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A85934 Baltazar Gerbier Knight to all men that loves truth Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667. 1646 (1646) Wing G577; Thomason E510_1*; ESTC R205643 13,063 20

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BALTAZAR GERBIER KNIGHT TO ALL MEN THAT LOVES TRVTH BALTHAZAR GERBIER KNIGHT To all men that Loues Truth THe Diuine p●ecopts of Christ forbidd men to Iudge one annother Iudgment belongs to God and to none else for he saith IVDGMENT IS MINE It pleaseth God to suffer my Parents to fly the bluddy persecutions in France against those vvhich the Roman Catholikes called then 〈◊〉 My said Parents left and lost all for that cause My Father Anthoine Gerbier vvas a genthleman borne and had a Baronnie in Notmandie My Mother vvas Radegonde daughter jn Ayre to the Lord of Blayet in Picardie I vvas borne att Middelbourg in Zelandt vvhence I vvas by one of my Brothers transported into France and thence returned and about 〈◊〉 tuinty one past in the company of Noël Caron then Holl●ndt Ambassadeur into England vvhere I applied myselfe to George Villiers nevvly become fauorit to King Ieames the said George Villiers being immediatly after Baron Viscount Earle and aftervvards created Marquis and Duke of Buckingham My attendance vvas pleasing to him bijcause of my seuerall languages good hand in vvriting skill in sçiences as Mathematicks Architecture dravving painting contryuing of scenes Marques shovvs and entertainments for greate Princes besides many 〈◊〉 vvhich I had gathered from diuers rare persons as likvv●e for making of Engins usfull in vvarre as I made those vvhich might blovve vpp the Dike that stopt the passage to the Tovvne of Rochell for it vvas on the same Modell of that of the Prince of Parms vvhen the attempt vvas on Antvverpe He did puts to me first the contryuance of some of his habitations to chouse for t him rarities bookes medals marble of mony of vvhich I neuer vvould hane the managing I did keepe his Cifers vvith his jntelligences abroade vvas sent by him vvith the king his Masters aprobation in secret Messages No sooner vvere those markes of trust obserued butt malicious Ignorant persons made glosses theron according the places vvere I vvas sent My first publike inployment abroade vvas a iourney into Holland to meete theire an Eminent person from Brabant vvho vvas to make ouuertures from Spaine and Germani●e for the restitution of the Palatinat I vvent att that same justant jnto Tessei and assisted Sr. Sackville Trevers to gett cleere from the Eastindian Company theire dessigne vvhich vvas to stay him vvith the Shipp called the S. Esprit vvhere vviht he made aftervvards for England My second jmployment vvas jn France to expostulate vviht the Cardinall de Richelieu concerning large promisses France had made to assist Count Mansfelt vvhen king Ieames vvas mouued to engage him selfe on theire fai●e promisses againts Spaine vvhich assistance prouued att last butt bare Cabinet discourses and no reall engagement of that king nor Ministers of state vvhich seemed to vexc Count Mansfelt art my returne to Douer and semed to mouve him to desire that I should say to King Ieames that he had keijes to make his one passage through France iff the king vvould giue him leaue though it vvas a question vvhether Count Mansfelt ment it for he neuer had any o●ttaine promisse of a reall conjonction nor assistance of the french his Tresorier then for shovve only did passe aquittances to the french thereby to persuade king Ieames that the jntended vvare for the Palatinat should not vvholly lay on his charge I vvas aftervvards jmployed againe jnto Brabant vvhere I vvas commanded to comune vvith the Marquis Spinola about the reconcilliation betvveene the Crovvne of England and Spaine on vvhich secret conference the treaty vvas sett on foot and pursued vntill it vvas braught to à conclusion I vvas jmploied jnto France to remonstrate the greate jnconueniencies of theire countenancing of the Spanish trade for that theire shipping did transportte all the Spanish Marchandise and thereby frustrated the king of England of those hopes during the breach betvveene the tvvo Crovvnes after the desoluing of the tvvo Treaties of the Spanish match and that of the Palatinat the Spaniards might haue been pu●t to it and thereby mouued to giue fitt satisfaction on the point of the Palatinat I vvas likvveise imployed by the King to remonstrate to the French King and to the then Queene Mother the mistakes of the French Ambassador Monsieur de Blinuille vvhen his men vsed violence on the Kings Officers Constables and others that did theire Duty to hinder the scandalous resort of English Papists att Durham house I did then deliuer to the Cardinall des Richelieu a letter of the Duke of Buckingham vvhich vvas by some taken for the cause and begining of mis-intellgences betvvene the tvvo Crovvnes of England and France because those tvvo greate fauorits did then declare theire ressents vvhich vvere so violently vttered on the Cardinall de Richelieu side as that hee accompanied them vvith unciuill glosses vvho gaue ground to some licencious discourses vvhich did so little vvorck on me that had not other Northstarre then his Majesties seruices and my duty as mouued mee to proceed as befitted a person sent on good grounds and to make apparant to the haughty spiritt of that Cardinall that threats vvere to vveake to driue me from my byas nor could his compliments aftervvards vvork any other effect on me vvhen he desired my toturne then to mouue me to heare him and to relate his vtterances vvhich concluded vvith compliments that he contented himselfe to knovve the fame of a fauorit so great as the Duke of Buckingham vvas but for him only to act the part of a single Minister of state vvho did admire the povver of the Canon of an English Admirall but that hee him selfe did remaine in the humility of the Canons of that Church vvhereof he vvas a Disciple and as those vtterances vvhere indeed butt flovvers of Rethorice they coueted serpents for he caused men to follovv me to the very port of Bollogne vvhere the foldiers vvere apointed to ceasse on all my papers butt he vvas disapointed for I gott safe into England I vvas aftervvards commanded tovvards Spaine on an invitatin● from that King and a Passe sent for my safe Landing In any 〈◊〉 of CANTABRIA it vvas to proceede to the intended Treaty of reconcilliation betvvene the tvvo Crovvnes butt an Irish blee●d Eyd Papist Priest vvas sett on by Mr. Endimion Porter to make the Duke of Buckingham beleeue that the Conde-Duch d'Oliuaras the king of Spaines fauorit desired the said Mr. Porter to be sent on that Treaty vvhich prouued but a plot of the said Mr Porter as apeared by his proceedings for after he got the Duke of Bukinghams consent to go allong vvith them and the Abot d'Escaillie then Amb●ssad from the Duke of Savoye no sooner vvere vvee arriued at Bruxels butt the said Mr. Porter vvith out knovvledge of the said Abot d'Escalie lesse of m●e repaired secretly to the Arch Duchesse Infame Isabells and to Don Carlot Colom●● to contrice his disguised passage into Spaine vvithout the said Abot d'E●caille and my selfe vvich he undertooke