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A02961	A declaration exhibited to the French king, by hys Court of Parlyament concerning the holy League Whereunto is adioyned: an aduertisement to the three estates of Fraunce, comprehending a true report of such occurrences as haue passed betweene the house of Guize, in fauour of the holy League: and the king of Nauarre & his adherents for their necessarie defence. Faithfully translated out of French.	France. Parlement (Paris); Aggas, Edward, attributed name.; Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623, attributed name.	1587 (1587)	STC 13100; ESTC S121973	17,539	55

doe pleade against warre for the honor of the vtter ruine of your Realme But what maie the posteritie saie when it shal heare that your court of Parliament hath propounded the honoring of the articles of a league assembled against the estate armed against the kinges person risen vp against God himselfe Yea such a one as spiting nature commaundeth the fathers to bee no longer fathers to their sonnes the mothers to be no mothers to their daughters inuiting one frend to betraie another calling the murderer to the succession of the murdered with the fatherlie name of your edictes We will no longer stand vpon the particularities of the iniquities and wronges in an infinite number gathered together vnder this forme of Edict wherby those that are authors thereof doe hope to be able to winne the Realme when they haue once put you to lose it But wee beseech your maiestie not to bee led by their counsailes which proceede onelie from blinde ambition but rather as you haue begun so to folowe the so renowmed exāple of the wisdome iustice of Salomon for as he to the end to trie out the true mother from the supposed fained to become cruell so do we likewise hope that your maiestie hauing made shew to communicate in the tirannous desires of the league to the ende to discouer them will take heede of fulfilling them and rather make your profite of the same to the preseruation of your naturall and obedient subiects Wee meane not herein for to excuse the taking of Montlymar and many other places surprised by those of the pretended Religion neither doe we desire anie thing so much as that a good peace might restore strength authoritie to your lawes whereby to doe you right but Nature permitting all men to defende their liues by whatsoeuer meanes doeth somewhat excuse those that haue beene brought to that necessitie and contrariwise the sinne of the others is inexcusable in that that they counsaile your Maiestie to so pernicious a warfare onelie vpon licourishnes of the confiscation of the Protestants goods whom with such rigors they haue forced to seeke recompence of their losses at your coste and to confiscate whatsoeuer they maie be able to enterprise vpon your maiestie As for the Bul the curat findeth the stile thereof to be new vnusuall and so farre from the modestie of former Popes that it doeth no waie therein acknowledge the order of a Successor to the Apostles And because throughout our recordes or in anye antiquitie we find not that the princes of Fraunce haue beene subiect to the Popes iustice either that subiects haue taken notice of their Princes religion the Court cannot determine thereupon vntill the Pope can proue his right which he pretendeth in the translation of Realmes established and ordeined by GOD before the name of Pope came into the world Vntil hee hath declared vnto vs by what title he entermedleth in the succession of a youthfull and strong prince who by the course of nature maie haue his heire in his loines Before he hath instructed our Religion with what apparance of iustice or equitie he denieth the lawe of nations to such as are fallen into heresie yea against the holie canons and auncient decrees which neuer suffer anie to be holden for an heretike vntil he hath beene freelie heard in his reasons admonished by sundrie synodes iudged by a Councell called and freelie gathered together Hee must teach vs with what kinde of pietie holines he geueth that which is not his owne or taketh awaie that that lawfullie belongeth to another That he stirreth vp the vassals subiectes to mutinies against their lords and soueraigne Princes and ouerthroweth the foundations of al lawes and polliticke order To be breefe he must shewe vs by what authoritie hee enterpriseth to condemne your blood to the fire as it were to send part of your soule into hell But in as much as this newe Pope in lieu of instruction doeth in his bul breathe out nothing but destruction and changeth his shepheardes staffe into a flaming or fierie torche wherwith vtterlie to destroie those whom if they be straied he ought to winne again to the flock of the church The Court can no longer consult vpō the publication of a Bull so pernitious vnto all Christendome to the soueraintie of your crowne euen presentlie deeming it worthie no other recompence then the same which one of your Predecessors caused vs to geue to the like Bul sent vnto him by one of this Popes predecessors and that was to cast it into the fire in the presence of the whole Frenche Church inioining his Atturney generall to make diligent inquisition after those that had prosequuted the expedition thereof in the Court of Rome to the ende to minister so seuere speedie iustice against them that it might serue for an example to all posterities For who knoweth not that all those suttleties are sued out by al the enemies of this estate who vnder the name of your heires doe directlie addresse themselues against your owne person imagining that alredie by their practises they haue atteined the type of their attempts and that they haue no more to do but by the cloke to plucke you out of your seate to the end to take ful possession of that which they haue barked at and followed so long These things are so euident and haue been so narowlie searched out that it were in vaine for vs to abuse your patience with anie larger declarations whereof we doe not hope anie greater effect or vertue then of the former But if it be so that our sinnes haue vtterlie closed vp the eares of your clemencie against iustice yet doe vs this fauour to take into your handes againe those officer wherewith it hath pleased your maiestie and the kinges your predecessors to honor vs withal so shall you be freed from the importunate difficulties which we are forced to make at such Edictes and our consciences discharged from the curse that God hath prepared for wicked magistrates and their Counsailors The necessitie of your affaires haue manie times heretofore forced vs to winke at sundrie oppressions pernitious inuentions The opinion which your maiestie had conceiued that those of the pretended reformed Religion woulde habandon the exercise thereof and that that faction might be oppressed without much bloodshed or destructiō of this estate haue yet receiued so much power ouer our aduises as to cause vs to passe the reuocation of verie manie Edictes so solemnlie sworne vnto We doe now to our great grief and confusion perceiue how small profite to you our cowardlines hath brought how hurtfull it hath beene to all your subiectes and how shameful to vs and our posteritie Our patience can no lenger be obedience but vnexcusable astonishment if it stretcheth anie further or proceedeth to carelesnesse and contempt of all Common welth It is therefore more conuenient for your maiestie to haue no Courte of Parliament then to see the

so doe they tearme it They had promised to discharge the people gaue out verie loude that they were the verie ofspring of king Lewes the twelft yea and that it went harde if they were not Successors to the beautiful surname that he deserued namelie Father of the people Hereupon you had warning inough that you should bee more ouercharged then before That a newe warre woulde bring in nevve impostes That the League to the end to binde you gaue you an earnest penie but vndoutedlie onelie to binde you to the bargaine and to make you to pay the contract Marke now therefore at one yeres ende the suttletie of the league Consider what this Commonwealth hath in gendred Seuen and twentie new Edicts at one clap which seuen and twentie yeeres could not haue brought forth Burdēsome edictes edictes to the whole world The dregs and scum of all the inuention of the Italian Courtiers What wanted there more to oppres the poore people to fulfil y e confusion of this realm In the Estates holden complaint vvas made that multitude of officers in matters of Lavve vvas no other but multitude and delaie of causes now behold an increase of presidents coūsailers and other officers in soueraigne Courtes presidiall seas marke the alternatiue receiuers for the spices in paying rent for the multiplying mainteining delaying and enhaunsing of processes Infinite times had the suppression or ordering of the vnbrideled number of Atturneies bene propounded and now we see them not onelie innumerable but also successiue or hereditarie Novv I saie we maie see our causes that holde margent and line and passing from hand to hand from father to sonne in the atturneies grovve to be perpetuall to our posteritie Howe much better had it bene to haue let the king alone quiet vvho at the beginning of this League tended onlie to the reestablishing of the ministration of Iustice throughout his Realme who so carefullie consulted with the principall of his soueraigne Courts what meanes were most conuenient to restore all things into order Long inough had vve perceiued that number of officers in the de●●●ng with the treasurie did breede nothing but losse and diminution so as the crovvne passing from the poore man going through so manie treasurers hands vvas scarce worth a testerne to the kinges purse which bred the counsel to restore the auncient manner vvhich was that all the kinges coine should immediatelie be transported into the kings treasurie so should they spare both the auditor and the accomptes So might they saue two third parts of the treasurie and by this sauing the K. might without hurting him selfe haue cased his people of one third and more But vvhat shall we doe now now I saie that they giue vs newe generalles and generallities that they set vp againe without anie reason the elections which vpon so good reasons had bin suppressed that they make the offices of the chambers of accompts hereditarie and al other offices saleable which is as much to saie as to make the treasurie of the Realme patrimoniall hereditarie and saleable both to the dealers themselues to those that should iudge of the dealing therein These be the goodlie successions that the controuersie of succession so out of season propounded haue taught vs. Successions of pleaders and triflers Successions of theeues robbers of the Commonvvealth Successiōs of deuourers a thousand successors euē during the kings life to this Realme seeing they succeede in his treasure The king before these commotions propoūded the releeuing of his poore people but novv vve see them reduced into the extremitie of confusion he purposed to redeeme his demaines now he selleth them outright to diminish courts and subsidies hee nowe doubleth them yea hee selleth them which he neuer did before he went about to abolish olde tributes nowe from time to time he raiseth new and those of so manie sorts that wee shall neede a Calepine to learne to knowe their names All these newe charges and oppressions al these inuentions are the subtiltie of the League which would not giue the king leisure to benefite his people as enuying y e wealth peace and restoring of this Realme enuying the honour that shoulde redound to the king for reestablishing it and enuying the good affection loue that hee shoulde winne with his people by graunting them some release after so manie labours Neither thinke but the Capteins of this league doe reape the cheefe commoditie for besides that one part of these newe Edicts is dedicated to the maintenance of the warre that they haue bred and is guided by their hands and so consequentlie goeth through their fingers it is not vnknowen that the Duke of Guyse hath gotten to himself particularlie the edict of tenne sellers of Sea fish and the edict of twelue sellers of cattel at Paris the edict that maketh vs the alternatiue receiuers for the spices and the edict of amplification to all the seas royall to taxe throughout y e realm That y e D. of Maine hath also had the Lieutenants of the long robes in euerie prouince that they both do participate in y e heredity of offices venall of the chāber of accompts they that shoulde by a new edict abolish all olde tributes euen they that as they protest should b●ing againe the world of king Lewes the twelft in to this Realme It maie bee they haue dealt better with the Nobilitie for they seeke so much as they maie to ●it●●gate their mindes and peraduenture maie haue restored them into their prist●nate emine●c●e For they entitle themselues princes of credite and they promised it Al we that haue tried their armies may know whether gentlemens houses which before were sacred were euerles regarded then by their troupes whether euer Huns Gotths or Wandals could look for worse dealing thē they haue had of them Those of y e contrary part because the League sought to turne all the hatred of the warre vnto the K. vvho was forced thereto found fauor bicause also through their frēds they compoūded halfe vvith wares halfe with warre The Catholiks contrari●●se because they gathered assurance in themselues their priuiledges seruices and deserts were as it vvere geuen for a p●a●e and entreated like enemies and strangers I saie not that with such extraordinarie charges as the comminaltie seemeth to beare the nobili●ie standeth more charged then they and that is it wherein wee ordinarilie flatter our selues for vnder colour that we haue not p●ide foorth the monie they persuade vs that we paie non● as if when a man is let blood the blood proceeded onelie from the arme that is lanced and not from the higher part●s which are still to suppl●e it truelie if the farme be spoiled it is euidēt that it is the gentlemen that loseth If the customes bee dubbled vpon the marchandize it is the gentleman that beareth it he that weareth most silkes dischargeth the custome he that buieth vp most horses standeth charged with the edictes of the post