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A08704 The last summons, or an oration sent to the inhabitants of the towne of Rochell, to mooue them to yeild the towne vnto his Maiestie, and to obay his commandements. Written by Monsieur le Marquis de Berguille Bergeville, Marquis de. 1621 (1621) STC 1901; ESTC S101626 3,887 12

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the Kings mercy you shall trie and feele his Iustice It makes me quake and tremble for you when I call to minde the speedy execution of the most culpable and those that were the raisers seducers of such rebellion and disobedience which will then be done But I assured my selfe and am verily perswaded that when you shall once behold your King as iust as martiall and armed magnanimitie runne from rancke to rancke as a forerunner of the victorie to annimate his troupes to fight what countenances you will shew and what will be your behauiours but onely that of a miserable company of sheepe appointed to a bloody slaughter altogether trembling all bleating all desirous to run away but by meanes of your fearefulnes hauing not the hardines to doe it so that we cannot be perswaded that if you did but once call to minde and thinke vpon all these things together you could be so hardy as to withstand this funerall blow the best that you could doe is to shut your selues vp like fearefull sheepe within 3. or 4. of your strongest Townes and there being obstinately bent seeke to saue your infortunate liues behind the ramparts and walles of the same But good Lord what remedy is this to haue all the rest of your faction enclosed with you in Rochell Saint Iohn Dangely Montauban Nismes and in such Townes as you haue made choise of leauing and abandoning the others as lesse strong or to many in number to be kept by so small a number of mutuous persons leauing within them all the nest of the reformed Sext who wiser then you and it may be more affected to their Religion will content themselues obaying the King to deplore and lament your neere approching vnfortunate state But doe I say shut vp in those places what thinke you thereby to doe O it is possible you perswade your selues to wearie the armie Royall by the tongues of a siege which you pretend to endure Doe you set before your eyes the happy deliueranc that you haue tryed in like distresses in the former warres You say and blase it abroad that Rochell is as strong as euer it was that Saint Iohn Dangely is able to defend it selfe that all your Townes are in better state to resist and withstand the forces of a puissant army then euer they were that it is which you say and the same wherwith you nourish the stubbornnes of these among you that haue least insight in these matters Whose eyes if they be capable to conceiue it I must open and cause them to see that they are lulled a sleepe with deceitful words which wholy leade them vnto the path of their most certaine and assured destruction Open your eyes then I pray you but you specially that are engaged in this dangerous enterprice call your duties to remembrance and showe forth that obedience which lawfully you owe to our King you are his Subiects he is your Prince ordained here on earth to gouerne and rule ouer you There is nothing in his Kingdome whereof he is not to haue the full and free possession The Towne wherein you are enclosed is as much his as all the rest Therefore it makes me wonder to see that you are so much blinded as to be rebellious against and obstinate to execute his Royall commandements I summon and inuite you once againe to know your selues and to yeild that vnto him and into his hands which belongeth vnto him not that his Maiestie will in any sort takeaway your notable and ancient priuiledges but rather to the contrary if he seeth you become Loyall and obedient Subiects he will giue you many others Send an honorable number of Deputies to his Maiestie humbly to craue pardon of him for all the rebellions that you haue made and I am assured that his clemencie is such and so great that he will accept of your submission pardon your offences and forget all your fault If you will doe it speedily and in the meane time I beseech God to giue you the grace to humble your selues and to obay the King 1621.