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A47946
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The unequal match, or, The life of Mary of Anjou Queen of Majorca Part 1. an historical novel.
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La Chapelle, M. de (Jean), 1655-1723.; Spence, Ferrand.
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1681
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Wing L133; ESTC R10966
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the Glory of Charles as well as by Ambition for so fair a Conquest listened to the Proposition of Procula without seeming however to close with it till he first knew what the Pope's Sentiments were therein to whom this Physitian made two Journeys And in fine after several Paces and Sollicitations the Resolution being taken by Pietro d' Arragon Nicholaus the Third who then held the Pontificial See at Rome gave him the investiture of that Kingdom What was most strange in the success of an Affair of so great an Importance and at which Posterity will have ever reason to be astonished is that it was caried on with that Order and Secrecy for the space of Eighteen Months it was in Treaty that it could never come to the knowledge of any French Man Insomuch that in one and the same day at the first ringing of the Bell for Vespers generally all the Cities of that Kingdom took Arms and made a horrible Massacre of all the French without any exception And they were possessed to that Point with hatred or rather with fury against that Nation that they put to the Sword all the Women they found that they beleived to be with Child by any French Man This horrible Tragoedy happened in the Year 1281. about Eleven Years after the Entire Establishment of Charles the First in the two Kingdoms The Sicilians having thus cruelly freed themselves from the French and Pietro d' Arragon having taken possession of the Island Charles was forced to quit the vast designs he had on the East to think of having satisfaction for so cruel a Revolt He prepared a powerfull Army against Sicily and being come to beseige Messina he found the enterprize more difficult than he had beleived it Insomuch that he was obliged to raise the Siege and was repulsed as far as Calabria from whence he went to Rome to complain to the Pope of the Investiture he had given to Pietro of Arragon who in that time was Crowned at Palermo This Affair was agitated in full Assembly and the two Kings not agreeing it was resolved that it should be decided by the way of Armes between these two Princes and this Duell a thing very strange was even by the allowance of the Holy See Bourdeaux the Capital City of Gascony was chosen for the place of the Randevouz and the King of England for Judge Wherefore Charles came to the Place on the day assigned and waited the greatest part of the day for Peter of Arragon who kept himself so well concealed that no Body knew where he was only it had been heard said the day before that he was still so far from Bourdeaux that it was almost impossible he could arrive there on the Day of assignation Insomuch that Charles upon the going down of the Sun retired and departed at the same time from Bourdeaux Peter of Arragon who had run incessantly upon good Horses that he had caused to be placed upon the ways being arrived in cognito in the City kept himself concealed till Charles was gon and then he appeared in the Field of Battel in the presence of him who presided there being a Lord the King of England had sent in his place and complained of King Charles whose Impatient Haughtiness had not permitted him to attend his Arrival He walked in that manner upon the place till that he saw the Stars appear than he remounted his Horse and returned with the same swiftness that he came going as is reported Thirty Leagues that Night He retired into a place of safety thus deceiving King Charles but Martin the Fourth who was then Pope excommunicated him and conferred the Kingdom of Catalonia on Charles of Valois Second Son of Philip King of France In the time that King Charles went to Bourdeaux for this Duell Roger de Loria a Calabrian by Birth Admiral of King Peter of Arragon one of the most experienced as well as the bravest Captains that had e're been upon the Sea plyed all the Coast of Naples with Forty Five Galleys ruining all the Country as far as the City of Naples where he likewise came and shot an infinite number of Arrows reproaching the Neopolitans with Cowardice defying them to come fight him Which so strongly animated a Number of brave men there was in that City and especially the Young Nobility that could not endure so cruel an affront that Charles Prince of Salerno the only Son of Charles the Second took the Resolution of fighting him notwithstanding all the Opposition of the Legate and the Express Orders of the King his Father who had recommended to him to think only of well defending the City and not to come to blows with the Enemies This Prince I say pushed on with a desire of Glory as well as Indignation at so injurious a reproach went out with Thirty Galleys and some other Vessels of less Consequence and attacqued with more Valour than force Loria's Fleet who after a very sharp fight was at the length Conquerour took Nine Galleys and a great number of Young Lords amongst which was Charles Prince of Salerno who was kept with Nine of those he would choose and the rest were sent to Prison in Sicily of whom more than two Hundred were beheaded at Messina in revenge of the Death of Corradin Young Prince of Suevia whom King Charles whose Prisoner of War he was af-the cruel Sentence of Pope Clement the Fourteenth a Provential by Birth who wrote to him Vita Corradini mors Caroli mors Carradini vita Caroli this King I say put him into the Hands of Justice who condemned him to Death A Sentence however which not only every French Lord and Gentleman refused to Sign but whose Execution was fiercely opposed by the Count of Flanders Son-in-Law to King Charles saying that a Prince of that Blood was not to be put to Death after that manner But to give him his Liborty and to make him rather a Friend and an Ally by the means of a Marriage The Day after the defeat of the Prince of Salerno the King his Father returning from Gascony arrived at Gayeta with Sixty Galleys and Three great Ships with Soldiers and Horses and learnt the sad News of his Sons misfortune and that there was already a Revolt in the City of Naples all the People crying may Roger de Loria live and Charles dye At which this Prince fell into so great a Passion that being come near that City he would not Land at the Port but above the Church of the Carmelites where he descended with design to set on fire that ungratefull and rebellious City And was a long time in that cruel Resolution but at length conquered by the Tears of some good People and by the Prayers of the Legate he pardoned them after having caused a Hundred and Fifty of the most culpable to be hanged This punishment having both calmed and terrified the City all his cares were to raise a powerfull Army for to pass into Sicily which
Morning with Three of the finest Galleys of Naples having brought with him a Hundred Young Gentlemen whom his merit as well as his magnificence and Liberality bound to his Person He landed with this fine Train which immediately drew all the People to see them disembarke and they were so astonished at the richness of the habits as well as the good meen of the cheif and of those of his Company that the report run immediately through the City that it was King Charles himself who came to see his Daughter This news being presently carryed to Belver came to the Ears of the King of Majorca who not knowing what to think of it sent incessantly Don Geronimo to inform himself of the truth The Queen who had heard the report as soon as the King had an unspeakable joy and having sent for the Countess of Palomer they went together into her Cabinet from whence they saw those Three Galleys For Belver is upon a rising ground which commands over all the City They were in such delight that their joy was heard by all the apartment They were however in great pain as well as the King to know who was come not doubting but that it was some one that the King of Naples had sent in Consequence of their Letter and they expected with great impatience as well as the King the return of Don Geronimo to give them certain News In the mean time they did not fail to Figure to themselves a Thousand things thereupon This Minister being arrived at the City in the time that Count Hannibal was just landed and having conducted him to the Town-Hall through such a crowd of People that they could hardly pass through the Streets he had after some Ceremonies of Civility a particular discourse with him The Count gave him the Letter that the King wrote to him which he opened and read the particular Testimonies that that Monarch gave him of his esteem and favour From thence passing to the Affair in hand Don Geronimo gave to the Count the necessary instructions upon the measures he was to take and the manner he was to conduct himself after which they both mounted into one of the Kings Litters to go to Belver whether Don Geronimo had already sent a Gentleman to give notice to the King of the arrival of this Ambassador This Prince received him with the most Curtezy and Honour that his Humour little proper for these publick Ceremonies could permit him The Interview was very rare that was made in this Reception where the King on one part dressed like a dull heavy Merchant accompanied with Ten or Twelve Lords of his Court who had no better meens nor were better apparelled than himself and on the other Count Hannibal who was the handsomest Youth of all Italy all sparkling with Gold and the Jewels he had about him with that great number of Gentlemen all extreamly well dressed with a Courtly Air which Charmed and at the same time astonished all those Majorquins They made a noise in entring the Place and especially the French who made the greatest number that one would have said they went to beseige this poor King Count Hannibal after having made his Conge in the Chamber of Audience where he expected him spoak to him with a Grace and an Eloquence that the Morose Soul of this Monarch was Charmed with the praises that he gave him and became good natur'd in favour of him and more mild he embraced him Two or Three times with marks of kindness he had never shown to any one so much power over the most obdurate Hearts has a Person whom Nature has took delight in accomplishing The first audience which was about Ten of the Clock in the Morning being passed in Compliments and Ceremonies there was a particular one about Eight a Clock in the Evening in which the Count declared to the King the Subject of his Embassy in delivering him the Letter that the King his Master wrote to him and by which he prayed him to consider that the Princess he had marryed was the Daughter of a Monarch not fit to be treated after the manner he did that those were not the conditions of their alliance That he very well know that he had promised him to have that regard for her that was due to Daughters of her Rank That she should live at Majorca as she had lived at Naples and that however the difference was so great that having deprived her upon her arriving at his Court of all the Domesticks he had himself given her he had learnt from good hands that she had hardly People capable of serving her and that she was kept shut up in her apartment as a Criminal of State or as if she were accused of some infamous crime that this belonged more to a slave than a Queen that he prayed him not as a King but as his Ally Friend and Father-in-Law that he would change his conduct and treat his Daughter after a manner that all the Earth might not reproach him with having so ill marryed a Princess who merited and who could have had a more happy Destiny than that of being his Wife The King of Majorca well saw that King Charles his Father-in-Law wrote to him as a Prince who had newly got a Famous Victory and who begun to have no more need of him He was of a more peaceable than Warlike Humour and not being willing to draw upon himself the enmity of so powerful a Monarch he endeavoured to excuse upon the custom of the Country the conduct he had thitherto held with the Queen but that since it did not please the King his Father-in Law he would to disabuse him of the false Relations that might have been made him regulate himself as he should judge most convenient And it was concluded that very moment with Count Hannibal that the Queen should enjoy a modest Liberty for to walk when she pleased within and without the Palace of Belver when she thought fit that of the Persons who should serve her she might choose Six over whom she should have an entire power and that in fine the People who would see her or who had Affairs with her might approach her without any difficulty All those Articles of Peace being thus concluded the King would out of an excess of Civility that the Count himself should carry the news of it to the Queen whom he had not yet seen and prayed him at the same time he would make his Peace with her Hannibal promised him what he desired and going to her apartment where she expected him with the Countess of Palomer he saluted her but with a joy and such motions of Love fear and respect that are difficult to be described and I beleive that it is all that a very passionate man can do to imagine them The discontent of that Princess had not at all lessened her Beauty on the contrary they had added a certain languishing which in the midst of so