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A02956	The declarations as vvell of the French King, as of the King of Nauarre Concerning the truce agreed vpon betwene their Maiesties: and touching the passage of the riuer of Loire.	France. Sovereign (1574-1589 : Henry III); Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589.; Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.; Navarre (Kingdom). Sovereign (1572-1610 : Henry III). aut	1589 (1589)	STC 13098.8; ESTC S103953	13,845	26

king REVOL And sealed vpon a single lable with the great seale in yealow waxe A DECLARATION OF THE KING OF NAVARRE VPON THE treatise of the Truce made betweene the French king and the said L. king of Nauarre HEnrie by the grace of God King of Nauarre first Prince of the bloud chiefe Péere and protector of the reformed churches of Fraunce c. To all Gouernors of Prouinces Captains of townes cities fortresses and castles Chieftaines and leaders of men of warre Maiors Consuls and sworne men of townes Iustices and officers as well of our soueraigne Lord the king as to all others to whom it may appertaine that are vnder our authoritie and protection Gréeting Whereas it is wel knowen to all men that we neuer tooke or retayned armes in this miserable warre but so farre as necessitie enforced vs Also that we haue by our actions sufficiently testified our extreame sorow séeing our selues entangled and bound thereto through the malice of the enemies of this Realme On the other side the desire that we had to be able to serue his Maiestie against them for the reestablishing of his authoritie and the rest and tranquilitie of his good Subiectes yet such was the mischiefe that our good meaning was by sundrie sleights disguised the bad mindes of the said enemies so farre cloaked vnder beautifull and fauourable pretences that this Realme was brought to the point of ineuitable ruine had not the wisdome of our said soueraign Lord the king sundrie times contraried and crossed with infinite lets bene sufficient to discerne our innocencie from among their slaunders he had not also euen through their coulors and dissimulations espied their inueterate malice And it is most euident that this warre begun vnder colour of religiō is euen at once found to be méere warre of estate That those of the League are not gone to séek or assaile those of the religion which we professe but haue abused both the weapons and authoritie which were to that end deliuered vnto them to get such townes of this realme as were farthest of and least suspected for religion as litle also haue they employed their preachers in the conuersion of those whom they did pretend to be hereticks but contrariwise they haue vsed them in all townes to the subuersion of this realme as firebrandes to kindle the estate to suborne the subiects against their prince to make them reiect all obedience to their magistrates to frame them to seditions and alterations without any respect to confound all things both diuine and humaine whereby haue happened to the great griefe of all good men an incredible reuolt throughout this nation against our soueraigne Lord the king and consequently such a confusion in sundry townes and prouinces that the pretended shadow of piety and iustice hath quite extinguished the body the feare of God the reuerence of his true image and the lawfull and soueraigne Magistrate by him instituted in these extremities wherevpon acknowledging our duetie vnto our said soueraigne Lord the King and euen from the bottome of our hart bewayling the calamitie of this estate and people we haue withdrawen our selues vnto his Maiestie and at his féete presented him our liues and goods to assist him against his enimies for the reestablishment of his authoritie and his good subiects Protesting as before we had done to intend to no other but his seruice as also euery man may iudge that if we had otherwise meant we had fit occasiō to helpe our selues by the publike miseries who did vs this honor to acknowledge vs willingly to accept of our good willes also to the end to giue vs better means to serue him he resolued vpon a Truce or abstinence of warre with all hostilitie whereof we hope through Gods helpe of a good peace to ensue Therefore that wée giue you to wit and to all and euery of you which acknowledge our authoritie and protection and that haue and doe follow that part which we vphold euery one for himselfe that we haue treated decreed and concluded with our soueraigne Lord the King vpon a truce or abstinence generall from armes throughout this land for one whole yeare to begin the third day of Aprill and to end vpon the like day as well the one as the other therein concluded Wherein also our meaning is to comprise the state and Countie of Venise with the subiects thereof as being vnder the protection of our said soueraigne Lord the King so consequently we doo forbid all persons of whatsoeuer estate or calling not to attēpt or enterprise against those places where his Maiesties authoritie is acknowledged neither against the said state or Countie of Venise or in any other place or places where we shall enter passe by or soiourne expresly cōmanding that there be nothing enterprized against his good and loyal subiects no not against the Clergie neither to innouate or interrupt any thing concerning the Catholike Romane religiō as also in case by Gods grace we enter whether by surprize force or otherwise into any hold or towne occupied by the enimies our meaning is there shall be no alteration in the seruice or other matter belonging to the said Catholike Romane religion according as more at large haue by vs béene concluded with our soueraigne Lord the King Also whereas in consequence of the premisses it hath pleased his Maiestie to graunt and yéeld a generall enioyment of their goods to all those of the religion which we do professe and others of this partie to enioy the same during this present truce our intent reciprocally is that al his good subiects as well of the Clergie as other shall enioy their goods and reuenues during the same in those places that we doe hold whereof besides these presents we will dispatch them all letters necessary Moreouer we commaund you euery of you so farre as to him appertaineth to cause these presents to be read published inrolled kept and obserued in euery point according to their forme and tenure ceasing and causing to cease al troubles and impeachments to the contrarie In witnesse whereof we haue caused these Presents signed with our owne hande to be sealed with our Seale of armes Giuen at Saulmur this 24. of April in the yere of grace 1589. Thus signed HENRY And vnderneath BERSIAV And sealed vpon a single lable with the said Lordes great seale in redde waxe THE KING OF NAVARRES DECLARATION AT THE PASSAGE OF THE RIVER of Loire for the seruice of his Maiestie the 18. of Aprill 1589. HEnry by the grace of God king of Nauarre c. To all those to whom these presents shall come gréeting As it hath pleased God to cause vs to be borne first Prince of the bloud and chief Péer of Fraunce whom nature hath taught to defend his king law and duetie do bind to maintaine the Estate of this Realm and that it may be apparant by the effects knowē to euery one that the disturbers whatsoeuer pretence they take

do not liue other then in it must runne to ruine It is very easie to desire a crowne it is very easie for a people moued and passionate against their Prince to thinke vpon the alteration of the Estate Betwéene an ambitious desire and the accomplishment thereof betwéene your hasty choller 's and your reuenges so far of how many daies workes and battels what plenty of bloud sacke and misery the ages of the world will not suffise to decide this quarrell the sonne will take the fathers place and the brother the brothers you shall make a perpetuall confusion to the posteritie which shall curse the memory of your madnesse And how much more conuenient for you were it to abridge so many calamities with a peace a peace which out of the darke Chaos wherein you haue plunged your selues might reduce you into the light which might restore you to your selues to your nature to your sences which might deliuer you out of these disquietnesses wherein you are frō this labyrinth wherinto you are entered which you do wel déeme you can not get out of whereof in the meane while you sée not the end a peace which might replant euery one in that he loueth might restore to the husbandmā his plough to the artificer his shop to the marchant his traffick to the countrie assurance to the townes gouernment to all men indifferently vpright iustice a peace that might returne you the kings fatherly loue to him the obedience fidelitie that you owe him to be briefe a peace that might render to this estate both soule and body the body which through these ambitious is haled in a thousand péeces the soule I meane the good order that hath preserued it which from the highest degrée to the lowest runneth all to confusion These things considered euery one sounding the very bottome whether it be the euil that he doth himselfe or that he is to suffer in these confusions we assure our selues that they who hitherto haue persisted in their dueties to his Maiestie will double their affections and courage to serue him from good to better against his enimies that they who vnder simplicity haue let themselues run into their practises would not be instruments of their owne destruction by vndermining the foundation of this estate to pull it vpō their owne heads but will rather abandon so bad a faction haue recourse to his Maiesties clemency who still kéepeth the gate open to all that séeke it As for such as obstinately shall persist enemies to the king to this Realme to their owne good as they shall most iustly purchace Gods wrath the hatred of man so are they to expect no other but a fearefull iudgement from aboue worthy their merites which God for his mercy hasten vpon the obstinate to the abridging of so many mischiefs and miseries to the weale peace quiet of so many poore people In respect of our selfe we protest that ambition armeth vs not sufficiētly haue we shewed that we do despise it it is honour enough to vs to be that we are neither can the honour of this Estate perish but we must decay And so litle God is our witnesse are we lead by reuēge that none hath receaued more wrongs iniuries thē we neither hath any hitherto made lesse pursuite neither shal any be more liberall to forgiue the enemies if they amend in any case that may cōcerne the tranquilite peace of France That which afflicteth vs which we can neither sée nor foresée without teares is that this Estate shal be brought to that point that its harme is so growen and stubburne that it can not be holpen without great mischief From these mischiefes doo we protest against the wound and those that made it he that made the wound is guiltie of the fire the corosiue the incisions and the griefes that necessarilie they make It sufficeth and euery one may sée it that in that little which we may we bring the care of the good surgeon that loueth the patient The enemies in deede that loue the disease will besides the iron bring both hatred fraud as they that cā haue no contentatiō but in their ambition ouer this estate neither can they content thmselues but in her sinall death a death which we will redéeme with the price of our life and all our goods But rather as we trust in God the preseruer of kings and kingdoms we shal shortly as the fruite of our labours sée the king in his due authority whereto he is borne and the Realme in like force and dignitie as heretofore to the contentment of all good Frenchmen the comfort of such numbers of poore people the hart breaking of such as doe couet the ruine thereof We doe therefore beséech the Lordes of the Courtes of Parlement all gouernors lieutenants generall of the prouinces chambers of accompts courts of aides treasourers generall of Fraunce prouostes bailiffes seneschalles iudges maiors sheriffes iurats consuls headboroughs bodies and communalties of townes and all other iustices and officers my Lord the Kings subiectes to assist fauour leane vnto vs for the benefite of his affaires and seruice For such is our desire Giuen at Saulmur the eighteenth of Aprill 1589. Thus signed HENRIE By the king of Nauarre first Prince of the bloud and chiefe Peere of Fraunce DEVICOSE FINIS

aduanced his forces néere to this towne whither we were come vpon the first day of his said exploits to the ende to take what order we could for the stopping of him from procéeding any farther Thus in the end knowing our selues vnable to performe with our weapons at such time as we were vpon necessitie to employ them in the preseruation and defence of our owne person together withour said good subiects and seruants against the rage and violence of the said rebels whom we found inflexible to any conditions of reconciliation vpon such motions as we had caused to be made vnto them and againe considering that albeit ourselues did know that he sought not as they to assault our life and authoritie yet our said good subiects might neuerthelesse be greatly molested by his weapōs in case we tooke not from him all occasion to employ them according as the present estate of the affaires of this Realme did minister oportunitie and on the otherside being vrged pressed by the cries and complaints of our prouinces molested by his partakers to prouide some remedy and that rather by some surcease of hostility then otherwise without the which their force failing for to defend thēselues togither with the meanes to entertaine men of warre all hope of ability to sustaine their liues families was taken from them and some of them constrained through the violence of the euill had of themselues compounded already All these said reasons by vs brought into deliberation with the princes of our bloud the officers of our Crowne and others of our Counsaile about vs among these extremities we could find no other meanes then to take and yéeld to our said subiects some release from warres on the behalfe of the sayd King of Nauarre And therefore to the same effect wée haue graunted to him for himselfe and all his partakers a Truce and abstinence of warre and of all hostilitie according to his request vnto vs made in acknowledgement of his duetie toward vs and being moued with compassion for the miseries whereunto this realme is now brought which moueth all such as yet retaine the feeling of good Frenchmen to helpe to quench the fire of diuision that consumeth it and still threatneth the vtter ruine thereof wherefro we neuerthelesse hope that God of his goodnesse will yet preserue vs to his glory against the driftes and endeuours of those who for their priuate ambition do desire and prosecute the dissipation thereof which Truce and abstinence from armes we meane shal be generall throughout our Realme for the space of one whole yeare beginning the third of this present moneth and ending at the like day including both the one the other for all our good and faithfull subiects that acknowledge our authoritie yelding vs their due obedience as also for the state of Auignon and Countie of Venise appertaining to our holy Father the Pope whom we will to be therein comprised and that his said subiectes may enioy it as being vnder our protection with this charge and condition besides promised by the said king of Nauarre who hath vndertaken for all his partakers that he shall not during the said Truce employ his power or armies in any place either within or without this Realme without our commaundemēt or consent That he shall not enterprise or suffer to be enterprised or attempted any thing in such place places of the coūtreys where our authoritie is acknowledged And that wheresoeuer he shall passe or soiourne except in those places which he held before the day aforesaid he shall not change or permit any change or alteration in matter concerning the Catholicke Apostolicke and Romane Religion neither that any harme or molestation be offered to our Catholicke subiects Clergie-men or others that abide faithfull vnto vs or are good seruaunts either in their persons goods or otherwise howsoeuer that if during this warre he or his do take any townes castles or other places by force surprise or intelligence either do enter in what sorte soeuer he shall immediatly leaue permit them to be in our frée disposition according as he hath promised vs. That in respect of the premisses the said king of Nauarre and his partakers shall haue the benefite of their goods and the same to enioy so long as the said Truce shall continue As also interchangeably they shall permit the Catholicks both Clergie men others our good seruaunts to enioy their goods and reuenewes in those places that they do hold We farther will command you that euery one of you so farre as it may concerne him to obserue and procure the obseruing of the said Truce and abstinence of armes with all the contents aboue mentioned from point to point according to the forme and tenour thereof without gainsaying or suffering any gainsaying of the same Also to procure these presentes to be read published and enrolled according as néed shall require to the end no man pretend any cause of ignoraunce By the which we protest that beside so much as concerneth the defence of our person and estat against the violence of the said rebells we haue bene also moued to make and agrée to the said Truce for the benefite that redoundeth to our Catholicke Apostolicke Romane Religion and the relief of our good subiects as thereby hauing stopped the progresse which the king of Nauarre his partakers without this present remedy might haue made to the great detriment of our Religiō the oppressiō of our said good subiects whilest our forces occupied about the effect aforesaid could not haue bene opposed against him We do moreouer protest against the said rebells for their infringing of the vnion of all Catholicke subiectes sworne and confirmed to vs by the Deputies of our Generall Estates in their last assembly as also we vrge them to reioyne themselues vnder our authoritie for the preseruation and aduauncement of the Catholicke Apostolicke and Romane Religion for that they onely are guiltie before God of all the calamitie that may ensue of the said deuision to the preiudice of his honour and his holy Church whereof the warre that they make against vs is the onely cause Remaining for our owne part fully resolued neuer to depart from any one poinct that may appertaine to the preseruation and exaltation of the said Catholicke Apostolick and Romane Religion and to perseuere in this holy entent through Gods grace which we continually implore to our helpe for this effect vnto the last gaspe of our life And for asmuch as in many and diuerse places they may haue néede of these presentes wée will that vpon the sight thereof being duely examined by one of our welbeloued and trustie Notaries or Secretaries credit be giuen therto as to this present original For such is our pleasure Giuen at Tours the sixt and twentieth of April in the yere of grace one thousand fiue hundred foure score and nine And of our reigne the fifteenth Thus Signed HENRY And vnderneath By the