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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

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

King of Nauarre as also al other the good subiects and seruaunts of this estate haue occasion to desire the King to graunt thē new assurāces against those of the league and that the rather because those men haue in their hands the chiefe frontiers as well on the Sea coasts as on the lād wherby to draw the straunger into the Realm All which notwithstanding the sayd Lord King of Nauarre once againe offereth to dispossesse himselfe of the sayd Townes of assuraunce vnto him by his Maiesties free consent proroged conditionally that the sayd house of Lorrayne and other their adherents of the league doe likewise effectually departe from those that they holde That all weapons may be layd aside That the straungers bee returned and themselues withdrawne into their owne houses That if notwithstanding so reasonable offers any forces do march against the K. of Nauarre the Lord Prince of Conde and the Lord Duke of Montmorency or any of them or their adherents they do most hūbly require his Maiestie not to mislike that they follow the counsaile both of nature and necessitie which do teach to repell force by force either that they employ whatsoeuer their frends or meanes therein and the rather because now they are not to fight in Guyen for Guyen in Languedock for Languedock in Daulphine Prouince and other places for the estate of the sayd Lo. K. of Nauarre the Lo Prince or the Lord Duke of Montmorency but vndoubtedly for the Estate and libertie of the King hymselfe with the Queene his Mother for the preseruatiō of the lawes and for the defence of the Estate as also they are assured which encreaseth their courage that though the enemy hath proceeded so farre as to seaze vppon his Maiesties Weapons yet he hath kept and reserued his harte for them They pray the Queene the Kings Mother to call againe to mynd how those of that famely entreated her when vnder K. Frances the second her Sonne they ruled all as also what from time to time she noted in them touching the driftes of their ambition Euen she who was the first that to the Kings her children displayed them for such as they are But chiefly that shee who hath wonne to her selfe the name of Mother of the Realme would not now leaue an opinion in the hearts of the posteritie of the leading of the same to ruine by deliuering it into the handes of straungers by enfringing the publicke peace for the contēting of the particuler desires of the publicke enemie and forcing her nearest and most obediēt subiects to encurre the paine due to the Rebelles and perturbers of the estate Whereas at the least there might be some generall peace concluded vpon if in her wisedome she iudgeth it expedient for the peace of this estate to abolish and pardon their offences The said Lo. K. of Nauarre Lord Prince of Conde and Lord Duke of Montmorency do adiure the Lords Princes of the blood earnestly to cōsider that the same importeth their house and blood The Peeres principall officers of this Realme that it cōcerneth the oth and duetie which they haue taken and owe to the Crowne All Parliaments that it toucheth the foundamental lawes of this estate whereof them selues are the preseruers and guardians Generally all estates and degrees of this Realme that it tendeth to the subuertion and confusion of their famelies For who can euer assure himselfe of a particuler quiet in a publicke vprore of a calme in a tempestious Sea of a certaine estate in an alteration of all estates or of a priuate assuraunce in an vniuersall spoyle Also all Princes and estates our neighbours being likewise in league and alliaunce with this estate to assist them in their vndertaken defence and not to suffer such a conspiracie to take effect in respect of the consequence wherinto it might draw all estates Christian They do declare before God who seeth their hearts and before men whom they chose Iudges of their actions that they doe bewaile the Kings estate who abroad is besieged and at home entangled by and in the practises of his enemies that their weapons are vowed onely to his libertie and seruice and would to GOD he had vouchsafed to haue employed their affections for so could they soone haue deliuered him out of all these perplexities Concerning Religion the sayd Lordes King of Nauarre and Prince of Conde doe from their hearts and on their faith and honor declare that they entende not any way to molest the Catholicks or preiudice their Religion which they doe professe as being alwaies of opinion that the conscience ought to be free and as concerning their owne that they are readie to submit themselues to a Counsayle That they doe accept of all good and true Frenchmen both temporall and spirituall and of al 〈◊〉 without acception or exeption of Religion equally taking into their protection and safegarde them their consciences honors and dignities their goods liues and famelies to the ende so farre as in them shall lye to warrant and defende them against all oppression and violence They doe exhort each one particulerly according to his habilitie and calling in token what they are to draw to them to succour and assist thē against those of this league whom the King hath opēly declared attēpters against his person Crowne and estate To the ende also to take from them all doubt and mistrust the Lorde Duke of Montmorency whose Religion was neuer mistrusted whose wisedome as sufficiently knowne to bee such as can well finde the entents of the sayd Lordes King of Nauarre and Prince of Conde shall bee their loadesman and serue them as a guyde Hee being a Peere of Fraunce and chief officer of the Crowne to whom belongeth the first place in leading of the armies Besides that through Gods grace they haue already the assistance and companie of a good number of Catholicke Lordes Knights Captaines and Gentlemen such as haue found out and perceiued their good right together with the necessitie of their defence As for the Captaines of the league and those who to the same entent shall sticke vnto them the sayd Lordes King of Nauarre Prince of Conde and Duke of Montmorency do declare acknowledge them to bee enemies to the King the house of Fraunce and the weale of this estate euen such as the King hath alreadie declared them and as his Courtes of Parliament in the verification of his letters haue aduouched them Also according to the tenour and contents of the sayd letters together with the Kings commaundements therein conteyned they will with their whole power prosecute warre against thē and by all meanes procure the rooting of them out Howbeit for asmuch as diuers there are that by the pretences of the league maye haue been deceiued and abused so many of them as shall within the space of this present yere departe therefro and withdrawe them selues to them or into their owne they will admit receiue into their protection and

the foundation of the Catholique Romish Religion was to prouide that the King should name a successor that professed the same and vnder that pretence as also vnder the former cōcerning the comon wealth they drew to their faction many of the Nobilitie which thought they had bene in earnest but their pretence was onely to atchieue that point which by this peace they haue obtayned which was the same onely that they were so earnest for viz. to sease vpon the Frontiers and Kayes of the Realme which had bene kept euen from the late Monsier also vnder shadowe of Religion to haue weapon in hand so to become arbitrators of the counsayles to prescribe Lawes to the king during his life to make away the Princes of his blood and loyall seruants of the house of France and after his decease which they imagine to bee at hand violētly to vsurpe this poore estate To thinke they either can or doe suppose them selues able to compasse the rooting out of Religion the proofe that for these 25. yeeres or more they haue made is quite repugnaunt thereto Our Kings haue not spared them selues either by pollicies of peace or rigors of Warres The authors of this league haue employed both force and craft The name League hath nothing encreased their meanes hath not bred vp any new souldiers in the Realme neither hath made them greater Captaines then afore they were still it is Fraunce part whereof yea the best part wil not helpe to spoyle and destroy Fraunce It is euen the house of Fraunce which the house of Lorrayn doth assayle for their pretences are sufficiently reuealed to all men This it is that will strengthē the K. of Nauarre with the auncient officers of the Crowne with the Princes of the blood with the wishes of the King with y e sighes and sobbes of all good Frenchmen without respect of Religion and so much diminish weaken the enemy Besides that it is no longer to any purpose herein as against the ould Albigeois to imagine the publication of a croysade for there is not one Towne of France that consenteth to this partie There is no member no part of the body no there is not scarce any one synew but complaineth hereof Neither is it Fraunce onely that hath prosecuted this reformation in Religion but it hath bene a cōmon motion in all Estates and nations of our Europe Hole kingdomes haue sequestred them selues from the Pope Empires haue bene more then halfe touched scarce is there any estate but haue stirred herein as all men know and doe graunt and feeling it can plainly find out and eschue their owne ruine by that of their neighbours On the other side there is no Prince in Europe of whatsoeuer Religion but thinketh it straunge to pretend the excluding of a Prince without audience or teaching no other trespasse against the lawes of the Countrey committed from an estate or succession vnto him due But in Histories it is euident what the effects of an ambicious or enuious passion can compasse euen vpon the least occasion to the vrging of an heresie as for example Philipp the fayre was denounced an heretick for that he would not hold this Realm in homage of the Pope and so was cut off from the Church but such Popes both before and since as haue pretended more modestie and were not led by the like passion haue held an other opinion and otherwise decided it A counsayle must order all and who so eschueth a counsaile eschueth the light and refuseth reason as shewing himselfe to seeke darknesse and to vse the title of Religion in vaine In the meane time such is the mischief the King our Soueraigne partly through the violence and conspiracie of his enemies and partly by the mallice and collusion of some of his Counsailors hath bene forced and brought to conclude a peace whereof vndoubtedly without speedy remedie will ensue his owne ouerthrowe the destruction of the house of Fraunce and the subuertion of this estate Wherefore the King of Nauarre as first Prince of the bloud chiefe Peere of this Realme the Lorde Prince of Conde his Cousine a Prince and Peere of Fraunce and the Lord Duke of Montmorency a Peere of Fraunce and the chiefe Officer of the Crowne together with the Lordes Knights Gentlemen Prouinces Townes and Communalties as well of the one as of the other Religion vnited for the preseruation of this estate doe protest and declare as ensueth First that their entent neither is neither euer was other then to see the King well serued and duetifully obeyed of all men euery one in his place according to his calling and estate and themselues to become an example to all which was to bee seene in these late dealings Namely that their desire tēdeth only to see the Realme peaceable and quiet as it was in a good forwardnesse at the beginning of these broyles and to the same end haue withall their heartes endeuoured them selues against such as sought to molest the prosperitie of the King and Estate and to the like entent will willingly employ whatsoeuer they are able in life or goods Also because heretofore there haue bin sundry meanes propounded vnto the King whether for deciding the controuersies in Religion or of the Estate which his enemies vsed for a pretence either 〈◊〉 for ending such quarrelles as particulerly they pretended against the Princes of Fraunce among whome the King of Nauarre hath the peeminence the sayd King of Nauarre doth most humbly desire his Maiestie to call to minde the aforesaid offers conteyned in his declaration bearing date the 10. of Iune 1585. which he sent to his Maiestie writtē and signed with his owne hand Also if himselfe haue conceiued or there be to him any other motion made for the contentation of his Maiestie and the wealth of the Realme the sayde Lord King of Nauarre would craue to vnderstand thereof and accompteth himself happy in cace it bee such as before God and man hee may accommodate himselfe vnto But perticulerly because these of the league to the ende to finde opportunitie presently to assault him haue for their argument thought good to require the deliuerie of the Townes of assuraunce and vpon refusall thereof with open force to set vpon him hee doth most humbly beseech his Maiestie to remember that in December last Anno 1584. it peased him during the full peace voluntarily to graūt the prorogation therūof at the humble petitions to him made in the behalfe of his subiects that then he so thought it most conuenient for the peace of the Realme that since by meere force of armes and vpon lesse occasiō he hath graūted greater and more Townes to those of the league who rise against his person against his house and against his estate as being content not onely to leaue to them such as they haue seazed vpō but also hath giuen them others yea more then in two yeeres Wars with prosperous successe they could haue gotten wherevpon the sayde Lorde