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The history of the thrice illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen of England
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Dauncey, John, fl. 1663.
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1660
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her which even malice it self could hardly be induced to believe The Parliament had before the Queens departure endeavoured to clear themselves from any intention of drawing up any Articles against her and that it was only a scandal put upon them by some malicious Incendiaries To which excuse of theirs the Queen mildely returned answer That there was a general report thereof but she never saw any Articles in writing and having no certain Author for either she gave little credit thereto nor could she believe that they would lay any aspersions upon her who had ever been very unapt to misconster the actions of any one person and much more the proceedings of Parliament And should at all times wish a happy Union and understanding between the King and his people However the King thought it the best course to send her out of the way During the Queens absence broke out those irreconcilable discontents between the King and Parliament The first endeavouring to maintain the Fundamentall Laws of the Land the true professed Protestant Religion and his own due and proper Rights and Prerogatives whilest the latter endeavoured to subvert all of them by infringing and eclipsing that Royal Prerogative which had for above three hundred years adorned this Monarchy endeavouring to settle an arbitrary Power in themselves by subverting and overturning at pleasure the fundamental Laws of the Land making new ones according as their designs served them taking away from the King all power over the Militia his undoubted and inherent right surprizing and engarrisoning his Forts and Castles robbing him of his Ships and Navies denying him entrance into one of his own Towns and disposal of his Magazine of Arms and Ammunition there though bought with his own Money and intended to be imployed in reducing the Irish then in Rebellion for the generall good of these Kingdoms and all this under the large pretences of Reformation of Religion removing the King from such as they pleased to call evil Counsellours making him a happy and glorious King whilest indeed in stead of him as the event proved they intended to constitute themselves so many petty Athenian Kings to Rule and Domineer at pleasure over these three Kingdoms And to this effect they first raise Arms perswading the People That their intentions were only to bring the King again to his Parliament from whence by the violent proceedings of some Members in the Commons House who suggested jealousies and fears into the Suburbian Rabble of the City of London and induced them to come to his Court in tumultuous manner and threaten him at his very Palace-gate he was forced in honour to go away and retire himself to York where after many messages and sollicitations to the Parliament to come to an accord and agreement he likewise endeavoured to put himself into a posture of Defence But the Parliament having both the Magazine of Men Money and Ammunition the City of London in their hands were extreamly before-hand with him though the Queen used her utmost endeavours in Holland by the assistance of the Prince of Orange and those Jewels she carried over with her to raise him both supplyes of Money Arms and Ammunition by means of which and the Contributions and assistance of those Subjects which still continued loyal to him he gathered such an Army as was able for some time to oppose his enemies And on the sixteenth of February 1642. the Queen her self imbarques for England but was the first time by contrary windes and foul weather beaten back again into Holland But fearing no storms for her dear Consorts sake puts to sea again and on the nineteenth she with some hazard anchors at Burlington Bay and safely lands the two and twentieth with some supply of Officers Munition and Money But though she got safely to shore yet she endured there as great a Tempest if not worse then any she had done at Sea of which she thus by Letter acquaints the King THE next night after we came to Burlington four of the Parliament Ships arrived without being perceived by us and about Five a Clock in the Morning they began to ply us so fast with their Ordinance that it made us all to rise out of our Beds and leave the Village at least the Women One of the Ships did me the favour to flank upon the House where I lay and before I was out of my Bed the Cannon Bullets whistled so loud about me that all the Company pressed me earnestly to goe out of the House their Cannon having totally beaten down all the neighbouring houses and two Cannon Bullets falling from the top to the bottom of the House where I was so that cloathed as I could be I went on foot some little distance out of the Town under the shelter of a Ditch like that of New-market whither before I could get the Canon Bullets fell thick about us and a Serpent was killed within twenty paces of me We in the end gained the Ditch and stayed there two hours whilest their Canon plaid all the while upon us The Bullets flew for the most part over our heads some few only grazing on the Ditch covered us with Earth c. Yet notwithstanding their strenuous endeavours it pleased God to preserve this Illustrious Princess from their disloyal violence which they had not yet given over had not the ebbing of the Tide and some threats from the Admiral of Holland forced them to desist in the further pursuance of it The Queens Majesty was at Burlington met by the Earl of Montrose and the Lord Ogilby who with two Troops of Horse conveyed her to York where she uses her utmost diligence in promoting his Majesties affairs and in a short time raises a pretty considerable force which with an Amazonian courage she undertakes to command in person And with these Forces thus raised she first advances to Newark from thence to Weston and so to Ashby where she resolves to think upon what might most conduce to the benefit of his Majesties affairs having received intelligence that the Enemies Forces from Nottingham were retreated into Leicester-shire and Derby-shire to joyn with a greater force to oppose or intercept her Majesties passage which she endeavoured to make towards the King to conjoyn their powers But yet before she goes forward she takes a prudent care of preserving those Countries which she left behinde her and therefore she leaves Sir Charls Cavendish brother to the Earl of Newcastle with the command of three thousand Foot Arms for five hundred and twenty Troops of Horse to secure Lincolnshire and Nottingham-shire the better to preserve those who were already loyal from the enemies violence and to keep subject such whose volatile spirits were too subject to flie from their Allegiance as likewise to keep in awe those thousand Foot which the enemy had left engarrisoned in Nottingham And so her self marches forward accompanyed with three thousand Foot thirty
companies of Horse and Dragoons six pieces of Cannon two Mortar-pieces and one hundred and fifty Waggons of Money Provision and Ammunition Mr. Jermin now Earl of St. Albans as Coll. of her Majesties Regiment of guards commanded in Chief over the whole Squadron Sir Alexander Lesley who since indeed ever proved himself a traiterous murderous perfidious and cowardly Scot had the ordering of the Infantry and Sir John Gerrard commanded the Horse Capt. Leg the Artillery and her Majesties self Generalissima with an undaunted and more then Womanlike resolution in the head of her Army But let us look a little into her Majesties native Countrey where that famous or rather infamous Politician Cardinall Richelieu having by his Policies dipped his hands in the blood of so many innocent Peers of France is forced at length himself fato succumbere to yield to that Fate from which no subtilty could reprieve him He was born at Paris of Noble extraction and took his Orders at Rome where Pope Paul the fifth then sitting in the Pontifical Chair looking with earnestness upon his physiognomy told him That he should become the greatest Cheat in the World He was by the Queen Mother first preferred to be Bishop of Larone and then to the Kings Counsel whom she afterwards commended to the Pope who sent him the Cap and after the famous siege and forcing of Rochell by his policy and industry became the prime Minister of State in the Kingdome of France and the King growing up to age insinuated so much into his favour that he postponed filial duty and brotherly affection to his love towards him so his Policy taught him to be ingratefull in the highest degree to those breasts which had first cherished and advanced him His minde was esteemed by most to be of the same colour with his habit wholly sanguine and much of the temper of that Spanish Cardinal who affirmed That Gunpowder in the field gave as sweet a perfume as Incense at the Altar He was observed to be of an irreconcileable nature where he once hated he hated ever pardoning none from whom he either had or judged he might receive an injury The Marshal of Marillacks and many other prime Peers of France are examples of his revenge Yet his Counsels have been by many great Politicians esteemed of high conducement to the affairs of France for by them the Hugonots were suppressed who were looked upon as one of the greatest Weaknesses of France for by them either Forain Princes cherished their Invasions or potent Peers their Rebellions A great scourge he was to the Spaniard but greater to the Duke of Lorrain whom he chased out of his Countrey to seek another habitation He was looked upon as the greatest Incendiary and Fomenter of the Scottish and English Rebellions and Disturbances A man he was of an infinite contriving and sedulous spirit as solid as subtile a thing rare under the Gallick Clime insomuch that many have termed him the wonder and Prodigy of Prudence A mighty Change there was expected to follow in the Government of France upon his death but he had so well instructed his Pupil Mazarine that things went on still in their former frame This Mazarine who succeeded in that grand employment was a Sicilian by birth and are a wily subtile generation of mean Parentage but an highly extended Genius he was first servant to a German Count at Rome who much frequenting Plays at which he was an excellent Artist his servant Mazarincs quick spirit soon learned the Trade and Fortune likewise favouring him in a short time he raised himself to a Stock of a thousand Crowns when leaving his Master he gets into the service of Cardinal Barberino then chief in the Court of Rome by whom being soon observed to be of a nimble wit and tenacious judgement he was first employed in a small Legateship in Italy which place he performing even to admiration and the Court of Rome wanting a person whose cunning policies might circumvent Richelieu's designs in France he is by the Cardinal Barberino's means chosen and sent Legat thither but finding himself outwitted here he thought it better to joyn with Richelieu and become his Pupil to learn more then lose that opinion already had of his judgement And under him he so perfected his experience that it will be a hard question to determine whether his Predecessor before him or he since have managed the affairs of that Kingdom with greater subtilty Not long after the death of his Royal Favourite Lewis the 13th brother to the Queen of England and surnamed the just returning out of Catalonia extreme sad and melancholy bid adieu to the World having yet left behinde him two Heirs Males Children born to the wonder of the world after twenty three years barrenness in his Royal Queen and Consort Infanta once of Spain when he despaired to have seen a Childe of his own Heir to the Crown of France He was a Prince of himself of a very quiet and peaceable temper by which means Richelieu had the greater opportunity to carry on affairs of State as he pleased At his death he declared the Queen Regent or Governess of his young Son the King till he came to age recommending the Cardinal Mazarine whom she had long before received to her for counsel But let us return to the Queen whom we left marching towards the King and whom we may now expect to have met him at Edge-hill The first time which his Majesty had had the happiness for so I dare affirm he accounted it to see her since her forced departure to Holland what joy and congratulations there was at this meeting I leave the Reader to judge In the mean time Monsieur Harcourt came over Ambassador from France to treat of an accommodation between the King and Parliament but his Negotiation was by many rather looked upon as a flourish from the Policy of Cardinal Mazarine to pry into the actions of this great difference he being likely rather to widen that breach which was the Master-piece of Cardinall to make then any way endeavour to close it The Queen being by the King conveyed to Oxford stayed there till the beginning of the next year whilest the Kings affairs went on in a very hopefull posture for the same day that the Queen entred Triumphantly into Oxford was Sir William Waller the City Generall totally routed at Roundaway down and no Army in the field to oppose him had he not unadvisedly set down before the siege of Glocester whilest in the mean time Essex raised another Army and Sir William was recruited by the City the Scots invited in to assist their Brethren of England against the King when had his Majesty directly marched up towards London he had found no force to oppose him and so might have utterly quasht the Rebellion which had been better policy then the in vain attempting that beggerly and disloyal City The Queen