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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01175	The restorer of the French estate discouering the true causes of these vvarres in France & other countries, and deliuering the right course of restoring peace and quiet to all Christendome: wherein are handled these principall questions touching religion, policie, and iustice: whether it be lawfull to sweare, and keepe promise to heretikes, to force mens consciences for religion sake, to liue with, and dwell nigh heretikes, to breake the order of succession to the Crowne bycause of religion, or no. Who be schismatikes; and of the chiefe poincts of religion. How we are to iudge of the schisme in Christendome at this day. Lastly, the conclusion conteining notable admonitions to the clergie, nobles, magistrates, people, and King of France. Translated out of French. Ecclesiæ & reipub. D.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 11289; ESTC S102588	139,883	174

He beareth so prince-like a port in his person and is so praise-worthy in his actions as any man liuing He reigneth ouer himselfe and his subiects after an heauenly maner being abundantly replenished with the Diuine spirit and not after the ordinary maner of men There is the wit that is the most quick and liuely most stayed and stedfast that may be desired a wit whose libertie was neuer enthralled by any cause of contentment nor yet grauelled by any soudaine chaunce or displeasure that might happen He hath alwaies surmounted accidents of greatest difficultie and highest enterprise His reason commandeth his conceipt with such power and filleth his mind so abundantly that no place is left for vnbrideled affection to enter or abide Neuer was there man of his estate so like himselfe at all times as he is He is a great warrier if euer were any in all the toyles of warfare he taketh such part as the souldier doeth not differing in anything from his men of armes but in matchlesse conduct and worthinesse he is wary and happy in warre and if it may be spoken he is worthy of his good hap neuer Prince being so vnwilling to warre as he hath done so many exploicts of warre as he The strength of man bringeth no such wonders to passe but the reason experience and iudgement of men that betake their soule to the counsaile and gouernement of Gods good spirit He mindeth his affaires he will see heare know all which bringeth to his subiects exceeding comfort and is the onely or most sure meane to continue his officers in their dutie He is popular courteous in speach mild in maners and mercifull in heart and yet no Prince hath more maiestie or whose presence is more awfull or whose auctority conteyneth euery one better in his dutie or who preserueth iustice more carefully then he to the well-liking of all He knoweth not cruelty iniustice prodigall wast and oppression being thing quite contrary to his studies and purposes it was ne●●● heard that he killed massacred or murthered any one of his subiects or seruants within the verge of his Court or elsewhere It is not knowen that he wrongfully with-holdeth any other mans goods his Palaces and Courts are not built or enriched with the ruine and spoyle of townes of the people or any 〈◊〉 he spendeth according to the rate of his reuen●w●s he thinketh the meanes he hath to spend by doo rather belong to his subjects then the meanes they haue to liue by do belong to him he geueth vpon good cause and to good end he robbeth not one to giue to another he giueth in such sort that he hath friends seruants enough he giueth in such sort that there resteth to himself enough to supply the need of his affaires without being constrained to helpe himselfe with harming and oppressing others The credit of this truth is not crackt by the oppressions which many endure at this day through the armies and men of warre of the king of Nauarre For these harmies and losses are as grieuous to him as they are to those that feele and suffer them be ●estifieth this truth aboundantly with the 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 with his ordinary complaints with the careful pursuit he hath made for peace with the daily courtesies he bestoweth on them that come to craue his pitie and goodnes there is no let in him but that he is as milde and gratious in warre as in peace he cutteth of so much as hee may the iust seuerities of the warre but yet though he doth what he can warre will still be warre If he had sufficient means to pay enterteyne his gentlemen soldiers be are out the burdē of war against his enemies ye might easily cōceiue what he is most willing to do that matters should passe calmely that ye should be harmed litle or nothing at al by any of his according to the desire he hath to releeue and cōfort you al. But the performace of this good will he beareth towards you is yet impossible for him because the most part of his goods and possessions are seized on and caried away by his enemies all they that folow him Lords Gentlemen and others are wrongfully banished out of their countrey driuen out of their houses put frō th'enioyment of their goods and put besides the exercise of their offices They must needs liue they must needs mainteine thēselues seeing they cānot with their own goods which their enemies do vnrightfully lay hold on they must serue their turnes with that which they can find of the goodes of their enemies Thus it is not the king of Nauarre that ye should complaine of it is the warre it is the auctours of these warres which he began not but rather is wonderfully displeased that it endeth not he neither demaundeth nor purposeth to haue good or rest for himself but with the good and rest of you all He can well enough absteine from the fauours of your Court he could forthwith finde in his heart to renounce your Crowne if there went with it nothing saue his owne but there goeth with it more of yours then of his there goeth away with it of your goods lands your honour dignities your name and credit your life and libertie libertie I say which hath euer bene to all men a benefit inestimable but aboue them all to your auncestours so that his dutie and degree his calling and the good will he beareth you permit him not to forsake and leaue you to the perill wherein ye are and therefore he either will saue you from destruction and bondage or will perish for you or will perish with you open your eyes then accept of the right the desert good meaning of the Prince beware ye refuse not such a Prince Prepare your schues to receiue him in the degree and qualitie wherein God doth and will I hope offer him to you not that ye should desire the decease of your king whom ye haue at this present and is blaced ouer you by God Turne your eyes toward the king of Nauarre with a louing regard seing he is such a one that if leaue were graunted you to looke for a king according to your owne choise and wish ye could not chuse nor wish one more worthy Beleeue me ye shall receaue more profit commoditie and content by his reigne then he shall he may better forge such subiects then ye may such a Prince Cease then your conspiracies against him nay cease to conspire against your owne selues against God himselfe It is high time for you to leaue to looke desire and seeke for strangers yet at the last call to minde that frank and true heart of your ancestours wherewith they bought their owne libertie and yours so dearely freed themselues from the subiection of straungers so valiantly and recouered their freedome from the English so nobly They not onely hated the rule of forreine kings but also would not be ruled by

causes by your naturall Princes that cannot see you suffer but they suffer also with you by force of the naturall compassion that should be betweene you as mēbers of the same body then by strangers whose natural propertie is to reioyce in your greeuances according to the naturall grudge betwene you and them Feare ye to be worse intreated in religion of your owne Countreymen who haue stil required to haue the conquest of consciences left to God and his word than of strangers who haue still made religion plie and bow after their appetites to serue them for a cloke in th' execution of their enmities ambition and couetise the liking of your dignities your wiues and houses shall condemne you of heresie Set before your eyes a mad bedlem body trotting in and out and carrying with toyle and much adoo fewell and fire into the hart euery corner of his house for to burne his familie his wife children and seruaunts his goods his house and himselfe Compare your actions with that Bedlem bodies ye shall find thē to agree iump ye bring lay your goodes your peines and trauail your life and honour at the Lorraines feete to ayd them to burne this Realme wherein are your wiues children and seruaunts your kins-folke and frends your goods and your selues Beleeue me the hopes they feede you with are vayne After that by your meane they shall become maisters and Lords of France they will feare none but you French-men shal be their onely enemies and principally the Nobles they will thinke themselues neuer assured in their vsurpation vntill they haue quite ouerthrowen and destroyed you Thus there is no good to be hoped for by the trauail ye take and hurliburlyes ye make but on the contrary side account must be made that from them will issue the ruine of this state and your selues Behold how for a messe of Lentil pottage like a sort of Esaus for a sinall portion of that which is your owne which belongeth rather to you then them that giue it ye sell your birth-right your naturall freedome the honour of your auncestours and your selues your libertie your repose your goods and countrey and which passeth all ye band your selues against God against the course of kinde against the lawes so that shame losse confusion and eternall damnation must needes awayt you Abandon therefore this accursed League and reenter into the franchise and Gentleman-like courage of the French your predecessours and like nothing more then the ayre and French name then the enterteinement of your naturall Princes Turne your eyes towardes them and ye shall finde in them whatsoeuer a frank minded Nobilitie may desire If ye will liue in quiet with honour reknowledgement recompence at the hands of one Prince go to them ye shal finde them agreable courteous affable honorable magnificent and bountifull furnished and giuen to all exercises of true noblenesse and such as can well iudge remember and gratifie the merite of Gentlemen And if a more stout courage pricks you on to desire the recouerie of that which hath bene vsurped by your neighbours on your liuelihood and honour who can better assist and conduct you in such enterprises then your Princes who haue the same interest in the like that you haue and the same desire too peraduenture who are incomparable in all perfections required in Generals of an army It is against straungers against th' enemies of your Princes that ye must arme and conspire together which would vndermine plucke downe and overthrow this Crowne it is your part to vphold it it belongeth to your state and charge it is that which your fathers and you haue so solemnely and so often sworne Apply your selues and obey to the will of God to the order of nature to the constitutions of the law considering all these do fauour you and present to you the most accomplished Princes that ye may desire Range your felues on their side Onely arme not your selues but abide quietly in your houses and the warre shall end anone by a good peace or some other meane God and men will can you thank your king chiefly who will hold his libertie of you ye know it well ynough ye may no longer dissemble And ye my Iusticers and Counsellers of Estate To Magistrates why swarue ye from the duetie of your charge why set yee at nought the othe ye made to God to Iustice to the Crowne and to the King why hyde ye the talent that God gaue you why destroy ye godlinesse mercy Iustice and law the foundations and assurance of the Crowne why shut ye your mouth in the kings presence why dissemble ye with him that which importeth his rest his honour the presernation of his Crowne of his Estate of his Realme of publike peace the comfort of his poore subiects and your owne preseruation ye resemble the figge tree spoken of in the Gospell ye beare a greene leafe but ye beare no fruict it was oursed of the Lord feare ye the like curse Ye be officers of Iustice and yet do concele that which is Iustice ye are Counsellers to the king and yet ye counsell him not ye are in deede but Counsellers for your selues for that which seemeth gainefull to your selues and for straungers against him If his Maiestie commaunde any thing that is preiudiciall euer so little to you and the companies linked with you ye say that such commaundements are extorted from him against his will or witting ye can then vse very free admonitions and declare to him what is Iustice ye be free hardy and mightie enough to oppose your selues against such commandemēts But if his life repofe and honor with the ruine or preseruation of the weale-publike stande vpon it although ye see that he is forced that for feare a word that may make all Frenchmē blush euen for feare he is faine to allow that for good which hee detesteth in his foule ye dare not speake ye mainteine him in his feare in his captiuitie your selues captiue him for if he were wel assured to finde in you that which ought to be he would take another course to quench this ciuill flame your selues I say first made bond-men through false feares vamechopes poisoned and pestilent gifts This is the price for which yee sell your goods wiues children your honor and conscience the publike honor liberty your countrie your king Ye geue your sclues ouer so to be wonne and possessed by strangers that ye haue no other rule in your iudgements and counsels saue their will If your king make any motion to take aduise of you ye first looke them in the face before ye will speake ye first take direction of them what answere to make Consider the pouerties deformities confusions corruptions which this League whom ye fauour hath brought aswell in your estate as all other estates of this Realme Acknowledge that the League with the foundations propositions practises and pursuites the pretence the true purpose