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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55902	The history of France under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarine containing all the remarkable and curious passages in the government of that state, from the death of King Louis XIII, which happened in the year 1643, to the death of the cardinal, which was in the year 1664 / written in Latine by Sieur Benjamin Priolo ... ; done into English by Christopher Wase.; Ab excessu Ludovici XIII de rebus Gallicis historiarum libri XII. English	Priolo, Benjamin, 1602-1667.; Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing P3506A; ESTC R7055	242,261	471

Corps is interred amongst his Predecessors at S. Denis without any pomp or but very little Such directions had he given when he ordered concerning his Burial When Lewis was dead every one begun to entertain serious thoughts of his own estate I judge it therefore seasonable before I compile the intended story to declare how the Princes the Parliament the Ecclesiasticks the Provinces the Armies stood affected what were the Bounds of the Empire how firm the Allies and in sum what was the state of our Affairs what Parts in the Government were strong what again weak So that not only the Products and Events of Actions which ordinarily are but contingent but the reason too and causes of them may be known The Death of Lewis as it was joyfully taken at the first heat by those that were transported with it so did it stir up divers thoughts and affections not only in the City and Parliament but likewise in the Provinces and amidst the Armies and Officers The Followers and Friends of the Banished and Imprisoned begun to hold up their heads The King towards his later days whether stung in conscience or to throw an Odium upon Richlieu and that he might lay at his door the cruelty of all proceedings had recalled the Banished and release those that had long lain in prison 3. The Princes of the Blood were joyful as is usual upon change of Government resuming presently their liberty with intention to use their power more licentiously as having to do with a King but five years old a Spanish Woman and Mazarine an Italian For the Bishop of Beauvais did not long continue in favour as one insufficient to draw in such a yoke as his Rivals would make believe Gaston Duke of Orleans the Kings Uncle who had neither love nor hatred but as they were imprest all his life time subject to the Tuition of his Counsellors did at that time lead a life free from cares under the Conduct of the Abbot of Rivieres whose Counsels tending to Peace he did not always follow to his own great damage Then spent he his days in jollity his nights in dancing and drew money to bear these expences out of the Exchequer which as long as it stood open to him he never troubled himself about the Government Conde was a profound Politician He had a strange Art of living Men coming new from the Plough or Ship-broad might find him neither stately nor guarded and he would freely confer with them He was open to all and enquired into every thing know every thing He minded all affairs great and small and so by these ways more than the clashing of Arms raised his Estate to vast Wealth which he was the first Conde that every cared to heap up and in that being very considerable and abounding desired that nothing but the Honour of the Kingdom and the Publick Welfare with his private Gains Enguien his Son leaving all care either of State or Family to his Father then only affected Martial Glory And at that age a successful daring had in him the place of Valour but when his parts attain to maturity he shall come to the highest pitch of perfection What he came afterwards to be the order of the Story will inform His Brother Continewly come from School did scarce write man of an excellent disposition which afterwards inclined to Religion not that which consists in disputing but in living having the sap of good works in seriousness not out of ostentation Longueville Son in Law to Conde sailed in Condes Bottom yet would meddle with all but favoured none save the strongest Party if they came to be low would slip his neck out of the Collar After the Kings death he had proposed to get all the strong Holds in Normandy under his Power especially Havre de Grace that so secured against the Normans secured against the King he might play Rex in that Port. Vendosme the natural Son of Henry IV. by Gabrielle d'Estres having his Estate consumed by so long adversities solaced his mind grown savage by such continued Exile either with the single remembrance of his former Fortune or with the hopes of a better nor did he plot any thing else but how by all possible means to repair the Breaches of his decayed Family The Duke de Mercoeur his eldest Son lived in quiet Beaufort his younger did upon his own head prepare himself a way to the prime Ministry for which attempt he afterwards was imprisoned besides that he had somewhat to ●o with Mombazon I am certainly informed that his late Majesty before his death did very particularly recommend these Youths to the Queen The Duke of Guise resembling his Ancestors in Courage and Gallantry with different success came not up but sacrificed his time in the Low-Countries upon courting and following his Amours to the expence of Reputation The two younger Brothers inherited the popularity inherent to their Ancestors At this juncture of Affairs the remaining Progeny of so many Heroes that heretofore durst try for the Kingdom by Arms now finds not place for so much as a wish pretending to nothing more at this time than a thing very easie to compass that is not to stir A Branch of the House of the Guises Elboeuf and Harcourt depressed in their Estates had no designs This latter a stout and daring Souldier afterwards tossed in variety of Fortunes about whom I shall have occasion hereafter to speak not a little Those of Nemours made French from a Savoy stock of a numerous male Line were but two left the Elder of which had a great spirit in a small body but his thred of life being soon cut off left his Brother Successor who held nothing of that famous House but their blameless manners Such were our Princes not any either willing or able to work an Alteration All of them subscribed to the present Government beating their heads about many things to no effect This is the Quality of the French especially Courtier to make much stir that presently vanishes in the air To bind one another in deceitful bonds afterwards to flye off and betray one another A Crafts Master will easily break through such Cobwels 4. Now the Parliament of Paris they do not dislike the present State This is a great Body compounded of divers Humors At a certain sum of money which is undecent they purchase this Degree For themselves and their Heirs Most of them live above their Estates and having wasted their means either by their Wives or their Childrens or their own prodigality long after a Change Their Office if the matter be lightly scann'd is to preserve every mans propriety to compose differences to mitigate the increase of Taxes and retrench ways of Oppression that have been invented more grievous than Taxes to encourage Trade above all to advance the Kings Honour to teach the people that by their own good example never to clash with nor dispute the Kings Commands but humbly petition him and hold