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B14451	Foure letters one from the Duke of Bouillon to the French King. Dated in Feb. 1619. Another from the French King to the Duke of Espernon. Dated the 11. of Ian. 1619. Two other from the Duke of Espernon to the French King, the one dated the 17. of Ian the other the 7. of Feb. 1619.	Bouillon, Henri de la Tour-d'Auvergne, Duc de, 1555-1623. aut; Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643. aut; Epernon, Jean-Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, duc d', 1554-1642. aut	1619 (1619)	STC 15528; ESTC S100260	5,680	15

fit for the profit of your seruice that I should not yet stirre from the Frontires of this kingdome As to that Sir I haue nothing to answer to your Maiestie but that hauing alwayes absolutely depended on your commandements and propounded to my selfe in all my actions for onely aime the good of your State in the smallest interest that shall regard it within the limits of my charge which is not onely capable to stay me here but doth oblige me at all times and in all places whatsoeuer to esteeme my life nothing so I may be so happie as to spend it for the seruice of your Maiestie But at this day Sir the peace and tranquillitie of France is growne so generall your State so powerfully established and your friendship so deare to all your neighbours that as there is nothing within this Realme but stoopes to your authoritie so out of it there is no Prince but doth respect your power and maintaine himselfe by your iustice As for the warres in Bohemia to the which hitherto it hath not bene possible to giue remedie besides that meanes are now intended for the ending of them in the friendliest manner that may be and that there is no condition how vnprofitable soeuer but the Emperour will accept rather then to hazard the little authoritie that yet remaineth vnto him the danger fained by such as make things far greater then they are is so remote from this Frontire that the feare which we might haue thereof should be without ground seeing moreouer that not any as yet are come ouer on this side the Rhene and that the ancient friends allies to this Crowne who are the nearest to these broyles expect the issue without any stirring vp or taking either the one or the others part These considerations Sir require not my staying in this country where all things are in so good a being as almost of themselues they may subsist and be maintained and the abode that my sonne de la Valette shall make here in my absence being sufficient to giue order to whatsoeuer shall concerne the good of your affaires I trust your Maiestie will with equitie regard the necessitie of mine owne particulars and be pleased to let me returne to my house from the which I haue bene absent aboue these 15 moneths I craue but the libertie which you denie not to the least of those whose greatest honour is to be vnder your gouernment I make no doubt Sir but that you will be pleased with the desire I haue to performe this iourney and assure my selfe that you will take the paines to consider that since your coming to the Crowne hauing indebted my selfe aboue an 100000 crownes for your seruice for the which I pay interests at Paris hauing not since these two yeares receiued of your liberality any other gratification but the bare wages of a Colonel after the rate of 10 moneths for a yeare it is not possible I should hold out in the great necessary expences which I am bound to make here as well for the maintaining of the dignity of my office as for the performing of your Maiesties seruice with more eminence Furthermore Sir since my enemies do daily endeuour to infuse into your Maiesties heart a mistrust of my purest intentions and that I am so vnhappie that euen waxen old in the seruice of three great Kings I should yet haue much adoe to defend a so constant and approued fidelity from calumnies I must and with griefe I must speake it that I haue remained in my dutie when as rewards were promised to vnfaithfulnesse that I haue maintained your authority when it was abused of some and dispised of others It is to wrong me much to thinke that at these yeares I would begin to proue disloyall and that my priuate passions should be dearer to me then my fidelity to your seruice In this case Sir I will freely anow that I haue no cause to complaine but of my bad fortune being most certain that it is not where your Scepter-doth beare sway that vertue is suspected and a good reputation odious and that your Maiesty is too iust to put no difference betweene the oppressed innocent and the guiltie For indeed Sir if then when you were not as yet free the gentlenesse of your nature hath bene such that you haue alwayes withstood violent counsels and not suffered your authoritie to be employed to the ouerthrow of your subiects there is no likelyhood now that you onely depend of your selfe and that your mild inclination is not fostered by any with violent passions that in his hoarie age you would oppresse one of your best seruants and ancient officers to your Crowne or denie to his yeares the rest which nature doth require of you I thinke Sir I may presume to deserue that for a recompence of my long and faithfull seruice and your Maiestie may grant it me as humbly I do beseech it without any disparagement to your State for as I neuer expected other profit from my actions but the pleasure I receiue to haue done them so will I thinke my selfe sufficiently happie by the testimonie which my conscience all my life time will yeeld me that I haue truly bene and intend to remaine vnto my end Sir Your most humble most dutifull faithfull and louing subiect and seruant Espernon From Mets this 17 of Ian. 1619. Another Letter of the Duke of Espernon to the King Sir HAuing heretofore represented vnto your Maiestie with what patience I haue expected in my gouernment of Mets the occasions to do you seruice and hoping that hauing put to your cōsideration the necessity of my businesse you would haue bene fully satisfied with my resolution so long ago concluded I haue thought that I could not be blamed of your Maiestie nor of any other if at these yeares hauing giuen the best part of my life to the publike good I did desire at least to go spend the remnant of it with some ease and be partaker of the peaceable rest you haue stored vp for your kingdome Neuerthelesse Sir the least of your commandements is so deare vnto me and I am so religious in all the circumstances of my duty that I had not vndertooke my iourney if the occasions of the staying thereof had not bene taken away and the difficulties of the warres in Bohemia altogether finished But hauing learned by certaine aduise which the Lord Duke of Lorraine hath receiued from that countrie that the Differents are vpon tearmes of agreement to the furtherance whereof shall be proceeded by the deposition of armes on both sides I thought that the profit of your seruice did not require my abode any longer in a place which in time of peace is not in any danger and will increase by the decay of the Empire if the warres continue That if there be any part of this countrie lesse participant then other of the publique tranquillitie and needing more carefully to be conserued I am sure that your Maiestie will iudge that it is that Prouince into the which I am going which since it dependeth of my charge it is my duty to be carefull in whatsoeuer doth concerne the good of it and not to giue way throught it to the preiudice of your authoritie So Sir that if at this time I will not omit the occasions your Maiestie shall be pleased to do me the honour to consider that I do not therein disobey your commandements but that contrariwise I expound them according to the right sence and that I giue them the best interpretation since it is that which is the most profitable for your seruice For indeed Sir euery one doth know that as the chiefest law of your Realme is the maintaining of your authoritie so your most expresse and most important commandement is the good successe of your affaires which being absolutely true what likelihood should there be that being in me to conserue vnto your Maiestie the affections of a Prouince disunited and to retaine by my presence those spirits that might affect a changement if there were no body to confirme them in their dutie I should propound to my selfe for the hindering of so necessary a voyage such weake considerations as the warres of Bohemia I am not of that age Sir that will permit me to seeke after vaine glorie yet neuerthelesse I do not thinke that your Maiestie esteemeth of me so little as to imploy me in no other seruice then for the surer directing of your pacquets from Germanie I do not hold my selfe yet so vnprofitable that I should onely be thought fit to performe to you and to your State seruice of so little consequence Sir this is that which I humbly request your Maiestie to iudge of my faults and in the meane time to do me that honour to beleeue that wheresoeuer I be and what bad vsage soeuer I haue had these 20 moneths no condition in the world and neuer so profitable shall corrupt me nor any necessity how great soeuer hinder me to remaine with the same affection with which I haue alwayes bene Sir Your most humble and most obedient subiect most faithfull and louing seruant I. Lewes de le Valette From the Bridge of Vichy this 7. of Feb. 1619.