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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

them and brought their Troops timely enough into the Field to save the State by preventing the Earl of Bologne from seizing upon his Nephew the Young King and by an Action so seasonable even to finish the War as soon as it was begun The Earl thus frustrated of his first Design fore-saw that it would not be so easie a matter as he first fancy'd to himself to Degrade his Sister-in-Law wherefore the better to make sure of his Accomplices he endeavour'd by all means possible to make them irreconcileable with the Regent He knew where the greatest part of the Kings Treasure was kept and there it was that he made his second Effort accordingly he seiz'd on it and distributed it to those of his Party with this Condition that those who were nearest to him should have the greatest share This done he led them towards Calais there to joyn the King of England who following the measures he had taken from the Male-contents was to make his Descent at that very time But there is nothing so uncertain as the managing of great Enterprizes by reason of that general concourse of different Causes whereupon they depend for success The Regent lost neither her Courage nor her Judgment at a conjuncture when on the one side she had little or nothing to hope for and on the other very much to fear Never was there known to come out of her Mouth either Complaint or Reproach She knew exactly the bad condition of her Affairs and used all the Art of Dissimulation she was capable of to conceal what she thought for fear of discouraging those faithful Persons she had remaining about her She guess'd at the Earl of Bologne's Design from the very moment he took his March and wisely gain'd her Advantage by the needless stop he made in Eureux for the hindring of his passage Moreover as she concluded that France was in all likelyhood inevitably lost if the Male-contents should joyn the English she had recourse to an Artifice which I cannot but stand astonish'd that no Historians ever yet made mention of There was in England a Person named Hubert de Bourg so considerable in all respects that he was equall'd by no Man either in Favour or Merit he had a Wit beyond the Common rate and his shape was such as what Poets use to attribute to Heroes He was at once both the most accomplish'd Cavalier and the most expert Captain of his Nation and never was there English-man a truer Lover and more Zealous Patriot of his Countrey He served both King and Kingdom to that degree that both had an equal share of Obligation to him It was by him that the Crown had been preserv'd in the Family of the Plantagenets and that England had not been made a Province to the Crown of France He defended to the utmost Normandy and Guien against Philip the August and had successively in the chief places of both these Provinces held out long Sieges and by his obstinate Resistance ruined whole Armies never yielding to come to Capitulation till such time as the very Horses were all eaten up Even the French his Enemies both admiring and honouring him for his Valour thought they could never enough commend him when they saw him here in England and how just their Commendations were he ceas'd not afterwards to give them fresh demonstrations since he alone it was who snatch'd out of Prince Lewis his hands the Conquest of this Island He it was who by his Gallantry recovered the Town of Dover and Defended it with that perseverance that all the French Forces sent against it were not able to re-take it He afterwards beat them twice once at Lincoln another time before Bedford In fine he it was who having dispos'd the English to acknowledge him set King Henry upon his Throne And as the Obligation of this King Henry was very great so His Majesties care and study to recompense him was no less he confer'd upon him all the Principal Offices in the State except that of High Admiral for he was Grand Marshal Lord High Treasurer and Chief Justiciary all at one time He bad the Charge of the Transportation of those Troops which were design'd for France which Trust while he was discharging with his ordinary care and vigilance he received at that very juncture a Present of 5000 Marks of Silver with a Letter which neatly and wittily rallied upon his Vanity by insinuating to him that to make himself the most Illustrious Person that ever England bore he who had lately settled the Crown of England upon the Head of Young King Henry his Master maugre all the Force of France ought now to make it his next business to set the Crown also upon the Head of the Young King of France against all the united Forces both of his own Subjects and of England The weakness of Humane Nature never discovers it self more plainly than when in a moment it yields to lesser Temptations when at other times it hath for a long while withstood greater This was the Case of Du Bourg who after he had been inflexible to the vast Offers of Philip the August and Lewis the 8th suffered himself at last to be overcome with a petty Present and a poor frivolous bait of Vain glory offered him by a Foreign Princess He Equipp'd forth but half the number of Ships necessary for the Transportation of the English Army and when the Noblemen who had almost all in general provided to attend the King personally in this Expedition came to Dover to see their Goods dispos'd of on board the Ships there was not room nor Convenience found for them nor could it be doubted but that either the Knavery or Negligence of Du Bourg was the cause whereupon immediately Complaint was carried to the King Du Bourg was sent for to give an account to His Majesty but when he came he made so lame a Defence for himself that the King incens'd against him called him Old Traytor and drawing his Sword had certainly run him through the Body had not the Earl of Chester an intimate Friend of Du Bourg put by the thrust and given Opportunity to other Persons interested in the Fortune of this Favourite to interpose in his behalf and to avert His Majesties displeasure for the present In the next place they made him keep out of the way till such time as they had made his Peace which was not long for the King however touch'd in the most sensible and incurable part namely that of Ambition yet in the end suffer'd himself to be convinc'd that the old Obligations he had to this his Favourite ought to weigh with him more than the injury lately committed He gave him his Pardon freely and in some time receiv'd him into his wonted Grace and Faour The Regent encourag'd with the success of her first Project namely her obstructing with so much ease the passage of the English Army over into France put in execution a second Design as no