Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	france_n	king_n	navarre_n	4,410	5	11.4462	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06377	A declaration made by my lord prince of Conde, for to shew and declare the causes, that haue co[n]strained him to take vpon him the defence of the Kinges authoritie of the gouernement of the Queene, and of the quietness of this realme, with the protestation therevpon requisite	Condé, Louis, prince de, 1530-1569.	1562 (1562)	STC 16849.3; ESTC S107741	8,634	30

the which distourbers and disquyeters of thys realme breakers of the decrees and ordenances of all the estates he entendeth with al his companye to bestowe and to spend hys body and goodes vnto his last breath as a good and faithefull subiecte and seruant of the crowne of Fraunce and specially beinge of the house of Fraunce Also bycause the sayde men wyll not fayle to abuse the auctorye of the king and y e Quene whom they kepe in a myserable and vnworthye Captiuitye for to serue their owne turnes agaynste the faythefull and trustye subiectes of his maiestie For this cause the sayde lord prince protesteth and declareth presently that he wil not credyte any letters messages cōmandemētes decres ordenances whatsoeuer they be made by the sayde men vnder the name of hys mayestie For asmuche as it is well knowen that they shall be forced and gotten by manifeste violence agaynst all lawe of God and man For that accepted the lorde prynce wyl neuer giue place to any mā lyuinge in the humble obedience that he oweth and wyll giue to his maiestie and to the Queene hys mother More as touching the king of Nauare his brother the sayde Lorde Prynce protesteth that wyth the band of brotherly loue y e particuler respect that he oweth vnto him he meaneth to acknowledge hī after the order and degree that he hath in this realme with all obedience next to the king and Queene whiche by the common consent of the states the agrement of the Prynces of the bloode royall the approbation of the parlements of Fraunce hath receyued y e gouernance of this realme as also he is assured y t the sayd kinge of Nauarre consyderinge these foresayd thinges will haue suche regard to it as reason and the present necessyte requireth The which also the sayd lord prince moste humbly and moste instantely besecheth him to doe Also the sayd lord prince to shewe that he speaketh syncerly and truely protesteth presently that in steade of comminge to hande strokes he is ready to vnarme him selfe vpō these conditions folowing whiche are so reasonable y t they cannot be refused but of those that prefer their owne gayne before the quyetnesse of thys realme That is to weete that the king and quene y e Duke of orleans my lord chauncelour and other of y e counsell be firste of all set agayne at suche libertie safftye as they ought to be which thing cānot be done vntill all weapons be laid asyde vnder the name of the king in the hands of others than of those which folow the sayde men of the counsel holden at Paris Further more that the sayd of the house of Guise the constable marshall of S. Andre be sent agayne to their houses that they haue a daye and place appointed them to come appeare before y e king and the quene to offer themselues w t al humilite as they ought to do for to render a reason of this that is before sayd likewise of that which was layd against them before by the estates of thys realme For y e which it is moste reasonable necessarye that prouisyon be made by the kīg the quene And the sayde lord prince for his part offreth likewise to make accompt and to Iustifie him selfe of all y t men can laie to his charge or to them of hys companye whan and before whome it shall appartayne gyuen at Orleans the seuen daye of Aprill in the yere of our Lord. 1562. Sygned Loys of Bourbon Prynted at London by Rouland Hall for Edvvard Sutton dvvellyng in Loumbarde strete at the signe of the Cradell 1562.

thinges it can not be nor ought to be estemed other than a takynge and captiuitie of them and that y e most hurtful most miserable and shamefull that euer chaunced or coulde chaunce to this Realme And vppon this it maye please the Queene mother to remember the admonicion and counsell that was gyuen her by a certen Portugal together with a man of Spaine another sent out of Sauoye as touching y t which she nowe at this day feeleth findeth true to the great and extreme greefe of her most obedyent subiects seruaunts And to thintent that this may be yet better knowen and vnderstode of all true subiectes and faithful seruants The said lord prince besides that he declareth things past desyreth al mē to be aduertised of the enterprises which is very easy to coniecture and gather which the fordsaid men doe pretend to execute to the intent that if they be put in effect by thē no mā can doubte but y t they are very enemies to the king and to his crowne and on the other side if there be other let them haue so much the more certaine meanes to declare shewe it in abstaining frō suche enterprises That is that hauing beset and then caried to Meleum y e kinge the quene the yong duke of Orleans and those which they thought good with armed men to enioye them at their pleasure they entend to helpe them selues with their authoritie against the saide Lorde prince and all other which withstand and resist theyr enterprises declarynge them culpable of that which they them selues haue alreadye partlye executed and done and whereof the sayde lorde Prynce neede not take the payne to excuse him selfe seynge the experience and profe sheweth sufficientlye that all the dayes of his lyfe he hath myslyked and despysed all that they haue sought and sewed for that haue growen and encreased so sone into such an honour greatnesse that there is none but Iudgeth with al the states of this realme that it is muche more reasonable to demande of them the cause of it than it can be easye for them to giue a reason why And if the sayde Duke of Guyse with his fynde themselues vnfaulty in this behalf they shall do much for them to purge themselues of it according to y e request that y e estats haue made therin in steade of troublynge both heauen and earth and to gyue this occasyon to men to thynke that they feare nothing more than to enter into this matter The occasyon of that counsell is euydente ynoughe to weete to the intente that all lettes beynge taken awaye they myghte dispose rule the realme of Fraūce at their pleasure and for asmuch as to attayne to these ende and purposes they knowe they muste haue other ayde and shores men saye that their drift and policie is to roote vp and destroy all those of the reformed churches that is to say all thei that resist them in makynge a certayne newe decree at theyr owne wyll by the meanes of certain hyred and suborned persons as well of the Parlement of Paris as of elles where to the intent that the other parte shoulde bee as it were indebted to them in ruynynge at the least halfe the realme for to haue it rather half at their desyre than to see it enioye whollye the quietnes and reste so muche desyred of all good men and as reiected of those whiche neuer made their profit but with the losse and domage of another man and of the ruine of the commons THE protestation THese things consydered wyth many other whiche time shall discouer y t said lord prince protesteth this that foloweth before the king y e quene and the states of this realme with y e realmes potentates lordes frendes and allyes of thys Crowne and generally before all Chrystendome First that the onely consideration of that which he owyth to god and to his churche with the zeale y t he hath particularly to y e crowne of Fraunce vnder the gouernemēt of the quene and finally the hartye affection that he beareth to the quietnes and tranquillity of this realme cōstraine him to seke all lawful meanes according to gods lawe mans according to the order and decre y t he hath in thys realme for to delyuer oute of Captiuitie the persō of the king of y e quene his mother my lordes her children and to maintain y e keping of y e kings decres ordenāces and specially vp on y e matter of religiō set vp made by y e aduise of the princes of y e bloude ryall lords of the coūsel presydentes and conselours of the parlements sauing the said men of y e house of guise which now will trust beleue their owne particular aduises It cannot fayle to be such as mē se it to be if it were no more but to iustify y e cruelty more than barbarous which was cōmytted in the sayd place of Wassye Also the said lord prince with a good nūber of other prīces knights lords of the counsel captaines gentillmē men of warre mē of Iustice lawe marchants and men of the three estates of this realme moste affectuously besecheth and requireth with all his hart all good faithful trusty subiects and seruants of his maiestie carefully and diligētly to see reade and way al these foresaid things for feare that lest vnwares in steade of succoring and ayding the kynge the quene my lords her children in their captiuitie they be by y e practises and false aduertisements of the enemies of y e peace tranquillitie of this realme brought to be y e ministers of y e destructiō of y e same And to preuent and w tstand these things he prayeth them to help him and to staye vp the crowne of Fraūce now fallen downe if god of his infinite mercy lifte it not vp again whervnto after hauīg called vpō his grace he craueth y e aide y e assistance fauour of al kīgs prīces and potentates alyes confederates of this crowne the w c he taketh al for beholders wyttnesses and Iudges of his fidelite integryte in the cōseruation of the state of y e kinge whose inuocencye full of al good hope hath not deserued to be ī captiuity of those which by y e benefites of his predecessours fathers haue bene raysed vp in authorite so that now they shuld so manifestly conspire y e ruyne of the sōne of the quene his mother of al the estates of this realme Moreouer by thys present protestation he meaneth wyth all his companye to declare hym selfe pure and innocent of the bloud shed and of the calamites and myseryes wherwyth this realme is threatned throughe the partyculare ambytyon of those which hauing nothing to doe but to looke to the gouernement of thys realme are comme vnto it them selues by armes for to chase them oute whom both goddes lawe and mans dyd call vnto and which were borne counselours Against the violence of