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A50728	The last famous siege of the city of Rochel together with the Edict of Nantes / written in French by Peter Meruault, a citizen of Rochel who was in the city from the beginning of the siege until the rendition of it.; Journal des choses plus memorables qui se sont passées au dernier siege de la Rochelle. English	Mervault, Pierre, b. 1608.; France. Edit de Nantes.	1680 (1680)	Wing M1879; ESTC R35042	174,829	329

facilitate their entry into Rochel if it were to be done That having executed their Order they were resolved to set sail on Thursday in the Evening to return for England and the rather because they were advertised that there would suddenly come upon these Coasts a Naval Fleet from Spain to fight them which they would avoid because they would not hazard the losing any of the Kings Ships The English being obstinate in this resolution the Sieurs Bragneau and Gobert considering in what danger Rochel was dispatched immediately one called Vidault the same Evening to advertise the Rochellers thereof in a little Skiff that the Earl of Denby gave them and furnished him with two Letters one that he was to cast into the water over against the Pallisade which contained chiefly that the Rochellers were not to be astonished if on Thursday in the Evening they saw the Fleet set sail for that they had therein no other design 1628. May. than after having been at Bell Isle to meet a part of their Fleet which Storms and ill Weather had divided from the Body to return the more powerful to succour them with the peril of their ●ives and the other altogether contrary and most true to advertise their Fellow-Citizens of ●he little and no affection or good will at all that the English Army had to relieve them and of the resolution they had taken to set sail for England on Thursday in the Evening notwithstanding all the Prayers and Remonstrances that they could make for Fighting or at least for remaining in the Road some time to the end that whilst it should be there at hand the Rochellers might have re●course to the Bounty and Clemency of their Prince for Grace instead of a total ruine as this retreat would import Things being thus they advised them thereof to the end that they might see that as long as the Navy remained with them they had not sought the Clemency of the King or essayed to make their Agreement The same Evening the said Vidault got into the City at eleven at night having passed without Impediments crossing the Men of War and Pallisades and setting a good face on it filled all the City with good hopes and told wonders of the resolution of the English but to the Mayor represented particularly the true state of things and delivered him his Letter The same hour the Mayor assembled the Council of War and before reading of the Letter he made them all take a solemn Oath of secrefie as to the Contents of it and then communicated it unto them and after that called in Vidault who informed them of all that passed in the English 1628. May. Army Hereupon they resolved not to lose time and before it was too late to seek the Kings Grace under the best Conditions they could and in such sort as they should not know it came from them and as they were in pain how to govern themselves in it they concluded they could not better do it than by making use of Sieur de la Leu who some days before had desired permission to retire out of the City and had obtained a safe Conduct of the King for it and gave order to John Godfrey Esq and Sieur du Richard to go to him and desire him in their names to accept the Commission which Sieur Godfrey did the next morning going to Sieur de la Leu who accepted of it and agreed that if there were any hopes on the Kings side to obtain a Peace under good Conditions he would within a day send a Trumpet if under passable and not too advangeous a Drum and if he could not obtain anything he would not send either one or the other but when he had run the adventure of losing his life he returned to the City giving them an account of what he had done This being agreed upon and reported by the said Godfrey to the Mayor and Council of War they ordered that de la Leu should go from the City on Tuesday morning by six a Clock whilst people were at Church that he might not be observed by any person fearing that if they saw him go out his Enemies would stir up the people against him to do him some mischief and in the mean time to make shew of good news and gave out that there should be given a Chain of Gold to the said Vidault to the end that that being reported in the Kings Camp the management of 1628. May. that they had projected might be the more advantageously acted Before the Mayor dismissed the Council he made them all take an Oath upon the Bible that they would not either directly or indirectly buy any Provisions whilst the English Army should be at the Head of the Bay fearing that that would discover to the people that the said English Army finding themselves too weak to force the Digue and enter the City with relief would retire and leave them as a Prey and thereby not only hinder the Treaty which they desired to have by the means of Sieur de la Leu but even put all the City into a Consternation On Tuesday at the hour designed the Sieur de la Leu went away unobserved save by a very few and about three in the Evening whether it was from his Intercession as he had promised or from other cause is not known a Trumpet presented himself at the Fort Tadon but one of the Captains that commanded there caused them to shoot at him without suffering him to finish his sounding or a Drummer his beating whose Drum he broke nor did they advertise the Mayor of their coming he and many others being full of wrath against the Mayor and Council for not communicating to them the Letter nor tell them why they had sent Sieur de la Leu out of the Town they came even so high as to accuse them of designing by him to make a particular Peace for themselves and abandon the rest to the mercy and discretion of their Enemies insomuch that they were constrained to insinuate something of the Letter to some of the most inraged for they cryed that they believed that Godfrey had done it and that 1628. May. it was signed by Bragneau and Gobert before their departure and that it was an Artifice to destroy them to save themselves But Thursday in the Evening when the English Army set sail it appeared but too soon what the Letter was and that those Opiniastres had prejudiced themselves by their too much curiosity and little confidence in them that laboured more for their good than for their own whereof some repented and acknowledged their fault when it was more than time So soon as the said Vidault was come into Rochel the Mayor caused Signals by Fire to be made from the Towers of S. Nicholas of the Chain and from the Lanthorn to advertise the English Army of his arrival and in the morning they fixed Ensigns upon the said Towers which were to remain there until the English

other rebellious Cities who had all their eyes upon Rochel for according to the usage that they shall meet with they will conclude as to themselves suppose then that his Majesty exercising rigour towards them he makes the least paultry Town stand out a Siege and obstinately resist unto the last were it not better to grant an absolute Pardon to this City whereby he may dispose the rest to beg the Clemency of his Majesty who by this means will in a little time see all his Country in peace and may then pursue his designs against the Spaniards Invasion of his Allies He added that which themselves had also alledged that though in all appearance the Rochellers were not able to do any more yet nevertheless he was not to believe that they had deferred treating until the last morsel and that as they had been three Months deceived in their Opinion that they still could not hold out any longer it may be that those that have the major Vote and who fear their Heads may prevail for hindering the rendition and hold out yet some time and the least delay is of great consequence the Affairs of Italy being very pressing Above 1628. October all it behoves us much to consider that my Lord Montague who was gone into England was expected back every day with the allowance of his King for the rendition of the City and it will be infinitely more for his Majesties glory to receive his Subjects into Grace upon their repentance and voluntary submission to his Commands than at the Intercession of a Stranger Prince and therefore it imported them very much to prevent the said Montague to the end that at his arrival he might find his Majesty Triumphant in the place of his glorious Conquest and that they might not be obliged in Contests which otherwise they may have with him touching the Conditions of this rendition and to ingage in a further War with England when their Affairs require the contrary the making of Peace with them This was the substance of that which Cardinal Richelieu represented to his Majesty who declared that having well weighed all circumstances he would deceive those of Rochel in giving them cause to bless his entry into the City and commanded that they should have all the assurances possible given them for their Lives Goods and Religion and that forgetting all their faults they should be treated as his other Subjects provided they remained faithful for the time to come but that he intended to demolish all their Walls for taking from them the means of rendering themselves at any other time miserable and that they should not speak any more of their Priviledges which had hitherto inflamed them unto so high a degree This is the Contents of the above-mentioned Piece which I esteem worthy to be inserted in this 1628. October place it serving to clear the Articles which were afterwards agreed to Rochel The 27th the Mayor and Council being assembled those that had been sent to the Sieur Fequiere reported that he thought it necesiary for reaping the fruit of his Intercession which they had desired that they should nominate some with whom he might communicate before the arrival of his Brother-in-law who would not stay as he hoped which being approved of they deputed to him the Sieurs Viette Riffault Mocquay and Charles de la Coste The same day about ten in the morning Sieur Arnault presented himself with Pass-ports for the Deputies if they would send any and the four above-named being chosen went with him to the Cardinal Richelieu who after hearing them told them that he had no Commission from the King to treat with his Subjects of the City of Rochel but only to hear their Propositions and Demands Nevertheless that he would not cease to intercede for them to his Majesty to procure them their Lives Religion and Estates but as to their Priviledges and form of Government his Majesty would reserve that in his own Power not that he would put Souldiers into the City nor make a Citadel but rather demolish the fortifications and that in a day or two at furthest they should return the same to him or other Conditions to accept of and besides that he gave them this Answer by word of mouth he gave it them also in writing in a little Note Being come back the Mayor and Council ordered that the Bell of the City-House should be tolled the next day being October 28. at seven in the 1628. October morning to the end that they might resolve upon these offers and being assembled in the Hall of the City and having heard the report of the Deputies according to the tenure of the said Note or Billet they resolved to receive the best Conditions of Peace that they could get and to that end was named the Sieurs d'Angoulin and de la Goute to agree with the above-said Deputies upon the Articles Having composed the Articles and shewed them to the Council the Deputies went from the City betwixt three and four in the Evening and came to Sausay to wait upon Cardinal Richelieu who deferred them till the next morning but in the interim caused them to be well treated both as to Bed and Board The next morning being the 29th they were called before him finding him with my Lords the Keepers of the Seal Marshal Schomberg and other Lords of the Council and presented to him their Propositions and Demands upon which he told them that the King was pleased of pure grace to grant them their Lives Estates and Liberty of Conscience but as to that Head which imported the treating in general for all those of their Party that it did not behove them to meddle with any thing but what concerned themselves only according as the French in the English Army treated for themselves apart and the better to perswade them to it he shewed them the Deputies from the English Fleet but without permitting them to speak together In the end after many Contests and above all about liberty of the exercise of their Religion within the City they agreed upon Articles of Peace under the Conditions as followeth 1628. October The Mayor Sheriffs Peers Burgers and Inhabitants of the City of Rochel represented by John Berne Esq Sieur d'Angoulin Esq and Sheriff Peter Viette Daniel de la Goute James Riffault Peers Elie Mocquay and Charles de la Coste Burgers having the Commission of Deputies from the Body of the said City acknowledging the great faults that they have committed not only in resisting the just will and pleasure of the King as they have a long time done in not submitting to him and opening of the Gates of Rochel as they were obliged but further in adhering to Strangers who have taken Arms against this State do supplicate with all humility his Majesty to pardon them the Crimes which they have committed in governing themselves in this manner and to receive for satisfaction thereof the obedience which they desire at present to render