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A29339	A breviate of the proceedings of France, from the Pyrenaean Treaty to this time as also I. The speech of Monsieur Zierowsky, the Emperor's Embassador to the King of Poland, II. A memorial presented by the said Embassador to the King of Poland, III. A letter from Monsieur Du Vernay to Count Tekeley, IV. A letter from Count Tekeley to Monsieur Du Vernay, V. A letter from Monsieur Peter Jaigel, Governour of Cassovia, to Monsieur De Vernay.		1684 (1684)	Wing B4414; ESTC R22585	46,143	194

Crown chiefly under John the First to free himself out of the hands of the English and afterwards under Francis the First to deliver himself out of the hands of the Spaniards had Authority given them to verify Treaties of Peace to prevent the Distipation of the Crown Revenues But their Authority is yet greater when it shall be a Law received in France that the Parliament may vacate Treaties which are not verifyed that is to say if the Treaties were not made in due Form or were found prejudicial to the People But it cannot be said that France receiv'd any prejudice by the Pyrenaean Treaty or that the Treaty was not concluded with all the usual Formalities In respect of Formalities there were so many observ'd as took up much more time than was necessary for the Repose of the People who after so tedious a War thirsted after nothing so much as Peace nor was it enough that De Lionne and Pimentell set their hands to the Treaty but to render it more solemn Cardinal Mazarine and Lewis de Haro the Principal Ministers of both Crowns were oblig'd to sign it also so that we may say that it was the most Authentick Treaty that had been concluded in a long time before Besides they had observ'd all the Circumstances imaginable insomuch that the place appointed for the Conferences was neither in France nor in Spain which nevertheless is very remarkable For that then they were willing that Spain should go cheek by jowle with France yet afterwards they would not allow that the Treaty had been ratify'd But that which seemed to put the Treaty not only out of the King 's but out of the reach of all France to do it Injury was that the chiefest of the Clergy and Nobility had sign'd the Contract of Marriage between the King and the Infanta wherein the aforesaid Renunciation was contain'd So that it was an idle thing to say that the Parliament which at most does but represent the Orders or Estates of the Kingdom would not approve a Treaty which was already approv'd by the King the Clergy and the Nobility Now that this Treaty brought no prejudice to France is as easie to prove For though France at that time had a great advantage over Spain we must consider nevertheless that this advantage might one day turn against it self as being oblig'd to share it's Conquests with England then in Alliance with her Now not to mention in the least what are the dangerous Consequences that I could draw from such a Partition it shall suffice to say That the Interest of France was not to let the English get Footing in Flanders who were an Enemy much more dangerous than the Spaniard Besides France by that Treaty had made sure of the greatest part of Her Conquests and had changed into a certain Right the Right of Nations which was a Right subject to several Chances of Fortune and then to object that the Dauphin had not ratify'd the Queens Renunciation is an Objection so weak that it does not deserve an Answer For I wouln fain know whether a Father and a Mother do not bind their Issue when they sign a Contract And whether the Dauphin had more right to question that which the King and Queen had sign'd than they who live under the same Laws and the same Monarchy All these Considerations give us plainly to see that whatever of Right belonging to the Queen was in the Treaty was only to amuse the Common People and particularly those of Flanders who being perswaded that the Queen had a Right to the Netherlands were in a capacity to foment a Rebellion to which they might be provok'd by the ill Usage of the Spanish Soldiery who for want of Pay commit many Violences and Disorders It being therefore a great piece of Prudence to prevent all Trouble that might arise from thence the Baron of Isola one of the Ministers of the House of Austria put Pen to Paper to shew the Vanity of the Consequences which the pretended Author of the Treatise drew from the Right of the Queen Of which a great number of Copies were sent into Flanders Germany and the Neighbouring Parts some were also conveyed into France but the Court resolving that the People should make it's Ambition an Article of their Faith made such an exact Enquiry after the Publishers that two or three were committed to the Bastile and were in great danger of their Lives For as it was not lawful in that Kingdom to write Truth either in Religion or Politicks neither was it permitted to be spoken or taught to any one whatsoever And therefore as well they who bought the Book as they who published these Books were oblig'd to keep out of the way as if they had been Malefactors But the more they thought to restrain the Peoples Wills the more the People endeavour'd to set their minds at Liberty so that many honest Folks made it their business to content their Curiosity in spight of all the publick Prohibitions By vertue of these Imaginary Pretensions the King fail'd not to send to the Governour of the Netherlands to surrender into his hands those places which as he pretended belong'd to the Queen And because he could not choose but know that the Governour would no way answer his Expectations he follow'd the Messenger with a puissant Army to make himself the Master of them by force thereupon having received the Governors Answer that the King his Master would fairly part with nothing he enter'd Flanders took Charleroy Aeth Courtray Audenard and Lisle while the Marshal D'Aumont with another Army attack'd the Cities and Towns that lay nearer the Sea These Conquests carried on with such a rapid Success astonish'd the Neighbouring States who thought it their Interest to stop these violent Proceedings especially the Low Countries who by no means liked the near Approach of so formidable and ambitious a Neighbour Therefore they engaged the King of England to enter into a League wherein the King of Swedeland also joyn'd by which they obliged themselves all three to make the French and Spaniard lay down their Arms with a Resolution to declare a War against the obstinate Refuser This League was call'd the Triple Alliance afterwards so fatal to Holland as I shall relate in due Place that it may be thought they had reason enough to repent their Negotiation They say it was a Person of Rochel who laid the first Foundations of it after he had made those Powerful Princes deeply sensible how little the Ambition of France was to be trusted however it were France who seldom easily pardons those that have once offended her well knowing that the same Person was in Switzerland labouring to insinuate the same Opinion among the Cantons sent thither the two Platells of which the Eldest was a Captain of Horse the other Esquire to Monsieur Turenne to apprehend him It had been a knotty Enterprize and of dangerous consequence for the Platells had their Errand been

or to change them let him be himself his own Minister as one that may be assur'd that if there be one Person in his Council who is Temtation-proof there are hundreds that cannot resist the Golden Charms And let him consider that if he himself as frequently now adays it happens will suffer himself to be purchased by him that offers most his Ministers may well do the same who have more need of Money then he has There might be something also said touching the Remedy to be applied for prevention of these Mischiefs with which we find our selves at this day overwhelm'd But in regard I can say no more then what other People have said before me I had rather be silent then to make too many repetitions in vain and for the most part rather Speculative then Real For when I consider what I have read in so many Authors and heard in so many places that it behoves all the Protestants to unite together since the Catholicks are so negligent to oppose themselves against the common Ruin may not I conclude that it is much more easie to discourse in this manner then probable to see the Effect of such advice For how is it possible that the Protestants should singly undertake a War against France when the Catholicks keep such a strict Watch upon them We find at this day an apparent example of the Catholick designs by which it is easie for us to judge how little Reliance there is upon the French Protestants in Silesia and other adjoyning Provinces where they are reduced to that misery that they have more need of our Assistance But they had rather the whole Empire should perish then remit any thing of their Cruelty The House of Austria which is maliciously incensed to our Destruction does not perceive the heavy Hand of God upon her for so many Crimes for which she is accomptable to his Justice in respect of us provoking still the same Justice by new transgressions in contempt of Heavenly Mercy Nor does she perceive that the Authors of all these violent Councels I mean the Jusuits do not advice these things but for their own Interest She is resolved to sacrifice the rest of the Empire to them as she has already sacrificed a good part Nevertheless let no man believe that what I have said proceeds from any natural Aversion to them so natural to those of my Religion I protest before God that I bear malice to no Man and that I would not impute to them the least of our Miseries but that I find that none of the honest and moderate party of their Religion have any greater affection for them than my self 'T is well known that it was their Hunger after the Estates of these four Hungarian Lords whose Heads the Emperor caused to be struck off rather to satisfie their urgent Importunities then for any Crime unless yo will say their zeal for their Religion was a Crime that was the main occasion of sheding their Blood But seeing all that I could say would as little prevail as what others have said before me it will be better to make an end and to confess that all our Miseries are at this day reduc'd to such a Condition as well as the Calamities of Germany that our Preservation is only to be expected from God alone The Speech of Monsieur ZIEROWSKI the Emperors Embassador in Poland Spoken in the Royal Palace before his Majesty of Poland and in the Presence of the Princes Noblemen and Embassadors at that Court at Tavoravia the 6th of October 1682. Most Great King AMongst other Books I have hit upon that of the Life and Exploits of Cardinal Commendon who was sent to this Court by the Pope with the Quality of extraordinary Legate in the Empire of Sigismond and Reign of Henry de Valois I have observed in it that it was that Cardinal's Maxim Never to answer but with an affected Silence and Contempt to all that his Ememies could do or say against him Without doubt in his Time the State of Affairs the Customs and Spirits were very different from what they now are at least a long experience has made me judge them very different and I know I cannot without great disadvantage conceal or connive at a thing that very much troubles me I have understood that the French King 's Minister's published some days ago certain Letters which brought as it were assured Testimonies that His Imperial Majesties Envoyes only Business with the Ottoman Court was to endeavour by all possible means to turn the Turkish Armies against Poland There is no Body but sees and your Majesty must needs perceive how injurious this is to the Empire and to what end it is done They give this out to disunite two Kingdoms both which at this present Conjuncture of Affairs have their chief Interest in being firmly united But the Letters took not so great an effect as they expected The Spirits of this Court were not so credulous as to believe them They are too well satisfied in Poland of the Piety and Affection of those of the House of Austria to think that the Emperor my Master gives his Embassadors such base and unworthy Commissions There is no body here that can doubt that his Imperial Majesty would be as sensible of the loss of Poland as of Hungary since it is as much his Interest to preserve the one as the other I come not hither great King to tell you what through my Aversion I could publish upon little Rumours that have been spread among us I bring your Majesty those things which I can beyond all dispute produce before the whole World as the true Originals of Letters and Answers which the most Christian Kings Embassador Monsieur Du Vernay Boucauld who is here present has writ to Count Teckeley the Head of the Malecontents or received from him These will evidently discover to your Majesty what Affairs Monsieur Du Vernay has Treated about with so much Secresie and Circumspection with Count Teckeley and the reason he had so cautiously to conceal from you the Commission he had in this Kingdom I humbly entreat your Majesty to remember how earnestly I intreated you to remove the Sieur Du Vernay from your Court and Dominions as a man pernicious to the Empire and Poland You would have great King invincible Proofs and Testimonies of what I related Here they are such as you will wish for and I am perswaded they will be sufficient to make you judge the speedy departure of Monsieur Du Vernay out of your Kingdom very necessary But I fear troubling your Majesty with a long Discourse I pass by a thousand things which I could add this Memorial is enough To you I present it with all imaginable respect A Memorial presented to the King of Poland by Monsieur Zierowsky the Emperor 's Resident Which was read in the Presence of his Majesty of Poland and before the Princes and Ministers of his Court at Tavoravia the 6th of