princes Lordes and nobilitie as is aforesayd he may easely atteyne vnto the rest wheÌ„ as all the chiefe force and principall parte of the sayde estates shal be voyde and that his maiesty hath with the tyme made and created others to hys owne mynde for the common people of themselues dare not practise any thynge vnlesse they haue some great Captaines which wil either beare them out in their doynges or egge them forwarde to theyr practises Lykewise his maiestie hauing made a peace should in any wyse punish and for the smalest occasion that might be put to death all such gouernours and officers of townes as during these troubles haue bene contrary to hys seruice for bicause at the first blast of any contrary wynd they will not fayle but reuolt to the ende to exempt theÌ„selues from such peyne and punishment as they should feare to haue iustly deserued for their former follyes and offences Also at such tyme as hys maiestie hath reduced his subiectes to thys obedieÌ„ce the people dare not with stand the beating down of fortresses vnmaÌ„teling of walled townes in the hart of his kingdom or in any other place where his maiestie shall thinke them hurtfull For assuredly the great nuÌ„ber of Castles and walled townes doe especially encorage seditious and euil disposed persons to the practises of such enterprises and doe make the inhabitauntes of the same more haughty and lesse obedient And doubtlesse the greate number of townes in France were in tymes paste built by sundrye Lordes Princes and common wealthes which enioyed seuerall dominions and then serued for bulwarckes defences to the one agaynst the others neyther were they gotten and incorporate vnto the crowne as presently they bee insomuch that that beloÌ„ging now to one only which was wonte to serue diuers we must needes confesse that in that the pluralityes and diuersities of the grauntes of the sayd townes doth cease consequently suche of them as are situate in the harte of the realme and farre from the borders are not only to no vse and vnprofitable as touching the defence and conseruation of the kingdome but coÌ„trariwise stand in election to bee occasions of diuers euil demeanures and dealinges As concerning religion at what time his maiesty hath atteined the coÌ„moditie profite aforesayde then may he easely force all men to receiue eyther his own or any other that his maiestie shall thinke good of and so not to permit but one only throughout all hys dominions and countreys which will bee farre more assured and strengthened in case his maiesty would forbid all disputations of his sayd religion Heare vpon the time drawing on to go to masse the assembly brake vp and the sayd Poncet was entreated to set downe these meanes which he had discouered and discoursed vpon with such addicions as him self should think good and that not without great promises and hope of wonderfull commoditie and reward The translatours opinion COnsidering with my selfe conferring this braue discourse with such things as I knowe haue passed in France within these fewe yeares yet dayly doo continew I finde the same to be diligently kept and in all poyntes obserued without omitting any parcel therof as playnly and openly I could declare and represent to all mens viewe were it not that I feare through my discontinewing of a courtiers life in France I should forget and ouerslippe some of the principall and most necessary occurrences which especially might procure a more assured iudgemeÌ„t which suche men may better vnderstand and know as more ordinarely be resident at the court eyther in Paris or in any other parte of France then I among whom it cannot bee but that there is some one who wil in part discharge his duetie vnto his countrey parents and frendes and to the rest of hys posteritie if he doeth consider the weightinesse and daungerous consequence of the sayde discourse the which whensoeuer there bee any talke of peace all such as are deputed to the same should continually remember and wisely consider Fare ye well

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