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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10984	A declaration of the Duke of Rohan peere of France, &c. Containing the iustnes of reasons and motiues which haue obliged him to implore the assistance of the King of Great Britaine, and to take armes for the defence of the Reformed Churches. Translated according to the French copie.; Déclaration de Monsieur le duc de Rohan, pair de France. English	Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638.	1628 (1628)	STC 21252; ESTC S116136	14,493	28

houses without Letters Patents from the King countersigned by a Secretary of State and sealed with the great Seale To conclude they impose a yoak such as our fathers neuer heard of The Church of Roan hauing desired the Lord of Veilleux his Minister to come preach to them hee was forbidden to goe to the end to take away for the time to come the liberty of our Churches to prouide themselues of Pastours whose doctrine and piety should be for the edification of euery one and not to haue power to call others but onely such as shall be to the liking of the Ministers of the State vnto whom from henceforth wee must addresse our selues for the like affaires and so to destroy the authority of Assemblies and Synods and the order hitherto here maintained in our Churches The reprisall of our goods are alwayes in force vertue and if from the Chamber of the Edict some equitable sentence be obtained there is presently found an elusion by calling the matter into the Kings Counsel or by some contrary iudgement of the Parliament giuen at the request of a Procurator generall which doth make the former void and of none effect And they haue condemned diuers persons for cases aduowed by the Generall and abolished by the Edict and others are burthened with great fines for the like subiect and moreover there are more then 2000 warrants giuen in the Prouince of Languedoc to take prisoners in hatred of the precedent commotions which constraine a multitude of persons whose liues are without reproach to banish themselues from their ordinary habitations leauing their families desolate to goe seeke their liberty and the assurance of their liues The Townes which are yet left vs in diuers places doe serue no more for retreats for those which haue beene therein refuged in the former troubles mine owne house filled with people which are driuen from their owne habitations and exposed to all iniuries for the same subiect And in diuers places they haue detained in chaines adiudged to fines and threatned with more grieuous punishment diuers persons for speaking or writing according to our doctrine and against the opinion of the Church of Rome as at Lyons Aix Beziers and Montpelier At Nismes in hatred that I had there my retreat they haue there stirred vp all the persecutions that might be imagined They haue sent Commissaries to appoint Magistrates contrary to the priuiledge of the place And the Consuls created they haue interdicted them by Decrees and giuen out warrants for the attaching of their bodies and neuer yet in Kings Counsell could they haue any iustice and in hatred of that which Monsieur d'Aubais had done in accepting generously the charge of Consull they haue lodged in those places which belong vnto him certaine Companies of horse to eate them vp And was neuer any amongst vs who either for the generall or for the particular since the Peace suing in any request to the Counsell grounded vpon the Edict hath obtained ought but great expences vnprofitable sutes continuall mockes or brauadoes and most bitter temptations to bind him either through feare or hope to make shipwracke of his faith I doe not here set downe the persecutions which I suffer in mine owne particular as some hauing for hire sought my life and remaine vnpunished and the Auocates which plead my cause haue beene euill intreated and suspended from their charge in the Chamber at Agen and still they seeke by Diabolicall practices the meanes for to take away my life whereof I dare not complaine fearing thereby to procure some great aduantage and honour to those which make themselues instruments of such cowardly disloyall attempts And that those which haue forged the deceit by whom I was accused to haue made some enterprise vpon Somniers in the time of peace who being discouered haue receiued no kinde of punishment in such sort that the principall Officers who sate in iudgement acknowledging mine innocencie said notwithstanding that it was important for the seruice of the King not to haue it manifested And that my Lady my mother hauing sought her refuge within Rochell for her safety and to giue order for her affaires there they haue vsed all possible meanes to haue her forth telling the Inhabitants that she was the onely obstacle to the accomplishment of the promises made vnto them for their deliuerance And this instance was made after that her houses and my sisters were full of garisons who haue outragiously beaten her officers and committed all the most reproachable insolencies Which notwithstanding are things which I would hold hidden in my bosome if the persecutions which they haue made mee to suffer were not the reward of that which they think they owe me for the intire affection which I haue alwayes sincerely showne for the good and for the preseruation of all our Churches But in this cause I doe not desire that my interests should bee had in consideration if I were my selfe alone to suffer all these miseries my feeling thereof should neuer goe beyond the complaint if it might so please Almighty God only for me to be cast into the sea so the tempest might bee appeased I should alwaies bee well content to sacrifice my goods and my life for the tranquilitie of the state and for the preseruation of the Church of God more then the which I confesse that there is nothing which can be more deare and precious vnto me This is in Summe the matter of our griefe whereof euery piece might serue for the Subiect of a very long and deplorable History to those which suffer whereof notwithstanding resulteth that they will neither administer mercy nor iustice vnto vs nor no promises nor other no Edicts no Declarations nor Acts can couer vs from the persecution which vexeth Vs nor from greater calamities which threaten vs neither is there any faith how publike and eminent soeuer the breaking whereof for our destruction is not made a glory And it is more firmly resolued then euer to put in practise to our cost this sanguinarie Maxime that there is no faith to be kept with Heretickes for our enemies cannot lose the desire they haue for our perdition exepecting the opportunity and power sufficient to execute it and in the conclusion all the essentiall conditions of peace which was thought could not be denied vs without an euident iniustice and which imploreth vengeance to God and men are found in all the principall places to be infringed and violated And aboue all the euils so great and so sensible wee haue with all conuenient humilitie powred forth our complaints and Remonstrances at the Kings feete after that we had endured them with a patience without example but the practice of our enemies and the hatred which they beare vnto our Religion haue so preuailed ouer the iustnes of our Cause that the most humble supplications of our Churches both in general and particuler brought in the behalfe of a Nationall Synod and by the generall Deputies