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A02968	A declaration and protestation, published by the King of Nauarre, the L. Prince of Conde, and the L. Duke of Montmorency, concerning the peace concluded with the house of Lorrayn, the captaines and chiefe aucthors of the league, to the preiudice of the house of Fraunce. Also two letters written by the sayd King of Nauarre. The one to the Parliament, the other to the maisters of Sorbonne. More an epistle written by Phillipp de Morney to the French King: hereunto, for the playner declaration of the innocencie of the sayd princes, are inserted the articles agreed vpon betweene the King and the Lordes of Guyze. All faithfully translated out of French; Déclaration et protestacion du roy de Navarre, de M. le prince de Condé et M. le duc de Montmorency sur la paix faicte avec ceux de la maison de Lorraine. English.	Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.; Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623, attributed name.; Aggas, Edward, attributed name.; Condé, Henri I de Bourbon, prince de, 1552-1588.; Montmorency, Henri, duc de, 1534-1614.; Navarre (Kingdom). Sovereign (1572-1610 : Henry III) aut	1585 (1585)	STC 13109; ESTC S117933	30,651	88

right against my aduers●ries and I beseech him my Maisters to haue you in his holy protection From Mont de Marsan this 11. of October 1585. Your affectionate and assured frend Henry An Epistle to the King SIr great Captaines Kings and Emperours in olde time sought to take their surnames of those Countries that they cōquered And so came the surnames of African Asian c. Your predecessors who wanted no conquestes wherby to bee famous among the posteritie chose for them selues and you and left as an inheritance the surname Most Christian therein seeking to declare to al men that the true honour of man consisteth in being truely Christian and the very triūph of Princes whom God hath established ouer man resteth in the defence and aduancement of Christian religion Wherevpon I agree with those that say that your Maiesties scope should tend to revnite the Church a worke meet for you a labour incident to your Diademe yea such a labour as you ought to haue in no lesse ielousie then your estate But it may be that in the meanes we may somewhat differ wherein your Maiesties iudgement ouer-ruling both you are to choose the most expedient They propound the restoring of the Church to her perfection by armes but who can better iudge of the vnprofitablenesse of armes in matter of Religion then your Maiestie who hauing so fortunatly vsed thē against those whom by al meanes they endeuour to ouerthrowe could neuerthelesse in the end reape no other profit thereby then to learne that the happiest successe auaileth not against the conscience Also that weapons haue no more force ouer the soule then the Surgeans Raser ouer the mans vnderstanding and affections that guideth it The remedies ought to haue an Analogie and proportion correspondent to the mischiefes and diseases Feare naturally ouercommeth the body sound mastereth the eare and reason ruleth the soule bnt to vse force against the soule it worketh as smale effect as reason ouer the eare or sound ouer the masse of a mans body Armes therfore are a meanes not to revnite the Church but to subuert the state of the Realme not to instruct or conuert but to subuert destroy and as nothing in this world can breede mischief but it must also feele part thereof so the destruction of the one side will cost the ouerthrow of the other The ruine and rooting out of those of the religion howe easy so euer it be accompted wil proue to be the confusion and desolation of the whole Estate These great Catholickes that haue endeuoured to compell you to force your subiects who with open force haue required your Maiestie by force to reduce your subiects into the Romish Church I would fayne learne what they hope for whether more power of better successe then your Maiestie They commaunded ouer your armies armed with your will depending vpon your aucthoritie guyded with your good hap and fauoured with your owne presence and your presence I accompt a great parte of the strength of a mightie armie If your will bee not present as vndoubtedly it can not bee who seeth not those willes that depend therof very cold and quailing But especially sith your person can not bee safe among their armies who doth not euidently see that the gre●● body of this armie how grose or strong soeuer will shortly shrincke asunder by peecemeale in that it is not holden together with any respect of your Maiestie or kept in awe with your presence The child naturally beareth at the fathers handes and how good soeuer his cause be is neuerthelesse content to shunne the stripes to hold his hand before him or to get out of the way vntill the choller bee ouer In the seruaunt or straunger he shall finde as much stomacke and force as may counteruaile all reuerence yea sometime indignation wil double and that is it which naturally is to be expected of a Prince the first of your blood whom seruaunts and straungers doe endeuour to exclude out of your famelie with a million of your naturall Subiectes brought vp vnder your wing and vnder the clemencie of your commaundements whom I say the straūgers would make you roote out and driue to seeke forraine Countries Whereof to be brief such a dispaire may spring as may teach great indignities and indignations and so consequently the most extreame Counsailes that dispayre can conceiue or bring forth In olde time the lawes condemned in great fines such Carpenters as to drawe a man to enterprize a building deceiptfully perswaded him that the charges would be but small and yet that tended to building the greatest commoditie whereof redounded to the benefite of the Maister of the house and to the ornament of the Common wealth What paine then may be sufficient for those who to the ende to stirre vp your Maiestie to the destruction of your Realme are not ashamed to auow the enterprize to be very easie An enterprize whereof the losse will redounde to you the miserie to vs and the benefite to themselues Let vs therefore here speake of reuniting not of subuerting The mischiefes now in question are auncient and our elders knewe the remedies for the same which remedies are the safest so as we shal not neede these practitioners corosiues that haue replenished all Fraunce with murders mournings funeralles and lamentations and yet the disease they crye out of and the deuision that they complaine of is now in worse case then eue● before Dissentions in Religion molested the Primitiue Church sundry heresies were fostered among the people yea euen Emperours the defenders the Church were infected with them The histories of such are plentifull The Fathers found that heresie was an opinion that al opinion consisted in the head and that it was a false Image of reason which could not be defased or rased out but with the presence of reason it selfe They did therefore gather Counsayles they called a sufficient number of people out of all places euery one quietly propounded his opinion in the ende opinion gaue place to knowledge likelihoode to trueth and Sophistrie to reason Let vs not thinke Christian Religion so darck but that trueth may be found out where a Counsaile hath her assured principles stedfast maximees inuiolable consequences 〈…〉 reason her self which if it be sufficiēnt to decide the difficulties in lawes can well determine those in deuinitie and that the better because it is the lawe of one GOD which admitteth no contrarieties neither can beare any Antinomy but mans lawes doe often suffer either the inequalitie of the Lawmakers among themselues or of one onely To be briefe it is a manifest iniurie to this law which is called the true light to beleue that it can not light or leade men yea which is worse to perswade that without fire it can not shine that such as they pretend to be darkenesse must be burned rather then produced into the daylight either to take this light from vnder the Tubbe Some will shewe you that there shall

A Declaration and Protestation published by the King of Nauarre the L. Prince of Conde and the L. Duke of Montmorency concerning the peace concluded with the house of Lorrayn the Captaines and chiefe aucthors of the league to the preiudice of the house of Fraunce Also two Letters written by the sayd King of Nauarre The one to the Parliament the other to the Maisters of Sorbonne More an Epistle written by Philipp de Morney to the French King Hereunto for the playner declaration of the innocencie of the sayd Princes are inserted the Articles agreed vpon betweene the King and the Lordes of Guyze All faithfully translated out of French Imprinted at London for Edward Aggas The Declaration and Protestation IT is not vnknowne to all men and they may soone call to minde in what estate the affaires of this Realme stoode and of what minde the King was when the house of Lorrayn vnder the title of a Holy league began to raise Wars against his Maiestie to trouble the quiet estate of this Realme For through Gods grace Peace began to take roote in the depth of mens hearts and thence to expell all hartburning and mistrust Iustice vnder the wings thereof gathered strength by the exerci●e of lawes Religion on both parts crept into credite in mens consciences whence the licencious libertie of warres had almost expelled it Nobilitie grewe into familiaritie gaue ouer partialities and factiōs The Cōmons after so many mischiefes and calamities began to enioye the fruites of their labours and through such good order as the King had taken were in possibilitie speedely to bee freed from the pillage and insolencie of the Souldier To be brief the miseries and calamities incident to warres grewe into obliuion and were almost buried vnder the commodities of peace which was mightily prosecuted and daylie cherished through the Kings wisedome to whom nothing was in such recommendation as the continuaunce and establishing of the same For if on either side there remained any scarre of the auncient miseries which the peace that yet had not beene of so long continuaunce or force as the warre could not cleerely deface the King who had both noted the mischiefe and founde out the remedie through that dayly care that he tooke for the affayres of his Realme was surely entred such a path as would not onely haue ended the calamities of this Realme but also in short tyme haue restored her to her auncient dignitie prosperitie and brightnesse But this necessarie path that should haue led al things to wealth quiet and ease is now broken vp and disturbed by the house of Lorrayn who are vtterly vnpatient and not able to abide the tranquilitie and peace of this Realme as finding the same repugnant to their purposes which they knowe them selues vtterly vnable to compasse by the prosperitie but rather through the confusion ruine and subertion of this estate It is needlesse here to rehearse such their purposes as by the effects are sufficiently discouered For it may be euidently knowen to all men what the pretences and practises of those of that house haue bene as also what meanes they haue from time to time vsed especially since the raigne of Francis the second for the contriuing of their deuises which to be brief do tēd to the extinguishing of the house of Fraunce and intruding of thē selues into the place thereof And for the easier atteyning to such their drifts and enterprises how they haue sought to set deuision in the Realm to nourish troubles to weaken the power of the Nobilitie by the losse and shedding of their bloud to abase vnder sundry pretēces the credite auctoritie of the Princes In the meane time themselues to take weapon in hand to gayne partakers to ouerthrowe all that stand in their way and finally so farre as in them lieth to encroch the strength and power of this Realm into their own hands This course haue they euer since the raigne of Frances the secōd taken still gathering ground by little and litle and employing euery occasion They layd to the Princes of the bloud that they had practized against the person of the young Prince and vnder pretence thereof procured the apprehēding and detaining of the chiefe Princes of the bloud sequestring the rest from about his Maiestie bringing into mislike the most auncient and faithfull officers of the Crowne yea euen then had not God preuented them they had set foote vpon the very throte of this estate This being most manifest can not be attributed other then to their ambicious practizes For at that time no Prince in Fraunce openly did professe any other then the Catholicke Romish Religion neither was there any such question of controuersie in Religion which as yet was not much spoken of in this Realme No the quarrell which the house of Lorrayne then had and yet hath against the house of Fraunce tended vnder shadow of the King to raigne vntill fitter oportunitie the whiles vnder his auctoritie and by his power to rid their hands of the chiefe Princes of the bloud who were any stumbling blockes in their way and of the officers of the Crowne as those that could not brooke their vsurped auctoritie Vpon these and such like beginnings we are to iudge of their actions ensuing according to these originalles must we consider of the effectes that since they haue endeuoured to disguize to the ende diuersly to procure them fauour as soone after they did stil they endeuour to do but the nature of water is neuer better knowne then at the Spring while it is yet pure and vnmingled as likewise all humaine actions are naturally discerned at their first beginnings before the inconueniences that wee finde haue gathered any sleights and learned to vse any cloked dissimulation This also was the reason that moued thē immediatly vpon the decease of King Francis vnder whose name they ruled because he had married the Scottish Queene their niece finding themselues thereby excluded from all meanes of gouernement to alter their former pretēce For when they perceyued that the generall estates lawfully summoned and assembled did call them to accoumpt for their administrations and dealings they began to cloke their ambition with the vayle of earnest zeale to the Catholick Romish religion They who but fower daies before had put the Germain Princes in such hope of ioyning with them in the confession of Ausbourg beginning with the murder of many persons of all sortes ages and kinds at Vassy did violate the lawes and infringe the peace and publicke tranquilitie of the Realme for the continuaunce whereof the said general estates had found it expedient to graunt the exercize of both Religions and to the same end had published a solemne edict verefied in all the Courtes of Parliament which could not bee attributed to force feare or other vnlawfull pursuite but onely to the sole consideration of the benefite tranquilitie of this estate With armes during the Kings minoritie they seazed vpon his