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A01152	A declaration concerning the needfulnesse of peace to be made in Fraunce and the means for the making of the same: exhibited to the most Christian king, Henrie the second of that name, King of Fraunce and Polande, vpon two edictes, put forth by his Maiestie, the one the tenth of September, the other the thirtenth of October. Anno. 1574. Translated out of Frenche by G. H. Esquire.; Remonstrance au roy ... sur le faict des deux edicts ... touchant la necessité de paix & moyens de la faire. English	Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595.; Harte, George.	1575 (1575)	STC 11266; ESTC S112648	61,519	168

for a kyng to graunt the people their willes by doing whereof sayde they he shoulde receyue lawe of them to whome he ought to gyue lawe and subiecte him selfe to them that ought to be subiecte to him but rather that he ought to make them knowe hym for their Prince and soueraigne Lorde whose office was to commaunde and theirs absolutely to obey Roboam folowing this opinion woulde needs lay great taxes and impositions on his people by reason whereof the most part of them that is to say tenne partes of twelue rebelled against him and raysed for their Kyng one Ieroboam Wherevpon the sayd Roboam prepared an armie of 80000. men for the repressing of those rebelles wherein he lost both his labour and time for Ieroboam continued King in peace And from that time forth that kingdome remained deuided in two King Lewes the eleuenth as fine subtil a prince as euer was in Fraunce at his comming to the crowne gouerned him selfe very yll in displacing and hindering of many good and ancient seruitours that had don great seruice to Charles the seuenth his father in the recouering of his realme the most part whereof the Englishmen long time enioyed Wherewith the nobles being discontented raysed against their sayde king a ciuill warre which they called the commō welth To them many townes and commonalties also adioyned them selues by reason of the great impostes that the king put vpon them But the wise king knowing his faulte sought all the meanes possible for the appeasing of that warre therein folowing the aduice and councell of his good friend Fraunces Sforze the Duke of Millaine which councelled him for the obtaining of peace to deny nothing of their demaundes And in deede by graunting their requests he appeased those ciuil warres and was al his life after serued of those noblemen gentlemen that were against him in the same towards whom he neuer reserued so much as any desire of reuēgement It may be sayd that what the king did herein was done vpon policie But howe so euer it was done the Frenchmen till these dayes were neuer so Italionated as to beare malice long in their heartes And this wise king woulde neuer hazarde his common wealth by giuing of battell vnto his people saying that he would not commit his estate which was so good and so great as the king of a royall Realme to the perill of so vncertaine a thing as a battell And after the peace made hee frankely confessed that hee sawe him selfe in great perill of loosing his kingdome and had determined in his mynd to haue saued him selfe at Millaine or else amongst the Switzers if Paris had not helde with him but bene wonne and possessed by his aduersaries Edwarde the seconde of that name King of Englande for the pleasure of Hugh Spencer his chiefe mynion made warre against his subiectes and put to death many of his Princes and nobles without anye order of iustice in so muche as Queene Isabell his wife with his sonne and hirs to shunne his furie and crueltie were fayne to flee into Fraunce who after returned agayne into Englande with hyr sayde sonne and a small force which she had gotten by the meanes of a meane Gentleman called syr Iohn of Henawd brother to the Earle of Henawd And being aryued in Englande founde all the people readie at hir commaundement as those that had taken a great displeasure agaynst the King by reason of his crueltie So as she besieged hir sayde husbande tooke him prysoner and bestowed him in the Tower of London Then caused she all the estates of the realme to be assembled by whome Kyng Edward the seconde for his crueltie committed agaynst his nobilitie was founde and pronounced vnworthy to be Kyng any longer and so was depriued of his dignitie And whyle he was yet aliue and prysoner in the sayde Tower of London the sayde estates crowned his sonne Edwarde the thyrde their Kyng of whome I haue spoken afore and shewed that he did the like to his mother Tarquine the proud a King of the Romanes was by his people driuē out of Rome as well for his gouerning ouer proudly as for suffering his sonne to violate a woman of honour named Lucrecia and being thence banished he sent his embassadours thither for the procuring of his peace and restablishement of his estate many gaue their consents to restore him and had he proceeded in gentle and tractable maner there had bene great likelyhoode of the recouerie of his kingdome But being vnable to maister his own pride he gathered together as many as he coulde get to take his part and with Porsena kyng of the Hetrurians whome he raysed vp to ayde him made warre againste the Romanes This war procured him such hatred of the Romanes which hadde bene his subiectes as they would neuer after returne vnder his obeysance in so much as both he and all his posteritie were depriued from off the kingdome and the estate of that Monarchie changed into a publike state And from that time forth the name of King was deadly hated and abhorred among the Romanes And no maruell though the name of King were so sore hated of the Romanes for one mans faulte that euen when the same state returned againe to a Monarchie vnder Iulius Caesar neither he nor his successours wold be called kings but Emperours For it hath happened so to dyuers other names The name of Tyrant which at this day soundeth so yll and is of euerie man hated was amongst our Elders an honourable name signified none other thing but lord insomuch that Virgil whose onely drift in his Aeneiad●s was to aduaunce the godlynesse vertue of his Aeneas calleth him Tyrant Likewise the name of Iudas which signifieth a Confessour was in times past reputed honourable and yet by reason of one mans faulte it is nowe taken for a traytour And before the Emperour Neroes time this name Neron which in the olde Sabin tong signifieth noble was esteemed as a glorious name especially after the days of Claudius Nero which ouercame Asdrubal Hannibals brother his 50000. men but for the offences of one only man the same is now taken for a tyrant So much may the wickednesse of one man do to the vtter defacing of a faire honorable name for euer God graūt that the vices of some of vs frenchmē do not bespot the name of Frēchman which hath heretofore bin esteemed and honored throughout al the world which thing I am sore afeard of if we mend not the soner for alreadie in Germanie they cal al frenchmen indifferently Schelmes Continuing our examples I will recite you one which is the more to be noted for that it was done by the way of iustice After the death of the great Herode king of Iudea Samaria Galile and Idumea there arose a strife and contention betweene Archelaus and Herodes Antipas his sonnes Archelaus would needs make wars against his subiectes vpon a verie slyght occasion in

suche wise as for the giuing of one blowe he caused three thousand persons to be slaine by his horsemen whome he made to trauerse and runne through the whole assembly of his people Wherevpon his brother Antipas sped him strayght vnto Rome where before Augustus Caesar he accused Archelaus for at that time welneere all the Kings of the world were subiect to the Romane Empire The Iewes also sente from Iudea to Rome fiftie Ambassadours to accuse hym before Augustus and to shewe how vnworthy he was to raigne that had vpon his people committed suche crueltie and that also there was no better curtesie to be loked for at his handes that woulde so soone after the death of his father and immediatly vpō hys entrie commit actes so cruell and vnnaturall In consideration wherof they besought Augustus to gyue them rather Antipas for their king Augustus Caesar tooke knowlege of this matter neuerthelesse for that hee bare some fauour and friendship to Archelaus be confirmed his succession in Iudea Samaria Idumea and assigned Galile to Antipas But therewith hee exhorted Archelaus to the gouerning of him selfe thencefoorth more mildly and gently towards his subiects Archelaus returning into his coūtrey with so good speede at Augustus hande behaued him selfe there more cruelly than before Wherevpon hee was agayne accused at Rome and there condemned by the Senate to whome Augustus had referred the examination of the matter in somuche that all his goodes were confiscate to the Emperour by sentence of the Senate and hee him selfe was banished to Vienna in Dauphine there to ende hys dayes as he miserably did After this iudgement Iudea Samaria and Idumea were ruled by suche gouernours as the Emperour did establishe as by Coponius and Annius Rufus in the raigne of Augustus Caesar and by Valerius Gratus and Pontius Pilate that cruell man whiche iudged our Sauiour to death during the dayes of Tiberius The conclusion is that Archelaus for his warring and ouerrigorous dealing with hys subiectes miserably ended his dayes and was the causer of the alteration of the state of hys countrie Vpon this matter of alteration of states I say by the way that it hath often fallen out and still dothe that when Monarchies haue bin excessiuely corrupted with vice they haue bin changed into common weales and likewise when the common weales haue once bin corrupted they also haue bin changed into Monarchies and kingdomes The example heereof was seene in the nation of the Iewes at whose beginning euen from the tyme of Moyses and Iosua that people was gouerned in the fourme of a Monarchie for those two were as chiefe gouernours one after another Afterwarde in the time of the Iudges was the same state chaunged to the fourme of a common weale for the people were gouerned by a chosen number of auncients except in time of warre when God alwayes raysed vp to them a Captayne which they called their iudge But againe in the dayes of Samuell it altered from a common wealth to a Monarchie at whiche time Saul was chosen king After that in the time of the Machabees it was changed from a Monarchie to a popular state howbeit that to say the truth it was a confused state whiche had no manner of forme of good gouernement and yet afterwarde it returned to the manner of a Monarchie in the raign of Herode the great and was lastly put into the forme of a prouince vnder the Romane Empire Likewise the estate of the Romanes was gouerned as a Monarchie frō the raigne of Romulus till the time of Tarquine the proud whose pride and euill gouernemente was the cause that the same state was changed into the forme of a common wealth In that state the Romanes continued vnto the dayes of Iulius Caesar at which time it was so corrupted with riot auarice ambition whereof the ciuil warres betweene Scilla and Marius and betweene Caesar and Pompei may be a witnesse that it could not but alter and come agayne to a Monarchie Since the which time that great Romane Monarchie hathe bene piteously wasted by the euill gouernmentes of many Emperours And of the wast of the same haue bin erected many common wealthes and great kingdomes as Fraunce Spayne Englande and other greater and smaller Monarchies To bee shorte these chaunges haue bene seene in the state of the Romane Empire in lesse than .1500 yeare France before the time of Iulius Caesar stood in the state of small common wealthes which gouerned themselues apart the one by the other by cōfederations that they had together to reuēge them vpon strangers as the Cantons do at this day But ambition made them bandie and make warre eache agaynste other to proue whiche shoulde be the greatest Of whome when they of Autun had gotten the vpper hand as the stronger those of Sequanois their neighbours feeling them selues the weaker called the Almaines to their succors against them of Autun The Almaines comming downe vnder the conduct of Arionistus serued them and occupied a good part of the countrie Sequanois for their wages They of Autun on the other syde demanded succor of the Romanes wherevppon Caesar came into France and vnder the colour to succour them of Autun and to chace Arionistus from the countrie that he occupied he wonne to himselfe the whole countrie of France So as it may truely be sayd that that change of the Frenche state happened through the diuision that then was in Frāce without the which deuision Caesar had neuer vanquished them what Caesar soeuer he had bin And truely we see by the histories that alwayes till then the Frenchmen had well canuassed the Romanes yea and taken and burned Rome In somuch that as sayth Salust the Romanes so feared them that alwayes when they hearde the Frenche to be in armes yong and old priestes and lay-men none excepted or excused amongst thē were commaunded to arme them Yea they would openly confesse that against all other nations they warred for the gaining of honor and glory but ageinst the French men for the preseruation of their liues But Caesar finding them in deuision added oyle to the flame of their furie partly by whiche policie and partly by his valiancie he set vppon them and ouercame them changed their state from sundry common wealthes to one only Monarchie Yea thus muche more hee did that as with the Romane power he vāquished the Frenchmen so with the French mens money he obteyned the Romane Empire another very good policie for with the money that he gate in Fraunce he corrupted the chiefe of Rome through the fauour of whome he was chosen Dictatour perpetual which is as much to say as Monarch of the Romanes So was the Realme of France by Caesar vnited to the Romane Empire from the whiche they often after soughte to cutte them selues off as in the ende they did In the tyme of the Emperour Tiberius one Iulius Sacrouir of Autun made parte of Fraunce to reuolt raysing certayne small

assemblies secretely in the Townes and exhorting the people no longer to suffer neyther the continuaunce of the tributes wherewith the Emperour oppressed them nor the pride and crueltie wherewith the Magistrates sente thyther from Rome ouerburdened them Also they reuolted vnder the Emperour Nero as well for his greate crueltie as for his ouercharging them wyth greate paymentes of money by mee before spoken of Lykewise vnder the Emperour Gallien for hys greate riot and whoredome as before I haue touched For the Frenchmen sayeth Pollio were in those dayes of suche disposition as they coulde not abide a vicious Prince And agayne after they reuolted from the Emperoures Probus Dioclesian and others tyll they hadde quite cut off them selues agayne from the Empyre and politiquely broughte their countrie into a self settled Monarchie the which the Lord long mayntayne Who soeuer woulde take vppon him the discouering of the infinite number of examples whiche touche the alterations that haue happened in publique estates from Monarchies into common weales and from common weales into Monarchies when corruption hadde once caughte them shoulde neuer make an ende but to mee it suffiseth to haue touched these fewe to the ende that youre Maiestie by youre wisedome myghte prouide that the corruptions whiche are nowe crept into France and are dayly like to creepe further bring not with them a change to the state which God forbid For truely there is nothing that more foresheweth the alteration of an estate than when corruption is seene to spread ouer farre into it I knowe well that men can not be without faultes neyther can Monarchies nor common wealthes bee so gouerned as there may not in the gouernement be found matter of reproofe but when al things in the fame are to be seene turned the vpside downe when vice is made vertue and vertue made vice when good men are hated and euill men aduanced in summe whē corruption hath recouered the highest degree that it may reache to then may it well bee sayd according as men do see continually that an exchange of state approcheth Wherwithall is to be noted that by the ordinarie course of worldly things no one state can endure for euer And syr seeing that your kingdome hath endured this twelue hundreth yeeres and more you ought so muche the rather to feare least in the state thereof some alteration shoulde happen And if in Iulius Caesars time the strangers drawen into Fraunce coulde fynde the way to winne the same it is not to bee doubted but if it may lye in their power they will nowe doe the lyke The Frenchmen when they sawe the euill dealing of Caesar repented their calling him into Fraunce but then it was too late Let vs therefore in tyme bee warned by the harmes of our auncestours so to prouide for our safeties as we be not ouertaken as were the Troyans whiche became wise but not til after such time as they were vtterly ouerthrowen The seconde point HItherto I haue I thinke sufficientlye spoken of the firste poynte of my treatie that is to saye that a Prince shall not fynde profitable his making of warres agaynste his subiects It foloweth now that I come to say somewhat of the seconde whiche entreateth of those miseries that ciuill warres do engender and the profit that a good peace might bryng to youre Crowne and poore Subiects Of the calamities that from ciuil warres do proceede we neede not to make any long discourse eache seeing and feeling the same in a thousand sortes of afflictions touchyng their persons losse of goodes and deathe of parents and friends and each knoweth that hath any iudgemente the mischiefes thereof to be such as wil if they continue bring the realme to vtter destruction For ther is none that seeth what we see and knoweth what wee knowe but may thinke that the ciuill warres enduring it will happē vnto France as it happened to the two fighting Frogges whiche when they had fought till they were weery were by the Kyte that came to parte them in eache foote one carried away And it is not to bee doubted but the straungers whiche to that warre encouraged vs are as gladde to see vs togither by the eares as was the Kyte soaring ouer the Frogges to see them fyght whose fyghting he meant to make a furderaunce to his pray as they hope ours shall one daye bee to theirs when wee shall bee vnable any longer to mayntayne warres And therefore it is that some on the one syde and some on the other to the proceeding on both sydes gyue so great encouragemente Ah Syr sayth one will you lose the glorious title of most Christian King heeretofore gotten by youre auncestours through their maineteyning of the Romane Churche Will you sir cryeth another suffer your Subiectes to prescribe lawes vnto you and to bring into youre Realme a newe Religion maugre youre will will not you perfourme the agreemēt of the holy league whiche is to abolishe whatsoeuer in fayth is contrary to the holy Church of Rome The Frenchmen haue aforetime had this honor to haue often passed the mountaynes and to haue made beyonde the seas many iourneyes for the defence of the catholique religion holy sea of Rome and must they now lose that glory Philip August king of France ouerthrew the Albegeois his subiects made of thē a great slauter for that they would haue intruded into their countrey a new kinde of Religion which by the executiō was put away abolished Why folow you not then the exāple of the good king your predecessour These such other proper deuises put forth by the Spanyards Popes Pencionaries to encourage you to the setting on fire the foure corners yea and middle parte of your Realme But in the meane season none dothe saye vnto you Sir you spyll and vtterly spoyle youre Realme in making warre against your subiects whych kind of warre no Prince did euer finde profytable There is none that sayth vnto you Sir you bring your selfe in hatred of youre neighbours the Almaines Englishmen Scots and Flemings from whom in time of neede more amitie might be drawen than may eyther from the Italians or Spaniardes None dare to you say Sir this cause of religion is not yet so broughte out of doubte that the gospellers be vanquished in the error of their fayth for they presented themselues at Poissi in the time of your late brother to mainteine the poyntes of their Religion but my maisters the Prelates were as then at no leysure to confute them so that whether in fayth they erre or not is as yet vndetermined And therefore you shoulde not be so greatly moued as to execute them before they were condemned And touchyng the councell of Trent they say it is as it were a determined sentence giuen of a selfwil and that they ought neuerthelesse to be hearde at the least in purging themselues of stubborne dealing as in deede they may well doe Besides this there are that beate downe the sayd

cruelly with passing rage him whipt Now Bandil stout and fierce of minde conceyuing more disdayne Of so outrageous villanie than passing for the payne And feeding in his pensiue hart on purpose to requite Will wisely for a time let slip the wreaking of that spite But afterward the shamefulnesse so sore his hart doth sting He burning in disdaine and rage against the cruell king And hauing no regard at all of scepter crowne or state Will pay him home his hastie mode with stroke of blouddy fate His hart will neuer be at rest vntill his hand haue shed His lord and maisters bloud and wrought reuengement on his head And is it not to be presumed that there be at this day a thousād Bandils which feel thē as much offēded as he did your maiestie perseuering in the taking away of their goods and liues And shall ye not as readily finde Ronsards to prayse and set them forwarde in such enterprises Be there not nowe also Magiciens that can torment and by little little consume a body by his image or coūterfait as well as were in the time of Valens and Valentinian the Emperours Yes this worlde is at this day more poysoned with Magitiens Enchauntours and Sorcerers than it was these fiue hundred yeeres past But these Hugonots will some say be of too good conscience to vse those kynde of people I answere therevnto that there be of diuers sortes some haue a right good conscience and some none at all There be wise there be foolish there be sufferers there be reuengers but moe without comparison out of order than reformed And be there not numbers also of Catholikes not contented and of Atheists not satisfied which will make small scruple to employ those Magiciens in reuenging of them selues But to encounter with those enterprises you shall do well sir to take councell of that gentle prince Arnus sonne to Porsena King of the Hetrurians Porsena in the quarell of another that is to say to maynteine the tyrannie of Tarquin the proude vndertooke the warres against the Romanes who seeing this King to make them warre for a thing that nothing touched him tooke the matter verie haynously in so much as there was founde amongst them three hundred Gentlemen whiche conspired to goe in counterfet apparell to King Porsenas campe to the ende there to kyll him Q. Mutius was one of the conspirators who being come inot the saide campe seing one of the kings seruantes set in a chayre brauely furnished taking him for the king him self killed him with the stroke of a dagger hauing giuen this blow he was taken and caried to the king who demaunded of him for what cause he had so slayne his seruant to whome Mutius wyth a greate courage putting his hande into the fire that then presently there burned answered after this manner This is the hande that committed the faulte in killing thy seruant where I ment to kyll thee and therefore it is reason it suffer the payne due to such desert Hereat was none more abashed than Poisena him selfe who seeing the magnanimitie of this iolly yong gentleman commaunded him to be set at libertie Mutius who looked for none other than death seeing the Kyngs noble disposition sayde vnto him Sir for as much as thou hast towardes me vsed a farre greater clemencie thā I could in any respect haue looked for I wil in recōpence of that thy goodnesse do thee truly to vnderstand that there are of vs .300 Romane Gentlemen which haue conspired thy death for the preuenting wherof it shal be good that thy guard haue a good eye vnto thee Porsena vpon those words more astonyed than before caused an assembly of his councell to consult what guarde he might best entertayne for the keeping of him from those conspiratours Amongst whome the gentle Prince Arnus his sonne was of opinion that he was not so muche to consider of what guard he shuld vse as he was to prouide for his hauing no neede of a guard Then his father asked hym how that myght be done in making sayth he the Romanes of enimies to become your friendes which you may and were best to doe if you make more account of your life than ye do of the maintenance of Tarquins wicked cause The King beleeued his sonne made peace with the Romanes and departed in safetie A number of other miseries and calamities that hang on ciuill warres myght heere be discouered whereof when I thinke me semeth to see a Chimere or other hideous monster accompanyed with all the euils mischieses and miseries that are in earth sea or hell whereof as of a detestable thing it grieueth me to speake or once to thinke neyther woulde I serue as a Nosterdame to our poore Realme of Fraunce in the foreshewing of those calamities and desolations whiche dayly doe threaten vs if oure sayde ciuill warres continue but had rather to stande as a Ionas in praying vnto God for his dealing towardes vs as hee dealt towardes that great citie Niniuie from whome for one amendment he turned away the destruction before threatned vnto them we haue already endured miserie inough both to make vs wise and to prouoke vs to amendment if neither wisdome nor amendment haue folowed thereof let it nowe doe It is better late than neuer I wil herevnto adde as it were in the detestatiō of war a sentence of the great Emperours Augustus Caesar worthy by al princes to be noted That good Prince was wont to say that warres should neuer be taken in hande but where hope maketh more shewe of profit than feare can do of losse meaning where victorie may bring great profite and vanquishment small losse for those sayth he which will seeke small profite and hazarde therefore great losse may well be likened to him that fisheth with a hooke of golde which broken off and caryed away bringeth more losse to the fisher than much fishe can recompence Let vs a little consider I pray you sir what aduantage may growe to you by vanquishing all the Gospellers is it the chasing of the Religion quite out of youre realme Let it be so yet can you not for all that so chase it out of the worlde but that it may after your time returne agayne into Fraunce And before ye attayne to that smal profite ye are like inough to lose what of your nobles and of your commons an infinite number of Catholikes as the late king your brother in his warres late passed the more is the pitie hath done For let it be counted a small losse the losing of so many braue Gospellers as the curteous and right noble Lewes of Burbon Prince of Conde the valiaunt Dandalot the wise Admirall the good Count Rochfoucault the honest Teligni the braue captaines Bruoquemauds father and sonne Pilles Monius the Pardillans with a number of like other Yea let the Bartholmewe iourney be reckoned for a braue politike exployre although the Gospellers so confesseth not but doe rather in their