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A37300	The memoires of Monsieur Deageant containing the most secret transactions and affairs of France, from the death of Henry IV till the beginning of the ministry of the Cardinal de Richelieu : to which is added a particular relation of the Arch-Bishop of Embrun's voyage into England, and of his negociation for the advancement of the Roman Catholick religion here : together with the Duke of Buckingham's letters to the said Arch-Bishop about the progress of that affair, which happened the last years of King James I, his reign / faithfully translated out of the French original.; Mémoires de M. Deageant. English	Deageant, Guichard, d. 1645.; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628.	1690 (1690)	Wing D490; ESTC R5548	101,034	282

de Luines and the removing of Monsieur Deageant were the only Obstacles that hindered the King from becoming absolute Master of Rochel at that time During the Employment of Monsieur Deageant no other Affairs of consequence were transacted in Italy but that of the Duke of Florence above mentioned the Marriage of the Prince of Piedmont the difference between the Dukes of Savoy and Mantua of which the King was Arbitrator and the Accommodation between the King of Spain and the Duke of Savoy And it would be needless for me to enlarge on them since there are many that are able to produce larger Memorials than I can as for the last Father Joseph can give a true account thereof since he was sent into Spain on purpose to cause the Treaty to be put in Execution that was made for the restitution of Verseil I shall only add one particular passage that happened to my Knowledge which perhaps may be thought worth the observing Cardinal Ludovisio who was afterwards promoted to the Pontificate negotiated for the Pope in the aforesaid Accommodation and Monsieur de Lesdiguiers was one of those whom the King had employed therein The Treaty being concluded Monsieur de Lesdiguiers went to take leave of the Cardinal and amongst other Complements wished him the the Mitre he smiled and made him this answer Will you promise me to become a Catholic when I shall be Pope Yes certainly replied Monsieur de Lesdiguiers who seeing him very Ancient and the last of the Cardinals could not imagine that he could attain to this Supreme Dignity however in a little time he was placed in St. Peters Chair and long after dispatched a Brief to Monsieur de Lesdiguiers to put him in mind of his promise to perform which he was already inclined as shall be hereafter observed he sent an answer to this Brief full of respect and even made use of the terms of most Holy Father and his Holiness notwithstanding the Remonstrances that the Deputies of the Reformed Religion and the Consistory of Lyons from whence he wrote exhibited to him on this occasion There were also certain Treaties in agitation concerning the Affairs of the Valtoline which were disannulled by the Venetians at the very first overture but because I knew not the succeeding Events I shall make no mention of them here And as for Spain excepting the Transactions that related to the composing of the differences between them and the Duke of Savoy there was no other matter of moment depending between the two Crowns and Peace hath been maintained in despight of the mutual Antipathies of of these two Nations one against another and the different Interests of their Kings There arose about that time a certain contest with England the Ambassador of France was come back and left le Cler his Secretary to act in his stead who proceeded so far that a resolution was taken to treat him somewhat severely he thereupon withdrew himself and having sent an express to the King of what passed he received a Command to find out some means to return which he afterwards did there was also an Ambassador from England with the King who upon notice that the other of France was in the Kingdom gave orders that he should speedily depart since contrary to the Law of Nations his Master had abused his The Duke of Savoy who kept a good Correspondence in England and treated there about the Marriage of his Son hoping that these two Kings being united together would assist him much in obtaining the Crown that had been propounded to him interposed and took much pains to reconcile them since their differences were produced on a very slight occasion The principal difficulty consisted in this Point which of them should first send his Ambassador The King alledged that since there was no composition between the two Crowns touching precedency the English having always yielded it to the French and the King of England having obliged his Majesty to recal his Agent it belonged to him to send his Ambassador first into France The King of England did not dispute about the matter of Composition but pretended that he had not treated the Agent of France after so rude a manner that he ought to have withdrawn himself that he was highly offended that his was sent back without any lawful Cause and that this offence could not be redressed but by sending a French Ambassador to excuse it after the arrival of whom he would cause his to depart At last it was agreed that the two Kings should nominate their respective Ambassadors that the English should first pass over the Sea and that as soon as he had given notice of his Arrival in France the King should order his to set forward the first being very active made so great haste that as soon as he landed in France he travelled to the Court and remained there some time before the later began his Journey An amicable Correspondence hath been since maintained between the two Crowns The King of England upon the recommendation of our King did often mitigate and abate the ordinary rigorous proceedings against the Roman Catholicks in that Country He was also very well pleased with the Propositions that were privately offer'd to him on behalf of his Majesty tending to re-unite him to the bosom of the Church insomuch that after some reiterated Conferences that were managed to that effect in the King's Presence without communicating any thing thereof in his Council lest the effect being made known should be obstructed or prevented the Arch-Bishop of Embrun made a Voyage into England as it were without any design in the habit and under the name of a Counsellor in the Parliament of Grenoble whom curiosity had induced to see England he had no sooner set his foot on Land at Dover but the Duke of Buckingham came to meet him and having saluted him whispered him thus in the Ear Sir You that call your self a Counsellor of Grenoble being the Arch-Bishop of Embrun are very welcome into these Dominions you need not change your Name nor conceal your Quality for you shall receive nothing but Honour here and especially from the King my Master who hath a very particular esteem for you Indeed the King of England treated him very honourably granted him several Favours in behalf of the Catholicks and even permitted him to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation to them in the House of the Ambassadour of France where there was a great Court the doors being open There were near eighteen thousand persons that received this Sacrament without having any thing said to them in the Entry at the Door or elsewhere although there was a great concourse of the English people in the street that saw this Ceremony performed During the time that he resided there he had several Conferences with the King who being satisfied as to all the points in Controversie wrote a large Letter to the Pope by a Catholick Gentleman his Subject whom he privily

all the Papers Letters and Instructions that he had received from the late King Henry the Great relating to his Negociations in Italy and Germany he sent one of his Servants to Embrun to fetch the said Papers amongst which was the League offensive and defensive that he had transacted with the Princes of Italy having presented the Copy of the said League and other Memorials to the late King his Majesty commanded him with his own Mouth to deliver them to M. de Luines which he did but could never recover them out of his Hands for after the death of the said Monsieur de Luines the late King at his request ordered Monsieur de Tronson to demand them of Monsieur de Modene who replyed that he had seen them but that he knew not how they were disposed It is well known what Advantages accrued to the State upon the Conversion of the late Constable de Lesdiguieres which was accomplished with great applause by the said Arch Bishop who having insinuated himself into the Mind of this Noble Lord continually solicited him to take this good resolution Monsieur de Puisieux whom he acquainted with these Particulars hath given a testimony thereof in his Letter that he sent to him which is also confirmed in another written by the King on the subject of this Conversion According to his Majesty's Order he accompanied the Constable at the Siege of Montpelier and constantly attended him until the Month of January 1624 when he received a Letter from the King importing an express Command that he should come unto him assoon as he appeared at Court his Majesty imparted to him the desire that he had to send him into Italy to treat with the Princes as he had formerly done on the behalf of King Henry the Great against Spain But the time not being convenient for such a Negociation he ingeniously propounded his Reasons to the King which his Majesty approved and declared to him his Satisfaction therein Not long after the King appointed him to go into England concerning which Voyage he hath already composed a Relation for the use of the Cardinal of Richelieu who wrote to him on purpose to desire it It is certain that in this Voyage he was very serviceable in concluding the Marriage that was once broken off It is no less true that he acquired much Credit and Reputation with King James I. to that degree that he not only obtained a permission to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation in London where above twelve thousand English Catholicks received it from his hands and were thereby comforted and strengthened but he also persuaded that Prince very much to incline towards a Conversion and if he had not died so suddainly the good Effects thereof would have appeared the Duke of Buckingham's Letters may serve as a sufficient Testimony of all these Circumstances which are specified at large in the above mentioned Relation The late King was fully informed concerning these Transactions insomuch that besides the Satisfaction that he expressed to him in particular he designed to nominate him to the Cardinalship and signified his Intentions to Cardinal Bagny then Nuncio in France who returning to Rome revealed it to the said Arch-Bishop at Avignon But at this time as heretofore the King 's generous Inclinations to promote the Arch-Bishop proved ineffectuall nevertheless he alwaies persevered to serve his Majesty with his Person and small Estate neither could extraordinary Expences nor great Dangers divert him from this Resolution for in the year 1630. the late King having ordered him to take care of the Passage of the Troops through his Diocese and to furnish them with Provisions Ammunition and other things requisite for the Subsistence of the Army that was to march into Italy Although this obliged him to disburse vast Summs of Money and to incurr extreme Perils since the Plague raged everywhere throughout his whole Diocese so violently that his Almoner and Gentleman Usher fell sick in his own House however he remained alwaies near the High-way to provide all things necessary this may be evidently proved by the Letters of the late King and the Cardinal of Richelieu as also by those of the Marshal de Montmorency de Schomberg de la Force and d'Effiat Moreover he performed other remarkable Services when the King's Forces took Pignerol for the Arch-Bishop being informed that the Duke of Savoy intended to put a strong Garison into his Fort of Lauret in the Valley of Barcelona very near the Roads that lead to Provence and Dauphine through which all the Provisions and military Ammunition were to be conveyed to the end that they might make Incursions and seize on the Waggons and Carriages and might by this means reduce the Army to the utmost Extremity He gave notice thereof to the Cardinal by the Sieur d'Hugues his Nephew at present Agent General of the Clergy of France whom he sent to him on purpose The Cardinal did not neglect this Advice but immediately dispatched Monsieur de Montreal Quarter-Master and the Abbot de Beauvau at present Bishop of Nante who with all possible speed repaired to Embrun with Orders to do whatsoever the Arch-Bishop should think convenient on this occasion who declared his opinion gave to them the Sieur Baron d'Hugues his other Nephew and afforded all manner of Assistance insomuch that the Fort was attacked and the Garison compelled to surrender FINIS

LICENS'D March 8. 1690. J. FRASER THE MEMOIRES OF Monsieur DEAGEANT Containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richelieu To which is added A Particular Relation of the Arch-Bishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negociation for the advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Arch-Bishop about the Progress of that Affair Which happened the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully Translated out of the French Original London Printed for Richard Baldwin in the Old Baily 1690. THE TRANSLATOR's PREFACE TO THE READER THE following Memoires need no other plausible Character to recommend them to the favour of the English Reader than that they contain matters of singular Importance manag'd with all imaginable Secresy and Art whereof this Nation had no small concern then and may have no less reason to be inform'd of now there is the more credit to be given them in regard they were written by the Person that was the chief Contriver and Manager of all the Intrigues and Plots that were then form'd to ruine the Protestant Interest in France and to supplant the same in England and for the particular information of the Cardinal of Richelieu when he entred upon the publick administration of the Affairs of France whose private Favourite the Author was We have two illustrious Instances of the indefatigable Industry of the Romish party in those Days hardly to be paralell'd elsewhere one in the Person of a French Hugonot Minister who being a Man of Intrigue and Ambition and having credit with some great Men of his Party was prevailed on by the fair Promises and plausible Insinuations of the Romish Emissaries to abjure the Protestant Religion and embrace that of Rome and yet obtain'd a Dispensation from Rome to continue in the Prosession of the Protestant Religion and Exercise of his Pastoral Function towards his Congregation for several Years on purpose to betray all their Counsels and Designs The other is of the Duke of Buckingham's being reconcil'd to the Church of Rome notwithstanding his continuing afterwards in the Profession of the Religion of the Church of England The whole Negociation of the Arch-Bishop of Embrun who came privately over into England about the latter end of King James the First his Reign to obtain a Toleration for Popery you will find at large at the end of the Book together with some Letters that past betwixt the Duke of Buckingham and the said Arch-Bishop in relation to that Design Besides this Book in the Original is become very scarce and hardly to be found at Paris and I know that it has been sold for a Pistole when it could be met with The Memoires of Monsieur Deageant containing the most secret Negotiations and Affairs in France c. SInce I never designed to commit to Writing any thing concerning the remarkable Occurrences in the Affairs of this Kingdom that happen'd during the time of my Employment therein after my retirement from the Court in the Year 1619. For several Reasons I burnt all the Papers that might be of use to me in preserving the Memory of those Passages that I had seen and been conversant in because I believed that I should never have any further occasion for them especially since I had firmly resolved for the future to lay aside all Thoughts of being engaged in Matters of the like nature Insomuch that it will be impossible for me to make a Relation so perfect and exact as I could wish which I have been nevertheless commanded to do by my Lord Cardinal of Richelieu and whereas I can refuse nothing on behalf of his Eminency that lyes in my Power to perform without transgressing by a manifest ingratitude against those Obligations that are common to me with all the rest of my Country-men as also against those particular Engagements that I lye under for many Favours received by me from his incomparable Generosity I would therefore make it my most humble Request to him graciously to admit the same Reasons that have formerly passed for a lawful Excuse on occasion of the like Commands that his Lordship hath formerly been pleased to lay upon me That I may not waste Paper to no purpose and to avoid tediousness in the description of those things that are commonly known or have been already brought to light I presume his Eminency will be satisfied if I only produce here those Particulars that my Memory can recollect which have not as yet been mentioned by any that I know and whereof as I believe few Persons have been informed About the end of the preceding Reign I began to be employed as well in the managing of Dispatches as in the Transaction of some important Affairs but because I was afterwards discharged from that Office and I have since made but little or no Reflection thereon I am not able to relate any thing very considerable although in reading what may be Written concerning those Times or in discoursing with any that shall have a mind to compose an History of them I could give sufficient Light as to those Particulars that fall within the compass of my Knowledge of which there might be some doubt Amongst other Employments at that time it was my business to make Private Payments to several Persons as well French Men as Foreigners that served the late King in his Grand Design which he was just about putting in Execution at that very instant when he was unfortunately snatcht away from France by that execrable and ever to be deplored Attempt And because as I imagined he would not that any of his Ministers of State not even the Sr. Beringuew the Elder who was his Treasurer as to his more Private and Domestick Expences should know all the particular Circumstances of this Design His Majesty would often in Playing put the Gold that belonged to the Game into his Pocket and secretly convey it into my hands sometimes also I was commanded to go and receive certain Sums of Money from Monsieur de Villeroy who in giving them to me never failed to tell me You may assure the King that I have not enquired how you are to dispose of this Cash By which I judged that he knew nothing of my Employment During that time Monsieur de Lesdiguiers being come to Court the late King Communicated his Designs to him and told him that he intended to give him the Command of an Army which being joyned with the Forces of the Duke of Savoy should make an Inroad into Italy and that he was resolved to appear in Person at the head of Another that was prepared to Invade Flanders and Germany where some Enterprizes were to be performed on certain considerable Places Moreover his Majesty was pleased to shew him the Platforms thereof and required all those that brought them and were employed in these Affairs