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death_n	daughter_n	king_n	marry_v	7,147	5	8.7437	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60028	Don Carlos, or, An historical relation of the unfortunate life, and tragical death of that Prince of Spain son to Philip the IId written in French anno 1672 and newly Englished by H. I.; Dom Carlos	Saint-Réal, M. l'abbé de (César Vichard), 1639-1692.; H. J.	1674 (1674)	Wing S353; ESTC R9300	54,318	180

wrote concerning it to the King her Brother with all earnestness imaginable Her eldest Daughter had been promised a long while before to the Prince of Spain The King who feared all that might give more liberty and credit to his Son had always deferred the accomplishment of this Marriage Amongst other pretences of this delay he made a report be spread that since Don Carlos his fall at Alcala the Physicians did not think he could ever have any children This report passed for an Artifice and the Empress her self did in no wise believe it In the mean time it was so much the easier to the King to draw this Alliance out into length because Don Carlos did not press it so much as he might have done How advantagious soever it were for his designs he made a scruple of marrying a Princess that he could not love The Empress who knew not the secret of his heart could find but this one Match worthy of her eldest Daughter and not thinking the Queen of Spain's death so near as it was she did not foresee that this Daughter was to take the place of that unfortunate Queen and that the King her Brother as it were by a kind of fatality was to marry all the Princesses that had been promised to Don Carlos The King who saw further then she took a particular care to manage her upon this occasion and to justifie himself in her opinion In the mean time this news cast the Rebels of Flanders and Granada into a despair that produced very bloudy effects and they would yet have been more cruel if the Turks had kept their word but Miquez judged not that without the support of the Prince of Spain he ought to hazard the Ottoman Fleets in places so far from all possibility of help in case of disadvantage He yielded himself to the opposition that other Ministers of that Court made against the continuation of his enterprise and it was changed into that of Cyprus where he made known by the marvellous services he rendred that all his Genius was not shut up within the Walls of the Seraglio and that the love of pleasure doth not always render those that are possess'd with it incapable of great actions In the mean time the Inquisitors formed the Process of the unfortunate Don Carlos with an incredible affection and diligence Their ancient animosities against him appear'd so openly that nothing but the interest of Religion which was mingled with them could have made them be supported They sent to look among the Archives of Barcelona for the criminal process that Don John the second of that name King of Arragon had caused heretofore to be made against Don Carlos Prince of Viana his eldest Son They made this Process be translated out of Catalonian into Castilian to serve them all at once both for a Model and a President The business was proposed to the Inquisition under the species of Lewis the Eleventh Dauphin of France and King Charles the Seventh his Father And all their opinions being the same one may judge of them by that of the famous Doctor Navarra which is inserted in the History of Philip the Second He decides that a King who discovers that the presumptive Heir of his Crown will go out of his States ought to make him be stopped by force if his evasion can be a subject of division in the Kingdom and that the enemies of the State are in a capacity of drawing any considerable usefulness from it but especially if those enemies are Hereticks and that there be the least reason to fear or suspect that this Prince favours them The Sacrifice that the King made of his natural affection to the repose of the State was preferred by the Inquisitors before the obedience of Abraham They compared all with one voice this Prince to the Eternal Father who had not spared his own Son for the salvation of Mankind His Trial could not be long before Judges that were so well disposed The sole Letters of the Admiral de Chatillon the Prince of Orange the Count of Egmont the Consistory of Antwerp and of John Miquez were sufficient to forme his Sentence and Don Carlos was Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment The resentment he testified for this made all those tremble that had given the King such Counsel or that approv'd it They thought that they should never escape his vengeance if he recovered one day his Liberty and they had no rest till they had utterly compleated his ruine The Cardinal Spinosa remonstrated to the King That there was Cage strong enough for this Bird and that he would quickly be necessitated either quite to rid himself of him or else let him fly The People in whose opinion to be justified it is enough to be unfortunate testified every day more and more their Passion for the Princes being set at Liberty The King who was afraid of some Sedition durst no more absent himself from Madrid He judged after a mature deliberation that there could not be any safety neither for him nor his Ministers in setting the Prince at Liberty and that he could no way avoid all that he had reason to fear from him but by putting him to death During some time they mingled in all he took a slow Poyson that was speedily to cause in him a mortal languishing they spread some of it upon his wearing Cloathes upon his Linnen and generally upon all things that he could touch but whether it were that his youth and good constitution were stronger then the Poyson or that those persons that interested themselves in his life obliged him to make use of preservatives this way did not succeed They must then explain themselves more clearly and the unfortunate Prince was told That he might choose what kind of death he pleased He received this strange newes with the indifferency of a man who loved something else more then his life and who feared the same destiny for the person he loved Though the Spanish Historians have spoken of the weaknesses and passionate expressions of this Prince thereby to blot his memory and to justifie his Father yet it is certain that there never came but one thing out of his Mouth that could pass for a Complaint which was that the Queen having by force of Money found the meanes of making him be commanded on her behalf to ask leave that he might see the King as one of his Guards came to him to tell him That his Father was coming Say my King answered he and not my Father The submission he had for the Queens Orders made him resolve to fall upon his knees before the King and tell him That he beseeched him to consider that it was his own blood he was going to shed The King answer'd him coldly That when he had bad blood he gave his Arme to the Chirurgion to draw it from him Don Carlos even desperate to have done a baseness without effect