¶
Articles
presented
to
the
Kyng
by
the
Deputies
of
the
reformed
Churches
of
the
countrey
of
Languedoc
,
and
other
places
adioyning
.
With
the
Kyngs
answere
.
SIR
,
we
the
Vicounts
,
Barons
,
Gentlemen
,
and
other
here
vnder
written
,
making
profession
of
the
reformed
Religion
,
both
in
our
owne
name
particularly
and
of
our
adherents
,
&
also
as
persons
deputed
by
the
reformed
Churches
of
the
countreyes
of
Guyenne
,
Viuaraiz
,
Giuaudan
,
the
Seneshalsee
of
Tholouze
,
Auuergne
,
Rouergue
,
hie
and
base
Marche
,
Quercy
,
Perigord
,
Limosin
,
Agennois
,
Armaignac
,
Commanges
,
Conserans
,
Bigorre
,
Albi
and
Foys
,
Lauragais
,
Albigeois
,
the
countreys
of
Castres
,
Villelongue
,
Mirepoix
,
Carcassois
,
and
other
Prouinces
adioyning
,
assembled
by
the
permission
and
vnder
the
safe
conductes
of
my
Lord
the
Kyng
of
Polonia
your
Mastiesties
brother
,
in
the
town
of
Montauban
:
Hauing
perused
sundry
letters
missiue
of
your
Maiestie
concerning
declaration
of
your
good
intention
and
will
to
reestablishe
and
maintaine
a
good
and
firme
peace
in
this
Realme
,
to
performe
the
parts
of
your
Royall
office
to
al
your
subiects
,
and
namely
to
those
of
the
Religion
,
whom
your
Maiestie
willeth
and
meaneth
from
henceforth
to
enbrace
&
entreat
with
all
fauor
,
protection
,
and
in
the
right
of
true
and
naturall
subiects
,
and
to
take
order
by
way
of
iustice
for
the
request
that
by
them
shal
be
made
and
presented
most
humbly
to
your
Maiestie
,
touching
all
the
particulars
that
to
them
shall
seeme
to
be
requisite
and
necessary
for
the
maintaining
of
a
true
&
sincere
peace
:
We
protest
to
this
effect
,
and
with
al
our
hart
make
most
humble
petition
of
that
which
followeth
,
vnder
the
instant
and
oft
repeted
promises
of
my
Lorde
your
Brother
the
Kyng
of
Polonia
.
First
we
protest
before
God
&
his
Angels
,
that
it
neuer
entred
into
our
harts
,
before
these
last
troubles
,
nor
since
,
to
take
awaye
nor
withdraw
from
your
Maiestie
our
duties
of
most
humble
,
most
obedient
,
and
faithfull
subiection
:
But
with
true
and
firme
loyaltie
of
subiectes
wee
haue
alway
acknowledged
&
do
acknowledge
,
that
it
is
our
vocation
and
naturall
estate
by
the
ordinance
of
God
,
to
yeeld
to
your
maiestie
all
things
due
by
a
faithfull
subiect
to
his
Kyng
and
soueraigne
Lord.
If
that
your
Maiestie
haue
taken
in
euil
part
and
in
displeasure
that
which
by
vs
hath
bene
done
,
protested
,
and
executed
,
since
the
moneth
of
August
1572
vntil
this
present
:
we
most
humbly
besech
you
to
cal
to
mind
your
letters
of
declaration
dated
the
xxiiii
.
day
of
the
sayd
month
,
and
to
haue
in
your
most
wise
consideration
the
most
iust
occasions
that
haue
by
force
&
constraynt
compelled
vs
to
take
weapon
in
hand
,
with
all
other
thinges
requisite
to
a
iust
and
necessarie
defence
:
to
turne
your
eyes
to
the
poore
decessed
persones
slaughtered
and
cruely
put
to
death
in
sondrie
townes
&
places
of
youre
realme
,
vnder
the
pretence
of
a
conspiracie
,
but
truly
in
hatred
of
the
reformed
religion
:
&
that
it
will
please
you
in
pitie
to
looke
vppon
the
smal
remnant
escaped
out
of
the
sayd
slaughters
,
with
a
true
remorse
&
compassion
of
a
father
of
your
countrie
:
to
enter
into
your selfe
and
deeply
and
intentiuely
to
behold
that
benefit
that
your
Maiestie
receiueth
of
the
singular
and
wonderfull
goodnes
of
God
:
and
there
vppon
to
meruell
with
vs
aswel
of
our
preseruation
,
as
of
this
ouerture
of
peace
in
youre
realme
,
like
as
a
good
Father
would
doe
in
his
howse
,
when
after
that
he
hath
beholden
in
his
howse
some
of
his
naturall
children
murdered
before
his
face
,
and
his
whole
familie
in
manifest
danger
of
vtter
ruine
,
he
doth
at
length
see
by
the
grace
of
god
all
the
rest
of
his
children
and
his
house
restored
to
a
good
peaceable
and
sure
estate
.
If
it
shal
be
by
any
man
thought
euill
and
vnmeete
for
the
greatnesse
of
your
royall
estate
,
to
make
open
declaration
and
protestation
of
such
a
griefe
,
surely
(
vnder
the
fauor
and
●orrection
of
such
as
so
thinketh
)
so
●o
thinke
should
be
to
do
so
much
the
more
wrong
,
first
to
God
,
and
after
●o
your
owne
conscience
,
to
your
ho●or
and
suertie
,
and
to
your
iustice
●nd
office
royall
,
and
to
throw
vpon
●oure
subiects
professing
the
religion
aswel
those
that
be
murdered
as
these
that
be
left
alyue
,
an
euerlasting
infamie
ioyned
with
reproch
of
a
pretenced
conspiracie
and
rebellion
,
wherunto
,
next
after
the
seruice
of
God
we
ought
to
haue
regard
aboue
al
other
things
that
be
nedeful
for
vs
,
for
by
such
mean
,
also
shuld
in
plaine
termes
and
openly
be
iustified
aswell
the
authors
as
executers
of
those
murders
,
which
should
be
to
vs
reprochfull
and
impossible
to
be
dissemblingly
passed
ouer
.
And
therfore
,
for
the
first
article
of
our
request
,
we
holding
vs
to
youre
Letter
of
the
24.
of
August
,
do
most
humbly
beseche
your
Maiestie
,
that
folowing
the
course
that
was
begon
vppon
the
hurt
of
the
late
Counte
de
Coligny
Admirall
of
France
,
it
wil●
please
you
according
to
the
purport
of
your
sayd
Letter
,
to
do
exemplar●
iustice
vpon
the
sayd
murders
,
by
vnsuspected
Iudges
thereto
specially
apoynted
,
of
like
and
equall
number
of
both
religions
,
and
namely
other
then
those
of
the
courtes
of
Parliamentes
and
Presidencies
of
Paris
,
Tholouze
,
Bordeaux
,
Rouen
,
Orleans
,
and
Lyon
,
in
which
the
principall
presidents
and
councellers
are
reputed
to
haue
bene
the
fauorers
approuers
&
practisers
of
the
sayd
slaughters
,
at
least
of
those
that
haue
bene
committed
within
their
townes
,
yea
and
within
your
prisons
,
and
at
open
assemblies
:
and
with
as
greate
spede
as
may
be
,
to
depute
&
apoynt
the
sayd
Iudges
in
all
places
wher
it
shal
be
nedfull
,
enioyning
them
vppon
a
great
paine
to
proceed
therin
spedely
,
diligenly
&
vprightly
,
without
maintenance
,
without
parciall
wynking
and
desembling
of
Iustice
:
for
so
shall
your
Maiestie
begin
to
pull
out
of
the
hartes
of
your
subiectes
that
be
of
the
religion
,
the
iust
and
great
distruste
that
they
haue
conceyued
by
seing
themselues
giuen
vp
&
abandoned
to
the
crueltie
of
murderers
,
and
so
shal
they
the
more
spedely
take
to
them selues
occasion
to
trust
in
your
onely
worde
and
promise
.
Also
it
may
please
your
Maiestie
to
remember
that
in
certaine
youre
Letters
of
instructions
and
declarations
,
sent
to
the
gouerners
&
your
Liefenantes
of
your
prouinces
,
in
the
monethes
of
September
,
October
,
and
December
,
there
is
specially
reserued
the
punishment
of
those
that
shal
be
found
charged
with
the
supposed
conspiracy
against
the
persons
of
you
and
yours
,
and
with
intellygences
,
practises
and
conducting
of
matters
done
during
the
last
peace
,
which
thing
might
be
a
cause
that
vnder
this
false
pretence
of
reseruacion
,
we
or
some
of
vs
might
be
here
after
touched
enquired
vppon
and
molested
in
this
realme
iudicially
or
otherwise
:
And
to
mete
with
suche
captious
dealinges
&
oppressions
,
it
may
please
your
maiestie
by
expresse
wordes
to
reuoke
the
sayd
reseruation
,
and
declare
that
youre
maiestie
holdeth
and
alwaye
reputeth
vs
for
good
&
faythfull
subiectes
innocent
and
gyltlesse
of
al
conspiracie
and
rebellion
,
with
inhibition
to
your
aduocats
&
atourneys
gennerall
,
their
substitutes
and
all
other
for
euer
,
to
make
thervpon
any
pursute
processe
mencion
or
reproch
.
That
the
same
declaration
be
made
of
the
sayde
Lord
Admirall
,
the
Countie
dela
Roche-foucaut
,
the
Ladies
de
Briquemaut
and
Cauaignes
,
and
the
others
that
were
murdered
condemned
and
put
to
death
for
the
sayde
supposed
conspiracie
.
And
that
all
arestes
and
Iudgments
giuen
,
and
all
procedinges
had
or
passed
vnder
that
pretence
,
against
those
ot
the
religion
,
be
reuersed
,
adnulled
,
and
declared
to
be
of
no
effect
and
value
,
and
to
haue
bene
geuen
vpon
false
&
sclanderous
information
,
and
that
the
persons
decessed
shal
be
restored
to
their
good
renounes
,
and
their
heires
to
their
goods
and
rights
of
inheritance
:
And
that
their
children
which
for
hatred
to
their
fathers
are
imprisoned
,
or
put
or
holden
in
any
other
distresse
,
be
spedely
deliuered
,
and
restored
to
their
former
honor
&
libertie
into
the
hands
of
their
next
friendes
.
And
to
ordeyne
that
those
to
whome
their
estates
,
dignities
,
charges
,
and
offices
,
subiect
to
the
finances
haue
bene
giuen
,
shall
be
bound
to
pay
the
finance
to
the
sayd
heyres
as
shall
be
awarded
by
two
of
the
kindred
or
friendes
knowen
,
and
neuerthelesse
that
their
goodes
&
money
taken
shal
be
restored
them
,
&
the
withholders
constrayned
there
vnto
by
all
wayes
of
iustice
.
That
likewise
al
declarations
,
ordinaunces
,
and
rules
made
against
those
of
the
Religion
since
the
xxiiii
.
of
August
last
past
,
be
reuersed
,
reuoked
and
declared
of
no
effect
and
value
.
And
to
extinguish
the
memorie
of
the
said
iudgements
and
arrestes
&
the
execution
of
them
,
that
likewise
the
sayd
declarations
,
ordinances
,
&
rules
be
rased
and
withdrawne
out
of
all
registers
of
Courtes
as
well
soueraigne
as
inferior
,
and
that
the
same
iudgements
,
arrestes
,
and
executions
,
declarations
,
ordinances
,
and
rules
be
taken
away
,
cancelled
&
defaced
:
That
also
all
monuments
,
markes
,
and
tokens
of
the
said
executions
be
destroyed
,
together
with
the
Bookes
and
infamous
actes
against
the
personages
,
memory
and
posteritie
of
the
said
persons
deceased
and
executed
,
and
that
namely
&
specially
shal
be
defaced
suppressed
&
(
as
much
as
shal
be
requisite
)
there
shal
be
prohibited
all
proceedinges
,
generall
and
ordinary
,
as
well
by
arrest
of
the
Parliament
of
Paris
,
in
memorie
of
the
said
slaughters
,
as
by
an
other
arrest
of
Tholouze
,
reuersed
by
arrest
of
you
priuie
counsell
touching
the
taking
of
the
town
house
in
the
sayd
first
troubles
,
and
that
all
bee
done
in
the
presence
of
foure
speciall
persons
,
whereof
two
shal
be
of
the
Religion
,
hauing
continued
in
the
same
during
the
troubles
.
And
the
record
examplified
word
by
word
of
the
proceeding
herein
shal
be
expedited
and
deliuered
to
those
which
shall
haue
expresse
charge
of
procuration
for
that
intent
.
That
it
be
declared
that
those
of
the
Religion
,
haue
iustly
and
vpon
good
occasion
taken
armes
,
withdrawen
them selues
&
made
warre
in
these
last
troubles
,
as
being
therto
constrained
by
violence
done
,
wher
with
they
haue
ben
terrified
and
put
in
feare
.
And
forasmuch
as
by
the
hearing
of
the
word
,
and
by
Ecclesiastical
discipline
your
subiects
are
the
better
bolden
in
dutie
of
their
subiection
,
first
toward
God
,
and
next
to
your
Maiestie
,
and
to
their
other
superiors
whom
it
hath
pleased
you
to
appoint
ouer
them
,
they
most
humbly
&
with
most
entire
affection
beseech
your
Maiestie
in
this
behalfe
to
extend
to
them
the
most
of
your
fauour
,
and
therin
to
ordeine
that
of
your
graunt
and
perpetuall
benefite
,
the
exercise
of
their
Religion
,
and
Ecclesiasticall
Discipline
,
and
namely
of
their
Synodes
,
conferences
,
and
consistories
Ecclesiasticall
be
freely
permitted
to
them
for
euer
,
&
in
all
parts
of
this
Realme
,
as
well
publikely
,
as
priuately
,
comprising
therin
by
speciall
name
the
libertie
of
honest
&
seemely
burial
without
difference
of
time
,
in
the
same
common
Church-yardes
,
about
which
matter
many
of
the
Catholiques
haue
oftentimes
stirred
vp
great
riots
and
debates
in
the
townes
where
the
sayd
exercise
was
not
permitted
.
And
that
al
exemptions
from
the
exercise
of
the
sayd
Religion
,
limitted
in
the
townes
and
places
as
well
of
the
Queene
your
Maiesties
honorable
mother
,
as
of
my
Lord
the
Kyng
of
Polonia
your
Maiesties
Brother
,
and
other
within
your
dominion
,
be
reuoked
&
declared
from
henceforth
of
no
effect
.
And
to
preuent
all
suspiscions
that
oftentimes
heretofore
haue
bene
raised
touching
the
collections
made
&
leuied
among
those
of
the
religion
for
the
charges
and
maintenance
of
the
ecclesiasticall
ministerie
.
It
may
please
your
maiesty
from
henceforth
to
exempt
those
of
the
religion
from
the
payment
of
tithes
in
those
places
where
the
sayd
exercise
shall
be
,
for
as
much
as
the
tithes
of
their
owne
nature
are
apoynted
for
the
sayd
ministerie
.
That
none
of
the
religion
shall
be
sommoned
or
constrayned
by
youre
officers
,
vniuersities
,
colledges
and
Comunalties
,
to
any
ceremonie
and
contribution
contrary
to
the
sayd
religion
,
and
that
so
much
as
the
case
shall
require
there
be
expresse
prohibicion
in
your
courtes
and
vniuersities
in
any
wise
to
exact
of
them
atteyning
to
any
office
and
degre
,
the
othes
accustomed
in
the
churche
of
Rome
contrarie
to
their
sayd
religion
.
That
all
the
houses
rents
and
reuenewes
of
colledges
and
scholes
appoynted
for
the
instruction
of
youth
shal
be
accompted
and
holden
as
ordeyned
for
euer
for
your
subiects
that
will
be
there
receiued
,
without
making
difference
of
religion
,
neyther
as
touching
the
Rector
or
Regent
,
nor
for
the
Scholers
and
officers
,
consultes
of
townes
&
places
:
wher
the
sayd
scholers
and
Colledges
shall
be
bound
to
receiue
rectors
,
&
regents
of
both
religions
,
for
the
satisfaction
&
instruction
of
both
sortes
without
fraud
or
parcialitie
.
That
the
mariages
of
Priestes
&
Ecclesiasticall
persons
that
now
bee
or
hereafter
shal
be
of
the
said
Religion
,
be
declared
lawfull
,
and
likewise
their
children
issuing
of
their
mariage
for
their
inheritance
and
other
rights
of
lawfull
legitimation
:
And
that
as
well
the
father
as
the
children
be
declared
capable
of
publike
offices
estates
and
administrations
.
That
the
deciding
of
mariages
,
that
is
to
say
,
whether
they
be
lawfull
and
perfect
or
no
,
shal
be
from
henceforth
determined
by
the
consistories
and
others
of
the
religion
,
or
at
least
by
their
superior
Iudge
of
your
Iustice
being
a
man
of
the
same
Religion
.
That
the
gardians
of
Orphanes
whose
father
was
of
the
Religion
shal
be
bound
to
cause
them
to
be
instructed
and
taught
in
the
Religion
of
their
Fathers
,
at
the
least
vntill
their
age
of
discretion
,
like
as
your
Maiestie
hath
at
other
time
heretofore
ordained
.
That
the
same
benefit
of
the
exercise
of
the
Religion
be
accorded
and
ordained
to
the
inhabitants
and
dwellers
that
be
of
the
Religion
in
the
Countie
of
Venisse
,
and
the
Archbishopricke
of
Auignon
:
And
that
it
please
your
Maiestie
to
doe
so
much
with
the
Kyng
of
Nauarre
,
that
all
thinges
maye
abide
in
Nauarre
and
Bearne
in
the
same
estate
as
the
late
Queene
of
Nauarre
his
mother
left
them
at
the
time
of
hir
deceasse
:
&
also
to
treat
so
with
the
Pope
&
Archbishop
of
Auignon
that
your
graunt
and
good
pleasure
in
this
behalfe
may
be
confirmed
and
approued
in
due
forme
,
specially
for
the
restitution
and
full
recompence
of
the
goods
of
those
of
the
sayd
Countie
of
Venisse
.
That
the
Frenchmen
which
haue
borne
Armes
with
those
of
Bearne
,
may
enioye
the
profit
and
benefit
of
this
Edict
.
As
touching
the
administration
of
iustice
,
it
may
please
your
Maiestie
to
consider
the
demeanors
of
youre
courts
of
Parliament
against
those
of
the
religion
,
specially
in
your
towne
of
Tholouze
,
wherby
may
be
iudged
what
is
and
alway
may
be
their
intention
.
For
this
cause
,
it
may
bee
your
good
pleasure
to
assigne
them
iudges
vnsuspected
,
and
to
ordaine
that
all
proces
betwene
parties
of
two
religions
shal
be
iudged
as
wel
in
cases
ciuill
,
as
criminall
,
in
instances
as
well
superior
,
as
inferior
,
by
equal
number
of
iudges
,
wherof
the
halfe
shal
be
Catholique
,
and
the
other
of
the
Religion
:
and
where
all
the
parties
bee
of
one
religion
,
that
there
all
the
iudges
likewise
may
be
taken
and
appoynted
of
the
same
religion
,
except
such
as
bee
suspected
.
And
that
for
this
intent
there
be
ordeined
one
chamber
or
court
for
the
resort
of
euery
Parliament
,
and
one
peaceable
and
vnsuspected
town
for
those
of
the
Religion
.
That
all
prouisions
and
declarations
obtained
during
these
troubles
and
since
the
24.
of
August
last
by
the
Catholikes
,
against
such
sentences
iudgements
and
arrestes
as
vppon
learning
of
the
parties
,
and
in
time
of
peace
haue
bene
giuen
for
the
benefit
of
those
of
the
Religion
,
shal
be
reuoked
and
delayed
of
no
effect
and
value
,
as
obteined
by
stealth
,
the
sayd
arrests
remaining
in
their
full
force
&
vertue
executorie
,
according
to
your
ordinances
,
although
those
that
haue
had
the
said
arrests
haue
bene
persons
Ecclesiasticall
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
That
all
seates
of
iustice
that
of
olde
time
and
before
the
troubles
,
haue
ben
holden
in
the
towns
now
presently
possessed
by
those
of
the
religion
shal
be
there
continued
:
or
if
they
haue
ben
remoued
,
they
may
be
restored
&
brought
thither
againe
:
And
generally
that
all
those
of
the
Religion
be
restored
,
&
from
henceforth
without
any
staye
for
circumstance
of
forme
,
fully
placed
againe
in
the
exercise
of
their
estates
and
dignities
,
charges
and
offices
,
as
well
of
your
Maiestie
as
of
inferior
Seignories
,
and
that
al
prouisions
to
the
contrary
be
reuoked
,
and
other
fees
and
pensions
payed
as
well
for
the
time
past
as
for
the
time
to
come
.
And
for
asmuch
as
diuers
of
the
religion
haue
had
by
resignation
&
for
money
,
according
to
the
vsage
of
your
permission
,
certein
offices
either
Iudiciall
or
other
,
alitle
before
the
beginning
of
the
present
trobles
since
which
trobles
being
happened
,
the
resignes
by
reason
of
the
hatred
borne
to
their
religion
,
and
for
their
iuste
feare
of
murder
,
haue
not
bene
able
to
obtein
the
Letters
of
graunt
nor
to
get
the
resignator
aducted
of
your
Maistie
.
In
the
meane
time
some
of
them
haue
payd
the
fine
promised
wholy
or
in
part
,
some
other
haue
entred
into
bondes
and
giuen
sureties
to
paye
within
a
short
time
which
time
being
incurred
the
sureties
haue
ben
constreyned
to
make
payment
which
is
not
resonable
:
it
may
please
your
Maiestie
to
declare
the
sayd
bondes
and
promises
discharged
and
as
not
made
,
and
so
to
ordein
without
hauing
respect
to
the
Iudgments
which
possibly
may
haue
ben
giuen
in
the
meane
time
:
And
that
the
sayd
iudgements
also
be
declared
voyd
and
of
no
efect
.
That
the
money
payed
for
these
causes
,
whether
it
be
to
the
resigner
or
his
heyres
shal
be
repayed
to
the
resignes
being
of
the
religion
,
being
preuented
by
iust
impedimentes
.
And
where
payment
hath
not
bene
made
,
that
in
that
case
there
bond
shall
remaine
not
suable
and
exempt
from
constraint
of
Iustice
.
That
these
of
the
religion
be
admitted
and
receiued
indifferently
to
estates
charges
of
offices
aswell
iudicial
as
other
,
without
difference
of
religion
,
specially
of
resignes
,
and
that
the
receiuing
and
admitting
of
them
shal
be
exempte
from
other
courtes
,
and
reserued
to
the
chamber
that
shall
be
erected
for
the
iudgment
of
their
Princes
.
That
all
prescriptions
either
by
conuenient
custome
or
Lawe
,
wherof
the
time
may
haue
ben
incurred
during
&
since
the
first
troubles
&
the
later
troubles
that
since
haue
happened
,
vntill
this
present
shal
be
deemed
&
holden
as
not
incurred
.
As
touching
policies
,
your
Maiestie
may
well
haue
vnderstood
how
great
disorder
and
confusion
the
parcialitie
,
difference
and
distinction
of
persons
for
Religion
,
hath
brought
in
this
behalfe
in
all
townes
and
places
where
the
Catholikes
do
in
number
and
power
exceede
those
of
the
Religion
,
accompting
them
alway
as
degraded
vnworthy
and
depriued
of
publike
charges
and
administrations
:
It
may
therfore
be
your
good
pleasure
beside
the
declarations
already
made
by
all
your
Edictes
as
touching
the
capabilitie
of
those
of
the
Religion
,
and
their
common
enioying
and
participation
of
those
charges
,
to
ordeine
that
from
hence
forth
in
all
the
townes
and
places
of
this
Realme
the
sayd
charges
be
distributed
equally
betweene
the
Catholikes
and
these
of
the
religion
,
and
namely
to
auoide
the
ouerchargings
of
taxes
forbidden
by
your
Maiestie
.
That
those
of
the
religion
remain
quite
and
discharged
for
all
their
assemblies
aswell
generall
as
perticularlly
establishment
of
iustice
,
policy
,
and
rule
among
them selues
,
iudgments
and
executions
thereof
,
voyages
,
treaties
,
negotiactions
,
&
contractes
made
with
all
strange
princes
and
estates
,
and
of
all
moneyes
taken
of
your
fiances
and
receiptes
,
coynages
,
mouables
,
debtes
,
arerages
of
rentes
and
reuenues
,
felling
of
woodes
,
sale
of
goodes
mouable
,
assessing
of
rentes
of
the
immouables
and
rightes
belonging
to
Eclesiasticall
persones
and
other
catholikes
taxes
,
impositions
of
money
and
other
thinges
,
exactions
and
leueyinges
of
the
same
,
n2
ransomming
of
prisoners
,
and
of
all
other
kindes
of
money
which
by
occasion
of
these
trobles
haue
bene
taken
by
them
,
of
the
ordeining
of
these
that
haue
had
commandement
among
them
,
or
of
counceles
prouinciall
&
poletike
according
to
their
rules
,
so
as
neyther
they
,
nor
those
that
haue
bene
apoynted
for
the
leueyeng
and
disposition
of
the
sayd
moneys
mouables
&
other
thinges
abouesayd
,
nor
these
that
haue
deliuered
and
furnished
the
same
,
may
in
any
wise
be
answerable
therfore
now
nor
her
after
,
but
that
the
sumes
to
that
effect
payd
by
your
sayd
officers
&
others
be
alowed
by
your
chambers
of
accomptes
,
tresorers
of
finances
and
others
by
vertue
of
this
Edict
with
out
other
warrant
.
And
that
all
persons
accomptant
whether
it
be
of
the
receiptes
by
them
established
or
other
dealing
with
any
thing
what
soeuer
it
be
,
shal
be
bound
to
verifie
theyr
accomptes
of
their
dealinges
by
those
that
haue
had
generall
authoritie
ouer
them
,
and
to
the
sayd
councels
prouincial
.
And
that
the
like
be
done
of
all
those
that
haue
had
the
handeling
charge
&
administration
of
money
during
the
former
trobles
&
since
the
yeare
1567.
And
the
remaine
that
shal
be
found
due
by
the
sayd
accomptantes
and
other
detters
of
the
sayd
moneys
shal
be
employed
to
the
acquital
and
discharge
of
those
of
the
religion
for
charges
by
occasion
of
the
trouble
and
maintenance
of
the
warre
.
And
this
done
,
the
sayd
accomptantes
shall
remaine
acquited
of
their
sayd
administration
and
dealinges
,
and
wholy
discharged
thereof
,
bringing
the
aquitance
of
those
that
had
the
commaunding
of
them
in
these
last
trobles
made
by
the
aduise
of
the
sayd
councels
Prouincial
and
according
to
their
rule
,
so
as
in
time
to
come
neyther
they
nor
their
successors
shall
in
any
wise
be
put
to
answere
therfore
,
forbidding
to
al
your
chambers
of
accountes
&
other
Iudges
ordinary
or
extraordinary
all
Iurisdiction
and
conusance
,
and
to
youre
attorneyes
generall
or
perticular
al
power
to
sue
for
the
same
.
That
also
those
of
the
religion
remaine
acquited
and
discharged
for
all
actes
of
hostilitie
,
leuyeng
and
conducting
of
men
of
Warre
,
founding
and
taking
of
artilerie
and
munitions
,
making
of
pouder
and
saltpeter
,
takinges
dismantellinges
and
rasinges
of
townes
and
Castles
,
enterprises
against
the
same
,
burninges
and
destroyings
of
Churches
and
houses
,
and
fortifications
and
reparations
of
Townes
&
places
holden
in
their
holding
,
&
generally
of
all
that
hath
bene
by
them
don
and
practised
during
the
aforesayd
and
the
former
trobles
although
the
same
be
not
perticularly
expressed
and
declared
,
so
as
for
any
of
the
thinges
abouesayd
nor
other
that
haue
happened
in
the
sayd
trobles
,
none
of
them
nor
of
their
posteritie
in
generall
or
in
perticular
be
charged
nor
in
any
wise
reproched
with
any
matter
of
Rebellion
Disobedience
or
Treason
,
notwithstanding
all
declarations
,
Edicts
,
and
ordinances
which
your
Maiestie
may
haue
made
,
to
the
contrarie
and
that
the
same
according
to
the
case
,
may
be
reuoked
and
declared
of
no
effect
and
value
,
as
wel
in
this
respect
as
in
respect
of
all
other
thinges
proceding
or
depending
vpon
the
sayd
trobles
.
That
all
thinges
taken
by
priuat
persones
without
publike
authoritie
,
Magistrate
,
Gouernoure
,
Consull
,
Captaine
,
or
other
by
their
commission
,
or
by
the
assemblies
of
the
Comunalties
on
both
parties
,
and
against
the
rules
of
the
sayd
assemblies
,
be
restored
to
those
to
whome
they
apertaine
,
if
the
things
be
found
remaining
in
their
former
kinde
,
and
if
not
,
then
the
value
by
iuste
appraisment
.
And
as
touching
moueables
and
other
thinges
taken
by
hostilitie
,
although
they
be
found
remaining
in
their
kinde
,
they
shall
not
be
chalenged
nor
subiect
to
restitution
.
That
the
fruites
of
this
present
yeare
that
haue
ben
taken
and
leuied
vntill
the
daye
and
date
of
these
present
Articles
,
be
declared
not
to
be
subiect
to
any
restitution
on
the
one
part
or
the
other
,
to
the
intent
to
stope
all
variances
&
processe
that
by
this
occasion
may
arise
amonge
your
subiectes
.
That
these
of
the
Religion
be
not
constrained
nor
drawen
into
that
lawe
for
payment
of
impositions
ordinarie
and
extraordinarie
assessed
by
the
Catholikes
during
the
present
and
former
trobles
,
but
shall
thereof
remaine
acquited
and
discharged
.
And
for
asmuch
as
in
all
places
where
we
haue
warred
for
our
defense
,
the
charges
haue
bene
so
expressed
and
importable
,
that
the
moste
part
of
vs
are
greatly
indetted
and
charged
,
It
may
please
your
Maiestie
to
giue
vs
leaue
to
haue
an
imposition
and
taxe
to
be
sett
among
all
vs
of
the
Religion
,
at
the
least
to
the
some
of
sixe
score
thousand
poundes
payable
in
two
yeares
to
be
employed
to
the
ful
discharg
of
our
sayd
deftes
:
And
for
the
leuyeng
thereof
to
grant
vs
necessary
meanes
of
constraint
as
it
were
for
youre
owne
money
.
It
may
please
your
Maiestie
to
grant
to
those
of
the
Religion
which
in
the
trobles
passed
haue
bought
any
thing
Temporall
of
Eclesiasticall
persons
&
truly
payd
the
price
therof
,
that
they
may
continue
the
possession
and
enioying
of
the
thinges
by
them
bought
for
the
assurance
of
their
Money
,
vntill
they
be
recompenced
by
the
sayd
Ecclesiasticall
persons
or
other
that
will
or
may
redeme
the
same
with
this
condition
that
they
shall
leaue
the
possession
immediatly
after
such
repayment
to
them
made
.
Now
Sir
,
resteth
the
principal
point
,
namely
the
meanes
of
a
true
&
iuste
suretie
for
the
holding
,
enduring
,
assurance
and
perpetuall
inuiolable
mainteyning
of
your
Maiesties
promises
and
ordinances
touching
al
the
matters
aboue
sayd
by
a
firme
and
continuing
peace
,
wherin
we
are
most
sorie
and
much
agreued
to
propounde
,
and
to
demaund
of
your
Maiestie
by
our
most
humble
supplication
such
meanes
as
seme
to
vs
pertinent
and
reasonable
yea
&
necessarie
to
the
establishment
for
euer
of
a
good
and
firme
peace
in
this
Realme
.
For
we
had
rather
that
these
meanes
had
bene
offered
vs
of
your
Fatherly
good
will
and
fauor
,
and
of
your
owne
proper
motion
.
But
for
asmuch
as
it
pleaseth
your
Maiestie
to
permit
vs
and
to
do
vs
that
honor
to
demaund
it
of
you
,
we
most
humbly
beseech
your
goodnes
that
it
be
your
good
pleasure
,
for
the
commoditie
of
your
estate
,
the
reste
of
your
consience
,
the
greatnesse
and
assurance
of
this
Crowne
,
and
the
common
benefite
and
quiet
of
your
Subiectes
,
to
contracte
an
vnitie
&
League
of
new
promise
,
coniuncti
,
on
,
and
Amitie
to
endure
,
with
all
the
Princes
Potentates
and
estates
of
Almaigne
and
Swisserland
that
be
of
the
Religion
,
and
the
Queenes
of
England
and
Scotland
,
to
this
intent
,
with
one
common
hand
and
consent
to
maintaine
vnitie
aswell
betwene
them
and
their
Subiectes
,
as
betwene
your
Maiestie
and
all
your
Subiectes
entierly
both
those
that
be
called
Catholikes
and
those
that
be
named
of
the
Religion
reformed
,
&
this
to
be
don
in
all
ciuile
and
humaine
thinges
.
That
al
these
allies
promise
&
swear
to
mayntaine
the
sayd
vnitie
coniunccion
and
amitie
for
the
common
continuing
of
all
in
the
sayd
estate
and
communitie
of
all
Ciuile
&
humaine
thinges
,
in
like
manner
as
if
they
were
all
of
one
religion
,
and
this
to
be
done
in
euery
estate
of
the
Countries
Landes
and
Seignories
of
the
sayd
Kinges
Princes
Potentates
or
common
weales
.
That
they
swere
and
promise
that
none
of
the
sayd
Lordes
Kinges
or
theyr
successors
,
Princes
Potentats
or
common
weales
shal
breake
the
sayd
vnitie
,
nor
violate
the
publike
faith
and
promisses
as
well
betwene
the
sayd
allies
as
betwene
any
of
their
subiectes
:
that
those
which
shall
obserue
it
on
their
part
,
may
by
all
wayes
of
force
constraine
him
or
them
that
shall
doe
to
the
contrarie
.
And
that
they
be
bound
to
do
the
like
at
the
only
request
of
those
whom
it
shall
concerne
,
truely
obseruing
the
sayd
vnitie
,
of
whether
soeuer
religion
they
be
.
That
for
eschewing
a
conspiracy
of
a
Sicilian
euensong
)
as
they
terme
it
)
those
of
the
religion
in
this
realm
may
haue
by
speciall
priueledge
and
graunt
in
perpetuitie
,
the
keping
of
the
townes
and
places
which
wee
holde
at
this
present
,
and
also
of
certayne
other
townes
in
euerye
prouince
,
such
as
shal
be
thought
mete
by
the
eight
speciall
persones
indifferently
chosen
by
two
that
youre
Maiestie
will
depute
and
two
that
those
of
the
religion
shall
name
:
which
is
to
be
done
with
expedicion
at
the
place
to
be
agreed
vpon
.
That
your
Maiesties
garrisons
be
placed
onely
in
the
frontier
townes
and
places
where
garrisons
hath
of
ancient
time
bene
vsed
,
or
at
the
least
as
farre
of
as
well
may
be
from
the
sayd
townes
and
places
nowe
presently
holden
by
those
of
the
religion
,
be
it
in
comming
or
going
of
the
sayd
garrisons
,
and
that
there
be
not
lodged
greater
nomber
of
horse
with
their
armures
without
the
consent
of
these
of
the
religion
,
and
that
they
come
and
seiourne
so
modestly
,
that
thereof
arise
no
suspicion
nor
inconuenience
.
It
may
please
your
Maiestie
to
take
in
good
parte
,
that
wee
moste
humbly
beseeche
you
,
that
your
Gouernours
and
Lieuetenants
generall
that
wil
passe
by
or
visit
the
said
townes
and
places
nowe
holden
by
those
of
the
Religion
,
may
not
come
thyther
with
force
nor
with
great
companie
,
than
with
their
ordinarie
and
accustomed
traine
in
tyme
of
peace
,
and
that
they
be
admonished
,
so
to
behaue
them selues
in
the
said
townes
and
places
,
as
those
of
the
Religion
may
haue
no
occasion
therby
to
enter
into
feare
and
suspicion
,
And
that
the
like
be
obserued
by
the
Lordes
of
the
sayde
Townes
and
places
.
That
nothing
of
the
sayd
townes
and
places
holden
by
those
of
the
religion
be
rased
,
that
hath
ben
made
for
fortification
,
sauing
only
so
farre
as
they
shall
thinke
it
expedient
for
their
suretie
.
And
that
there
be
not
required
or
taken
from
them
any
of
their
munitions
of
warre
or
armour
,
whether
it
be
artillary
or
other
.
And
for
the
greater
and
better
efficacie
of
your
royall
authoritie
and
good
will
to
the
vpright
and
sincere
obseruation
of
the
Articles
of
this
peace
:
We
most
humbly
besech
your
Maiestie
that
first
in
full
assembly
of
your
priuie
counsell
,
and
afterward
in
your
court
of
Parliament
of
Paris
,
in
full
audience
,
by
your
Maiestie
,
the
Queenes
your
most
honorable
mother
&
spouse
,
our
soueraigne
Ladies
,
my
Lordes
your
brethred
,
and
the
Lords
the
Princes
of
your
bloud
,
the
Lordes
Mareschals
of
Fraunce
,
and
the
counsellers
of
your
priuie
counsell
,
it
be
confirmed
and
sworne
that
the
Articles
of
this
peace
shal
be
entirely
mainteined
,
&
perpetually
and
faithfully
obserued
.
And
that
the
like
be
done
by
al
your
presidents
,
counsellers
,
aduocates
,
procurators
or
attorneys
,
and
euery
of
them
in
all
other
your
Courtes
of
Parliaments
,
and
presidencies
.
That
for
mutuall
obseruation
of
a
perpetuall
obedience
and
fidelitie
,
those
of
the
Religion
throughout
this
Realme
generally
,
together
with
the
Catholikes
,
renue
their
othes
offidelitie
before
your
officers
in
their
places
,
with
enterchangeable
condition
and
promise
on
both
partes
,
neuer
hereafter
to
commit
any
slaughters
one
against
an
other
generally
or
particularly
,
by
whom
so
euer
the
same
bee
commaunded
,
without
exception
:
but
to
leaue
the
whole
conusance
of
crimes
and
publike
reuenge
to
the
course
of
youre
lawes
,
as
is
agreed
in
these
articles
of
peace
.
And
to
the
intent
to
come
by
little
and
little
to
a
true
entier
and
generall
reconciliation
of
amitie
among
all
your
subiectes
of
both
the
religions
:
We
most
humbly
beseech
your
Maistie
to
ordaine
that
euerie
yere
during
fiue
yeares
the
sayd
othe
be
renued
,
as
well
by
the
assemblies
of
the
estates
of
euerie
Prouince
in
one
of
the
most
peaceable
townes
in
ech
Prouince
,
as
at
other
general
assemblies
of
the
inhabitants
of
euery
principal
Towne
of
the
diocesse
,
which
shall
be
holden
at
sundry
termes
among
those
of
the
two
Religions
,
that
is
to
say
,
in
the
principal
assemblie
by
the
Deputies
of
either
Religion
aswell
of
the
nobilitie
as
of
the
comons
of
the
whole
prouince
,
and
in
the
assembly
of
euery
Dioces
and
Bayliwicke
:
wher
they
shal
promise
and
swere
not
onely
to
keepe
firme
peace
and
amitie
mutually
,
but
also
to
employe
their
liues
and
goodes
for
your
seruice
,
&
specially
to
maintaine
this
vnitie
and
pacification
against
all
breakers
and
disturbers
thereof
without
any
exception
as
is
abouesayd
.
Finally
we
hope
that
your
Maiestie
shall
well
like
,
that
we
your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
subiectes
continue
our
standing
vppon
our
Garde
,
without
doing
any
force
or
hostilitie
,
vnder
the
suspencion
and
intermission
which
it
hath
pleased
your
Maiestie
to
enioyne
vs
.
At
Montauban
,
the
vi
.
day
of
August
.
1573.
Thus
signed
,
Paulin
,
Gourdon
,
Lomasin
.
Verlhac
,
Ferrieres
,
Monsegon
,
Yollec
,
Bressac
,
Sainct
bon
,
Donzac
,
Derboras
,
B.
de
Narbonne
,
Stopuihart
,
Brecquet
,
Drephelipon
,
de
la
Source
,
Galheuste
,
Sebin
,
de
Lautrech
,
P.
de
la
Tour
,
Decluuier
,
P.
Clement
,
S.
Chamayot
,
Corraire
,
Porcel
,
Payau
,
Rigord
,
de
Robert
,
de
l'Armoire
,
A.
Nolhac
,
de
Rosier
,
Vuisaud
,
Hibert
,
Auoum
,
du
Port
,
Reuires
,
Roysse
,
G.
Moragnes
,
Pomyer
,
de
Chastellet
,
de
Voyau
,
du
Cros
,
de
Fulger
,
Degau
,
A.
Gardes
,
du
Poncet
,
du
Busquet
,
Pradelses
,
Merlein
,
Ymbert
de
la
Place
,
G.
Rodyer
,
I.
Cabanie
,
Nohesau
,
Baches
Deueunsin
,
de
Noalhan
.
The
Kings
aunswere
to
the
Deputies
of
the
reformed
Churches
of
the
countrey
of
Languedoc
and
other
places
adioyning
.
THE
Kyng
hauing
vnderstood
the
declarations
that
to
him
haue
bene
made
by
those
of
the
Religion
called
reformed
being
sent
vnto
his
Maiestie
,
vsing
toward
them
his
clemencie
and
naturall
goodnes
,
hath
by
mouth
declared
vnto
them
the
assurance
that
they
ought
to
haue
of
his
good
grace
fauour
and
protection
when
they
shall
by
the
effectes
shewe
them selues
such
towarde
him
as
al
good
and
loyall
subiectes
ought
to
be
to
their
Prince
:
whereunto
he
hath
sufficiently
moued
them
by
his
last
Edict
,
vnder
the
benefit
wherof
they
haue
all
due
satisfaction
of
that
which
they
haue
alwaye
shewed
themselues
to
desire
touching
the
exercise
of
their
pretensed
Religion
&
the
suretie
of
their
persons
&
goods
.
And
for
as
much
as
they
haue
alway
declared
that
they
haue
no
other
will
but
to
satisfie
the
commaundements
of
his
sayd
Maiestie
,
he
hath
thought
good
,
for
their
better
conformitie
,
to
send
the
Duke
de
Vses
peere
of
Fraunce
,
and
the
Lord
of
Caplus
Knight
of
his
order
to
Monsieur
de
Dampuille
Marshall
of
Fraunce
his
Gouernour
and
Lieutenant
generall
in
Languedoc
,
to
saye
to
him
on
his
Maiesties
behalfe
,
that
he
chuse
some
towne
or
place
of
his
gouernement
neere
to
Montauban
,
and
which
he
shal
thinke
fittest
for
the
purpose
,
and
that
he
repaire
thither
,
and
there
aduertise
those
of
the
Religion
called
reformed
,
that
they
send
thither
the
sayd
Deputies
or
other
whom
they
will
on
their
behalfe
,
for
conference
to
be
had
with
them
by
the
sayd
Lord
Marshall
,
touching
their
quiet
,
suretie
,
and
preseruation
,
and
other
things
concerning
and
appertaining
vnto
the
execution
&
obseruing
of
the
sayd
Edict
,
and
also
the
course
of
law
and
iustice
,
which
his
Maiestie
meaneth
to
haue
ministred
vnto
them
with
all
vprightnesse
and
equitie
:
Also
to
be
aduised
of
such
procurations
as
shall
be
necessary
for
the
particularities
depending
vpon
the
sayd
case
,
to
the
end
that
by
the
xv
.
day
of
December
,
by
which
tyme
his
Maiestie
hopeth
to
be
retourned
to
his
towne
of
Compiegne
from
the
voyage
that
he
presently
maketh
to
the
frontiers
of
his
realme
,
for
conducting
his
brother
the
king
of
Polonia
going
towardes
his
kingdome
,
his
Maiestie
being
then
aduertised
of
the
whole
by
the
sayd
Lord
Mareshal
,
may
giue
order
as
to
him
shall
seeme
necessarie
.
And
where
he
is
required
by
the
sayd
deputies
to
prolong
the
ceassing
of
armes
,
his
Maiestie
will
write
to
the
sayde
Lorde
Mareshall
,
to
cause
all
actes
of
hostilitie
to
cease
,
prouided
alwaye
that
they
of
the
religion
giue
order
on
their
part
,
that
nothing
bee
atttempted
to
the
contrary
,
as
of
late
hath
bene
done
,
which
his
Maiestie
doth
expresly
forbid
.
At
Villiers-Cotterets
,
the
18.
day
of
October
.
1573.
Thus
signed
,
CHARLES
.
And
vnderneth
.
FIZEL
.
A
request
exhibited
to
the
King
by
the
Deputies
of
the
third
estate
of
the
Countries
of
Languedocke
,
Dolphine
,
and
Prouince
.
SYr
,
before
we
went
in
hande
with
the
charge
that
was
committed
vnto
vs
by
your
most
humble
and
obedient
subiectes
the
people
of
the
third
estate
of
your
countries
and
Countie
of
Prouence
,
Folcaquier
,
&
the
Landes
bordering
therevpon
,
we
wel
foresawe
three
poynts
which
would
make
our
sute
odious
or
at
leastwyse
not
so
well
fauoured
as
we
gladly
would
haue
desired
,
that
we
might
returne
into
our
countries
with
good
speed
of
the
thing
for
which
we
come
&
present
our selues
sewters
vnto
your
Maiestie
.
The
first
is
,
that
it
is
an
vnseemly
thing
for
Subiectes
to
inquire
of
the
peculiar
affaiers
of
their
King
,
or
to
go
about
to
demaund
a
reason
why
he
doeth
them
.
The
Second
is
,
that
subiectes
ought
to
haue
a
sure
good
opinion
of
their
Princes
good
meaning
towardes
them
,
and
that
hee
will
not
greue
them
with
extraordinary
subsidies
,
without
great
cause
and
vrgent
necessitie
,
and
therefore
that
the
sessing
of
them
lieth
not
in
the
controlment
of
the
Subiectes
.
The
third
is
,
that
it
is
an
vnseemly
and
intolerable
rashnes
of
the
Subiectes
,
to
intend
to
brydle
or
restrain
the
affaires
of
the
state
,
wherof
they
haue
no
knowlege
but
superficially
and
by
coniecture
.
And
in
very
deed
these
three
poyntes
haue
made
vs
to
refuse
our
commission
often
tymes
,
&
we
had
not
condescended
to
haue
receiued
it
,
but
for
three
other
considerations
that
were
layed
afore
vs
in
the
assembly
of
the
three
estates
,
held
in
the
Moneth
of
Iuly
last
past
in
your
town
of
Aix
.
One
was
the
consideration
of
your
natural
goodnesse
and
clemencie
,
sufficiently
shewed
by
experience
towardes
your
subiectes
,
where
through
we
ought
to
hope
for
gentle
and
fauorable
audience
in
the
wofull
state
of
your
sayd
Countrie
of
Prouence
,
wherof
it
may
be
that
your
Maiestie
is
not
faythfully
aduertised
.
An
other
is
,
that
good
Kings
,
Princes
,
and
Potentates
,
haue
at
al
times
not
only
harkened
to
the
complaintes
and
griefes
of
their
people
,
but
also
receiued
them
and
gently
disburdened
the
Deputies
of
such
and
so
importunat
charges
.
The
last
is
,
that
in
extremities
men
ought
to
haue
free
and
vnrestreyned
recourse
to
him
that
is
onely
able
to
apply
the
needfull
remedye
.
Wherevnto
we
may
ad
,
that
many
things
are
don
vnder
the
authoritie
of
Kings
without
their
knowledg
,
for
which
they
be
now
and
then
displeased
with
such
as
haue
not
aduertised
them
of
them
.
Surely
Sir
,
all
these
considerations
haue
we
set
afore
vs
,
to
the
intent
that
all
men
may
know
,
that
we
come
not
as
Mutiners
,
Rebels
,
or
Sedicious
persons
,
to
countermaund
your
treasure
,
or
to
inquyre
perticulerly
of
the
imployment
therof
,
or
to
call
in
question
the
faithfulnesse
and
vpright
dealing
of
such
as
haue
the
ordering
of
your
receytes
:
but
onely
to
giue
you
true
intelligence
how
great
charges
,
impositions
,
aydes
subsidies
,
tallages
,
taxes
,
increases
,
&
other
contributions
,
this
poore
&
miserable
third
state
payeth
and
beareth
.
But
peraduenture
Sir
,
you
will
thinke
it
strange
that
we
which
are
Deputies
for
Prouence
,
should
also
interlace
the
griefs
and
complaints
of
the
Third
estate
of
your
Contries
of
Languedocke
&
Dolphenie
.
Neuerthelesse
I
which
am
the
messenger
,
am
assisted
by
the
Deputies
of
the
sayd
Contries
here
present
,
who
gaue
me
in
commission
so
to
do
as
we
met
to gether
by
chaunce
at
Tarrare
,
bycause
wee
had
all
one
message
and
sute
.
Therfore
sir
,
it
is
done
to
the
intent
your
Maiesty
shuld
not
be
troubled
with
the
repetition
of
like
matters
.
And
forasmuch
as
our
griefes
are
all
vpon
the
selfe
same
points
and
tend
to
one selfe
same
end
:
they
haue
chosen
me
alone
to
speake
indifferently
for
all
the
three
countries
alike
,
which
thing
I
haue
so
much
the
more
willingly
and
boldly
taken
vpon
me
,
bicause
your
highnes
hath
had
experience
of
my
loyaltie
,
honestie
,
and
sinceritie
in
your
Countrey
of
Prouence
,
where
it
hath
pleased
your
Maiestie
to
aduaunce
me
,
to
one
of
your
chiefe
roomes
of
your
Counsel
.
Sir
,
your
Countie
of
Prouence
belonged
of
old
time
to
the
kyngdome
of
Austrasie
,
and
vntill
the
time
of
Reyner
kyng
of
Sicili
,
who
made
a
gift
of
it
to
king
Lewes
the
eleuenth
,
it
continued
alwayes
vnder
the
dominion
of
the
Dukes
of
Lorraine
&
Barre
.
In
the
time
of
the
sayd
good
kyng
,
(
whom
some
haue
seene
that
are
aliue
at
this
day
)
the
men
of
Prouence
payd
not
any
tallages
,
impositions
,
ayds
,
subsidies
,
gables
,
or
other
maner
of
contributions
at
all
,
but
liued
welthely
&
merely
of
the
reuenues
of
their
demayns
,
in
peace
withal
their
neighbors
,
and
passing
their
time
in
making
those
excellent
kind
of
peytings
which
are
yet
still
to
be
seene
in
the
pallace
of
Aix
the
chiefe
Citie
of
Prouence
.
Kyng
Lewes
at
his
taking
of
possession
of
the
countrey
of
Prouence
,
graunted
and
confirmed
all
their
priuileges
which
they
had
in
the
time
of
good
kyng
Reyner
,
which
continued
so
to
the
time
of
the
great
king
Francis
the
first
,
who
vppon
necessity
of
the
defence
of
the
same
countrey
when
Charles
the
fifth
came
downe
into
it
,
made
the
people
therof
taxable
and
subiect
to
other
impositions
of
his
Realme
.
The
countrey
of
Viennoys
&
Dolphenie
,
at
such
time
as
it
was
sold
to
your
Maiesties
predecessors
by
Sir
Humbert
Dolphine
,
did
enioye
like
fraunchises
and
liberties
as
the
countrey
of
Prouence
.
So
likewise
did
the
countrey
of
Languedoc
in
the
times
of
Raymond
&
Berrager
Earles
of
Tholouze
.
And
to
say
the
truth
,
neither
taxes
,
ayds
,
subsidies
nor
impositions
were
heard
of
,
any
where
throughout
all
the
shires
of
the
Realme
,
till
the
Englishmen
had
gotten
the
better
part
therof
,
for
the
dispossessing
of
whose
vsurpations
,
our
kynges
were
constrayned
to
rayse
great
powers
and
armies
of
men
.
And
bicause
the
soueraigne
dominion
was
held
by
the
Englishmen
:
the
Frenchmen
,
(
whose
faythfulnesse
and
loyaltie
passeth
al
other
nations
of
the
earth
)
graunted
to
kyng
Charles
the
sixth
,
to
tax
them
and
cease
them
:
and
that
was
the
first
time
that
tallages
began
,
as
the
Registers
of
the
Parliament
and
of
the
chamber
of
accompts
doo
beare
record
.
When
these
so
light
Taxes
and
of
so
small
estimation
could
not
counteruaile
so
great
an
enterprise
,
he
desired
the
estates
to
help
him
in
that
necessitie
.
Then
they
gaunted
him
a
Twentith
of
their
wines
,
&
afterward
an
Eighth
and
a
Fourth
.
In
the
end
it
came
to
setting
of
impost
vppon
Salt.
And
all
these
Impositions
were
named
helpes
,
as
the
end
of
their
deuice
witnesseth
,
which
was
to
take
place
but
so
long
as
the
Warres
lasted
,
as
the
Recordes
of
the
sayd
Court
and
Chamber
of
accountes
do
purport
.
Neuerthelesse
the
People
of
Fraunce
are
so
obedient
to
their
Kinges
,
that
they
haue
continued
the
paying
of
them
freely
,
&
are
verye
wel
contented
to
continue
them
still
,
notwithstanding
that
they
had
ceassed
for
a
time
after
that
the
Englishmen
were
driuen
quite
&
cleane
out
of
the
Realme
.
The
great
King
Frauncis
who
was
as
sore
vexed
and
weried
with
warres
as
was
possible
,
died
happely
without
ouer
charging
of
his
people
,
saying
with
a
custome
of
the
xx
.
penny
set
vppon
the
Marchandises
that
went
out
of
the
Realme
,
and
with
certaine
tolles
set
vppon
the
wines
,
that
were
brought
into
the
great
Townes
,
wherunto
were
added
certayne
tenthes
,
taken
of
the
Clergie
.
King
Henry
inhaunced
againe
the
Tenths
,
and
established
the
rights
of
Douāne
,
high
passage
,
forreine
warres
,
and
forrein
Impositions
.
As
for
the
poore
people
,
they
for
their
owne
succor
were
charged
with
no
more
but
Taxe
faithfully
ordeyned
for
the
payment
of
the
men
of
War
,
and
yet
it
is
well
knowne
that
the
sayd
good
Prince
was
combred
with
as
many
affaires
as
any
Prince
.
At
this
daye
Sir
,
it
is
cleane
contrarie
to
that
it
was
in
King
Lewis
the
Eleuenths
time
.
For
the
ordinarie
taxes
of
Dolphenie
were
but
lxx
.
Thousand
Poundes
turnoyes
,
and
the
taxes
of
Languedocke
were
sixe
score
and
twelue
Thousand
Pound
Turnoyes
.
In
the
time
of
great
King
Frauncis
,
and
at
his
taking
at
Pauie
,
they
were
increased
:
in
Dolphenie
fortie
thousande
pound
Turnoys
,
and
in
Languedocke
three
score
&
ten
thousand
&
eight
hundred
.
Which
ought
to
be
counted
no
great
matter
,
considering
the
great
need
that
was
for
the
deliuerance
of
the
king
and
of
the
Princes
his
children
.
Afterwarde
in
the
tyme
of
kinge
Henrie
,
the
taxes
of
Dolphine
&
Languedocke
were
let
alone
in
the
same
state
that
they
were
at
the
decease
of
King
Frauncis
.
Likewise
also
were
the
taxes
newly
imposed
vpon
Prouence
,
which
were
fower
score
&
six
thousand
pound
turnoyes
.
And
at
that
time
the
tallage
was
for
Prouence
but
two
and
thirtie
thousand
:
for
Dolphine
seuen
and
twenty
thousand
:
and
for
Languedoc
fiftie
two
thousand
,
three
hundred
,
three
score
and
two
pounds
turnoyes
.
At
the
beginning
of
your
Maiesties
reigne
,
which
was
altogyther
peaceable
and
without
ciuill
dissention
,
the
ordinarie
taxe
of
Languedocke
was
raysed
to
fyue
hundred
and
twelue
thousand
seuen
hundred
fower
score
and
ten
poundes
:
The
taxe
of
Prouence
to
three
hundred
,
three
score
&
sixtene
thousand
,
fower
hundred
twentie
and
eight
pounds
turnoyes
,
with
the
increases
of
two
,
three
,
&
fower
sowses
of
the
pound
,
amounting
to
more
than
a
moytie
of
the
foresaid
summes
.
And
the
tallages
are
doubled
.
Vpon
euery
tonne
of
wyne
is
set
an
impost
of
fyue
shillings
.
And
imposition
is
set
vppon
the
Oyles
by
assignation
of
processe
.
Leuies
of
money
haue
bin
made
now
six
times
already
by
extraordinarie
Commissioners
,
and
loans
as
well
generall
as
particular
,
amounting
in
Prouence
to
twelue
hundred
thousand
pound
turnoyes
,
comprehending
therein
the
taxes
of
the
parishes
:
in
Dolphinie
to
nine
hundred
thousand
poundes
:
and
in
Languedocke
to
more
than
two
millions
&
three
hundred
thousande
poundes
turnoyes
,
besides
the
vent
of
Ecclesiasticall
goods
and
the
tenthes
,
which
is
fower
times
as
much
as
the
old
taxation
was
wont
to
bee
,
togither
with
a
general
subsidie
neuer
erst
sessed
vpon
the
cities
&
great
townes
,
to
be
payed
in
three
yeeres
,
whereof
the
last
payment
fel
out
the
last
yeere
,
and
a
new
custome
is
set
vpon
cloth
.
We
speake
not
of
other
small
gatheringes
of
money
that
haue
bin
made
in
those
three
.
Shyres
for
the
waging
,
furnishinge
,
and
intertayning
of
men
of
war
during
these
ciuill
troubles
.
But
the
straunge
thinges
that
haue
bin
done
in
the
playne
Countrie
,
and
the
fyning
&
raunsoming
of
the
poore
people
in
the
sayd
Shyres
,
dooth
in
estimation
exceede
all
the
taxes
,
increaces
,
helpes
,
subsidies
,
impositions
,
and
all
other
leuyings
,
ordinarie
and
extraordinarie
.
For
if
the
Souldiour
were
not
payed
his
wages
,
he
burst
out
intoo
all
licentiousenesse
of
pilling
,
pollinge
,
oppressinge
,
raunsoming
,
and
other
outrages
which
ar
not
wont
to
be
done
in
the
conntries
of
enemies
or
of
conquest
.
See
I
beseeche
you
,
howe
youre
Maiesties
poore
people
haue
their
fatte
,
their
flesh
,
and
their
bloude
drayned
from
them
.
Let
your
highnesse
thinke
you
see
a
true
anatomie
of
a
mans
bodie
,
whereof
there
remayneth
nothing
but
skinne
and
bones
,
&
yet
those
also
all
too
torne
and
broozed
.
For
your
people
resembleth
it
with
great
compassion
,
desiring
too
bee
relieued
and
strengthened
agayne
,
which
thing
can
not
bee
among
so
many
impositions
,
&
specially
with
warre
.
A
true
King
is
lykened
to
a
good
Shepherd
,
whose
propertie
it
is
to
fleece
his
sheepe
,
but
not
too
slea
them
.
Wherfore
your
Maiesties
people
of
the
third
state
of
those
three
poore
and
desolate
Countries
,
doe
moste
humbly
beseeche
your
Highnesse
to
vouchsafe
to
prouide
for
the
generall
pacification
of
these
troubles
,
and
to
haue
regard
of
the
miseries
,
ruines
,
pouertie
,
calamities
,
desolations
,
murthers
,
wastinges
,
sackinges
of
townes
,
hauockes
,
exactions
,
oppressions
,
pillinges
,
ransominges
,
mischeues
,
forcing
of
wiues
,
deflouring
of
maydens
,
and
other
wickednesses
comming
thervppon
:
and
to
bring
the
sayd
shyres
again
to
good
tranquilitie
vnion
and
concord
,
by
such
meanes
as
your
Maiestie
shall
perceiue
most
reasonable
:
for
other
wise
it
is
impossible
for
men
too
liue
in
such
disorder
as
the
vngratiousnesse
of
the
time
hath
brought
vppon
the
sayd
shyres
,
which
are
drayned
so
drye
both
of
money
and
means
,
that
the
people
of
the
sayd
third
state
can
hardly
shift
to
liue
,
bycause
the
men
of
warre
haue
pilled
and
fleesed
awaye
all
that
euer
is
,
so
as
there
remayneth
not
any
great
Cattel
or
money
for
the
people
to
helpe
them selues
withall
These
are
the
causes
that
driue
vs
to
sue
vnto
your
Maiestye
,
to
discharge
the
thyrd
estate
of
the
sayde
Countries
for
these
sixe
Yeares
of
the
sayde
taxes
,
Increaces
,
and
other
Subsidies
and
of
all
other
impositions
both
ordinarie
and
extraordinary
,
and
after
the
sayde
terme
of
six
years
,
to
bring
all
thinges
againe
to
the
state
that
they
were
at
in
the
time
of
King
Lewis
the
twelfth
or
at
the
leastwise
vnder
the
reigne
of
Francis
the
first
.
Neuerthelesse
,
in
cases
of
necessity
,
euen
during
the
sayd
terme
the
people
of
the
sayde
Third
estate
,
doe
willingly
offer
your
Maiestie
all
their
goodes
&
their
liues
without
restraint
.
Which
sute
we
beseech
your
Highnesse
to
wey
well
,
and
to
apoynte
some
trustie
&
faythfull
men
of
authoritie
,
to
inquire
to
what
vses
so
great
sumes
of
money
hitherto
leuyed
of
your
people
haue
bene
imployed
,
and
to
cause
the
men
of
warre
to
be
well
payd
hereafter
,
which
is
the
onely
meanes
to
make
them
liue
in
order
vnder
good
rule
and
warlike
discipline
:
and
the
people
of
the
sayde
thirde
Estate
,
will
praye
to
GOD
for
the
preseruation
and
increase
of
your
highnesse
in
all
prosperitie
and
health
.
¶
The
Kings
aunswere
to
the
Deputies
of
the
third
State
of
the
three
Countries
of
Dolphine
,
Languedocke
,
and
Prouence
.
THE
King
hath
taken
in
very
good
parte
the
complaintes
,
griefes
,
and
requests
made
by
the
deputies
of
the
third
state
of
the
Countries
of
Languedocke
,
Dolphine
,
and
Prouince
,
and
assureth
them
that
he
will
relieue
them
as
soone
as
his
affaires
may
giue
him
leaue
.
It
maruelously
greeueth
his
Maiestie
,
that
his
poore
people
haue
suffered
so
many
wrong
full
troubles
.
For
the
appeasing
whereof
he
hath
caused
his
Edict
to
be
proclaymed
,
intending
to
haue
it
kept
,
and
will
to
the
vttermost
of
his
power
reache
out
his
hand
yit
further
to
a
greater
pacification
.
And
his
sayde
maiestie
doeth
all
his
subiectes
to
vnderstand
,
that
he
is
charged
with
allowances
to
the
Princes
his
bretherne
,
and
of
the
Ladies
his
Sisters
,
with
the
interteynement
of
the
Queene
,
with
the
dowries
of
his
mother
and
of
the
Scottish
Queene
,
with
the
allowances
of
the
old
Queene
Elinor
,
&
of
the
Duchesses
of
Berrey
and
Ferrara
,
wherwith
the
kyngs
his
Grandfather
and
Father
were
not
charged
,
ouer
and
besides
an
infinit
masse
of
dettes
,
wherof
the
sayd
kyngs
his
Graundfather
and
Father
left
him
in
arrerages
:
which
things
haue
ben
the
cause
of
his
further
charging
of
his
saide
people
,
to
his
great
grief
.
Made
to
Villiers-Cotterets
the
18.
of
October
.
1573.
¶
The
aunswere
and
aduertisement
of
the
Lord
Lodowicke
Earle
of
Nassau
to
the
Kyng
.
THe
Lord
Lodowicke
Earle
of
Nassau
,
for
the
zeale
which
hee
hath
of
the
good
successe
of
the
kynges
Maiesties
affaires
,
hauing
not
long
agoe
talked
freely
and
plainely
with
the
Lords
of
Schombert
and
Fregouza
at
Frankford
,
and
afterward
with
the
sayd
Lord
Schombert
at
Cassel
,
thought
that
his
Maiestie
shold
haue
had
intelligence
of
all
,
as
well
by
the
letters
of
the
sayd
Lord
Schombert
,
as
by
word
of
mouth
of
the
said
Fregouza
,
hoping
also
that
hee
would
haue
taken
all
things
in
good
part
,
according
as
it
proceeded
from
a
hart
that
was
at
his
commaundement
.
Neuerthelesse
the
sayd
Earle
perceiueth
by
instructions
from
the
sayde
Fregouza
lately
roturned
vnto
him
,
and
vnderstandeth
throughly
by
his
wordes
,
that
his
Maiestie
taketh
all
things
as
though
hee
had
ment
to
bridle
him
in
his
owne
Realme
.
Wherein
notwithstanding
,
it
was
the
said
Earles
intent
but
to
shew
his
Maiestie
freely
and
vprightly
,
the
only
meanes
whereby
he
knew
he
might
attaine
to
the
thing
that
he
pretended
,
which
was
to
knit
a
firme
friendship
and
good
league
with
the
Protestant
Princes
,
and
to
put
away
and
bury
the
euill
report
that
went
of
his
Maiestie
,
as
well
by
common
deuises
of
pictures
,
as
by
reprochfull
Bookes
,
and
finally
to
assure
him selfe
of
good
aid
against
the
kyng
of
Spaine
,
in
whom
he
espieth
dayly
diuers
euill
meanings
towards
him
.
And
forasmuch
as
his
Maiesties
sayd
mistaking
of
things
hath
caused
the
sayd
Earle
to
feare
,
least
he
were
not
informed
of
the
thing
which
hee
woulde
faynest
haue
him
to
know
,
and
which
hee
thinketh
in
sound
conscience
to
be
the
fittest
waye
to
bring
the
thing
to
passe
which
his
Maiestie
pretendeth
:
he
hath
dispatched
to
him
the
Lord
Chastelier
,
to
informe
him
more
particularly
of
his
meaning
,
and
of
the
thinges
which
he
seeth
to
be
expedient
for
the
compassing
of
his
desire
,
Humbly
beseechinge
his
Maiestie
to
beleue
that
his
so
doing
,
is
not
vppon
any
peculiar
passion
,
or
for
any
affection
that
he
hath
to
any
other
thing
,
than
to
see
him
in
better
estimation
and
reputation
than
he
is
among
strange
Princes
and
Potentates
,
and
further
of
from
the
destruction
that
preaseth
hard
at
his
heeles
.
The
meanes
for
him
to
come
to
the
foresayd
ends
with
the
sayd
Protestant
Princes
,
and
to
recouer
the
reputation
wherof
the
former
outrages
haue
bereft
him
,
is
that
his
Maiestie
should
first
and
formest
surcease
his
warres
against
them
of
the
Religion
,
which
is
the
true
and
onely
ground
woorke
whereuppon
he
may
build
his
reputation
new
againe
,
&
whatsoeuer
he
listeth
besides
with
the
Protestant
Princes
.
For
otherwise
it
is
impossible
for
him
to
preuayle
.
And
it
is
no
brideling
of
his
Maiestie
,
but
a
receiuing
of
fauour
at
his
hand
,
when
the
sayd
Princes
may
so
trust
in
him
as
in
them selues
,
and
shall
see
in
good
earnest
that
there
lurketh
none
euill
meaning
towardes
them
:
which
thing
cannot
be
,
so
long
as
his
Maiestie
shall
persecute
them
of
the
same
Religion
in
his
Realme
,
whereof
the
sayde
Princes
make
profession
,
and
whereuppon
they
ground
themselues
.
By
reason
wherof
they
can
neuer
hope
for
any
stedfast
friendship
or
league
with
his
Maiestie
,
so
long
as
he
sheweth
him selfe
so
sore
against
them
in
the
chiefe
poynt
,
namely
Religion
,
which
is
the
thinge
that
ouer
ruleth
the
doinges
of
men
.
Wherefore
it
is
requisite
to
giue
his
Maiestie
a
Blanke
wheron
he
might
contitinually
set
his
eye
,
that
first
and
formest
he
let
the
Protestants
alone
in
peace
.
And
to
the
end
that
his
Maiestie
shoulde
thinke
,
that
these
be
no
discourses
in
the
aire
:
the
sayd
Earle
beseecheth
him
to
remember
,
that
the
same
had
ben
the
welspring
of
all
his
reputation
:
and
to
call
to
mind
what
he
had
sayd
to
his
hignes
the
first
day
of
his
comming
to
Bloys
,
in
the
euening
and
many
other
times
duringe
the
treatie
of
the
king
of
Nauarres
mariage
,
namely
that
forasmuch
as
his
Maiesty
had
labored
so
much
to
set
peace
among
his
subiectes
,
and
freely
graunted
the
Protestants
the
exercise
of
their
Religion
:
the
sayd
Lords
and
Princes
desiring
to
be
mayntained
in
like
libertie
,
bare
him
so
hartie
good
will
,
that
in
deuising
ere
whiles
among
themselues
whom
they
might
wish
to
be
their
Lord
(
if
the
case
shoulde
so
fall
out
as
to
come
to
election
)
they
desired
his
Maiestie
with
one
mind
,
wishing
his
auauncement
and
increase
,
and
hauing
not
any
thing
more
common
in
their
mouthes
than
his
prayses
.
Whereuppon
the
sayde
Earle
sayd
vnto
his
Maiestie
,
that
he
hoped
one
day
to
see
the
imperiall
Crowne
vppon
his
head
,
and
that
his
Maiestie
might
beleue
that
that
saying
of
his
came
not
of
himself
,
but
of
such
as
hauing
the
authoritie
and
power
to
do
it
,
made
their
full
accompt
to
chuse
him
to
be
kyng
of
Romanes
.
Wherin
his
Maiestie
should
haue
this
aduantage
,
that
wheras
other
Princes
were
wont
to
buy
and
purchace
it
by
all
meanes
,
and
to
offer
all
maner
of
condicions
of
aduauntage
that
they
could
deuise
for
the
purpose
,
(
like
as
the
Emperour
now
present
,
his
Maiesties
father
in
law
had
neuer
ben
chosen
without
earnest
sute
and
solemne
promises
made
,
wherof
one
among
many
other
was
that
hee
sware
to
maintaine
euery
man
in
freedome
of
conscience
and
exercise
of
the
Religion
:
)
his
Maiestie
should
bee
intreated
and
sued
vnto
,
to
take
that
great
dignitie
vpon
him
.
That
was
the
very
cause
why
they
of
the
lowe
countreys
perceiuing
their
Prince
to
depart
from
his
promises
,
and
from
the
condicions
whereunto
he
was
bound
,
&
that
on
the
contrary
part
,
his
Maiestie
vsed
his
subiectes
so
louingly
:
wished
withall
their
hearts
to
haue
him
to
their
soueraigne
Lord
,
casting
themselues
into
his
armes
,
to
the
end
to
haue
the
freedome
of
their
consciences
and
the
exercise
of
their
religion
,
and
generally
to
inioy
the
selfsame
benefit
which
his
Maiesties
subiectes
then
did
by
his
permission
.
It
was
the
selfsame
and
the
chiefest
reason
that
moued
the
Queene
of
England
to
make
league
with
his
Maiestie
a
litle
before
the
murther
.
But
now
contrariwise
his
Maiestie
is
nere
his
fall
,
his
state
is
weakened
on
all
sides
,
and
he
is
as
it
were
abandoned
to
the
praye
to
whosoeuer
listeth
to
take
it
bycause
that
through
his
last
outrage
and
former
warres
made
to
force
the
consciences
of
his
subiects
,
he
is
so
destitute
of
noble
men
and
men
of
warre
,
yea
and
of
the
strongest
fortresse
or
hold
of
his
Realme
,
which
is
the
loue
and
good
will
of
his
subiectes
,
that
he
is
become
like
an
old
house
,
that
is
dayly
shored
vp
with
some
proppes
,
and
yit
in
the
end
cannot
be
kept
from
falling
downe
.
His
Maiestie
maye
see
how
the
Spanishe
kyng
his
mortall
enemie
maketh
his
hand
of
the
backwardnesse
of
his
estate
,
laughing
with
open
mouth
at
his
misfortunes
,
and
imploying
al
his
studie
,
&
indeuer
to
maintayne
trouble
in
his
realme
:
assuringe
him selfe
(
and
not
without
good
cause
)
that
it
is
the
onely
meanes
to
attayne
to
his
purpose
without
stroke
stryking
,
sith
that
the
Spaniard
hath
more
weakened
his
Maiestie
by
the
former
warres
,
late
slaughter
&
present
troubles
,
than
if
he
had
made
thirtie
yeeres
warre
against
him
himselfe
.
Furthermore
,
the
Spaniard
serueth
his
owne
turne
against
his
Maiestie
euery
where
where
he
can
,
with
the
late
outrage
,
as
he
did
alate
in
Poleland
as
his
Maiestie
vnderstandeth
well
ynough
:
and
the
same
was
the
only
cause
of
courtesie
and
faithfulnesse
which
the
Duke
of
Alua
vsed
towardes
the
sayd
Earle
at
his
goinge
out
of
Mons
,
as
he
himselfe
reported
to
diuers
afterward
,
namely
that
hee
did
it
to
shew
that
hee
would
not
commit
so
foule
a
trecherie
as
the
French
kyng
had
done
,
and
that
he
was
not
sory
for
the
Admirals
mischaunce
,
bycause
hee
was
the
kyng
his
Masters
deadly
enemy
,
but
yit
hee
had
leuer
to
haue
lost
both
his
armes
,
than
to
haue
done
that
deede
.
And
if
his
Maiestie
continue
his
purpose
of
making
warre
against
the
protestants
,
and
wil
not
suffer
them
in
his
realm
:
the
sayd
Earle
can
assure
him
,
that
the
Duke
his
brother
leauing
him
in
that
plight
to
goe
into
Polonia
,
shall
neuer
bee
welcome
thither
.
But
the
people
of
that
country
thinking
that
he
commeth
to
set
them
in
a
broyle
as
Fraunce
is
,
will
count
him
but
as
a
cypher
in
Agrim
,
and
the
Princes
of
the
land
,
in
steed
of
comming
foorth
euery
where
to
meete
him
on
the
waye
for
his
honor
,
will
drawne
back
a
ten
leagues
of
for
feare
to
see
him
.
And
contrary
wyse
,
if
he
make
himselfe
a
meane
of
good
peace
in
Fraunce
be
,
fore
he
goe
thence
,
he
shal
bee
receyued
,
loued
and
honored
as
much
as
hart
can
think-and
the
foresayd
Princes
will
wayte
for
him
by
the
way
,
to
doe
him
all
the
honor
and
solemnitie
in
receiuing
him
,
that
they
can
deuise
.
And
so
long
as
his
Maiestie
abydeth
in
the
same
mind
that
he
is
in
at
this
day
,
the
sayd
Earle
seeth
not
that
it
is
to
any
purpose
for
him
to
hope
that
the
Prince
Elector
the
Palsgraue
should
send
to
the
Queene
of
England
for
the
accomplishing
of
mariage
betwene
hir
and
the
Duke
:
and
much
lesse
that
the
sayd
prince
Elector
should
consent
that
the
Prince
Casimire
his
sonne
should
serue
his
Maiestie
:
for
the
sayde
Earle
was
sure
that
it
shold
smally
boote
him
to
moue
the
matter
,
neither
could
he
doe
it
with
a
safe
conscience
,
so
longe
as
his
Maiestie
is
in
armes
against
the
protestants
.
His
Maiestie
hath
all
occasions
that
can
be
wished
to
drawe
awaye
his
armed
hande
from
his
subiectes
,
and
to
ceasse
his
warres
against
them
,
besides
that
the
Duke
his
brother
the
chosen
king
of
Polonia
,
if
hee
desire
to
be
well
receyued
,
and
to
assure
those
country
men
,
that
his
being
among
them
,
shall
not
be
to
trouble
them
or
to
disquiet
their
consciences
,
but
to
maintaine
them
in
the
freedome
wherein
hee
found
them
,
may
also
as
the
Duke
his
brother
,
vppon
like
occasion
make
meanes
to
his
Maiestie
,
not
to
disquiet
the
protestantes
:
and
that
if
they
depart
otherwyse
,
the
one
into
Poland
,
and
the
other
into
Englande
:
besydes
that
it
should
fall
out
ill
for
them selues
in
respect
of
the
reasons
aforesayd
,
they
should
leaue
his
Maiestie
with
such
a
warre
vppon
his
hand
as
should
be
so
much
the
more
harde
and
daungerouse
,
in
respect
of
the
abatement
of
his
power
,
with
the
smalnesse
of
his
comfort
,
and
(
which
worse
is
)
for
that
he
should
not
haue
any
man
whom
hee
might
truste
with
the
leading
of
his
armie
,
for
as
much
as
some
are
too
seruisable
and
affectioned
towards
the
Spanish
King
as
his
feed
men
,
&
his
Maiestie
could
not
trust
any
man
by
reason
of
the
things
that
had
passed
.
Moreouer
,
the
sayd
Earle
could
not
forget
to
aduertise
his
maiestie
,
that
beyond
the
seas
men
began
to
bee
greeued
at
the
French
fashions
,
and
to
waxe
loth
to
deale
with
them
,
bycause
they
bewray
themselues
to
goe
vnsoundly
to
worke
,
and
to
seeke
for
nothing
but
dissimulation
:
as
not
long
ago
whyle
the
Queene
of
England
was
deliberating
vppon
the
treatie
of
mariage
betweene
hir
Maiestie
and
the
Duke
,
in
the
meane
whyle
shippes
of
warre
were
sent
priuily
in
to
Scotlande
,
to
stirre
vp
and
mayntayne
troubles
there
,
and
to
make
them
spred
by
little
and
little
into
England
.
Agayne
,
the
brute
goeth
commonly
here
,
that
the
men
whom
his
Maiestie
sendeth
abroad
,
are
all
of
them
spies
which
come
to
discouer
what
is
done
in
princes
houses
,
&
moreouer
that
all
the
discourses
which
his
Maiestie
maketh
with
Ambassadours
,
(
specially
in
the
name
of
the
Pope
)
and
all
the
dispatches
which
he
maketh
vnto
Rome
,
are
but
tales
and
colours
of
assurance
of
good
will
,
too
ouerthrowe
the
protestantes
on
all
sydes
,
and
namely
the
foresayd
princes
.
And
that
there
appeareth
so
much
dissimulation
and
vntruth
in
his
maiesties
letters
and
wordes
,
as
men
cannot
tell
howe
to
trust
them
in
any
good
case
:
lyke
as
in
his
letters
written
to
the
sayd
princes
vpon
the
wounding
of
the
Lord
Admirall
,
when
hee
had
giuen
them
to
vnderstande
that
he
was
sore
displeased
at
the
receyt
of
suche
a
mischaunce
,
and
would
make
such
an
example
of
iustice
of
it
,
as
shoulde
bee
remembered
while
the
world
indured
:
A
two
dayes
after
,
he
caused
it
to
be
proclaymed
that
it
was
his
owne
dooing
.
Furthermore
,
how
much
assurance
so
euer
his
maiestie
gaue
after
the
death
of
the
sayd
L.
Admirall
throughout
all
places
of
his
dominion
,
that
he
meant
not
neyther
would
,
that
any
man
should
by
any
meanes
alter
his
Edict
of
pacification
:
it
can
not
in
any
wyse
agree
with
the
warre
which
he
maketh
presently
against
his
subiectes
of
the
religion
,
and
much
lesse
with
his
own
saying
that
he
would
not
suffer
any
other
Religion
than
his
owne
within
his
realme
.
By
reason
of
which
persuasions
,
the
prince
cannot
thinke
that
his
Maiesties
promising
to
succour
him
in
the
offer
which
he
caused
to
be
made
to
the
sayd
Earle
without
condicion
,
was
spoken
with
a
playnmeaning
hart
,
but
rather
feareth
that
the
same
proceeded
out
of
the
selfesame
shopp
that
the
former
things
came
,
because
that
in
the
letters
of
the
Spanishe
Ambassadour
which
were
surprised
a
while
agoe
as
they
were
comminge
out
of
Fraunce
to
the
Duke
of
Alua
,
it
was
seene
that
the
Queene
mother
vsed
suche
speech
as
this
:
I
cannot
thinke
that
these
so
good
Christians
will
make
any
agreement
with
the
Heretikes
:
shee
spake
those
words
of
the
Prince
to
his
hinderaunce
,
and
therefore
it
is
vnlykely
that
there
was
any
good
meaning
towards
the
furtherance
of
his
affayres
.
The
said
Earle
besecheth
his
Maiestie
yit
further
,
to
set
before
his
eyes
what
hee
hath
oftentymes
tolde
him
of
the
Cardinall
of
Lorreine
:
namely
,
that
his
dooings
were
so
suspiciouse
on
all
sydes
,
that
whereas
he
was
in
credit
with
his
Maiestie
,
and
had
the
ordering
of
all
his
affaires
,
it
was
not
too
bee
thought
(
so
farre
as
could
bee
seene
)
that
hee
would
deale
soundly
or
vncorruptly
in
any
thing
,
by
reason
of
the
great
priuitie
which
he
had
with
the
Spaniardes
:
yea
and
muche
lesse
,
in
asmuch
as
it
is
reported
,
that
he
hath
offered
his
maiestie
a
great
summe
of
money
,
to
imploy
it
against
the
protestants
.
Moreouer
,
the
sayd
Earle
beseecheth
his
Maiestie
to
call
to
mynd
,
what
his
highnesse
hath
sayd
vnto
him
oftentimes
:
namely
,
that
he
considered
well
the
mischiefes
that
had
assayled
him
on
all
sydes
,
and
that
if
hee
might
by
Gods
grace
once
remedie
them
,
by
the
peace
which
he
hath
payned
himself
so
much
to
make
,
he
would
take
good
heed
,
that
he
fell
no
more
into
them
.
For
wheras
he
is
at
this
hower
further
ouer
the
shoes
than
euer
he
was
,
through
the
counsell
of
such
as
vnder
his
name
doe
bring
those
in
suspicion
which
are
called
the
heads
of
the
factions
,
and
prouoke
him
to
make
cleane
riddance
of
them
by
what
meanes
so
euer
it
bee
,
as
hee
dyd
by
the
last
slaughter
:
his
Maiestie
maye
wel
see
,
it
was
not
to
leaue
of
so
,
but
to
make
him
bathe
himselfe
more
than
before
in
the
bloud
of
his
poore
subiectes
,
to
the
ende
to
hasten
his
own
ruine
the
more
,
wherof
they
haue
layd
the
platt
a
long
tyme
afore
hand
:
which
skarre
his
maiestie
may
yet
for
al
this
heale
vp
agayne
,
by
making
a
good
peace
in
his
realme
,
&
by
ceassing
to
trouble
his
subiectes
of
the
reformed
religion
.
Finally
,
the
sayd
Earle
desireth
his
Maiestie
to
bethinke
him
of
this
poynt
,
that
although
he
had
taken
all
the
townes
that
are
hild
by
the
Protestantes
in
his
Realme
,
yit
should
hee
not
haue
rooted
out
the
Religion
:
and
to
consider
also
,
that
the
late
Emperour
Charles
the
fifth
did
not
onely
take
the
townes
,
but
also
had
the
persones
in
his
hands
that
did
set
themselues
against
his
procedings
,
seazed
vpon
their
landes
,
and
beate
downe
their
fortresses
,
and
yit
for
all
that
could
nor
driue
the
Religion
out
of
Germanie
,
because
it
is
a
thing
so
rooted
in
mennes
hartes
,
that
it
cannot
be
weeded
out
by
force
of
armes
.
Wherefore
the
sayd
Earle
most
humbly
beseecheth
his
Maiestie
,
to
take
these
reasons
in
as
good
part
,
as
the
Earle
hath
without
passion
or
particular
affection
,
soundly
,
truly
,
and
with
good
conscience
commaunded
the
Lord
of
Chastelier
to
preferre
them
to
his
vnderstanding
,
and
to
wey
them
and
consider
them
well
and
throughly
,
not
suffering
himselfe
to
be
flattered
by
such
as
play
the
leud
Phisitions
,
which
tell
not
their
pacient
the
least
part
of
his
disease
,
wherevppon
followeth
his
vndoing
,
but
rather
crediting
such
as
seeke
nothing
but
his
good
furtherance
and
great
increase
.
If
hee
do
so
:
his
affaires
shal
haue
as
good
successe
,
as
he
would
wishe
.
If
not
,
but
that
he
continue
stil
in
his
former
behauiour
:
all
that
euer
he
can
doo
shall
but
turne
to
his
vndoing
,
and
imbattell
both
God
and
men
still
more
and
more
against
him
.
¶
FINIS
.
Concerning
the
conclusion
and
effect
that
hath
ensued
of
these
requestes
and
aduises
,
and
touching
the
decease
of
the
French
Kyng
.
IT
is
good
for
subiectes
to
trust
and
pray
that
Kyngs
shall
liue
.
It
is
good
for
Kynges
to
thinke
and
knowe
that
kynges
may
and
must
die
.
Many
haue
bin
the
examples
therof
,
and
great
is
the
fruite
to
the
wise
considerers
.
Gods
is
the
iudgement
and
execution
,
mannes
is
the
good
or
harme
as
God
is
to
dispose
in
wrath
or
fauour
.
The
end
is
Gods
honour
.
It
is
therfore
good
for
all
,
euen
the
highest
,
to
feare
God
,
and
to
gouerne
subiectes
as
Gods
people
.
And
sweete
is
the
comfort
to
those
noble
Princes
,
whose
hearts
and
consciences
the
spirite
of
God
feelingly
assureth
,
that
they
haue
lead
their
people
in
truth
,
holden
them
in
Iustice
,
and
preserued
them
in
mercy
and
equitie
.
Let
the
one
Realme
of
Fraunce
,
in
their
Kyngs
,
their
subiectes
,
and
their
state
,
preach
to
Christendome
the
mortalitie
of
kyngs
,
the
miseries
of
ciuill
warres
,
the
losses
by
disloyaltie
of
word
and
deede
,
the
fruits
of
truth
,
right
,
and
peace
.
Gods
is
the
iustice
,
and
iudgement
,
whose
be
the
honour
of
all
things
seeming
to
men
good
or
euill
.
The
valiant
and
famous
French
king
Henry
the
second
,
when
he
was
in
greatest
apparance
of
felicitie
and
ioye
,
in
the
entric
of
peace
,
in
the
feastes
of
mariage
,
in
the
very
actes
of
triumph
,
and
euen
than
when
after
execution
of
sundry
for
the
cause
of
conscience
he
had
Annas
du
Burg
and
other
counsellers
of
the
Parliament
of
Paris
in
prison
,
whom
for
their
Religion
he
thought
meete
and
intented
to
haue
put
to
death
,
was
hurt
and
slaine
,
to
the
great
losse
,
dissolution
&
lamentation
of
that
mightie
kingdome
.
His
sonne
Francis
the
second
,
enriched
with
one
kingdome
more
than
euer
his
father
or
his
auncestors
enioyed
,
the
Realme
of
Scotland
,
when
after
execution
of
many
persons
vppon
the
tumult
of
Amboise
,
&
the
death
of
the
Vidame
of
Chartres
,
he
had
the
prince
of
Conde
,
Madame
de
Roye
,
and
other
noble
persons
&
gentlemen
,
prisoners
in
the
Bastile
of
Paris
and
elsewhere
,
was
suddenly
taken
away
by
the
hand
of
God
to
the
great
destitution
and
sorow
of
those
that
depended
vppon
his
Maiestie
.
Charles
the
ninth
,
now
lately
deceased
second
sonne
of
King
Henry
,
and
yonger
Brother
to
the
sayd
Frauncis
,
when
he
thought
himselfe
deliuered
of
those
whom
he
supposed
daungerous
to
his
estate
,
and
whom
he
charged
with
most
haynous
conspiracie
,
found
afterward
mightie
resistance
by
the
remnants
of
that
execution
,
by
whom
these
Articles
of
request
were
presented
vnto
him
:
whereuppon
hath
not
followed
such
full
conclusion
as
had
ben
to
bee
wished
for
the
quiet
of
that
kyngdom
.
Since
which
time
,
and
the
lamentable
troubles
depending
,
when
the
sayd
kyng
had
his
owne
Brother
,
with
the
next
Prince
of
his
bloud
,
his
greatest
Mareshals
of
his
Realme
,
and
a
number
of
noble
men
,
in
custodie
and
prison
,
and
dayly
expectation
was
of
a
totall
destruction
of
some
part
of
his
subiectes
,
God
hath
added
him
to
his
auncesters
.
The
circumstances
of
his
disease
,
the
cause
,
occasion
and
maner
of
his
death
,
pertayneth
not
to
vs
.
It
was
the
woorke
of
God
.
No
doubt
,
hee
lacked
not
the
care
of
a
mother
,
the
counsell
of
Phisicians
and
cunning
persons
,
the
helpe
,
aduise
,
wish
and
praier
of
the
famous
king
his
brother
,
and
all
that
men
might
do
.
But
Kynges
who
to
vs
in
resemblance
are
Gods
,
to
them selues
in
Nature
be
men
.
God
giue
to
all
Princes
,
not
that
opinion
onely
,
but
also
that
cogitation
,
both
to
thinke
it
,
and
thinke
vppon
it
.
God
giue
quiet
to
that
christian
region
of
our
neighbours
,
and
an
hart
to
all
Christian
gouernour
:
,
to
haue
care
of
the
safetie
and
peace
of
their
posteritie
.
For
beyond
all
posteritie
there
is
a
Kyng
of
Kynges
to
be
aunswered
,
And
GOD
giue
vs
Englishmen
quiet
and
thankfull
hartes
,
that
we
may
rest
in
vnitie
,
cleaue
to
present
state
,
abhorre
changes
,
and
so
vse
our
Religion
that
God
find
it
not
necessary
to
withdraw
our
highest
treasure
.
Amen
.