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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63523	The True history of the Duke of Guise extracted out of Thuanus, Mezeray, Mr. Aubeny's Memoirs and the Journal of the reign of Henry the Third of France : published for the undeceiving such as may perhaps be imposed upon by	Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617.; Mézeray, François Eudes de, 1610-1683.; Aubigné, Agrippa d', 1552-1630. Mémoires.; L'Estoile, Pierre de, 1546-1611. Journal de Henri III. English.	1683 (1683)	Wing T2703; ESTC R23195	25,198	38

to change his Note and to publish every where That what had happened was done by his Order to prevent the Effects of a detestible Conspiracy which the Admiral and his Adherents had contrived to the ruin of him and all the Royal Family the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde for which and some other reasons Charles the Ninth was resolv'd had he lived to have brought down the haughty Pride and Glory of the Guisian Family But he being dead Henry the Third succeeded who led by ill Council presently embroyl'd himself in a War with the Hugonots whom his Brother the Duke of Alanson ill treated by his Majesty had taken into his Protection But the Duke being appeas'd and Peace concluded another Design was formed for their Destruction which was called the Holy League wherein the Duke of Guise was a main Stickler not as he was a Favourite of the Kings but tacked to the Interests of the Queen-Mother for their own by ends for otherwise they hated each other mortally For the Kings Favourites of which he had many were none of the Dukes Friends but such as continually infus'd a jealousie of him in the Kings Breast putting him in mind of the offer which the Duke had made him to prevent his going into Poland and laying before the Kings Eyes certain Memoires containing several Reasons which it was said the Duke had sent to the Pope to perswade him to degrade the House of Capet which had usurp'd the Crown and to re-establish the Line of Charlemain from whence the Guises vaunted to be descended in the Throne However it were the King understanding that the Estates of the Kingdom were resolved to desire him to name a Captain for the League and particularly the Duke of Guise to prevent them assumed the Title himself and so signed it first with his own hand Against this the Protestants form another League of which they declare the Prince of Conde Lieutenant General under the Authority of the King of Navarre and thus both Parties prepare for a new War The King raises two Armies at one time and gives the Command of the one to his Brother the Duke of Anjou The Duke of Guise desired the Command of the other but the Enmity of the Duke of Anjou and the Kings Jealousie denied him that Honour which was conferred upon the Duke of Mayenne his Brother but to the great Consolation of the Protestants who were almost brought to the utmost extremity by the surrender of Rochel and almost contrary to their expectation a Peace was soon after concluded The ill will which the King and the Duke of Anjou bare the Duke of Guise was as yet a thing concealed but a quarrel of their Favourites openly discovered it Quelus one of the Kings Minions challenged Eutragues who was the Dukes Favourite Quelus chose for his Seconds Livarrot and Maugiron in the Kings favour likewise Eutragues brought Ribeyra and Schombert Maugiron was kill'd upon the place Quelus wounded in nineteen places so that he dyed within a Month. The King so passionately lov'd them both that he kiss'd them when dead preserv'd their White Locks in a Golden Box and built them a sumptuous Monument in the Church of St. Paul A while after St. Maigren being pistoll'd by Order of the Duke of Mayenne for boasting a Familiarity with the Dutchess of Guise the King entombed him richly likewise and set up the Statues of all three over their Tombs The other Favourites apprehensive of the same usage if they ventur'd to play with such boistrous Gamesters never ceas'd incensing the King against the Duke and his Brother by all the ways and reports they could devise and to seek all other means to destroy them So that the two Dukes thus put to defend themselves stopt not there but carried it higher than perhaps they thought otherwise to have done And they took their advantages from the continual Impositions which the King laid upon his Subjects to satisfie the inordinate Luxury and Profusness of his Favourites which as it lessened his esteem among the People the Guises failed not to aggravate to the utmost And the more to strengthen their Faction the Duke of Guise though he knew how much the Duke of Anjou hated him yet he failed not to make him certain advantagious Propositions to set him at an absolute Enmity with his Brother the King well understanding how greatly it would serve him to have a Son of France at the Head of his Party but as that Design took no Effect so if it had it would have done him little good in regard of the Death of the Duke which happened suddenly after Which seeing they could not prevail in their Design the Guises were glad of for that his Life gave a stop to their Ambition and kept the King of Navarre asleep however it changed the Measures and Designs of those Factions For now the Succession to the Crown seemed to lye open since all Men knew the King incapable of having Children by reason of the Debility of his Parts of Generation proceeding from the same Distemper which had caused his Hair to fall off The Queen was for advancing to the Crown the Children of her Daughter and the Duke of Lorrain The Duke of Guise pretended to serve her but loving himself better than the Elder Line of his Family he minded his own business However not having any right of himself to intermeddle in the Affairs of the Kingdom he made use of the Cardinal of Bourbon Him he therefore persuaded That he was the Presumptive Heir of the Kingdom as being nearer in Blood than the King of Navarre his Nephew So that the good old Man hated his Nephew as his Rival and look'd upon the Duke of Guise as the Potent Friend that was to help him to his Right when the time should come The King was advertis'd of all these Practices by the King of Navarre So that the more the others had a mind to keep him at a distance the more the King desired to have him near his Presence Thereupon he sent the Duke of Espernon to him to persuade him to turn Catholick but his own Ministers of State and the Protestants shew'd him better Arguments to the contrary and kept him steady Thereupon the Leaguers gave out That Espernon was sent not to convert the King of Navarre but to confirm him in his Heresie and that the King himself was opening him a way to the Oppression of the Catholick Princes that when he came to the Crown he might make an absolute Change of the ancient Religion This the Duke of Guise and his Brother by their Emissaries spread among the People and the Preachers Trumpeted the same from their Pulpits To this they added the Protection which the King gave to Geneva and the Receipt of the Order of the Garter from Queen Elizabeth And they having blasted the Kings Honour by all the Inventions they could devise they extoll'd the Piety Vallor and Goodness of the Guises