A
DECLARATION
OF
THE
PROTESTATION
OF
MONseigneur
the
Mareschal
d'Anuille
.
WE
Henrie
of
Monmorency
,
Lorde
of
Danuille
Mareschal
of
Fraunce
,
Gouerner
and
Lieutenaunt
general
for
the
King
,
in
the
contrey
of
Languedoc
,
Desiring
that
euerie
man
may
knowe
and
vnderstande
,
that
the
onelie
dutie
and
fidelitie
that
we
haue
borne
to
the
seruice
of
his
Maiestie
,
and
to
the
profit
and
quiet
of
his
subiectes
and
of
his
Realme
,
hath
moued
vs
to
entre
into
armes
against
the
disturbers
and
oppressers
thereof
.
For
this
cause
do
declare
to
all
Kinges
,
Princes
,
and
Potentates
of
Christendome
,
frendes
confederates
,
and
allyes
of
his
Crowne
,
&
to
all
his
Maiesties
faithfull
subiectes
of
what
estate
,
qualitie
,
or
condicion
soeuer
they
be
,
that
hauing
perceiued
these
fourtene
yere
past
,
and
from
shortly
after
the
decesse
of
the
late
King
Henrie
of
good
memorie
,
how
this
poore
and
desolate
Realme
hath
in
all
sortes
been
afflicted
and
oppressed
with
ciuile
warres
,
grounded
vpon
the
pretense
and
controuersie
of
Religion
,
and
how
vnder
this
pretense
hath
folowed
the
totall
ruine
of
the
more
parte
of
the
good
Townes
that
haue
been
spoiled
and
sacked
,
and
some
of
them
ofter
than
once
,
as
the
disordred
and
vnsatiable
passion
of
suche
as
were
the
authors
of
all
these
miseries
hath
had
will
to
entreprise
and
put
in
execution
:
how
the
edictes
and
ordinances
made
at
the
generall
assemblie
of
the
Estates
at
Orleans
,
and
since
that
time
so
oft
renewed
,
as
well
for
the
pacification
of
the
Realme
,
as
for
the
gouernaunce
thereof
,
haue
in
all
thinges
ben
periurously
broken
:
how
impunitie
of
murders
,
slaughters
,
poysonninges
,
raysinges
of
tumoltes
of
the
people
,
defilinges
of
women
,
and
maides
,
burninges
,
sackinges
,
and
other
haynous
doynges
,
generally
haue
been
,
and
be
tolerated
in
this
Realme
,
by
those
that
ought
to
haue
stayed
the
same
,
euen
so
farre
as
that
thei
haue
suffred
that
cruel
barbarous
,
and
vnnatural
murder
of
the
more
part
of
the
Nobilitie
of
Fraunce
committed
in
the
towne
of
Parise
,
on
sainct
Barthelmewes
daye
,
in
the
yere
1572.
how
poore
prisonners
and
personnes
errested
in
forme
of
lawe
,
within
the
concergeries
of
the
Palace
of
Parise
aforesayd
,
of
Tolouse
,
Bordeaux
,
Roane
,
Lyon
,
and
Orleans
,
and
other
Townes
haue
been
burned
,
slayne
and
murdered
,
beside
an
infinitie
number
of
persones
of
good
estate
,
women
,
children
,
and
other
citezens
of
the
sayde
townes
,
and
also
their
goods
rauenously
spoiled
by
these
that
are
at
this
day
honored
,
fauored
,
and
auaunced
.
How
the
King
and
his
Realme
are
still
possessed
,
as
they
haue
been
in
the
time
of
the
late
Kinges
his
brethren
,
by
strangers
whiche
haue
conspired
to
the
totall
subuersion
of
his
Maiestie
,
the
Princes
of
his
blood
,
and
his
Nobilitie
,
as
they
haue
sufficiently
made
appeare
by
putting
them
to
the
assaultes
of
townes
,
to
combates
,
and
other
hasardes
at
their
pleasure
,
to
the
intent
vtterly
to
deface
the
memorie
and
wholy
to
vsurpe
the
estate
and
crowne
of
Fraunce
.
How
since
the
decesse
of
the
good
King
Henrie
,
the
Nobilitie
hath
been
wholly
defaced
in
France
,
and
their
merites
and
vertues
despised
:
how
straungers
haue
ben
preferred
before
them
to
the
charges
and
estates
of
the
Crowne
,
and
of
the
Kinges
household
,
against
the
auncient
lawes
of
the
establishment
of
this
Realm
.
Yea
and
whiche
more
is
,
the
said
estates
haue
ben
geuen
to
some
that
be
no
gentlemen
,
nor
haue
shewed
so
muche
,
as
any
small
profe
of
any
thing
nere
to
any
deseruing
of
suche
charge
.
Wherof
ensueth
an
extreme
grefe
to
an
infinite
number
of
old
Knightes
and
Capitaines
of
France
,
in
respecte
of
the
longe
seruices
of
their
auncesters
,
and
whiche
themselues
haue
not
spared
their
liues
,
their
goods
,
their
children
,
their
kinred
and
their
frendes
,
and
all
that
they
had
,
for
the
seruice
of
the
King
,
and
for
the
maintenaunce
of
his
estate
.
So
as
brefely
the
countrey
of
the
worlde
that
moste
plentuously
furnished
good
examples
to
all
other
,
is
now
so
disordered
and
defiled
,
that
in
steede
of
recouering
the
auncient
vertues
that
in
time
past
there
abounded
in
all
thinges
,
now
no
man
can
otherwise
iudge
,
but
that
the
desolations
and
calamities
,
whiche
we
haue
suffred
,
haue
directly
proceded
from
the
wrathe
of
God
,
wholly
powred
out
vpon
the
people
of
Fraunce
,
by
the
subuersion
,
whiche
these
straungers
the
gouerners
of
the
Estate
haue
brought
in
,
and
for
lacke
of
obseruing
the
order
and
the
rule
,
whiche
of
auncient
time
haue
been
so
well
established
,
as
no
prouince
was
comparable
to
ours
,
like
as
while
the
policie
thereof
was
inueolably
kept
,
it
hath
florished
and
ben
renomed
aboue
all
other
nations
,
and
since
the
disorder
and
subuersion
haue
ben
brought
in
by
these
newe
gouerners
with
their
nouelties
,
they
haue
sought
to
make
the
Kinges
subiectes
liue
like
brute
beastes
,
without
doctrine
,
or
obseruing
of
any
thing
that
they
ought
,
depriuing
them
of
suche
learned
men
as
were
in
the
Vniuersities
,
either
by
murder
,
or
banishement
into
straunge
countreyes
,
permitting
that
the
Ecclesiasticall
persones
(
from
whome
ought
to
procede
to
vs
the
principall
examples
)
neither
studie
,
nor
preache
,
nor
be
resident
,
nor
exercising
themselues
in
any
part
of
their
dutie
,
that
their
vnsatiable
couetise
in
their
pluralitie
of
benefices
hath
free
course
than
euer
it
had
,
that
the
poore
,
the
needie
,
and
the
orphane
be
wholly
forsaken
:
and
all
other
workes
of
charitie
,
are
by
the
sayd
Ecclesiasticall
persones
wholly
reiected
and
eloigned
:
how
thei
let
out
their
benefices
to
ferme
,
not
caryng
to
whom
,
and
by
the
same
meane
dooe
in
their
absence
leaue
the
charge
of
their
owne
soules
,
and
of
their
flocke
as
it
were
to
fermers
and
tenantes
:
and
chefly
how
the
elections
ordeined
by
the
holy
Counselles
,
and
confirmed
by
the
sayd
ordinances
of
Orleans
,
haue
ben
repelled
and
reuoked
for
the
priuate
profit
of
strangers
,
whiche
haue
ben
,
and
be
suche
as
hardly
they
might
be
capable
to
be
called
by
the
people
of
Fraunce
,
to
any
charges
and
dignities
spirituall
or
temporall
.
How
since
that
iustice
is
administred
for
money
,
and
that
there
hath
ben
suffred
in
Fraunce
against
our
lawes
,
that
the
president
Biragne
a
Millanois
,
hath
been
made
Chaunceller
of
Fraunce
,
and
that
all
the
learned
and
sufficient
Frenchmen
that
might
haue
ben
chosen
to
those
charges
haue
been
reiected
,
we
haue
had
nothing
but
meschef
in
iustice
,
and
allowance
of
all
the
murders
,
slaughters
,
and
traitorous
outrages
that
haue
been
executed
and
conspired
,
since
he
hath
been
in
charge
:
brefely
how
all
his
edictes
haue
tended
only
to
the
subuersion
of
the
Nobilitie
and
of
the
crowne
of
France
,
both
in
depriuyng
them
of
the
liberties
,
in
erection
of
offices
,
and
in
new
tributes
and
vngracious
inuentions
that
he
hath
deuised
with
certaine
other
straungers
his
ministers
,
to
praue
the
substaunce
of
Frenchemen
,
to
mainteine
(
as
he
hath
done
hetherto
)
a
diuision
and
confusion
among
them
,
and
in
the
same
to
gather
and
mainteine
armes
leuied
for
the
execution
of
his
practises
,
by
whiche
meanes
he
hath
done
what
in
him
laye
to
create
a
straunger
the
Kinges
Lieutenant
generall
in
his
Realme
,
disapointing
my
Lorde
his
Maiesties
brother
of
the
promise
that
was
made
him
by
the
late
King
,
by
occasion
whereof
and
of
the
discontentmente
that
my
sayd
Lord
gaue
,
to
wite
,
that
he
conceiued
thereby
,
he
is
at
this
day
as
captiue
,
&
all
those
that
were
thought
affectioned
to
the
seruice
of
the
King
,
and
to
mainteine
that
which
iustly
belonged
vnto
him
,
and
to
my
sayd
Lorde
his
brother
,
or
whiche
haue
bent
themselues
against
this
tyrannie
,
oppression
,
and
euell
counsell
,
as
well
Princes
of
the
blood
,
&
officers
of
his
Maiesties
crowne
,
as
other
,
haue
been
put
to
death
,
exiled
,
or
be
deteined
prisoners
.
Hauing
be
on
all
that
they
were
able
,
vnder
false
and
sclanderous
persuasions
,
in
the
same
time
of
the
others
emprisonemente
,
they
haue
practised
to
cause
vs
to
be
slayne
by
the
Counte
Martinnengues
,
and
diuerse
other
expresly
sent
to
this
towne
of
Montpellier
to
make
vs
to
be
prisoned
,
or
to
be
murdered
in
a
tumulte
of
the
people
(
a
thing
so
commonly
knowen
as
euerie
man
can
depose
it
)
howbeit
this
is
a
particular
matter
wher
with
we
will
not
now
entermedle
,
dealing
onely
with
the
generall
,
and
referryng
this
to
time
and
place
for
vs
conuenient
,
to
debate
this
cause
and
all
the
rest
concerning
vs
,
and
to
make
it
knowen
to
his
Maiestie
that
without
iust
occasion
,
this
mischeuous
treason
and
conspiracie
hath
been
attempted
.
Now
we
hauing
lately
iorneyed
into
Piedmont
,
to
his
Maiesties
presence
(
by
his
commaundement
,
at
suche
tyme
as
he
returned
from
Poloigne
into
his
owne
Realme
)
to
vnderstand
his
good
pleasure
,
and
to
geue
him
aduise
,
as
he
required
vs
by
writing
from
Venize
,
of
the
meanes
that
then
were
to
appease
the
troubles
of
his
Realme
,
accordyng
to
his
inclination
to
so
good
intent
by
hymself
sufficiently
published
,
and
made
knowen
to
his
subiectes
,
&
to
Princes
and
Potentates
straungers
and
his
allies
,
his
Maiestie
had
diuerse
tymes
doen
vs
so
greate
honour
,
to
assure
vs
of
this
his
so
sincere
and
laudable
intention
,
to
enter
with
peace
,
and
to
embrace
the
vnitie
of
his
sayd
subiectes
of
bothe
Religions
,
to
make
them
partakers
of
the
benefite
and
quietnesse
that
he
meant
to
them
,
in
suche
sorte
that
we
loked
for
nothing
,
but
this
vniuersall
good
at
our
returne
from
the
towne
of
Suze
to
this
our
gouernement
,
there
to
attend
(
as
his
Maiestie
had
expresly
commaunded
vs
for
these
,
whome
it
shoulde
please
him
to
send
to
assist
vs
,
&
to
seke
the
meanes
of
the
sayd
pacification
.
But
he
being
still
in
the
power
of
those
that
had
counselled
the
late
King
,
to
the
oppression
and
ruine
of
his
Estates
,
hindering
the
fruite
of
his
good
purpose
,
they
haue
contemned
as
they
yet
dayly
do
continue
,
the
execution
of
their
practises
and
deuises
,
consuming
wholy
the
finaunces
of
France
in
the
entertening
of
an
armie
in
a
maner
all
of
straungers
,
as
Suyssers
,
Reisters
,
and
Piedmontois
.
One
part
of
whiche
armye
is
conducted
into
this
countrey
of
Languedoc
by
the
lord
d'Vzes
,
a
man
knowen
among
Frenchemen
for
one
that
vnder
colour
of
the
Religion
reformed
,
whiche
he
fained
hymself
to
follow
in
times
past
,
hath
ruined
,
spoiled
,
and
sacked
all
the
good
townes
of
this
countrey
,
defaced
and
beaten
downe
all
the
faire
monasteries
,
and
Churches
cathedral
and
collegiate
,
and
taken
and
robbed
the
iewelles
that
were
in
them
,
whiche
now
fayling
him
,
therewith
also
haue
fayled
his
religion
and
godlinesse
that
he
pretended
to
embrase
,
and
also
the
cruel
and
miserable
death
of
the
lord
of
Bodinay
his
brother
:
and
he
hath
accepted
this
charge
to
the
intent
to
continue
with
these
oppressers
and
disturbers
of
France
the
ruine
thereof
.
On
the
other
side
,
into
Prouence
is
conducted
a
part
of
the
sayd
armye
by
the
Mareschal
of
Gondy
,
a
straunger
to
this
Realme
,
to
whome
this
charge
(
as
it
is
easy
to
perceiue
)
hath
been
committed
for
the
distrust
that
hath
been
had
of
those
of
that
contreye
,
whiche
wolde
be
executioners
of
so
mischeuous
purposes
for
the
subuersion
of
the
same
.
Wherupon
hauyng
been
made
to
vs
sondry
declarations
and
exhortations
,
as
well
on
the
behalf
of
the
Princes
of
the
blood
,
officers
of
the
Crowne
,
and
Pairs
of
Fraunce
,
as
also
of
all
the
prouinces
of
this
Realme
,
whiche
know
the
imminent
destruction
of
the
King
and
of
his
estate
at
hand
,
if
necessarie
remedie
thereto
be
not
spedily
prouided
.
We
as
an
officer
of
the
Crowne
,
a
naturall
Frencheman
,
and
descended
of
the
first
Christians
and
barons
of
Fraunce
,
whiche
from
time
beyond
all
memorie
haue
had
before
their
eyes
in
singular
recommandation
the
protection
,
preseruation
,
and
defense
of
their
Kinges
&
their
Crownes
,
whiche
we
desire
by
the
helpe
of
God
,
to
follow
in
all
that
we
possibly
may
:
Hauing
well
considered
that
the
controuersie
which
is
in
this
Realm
for
matter
of
Religion
,
neither
can
nor
ought
to
be
determined
by
armes
,
but
by
a
holy
and
free
counsell
general
or
national
,
and
likewise
that
it
is
most
requisite
that
there
be
an
establishment
of
all
things
in
their
first
estate
,
by
the
aduise
and
deliberation
of
an
assemblie
of
the
states
generall
,
the
onely
remedie
to
appease
troubles
,
and
the
only
piller
and
vpholding
of
the
King
and
of
his
Crowne
,
whatsoeuer
the
tyrantes
,
flatterers
,
and
clokers
of
truthe
can
say
to
the
contrarie
.
We
hauing
an
extreme
greef
to
see
his
Maiestie
possessed
,
by
persones
that
haue
so
small
regard
vnto
him
,
that
they
publikely
abuse
his
sacred
name
,
to
couer
their
vngratious
intention
,
vnsatiablenesse
and
ambition
,
Haue
embrased
the
common
protection
,
preseruation
and
defense
of
the
Crowne
,
and
of
the
sayd
good
and
naturall
subiectes
,
as
well
of
the
one
Religion
as
of
the
other
,
of
what
qualitie
or
condition
soeuer
they
be
,
against
the
sayd
straungers
,
euell
counsells
,
oppressers
and
violaters
of
the
vnitie
and
common
quiet
of
this
sayd
Realme
,
and
of
the
libertie
of
my
Lord
the
Kinges
brother
,
the
King
of
Nauarre
,
my
Lord
the
prince
of
Conde
,
and
other
Princes
of
the
blood
,
officers
of
the
Crowne
,
Lordes
,
Gentlemen
,
and
other
Capitaines
prisoners
and
exiled
,
as
is
aforesayd
.
Calling
to
our
succor
and
ayde
all
Kinges
Princes
,
and
Potentates
of
Christendome
,
frendes
and
confederates
of
this
Crowne
,
and
all
the
faithfull
subiectes
of
the
same
,
hoping
that
God
will
geue
vs
the
grace
by
armes
to
come
to
a
good
accord
of
Religion
,
to
the
vnitie
and
restoring
of
this
Realme
in
the
former
estate
,
by
the
determination
of
a
holy
and
free
counsell
generall
or
nationall
,
and
by
the
deliberation
and
aduise
of
the
general
assemblie
of
the
estates
of
Fraunce
.
We
notifie
to
all
the
sayd
subiectes
of
his
Maiestie
,
of
what
estate
,
condition
or
qualitie
soeuer
they
be
,
to
all
the
Prouinces
,
Townes
,
and
Commonalties
of
this
Realme
,
that
will
fauor
,
ayde
,
and
assist
vs
in
this
so
good
,
so
iust
,
and
so
vertuous
enterprise
,
for
the
publike
weale
of
his
sayd
Maiestie
,
and
of
all
his
Realme
,
that
they
shal
be
pre
serued
,
maintened
,
and
kept
in
all
liberties
of
their
conscience
,
exercise
of
their
Religion
,
as
well
Catholiks
as
Reformed
,
according
as
shal
be
particularly
aduised
at
this
next
assemblie
general
,
by
vs
assigned
in
this
towne
of
Montpellier
,
and
in
the
full
and
free
enioyyng
of
their
dignities
,
estates
,
goods
fruites
,
reuenues
,
and
profites
,
as
well
Ecclesiastical
as
other
,
without
exception
of
any
whatsoeuer
,
and
from
this
time
as
also
from
thenceforthe
wee
haue
taken
and
do
take
and
admit
them
vnder
the
Kinges
and
our
protection
and
safegard
.
As
also
we
declare
that
they
whiche
shall
shew
themselues
contrarie
to
vs
,
and
our
commaundementes
to
the
purpose
aboue
sayd
,
shal
be
runne
vpon
as
enimies
of
the
estate
and
crowne
of
Fraunce
,
and
disturbers
of
the
vnitie
and
common
peace
.
At
Montpellier
1575.
The
blood
of
our
brethren
crieth
out
of
the
earth
.