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A20361	A true report of all the doynges at the assembly co[n]cernyng matters of religion, lately holden at Poyssy in Fraunce. Written in Latine by Mayster Nicholas Gallasius, minister of the Frenche Churche in London, and then present, [and] one of the disputers in the same, translated into English, by I. D.... Seen and allowed accordyng to the order appoynted by the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions; True report of all the doynges at the assembly concernyng matters of religion, lately holden at Poyssy in Fraunce.	Des Gallars, Nicolas, ca. 1520-ca. 1580.	1561 (1561)	STC 6776; ESTC S110901	50,348	138

A TRVE report of all the doynges at the assembly cōcernyng matters of Religion lately holden at Poyssy in Fraunce Written in Latine by Mayster Nicholas Gallasius minister of the Frenche Churche in London and then present one of the disputers in thesame trāslated into English by I. D. ● Seen and allowed accordyng to the order appoynted by the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions ¶ To the ryghte honorable the Lord Frauncis Russel Earle of Bedford and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuye councell Nicholas Gallasius IMmediatly after my retourne into thys Realme ryghte honourable I thought nothyng more requisite than to shewe the cause of my lōg pylgrymage That bothe all menne maye vnderstande why I haue bene so long absente from my churche and also what was the ende of that assemblye where I was and eke what fruite I reaped of my trauayle therein For I vnderstande that sondrye rumours haue bene spred thereof and that manye haue easilye perswaded themselues that whiche they most desired So that in these oure tymes I fynde it most true which long synce was spoken Namely that the people iudgeth and now measure most thyngs accordyng to there owne opynion and very fewe accordyng to the truth Whiche foolyshe iudgements to withstand I counted it paine well spence not onely by word of mouth to certifie my frēdes and familyers but also to put in writting to the sight and reading of al mē the late doinges betwixt vs and the prelates at Poyssye Whiche as symply playnelye so I protest to doe truly and faythfullye As they themselues which were presēte at the doynge therof can witnesse Great sure was the expectacion of this assemblye and cōference And not with out cause For neuer hereto fore in Fraunce were we quyetlye heard or admitted to the defence of our cause but rather without cause condēned banyshed and imprysoned Now therefore it was no maruell yf with thys straūge and sodayn chaūce mens myndes were in greate expectacion had conceyued good hope Especiallye forasmuche as the truthe shyneth of itselfe waxeth so much y● more mighty as men with greate force and suttelty assay to suppresse it But they must not thynke that we were heard of them which were dryuen thereto for the most part agaynst there willes altogether enforced thereto by the necessirye of common commaundemente For they woulde alwayes either haue vs put to sylence oure mouthes stopped or els referred to there greate God at Trent only necessitye therefore made vs audience Bycause no otherwise the feare of imminent peryls could be repressed nor they thēselues which hate vs most haue prouided for their own quietnes Wherfore al be it they fayned that they were wiling to come to cōference yet they cōtinued with vs only so long as they hoped in the meane tyme they myght well content the Kynge and the nobles and appease the cōmons For to leaue of the seueral discourse al theyr doinges generally but chiefly their departure whereby they brake the conference sufficiētly disclosed what their purpose was Whiche if we consider certainly we shall maruell that we dyd so often come to talke and wer suffred so long to pleade our cause But wtout respecting the councels or iudgements of men we must weye the prouidēce of God wherby he preuenteth al perilles and geueth a happy and lucky ende to doubtfull beginninges For god which neuer faileth those that are his hathe farre exceded our hope and expectatiō For who thought that albeit we wer sent for yet many beyng vnwilling some striuing against it we should be heard at all who sawe not a thousande wyles prepared for vs wherby we myghte eyther be put to death or silence After that we weronce heard with the great grudge of all the bishops who wuld haue hoped for the seconde or third meetyng Who thought not that we were led as prysoners to pleade oure cause And where as moste vniuste condityons were offered vs whereby the Byshops mynded to shame vs and win themselues a glorious victory who thought not that we woulde streyght haue broken of and hauing so good occasyon offered vnto vs woulde foorthwith reasse from conference Yet we chose rather to abyde al perilles yea and to muche wrong rather than we woulde geue any occasyon to breake of y● conference We gaue vp a confession of oure fayth that is to say of all the churches in Fraunce that professe the ghospell To maintain and defends thesame we wer alwayes readie Or if the bishops would haue shewed forth any of theirs we promised oftē to conferre therof to confute it if ther were in it any thyng not agreable to the woorde of God But we coulde neuer get them together withoute great entreatye or continuall callyng on them At the laste when they neyther coulde nor durste openly to breake of the conference once begonne by the Kyngs cōmaundement they thoughte good by litle and litle to loose breake of For firste from the great audyence in the whiche we were first heard wyth greate companye restrained in a more narowe place we were admitted onely to the number of .xii. where they had a greate companye of their monkes and doctours Neither yet did this order please them long For at the laste the matter was referred to fiue on ether part and yet afterwardes those that wer chosen for them bicause they wer graue and quiet men they said wer neuer appoynted therto by their consent For they thought thē to much bent to peace concord which they hate All these pollicies attempted as it semed in vayn without any aunswere geuing vs or any parte of theyr mindes signified vnto vs they departed But although this labor may seme emploied in vain wherof their apeares eyther no end or els no certain conclusion yet neuertheles herby is made manifest to al men howe great is the power of truth which can be suppressed by no might of mē by no wile nor guile For she feareth her aduersaries she constraineth her defēders and patrones maketh thē to be feared albeit thei are few and smal of force she vanquisheth and rooteth out all error be it neuer so depe rooted she detecteth and chaseth deceites and lies euen as the light with her beames doth the darknesse to conclude although manye yeares she hath lien hydden and suppressed yet at the last she becomes vanquisher of all her foes Which forasmuche as the lorde dailye proueth before our eyes truely we are vnkinde and vnthankefull vnlesse we mindefully weye it Least therefore the fame of these doynges should dye least they shuld be falsified with lyes or blotted with false tales immediately after my retourne I wrote the note thereof and described all thynges euen as they wer done But whiles I doubted vnder whose name I might best publishe the same your honor cam forthwith to my minde to whom for great fauoure and gentlenesse I am much bounden and not I onely but as many els as beyng true worshippers of god are fled hither

for religion To your highnes therfore I haue dedicated the same that forasmuch as you are muche enflamed with the desire of godlinesse religion and wish the banishment of error and deceit you may hereby plainly se how the lord worketh in our realme of Fraunce howe the gospel encreaseth ther with what patiēce modesty we suffred our aduersaries and also what hope we may conceue of thinges to come Neither can I wyth silence ouerpasse how much the example of the happy and quiete gouernmēt of this flourishing realme and the authoritie of all the nobles of this realme that fauoure the gospell and chiefly of the moste noble and gracious Queene Elizabeth hath ayded vs to stoppe the mouthes of our aduersaries which are alwayes wont to obiect that with the chaunge of religion the chaunge and disorder of the realme will likewise ensue For bothe hye and lowe would laye vnto them the example of this floryshing realme whose state hath neuer ben more quiet than since the times that the most noble Queene Elizabeth restored religion defaced by her sister to the auncient puritie and sinceritie For what may more winne the fauour of the people to the Prince than pure religiō and zele of truthe Then at the last doe men perfectly knowe theyr duetyes to their Princes when first they knowe their duetye to God by whom Princes are appointed as vicars or lieuetenāts And those thynges whiche your honor yet sayde and reasoned touchyng thys argumente and the mayntaynyng of true religion when you were sent into Fraunce to congratulate oure Kyng yet sticke imprinted in the mindes of many Neyther haue ye left any suttle spurres or prouokementes to vertue in the mindes of suche as are Godlye with the president of youre vpryght lyuing gentlenesse liberalitie and youre true and sincere Zele whereby when I perceiued that thei prouoked and encouraged wished so well to your honor as they ought I thought I should pleasure them also if to you whome I knowe to embrace and defende al godlinesse I should present these newes whiche bothe to all men but chiefly to such as are patrones and defenders of y● truth ought well to bee knowen ¶ The proclamacion of summons and saue conduit to the generall consultation of the clergy in Fraunce Trāslated out of Frenche into Englishe CHARLES by the grace of God king of Fraunce to al our Baylis Stewards Prouostes Iudges or their Lieutenauntes other oure Iustices officers to whō it shal apertaine Greting Forasmuch as in the generall assemblie whiche we presentely cause to be made of the Prelates of our Realme for the causes conteined in the Letters which we haue heretofore written vnto them it hath semed to vs right requisite that al our subiects which concernyng the same causes shall haue any thinge to saye or that will be heard in the same assēblie may there be and appere in all safetye for the hope that we haue by this meane to receiue a good and holy resolution For thys cause we by the aduise of our most honored Lady and mother the Queene of our moste dere and moste beloued vncle the king of Nauarre of the princes of our bloud and other Lordes of our Counsell haue permitted doo permit by these presentes to all our said subiects of what estate qualitie or cōdition soeuer they be whiche shall haue as is abouesaid any thing to shew may safely freely and without any feare come appere and be heard in the said assemblie which we make to be holdē here nere vnto vs in our town of Poyssy and there to tary and soiourne so long as the same shall endure and afterwarde to returne and depart in like safety libertye where and as to thē shall seme good And to this ende we haue by these presentes geuen doo geue to them good and lawfull surety most expressly cōmaundyng all persones whatsoeuer they be our subiectes or other not to misdo or missay in dede nor in worde in any sort whatsoeuer it be to them that shall come as is aforesaid to the said assemble vpō peine of the * with Enioyning likwise to those our said subiectes which shall come for this entente that vpon like paines they behaue and order thēselues mildely modestly without stirring vp any troubles or seditions And to the ende that this our presēte permissiō will and entent may be open manifest to all men we will cōmaund you by these presētes that vpō receite therof ye cause the same to be red and published in all places of your assemblies accustomed to make cries and proclamacions to the end that no man pretend excuse of ignorance and that they which shal haue cause to be at the said assēbly may be appere there in tyme. Geuen at Sainct Germaines in Laye the .xxv. day of Iuly in the yeare of grace M. D. Lx. I. and of our reigne the fyrst By the King Roberte●… ¶ A briefe rehersal of the doings at Poyssye betwixt the Lordes of the spiritualty and the Ministers of the Gospel Set forth by M. Gallasius WHereas there hath bin in Fraūce these many yeares great strife and contentiō for religiō the which hath caused muche cruelty to be exercised towardes many at the last when the authors thereof perceiued that their punishmentes little profited and that thintentes of such as were Godly were therby neyther altered nor diminished they wer compelled to assaye more gentle meanes farr vnlyke the first Therefore in the yeare of our Lord God 1561. Charles the ninth of that name a Prynce of synguler towardlynesse and of great hope then reigning the peres of the realme mynded tymely to withstande the peril likely to ensue in so great a discorde For now their number encreasing whyche professed the gospel many yll disposed persons began newe tumultes and to moue seditiō Yea and many opēly put thēselues in armour Some of y● realme would haue the gospel opēly preached Some other would haue that doctrine as newe and hurtfull to be condemned and abolished The first sort desyrous of freedom and quietnesse complayned of their sōdry banishments murthers imprisonments and their most miserable estate wishing the shame and reproche wherwith there by they were stayned at laste to be purged The others cōtrarywise wishe their punishmentes double the sharpenesse of thesame encreased and all their goods committed to fyre and sweard And to proue their good wyll by their dedes they brake into their cōgregatiōs whē they could they robbed their howsen and finally exercised all kynde of cruelty towardes thē Which vnlawful vnbrydeled lust when those that professed the Ghospel perceiued● they did more strōgly prepare to withstande them And many tymes wyth armed force resisted their inuasyons And thou greater deceites they vnderstode were layed for them the greater troubles and persecutions that they felt the greater alwayes grew their courages thinking that they ought to withstande the furious rage of their enemies with patience and stoute sufferaunce They

all agreed it best to abstayne frō force But neuetthelesse they meant to prouyde that their feare patience should not encrease the furye and insolence of their foes First of al therfore wheras their number was so great that the cōgregation could not assemble wythin their priuate howsen they determined to come together openly and to haue their sermons and readinges in the open congregations Partly bicause necessitie enforced them therto and partly to cleare themselues of such slaunderous reports as already their impudēt aduersaries had raysed of them For it was openly bruted that most haynous and detestable crimes were committed in their assemblies Therefore they came into the yardes and open places some in their priuate howsen and some in the opē cities Few toke the churches For least any thing should be rashly or vnaduisedly done or leasr their aduersaryes myght haue any couloure to accuse them of rebellion the ministers pastours of euery Churche as much as they myght kept the multitude in awe and order yet neuerthelesse hereof rose sondry tumultes and facrions of their aduersaryes Which notwithstanding could not staye or hynder their open metinges Hereof rose sondry troubles and great suspition and feare of rebellion And thys caused at the last that by the commaundement of the kyng and hys councell it was openly proclaimed that none shuld iniury or molest other for any matter of religiō After thys also was published an other whereby as wel the Bishops as other nobles of the realme were commaunded to repayre to Poyssye to deliberate both for the leauyeng of a tribute to discharge the kynges dettes to foren Princes but chefely for the reforming of the estate of religion Therby also the kinges peace and safecondwite was graunted to all suche as woulde come thither freely to propose whatsoeuer perteined to true religion and the establishing of cōcord And it was commaunded vnder payne of death that no mā should trouble thē cōming together assembled or departing but that quietly and freely they myght mete together without trouble or veracion Shortly after by an Act of parliamēt in that which the Bishops and other nobles of the realme wer not only parties but rulers it was decreed vnder paine of death that hereafter none should make any assemblies eyther for preaching or for ministring of the Sacramentes or for mariage other where than in the Churches or after any other sorte than the olde and accustomed maner And furthermore that wythin a certayne space the mynisters that professed the Ghospell should departe the realme of Fraunce Hereof rose gret trouble Bicause now their liberty of comming together takē away it was likely to be greatly preiudicial to the tryall of the whole matter After thys the nobles met at Poyssye Shortly after the ministers of the Gospel came to the court to the king which then lay at Saynt Germans nye to Poyssye Thither somwhat afore were come certayne chosen men sent by the refourmed churches out of the .xii. prouinces to aduaunce religiō These deliberating with the others determined to offer vp to the king a boke in maner of a supplication wherby they woulde uponsome meanes to disputation and conference Therewithal also was geuen vp the cōfession of that faith which they professed thēselues ready to maintayne and defende Of that boke the thiefe poyntes were fowre First that no Bishops nor others of the ecclesiasticall orders should vsurpe the authoriti of Iudges ouer vs. Forasmuch as it behoueth rather that they themselues shoulde pleade their owne cause and stande in triall of reformation Secondly that the king Queene and nobilitie should rule the whole doinges leaste any trouble might arsie So that without contention and strif all matters myght be handeled and decreed Thirdly that al controuersies might be tryed by the worde of god whereupō onely all our fayth and religion ought to be grounded Fourthly that certayne notaryes and Scribes should be chosē of eyther part which might faithfully register whatsoeuer wer done or decreed Whose notes should be of no credite vnlesse they were allowed and confessed of either part These requestes no man misliked And the kyng answered that he would take thaduise of his councell and by his Chauncelour shortly make them an answere yet thesame was long deferred Bicause the matter was cōmunicated with the Bishops without whose councel or knowledge to do any thing it semed not mete For not only for thys matter of religion had the kyng assembled them but also for the leauyeng of mony to discharge hys dettes They waxing proude wyth thys confydence that the kyng semed to nede their aide assured themselues of the obtayning of any thyng agaynste vs nothyng doutyng the assured conquest of Ladye money Furthermore they tryfled and prolonged the tyme seeking al occasions to auoide our conference and disputation For they sayd we were already condemned and that they might not dispute with heretykes These and such other like their accustomed stayes they began to blase whiche neuerthelesse afterwardes they denied Boasting that they wer ready to he are vs. For they were ashamed openly to refuse our conference sith by their own consent we were sent for thither But they fully perswaded themselues that our courage or constancy would not be such as to hasard our lyues for that speach of our wordes Duryng this tyme oure nūber increased For out of euery prouince not in Fraunce onely but also from al the realmes adioyning as many as might without the hynderaunce of their churches drew thither Wherfore at the last we chose certayne to the nūber of .xii. whose names wer these Augustine Malorat Fraūces of Paulon Iohn Remonde Merlin Iohn Mallet Fraūces Morel Nicolas Tolye Theodore Beza Claudius Bessierus Iohn Bodwine Iohn Virell Iohn a Tures Nicolas Gallasius To these Iohn Soma adioyned himself which openly renounced papacy and subscribed to the doctrine Discipline of our Churches Afterwardes came also the reuerende father in God Peter Martir sent for from Tigur Whose comming was scarsely acceptable to our aduersaryes aswell for his singular learning as also for the maiesty and authority which both his Godlinesse and reuerende age haue gotten hym What in thys meane tyme was don of the Bishops whiche were assembled at Poyssye I thynke not good to ouerpasse For least any man should thynke they were ydle I wyl shew wyth what grauer matters they were letted so that they could not presētly heare vs. These questions they disputed amōges themselues What ought to be prescribed vnto Bishops Of the dignities of cathedral churches Of the Canonicalls their exemptions Of Curates their institutiō either by presentation or ordinary collatiē Of assigning them a Canonicall portion Of the lesser that is to wyt the ignoraunt chaplens and their vnreasonable number Of the reformation of monasteryes What should be done of cōmendes Of the number of benefices and their incompatibility What waye hereafter they myght prouide for churches and Monasteryes in time of vacation Whether there myght be any