daughter of France for the King of Spain 31 H Lord Hayes after Earl of Carlile Ambassador in Paris 34 The Duke of Halluin beats Serbellon and the Spaniards before Leucato 115 The Pr of Harcour relieves Casal appears before Turin takes it 129 The Hard fortune of Kings daughters 32 Henry the Great slain 3 His treasure his army his burial 4 Henry the third buried 22. yeers after his death 8 M. Hicks now Sir Ellis Hicks the good service he did at Montauban 58 Hesdin taken by the French 126 Twenty Holland men of War come according to article to serve the French King 68 The Lady Henrietta Maria married to the King of Great Britain 66 Humbert Duke of Viennois upon what termes he bequeath'd Dauphiné to Philip of Valois I King Jame's Letter to the French King 63 His passionate speech to his Counsell his complement to her Majesty now Queen 66 The Jacobins hold that in no case the Counsel is above the Pope the question solemnly debated in Paris 12 Inventions to torment Ravaillac 7 The Iesuits have the heart of Henry the Great 8 Jesuits not permitted to open their Colledge in Paris 11 The Imperialists and Spaniards overrun Picardy and Burgundy 113 Insurrection in Diion suppress'd 93 Insurrection in Normandy 126 John Duke of Bragansa made King of Portugal 130 His Letter to the K. of Spain 131 Saint John de Luz taken by the Spaniard 114 The Isles of Saint Margarita and Saint Honorat taken by the Spaniard 112 Repris'd by the French 115 Italian predictions of Henry the Greats death 4 K Kings presence oft-times advantagious 20 Kings of France majors when as high as a sword 21 New Knights of the Holy Spirit 46 L Landrecy taken by the Duke de la Valette 115 Letter of the King of Spain to the Duke of Bragansa 130 Letter of King James to the French King 63 Letter from Richelieu to the Q. Mother 160 Letters interchangeable 'twixt Buckingham and Toiras 83 Letter from Condé to the Queen Mother 18 Letter from the Queen Mother to Condé 19 Letter from the Queen at her first arrivall in France to the King 31 Letters from the King to Monsieur 104 Letters from the King to the Duke of Halluin 116 Letters from the King to Condé 47 Letters to Toiras against the English 82 The Duke of Lerma marrieth the Infanta for the King of France 31 Lewis the Thirteenth his inclination and sports when young 3 His minority 5 His solemn coronation 10 His majority declar'd by Parlement 21 His gracious declaration to the Princes 35 His speech to his Mother after d' Ancres death 39 He beds with the Queen 43 A clash 'twixt him and the Parlement at Paris 47 His exploits in Bearn 50 His Protest to the Assembly of Notables 75 His answer to the Rochelers when they yeelded 86 He crosseth the Alps in Winter 87 Hath a shrewd fit of sicknes 96 His harsh answer to them of the Religion 62 His harsh Declaration against his Mother 99 His Declaration against Spain 100 His speech to the Palsgrave 127 His speech to the D. of Lorain 132 reduc'd to a great straight 32 He protects the Catalan 134 His death with the circumstances thereof 135 Examples of his piety 139 Divers speeches of his 139 His chastity and constancy 140 His exploits run over 142 Did greater things then Henry the Great 143 Divers things objected against him 141 Duke of Longuevill in arms 18 L'esdiguiers made Constable 59 Luynes put first to the King 3 Incenses the K. against d'Ancre 38 Hath Ancres estate given him and made Constable 52 A clash twixt him and Sir Ed. Herbert then Lo Ambassadour now Baron of Cherbery 55 A Dialogue between them 55 How worthily the English Ambassador compos'd himself 56 Luynes dieth of the Plague in the Army 58 His Legend 59 Duke of Lorain meets the King at Metz. 101 Duke of Lorain waves the performance of homage for the Duchy of Bar. 106 His complement to the King 106 He comes to Paris 132 Monsieur de Lien Cour Governor of Paris 29 M Marie de Medici declar'd Queen Regent by Parlement 5 Her speech upon the resignation of the Government 22 Her discours with Marossan about her escape 45 The first war with her son 44 The second war with her son 48 The beginning of her aversenes to the Cardinal 96 The causes of it 98 Her complaint against him 99 She returns to Flanders in discontent 99 Thence to Holland and so to England then to Colen where she died 133 Her high qualities 134 Mariana's opinion touching Kings protested against in Paris 9 Q. Margaret de Valois dieth her Character 26 Moderation the true rule of wisdom 13 Mazarini makes a peace in Italy 96 Monsieur maried to the Duke of Monpensiers daughter 72 His complement to her 73 He falls in love with the Duke of Montava's daughter and being cross'd flies to Lorain 92 Flies again to Lorain 103 He entreth France with an Army of strangers 103 His high propositions to his brother 104 Flies the third time to Lorain 105 Marieth the Lady Margaret the Duke of Lorains sister goes then to Flanders whence at the Infante Cardinals approach he steales away to France 106 Duke of Monmorency joyn's with Monsieur is defeated by Schomberg 104 Is beheaded at Tholouze 105 Morocco Ambassador in Paris his credential Letter 102 Montauban the last Town of them of the Religion which submitted 91 Monpellier capitulats by the Duke of Rohans advice 60 Morgard the Astrologer made Gallislave 14 N Nancy given up to the French 106 The Nature of the Spaniard in adversity 131 The Nonage of Lewis the Thirteenth 5 The Nonage of Lewis the Fourteenth now King 135 O The Oath the Queen of Englands French servants were to take 65 Open hostility 'twixt France and Spain pronounc'd by Herauld 111 Saint Omer besieged by the French who were forc'd to retire 123 Octavio Lassani an Astrologer his prediction of the Duke of Savoy's death 94 Obelisks and triumphant Arches in Rome in joy of the Dauphins Nativity 125 Oxenstern Ambassador in France 112 The Outrages the French committed at Tillemont 112 P Paris in great fear 114 Parlement of England superiour to the Assembly of the three Estates of France in numbers and state 23 Perrons prudent cariage in the great Assembly 24 Pensions of the Crown of France 27 Pasquills upon the Gates of the Louur 40 Pasquill upon the Cardinals gates 168 Pasquill in Rome of the King and the Cardinal 168 The old Parlement of France turn'd now to an Assembly of Notables 74 Peace renew'd by the intervention of the Venetian and proclaim'd at Privas 'twixt England and France 88 Pignerol taken by the Cardinal 94 Pignerol sold to the French King 97 The Parlement of Paris suspends the verification of the Kings Declaration against Monsieur and is sharply rebuk'd 98 The Palsgrave prisoner in France releas'd and the Kings speech unto him 127 Philipsburg taken by the Spaniard 108
and said that this controversie being not of Faith it might be lawfull for them tother side the Alps to hold it affirmative and for those of this side negative but to condemn one another positively thereupon was to bring a schisme into the Church Great was the confusion and clashings that grew out of this Till Morelles a Spaniard who sate in the chaire stood up and protested that this position was propounded only as problematicall without dessein to determin any thing thereupon Another enlarg'd himself further saying that they tother side the Hils have their reasons for the affirmative part and others for the negative The French acknowledg sufficiently the hierarchy of the Church and in consequence of that they receive the Decrees and Ordinances of the Vicar of Christ in every thing that concerns spirituall matters points of Faith and policy Ecclesiastic They make their addresses to him for dispensations to hold incompatible benefices to be promoted to Prelacy or other dignities being not of age for degrees of kinred and affinitie in mariages They hold with all Antiquity that it belongs to the Pope to indict oecumenical and universal Counsels to approve ratifie and authorize their Decrees and in this sense the Pope may be said to be above the Counsell But if the Pope should under pretext of spiritual jurisdiction attempt to enervat and lessen the temporal power of Kings which they hold immediatly and foly from the great God it is then lawfull for them to appeal to a generall Counsell And in this sense the Counsell may be said to be above the Pope Richer the Syndic of Sorbon was hottest of any that assisted in this dispute for the negative part and writ a book entitled de Ecclesiastica et Politica Potestate which was condemn'd by the solemn censure of Cardinal Perron and sundry other great Prelats who held a Congregation purposely about it but with this modification provided that the rights of the King and Crown of France with the immunities and enfranchisements of the Gallican Church be not prejudic'd But they condemn'd the Syndiks Book because he went about to turn the Hierarchy of the Church which is a Monarchy into an Aristocracy Richer was thrust out of his Sindicship for the said book though directly against the Statuts of the Colledg of Sorbon whereof one is that no Syndic be dispossess'd of that place but with his own free will And thinking to plead this the Counsell of State overrul'd the case and a Mandamus came in the Kings name to proceed in the Election of a New Syndic There issued also out a Declaration wherin the King sharply reprehends the congregating of the said Bishops without his royal Commission and for passing a generall extravagant and incertain censure of the said Book wherein they seem'd to rebuke and approve confirm and condemn the tenets thereof whereof most were Orthodoxal which tended to puzzle the brains of men and form scrupulous imaginations in their intellectuals whence might ensue dangerous consequences Thus those high contentions were hush'd which were like to have usher'd a shrewd schisme into the Gallic Church had not Moderation guided the helm Moderation that sage sober Matron the inseparable attendant of true Sapience and Policy and happy are those Counsels those Soverain Courts and Parliaments where she sits in the chaire This yeer 1612. was remarkable for the interchangeable Alliance that was made twixt France and Spain the French King being affianced to the Infanta Anne of Austria and the Prince of Spain now Philip the fourth to the Eldest daughter of France Madame Elizabeth of Bourbon The great Duke of Mayn great in constitution as in qualitie being one of the goodliest personages of Europe was employed Ambassador to Spain He made his entrance to Madrid with 245. sumpter Mules 50. houshold Officers came after two by two and 52. Pages with a querry before them and their Governor behind Then followed the Duke himself accompanied with the Prince of Tingry 7. Earls 4. Marquises 17. Lords and above 200. Gentlemen He was brought in by 500. Spanish Ginetts At his lodging he had ten Coches every day attending besides his own three The busines it seems was wrought to his hand before his coming for he met with no difficulties at all The contract of the mariage was in Spanish and French but the French was first sign'd though the other first read The dotal portion was but 600000. crowns on either side which was payed and no purse open'd being a crosse mariage the summe of the dowry was so moderat because there might peradventure happen an occasion of restitution But the wonder was not so much at the smalnes of the dowry as of the joynture of both Princesses which was but 20000. crowns yeerly rent Much praecaution was us'd by the Spaniard that to correspond with their Salic law in France the Infanta should renounce all right of succession to the Crown and dominions of Spain known or unknown The Duke of Mayn was much honor'd for the time and once the King took him out of purpose to ride by his side through the town under pain of indispensable death none was to draw sword against any Frenchman while he was there The Duke was presented with a chain and Hatband valued at 15000. crownes with four Ginetts And hoping it might prove a good omen for the prosperitie of the match the Feast of Saint Lewis was commanded to be celebrated with as much solemnitie and held as holy as any other Saints day in the whole Calender The Duke of Pastrana came that summer to Paris in another such splendid Equippage and concluded the counterpart of the match Sundry sorts of triumphs pass'd in Paris upon these reciprocall Contracts but the two Princes of the bloud would take no share in those public solemnities but retir'd from Court in disgust Causing some Confidents of theirs to blaze abroad the grounds of their grievances which were That the Queen Regent did not communicat unto them the most important affaires of State That she had concluded the foresaid mariages without their advice That they were untimely and praecipitat considering the age of the Princes That the Queen steer'd the great vessell of the State by a forren compasse That the masse of treasure left by the last King was exhausted with such like But a way was found to comply with them for that time so they both return'd to Court where Soissons died a little after But there was a more dangerous consequence then this like to ensue for the said match and so much intimacy with Spain bred ill bloud amongst them of the Religion and fill'd them with ombrages of fear it might turn to their prejudice and danger one day in so much that a disposition of rising was discover'd in them generally which was aggravated by an ill-favour'd accident that happen'd in the Town of Nismes in Languedoc where one of their prime Preachers Ferrir being turn'd Roman
his majoritie and raigne and so our storie shall grow up with him in dimensions and yeares Of his Nativitie and Dauphinage LEwis the thirteenth second French King of the Bourbon line had for his father Henry the great and the great Duke of Toscanies daughter for his mother The first we know was sent out of the world by Ravaillac the second by Richelieu as some out of excesse of passion doe suggest For this great Queene having conceived a deep displeasure and animositie against him and not liking his counsels and course of policy to put quarrels and kindle a war betwixt her children in a high discontentment she abandon'd France and so drew a banishment upon her selfe which expos'd her to divers encumbrances removes and residences abroad and this some thinke accelerated her end For great spirits have this of fastnesse and constancie in them that where their indignation is once fixed for having their counsels cross'd their authoritie lessen'd and the motions of their soules resisted they come ofttimes to breake rather then bow As we see the huge Cedars who scorning to comply with the windes and stormes fall more frequently then the Willow and poore plying Osier who yeeld and crouch to every puffe But to our chiefe taske When the sixteenth Christian centurie went out Lewis the thir teenth came into the world and he began the seventeenth being borne in the yeere sixteene hundred and one about the Antumnall Equinoctiall which was held to be a good presage that he would prove a good Iusticer The Queene had a hard delivery her body having beene distemper'd by eating of fruit too freely so that when the Midwife brought him forth to the King and to the Princes of the blood in the next roome who according to the custome of France use to be present for preventing of foule play for an Heire apparant of the Crown his tender body was become black and blue with roughnesse of handling and the Midwife thinking to have spouted some wine out of her mouth into his the King tooke the bottle himselfe and put it to the Dauphins lips which reviv'd his spirits His publique Baptisme was not celebrated till five yeers after at Fontainebleau because the plague was in Paris and the solemnitie was greater in preparation and expectance then it was in performance The King would have had him nam'd Charles but the Mother over-rul'd and gave the law in that point and would have him called Lewis Paul the fifth was his godfather notwithstanding that the Spanish faction did predominate in the Conclave at his election which happen'd about the time the Dauphin was borne And the French Ambassadour then at Rome meeting with the Spanish at Saint Angelo and telling him Ilmio Rè há fatto un maschio my King hath made a sonne The Spanish Ambassadour answer'd il mio Rè há fatto un Papa and my King hath made a Pope It seemes that Mercury the father of eloquution and who hath the powerfullest influence ore the tongue was oppressed by a disadvantagious conjunction with a more praedominate planet at his Birth which appear'd by that naturall slownesse he had in his speech as Lewis the sixt his predecessor and last Emperour of the six French Kings had But a rare thing it was and not to be paralleld in any age that two of the greatest Kings of Europe I meane the Dauphin we now write of and His Majesty of England now regnant should come both into the world within lesse then ten moneths compasse the one in November the other in September next following I say a most rare thing it was that it should so fall out that as they were contemporaries in yeares and raigne the same kinde of utterance should be coincident and connaturall to them both though the haesitation be lesse in Him of November Besides it seemes he is richly requited with the advantage of an incomparable imperious pen wherein nature joyning hand with Art hath made him so rich a compensation that he may well claime the palme of all his progenitors But now againe to our Infant Dauphin which the English with other call Dolphin commonly but very corruptly for 't is not from a fish but a faire Province that he derives this appellation the very instant he comes into the world the ground whereof was this Humbert last Dauphin of Viennois having lost his eldest sonne in that famous battaile of Crecy against the English and his tother sonne having died of a fall from betwixt the Fathers armes as he was dallying with him The said Humbert being oppressed by the Duke of Savoy and others transmitted and bequeathed as free gift the brave Province of Dauphinè unto Philip of Valois then King of France with this proviso that his eldest sonne and so of all successive Kings should beare the title of Dauphin to perpetuity during their fathers lifes holding it as he did and his progenitors had done in fee of the Empire This was the sixteenth Dauphin since the first who was Charles the wise in the yeare 1349. whereby I observe that the precedent title of the presomptif Heire of the Crowne of France is not so ancient by halfe a hundred of yeares as the title of Prince of Wales to the Heire apparant of England which begun in Edward the firsts time who conferred that honour upon his sonne Edward of Caernarvon 1301. But this title of Dauphin seemes to have a greater analogie with the Dukedome of Cornwall which title was confer'd first upon the black Prince because this as that of Dauphin needes no creation for ipsissimo instante the very moment that any of the King of Englands sons come to be Heire apparant of the Crowne he is to have liverie and seisin given him of the Dutchy of Cornwall with all the honours and lands annexed for his present support Touching those publike passages of State that happened during the Dauphinage of Lewis the thirteenth while Henry the fourth lived we will nor meddle with them because we would not confound the actions of the father with those of the sonne He was educated with that speciall care and circumspection wherewith the Dauphins of France are wont to be bred as also with that freedome from overmuch awe and apprehensions of feare which is observed in the French breeding generally because the spirits may not be suppressed and cowd while they are ductible and young and apt to take any impression He was not much taken with his booke nor any sedentary exercise but with pastimes abroad as shooting at flyes and small hedge birds to which end his Father put to him Luynes who had many complacentious devices to fit his humour that way for which petty volatill sports he soard at last to the highest pitch of honour that a French subject could flie unto for of a gentleman in decimo sexto he was made Duke Peer and Lord high Constable of all France But he had the advantage to have the managing of his masters affection
of Indexes untill it be corrected and the correction approv'd according to the rules of the Index In the said Decree the word respectively some imagined to be inserted of purpose as an evasion to shew that the Jesuits do not absolutely condemn the doctrin of Becanus but only as it invades the Prerogatives of the French Crown They of the Religion as I told you before suspected some ill consequences of the crosse Match with Spain and feared it would prove crosse to them in time Moreover the Princes of the bloud and others repin'd at the power of D' Ancre whereupon the Duke of Bovillon prime Marshall of France and prime Machinator of this tumult came to visite the Prince of Conde and made a solemn studied speech unto him as followeth My Lord it would be impudence in me to represent unto you the deplorable estate of France whereof you have more knowledge then I or to touch the arrogance of Conchiny which you must needs daily resent or to make his power suspected which is the next dore to tyranny or to exhort you to oppose his pernicious desseins The consideration of your own safety with that of France is enough to rouze up your generous thoughts and to administer Counsell to you who are the most judicious Prince of Europe Moreover in such a manifest and urgent affair as this ther 's no need of Remonstrance consultation or exhortation but to apply some sudden and actuall remedy Therefore I addresse my self now to your Excellence not onely to offer you my means but my person as also 100000. men who would esteem themselves happy to serve you and will hold it a glory to employ their bloud to the last drop under your conduct for the good of the State and your just defence against this Faquin Florentin this Florentine porter who plots the ruin of all those Princes and Peers of the Kingdom who would oreshadow his advancement and hinder to establish his tyranny The difference of Religion which we professe ought not to empeach a strong and solid union between us in the conjuncture of so common a danger considering that while we endeavour our own safety we secure the State generall and incolumity of our Countrey which are conditions inseparable from the Kings service whose Sacred Person is not safe enough under the irregular ambition of a stranger which his Majesty himself begins now to perceive and seeing his liberty engag'd fears the ambition of this tyrant and will find himself oblig'd to those that can rid him of him My Lord you are well assur'd that the greatest part of the Princes finding themselfs involv'd in the same interest with you are touch'd with the same resentments and dispos'd to joyn with your Excellence in a project as glorious as necessary For doubtles the Gentry of France in whom consist the sinews of our armies being naturally averse to the commandements of a stranger will run unto you from all parts to assist you with their armes Touching the Towns you need not doubt but a good part of them which are under the Government of the Princes will declare themselfs for you And I give you certain assurance that They of the Religion which are the strongest and best provided with soldiers artillery ammunition and victualls of any other will declare themselfs for your party as soon as you shall publish your laudable intentions by some Manifesto It concerns your Excellence therefore my Lord to take hold of Time by the foretop for the restauration and safetie of the State in generall and your own in particular and of all the Princes and Gentry of the Kingdom But if you let Occasion escape you know that she is bald behind and you shall never be able to catch her again Besides the Armies which you might justly raise now during the Kings minority and by reason the government is usurped by an Alien who hath not so much as the quality of a Gentleman wold be hereafter felony and treason under the majority and liberty of our lawfull Monark The Prince was a subject fit to be wrought upon and ready to receive any print for he could not brook the exorbitant power of D' Ancre therefore having assurance that the Dukes of Nevers Main Longueville Luxemburg and the said Bovillon would follow him he retires to Mezieres upon the frontire of Champany he made choice of that place because it was his Patrimony and that he might have a sure Rendevous of Sedan if need required The Duke of Vendosme thinking to retire to Britany was arrested in the Louure but he got loose by a trick and the Chevalier his brother was sent to Malta The foresaid male-contented Princes recruted dayly in Champany But had the young King got a horsback and pursued them presently though with a petty Army the Countrey wold have riss with him and so he had prevented their encrease and driven them in all probabilitie to Sedan where he might have kept them in exile with a small Army on the frontires And his Counsell was much tax'd for not advising him so But in lieu of arms he sent Ambassadors and Epistles after them to perswade their return or if they refused to amuse them till he might raise forces sufficient to encounter them to which end he sent to Swisserland for 6000. men but Bovillon by his artifice hinder'd that design from taking its full effect Thus a fearfull storme was like to fall on France for the male-contents dispers'd themselfs to divers strong holds Longuevill went to Picardy Main to Soissons Bovillon to Sedan and Vendosme was as busie as any other to raise the Countrey in Britain Conde continued still at Mezieres nor could any Letter from King or Queen Regent sent by the Duke of Ventadour reduce him He writ to the Queen That the ill government which he imputed not to Her but to ill Counsellors were the cause of his retirement who because they might have the sole direction of things hindred the convocation of the States generall which were used to assemble always in the Kings minority he complain'd that the mariages with Spain were precipitated that the authority of the Parliament was diminished the Church-men trampled upon the Nobles undervalued the people laden with gabells and tallies divisions sowed in Sorbon and the University with divers other soloecismes in the present Government In his conclusion he insists much upon the convocation of the States generall of the Kingdom sure free a suspension of the mariage with Spain and so concluds with much complement These were specious pretences but they were as so many imaginary lines drawing to one reall Center which was the Marq of Ancre who indeed was the sole grievance and not He neither but his power and privacy with the Queen Regent which they thought to demolish by Arms. The Queen Regent in her answer to Conde reprocheth him that he had not imparted these things privatly to her to whom he had perpetual
'twixt him and the gown-men of the law amongst others Du Vair the then Lord Keeper and he could not agree Du Vair did him ill offices to Luynes who began to malign him more and more So the little Duke had two mighty enemies at once the one full of cunning the other of credit with the King therefore being at the Town of Metz the King sent him order not to stir thence because there were like to be wars in Germany Espernon sent answer that he being in the next place to Germany had receiv'd certain advice that there are no commotions like to be there that his Majesties service and his own affairs were all in a disarray in Guyen and that he knew not in what to serve him there unlesse it were to convey his packets to and fro Therefore he humbly desir'd his Majesties permission to go for Guyen whither some pressing occasions call'd him and that La Vallette his son shall render him a good account of that place The Queen Mother and he had much privat intelligence and she sent him an expresse to complain unto him of her hard condition and withall she sent the Originall of a late Letter unto her from the King wherein he permits her to go to any Town or place throughout his Dominions his own Court excepted so in conclusion she prayes and conjures him as he was a Cavalier to help her out and conduct her to Angoulesme The old Duke was glad of this advantageous conjuncture of things therefore without any further attendance of the Kings pleasure he suddenly leaves Metz commanding the Gates to be close shut for two dayes after his departure and so went towards the Queen Mother with a resolution to intermingle his interests and dangers with hers So he employ'd le Plessis a confident of his who receiv'd the Queen first of all out of the Castle window and convey'd her over the river in the dead of night where she met the Archbishop of Tholouse after Cardinal de la Valette with 15. horse and a little further the Duke himself with 60. great horse for he would have no more for making too great a noise so he attended her to Angoulesme The King resented to the quick this presumption and hardinesse of the Duke who being asked how he durst venture upon so dangerous an enterprise he answer'd Because I would have two cables to my Ship in a storme that was like to fall upon me The King hereupon frames an army to chastise the insolence of Espernon the Duke of Guyse was commanded to come from Province and the Duke of Mayn from Guien to meet him about Angoulesme with forces Some held it to be a derogatory and unbefitting thing in the King to keep such a stir for to have a revenge upon his own Mother and upon a Vassal and an old Officer of the Crown and so advis'd his Majesty to go thither with his ordinary Guards Others counsel'd him to separat the interests of the Queen Mother from the Dukes and to send a person of quality to her to dispose of her to a conformity to his pleasure and to leave the Duke to stand upon his own legs To which purpose divers were sent unto her from the King but in vain for she could never be brought to abandon the interests of Espernon who had expos'd himself to such dangers for her Hereupon the Bishop of Lucon afterwards Cardinal of Richelieu who was retir'd to Avignon and had been in great esteem with her formerly was sent for by the Kings command to atetnd the Queen and being a man of eloquence and of powerfull reasons he moulded the Queens mind as he pleas'd and fitted it for a reconciliation being thus prepar'd the King sent Marossan unto her to assure her of the obedience and love of a Son and withall to demand of her a dimission of the government of Normandy for other places which she should have in exchange She as'kd Marossan whether he brought any letters from the King about that he said no because the King at the first enterview would speake with her by word of mouth about it but he was resolv'd not to write to her and why so replied the Queen Madame said he I have not in charge to tell you the reason but if you command me I will You will do me a pleasure said she It is Madame because the King having written unto you a letter full of affection at Blois wherein he was willing you might go into any other place within his Kingdom you gave the letter to the Duke of Espernon thereby to affoord him means to colour his conveying you away from Blois and conduct you hither for fear therefore that you would doe the like again he is resolv'd to write no more unto you of any matter of moment The Queen enlarg'd her self upon that subject saying That any body would do as she did being in captivitie there being nothing that the brute animals desire more then freedom and therefore this inclination was not to be wondred at in rationall creatures so she came to the point and conform'd her self to the Kings desires in every thing Matters being brought to this passe the King suffer'd the Prince of Piemont to go visit her which he had long desir'd with much impatience being come with his brother Prince Thomaso neer Angoulesme Espernon with a hundred great horse went to meet them in a handsome equippage The Prince stay'd there some dayes to wait upon his new Mother in law and at his departure she gave him a Diamond of high price which was the Emperour Ferdinands her Grandfather and so he return'd to the King A while afterthere was an enterview appointed 'twixt the King and his Mother at Cousieres a House of the Duke of Monbazons in Touraine The Duke of Espernon attended her to the farthest limits of his government and at parting she gave him a rich Diamond conjuring him never to part with it but that it might be preserv'd from father to son as an eternall gage of her gratitude and in memory of the gallant and most signal service which he had render'd her to the hazard of his life and fortune The Duke us'd to wear the said Diamond afterwards upon his finger in a ring upon festivall dayes which he said cost him two hundred thousand Crowns The Queen being come to the place of meeting Luynes who was now made Duke and Peer of France and Governor of Normandy was sent from the King before-hand after his first audience the Queen brought him to her Cabinet where she melted into passion and complain'd of the hard usage she had receiv'd which she would quite forget yet she could not refrain from falling still upon the mention of her hard usage which did her no good afterwards for Luynes thereby fear'd that matters pass'd had taken such lasting impressions in her that they could never be defac'd and considering the vindicatif spirits of the Nation whence
in so much that he would give no generall pardon but reserv'd five for death and there were most pittifully drown'd and kill'd in the Town above 800. whereof there were above 200. Gentlemen The King having reduc'd Clayrac though it cost him dear his thoughts then reflected upon Montauban which after Rochell was the prime propugnacle and principallest Town of security They of the Religion had in the whole Kingdom There was a Royall summons sent before and it was accompanied with a large persuasive Letter from the Duke of Suilly who was one of the chiefest Grandes they had of the Reformed Religion to induce them to conformitie and obedience some interpreted the Letter to a good sense but the populasse by the instigation of the Ministers would not hearken to it This was that Duke of Suilly that had bin a Favorit to Henry the Fourth whom he had reduc'd from a Roman to be a Reformist when he was King of Navar onely and perswading him to become Roman again the Duke bluntly answer'd Sir You have given me one turn already you have good luck if you give me any more Thereupon the siege began and the great Duke of Mayn who had newly come with additionall forces to the King began the first battery and spent 500. Cannon bullets upon them a breach was made but with losse of divers men of note amongst the Royallists the Marquis of Themines breath'd there his last And not long after the brave Duke of Mayn himself peeping out of a gabion within his trenches was shot by a common soldier from the Town The Parisians were much incens'd for the losse of the Duke of Mayn therfore as some of the reformed Religion were coming from Charenton-Sermon they assaulted them in the way hurt divers kil'd some and going on to Charenton they burnt the Temple there but a few nights after two great bridges ore the Seinn were burnt quite down to the water in the City of Paris and a great store of wealth consum'd and it was interpreted to be a just judgement from Heaven for burning of Charenton Temple The Duke of Angoulesm was sent to counter-car the forces of the Duke of Rohan who was then in motion in Guyen and Angoulesm was so succesfull that he gave him a considerable defeat by taking the strong Fort of Fauch in defence whereof 400. of the Reformists were slain The contagion rag'd furiously in the Kings Army before Montauban and divers persons of quality died of it amongst others the Archbishop of Sens brother to Cardinall Perron and the Bishops of Valentia Carcassona and Marseillis and Pierre Matthieu the Historiographer added to the number of the dead This with the approach of Winter caus'd the King to raise his siege from before the Town having lost above five hundred Noblemen and Gentlemen of qualitie besides thousands of common souldiers During this pertinacious siege before Montauban there was a remarquable thing pass'd which was this There was a cunning report rais'd in the Kings Army that Rochell which was then also beleaguer'd by the Count of Soissons and the Duke of Guyse the first by Land the other by Sea was rendred upon composition this report was made to fly into Montauban which must needs strike a shrewd apprehension of fear into her they of Rochell hearing of it articled with Master Hicks an English Gentleman now Sir Ellis Hicks who spake the Language perfectly well that if he would undertake to carry a Letter into Montauban he should receive a noble reward Master Hicks undertook it and passing through the Army that was before Rochell came to Tholouse where my Lord of Carlile was then Ambassador extraordinary Master Hicks meeting with Master Fairfax a young Gentileman brother to the now Lord Fairfax he did associat much with him They both went to see the siege before Montauban and being Gentlemen and thought to be of the English Ambassadors train there was little heed taken of them They got one day between the Kings Trenches and the Town and Hicks being very well mounted told Fairfax If you love your life follow me so he put spurs to his horse having showers of shots powr'd after him he came safe to the gates of Montauban and so he deliver'd the intrusted Letter which brought news in what a good posture Rochell was this so animated the besieged that the next day they made a sally upon the Kings Forces and did a notable execution upon them and a little after the Siege was rais'd so Master Hicks besides the honor of the act had a guerdon equall to the importance of the service and danger of the attempt but Master Fairfax who was inscious of the dessein staying behind and being apprehended was put to the torture and a Diaper napkin dipt in boyling water was squeaz'd down his throat whereof he died a hard destiny of a most hopefull young Gentleman Within the compasse of this yeer there died Paul the Fift Philip the Third of Spain the Arch-Duke Albertus in Flanders Cosmo de Medicis Gran Duke of Toscany and Cardinall Bellarmin To whom may be added also the Duke of Luynes Lord high Constable of France who died in Longuetille a small Town in Languedoc of the purple feavor He was one of the greatest Favourits for so short a time that ever were in France since the Maires of the Palace from whom Emperours afterwards issued His Countrey was Provence and he was a Gentleman by descent though of a petty extraction In the last Kings time he was preferd to be one of his Pages who finding him a good waytor allowed him three hundred crowns per an which he husbanded so frugally that he maintain'd himself and his two brothers in passable good fashion The King observing that doubled his pension and taking notice that he was a serviceable instrument and apt to please he thought him fit to be about his son the Dauphin in whose service he had continued above 15. yeers by a singular dexteritie he had in Faulconry he gain'd so far upon the young Kings affection that he soard to that high pitch of Honor. He was a man of a passable understanding of a mild comportment humble and debonnair to all suters but he was too open in his counsels and desseins he had about him good solid heads who prescrib'd unto him rules of policy by whose compasse he steer'd his cours He came at last to that transcendent altitude that he seem'd to have surmounted all reaches of envie and made all hopes of supplanting him frustrat both by the constant strength of the Kings favor and the powerfull alliances he had got for himself and his two brothers He married the Duke of Montbazons daughter his second brother Cadenet the Heiresse of Pequigny with whom he had 9000. pound lands a yeer His third brother married the Heiresse of Luxemburg of which House there have bin five Emperors so that the three Brothers with their alliances were able to counterbalance
Truncheon of Marshall was sent him The Pope interpos'd also in this busines and had Forces there and there were sundry skirmishes fought The Spaniard told the Pope lowdly That he came thither to conquer Heretiques and the places which he had taken from them were by consequence justly acquir'd and so might be justly kept howsoever it was reason he should hold them untill his charges were reimbours'd Hereupon Cardinal Barberin was sent to France to accommode things but little could be done for that time This War of the Valtolins begot another twixt the Duke of Savoy and Genoa the principall motive whereof was to divert the Spaniard from the Conquest of the Valtoline Yet the Savoyard alledg'd that the Genois usurped divers places from him that they had offer'd him some indignities in defacing and vilifying his picture whereby they imitated the Leopard who by the naturall hatred he beares to man useth to teare his image with his ongles and teeth when he cannot exercise his fury upon his body The old Constable Lesdiguieres notwithstanding that he had one foot in the grave yet it seems he had an ambition to die in the field therefore he made earnest instances to the King that he would be pleas'd to employ him against the Genois Hereupon he clammer'd over the Alpes to Piemont where he with the Duke of Savoy made an Army of twentie five thousand foot and four thousand horse which they powr'd into the territories of Genoa The Constable with Crequy his son in law had the Vantgard The Duke with the Prince of Piemont seconded and they march'd severall roads The French took Capriata which was taken by Storm and all were put to the sword and plunder the inhumanitie whcih the Souldiers exercis'd upon the women and maides rais'd an ill odor of the French in Italy He took divers other places And the Duke of Savoy on the other side rendred himself Master of sundry strong holds In the interim there were three Spanish vessels which sayling from Barcelona to Genoa were by distresse of weather forc'd upon the Coasts of Marseilles and being out of any Port of commerce they were seiz'd upon by the Duke of Guyse hereupon the Genois made a loud complaint in Madrid and the King of Spain resented it so much that a Proclamation issued out to Arrest all French vessels that were in any haven of Spain and also to seize upon all the Marchants goods and it was thought there were neer upon two hundred thousand French then dwelling or trading in Spain and eighteen thousand in Madrid it self of all sorts of Marchants and Pedlers In correspondence to this The French King publish'd a Declaration wherein he interdicted all commerce to Spain The violent progresse of the French and Savoy Army against Genoa awaked all the Princes of Italy thereupon the King of Spain armes mainly in Milan and Naples The Emperour also sent a considerable number of horse and foot and all conjoyn'd under the Duke of Feria who was made Generall by Land and the Marquis of Santacruz came with twentie two gallies and five galeons by Sea with four thousand combatants from Sicilie to secure the sea of Genoa who had eighteen gallies besides in cours and ten thousand men by Land upon the appearance of this great Army most of those places which had rendred themselfs to France and Savoy open'd their gates to the Spanish army at first approach They ravag'd the countrey of Monferrat up and down and came thence before Ast a considerable frontire town of Piemont Yet though there were five or six armies in motion that Sommer in Italy there was no battail fought but only sieges and leagers sallies and skirmishes The approach of Winter brought a suspension of armes afterwards a Treaty was appointed at Monson and twentie Articles interchangeably accorded unto so the War ended and a Peace was renew'd twixt all Parties The Duke of Savoy was neither himself nor by his Ambassador or Deputy present at this Treaty which made him complain highly of the King of France taxing him with infraction of Faith and of the late Confederation between them thereupon the King sent Monsieur Bullion to him in qualitie of Ambassador to make an Apologie that his Highnes should not impute this to ill faith or any disrespect of him or to any particular advantage his Majesty hop'd to receive thereby for himself therefore his Highnes should not except at the light omission of complements which had more of exterior apparance then sincerity Bullion having notice that the Duke would give him a solemn open audience in the presence of most of his Lords and Counsell prepared himself accordingly and being come into the roome the little Duke began to speak very high language thereupon Bullion told him in his eare That he perceav'd his Highnes to be mov'd therefore he pray'd him not as an Ambassador but as a privat man and his servant to speak of so puissant and illustrious a Monark with that moderation respect and reservednes that his Majesty might not be offended and if his Highnes thought to satisfie himself by words of advantage nothing would remain unto him but repentance so to suffer himself to be transported by a disordred passion For the main businesse the King having obtain'd by the Treaty at Monson all that he and his Allies could hope for if they had gain'd a battaile as also the liberty of the Grisons and the Valtolines his Confederates ought not to take offence if he as the Eldest had treated himself alone for his Cadets a title which they had reason to esteeme for honorable Yet if notwithstanding these considerations his Highnes desir'd to have satisfaction in a stricter way he would undertake his Majesty should make him amends In the interim he wish'd his Highnes to think upon any thing wherein his most Christian Majesty might be advantageous unto him The Duke being calm'd by these words answer'd that he thought upon Royalty and if his Majesty would approve of his design being already well assured of the Popes good will he car'd not much for other Potentats and he would be contented to be treated by the King in the same manner as the Kings of France were us'd to treat the Kings of Scotland and Navarr By Royalty he meant the Kingdome of Cypres which title the Ambassador told him could not be had without distasting the Republique of Venice whose adoptif son he was and whereas he pretended some places in Toscany that could not be done without displeasing the Queen Mother The King having dispos'd already of his 3. Sisters began to think on a Match for Monsieur his Brother now it is the style of France to call the Kings sole Brother Monsieur without any further addition to distinguish him from others Marie of Bourbon daughter to the Duke of Monpensier was thought to be a fit wife for him hereupon the King mov'd it unto him but he desir'd time to consider of it because it
of France holding Lorain in fee of the one and the Duchy of Bar of the other While the Treaty at Vic 'twixt the King and the Duke of Lorain was in agitation the Marshall de la Force and Schomberg took Moyenvic whence they marchd before the Town of Tryers the protection of whose Archbishop the King had undertaken he being amongst the seven Electors Lord High Chancelor of France as he of Collen is of Italy and he of Mentz of Germany Tryers in a short time fell to parley and so rendred herself upon honorable termes In this yeer there came an Ambassador from the Emperour of Morocco to the Court of France who afterwards went to his Majesty of Great Britain taking France first in his way as she stood he brought a Letter in Arabic to this effect God is Our confidence These Letters of the most mighty Emperour who being assisted by Divine grace and favor is alwayes happy swelling with victory whose most illustrious Court is full of grandeurs and prosperity are sent to the most Noble the most High and most excellent Dignity whose Realm within the bounds of Christendom hath the most illustrious name and ranke To the Dignity I say of the most eminent the most noble the most happy and the most renowned Emperour the King of France and Navar the Emperour Lewis son to mighty magnificent famous and magnanimous Emperours Having wish'd glory to God the soverain Master of all Glory and Majesty whose Empire hath no need of any Counsellor or the assistance of any Prince whose prayses cannot be expressed by any tongue though never so eloquent Having rendred the honours which are due to our Lord Mahomet most eminent in dignity most rich in treasure preserver of men in the tempestuous day of judgement we desire of God that the people made famous by this Prophet be acceptable unto him that he please to maintain them ever in his particular protection and that all they who love him persist to the end in the exercise of good and laudable actions And we make particular prayers for the prosperitie of his most high imperial prophetic and most eminent throne assisted always by God and wherein by the meanes of his invincible force the elect people and all his subjects are exalted his memory and steps remaining to eternity This Letter of our high Majesty hath bin written from the throne of our Empire of Maroc which God by his grace and goodnes and by the benediction of his Apostle conserve who doth not subsist but by the continuall assistance of God whose providence never ceasing to assist him serves incomparably more to his defence then any other of all the Armies of the world for which we render infinit thanks to his Divine Majesty to whom is the sole power strength and might c. The Superscription was To the most renowned and magnificent dwelling within all the bounds of Christendom the most eminent Palace The Palace of the most Honorable the most Noble the most Mighty Emperour the King of France and Navar the Emperour Lewis This Mahumetan Ambassador came from Muley King of Morocco in Barbary for the redemption of certain slaves that were in Marseilles Gallies which he obtain'd and in exchange all the French that were Captifs in Saly and other places belonging to Morocco were releas'd besides it was agreed that the King of France might nominat Consuls in those Towns of commerce which were under his Dominion who should have power to determin any controversie that might intervene between the subjects of France there traffiquing Such a bombardicall Letter he brought also accompagnied with presents to the King of Great Britain who sent an English Fleet in his favor against the Pyrats and Rebell Saint of Saly who did him much service for reducing the Town to his obedience Don Gonzales de Cordova passing through France to Flanders came to kisse the Kings hands who sent him a rich sword valued at four thousand crowns inlay'd with Diamonds which he refus'd and Monsieur Guron conducted him to Cambray he refus'd also the present that Gonzales would have given him saying That he disdain'd any present from him who refus'd the bounty of his King The Duke of Lorain receives Monsieur again into his Countrey notwithstanding the former Treaty and leavies forces for him to enter France the King being extremely incens'd thereat marcheth suddenly towards Lorain and employes the forces that was design'd for Germany that way with whom he joyn'd in person and took divers places in Lorain The Duke finding himself unable to resist and being in despair of any forces from Flanders the Spaniard being then busie at Mastric he had recourse to a Treaty which the King yeelded unto The Treaty was to be held at Liverdun where the Cardinal met the Deputies of the Duke Most of the Articles of the Treaty at Vic were confirm'd and the Duke was oblig'd besides to deliver unto him Iamets and Stenay for hostage and to make an absolut sale unto him of the County of Clermont for a pecuniary sum thus the busines was quickly concluded and the Cardinal of Lorain was to remain for pledge till the Capitulations were perform'd The Duke of Lorain being thus surpriz'd was made unable to assist Monsieur as he expected nor could he have any supplies from Flanders because of the siege at Maestrict yet he enters France with eighteen hundred horse most of them strangers as Liegeois and Crabats He publish'd a Manifesto to justifie his taking of Arms Charging Richelieu with the usurpation and dissipation of France and that he had no other intent but to let his Majesty know how much he was deceived and so exhorted all good Frenchmen to assist him in his laudable desseins The King caus'd a counter-Manifesto to be proclaimed declaring them Traytors in the highest degree that should adhere to Monsieur yet if he would lay down his Arms and submit himself within the compas of forty dayes after the publication of the said Manifesto he would forget all faults pass'd and Monsieur should find such welcome that he should have cause to extoll the Kings goodnes and detest the pernicious counsels that had bin given him The King doubting that words would little prevail without the sword dispatch'd Marshall de la Force with ten thousand foot and twelve hundred horse to Languedoc because he understood that Monsieur would draw in Monmorency to joyn him which he did with foure Bishops more the Duke of Monmorency then Governor of Languedoc summons the States together wherein he declar'd himself for Monsieur and never to separat from his interests till the Government was reform'd The King hearing of Monmorencies revolt was extreamly incens'd and the more because he had sent him extraordinary Commission and money besides to raise Troups for his service wherewith he was now ready to bandy against him therupon he commanded his House in Paris to be seiz'd on and all his goods inventoriz'd amongst which there were
himself He calls him the gran Director and most puissant Genius of France the perfectest of men which doth penetrat things to come and is ignorant of nothing great and incomparable Cardinal the most eminent among mortals to whom the crabbedst and most mysterious affairs of State are but pastimes Visible God and tutelar Angel of the Univers a spirit that moves the Heavens and the stars the blisse of the world the supreme intelligence the Phoenix of the earth who never had nor ever shall have his parallell These strange evaporations and high strains of profanenes shew plainly as I said before that the Office of the Inquisition hath no stroak in France as in Italy Spain and elswhere it hath to curb the extravagancies of mens brains As there were a number of such Sycophants amongst the Wits of France that Idoliz'd him in that maner so there wanted not others that threw dirt in his face by Pasquils and Libells one drop'd this Satyre in Rome which flew thence to the streets of Paris Papa noster in Urbanus Réxque parum Christianus Cardinalis Infernalis Capucinus coaequalis Replent mundum tot is malis Urban our Pope not much urbane The King not too much Christian With the Infernal Cardinall And Capuchin his Coaequall The world do fill With thousand ills Another comes little short of this by calling the Capuchin the Cardinal and the Devil the three degrees of comparison In the yeer 1640. there were extraordinary Revellings and Triumphs in Paris and there were divers Masques and Balls in the Carninals Palace And one morning there was found nayl'd upon the gate this libell Tandis qu'en dance au Palais Cardinal La mere de trois Rois vá a l' hospital While people dance 'i th Palace Cardinal The mother of three Kings goes to the Hospital Amongst other peeces of Invention which were publish'd of him there was one call'd the Chymerical Ambassador which in regard 't is a new way of fancy compos'd by a Person of quality and very facetious I will insert here The Author makes him to employ Ambassadors extraordinary not onely to Christian Princes but other Pagan Potentates to enter into a Confederacy with them as followeth Master Iohn Sirmond shall take the qualitie of the Duke of Sabin and of the Marquis of Cleonville he shall clap a sword at his side and take for his train five or six of the Gazetic Academy which we have made hardy lyers Above all things they shall be instructed in the prayses of my Lord the Cardinal Duke and to that effect they shall cun by heart all the Poems Epigrams Acrostiques Anagrams Sonnets and other peeces made by the Latin and French Poets of the Times which they shall disperse up and down gratis as they passe but for fear that this Merchandize be not forestall'd and this false money cryed down we command the said Ambassador to depart as soon as possibly he can because our affairs do presse us we may chance take our measures short in regard Duke Charles terming himself Duke of Lorain is nimble because of the nourture he hath had in France and the Germans being now tyr'd with the troubles we have brought in amongst them may end the war the Spaniard also resents our injuries more then ever and those Devils the Crabats advance towards our Frontiers The Ambassador shall speak neither good nor ill of the King because his Majesty knowing nothing of this Ambassy may chance disadvow it He shall accommode himself to the beleef of all Princes Republiques and people and shall make semblance to be of the Religion or Sect of them with whom he is to treat He shall extoll the prayses of the most eminent among mortals he shall call him a visible God the tutelar Angel of the Univers the Spirit that moves the heavens and stars the happines of the world the supreme intelligence the Phoenix of the earth who never had nor is like to have his equall c. If he find that it be taken ill that we have injur'd all the Princes of Christendom he shall study some reasons to make them digest all If he find perhaps that any books have been printed in Flanders against my Lord the Cardinal he shall avouch that they are abominable and to be burnt by the hangman if he speak with any that detest Magic he shall assure them that these books are full of such stuff If he find that Champagnie trembles and that there is a dessein to shake off the yoak in Lorain and Alsatia he shall swear and all his followers besides that my Lord the Cardinal hath rais'd 150000. foot 20000. horse 10000. pioners and so many cariage horses 300. Canons with a proportionable number of bullets 100. millions in gold to give the law to all Europe That besides landforces he hath 500. Galeons of war at Sea laden with 50000. men more and that there is bisket beverage fresh water which cannot corrupt to nourish them for ten yeers That there are engins which will reduce instantly to ashes any Town that resists that there be Vessels that can sayle between two waters and that can go under other ships to blow them up into the Air or sink them That he hath found out Archimedes his griping irons whose vertue is to grapple a ship a thousand paces off In fine my Lord the Ambassador shall omit nothing that may give security to Champagnie and strike a terror into Lorain and he shall cary the busines so that the same arguments may serve to raise fear and hopes He shall passe as speedily as he can by Strasburg Frankfort Nuremberg and other Imperiall Towns which have not so much knowledge of the artifice of my Lord the Cardinal Duke and if he thinks fitting he shall conceale his quality and disadvow his Countrey he may say he is an Englishman to which effect he shall make use of his Latin and counterfeit as well as he can the English accent If he is bound to enter into the states of the Duke of Saxe and of the Marquis of Brandenburg he shall passe as speedily as possibly he can because those wretches have half spoild our mystery in making their own peace then when we thought to have made them perish with us and since they would not do so they have rendred themselfs unworthy of the good grace of the most eminent amongst mortals and let them be assured that the Spirit which moves the stars will cast ill influences upon them Then shall he passe to Poland to find the King whom he shall salute in the name of the most eminent among mortals he shall assure him of his friendship and swear unto him that he will hold good correspondence with him provided that he enter in person with his forces into Hungary and Germany to make war against his Uncle It is here that my Lord Ambassador shall display all his eloquence to shew that to gain further security and further encrease of power
the States Generall which is next the Clergie and for delivering of Opinions the King inordred that in matters concerning the Church the Clergie should vote first in matters of War the Nobles in matters of Law the Officers of Justice in matters of the Revenue of the Crown the Exchequer men and Financiers In this Assembly were agitated and concluded many wholsome things First 1. That the Secret affairs of State be communicated to few and those of known probity and prudence for fear of discovery 2. That the expence of the Kings House and the salary of Military men be regulated 3. That Pensions be retrench'd 4. That a course be taken to regulat gifts and rewards which are to be made in silver 5. That it be illegal to sell any Offices in the Kings House in War or Government 6. That reversion of Offices and Benefices be restrain'd because it gives occasion to attempt upon the life 's of the living Incumbents and takes away the Kings Liberty to advance persons of merit taking also from the persons themselfs the encouragement of doing better by hope of advancement 7. That the Annuel right be suppress'd 8. That the venality of Offices be prohibited 9. That small wrangling Courts and the number of Pettifoggers be retrench'd and that all causes be brought to the Soverain Courts These in grosse were the Results of this Assembly which proceeded with a great deal of harmony the King himself was present most of the time and in his absence Monsieur presided There pass'd also a Law to permit the Jesuits to open their Colledg of Clermont in Paris and to endoctrinat young youth in the Sciences But the Universitie of Paris to make this Edict illusory made two Decrees by the first it was ordred that none should be admitted to the course of Theologie unlesse he have studied three yeers under the public Professors of the Faculty of Theologie in Sorbon and that he be put to his oath not to have studied in any other Colledg The second was A prohibition to all Principals of Colledges for admitting any but those that go to the Lectures of the Professors of the said Universitie and that none shall enjoy the Priviledges of Scholarity if he studieth not under those Professors An indifferent moderat man said that there was no way to end this quarrell but that the Jesuits might be united to the body of the Universitie and so submit themselfs entirely to their Laws and Ordinances We will conclude this lustre with a horrible fire that hapned in the Citie of Paris in the chief Palace of Iustice it rag'd most in the great Hall where the Lawyers and Counsellors use to meet where also the Statues of the Kings of France are set up and are rank'd according to the times of their raign in excellent Sculpture all which were utterly reduc'd to cendres with the Table of Marble about which the Judges were us'd to sit The cause of this fire is to this day unknown but it might be very well interpreted to be a visible judgment from heaven upon that place and Palace for the hard measure of Justice the Marshall of Ancre and his Lady had received a little before Which makes me call to mind a Latin verse I have read upon a Stat-House in Delph in Holland which had bin burnt in like maner and reedified not one other house about it receiving any hurt Cive quid invito proh sola redarguit usta Haec Domus illaesis aliis Discite Iustitiam moniti non temnere Divos An end of the second Lustre The third Lustre of the Raign of Lewis the thirteenth VVE ended the last Lustre with the end of the old Palace of Justice in Paris by an unknown furious fire which made the disaster more horrid We will begin this with bone-fires of joy for the Mariage of the Lady Christina second daughter of Henry the Great to the Prince of Piedmont who came in Person to Paris to do his own busines he comported himself with that addresse that politenes that bravery of spirit accompagnied with such gentlenes that he gain'd much upon the French Nation The busines was not long a finishing for Henry the Great was well pleas'd with an ouverture that had bin made formerly by the said Prince for the Eldest daughter who was maried to Spain She had for her Dower 1200. thousand French liures which comes to one hundred and twenty thousand pound sterling besides the rich jewels she caried with her The Queen Mother was all this while at Blois and som ombrages of distrust hung 'twixt the King and her for the Bishop of Lucon being by command removed from her Mounsieur Roissy was sent expresly by the King to attend her whom the Queen took to be no other then a kind of Spy to watch over her actions nor was she invited to the marriage of her daughter which was solemniz'd at Paris and with this mariage it seems the King did consummat his own by bedding with the Queen his wife which he had not done since he had maried her at Burdeaux almost four yeers before where he lay with her only two hours and though this was done for fear it should hinder his growth and enervat his strength yet there were some whispers that it was done with an intent to be divorc'd from her and Luynes was blamed for it Hereupon he finding the King one night inclinable took him out of his bed in his armes and casting his night-gown over him he carried him to the Queens bed The Nuncio and Spanish Ambassador were so joy'd at this that they presently dispatch'd expresses to carry the news and bonefiers were made thereupon both in Rome and Madrid for there were some surmises abroad that so long a separation from bed would turn in time to an aversion which might draw after it a repudiation and so a divorce While the King was thus confirming his own and celebrating his sisters Nuptialls in Paris there were tydings brought that his Mother got out of Blois Castle and was convey'd away secretly in the night through a window which was towards the moate where she glided down a good height upon a counter scarp and so made an escape The King had sent Father Arnoul the director of his conscience a little before under colour of complement to visit her but the design was to draw from her a solemn oath that she would not come to the Kings Court without his preadvertisement and approbation which oath she took upon the Evangelists He sent her also word that he and the Prince of Piemont now her son in law would come to visit her but she knew well enough how matters were carried at Court and so she gave little credit to those endearments fearing there was too strong a drug under the pill Her escape was trac'd by Espernon the little Gascon Duke who had bin from the beginning a great servant of Ladies there had bin divers clashings and counterbuffs