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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50472	The memoires of the Dutchess Mazarine written in French by her own hand, and done into English by P. Porter Esq. ; together with the reasons of her coming into England ; likewise, a letter containing a true character of her person and conversation.; Mémoires. English	Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699.; Porter, P.	1676 (1676)	Wing M1538; ESTC R19039	48,247	134

detained at Altauph and he remitted eighteen dayes of my Quarantine My Sister and the Constable came to meet me at a House of theirs four dayes Journey from Millan where we stayed some dayes and thence we went to Millan where in six weeks that we staied there we received nine Couriers from Paris I understood that presently after my flight the Judges had declared themselves in my favour against Monsieur Mazarine and that the Resolution I had taken gave at the same time both Admiration and Pitty to all reasonable people and that Monsieur Turren himself had spoken to the King in my behalf But things quickly changed their face by my friends joyning with Monsieur Mazarine in an Appeal against my Brother and Monsieur Rohan who alledged in his Bill that they had stole me away I know that Monsieur Mazarine sent one after me with power to take Information from place to place all the Road that I passed of all my Actions and Demeanure And this perhaps is the greatest and only Obligation I owe him since this mans Depositions which are Recorded in Parliament are undeniable Testimonies of the Innocence of my carriage and conduct throughout this Journey against all the Allegations and Aspersions of my Enemies But this was not the best Story in his Bugget I had written to my Brother and to Monsieur Rohan before I left New Castel to my Brother to let him know where and how I was and to Monsieur Rohan to thank him for the Service he did me at my coming away in facilitating my Departure I had commanded Narcissus to send away these Letters by the Post but whether it was that his hatred to Courbevill reached as far as his Master that gave him me or that it was meer negligence he confessed at Millan that he forgot Monsieur Rohan's Letter upon the Mantle-Tree in the Post-master's House at New-Castle to whom he had given it in charge La Louvier finding it as he came that way carried it with him and gave it to Monsieur Mazarine who made wonderful use of it and with such success that it set all the World against me And it was upon this Letter that he grounded his Request sometime after that I ought to forfeit all my Rights which is never practised but against Women convinced of the highest Infamy and Lewedness I told you that Monsieur Rohan had obtained my Brothers consent to come to us to Brussels when we should be arrived there The Need we had of him having made us conclude the matter so it was natural enough to mention this to him in a Letter that was designed principally to shew him my Acknowledgements and Gratitude This was Evidence enough for Monsieur Mazarine to prove a Confederacy betwixt us and that the Chevalier was in love with me But besides that his Affections were known to the whole Court to be ingaged else-where then and to a Person of that Eminent Quality that he was Banished for it His manner of proceeding did no way shew any such thing It was truly the part of a good Friend to furnish me with means to convey my self far off and to put me into the hands of trusty Servants But it was no way that of a true Lover there are very few that being favoured with a Confidence of this Nature would be perswaded to lose fight of their Mistriss in so Extrarodinary an Occasion as this Notwithstanding all this the world gave Credit to what Monsieur Mazarine would have pass for a Truth As for my Brother he had as you have seen by the Story took up a Jealousie of him to render him suspected in all my Concerns that by this means he might deprive me of so considerable a Support there is nothing so innocent but is poisoned to maintain carry on so detestable a Calumny they produced Letters in verse for want of other Evidences Posterity if happily any thing of our Business does reach it will hardly believe that a man of my Brothers Gravity should be examined upon Interrogatories about such Trifles and that they should be seriously discussed before so grave a Bench That they should make such a Detestable use of so innocent a Commerce of Wit and Fancy betwixt persons so nearly Related To conclude That the Esteem and Friendship I had for a Brother of a Desert and Merit so well known and so justly due to him and who loved me intirely well should be made use of as an injust Pretence and Coulour for so Black and so Cruel a Defamation It will be hard to find stranger Examples of the Misfortunes of a Person of my Quality Sex and Age. The most sacred Tyes of Nature and Reason become the most horrible Crimes when Jealousie and Envy comes to descant upon them and there is nothing impossible to a man that makes Profession of Piety and Devotion rather than he shall be thought in the wrong the most Innocent and Upright Persons in the World shall be thought the most Infamous and the most Abominable I may perhaps be thought in Passion but the Remembrance of so Barbarous a Wrong and so Cruel Usage has run me into a Superfluous Digression For it is very difficult to keep an even Temper in Relating such Sad and Lamentable Things Nor is it easie to leave wondring that People should be so malicious as to tax me with a Business so known to the World as the Friendship and Union that was betwixt my Sister the Constable my Brother and my Self The whole Court of France have seen a Letter which he writ from Rome sometime after our Marriages wherein he represents to one of his Friends his Happiness in having two Sisters whom he loved so well living in two of the Greatest and most Famous Cityes of the World Rome and Paris He ended his Letter with these two Verses And thus I pass my dayes in great Delight With Wise Mary and Hortensia Bright It is not unlikely but that Monsieur Mazarine would have made use of these Verses in his Suit if my Sister whom he endeavoured to gain and set against me had not been concerned in them as well as I For they are at least as Criminal and Faulty as the other Letter of which he made use My Brother writ me that other Letter to St. Germain where I was some dayes after Monsieur Mazarine had caused the Stage to be thrown down which I told you I had ordered to be set up in my Appartment It begun thus Thou art in thy kind without Compare Chaster than Lucrece than Venus more Fair. He continues it with returning me thanks for writing to him and giving me an account of his Health and after he goes on thus Know then your kind Duke makes a damnable Rout He frets and he fumes and he wanders about And all to enquire hit Dear Mazarine out He came th' other Night in a Lunatick Rage And told me the Tragical Fate of your Stage The Duke of Navaille that withered sad Drivel

with him in a Chamber to see him spue up his Waters without so much as visiting Madam the Princess who was there and to whom he had the Honour to be Related He could not presently be induced to believe that it was his Father that kept me from departing out of Britany and notwithstanding all the assurance he received of it since he maintained always that I had been better pleased to pass my time there than come and solace him in his sickness It had not been hard for me to justifie my self if he would but hear me But that he avoided still the most he could because all the blame would be found of his side in the clearing of the matter and he would never acknowledge himself in an Errour nothing afflicted me more than his aversion to be Informed or Convinced of a mistake because he rook upon him the jurisdiction of treating me continually as guilty Some time afterwards being obliged for the Kings Service to go into Brittaine he took such an obstinate Resolution to have me with him and writ such strange things upon this occasion to the Abbot de Effiat his near kinsman that I was forced to go from Paris three weeks after I was brought to Bed Few Women of my quality would have done the like but what would not one do for the enjoying of so great a good as Peace And to mend the matter he made me lodge in one of the wretchedest Villages in all that Country and in so miserable a Cottage that we were constrained to be out of dores all day He always made choise of such places because I should see no Company also far from seeing any of the people of those Villages those whose civility or business brought thither to see him were forced to lie in the Fields for want of Inns and if they displeased him never so little he sent them of Errands about several businesses which depended upon him in this Province Yet we spent six months in this pleasant place in the year 1666. Another time being alone at Bourbon having sent me into Britain he understood by his Spies that I diverted my self very pleasantly with Madam de Coaquin and that few days passed but we appointed to take the Aire either at Land or by Sea His wonted disquiet seizing him he sends for me to meet him at Nevers where as he said there were very good Comedians amongst other divertisements I began to be weary of making so many idle Journeys I writ to Monsieur Colbert to complain but being advised by him to go I was much surprised to find Monsieur Mazarine upon the Road ten Leagues from Nevers coming to Paris with my Brother who was returning out of Italy He would never give me any Reason why he dealt so strangely with me we went without any farther clearing of this doubt to confine our selves at our Cassine near Sedan whither my Brother out of Complaisance seeing me very melancholy accompanied us It was there first that Monsieur Mazarine made shew as if he were Jealous of him not knowing otherwise how to be rid of him and being unwilling to have such a Witness of his Domestick proceedings you may judge of my resentment for so base and wicked a suspicion but if all these out-rages by hearing them related seem hard to be endured the manner with which he did them was yet somthing more cruel and barbarous I will give you one scantling by which you shall judge of the rest Being one Night with the Queen I saw him coming towards me very pleasant and with a constrained and affected Smile publiquely made me this Complement Madam I have good Newes to tell you the King has just now Commanded me to go into Alsatia Monsieur De Roquelaure who was then present moved as well as the rest of the Company with this silly Affection but more frank than the rest could not refrain telling him That this was fine Newes indeed to be told with so much Joy to a woman of my Condition But Monsieur Mazarine disdaining to reply went quietly out of the Room very proud of his Gallantry The King hearing of it was moved to pitty He took the paines to tell me himself that my stay there should be onely for three months and kept his word with me as he always did If I did not apprehend to tyre your Patience I could tell you a thousand such little malitious tricks which he play'd me without any manner of necessity out of the meer pleasure he took to torment me Fancy then to your self continual oppositions to my most innocent desires and an Implacable hatred against all those I loved or loved me an undefatigable care to bring into my presence all those I hated mortally and to corrupt those of my Servants whom I most trusted to betray my Secrets if I had any a studious Application to cry me down every where and make my Actions odious to all people In fine all that the Malignity of the by-got Cabal could invent or practise in a house where it had absolute Tyranny against a simple young Woman careless and whose want of circumspection in her actions gave every day new matter to her Enemies to insult over her I boldly make use of this expression By-got Cabal because I cannot think that I erre against the most strict Rules of Christianity when I presume that those Devotes by whose directions Monsieur Mazarine doth Regulate his Actions are not truly so having promoted the Dissipation of so many Millions And this is the fatal Article that has made me lose all patience and that has been the true beginning of all my misfortunes If Monsieur Mazarine had only taken delight in overwhelming me with sadness and grief and in exposing my Health and my Life to his most unreasonable caprice and in making me pass my best days in an unparalled slavery since Heaven has been pleased to make him my Master I should have endeavoured to allay and qualifie my misfortunes by my Sighs and Tears and my complaints to my particular Friends But when I saw that by his incredible Dilapidations and profuseness my son who might have been the Richest Gentleman in France was in danger of being the poorest there was no resisting the force of Nature and motherly Love carried it over all other Considerations of Duty or the moderation I proposed to my self I saw every day vast summs go away movables of inestimable price Offices Governments and all the Rich remaines of my Unkles Fortune the Fruits of his Labours and the Rewards of his Services I saw as much sold as came to three Millions before I took any publick notice of it And I had hardly any thing left me of Value but my Jewels when Monsieur Mazarine took an occasion to seize upon them He took his opportunity to lay hold of them one Night as I came late home from the City Desiring to know the Reason of this Proceeding before I went to bed he told me

Mazarine was soon weary of what he had done and there upon begged of His Majesty to teat the Writings and to Release us of our Ingagements Neither would I consent to it but upon condition that his Majesty would never more interpose into our Business neither one way nor other His Majesty was Graciously pleased to pass His Word that he w uld not and has ever since kept His Promise This brought us again into parliament and our Suit was followed with more Bitternesson both sides than ever Monsieur Mazarine and his Adherents forgot nothing since that time that might Sully my Reputation to the World and above all make me hateful to His Majesty The Extravagancies of Monsieur Courcelles amongst other things furnished them with an Admirable Invention I had forgotten to tell you that when I left Chelles I prevailed so far that I got leave for his Wife to come and live with me She was no sooner there but those that formerly had been instrumental to draw her away from her Husband being glad to put her again into his Possession found means I know not how to let him into the Pallace Mazarine whilst I was abroad and managed her so that her Husband and she went away together as good friends as ever One day as I came to give her a Visit she was so foolish as to deny her self though Mr. Cavoy's Coach stood at the Door In the first transports of my Pession for this her Rudeness her Husband came unluckily in the way to whom I could not forbear saying no something of it This foolish Fellow of late hankered after an occasion to fight Cavoy and was loath it should be thought that he was Jealous of the best of his Friends but that it was upon some other account The most Plausible he could find was to pretend himself every where in love with me giving out That his Wife had in her keeping some Letters of mine that were of Consequence and which I had written to some Gentleman of the Court That she put them into Cavoye's hands and that Cavoy like a Rascal shewed them about but that he would force him with his Sword to restore them as he had promised me so to do Although this Story was Ridiculous enough and as ill contrived as might be yet it found Belief and some were so foolish as to report it for a Truth He did worse than all this he had the Impudence to tell me to my Face of it in the Court-Yard of the Pallace Mazarine I told him that knowing better than any other that all he had said was not true I could not imagine he could have any other Design in it but to make himself merry and that if I knew that he had the least intention of Fighting upon this Ridiculous Pretence I would immediately acquaint Monsieur the Count with it who was just by and heard some part of our Discourse Coursel perceiving by the manner and tone of my Voice that I would not understand Rallery made signe with a nod of his head that it was only in jest not daring to speak it out because of Monsieur the Count who joyned us at the same time If is easie to guess how great my amazement was when I understood the next day that they had not only fought but that likewise in the Accord they made amongst themselves in the Field He had the Impudence to maintain this Fiction to the end and to except a Woman from the Secret they had mutually promised to keep He was so well pleased with himself that he could not contain himself but Braggs of this Exception to all people without Exception which made the matter publick and was the occasion that they both were sent to the Conciergery to do Penance for one man's Folly They were not wanting at Court in their Censures of me upon this occasion treating me with the Attributes of Incendary make-bate and Brutal That I should be the occasion of cutting many other Throats if I could One of my Grooms of the Chamber being dangerously wounded about that time by some of his drunken Comrades they had the Charity to inform the King That this fellow was privy to all my Secrets and that having found that he betrayed his Trust I took course to have him assassinated The insolent Liberty people took to charge me with these Calumnies obliged me to speak to the King about it Madam the Dutchess in whose Company I went to him told him as she entred the Room That she brought him that Criminal that Wicked Woman of whom so many evil things had been told him The King was pleased to tell me That he never gave Credit to any of those Reports But his manner of delivering this was so succinct and so far from the accustomed Civility with which he used to hear me that all others but my self would have doubted of the Truth of what he said you know the Court is a land of much contradiction The Compassion which perhaps people took of me when they saw me shut up in a Convent was changed into Envy to see me appear in the Queens with-drawing Room and to make a much better appearance there than I had a mind to Yet I had no other pretention but to endeavour to make some tollerable Agreement with Monsieur Mazarine but those by whose Counsels I regulated my Actions and Affairs having other ends ruined my business by endeavouring to make their own succeed and so abusing my simplicity and the blind Obedience I gave to all their Advices made me run up and down to this place and that man without understanding the Reason or consequence of it Amidst all these Troubles and Vexations our Suit went forward and Monsieur Mazarine found the same Favour amongst the Old men which I had obtained of the Young After three months time I had Intelligence That he had gained the Hearts of the great Chamber that his Cabal carried all before them there that he was like to have such a Decree as he desired that although they did grant me the separation of Goods they would not leave me that of my Bed which I then enjoyed and therefore was no part of my Request to them and lastly that the Judges could not Dispence wit● themselves from ordering me to go to Cohabit with my Husband though they had been as favourable as they were then averss to me If this account had been given me by people of less Credit than they from whom I had it I might have had the liberty of publishing the Names of my Authors But as they run a hazard in telling it so they were cautious in exacting my Secrecy which I will eternally keep inviolable to them You may judge what usage I was like to have of Monsieur Mazarine if I should be forced by Act of Parliament to return to him after the causes of Resentments which he pretended to have against me and have both Court and Parliament contrary to me These were the