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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50572	The memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-hill containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the last age, not mention'd by other historians, more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and King James : in all which transactions the author was personally and publickly concern'd : now published from the original manuscript / by George Scott, Gent.	Melville, James, Sir, 1535-1617.; Scot, George, d. 1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing M1654; ESTC R201	279,416	250

Field-pieces were taken and many Spaniards made Prisoners Therefore we called it a won Battle and marched forward possessing the ground where the Fight was and set down our Camp the same night hard beside the Emperours Who seemed not that he had lost any thing but remained stedfastly within his Trenches All that night the Army for the most part was upon the Watch and the next day the Armies looked peaceably one upon another For we would not hazard to charge them within their Foot and they staid for twelve thousand fresh men that were coming to their aid But in the Evening they discharged all their Cannons which overthrew part of our Tents and we again discharged all our Cannon at them and did laugh to see the bullets light and rebound among them Yet the same night without Trumpet or beating of Drum we raised our whole Army and retired home to our own Town of Montreal and left Renty unwon alledging that we had won a battle which was better and that we wanted Horse-meat in the beginning of Winter But the Emperour suffered us patiently to pass away not appearing to understand that he knew any thing of our retreat being content that he had preserved Renty from being taken After this the Emperour being aged and finding himself vexed with the Gout and Gravel he thought fit to leave the World and retire himself to a Monastery of Monks in Spain But first he made means with the Princes of the Empire to elect his Son Philip to be Emperour which they altogether refused thinking him too mighty and the more in a capacity to subdue their Liberties as his Father had attempted to do before But they were content to chuse his Brother Ferdinand who was King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria which Dominions lay nearest the Turks The said Ferdinand having also some Lands in Hungary would be compelled to de fend his own Lands and that way would be content with less Contribution from the Estates of the Empire He gave over to his Son Philip his other Kingdoms and Dominions that he had in Spain Italy and the Low Countries And for the establishing his said Sons Estate he drew on a Treaty of Truce for the space of five years with France Which was agreed upon and sworn between the Parties But the said Truce was soon broken at the persuasion of Pope Paul the Fourth who intending to bring back again to the Church some Church Lands that his Predecessors had disposed to their Friends As the common custom of Popes is the one Pope dispones to his Bastards or Nephews the next Pope revokes the Lands pretending the same to be for the good of the Church and gives them again to his Kindred and Friends But those who had the Lands that Pope Paul the Fourth claimed were a great Clan in Italy called Collonois who were dependers upon the King of Spain and were under his Protection and would not grant to give over any of their Possessions unto the Pope neither for his Cursing Threatning or Bragging but stood in their own defence Whereof the Pope impatient put on by two of his Nephews sent the one of them to France called the Cardinal Caraff. The said Legat had born before him a Hat upon the point of a Sword both Hat and Sword to be presented to the King of France The Sword as an assured token of Victory and the Hat as a token of triumph requiring the King as eldest Son of the Catholick Church of Rome to send an Army to Italy to help the Popes Holiness to recover again to the Kirk such Lands as were wrongfully with-holden from the same by the said race of the Collonois And for to take away all scrupulosity from the Kings Conscience by reason of his Oath and Sacrament at the closing up of the Truce with the King of Spain he the said Cardinal as Legat from Gods Vicar having power would give him full absolution he having power to bind and loose Alledging moreover that in doing so dutiful an Office for the Kirk the King should reap a great advantage to himself seeing he might thereby be put in possession of the Kingdom of Naples by the Forces of the Pope Who should join with the Kings Army after he had helped the Kirk to recover her Lands from them who were maintained in the possession thereof by his Competitor the King of Spain The Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorrain his Brother imbraced this Proposition very earnestly For the Duke expected to be made Vice-Roy of Naples whereby he might the more easily sometime make his Brother Pope But the old Constable my Master was utterly against the breaking of the Peace Yet the two ambitious Brothers prevailed persuading the King that as the Constables age required rest so the King being in the flower of his years ought not to let slip so fair an occasion to recover again the Kingdom of Naples to the Crown of France Thus a great Army was prepared and sent into Italy under the Conduct of the Duke of Guise and likewise the Kings Lieutenant in Piccardy entered in upon the King of Spains Dominions with Fire and Sword so unexpected by those of the Low Countries that some of the French Light-horsemen entered upon Horseback within one of their Kirks upon a Sunday and snatched the Chalice out of the Priests hands when he was mumbling his Mass. The King of Spain took this breach of the Peace heavily to heart and both assisted the Collonois against the Popes Forces more earnestly than he would have done and also prepared a great Army against the next Spring to invade the Frontiers of Piccardy in France In the mean time that the Duke of Guise with his French Army was in Italy the Pope took occasion hastily to compound with the Collonois who finding themselves like to be straitned before the King of Spains Forces could be ready to support them gave the Pope part of his desire he securing to them the rest But the Duke of Guise judged himself greatly disgraced by the Popes guile and disappointed as to the expectations he had of the preferment to the Kingdom of Naples when he understood that the Pope was agreed without him and that in stead of concurring and helping him to conquer the Kingdom of Naples according to his engagement he plainly refused pretending that the Winter was near at hand and that it was by far more fitting that all Christian Princes were agreed among themselves to make War against the Great Turk So that all the favour the Duke of Guise had by undertaking this Journey into Italy was to get a Kiss of the Popes Foot which occasioned great anger in the King of France both at the one and the other Then for the space of two Moneths every man at the Court of France had liberty to speak ill of the Pope who at that instant agreed with the King of Spain by the mediation of that same Cardinal Caraff who had

Ears which may serve for little Parenthesises to Historiographers who had not the occasion of being so well therewith acquainted Our Queen then Dowager of France retired her self by little and little further and further from the Court of France that it might not appear that she was any way compelled thereto as of a truth she was by the Queen Mother's rigorous dealing who alledged that she had been despised by her Daughter-in-law during the short Reign of King Francis the Second her Husband at the resignation of the House of Guise Monsieur de Martignes Monsieur Dosel Labrosse the Bishop of Amience and such other French-men as were lately carried out of Scotland in the English Ships resorted to our Queen and declared unto her the whole progress of affairs and the state of the Kingdom These as well as the rest of her friends advised her to return to Scotland encouraging her with the hopes of succeeding to the Crown of England rather then to endure the Queen Mother's disdain in France Desiring her as most conducing for her interest to serve the time to accommodate her self discreetly and gently to her own Subjects to be most familiar with my Lord James Prior of St. Andrews her natural Brother and with the Earl of Argile who had married Lady Jane Stuart her natural Sister and to use the Secretary Lidingtoun and the Laird of Grange most tenderly in all their affairs and in summ to repose most upon those of the Reformed Religion Thus those who were a little before cruelly persecuted are now to be esteemed for chiefest and truest friends Thus can God by his Divine Providence ranverse the finest practises and pretences of mighty Rulers and Potentates and turn all to the best to such as serve him with a sincere heart As on the other hand God abhorreth such Subjects as hypocritically under pretext of Religion take occasion to rebel against their native Princes for ambition greediness or any other Worldly respect The Prior of St. Andrews being advertised of the Queen his Soveraign's deliberation to return to Scotland and to use his and his friends advice He goeth himself to France requesting her Majesty to return to her own promising to serve her faithfully to the outmost of his power And returns again to Scotland to prepare the hearts of her Subjects against her home-coming After this her Majesty went to Janvile the Duke of Guise his dwelling place about the marches of Lorrain and at length went to visit the Duke of Lorrain at Nancy where I chanced to come shortly after in company of the Duke Casimir second Son to the Elector Pal●●ine But the Queen was already parted from the Court of Lorrain toward Janvile whither I took occasion to go to tender to her Majesty the offer of my most humble and dutiful service And the said Duke Casimir understanding that I was to ride thither did write a very kind Letter to her Majesty comforting her the best he could offering his service in case any in France should wrong or injure her and that he would bring to her aid upon her Letter Ten Thousand Men. Her Majesty was much refreshed with this friendly offer and she was pleased to give me thanks for the demonstrations I had given of being intirely devoted to her interest shewing me she had been made acquainted therewith while I was at the Court of France She desired me earnestly when I resolved to retire out of Germany to come home and serve her Majesty with very friendly and favourable offers So I returned back to the Duke Casimir who was about contracting a Marriage with the Duke of Lorrain's eldest Sister Which took not effect because the old Dutchess her Mother who was King Christierns Daughter of Denmark begotten upon the Emperour Charles his Sister who also lost the Kingdom of Denmark pretending to make it Hereditable whereas it was Elective The said King Christiernus was kept in Prison till his death This Dutchess his Daughter alledged that the Kingdom of Norway appertained unto her as Heir unto her Father and that the said Kingdom was Hereditary unto her Father albeit Denmark was not and intended then to marry her eldest Daughter unto Frederick King of Denmark and to give over with her said Daughter the Kingdom of Norway But the said Dutchess offered unto Duke Casimir her second Daughter which he refused and dealt with his Father to send me unto England to propose Marriage for him unto the Queen of England But I refused to undertake that Commission having ground to conjecture that she would never marry upon the reflection I made upon that story one of the Gentlemen of her Chamber had told me seeing she knowing her self unable for succession I supposed she would never render her self subject to any Man The said Duke was very much displeased at me because I refused About this time the Cardinal of Lorrain being at Trent took occasion to visit the old Emperour Ferdinand at Isbrack his dwelling place not far from Trent And there the said Cardinal proposed two marriages first the King of France Charles the Ninth to the eldest Daughter of Maximilian Son to Ferdinand lately chosen King of the Romans and co-adjutor to the Empire Then he proposed the Queen of Scotland Dowager of France to Charles Arch-duke of Austria brother to the said Maximilian The Queen was by this time returned to Scotland and apparently had been advertised by the said Cardinal that he had proposed the said marriage and it seems she had relished the Overture Her Majesty returning was gladly welcomed by the whole Subjects For at first following the counsel of her friends she behaved her self humanely to them all committing the chief handling of her affairs unto her Brother the Prior of St. Andrews whom afterward she made Earl of Murray and to the Secretary Lidingtoun as meetest both to hold the Countrey at her devotion and also to beget a strict friendship betwen her Majesty and the Queen of England For my Lord Murray had great credit with my Lord Robert Dudly who was afterward made Earl of Leicester And the Secretary Lidingtoun had great credit with the Secretary Cecil So that these four made a strict and sisterly friendship between the two Queens and their Countries So that there appeared outwardly no more difference but that the Queen of England was the Eldest Sister and the Queen of Scotland the Younger whom the Queen of England promised to declare second person according to her good behaviour So that Letters and correspondence past weekly betwixt them and at first there appeared nothing more desired by either of them then that they might see one another by a meeting at a convenient place whereby they might also declare their hearty and loving minds each to other For our Queen was so nettled with the hard usage she had met with from the Queen Mother of France who had likewise hardly used all her friends of the House of Guise that she was the more