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A55902	The history of France under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarine containing all the remarkable and curious passages in the government of that state, from the death of King Louis XIII, which happened in the year 1643, to the death of the cardinal, which was in the year 1664 / written in Latine by Sieur Benjamin Priolo ... ; done into English by Christopher Wase.; Ab excessu Ludovici XIII de rebus Gallicis historiarum libri XII. English	Priolo, Benjamin, 1602-1667.; Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing P3506A; ESTC R7055	242,261	471

more hard and hasty the Master of the House grows and the whole Family the worse This hath been the s●nse of James and before him famous men have ha● the same thoughts Erasmus Cassander Melancthon● and the latest de Dominis Archbishop of Spalatto● It hath always been dangerous to touch holy thing●● as those who in the Old Testament are punished for a rash touch For what matter is it how the profession of Religion stand so that people by it worship God the giver of all good and be obedient to the Supreme Powers But lest I should against my resolution insensibly winde my self into a Whirl-pool my Boat shall coast along the shore leaving that best King of England as the following Book declares among the Essexes Fairfaxes and at length Cromwells brought to extremities impeached not only to have innovated in the Worship but under that pretence to have altered the established Form of Government that he might get no less absolute Authority than the King of France concerning whom what is his Power were a crime to question He only reigns truly What a malignant Star did then in all places influence Kingdoms You see at the same time the Fates of France you see of England Naples Catalaunia and Portugal which having broken its Allegiance hitherto kept to the Philips by instinct in a heat chose for their King the Duke of Braganza throwing off the Castillians How was it but by Fate that Philip. II. came into that Kingdom which seemed so established in multitude of Successors that there was no room nor crevise even for the most presumptuous hope Mark Emmanuel King of Portugal had married three Wives Thee first Isabella the eldest of the Daughters of Ferdinand and Isabella King and Queen of Spain His Issue by her Michael who if he had lived had been the undoubted Heir of Spain in the whole extent of his Empire he dyed a Child and his Mother in Child-bed Therefore he then took to Wife another Mary the third Daughter of Ferdinando and Isabella For Joan who was the second was given to Philip of Austria of which Match are the present Kings of Spain Of her Emmanued begets in truth a numerous Issue six Sons two Daughters Lastly of a third Match also which he contracted with Leonora Daughter of Philip of Austria and Joan he had two Children a Son and a Daughter This House was grounded upon so many Props Non● to come to their Children what a Train twenty two were before Philip and the Succession and hindered the accrewment of this adventitious Estate And yet see whether the Fates invites us He came and succeeded in right of Isabella his Mother the Wife of Charles the V. which was the elder of Emmanuels Daughters passing by Catharine Daughter of Edward Duke of Guimarance who was the sixth Son of the same Emmanuel and Wife of John Duke of Braganza B● the same Fates tacking about it is returned to the right Lords the Dukes of Braganza I know not by what secret cause besides the manifest these thing● thus fall out that whereas in other Arts men grow perfect by practice in this of Government it proves ordinarily quite contrary and Princes swerve rarely hold out in a straight path to the Goal From the Compliances of all they gather scornfulness Even that mighty weight of Empire may for some tim●● hardly always be sustained with an upright neck Men tire and bend where there is no other thing to restrain but the regard of a good Name and naked Vertue and especially Religion To this Corrupters 〈◊〉 contribute an evil connatural with Courts and such as commending ill actions give a biass that way 〈◊〉 turn Power into Licentiousness But there is some occasion too given by Subjects who are refractory and perverse and unthankeful towards the best Princes resent that with trouble and disdain and so by degrees take off their affections the more if there be Sedition or Rebellion or Plottings Then they think they have just title to oppress and afflict All smart for the guilt of the major part Blessed we who after so many provocations of severity have not seen the Sword drawn but against the Enemy For this reason the Publick Felicity seems to have singled out Mazarine to bring him to this Government who hath so principled the young King For how great mildness have we found in his life time how great do we enjoy since his death from the best and most just of Kings But neither did favours nor clemency work upon men to alter their minds The storm every day more furiously discharged upon Mazarine The Grandees rejoyced provided to be still craving who accounted former concessions not a stop but a step to farther Petitions A man of great importance and then admitted with favour to the Cardinals ear advised him to fortifie his Interest with potent Friendships and Alliances that he was therefore undervalued because he had not sure footing in France that he seemed as though he had thoughts of returning into his Country when he had made his Fortunes that these and the like words were given abroad that great sums of money were transmitted to Rome he had there bought and furnished a House forgetting our Estate had Banks of money out at use in Venice and Genoua Mazarine hearkened to the Counsel as appeared beneficial as the issue proved afflictive Therefore first of all he thought of matching his Nephew Mancini with the only Daughter of the Count d'Ales the Cousin Germain of Conde How much spirit did he think was in Conde whose Alliance he esteemed the remedy of his Troubles In truth Conde stood in Condes own light or else he might have carried all in France before him I am assured that it was the top of Mazarines ambition to have been serviceable to him as his Master The Princes mind in this particular mistaken refused the offer being able to acquire as he thought of himself more glory than if he should seem to depend on an odious Minister Not in this point only but every where else he forfeited great opportunities and equalled not his vast Successes with any prudence Conde seemed to slight such a Match which Mazarine made use of me to sue for Longueville being certified of the whole business as he was greedy to find occasions voluntarily interposes himself promising his effectual assistance not without a reward For he that needed nothing but quiet thought it a disparagement in troublesom times to get nothing and when a fire was kindled not to warm his own fingers And being seriously advised that in a bad Age he would dare to be good could never be brought to put off that humor of trassicking Whereas no sort dispositon stands upon so unsteady ground looking over with a readiness to precipitate into folly and vanity but it may easily be managed by the rein of prudence to return into the straight path only our Princes incapable of any but suborned advice draw against it Therefore did Longueville

miscarry in the end The Princes of Europe or their Ministers flocked thither as to consult an Oracle they admired the Island that is a little Spot upon which the whole Globe hung You would have taken it for the Anchor of the floating World The Duke of Lorraine heretofore detained in confinement at Toledo is then enlarged and without waiting upon that King goes with all speed to Haro to know the terms imposed upon him When he came to understand the condition of his Affairs impatient at such a penalty he broke out into speeches which might have given just occasion to have clapt up again in Prison the Duke tired out with miseries This is not a Peace saith he but a slavery by consent The singular goodness of Haro took compassion of afflicted Lorraine who leaving the Castilian Minister at Fuentarabie fled to the French mercy Mazarine receives him honourably Divers discourses past to and fro even about entring Alliance Duke Charles seemed to go away less discontented What was afterwards done shall be related in the end of the Book Charles King of England comes from Flanders for Cromwel whilst he was alive and after his death his Ghost would not let him live at Paris Haro omitted no Ceremony no deference of the humblest submission to him as a Stranger but neither granted him Condes Troops which he desired upon pretence of the Portugal War nor would enter into any other enagagement to act for the restoring of the King of England Mazarine would not so much as vouchsafe to speak with or see the King for fear of Lockhart who was a Spye there in behalf of the Parliament of England It is a thing which posterity will hardly believe Mazarine always hated Cromwell and the growing Common-wealth yet so great an apprehension of that petty Tyrant was imprinted on the Cardinals soul that he dreaded the very Ghost of him when he was buried and whom he had courted with feigned Honour whilst he was alive he followed with a false Veneration after he was dead So true it is that some meaner Spirits have a natural ascendant and predominancy to strike awe into them that are of greater abilities The King of England having lost his labour withdrew himself from the Affront loaded with Complements from the Spaniard and Contempt from the French Ormond who accompanied the King hardly getting to speak with Mazarine to avoid the giving umbrage it seems to Lockhard hinted many things to win upon the Cardinal The assured hopes of the Crown which Charles was near recovering the Plots in favor of him all was safe only that there needed some small assistance Nay proceeded so far as to sound Mazarines mind with an Overture of the Royal Alliance Such is the power of fatal and invincible necessity which the Gods themselves cannot surmount All this was to no purpose the Restauration was to be put upon no other account than his personal Vertues and the providence that attended so great a King who goes away offended at the French rigour Through so many Compliances of Fortune the two Ministers Umpires of the disagreeing World Arbitrate all things at their pleasure and dispense the Fates of Nations depending upon them Portugal fell under debate when Mazarine turned to Haro and said Look me out to the very remotest Indies any Soveraigne Estate for poor Braganza that his head used to a Crown may not again sink into a private Condition The Affairs of Italy Mantua and Savoy and other Princes were left to the decision of the Cardinal and Fuensaldagne Pope Alexander only was neither party nor partaker in the Pacification The Princes of the Conclave admired at Rome that Chighi whom they had chosen principally upon that account because having been trained up in the Treating of Peace he seemed a fit Peace-maker should be so scornfully passed by Mazarine in his Judgment after Chighis Judgment reputed a Fomenter of Discord and Hater of Peace shews That he both could and would conclude Peace Things must be fitly timed The Secrets of Kingdoms should not be divulged It is enough to have one Master in a House No King must usurp Authority over Religion only the Inspection No Bishop must usurp Authority over Kings but paternal Affection At twenty four Sessions the Business of the Peace was compleated and at length on Novem. 7. 1659. The Articles agreed on by the two Ministers were signed which having been published and the Issue of Affairs abundantly shew what they were One might have seen the most straight embraces of both Nations and tokens of Dearness upon account of the old Hatred after so many Inroads made on both sides burning of Towns so many Prisoners carried away so many Cities subdued and demolished so much blood-shed no Anger left In the height of publick Rejoycing each in their proper Language and Manner expressed their Joy the past Battels they accounted as Fictions The Cities of France and Spain shined with Splendour and Beauty So that they seemed truly Objects of pity who were not Subjects of the one Crown or the other The two Ministers after mutual Presents from the one of a rich Suit of Hangings from the other of a gallant Set of Horses depart out of the Island chosen by the Providence of God to clear the Sky and create a right understanding between Nations divided and of an insociable Temper of Spirit THE ELEVENTH BOOK Of THE History of FRANCE The CONTENTS The Contents of the former Book may be the Summary of this which contains nothing but all matter of joy excepting the Death of Mazarine that yet was constant couragious and agreeable to his Life THE Cardinal at Tholouse rendered the the King and Queen an account of the Peace concluded whereat they received much satisfaction From hence the Court made a Progress into Provence till the King of Spain should come with his Daughter to compose the disorders at Marseilles which had broken out about the Priviledges of their Consuls The King the better to secure Peace at home and Reputation abroad was necessitated to build a Cittadel having a plausible occasion to preserve the equal liberties of the Community and especially to be a refuge for such as were of approved fidelity A mighty defence without distaste or charge of which Beringham is made Governour than whom no man in France had a more formal gravity having served two Princes with an even tenour of Prudence At Paris where all things are condemned the match was not believed scarcely the Peace that there were Castilian deceits in the bottom and Mazarine over-reached not so much the Common People in the streets and at clubs as many of the Noblemen did whisper Conde having survived so many Battels being certified of the State of Affairs after he had courteously saluted his Souldiers according to their standing or office spoke to them much after this sort It is the seventh year Fellow-Souldiers since having been tossed by hard Fates after the extreamest instances of Barbarous usage being

Seguier performing his Chancellours part in the Parliament reported the Kings Act with a proper Oration in the Privy Council he discharged his duty that the Blood Royal could not be transfused into the veins of Strangers that it is dangerous to have them adopted who had once the boldness to contend for the Kingdom that the present Fortune of the King is above all dispute Emergencies and future events are above all Royal Power that the States of the Kingdom would eternally condemn Covenants that carried a snare in them When the Succession of the Kingdom is in question they would not be velued without their consent that such matters do not depend upon a Queens fruitfulness nor the flourishing Age of a King for a numerous Issue Royal hath been more then once seen of a sudden turned into barrenness That the pretence of the Vendosms and Longuevilles could not be determined which all the Nobility would favour that never would put their Necks under a strangers yoke that such matters as these are not approved till done yet he could not forbear but according to the duty of his Place he should mention this boldly indeed but modestly submitting all to the Kings Judgment Lyonne replyed a word on the place that the King was not much concerned in what should be the contests of Posterity that a vast accession was purchased at a Chimera It were a very high Crime to question the eternity of the Bourbons Therefore the matter was resolved upon the Kings Authority turning the Scale though the Vendosms Longuevilles and Courtneys drew against it yet these forbore to make any present stir being certified of Charles 's repentance and the retirement of his Nephew and Name-sake into Germany What will be the issue must be expected from time The chief Princes of Europe had sent their Ministers to Charles II. King of Great Britain for the establishing his Authority not yet any long time re-setled Whilest Count Brahe sent by the Swede prepares his Entry into London Octob. 10. Of the preceding year there arose a contention between Estrade the French and Batteville the Spanish Embassadour whose Coach should take place in the proceeding Batteville hired him some of the baser sort of people in London then whom none are more forward to mutiny that once in his life he might get his King one petty triumph over the French Therefore at the set day the sordid rout vented their Spleen upon the Attendants of Estrade having butchered his Coachman and Horses and some of his Servants the Spaniard continued Master of the Field The King of England turned the blame upon the Common People which by reason of his being newly restored he could not at the present restrain The French Kings indignation discharged upon Batteville only More noble Anger hath not at any time else appeared In such a juncture whatsoever Prudence suggests an incensed Prince scorns rushing only upon reve ge He banishes from the Veerge of the Court the Count Fuelsaldagne not respecting his Integrty and that he had been Conductor of the Queen who was the pledge of Peace He also denyed Caracene that was discharged of the Government of the Low-Countries a passage through France in his return for Spain And as though the Kings wrath were not satisfied with all this the Archbishop of Yverdon who was then at Madrid upon the Kings account is ordered not only to demand of Philip himself that Batteville who had offended might be punished according to the hainousnouss of the offence but to cut off all contention about Precedency for the future that the. Spanish Renunciation of all Priority might be established by a Publick Act. The fierce Spaniard hardly digests it and whilst he debates the question the French Embassadour keeps at home laying down his publick quality as though he had devested himself of all Priviledge But Paternal affection bore sway Philip waving the Regal Dignity puts on the Father thinking it not unglorious to give way to him to whom he had given his Bowels But lest this Spanish consent should vanish into Air it was to be confirmed by a solemn Embassy The Marquess Fuentes chosen for that purpose comes to Paris with a great Train The King that he might make the Audience more glorious at an act of that high Nature would have the Popes Nuncio the Embassadours of Venice Swethland Savoy the United Provinces and all Foreign Ministers to be present as also the Peers of the Realm the Chancellour and four Secretaries to Register it Fuentes having been experienced in State-Affairs and divers Embassies was not surprized at the lustre of so great an Assembly Therefore taking that concourse not as a witness of abridging his Honour but turning it to his Glory thus spoke to the King There being nothing more upon the King my Masters Heart then Religiously to observe the Laws of Consanguinity He hath sent me hither with a charge to confirm them which at his Personal presence he established with his Royal mouth His Person I sustain this day not representing a King that knows not to yield but a Father whose spirit only nature works to a compliance He hath thought fit voluntarily to quit to you those Transitory Honours which he hath enjoyed so long since shortly Death is like to put a period to them Those Gallantries may become your Age Such youthful ambition an old Man and your Father-in-law envies not The London Out-rage hath sunk deeper into his then your Heart he could not more effectually redress it than by punishing the Author The Revocation of Batteville is a publick declaration of inflicting punishment on him But what could have been added more to this then to lay strict Injunctions that his Embassadours for the future do not contend with yours about Precedency This is the occasion of the Embassy which I the rather perform because the Peace lately concluded is hereby confirmed May it stand in full force to all Generations The King receiving satisfaction in his due Honour gave him a nod when he had concluded his Speech reserving to himself the whole Spanish State with their Homage He advised the Embassadours to be mindful of what had past and report to their respective Princes what they had seen and heard At the breaking up of the Assembly Lewis appeared more August It may be also called a Victory without blood when the King bought of the English Dunkirk for ready Money What matters it whether so strong so considerable Garrisons come by Gold or Steel and the Nation planted in the Kingdom of Neptune be excluded from the Continent The same year 1662. The King by Proclamation commanded the Tenets of the Jansenists condemned by Innocent X. and Alexander VII to be abolished The New Sect received its denomination from Cornelius Jansen Bishop of Ypers who about the 40 year of this Age put out a Book abour Grace and Free Will wherein he is beleived to have fastened to St. Austin a sense contrary to that Doctors mind But I

life and command he fell speechless The Germans contend in lamenting and mourning with the French nor could it be decided who were the Victors or who were conquered there was an open prize of grief whilst ●he Souldiers dwelt sometimes on the want and sometimes on the respect of the deceased That he should be taken out of the world so lusty and in the flower of his age and fortune was a just cause of indignation John Baptista Bude a Breton took the name of Weybrantz into his Family Having followed the Court in his youth as Captain of the Guards afterwards out of a desire of glory which ●he excessively thirsted after led part of the Duke of Robans Army which left the Grisons into Germany where he served Weymar to his satisfaction He was the first French-man that understood the way of Commanding after the German fashion one comparable to the chiefest Captains of his Age. And all our pretensions upon the Rhyne and Dona● had been quite extinguished unless Thurenne had succeeded him Weybrantz Funeral was ordered with no mean Pomp his body was interred in Nostre Dame Church which is an unusual honour and was granted not so much to the mans merit as extorted by the importunity of his Wife Renée Beke An ambitious Woman rather excessive in vain-glory than grief would draw the Obsequies payed to her Husband to an ostentation of her own greatness Margaret de Lorraine cometh to the Court out of the Low-Countries She had married Gaston that was seduced by ill Counsels against the Kings will which is irregular in France at the special instance of her Brother Charles petty King of Lorraine who breaking Covenant so often by an unsearchable method of living hath ruined himself and his Estate more than once King Lewis hating the Contract of Marriage in vain endeavoured to disannul it Gastons temper in other matters variable so frail a humor having now committed this third errour was resolute in the love of Margaret only By her example and perswasions he restrained his licentious affections to keep within the bounds of conjugal Chastity and having been remiss in the Worship of God wheel'd about to superstition that is a slavish fear of God a grievous errour which hath two inseparable concomitants the being implacably mischievous and a perpetual easiness in believing untruths The Lorraine Lady was at first dear and honoured by all being for person and beauty not degenerate for chastity above the French temper a commendable President afterwards continuing in greatness altered to pride and was judged to swell with the glory of her Ancestors and an excess of devotion No cunning Woman but one that ruled her Husband The Queen of England Henriette Bourbon Daughter of Henry IV. having left the Island full of growing troubles retires into France where she is entertained with splendour at first highly courted disregarded at last The afflicted Lady refused the Honours offered alledging that Pomp did not suit with her present Fortune Carignac Bourbon Soissons Wife of Thomas Prince of Savoy who had long resided in Spain whose party her Husband had taken and at last came back to ours not enduring the constraint of so long silence among those that were ignorant of her Language returned into her Country A Princess of a fluent tongue but also vertuous Elizabeth Bourbon the Daughter and Glory of Henry IV. Queen of Spain dyes The King her Husband by reason of absence could not sit by her on her sick-bed so that her departing eyes lacked the sight of her beloved Husband in the last glimpse She had not exceeded the 42 year of her Age having comprised so many vertues within so narrow a period of time French Courtesie Spanish Gravity each in equal weight A Prudence worthy of the stronger Sex an assistance of her Husbands care oftentimes mounting on Horse-back to restrain Mutiniers Not with Beads or an empty ostentation of piety in kneeling before Altars but with a stout heart Did not equal but exceed her Husbands cares She loved the happy defended the miserable and if she exceeded in any thing it was in Bounty Now what is more honourable than an excess of bounty Philip not moderating his grief doth extend his love to the Deceased by dwelling on her memory and the comfort he takes in his Therese left behind her who as the Fates have disposed is come to be our Queen I have joyned these matters together although they fell not all out at one time lest if they had been separated they might not have been equally portable in the memory That was not unsuitable to a Womans levity for a Woman occasioned what at this time fell out In the Kings Minority when the French think they may do any thing Collins presumed to challenge the Duke of Guise to a Duel which after his Ancestors Gallantry he did not refuse In an eminent place of the City he disarmed his Challenger and gave him his life Clemency is hereditary to the Guises and Courage Collins ended his life with melancholy and discontent leaving but one Brother behind who fell at the Town of Charenton by which means the right Line of the great Gaspa● Collins who filled the World with the Fame of his Actions was extinguished Collins was condemned for having presumed to engage with one that was not his equal at the instigation of a Woman who not contenting her self with so little bloodshed afterwards stained France to her power with Civil slaughter Conde resented the matter ill and lest Divisions should thereby break out presently hush'd it up and reproved the Occasioners of it Paul Gondy designed Archbishop of Paris is consecrated of Corinth it is the Bishop of Rome's practice that so the whole World may be thought depending on the Vatican Oracle to exercise his Authority even upon the dissenting parts That day was the first occasion of death and all destructions Casimire Prince of Poland Son and Brother of 〈◊〉 King not regarding his Scepter but laying asid● his High Quality nor hearkening to the disswasions of Majesty turned Loiolite Embracing 〈◊〉 Rome an Order wherein by a peculiar habit and mystical rule of life is made a Profession of Wisdom Praised by the Pope who always promote such Changes although they indicate discontent of the spirit the way as they word it to a bette● Kingdom being by that means discovered Short after his fit of Jesuitism went off his fancy roving after Purple after the Throne and after Marriage even with his Brothers Wife and an indispensable Match If he ever had been to meddle with such matters he could never have done if with less indecency since the approved Society hath first brought Civility and Literature into Monkery the Jesuits scorn that name But whether they have so adulterated it with a mixture of Secular Affairs that they can be styled neither wise Politicians nor pure Monks there will be a more convenient place to dispute it elsewhere That other Casimire was also remarkable the King of Poland's