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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20216	An answeare to the supplication Against him, who seeming to giue the King counsel to become a Catholike, indeuoureth to stirre vp his good subiectes vnto rebellion. Faithfully translated out of French by E.A.	Aggas, Edward.	1591 (1591)	STC 664; ESTC S115374	30,730	40

albeit against all pollicie and worldly reason That he that made profession of the catholike religion should support hereticall subiects as they were then tearmed against their soueraigne Lord who warred vpon them only in hatred of their new religion In this voyage al things smiled vpon vs for so soone as the emperor had intelligence that the king was in armes to passe ouer the Rhine he pacified all things with his subiects and graunted them the Interim so that the onely sounde of our comming made them obtaine whatsoeuer they demaunded and at our returne from that voyage we gaue for our badge the imperiall towns of Metz Thoule and Verdare But hath this passed vnpunished The penaunce for this sin was not inflicted during the life of Henry the second but of his children As also we reade of many like punishments in the historie of the Kings in the olde Testament Thou Catholike king saith this great god hast mainteined the German Protestants to the encrease of their opinions so to keep downe thy corronal but I will make thine of-spring to féele howe I am offended herewith For I will chastice them with the same roddes and suffer like diuision to take holde of thy kingdome I will raise vp some of thy owne that shal harry thee vpon the same argument and withall call in the Protestantes to their succour in reuenge of that succor that you meant to giue them whereof shall at length ensue the desolation of your estate Do you not thinke it to be a méere punishment of God which tooke roote in this voyage into Germany For my parte I do not doubt it The ancient heathen said that the gods had féet of wooll and armes of yron thereby to teach vs that they were slow to vengeance but when they beganne they recompenced that slacknesse with wonderfull rigor Nowe will I come to the Duke of Guise last deceased Was there euer L. better beloued among the people Euen beloued I say because he entituled himselfe Protector generall of our religion against the heretikes and withall that there must be no reconcilement with them A proposition with him in such recommendation that euery man of a contrary opinion was straight accursed yet was he alwaies of this aduice No for in the yere 1572. after he had procured the death of his capitall ennemy the Admirall his house was a sanctuary to a number of Huguenotes euen vnto the lordes of Gamach Acier and the vicount of Borniquet principalles of the other party yet at that time were they all Amalekites for proclamation by sound of trumpet and common crie was made throughout al the quarters of Paris not to saue or pardon any Huguenot wythout exception Let vs now come to the D. of Mayenne When the late king sent him to retire into his obedience al Daulphine most of whose towns the Huguenots possessed was he so religious as to enter no composition with them He suffered them to liue in peace of their consciences whereupon without blowes they rendred al their towns Also so long as he was in Daulphine his court was fuller of Huguenot Gentlemen then of Catholikes How commeth it that in selfe soules should harbour two so contrary opinions So long forsooth as their ambition was brideled vnder the kings obedience they thought themselues most happy in hauing many friends and seruants of each religion But after they had cast off that they imagined that for the attaining in time to their last point it was requisite not onely to haue weapons at hand but euen neuer to be diseazed of them Otherwise hauing bin mighty in commāding ouer armies in their opinion they should afterward haue bin brought down when by means of peace they might haue bin returned to their owne houses And to say the truth it is the very counsell of Caesar whereby in the end he became soueraigne ouer the state of Rome Now let vs consider I pray you the successe of their purposes for you shall finde that all that they did to the confusion of the king of Nauarre giue me leaue I pray you so to call him when I speake of those daies turned to his aduancement They armed themselues against him with the power of the French king with the king of Spaines double pis●olets with the censures of the court of Rome and with the peoples fauour besides they had all the preachers the trumpets of their hypocriticall passions at their backe Since the years 1586. they brought fiue armies into the field to the end quite to haue cut downe the king of Nauarre thrée in Guyen and Poictow and two in Auergne and Daulphine In the yere 1587. they sent against him the D. of Ioieuse with a braue choice of Nobility and a great troope both of horsemen and footemen with expresse commaundement to set vpon him at whatsoeuer price In the yeare 1588. all things wretchedly smiled vpon the duke of Guise he became Maister of Paris without any blowes causeth his king to flie shamefully away establisheth what policie he list changeth al the ancient captaines of the towne to the end to be assured of the new purchaseth abolition at the kings hand vnder the name of vnion for all that is past adioyneth to his estate of greate Maister the function of lieutenaunt generall to the king in matters of armes The estates being holden at Bloys in the face of all the world he commandeth the deputies and commaunding he seeketh by all sorts of purchase to denounce the king of Nauarre incapable of the crowne Was there euer high enterprize guided with greater sense then this What was the Catastrophe All these fiue armies returned with shame from whence they came The king of Nauarre shieldeth the blowes as a man should say with a rebated sword The greatest honour that the D. of Mayenne got was when he tooke Castillon that belonged to his wife where he spent France 60000. crowns and lay sixe wéeks a towne which the Huguenots afterward recouered with ladders that cost them not sixe franks The D. of Ioyeuse was ouerthrowne in set battell at Coutraz The D. of Guise vpon the king of Nauarres birth day slaine in the middest of the estates without any consent of the said king or his partakers The death of him and of his brother the Cardinall conuerted al the common malice against the late king The Townes rebelled against him and chose the D. of Mayen to be their lieutenant general ouer the royall estate and crowne of France In this newe rage of the people he wanted no money and so consequently no men The late king was forced to call vnto his aide the king of N● who came in Being arriued he deliuereth him together with the Cittie of Toures which is at this day the repaire of the soueraigne courtes of France For at the onely sound of his approach the ennemy who with a great Rhodomontade or brag had wonne a suburbe retired the same night that they won it hauing scarce leisure to

for their tyranny in time to come Thence they lead the king to Paris where they do cause him to take assurance of fidelitie of the prouost of Merchants and Sheriffes of the towne to himselfe Al these preparatiues thus made they bring him to Orleance where they decrée vpon commaundementes throughout all France for the assembly of the estates as knowing very well that the deputies do neuer yéelde but where force and authority commandeth them albeit men be perswaded that the same is the vpholding of the peoples libertie Withall they dispatch many missiues in the kings name to the king of Nauarre the Prince of Conde the Constable and the Admirall to come to him to Orleance pretending these commaundements vpon his desire that they should be assistant to this assembly Euery wise man iudged that there was some notable tragedis to be played at the costes of these poore lords for the perpetuall establishment of the house of Guise The Constable hauing some inkling made but slowe haste The king of Nauarre and the lord prince after many reiterated commandements arriued at the towne of Poytiers where they had the first aduertisement of the kings discontentmēt against them but withall at the same instant they were so inuested by the Marshall of Lermes with two companies of men of armes that they could not possibly returne backe againe At their comming to Orleance the lord prince was committed to safe custody and certaine Iudges were expressely sent for from Paris to frame his inditement As for the king of Nauarre they searched so narrowly into his actions that there was no great difference betweene Garde and Regarde The prince perceiuing that it was a match set in hand by the Lorraines for his destruction vnder the borrowed name of the king beganne to linger matters craued distribution of counsell alleadged that he being a prince of the bloud was not to bée iudged by Commissioners but by the whole body of a Court of Parliament But they spurred him so neare that the defences which he propounded were taken for an affected contumacie In the meane time the deputies came in apace which was so prouided to the end that after the indictment had bin fully framed this poore prince who had erred in nothing but in neglecting to withstand their tyranny might haue bin condemned to death not only by a Parliament that should haue béene brought for the nonce but also by the thrée estates of France This once obtained I wote not what should haue become of the king of Nauarre whome at that time all men so forsooke that such as in heart were his humble and affectionat seruants durst not so much as by a winke of the eie be acknowne thereof Was there euer enterprise guided with more worldly wisedome then this Let vs therefore sée the ende Euen when they were ready to smite and that to that effect they were about to remoue the king out of that towne to Chenonceau to the ende he being absent the said L. prince might haue no recourse to his mercy The king booted and spurred and ready to take horse beganne to finde himselfe ill at ease and to be shorte died within lesse then 4. daies Then euen in the twinkling of an eie all the purposes of these two brethren were turned to nothing The bondmen to the court gaue them ouer and drewe to the K. of Nauarre Him did the estates pronounce the kings lieutenant generall ouer all France during the minority of king Charles the 9. Also the L. prince plainetife in a declaration of innocencie by a decrée of Parliament in scarlet robes obtaineth his ful demaunde All that the two brethren had as yet compassed were state blowes but this was a maisters blowe I speake of that maister who laugheth those to scorne that with mans wisedome make a scorne of him For had they not euen with holberds fetcht the king of Nauarre euery man iudgeth that considering his nature he would hardly haue come vnto the court or if he had come it would haue bin with such delaies that in the meane time the others might very easly haue continued their authority about the Q. mother a forren princesse who without the assistance of the princes of the blood had had no great power to withstand them Now will you aske me what correspondence this example hath with the state catholike whome I detest Very great for I aduow and aduowing am not deceiued that neyther of these two brethren troubled his head with any other religion then such as they thought might serue to the aduancement and progresse of the greatnesse of their famely For they were the first that counseled king Henry the second to become protector of the Dutch Nation that is of the Germans religion against Charles the fift and forced the parlement to verefie this braue title This that I say is no fable hatched with my quil for there is none that liued in those daies but knew it neyther concealed they it but accompted it as a matter that they thought might turn to their honor If these our Maisters had bin so zealous to the Romish church as since they would haue made vs beléeue would they haue iustified this iourney into Germany which was the first ruine of our Fraunce Woulde they not rather haue gainesaide it by humble Supplications declaring vnto the king that such a protection was formally as they thought repugnant to the honour of God and his Church But they maintained the contrary as weening so both to purchase their masters fauour and withal to benefit themselues about him as indéede they did For the Duke of Guise the father neuer purchased so much honour as in the Towne of Metz when hee withstoode the fiege against the Emperour Charles the fift This is the reason that I haue noted this example against all Macheuels schollers I will not beléeue you to be anie who care not what the kings religion be so he may content his people I will yet stay vpon the same example for how long soeuer I make this discourse yet wil it be but too briefe to roote out this wretched opinion It is a principle of estate that you neuer suffer a Prince your neighbour to growe too mighty but if your selfe be not strong enough to withstande him you must enter league with other princes and common-wealths weaker then your selfe A principle very familiar with the princes of Italy which they haue bin ready enough to put in practise all and euery time that we haue passed the Mounts for the recouery of the state of Naples or Millaine In those dayes did we sée the Emperor Charles the fift grow mighty by the ouerthrow of all the protestant princes whom he had discomfited in a pitcht fielde and had taken prisoners the D. of Saxony and the Lantgraue of Hesse Hereupon had they recourse to our K. and put themselues into his protection He tooke their quarrell in hand to the ende to stoppe the course of the Emperours purposes