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A55355	Memoirs of the Sieur De Pontis who served in the army six and fifty years under King Henry IV, Lewis the XIII, and Lewis the XIV containing many remarkable passages relating to the war, the court, and the government of those princes / faithfully Englished by Charles Cotton.	Pontis, Louis, sieur de, 1583-1670.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1694 (1694)	Wing P2807; ESTC R33977	425,463	306

the World always set those great fortunes to which I might have some pretensions at a distance from me and by an effect of his infinite mercy that I did not then discern let me be crost in the designs of my whole life because he had another design upon me much more advantagious than all I could wish for then The more diligent I was in my Command and the more faithful in all parts of my duty the less I advanced in my fortune The King whom I serv'd with incredible zeal shew'd a particular affection for me as several passages in these Memoirs declare but then his keeping me always about his own person hindred him from raising me to considerable Commands that might have given me greater liberty to retire and he was not over-hasty in doing any great matters for me in the condition I then was that so he might keep me to a more absolute dependance upon him alone XIV There happen'd to me about this time as I was upon the Guard at the Louvre a rencounter pleasant enough in it self but untoward for the consequence it might have had and the quality of the person concern'd in it The King had given me command to lye upon the Guard contrary to what other Officers used to do desiring to have me extraordinary obsequious to him and fixt to his person knowing me particularly faithful and affectionate in his Service The Duke of Orleans who then lay in the Louvre coming home on foot one night very late resolv'd to surprize the Guard in a jest which had like to have cost both him and us very dear He being always well attended some of his Train had got within eight or ten paces of the Centinel and then threw themselves so nimbly upon him that they wrapt him up in a Cloak and stopt his mouth with a handkerchief to hinder his crying out Then they came all together to the Guard and began to cry Kill kill I was laid down upon the Mattrice and most of the Souldiers were asleep but we were soon rouzed and I surpriz'd to see my self so prest on a sudden ran out of door with my Sword crying To me To me I call'd the Pikes and Musquets and began to push our assailants very vigorously whose shoulders were well cudgell'd with bangs of Pikes distributed very liberally and finding such warm entertainment they cry'd out The Duke of Orleans and he himself cry'd out Gascon Gascon But the more they cry'd the more I laid on without hearkning to any thing they said till at last we enclosed them all in the Guard-room and were about to use them very scurvily But knowing the Duke I cry'd out Oh my Lord what have you done you have hazarded your own and all our lives I got him presently into my Chamber and with much ado appeas'd the tumult the Souldiers being heated and much enrag●d for having suffer'd themselves to be so surpriz'd There were no lives lost because it was done all on the sudden and the Souldiers had not time to recollect themselves or come into a posture for doing mischief I came afterward to the Duke of Orleans and told him I was at my wits end for what had happen●d but his Highness ought to pardon us since we could not do otherwise than we had done not knowing who they were and that we had all been lost had we suffer'd our selves to be forc'd To which the Duke answer●d Go go it was only a frolick and if you say nothing we have no great reason to brag of it I could not take this for a jest though and apprehended some disgrace from it The Duke of Orleans protested that he pardon'd me with all his heart and gave me the assurance of it by looking graciously upon me Never was Prince in such a fright his Jest having succeeded so ill and seeing himself so vigorously attack'd by his own fault and ready to be knock't o' th' head by those whose duty it was to defend him It was very fortunate both for him and us that he came off with life since otherwise we had all been lost without remedy though it was but the performance of our duty It is ill playing such pranks unworthy not only of a Prince but of the meanest Gentleman I attended him to his Apartment where he caus'd himself immediately to be let blood I reprov'd the Centinel severely who was a brave Cadet and more unfortunate than faulty though according to the Rules of War he deserv'd to have been punish'd In the morning I was at the King 's rising not daring to conceal this affair from him which he must needs have heard from others He took me into his Cabinet and I gave him an account of all that past He askt whether his Brother were hurt and understanding that he was not he only laught and said I perceive they were well beaten but 't is no matter they deserv'd it But fearing still lest the Duke of Orleans might resent this affront I took the liberty to beseech his Majesty to make my peace with him which he promis'd to do He sent one of the Gentlemen of the Chamber to see how he did without taking notice of any thing The Duke who had no great mind to divulge what had befallen him sent word he was well but had been let blood for a slight indisposition And coming a little after to the King his Majesty took him into into his Cabinet where after having intimated that he had heard of the business and rattled him soundly for his rashness in exposing his person so he call'd me in and said to the Duke Here is Pontis in great confusion about your matter To which the Duke immediately made answer That he did not take any thing I had done the least ill but was ready to serve me upon all occasions And indeed he resented it so little that when I desir'd a little after a Colours for one of my Souldiers his Royal Highness gave it me at first word The End of the First Volume MEMOIRS OF THE Sieur De PONTIS PART II. BOOK I. The King sends Cardinal Richelieu with a powerful Army to the Relief of the Duke of Mantua The Death of Monsieur de Canaples Cazal besieg'd by the Enemies and the Siege rais'd An Interview of the French and Spanish Generals when the Peace was concluded The Cardinal Mazarine saves the French Army and the Sieur de Pontis afterwards brings them off from a great danger I. THE Duke of Savoy seeing the King at a distance and now gone back to Paris thought his honour concern'd to break that Treaty with him the making of which had been indeed the effect of necessity more than choice To this purpose he sought the alliance of the King of Spain and of the Emperour who had sent the grand Colalto with a strong force to invest the Duke of Mantua in his Capital City The King conceiving a just indignation at this breach of Faith in the Duke of

he sacrific'd his own interests to the good of the King and State and for ten years together maintained a War against the Rebels in Languedoc at his own proper charge In short the King himself was pleased at two several times to proclaim his praises throughout his whole Realm in so honourable and advantageous expressions that it might be truly said of this last design in which he was unhappily engag'd that it was in some degree excusable not being able to endure to live and see the Queen Mother driven out of France the King 's only Brother remov'd from Court and so many persons of Honour some banish'd some clapt up in Prison some publickly put to death and all this by the Tyranny of one single Minister of State and that it was his great misfortune to be of opinion that the taking up arms against that Minister was the best way of doing a real service to his Master XVI After all that has been said it cannot seem strange if the people and the whole Kingdom where so sensibly affected with his death As an instance of their being so as soon as ever the Execution was over and the Grand Provost had ordered the Gates to be opened they throng'd in prodigious crowds to see the body Their concern and the mighty respect they had for the great Montmorency's person were such that when they could find no other comfort for the loss they sustain'd in him they almost stifled one another to get near the Scaffold and to gather up the blood in their Handkerchiefs and lay it up by them at home Nay some were so very extravagantly zealous as to drink of it and the least that any body did was to go away again in tears In the mean while two Priests that belong'd to Cardinal Valette came and took the body into the Chapel of the Abby-house of St. Cernin where it was first embalmed and put into a leaden Coffin and afterwards by a very particular favour bury'd in St. Cernin's Church a place that no person had been allow'd to lye in ever since Charlemayne brought the bodies of the Apostles thither and this was so strictly observed that the very Counts of Tholouse could never obtain leave to be laid there themselves An eminent mark of respect this for this illustrious man that he should be esteem'd worthy an interrment where no body else had the priviledge of lying At four in the morning they began to say a great many Masses as was usual and among others the Bishops of Pamiez and Commenges said Masses The greatest part of the Parliament came thither with the common people to pay their last respects to the person whose condemnation they could not pronounce without tears and extreme regret And thus ended this bloody Tragedy which by presenting the greatest man in the Kingdom beheaded publickly upon a Scaffold in the very midst of that very Province and the Capital City of it which was under his Government shews us at the same time how much that favour and the grace of heaven which assisted him so powerfully at his last hour is a more desirable blessing than the good Graces of the Court which forsook him when he stood most in need of them It may not be amiss to present you here with a Copy of Verses which may serve for an Epitaph upon him and with them I shall conclude this story How short Man's Glory and how frail his State Learn here from noble Montmorency's Fate These are the poor remains of that great Name Whose Praises fill the loudest Mouth of Fame Such were if any such fair Thetis ' Son Such the Victorious Youth of Macedon In Life scarce equal equal in their End From which nor Force nor Virtue can defend For in rude heaps the Valiant Wise and Just With Fools Knaves Cowards undistinguisht must Lye down at last and mix one common Dust. Midst heaps of slain lavish of Life he stood And like a Rock scatter'd th' invading Flood The God of War observ'd th' unequal strife Threatned but would not spill so brave a Life But oh Respect perverse malicious vain That generous blood which could ev'n Mars restrain Was vilely shed and did a Scaffold stain Thus Heaven consults poor Mortals Innocence Just shews and snatches back such excellence Lest by bright Virtue charm'd we prostrate fall The Image court and slight the Great Original XVII After the Duke of Montmorency's execution the King and all the Court went back to Paris And the next year which was 1633 we met with new disturbances from another Prince who though he was a Soveraign one yet was so with dependance upon the King The Duke of Lorrain having violated several Treaties formerly made with his Majesty and denying to pay homage to the Crown upon account of the Dutchy of Bar the King resolved to go do himself reason by force of Arms. He went about the month of August and sat down before the Town of Nancy which was then one of the best Fortifications in Europe I had the honour to attend him constantly when he gave himself the trouble to go in person and mark out the lines of our Trenches which he did with most extraordinary skill being as I said eminently ingenious in all matters relating to War XVIII The Duke of Lorrain perceiving himself in very great hazard to lose his whole Dominions by his own fault s●nt his Brother the Cardinal of Lorrain to the King to propose a Treaty of Peace He was forc'd at last to truckle under a stronger force and a more discerning judgment than his own He resolv'd to come himself at last and wait on the King in his own Quarters which were at Neuville a league off of Nancy and there made all manner of Submissions The King receiv'd him with great kindness and respect and entertain'd him with the same expressions of friendship as if he had never had reason to take any thing ill from him He stood for some time bare-headed and afterwards putting on his own Har obliged the Duke to put on his too But being by several experimental proofs sufficiently convinc'd of how fickle and crafty a temper he was he was resolv'd by some contrivance to hinder his return to Nancy that day vilely suspecting that if he let him go back he might trump up some new device upon him and shutting himself up in the Town deny to open the Gates notwithstanding his word was engaged to the contrary The Kings Chamber was a very dark room and therefore pretending he could not see to read some Letters that were brought him he called for Lights that so the Duke might not be sensible when night came on And this was about four of the clock in the afternoon in the month of September The Duke of Lorrain who would fain have been going to Nancy seeing the King taken up in reading of Letters would have taken his leave and desir'd he would permit him to go home and give directions for the

after his leaving the world as never to account himself any better than an old sinner to whom silence and solitude and a life that shut him up from Conversation were given as his portion and therefore I shall so far comply with his disposition in this p●rticular as to add only one thing which he would often say to an intimate friend of his That the thing he most dreaded in the service he endeavoured to pay Almighty God was lest he should insensibly grow fond and take up with this life and not sufficiently contemplate the greatness of Him he had the honour to serve And these apprehensions were the more reasonable in him because upon continual remembrances of that extraordinary zeal shewn in all his long hard service to his Master the late King he might find some ground to suspect himself less zealous where yet the service was infinitely better and the Master incomparably greater He lived about eighteen or twenty years after his Retirement and at last fell into a very weak and languishing condition and Nature was so far decayed that after his first voluntary retreat from the Court and company he fell into a more strict one the two last years of his life being lost to all conversation with men by his extreme deafness and so finding himself under some necessity of entertaining himself chiefly with Almighty God He dyed in the year of our Lord 1670 and of his own age the ninety second when Nature could last no longer but was forced to sink under so many years and so many hardships and shocks which he had undergone in several Wars for a long time together I cannot suffer my self to doubt but upon the perusal of these Memoirs and considering the many dangers the cross accidents and uncommon events which he was exercised with every body will be of opinion that there are some things very surprizing and wonderful and the marks of a particular providence with regard to him and that the publishing this account may be of great use since so many things are contained in it capable of doing good to those that are about engaging in the affairs of the world to them that are already engaged and to them too who have disengaged themselves from it For all these may learn from this Example of a Souldier one that had long experience of all the different conditions that could happen to him both in the Court and in the Camp that nothing was ever more true than that observation of the wisest Prince that ever lived Vanity of vanities all is vanity except the fear of God and the keeping of his Commandments FINIS BOOKS Sold by James Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard THE Memoirs of Monsieur de Pontis who served in the French Army 56 years under Henry IV. Lewis XIII and Lewis XIV Kings of France containing many remarkable Passages relating to the War the Court and the Government of those Princes Faithfully englished at the Request of his Grace the Duke of Ormond By Charles Cotton Esq Fol. Lord Bacon's Essays Octavo Scrivener's Directions to a holy Life Oct. Dr. Barrow of Contentment c. Oct. Sir William Temple's Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the War in 1672. to the Peace concluded 1679. Octavo Second Edition His Observations upon Holland His Miscellanies Two Parts Dr. Tillotson's Sermons Three Volumes Four Sermons against the Socinians The Unreasonableness of Mens Contentions for the present Enjoyments in a Poem on Ecclesiastes The History of the Inquisition as it is exercis'd at Goa Written by Mr. Dellon who labour'd five years under its Severities with an account of his deliverance Quadraenium Jacobi or the History of the Reign of King James II. from his coming to the Crown to his Desertion The second Edition Twelves Plutarch's Lives Translated by several Hands 5 Vol. His Morals 5 Vol. The Life of the Emperour Theodos●●● Done into English from the French of Monsieur Flechier by Fr. Manning Octav. Kilburn's Presidents Twelves Seneca's Morals By Sir R. L'Estrange Norris's Discourses 3 Vol. Reform'd Devotions Caesar in usum Delphini Processus integri in Morbis fere omnibus curandis a Do. Tho. Sydenham conscripti A learned Treatise of the Situation of the Terrestrial Paradise Written in French by Huetius and translated into English by direction of Dr. Gale Cole's English and Latin Dictionary Robertson's or the Cambridge Phrase being the best and largest Phrase-Book extant Scarron's Novels The Governour of Cyprus The wanton Fryar Two Parts Victoriae Anglicanae or an Account of several Victories obtain'd by the English against the French POETRY and PLAYS BEN Johnson's Works newly reprinted Sir Robert Howard's Plays Milton's Paradise lost with Cuts Dryden's Juvenal Miscellany Poems Three Parts Ovid's Epistles By several Hands Waller's Poems Oldham's Poems Cleveland's Poems Dennis's Poems Hudibras Three Parts compleat Mr. Dryden's Plays bound or single viz. 1 Dramatick Essay 1 Wild Gallant 3 Rival Ladies 4 Indian Emperour 5 Maiden Queen 6 Sir Martin Marr-all 7 Tempest 8 Mock-Astrologer 9 Tyrannick Love 10 Conq. of Granada 11 Marriage Alam 12 Love in a Nunn 13 Amboyna 14 State of Innocen 15 Aurang-Zebe 16 All for Love 17 Limberham 18 Oedipus 19 Troilus and Cressida 20 Spanish Fryar 21 Duke of Guise 22 Albion Albanius 23 Don Sebastian 24 Amphytrion 25 King Arthur 26 Cleomenes Mr. Shadwell's Plays bound or single viz. 1 Sullen Lovers 2 Humourist 3 Royal Shepherdess 4 Virtuoso 5 Psycho 6 Libertine 7 Epsom Wells 8 Timon of Athens 9 Miser 10 True Widow 11 Lancashire Witch 12 Woman Captain 13 Squire of Alsatia 14 Bury Fair 15 Amorous Biggot 16 Scowrers 17 Volunteers Also his Odes to the King and Queen Mr. Lee's Tragedies bound or single viz. 1 Sophonisba 2 Nero 3 Gloriana 4 Alexand. the Great 5 Mithridates 6 Theodosius 7 Caesar Borgia 8 Lucius Junius Brutus 9 Constantine 10 Oedipus 11 Duke of Guise 12 Massacre of Paris 13 Princess of Cleve Mr. Otways Plays bound or single viz. 1 Alcibiades 2 Friendsh in fash 3 Orphan 4 Souldiers Fortune 5 Second Part of the Souldiers Fortune 6 Titus and Berenice 7 Venice preser'vd 8 Don Carlos 9 Caius Marius 10 Windsor Castle a Poem Also these and most other Modern Plays Mr. Anthony Abdelazer Bellamira Country Wit Circe Chances Cambyses Country Wife Cheats City Politiques Destruct of Jerusalem Duke and no Duke Devil of a Wife Distressed Innocence Empress of Morocco Earl of Essex English Monarch English Fryar Edward the third Emper. of the Moon Fond Husband Feign'd Courtizans Forc't Marriage Female Virtuoso Gentlem. danc Mast. Henry V. and Mustaph. Heir of Morocco Fortune Hunters Ibrahim Island Princess Ingratit of a Commonwealth Julius Caesar Injur'd Lovers Innocent Impostor Innocent Usurper King and No King King Lear Love in a Tub London Cuckolds Love for Money Man of Mode Mulberry Garden Macbe●h Madam Fickle Maids Tragedy Marriage-H●ter Maids last Prayer Othello Old Batchelor Plain-Dealer Philaster Pope Joan Regulus Rehearsal Richmond Heiress Scornful Lady She woud if she coud Siege of Babylon Sir Solomon Squire Oldsap Successful Strangers Sir Courtly Nice Sir Patient Fancy Triumphant Widow Titus Andronicus Treacherous Broth. Traytor Vertuous Wife Very good Wife Widow Ranter Woman's Conquest Woman Bully Wife's Excuse FINIS