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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05062	The favorites chronicle; Chronique des favoris. English	Fancan, François Dorval-Langlois, sieur de, ca. 1576-1628.	1621 (1621)	STC 15203; ESTC S108220	28,775	46

Nuncius Bentivole resident in Paris is wholy for Luynes who hath made him Cardinall and Comprotector of the French nation in Rome to the prejudice of the Prince Cardinall of Savoy to whom the King had given that protection Thus Luynes is upholden on that side And to the end that the King of Spaine should not be offended to see the Queene his sister governed by Luynes and his wife he hath consented to let him lay hold upon the Grisons the Palatinate and Iuliers which is under the protection of France and which the Queene mother following your designe hath kept out of the Spaniards clawes whereas on the contrary that villaine suffers so important a country bordering upon the Realme to be lost He hath alienated 120000 crowns yearely rent of the Church whereof he hath imbursed 200000 crownes for his part of your sonnes revenues he and his brethren possesse at the least 500000 franks yearely rent without disbursing one penie for it How this discourse grieves me said the King I would you had neuer spoken to me thereof let us leave for this time here comes the Duke de Mayenne and a great number of Noblemen to visit me All these said the Marquis de Termes will confirme that which I have said unto your Majestie and you may know of them what hath past since I left them at Clerac The Duke de Mayenne coming neare with all his companie made humble obeysance to the King and his Majestie bowing his head welcomed them with teares in his eyes Cousin said the King and all you my faithfull servants it grieves me that you have bin deceived by three villaines who as I heare untill this time have abused the favour and bountie of my sonne and generally your free spirits The Duke speaking for them all said Sir I know not who hath made your Grace so wel acquainted with the pride of those three Falconers that have used all the meanes they can to put all men both great and meane out of the King your sonnes favour by their devices sold all France by their covetousnes and brought all the realm into disorder by their monstrous ambition All men know how litle cause I have to speake wel of the Marquis d' Ancre but I may well say that he was an Angell in respect of these three divels incarnate enemies both to men and all valour and such as never employed them but to their overthrow all they that have past over the river with me know what they are besides that for mine owne part I have every way tried and proved their divellish malice in that respect It is true that Marquis d' Ancre was wicked as wel as they but yet he had some humanitie in him he did good to many hee was a man of his word if hee crost some great persons he made much of others but these three plagiaries have bin a scourge to them all thinking it a glory by their dissembling salutations to deceive all the world with brazen faces I will not trouble your Majestie with the rehearsall of their detestable actions nor put you in minde of the rude dealing that they have shewed to the Queene your wife neither how they have scorned my Lord the Prince nor of their ingratitude against my Lady the Countesse nor what trickes they have played with all the Nobilitie it suffiseth Sir that you generally know their proud proceedings they have fully gotten the government of the King your son and of the authoritie royall into their hands making him beleeve that they three onely held the Crowne upon his head as if those of his blood had conspired the usurpation thereof For the space of foure yeares they have caused all the affaires of importance to passe under their hands they have made the King march with them in all places for their owne particular interest vpon the frontiers of the Realme Luynes hath bin so proud as to make his entrie into townes accompanied with a Prince of the blood and in rhe presence of the King his Soveraigne he sent his brother Cadnet into Flanders under pretence to go seeke his wife where he spake with Marquis Spinola and after that with a most incomparable pride covered with precious stones appertaining to the Crowne he hath bene in England not one of the Kings Councell knowing the secret of his embassage after that voyage he undertooke to make himselfe Duke of Britaigne and it is not knowne whether since he hath bin keeper of the Seales hee hath dispatched letters patents for the same In favour of Castille he hath neglected all ancient alliances of the Crown he hath suffered the Palatinate and the Grisons to be lost to make the Spaniard favourable to him The Queene mother preserved Iuliers under the protection of the King your sonnes forces and those three villaines have suffered it to be besieged by Spinola To the disgrace of your glorious memorie Branthe a meane fellow that never had 200 franks yearely rent hath bin so audacious as to ravish the heire of Luxeburg and to force that yong Princesse being but eleuen yeares old and at such a time when all France was in armes by their meanes and if the ravishing of a maide be punishable as it is her action in all circumstances is much more punishable Luynes hath exposed the King and the Prince his brother into the inconveniences of a long voyage and into the perils of the bad aire in the armie in such maner that the Prince was there sick and like to die and yet he would not suffer him to be carried out of the infections of the campe he hath resolved upon the warre against the Huguenots without taking yea and against the advice of your old Councellers hee hath bin so audacious as to keepe the Kings seales in his hands to promise them to many but gives them to no man busying himselfe during the dangers of the siege before Montauban with sealing expeditions in stead of going to the warre for which cause the souldiers made these foure verses of him What shall we of this valiant Warrier say That vseth vs like slaves both night and day He that in peace the Constables office hie And in warre doth the Chancellers place supplie In such maner that if there be any capitall crime that may be objected against a bad servant that is one of the most notorious and greatest All the mony appointed for paying of the souldiers in the armie he stayed in Blayes in such sort that more souldiers have died of want and necessitie then of wounds for want of reliefe To be short their covetousnes and villanies are the cause of all the bad successe hapned as wel during that siege as in other publicke affaires That which I finde to be most strange said Balagny is that not one of them hath bin hurt in any of the exploits of their conquests I will shew you a pertinent reason for that said the Duke it is because they neuer sought after