Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	good_a	king_n	subject_n	3,003	5	6.4581	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01145	A caueat for France, vpon the present euils that it now suffereth Together with the remedies necessarie for the same. Translated out of French into English by E. Aggas.	Aggas, Edward.	1588 (1588)	STC 11259; ESTC S122364	21,115	30

to haue so great interest in all treaties thē made not to be called neither so much as to be once spokē withal was sufficiēt to make him beleeue that the tretie with those of the league was indeed a cōtract against him the cōcluding of a peace with thē was a plain denoūcing of war against him Neither wanted he aduise or perswasions from his partakers who seing thēselues in euident danger reproued his ouerlong patience wherefore they saw well that they must suffer Al which notwithstanding he neuer stirred but reposed his confidence in God the protector of his right and innocencie vpon the king Queene mothers word who had so often expresly promised him that they would neither doo nor suffer to be done any thing to his harme or the preiudice of the edicts of peace And indeed who would haue imagined that for strangers sakes they would haue sacrificed their own domesticals or stanched the insatiable thirst of those of Loxraine with the shedding of the french bloud and losse of their owne Well peace was concluded with those of the league their edict of peace was a decree of banishment against the king of Nauarre the late lorde Prince and their partakers To be briefe al the war was at once without knowing any cause why turned against this poore Prince and the french armies put into the hands of the house of Lorraine for the executing of this violent edict with all outrage A matter neuer before heard of in any iustice but likewise who will seeke iustice among so many iniustices that the parties considering their stomackes should be made both commissioners and executioners in their owne plea But will you plainely see that the causes which in their writinges they alleage for their iustification were but vaine pretences They had promised reliefe to the people reestablishment of dignitie to the Nobilitie and the auncient authoritie and libertie to the Clergie and to the same end of some they had gotten the persons from others the coyne howbeit when they came to treat there is no speech of any such matter they had sworne to the lord Cardinall of Burbon that they would cause him to be nominated successour to the crowne yea they would rather be buried then depart therefro that likewise they had forgotten Their onely drift was to be still armed vnder whatsoeuer pretence and to place all their family in good gouernments or in the strongest holdes and hauing once wonne that point they presumed themselues to the arbitrators of France And in deede for the compassing thereof they renounce the rest they renounce them to the people to the Nobilitie and Clergie to the eminencie of the state and to the zeale of the Church But al this is found to be swallowed and drowned in their particular ambition and since that time wee haue seene no more of it there hath beene I say no mention or memorie thereof Thus do we see on the one part these of the league thorough their violence armed with the kings name and armor and on the other side the king of Nauarre furnished with the kinges will but vnarmed against the league All that hee can get is certaine secret excuses That they are verie sorrie for it but they could not otherwise rid their handes that they must needes yeeld to this rage c. In the meane time on euerie side they came vpon him the edict of pacification is infringed in fauour of the league throughout the realme are nothing but proscriptions and banishments such as assisted the king against the league being both sent for and commaunded by his Maiestie of good seruants euen in one day are become offenders yet can he not at once abandon all patience hee will commune with the D. of Montmerencie a peere of France and chiefe officer of the crowne one that is not suspected of religion They meete at S. Paule of Cadeiouz in Alby they remaine there certaine dayes to conferre his Maiesties deputies are heard giue out the speeches aforesaide whereupon they resolue manfully to withstande the mischiefe which otherwise is remedilesse the king of Nauarre the late lorde Prince and the Duke of Montmorencie neuertheles by an expresse protestation of the tenth of August declaring that to their great greife through this precipitation they are forced to haue recourse to weapons that as all the world knoweth they haue tollerated vntill all extremitie but that seeing the enemie readie to fall vpon them they could doo no lesse but take counsaile both of necessitie and nature That they had offered and againe did offer in matter of religion to yeeld to a free counsell and in matters of state to a lawfull conuocation of the states yea to submit themselues to the hazard of a combate albeit with their inferiors rather then to see the desolation of this state and calamitie of so much people but if either violence or bad counsaile had stopped vp their eares to their iust reasons that they declared before God and all the good subiects of this lande that they had not taken armes but for the kinges authoritie and libertie manifestly oppressed yea and that with his owne consent voluntarily testified by so many his declarations letters decrees and ordinances that they neither haue nor will haue for enimies any other then those whō of his owne meere motion he had denounced enemies to his life and the peace of his realme that in respect of religion they would make no distinction of the kings subiectes but would cherish and embrace them all with like affection and countenance only requiring them to the end to be the better distinguished to separate themselues both from the counsailes and dealings of the league protesting all the miseries and calamities that this estate is to suffer to be vnto them both sensible and sorrowful who are the bloud and members thereof but not so to those that are but grafted in that verie slightly moreouer from the bottome of their soules calling for Gods wrath and curse against the authors of so many mischiefes and vpon their practises and enterprises a vow which God hath in troth heard if we list to see it throughout the whole progresse of this warre of the league Well the war was earnestly begun see we are now come to the third yeare now let vs call to mind the goodly speeches they then vsed to bring vs in tast with it The king Nauarre saide they within a fewe monthes would be shut vp in some one of his houldes without all hope of succour and forced to forsake the realme not to find any assured place where to soiourn The Protestants hands within the first yere should in part yeelde for feare at the first brunt of their weapons in part be won by force if they obstinatly durst resist For the seconde yeare they should not haue past three or foure left those by their saying rather to practise then to trouble thē As for their succour it

to come any way to assist them with his habilitie whereby they were driuen to hasten their entering into armes certaine monethes before their time whereof it insued that the state was troubled the said deputies sent away without doing any thing and the crowne frustrate of that great and goodly increase that was then offered Hereby therefore let all France iudge of the nature indeed strange of the captaines of this League who to the end to warrant the K. of Spaine from an vncertaine losse doo cast this realme into an assured shipwracke who do redeeme the Spaniards danger with the Frenchmans death and his diminution with the vtter subuersion of France But these their wicked intents did they cloake with verie beautifull pretences for the vppermost painting was a certaine deuotion a zeale to the church as if the king who was an example to all men stoode in need of armed solliciters to bring him into the way but this hypocrisie was likewise as soone descried through the visarde And indeede the king by an expresse decree declared them to be rebels and guiltie of treason and so would haue all his good subiectes to take them yea and to the same end he writ to his courts of Parliaments to all his bailifs and stewards and to his principal townes and aduertised his ambassadors resident with forreine princes charging them to lay open their conspiracie against his person and crowne expreslie commanding all good Frenchmen to ouerrunne them and their adherents and desiring all princes his neighbours allies and confederates to assist him against these with both men and monie These dispatches I say which his maiestie sent euerie way both within and without the realme do faithfully shew what his iudgement was of them when he termed them Partakers of a publike peace vnder a false shadow of religion when in expresse termes he confesseth that they shoot not at his crown onelie but also at his person likewise the speeches which with his own mouth he vsed both in the Parliament town house which wee all may yet remember And this profession was neither suborned nor wrested by art or by sorce but put foorth of his owne and the most inward motion of his minde for as it hath sufficientlie since appeared what force or counsaile had hee about him to vrge him against the league albeit contrariwise there were some neere to his maiestie that vsed violence in their behalfes And in deede his commandements were then so taken and construed neither was there anie subtiltie sought out but according to the bare letter for sundrie companies of those of the league that were in sundrie places defeated by the gouernors and the dukes of Ioieuse and Espernon with his maiesties forces made open warre against them as also the lord Marshall Matignon with the aduise of the court of parliament of Bourdeux imprisoned the lord of Vailac their partaker and thrust him foorth of Castle Trompet and likewise the lord great prior gouernour of Prouence apprehended those that had enterprised in the behalfe of the league against the towne of Marseilles and were fauored with the succour of sixe gallies of Florence which waited the execution of their purpose to the ende to take possession in the king of Spaines name whose proces was made by the Parliament of Aix with great solemnitie according to the tenure whereof they were put to death in Marseilles These synodall testimonies and soueraigne decrees were sufficient interpreters of the kings intent against those of the league and the rather because these witnesses iudges and executioners were the verie same that sawe deepest into the kings inward minde as hauing shewed greatest rigour to the Huguonets in the former warres and were therefore to them suspected of stomacke in matter of their religion but free from all suspition or exception to those of the holy league Now let vs note the behauiours and actions of the king of Nauarre at the same time hee see himselfe personallie assaulted hee perceiued that hee was both the subiect and obiect of those of the league The speech was of no lesse matter then to take from him both his life and honour and to murther all that hee loued or that ioued him This had beene enough in some to haue bred a stupiditie rather then a patience It was enough to haue moued a warre abruptlie much more to defend himselfe from that which was alreadie mooued On the other side hee perceiued the King highlie offended against the league hee sawe that hee daylie wrote vnto him that hee tooke both the quarrell and the warre to bee his owne that hee perceiued that they shotte both at his estate and life That his name and religion were but pretences but withall that it was requisite to let his people vnderstande as much whome vnder the false shadowe of religion they had miscaried from their dueties This besides the equitie of the cause had also beene enough to arme him both with title and authoritie against the League And had hee thus taken armes no man woulde haue blamed him whereas through want of dooing it in time hee nowe findeth himselfe in trouble In the meane time hee besides the right and naturall feeling being neuerthelesse as all men knowe wise enough in each other thing did yet resolue himselfe from the Kings hande to waite for the remedie for these mischieues Hee conteineth all his friendes and seruaunts in patience and the Protestant townes in peace and silence hee disposeth himselfe to serue his maiestie vppon his token and in time conuenient hee will not for his owne part vndertake anie thing which may either kindle this war which seemed to happen fitlie for him against the League or that anie way may bee a let to the quenching thereof Contrariwise and indeede wee must needes remember it these were the speeches which for the maintenance of peace hee then vsed In matter of religion hee declared to the King also to the states and all degrees of this realme that hee had beene therein euen from his youth brought vp That after he came to yeares of discretion he had neither seene nor heard any thing that might turn him therfro That he beleeued that hee was in the right way of saluation wherein hee had perseuered in the midst of dangers and maugre the intisements of the world Neuerthelesse that he was readie to learne of the Church in a free Councell whether hee would bring both aptnesse and attention to learne for it did euidentlie enough appeare that his perseuerance in his religion was neither ambition nor obstinacie that ambition if he were therewith possessed might be much better satisfied on the other side as for obstinacie it was too preiudiciall vnto him sith it consisted vpon his quietnes honour and state That at this day as well in this realme as throughout Christendom these matters were growne to these termes wherein euen the colledge of Sorbonne was wont to say that either part shoulde beare with other without taxing