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A68416 Severall letters betwixt the French king and the q. mother, concerning the present troubles there vnto which is added, the French king's declaration vpon the departure of the queene mother, and monsieur his brother out of the kingdome : the confirmation of the court parliament of Paris vpon the same / faithfully translated out of the French. Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643.; Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642. 1631 (1631) STC 16847.5; ESTC S1347 15,251 28

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SEVERALL LETTERS BETWIXT THE FRENCH KING AND THE Q. MOTHER Concerning the present Troubles there Vnto which is added The French Kings Declaration vpon the departure of the Queene Mother and Monsieur his Brother out of the Kingdome The Confirmation of the Court Parliament of Paris vpon the same Faithfully translated out of the French LONDON Printed for NATH BVTTER and NICH BOVRNE 1631. A LETTER OF THE FRENCH KING TO THE QVEENE MOTHER Madame I Cannot sufficiently testifie my griefe for having understood by your Letters and by the report of my Cousin the Marshall of Schomberg and of the Lord of Roijssy the refusall which you have made of all the conditions I have offred you for the change of your abode at Campeigne into some more convenient place for your selfe and lesse suspected for me Were it not a thing altogether necessary for the welfare of my affaires I would not have caused you so much to have beene pressed thereabout And because I have reserved to my selfe to give you shortly to understand the last resolution which I have taken upon so important a businesse I will say no more thereof to you at this present but will answere onely to that which you have written in your last concerning my said Cousin the Marshall of Schomberg and the said Lord of Roijssy It had beene very difficult for mee to have sent you persons of more approved honesty and the report which they made me of your intention at their returne from you is so agreeable to the sense of these Letters you writ unto me by my sayd Cousin the Marshall of Schomberg and the Lord of Roijssy as you have no occasion thereupon to complaine but I rather because my instant and reiterated prayers have had so little power to worke upon you God will inspire into me if it be his pleasure what I ought to doe for the good and quiet of my estate After the which I shall alwayes have the same consideration of you which you can expect Madame from Your most humble and obeisant Sonne LOVIS From Fontainebelleau 28. May 1631. Answer of the Queene Mother to the Kings Letter above-written Monsieur my Sonne I Had deferred to have written you an answere to your Letter the 28. of this Moneth had not mine enemies spred a rumour to my preiudice that I was escaped into Flanders This shall assure you that I am yet here resolved not to depart hence unlesse it bee by force if this be not to vpbraid you with with the respect which a good Mother such as I am to you ought to be in with her Sonne for I never had nor shall have the desire to retire my selfe into any place where you have not absolute-power having God be thanked no crime vpon my Conscience which should give mee occasion to withdraw my selfe thence nor which ought to hinder me from hoping that your goodnesse weary of seeing me thus to suffer will oblige you in the end to restore me to the calme which is due to mine innocency most humbly beseeching you to vouchsafe that for answere to your last vpon this occasion I may tell you that if I had no other consideration of remaining here but mine owne I would long since have rendred you that obedience which you require at my hands of departing hence But if you please to consider what those displeasures are of a Mother so afflicted as I am without having committed any fault against You or your estate you may easily Iudge how unseemely it would be both to you and me that me continuall teares and my extreame affliction should be exposed to the eyes of your Subiects in so long a Iourney I should have to make vnto any one of those places which you have caus'd to be propounded vnto me and that the triumph of mine enemies should be adorned with this spectacle which would be most proper to illustrate their power all the world over and the miserable estate whereto I am reduced If the counsels which are given you vpon this subiect came not from the same persons which have perswaded you to confine me to this place and who doth not thinke knowing me so well as they doe to be subiect to stoppings of breath whensoever I am sicke that I can live 3. dayes to an end You might well know that it is farre more important for your state that the ill vsage which I suffer without cause be concealed heere within foure walles then made knowne to every one in my passage nor would you be so earnest after it in your said Letter nor so much complaine of my refusall of doing it I know well what duty I owe vnto you as you are my King but you also as my Sonne ought to compassionate mine afflictions and not to alledge vnto mee alwayes as you doe the considerations of your estate seeing there is no man that knowes not right well that mine abode here can bring no preiudice therunto that this is none other pretext or artifice then that which was vsed by others heretofore during our former separation for which you were so sorie so soone as you were come home to your selfe after the death of the Constable LVYNES and which is now put in practise to torment me to the end that loosing as I doe my repose my health may be so impaired as I must sinke vnder the burthen and loose my life which they cannot any longer indure As touching the Conditions which have beene offred me I doubt not but they have told you and would make it publikely to be beleeved that they are very advantageous vnto me But if they would describe them as they ought there would be no such Iudgement made seeing that MOVLINS and ANGER 's which have beene propounded vnto me for mine abode are so infected with the Plague as without doubt they have bin chosen by them of purpose to thrust me into the iawes of death which they see doth not seize vpon me heere so soone as they could wish Your disposition is too good to consent to their wicked designes in case you know them but vnder pretext of the duty which you owe to your estate is hidden the poyson which they would have me swallow to ridde their hands of me contrary to your intention God will deliver you from that and your Mother also if he please and will touch your heart to make you know that next your owne selfe I am the person most interested in your preservation and that for this purpose my life imports you more than my selfe There is no honest man in your Kingdome that doth not thinke so For the honesty of my Consin the Marshall de Schomberg mentioned in your Letters I leave the iudgement thereof to God and doe beseech his divine Maiesty to grant both him and me the grace that his counsels may be such as hee is bound in Conscience to give you and that hee will inspire also into you that which you ought to doe for the good
in these deuices wayes and practices which they did publiquely attempt euen in our Court by those which did approach neere vnto them We thought good at the same instant when our Brother withdrew himselfe from vs to acquaint the Lady our Mother with the intelligence we had of all their practices and deuices which they vsed to our great prejudice and with our resolution which we had taken for the stopping of that course As namely to take into hold and durance some persons which we knew to participate in their designes and to banish the rest from our Court. Also we desired entreated her to this end to assist vs with her best counsell as formerly shee had done within these few yeares and to leaue separate her selfe from all the secret intelligences which she had or might haue with our foresaid Brother who was then departed from vs. We persisted in this our supplication euen to Campaguis where we made knowne vnto her diuers other instances by our trusty and welbeloued the Lord Chastean-newf Keeper of the Scale and our trusty and welbeloued Cousen the Marshal de Schomb●rgh vnto both which shee answered that shee was weary any longer to intermeddle with our affaires that she would no more haue any share nor be partaker with our Counsels which caused vs too too confidently to vnderstand and beleeue the firme resolution which she had taken to remaine linked and joyned to the designes of our said Brother and to follow and be led by the pernicious counsels which were giuen him Whereupon we resolued and determined to separate our selues for a while from her and to entreate her to withdraw herselfe and retire to Moulins a place which properly belongs vnto her and which place during the time of our minoritie shee voluntarily chose for her owne abode Vnto this she gaue answer that then she would willingly goe thither but a few dayes afterward shee requested vs to thinke it expdient and fitting that shee might betake her selfe to Neuers Which she was so much inclining vnto and did affect because she had a desire to approach and draw neerer to our said Brother who was then as yet at Orleans A while after this learning and perceiuing that our said Brother in his proceedings vsed many deuices and cunning practices striuing and endeauouring to assemble together many warlike troupes wee inuited him by our welbeloued Cousin the Cardinall de Valette to absent and separate himselfe from all those wicked counsels and to returne againe to vs where we promised him that he should receiue all good and fauourable contentment which he refusing to doe and to haue correspondencie and to joyne with our good meaning and intention we journyed as farre as Eltampes where presently we were informed that he was departed from Orleans so to retire and leaue our Kingdome where he was no sooner departed but our said Mother sent vs word that shee would no longer goe either to Moulins or Neuers and that shee desired not to depart out of Champaguie and at the very same time shee and our said Brother did deuise and effect to publish and divulge this rumour that shee was detained in prison notwithstanding shee had all liberty afforded her with her traine either to goe to Moulins or Neuers although in those places there was no Garrison But as this supposed imprisonment serued for a pretence of discontentment vnto those that waited for such an occasion and opportunity so she continued this false complaint notwithstanding that daily our Cousin the Marshall Destree and also the Lord Marquesse of St Sch●●●●out did aduertise her in our behalfe which two wee haue many seuerall times sent vnto her that shee would bee pleased to depart out of Campagnie and to chuse such a place within our Kingdome as shee should thinke most fitting for her abiding offering her to the end shee might abide there with the more respect and authority the gouernment of that Prouince into the which shee would betake her selfe forthwith declaring and making known vnto her that her remaining still in Champagnie gaue vnto vs great cause of jealousie suspicion forasmuch as we were certainly enformed they did perswade her to depart out of our Kingdome vnto which shee would no way condescend nor thereby be perswaded faining many causes of complaint as among others that we would haue sent her vnto Italie and that our Gallyes were ready prepared for the same purpose Then wee sent vnto her our said Cousin the Marshall of Shombergh and the Lord de Roissye Counsellor in our Councell of State to desire her to conforme her selfe to our will and pleasure and to resolue with herselfe to depart out of Champagnie and to choose such a place within our Kingdome which shee might like of for her dwelling onely Champagnie excepted To the end that those pretences might cease of those who had entised our said Brother to forsake our Kingdome and that they might not haue so much as any appearance to ground their reports vpon of our Mothers imprisonment Nay which is more they two in our name proffered vnto her the gouernment of Anion which shee complained shee was bereaued of and that the same was taken from her although indeed shee had of her owne accord abandoned the same for some considerations best knowne to her selfe They vrged also vnto her and shewed her that it was very requisite for the good of our affaires and that it would proue very aduantagious to her selfe if shee would be pleased to conforme her selfe to our will and intentions But whatsoeuer reasons they could lay before her it was impossible to diuert and draw her from her strong resolution which shee had taken to abide in Champagnie for to bring to passe the designe which since that time shee hath executed Notwithstanding all this her resistance to testifie more and more our affection towards her and the earnest desire wee haue to re-unite her vnto vs we caused those troupes to be remoued which we had left in Champagnie and since that did diuers times send to her our said Cousin the Marshall Destree and the Marquis de St Shanmont to reiterate the request which so often we had made vnto her that shee would choose any other place than Champagnie for her abode Yea we proffered her to come and visite her in her house at Monceana or some other place in the way to Blois Anger 's or Moulins if shee went thither to the end that wee might be reconciled together This in appearance shee seemed to agree vnto and willing to embrace which gaue vs great contentment and abundant satisfaction supposing that this also was the way to reduce our said brother to his deuoir and to remoue all those pretences which the foresaid euill Authors of bad counsell did make vse of But when wee beleeued that our said Mother was well contented with vs and was most ready and willing to follow our good intention which wee had for our common good