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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18484	The requestes presented vnto the Frenche Kinge and the Queene his mother, by the three rulers or triumuirat with an aunswere made to the same by the prince of Conde	Guise, François de Lorraine, duc de, 1519-1563.; Condé, Louis, prince de, 1530-1569.	1562 (1562)	STC 5042; ESTC S119254	23,946	64

so much that rather than they wyll go home they will se his realme in daunger of ruyne which they saye is euident and not possible to be auoyded This is the loue whiche they beare to theyr countrey into the which they brynge foraine power to pylle and spoyle it and if god holde not his hande ouer it to subdue and vtterly destroy it ¶ Syth they require a decree which shal remayne for euer vpon thestate of relygion And where as wee required that that shoulde be obserued whiche is alredy made vntyll the kynge shoulde come to age they aunswered that it was an vnciuyle and an vnreasonable requeste for that it is in the kynges power and wyll to change lymitte enlarge and restrayn his decrees when so euer he thinketh good And that we in requyrynge that that whiche is alredye decreed by him and his counsel should be kept and obserued durynge his nonage desyre to kepe his maiestie in pryson captiuitie And yet this notwithstanding they will that the decre which thei thre haue made shal remaine in force vnchanged for euer But if the reason which they aledge againste vs are to be receaued we wyll also by the selfe same conclude that they them selues wil keepe the king prisoner both in his nonage and lawful age But by like they thinke they are able to master and keepe at commaundement not onely the kynges person but also the whole realme Seing that in a thinge of so greate weighte and whyche bringeth with it so many incōuenience they dar● take vpon them to present a decree allowed onely by them thre what more did euer August Marke Antonius and Lepidus whan by their wicked shamful triumuirate they subuerted the lawes common wealthe of Rome If they had ben mooued with a good and peasible zeale as they say not sedicious with a zeale of religion and not of ambition they woulde neuer haue begon with rigorous punishement as they haue done they woulde haue cume vnarmed and presented them selues with all humility and reuerence They would haue declared the causes which moued them to mislike the decre of Ianuary They woulde haue humblye besoughte the kinge and Queene to consider with their counsel with the aduyse of the parlementes and of other estates If any other meane mighte be founde to remedie these troubles to the conseruation of Goddes honour with the sauegarde and encrease of the kinge and of this realme And in so speaking they shoulde haue shewed that they had ben ledde by none other affection but onely by the zele of their consciences But their maner of proceadinge sufficiently declareth that their religion serueth them to gette folowers and partakers and to so we strife and diuision amongest the kynges subiectes and with the one part hauing the straungers ther unto adioined to make thē selues lordes of the whole vnto whom I am constrained to say that the princes of the bloude royall vnto whom they haue euermore ben enemies and thrust them backe in al y t they might will in no wise suffer that strange nation and such as be not called to the gouernaunce shall take vppon them to make statutes and ordinaunces in this realme Moreouer they wyll and require that the churche of Rome which they call the catholicke and apostolicke Church be onely receaued and acknowledged in Fraunce and that they which professe the reformed religion be excluded from preaching receuing of the sacramentes It is a duke of Guise an out landishe prince a lorde of Montmorency and a lorde of S. Andre which make an ordinaunce contrary to the decre of Ianuarye which was agreed vpon by the king and the quene his mother the king of Nauarre the princes of the bloudd● royal with the kinges counsel forty of the chiefe of all the parlementes They be three whiche make an ordinaunce againste the requeste presented by the estates that is to say the nobility and the third estate at Orleans firste and sith at S. Germaine The whiche two estates require that it wyll please the kynges maiestie to giue and appoyncte churches for them that professe the forsaid reformed religion They are three whiche make an ordinaunce that can not be executed with out ciuile warre and with out putting the realme in daunger of euident ruine And they them selues see it and confesse it Lo thus is the realme bounde vnto them and this fruit bringeth forth their konwledge and good zeale or that I may more trulye speake their practises their conueyaunces and ambition of rule and commaundemēt ¶ The Duke of Guise and hys bretherne takinge vpon theym this enterprise to banishe awaye the professours of the refourmed religion what good zele so euer they pretend to haue can not deny but that they willingly go aboute to trouble and bring into daunger this realme wher as they se that in the lyke enterprise their matters had so euyle successe in Scotlande In the which contrey the one parte and the other liued in peace vnder the obedience of that good and vertuouse princesse the queene dowagier vnto such time as it was by the aucthoritie of the forsayd Guise published and proclaymed that the kyng minded not to permit that any other religion wer receaued in the sayde contreye but onely the religion of the churche of Rome whyche was cause that a certayne smal number of people of the common sort rise and put thēselues in armes who were by the prudēce of the saide lady and the helpe of the nobilitie within short time dispersed This beginninge might haue serued for an admonition to the sayde Guise of the daunger whiche mighte ensue of greater troubles if they geue not ouer theyr enterprise of whiche thinge yet not withstandinge they would take no regarde at all but contrarywise beinge in greater heate than euer they were theretofore writ vnto the sayde lady verye sharpe letters blaminge her for that she had vsed to much gentlenes especially in the quarell of religion And that for the amēdes of her faultes passed it was needeful that she shoulde bluddie her handes vpon them especially whiche were the chefe And for this purpose they sente vnto her the bishoppe of Amiens and M. de la Brosse whoo to declare theym selues at their firste cumminge good catholickes of the Romishe secte they woulde haue constrained euery man to cum to masse They obiected oftentimes to the said lady and to M. de Oysel that thei had marred al. They proclaymed their purpose which was that they would vse force and constraint in the matter The bishoppe of Amiens as the popes legate lokynge for the bulles of his legacie promised that he would refourme the most parte of them which he said were out of the way M. de la Brosse promised within the space of one moneth to banysh them which woulde not be refourmed And for so much as couetousenes is euermore the companion of crueltie they cast a pleasant eye vpon the landes and possessions of the nobilitie They

posteritie as the onely authours of all the harmes and inconueniences which shal chaunce both to those that be of the refourmed church and also of the church of Rome Moreouer least they should faile to cause troubles ynough they require that all officers whether they be of householde of ordinaunce of iudgement of finaunces and others hauing administration or commission likewise prelates of the church shall make confession of their fayth And they which delay or refuse the same shall be depriued of their estates and pensions and the men of the churche of their benefyces These be three priuate personnes which make a law contrary to the lawes of this realme For it hath neuer ben eyther seene or vnderstoode that the kynges heretofore haue at any tyme constrayned their subiectes to make other confessyon of their Fayth eccept onely their ordinarye beliefe or Credo This lawe is contrary to the lawes of the churche I vnder stande of the churche as they do that is taken of the general counsells and of those auncient fath●rs whiche they allowe Wherfore he who endyted theyr request who is of so great knowledge shuld haue brought some example therewith to haue cloked his wycked pourpose the whiche in dede he canne not do excepte he brynge into this realme the inquisiciō of Spain The whiche was iudged so vniust of al other nations that not one emongest them all would vse or accepte it And yf I shall say the trueth this law is the trappe whiche they hadde sette at Orleans sumwhat before the death of king Frauncis lately deceassed the which can tende to no other but to the ruine and vtter subuersion of al the kinges subiectes For the foresaid peticioners do knowe wel that there be ten thousande gentle menne and an hundreth thousand men after them able to beare armoure which neither for force nor authoritie will euer forsake the religion which they haue receaued Neyther wil they suffer that eyther preachinge administration of the sacramentes be taken from theym And the kynge beinge vnder age as he is there is no man that hathe aucthoritye to commaunde them to avoyde the realme yea they wyll defende theym selues with the sworde againste them who in this behalfe wil abuse the aucthoritie of his maiestie This great and notable companye can not be ouercome ne vanquisshed if it so come to passe which god forbidde with out the ruine of these whiche shall assayle them So that the straungers the whiche they haue already called which is treason and an offence worthy of death shal beare away the fruict of this ciuile warre And for a conclusion speakinge as I doo bothe for my selfe and for a number of great lordes of thys realme and for ten thousande gentelmen and other of oure trayne who will liue and die in thys quarrell I saye that the forsayde decree was made by thre priuate persons who by their aucthoritie haue broken them whyche were made by the kynge and hys counsell And because they woulde execute it before they had by lawful consultacion approued it they put on armure toke by force the kinges person I say moreouer that the foresaide decre is against the lawes of this realme y t custome of whole christendōe againste the decre of Ianuary against the requeste of the estates against the quietnesse securitie of the kinges subiectes agaynst the concience the honour the life goodes of an infynite nūber of honeste people who haue sought to brynge some to deathe to driue others out of their contreys vnder y t cloke pretence of cōcience and religion This decre also is made against the libertie of going to the general counsell The which he that gaue thē the aduise should haue better marked For if it be sayd that in thys realme suche confession of faythe as they require shall be made with declaracion of maintenaunce of the doctryne and ceremonyes of the churche of Rome it is a sentence geuen against them of the refourmed churche wherfore neyther our ministers nor the ministers of other nations muste not go to the generall counsel seing they are condemned before they be hearde But before that the saide duke of Guise and the Cardinall his brother can sette foorth this decree of confession they muste renounce a number of artycles of the confession of August which they agreed vpon at Sauerne and promised a great prince of Almaine that they would cause theym to be obserued in Fraunce And if they wil denie this let them put it in writinge and they shal be answered by them vnto whom they made the promise The saide Cardinall must also put in writinge that it may be sen and publisshed whether he remaine in the same minde the whiche he ones hertofore declared vnto the quene in the presence of a great sorte of honest● men touching the articles of transubstanciacion of the keeping and bearing of the holy sacrament of Iustification of the innocation of Saintes of purgatorye of Images of al whiche articles he spoke contrary to the opinion of his catholike apostolike Romishe Churche ¶ In the request not muche after thys is made mencion of the breakynge of Images And requeste is made by theym that presented it that the damages shoulde be recompensed and the offendors punished Where vnto I will aunswere this worde that the bloudde of them who breoke the foresayde Images the whiche was shedde by the handes of certayne of oure retinue who woulde haue stayed them and syth by auctoritie of iustice in the same place of Orleans wyll beare wytnesse euermore before god and before men howe greatly suche executions done by the ignoraunte people alwayes myslyked me for manye respectes and specially because the same was contrary to the decree of Ianuary also to an assosiatiō which we had caused be published a fewe dayes before But if the breakynge of Images deserne any restitution and punishemente because it is done contrary to the kynges ordynaunce what punishement loke they for who garnyshe them selues so well with the name of the kyng for the murthers the which partely by thē selues and partely by their example and motion haue ben committed at Uassy at Sens at Castesna de Arry and at Angiers In whiche places it is well knowen that betwixt men women there haue ben slayne aboue v. hundreth persones for none other occasiō but for religion He who made the request should haue examyned his owne conscience and haue acknowledged that it is not found y t the deade image did euer crye vengeaunce but the bloude of man which is the liuely image of god requireth it in heauen as it were pullith causith it to come at y t lēgth although it be for a time let passe ¶ Than the peticioners or that I may speake more truely the commaunders require that their armure shalbe taken from them who haue borne the same withoute the expresse commaundement of the kinge of Nauarre and that they whyche haue worn armure in that manner