nothing all that Campaigne storms Conde a Town situated in a Plain on the Scheldt and the Aon Mazarine returns to Compiegne where the Prince is reported to have used many arguments to perswade the Queen Regent That his Majesty could not be kept any longer out of the City that many evil consequences would come upon it which must all be imputed to the male-administration of Mazarine Orleans came over to give the same advice Both of them joyntly were not as before when several submissive but imperious Orleans as the Kings Uncle bearing great sway In Conde resided the supreme Command and Glory of the Martial Power Therefore it was concluded the better course to comply with their advice thaw by drawing Counter to give the Faction advantage Therefore August 16. in the year 1649. his Majesty is welcomed into the City His Entry was remarkable for all expressions of joy The City in great Companies went out to meet him all the adjacent Country rung with acclamations Bonfires burnt all night and drunken Revellings were held in the several quarters The King sitting in the one Boot of the Coach between his Uncle and Brother was pleased with the Applauses of his People in the opposite Conde had by his side Cardinal Mazarine who sate as the multitude scouled upon him all the while undaunted The Queen Regent with the eldest Daughter of the Duke of Orleans and the Mother of the Prince of Conde sate in the end of the Coâ—ch The more ample Relation of his Majesties proceeding may be fetched from divers Records what is sufficient for an History I have delivered for I neither write Journals not Gazettes The face of the City was then cheerful all persons returning to the obedience of their Liege Lord. No longer did the Military right prevail to the contempt of the Magistrate On S. Louys his day the King attended by a great number of Courtiers rode through the City on Horse-back that he might gratifie his Subjects longing to see him all all the way from the Louvre to the Church of S. Louys A little before him Mazarine had gone thither in a Coach without any Attendants though the high Streets discovering not any sign of fear though he had received several Advices not to stir forth Guarded by his conscience and the favour of his Prince he dreaded no vain brutes triumphing in the affections of the honest party with â— better Train hated of none but such as rejoyced at the publick misery and thinking they should thereby escaped punishment laid the foundations of repairing their private fortunes in the common Delinquency Which State-Policy of theirs the issue afterwards declared The Treaty of Marriage with the Duke de Mercâ—â—ur that had been intermitted during this appearance of publick Accommodation began to be set a foot afresh The Son compliant to his Fathers pleasure would voluntarily quit the Admiralship so that at the decease of his Father the charge might devolve upon him But the Match is again disturbed because Mazarine was unwilling to have it concluded against Condes will Right and reason might permit that Conde the sole Heir of Breze should be promoted to all the advantages of his Kinsman at least that the Father of Breze Mareschal of France no contemptible man should succeed his deceased Son for the consolation of his childless condition These things were commonly given out but in an unseasonable time All this while Beaufort doth not give off siding with the disaffected party yet comes to Court waits upon his Majesty pays there his duty but never offers to visit Mazarine The Queen testified how ill she took that by her cold reception of him which again turned to his reputation with the party AH the talk is That whilâ—â— everyone looks after his private concern no body minds the Publick Good Mazarine to no effect tryes divers means of winning over the Youths spirit to espouse his party even by the perswasion of both his Parents He haughtily rejects all chusing rather to gratifie the pleasure of Madam Mombazon with whose eyes he was enthralled Such influence had a Mistress He thought himself sufficiently happy so he were but cryed up for a brave Slinger no Mazarinist thus were the Royalists nick-named In the City mens minds stood diversly affected All Politicians and that were Masters in Court-craft presaged some great alteration in the State And because Mazarines power was at that time most restrained he was forced to give way to comply with plausible shadows of reason rather than adhere to solid connsels Many were transported by discontent because they thought they were not rewarded proportionably to their merits All excess is venial in a multitude of Delinquents amidst Tumults that minister confidence About the same time Michael Particelli L. of Emeri that had been turned out of the Treasurers place was restored again to his Office but the especial meditation of Conde whether it were to shew his greatness or to procure matter of new Tumults or in remembrance of friendly offices formerly performed him or upon expectation of any to be performed him hereafter Many in their Speeches in the Parliament inveighed against the former life of Emeri saying Pimps and Parasites Fiddlers and Strumpets were no proper instruments for a Minister of State but that persons of lewd and dâ—bauched conversation ware troublesom in War expensive in Peace detestable to all honest men and procured nothing but calamity and destruction Now the House of Emeri still roared with such sinks of loosness This restored charge was fruitless to Conde destructive to Emeri comfortable to neither For besides that Particelli having lost his good parts was now sunk in sottishness being restored to his place he had his mind dissolved and his body enervated with the inveigling allurements of pleasure so that he closed his loathed Ministry and loose life with a miserable Catastrophe As if the Royal Treasure had some infection of lust so that the Venereal distemper were fatal to all Treasurers Now the same Malignancy raged with an Epidemical Contagion all over Provence and Guyenne In Provence this was the state of Affairs It was resolved for a new design of getting mony to increase a Parliament at Aix with new Counsellors that were to divide the Jurisdiction every six months for a certain sum which every one was to give This was highly offensive to the old Members to have their Authority thus divided and of perpetual made temporary From hence was the source of the Troubles which springing from a small rise prevailed almost to the destruction of the Province The Instructions from Court were That way must be given to the popular fury That the Royal Authority still gains by delay but the ill Plots of Subjects are always defeated by time That the Innovation of limiting the Authority to six months for a while should be kept under Deck the Mutineers should in due season be punished In the execution of all this there must be a fair carriage and
what steadiness can be imagined in so slippery a Sex amongst so many Burglars of other mens Beds and complemental Flatterers which are the most effectual motives to female minds The Queens aim was to delay and spin out the time till the Kings coming to Age at which all proceedings should be either ratified or disannulled Orleans his Dutchess and elder Daughter their designs were to enlarge the Prisoners for the restraining not taking off Mazarine the same was the sense of the Parliament and Sling Only Corinth was for ruining utterly Mazarine and by acquiring a Hat to be Lord of all Chasteauneâ—f upon every occasion more studious to perform his duty than advance any private Interest of his own and whose Prison was more honourable than his Successors Empire could not digest the dishonour of her Majesty therefore having invited all the Princes friends he propounded to them equal terms upon which they might be beholden to the King only for their Liberties and not the Faction These were admitted and very well accepted of out of fear lest Orleans having expulsed Mazarine and entred upon the Government by the counsel of Corinth should not earnestly promote the enlargement of the Prisoners counting it perhaps better in what matters he ought to be prime and alone not to take on Conde for his Colleague But all this was to no purpose because the Cardinal perhaps by too precipitate an haste as some would have it be prevented all and went and released the Princes of himself as shall be more largely related in the following Book Now nothing did more effectually incite Mazarine to depart than the face of the City in an Uproar That Sea of tumultuous people did swell and in these as in past Seditions such was the power of the Commonalty as to be of great weight in every occasion This therefore must be the endeavour that it be never raised since when it is once raised it can be ruled by no Reins But a Stranger will be inquiring What is that which in this place is called the Commonalty which is called the City It is that multitude which is seen in Paris that the infinite number of houses there can scarce hold The greatest part of that throng lives out of their Country they are Natives of other Lands Order all these to be summoned and ask every one of them what is his Country you will see that they have left their habitations and are come by throngs into that City which denying none is become the common Country of all the World by a certain Plaister well tempered because in that Town are great Rewards propounded to Vertues and greater to Vices THE SIXTH BOOK OF THE History of FRANCE The CONTENTS After the Release of the Princes and the Departure of Mazarine there followed not blessed Prosperity as was expected Nor were the Troubles of the State composed but all grew worse Conde finds fault with the Management of the State and removes the Ministers Extorts the Government of Guyenne rejecting his present one of Burgundy so chusing a fit Scat for his future Insurrection He withdraws The Civil Commotions break out afresh and a third Bourdeaux War ariseth Hereupon Mazarine is revoked upon this ground to succour the King that was again distressed by the Faction The Cardinal hath Honour procured him by his Enemies instead of disgrace THE Counsels of the honest Party being overborn by violence Mazarine preferring what was necessary before that which was plausible withdrew himself from the present Juncture of Affairs It was a great Victory to the Faction that they had chased him out of France as the Person who by the greatness of his Genius had hitherto advanced the Royal Interest and upon whose death or absence they hoped any thing might be more easily gained from the Queen Hereupon throwing off all reverence men revolted from their Loyalty not by degrees but running headlong the State turning to all licentiousness so that what they thought they might get by force they cared not to sue for On Feb. 6. An. 1651. in a night without Moon-shine the Cardinal incognito disguised in a habit unsuitable to his Eminency guarded by about 200 Horse riding himself a Horse-back retired to S. Germans Harcourt beating the way who was the perpetual Executioner of Court-commands there he tarried a day Divers advices and reports that came from Paris he heard and slighted but pursues his Journey to Havre de Grace through the midst of Normandy with a pompous Train gazed at by all the people as he passed along The same command over his countenance which he had in his Grandeur went along with him at his departure Nor it there any more certain Symbol of a brave Spirit than not to shrink at the charge or encounter of any adverse Fortune He took order for dispatching what was to be dispatched without any ostentation of business being of conditions so tempered between active and mild as that none did more affectionately desire a calm or was more able to weather out a storm When the matter required sitting up late was always wakeful But Fortune towards the same subject was in such extremes that he who lately thought he wanted Land for Victory now wants place for Refuge and Sanctuary And what may be accounted incredible amongst so many as he had obliged finds the relief but of few So it is Whâ—nce thinks that any obligation holds in force to the Afflicted or retains the memory of past kindnesses from one now in Adversity or when did Faith not depend upon Fortune whoever had reaped any advantage by him turned the Odium upon the Giver and judged it equitable to keep what he had received of Mazarine but let Mazarine who had bestowed it be banished or destroyed Nor yet would Paris think it self safe if the name of the Cardinal in his greatness did any where continue All apprehended him as though he were still ready to come upon all of them and that he might be rendred more odious fear was counterfeited Therefore the Parliament made terrible Ordinances to have him quite exterminated out of the Kingdom and branded the memory of him as he departed by daily impeachments with perpetual marks of Infamy The Common-people tore him continually with popular Rage Thus do Quarrels rising upon partial Factions out-last the fears upon which they are grounded for now there were no farther apprehensions of him The first attempt was The clapping a strict Guard upon the King and Queen under colour that they might not by any sleight get out in a secret way to follow after Mazarine Orleans was now in the highest power who could not be prevailed upon by any intreaties of the Queen Regent to be present at Council stiffly denying to yield to it till the Princes were first enlarged which for some days he punctually observed whether it were Corinth that fortified the resolution of Gaston in other occasions sickle or Gaston himself having so often suffered for his inconstancy had
the right and to the left presuming upon Victory while the Event was yet in suspense Never was Fortune braved with a more forward joy yet there were called to prayers for obtaining Victory the Priests a generation believed by alas too many a useless burden of the earth The Conflict was sharp and the Dispute maintained with a stiff obstinacy Our left Wing came to a sad misfortune Seneterre discharging manfully the part both of Commander and Souldier was shot and cut He having had his Horse killed under him was carried off and soon after came in again The Enemies too were possessed of our Ordnance which the excelling valour or Hospital recovered but when he was wounded in the Arm were lost again and turned upon us the fortune of the day was changed by Syrot who charged gallantly and came to succour the left Wing that was in apparent danger and almost trampled down The Wallons Germans and Italians being slain the hardest part of the work was behind to deal with a Regiment of Castillians stout and invincible The Infantry of the right Wing had often charged but always without any success At length Gassion being not ignorant of what importance that Regiment was bringing up with him the Horse of the right Wing broke in upon the close Ranks and routed them Presently the Enemies Army was totally defeated The cruel rage of our Switzars discharged their fury upon the Spaniards who counted it brave to die before the face of their Commanders rather than to take Quarter Fuentes the Master of the Ordnance in the Enemies Camp avoided the disgrace of flight by dying in the Bed of Honour Their Switzars affected the reputation of having their Colonel killed who during the Engagement was carried about in a Sedan he had made oath never to fight against the French neither on Horse-back nor on foot The Count of Issemberg accounting that there was less danger in running away than in being made Prisoner escaped away wounded and a little after dyed of his wound Melo leaving behind him his Commanders staff which came afterwards into the victorious hands of Enguien having rid full eight miles by the swiftness of his Steed hid himself within the Town of Mariemburgh attended by a few that bore him company in his flight having abandoned his whole Army and it was a confessed truth that the Souldier that day fought like a most valiant General and the General run away like a most cowardly Souldier only the renown of Enguien gave him the glory of having been vanquished by so great a Person It was now no longer a fight but a mixt Carnage A slaughter here of one there of whole Companies Limbs of men lye scattered about upon the ground Souldiers maimed and disabled yet would not leave grasping their Arms till through the expence of much blood they sunk down and dyed Some fled the shortest way others got into the opposite Wood and paths unknown to the Pursuers Naked men encounter with such as are armed and the wounded with such as are whole As is the fashion when fear possesseth the spirit Enguien would no longer pursue them upon the flight but commanded their weary hands their thirsty bodies their blunted Arms to be quiet and having gone through a business of singular danger entred Roc-Roy in Triumph Now he owed this Victory more to his Valour than Fortune For he both drew up his Army most skilfully fought couragiously and with excellent judgment despised the loss of his great Guns knowing that the main concern was the keeping the Army in order and holding the field Then what is rare in that heat of Passion and Age. He pursued them upon the flight with more prudence than eagerness All that were present confessed that Hospital Seneterre Gassion Syrot Espenan deserved to have Enguien for their General and Enguien to have such Officers This hath been too large in the Relation but so many following Engagements shall be all comprehended under this one Roc-Roy being relieved Thionvilles Attaque is resolved upon It is a City of the Dukedom of Luxemburgh cut by the Mazelyn in two parts the one looks towards Metz the other Triers for it hath two Gates situated in a Valley fortified with Trenches and Bulwarks incomparably well At that time judged to have been of great importance not so much to expiate the slaughter of Fequier by putting it to the Sword which had been a quarrel suiting our bravery but that the French Territory might be enlarged by such an Acquist Therefore having wasted the Country and reduced some few Villages on the thirtieth day after the Battel at Rocroy the French Army came within view of Thionville with the same push of fortune carried Guere and Gassion went before to take up the Armies Quarters Conde with prodigious swiftness by the fourth days march came to Metz and a Recruit of new-raised men being taken on there his Army was compleated in numbers By the Counsels of the Commanders by the works activity and patience of the Souldiers by the valour of Enguien within four months time after the Siege was laid there came into our hands that City famous to the memory of posterity for the antiquity of its Original and frequent varieties of Fortune which having escaped many casualties now as it were restored the new Peace cherishing all doth rest quietly under the protection of the French clemency Because there had been assaults with variety of success and many men lost before it when News came to Paris that Thionville was taken there was infinite rejoycing the Churches were full of those that give God thanks for the Victory the Entry too of Enguien being more celebrated than is the custom by the people running in multitudes out of Town to meet him exceeded the usual measure of Honour The League that we had struck with Gustavâ—â— Adolphus the great King of Sweden lasted as long as he lived When he was dead it was renewed with his Successors amongst whom Duke Bernard of Weymar a Branch of the House of Saxony or rather the very stock was eminent for his great merits Our Arms were joyned with the Gothick under that renowned Duke who dying of the Plague not being poysoned as was malignantly given out that he might not oppose Richlieu's designs the Commandâ— in chief over the Army was committed to Weybrantz who was already acquainted with the German Souldiers and Discipline a name well known to the Hercynian and Rhyne His Engagements proved very fortunate by a victory over Lamboy and divers Enterprises still successful At length as is the usual Fate of Martial men having his Arm broken with a Canon bullet before the Walls at the Siege of Rothuel he lived to come into the City Those that accompanied him weeping gave an appearance to the Army looking on as if they had been following not Weybrantz but his Corps His mind continued unshaken and after he had given all his orders as though he had discharged the duty of his
making haste 〈◊〉 midst things uncertain gape after the Present Caâ—â— at money upon all occasions so is Justice less observeâ— and offences they connive at for favour and fâ—â— granting Indulgences The Barberini were entertained in France couâ—teously Mazarine that had found them prouâ— helped them in distress But the Election of Panphilio did so displease him that having grievously censured Antonio Barberini for it out of discontent he fell dangerously sick so as to keep his Bed Wherupon many conceived greedy hopes especially Chavigny Some would obtrude upon the Queen Cardinal Grimaldi The Queen inclined to neither but waited how the Cardinal should do who recovering searched into the designs of his Rivals and kept them close in his memory especially for Chavigny whom for that time he always secretly undermined which when Chavigny perceived it was the occasion of putting him on to precipitate his Plots not fully ripe When the grave Brow of Innocent would not easily endure the presumptuous encroachments of the young Duke of Parma Arms are again taken up But the Forces of Parma were at the first Encounter totally cut off Their General Geoffray a French-man and Doctor of Physick who had insinuated into the late Prince Edwards favour it is uncertain by what practices the Incendiary of the division was put to death at Piacenza and made a State-sacrifice to repair the disgrace The Pacificator was the King of France by Bichi the Senese with Donghi a Genovese the Popes Commissioner for arbitrating the difference Which was Mazarines glory that the French Arms should triumph over Flanders Germany Catalaunia Turin and Piedmont as farther that the interposition of a King but six years old under the Guardianship of a foreign Woman should repress disquiets always working at home and prevail to establish Peace abroad France was if ever prudently governed yet those Secrets of State were taxed and carped at by the whispers and censures of men The truth it we are loth to be under Superiors and let one act never so well and faithfully to the Publick Interest yet this and that is condemned and there is ever somewhat which doth not please every body Thereupon were words thrown out amongst the Vulgar and iâ— Meetings But there is no more certain sign of Gallantry than to despise them when one is placed iâ— Power above the reach of Injury and in Glory above the Eclipse of Infamy Calmness of spirit becomes men in Authority and a patient bearing of reproaches is a great preservative of a Kingdoms Peace Mazarine that took satisfaction in repentance only never in punishment preferred and enriched those that had laid the greatest load of infamy upon him oftentimes using this language to the Queen Madam we have not time enough to busie our selves with these examinations if you once leave this door open you will have no other business and all mens quarrels under this colour will be made matter of information Enguien receiving the Command of Orleans and sent again into Flanders presentlâ— layes cloese Seige to Dunkirk Gassion and Rantzow being his Lieutenants Dunkirk heretofore a Town of Fishermen afterwards of Pirates having ever been an unsafe Road for Ships is become a most famous Harbour from whence Ancors are weighed for all parts of the World The terrour of the Sea moated on the one side by the Ocean on the other by a Moor renowned for Caesars Triumphs and proud of having been the place from whence he took Sh ipping when he went for Britain and at which he landed upon his return The Siege was obstinate by reason of the stout defence and strong situation all which the valour of Conde subdued The Government of the City after it was taken was committed to Rantzow which seemed impolitick Rantzow was by birth a Dane of the Country of Holstein of great personal valour and excellent conduct None could with more Eloquence advance his military Action But intemperate in drink thereupon desperate in fighting we have seen him cut all over no member without its wound When our State fell into Troubles afterwards the Danes faith faultred who was quietly conveyed out of Dunkirk and cast into prison a warning that strangers are not to be trusted Mary Gonzaga the eldest Daughter of Charles of Nevers after Duke of Mantua espoused to the King of Poland parts from the City and is conducted to her Husband through the Low-Countries and Germany in Royal State The King of Polands Ambassadors and their Followers in a long Train made a Cavaleade through Paris upon Horses with stately Trappings One might have seen the people running forth to gaze upon the Getes in Furs with Sable Caps as they passed along the crowded streets great matter for the discourse and vanity of Paris Charles Duke of Lorraine having more than once fallen from us and so often followed the Austrian Eagles and unhappy Standard at last left his Dukedom to our disposal when as Lorraine lying it seems near France was reduced into a Province but one fortified Town held out which was Motteâ— this must be reduced that nothing might remaiâ— unsubdued This Charge after the untimely deathâ— of Magalot was committed to the Marquess Villeroy that so he might grow into Reputation by such a Seige and acquire the Dignity of Mareschal the better to be qualified for the being the young Kings Governour The Prize was easie all hopes of succour being cut off from the Garrison of Motte About the expiring of the year 1646. Henry Bourbon Prince of Conde not yet sixty years old dyed an easie death Lamented by France in such a juncture of Affairs as one who by his Prudence and equal Justice did stay the State running into Confusions He was born at S. Egers in Xantoigne after his Fathers death who was poysoned by ill practices Henry IV. having no Issue had trained him up with all diligence as his future Heir having weaned his Spirit in his tender years from the new Religion which he had sucked in with his milk from his Father and Grandfather in hereditary descent He was so nurtured in the Catholick Rites that afterwards when he was grown up he affected the reputation of being a Capital Enemy to the Innovators in an empty ostentation which would have been useful as he conceived if occasion had served But this is always beneath a great Prince who ought not to love nor yet hate any such thing too much and whom a lofty and gallant Spirit becomes slighting matters of that nature His Marriage with Charlotte Mommorancy had almost been his ruine For to avoid the being rivalled by King Henry he fled into the Low-Countries for a Sanctuary of his Wives chastity From hence through Germany he travels to Millan with a small Retinue to Count Fuentes After that Henry was killed when the impious World did justly fear an eternal night Conde returning into France unhappily took the part of the Mutiners It is an ordinary practice in France thus to disturb the Minority of Kings by Rebellion
was given to Boniface Marquess of Monte Ferrato of whom the Venetians bought it and to this present hold the Dominiâ— of it under the Title of a Kingdom It receives thâ— Name from its principal City called Candy â— Country famous for the Cradle of the fabulous Jupiter the unnatural lust of Pasiphac the inextricable maâ— of the Labyrinth and the presumptuous Wings of Doâ—dalus not allowed mankind The Venetians do yâ— hold it out without any help whilst the Kings of Enâ—rope fight about a little dust What Fate hath â—store for the Venetians or designs upon them I knâ— not No Nation since the Creation of the World hiâ— maintained uprightness besides that and I profess thâ—â— I never saw on earth any thing more just than theâ— Government Rhodes extorted from the Knighâ— of Malta and Cyprus taken from the same Veneâ—â—ans That fortunate Isle that place blessed so sweetness of air for the birth and retirement 〈◊〉 Venus was an invitation of the Ottoman Emperoâ— to the taking of Candy This year Whores and Bawds of all sort weâ— banished out of Town not by Act of Parliamenâ— but by order of the Provost Mareschal The hanâ— somer part of the City judged Some affirm thâ— not a few Priests groaned over such sourness 〈◊〉 was scarce evidenced by any more cruel Law say theâ—â— that the Magistrate hath no regard of the publick â—â—vertisement this is malice and morosity That theâ— can no president be alledged wherein by any publiâ—â— Acts restraint hath been laid upon the affections 〈◊〉 women simple fornication having been in all placâ— tolerated among the Greeks and Romans nay even by the High-Priest And that the Common-wealth never concerned it self what this or that body did with her skin that there is punishment enough in the making such a scandalous profession Thus was pleaded among the idler sort Some more insolent proceeded thus far That therefore were Priests maintained and so many crews of Cordeliers and Capucins to attone God for incurrent sins That such necessary evils were useful to mankind for avoiding worse consequents That a Whore if the question be rightly stated is nothing else but a kind innocent Creature ready to bring men content that long after them at all hours That they think this a more happy life than to work in Shops or toil in the fields But that by Bawds the hearts of mortals were linked that young men are not called off from their business by their interposing but are set forward in a quicker dispatch These and such like speeches were given out in the City and Court especially But as falls out usually amongst us these Laws severely executed at first at the conclusion vanished into neglect through a slack inquisition For Lovers are not cruel nor do men most grievously punish what they most commonly practise I think such to be the most perfect who so pardon others as though themselves did daily offend and so abstain from offending as though thy pardoned no body Therefore it is a good rule to hold through the whole course of our life the being implacable to our selves and exorable to all others He that hates vices hates men The excursions of lust and the like furies are with great watchfulness and special endeavour to be restrained by counsel and perswasion from the breasts of Noble-men and Women Because certainly that House that State that Kingdom will easily be maintained in eternal Honour where the disorderly love of Women bears the least sway Whithersoever that most assured bane of mankind insinuates it self there infamy rings and injury reigns Therefore we must keep at a great distance from these and pursue courses contrary to so dreadful vices It was a shameful thing to stir those matters which having been stirred would have stunk filthily and to be fierce against poor Whores when noble Ladies did prostitute themselves without punishment There was then in proposal whether for the abating the floods caused by the Seyne the neighbouring streams by which that River is swelled should be diverted another way or whether by cutting a Chanel himself should be abated At length either because the difficulty of the work deferred or to avoid charges nothing was altered Nor ever will be altered till the French are out of their Wits Nature the common Mother hath best provided for mans use in laying out the months of Rivers their courses their home and source after a due line Thus doth the Seyne neither streightned in his Chanel nor rob'd of his auxiliary waters not ungloriously flow with his former Pomp. Mazarine that he might not be thought to mind the Wars only furnished a Library in favour of the Studious with Books to be read over in many Ages amongst all which none will be more eminent than that which shall contain the mans own Acts. One might behold shelves raised up to the top of the Roof where through a luxury of Literature was set up a learned Pile not as Ornaments of a Palais but Instruments of Wisdom not ranked for a shew but for use to which the Repositories of so many Volumes set up by the Kings of Pergamus and Alexandria with great emulation may not compare nor that of Pollio who first setting up a Library at Rome made mens Wits a matter of publick Commerce He provided farther all sorts of Horses one might have seen standing at the rich Mangers whatsoever breeds the most generous Studds had produced in a long Race Being sumptuous in Building as in other matters he furnished a Palais with Houshold-stuff incomparably rich with Pictures Images Statues as though he would have transported Rome to Paris In a Royal conversation neatness and Spirit following the Paterns of great Kings But in the procuring and purchasing such things left France should return to its old rudeness he expended those means which others hoard up for their particular uses to the entertainment of the present Age and Posterity But who would have thought that so dismal times would ever have overtaken us as that all these things through ignoble envy should by Act of Parliament be sold at a publick Out-cry Nor are Jewels to be passed over in heaping up of which I know not whether he had more Bravery or Fortune To be sure the Fame of them spread through the remote Countries of the World moved the Grand Mogol who is Lord over all the Northern Indies to give out by his Merchants in this place that he was ready to purchase whatsoever precious stones should be transported from Paris To Agra after that Mazarines occasions were fully satisfied that is the Metropolis of that great Potentate The Mogor envying the celebrated Vineyard of Prester John the Emperor of the farther Aethiopia that is of the Abissines would himself also be glorious in a like Gallantry so that the winding branches of his likewise might twine about beaten massie gold and that not on dwarfed stakes at is the Abissines but high Poles the clusters might shine with Saphirs and Carbuncles the
appeared the best to fall on the Faction while it is unprovided and immediately to turâ— the Power against them And lest words should be rumoured by delay that very day it was resolved in the Palais Royal to depart secretly and at midnight leave the City immersed in wine and good chear Besides the Queen and Mazarine Orleans Coude Meilleray Villeroy Grammont Telleir and the Abbot of Rivieres agreed in this resolve Grammont had given him in charge to convey away the King Queen and the Duke of Anjou which he carried happily for with his usual Policy he escaped the strict Watches of the Faction at a Postern Orleans with Mazarine was got clear by another by-Road At the midst of Queens Course on the way to Chaliot was the general Rendez-vous Through sharp frosts and rugged ways having travelled alt the dark night by break of day they arrive safe at S. Germans Conde tarried a little behind to bring off with him his Mother Brother and Sister His Mother and Conti sets forth in compliance with him the Dutchess of Longueville refused alledging for excuse her fear of miscarrying in that she was near her time but in truth keeping in mind the engagement at the meeting of Noes she had far other designs in her head The Guards early in the morning march out to overtake and wait upon the King Not a few Nobles go speedily after whether out of Duty or Policy Orleans is made General du Plessis Praslin takes up Quarters at S. Denis three miles out of the City Grammont at S. Clouds Corbeil is immediately invaded The Queen rejoycing that all her designs through the Divine blessing succeeded and that forces to take her part were coming up from every place treats Conde courteously in remembrance of his past Services and the sense of her present necessity to make use of him doubling all expressions of kindness towards him Nor was he wanting to deserve her good word behaving himself with all reverence to the Queen in a becoming modesty In the Town of Poissie and the neighbouring places a strict prohibition is made that no Victuals should be carried into the City The Country about Paris is made wast by the rude Souldiers Hostility is acted openly all dangers and shapes of Fortune appear terrible The City is frighted lest taken in her actual Rebellion she should suffer condigne punishment they were constrained by fear that had not been wrought upon by favours The miscarriage of a few threatning destruction to all whilst punishment was inflicted upon the far extended Body of the spreading Delinquency By the shortned supplies of one day it was seen that mans life is sustained by fresh meats and Cities be the bringing in provisions from abroad Troops are in all parts levied Raising Souldiers is imposed upon Priests and Magistrates nothing is excused from Contributions the Authors of the disorders being but few the consequent destruction involved all At the same time the Seyne swelling upon Rains and a sudden Thaw had overflowed the flat parts of the City Several houses were born down and men drowned That inundation was looked upon as a Prodigy as if the very Rivers assaulted Paris Fools taking that which is Chance or Nature for Fate or the Divine Wrath. In the mean time spreading same had dispersed all abroad the News of the Cities calamity The most faithful Peers in their mutual Conference did not touch upon the wretchedness of the times Her Majesty keeping all passages carefully in memory distinguished from the rest such as were worthy for her to trust alone The King by Letter to the Provost of the Merchants that is an Office at Paris recites cursorily the causes of his Retirement the fickleness of the Faction Plots laid against his Person and that he could not with safety continue any longer in the City Orleans and Conde under their hand profess themselves to have been the Advisers of the Kings Retirement The Parliament is charged by the Kings Writ to adjourn to Montargie The City was affrighted at that which is in a night of darkness unless the King and Parliament shine upon them The Archbishop of Corinth summoned by the Kings Letter shews himself ready to obey Gets into his Coach as if he were just upon quitting the Town The common people flock about him offering to stop his Horses by the reins He had before engaged the affections of all to him The throng was violently moved with earnest passion towards him All kissed his Hand or his Scarlet Gown He chose rather to follow the Caresses land Applauses of the common People than the Kings Commands In such distress to attract the minds of the Vulgar must needs require Art and Industry Talor Bignon and Melian which are called the Kings Proctors in the Parliament are sent Commissioners to his Majesty They come back again without having Audience or so much as being admitted into his Majesties presence Conde chiefly laboured it might be so upon design to advance his glory by the Troubles then in being Such things as were suitable to the present occasion were conveyed to Paris It is scarce credible what a plenty of all manner of provision flowed in and with what scarcity they struggled in the Leagure without The Peasants run any hazard so they may but succour the besieged Every one had full liberty to come in all are stopped from going out again to the end sure that the Court might relent at so many pledges and relations Several persons in disguises slip away from the destruction of the ruined City for they expected no less The Kings Souldiers and Officers are by express Act of Parliament prohibited from entring into Towns Cities and Castles they are to be repulsed from all parts as Enemies of their Country A Proclamation is put out That none should relieve the Mazarinists so were the Royalists called with Provision Arms or other Ammunition or if any should presume so to do they should be liable to the same punishment as Mazarine An unreconcileable rage of malice appeared upon this turn of Fighting or Treating A few days passed on after this rate still remarkable by some new emergency At length the Thunder-clap broke over the head of Mazarine He is voted in a full House guilty of high Treason and the Disturber of the publick Peace Every Age Condition Sex is commanded to assault shoot or stab him whoever harboured him in the same house with them should be guilty of the same Crime with him He comforted himself in the conscience of his Vertue which can neither deserve disgrace nor it was should happen can ever be overthrown but went on in the practice of his former gentleness with a resolution impaired by no violence always so putting up injuries that he might be thought not to have resented them Never did courage more undauntedly perform her part then in that the heighth of his Spirit disowning to regard affronts nay or just fears I am certainly informed it was the advice of
so great a Heroe shed Clanleil would not surrender but refused to receive quarter and redeem life at the loss of liberty The Paris Troops drew up without the Port of S. Anthoine in an idle Bravado Conde did not think fit then to fall upon them but having secured Charenton with a Garrison drew off Two days after Beaufort and Marsillac go out with a strong Party to regain the Town They are presently commanded another way to succour Noirmont convoying Provisions whom Grammont did disturb upon the Rear He was come as far as Vitry not in the high Road but by Lanes over Commons and Vineyards There was a sharp Encounter of both Parties fighting stoutly but upon the coming in of la Motte who was not far off Grammont returned to S. Clouds having rifled part of the Convoy When word was brought to Paris of Beauforts danger the whole City run out at the Gates to meet him the minds of the Commons being transported either with fear of their hazard or down-right phrens Since the times of the Guises the affections of the Populace have not been more violently carried forth upon any other Again the Parliament writeth to Plessis Guenegault the Kings Secretary and Register of the Council a Letter containing and moâ— virulent Libel against Mazarine The substance of it was as of the rest that they were ready to obey his Majesty so that Mazarine might be removed 〈◊〉 brought to Tryal That his power was unsufferable he did alienate the affections of the King from the welfare of his Subjects All things must be managed at his will and pleasure That the publick Revenâ—â—â— raised by whatever difficulties were interverted to 〈◊〉 private and particular occasions and what meanâ— had been designed by the cares of our Ancestors fâ—â— supporting the common safety and honour were by a sad miscarriage lavished out upon certain persons thâ— cannot yet lose the memory of their former obscurity and the apprehensions left themselves or their Heiâ—â— should again relapse into it That a new broad 〈◊〉 Nephews is every day expected from Rome to be obtruded upon us and their insatiable avarice and ambition crammed at the publick Charge That the Prince was captivated and abused by their Enchantments to injure himself and Subjects with a destructive indulgence and immoderate profuseness But yâ—â— so vigorous a Reverence the French had toward Majâ—â—â— imprinted in them That the very Cradles of such 〈◊〉 were born to the Crown did strike an awe into thâ—â— with a secret instinct and they never presumed to withdraw their Allegiance from them That Mazarine to lay the grounds of his tyrannical Vsurpation did form the young Kings mind according to his own and disposed the affections of his Majesty without any regard to Persons of Merit towards his own Creatures thinking himself a loser as often as any besides himself or his Partisans had any gift bestowed upon him by the Royal Bounty That the Queen being deceived by the false Vertues or the glittering Vices of him did certainly not indeed destine the wealthiest Citizens to her present passion but like Victimes reserve them to a more safe vengeance These and suck like expressions the Paper contained pretending to be sent by the whole Parliament whose sounder part complied with the Mutineers not so much through their own disaffection as the malignancy of the Times But those who did obstinately carry on the Faction among the people were either such as knew in their own conscience that they were guilty of some other Crimes besides the villany of the Civil War and so lent that breath to the Tumult which of right belonged to the Halter or such whose indigence feared to beg in peace and lived upon the Troubles of the State Many were led aside by their own simplicity and easiness of belief who when the Visors were thrown off were not a little troubled how they might come about again to be honest the truth of their Leaders growing every day more suspected and new Forces drawing from all parts into the Kings Camp So soon as ever Mazarine perceived for no disposition was naturally more averse to cruelty that the poor City might be pardoned without any dangerous president of remissness he was of advice that the opportunity should be laid hold of whilst the King on every side victorious having disarmed the Rebellion by the blood of a few might in consistence with his Royal Honour make the Peace of his Subjects his own gift It was resolved to send a Herald with Letters to the Parliament the Provost of the Merchants and Conti who were promised an Act of Oblivion for their past miscarriages so they would come to ask the King pardon within four days This was the first light that sprung towards the quiet of the State which by what steps it advanced and at length arrived to a full Peace I shall discourse in short The Herald is not admitted into the Town but having laid down his Packet Of Letters upon a Turn-Pike in the Suburb of S. Honoré went back again The Parliament proceeds slowly and holding a long and uncertain consideration at length concludeth that the present opportunity of Accommodation should be embraced Thereupon they request from the Chancellor and Tellier Pass-ports for the Kings Sollicitor and Counsel to go safely to the Court and give the Queen satisfaction why the Herald was not permitted entrance into the city But lest whilst these Tendencies to Peace proceeded so fairly the City should be distressed for want of provision Marsillac goes to meet Noirmont convoying store of provisions from the Country of Brye Granzy under whose Command the Kings Troops were that lay quartered at Laigne and in that Country prepares to fall upon Noirmont He wisely taking advantage of the ground avoided engaging The storm discharged if self upon Marsillac marching along the Champagne But the Mechanick Militia making faint resistance against the tryed that is veterane Royal Army suddenly disperseth Marsillac wounded and hardly brought off is carried to Paris half dead having received wounds more than enough quite to dispatch him After safe conduct received Talon Melian and Bignon go for S. Germans with this instruction not rashly to obstruct the Overtures of Peace now made The King and Queen sate in the middle the chiefest of the Princes and Nobles on either side After that those three Commoners in nature of Commisioners had with due Applications and decent Behaviour testified their respect to the Assembly and with a first and second Reverence to the King and Queen Mother then a little advancing had bowed low When they were come within competent distance the Queen gave significations of her favourable Reception of them When Talon thus began It hath been long since Madam the top of our desires to lye prostrate at your feet Vnder your Regency France is the most happy of all Nations Towards Subjects dejected and obnoxious to your Justice extend mercy The only look of your Majesty is able to take
secreâ—â—â— These private Articles are committed to the single fidelity of the Governor who not being able to keep counsel imparts his Majesties Instructions to one and then another and they to more so by spreading farther the mystery was revealed for which openness the Count d'Ales afterward smarted severely For of a sudden the Faction takes fire and that Parliament votes against Mazariâ—â— as plotting the ruine of the Province it joyns with the Parliament of Paris that Mazarine must be banished the Count d'Ales turned out of his Government and such other particulars as their fury did dictate The Count d'Ales doth not conceal his resentments but breathing out revenge gives order that the Noblesse which were his friends and all his Creatures should take up Arms casts some of the Mutineers in prison without considering That he should not have disobliged those whom he could not destroy Farther upon a contest one of the Parliaments Messengers was killed by a Souldier of the Governors Hereupon the Tumult swelled especially because upon a Holy-day when they were going in Procession to S. Sebastians which stands without the Town a Peasant cryed out that the City-gates were a shutting to keep the Burgers out from returning to their houses The Count d'Ales with 5000 Foot and 500 Horse and no small number of the Gentry assaults and takes the neighbouring Towns At length draws up to Aix and of 200 that sallied out a Piquering cuts off every man The Kings Proclamation of Obliâ—â—ion and Amnesty for what hath past is seasonably offered and an Agreement being made every one returns to his wonted imployment and the six months grievance is abolished for ever Thus many obstructions of the publick Peace through the discontents of Provence were removed by the prudent Conduct of Mazarine much against the strain of Nostradamus his Prophecies who by the contrary event is convicted to have given lying predictions to his Country-men This Impostor Was born at Sisteron a City of Provence There are several Centuries walk about as his being indeed dark and ambiguous because before things come to pass men may hope or fear or when they become to pass men may aver the truth of promises Besides they are so couched as they may comprehend different events and are capable of several constructions Now though these are daily interlined and enlarged with new insertions yet such is the madness of credulous men that they stick not to contend for the truth of what they understand not and though they be trapped in an evident untruth will not be undeceived But the Star of the Bourdelois did strangely symbolize with that of tne Parisian and no wonder when Paris was mad for Bourdeaux to be out of its wits Now if any one should inquire what cause did over-cast the serenity of Guyenne there will be found no sufficient occasion Let but any one reflect in the first place upon all stirs how much the inconstancy of that Country is wont to take upon it self how much disgust of the present State and desire of Innovation hath been and will be in that Capital City of a warlike Sept. Where by reason of the indulgent weather and Hills cloathed with Vineyards a small Estate may maintain debauchery amidst sprightful Wits that have hands perpetually bent to fighting A Country wantâ—â— with their prosperity having no Enemy abroad must seek out one at home and like the Symplegâ—des delights to dash against themselves Therefore the Acts of the Parliament of Paris are magnified by them and their courage extolled from whence ariseth an emulation of doing the like Besides there were Ladies too in those quarters that must rival the Dames of Paris and were no less amorous There only needed to dress up a person upon whom the Faction already kindled in their minds might discharge its strength The Duke of Espernon that was deputed Governor over Guyenne seemed proper to be made the Ball that should be tossed His pride joyned with covetousness is condemned The Court of that Parliament reject his Orders by their own Ordinances impeach him before the King as their Enemy and contriving the ruine of Guyenne chahge all his severity to proceed from ambition as though je would erect himself some petty Empire by enslaving Bourdeaux That he shamefully ingrâ—ssed their Wheat the trucking and exporting of which enhanced the price of Corn otherwise plentiful in those parts and that 〈◊〉 farther thought of laying a new Impost upon every Tâ—â— of Wine That he was building a Fort at Livorne with design to bridle Bourdeaux which he was resolved to disarm and to batter the innocent Town from the Cittadel of Trompet with Ordnance brought thither from the old Castle of Ha. Now the common People hearkned to this because they hated him and they hated him because at that time such a rebellious Star raigned as that it was fitting for the storm of Envy to pour upon any head so it might fall somewhere He as he was of a lofty pirit and confident slighted their threats and conspiracies or made shew as though he had slighted them lest it might seem possible he should be deprest in that City where through the daring valour of his Father an eternal Interest of the House of Espernon was thought to have been founded The most remarkable Ring-leaders of the dissatisfied party were Murat Picon but above all Dafie and Lavie the Kings Advocate a prime man among them their very Captain and principal Leader Several Expedients are tryed for composing the difference All are thrown out by the violence of the Faction Espernon although strong with the Kings Souldiers and the assistance of his own Dependents and Friends retired out of Town lest the Royal Majesty might seem to have been violated in the person of his Lieutenant The Bourdelois raise Land-Souldiers and Sea-men The Regiments are recruited with new Levies All the Youth love to be handling Arms. Every one strives to be ennobled though by bad action rather than to sit idle Hostility is acted on both sides D' Espernon must be turned out as the occasion of the Troubles this is the only remedy all other offers are but vain Mazarine holds earnestly for the contrary that never were such Demands yielded to without apparent prejudice The President woulâ— be dangerous it would prove not an end buâ— step to higher insolencies That Conde would bâ— that means take greater boldness whose care it 〈◊〉 to ingage the Bourdelois as appeared by severâ—â— discoveries Nor would he let slip any opportunity of rising if it should be offered Whilst these things are transacting at Bourdeâ—â—â— the Court is rent into contrary parties under several pretences The Queen was always stiff in maintaining Mazarine who plainly appeared the only person in promoting the Kings Interests and holding up his Authority shaken on every hand noâ— thus she judged that he was most to be regarded in whose spirit was courage and what she founâ— most useful that must be retained for preservatioâ— of their
Forces of Bourdeaux had resigned up his Commission in favour of Saubeuf First he had made offer of it to Bouillon who presently communicated it to Conde Saubeuf being gracious with the people watched for the opportunity of some Stirs that he might come into Honour Hs was no mean person who had taken the party of Orleans with Montmorency afterwards was Lieutenant General to the Duke of Parma Under the Conduct therefore of this Saubeuf are new preparations for War made both by Sea and Land Several sorts of Vessels are made whereby the Bourdelois might be rendred Masters of the Garonne The News of this at Court increased the perplexities of Mazarine who foresaw the only remedy of these distractions to be in the Revocation of Espernon and he could not be revoked without the substituting Conde in his place of whom the whole Faction was fond as a person suitable to the present state of Affairs Therefore Mazarine as hath been already said could by no means â—e brought to it reasonably fearing worse consequences from their excessive affection to Conde than their hatred of Espernon Some thoughts were of sending Orleans thither who carried so much dignity as might serve to appease the disorders The Proposal did not please Orleans whether it were that he doubted of the issue or out of an inbred affection to his ease Nay it was debated whether the Kings Majesty should go thither in Person but the State of Paris required his Royal presence At length Praslin du Plessis received this difficult Imployment He did not go straight to Bourdeaux lest he should distast Espernon nor to Cadillac lest he might offend the Bourdelois but made a stop at Lormont where in Conference with the Commissioners both from the City and the Parliament he endeavours to restore the City and Guyenne to its ancient quiet Then was the Fort at Trompet closely beleaguered from the Siege of which he could by no Arguments prevail to withdraw the Bourdelois nay the more he insisted upon that unseasonable Article the more eager was the Siege pressed till at length it had that success as we shall afterwards mention The issue of the Treaty was Espernon must be removed or the incensed City would stand it out to the last And when Praslin spoke of Moderation he was hissed by the most and called in derision Argenson as though he trod in his steps Lavieu returns again to the Court to relate his own and his Countries Adventures That neither the Parliament nor Bourdeaux did deny to discharge their duty that the Townsmen were all ready to approve their Loyalty so they might not be in subjection to Espernon whom they called the Stone of stumbling Lavieu promised his faithful Service in reclaiming them at the Council board when he was got to Bourdeaux his performances were not agreeable to his promises Certain it is he always suggested turbulent insinuations and opposed any accommodation secretly practising Conde above others to stand by Bourdeaux in this Juncture of Affairs to undertake the Patronage of the distressed City which chose him as the Protector and Recoverer of its Liberty He bids Lavien be of good courage he would stand or fall with them Which afterwards Lavieu when he came home reported with more ample circumstances to put his Townsmen in hope and encourage the Faction with vain promises wherein he was always a main Instrument When Candale did by a certain Confident move Conde that he would not abet the disorderly Riots to create a feud between himself and the House of Espernon they report that the Prince should make answer He would do all that lay in his power to gratifie the Espernons so he might be secured of their assistance and faithfulness to him which waysoever matters should turn Candale rightly interpreting that speech to tend towards the diminution of his Faith that was due to his Soveraign only neglected to purchase Conde at such a rate These passages coming to light and reported at Bourdeaux might have been sufficient to have removed any hopes on Conde had not an unbridled rage blinded the poor Burgers who though they had often received warning that nothing was to be expected from Cande yet would always place their confidence of being protected on him So easie and obvious a thing is it under any Mask to bewitch the multitude All this time the Castle of Trompette being distressed with the want of all necessaries could no longer hold out upon hopes of relief from whence it came that those of the Garrison being pinched with hunger drove certain beasts that grazed thereabouts into their Works Which proved not their succour but their ruine for presently the Castle was straightly begirt and battered with Artillery of all sort Those of the Garrison discharge their Guns Open Hostility is acted on every side Saubeuf with Lusignan quarter Souldiers in the adjacent parts from whence the Garrison being in extremity might have been succoured and fill the Churches too with Guards They seize upon Podensac and S. Georges Isle They rifle the Houses and Farms of such as out of moderation would not joyn with the Faction Espernon with as great strength as he could make standing on the other side of the River appeared to give the besieged some flattering hopes of relief for thinking it not safe to march forward he retreated Hereupon the besieged reduced to some 80 tattered and torn men were put into extreme desperation having their Turrets battered provision consumed and water corrupted After two months defence Haulmont the Governor surrendered the Castle to Saubeuf upon condition of bare quarter for himself and the remnant of Souldiers that survived with him rendring the rest to discretion Presently the common People like wild beasts flye upon the rubbish and ruines of the battered Castle The rich Furniture of Espernon lodged there for security being put to sale by order is made away at inconsiderable prizes The Ordnance are drawn away to the Parliament House door not only with the applause of the people but also the principal Citizens provoking every one to share in the Publick rejoycing Men were invited all about the streets to make merry Monsieur Fajard an eminent Counsellor sate astride upon one of the great Guns having on his head a Garland of Ivy and Vine-leaves resembling a Bacchus bearing such branches in manner not at all becoming the gravity of his Gown and drinking himself served all comers with wine The Bourdelois with strong sallies lay the Country waste far and near There were four thousand Foot most of them that had left the Kings Colours and eighteen hundred Horse in the Rebels pay Having taken Pondensac they threaten to ruine Cadillac but in vain for there was the flower of Espernons Forces They batter Langon assail S. Macaire The neighbouring Towns fall under the same condition Then doth Doignon the Governor of Brouage enter the Garonne with eight Men of War most of them Fire-ships and not a few lesser Vessels filled with
Nobles may marry without first by way of Honour acquainting the King with it I waited upon Mazarine not by order of Conde but Madame Longueville to acquaint him with the whole matter after it was done He having set his looks in a dissembling posture as his fashion was made answer Whether the Contract were lawfully made or no that must be decided by the proper Judges nor was it for him to interpose in a matter wherewith he had not been at all made acquainted And having designed one of his Nieces for the Duke of Richlieu out of a thankful remembrance of his obligations to his Uncle He said with a smile Tha 〈◊〉 his opinion his Niece was not inferior to Katherine Poussart In earnest I could not discern that he was in passion such a command he had of his â—ook and language all his life time Yet was he inwardly exulcerated in his spirit that Conde would â—ever desist his old practices Hereupon he not only persists in his design of imprisoning the Prince but resolves to hasten it being plainly satisfied that he made this but a step â—o proceed to farther indignities Longueville reâ—enting the affront takes advice to relinquish all â—nterests with Conde and resign himself up entirely â—o the disposal of the Queen and Mazarine And â—n truth he had need of such Protectors to recover his liberty his Wife being grown intolerable and â—e not able to bring her under any rule by reason â—he was abetted by Conde He humbly begs of the Queen and Mazarine in my presence pardon for his part offences promising for the future his duâ—itiful Allegiance in opposition to all men whatsoever The Cardinal gave no credit to Longuevilles professions and the issue verified his judgment for the Mother of Conde desirous to preserve a right understanding in her Family having suspicion of the discontent so througly reconciled her Son and Son in Law together that Longueville did as faithfully promise Conde his service as he had done â—he Queen and Mazarine that day before Which being presently revealed to Mazarine by Chabot did quite take off his affections from Longueville and so much the more because at the same time he had informed the Abbot of Riviere of his imminent danger This Mazarine took very hainously being resolved to ruine Riviere that so he might come the fairer at Conde Till this time Mazarine had intended to sever Longueville from sharing in the Imprisonment but finding him so fickle of his word after resolved to involve him in a commâ—â— ruine with his Brother in Law I return to the Marriage of Richlieu which Conde did not promote but to make it appear in what high Authority he was that could advance or depress at pleasure and that he might make the Governer of Havre de Grace to be at his devotion Corinth the Head of the Slingers in nothing sluggish but always intent upon every occasion having got a lucky and fit accident dextrously cherishes the matter of new troubles springing forth upon occasion of the Rents yearly payable to the Creditors of the City that is such as let out their monies in the Chamber of the City at a certain Interest and the Principal secured as having Part mortgaged for it The persons interessed complaining of the ill payment of that Rent a Committee was chosen of six eminent Citizens who should find out Expedients for paying the money Amongst the rest were the President Charton Joli Bellote and Couture Now when those private meetings looked towards Sedition the prime President of the Parliament of Paris Mole making a fair Harangue to the throng of Creditors which walking the streets in Troops seemed to menace disturbance to the State promised that he would 〈◊〉 his utmost endeavour that they should be fully satisfied by the Parliament The Rout giving out threatning terms nor enduring to wait and instigated by those that had more factious spirits than wisdom broke out into ill language and particularly Couture who was ordered to be arrested by the Pursuivants which attempted in vain to do it Hereupon arose divers murmurings But nothing seemed a fitter opportunity to the Mutineers for rising than if any one of the Bouttefeux were slain or at least wounded Therefore as Joli was riding in his Coach Chartons house he is shot without drawing any blood a Pistol is discharged by a suborned Fellow who having pierced the Coach-leather with a harmless Bullet immediately gallopping away vanished out of sight Joli crys out not having been much against his will struck at but through his own falshood That good Patriots were murdered that this was the effect of Mole ' s menaces Charton highly resented the attempt as making it his own case though both were secure enough both from the danger of expecting or having received any harm All this was but mummery to make the City take up Arms. The Heads of the Slingers were glad and made their advantage of Joli's wound murmuring that honest men standing up stoutly for their Countrys good should have such violence offered them What security was there in the City it was no longer Paris but a Den of Thieves They consult who is the fittest person to set the City in an uproar The most likely man to do the feat is pitched upon one Eschalart Laboulaye a very popular person and one that was in great reputation for having conveyed provisions into the City in the time of the Siege He therefore incites them with language gesture affection to take up Arms advises to shut up their Shops draw the Chains cross the Streets and all other like actions of a Town running frantick Whether it were that Boulaye out-run the popular fury or that the Citizens were not in that fit troubled with the overflowing of the gall all was husht and quiet That beast is not always in the humor nor can the common People at every moment fall into its frenzy fits This Crisis soon passes over and it belongs to none but old Crafts-masters in the trade of Rebellion to nick those Articles of time Yet their stomachs swelled and one might have seen flocks of dissatisfied persons at an evening in the Lanes and Streets whispering one with another Conde after his reconciliation to Mazarine so far kept his word to the Queen as to exercise declared Hostility both against the Slingers and all other Mutineers making it his principal business to cast down whatsoever stood up in opposition to the Court yet in such a manner as that he might seem the prime Actor not a Minister to execute what he was ordered So at once he both highly distasted the Slingers and in maintaining the Royal Authority eclipsed it The Slingers before they rendred themselves and interests to Mazarine for the pulling down of Conde strive rather to win the Prince over to their Party to make him instrumental for the overthrowing of Mazarine But the Prince receiving them coldly and desiring to be rid of them as most unwelcome Guests then the Slingers
care as I was going away Conde speaks to me to desire Longueville to come thither because the apprehending of Conture being under deliberation he might appease the rising if any should be by means of his Cousin and friend Corinth I went to Chaliot a little way out of Town where Longueville lived to keep at distance from his Wife When I had plainly told him my observation of the approaching danger he answered me calmly That it was possible Prince might be apprehended but it was to no purpose to warn him that would not as well as his Sister take 〈◊〉 advice as for himself having but the day before made his peace with the Cardinal he feared nothing We came to Paris whither he was bound in all haste at the request of Beveron who had desired Longuvilles intercession to Mazarine for his Son to succeed in the Government of Normandy Towards the evening Conde waits upon the Queen after his usual manner and having heard of Riviere unacquainted with the design that the Duke of Orelans would not be there somewhat startled at it he soon conceived that the defence of his cause in the Parliament was deserted He did advisedly absent himself either with intention of composing the storm that was expected or that he might not look on the Fact Conti and Longueville meet in the Council-Chamber where was present the Chancellor Servienne Tellier and some other honourable Personages of his Majesties Privy Council Mazarine was retired into his Chamber having carried off the Abbot Riviere with him Guitalil Captain of his Majesties Guards came earnestly into the Council-Chamber and bowing himself to Condes ear charges him in the Queens Name to go along with him as his Prisoner Cominges doth the like to Conti Cressy to Longueville Conde at first seemed to laugh at it Afterwards finding Guit ald to speak in earnest he then turned to the persons present and said The Queen arrests me by this Guitald my dutifulness my loyalty hath 〈◊〉 deserved this not to mention my services I have not only hopes but assurance in her Majesies Justice I desire you to bear witness of my moderation Hereupon he intreats the Chancellor to go to the Queen in his behalf and obtain if it were possible a Conference of her for him He desires Servienne to do the same with Mazariâ—â— in his favour Both of them obey the Prince The Chancellor returns having in vain attempted to speak with her Majesty Servienne came no more back Mazarine being certified by him that the work was done declares it to Riviere who muttering as if Orleans would take it ill was then plainly told that nothing was done but by the approbation of Orleans He went away much stomaching it and when he offered to speak to Orleans after his usual manner he had a flat denial And then was he confidently assured of his being undone In the mean time Guitald returns bringing with him twenty Souldiers who scouling upon Conde looked as though they were prepared for some bold attempt The Prince goes along quietly but Conti could not digest the disgrace but fretted and well-nigh threatned Conde pacified his Brothers impatience with advice and his own example Being carried down the Privy Stairs without any stir they are put in a Coach Conde Conti and Longueville Cominges the Nephew of Guitald never stirring from beside them a few of the Kings Horse being at first in company Miossain waited at the Porti Richlieu with a more numerous Troop Thus are they conveyed through by-ways and in the dead of night to Vincennes without any commotion appearing although the Coach overturned and threw the Prisoners to the ground rather frighted at their dangerous fall than thinking to make any escape I am not ignorant that it will seem like a Fable that there should have been so much courage in Mazarine as that in a City greedy after dissensions where the friends of the Princes were so powerful he should take the boldness not only to design but to put in execution a work so full of nice hazard and that he laid all his project with so subtle and shrewd forecast as that there was no disturbance in the effect That so many Dependents of Conde so many of Conti so many of Longueville should all be wrapped up in such darkness as to sleep sluggishly over their miseries not once daring to stir after having so often vapoured of the strength of their Party The Slingers run in scattering Troops about the City as though they had obtained a great Prize Beaufort with the principal The streets were all over light with Bonfires in token of the publick Joy in memory they would be thought of the Siege of Paris whenas Conde unaware of the Fates without any presage of mind girt in with a straight Leagure so friendly so favouring a City and wasted the neighbour Villages driving all the Pastures and laying the Country desolate The Queen sitting up till late that night waited for the issue of the Action and reckoned upon every movement as being in a doubtful state betwixt hope and fear The same did Orleans When the work was done the greatness of its nature was perceived At length comes News of their safe arrival at Vincennes where being thrust into a Tower all three Princes in one Chamber had lain all night supperless on the floor unless Rantzow thrown thither before by Condes means forgetting the old grudge had sent them in some Bottles of Wine store of which he never was without and some Victuals or other Walls on the left hand damp and of a loathsom scent to make the place of a strength not to be forced The Vault is bound with stone Arches hideous for darkness the room nasty and horrible The Princes lying awake as is usual in such a case held divers discourses How Mazarine had put a trick upon their credulity not only that the imprisonment was grievous but the disgrace joyned with the restraint so many hopes cut short and the insultation of their Enemies Here Longueville put in a true prophecy The Sling saith he hath thrown as in hither and the Sling will fetch us out again The same night was John Perauld taken and shortly after cast into the same Dungeon suffered for his unspotted faithfulness having this accession of glory that having been a true Servant of the Royal Family whose Interest he had always made his own sharing in their fortune he was involved in the same Fate My self too I suppose escaped because I was beneath their anger while they were taken up in Actions of the highest nature When word was brought to Condes Mother of her Sons disgrace she was overwhelmed with such passion of heart as she almost fell down dead in the hands of the standers-by A Lady born of the great Montmorancyâ—â— carried about her the haughtiness of their Spirits having been exercised with variety of Fortunes because she could not have looked for such a Cross neither could she stand up under
it After divers essays to procure her Childrens liberties at length broken with affliction never more coming to the fight of them within a few months ended her days with discontent The Dutchess of Longueville transported more with grief for her Brothers than her Husband hearing of the misfortune fell on the ground and did farther with her lamentations defile that night which had been stained with so cruel an action The Mother and Daughter were both perswaded that fatal and extreme danger hung over the Prisoners and that they would not have presumed to go so far as this who had not determined to proceed to the uttermost The Queen commands Condes Mother to depart the Town and confines Madame Longueville to the Palais Royal. The former having obtained leave shuts her self up three days in the Carmelites Cloister from hence she retires to Chantilly with her Daughter in Law and Enguien Condes Son The latter is conveyed away by the artifices of the Keeper of the Palais and with Rochefoucault her Guide escapes into Normandy to her Husbands friends to try their constancy The Mother had resolved that black night to go about Paris to practise her Sons Partisans and raise the City but hearing that all runs cross that Corinth and Beaufort went triumphing about the Town that Bonfires Were kindled in testimony of the publick Joy she could not hold crying Grievously she complained of the Queen but the Queens heart being inflexible and obdurate against all prayers Madam Condes tears were shed in vain A deep Lethargy had possessed so many Nobles that had so often made fair promises to the Prince Never was it evidenced by such clear proofs how unsafe are all Court-confidences while men are in favour they are highly complemented if once fallen under a Cloud all tyes are broken and they tamely forsaken Bouillon slips away from the present danger and buries himself in the retreat of his Territory of Thurenne His Brother Thurenne riding all night through strange ways arrives in safety at Stenay Moussay and the other Retainers on the afflicted Family scatter one one way and another another at length Stenay was the Rendez-vous of all of them and Sanctuary to others that fell off from the King Madame Longuebville tryed many means at Rouen but none offered her their assistance The very Beverons that held the City and old Palace and were Lieutenants in that Province banished her that Country and oblige her to go for Diep from whence how she came forth I shall afterwards relate This was the Posture of the State upon the imprisoning of the three Princes none offering to stir nor so much as to bemoan That Conde si often victorious that had done so many signal sevices should be mewed up in a Dungeon Who would not admire his Fate that after so many Triumphs should fall into such hands a Person then whom few have been more worthy of the chief Command since Charles the Great whether you consider his good successes or his great courage or his Spirit equal to any Fortune The French Nation would have been judged too powerful if these great endowments had not their allay of contrary qualities He had no violence to revenge wrongs nor any care to requite courtesies None was more obliging in expression when his need prompted him after the danger was over and his turn served all kindnesses were utterly forgot The Spirit of Conti was ruled by his Sister Longueville The Duke of Longuevilles humor was full of shifts he would taste superficially of all things There could no Party rise but he would side with them Scarcely could he get in but he would draw his foot back which would fit a thousand shoes He might have sunk several times but he happened by turnings and windings to get off clear He would renounce his former friendships and apply to new ones so he had any hopes of advantage by them Would court men in prosperity abandon them in distress Could never deceive any one twice his cunning was so palpable Covetous after gain to this intent that he might appear to have been a gainer He imbased the endowments of his mind with vain Plots To be sure he might have kept far enough from the disquiet of a Gaol had not he been a Turn-coat and by being true to neither side had gone about to oblige or to delude both Yet was not the Age so wholly barren of vertues as not to produce some instances in that kind too Grammont went to the Queen and not denying his passion frankly avowed to her Majesty that he was afflicted for the sufferings of Conde mixing withal some other expressions worthy of his generous boldness which he afterwards advisedly supprest because of the Oath which he had taken to the King That was to him essential always to act gallantly having a cheerful yet weighty bravery Mole also favouring the Prince spoke words of like nature Cominges that remained at Vincennes being called home Bar is set over the guarding of the Prisoners who discharged his Office as imperiously as unwarily To stop the censures of Fame that were very violent the Queen sends a Remonstrance to the Parliament to this effect that Conde did not demean himself any longer like a Subject but a King that his increasing boldness was no longer tolerable Conti grew high upon his Brothers Greatness there was no end of Longuevilles Suits he must have what he asks and must have it at a day certain farther that no heed was to be given to his word and that he was held in prison left under colour of Conde he should make any Stirs in Normandy To this the Parliament agreed Mazarine brings into sight his Nieces that had been locked up in a Nunnery to pacifie Conde The Wife of Bouillon concealed in an insecure corner is taken and shut up in the Bastille having the liberty of the Garrison and kept there till the Articles concluded with her Husband at Bourdeaux These passages were in the City In the Provinces Mazarine watches strictly having dispatched Vendosme into Burgundy Harcourt into Normandy Hospital into Champaigne S. Aiguan to Bourges to secure the publick Peace Marsein General over the French Forces at Barcellons being of the Princes Dependants is taken and carried to Perpignan a Person experienced in Martial Affairs of great reputation at first making some offer of resistance bore his hand to his Hilt upon suspicion of some rudeness Afterwards having stilled the disorder of his mind he yielded himself with all obedience to Joseph Margarite and John Marcand to whom the Kings Orders were sent All care for the promotion of Riviere is stopped at Rome So he missing the hopes of a Hat goes out of the Town increased in wealth and rich benefices having been at first in favour with Orleans for the pleasantness of his humor he joyns policy with facetiousness so steering the mind of his Lord that he never miscarried through any advice of his He never put the Duke upon any
defended the sleep of all with his vigilancy the repose of all with his labour the leisure of all with his activity in whose breast though there were a deep wound yet there appeared no scar In the mean while he rendred all obedient with the awe of him so that they who had cruelly hated his former condition made profession that they would follow this though with the hazard of their whole Estates But we shortly saw Fortune speedily return to repentance through so many prosperous successes as ensued The first debate was whether it were better with the whole power of the Army to overwhelm Conde in Guyenne that was already tottering or directly to march for Paris the principal City and Head-quarters there to win Orleans who was wavering and either oblige the Slingers to return to their duty or ruine them This seemed the more adviseable although Harcourt at that time standing upon terms give some trouble which I shall afterwards more dearly particularize The Army of Nemours plundering the Country put all into a fright and laid the Circuit waste from Orleans by Gergovie and Giemie It is resolved suddenly to quench that fire which was of it self inconsiderable but as it ministred strength to the Faction On the March that the County of Anjou should be cleared by beating up Chabot The Service is committed to Hoquincourt who within very few days forced Anjou and Chabot its Governor to a necessity of Surrender notwithstanding Beaufort had been sent in by Orleans to his assistance and reduced Ceo and other Towns to extremity Chabot is of the highest Nobility in Xantogne whose Grandfather was Admiral and Governor of Burgundy his Father Lord of a great Estate which he had by his Wife upon which he lived in the Country and had no affection to the Attendances on the Court This Gentleman of whom we speak was for the gayness of his spirit and comeliness of his person taken into the Graces of Margaret Roban and married her by the mediation of Conde the Father and this present Prince then Duke d'Enguieâ— therefore Chabot not forgetful of his obligation expressed his thankfulness to the Prince to the utmost of his power The Court staid some days at Saumure to advance the Siege of Anjou Then did Corinth compass that Hat so often promised and so often put by which Pope Innocent granted not so much for gratifying the King as eclipsing Mazarine by setting up an equal to him in Dignity What matter of division doth not this out-landish Purple set on fire De Rhetz for so must he be called hereafter no longer Corinth Illustrious in Birth and Honourable Descent active eloquent most eminent in favour friendships and vigour of spirit as though he had been displeased with his vertues which did not presently meet with Preferment by divers Plots which he thought the shorter cut when a pleasant path did not lye open to the highest place chose the more troublesom way in the most of his Enterprises he acted with more Wit than Luck believing nothing so much his own as what he held by his friends who upon all occasions proved false The Court removing from Saumure by Tours Amboise Bloise at length after so many motions placed its Residence at Geimie There is a Bridge over the Loyre a Poste of great importance to either Party The King could not attend the Issues of Affairs in a more convenient station On the one side hovering over Paris on the other pressing towards the Rebel-Forces to attend whose motion he had set a strong Army under the Conduct of Thurenne and Hoquincourt Orleans who would believe it shut her Gates against the King That was in favour of Orleans and especially his Daughter who Pucelle-like having the courage to appear amongst men of Arms had posted thither to give Spirit to the common Souldier Conde abides in Guyenne without hopes finding every where a slackness of obedience whilst Harcâ—urt urgeth his successes and plys the favour of Fortune what marvel when he was warranted by his Majesties Authority which every thing in France doth at length obey The Spaniard did more and more slacken the hand of his bounty The piomises of England by Cromwell proved more ineffectual but what was to be hoped for from that Mountebank and shameful Monster in Nature Hereupon the Guyennois fell to distaiste the Prince whose continual presence rendered him less reverenced No longer did his high Renown of being 〈◊〉 Warriour dazzle the eyes of the people No Creature is more way-ward than a Guascon None to be handled with greater Art This Conde never â—ad That Nation is apt to rise against none sooner than such as it finds to pretend to a Government over them without bringing them money Valiant they are and to repair the decays of their Fortunes with their blood wish for War but cannot be long held fast unless they bite somewhat Conde pondering all these things in his mind the discontents between Beaufort and Nemours increasing the Army longing after him Orleans wavering the addresses of the Sling expectation of Paris although always fickle but what was principally considerable the pressing admonitions of Chavigny That he would come up speedily and nut let slip the fair opportunities that Fortune offered him although hereby Chavigny more aimed at monopolizing the Prince to himself than at the promoting of his service Such reflexions produced in the mind of Conde a determination to leave Guyenne and having reached his beloved Forces to draw up to the Imperial City Thus hope being raised out of despair he hastens to his wishes and having left behind him the subject of his fears neither carrying his Wife nor only Son into danger enters upon his Journey with but very few that he had made acquainted with his intention through Forests and Deserts out of the Road scarce came under any roof yet more than once known by his face though his hand were held before it and he had used all means to cut off the marks to pursue and trace him A Woman in the train of the sort of those Ladies that are wont to follow the Camp had almost occasioned the discovery of the Prince as he was taking a Bait in a Country-Village He escaped away and crossed the Coast till wearied with wandring he came all dusty spent with travel and want of sleep into his friends Camp where he was received With sound of Drums and Trumpets Scarce was lie dismounted when being informed by Scouts how the Royal Army was lodged he falls in at midnight upon Hoquincourt that ever was secure beats up his Quarters and rifles his Waggons and Baggage to great Consternation little loss One might have seen the Court at Giemie melancholy and dejected words were given out of trussing up and marching away that the Bridge should be broken down after the King had escaped over at Bourges and the like which fear prompts upon a misfortune received The day after both Armies stood drawn up a Matisse parting them
from Engagement The Guns being discharged on both sides Condes Party drew off Thurenne who always tempered the forwardness of the Souldier with Authority Providence and Valour acquainted with being in a prosperous or dubious condition and thereupon undaunted carried away the credit of that day and confirmed the drooping Army There appeared his labour in business courage in danger industry in action quickness in dispatch It may not be omitted that the King being but fifteen years old stole from those about him and animated the Army with his Courage and Gesture which proved advantagious Condes Forces encamped at Estampes the Prince goes for Paris to fix Orleans that was Chavigny's Counsel With what joy of the Common-people and with what Congratulations of the Parliament he was received can scarce be parallell'd in words At this time Longueville fearing the continuance of his state resolves voluntarily to lay down his Government in Normandy thinking himself unable to sustain the storm ready to fall by the approaching Arms of the King who would be the Conquerour it was manifest the edge of Conde's authority growing every where more blunt In lieu of Normandy Longueville had given him on the Borders of Champagne the Government of Maceria Olypomont Chastel-Renant and Linchamp but what was the principal Charleville was bought him of the Duke of Mantua it is a Soveraign Lordship amongst the Arcuese of pleasant scituation upon the bank of the Maze looking towards Flanders and Yverdon this pleased Longneville now in his de clining years That he should exercise Soveraign Authority should lead in mirth the days of his Old-age at his own pleasure and without molestation compose his last thoughts nor be troubled with the Norman humours The Articles were signed by Mazarine in his Majesties Name and by me in the Dukes at Giemie which how they came afterwards to be invalidated I shall speak in the proper place At Paris were boystrous Spirits but that durst venture no farther than words It was long debated in Parliament how the mony should be raised for a reward to him that killed Mazarine and there was none found to undertake the Assassinate The Cardinal was not moved with any terror only he wondered when the French were embroyled in Civil Warr that all-their Allies should continue firm and no one start Orleans Conde and the Parliament still heaved at the Government Whom to restrain nothing seemed more adviseable then for the Court leaving Giemie to settle at St. Germains hard by the City This was speedily done And immediately Commissioners from the Parliament and from the Princes attend upon the King and tender him all ready duty Here were appearances of intire Loyalty which repentance had redressed and Rebellion disarmed but with unanimous Consent they petition that Mazarine the occasion of all the troubles might be removed The King leaving St. Germains made some stay at Courbeil and from thence goes and falls upon the Princes forces at their Rendezvous at Estampes They having Barricado'd up the place make a stout defence and elude the assaults of Thurenne who upon the approach of the Lorrainer is forced to draw off and convey the King in safety to Courbeil If ever the strength of authority seemed to have lost its edge it was in truth at Estampes where the King in Person having made an offer of entry without success was more than once in danger by the discharge of the Gunsâ— It had been much better not to have put that to the hazard After having quartered at Courbeil and Melun to watch the narrower over Paris the Court chose St. Denys And that there would be put a period to the Civil Warr was not unreasonably believed the City growing more complyant although the Issue proved otherwise Conde's Army held St. Clous and the neighbouring Country led by Tavan The Royal Camp without the Seyne lying opposite watch an opportunity of engaging Therefore they go to lay a Bridge over the River at Espinay but are hindered by the Condeaâ—s Thurenne with Seâ—neterre his continual Fellow-Commander begin to make another Bridge not farr from Poissy to divide the Enemy Conde certified of the approaching assault draws off his Forces by night to lodge them more safely at Charenton A more convenient Quarter could not have been chosen being flanked with the Seyne and Marne and having the plain of Brice open to furnish it with Provision While the Parisians deny entrance into the City the Troops destined to the slaughter round the Walls which making but slow progress by reason of the vast circumference of the wall Thurenne presseth upon them as they are spread in the Suburb of St. Anthony and about Piquepousse Presently the whole Court flocks thither The King attended by Mazarine could hardly be restrained from entring into the Encounter The end saith he to the Civil Warrs which ye desired is come And who could have doubted of it The City had turned about to the Court being weary of longer bearing the insolâ—ncies of the Germans and Lorrainers The Shops of Paris being destitute of that gainful trade which the King only suplies The face of the Camps was very different On the Kings side was Number Valour the Cause and above all Majesty present On the Enemies Terrour a faint Obedience between an infence City and a King eager in the pursuit of his denyed Rights In truth Conde early in the morning coming forth of St. Anthony's Gate and having strictly viewed how the state of affairs was and in what a pinch he was taken by fortune turning to Beaufort Nemours Rochefoucault and the rest standing by said I do not palliate the danger with words This day we must perish Let us therefore Perish not 〈◊〉 since after despair of Victory we are to 〈◊〉 fighting I design my self to that Part whither I shall be called by danger whither I will lead not send The Officers agreed and all being prepared for be extreamest hazard they fought from five in the morning till five in the evening with such obstinate hearts on both sides that I question whether ever among the French there were an Example of a more stubborn Conflict Under the Walls of the City the Citizens looking on and waiting for the Issue The Daughter of Orleans was no weak stay of the Battel whilst with a manly forehead she inflames the Parisians for Conde whilst she diverts the Common Council of the City from their promises made to the King and holds the Gates open for Auxiliaries to go out to the Prince or come in again whilst she discharges the Canon in the Bastille against the Royalists in token that the City stood affected to Conde lastly whilst she heartens her Father and carries him along the streets appearing to all The Bulwarks in the Suburb were the matter in dispute Those were cast up by the Townsmen against the infesting Lorrainers now are defended and maintained with such stoutness and exceeding love of praise There were slain on both sides men of quality
of the Garonne the Spanish Fleet under Santacruz their Admiral It was studiously endeavoured to conceal that Arrival the Spaniards who pretend to carry away the reputations of Policy from the other Europeans maturely ponder into what juncture of Affairs they were plung'd between the hopes of Bourdeaux cut short their Complices vanquish'd Bourg lost and Libourn and so the French Forces every where Victorious What should they do it was ev'n their wisest course immediately to go back again which was accordingly done with small but some damage Vendosme and Candale are not only receiv'd in Bourdeaux with loud acclamations but such was their confidence in that Warlike People that they forbore the having any Guard and trusted themselves with the Burger of Bourdeaux that hath no baseness in him Vandosme could speak well counsel wisely industriously execute and had a great reach to lay Plots and Stratagems to circumvent his Enemy Conti retires to Cadillac still casting in his mind the alliance of Mazarine The Princess of Conde with Enguien to Brabant to her husband Mechlin was the Ladies residence Madam Longueville cloistered her self a long time at Moulines in a Nunnery afterwards returning to her husband lived in concord with him for vertue and piety exemplary Marsin Fiesque and Lenet returned to the Spaniards The Court of Bourdeaux which during these troubles sate at Agennois returns to the principal City some few only removed Perigord and Villeneuve of Agennois turning from their factiousness wherein they were the most notorious in the Country submit to the King d' Estrade vanquisht the residue of the Spaniards was Governour of Guyenne and made Mayor of Bourdeaux Conde depending upon the rising of the French which he had hopes would appear at his coming and that he might not grow lazy and loose credit among the Spaniards in keeping within leagures enters Picardy with a numerous Army and overrâ—ns the whole breadth of the Province as far as Roye and Noyon having seized the banks of the Oyse with so great a flourish to raise up the Embers of the Faction which was now layd unable to rise any more Thurenne was ordered with Seneterre thither having this Instruction to decline engagement which Conde did with all his might provoke â—â—intsaldagne who commanded the Spaniards did exceedingly avoyd it too lest he might be taxed to have brought that strong party upon which the preservation of the Low-Countries did depend into evident danger He had Instructions limited to certain cautions to skirt upon France and carry the Frontiers before him but not rush himself far into the Bowels of it therefore his heat being alâ—y'd and the year grown to the Autumn least the Army should return to their Winter quarters without some exploit Siege is clap'd to Rocroy whose strength lay in the stout defence of Mountague In the mean time Thurenne for diversion of the Enemy besiegeth Mozome and soon taketh it After that Rocroy was disabled with loss of men and had spent their Ammunion the Spaniards become Maâ—â—ers of it and bestow it upon Conde to pacifie his â—nger against Fuensaldagne which he had shew'd with violence during the whole time of the Siege â—nd that would have proceeded to worse had not â—â—opaldus come in as a Mediatour with whom too â—e had a contest who should give out the Word â—nd to decide the controversie they were fain to take a middle way Such a quarrelsom business hath ill-fortune perpetually been whilst ev'ry one would shift off the blame of bad successes upon the other After the taking of Saint Menhoud the Court minded nothing but Masks and Comedies In the Palace of Louvre the Wedding of Conti was solemnized with the Countess of Martinezze the Cardinals Neice The policy of the Prince is to be commended in providing for himself and Conde's Family by such an Alliance His Generosity too is commendable in refusing gallantly the goods of his Brother that were offered him further his Fortune was remarkable in having light upon a Wife worthy to have been Courted abating the accessions of a splendid condition for her Beauty and Vertue She challeng'd nothing from heâ— Uncles greatness but the content in it never caring to be more then private though comparable with the highest Ladies Their Mother too was presenâ— Mazarines Sister who gave a like proof with heâ— Daughter that Felicity had added nothing to them but the deporting themselves so in that condition as it gave testimony to their Humility During the publick joy Charles D. of Lorrain 〈◊〉 made Prisoner at Brussels and hurried away intâ— Antwerp Castle and afterwards conveyed by Sâ—â— to Toledo in Spain after so many Campania's madâ— in that Nation He could not hastily have expected such a turn whom Fortune had so often dâ—â—ceiv'd It was given out that he had clash'd wiâ—â— Conde but the soreness of their anger consider'â— does abundantly demonstrate that he had madâ— some secret contract with the French Oftentimes had he been forwarn'd of the danger that was ready to fall upon him but despis'd all admonitions and had a plain dream of it that very night which was the last of his liberty in the Low-Countries Predictions are not to be heeded but dreams may with moderation and without Superstition For the Spirit being oppress'd with cares oftentimes the apparitions of future occurrents do pass before our thought in time of sleep whether excited by the trouble of our mind or the presage of our working fancies Duke Francis of Lorrain the Prisoners Brother is courted by both sides as being to succeed in the command over those Lorrain Troops He judg'd it more convenient to join with the Spaniard and afterwards without having perform'd any considerable Action embrac'd the French Protection the issue proving neither successful to himself nor the French The year following after the Inauguration of his Majesty at Rhevins which is perform'd with a Glewy Ointment the tradition is that the Viol dropt from Heaven only for the saving of the Kings of France Thurenne takes Stenay a City upon the Maze held by a Garrison or Conde's Seneterre forces to a surrender but not without expence of blood Mountmidy in the Dukedom of Luxemburgh The Castle strong by natural situation and fortify'd by Art was so couragiously defended that the Fortune of France had almost been check'd at that place from passing farther Mountmaudict or Mountdamnable it was not unreasonably call'd by the Antients being built upon a Natural Rock The Spaniards out of confidence that the Siege would either be long or fruitless fall with the gross of their Army upon Arras Who could believe that the Arms of his Majesty should be so fortunate as that upon the arrival of Thurenne and the application of our whole strength with an incredible effusion of Treasure the Rendition was extorted with such speed that the Victorious Army being possess'd of Mont-midy did also relieve Arras which Mondejus held bravely out in extremity of distress Here was the last attempt of Leopoldus
his Journey he had begun that there was no doubt to be made of the success Pementelli urged that the more confidently because he knew how Fuensaldagne stood inclined whose sense bore great sway in the mind of the King of Spain Though these things were done in secret yet the Report spread That the Peace was stifled In the mean time we were deluded for our two months Cessation of Arms which the Spaniards had obtained under colour of the future Treaty That they designed nothing by that intermission but traps in which Mazarine is caught These and the like were broached especially at Paris Nothin is so given to talk malignantly as that City ever since it was City Haro in the mean time arrives at S. Sebastians with a splendid Retinue Mazarine although troubled with the Gour cometh into the Sea-Port Town S. John de Luz they commonly call it at the day appointed Haro stayed at Fuentarabie having passed a Complement upon Mazarine In the midst is situated an Island receiving its denomination from the Birds Phesants environed with the River Bidassoa lying in common small in circuit narrow as to extent of ground for the greatness of Transactions the bravest of Islands There the French and Spaniards erected for the purpose a Tabernacle with a double Compartiment that avoiding differences about Precedency the two Ministers might meet and each keep to their own place Aug. 13. 1659. first comes Mazarine into the Island in singular state A quarter of an hour after appear the Spaniards a glittering lustre shines on every side Mazarine and Haro without any Prerogative of place on one and the other side parted by the Board salute interchangeably in the Spanish Language The strangeness of the sight amazed both Nations It seemed a matter incredible That the two principal Confidents of the greatest Kings who had lately plotted such cruelties one against another should embrace each other unarmed and instead of military force and the Stratagems of War only contend in Courtesie Vpon Conference had both reaped great satisfaction in their vertues finding the judgment of his Enemy to be true Some days passed whilst the Instructions are weighed the agreements made partly at Madrid partly at Paris are recited more clearly explained and some committed to the fire to mend all faults Hitherto so many Proposals for Peace ineffectual while the state of Affairs was unripe All humane events are wrapped up in profound darkness their seeds are hidden But when the Fates please all things contribute and earnestly concur Cromwells Death during whose life there had been no hope of quiet No Promise made by the King of France to the Portuguez and consequently no Rub from thence Less from the Hollanders who had agreed by themselves The matter of Lorraine gave no difficulty Among the Spaniards the work of Peace that had advanced slowly hitherto was furthered by the Queens being brought to Red of an Issue desirable to sway the Scepter a young Enfante being born The Vengeance which was prepared against the Portugal and could not be wrecked upon them while the War continued The Indisposition of the King of Spain But what is the chief the good understanding that was between Mazarine and Fuensaldagne they were the two Poles about which the whole Frame rolled Only the business of Conde had like to have broke short the Web that was happily upon the Loom Fuensaldagne would have been easily content to abandon the Prince against whom he had an Antipathy Haro bore up on the contrary part out of tenderness for the publick and his private word Mazarine openly professes that he judged it more advisable to go away and undo all that had been done than make a Concession so dishonourable to the King of France That Concession was of Condes Governments and Charges We have already condescended too far for Peaces sake said Mazarine and taxing the unpliable stiffness of the Spanish Council I am no Prophet but either I am greatly mistaken or I do already foresee the day when you will neglect what you now so obstinately insist upon In the mean time the blood which shall be shed hereafter will condemn you of having despised Peace for Condes Interests This said the Cardinal and with that look wherein was discovered a grief for the despair of Peace At length Haro seeing the Peace to hang by a thread and that a slender one and that Mazarine was inflexible said That his Master would rather bestow upon Conde somewhat of his own than contrary to his promise abandon a Prince that had deserved well A word dropt from Haro of giving Conde three Cities Mazarine not unwatchful catched the words as they were falling which at length upon more clear explanation spoke out Marienburg Philipsburg and Avennes upon the Borders of the wallon-Wallon-Country and Champagne strong by situation and Works And because nothing could be granted Conde by the Spaniard without the approbation of the King of France the Forts must have been designed and agreed upon Thus after twelve days spent about Condes business only Mazarine thus thought with himself That the Prince bearing sincere Loyalty and Duty his Majesty giving within a years time the Government of Burgundy with the plaee of Grand Maistre d'Hostel could not be denied Therefore it was better to comply with the Spanish Proposition in this â—articular so those three fortified Towns might be acâ—uired to France than to yield his consent that Conde â—hould enjoy them from the Spanish Bounty By the express Instructions of his Master Haro â—â—ferred the Honour and Reputation of having preserved Conde before those Cities granted the French in lieu of the Princes Governments and the Maistre d'Hostel 's place Mazarine received this offer with a sowre look but a joyful heart taking for clear gains this acquisition purchased purely by his means to which he would have to be thrown in Conflans on the Frontier of Catalaunia and the reâ—oring Juliers to its rightful Prince the Duke of Newburgh which he obtained So soon as ever the hope of an undoubted Pacification appeared certain Gramont Mareschal of France is sent Ambassadour to Madrid to desire the Infanta of Spain Maria Teresa according to agreement for Wife to the French King How worthily he performed his Embassie the published Narratives do abundantly inform Nor is it any wonder whenas besides his noble Birth and Honour acquired in the Field Gentileness and Bravery are connatural with him To avoid the trouble of a long Train he rid Poste as shortning his tedious way and declaring the heat of his youthful Master Gramont returned sure of the Match having been entertained sumptuously and made very welcome Between Mazarine and Haro whilst the Treaty stuck there were several times thoughts of revoking Gramont Difficult business standing upon a precipice and at the point of dashing in pieces was set right by the prudence of the Ministers I will say the indulgence of the Fates Devotions at the first religiously performed never totally
some that four or five of the prime Ring-leaders of the Faction should be executed and when they were taken off that the rest would fall in pieces Mazarine opposed affirming that the common people would contend more earnestly for avenging them when they were dead than to advance their Honour whilst they were alive Here they declare in a great Train that would take the Parliaments part First Elbaeuf slips from the Court and relying on his three Children offers the Parliament his Service not without good hopes as he gave out to draw the Duke of Orleans into his party which device soon after came to nothing Bouillon laying off his Mask with a voice pretending to truth swears to be at the Parliaments devotion presents his Wife and Children as Hostages to be sureties for that word which was never certain So much could Madame de Longueville prevail that she brought over to the Party her Brother Conti her Husband with Rochefoucault and Mermont though to her great danger The people triumphed in mirth for the coming of so many Grandees The Duke of Longueville was fretted at the Honour so hastily done d'Elboeuf in the Parliament and at that very moment thought of his Government of Normandy whither he retired shortly after having made many fair offers of services only with a design of getting somewhat from the King and left off to stickle for the Faction which he never followed with any earnestness None was more easily drawn to take up a Party none did with less regret lay it down again Beaufort who had escaped being imprisoned by keeping secret rides into the Town on Horseback with so great applause that the common People run along by his side as once they flocked after the Duke of Guise Mareschal de la Motte either through the instigation of the Duke of Longueville to whom he was much obliged or through the memory of his Imprisonment at Lyons joyned with the Faction The Archbishop of Corinth was more powerful than any of them in Dependents Authority and Eloquence His desigâ— was to render himself terrible to them Elboeufs to rake money Bouillons to be bought off to the Court-party at a high rate Longuevilles to screâ— out somewhat though never so small Contys nothing but to comply with his Sister Rochefoucaâ—â— gaped after his own profit without having beeâ— any ways disobliged The Dutchess of Longueville followed that inclination which is the most sweet in Nature her modesty always survived her affections though Fame was not afraid to be lye her which she afterwards enjoyed unstained to the increasing Honour of her Posterity Thus past on a few days Some in the nature of Commissionerâ— came from the one and the other side forward and backward to treat of an Accommodation Again troublesom Contests were renewed some were of advice that the War should be soon dispatched others that the Rebels should be consumed with 〈◊〉 longer harassing In the City came out divers Libels against Mazarine In the Court men did not confute those reproaches with words but blows The face of preparations on both sides were unequalled matched Here were a throng hudled together and new-raised Forces All full of confusion mens looks either fearing or designing some barbarous attempt Despair hurried them into resolutions of horrour whilst they reflected upon the obscurity of their Souldiery Far other was the appearance of the Royal Camp Majesty the Cause so many Princes so many Dukes Commanders with more warrantable Commissions gained reverence Great hopes in Conde as one renowned for Martial experience and not inferiour in Wit being come to maturity in prudence for counsel did advance the reputation of the Royal Party by the Excellency of his Name Intent upon every imployment even the meanest laid claim to nothing of his high Birth but his Spirit hazarding his person for the publick safety The Mutineers thought they could carry all with more ease if he were taken off or withdrawn His Sister the Dutchess of Longueville within the Town was as active and couragious as her Brother in the opposite part She renders herself in the Parliament House and her Boy born in the troubles newly dropt into the world as pledges of her faithfulness Presently restoring a countenance to the party which her pangs whilst she was in labour had swallowed up The Officers and common Souldiers stood promiscuously about the bed where she lay in She so artificially dispenses her smiles and glances that no one in that great confluence might think himself neglected or disregarded Their spirits broken with the publick Confusions yet did not desist from a stubborn defence In the mean time the Bastille is taken by the Faction upon Surrender De Trambley the Governour being not sorely pressed is supposed to have fought as one that was not desirous of Victory Nothing did so much exasperate their spirits as the lamentable face of the Country about Paris depopulated by the insolency of the Souldiers No place in the world surpasseth it for quality A sweet Air no poysonous Vermine abundance of Springs Rivers and Brooks do refresh and environ it The Dog-days do not scorch it with drought nor the Winter nip it with frost but the juâ—â— ground doth enrich the Husband-man with a plentiful crop It is a great relief to the Inhabiters of that fortunate Isle that wherever the Palaces and Halls leave any space there are most rich pastures well stocked and wooded This Country thus fairly planted the rude Souldier of a sudden laid wast to such a pass did discord bring the poor Citizens When will the common People grow wiser and detest all counsels of disloyalty In the mean time Normandy was of no small moment to the War with its Governor Longueville who although he did ill agree with the ocher Leaders of the Faction yet had at that time no small interest in Rouen and all over that Country Harcourt comes there to take possession of it by the Kings order one of a hasty resolution and elevated with his sudden Commission with his old Troops engaged the raw and forward Bands of Longueville without success so much were all incensed against Mazarine Part of the Parliament of Rouen went to Vernon upon the Seyne part tarried without regard at S. Germans waiting for the Kings Orders the remainder dispersing not knowing where to render themselves waited to see the issue of Affairs The Coast of Normandy doth for the generality lie upon the Ocean There is great abundance of pastures and fruit and so rich a soil 〈◊〉 that it satisfies both its Natives and Neighbours and much more would it satisfie them unless they were immoderate in eating and such were the condition of the Clime as did require much meat A flatulent people is conceited of it self as if it fed the Imperial City and had the famine or plenty of Paris in its power when as it pays indeed tribute rather than maintenance and doth not so properly keep as drudge for the victorious people The
humor of the Country addicted to subtiliâ—ties which take up the Judgment-Hall with Law-suits hath there a great door open to the Judges Tribunal A people cunning to draw up Instruments and at every case that is actionable He that hath to do with such Creatures had need have his Wits about him They compose their differences by Tryals at the Bar seldom by Duels in the field They can suit their industry to any course of life and have parts not transcendent but to whatsoever imployment they turn themselves indifferent There is no where a greater readiness to put up injuries so they may be secured from want and have the least glimmering hope of advantage The Nobility burdened with numerous Dependents cannot long maintain its State in a-like Equipage therefore it is greedy after Changes but such as may prove beneficial The Neighbourhood of tin Court renders the Normans less at the dispose of their Governors The malignancy of the time over-reached this so wary people But what Provinces did not this Comet influence The Duke of Longueville waited in suspense till by some ouvert Declaration he might distinguish whether they were addicted to the King or the other Party accordingly to shape his course by such discovery The Court between Paris and Rouen the two most powerful Cities of the Kingdom was distressed with the want of all things especially of money the Aids coming in but slowly from all parts Amidst these straights nothing did so much tormeâ—â— Mazarine as the dispositions of Orleans and Conâ—â—â— The former not brooking delays detested the stusbornness of the War which he had supposed wouâ—â— have been dispatched in few days This other wâ—â—2 thought to have flown off from his eagerness 〈◊〉 fighting to policy and that which is the most 〈◊〉 toward of all Policies to dissemble a joy and loâ— of those matters which inwardly did most offenâ—â—â— him Laigne upon the Marne is taken by Persan from whence that fruitful Country of Brye is infested by the Inroads of the Kings Army The City Militia grew every day more unwilling to submit to orders You might see many murmuring with a slack and proud carriage and the violence of the most languishing Thereupoâ— the Archbishop of Corinth gets up into the Pulpit at S. Pauls and â—aith I would have had you in safety I would have had you victorious and the goodness of the Cause had acquitted you unless your repentance and tameness did plead guilty Then having inveighed much against the Government and Mazarine he cometh down out of the Pulpit having put off his Miter and Surplice he buckles on his Armour Often he sallied out of Town to charge the Enemy without any regard to his Function which ought to have been imployed in peace-making what many affirm they saw I do not spending always generously and for the most part profusely upon all people He tired his own and other mens Estates Rochefoucault had inveigled the mind of the Dutchess of Longueville with higher Enchantments they had promised to run all Fortunes together The Archbishop of Corinth not well contented to be a Favourite of the second Rank joyns with Beaufort and the Slingers For the Faction had more than one Head nor was it informed by one soul It is certain that Madame Longueville and Madame Mombazon bred up amongst the Weather-cocks of the Court were not only admitted to be of their Privy Council but to the great pleasure of Fortune did sway the minds of the Commanders Nothing did more anger the Parisians than that Corbeil was at the first taken from them by Vxelles coming in to the Kings aid with the Forces of Burgundy Beaufort Rochefoucault and Nermont are chosen to go and recover the Town with a strong Party but of fresh Souldiers They go triumphing out of Town The people thronging after them as far as S. Victors wish them a happy Expedition They were scarce come to Irviz four miles out of Town but they begun to grow weary or afraid of the danger Some quit their Colours some lurk in holes many slink away secretly These halted behind their fellow-Souldiers others drew them on They kept neither Rank nor File but straggled all abroad Sometimes they went to the City the farthest way about anon in the beaten road and by the shortest cuts their voices surfeited by excess and the hoarse drunkenness of the tippling Rout interrupted the Commanders Orders The misgiving mind of this ill-trained Militia escaped from Conde that was on the March against them 'T is believed he was unwilling to cast away his valour in an unglorious fight with so many drunken men and to stain his victory with the baseness of the Combatants So the King gained a prosperous success without the price of blood Vitry too marched out upon design to clear the Road for Convoys of Provision and having in his March home engaged a Party of German Horse there was a sharp Encounter at Vincennes In that fight Tangred was slain Marguerite Bethune gave him out to have been the Son of her Husband Henry Duke of Rohan being in truth angry with her Daughter for marrying Chabot against her consent That Marguerite was his Mother is without controversie who was his Father is not very cleâ—â—â— But certain it is that the Duke of Rohan would never hear of any such Issue The doubtful Child lay a long time secret having had a base breeding among the Hollanders Kept to Plow and Cart from whence of a sudden he is put into publick Imployment Being but eighteen years old he had a portly and graceful carriage of his whole body a sprightful mind comely look and suitable disposition That business so cleanly carried was for a long time the subject of common discourse when in good time these Civil disorders broke out and offered the poor Wretch a fair opportunity of perishing handsomly His Mother touched in conscience and affection admired his Person all hiâ— actions and his very death thinking without doubt to perpetuate the Renown of her Husbanâ— by so great a Progeny The Kings Army greâ—â— wanton would not do duty fell a plundering anâ— pillaging waxed dissolute for want of being pâ—â— on Service It is resolved to assault Charenton and wrest so advantagious a Post from the City Clanleil kept with a choice Garrison for the Parliament that Town that hath a Bridge over the Marn Orleans led the Troops to S. Denis where it is concluded in a Counsel of War to storm the Town Conde was Commander in chief for the Expedition Chastillon Lieutenant general makes the Onset They cut their way out by the Sword The Kings Army break through the Barricadoes that were but hastily set up Chastillon carrieth the Town by on slacht purchased at the price of his own blood for he was mortally shot and fell rather after the Fate of his Family than his own particular Fortune in whom the Issue by the right Line of the great Gaspar Colligny was extinct and all the remaining blood of