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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51475	The history of the League written in French by Monsieur Maimbourg ; translated into English by His Majesty's command by Mr. Dryden.	Maimbourg, Louis, 1610-1686.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1684 (1684)	Wing M292; ESTC R25491	323,500	916

Princes far from bringing those advantages to the King which he had promis'd himself from it and which his passion had represented to him through false optiques as exceeding great and most as●ur'd threw him headlong on the sudden into a more deplorable condition than that which he thought he had escap'd He well knew after he had consider'd what he had done in cold Bloud that the Murther of the Cardinal of Guise wou'd be extremely offensive to the Pope and that it was necessary he shou'd endeavour to appease him lest he who carried all things with a high hand and was not of a temper to endure the least affront to his Authority shou'd declare himself for the League in opposition to him which as yet he had not done In consideration of which he writ a Note to the Legat on Christmas day in these very words which follow Now at last I am a King and am resolv'd from henceforth not to suffer my self to be affronted I will give them to understand and make them feel whosoever they are who dare to attacque me that I will always remain in this generous resolution following therein the example of our Holy Father the Pope whose common saying it is that we must make our selves be obey'd and punish those who injure us And since I have accomplish'd my purpose according to this Maxim to morrow I will see you Farewell Accordingly on the twenty sixth of December the Legat had a long Audience wherein the King having inform'd him of the reasons which he had to kill the Duke and Cardinal took God to witness that he had debated within himself and oppos'd his own Arguments with all manner of severity for six days together and during all that time was firmly resolv'd not to have come to those extremities for fear of offending Almighty God But at length considering that He who had made him a King made it part of his duty to maintain himself in that Dignity and that the Pope had sent him word by Monsieur de Luxembourg and had often spoken to the same purpose to the Cardinal of Ioyeuse that he ought to make himself be obey'd and punish those who affronted him he had accordingly resolv'd to prevent them by taking their lives rather than stay till his own were taken by them the design of which they had already laid And if he had not proceeded by the ordinary forms of Justice the reason was that in the low condition to which they had reduc'd him 't was impossible to make use of Law To this the Legat who had leisure in the mean time to consider of what he ought to say answer'd without mentioning the Duke of Guise's death that he thought it his duty to advertise him that supposing the Cardinal had been guilty yet his Majesty in causing him to be put to death as he had done had incurr'd the Censures contain'd in the Bull call'd In Coena Domini as much as those who had executed his Orders and either counsell'd or approv'd that action That therefore it was his duty to ask pardon and absolution of his Sin from the Pope who alone was able to give it him and in the mean time he ought to abstain from entring into the Church The King surpriz'd exceedingly at so brisk a declaration answer'd him that there was no Sovereign Prince who was not endued with power to punish his Ecclesiastical Subjects for crimes of High Treason and more especially when his own Life was concern'd in them for which reason he believ'd not that he had incurr'd any manner of censure principally considering that the Kings of France have the privilege to be exempted from excommunication 'T is certain that he fail'd not on Newyears day to perform his Devotions in ceremony with the Knights of the Order and to communicate publiquely in the Church of Saint Sauveur And when the Legat had made complaint concerning it he sent to him the Sieur de Revol Secretary of State who shew'd him a Breviat of the 21st of Iuly in the year foregoing by which the Pope permitted him to chuse what Confessour he pleas'd and who in virtue of that Breviat had power to absolve him from all manner of crimes even the most enormous from all those particular cases reserv'd to the Pope's own person from all censures and Ecclesiastical punishments even those which are contain'd in the Bull which is call'd In Coenâ Domini And the Secretary added that though the King by virtue of his Privileges had no need of that Breviat in order to his frequenting the Sacraments yet it was past all manner of dispute that having it he might communicate without either scruple or scandal after having receiv'd Absolution from his Confessour The Legat having nothing to reply to this said no more and satisfi'd himself with the remonstrance which he had made But Pope Sixtus stopt not there for he was strangely transported against his Legat whom he accus'd of Cowardise because that having seen a Cardinal Murther'd he had not publish'd the censures against the King with the Interdictions even though it shou'd have cost him as he said an hundred Lives He testifi'd his resentment of it to the Marquis de Pisany the King's Ambassadour at Rome with much sharpness as also to Cardinal de Ioyeuse Protectour of France and yet more vehemently to the Sacred College in full Consistory though the Cardinal de Saint Croix speaking to him immediately before had told him that having consulted the Books of the Doctours on this Subject he had there read that a King who had found a Cardinal plotting against his Estate might cause him to be put to death without either form or figure of Process and that he had no need of absolution in such a case The Pope was incens'd at this freedom which he took and loudly protested that he wou'd never grant any favour nor wou'd suffer any consistorial Remission to be made before the King had sent to beg Absolution which yet shou'd not be granted him till the whole business had been throughly examin'd in a Congregation of Cardinals which he establish'd for that purpose The King was very willing that the Pope if he so pleas'd shou'd give him yet another absolution which cou'd have done him no prejudice though he believ'd it not to be necessary But he wou'd by no means allow that it shou'd be juridically scann'd whether he had the right of punishing his Subjects as he had done Upon which the Cardinal de Ioyeuse made no scruple of remonstrating to the Pope with all the respect which was due to his Holiness that the best and most devout Catholiques of France they are his very words held not for authentique the opinions which were receiv'd at Rome in that which concerns not the Doctrine and Tradition of the Church in both which there was no difference betwixt Rome and France but that in France they held the Prerogatives or Rights of the King to be much greater than

which they built their Babel You have seen how warily the first Association in Picardy was worded nothing was to be attempted but for the King's Service and an Acknowledgement was formally made that both the Right and Power of the Government was in him but it was pretended that by occasion of the true Protestant Rebels the Crown was not any longer in condition either of maintaining it self or protecting them And that therefore in the Name of God and by the Power of the holy Ghost they joyn'd together in their own Defence and that of their Religion But all this while though they wou'd seem to act by the King's Authority and under him the Combination was kept as secret as possibly they cou'd and even without the participation of the Soveraign a sure Sign that they intended him no good at the bottom Nay they had an Evasion ready too against his Authority for 't is plain they joyn'd Humieres the Governour of the Province in Commission with him and only nam'd the King for show but engag'd themselves at the same time to his Lieutenant to be obedient to all his Commands levying Men and Money without the King's Knowledge or any Law but what they made amongst themselves So that in effect the Rebellion and Combination of the Hugonots was only a leading Card and an example to the Papists to rebel on their side And there was only this difference in the Cause that the Calvinists set up for their Reformation by the superior Power of Religion and inherent Right of the People against the King and Pope The Papists pretended the same popular Right for their Rebellion against the King and for the same end of Reformation only they fac'd it with Church and Pope Our Sectaries and Long Parliament of 41 had certainly these French Precedents in their eye They copy'd their Methods of Rebellion at first with great professions of Duty and Affection to the King all they did was in order to make him glorious all that was done against him was pretended to be under his Authority and in his Name and even the War they rais'd was pretended for the King and Parliament But those Proceedings are so notoriously known and have imploy'd so many Pens that it wou'd be a nauseous Work for me to dwell on them To draw the likeness of the French Transactions and ours were in effect to transcribe the History I have translated Every Page is full of it Every man has seen the Parallel of the Holy League and our Covenant and cannot but observe that besides the Names of the Countreys France and England and the Names of Religions Protestant and Papist there is scarcely to be found the least difference in the project of the whole and in the substance of the Articles In the mean time I cannot but take notice that our Rebels have left this eternal Brand upon their Memories that while all their pretence was for the setting up the Protestant Religion and pulling down of Popery they have borrow'd from Papists both the Model of their Design and their Arguments to defend it And not from loyal well principled Papists but from the worst the most bigotted and most violent of that Religion From some of the Iesuites an Order founded on purpose to combat Lutheranism and Calvinism The matter of Fact is so palpably true and so notorious that they cannot have the Impudence to deny it But some of the Ies●ites are the shame of the Roman Church as the Sectaries are of ours Their Tenets in Politicks are the same both of them hate Monarchy and love Democracy both of them are superlatively violent they are inveterate haters of each other in Religion and yet agree in the Principles of Government And if after so many Advices to a Painter I might advise a Dutch-maker of Emblems he shou●d draw a Presbyterian in Arms on one side a Iesuit on the other and a crownd Head betwixt them for t is perfectly a Battel-royal Each of them is endeavouring the destruction of his Adversary but the Monarch is sure to get Blows on both sides But for those Sectaries and Commonwealths-men of 41 before I leave them I must crave leave to observe of them that generally they were a sowr sort of thinking men grim and surly Hypocrites such as coud cover their Vices with an appearance of great Devotion and austerity of Manners neither Profaneness nor Luxury were encouragd by them nor practisd publickly which gave them a great opinion of Sanctity amongst the Multitude and by that opinion principally they did their business Though their Politicks were taken from the Catholick League yet their Christianity much resembled those Anabaptists who were their Original in Doctrine and these indeed were formidable Instruments of a religious Rebellion But our new Conspirators of these seven last years are men of quite another Make I speak not of their non-Conformist Preachers who pretend to Enthusiasm and are as morose in their Worship as were those first Sectaries but of their Leading men the Heads of their Faction and the principal Members of it what greater looseness of Life more atheistical Discourse more open Lewdness was ever seen than generally was and is to be observ'd in those men I am neither making a Satyr nor a Sermon here but I wou'd remark a little the ridiculousness of their Management The strictness of Religion is their pretence and the men who are to set it up have theirs to choose The Long Parliament● Rebels frequented Sermons and observ'd Prayers and Fastings with all solemnity but these new Reformers who ought in prudence to have trodden in their steps because their End was the same to gull the People by an outside of Devotion never us'd the means of insinuating themselves into the opinion of the Multitude Swearing Drunkenness Blasphemies and worse sins than Adultery are the Badges of the Party nothing but Liberty in their mouths nothing but License in their practice For which reason they were never esteem'd by the Zealots of their Faction but as their Tools and had they got uppermost after the Royallists had been crush'd they wou'd have been blown off as too light for their Society For my own part when I had once observ'd this fundamental error in their Politiques I was no longer afraid of their success No Government was ever ruin'd by the open scandal of its opposers This was just a Catiline's Conspiracy of profligate debauch'd and bankrupt men The wealthy amongst them were the fools of the Party drawn in by the rest whose Fortunes were desperate and the Wits of the Cabal sought only their private advantages They had either lost their Preferments and consequently were piqu'd or were in hope to raise themselves by the general disturbance Upon which account they never cou'd be true to one another There was neither Honour nor Conscience in the Foundation of their League but every man having an eye to his own particular advancement was no longer a Friend than while his Interest