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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10984	A declaration of the Duke of Rohan peere of France, &c. Containing the iustnes of reasons and motiues which haue obliged him to implore the assistance of the King of Great Britaine, and to take armes for the defence of the Reformed Churches. Translated according to the French copie.; Déclaration de Monsieur le duc de Rohan, pair de France. English	Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638.	1628 (1628)	STC 21252; ESTC S116136	14,493	28

although formed contrary to the Order granted by our Kings and according to the commandement and desire of his Maiestie haue beene sent away with ambiguous answeres or with words without effect or with sentences contrary to the most naturall iustice and most solemne Edicts the power of our enemies being come to this point that they haue call far off all hope of a generall assembly to draw an orderly forme of our complaints and then haue finally prohibited our generall Deputies to present their demands in any such forme but to produce them a part piece by piece that they might dissipate all coniunction of our affaires and by that meanes make our Causes to be particular and so to hinder vs that we shall not bee able by any authenticall Act to verifie the body of iniustices which they doe exercise against vs. Being taught by so many experiences that wee can no more hope for any iustice from those which are obliged to administer it and that our ruine was irreuocably resolued in the mindes of those vnto whom the gouernment of the State was committed and that our patience in stead of diminishing our afflictions did augment them and made them irremediable and that wee were in all places accused of too simple a credulity or of an insensible stupiditie in the end I resolued to seeke other courses then those which hitherto had beene so vnprofitably vsed and more solid and firme meanes for our re-establishment And forasmuch as the King of Great Brittaine was the Mediatour of the peace and by the Act of his Ambassadours it was cautioned that it should be inuiolably obserued I beleeued that it was not onely necessary but also most iust to haue recourse to him to informe him of the miserable estate of our condition and to let him know what care they haue taken to deceiue our facility to delude our hopes and to destroy all the apparant grounds of our liberty to vrge the performance of his word and to coniure him aswell in my name is in the name of all our Churches to interuent according to his promise and to intercede that the peace which he caused to be concluded might be faithfully executed This is an Action which I suppose cannot bee blamed euen by our enemies except they be without reason nor reproued by those of our party except they be without conscience For the first doe well know that the Lawes of necessity are the strongest and most naturall they know as well as we our selues the iniustices which they haue done vs the desolations wherewith they haue threatned vs the small estimation of the word which was giuen vs whereof they haue a thousand times very audatiously said that it was not in the Kings power to make vs to inioy it So far forth that the Parliaments by their vniust modifications haue cancelled and cut off the most important Articles for our subsistance neither doe they doubt either of the resolued designe soone or late of our perdition and to expell vs out of the Kingdome or of the preparatiues which they haue made to come to the execution in beginning with the subuersion or Rochell from the which by all kind of forces and plots they would race out the rest of our Churches so that they cannot deny but they haue reduced vs to the vttermost point of extreame necessity Moreouer they that haue craued and borrowed the forces of strangers and of a contrary Religion to their owne to oppresse vs cannot iudiciously complaine that we haue sought the succours of our Brethren to defend vs. And which is more our liues are in question which they plot to extinguish our goods whereof they haue violently bereft vs our liberties which they haue destroyed and the greatest of all our Religion and the consciences which wee haue towards Almighty God of the which they would for euer deface the memory whosoeuer will impute it a crime vnto vs to seeke all possible meanes to preserue the possession of things which are so deare and precious is bereft of all naturall sense neither hath hee any more part of man left him but his face and doth declare himselfe enemy to all Religion and conscience But forasmuch as the ministers of the State haue thought good that the Ambassadours of the King of Great Brittaine by a most authenticall Act signed and sealed in due forme making themselues in the name of their Master Mediators of the conclusion of the treaty and obliged his authority and his word to make vs inioy the effect of all those things which were promised and that the Act it selfe was consigned vnto vs I cannot perswade my selfe that they can be so farre vnreasonable or passionate after their consenting to so solemne a caution as to thinke it strange that wee should haue our recourse to the caution and to the pledge which they themselues haue chosen and approued of and that we intreat him to imploy himselfe towards the principall party to binde himselfe by the accustomed wayes betweene men of this condition to performe his Royall word to discharge him or his caution by the sincere and exact maintaining and obseruation of all the things which were agreed vpon and without the confession whereof the difference should still remaine and the things should be in as deplorable termes as they were before Concerning these among vs which would disappproue this proceeding I say that they cannot with a good conscience except therewithall they defame with odious and execrable titles the generous resistance of those which haue gone before vs and who with their bloods haue atchieued vs this holy and safe liberty for the preseruation whereof we doe together at this time contest by the same proceedings which haue passed the Sea to seeke the succours which we haue obtained and which went into the heart of Germanie to raise multitudes of people and to bring them into this Kingdome and by force to binde their enemies to giue them peace and the liberty which was denyed them and to performe the promise which they had broken And yet notwithstanding by the Edicts of our Kings they are stiled faithfull and obedient Subiects and Seruants and the memory of them shall euer be blessed in the middest of the Church And besides in that which concerneth me it seemeth vnto me that all kind of right and reason doth authorise me in this pursuit for hitherto in all our warres of Religion I haue had in these parts the charge of chiefe Generall of all those which in these Prouinces haue had their armes in their hands for their iust and necessary defence The first peace hath beene fully treated with me according to the power which was giuen me by the generall assembly And in the second my brother and my selfe alone haue sustained the charge of the warre and I haue been present as Generall for the defence of our Churches and in the treaty and conclusion of peace that cautionarie Act of the Ambassadors of strangers was