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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	great_a	king_n	place_n	2,734	4	4.1078	3	false

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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

a matter of death and you may peraduenture haue deserued the same punishment as Calisthenes he for complayning foolishly and out of season of Alexanders new alteration of the auncient fashions of Gréece you for complaining of the king for not altering his olde religion for an other that shall be new vnto him For to tell you plainely what opinion many haue of you they say that it is the very counsel of one who seeming to loue the king loueth him not or studying vppon his preseruation endeuoureth to destroy him And at one word that your Supplication is the counsell of a wicked Leaguer yet for my part I doe for your excuse tell them that if it includeth any mischiefe the same procéedeth not of any your hatred against the king but of too much loue to your selfe Had I accesse to the kings eare and were I as a state man to counsel him I would not wish him to become a Catholike yet but to stay vntill hée had ouercome his affaires Neither is there any better meane to lincke vnto vs a Countrey that we haue but lately conquered then by purchasing fauour of the people which may be kept by embracing their religion vnlesse we be so strong as without alteration we may commaund the same This is the counsel that speaking as a worldly wise man I woulde giue my king But let vs I pray you returne vnto God who should be our Weathercocke and without whom we cannot arriue in any good hauen I haue suffered my selfe at vnawares to be carried away with the waues of this world All this worldly wisedome is but folly before God Where you doe wish the king to become a Catholike without laying his hand vpon his heart you doe it to no other end say you but to procure him to raigne in assurance ouer his people and to bring peace to his realme though not to his soule What wil you say if I shew you both with the finger and eye that through euen palpable and visible miracles of God al things haue gone against the haire with such Catholikes I wil not séeke out of France neyther from the quarrell that hath béen among vs these thirty yeares and the liuing God I take to witnesse that no passion maketh me to vtter that which I do mind to speake but euen a desire to open the eies of the blind It can not be denied but that the duke of Guise father to the last deceased also the last deceased were great warriors bolde and as valiant as might be Lordes that accompanied their valour with al humane wisedome wherein both they and the Duke of Mayenne alwayes lodged this proposition That they woulde not vse our religion any further then the commodity of their affaires did commaund for their owne aduancement and greatnesse I wil beginne with the father and his brother the Cardinall of Loraine So soone as King Henry the second was dead seized vpon his sonne the young king Frances by a title of _____ because he had married their neece and withall estranged from his presence the princes of his blood and officers of the Crowne namely that wise Constable Montmorencie who was in so great fauour with the former king his master from whom not content with that disgrace they tooke the state of great Maister which he had inioyed euer since the decease of René of Sauoy his father in law This tyranny was euident for all the affaires of France passed through the hands of these two brethren who abused the kings name and youth at their pleasures Many good Frenchmen vnable to beare that tiranny conspired against them The King then soiourned sometimes at Chenonceau sometimes at Ambois The whole communalty swarmed thither insending to banish these our newe Maisters and to present a Supplication to the king for the establishing of a lawfull counsell of the Princes of the bloud and officers of the crowne about his person I thinke there was I wot not what of the newe religion among for I will not in any wise falsifie this historie Their mishap was such that they were discouered by one Desauenelles an aduocate who was of that faction by whom the Guises were aduertised that the peoples quarrell was against them The enterprize thus discouered the principalles were apprehended at the Castell of Noisé and the common people vpon the hie waies who had their directions to méete at Ambois Nowe I beséech you vnderstand what wisedome in mans sense these two brethren vsed to maintaine themselues in their vsurped authoritie Also how in the end God turned al their deuises into smoke Because this history deserueth to be knowen to al so soone as these poore men were taken they are made to beléeue that they came with intent to seize vpon the kinges person and to take him prisoner Their processe is by and by made and briefly finished by a Maister of requestes Mazere Castelnaw Noize and Renne the principall enterprisers are beheaded in the market place of Amboise Renaudy whome Pardillan slew in the fieldes after his death is quartered and made an example and of their followers an infinit number some drowned by heapes others hanged ouer the Castell walles This first stone thus cast for a foundation to their building they considered that this enterprise must procéede from some higher hand Also that in such affaires after they had put in vre the first exemplary punishement against the chiefest offendors it was requisite to pardon the rest of the commons and yet in any wise not to spare the heades of the greatest and Authors That if any had cause to mislike the then gouernement it was the princes of the bloud to whom this charge appertained during the minoritie of the king whome a marriage could make no wiser then his age and therefore by a braue pollicy they were wise enough for propounding their owne interest so that laying downe only the honor of God and the king after the executions at Amboise they publish a generall pardon to all the common people that had consented to this conspiracy wherby no man should afterward be molested therefore They create a new guard of French harquebuziers about the kings person whose Capitains being at their deuotion was an ordinary assurance for them to and against all men Vnderhand they gather informations against the heades of this conspiracy not naming any They fortefie the high wayes to Ambois and Orleance with men of armes so to preuent all newe commotions that might spring out of Guyenne because at that time the late Lord prince of Conde was retired into Bearne with his brother the king of Nauarre who were the men against whom they layde all their snares At Fountain-bel-eau they procure the creation of 17. new knights of the order of saint Michael therein violating all auntient order for before they neuer created aboue one or two at the most at once and that very seldome and with great consideration But these were so many bound vnto them and props

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