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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

ēterprise being broken of by the death of king Hēry was reuiued in the beginning of the reigne of Francis and then slacked againe through the enterprise of Amboyse But now the Guisians hauing two of their principall enemies in their power determined mocking the king of Spayne in making him beleeue that they were earnest defenders of the Catholicke Church so to roote out the Protestantes that thereby they might make their way to the throne the playner They therefore sent the Spaniard worde who for his parte lay also in waite determining if fit opportunitie might serue to giue them the slippe also that the King of Nauarre and the Prince of Conde vnder colour of quareling at the gouernment sought to put the King and his brethren to death and through the ayde of the Queene of England of the Protestant princes and of the gospelling Switzers to bring in their Religion into France and after the same also to prescribe a rule vnto all Christiandome They vsed other slanders enowe in the end wherof they added that if it pleased the king of Spaine to maintein fauour them in their gouernment they would stoppe all the harme that was ment to him would set to their hāds that King Hērys promises might be accōplished Hereunto they had such answer as they requested through the helpe of the Cardinal of Arras who then thought to haue found a good breach wherby to bring his master into France but had the Guisians become Kings he should haue had lesse entrie then before and peraduenture haue bene in greater care then before for ambition neither wil neither can abide a companion At the same instant they also sent to the Pope to the Duke of Sauoye also through the practises of the Colonnel Freulich who was at their deuotions they wonne the catholicke Switzers determining the same winter to destroy all their enemies in France and the next spring to goe and assayle Geneua and thence against the Germains Switzers of the Religion Also to the end the Spaniard might not on that side be letted by the Turke who might haue set vpon his countries whiles his chiefest forces were entred into the King of Nauarres dominions they sent expressely to Constantinople to him to accuse the Princes of the blood of trecherie and treason of hauing with certaine men of a new Religion which acknowledged no Magistrates or superiorities conspired to put the King and his brethren to death beseching him whiles they were busied in repressing those mens presumption not to innouate or enterprise any thing on the coste of Italie or Spayne and that in consideration of the auncient alliance amitye and confederacie which had bene betwene him and the Kings of France Of him they had so good an answere that the Duke of Guise so farre exceeded his boundes as diuers times to say that whatsoeuer happened he had rather that the Realme should fall into the Turkes power and remaine vnder his dominions then to see the Lutherans and heretikes doctrine for so he called them there receiued Here you see wonderful preparatiues for the establishment of their greatnesse for within the Realme they were armed at all assayes and had their enemies in maner at their feete They had the townes gouernours treasury and people in maner at their commaundement The aforesaid foreine Princes fauoured them and peraduenture should haue had some share in the cake as the Spanierd chiefly looked for it hauing so easely obteyned truce of his great enemie the Turke to the ende to set vpon France therfore we may here see whereunto the cruell ambition of these men had brought all thinges in case God at the same instant had not appeared smiting them sundrie blowes on the eares before they coulde bende their gauntlets They had graunted the assemblie of the Estates the more easely to discouer their enemies and called the Kings letters patents the mousetrappes to catch fooles but that letted not but in the particular estates of the prouinces many things were propounded cōcerning reestablishment of the Realme as well in matters concerning Religion as policie as at Bloys at Angiers and especially at Paris for notwithstanding all the greatnesse wherewith the Guisians made them selues euery where to be feared yet was it published openly in the ful Towne house when the Prince of Condies imprisonment was knowen that they would not permit the blood of France to be troden downe by straungers These reportes hastened the prince of Condies proces whom they purposed to put to death about the tenth of December As for the King of Nauarre they also sought his death endeuouring to doe the King their nephue so much iniurie as to make him the hangman of his owne blood And euen as there remayned no more to doe but to execute this blowe to the ende afterwarde to strike infinite others God strooke Francis the seconde with an impostume in the eare which finally stifled him and so he dyed the fifth day of December in the yeere 1560. This death ouerthrewe all their enterprises and did so quayle them at the first that when they knew there was no more hope they went closed vp thē selues in their lodgings replenished with mistrust and incredible feare from whence they departed not of a day or twayne vntyll they were assured by the Queene mother and the King of Nauarre that they shoulde haue nothing done to thē But they were not so farre ouerseene but that they caused presently at their comming forth to carie into their lodging three or foure score thousande frankes which were left in the coffers insomuch that all the Kings treasures were wasted but no man withstoode them which was thought strange whereby men might plainely perceyue that these things were not done without the Queene Mothers consent who sought through their authoritie to mainteine hers and to say the trueth if she had not supported them their noses had then kissed the ground but the sleightes and practises on that parte do deserue an other discourse I had here in maner forgotten an other draught of the wickednesse of the Guisians against their nephew For seeking to washe their own handes of all that was paste and the same to cast vpon the Kings power and absolute will notwithstanding he were but a childe wanting both witte and discretion to be able to examine or to enterprise such and so waightie matters yet did they easely obteine of him that he shoulde speake courteously and louingly vnto the King of Nauarre which he dyd fulfill three dayes before he fell sicke declaring that the Guisians had neuer enterprised any thing against him or his but that of his owne mere motion and contrarie to their opinion he had imprisoned his brother the Prince of Conde and this he desired him to beleeue and for the loue of him and of the Queene his mother to blot out whatsoeuer euill opinion he might haue conceiued against them This practise stoode them in great steade afterwarde for