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A64888	The history of the government of France, under the administration of the great Armand du Plessis, Cardinall and Duke of Richlieu, and chief minister of state in that kingdome wherein occur many important negotiations relating to most part of Christendome in his time : with politique observations upon the chapters / translated out of French by J.D. Esq.; Histoire du ministere d'Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu, sous le regne de Louis le Juste, XIII, du nom, roy de France et de Navarre. English	Vialart, Charles, d. 1644.; J. D. (John Dodington)	1657 (1657)	Wing V291; ESTC R1365	838,175	594

but the Duke sent in all hast to demand it of his Holyness When the Marquis de Chaumont came thither It was not as yet arrived but hourly expected and though it was not brought but only a very few minuts before his death yet the Marquis of Strigio who knew how necessary it was for the State of affairs told the Prince de Rethelois and the Princess Maria that they must forthwith marry or else be assured never to enjoy the States of Mantua It was a business of so great importance that it would admit of no longer consultation so that it was concluded and married they were about nine in the night on Christmasse Eve the marriage was consummated and not long after the news of Duke Vincents death was brought unto them This accident was of very great concern to the Duke de Nevers Who without it might perchance never have enjoyned the Dukedom of Mantua At that present he was in France but hearing of it he took post and about the end of January came to Mantua where finding all things according to his own desire he took proffession of the State and the Marquis de Chaumont return'd back to France He passed by Thurin and used new endeavours to perswade the Duke of Savoy to an accommodation but it would not be yet he served the King in this occasion by withdrawing divers of the Nobility of Dauphine from the Duke of Savoy's Army who had ingaged themselves with him not knowing his design was upon Montferrat which the Duke hearing of was much offended and told him it would not be safe for him to stay any longer in Turin Politique Observation THat Prudence which obligeth all Soveraigns to provide against such accidents as may trouble the present State of their affairs doth equaly direct them to make sure of such remedies as may prevent the future disturbance of their Peace and quiety which cannot safely be effected without the assurance of an Hair to succeed Augustus affordeth us a memorable example in this particular who governing an Empire not Hereditary would however joyn with himself some one of his nearest kindred in the conduct of affairs to the end that ingratiating himself with the Senators Souldiers and people he might by that means seem to deserve the Soveraignity For this reason it was according as Tacitus hath well observed that he finding himself destitute of Sons and that Fortune had taken from him first Marcus Agrippa and afterwards Cajus and Lucius his Nephews advanced Tiberus who though he had a Son then grown up he caused to adopt Germanicus to the succession of the Empie and this he did as the Historian observes that the Crown might be assured upon divers supports By this means he cut off the Senators hopes of reforming the State into a Republique and from his Enemies the means of aspiring to the Crowns Adrian in the like manner seeing he had not any Sons which exposed him to the fury of some ambitious mind or other who for the Empires sake might be perswaded to attempt upon his Person adopted Antoninus and also required that Antoninus should in the like manner he having no Sons neither nominate two more successours as Dion hath observed in his life and all this was with intent that they who were to succeed in the Empire might be alwayes ready to receive it and to prevent his Enemies from attempting against his person in hopes to obtain it for themselves To how many misfortunes have they who have been defective in this Care exposed their Countries Jane the second Queen of Napels dying without nominating her successour d' An●ou whom she had once named being deceased before her left her Kingdome cruelly torn in pieces by War and him whom she least of all desired to inherit after her It is very rarely seen that a Kingdome changeth its Family without great wars and that Prince whom God hath not blessed with Children will find many attempts made upon his person whence it follows that he who would secure his Life and State from misfortunes ought betimes to appoint his successour to keep him near to him with Honour to instruct him in all affairs but not to admit him unto the partaking of the Soveraignity for that were to cure one evil by a greater seeing the ambition which usually attendeth young Princes might perchance ingage him in some ill design to be master of it before his time Cabals of the Duke de Rohan in Languedoc and the Succours wrought by means of the Duke de Soubize his brother in England for the Rochelois THE Duke de Rohan was by his brother assured of the English assistance and long before their landing in Ree he did nothing but contrive Cabals in Languedoc that he might place Consuls for his own turn in the Hugonot Towns and engage considerable persons in his private interests Presently after their landing he openly declared himself strengthned his party with Men perswaded some places to rise and sollicited others to do the like He gave them great hopes of high and mighty advantages by the inundation of strangers and he provoked them the more by insinuating into them the ruin of their Religion and divers other imaginary evils That he m●●ht the better strik these Panick fears into them he sent them a Manifest filled with all those specious apparencies mentioned in the beginning of this year But may it not be said that he imitated those Pirates who seeming to instruct the course which Ships ought to keep in the Sea set up Lanthorns upon the tops of Rocks to draw Pirates thither and so to wrack them For thus did he lay before the sight of them who were sufficiently enclined to ●action diverse seemingly fair reasons of the preservation of their party and Religion by which means he drew them into that revolt and engaged them in those misfortunes which have since been the cause of the ruining of their Towns and of levelling their Wals and fortifications with the ground Now that he might the more strictly bind the Hugonot towns to his designs he ●ound means to make an assembly in the Vi●e d'Vsez where diverse of their Deputies met together and as he had no lesse eloquence then courage he perswaded them to whatever he had a mind to They approved of those succours which he had negotiated in England as just and necessary they commended his prudence and zeal and gave him a thousand thanks for it But this was not all They assured him not to enter into any Treaty of Peace with his Majesty without the King of Englands consent and his own in particular Hereupon they deputed some of the most seditious of their faction to go to the Towns of Languedoc and Guyenn● withal they writ to those of Dauphine and Vivarez to encourage them to unite with them for the good of the cause They drew up a form of oath to be sworn by the Consuls the Governours of Towns Lords and Gentlemen who would engage with

the more oblige them to do it for the entreaty of him who may enforce is a greater tye then his command And is it not very reasonable that as all the parts of the Body even the most noble do contribute to its conservation so all the members of a State should doe their utmost to preserve it and to establish the glory of it The Emperour Gratian ordained That every one should serve on publique occasions and first of all addressed himself to execute it not pretending any exemption to due to the priviledge of his dignity and Plato saith No man but ought to obey necessities seeing the Gods themselves submit to them And admit that Ecclesiastiques should deny or make any difficulty to assist the King on such occasions might they not with reason be reproached as the Emperour Dioclesian once did a Philospher who petitioned him to hold him excused from some Levy which was layd upon the rest of the people Thy request quoth the Emperour to him is contrary to thy Profession for that thou pretending to overcome thy Passions and to tread under thy feet all that which the world delighteth in doest however suffer thy self to be possest with covetousness So Ecclesiastiques professing to be Imitators and Disciples of Jesus Christ who recommendended no one thing more then Poverty and who prohibited his Disciples to heap up Gold and Silver would do an act much contrary to their profession if they should pretend to be exempted from those charges which their Kings are forced to lay on the rest of their Subjects in any urgent occasions Troubles in Lorrain hapening upon the Will of Henry Duke of Lorrain IT remaineth that I should now write of some Affairs which passed about the end of this year in Lorrain and which have such a dependance on the concerns of France that I may not let them slip Henry Duke of Lorrain a little before he dyed finding himself without Sons did by his Will invest his eldest Daughter Madam Nicole whom he had married to Charles de Lorrain eldest Son to the Count of Vaudmont his younger Brother giving her to understand that Lorrain and all that which belonged unto it did really appertain to her and that Charles her Husband had no right to it but onely in consideration of her However the Count de Vaudmont desirous to preserve it to his Son in case he should outlive his Wife pretended himself to be heir to the Dutchee by virtue of the Will of Reynard King of Sicily and Duke of Lorrain his Great Grandfather dated the twenty fifth of May in the year one thousand five hundred and six which untill then he had never heard of by which the said King foreseeing the ruins which usually happeneth to great Houses by subdividing those possessions which once belonged to them had incorporated the Dutchees of Lorrain and Bar the Marquisate of Ponta-Mouson and the Earldom of Vaudmont and constituted his eldest Son Anthony late Duke of Lorrain sole heir of the said Soveraignties and Lordships willing and ordaining that his descendents should succeed him from Male to Male gradually and one after another and that the Daughters should not at all pretend to it He left in division to Claudius his youngest Son the possession of Guise Elbauf Aumalle Mayenne Joinville and several others which he had in France substituting and ordaining his Heirs Males for ever to enjoy them and excluding all Daughters The original of the Will was very authentique and Copies of it in divers places to be had There was moreover an Instrument of Approbation made by the States of the said Dutchie assembled for that purpose after the decease of the said King upon the thirteenth of February in the year fifteen hundred and eight before Madam Philip of Gueldres Queen of Sicilie Dutchess of Lorrain and Bar who declared they were contented to conform themselves to the said Kings Will. Now the Count de Vaudmont supposed that upon consequence of this substitution and order thus established by Will and confirm'd by the States himself was the onely and true Heir of Lorrain and that his late Brothers Daughters could pretend to it but that they ought to be married to persons correspondent to their Qualities At last he declared by a publick Instrument that in consideration of his Sons marriage with Madam Nicole his late Brothers Daughter he was content to dispossess himself into the hands of his said Son and that he did invest him with it requiring that he should be honoured and obeyed in that quality by all his States which he renounced to him in his behalf and that after his decease they should descend to his next Heirs Males excluding all Females and still preferring the eldest who were to give the youngest Pensions and the Daughters Portions according to the Honour of the House The King though somwhat concerned in this agreement did not oppose it but esteemed it as frivolous it being free for him not to take any notice of it because it was not presented to him for a ratification though the curious spirits of the time who are pleased to discusse the Interests of States not at all concern'd in them but onely by the faithfulness of their Affection did talk diversly of it Some maintaining that the Will of Reynard the second upon which the Count de Vaudmont grounded his pretensions was absolutely voyd as also the Contract of disseisure They alledged for their chief reason that it was contrary to the Laws and Customes of Lorrain and Barr observed in the Successions of those Dutchies and Lordships which ever preferred the daughters before the Males who were far removed and secondly that it was contrary to the Laws and Customes of France made at Orleance in the year one thousand five hundred and sixty and at Moulin in one thousand five hundred sixty and six which prohibit such substitutions for ever but restrain them to the second degree● Besides the institution which was passed if it should so stand it would follow of consequence that the substitution in behalf of the Males for ever could not be vallid especially in relation to Barr and that which depends on the Crown of France where his Majesty ought to be considered not onely as common Soveraign but as Lord Paramout to whom belonged the cognizance of causes of Appeal and to whom Faith and Homage ought to be paid as also service with and against all others it being not allowed to a Vassal to alter without the Kings authority who is chief Lord the nature of the Fee against the Order established by Custome Thirdly they added for the confirmation of their opinions an example very considerable which was this It had been concluded and agreed upon in a Treaty made at Guerand in the year one thousand three hundred sixty and four between John the valiant Count de Montfort afterwards the Fifth of that name Duke of Brittain son of John Count of Montfort of the one party and Jane Dutchess

for the Country where they live so that they do not heartily embrace the Interests of it and in case a war should break out none would be so ready as they to entertain intelligence and give advices to the enemies They are also easily provoked against the natural inhabitants of the Country upon any suspition that they are lesse esteemed by them then others which induceth them to stick close together and to raise Factions against the State withal their bodies may not be punished though there be some kind of reason for it least they should generally resent it and raise up a thousand Broyles These are the chief reasons why it is impossible to preserve a Family of Officers Strangers in a Queens Court This was it which did oblige those of Sparta as Xenophon reporteth it not to suffer any strangers to live in their Commonwealth which made the Athenians take the same resolution as Plutarch observeth in the life of Pericles and which made Suetonius commend Augustus that he would rarely grant to any the being free or naturals of his Kingdome and which induced Polydore Virgil to say in his History of England That it was not the custome of English to admit of many strangers amongst them least the difference of their customes and fashions might cause them not to live in a good intelligence with the natives of the Country The King sends the Marshal de Bassompierre into England THe Queen Mother having been acquainted with the disorder which had hapened in the Queen of Englands Family first sent the Sieur de Barre to her to testifie to her that she was sorry for her and took part in her discontents and shortly after there being no reason to put up such an injurie the Cardinal advised his Majesty to dispatch the Marshal de Bassompierre as extraordinary Ambassador to the King of England for a redresse in the business Amongst divers others he was more particularly made choise of for that employment because there had been many of his near kindred retained near the Queen who were now all sent back again So that it was thought considering the near Interest of his family that he would be the more zealously affectionate in dispatching such instructions as should from time to time be sent to him He was but coldly entertained in England because audience had been denied to the Lord Montague who was sent into France upon the return of those Officers however he was no whit discouraged at it knowing that any Ambassador ought to shut his eyes at all little difficulties and obstructions so he may carry on his Masters work to a good issue The King of England appointed Commissioners to treat with him upon that affair who being met together he represented to them in order to his instructions that amongst other things comprehended in the Articles of Marriage it had been concluded and agreed on That the Queen of England should have free excercise of her Religion that she should have a Bishop and a certain number of Priests to exercise the Offices of her Religion That all her houshold should be Catholiques and French and that all the English Catholiques should in general receive greater priviledges then had been granted them if the Treaty with Spain had been effected That the late King James and the present King Charls his son then Prince of Wales had confirmed it by oath and that King James had commanded his Officers not to trouble or molest the Catholiques any more whereupon that the King his Master had conceived great hopes of prosperity and happiness for the Queen his Sister neither could he believe that the King of England his Brother in Law would break his word given upon the consideration of Royal Marriage who until then had amongst other virtues the reputation of being Just to his promises That this new Alliance instead of reuniting their persons and Interests would now rather breed great divisions between them and at such a time when they had most need of being in amity with one another both for assisting of their Allyes and their own particular preservation And that notwithstanding all these premises the King of England had sent back all those Officers of the Queen contrarie to the Treaty which had been confirmed by oath that he placed about her Officers who were English and of a Religion contrary to hers and besides all this that the Catholiques in General were every where troubled and ill treated for their Religion sake So that the King his Master unable to abandon the Queen his Sisters Interest had sent him to his Majesty of Great Britain to put him in mind of his promises and to perswade him That her Majesties Catholique Officers might be re-admitted to her as also that his Catholique subjects might be more favourably dealt withal The English Commissioners could not deny what had been concluded in the Treaty but they would lay the fault of the Officers return upon their own shoulders pretending that they had raised troubles in the Kingdome in his Majesties own Family and that of his dear consort the Queen but they did not produce any sufficient proofs upon the business And as to that which concerned the English Catholiques they pleaded that it had only been granted for formalities sake and to satisfie the Pope But the Marshal producing before them the late Kings Oaths confirmed too by another of the present King then Prince of Wales they could no longer tell what to say to the business but fled to other complaints not material or any wayes relating to the matter in question The Marshal replyed and that very tartly that he could not sufficiently admire that the Articles of Marriage and confirmed by Oath were not observed That the Queens Officers were sent back under pretence that they troubled the State without giving the King his Master any notice of it and without acquainting him in the least with those crimes which were presented to be committed That presently thereupon English Officers and those Protestants should be placed in their rooms That indeed those accusations were to be esteemed as frivolous and admitting them for just yet ought they to be chastised only and others French and Catholique put into their places by the rules of the Treaty But that indeed those pretended quarrels or Jarrs raised by the Queens French Officers were so far from being the true cause of their return that on the contrary the Lord Mo●ntague had been at Nantes not many dayes before their being sent over to congratulate the King and Queen Mother concerning the good understanding which was between their Majesties of Great Britain and concerning the great satisfaction which the King received at the Queen his wifes behaviour That of the suddain and unlookt for discharge of her Officers happening so immediately upon the neck of this joy could not but appear strange and that as it did much wound the King of Englands Reputation so it likewise injured the King his Masters Generosity who was

to their Princes Interests by sure and strong obligations when things are once at this pass there is no danger well may the people grumble and stir but all will soon end in nothing They are then like Ivy which indeed grows close together but yet creeps on the ground or like the Boughs of Trees newly cut off which bear no fruit and in two or three days wither to nothing or like a Ship which though it have a Mast Cords and Sails yet without a skilfull Pilot she runs at randome where-ever the Winds will carry her and at last dashes upon some Rock and is there split in peeces Or I may well compare them to those lofty raging storms which for a time seem to threaten Heaven but at last weary out themselves upon the sides of the Rocks which are not moved at it or to those thick black Clouds which hang in the Ayr and are driven by the Winds this way and that way but are soon dissipated by the weakest Rays of the Summers Sun The Chief is the Head amongst a mutinous rabble who if once he leave them they have no more life or motion then a Carkasse He is the Primum mobile who draweth them after him like so many little Stars and he is called their Head onely in consideration that as the parts of the body are without motion or life if that be ●●ken off so are they without him unable to go or stand His Majesty entreth into Usez Nismes and other Towns with the Edict of Peace SOon after the accommodation was concluded his Majesty made his entrance into Vsez and Nismes to the great joy of the inhabitants During his stay there he caused an Edict to be published containing that Order which he required to be observed in all the Hugonot Towns who untill that time denied the exercise of the Catholick Religion amongst them He pardoned the Sieurs de Rohan Soubize and all others who had born Arms under them He ordained that the Roman Catholick and Apostolick Religion should be established in every place That the Goods of the Church which had been taken away should be restored to the Ecclesiasticks together with their houses Churches and Monasteries that every Parish should be provided with good and able Curates And in fine that the Religion pretended to be Reformed should be allowed as free exercise But to secure them from all future Revolts the Fortifications of all their Towns and strong Holds were to be rased and thrown down onely leaving them their Walls standing and that for security of their Peace and good behaviour until their works were demolished accordingly they should deliver Hostages unto his Majesty to be by him kept untill the execution of it This Edict being thus finished and according to the Articles and Conditions which had been agreed on gave a great deal of satisfaction to the Hereticks who all of them now thought on nothing else but to live in Peace and Quiet excepting those of Montauban who proud of their strong Walls became so insolent that they refused to accept of those conditions which the rest had with so great joy and gladnesse They imagined themselves able a second time to resist his Majesties forces but considered not how things were altered and that affairs were not now managed as formerly they were how that his Majesty had by a Prudence eternally happy for France committed the Conduct of all things to the Cardinal who had furnished him with all the means of taking Rochel a place lately thought impregnable who had broken all the designs of Spain who had repulsed the English force so often who in one hours discourse had reced the Prince of Piedmonts Spanialized soul to become absolute French wo had perswaded the Duke of Savoy to whatever he had a mind and upon whose onely word all the rest of the Hugonot Towns were resolved to have suffered their Walls and Fortifications to be demolished and thrown down The obstinacy of the Town was such that his Majesty thought himself obliged to go before it that he might overcome it with force seeing no fair means would work upon it But the Cardinal considering how the sicknesse began in the Army and in divers Towns of Languedoc beseeched his Majesty not to hazard his person which was of greater concern to France then any other thing whatever and that he would be pleased to leave him to fight with the rest of this Rebellion with much ado his Majesty was at last overcome and resolved to return to Paris as he did after he had in six moneths time taken Suze saved Cazal forced Privas and reduced the most part of the Hugonot Towns under his obedience Politique Observation HEresie and Obedience are inconsistent with one another whilest there is any hopes left of force The Poets seem to have alluded to it in a Fable which they tell of Juno who being angry that Jupiter had gotten Pallas on himself she would needs breed something on her self too but instead of a Child she brought forth Typhon a mighty ugly Serpent who making War against Jupiter himself was looked on as a Monster of Rebellion just so it is with Heresie who having seperated it self from God who in his Church begetteth children full of respect and obedience would needs have children of its own but what are they Children of revolt and incapable of any subjection never did a perfect Heretick yet love his King And I wonder who can doubt or think it strange that they are such enemies of Temporal seeing they cannot indure any spiritual Monarchy Heresie hath never any sound solid reasons or arguments to defend its beleef and therefore the next thing it flies to is force Besides they finding that Kings have both an Authority and Power to punish them und that they do allow and approve of the true Doctrine in all Schools which is in prejudice to their false Tenents they presently become their mortal enemies and do their utmost to shake off the yoke of their Obedience How many wars and jars have they raised on every hand of us No one but knoweth that the Arians filled all the East with troubles That the Macedonians raised a great party in Greece and that the Donatists put Affrick into confusion How many Revolts and Rebellions have been in processe of time set on foot in the West by the Iconomiques by the Albigeois by the Lutherans by the Calvinists France Germany England and Holland have been theaters where they have played their pranks They pretend that Gods cause and their Religion goeth hand in hand and they do therefore the easilier beleeve that Heaven will protect assist and go along with them and upon this ground-work do they build any insurrection revolt or rebellion But why do they not remember that the Laws of true religion published by the son of God himself do onely permit them to die or flie but never to break the ties of their obedience or to take up Arms against their

Politique Observation NOthing doth more alarum the common people then the noise of new impositions they think it is to take away their lives at least to make them insupportable if you do but diminish a little of their subsistance which is the reason that the poorest of all are most prompt and ready for sedition they being desirous and greedy of novelties and as Tacitus in his Annales hath observed they have more to get then to lose by such revolts and turmoils Every one indeed ought to pity their poverty but the obedience which is due to Magistrates and the recessity of contributing to the publick charge renders them culpable without excuse Those who lead them on and incite them to their mutinies ought most principally to be punished for that they are the Broachers and Authors of all the mischief Thucydides speaking of the resolution which was taken by the Athenians to put to death all those of Mytilene who were able to bear Arms and to keep the rest in slavery by reason of the Rebellions which had been raised amongst them saith Justice doth not tie up a man from punishing the heads and principals onely It is not at such a time proper for a Soveraign to make his Clemency appear which is one of the best Rays in his Crown He ought so to pardon offences that he do not by it give way to or allow of that liberty which the people assume to themselves who will be quickly quelled if their Ringleaders be but punished To pardon all were an excessive liberty and would breed a like licentiousnesse and to chastise the most culpable is an effect of Prudent Justice Impunity authoriseth licentiousnesse and seems to give them leave to run into the same lapses and 〈◊〉 too much rigour and severity is enough to cast a Nation upon desperate resolutions and extremities It is a good way of reducing them to their due obedience by sending some grave personage amongst them as T. Livy hath observed whom they hold in some esteem and respect because Reputation and a good beleef is as the Soul of all other Reasons for that very cause it was as the same Author reports it that the Romans sent T. M. Torquatus unto Sardigna when they were upon the point of giving up themselves to the Carthaginian Protection The quick and timely dispatch of such person is of great consequence too for that Rebellion are like flames which do increase every day more then other if there be not great care to extinguish them in the beginnings The Monsieurs return to France THe King went to Troys and there rested some time as wel to satisfie the resolution which he had taken with the Cardinal of seeing his brother who after the conclusion of the accommodation about the end of the year last past which we have already spoken of retired to Nancy and testifying to him his hearty affections by all ways of lively demonstrations and of which there could be no just cause of suspicion seeing his Majesty had so frankly both pardoned him and augmented his Pensions 〈◊〉 we have already declared The Monsieur arrived there the 18. of April and in h●s Company besides his own retinue came divers Princes and Lords who were th●● at the Court and had been sent by his Majesty two Leagues out of the Town to me●● him He alighted at the Queen Mothers lodgings and the King stood expecting of him in the Court and received him with so great a testimony of joy and friendship that the Monsieur attempting to bend one of his knees to the ground his Majesty would not in the least permit or give way to it but imbraced him so long and ardently that one could not but conclude his Majesty loved him as his second self and very passionate he was to find that they were united in their thoughts in their wishes in their wills in their designs and even in their very recreations so that their faces seemed to be as it were glewed together The Court was filled with joy and these endearments continued all the while that the King continued at Tr●y●● so that there was great reason to hope that nothing would be ever able to separate 〈◊〉 make a breach between them had not those who had rendred themselves masters of the Monsieurs inclinations and humour rallied all their indeavours and artifices to confound and destroy it thinking perhaps they should become the more considerable by keeping them at a greater distance and raise more advantages to themselves by their divisions Politique Observation NAture hath implanted certain roots of friendship in the Blood which doth bud and spring forth upon any meeting after a little breach or falling out provided that hatred have not altogether seized upon the Spirit The Branches of Trees are not so easily rejoyned in their natural places whilest as yet time hath not strengthened them upon the Gardners binding of them up as the minds of persons to whom God hath allotted the same Parents are re-united into that love and affection which is natural to them if a Series of years hath not as yet confirmed them in their hatred and dis-respect of each other And in this the power of Nature is very much observed and the truth of their opinion made good who say that nature with our births doth infuse and inspire into us affections and inclinations to love those objects which she doth oblige us to seek after And as the Creator of the World hath imprinted in light bodies a certain disposition of mounting upwards and to others which are heavy an inclination which forceth them by nature to tend towards the Center of the earth so hath she likewise planted in man a certain affection for those of his Affinity as well as for those objects which are proper for him so that he can neither check his eyes or curb his heart but he shall find some sentiments of love in his spirit hence it comes to passe as we see that kindred love and that tenderly one another upon their first meeting though they had not known one another before this procedure making it apparent that their affection began not to be so much in their spirits as to entertain by the presence its object for that they had not differed to love but onely because they had not seen one another before The King committeth the Government of the Army in Champagne and of Paris to the Monsieur THat the King might the more oblige the Monsieur to preserve himself in his duty not onely of respect but of friendship he was not barely contented to have given him those large testimonies of his hearty affection but sent to him two Commissions the one for the commanding of the Army in Champagne the other to govern not onely the City of Paris but the adjacent Provinces in his Majesties absence whose affairs called him out of the Kingdome Politique Observation JT is great wisedom in a King to preserve and increase as much as in