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A55960 The Paris gazette Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676, attributed name. 1670 (1670) Wing P359B; ESTC R220450 4,037 3

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The Magnanimious and High-borne Prince James Duke of yorke etc. Borne October the 14 th 1633 The PARIS Gazette Paris Anno Dom. 1490. THe Emperour Maximilian having courted Anne sole Daughter and Heir to the Duke of Britain prevailed at last with the young Lady and with the principal Persons about her as the Marriage was consummated by Proxy with a Ceremony at that time in these parts new For she was not only publickly contracted but stated as a Bride and solemnly Bedded and after she was laid there came in Maximilian's Embassadour with Letters of Procuration and in the presence of sundry Noble Personages Men and Women put his Legg stript naked to the Knee between the Espousal Sheets to the end that that Ceremony might be thought to amount to a Consummation and actual Knowledge This done Maximilian whose property it was to leave things then when they were almost come to perfection and to end them by imagination like ill Archers that draw not their Arrows up to the Head and who might as easily have bedded the Lady himself as to have made a Play and Disguise of it thinking all now assured neglecting for a time his further proceeding and intended his Warrs Mean while the French King consulting with his Divines and finding that this pretended Consummation was rather an Invention of Court than any ways valid by the Laws of the Church went more really to work and by secret Instruments and cunning Agents as well Matrons about the young Lady as Counsellours first sought to remove the Point of Religion and Honour out of the mind of the Lady her self wherein there was a double labour Maximilian was not only Contracted unto the Lady but Maximilian's Daughter was likewise Contracted to King Charles So as the Marriage ●alted upon both feet and was not clear on the other side But for the Contract with King Charles the exception lay plain and fair for that Maximilians Daughter was under years of Consent and so not bound by Law but a power of Disagreement left to either part But for the Contract made by Maximilian with the Lady her self they were harder driven having nothing to alledge but that it was done without the consent of her Soveraign Lord King Charles whose Ward and Client she was and he to her in place of a Father and therefore it was void and of no force for want of such consent Which defect they said though it would not evacuate a Marriage after Cohabitation and Actual Consummation yet it was enough to make void a Contract For as for the pretended Consummation they made sport with it and said That it was an argument that Maximilian was a Widdower and a cold Wooer that could content himself to be a Bridegroom by Deputy and would not make a little Journey to put all out of question So that the young Lady wrought upon by these Reasons finely instilled by such as the French King who spared for no Rewards or Promises had made on his side and allured likewise by the present Glory and Greatness of King Charles ●eing also a young King and a Batchelor and loth to make her Countrey the Seat of a long and miserable War secretly yielded to accept of King Charles Those of the Court of Britain her Subjects and Familiars insinuated into the Ladies mind the invalidity of a Marriage by Proxy that there was more of Solemnity and State in those contracts then Obligation That She ought not to make any Scruple of Conscience about the point where the good of her self and Subjects was so much concerned However in such accidents the Pope who hath power over all Laws Ecclesiastical would easily be brought to dispense with such Covenants not personally performed to prevent the miseries that grow by War L. Bacon Hist of Henry vii pag. 80 81. de Serres life of Charles viii The supplement of Phil. Comines chap. 6. A. D. 1489. The Case Ditto 1506. Lewis the twelfth K. of France had one only Daughter whose name was Claude the which by virtue of the Salique Law was excluded from inheriting the Crown the presumptive Heir being Francis Duke of Valois Earl of Angoulesme This Claude being not yet come to Age was betrothed to Charles the eldest Son of Archduke Philip and the same Marriage confirmed by more then one Legacy they entituling themselves Kings of Naples and Dukes of Apulia and Calabria After all this it was debated in the Kings Council and in all the Parliaments of France whether the said Espousals should be annulled And whether it were not most convenient for the Realm that Francis Duke of Valois should marry Her He being the undoubted Heir of the Kindom Arguments upon each side King Lewis thought the Case to contain matter of much difficulty In the first place he thought it repugnant to the Majesty and Grandeur of France that he should violate his Royal Word and Faith plighted with the Eldest Son of the K. of Castile And therefore He said that He could not upon any terms condescend and yield unto the Humble Request and Petition of his Peers and Parliaments who did and that rationally conclude that it would exceedingly contribute to the Peace Welfare of France if Francis of Valois did marry with Claude The Nobles and respective Parliaments proceeded upon this ground That Claude after the decease of King Lewis would as Inheritrix possess sundry Territories and Lordships in Italy France and the Netherlands which if they should be alienated from the Realm of France by her Marriage into Castile it would prove an unspeakable loss to the Crown of France For what was this else but to deliver up the Keys of the said Realm unto the Castilians the Hereditary Enemies of France for Preservation or the Recovery whereof there must needs arise most grievous Wars betwixt the immediate Successor of King Lewis and the Crown of Castile It did not seem credible unto them nor did they think the Councels of France ought to proceed on such uncertain Measures that the Alliance aforesaid would produce any great and durable Amity betwixt the two Nations There being nothing so Sacred or Solemn in the Leagues and Confederacies of Princes which doth not yield to their Ambition Enlargement of Empire is the Supream consideration in their Councels and from those desires even the most firm bonds of Friendship are daily violated Wherefore least the Territories of such Importance should come into the possession of the Castilians and their already potent Neighbour should receive so great an accessional of strength they thought the Espousals did not only deserve to be annulled bu ought in point of Right and Equity to be invalidated For the which they alledged two most powerfull reasons First they resolved it that His Majesty would proceed most exactly according to the dictates of Honour and Conscience if out of a tender regard unto the welfare and safety of his people He did insede from those Counsils which he had either presipitously