Remonstrance of the Prince of Condé

Upon which, Gentlemen who call yourselves Judges, I ask: what is manifest injustice and corruption, if what you have done in this judgment is not? For where is the form of justice observed? Where are the reasons by which the condemned have been convicted? Where is this ancient and equitable Law of being unable to be both Judges and personal enemies at the same time? Why have you forced yourselves into the judgment of those who have challenged you as judges, having as much reason to do so as there are faults and injustices apparent in you? In fact, were you not challenged with good reason, you who have driven from your company all those whom you sensed were not of your league and faction? You who, by the decree of the last day of June, put arms into the hands of the furious populace, against all divine and human right, against your own Laws, and against the well-being and universal rest of this Kingdom? You who have proclaimed the ministers of the Reformed Churches Protestant clergy criminals of leze Maiesté treason, whom the King has nevertheless received into his protection by his Edict, and who for this purpose have taken an oath in your hands? You who have dared to declare to the King, indeed with threats, through the lords Chambon and Faye, your deputies, that you found strange and would not endure the agreement he wished to be made between the said Lord Prince and his adversaries? Removing by this means any doubt that you are sworn enemies of the said Lord Prince and his associates, and consequently closing your own mouths to