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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47671	The history of Father La Chaise, Jesuite, and confessor to Lewis XIV, present King of France discovering, the secret intreagues by him carried on, as well in the court of England, as in all the courts of Europe, to advance the great designs of the King his master / made English from the French original.; Histoire du père La Chaize, jésuite et confesseur du roi Louis XIV. English.	Le Noble, Eustache, 1643-1711.; Le Noble, Pierre.; Le Roux, Philibert-Joseph.	1693 (1693)	Wing L1052; ESTC R179438	143,271	350

THE HISTORY OF Father La Chaise Iesuite and Confessor TO LEWIS XIV Present King of France Discovering The Secret Intreagues by him carried on as well in the Court of England as in all the Courts of Europe to advance the Great Designs of the King his Master Made English from the French Original LONDON Printed by J. Wilde for H. Rhodes at the Star the corner of Bride-lane Fleet-street 1693. THE PREFACE TO THE READER I Will not trouble my self kind Reader to make a Bustle for your Suffrage in favour of my Book It will speak for it self and if the Reasons which it offers are not of sufficient Force 't would be in vain for me to alledge mine Excuse me therefore for producing any more then only this That there is great Reason the World should know what a Saint the King of France has got to teach him the Way to Heaven However I cannot forbear to tell you That you ought in some measure to return me Thanks for the Present that I make you not so much for the value of it as for the danger to which I expose my self for your sake I attack not only the most revengeful Man that ever the Sun shone upon but a whole Society that never pardons any Injury and from whose remorseless Hatred there is no Asylum can secure me For suppose that I had drawn upon me the displeasure of my native Sovereign the King of France and should retire to London under the declar'd Protection of King William which one would think were sufficient to guard me from the Menaces of the most puissant Monarch in Europe yet early or late this caba●ling Society would find a way to sacrifice me to the Resentment of my offended Prince Nor should I be the first who had fallen into their Snares Have they not whirlwinded several out of Amsterdam that at this very Day lie Rotting in the Dungeons of Mount St. Michel Others have been assassinated in the very Court of Hanouer And the same Father La Chaise that illustrious Impostor against whom I write did he not enforce the Geneveses to deliver into his hands an unfortunate Person that had written something against him tho' he had not made out any thing that was very Essential and was extreamly mistaken in some of his Conjectures What would become of me then should he come to discover who I am and who I may be Nothing could save me from his Fury But as good Luck would have it tho' I have had the Opportunity to know him Intus in cute yet I believe he has no reason to be more suspicious of me then another He sees and is seen by so many People of all Sorts and Conditions of which the greatest Number curse his Infidelities and Treacheries experienc'd by them selves that his Suspitions would be l●st in the Throng Besides it may be well imagin'd that 't was not from himself that I learnt the following Particulars of his Life He is not a Man to trust every body with his Secrets Yet in regard no man can be Vicious alone and that there must be the passive as well as the active Part in all manner of Luxury 't is no less certain that Father La Chaise must all a-long have had his Intimates and Socios Voluptatum among whom it was impossible for Father La Chaise to choose so well but that there might be now and then a Judas Never ask me then through what Channel these Curosities were convey'd to my Knowledge For 't is a Question to which it becomes me not to give a positive Answer and that upon good grounds All that I can say to it is this That I was none of those who had the fewest Intriegues with the Society for several Years together besides that I had sundry particular Friends who were perfectly acquainted with this Metropolitan Jesuit from the time that he was first admitted into the Order by whose means I had the Opportunity not only to hear several Stories confirm'd by Tradition but also in Private and as it were by Stealth to read his Memoirs themselves Now in regard the following Relation comprehends as well the Incontinencies and Gallantries of his Youth as the ungodly Practices the Treacheries and Villanies of his riper Years and more crafty Age As to the First there 's no body can have any reason to deny but that Tradition might be a very faithful Assistant to me For there is no cause to believe him more a Saint when he was a young Man then now he is the King of France's Confessor The Fox has only chang'd his Skin but not his Conditions And I should take him to be very incredulous that should give Credit to the Frailties of St. Augustin's Youth and yet scruple to believe the Follies of La Chaise's As for the deep Exploits of his riper Years and the venomous Effects of his more mature Meditation there needs no more then the Complaints of Two Popes the Bishop of Pamiers Cardinal Camus and others to convince yee of a great deal in regard that all his Actions of which they complain are no other then what is purely natual and consonant to the Humour the Genius and Morals of that Society of which he is the Head and Directour and for many of the rest the dire Proceedings of his Penitent the French Monarch so much guided by his Counsels are such Evidences to the World of his being the Man I mean that no one can well question the truth of my Relations 'T is true I cannot expect that this poor Book of mine should be approv'd of in all places for how is it possible it should be so for I can neither disguise nor betray my Sentiments I utter things sincerely as I think and this is not the Mode at this time Perhaps it may be read and that is all that I desire However should it ne'er be lookt upon this would be my Consolation that I make no trade of writing and if I have lash'd out a little 't was meerly the Instigation of my Zeal for the Publick which I could not suffer to be so long impos'd upon while the Impostor triumph'd without some kind of Punishment Reader If you stand too nice upon the Punctilioes of a History mine will not please yee I know that to present a History drest up in form 't is requisite the Author should tye himself solely to his subj●ct and never lose sight of it by wandring and throwing himself impertinently into Contemporary Affairs I confess ingeniously you will not find that strictness in mine In that respect I have given my self a great Liberty For in regard the Person whose Actions I trace is a kind of an Ubiquitarian here and there and every where I was forc'd to follow him where-ever his Projects lead me and as he chang'd his Scenes to vary mine which caus'd a Division of the Continuum that could not be avoided The French Bookseller to the READER I Would willingly Reader