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A01152	A declaration concerning the needfulnesse of peace to be made in Fraunce and the means for the making of the same: exhibited to the most Christian king, Henrie the second of that name, King of Fraunce and Polande, vpon two edictes, put forth by his Maiestie, the one the tenth of September, the other the thirtenth of October. Anno. 1574. Translated out of Frenche by G. H. Esquire.; Remonstrance au roy ... sur le faict des deux edicts ... touchant la necessité de paix & moyens de la faire. English	Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595.; Harte, George.	1575 (1575)	STC 11266; ESTC S112648	61,519	168

Realme in to the auncient estate of quietnesse and tranquillitie by meanes of suche peace as we intende to giue to our subiectes and the clemencie we purpose to vse towardes them forgetting all that is passed without remembring any part thereof and intending that none of all our subiectes of what qualitie degree or condition so euer they bee or for what cause so euer may bee pretended to haue bene doone and committed by them during the troubles or by their occasion shall any way be disquieted molested or syfted by vs or oure officers eyther in their persons goodes or honours but that they may lyue in their houses in all assurance rest and tranquilitie both they their families and posterities And therefore we folowing conforming our selues to our sayd first letters mynding moreouer so greatly the benefit of peace that we will not in any wyse haue them syfted distressed nor troubled for their consciences but doe vtterly forbid it and for the same wyll make all necessarie prouision to be put in readynesse And to the ende that those which are willing to come to vs to shewe vs their griefes may doe it safely and so likewise returne We will that these presents shall serue them for safeconduct Prouided alwayes that as well for theyr comming as theyr going they take safeconductes and Pasportes of the gouernours and Lieftenantes generall of our prouinces by which they passe Whom we commaunde to deliuer the same vnto thē without refuse or delay Enioyning also all gouernours Captaynes of places our iusticers and officers Sherifes of Townes and other our subiectes according to theyr dueties to suffer all suche trauellers to come and goe safely without giuing or suffering to be giuen any molestation or impeachement And we promise in the faith and word of a king and vpō our honor to accomplish and performe that which is by these presents and shall be by vs after accorded and assured And for more greater suretie it shall be allowed and approued as matter of recorde throughout all the courtes of Parliamentes of our Realm by the Princes of our bloud Lordes Gentlemen Mayors Sherifes and principall dwellers of oure Townes and others if neede shall require Thus wee gyue commaundemente to our trusty and welbeloued officers of our Courtes of Parliamentes and our sayde Liefetenantes generall gouernours Baylifes Stewardes and other deputies to keepe and obserue inuiolably these presentes without contradiction or suffering any contradiction in what sort or manner soeuer it be putting our atturney generall and all others vnto silence For so is our pleasure In witnesse whereof we haue caused our seale to be put to these presentes Giuen at Lions the thirtienth day of October in the yeare of grace .1574 and of our raigne the first So signed HENRY And vpon the reply By the king being in his councell at Neufville And sealed with double labels in yellowe waxe ¶ A declaration to the most Christian king Henrie the thirde of that name king of Fraunce and Poland SYr the two Edictes that your maiestie hath caused to be published since youre newe comming to the Crowne which GOD make prosperous vnto you doe make great shewe that your sayde Maiestie is desirous to see a good peace in France And truly al good people do greatly praise God for the good wil fatherly affection that he hath put into your heart towards your sayde subiects and desire that the same may there take so deepe and liuely roote as it may vtter it selfe more and more in deede and effect But according to your sayd Maiesties complaint in the last of those Edictes many are so full of mistrust as they can hardly beleue such affection of peace to be yet throughly imprinted in your heart the rather for that they see your Maiestie to make warre against them to whom you say you intende to giue peace in so muche that seeing on the one side a pretence of your will tending to peace and on the other side an execution of warre they knowe not what to determine thereof Some say they must rest them selues rather on the deede than on the word paper or ynke Other some thinke that the worde and promise of a King is ground sufficient to reste vppon excusing youre Maiesties making of warre with the same excuse that is contayned in your last Edict that is to say that your Maiestie assembled not those forces but hauing found them readie furnished at your cōming to the crown thought it more requisite to imploy them than to suffer them to be idle specially seeing that the entertaining of them was so chargeable they must needs be payd whether they serue or no. Some say moreouer that what so euer your Maiestie hath doone touching the execution of war was but to sharpen mens apetites vnto peace which held your townes in their hands were in armes against you bycause feare is a ready meane to make the weaker craue peace of the stronger Othersome say further that a noble prince oughte to behaue him selfe mildely towardes suche as humble them selues vnder his obeysance and to tame and represse suche as make resistance against him and that therefore your Maiestie hathe iust cause to make warre against those your subiects whiche will not yeeld you their obedience to whome neuerthelesse ye would giue peace if they woulde put off armor desire it of you with humblenesse But to speake the trueth all these reasons can not make the greater number to hazard them selues by beleeuing the contrary say they to that which they haue seene and yet doe see with their eyes And especially those that be in armes who thinke yee meane to make of them a matter seruiceable to your glory and triumph as did the ancient Emperours those barbarous nations whom they subdued And they groūd their beleefe vpon your first Edict by the whyche your said Maiestie seemeth to take for great victorie and matter of triumph the lamentable aduentures happened in the warres passed in the late king your brothers tyme against those that named them selues youre subiectes and were in deede Frenchmen borne Again they graūt that a prince ought to represse and tame suche as will not obey him and that God and nature doe teache vs to obey our princes and soueraigne Lordes but they also say that God and nature doe likewise teach vs to preserue our liues and that to the obedience due to princes ought to be ioyned the assurance of the subiectes lyues which should not be taken away but by order of lawe and that if they were assured of that point vppon any other pledges than paper and ynke there were nothing in the world that they woulde more willingly do than the yelding vnto you theyr whole obedience and seruice and that therefore they are not to bee accompted as traytors and rebels though they submit not themselues without assurance of their liues bycause the former time serueth them for a sufficient example and lesson to learne by the

so to be deputed to entreate of the said matters And to those twelue by your sayde Maiestie to be chosen it shal be requisit●e that ye giue a strong and large commission for the hearing of all plaintes and griefes and the appeasing ending of the sai●e together with the deciding of all suche articles as shall to them by the Gospellers be preferred in suche manner as may be moste furthering to the sayd peace and the common weal● And that what so euer shall be so determined and agreed vpō may be of like weight force and authority as if your self sir in proper person had decided and accorded it Which good and large commission being gyuen to those deputies it were requisite that a place of no side to be suspected to them were assigned to execute that cōmission in As this good town of Frankford myght it please you to permit their comming thither is free from all suspition bycause bothe the Relygions Catholike and Euangelike are therin exercised yea the verie Iewes haue heere their place of safetie if not here at Ausburge where both Religions are lykewise vsed or at Strasbrough where both parties shal be welcome or else in some other good town wher● into may be safe sure accesse as wel for the commissioners as for all suche other as shall haue with them to doe The sayd commissioners also must by your fayde Maiestie be enioyned vpō paine for euer to be banished the realme of Fraunce not to depart thence till suche time as they haue fully concluded vpon so much as shal be necessarie to the perfiting of a good perpetuall peace No more than may the Cardinall from the Conclaue when they those a Pope Nor the electors of the Empire when they elect an Emperour And it behoueth that it be further ordayned that suche of the same commissioners as discent from the rest be bound to yelde forth in writing the occasion or reason of their suche dissenting to the ende that if the treatie therethrough become ineffectuall as well strangers as those of the french nation may iudge and knowe in whome the default doth rest that the peace was not concluded and that then the reasons of both parties be to the world put foorth and published whereby it may be seene who is in the right or wrong by whiche meane all the worlde shall in the end come to iudge of both parties so iustly hate the obstinate opinion of them that by the letting of that good peace shall tumble Fraunce afresh into the miseries of warre And if by the grace of God it shall happen all the articles to be resolued concluded and agreed vpon by youre sayd commissioners and the same by both sortes in two coppies whereof they of each religion to haue one to be signed Let it then please your maiestie that vnder the name and authoritie of the same it be put foorth in fourme of a perpetuall Edict without altring any iot thereof and that the same Edict also bee stablished sworne and confirmed by your selfe first in your full priuie counsell then by all the princes and other councellours of the same and after by all the generall and perticular estates by the gouernours of prouinces towns and fortes their Lieuetenauntes by all the Parliamentes places of Presidentes Bayliffes Stewards and their Liefetenauntes with all other your officers and by the Cardinals Bishops Prelates Chapiters and Colledges of your Realme The fourme of which oth also to be that each promise and sweare before God and vpon payne of loasing their honours estates offices and dignities with the encurring of your displeasure as infringers of your peace and vnder the damnation of their soules as muche as in them is to obserue and cause to be obserued without fraude or guile all things contayned in the sayde Edict nothing therein altered by way of moderation declaration or otherwise other than suche declarations and modifications as were made by youre Edict in lyke manner and fourme as was the sayde Edict of peace The recordes of which othes chiefly those of the Lordes of youre priuie counsell the gouernours of prouinces and townes the Parliamentes places of presidentes and prouinciall estates ioyned to the sayd Edict togither with the actes of publication and establishment to be imprinted And that the sayd oth be yerely renued and giuē to all such as shall hereafter be enstalled in any office royall or take the charge of any other office in the common weale If it might please your Maiestie to think good of this platte layde for the bringing to passe of a perfect peace to be had in Fraunce mine opinion is that the Gospellers woulde well like thereof and thervnto agree though they be full and not without cause of mistrust suspition and dread to be deceyued al things welneere beeing to them suspect And to prooue that this way carieth with it some reason and no whit toucheth the derogation of your soueraigne authoritie experience teacheth it to be a thing almost ordinarie to all Kings and Princes when they are to deale with any matters of importāce be it with strangers or others or when they will make any lawes or ordinaunces touchyng iustice or pollicie in theyr kingdoms or countries to commit the doing thereof to commissioners and legates When the late Kyngs of Fraunce youre predecessours haue made any good ordinaunces eyther of pollicie or for the execution of iustice within youre Realme wherein were contayned the formalitie of pleas the order of iudgemēts the maner of making contracts and many decisions of rightes taken out of the lawyers hands it is very certaine that they were driuen in the same to vse as commissaries and Legates their chauncellours and other meete persons chosen out of theyr Parliamentes or priuie councels for they them selues neuer studied in the schooles nor proceeded Doctours of the lawes Ciuil nor Canon to the furtheraunce of their knowledges in the making of such ordinances but trusted their good and faithful deputies and authorised what their saide deputies founde good and profitable for the common wealth although suche resolutions proceeded not of their owne deuices neyther did they well vnderstand thē But when your predecessors would cause to be set downe in writing the customes payable within youre countries they did the same by the seruice of deputies and legates and suche customes as were by the saide deputies and legates assessed and written the Princes by a lawe authorised the perpetual payment therof And when the Romanes liked to haue lawes made to rule rightly their common wealth they appointed ten Legates which made a collection of all the lawes and ordinances that seemed to them profitable or necessary eyther for the vniuersall state or for perticular cōmodities Whiche said lawes they placed in twelue tables and had them in as great estimation as if all the people had made decided and established them For seeing they were made by the authoritie and commission of suche as then helde the soueraigntie it

an indifferent place therefore by the iudge was to be chosen and by shal reason may all the townes in Fraunce be suspected For if the suspition of a place be curiously to be looked to and aduoyded in small things how muche are they to bee looked to in a matter of so greate a weight as is the seeking and concluding of a peace And where I sayd it should be meete that when the commissioners coulde not 〈◊〉 vpon some articles of the treaty they whiche refused to agree and goe through shoulde giue out by their writings the reasons of their dissenting and standing aloofe to the end the worlde mighte see who were in the fault it is not a matter vnreasonable For such as shall yeeld as meete is to the agreement of all things that right and reason shal finde expedient for the common profit shall not finde it euill that a reason be rendred by them that otherwise in their passions will bee wilfull and therefore if any refuse so to do it shal seeme that they want good wil to see the way that shuld bring al things in fro● that are to be foūded vpō equitie cōmon profit Neyther aught to to be euil taken what I spake touching othes For as the common saying is he that wil wel pay wil willingly become bound And your maiesty already by youre saide last Edict of October approued this poynt when ye promised in the word of a king to cause to be obserued whatsoeuer should be agreed vpon and to make the fame passe in maner of a recorde with the consents of your Parliamentes towns and commonalties of your realme I shall thinke my selfe wel ●…iffied syr in all humilitie and reuerence to haue shewed vnto you as to my naturall prince the three poyntes whereof I haue before entreated Most humbly beseeching your Maiestie to take the sa●… in good part as in that is proceeded from the heartie affection of a good french subiect that wisheth all encrease of honor and prosperitie to your crowne and quietnesse to your poore subiectes And if it shall please God to moue you to thinke so well of this plot layd for the building of a peace as you will appoint and charge commissioners with the dealing in the same I wil settle my selfe to the opening of suche other perticular meanes for the bringing thereof to passe as are not mee●e at this present in writing to be discouered But amongst other things I will open vnto them howe needfull it were that a good 〈◊〉 should be made for the banishing of Machi●ae● for euer out of Fraunce as one that hath bene the greatest lyar imposture that euer was in the World the ancient Romanes Greekes and Frenchmen and all other well ruled commonwealthes hauing bin ruled ●leane contrarie to his doctrine And that his disciples whiche haue brought into Fraunce the obseruation of his precepts haue bene the very cause of the ciuill warres and miseries of the realme It may be that his precepts be good and necessarie for those of his nation for they reach among other things the nonmaking of account of any religion otherwise than for the keping of the people in a superstitious feare and obedience vpon which his opinion might be inferred that the Turkish religion wherefrom God deliuer vs might safely of any be receiued for by the same the Turks holdeth his subiectes vnder suche feare and obedience as they refuse not at his commaundement the murthering of them selues thinking therevpon to flee straight to their Paradise that floweth with mylke and hony He sheweth also that a Prince should beare good countenance to all promise muche and keepe touche in nothing more than sire●th to his aduantage Moreouer his disciples vse these faire persuasions If it be profitable to a Kyng say they to tooke out and destroy such houses and such olde him doe it without taking any aduise 〈◊〉 what may folowe of his so doing Such as haue brought into Fraunce the obseruation of Machiauels precepts haue not well considered that the Frenchmen in nature farre differ from their nation The French are naturally religiōs louers of vertue and take no pleasure neyther in falsifying of their fayth contemning of their honor and reputatiō nor in the sheading of bloud If the Macheuilians be endued with those good qualities let them there kepe them and folowe their Doctors doctrine that was the greatest Atheist that euer the worlde bred with his companion the Aretine as their writings doth openly shew so as they keepe them selues from poysoning of our Frenche nation with those their abhominable vices But I will reserue till another time when it shall better fall out to the purpose the speaking more largely to my Lords Maisters the Macheuilians whome I will then shew that al their policie sufficiēcie is none other than a brutish ignorance accompanyed with a wicked heart and will and that they neuer read the good histories writtē in Greeke Latin or Frenche or if they haue read they neuer well vnderstoode them I will for this time proceede no further but make an end of this present declaration the which I once againe most humbly beseech your Maiestie to take in good part so as it may passe from this good towne of Frankford to your handes Praying the Creatour of all things to endue you with his grace shortly to establish a good peace in your poore Realme so muche torne and spoyled by these warres paste by meane whereof all your subiectes may render vnto you their good and willing obedience The same also preserue you in happy prosperitie and encrease you with much power and honour FINIS i. Liuius b. 9. deca 1. ●ionisius ●alic lib. 3. Plutarch in Alexandro Liuius lib. 9. deca 1. Ti. Liuius lib. 2. deca 1. Su●… in Calig cap. 30. 3● 49. 56. Dion ibid. Capitolinus in Maximino Ti. Liuius lib. 2. deca 1. Ti. Liuius lib. eodem Suetonius in Nerone ca. 38. 40. 42. 47 48. 49. Dion eodem Suetonius Dion in Nero. Cor. Tacitus Annalium libr. 13. 14. Horace lib. 1. Sermo Satira 2. Lampridius in Alexandro Herodianus lib. 6. Lampri in Heliogaba Dion in pseudo Antonino Froyssart lib. 1. cap. 4 15. 24. Titus li. 17. Sueton in Vitel. 10. cap. 10. Trebellius Pollio in Gallieno in Ingenio tyranno Ti. Liuius lib. 3. dec 3. Ti. Liuius lib. 7. de 1. Appianus de bello Social De bello Gal. lib. 7. cap. 19. Frois lib. 2. cap. 95. 96. 97. 98. 3. Re. cap. 12. Philip de Cōmnies lib. 1. cap. 3. Froissart lib. Dionis Hal. 4. 5. Virgil Eneid● lib. 7. As Iosephus De bello Iud. lib. 18. cap. 1. 2. 3. Cesar de bello gall lib. 1 cap. 13. Salust de bello Iugurthino Plutarch in Caesare Cor. Tacitus Annal. Trel Pollio in Gallienno Dion in Nerua capitolinus in An Putat C. de Iudeis Gelic Dion i● Nerua Apio Lampridius in Alexandro Suetonius in Nerone Cap. 16. Tacitus Annalium lib. 15 Am. Marcellinus libro 30. I. Christianis C. de paganis Sueto in Augusto cap. 35. Treb. Polli in Valeriano