appeared the best to fall on the Faction while it is unprovided and immediately to turâ— the Power against them And lest words should be rumoured by delay that very day it was resolved in the Palais Royal to depart secretly and at midnight leave the City immersed in wine and good chear Besides the Queen and Mazarine Orleans Coude Meilleray Villeroy Grammont Telleir and the Abbot of Rivieres agreed in this resolve Grammont had given him in charge to convey away the King Queen and the Duke of Anjou which he carried happily for with his usual Policy he escaped the strict Watches of the Faction at a Postern Orleans with Mazarine was got clear by another by-Road At the midst of Queens Course on the way to Chaliot was the general Rendez-vous Through sharp frosts and rugged ways having travelled alt the dark night by break of day they arrive safe at S. Germans Conde tarried a little behind to bring off with him his Mother Brother and Sister His Mother and Conti sets forth in compliance with him the Dutchess of Longueville refused alledging for excuse her fear of miscarrying in that she was near her time but in truth keeping in mind the engagement at the meeting of Noes she had far other designs in her head The Guards early in the morning march out to overtake and wait upon the King Not a few Nobles go speedily after whether out of Duty or Policy Orleans is made General du Plessis Praslin takes up Quarters at S. Denis three miles out of the City Grammont at S. Clouds Corbeil is immediately invaded The Queen rejoycing that all her designs through the Divine blessing succeeded and that forces to take her part were coming up from every place treats Conde courteously in remembrance of his past Services and the sense of her present necessity to make use of him doubling all expressions of kindness towards him Nor was he wanting to deserve her good word behaving himself with all reverence to the Queen in a becoming modesty In the Town of Poissie and the neighbouring places a strict prohibition is made that no Victuals should be carried into the City The Country about Paris is made wast by the rude Souldiers Hostility is acted openly all dangers and shapes of Fortune appear terrible The City is frighted lest taken in her actual Rebellion she should suffer condigne punishment they were constrained by fear that had not been wrought upon by favours The miscarriage of a few threatning destruction to all whilst punishment was inflicted upon the far extended Body of the spreading Delinquency By the shortned supplies of one day it was seen that mans life is sustained by fresh meats and Cities be the bringing in provisions from abroad Troops are in all parts levied Raising Souldiers is imposed upon Priests and Magistrates nothing is excused from Contributions the Authors of the disorders being but few the consequent destruction involved all At the same time the Seyne swelling upon Rains and a sudden Thaw had overflowed the flat parts of the City Several houses were born down and men drowned That inundation was looked upon as a Prodigy as if the very Rivers assaulted Paris Fools taking that which is Chance or Nature for Fate or the Divine Wrath. In the mean time spreading same had dispersed all abroad the News of the Cities calamity The most faithful Peers in their mutual Conference did not touch upon the wretchedness of the times Her Majesty keeping all passages carefully in memory distinguished from the rest such as were worthy for her to trust alone The King by Letter to the Provost of the Merchants that is an Office at Paris recites cursorily the causes of his Retirement the fickleness of the Faction Plots laid against his Person and that he could not with safety continue any longer in the City Orleans and Conde under their hand profess themselves to have been the Advisers of the Kings Retirement The Parliament is charged by the Kings Writ to adjourn to Montargie The City was affrighted at that which is in a night of darkness unless the King and Parliament shine upon them The Archbishop of Corinth summoned by the Kings Letter shews himself ready to obey Gets into his Coach as if he were just upon quitting the Town The common people flock about him offering to stop his Horses by the reins He had before engaged the affections of all to him The throng was violently moved with earnest passion towards him All kissed his Hand or his Scarlet Gown He chose rather to follow the Caresses land Applauses of the common People than the Kings Commands In such distress to attract the minds of the Vulgar must needs require Art and Industry Talor Bignon and Melian which are called the Kings Proctors in the Parliament are sent Commissioners to his Majesty They come back again without having Audience or so much as being admitted into his Majesties presence Conde chiefly laboured it might be so upon design to advance his glory by the Troubles then in being Such things as were suitable to the present occasion were conveyed to Paris It is scarce credible what a plenty of all manner of provision flowed in and with what scarcity they struggled in the Leagure without The Peasants run any hazard so they may but succour the besieged Every one had full liberty to come in all are stopped from going out again to the end sure that the Court might relent at so many pledges and relations Several persons in disguises slip away from the destruction of the ruined City for they expected no less The Kings Souldiers and Officers are by express Act of Parliament prohibited from entring into Towns Cities and Castles they are to be repulsed from all parts as Enemies of their Country A Proclamation is put out That none should relieve the Mazarinists so were the Royalists called with Provision Arms or other Ammunition or if any should presume so to do they should be liable to the same punishment as Mazarine An unreconcileable rage of malice appeared upon this turn of Fighting or Treating A few days passed on after this rate still remarkable by some new emergency At length the Thunder-clap broke over the head of Mazarine He is voted in a full House guilty of high Treason and the Disturber of the publick Peace Every Age Condition Sex is commanded to assault shoot or stab him whoever harboured him in the same house with them should be guilty of the same Crime with him He comforted himself in the conscience of his Vertue which can neither deserve disgrace nor it was should happen can ever be overthrown but went on in the practice of his former gentleness with a resolution impaired by no violence always so putting up injuries that he might be thought not to have resented them Never did courage more undauntedly perform her part then in that the heighth of his Spirit disowning to regard affronts nay or just fears I am certainly informed it was the advice of
the not aggravating of faults and not breaking of the Lute-string that jarr'd but bringing it by degrees into Tune Paris by instinct and in a heat calls for its King There are meetings of the Citizens in the Louvre to find out means for suppressing the Faction nay they fall upon the marks of it For those that wore Straw were all about the Streets pelted or abused On the contrary such as had returned to their Allegiance stick scrowles of paper in their Hatts in token of their Loyalty to the King The Court having broke up its unsatisfactory residence at Pontoise retired to Compiegne whether slocked an innumerable concourse of Nobles Citizens Commoners Peter Seguier the Chancellor secretly slipt out of the City in disguise I know not by what ill luck he was President of the Princes Counsell against his will yet would have suggested wholsom advice He was received gratiously by his Majesty at Compiegne and afterwards had the Seales restored which none kept with more integrity used more discreetly or held a longer time An humble address is voted in the Town-house whereby the King should be petitioned to return The Parliament of Paris although it seemed to slight that vain appearance of the Court held at Pontoise yet took it for a diminution and declined by having their Authority divided Now the secret was divulged that the Parliament is not confined to the walls of Paris only and that there is no surer Law than that the King may do whatsover soever he pleases to do Therefore is Justice drawn an Assessor to Majesty undoubtedly because whatsoever is ordered by the King must be judged legal But the very Parliament men were inclinable to the Kings return and had already given thanks for the removing Mazarine who was called the Rock of Ofence the Cause or at least Occasion of the Troubles Although Conde strong with the Lorraine and Wittemberg Forces held Thurenne at Villeneuve of St. George in a manner blocked up the Kings Army being there reduced to extremities yet such is his foresight that he plainly perceived that he could not longer sustain the sway of all France recoyling to its obedience nor be able to stand the assault which such a power menaced Least he should be overwhelmed on the sudden with that vast weight and all way of escape cut off he retreats with his men into Flanders by Champaigne so much the more willingly because Thurenne had got away in the night having left fires burning in his Camp to conceal his departure Indeed the Cardinal the matter of War being gone Conde could hope for nothing more from the People less from the Sling the head of which Beaufort was quite out of credit with the Faction Orleans being weary of his Labour and Arms breathed after nothing else but rest Upon these effectual arguments Conde on good grounds withdrew from imminent dangers besides that being so linked to the Spaniard in Bonds of Association that he could upon no terms stir from his Articles with them Another bait there was in the way the Plate-Fleet that was then expected from the Mines of Perâ—â— The Spaniards do with this Lure inveigle such as are ready to revolt with a vain shew of riches which hath to often deceived and will deceive the simple world If there be cast up the charges fortune of the Sea and the like a little Gold is purchased at a great deal of Gold At this time died Leo Bouthillier Chavigny in a flourishing age but not estate Having left the Kings high way he went into a misleading path Prosperity he received thankfully adversity not so patiently He might have rested upon internal goods of his Soul and been prepared against the accessories of Fortune A little before his last he devoted himself openly to Religion It is grown a practise of late years among the French that they who miscarry in their designs turn Religious Vetaries they are commonly called for palliating their â—ices vitious in sacrificing to God the dreggs of their life Thus died Chavigny mortifying himself not only with Religion but also with a more strict diet By the same Arts hastning his death as Life is wont to be prolonged If there be any levity in the spirit it is puffed up with felicity which upon the turn of favour is abyss'd A fault of the Nation condemned and still maintained From such easiness of fortune what do not we daily suffer and that undeservedly During these troubles France loseth the Sea-Coast of Flanders Gravelin and Dunkirk and other neighbouring Towns which are born away by the same torrent of Fortune having been honourably purchased by Blood and Gold But Barcellona the chief Town of Catalaunia renders it self to Don Juan so often happy and that had done so many high services In Italy Mantua staggerred and having in vain demanded relief for casall of our King applied to the Spaniards By such dismal overthrows France might have felt greater losses but Beliere being sent thiher did a little stay the fall of Catalaunia Guise a few years before elected Captain of the Common-wealhth of Neples and amidst those cruel disorders taken and carried into Spain is now set at liberry and that principally at the mediation of Conde It was the Castillian subtilty to return Guise into France and to gratify Conde in it That bearing in memory his Ancestor he might make new plotts and raise disturbance But he forgetting the favor of his enlargement and his obligation to Conde diverted himself on Balls and Tournaments His attempt of a second progress into Naples was a bravado to renew in his light mind by way of vain derision those hopes taken down to the very ground None in the world ever fained such idle dreams that was descended of Ancestors who aimed at so lofty and so solid matters Monce reduced by a lingring siege to an extream scarcity of all things is surrendred to Pauvausse by Person the relief of it having been in vain attempted by Briol Conde storms Rhetel Chasteau-Porcin and St. Menhoud leaving Garrisons for his future hopes The publich Joy and Festival Acclamations for the returning of the King into the City cannot be enough expressed Sedition Faction like tales told are vanished out of the memory Paris glittered with the lustre of the Court so that one might truly say the shaken and starting world was hâ—ng right upon his hinges again Some orders in the Senate were enacted by the Kings command The more obstinate Senators chased out of the City the submissive by disputing nothing obtained pardon of all things an agreement useful to the Subject honourable to the King Orleans went not to meet the King when he came in and therefore tarried not in the City Retired to Limour thence to Blois to the end of his life always discontented His Dutchess a little while after overtook him Whilst the affairs of Guyenne incline towards submission to the King a new faction starts up at Bourdeaux called the Elmers from an Elm-grove
carried away he falls a crying and roaring and running after the Coach cryeth out to all that he knew His Master is carrying away to all that he did not know Broussel wâ—â— made Prisoner Never did Sedition rage in such menacing terms Never was the Vulgar so cruelly inflamed A Boys crying within a quarter of an hours time put 100000 men in Arms. O frail Mortality frail Mortals what are we A transient Scene a vain shadow without substance With â—how great successes did the French Glory then exalt it self What blessed times did shine How many Gallantries at home and in the field To what purpose are these Commotions of Spirits and so great Discords Great happiness cannot sustain it self but sinks under its own weight Such is the Divine pleasure when it is decreed to overthrow States and Empires to send effectual Causes for humane Errours Charton upon some foreknowledge escaped out of the way Blammeny is carried to Vincennes without any noise Only Broussel is called after It was openly talked That the best Patriots for standing up for their Laws and Liberties were hurried away on a day of Feasting in times of Peace That the time designed for publick mirth was stained the joy of the Townsmen disturbed the serenity of the City clouded Their forwardness to merriment was turned into sadness before any cause heard without legal tryal The King being attended by none of the Princes only a few of the Life-Guards the Parliament incensed the Commons incensed with fresh discontents All the Court-party were accused of Treason The most loose men were most desirous after Stirs in hopes to reap their particular Advantages The factious Tumult carried along with it the compliance of the better-meaning men Those that resisted the Sedition were stoned as they went along The Streets were â—npaved the Houses untiled stones flew about ears fury turning every thing that came next to hand into Weapons It was uncertain which weâ—â— best to tarry and be taken or to disperse and 〈◊〉 away Sometimes courage was pretended anoâ— fear discovered and as it falls out when mind are stir'd up to sedition they did fear and werâ— feared The Nobles in all parts laying aside theâ— rich Habits and forbearing the train of Servants went into remote streets of the Town Feâ— would keep in their own houses but the moâ—â— lodged at their friends or lay incognito in obscurâ— Corners Many scaped out of Town by diverâ— means some in Servants Cloaths others conveyed by those that depended on them Not a few took courage for their concealment Meillerâ—y Mareschal of France rode stoutly through the City most remarkable amongst all On every side weâ—â— Arms and Threats the streets being barricado'd by Hogshead and Iron Chains Their minds enâ—ged with blind fury now against the Nobles whâ— would imagine it anon against the Senate And because they could not design any one in particular to their anger they were bold withal in general The violence of the Commons was scarely restrained by the doors of the Royal Palace from breaking in They demand to have Broussel shewed them fain they would see the face and look of Broussel Lamentable was the face of the City Every man run mad without any Leader receive Warrant from himself to forbid whatever is commanded to command whatever is forbiddeâ— Soon that which falls out in desperate cases every one commands and none executes The Life Guards kept not the use of tongue nor heart no ears The besieged in the Louvre and the Besiegers had their different fears The Citizens threatned by their Arms what the Spaniard durst not have presumed The Spirits of the honest party were overwhelmed with pity and care but what is always wont to fall out in so great Consternation every one would be giving of counsel few would undertake what had danger This menacing night and offering to break out into some horrid outrage the carefulness of Mazarine did allay He walked the Rounds undaunted not in Robes suited to his Dignity but having disguised the gracefulness of his looks in a Perruque Sets Sentinels and Guards at several places here and there giving this charge Neither to fright nor be frighted but watching all motions to restrain violence not provoke it When it was day Peter Seguier Chancellour of France is dispatched to the Parliament to carry them the Kings Orders or in truth to try what was their intention The Common-people did not go forth in duty and respect to meet and wait upon him but received him with sowre menaces and looks that declared more of obstinacy than repentance The Chancellour passed on with a countenance formed to gentleness beckning all the way as he went to the people to keep silence They roared with fierce exclamations Rascals thronged about the Coach sometimes there was a confused murmuring other times a terrible out-cry as their passions varied in height they beset the Coach examining him Whither he was going that he too might cross the peoples interests after his old wont At once they rush upon him and threaten to tear up the stones that the streets are paved with And he was now ready to be crowded to death with the violence of the press when he was sheltred by getting to the Hostel de Luyne which as it was the place of his Birth was his Mother and almost his Grave These being concealed from the fury of the Rout which filled the House with swaggering and menaces he escaped through the goodness of God by the errour of the Searcher How nearly you may judge by this that he had no longer thoughts or coming off with life but how to die decently Thus was that place ennobled by having concealed him who is worthy to be shewed to all posterity Through the singular favour of Fortune which permitted the hope of the Laws over-born by corrupt Manners to lie hid in safety When the Court came to hear of this the Queen was much concerned left the life of such an excellent Person should fall into the hands of base Fellows So Meilleray on Horse-back with Dort break through the seditious Crew and having rescued the Chancellor from that imminent danger convey him back safe to the Queen in a Coach half torn the Guard being frighted and some of them slain The Sedition breaks out farther and the madness of the people rises to higher exasperation F. Paul Gondy designed Archbishop of Paris commonly styled Coadjutor in his Pontifical Robes carrying with him a Veneration as he passed along the streets moderated the people with Language and Gesture He would treat about their Proposals the King was neither without clemency nor yet severity Some there were that taxed Gondy as if his heart he had been somewhat favouring Alterations However the matters were in truth that was the first day of Gondy's withdrawing and the cause of all those evils which that Prelate eminent in mind birth and merits fell into afterwards from this time he shall be ever after called the Archbishop of
vengeance on them being penitent We are not afraid of falling under the suspicion to have been debauched from our Allegiance although your people having been harassed by the oppression of some bad Officers hath foolishly endeavoured to vent their passions upon their King and Country For the pardon of their past licence your City will acquiesce in your Royal Word and judge it self safe in that as in a Garrisn Our obedience whensoever you but please you may command This boldness secured by your Parole will be no more invited to transgress by the taking up of Arms. Your Majesty sent us a Herald to try our Allegiance and honesty That we sent him back without Audience must be imputed to our Reverence not obstinacy We had not so far forgot our selves as to stand upon even terms with our Liege and Lord. Soveraign Powers send and receive Heralds one from the other If you range us in co-ordination with them we have reason to desire herein to be excused and disclaim an Honour above our Rank affecting only the glory of Loyality and having no higher pretences than of being dutiful If we have done amiss we submit condemn us to what punishment you please we are ready to undergo it as sensible to have deserved it When he had done speaking the Queen softned with such Language answered They should find none more dear to her than such as did heartily repent and this the issue should demonstrate In the mean time they were referred to hear her farther pleasure from the Chancellor He discoursed much and pertinently bewailed the misfortunes of the people yet they must look to it that there never be occasion given to repent of the favour in chastising the Faction rather by Law than the Sword In conclusion he did not incense the Queen but disposed her to mercy Afterwards the door was opened and they were carried to a place of feasting and made very welcome Orleans and Conde seemed earnestly to advise them to render themselves to the Queens mercy from whom they might promise themselves any thing They returned to Paris with better success than they expected Leopoldus Arch-Duke of Austria was then Governour in chief over the Low-Countries not without secret instructions to have an eye over the French Tumults That is the Spaniards old custom to look always obliquely upon our prosperity and to rejoyce at our misfortunes One Arnolfin is sent from Leopoldus express with Letters to the Parliament and Conti which he first discharged himself of in the house of Elbaoeuf The Prince being scarce full eighteen had neither hatred nor love but such as were suggested to him by his Sister and Marsillac such then was his Junta by whose instigations Noirmont and Legué were dispatched to the Arch-Duke Leopoldus promised to send Forces to relieve Paris so that some fortified Town or Castle of ours upon the Frontiers might be put into his hands for Caution This discovered that the Spaniards have not yet left their old Arts. Such was the madness of some that they did impudently advise it as reasonable to be done The more judicious were utterly against it There was in company with Leopoldus when they entred France Lewis Trimonille Noirmont carried away by the stream of the Faction rather through his Fate than any inclination he had to the Party from which he was so averse that he trembled at the Enemies entrance and went as Quarter-master before more to warn the people to save their Cattel and Goods from plunder than any design to farther the Invasion of the Spaniard yet for this he was attainted and innocent man suffered When as with the sole memory of the Battel at Lentz where being forced upon disadvantage of ground and the charge of the whole Enemies Battalia to retreat at the passâ—â—â— over a Brook that lay between when he was joyne with Conde did such excellent Service as might easily erase what he did after which swerved from Allegiance to the King Arnolsin desires to be admitted to the Parliament and what was to be admired or detested rather he was admitted anâ— presented the Arch-Dukes Letters to so venerablâ— an Assembly making brave and great promises iâ— Leopoldus his Name It has hardly been known that any matter was more nicely scanned Aâ— length the well-affected Party reclaimed the seduced Members to better courses They scattered the mist of Errour and pierced the Spanish Artifices and subtile Designs and resolved it is upon the question that in all cases the Spaniard be suspected though he bring Presents The Parliament of Paris neither wrought off by the vain preparation of the Commanders nor the promises of the Spaniards chuse certain Commissioners to send to the King and Queen their prime President Mole Meâ—mius and Violet with the chiefest of their Members for honesty and experience About the same time what I must not pass over in silence the pestilent Star of Rebellion did influence England with the like Contagion which forgetting its Allegiance and Interest and breaking in upon the Sacred and Venerable Presence of Majesty did not spare its own natural and lawful King Charles held his Kingdom by Succession from his Father A Prince of a most mild temper nor moved with necessary severity against Offenders Not naturally much addicted to business as diverted perchance by the security of a long Peace intrusted Himself and his Estate to some imfaithful Counselâ—ors From whence were all the mischiefs occasioned which befel that Best King to the particular Odium and Infamy principally of Cromwell who taking advantage of Charles his temper and of the weaknesses and errours in the Government poysons and corrupts all the parts of the Kingdom Hereupon Phrensie and Ambition take up Arms against the King and when he was brought low lay violent hands upon him The King awakned too late began to assert his Honour and Cause but was now debarred of his Liberty a Prince for Gallanty of Spirit inferior to no King and that could not have been over-reached but by his excess of Goodness was driven by the Villany of others to exert his own Vertues Cromwell a Person bold and of a deep reach that had fair words at will to carry on his own designs second to no man living in Cruelty and Pride whensoever he might exercise it with safety at length went so far whether by Fate or the corruption of the Times that upon the Scaffold as is notorious to all King Charles in a pretended form of Law by Sentence of a High Court of Justice in the view of his Subjects had his Head cut off by the wicked hand of the Hangman Thus much by the by because I have already hinted it in the former Book there will be elsewhere a fitter place to dilate upon Cromwell who yet reaking with the blood of his Soveraign soon after invaded his Throne The storm seemed now to allay at Paris when in these condescensions an Accident about Thurenne had well-nigh disturbed the Treaty of Peace He was
out of Town over Orleans and the Faction When he committed the Princes when he released them not voluntarily but by compulsion when he trusted Chevrense iâ— returning into the Town and afterwards in departing the Kingdom and at last when he procured Corinth the promotion of a Hat that Judgment of his so often steady was dazled All these Particulars on which he reflected too late he is judged to have done in compliance with the Queen and against his own sense Charlotte Monmorancy the Mother of Conde aâ— this Juncture of time desceased it is uncertain whether of grief or her natural death Her Fame waâ— divided between favour and envy For some time careful of her conversation always curious of heâ— Beauty No habit of patience although her condition were not unexercised with frequent calamities She indulged the vainest Deity more than any Woman amidst very few moments of discretion yet she always bore a resemblance of wisdom But I have spoken more elsewhere concerning this Princess Clode Memmius Avozzi dyed much about the same time scarcely above fifty five years old having comprised in that narrow period of time so great a stock of vertues as scarce any Gown-man in France From his first entrance into publick Imployment he directed his chief actions to the obtaining Fame which by the rareness of his parts he soon obtained to favour him and then by an inofensive tenour of an upright conversation together with excellent services he brought to an high eminency being renowned for his most celebrated Embassies over Italy Germany and the farthest of the West the Danes the Poles the Goths and Vandals in which at his pleasure he brought into League those people of warlike Natures At last in the Treaties of Munster and Osnabruge he did such service for establishing Peace with his industry acuteness and policy that he indeed was not in fault but that a glorious conclusion had been made of that infinite Work Expecting of the Kings promise the Order of Knighthood which is the principal of the Kingdom he was in the mean while invested in the Charge of High Treasurer which in an exemplar Bravery and Gallantry he voluntarily laid down with clean hands invincible by covetousness and stubbornly upright Inquisitive posterity will diligently search of what lineage this lively Picture of Honour sprang I say of the Mammian whicâ—â—â— when one or two golden branches are plucked of doth eternally sprout forth with the same metal being an ever flourishing stock of vertues and daily illustrating its ancient and unquestionable Nobility with the lustre of excellent qualities Now I come to the foreign Actions which proceeded to the ruine of France in Italy the Walâ— Country and especially Catalaunia for there Mâ—â—â—ara took from us Flix it is upon the River Iber a Fort of great importance and Tortugia a Sea-poâ—â— Town Miravet and Fausset and other places He was General of the Spanish Army which exceeded not 5000 Horse and Foot but so weak were the Forces of France at that time and so great the scarcity of all things that Mercoeur the Vice-roy being reduced to extremities was forced to go back and leave the Government and Charge of the War to Sanmegrin seconded by Balthazar as well as he could For all these misfortunes were we beholden to the Sling of Paris which mark of infamy no traâ—â— of time will wear out In so great a calamity of the State our Souldiery over all the Quarter of Catalannia was without heart without discipline and without money The Garrison-Souldiers after the manner of France plundered and laid waste the neighbouring Territory and when they had pillaged all would tear from them as it were their very hearts blood Hereupon grew despair which gives courage to the greatest Coward Joseph Margareta assisted every where with his counsel and vigilant care he evaded a thousand Plots laid for him by the Spaniards But what could he do in so deplorable and lost a State No Country-man of ours paid a more untainted Loyalty to France than this Margaret whom we afterwards saw a banished man to draw a foreign air and feed on the bread of affliction bearing an immortal hatred to the Spaniards either slighting or despairing of pardon In Picardy the Spaniard invaded nothing but weak places and such as lay naked to the first comer for the only reputation of the Mareschal d'Estres preserved Laon and Soissons unattempted by the Enemies strength Fuensaldaigne stopped a while at Bryenne driving the Cattel for what other action did he perform Praslin defended Rheims in Champagne No damage was done to the neighbourhood besides the depopulating of houses excepting the misadventure Hoquincourt only a person more suited for beating up others than guarding his own Quarters But those occurrents are more notorious than to stand in need of my relation The report spreading of the prosperous successes in Guyâ—nne Leopoldus with part of the Cavalry speedily marches back to Brussels lest he might be judged to have made a less handsome Retreat just upon the Kings approach in Person In the mean while Joyeux Granpre Governor of Mozome upon the Masze between Stenay and Sedan with greater courage than judgment embracing Condes party eagerly as he doth every thing was deceived in this that he aided the Princes cause with his bare person only Mozome continuing yet at the devotion of the King and breaking their word to their Governor He huffed and being heady at action and sudden consels nor well digesting the boldness of the Garrison strives to avenge it and incites Fuensaldaigne with Gamarrâ— to the Siege of Mazome which when it was reduced nevertheless he could not get the Government from the cautious Spaniard Hereupon growing melancholy and not duely respected by Conde after his enlargement recovered his Majesties favour and his Government Mozome by the mediation of Fabert Afterwards having given many proofs of his valour he made it appear what Martial Discipline Grandprey had in an Engagement in the open field upon a March in Sallies and at all occasions as though Fortune had no power to destroy him he was daring beyond valour and successful as may be instanced in the single fight of Sillery against the Condeans After the carrying of Mozome Thurenne carried his torn Army into Winter-quarters between the Mazze and the Ausne Fuensaldaigne departs it had been more advisable to quarter together having made no expedition into France that might bear weight or turn the scale of affairs for what is more pitiful than with a pompous Preparation to have triumphed over a few plundered Peasants over Chastelet Rhetel and Mozome How great trembling the Spaniard had caused at their Entrance so great joy left they at their Departure having left Thurenne and Gamarra who shortly after paid soundly for their unhapply staying behind Nor did that vain Bravado either enlarge the Princes or encourage the dissaffected party or advantage the Sling but only served for an empty Scene of Action with a small disaster to
the French man feels the weight upon his back sit light he abuses without measure the gentleness of his Rider taking a licentiousness of offending from a presumption of pardon That airy people is not to be fixed but by fear nor was any man in the world more inwardly acquainted with the temper of his Country than Armand Richlien who first rid France with a curbed Bit and brought in terrour Mazarine encountred more sad difficulties upon the Victory than in the Battel The Faction at Paris grew more fierce but it was in secret Juntas They blab out nothing any where or speak without premeditation every where was profound silence or dissembling words more dangerous than silence They who were Mazarines greatest back-friends seemed most inclinable to him would invite him to the Court that he might reap the frâ—iâ— of his Victories and that which of all Court-crasâ—â— gives the most unavoidable blow the counterfeiting a friendship more pernicious than any malice only to gain more credit to malignant suggestions conveyed amidst specious Applauses a venom to be feared especially from those that our Confidents and lodge in our very bosoms The discerning Cardinal perceived those Artifices but either the Queens indisposition or the malignancy of his Fate brought him back into the City on the last December 1650. where only the List of his Successes was his overthrow as theiis at Athens who were banished by the Ostracisme The Parliament which hitherto had kept within bounds Orleans who would not have had Mazarine banished the Sling that thought it for their Interests to have kept him as their stalking Horse all now with united Forces attaque him Every such general Commotion is always fatal nor can ever be supprest or regulated by any Expedient The colour of their dissaffection was the enlargement of the Princes which every Party wishes but with different pretences Corinth was then the vital Spirit which the whole Combination drew He only strove not that the Princes might be set at liberty but removed to Paris and kept in less close confinement that afterwards when Mazarine was expelled at pleasure either he might himself release them or keep them in closer restraint that so he might insinuate himself into the Sling the Parliament and at length into Orleans by the help Madame Chevreuse by which means he might be without cotroversie Head of the Party and then by raising Troubles in a short time get a Hat that so by raising greater Troubles he might at last obtain the being Prime Minister As if France should eternally need the Scarlet Gown for her Government which might more decently be sent home to Rome for the use of the Conclave its proper place Orleans requested the Senate for the most part by Corinth his Deputy and ratified what he delivered in his Name although sometimes they were bold words and such as neither agreed with the gravity of the Hearers nor the Character of the Speaker Nay would exasperate the Assembly against Mazarine by whom he related that Parliament-men and good Patriots were called Cromwells and Fairfaxes only for not coming up to the Court-sense in contemplation of the Publick Good taking thereupon an occasion to impeach and charge the Cardinal for being as he said the Author of all the publick Troubles taking always the Engagement of the Princes for a Cloak Such Assemblies were often forbidden by the Queen but always retained and more frequented Orleans in person not regarding Wife and Children nor minding his Dinner would abide whole days in the Parliament-House pressling the Banishment of Mazarine and the Release of the Princes without end Nay kept at distance from the Queen which he had not hitherto done would make more addresses to her nor could be prevailed upon by any intreaties to come to a private Conference with her till the Princes were set at liberty and Mazarine in good earnest expelled out of the French Dominions The Parliament by humble Petitions and Advises inculcated the same into the Queen but Mole the Premier President of the Parliament of Paris made this grave and eloquent Speech to her Majesty There might not be any longer shifts nor alledging dilatory excuses the excellent Prisoners must be released and could no longer be detained in a dark Dungeon without forfeiture of the French Allegiance whose very appearance now posting away was ready to break forth into open Rebellion unless the imminent mischiefs were timely provided against It was not equitable nor seemly for the Kings Uncle to give way to a Foreigner One of them must be gone Now it were better for a Stranger the cause of all the divisions before any violence be offered him to go away without suffering harm than for the Duke of Orleans to come no more to Council and all the State run to confusion When this was heard there were no more debates about the Cardinals departure The Leading-men of the Royal Party offered their services as though Mazarine were to be maintained by force of Arms and drawing up Souldiers into the City but he judged these to be but flashes Nor will a wise man ever depend upon such promises in adversity always vanishing into the air From Cuboville which is a Town of Normandy not far off Havre de Grace was a Letter written by the three Princes and delivered to the Parliament wherein the Illustrious Prisoners implored the Laws trampled under feet and Statutes unexecuted Petitions also from the Princess of Conde and the Daughter of Longueville were presented to the Parliament which was then Umpire of the French differences The Princes followers took courage from the success and held which is strange secret Treaties in a City that keeps no Council the substance of which was That the Princes by all means be released that a Match be procured between Enguien the Son of Conde and Alencon the second Daughter of Orleans as also between Conti and the only Daughter of Madam Chevreuse a Hat for Corinth and what is the principal Article that Mazarine be exterminated All this did Corinth get subscribed by Orleans without the knowledge of Beaufort who would otherwise have let forth all the secret into Monbazons bosom which afterwards having been searched into by the subtility of the Cardinal would utterly have overthrown the Prisoners before their Release and themselves while they were entring upon the Intrigue All these Transactions were carried every hour to Havre de Grace and the answers of the Princes brought back to Paris as though the Princes were already at full liberty by correspondence not allowed but unrevealed the Servants Doctors and Keepers of the Princes being bribed whilst Bar was very careful but altogether ignorant and making a great stir to no purpose Who would not wonder at so great closeness in a babling Nation and that which will make the miracle surpass belief all to be managed by Women not only Procurers of pleasure but Platonick Lovers which proved yet most faithful in this business A prodigious thing for
now put on a stoutness for a few days Chevreuse practised a thousand devises in favour of the Prisoners as though in Election to be thereby Mother in Law upon the Match of her Daughter sometimes would wooe Orleans her self sometimes by Corinth and Chasteauneuf at other times would prostrate her self to Mazarine of whose departure she was the greatest occasioner insinuating this to be the most proper lenitive to the Spirit of Orleans who always received satisfaction in compliance either to relax or endear him Thus was the French Court governed at that time The Cardinal more than any man living pierced into these and the like Intrigues and at length compassed his ends by a profound sounding of such dispositions Harcourt came back from S. Germans to Paris where he had like to have been crushed by the popular fury not so much for having served Mazarine with care and faithfulness but for having treated with Sea-men a most rude generation of people about hiring a Vessel who divulging the matter raised no small Uproar as though there were a Plot about conveying away the King and Queen wherein I 'le warrant you the Mariners were much concerned Mancini the Nephew of Mazarine overtook his Uncle His Nieces stole away privately being committed to the care of Hocquincourt and were brought to Peronne as though the ruines of such a House could not lye in one place but must be scattered all the World over Yet was not the Age so barren of Examples but that some discovered a stubborn loyalty kept entire to the King and Queen for whose cause especially it was not Mazarines out of the motives of particular interest as the event testified but the Queen had made offers by Mazarine to all even the seditious whatever the one and the other did strive to get whether secretly or by Mutinies if they would but have been quiet But the French have no patience to stay for whatever hopes they have upon any grounds conceived therefore they soon 〈◊〉 from straight to indirect ways then to crooked courses and at last fall into precipices The Cardinal proceeded on his Norman Journey not environed with that Train nor guarded with such a Troop as he was wont Yet there attended him d'Estrades Plesse Belliere and about twenty other Personages not of the lowest rank of the Nobility with a Squadron of 200 Horse commanded by Palvausse Other Attendants uninvited with design of drawing somewhat from him at his going off Some to be Spies over him few out of respect All would repeat the Risques that they run at their coming forth by a Volley of shot out of the House of the Dutchess of Orleans We were said they almost beaten off from our Horses and in reproach called Mazarines Ronserol with a cloth about his head often in the sight of Mazarine though he had no wound yet had that wound which was not carefully dressed mornings and evenings out of a vapouring ostentation Divers discourses â—assed to and fro Some That the Cardinal was â—ne directly for Havre de Grace to secure himself with the Princes and make Articles to his best advanâ—â—ge Others That he might let them out presently â—nd immediately return to Paris Others That he â—ight indeed release them but himself remain in Haâ—re de Grace till the storm were over and mens passiâ—ns abated which was the nearest truth Every â—ne spoke after their Judgment and perhaps not so much after their Judgment as out of dissimulation â—y the third days March the respect to Mazarine â—egan to grow cheap For the French are of such Nature that unless you hold a strict hand over them they will not long be at command The Cardinal as his present condition required giving â—ll fair words thereupon presently fell into disâ—steem They would press into his Chamber not make their entry crowd to sit down at Table â—natch not take their meat prate and talk loud â—t Board who had been before most submissive â—latterers The Horse-men plaid the wanton and â—ell upon the Flocks and Herds that came in their way the Normans impatient of receiving any the â—east appearance of damage take up Arms and come to Mazarine with complaints of having their Cattel plundered This was then his special care who ordered either the goods that had been taken away to be speedily by Palvausse restored or full satisfaction to be made for them but was slowly obeyed Every day came Letters from the Queen by which he was bidden to be of good courage and was under the Kings Hand assured of his return which Mazarine never once doubted such was hiâ— confidence in Fate and security of Fortune which as he said would never have by such steps advanceâ— him to that height to cast him off in the middle 〈◊〉 his Race because of innocent contests with Competitors for his Masters service and affirmed that he never was a false Prophet in divining any thing In the mean while Orleans contended for the Release of the Princes earnestly and in union with the Parliament and Sling-party to obtain that Rochefoucault Violet and Cominges should be dispatched without any delay with instructions from the King and Queen and Letters of Cachet oâ— Commission under the Seal for releasing the Princes which being issued out then Orleans waited upon the King and Queen and Council and was President after that by Act of Parliament with the consent of the Queen he had entred a strict Caveâ—t for the unrepealable Banishment of irrevocable Mazarine who having heard of these Particulars and judging it convenient to make haste lest the Commissioners who were now on the way should draw to themselves the merit of having set the Princes free came early to Havre de Grace on the 13. Feb. 1651. In order to this as hath been said Gramont Lyonne and in the behalf of Orleans Goâ—lâ— had gone before to be Spies over Conde under pretence of his enlargement He was every day certified by a thousand ways and Arts besides Ciffres not only of the state of Affairs but of the most minute Occurrents Now Havre de Grace was no longer a Prison but an open Fair so was all kind of Ware bought and sold Bar the Keeper of the Castle â—eing neither Fool nor Knave but beset with a â—rain of corrupted Followers There was no lonâ—er debate about their Enlargement but the obliâ—ation and reward for their Enlargement what eveâ—â— one laid claim to If one could be supposed to have â—een a Midas who turned all that he touched into â—ld could never have made so much gold as they â—ould be Suitors for or if Conde could rain gold 〈◊〉 would never be solvent for what they expected These were the very words of Mazarine And in â—uth the Prince might easily guess that when he â—as come out of Prison as shortly he would he â—ould then be confined to closer straights through 〈◊〉 cravingness of his Party Chevreuse was the most pressing burden because of the promise of â—â—arriage that is the Match
from Engagement The Guns being discharged on both sides Condes Party drew off Thurenne who always tempered the forwardness of the Souldier with Authority Providence and Valour acquainted with being in a prosperous or dubious condition and thereupon undaunted carried away the credit of that day and confirmed the drooping Army There appeared his labour in business courage in danger industry in action quickness in dispatch It may not be omitted that the King being but fifteen years old stole from those about him and animated the Army with his Courage and Gesture which proved advantagious Condes Forces encamped at Estampes the Prince goes for Paris to fix Orleans that was Chavigny's Counsel With what joy of the Common-people and with what Congratulations of the Parliament he was received can scarce be parallell'd in words At this time Longueville fearing the continuance of his state resolves voluntarily to lay down his Government in Normandy thinking himself unable to sustain the storm ready to fall by the approaching Arms of the King who would be the Conquerour it was manifest the edge of Conde's authority growing every where more blunt In lieu of Normandy Longueville had given him on the Borders of Champagne the Government of Maceria Olypomont Chastel-Renant and Linchamp but what was the principal Charleville was bought him of the Duke of Mantua it is a Soveraign Lordship amongst the Arcuese of pleasant scituation upon the bank of the Maze looking towards Flanders and Yverdon this pleased Longneville now in his de clining years That he should exercise Soveraign Authority should lead in mirth the days of his Old-age at his own pleasure and without molestation compose his last thoughts nor be troubled with the Norman humours The Articles were signed by Mazarine in his Majesties Name and by me in the Dukes at Giemie which how they came afterwards to be invalidated I shall speak in the proper place At Paris were boystrous Spirits but that durst venture no farther than words It was long debated in Parliament how the mony should be raised for a reward to him that killed Mazarine and there was none found to undertake the Assassinate The Cardinal was not moved with any terror only he wondered when the French were embroyled in Civil Warr that all-their Allies should continue firm and no one start Orleans Conde and the Parliament still heaved at the Government Whom to restrain nothing seemed more adviseable then for the Court leaving Giemie to settle at St. Germains hard by the City This was speedily done And immediately Commissioners from the Parliament and from the Princes attend upon the King and tender him all ready duty Here were appearances of intire Loyalty which repentance had redressed and Rebellion disarmed but with unanimous Consent they petition that Mazarine the occasion of all the troubles might be removed The King leaving St. Germains made some stay at Courbeil and from thence goes and falls upon the Princes forces at their Rendezvous at Estampes They having Barricado'd up the place make a stout defence and elude the assaults of Thurenne who upon the approach of the Lorrainer is forced to draw off and convey the King in safety to Courbeil If ever the strength of authority seemed to have lost its edge it was in truth at Estampes where the King in Person having made an offer of entry without success was more than once in danger by the discharge of the Gunsâ— It had been much better not to have put that to the hazard After having quartered at Courbeil and Melun to watch the narrower over Paris the Court chose St. Denys And that there would be put a period to the Civil Warr was not unreasonably believed the City growing more complyant although the Issue proved otherwise Conde's Army held St. Clous and the neighbouring Country led by Tavan The Royal Camp without the Seyne lying opposite watch an opportunity of engaging Therefore they go to lay a Bridge over the River at Espinay but are hindered by the Condeaâ—s Thurenne with Seâ—neterre his continual Fellow-Commander begin to make another Bridge not farr from Poissy to divide the Enemy Conde certified of the approaching assault draws off his Forces by night to lodge them more safely at Charenton A more convenient Quarter could not have been chosen being flanked with the Seyne and Marne and having the plain of Brice open to furnish it with Provision While the Parisians deny entrance into the City the Troops destined to the slaughter round the Walls which making but slow progress by reason of the vast circumference of the wall Thurenne presseth upon them as they are spread in the Suburb of St. Anthony and about Piquepousse Presently the whole Court flocks thither The King attended by Mazarine could hardly be restrained from entring into the Encounter The end saith he to the Civil Warrs which ye desired is come And who could have doubted of it The City had turned about to the Court being weary of longer bearing the insolâ—ncies of the Germans and Lorrainers The Shops of Paris being destitute of that gainful trade which the King only suplies The face of the Camps was very different On the Kings side was Number Valour the Cause and above all Majesty present On the Enemies Terrour a faint Obedience between an infence City and a King eager in the pursuit of his denyed Rights In truth Conde early in the morning coming forth of St. Anthony's Gate and having strictly viewed how the state of affairs was and in what a pinch he was taken by fortune turning to Beaufort Nemours Rochefoucault and the rest standing by said I do not palliate the danger with words This day we must perish Let us therefore Perish not 〈◊〉 since after despair of Victory we are to 〈◊〉 fighting I design my self to that Part whither I shall be called by danger whither I will lead not send The Officers agreed and all being prepared for be extreamest hazard they fought from five in the morning till five in the evening with such obstinate hearts on both sides that I question whether ever among the French there were an Example of a more stubborn Conflict Under the Walls of the City the Citizens looking on and waiting for the Issue The Daughter of Orleans was no weak stay of the Battel whilst with a manly forehead she inflames the Parisians for Conde whilst she diverts the Common Council of the City from their promises made to the King and holds the Gates open for Auxiliaries to go out to the Prince or come in again whilst she discharges the Canon in the Bastille against the Royalists in token that the City stood affected to Conde lastly whilst she heartens her Father and carries him along the streets appearing to all The Bulwarks in the Suburb were the matter in dispute Those were cast up by the Townsmen against the infesting Lorrainers now are defended and maintained with such stoutness and exceeding love of praise There were slain on both sides men of quality
Presence-Chamber whither within a quarter of an hours time Conde being called in falls down at the Kings feet but was presently raised up as is usual on such an occasion the first word was most attentively watched for but instead of that was a courteous whispering that one would soon have imagined a hearty reconciliation After this having visited the Queen and Anjou he presented the choice Commanders of his Army Boutteville and Mersin and the rest not concealing the Vertues of each Marsin disfigured more then any else with scars received for Conde no less confounded with the Kings bounty as the memory of his own carriage and the publick hatred the cause of which was the more grievous in that it was just casting his eyes on the ground acquitted himself with only looking up to Conde In Conde there was no abjectness no pride no change of temper in a change of Condition his mind had on the sudden wheeled about from Banishment and Guilt to Majesty He admitted all mirth and plenty applyed himself to such as flocked about him and expatiated in Flatteries having a quick Wit in a graceful return of Complements Whatsoever he said or did although without Art delighted the ears and eyes of them that were present Further that he might allay the name of Souldier which sounds harsh amongst the idle Courtiers with other vertues he avowed his resolution of following a quiet and peaceful life One might have seen faces shining with a sudden cheerfulness the cloud of so many part troubles being in a short time scattered So much power had that brightness of blood that of successes and what is above all nothings being difficult to Conde's Fates Thus having spent about eight days he returns back the same way hearing as he came along the death of the Duke of Orleans of whom I shall speak afterwards He that in work and upon the march lately consorted with the Common-Souldier in Flanders reserving intire the Authority of a General at Paris vies with the most Courtly Lords in Ceremony and Complements As mens Affections were forward Conde's Wit increased his Reputation being adequate to any fortune whatsoever the gracefulness of his Countenance with a certain Majesty his prosperity mens minds bending towards him and instead of all his Fortune To have escaped so many imminent mischiefs be restored to his house advanced in glory One might see the Prinees Palace from early in the morning till late at night swarm with people Men come out of curiosity return with content cannot be satisfied with gazing admire the same vertue which lately they hated his youthful affections and which had been heretofore loose now â—â—rbed with heavy cares his conditions altered for the better and though he were but middle-aged as to years yet was he reported to have parallel'd the longest time of life as to Glory These things were heard at Court and believed to be more then in truth they were his Popularity was condemned and it was disliked that he had received Bishops with courtesie above the ordinary rate that he had nailed Mourning to the top of his Coach for the death of Orleans It is a Custom which is past into a Law that none may assume this to themselves besides the immediate issue of Kings He that had so often nailed Canons dares not now nail his Coach The Prince complains of mischief in the new Court equally grievous but not equally condemned yet modestly as amongst his Masters thanked Mazarine for giving him such advice For the avoiding these and the like jealousies he resolves to leave the City for a time and retire into Burgundy The Government of that Province which had been restored him was the Pretence nor to spread his sail any more to prejudicial Fame but seek a cure of his Troubles from lying still He takes along with him young Enguien already shewed to the Fates that he might produce him among the Peoples It will not be amiss to observe that the Lorrainers and Guises payed their respects to the Prince by Proxy lest they should walk lower-most and on the left hand in his house They complained that he observed this practice which his Father had neglected and remitted The Duke of Orleans born of Henry the Fourth and Mary Medices only Brother of Lewis XIII having laid down the Civil Arms would pass off the discontents that were risen in his Spirit for the ill success of his design with retiring to Blois No longer did he give himself over to be ruled by any of his Servants imparted his cares only to his Wife Margaret de Lorraine trusted her only with his secrets and the thoughts of his Soul Turned of the sudden Antiquary and Herbalist more exquisite then comported with the Quality of so High-born a Prince Delighted in Dogs and Hunting and ranging the Woods not for Venison but to save the Deer Set all the City of Bloâ—se into a Religious Humour Masses without end openly professed himself Devout Votary to use a new Term upon a new Subject when as God is to be adored in Spirit only not only to be served with that Ostentation Those that rise to that height in a phrensie of Zeal fearing not loving wrong him whom they worship Religion is to be used with moderation as all good things which cease to be such if that be wanting Amongst these and the like courses he fell sick and having Antimony unduely administred within a Week died of a Lethargy Having been a hopeful Child and passed his youth in pleasure always under the direction of his Servants never at his own disposal Margaret de Lorraine spends a few days to compose her spirit being transported with grief and impatient Then rides to Paris with her three Daughters and the Herse going before The Corps of Gaston is deposited at St. Denis among the Tombs of his Ancestours with a Private Burial at small Charges the Heralds scarce paid The Kings according to Agreement meet the French stays at St. John de Luz the Spaniard with his Daughter at Fuenterabie Thither is sent Ondedei Bishop of Friuli to make the Contract by a Proxy who performed the Ceremony with an unaffected Gravity At last broke forth that day which put an end to the War and consummateâ— the marriage The Island formerly confident of such high transactions how Spectatress receives the Majesties and the Nobles of both Kingdoms The French King flourishing in years the Spaniard declined This casting a great shadow with his Trunk that with his Leaves Maria Teresa keeping close under her Fathers wing wishes and fears the issue of what was to follow The two Kings having passed their interchangeable salutes there was time to imagine what they Would say There was for some space such a profound silence universally The Old King admires in his Son-in-law that valour could consist with so great comeliness Lewis and Mary dwelt in astonishment upon mutual contemplation of each other So in the whole company every one admired at that which
surprised the other with mutual admiration Equal years and in differing Faces the same Majesty The Gospels were laid on stands on both sides with a Crucifix The Kings kneeling swore upon them that they would religiously observe the Articles of the Peace concluded which were at the same moment read by the Secretaries on that side Fonseca Contrera in Spanish on this in French by Lewis H. Lomeny Count of Brienne It was his last publick Act who resigning the place so unblameably so worthily held by his Father and by his Grandfather before him sequestred himself to God giving an eminent Example in the flower of his youth and by the Mothers line of the Emperours Family The French King admitted the addresses of the Spaniards the Spanish of the French neither spoke to them when they came to kiss their hands Mazarine presented the French to Philip Haro the Spaniards to Lewis only at the name of Thurenne the Spaniard broke silence Him saith he I remember and have reason to remember The hour drew on of breaking up the Company when Philip framing occasions of delay at length gave his daughter a parting-kiss and bid her his last farewel The Queen Mother did almost throw her self into her Brothers Arms but he out of Spanish gravity would not admit her This was the order at the entring into the League of Peace Having left the Island whole memory will be grateful to all posterity they were thus parted never more to return to the sight of one another At S. John de Luz next day a solemn Wedding was kept with unusual Splendour withou any stay that barren Sea-coast and unhospitable Quarters are abandoned All greedily long after Paris It was thought convenient to stay a while at Fountainbelleau thereby giving the Parisians respit to provide for the pompous Solemnity Mazarine all the Journey long grown more morose than he used to be not cheared with any recreation not so much as with winning at Play discovered to the King several times that his time of dissolution approached The King could not forbear weeping In the mean while the Cardinals Indisposition delayed the coming to Town whose Infirmity at length abating and all things being prepared the King with the Queen Consort hastned his Entry into die City The Entry was next to a Triumph In a Domâ—â— set up in the Suburb of S. Anthony both their Majesties were congratulated by the several Orders coming forth decently marshalled First came the Ecclesiasticks in point of Honour they should have came last carrying Images with them and antick Gods of rude Workmanship After the Companies of Tradesmen proceeded the Magistrate then followed the Parliament in their Robes Afterwards the Chanellour laid all over with Gold the Masters of Requests guarding the Royal Seal charged upon a Horse loaded with Trappings The Souldiers and the Heralds in rich Coats All had spotted Plumes in their Hats The Captains marched in the Head of their Companies with the Ensigns All sort of Riches is displayed and the Ornaments of the City are fetched to grace the Publick Joy A Coach embellished with all the Badges of Majesy is brought to the Queen She is set in it alone The King would not go in a Coach but mounted on a gallant Steed rid before The Princes on Horse-back followed immediately after The joyful City thronging on both sides looked earnestly upon the Queen being aware that in her Chariot was the chiefest of all Victories Joyfulness at the Sight was provoked by variety of Sounds In the way all along as they came were Quires of excellent Musicians resounding cheerful Airs in Consorts of Instrumental and Vocal Melody The new-married Pair came amidst this Pomp to the City-Gate At the Entrance was set up aloft an Image of Peace holding forth in its right hand divers Verses They proceeded from the Port through the High-streets of the City to the Louvre even â—â—red with Joy Mazarine having performed this magnificent Solemnity proposed to ease the people of Taxes to succour the Allies to encourage Navigation for War and Merchandise to reform the French Fashions and Laws to beautifie the City with stately Buildings and finish the Louvre the most glorious Monument of this Age which being set accidentally on fire was warning and fore-runner of what what was approaching He did not continue in the blessed Light of this World cruel Fortune disappointing these Intentions Scarce were six months expired after the Entry of the King when taken desperately with all the Symptoms of extreamest pain he gave presages of his fatal hour In nothing slack but in Cure of his Infirmity His Liver and Lungs distempered causing a general feebleness in all his Limbs threw back somewhat impenetrable by the learned Faculty although what is strange the putrefaction scarce amounted to a Feaver After that it was clearly understood that there remained no hope in the Physicians the more skilful of whom gave their Judgment of his being dangerously ill he drew to Vincennes there to dye as though Fortune would be less taken notice of in committing the crime without than within the City The King commanded he should be left to his rest and disturbed with no business His Vertue stood always unwounded and never touched Having his Soul insensible of any evil he clearly shewed how vile the body is to them that have great glory in their eye Having his thoughts taken up about nothing more than the Glory of the Kingdom whose rise and growth one may say that he assisted he is reported to have suggested many things of the various Schemes of Policy to the King who generally sate by his Bed-side A long time they kept silence with mournful looks restraining tears before either begun the bitter discourse The King most obligingly commending his Merits deferred to him the success of his Arms. Our Victories saith he are your Work You have sweetned the hazard you the misfortunes you the labours of War You have preserved my Crown At length you fall a Sacrifice after so many propitious successes obtained for me Whilst I shall use my Estate restored by you I shall oftner remember all this hath been received from you than you ever thought that you gave it I will enjoy the goods gotten by your Counsel and shall understand from the use what you have bestowed upon me The Nobles standing round attended and shrowded most different thoughts under a common silence being prepared to sway their affections which way soever the Discourses of the King and Mazarine should incline them Mazarine although he supposed all this to be true which had been said answered as became his modesty That all must be put upon Account to the Kings Cause and Felicity that himself too had received an inestimable favour to have the Honour to meddle with his most holy Arms and Counsels Afterwards wisely admonished the King That himself would undertake the Government of his State and not create a publick Jealousie by ill chosen Favourites That he should have