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A29339	A breviate of the proceedings of France, from the Pyrenaean Treaty to this time as also I. The speech of Monsieur Zierowsky, the Emperor's Embassador to the King of Poland, II. A memorial presented by the said Embassador to the King of Poland, III. A letter from Monsieur Du Vernay to Count Tekeley, IV. A letter from Count Tekeley to Monsieur Du Vernay, V. A letter from Monsieur Peter Jaigel, Governour of Cassovia, to Monsieur De Vernay.		1684 (1684)	Wing B4414; ESTC R22585	46,143	194

since insomuch that the Count Destoges the Eldest of the Family is this day nam'd Soladin If I might be permitted to make Reflexions upon this Story I could without difficulty prove that the present is far different from the Ages past Formerly they kept their word with Turks now adays a most Christian King will not keep his Faith with his Father-in-Law At this day the Descendants from a Christian Race are Christened Saladine because their Ancestor so promis'd to the Turk At this present a most Christian King neither minds the word which his Ancestors have past to their Subjects of the Reformed Religion nor the Promises which he has made himself At this day the Family of Anglure which is only a private Gentleman's derives all it's Honour from the Noble Act of one of its Ancestors who made good his profligated Faith to the Turk but the House of France the most renowned in the World for the Breach of an Infinite Number of the Edicts granted in favour of the Christians But to return to our Subject the King of France grounding his Claims upon Imaginary Pretences and upon a Nicety that the Parliament had not ratify'd the Pyrenaean Treaty resolved to break the Peace and carry his Arms into Flanders But here before I go any further give me leave to tell the World what the Authority of this Parliament is to prevent the Mistake of those who may think it equal in Power to the Parliament of England You are then to understand that the slightest Order of Council cancels all Edicts of Parliament the Power of which is so limited at this day that though it take Cognizance only of private and particular Interests the Council sends for the Cause before themselves and laughs at all that the Parliament has done in the same Case Formerly nevertheless it's Authority was very great nor was it long ago that it was grown to that height that every one admired at it I mean during the Minority of the King But there is such an Alteration since that time that there is little notice taken of the Parliament And indeed at that very time when the forementioned Manifesto appear'd the King took away all their Privileges banished all those that were suspected to have any affection for the publick Interest and in a word contemned it so far that he never went thither but in his Riding Boots and his Cane in his Hand He also deprived it of its very Name as he serv'd the rest of the Tribunals For to make it appear that there were no more Masters but himself he set forth an Edict That neither the Parliament nor the Grand Councel nor the Chamber of Accompts nor the Court of Aydes should be called by any other Title than that of Superiour whereas before they were call'd Soveraign Courts He also put forth another Edict which savoured in my opinion of much more wrong and Injustice For whereas when any new Imposition was thought upon and laid upon the People or any other Innovation was imposed upon the Government the King was wont to go in Person to see those Edicts ratifyed the Parliament is now obliged to make the Ratification upon a bare Letter under the Privy Signet many times carryed by a Footman So that this great Tribunal formerly erected to be a Mediator between the King and the People and to preserve the one from the Tyranny of the other is now it self enforced to bow and crouch to the Kings Will For now they dare not make those Remonstrances which formerly they did nor plead as before in behalf of the People Or if they are permitted to make any Addresses of that Nature they must be full of Flattery and Dissimulation and as some Parents humble their Children to kiss the Rod after Correction so it behoves the People who are the Kings Children or should be so at least to thank the King by the Mouths of their Magistrates for all the Taxes and heavy Impositions which he lays upon them to satisfy his profusion Upon this Authority which the Parliament has in the Kingdom it was That the King laid the Foundation of an approaching War In a Word the King of Spain was not sooner dead but presently there appeared a small Pamphlet under the Title of The Rights of the Queen by which they endeavoured to prove that the Renunciation of all Claims which the King had made by the Pyrenaean Treaty was utterly void because it was never verifyed by the Parliament And yet if the Renunciation had been good which they did not much matter to dispute it could not have been long in force by reason that the Dauphin had not ratifyed the Treaty who might pretend a greater Interest as being his Mothers Heir In truth this Pamphlet was nothing but a Composure of Words well put together conteining very little or no reason For to begin with the first true it is That the Parliament were wont to ratify the most remarkable Acts of the Kingdom but that such a Ratification was absolutely Essential is that which we deny and which I shall endeavour to prove For Example if the King happens to marry with any Foreign Princess the Parliament has nothing to do with the Contract Nor do we find that the Parliament had any knowledg of that between H. 4. and Marie Medici or which is still fresh in Memory of the Marriage between the Dauphin and Madam the Dauphiness And yet the Affairs transacted were as important as perhaps the Kings Renunciation made by the Pyrenaean Treaty But some perhaps will object That the Case is far different For in a Treaty of Peace is stated and handled the Establishment of the Peoples Peace whereas in a Treaty of Marriage there is nothing transacted but the Concern of two Persons I confess the reason seems plausible but easie to refute For if it be in respect of the Peoples Interest that a Treaty of Peace ought to be ratifyed by the Parliament why are not the Treaties of War ratifyed in the same manner They will have a Treaty which exterminates War and restores Peace to a Kingdom instead of Trouble and Confusion that Reigned there before to be subject to a Parliamentary Ratification but they will not have a Treaty of War that banishes Peace and brings in Disorder and Confusion to be ratifyed by Parliament which nevertheless was instituted to no other end than the Preservation of the People Let us rather say that the Custom of verifying Treaties of Peace in this manner was not introduced till after it was ordained that all the Royal Benevolences should be ratifyed in Parliament and that such as were not so verifyed should be of no value which was done to prevent Princes who are generally prone to profuse Liberality from giving away all their Patrimony and being afterwards oblig'd for want of Money to vex the People Let us grant then say I that the Parliament setting that by some Treaties of Peace considerable Alienations were made from the

was a necessity for France to take off her Mask for that the Spaniards began already to talk of cutting off Montgeorges's Head This apparent Act of Infidelity vvas attended by several others and yet no Neighbouring Puissance interpos'd it's Authority to the end these things might be regulated according to Justice Not but that there vvas Warranty for the Pyrenaean Peace as vvell as there are novv for the Peace of Nimeghen but that they are such vvho after the Conclusion of the Treaty never mind aftervvards the Breaches vvhich are made of it so that there is not one at this time takes any care to send any succour to the Spaniards vvhose Ruine is attempted by so many indirect means On the other side the Spaniards vvhether they are become insensible or vvhich is most probable that they understand their ovvn weakness are contended to see themselves so rudely handl'd vvithout testifying the least Resentment but only by Complaints altogether misbecoming Soveraign Princes especially if not prosecuted vvith effectual Deeds so that others seeing them so patiently svvallovv all Affronts did not think themselves oblig'd to take their Part. Which Weakness of theirs vvas certainly most apparent upon the Occasion of an Accident that hapned in London betvveen Monsieur d'Estrades and Monsieur de Vataville Embassadors of both Crowns For after the Baron of Vataville had got the Precedence before Monsieur d'Estrades upon the Entry of another Embassador Spain did not only disclaim and disavovv the Act but also has for ever stain'd her Reputation by an Ignominious Declaration vvhich I dare not repeat and vvhich I cannot remember without blushing out of my Respect and Love to the Nation However if the thing be call'd to mind we ought to lay the Fault upon those other Potentates that shewed themselves so passionately earnest for the Peace that they never laid to heart the Affront which was offer'd to Spain who seeing her self abandon'd by all the World was forc'd to abate of her wonted Haughtiness Nevertheless the more notable Head-pieces perceiving how proudly France behav'd her self upon that occasion were of opinion that it was necessary to withstand Her Ambition before the further Encrease of her Strength and Power But the Councel of these prudent Politicians was listen'd to by way of Discourse only and the Seizure of Blindness began to be so general that they look'd upon those who discours'd at that rate as Persons that rather sought to disturb than preserve the Peace so necessary for all Europe Nor did they begin to unhoodwink their Eyes till France no longer able to continue quiet resolv'd to carry the War into Flanders under Pretences altogether as Chymerical as those at present But with an Advocate of Paris such a one as they vvere careful to chuse out of the sharpest witted of the Chiurme undertook to beautifie with a specious varnish an Undertaking which a Person of Honesty and Integrity would have been very much troubl'd to perform only he who had serv'd his Apprentiship at the Pettie Bar where for Two Crowns they will defend the wickedest Injustice in the World was of Opinion that being much better feed than so it did not become him to neglect so fare an Opportunity for his Preferment So that Interest prevailing above Truth in a short time there came forth a Manifesto wherein they endeavour'd to maintain that though the King by the Pyrenaean Treaty had renounc'd all manner of Pretences which he might hereafter have to the Low Countries or Netherlands in right of his Wife that Renunciation was invalid because the Parliament had never confirm'd the Articles The same Manifesto endeavour'd further to prove that the Queen had a Right to several Provinces and therefore to give the Manifesto a Title proper to what they went about to make out it was Entitul'd The Rights of the Queen For you must understand that it was the King himself who had hindr'd the Pyrenaean Treaty from being Registred in Parliament to the end that for the future it might serve for a Pretence against what had been sign'd by Himself and the chiefest Nobility of France Which piece of Litigious Craft when it gave occasion to all the World to reflect upon the Small Faith and Sincerity of the French King Men vvere surpriz'd with wonder That so great a Prince who affected the Title of most Christian King should commit such Violences as would make Infidels to blush and took pleasure to recount his Actions that by comparing the one with the other the disadvantage might the better appear on the Kings side The general question was whether a man were not oblig'd to keep his Word which he had so solemnly sworn upon the Gospels confirm'd by so Great and Near an Alliance and where there was nothing omitted to render inviolable by all the most considerable Acts that could be performed And then the question was whether there were any thing that could disoblige a Man from an Oath so solemn to which the General Answer was that it was an Action dreaded by Men and which call'd for the just Vengeance of God And indeed there needs no greater Skill in Theology to understand that Christianity and the Church which is the same Thing sufficiently teaches us that we are to keep our Words not only to a Father-in-Law as this occasion requir'd but also to a Turk There is a notable Example of this in the Person of a French Gentleman of the Family of Anglure from whence there are several who derive their Descent that live in great splendor to this day The particular History of this Family relates that one of their Ancestors being taken in Fight by Soladin Sultan of Egypt was set at Liberty after a long Imprisonment upon condition that he should return himself in Person with the Ransom which the Soladin had laid upon his Head the Gentleman coming home and having sold part of his Estate to make good his Word return'd back to Soladin and told him he had brought his Ransom in Person according to his own Agreement and Conditions and that if he pleas'd to name any Person to receive it he vvould presently tell it out Soladin vvho never thought any more of him but believ'd that since he had let him go he should never see him again vvas so surpriz'd at his Generosity that after he had embrac'd and caress'd him vvith all imaginable Endearment he told him that from thence forward he should have a greater respect for the Christians than ever he had and thereupon he did not only release him of his Ransom but ordered his Treasurer to give him Ten Thousand Franks which vvas a great Sum in those days He further desir'd his Friendship and that alvvays the Eldest of his Family might be called Saladin to the end that if Posterity should be curious to know why they bore a Name so extraordinary among the Christians they might be inform'd at the same time of the Occasion Which Request of Soladin has been observ'd ever