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A07267	The history of Levvis the eleuenth VVith the most memorable accidents which happened in Europe during the two and twenty yeares of his raigne. Enricht with many obseruations which serue as commentaries. Diuided into eleuen bookes. Written in French by P. Mathieu historiographer to the French King. And translated into English by Edvv: Grimeston Sergeant at Armes; Histoire de Louys XI. English	Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621.; Grimeston, Edward.; Commynes, Philippe de, ca. 1447-1511.	1614 (1614)	STC 17662; ESTC S114269	789,733	466

They might forbid them that were no Gentlemen to carry Armes which were not fit for their profession or for Gentlemen to carry any other Crests then their Fathers had done or to open the Helmet or to crowne them without permission It was also their duty to keepe the Blason of Armes of Houses u There were great considerations in the forme of Scutchions and in the Crests of Armes A Knights Scutchion might bee cut square or voided at his pleasure wherevnto a Crest was added taken out of part of the Armes and the Helmet shut and stand●ng straight A Squires Scutchion was round like vnto a Rondache and had had no Crest but his Helmet onely shut turned on the one side to haue recourse vnto them vpon any dispute that might growe vpon differences and conformities Office of Heralds at Armes They kept a Register of the Deuices and Colours of Soueraigne Houses as White for France Blacke for England Red for Bourgondy Blewe for Savoy Yellow for Lorraine and Greene for Anjou The King at Armes in the house of Bourgondy had a care that such as were made noble should not carry a field gueles for that it was the colour reserued for the Prince This house did greatly obserue the Respects and Ceremonies of a Soueraigne pompe Magnificence of the house of Bourgondy When the Duke did eate at any solemne Feast besides all the ordinary state of Kings he had behinde him the Kings at Armes and Heralds with their Coates and Crownes and before him were set at a low Table two Vshers and two Sergeants with their Maces who had alwayes their eyes vpon his to execute his commandements vpon the least signe he should make yea to take the greatest prisoners which could not be taken else-where These Charges haue beene contemned by the contempt of persons which haue not desired them but to couer the indignity of their birth In former times they were not held but by Gentlemen whose honour carried them vnto dangers with the same courage that they which are lesse generous flye from them They had the guard of the Kings Chamber and had that charge which since the Archers of the Guard haue x The S●rgean●s at Armes by day carried a Mace before the King and guarded his Chamber by night and therfore du Tillet thinkes that they held the place of the Archers of the guard They shewed good proofe of their valour at the battell of Bouuines vnder Philip Augustus by reason whereof Saint Lewis did build the Church of Saint Katherine du Val des Escoliers and King Charles the fifth appointed the brotherhood there whereas at this day many Tombes are to bee seene which haue preserued the ancient forme of their habit and Armes That which Philip de Commines obserues of a Gascon which came into the place where as the King was at the stoole with three or foure confirmes this opinion of the small care hee had of the formes befitting Maiesty for although there were no Vshers at the doores Duty of Chamberlaines yet this facility to enter euen into the Cabinet was dangerous His Predecessors had prouided for it and the Chamberlaines were bound y The first care of the kings person belongs to the Lord Chamberlaine he was bound to lye at the Kings feete whē the Queen was not present and so Peter Lord Chamberlaine to the king S. Lewis was buried at Saint Denis at his maisters feet as hee serued him liuing And at this day in the Assembly of the Estates when as the King sits in Iustice the Lord Chamberlaine sits at his feet by the duty of this charge not to suffer it but hee contemned it all the time of his reigne vntill the end when hee was more carefull of it then was needfull passing from a great facility and confidence to a rigorous seuerity and distrust to keepe his gates shut wee finde these words very remarkeable in the Ordonance of King Philip the long After the care of the soule they must not bee so negligent of the body as through negligence or bad guard any perils arriue especially when for one person many troubles may happen Wee therefore ordaine and doe therewith especially charge our Chamberlaine that no vnknowne person nor boy of poore estate enter into our Wardrope nor lay their hand nor bee at our bed making and that they suffer not any strange sheetes to bee layd on And wee command the Steward of our house that our Pantrie or Kitchin and all other Offices of our house bee so well and carefully kept as no danger may arriue and these things wee will haue obserued in the houses of our Company and of our Children The other precept of Maiesty Great Offices shold not be hereditary is not to continue great Offices in one Family z The perpetuity of great charges is dangerous They that haue commanded long are loath to obey Antiquitas voluit Prouinciarum dignitatem amica successione repara●i ne diutina potestate vnus insolesceret Antiquity would that the Gouernments of Prouinces should be supplyed yearely least that any one by a continuall command should grow insolent and to make them hereditary The Order and iustice of the state will that a distribution be made of those who by the quality of their birth or the greatnesse of their merite are capable The perpetuall Dictatorship did ouerthrow the state of Rome the great authority giuen to the Mayors of the Palace did ruine the first Family of our Kings To those that are ambitious of the same Offices their Predecessors enioyed wee should wish the like moderation and integretie that Quintus Fabius Maximus had who hauing beene fiue times Consull and vndergone many great charges intreated the Senate not to conferre that Honour vnto his sonne not that hee thought him vnworthie but that hee knewe well that the Common-weale should receiue preiudice by the perpetuity of great Offices in one Family a In an other occasion Quintus Fabius Maximus did shewe that in the election of great Charges there should be no respect had but of the publicke good hee would not consent that T. Octacilius who had married his wiues daughter should bee Consull for that hee held him not capable of that charge nor of courage to make head against Hanniball T. Liu. lib. 24. This was to loue the State more then himselfe Lewis the eleuenth tooke more delight then hee receiued content or profite to change his Officers often When as a place is executed worthily and profitably by any one his dismission is vniust and the Princes seruice is wronged Offices are to bee maintained if they be good for if the place bee not supplyed by a man of the like experience and sufficiencie the Common-weale is damnified b As the ruine of Families comes commonly from new seruants so the fall of Estates proceedes from new magistrates which enter into Offices without experience those that are new come beeing greedy of

soule as often as he returned from any exploits of war which were more admirable then imitable Wherefore hauing resolued to make warre against George Lord of Misia i Misia is commonly called by the Turke Segoria and comprehends Seruia Bosnia Russia and the Prince is called Despote of Seruia he made him Generall of his Armie as well for that he had not any one more capable as also to be rid of him thinking that being forward and fierie by nature hee would thrust himselfe into dangers from which he should not free himselfe for his braue and generous Captaine like an other Cato k Cato as Tit. Liu. saith wold be euery where and execute euery thing in person sparing himselfe no more then the least of his soldiors hauing no other aduantage ouer them but the honour of his commandements would see all himselfe and had no other aduantage in militarie labours then to haue the honor to command them and to be the first to execute them But as often as hee went so often did Andrinopolis see him returne laden with honor and victories A remarkeable worke of Gods prouidence to preserue this braue courage for his seruice At length Scanderbeg Scanderbeg leaues the Turke who had alwaies the heart of a Christian and an Albanois being wearie to liue in the continuall disquiettings of so many distrusts and conspiracies to kill him resolues to quit Amurath m Scāderbegs retreat was in the year 1444. hee conferred with Huniades of his enterprise that vnder a coulour of making warre against him hee might retire on his side whereupon hee ioined with Huniades Prince of Transiluania He ioynes with Iohn Huniades and with him defeates the Basha of Romania who had fourescore thousand men he caused his Secretarie to be taken and setting a dagger to his throat forced him to write letters to the Gouernor of Croy carrying a commandement in Amuraths name to consigne the place vnto him The Gouernor of Croy obayed and receiued Scanderbeg Entrie of Scanderbeg into Croy. all the Infidels were put to the sword and the Christians preserued and such as would become Christians He besieged the other places of Albania and in few daies with much paine and no money he recouered his forefathers estate and made the black Eagle n The house of Scanderbeg caried an Eagle sables in a field gules When as the people of Albania saw them in his Exsignes Standards they presently renewed the ancient affection they bare vnto their Princes with two heads to be seene in all places Hitherto hee had fought for himselfe now he fights for Christendome Ladislaus King of Hungary and Poland intreats him to assist him against Amurath hee was hindred by Huniades o Iohn Despote of Transiluania otherwise called Huniades being discōtented with the King of Hungary for that certaine places in Seruiae which had bin granted him in reward of his vertue were detained from him refused passage to Scāderbeg to ioin with the Christian Army Despote of Transiluania neither did the cause of the warre seeme iust for it brake a peace solemnely sworne with Amurath Battell of Varna It was decided in the valley of Varna on the limits of Misia or Segoria vppon the Euxin Sea within foure dayes iourney of Andrynopolis to the dishonour of the Christians who were put to flight but the triumph cost Amurath so many men as his ioy was turned to repentance If hee made some triumph Scanderbeg reapt the profit for seeing that hee had retired his forces hee went to field p These say that Amurath hauing escaped this danger grew more sad then he had been accustomed and being blamed by his followers he answered I would not win after this manner Amurath caused a pillar to be set whereas the Battell was giuen with an inscription of the victory and at this day the heapes of dead mens bones are to bee seene which shew that the slaughter had been wonderfull and made such sharpe warres as the Turke wrote vnto him rather to stay his exploites then to threaten him with reuenge and yet his Letters were full of reproches and pride Letters frō Amurath to Scanderbeg the ordinarie Passion of an incensed spirit Hee sweares that if hee will returne vnto him hee will forget all his offences past for that hee is more mindfull of the seruices hee hath done him then of his ingratitude hee offers to leaue him the Towne of Croy and the Lands which his Father held vpon condition that hee should yeeld vp all the other Townes of Albania and Misia These letters were receiued with that contempt they deserued q The letters beginne after this manner Amurath and Ottoman Soueraigne of the Turks and Emperour of the East sends no salutations to Scanderbeg his ingrateful nurschild He saith that he knowes not what wordes to vse to him for that hee doth not merit any good for his ingratitude and a rough sharp speech would make his arrogant nature more insolent Scanderbeg thinking that Amuraths feare who grew old and broken had made him to write them hauing a desire to leaue his Empire in some safety Scanderbegs answer yet he made him an answer and after that hee had told him that he should remember the good which he had receiued from him if the numbring did not renew the remembrance of a greater number of ills he concluded with these wordes Such fortune as it shall please God to giue vs we will beare In the meane time we aske no councell of the ennemy of that we intend to doe neither do we sue for peace of you but hope with the helpe of God r A Christian Prince should not referre any thing to fortune but to the prouidence of God who is the only cause of all causes guids al things after his will the moouable by their motions the immoueable by their firmenesse the voluntary by their liberty and the reasonable by their will to haue victory ouer you Within a while after he was victorious ouerthrew great armies which Amurath sent into Epirus the first led by the Basha Ferise and the other two by Mustapha He wonne the Battell of Drinon against the Venetians Battall of Drinon in Dalmatia and vsed this victory so well as the Venetians to make him raise the seege from before Dayne s Dayne is a little Towne planted vppon a high hill as in a manner all those of Epirus bee yet the soile of it is fat and the aire good and holsome they haue store of Venison and bees and all kindes of trees and fruites which was in their protection yeelded that he should haue a part of the Country of Scutarii which was very commodious for him Amurath besieged Sfetigarde where as Scanderberg flew in single Combate Seege of Sfetigarde Ferise Basha Generall of the Army yet it was taken and presently besieged againe by Scanderbeg but he was forced to raise the siege

habes à currente flumine quant●m hauris ita ex a●nis semper euntibus nihil accipis nisi quod in res duraturas collocaris Thou hast so much of a running streame as thou drawest forth so of yeares which still slide away thou retainest nothing but what thou dost employ in durable things for his successors giue him the honour to haue freed them from subiection and France is bound vnto him to haue beautefied it with the Crownes of Dukes and Earles The death of Charles the last Duke of Bourgundy restored vnto him the Dutchy and County of Bourgundy but his good title must be so assisted by force as his Prouinces were rather conquered then restored He vnited also vnto the Crowne the Dutchies of Anjou and Mayne which had beene separated for the portion of Charles the first King of Sicile x The returnes of the Counties of Anjou and Maine which had beene very remote from the Crowne was drawne 〈…〉 ●arriage of Charles of Valois who married the daughter of Charles the second King of Sicile vpon cond●tion that he should renounce the rights and hopes of the Crowne of Valencia and Arragon and giuen for a Dowry to the Lady Margaret of Sicile who married with Charles of France Earle of Vallois This marriage restored that hope vnto France which she had in a manner lost to revnite those Prouinces for that contrary to the Law of the Realme they had beene giuen in marriage to a daughter France is also bound vnto him for the acquisition of the County of Prouence by the meanes which haue beene formerly mentioned The peece was not entire for the Principallity of Orange was seperated yet in the yeare one thousand foure hundred three score and fifteene he had purchased the homage and iurisdiction of William of Chalon Prince of Orange and made it subiect to that of Dauphine y Lewis of Chalon Prince of Orange bought of René King of Sicile the ●omage and Soneraignty of the Principall●ty of Orange which was held of the County of Prouence and William of Chalo● sold it to King Lewis the 11. Hee past the three score and third yeare of his age the which he had alwaies apprehended for that the Kings of this branch had neuer attained vnto it Age of Lewis the eleuenth And as it is the nature of man to desire to liue and to repent to haue liued when he had attained vnto it he would willingly haue kept backe that tearme in the which nature by the great infirmities wherewith hee was brought low chased him out of this life not as from a Ship-wracke but as out of an Inne where hee had made good cheere z Themistius compares the death of old mē to the going out of an Inne and that of yong men to a Shipwracke In like manner Princes and they that haue liued in pleasure feare not death for want of courage as many thinke but for the long continuance of their delights and contents Hee arriued not at this port without stormes and great perils in the which hee was preserued by the same hand which had diuerted many damnable attempts against his person The most doubtfull of these accidents was at Peronne the greatest at the battle of Montlehery the most vnexpected vnder the port of the Castle of Alençon Dangers which hee did escape a This accident happened on Sunday the 8 th of August 1473. Edward the 2. King of England playing at Chesse ended his game so fitly as a great stone f●ll vpon the place as soone as he was vp and had slaine him if hee had stayed Thomas Walsingham when as a great stone falling from the Vault did but touch his sleeue An accident which shewes that no man knowes where death shall surprise him and that a wise man should alwaies attend it resolutely in all places This Raigne was rough difficult and tossed with strange reuolutions Such as liued in those times said that the world had neuer beene more wicked Opinion which like vnto Orpheus Harpe doth alwaies moue the lesser and weaker spirits hath made this beleefe common among them that the world doth daily impaire that the Golden Age is changed into Siluer then into Copper and in the end into Iron and Brasse That our b It is true that the older the world growes the more remote it shall bee from the innocency and simplicity of the first Age. Aetas parentum peior auis tulit Nos nequiores mox daturos Prolem vitiosiorem But in all ages men haue beene corrupted and disordered Seneca saith that his co●plained and that such as should come after would make the like complaint Grand-fathers times were better then that of our fathers that ours hath increased in wickednesse and that they which shall succeed shall be more wicked Paradox that the world growth not worse But I find in this Princes time as famous villanies as haue bene since His Chronicle doth produce many besides those great distractions which the History hath obserued in publicke actions as rebellions Infidelities Attempts Treasons and Conspiracies not discouering many other excesses which haue remained smothered in the consciences of two or three I haue collected the examples which it setteth downe as a lumpe of many poysons to make a Treacle against vice The first in shewing a great liberty discouereth a great bounty The yeare that the King made his entry into Paris a yong woman left her husband to follow her owne disordered lusts and after her husband beeing well aduised these are his very words tooke her againe Wise men hold the sower and sweete of marriage secret That age as well as those which haue gone before and haue followed after doth furnish examples of men who in fauour of Mecanas c Galba hauing in●●ted Mec●●nas to supper seeing his wife and him to court is by lookes and signes hee 〈◊〉 downe vpon his C●sh●●a f●yning to be v●●y sleepy to giue way vnto their leues The which hee maintained with a good grace for his man being ready to take away the dishes which stood vpon his Table hee cryed out vnto him how now Knaue dost thou not see that I sleepe not but for Mecaenas haue shut their eies whilst they courted their wiues In the warre of the Common-weale Examples of diuers disorders there were seene passe through Paris two hundred Archers on horse-backe after them eight Strumpets with a blacke Monke their Confessor In the yeare one thousand foure hundred three score and fiue the sixt of Iune a Capper in Saint Dennis Streete strangled his wife in his owne house and a Labouring man of Clignancourt cut his Throate Another Gentle-woman of Paris was accused of Adultery and poysoning by her owne husband A father had long abused his owne daughter and had many children by her and as the wicked are neuer content with one wickednesse hee fell from Incest to Parricide d When as the minde of man hath once subiected