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A01143	Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, to ioyne together, and take armes speedily (by commandement of the King) against theeues and robbers, which are now abroade ruining the poore people setting downe an order and policie how they should take armes, to auoide all disorder and confusion amongst them. Whereunto is adioyned, a declaration published by the Duke de Mont-pencier for the reclaiming of the cleargie and nobilitie of Normandie, vnto his Maiesties obedience, &c. With certaine newes of the ouerthrow of the Gautiers, and diuerse other rebels against the French King, by the said Duke of Mont-pencier, on the sixt, and on the twentieth daie of Aprill. 1589. Translated out of the French into English, by I. Eliote.	Eliot, John.; Montpensier, François de Bourbon, duc de. Copie d'une lettre contenant le progres des choses advenues au voyage de duc de Montpensier. English.	1589 (1589)	STC 11256; ESTC S120926	33,284	60

some mony to haue pouder shot a matter of nothing prouided that they do not enrol more men in euerie Parish then it shall bee able to finde and entertaine without anie complaint or grudging And this is the waie for the pesants to keepe themselues in homage and amity towardes the Nobles For if the pesantes take armes as they haue done alreadie in many places disorderly no man doubteth but wee shall see them and the Nobles quicklie together by the eares and so they will straight vtterly ruine one another In euerie Bailywicke they must choose none other Generall and chiefe then the Bailiefe himselfe so that hee bee a Gentleman making profession of armes and that it be knowen as I said euen now that he make accoūt of nothing more then the seruice of God and of his Prince the tranquillitie of his Countrie But if the Bailiefe be suspected for an heretike a rebell or fellon against his King or be vnwilling to take his charge in hand then must they choose some Gentleman of the same bailiwick if any be there capable of such a charge But if there be found anie Gentleman that being more ambitious then wel affectioned to the benefite of the communaltie will not suffer their tenants and vassals to follow this order prescribed yet their sayd vassalles shall not let to ioyne themselues with other that take armes and so ioyntly and by the authoritie of their Generals shall declare such Gentlemen vnworthie of their qualitie and enemies to the common wealth according to the declaration of the King in that behalfe proclaimed This is the order that yee must obserue in taking armes that yee may not be odious and iniurious to your King and that heereby yee may auoid al diuision trouble which might arise amongst you in doing otherwise I beseech you then that you would begin to put this in practise as soone as ye possiblie can assuring your selues that when ye shall put this in execution either by force or faire meanes yee shall make these Lordes and Gentlemen of the Townes that now do misuse you and eate you vp almost bee glad to ioyne with you Courage then my Lordes of the Nobilitie begin you and your Tenants will all follow What doo ye thinke that your Tenants shal be ruined ye shal feele no smart Know ye not that your interests theirs go both together and that their good is your benefit also Why then do ye delay the time to succour aide them Do ye stand in feare the Duke of Maine who calleth himself a friend of the commons will hinder you from the establishing of this order Perswade your selues my friends that if it lay in his power to doe I would haue left this vnspoken and I would haue taken better heede to keepe this matter secrete but I see well inough that he cannot doe it and that for two or three reasons that I will set you downe and that it consisteth but in viewing knowing your own forces to become peaceable and so to set your king in his former authoritie again maugre all the resistance that may bee made herein For the power and forces of the rebels are not such as they are presupposed to be they haue in deede some townes at their commaundement but their is not one of the towns that is for them but is inuironed at the lest with a dozen great boroughs the which in one fiue dayes you may make capable for the cannon and this cannon must not be brought from place to place in post-haste but with such reasonable charges and expenses that they may be well able to furnish Besides they haue so few souldiours that ye are twentie to one and yet the souldiours that they haue are no better men of warre nor of more experience then you To be short ye haue many aduantages ouer them that I will conceale till such time as I see your armes in hande Resolue then your selues to assaile them or otherwise you will quickly curse the hower that ye did not credit me Are yee not ashamed to see these leaguers to compell and force you as they list who are farre your inferiours I may well call them your inferiours because the greatest Lords the third part of Gentlemen of marke in this Realme are enemies of this rebellion and yet you see a a number of little pettie Captaines that pill spoile rob beate and ransome the Priests and the poore people and yet ye will not resist them but let them take such heart at grasse and such aduantage ouer you that they presume to besiege and to warre vpon Catholikes of great honour that resist their insupportable insolencie and outragious dealing My Lordes to conclude I beseech you all make no delay to take your armes in hand to make these troublers of our state to lay downe theirs and do not doubt but shortly ye shall see that those few men of qualitie that they haue amongst thē now wil forsake them and ioyne with you confessing that they haue done amisse and acknowledging themselues bounden by their loialtie and particular interest to take your parts I beseech God giue them the grace so to doe that altogether we may follow that way without any diuision which is most honourable and most profitable for restoring of the peaceable estate and gouernement of our Christian common wealth FINIS A DECLARATION PVBLISHED for the reconciling of the Cleargie and Nobilitie of Normandie vnto the obedience of his Maiestie by the Duke of Mont-pencier Pecre of France Gouernor and Lieuetenant generall for the King in the Duchie of Normandie FRRANCIS OF BOVRBON Duke of Mont-pencier of Saint-Fargeau and of Chastelraud Daulphin of Auuergne Peere of Frāce Soueraigne of Dombes Prince of Roch-sur-yon Marques of Meziers Countie of Castres of Morrain and of Barfur Seine Vicount of Auge of Brosse Baron of Beauiolois Thiert and of Mirebeau c. Gouernour and Lieutenant generall for the King in his Duchie of Normandie to whom these present letters shall come sendeth greeting Perceiuing since our arriuall in these parts the subiects of my Lord the King fallen into an open rebellion and the greatest part of them to take armes against his Maiesties seruice hauing also intelligence that since some meetings and skirmishes wherin a great number of the inhabitants of the Cities and villages of this prouince haue bene defeated and ouerthrowen they haue signified vnto vs by their humble supplications that they desire to be receiued and reconciled into the obedience and seruice of his Maiestie the which we tendering desiring to preserue many of his Maiesties natural subiects that by allerements wicked perswasions haue intāgled ioyned thēselues with many other naughtie il disposed people in the said rebellions conspiracies We haue made according to the good pleasure of our Souereigne Lorde the king a certain Declaration touching the revnion recōciling of the inbitants of the said cities villages and caused the same

to bee read and published in this Citie of Caen. And forasmuch as diuerse of the Cleargie-men and of the Nobilitie haue put in their finger and bene fauourers and adherents in these rebellious enterprises so that we should haue great cause to prosecute th●m and proceede agaynst them as against rebelles and perturbers of the peaceable gouernement of our common wealth yet considering somewhat nearer that such way of proceeding might bring some preiud●ce vnto this estate being all naturall subiects of his Maiestie wee haue better aduised that both the Cleargy men and Nobilitie might haue safe meanes to bring themselues backe vnto their naturall duetie and alleageance and that we with all lenitie might further and helpe them therein as much as possible might be WE DOE TO VVIT that by the assurance that wee haue of the mercie and clemencie of his Maiestie towards his said subiects and after that we had fully taken deliberation of this matter by the aduise of his coūsell assisting vs herein We haue declared and doe by these presents signed for the same cause with our own hand declare That we haue freely taken and receiued and doe take and receiue into the safegard of my Lord the king and into our owne protection all ecclesiasticall persons of what qualitie or condition soeuer they be hauing taken the othe according to the forme prescribed by his Maiestie or shall take the same within ten dayes after the publishing of this declaration made before the bailifes or their deputies in euery vicountie And if anie of the said ecclesiasticall persons shall refuse to take the said othe before or within ten dayes being limitted the said tearme being once expired all their goods and temporal reuenues shall be saised vpon and put in the handes of Commissioners that shall giue account thereof c. when and to whome it shall appertaine deducting alwayes their ordinarie charges and so much as shall discharge their benefices and spirituall charges Prouided further that the Bishops their Vicegerents or others that haue authoritie thervnto shall procure that some person that is capable and not suspect and such a one that hath taken the othe aforesayde shall serue and supplie their turnes in their spirituall vocation and calling And they shall moreouer enioine them to make prayers supplications for the health of his Maiesty and for the prosperitie and good successe of all his affaires as they ought to doe and are naturally bounde thereunto And as for those of the Nobilitie who haue not borne armes for his Maiesties seruice and taken the saide othe of alleageance we enioine thē in like maner within ten dayes to take the same othe administred by our owne hands or el e before the Bailifes or their deputies euery one in their owne iurisdiction at their owne choice and as they shall thinke best In doing this we haue also receyued and taken them into the safegard of his Maiestie and into our protection But as for those of the Nobilitie which are reuolted and haue taken armes against the seruice of his Maiestie and be yet prisoners if they desire to enter into reconciliation and take the sayde othe they shall haue their passeport from vs the which shall be granted them by the certificat of any Catholike Gentleman seruant to the King who shall haue taken the sayde othe And of these passeports shall bee made and kept a true register So may the sayd Gentlemen come before vs in all assurance to take the sayd othe as we shall administer it vnto them by our owne handes Vnto the which they shall be admitted in putting in good and sufficient sureties to performe and continue the seruice that they owe vnto his Maiestie not prohibiting them the vse of their armes but after the said passeports are once granted vnto them And if the said Gentlemen shall faile to doe this within the sayd ten dayes the tearme of the sayd ten dayes being out their goods shall be seised vpon and be put into the hands of my Lorde the King and remaine in the safe keeping of Commissioners which shall giue an account thereof and answere for them c. when and to whom it shall appertaine Of which othes so taken as well by the Cleargie-men as by the Nobilitie likewise of the ●easing of their goods and reuenues the said bailifs or their deputies in euery Vicountie shall frame processe in writing and send them vnto vs within three dayes after the said ten dayes be expired vpon paine to answere for them in their proper names and priuate persons And we do straitely charge and command the said bailises or other deputies in euery Vicountie of this prouince that they cause these presents to be read published and registred and that they keepe obserue and fulfill euery poynt of the contents hereof according to their forme and tenure and that for this cause they constraine all those whō these presents shal touch by all lawfull meanes and reasonable order of iustice that they assist suffer the same to be executed nō obstant all contradictions and appeales whatsoeuer and and without all preiudice of the same for the which it shal not be lawfull to defer the execution hereof cōsidering the importance of that which is aboue sayde is for the benefite and seruice of his Maiestie for the preseruation and tranquillitie of his estate Giuen at Caen the fifth of May 1589. Signed Francis Bourbon And on the other side by my Lorde L'Amoureux And sealed with the great seale of my Lorde in redde waxe The Contents of this declaration made and dated the fifth of May by my Lorde the Duke of Montpencer Gouernour and generall Lieutenant for the King in Normandie haue bene published by sound of trumpet in the chiefe most vsual places of this Citie to make cries and proclamations for our Lord the King By me Peter Beauuoir Sergeant royall of Caen accompanied with Iames Richer ordinarie Trumpetter of the said Citie and after the sound of the sayd Trumpet this ninth of May 1589. I haue set to my hand in the presence of Michael Maillard Iohn le Coq of Caen and diuerse others for the same purpose there assembled in great number Signed BEAVVOIR NEVVES OF THE Ouerthrow of the Gautiers c. SIr it grieueth me not a little that I haue heard no newes from you of long time fearing lest in this so miserable a time the which I must needs confesse is the verie father affourder of the greatest afflictions most intollerable calamities that euer were seene in our poore nourse and mother the Countrie of France you haue met with some ill rencounter which hath hindered you so long from imparting vnto mee your letters whereby I might vnderstande howe you had your health and welfare all this while the which I beseech the good Lord long to preserue vnto you and once to do me this fauour that by some good token I may shewe the great affection that I beare to

them founde that they were too deepe to lodge in anie wise within them and by reason that those within made little resistance the Captains of the sayd companies were of opinion that the towne might be forced and taken that waies whervppon they stouping a litle entered boldly into the ditch that was deepe and without anie water and after them followed all the Nobility that was there present without anie aduise or commandement from their Generall and ranne into the ditch some armed some vnarmed and some with their swordes only in their hands and walked so boldly harde by the walles and with such a courage and resolution that I may assure you if their had beene but one hole thorow the wall that a man or woman might haue crept thorow the said towne had bene straight our owne but that good God that is carefull to preserue those that be his would not suffer so great a mischiefe to fall vpon vs but rather hauing respect to the right equitie of the cause that we maintaine left no possibilitie for vs to take the said citie and caused that the retraite being sounded al our men retired with verie little losse for the enemie that had another drift and conspiracie against vs made no account to repulse our men but would willingly that they had entered in that they might haue executed their naughtie fetch cōtriued by the Countie of Brissac the Lordes of Pierrecourt and of Long-champ the Barons of Vernie of Eschauffour of Tubeuf and other ringleaders of the Rebels who when they durst not come into the field to encounter with vs thought by this surprise to haue entrapped vs at Falaize and for the same purpose had they assembled the flower of all their rebell forces and hauing taken frō about l'Aigle Orbec Seez Argenten Vimoutier and other places neere thereabout a companie of more then sixe thousand men Gautiers as well appointed for muskets and harquebuzes as may be said amongest whom they did mixe some seuen or eight hundred common souldiers such as they could come by some Nobilitie also of the weaker sort but a great number of Priests Canons Monkes and other ecclesiasticall persons hauing conueyed all their forces neere to Argenten where the tho Lord de Brissac accompanied with the Barons of Eschauffou of Tubeuf the Lordes of Vieupont Roquenual of Beaulieu of Aunay and other chiefe captaines of the said rebels receiued them and conducted them the right way to Falaize thither came the Baron of Vernier with his forces from about Damfront thither came also the Lord of Pierrecourt with those that he could make out frō Pontau-de-mer out of the coūtry of Auge and from Honnefleur thinking now to atchieue their wicked enterprise But they were deceiued for the Duke hauing aduertisement the Wednesday night of their pretence prouided for them and taking aduise of the Nobles that were with him remooued the Artilleric from the trenches and sent away his cannons to Courcy a castell very well fortified two leagues from Falaize and resolued with the said Coluerine to meete the enemie in the plaine field to encounter with him which he did after that the Lorde of Emery one of the Marshals of the field had taken view of them and by his report as also of diuerse others it was knowen for certaine that they were lodged in three Villages very neare adioyning the one to the other He appoynted the Lord Countie of Thorigny of Longaunay and the Lord of Vicques the elder brother to lodge with their troupes betwixt the said villages and Argenten to keepe them in on the one side and the Lords of Bacqueuille de l'Archant and de Beuuron with their companies to enuiron them on the other side and the Duke himself came full vpon them marching with the whole army ayded with the Lords of Hallot and his owne brother and being on the top of a little mountaine commaunded the Lords of Emery and of Surene Marshals of the field to aduaunce the Infanterie which was vpon the left hand with the Coluerine the which they soone did For although our footmē were very few yet those that we had were so hardy and their leaders who were the Lords of S. Denis Maillot du Radier de Roqueuille Chauuain Daulphin Glaize and other voluntary so hardy and sure men that they made no delay but skirmished straite and their enemies did the like shooting many musket harquebuze shot from both sides but as soone as our Coluerine beganne to play in their faces the rebels began to be much amazed and my Lorde Brissac himselfe caused his Cornette to turne brydle and retyred with some number of horses and horsemen as hardy as himselfe yet did these rebell troupes after the first Coluerine shot which had not much hurt them stande to the fight but when they heard the Coluerine roare the second time and sawe the Lorde of Vaumarte one of their chiefe leaders and fourteene or fifteene others caryed away with the shotte they beganne to shake Then my Lorde the Duke commaunded a fresh charge which was giuen so hot and fierce that all the sayde rebelles were put to the chace most of them put to the edge of the swoorde and some taken prisoners There might you haue seene a gallant companie of noble Gentlemen affectioned to the seruice of their Prince But it is vnpossible to speake with what resolution and valour these troupes and those of the Lordes de Hallot of Creuecaeur his brother which followed him hard did enter perforce among the thickest of these miserable and mutinous rebels nor with what resolutiō my Lord the duke de Mont-pencier did leade them to the fied and marching formost in battaile did encourage those that followed him so that this race and scumme of rebels not able to abide the brunt were forced to yeelde and fall downe vnder their most victorious hands some flying this way and some that way to escape death but all in vaine for the slaughter was so bloodie and so great that of all those that they found at the first village called Pierrefite which were about two thousand men there escaped not one onely man or verie fewe ifthere did any but were either slaine or taken prisoners all The troupes assembled againe my Lord the Duke set vpō the second village called Villiers where hee found another great companie of Rebels vnder the conduct of the Baron of Tubeuf who escaped not so well as the former for whatsoeuer wee met withall there felt either fire or sword without any mercy the Baron of Tubeuf and few others excepted who were takē prisoners And because the night drewe on a pace those which were lodged in the their villages called Commeaux who were not aboue a thousande or twelue hundred men amongst whom were diuers gentlemen as Monsieur de Beaulieu and other Clergie-men of Seez many of them being Curates and amongest others there was the Curate of Vimoustier the most pestiferous mutinous and seditious fellow in all