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A01170	Newes out of France: concerning great troubles likely to ensue, by occasion of the departure of the Queene Mother from Blois and the causes thereof. Contayned in the letters of the said Queene Mother, vnto her sonne the French King, and his answere therevnto; manifesting the motiues of his taking vp armes, and against whom he entends to imploy them. Dated the 17. of March, 1619. VVith foure other letters of the Queene Mother, to the Lord Chancelor, Keeper of the Seales; President Iannin, and Duke de Mayenne, and the Prince of Pyemont his letter vnto her, concerning these affaires. Faithfully translated, according to the French copie.	Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642.; Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643.; Savoie, Victor-Amé, duc de, 1587-1637.	1619 (1619)	STC 11284; ESTC S102585	9,352	29

Newes out of France Concerning great troubles likely to ensue by occasion of the departure of the Queene Mother from Blois And the causes thereof Contayned in the Letters of the said Queene Mother vnto her Sonne the French KING and his Answere therevnto manifesting the Motiues of his taking vp Armes and against whom he entends to imploy them Dated the 17. of March 1619. VVith foure other Letters of the Queene Mother to the Lord Chancelor Keeper of the Seales President Iannin and Duke de Mayenne and the Prince of Pyemont his Letter vnto her concerning these Affaires Faithfully translated according to the French Copie LONDON Printed by T.S. for Nathanael Newbery and are to bee sould at his shop vnder S. Peters Church in Cornchill and in Popes-head Alley at the signe of the Star 1619. THE QVEENE Mothers first Letter sent vnto the King of France her Sonne from Loche the 23. of February 1619. Stile nouo MY Lord my Sonne I haue long suffered endured my honor and liberty to be suppressed and withall conceiued many strong and strange apprehensions of the danger of my life and that which most fencibly moued me thereunto was the depriuation of your sight and presence All which in some sort and manner being done vnder the authority of your name with the like patience I would haue expected attended the future euent thereof without for mine owne part once seeking to know whether your proceedings and desires be well or badly led but being to my great grief to preach and set forth your vertues and commendable praises in such a place wherein you shall thinke good that I shall continue the rest of my dayes Beseeching God as continually I doe with the most passionate feeling of my heart for the prosperity of you and all your kingdome being most truely euen in the vttermost degree of fidelity and affection my good Lord and Sonne Your most humble and most affectioned Mother and Subiect MARIA From Loche the 23. of February 1619. Stilo nouo THE LETTER Written by the Queene Mother and sent from Angoulesme to the King of France Bearing date the 10. of March 1619. Stilo nouo MY Lord and deare Sonne I am perswaded that no man will approue the counsell that hath beene giuen vnto you to abstaine tenne dayes from returning an answere vnto my Letters and then to put mee in a doubt how to vnderstand your intentions which to be borrowed from others and none of yours I doe too much conceiue and apprehend by the great numbers of Commissions which are sent forth vnder your Name to renforce and to leuie new companies of foot and troupes of horse by the Switzers which are said to be sent for by the Cannons which are reported to be already mounted and set forward out of your Arsenall and by the munitions of warre which are sent against mee I most humbly intreate you my Lord and deare Sonne for a while to stay your proceedings and withall to consider what you are by others moued to doe When I writ that I desired to be so much oblieged vnto you as that I might let you vnderstand and know such things specially as import the good and furtherance of your seruice and estate and to belocue that the extremitie of the griefe which I conceaue for the armes and forces which you are counselled to leuye at this present doth in a manner kill mee The staine which is giuen to your name in all ages of a prodigious violence and the desolation of your people which thereby will ensue will doe you more wrong then death can procure vnto me in such manner that prostrating my selfe at your feete I beseech you and earnestly intreate you speedely to countermaund all your aforesaid preparations of forces and armies now levyed which are bent onely against mee what shew soeuer is otherwise made pretended seeing they are presently levyed vpon my departure from Blois and that it is euidently knowne that at this present you haue no other occasion of ciuill or forraigne warre to moue you thereunto And therefore once againe I earnestly intreate you to giue eare vnto me If my intent and determination had no other ground then onely a desire to be freed of captiuitie I thinke and certainely beleeue that no man could dislike it there being no law in the world no not among the Barbarians which prohibiteth Prisoners to seeke for their libertie and to secure their liues But seeing that I neuer had nor yet haue any intent or meaning but to let you know and be made acquainted with the euident danger of your affaires as also of your good Subiects easily to be perceiued by the withdrawing of your person and your counsell from the greatest and most noble personages of your realme I am vndoubtedly perswaded that your bountie would gladly haue conceiued the passion of my zeale and withall commended the fidelitie and respect which I ought to haue and owe vnto you if it were not violently diuerted by those who disdaining all the offers of amitie and good will which in consideration of you I haue made vnto them hazard the state and trouble the peace and tranquillity thereof being perswaded that they cannot build the miracle of their fortunes but vpon my ruine whereunto I would gladly consent if thereby I might further and procure the continuance of your greatnesse I protest before God and his holy Angells that for mine owne part I pretend nothing neither haue any other designe then that which I ought to haue for the prosperitie of your raigne kingdome and for that I see manifestly perceiue your eares to be stopped against my faithfull and iust supplications I must and shall be constrained presently to make knowne in all places both of France and Europe and hereafter vnto your selfe the true proofes of my sinceritie and innocencie assuring you that as much as I can I will seeke meanes to impeach and hinder the force of armes whereunto you are drawne not onely against the law of God but also of the whole world and Nature causing the great personages of your Monarchie offended and discontented to breake their bounds and to doe as much against the obedience whereunto as it is well knowne I alwaies counselled them But for mine owne part I will in all places vse my libertie and my life to please and content you but yet to oppose my selfe against the crueltie of those that gouerne if for the space of this whole weeke I perceiue and see the continuance of the vniust forces which at this present are prepared contrary to that which I hope to finde in your good nature and the equity of my cause which I expect from God I thinke I shall be forced by my iust and generall complaints to publish and make knowne that my deplorable misfortunes continually encrease by vniust and superfluous excesse of the ambitions and feares of those that soueraignely possesse your person and Kingdome and that as by your permission

but yet with my most great displeasure and dislike I ought to dispose my actions to the necessities of defence alwayes contayning my selfe so religiously within the bounds thereof that I may onely draw you from an opinion of dislike for giuing mee leaue to suppresse them that so I may preserue my life and the long dayes vpon earth which I assure my selfe you will and wish vnto her which is and euer shall bee whatsoeuer happeneth my Lord and deare Sonne Your most humble and most affectioned Mother and Subiect MARIA From Angoulesme the 10. of March 1619. Stilo nouo A LETTER Written by the King of France in Answere to a Letter sent by the Queene his Mother bearing date the 17. of March 1619. Stilo nouo Faithfully translated according to the French Copie LONDON Printed by T.S. for Nathanael Newbery and are to bee sould at his shop vnder S. Peters Church in Cornehill and in Popes-head Alley at the signe of the Star 1619. A LETTER Written by the KJNG of France in answere to a Letter sent by the Queene his Mother bearing date the 17. of March 1619. Stilo nouo MADAME Your last Letters as also the first that I receiued from you are to mee assurances that it resteth not in your power to write and signifie vnto mee the true feeling of your Interiour cogitations touching your opinion concerning the gouernement of mine estate You know and may perswade your selfe that the same neither can nor may in any sort be blamed or disliked but that the disgrace thereof must needes fall and specially be laide vpon my selfe which moueth mee to thinke and verily perswades me that you will not offer me that wrong to bereaue me of the glory of my raigne by attributing vnto me the reputation not to doe or effect any thing but by the motions of others I know there are some that not onely seeke the meanes to perswade you yea and to imprint in your minde an euill opinion of my affaires but also inforce themselues to mooue you to apprehend and sinisterly to coniecture of the preparations to Warre which at this present I make as if I had an intent or meaning to vse them against you But although my authoritie of a King doth dispence with and warrant mee not to yeeld an accompt of mine actions vnto any man but onely to God Neuerthelesse I would that all the world should know that my resolution and intent is to imploy them onely for the maintenance of mine owne authoritie the peace and tranquility of my Kingdome and to hinder and impeach the meanes and motions that in any wise may or might trouble the same or procure the Ruine and desolation of my faithfull Subiects as also to oppose my selfe against the pernicious intents purposes and practises of those who vnder your name and title haue levyed and gathered diuers companies of Souldiers as well within as without the Realme which I should neuer haue beleeued if I had not seene and heard the Letters which they haue caused you to write not onely touching this subiect but also to giue an euill impression of the administration of my affaires vnto diuers Princes Lords and others as well my Subiects as strangers who would not beleeue it The knowledge and feeling which the perturbators of the common peace of this Realme haue alwaies had of the singular affection and honour which I beare vnto you makes them hope that my clemency will indifferently pardon and remit all the attempts which they enterprise and take on them to doe in your name against my regall authoritie But I alwayes knew and know how to distinguish your interest from theirs in mee hauing no other resolution then onely to loue and honour you as my Mother and to punish them as rebellious Subiects and enemyes to my estate Nature so powerfully vniteth mee to harken vnto all that which in any wise toucheth and concerneth your good or hurt that I am bound to imploy all the power and force that God hath giuen vnto mee for your deliuerance Those that attend vpon my person haue so many and so euident testimonies to perswade them of the respect which I alwaies haue had and borne vnto you that you may beleeue and certainely perswade your selfe that they are as desirous of your contentment as in reason they are affected to further and aduance those things that concerne and appertaine vnto my seruice The former testimony as also those which continually they shew vnto me thereof are so euident that they binde and obliege mee to maintaine and protect them both by reason and Iustice Assure your selfe MADAME that there is no man so bolde that dare enterprise or take vpon him to propound any proposition which may in any wise sound against or be contrary to the Honour and respect which is due vnto you If you perswade your selfe that there is any thing to bee required and desired in a Kingdome wherein Iustice and Peace hath equally flourished and beene maintained euer since I had the care and gouernement thereof you may when it pleaseth you vtter vnto mee that which you secretly conceiue in your minde without spreading or causing Complaints publikely to bee giuen foorth Which manner of proceeding as it is wholy against my meaning and intent so it giues cause sinisterly to iudge of yours for that the same hath neuer beene nor is practised or vsed but onely by those that alwayes haue had a desire rather to perturbe and trouble the gouernment than to procure the reformation thereof In my last Letters I wrote and likewise by Mounsieur de Bethune by word of mouth certified vnto you that if it please you you may chuse any of your owne Houses or of mine therein to liue at your pleasure and full and free liberty without any impeachment in such manner that it is long of your selfe if you liue not happily and contentedly Let mee onely entreate at your hands to be ayding and assistant vnto my good ententions with a true correspondence of will affection and let me see and perceiue some testimonies from you therein as worthy of a good Mother as those which you shall receiue from me are worthy of him who MADAME resteth your most humble and obedient Sonne LOVYS From Paris the 17. of March 1619. Stilo nouo Letters written by the Queene Mother of France to the Lord Chancellor the Lord Keeper of the Seales and the Lord President I annin The Queenes Letter to the Lord Chancellour MY Lord I haue hitherto laboured and sought only to let the King my Sonne vnderstand the iust causes and reasons of my escape from Blois wholly grounded vpon the passion and bounden duty which I haue and owe vnto the good and furtherance of his seruice But to the contrary those that are and attend about his Person thinke me so vnworthy to know his intents that they haue made me deferre the same and induced him to rigorous and violent courses such as the like were

neuer heard of before as those which I specially apprehend which are to raise puissant forces against the person of her that brought him into the World and who breathes and apprehends no other thing but onely passion and obedience to those things which may be good profitable vnto him although the place and presence of euill counsellours were contrary and suspitious vnto mee Villiers hath not forborne in heart to acknowledge the tender affection of nature in such manner that I must of force with more hope summon you before God and your natiue Country that according to the duty of your office you should not feare to shew vnto him the great importance and danger of that which he is moned to doe without any respect at all of my dignity or commiseration of my misery And to the end that you may truly know and vnderstand what I haue written vnto him I haue deliuered vnto this bearer two Coppies of the Letters which I sent him touching this matter as knowing well that they are often times kept from you and all others the good and ancient Counsellours and Seruants to the King and the Crowne And herewith I beseech God my Lord Chancellour to protect and preserue you From Angoulesme the 10. of March 1619. Stilo nouo The Queenes Letter to the Lord Keeper of the Seales MY Lord It was neuer yet heard of not knowne that a Prince would at any time purposely defer and put off the hearing of the counsell or suite of a faithfull Subiect and that a Sonne in stead of satisfying the sincere affection of a good Mother should bee moued or counselled violently to take armes against her therewith to oppresse her I know well that the wisdome wherewith you are so religiously in dowed neither will nor can moue you to giue him any such counsell and much lesse can I bee perswaded that the good nature of the King my sonne can be induced or moued vnto any such extraordinary motions whereof if I were in doubt the very greefe I should therby conceue would kill mee But seeing that God hath presently made mee to perceiue and know the violent natures of those that alwaies were my enemies and seeke to afflict me I thought good to put you herewith in mind of the strict dutie whereunto you are obliged which is freely to tell him your minde and opinion in so important a cause And reading the Coppies of two Letters written by me vnto him touching this matter you may iudge and easily perceiue the equity and true intent of my deseruing which that you may the better consider of I beseech God my Lord to haue you in his keeping From Angoulesme the 10. of March 1619. Stilo nouo The Queenes Letter to the Lord President Iannin MY Lord my desire is that you should tell the King my Sonne that which in conscience you thinke conuenient and fit for him to beleeue and to do touching the supplication by mee made vnto him to hearken vnto the great passion which at this present I haue for the presernation of his authority and the good of his estate for that your Office and your counsels at this present are much more necessary and convenienter for him then euer they were in regard that hee is moued vnto the most violent vnlawfull warre that euer was heard of I writ vnto him another Letter whereof as also of the first this bearer shall giue you a copy to the end that being informed of the iustice and cleerenes of my proceedings you may giue him counsell as much as possibly you can for the good and furtherance of his seruice and the peace of his Kingdome which I will seeke to maintaine as much as in melieth euen to the losse of my life and so I beseech God my Lord to haue you in his holy keeping From Angoulesme the 10. of March 1619. Stilo nouo The Queenes Letter to the Duke de Mayenne MY good Cosen I was resolued for euer with patience to haue furmounted my afflictions as long as there had beene no other question made but of my interest and paines thereby not to minister any cause or shadow vnto the King my Sonne that I once so much as imagined or dreamt of a desire to separate my selfe from his intents although it is to be thought that therein he is badly counselled but hauing for the space of a whole yeere beene solicited by the generall complaints and intreaties of diuers persons both within and without the Realme to let the King my Sonne vnderstand and know the eminent danger of his authority and the tranquility of his Realme I made no difficulty to hazard my life by a most dangerous escape that so I may safely shew him the intent and true meaning of a good and faithfull Mother and hau● already written vnto him most humbly beseeching him to set mee downe such a forme as it shall please him to appoint mee to hold and obserue in the vttering thereof I thought good speedily to impart thus much vnto you not onely because the account I make of you together with all France makes mee desire to let you vnderstand my determination but also knowing the great estimation which the King my Sonne hath and ought to haue of your Counsell I wish you would ioyne your intreaties with mine thereby to moue him vnto the remedies which I assure my selfe you know better then others to bee most necessary Strictly intreating you aboue all things as much as possibly I may in the meane time carefully to put to your helping hand that no stirre be made and that euery man attend and expect from his good nature that which he is obliged to shew vnto his Subiects and estate If I needed any witnesses to proue that the opinions of the seruice of the King my Sonne haue moued me to certaine resolutions which nothing concerned mine owne particular I would first set you downe for one and at this present I protest vnto you vpon the confidence which I desire to haue of your magnanimity in a businesse of such importance and in respect of the inclination which you know well I alwayes bare vnto you that in the most interior thoughts of my heart I haue no other intents nor resolutions then onely those which the prosperity and power of the King my Sonne cause me to haue Let vs therefore labour to that end and for your part you shall finde mee together with the account I make of your valour to be alwayes From Roche Rezay the 6. of March 1619. Your very good and affectionate Cosen MARIA The Duke de Mayennes Answer to the Queenes Letter MAdam I cannot conceale from your Maiesty the extreame displeasure that I feele in my selfe to see and behold the estate whereunto your departure from Blois may reduce and bring the affaires of this Realme And should conceiue much more were it not for the assurance which it pleaseth you in honor to giue me of your true intents for the