thought necessary for the King's honour who 〈…〉 often declared that he would not allow any to be made 〈…〉 him The Queen looked upon them as Invectives agâ—… her Regency The Marshal d'Ancre as an affront offered 〈…〉 those that envied him The President Jeanin as a reproâ—… of the discipation of the Finances which were not improâ—… in his hands The Dukes d'Guise and de Epernon who wâ—… disatisfied with the-Parliament offered their Services to 〈…〉 King against that venerable Senat. So that all things seemâ—… to conspire to mortifie that Illustrious Body The next day â— Decree was given in the Council in the King 's Naâ—â— which order'd the Decree of the Parliament to be â—… â—…ated as well as their Remonstrances That the Decree â—…ould be taken out of the Registers and that of the Council â—…t in the room of it all this was preceded by very abusive â—…pressions stiling the behavour of the Parliament unlawful which was a treatment they were little us'd to Whitsunâ—…de salling out while the Parliament was deliberating upon affair and afterwards the King's Progress towards Pyrenees spended Peoples minds and made them forget the thing for while but that injury done to the most venerable Body of â—…e Kingdom strengthen'd the Princes Party with a specious â—…etence of complaint and increas'd it by a great number 〈…〉 Malecontents The Marshal de Bouillon labour'd on the other hand to â—…evail with the Reform'd by his Intrigues to joyn with the â—…ince of Conde He flatter'd Rouvray who was one of their â—…st heads and who was one of the Deputies General with â—…e hopes of being sent Ambassador to the Vnited Provinces â—…es Bordes Mercier who had been Deputy General with the â—…omise of a Counsellor's Place in the Parliament Berteville â—…ith the assurance of the General Deputaion which he had â—…ng aspir'd to He blinded all those that hearkned to him â—…ith the expectation of a great Reformation in the Governâ—…ent which would secure the Edicts against the attempts of â—…pain and Italy revenge the King's Death recover the hoâ—…our of the Monarchy against the prevarications of the Clergy amend the lavishness of the Finances and deprive the â—oreigners who were universally hated of their odious authority But his strongest argument to prevail with the majority of the Reform'd was the concequences of the Alliance with Spain and to frighten them with the secret Articles â—…hat were agreed upon Moreover he writ to the Court to â—…how among other things the Reasons they had to dread the â—ffect of those Marriages Jeanin made an Answer to him â—pon that Article which might have satisfied the most difficult if he could have persuaded that there was any sinceâ—…erity in the promises and words of the Court The Laws said he establish'd in France to live in Peace which have been observ'd so long already will make us look with horror on any Couneils that might tend to disturb it Therefore unless some wicked and ill advis'd Subjects occasion a breach the Peace and Tranquility establish'd by the Edicts will last for ever That was very fine if the Reform'd could have believ'd it true But experience made them sensible that there was no trust to be given to promises and that while they were attack'd almost publickly by a thousand Wiles it would have been ridiculous to imagine people did not laugh at them when they preach'd such unlikely things to them So that the Marshal easily found â—…e dispos'd to believe that those discourses were no oracles or that Jeanin did not hold the Maxims of the Court During those Transactions the Reform'd continu'd their sollicitations to have another place granted them instead of Grenoble where they were allow'd to hold a General Assembly While they endeavour'd to obtain another place for sear of not being free there the behaviour of Lesdiguieres gave them a new pretence to refuse it The Husband of Mary Vignon whom he had kept scandalously along while and whom he had made Marchioness de Treffort was killâ—… in such a manner as perswaded every body that Lesdiguieres was the author or accomplice of his Death That new scandal created a horror in the Reform'd who could not resolve to put under the Authority and in the Power of a man capable of such actions a great number of their most confiderable Members who should be oblig'd to pay a thousand respects to a man who was suspected to be guilty of so odious a Crime They were afraid with reason that their Enemies would take an occasion from thence to accuse their Religion of being too indulgent and toremiss in their Morals The Court being willing to gratifie them in that point consented at last that they should hold the Assembly at Gergeâ—… where another had been held in the late King's Reign This place pleas'd them no better than the first Their pretence was that the preceding Assembly had been inconvenienc'd there for want of Lodging but the true reason was that theey thought that place too near Paris and that they were sensible that the Court had pitch`d upon it to keep the Assembly in Awe The Deputies General made new Petitions to obtain a â—…re convenient place and whereas the Court refus'd to â—mply itâ— occasion'd divers imovemerts in the Provinces 〈…〉 which some propos'd to take a more convenient place without relying on the Curtesie of the Court to no purpose They also propos'd a meeting at Montauban there to agree â—…out a place in which the Assembly might neither want Liberâ—… nor Convenience In the interim some extraordinary affairs â—…ling out which oblig'd Lesdiguieres to make a Journey 〈…〉 Court and they expecting to be freer in his absence which 't was thought would be long enough to afford the Asâ—…mbly time to form their resolutions they thought fit to â—…sire Grenoble again and to declare publickly that they â—…ould make use of the Brief they had obtain'd the precedâ—…g year This alteration at first created jealousies in the â—…ourt who could not imagin it to be done without Lesdiguieres having given the Reform'd some secret assurances of not â—…posing them He had shown by the manner of his assistâ—…g the Duke of Savoy against whom the King of Spain made â—…ar that he stood upon his honour some times The Queen â—…d engag'd that Prince in that War and had promis'd by â—esdiguieres to assist him But after the conclusion of the â—arriages she refus'd to execute that Treaty by reason â—…at she was willing in order toplease the King of Spain to â—…rce the Duke of Savoy to makea Peace However Lesdiguieresâ—…ssisted â—…ssisted him notwithstanding the reiterated orders he reâ—…iv'd not to do it and whereas he could not do it in the â—…ing's name who disown'd it he did it in his own The example seem'd to show that tho he was devoted to the Court he knew nevertheless how to disobey when he pleas'd ut after that bold action he made his peace so soon and with so much ease that it
feared more mischief from the Assembly than perhaps the Assembly designed to do and on the other hand the Assembly apprehended more harm from the Court than was there prepared for them Thus in dubious Affairs Fear is often mutual and there is a kind of emulation who shall shew most Resolution and Courage when really the Fright is equal on both sides The King severely complained to the Assembly by his Letters and laid openly the Fault at the doors of the Dukes of Bouillon and Trimouille but there happened such Divisions in the very Assembly as did e'en almost ruin their Affairs It may be 't was â—n effect of the usual Intrigues of the Court who designedly had drawn the Assembly nearer home the better to have them within the reach of its Caresses and Favours Not but that it might be also the effect of that Misfortune commonly attending the union of divers Persons differing in Genius Abilities and Interest who tho' agreeing in a general Design do often fall out about the choice of necessary Expedients It is with them as with that Harmony by which the World subsisteth through a correspondency of several discording Causes which might easily break out of that just proportion whereby they agree if they were not preserved and maintained by an Almighty and Divine Hand Thus the union of many Men who aim at different ends may break of it self tho' they often have the same Motives for acting concertedly when each one wou'd regulate the Conduct and Interest of all others by his own Maxims and Prejudices The Assembly who ascribed the Progress of those Disorders to the influence of the Court to prevent more Mischief thought it fit to remove elsewhere and accordingly came to Saumur on the Fifth of March This removal might be agreeable to both Parties to the King to whom du Pâ—â—ssâ—â— might be very serviceable there in allaying with his Wisdom the Heat of the most forward and accordingly the King had sent for him a while before and commanded him to go to Vendome and endeavour to bring them to a better Temper and it was agreeable to the Reformed also in that the Authority of du Plessis his Prudence and Equity might heal their Divisions and bring them all to an unanimous Effort for the common Cause In the mean while Matters went on slowly and the Assembly being very little satisfied with the Commissioner's delays which were supposed by several Members to be designedly made they carried their Discontents along with them to Saumur Nay on a Report spread abroad that the King was secretly treating of a Peace with the Arch-duke their Jealousies increased and they thought that the Court used so many delays to the end that if a Peace could be made before any thing was concluded with the Reformed the King might be in a condition to grant them only what the Catholicks pleased But a little while after the Assembly was settled at Saumur there happened an Accident which did extreamly allarm all sorts of People the Spaniards having surprised Amiens the defence whereof was left to its Inhabitants they defended it very ill This Blow made a great noise through all Europe France was counted lost the old Caballs began to revive and the consternation was so great that People knew not what course or resolution was best to take the King himself was disheartened in this Misfortune and fell from that greatness of Soul he had always been Master of before In short one may judge what condition France was thought to be in by what happed in Britany Brissac who was Deputy Lieutenant in that Province and a late reconciled League man caused an Assembly of the Nobility to be held there in his presence being therein as 't was said countenanced by Mompensier and the Dukes of Bouillon and la Trimouille There they proposed to put themselves under the Protection of the Queen of England by the Name of the good French People bons Francois taking it for granted that the King after that loss was no longer able to keep his Kingdom and defend his Subjects against a foreign Invasion The same accident occasioned great Agitations amongst the Reformed some were for taking up Arms and endeavoured to draw to their Opinion all such as were capable to bear them insomuch that one moved for an Attempt upon Tours whither some Troops were to be sent in the Name of la Trimouille others thought that they ought not to make use of such a dismal occasion and that it was even more honourable for them to desist from their former Demands than to make new ones As for the two Dukes they pushed on briskly their Proposals and endeavoured to perswade them that War was the only remedy they had left But almost all the Churches rejected it the great Towns whose example might have drawn in the rest and the best part of the Nobility were deaf to it so that the Project of the two Dukes fell to the ground It was nevertheless reported abroad that Discord had alone hindred the Reformed from voting the War because the Nobility and Consistory men renewed their old Quarrel and fell out about the management of the Money that was to be raised the Nobility claiming it as their right and the Consistory men being for Commissioners to be appointed by the respective Churches for the safe management of it But all these Intrigues as it was given out miscarrying through the dissention of the different Parties every one at Court after the retaking of Amiens valued himself for having no share therein and strove very hard who should make the first discovery to the King so that all the odium fell upon the two Dukes who had been the authors and promoters of the whole matter From whence it follows that their misdemeanour might be misrepresented and made a great deal more than really it was since in Reports of that nature Men use to say more than they know and consequently run the hazard of telling more than the truth As for the Motive of the two Dukes 't is not easie to guess at them The Catholic Writers charge them with designing to make advantage of the Disorders of the State that they might get by force those Preferments that were denied them but the President de Thou who saw the matters nearer than any body else as being present in all these Transactions gives us a more innocent Motive of those two Dukes He ascribeth their Design to Necessity and the Publick Calamity because in the General Confusion of the Kingdom every one did almost despair of his own safety and thought he ought to seek his security from himself for the proof of which he saith that as soon as Amiens was retaken they submitted to what Terms the King was pleased to prescribe to them because then their former hopes of enjoying Peace under a King capable to defend them were without doubt revived That is in a word that we may
Resolution to labour in good earnest for their Security so the King doubled also the Number of his Commissioners when he resolved to think seriously of contenting them The Count de Schomberg and the President de Thou had been added to Vick and Calignon at Saumur but these two being since employ'd in other concerns the two former did remain charged with the whole Negotiation which ended happily in their hands The Reformed desisted from several of their old Demands though they thought them very reasonable and just but in the present Conjuncture of Affairs they would insist upon no Articles although never so just but such as were absolutely necessary nay they did also in process of time yield up several things which they had formerly judged most needful Such was their demand of Chambres mi-parties in all Parliaments and of unsuspected Judges in all Courts of Judicature but upon this Point they were at last contented with some small matter besides what had been allow'd them by the former Edicts The King on his side did the like by degrees and even during the Siege of Amiens he gave new Instructions and new Power to his Commissioners who came thither to give him an account of the condition the Assembly was iâ— He also heard there the Complaints they had ordered Constans Governour of one of their places to make to him about his treating a Peace with the Spaniards by the Mediation of the Pope being shrewdly jealous in respect of the Mediator that the main scope of that Treaty was their utter ruin But the King in his turn complained to the Assembly that whereas he expected hearty thanks from them he saw to his grief that they would not accept the Offers made them by de Vick at Saumur which he had himself reiterated to Constans by word of mouth that at a time when he was in person before Amiens the Reformed came not to his assistance and so deprived him of a considerable Succour he might have expected from them and which he never stood in so great need of as now assuring them however that no Treaty of Peace would be concluded to their prejudice and that he had given full power to his Commissioners to put an end to this long and tedious business with them But in the mean while these Powers coming very slowly the Count de Schomberg made a kind of a Treaty with the Assembly by which he agreed with them upon the main Articles of their Demands as for example that the Right of religious Exercise should extend to all such places where it was made till the end of August of the instant Year that all their Places should still remain in their hands that a certain Sum of Money should be given them for the payment of their Garrisons and another to pay their Ministers and had the Count been sufficiently impowered the business might have been ended by that means But whether he had a mind to gain time till the Siege was over or that he would not go beyond his Instructions and leave the Council at liberty to disown or approve what he had agreed on he concluded with the Assembly with a Salvo that all these things shou'd be done with submission to the King's pleasure They imagined that the Council would never review what had been granted but it was still doubtful whether they should accept those Articles as a Provision only or if they should cause it to be passed into a publick and definitive Law by an Edict The Court had given Examples of those provisional Settlements by the King's Declaration published at Mantes before his turning Catholick and by a Treaty made since at Saint Germain with the Deputies of the Assembly of Saintefoy Some amongst the Reformed who were not satisfied with what was granted to them were willing enough to rest still in a capacity of beginning anew whenever the tranquility of the Kingdom would permit it and were afraid that by a decisive Edict they should be debarred from forming new Pretensions when they would But others who longed to see an end of their Affairs after so many delays thought it best to accept of something provided they might once know what Laws they were to live under insomuch that the matter was consulted at home and abroad in foreign Countries where Advice was begged of all such as were thought capable of giving it in such a weighty Case Schomberg and Thou's Moderation was a great help towards a Conclusion and on the other side the Reformed were very sensible of the great Confusion and Troubles of the State being unwilling to draw upon them the Reproach of having forced the King to a disadvantageous Peace with Spain But the continual Delays of the Court marred all that was well done by the Commissioners Wisdom there they would always review what had already been granted there they would renew all Questions and Difficulties without coming to any Resolution in short their only business it seems was to abate something of what had been granted and to that end it was that the Council would always give the Commissioners a limited Power for fear they might grant too much and on the other hand when the Reformed sent Deputies to Court they tied their Hands with very precise Instructions lest that being wrought upon by the Artifices and Intrigues of the Court they might accept less than the Assembly desir'd insomuch that both the Court and the Assembly complained one after another that the Instructions respectively given to the Commissioners or Deputies were too much limited requiring mutually that they should be mended and inlarged But that amongst others which the Reformed were most offended at was the often sending the Commissioners elsewhere on several pretences and their being imploy'd in other Treaties whil'st the Affairs of Religion were put off till another time such was the Treaty then on foot with the Duke of Mercoeur which took up the greatest part of their time But the Reformed could not endure that preference either because they thought themselves as good as the Duke with all his Interest in Britany or because they saw his Treating was but a sham whereby he had amused the King several Years together or because they thought it easie to reduce him so soon as the rest of the Kingdom should enjoy a solid Peace and accordingly they did not fail to offer all their Forces towards that design provided the Court would first make an end of their business and not baffle them with fair words as they had done for eight Years together That which vexed them most was the unjust Prejudice of the Catholicks who could not brook that the King should think of granting a Peace to the Reformed whil'st there were some Catholicks whom 't was not yet given to for they fancied that the Honour of the Romish Religion was at stake if the King should treat with the Hereticks before having satisfied all those who took up Arms
certain private Places wherein the Reformed intended to establish or keep it which the Court would not grant Moreover They demanded that their Assembly should continue at Vendome until the Edict which was granting was verified in all Parliaments which the King would grant only for that of Paris requiring them after the verifying of the Edict there to break up and return to their respective Provinces But this made them jealous that the Court aimed at dispersing the Assembly afterwards to elude with more freedom the execution of the Edict when none were left to sue for verifying the same because Edicts in France having no force of Laws before that Solemnity this might be still subject to a thousand Tricks and Exceptions in those Parliaments where the same had not been yet performed The King was necessitated to give the Reformed some satisfaction upon these Points because he was resolved to put off the verification of the Edict till the Legat's departure the time whereof was still very uncertain and that he was of opinion that the doing it in his presence might have been an Affront put upon him Therefore it seems that to gild over this new Delay and make it acceptable to Men disheartned by so many others and who justly feared that this would prove prejudicial to their Interest or at least put back the conclusion of their Affairs it seems I say that the Court ought to have complied with their desire of continuing their Assembly Such as had an interest in the keeping of the places of security wondred at the King 's proposing to leave to the Council the setling the state of the Garrisons and as they had not all of them the like credit at Court such as had little or none at all were afraid that this was an Artifice in order to deprive them of their Places Besides the King would name the Governors before the Party named had taken the Certificate of the Provincial-Assembly in whose Jurisdiction the Place was seated because if the Certificate should precede it might then seem that the Reformed should give the Government not the King which would have been a breach made to the Royal Authority But on the other hand the Reformed would needs have the entire disposal of the choice lest that if the Governments of their Places should become Court-Preferments the Parties so preferred would be also Court-Creatures and care but little to please the reformed Churches as being able to maintain themselves without them They had a great mind also at Court to change the state of the Garrisons every Year but the Assembly were afraid that it might be a color for weakening and shortening the same nay for taking them away one after another for they were well informed that the King was against leaving so many Places in the hands of the Reformed who before that time had never had above seven or eight granted them for securing the execution of the Edicts whereas now they kept above two hundred both great and small and that he was also afraid that the Catholicks might conceive a jealousie from the state of those Garrisons because of the great number of Places that were to be set down therein but the Assembly agreed on a publick state in which such Places only might be named as both Parties should think sit provided always there was a secret one for the security of the rest Private Interests were none of the least occasions of new Difficulties Those of Rochel could obtain none of their Demands no not so much as a confirmation of their Charter because the King who had still a resentment of what had passed there whil'st he was Protector of the Reformed had a mind to make them sensible that he had Power enough to punish them for it The discussion of all these Difficulties which the Council would always be trifling about even after they had been adjusted by the great Wisdom of the Commissioners caused the final conclusion to be put off till the Month of April insomuch that the Catholicks got the Point they had so much wished for viz. That no Edict should be granted to the Reformed before the Catholicks were all satisfied The Treaty with the Duke of Mercoeur was concluded towards the end of March and even the Peace with Spain made before the Edict for though it was concluded on the first of May yet all the Articles thereof had been long before agreed upon The King had long before that time been advised to march towards Britany with a Royal Army in order to rescue that Province out of the hands of the Duke of Mercoeur who hitherto had been but weakly attacked and had never treated in earnest but when he saw himself e'en upon the point of being abandoned by the Spaniards and that the King was coming upon him with great Forces in effect after he had trifled several Years with Sham-Treaties at last the King marched that way so soon as the approaching conclusion of the Peace with Spain set him at liberty to do it His coming allarmed the Assembly at Chatelleraud and they were in no small fear that the King would suddenly fall upon them either to force them to accept his own Terms or to disperse them through fear of falling into his hands At the same time the King's Commissioners pressed them to come to a conclusion which conduct was variously interpreted by Men long since distracted by Allarms and Jealousies The most distrustful thought it a kind of violence offered to the Assembly so eagerly to press the King's offers upon them at a time when he was in a manner at their doors with a powerful Army This Passage is to be well observed as one of the most notable Circumstances of the time wherein the Edict was granted and as a most proper Argument against the Calumny of the Catholick Writers who have represented it as a Grant extorted by force But to make a right Judgment of the Case we need but look upon the Troubles and Jealousies of the Assembly on the approach of the Royal Army and indeed they accepted the Edict when they were disarmed and in a manner at the King's discretion whereas the King granted it when he was armed and had the Assembly within the reach of his Canon This long Affair was at last put to an end to the great grief of some and to the full satisfaction of others Some Catholicks there were who grumbled at so many Concessions on the other hand some Reformed complained that they had obtained so little but there wanted not some in each Party who thought the advantage to be equal on both sides and who being truly desirous of Peace were apt to allow of any thing which might conduce to it During the King's abode at Anger 's almost all the Difficulties had been adjusted there tho' he had spoken so high and uttered such Menaces that thereby the Assembly was well nigh brought to despair
in some other adjacent Countries as by their Canons and Ecclesiastical Laws they are appointed and as by the Supreme Power of the Right Honourable the Senate of Zurick they are authorized with the Orders of that Church Published with the Approbation of several Bishops Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE TO THE First Volume A. ABsolution of the King the pope rigorous Pag. 136. desir'd by the King 166. the Pope's high pretensions 167 Accommodation of Religion propos'd 10 Alva Duke of his bloody advice 38 Alenson Duke of Protector of the Reformed 44. he retires from Court 45 Alliance with Spain Sentiments thereupon 440 Amboise the Enterprize what it was 23 359 Amience 139. surpriz'd 224. and the effects of it 235 d'Amours Chaplain to Henry IV. 74 Amiral de Chastillon in great favor with the Queen 32. accus'd for the death of Guise 34. impeacht for the same 36. attackt by Calumnies 38. reconcil'd with the Guises 39 he re-establishes his Party 40. the Catholics resolve to destroy him by treachery 40. wounded 42 d'Andelot his Courage 18. dies 40 St. André President signal for his Cruelties 21. assassinated Pag. 22 Annexes their anciént use 38. what they are 306 Antichrist the Pope so call'd by du Plessis 309. the Question about Antichrist discuss'd in the Synod of Gap 455. so inserted in the Confession of Faith 457. Question renewed about Antichrist 427 Appeals of the Orders 423 Armand Jesuite order'd to come to Paris 454 Army the King's disbands of it self 60 Artifices of the Queen dazle the Admiral 32 39. incredible Artifices of the Court 41. of the Catholics to gain the King 106. continued to shake the King's Conscience 112. Artifices to hinder the Deputies from seeing the King 129. and to hinder him from satisfying 'em 131. of the Court to corrupt the Ministers 134. to per suade the Reformed to deliver up the Prince of Conde 176. Artifices of the Court to gain the Reformed 303. Artifices of Perron against du Plessis 405. Artifices of the Catholics to incense the King against the Reformed 443. to hinder the Ecclesiastics from changing their Religion 414 to renew the Civil War Pag. 440 Assembly at Melun 72. at Gergeau 433. at Milhau 44. at St. Foy 133 145 157. permitted by the King 424. at Loudun 205. commanded to separate 209. the Effects of it 210 211. remov'd to Vendosme 218. returns to Saumur 224 Assembly General at Saumur 162 164 c. remov'd to Chastelleraud 230 again assembled 423 Assembly another permitted at St. Foy 133. A General Assembly at St. Foy 434. Complaints there made 436 c. which remain'd a long time in the hands of the Council 442 Assembly General at Chastelleraud 230. they beg the Intercession of England and the United Provinces 239. alarm'd by the King's march into Britany 268. Complaints of the alterations made in the Edict 238. particular Complaints exhibited 340 Assembly General at Chastelleraud 477. redoubles the Suspicions of the Court 482. Affairs to be there handl'd ib. suffers Bouillon's places to be taken from him 411 Assemblies Politic du Plessis Sentiments of 'em 78 456 410 Assemblies at Paris 17 16 Assemblies of the Clergy at Paris 436. at Mantes 79. at Chartres 102. favors the third Party 103 412 Aubespine Inventer of the Gag his lamentable death 15 Aubigne 411 B. BAilliage second place in the Balliage allow'd for free exercise Pag. 219. places of Bailliage freed from being places of exercise 421. a second place in each Bayliwick no new thing 275. the second place deny'd 452 Baptism forc'd 254 Bar Dutchess of Vide Madame Battel of Dreux 34. Moncontour 40. Arques 61. Courtras 50. Yvri 74. of which they lose the fruit St. Quintin 16 Battus the Fraternity of 'em 441 Bearn a Revolution there 35. they introduce the Reformed Religion into the Country of Gex 415 Bellujon 409 Beraud a famous Minister and one of the Deputies of the Assembly at Chatelleraud 326 Berquin Lewis 9. Bettier's warmth 323. rebuk'd by the King 324 Beza accus'd for the death of Guise 34. call'd Father by the King 415 Biron Marshal 76 432. he demands the Soveraignty of Perigord 55. concern'd in Conspiracies 432. his death 444 Bishops of France favour the Reformation 8 Book setting forth the Grievances of the Reformed 243 c. Reflections upon this Book 264. a Book found at la Fleche 444 Books sought for in Booksellers houses 252 437 Bordes a Monk accus'd of Assassination 443 Bonillon Duke of his Character 143. 145. presses the War ' against Spain 181. sent to Queen Elizabeth ibid. opposes the Queen of Englands Mediation ibid. he will not trust the Kings generosity 200. Duke of Bouillon 226. raises Souldiers for the King 234. exasperated 265. His Disgrace 444. His intreagues against the Court 481. his Places taken from him 411. he makes his Peace 516. King afraid the Protestants would take him for their Protector 477 Bourbon Antony King of Navarr his Inconstancy 31. dyes of a wound 34 du Bourg a Counsellor of Parliament condemned to be Burnt 22. Breaches of the Edict 452 Brevet for keeping the Hostage Cities 411. Brevet brought to the King for the nomination of Deputies 429. Breef from the Pope to the Clergy presented by Cardinal Joyeuse 437. Brevet for 45000 Crowns for payment of Ministers 528. for the Reformed to continue their places four years longer 411. another of the same day for a year more ibid. Brisonet his Inconstancy 8. Brochard Baron 432. 433. Bull of Gregory XV. 79 Bulls obtain'd to support the War against the Hereticks 40 Burying places rigorous upon 'em in reference to the Reformed 111. Difficulties concerning 'em 277. the affair of Burying places refer'd to Commissioners 345. 421. C. CAball of which the Reformed are rendred suspected 200 Cabrieres Affairs there 14 Caheirs or Papers delivered in by the Reformed 340. answered 342. answer'd 428. presented to the King 434. answered 435. much larger at Sre Foy 436. full of complaints ibid. and 437. c. Calumnies cast upon the Reformed 355. Calumny against Rochel refuted 455. Calvin 11 du Frene Canaye 404 Capuchin his Tricks upon the Birth of the Dauphin 431 Capuchins conspire against the Life of Hen IV. 314. a Mission of Capuchins sent into Piemont by the Duke of Savoy 314 Cardinal de Chatillon marrys and despises the Popes Censures 35. his end ibid. the Process of his Widow c. 478. de Joyeuse 206. justifies the King to the Pope 333 de Soudis 438 of Vendome 100 Casaubon 404 Catherine de Medicis vid. Katherine Catholics their persidiousness at Court 46. Catholick Nobles 56. Catholick Lords their various affections 59. Catholick Royalists their different dispositions to a Peace in Religion 69. their Infidelity 71. their Passion 76. their Affronts put upon the Reformed 128. their suggestions to the King 183 Cavils of the Proctor General 161 Cayer a famous Minister 113. Chambers Burning 21 Chambers supprest 18 Chambers half one half
to Rochel 431 Marriage of Hen. IV. the dissolution of it carry'd on 349. c Of Cardinal de Chatillon 35 Of Ecclesiasticks Marie Brosiere 346 Marie Stuart Q. of France and Scotland 20 Marsac Lewis Martyr'd 15 Mass re-establishd in the Country of Gex 419 Massacre at Vassi 32. at Sens 34. of St. Bartholomew 42. at Chastaigneray 175 Maxim of the Catholick Court 71. of the French Court 71 Mayenne Duke of escapes and relieves the Leaguers 51. pursues the King 61. his Justice 324 Meaux and other Towns reduc'd 138 Melancton invited into France 9. Mercoeur Duke of his pretentions 155. he Treats with the Reformed 237 Merindal vid. Cabrieres Metz. Ministers Protestant 113 Ministers excluded from the general Deputation Ministers of Geneva 414 Ministers Foraign 431 Mirande 433. 436 Mission Dragoons 314 Mistrusts from the Kings change 122 Montgomerie his Death 44 Monks hate the King 313 embrace the Reformed Religion 414 Montmorancy Constable huddles up a Peace at Cateau 18. his Death 39 Montholon his Sentiments of Religion 70 Morvillier Bishop of Orleans 45 Moors hardly us'd in Spain 446 Mouchards 21 Moulin a famous Minister 316 N. KIng of Navar vid. Antony K. of Navar Negotiations three Important ones with the Pope 311. c. Nobility Catholick their various Affections 59 de la Nove Fracis 72. 429 433. 409 Nuncio Popes 99 O. D'O Marquis of his character 56. his saying 141. 147 Occasion of this History 5 Oath requir'd of the Reformed Oath of Vnion renew'd 124. Precautions against the Order of the Holy Ghost and of the Coronation 132. of the Consecration 139. difference touching an Oath referr'd by a Reformed to a Catholick 350. exacted from the Catholicks of England 419 Observations General upon the Edict of Nantes 354 Orange Prince of assassin'd 48 Government of Orange tak'n from Blasons 404 d'Ossat his Testimony of the Reformed 157. Commissioner for the Kings Absolution 167. appeases the Pope 220. he justifies the King to the Pope 333. d'Ossat 434 Outragious Affront committid against the Consecrated Host 414 P. PAncarte what 445 Parabere a Reformed Lord 406 Parliament of Paris Counsellers of it suspected for their Religion 19 Parliament of Paris joyns with the Clergy to oppose the verification of the Edict 224. disgusted at throwing down the Pyramid 401 Parliament of Aix 250 Of Bourdeaux 249. 257 Of Bretagne 350 Of Grenoble 439 Parliaments their Rigour 438 of Tholouse 418 of Tholose and Bourdeaux 437. they uphold the Jesuits 313. of Tours 79. 102 Patriarch threatned to be created in France 155 Peace at Amboise 34. at Chartres 39. Peace with the Reformed a third time 43. Peace as soon broke as made 46. Peace for five years such as it was 48 Peace propos'd between the two Crowns Peace of Religion a new project of Peace for the Protestants 75 Du Perron Author of the 3d. Party 102. ambitious and unfaithful 103 Perron 113. Bishop of Eureux ibid. Commessioner for the Kings absolution 167. accepts du Plessis challenge 397. his foul play to Plessis 399. juggles with Plessis 405. his advantages over du Plessis 407 Progress of his fortune 469. a Cardinals Hat procured for him ibid. Petition particular from the Province of Normandy 425 Petitions of the Reformed favourably receiv'd by the King 421. Petitions answered 441 Philip II. K. of Spain 21 Piles one of the Valiantest of the Protestant Army 111 Placards 11 Places belonging to the Reformed disputed 401 Platform and Design of this History 5 du Plessis Mornai his saying to H. IV. 75 du Plessis Mornai 76 77. his â—â—sire in the Kings behalf 119. his Character 145. he procures the sitting of the Assembly at Saumur 162. useful to the King 224. Presides at Saumur 230 he writes the King a long Letter concerning his change 125. he writes a Treatise of the Eucharist 309. consequences of it ibid. c. it makes a great noise 394. Mortifi'd by the King for writing it 395 he challenges his Accusers 397. fowl play shewd him 399 a snare laid for him 401. more fowl play offer'd him 403. condemn'd in nine Passages 407. he falls sick 409 Politicks a Faction in France their nicknames given 'em by the Synod of Rochel 428 Pope Gregory XIV his Bull of Excommunication 79 The Pope makes overtures of Reconciliation with the King 157. his cunning dealing with the King 185. complains of the verification of the Edict 15 77 200. Poor to participate without distinction of the benefit of Hospitals and Alms 423 Powder Plot 418 Power Arbitrary a Project against it 23 Pragmatic 106 du Prat Cardinal 11 Prayers for the King order'd by the National Synod 146 Preachers seditious 436 476 Precedency disputed by the Parliament of Tholouse 340 Priests refuse to pray for the King 418 Preparations for the King's change 116 Primrose a Foreign Minister 432 Princes of the Blood their Characters and Interests 55 Processions 12 Project of an Edict 130. not had by the Reformed 133 Protector 61 145 Psalms sung publicly 17. prohibited and the Psalm-Book burnt by the Hangman 252 Publication of the Council of Trent 336 337. resolutely deny'd by the King 437 Pyramid erected 156. thrown down 480 Q. Quarters see Annexes R. REflections general and particular upon the Conference of du Plessis c. 408 Reflections upon the Complaints of the Reformed 354 Reformation Interests that oppos'd it 4 5. the beginning causes and progress of it 7. the entrance of it into France ibid. received at Meaux and Bearn 8. Progrss of it in Germany 9. progress of it 19 Reformed not long quiet in France 37. New occasions of Jealousie 38. progress of their Churches 48. they enter into a third War 40. their hopes of Henry III. 54. Reformed their interests after the death of Henry of Valois 56. and their Suspicions 57. flatter themselves about the King's instruction 59. they propose chusing a new Protector 61. what they understood by Protector 63. their jealousies and the grounds of them 65. their dispositions in regard to a peace 72. reasonableness of their demands 76. excluded from employments 110. afraid of the King's reconciliation with the Pope 137. Acts of Injustice done 'em 140 c. declar'd capable of offices 160. testimony concerning their past and present services 168 Reformed why accus'd not to love Monarchy 23. reported to be quite out of Favour with the King and why 200. new Suspicions and Subjects of Complaint 206. their patience 212. a a continuation of their requests 213. the Reformed excus'd 231. they serve the King before Amience 233. put off with new delays 265. they forbear insisting upon several Articles of the Edict 326. in a condition to treat with the King 386. their negligence and their prejudices 418. particular complaints by them made 441. they desire they may not give themselves the name of pretended Reformed 461. a Boon granted to the Reformed 419. strive to discover the designs of the Cabal 475. they fear the King gives too much way to the
then ordinary nay if 〈…〉 do but sigh and bemoan themselves their very Groans and â—â—ghs are not to be endur'd In the mean time the Dukes of Rohan and Soubise who had â— long time refus'd to yield to the Importunities of the Assembly having bin disgusted by the Court where the Prince of Coâ—dé 〈…〉 the Constable were the Duke of Rohan's Enemies resign'd themselves wholly to the Orders of the Assembly and after some Submissions on their part and some Offers from the â—ourt which signifi'd nothing they resolv'd to hold out St. â—ohn a' Angeli to the last The Duke of Rohan left his Brother â—â— the place and after he had furnish'd it with Men and Ammunition went into Guâ—en to raise more Forces On the other side the King after he had summon'd Subise by a Herald besieg'd the City and Subise by the foul Practices of Loudrieres who discourag'd both the Soldiers and Inhabitants by his discourses â—nd his counsels being constrain'd to surrender the place march'd out sooner then he would have done had he not been afraid of being forsaken All the security which either the City or the Garison had was a wild and general Capitulation by which the King promis'd only in writing to the Inhabitants their Lives their Estates and the Liberty of their Consciences and Persons reserving to himself the disposal of every thing else as he should think convenient declaring at the same time that he did not pretend to make any Treaty but only to grant a Favour However the Capitulation as slight as it was had the hard fate to be but very ill observ'd The Soldiers plunder'd the Town and yet constrain'd the Mayor the Sheriffs and the principal Inhabitants to give 'em a Certificate and forc'd another from the Minister that they had behav'd themselves civilly On the other side the King retiring to Cognac set forth a Declaration which was verifi'd at Bourdeaux wherein to put the greater value upon his Clemency which had spar'd their Lives and Estates and given Liberty of Conscience to the Reformed of St. John d'Angeli he order'd the Fortifications and Walls of the City to be raz'd and the Moats to be fill'd up He took away their Charters and their Franchises and made the Town liable to Taxes for the future He cancell'd their Government by Mayor and Sheriffs and and annex'd the common Stock of the Town to the Royal Demesnes leaving 'em out of his special Grace and Favor their Election and ordinary Jurisdiction Upon which Declaration a certain Historian very much devoted to the Roman Church observes That it would have been taken for a just punishment of that City had they not since that us'd many very Innocent and Catholic Cities after the same rate The End of the Seventh Book THE HISTORY OF THE Edict of Nantes THE SECOND PART THE EIGHTH BOOK A Compendium of the Eighth Book MArshal Bouillon's Letter The King marches into Guyenne the Siege and reducing of Clairac The King's word ill observ'd The Pope's Breve to the King The Reformed every where unfortunate The Siege of Montauban La Force defends the Place The King raises his Siege Chamiere's Death The Duke of Mayenne dies The blame falls upon the Constable The Jesuit Arnoux's disgrace The Duke of Luines dies Assembly of the Clergy A violent Harangue of the Bishop of Rennes The History of Dominic de Jesus Maria. Sedition at Paris The Church at Charenton burnt The Reformed forsake their Houses They are accus'd of setting Fire to the Bridges of Paris and the Prison at Lion The Circle of Lower Languedoc displaces Chatillon Great Confusion in that Circle The Condition of the Court The King returns to Paris A remarkable Writing of Jeannin advising Peace The Opinion of those who were more enclin'd to War The Reformed take new Courage The King departs from Paris His Success in Poitou in Guyenne where he treats with la Force The sack of Negrepelisse and St. Antonin Lesdiguieres interposes for Peace Factions at Mompellier Sedition against the Catholics Bitter Harangue of the Bishop to the King Remarks upon the Stile of that Harangue The Church of Foix laid waste Attestation given to the Monk Villate The King forbids the Reformer to forsake their Houses Count Mansfeild treats with the Reformed Proposals of the Marshal de Bouillon to the Duke of Rohan upon that occasion The Court gains Mansfeild The King makes use of Foreign Catholics in France The Negotiations for Peace renew'd A Writing set forth upon that occasion Siege of Mompellier Capitulation made by Lunell ill observ'd Small Cities ill defended Success of the War in several Places Chatillon made a Marshal of France Seditions at Orleans Fronsac and Lion The Original of the word Parpailler Other Originals Of the word Hust Violence of the Sedition The Reformed are disarm'd War against Rochel Soubise sollicits for Succor from England Treaty of Peace reassum'd near Mompellier Conclusion of the Treaty with an Edict Rigour of the Parlaments Advantages of that Peace Qualifications of the Edict of Peace All the Cities accept the Peace which is ill observ'd by the Court. Treaty at Mompellier The King returns to Paris De Puisieux in Favour The Bishop of Luson made a Cardinal Character of that Prelat After what manner he receiv'd the news of his Promotion Excessive Flatteries Foul Play offer'd the Rochelois Enterprises of Valence at Mompellier where he takes the Duke of Rohan Prisoner and makes a division of the Consulship General Papers Extravagant Answers Exercises forbid The Reformed excluded from Dignities in the Vniversity of Poitiers The singing of Psalms in the Streets and in Shops forbid A common Soldier deprived the Benefit of an Oblate Attempts upon paternal Right A Declaration establishing a Commissioner in Colloquies and Synods A National Synod Galand the first Commissioner ever present to a National Synod He is admitted out of pure Obedience Deputies sent to the King who sends back the Deputies laden with his Orders The Court inclin'd to favour the Arminians A Writing publish'd by la Militiere Answer of Tilenus Authority attributed to the Kings of France Imposture set up against the Synod of Dordrecht Obedience of the Synod of Charenton A Tignations ill paid Propositions made to the Synod by Galand on the King's behalf A new Deputation to the King and the effect of it Oath of Vnion A Citadel built at Mompellier Mariald opposes it in the name of the Reformed of the City Presages of a new War The death of du Plessis The death of Marshal de Bouillon WHile the King lay before St. John d'Angeli he receiv'd the Submissions of the Duke of Tremouille who had surrender'd Taillebourg without much entreaty On the other side Marshal de Bouillon at the same time sent him a Letter full of smart Remonstrances of which the principal Heads were The retiring of the Reformed which he attributed to the notorious violation of the Declaration of the 24th of April He observ'd how the
Soldiers But this Siege as well as that of St John d' Angeli had cost the Lives of several of the Nobility so that they resolv'd to sacrifice these poor Wretches to their revenge The Fault oâ— those that permitted these Barbarities was laid upon the common Soldiers however for fear of the same usage at another time two or three of those who had cut the Cord were hang'd for a shew of satisfaction While the King press'd hard upon Clairac he receiv'd a Breif from the Pope wherein he congratulated his Victories exhorted him not to lay down his Arms till he had subdu'd Rochelle and depriv'd the Heretics of every thing that serv'd 'em for their security He extoll'd his Enterprize to the Skies and gave him great hopes of an issue correspondent to such prosperous Beginnings together with strong assurances of the protection of the Saints Among the rest of his Eulogies there was one very particular That he had follow'd the Example of his Ancestors who had paid as much Honour to the Instigations of the Popes as to the Commands of God The more sincere sort of Catholics acknowledg'd this Breif to be a real Truth tho others who were asham'd of it would fain had it pass'd for supposiâ—…ious 'T was dated the Tenth of July During the continuance of this Siege and the following â—onths the Duke of Mayenne continu'd the War in the Quarters assign'd to his Conduct and made himself Master of Mas 〈…〉 Verdun Mauvesin and the Isle of Jourdain giving satisfaction â—o the Governors But to the end that all men might have their â—hare in the miseries of the War the Sums which were promis'd â—he Governors were paid 'em by the Inhabitants of the parts adjoining The Duke of Espernon employ'd his time in burning â—…he Houses and Mills about Rochel and the Duke of Montmoâ—…nâ—y perform'd some petty Exploits in Languedoc which tended all to annoy the City of Nimes The Duke of Rohan who expected that Montauban would be attacqu'd after the rest kept himself in the parts adjoining to Castres and Albi to provide â—…r their security and held himself up with much more Courage then good Fortune The Assembly of Rochel sought for succor from all parts but nothing succeeded to their wishes â—ll Foreigners refus'd 'em the assistance which they implor'd The Intrigues of Vatteville Mont-chrestien whom they had sent â—…to Normandy with several Commissions to raise men prov'd â—…ortive by his death Mombrun who endeavor'd to raise some â—orces in the Dauphinate was not able to do any thing considerable by reason of Lesdiguieres's return who prevented him â—nd the Count de Suse who had a design upon Grenoble being known by a Catholic Peasant that serv'd him for a Guide was â—…d into a Precipice with his Followers from which he could â—ot save so much as one single person and he himself had â—…erish'd thro the Rigor of the Parlament had not the King commanded 'em to surcease their prosecution So that till then all things gave way to the King 's good Fortune insomuch that â—…e made himself Master of about Fifty Towns of which several were able to have given him as much trouble as St. John 〈…〉 Angeli yet all submitted before so much as one great Gun â—as fir'd upon 'em nor do I reck'n in those which either he or â—ny of his Generals had bin forc'd to besiege But Montauban put a stop to the Career of all this Prosperiâ—y The City and Parlament of Tholouse had engag'd the King to sit down before that Place at a time when the Season was already far spent and that his men were quite tir'd out with labour and the hardships which they had undergone But Montauban was such an annoyance to Tholouse by reason of the Excursions which the Inhabitants made ev'n to the Gates of that great City that the Tholousains promis'd to supply the King with ev'ry thing that was necessary for the Siege provided he would but undertake it And the good Success which had all along till then attended him made him easily believe that Montauban would be as little able to withstand the Torrent of his Prosperity as the rest Thereupon the Duke of Mayenne and Marshal de Themines had Orders to make the Approaches The former of these two had made himself Master of several Towns in the Neighborhood but he could not surprize St. Antonin notwithstanding that he had gain'd the Governor whose name was Penaveire That faithless person had sold him the Town for Two thousand Crowns for the payment of which the Duke had subscrib'd a Writing But the Consuls coming to desire some Order from him which concern'd 'em he gave 'em the Writing by mistake Upon sight of which the Consuls testifying their Astonishment by their Looks the Governor perceiv'd his Error but put it off with a good face and a ready presence of mind However he could not remove the Jealousies which thâ—â— Accident had rais'd so that after that he could not deceive the Consuls who trusted him no longer but stood upon their own Guard In the mean time the Siege of Montauban prov'd unsuccessful La Force and the Count d'Orval Son of the Duke of Sulli were got into it and held it out like men of Courage And as for the Correspondences which the King held in the place they all fail'd because that they who were the chief Conspirators were slain and the rest were discover'd The Duke of Rohan also reliev'd it with a considerable Reinforcement notwithstanding all the Precautions of the King's Generals or the Duke of Angoulesm who kept the Field with a flying Camp After that several Proposals were made for a Peace but the King refusing to grant any Accommodation but only to the Duke of Rohan and he denying to accept any other then a general Peace those Projects came to nothing nor could they â—…nd any Expedient to colour the raising the Siege However the King was forc'd to draw off after he had wasted near three months time before that place Chamier a Minister and Professor in Theology who was slain with a Cannon-shot was one of the most considerable among those whom the Besieged lost But the King mist a great number of brave Gentlemen and among the rest the Duke of Mayenne who was kill'd in the Attacques of Ville-Bourbon He was a Prince of a surpassing Prowess but who made too great an ostentation of it and took delight to expose both himself and others without any shelter to the Enemies shot out of a Vanity little becoming a great Soul However it brought him to his end at length as he had in the cause that many others by his Example had sacrific'd their Lives to the same vain-glorious Emulation They of Montauban had notice that the Army would suddenly dislodge by a Soldier of the Religion who the evening before the Siege was rais'd fell a playing upon the Fluâ—e the Tune of the Sixty eighth Psalm which the Besieged took for a
of Henry III. was to their disadvantage through the Policy of that Prince who excluded 'em from all â—…ratifications a powerful means to infect the minds of those â—ho are oversway'd by their own Interests The King himself perform'd the office of a Converter and his Reasons which he â—â—compani'd with Favours or Denials as he thought proper â—egâ—in'd to his Religion all those who had a design to please him several also who continu'd in the Reformed Religion for their â—…wn Soul's health yet bred their Children up in the Roman Religion for the security of their Fortunes Jeannin adds farther â—â— demonstrate how disadvantageous a Peace would be to the â—eformed for that when they had a mind to betake themselves â—o their Arms after a long rest they always found it a difficult â—…ing to rouze up from their Repose and Tranquility those â—ho had for some time bin tasting the delights of Peace â—eâ—ides that there was less danger in attacking 'em after they â—ad â—â—â—eminated themselves with the charming softnesses of an â—â—sy life And he was so possess'd with this Opinion that as he wrote before the Peace to oblige the King and his Council 〈…〉 make it so he publish'd another Writing after it was concluded to advise 'em to keep it But the King's Infirmity lying on his Conscience side theâ— who assail'd him in his weakest part prov'd most successful anâ— for fear the Counsellors of Peace should by their more weight Reasons deface the Impressions which they had fix'd in his minâ— they got him out of Paris as it were in hugger-mugger in hope they should have more power over him when they had him at thâ—… head of an Army To say the truth there was a strange alteration 〈…〉 Affairs after the King's return to Paris But it seems he thoughâ— a Peace would not be for his Honor in the present Conjunction On the other side the Reformed had almost every where regain'd fresh Courage The Duke of Soubise had recover'd their Affairs in the Lower Poitou and in the Islands La Force had re-incourag'd to the defence of their Liberties some of those Cities which their Governors had sold He had wrested St. For oâ— of Theobon's hands by means of a Female Intrigue in regarâ—… that Gentleman was in love with one of his Kinswomen Toâ—…neins Clairac and several other Strong-holds once more acknowledg'd the Reformed for their Masters The Duke of Roâ—aâ— elected General of the Circle of Lower Languedoc had by 〈…〉 Policy and Prudence his Frankness and his Patience reconcil'd the Differences which had for some time disunited that Province so that the King had almost lost all the fruit of the preceding Campaign which had cost him so much men anâ— money The King departed from Paris upon Palm Sunday and by receiv'd Intelligence that the Duke of Espernon having drawn oâ— all his Forces for the security of his own Governments there waâ— not any strength in the Lower Poitou that could make head against the Duke of Soubise therefore he was constrain'd to begin his Campaign in those Quarters where the Duke either for want of Judgment or through the Infidelity of those who commanded under him became the unfortunate Spectator of the slaughter of his men and in one day lost the fruit of all his Labours Royan was surrender'd to the King after a Siege of some few days and these Successes buri'd in oblivion the Treaties of Peace which had bin observ'd till that time and the Duke of Rohan's Commissioners not arriving till after the Rout of his Brother were enforc'd to return as they came On the other side the King upon some jealousy of the Duke of Treâ—…ouille who had remov'd to Sedan the Prince of Talmont his Eldest Son afterwards known by the Title of Prince of Tarente whom he had left at Thouars under the tuition of the Dutchess Dowager dismissed from Taillebourg the person entrusted with the Command of that place and secur'd the Castle for himself which was of some consequence at that time After this the King march'd into Guyenne where he presently retook all that The Reformed were Masters of and where he utterly ruin'd 'em by the Agreement which he concluded with la Force In pursuance of which he honour'd him with the Batoon of Marshal of France which had bin promis'd him above Twelve years before Moreover he gave him a Gratuity of Two hundred thousand Crowns to recompence him for the loss of his Governments which both he and his Children were oblig'd to quit Thus it comes to pass sometimes that Rebellion is more fortunate then Merit and that a man by rendring himself formidable secures to himself the reward of his Services La Force surrenders to the King the City of St. Foy where the King solemniz'd the Festival which the Catholics call by the name of Corpus Christi day the Ceremony of which that City had not beheld for many years before But la Force treated only for himself obtaining for his Friends no more then a bare Act of Oblivion which created him many Enemies in the Countrey where many of the Nobility had follow'd him before Moreover 't was twenty to one but that the King had broke his word with him when he had left himself to the discretion of the Court because his Son still held out one of the Strong-holds which belong'd to the Reformed and made some Scruple to surrender it which resistance they would fain have had to have bin lookt upon as a Collusion between the Father and the Son But that Advice was rejected as well for fear of the Consequences as for the Reasons which the Prince of Condé gave who obstinately oppos'd it The King now hastning into Languedoc was so fortunate as to meet with no Opposition by the way and for that the Cities which he had no design to have attack'd surrender'd merely out of fear of being besieg'd Negrepelisse and St. Antonin small Cities not far distant from Montauban were taken by Assault and all the Cruelties imaginable committed The Women suffer'd all that could be fear'd from the sensuality of Brutish Common Soldiers and the Men were almost all massacr'd The Pretence was That Negrepelisse had cut the Throats of the Garison which the King left there the year before and that St. Antonin had stay'd took long before it surrender'd They also who retreated to the Castle first of all after the Town was surrender'd had their share of the same usage And when they had surrender'd at discretion the Council order'd twelve of 'em to be hang'd There were some that follow'd the King who by no means approv'd these Cruelties who rescu'd as many as they could out of the Soldiers Clutches and redeem'd some Women and Virgins that were threaten'd extremity of outrage with their own Money But the King who was naturally good natur'd and under whose Name these Cruelties were committed was more concern'd then any body So that his abhorrence of such Barbarities
came to the Army to put a final end to it One of those things which occasion'd the greatest trouble was that the King would needs enter into the City and that the Inhabitants were afraid that if they did admit him he would make 'em pay dear for the Expences of so long a Siege Neverthelefs the King disdaining to promise one of his Cities by a formal Treaty that he would not have entrance into it there was a necessity of endeavouring to persuade the Inhabitants to submit To this purpose the Duke of Rohan had leave to enter and make the Proposal to the Citizens He did so bâ— whether he undertook that Commission rather to inform himself of the true state of the Town then to persuade the People to a good liking of the Proposal or whether it were that he could not remove out of their minds the fear of being made a new Example of the Infidelities of the Court he return'd without being able to obtain the Consent of the City to admit the King Upon that he promis'd to send 'em Relief because the Town was in great want of men but he met with so many difficulties after the Duke of Vendome's and the Constable's â—en were arriv'd in the King's Camp that at length he resolv'd â—pon a Peace Thereupon it was concluded in despight of the Prince of Condé who for madness to see that he had so little Credit â—nd that an Affair of such Importance should be conceal'd from â—is knowledge quitted the Court and travell'd into Italy On the other side the Duke of Rohan with the Commissioners â—f Cevennes Nimes and Vsez came to Mompellier and the â—9th of October the Edict of Peace was publish'd in the Camp before Mompellier This Edict was set forth in the Form of â— Pardon wherein the King before all things took care to assert the Justice of his Arms taken up against the Reformed whose Rebellions he ascrib'd to the Artifices of those who thought to make advantage of their Simplicity and the Troubles of the State and he took God to witness that his Intension had always bin to procure the Peace and Welfare of his Subjects After which he declar'd that he had granted a Peace upon the humble Petitions and Supplications of the Reformed who had besought it by their Commissioners sent on purpose together with a Pardon for their Offences By this Peace he confirm'd the Edicts not only of the deceased King â—ut his own He likewise confirm'd the Secret Articles but â—e added the word Enregister'd wherein he had an Aim that â—o body mistrusted and which was afterwards the foundation â—f many Cavils He re setled the Roman Religion in several places where the exercise of it had bin interrupted and recor'd to the Ecclesiasticks their Tenths their Revenues and their Houses He also re-establish'd the Reformed Religion in places where it had bin disturb'd by the War He ordain'd that the Cities remaining in the hands of the Reformed preserving their ancient Fortifications should demolish their new â—nes for which they gave Hostages and he forbid the fortifying of any place under any pretence whatever He extended the benefit of the Peace to all those that would submit in fifteen days after publication of the Edict He put down all Politic Assemblies if they were not authoriz'd by his Express Permission but he consented to their holding Consistories Colloquies and Synods according to custome provided that nothing were handl'd therein but meerly Ecclesiastical Affairs He granted an Act of Oblivion for all that had happen'd since the first of January 1621 as full and with the same Restrictions as that which had been granted by the 76th 77th and 86th Articles of the Edict of Nantes He added a particular Amnesty for what had happen'd at Privas wherein he comprehended Brison who had been the Author of those Commotions and who had kept his ground there ever since the beginning of the year As for the Accompts and the Sentences or Decrees that had bin issu'd out against the Reformed who had born Arms they were regulated according to the Articles of the Edict of Nantes that mention'd the same things and the Judgments pronounc'd between Persons of their Party by the Judges setled in the Provinces by Authority of the Chieftains were confirm'd the Prisoners on both sides were releas'd without Ransom All Persons of what quality soever were restor'd to their Estates their Dignities and Employments The observation of this Edict was regulated according to the Form prescrib'd by the 82d Article of Nantes and the King promis'd to send Commissioners into the Provinces to see it duly executed This Edict free'd from much trouble a great many Persons against whom the Parlament had issu'd forth very severe Decrees which were put in execution without mercy Thus the Unfortunate Lâ—ssius who had been proscrib'd at the beginning of the Troubles not being able to escape his being surpriz'd at Bourdeaux was put to death in pursuance of a Decree set forth against him the 18th of May. For they thought it more proper and more agreeable to their nature to look upon his Actions as Acts of Rebellion against his Prince then effects of Zeal for his Religion and Countrey He was suspected for one of those who had a great share in the Intrigues of the Reformed and they coupl'd him with Chamier who was slain at the Siege of Montauban and Hautefontaine who liv'd with the Duke of Rohan The Parliament of Rennes no less violent then that of Bourdeaux had upon the 10th of the same Month issu'd forth a most terrible Decree against the Marquess de la Muce and le Noir his Minister They condemn'd 'em for Conâ—â—macy to the Amende Honorable â—nd to be drawn by four Horses Their Posterity was degraded and declared Peasants Muce's Houses and Castle were demolish'd and his Wood cut down to the â—eighth of a Man Moreover their Goods were confiscated and themselves fin'd the Sum of Ten thousand Livres and Six thousand Livres to be bestow'd upon some Churches and Moâ—asteries La Muce was also levell'd with the Earth though 〈◊〉 Decrees of Contumacy the Proceedings were not wont to be â—…swift But in regard the persons condemn'd were out of the Parlament's reach they were discharg'd for an Execution in 〈◊〉 There were also several other very Rigorous Decrees according to the Passionate Humour of the Parlaments which were to take cognizance of the Parties accus'd Nay the Duke of Rohan himself had bin declar'd a State-Criminal by a particular Decree made on purpose However they spar'd him while the Constable de Luines liv'd but after his death a Declaration was publish'd against the Duke and his Adherents â—et though it came forth 27th of December of the preceding â—ear it was not verify'd till the fourth of July 1622. So that 〈◊〉 Duke bore Arms above a year against the King made himself master of several Places reliev'd Montauban and committed all manner of Hostilities all the
while before he was â—…s'd as a Rebel This Peace prov'd very honourable for the Duke of Rohan who notwithstanding that the Reformed had lost about fourscore Towns was yet in a condition to gain a General Peace which the King had refus'd at the Siege of Montauban but the Priâ—ate Articles were still more to his advantage then the General The remaining Places were left in the hands of the Reformed not under the Title of Security Marriage or Hostage but by way of free Gift and voluntary Concession which did â—ut only alter the name not the thing 'T is true that the King would no longer tye himself to pay the Garisons nor what was due for the time past as the Sums promis'd either by himself or his Father for the Salaries of the Ministers Yet he gave 'em some hopes that he would pay 'em for the future But that Article was ill observ'd as well as the rest By a particular Brevet the King promis'd that he would neither keep any Garison nor erect any Citadel at Mompellier that the City should remain in the Custody of the Consuls and that there should be no Innovation other then the demolishing of the new Fortifications which Breif was deliver'd to the Duke of Rohan who lodg'd it in the Consul's hands By other Breifs permission was given that Rochel and Montauban should preserve their Fortifications in the same condition as theâ—… stood and that the Works about Nimes Castres Vsez and Milhau should be but half demolish'd But when that Article about the demolishing of the Fortifications came to â—â— put in execution notice was giv'n to the Parlament of Tholouse that the Reformed went to work after such a manner that by dismantling their Cities they made 'em better and stronger then before so that upon the 14th of December there came forth a Decree which forbid those counterfeit dismantlings which was the reason that that same Article of the Edict was laid aside and the places left in the same condition as the Peace found ' em Nor did the Parlament verify the Edict of Peace but with several Qualifications The Parlament of Paris instead of the words Cities of the pretended Reformed Religion put in Cities 〈◊〉 by those of the pretended Reformed Religion and in the room of thâ— words Ecclesiastical Affairs they alter'd 'em into Affairs concerning the Regulations of the said pretended Reformed Religion These petty Niceties however display'd no signs of Embitterment But the Parlament of Bourdeaux laid about 'em with the same passionate Fury as they had shewn during the Frenziâ—â— of the League They verifi'd the Edict without approving any other then the Catholic Religion or admitting the words Ecclesiastical Affairs They ordain'd that the dismantling of their Towns should be continu'd till it were thoroughly finish'd that such Judgments as were in favour of the Catholics should stand good but that those which were advantageous to the Reformed should be revokable upon a bare Petition and thâ—â— no Foreigners should be capable of being Ministers in the Kingdom These affected Severities in the Verification of an Edict â—ight well be lookt upon as a Presage that the Repose which it contributed to the Kingdom would not be of long contiâ—â—ance Nevertheless all the Cities which had join'd together in the â—â—mmon Cause accepted of the Peace though there were â—â—me that were afraid of the Consequence Privas and Brison who had held it out notwithstanding the Conquests which Chaâ—lloâ— had suffer'd the Duke of Mommorency to make in the Neighbouring parts came in upon the general Conditions Montauban proud of having held out a Siege where the King was in person and of preserving her Fortifications as a Troâ—…y of her Victory accepted the Conditions also Rochel prest 〈◊〉 Sea and Land and fearing to be assailed by the whole strength of the Kingdom if she refus'd the Conditions propos'd submitted to the Count of Soissons who commanded the King's Forces that attacqu'd her However the Duke of Guise â—…ough well inform'd that the Peace was concluded adventur'd 〈◊〉 engage the Fleet of that City and because he could not â—â—â—d out a way to excuse that Action which cost a great deal 〈◊〉 Blood on both sides 't was given out that Rochel knew it as well as he and that she would not have accepted the Peace â—â—d she got the better To say truth her loss was not so great â—â—t that she was still in a condition to appear formidable And 〈◊〉 may be said that her damage consisted in this that the least â—…es of a City that has no other assistance to trust to but her â—wn are always considerable rather then in her receiving any great harm by the King 's Fleet. But after the tidings of the â—eace all Acts of Hostility ceas'd and the City thought herself deliver'd from all her fears of a long Siege Vsez Nimes Milhau all the rest of the Cities obey'd and flatter'd themselves with seeing the Edicts better observ'd for the future then hitherto â—â—ey had bin But Catholic Zeal had not yet alter'd her Characters nor was it lawful for the Council to make a Peace of that nature â—â—t with a resolution to violate it One of the first effects of â—â—e Infidelity of the Court was her defrauding the most part of the Deserters of the common Cause and denying 'em the Recompences which had bin promis'd em for the performance 〈…〉 which Promises they never had bin urgent The King thought that the Peace which he had granted to all the Reformed haâ—… disingag'd him from the Promises which he had made to particular men meerly to retain 'em in their obedience Nor would many People have murmur'd at this piece of Infidelity had thâ—… stopp'd there and it was agreed on all sides that they who haâ— sold for ready money the Towns that were the security of their Religion and their Consciences deserv'd no better usage bâ—… the Court-Designs soon after broke out into Frauds of highâ—… importance For they had promis'd the Rochelois to demoliâ—… the Fort which the Count of Soissons had built to curb and aâ—… noy the City But they were so far from observing that Article that the Fort was not finish'd till after the Peace was made nor could all the Complaints of the Rochellois obtain aâ—… other then feigned Commands to demolish it of which they to whom they were sent had private Orders to take 〈…〉 notice Among the secret Conditions which were granted to the City of Mompelier there was a Promise made to the Inhabitants that the King should not enter with above four Colours of Fooâ—… which should march out back again with him To elude which Promise the whole Regiment of Guards was order'd to enter iâ—… under no more then four Colours unworthily abusing the aâ—… biguous signification of the word though as time has made it out the word Colours or Ensign signifies much more usually in common speech a Company of Soldiers marching under 〈…〉 Ensign then
the Cap had depriv'd him of his Reason He forgot all the gravity and decorum of his Character and display'd his satisfaction by motions and gestures so unbecoming a man of his Age and Quality that the Gentleman was more afraid of his hatred then ever as having bin so unfortunate to be the Witness of a piece of weakness which the Bishop had reason to be asham'd of as long as he liv'd But after a little time had giv'n the first transports of his Joy leave to evaporate the Bishop deliver'd him out of his fears and only very seriously admonish'd him not to let any body know what he had seen nor to appear at Court till the Courier was arriv'd But though the Gentleman were very trusty in observing the last Injunction he could no more forbear his disobedience to the latter then Midas's Barber In the mean time the Bishop came to himself agen and had time to compose the Disorders of his mind so that when the Queen sent for him to impart the welcome News to him he receiv'd it with such a careless Hypocrisy as if his Soul had bin above such a Transitory Dignity That Gravity which he had had time to study begot him a world of Admiration and caus'd the Courtiers to speak many things in his commendation Thus many times in Eminent Persons the Hits of Chance are imputed to Prudence Prosperity is admir'd as the Architecture of the Man's Genius and the Praises belonging to Vertue are bestow'd upon outward Appearances The King lay then before Mompelier when the New Cardinal came to pay him his returns of Thanks so that he could not give him the Bonnet till after the Peace when he return'd to Paris I would repeat the Prodigious Flatteries of those that harangu'd the King all along where he lay upon the Road did I not find that the Reformed imitated the Catholics and strove to outvy 'em in their Excesses and Hyperbole's Nevertheless I cannot forbear to say something of the Consul Montelimar who extended the extravagance of his Style and his Eulogies farther then any other He insisted upon the Divine Aspect and presence of the King He attributed to him Vertues that Heaven rever'd and the Earth ador'd and a Life so holy in the midst of Crowned Exaltation and Royal Grandeur that he deserv'd both the Altars and Sacrifices of Sacred Veneration These Fulsome Flatteries are either the Effects or Forerunners of Pusillanimous Servitude and Subjects renounce their right of complaining that their Soveraign exalts his Power above Justice when they make him more then mortal by such soaring Adulations Which is the reason that now-a-days we find that Flattery has no bounds where the People have lost their Liberty beyond recovery While the King lay at Lion whither the Duke of Rohan follow'd him to sollicit the performance of the Treaty of Peace the Commissioners from Rochel arriv'd there the same time to obtain an Order for demolishing Fort Lewis 'T is true they receiv'd some shew of satisfaction because they had a Letter given 'em under the Privy Signet directed to Arnaud Commander of the Fort wherein he was order'd to level it with the ground within eight days after the Rochelois had dismantl'd some of their New Fortifications But at the same time there was another Letter written which was sent by a shorter way wherein Arnaud was order'd to give no credit to the former Letter So that when the Rochelois deliver'd him the Letter which their Commissioners had brought they were scornfully us'd and return'd without any hopes of satisfaction Soon after also notwithstanding these Counterfeit Letters from the Court they â—aw quite finish'd what remain'd to be done in order to putâ—ing the Fort into a perfect posture of defence On the other side Valencé who was left by the King in Mompelier with a considerable Garison endeavour'd to make himself Master of some places in Cevennes under pretence of quartring some Soldiers that were only upon their march through the Countrey Upon which the Cities of Sauve and Gange either too credulous â—r because they had not sufficient warning gave the Soldiers admittance But the Duke of Rohan took such care that the rest preserv'd themselves from being so surpriz'd Soon after the Duke went to Mompelier to regulate some things which Valencé to whom in his return from Lion he carry'd a Letter from the King which concern'd the Execution of the Peace But no sooner was he enter'd the City but Valencé being inform'd of his Travailing by himself and by consequence having had leisure to prepare himself for such an Action seiz'd upon him as his Prisoner His Pretence was That he was come to raise Commotions and that he did not pursue the Intentions of the Court in the Execution of the Peace 'T is true indeed he was not privy to the Intentions of those who never made the Peace but with a design to break it He observ'd the Terms of the Declaration and Briefs But Valencé who was Puisieux's Brother-in law better understood the Mystery That Minister had promis'd the Pope's Nuntio That â—he Peace should serve to no other end then to ruin the Reformed and he made use of all the most palpable Frauds that could be devis'd to bring it to pass But the news of the Duke of Rohan's being detain'd a Pris'ner begat both astonishment and indignation in all the Reformed who had any thing of courage left and Soubise threaten'd to renew the War Nor was the Court less astonish'd at the News then they were in the Provinces And the boldness of the Action appear'd so great that they were in no small perplexity what course to take There were some who neither consider'd the King's Honour nor the scandalizing all Europe that were for putting the Duke to death But Moderation was thought the better way He was releas'd upon condition he should quit the City and the Lower Languedoc and execute his Commission in the Upper This Proceeding of the Court may be attributed to several Reasons some will say that it was infus'd into 'em by that little respect they had to Honesty and Sincerity which would not permit 'em so publickly and egregiously to violate a Peace that had been so lately concluded or because they thought it not just to ruin a Man of that importance as the Duke who had done nothing which deserv'd death since the Pardon that the King had granted him On the other side it may be said That either they they had not time to examine the Consequences of so violent an Action or that they fear'd to arm against 'em all the Lords that had submitted to the King if they us'd the Duke after such a manner as might give them just occasion to be afraid of the like usage upon the first opportunity that offer'd Yet some have written that none of these Motives induc'd the Court to release the Duke but that the Interest of a Ball decided the Dispute For the Queen had
appointed one wherein the Dutchess of Rohan was to bear a part and every thing was ready when the News of the Duke's Imprisonment arriv'd Which Accident would have quite broken off the Match and the Queen must either have lost or been forc'd to have deferr'd a Pastime she was just about to enjoy which would have bin a very great disappointment to a Princess of her Age and therefore it was better to let an Enemy live then disturb the Pleasures of a Young Queen So that the Duke was more beholding for his Liberty to a Dancing Match then to the Publick Faith In the mean time Valence made the best of this Accident for while he kept the Duke in Prison he proceeded to the Election of the Consuls and caus'd the one half to be chosen Catholics as he had already done by the Marine Consulship out of which he had taken out one half of the Reformed Both the one and the other was against the express terms of the Breif by which it was promis'd that no Innovation should be introduc'd into the Consulship and there is great probability that the Duke of Rohan would have very much obstructed Valence's Enterprize had not the latter prevented him by Imprisonment But when the Duke was set at liberty he found the thing done and the Order which oblig'd him to retire into Vpper Languedoc depriv'd him both of time and means to apply any Remedy The Reformed complain'd that Valence had made use of Violence in the electing what Consuls he thought fit himself and that he had kept the Consuls that were going out of their employments a whole night Pris'ners in his own house to force their consent to the election of Catholics But the Court took â—o notice of these Complaints and all that the Duke cou'd obtain from 'em was that Valence shou'd recall the men that he â—ad quarter'd up and down in Valence's Credit was then so great that though he were no more then Governor of Mompelier he was consulted by all Languedoc to know the secret intentions of the Court and that 't was enough for him to say â—hat 't was the King's pleasure that such or such a thing should be done to have it put in execution Orders of the same nature given out of the Jurisdiction of his Government were obey'd as if they had come from the King himself and Acts â—f which the purport only was that Valence had written that the King's Pleasure was so or so have past in our days for definitive in Affairs of great importance Nevertheless it was â—oth contrary to Probability and Custom that the Governor of 〈…〉 particular Town should be the Arbitrator of a whole Province But in Affairs of Religion 't was enough to authorize Fraud and Injustice against the Reformed for a Catholic to â—ay Le Roy veut 't is the King's Pleasure As for the Duke of Rohan when he was got clear of Mompelier he went to Milhau where he understood that the Duke of Espernon to whom the King a little before had giv'n the Government of Guyenne instead of that of Saintonge and Augonnois went about to hinder the Cities held by the Reformed in Rouvergne to elect their Consuls as they were wont to do and that he had written to 'em not to make any new Elections till they understood from his mouth the King 's further Pleasure But the Duke of Râ—han explaining his Pleasure by the terms of the Peace persuaded 'em to elect their Consuls at the usual times and after that to send Commissioners to the Duke of Espernon to know his Will They took his Advice and by that means preserv'd their right to keep the Catholics out of the Consulship But while things thus past in Languedoc the general Commissioners Mommarton and Maniald who had been substituted in the rooms of Flavas and Chalas present a Paper to the King wherein they demanded several things necessary for the preservation of Peace It consisted of Twenty two Heads the substance of which was That Commissioners should be sent into the Provinces to see the Peace duly executed That the Garison might be remov'd out of Mompelier That the Brief which promis'd there should be no Innovation might be observ'd That Fort Lewis might be demolish'd That the Reformed who had bin condemn'd to the Gallies might be set at liberty That the Sums promis'd for the Ministers Salaries for the low state of Pensions and the payment of the Garisons might be discharg'd both for the time past and for the future That Candal who had paid some money before-hand might be reimburs'd That the King should provide for the payment of the Ministers of the Country of Gex to whom there had been assign'd a Fund upon the Toll-money in recompence of the Ecclesiastical Revenues which had bin taken from 'em That the King would be pleas'd to contribute something toward the rebuilding of the Church at Charenton which was burnt down in the War-time That he would be pleas'd to cause the Church at Tours to be rebuilt at his own charges in the same place where it stood before the Sedition according to his promise That he would vouchsafe to let the Church of Bourg be rebuilt notwithstanding that the Catholics disputed their Right to the Ruins of it That free Exercise of their Religion might be restor'd to the Reformed at Villemur Fontain Luson and Talâ—ont in which places they had carri'd their Violences so high against those that went about to assemble together as to level their great Guns against 'em That the same liberty should be also allow'd at Surgeres Bagnols St. Giles's Figeac Puimirol â—iâ— en Armagnac from whence they had expell'd the Minister â—nd lastly at Quilleboeuf in Normandy That the Reformed of Poitiers might be discharg'd from the payment of Twelve hunder'd Livres which had bin laid upon 'em by way of Tax for the Guard of the City though they would not do 'em the â—onour to trust 'em with it as they did the rest of the Inhabitants That the Edict of Compensation might be executed in â—earn and that the Exercise of the Reformed Religion might â—e restor'd to the Navarreines And that the Churches Bells Church-yards which the Reformed enjoy'd there by the Decree â—f the Commissioners might be preserv'd to 'em since they â—ad resign'd all the rest to the Catholics That the Party Chambers might set up again in those places where they had bin reâ—or'd during the Wars That the Reformed might be exempted from the building of Churches to which the Catholics of Arâ—â—i le Due went about to constrain 'em actually prosecuting â—em at the Council-board in order to have 'em comprehended â—n the raising Six thousand Livres design'd toward the building of a Church for the Capuchins That the Church of Remorenâ—in burnt in the time of the War and that of Gergeau pull'd â—own since the Peace might be rebuilt That the Cities of Berâ—eras and St. For might be eas'd of several Grievances And â—astly
with Henrietta of France Negotiation of the Archbyâ— of Ambrun the Match concluded upon advantageous Conditiâ—… for the Catholics Death of James I. Charles consummâ—… the Marriage Suit between the City of Pamiers and Bishop Cavils upon the Right of prosecuting the payment Legacies and Donations Exemption of Ministers Trâ—… reviv'd Enterprise of the Duke of Rohan and Soubise 〈◊〉 cover'd Soubise seizes the King's Ships and is block'd 〈◊〉 the Port of Blavet He is thought to be lost and is disown'd by all the world The King's Declaration upon that occasion Soubise disingages himself which changes the face of Affairs Politic Devotions of the Duke of Rohan Seconded by his Wife Manifesto of the Duke of Soubise Answer Dispute about the Priviledges of Rochel Peace talk'd of Cruelties of the Râ—al Army in Soubise's Successes Remonstrance of the Reformed presented to the King Answers to the Articles with which the Reformed are not content The Court recovers her Affairs Assembly of the Clergy that furnishes out money with reluctancy The King excepts Rochel out of the Peace which delays the conclusion of it Particular Laws which the King would impose upon that City A powerful League against Spain A Design of the Cardinal of which he is forc'd to forbear the execution Instances of the English Ambassadors for the peace of Religion Rochel accepts the Conditions somewhat mitigated Divers Acts upon occasion of the Peace Why the Court demanded such Writings Act past by the English Ambassadors In what sense the King becomes a Guaranty for the Peace A new Edict which confirms all the rest Foul Play shew'd by France to the Confederates Jealousies between the Cardinal and Buckingham The Cardinal 's weak side Enterprises of the Catholics of the Queen of England's Houshold Conspiracy against the Cardinal Condition of Rochel National Synod Decree relating to Commissioners Instructions of the Commissioners Chauve the Moderator's Answer Surprize upon the Synod of Realmont Infidelity of Masuyer at which the Catholics triumph They would fain hedge in the Ministers into the Treaty of the Duke of Rohan with Spain Article of the Synod of Realmont which orders enquiry after such as were gâ—tity which offends all the Churches and is disown'd by the National Synod Leave to nominate general Deputies from which the Synod desires to be excus'd and send Deputies to the King Remonstrances of the Deputies Maniald dyes to whom the King sâ—â—stitutes Hardi Return of the Deputies and the King's Answer The Synod names general Deputies Several Resolutions of the Synod The City of Castres refuses to receive the Luke of Rohan's Deputies Memoirs of Complaints Burying of Lords that were the Founders in Churches Legacies given to the Poor adjudg'd to Hospitals Marriage of a Knight of Maltha vacated Vexatious Declarations Meeting of the Notable Conversions forc'd in Bearn at Aubenas at St. Amand. Extraordinary Acts of Injustice Innovations at Mompelier Foundation of that City Declaration against Foreign Ministers Rochel remains block'd up the English declare War Tâ—… United Provinces assist France The English land in the 〈…〉 of Ree Irresolution of the Rochellers Letters of the Coâ—â—â— intercepted A nice Question Whether Huguenots ought to â—â— suffer'd in the King's Army Rochel determines and publishâ—â— a Manisesto The Duke of Rohan does the same Iâ—trâ—… of Galand against the Duke Rout of the English Sâ—… Fleet of the English of no use to the Rochellers A third Flâ—â—â— as ineffectual The beginning of a Treaty of Peace with England and Surrender of Rochel The City refuses to submit to 〈…〉 English Spanish Fleet at the Siege of Rochel Severities exercis'd toward the Ladies of Rohan The Courage of Guiton Maire of Rochel How the City was us'd IN the mean time the Commissioners that were promis'd to be sent into the Provinces went thither in earnest but the course which they took in the execution of the Edicts serv'd only to convince the most incredulous among the Reformed that the Court did but make a Maygame of ' em For the Church which they had at Gergeau that had bin one of their Cities of security and where they had held some general Assemblies was taken from 'em in a City where they had always enjoy'd one and to make 'em amends for this Act of Injustice they had leave giv'n to build another at the farther end of all the Suburbs The Catholics of Remorentin who had burnt the Church would never permit the building of another but the Commissioners instead of punishing the Misdemeanor and doing Justice upon the Offenders were so kind as to leave things in the same condition as they found ' em But the Injustice which they did the Reformed of Tours was much more notorious For the King had promis'd after the Sedition of which I have given an account in another place to preserve to the Protestants of that City their priviledge of meeting in that place â—here they were wont to assemble and to supply 'em with the â—…um of Six thousand Livres towards the rebuilding of the â—hurch which the Mutineers had fir'd But the Commissioners â—…ted quite contrary to this Promise They arriv'd at Tours in â—…y and would needs persuade the Reformed to accept of another place which Proposal being rejected by the poor People â—…o demanded the performance of the King's word the Commissioners departed without making any regulation Toward the end of September they return'd agen to Tours at what time â—â—ey took a view of several places of the situation of which â—â—eâ— drew up a long Report in writing and design'd the Reformed one for the building of a Church which the Reformed â—ould not accept of but they got nothing by it for the Commissioners enforc'd 'em by an Order to sell the place where their â—…d Church stood and to lay out the money in the purchase of â—â—at which was design'd ' em Amelot and Chalas had a Commission to see the Edict per â—…rm'd in the Provinces of Poitou and Saintonge Chalas who â—as made choice of by Amelot as the Catholic Commissioners â—â—d almost every where the priviledge to nominate their Associates was one of those complying sort of People who have not â—…udacity enough to oppose another man's Opinion and who being men of sincerity themselves cannot believe that other men will deceive ' em So that the Reformed complain'd very much â—…f his softness and never thought themselves beholding to him â—…r any Justice that was done 'em upon some Articles Amelot â—…n the other side was one of those People that never did any thing without a great deal of Pomp and Ceremony and who â—…ake it their strife to please all the world at least to outward â—ppearance He made Mountains of Molehilâ—s and thought 〈…〉 advance himself at Court by giving the Grandees Information of every diminutive Trifle He made a great noise of cerâ—â—in Designs which he had discover'd and which he would needs â—…ave had to have bin lookt upon at Court as important Conspiracies
Auâ—ority would give him leisure and to apply himself to the Foâ—ign War so soon as he had stifl'd the Seeds from whence Doâ—estic Troubles might again spring up For the first he made use 〈…〉 the continu'd Importunities of Holland and Carleton to induce â—m to use the Reformed with less severity to the end he might 〈…〉 more at liberty to carry on the Foreign War On the other â—de those Embassadors press'd the Reformed to accept the â—eace upon the Conditions that were offer'd 'em and assur'd â—â— that the King their Master would be Guaranty for the perâ—â—mance of those that were promis'd ' em Particularly they â—omis'd Rochelle that the King of England would so earnestly â—llicit the Demolishing of Fort Lewis and so moderate the â—ard Conditions that were impos'd upon 'em that he question'd â—t but to bring it to pass They farther told 'em that the â—ing of France had given 'em his Word to demolish the Fort 〈…〉 convenient time upon Condition that Rochelle return'd to â—r Duty These Sollicitations and Promises made Rochelle at length â—etermin to humble her self And the rest of the Cities as â—ontauban Castres Nimes Vsez which had not refus'd the â—eace but only because she stood out follow'd her Example 〈…〉 soon as she had accepted it Thereupon it was concluded the â—6th of February However all that was alter'd in the Laws â—â—pos'd upon Rochelle was that the Second Article which â—ention'd the settling an Intendant of Justice in that City was express'd in these Terms That they should admit Commissioners to see the Peace perform'd who might reside there as long as they plea'd There was nothing said either of the Fourth which imported that the King should be admitted whenever he pleas'd to enter or of the Seventh which concern'd the Interest of certain Merchants of Orleance But they put instead of them the Restoration of the Catholic Religion in the full Liberty of its Exercises and a Declaration that Fort Lewis could not be raz'd but that such Order should be given to the Garison and to the Garisons of the Islands of Ré and Oleron that the Trade of the City should be no way prejudic'd Instead of demolishing the Fortifications which had been decree'd at first in General Terms nothing more was requir'd then the demolishing the Fort de Taden And to soften the Article which enjoin'd the Merchants Vessels to take Passes from the Admirals of France 't was only ordain'd that they should observe the Laws of Traffic without prejudice to their Priviledges There was an Act of these Articles drawn up at the bottom of which was a Promise that the Reformed should enjoy the benefit of the Answers return'd to their Papers at Fontainbleâ—â— in July 1625 provided that on their part they setled things in the same condition as they were in at the same time But for fear lest Rochelle should take any advantage of this Promise that City was expressly excepted And it was declar'd That the King did not thereby engage himself to any other Favour then what was mention'd in the Act which went before The Deputies of the Reformed had sign'd in that Place But underneath there was yet a third Act sign'd by the said Deputies as well in their own as in the name of the Deputies from the Dukes of Rohan and Soubise of Languedoc Rochelle Montauban Castres Nimes Vsez Milhau and Cevenes wherein they protested that they had besought the King with all the duty and most humble submissions that Subjects could pay to their Soveraign to pardon what was past and to grant 'em Peace with a promise of great Fidelity for the future from which they would never swerve and Offers of all manner of Services All which the King had graciously harken'd to and upon which he had given his Royal Word for Peace and the observance of the Answers return'd to the Paper deliver'd at Fontainbleau Out â—â— which however he had excepted Rochelle in reference to â—hich he had declar'd his Will and which they said they accepâ—d as the most signal Mark of Clemency and Goodness that Subâ—cts could receive from a Soveraign and they promis'd to â—and to it inviolably and to cause the Places taken since Julyâ—st â—st to be surrender'd The Court although they desir'd Peace with an extraordinary â—assion exacted these Submissions to make the Reformed own â—â—at they were in the wrong to levy War and that they might â—ke advantage of their own Confessions if any new Quarrels â—ake forth And the Reformed who were not ignorant of â—â—e Court-Politics past these Infamous Acts either because â—hey had bin wrought over or because they found they lay at â—he mercy of the Court as the Duke of Rohan well foresaw â—â— else because they were in hopes of obtaining greater Favours â—y these Extraordinary Submissions or lastly in compliance with those who could not like it that Subjects should take Arms against their Prince upon any Occasion whatever However to â—ssure themselves of the King of England's Protection whom â—hey believ'd to be Guarantee of the Peace they drew up an Act â—gn'd by the Embassadors and dated Feb. 11. wherein they declar'd that the Razing of Fort Lewis was promis'd in time conâ—enient provided the Rochelois return'd to their duty and that without that Promise neither Rochel would have accepted the Peace neither would the Reformed have relinquish'd those things which the Instances of the King of England made 'em â—elinquish by reason of which they put 'em in hopes of a powerful Intercession on his part that they might have satisfaction giv'n ' em This Paper was ill drawn up nor did it clearly express the Guarantie of which the King of England boasted Nevertheless it cannot be deni'd but that it must have oblig'd that Prince either to have disown'd his Embassadors or else to take care that what was granted the Reformed should be faithfully perform'd since he acknowledg'd that the sole force of his Sollicitations had vanquish'd their good nature to be satisfi'd with the King's Offers An honest man needs no more to engage him to make another man's business his own but that it was himself who caus'd the other to miscarry either by his Authority or Persuasion And in this sense it cannot be deni'd but that the King of England was Guarantee of the Peace since it was upon his word and in hopes that he would be answerable for it that the Reformed accepted it But this Important Ceremony wanted due formality and the Council of France had so well order'd their Business that nothing appear'd from whence any evident Conclusion could be drawn that the King of England interpos'd in this Treaty as a Mediator or as a Guarantee In a word Policy will not permit Princes to suffer that another Prince should be Guarantee of Treaties which are made between them and their Subjects To consent that Subjects should have recourse to the Garantie of a Foreigner for their Security in things that concern the
a Treaty But during her accustom'd long Delays Rochel sunk under heâ— Burthen and put all the World out of heart The French themselves labour'd with reluctancy in the taking of that City well foreseeing that from the date of her Ruin the Vassalage of the whole Kingdom would commence But by an odd fantasticness of Human Wisdom men often spread the Snares themselves for their own Feet and make the Chains for others to bind 'em â—o perpetual servitude The Ladies both Mother and Sister of the Duke of Rohan display'd a more then ordinary Courage and their Example was very useful to support the Constancy of others But they were recompenc'd with a close Confinement where the Cardinal held 'em during all the remainder of the Wars The Mayor Guiton was lookt upon as a Hero by all those that love Vertue where ever they meet it and the Catholic Authors mention him themselves with great applause and all the Brave Persons â—n the King's Army went to see him after the Surrender of the City Some write that he was promis'd to be continu'd in his â—ignity But when he went to kiss the Cardinal's Hand it was old him that he was no longer Mayor that he was to lay aside â—he Ensigns of his Authority and quit his Guards for that â—he Cardinal would not see him but as a private person Upon â—hich they add that he was so enrag'd that he could not forbear â—â—ying That had he expected such an Entertainment he would â—ave found a way to have held out some days longer Which â—ad he done the Cardinal must have rais'd his Siege because â—f the Rigor of the Season the Diseases that lessen'd the Army â—he Tempests that ruin'd his Dam and the Pressing Affairs â—hich call'd him another way Nor was it a wonder that â—uâ—ton complain'd that they did not keep their word with him â—r it is not to be imagin'd that because the Principal Articles â—or the surrender of Rochel were written and sign'd by the King â—hat there were not others agreed upon by word of mouth Alâ—ays in the reducing of Cities that surrender at discretion there â—â—e several things which are not absolutely left to the discretion â—f the Victor but are privately corroborated with verbal Assuâ—ances And it was believ'd to be much more advantageous to â—he King to take that Course because what he granted afterâ—ards to reduc'd Cities lookt so much the more like a Graciâ—us Favour when there appear'd no Promise in Writing Besides that the King would not oblige himself to his Subjects by Acts that seem to carry the Form of a Treaty So that there might be Articles granted by word of mouth without other Assurances and perhaps it was by one of those Articles that Guâ—ton pretended to be continu'd in his Dignity Nevertheless that particular is no-where to be met withal in any of the most Exact Memoirs of that City For by the most express and assur'd Relation that I can find the King by the first of the Written Articles promises to leave 'em the free exercise of their Religion in the City which put 'em in hopes that it should not have bin remov'd from the usual place but they were deceiv'd and that Promise was evaded by an Insulting Equivocation For after the Church was given to the Gatholics the Reformed had a Place appointed 'em without the City to build another and the King himself would needs take cognizance of the place and enlarg'd it somewhat beyond the limits mark'd out by the Commissioners To which breach of Faith and Word when the Reformed were about to have said something by way of complaint they were taken up short and to stop their mouths iâ— was told 'em that their City being surrender'd at discretion the King would beat down the Walls and the Fortifications which being done what before was without the Enclosure being no longer divided from the rest the whole would make beâ— one City This was not the thing which was meant by the secret Promise but the vanquish'd must accept of what Interpretation the Victor pleases to put upon their Promises The Inhabitants were kindly enough us'd but the City losâ— all her Priviledges The Roman Religion was re-establish'd in all its splendour which it prefers above all things and the King translated thither the Bishopric of Maillezais In the Month of November came forth a Declaration which contain'd twenty four Articles The first six were all about the re-establishment of the Catholic Religion and the Circumstances belonging to it The Seventh order'd the erecting of a Cross in the place where the Castle stood upon the Pedestal of which was to be engraven the History of the Reducing the City the memory of which was to be preserv'd by a General Procession every year upon the first of November The Eighth commanded the founding of a Monastery of Minims upon the Point â—â— Coreille which is one of the Extremities of the Canal to preserve the History of the Mound or Dam in two Tables of Copper to be fix'd upon the Church-door The next four contain'd an Amnesty for what was past and a confirmation of the Edicts for â—iberty of the exercise of the Reformed Religion the Church â—xcepted which the King reserv'd to be turn'd into a Cathedral There were nine more that follow'd which took from the City â—er Fortifications Franchises and Priviledges and quite alter'd â—he Form of the Government The Twenty second forbid all â—oreigners though naturaliz'd to reside in the City without â—xpress leave by Letters under the Great Seal The Twenty â—hird extended the same Prohibition to the Reformed who had â—ot bin setled Inhabitants before the landing of the English Which two Articles were the source of an infinite number of â—exations in the succeeding years The last oblig'd the Inhabiâ—nts to take out Licences to keep Arms Powder and Ammuâ—ition and to trade abroad So that there was nothing left but â—he Place and the remembrance of that poor City's former â—ower and Grandeur The End of the Ninth Book THE HISTORY OF THE Edict of Nantes THE SECOND PART THE TENTH BOOK The Heads of the Tenth Book REjoycings among the Catholics The War continues in Languedoc Cruelties Insulting and Executions Personal Enmity between the Prince of Condé and the Duke of Rohan A new Sedition at Lion against the Reformed The pretended Conversion of a sick Man that fell mad Decrees and Declarations against the Duke of Rohan and his Adherents The King and the Cardinal take a Journey into Italy The Siege of Privas the Inhabitants of which are betray'd Cruelties exercis'd upon that City Pretences of the Catholics Conversions of Soldiers taken Prisoners Declaration upon the taking of Privas The Consternation of the rest of the Reformed A Treaâ—â— of the Duke of Rohan with Spain Alets reduc'd An Assembly permitted at Anduse and remov'd to Nimes 〈…〉 concluded An Edict of Grace The Contents of the Eâ—â—â—â— The King's Letter to the Queen upon the Peace The Duke â—â— Rohan retires
should be seasonable The Soldiers of the Garison deserted and the greatest part of the Citizens did as much Thereupon Mombrun having thus render'd the place almost defenceless went away together with some few Captains to the King's Quarter where he was detain'd Pris'ner for fashion's sake on purpose to force the Town to a Surrender at discretion For in reality he had made his Bargain and the Pretence alledg'd for his Detention that he had left the Town before he had secur'd himself by a Capitulation was a meer Shamm So that the Garison of Privas which was retir'd to the Fort of Thoulon astonish'd at the detaining of Mombrun and the Captains that follow'd him and finding themselves without either Chieftain or Governor surrender'd at discretion But when the King's Forces enter'd the Town the Fire took hold either of some Barrels of Powder or else upon some Mine that was prepar'd ready to spring if the place had bin attacqu'd according to the methods of War which Accident blew up some of the King's Soldiers and gave others a Pretence to put the Garison to the Sword So that all the Cruelties that could be exercis'd upon a City taken by Assault were put in practice at Privas The City was plunder'd and burnt and whatever escap'd the Fury of the Soldiers was only reserv'd for the Gibet or the Gallies The Catholics accus'd the Reformed to have set Fire to the Powder and the Reformed accus'd the King's Soldiers to have committed that abominable Fact that they might have a Right to sack the City which they could not have by the voluntary Surrender of the Town And indeed 't is most probable that the Reformed would have taken better measures had they bin the Authors of that Accident For it happen'd too soon to do any considerable damage to the Enemy nor was the little harm it did worth the trouble of making such an Attempt However the Soldiers were believ'd who accus'd the Garison of the foul Play People that are hated are soon believ'd to be criminal and the Antipathy which men have against 'em gives an Air of Evidence and Truth to all Accusations that are laid to their charge For this reason it was that these poor Creatures were lookt upon as guilty of assassinating a Capuchin who was call'd Jerome de Condrieâ— and whom the Monks of his Order will needs have to be a Martyr There has bin also a Relation of this pretended Martyrdom publisht and so exactly drest up with all the Circumstances of it that for a man to have been acquainted with all that is there set down he must not only have bin present at the Action but a patient and quiet Spectator also Nevertheless this pretended Crime must needs be committed in a place where there was no body but the Criminals and the person that suffer'd and the chiefest part of the Circumstances so ill jumbl'd together that it was easily to be discern'd that it was only a Romantic Story of a roasted Horse such as are brought us from Japan or China But the King being extremely tractable superstitious and prepossess'd with an aversion for the Reformed swallow'd without any examination what was urg'd against 'em to foment and buoy him up in his prejudic'd Opinion In like manner they vaunted the Conversions of Soldiers that embrac'd the Catholic Religion before they dy'd But besides what I have observ'd in other places upon these pretended Conversions I shall here speak it once for all that there were many Catholics who bore Arms in the Reformed Army That these Catholics hoping for better Usage if they call'd themselves Reformed then if they acknowledg'd that being Catholics they had serv'd in the Armies of those who were term'd Enemies of the State and the Church tarry'd till there was no longer any hopes of mercy for 'em before they declar'd themselves That some of 'em also sav'd their Lives by this Artifice acting the part of Zealots and of the Godlier sort of the Reformed till the Missionaries put 'em in hope of Pardon upon condition they would change their Religion That these persons easily yielded to whatever was infus'd into 'em by the Monks so that when they met with the Depositions of these false Converts against the Ministers or any other of the Reformed 't was neither Justice nor sound Reason to give Credit to their Testimony Moreover the Cruelties Exercis'd upon the taking of â—rivas were cry'd up as a just piece of Severity and an Exâ—mplary punishment And as if that merciless Butchery had â—ot bin enough to satisfie 'em the King publish'd a Declaration 〈◊〉 the Month of June which forbid all those that were not in â—â—ivas during the Siege to return and Confiscated all their â—oods It deprived all the rest of the Reformed of the Liberty 〈◊〉 settle there without express leave and set forth that posâ—â—ssion it self without permission should not give 'em a Title to 〈◊〉 Right We shall relate in due place the Injustice and Cruâ—â—ties that were committed in these later years under the preâ—â—nce of that Declaration The taking of Privas and the Circumstances of the Reducing 〈◊〉 begat Fear and Consternation on every side And besides the â—avock which was begun in several Places by the little Arâ—â—â—s which the King sent thither quite daunted the Courage 〈…〉 that were capable to defend themselves They were utterly out of Hopes of being Assisted by the English who 〈◊〉 the Taking of Rochelle had still held the Duke of Rohan 〈◊〉 suspence with fair Promises But the Cardinal had begun a â—reaty of Peace with 'em before he carry'd the King into 〈◊〉 and the Negotiation was perfectly concluded during that journey so that the News of that Peace was publish'd while 〈◊〉 King lay before Privas 'T is true that the English Enâ—â—â— assur'd the Duke that the Peace would not be of any long â—ontinuance But tho that Promise might have bin rely'd â—â—on the Duke who stood in need of present Ayd could not 〈◊〉 for an Assistance that was promis'd him in pursuance of an â—â—certain Rupture of so late a Treaty There remain'd only â—â—e Assistance of Spain where Clausell had concluded a Treaty â—â—e Third of May in the Duke's Name But 't was well known â—â—at there was no Confiding in that Succor which the Insupâ—â—rtable slowness of the Councel at Madrid would not permit â—â—â—m to expect in any time so as to reap any Benefit by it Beâ—â—â—es that the Catholic Zeal of that Court gave the Reformed â—â—eat reason to question whether or no she were sincere in â—â—r Treaties with Heretics and then again that Forraign Alâ—â—â—ce did not please several of the Reformed themselves The Men of the Quill wrote to and fro with great vehemency and the Monks coming in for a share most bloody Satyrs appear'd against the Duke and all those that were of his Religion and Party His Adversaries maintain'd against him in all those Writings that the Forraing Succour with which
return to the History The Edict contain'd in the first place a long Preface which after an insulting manner set forth the means employ'd to reduce the Reformed to obedience The Taking of Rochel the Sacking of Privas the voluntary Surrender of Alets were represented in a Rhetorical Stile not common in Edicts There were the Names of Five and twenty Towns well fortify'd that durst not stand the first Shot of the King's Batteries and which together with the Duke of Rohan and the Nobility of several Provinces â—â—d implor'd his Clemency by their Deputies offering to demoâ—…sh their Fortifications for fear of giving any distrust of their Fiâ—…elity After which the King sway'd by compassion only of the Misery of his Subjects and that he might more absolutely â—…gain the hearts of those who had bin guilty of so many Relapses â—…rdain'd in two and twenty Articles what he would have observ'd for the future The Edict was term'd Perpetual and Irrevocable and according to the accustom'd stile the First Article enjoin'd the Re-establishment of the Roman Religion in all the freedom of its Exercises and of the Ministers of the Worship of it in all their Goods and Estates But by a singular Clause 't was the King's pleasure that only Monks living up to the strictness of their Order should be plac'd in the Monasteries of the Cities reduc'd The Second was altogether new for that while on the one side it promis'd to maintain the Reformed in the free Exercise of their Religion on the other side it set 〈◊〉 an extraordinary desire of their Return to the Roman Church and exhorted 'em to lay aside all Passion to the end they might be capable of receiving the Light of Heav'n And the King inserted this desire of their Conversion to the end it might be admir'd as the most splendid Testimony of his good-will The Third related to the Qualifications of the Curates that were to be setled in the Parishes of the Conquer'd Countries and the Provision that was to be made for their subsistence The next contain'd a general and particular Amnesty of whatever had bin acted during the War The Fifth contain'd the Declarations Edicts and Articles enregister'd in Parlaments and that which follow'd ordain'd the Restitution of Churches and Church-yards and gave leave for the rebuilding of demolish'd Churches The Seventh allow'd three months time for the demolishing of Fortifications which was to be done at the expence of the Inhabitants Labour according to such Orders as the King's Commissioners should give and in regard the King left no Garisons in the said Cities he oblig'd 'em to give him Hostages who were to remain in custody where he should appoint till the Work was fully compleated And the Preamble of the Edict declar'd That the Hostages had bin deliver'd before it was publish'd nor did this Article leave the Cities any more then the bare enclosure of their Walls The Eighth restor'd the Reformed to all their Goods and Estates their Tythes Accompts and Suits and cancell'd all contrary Decrees and Ordinances The Ninth gave 'em leave to re-enter into their Houses and to settle in the Kingdom where they pleas'd themselves But he excepted out of the first part of this Favour all the Inhabitants of Pamiers that resided in the City when the Prince of Condé retook it from the Duke of Rohan and out of the 2d he excepted the Islands of Ré and Oleron Rochelle and Privas where he suffer'd no body to resettle anew The next Seven that follow'd contain'd the Accustom'd Regulations for the discharge of Persons that had bin any way concern'd in the management of Money or in the Administration of Justice The 17th and 18th confirm'd the Customs for the Election of their Consuls and the Municipal Government and those of the Assembly of Foix in reference to the Assembly of States The Ninteenth imported a Discharge in favour of the Consuls for the management of the public Money The Twentieth resetl'd the Seats of Judicature and Audits of Receipts in such places from whence they had bin discharg'd by reason of the Troubles And the last restor'd the Party-Chamber to Castres so soon as the Fortifications should be demolish'd and maintain'd it in all the jurisdictions that had bin allow'd it by the Edicts Upon the 15th of July the King wrote a Letter to the Queen Mother wherein he appear'd extreamly well satisfi'd with the Peace which had bin concluded He declar'd himself highly pleas'd with the Marks of their Affection which the Reformed had given him That he thought there remain'd no more Seeds of Rebellion among 'em and that they labour'd in the demolishing their Fortifications with the same zeal that they rais'd ' em As for the Duke of Rohan after he had kiss'd the King's Hand he departed with permission to retire to Venice To say truth 't was no more then a Banishment cover'd over with the gay name of Permission For it was by no means judg'd a piece of prudence to let the Duke alone in France where his Reputation and his Intreagues might hinder the stifling the remainders of the Conflagration However it was no less beneficial for him to keep himself at a distance in such places where he could give no suspicion as it was for the Court to remove him For the least jealousy of his Conduct had he staid in France had either brought his Head to the Block or lockt him up in a languishing Imprisonment His Mother and Sister were releas'd after the Peace and the King allow'd some reparation to the Duke for the wast which the Prince of Condé had made of his Estate This Peace in the main had not bin disadvantageous to the Reformed if by taking from 'em their Places of Security they could have bin cur'd of that distrust which the ill observ'd Promises of the Catholics experienc'd for seventy years together had imprinted in their minds They found themselves at the discretion of their Enemies by the Razing of their Fortifications and all the Power of the Prime Ministry being in the Cardinal's hands would not permit 'em to sleep in quiet under the Promises of his Good-will Upon these Considerations it was that Montauban refus'd a long time to ratify what the Assembly of Nimes had decreed The Siege which she had so gloriously sustain'd persuaded her that she was invincible And her Inhabitants were â—â— puâ—â— up with their Success that they believ'd that no body durst attacque ' em However some Forces were sent that way to put 'em in fear but the Cardinal who aspir'd to be accounted the most accomplish'd of all Hero's and to be thought able to do more by his presence then a great Army by the Diâ—t of their most daring efforts order'd his affairs so well that the honour of reducing Montauban redounded wholly to himself Thither he went was admitted and put into it what number of the King's Forces he pleas'd order'd the Fortifications to be level'd did more in a few
and that the Souldiers live under such Discipline that they may do no wrong XXI Your Cities of S â—â— Foy and Bergerac most humbly Beseech ye Sir that you would be pleas'd out of your singular Goodness to discharge 'em of the Oppressions which they have suffer'd so long and so excessive letting your said City of Bergerac fully enjoy your inviolable Promises by hindring so many Innovations and the building of the Cittadel intended notwithstanding that your Subjects of the Religion have kept themselves within the Bounds of a most humble Subjection and Obedience to your Majesty out of a desire to Merit in some measure the Effect of your said Royal Promises their Liberty and the Peaceable Exercise of their Religion The King will take such Order as shall be most proper for his Service XXII And by your Mildness and Gentleness to ease your People of the Religion to bring 'em back to a firm Confidence and to Corroborate as much as may be the Peace which you vouchsafe 'em may it please your Majesty to obliterate all Marks that are contrary to it And to these ends to disband the Souldiers that are quarter'd in Lower Languedoc Cevennes and other Provinces by this Means kept in continual Fears and Apprehensions of your Displeasure and beseech your Majesty to hasten the said Disbanding to the end that the Effects of their Obedience which they desire and ought to pay you as well in demolishing the Fortifications of the Places as in all other things which you shall be pleas'd to command 'em may not be delay'd Sign'd Montmartin Deputy General Maniald Deputy General Done and Answer'd by the King in his Council at Paris March 4. 1623. Sign'd Lewis And lower Phelipeaux Compar'd with the Original by Me Notary Counsellour and Kings Secretary Du Candal A Circulatory Letter of the General Deputies of the Reformed Churches GEntlemen We doubt not but you have expected our Letters with Impatience and that you did not take it amiss that we did not send you what pass'd concerning the Duke of Rohan You ought to believe that nothing has so much hinder'd us from that as our fear of putting you to no purpose in uncertain Hopes or Apprehensions Now that it may be thought that we ought to see a little more clearly after the Release of the said Duke we shall tell you that altho' the Report of a War and particularly of the Siege of Rochel be very hot in this Place and that from hence it spreads over all the Rest of France nevertheless we see no Preparation for open and present War On the contrary we have nothing from the Kings Mouth and his Principal Ministers of State but Words of Peace and Promises of putting in Execution what has been agreed As to the Affairs which we have manag'd hitherto you must know that having presented to the King a Paper containing the Principal Complaints of our Churches and other things of which we have the Cognizance and Memoirs in our Hands we have obtain'd Answers such as you will see by the Printed Paper which we send you enclos'd which thô they be dated the fourth of this Month nevertheless were not deliver'd us till the twenty second At present we solicit the Performance of the Answers which are favourable continuing to demand satisfaction upon those which are otherwise Nor shall we fail to give you Advice of the Success as also of all that we shall judge proper to come to your Knowledge As for News of the Particular Affairs of the Provinces and Churches of whose Deputies we have a great number here we have given satisfaction by particular Letters to all Occurrences It remains that you second our Labours with your Prayers to God as we earnestly desire you considering the need we have in such a difficult time as this And for our parts we shall also beseech him to accumulate his most Sacred Benedictions upon your selves We are Your most humble and Affectionate Servants the General Deputies of the Reformed Churches of France near his Majesty Paris March 30. 1623. Montmartin Maniald The King's Declaration by which it is provided that in the Assemblies which shall be beld by the Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion concerning the Regulations of the Discipline of their said Religion no other Affairs be propounded or treated of then such as are permitted by the Edicts Given at Fontain-Bleau April 17th 1623. And verifi'd in Parlament May 22. LEwis by the Grace of God King of France and Navarr To all c. Altho' by our Edicts of Pacification and the Private Articles granted to our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion in the Year 1598. they were allow'd to hold Assemblies concerning the Regulations of the Discipline of the said Religion pretendedly Reformed and Places where the Exercise was settl'd with our Permission first obtain'd and that by several answers made to their Papers they have been always forbid to admit into the said Assemblies other then the Ministers and Elders and to treat of other Affairs then those which concern the Regulations of their said Religion upon Pain of Forfeiting this Favour Nevertheless we have found that for some time since and particularly of late Years under the Toleration of the said Assemblies our said Subjects have taken the Liberty to introduce Persons of all Conditions as also to treat of Politick Affairs from whence have ensu'd several Resolutions contrary to the Sentiments and Intentions of the Generality and most considerable of our Subjects of the said Pretended Reformed Religion and to the Publick Tranquility To which there being a necessity of providing a Remedy and to prevent for the future the consequences of such abuses prejudicial to our Authority and the Peace of our Subjects We declare that for these Causes and other Considerations Us thereunto moving with the Advice of the Princes of our Blood c. We have said and declar'd and do say and declare by these Presents and it is our Will and Pleasure that in all Assemblies that shall be held by our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion concerning the Regulations of the Discipline of the said Religion there shall be by us or by our Lieutenant Generals of our Provinces a certain Person commission'd and appointed one of our Officers of the said Pretended Reformed Relgion to be present in the said Assemblies to see and consider whether any other Affairs are propos'd and handl'd then are permitted by our Edicts and to give a faithful accompt thereof to Us. And to the end that our Intention may be exactly follow'd We ordain that for the time to come no Assemblies shall meet or be held unless the said Officer be before appointed who shall be admitted into 'em without any or Lett or Scruple So we command our Beloved and Faithful c. we also command our Governours c. In Testimony c. Given at Fountain-Bleau April 17. 1623. and 13th of our Reign Sign'd LEWIS And below By the King De Lomenie Read
Exercise and the Right of the Church 511. Oppression continu'd 501. Orleans Duke of commences a Civil War 492. P. PAmiers City of goes to Law with Bishop 392. Papers of the Reformed General 366. Answers to 'em 367. Of the Clergy of Saintes 385. Full of Malice 386. Calmly answer'd by the Court 402 404. Papers answer'd by the Court 113. General Paper of the Assembly of Grenoble 207. Answer'd 208. Papers of the Clergy favourably answer'd 291. Parlaments encroach upon the Jurisdiction of the Chambers 114. The Parlament ordains the continuance of the Exercise of the Reformed Religion 224. Their Acts of Injustice 302. Parpailler the Original of the Word 347. Pau the Parlament there forbid the Exercises 425. Payment of Ministers 406. Peace Proposals of it renewed 342 The Court would have the King grant it to have a Lord and Master Ibid. Three several Persons give their Opinions upon it 343. Peace agreed before Mompellier 352 353. Honourable for the Duke of Rohan 355. All the Cities accept it 357. Ill observ'd by the Court Ibid. Peace discours'd of 401. Concluded between the King and the Reformed 411. Peace made with the Reformed 459. Perron Cardinal his Harangue to the third Estate 171. Petit's Project about the Reunion 476. Du Plessis his Death 379. Elected President of the Assembly of Saumur 30. He fortifies Saumur 44. His wise Counsel 58. Trick put upon him to get Saumur out of his hands 421. Politicks Bloody of the Catholick Clergy in France 315. Pons Regulations there against the Reformed 539. Pope his Brief to Lewis XIII 316. Precautions to prevent disorder 4. Precedency adjudg'd to the Catholicks 434. To the Catholick Counsellours of the Chamber of Guyen 503. To the Catholick Counsellours of the Chamber of Castres 514. Priests and Monks changing their Religion 442. Priest converted his Children 452. A Priest put to Death for bewitching his Nuns 505. Privas Besieg'd and Betray'd 454. The Kings Declaration upon the taking of it 457. Re-establish'd 498. The Castle retaken 377. Puimirol laught at for his Loyalty 314. Puisieux a new Favourite Adviser of Horse proceeding against the Reformed 359. His Favour short 360. His Promise to the Nuncio 363. Q. QUeen Mother hates Cardinal Richlieu 460. Withdraws into Flanders 471. Queen Regent Characters of Her 30. Offended with the Duke of Rohan 124. She Consents to the removal of Rochebeaucour 137. The Princes discontented with Her Regency 153. She prepares to Assemble the General Estates 166. She takes a Progress with the King 203. She escapes from Blois 319. Her scruples 339. She forms a powerful Party 340. Her Forces defeated procure a Peace 343. Question to insnare the People 526. R. REconciliation of the great ones Projected 132. Regency given to the Queen 5. Reformed unfortunate every where 315. Quitt their Habitations 326. Accus'd of Piring the Bridges of Paris Ibid. Of Firing the Gaol of Lion 327. They reassume fresh Courage 332. Disarm'd 350. The exercise of their Religion forbid 368. A singular Artifice us'd to oblige 'em to call themselves Pretended Reformed 369. Their Condition impared by the Commissioners at Gergeau Remorentin and Tours 382. The Reformed dissatisfi'd with the Kings answers 405. They send Deputies to the King 427. Who remonstrate Ibid. And return with the Kings Answer 427. In great Consternation Ibid. Fear'd at Court 488. Faithful to the King 493. The Condition of the Reformed 5. Who are dreaded and yet afraid Ibid. They fall into a fond Opinion of safety deceiv'd by the Court Artifices 10. They take part with the House of Guise in a Quarrel 94. They abhor the Name of Pretended Reformed 109. Their Strength in the County of Avignon 110. They obtain Gergau instead of Grenoble but dissatisfi'd desire Grenoble again 182 183. Reformed disarm'd at Bourdeaux 223. Inclin'd to the Queen Mothers Service 328. Their faults and the cause 344. Begun to be us'd as Rebels 366. All manner of Justice refus'd 'em 377. To be destroy'd root and branch 397 c. The Peaceable Reformed disarm'd 419 c. Regulations for Villiers le Bel and the Dauphinate 420. Regulations of Vnion 72. Relapsers remarkable Orders against 'em 415. De Retz Cardinal 329. Reunion projected 472. Inclinations of the Ministers towards it 475. And of the People 476. Difficulties that obstructed it Ibid. The issue of it 479. The Truth of it Ibid. Richelieu Cardinal his Maxims 388. His designs of which he is forc'd to delay the Execution 410. Jealousies between him and Buckingham 416. His backside 417. Conspiracies against him 419. He takes a Journey into Italy with the King 453. His Project of Reunion 473. He oppresses the Publick Liberty 491. Much a do to guard himself from Conspiracies 497. His Death 451. Rieuperieux summon'd by the Council 422. Rochechouard particular acts of Injustice there 423 468. Rochel hard press'd by Land and Sea 351. The Priviledges of it disputed 400. Excepted by the King out of the Peace 408. The ruine of it sworn and the King strives to put particular Laws upon it 408 409. Accepts the Conditions somewhat mollifi'd 411. The Condition of it 420. Still blockt up 437. The Irresolution of the Inhabitants 440. They intercept a Pacquet of Court Letters Ibid. Rochel Resolves and Publishes a Manifesto 441. Surrendred 443. Refuses to submit to the English 444. How the Inhabitants were dealt by 446. General Assembly conven'd at Rochel 255. The Circle of Rochel sends Deputies to the King 257. Rohan Duke of 317. Detain'd Prisoner at Mompellier 363. Releas'd 364. He advises the Reformed Cities what to do 366. Meditates great designs 395. Enterprize of Rohan and Soubife Ibid. His Politick Devotions 398. Seconded by his Wife 399. He Publishes a Manifesto 441. Personal Enmity between him and the Prince of Condè 451. Decrees and Declarations against him 453. He treats with Spain 457. He retires out of the Kingdom 463. Accus'd of the ruin of the Churches 467 Serves the King in Italy 494. Breaks with the Duke of Bouillon 118. Differences between him and Rochebeaucour 131 His high Pretensions 136. Reconcil'd to the Duke of Bouillon 150. Engages in the Queens Party 338. His Death 413. Royan surrender'd to the King 332. S. SAcriledge pretended 428. Sancerre seiz'd by the Reformed 250. Saumur an Attempt of the Sheriffs of that Place 151. Scholars of the Academy of Saumur run themselves into a Premunire 496. Forbidden 534. Schomberg Marshal 329. Schools forbid at Rouen 426. At St. Foi Ibid. Order'd distinct Ibid. 448. Sedition at Paris 324. At Orleans 347. At Lion Ibid. The Violence of it 349. At Paris 89. At Rochel 133. At Milhau 173. At Belestar 174. Sedition at Pau against Renard the Kings Commissioner 309. At Tours 406 c. Sessions Grand Sessions in Poitou 507. They put the Churches into great affrights Ibid. And make an important Decree Ibid. Sick People tormented by the Monks 416 417. Visited by the Priests 452. Soubife defeated 332. Solicits for succour in England 351. His succour cast away in
Religion confirming the Preceding Edicts of Pacification Dated October 19. 1622. 521. A Paper presented to the King by the General Deputies with the Answers 524. A Circulatory Letter of the General Deputies of the Reformed Churches 535. The Kings Declaration providing against the Propounding or Treating of any Affairs in the Assemblies of the Pretended Reformed Religion but such as are permitted by the Edicts Dated April 17. 1623. 536. A Declaration of the Kings good Will to his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion Verifi'd in Parlament November 27. 1623. 537. A Declaration of the King against the Duke of Soubize and his Adherents Given at Paris Jan. 25. 1626. 539. A writing given by the English Embassadours to the Deputies of the Churches to make the King of England Garranty of the Peace in 1626. 542. An Edict of the King upon the Peace which it pleas'd his Majesty to give his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion Dated March 1626. 543. A Declaration of the King against the Sieur de Soubize and other Adherents to the Party of the English c. Given at Villeroy August 5. 1627. 548. A Declaration of the King after the taking of Rochel to his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion Given at Paris December 15. 1628. 551. The Kings Edict upon the Grace and Pardon granted as well to the Duke of Rohan and the Sieur de Soubize and to all his other Rebellious Subjects of the Cities c. Given at Nimes in July 1629. 553. FINIS The Creasion and Design and Platform of this Work 1517. 1520. The beginning of the Reformation its progress and its causes 1520. It s entrance into France 1523 How it came to be received at Meaux and in Bearn 1523 The Execution of John Clerk and of Lewis Berquin 1529. The state of the Protestant Religion in Germany 1528. The Schism of England The Inclination of Francis I. tâ— the Reformation 1534. 1535. From which the Cardinal de Tournon diverts him 1535. An accommodation proposed 1285. The Synods at Bourges and Paris 1534. The beginning of Calvin's Doctrine 1534. The year of the Placards or Libels 1535. Devotions accompanied with Executions An Edict against the Lutherans 1546. The Council of Trent 1545. 1544. 1547. The Council translated The King's death 1548. Hen. II. persecutes the Protestants 1549. 1551. The King protests against the Removal back of the Council to Trent The Dutchess of Valentinois cruel â—â— the Protestants The great Credit of the Clergy 1550. 1545. The affairs of Merindol and Cabrieres 1550. New Executions do but advance the progress of the Reformation 1553. Churches firmâ—d at Paris and many other places 155â— 1556. The Spirit of Moderation prevails over some Judges 1557. A Protestant meeting at Paris The Character of Queen Katharine de Medicis Calumnies against the Protestants Singing of Psalms in publick The Original of the Factions 1559. The couragious behaviour of Andelot And his disgrace 1559. The Counsellers of the Parliament of Paris suspected about their Religion The Death of Henry the 2d The first French Protestant National Synod Francis II. succeeds The state of the Court The Nature of the Intrigues and Characters of the chief persons God assists the first Christian. How Religion came to be conceru'd in those Intrigues Courts of Justice called Burning Chambers erected Abominable Superstitions towards Images A project against Arbitrary Power 1560. The enterprise of Amboise The Cruelty of the Court. The Original of the wâ—rd Huguenot 1560. A false appearance of Moderation The P. of Conde imprison'd The sudden death of Francis II. falsly imputed to the Protestants Charles IX succeeds The Estates assembled who seem to favour the Protestants The Rise of the Triumvirate The Conference at Polisy 1561. 1562. The setling of the Jesuits at Paris The inconstancy of the Cardinal of Lorrain and of the K. of Navar. 1561. A sedition at Paris against the Protestants The Massacre at Vassi after the Edict of January Chief Nobility The strength of the Protestants The French term for Protestant Meeting places The short favour of the Admiral with the Queen The first war undertaken by the Queens Orders and afterwards disown'd The Triple League between the Pope the K. of Spain and the Guises against the Protestants The Cruelties of Monlac and Des Adrets and of the Catholicks in general The Massacre at Sens. Foreigners called into France The battel of Dreux 1563. The Siege of Orleans The Murther of the Duke of Guise charged upon the Admiral by the Wretch that did it A Peace concluded 1564. The Marriage of the Cardinal of Chatillon and its consequences * i. e. Heresy 1568. 1571. 1563. Tythes confirmed to the Roman Clergy A Tholouse 6. 8. March 1640. theâ—3 â—3 Feb. 1658. The re-taking of Havre de Grace The end of the Council of Trent 1563. 1564. 1568. A Revolution in Bearn 1569. 1565. New occasions of jealousy given the Protestants The voyage of the Court and advice given them by the Duke of Alva The progress of the Protestant Churches 1565. 1566. The reconciliation of the Admiral with the Guises The attempt at Monceaux and its consequences 1568. A peace made before Chartres without any intention to keepit The third War 1569. The death of Andelot and of the Prince of Conde Battels lost The Admiral re-establishes the party 1570. A fraudâ—lent Peace Incredible Artifices of the Court. 1571. 1572. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew â— The Princes change their Religion by force The Inconstancy of des Rosiers Siege of Rochel and Sancerre Factions in France 1574. The Duke of Alenzon Protector of the Reformed and the Politicians The death of the King Henry III. at his return continueth the War 1575. The Princes Retreat 1576. Peace as soon broke as made The League The King's Oath Who notwithstanding makes peace Edict of 1577. Synods 1579. Conference of Nerac and Fleix 1580 The King eludes the Peace and â—et makes a shew of keeping it Outrages done to the King by the League Is forced to a War with the Reformed La Trimouille becomes reformed 1587. The Battle of Coutras Defeats of the Reiters 1588. Thedeath of P. of Conde Edict of Vnion The boldness of the Leaguers The Estates at Blois Death of the D. of Guise and the Curdinal his brother The Duke of Mayenne being escaped relieves the Leaguers party Extremity of the King's affairs The King makes a Truce with the Reformed His affairs grow better He lays siege â—â— Paris Is assassin'd by a Monk Change of Affairs What the Reformed hoped from the dead K. The trouble of the New King The Intreagues of the Army And of the Court. The Characters and Interests of the Prince of the blood The Officers of the laâ—â— King The Catholick Nobles The Reformed And their suspitions about the King's Religion The hopes of the Ministers The uncertainty of the King His resolution upon the conditions proposed by the Catholicks The Protestants flatter themselves about the King's Instruction The various affections of the
Benefit of a Monk's place assign'd a Soldier grown impotent and maim'd in the King's Service Attempts upon Paternal Authority A Declaration establishing a Commissioner in Colloquies and Synods National Synod He is admitted in Obedience to the King They send Commissioners to the King Who return laden with Orders The Court inclin'd to favour the Arminians Writing of la Milletiere Answer of Tilenus Imposture advanc'd against the Synod of Dort The Obedience of the Synod of Charenton Assignations ill paid Proposals made to the Synod by Galand A new Deputation to the King Oath of Union A Citadel at Mompelier Maniald opposes it in the name of the Reformed Presages of a new War Death of Du Plessis The Commissioners make the condition of the Reformed worse at Gergeau At Remorentin At Tours Commissioners in Poitou and Saintonge He raines the Câ—â—rches under appearanceâ— of Honesty Paper of the Clergy of Saintes The Malice of several Articles Chalas's Complaisance Enterprises of the Catholics at Rochel 1624. Cardinal Richlieu's Maxims Proposals for marrying the Prince of Wales to the Infanta Fruitles Marriage concluded upon Conditions advantageous for the Catholics Process of the City of Pamiers against the Bishop Cavils upon the Right of pursuing the Payment of Legacies and Donations Troubles renew'd Enterprise of the Dukes of Rohan and Soubise Discover'd Soubise gets possession of the King's â—â—â—p◠〈…〉 thought lost and disown'd by every body 1625. The King's Declaration upon this occasion Soubise disingages himself Which changes the Face of Affairs Politic Devotions of the Duke of Rohan Seconded by his wife Manifesto of the Duke of Soubise Dispute about the Privileges of Rochelle Peace discours'd of Cruelties of the Royal Army in Foix. Soubise prospers A Paper of the Reformed presented to the King Answers to their Paper The Reformed not satisfi'd The Court recovers her Affairs An Assembly of the Clergy They give money with an ill will The King excepts Rochel out of the Peace Which retards the conclusion of it Particular Laws which the King would impose upon that City A powerful League against Spain The Cardinal's Designs Of which he is forc'd to defer the execution The English Embassadors importunate for the Peace of the Religion Rochelle accepts the Conditions somewhat mollify'd Why the Court exacted such Writings All Pass'd by the Embassaders of England In 〈…〉 England was â—… A new Edict confirming all the rest France plays foul with the Confederates Jealousie between the Cardinal and Buckingham The Cardinal's blind-side Enterprises of the Catholics of the Queen of England's menial Servants Conspiracies against the Cardinal The Cardition of Rochel A National Synod The Commissioners Instructions Answers of Chauve the Moderator Masuyer'â— faâ—se dealing The Catholics trâ—â—â—â—â— They would have involv'd the Ministers in the Duke of Rohan's Treaty with Spain Article of the Synod of Realmont for the discovery of such as had a hand in the Treaty Which offends all the Charâ—â—es And is disown'd iy the National Synod Leave to nominate General Deputies From which the Synod desires to be exempted And send Deputies to the King Remonstrances of the Deputies Maniald dyes Hardi put in his room The Deputies return with the King's Answers The Synod names General Deputies The Synod names General Deputies Divers Resolutions of the Synod Castres refuses to receive the Duke of Rohan's Deputies A Memoir of Grievances Burial of Gentlemen who were the Founders of Churches Legacies given to the Poor adjudg'd to Hospitals A Marriage of a Knight of Maltha vacated The Assembly of Notables 1627. Forc'd Conversions in Bearn And at Audenas At St. Amand Extraordinary Acts of Injustice Innovations at Mompelier The Foundation of Mompelier Declaration against Foreign Ministers Rochel still blockt up England declares war The United Provinces send succonr to France The English land in the Isle of Ré The Irresolution of the Rochelois Court Letters intercepted A nice Question Whether Huguenots were to be suffer'd in the King's Army Rochel Resolves Rochel publishes a Manifesto The Duke of Rohan does the same thing Intrigue of Galand against the Duke 1628. Defeat of the English A second English Fleet of no use to Rochel A third Fleet more useless A Treaty of Peace with England and the surrender of Rochel This City refuses to submit to the English â—â—e Fleet of Spain at the Siege of Rochel Rejoycing among the Catholics Cruelties Insulting and Executions Personal Enmity between the Prince of Condé and the Duke of Rohan A new Sedition at Lion against the Reformed The pretended Conversion of a Sick Person that fell into a Phrensie Decrees and Declarations against the Duke of Rohan The King and the Cardinal take a Journey into Italy 1629. The Siege of Privas the Inhabitants of which were betray'd Cruelties exercis'd upon the City The pretences of the Catholics Conversions of soldiers tak'n Pris'ners A Declaration upon the taking of Privas A Treaty of the Duke of Rohan with Spain An Assembly permitted at Anduse and translated to Nimes Peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Edict of Grace Contents of the Edict The King's Letter to Queen Mother about the Peace The Duke of Rohan retires Montauban reduc'd Assembly of the Clergy Particuâ—â—â— Acts of Injustice 1630. Mlssiionaries The Duke of Rohan accus'd of the Ruin of the Churches Cavils about the Right of Exercises The Bishop of Valence persecutes the Foreign Ministers The Original of the Injustice done upon occasion of the Annexes New Seeds of a Civil War 1631. The Queen withdraws into Flanders Alliance with Gustavus King of Sueden Projects of Reunion With which the Cardinal closes Intreagues of Joseph the Capuchin caught he Pro. How the Synods were to speak Inclinations of the Ministers And the People Difficulties Petit's Projects And Melitiere Difference in their intentions Issue of the Project in general The truth of this Project A National Synod The Commissioners Speech Ministers suspected by the King excluded from the Synod The Answer to the Commissioner's Speech The Commissioner in vain opposes the Union of the Churches of Bearn with the rest Several Proposals of the Commissioner The Synod sâ—nds Deputies to the King Papers The favourable Reception of the Deputies The Nomination of General Deputies The Reformed fear'd at Court â—mportant Resolutions of the Synod Annexes Exercise forbid Consulships The Puâ—… Liberty opprâ—… 1632. Civil War of the Duke of Orleans The Bishops of Languedoc side with him The Reformed faithful The Duke of Rohan serves the King in Italy Affairs of the Annexes in the Dauphinate referr'd to four Commissioners Consulship of Alets Exercise forbid A shameful Cavil An inconsiderate Curiosity of two Scholars The Death of Gustavus 1633. Great Troubles in the Kingdom Advice of the Commissioners of the Dauphinate upon the Annexes Re-establishment of Privas Treatise intitl'd The Eucharist of the Ancient Church Exercises forbid Partiâ—-Colledges 1634. The Continuance of the Public Oppression Pretensions of France to all Europe Answer'd The Duke of Sulli made a Marshal of France Decrees upon several occasions Preâ—â—â—â—â— adjudg'd
against the Protestants The Cruelties of Monluc and of Adrets and of the Roman Catholicks in general The Massacre at Sens. Foreign Forces brought into France The Battel of Dreux The Siege of Orleans The Death of the Duke of Guise with which our Author charges the Admiral Peace agreed upon The Marriage of the Cardinal of Chatillon and what followed thereupon Tithes secured to the Roman Clergy The retaking of Havrede Grace from the English Prosecutions against the Admiral The End of the Council of Trent A Revolution in Bearn New causes of Jealousie given to the Protestants The Voyage of the Court and the Counsel of the Duke of Alva The progress of the Reformed Churches The Reconciliation of the Admiral with the Guises The Enterprise of Meaux and its consequences A Peace clapt up before Chartres without any design to observe it The 3d War The Death of the Prince of Conde and of Andelot Battels lost The Admiral restores the Party and gives new life to them A fraudulent peace The incredible Artifices of the Court The Massacre of St. Bartholomew The Princes of the Blood obliged by force to change their Religion The Inconstancy of Des Rosiers The Sieges of Rochelle and Sancerve Factions in France The Duke of Alanson Protector of the Protestants and of those called the Politicks The Death of Charles the 9th Henry the 3d returning from Poland and succeeding him continues the War The Retreat of the Princes A peace broken as soon as made The Edict of 1577. Synods The Conferences of Nerca and de Fleix The King eludes the Edict under pretence of observing it Outrages committed by the Leaguers against the King who is forced against his Will to make War upon the Protestants The Courage of the King of Navar. La Trimouille turns Protestant The Battle of Courtras The Defeat of the Reiters The Death of the Prince of Conde The Edict of Vnion The Insolence of the Leaguers The Estates held at Blois The Death of the Duke of Guise and of the Cardinal his Brother The Duke of Mayenne escaping revives the Leaguers party The extremity of the King's Affairs He makes a Truce with the Protestants The King's Affairs in a State of Recovery He besieges Paris and is stabb'd by a Monk THE Reformation which changed the Face of Religion all over Europe at the beginning of the last Age met with great Oppositions wherever it was preached For the Court of Rome used her utmost Endeavours to extinguish at its very Birth a Light that was likely to prove so fatal to her Grandeur and set in motion all the Springs of her most Refined Politicks to maintain the Errors and Abuses from which she drew such vast gains against those Enemies that so clearly revealed and laid open its ambitious Artifices She raised against them all the different Bodies of her Clergy whose miserable Ignorance and Corruption they so briskly attackt She spared neither her Bulls nor Anathema's to render them odious to all the World She armed against them all the Temporal Powers where she had Credit enough to procure her Maxims to be embrac'd and on the other side the Princes of those Times who had their secret aims for the advancing of their Authority were glad of so fair an occasion to satisfy their Ambition and greedily laid hold on 't For the aspiring passion after Arbitrary Power had so possest the Heads of the Soveraigns then Reigning that thinking their Power too much confined by some certain Relicks of Liberty which were by the Laws preserved to the people they were ravish'd to meet so patly with a Religious Pretence to employ one part of their Subjects to ruine the other as being very confident that when the soundest and most understanding part of them should be once oppressed they should easily master the rest And the Court of Rome likewise in her turn when she smelt out the Intentions of the Princes was in no small fear of them as well as of her pretended Heretick Enemies and looking upon Absolute Power as a Jewel fit only to be reserv'd fot the Triple Crown she never sincerely assisted those whose power was in a State of giving her any Umbrage in that ticklish pretension Yet for all these precautions the Emperor Charles the 5th upon this occasion had very like to have reduced all Germany under his Yoak but that after he had defeated the Protestants an unexpected Revolution reduced into Smoke all the prosperities of his life And his Son Philip the 2d was still more unfortunate in that by his ill-managed attempts upon the Liberties of the 17 Provinces he gave the first Motion to those mighty concussions that have since proved so ruinous to the Greatness of his House But the Crown of France has succeeded better in those designs for tho in the contest it has been reduced more than once to the very brink of Ruin yet Religion has been at last so useful an Expedient to its Monarchs to advance their power beyond all bounds that they at this day acknowledge no other limits to it but their own lawless Wills However all the Oppositions formed by divers Interests against the progress of the Reformation were not able to hinder it from spreading every where in a very few years time It was too necessary and too just not to find some hearts disposed to embrace it and a multitude of good Souls had too long groaned under the intolerable Yoke of the Superstitions and Tyranny of Rome not to receive with open arms those which preached with such forcible Evidence against her Corruptions as well in points of Doctrine and Worship as of Manners and Discipline But yet it met not every where with the same contradictions nor with the same easie successes For there were some States where it was receiv'd almost without resistance others where it found such Obstacles which it could never surmount and others again where the Difficulties it met with could not be mastered but by an infinite number of Crosses and Pains France was one of the places where the longest oppositions were raised against it and it was firmly setled in many other parts of Europe before it was known what would be its destiny in France and if we except the 10 or 12 last years of Henry IV. it may truly be said it never enjoyed any peace there and that since its first dawning in that great Kingdom till now it has always been persecuted For if its Adversaries have seemed sometimes to give it any respite and to renounce the further use of any violent means to oppress it 'T was only to gain opportunity to compass it by other more hidden and consequently more dangerous and effectual practices They have successively employ'd against it Capital punishments Wars fraudulent Treaties Massacres and all the Artifices of a profound and refined policy and whenever they met with a Juncture of time they thought favourable to their design they never were ashamed divers times to make use of
their Brethren for the Court-Interest But yet still the Division was not so great as very much to weaken the Princes Party who sometime after the Queen had disowned them having called a Council of Conscience of sixty Ministers to consult whether it were lawful after that to continue the War they came to this Resolution That since those Arms were at first taken up by Order of that Princess whilst free against the Enemies of the King and the State and the Violaters of Edicts they were lawfully taken up and ought not to be laid down by any Counter-Order proceeding from her whilst under the force of hers and their common Enemies This War was very cruel in many places because there were some Commanders on each side that prosecuted it without any Mercy For Des Adrets on the Protestant side was noted for his Cruelties and Monluc on the other would spare no body Nay and Mompensier too signalised himself not a little by his Inhumanities However this difference there was between the Cruelties of the Two Parties That those of the Catholicks were a continuation of what they had exercised for near 40 years past by so many Butcherly Executions and those of the Protestants were but actions of men made desperate by so long and barbarous a persecution Which by the way deserves to be remarked against the Roman Catholick Historians who always excuse as much as they can the Excesses of their own people though never so villainous but represent the Violences of the Princes Forces much horrider than they were And indeed the Protestants found no mercy at all No Faith of Treaties was ever kept with them and not being content to destroy them by Fights and Massacres The Catholicks wherever they had power further employed against them he forms of Justice But nothing more furiously incensed the People against them than their breaking of Images and burning of Relicks in several places That likewise occasioned many bloody Edicts against them and the Parliaments would needs stretch the severity of those Acts of the Council yet to a higher pitch by their Decrees especially those of Paris Roan Dijon and Tholouse And tho the Catholick Armies were guilty of as many outrages as the others yet the Protestants bore the blame of all and were charged with the Sacriledges even of their Enemies A new Massacre of the Protestants which hapned at Sens by the Cardinal of Lorrain's fault who was Archbishop of that Town broke off the Negotiations for a Peace and the War was continued a fresh both by Arms and Writings In which the Catholicks were the first that had recourse to Foreign Aid and the Protestants imitated them by procuring assistance from Queen Elizabeth of England who seised of Havre de Grace for her security But before her Forces could joyn the Princes Army a Battle was fought near Dreux the success of which on both sides was so equal that the Duke of Guise was the only gainer by it The King of Navar died some time before of a wound he received at the Siege of Roan the Marshal de St. Andre was Killed and the Constable taken in this Battle so that the Duke had now neither superiour nor competitour at Court The Prince of Conde was likewise taken Prisoner but that hindred not his party from standing upon such high conditions that no Peace could be agreed upon The Duke afterwards laying Siege to Orleans was there Assassinated by one Poltrot which miserable wretch being taken Accused the Admiral and Beza and several others as his Instigatours to that enterprise and tho he often varied in his answers upon Examinations yet he accused the Admiral with a little more constancy than the rest However he was willingly credited in that point and the young Duke of Guise continuing ever from that time a resentment against that Lord as guilty of the Charge revenged himself nine years after upon several thousands of Innocents whose blood he mingled with the Admirals to expiate the death of his Father The Tragical Death of that great Man dampt the vain thoughts of the Cardinal of Lorrain then at Trent whither the Council had been removed the third time by a Bull of Pius IV. where the French Ambassadours had waited a good while for the coming of the Bishops of their Nation but the Cardinal came thither at last attended with some Prelates with a full Resolution to insist upon thirty four Articles of Reformation which seemed to be much desired by the Queen and especially the Restitution of the Cup and the Marriage of Priests The same accident likewise put the Court upon other Measures and disposed matters to a Peace for which an Edict was agreed upon at Amboise The Prince took advice only of the Nobility of his Party who were weary of the War and would not hearken to the Counsel of threescore and ten Ministers who would have persuaded him to abate nothing of the Edict of January The Admiral was not at all content with this proceeding But however he was forced to seem to approve of what he could not hinder and to accept an Edict much less favourable than the former and where the Distinction of Rights of Exercise by vertue of Fiefs Possession and Bailywicks was introduced The Peace was followed by an Event at which the Court of Rome was highly offended The Cardinal of Chatillon Bishop of Beauvais which is one of the most antient Peerages of the Kingdom turning to the Religion of the Admiral his Brother quitted both the Name and Habit of his Ecclesiastical Dignity and retain'd only that of Count of Beauvais The Pope thereupon cited him and depriv'd him of his Cardinals Hat But that Lord to shew how little he valued the Papal Censure immediately took up again his Cardinals Habit and wore it at all Ceremonies at which he was present and even at the Registring of the Kings Declaration upon the Subject of his Majority nay and to carry his contempt further he Married a Lady and wore his Cardinals Habit on his Wedding day The same year the Cardinal of Lorrain called a Synod at Rheims where the Cardinal of Chatillon appeared not tho he were Suffragan of Rheims as Bishop of Beauvais They who were present at it were content only to agree upon a resolution to give notice to the King that that Prelate was Excommunicated at Rome for a Heretick But that was put off till 1569. when the Parliament Declared him a Rebel and deprived him of all his Dignities turning him over to the Judgment of his Superiour as to what concern'd the Common Crime But they durst not at first explain what they meant by the term Superiour for fear of offending the Pope but in another Decree they plainly owned that by Superiour they meant his Metropolitan the Archbishop of Rheims with the Bishops his Suffragans conformably to the Liberties of the Gallican Church And in fine when this Cardinals Widow moved
understand derstand that the Resolutions were already formed at the Court of those things which afterwards hapned The only difficulty was to agree about the Pretences and Means to put them in Execution But at last they concluded upon one of the most detestable which was executed upon the 24th of August The Queen of Navar was poysoned before as was supposed by the Queens means who was very much suspected for the business of Poysoning The Admiral was wounded by Maurevel who was charged to kill him and they took this way as most proper to push the Reformed on to Sedition which would give a specious pretence for their Massacre or make them fall out with the Guises and so give the King opportunity to ruin either the one or the other of them But their patience was the cause of their being massacred without any pretence in the most cruel manner in the world I shall not give a particular account of this Horrible Action since all honest Historians have declared and detested it I shall add only that they are accused for having forced the King to ruin them to prevent a Conspiracy against his own Person so that after he had treacherously spilt their blood he would blacken their memory You must not be astonished if there be found some to apologize for this cowardly Cruelty since there was found those who were capable of committing it Peter Carpentier a Lawyer a Protestant Refugee at Geneva sold his Pen to his Brethren's Murderers and being made known to Bellievre whom the King had sent into Switzerland to justify this Action he received mony from him and permission to return into France and promises of great Recompence for declaiming against the memory of the dead This he doth by a bloody Letter which was printed again not long ago to justify the Cruelties of the last persecution as if the shameful perfidiousness of a Rogue of the last Age would serve for an Apology for the Injustice of this As for the Guises because they were not willing to bear the Reproach of this base treachery they constrained the King to take it upon himself and saved some of the Reformed from the hands of the Massacrers to keep themselves from the blame of so black an Infidelity The King of Navar and the Prince of Conde run a great risque of losing their lives The Prince was more difficult to be wrought on but in the end both of them gave way to the violence They took occasion for an honest pretence of des Rosiers who having been found in some Criminal Matters had redeemed his Life at the expence of his Conscience The Reasons which had made him change had the same effect upon the Princes because they were in the same fear as he Monsieur had drawn him out of trouble by his Credit and having secured him to his Interest by this benefit was willing to make use of him to bring back his Daughter and the Duke of Bouillon his Son in Law to the Roman Religion He already procur'd a Conference at Paris 6 or 7 years before between the Drs. of both Parties for the same end but it had then no effect for the Princess persevered in her former Opinions The Duke believ'd the Example and Reasons of des Rosiers would have the same force to convert Hereticks at Sedan as they had had at Paris And therefore sent Maldonat the Jesuit thither with this revolted Minister but the Jesuit obtain'd nothing and durst not let des Rosiers come to Sedan because he did not believe him as yet to be a firm Catholick The Conference which he had with the Ministers did not shake this Princess in the least and tho he publish'd a Relation of this Journey where he speaks very advantagiously of himself and makes the Ministers to argue like Children yet he brought back from thence no other fruit but the loss of his des Rosiers who having followed him to Metz fled himself 3 weeks after into Germany where he made an acknowledgment of his Faults But in France it was found more difficult to destroy the reformed party than was imagined For after so much blood spilt they stood yet upon their feet In a little time the War was kindled every where The Duke of Anjou lost his Time and Reputation before Rochel Sancerre could not be forced to surrender it self by the most cruel Famine that ever was recorded So that they thought themselves very fortunate in making peace and to find pretence for it in the Intercession of the Polanders who were come to offer the Crown of Poland to the Duke of Anjou The Edict granted the Exercise of Religion but to 3 Cities and revoked almost all the foregoing Concessions France was then divided into 3 Factions and in the Duke of Anjou's Army alone there was 4 1. that of the zealous Catholicks which was the ruling party 2. that of the New Catholicks discontented and suspicious 3. that of the Politicks sprung out of the foregoing War and without taking part in Religion formed one in the State under pretence of opposing either the Enterprises of the Court or the ambition of strangers and 4. that of the persevering reformed Religion which they suffered in the Army the better to deceive the rest and to make them believe that they would not exterminate them They had already publish'd an Edict to give this assurance to all that staid peaceably in their houses and to perswade them that the suspicious Conduct of the Admiral was the only cause of their misfortune But the Massacres either done or commanded on the same day in the most considerable Cities of the Kingdom made it known to all them that had not lost their senses how false and ridiculous a pretence this was The Princes and young Lords of those several Parties had like to have raised New Troubles during the siege of Rochel But La Noue whose wisdom they had a great deference for hindred the Effects of their head-strong resolutions But a little while after the Duke of Alenzon renewed those Intrigues to get the same Authority in Affairs which his Brother had before he was King of Poland and the Reformed and the Politicians acknowledged him for their Protector But before he could escape from the Court his Plots were discovered This cost him his Liberty as well as the King of Navar and many others and the Lives of some But all this did not hinder the War from breaking out again in many Provinces and the Protestants lost Montgomery whose Head the Queen cut off against the promise which Matignon made him of his life when he rendred himself his prisoner The Prince of Conde saved himself in a disguise in Germany and made a publick acknowledgment at Strasburg that he had been at Mass A little after the Death of Charles IX the King of Poland was called back into France and in expectation of his return the Queen made her self be
Relaxations in both sides New Possession acquir'd in 1597. Principle Articles which the Count de Schomberg grants under the King 's good pleasure Debate whether they should be accepted with a Proviso 〈◊〉 definitively Cavils in Council about the Articles Interruptions of the Treaty Last Instructions New Cavils which the King puts a stop to by his Constancy The Assembly implores the Intercession of the Queen of England and the United Provinces New Delays partly Malicious partly Innocent WHILE this Affair was under Negotiation at Rome the Reformed in France who perform'd their Exercises at Chastaigneraye were massacred by the Soldiers of the Garrison of Rochefort who boasted that they had the Duke of Mercoeur's Warrant for what they did The Lady of the Place who had already signaliz'd her self by other Acts of Violence observing that the Reformed who assembl'd together from sundry places in the Neighbourhood carry'd Arms about 'em for their own Defence because the Garrisons of the League were always scouting abroad forbid the Meeters under pretence that she might not forfeit her Garranty to come arm'd upon her Ground and seconded this Inhibition with so many Threats that the poor People obey'd And in that condition it was that the Garrison of Rochefort surpriz'd â—…em met together in the House of one Vaudorè a Reformed Gentleman There were about two hundred massacred without sparing either Sex or Age. An Infant also that was carry'd thither to be Christen'd was kill'd among the rest Nor could the Innocency of another who would have given Eight Sols for his Ransom procure him the least Mercy And the Reason alledg'd by these Hang-men to excuse their Fury was That the Duke of Mercoeur had forbid 'em to suffer any of the Huguenots to redeem themselves And moreover they were sure as they said that the Duke in making their Peace would procure 'em a full Pardon for that horrid Impiety The Lady of Chastaigneraye who had contriv'd this bloody Execution with so much Artifice made it â—…er Pastime after the Fact was committed to be inquisitive after the Number and Names of the murder'd People and to inform her self whether such or such against whom she had a more peculiar Antipathy were comprehended in the Butchery This piece of Barbarism put the Reformed into a Ferment equal to the Merit of the Fact They call'd Assemblies to consider of it They arm'd themselves for their Defence against the same Violences in the Neighbouring parts or to make the like Returns and some that were more chaf'd by their Excess of Cruelty that talk'd of nothing else but of righting themselves upon the Catholicks They besought the King never to pardon the Authors of such a Massacre but to bring 'em to Justice as Robbers unworthy to be look'd upon as Soldiers The King gave out Letters Patents which declar'd that this same Act of Cruelty should be comprehended in the number of Military Violences for which Treaties of Peace generally provided an Act of Oblivion In pursuanee of which La Trimouille and du Plessis caus'd some of these Executioners that fell into their Hands to be hang'd up But the Punishment of Five or Six Scoundrels was not look'd upon as a sufficient Reparation for the Massacre of so many innocent Persons For which reason it was that the Reformed complain'd above two years after that Justice had never been done 'em for this no more then for several other Outrages which had been every day committed to their vast Prejudice in sundry parts of the Kingdom Moreover while the Negotiation went forward at Rome it was that they set all their Springs and Engins at work to get the Prince of Conde out of the hands of the Reformed The Verification of the Edict was not sufficient to perswade 'em to a surrender of his Person because it had only serv'd to give 'em new occasions of Complaint Therefore it behov'd 'em to set new Slights and Stratagems on foot neither would the King stay to make it his business till the Pope impos'd a necessity upon him One of their Artifices to sound their Intentions was loudly to give out that they well knew the Reformed would never deliver him up and to support this study'd Fear of theirs with all the Considerations that could hinder 'em To which they added Reflections upon the Prejudice which would accrew by their Refusal to the King's Affairs Nor did they forget to slip in dexterously by the way that they should be forc'd at length to take him out of their hands by force They gave 'em also clearly enough to understand that they were not to expect either Peace or Security while they continu'd obstinate in their Resolutions to be Masters of the Person of the young Prince That their Refusal to deliver him up to the King would be taken for an apparent Rebellion that they would be look'd upon to have forfeited all the Favours that had been granted and that there would be a fair Pretence found out to unite with those Foreign Powers against 'em that so passionately thirsted after their Destruction These Considerations wrought upon three sorts of People The Timerous who after Thirty Five Years Wars which had cost the Reformed so much Hardship Treasure and Blood desir'd only to live in Repose and became faint-hearted upon all appearances of a new War The Courtiers who never troubl'd their Heads much about the Time to come provided they had the Liberty of their Consciences and that their Religion were no Obstacle to their present Fortunes And lastly the Wiser sort who thought there was a necessity of Peace to settle and preserve 'em in their Stations that there could be no end of a new War but with their Ruâ—ine that it would be a Reproach to their Religion to re-kindle a War in the Kingdom when it was in so fair a way to be extinguish'd but that on the other side 't would be a great Honour to their Doctrine which the Catholicks accus'd of infusing the Spirit of Faction and Disturbance into People to contradict 'em in an Affair of such important Consequence But there were other People to manage besides the Reformed if they intended to have good Success in their getting the Prince of Conde into their Hands For the Death of the Prince his Father was accompany'd with such Circumstances which had fill'd the Minds of Credulous People full of Jealousies and the Prosecution commenc'd against his Widow suspected to have contributed to his Death had perswaded many People that she had strange Reasons which spurr'd her on to that Extremity The Prince of Conti and the Count of Soissons were in the number of those that really thought or would seem to believe that there was something in the Birth of that young Prince which did not permit that he should remove 'em from the Crown More especially the Count of an ambitious and turbulent Spirit and one that agreed but ill with the King was most to be fear'd and
the Low-Countries some Preacher or other had the boldness to Preach in favour of the Negative And at divers times Libels were dispers'd about concerning this matter A Capucin who was suspected to have learn'd his Lesson at the Court of Savoy put off a thousand extravagancies on this Subject in Italy and in Rome it self But there was a stop put to the course of these mischievous Intentions by the Authority of the Superiour In the mean time as the Birth of the Dauphin made all the World talk La Riviere one of the King's Physicians a great Astrologer and much possess'd with Predictions Erected a Scheme of his Nativity the King that gave a little too much heed to these Vanities either through his own Inclination or by the Example of Roni his Favourite who gave much way to it or by the Inducement of the Queen who was prepossess'd as almost all the Italians are the King I say having oblig'd him notwithstanding several denials to tell him his Judgment of this Child according to the Rules of his Art answer'd him half in Choler that he should Reign that he should destroy what his Father had Establish'd that he should scatter all that he had husbanded that he should leave Posterity under which all should grow worse and worse The State which at this day the Religion and the Kingdom are in may make this Prediction to be Rank'd among those which make most for the Honour of Astrology But there were very dangerous Motions in the State which were stirr'd up by Forreign Intrigues The Court was full of Male Contents which were there engag'd under divers pretences Biron a Man of a Presumptuous Spirit and without Judgment was so deeply involv'd in 'em that it cost him his Life But 't was believ'd that the King was yet strong enough to quash this Conspiracy as long as he had the Reformed at his Devotion this is the Reason that nothing was wanting to engage 'em in the Party They were admonish'd as by way of Friendship that the Peace of the State was the way to their Ruin that there was a powerful League concluded against 'em seeing that the Peace of Savoy was negotiated that there was a Project laid for a kind of Croisade that the Catholic Princes had sworn it by their Deputies that the Oath was given upon the Eucharist by the Legat that every one was Tax'd at a certain Sum and a certain number of Souldiers that the League was to last till the Protestant Religion was exterminated that there were two Originals of this Treaty Sign'd by the Pope the King of Spain and the Duke of Savoy and that that Duke had one in his Hands which he offer'd to Communicate to the Reformed To this were added the greatest promises of security that could be thought on provided they enter'd into the League that was propos'd to ' em This Advice was confirm'd by that which one Brochard Baron gave to Marshal Boâ—illon touching the Leagues Sworn against the Reformation This Baron who call'd himself the Nephew of Cardinal Baronius boasted that he was sent by the Pope to the Catholic Princes to make 'em Sign the Project of New Croâ—sade and before all things to have presented the Book of this Institution to the King of Spain He said that the Instructions of those that were entrusted to engage the Princes to a Protection of this League recommended chiefly three means to succeed in the Conversion of Heretics The first was to institute Missions to instruct those that were gone astray by good Sermons and Examples The second was to tolerate the Enterprises of Magistrates against the Liberties of Heretics and to make use of Politic Artifices and Pious Frauds to take away their Priviledges The Third was to use Force and Arms to reduce ' em The Jesuits business was to sow great Divisions between the Great ones and in the Provinces And great Liberality was to be shewn to the first Converted to serve for a Bait to others He aver'd that there were five and twenty thousand gain'd in England that were able to bear Arms and Ministers enow to hope that the Reformation would be Condemn'd by the the Mouth of the very Ministers themselves He discover'd great Designs that were laid against all the Protestant States and he pretended that a great part of the Nobility in Germany were corrupted I know not whence he had got the Mysteries he laid open in his Discourses but in the sequel the things he spoke have been so exactly practic'd and with so great success that if his Relation may be judg'd by the Event rather then by the Picture he made of the Design he must be look'd upon as one that spake positive Truth This Baron not being rewarded as he expected went into Germany and Holland to put the same Ware off there and if he did not perswade those who had a share in the Governmente he found the people more apt to believe him There were Preachers who during the Siege of Rochelle remember'd his Discourse and apply'd it to the State to which the Reformation was reduc'd at that time in France and Germany To elude his Testimony they would have had him pass for an Incendiary who had invented one part of what he said Nevertheless there was not in all his parts one story made at random There was Erected a little while since at Thâ—non a Town belonging to the Duke of Savoy a Friary for Conversion of Heretics and to render it more Venerable to the people it was call'd by the pitiful Name of The Congregation of our Lady of Compassion of Seven Griefs This New Society was no sooner set up but they Writ to the Catholic Princes to invite 'em to enter into this League D'Ossat did not deny to the King that they writ to the Pope But he assur'd him that the Pope rejected this vain proposition as capable of Uniting the Protestants for their mutual Defence which could not but endamage the Catholic Religion and give a fair Opportunity to the Turk to extend his Conquests over Christendom during the Divisions of Europe This Prelate likewise accus'd the Duke of Savoy for having abus'd the Commissions and Procurations of this Fraternity on which the Work of this imaginary League was built to serve him in his Designs to imbroyl France For the rest he describes this Baron as a Man the most fickle and inconstant that ever was He had been a Priest and during that time had committed a Murther he turn'd Protestant it may be to avoid the punishment he had deserv'd He marry'd but being soon weary of a Marty'd Life he return'd to the Roman Religion which in the sequel he forsook a second time This is according to the Picture the Cardinal makes of him But tho there had been nothing to have been said against Baron the Duke of Savoy was too much suspected in point of Religion to gain Credit among the Reformed He had not the Reputation of having
a few Hours after Rasis to arrive in times and Caution the Inn-keeper to have a care of himself So this miserable Wretch escap'd and he was found Drowned 20 or 30 Leagues from Paris upon the Bank of the Marne which he would have foarded in his way to Flanders His Death seem'd no less suspicious then his escape and many believ'd that Villeroy conniv'd at the one and procur'd the other I was not rational to think that a Man who had been above five and thirty years in the Ministry of State should not know that the first thing he ought to have done was to have seiz'd on the Officer And the Neglect of so necessary a Precaution gave occasion to suspect that the Master had some Reason to desire that the Servant should escape But the King was willing to take the sorrow that Villeroy express'd for a Proof of his Innocency And he accepted of the bad Excuses of this Minister as if they had been better Insomuch that he continu'd in the Ministry as before and if perhaps he lost something of the King's Esteem and Condence at least he lost nothing of his Dignity The End of the Eight Book THE HISTORY OF THE Edict of NANTS BOOK IX The Argument of the 9th Book THE Reformed are afraid that the King gives way too much to the Jesuits He Answers their Papers favourably Gex The Genius of La Trimouille and his Death The Process of the Cardinal de Chatillon's Widow The Pyramid pull'd down New Factions An Assembly at Chatelleraud Matters which were there to be treated on St. Germains Letter to Marshal de Bouillon Roni Commissioner for the King at the Assembly His Instructions What Reception he had His Speech Provincial Councils Deputies General General Assemblies The Vnion renew'd Lesdiguieres comes into it Roni Excuses this New Oath Breviats for the Guard of Towns of Hostage The Assembly suffers the places of Marshal Bouillon to be taken Other advantages that Roni gain'd of the Assembly with which the Pope is well contented The Deputies of the Assembly caress'd at the Court An Assembly of the Clergy The Artifice to hinder the Ecclesiastics from changing their Religion An Edict in favour of the Clergy Roni Duke and Peer of France The Marshal de Bouillon makes his Peace The Treaty with those of Rochel in favour of the Catholics Priests that did not Pray to God for the King Gun-Powder Treason The Oath exacted of the Catholics of England The Exercise permitted at Charenton for the Reformed of Paris which the Lord of the place opposes in vain Papers favourably Answer'd The Attempt of Seguiran the Jesuit to Preach at Rochel A Mortification of the Jesuits The Synod at Rochel General Deputies The Question about Antichrist renew'd Deputies gain'd at the Court The Quick-sighted of the Church and Fools of the Synod The Question is deferr'd and Vignier order'd to Treat largely on it The Synod Names only two Deputies General Affairs Treated on at the Synod Forreign Ministers Malwin call'd to Rochel The King refuses the Nomination of the Deputies He permits a General Assembly at Gergeau Sulli suspected by the Reformed Affairs of the Assembly Places lost by the Reformed Conferences and Changes of Religion The Assembly Complies with the Kings desire An Assembly of the Clergy The Resolute Answer of the King and his disowning a promise made in his Name by his Attorneys in the Matter of Absolution Cotton the Jesuit the Dauphins Master A Fund for the Ministers that shâ—ll change their Religion The Treaty with the Morisco's Persecuted in Spain is â—roke off by the Bigots Lesdiguieres Marshal of France The Kings Domestic Vexations Divers Sentiments on the Alliance of Spain Frauds to renew the Civil Wars The Power of the Jesuits Establish'd at Bearn Papers Answer'd The Synod at St. Maixant The Theatre of Antichrist A Blow given to Seignioral Rights The Jurisdiction of the Chambers A Book found at La Fleche The Discourse of Jeannin upon Liberty of Conscience The Edict in favour of the Morisco's The Escape of the Prince of Condé War declar'd against the Arch-Duke The Formidable Power of the King His Dâ—signs His unexpected Death THE Reformed had a great share in these particular Accidents because they look'd upon all those who held Intelligence with Spain as their Sworn Enemies and they believ'd that all the Projects of that Court design'd their Ruin at the bottom insomuch that they were always listening to discover the designs of that Cabal and to hinder that it did not grow too powerful in France where they had if it may be so said no Friend but the King Besides they were not so assur'd of him as not to have some distrust of his Constancy and the little Resolution they had observ'd in him upon the Account of Religion made 'em fear that he had besides as little in Point of Acknowledgment and Friendship They saw that he suffer'd himself to be too much possess'd by the Jesuits and they complain'd sometimes alluding to the Name of his Confessor that he heard his old Friends no more since he had his Ears stopp'd with Cotton They saw likewise in him amidst his great Qualities great Weaknesses And that to have Peace at home he was so far Patient and Compliant that the meanest Citizen wou'd have hardly done so much There was besides great Reason to fear that to Content the Queen whose Intentions were no way favorable to 'em he wou'd break with 'em and suffer himself to be led to an Alliance with Spain of which they did not doubt but their Destruction was a necessary consequence These apprehensions which were but too reasonable as it appear'd under another Reign oblig'd 'em to Arm themselves every day with new precautions The King who believ'd that these Alarms might serve for a pretext to those who were not well affected to his Government was very willing to dissipate 'em by the Testimonies of the constant Will that he had to maintain the Edicts and whatsoever discontent he had of particulars he favour'd the General Cause as much as 't was possible for him And this about the time that I speak of he made appear by his manner of answering the Papers which the Deputies General presented him They complain'd among other things of certain Monuments of the late Wars which the Catholics preserv'd as it were to render the Memory of those Troubles eternal Thus in the Cathedral Church of Bazas was to be seen an Inscription which call'd the Reformed Heretic Hugenots and which imputes to 'em Profanations and Ruins The King had often commanded the Bishop to erase those violent Terms but the Bishop wae not willing to obey him They complain'd again of the affronts which were done in some places to the Ministers and their Children of the delay of Establishing the Exercise of the Reformed Religion in many places where it shou'd be according to the Edict of 1577 of the trouble that they found when the places design'd
Union if the Protestants had receiv'd cause to arm in the heat of their first Zeal before the Catholick States could have form'd a sufficient League to resist them Moreover that the War would only serve to form closer Engagements between the Reform'd of France and Foreign Powers whom they stood in need of for their preservation Whereas in time of peace and process of time their ardour would certainly cool many of their Chiefs would die or be divided their Discipline would slacken and they would lose their Ingagements and Intelligences Insomuch that the Pope commended the King's prudence and approv'd his having granted to the Reform'd the keeping of all their Places for four years longer Thus Roni's Deputation to Chatelleraud prov'd very useful to the King and at the same time his Negotiation was so agreeable at Rome that Du Perron who was there at that time writ to him to congratulate his Success in the said Commission and to let him know how much the Pope was pleas'd with it Roni's Ambition was very singular although he profess'd the Reform'd Religion he made it his study to acquire the Pope's favour He valu'd himself upon having more Friends at Rome and upon his receiving more Applauses there than among those of his own Religion Neither did it burthen his Conscience to find that the Court of Rome was better satisfied than his Brethren with his way of managing their Liberties and Safeties In the mean time the Deputies of the Assembly repair'd to the Court where they were very well receiv'd and where neither fair Words nor Caresses were spar'd The chief reason of that good Reception was the secret Assurances they gave that the Reform'd would not take Arms for the Marshal of Bouillon and that they would not hinder the King from taking his Places and of disposing of them as of Cities taken in a just War Besides these Civilities redounded to the advantage of Roni whose Negotiations had been so prosperous And the King had no better way to express how well he was pleas'd with the complaisance of that Assembly towards that Favourite than by those marks of his Good Will The Clergy assembled that Year as well as the Reform'd and did not break up until the following Year The Place of the Assembly was Paris where Villars Arch-Bishop of Vienna who made a Speech to the King fill'd his Discourse with Allusions relating to the Reform'd But above all he made very mournful Complaints about the Condition to which the Catholick Religion was reduc'd and he endeavour'd to persuade that it labour'd under great oppressions 'T is the common Stile of their Harangues They are all upon the same Tone and it has been observ'd that the Clergy in the greatest Lustre in which it has appear'd these 500 Years has still made as bitter Complaints as if the Roman Church had been reduc'd to the utmost desolation However the Archbishop's Complaints reduc'd themselves in requiring the Publication of the Council of Trent the Re-establishment of the Elections and the abolishment of Laick Pensions Moreover he accus'd the Reform'd of several Infractions of the Edict of Nants and of several Scandals committed against the Catholick Religion Among the rest he accus'd them of having profan'd some Churches and of having trampl'd upon the Sacrament which the Catholicks adore at Milhau The King's Answer receiv'd different Constructions some thought it favourable and others disobliging But as to the Excesses that were laid to the Charge of the Reform'd he spoke like a Prince who was not perswaded that there was any truth in it He desir'd that it might be prov'd and then promis'd to do them justice The Clergy had occasion to renew their Complaints under the next Reign and finally they took vengeance on the whole Party for a pretended Outrage the Resentment whereof at most should not have extended beyond those who should have been guilty thereof At that time it was sincerely acknowledg'd that the Edict allow'd Liberty of Conscience to all the French whether Ecclesiasticks or Laicks Therefore Monks and Priests were often seen to embrace the Reform'd Religion Those Conversions were cruel Mortifications to the Clergy who look'd upon the Custom of some of the Churches in the Meridional Provinces as Affronts to them they preserving the Habits of those Proselites in their Vestries as Trophies erected with the Spoils of the Roman Religion in honour of the Reform'd The Clergy not daring to desire the King to hinder those Conversions by reason that the Law by which they were authoriz'd was as yet too new to be so soon violated in a Point of that importance bethought it self of an Expedient which might have the same effect as a formal Defence They made use of an Article in their Petitions by which supposing that the Ecclesiasticks could never side with the Reform'd unless to avoid the Canonical Punishment of their Crimes and disorderly Course they desir'd leave to try them before they could make profession of the Reform'd Religion This was an infallible way to hinder the Ecclesiasticks from changing since it was an easy matter to frame an Accusation true or false against a suspected Person after which they might have forc'd him by Menaces and ill usage to alter his Mind or tire him with long Imprisonments or in case they had been oblig'd to release him load him with ignominious Condemnations which would have destroy'd all the Fruit the Reform'd hop'd to reap by such Conversions This Article was granted to the Clergy who made use of it on some occasions when they could lay hold on such as they thought wavering in the Catholick Doctrine But they never deriv'd all the Advantages they expected by it by reason that those who were willing to quit the Roman Religion for the most part found Means to escape the fury of those unmerciful Judges The Clergy obtain'd notwithstanding several favourable Regulations of which they compos'd an Edict which was long a drawing and yet longer before they could get the Verification thereof That which related to Religion was That the Reform'd should not be allow'd Burying Places either in Churches or Monasteries nor in the Church-yards belonging to the Catholicks not even under pretence of Foundation or Patronage That no Temples should be built so near Churches that the Ecclesiasticks in performing Divine Service might receive the least disturbance or scandal thereby That the Regents or Teachers Tutors or School-Masters of Villages should be approv'd of by the Curates without prejudicing the Edict of Nantes Roni found his Services rewarded that Year with the Dignity of Duke and Peer and it was only to hinder the Pope from murmuring thereat that he made so many steps to perswade the Court of Rome that he was not overmuch conceited with the Reform'd Religion The Marshal of Bouillon also made his Peace when the King advanc'd to lay a Siege before Sedan Sulli that was the Name Roni took after his new Dignity had been
the Ofâ—…rs and to the Town House that in order to prevent the 〈…〉 effects of the Election of a new Mayor she desir'd that 〈…〉 old one might be continu'd The Duke of Rohan who had â—…n'd his point refus'd to submit to those orders He oppos'd 〈…〉 Continuation of the Mayor in writing and declar'd bodly that the People had abus'd the Queens Authority 〈…〉 obtain the said Letter That affair was somewhat Niâ—… and as some thought the Duke had imbroil'd himself 〈…〉 little too rashly in it others also were of opinion thâ—… the Queen had expos'd herself too much and that 〈…〉 had been ill advis'd St. John was a free City a City 〈…〉 Surety jealous of her Privileges and in a Province in whiâ—… the Reform'd were the strongest Therefore this undertakiâ—… to alter the accustomed form of the Election of a Majoâ—… to use Authority in order thereunto under pretence of 〈…〉 discord which did not as yet appear gave cause to suspeâ—… that the Court had a design upon the Priviledges of 〈…〉 Inhabitants which were violated without necessity 〈…〉 upon the surety of the place which they endeavoured 〈…〉 commit into the hands of suspected persons or perhapâ—… upon both Nevertheless the thing was very much resented 〈…〉 Court and the Queen being inform'd of the Duke of Rohan's opposition caus'd his Lady his Daughters and 〈…〉 his Family to be Secur'd She put a Gentleman into the Bastille who was sent by the Duke to justifie his Action She caus'd the Duke to be proclaim'd a Rebeâ—… and order'd an Army to march against him She wâ—… to Authorise the said enterprise her self by her Presence and because it was necessary to prevail with the rest 〈…〉 the Reform'd to suffer the said Duke's Ruin and the loâ—… of St. John without opposition she was to make a soleâ—… Declaration that she had no design against any body bâ—… the Duke and his Adherents to confirm the Edicts suffer all such to live in Peace who did not ingage iâ— those Troubles The Queen was to take the Marshalâ— de Bouillon and Lesdiguieres to Command under her in that Expedition and as if the Court had beeâ— as ready to act as to order orders were strait dispatch'd to the Officers that were to Command in the said Army to keep themselves ready to marâ—â— Manifestos were publish'd on both sides The Dukes up â—…aided the Court with all their Wiles and endeavour'd 〈…〉 prove that the consequence of that affair was general â—…at which appear'd in the Queens name endeavour'd 〈…〉 create suspicions about the Duke of Rohan's intentions â—…d to justifie the Court to perswade that their only aim â—…as against that Rebel and that she design'd to maintain â—…e Edicts and finally it invited the Catholicks and Reâ—…m'd to serve the King in that occasion The End of the Second Book THE HISTORY OF THE Edict of Nantes VOL. II. BOOK III. A Summary of the Contents of the Third Book Appearence of Accommodation under which the troubles continue Endavours are us'd to engage Du Plessis in them who remains in quiet Assembly of the Circle at Rochel Project of Reconciliation among the great ones Sedition at Rochel It s Original and Violence Negociation for the accommodation High Pretentions of the Duke de Rohan The Queen agrees to them preserving some appearences for herself The Duke being exasperated with new Injuries will no longer be satisfied with them The Assembly meets at Rochel and gives the Deputies General new Articles Resolutions taken 〈◊〉 Court but ill executed New Declaration Remarks upon those frequent Edicts The Circle assembles again Rochel withdraws from the rest of the Deputies which puts an end to the Troubles Verbal promises to tollerate Provincial Councils Declaration of the Marriages resolv'd upon with Spain Which offends the French but particularly the Reform'd Ferrier forsakes the Ministry Is receiv'd Counsellor 〈◊〉 Nimes Is Excommunicated Sedition against him Diligence of the Consuls to save Ferrier Writings 〈◊〉 both sides Appologies of Ferrier and his end Reconciliation of the Duke de Rohan and Marshal de Bouillon Enterpise of the Sheriffs of Saumur Equity of the Chamber of the Edict of Paris Rights of the Bishop of Mompellier upon the Vniversity Discontents of the Princes The Duke de Rohan joyns with them Polity of the Marshal de Bouillon Retreat and Manifesto of the Princes Their Precipitation is blam'd The Peace is made The Prince of Conde is injur'd at Poitiers Towns of Surely open'd to the King National Synod Letters from the King of England Council of the Lower Guyenne Mutual subordination of the Assemblies Brief of leave for a General Assembly Letters from the Lords Pecuniary affairs The Ministers are exempted from paying the Taylles Places of Surety Berger a Reform'd Counsellor in the Parliament of Paris turns Catholick Reform'd of Gex Churches not settled as yet Condition of the Reform'd in the County of Avignon Liberalities of the Synod Colleges Bearn Metz. Oath of Vnion Letters to the King and Queen The Queen prepares to assemble the States Declaration of the King's Majority Overtures of the States The Clergy and Nobility unite themselves against the Third Estate Reform'd in the States Indepency of Kings whose Cause is betray'd by the Clergy and by the Court it self Passion of the Clergy Harrangue of Cardinal du Perron Why Hereticks are tollerated Distinctions of the Cardinal His Conclusion Reflections The Third Estate persists Character of Miron President of the Chamber of that â—â—der The Court silences the third Estate Illusive Decree of the Clergy and their shameful Prevarication Inequality of the Prince of Conde Perseverance of the Clergy in that Doctrine Sedition at Milhau Harangue of the Bishop of Lucon Sedition at Belestat Cahier of the Clergy Sequel of the Cahier Articles propos'd directly against the Reform'd Sequel of the said Articles Conclusion of the Cahier THERE was a great deal of reason to believe that things would have gone farther considering the proceedings of the Court The rather because the Duke of Rohan seem'd nowise daunted at the storm that was preâ—…ng against him The Election of the Mayor was â—…de according to his desire la Rochebeaucour was forc'd yield and found himself almost reduc'd to pay the â—…t of the service he design'd to do the Queen The â—…ke gave the Offices of the City and of the Garrison â—…ersons he could confide in and the Deputy Governor's â—…e to Hautefontaine who was at his Devotion Neverâ—…less the Sequel did nowise answer those high beginnings â—…y fell to Remonstrances and Negociations and Theâ—…s Senechal of Query a wise and moderate man was 〈◊〉 to the Duke in order to perswade him to keep withâ—…he bounds of Duty Du Plessis also undertook that afâ—… and the Duke having preferr'd the advice of that old â—…n equally Prudent and Honest to the desires of a young â—…bility which would incline him to a War yielded to 〈◊〉 Exhortations of Themines An accommodation was â—…de in which in
into others and to say the truth it cannot be deny'd 〈…〉 he impos'd Laws upon the Court if we reflect on 〈…〉 manner in which those troubles were ended He demanded more advantagious Conditions than those the Assembly of Saumur had obtain'd and for his own particular he 〈…〉 sir'd the removal of La Rochebeaucour and of Foucaud whâ—… he did not like to have the disposition of the Compâ—… of the first To Nominate a Deputy General himself 〈…〉 his and his Brothers and his Friends Pensions should be restor'd together with the arrears that had been stopt 〈…〉 that all manner of proceedings should cease against such 〈…〉 had been prosecuted upon his account Those pretentiâ—… were so high that there was no likelyhood to expect tâ—… the Queen would condescend to them Great difficulâ—… arose upon it and while the Council was deliberatiâ—… bout them there arose new ones A Messenger haâ—… subpaened Hautefontaine to appear in the Parliament of Bordeaux was very ill us'd at St. John d' Angely where the â—…signs of the Court advanc'd as little by proceedings of â—…stice as by threatnings of War On the other hand Saujon Gentleman of Saintonge who had been sent by the Duke 〈…〉 to the upper Guyenne to try what succors he might expâ—… â—… those provinces and to maintain Rambures in the Government of Aiguemortes against Berticheres whom the Reâ—…'d were jealous of was stopt at Rouergue and us'd like 〈…〉 Prisoner of State So that people were exasperated on 〈…〉 sides Nevertheless the Court not finding it self in a Condition sustain by effects the height of their first threatnings â—…mis'd the Duke all that he had desir'd The truth is 〈…〉 the Queen was not displeas`d at the removal of La Rochebeaucour by reason that the Government of Chatelleraud 〈…〉 vacant at that time she bestow'd it upon him She only â—…'d in order to save appearances that the Duke Rohanâ—…ld â—…ld receive him for eight or ten days in St. John as if the â—…en having had the power to maintain him had only reâ—…uish'd it in order to promote a peace without being any 〈…〉 obliged to it But whereas the Generality of the Reform'd began to be heated she was also oblig'd to grant them 〈…〉 of those things which had been refus'd to the Assembly Saumur I have said that the National Synod had renew'd 〈…〉 demands of it and that they had charg'd the Deputies General with a Cahier in which they were contain'd Some â—…hose Articles were favourably answerd ' The Reform'dâ—…e â—…e allowed not to stile their Religion Pretended Reform'd 〈…〉 Court promis'd the Ministers the same exemptions â—…he Ecclesiasticks of the Roman Church injoy'd The â—…ods were restored to their former Liberty which had been â—…tle incroach'd upon by the last Declarations They proâ—…d to redress the grievances of the Provinces and to give 〈…〉 Reform'd satisfaction for the Towns of Aiguemortes Essone 〈…〉 Mas d' Agenois They promis'd to revoke all the Expeâ—…ons Letters Acts Decrees that had been given since the â—…mbly of Saumur against the Reform'd But that which was â—…st considerable was the toleration of Provincial Counâ—… The Queen had express'd a great repugnancy towards 〈…〉 but whether it were that she was afraid they would keep â—…m up against her will or because she had a mind to that the Reform'd a favour to blind them she finally consented to that Settlement but with a Clause which miâ—â—â— occasion some dispute but yet could not be refus'd whâ—â— was that they should use that priviledge as modestly 〈…〉 they had done in the Late King's time But when the Duke de Rohan receiv'd an account of tâ—â— promises of the Queen he was in the first transports of 〈…〉 anger for the violence committed against Saujon So â—â—â— he refus'd even to answer the Reasons that were alleâ— to him to oblige him to receive those good offers 〈…〉 threatned the utmost severities incase that Gentleman 〈…〉 ceiv'd the least ill treatment and protested that he woâ—… hearken to no reason untill he had receiv'd satisfaction upâ—â— that Article Thus all those promises which the Qâ—… made perhaps less to keep them than to dissipate the 〈…〉 which was to repair at Rochel prov'd ineffectâ—â—â— and the Deputies met there on the appointed day Tâ—â— Court found no other expedient to prevent their takâ— any vexatious Resolutions that to send Rouvray thither 〈…〉 to prevail with Du Plessis to assist at it They could 〈…〉 prevail with the Assembly not to meddle with such Afâ—… as might create most occasion of vexation and morâ—oâ— the Assembly us'd them almost like suspected Perâ—… The reason of those suspitions was that they distrusted 〈…〉 Queens promises and that they partly discovered her Inâ—tions through the fair words wherewith she design'd to amâ—… the World What ever Rouvray could say to justifie 〈…〉 sincerity of her promises prov'd ineffectual the Assemâ—… refus'd absolutely to break up untill they beheld the eâ—… of it and all that could be obtain'd from them was thâ—â— they would break up without leaving any marks of thâ— having made any deliberations on condition that 〈…〉 Deputies should meet at the same place again on the 2â— of December to see whether the said promises were pâ—â—formed and to confer about it without holding the soâ—â— of an Assembly Nevertheless in order to make them coâ—â—ply to this Rouvray promis'd to add some new Aâ—â—â—cles to those which the Synod had drawn and among â—… they desir'd that whenever there should be a vacancy of Government of any place of Surety the Churches â—…ld have the liberty to Nominate three Persons to the â—…g out of which he should chuse one That what had 〈…〉 retrench'd out of the Sum promis'd for the payment â—â—e Garrisons should be restor'd That the form promis'd the Edict of Nantes should be given to the Chamber of Edict of Paris That the Reform'd should be allow'd Nominate the Person that should Collect the Sums that â—…ld be given to them for the maintenance of their Garriâ—… and of their Ministers and some others of that kind 〈…〉 little Assembly seem'd to exceed the bounds of their â—…er since that according to the Intention of the Reguâ—…n of Saumur they ought not to have exceeded the 〈…〉 of St. John d' Angely upon the account of which they 〈…〉 been conven'd But the relation of that affair to all â—…rest and the jealousies occasion'd by little things in â—â—ch a mistery was suspected made them pass over â—…e reflections And Rouvray could obtain nothing withâ—… those Conditions â—ouvray having made his report to the Court the â—…en found that bare words would not satisfie Perâ—… so well resolv'd but she thought her Authority too â—â—h concern'd in the continuation of that Assembly to â—ny thing at their request Therefore a Council was 〈…〉 on purpose upon that Subject in which it was resolv'd â—…o nothing that might seem to be granted in favour â—hat Assembly which was look'd upon as unlawful 〈…〉
his side 〈…〉 make a show of his Power and to render himself considerable to the United Princes He prevail'd with the Provincial Council of the Lower Guyenne to Conveâ—… an Assembley at Tonneins of three Deputys of every oâ—… of the other Councils and the Letters of it were dispatch'd towards the end of March The day on whiâ—… they appointed the Assembly to meet was the same tâ—… had been taken to hold a National Synod in the same Plaâ—… Insomuch that had those two Assemblys concurr'd in 〈…〉 same Resolutions it might be said that the Reform'd 〈…〉 never taken such general ones We will observe 〈…〉 where why it did not succeed I will only say that 〈…〉 Princes only making use of the Duke de Rohan's goâ—… Will to render themselves the more formidable to 〈…〉 Queen they concluded a Peace in the presence of â—…tefontane his Envoy to whom they daily gave a thousaâ—… Assurances that they had no thoughts of it The Sumâ—… of Money that were offer'd them made their Swoâ—… drop out of their Hands They obtain'd the usual 〈…〉 of Grace and the greatest thing they got was a promâ—… to Assemble the Estates Amboise was delivered up 〈…〉 the Prince of Conde as a Place of Surety The other profited by it according to their Quality The oâ—… Duke of Rohan paid the Scot and got nothing but tâ—… Queens Indignation by it The Duke de Vendome held â—ut longer than the rest and the Queen was foro'd to â—o into Bretagne to reduce him to Reason This Treaty being concluded at Ste. Menehould on the â— 5th of May was forth with put in Execution but the Peace which was but just concluded had like to have been broken by an affront the Prince of Conde receiv'd at Poiâ—…ers He was disatisfy'd with the Bishop to whom he â—nt some smart Letters by a Gentleman of his Retinue The said Gentleman was ill us'd by the consent and perhaps at the Instigations of the Bishop The Prince being inform'd therewith in a Journey of which no body knew the Secret resolv'd inconsiderately to go to Poitiers to revenge that affront Whereas he was only Arm'd with his Quality at that time and not very well attended â—e was not much in a Condition to be fear'd and therefore the Inhabitants shut their Gates against him and refus'd him Enterance This seem'd to be done by the Bishop's Credit but it was thought that he had receiv'd secret orders from the Queen about it Moreover some Persons some which were Ingag'd in the Princes Interests were turn'd out of the City whereupon he did whatever lay in his Power to Assemble his Friends and to lay a kind of Siege before that Insolent City But he could hardly Assemble Men enough to annoy the Inhabitants a little whom he hindered from going to and fro by keeping of some Passages He neither had time enough nor means to renew his Correspondence which the Peace had broken and the Queen being gone from Paris with her Forces the fear of her marching against him oblig'd him to remove from before Poitiers He was forc'd to submit that affair to Justice and to suffer Commissioners to be nominated to examine it and the Bishop was sent for to Court as it were to be reprimanded for his proceedings It was not so much to punish him as to put him in safety and the Queen having brought the King to Poitiers improv'd that occasion to put her Creatures in the Chief Imployments there in order to secure that City to herself The Reform'd resolv'd in that Progress to show the King that he was as much Master of the places of Surety as of all the other Cities of his Kingdom He was received with his Forces in all those where he came Moreover he was invited to come through such as he seemd to avoid on purpose left it might create some jealousie Soon after the Treaty of the Princes the Reform'd held a National Synod at Tonneins Several affairs were handled in it which neither related to their Doctrine nor Discipline They receiv'd Letters from the King of England who embrac'd all occasions to concern himself with Divinity as much as he neglected to mind the general affairs of Europe The Subject of his Letters was a dispute between Tilenus and du Moulin who accus'd each other of Error about the Mistery of the hypostatick Union Besides Tilenus had Sentiments that were not very Orthodox about the concurrence of Grace with humane Will The Marshal de Bouillon who did esteem him and who had call'd him to Sedan to give a reputation to the College he had founded there declared himself publickly his Protector which gave a great deal of discontent to the Churches That affair occasioned several Conferrences after which Tilenus was finally abandon'd and left the Churches of France in quiet untill he took upon him to write against the Assembly of Rochel during the Civil Wars As soon as the Synod received the King of England s Letter they resolv'd to open it but before they read it they resolv'd lest their keeping a correspondence with a foreign Prince might offend the Court to send a Copy of it to Rouvray one of the Deputies General who remain'd with the King while la Miletierre was come to Tonneins to the end he should show it to the Ministers incase it should create any jealousie in them and they protested at the same time that incase the said Letter did mention any thing but what related to Religion they would not treat about it without express leave from the King It was a medium which seemed to reconcile the divers pretentions of the Court and of the Synod The Court would not allow the Reform'd to keep any Communication â—ith Foreigners and the Synod thought that they ought to â—ave the freedom of that Correspondence in things which â—…lated to their Doctrine Therefore they thought that â—…ey should satisfie the Court by keeping within those bounds â—…d by tying their own hands in affairs of another â—ature The Council of the Lower Guyenne was oblig'd to give â—…e Synod an account of the Convocation they had made which I have spoken of That way of proceeding was not â—…proved of every where because it exceeded the bounds 〈…〉 the regulation made at Saumur That the Province had â—…t a sufficient grievance to have recourse to that remedy That even in that case it would have been sufficient to invite the Deputies of five adjacent Provinces and â—…ally That since a General Assembly was expected which â—…e Deputies General endeavour'd to obtain leave for the â—…d Convocation could not be look'd upon as necessary They â—…ledg'd reasons for it which freed them from a Censure The Church of Pujols in the precinct of the Assembly of Agen â—hich is part of that Province had refus'd to submit to â—…e resolutions of that Council Complaints were made â—f it in the said Assembly where after having heard the â—arties they had censured the disobedience of
look'd as if the Court had conâ—…ived at it underhand As for the suspicion the Court had of his being ingag'd secretly with the rest of the Reform'd â—…e easily destroyed it He assured the Court of his Services and of his Fidelity and sent Bellujon there on purpose with his Instructions and to receive their Orders He had â—…ong resisted the removal which the Reform'd did sollicit being as desirous to have one of their Assemblies in his poâ—…er as they were fearful of trusting it into his hands Therefore when he found that they desired it of their own accorâ—… he was one of the first that took them at their word aâ—… the Court being satisfied with him gave them a new Briâ—… which allow'd the holding of the Assembly at Grenoble Bâ—… whereas Lesdiguieres presence was more useful to the Coâ—… at Grenoble than elsewhere they put of his Journey to another time The Reform'd being deceiv'd on that side hâ—… no pretence left to go from their word The Deputies â—…pair'd to Grenoble towards the middle of Jully and contraâ—… to all appearences the Prince of Conde's Intrigues prevailâ—… over the credit and cunning of Lesdiguieres But during those Petitions of the Reform'd and the delâ—… of the Court the Clergy as I have already said Assembly at Paris for the renewing of the Contracts they commoâ—… make with the King once in Ten years But whereas they â—…ver give any thing without receiving they did not fail 〈…〉 advance their Enterprises against the Reform'd and to pursâ—… the project of their Ruin which they had form'd in the 〈…〉 states It was with that Intention the Coadjutor of Roans maâ—… a Speech to the King on the 8th of August he represented tâ—… State of the Roman Religion in Bearn to be so dismal and 〈…〉 deplorable that for want of Priests the Catholicks coâ—… not Christen their Children there till they were 20 years 〈…〉 Age and he represented as one of the greatest misfortune that the Ministers were paid there with the Revenues of the Church He said moreover in order to make the Reform'd more odious that the Roman Religion was favour'd moâ—… by the Turks than by the Reform'd of Bearn and those 〈…〉 cities tho plainly disprov'd by the replys of the Reform'd anâ— by the knowledg of all People were disperc'd and receivâ—â— as undeniable Truths He complain'd that the Abby of 〈…〉 Anthony de Viennois had been lately given to a young Secular presented by an Heretick and to move the more pâ—… against that injustice he said that miracles were performâ—… about the Tomb of the late Abbot He also return'd thâ—… King thanks about the reception of the Council of Trâ—… which he had promis'd but he made a little too much haste â—…on that Article It is true that the King had promis'd to â—…blish it but it was prevented by the Troubles that began 〈…〉 break out and perhaps he was glad that one of the Arâ—…es of the Peace of Luudun disingaged his word and hinder'd 〈…〉 from doing what the Kings his Predecessors had constantâ—… refus'd to do Before the end of the same month the Bishop 〈…〉 Beauvais began the same Song over again and made strange â—…licitations about the affair of Bearn complaining that the â—â—tholicks were depriv'd of the use of the Sacraments both 〈…〉 their birth and at their Death for want of Priests to 〈…〉 minister them He was very pressing upon the affair of â—…lhaâ— which happen'd the Winter before and tho the Catholicks had done as much at Belestadt since he desir'd that 〈…〉 compensation might be made of those two affairs Nevertheless the reciprocal sollicitations of the Catholicks and 〈…〉 the Reform'd did not permit those affairs to be seriâ—â—sly dicuss'd Their complaints only produc'd a delegatiâ—… of Judges who neither pleas'd the one nor the other â—…d whose judgment prov'd inefectual The Peace of Louâ—…n abolish'd the remembrance of those two affairs and the â—…e pass'd thus in spight of the Clergy for a compensation 〈…〉 the other In the same Assembly the Clergy who had no success in the â—…nquest of Ministers drew an ample Regulation for the distribution of 30000 Livers which they had design'd for the Pensions of â—…ose that should turn Catholicks and being sincible that the number of those Proselites was as yet too small to employ that little â—…m they consented that untill their zeal had made aâ— greater progress they should give the remainder of the said Sum to others besides Ministers provided it were only given to persons of Meâ—…t It appeares by those Regulations that the Clergy was disaâ—…sfi'd even with those they had corrupted since they took so much â—…re to hinder that Money from falling into ill hands But notwithstanding all that they met with no success in their â—…retended Conversions and even after the affairs of the Reform'd were ruin'd they were forc'd to imploy their Money to â—…ther uses In the mean time the Court had no manner of regard 〈…〉 the People and broke their promises with as little regaâ—â— as if they had design'd to make Malecontents They re-eâ—…blish'd La Paulette or the annual duty they had been obliâ—… to revoke because it had been desir'd with great Earnestreâ—… and the Queen went her self to the Bastille from whence 〈…〉 took 800000 Crowns which were remaining there of 〈…〉 fourteen Millons in ready Money which the Duke of â—…ly had hoarded there by his good management So that it looâ—… as if they had a mind to favour the designs of the Prince 〈…〉 Conde who was preparing to hinder the accomplishment 〈…〉 the Marriages with Spain His Discontents had remov'd him 〈…〉 degrees from the Court and in that Retirement he flattâ—… himself of being powerfully assisted both at home and abâ—… he was in hopes that the King of England and the Vnited Provinces who could not be pleas'd at those Marriages woâ—… assist him powerfully and indeed he had receiv'd great promises of it He expected that the Forces which were beâ—… Useless by the Peace of Savoy lately made and wereupâ—… the Frontiers of Germany would assist him and perhaps 〈…〉 would have prov'd so had he had Money to buy them 〈…〉 every thing fail'd him and he found himself Ingag'd in aâ—… which he could never have got honourably out of had 〈…〉 the Reform'd succor'd him at their own Cost The Queen 〈…〉 secretly prepar'd every thing for the accomplishing of her â—… signs amus'd the Prince with Negotiations and Sent Villâ—… several times to Coussi to confer with him there about 〈…〉 means of an Agreement But during those Treatys they 〈…〉 bauch'd his Creatures from him either by perswading tâ—… that the Prince only design'd to make his own Peace and 〈…〉 it was already far advanc'd or offering them more poâ—… and profitable advantages under her than they could expâ—… under the Prince of Conde Insomuch that many of them â—oâ—… Gratifications or were dazled by Promises They broke 〈…〉 the measures he took with Stangers and
their Intreaties And indeed one of the Propositions of the Prince of Conde which they were to insist upon in the behalf of the Assembly was either to break or to put off the Marriages with Spain until another time And instead of hearing them upon that Subject they were adjourn'd for an Answer to a Place where the King having perform'd half his Progress it was not very likely that he would go back without making an End of it It is true that the Queen declar'd freely that had it been desir'd sooner that Journey might have been put off to another time but that it was then too late to think upon it that it was impossible to Retreat with Honour That the Place was fix'd the Day appointed and that they were too forward on their Journey to go back There is no Reason to believe that she spoke in earnest or that the Impending Storm she beheld made her sensible that she had Us'd too much precipitation and that it would have been better for her to have given some satisfaction to those that oppos'd her designs in order to break their Measures She was undoubtedly very well inform'd with the Intentions of the Prince before her departure But in reality the forwardness of the Journey affording her a good pretence to end what she had so well begun without heeding Remonstrances to the contrary it was easie for her to pay those with a specious Excuse whom she had no mind to give a solid satisfaction to The best Excuse that can be made for a Refusal is to pretend that the Request is made too late and that it would have been Granted had it been propos'd sooner The Fault then seems rather to proceed from want of diligence in the Petitioner than from want of good Will in the Person that refuses However it behov'd the Queen to show that she had Power enough to do whatever she pleas'd in spight of half the Kingdom Therefore she continu'd her Progress without Interruption and without the least accident as far as Poitiers But as soon as she Arriv'd there her Measures were like to have been broke by Misfortune that could admit of no remedy Madame fell sick of the Small-Pox and the Court that could do nothing without her was oblig'd to tarry there two Months for the return of her Health This delay seem'd to afford the Prince of Conde the time to prepare himself for War which the Queens diligence had depriv'd him of However he could only raise a small Body of Men which happily escap'd the Pursuit of Marshal de Bois dauphin who was order'd by the Queen to observe him and follow'd him close He was accus'd by some of not improving the occasions that offer'd themselves to beat the Prince's Army by reason of his Irresolutions but others were of opinion that he was Commanded not to Ingage in a Combat with the Prince but only to amuse him until the Exchange of the Princesses of France and Spain were accomplish'd because it was thought that then it would be more easie to satisfie the said Prince But whereas the Assembly of Grenoble deferr'd to declare themselves and express'd their desire to favour the Prince's Arms more by Words than Effects The Court did not meet so many Crosses in that Journey as they might have done had there been more Union or Diligence in the contrary Party or had the Prince's Forces been as ready to take the Field as his Declaration to appear The Duke of Rohan had been powerfully sollicited to take up Arms and did it at last being nettl'd that the Queen express'd no more consideration for him And after the Peace was concluded he had the boldness to tell her That his Inclination did prompt him to serve her but that finding himself despis'd he resolv'd to show that he was capable of something His Friends had promis'd him Six Thousand Foot and Five hunder'd Horse and had they been as good as their Word he would have been able with such a Body to stop the Court and to afford the Prince of Conde time to joyn with him But the Promises that were made to him were reduc'd to a third part and notwithstanding his utmost Endeavours he could not raise above Two Thousand Men. Moreover he lost a great deal of Time in making Montauban declare it self and in vain Endeavours to obtain a Reinforcement from the other Cities which refus'd to give it him So that the Queen had as much time as was necessary to repair to the Frontiers there to exchange the Princesses and to bring back the King and the new Queen to Bourdeaux During the Abode the King made at Poitiers he could not refuse to read the Cahiers that were presented to him by the Deputies of the Assembly and to answer them according to his Promise at Amboise and though the Answers did not appear sufficiently positive to them yet they concluded that the present Conjuncture had Induc'd the Court to make them more favourable than they would have been at another time There were two different forts of Cahiers the one General the other Particular The last contain'd Complaints and Demands upon particular though considerable Cases viz. That the King would be pleas'd to cause the Letters Patent for the Exemption of Ministers to be Registred the Verification of which had been depending about three Years and to send an Express Order to the Parliament and to the Court of Aids to that end That the King would also be pleas'd to annul the Prohibitions made by the Judge of the Provostship of Paris about Erecting a College at Charenton by reason that since his Majesty had confirm'd the Right of the Exercise of their Religion in that place it follow'd of Course that they were allow'd a College for the Education of their Children That the Chamber of Accompts of Provence might not be allow'd to take Cognizance of the Affairs of the Reform'd That the Declaration which refer'd it to the Party-Chamber of Grenoble in which it had been Verify'd might be confirm'd by another obliging the Chamber of Accompts to Register it That Poor Gentlemen and Maim'd Soldiers of their Religion having obtain'd Places in Abbys with the Maintenance of a Monk might be receiv'd in the same as well as the Catholicks That the same Privileges the King had granted to the College and Academy of Montelimar might also be granted to the Academy and College of Die But the General Cahier contain'd 25 Articles the substance of which was as follows That the Independency of the Crown might be look'd upon for the future as a Fundamental Law according to the Article of the Third Estate and to the Remonstrances of the Parliament That an exact and diligent Inquiry might be made about the Death of the late King in order to discover and punish the Authors thereof according to the Memoirs that should be given about it That the King should refuse to publish the Council of
Prince of Condé gave notice to those of his Party to do the like or to send Deputies â—ut he troubled himself no farther with their Interests than was just necessary for the advantage of his own The Marshall de Bouillon found his account in it by reason that the Court was willing to favour him so much as to oblige him not to renew the Troubles The Dukes of Rohan and of Sully got nothing by it Nay the first was neglected â—o that degree that he was not so much as summon'd to appear â—…t the Conference in which he came without being Invited â—hither But it was not long before he show'd the Prince of Condé how sensible he was of that slight The Duke of Sully contributed considerably towards the Conclusion of a Peace and it would have been very difficult to have perswaded the Reform'd to it without him Yet he was never the more favourably us'd for it in what related to his own particular Affairs and he received no manner of favour beyond the General The Reform'd were not mention'd until all the rest were satisfy'd after which the Prince of Condé obtain'd some things for them lest he should seem to farsake them quite after having receiv'd so proper and so necessary a succor from them But the Court did not forget their old Maxim which was to grant them nothing but what they could keep in spite of them and to favour them as little in the rest as possibly could be The Conferences lasted about three Months at Loudun during which time the Assembly of Nimes obtain'd leave of the King to remove to Rochel to be nearer to the place of the Treaty Thus from a Conventicle which was look'd upon as particular disown'd by the rest and unlawful it became a General Authoriz'd Assembly The Prince of Condé fell dangerously sick during these Delays His Illness chang'd the face of Affairs and Projects were forming already of what was fit to be done in case he should die The Queen who seem'd to be most concern'd in that Accident because the Prince was the only Person who could dispute her Authority nevertheleâ—s dreaded the Death of her Enemy because she foresaw that it would break of the Treaty of Peace which would expose her and her Creatures to new Dangers and the State to new Confusions So that the Prince's Recovery was look'd upon on both sides as equally advantageous to all and the fear of his Death had dispos'd every body to put an end to those Tedious Conferences He became more tractable himself while he thought he should Die and thought he was oblig'd in Honour and Duty to end a War before his Death which he had occasion'd He persisted in the same Sentiments after his Recovery being desirous of rest The most difficult having made their Conditions the Assembly of Rochell only remain'd disatisfy'd Sully undertook to prevail with them to receive the Conditions his Majesty was pleas'd to grant them In order to which he repair'd thither with the English Ambassador who joyn'd with him in order thereunto The Assembly was better united than they had been at Nâ—mes And whereas their Resolution of joyning with the Prince of Condé had only been carry'd by two Voices their Opinions prov'd more uniform about the Sureties they thought necessary for the execution of the Treaty of Peace So that Sully's undertaking prov'd pretty difficult Nevertheless he succeeded in it because he omitted nothing that could perswade making use of Reasons of Authority and even of Money which often proves the most convincing of all Arguments He prevail'd with the Assembly to send Ten Deputies to Loudun with a Power to accept the Conditions that had been agreed upon with the King's Commissioners However they only granted them that Power on Condition that they should have leave to continue their Session until the Verification of the Edict were past That the Armies should be actually Disbanded That Tartâ—â— should be restor'd to them which place the Reform'd pretended had been taken from them by Surprize and that Commissioners should be dispatch'd forthwith to put the Edicts in Execution in the Provinces But Sully at his return far from receiving Thanks for his pains was disown'd for having ingag'd so far in the Prince's Name and in order to show that he had done nothing without Authority he was oblig'd to produce his Instructions The Reason of this disavowal was that the Court would not consent to the Continuation of the Assembly after the Conclusion of the Treaty However that difficulty was remov'd by obtaining leave for the Assembly to remain at Rochel until a time prefix'd and that the said delay should be imploy'd by them in the Nomination of Deputies General Sully drew an Instrument upon that Subject which was at first approv'd of by all Parties only altering a few words Moreover the Assembly sent a new Power to their Deputies to Authorize them to approve it After which the King's Commissioners retracted and would alter the Instrument in several things This Game was play'd twice or thrice Sully was disown'd and then own'd again in what he did The Writing was agreed to and alter'd so often that those who were imploy'd about it had no longer any Patience The Reason which made the Commissioners so difficult is that the principal Persons being satisfy'd the Court had a mind to use the Assembly haughtily and to oblige them to receive what they would give them with submission They were sensible that the Lords would not renounce the Advantages they obtain'd to better the Condition of the People Finally the Prince being inform'd by Sully of the Difficulties which delay'd the Conclusion put an end to them like a Prince who consider'd no body but himself He whisper'd something to Villeroy and soon after did the same to Sully After which he declar'd that Villeroy had granted what was desir'd and at the same time he Sign'd the Treaty without allowing any body time to answer him This abrupt Conclusion vex'd the Deputies of the Assembly extreamly but they could find no Remedy They discover'd by several Instances that it was a design'd thing to oblige the Assembly to receive whatever Conditions the Lords had thought fit and that they had only been desir'd to send Deputies out of Formality On Tuesday Morning before they had Sign'd even before their having given their Consent to what the others had concluded Orders were sent to the Minister who was in his Pulpit to acquaint the People that the Peace was made and to exhort them to return God thanks for it This made those murmur who knew that there were difficulties undecided and made them judge that it was a forc'd Peace which they were obliged to accept of for fear of falling into greater Inconveniences And indeed the Marshal de Bouillon himself forgot the Interests of the Common Cause because he had secur'd his own He Exclaim'd higher than any Body against the Assembly though they had only follow'd
of Sancerre Lord oâ— the Place animated with the same Spirit as all the other Catholic Lords who had made sundry such undertaking in divers places being unwilling to leave his City in 〈…〉 Power of the Reform'd had found the way to re-establish himself in it and to get the upper hand there Couâ—… Marans his Eldest Son lived there in order to keep all thingâ— in the State his Father had settl'd them But the Inhabitâ—… turn'd him out alledging that since the said City had been surpris'd from them they had a right to retake it Moreoâ—… the only thing in debate in this Affair and in all others of the same Nature was barely the Guarding of the said places They neither disputed the Revenues nor Rights of Fieâ—â— with the Lords but they pretended that there ought to be no Garrison settled by them in the same and that those 〈…〉 of places were to be left to the Guard of the Inhabitants The Affair was carry'd before the Council which at any other time would undoubtedly have favour'd the Lord against the City because their design was to make the Reform'd loâ—… their places of Surety beginning first by those of Marriage and by such as they held against the Inclination of the Catholic Lords But the Court had other Prospects at that time They were unwilling to increase the Party of the Male-contents by vexing the Reform'd Therefore they deposited the City and Castle of Sancerre into the hands of the Inhabitants to be Guarded by them until farther Orders For which Letters Pattent were Granted to them The same reason induc'd them to publish a Declaration on the 30th of September which confirm'd the Edict of Blois and the Treaty of Loudun The pretence of it was that all the Lords who had left the Court after the Imprisonment of the Prince of Conde had only done it out of Fear that they design'd to revoke it and they added farther as if it had been certain that they â—â—d had no other reason for it that they had assur'd the â—…ng of their good Intentions and had express'd to him with Respect that they only desir'd to live in quiet All â—…is was Invention and it only tended on their part to â—…ke their time and measures And the Queen made use of with great Policy to perswade distant Provinces that the affairs were in a fair way of Accommodation and thereby to destroy the Correspondencies that might be form'd there against her Authority The Duke of Sully who was come back to Court again after the Peace and who was call'd to council was against that Declaration which he neither â—…ok'd upon to be sufficient to bring back the Male-contents or Honourable for the King because that the Lords who were gone would have time to shew the falsity of what it conâ—iâ—'d before it could make such Impressions in the Provinces as the Queen desir'd But the Court was in hopes of the contrary having so often experienc'd the Credulity of the people that they did not question but they would be decided by those specious Protestations The Duke d'Epernon was one of those the Marshal d'Anâ—… was Jealous of because his haughty Humour did not perâ—it him to humble himself before him Therefore seeing â—…s Enemy recall'd to Court and more in favour than ever â—…e Old Ministers turn'd out and the Queen's Creatures put in their Room the Bishop of Lucon Secretary of State and Mangot Keeper of the Great Seal he was afraid lest the hatred of the Favourite might prove prejudicial to him He resolv'd to put himself in a posture of defence in case any should dare to Attack him But his Pride not allowing him to joyn with the other Male-contents because he could not have the Chief Command among them he was forc'd to seek another pretence to take up Arms. Rochel afforded it to him He pretended that important City was one of the Dependencies of his Government The City on the contrary pretended an immediate dependence from the King not to be oblig'd to suffer any Souldiers but their own Inhabitants or to have any Governor but their Mayor whom they Elected yearly Their Pretence for it was that having formerly been under the Power of the English they had voluntarily submitted to France on that condition The Truth is that the most Ancient Historians confess That they obtain'd so many Privileges and such advantagious Conditions that they tended as much to put them at Liberty as to change their Master The only Objection against them was that having been taken since by the English and afterwards retaken by the French they were no longer to be consider'd in the State in which they were put by the first Treaty but 〈…〉 having receiv'd new Conditions when retaken by force by the Kings of France The Duke d'Epernon made use of that Pretence And the Council also us'd the same when they resolv'd to ruin the Power of that City which so many Privileges daily increas'd But they reply'd that the Inhabitants had not violated their Treaty when the said place was taken by the English that having only been forc'd to submit to a Superior Power without Fraud or Treason at a time when the King was not in a Condition to succor them they had not forfeited their first Conditions that the English after the taking of it had left them their Privileges Thaâ— the French not having retaken it by Storm and against the Will of the Inhabitants could not deprive them of them that the City had contributed towards its return under the French Dominion both by the Affection the Inhabitants had preserv'd for it and the little Assistance they had given the English Whereby it was evident that they had lost nothing by being restor'd to the Power of their Lawful Sovereign and that they were restor'd to it with their former Advantages They added that the Kings of France had confirm'd all their Privileges several times since their being retaken and moreover had augmented them by New Concessions Whereupon they laid a great stress upon what happen'd to Lewis the XI a Prince who having oppress'd the Liberty of his Kingdom in many things was not of a humour to do that for a City that had lost her Freedom which did not belong to it by an evident indisputable Right He made his Entry in Rochel on the 24th of May 1472. He Swore before Gaubert Cadiot who was Mayor of the Place to preserve all the Privileges of the City which are all set down in the Act. The King was upon his Knees before the Crucifix during the Ceremony and oblig'd himself to succor the City in case of need even with his Person and to Death inclusively We may say that the said Oath is the most perfect Abridgement of the Fundamental Obligation of a Sovereign towards the Preservation of his Subjects After this Oath was taken the Mayor Cadiot took the Oath of Allegiance to the King in the behalf of the whole City This did not hinder
put it in execution which he never fail'd of sending to such places where it was necessary But the Son's Answers were only words to free the Court of Importunities Sollicitations And whereas as soon as the Deputi's were out of sight they forgot their Promises the Reform'd receiv'd no benefit by it in the Provinces where they Laugh'd at their answer'd Cahiers The same Fate attended the other means which had serv'd under the late Reign to put them out of Trouble A Removal or Appeal before the Commissioners was become a Jest by reason that the Reform'd Commissioner was ever at the Devotion of the Court and that the Catholicks having no favourable Instructions suffer'd themselves easily to be prevail'd upon by the Clergy and by the Jesuits which Persons of that Character have ever endeavour'd to oblige A Confirmation of some Articles of the Edict violated by the Catholicks was but a Song by reason that the Answer which granted it not being seconded could not obtain more respect than an Edict so solemn as that of Nantes or a better observation of the Settlements which an Edict of that Consequence could not secure against the Injustice of a false Zeal A Declaration of what the King would or would not have being weaken'd by the little earnestness that was express'd to put it in Execution met with no Obedience Perhaps I may inlarge more upon this Subject in another place But this is sufficient in this place to shew the Effect of the Remonstrances and Petitions the Reform'd were daily oblig'd to present viz. to obtain Illusive Remedies for real Evils and to see the Clergy authoris'd to raise greater Persecutions against them by the little redress they met with from the King's Authority to oppose the first Attempts The End of the Fifth Book THE HISTORY OF THE Edict of NANTES VOL. II. BOOK VI. A Summary of the Contents of the Sixth BOOK EXtream despair of the Bearnois An Assembly refus'd at Castel-jaloux and at Tonneins They meet at Orthez and are prescrib'd Sedition at Pau. Maliae of the Commissioner Presages and Devotions Câ—â—ft of the Council First and Final Mandate directed to the Soveraign Council of Bearn Follow'd by Decrees of the said Council Sentiments of some particular Persons upon those Affairs Dispositions of the Grandees The State of Foreign Affairs Dangerous Consequences of Moderate Councils An Apology of the Conduct of the Bearnois Artifice of the Bishops of that Country Remarks upon the Speech of the Bishop â—f Macon Difficulties against the Reimplacement Against the Tithes Prescription Conclusion The Queen Mother makes her Escape from Blois The Prince of Conde is put at liberty The Assembly os Orthez Transferr'd to Rochel takes the King's part and breaks up Another Assembly allow'd at Loudun Their Preliminary Demands Why the Reform'd have so often renew'd the same Demands The Court refers the Complaints to the General * Cahier and other Articles of Complaints The Assembly prohibits the Preaching of Jesuits or other Monks in the Towns of Surety Decrees of divers Parliaments to the contrary Deputation Letters and Remonstrances to the King The Reform'd were inclin'd to serve the Queen Mother A Vexatious Answer from the King and the Effect of it Oppositions of the Catholicks against the Settlement of a College at Charenton Assembly of the Clergy They are exempted from pleading in Courts where all the Judges are Reform'd Reiterated Orders to the Assembly of Loudun to break up An Expedient of Accommodation An Vnexpected Declaration against the Assembly The Prince of Conde deceives the Reform'd Affected diligence of the Attorney General The Assembly remains steady The Negotiations are renew'd The Assembly obeys upon the Words of the Prince of Conde and of the Favourite Effect of the separation of the Assembly New Intrigues against the Favorite The Duke of Rohan sides with the Queen Scruples of the Queen Mother The Power of the Party she forms Vseful Advice of the Prince of Conde and ill advice of the Bishop of Lucon Reasons of the Bishop Defeat of the Queens Forces follow'd by a Peace Vnexpected Journey of the King in Bearn Faults of the Reform'd and the Cause thereof Remonstrances cannot stop the King He arrives at Pauâ— Makes himself Master of Navareins Takes the Oath Alters the whole frame of the Government Suppression of the Captains of the Parsans Treatment of the Reform'd Injuries Threatnings Violences The Evil encreases after the King's departure Wickedness of the Bishops Cruelties of Poyane Divers Relations of the King's Journey National Synod of Alais Political Settlement The Ministers deputed for the Synod of Dort give an account of the opposition they have met with to stay them Affairs of the Synod cross'd by a thousand Artifices They resolve to send Deputies to the King and revoke their Resolution All manner of Succors is refus'd to the Deputy of Bearn Important Considerations wav'd News of Consequence suppress'd Treachery of some Ministers unpunish'd Affairs of Privas and their Original Accommodation broken off by the Lord thereof The Place is deposited Vâ—olerces of the Garrison and Calumnies against the Inhabitants An Assembly at Anduze Behaviour of Chatillon Churches attack'd Invectives against the Synod of Alais Assembly at Gergeau Important Propositions 1st Whether they shall Vote by Heads or by Provinces 2ly Whether they may Exceed their Instructions Deliberations of the Assembly Other Assemblies in Anjou and in Burgundy Divers complaints of the Reform'd in those Provinces General Alarms of the Churches after the Alterations made in Bearn Assembly at Milhau cross'd by the Deputies of Lesdiguieres and Chatillon Effect of the Promisses made to the Assembly of Loudun Councellors receiv'd in the Parliament of Paris Leitoure taken from Fontrailles The Brief Sign'd for the keeping of the Places of Surety is not given The interest of Favas hastens the return of the Assembly at Rochel Declaration which stiles it Vnlawful The Prince of Conde and the Favourite fail in their Guaranty to the Reform'd A suppos'd Letter under the Name of the Duke of Mombazon DUring these Transactions Peoples Minds were strangely agitated in Bearn and they lost all manner of Patience when they heard how the Court had receiv'd their Deputies and the Intercession of the Deputies General The Council would not allow the Deputation of the Bearnois to be real and though it had all the Marks that were necessary to Authorize it they reiected it as being made in the Suburb of St. Germains by Persons who had no Authority They would hardly look upon the Cahier that was presented by those Deputies And after having seen it they granted nothing of what it contain'd Moreover the King forbad the holding of any Assembly upon that Affair and refus'd to hear either Apologies or Remonstrances These hard and absolute Proceedings cast those People into Despair who had been us'd to a milder Treatment and who judging of the Future by the present forefaw that the oppression of which the first steps were so
receiv'd Letters upon Letters and Deputations upon Deputations to induce them to submit oblig'd the Lords who had offer'd their Mediation before to resume the Negotiation of an Agreement The thing seem'd to be brought pretty near a happy Conclusion that time The said Lords found an Expedient which apparently was like to satisfie every body They thought fit that the Assembly should break up for form â—…ake without removing above one or two small days Journey from Rochel That the Deputies should remain in Places of Safety under pretence that they could not go Home by â—…eason of the Declaration which render'd them Criminal That they should tarry for the King's Answer in a Readiness to assemble again in case he should break his Word That it should be done without mentioning the Right they pretended to have had to Assemble That before the said Separation the Council should agree with the Deputies General about seven Articles they were to present to the King But that he should not dispatch them till the Assembly were actually dissolv'd and the Members gone Home And that in order to enable them so to do the King would revoke the Declaration by which they were declar'd Criminals Those seven Articles which were treated of several times with the Deputies General and which were at last agreed upon with some Modifications contain'd in Substance that the Reform'd should not be oblig'd to use the Words of Pretended Reform'd in speaking of their Religion That the King should remedy the Political and Ecclesiastical Affairs of Bearn That La Force and his Children should be maintain'd in their Places as they had been during the Life of the Late King and paid their Arrears and Pensions and that Lescun should have his Imployments restor'd him That the Settlement of the Places of Dauphine should be deliver'd according as it had been promis'd by the Treaty of Loudun That the Modification of the Article of that Treaty which spoke about the Reception of two Councellors in the Parliament of Paris should be remov'd That the Cahiers of the Assembly of Loudun should be speedily and favourably answered That care should be taken for the Payment of Ministers and of the Garisons And finally That the King's Soldiers should be remov'd from such Places where they created Jealousies But the Intention of the Court by these Negotiations was only to amuse the Reform'd as they us'd to do in order the better to take their Measures and to break those of the Assembly by flattering the Credulous with the appearances of an approaching Peace The truth is that the Resolution of making War had not been taken in the King's Council without Difficulty Though there was a great Party that press'd the Ruin of the Reform'd the Wisest of the Council were against it particularly the three oldest Ministers that remain'd of the ancient Court who could not abandon the late King's Maxims They thought it a piece of Rashness to attack a Party that had Two hundred strong Places the least of which might tarry till a Breach was made before they did Capitulate and of which many could sustain long Sieges before good Armies That there was no likelihood of improving their Divisions which would cease immediately as soon as a War should be declar'd against them by reason that then the most Simple would begin to fear for themselves Moreover that there was not more Union at Court than among them by reason of the Jealousies about the Government That the Reform'd had the Reputation of being good Soldiers and good Politicians That there was no reason to believe that they had given over their foreign Correspondencies That the Conformity of their Condition would ingage those Countries that profes'd the same Doctrine to succour them That the Allies of France would be troubled at that War because it would enable the House of Austria to oppress them while the King should be diverted from Foreign Affairs by those Domestick Broils That the Vnited Provinces would be expos'd to all the Forces of Spain which would take the Advantage of the Civil Wars of France to oppress that State which the King had so much Interest to preserve That the King had no Money by reason that the Avidity of his Favourites devour'd all his Revenues insomuch that all the Money of several Years was spent and that all the Expence was still to come The Duke de Luines on his side had no Inclination to make a War Du Plessis had given him some Advices upon that Subject which stuck to his Heart and which made him fear either that the Malecontents would increase the Party of the Reform'd or that a Peace would be made at his Cost But on the other hand the Ministers were all for taking Arms. The Queen expected a kind of Regency while de Luines should lead the King from Province to Province and perhaps she had higher Designs The Bishop of Lucon who was one of her Creatures had a mind to make himself necessary The Prince of Conde who expected to have the Command of the Army no longer remember'd the Services he had receiv'd from the Reform'd Puisieux Son to the Chancellor who had succeeded Villeroy both in the Secretary of State 's Place and in his Passion for the Spanish Maxims was at the Devotion of Spain and press'd the Duke by so many Reasons and found so many Expedients to cure him of his Fears that finally he inspir'd the same Sentiments in him The Clergy of France being ignorant and corrupted thought their whole Duty was comprehended in the Extirpation of Heresie and they offered great Sums provided they were imploy'd in that War The Pope who has the Art to persuade Princes that they are obliged to sacrifice the Repose of their State to his Grandeur and who always advances his own Affairs at the Cost of others seconded that Advice by all his Authority But the Ministers of Spain in particular who were the principal Promoters of that Cabal omitted nothing to engage France in a War which according to all human appearance was to set the first hand to the Decay of the Monarchy The Policy of Spain was so refin'd at that time that they made those serve towards their Projects who had most Interest to oppose them and that they engag'd France voluntarily in a Civil War of which they ought to have dreaded the cruel Consequences after having experienced it for the space of Five and thirty Years But finally the thing was resolv'd upon after the Duke de Luines had obtained the Dignity of Constable which gave him the Command of the Armies He was thereby deliver'd of the Fear of being obliged to make the Prince of Conde too Powerful by giving him the said Command But when that Difficulty was remov'd there arose another which was of no less Consequence There were two Opinions about the Degree to which they should proceed in the Ruine of the Reform'd Some said that it ought to
before he dy'd for the support of a Religion of which as 〈◊〉 clearly perceiv'd the Catholics had vow'd the destruction 〈◊〉 thought himself of treating with the Count and found it 〈◊〉 hard matter to gain him To that purpose he promis'd him money and that he should be conducted into France by 〈◊〉 reinforcements of men that would very much augment his 〈◊〉 He promis'd also to send him the Prince of Sedan 〈◊〉 eldest Son and the Duke of Trimouille to accompany him and in a word those Lords assisted by the Counts of Suze 〈◊〉 Roussi and some others sent their Friends and their Servants who rendevouz'd from all parts at the places that were assign'd ' em These motions persuaded the Court that all they who quitted their Houses went to strengthen this Foreign Army 〈◊〉 make a considerable diversion upon the Frontiers of Champaigne For which reason several persons were seiz'd upon suspicion 〈◊〉 favouring the Duke of Bouillon's Enterprize and besides some Officers of his Houshold who were imprison'd in several pla-â—…es the Son of the Vidame of Normandy was secur'd at Paris 〈◊〉 Count of Suze at Lion and the Duke of Sulli at Moulins 〈◊〉 being suspected to be of the Confederacy In the mean time Marshal de Bouillon who had promis'd money before he knew where to have it made it his business to seek where to raise it 〈◊〉 he wrote to the Duke of Rohan to see whether he could 〈◊〉 any that way His Letters however contain'd two things 〈◊〉 opposite one to another for at the beginning he exhorted 〈◊〉 Duke to Peace for fear the continuance of the War should 〈◊〉 the ruin of the Reformed He observ'd that their ill â—uccesses proceeded from the dispersing of those who were able 〈◊〉 bear Arms but who were made uncapable of succouring one 〈◊〉 by their separation He added as it were to lead him 〈◊〉 of one discourse into another that this misfortune was oc-â—…ion'd by the want of Foreign Soldiers For the supply of which defect he offer'd the bringing in of Count Mansfeild to 〈◊〉 assistance of the Reformed in order to which he deâ—…nded three things an express approbation of his design money for the payment of his Foreign Forces and assurance 〈◊〉 he should be comprehended in the Peace both he and his if happen'd to be made But money was more difficult to be 〈◊〉 then the demanded Approbation and Assurances so that the â—ourt had time enough to gain Mansfeild and prevent his entring 〈◊〉 France Propositions therefore were made him of being enterâ—… in the King's service and some ready money fix'd his resoluâ—…ns But the Bishop of Alberstadt a Prince of the House of Brunsâ—…k to whom some part of the Forces belong'd was willing â—…heark'n to Marshal Bouillon's Proposals and to be contented 〈◊〉 the small Sum which the Marshal offer'd for present necesâ—…y till a more considerable could be rais'd which differing â—…linations set the two Generals at variance who never after 〈◊〉 did any thing considerable so that after some Sieges attempted without Success Mansfeild retir'd into the Low-Counâ—…s where his Army was utterly ruin'd France would have bin very much incumber'd with him had 〈◊〉 hir'd his Army into her Service She had no Foreign War 〈◊〉 would the Council of Conscience permit the King to concern himself with the King of Bohemia's Broils and therefore there was an Expedient found to get rid of him by sending him into the Service of the Low-Countries then in amity with the King chusing rather that he should join with the States theâ— with the King of Spain or the Venetians who both courted him Thus the Churches of France were flatter'd with an appearance of hope that vanish'd as soon Nor were the Reformed the 〈…〉 that treated with Foreigners for the King had set 'em an Example and sent into Languedoc some German Troops that serv's under the Duke of Mommorancy so that it could not be justly laid to their charge that they went about to expose their Country to the Plunder and Ransack of Foreigners since the Catholics were the first who had call'd the Reiters and the Lansquenets into the Kingdom In the mean time the fear of Mansfeild's Army render'd the King's Council more pliable so that the Proposals of Peace were renew'd But whether it were that the Duke of Rohan Demands were too high or that the Council were freed from the terror of Mansfeild's ever coming to hurt 'em the Negotiation came to nothing and Lesdiguieres spent all his pains and 〈…〉 time to no purpose in promoting it Nevertheless the Couâ—â— began to hanker after Peace of which they who were desirous to advance themselves in the King's Favour or by the management of Affairs stood in great need to the end they might 〈…〉 have too much variety of business to trouble their heads wiâ—â— at one and the same time For as for the Cities that remain'd they were of quite another consequence then the paltry Towâ— the gaining of which had bin till that time the sole Fruit â—â— the War Only they were desirous that the King should graâ—â— the Peace like the Lord and Master of it and they avoided â—â— General Treaty for fear the Union of the Reformed should be justifi'd and as it were legitimated by a Treaty of that nature These Sentiments were sufficiently express'd by the Author of â—â— Treatise that appear'd upon this Subject after the enterview â—â— Lesdiguieres and the Duke of Rohan And indeed no less theâ—â— three persons of a different character deliver'd their Opinionâ— upon the Peace The one a Reformed who was desirous to obtain the Four Articles upon which the Lords were agreed â—… other was a Zealous Catholic who was altogether for Extermination The third a moderate man who took the middle â—ay between the other two Extreams but who rejected the 〈…〉 Articles as contrary to the good of the State The Author 〈…〉 himself the name of Francophilus because he was willing â— give his judgment for those of the truly honest Frenchmen â—ho lov'd the Honour and Repose of the Kingdom He asserted that it was not proper to allow the Reformed by longer possession of Places of Security because the time al â—ted for 'em to hold those Places was expir'd That the Reasons why they were granted were out of doors That the League â—as the true motive which induc'd Henry IV. to trust 'em in â—e hands of the Reformed That he was willing to permit the â—eformed to be in Arms that they might be serviceable to him â— case of necessity That the particular safety of the Reformed â—er so many Wars was but a second motive of less importance â—â—d only serv'd as a pretence for the other That the same Prince before his death began to re-assume 'em indirectly and exâ—ted Promises in writing from the Governour which he sent either that they would keep 'em for his Service That the Reformed had made an ill use of 'em and by consequence that they
justifi'd themselves had the Court design'd to have us'd 'em favourably For they repli'd That there was nothing of Novelty in the Union that till then the King had never disapprov'd it that they had bin always join'd together in their Deputations in their Submissions in their Petitions in their Papers which they had always presented to the King in Union one with another That by the Answer to Article VIII of the last Papers it was promis'd there should be no Innovation in the Cities held by the Protestants which would be no more then a delusion if Rochel were excluded That the Edicts of Peace had bin general hitherto and accepted in common without any resenting the Union of Interests That the acceptance of the Peace without Rochel would be an express condemnation of that City which would be an Action highly scandalous among People of the same Religion so much the rather because Rochel was resolv'd to submit That if the rest of the Reformed abandon'd Rochel to the King's Indignation People would be afraid that their general destruction was to be begun with the particular ruine of that City seeing that the Clergy the Parlaments and the principal Persons of the Kingdom discours'd openly of extirpating Heresy and of beginning with Rochel which was confirm'd by the printed Pamphlets that were publicly sold in Paris But the same Reasons which made the Reformed judge that their Union with Rochel was just and necessary were the very Reasons that oblig'd the Court to endeavour the dissolution of it For the ruine of that formidable City was sworn and the Cardinal who was desirous to signalize himself by great things thought it an Enterprize worthy himself So that â—here was nothing listen'd to of what was spoken in favour of â—hat City whose Destiny was vow'd Nevertheless she was 〈…〉 much astonish'd as the rest at Soubises's Defeat and falling 〈…〉 a suddain from a Resolution a little too haughty into â—…ost profound Submissions she resolv'd to beg with humility â—hat Peace which she had refus'd with disdain Her Deputies â—ame and threw themselves at the King's Feet and besought â—is Pardon in most submissive terms But the King answer'd 'em â—…ke a Master that resolv'd to make his Pardon his Punishment â—nd reduce 'em by the Peace into a worse Condition then the Calamities of an Unfortunate War could e're have brought ' em The Chancellor therefore to whom the King referr'd 'em impos'd these Conditions upon ' em That the Council and Government of the City should be in the same Condition as it was 〈…〉 1610. That they should admit an Intendant of Justice That the Fortifications should be demolish'd That the King should be admitted with respect whenever he pleas'd to enter That they should have no Men of War and that Merchants Ships should take their Passes from the Admiral of France That they should restore to the Ecclesiastics their Goods and Estates And â—hat certain Wagons and Merchandise which belong'd to the â—nhabitants of Orleance and which the Rochelois had seiz'd should be restor'd Upon these Conditions they were promis'd to be comprehended in all the Priviledges of the Edict 'T was a sowre piece of Condescention to submit to such severe and rigorous Laws nor could they tell how to mollify the Victor into more easie moderation In vain the General Deputies interceded for Rochelle in the name of all the Churches However Maniald took upon him to spake and made a most moving and passionate Speech to the King wherein he made a lively description of the Misery of the Rochellois he excus'd their taking Arms as done out of necessity Which nevertheless he condemn'd with Expressions full of execration whatever the Pretence were with which it was cover'd He said that the Rochelois were come to accuse themselves and sue for mercy He besought the King to grant 'em Peace not as Enemies subdu'd by the Sword but as Subjects with the moderation of his Sceptre He added that without Liberty they would not be Subjects but Slaves Concluding he implor'd pardon with promise of submission and of servitude also if the King's satisfaction and the good of his service depended upon it But all this was to no purpose The King was resolv'd that Rochelle should be excepted out of the General Peace and that she should submit to particular Laws In the mean time there was a League concluded between the King of England the Republic of Venice the Duke of Sâ—â—â—â— and the States of the Vnited Provinces in Conjunction with France against Spain which kept almost all Italy under the Yoke and was fairly preparing to deprive her of the remainder of her Liberty These Confederates were very urgent with Cardinal Richlieu to hasten Peace with the Reformed to the end they might act unanimously against the Common Enemy 'T is true that Minister had it deep laid in his thoughts to humble Spain but he thought that the first step which he was to take to that end was to enslave France and by that means to bereave Foreigners of Opportunities to renew the Civil Wars To that end he judg'd it necessary first to ruin the Reformed who were still strong enough by their Union to support a Party of Malecontents And therefore he resolv'd to begin with Rochelle after the reducing of which he did not expect to meet with much more Resistance in the Kingdom Nor did France want Persons who were sharp sighted enough to penetrate the Cardinal's Design But their foresight did not hinder 'em for all that from contributing to their own Servitude They well perceiv'd that in oppressing the Reformed they made Fetters for themselves but every one was in hopes to make his Fortune by the Public Misery This was that which made the Cardinal so obstinate to except Rochel out of the general Peace to the end he might separate it from the rest of the Reformed and destroy it with more ease But two things constrain'd him to surcease this Great Design The one was That the Spaniards waited the Success of these Confusions that they might take their own Methods that they treated with the Duke of Rohan to accept of their Service that the Duke had sent Campredon into Spain to make himself â—e more considerable by their Succour that the Conjuncture 〈…〉 Affairs render'd the Spaniards more stiff and authoriz'd the â—inning out a Treaty begun with 'em about those things which â—d kindl'd the War in Italy The other was That Powerful â—abals were forming against him to remove him from the Miâ—stry He saw the chiefest part of all that was great at Court 〈…〉 Combination against him and rightly judg'd that he should â—ve too many Factions to employ his Wits without taking â—â—on himself the management of two Wars at once the one â—omestic the other Civil He resolv'd therefore to put an end â—â—th to the one and the other with a resolution to set a-foot â—e Civil War agen so soon as the Conspiracies against his
waited for the effect of the King of England's Promis'd Intercession for demolishing Fort Lewis or whether they were desirous to see what would be the issue of the Confusions at Court they went but slowly on with dismantling their Fortifications more especially the Fort oâ— Tadon which was one of their best and strongest Bulwarkâ— Lesdiguieres discontented with the Court fomented new Troubles in the Dauphinate Brison by his Counsels maintain'd him self in Poussin a paltry place from which however they could not get him out but by giving him a Recompence of 4000 Crowns And Montauban Son of the Marquiss of Gouverâ—â— got almost as much to lay down Arms. Thus all things being in a manner peaceable and quiet the Reformed were permitted to assemble a National Synod at Castres which sate down the 15th of September and the Court sent this Augustus Galand for their Commissioner in pursuance oâ— the Declaration 1623. the revocation of which they could not obtain All they could get was a Decree which upon the complaint of the Delays and Difficulties they met with in the nomination of Commissioners by the Governors and of the long time before the Commissioners came to the Synods imported thus much That the Governors or others to whom they should apply themselves having notice of the Place and Day of the Synod's sitting a Month before should be bound to nominate Commissioners and those that were nominated should be bound to be there at the place and upon the day appointed or within three days after at farthest which if they fail'd to do the Deputies had leave to assemble without 'em they behaving themselves in other things according to the Edicts This same Galand had already been present at the last Assembly held at Charenton and the Figure he made at Court would not permit him to quit his Interest or to swerve from her Orders and Maxims He was entrusted with a Letter from the King to the Synod Commission to be present there and Instructions in writing how to carry himself The Letter imported leave to hold the Synod whose Deliberations were thereby also confin'd to affairs of Church-Discipline only Moreover it was in the nature of Predential for the Commissioner and lastly it contain'd asstances of the King's good-will and his observance of the edicts provided that the Reformed continu'd in their obedience The Commission was plain and downright but it mention'd an express Injunction to be careful of seeing the Edicts observ'd and chiefly that of 1623. and to hinder the keeping â—f any Conventicles at Castres without his leave His Instructions were more ample and contain'd six principal Articles â—he first renew'd the promises of the King's good-will while â—aithful Obedience was paid him The second exhorted the Reâ—â—med to live in Concord with the Catholics and not to have â—â—y other then sentiments of Equity and Justice for 'em which the King promis'd to see done on the Catholics part The third exhorted a Renunciation of all Associations Unions and Intelligences either abroad or at home any other then with the King and the Commissioner was to declare that the King â—ever had the least thought of disannulling the Edicts which â—e prov'd because the King had confirm'd 'em after he came to â—ears of majority that he had renew'd his Alliances with Foreign Protestants that he had augmented the Gratuities which the King his Father had given to the Ministers that he had made use of Protestant Lords in sundry great Affairs and for that in the Insurrections of the Reformed he had bin always enclin'd to mercy so soon as they were ready to submit The fourth was of a singular nature to oblige the Ministers to inform against one another themselves and to brand one another upon their own judgments so that Galand was to exhort em to inform against those Ministers who had held intelligence with the Spiniards without taking notice in reference to it of any Amnesties of what was past He was in that respect to draw a Declaration from the Synod conformable to what had past in the Provincial Synod of Upper Guyenne held at Realmont and to testify that the aim of that Inquisition was not to punish the guilty but to hinder those that were faithful from being comprehended in the Crimes of others The fifth admonish'd the Commissioner not to let the Synod meddle with any thing but barely Discipline And the last took from the Ministers the liberty of going out of the Kingdom or setling themselves in any other places without permission and from the Synods â—â— power of sending any to Foreign Princes and Sovereigns â—â—aâ— should desire 'em either for a time or for a constancy For ' twaâ— the King's pleasure that Demands of that nature should be sent to him and the reason of that new restraint was said to be because that the Duties of Obedience were not to be alter'd by â— mixture of the Manners and Customs of Foreign Countries This Commission of Galands was ill resented by the Synod and Chauve then Moderator told him very roundly That a Man zealous for his Religion ought not to have charg'd himself with Instructions of such a nature which only tended to over reach and dishonour his Brethren After which Remonstrance he return'd an Answer to all the Articles with as much Resolution as Prudence But for the better understanding of his Answer it is necessary here to explain what the Synod of Realmâ—â—â— was and what had bin there done upon the occasion of Foreigâ— Intelligences The Duke of Rohan being sollicited by the Spaniards was enter'd into Treaty with 'em and had sent Campreâ—â—â— into Spain for more positive assurances of the Succor that was offer'd Not that it was the design either of the Spanish Court or the Duke of Rohan to stick to the Treaty but both expected to make this benefit of it that it might be a means to bring the Cardinal to better terms The Duke was in hopes thereby to obtain a more advantageous Peace and Spain willing to shew that if the French went on with the War in Italy that she had a way to revenge herself by continuing the Civil War in France as long as she pleas'd Moreover being afraid â—est the Reformed should agree to an Accommodation she made â—…em a shew of large Succors to render 'em more stiff and to engage 'em to stand upon such Demands as would not be granted â—…em so that the Treaty was concluded by Campredon with conâ—iderable Promises But while he return'd laden with the Articles of the Treaty Peace was made both with the Reformed â—nd with Spain the Treaty having no other effect but only â—hat it put the sooner conclusion to both Wars Campredon at his return was seiz'd upon and carri'd a Prisoner to Tholouse and there prosecuted for his life In the mean time the Edict of â—arch being sent to the President Masuyer to be register'd one would have thought that Campredon should have enjoy'd the benefit
some of those pretended Greasers among whom as it was said there was found one of the Reformed Religion But the punishment of those poor Creatures would not satisfy the Mobile all the Reformed must be disarm'd to appease their fury and the Violences of that Canaille must be let alone unpunish'd thâ—… they had knockt several persons o' the head So that the Reformed were constrain'd to hide themselves for several days and some that were most expos'd were forc'd to quit the City About the same time also a Young man of the Reformed Religion was seiz'd with a violent Fever of which he dy'd and because he fell into a Delirium the Priests would needs make that an Argument that he dy'd a Catholic In the heighth of his Distemper he talk'd of nothing but his Father Thereupon a Jesuit being brought to the Bed-side under the name of his Father ask'd him if he would not die in his Religion but never said which whether the Reformed or the Roman The sick Person having made answer Yes my dear Father presently the Equivocal Term of Father an Appellation which the Catholics generally give their Priests was laid hold of as a proof that the man desir'd to change his Religion But the Real Father coming to his Son some time after and putting the same Question to him which the Young man answer'd in the same manner they fetch'd about another way that the latter Answer was the effect of his Delirium that he still thought he spoke to the Jesuit and that his last words were a confirmation of the former So that notwithstanding the Complaints of his Father and the evident Symptoms of his Son 's Delirium they would have it pass for a lawful Conversion they drove all the Reformed Persons out of the Room the Catholics got possession of his Body and after his death buried him after their manner For the Catholicks care not at which Door People enter into their Communion Fraud Violence Fear Interest Frensie all must be serviceable to their Triumphs and the Salvation of their Converts In the mean time the Court and the Parlaments darted all their Thunderblots against the Duke of Rohan more especially the Parlament of Tholouse made the most bloody Decrees against him that ever were set forth against a Rebel But on the other side they invited all his Adherents to quit him with all the Fairest Promises that could be made ' em The King publish'd a Declaration upon the 15th of December at Paris wherein extreamly enhauncing the Favours which he had shewn the Rochelois and the Advantages they had found by submitting to him he exhorted all others who had taken Arms to do as much and to come in and make their acknowledgments to that effect before the Prothonotaries of the Jurisdictions to which they belong'd within fifteen days He order'd also the Cities that â—eld for the Duke to send their Deputies to the Court to make their Submissions and upon these Conditions he promis'd upon the word of a King to be kind and favourable to 'em and to make 'em equal partakers of his Graces with his other Subjects but he condemn'd to most rigorous Punishments all those that persever'd in their Rebellion This Declaration wrought very little effect because the Duke of Rohan made those that adher'd to him deeply sensible that there was much more to be expected from a General Peace then evey single man could obtain from a Particular Submission But these Reasons would have bin of little force had they not seen the Cardinal engag'd in a Foreign War which would not permit him vigorously to pursue his utmost efforts in France against the remainder of the Reformed That Minister was desirous to revive the Reputation of his Master in Italy where it was very low by reason that they who govern'd as Prime Ministers before him had too great a kindness for the Court of Spain To that purpose he sent an Army thither in such a Season of the Year that there was more likelihood of seeing it ruin'd then hopes of any Success to be obâ—â—ind by it And to say truth Had the Success been unfortunate the Expedition might have been lookt upon as rash and inconsiderate But there is nothing that prospers better then those things which an Enemy believes his Adversary dares not undertake The Army forc'd its way through all the disadvantages of Places notwithstanding the rigour of the Winter and the Duke of Savoy's men that oppos'd their Passage And after he had setl'd Affairs on that side in a very glorious manner the King return'd to Cevenes and laid siege to Privas And indeed there was something surprising in the Speed and Diligence of this Great Minister For there had not elaps'd above six Months between the reducing of Rochel and the taking of Privas and during that small time the Cardinal had caus'd the King to take a Journey into Savoy and recover'd the Affairs of Italy into a good Condition This acquir'd him so great Credit with the King that it was impossible he should mount any higher and besides it spread both admiration and astonishment all over Europe So that the Reformed were in a dismal Consternation when they saw the remainder of their Cities menac'd by those Victorious Troops which in such a terrible Season had forc'd all the Obstacles of Art and Nature So that the Duke of Rohan had much ado with all his accustom'd Arguments and the hope of Succour that Spain promis'd him to prevent the voluntary Surrender of all those Cities The King then having receiv'd great Applauses in all place through which he pass'd in his way to Italy for the success of his Arms before Rochel and having beheld at his return the Roads strew'd with Conversions procur'd by a great number 〈◊〉 Missionaries that march'd along with his Army and such as welâ—… knew how to improve the Argument of Terror met with 〈◊〉 stop till he came to Privas before which Place he sate down in May and into which Chabrilles and Montbrun had put themselves under pretence of holding it out But they were both suspected and it was discover'd that Chabrilles treated with the Court and were to deliver up Vivaretz to the Cardinal for a good Rewardâ— Mombrun was more wary and would be intreated and su'd to before he would yield Besides they mutually sow'd distrusts in prejudice the one of the other Chabrilles offer'd to hold out the Place provided he might have the upper hand as being afraid that Mombrun would thwart him On the other side Mombrun declar'd what he knew of Chabrilles's Treason and did all he could lest the City should be put into his hands This quarrelling of theirs fell out right and had the intended Effect to set the Soldiers at variance one among another The Relief which was to have bin sent thither and which lay at Boutieres refus'd to march thither at the persuasion of Chabrilles who promis'd other Succors so soon as it
he flatterâ—â— himself was both impossible unprofitable and unjust The also excus'd by divers Arguments the Breach of Treaties which it was not always requisite to observe In pursuance of which Maxim they shew'd that all the Reasons which the Reformed brought were Insufficient to justifie their Arms. They would needs have it that the Reformed had extorted all the Favouâ—… which had bin granted to 'em and particularly the Briefs consequently that the Obligation was void and the Revocation lawful 'T was said that Kings were oblig'd to punish Heretics as the Servants of God as Protectors of the Church and because that Heretics have bin always troublesom to Statâ—… and Kingdoms 'T was asserted that the Reason of Publâ—… Welfare exempted Kings from observing their Promises maâ—… to their Subjects who were never permitted to wage Waâ—… and that tho they were attacqu'd it was not lawful for 'em to defend themselves and they were very large and copious upon this Tyrannical Opinion They were also very diffusive upon the Question what Place the Reformed held in the Kingdom Wherein it was asserted that they were no separate Body and upon that Principle they condemn'd their their General Deputations and in a word whatever else was the Consequence of a lawful Union A new sort of Politics from whence the Pretences for a Great Number of unjust Action were drawn Lastly by a sort of Argumentation altogether Catholic they alledg'd the Victories of the Roman Church over Heresie to be a Mark of her being the True Church and the Fall of the Reformed as a Mark of their Heresie But 〈◊〉 would be a hard matter to demonstrate that Violence Surprize and Treachery which are the Weapons which the Roman Church makes use of against her Enemies were Weaponâ— becoming the Truth and that the Ruin of her Adversaries bâ—… such means was a good Argument to convince 'em of Heresie But while the Duke of Rohan struggl'd with these Difficulâ—…es the Reducing of Alets which open'd her Gates to the 〈◊〉 without any Opposition totally discourag'd those that were 〈◊〉 resolv'd to have defended themselves and the Advantagious Conditions which that City obtain'd perswaded all the 〈◊〉 to imitate Her that they might be no less happy then She. 〈◊〉 Consideration of the Disorders that happen'd at Privas 〈◊〉 'em believe the Capitulation of Alets the more tolerable 〈◊〉 that as it was one of the most Considerable that belon'gd to 〈◊〉 Party her Example extreamly sway'd the Rest Nevertheless the Duke surmounted all these Obstacles and neglecting 〈◊〉 own Advantages which he was given to understand in the 〈◊〉 Name should be much greater if he would treat apart 〈◊〉 himself then if he obstinately insisted upon a General Peace 〈◊〉 engag'd all his Friends and Adheretns to make but one Treaâ—…fâ—r all To which purpose he obtain'd leave to call a General Assembly at Anduse from whence it was translated to 〈◊〉 to the end it might there be more free For the King 〈◊〉 the Confirmation of the Edicts there was nothing which could cause a Dispute but the Article concerning the â—…tifications 'T was the King's desire they should be demoâ—…'d but the greatest part of the Cities refus'd to Conâ—… to it They judg'd it to be the greatest Mischief that could 〈◊〉 'em tho they should stand the utmost of Extremity And â—…say truth in regard there were still remaining about Thirty â—…ng Holds the meanest of which was able to hold out a â—…ge of three Months they might have put the Cardinal to a â—…nge had he insisted upon that Article But particular Inâ—…ests the Cardinals Correspondencies the Fear of Treachery 〈◊〉 Example of Privas and chiefly that of Anduse that first 〈◊〉 gave way and first of all agreed to the Demolishing of 〈◊〉 Fortifications made all the Deputies that were at the Assembly submit to give the same Consent The Peace was then Concluded toward the end of June publish'd in the King's Camp and afterwards the Treaty being 〈◊〉 into an Edict was publish'd at Nimes the next Month. It 〈◊〉 granted in the Form of a Favour and because the King 〈◊〉 it to his vanquish'd and humbl'd Subjects of his meer good will upon no other Considerations or Motives but 〈◊〉 of his Clemency it was call'd the Edict of Grace Upon which â—â—tle there was a High Valne put to cure the Reformed of the Fears lest this Edict should be no better observ'd then 〈◊〉 Rest and because it was taken for a pretence to violate 〈◊〉 that preceded that the Grant of 'em was wrested from 〈◊〉 King by force therefore that there should be no excuse for 〈◊〉 Infringing of this because the King had granted it as a Victâ—â—â— out of the meer Instigation of his Royal good will Nevertheless the very next Day after the Publication of the Peace 〈◊〉 the 29th of June the Cardinal wrote a Letter to the 〈◊〉 Mother upon the occasion from whence it might be concluded that the Motive to this Peace was not any Inclination to 〈◊〉 serve the Edicts obtain'd by the Heretics but to ease the People of the Consequences of the War and for fear of offending 〈◊〉 Protestant Confederates who would hardly have bin draâ—â— to Confide in those who sought the utter Extirpation of the Reformed Brethren But the Queen was already discontentâ—… with the Cardinal nor was there any thing which more 〈◊〉 pleas'd her then the Success of the Enterprises which he undertook She had done as much as she could to hinder the Success of the Siege of Rochelle and at the same time that she voâ—… Pilgrimages and other Acts of Devotion for the Taking of she set all her Engins at work to disappoint the Prosperity that Important Design Not that she lov'd the Reformed tho they had serv'd her faithfully upon several Occasions 〈◊〉 in regard they had offended her in others their Injuries 〈◊〉 deeper at her Heart then their Services But that was 〈◊〉 strange thing For we may build more securely upon the Resentment of Men more especially of Princes then upon 〈◊〉 Acknowledgment Time obliterates out of their Memoâ—… all the Impressions of their good Services and when they pardon they do but suspend the Resentment of an Injury the Remembrance of which the least Pretence revives Now 〈◊〉 which oblig'd the Queen to fret at the Cardinal's Prosperity was this that she saw the Cardinal's Reputation fix'd by the Success of his Designs whereas she saw her Credit sink by degrees while he that before was but her Creature left her hardâ—… any share in the Government of Affairs And she would not have bin sorry to have seen him less fortunate in his Enterprises against the Heretics that there might have bin a Party left in the Kingdom to restore her to the Authority she had lost when occasion offer'd However the Cardinal always paid her most profound Respects that he might not expose himself to the reproach of despising a Princess to whom he was beholding for his Fortune But to
brangling Pettifoggers were certain Laics of the Scum of the People the most Eminent of which were Pedlars Cordwinders Cutlers and such â—…ke Riffraff who rambl'd about from Town to Town from Consistory to Consistory from Synod to Synod to give Insolent Challenges to the Ministers preach Controversies in public Places upon Theaters set up like Mountebank's Stages to teaze â—…nd weary out the meaner sort of people with pitiful and ridiculous Cavils and to endeavour by the Conversion of some poor 〈◊〉 Widgeon or other to gain a certain spill of Money which 〈◊〉 Clergy had fixt as the Reward of such petty Victories But 〈◊〉 shall speak more at large in another place of this new sort of adversaries my business in this place being only to let you know how much the Duke of Rohan was bespatter'd with Reproaches and Scandals after the Conclusion of the Peace the chiefest part of those that had most importunately prest him to make it imputing the Fall and almost Ruin of the Reformed Party to his Ambition his Avarice and his Precipitancy So that he was forc'd to write an Apology for this last Peace wherein resuming his Discourse from the Assembly of Rochelle which began the War he made it appear by a Recital of all that had been transacted that his Conduct was altogether Innocent and that the last Peace was altogether necessary at a time when France having no Foreign Troubles to divert her was pouring upon the Duke with no less then six Armies at once But these Reproaches were only thrown upon him by those to whom the Peace was not so gainful as the War For in the main the Duke had gain'd the Hearts of all the People and almost all the Reformed were of Opinion that he would have done much greater Things for 'em then the Admiral Chatillon had he bin as well seconded by the Citizens and Nobility as the Admiral was In the mean time they began to brangle with the Reformed in divers places about the Right of Exercises more especially on that side next to Rochelle where Thuilerie the Intendant and St. Chament the Governor made several Attempts The first ordain'd that the Exercise should not be performed but in Places where it ought to be according to the Edict and that the Reformed to make appear the Rights to which they pretended should produce their Proofs before the Intendant within fifteen Days He added that within the said Term such Gentlemen as would perform the Exercise within their own Houses should declare which was the Place of which they made choice for their Principal Dwelling upon which they should enjoy the Right so long as they remain'd there with their Wives and Families and that the said fifteen Days being expir'd without any such Declaration made they should be deem'd not to have sufficient Proofs of their Right and therefore should have no more Preaching in their Houses till the King should otherwise ordain This Inquisition was the occasion that the Churches in those Quarters were forc'd to undergo the Persecution of 〈◊〉 world of brabbling Cavils But what was most troublesom was that the Churches whose Right was ocnfirm'd by Thuilerie's Order were in no better Condition seeing that afterwards they found out a thousand Devices to deprive 'em of the Fruit of those Sentences For in Places of which the Lords of the Mannors were Catholics the best settl'd Rights in the world signify'd nothing in regard the violent Zeal of the Lord would not let his Tenants enjoy their Advantage Of which there was an Eminent Example at Rochechouard where the Exercise of the Reformed Religion began in the Year 1559. and where the Commissioners entrusted with the Edict of Nantes confirm'd it in 1601. by a solemn Decree Nevertheless the Lord by force expell'd the Reformed from the Place where they were accustom'd to Preach so that they were forc'd to seek out another And notwithstanding all their Complaints they were expos'd to long and tedious Vexations which could not be determin'd but with the dissipation of their Church The Bishop of Valence a violent Spirit and a hot-headed 〈◊〉 upon the 15th of June procur'd a Decree of the â—…rivy Council which forbid any Foreigner tho a receiv'd Minister within the Diocess to continue his Ministry in the Kingdom There were three of these whom the Bishop would 〈◊〉 involve in the same Prohibition Martin Scarpius and 〈◊〉 for the Bishop as a Temporal Lord had condemn'd 'em 〈◊〉 three Aâ—â—esi kept his ground at Livron without taking any 〈◊〉 of the Decree Scarpius retir'd to Die where he liv'd without officiating in the Ministry And as for Martin he 〈◊〉 chang'd the place of his Residence but never stirr'd out of the Diocess Which made the Bishop stark mad a man otherwise proud and transported with his Passions But he obtain'd nothing from the Council but only against Martin who was the most hated because he had bin a Capuchin and for that after he had quitted his Habit he wrote a Book entitl'd The Capuâ—… Reform'd wherein he gave no Quarter to the Hypocrisies of that Institution and farther because the Bishops having â—…t him in Prison his ill usage could neither make him alter his Conduct nor abate his Courage That year the same Bishop began a Persecution which deriving the Original of it in a particular Diocess spread itself afterwards over all the Kingdom and was the occasion of above 35 years vexation to the Churches The Pretence was because one and the same Minister preach'd by turns in several places And the King was made believe that those places which were call'd Annexes or Quarters belonging to some principal Church were so many Usurpations that were not authoriz'd by the Edict tho there were nothing more false For those Annexes were places where the right of Exercise had bin acquir'd for same one of the Reasons mention'd in the Edict but not being able of themselves to maintain a Minister apart were join'd together by the Authority of a Synod to make up a sufficient Salary for one Pastor This was no injury to the Interests of the Clergy to whom it ought to have bin an indifferent thing how the Reformed order their Churches to be serv'd Besides that 't was very convenient for the Reformed who by that means provided for their Churches and their Ministers at little Expences And that Reason was sufficient to excite the Zeal of Catholic Persecution to deprive 'em of that advantage And it may be thought that this Vexation began in Valence because it is a Bishopric compos'd of two in one Valence and Die tho the Bishop bears the name of Valence only Now that Prelate could not endure that the Heretics should unite several poor Churches together to enlarge the Minister's Salary because it belong'd only to the Church of Rome to unite several poor Bishoprics to augment the Revenue of one single Bishop This was seconded by the Bishop of Vaison who join'd with him in his Persecutions
our Kingdom under the benefits of our said Edicts Articles and Delarations made in their favour which it is our pleasure shall be always inviolably follow'd and observ'd without the least infringment and which as occasion requires we have all along confirm'd and by these Presents confirm Enjoyning all our Officers to prosecute and punish the Infringers thereof as refractory Persons and Disturbers of the publick Peace Thus we command all our beloved and faithful Counsellors holding our Courts of Parlament Bailiffs Seneschals c. that they cause these our present Letters Declaratory to be read publish'd and register'd c. and that the Contents thereof be inviolably kept and preserv'd In Testimony whereof we have caus'd our Seal to be affix'd Given at Paris July 20. 1616. in the 7th Year of our Reign Sign'd LEWIS By the King in Council De Lomenie Seal'd with the Great Seal in Yellow wax upon a double Label Read publish'd and register'd upon the Motion of the Kings Advocate General and Copies order'd to be sent to all the Bayliwicks and Seneschalships to be there publish'd and register'd c. At Paris in Parlament August 4. 1616. Sign'd Voisin A Declaration of the King containing a Confirmation of the Edict of Loudun and the Private Articles of it Given at Paris the last of September 1616. and verify'd October 25. the same Year LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarr to all c. As it has been an extraordinary Grief to us when we were constrain'd upon just cause and consideration concerning our own and the security of our Kingdom to order our Cousin the Prince of Condè to be seiz'd and on the other side were extreamly overjoy'd and contented when we understood that the Princes Dukes Peers Officers of the Crown and others who withdrew from our Court upon that Accident all desir'd the Peace and Tranquillity of our Kingdom and to satisfie us with their Actions of which having duly inform'd us and of the Occasion of their absence and being convinc'd of the reasons that might lessen the confidence which we had in 'em We remain'd so well satisfi'd that there was not the least ill Opinion left in our minds of their deportment Nevertheless ' forasmuch as by our Letters Patents Declaratory upon the Decree for the seizing our said Cousin by reason of the General and particular Expressions and Circumstances therin mention'd it might be otherwise judg'd of their Intentions as also that their Absence and withdrawing from our Person might have render'd 'em suspected of things not consisting with their Duty and the Quality of that allegiance which they owe us for these Reasons being desirous to preserve their Honour and their Reputation entire we make known of our own proper motion full Power and Royal Authority and with the Advice of the Queen our thrice honour'd Lady and Mother Princes of our blood other Princes c. and We have declared and do declare that neither by our said Declaration nor by any terms or general or special Word therein contain'd we either meant or do mean to comprehend the said Princes Dukes Peers Officers of the Crown Lords Officers of our Sovereign Courts or others of what Quality or Condition soever they be suspected and departing from Paris upon the day of the Seizure and Detention of our said Cousin and since the abovemention'd Accident who have made us sensible of the sincerity of their Intentions and their Resolutions still to continue in their Obedience to us whom we hold and look upon as our Good Faithfull and Affectionate Subjects and Servants no way consenting nor partakers of the Facts contain'd in the said Declaration and it is our Pleasure that they enjoy our Graces Favours Benefits Honours and Governments and that they exercise their Employments and Offices as they did before and as belongs to their abovemention'd Preferments notwithstanding all the Interdictions and Letters which might have been set forth to the contrary Moreover it is our Pleasure that the Edict not long since made at Loudun be maintain'd with all the Articles as well General as particular and private granted in pursuance of the said Edict and that our Subjects may enjoy the benefit of ' em To that end we command our faithful and beloved Councellours c. That they cause these presents to be verify'd and register'd fulfill'd and observ'd according to their form and Tenour for such is our Pleasure Given at Paris September the last 1616. and 7th of our Reign Siign'd LEWIS And below by the King Mangot Seal'd with the Great Seal of Yellow wax upon a double Label Read Publish'd and Register'd upon the Motion of the Kings Advocate General and Copies order'd to be sent to the Bailywicks and Seneschalships c. To be there also publish'd and register'd c. At Paris in Parlament October 25. 1616. Sign'd Du Tillet A Declaration of the King against the Vnlawful Assemblies of any of the Pretended Reformed Religion at Castle Jaloux and Bearn Given at Paris May 21. 1618. Verify'd May 25. LEwis by the grace of God King of France and Navarr To all c. Upon Information given us the last Month of April that some of our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion took upon 'em contrary and in contempt of the Edicts of Pacification and several Declarations by us set sorth to summon and hold unlawful Assemblies and such as were by us prohibited and also that they had appointed one of several Provinces to be held in the City of Chatel-Jaloux in our Country of Guyenne we took an Occasion to expedite our Letters Patents dated April 20th by which we declar'd all Assemblies that should be summon'd by our said Subjects of the said pretended Reformed Religion other then such as were permitted by our Edicts and for which they had express leave from us to be unlawful and contrary to our Authority and Service and as such we forbid 'em upon pain of Disobedience ordering Prosecution against the Authors of the same and all those that should go thither and be present there as Infringers of our Edicts and disturbers of the publick Peace Which our said Letters having bin publish'd and register'd in our Court of Parlament at Bourdeaux and Chamber of Edict at Nerac our Officers of the said Societies had taken such care for the observance of 'em that the Governour and Consuls of the said City of Chatel-Jaloux and they who were entrusted with the command of several other Cities of the said Province held by those of the pretended Reformed Religion had obstructed and refus'd the holding of the said Assembly and for that reason would have enforced those that were deputed thither to have departed But we have bin inform'd within these few days that the more factious among 'em finding that by reason of our said Declaration they could not with freedom and safety hold the said Assembly which they had contriv'd to be such as they desir'd to have it resolv'd to call it
Publish'd and Register'd c. At Paris in Parlament May 22. 1623. Du Tillet A Declaration of the Kings good Will toward his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion Verify'd in Parlament November 27. 1623. LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarr To all c. Tho' it has always been our Intention as still it is to cause an Exact observance of our Edicts of Pacification and Declarations last made in Favour of our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion that for this purpose we have Commissionated and deputed Commissioners in the several Provinces of our Kingdom to repair and re-establish the Breaches which the Wars and last Troubles had produc'd having omitted no care nor Sedulity to make the lives of our Subjects easie in good Peace Amity and Concord Nevertheless we have been Inform'd that some of the said Pretended Reformed Religion Enemies of the Publik Repose and such as desire to make their advantage of Trouble pretending to belong to our Cousins the Dukes of Rohan and Soubize which we can hardly believe by reason of the assurances which our said Cousins have given us of their Fidelity and Affection to our service and observance of our Peace have some time since made several Journeys and into several of our Provinces also to some Assemblies held by vertue of our Edicts by our Subjects of the Religion with Letters of Crâ—dence under false Pretences to stir up our said Subjects to infuse into 'em Fears Jealousâ—es and â—eigned Distrusts and to instigate to raise Money Fortifie the Places which they hold in their hands purchase Arms and make their Preparations contrary to the Publick Peace And tho' we are unwilling to believe that our said Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion considering the singular Favours which they have so lately receiv'd from our Clemency are any way enclin'd or dispos'd to hearken to any such pernicious Propositions much less to deviate from their Fidelty and Obedience to which they are oblidg'd Nevertheless being desirous to stop the Course of such Proceedings and the dangerous Consequences that may attend 'em to hinder our Subjects from being abus'd by these evil Practices and not to leave any one in doubt and uncertainty of our good and sincere Intentions toward 'em with the advice of our Council where were present the Queen Mother our Thrice Honour'd Lady and Mother the Princes c. We have said and declar'd and do say and declare that it is our Will and Intention to maintain the Publick Peace Repose and Tranquility and to employ our Authority and our accustom'd Care and Vigilancy to cause our Subjects as well Catholicks as of the Pretended Reformed Religion to live in good Union and Concord under their Obedience to us And to this purpose we Will and Ordain that our Edicts of Pacification and last Declarations in Favour of our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion be inviolably kept observ'd and maintain'd and that the Commissioners deputed in our several Provinces abide and reside there till they be perfectly and absolutely fulfill'd As we also make strict Prohibitions to all Persons of what Condition or quality soever to speak write suggest or perswade give ear or listen to any thing contrary to this our good and upright Intention and to the Tranquility of our subjects nor to travel or send into our Provinces or to any Cities or Assemblies that shall be held by those of the Pretended Reformed Religion to that Effect nor to raise Money bear or buy Arms Furniture or preparations for Warr under pain of Disobedience and being punish'd as Disturbers of the Peace It is our Pleasure also that the Offenders be inform'd against and prosecuted with the utmost Rigour of the Law So we command our faithful and well beloved Counsellours c. For such is our Pleasure In Testimony c. Given at Paris November 10. 1623. and 14th of our Raign Sign'd Louis And below by the King De Lomenie Read publish'd and register'd c. At Paris in Palament November 7. 1623. A Declaration of the King against the Sieur de Soubize and his Adherents containing a new Confirmation of the Edicts and Declarations formerly made in Favour of his Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion who remain in their Duty and Obedience Given at Paris January 25. 1626. and verify'd the 18. of February LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarr To all c. Every one knows the Favour and Clemency which we have extended to our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion that formerly rose in Arms against our Authority and how when our Arms had all the Advantages over 'em we spread open our Arms to receive those that came as well in general as Particular to implore our Mercy and turn'd the just Resentments of our Indignation into a Benignity natural to a King the Father of his People toward Subjects submissive and penitent being desirous by our Declaratory Letters of October 20. 1622. to forget and forgive their past Faults and voutsafe 'em Peace with the continuance of the Benefit of the Edict of Nantes and other Declarations In pursuance of which we sent Commissioners into several Provinces of our Kingdom to reunite the Affections of our Subjects as well Catholicks as of the Pretended Reformed Religion divided by reason of the preceding Troubles and to re establish what the Fury of Warr might have interrupted in the observance of our Laws and Edicts wherein by the Benignity of Heaven our carefull Toyl so happily succeeded that our Kingdom for these last two Years enjoy'd a most profound Peace our Subjects in general Extolling the Divine Goodness of the Almighty for that after so many past Calamities and Tempests they rested in a Tranquility so serenely Calm and so assured under our Authority and Obedience But when we thought this Peace most solidly secure and that good Order re-establish'd in our Kingdom had given us leisure to apply all our Cares to the assistance of our Neighbours and to readvance the Ancient Reputation of the French Name in Forraign Coutries and that we were as we are still upon the point of reaping the Fruits and notable Advantages of it for the Glory of this Crown the Comfort of our said Confederates and the Publick Benefit we have receiv'd several Informations of the Practises and Contrivances which are weaving in several of our Provinces to withdraw our Subjects of the said Pretended Reformed Religion from that Obedience and Fidelity which they owe us and to perswade 'em in the present Conjuncture of Affairs to rise against our Authority while we are busy'd out of our Kingdom in the Protection of our Allyes and Trouble the Tranquility of the State Now being fully inform'd of the Designs and contrivances that are forming against our Cities and strong Holds the Peparations that are making to raise Souldiers without our Commission the sitting out of Ships as well in the Ports and Havens of our Kingdom as in other Places
without our leave or the Orders of our Admiral in contempt of our Laws and the secret Practises and Correspondencies held with Forreigners To all which we have been much troubl'd to give Credit considering the good and favourable usage our said Subjects of the Pretended Reformed receiv'd And when we understood that the Sieur de Soubise we the Head of his Faction he who has tri'd the Force of our Authority and the softness of our Clemency upon several occasions this was the reason that we were willing to wink at his first Practises and Proceedings in hopes that by our Patience we might reduce him to his Duty But our goodness and forbearance having augmented the Audaciousness of the said Soubise we understand that within these few days he has put to Sea with some Vessels having Souldiers aboard that he has robb'd our Merchants Ships made attempts upon some of our Islands and principal Places and upon the Vessels that were in the Roads and Harbours belonging to 'em and in these Actions committed several Enormities Violences and Acts of Hostility against our Subjects Now in regard that all these Enterprizes and Attempts of the said Soubise discover to our great sorrow an evident and manifest Rebellion against our Authority and a design lay'd betwixt him and some particular Adherents to disturb the general Peace and Tranquility of the Kingdom without any lawful reason or cause on the other side we are extreamly well satisfy'd to understand from our dear and well beloved Cousin the Duke of Tremouille and the Sieurs de la Force and Chatillon and other Persons of Quality as also from the General Deputies of our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion refiding near our Person as also by the Deputies of the Pretended Relion at Charenton and those of our Cities of Rockele Nimes Vsez as also to see by an Act in writing which the said general Deputies have presented us with express injuctions from our dear and well-beloved Inhabitants of our City of Moniaban how much they renounce and disown his Actions as unworthy of that Fidelity and Affection which true French-men owe their Soveraign considering they can tend to nothing else but the subversion of this State and their own Ruin Whereupon being desirous to make known what our good Intentions are the Protection which we are willing to grant to the Faithful and Obedient and the Rigor which we intend to use toward Rebels if they persevere in their Contumacy We make known that for these Causes and other weighty Considerations us thereunto moving with the Advice of the Queen c. and of our certain knowledge full Power and Royal Authority we have said and declar'd and say and declare by these Presents Sign'd with our hand and it is our Will and Pleasure that all our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion who shall continue in that Fidelity and Obedience which they owe us without adhering to any Factions and Conspiracies against the Kingdom shall fully and Peaceably enjoy in freedom and safety the Exercise of their Religion together with all the Favours to them granted by the Edicts and Declarations made in their Favour as well by the Deceased King c. as by our selves which we resolve to have inviolably kept and observ'd according to their Form and Tenour putting all our said Subjects together with their Goods and Families under our special Protection and Favour And as for the said Soubise and others who are enter'd into open Rebellion against us having attempted to disturb the Tranqaility of our Kingdom we have hereby declar'd and declare all those that shall adhere to and Favour him directly or indirectly of what Quality or condition soever they be and who shall hold Intelligence Association or Corespondence with 'em both disobedient and Guilty of High Treason As also we declare the Inhabitants of our Cities that shall Countenance or adhere to the Rebellion and Disobedience of the above nam'd or shall give 'em any Harbour Retreat or Quarter among 'em or shall suffer 'em or assist 'em in any sort or manner whatever guilty of the same Crimes and to have forfeited all their Rights Franchises Immunities and Priviledges granted either by the King our Predecessors or by our selves And for that our Intention is always to prefer Clemency before the Rigour of Justice and to afford 'em the Means and Leisure to acknowledge their Faults before they althogether plunge themselves in Faction and revolt we say and declare that if within one Month from the day of the publication of these presents in Parlament the said Soubise or any others who have been guilty of the Actions above express'd shall return to their Duty lay down their Arms disband their Souldiers which they have muster'd together and submit themseves entirely to the Obedience which they owe us we have and shall from this present Time and for the Future forgiven pardon'd and obliterated forgive pardon and obliterate by these Presents all Acts and attempts which they may have made or design'd in this last Insurrection and taking of Arms contrary to our Authority and Service without any enquiries or prosecutions either now or hereafter in any sort or manner whatever as having pardon'd and restor'd 'em to their former Condition and to all Honours Priviledges and Immunities which were granted 'em by Us or our Predecessors under the Exact Observation of our Edicts But if after that time expir'd they persist in their Rebellion and Disobedience our Pleasure is that they be proceeded against with all the Rigour of our Laws by Imprisonment of their Persons Seizure of their Estates demolishing their Houses and other usual Courses in such Cases and that they lose the Benefit of our Edicts and Appeals to the Chambers So we command c. In Testimony c Given at Paris January 25. 1625 and fifteenth of our Reign Sign'd LEWIS And Below by the King De Lomenie Read Publish'd and Register'd c. At Paris in Parlament February 18. 1625. Du Tillet A Writing giv'n by the English Embassadours to the Deputies of the Churches to make the King of Great Britain Guarranty of the Peace in 1626. WE Henry Rich Baron of Kensington Earl of Holland Captain of the King of Great Brittan's Guards Knight of the Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties Privy Council And Dudley Charlton Knight one of his Majesties Privy Council and Vice Chamberlain of the Houshold To all c. Whereas the Sieurs de-Mommartin and de Maniald General Deputies of the Reformed Churches of France and other Particular Deputies from the Dukes of Soubise and Rohan as also others from several Cities and Provinces which joyn'd in Arms with the said Lords have made a Peace with the most Christian King by our Advice and Intercessions agreed and consented to by the King their Soveraign and for that the said Deputies have releas'd many things which they thought of great Moment for their security and altogether Conformable to their Edicts and
with their Subjects Proofs The Reformed were in a Condiâ—… Six considerations that demonstrate it Respects upon which the King Treats The King his Subjects Arbitrator Maxim of the Clergy in the Question about the Regale The King Warranted his own Edict Successors bound to observe the Treaties of their Predecessors That the Parlaments had a share in Edict That it was necessary not to give 'em the least occasion of Complaint The Clergy The Pope himself A Return to the History The King willing to satisfie the Pope and to mortifie du Plessis The Scandal of false Quotations reflects hard upon the Honor of du Plessis The Challenge that he makes to his Accusers accepted by Perron Conference Granted Difficulties in the thing and about the place rais'd by the Clergy Others of du Plessis's Friends and â—… The Steps of their foul Play Du Perron has Notice but du Plessis has not 2 Du Perron is dispens'd with from givine the five hundred passages under his hand which he had proâ—… 3. The Order and Choice of the Passages is left to him 4 〈…〉 Plessis 〈…〉 threâ—… Artifice of it And for some time refuses these Conditions They Terrifâ— him by threatning to Examinâ— the Passages in his â—… The Conference almost broken off is renewed on unfair conditions 5. Du Perron prescribes the Laws for it 6. Du Plessis Robb'd of his Nights Rest 7. Sixty one Passages are given him to justifie in Eight Hours time 8. â—… 9. â—… 10. He changes two of the first Nominated for two more suspected 11. He choses two of the wavering Reformed The Character of du Frene Canaye And of Casaubon 12. Another Artifice made use of by forbidding the Terms of False and Falsity to be mentioned Du Plessis Condemn'd in Nine passages â—…ctions And Particulars Du Plessis falls Sick and the Conference is broken off The Triumphs and Insults of the Catholics The sequel of the Conference The Parlament remov'd from Chatelleraud to Saumer When they broke up The War of Savoy And it 's success The State of the Country of Gex A New Creation of Offices The Negligence of the Reformed and their Prejudices The Exactness of the Commissioners The Difficulty on the Edict of 1577. favourably taken off Limited Exercises Places of Bailliage Burying places 1601. Appeals of the Orâ—â—â—â— The Assembly of Saumer General Deputieâ— Difficulties oâ—…â—â—ir Institution Aâ—â—â—…gâ—s in â—… Nâ—… â—… â—…od at Gergeau â—…â—… The Succession of England The Deuth of the Grandson of the Admiral de Chatillon The Birth of the Dauphin The Prediction of La Riviere Notice given to the Reform'd of a League made against ' em A General Assembly at Sainte Foye The Conclusion of a peremptory Warrant like our Hereof fail you not A Sect â—â— people that beat themselves twice a day and once a night An Ignominious punishment so call'd 1602. The Disgrace of Marshal de Bouillon * A Paper containing the particular Rights or Customs due to the King Sedition at Rochelle The Spanish Cabal in Council presses the Destruction of the Reformed With a Prospect to divert the King's Forces by a Civil War 〈…〉 of Suspicious and Pâ—ars between the Reformed That the assurance of being bâ—belov'd by the King kept 'em in Peace Roni is made Governors of Poitou The Death of Queen Elizabeth Breach of promise to the Edict 1603. The Duke of Rohan The Repeal of the Jesuits A Synod at Gap His Character And that of Chauve The Article made to be inserted in the Confession of Faith which imports that the Pope is Antichrist The King is offended And threatens The Synods Reasons New Editions of the Confession of Faith where the Article is inserted The False Moderation of Clement VIII Other matters of the Synod Condition of the Repeal of the Jesuits Satyrs against ' em Cotton the Jesuit Wounded Is made the King's Confessor The Character of this Jesuit Questions to be propos'd by him to a Woman possess'd The Pâ—â—â—â—â—vation of Geneva against 〈…〉 Attemptâ— of the Duke â— Savoy The Disguising this Adventure in the Jesuits Writings The Death of the Duchess of Bar. The Progress of dâ— Perron's Fortune The Intrigues of Spain in the Court of France The Treason of one of Villeroy's Officers 1604. The Reformed fear that the King gives way too much to the Jesuits He answers their Papers favourably Gex The Genius of la Trimouille And his Death The Process of the Cardinal de Chatillon's Widow 1605. The Pyramid thrown down New Factions The Assembly at Chatelleraud St. Germain's Letter to the Mareschal de Bouillon Roni is sent the King's Commissary at the Assembly His Instructions 1505. His Speech Provincial Councils Deputies General General Assemblies Union renew'd Lesdiguieres enters into it Roni excuses that New Oath A Brief for the keeping of the Hostage Cities The Assembly suffer the Marshal of Bouillon's Places to be taken Other Advantages which Roni obtains of the Assembly The Pope is very well satisfied with it The Deputies of the Assembly are caress'd at Court Assembly of the Clergy 1606. Artifice to hinder the Ecclesiasticks from changing their Religion Edict in favour of the Clergy Roni Duke and Peer of France The Marshal of Bouillon makes his Peace Treaty with the Rochelois Priests who refuse to pray for the King Powder-Plot Oath exacted from the Catholicks in England The Reform'd of Paris obtain the Exercise of their Religion to be perform'd at Charenton The Lord of the Mannor opposes it in vain A Sedition in Paris Favourable Answers to the Petitions 1607. The Jesuit Seguiran's Enterprize to Preach at Rochel Mortifications of the Jesuits * Which signifies a Dart or Arrow Synod at Rochel Deputies General The Question about Antichrist renew'd Deputies gain'd at Court Clear-sighted of the Church and Fools of the Synod The Question is defer'd Vignier order'd to write at large about it The Synod only names two Deputies General Affairs treated in the Synod Foreign Ministers Malwin call'd to Rochel The King refuses the Nomination of the Deputies 1608. A General Assembly is allow'd at Gergeau Sully suspected by the Reform'd Affairs of the Assembly Places lost by the Reform'd Conference and Changes of Religion The Solemn Act that passes between the Pope and the French King A resolute Answer of the Kings disowning the promises made in his Name by his Attournies Cotton the Jesuit made Tutor to the Dauphine Fund for such Ministers as should change their Religion Treaty with the Moors who were persecuted in Spain It is spoken by the Bigots Lesdiguieres Marshal of France 1609. The Kings Domestick Troubles Divers Sentiments about the Alliance with Spain Frauds to renew the Civil War Power of the Jesuits Setled in Bearn Petitions answer'd Synod at St. Maixant Theatre of Antichrist Incroachment upon the Rights of Royalty Jurisdiction of the Chambers A Book found at La Fleche Discourse of Jeannin about Liberty of Conscience The Prince of Conde ' Flight War declar'd against the Arch-Duke The King 's Formidable Power Calumny against
Names of Pretended Reform'd Religion Complaints concerning the Commissioners Resolution no longer to send particular Deputations to the Court Force of the Reform'd in the County of Avignon Gratification New Declarations upon the preceeding Which gives no satisfaction Cahiers answer'd * Petitions or Addresses * Injunction Enterprises of the Parliaments upon the Jurisdiction of the Chambers Severity of the Chambers of the Edict The Corps of a Reform'd Gentleman taken out of the ground again by the order of a Commissioner Favours granted to the Reformed of la Tierache Division of the Duke de Rohan and the Marshal de Bouillon and the sequel Abuse the Deputies which injoyn obedience The Court makes use of the Doctrine of Patience Ministers Pentioners Wiles and Injustices of the Court. Enterprise upon St. John d'Angely The Duke of Rohan prevents it notwithstanding orders from the Court to the contrary The Queen is offended and things seem to incline to a War * Speaker of the Commons Apperance of accommodation Vnder which the Troubles continue Endeavours us'd to involve du Plessis in the same Who remain in quiet Assembly of the Circle at Rochel Prospect of Reconciliation among the great ones Sedition at Rochel It s origina â— And its violence Negotiations for an accomodation High pretentions of the Duke de Rohan The Queen consents to it only preserving some appearences for her self The Duke beiâ—â— exasperated by new inâ—uries refuses â—â— accept them The Assembly meets at Rochel And charge the Deputies General with new Articles Resolution taken at Court Chevauchee But ill perform'd New Declaration Remarks upon those frequent Edists The Circle Assembles again Rochel seperates from the rest Which puts an end to the troubles Verbal promise to tolerate Provincial Councils Declaration of the Marriages resolv'd upon with Spain What offends the true French men 1613. Ferrier abandons the Ministry Is receiv'd Counsellor at Nimes And is Excommunicated Diligence of the Consuls to save Ferrier Writing on both sides Appollogies of Ferrier And his end Reconcilement of the Duke de Rohan and the Marshal de Bouillon Attempts of the Sheriffs of Saumur * Petitions or Addresses 1614. Equity of the Chamber of the Edict of Paris Rights of the Bishop of Mompellier upon the Vniversity Discontents of the Princes The Duke of Rohan enters into it Artifices of the Marshal de Bouillon Retreat and Manifesto of the Princes Their precipitation is blam'd 〈…〉 A Peace is made Injury done to the Prince of Conde at Poitiers Cities of Surety opened to the King National Synod The King of England's Letters Council of the Lower Guyenne Mutual Subordination of the Assemblies Brief of leave for a General Assembly Letters from the Lords Pecuniary Affairs * Taxes Exemption of Tailles for the Ministers Places of Surety Berger a Reformed Counsellor at Paris turns Roman Catholick Reformed of Gex Churches nâ—â—t as eâ— settled Condition of the Reform'd in the County of Avignon Liberality's of the Synod Colleges Bearn â—â—ents Oath of Vnion Letters to the King and Queen The Queen prepares to Assemble the Estates General Declaration the King 's Majoritty Overture of the States * The Commons The Clergy and Nobility unite against the third Estaete Reform'd in the States Independency of Kings Whose Cause is betra'yd by the Clergy and by the Court it self Passion of the Clergy Harangue of Cardinal du Perron Why the Heriticks are tollerated Distinctions of the Cardinal His Conclusion * Peâ—ion or Address 1615. Reflections * House of Commons The third Estate Persists Character of Miron President of the Chamber of that Order The Court silences the Third Estate Illusive Decree of the Clergy And their shameful Prevarications Inequality of the Prince of Conde Preseverence of the Clergy in that Doctrine Sedition at Milhau The Bishop of Lucons Speech * Petition or Address Sedition of Belestat Cah er of the Clergy Leave Permission Continuation of the Cahier Articles propos'd aâ—â—ect â—…â—aâ—nst the Reform'd * Chief Justices Sequel of the said Articles * Places in which the Reform'd were allowed to perform the publick exercise of their Religion Conclusion of the Câ—…her Propositions disliked by the Nobility Declaration of the King Which does not Cure the Evil. New intrigues To which they ingage the People * Petition and Addresses The Parliament And the Reform'd Why Solicet to â—…ain another plaâ—â— instead of Grenoble And obtain Gergeau Which they are not satisfyed with And desire Grenoble again And the Court Consents to it Assembly of the Clergy â—…ur of the â—… And of the Prince of Conde The Prince of Conde invites the Assembly of Grenoble to joyn with him Diversity of Opinions The Kings Progress The General Assembly â—â—nds Deputies to the King â— Pâ—… The Deputies are adjourn'd to Poitiers The Queen gets to her Journeys end without Opposition Particular Petition of the Assembly * Petitions or Remonstrances * In which the Judges were half Catholicks and half Protestants * Oblats or Secular Monks General Petition * The Commons * Answers Petition * Petitions The Answers of the Court give no satisfaction They amuse the Deputies * Petitions The Deputies Communicate their fâ—aâ—s to the Assembly * Petitions or Addresses Lâ—â—â—â—guires keeps a great Awe over tâ—â—â— The Assembly removes to Nimes Against his Will The Assembly mistrust the Lords Lesdiguieres and Chatillon are ingag'd in the interest of the Court. The Duke of Candale Embraces the Reform'd Religion His Levity The Reform'd are hated by the Favourites The Duke d Epernon hates them Mortally The Treaty of Union between the Assembly and the Prince of Conde Which revives the Princes Party Letters Declaration which confirms the â—â—dâ—cts After a very Argumental Preface Effect of the Declaration The Reform'd dâ—â—arm'd at Bourdeaux The Consistory discontinues the Publick Exercise of their Religion Two Advocates declare it to the Parliament 1616. The Parliament ordains the Continuation of the Exercise of the Reform'd Religion The Consistory cites both the Advocates after the Conclusion of the Peace They appeal to the Parliament * A Chamber composed of Catholick and Protestant Judges The Consistory suspends them publickly from the Communion A severe Decree The Advocate-General Passion The Ministers disown the things alledg'd by the Advocate-General Absurdities * Chambres Miparties in which the Judges were half Catholicks and half Protestants Ridiculous Pretensions * Cene. A continuation of the ill Will of the Parliament * Chamber-Mipartie in which the Judges are part Catholics and part Protestants A False Decree of Inrollment of a Declaration against the Prince Propositions of peace * Petitions oâ— Addresses 1615. The Lower Languedoc remains peaceable The King of England offers his Mediation for a peace The Council of France refuses the said Mediation 1616. Conference and Peace of Loudun The removal of the General Assembly to Rochel The Assembly sends Deputies to Loudun Disingenuity of the Court. The Assembly is almost compell'd to accept a Peace Edict of Blois * Remonstrances and
Demands * The Commons Private Articles * A Land Tax and heavy Imposition upon the People Inrollment and Modifications of the Edict * Petitions and Remonstrances * Petisions or Addresses * Petitions or Demands The Prince Authorizes himself at Court. The Queen puts the Prince of Conde in Prison Which occasions great disturbances The Reform'd seize Sancerre * Places that were annex'd to â—â—â—ers Declaration upon the Edict of Peace The Duke d'Epernon makes War against Rochel Privileges of the said City The Duke's Preâ—â—nsiens 1617. Rochel applies it self to the King and makes an ill defence Importance of his Enterprise The Circle Assembles at Rochel And Convenes a general Assembly The Deputies of the Circle are ill receiv'd at Court Kâ—asâ—ns to prove that the Assembly is necessary Extremities to which the Male-contents are reduc'd The King's Temper Original of the Fortune of Honore Albert de â—uines * Pigriesches It has been question'd whâ—ther he was a Gentleman The Character of his Confidents Death of the Marshal d'Ancre Alteration of Affairs Luines Marries into the house of Rohan The Assembly of Rochel sends Deputies to the King And receives an Order to break up * Petitions and Demands They obey and resolve to protect the Churches of Bearn Their Petitions National Synod at Vitré Deputation to the King Letters to the General Assembly and their Answer The Churches of Bearn and Auvergne disturb'd The Count of Sancerre exerts Hostilities against the City Churches of the Country of Foix. * In which the Judges were part Catholicks and part Reform'd And those of Provence ill us'd Permission given to the Ministers to assist at Political Assemblies Places of Bailywicks establish'd with little Exactness * Towns or Villages in which the Publick Exercise of the Reform'd Religion was to be perform'd in the said Bailywicks Rogueries of the Converted Moors The Bishop of Lucon retires from the Queen Disgrace of Cotton the Jesuit Arnoux succeeds him A Sermon Preach'd at Court by him The Ministers of â— Charenton's Answer Against whom Informations are given Pamphlets on both sides The Bishop of Lucon Writes against the Ministers Assembly of the Clergy The Bishop of Macon's Speech Jacobins turn'd out of Montpelier They refuse to suffer a Jesuit Preacher The State of Bearn falsely represented The Effect of that Speech A Decree authorising the Jesuits to Preach in Montpelier * Petitions or Addresses A Decree of Restauration of the Ecclesiastical Estates that had been formerly confiscated in Bearn Re-union of that Country to the Crown which is oppos'd by the Estates La Force And Lescun Deceit of the Court. Dissertacion upon this matter Suspension of Homage * Ill Clerk Inconveniences attending the dis-union and Advantages of the Union By whom the Re-union was pretreated Motives of the Opponants And their Answer to the Dissertation The Edict of Re-union publish'd The Clergy obtain a Decree of Restauration Which declares that the Deputies have been heard and the Writings seen Subtilty of the Clergy A Violent Speech * Petition The Bearnois endeavour to Ward the Blow Remonstrances of Lescâ—n Libels The State of Religion in Bearn Lescun only obtain Words The Cahiâ—â— of the Clergy is favourably answer'd * Petition or Address 1618. The Effect of those Advantages is prosecuted without Inequalities of La Force The Countryof Bearn pursues in this Opposition Writings on their behalf Why the Clergy would not take the said Reimplacement for themselves An Answer to the Writing of the Bearnois A Continuation of the said Answer Enterprises upon the Cities of Surety The Exercise of the Reform'd Religion hinder'd in divers places Injustices of the Parliaments Jesuits * Cities Towns and Castles granted to the Reformed for their safety by the Edicts Burial * Petition or Remonstrance Answers to the Cahiers Illusive Remedies 1618. Extream Dispair of the Bearnois The Assembly refus'd at Casteljaloux And at Tonneins They repair to Orthez And arâ— proscrib'd Seditino at Pau. Maliae of the Commissioner Presages and Devotions Craft of the Council First and final Mandamus directed to the Soveraign Council of Bearn Follow'd by Decrees of that Council * Petitions or Demand Sentiment of some particular Persons upon those Affairs Disposition of the great ones State of Forreign Affairs Dangerous Consequences of the aâ—vice of the Moderate An Apology for the Conduct of the Bearnois * Laws of the Bar. Artifices of the Bishops of the Country Remarks upon the Bishop of Macon's Speech Difficulties against the Reimplacement Against Tithes Prescription * For. Conclusion 1619. The Queen Mother makes her Escape from Blois The Prince of Conde is set at liberty The Assembly of Orthez Transfer'd to Rochel Takes the King's part And breaks up Another Assembly allow'd at Loudun Why the Reform'd have so often renew'd the same Demands * Pâ—tâ—tiâ—â— The Court refers the Complaints to the General Caâ—… Resolutions and Oaths of the Assembly * Petitions and Demands Substance of the General Cahier and other Articles of Complaints The Assembly forbids to suffer Jesuits and other Monks to Preach in the Cities of Surety * Petition or Address Decrees of divers Parliaments to the contrary Deputations Letters and Remonstrances to the King The Reform'd were inclin'd to the Queen-Mother's Service A Dismal Answer And the Effect of it Opposition of the Catholicks to the Establishment of a Collâ—ge at Charenton Assembly of the Clergy Exemption which is granted them of pleading in such Tribunals where all the Judges are Reform'd Reiterated Orders to the Assembly of Loudun to break up 1620. Expedient of Accommodation An unexpected Declaration against the Assembly * In which the Judges were part Catholicks and part Reform'd The Prince of Conde deceives the Reform'd Affected diligence of the Attorney General The Assembly remains firm The Negotiations are râ—sâ—m'd The Assembly Obeys upon the parole of the Prince of Conde and of the Favourite Effect of the Separation of the Assembly New Intrigues against the Favorite The Duke of Rohan ingages in the Queens Party Scruples of the Queen Mother Power of the Party she forms Useful Advice of the Prince of Coâ—de and ill Council of 〈◊〉 Bishop 〈◊〉 Lucon The Bishops Reasons Defeat of the Queen's Forces follow'd by 〈◊〉 Peace The King 's unexpected Journey in Bearn Faults of the Reformed and the Cause thereof The King proceeds notwithstanding Remonstrances He arrives at Pau. Makes himself Master of Navarreins He takes the Oath Alteration of the whole Form of the Government Suppression of the Captains of the Parsans How the Reform'd of the Country were us'd Abuses and Threatnings Wickedness of the Bishops Cruelties of Poyane Different Relations of the Kings Journey National Syned of Alets Political Regulations The Ministers deputed for the Syned of Dordrecht give an account of the reasons that have stopt them 〈◊〉 Bearn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They resolve to depute to the King All manner of Succors is refus'd to the Deputies of Bearn Important considerations evaded News of consequence supprest 1618. Treachery of