Conestabili de Lediguieres in Generum datus est Ut Heroum filius Gallici Martis alumnus esset Sub eo Magistromaturè vincere coepit ut diu vinceret Ea aetate militiae Magister qua vix alii sunt Tyrones Nulla est Galliae Provincia ubi non vicerit hostes Regios Nulla occasio in qua non vicerit suos Renovavit gentilitii vexilli praerogativam dum renovavit victoriam Iterum hoc clamore Gallico dignus A Crequy Crequy le gran Baron nul ne s y frotte Tot ultra Alpes victorias retulit ut Galliam Cisalpinam restaurare potuerit Nisi Gallia Italiam sociam babere mallet quà m subditam Subaudiam Subalpinos sic expugnavit hostis ut Verruca una non steterit Si defendit Amicus ut Verruca una non perierit Nec dubium quin servasset Bremam qui Verrucam servaverat Nisi hostis absentem peremisset ne praesentem fugeret Nec tenacior fuit Regiae fidei quam Divinae Utramque obsignavit suo sanguine ut testatam faceret dum facit purpuream Inflictam ab Haeresi plagam medio in vultu ostentabat ut gemmam Nec insignior Gallicae fidei clientaris Legatus ire Romam potuit Quà m qui insignia Fidei in oculis gerebat Tacente lingua loqui haec plaga potuit Qualis esset fides Gallica Cujus Rex Apostolus Marescalli Martyres essent Nec siluit lingua Crequii cujus urbanitas Urbano sic placuit Ut in eo amaverit Palladem et agnoverit Martem Romanum patrocinium sic optavit Galliae ut Gallicum obtulerit Romae Nec silebit unquam haec lingua cui Fama pro voce erit Continuabit laudes lituo quas Mors intonare coepit tubo bellico Erravit Mors in Crequio laudavit dum peremit Inchoavit Elogium quod Fama absolvet et AEternitas canet Nec unquam exarescet Arbor Crequia cujus tot rami in poster is virent Videbit finem Galliae quae initium vidit Immortalis futura si tales semper nascantur surculi Abi viator ut mortem fallas Incipe immortalis esse dum moreris Generall Crequy being thus crack'd by a Cannon the Spaniard took Breme besieges Verselli which notwithstanding it was once succour'd by the French was rendred him upon the same termes that Don Pedro de Toledo had given the very same moneth when she was taken in the yeer 1625. France had better fortune this yeer by repelling the invading forces of Spain then by entring her confines another way for revenge We made mention a little before how bravely Leucato was preserv'd and to cry quittance with the Spaniard the Prince of Condé had a vast high Commission to be the Kings Lieutenant General in the Provinces of Guyen Languedoc Navar Bern and Foix with plenary power to command all the Gentry and make whom he would to mount a horseback for the war as also the Cominalty to forme the body of an Army to invade the territories of Spain so he pitch'd upon Fontarabia he took Iroon and Ouyarson Berha with other small places of advenues in the way and so he sate before the Town where the Pioner put presently spade in earth for a circumvallation The Archbishop of Bourdeaux came with a mighty Fleet by Sea to second this enterprise and the siege having lasted above threescore dayes he offer'd with his rondaches and by an assault Seaward to carry the Town Hereupon a Counsell of War was call'd where the Duke de la Valette who was Lieutenant Generall to the Prince of Condé spoak very gallantly that he and the Marshall de la Force had bin the chiefest Actors in that achievment thitherto that he had made a breach in the walls after the springing of two mines and done other things towards the straightning of the place and it was not consonant to reason or agreeable to the law of War and honor that another now that the work was almost brought to perfection should have the glory of their dangers sufferings and labours This clash 'twixt the Archbishop and the Duke de la Valette to whom Condé adhaer'd prov'd to be the ruine of this great Expedition for while they were debating the businesse after the breach was made for a generall assault the Spaniards came tumbling down the Hills and appeard to be more numerous far then they really were so after a great slaughter on both sides but more of the French whereof divers were thrust into the Sea the siege was rais'd and one may say The Town was lost for not offring to take it if they had presently poursued the breach Amongst divers errors which were committed in this action besides the weaknesse of their entrenchments two were the quitting of Passage without which the enemies would not have bin able to draw provision for their subsistence from Saint Sebastian then the not erecting of a work upon the mountain of Gadaloupe which was neer the Town and whence the Spaniard descended first The French Army retyring to the frontiers staid some dayes at Iroon expecting the enemy should poursue them which he did not whereby they inferr'd that he was not so strong as they took him to be and so he was willing to make them a bridge of sylver thus this Invasion came to nothing which made the Spaniard geer them afterwards saying They had in this attempt discover'd the true nature of the French viz. to enter like thunder and vanish like smoak De la Valette being come to Bourdeaux to the old Duke his Father after he had receiv'd relation how matters had gone and what traverses there pass'd 'twixt him and Condé and the Archbishop advis'd him to get away as soon as he could to England which he did and 't was time for him for afterwards his Proces was fram'd in Paris and he was executed in Effigie so by this act of Justice the publique dishonour which seem'd to reflect upon France in generall was restrain'd to his person Nor is it a new thing to sacrifice Commanders to such uses Besides the Duke of Espernon being now an hundred yeers of age and odd moneths and having continued above forty yeers Governour of Gascony was outed of his Office and commanded to retire to Plassac where he died some moneths after but before his death he had these severall disasters befell him within the revolution of one yeer his eldest son the Duke of Candale fell in Italy the Cardinall his brother died in Savoy his third son was in banishment in England and he himself dismiss'd of all command and depriv'd of this life The judgements of men were very discrepant touching the carriage of the busines of Fontarabia the major part imputed the fault to the Prince of Condé and the Archbishop who was a creature of the Cardinals For the first he was content his son the Duke of Anguien should marry the Cardinals Neece a little after which was done as some gave out of purpose for preventing
quòd ita Regi Regnóque servierit Ut utrumque servaret Tandem profligato Germano caeso Hispano Pacato Regno Séque ipso omnibus majore victo Spretis umbratilibus terrae triumphis Immarcescibilem a Deo Coronam recepturus excessit Incertum relinquens An vixerit et rexerit feliciùs an obierit sanctiùs Ab Invidia planctum extorsit Et quo praesentem exercuerat absentem luxit Nec poterat ultra progredi summum attigerat Exuvias mortis Sorbonae dedit quo vivo Sorbona fuerat animata In Sorbona quam dilexit tumulum elegit Et in sinu ejus jacere voluit Quam jacentem invenit et erexit Etiam Sorbonae Genium si jacuisset solus erecturus Debilitatis undique Hostibus Soli Morti cessit Mortis Victor suique superstes Dum in omnium ore animoque vivit Ora et Vale. Obiit iv Decem. 1642. aetat 57. 3. mens The Monument of the most eminent Cardinal Duke of Richelieu Stay Passenger Armand Iohn du Plessis Cardinal Duke of Richelieu hath deposited here whatsoever he had of mortalitie Stay if thou art French at his ashes by whose Counsels France stood Stay if thou art a Confederat at the Cardinals tombe on whom as upon a hinge all Europe mov'd Stay if thou art an Enemy at the trophey of the Duke of Richelieu at whose beck the Ocean stood Read on His first good was to have a being his next to have a well-being As he was adorn'd with Ancestors so he was an ornament unto them for his knowledge and actions the one came from heaven the other tended towards heaven He was promoted to be Secretary of State who was afterwards to rule the State He was assistant to the Queen Mother who was to be the Kingdoms Father The King being willing and his worth enforcing Rome so granted him the purple that it might be doubted whether he gave or received more Eminence unto it His vertue made him most eminent before Rome At the brightnesse of his purple the Eagle quak'd the Lion roar'd the Rose grew pale nor could He avoyd the purple which had he not worn as ensignes of Martyrs yet he might carry them died in the bloud of enemies He withdrew himself from the Queen mother when she would be more Queen then Mother A lover of public Peace not of fortune Hated he was because he could not be lov'd enough He fluctuated neither at Court nor in the Ocean floods He stood immoveable at whose nod the Rocks stirr'd and under him the conspiration of Rebels being quash'd Religion began to respire every where which without him was ready to expire he overcame his own foes when he listed the Kings alwaies He was so vacant to himself as if he intended nothing else so intent to others as he seem'd to neglect himself being the wonder of his age he did miracles happy he was that he pleas'd a just King and happier that he so serv'd the King and Kingdom that he preserv'd both At last the German routed the Spaniard slain the Kingdom quieted and having orecome himself the greatest of all contemning the shadowy triumphs of the earth being to receive an immarcescible crown of God he expir'd leaving it incertain whether he liv'd and rul'd more happily or died more piously He wrung teares from Envie herself who poursuing him living condol'd him dead He could go no further he had attain'd the highest The spoiles of death he gave to Sorbon who living animated Sorbon In Sorbon whom he lov'd he desir'd to lye and to rest in her bosom whom finding tottering he took up nay he only could have reviv'd the Genius of Sorbon had it been like to faint The foe enfeebled every where he only yeelded to death being deaths Conqueror and Survivour of himself while he lives in the mouths and minds of all men Pray and farewell He died 4th of December 1642. the 57. yeer and 3th moneth of his Age. This Epitaph gives a full compensation for the tartnes of the two former which were inserted expresly thereby to enfranchise the judgement of the Reader to discover the impartiality of the story and make truth more perspicuous for it is a good rule in Logic that Contraria juxta se posita magis elucescunt the confrontation of contraries makes things appear more clearly I know there is a saying in French that vent coulis a cranny wind is more hurtfull then an open such are reproaches 'twixt prayses But let not the Authour of this story be mistaken that he intended to derogat but only for the ends above mentioned from the merit of so brave a man whom his very enemies admir'd for his fagacity and cloquence for his admirable forecast and penetrating judgement for the vivacity of his spirit and quicknes of apprehension for his affiduity and indefatigable vigilance for his excellent addresse and sinewy expressions and dextrous way of dispatch for his rare policy and prudentiall parts and lastly for the stupendous succes of his counsels These atributes as it is no flattery to give him so it were injury to deny him By these he made France formidable to the world he made his Master Arbiter of his own interests an Avenger of all affronts and supporter of his Confederats by these he got him three keyes of invaluable advantage Brisack Pignerol and Perpignan the first to enter Germany the second Italy the third Spain at pleasure By these he made him the most absolute and independent Monark that ever raign'd in that Kingdom and freed him from all fears to receive the law from his subjects ever hereafter But by ascribing so much to the Minister let us not derogat from the Master who was as active in his way and concurr'd to achieve all these things We have an axiom in Philosophy that Sol et Homo generant Hominem The Sun and man beget man the one by his Universall influx being the fountain of heat the other by Naturall organs So we may say the King and Cardinal produc'd all these actions the one by the influence of his high power and Regall authoritie the other by his instrumentall activity The Cardinal de Richelieu's Armes were three Chevrons in a field argent 2 plain and simple coat therefore the more ancient which Armes with his Purple Hat which supported that great Crown and made the Lillies flourish and swell so many yeers we will lay upon his Tomb with this Distic for a finall farewell Aurea purpureo turgebant sceptra galero Crescebant triplici Lilia fulta Trabe And now 't is high time for us to put a period to the whole work both to the History of this mighty Monark as also to that of his great Minister And though their memory be not like the Rose and other fading flowers which smell sweeter after they are pluck'd yet the report of them shall ring in France as long as the rayes of the Sun shall reverberat upon that faire Continent and albeit Ghirlands of Olive be improper
her not after death but rescinded her last will and kept her body five moneths after above ground in her chamber He violated the Kings brothers honor and sought to oppresse his Person He separated not only Mother from Son brother from brother but wife from husband He caus'd Marillac to be chop'd off by extreme wrong Monmorency by extreme right Saint Marc by right and wrong and de Thou by right or wrong Some Nobles he condemn'd to perpetuall imprisonment he banish'd more he drive most of them from Court he proscrib'd numbers lest they might crosse his Counsells mild France never saw so frequent punishments the restlesse activity or agitation of his mind his projecting and all-daring boldnes and his severe rigidity produc'd some prosperous successes by such furious endevours How easily had he fallen if amongst his forren foes he had met with some more cunning or but with one amongst his own Countrey men It much advantag'd him that any scarce knew him or that he gave credit to any that did know him He was so fortunat that those Nobles and Commanders who mislik'd him spent their own and others bloud while he joyn'd his with the Kings In the same Counsell Sejanus fell had he also fallen had he not tane away the Royall Prince Soissons The prints of so destructive a power Germany Spain the Netherlands but France principally will scarce deface in a whole Age He took pleasure in his own Countrey mens and his Neighbours miseries that he might pluck the hairs of the one and teare the entrailes of the other Neither was he tender of the Sacred health of his King which he shook while he exhausted his own by cares and various anxieties of mind The Divine vengeance first corrupted his arm which he had lifted up against heaven then he lost the use of his right hand which had subscrib'd so many bloudy warrants the one putrified in eight moneths the other dried away And which is a fearefull thing he who thus felt the revengefull hand of God did scarce acknowledge him which may be inferr'd out of this because he exercis'd his fury more eagerly upon his privat enemies And that upon the point of death by Politicall prudence rather then Christian piety he recommended his own to the King more then himself to God besides a few dayes before the catastrophe of his tragic life he would have a Play acted of his call'd Europa Triumphans in Royall magnificence though he himself could not be at it Moreover he afflicted the Church being a Cardinal he shed bloud being a Priest he never forgat injuries being a Christian he scarce thought himself mortall being a man although those foule wormes which issued out of his ulcers might have warn'd him to what a fraile and faetid corruption he was subject unto Having by all even impious means run to his own privat ends for eighteen yeers at last he came to the common end of mankind by a gentle death in shew and slower far then was wish'd He expir'd at Paris where he was born being 57. yeers and odd moneths old Now leaving France and his own House he seem'd to have a will to set both on fire the one by extorting a Declaration against the Kings brother the other by making his last Will at the will of a woman Never did plentifull France bestow upon any one so much nor being somewhat impatient by nature did she endure any one longer neither being a lover of peace did she ever cary any one to his grave more joyfully Discreet Passenger this I openly avouch which thou haply doest privatly suspect If thou meetst with any yet doubting entreat him that he give no credit to flatterers either corrupted or deceived but to me deriving truth from its true source But I would have all mortals beleeve that with God the least dram of Justice prevailes more then an Ocean of Greatnesse nor is true Fame esteem'd by the extent but by the goodnesse That to embroyle many things is not to do much 't is more to compose troubles and more then that to prevent they may not happen The Vulgar give the names of vertues to lucky villanies but be thou of another mind and think nothing more unhappy then fortunat mischiefs Richelieu the egregious Artist of fraud deceiv'd many for a time but himself haply for ever Alas what he hath shatter'd can never be put again in order who thought that Peace which was contrary to his nature was not convenient for his fortunes hence issued all those mischiefs which have afflicted the Christian world so many yeers pray that God avenge not himself on the author who wanted mercy in so many great crimes O Christian stranger do thou seriously consider what a nothing 't is what passeth away in a moment none of those whom thou beholdest purpled all over are happy in that no more then those that a stage assignes a Scepter or stately Robes unto with the spectators they likewise go out are unbuskin'd and return to their old stature Seneca Behold what a few ashes he makes who was so huge a fire he is become now a black smoak who lately like a coruscant lampe dazled all eyes God grant he be not a firebrand to himself in the other world who was such a one to poore Europe which hath hopes of Peace now that the tinder is spent I could with thee O passenger wish peace to so great an enemy of peace even to his own while he lived if I feared not that thou would'st do him an ill office to wish him that which he most detested yet pray because thou art commanded to love thine enemies if peace go not to him it will return to thee So Christ commands in whom live peacefully that thou may'st rest in him eternally In the interim farewell There is another which draws neerer to the nature of an Epitaph of as pressing and ponderous a style as this but not falling so heavily upon him Adsta Viator quò proper as Quod nusquam videbis aut audies heic legitur Armandus Iohannes de Plessis Cardinalis de Richelieu Clarus origine magnus ingenio fortuna Eminentissimus Quodque mirere Sacerdos in Castris Theologus in Aula Episcopus sine plebe Cardinalis sine titulo Rex sine nomine â—lnus tamen omnia Naturam habuit in numerato fortinâ—m in Consilio AErarium in peculio securitatem in bello victoriam sub signis Socios in praecinctu Cives in servitute Amicos in obsequio inimicos in carcere Hoc tamen uno miser quod omnes miseros fecit Tam saeculi sui tormentum quà m ornamentum Galliam subegit Italtam terruit Germaniam quassavit Afflixit HispaniaÌ„ coronavit BragantiaÌ„ cepit Lotharingiam Accepit Catalontam fovit Suecram truncavit Flandriam Turbavit Angliam lusit Europam Poeta purpuratus Cui scena Mundus gloria stiparium Regia gaza Choragium fuit Tragicus maxime quam fabulam male solvit Post Regnum Testamento suis
for them yet they deserve to have Laurels upon their heads and Palmes of victory in their hands to all posterity Crescet occulto velut Arbor aevo Nomen Armandi Ludovicus ingens Stella fulgebit velut inter Ignes Luna minores FINIS An Alphabeticall Table of such matters that are the principall Ingredients of this Story A ANne of Austria affianc'd to Lewis the Thirteenth of France 13 Her dowry 13 Her joynture 14 Her Letter to the King of France 31 Made Regent of France 135 Anagrams on Henry the Great 5 Analogy 'twixt the Dauphin of France and the Duke of Cornwall 2 Advantage of a little well compacted body over a great 151 M. of Ancre's entrance into favour 16 He is slain by Vitry 37 Sentenc'd after death 38 His body untomb'd dragg'd up and down hang'd hack'd to peeces and burnt 38 A censure of him 38 Antipathy 'twixt the Spaniard and French 32 Five French Ambassadors in Italy in one yeer 34 Assembly of the three Estates meet at the Kings majority 23 Assembly of Notables first convok'd 40 All the Alliances that have pass'd 'twixt England and France 67 The D. of Angoulesme before Rochell and his stratagem to deceive the English 8 Marq Ambrosio Spinola's exploits in Italy a clash 'twixt him and Olivares 92 Governor of Milan and besiegeth Casal 93 His Epitaph 95 Archduchesse Isabella dieth at Brussels 106 Articles upon the mariage 'twixt England and France 64 Articles 'twixt the Swed and the French 99 Articles t'wixt the French and the Hollander upon the breach with Spain 109 Clandestine articles twixt the Duke of Rohan and the Spaniard 87 Articles 'twixt the French King and Charles Duke of Lorain 101 Articles 'twixt the King of France and Monsieur his brother 104 Articles 'twixt the French and Catalans 128 The Authours caution to the Reader 6 Armes how ill they become Church-men in the Proem B Bassompierre Ambassador in England 76 Battaile of Norlinghen 108 Bernard Weymar takes Rhinfeild 118 Brisac 125 His Epitaph 126 Becanus book De potestate Regis et Papae condemn'd at Rome 16 Birth and baptisme of Lewis the Thirteenth 1 Birth of the now Duke of Anjou 133 Blasphemous praises of the Cardinal of Richelieu in the Proem Duke of Bovillon invites the Pr of Condé to arme by a notable speech 17 M. de Bois Dauphin General for the King 29 Breda repris'd by the Hollander 116 Breme taken by the Spaniard 119 Duke of Buckingham sent to France to demand and conduct her now Majesty to England 67 The Duke of Buckinghams Manifesto after he had invaded France 77 The causes of the breach 80 The manner of his landing 82 His Letter to Toiras and the answer he receivd 83 His infortunat retreat prisoners taken and releas'd for her Majesties sake 84 The Duke of Buckinghams omissions in the Isle of Ré the causer of them 84 C Cardinals made Generalls 183 Catalonia falls from the Spaniard and the causes why 128 Pr Casimir taken prisoner in France 128 Character of Henry the Great 5 The Chamber of Accounts refuse to verifie the Kings Letter 29 Cadenet Ambassadour in England 56 The Chymericall Ambassadors 169 Christina the second daughter of Henry the Great maried to the Prince of Piemont her portion 42 The D. of Cheureux marieth the Lady Henrietta Maria to the King of England 66 Clergy men most dangerous if misapplied 128 A Clash 'twixt the Duke and the Parlement of Paris 27 A Clash 'twixt the Counsel of State and the Parlement with the Parlements submission 28 Condé and his Adhaerents proclaym'd Traytors 29 His clandestine consults in Paris apprehended in the Louure 35 Prince of Condé distasts the match with Spain 14 Puts himself in Arms to hinder the Queens entrance 28 A great Contention 'twixt the Church men in Paris 11 Contentions in the Generall Assembly of the three Estates 23 The Close and funerall of it 26 Cotton the Iesuit vindicats his Society 9 Count of Auvergne eleven yeers prisoner in the Bastile 37 Count of Chalais beheaded 74 D. of Crequies splendid Ambassage to Rome 106 Kil'd before Breme 119 His Epitaph 120 D Dauphin whence deriv'd 2 The Dauphin now king born 124 Decree of the Colledge of Sorbon against Francis Cupif 117 A Declaration sent to Rochell wherein the English are branded 79 Difference 'twixt the Germans and French at Brisac 127 Difference 'twixt Conde and Soissons about the Napkin 46 Difference 'twixt forren Princes and the Kings base sons 91 Disadvantagious to live 'twixt two potent neighbours exemplified in the Dukes of Savoy and Lorain 93. 101 Dismission of the French from the Queen of Englands service 75 The reasons why 76 Divers odd desseins fear'd in France 73 Distinction 'twixt liberty and priviledge 24 Dionysius his flatterers in the Proem A Discourse upon judiciary Astrology 15 Prince Doria taken prisoner by the French 94 Duke of Mains stately Ambassy to Spain about an alliance 13 Duke of Pastrana in France 14 E How Edward the Confessor us'd an Astrologer 15 Ecclesiasticus a scandalous book writ by Schioppius 16 Divers Errours of the French Chroniclers reflecting upon England 76 Duke of Espernon questions the Rochellers 38 He clasheth with the Court of Parlement 26 A pleasant passage 'twixt him and the Archbishop of Bourdeaux 123 He traceth the Queen Mothers escape out of Blois 43 He is outed of his Government and dieth a little after 123 Emanuel Duke of Savoy his exploits in Italy 71 He highly complains of the King of France whence arise some traverses 'twixt him and Monsieur Bullion the French Ambassador 72 His death prophecied 94 Epitaph upon Marshall Crequy 120 Epitaph upon Marq. Spinola 95 Epitaph upon Saxen Weymar 126 Epitaphs upon Cardinal de Richelieu 178 An Ethiopian Prince Zaga Christos arriv'd in Paris 120 Edicts against duels blasphemy 22 F Master Fairfax put to the torture before Montauban 58 The Falshood of some French Annalists in divers things and their stupidity in relating names 76 The Duke of Fereaincens'd against the Duke of Savoy 97 A fearfull unknown Fire in the Palace of Paris 42 Another when the two bridges were burnt 57 Ferrier a reformed Minister turnd Roman Catholic 14 Five French armies in motion in one sommer 111 Florimond de Puy a Reformed Gentleman beheaded for treason 11 Fontarabia besieg'd by the French 122 Don Fernando the King of Spains youngest brother dieth at Brussells 131 A strange libell touching him and his brother Don Carlos 132. The French soon weary of peace 3 French beaten before Theonville 126 G Master George Digby cutts Scioppius on the face for defaming King James 16 Don Gonsalez de Cordova refuseth the King of France his present 103 Gasper Galilei Galileo racants his opinion in Rome for holding the Sun to rest and the earth to move 107 His punishment ibid. Galigay the Marchiones of Ancre's death and Roman stoutnesse 20 Grievances discover'd and not redres'd do the body politic harm 27 D. of Guyse marieth the