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A03893	A discourse vpon the present estate of France together with a copie of the kings letters patents, declaring his mind after his departure out of Paris : whereunto is added the copie of two letters written by the Duke of Guize / translated out of French and now newly reprinted, and corrected by E. Aggas.; Excellent et libre discours sur l'estat present de la France. English. 1588	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Guise, Henri, duc de, 1550-1588.; Aggas, Edward.	1588 (1588)	STC 14004; ESTC S120854	55,651	70

hit on it Amongst these the first is the Queene mother vnto the king who for her credits sake and in shew keepeth her selfe on her sonnes side as she did alwaies when shee had many sonnes hold with him that was king but who notwithstanding hateth nothing more than his absolute power as beeing the worse for it When France was in peace she was faine to spin her rock at home her son left her no charge nor deling in any matter That she might recouer her authoritie she was fain to shuffell the cardes or haue intelligence with those that shuffeled them otherwise she was of no vse which her mind that could not thinke on small matters could neuer brooke And of this Princesse whose race hath ruled ruleth at this day ouer the best parts of Europe it may be saide as it was of Agrippa V●●ribus curis mu●ebria vitia exuisse If that alreadie were not a vice in a woman it hath beene alwaies her custome in France to stirre vp one against another that in the meane while she might rule in these diuisions The mightie against the mightie Princes against Princes yea her owne children against her children For she know wel enough that our state standeth so as that a woman except it be by some extraordinarie waies is of no credite therein In the time of the late king Charles this that nowe is was then her protector whose power she did increase as much as she could to the end she might vse him to make her selfe necessarie vnto the other The king at length perceiued it but too late Since that this beeing come vnto the Crowne wherein to speake the truth hee was infinitely bound vnto her whiles he was in Polande being as well assured that except shee had wisely prouided for it there had beene such stirringes in France as perchance at his comming home hee had beene kept from getting in Shee kept her credite for three or foure yeares whilest this yoong king dreamed of nothing but the pleasures of his age and the deliciousnesse of his newe estate but since beginning to take vppon him the affirmatiue voice and to seeke to rule alone she was forced to haue recourse vnto Mounsieur her yoonger sonne who for a while vphelde her and made her to be esteemed necessarie He being deade shee chose other remedies for howsoeuer it bee shee hath euer wished two thinges The one to make him that was in possibilitie of the Crowne to bee beholding vnto her for to keepe him in when hee were come to it The other to make him in the meane while so great that he that were master of the State should bee forced to vse her helpe in brideling the other employing after this manner verie quietly both their powers one against the other that betwixt them shee might rule and be sought to such a councell as particularlie for her selfe was as full of wisedome as often full of troubles and inconueniences for the commons Nowe if after Mounsieurs death shee had founde the king of Nauarre fitte for these practises she had made her buckler of him but seeing that his religion and many other considerations did hinder her she hath cast both her eyes and her heart on the house of Lorraine and her daughters children whereunto the hatred that shee did beare vnto this Prince euen from his infancie hath beene a great helpe So that esteeming her selfe not able to bee reconciled with him shee consequently dooth feare him and is fully resolued to hinder him in all that shee can from getting anie part in France Shee can neuer doo it without the ouerthrowe of the order of the Realme For as I saide after this hatred commeth in the loue shee beareth vnto the children of the D. of Lorraine who are her daughters children towards whome she hath a secret inclination neuer ceasing day nor night to reproch vnto the king that he ought rather to loue as his heires his Nephewes his Sisters children then a stranger vnto his house so dooth shee terme the king of Nauarre The daughters of Spaine are also her daughters children vpon whome she would likewise be glad to bestowe some part of the same not being grieued in the meane while that her sons state is in trouble to the ende that he should haue refuge vnto her and that she may be imployed Now in this manner she agreeth well with the Duke of Guize to crosse her sonne to stirre vp and open the way to confusion and about the meanes to alter the order of succession in our realme but to wish that hee shoulde waxe so great that he might ouerthrow the king himselfe dispossesse him and himselfe afterward to inuade the whole state it is not likely I cannot beleeue that she desireth it Now vnder this the Queene mothers intent I comprehend also that of the Marquise du Port her little sonne sonne vnto the Duke of Lorraine who likewise hath no intelligence or hope in this our state any further then she his grandmother doth procure him to conceiue Next there is the king of Spaine who from the beginning of these wars seeing the Queene of England to knit a straite alliance with our king seeing in the same time also the Commissioners of the low countries at Paris to offer him the soueraigntie ouer their prouinces it came in his head to cast three or foure thousand crownes into the hungrie hands of the league so to set France in troubles as being assured that by these meanes he should keepe the king from thinking vpon Flanders the which he did most feare as indeed there is but the onely king of France so he be in peace that can easily take these Prouinces from the Spaniarde This is that which brought him in and consequently that somewhat ouerhastned the Duke of Guizes deuises Besides that hee feareth now extremely least the king of Nauarre should attaine to the crowne of France hee is his enimie by nature he detaineth a kingdome from him which no doubt if the others ●●awes may growe on will bee wholly pulled away and more perchance withall Hee knoweth well enough that he being olde his children yoong his state deuided and scarse setled small matters after his death will trouble it much more a king of Nauarre if he were king of Fraunce Therfore he is glad to frame himselfe vnto those of Lorraine to finde them meanes to stirre vp coales that in the meane while he may more freely goe about his warres of the lowe countries and of Englande to molest the king of France thereby to ouerthrowe the king of Nauarre to the end that afterward the realm being left for a pray he being the mightiest might catch the greater part This is his drift as cōcerning our state but that he would proceede so farre as being burdened with many other particular expences he wold yet draw his treasors drie to make the Duke of Guize king he I say who is perswaded that if it were so that the maner

faire and manie other kinges of Fraunce enemies to the Popes vsurpations Thus his chiefest interest is to cut this Prince short of his hope For his part hee dooth what hee can hee thundreth hee stormeth he curseth hee declareth him an heretike a rebell finally not capable of the Crowne of France as though it lay in him to take it away or to giue it For the execution of this Bull which in deede of it selfe could doo but little against the bulwarkes of Rochell if that were all he armeth all Christendome yea euen the Cardinall of Bourbon to whome hee sendeth a hallowed sworde of the race of Saint Paule hee promiseth money vnto the Guizians hee promiseth but hee sendeth not as hauing not yet paide that which his Popedome did cost him according to the Romish stile To conclude as it belongeth to him hee worketh myracles with his Crosier staffe and his purpose and drift is to animate all the worlde against the heretikes among whom hee comprehendeth the Queene of Englande and the king of Nauarre his principall enemie to his thinking whose ouerthrowe hee looketh for by the meanes of this vniuersall league As much or more occasion hath hee to complaine of the high and lowe Germanie as of Fraunce and Englande but hee thinketh that after that the king of Spaine and those of Guize shall haue chasticed that is to saie vsurped France and Englande in driuing out the heretikes that is to say the true princes and lawfull lordes after that they shall haue tamed the lowe countries they may without any gainesaying ioyne their forces with the Emperors so to constraine either by friendship or force the Princes of Germanie which are Protestants to come againe vnder the yoke of his obedience that after that being no great likelihood that the Suitzers woulde obstinate themselues against such great forces seeing their Cantons are alreadie deuided they altogither might easily assist the Duke of Sauoy to recouer Geneua and to sacke that towne which they call the spring and fountaine of all heretikes of Christendome It is there that hee concludeth the ende of his desire and of his holie leagues enterprise Which I haue seene written by Pope Sixtus himselfe in a letter intercepted about the beginning of these troubles in France sent from Italie into Spaine And as for him this is his pretence that is his intent grounded vpon that generall hatred which hee beareth to the heretikes but especially vnto the king of Nauarre and the Queene of England of whom he hath receiued harme enough alreadie or is afraid to receiue more The king of Spaine hath three particular purposes for the which he wisheth this generall league The first to compasse the warres of the lowe countries which are helde by those whome hee calleth heretikes and against the Queene of Englande who is likewise of their number The seconde his hereditarie desire to ioyne France vnto his dominions which hee thinketh he may nowe the more easily doo in respect of the right that belongeth vnto him through his wife a daughter of France and his daughters gotten betwixt them for as for him hee thinketh not that the Salike lawe the honour of our kings was made for him The last the ouerthrowe of the king of Nauarre whome hee purposeth whatsoeuer it costeth him to remooue as much as hee can possiblie from the crowne for manie reasons that hee hath to feare this great enimie whome God keepeth for to be one day the destruction of his house For the benefite of these three purposes hee is come in and hath much solicited this generall league which strengtheneth to h im his title of war against England of enmity against the king of Nauar ministreth to him opportunity to enterprise vnder hand against the state of France whilest he fauoureth the affaires of the Duke of Guize his partner with whom except it were for this he could haue no intelligence that might yeeld him any profite by his meanes in France he doth hope to ouerthrow the king of Nauarre also he hopeth to vse the hauens of Picardie and Normandie against England the low countries being sure enough afterward that the king of France being dead his lawfull successor dispossessed and the realme left as a pray he shal be able easily to deuide their part vnto those of Lorraine being stronger then they and thus may we see that he turneth the general pretence of this goodly league to his particular benefit and purpose euen as though it had beene onely made for his domesticall affaires The Emperour would galdly that all the other Princes of Christendome which are of the religion were ouerthrowne to the end the whole bodie of the league might come to set him free from the protestants which are his neighbours but because it is yet a long peece of worke and that it were not good for him to bestirre himselfe much least he should waken those mightie princes which are stronger then himselfe he rusheth not far in amongst them no more then the other princes of Germanie I haue discoursed enough of the duke of Guizes intent and purpose which is to make himselfe alone king of France if it be possible or at least 〈◊〉 the better part such a purpose as willingly admitteth no fellow for the which a man wil not lightly labour for another This I doo heere note onely to shewe that to helpe himselfe in Fraunce by the meanes of Spaine to the furtherance of his enterprise in recompence thereof himselfe to helpe the Spaniard to recouer his lowe countries to see the Queene of England to whom he wisheth euen death it selfe whom likewise he knoweth to be the only support of his enimie quite ouerthrowne he wil haue notable intelligence with the king of Spaine but to yeelde him wholy the crowne of France and to holde it of him by homage if he be able to vsurpe it or to giue him ouer the better part I beleeue he will not In the meane while these pretences being grounded vpon nothing else then the diuision of religion wee must confesse him to bee one of the chiefest pillers of this holy league The princes of Italie haue no other purpose at al then their owne preseruation being enclosed on one side by the Pope on the other by the Venetians on the thirde by the king of Spaine besides deuided and their States so small that they haue smal leasure to think of any other matter thē to maintaine themselues and for this reason only are they come into the league But they are not so good catholikes but that they feare more the encrease of the house of Spaine then the decay of their religion Such as haue beene in their countries do know this The Duke of Sauoy is also comprehended in this generall vnion so long as his father in law shall liue he will haue the same enterprises that he hath if he dieth he wil haue others as I shall shewe anone which altogither doo synpathise with those of