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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02982	Abridgement of the life of Henry the Great, the fourth of that name: King of France and Navarre. Translated out of French; Sommaire de la vie de Henri IV. English	Vignolle, fl. 1637.	1637 (1637)	STC 13125; ESTC S116643	4,339	26

Abridgement OF THE LIFE OF HENRY THE GREAT The fourth of that name King of FRANCE and NAVARRE Translated out of French LONDON Printed for NATH BUTTER 1637. To the KING SIR I Have found an old Manuscript which being in mine opinion both judicious and true I made bold to print and present to your Matie which if with a quarter of an hours time onely you honor in very few words you shall see the glorious life of the King your Father This life Sir can be imitated by none but your Matie and can be offered you by no more faithfull witnes of it then my selfe who not dying under the Fathers commands have no greater ambition then to end my life in the Sons service and deserve by well serving to be regarded by your Matie Sir as Your most humble most obedient and most faithfull subject and servant VIGNOLLE TO THE IMMORTALL MEMORY OF HENRY the Great the fourth of that name King of France and Navarre VErtue and fortune agreed to title this Prince Great whom the wonders of his life have styl'd Incomparable Hee was conceived at la Fleiche borne at Pau passed his infancy at Coyrase in sharp ayres in the most rustick exercises of the country that the delicacy of his breeding might not hinder the actions of his courage At seven yeares old hee was brought to Court to be educated with those to whom by right and merit hee was to succeed The tendernesse of his first age was hardned by divers great accidents At nine years old the King his father dies the Queene his mother being absent his Vncle in disgrace his friends in distrust and his servants in exile At thirteene he leaves the Court and to obey his mother the religion wherein hee was bred At sixteene he is made head of a party whose hopes being cast downe by the losse of foure battels relevated themselves under the favour of his armes and happinesse of his presence At nineteene he was intangled in a truely funerall wedding which began with the unexpected death of his mother and was followed by the losse of his liberty death and proscription of his At twenty three he was freed from that captivity to enter into the ordinary servitude of those who command in civill warres He was often constrained to make necessity a vertue and to entertaine his army even by his army The dignity of Generall dispenc'd him not from the dangers of a common souldier untill he had made his party safe by the fift edict of peace At thirty one the death of the Kings onely brother raised him to the neerest degree of the Crowne The Flowers de luce turne towards him and salute him as the Sunne rising of France All at once this great calm which they enjoyed changeth into a terrible storme which poured on him in five yeares ten royall armies The battell of Coutras the orient of his hopes manifested that he ought to be fear'd by those who lov'd him not Yet the prosperity of his affaires bereaved him neither of feeling the publique miseries nor of griefe to see himselfe constrain'd to vexe his King to whom heretofore he had offered his person and friends The Tragedy whereof he was made the argument France the theater and strangers the authors was fearefully concluded by the death of two Princes which filled the Kingdome with fire and bloud The King being surprized at Tours was so happily relieved by him that three moneths after he had entred victorious into his capitall City but for that execrable parricide that ended his life Then the true French being quite desolate apprehending for one King divers Tyrants and acknowledging the just cause of their lawfull King cast themselves into his armes He seeing the most powerfull forces of Europe banded against him the rebels insolent and the good subjects astonished makes as many combats as treaties as many sieges as lodgings He disgests in his Cabinet incredible griefes and perplexities and overcomes in the field infinite dangers Diep receiving him serves for an example of obedience Arques declares him invincible Paris believing him vanquished was terrified to see him at her gates Vendosme le Man 's Lizieux Evreux Alencon Verneuil Honfleur are carryed away by the torrent of his armes Meulan owes her safety to his helpe Ivry elevates his crowne by a renowned victory Mantes and Vernon open their gates to him Melun receives chastisement for her temerity S. Denis is forced to yeeld which the enemy taking is there taken and killed Paris had beene lost had hee not fear'd to lose it Corbeil by her losse ruines the enemyes army and by him being presently re-taken manifests his diligence Longeval admires his conduct Chartres his perseverance Noyon his courage Louuiers his vigilancie Aumale is a witnesse of the bloud which hee spends for the safety of his Rouen reduced to extremity sees him meet his enemies to fight with them Ivetot disorders them Caudebecq covers their flight Espargnay advances and Dreux augments the shame of it All the forc'd townes publish his power the rendred his faith the surpriz'd his goodnesse Never beaten Alwayes victorious His palmes flourish in the Provinces under the reputation of his armes and the good fortune of his commands The same day that his presence gave life to them at Ivry his power produceth them at Issoire they stretch forth even to Grenoble and further draw Aix from out the servitude she sought and confirme the fidelity of Bourdeaux and Rennes Under their shadow doe happily succeed the battels at Poncharra Vignon Beaumont and Villenur All France being filled with the glory of his exploits confesseth that what he could or hath not done is unknowne or impossible to any other God who conducted him by the hand to the Throne of his Fathers fortifies his soule by a singular fore-sight to break the new designes which rendred the divisions of France immortall Hee addes to his victories that of himselfe Stretcheth his armes to the truth acknowledgeth the Church the sacred monument of his Predecessors are witnesse of the sincerity of this action and is sacred and crowned Most Christian King in the most ancient Temple of the Christian world At that change the pretext which had filled the wicked with audacity and the good with feare vanisht The Angel guardian of Kings saves him from a damnable and enormous attempt on his person Meaux Lions Orleans Bourges acknowledging him confirme themselves in their first fidelity He takes Paris makes her sensible of the effects of his clemency safety and felicity enter justice is re-established and the authority which sedition had taken from her is restored Hee permits the forraigne forces to issue armed to the glory of his generosity who knowes neither how to feare nor hate his enemies Rouen frees her selfe from their yoake Laon is their sepulture The townes which followed the greatest in their revolt imitate them in obedience Troyes Sens Agen Charteauthierry Poictiers Peronne Amyens Beauvais Reims S. Malo come and offer him the