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A47671	The history of Father La Chaise, Jesuite, and confessor to Lewis XIV, present King of France discovering, the secret intreagues by him carried on, as well in the court of England, as in all the courts of Europe, to advance the great designs of the King his master / made English from the French original.; Histoire du père La Chaize, jésuite et confesseur du roi Louis XIV. English.	Le Noble, Eustache, 1643-1711.; Le Noble, Pierre.; Le Roux, Philibert-Joseph.	1693 (1693)	Wing L1052; ESTC R179438	143,271	350

THE HISTORY OF Father La Chaise Iesuite and Confessor TO LEWIS XIV Present King of France Discovering The Secret Intreagues by him carried on as well in the Court of England as in all the Courts of Europe to advance the Great Designs of the King his Master Made English from the French Original LONDON Printed by J. Wilde for H. Rhodes at the Star the corner of Bride-lane Fleet-street 1693. THE PREFACE TO THE READER I Will not trouble my self kind Reader to make a Bustle for your Suffrage in favour of my Book It will speak for it self and if the Reasons which it offers are not of sufficient Force 't would be in vain for me to alledge mine Excuse me therefore for producing any more then only this That there is great Reason the World should know what a Saint the King of France has got to teach him the Way to Heaven However I cannot forbear to tell you That you ought in some measure to return me Thanks for the Present that I make you not so much for the value of it as for the danger to which I expose my self for your sake I attack not only the most revengeful Man that ever the Sun shone upon but a whole Society that never pardons any Injury and from whose remorseless Hatred there is no Asylum can secure me For suppose that I had drawn upon me the displeasure of my native Sovereign the King of France and should retire to London under the declar'd Protection of King William which one would think were sufficient to guard me from the Menaces of the most puissant Monarch in Europe yet early or late this caba●ling Society would find a way to sacrifice me to the Resentment of my offended Prince Nor should I be the first who had fallen into their Snares Have they not whirlwinded several out of Amsterdam that at this very Day lie Rotting in the Dungeons of Mount St. Michel Others have been assassinated in the very Court of Hanouer And the same Father La Chaise that illustrious Impostor against whom I write did he not enforce the Geneveses to deliver into his hands an unfortunate Person that had written something against him tho' he had not made out any thing that was very Essential and was extreamly mistaken in some of his Conjectures What would become of me then should he come to discover who I am and who I may be Nothing could save me from his Fury But as good Luck would have it tho' I have had the Opportunity to know him Intus in cute yet I believe he has no reason to be more suspicious of me then another He sees and is seen by so many People of all Sorts and Conditions of which the greatest Number curse his Infidelities and Treacheries experienc'd by them selves that his Suspitions would be l●st in the Throng Besides it may be well imagin'd that 't was not from himself that I learnt the following Particulars of his Life He is not a Man to trust every body with his Secrets Yet in regard no man can be Vicious alone and that there must be the passive as well as the active Part in all manner of Luxury 't is no less certain that Father La Chaise must all a-long have had his Intimates and Socios Voluptatum among whom it was impossible for Father La Chaise to choose so well but that there might be now and then a Judas Never ask me then through what Channel these Curosities were convey'd to my Knowledge For 't is a Question to which it becomes me not to give a positive Answer and that upon good grounds All that I can say to it is this That I was none of those who had the fewest Intriegues with the Society for several Years together besides that I had sundry particular Friends who were perfectly acquainted with this Metropolitan Jesuit from the time that he was first admitted into the Order by whose means I had the Opportunity not only to hear several Stories confirm'd by Tradition but also in Private and as it were by Stealth to read his Memoirs themselves Now in regard the following Relation comprehends as well the Incontinencies and Gallantries of his Youth as the ungodly Practices the Treacheries and Villanies of his riper Years and more crafty Age As to the First there 's no body can have any reason to deny but that Tradition might be a very faithful Assistant to me For there is no cause to believe him more a Saint when he was a young Man then now he is the King of France's Confessor The Fox has only chang'd his Skin but not his Conditions And I should take him to be very incredulous that should give Credit to the Frailties of St. Augustin's Youth and yet scruple to believe the Follies of La Chaise's As for the deep Exploits of his riper Years and the venomous Effects of his more mature Meditation there needs no more then the Complaints of Two Popes the Bishop of Pamiers Cardinal Camus and others to convince yee of a great deal in regard that all his Actions of which they complain are no other then what is purely natual and consonant to the Humour the Genius and Morals of that Society of which he is the Head and Directour and for many of the rest the dire Proceedings of his Penitent the French Monarch so much guided by his Counsels are such Evidences to the World of his being the Man I mean that no one can well question the truth of my Relations 'T is true I cannot expect that this poor Book of mine should be approv'd of in all places for how is it possible it should be so for I can neither disguise nor betray my Sentiments I utter things sincerely as I think and this is not the Mode at this time Perhaps it may be read and that is all that I desire However should it ne'er be lookt upon this would be my Consolation that I make no trade of writing and if I have lash'd out a little 't was meerly the Instigation of my Zeal for the Publick which I could not suffer to be so long impos'd upon while the Impostor triumph'd without some kind of Punishment Reader If you stand too nice upon the Punctilioes of a History mine will not please yee I know that to present a History drest up in form 't is requisite the Author should tye himself solely to his subj●ct and never lose sight of it by wandring and throwing himself impertinently into Contemporary Affairs I confess ingeniously you will not find that strictness in mine In that respect I have given my self a great Liberty For in regard the Person whose Actions I trace is a kind of an Ubiquitarian here and there and every where I was forc'd to follow him where-ever his Projects lead me and as he chang'd his Scenes to vary mine which caus'd a Division of the Continuum that could not be avoided The French Bookseller to the READER I Would willingly Reader

by twelve great Men of War commanded by the Duke d'Estree who had fitted 'em out at Toulon In the mean time to favor the Descent and hinder any Succor that could come from Holland Monsieur Tourville had Orders to cruise in the Channel with a Fleet of above a hunder'd Sail and all this was ready in less then two months time So that upon the 29th of April K. James who was arriv'd at la Hogue began to embark his Men after he had carefully visited all the Ships of Burden and three days after they were ready to set Sail only they stay'd for d'Estree's Squadron and a favourable Wind. But he being surpriz'd by violent Storms that threw two of his great Men of War upon the Coasts of Africa and very much shatter'd others could not possibly observe his time Some Weeks before K. James had publish●d a Manifesto which he call'd A Declaration of the King of Great Britain to all his faithful Subjects .. The substance of which imported an Exhortation to the English to join with him against the Prince of Orange as he there call'd him promising to maintain their Liberties and Priviledges and the Religion of the Church of England And telling 'em withal that there would never be any Peace in Europe till his Restoration for that then he should by his mediation and good Offices with the most Christian King be able to procure it He also wrote a Letter to the Officers and Seamen aboard the Fleet promising 'em the full payment of their Arrears and to continue 'em in their employment Together with another to the English Lords inviting 'em to Paris to be present at the Queen his Wife's Labour for the removing all the Suspitions and destroying all the false reports which his Enemies had rais'd touching the Birth of his Son whom he call'd Prince of Wales However this Letter wrought upon very few and in all probability they that went lost their labour too for the Queen was brought to Bed so suddenly that the Dutchess of Orleance who was order'd by the King to be at her Delivery could not come time enough tho she drove with all speed from St. Clou so soon as she had notice of it which put some jealousies into that Princesse's Head Thus all King James's Hopes were blasted in the bud and at a time when they promised so fair For his Fleet was in the best condition in the world his men lusty and bonny he wanted nothing of Necessary Ammunition even to the Spade and Mattock But notwithstanding all this overwhelm'd with despair he was forc'd to stay at la Hog●e not being able to set sail by reason of contrary Winds that continu●d a long time attended with Storms and Tempests so furious as wrack'd a good part of his Vessels upon the Coasts Which gave the Queen of England time so discover the Conspiracy who immediately with an extraordinary prudence gave out all necessary Orders for preventing the ill Consequences of it as well by imprisoning the chief Conspirators here as by disarming all suspected Persons Moreover she set forth two Proclamations the one for calling the Parliament together the other commanding all Catholicks to depart the Cities of London and Westminster and not to come within ten M●les of either She also sent considerable Forces toward the Coasts where the Descent was most to be fear'd and reinforc'd the Garrisons in the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey So that in a little time the Kingdom was quite out of all danger The Jesuits were astonish'd when the News arriv'd in France They had taken their measures so exactly that they thought it impossible they could ever miscarry yet saw the terrible disappointment of all their lewd Contrivances to the eternal shame and ignominy of the Complotters But in regard the ignominy more nearly concern'd the two Kings then the Society their vexation was much the greater They had weary'd their men expended vast sums lost several Vessels and after all were enforc'd ●o land their men again and to mind their own defence against a powerful Navy which the English and Dutch had set to Sea Thereupon the men were disimbark'd and King James remain'd at Cherburg loaden with his own Misfortunes so far from being abated that they were more ponderously augmented by the loss sustain'd in the Engagement between Admiral Russell and Tourvile the success of which was such as all the world knows And then it was that K. James began to be lookt upon there with an evil Eve every Body beholding him as the Principal cause of the misfortunes of Christendom and throwing upon him and his fatal Star the ill success of the War against the English More then this all people of worth that had before lamented him in his Misfortune could no longer retain the same kind sentiments for him since he had so wickedly enbarqu'd himself in such an Infamous Conspiracy Nevertheless instead of acknowledging the Foulness of it he engag'd himself soon after in another as bad if not worse then the former with Barbesieux and Madam de Maintenon as may be seen at large in the Tryal of Grandvalt who undertook to assinate King William in Flanders and in those Reflections that came out afterwards upon that Horrid Conspiracy 'T is a sad thing that in France where there is so good a Government there should be such Monsters to be found They are not so common in our Countrys and least of all among the Huguenots Quite the contrary they are the declar'd Enemies of such Assassinations so far from laying hold upon the base Assistances of Suborna●ion and Parricide that they have always rejected 'em with scorn and horror when they have been offer'd That which happen'd upon this occasion at Rotterdam in Holland is very remarkable There arriv'd in that City out of France a certain Benedictin Monk with a design as he said to turn Protestant The first man to whom he addrest himself was M. Jurieux a Minister well known to all the world to whom he made known a desire of embracing his Religion Jurieux who presently suspected him to be some fickle-headed Fellow that had quitted his Order only to withdraw himself from the Austerities to which it obliges him in hopes to get some Pension from the States as it frequently happens made him answer That he could not be too much commended but that it behov'd him to be careful of doing any thing unadviseably in a Business wherein he could not deceive God without miserably deceiving himself The Monk reply'd That it was not a thing which he had but lately consider'd of That God be thanked he had knowledge and discretion enough to distinguish Truth from Falshood And that at last after he made Religion his Study for many Years he was convinc'd that the Roman Catholick Religion signifi'd nothing but the Reformed was the only Prosession of Faith wherein a man could be sav'd And to shew that he spoke not without Book he presently alledg'd to him several