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A05062
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The favorites chronicle; Chronique des favoris. English
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Fancan, François Dorval-Langlois, sieur de, ca. 1576-1628.
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Nuncius Bentivole resident in Paris is wholy for Luynes who hath made him Cardinall and Comprotector of the French nation in Rome to the prejudice of the Prince Cardinall of Savoy to whom the King had given that protection Thus Luynes is upholden on that side And to the end that the King of Spaine should not be offended to see the Queene his sister governed by Luynes and his wife he hath consented to let him lay hold upon the Grisons the Palatinate and Iuliers which is under the protection of France and which the Queene mother following your designe hath kept out of the Spaniards clawes whereas on the contrary that villaine suffers so important a country bordering upon the Realme to be lost He hath alienated 120000 crowns yearely rent of the Church whereof he hath imbursed 200000 crownes for his part of your sonnes revenues he and his brethren possesse at the least 500000 franks yearely rent without disbursing one penie for it How this discourse grieves me said the King I would you had neuer spoken to me thereof let us leave for this time here comes the Duke de Mayenne and a great number of Noblemen to visit me All these said the Marquis de Termes will confirme that which I have said unto your Majestie and you may know of them what hath past since I left them at Clerac The Duke de Mayenne coming neare with all his companie made humble obeysance to the King and his Majestie bowing his head welcomed them with teares in his eyes Cousin said the King and all you my faithfull servants it grieves me that you have bin deceived by three villaines who as I heare untill this time have abused the favour and bountie of my sonne and generally your free spirits The Duke speaking for them all said Sir I know not who hath made your Grace so wel acquainted with the pride of those three Falconers that have used all the meanes they can to put all men both great and meane out of the King your sonnes favour by their devices sold all France by their covetousnes and brought all the realm into disorder by their monstrous ambition All men know how litle cause I have to speake wel of the Marquis d' Ancre but I may well say that he was an Angell in respect of these three divels incarnate enemies both to men and all valour and such as never employed them but to their overthrow all they that have past over the river with me know what they are besides that for mine owne part I have every way tried and proved their divellish malice in that respect It is true that Marquis d' Ancre was wicked as wel as they but yet he had some humanitie in him he did good to many hee was a man of his word if hee crost some great persons he made much of others but these three plagiaries have bin a scourge to them all thinking it a glory by their dissembling salutations to deceive all the world with brazen faces I will not trouble your Majestie with the rehearsall of their detestable actions nor put you in minde of the rude dealing that they have shewed to the Queene your wife neither how they have scorned my Lord the Prince nor of their ingratitude against my Lady the Countesse nor what trickes they have played with all the Nobilitie it suffiseth Sir that you generally know their proud proceedings they have fully gotten the government of the King your son and of the authoritie royall into their hands making him beleeve that they three onely held the Crowne upon his head as if those of his blood had conspired the usurpation thereof For the space of foure yeares they have caused all the affaires of importance to passe under their hands they have made the King march with them in all places for their owne particular interest vpon the frontiers of the Realme Luynes hath bin so proud as to make his entrie into townes accompanied with a Prince of the blood and in rhe presence of the King his Soveraigne he sent his brother Cadnet into Flanders under pretence to go seeke his wife where he spake with Marquis Spinola and after that with a most incomparable pride covered with precious stones appertaining to the Crowne he hath bene in England not one of the Kings Councell knowing the secret of his embassage after that voyage he undertooke to make himselfe Duke of Britaigne and it is not knowne whether since he hath bin keeper of the Seales hee hath dispatched letters patents for the same In favour of Castille he hath neglected all ancient alliances of the Crown he hath suffered the Palatinate and the Grisons to be lost to make the Spaniard favourable to him The Queene mother preserved Iuliers under the protection of the King your sonnes forces and those three villaines have suffered it to be besieged by Spinola To the disgrace of your glorious memorie Branthe a meane fellow that never had 200 franks yearely rent hath bin so audacious as to ravish the heire of Luxeburg and to force that yong Princesse being but eleuen yeares old and at such a time when all France was in armes by their meanes and if the ravishing of a maide be punishable as it is her action in all circumstances is much more punishable Luynes hath exposed the King and the Prince his brother into the inconveniences of a long voyage and into the perils of the bad aire in the armie in such maner that the Prince was there sick and like to die and yet he would not suffer him to be carried out of the infections of the campe he hath resolved upon the warre against the Huguenots without taking yea and against the advice of your old Councellers hee hath bin so audacious as to keepe the Kings seales in his hands to promise them to many but gives them to no man busying himselfe during the dangers of the siege before Montauban with sealing expeditions in stead of going to the warre for which cause the souldiers made these foure verses of him What shall we of this valiant Warrier say That vseth vs like slaves both night and day He that in peace the Constables office hie And in warre doth the Chancellers place supplie In such maner that if there be any capitall crime that may be objected against a bad servant that is one of the most notorious and greatest All the mony appointed for paying of the souldiers in the armie he stayed in Blayes in such sort that more souldiers have died of want and necessitie then of wounds for want of reliefe To be short their covetousnes and villanies are the cause of all the bad successe hapned as wel during that siege as in other publicke affaires That which I finde to be most strange said Balagny is that not one of them hath bin hurt in any of the exploits of their conquests I will shew you a pertinent reason for that said the Duke it is because they neuer sought after
blowes and blowes never met with them and that is it which Luynes Surgeon wrote to his wife that was in doubt lest her husband was slaine in the armie Wife take no care for me but be quiet feare nothing for I incurre no danger my Lord Constable doth me that honour to affect me much and to keep still neare unto his person Thus you see how those gallants are miraculously preserved and kept out of the danger of blowes while they cause others to lose their lives Our posteritie said the King will hardly beleeue that men of no degree and voide of all valour should in so short a time lay hold upon the government of France Sir said Pluninel I did neuer so easily with bit and bridle manage your Graces great horses in the stable without comparison as I have seene them manage all the Princes of your Realme What said the Marshall de Brisac was not Cadnet so bold as to threaten the Prince that he should not go out of Bois de Vincennes if he did not consent to give him the Princesse of Orange to be his wife who died for griefe thereof You iest said the King He hath done more then that said he for he was so presumptuous as to presse the Earle de Soyssons to give over the office of high Steward unto him The late Earle taking the word out of his mouth said If my sonne had bin wise he should have caused him to be well beaten for his impudencie You haue reason said old Courtenay if he had Rambure or such another Knight as he for his governer but he hath a blocke to be his schoole-master that knowes not what belongs to honour and courage and therefore those companions know with whom they have to do Let us enter into some other discourse said the King as I remember one of you told me that during all these businesses Luynes and his brethren carried their wives with them unto the warre and that they were with them during the important siege of Montauban if it were so it is very likely that their intent was no other but onely to make their battery under curtains At that word M. William gave a nod and said to the King Indeed my Lord you have often bin told that they play the Kings and that I acknowledge they have heretofore sitting by the fire heard how you in times past rid upon the League and those gallants would imitate you and thinke by riding their wives to ride upon the Huguenots but those wicked heretickes have knavishly ridden upon them before Montauban Whereat all of them began to laugh But the King enquired of the miracle of the Spie and much desired to know it and speaking thereof askt why after he had escaped in such maner he was not sent into the Towne to convert the inhabitants Faith of a gentleman said de Loppe that had bin no safetie for him for so the people might have hangd him up in good earnest God is strong every where said the King and can defend those that are his at all times and in all places but tell me who sent father Dominicke de Iesus Maria into France what maner of man is he And it please your Majestie said the Earle de Fiefque he is a holy man I yet have a portatise cloake that he gave me your Majestie will not beleeve what honour the Parisians did unto him and yet know not wherefore every woman cut off a peece of his gowne and he came thither onely to shew us that all the Spaniards are not Saracins and that there are some holy men among them If I had bin of the Kings Councell said the Abbot du Bois I would in counter-change have sent father Berule to Madril I am sure that the women of Castile would also have cut his fustian That were good said the Marshall de Fervaques if French cloth were as fine as Spanish cloth but if I were of the Councell as the Cardinall de Rets is and as forward as the Earle de Chomberg who is capable to redresse all Luynes faults so that he doth not joyne with forreine faction I would make the Spaniard know that he is not a better Catholik then I my selfe am and would keepe him from having secret intelligences with our Favorites to the great detriment of the Kings service and the Realme which goes to decay if remedy be not speedily had therein I confesse said the King that since I have heard of all the bad and perfidious practises which that gallant and his brethren have done and performed my son never knowing thereof my spirit hath bin in continuall perplexitie fearing lest they should destroy their good maister and great benefactor Sir said the Marquis de Villars the earth never bare more traiterous and ambitious villaines then they are they have bin so bold the last yeare to cause a Maske to be made in Burbon hall wherein they presented divers mysticall figures and among the rest a great Lady and divers Giants chained whom Luynes apparelled like Phebus drew after him whereof the greatest resembled the Duke de Mayenne upon whose head Luynes set his foote for a signe of servitude Truly said the Baron de Plancy he made another more impudent in the Castle of Piquerox for there perceiving the King to be grieved for the losse he had received by the death of the Duke de Mayenne he devised a litle Comedie to make his Majestie merrie wherein hee presented a great Moore making divers strange jestures and for that he resembled the Duke de Mayenne the King commanded them to leave and act no more Why said Luynes Because said the King that this man in all respects resembles the Duke de Mayenne I cannot endure to see it Truly Sir said he his death needs not minister cause of sadnesse to your Majestie for he was a turbulent fellow that troubled all your affaires you were no King as long as he lived we haue discovered and found out that he made a third partie and since his death we have found all his practises Thus this villaine alwayes sought to divert all the good opinion that his Majestie had of his servants and of all those of his blood He did another matter said the Secretarie of State for the Seales he was so impudent as to write vnto the Pope that the Queen mother was the cause that Montauban was not taken thereby thinking to cover his owne cowardlinesse from whence it may be conjectured how many false reports he hath made to the king your sonne seeing he was so bold to send such a message to his Holinesse You shall never have done Sir said the Earle de Lude if you will hearken unto all their arrogant actions who knowes them better then my selfe that brought them up as long as any of that race are neare about the King your sonne they will spoile all there being no kind of wickednes whereof they are not capable and aboue all things beleeve it