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A68500	August II. 1622. A remonstration of the French subiects professing the reformed religion vnto the French King Wherein are showne divers notable passages, and matters of great waight and consideration, as well of the present as of the former troubles and dissentions in France. As also, a relation, containing the rebellion of the nobilitie and gentrie of the kingdome of Naples, and the retreate of the Vice-Roy. The sea-fight betwixt the gallies of Spaine, and Florence, and some pirates. The resolution of Bethlem Gabor ... The arrivall of Sir Robert Sherley at Florence, being sent ambassassador [sic] from the King of Persia. Besides the late proceedings of the Duke of Saxony ... Of the Count Mansfeild, and the Duke Christian of Brunswick; as likewise what Spinola determines to do, and hath done, before Breda, Bergen op Zoon, and Sluce. ...		1622 (1622)	STC 18507.69; ESTC S102597	11,337	24

A REMONSTRATION OF THE FRENCH SVBIECTS Professing the Reformed Religion vnto the French KING Wherein are showne divers notable Passages and matters of great waight and consideration as well of the present as of the former Troubles and Dissentions in France As also A Relation containing the Rebellion of the Nobilitie and Gentrie of the Kingdome of NAPLES and the Retreate of the VICE-ROY The Sea-fight betwixt the Gallies of Spaine and Florence and some Pirates The Resolution of Bethlem Gabor besides divers Lords of Hungary sent in writing vnto the Emperour The Arrivall of Sir ROBERT SHERLEY at Florence being sent Ambassassador from the King of PERSIA Besides The late Proceedings of the Duke of SAXONY being forsaken by his owne Souldiers who were vnwilling to goe against the Protestants Of the Count Mansfeild and the Duke Christian of Brunswick as likewise what Spinola determines to do and hath done before Breda Bergen op Zoon and Sluce With A continuance of the late Newes of all parts of Christendome and some parts of Turkey likewise LONDON Printed by I. D. for Nicholas Bourne and Thomas Archer and are to be sold at their Shops at the Exchange and in Popes-head Pallace 1622. A REMONSTRATION Of the French Subiects Professing the Reformed Religion vnto the French KING SIR IT is strange and almost incredible that amongst so many Subiects which God hath beene pleased to submit vnder the obeysance of your Maiestie who boast ordinarily that they are much affected to the good of your affaires the conservation of your Crowne that neverthelesse there hath not beene one which hath endevoured and enforced himselfe to quench the fire which takes daily hold of your State and by little and little consumes the same and that to the contrary there is found a great number that haue taken great paines to adde more fewell to it and are yet daily seeking artificiall tricks and devises to maintaine and increase the same By right it should be their worke who can make Peace and Warre when they please if their private ends and particular profit which made them to raise those troubles contrary to the minde and intention of your Maiestie did not draw them backe and not of those which are assaulted and pursued in their consciences honors goods and liues and haue no other intention then to defend and preserue themselues from violences having never detested any thing more then troubles and seditious commotions and to the contrary nothing more loved and procured then the conservation of Peace Wherefore all the Lords Gentlemen and all your Maiesties other Subiects that follow them making profession of the Reformed Religion moved and driven by the affection and naturall Obligation that they owe vnto your Maiestie and to the conservation of your Kingdome they neither could or would vse any longer delay for to seeke and propoune of their side as they haue done continually all the fit and convenient meanes they could devise to preserue your State from ruine and subversion which haue threatned the same many times and yet at this present doe more then ever before and to reestablish a good Peace and publique tranquillitie who having continually shewed themselues prompt and willing to embrace the same it is manifest enough in what dangers and in conveniences they were likely to fall if God through his meere mercie had not preserved them In such manner that they haue but small hope to come to their desire vnlesse the Almightie God will be pleased to chauge the hearts of their enemies which are round about you and incline them to a pacification or Peace Looking rather that this their good disposition which they now manifest and their endevours which they will vse for to establish a firme and perfect Vnion betwixt all your Subiects both of the one and the other Religion in stead of being received and embraced shall be slandered and sinisterly interpreted as they haue beene continually by those which hate and feare nothing more then this reconciliation That neverthelesse the sayd Lords Gentlemen and other that follow them having continually taken great care to make their actions daily more and more manifest vnto your Maiestie and to leaue assured signes and witnesses of their desire which is to liue and die in the obedience and naturall subiection which they owe vnto your Maiestie and to make it appeare to all the world how much their hearts and wills are differing from the impostures and slanders which their adversaries adherents and ministers lay vpon them and that the Forces which they haue beene compelled to gather against their mindes doe tend to no other effect then to maintaine and conserue their Religion honours liues and goods They haue thought that such considerations ought not to hinder or stay them in their hunting and purchasing the effect of such a necessary and salutary a Peace for this Kingdome and to giue witnesse of their humilitie reverence and respect towards your Maiestie which they would haue sooner done if they had not esteemed and iudged that their enemies would haue thought or at least haue gone about to make others beleeue that the necessitie had compelled them vnto the same considering their Enemies assured your Maiestie that they were not likely to receiue any ayde from forraigne partes and if they should that they had no money to giue them content But it is certaine and known that they never haue wanted aide and succour from aboue and that their forces are such that none can denie but that they are able to resist their Enemies and to execute such ill designes if they would as they are taxed withall So then in the time of the first troubles or Civill Warres the deceased Prince of Conde besides the Lords Gentlemen and other that did accompany him did receiue and accept of the conditions of Peace concerning onely the Religion and the libertie of their Consciences presently after the death of the late Duke of Guise and the Marshall of Saint Andrew and the imprisonment of the late Constable Montmorancy which were the principall heads and conductors of the Armie If in the second troubles as soone as was offered vnto the aforesayd Prince of Conde and his followers and partakers the restablishing of the exercise of their Religion notwithstanding they were affisted mightily by forraigne forces and readie to assault the Towne of Chartres at the sight of their Enemies campe which was most wholy disbanded and disordered And that onely at the denunciation of Peace made by a Trumpet sent in the Kings name the sayd Prince did not onely surcease from the assault in hand but commaunded the fiege wholy to be raised and his Armie to retyre reporting neverthelesse no other reward for his prompt obedience then a bloodie peace full of perfidiousnes If in the sayde troubles the next day after the Battaile at Saint Denis the sayd Prince did send vnto the King Monsieur de Tiligny to shew his Maiestie the ruine and desolation that was likely to fall

vpon this Kingdome if it were suffered that forraigne forces should invade the same which were vpon the frontiers readie to enter and to propose and shew the meanes and remedies to attaine a peace touching onely matters of Religion Notwithstanding hee had the better hand in the sayd battle the late Constable Montmorancy chiefe of the Armie there being flaine To be short if all your Edicts had beene alwayes made and the peace agreed in those seasons when those of the reformed Religion had meanes by their forces to make their Enemies belieue them if they would haue abused the same and that in al their parlies treaties of peace there is no mention made of any thing else then of matters of Religion and that their Enemies haue never beene brought to a peace or pacification but by necessitie being not able by open force to attempt any thing more against them Neverthelesse to overcome more manifestly their adversaries of the slaunders and impostures which they publish every houre against the said Lords Gentlemen and others that follow them willingly passing by the vnfaithfulnes want of courage desloyalty vsed and practised against them in former time They declare protest this day before your Maiesty as before God that howsoever they haue vntill this time been dealt withal that they neuerthelesse neuer thought to impute it vnto your Maiesty as very well knowing that your Maiesties nature is not agreeing with such rigours wherof you haue shewed so many open demonstrations that none rightly may doubt of it and much lesse haue they desired to change or diminish in any manner the good will and naturall affection which they haue borne continually to the conseruation aduancement greatnes of your State And if by all the effects aforesaid it hath been seene and knowne manifestly that they had neuer any scope nor intention then to serue God according to his command and the instruction of his holy word vnder the obedience and authority of your Acts and Proclamations and to be maintained and preserued equally with your other Subiects in their honours lifes and goods but besides this they will at this present make such a proofe and tryall that their enemies themselues will neuer doubt of it or call the same in question not that they intend to go about to iustifie their former actions And much lesse doe they intend to copitulate with your Maiesty very well knowing by the grace of God what is the duty of good and faithfull Subiects towards their Soneraine Prince and naturall Lord. But Sir because it is sufficiently knowne how they valewe iour faith and words which ought to be holy sacred and inuiolable and with what boldnesse haue they abused your name and authority to the great perill and danger of your Subiects which make profession of the Reformed Religion it will not bee thought strange that the same in all humble manner beseech your Maiesty to bee pleased to declare by a solemnell perpetuall and irreuocable Edict verified and registred in all your Parlements and other Souerain Courts of Iustices to the end that by the same those may be bridled and kept in which so many times herebefore haue beene so bold as to infringe and violate them and that without any punishment which the late Henry the Great of happy memory your Father had made and your selfe confirmed And seeing that these wich neuer could endure the vnion and rest amongst your Subiects caused by the meanes of the obseruation of the said Edicts they haue begunne to alter and corrupt the same by new interruptions and modifications directely contrary to the substance of the said Edicts and the intention of your Maiesty They very humbly request your Maiesty to grant and agree generally vnto all your Subiects of what quality or condition soeuer they be free exercise of the said Religion in all Cities Townes villages and boroughs in all places and parts of your Kingdome and territories vnder your obedience and protection without any exception or reseruation modification or restriction of persons of time or places with all the assurances thereunto necessary and required And there aboue to order and inioyne euery one to make publike profession either of the one or the other Religion to the intent that many abusing this benefice and grace may not fallitno Atheisme and earnall liberty licensing themselues of all exercise and profession of Religion and not desiring any thing else but that all good orders the policy and Ecclesiasticall discipline be quite reenuersed and abolished A thing certainly too dangerous and pernicious and vnsufferable And further SIR seeing your said subiectis doe not doubt that those which alwaies haue built the foundation of their desseings vpon Flanders and calumniations which they very impudently publish to make them odious not onely to their party but likewise to other shall not leaue to diuulge that your said Subiects will rather wilfully without any reason defend that which they haue once resolued to belieue concerning the Articles of the Christian Religion then to correct themselues and retreate any point They declare and protest as they haue euer done that if in any article of their confession of faith they can instruct them by the word of God comprehended in the Canonicall bookes of the Scripture That they runne astray from the doctrine of the Prophes and Apostles That presently their will shake hands with them and be of they opinion and side that shall teach them better out of Gods word and long agoe they should haue done the same if any error had been proued in their articles And to this effect they desire nothing more then a meeting at a free generall and lawfully called Councell Where euery one may be heard to produce his reasons which shall bee confirmed or conuicted by Gods word alone Which is the only course taken in antient times in all like occasions By this meanes SIR you shall bee sure that God will shew your Maiesty this fauour that you shall see shortly the heartes and mindes of your Subiects vnited and reconciled and your Kingdome to returne in the former estate brightnesse and dignity to the shame and confusion of your and our enemies which haue endeauoured the contrary Moreouer your Maiestie will bee pleased to take the paines and consider exactely and iudge if you bee so disposed if it be better to tarry for a heauy and bloudie victory of the two armies that are now in your Kingdome wherein the conquerour is aswell to loose as hee that shall be vanquished Or else to imploy them in the seruice of your Maiestie and for the good of our owne affaires vpon diuers faire occasions daily offered so much concerning the tranquillity and conseruation of your Crown as none are comparable vnto the same that haue beene presented in our time And by these meanes to send the tempest and foule weather in these places from whence it came Whereunto your aforesaid Subiects are resolued as likewise to all other things

marches to Bergstrozen encountred with 300. horse of Crovata who were al cut in peeces this Letter was writt from one who was willing to shew his good will but had not the Fortune of true intelligence but we had this newes long agoe The newer Letters which came the 24. of Iuly certefie thus much that both Bavaria and Tilley are retyred out of the Palatinate holding their quarters about the Mountaines beyond Heidelberge and so meane to stop the passage into Bavaria and the King of Bohemia with Mansfeild are also gone out of the Palatinate the King went to Sedan to the Duke of Bolloigne His Generall or Count Mansfeild marching openly with cullours displaied even to the borders of Loraine and Lutzenbergh and all attending the treaty at Brussels where if it be peace It is supposed that Mansfeild eyther enters into the service of the States of Holland or adventures into France From Lipsia in Saxony the Letters containe that the Elector Duke vpon the Certificate of the Emperour hath raised together 22000. protecting something of consequence for his owne honour and the Emperours satisfaction but as he was in his march both horse and foote fell from him and resolved him peremptorily that they would goe and assist the Bishop of Haversplate From Prague the Letters advise that those Countrie men which were supposed to be cut in peeces by the Cossacks in their returne were indeede overthrowne by the souldiers of Glats who in a braue and resolute sally set vpon their Enemies and tooke many prisoners and a great booty forraging the Country and killing all that resisted them returning with their spoyles to their hold of security and as it should seeme being thereby emboldened to hold it out against the greatest perill From France they write that how ever the Kings armie prevayled in the siege of Saint Anthony yet was Montalbon relieved had many supplies so that it is not thought convenient that the King should hazard his person against any of these great Townes but they say as hee was marching foreward the Duke de Rohan set vpon some of his Army and put them to defeate That the Queene Mother went from Nantes toward the Bathes of Pughes neere vnto Nevers That the King hath graunted to Signeur Pempeio Frangipane 2000. crownes as a pension out of the Abbey where his brother was Abbot who now deceased and the place voyd it pleased his Maiestie to dispose of some of the revenues in this maner and that the Cardinall Bevilacqua was at the sayd Bathes but hearing of the Queenes approch made hast to depart into his owne Country From Antwarp they write that on Sunday the 21. of Iuly The Marquesse Spinola was attended thither with 2000. horse and the Nobilitie of Flanders and Brabant having before hand taken order that the Governour of Gaunt should visite Sluice and build 4. severall Forts as neere it as they could that so they might bee assured hee meant once againe to besiege the same For they giue it out he will haue three Armies afoote this Summer one against Sluice another against Broda and the greatest against Borghen which shall increase as occasion serues but when Spinola vnderstood that many men were slaine by the fallies of the Garrisons in Berghen who by this time hath 6000. souldiers in he● he gaue order to retire his Army some halfe a mile from 〈◊〉 Ravelings out of the danger of the shot till hee came himself to direct them further but by reason they haue not yet entrencht themselues it is very probable they doe not determine to continue the siege long but suddenly to rise and goe to some other place From the Hage the Letters are as favorable in the behalfe of the States affirming that there is now no going to Antwarp by the way of the River because the Hollanders with their men of warre not onely watch the same but haue new fortifications on the land of Fertoll as for Berghen they are confident both of the strength of the place and sufficiency of the men being all old souldiers and very neere 8000. insomuch that they make dayly excursions vpon the Spaniards as having their Portes open all night and by their sallies not onely put many of them to the sword but returne with great booty so that whensoever Spinola's Armie makes approches or attempts any on-set then doe the Batteries of the Ravelings play vpon them and eyther enforce them backe or kill them in the place Some 4. dayes since it was supposed they would rise wherupon the horse of Breda trooped to overlooke them and the Governour Iustinianus as I take it of the house of Nassaw sent the Prince of Orenge word of their preparation but as it should seeme he is carelesse of their actions and confident to overwatch them what course soeuer they take because the Souldiers were never so willing to fight as at this houre nor the States never so able to maintaine the Warre Other Letters from severall port Townes assure vs that the Rochellers haue taken divers prises and intercepted some ships of souldiers who haue sent prisoners to Midelborogh and other places FINIS