Servient to the States staggering Avozzi as he passed by according to his devoutness had dropt some intimations of advice at the Hague about tolerating the Catholick Profession That they should do this truly for their Kindreds sake they should do it for the memory of their Ancestors not to hate the Religion which they had approved more cruelly than the Tenents of the Anabaptists that are new and destructive to Government who are tolerated among the Hollanders while the Catholicks are excluded This puzzled them that are for Liberty of Conscience Servient was judged more fit for the Embassie and he discharged it worthily At the Hague he made an eloquent Speech as he had an excellent Understanding and Utterance At last saith he the Arts that your Ancestors feared are broke out And have you forgot the Courage of your Fathers who avoided the Embassies of Kings for Peace not as the Councils of Friends but as the Plots of Enemies If there be no deceit in the bottom why doth not Pinneranda deal above board That which is honest and fair needs no Arts to disguise it Softness in a warlike Nation is over-hasty It is suspicious to have Liberty offered by a King not conquered and to have it secured by the Confession of a Prince disclaimed Although ye do obtain it by force of Arms yet the receiving it of the Spaniard is the first way to slavery That Philip was never so self-denying as to throw away his just Government but doth allow the Dutch the short respit of a temporary Liberty That Kings gather strength by delay When the hatred is worn away and past injuries forgot that people return to their Allegiance In Peace the vices that accompany security are to be feared When your Arms are laid down you shall never be at Peace you have no ground to fear the sad misfortunes of being surprised So many fortified Towns so many Men of War such strength of Horse and Foot trained for the Field The Ocean drawn about you and the Valour of your most excellent General he pointed at Orange there present will defend you and what is more the joynt Arms of my Master who stands not in such need of you as to assist those that slight his Counsel This Advice comes to you from a Friend from your first Confederate from a provident King whose only Interest is your safety I do not engage you to eternize the War I cry after Peace but such a one whose Issue may be secure by the French Warranty and that there is need of joyning Councils to that effect It is strange with what heats the Proposition was debated in all the States Sometimes even Mazarine was not spared as though he had secret hopes of future advantages by the miseries of the suited Allies Some Emissaries came secretly from Panneranda to the Hague to set out all Secrets which was not unknown to Servient Wherefore saith he do there come Spies but to search if there be any evenue open for deceit and money to enter in at Servient whether by his Eloquence or his Reasons obtained this that neither Party without the consent of the other should capitulate with the Spaniard the common Enemy He returned to Munster after he had brought the Provinces to be of one mind which was to his credit Mazarine always suspected some false trick from the Hollanders nor did the issue deceive him the French grew more and more hateful whose Arms prevailed to the destruction of the Spaniards Debates hung undetermined at Munster All things proceeded slowly Before former Propositions were dispatched new Pretensions are set on foot nor could difficulties easily be solved the Commissioners of the lesser Princes murmured and did not conceal it that they would not be the Spectators of that Comedy whose whole Scene was laid at Paris and Madrid The Spaniards ordered their proceeding so dextrously that none did otherwise but impute a Cessation of Hostility to them and a desire of continuing the War to us and as the beginning of the Troubles was charged upon Richlieu so the obstruction of Peace was upon Mazarine who loved to tread safe and consequently slow From the very first he foresaw that Peace could not be had from the Spaniard without extorting it by force of Arms and therefore he must propagate both intestine and foreign Wars that so France becoming victorious in all Parts might prescribe Laws of Peace At Munster after divers Proposals without any effect at length this Project was broached as conclusive which by the Mediators was offered to our Commissioners That the King of Spain in favour to the most desired Peace doth quit to the King of France the County of Russillon the perpetual possession of the conquered Towns in Flanders and Franche Comte so that Portugal may be left to the Spanish Vengeance That the Duke of Lorraine be satisfied and what places in the Territories of the Dukes of Savoy and Mantua have been taken by both Kings may be respectively restored to their proper Lord. For â—her matters in Italy he promised to stand to the award of the Pope and Republick of Venice The controverted pretensions of the Emperour and the Dependencies on the Empire to be reserved to the Agreement of the Meeting at Osnabrug Thus far Penrâ—anda but with an intention of picking quarrels and only for a blind to deliver the Spaniards from the Odium of the War and to discharge it wholly upon the French by that means giving our Allies and Confederates an occasion to fall off from us Then there went abroad a Rumor that the Peace was concluded not at Munster only but in the Neighbourhood and thence into remote parts The Mediators come with joy to Longuevilles house One might have seen their faces shine with a sudden lightsomness Chighi in a manner prostrating himself before Longueville begs and intreats him That now matters were in a posture more promising than could have been hoped for he would content himself and that he with his Fellow-Commissioners would not insist too strictly upon Niceties then shewing him a Pen Take that and sign This Pen will bring you more Glory than that Sword of your great Grandfather of Downs wherewith he chased the English out of France and freed his Country from oppression Penneranda indeed had in a Vapour offered these specious but insidious Proposals The French answer that many things which they had already agreed upon were omitted as first of Braganza whether King or Usurper of Portugal that all mention should be waved Lorraine should be restored but not fully he that had so often violated his Covenant should for a penalty lose some part of his Dominion at least the towring Fortifications of Nancey be dismantled that so being disabled from twice doing mischief he might for the future learn to demean himself with more moderation that Duarte of Braganza should be enlarged which the French maintained had been already discussed but Peâ—neranda had omitted and formalized upon as though they
Corps is interred amongst his Predecessors at S. Denis without any pomp or but very little Such directions had he given when he ordered concerning his Burial When Lewis was dead every one begun to entertain serious thoughts of his own estate I judge it therefore seasonable before I compile the intended story to declare how the Princes the Parliament the Ecclesiasticks the Provinces the Armies stood affected what were the Bounds of the Empire how firm the Allies and in sum what was the state of our Affairs what Parts in the Government were strong what again weak So that not only the Products and Events of Actions which ordinarily are but contingent but the reason too and causes of them may be known The Death of Lewis as it was joyfully taken at the first heat by those that were transported with it so did it stir up divers thoughts and affections not only in the City and Parliament but likewise in the Provinces and amidst the Armies and Officers The Followers and Friends of the Banished and Imprisoned begun to hold up their heads The King towards his later days whether stung in conscience or to throw an Odium upon Richlieu and that he might lay at his door the cruelty of all proceedings had recalled the Banished and release those that had long lain in prison 3. The Princes of the Blood were joyful as is usual upon change of Government resuming presently their liberty with intention to use their power more licentiously as having to do with a King but five years old a Spanish Woman and Mazarine an Italian For the Bishop of Beauvais did not long continue in favour as one insufficient to draw in such a yoke as his Rivals would make believe Gaston Duke of Orleans the Kings Uncle who had neither love nor hatred but as they were imprest all his life time subject to the Tuition of his Counsellors did at that time lead a life free from cares under the Conduct of the Abbot of Rivieres whose Counsels tending to Peace he did not always follow to his own great damage Then spent he his days in jollity his nights in dancing and drew money to bear these expences out of the Exchequer which as long as it stood open to him he never troubled himself about the Government Conde was a profound Politician He had a strange Art of living Men coming new from the Plough or Ship-broad might find him neither stately nor guarded and he would freely confer with them He was open to all and enquired into every thing know every thing He minded all affairs great and small and so by these ways more than the clashing of Arms raised his Estate to vast Wealth which he was the first Conde that every cared to heap up and in that being very considerable and abounding desired that nothing but the Honour of the Kingdom and the Publick Welfare with his private Gains Enguien his Son leaving all care either of State or Family to his Father then only affected Martial Glory And at that age a successful daring had in him the place of Valour but when his parts attain to maturity he shall come to the highest pitch of perfection What he came afterwards to be the order of the Story will inform His Brother Continewly come from School did scarce write man of an excellent disposition which afterwards inclined to Religion not that which consists in disputing but in living having the sap of good works in seriousness not out of ostentation Longueville Son in Law to Conde sailed in Condes Bottom yet would meddle with all but favoured none save the strongest Party if they came to be low would slip his neck out of the Collar After the Kings death he had proposed to get all the strong Holds in Normandy under his Power especially Havre de Grace that so secured against the Normans secured against the King he might play Rex in that Port. Vendosme the natural Son of Henry IV. by Gabrielle d'Estres having his Estate consumed by so long adversities solaced his mind grown savage by such continued Exile either with the single remembrance of his former Fortune or with the hopes of a better nor did he plot any thing else but how by all possible means to repair the Breaches of his decayed Family The Duke de Mercoeur his eldest Son lived in quiet Beaufort his younger did upon his own head prepare himself a way to the prime Ministry for which attempt he afterwards was imprisoned besides that he had somewhat to â—o with Mombazon I am certainly informed that his late Majesty before his death did very particularly recommend these Youths to the Queen The Duke of Guise resembling his Ancestors in Courage and Gallantry with different success came not up but sacrificed his time in the Low-Countries upon courting and following his Amours to the expence of Reputation The two younger Brothers inherited the popularity inherent to their Ancestors At this juncture of Affairs the remaining Progeny of so many Heroes that heretofore durst try for the Kingdom by Arms now finds not place for so much as a wish pretending to nothing more at this time than a thing very easie to compass that is not to stir A Branch of the House of the Guises Elboeuf and Harcourt depressed in their Estates had no designs This latter a stout and daring Souldier afterwards tossed in variety of Fortunes about whom I shall have occasion hereafter to speak not a little Those of Nemours made French from a Savoy stock of a numerous male Line were but two left the Elder of which had a great spirit in a small body but his thred of life being soon cut off left his Brother Successor who held nothing of that famous House but their blameless manners Such were our Princes not any either willing or able to work an Alteration All of them subscribed to the present Government beating their heads about many things to no effect This is the Quality of the French especially Courtier to make much stir that presently vanishes in the air To bind one another in deceitful bonds afterwards to flye off and betray one another A Crafts Master will easily break through such Cobwels 4. Now the Parliament of Paris they do not dislike the present State This is a great Body compounded of divers Humors At a certain sum of money which is undecent they purchase this Degree For themselves and their Heirs Most of them live above their Estates and having wasted their means either by their Wives or their Childrens or their own prodigality long after a Change Their Office if the matter be lightly scann'd is to preserve every mans propriety to compose differences to mitigate the increase of Taxes and retrench ways of Oppression that have been invented more grievous than Taxes to encourage Trade above all to advance the Kings Honour to teach the people that by their own good example never to clash with nor dispute the Kings Commands but humbly petition him and hold
besides an innumerable quantity of common Souldiers One might have seen from Piquepousse to S. Denis dismal slaughters Sanmagrine and Mantini the Nephew of Mazarine on whom the hope of his Uncle was worthily set breathing out their last were carried back to Court State-sacrifices Of the Party Nemours and Rochefoucault came back wounded and half dead The Port of S. Anthony being clear Conde with his mangled Retinue comes into the City having ventured at that which could not have been effected but by a most valiant man Great every where but greater than the rest where the danger was great in this S. Anthonies fight greater than himself One could not know whether to admire him more either when he exceeded all measure in running upon dangers or when he kept within the bounds of admitting due praises Here he rejected Applauses and would not avow his own labours bur infinitely valued other mens so different was he after Victory from what he was in fight What was more cruel in the afflicted City than to see German Wallon and Lorrain Troops march up and down with drawn Swords as though the King had been conquered carrying along with them flocks of Harlots and Scythian Waggons yet had that odious crew Billets assigned them in the places adjacent to the Suburb of S. Germans and the Seyne designed for the Entertainments of Paris These Plantations the barbarous Souldier held after that he had plundered Villejuvive Vitry and other Towns There were not wanting some Illustrious Families too which freely sent in Provisions to them when they swaggered thereby to redeem their being pillaged But that nothing might be wanting to the highest Frenzy the Faction appeared wearing its Colours then which Faction there being nothing in Nature more slight the vilest of things Straw was chosen for a Standard of Sedition Yellow straws were plaited into the Nosegays of the gallanter sort Carts Coaches and Saddle-Horses came not forth without a Lock of straw stuck on them nay the very Mouks had straw on their Cowls They that were Chaff-less or Straw-less were beaten in an unusual Subject I musr use an unusual Term. Such a Straw-Triumph was odious to the good and imported no good Wheat nor the Seed-plot of any good fruit The City breathed after nothing but Loyalty and due Obedience to his Majesty Orleans with his Complices wavered The Court increased by new accessions The Normans with Longueville detest War The Spaniards by Fuensaldagne enter indeed France with a pompous Camp The Duke of Lorraine concludes under-hand with Mazarine In Guyenne Condes Party weakens In a word all things go cross No hope is left but in the Union of Paris with the Parliament and Princes which striking terror with its empty sound may bring the King to a Treaty of Peace wished for and pursued with earnest vows on all hands It was July 4. 1652. when there met in the Town-hall the chief men Hospital Governor of Paris and the Provost of the Merchants presiding after the usual manner There came in Orleans and Conde with innumerable Followers at four in the afternoon They were received honourably by Hospital who seeing that famous Tuft of Straw in Orleans's Hat could not refrain from saying Why do you come into his Majesties Room wearing a Badge of Sedition Orleans without any resentment answered All will be well The Court was scarcely met when there comes in a Trumpet from his Majesty with a Letter wherein he testifies that it would be pleasing to him if the Court were adjourned till four days after So small a space could not be denied the King the Court is dissolved the Princes return whom as Hospital waited on a suborned Rascal offered him a Tuft of Straw in scorn or to watch an opportunity of Sedition which was wished for Hospital suitably to the quality of his place and after his wonted manner answers Sirrah I have a good mind to â—â—ing you out at window which I should command to be done did not the Dignity of this honourable Person he pointed at Orleans bridle my just indignation The Princes had scarce got into their Coach when there fell shot with a Musket either by chance or upon design some unknown Fellow mixed with the vulgar Rout which with Weapons and menacing words thronged about the Town-house Some affirm among those that abuse their leisure that it was done with a mischievous intent Nor are there none that witness it to have been by the Order of the Princes that the desired Union might be either perswaded or forced However the truth be a great destruction sprung from thence The crowd of men in Arms lying under the Windows crys out That Mazarines were locked up there and did hold very bad Councils that the destruction by their means hangs over the City A Citizen they had already killed Some great misfortune is to be expected that Fagots would be fetched to lay the House flat with avenging flames Of a sudden the common Rout fall on fiercely with Rage Arms Fire and Fagot The forwardest are slaughter'd others stifled with smoke the House is stormed that seemed the fatal day of Paris Those that were potent in Faction strengthend the Confusion Companies of Souldiers are drawn up to the City-Walls The Town-house-wall is boiled with flames so that the smoke rolls in a gloomy Cloud and had the wind then spread the burning the Greave would have been involved being already scorched all over with the dismal fire which as the Will of God was mounted hot aloft but had its power confined to the lower Region It seems after so many hazards of the poor City this Game had been left unplaid They were not contented to have eat up the Citizens They must burn them too Whilst the Conflagration and Riot lasted Conde assayed to in Orleans held him fearing lest the Prince might come to any mischance by the popular Commotion Orleans his Daughter came in like a stout Virago when the Tumult was appeased and the fire abated every one went home to his house The flame indeed was quenched but the memory not buried which will live for ever in their minds And both Princes burnt not the Houses of the City but his own hopes Hospital having escaped the danger in a disguise left his House and the City and retired Beaufort is made Governor of Paris and Broussel Provost of the Merchants against the approbation of the Court but what should they do Prudence lay opprest a secret overpowering Providence driving its Wheel over and deriding the Politicks of France Certain discreet Members of the Parliament are dispatched to the King at S. Denis The principal Commissioner was Nesmond who made a gravâ— Harangue the drift of his Speech was this That Mazarine might be unrepealably banished upon hiâ— removal that blessed Peace would dispel the Clouds in the Hemisphere of France that this was the only means for the afflicted State to recover settlement The King answered That the Cardinal should â—e gone so the Princes
cannot be comforted A few days before he took his leave of Haro he urges twenty times that he would but suffer these three words Besides his Charges and Governments to be inserted into the Articles already agreed upon and immediately there would be an end of so many miseries and the Sun-shine of Peace would break forth and shine every where Haro denies that this can be obtained of his Master and after that Lyonne was dismissed so great Secrets having been a long time supprest among us the Spaniards disguising the truth gave abroad that Mazarine both at Munster and Madrid always deluded the French Ministers and that he reserved himself the glory of the Peace is not to be questioned He who thinks otherwise is ignorant both of Mazarine and the French State and through envy suppresseth truth The Electors of Mentz and Cologne having met at Franckfurt to treat about the Election of the Emperour took hold upon that occasion and excited the Ambassadors of both Kings to revive the Treaty of Peace so far advanced Penneranda spum out ten months in expecting his Masters Instructions this space being expired he deluded the endeavours of the Electors by repeating the Propositions so often rejected and threatning If any Ambassadors were sent from the Electors to his Master he would do his endeavour to have them turned out of Madrid with disgrace and not so much as a Bark be allowed them to lodge in That in the first place without any Controversie what the French held by Conquest they should restore they must quit all Lorraine must abandon Braganza must restore Conde to his former Dignities till he was ascertained that the French had consented to these Conditions he would not so must as come to treat Whilst Penneranda talks at this rate without end we are come to the year 1659. in which at last the Peace was concluded About the end of the former year 1658. the King comes through Burgundy that was in some disorder to Lyons whither came also Christina the gallant off-spring of Henry IV. Dutchess of Savoy with her Daughter Margaret who was given out by report the Person that was to be espoused to the King Both of them were entertained so affectionately and so honourably as more cannot be imagined Hither too hastens at a great rate the Duke of Savoy a Prince of a comely Personage and in the flower of his Youth Vigorous Nature shewed the Stock from whence he sprung being so strong that he presently raised an admiration in the minds of all that saw him Now was the King supposed to court Margaret as his future Wife when all on the sudden Pememelli rides poste from Spain to Villâ—franca in such haste that he would not so much as to stay for a Pass After secret Conferences between Lyonne and Pementelli Pementelli introduced to Mazarine reveals the mind of his Master about the Peace as Lyonne had concluded it at Madrid and that about the Marriage of the Infanta of Spain with our King he might decently insinuate the matter he pretended that Lyonne had already intimated it to Duke Lewis de Haro although Lyonne had occasionally hinted the matter not by Instruction from the King but of his own head Mazarine being troubled for the Savoy Lady who having passed the craggy Alps and steep Ways in intolerable Weather would be thought to have been mocked resolves to reveal to her the whole Intrigue The Savoyard ill dissembling his resentment of the slur put upon his Sister flung away from Court rather then departed The Mother impatient stung with vexation presently after that her Son was gone very early in the morning went and lamented to Mazarine What shall I do deluded Woman Shall I go and sue after the Matches which I have already slighted having been inveigled with a pretended Marriage Mazarine pacifieth her with that smoothness of Language at which he was excellent That nothing should proceed but to the Common Good Matters were at that pass between the Kings of France and Spain that upon certain Judgment there was apparent hope of Peace and Alliance her Highness was of so noble a Spirit as to prefer the publick before her private advantage If the Spanish Proposition took not effect he would do his endeavour that she should never repent of her Journey and the trouble that she had undertaken which he promised to procure her under the Kings Hand Christiern whether she believed what he said or thought it to her credit to be deceived in a desperate case acquiesced to Mazarines Answer and went away with Margaret embracing instead of a King for her Husband his Note This was the precise sum of the Ticket In case the Spanish Match fall off that Margaret the Sister of the Duky of Savoy shall be the Wife of the King of France Lewis XIV The King postes away in all haste to Paris where Pementelli keeping close for some time with Lyonne debated upon the Articles of the Peace and Marriage He was frequently with Mazarine in the nights to whom when he would relax nothing in Condes case Pementelli accorded That Conde should be restored only to his Estate but forfeit his Governments and the place of Grand Maistre d'Hostel Farther that Mazarine and Lewis de Haro should meet at the Pyrenaeans and after that matters being composed between the Ministers that the two Kings should have an Enterview to confirm the Articles and solemnize the Marriage between the King of France and Maria Teresa the Infanta of Spain Pementelli ordered all this to be carried to Madrid by Courriers expecting from his Master the confirmation and ratifying of it after the usual manner Mazarine imparted this Secret to none but Lyonne which that he might keep from the eyes of the Common-people he gave out such pretences for a colour even to Strangers That the Journey of Pementelli was meerly casual as he passed from Piedmont to Flanders Happening to find the Court at Lyons that he thought it his Masters Interest if to prevent the Savoy Match he did court the French by the Marriage of the Infanta of Spain with the publick Peace That such a Match is to this end offered to put the Emperour into a scruple that wishes for it and to raise Jealousies in the minds of the Portugueze and English without whose knowledge these things were believed to be treated in France No Head was more fruitful of such Inventions than Mazarines In the month of June in the peaceful year 1659. Mazarine begun his blessed Journey with great Pomp not a few Lords of the Court bearing him company Between Blois and Amboise at Ecurie he luckily meets a Courrier of Pementelli returning from Madrid He brought with him a Ratification of the Articles in the Council of Spain extorted with difficulty and slowly because of the debarring Conde of his Dignities and Governments Mazarine paused and had almost gone back again being advised what Haro had promised Conde Pementelli earnestly desired him to hold on
their joynt valour to be longer entailed upon one Family That there can be no benefit hoped of the Peace of Munster as long as the Spaniards are predominant in the Emperours Council That the Austrian strength having been impaired by so many overthrows so much the more care should they take lest by their acquiring the Imperial Name their power might turn to the prejudice of Germany Nor are their threats of holding forth revenge for the repulse to be considered The Aids of France should not be backward to maintain their Liberties That the French Forces upon the Borders of Lorraine and Luxemburgh are at the Electors Command That the Austrian Souldiers being dispersed into remote places cannot so easily come into a Body and give the Electors Law The Bishop of Mentz having praised the Kings intention professed that he had the like inclinations but that it was a matter rather of wishes than hopes his Fellow-Electors without end crying up the Austrian Family abetted with the Power of so many Kingdoms and neighbouring Provinces being the Bank of the Catholick Religion against the inundations of the Turk When the French Embassadours hinted the Duke of Newburgh to them Mentz interrupting said the Electors would not do their Colledge that wrong as to lay aside the Possessor of so many Kingdoms and take in a Prince not of their own number that only the Duke of Bavariâ— among the Electors can be nominated to stand in competition with Leopaldus according to their Orders But that the Duke of Bavaria would not presume and therefore that Leopoldus could not be put by but should be admitted upon such terms as that the holy Laws of the Empire may not be infringed nor the publick Peace disturbed the French answer that Leopoldus was incapable by their orders as not being yet full eighteen year old and as not being yet chosen King by the Bohemian by vertue of which Kingdom he was reckonedan Elector of the Empire Gramont with intention to sound the Bavarians mind waving the title of Embassadour went incognite to Muncken and made a turn through Heydelberg alledging any sleight matter for the occasion of his Journey In Muncken he lodged at Curtius his acquaintances house who had formerly been entertained with him He forbore no argument to that principal Confident of the Bavarian Curtius answered that hit Prince was of that tendernes of Conscience that he would never attempt any forbidden thing and sue for the Empire that was not his due Curtius added If you knew by what engagements this house is linked with that of Austria you would attribute to singular prudence what perhaps you now impute to sloathfulness Gramont returns without effecting what he attempted Adelais the Bavarians Wife a Savoyard the Kings Cousin German in vain impelling the Dukes mind to the imperial Crown The Dukes Mother an Austrian and Curtius by several obligations tied to the house big with Empires restrained the Bavarians mind who is contented with his own condition and soars not over-high So all the Plots against the Austrians proved ineffectual and Leopold chosen King of the Bohemians at Prague presently rid to Franckfurt with Piâ—â—â—randa the dispenser of the Treasure there is no longer debate of rejecting him but of limiting him to certain Articles which having been commonly spread abroad it is superfluous to copy out in this place July 15. 1658. the Election followed the French Embassadours departing as is customary who returned into France without waiting upon the Emperour Leopoldus Upon the decease of John King of Portugal his Wife by consent of the Cortes is admitted to the Regency She thinking the French Aids necessary to support that State sends in Embassy into France Padre Domingo a Dominican Frier her Confessor to sound their minds This was principal in his instruction amongst the Articles of making a League that the Daughter of Portugal might marry with his most Christian Majesty Domingo is honourably entertained but it was judged proper to send an Embassadour to Lisbon that so great transactions might not seem to depend upon the single faith of a Monk Cominges is chosen upon divers accounts qualified for the Treaty Eminent in birth industrious politick bearing a faith to the Queen unshaken even in the most doubtful times which are wont to discover false hearts or to alter unconstant ones Such a man did the weight of the affair require For when as the Queen was averse to a match with the Portuguese it was not to be trusted but to a faithful Person as was Cominges beyond others Mazarine designing in his mind a Peace inclined to this Embassy of Cominges not so much seriously to promote a League with that Nation as to distract the Spaniards with jealousies in requital of a repulse received by Lyonne When Cominges arrives at the Portugal Border every age both Sexes entertain him with Applause and Festival Acclamations as the Assertor of their publick liberty By the complacence of his wit he easily insinuated into the Queens favour forwarding the womans Ambition and prompting to all that which might lead the high-spirited Lady to Glory by the obvious example of our Queen who had chased away the deadly storms with her sole prudence and having subdued her Rebels enjoyed her Kingdom in peace Her Majesty of Portugal yielded a willing ear to him discoursing on a pleasing subject and answered modestly nor according to the pride inherent in that Nation To follow such an example was indeed resolved by her but to reach it would be difficult and turning her eyes to both her Children which stood by her and never stirred from thence This saith she is the bound of my Labours and I desire to live so long till I can prefer them France will abundantly oblige me if it look favourably on them In modest terms she intimated the Marriage of her Daughter The People transported with greedy hopes and anticipated joys snatcht up uncertainties of expression for concessions in publick acclamations congratulating them as Husband and Wife by too forward an exultation did provoke Fortune The Common-people of Lisbonne breathing after only Liberty comes to the Embassadours house which is a strange act And being troubled at the dubious proceeding begs and beseeches him to open the causes of it crying out against the corruption of Ministers and threatning to be avenged of them Cominges discreetly minded the people of their duty composing the waves of Sedition with a proper Oration when they enquired more particularly into the secrets of the Marriage he fairly dismissed them as being too bold yet not without a donative About this time Cominges frankly spoke his mind to her Majesty of Portugal and shewed her in what danger she was her Ministers disagreeing her Officers unable to command her People divided that it was his Masters mind to assist the Portuguez in all Conditions and not to start from the Articles of the Agreement already begun but that it were more adviseable to finish it wholly by an Embassadour
miscarry in the end The Princes of Europe or their Ministers flocked thither as to consult an Oracle they admired the Island that is a little Spot upon which the whole Globe hung You would have taken it for the Anchor of the floating World The Duke of Lorraine heretofore detained in confinement at Toledo is then enlarged and without waiting upon that King goes with all speed to Haro to know the terms imposed upon him When he came to understand the condition of his Affairs impatient at such a penalty he broke out into speeches which might have given just occasion to have clapt up again in Prison the Duke tired out with miseries This is not a Peace saith he but a slavery by consent The singular goodness of Haro took compassion of afflicted Lorraine who leaving the Castilian Minister at Fuentarabie fled to the French mercy Mazarine receives him honourably Divers discourses past to and fro even about entring Alliance Duke Charles seemed to go away less discontented What was afterwards done shall be related in the end of the Book Charles King of England comes from Flanders for Cromwel whilst he was alive and after his death his Ghost would not let him live at Paris Haro omitted no Ceremony no deference of the humblest submission to him as a Stranger but neither granted him Condes Troops which he desired upon pretence of the Portugal War nor would enter into any other enagagement to act for the restoring of the King of England Mazarine would not so much as vouchsafe to speak with or see the King for fear of Lockhart who was a Spye there in behalf of the Parliament of England It is a thing which posterity will hardly believe Mazarine always hated Cromwell and the growing Common-wealth yet so great an apprehension of that petty Tyrant was imprinted on the Cardinals soul that he dreaded the very Ghost of him when he was buried and whom he had courted with feigned Honour whilst he was alive he followed with a false Veneration after he was dead So true it is that some meaner Spirits have a natural ascendant and predominancy to strike awe into them that are of greater abilities The King of England having lost his labour withdrew himself from the Affront loaded with Complements from the Spaniard and Contempt from the French Ormond who accompanied the King hardly getting to speak with Mazarine to avoid the giving umbrage it seems to Lockhard hinted many things to win upon the Cardinal The assured hopes of the Crown which Charles was near recovering the Plots in favor of him all was safe only that there needed some small assistance Nay proceeded so far as to sound Mazarines mind with an Overture of the Royal Alliance Such is the power of fatal and invincible necessity which the Gods themselves cannot surmount All this was to no purpose the Restauration was to be put upon no other account than his personal Vertues and the providence that attended so great a King who goes away offended at the French rigour Through so many Compliances of Fortune the two Ministers Umpires of the disagreeing World Arbitrate all things at their pleasure and dispense the Fates of Nations depending upon them Portugal fell under debate when Mazarine turned to Haro and said Look me out to the very remotest Indies any Soveraigne Estate for poor Braganza that his head used to a Crown may not again sink into a private Condition The Affairs of Italy Mantua and Savoy and other Princes were left to the decision of the Cardinal and Fuensaldagne Pope Alexander only was neither party nor partaker in the Pacification The Princes of the Conclave admired at Rome that Chighi whom they had chosen principally upon that account because having been trained up in the Treating of Peace he seemed a fit Peace-maker should be so scornfully passed by Mazarine in his Judgment after Chighis Judgment reputed a Fomenter of Discord and Hater of Peace shews That he both could and would conclude Peace Things must be fitly timed The Secrets of Kingdoms should not be divulged It is enough to have one Master in a House No King must usurp Authority over Religion only the Inspection No Bishop must usurp Authority over Kings but paternal Affection At twenty four Sessions the Business of the Peace was compleated and at length on Novem. 7. 1659. The Articles agreed on by the two Ministers were signed which having been published and the Issue of Affairs abundantly shew what they were One might have seen the most straight embraces of both Nations and tokens of Dearness upon account of the old Hatred after so many Inroads made on both sides burning of Towns so many Prisoners carried away so many Cities subdued and demolished so much blood-shed no Anger left In the height of publick Rejoycing each in their proper Language and Manner expressed their Joy the past Battels they accounted as Fictions The Cities of France and Spain shined with Splendour and Beauty So that they seemed truly Objects of pity who were not Subjects of the one Crown or the other The two Ministers after mutual Presents from the one of a rich Suit of Hangings from the other of a gallant Set of Horses depart out of the Island chosen by the Providence of God to clear the Sky and create a right understanding between Nations divided and of an insociable Temper of Spirit THE ELEVENTH BOOK Of THE History of FRANCE The CONTENTS The Contents of the former Book may be the Summary of this which contains nothing but all matter of joy excepting the Death of Mazarine that yet was constant couragious and agreeable to his Life THE Cardinal at Tholouse rendered the the King and Queen an account of the Peace concluded whereat they received much satisfaction From hence the Court made a Progress into Provence till the King of Spain should come with his Daughter to compose the disorders at Marseilles which had broken out about the Priviledges of their Consuls The King the better to secure Peace at home and Reputation abroad was necessitated to build a Cittadel having a plausible occasion to preserve the equal liberties of the Community and especially to be a refuge for such as were of approved fidelity A mighty defence without distaste or charge of which Beringham is made Governour than whom no man in France had a more formal gravity having served two Princes with an even tenour of Prudence At Paris where all things are condemned the match was not believed scarcely the Peace that there were Castilian deceits in the bottom and Mazarine over-reached not so much the Common People in the streets and at clubs as many of the Noblemen did whisper Conde having survived so many Battels being certified of the State of Affairs after he had courteously saluted his Souldiers according to their standing or office spoke to them much after this sort It is the seventh year Fellow-Souldiers since having been tossed by hard Fates after the extreamest instances of Barbarous usage being