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B05780
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The secret history of the confederacy, &c. discovered in a conference between the French King and his chief officers. To which is added, articles between Luxemburgh, &c. As also expedients proposed for a peace. / Translated out of French.
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1693
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Wing S2339A; ESTC R232789
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Majesty will consent to it It is he that sits at the Helm and is the chiefest Promoter of this War who draws by his Rapidity the Princes and the Circles of the Empire as well as the other States at present in War with your Majesty Sir added Chanlais thereby King James will remount his Throne immediately and your Majesty will impose what Laws you please to the Allies who then would see themselves without a Head and would be like a Flock without a Shepherd The Dogs of England coming to fail the Wolf would enter into the Park sacrificing all to her rage without Pity and without Mercy But says his Majesty how can that be Such an Undertaking gives me Horror Sir says Barbesieux that 's not the matter in hand your Majesty is in the Mire as we say you must draw your self out of it cost what it will But good God says his Majesty if the World should come to know that I had consented to so black an Attempt what would they say of me When I shall have throughly acquainted your Majesty says Barbesieux with the Importance of the Project and the easiness of the Execution we will look out for Remedies to cure the niceness of your Conscience What is your Opinion of it then says his Majesty Sir says Barbesieux I have two profligate Men ready Grandvall and Dumont who shall be the Undertakers of this glorious Tragedy I will charge my self with the Event and will answer for the Success Ho! ho says his Majesty you have then your People ready Sir says Barbesieux the late Marquiss de Louvois my Father has been so happy as to do your Majesty some considerable Services during your Reign and he would have added this to the rest of his good Deeds if Death had not cut him off but having snatch'd him out of the World when he thought the least of it he charg'd me as his worthy Son to proceed to the execution of his last Will and to be Assistant to this great Work Ha ha says his Majesty Louvois had then undertaken it had he I should never have thought that of him Sir says Barbesieux is your Majesty ignorant then that the death of the Duke of Lorrain and now of late the Knight Harboard hath been procured by our means with the help of a little Poyson We have brought the Affairs of the War on the Rhine into a good Posture and caus'd on a sudden all the Propositions of Peace to vanish that the Turk your Ally made to the Emperor No Sir that your Majesty may not flatter your self you owe all to Poyson to Mony and to Treason and if you had not on your side these great and mighty Springs you would never with all your numerous Armies have pushed on your Frontiers so far Let us speak softly says his Majesty for fear some of my Enemies should be here I would not for a hundred such Crowns as I wear this should come to the Ears of the Prince of Orange Sir added Chanlais your Majesty must know That there is no Prince in the World who marches with more freedom and simplicity than the Prince of Orange He exposes himself to Danger without troubling himself about the Event Predestination alone rules his Motions and we do not see him as your Majesty an Idolator of his Person nor of his Preservation He is wont to say That which God guards is well guarded So Sir your Majesty needs only give your consent to the Undertakings and we warrant the rest But says his Majesty methinks Grandvall and Dumont are not sufficient for so great a Design but that there should be yet some other sort of Incendiaries to animate and help them Sir says Barbesieux without doubt your Majesty must needs think that King James is the Head of the Party and that there are eight Actors more Persons ready to do any thing whose Names are these Grandvall Dumont Liesdal Rebenac Bidal Luxemburgh Paprel Parcker Chanlais and my self if your Majesty accepts of the Proposition you will give great encouragement to the Undertaking As to my self says his Majesty I am not altogether my own Master I have a Sovereign who reigns over my Will and who has an Empire over me much more absolute than that I have over my Subjects I mean the Guides of my Conscience so that I dare not engage my self in the Cabal before I have consulted my Priests Sir says Barbesieux the time presses and the occasion is favourable Barbesieux says his Majesty then let my Counsel of Conscience be call'd and I will consult them thereupon The Reverend Father la Chaize going out of the Chamber of Meditations appear'd with his triangular Cap accompanied by Madam de Maintenon his Secretary who carried under her Arm a great Book in Folio which had for Title The Art to assassinate Kings The Archbishop of Paris could not come because of the Dispatches he had to write to Rome the Post being just upon â—ts departure My Reverend Father says his Majesty as you are a great Casuist and that you like St. Peter have full power to bind and unbind with me What 's the Business in hand Sir says the Reverend Father la Chaize being impatient of knowing what he had to put to him The Business in short says his Majesty is to commit an execreable Attempt and to know whether my Conscience will not be charg'd with it if I consent to it What is it then says the Reverend Father My good Father says his Majesty Barbesieux has just now propos'd to me a very short way whereby I may this Campaign undoubtedly come to clap up a Peace and there wants nothing but my consent to have it exâ—cuted As what as what says the Reverend Father Father says his Majesty it has been resolv'd to have the Prince of Orange assassinated as he who is the only Obstacle to all my Designs and as this Prince exposes himâ—elf very much Grandvall and Dumont have engaged themselves to deliver him alive or dead Opus plane Divinum says the Reverend Father la Chaize This Enterprize is all of God Absolvo te Sir I absolve you Thereupon taking in hand the great Book that his Secretary Madam de Maintenon carried he shewed to his Majesty by the Opinion of the most celebrated Authors of the Society to wit the Reverend Fathers Garnet Suares Eudemon Parsons Zimancka Escobar Sancher Saiman Filitius and a great number of others That to take off a Heretick Prince from the Christian World by the Sword Poison or otherwise was a Work very acceptable to God and the strait way that led to Paradice But 't is time we put an end to a Conference which carries so much Horror with it by the Devise of this great Prince Hâ—ni sâ—u qui mal y Pense and we will only say That he hath us'd long since heartily to forgive all his Enemiâ—s the Evils they would do him and that he accounts it his Glory to pray to God for their