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A54323	The history of Henry IV. surnamed the Great, King of France and Navarre Written originally in French, by the Bishop of Rodez, once tutor to his now most Christian Majesty; and made English by J. D.; Histoire du roy Henry le Grand. English.	Péréfixe de Beaumont, Hardouin de, b. 1605.; Davies, John, 1625-1693, attributed name.; Dauncey, John, fl. 1663, attributed name.	1663 (1663)	Wing P1465BA; ESTC R203134	231,946	417

what submission soever he made obtain Absolution It was necessary for God to lend his hand This Princess died three years after with sadness and melancholy to see her self live in a discontented manner with her Husband who dayly pressed her to turn Catholick Besides the solemnities of these Marriages many other things entertained the Court. Two notable Changes one of the Duke of Joyeuse the other of the Marchioness of Bel ' Isle caused its astonishment The Duke of Joyeuse who had quitted the habit of Capuchin to become chief of the League in Languedoc on a fair day without saying any thing to any body went and cast himself into his Convent at Paris and re-took the habit Few days after there was much astonishment to see him with that habit of penitence preach in the Pulpit whom they had seen the week before dancing of Balls as one of the most Gallant It was said that the holy Exhortations of his Mother who from time to time put him in remembrance of his Vow and some ambiguous words which the King had thrown out in converse with him made him think that he could no longer live in the world either with safety of Conscience or with Honour The Marchioness of Bell ' Isle sister to the Duke of Longueville and Widow of the Marquess of Bell ' Isle eldest son of the Marshal de Retz having received some secret displeasure renounced likewise the world and went and shut her self up in the Convent of the Feuillantines at Tolouse where she took the veil and finished her days After this came News to the Court that Phillipin Bastard to the Duke of Savoy was killed in a Duel by the Seigneur de Crequy of whom it might be without flattery said That he was one of the most gallant and bravest men of his time The History of this Combat may be found written in so many places and is yet so firm in the memory of all that wear swords that it would be superfluous to recount the particularities The Chase was now the Kings ordinary divertisement It is recounted that Hunting in the Forest of Fountain-bleau accompanied by many Lords he heard a great noise of Horns Hunters and Dogs which seemed to be a great way distant but all of an instant approached them Some of his company who were twenty paces before him saw a great black man among the Bushes who affrighted them in such manner that they could not tell what became of him but they heard him cry out to them with a rank and affrightful voice M' attendez-vous or m' entendez-vous or amendez-vous that is Do you hear me or Do you understand me or else Amend your selves The Wood-men and Country-people thereabouts said That it was no extraordinary thing for they had often seen this black man whom they named the Great Hunter with a pack of Hounds which hunted at full cry but never did harm to any Infinite account is made in all Countries in the world of like illusions in Hunting If we may give any credit to them we may believe them either to be the tricks of Sorcerers or of some evil spirits to whom God gives permission to convince the incredulous and make them see that there are substances separated and a being above man Now if Prodigies are signes as some have said of some great and dire Events it may be believed that this presaged the strange death of the fair Gabriella which happened some days after The love which the King had for her instead of being extinguished by enjoyment was come to such a point that she had dared to demand of him that he should acknowledge his fault and legitimate his Children by a subsequent marriage nor durst he absolutely refuse her this grace but entertained her still with hopes Those who love the glory of this great King can difficultly believe that he would have done such an action which had without doubt begot a low opinion of him and again thrown him under his peoples hatred However it was to be feared that the allurements of this woman who had found his weakness with the flattery of the Courtiers whom she had almost all gained either by presents or kindnesses might engage this poor Prince to a dishonour And without dissembling he had his soul too tender towards Ladies He was Master of all his other passions but he was a Slave to this nor can his memory be justified from this reproach for though he were admirable in all other parts of his life he ought not to be imitated in this In the mean time Gabriella flattering her self with a hope to be ere long his Wife deduced from those hopes himself had given her acted so well that she obliged him to demand of the Pope Commissioners to judge of the Divorce between him and Queen Margaret And the King that he might finde favour with the holy Father and render him more facile to his intentions caused to be said underhand that he would marry Maria de Medices his Neece Sister to the Duke of Florence for whom nevertheless it was believed that he had not then any desire And the Pope were it that he distrusted his intention or that he saw that Queen Margaret lent not her hand to it protracted the business and returned onely ambiguous Answers It was likewise said that being one day much pressed by the Cardinal d'Ossat and by Sillery to give content to their Master for want of which said they he may pass further and espouse the Dutchess he was so astonished at this discourse that he immediately remitted the conduct of this Affair to the hand of God commanded a Fast through all the City of Rome and went himself to Prayers to demand of God to inspire him with what should be best for his glory That at the end of his Prayer he cryed out as if he had been revived from an Extasie God hath provided and that in few days after there arrived a Courrier at Rome bringing News of the death of the Dutchess In the mean time the King grew impatient at these delays and it was to be feared lest a disdain to be neglected should cast him into the same inconveniencies it had formerly done Henry the eighth King of England or by the counsel of some flatterers forcing the goodness of his nature be perswaded to rid himself of Queen Margaret in any manner soever Gabriella was at present great with her fourth Childe when the feast of Easter approaching the King desiring to do his Devotions for that holy time far from all object of scandal sent her to Paris accompanying her just half way She with no small grief parted from him recommending to him her Children with tears in her eyes as if she had some secret presentiment telling him that she should never more see him Being at Paris lodged in the house of Zamet that famous Treasurer after having dined with him and heard Tenebres at

several Petitions of complaint against them accusing them of a great number of Exactions and Cruelties The Duke d' Espernon who without doubt sustained these Burgesses at the Court was sent by the King to accommodate this difference The Soboles who had offended him no longer trusted him they would not permit him to enter into the strongest Citadel nor let the Garison go out to meet him so that being justly incensed he envenomed the plague instead of healing it and animated the inhabitants in such a manner that they Barricadoed themselves against them The King who knew that the least sparkles were capable to kindle a great fire was not content to send La Varenne but went himself being moreover willing to visit that Frontier Sobole gave the place into his hands and he gave it to Arquien Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment of Guards with the Quality of Lieutenant of the King to command in the absence of the Duke d' Espernon Governour who had no great power so long as the King lived The King passed the Feast of Easter at Mets. Whilst he was there he hearkned to the request which the Jesuites made for their re-establishment He referred the doing them Justice till he should come to Paris and gave leave to Father Ignatius Armand and Father Coton to come to sollicite their cause They were not wanting to do it and Father Coton being of a sharp and witty discourse and a very famous Preacher gained so soon the favour of all the Court and pleased the King so well that he obtained from his Majesty the recalling of the Society into the Kingdom contrary to the opinion and advice of some of his Council He then re-established them by an Act which he caused to be confirmed in Parliament and caused to be thrown down that Pyramide which had been erected before the Palace in the place of the house of John Castel where there were many writings in Verse and Prose very bloody against these Fathers Thus was their banishment gloriously repaired and after all the King kept with him Father Coton as his Chaplain in Ordinary and Confessor and Director of his Conscience This was not accomplished till the year 1604. In these two years of 1602 and 1603. we have yet three or four important things to observe The first that the King at his departure from Mets went to Nancy to visit his Sister the Dutchess of Bar who died the year following without Children The second that he renewed the Alliance with the Suisses and some months after with the Grisons notwithstanding those Obstacles by which the Count of Fuentes endeavoured to oppose it The third was that in returning to Paris he received news of the Death of Elizabeth Queen of England one of the most Illustrious and most Heroick Princesses that ever Reigned and who Governed her Estate with more Prudence and Power then any of her Predecessors had ever done She was Daughter to King Henry the eighth and to that Anne of Bullen for whose love he had left Katherine of Arragon Aunt to Charles the fifth Emperour his first wife There was nothing wanting to the happiness of her Kingdom save the Catholick Religion which she banished out of England And we might give her the name of good as well as great if she had not dealt so inhumanely as she did with her Cousin-German Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland whom she kept eighteen years prisoner and after beheaded induced to it by some conspiracies which the Servants and Friends of that poor Princess had made against her person The Son of that Mary named James the sixth King of Scotland being the nearest of the blood-Royal of England as Grandchild to Margaret of England Daughter to King Henry the seventh and Sister to Henry the eighth married to James the fourth King of Scotland succeeded Elizbeth who had put his Mother to death He caused himself to be called King of Great Britain to unite under the same title the two Crowns of England and Scotland which indeed are but one Island formerly called by the Romans Magna Britania The Alliance of so powerful a King might make the balance incline to which side soever it were turned either of France or Spain For which reason both the one and the other immediately sent Magnificent Ambassadors to salute him each endeavouring to draw him to his side It was Rosny who went on the part of Henry the Great he obtained all the favourable Audience he desired and the confirmation of the ancient Treaties between France and England The Ambassador of Spain found not such facility in his Negotiation the English appeared resolute The Spaniards were forced to yeild that the place of the Treaty should be appointed in England and to grant the English free Taffick in all their Territories even in the Indies and give them liberty of Conscience in Spain so that they should not be subject to the Inquisition nor obliged to salute the holy Sacrament in the streets but onely turn from it France was in a profound peace as well without by the renewing of the Alliances with the Suisses and with England as within by the discovery of the Conspiracies which were quite dissipated the King enjoyed a repose worthy his labours and his past travail made his pleasure more sweet However he was not idle but was seen daily employed for he endeavoured with as much diligence to conserve peace that divine daughter of heaven as he had used courage and valour in making War He was often heard say That though he could make the house of France as powerful in Europe as that of the Ottomans was in Asia and conquer in a moment all the Estates of his neighbours yet he would not do so great a dishonour to his word by which he was obliged to the keeping of the Peace His most ordinary divertisements during this time were Hunting and Building He at the same time maintained workmen at the Church of the holy Cross at Orleans at St. Germain in Laye at the Louvre and at the Place Royal. The Nobility of France during this peace could not live out of action some passed their time in Hunting others with Ladies some in Studies of Learning and the Mathematicks others in travelling into Forraign Countries and others continued the Exercise of War under Prince Maurice in Holland But the greatest part whose hands as it were itched and who sought to signalize their valour without departing from their Countries became punctilious and for the least word or for a wry look put their hands to their swords Thus that madness of Duels entred into the hearts of the Gentlemen and these Combats were so frequent that the Nobility shed as much blood in the Meadows with their own hands as their enemies had made them lose in Battails The King therefore made a second and a most severe Edict which prohibited Duels confiscating the

pretext for raising his Siege from before Paris To put his body in a place where the resentment of the Duke of Guises creatures might not outrage it he carried it to Compeigne and laid it in the Abbey of S. Cornille where he celebrated all the funebrous Ceremonies as honourably as the confusion of the time would permit Not able to assist himself because of his Religion he committed the care to Bellegarde and Espernon the last of which accompanied him thither and then retired into Angoumois There were three advices given concerning the place to which he ought to retire when he raised his siege from Paris The first was to repass the Loire and abandon to the League all the Provinces on this side it because he could difficultly maintain them The second to re-advance along the Marne and seizing those Bridges and Cities expect an assistance from the Protestant Suisses and Germans promised to come to him And the third to march down into Normandy to assure himself of some Cities whose Governours were not yet engaged in the League to gather the mony received for Taxes and to joyne with the Assistance of England which Queen Elizabeth had promised him and which could not be long absent He concluded on the last of these advices and so many of the Nobles who accompanied him desiring some time to go and refresh themselves he gave them leave He sent a part of his Troops into Picardie under the Conduct of the Duke of Longueville another into Campaine under that of Marshal d' Aumont and with three thousand French foot two Regiments of Suisses and twelve hundred horse only which he kept with him he descended into Normandy The Duke of Montpensier who was Governour there came to joyne him with two hundred Gentlemen and fifteen hundred Foot Rolet Governour of Pont d' Arche a man of Courage and Spirit brought him the Keys of that place demanding no other recompence but the honour to serve him Emer de Chattes a Commandado●e of Malta did the same with those of Diepe After which the King approached Rouen where he believed to have some intelligence This Enterprize put him in extream danger but in revenge gave him a fair occasion to acquist Glory in retiring himself from so great a peril See how it passed The Duke of Mayenne came to the succour of Rouen with all his forces and passed the Rivers at Vernon The King much astonished retires to Diepe and sends to the Duke of Longueville and d' Aumont to return to him with diligence with their forces The Duke in the mean time takes all the little places about Diepe to inviron and invest himself within In effect he shuts him up so close that if he had not amused himself by an untimely motion to go to Bins in Hainault to confer with the Duke of Parma he had in that disorder dissipated the greatest part of his little Army He had already caused a report to be spread through France and had writ with assurance to all strange Princes That he held the King of Navarre so he called him shut up in a little corner from whence he could not get but either by yeilding himself to him or leaping into the Sea The danger appeared so eminent even to his most faithful servants that the Parliament at Tours sent expresly to him a Master of Requests proposing as the onely expedient they saw to save the Estate the associating him and the Cardinal of Bourbon his Uncle in the Royalty giving to One the conduct of Civil Affairs and the Other of Martial There were likewise the greatest part of the Captains of his Army of opinion that leaving his Forces on shore well intrenched in their posts he should as soon as possible embarque for England or for Rochel for fear lest if he should longer delay it he might be shut up by Sea as well as by Land To the Proposition of the Parliament he made answer That he had taken such good order that the intrigues of the Duke of Mayenne could not deliver the Cardinal of Bourbon as they apprehended and the Marshal of Byron so stoutly opposed those who counselled him to embarque that they desisted It appeared soon after by the proof that the Forces of the League which were thrice as great as his were not to be feared in proportion to their number and that the more Commanders they had the less their power was to be doubted The King was lodged at the Castle d'Arques which is seated on a little Hill to stop the passage of the Valley which goes to Diepe The Duke had formed a Designe to take this Post by Sea by four or five Reprises and on divers days he essayed to assault the Suburbs of Polet and four or five times was driven back Our Henry dayly doing wonders and exposing himself so much that once he thought he should have been surprized and encompassed by his Enemies In fine the Duke having lost eleven days time and a thousand or twelve hundred men raised the Siege and retired into Picardy It was believed that he passed into this Province upon a fear lest the Picards a free and honest people but very simple should permit themselves to be surprized by the Artifices of the Agents of Spain who would engage them to cast themselves under the protection of the King their Master It was observed likewise that that which hindred the success of his enterprize at Diepe and which kept him two or three days without enterprizing any thing at the time he ought to have done it was the jealousie and contentions between the Chiefs that accompanied him particularly of the Marquess d● P●nt●-Mousson Son to the Duke of Lorrain of the Duke of Nemours and of Cavalier d'Aumale for they believing the taking of the King infallible or at least his flight assured and disposing already of the Kingdome as of their Conquest regarded one another with an Eye of jealousie and each formed designes in his head to have the better part of it It was observed likewise that in one of these Combats of Diepe the Duke of Mayenne having at present some advantage had gained an entire Victory if he had advanced but a quarter of an hour quicker but marching too slowly he let slip that opportunity he could never redeem which made the King who well observed his faul● say If he act not in another manner I shall be assured always to gain the Field I have recounted these Particularities because they make known the defaults of that great Body of the League and the true causes which hindred its progress and reduced it to nothing I finde three principal ones The first was the distrust which the Duke of Mayenne had of the Spaniards for though he could not be without them yet he could not but regard them as his secret Enemies and they assisted him not for love of himself but out of the