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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34770	The memoirs of the Count de Rochefort containing an account of what past most memorable, under the ministry of Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin, with many particular passages of the reign of Lewis the Great / made English from the French.; Mémoires de Mr. L. C. D. R. English	Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien, 1644-1712.; Rochefort, Charles-César, comte de.	1696 (1696)	Wing C6600; ESTC R20997	329,891	458

had done the same with mine and going together to assist our eldest Brother his Adversary at that very moment made a Pass through his body with which he fell dead at his feet This was a sight enough to have mov'd any Brother to revenge besides the blood which flow'd from his wound who was left had arguments in it to urge me to refuse him quarter but he begging his life upon our pressing him very hard I thought it would not be for our honour to refuse him We brought off three Swords a small Trophy compar'd to the loss of our Brother whom we left dead upon the spot and yet this was not all for the wound my younger Brother receiv'd having pierc'd his Vitals tho the strength of his constitution master'd it for some days I was astonisht to see him give up the ghost in my arms I was never so griev'd in my life seeing my self the cause of the ruine of two such hopeful youths whom I had as it were led to be slaughter'd on my account 'T is easy to be imagin'd the clamour of my Mother-in-law at this news she said against me all that rage and fury could put into her mouth which I knew not what to say to only that if I had known what would have happen'd I should have been more cautious of afflicting her I might have said something more for my justification but I thought 't was more proper to let others speak for me and I flatter'd my self that there was none but were sensible of the innocence of my intention but among all these troubles which were not small you will say I had yet another which rackt me night and day for tho the Cardinals honour had been the cause of our quarrel yet Duelling being so strictly forbidden he would not see me and I was oblig'd to abscond as if I had been a Murtherer they told me at the same time that he had order'd search to be made for me in order to deliver me over to the Judges and that he had sent for the Procurator General about it La Houdiniere who was always my Friend was the first that advis'd me to keep out of the way telling me the Cardinal was in such a passion that he durst not expose himself to speak in my behalf I durst not desire him to do it neither for fear his Eminence should suspect he had seen me and I thought he would be more serviceable to me if without taking notice of any thing he should endeavour to sound the intention of the Cardinal Things continu'd thus three months which was a long while for a man to lye incognito and if I had any Enemies this was their time to ruine me and 't is impossible to reckon how many stories they told of me to the Cardinal The Count de Maulevriere of Normandy was one of these tho I had laid several obligations on him and therefore always lookt upon him as my friend for 't was thro my means that he got to be an Ensign in the Guards which he had been refused and since that I had introduc'd him to the Count de Harcourt to go with him to the Army and I may truly say that he show'd him a great deal of favour on my account This man who was of a Family of the long Robe and such a one as there were a thousand better in that Province was always cracking and valuing himself upon his Nobility in such manner that to hear him talk one would not question but he could derive his Pedigree from St. Lewis I had told him my opinion of this foolish way of his a little freely which he pretended to take very friendly but my disgrace coming upon this he prov'd the greatest Enemy I had in short I was told by several that he never had any opportunity to discourse with the Cardinal but he us'd it to my disadvantage which I resented so ill that though I was reduc'd to this condition for fighting I desir'd to be at liberty for nothing more than to demand satisfaction of him La Houdiniere was one of those that gave me account of this and coming to see me one day told me I should lay aside all those thoughts for the Cardinal himself had sufficiently reveng'd me of this Norman I no sooner heard that word but I was impatient to know the History of it which was thus That he being come to his Eminence and beginning to reflect upon me as he us'd to do the Cardinal told him 't was a trick of a Rascal to abuse one who was absent and could not answer for himself that he had known me longer than he had done but that it was not my practice to speak ill of any body that I was a fellow who had behav'd my self well but was no boaster of my own actions and that perhaps my misfortunes would not last always I could not believe this was a discourse likely to come from the man that prosecuted me however I took it as a good Omen and it encourag'd me to have patience till time should produce something to my advantage 'T was a whole month before I had the least reason to hope but at last when I began to despair La Houdiniere came to me from the Cardinal to tell me that I should surrender my self to Prison and fear nothing he told me also that his Eminence askt very kindly after me telling him that he knew him to be my constant Friend and further says La Houdiniere I am mistaken if you have not as great a share in the Cardinals favour as ever I need not say that I was very sensible of the kindness he exprest and that I desir'd La Houdiniere to assure his Eminence that I had all imaginable sence of his goodness so I presently surrender'd my self to Prison without requiring any assurance of my safety more than the Cardinals word Those who heard what I had done but knew nothing of what had past between the Cardinal and me thought I was out of my wits and pitty'd my folly Others who wisht me ill enough took this occasion to sollicit against me and tho as the Cardinal did me the justice to say I never did any man any wrong yet I found a thousand that were glad of the opportunity they thought they had to ruine me and the worst Enemy I had was the Count de Maulevriere who had married to his second Wife a Relation of the President de Bailleul and he employ'd her underhand to engage her Unkle against me and if that Magistrate had not been an honester man than he I had been in great danger but I found the Information against me so favourable that if I had drawn it up my self I could not have contriv'd it better Instead of aggravating the matter or indeed of telling the very matter of fact as I have here done there was a relation how the man not only abus'd me at Table but lay in wait for me at the

great many Dukes and Governours of Provinces and great persons descended so that it was as I may say the Earthen Pot floating by the Iron Pot which made me doubtful of the Event and I told my Father 't would be best for him to accommodate the matter he told me he was willing to do so upon which I spake to the Cardinal who had done so many things for me that he would please to concern himself in this His Eminence spoke of it that very day to Monsieur de la Vieuville But he who thought that upon the account of his powerful interest he was able to crush my Father as I hinted before or at least that he should tire him out answer'd the Cardinal that he would do any thing he desir'd him but intreated him rather to leave their Controversy to the decision of the Law the Cardinal could not well insist upon it after that so he told me that my Father must not expect any accommodation for Mr. De la Vieuville would not hearken to it but that for my sake he would espouse the Cause himself for my Father I carried this great news to my Father which at first he could hardly believe So the Process began and my Father having set forth in his Bill of Complaint that Monsieur de la Vieuville had committed several Wasts in a Village that we had near Nogent L' Artha●t which belong'd to him he had not only the impudence in his Answer to give him the Lye but run on in such ill language against our Family as if we had not been so much as Gentlemen As no Reproach can offend but what is grounded on truth so nothing vext me in this but the Lye tho I was better satisfy'd afterwards when the Lawyers told me that these were but words of course which they always put into their Pleas without any design of particular affront and withal being strictly charg'd by the Cardinal not to demand any other satisfaction I resolv'd to use the same Arms against them and the next day return'd them the Lye and prov'd our Nobility At night the Cardinal askt me how our Cause went on and I having told him what had happen'd he wonder'd he said that Monsieur de la Vieuville should stand so much upon that Nicety his Nobility being not so much above ours and if I knew what Henry IV. had said one time to his Father I might have been sufficiently even with him upon that score He had no sooner said thus but I begg'd his Eminence to tell me what it was which he made no difficulty to do but told me that the Father of this de la Vieuville belong'd to the Duke de Nevers who to recompence him for some services which he had done him so often importun'd Henry the Fourth to make him Knight of the Order that he could not put him off and it being the Custom that when the King puts on the Coller of the Order the Knight kneeling down says Domine non sum dignus Monsieur de la Vieuville repeating the same words the King reply'd aloud I know that well enough but I must give it you or my Cousin de Nevers won't let me be quiet The Cardinal could not have pleas'd me so well if he had given me a hundred thousand Crowns as he did with telling me this story which I carry'd immediately to the Lawyers and making them put it into ●heir own language in our reply it was a singular mortification to our Adversary This was good sport for the Judges who are glad to have something of any side to laugh at and Money into the bargain I had my fill of it and my Father too and that which was most strange Mr. de la Vieuville could not forbear laughing himself The History of Domine non sum dig●us brought him a little to reason fearing lest those that were acquainted with circumstances so very particular should also ransack his Genealogy and dispute his Original which was from Flanders and began to be sorry that he had refus'd the Cardinals Mediation In short there being several other things which he was loth we should enquire into he came to the Cardinals and meeting me at the door told me that he was surpriz'd at what he had heard just now for he had never known before that his Adversary was my Father which if he had been inform'd of sooner he would never have disputed it I knew well enough what this meant and being not of a humour to flatter him I told him I had reason to value my self extreamly since he was pleas'd to grant that to me which he had deny'd to the Cardinal and tho my Father had been at great charges in the Suit yet I was ready to move him to an accommodation and that if he pleas'd to acquaint me with the conditions I would bring him an answer this discourse vext him and telling me that I did not accept his civility as I ought he flung away without saying a word more So our Proceedings went on still but finding that he treated us with better language we also desisted reproaching him our Process was to be heard before two Judges Monsieur Turcan was one a man who having been first divorced on pretence of Impotence chose rather to be thought so than to live with his Wife who was an infamous Woman he was entirely our Friend but the President who was the other was not so that when he came to sum up the matter as he read a clause that was in our favour the President askt him if that sentence he read was in the writing Turcan who was very hot whatever complaints his Wife might make of the contrary and the Tryal being in the Evening having two great Wax Candles by his Seat on the Bench he took one of them and threw it at his head saying That a Man who suspected such a thing as that was a Rascal and ought to be us'd accordingly The President by stooping down his head avoided the blow but asking him what he meant and at the same time catching up the other threw it at him and struck him on the head this disorder put a stop to the Cause which was just upon deciding The President went out to make his complaint and Turcan went home to his own house where he receiv'd an Order to lay down his Office Our Cause by this means lay asleep and out Friends on both sides took that opportunity to mediate an accommodation and we being both pretty well tir'd with the Law were the more easily brought to compliance they agreed that all reflexions on either part should be absolutely forgotten and indeed 't was the best course they could take for 't was not possible to enter into the discourse without recriminating on each other So the matter being concluded my Father return'd home but before he went away I desir'd him to consider of what I had propos'd to him about my Sister which was so much