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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54743	The minority of St. Lewis With the politick conduct of affairs by his mother Queen Blanch of Spain, during her regency. Being a relation of what happen'd most memorable under his reign during the year, 1226, 1227, 1228, and 1229.	Philipps, Edward, 1630-1696?.	1685 (1685)	Wing P2065; ESTC R220520	46,829	160

THE MINORITY OF St. Lewis With the Politick Conduct of Affairs by his Mother Queen Blanch of Spain during her Regency BEING A Relation of what happen'd most Memorable under his Reign during the Year 1226 1227 1228 and 1229. LONDON Printed for R. Bentley and S. Magnes at the Post-house in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden 1685. To the most Illustrous Prince HENRY DUKE of NORFOLK Earl Marshal of England Earl of Arundel Surrey Norfolk and Norwich Baron Mowbray Howard Seagrave Bruse de Gower Fitz-Allan Clun Oswaldestrey Maltravers Talbot Verdon Lovetot Furnival Strange of Blackmere and Howard of Castle Rysing Constable and Governour of His Majesties Royal Castle and Honour of Windsor Lord Warden of Windsor Forrest Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Norfolk Surrey and Berks and of the City of Norwich and County of the said City and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter MY LORD I Should not have presum'd to approach with an Address of so small importance a Personage of your Dignity and Grandure in whose present station all the Honours and in whose Person all the Virtues of your Illustrious Family so eminently shine but for this consideration that there is an obliging condiscention which ever attends upon true Nobility and Native Greatness But my Lord I have this moreover to plead that in this so small a Volume there are such Arcana Historiae and such well weigh'd Characters of persons that those even of the highest Sphaere and Imployment may I judge think a few hours not ill bestow'd in the perusal of them The last pretension I lay to your Graces pardon is that I have taken care to give your Grace as little interruption as possible to your more weighty affairs in striving to express the ambition I have of paying my Mite of those honours and respects which you merit from all the world and thereby of aspiring to the Title of MY LORD Your GRACES most humble most obedient and most dutiful Servant Edw. Philips The MINORITY OF St. Lewis OR A Relation of what happen'd of most Memorable under his Reign during the Years 1226 1227 1228 and 1229. NEver any Christian Prince merited of History more solid serious and univerversal Praise than Lewis the 9th of that Name King of France firnamed the Saint and consequently never any Christian Prince hath been so ill treated by the generality of Historians both French and Foreigners Ancient and Modern Good and Bad of all sorts of People and of all Religions The Hereticks of latter times haply offended at the Reason he gave for refusing to go to see the Body of Christ become visible in the hands of a Priest namely that he had no need of ocular Testimony to convince him of a Truth whereof he was already so well satisfied have with that prejudice represented even the most Heroick of his actions that were their Credit valuable this Prince could certainly be allow'd no better a Character than any of the nine last Kings of the Merovingian Race They will needs have that haughtiness wherewith he treated his Brother Charles of Anjou who after he was crown'd King of Naples and Sicily let loose the Reins to licence pass for an Effect of secret Pride and Ambition they brand with rashness and imprudence the two Expeditions he made against the Infidels and will have the extraordinary Charge he was at in those Undertakings no other than Profuseness and Prodigality That Majestick Air which he exprest in all his Actions and which descended to him from the Queen his Mother they interpret to be only a natural Surliness and Austerity of humour in him and though more Covertly they forbear not to censure his frequent Visitations and regulations of Hospitals The plainness of his habit they attribute to a poorness of Spirit in him and from his aptness to conceal and pass over all private Injuries offer'd him they are ready to accuse him of Pusillanimity and Cowardice His Conversation though obliging enough they account too Reserv'd and Morose considering the Familiarity and Freedom that had been allow'd to Courtiers in those times They cavil at the sincerity of his Answers both by word of mouth and in writing to foreign Ambassadors in the Affairs he had to concert with the Crowns of England and Spain they tax him of too much Severity in the Execution of his Laws especially against the Jews and of too much adhering to particular Justice to the prejudice of the publick in the renuntiations he made to the Dutchy of Guien and Kingdom of Castile Nor is this noble Prince and Saint King Lewis better dealt with by the Catholick Historians though perhaps not with such an apparent and design'd prejudice and that by Reason for a more probable cause cannot be guess'd at of that pragmatick Sanction which came forth under the Name of this Prince occasion'd by the quarrel he had with the Court of Rome They look'd upon as Criminal the zealous Concerns he had for the Rights of his Crown and upon this pretence took upon them to bespatter all his actions without Limit or Distinction Of this last sort of Writers some there are who not daring to launch out into those high Intemperancies have yet fallen into another default equally disadvantageous to the glory of this Royal Saint They have a conceit forsooth that there is no extraordinary Sanctity to be found but in Monasteries or at least that it is not to be attain'd but by such Mortifications of the body as are there in use and upon this presupposal they carry on the main part of their design throughout all their Writings so that they make it not so much their buisiness to represent this holy King Lewis such as really he was but such as in their Opinion he ought to have been that is to say in stead of making him a great King as he was they set him forth a very Monk of the most reformed Order Insomuch that in a Manuscript Imbellisht with curious Figures in Miniature which came to light about 12 years after his death he is pourtray'd in several Exercises of Penitence the most severe and bloody that were than practic'd in Cloisters Moreover one Richard a Monk of the Abby of Enove de Votsge describes him yielding to the Temptation of a certain Jacobin who urg'd him to take upon him the Order of St. Dominick and from which nothing but the powerful and incessant Interposings of the Queen his Mother Philip the Hardy his Son and Charles of Anjou his Brother could have diverted him Mathew Paris an English Benedictin an Historian otherwise the most faithful and best informed of his Time brings in our Princely St. Lewis at his restitution of Guien to the English uttering himself in a Speech no less void of Sense then Regal Authority and gives him a very lame at least imprudent Character when he tells us that without fear or respect of the Barons of his Realm he had given up to the English those other Provinces which