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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

their breastes abandoning their auncient and goodlie patrimonies their purchases so agreeable their houses so commodious their mouables so costlie winding them selues at length out of the armes of their kinred friendes and neighbors after they had susteined the conflict with reasons and considerations had bedewed themselues with teares their bowels yerning and heartes forespent with sighes and sobs and albeit liuing had deemed themselues as dead one for the other had recommended themselues to God some trauailing towardes Germanie others towardes England perswaded to finde more courtesie charitie pitie mercie and succour amid the wilde forrestes of Almaine amid the surges of the sea among them that are reputed naturall and sworne foes of all Frenchmen than in their owne Realme their natiue Soile in their own Citie of their owne king of their owne Countriemen and felow Citizens Euery one curseth his chaunce yea they rather that tarie than they that are gone as bereft of the incredible comfort they receiued by the companie of their friends absent The wife hath lost her husband the mother her sonne being her stay the brother his brother being his ioy the father in law forgoing his sonne in lawe must abide the charge of his daughters maintenance she neither maried nor in state to marrie Aliance and amities are made voide families are confounded At the same instant beholde mee couered ouer with armies in whom is found nor respect nor mercie nor law nor faith nothing but insolence but crueltie but violence trecherie being in deede nought els saue a vacation not frō armes but for armes They make warre as though they neuer hoped for nor euer would haue peace they cōmit violences and iniuries irreparable they cause enmities irrecōcilable the Nobles know not one another as persons meerly vnacquainted do deeme thēselues no longer neighbours there is no house be it noble or meane that is not shiuered in peeces that is not betrayed surprised forced and sacked finde me him out that is not streined and wringed as it were in a presse to extract from him his substance the Cities are turmoiled for their pride the man the Prince the King desireth to be letten into his Citie and can not It seemes I am at an end rather dead then aliue they vse me as if I were past feeling they make gashes in my skin on all partes they make the scales leape from my bones they labour not but to burie the dead and sinke the liuing in bottomles darknes they build not but to destroy other buildings euery where are diches trenches mynes troupes and bandes But all this is but one of the actes of the Tragedie Behold here the other partie arising vp which beginneth to appeare which is werie of retiring to beare of the blowes it is more knowen and auowed with me then it was euernt consisteth of all my Princes what countenaunce soeuer they make of a great number of my peaceabler children they want not frends both within without the Realme euen more then is supposed They say that all the Allemaignes the Switzers the English and Scotts are raised armed mustred and comming for their cause as if none should rest behind of all these nations in a maner saue old folke women and children If they should bring as much euill will as power without doubt I am vndone Alas I haue not life enough to sustaine so mightie an assault of sicknesse It behoueth by remedies to preuent the fit it behoueth by good counsell to remoue frō these Princes prouoked all occasion that may egge them on while they are yet not moued too much nor banded together hitherto they haue neither spoken nor done any thing as more inclined to peace then warre they restraine so much as they may the motions of their choler th' execution of their power Let me intreat you my children not to plead our cause by armes not to hazard our selues on the doubtfull euents of battaile Victories in ciuill warre bring no commoditie but to two or three they vndo the rest and specially the people Otherwise how great soeuer the hap and aduantage of the victors be they must alwayes come to agreement in th' end Get he the maistrie that may I am desolated for euer I feare the victory as much as confusion be the issue what it will the French shal be defeated Come hither my children harken to me we may not doubt but that the wrath of God pursueth vs seing the stripes he geueth vs the pestilence rageth within the sword without the famine throughout and these are but threats in comparison of more boystrous blowes prepared by him for vs yet leaue we our senceles obstinacie bestow we our endeuour betweene the threat and stripe the stripe shall not light bestow we our endeuour betweene stroke and stroke the woundes shall cease and turne to blessings Let vs wittingly and in good earnest know feele our owne euill the cause thereof let vs be humbled and search out the remedie Do ye not vnderstand that in one moneth of warre we offend more the diuine maiestie then in a whole age of peace Vnderstand ye not that peace brings all good warre all euill If ye doubt it marke the pictures and greetings of your ancesters compare your discommodities with the cōmodities of your fathers Let vs seeke then this peace to that end boldly peece meale try examine our euill enmities search the remedy therefore Let vs suck out the sense swalow the wise sentence CHAP. 1. Whether faith may lawfully be geuen and holden to heretikes YE haue broken the peace so solemnely sworne I speake to you my children that haue bene induced to begin this warre ye haue falsed your faith ye haue taken the name of God in vayne for that say you a man neither may nor should promise nor keepe faith towards heretickes and Infidels according to the resolution taken and practised in the Councell of Constance Anno. 1414. againe according to th' aduise and commaundement executed by Pope Eugenius the fourth to Vladislaus king of Hungary about xxx yeares afterward Ye say this is a doctrine receiued so solemnly confirmed by so many reasons auctorities approued by so many actes continued by so many yeares that now it is no tyme to doubt thereof My children this defense can not warrant you from vices and infamous reproches damnable before God men For if ye bring in and so freely receiue such distinctions in promises and othes ye open a gap to all maner of miseries cōfusions in all Estates but principally in this Realme where are few houses families townes cities gouernements few companies publick or particular that are not bound by such othes few or no mariages successions felowships and other couenantes whose suit enterteinement and assurance depend not on such othes For in all these things they that we haue called heretickes be confusedly intermedled with the Catholikes So that I may say with truth

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 or no. Whether it be lawfull to force mens consciences for religion sake or no. Whether it be lawfull to liue with and dwell nigh Heretikes or no. Whether it be lawfull 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 Ecclesiae Reipub. D. ANCHORA SPEI Imprinted at London by Richard Field dwelling in the Blacke-Friers 1589. To the Reader THere came foorth a Discourse on the praesent state of France in the yeare last past which surely did some good now commeth forth another written as appeareth by the same Auctor for restoring the state of Fraunce which is likely to do more good The worke being first conceiued by an high wit after shaped by ripe experience seemeth sithence to haue passed through some rude and vncleane hand And yet it is not so misshapen or defaced thereby but that the lineaments remaining do soone descry the first workman and thus much for the forme For the matter it is no counterfeict stuff but will abide the touch of the safest maximes in policie and the triall of the soundest principles in religion And as the discrete Reader I know will suspend his iudgemēt till he perceiue th'Auctors purpose so let the saucy Censurer know that the height thereof surmounteth the reach of his carping conceipt Fare-well THE RESTORER OF THE FRENCH ESTATE THIS WHOLE DISCOVRSE IS made vnder the name of France IT seemeth that my calamities doe call follow and one enterteine another not vnlike the waues surges currants of waters the end of forrein warres hath bene to me th'entrance of ciuil warres and cruil warres do cause to reflow on me like a violent streame of brimstone the furie of all my borderers They say that warres are to Estates and Common weales that which medicines bloudlettings caustiks and setons are to the body of man By such meanes the body is purged of bad and superfluous humors encroching either by influence of the starres or by distemper of seasons corrupting the ayer or by excesse and abuse in this life committed by our Fathers or our selues warres in like manner do cleanse Estates of wits that are restlesse vnruly mabitious cholerick contentious longing for inuasions hungring after other mens good and bloud This they say but I feele the contrary Howbeit the case being so I made an end of forrein warres too soone it was no time to giue ouer the Physicion to pay th'Apothecaries bill to vndoe the rollers to take of the caustiks and setons and to close vp the woundes somewhat remained of th' excesse and conflict betweene the humors and their qualities great store of corrupt dregs and inflammation lurked yet within the bloud and woundes the swoord torment and losse had not yet cleered all the passions of distempered spirites Nay rather our great God was not appeazed of his wrath nor we reconciled to him he had not reuoked his hardning of our hartes neither were the phials of his furie emptied Alas I felt no euill but in the vtmost partes in the inferior members subiect in vse to the principall in the feete and handes but now the euill is got within it hath seized the vitall parts the principall members it is spred ouer all It is now no more a Rheume a squincie a particular downe flux of humors it is euen an apoplexie a generall taking an vniuersall corruption Warre with its wast was no where but in the frontiers in Picardy in Burgonie or in Champaigne and Daulphiny now it is in the very middest of mee it is ouer all not onely within Prouinces and Gouernements but euen within townes cities within boroughs villages and castels in houses particular euen in granges solitary dwellings betweene the husband and wife the father and children the brethren and sisters which is yet more horrible each one of my children at least the more part hath warre within his owne conscience So that for these 28. or 30. yeeres past I haue vniuersally bene filled with outcries hurlyburlies and affray with ashes bloud and with rubbish of ruines mine euill is become mine habite and to be ill disposed is my ordinary disposition Now if any discontinuance came betweene it was but as of accidents lightnings before a new fitte or playing of the pulse it was to take cause force and new footing it surceased not but onely to take breath and rallie●t selfe and so to returne with more assurance to the medley to the charge to the fight Further more the Pacifications haue appeared in effect to haue bin nothing lesse then that they haue signified For I haue seene more iniustice violence I haue heard more plaints groanes in such peace then in the warre to be short the harder and more violent strokes of the warre haue lighted on mee during those Pacifications Alas hath any one of my townes bene exempt from the ghastly blowes of outrage My sonnes are degenerated they haue lien downe like sauage beastes snared in the cros-waies of euery streete full of the wrath and threatning of the Lord. Is there any member of mine not crased thoroughout or voide of woundes and filthines My Church-men are marred and corrupt they were wont to take tithe now adaies they are not onely tithed themselues but also must forgoe both fruite and gleebe they haue left deuotion and charitie to embrace hypocrisie and madnes to plot practises and contriue murthers Of my nobility remaine none almost but widowes and orphanes their small reliques suruiuing seeme enclined rather to vndermine abate and turne my house vpside downe then to vphold prop and defend the same I see my Iustice no more I can not discerne my Iusticers by their long robe grauitie and modesty all the world is furious and armed they haue forsaken the doctrine the true honor and feare of God they breath of nought els sauing worldly glorie and gaine All my villages champion soyles are conuerted into sepulchres monuments and churchyardes my poore Villagers doo resemble goblins ghoastes forepined of skin bone without flesh so many Pesants so many Anatomies they be labourers no more they be all counsellers of Estate they obserue no longer the seasons of the yeere the motions and alterations of the ayre and they haue reason since that they sow no more the imuries of th' ayre can hurt them no more but they are busie to marke the motions and alterations that happen in the