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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51199	The commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc, mareschal of France wherein are describ'd all the combats, rencounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, scalado's, the taking and surprizes of towns and fortresses, as also the defences of the assaulted and besieg'd : with several other signal and remarkable feats of war, wherein this great and renowned warriour was personally engag'd, in the space of fifty or threescore years that he bore arms under several kings of France : together with divers instructions, that such ought not to be ignorant of, as propose to themselves by the practice of arms to arrive at any eminent degree of honor, and prudently to carry on all the exploits of war.; Commentaires de messire Blaise de Monluc. English. 1674	Monluc, Blaise, seigneur de, 1500?-1577.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1674 (1674)	Wing M2506; ESTC R37642	835,371	442

on and it was agreed that all the Princes great Lords Governors of Provinces and Captains of Gens d' arms should renounce all Leagues and Confederacies whatsoever as well without as within the Kingdom excepting that of the King and should take the Oath upon pain of being declar'd Rebels to the Crown to which there were also other obligations added which I do not remember There arose several difficulties about couching the Articles some saying they were to be couch'd after one manner and others after another for in these great as well as in our inferior Councils there is black and white and obstinacy and dissimulation and some perhaps there were who though they set a good face on the matter were elsewhere engag'd So goes the World O ' ●is a miserable thing when a Kingdom falls to a King in minority had he then had the knowledge that he has had since I do believe he would have made some people speak good French In the end all was past and concluded and the Princes began to take the Oath and to sign the Articles where though I was but a poor Gentleman the King would also that I should sign with them by reason of the charge I had under him and it was also sent to the Constable at Bayonne who sign'd it there On the other side they sent to the Prince of Condé to the Admiral Monsieur d' Andelot and other Lords and Gover●ors of France and at the return of the Messengers the King as I was told caus'd an Instrument to be ingrost of all and put amongst the Records of the Crown I do believe it cannot be lost and that there a man may see in black and white some people forsworn to some purpose I know not who was the beginning of the War a la St. Michel but whoever it was I know he went contrary to his Oath and that the King if he so pleased might justly declare him perjur'd forasmuch as he stands obliged by his Oath and his own hand and seal are against him neither would he have any wrong done him because he was consenting to the conditions And although there was no fighting work in this affair I do nevertheless conceive that I did the King and Queen a good piece of service in discovering this practice which had it not been discover'd matters might peradventure have gone worse than they did The King at his return from Bayonne took his way towards Xaintonge and Rochelle to which place I attended him and there he commanded me to return giving me instructions to cause the Edicts of Pacification to be inviolably observ'd which I have ever done neither can it be said that the War began in my Government and also if they had begun with me they would have had no great match on 't neither could they have taken me unprovided but their design was at the head The Queen who is yet living may remember what I said to her concerning Rochelle for had this feather been pluckt from the Hugonots wing and secur'd to his Majesties devotion as I advis'd her it ought to be France had never seen those many mischiefs that have follow'd since But she was so timerous and fearful of giving any occasion of new trouble that she durst attempt to alter nothing and I know very well that she one night entertein'd me above two hours talking of nothing but things that had past during the life-time of the King her Husband my good Master And yet one who was none of the least went and reported that I was contriving something to the prejudice of the Peace Would to God her Majesty had taken my advice Rochelle should never have dar'd to have mutter'd Now as the King was going out of Brittany to take his way to Blois I had intelligence from R●üergue Quercy Perigord Burdelois and Agenois that the Hugonots were seen to go up and down with great horses in small parties carrying Sumpters along with them wherein 't was said they carried their Arms and Pistols Three or four times I gave the Queen notice of it but she would never give credit to my intelligence In the end I sent to her Martineau the same who at this present is Comptroller of the Wars who was not very welcome to bring such news and three dayes after his arrival at Court Boery a Secretary of mine arriv'd also with other intelligence from me to the Queen that they all march't openly day and night though I think she would hardly have believ'd it had it not been that at the same time her Majesty had advertisements from all the other Governments of the Kingdom which made the King go in all diligence directly to Moulins I know not to what this tended nor why they march'● up and down in Troops after that manner but it ought to have been known and it was a sign of no good for without the knowledge of the King or his Lieutenant no one ought to have attempted any such thing and had it not been that I was afraid of being accused for breaking the Peace I would soon have sent them to their own houses with a vengeance for I did not sleep I went however very well accompanied with a good number of Gentlemen and my own Company of Ge●ns-d'arms into Roüergue Qu●rcy and all along by the skirts of P●rigard to see i● any one would openly stir and sent to the King to tell him that if his 〈◊〉 pleas'd to give me leave to talk with them at their return I hop'd I should be able to give him a good account of their intention But the King sent me a positive command not to do it but let them quietly return every man to his own house and then it was tha● I 〈◊〉 the League of Mont de Marsan would not long be observ'd I thought fit to write this passage to the end that every one may see how vigilant in my Government I have ever been seeing that I who was the furthest off gave his Majestie the first intelligence And now I will begin the War de la St. Michel which were the second Troubles Though it has been said and I know it also to be true that the Hugonots did perfectly hate me yet was I not so negligent in my administration but that I had acquir'd some friends amongst them and even some who were of their Consistory It was not now as in the former troubles our Cards were so shuffled and confused as nothing could be more and these people were not now so hot in their Religion as they had formerly been many either out of fear or for good will came to us so that we began to be sociab●e and to converse with one another The fear also they were in of me made some few my friends or at least seem to be About two Moneths and a half before la Sainct Michel I had notice by a Gentleman and another rich man in the Country who knew nothing of one

return'd I had inte●ligence that eight dayes before or eight dayes after la Sainct Michel the Admirals Gentleman was certainly to come Upon these slight answers of the Queens I had like to have committed a very great error in laying aside all suspicion believing that her Majesty was better enform'd than I and that therefore I ought no more to give credit to those who gave me these daily advertisements Whereupon I made a match with the late Bishop of Condom and the Sieurs de Sainctorens and de Ti●●adet Brothers to go the Baths at Barbottan as I had been by the Physicians appointed to do for a pain in my hip I got at the taking of Quires which Monsieur d' Aumale I know does very well remember and that I believe I shall carry along with me to my Grave We went upon the Saturday from Cassaigne to go lie at Monsieur de Panias his house taking two Tassels of Goshawks along with us wherewith to pass away the time at the Baths and the very night that we came thither in my first sleep I dreamt a dream that did more discompose and weaken me than if I had four dayes had a continued Fev●r which I will here set down because there are many living to whom I told it for these are no tales made for pleasure I dreamt that all the Kingdom of France was in Rebellion and that a stranger Prince had seiz'd upon it and had kill'd the King my Lords his Brothers and the Queen and that I was flying night and day on every side to escape for me thought I had all the world in search of me to take me sometimes I fled to one place and sometimes to another till at length I was surpriz'd in a house and carried before the new King who was walking betwixt two great men in a Church He was low of stature but gross and well knit and had on his head a square velvet Cap such a one as they wore in former times The Archers of his Guard were clad in yellow red and black and me-thought as they led me prisoner thorough the Streets all the people ran after me crying kill the Villain one presented a naked Sword to my throat and another a Pist●l to my breast those that led me crying out do not kill him for the King will have him hang'd in his own presence And thus they carried me before the new King who was walking as I said before There was in the Church neither Image nor Altar and so soon as I came before him he said to me in Italian Veni que forsante tu m●ai fatto la gu●rra a quelli i quelli su●no mei servitori io ti faro apicqu 〈◊〉 adesso adesso To which I made answer in the same language for me-thought I spoke Tuscan as well as when I was in Sienna Sacr● M●●sta to servito al mio Re si come suono obligati fari tutti gli huomini de bene su Maesta ne deve pigliar questo a male At which enflamed with fury he said to the Arch●rs of his Guard Andate andate menate lo adpicar que● forfante que mi fare●be 〈◊〉 la guerra Whereupon they would have led me away but I stood firm and said to him Io supplico su Maesta voler mi salvar la vita poi che il Re mio signire é morto ensicmi gli signiori suoi fratelli Io vi prometto che vi serviro con medesima fidelta con la quale io servito il re mentr● viv●va Vpon this the Lords who were walking with him begg'd of him to save my life upon whose intercession looking stedfastly upon me he said to me Prometti tu questo del cuore or Su io ti da la vit● per le pregiere di quelli che mi pr●gano sie mi fidele These Lords me thought spoke French but we two spoke Italian whereupon he commanded them to take me a little aside and that he would by and by talk to me again They then set me by a Chest that stood hard by the Church door and those who were to look to me fell to talking with the Archers of the Guard As I was there standing by this Chest I began to think of the king and repented me of the oath of Fidelity I had taken for that peradventure the King might not be yet dead and that if I could escape away I would rather wander alone and on foo● throughout the world to seek the King if he were yet alive and thereupon took a resolution to run away Thus resolv'd I went out of the Church and being got into the Street began to run and never thought of my hip for me-thought I ran faster than I would when on a sudden I heard a cry behind me stop the villain whereupon some came out of their houses to take me and others stood in my way but still I escap'd both from the one and the other and recover'd a pair of stone stairs that went up to the Wall of the Town where coming to the top I lookt down and methought the Precipice was so great thet I could hardly see to the bottom They mounted the stairs after me and I had nothing wherewith to defend my self but three or four stones that I threw at them and had a great mind to make them kill me for me-thought they would put me to a cru●l death when having nothing left to defend my self withall I threw my self headlong from the Battlements and in falling awaked and found my self all on a water as if I had come out of a River my Shir● the Sheets the Counterpain all wringing wet and I fancied that my head was bigger than a Drum I call'd my Valet de Cham●re who presently made a fire took off my wet shirt and gave me another They went also to Madam de Panias who commanded another pair of Sheets to be given them and her self rose and came into my Chamber and saw the Sheets Blankets and Counterpain all wet and never departed the room till all was dried which whilst they were in doing I told her my dream and the fright I had been in which had put me into this sweat She remembers it as well as I. The Dream I dreamt of the death of King Henry my good Master and this put me into a greater weakness than if I had had a continued Fever for a whole week together The Physitians told me that it was nothing but force of imagination my mind being wholly taken up with these thoughts And I do believe it was so for I have fancied my self in the night fighting with the Enemy dreaming of the mishaps and the successes also I afterwards saw come to pass I have had that misfortune all my life that sleeping and waking I have never been at rest and was alwayes sure when I had any thing working in my head that I was to do not