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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79464	A relation of the life of Christina Queen of Svveden: with her resignation of the crown, voyage to Bruxels, and journey to Rome. Whereunto is added, her Genius. / Translated out of French, by I.H.; Briève relation de la vie de Christine reyne de Suède. English	Chevreau, Urbain, 1613-1701,; Saint-Maurice, Mr,; Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701,; Howell, John, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing C3803; Thomason E870_9; ESTC R200881	27,298	46

he was in Sweden in a Victualling-house so ill appointed that he looked rather like a Beggar than a Gentleman's Son of good Birth And to ascend back again from the Son to the Father it is true that this Personage seems to have been better used than any other man of Letters and yet for all that he departed out of Sweden discontented enough whereof I profess that I knew not the Reasons Yet I have seen of his Letters in Sweden written to some of his Friends which said That he repented him in some sort that he had deserved the approbation of the Queen seeing she was so easie to give it to Persons that were altogether unworthy But I know well that so he hath been spoken of in that Court for a Sir Iohn whose Wife wore the Breeches Vossius and Heinsius if they will tell the truth have no great cause to be the best contented with her of the world Vossius hath had all the pains that can be imagined to make himself to be paid off that which he had laid out for the Queen in buying of divers Books which he had done for her And Heinsius is yet to sue for what is due to him for the like cause and moreover for the Services that he did her Majesty Judge by this if men of Learning be in any great real esteem with her Without doubt had they been less knowing and more gallant that their business had been better carried through according to the Example of Bourdelot whom the Queen hath given her Pass to as the excellentest and first amongst men in the world And I can assure you thus much that he could not speak congruous Latin I have seen a Note written with his own hand to a Bishop that had been chased out of his Country for Religion and that did implore her Majesties assistance by his intercession In which Note within the compass of 4 or 5 lines which it did contain I found Three or Four Soloecisms and Barbarisms And the sense of the whole so confused that there was need to go to a Wizard for to have it made plain This Note is yet in the hands of a man unblamable that is in Sweden at least if he be not come out of it since my self the which without doubt he keeps to put it in the Vatican or in the Kings Library at Paris for an Authentick Witness of the profound knowledge of Bourdelot who to the Queen of Sweden vaunted and chanted so much because he could make some sorry ryming French verses though neither that but imperfectly enough If it be possible for me to get a Copy of this Note I shall impart it to the Publick with some other Memorials that I expect from Sweden whereby you shall know whether Bourdelot be so great a man as the Queen hath made him pass for and whether he had reason to censure all the great men that went to Sweden and the Latine Poesies of Monsieur Maurus whose knowledge is known chiefly in all the Countries of the Lords the Estates General of the United Provinces wherein he found that the word Posteri was not good Latine but that he should have said Posteritas whereunto the Queen applauded because Bourdelot had said it It is surely a matter of Astonishment why a Princess so well furnished with Light of Knowledge suffered her self so strongly to be blinded by this infamous fellow which even the meanest of the Commons in Sweden having observed they perswaded themselves that he had a familiar Spirit and that he used Charms to bewitch her Minde I have heard it said by many whilst I was in Sweden And when I attempted to put this conceit out of their heads as being a Flout or as a Dull conceit I found them so deeply perswaded of it that my attempt was without effect But what shall we say of the horrible injustice that this Princess hath done to her Creditors When I look upon it I tremble and think that those who have taken her demising the Crown as a famous playing the Bankrupt had some reason for it It is seen I am a witness of it that there be some Merchants of Jewels from whom she had taken up Goods from some for Ten from others for Twenty and from some for Thirty thousand Livres to whom she hath delay'd payment to be made for Six for Ten and for Fifteen months beyond the time yea two yeers and in the end went her way leaving Tickets that will be paid ad Calendas Graecas that is never Is it not a matter of astonishment and which cryeth for vengeance to God that these poor people have been forced to leave off their lawful occasions and business and to consume their Livelihood in attendance for their own in a strange Country where the expences are great and at last to see themselves left empty handed But be not at all astonished at this Bourdelot's Maxime which the Queen hath exactly followed was this That Kings might dispose of the goods of private men as they pleased But whence hath he drawn this false doctrine Without doubt from the bottom of his black and base soul I have seen some of these Merchants with all possible earnestness desire their Jewels back again since they saw themselves out of hope to be paid but they were in the hands of a Princess that had a heart rather to give them away to others then ever to render them to their right owners This was not for want of information of the wrong was done these men for she was sufficiently advertised thereof by Petitions and Requests which they presented to her all which she received from them and read them upon her pierced Chair and then wip'd her hinder parts with them But what Justice can be expected from that person that doth not right to her self Look a little on her carriage in the Oeconomy of her house Her Intendant to whom she sent all her Creditors was a man that could neither reade nor write except onely his name which he learn'd to scribble a little time since He was a Taylor by trade and was called Master Iohn whose Needle Shears this Princess hath changed to a Sword he being made a Noble-man and hath given him the name of Lyon Crona but truly he carries the likeness of a Monkey rather then of a Lion This illustrious Blade knew so well how to govern the Queens minde that she committed to him the Intendancie and Oeconomy of her whole house who following his Mistress's Genius he studied in the midst of his Ignorance to deceive the world and made himself so knowing in that Art that there was none but such as had no business with him that have escaped his Knaveries He began to enrich himself by the Voyage he made into France for the provisions of the Queens Coronation from whence having brought an heap of the worst Stuffs he made Merchandise of them in Sweden after this manner When the Queen gave commission to