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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29289	The apology, or, The genuine memoires of Madam Maria Manchini, Constabless of Colonna, eldest sister to the Duchess of Mazarin written in Spanish by her own hand ; and afterwards made into English by a Person of Quality.; Apologie. English	Mancini, Maria, 1639-1715?; Brémond, Gabriel de.; Person of quality.	1679 (1679)	Wing B4344; ESTC R15149	61,211	191

found me unwilling to obey them I am sufficiently assured of it by her having put it to my choice to go into France or stay at Rome with my Aunt to be made a Nun and her asking me very seriously if I had not made a Vow to that purpose I very well remember the Answer I made her was There were Covents every where and that if ever I chanc'd to be so piously dispos'd I could be a Nun at Paris as well as at Rome and that I was not yet of a competent Age for making a choice of that consequence My Mother undeceived by this Answer resolv'd to take me along and to ease her self of the trouble she was in for the preference my Uncles orders gave me above my Sister she took us both with her We embarqued in a Gally of Genes sent us by that Republick whom my Uncle had particularly oblig'd I shall not take upon me the description of that floating Mansion that I may not lose time in setting forth the Richness and Magnificence of its Tackle and Furniture it shall suffice to acquaint you that during our Voyage the Pomp we were treated in was no less than Majestick and that the Tables of Kings are not serv'd with more Splendour or greater Magnificence than ours was four times a-day We landed at Marsellis where my Aunt more scrupulous than the Custome of the place requir'd made a long time some difficulty to receive the Civilities of the Town as not able to perswade her self to comply with some formalities that attend them But at last with much pain she master'd the difficulty though not without giving just cause of complaint for opposing things so long authoriz'd by Custome From Marsellis we pass'd to Aix where we were lodg'd in the House of the Governour of Provence being the Duke of Mercoeur who of all the Nobility of France had made the first Alliance with the Cardinal by marrying Victoria Manchini my eldest Sister having gone as far as Cologne to desire her in Marriage when his Eminence was forc'd to quit the Court. Two Months after our coming to Aix my Sister arriv'd there to keep us company And for six Months more that we tarry'd there all her care was to divert and treat us at the charge of the Duke her Husband who regal'dus every Day with extraordinary Magnificence These eight Months expired our Uncle thought us by that time pretty well fitted for appearing at Paris and sent us order to come to the Court there whither my Sister Victoria who was big with her first Child would bear us company notwithstanding the great severity of the Winter the danger she exposed her self to and the desire we had to give the Duke her Husband satisfaction made us wish she would have been perswaded to forbear giving us this proof of her kindness but the tenderness she had for us over-rul'd all our Reasons and prevail'd more than any consideration of danger or inconvenience she might fall into Those that know her will easily believe this and confess that Heaven never united a more Noble Soul with a handsomer Body nor so much Vertue with so much Beauty After a Months happy Journey we arriv'd at Paris where my Uncle saw us in private and received us with such particular expressions of kindness that wanting Words to describe them to the Life I shall satisfie my self by giving you an Idea of them in telling you it was an Enterview like that of Joseph and his Brethren which was attended with all possible evidences of a tender Affection And though my Sister Hortensia had no order to come as was hinted before her Beauty excus'd my Mothers bringing her along and the Cardinal was extreamly pleas'd at the sight of her Being pretty well recovered of our Journey we went to kiss their Majesties Hands who received us with particular demonstrations of kindness suitable to their Royal Grandeur But this happiness was very short liv'd being soon interrupted by a sudden and sad change of which I am going to give you account I was not fully recover'd of the fatigue of our Journey the liveliness of my humour disorder'd by so much agitation and my ill observation of dyet eating indifferently what was bad as well as what was good for me made me look so pitifully that my Uncle resolv'd to put me into a Covent to try as he said if that would recover me Besides he loo'd upon me as too young and raw and so great a stranger to the Language of the Country that he thought me not fit as yet to be introduced into so glorious a Court my Sister in all appearance should by reason of the like inconveniences have run the like fortune but she was so young or rather so beautiful that she was dispens'd with Thus was I put into the Covent of the Visitation in the Fauxbourgs St. Jacques where my Sister came two Months after to bear me company by order from his Eminence who at length thought her too young to continue at Court where her Beauty had introduc'd her and great pleasure was taken in seeing her insomuch that Mounsieur though very young could not live without her But that which principally mov'd his Eminence to take this Resolution was an humorous obstinacy he observ'd in my Sister which was thought to proceed partly from the liberty they gave her in the Palace by this means we were both in a Covent under the direction of Madam La Mere de Mignon Sister to the Prince President of Paris She took care of our Education and taught us French and all other things necessary for Maids of our age and quality and acquitted her self of her Charge with great pains and industry when we had been in that Covent a year and a half my Uncle sent to us Madam de Venele Maid of honour to my Sister the Duchess of Mercoeur with order to bring me to Fere a Town in Picardy where the Court then was Before this progress his Eminence desirous of an alliance with the Marshall Milleray had propos'd a Marriage between his Son the Great Master and me thinking it but just to dispose first of me who was the elder But the conduct of Love and of Reason are so very different his Eminence found he had to small purpose design'd me for the Great Master who had already made Choice of another object and wholly devoted himself to my Sister Hortensia from the first moment he saw her with such particular Circumstances that he said aloud he could rather spend his life in a Covent then marry any other I came to Fere wholly ignorant of the Design of marrying me but when I arriv'd there I had some confus'd knowledge of it by flying Reports which in few days vanish'd with the Treaty then on foot the Grand Master having by his answer declar'd the constancy of his affection for my Sister I continued at Court where by the help of that Light I had attain'd by age and care