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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55355	Memoirs of the Sieur De Pontis who served in the army six and fifty years under King Henry IV, Lewis the XIII, and Lewis the XIV containing many remarkable passages relating to the war, the court, and the government of those princes / faithfully Englished by Charles Cotton.	Pontis, Louis, sieur de, 1583-1670.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1694 (1694)	Wing P2807; ESTC R33977	425,463	306

IX He was more to blame in the second Article alledg'd against him There was a Mealman of Arras who under pretence of going to buy up Corn in the Enemy's Frontier Towns us'd privately to carry them intelligence concerning the condition of the Town and the Garrison Monsieur St. Preuil upon information given of this secur'd him and would have had the Law took its course But the Man's Wife who was one of the prettiest Women in all that Country fell at his Feet in tears and begg'd him for her sake to spare her Husband's life Monsieur St. Preuil vanquisht with her tears said Look you Mistress I do pardon your Husband for your sake but let it be your care that he be guilty of this no more for I won't pardon him again It was said that he was too familiar with this Woman and that her Husband was sensible of it nay more that he kept on his former correspondence with the Enemies and was advised by them to suffer his Wife to be thus abused and pretend ignorance that so by her means he might gain a more perfect understanding of the Governour 's designs and be more capable of doing them service for which they promis'd to reward him abundantly This poor Fellow however was caught a second time and put in Prison But for all Monsieur St. Preuil's brave Resolutions to punish him if he were found faulty any more he pardon'd him then too not being proof against the entreaties and tears of his Wife whom he lov'd But he threatned him however That nothing should save him from the Gallows if he did so any more Three or four Months after the Mealman depending still upon the Governour 's kindness for his Wife set the old Trade on foot again and carry'd on the same correspondence as before But then he found himself mistaken in his Measures for he that was content to dispense with his Wife's fidelity to her Husband only to secure him in the breach of his own to his King in hopes of a great Reward from the Kingdom 's Enemies was at last rewarded with a Halter for all the good services he had done them A Spy that was taken at Arras discover'd him and depos'd that he came thither upon this Rogue 's perswasion and upon the confronting of them the Mealman was convicted of Treason against the State and as such by the Intendant of Justice and President of the Place was sentenced to be hang'd The condemnation of this Man as well as he deserv'd it yet set People bitterly against Monsieur St. Preuil and every body said he had hang'd the Husband that he might have a freer enjoyment of the Wife Which was very far from true For though he carry'd himself very ill upon her account as was notorious from the Presents he made her yet he did not hang her Husband for any other reason than his own manifest guilt Nay in truth he had no hand in condemning him for all that was done by the intendant of Justice and the President But Providence brought on Monsieur St. Preuil insensibly to his ru●●e because of his impiety and great extravagances And I must own it as a particular mercy which I can never be sufficiently thankful for that having great reason to love him and being extremely obliged by him I was yet in no degree a partaker in his Follies notwithstanding the mighty intimacy between us It was not long of him that I was not engag'd in his Faults for during my disgrace I stole down to Arras to see him and he then took great pains to draw me into the same disorderly courses with himself But my sense of Honour and the constant regard I had for Justice made me abhor the Crime I saw him engag'd in and I discourst him with so much earnestness and gave him so lively a representation of the consequence he had reason to apprehend from his viciou● excesses that we had like to have quarrell'd downright I have no mind said I at last to lose my Head with you And if you do not take heed some end will come of this that cannot turn either to your Honour or your Advantage and really I could find in my heart to have no more to do with you What then reply'd he with some concern have you a mind in good earnest to make an eternal Quarrel and renounce all Friendship with me for the future No said I it is not possible for me to hate you and I am so far from doing so that I should be wanting to one of the greatest duties of a Friend if I should forbear reproving you upon these occasions But then I cannot be so complaisant neither to shew my friendship by engaging in things that I am very fearful will turn to your dishonour 'T is strange to me said I again that you should not consider how every body's mouth is open'd against you They are eternally complaining of many things which you ought to redress All this must be naught at last These words made some impression upon him but not so much as I could have wisht for his sake they had done For if he had consider'd what I said as he ought instead of being angry and taking it ill from me he should rather have turned his passion against himself and have taken care to mend X. The third Article was grounded upon nothing but meerly a misfortune and St. Preuil was in no fault at all about it The Mareschal of Melleray having taken Bapaume upon Capitulation it was agreed that the Garrison should next morning at eight of the Clock draw off and go to Doway There was notice given at the same time to the Governours of the frontier Towns to stop the Couriers and send out no Parties because this Garrison was to go from Bapaume at the hour aforesaid and would be at Doway by three in the Aftereoon But some hinderances happening the Garrison could not move till three or four in the Afternoon and so was forc'd to lye abroad all night about a league short of Doway The Convoy allowed them by Mareschal Melleray being ordered only to see them safe within a league of Doway was gone back That evening a Spy brought Monsieur St. Preuil word that four hundred of the Garrison at Bethune were making a Sally upon some design whereupon a Council was called at which I my self was present being then at Arras upon a visit to the Governour and we were all of opinion that they might make some attempt upon the place and that it was the safest way to put the men all in a readiness and command that they should stand to their arms About midnight came another Spy and he said there were four hundred men and some Horse sally'd at the Gate over against Arras So after calling the Captains together it was resolv'd to go out and face the Enemy I went along with Monsieur St. Preuil and we were about six hundred Foot and three hundred Horse When we