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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54743	The minority of St. Lewis With the politick conduct of affairs by his mother Queen Blanch of Spain, during her regency. Being a relation of what happen'd most memorable under his reign during the year, 1226, 1227, 1228, and 1229.	Philipps, Edward, 1630-1696?.	1685 (1685)	Wing P2065; ESTC R220520	46,829	160

large Province as long as he liv'd and let him know withal that she design'd nothing less than to keep the Princess his daughter out of her hereditary possession on the contrary she would take care to preserve it entire to her Posterity It was her opinion the Princess could not be better provided for than by being espous'd to Alphonso of France Earl of Poitou being of the same Age with her neither did she demand any other Security for the Earls performance of his word but that the Princess should be brought up at Court She insisted indeed to have the Articles of Marriage inserted in the Treaty of peace and thereby handsomly took occasion to have this one Article slip'd in viz. that in Case both the young married Persons should dye without Issue Languedoc should be again united to the Crown of France as indeed it hapned Her pretence for this Article was that no person might receive any prejudice since St. Lewis was to espouse the Eldest Daughter of the Earl of Provence presumptive Heiress of the Princess of Tholouse and in Truth she in such fort concerted this great Affair which gave jealousie to all the world that no body could find any cause to murmur at it The Earl of March by this means was gain'd and his only daughter contracted to John of France the King 's youngest Brother Thus the Earl of Bretaign was left alone in the League whose obstinacy was that he chose rather to be expos'd the sole Mark of all the French Forces now united together than to accept of those advantageous Conditions offer'd him by the Queen The very Civilities she shew'd him at a juncture of time when all things seem'd to conspire his ruine exasperated the spirit of this Capricious Person and because the Consciousness of his own guilt represented to him all kindnesses and good Offices done him as Counterfeit he consequently fancy'd what the Regent did to oblige him to be but meer Formality and done only to draw him into a farther snare and upon this false presumption he instantly went and treated with England The Regent was soon advertis'd hereof and resolv'd to lose no time in driving on the business to a Head the Winter began to come on very sharp and the time was overpast for setting out the English Fleet to Sea for the relief of Bretaign which was now brought to do Homage to the King of England the French encouraged by the presence of their most Christian Majesties went directly and after a short Siege took the Town of Anger 's which King Lewis the 8th having taken from the English had put into the hands of the Bretons The Queen had no sooner dispatch'd what she went about in Anjou but with the same Expedition and Diligence as she had march'd thither she return'd and laid close Siege to Belesme the Capital City of Perch and the strongest place the Enemy then had It was thought impregnable but the Rams and other Engines of Battery having at last thrown down the Walls made it appear to be otherwise The besieged came to Capitulation but not till such time as the Besiegers were almost tir'd with continual labour for they had as hard a task to defend themselves from the rigours of the Season as from the Arms of the besieged the extremity of Cold causing such a Paralytick Distemper among them that those affected therewith could hardly escape death the only way was to sit basking continually by a good fire side Thus through one or other obstacle their Majesties found it a difficult matter to march their Army into Bretaign and this probably was the main Reason why they sought out another Expedient for the putting an end to the War The Regent sent to the Nobility of Bretaign and represented to them that their Lands would certainly be laid waste if they did not immediately put themselves under the Kings Protection that the danger she warn'd them of was very near at hand and that their Duke would not be able to help them then she made her Address to the Parliament of France and requir'd to have Bretaign put into the King's hands the Parliament yielded to her demand and acquitted this Province of their Homage to their Duke who thereupon was depriv'd of the principal Refuge he had to trust to and his Troops now no longer consisting of such Gentlemen as held of him by any Tenure of Land drop'd away by degrees and were all dispierc'd in a short time He was driven in fine to this Dilemma either to keep himself shut up in some strong Town or to pass over into England the first of these two extreams would infallibly bereave him of his Liberty if not of Life also the second by forcing him to quit his Party would reduce him to a private Condition Those who by chance or accidentarrive to Sovereignty more grievously resent a fall than those whom a natural Title and the Laws have invested with a power of Reigning Thus streightned and perplex'd he resolv'd at a Venture to submit to whatever the Regent would impose upon him and in Conclusion came off with the Surrendry of the Lands which the house of Bretaign possess'd in France besides the Dutchy and giving in Security both for himself and his Heirs that the said Dutchy should from that time forward never hold of any but the Crown of France The firname of Mauclerk stuck upon him to future Ages for having so ill taken his measures with the French Rebels and with the English that in the end he was left alone to bear the whole bront of the Controversie And now Queen Blanch had no more to trouble or obstruct the quiet administration of Her Regency but through the vain Attempts of those that labour'd to oppose Her was so much the more strongly fix'd and establish'd therein FINIS A Catalogue of some Novels and Plays Printed for R. Bentley and S. Magnes NOVELS 1 ZElinda a Fam'd Romance 2 Happy Slave in three Parts 3 Count Brion 4 Count Gabales 5 Hatag or the Amours of the King of Tamaran 6 Madam Lavalier and the King of France 7 Madam and the Duke of Guise 8 Madam Colonna's Memoires 9 Queen of Majork two Parts 10 Don Sebastian King of Portugal 11 Heroine Musquetier 12 Princess of Cleves 13 Obliging Mistress 14 Fatal Prudence 15 Princess of Fez. 16 Disorders of Love 17 Triumph of Love 18 Victorious Lovers 19 Almanzor and Almanzaida 20 Earl of Essex and Qu. Elizabeth 21 Neopolitan or the Defender of his Mistress 22 Nicostratis 23 Amorous Abbess 24 Homais Queen of Tunis 25 Pilgrim in two Parts 26 Meroveus Prince of the Blood Royal of France 27 Life of the Duke of Guise 28 Extravagant Poet. 29 Memoires Gallant 30 Instruction for a Young Noble Man PLAYS 1 Tartuff or the French Puritan 2 Forc'd Marriage or the Jealous Bridegroom 3 English Monsieur 4 All mistaken or the Mad Couple 5 Generous Enemies or the Ridiculous Lovers 6 The Plain-Dealer 7 Sertorius a Tragedy 8 Nero a Tragedy 9 Sophonisba or Hannibal's Overthrow 10 Gloriana or the Court of Augustus Caesar 11 Alexander the Great 12 Mithridates King of Pontus 13 Oedipus King of Thebes 14 Caesar Borgia 15 Theodosius or the Force of Love 16 Madam Fickle or the Witty False One. 17 The Fond Husband or the Plotting Sisters 18 Esquire Old-Sap or the Night-Adventures 19 Fool turn'd Critick 20 Virtuous Wife or Good Luck at last 21 The Fatal Wager 22 Andromache 23 Country Wit 24 Calisto or the Chaste Nymph 25 Destruction of Jerusalem in two Parts 26 Ambitious Statesman or the Loyal Favourite 27 Misery of Civil War 28 The Murder of the Duke of Glocester 29 Thyestes a Tragedy 30 Hamlet Prince of Denmark a Tragedy 31 The Orphan or the Unhappy Marriage 32 The Soldiers Fortune 33 Tamerlain the Great 34 Mr. Limberham or the Kind Keeper 35 Mistaken Husband 36 Notes of Morocco by the Wits 37 Essex and Elizabeth or the Unhappy Favourite 38 Virtue Betray'd or Anna Bullen 39 King Leir 40 Abdellazor or the Moor's Revenge 41 Town-Fop or Sir Tim. Tawdery 42 Rare en tout a French Comedy 43 Moor of Venice 44 Country Wife 45 City Politicks 46 Duke of Guise 47 Rehearsal 48 King and no King 49 Philaster or Love lies a Bleeding 50 Maids Tragedy 51 Grateful Servant 52 Strange Discovery 53 Atheist or the Second Part of the Soldiers Fortune 54 Wit without Money 55 Little Thief 56 Valiant Scot. 57 Constantine 58 Valentinian 59 Amorous Prince 60 Dutch Lovers 61 Woman Rules 62 Reformation 63 Hero and Leander 64 Love-Tricks 65 Julius Caesar 66 Fatal Jealousie 67 Monsieur Ragou FINIS