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A64888	The history of the government of France, under the administration of the great Armand du Plessis, Cardinall and Duke of Richlieu, and chief minister of state in that kingdome wherein occur many important negotiations relating to most part of Christendome in his time : with politique observations upon the chapters / translated out of French by J.D. Esq.; Histoire du ministere d'Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu, sous le regne de Louis le Juste, XIII, du nom, roy de France et de Navarre. English	Vialart, Charles, d. 1644.; J. D. (John Dodington)	1657 (1657)	Wing V291; ESTC R1365	838,175	594

It is a great good fortune for a Minister never to be put upon such a rock and therefore it is that he will indeavour to work upon them by good offices which are the most powerfull means to oblige men and tie them very strictly the chains wherewith they are fettered being so pleasant and agreeable to them Interest is that which doth most efficaciously more them And indeed it is in a manner impossible to gain them by other means then by making provision for their advancement There is no design which they will not approve of alwaies provided that they have but satisfaction in their own particulars They perswade their Masters to rest contented if they themselves are once satisfied The most part of affairs of the world are like those Pictures wherein you shall behold different Figures and shapes according to the divers positions and scituations of them who look upon them They never represent any thing to their Masters but on that side which they best like and thus they can as easily retain him in quiet There ought to be care had that all which is intended for them be not done at once Ambition still increaseth and those benefits which are done to a favourite do but whet his appetite for the receiving of others Therefore it is that one should alwaies reserve something to keep them in breath by the expectations of greater benefits to come The Queen Mothers Resolution to win Monsieur THe Declaration which Monsieur made to the King of his resentment strook a great astonishment into the Queen-Mother she having before-hand placed all her confidence in him as also chosen him for the chief instrument of her designs They had perswaded her that could she but ingage him in her interests she might soon find men enough to uphold them and such as would put themselves into the field in Arms to carry on her designs to their very utmost and yet her natural goodnesse was so great to oblige her to preserve Monsieur constant and faithfull to the Kings interests But this factious seditious Cabal which inverted her strongest inclinations made her mislike those procedures and carried her on even to reproach him for that after she had so particularly cherished him he should take so little care for her concerns It is true it was heretofore verily beleeved in the first yeers of her Regency though I think without just grounds that she was more affectionate and tender towards Monsieur then towards the King and that she might well cast her eyes upon him as many others of her quality have done to make use of him for the upholding of such designs as she might have to which the King might not be so favourable But it must be confessed that she governed her self so prudently by those sage Councels which were given to her after her first going off from the Court that no one could discover any thing in her behaviour but real intentions to preserve her children in a good intelligence with one another and never to attempt any thing which was not conformable to the Kings Will insomuch that this prudent Conduct of hers gained her a great esteem with the people who being desirous of nothing more then peace they regarded her Majesty with extraordinary affections as her who was the greatest advancement of publick tranquillity by her preserving the bond of union between her children Though now she gave them just cause to change their good opinions of her by her frequent entertainments of Monsieur and his chiefest Officers in that design which all men knew she had to gain him to her party whatever it cost that he might become instrumental for her in the resolution which she had taken to destroy the Cardinal Politique Observation JT is very usual with Mothers to love their youngest better then their eldest children and to rely upon them to be maintained in the greater authority It should seem it is with Children as with fruits the newest are still most agreeable so it frequently comes to passe that the youngest are pleasures and diversions to their Parents when as they who are older shake off the yoke of obedience and follow the inclinations of unbridled youth but most especially so it is when as mothers are become Widdows and have lost that protection of their husbands which kept their children within their bounds that they do cast themselves upon the interest of the younger ones whom they look on as the supporters of their old age and as those who must uphold their Authority against the eldest whom they look upon very often as men do upon Creditors who come to take away their goods from them withall they are dependent upon them in several respects because by the deaths of their Fathers they are become the heads of their Families and this dependency upon them is insupportable If this be ordinary in private Families how much more is it in those of Kings History is pregnant with relations of such Queens as have advanced their youngest children to the Government in prejudice of their brother Ptolomeus Phiseus gave at his wifes perswasions the Crown of Egypt to his youngest son and to go no further then France it self Lewis the Debonnair did not he prefer at his Wifes entreaty Charls the Bauld before Lothair who was the eldest Did not Constance wife of Robert seeing her husband intended after the death of his eldest son to Crown Henry her second son King oppose it in her earnest desires that he would prefer Robert her third son whom she loved most intirely And when she saw she could not arrive to the end of her design did she not embroyl all things even whilest the King yet lived but much more after his death by fomenting the divisions between her children that she her self might have the more Authority This occasioned a most sad Civil War to the great damage of the Kingdom and that good King both in the declining of his age and Kingdom when as he expected repose and tranquility in his family especially after he had suffered upon his first coming to the Crown so great afflictions by reason of the misfortunes of his first marriages their dissolutions which afterwards hapned for the remedying whereof the godly Abbot of Fleury Abby was employed Not to seek for examples far from us is not that of Katharine de Medicis very certain it being yet fresh in the memory of man for she was ever know to favour some of her children against other some Was she not likewise suspected to have hastned the death of her eldest that she might make way to raise the Duke of Anjou to the Crown And was she not seen after he was attained to the Government to enter into the Combination against him because he did not relie enough upon her for the the Government of affairs It is so frequent in history that we shall need no other proofs for it it may safely be said that it hath alwaies been a very dangerous

already made in respect of Religion the Princess and her servants and the Liberties of the English Catholiques and seeing that this new Oath was comprised too in some sort in the first Oath That there was sufficient provision made both in relation to Religion and Liberty of Conscience for her Domestiques and Children seeing they were to remain mayn with the Princess as well as the children which being so it would of nenessity follow that there could be no trouble brought on them in respect of their Religion He told him likewise that the King his Master being bound to his Holiness for the observation of those things which should be agreed to by the King of Great Brittain was an assurance not lesse valid then that of an heretique King That his Majesty had commanded him to supplicate his Holiness with all earnestness and not rest barely there but to tell him that his Holiness was the more obliged to grant him his request seeing he begged the confirmation of it rather out of respect then necessity seeing that several famous Doctors were of opinion that Catholiques in Heretiques Countries might freely contract Mariages without any dispense These were the chief reasons which the Sieur de Bethune represented to his Holiness and likewise to the Cardinals who were deputed in the businesse of the dispense They soon apprehended the Justice and importance of them and testified a great readinesse to do that which was desired of them The Pope sent word to the Cardinals that they should give a quick dispatch to the business that he desired to give the King all the satisfaction he could wish for both that he might acknowledg those great benefits which his Majesty had procured to the Church as also because he knew there could not any other thing be desired from those of England Accordingly they met together and concluded on it as the King desired and dispatched it with a great deal of diligence to the Nontio that it might be delivered to the King who as quickly gave intelligence of it to the King of Great Britain Politick Observation JT is not ever expedient in a design to propose the utmost advantage it being sometimes necessary to leave a little to be hoped for from time No Affair can oblige to the making of Resolutions contrary to honour and justice but several things may intervene to obstruct the effecting of all that might conduce to the good of a great Enterprize He who doth not take this truth for a rule in his Conduct will be subject to commit great faults and will in it Proclaim aloud to the World That he is ignorant of the many difference between Gods and Mans Will he doing whatsoever best pleases him but the latter is obliged to necessities and bound to proportionate his resolution according to the Possibility of things Thus though it be allowed such men on whom the dispatch of Affairs dispends to raise up some scruples and difficulties whereby to enhance the price and esteem of the thing doing it being usual with most men little to regard those Offices which are granted with ease yet when it is once evident that the present time and conjuncture of Affairs will not consist with the longer denial of what is desired from them they then ought to comply and apply themselves to the effecting of it For what refuse they shall afterwards make will appear rather to proceed from a spirit of contradiction then that of Prudence The death of James King of Great Brittain and the Mariage between the Prince of Wals his Son and the Madam Henrietta Maria of France DUring the negotiation for the dispense King James of Great Brittain fell very sick at Theobalds twelve miles distant from London After he had passed over three weekes with a Tertian Ague which weakned him exceedingly much he caused the Prince of Wals his Son to come unto him and discoursed to him with a great deale of reason and recommended to him those Officers who had faithfully served him But especially his little grand children the Infants of the Electrix Palatine his daughter encouraging him to make use of that power which he should leave him for the re-establishing of them in their Fathers Dominions and then finding himself declining into his Agony he gave him his blessing wishing him a happy prosperous and successful enjoyment of those Kingdoms which he should shortly leave to him About the end of March he died at which instant the Heralds according to the custom of England proclaymd the Prince of Wals King of Great Britain who presently took the ordering of all affairs upon him He having a great desire to be married the first thing he did was to dispatch full power to the Duke de Chevreuse to betroth and espouse the Princess in his name The King too desired to see an end of the businesse so that upon the first arrival of that power the execution of it was no longer deferred The Betrothments were made in the Lovre on the eight of May in the presence of the King the Queens all the Princes and great Lords of the Court by the Cardinal de la Rochfaucaud who likewise celebrated the Marriage Ceremonies on the Sunday following being the eleventh of May in the Church of Nostre Dame in the quality of Great Almoner I shall not need to relate with what magnificence these things were done only I shall say nothing was omitted The Espousals were made upon a Theater raised for the purpose over the great door of the Church Then the Masse was said with great Ceremony where the King and three Queens were assistants Though the Duke of Chevreuse and the Extraordinary Ambassadors of England were not there who after they had wayted on his Majesty to the door of the Quier retyred to the Arch-Bishops Pallace during the Masse as representing the King of Englands Person who was of a different Religion but they went again to receive his Majesty at the same door as soon as Masse was ended and to wayt on him to the Arch-Bishops hall where the King dined with the Queens his Mother his Wife and his Sister the Duke of Chevreuse the Earles of Carlisle and Holland the Ladies Dutchesses of Guise Elboeuf and of Chevreuse with the most magnificencies that the best versed in Royal Ceremonies could invent There were Bonfiers made all the while throughout Paris and the Cannons made such a noyse as if Heaven and Earth would have come together The Duke of Buckingham is commanded by the King of Great Brittain to go over into France and to conduct the Queen his Wife over to him THese things thus past the Duke of Buckingham the King of Great Britains favorite was commanded to go into France to desire the King that the Queen his Wife might set out from the Court assoon as might be to come to him He arrived at Paris about the end of May and during that little stay which he made he was entertained with all imaginable Magnificency

difficult He much blamed the Marquesse de St. Chaumont for suffering himself to be surprized especially after he had been advis'd by the Cardinal to have a great care of all those who should travel upon the Road because she might probably passe by him in some disguise to which he return'd this answer that they should rely upon his diligence Monsieur Duc d'Orleans received no great satisfaction from it fore-seeing that this Princess would be a new Obligation to tie him to the Low-Countries but the Laws of Civility and the consideration of the Spaniards who he was forc'd to content perswaded him to seem very glad of it He presently dispatch'd the Sieurs de Fontain Chalendre de Rames and de Lavaupot to Thionville who were followed by the Duke d'Elboeuf and the Sieur de Puy-Laurens they met her upon the way and Monsieur in person went with much affection to receive her as far as Marshe and accompanied her from Namour to Bruxelles with all the honour and endearments she could desire That day that she was to go into Bruxelles the Infanta with the whole Court went to receive her half a League from the Town and meeting they both alighted from their Coaches to salute her the Infanta kissed her and then taking her by the hand led her into her own Coach where she alwaies gave her the right hand Comming to the Gate of Bruxelles the Companies of the City gave her a Volley of small shot and the Magistrates went to welcome her she alighted in company of the Infanta at the Queen-Mothers who testified much joy for her arrival and kissed her and after half an hours entertainment the Infanta carried her to her own lodgings which she had prepared two dayes before with very rich Furniture her soul being no lesse replenished with Magnificence then Piety The Princesse Marguerite could not forbear the expressing her content so sweet it is to attain any eminent point of honour after the running of great hazards but often repeated that she could never have beleev'd what History relateth concerning fugitive Princesses had she not her self experimented it The Infanta did dayly indeavour to augment her joy by her great care and the Presents she sent her in which the quaintnesse of her fancy was no lesse admirable then her liberality Nothing is more ingenious then Women to attain their Designs VVOmen of all creatures are the most dexterous in contriving their designs their natural sprightlinesse of imagination furnisheth them with a thousand expedients and proposeth all kinds of overtures with such probabilities of happy successe that they are easily inflam'd with a desire of trying them This desire maketh so great an impression upon their Passions that in case any obstacle present it self to divert them they never want anger which so disturbeth them that they admit of no rest untill they have surmounted it and obtain the ends which they propose to themselves This their violent apprehension augmenteth the fruitfulnesse of their conceptions and as the heat of the ayr doth every day disclose new productions in the bosom of the earth so their ardent desires beget new expedients in their minds carrieth all their thoughts conducteth all their motions guideth all their affections and so disposeth of all their power that they neither think desire discourse or do any thing but what tendeth to their ends they sleep with the consideration of those means which may conduce to their own ends the desire of executing them awakeneth them in the morning and as they have little diversions in the day time they have no greater delight then to discourse with them in whom they put their confidence Men who are imploy'd in great affairs have their imginary faculties more barren and granting them to be as fertile as those of Ladies yet the diversity of their imployments doth so divert them that it is impossible for them ever to be ruminating upon the same Subject but otherwise it is with Ladies especially those of quality who have nothing to do but to please their own fancies I might likewise adde that the defect of Prudence which is evident in most of them is in some sort to their advantage because it gives them more courage to execute than the wisest of men whose judgement makes them fore-see many inconveniences which women do not at all apprehend Besides the respect which every one beareth to their Sex seemeth to take away al●●ear from them by perswading them that the worst that can befall them is but to discover their Sex and quality and that once known not any person of quality will use them uncivilly Amongst the many inventions which they have used to save themselves by flight or to obtain their desires that of changing their habits is one of the most frequent So Laodice the wife of Mithridates unwilling to forsake her husband when vanquish'd by Pompey cloath'd her self like a man and follow'd him a long time as if she had had an indefatigable body and courage Semiramis knowing most people impatient of the Government of women left off her usual habit after her husbands death and assum'd that of the Kings the better to preserve the government in her hands during the nonage of her son Ninus Doth not History record the same of divers Persian women who in the habit of Souldiers followed their Husbands to the Wars between the King of Persia and Selim the Turkish Emperour We read that divers Germans went to the Holy War with the Emperour Conradus cloath'd and accoutred like Cavaliers with as much valor as Amazons The Treaty made with Monsieur de Lorrain and how after all his difficulties he was forced to put it in execution THe advantages which the Kings Army had obtained upon the Duke of Lorrain produc'd those effects of which the Cardinal had given his Majesty great hopes He dispos'd himself to grant all that could be desir'd according as the Army made its progresse He was forc'd to send to Cardinal of Lorrain to his Majesty at Neufville to offer him the new Town of Nancy but his Majesty being not ignorant that leaving the City in his hands would give him the occasion and means to re-commence his imbroyls when ever those who had ingag'd him should send him a powerfull assistance would not be perswaded to assent thereunto He then sent again the same Cardinal with full power to deliver him both the Towns of Nancy in Deposite upon such conditions as should be resolv'd between him and Monsieur the Cardinal This was as much in apparence as could be desired but Monsieur the Cardinal too too well inform'd of the Dukes wavering homour to trust him was not backward to tell the King that he thought it not fit to rely upon it or to be certain of any thing untill the Gates of Nancy were opened that his forces might take possession of it so that the works of the Siege were prosecuted with all diligence yet at last the Cardinal having full power from

attempt against the King's Authority Nothing is of greater concern to their Interest than the Publike good and quiet And indeed History doth furnish us with frequent examples of their Removals from Court and being subjected to other punishments when either their own ill deportment or the Publike good hath required it None but Kings themselves are above the Laws and seeing their Majesties both Wifes and Mothers have with the qualities of Queens that of Subjects they are not priviledged from those rewards which are ordained by the Laws Helen wife of Menelaus returning to Sparta upon the ruine of Troy was soon banished for having occasioned so many misfortunes The Emperour Honorius returned Placida back unto Constantinople she being suspected of holding correspondence with his enemies Irene the wife of Constantine the fifth was condemned to perpetual banishment by Nic●phorus her Sons Successor Martina wife of the Emperour Heraclius was forced to undergo the like sentence by Decree of the Senate for having put to death her Son in law Constan●ine the younger Our own History hath plenty of the like examples Lewis the twelfth removed his Wife from the Court and divorced her upon suspicion of her loyalty Charls the seventh sent his Mother Isabel of Baviers unto Bloys and thence unto Tours to hinder the growth of those wicked contrivances which were hatched by some certain discontented ones under her name he likewise seized on her Jewels and Money by the Constable d' Armagnac and committed her to the guard of three men without whose leave she could not speak with any one whatever in which condition she continued until the Duke of Burgogne came to relieve her The satisfaction of one only person is of so little consideration if compared with the good of many millions committed to the care of a King and for which he must be one day accountable before him who hath only constituted him over them that he might watch for their good There is not any obligation great enough or consideration just enough to excuse a King from preventing the beginning or stopping the progress of any evil which seemeth to threaten his people This Rule is so general that it admits of no exceptions Besides if a King as doubtless he is be obliged to lay down his own life for his Subjects good how much more reason hath he a fortiori to prefer it before any other respect whatever The late Queen Catharina de Medicis said and that with great judgement A King ought to have the same Jealousie of his Authority as a Husband is obliged to have of his wife The chief Leaders of this Cabal secured AT the same time that the King departed from Compeigne and had requested the Queen to pass away some time from the Court there were Orders given out for the securing of the Principal Authors of this Cabal Those Ladies who were interested in it were commanded to withdraw themselves The Marshal d' Bassompierre L' Albe de Foix and Doctor Vautier were sent to the Bastille where they received not any violence at all The Princess de Conty the Dutchess d' Elbaeuf d' Ornano and Desdiquieres were commanded to retire to their own houses The Princes Governours and other Lords then absent from the Court were so fairly dealt withall that there was only course taken that they might hold no further correspondence with the Queen-mother by having an eye upon their actions and telling them that they would force his Majesty to punish them in case they did not surcease their Intreagues and Factions What greater moderation could possibly have been used and what greater Clemency could there have been shewed towards those Factious persons who had sowed discord in his Majesties family held intelligence with strangers attempted to raise civil Wars in the Kingdom who had openly found fault with his Majesties Government traduced his most glorious and just actions and who were come to that passe of insolency that they would compel his Majesty to destroy him whom he cherished as the worthiest instrument of his Glory But had they been continued neer the Queen-mother where they might have gone on in their agitations what would they not have done and to what extremities would they not have been transported Notwithstanding all this she complained aloud that all those in whom she could put any confidence were taken from her and earnest entreaties she made that Vautier might be restored to her as a person whom she pretended necessary for her health which was denied he being one of the prime fire-brands of the whole faction and one who instead of pacifying her Majesties spirit as the Cardinal had but lately obliged him by promising him very great advantages if he did effect it had added fuel to the fire and aggravated the violence of her Passion but that she might not have any just cause to complain she was offered to take her choice of above a hundred Doctors of Physick in and about Paris most of them much more able then him Politique Observation IT is not reasonable to suffer them who are factiously inclined to rove at their own liberty seeing Prisons are only made to restrain them who abuse it against the Publick good In vain have the Laws ordained this means to stop the progress of their malice if they be not put in execution What colour can there be not to confine them who are troublers of the peoples quiet It is hard to secure all who have had their hands in a Faction and indeed it were not peraduenture fit so to do but however the Ring-leaders must and ought to be restrained It is very dangerous to wink at them lest the people apprehend too much mildnesse and besides the favour which is shewed to them and serves onely to give them time so to settle and contrive their designs that afterwards it will be to little purpose to oppose them Mucianus Vitell us was much commended in the daies of old for having commanded his own son to be put to death that he might quench the flames of a War in its Cradle The Duke of Alençon having conspired against Charls the seventh in the yeer 1474 was not onely imprisoned but condemned to death And the Duke of Bourgogne supplicating to obtain favour in his behalf by alledging that he was of the Blood Royal and that his Ancestors had done great services to the Crown was answer'd by the King that as for being of the Blood Royal he was not the lesse worthy of punishment seeing he was the more obliged to have been loyal to it and as for those services which his Predecessors had done they ought not to be regarded in relation to him seeing he had not followed their good example Charls the Fifth not only shortned the liberty but the life too of a Gentleman who had dictated a Letter to those of Gaund in which they intreated Francis the first to assist them against him Philip the second King of Spain stood not in expectation untill