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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62724	The entrance of Mazzarini, continued through the first years regency, of Anna Maria of Austria, Qu. Dowager of France, and mother of the present Monarch. Louis XIV. Wherein the principall causes of those revolutions, that have since happened in that kingdome, may be discovered; Entrance of Mazzarini. Part 2	Tanner, Thomas, 1630-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing T141; ESTC R208969	42,855	166

through jealousy of the future then advance their owne interest with present acquisitions And these misprisions were the more augmented by their starting back from the articles already made with France alleadging that the Queen being to pay them certain summes according to the treaty which she could not doe but by authoritie of the young King it should be necessary to renew the overtures of agreement wherein though they did not shew themselves obstinate but at last complyed with the French Ambassador in confirming the last treaty yet they gave the Spaniards to observe their coldnesse and thereby to move with them the more instantly to sever themselves from the French interests and treat apart their owne conditions of peace with the King of Spain wherein they promised them the more fairely to defeat the French designes towards the Munster treaty as well as to divide their strength nor failed of being well listned to notwithstanding the great renitency of these their Allies And the Swedes in Germany that ere while had been but ill satisfied of the French addresses on their side to counter-batter the house of Austria since both had agreed to distract the Emperor's forces by the sound and eccho of their mutuall diversions so promoting one anothers pretentions to be urged in the treaty before mentioned and being more diffident of any further vigor in th●● designe to be expected from that crowne since the late Cardinall and the King in whose perso●● the totall correspondency in this affaire seemed to be involved were unseasonably taken off and a new Government to succeed whose abilitie at such a juncture they were no lesse to suspect then their affection and indeed t' was thought the Queen's conscience would have laboured hard with this doubt join'd with a passion towards her owne house if a Church●man had not stood by her chaire of state with a ready hand to assist her began now to think apart of their owne interests and what conditions to make for themselves without regard to their late Confederacy but assoone as the Cardinals letters were imparted to them by the Chancellor Oxenstiern assuring them of the constant applications of that crowne to prosecute as much as ever their common designes till the generall peace it quite restored their former confidence with resolution to persist in this issue as was before agreed Nor had they any reason or affection to manage their alliance so leiger-handedly as the Hollanders to whom the Cardinal's letters of the like importance were yet so acceptable that they sent copies of them to every good towne house throughout their states and no lesse though it may be not expressed in the same fashion were his others to the Prince of Orange the Dutchesse of Savoy the Lady Lantgrave Van Hessen the King of Portugal and the Catalonians but to wish as well as might be to the French progresse in weakning the house of Austri● while they themselves were there by enabled together with the be●nefit of their pay and the Germ● booty to exact their owne adva●●tages But as the blood comes of●ner to the heart before it ma●● an entire circulation so the cur●rent of our discourse must back● againe to Paris to consider the in●ner state of France before it ca● arrive in Italy or in Catalonia We remember what graceswe●● before granted by the late King● and how the new Governmen● did enlarge them insomuch tha● the Queens bounty did almost amount to a generall indemnity yet with obligation to come and justify themselves in Parlement which occasioned some difficulty in stating the greater cases And first the Duke of Esper●o● having fled into England in his fathers life time where the King conferred the garter on him to avoide the persecutions of the late Card. imputing the losse at Fontarabie to his account presented with his petition a protestation of nullitie to the sentence denounc'd against him without any legall processe and with out much difficulty was re-admitted to enjoy his estate with the Government of Guie●ne wherewithall the Count of Harcourt a noble cient of the Guisards had been gratifi'd in his absence and in lieu thereof is now recompenced with the charge of Gran Escuyer or Mr. of the horse a pension of 10000 Crownes a year from the King's exchequer The Duke of Guise who before his elder Brother died at Florence was destined to the church and invested with the Archbishopricke of Reims the Abbacy of S. De●●● and 500000 liures rent in bene●●ces whereof he was deprived the late Card. because engaged 〈◊〉 a promise of marriage fou●● more favour yet in the proe●● of his restitution for whereas 〈◊〉 Council were ready to grant 〈◊〉 reparation by the usuall forme 〈◊〉 abolition the Card. Mazzar●● represented to her Majesty 〈◊〉 great aversation the old Dutche● had conceived against that for●●● desiring only a simple declaratio● innocency wherein her aime 〈◊〉 at recovering the Ecclesiastic●● promotions and all in one act●● which though her Majesty grac●●ously condescended to yet it 〈◊〉 with many difficulties in the Par●lement which pleading their le●gall sentence given against 〈◊〉 Duke pronounced an arrest ob●liging him to take an abolit●o●●hich at last the Duke to avoide 〈◊〉 further tediousnesse was will●●g to accept and so had it rati●●●d in Parlement while the instan●● of the Pr. of Conde Card. Maz●●ri●i sufficed towards the Queen 〈◊〉 Council to remit also his form 〈◊〉 benefices to his dispoall Yet the ●●ke was now married to an other ●●dy at Brusselles where he retired 〈◊〉 Richelieu's displeasure dealt ●ith the Spaniards there for the ●ount of Soissons then her that be●●re he had promised though at his ●●turne into France he left her too 〈◊〉 sued afterwards for a divorce The Duke of Boüillon's case ●ust be driven somewhat higher 〈◊〉 get a true intelligence of it ●is name is Frederick Maurice de lae 〈◊〉 son of Henry de la Tour 〈◊〉 of Boüillon Prince of Sedan ●●count of Turenne c. and of ●lisabeth of Nassau daughter of William Prince of Orange and 〈◊〉 the Marshall de Turenne for his on● Brother His Ancestors were und●● the clientele of France and 〈◊〉 father premier Mareschal when 〈◊〉 died But the present Duke ha●ving made himselfe a Catholick● some time before joyn'd in leag●●●irst with the Count of Soisso●● and after that with the Marq●● of Cinq Marcs against the crowne● though he then commanded 〈◊〉 forces of France in Italy an● being in both oppressed he 〈◊〉 constrained to purchase his 〈◊〉 and liberty by putting his sove●rainty of Sedan with the adjace● domaine in the King of France 〈◊〉 power But now he hoped if 〈◊〉 to re-enter on his estates by th●● interest of the house of Orange 〈◊〉 favour of the Duke of Orlean● whom formerly he had engaged or his alliance with the Princ● 〈◊〉 Cond● which was somewhat 〈◊〉 by marriage of one of his ●●●ters to the Duke of Trimoüille 〈◊〉 Prince's Cosin Germain where●● the reason