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A01143	Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, to ioyne together, and take armes speedily (by commandement of the King) against theeues and robbers, which are now abroade ruining the poore people setting downe an order and policie how they should take armes, to auoide all disorder and confusion amongst them. Whereunto is adioyned, a declaration published by the Duke de Mont-pencier for the reclaiming of the cleargie and nobilitie of Normandie, vnto his Maiesties obedience, &c. With certaine newes of the ouerthrow of the Gautiers, and diuerse other rebels against the French King, by the said Duke of Mont-pencier, on the sixt, and on the twentieth daie of Aprill. 1589. Translated out of the French into English, by I. Eliote.	Eliot, John.; Montpensier, François de Bourbon, duc de. Copie d'une lettre contenant le progres des choses advenues au voyage de duc de Montpensier. English.	1589 (1589)	STC 11256; ESTC S120926	33,284	60

boūd vnto him cōditionally that our obligatiōs were limited according to his good wicked life moreouer they stop and take vp cause to be taken vp the taxes tributes due to their king yet we read in S. Mat. 22 that on a time the Pharisies and Herodians seeking to entrappe our Sauiour Iesus Christ went to find him out and vsed these speaches vnto him Maister tell vs is it lawfull to pay tribute vnto Cesar or not Shew me sayeth he the tribute money and they gaue him a peny Then he asked them whose image and superscription is this And they answered him Caesars then quoth he giue vnto Caesar those things which are Caesars vnto God those things which are Gods See then who tels them that they do not well to saise vpon the tribute of the King What are they able to answere him It is Iesus Christ himselfe that speaketh those wordes and yet he of whom hee spoke beleeued not in him Was there euer anietyrant more detestable then Nabuchodonozer who hauing forced the Citie of Ierusalem spoiled wasted and razed the houses and wals thereof burned the temple defiled the sanctuarie of God and more than all this caused an image of golde made after his owne likenes to be erected worshipped vpon paine of being burned aliue to those that would refuse the same yet God called him his seruant promised to make him a greate Prince and gouernour And the Prophet commanded the people to praie for this monster of nature and for his children that they might raigne after him as long as the worlde should stand Let vs proceede and see more particularly what the Apostles and other Saintes doe teach vs concerning the obedience that we owe vnto our Kings and Princes that she may certainly knowe if it be lawfull according to Gods lawes to warre against our King or not or if you ought not notwithstanding your mutinous preachers to keepe inuiolablie the fidelitie that is due vnto him for this is the chiefest point that you ought to know perfitly before you take armes to make choice of the best and surest side for that in arming your selues it most necessarie to choose out some side to ioyne vnto if you couet to hinder these great maisters amongest you from quartering out the estate which they would easily doe if they had no souereigne heade to answere and make account vnto Saint Peter the chiefest heade of the Church after whose example all true ecclesiasticall persons ought to rule themselues did not teach vs that wee ought to measure the faith respect that we owe vnto our king by the equiualence and measure of his loyaltie for when he sawe Nero the verie enemie of God commit a thousand execrable cruelties yet did he cōmand Christians to praie for him and in his first Epistle his second Chapter hee sayeth Submit your selues vnto all maner of ordinance of man for Gods sake whether it bee vnto the King as vnto the superiour or vnto gouernours as vnto them that aresent of him and in the same Chapter sayeth he feare God honour the King and your Superiours That which Saint Paul dooth commaunde vs also vsing these tearmes obey your Kinges although they bee wicked And writing vnto Titus in his third Chapter hee sayth thus Pet them in remembrance that they bee subiect to principalities and superior powers and that they be obedient to their gouernours And to the Romanes the 13. Chap. he saith let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers for their is no power but of god and the powers which are are ordeined of God wherfore he that resisteth the higher power resisteth the ordinance of God they which resist bring vpon themselues damnation for the prince is the minister of God for thy good but if thou dost euil feare for he beareth not the sword in vaine for he is the minister of God to take vēgeance on him that doth euil wherfore ye must be subiect not because of wrath onely but because of conscience also for for this cause ye pay tribute also because they are Gods ministers seruing for the same purpose Giue to all men therefore their due tribute to whom tribute feare to whom feare custome to whom custome honor to whō honor belongeth These are the words of S. Paul vnto whom the preacher agreeth Eccl. cap. 20. saying we must not speake ill of our king nor offend him in any thing Tertullian in the 30. 37. of his booke called the Apologie sheweth vs clearely that true christians ought neuer to think for any occasion whatsoeuer to reuolt rebell against their kings and souereigne princes He saith that the Christians that liued in his time did alwais so faithfully obey their Emperors and pray vnto God for them although they were the professed enemies of Iesus christ that they would not rebell against their maiesties although oftē times it lay in their power to do far surpassing therein the pagans other nations that were in subiection vnder the said Emperours forasmuch as saith this holy man that they did not find this to be lawful by the permissiō of God We pray vnto god saith he for the safe gard prosperitie of our souereigne princes for we know that the imperial maiesty is ordeined of God and that it ought to be loued honoured reuerenced for this cause also do we reuerence the Christian prince whose maiesty is next after Gods from whose hand he hath his authority These words of this holy personage are inough to teach vs as I thinke my deare friends that the euil life of the prince doth no whit discharge the people of their fidelity S. Amb. also did not blame the christiās that did yeeld their due obediēce to Iulian the Apostata he bad thē not although they liued vnder the most disloiall prince of the whole world that they should rebel against him but did pray thē only to do no thing against the honor of God rather to depart the territories of his empire then to suffer their cōsciences to be forced What will our doctors say to this what wil they answer to these words of these holy mē They do not say as you may perceiue that it is lawful for the subiect to attempt against the life authoritie of his prince if he be an euill l●uer but they all command to the cōtrarie that we obey our souereigne princes what soeuer they be that we pray vnto God for thē without any prescribing to our selues the limits of the honor that is due to them and to make it conditionall People of France these words of God of his seruants ought to resolue you to keepe firme footing in the loue feare and fidelity that ye owe vnto your king and moreouer you may see thereby that our Clergie-men other rebels that are leagued together are out of the Church rather then those that they condemne whilest they go cleane against al that god

his church do command and the preachers who doe dissuade the people frō the obedience that they owe to their king do as Ananias the false prophet did who for prophecying against the obedience that God commanded the people of Israel to shew to Nabuchodonoser died one yere after by the iust iudgemēt of God Ye wold say to heare these mē preach that their preisthod doth licēce to iniury those that are right honourable and that it exempteth them from punishment for any fault that they shal commit and besides that it setteth them free from all homage and fealtie that they owe to their soueraigne Princes whereas their dutie commandeth them the cleane contrarie But I would faine knowe of these good prelates of the Church who causeth them to intermedle so farre with matters of state sith that is no part of their vocation Had they rather abandon the Church altogether out of the which they are departed then to forsake the affaires of this world If they finde the King to be an euill liuer in their owne false iudgement why should they refourme him seeing it is no poynt of their dutie What matter haue they wherewith to charge his conscience seeing they cannot prooue that hee euer attempted any thing against the honour of God Can any amongst them say truely ' that his Maiestie hath punished or caused to bee punished any man for his honest behauiour or for his good deedes Is there anie Catholike to bee founde that can say and lie not that his Maiestie hath wished him to become an heretike or to doe any other villanie Those that giue almes to the poore that euerie day doe their deuotion at the Church that spend the one halfe of the yeare in fasting and praier to be short that seeke by al means to winne heauen can they iustly complaine that his Maiestie hath reprehended them at any time therefore or that hee hath forbidden them to perseuer in their lawdable exercises of Christianitie ●pon what doe they ground themselues then to say that the king is wicked and a naughtie liuer it is not vpon his cruelties that hee hath done for I doe not thinke that there euer was anie Prince in this state lesse giuen to seeke vengeance and that tooke lesse delight to shed and spill bloud than he I know diuerse vnto whom he doth good daily and yet hee knoweth certainely that they haue erst conspired against his authority and resisted his magistrates And when they shall alleage the death of the Cardinall and Duke of Guise I will but desire all them that haue anie reason to consider aduisedly how intollerable a thing it is for a great seignior and maister of the qualitie of our King to bee misused snapt vp controlled by his owne subiectes by his owne housholde seruantes and I assure my selfe that those that would laie all partiall affections aside to pause consider of this matter aright should see that the King coulde not beeing a man and subiect to humane passions wish any good vnto these two Princes that had sought so neere his life and honour To saie then that he should not haue sworne vnto them so solemnly to pardon them and yet to keepe hidden that mortall hatred in his heart I thinke well and woulde not excuse him if I thought they had not extreamlie prouoked him since the promise that it pleased his maiestie to make them and since the assurance that he had giuen them but forasmuch as I know the aduertismentes that the King had hourely of their sinister meaning I cannot blame him that hee hath sought by punishing them to saue his owne life his lineage and his estate In deede say the rebels the King did wel to preuent them if hee were sure that they were but his owne seruants but hee shoulde not haue proceeded against them so as he did but should haue let them bin tried by waie of iustice and so to haue proceeded against them as though it had bin in the Kings power to make two men prisoners to proceede against thē by the way of publike iustice that a little before had chased him out of his principal citie being accompanied with an infinit number of theeues came boldly before his Maiestie and all his magistrates and no man durst once lay holde on their collers Further as though it were not lawfull by the lawes of God to punish in the field without anie long ceremonie of inditement to put to death those that are conuinced of treason towards their chiefe gouernors as these were of whom the inditement was ready drawen whē their crime was proued they sound guiltie the proofe was is so sufficient that al French men except those that be blind and of their conspiracie may cleerly perceiue their naughtie driftes To bee short sith they had deserued death it cannot greatly skill how they haue suffered it and there is no sufficient matter in that for vs to rise vp in armes against our King but I feare me it will fall out to the Duke of Maine to those that prouoke prick him forward to reuenge the death of his brethren if he can as it did vnto Absalon to Achitophel his wicked counseller who for cōspiring against their King seeking to bereaue him of his authoritie had both most lamentable and tragicall ends I beseech you let vs now speake of another matter ye are preached vnto daily and pricked forwards to arme your selues against your King yea to resolue to set vppon him and to encounter against him I aske you but this one question if any one amongst you were so miserable as to haue takē his life frō him were it either in battel or otherwise what recompence do ye thinke he should haue at the hāds of the Duke of Maine other his confederates the professed enemies of his maiesty can you but thinke that hee woulde like well of such a peece of seruice No no maisters perswade not your selues so thinke that the reward he should haue for his labour should be a seuere and rigorous punishment Know then that the first thing that an vsurper pretendeth after that he hath established himselfe is to ridde himselfe of such who infringing their loialtie and faith to their natural Prince haue aided to kill and murther him And these are the reasōs that moue him or ought at the least to moue him to do this if he haue neuer so litle iudgement at all First to shew that he hath such trechery in horror to purchase by this meanes among the best reputation fame to be of a generous lofty mind secondly to put the rest of his subiects in feare and to make them take heed by this example not to attempt the like against his own person thirdly because he cannot liue in securitie of such persons but alwaies standeth in great doubt of thē fearing least they withdraw themselues from his seruice with as much facilitie as they had