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A11556	A true discourse of the occurrences in the warres of Sauoy and the warring of the forte of Mont-millan: by the most Christian King of France and Nauarre Henrie the fourth. Also the number of cannons and munition by his Maiestie taken in the said Mont-millan. Wherevnto is annexed, the oration of Sir Philip Cauriana, knight: pronounced to the most Christian Queene Ma[r]y de Medicis, at her departure out of Tuscane to goe into France. Faithfully translated out of French by E.A.	L'Estoile, Pierre de, 1546-1611, attributed name. aut; Aggas, Edward.	1601 (1601)	STC 21802; ESTC S102602	10,899	17

should we thinke the losse of our goods and most precious things befallen vs in these our ciuill warres almost of fortye yeares continuance to be but small in regarde of the good that we are to hope for in so beautifull excellent and reuerent a mariage and this only not a woman but a goddesse should suffice to recouer all our calamities This your honourable fame and this generall desire of euery man runneth ouer the Alpes euen vnto the vttermost bounds of France neither is there Painter or Caruer of Images but with all industrie as of their Quéene doe indeuour to draw your image and portraiture to the perfection of his skill There is not so meane a man or howsoeuer poore but hath it in his house and as in time passed the Image of Augustus was worshipped in priuate houses euen so it was at this day Truly it is a great matter that in the conceipts of infinite persons there should be formed first y e Idea of some great matter to come from the which by like means the issue should be taken also that they cannot possibly be drawne frō this first conceipt vntill the occasion be fulfilled which afterward comming to light discouereth the trueth of the vniuersall iudgement The like hath hapned in you most vertuous Mary who being discended from kings grafted and allied to great kings and endued with royall conditions after the troublesome decease of King Henry the third were in the iudgement of all men marryed to the valient Henry of Bourbon Such a iudgement albeit assessed by man was notwithstanding the worke of God fatall from heauen who hauing cut off all so great hinderances which as the world knoweth séemed insuperable and crossed your present mariage haue now knit you in an indissoluble knot to the inuincible king of France These surely are miracles workes vnexpected effects whose causes are vnknowne to vs and testimonies that God hath alwayes a care of kings and Princes Well may you thinke that neither your fathers treasure neither the nobility of your blood neither your great estates which the king néedeth not but the only fame of your vertues of your graces of your Christian pitty of your beauty did induce this great king to aske you in mariage who had no want of swéete and flattering Syrens or store of crafty Cyrces which in diuers sorts raised loue warres against him and laid siege to ouercome him yet he firme and constant as a rocke against the billowes and waues of the sea would neuer change neither will euer alter his minde much lesse now when hauing séene your presence to surpasse and excéed the report he shal be forced to rest entangled in your gracious lookes his most generous agents that so laboured you for his wife shall now reuerence you for the chiefest and greatest Quéen in Christendome as you are and be content to surrender all their desires to your present glory Thus haue the heauens alwaies and in time fit and conuenient béen liberall of their fauours to a vertuous and innocent Princesse Yéeld therfore perpetuall praise to God and thanke the wisdom and more then fatherly piety of your vnckle Don Ferdinando the great duke towards you Commend the goodnesse and exemplary life of that great Christiā rather in déed thē name out of whose mariage yours was deuided as out of great things greater are formed For in these young yeares of your tender age you were by them so brought vp and trained in vertue Christian piety that the most Christian king mooued and enflamed with the report of your name craued you in mariage Oh happy couple O most glorious mariages O memorable coniunction most glorious fruits which we expect from you I do already behold neither am I deceiued a most noble line issuing from you which spredding the French name ouer the whole world shall plant an other Gallo-gretia an other Celtiberi● in the farthest parts of the East your selues shall hencefoorth be a sufficient ground for all writers grauers and Painters to employ themselues in their exercises You shall minister occasion of spéech both publick priuate both in deuoute and seculer places euery man still will talke of your actions of your maners and of your iestures yea many times will they say Thus said great Quéen Mary Thus did she Thus shall you liue immortall in the memory of mortall men with the true titles of honor glorie neither feined nor begged Go therfore foorth and continue your iourney most Christian Quéen proud of the most worthy troop of so many Princes Princesses most noble Kntghts Gentlemen that waite vpon you of so many soules which accompany you with their vowes prayers vnto God for your prosperous iourney fruitfulnesse but farre more of Angels into whose tuition our good God hath cōmitted you And you most happy Tisi that carriest so great a Quéene feare thou neither tempests nor rocks for with her thou carriest her good fortune You go into a realme where y e magnanimous Katherin your kinswoman by the father did so gloriously commaund almost for the space of forty years that the name of your most famous family borne to sway the greatest Empires is holden in very great accompt You go to a kingdome established in a Monarchy at the same time in Christianity almost thirtéen hundred yeares ago You go to that place where you were expected desired adored before yée were knowne euen you whose vertues religion were heard of before your name You marie the most gallant warrior that euer drew sword who in a long set order of his predecessors of the selfe nation line is the sixtie fifth What farther portion of humaine felicitie do you want I do already sée all the shoares of Prouence couered with people of all ages kinds and of all sorts knéeling before you saluting you as their Quéene not omitting any token of perfect and inward mirthe ioy for your comming What shall we then do that haue nurssed and brought you vp shall we by our slacknesse séeme to enuie Prouince or rather all France in their ioy shall we dislike your contentment glory oh God forbid Nay rather as in the beginning of my spéech I aduised you most vertuous Tuscan to haue your recourse to sighes sobs and sorrowfull lamentations for her departure so now being come againe to my selfe hauing ouercome sorrow I thinke it more necessary that we reioyce with her to whome Italy being but a small matter the king of heauen hath giuen the fairest kingdom togither with the mightest king Christian to be her spouse husband because her glory is our glory Feare not that her far iourney shall euer blot out of her minde the loue that she beareth vs or suppresse the memorie of the sacrifice of our harrs which we haue already so long since offered vnto her For such a heauenly substance as she is is not subiect to times or

A true discourse of the occurrences in the warres of Sauoy and the winning of the Forte of Mont-millan by the most Christian King of France and Nauarre Henrie the fourth Also the number of Cannons and Munition by his Maiestie taken in the said Mont-millan Wherevnto is annexed the Oration of Sir Philip Cauriana Knight pronounced to the most Christian Queene Mary de Medicis at her departure out of Tuscane to goe into France Faithfully translated out of French by E. A. Imprinted at London for Walter Burre at the signe of the Flower de Luce and Crowne in Pouies Church-yarde 1601. A true discourse of things happened in the armie for Sauoy and in the winning of the Castle of Mont-millan HIs most Christian Maiestie forbearing so farre as his honor and the duety of a Prince that loueth peace and the good of his Countrey could affoorde was at the last to his great griefe forced to haue recourse to all meanes conuenient to bring the Duke of Sauoy to good order The said Duke hauing taken from the crowne of France and vsurped the Marquizat of Saluces in time of peace in the dayes of the late King Henry the third his Maiesties predecessor of happy memory hath not restored the said Marquizate according to the treatie and conclusion of peace made at Veruins in the yeare 1598. betwéene his Maiestie Phillip the second late King of Spaine and the said Duke of Sauoy neither as he promised by the last agréement betwéene his Maiestie and the said Duke of Sauoy made at Paris in February last A matter that hath mooued his Maiestie to alter his purpose declaring to those to whome it may concerne that hauing attended the said Dukes resolution he was lastly enforced to recouer the said Marquizate by force of Armes The King therefore willing by vallour and in discretion not onely to preserue that which appertaineth to the Crowne but also to recouer that which aforetime hath béene alienated did therevpon redemaund the Marquizate of Saluces which ●●d béene alienated as is aforesaid But the Duke finding it to be one of the most precious flowers of his garland referred off the King dayly for the restitution of the same Whereby his Maiestie hauing expected it a yeare and a halfe did neuerthelesse liue in hope according to the said Dukes promise to haue had the said restitution performed by the first day of June last passed But the King perceiuing that his elemencie engendred so great contempt sent his solemne declaration to the saide Duke of Sauoy therein protesting that himselfe was no cause of the warre or breache of peace but that full ill against his will he vndertooke this warre as knowing verye well that it could not redound but to the said Dukes vtter ruine decay The King therefore considering the premisses did to his great griefe albeit he came not out of Paris to that intent bring his armie into Bresse and Sauoy where it soone shewed it selfe with so many troopes as prooued that the Kings iust title or quarrell carried that which to him did appertaine The townes and Castles neuer stood out any or very small force but yéelded so as the King in a very short time pierced through the countrey euen to Mont-millan where vpon his arriuall he seized on the towne as likewise he did sooneafter of Chamtery Charbonniers and other places euen to Morienne which he brought vnder his obedience in which places himselfe was present to the great perrill and danger of his life Hauing thus taken the towne of Mont-millan he caused the Castle to be summoned to yéelde vnlesse that they had rather endure the furie of the Cannon Howbeit sith they grew obstinate the King deuided his army to beate it on euery side and caused his men to raise Bastions Fortes Hilles and Bulwarkes with wonderfull pollicie to beate the place This doone it séemed that albeit mans industrie could performe no more yet all this was but as a Butte for the Cannons of the said Castle to leuell at the place being of all men holden to be inpregnable and almost inaccessible But God who ruleth the hearts of Kings and Princes peized the hearts of these two Princes whereby the one was found to be replenished with a iust quarrell whereto he also shewed himselfe fauourable as he promiseth by his Prophets when he findeth a heart after his owne minde So that whereas the Duke of Sauoy purposed there to haue suffered the Frenchmen to haue champed on their bittes with the discommoditie of the winter season and tempests the place happily fell into the kings hands to the great preiudice of the said Duke of Sauoy who now findeth himselfe to be the prey of such mishap as he threatned to others therein resembling the Thrush who pearched vpon a twigge spreddeth her wings and so is taken of her selfe or the Gyants that sought to sight with heauen for surely this battle of the Giants doth represent and figure vnto no other but these that will rise against their betters as they did against Iupiter according to the wordes of the Poet. The Gyants men say would enterprize To seaze vpon heauen and Iupiter surprize Now will I bring vnto the French Theater one of the principall actes of this tragedie The King considering how difficult it was by assault to come néere this place and fearing the losse of the meanest of his Souldiers sought to winne those in the Castle by composition wherevpon God reading in his heart his good minde and affection strengthened him more and more against his enemies Many things they do report that ministred intelligence to the king but I doe ground my selfe vpon the most certaine I doe beléeue that the kings iust quarell deliuered him this place as the lawfull daughter of France built and erected by our Kings for as say the auncient Philosophers All things must returne to their head and foundation so that as well that as the rest being of France All shall returne to France In the end the Lord of Brandy Captaine of the said Castle finding himselfe vnable to resist the French armie much lesse the courage of so inuincible and magnanimious a king withall that he could not hould as being surprized by the kings diligence and foresight who resembled an Alexander or Iulius Caesar who both enterprised and executed in manner at once sought to growe to composition as himselfe required whereto the King condiscended mittigating certaine articles that went beyond the lawes of warre which he would not passe This composition did first containe a truce for one moneth so that incase the Duke of Sauoy did not come to succour the besieged and raise the siedge from before the place the said lord Brandys promised euen with hostages to deliuer the place into the kings hands The truce drawing to expiration toward the end thereof the Duke of Sauoy meaning to appeare was stopped through the kings discréet foresight who sent his armie to the passages to stop the said Duke of Sauoy