Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	henry_n	king_n	navarre_n	3,463	5	11.5896	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20216	An answeare to the supplication Against him, who seeming to giue the King counsel to become a Catholike, indeuoureth to stirre vp his good subiectes vnto rebellion. Faithfully translated out of French by E.A.	Aggas, Edward.	1591 (1591)	STC 664; ESTC S115374	30,730	40

a matter of death and you may peraduenture haue deserued the same punishment as Calisthenes he for complayning foolishly and out of season of Alexanders new alteration of the auncient fashions of Gréece you for complaining of the king for not altering his olde religion for an other that shall be new vnto him For to tell you plainely what opinion many haue of you they say that it is the very counsel of one who seeming to loue the king loueth him not or studying vppon his preseruation endeuoureth to destroy him And at one word that your Supplication is the counsell of a wicked Leaguer yet for my part I doe for your excuse tell them that if it includeth any mischiefe the same procéedeth not of any your hatred against the king but of too much loue to your selfe Had I accesse to the kings eare and were I as a state man to counsel him I would not wish him to become a Catholike yet but to stay vntill hée had ouercome his affaires Neither is there any better meane to lincke vnto vs a Countrey that we haue but lately conquered then by purchasing fauour of the people which may be kept by embracing their religion vnlesse we be so strong as without alteration we may commaund the same This is the counsel that speaking as a worldly wise man I woulde giue my king But let vs I pray you returne vnto God who should be our Weathercocke and without whom we cannot arriue in any good hauen I haue suffered my selfe at vnawares to be carried away with the waues of this world All this worldly wisedome is but folly before God Where you doe wish the king to become a Catholike without laying his hand vpon his heart you doe it to no other end say you but to procure him to raigne in assurance ouer his people and to bring peace to his realme though not to his soule What wil you say if I shew you both with the finger and eye that through euen palpable and visible miracles of God al things haue gone against the haire with such Catholikes I wil not séeke out of France neyther from the quarrell that hath béen among vs these thirty yeares and the liuing God I take to witnesse that no passion maketh me to vtter that which I do mind to speake but euen a desire to open the eies of the blind It can not be denied but that the duke of Guise father to the last deceased also the last deceased were great warriors bolde and as valiant as might be Lordes that accompanied their valour with al humane wisedome wherein both they and the Duke of Mayenne alwayes lodged this proposition That they woulde not vse our religion any further then the commodity of their affaires did commaund for their owne aduancement and greatnesse I wil beginne with the father and his brother the Cardinall of Loraine So soone as King Henry the second was dead seized vpon his sonne the young king Frances by a title of _____ because he had married their neece and withall estranged from his presence the princes of his blood and officers of the Crowne namely that wise Constable Montmorencie who was in so great fauour with the former king his master from whom not content with that disgrace they tooke the state of great Maister which he had inioyed euer since the decease of René of Sauoy his father in law This tyranny was euident for all the affaires of France passed through the hands of these two brethren who abused the kings name and youth at their pleasures Many good Frenchmen vnable to beare that tiranny conspired against them The King then soiourned sometimes at Chenonceau sometimes at Ambois The whole communalty swarmed thither insending to banish these our newe Maisters and to present a Supplication to the king for the establishing of a lawfull counsell of the Princes of the bloud and officers of the crowne about his person I thinke there was I wot not what of the newe religion among for I will not in any wise falsifie this historie Their mishap was such that they were discouered by one Desauenelles an aduocate who was of that faction by whom the Guises were aduertised that the peoples quarrell was against them The enterprize thus discouered the principalles were apprehended at the Castell of Noisé and the common people vpon the hie waies who had their directions to méete at Ambois Nowe I beséech you vnderstand what wisedome in mans sense these two brethren vsed to maintaine themselues in their vsurped authoritie Also how in the end God turned al their deuises into smoke Because this history deserueth to be knowen to al so soone as these poore men were taken they are made to beléeue that they came with intent to seize vpon the kinges person and to take him prisoner Their processe is by and by made and briefly finished by a Maister of requestes Mazere Castelnaw Noize and Renne the principall enterprisers are beheaded in the market place of Amboise Renaudy whome Pardillan slew in the fieldes after his death is quartered and made an example and of their followers an infinit number some drowned by heapes others hanged ouer the Castell walles This first stone thus cast for a foundation to their building they considered that this enterprise must procéede from some higher hand Also that in such affaires after they had put in vre the first exemplary punishement against the chiefest offendors it was requisite to pardon the rest of the commons and yet in any wise not to spare the heades of the greatest and Authors That if any had cause to mislike the then gouernement it was the princes of the bloud to whom this charge appertained during the minoritie of the king whome a marriage could make no wiser then his age and therefore by a braue pollicy they were wise enough for propounding their owne interest so that laying downe only the honor of God and the king after the executions at Amboise they publish a generall pardon to all the common people that had consented to this conspiracy wherby no man should afterward be molested therefore They create a new guard of French harquebuziers about the kings person whose Capitains being at their deuotion was an ordinary assurance for them to and against all men Vnderhand they gather informations against the heades of this conspiracy not naming any They fortefie the high wayes to Ambois and Orleance with men of armes so to preuent all newe commotions that might spring out of Guyenne because at that time the late Lord prince of Conde was retired into Bearne with his brother the king of Nauarre who were the men against whom they layde all their snares At Fountain-bel-eau they procure the creation of 17. new knights of the order of saint Michael therein violating all auntient order for before they neuer created aboue one or two at the most at once and that very seldome and with great consideration But these were so many bound vnto them and props

for their tyranny in time to come Thence they lead the king to Paris where they do cause him to take assurance of fidelitie of the prouost of Merchants and Sheriffes of the towne to himselfe Al these preparatiues thus made they bring him to Orleance where they decrée vpon commaundementes throughout all France for the assembly of the estates as knowing very well that the deputies do neuer yéelde but where force and authority commandeth them albeit men be perswaded that the same is the vpholding of the peoples libertie Withall they dispatch many missiues in the kings name to the king of Nauarre the Prince of Conde the Constable and the Admirall to come to him to Orleance pretending these commaundements vpon his desire that they should be assistant to this assembly Euery wise man iudged that there was some notable tragedis to be played at the costes of these poore lords for the perpetuall establishment of the house of Guise The Constable hauing some inkling made but slowe haste The king of Nauarre and the lord prince after many reiterated commandements arriued at the towne of Poytiers where they had the first aduertisement of the kings discontentmēt against them but withall at the same instant they were so inuested by the Marshall of Lermes with two companies of men of armes that they could not possibly returne backe againe At their comming to Orleance the lord prince was committed to safe custody and certaine Iudges were expressely sent for from Paris to frame his inditement As for the king of Nauarre they searched so narrowly into his actions that there was no great difference betweene Garde and Regarde The prince perceiuing that it was a match set in hand by the Lorraines for his destruction vnder the borrowed name of the king beganne to linger matters craued distribution of counsell alleadged that he being a prince of the bloud was not to bée iudged by Commissioners but by the whole body of a Court of Parliament But they spurred him so neare that the defences which he propounded were taken for an affected contumacie In the meane time the deputies came in apace which was so prouided to the end that after the indictment had bin fully framed this poore prince who had erred in nothing but in neglecting to withstand their tyranny might haue bin condemned to death not only by a Parliament that should haue béene brought for the nonce but also by the thrée estates of France This once obtained I wote not what should haue become of the king of Nauarre whome at that time all men so forsooke that such as in heart were his humble and affectionat seruants durst not so much as by a winke of the eie be acknowne thereof Was there euer enterprise guided with more worldly wisedome then this Let vs therefore sée the ende Euen when they were ready to smite and that to that effect they were about to remoue the king out of that towne to Chenonceau to the ende he being absent the said L. prince might haue no recourse to his mercy The king booted and spurred and ready to take horse beganne to finde himselfe ill at ease and to be shorte died within lesse then 4. daies Then euen in the twinkling of an eie all the purposes of these two brethren were turned to nothing The bondmen to the court gaue them ouer and drewe to the K. of Nauarre Him did the estates pronounce the kings lieutenant generall ouer all France during the minority of king Charles the 9. Also the L. prince plainetife in a declaration of innocencie by a decrée of Parliament in scarlet robes obtaineth his ful demaunde All that the two brethren had as yet compassed were state blowes but this was a maisters blowe I speake of that maister who laugheth those to scorne that with mans wisedome make a scorne of him For had they not euen with holberds fetcht the king of Nauarre euery man iudgeth that considering his nature he would hardly haue come vnto the court or if he had come it would haue bin with such delaies that in the meane time the others might very easly haue continued their authority about the Q. mother a forren princesse who without the assistance of the princes of the blood had had no great power to withstand them Now will you aske me what correspondence this example hath with the state catholike whome I detest Very great for I aduow and aduowing am not deceiued that neyther of these two brethren troubled his head with any other religion then such as they thought might serue to the aduancement and progresse of the greatnesse of their famely For they were the first that counseled king Henry the second to become protector of the Dutch Nation that is of the Germans religion against Charles the fift and forced the parlement to verefie this braue title This that I say is no fable hatched with my quil for there is none that liued in those daies but knew it neyther concealed they it but accompted it as a matter that they thought might turn to their honor If these our Maisters had bin so zealous to the Romish church as since they would haue made vs beléeue would they haue iustified this iourney into Germany which was the first ruine of our Fraunce Woulde they not rather haue gainesaide it by humble Supplications declaring vnto the king that such a protection was formally as they thought repugnant to the honour of God and his Church But they maintained the contrary as weening so both to purchase their masters fauour and withal to benefit themselues about him as indéede they did For the Duke of Guise the father neuer purchased so much honour as in the Towne of Metz when hee withstoode the fiege against the Emperour Charles the fift This is the reason that I haue noted this example against all Macheuels schollers I will not beléeue you to be anie who care not what the kings religion be so he may content his people I will yet stay vpon the same example for how long soeuer I make this discourse yet wil it be but too briefe to roote out this wretched opinion It is a principle of estate that you neuer suffer a Prince your neighbour to growe too mighty but if your selfe be not strong enough to withstande him you must enter league with other princes and common-wealths weaker then your selfe A principle very familiar with the princes of Italy which they haue bin ready enough to put in practise all and euery time that we haue passed the Mounts for the recouery of the state of Naples or Millaine In those dayes did we sée the Emperor Charles the fift grow mighty by the ouerthrow of all the protestant princes whom he had discomfited in a pitcht fielde and had taken prisoners the D. of Saxony and the Lantgraue of Hesse Hereupon had they recourse to our K. and put themselues into his protection He tooke their quarrell in hand to the ende to stoppe the course of the Emperours purposes