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A02968	A declaration and protestation, published by the King of Nauarre, the L. Prince of Conde, and the L. Duke of Montmorency, concerning the peace concluded with the house of Lorrayn, the captaines and chiefe aucthors of the league, to the preiudice of the house of Fraunce. Also two letters written by the sayd King of Nauarre. The one to the Parliament, the other to the maisters of Sorbonne. More an epistle written by Phillipp de Morney to the French King: hereunto, for the playner declaration of the innocencie of the sayd princes, are inserted the articles agreed vpon betweene the King and the Lordes of Guyze. All faithfully translated out of French; Déclaration et protestacion du roy de Navarre, de M. le prince de Condé et M. le duc de Montmorency sur la paix faicte avec ceux de la maison de Lorraine. English.	Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.; Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623, attributed name.; Aggas, Edward, attributed name.; Condé, Henri I de Bourbon, prince de, 1552-1588.; Montmorency, Henri, duc de, 1534-1614.; Navarre (Kingdom). Sovereign (1572-1610 : Henry III) aut	1585 (1585)	STC 13109; ESTC S117933	30,651	88

A Declaration and Protestation published by the King of Nauarre the L. Prince of Conde and the L. Duke of Montmorency concerning the peace concluded with the house of Lorrayn the Captaines and chiefe aucthors of the league to the preiudice of the house of Fraunce Also two Letters written by the sayd King of Nauarre The one to the Parliament the other to the Maisters of Sorbonne More an Epistle written by Philipp de Morney to the French King Hereunto for the playner declaration of the innocencie of the sayd Princes are inserted the Articles agreed vpon betweene the King and the Lordes of Guyze All faithfully translated out of French Imprinted at London for Edward Aggas The Declaration and Protestation IT is not vnknowne to all men and they may soone call to minde in what estate the affaires of this Realme stoode and of what minde the King was when the house of Lorrayn vnder the title of a Holy league began to raise Wars against his Maiestie to trouble the quiet estate of this Realme For through Gods grace Peace began to take roote in the depth of mens hearts and thence to expell all hartburning and mistrust Iustice vnder the wings thereof gathered strength by the exerci●e of lawes Religion on both parts crept into credite in mens consciences whence the licencious libertie of warres had almost expelled it Nobilitie grewe into familiaritie gaue ouer partialities and factiōs The Cōmons after so many mischiefes and calamities began to enioye the fruites of their labours and through such good order as the King had taken were in possibilitie speedely to bee freed from the pillage and insolencie of the Souldier To be brief the miseries and calamities incident to warres grewe into obliuion and were almost buried vnder the commodities of peace which was mightily prosecuted and daylie cherished through the Kings wisedome to whom nothing was in such recommendation as the continuaunce and establishing of the same For if on either side there remained any scarre of the auncient miseries which the peace that yet had not beene of so long continuaunce or force as the warre could not cleerely deface the King who had both noted the mischiefe and founde out the remedie through that dayly care that he tooke for the affayres of his Realme was surely entred such a path as would not onely haue ended the calamities of this Realme but also in short tyme haue restored her to her auncient dignitie prosperitie and brightnesse But this necessarie path that should haue led al things to wealth quiet and ease is now broken vp and disturbed by the house of Lorrayn who are vtterly vnpatient and not able to abide the tranquilitie and peace of this Realme as finding the same repugnant to their purposes which they knowe them selues vtterly vnable to compasse by the prosperitie but rather through the confusion ruine and subertion of this estate It is needlesse here to rehearse such their purposes as by the effects are sufficiently discouered For it may be euidently knowen to all men what the pretences and practises of those of that house haue bene as also what meanes they haue from time to time vsed especially since the raigne of Francis the second for the contriuing of their deuises which to be brief do tēd to the extinguishing of the house of Fraunce and intruding of thē selues into the place thereof And for the easier atteyning to such their drifts and enterprises how they haue sought to set deuision in the Realm to nourish troubles to weaken the power of the Nobilitie by the losse and shedding of their bloud to abase vnder sundry pretēces the credite auctoritie of the Princes In the meane time themselues to take weapon in hand to gayne partakers to ouerthrowe all that stand in their way and finally so farre as in them lieth to encroch the strength and power of this Realm into their own hands This course haue they euer since the raigne of Frances the secōd taken still gathering ground by little and litle and employing euery occasion They layd to the Princes of the bloud that they had practized against the person of the young Prince and vnder pretence thereof procured the apprehēding and detaining of the chiefe Princes of the bloud sequestring the rest from about his Maiestie bringing into mislike the most auncient and faithfull officers of the Crowne yea euen then had not God preuented them they had set foote vpon the very throte of this estate This being most manifest can not be attributed other then to their ambicious practizes For at that time no Prince in Fraunce openly did professe any other then the Catholicke Romish Religion neither was there any such question of controuersie in Religion which as yet was not much spoken of in this Realme No the quarrell which the house of Lorrayne then had and yet hath against the house of Fraunce tended vnder shadow of the King to raigne vntill fitter oportunitie the whiles vnder his auctoritie and by his power to rid their hands of the chiefe Princes of the bloud who were any stumbling blockes in their way and of the officers of the Crowne as those that could not brooke their vsurped auctoritie Vpon these and such like beginnings we are to iudge of their actions ensuing according to these originalles must we consider of the effectes that since they haue endeuoured to disguize to the ende diuersly to procure them fauour as soone after they did stil they endeuour to do but the nature of water is neuer better knowne then at the Spring while it is yet pure and vnmingled as likewise all humaine actions are naturally discerned at their first beginnings before the inconueniences that wee finde haue gathered any sleights and learned to vse any cloked dissimulation This also was the reason that moued thē immediatly vpon the decease of King Francis vnder whose name they ruled because he had married the Scottish Queene their niece finding themselues thereby excluded from all meanes of gouernement to alter their former pretēce For when they perceyued that the generall estates lawfully summoned and assembled did call them to accoumpt for their administrations and dealings they began to cloke their ambition with the vayle of earnest zeale to the Catholick Romish religion They who but fower daies before had put the Germain Princes in such hope of ioyning with them in the confession of Ausbourg beginning with the murder of many persons of all sortes ages and kinds at Vassy did violate the lawes and infringe the peace and publicke tranquilitie of the Realme for the continuaunce whereof the said general estates had found it expedient to graunt the exercize of both Religions and to the same end had published a solemne edict verefied in all the Courtes of Parliament which could not bee attributed to force feare or other vnlawfull pursuite but onely to the sole consideration of the benefite tranquilitie of this estate With armes during the Kings minoritie they seazed vpon his

King of Nauarre as also al other the good subiects and seruaunts of this estate haue occasion to desire the King to graunt thē new assurāces against those of the league and that the rather because those men haue in their hands the chiefe frontiers as well on the Sea coasts as on the lād wherby to draw the straunger into the Realm All which notwithstanding the sayd Lord King of Nauarre once againe offereth to dispossesse himselfe of the sayd Townes of assuraunce vnto him by his Maiesties free consent proroged conditionally that the sayd house of Lorrayne and other their adherents of the league doe likewise effectually departe from those that they holde That all weapons may be layd aside That the straungers bee returned and themselues withdrawne into their owne houses That if notwithstanding so reasonable offers any forces do march against the K. of Nauarre the Lord Prince of Conde and the Lord Duke of Montmorency or any of them or their adherents they do most hūbly require his Maiestie not to mislike that they follow the counsaile both of nature and necessitie which do teach to repell force by force either that they employ whatsoeuer their frends or meanes therein and the rather because now they are not to fight in Guyen for Guyen in Languedock for Languedock in Daulphine Prouince and other places for the estate of the sayd Lo. K. of Nauarre the Lo Prince or the Lord Duke of Montmorency but vndoubtedly for the Estate and libertie of the King hymselfe with the Queene his Mother for the preseruatiō of the lawes and for the defence of the Estate as also they are assured which encreaseth their courage that though the enemy hath proceeded so farre as to seaze vppon his Maiesties Weapons yet he hath kept and reserued his harte for them They pray the Queene the Kings Mother to call againe to mynd how those of that famely entreated her when vnder K. Frances the second her Sonne they ruled all as also what from time to time she noted in them touching the driftes of their ambition Euen she who was the first that to the Kings her children displayed them for such as they are But chiefly that shee who hath wonne to her selfe the name of Mother of the Realme would not now leaue an opinion in the hearts of the posteritie of the leading of the same to ruine by deliuering it into the handes of straungers by enfringing the publicke peace for the contēting of the particuler desires of the publicke enemie and forcing her nearest and most obediēt subiects to encurre the paine due to the Rebelles and perturbers of the estate Whereas at the least there might be some generall peace concluded vpon if in her wisedome she iudgeth it expedient for the peace of this estate to abolish and pardon their offences The said Lo. K. of Nauarre Lord Prince of Conde and Lord Duke of Montmorency do adiure the Lords Princes of the blood earnestly to cōsider that the same importeth their house and blood The Peeres principall officers of this Realme that it cōcerneth the oth and duetie which they haue taken and owe to the Crowne All Parliaments that it toucheth the foundamental lawes of this estate whereof them selues are the preseruers and guardians Generally all estates and degrees of this Realme that it tendeth to the subuertion and confusion of their famelies For who can euer assure himselfe of a particuler quiet in a publicke vprore of a calme in a tempestious Sea of a certaine estate in an alteration of all estates or of a priuate assuraunce in an vniuersall spoyle Also all Princes and estates our neighbours being likewise in league and alliaunce with this estate to assist them in their vndertaken defence and not to suffer such a conspiracie to take effect in respect of the consequence wherinto it might draw all estates Christian They do declare before God who seeth their hearts and before men whom they chose Iudges of their actions that they doe bewaile the Kings estate who abroad is besieged and at home entangled by and in the practises of his enemies that their weapons are vowed onely to his libertie and seruice and would to GOD he had vouchsafed to haue employed their affections for so could they soone haue deliuered him out of all these perplexities Concerning Religion the sayd Lordes King of Nauarre and Prince of Conde doe from their hearts and on their faith and honor declare that they entende not any way to molest the Catholicks or preiudice their Religion which they doe professe as being alwaies of opinion that the conscience ought to be free and as concerning their owne that they are readie to submit themselues to a Counsayle That they doe accept of all good and true Frenchmen both temporall and spirituall and of al 〈◊〉 without acception or exeption of Religion equally taking into their protection and safegarde them their consciences honors and dignities their goods liues and famelies to the ende so farre as in them shall lye to warrant and defende them against all oppression and violence They doe exhort each one particulerly according to his habilitie and calling in token what they are to draw to them to succour and assist thē against those of this league whom the King hath opēly declared attēpters against his person Crowne and estate To the ende also to take from them all doubt and mistrust the Lorde Duke of Montmorency whose Religion was neuer mistrusted whose wisedome as sufficiently knowne to bee such as can well finde the entents of the sayd Lordes King of Nauarre and Prince of Conde shall bee their loadesman and serue them as a guyde Hee being a Peere of Fraunce and chief officer of the Crowne to whom belongeth the first place in leading of the armies Besides that through Gods grace they haue already the assistance and companie of a good number of Catholicke Lordes Knights Captaines and Gentlemen such as haue found out and perceiued their good right together with the necessitie of their defence As for the Captaines of the league and those who to the same entent shall sticke vnto them the sayd Lordes King of Nauarre Prince of Conde and Duke of Montmorency do declare acknowledge them to bee enemies to the King the house of Fraunce and the weale of this estate euen such as the King hath alreadie declared them and as his Courtes of Parliament in the verification of his letters haue aduouched them Also according to the tenour and contents of the sayd letters together with the Kings commaundements therein conteyned they will with their whole power prosecute warre against thē and by all meanes procure the rooting of them out Howbeit for asmuch as diuers there are that by the pretences of the league maye haue been deceiued and abused so many of them as shall within the space of this present yere departe therefro and withdrawe them selues to them or into their owne they will admit receiue into their protection and

safegarde as before meaning that conformably to his Maiesties former ordenances they shal in no wise be molested or called into question for hauing beene seduced by the perswasions of those of the league aforesayd The sayd Lords King of Nauarre Prince of Conde and Duke of Montmorency doe desire al those that shoote not at the same mark with the leaguers which thei should sufficiently know and yet doe remaine in their holdes armies or troopes to withdrawe and get thence so soone as conueniently they may least to their great grief they should not be able to discerne them from the rest for that they intend not to make such partakers of the like payne as are not comprehended in the same crime Further in asmuch as the sayde Lorde King of Nauarre Lord Prince of Conde Lord Duke of Montmorency do sufficiently acknowledge all Warre to bee one of Gods scourges but especially domesticall Warre wherein the poore innocent people are in greatest daunger whose calamities and miseries they doe euen alreadie bewayle they doe withall their hearts beseech the almightie to open his mercifull prouidence ouer the miserable estate of this Realme and people to the ende the mischiefes may by some meanes bee turned awaye either els preuented through some good peace that it may also please him to touch the harts and open the eyes of the King and of the Queene his mother that they may conceiue the necessarie 〈…〉 meanes for the same also to mollefie the hardnesse obstinatie to suppresse the ambition of those of this league making them capable of better counsayle such as may bee more conuenient to the quiet of this estate If otherwise and that their prayers can not auayle or obtaine this successe yet doe they hartely desire euery oue to iudge whether there were euer defence more naturall more necessarie or more iust Also to lay the blame and cast the curse vpon such as haue brought them into this extremitie and left them no other choyce but either the rooting out of the house of Fraunce together with the subuertion of the estate or els a lawfull and necessary defence Consequently they assure themselues that God wil blesse the right and bring vpon the authors of this league the very ringleaders of our calamities that destruction which they purpose against the King his famelie and estate Giuen at S. Paule of 〈◊〉 the 10. of August 1585. Signed Henry Henry of Bourbon Montmorency A Letter written by the King of NAVARRE to the presidents and Members of the Court of Parliament for the French King at Paris MY Masters of all things pa●●ed sence the last broyles I craue no other iudges then your selues For you may haue seene howe many wayes the 〈…〉 mies of this Estate and myne haue tempted my pacience neither can you bee ignorant what sway the respect of the King and weale of this Estate haue borne in mee whereby I haue bene detained in my iust griefe In the meane time it hath so fallen out and I am assured your selues do all know what wrong I doe herein susteine that the enemies of the King and Realme are aucthorized and and armed against mee Whereon it must necessarily ensue that my patience and obedience must beare the pennance of their rebellion and the stranger be rewarded with the goods of the household seruant the seruant with those of the home borne child It is in trueth a matter vnto me very hard but I haue God for my protector Fraunce for my iudge your selues for my witnesses and my Lorde the King for I can not doubt thereof for the allower of my sinceritie I bewaile the mishap of this estate But God knoweth in whom the fault is and can there lay the punishmēt I moane the calamities of the people but it is euidēt who euen of pleasure brake the peace and how necesarily I am forced to take heed to my selfe It is in vaine to report to you what conditions I haue propounded you haue seene them and can tell whether they deserue to bee looked vpon I haue therefore no more to say but to require you euen by the oath that you owe vnto Fraunce with your authoritie to withstand the cōspiracie which you see doth tend to the subuersion therof or at the least assist not with your authoritie so pernitious a practise euen with your vowes fauour those that purpose to employ their liues for the preuenting of such misery and ouerthrow of this Estate I desire and craue no more of you but the iudgement of your owne consciences If my cause bee iust I desire you to allowe thereof if wrongfull determine my ma●●ers what you shal think in duetie for the weale of this estate God I take to witnesse that I am and haue beene faithfull to the King that I loue Fraunce that I honour such verteous persons as doe defend it that I bewayle the miserie and calamitie which I see ready to take hould of all Estates I beseech him to assist you with his grace you whome alwayes I haue accompted the Pillars of this Realme to the end that in these broyles you may as many tymes heretofore reape the commendation of the susteyning and vnderpropping of the body of this estate and I trust that he will giue me grace so to serue the King my Lord also to bee so well serued of all good French men louers of his Crowne that shortly I may present to his view the end of his enemies and quiet of his Subiectes for the compassing whereof I will not spare either my bloud or life Wherevpon my masters I ende praying God to haue you in his holy grace protection From Mont de Marsan this 11. of October 1585. Your most affectionate and assured frend Henry A Letter from the King of Nauarre to the Masters of the Facultie of Deuinitie in the Colledge of Sorbonne MY Maisters vnto you I haue recourse for matters now in questiō as vnto those whose particuler profession tēdeth to prouide that the Church encurre or suffer no detriment You haue considered these late broyles of those of the house of Guyze founded vpon many and very diuers pretences but finally reduced and al formed into one namely to restore the Catholick Church to her perfection and to that ende to roote out me and all other whom they pretende to bee heretickes To which purpose such hath beene their force and violence there haue ensued an edict almost to their mindes Now I will not doubt but through your wisedomes you doe knowe that they purpose an other matter then they speake of That is vnder the shadowe of Religion to haue weapon in hande wherewith to oppresse the chiefe of the house of Fraunce and so to prepare the way to the vsurping of this estate But I pray you euen in these matters of Religion iudge whether they or I haue opened the better waye to reunite the Church and to take awaye the scisme which so long haue troubled vs. I haue

he reuiued the publication of his Edict of pacification throughout all partes of his Realme as a testimony to al but chiefly to those of the Religion that hee in no wise ment to encline to the demaunds of these men but did rather condemne them for that they sought to abolish the sayde Religion by force of armes his Maiestie knowing that to be no meet or lawfull meane as also by sundry letters he assured the King of Nauarre that he would do nothing preiudiciall either to the sayed Edict or him whose cause he acknowledged to be his owne All the premisses notwithstanding it so fell out that vpon a sudden a peace was concluded with those of this famely and league wherof proceeded an Edict wherby the former Edict of pacification so deliberatly confirmed so solemnly sworne vnto by their Maiesties the Princes of his blood all the Courtes of Parliament and the chiefe Lords officers of the crowne which also had bene so freshly reiterated and again confirmed was now vtterly reuoked all exercise of religion vnder paine of death prohibited all professors thereof condemned within the tearme of sixe months to depart the realme the townes for assurance which likewise of his owne accord and for diuers considerations concerning the welth and quiet of his estate he had proroged to those of the said religion they should now speedely habādon to the ende to buy peace at the hands of the sayed Rebels traitors so proclaymed and acknowledged by his Maiestie with the hinderance of his neerest kinsemen and which is worse the weapons committed to the hands of those men to the end to put the same in execution a matter vtterly repugnant to all lawes which doe meerly forbid the execution of any decree to be committed to the aduerse partie nay more that he shal not assist thereat notwithstanding it were to maintaine the execution of Iustice Hereupon therefore doth the King of Nauarre desire all good Frenche men in France to consider what cause he hath to to lament In their publike protestations the conspirators opposed themselues directly against him and yet he to the ende to satisfie the Kings minde and to auoyde all occasion of the peoples oppression remained peaceable and neuer would arme himselfe although he see them in armes round about him He see the Kings mind enclined to peace and that euil and ruine which they openly procured him might haue mooued him by all meanes to crosse them yet for the benefite of the realme he offered to the king some entrie to quietnesse by the declaration which expressely he published yea such as he trusteth all Christiandome will allowe of and the veriest barbarous nation would haue aceapted of They spake of the rooting out of heresie and the Christian authors fought against it with generall Counsels he submitted himselfe to a counsayle and declared himselfe to be ready to be enstructed therby and to yeeld thereto They craued reformation and alteration in some matters of estate such controuersies and differents are by the auncient statutes of the land to bee determined by the generall estates to the assembly whereof whensoeuer it should please the King to summon them hee offered to referre and submit himselfe They requested that the King of Nauarre and the professors of the Religion should immediatly habandon and depart the Townes of assurance notwithstanding the Kings prorogation of the tenour of the same to them graunted for the eschuing of al mistrust he offered without delay to yeeld thē yea which is more to dispossesse himselfe and to render into the Kings handes both he and the Lorde Prince of Conde al gouernments that they holde within this Realme conditionally that the others might doe the like notwithstanding such inequalitie as all men may easely perceiue for it is not meete to make straungers equall with the houshold children Moreouer if there were any further controuersie the decision whereof might touch or any way concerne him for the exempting of the King whose person would be too deare a price to this Realm from all daunger and care therof the sayd King of Nauarre besought his Maiestie not to mislike the determining of any such quarrell either by his power against theirs either els for the preuenting of publicke calamitie by his person against the Duke of Guyze or by more to more as he should think good within the realm or without in whatsoeuer place of free accesse adding moreouer that if his Maiestie could conceiue any more conueniēt remedie for the pacifying of the estate of the Realme the sayed King of Nauarre woulde gladly yeelde thereto and not to spare his life therein most humbly withal beseeching his Maiestie so farre to honor him as to let him vnderstande the same Howbeit nothing respecting all these his so reasonable offers thei haue in the mean time proceeded to a treaty of peace to the great preiudice of the estate and house of Fraunce yea of the King himselfe A peace to speake indifferently vnwoorthy any such title as beeing to bee rather accompted a summons of warre yea vnlesse God of his great mercie doe preuent it such a warre as will be an entry into the ruine and subuertion of the whole estate A peace made with straūgers for the rooting out of the home borne childrē with Traytors for the spoyle of the obedient Subiects with conspirators to the end to commit to their hands the sworde against himselfe to abuse at their pleasures A peace that hath not so much as the tast of any thing appertayning to peace A black peace A wofull and funerall peace and of an vnfortunate aspect A peace which the King signed not but with a quaking and shiuering hand A peace whereto the Princes of his bloud and Peers of this Realm yea the most Catholicke haue refused to sweare as being the decree of their deaths and the small ouerthrowe of the estate which moreouer procureth no comforte either to the Countrey or Townes but hath filled all the good Frenchmen of this Realme with horror and reioyced onely those that nourish them selues and feede vpō their deaths A peace to say the troth which the sayd Lord King of Nauarre acknowledgeth not to be imputed vnto the King a courteous and iust Prince from whose nature the same is too odious neither to the Queene his mother who in al her indeuours haue sought no other but the tranquilitie of the Realme but partly to the dastardlinesse of some of the Kings Counsayle and partly to the trecherie of other some who are either seruants or of kindred and alliaunce with those of this league who also as it is sufficiently knowen in the beginning lessened and deminished the mischiefe propounding it vnto him to be easely appeased least he should haue prouided remedies necessary there against But afterward euen at once when they see the power of the league waxe great did so enlarge it to his view that he was easely perswaded that himselfe might soone be by