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A64888	The history of the government of France, under the administration of the great Armand du Plessis, Cardinall and Duke of Richlieu, and chief minister of state in that kingdome wherein occur many important negotiations relating to most part of Christendome in his time : with politique observations upon the chapters / translated out of French by J.D. Esq.; Histoire du ministere d'Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu, sous le regne de Louis le Juste, XIII, du nom, roy de France et de Navarre. English	Vialart, Charles, d. 1644.; J. D. (John Dodington)	1657 (1657)	Wing V291; ESTC R1365	838,175	594

his obedience if he should faile in that which did belong to him or his part but he was hindred by those of his counsel who represented to him that it was unlawful for him to make any such condition The subtil means which the Cardinal used to joyne the Princes of the lower Saxony into a league with the Auseatique towns against the house of Austria THough Peace was very necessary for France yet it was no lesse needfull to prevent the rising of the house of Austria in Germanie which had usurped the Lands of divers Princes there and oppressed their liberties especially since the Treaty of Vlm For the same reason it was that the King of great Brittaine sending Count Mansfeld with an Army to endeavour the restablishment of his Brother in Law the Palatine his Majesty ayded him with two thousand Horse and a good summe of mony but these Forces were not enough to oppose those of the Emperor but it was requisite to send more and greater England would have engaged the King to have joyned in an Offensive league and declared the war against him but it was improbable his Majesty would hearken to such proposals for that affairs were not in a condition fit for such an attempt so they were rejected But the Prudence of Monsieur the Cardinal which is never deficient in the finding out expedients fit for the greatness his Master and did give life and heat to that designe which the Princes of Germany had heretofore resolved on of putting themselves into the field in defence of their liberty and for the restablishing of those who had been forced out of their States The King who hath a most admirable apprehension to Judg of those counsels which are given quickly conceived the goodness of this and in order therunto he sent about the end of the year last part the Sieur de la Picardiere to the King of Denmark the Princes of the Lower Saxany and the Auseatique Citties His instructions were to represent to the King of Denmark and those other Princes that the King his Master did hear with much joy their resolution to take up Arms for the establishing of the Prince Elector and his Brothers and to repel those menaces wherewith they were threatned and the ancient friendship which had alwayes kept their States in good Union obliging his Majesty to be sollicitous of their Interests had induced him to send a proffer unto them of what ever was within his power They had beseeched his Majesty not to engage himself in any league with Germany without giving them notice of it which he had not only order to assure them of but also to promise them the summe of a Million of livures in two years time and French Troops besides He had moreover express order to excite them to a quick dispatch because experience hath made it evident on a thousand occasions that the successe of most enterprises doth usually depend upon the ready and dexterous excecuting of them and that when as much time is taken in deliberation the most favourable oportunities are lost by it But these reasons were needless for by that time that he came to them he found them with their Arms in their hands and the King of Denmark had already sent some Forces by Sea to joyne with those of the other Princes who began to threaten the Empeour and forced him to send Count Tilly to advance towards them for the opposing of their designs Yet he did not a little heighten their resolution setting them on by proposing to them what a glory it would be to them to restablish their Allyes and also by telling them with oportunities of advantage they had against the Emperours Forces who were but weake and much dispersed by reason of the warres in Italy and the Valtoline whereas their Army was fresh and numerous and all their Forces met in a Body together He had particular order not to demand any thing in prejudice of the Catholiques His Majesty having no other end in his intentions but the setling the Liberties of Germany and the restating of those Princes Who had been clapt out of their States And whereas of lower Saxony is composed of several Auseatique Citties as well as Princes which Towns and Citties were no lesse against the war then the Princes were for it by reason their Traffick was into Spain and they much suspected least if they should declare against the house of A●stria the Spaniard would then stop their Ships and break their Trade He was commanded to visit them in his progresse and to perswade them to associate themselves with the Princes in the league as also to contribute toward the maintenance of the Army and to represent to them that in case they should refuse to joyne in the designe they would then run a very great hazard least the King of Denmark fall upon them who had an old grudg to them and only wanted such a pretence to be upon them especially now that he had his Arms in his hand and that if he should be to weak to force them he might however easily enough ruin their Trade particularly that of Danzik and Lub●c and of other places too by stopping up the straight of the Zound by which their Ships must necessarily passe and also that of Hambourg and Breme by building some Forts on the Rivers Elve and Vezel which do belong unto him That in case such a misfortune should befal them all their Allyes would undoubtedly abandon them That the King of Spain could not assist them he being to far off that he had not one Ship upon that Sea and that as for himself and the King of great B●itt●ige they could not in consideration of the King of ●en●ark take care or notice to hinder the Hollanders from seizing on their vessels between Calis and Dover which should make any voyadge into Spain which being so their Commerce would be for ever ruined and decayed so that it would bee much better for them to league themselves with the Princes which if he should do his Majesty would undertake their protection against all their enemies and that the King of England and Hollanders too would give them the same assistance These were the chief Instructions which the Sieur de la Picardier received and all which he effected with so great judgement and good successe that he he went not from them untill he had seen their Army march into the field and perswaded the Auseatique Towns to joyn in League with the Princes This was not a work of small importance for the resolution of this Enterprize was one of the chief motives which induced the Spaniards to conclude the Treaty of Mouson forced them to abandon the Valtolin● and to relinquish the designs which they had in Italy and leave all the rest of the Allies of France remain in peace and quiet His Majesty testified to him that he was well pleased with his conduct and management of the businesse for carrying on to that

whom assistance may be had and who if they should slip their necks out of the Collar might not do us any displeasure in it They are very necessary with the neighbouring Princes upon a place which is designed to be assaulted either in relation to Passages or in respect of having from them Ammunitions both of War and necessary victuals as there shall be occasion Hannibal knew this full well when as he was upon his expedition into Italy and made a League with the French and Spaniard he took Hostages of them and for better assurance left Garisons in many of their strong Holds The Romans did the same when they made war upon the Lacedemonians by making a League with Ptolomy King of Egypt without whose assistance that would have had somewhat to do to have passed on Besides when there is cause of suspicion of their fidelity it is necessary either to take some Persons or Places of them by way of Hostage to the end that their interest to perserve them may compel them to continue firm in their first resolutions If many of our Kings who have made expedition into Italy had taken such a course as this were it onely in point of Passages we had not seen them exposed to so many dangers nor indeed to so many disgraces yet in case by their receding they cannot cause any great incoveniences there will not then be so absolute a necessity of such security and assurances However as it ought to be taken for granted that they will start aside in case the enemy give them satisfaction to their interests so there ought still to bee Forces ready which may clap in upon them and supply their deficiencies It is a trouble to see them break their words yet a Prince shall reap this profit from a League to make it serve to give a happy beginning to an enterprise by means of such assisting forces as may be drawn from it and by dividing expence between them which else must be undergone by one alone It will not be presently fit to defie them for that would be a means to make them take to the other part but it will be needfull to have an eye upon it and to be prepared for the worst Moreover it is profitable to make Leagues not onely with States but with Princes and their Successors and to contract them with greater certainty then Edward the fourth King of England did who having recourse to one of our Kings after he had been despoyled of his Kingdome had not other answer but that the League was made with the King of England and his State and that he being no longer King of England France could not without breaking the Laws of Alliances imploy their Arms against him who was present Master of the Crown To be short it is good to be carefull that the divers constructions which may be made may not serve for a pretext for them who would fall off There must not be so much as the least starting hole left for them to creep out or to break their words especially if they make any accompt of their reputation which is inseparable from their fidelity for without that they will perchance hardly resolve to run Counter The Marquess de Coevures takes the Field to make himself Master of the Forts in the Valtoline AT the same time that the Kings orders were delivered to the Marquess de Coevures he received a dispatch from the Sieur de Bethune which told him that he despaired of getting any reason from the enemy by those ways which he had till then tried so that now he must have recourse to Nostre Dame de Frappe Fort who as soon as he had received this piece of Rallary he resolved forthwith to take the field concluding there was no reason any longer to defer it and that if he could surprize the places unexpectedly without giving them leave to provide themselves he should strike a great stroke in the businesse without any great trouble He had long before given order to 3 Swiss and 3 Grisons Collonels to raise each of them a Regiment of a 1000 men so that he had nothing else to do but to send them word to be ready on the other side the Residents of Venice and Savoy being come to him they had agreed upon all things together The Sieur de Mesnil had order to make a Magazine of Ammunition at Zurich for the Swisses and Grisons forces and the Resident of Venice undertook that the Common-wealth should make another at Bergamo for such forces as should march into the Republick that which was most troublesome was there being a necessity of discovering the design to several persons it would be impossible to keep it from being known and to hide their intentions of the time when they would enter upon the Valtoline The Popes Nuntio called Scapy and the Marquesse d' Ogliani the Spanish Embassadour had notice of it who made strong indeavours to pervent any Levies amongst the Swisses or the marching of any Troops which the King should send but all would not serve the Levy could not be obstructed for the Cantons of Berne and Zurich where they were to be made had given too particular an assurance of it by means of the money and the promises which were made them that they should be seconded with a puissant succour against any who should attempt any thing against them upon that accompt But their Contrivances and Cabals were so powerfull that the Catholick Cantons resolved to stop their Passages upon them so the Marquesse was forced to his shifts that his Majesties Commands might not be ineffectual His remedy was to cause his Horse to march four by four that is all such as were sent him from Bresse and to secure the Canton of Bern for the conduct of Vaubecourt's Regiment seeming after he was once entred as if he would force his way either by Fair or Foul means to the Grisons It was enough that these Cantons were by several Treaties bound to open their Passages to his Majesties Forces upon so just an occasion as this was and it made no great matter whether they refused it or not seeing if they should they might be forced to it without breaking the Laws of Equity Thus he being well informed of the resolution which the Nuntio and the Marquess de Ogliani had induced them to take resolved not to demand it untill he were upon the very point of passing because they should be better advised then to deny him when they find him in a condition not to be hindred they not having the least time to prepare themselves against it All things being thus in a readinesse for the beginning of the design he sent the Sieur de Lande to Zurich to discourse with the chief of the banished Grisons and to perswade them to rise and then he commanded the Sieur de Harcourt Marshal of the Field and the Sieur du Lande to joyn with Collonel Salis to enter into the Grisons to seize

they had contrived to let them in by a great Tower which stood in the Sea belonging to the Sieur de Briqueville as also into the Town and Haven de Vire in hopes that they of their party who were at Caen Falaise and other adjacent places would rise in a body together and so force the King to leave Rochel that he might retake these places of so great importance Politique Observation REbels at their first rising may perchance get some advantages either by intelligences in strong Towns or surprisal of those which are but ill kept but in fine they do moulter away and are reduced to nothing It were to be wished that before they attempted any thing they did but know what is the true Reason hereof which it this they are to seek for those things which are necessary to continue a War with good successe for the beginning there need little or nothing but those beginnings must of necessity terminate in disasters if he who is the first mover have not store of Forces and power to recruite them if he be not furnished with expert Officers and Treasures if he have not very good intelligences with the Lords Princes bordering upon those places which he pretendeth to assault lastly if himself too be not endewed with a soul courage truly great that he ought of necessity to have Forces and power to recuit himself cannot be doubted because otherwise his soveraign will presently crush him the inconstancie of his Souldiers will by disbanding leave him naked and sicknesses will help to take away some too so that in fine he will be reduced to nothing if he cannot repair his losses by recruits and new fresh Regiments That which gave the Romans such advantage over other Nations was first their discipline of War but secondly their Numbers now the means used to get such great Armies was to exercise those Enemies whom they had overcome in their Militia as Tacitus observeth on the Life of the Emperour Claudian and on the other side the Lacedemonians and Athenians not entertaining any Strangers though by them subjugated never brought any great considerable Armies for number into the field and consequently could never attain unto so great an Empire Next to the great numbers of Souldiers which he ought to have comes Treasures without which it is impossible to prevent an Army from wanting victuals clothes and necessaries and by consequence from disbanding Quintus Flaminius seeing Philopoemon Captain of the Grecians with a great Army both of Horse and Foot but without any mony laughed at him he hath indeed quoth he store of Legs and Arms but no Belly meaning by like that he wanted wherewithal to feed them Caesar how great a Souldier soever and how valiant soever his Souldiers were brake open the Treasure Gate at Rome contrary to Motellus the Tribunes will for he wisely foresaw that it would be impossible to give a good account of the War without he were provided with store of Treasures Next of all I come to expect Officers who are not lesse needful because they are as the soul of the Souldiers and as it is true that a Body cannot move without it's soul neither can any Souldiers do any thing considerable if not conducted by the example of their Commanders and instructed how where and when they ought to fight And then ought he to hold good intelligence too with the Grandees and those places which border upon that part which he designeth to attaque for otherwise his Convoyes will be stopped every day will make some hole in his Coat and they will serve for retreits to his Enemies to contrive Ambushes and designs against him For this Reason it was that James King of Scotland contriving to make War upon Henry the eighth King of England was careful to hold intelligence with the English who else might have endangered and troubled his Forces that Hannibal assaulting the Romans first made sure of the Spaniards French and Africans and that the Romans bending their powers against Philip of Macedon first sent their Ambassadors to make a League with Ptolomei King of Egypt Lastly and most especially he himself ought to be of a genius and courage every way truely extraordinary for every day he must be exposed to new dangers the successe of the greatest part of his affairs will depend upon his own prudence and addresse the least distrust or fear that shall appear in him will drive away whole troops from him extraordinarie designs requiring a proportionate conduct to carrie them on in regard Revolts have the more need of Fortunes assistance because they are the most hazardous exploits in which a man can ingage never any mean Low heart arrived to any good succusse or Fortune by them These are the chief things necessary for a great enterprise and they that engage themselves without these do rashly run the hazard of their own destruction It is only by the want of these supports that so many Authors of Revolt have gone out with shame and confusion Divers Religious persons settled in the Hugonot Provinces by the Cardinal's diligence and industrie THE Cardinal was not idle though he had weakned the Hugonot Towns diminished their power and clipt the wings of their Rebellion but he endenvoured at the same time their conversion To this end his Majesty was perswaded to settle divers Preachers and Religious persons who behaved themselves with great zeal and courage The Cardinal was not indeed lesse expert at Theology then Policy so it was unreasonable but that he should be stil careful as well at this as at his Arms. His Piety let him so seek out occasions for it and having at last found out by divers conferences which he had with the Duke of Trimouille that he was not averse from being instructed he himself would needs take the pains to become the chief instrument of his conversion He bestowed divers houres of his leasure time to that purpose and there being nothing which is equal to his doctrine and the clearnesse of his soul he soon discovered such lights to him as quickly cleared all his doubts and dissipated those mists which error had laid upon his eyes The Duke of Trimouille converted to the Catholique Faith by Monsieur the Cardinal THE Duke of Trimouille was a person very moderate and temperate in all his actions his very youth was without heat and passion neither had he any of the pride and insolency which is too usual with those of his birth and as moderate sober men are more desirous of instruction then the contrary sort so he was contented to be guided by the hand of God yet would he see the truth and first be convinced of certain scruples and difficulties which did arise in which till then he could not be satisfied but having bin so happy as to be instructed by the Cardinal it was the easier for him to see and leave his error in regard the incomparable soul of this grand Minister did so

Prince Union in Religion is the strongest Bulwark of a State whereas diversity is the certain foundation of Revolts of which there cannot be any doubt raised for that God hath said in the holy Scripture A Kingdome divided within it self cannot avoid destruction Cabals against the Cardinal AT the same time that his Majesty began his journey towards Paris the Cardinal mounted on horse-back for the reducing of Montauban but I cannot behold him thus blindly sacrificing his own interests to the good of France whilest sundry great ones were contriving his ruine and destruction and not answer that malicious pen which being unable to asperse him with any truth takes the liberty and boldnesse to find fault with and condemn those actions of his begun carried on and finished with so much judgement zeal and good successe for his Majesties glory This Calumniator searching for pretences whereby he might incense the Queen Mother against him and instigate her to complain unto his Majesty and whereby she might be provoked to do her utmost for his destruction amongst other forgeries writeth That she could no longer indure to see him expose his Majesties person unto so eminent dangers as passing over the Alps in the dead of the Winter and commanding of an Army infected with the Plague and thorough a Country full of sicknesse in the very heat of all the Summer But how sencelesly hath he alledged it how without truth or judgement Surely nothing but passion and heat the two enemies of reason and truth could thus guide his Pen whose onely quarrel is the meannesse and disorder of his Fortune which he thinks must all be attributed to the Cardinal without considering that it is the effect of his own misdemeanours and ill behaviour Is there any man living so sencelesse besides himself as to beleeve that the Cardinal should hazard his Majesties life and person when as all his Fortune and hopes depend onely upon him Was he not at that time well acquainted how mortally the Queen Mother hated him that Monsieur had no affection for him and that by consequence if his Majesty should miscarry his disgrace and ruine were unavoidable The Queen Mother could not possibly be of his opinion seeing her complaint was that the Cardinal was too much tied to his Majesties Interests which one consideration alone were enough to have kept him off from hazarding his Majesties health upon a slight occasion if his Loyalty had been capable of so great an Infidelity But what would not the detaining of his Majesty have been to ravish from him one of the greatest Subjects of glory that had been presented to him since his Reign had he stayed at Paris he had been hindred from his journey to Suze from the raising the siege at Cazal he had never forced the Alps in despight of the Duke of Savoy though seconded with the forces of Spain he had not returned by Languedoc and there brought all the rebellious Hugonots under his obedience who had had the boldnesse to take up Arms against him The Kings Generosity was such that should the Cardinal have disswaded him from the expedition withall his Art yet I am confident he would never have been perswaded to let any one else go and gather the Harvest of that glorious expedition Besides the Cardinal had much forgot himself should he have attempted to divert the King from this design seeing there could not be any apparent hazard of his health doth not every one know that his Majesty was used from his Infancy to endure the ayr and that he could not suffer much more in this Journey then he commonly did in his huntings I shall only add this one consideration more Hi● being there was an absolute necessity for the incouraging of his Forces which wee newly come off from the troublesome siege of Rochel and just then to begin a new voyage no lesse laborious and painful The presence of a Prince is the soul of his Army and without it the Souldiers are never so courageous The Duke of Savoy the Spaniard and the Hugonots were to be overcome they were no small encounters and it was to be doubted whether his Majesties Army could have gone through with them without his presence to wh●se sight they were formerly wont to ascribe all their victories Without all peradventure some trouble and labour he must needs endure and who knoweth not that never any great Prince did yet refuse it for the obtaining of an honorable victory Politique Observation THE way which leadeth to victory is Thorny to think of arriving to it without labour is a vanity That Prince who cannot compose himself to endure labour and travail shall never attain to any great matters Crowns are only proper for their wearing who win them by fight and our Caesar and Alexander had never been so much commended had they not exposed themselves to all kind of Labour Hazard and Danger A generous courage never apprehendeth any pain and he who feareth it is not worth a thought To Labour was the first lesson which the Romans taught in their military Art and cannot sufficiently commend that Invention of theirs whereby they designed to traduce it to posterity They built the Temples of Honour and Victory in such a manner that there was no comming to that of Honour but through that of victory wh●re there was nothing to be seen but Swords Javelins Darts Helmets Bucklers and the like to teach all people that there was no Glory without Labour and that there was no comming to victory but through the industrious painful exercise of Arms. I have oftentimes much admired that devise of the Emperour Severus who gave this for his word Let us labour and that of the Emperour ●ertinax Let us fight Both which seem to teach al● Princes whether in Peace or War that nothing is more proper for them then to be in Action and Labour The same thing too we may gather from Adrian the Emperour to whom Florus one day writ three short Verses telling him he would not for his part ●e Emperour if he might seeing he was bound to go into England and anon into S●i●●thia to humour those troublesome Broylers But Adrian returned him Answer that he would not exchange with Florus seeing he spent most of his time in Taverns and good fellowship which was as much as if he had said nothing is so becomming a Prince as to endure Labour and Travail The Sieur de Guron sent to Montauban THE Cardinal having at last perswaded his Majesty to commit the Army to his Government for the reducing of Montauban he thought good to send the Sieur de Guron some few dayes before he advanced unto the Inhabitants of the Town to let them know his Majesties pleasure and to incline them to peace by all fair wayes He had express order to assure them in his Majesties behalf of the free excercise or their Religion the enjoyment of all their goods and Estates and a full pardon for what was passed

the necessity of withdrawing her from those Factions which would ingage the Kingdom in Revolts and all this to compel him to deliver up this grand Minister in case they could not effect it by the dayly instances which they perswaded her to make unto his Majesty This indeed is the true reason which forced his Majesty to part with her as himself testifieth in his Letter to the Governours of the Provinces where true it is mention is made of her refusal to love the Cardinal but it is likewise said that the hatred which she bare to him transported her to attempt things contrary to the good of his State and the publick quiet insomuch that he could no longer permit her stay at Court But who can impute her removal to the Cardinal when it is well known how carefull and solicitous he was to appease that anger which she express'd against him which he did so effectually as to renounce his own interest and Fortune and to sue for his own discharge from the Court with that earnestness that his stay there may justly be said to be only in order to his Majesties Will and satisfaction who expresly commanded it and to acquit himself of the Obligation which he had to acknowledge by the continuation of his services of the honour which he did him the King still protesting as great a resolution to preserve him as the Queen-Mother did eagerness to destroy him But lastly who can deny that a designe tending to ruine what-ever it cost one of the chiefest pillars of the State and him whom the King himself had often professed to be the principal Author of his good is not a crime Laesae Majestatis Were it not such in any one to attempt the destruction of any the strongest places on the Frontites or rather to invade any the fairest Towns of France Had not experience then made it evident that the Cardinal was of greater use and concern for the good of France then many Citadels and divers of the best Towns in the Kingdom He would easily have retrived them all if so be any Invasion of our Enemies should have forc'd them from us but it was not to be hoped ever to find a Minister qualified as he was who was a greater Protection to France then all the Citadels put together and who by his Industry had made the King master of a great number of Towns and Cities Politique Observation JT was not without reason that Theodosius the younger and Justinian inserted in their Books as likewise Leon the first and Constantine in their Politicis and Basilicis that Law made by the Emperour Arcadius whereby they who had engaged themselves in any Faction tending to ruine the chief Ministers of a Soveraigne were guilty Laesae Majestatis And for this very reason If any one in England be convicted of having contrived though but in his thoughts the downfal of any Counsellor of State though he had not executed it yet such is the Law there that he lose his life as guilty de laesae Majestatis against the King as it was in the case of Somerset Uncle to Edward the sixth and Protector of the Kingdom for only having designed in his thoughts to put the Duke of Northumberland to death who likewise governed the Kingdom of England under the same young King The Laws of Swedeland are so respectful of them that it is death only to speak ill of them Salvian de Marseille saith That the enormity of Injuries ought to be weighed by the quality of them on whom they reflect whence it followeth saith he that those injuries done to a chief Minister of State who representeth the Person of his Prince are to be reputed as done against the Prince himself Thou hast commitied an offence saith Quintilian but because it is against the Magistrate thou art therefore guilty of Treason Whence it was that Verterius as Plutarch observeth was condemned to die he having been defective in his respects to a Tribune whose place is much inferiour to that of a chief Minister This was the sense which Antiquity had of those offences committed against publike persons and thus were they punished who so offended And who can deny these their Laws and Customs to be very reasonable and just seeing chief Ministers are like the noblest parts of the Soveraigne as is declared in the Law of Arcadius And if the Prince be the head of his State they are then the Members and Instruments by which he governeth And thus hath another said Our Saviour is the Head of the Church the Church are his Body and the Prelats are his chief members They are Stars clothed by their Princes with part of their own splendour that they may the better guide the people by their Influences they are the lively Images in which they cause the foot-steps of their Authority to shine forth Whence it is that if a man be guilty de Laesae Majestatis for only offending by any dis-respect his Princes Image or Picture made only of Brass Stone or the like surely he is much more guilty who dis●respecteth his living Image in whom the most lively stamps of his Royal Authority are engraved who is the Organ by which he delivereth his Will unto the People and indeed the principal Instrument of his Glory And if it be needful to re-inforce this with any stronger reason That is the crime de Laesae Majestatis which offendeth the Soveraign or which interfereth with the greatness of his State And what Is not this to attempt upon the greatness of his State when a Cabal shall be contrived and fomented for the ruine of a Minister who by the conduct of his Masters Arms and his own Prudence hath extended his limits hath rendered him terrible to all other Nations hath vanquished all his Kings enemies and reduced them to an impossibility of attempting any new thing against his Masters authority who hath extinguished all those Factions which troubled the publike quiet who daylie augmenteth the Revenue of the Exchequer hath established Peace in the Kingdom and in a word next unto his Majesty is the greatest prop and supporter of its greatness Cicero saith That he who raiseth a Sedition against the Publike Peace doth diminish the Majesty of the Empire There are three sorts of High Treasons The first is absolutely against the Princes person The second against the Respect due to him And the third against the Grandeur and Safety of his State and Kingdom Now it were to be purposely blind not to rank under this third degree all those Factions which contrive the ruine of any Ministers of State they being so much contrary to the good of the State neither were it unreasonable to range them under the first as in England seeing Ministers carry their Masters Image instamped on their Foreheads Prosecution of the Subject THe Mareschal d' Estree whose Discretion hath been often experimented in the many affairs in which he had been imployed used his utmost endeavours to