Remonstrance of the Prince of Condé

passed, a judgment was rendered in the Cour de Parlement Court of Parliament/High Court at Paris, by which they intend to declare as rebels those who have taken up arms for the service of the King, the preservation of the authority of the Estates, and to resist the violence and tyranny of the Lords of Guise and their adherents. It is necessary that the iniquity of this judgment be uncovered, both to those of this Kingdom and to foreigners, and furthermore that it be represented to posterity by this remonstrance. For it will serve as a memorable example, in which one will be able to see how much the enemies of God and persecutors of His Church have corrupted sense and judgment, and how far they are from all righteousness. One will be able, I say, to see that men who prefer their lies and errors to the sacred truth of God are so dulled that they judge as seditious those who seek, as much as in them lies, the union and public tranquility, and condemn as rebels those who abandon their comforts, expose their goods, and hazard their lives so that the King remains obeyed and the authority of his Edicts remains kept inviolable.

And so that such a declaration of rebellion might be better proven to be manifest injustice, and held as the slander of an enemy and not as the sentence of a judge, here Monseigneur the Prince of Condé and his associates remonstrate, adhering to their previous protestations and writings concerning the verification of their innocence.