A LETTER FROM THE THE LORD OF ROSny, Great Treasurer of France to the Queen Regent of FRANCE.  
Concerning the resignation of his Offices.  
FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED out of French, by E. D.  
LONDON Printed by Tho: Creed, for William Wright, and are to be sold at his shop on S●●re-hill, at the sign of the Harrow. 1613.   

TO ALL CHAritable good Christian Subjects in general, and most especially to the Protestants wheresoever.  
INdifferent Readers,  
this Gentleman is a Protestant who did carry himself so worthily in his offices in the time of the late King his Master, that he was very well thought of, according to the worth and suffitiencie of him in his so great and weighty Employments. As you may hereafter perceive in this following discourse of his Letter written unto the now Queen Regent of France, howsoever it hath pleased her, and her Council since, otherways to dispose of his offices, and remove him from those his so weighty affairs, wherein it doth appear, the French King his worthy master, had great reason to hold him well worthy of those high places (wherein it seems) he hath been a provident, painful, and careful Treasurer, Officer, and Servant, and a most faithful, Religious, and worthy Subject: Howsoever it hath pleased God (by his Queen) to work in him and his Estate, so great an alteration, for the trial of his faith and patience. All which he in great humility doth doubtless well apply to his own Rest, ease, and more divine Employments, the content of Charitable minded people, and the comfort of his own soul; which comfort of soul, I beseech our good God to impart to all Religious, Virtuous, Charitable, and well minded people: To live in happiness, and die in peace.  
Farewell.   

A LETTER FROM THE LORD OF ROSNY, GREAT Treasurer of France, TO The Queen Regent of France, Concerning the Resignation of his Offices.  
MADAM,  
AMong all the honourable Conditions of a French Gentleman, I always held that to be of most of esteem, which was employed in the Important Affairs of his Country, in the happy Administration of the seem: and in obeying the Commandments of his Prince: Throughout the course of many years, I have managed the principal of this Estate, with unexpected success: under my King, from a bottomless Gulf of misery, I have guided them to the top of all glory.  
At this day (MADAM) I do obey the desire and express will of your Majesty, I remit into your hands the two fairest Tokens of the benefits and rewards of my good Master, The Bastile, and the Treasury, which (so long as he lived, I possessed;) Now that he is deceased, I restore them to you: and well content myself, that the Effects of my services may remain engraven in the hearts of your people. An other not so faithful as myself, might all all France with his complaints: But my perpetual devotion to the place of my Nativity, and to my King, do restrain● and bridle my Tongue, and maketh me to seek rather in mine own incapacity, then in any other consideration, the cause of so great an alteration.  
In one only point is my spirit impatiently tormented: that is; Of that more than absolute resolution of your Majesty, to urge me to take money in recompense for my Offies: Not that I do not sufficiently judge how necessary this course is, for the good of your service: But on the other side, it is to myself so prejudicial, and so contrary to my demands, that whatsoever power I have over myself to content you, yet have I not sufficient to accept it. But contrariwise (MADAM) I am forced to refuse it, and contrary to my duty in this occasion, to prefer my particular Interest, before that of your Majesty: of all the means provided to wade through this business, this must needs be to me the most odious: and indeed I do abhor it, and hold it as proceeding not from your goodness, but from the malice of mine Enemies.  
For (MADAM) wherefore do they not rather lay this pretence upon my overwild humour, an incompatible estrangement from all gratification of whatsoever society, and dissimulation upon the weak order that I may peradventure have taken in the affairs of my Offices: upon my had Husbandry, in matter of the Treazurie: upon the evils that have proceeded of such strong intelligences as I have practised, as well within as without the Realm: and upon such extreme care as I took to establish myself in the preservation of my Fortunes: Wherefore (I say Madam) have they not rather chosen this foundation, rather than any other: neither so fair in show, and yet far more unlikely? For, to publish or give out, that I never craved any other recompense, then for my Office of the Treasury, neither yet any other reward then the Office of a Marshal of France, It is a matter that cannot be truly maintained; The impudency of mine Enemies, and the complaint of some of my Friends, shall never be of force sufficient, otherwise to testify it.  
But if your Majesty do accuse me, that of myself I have offered you all that I did possess, I confess it: Neither do I deny, but that many times I have assured your Majesty, that all that was mine depended upon you; yea, even my very life itself.  
But surely (MADAM) I will also advow, that at that time I could not imagine that such Offers to a man's Sovereign, could be offence sufficient to be therefore deprived and put from his Dignities. So as if now you do so take it, it is a principle in my opinion, very new: Yet shall not this novelty nevertheless ever make me to repent that I have done my duty.  
But contrariwise (MADAM) at this present, I do again offer to your Majesty, not only my honours, my goods, but also my very life, with the lives of my Children: Neither do I present them unto you upon any condition, but to use them according to your pleasure; Yea, even to honour my very Enemies with them, if to take them from me simply be not matter of content.  
If my passed Actions have tended to the advancement of this Crown, I will also that my obedience shall be the first to show the means to preserve it. And whatsoever my Enemies do publish of my love to that I possess, or whatsoever other men's humours may help to breed belief, yet is it true (MADAM) that I will abandon all that my services have purchased me, with more constancy, yea, with a thousand times more resolution, than an other shall possess them with pleasure. It shall suffice me in my solitariness, to learn how your Majesty doth daily make your Sceptre to flourish, and preferring in these Affairs a goodly Order, and in your Coffers Treasure sufficient to support this Estate, which principally subsisteth upon the support of these two Pillars.  
This is it wherein I will most quietly entertain my idle cogitations, and comfort myself over the loss of my good King, without being constrained (if it may so please you) to accept or reserve any other recompense for my Offices, than my contentment to receive none, and the honour of your express Commandments, but if nevertheless, for a final Resolution, and that I may not show myself disobedient to your wills, your Majesty do absolutely enjoin me to the contrary.  
This then (MADAM) is the greatest favour, and that which I most desire, wherewith I do most humbly beseech you to recompense me, that it may please your Majesty (MADAM) immediately to command my greatest enemies to go into the Chamber 
The Millions are of Crowns and not of Pounds.  of Accounts, there to verify & take view of the profits or detriments of my 12. years watchings. Then if it be not found, that during the said time, under the power and authority of my great King, I have by my dexterity and by my travails, rooted out the greatest confusion that ever was in the Treasuries of France: that beside the sparing of eight Million every year: whereof he yearly became indebted to his Officers, besides the payment of all charges, and of all the ordinary Expenses of the Estate, of all the wages of the sovereign Courts, of all the wages of the men of War, of all the Garrisons, Embassages, the King's house, the Voyages & Marriages, giving of Rewards & Recompenses, with a thousand other expenses, too tedious to be here set down, beside also the Guards ordinary sums, without augmenting either Taxes or Impositions in the Realm.  
Yea contrariwise, If they find not that I have yet for the entertainment of three great Armies, whereof the one recovered Amuns' an other reduced Bretaigne, and the third conquered Bresse, and Savoy: found means extraordinarily to furnish above twelve Millions: for the discharge of the debts of France, grown by Treaties, above five and twenty Millions: for the payment of those of Switz●rland, Germany, Italy, and England, above thirty Millions: For the payment of Pensions, both within and without the Realm, above four and twenty Millions: For the succour of foreign Provinces, above eight Millions: For the refurnishment of the Artilleries, Fortifications, Highways, and Buildings, above eight Millions: For the relief of the poor, above six Millions: To lay up in the Treasury, in the Coffers of the Bastille, or to leave in Deposito, in the hands of the Treasurer of the Espargne, above seuentéene Millions: To satisfy many other Expenses, which may easily be verified, above twenty Millions: If I have not also beside procured Contracts for the redeeming of the demesnes of France, that were engaged, whereof the greatest part is daily put in Execution; Such Redemptions, amounting to above forty Millions.  
Finally, (MADAM) If I have not in my great care, by my only Vigilancy, put in practise these sparings: If also to continue the same duty to France, I have not at all times offered to your Majesty, to lose my life, or to support the affairs, & that in the same eminency, yea, even to present them in a higher degree.  
If I say, I have not preferred all these things and more, then do I submit myself (MADAM) to any punishment for my presumption, to receive such odious recompense, that you shall appoint me, as the price of my honours & of my offices: But if also (MADAM) there be not any one of these Articles found false, (unless it be that they speak too little) & that my former affection hath received no other alteration, but to be grown more ardent and strong, suffer me (MADAM) for my more worthy satisfaction, to endure the harm that you do me, without accepting the good that you offer me. Revoke and call in my offices without this gracious charge. Or if necessarily (MADAM) you will vouchsafe yet to honour me with some favour, Let it be only, if it may so please you, a perpetual remembrance of my fidelity: A favour which I desire of your Majesty: not that hereafter I might be recalled to the painful travel of the affairs: but only to leave me in rest, that I may still live in the remembrance of her, who is this day the Regent of my country: the living soul of my master, and the mother of my King. And surely (MADAM) it is also an honour, and last acknowledgement which you Madam cannot justly deny me: for sith all they whom in my offices I may have offended, do labour to see me deprived, much more may they remember my services that do triumph in them.  
Farewell house, farewell fortress, which I have had in keeping and government above twelve years. Farewell Temple of the Goddess Moneta Money, who have procured me so great envy: Let me now go, now that I am weary of these affairs; Return me to a private life, wherein I may no more have such cares. I am he, who strong in spirit and courage, having comprehended the very ground of the riches of the King and Kingdom, have governed them: I am he, unto whom the felicity of this estate, augmented in new revenues, and the coffers of our young masters, replenished by just and lawful means, stand bound for that plain and assured order that I have established; I have reaped great honours and large recompense for that industrious care that I took under a great king. I was of great power, & had great authority, but even in the turning of a hand, in his bloody fall, I have seen all fallen and ruined. In the same mishap, have I seen extinct, all that envy, that made divers many times to threaten my undoing and utter ruin, whiles I procured the good of the estate, and that I sought nothing but to purchase only my masters favours, without any regard of the great ones, and never knowing what it was to seek the favour and good will of the people, evermore bending myself wholly to this purpose.  
But now in the end, depart from me all troublesome carking care, I am now resolved to mew up my ship in a calm, and safe haven: peradventure the state having lost me, shall better acknowledge wherein I have been profitable unto it, and the people shall find it, albeit overlate, when favour and affection shall succeed hatred: but I do not so highly esteem my own grace and good, as that I should desire to obtain it, by the disasters and calamities of my country: But contrariwise, grant O God, that the fortune of this Realm, may evermore continue in good estate, that I may never see it overthrown, and that it may never have cause to be sorry for the loss of me, or to wish for me again.   
FINIS.