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A18484	The requestes presented vnto the Frenche Kinge and the Queene his mother, by the three rulers or triumuirat with an aunswere made to the same by the prince of Conde	Guise, François de Lorraine, duc de, 1519-1563.; Condé, Louis, prince de, 1530-1569.	1562 (1562)	STC 5042; ESTC S119254	23,946	64

posteritie as the onely authours of all the harmes and inconueniences which shal chaunce both to those that be of the refourmed church and also of the church of Rome Moreouer least they should faile to cause troubles ynough they require that all officers whether they be of householde of ordinaunce of iudgement of finaunces and others hauing administration or commission likewise prelates of the church shall make confession of their fayth And they which delay or refuse the same shall be depriued of their estates and pensions and the men of the churche of their benefyces These be three priuate personnes which make a law contrary to the lawes of this realme For it hath neuer ben eyther seene or vnderstoode that the kynges heretofore haue at any tyme constrayned their subiectes to make other confessyon of their Fayth eccept onely their ordinarye beliefe or Credo This lawe is contrary to the lawes of the churche I vnder stande of the churche as they do that is taken of the general counsells and of those auncient fath●rs whiche they allowe Wherfore he who endyted theyr request who is of so great knowledge shuld haue brought some example therewith to haue cloked his wycked pourpose the whiche in dede he canne not do excepte he brynge into this realme the inquisiciō of Spain The whiche was iudged so vniust of al other nations that not one emongest them all would vse or accepte it And yf I shall say the trueth this law is the trappe whiche they hadde sette at Orleans sumwhat before the death of king Frauncis lately deceassed the which can tende to no other but to the ruine and vtter subuersion of al the kinges subiectes For the foresaid peticioners do knowe wel that there be ten thousande gentle menne and an hundreth thousand men after them able to beare armoure which neither for force nor authoritie will euer forsake the religion which they haue receaued Neyther wil they suffer that eyther preachinge administration of the sacramentes be taken from theym And the kynge beinge vnder age as he is there is no man that hathe aucthoritye to commaunde them to avoyde the realme yea they wyll defende theym selues with the sworde againste them who in this behalfe wil abuse the aucthoritie of his maiestie This great and notable companye can not be ouercome ne vanquisshed if it so come to passe which god forbidde with out the ruine of these whiche shall assayle them So that the straungers the whiche they haue already called which is treason and an offence worthy of death shal beare away the fruict of this ciuile warre And for a conclusion speakinge as I doo bothe for my selfe and for a number of great lordes of thys realme and for ten thousande gentelmen and other of oure trayne who will liue and die in thys quarrell I saye that the forsayde decree was made by thre priuate persons who by their aucthoritie haue broken them whyche were made by the kynge and hys counsell And because they woulde execute it before they had by lawful consultacion approued it they put on armure toke by force the kinges person I say moreouer that the foresaide decre is against the lawes of this realme y t custome of whole christendōe againste the decre of Ianuary against the requeste of the estates against the quietnesse securitie of the kinges subiectes agaynst the concience the honour the life goodes of an infynite nūber of honeste people who haue sought to brynge some to deathe to driue others out of their contreys vnder y t cloke pretence of cōcience and religion This decre also is made against the libertie of going to the general counsell The which he that gaue thē the aduise should haue better marked For if it be sayd that in thys realme suche confession of faythe as they require shall be made with declaracion of maintenaunce of the doctryne and ceremonyes of the churche of Rome it is a sentence geuen against them of the refourmed churche wherfore neyther our ministers nor the ministers of other nations muste not go to the generall counsel seing they are condemned before they be hearde But before that the saide duke of Guise and the Cardinall his brother can sette foorth this decree of confession they muste renounce a number of artycles of the confession of August which they agreed vpon at Sauerne and promised a great prince of Almaine that they would cause theym to be obserued in Fraunce And if they wil denie this let them put it in writinge and they shal be answered by them vnto whom they made the promise The saide Cardinall must also put in writinge that it may be sen and publisshed whether he remaine in the same minde the whiche he ones hertofore declared vnto the quene in the presence of a great sorte of honest● men touching the articles of transubstanciacion of the keeping and bearing of the holy sacrament of Iustification of the innocation of Saintes of purgatorye of Images of al whiche articles he spoke contrary to the opinion of his catholike apostolike Romishe Churche ¶ In the request not muche after thys is made mencion of the breakynge of Images And requeste is made by theym that presented it that the damages shoulde be recompensed and the offendors punished Where vnto I will aunswere this worde that the bloudde of them who breoke the foresayde Images the whiche was shedde by the handes of certayne of oure retinue who woulde haue stayed them and syth by auctoritie of iustice in the same place of Orleans wyll beare wytnesse euermore before god and before men howe greatly suche executions done by the ignoraunte people alwayes myslyked me for manye respectes and specially because the same was contrary to the decree of Ianuary also to an assosiatiō which we had caused be published a fewe dayes before But if the breakynge of Images deserne any restitution and punishemente because it is done contrary to the kynges ordynaunce what punishement loke they for who garnyshe them selues so well with the name of the kyng for the murthers the which partely by thē selues and partely by their example and motion haue ben committed at Uassy at Sens at Castesna de Arry and at Angiers In whiche places it is well knowen that betwixt men women there haue ben slayne aboue v. hundreth persones for none other occasiō but for religion He who made the request should haue examyned his owne conscience and haue acknowledged that it is not found y t the deade image did euer crye vengeaunce but the bloude of man which is the liuely image of god requireth it in heauen as it were pullith causith it to come at y t lēgth although it be for a time let passe ¶ Than the peticioners or that I may speake more truely the commaunders require that their armure shalbe taken from them who haue borne the same withoute the expresse commaundement of the kinge of Nauarre and that they whyche haue worn armure in that manner

THE REQVESTES PRESENTED VNTO THE FRENCHE KINGE and the Queene his mother by the three Rulers or Triumuirat With an aunswere made to the same by the prince of Conde ⸫ W. S. A requeste presented vnto the kynge and queene by the three rulers or Triumuirat WE the duke of Guise pair great maister and greate chamberlaine of Fraūce the Duke of Montmorencie pair and Constable of Fraunce S. Andre marshall of Fraunce to the ende it may appeare vnto youre maiesties and all the worlde that oure hartes and intentes whiche haue ben sufficiently knowen declared by all our doynges heretofore and the whole course of oure tyme lyues whiche haue ben bestowed spent none otherwise but in the faythfull seruice of the maiesties of our good kinges deceassed whō god pardon to the main teinynge and increase of their honoure power estate and crown neyther were euer heretofore neyther presentlye are nor shal by goddes grace hereafter durynge our liues be any other then suche as tende to the same good and faythfull ende tofore declared and that by iuste reasonable lawfull and lowable meanes Wherunto next after the seruice of God we haue vowed the rest of oure foresaide liues goodes and fortunes Wee moste humbly beseke your maiesties our soueraigne Lorde Lady to vnderstand the botomes of our thoughtes and intentes the whiche we disclose and declare vnto you in all sinceritie by this present writing and therwith also the causes of our comming abode nere about your maiesties for the which we iudge in our Faythes and Consciences consyderynge our estates and the charges whiche we haue taken vpon vs that we maye in no wise departe therefrom without desert of euerlasting shame and reproche not only to our selues but also to our posteritie as vnfaythfull seruauntes and officers forsakers abandoners of the honour of God the righte of the churche the honour welfare and sauegarde of our kynge and countrey of the peace and quietnesse of thestate of the same whiche we see in daunger of euident and ineuitable ruine if it be not quickly and without delay prouided for by the onely remedy of suche ordinaunces as we suppose ought to be made by your maiesties sealed set forth and alowed as well in your great counsell as also in the Courte of parlement of Paris and other courtes of your Royalme suche as these be which be conteyned in thartycles folowyng the which we propone with all reuerence and humilitie ¶ First we thinke it necessary not onely for the discharginge of our owne consciences but also of the kynges and of his othe made at his coronation for the quietnesse and vnion of all his subiectes and thauoydinge of the confusion of all diuine humaine and politike orders vpon whiche confusion dependeth and foloweth necessarily the ouerthrowe of al Empires Monarchies and common wealthes That the kyng by an act remayninge for euer declare that he neyther willeth ne purposeth to permit allowe nor suffer within his royalme any diuersitie of religion nor churche preachinge mynistringe of sacramentes or assemblies ministeries nor ministers ecclesiastical But willeth and purposeth that onely the churche Catholike and apostolike and Romaine receyued kepte and alowed by his maiestie and of al his predecessours with the prelates and mynisters of the same preachinges ministring of sacramentes by them and their deputies shall take place in his whole royalme and countreye obedient to hys crowne al other assemblies for the like effecte being vtterly reiected reproued ¶ That all offycers of Fraunce of the housholde of his maiestie and of my lordes his bretherne and sister all officers as well of iudgement as of warfare to accomptes and finances of this realme and others hauing charge administrations or commissions frome his maiestie shal kepe and obserue the same religion shal make therof expresse declaration And all suche as refuse delaye or withstande the same shalbe depriued of their estates offices wages charges and administrations or commissions without to wchinge for the same their goodes or bodies except they haue made tumulte sedicion monopolies or vnlawfull assemblies ¶ That all prelates benefyced persons and suche as apperteine vnto the church of this realme shall make like confession And the refusers or withstāders therof shall be depriued of the tēporalities of their benefices which shalbe gouerned vnder the hande of the king and men of honestie and good religion shall be appointed to the administratiō of the same by their superiours suche as oughte of duetie to see thereunto Who shall accordinge as they shall se it necessary and fitte depriue theym of their tytles and prouide other in theyr places by due lawfull meanes ¶ That al churches within this realme whiche be violated broken and spoyled to the great dishonour of god and of his churche of the kynge and of his lawes and ordinaunces as wel auncient as of later tymes al which haue forbeden suche sacrileges vnder peine of death shal be wholly repayred and restored to their fyrst and due estate and amendes made vnto them of all their losses and damages receaued And the offenders breakers of the lawes and spoylers punished according to their desertes ¶ That all armoure borne within this realme by any person who so euer he be or for what coloure occasion or reason so euer he pretende be lefte of and done away by them who bore the same with out thexpresse cōmaundement to the cōtrary of the kyng of Nauarre lieuetenant generall of the kinges maiestie who representeth his person in al his realmes and countreyes obediente to his crowne And that suche as haue borne armoure in such sorte and continue yet stil with the same be pronounced rebelles and ennemies to the king realme ¶ That it shall be lawefull onely to the king of Nauarre as who is lieutenant generall of the kynges maiestie and representeth his person and to such as by hym shalbe ordeyned and appoynted to assemble and haue with thē any power in this realme for thexecution mayntenance of the thinges aforesaide and others suche as may be thought expedyent for the wealth of the king and of his realme ¶ That the handes alredye begun to be assembled by the said prince of Nauarre for the seruice of the kinges maiestie to thententes afore declared shalbe mainteyned and enterteyned vnder his sayde auctoritie by the space of certayne monthes whithin which tyme there is good hope if it be your maiesties pleasure to se the fruite of the remedies before rehersed of the quietnes of this realme ¶ All other prouisions requisite and necessary apperteyning to the wealth and quietnesse of this realme which may be here by vs omytted shall be taken and supplied by the counsaile aduise whiche was geuen by the courte of parlement of Paris when you sent last vnto the same M. de Auansō to haue his aduise concernynge the Remedies whiche he thought conuenient for prouision against the troubles of this realme and concernyng that whiche the