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A10586	A legendarie, conteining an ample discourse of the life and behauiour of Charles Cardinal of Lorraine, and of his brethren, of the house of Guise. Written in French by Francis de L'isle; Legende de Charles, cardinal de Lorraine et de ses frères, de la maison de Guise. English	La Planche, Louis Régnier de, ca. 1530-ca. 1580.	1577 (1577)	STC 20855; ESTC S115805	138,427	198

sought vtterly to root out him and his Thus may you see how they enuenimed the King against his blood and people naming to him Valois in steade of Guise openly playing at King put of thy coate yet could not their cruelties stop men from casting these things in their teeth both in worde and writing being accused of weakening deuouring and wasting both the King and his Realme But al this shal more particularly be described The Cardinal was then so malepart as in the Kings presence to sweare by Gods blood that the Baron of Castelnaul should die for it and that no man should saue him In the meane time the Kings edicts posted euery way and the Duke of Guise the more to floute the King and doubting lest the executiō of so many might procure him more hatred among al men fearing also least this worde estates which already began to tingle in their eares should tickle the peoples hearts thought it best to saue the liues after the maner of a thiefe which holdeth a man in his mercy at the corner of a wood of the most part of the poore souldiers who were come on foote which was done giuing euery man closely a testorne I wil not here say that they counseled the King to slaye the Prince of Conde neither speake of the meanes which they vsed in washing and clensing them selues in innocent blood neither of the slanders which they layed vpon the dead persons or of their faire promises for time to come and al in the Kings name and yet obserued nothing for we shal haue time enough to speake thereof more largely hereafter But I wil set before the readers an other wonderful iniury which their ambition wrought against the King and his estate Their niece who was married to Francis the second was Queene of Scots Now chalenged she some title to England because she was the daughter of the sonne of one of the sisters of King Henry the eight of England pretending that Queene Elizabeth at this present reigning might easely be displaced especially because that Marie Queene before her being married to King Philippe had declared her vnlawful They caused therfore their niece to take vpon her the title armes both of Englād Scotlād determining finally to appropriat to themselues the realm of England at the cost of France and in the name of their said niece whether it were by subtiltie or force Also the religion which Queene Elizabeth professed semed to them a meete pretence to winne some power in England where it is not vnknowen that there are suffred ouer many of the popes affectionate seruants Again the mightines of the King of France together with the inuincible alliāce of both kngdomes was vnto them an other couer or cloke vnder the which they gathered together many secret seruants pensioners who sould their wicked consciences by golde weite and in scoffing at the Guisians perswaded them that for the attaining of England it was requsite first to came the Scots who for the most part were become protestants For by this goodly exploit the English Catholikes should haue a sufficient gage of their rest for time to come also that it was necessary that one of the six brethren shoulde remaine stil in Scotland During these practises there arose some trouble in Scotland about religion King Henry the second died and they seeing themselues on horsback determined to pursue this pray with horne and crye They sent therefore the Bishop of Amiens a very nimble person in the court of the Church who in one moneth should reduce said he al the strayed Scots with him la Brosse a hairebrained and furious person who should murder al in that realme These two good commissioners being arriued in Scotland began in their owne fancies to make partition of the gentlemens lands and selling the beares skinne which yet they had not taken they writte vnto the Guisians that there were waies how to draw yerely two hundred thousād crownes out of this kingdō by puttīg to death the nobilitie and bringing the commons into subiection also that there they might wel lodge a thousand French gentle mē who should be to do the lords of Guise seruice God knoweth whither this council clawed them where they itched and whither they maligned the Queene dowager their sister and her minion the lord of Oysel who thought it not best to ouerrunne the said Scotts who had blood in their nayles as they shewed wel making the Bishop to feele that they had nought to doe with his instructions and compelling la Brosse to returne the same way he came and to goe and bragge it in some other place driuing away the priests the Cardinalty and the Papalty al which had it not bene for the foolish ambition of the Guisians might well haue remained Also besides this blowe they susteined an other onset on the coaste of England for Queene Elizabeth made a large protestation expressely against them therein setting before al mens sight the causes of these broyles to the Kings confusion and the destruction of his realme And whatsoeuer countenances or practises that they made afterward fastening according to their custome the foxes skinne vnto the lyons yet gained they nought els on that side sauing shame to themselues and losse and hinderance vnto the King and his realme Whiles they extended their wings so farre of in France one the one side the protestants multiplied and on the otherside such as misliked the gouernement of the Guisians began againe to take heart notwithstanding the successe of the enterprise of Amboyse had in the beginninge greatly quailed the greatest part Hereupon the Duke of Guise marueilously chafed that in his gouernement of Dauphine the protestants had first lifted vp their heades brought in sixtene ensignes of the olde bands of Piedmōt together with diuers cōpanies of other French souldiers vnder the conduct of Tauannes Maugiron and others who made marueilous hauocke in those countreis Sone after also they brought the King to Tours where they did what they could to haue had the towne destroyed for they supposed that the inhabitants thereof had fauoured the enterprise of Amboyse and therefore a great while bare them a milke tooth Thus walking the King vp and downe causing him to taste of the baite of al pleasures they abused his youth and simplicitie dayly planting other pillers of their greatnesse for time to come the more they se they were contrariried the sorer were they enuenimed bent vnto new practises brīging the King into the hatred both of his subiects and strangers more endamaging the realme in one moneth then then before it had bene in a whole yeres warre against the Spaniard for it was incredible what exactions and debtes they procured also what goods them selues hoarded vp during the raigne of their said nephue Frācis the second These behauiours together with extreeme violence vsed brought most part of the commons in maner into despaire of euer seeing France againe in

they procured the preferring of the Duke of Neuers before the Prince of Conde concerning the charge of the light horsemen Yea within a yere after the Marshal Brissac was also preferred before the said Prince of Conde in the gouernment of Picardie The Duke of Guise hauing gotten this commission and men ouer whom to commande swelled manifestly in pride whiles in the meane time the Cardinal playing vpon his harpe in the middest of all these broyles lulled King Henry on slepe in the bosome of the villainouse Seneschall Neuertheles Henry who on the one parte vehemently loued his gossip the Constable and on the other parte had not his eyes so ouercome with slepe but that sometimes he opened them and so perceiued the Guisians taking ouer highly vpon them whereat he finally begun somewhat to be displeased with him not refrayning from discharging presently part of that which afterward he considered more largely of for he excused him self toward his gossip secretly certifying him that he had bene compelled to make the Duke of Guise his Lieutenant general also to agree to the mariage of the Dauphine with many other things against his will but that the time should doe him right This mariage of the Dauphine was in this wise The Cardinal perceiuing no man at the court able to controlle him his brother vpon his returne out of Italy the Constable prisoner began to motion the mariage of his niece the Queene of Scots for the compassing whereof he propounded that the King might during his owne natural life behold as well his sonne a crowned Kinge as the Emperour Charles had in his time seene his sonne Philippe crowned King of Englande He procured also the estates of Scotland to hasten this matter solliciting them thereunto by the lord of Oisell who had the superintendence of the Queene dowagers affaires in that countrie Also to the ende to cause the Queene of France to condescend vnto this mariage who still alleaged that he neede not be so hastie seing both the parties were in the Kings hands besides that her sonne the Dauphin was yet to yong and not all the best at ease he began to shew him selfe enemie vnto the great Seneschall Duchesse of Valentinois and her to blame so much as in him lay as disdayning the remembrance of her allyance no longer remembring or at the least counterfeiting forgetfulnes that she had bene the only ladder whereby both he and all his brethren had gotten vp so high This did he thinking it the readiest way to winne the Queenes hearte who mortally hated the said Duchesse and not without cause as all the world knoweth To be briefe this practise so well serued his tourne in the aduancement of his businesse that within seuen moneths after the taking of the Constable this mariage was accomplished thence forth Francis was called King Dauphin and so consequently the lords of Guise the Kings vncles The taking of Calais the enterprise whereof the Constable the Admirall and the lord of Senarpont had long before deuised and forecaste augmented the hatred conceiued in King Henry his heart against the Duke of Guise For hauing often heard of the easinesse of the same he had many times purposed him selfe to haue taken it in hande but the Cardinall seeking the winning of the Frenchmens hearts vnto his owne family procured the Kings minde to be altered and the charge thereof to be committed to the Duke of Guise who neuertheles made the matter very dangerous esteeming it vnpossible to bring to passe yea he stood so much thereupon such was his valiantnes that he protested that his proceeding therein was only to obey the Kings expresse commandement who incessantly motioned the contrarie affirming no difficulty at all to be therein Wherefore seing now how the commendations of the said Duke of Guise were therefore sung and published ouer his whole Realme he could not but openly affirme that the said Duke had defrauded him of an honour to him selfe only appertaining Moreouer vnder matters of goodliest shew outwardly the Cardinall still concealed strange driftes tending to the exalting of his race through the ouerthrow of France He nourrished the warres of Picardie and Italie he brake the truce he with his brother gouerned all for the satisfying of his ambition and preparing of his path to proceede further and yet was not all this sufficient He must therefore trye some other meanes The Duchesse of Lorraine motioned some peace with King Philippe whereof the Cardinal taking his aduantage as shortly we shall perceiue procured to him selfe the commission to goe to her to the end there to finde out some other meanes which was this The bishop of Arras now called Cardinall Granuelle being come as the King of Spaynes deputie to this enteruiew alleaged among other things that France was infected with Lutherans among whom some were euen of the chiefest lordes naming the lord d'Andelot adding also that some of the Princes were of the same profession who by meanes thereof lay in wayte for the crowne whereunto they might easely attaine through the ayde and supporte of the Protestātes as lately he had perceiued These words were not spoken in wast for the Cardinal thereby desirous to frame some practise disclosed to Granuelle all that he knew touching certaine offers which the Protestante Princes had made to King Henry togither with the meetings thereupon betwene the King of Nauarre and them This spake he now to the ende to heare the others opinion knowing that vnlesse he found some occasion to stirre vp housholds in France his owne driftes would be in vaine his family come to decaye Grāuelle on the other side considering of what importance in his masters affaires the breaking of these practises with the Protestantes might be togither with the Cardinall of Lorraine layed this foundation of peace namely that their masters were either of them of such force that in case the one should ouerthrowe the other a third person might easely ouercome the cōquerer and therefore that it was necessary to agree them in such maner that with their whole power they might together set vpon these gospellers thereby to get the recompence for their owne losses first putting to death all such as were within the iurisdictions of both princes not sparing any For the Cardinall of Lorraine hoped that the Princes and great lordes of France which were thought to be Lutherans being dead the King and Realme should thereby be so weakened that his family might with lesse trauaile and coste enioye the same Also that their confiscations might be employed to the winning of seruants and friendes But that which most of all encouraged him to vndertake this matter was that Granuelle shewed him that he knew no knight or captaine liuing more honoured and regarded then the Duke of Guise who therefore was most worthy of such a commission For presently he began in a foolish kinde of vaine hope to swallow vp whole countries and kingdomes perswading

There did they commit infinite mischiefs and yet escaped punishment to the ende afterward they might do the better seruice spoyling or ransoming the best houses violating the fairest virgins and women and to the end to suffer no iustice it was sufficient to accuse the plaintifs to be Huguenots Hereupon happened an other expedient meanes to bring their purposes to the better passe The Queene mother seeing so many preparatiues also that among al these tempestes she coulde not easely continew for that one of the parties would humble her for she more feared the Guisians a hundred folde then any others accompting her self certaine as indede it was true that if they ouercame the Princes of the blood they would neither spare her children nor her self on the other side if the Guisians were mated in that she was confederate with them she was also in danger to fall with them she therefore asked the counsel of the Admiral and of the Chaunceler who shewed her that it was necessary to propound vnto the Kings council that the princes lordes of the realme knights of the order and all other men of authoritie ought to be assembled together for to finde meanes howe to pacifye these troubles The Guisians therfore vnderstanding this opinion notwithstanding they misliked vtterly this libertie in the Admiral chanceler were fully resolued to pul them both down together with the rest yet did they herunto condescēd accōpting this the best motion of al for the attaining to their poinct for said they so soone as the King of Nauarre the Prince of Conde the Constable and the rest shal receiue the Kings letters tending to that purpose they would not faile to come and so shoulde they all be brought where they shoulde be detained without causing them so muche paine as to goe so farre for them Againe notwithstanding they coulde not obteine this yet at the leaste they shoulde haue so manie voyces in this assemblye that all their deedes passed shoulde be auctorized and their degree established for the time to come so that hereafter it shoulde be a manifest offence for any man to seeke to contrarie them and so consequently shoulde in effecte remayne Kinges of France attending vntill their other driftes might procure them so to be in name also Moreouer if their enemies woulde not come to the said assemblye then shoulde they haue newe matter against them aswell by bringing them more and more into the Kinges hatred and mistruste as also by hauing the better pretence to be reuenged of them Thus therefore there was now no question but of sending of packets euery way in the Kings name and of their owne letters to their friends Then did a great number of Knights of the order whom they had lately created stand them in good stead for there were so many voyces wonne to the confusion of the King and his realme But they vsed a wonderful craft toward the King of Nauarre For they caused the Queene mother to write vnto him not to faile but come but closely they caused his owne counselers namely Descars his chamberlaine Bouchart his chanceler other their spies and secret seruants who were toward this prince to wil him not to come to this assembly and by this meanes they gaue so shrewd a spurne at the estate of this realme that it feleth it yet for this Prince being put in feare was cause that the gouernment remained to these Lordes who afterwarde anewe strengthened themselues In al this assembly were but three persons which pricked them of whom two especially angred them outright For the Bishop of Valence saying his minde warmed them but the Archbishop of Vienna named Marillac made thē throughly to change countenance in his learned and bould oration concerning the authoritie of the estates and the vrgent necessity of calling thē concluding with a national council also Entreating of the estates he shewed first that the same was the assured meanes to withhold the commons in their duety then what the estates were and to what end they ought to be assembled Then that the cōplaints of the people ought to be heard and examined in the presence of the estates Therupō he discoursed very fitly of the euils which troubled the realme and wherof the Guisians not naming them were cause These euils were the extraordinary ouer chargings which were so growen multiplied that the people were therewith ouerwhelmed the wasting of the Kings reuenewes his great debts the excessiue expenses of the realme the ignorance of the auditors the matters of estate troubled the Kings chiefe ministers burdened with turning al things to their own aduantage of reping their priuate commodities out of other mens calamities the King not obeyed the people not heard the gouernement disordered Afterwarde he declared the great commodities which the assemblie of the estates would procure By them the King should vnderstand the particular affaires of his kingdō he should examine the maners of his people he should know his own part and might prouide for his owne estate he should become a good shepherd peaceably shearing his shepe without otherwise hurting of thē he should behaue himself royally that is to say courteosly holily he should be happie and obteine the beautiful title of the name of a Father of the people whereby the memory of King Lewes the twelfe is most celebrated and shineth as an example to the posteritie more then al the conquestes and victories of his predecessors Then that the people would thereby be the more encouraged to the helping of their king That whatsoeuer is ordeined in such assemblyes is very effectual to make the people quicke and ready in al obedience Also that whēsoeuer few folks are called to the making of lawes the people doe interpret that they were forged according to some mens affections without examining such reasons as those who are absent might haue alleaged in case they could haue bene heard He added that the house of France had florished eleuē hundred yeres a row by conseruing the authoritie of the estates that the like had happened in the Empire and in the realmes of Spaine England Scotland Denmark Suethland Boheme Hungarie and euery where els He afterward answered to al the obiections of such as sought to persuade men to beleeue that the assemblie of the estates was the diminishing of the Kinges authoritie and then did openly taxe the tyrannie of the Guisians who therefore did giue him so litle thankes that after they had caused him to be threatened he was finally forced to withdrawe him selfe and then seeing in what estate matters were died for sorowe His oration is printed and inserted into the notable History of Francis the seconde lately come to light and therefore we will no longer prolong these matters at this presēt But that which most of all draue thē into a rage was the Admirals oratiō which pearced the impostume of their tyrannie for speaking purposely of the Kings new gard he shewed