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A14250	The translation of a letter written by a Frenche gentilwoman to an other gentilwoman straunger, her frind, vpon the death of the most excellent and vertous ladye, Elenor of Roye, Princes of Conde, contaynyng her last wyll and testament. Doone by Henry Myddelmore gentylman at the request of the Ladye Anne Throkmorton	I. D. V., fl. 1564.; Myddelmore, Henry.	1564 (1564)	STC 24565; ESTC S105901	21,518	65

❧ THE TRANSlation of a letter written by a Frenche Gentilwoman to an other Gentilwoman straunger her frind vpon the death of the most excellent and vertuous Ladye Elenor of Roye Princes of Conde contaynyng her last wyll and Testament Doone by Henry Myddelmore Gentylman at the request of the Ladye Anne Throkmorton ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye for Humfrye Toye dwellyng in Paules Churchyarde Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis 1564. ❧ The last wyl and Testament of the Princes of Conde SO soone as reason and gods worde mighte commaund mine eies and that this paper watered ouer with my teares mighte drye it selfe I dyd take my penne in hande to answere the request that so instantlye you made vnto me to wrytte you a brief discourse of the maner course of my Ladye the Princes of Condes sicknes For the greate desier you haue as you saye that the shadowe of hyr death maye serue you for a lighte to lighten your doings against the thicknes of the darknes of oure lyfe in this perillous pilgrimage But I pray you yf I do not satisfice your expectation accordynge to the sufficiencye of the subiect accuse the basenes of my wytte rather then the good wyl I haue to content you and to gyue by this priuate letter since better I cannot do it a faythfull testimonye of hyr vertue which wel deserueth a publike setting forth The prophane auncientes were wont to saye when they dyd lose suche patternes and examples of vertue that God beinge angrye wyth men dyd beareft them of so great a good before the tyme. And you shall gyue me leaue to say to you that in very conscience I beleue he iudged vs vnworthye of a thinge of so great valure And nowe leauynge to speake of the reste of hyr lyfe of the first and furthest causes of hyr euell that is to saye the extreame sorowes whiche she was dryuen to deuoure in that firste peryllous tyme of the imprisonment of my Lorde the Prince hyr husbande and lykewyse of Madame de Roye hyr mother the same being a right worthie argument of a great historye whereby might be eternised and made perpetuall the singular graces which God had endued this noble Princes wyth and the vnspeakable force and constancye of hyr mynde in all hyr aduersities I wyll begynne with the most euidentes and freshest I doubt not but you haue harde how that after she had letfe my Lord hyr husbande at Meaux at the same tyme that he resolued to goo to Orleās as she was traualynge towardes hyr house called Muret and passynge by a vyllage named Vanderay nere vnto Lizy vpon the ryuer of Ours a companye of paisants whiche then were goinge in procession dyd set vpon hyr and the Marquis of Conty hyr eldest sonne wyth staues stones crosses and banners and that without any occasion geuen but that there was a malicious naughty priest emongest them who for the hatred that he bare to the religion incited set on the sayd troupe of paisants so to outrage hyr and hyr companye at this very tyme the fyer of the troubles for religion did begynne to kyndle and in the moste partes of all Fraunce the sparkelles thereof dyd alreadye appeare Thys furor and populous rage dyd so moue and vnquiet this good Lady that hauynge gonne to the ende of cyghte monethes she was the same daye by feare and before hyr tyme delyuered of two boyes at a village called Gandalu before she could recouer any of hyr owne houses And within fewe dayes after as she was naturallye of greate courage and harte she toke hyr waye towardes Orleans to mete wyth my Lord hyr husbande Whether she came in the ende by longe and dangerous iourneis For you must imagine that all the wayes and passages were alreadye taken and kepte And that therfore she was dryuen to vse great circumspection and to expose hyr person to verye great daunger to make that hasardous voiage Note you that of this same inconueniencye Of the second tyme of the imprisonment of my Lord hyr husbād after the cruell conflict of a battail Of the besiegyng of the towne of Orleans and so of the paynes and continuall trauailes which she dyd suffer abyde duryng the whole tyme of the troubles besyde that she dyd not diligentlye inough loke to hyr selfe when she had the last yere the smale pokes at Galleō hath growen and proceaded by course of tyme all hyr sicknes and indisposition But chyefly an Issue of bloud caused by a Carcinome or eatyng canker in the Matrice whiche hyr shamefastnes and chastitie woulde neuer suffer to be dressed as it was requisite and necessarye This fluxe of bloud which was faier redde and of good substaunce beganne the .xxvj. daye of April last past but toke hyr more aboundauntlye the thursdaye and Sonday nexte followynge and so continued and lefte of at certain times vntyll the .xxiij. daye of this present moneth of Iuly At what tyme hyr forces were so abated and weakened that she lost vtterly the power retentiue so as the same then runnyng oute vnto the droppe of that lyttell that remayned of the former great voydynges she yelded happelye vp hyr sprite to God throughe lacke of natural heate at Conde about xj of the cloke in the mornynge This euacuation was very muche hastened by a dyet whiche a lyttell before she had taken in hande and would nedes continue the same after hyr retourne from Troye where settinge asyde all other thynges she had bene in great hast to see my Lord her husband then newly fallen into a sicknes which dyet was cleane contrarye to hyr the drinke that she toke dyd greatly heate chafe hyr bloud whiche of it selfe was ouer subtil Herein I canne assure you that after the Phisitions and Chirurgiens were on s made acquainted with all they dyd omite nothynge of that that order and knowledge might commaunde And it had bene very easye at the beginnynge to haue remedyed and healed it if the matter had been so soone declared as it was requisite In the tyme of this sicknes manye accidents happened as the laske the feuer Hetique whiche was with some accesse payne of the raynes with great vnquietnes faintinges and soundings throughe the venimous vapours caried from the diseased part to the stomacke to the lyuer to the harte and to the braine You muste thynke that I cāne hardlye expresse vnto you all her griefs for they were by the iudgement of them that be most expert in that arte so dyuerse and violent that they had bene vndurable to any other Wherin I pray you marke wel how greatlye God dyd assist and strengthen her for she neuer opened her mouthe to murmur nor made any shewe or countenaunce of impacience I did alwayes see her in her greatest paines with drye eyes without cryinge without teares and without complaintes whiche be ordinary to all sicke folckes yea to the most strongest and constants And because I knowe it wylbe great pleasure vnto

speake wyth her ordinary laughyngs and smilyngs that she would haue accommodated her selfe to haue dwelt there some lōg time And yet dyd she not this but that she knewe welinough that her true most assured buyldyng was in heauen But she sayd it was not to be marueled at if she dyd so speake and deuise of all matters as thoughe she had not set at al before her eyes the daunger wherin she sawe her selfe For that god had geuen her the grace euer since she had the knowledge of him and his worde that she dyd thinke she was as well subiect to death at one time as at an other that the true christian will also beleue that therof doth depende the greatnes of of his blessednes and contentation She was borne at Chastillion vpon the ryuer of Loing the xxiiij daye of Februarye 1535. And was maried to my Lord the Prince the .xxij. day of Iune 1551. Of ths mariage be issued seuen children in sixe times of greatnes that is to say thre daughters Catherine Marguerit Magdalene and fowre sonnes Henry Fraunces at her last deliuerye Charles and Lewes twynnes Henry Fraunces Charles Marguerit be lyuyng God hath taken the others She lyued .xxviij. yeres .iiij. monethes .xxvij. dayes and .xj. houres In the time of her sicknes she was visited of many greate personages good folks namely of my lords her three vncles of Chastillion who did to her al the good godlye and charitable offices that were possible to haue bene desiered I will not here discouer vnto you the noblenes of her race as wel French as strange for euery one vnderstandeth it sufficiently and you knowe as wel as I that of her fathers syde she is descended of the righte lyne by the woman of Lewes the sixth Kynge of Fraunce Yet I will write vnto you thus much more which hath seamed vnto me to appartaine to that that goeth before which you shall receyue as vsurye of my good wyll This death was declared to my L. the Prince who had retired himselfe alone īto his chāber was gone to bed after his retourne frō the preaching At the cōming vp of the Minister la Bossiere who was made messenger for the purpose he suspected that whiche was in dede happened neuertheles he cōtinued somtime in readynge in a booke of praiers which he had in his handes soone after tournīg his face towards the minister he asked him howe his wyfe did she is my L. said he with god whether you shall go also one day At this worde he coulde not kepe hīselfe frō sighing sorowing In so much the two or thre gētilmen and the minister Perrucel who then came in were greatly troubled to sée him in that heauye case yet neuertheles durst not approch to breake of his bitter cōplaits lamentatiōs vntil such time as a certain man towardes the lawe came vnto him prayed him to resolue coūforte himselfe as he had done in all his other great aduersities herevpon the two ministers toke occasiō to cōtinue this maner of talke according to the largenes of the scope that was offered thē notwithstandyng he remained for a good tyme sylent and after puttyng his handkerchyef to his face he said He trusted the god wolde not impute vnto him the infirmitie that good men wolde support him in those his greuous passiōs seinge that his sorowes proceaded not but of the loue of vertue That in very dedede he had great reason to cōtent him selfe for the assurāce he had of the good rest of hys deare wyfe moitye who had dyed the death of a sainct but also that he was excusable for his heauines to lose the cōpanye of so wyse vertuous a Lady that had alwayes honored him aboue al things- loued him so derely as she wold haue sacrificed her owne lyfe for hym that had gouerned his house in all holynes and brought vp his children in al wisedome in rendering to him all due obedience He added to this turning his face to heauen a lyttel prayer to God the sentence wherof as I was writynge this vnto you is fallen into my mynde in these foure verses without as it were thinkynge of it It is I good Lorde not she hath done the faulte And reason wold that I shuld therfore gryeue Yet I do wronge vnto thy prudence hault For to saye truth I dye and she doth lyue Here vpō after hauing deuotly vowed the rest of his life in the seruice of God he sent for my lords his childrē but being desired to eate somwhat for it was then past noone he defferred to sée them tyll after his dinner whiche was God knoweth a smale thinge ful of sighes and heauines After grace being said his childrē my Lords Marquis Fraūces with theyr sister were brought ī to hī his daughter was sette vpō his bed my Lordes his two sonnes stode by him whether the litel soules were no sooner cōme but they fel so into wéepyng that al those that were present could not withholde them selfes frō it no more could my L. the Prince their father as for me I can not now tel it you but I melte awaye in teares You shuld haue séene this litle Ladye who is a liuely picture of beautye take my L. her father about the necke washe his face berde with the aboundaunce of her teares wythout hauynge power to speake to hī but in halfe broke words My L. her father vsed suche wayes to her as the in the end he appaised her wéeping did drie her face with som prety admonitiōs mete for her age whiche I will tel you if I haue caryed them well away My daughter we must wéepe no more our good God wylbe angrye with vs do not you remēber that you say to him euery daye Thy wyl be done he hath taken your mother out of prison to set her by him in libertie because he loued her wel wyl you be angry with it he is so wise that we shuld neuer aske why he doth any thinge he hath lefte you here for the image of her as I haue loued her aboue all the women of the world so I wil loue you but you must not be only the image of her face but also of her spirit and vertu for although she were fayre of personage it was nothinge in comparison of her gentil wel disposed mīde which neuer did office but of chastitie no more then her hart her tonge her handes her eares As you shall waxe great growe enquire diligētlie what maner of womā this good mother was And whē you shal here that she neuer loued man but her husbande that she dyd alwayes lyue without any blote of dishonestie yea without suspition that all her doings countinaunces haue bene holy chast modest playne vertuous Then enforce your selfe my minniō to resemble her to thintent god may assist you as he hath done her that euery