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A07151	A true discourse of the whole occurrences in the Queenes voyage from her departure from Florence, vntil her arriuall at the citie of Marseilles together with the triumphs there made at her entrie: whereto is adioyned her receiuing and entrie into Lyons. Hereunto is annexed, the first Sauoyan: wherein is set forth the right of the conquest of Sauoy by the French, and the importance of holding it. All faithfully translated out of French, by E.A.	Arnauld, Antoine, 1560-1619. First Savoyan. aut; Aggas, Edward.	1601 (1601)	STC 17556; ESTC S119499	25,683	46

fruites of the same Fiftly and lastly Philip the seuenth Duke of Sauoy had two wiues The first Margaret of Burbon who brought him sixtie thousand crownes By the contract of this marriage the children that should be borne to thē should succeed each other in the whole and vnto them as in aduance is giuen the Countie of Bauge and Castelwick of Bourg in Bresse Of this marriage issued a sonne called Philibert and Loyse that was mother to King Francis the first By the second wife hee had two sonnes Philibert succeeded his Father and dyed without issue leauing his sister his heyre generall as well by course of the common law which preferreth the conioyned on both sides as by the expresse clause of the contract of marriage True it is that in those lands that preferre the male child our Lady Regent pretended no part but in al her mothers goods in that which was giuen in aduaunce and in all the moueables and goods shee was her brothers vndoubted and sole heyre In the yeere 1534. King Francis the first sent diuers times sundrie great personages to Charles the ninth Duke of Sauoy his Lady Mothers halfe brother to demaund his rights But this Duke preuented by the passions of his wife and lingring in hope of a certaine exchange most daungerous for vs not onely denied to doe him reason in these so euident and palpable rights but also resolued to debarre the Kings passage as he was on his iourney to be reuenged vpon Sforce Duke of Millan for the most villanous act that euer was committed namely the beheading of the Lord Merueilles Ambassadour of France Hereupon did the King denounce warre to the Duke of Sauoy who wrongfully detained his rights and according to law of Nations which giueth to the strongest in true and full proprietie the goods of him that hath denied him his right his Maiestie in the yeere 1536. conquered Sauoy Bresse and Piedmont which he reserued twentie three yeres And very presumptuous he had been that durst haue mooued this great King to abandon this principall rampier or bulwarke of the Gaules for the custodie whereof wee neede not to crosse the seas or trauaile through forrain Countries but may come to it by firme footing Thus are great empires cymented and established But such was the calamitie of France that in the yeere 1559. wee made a treatie whereby wee rendered 198. places where the King held his garrisons as the Marshall Monluc doth testifie who tearmeth it the vnfortunate and accursed peace saying that since the same wee haue neuer beene free from misfortunes Also that our Ciuill wars haue wasted more valiant Captaines in seuen yeeres then any forraine warres in seuentie Yet spake he not this vpon any good will that hee bare to those with whome wee were at warres for they neuer had a sorer enemie or any that dealt more rudely with them But the Flower de Luce was painted in his heart and hee most vehemently did affect any thing that might tend to the greatnesse and glorie of this crowne In this regard he could not without griefe speake of so vnprofitable a restitution whereto our mishap had forced vs with a whole sequence of all sorts of miseries in that so many warlike people as he termeth them could not otherwise employ themselues then in most furious cutting each others throates Neuerthelesse we did not at that time so farre giue way to the storme that tossed and turmoyled this Realme but that wee retayned fiue of the principall and strongest townes of Piedmont as pledges for the reason that should be done vs in our rights namely Thurin Quiers Chiuas Pinerol Villeneufue d' Ast wherein we are also to note that our treatie of peace in 1559. in expresse words imported that the King should holde Thurin Chiuas and Villeneufue d' Ast with all their confines territories commaunds iurisdictions and other appurtenances and as for Quiers and Pinerol the king should hold thē with such confines territories as he should find to be necessarie for the sustenance and defence of the fayd places Now at the same time dyed King Henry the second leauing king Frauncis verie young which occasion the Duke of Sauoy would not ouerslip For being still at Paris fourteene dayes after the fathers death he obtained the sonnes letters patents neuer verified as the treaty of peace was wherein the confines of these fiue townes were restrained to a Piedmont myle which was as much as to abridge vs of the fiue sixt partes at the least of all that was left vs as if it had not beene enough that we had yeelded vp so many places vnlesse wee were also so straightened in the remainder of our shipwrack All which notwithstanding I would to God things had yet so remained But in the yeare 62. during our first ciuill warres they that had alreadie found opportunitie so to shorten the territories seeing the realme in trouble and King Charles but twelue yeares old gaue the aduenture restored into this Dukes hands Thurin Quiers Chinas Villeneufue d' Ast Ten battelles would not haue wrested from vs such places which had cost Fraunce so much gold and bloud Not long before they had in fit time made away Marshall Brissac who would rather haue cast himselfe headlong from the rockes then in the kings nonage haue giuen vp townes of such importance to the crowne the value whereof hee was better acquainted withall then any man aliue His successor in this gouernment yet accounted one of the fayrest in regard of the great importance thereof forgat no remonstrance and in deed he satisfied all men but himselfe for thrice did he refuse the execution of so wonderfull hurtfull an acte vsing most vehement and liuely remonstrances and protestations crauing an assemblie of the Estates or at the least considering the Kings minoritie the verification of the Parliament of Peeres sitting at Paris Had they had any hope to obtaine this promulgation it had not beene denyed him especially considering that it would haue stoode for a discharge to all others But they knew very wel that such a parliament consisting of so many great personages practised in all sorts of affayres who also by the reading of hystories were acquainted with the truth of our rights mentioned in the beginning would neuer by their decree haue authorized an acte so preiudiciall to the estate In this regard not daring to exhibite such letters to the Parliament of Fraunce they grew to such grieuous and strange threates against this Gouernour that at the last hee gaue way howbeit with such and so violent griefe that it stucke by him to his end and brought him to his graue enforcing him sundrie times to crie out that he was accursed that he ought to haue dyed in Thurin vnlesse his master after declaration of his maioritie had of his owne absolute authoritie reuoked him also that peraduenture his Maiestie finding what a faire flower they sought to plucke from his crowne and what a griefe

poynt is a matter of great weight and worthie manifold consideration for it is no small matter to stop forraine armies without denouncing of warre from making the mow at such a Citie as Lyons one of the strongest in Christendome and ofmost difficult recouery if it should be lost wee cannot bee too iealous of such places neither too curious to keep away all sorts of Courtiers This proposition doe I hold and there of referre my selfe to all Captaynes namely that Lyons remaining a Frontier town is one of the easiest to be surprized in regard of the great trafficke and multitude of strangers there sciourning dayly arriuing out of all parts without suspition which if you ween to hinder yee vndoe the towne It shall no longer bee Lyons it must haue great libertie but standing at this day so farre within the Frontiers there is no more feare of it then of Paris I do also hold this second proposition that Lyons continuing a Frontier towne is except Bourdeaux Marseilles the most difficult towne in this land to be recouered if it should be once lost Would not such and so great a blow deserue the conclusion of the exchange propounded in the yeere of our Lord God 1 5 3 4. so necessarie an exchange for the passage of the armies into the Low Countries What know wee what is alreadie determined betweene so neere kinsmen If this should come to passe and this mightie towne be obstinately defended with the whole forces of such a neighbour into what a miserable estate should we be reduced What should become of Prouence and Dauphine Into what a straight should foure or fiue other great Prouinces be brought Had any man told vs twentie yeeres agoe that a handfull of people should haue surprized Amiens wee would not haue beleeued him and indeede there was lesse likelihood for it was not so begarded with forraine families as Lyons It maketh mee to despaire to see men be such cowards and sometimes purposely to amplifie the forces of our aduersaries and yet when afterward we come to propound these great considerations they make but a mocke of it for indeed they care not greatly For my part I feare no open forces Our Fathers haue seene in Prouence 50000. at the least at once and whole cloudes of men in Champagne and Picardy this neuer hurt them it made them not so much as afraide so long as the Realme was in itselfe at peace as now it is What should I then feare euen practises policies and surprizes of our Frontier Townes such as Lyons should bee if wee should render Sauoy vnlesse we should think that we should be loth to break the peace for Lyons sith wee would not breake it for Carmagnole I thinke indeede that on the behalfe or by his commaund that should send his armies along our frontiers wee should not feare to incurre such a storme for wee must still thinke that great Princes do make some account of their fayth and honour yet might there bee some Generall of the armie that would gladly be spoken of but neuer looke for the answere that Sextus Pompeyus made saying Thou shouldst not haue told me of it The most that wee shall get he shall be disauowed then must he fortifie himselfe Hereupon the warres are kindled but the smarting losse is ours which if it once grow old they will forget to doe vs right vnlesse at the howre of death in discharge of conscience but if yee looke for the execution of the will yee must seeke your Iudges at Pampelune It is therfore a great aduantage to be out of this continuall feare of Lyons for vndoubtedly they with whom we are at this time so threatned are more craftie more close and secret then wee and their drifts haue a further fetch In the field with open force wee shall alwayes beate them well inough had neither Germaines nor English-men set in footing they would neuer haue had the faces so much as to looke vpon vs three hundred French horses will alwayes beate a thousand of theirs And as for foot-men ours are of more force dexteritie and contempt of death but lesse discipline It lieth in our selues to remedie the last the rest proceed from nature who hath giuen vs these aduantages which wee must not lose We can keepe them when wee list witnesse the Ocean which euen this yeere hath seene our French aduentures who cannot possibly be retained vnlesse we should chaine vp all our youth For what can we tell who shall escape they be no troopes or garrisons licensed at pleasure so might there be fraud but they be stragglers comming some from one place some from another the whole Nation being so borne to the warres that they must seeke it where it is or make it among themselues The Ocean I say hath seene of these mad fooles that haue beaten the flower and choyse of the best oldest Captains souldiers whom we hold in such esteeme Go ye therfore and report in those countries that the French foote-men are nothing worth But who shall make it as gallant as firme and withall bring it into as good discipline as it was at Cerisoles if this our great King cannot compasse it Is hee of lesse abilitie then his vnckle who was but a most faithfull and most profitable seruant vnto him that swayed the Scepter and crowne which hee hath succeeded Eight yeeres had we held Sauoy and Piedmont when the Lord of Anguien vnder the command of King Francis wonne that glorious day where our foot-mē with the push of the pike most furiously ouerthrew all those old triumphant bands of two parts of the world albeit they were a third part more then wee and so well armed that we wonne from them eight thousand corcelets The storie telleth vs without the Conquest of Sauoy Fraunce had missed of that great and stately triumph as wanting wherewith to haue fed the armie one day Had this commodious a conquest been atchieued before the yeere of our Lord God one thousand fiue hundred twentie and foure King Frauncis who should haue found himselfe vpon the Marches of his estate neere to all succour treasure and refreshing had not fallen into that calamitie that hath stucke by vs euer since Very high had he bin mounted if the Lord of Anguyen had not caught him by the throate that should haue wished him to speake to his Lord the King to yeelde vp Sauoy so long is it since this fatal valiant race of the Bourbons was promised to restore the eminency and perfect glory of the Flowre de Luce. The ten first yeeres of his raigne were spent in his establishment that was hindered by those that alwayes feared the greatnesse of this estate At his entrie into his second tenne yeeres God hath vouchsafed to adde vnto his Empire the highest mountaines in the world thereby to lift vp this Prince and to place him in the view of the whole worlde as the Grand-childe of his beloued King Lewis the fifth