nothing at all to be fear'd that such Bastard Plants will take any deep roots Cursed be thou degenerat Child which goest on after thine own counsell not according to mine which warpest a web but not by my direction which dost adde sin to sin which goest down to Egypt and to the Synagogue of Satan and consultest not with me nor remembrest my precepts Thou hast rejected my discipline hoping for succour in the help of Calvin and his followers and hast confidence in the shadow of Egypt that is to say in the conventicle of Heretiques but this imaginary strength shall become thy confusion and the confidence of this shadow which thou followest in despising the body of the Orthodoxal Church shall turn to thy shame So an Anathema was pronounc'd and publiquely fix'd up against him Duke Bernard Weymar descended of the eldest House of Saxony whose Ancester was outed of that great Dutchy for deserting Rome by Charles the Emperour had besides his Germanes a considerable Army of French upon the Kings pay who did notable feats up and down he was now lay'd down before Rhinfield one of the Forest Towns having taken two of them before belonging to the House of Austria he had after two stormings made a breach in the walls when Iohn de Wert the Duke of Savelli and other choice men appear'd inexpectedly with nine Regiments of horse and four thousand foot to raise the siege Generall Sperheucher was also there and two companies of Crabats There happen'd two furious fights betwixt them in the first de Wert had the better by taking four Canons and three Cornets of horse the Duke of Rohan was in the field as a Volontier being newly come from his employment in the Valtolin his horse was kill'd under him and he himself wounded in two or three places the siege of Rhinfield was rais'd for the time but Bernard Weymar sought out de Wert the next day and having rallied all his forces and put himself in battalia there was a gallant though bloudy fight and victory flutter'd a great while with doubtfull wings but at last Iohn de Wert himself Duke Savelli Sperheucher Major Generall Enkenfort with all the chief Commanders were taken prisoners amongst whom Iohn de Wert and Enkenfort were carried prisoners to France and committed to Bois de Vincennes So Duke Bernard Weymar took Rhinfield by a second siege presently after The Duke of Rohan being carried with his wounds about him to Swisserland died of them within a little time and his body was carried in great pomp to Geneva where he was buried a Duke of high descent being prime Prince of the bloud of the Kingdom of Navar whereupon it was said of him Rohan ie suis Roy ie ne puis Prince ie dedagne Rhoan I am King I cannot be Prince I disdain it He was excellently vers'd both in the Theory and Prastic part of War and other politicall knowledge as appears by his works and by his exploits in the Valtolin and els where Some there are who brand him to have bin a Pensioner to Spain receiving fourteen thousand crowns and his Brother Soubize eight thousand from that King for divers yeers to puzzle France with intestin broyles He died without male issue and so that bloud-royal Duchy of Navar extinguish'd There were hot doings now in Italy one of the grounds of the quarrell was 'twixt the King of Spain and the Duke of Parma The Spaniard alledg'd that by capitulations with the former Dukes he was upon occasion of war to have the Town of Placentia for his use to put men and ammunition in during the war The Duke disadvowed any such obligation and was abetted by France and Savoy in the quarrell Victor Amadée Duke of Savoy who had married the second daughter of France being dead the yeer before and the Count of Veriie his Generall the Duke of Crequy came to be Commander in chief and going to releeve Breme which the Marquis of Leganez Governor of Milan had closely begirt Crequy as he was surveying the enemies trench and vaunting that he would convey succour to the Town over the Spaniards mustachos he was cut in the middle by a Cannon bullet and so shatterred to peeces and the crosse he wore upon his brest was shot into his flesh so Breme rendred her self This Marshall Crequy was a brave man both for command and personall valour having fairly kill'd in duel one of the bastard sons of Savoy in sight of two Armies some yeers before there was a Latin Epitaph written upon him which in respect of the pertinent apposit words and the gallantry of the style I think worthy to have room in this story for I have not met with a better D. Caroli de Crequy Elogium funebre AD sonum ruinae cujus fragor adhuc Europam occupat Tormento bellico Crequius occubuit Minori telo non poterat Eminus Mors peremit saepe frustrà E propinquo tentaverat Priori displosione pulveris nubem excitavit Ut secundas insidias tegeret Alterum globum impegit in terram Vel attingere verita Vel antequam attingeret venerata Abrumptum est corpus in membra jacere Eodem in loco tanta ruina non poterat Quod colligi potuit hic jacet magnitudo Cladis ubique est Nec incautum mors oppressit ea die AEternitati studuerat Ante hor am animum sacramentis praeparârat Ut praestaret aeternum dum facit divinum Horam reliquam non substraxit aeternitati Dum impendit Regi Appensam è collo crucem fatalis globus Impressit cordi Ut moreretur in vulneribus propriis Et cum vulneribus Christi Sensit cor admotum Deum amavit vixit Emendavit amores humanos hic amor ultimus Continuatus est aeternitati ne eum tempus corrumperet Reperiri ultrà in terris cor coelo dignum non potuit Duae res sursum extulerant Crux quam attigit Amor quo arsit Postquam attigerat Deum tegi humo non debuit Neque hospes aeternitatem ingressus est ad quam tot eleemosynas praemiserat Ut festivè beneficus esset praemittere se aiebat ad coelum divitias ne illic pauper esset Nullibi securius latere Opes quam ubi Deus Et faelicitas latet Abi Viator nec ruinam defle quâ Crequius in aeternitatem cecidit Eâ hora extinctus est quae illi ad immortalitatem optanda fuit Redi Viator disce qualem vitam AEternitas inchoavit diem clausit Vix unquam tot lauros fulmen messuerat si laurus fulmen timeret Centum Heroum nepos elogia omnium sua fecit Magnanimus Audax sapiens dignus gentilitiis meritis et suis Servabat ei virtus haec cognomina nisi Majores praeripuissent praelusit tamen Nepoti dum ea Avis imponeret Iis titulis Ducem Parem et Marescallum addidit additurus Conestabilem Nisi haec aetas tot Conestabiles haberet quot Marescallos habet
Conestabili de Lediguieres in Generum datus est Ut Heroum filius Gallici Martis alumnus esset Sub eo Magistromaturè vincere coepit ut diu vinceret Ea aetate militiae Magister qua vix alii sunt Tyrones Nulla est Galliae Provincia ubi non vicerit hostes Regios Nulla occasio in qua non vicerit suos Renovavit gentilitii vexilli praerogativam dum renovavit victoriam Iterum hoc clamore Gallico dignus A Crequy Crequy le gran Baron nul ne s y frotte Tot ultra Alpes victorias retulit ut Galliam Cisalpinam restaurare potuerit Nisi Gallia Italiam sociam babere mallet quà m subditam Subaudiam Subalpinos sic expugnavit hostis ut Verruca una non steterit Si defendit Amicus ut Verruca una non perierit Nec dubium quin servasset Bremam qui Verrucam servaverat Nisi hostis absentem peremisset ne praesentem fugeret Nec tenacior fuit Regiae fidei quam Divinae Utramque obsignavit suo sanguine ut testatam faceret dum facit purpuream Inflictam ab Haeresi plagam medio in vultu ostentabat ut gemmam Nec insignior Gallicae fidei clientaris Legatus ire Romam potuit Quà m qui insignia Fidei in oculis gerebat Tacente lingua loqui haec plaga potuit Qualis esset fides Gallica Cujus Rex Apostolus Marescalli Martyres essent Nec siluit lingua Crequii cujus urbanitas Urbano sic placuit Ut in eo amaverit Palladem et agnoverit Martem Romanum patrocinium sic optavit Galliae ut Gallicum obtulerit Romae Nec silebit unquam haec lingua cui Fama pro voce erit Continuabit laudes lituo quas Mors intonare coepit tubo bellico Erravit Mors in Crequio laudavit dum peremit Inchoavit Elogium quod Fama absolvet et AEternitas canet Nec unquam exarescet Arbor Crequia cujus tot rami in poster is virent Videbit finem Galliae quae initium vidit Immortalis futura si tales semper nascantur surculi Abi viator ut mortem fallas Incipe immortalis esse dum moreris Generall Crequy being thus crack'd by a Cannon the Spaniard took Breme besieges Verselli which notwithstanding it was once succour'd by the French was rendred him upon the same termes that Don Pedro de Toledo had given the very same moneth when she was taken in the yeer 1625. France had better fortune this yeer by repelling the invading forces of Spain then by entring her confines another way for revenge We made mention a little before how bravely Leucato was preserv'd and to cry quittance with the Spaniard the Prince of Condé had a vast high Commission to be the Kings Lieutenant General in the Provinces of Guyen Languedoc Navar Bern and Foix with plenary power to command all the Gentry and make whom he would to mount a horseback for the war as also the Cominalty to forme the body of an Army to invade the territories of Spain so he pitch'd upon Fontarabia he took Iroon and Ouyarson Berha with other small places of advenues in the way and so he sate before the Town where the Pioner put presently spade in earth for a circumvallation The Archbishop of Bourdeaux came with a mighty Fleet by Sea to second this enterprise and the siege having lasted above threescore dayes he offer'd with his rondaches and by an assault Seaward to carry the Town Hereupon a Counsell of War was call'd where the Duke de la Valette who was Lieutenant Generall to the Prince of Condé spoak very gallantly that he and the Marshall de la Force had bin the chiefest Actors in that achievment thitherto that he had made a breach in the walls after the springing of two mines and done other things towards the straightning of the place and it was not consonant to reason or agreeable to the law of War and honor that another now that the work was almost brought to perfection should have the glory of their dangers sufferings and labours This clash 'twixt the Archbishop and the Duke de la Valette to whom Condé adhaer'd prov'd to be the ruine of this great Expedition for while they were debating the businesse after the breach was made for a generall assault the Spaniards came tumbling down the Hills and appeard to be more numerous far then they really were so after a great slaughter on both sides but more of the French whereof divers were thrust into the Sea the siege was rais'd and one may say The Town was lost for not offring to take it if they had presently poursued the breach Amongst divers errors which were committed in this action besides the weaknesse of their entrenchments two were the quitting of Passage without which the enemies would not have bin able to draw provision for their subsistence from Saint Sebastian then the not erecting of a work upon the mountain of Gadaloupe which was neer the Town and whence the Spaniard descended first The French Army retyring to the frontiers staid some dayes at Iroon expecting the enemy should poursue them which he did not whereby they inferr'd that he was not so strong as they took him to be and so he was willing to make them a bridge of sylver thus this Invasion came to nothing which made the Spaniard geer them afterwards saying They had in this attempt discover'd the true nature of the French viz. to enter like thunder and vanish like smoak De la Valette being come to Bourdeaux to the old Duke his Father after he had receiv'd relation how matters had gone and what traverses there pass'd 'twixt him and Condé and the Archbishop advis'd him to get away as soon as he could to England which he did and 't was time for him for afterwards his Proces was fram'd in Paris and he was executed in Effigie so by this act of Justice the publique dishonour which seem'd to reflect upon France in generall was restrain'd to his person Nor is it a new thing to sacrifice Commanders to such uses Besides the Duke of Espernon being now an hundred yeers of age and odd moneths and having continued above forty yeers Governour of Gascony was outed of his Office and commanded to retire to Plassac where he died some moneths after but before his death he had these severall disasters befell him within the revolution of one yeer his eldest son the Duke of Candale fell in Italy the Cardinall his brother died in Savoy his third son was in banishment in England and he himself dismiss'd of all command and depriv'd of this life The judgements of men were very discrepant touching the carriage of the busines of Fontarabia the major part imputed the fault to the Prince of Condé and the Archbishop who was a creature of the Cardinals For the first he was content his son the Duke of Anguien should marry the Cardinals Neece a little after which was done as some gave out of purpose for preventing
wedded himself to the best Towns of Lorain and Barri that 't is thought he will hardly be ever divorc'd from any of them unlesse he be forc'd The Citie of Paris was now full of Catalans and Portugals who strowted up and down the streets their new King having sent two Ambassadors thither in joynt Commission In the interim the Spanish Ambassadors at Rome negotiat strongly that the Duke of Bragansa be excommunicated for an Usurper if this had taken effect it had made the King of France incapable to assist him being an excommunicated person but France had such a powerfull faction in the Consistory and the Pope himself was such a friend to her that the Catholic King could do little good in this point There had some former counterbuffs pass'd betwixt the Cardinall and the Count of Soissons who had slighted one of his Neeces for marriage but now there was a new clash happen'd between them in the Armies in Picardy where the Cardinal would have advanc'd his colours before the Count of Soissons The King abetted his Cardinal hereupon the Count retires in discontentment to Sedan and got the Duke of Bovillon to ligue with him They rays'd a considerable Army and encountred the Kings forces which they routed but the Count being too eager and poursuing a broken Troupe of horse which was flying it was his hard fate to be kill'd by one of the Cardinals servants who then bore Armes The fall of this Prince of the Bloud in the prime vigor of his virility causd much lamentation in France mix'd with some murmurings against the Cardinal And it was a good turn for him in regard now that Soissons was taken away there was no Prince throughout all France able to uphold a faction against him France was bless'd with another masculine Royall off-spring the Duke of Anjou which did not raise so much wonder as the Dauphin for he as I told you before was two and twenty yeers a getting this but a twelvemoneth and a few dayes Marie de Medici Queen Mother and Dowager of France expir'd this yeer who may be said to be one of the greatest Queens that ever were being grandchild and gran neece to two glorious Emperours Ferdinand and Charles the Fifth wife of Henry the Great Mother to the three mighty Kings of France Great Britain and Spain and to the ancientest Prince of Christendom the Duke of Savoy She had bin Regent of France many yeers during which time she discover'd extraordinary abilities transcending her sex shewas afterwards twice in Armes against her sonne and she came at last to conceive such a Iunonian indignation against the Cardinal de Richelieu who had bin chief of her Counsels and her creature afterwards in point of greatnesse for she first preferr'd him to the King that the breach could never be made up between them that one might say Nec quenquam jam ferre potest Regina priorem Richeliúsve parem She was us'd to say That the worst thing she ever did was the advancement of Richelieu In the sense of this high indignation she forsook France and drew a voluntary exile upon her self whereby she was so toss'd up and down to severall Countreys that she became a Tenisball to the blind inconstant Goddesse she first retir'd to Flanders where she found good respect and contentment during the life of the Archduchesse but then being distasted with the Spanish Ministers she remov'd to Holland thence to England where she found most Royall allowance and Hospitality and her last retirement was to Colen where she liv'd reclus'd exercising her self in strict exercises of devotion in her way and so breath'd her last Such was her fate I will not say her faut that Bellona follow'd her wheresoever she went as also her three daughters yet in her own nature she detested war specially that with Spain and that with Savoy And this was thought to be the ground of her animosity against the Cardinal The King of France having thoroughly undertaken the protection of the Catalans sent a royall army composed most of Gascons and of them of the Religion which rush'd into the County of Roussillon the Key of Spain towards that part of the Pyreneys This County was once an appendix of France but being hypothequ'd and morgag'd to the King of Aragon for a summe of money it was never redeem'd since France had better fortune in this second Invasion of Spain then she in the first at Fontarabia Perpignan the strongest Fort of Christendom for the bignes was besieg'd and the King himself made his approach thither in person so after a tough stubborn siege by famine rather then force the Town and Castle yeelded wherein there were above 120. great Canons The Spaniard had some requitall though nothing adaequat to the losse of Perpignan in the Netherlands about this time for he regain'd the Town of Aire from the French and the French took Bipalma towards Cambray from the Spaniard The Cardinal of Richelieu was sick that time the Queen Mother died at Colen yet he strain'd himself to creep to the Altar and officiated many Church duties for her soul From that time he was never perfectly recovered so about the latter end of this yeer he died himself in his Cardinal Palace at Paris He was so attenuated and dried up with exces of care and encombrances of the brain that his body might be said to be but a sackfull of bones and a meere Scheleton This gran Minister being thus gone Cardinal Mazarin a Gentleman of an ancient Roman extraction was put to sit at the helm A man of the same habit and habilitie as if the soul of Richelieu had transmigrated into him He was a bosome friend and a great intrinsic Confident of Richelieu before who had imparted his desseins and infus'd all his maximes into him and open'd unto him all the Arcana Imperii He had bin an active politicall instrument employ'd by the Pope before in sundry Treaties and difficult traverses of State wherein he had good successe and in all his negotiations he was discover'd to be a person of excellent addresse and rare endowments The King did not long survive his Cardinal of Richelieu for he fell mortally ill five moneths after at which time this great Monarch paid nature her last debt and what earthly Potentate is there though never so independent and absolute that is exempt from this tribute He expir'd the 14th of May in the afternoon the same moneth the same day of the moneth and about the same houre of the day that his father died 33. yeers before but with this mark of difference that the one went and the other was sent out of the world about the same time His bowels were presently carried to be interr'd at Saint Denis the last rendevous of all the French Kings whither his Body follow'd after in the height of all Solemnitie and Magnificence that his Queen could possibly devise whom he left Regent a Lady of rare temper
Duke of Savoy touching the Treaty of Monson though the Duke was not there in Person yet his businesse was dispatch'd with as much advantage to him as if he had bin there present by the French Ambassadors nor had he as much cause of grievance as he had of many high obligations of gratitude to have his Countrey and Towns restor'd unto him which had bin so often overrun by the French armes Concerning his colleguing with Protestants Spain may be upbraided as well for Charles the Fifth employed Lutherans whom he call'd his black bands against France and Rome her self and that by the advice of his Theologues This present King Philip had privat intelligence with the Duke of Rohan who pay'd him and his brother a yeerly Pension to keep France in action by Civill Wars and had entred into a Treaty with him accordingly consisting of divers capitulations Moreover the Catholic Kings have had and have to this day friendship and confederacie with divers Pagan Princes and amongst others with the King of Calecut who adores the Devil for a little Pepper or such like Commodities Nor are there wanting examples how in the time of the Moores the King of Aragon made use of Moriscos against another Christian King Another makes an odd Apologie for this King why he confederated with Protestants and employ'd them so much in his wars which is that he made use of them against the greatnes of the House of Austria only whom they suspect and perfectly hate And touching his subjects of the Religion in France it was never out of any affection unto them or out of any conceit of fidelity he had of them that from time to time he gave them Honor and offices in his Armies but out of a politic end to diminish and destroy them by degrees for a greater number of them then of Papists perish'd in his wars For breaking with his Brother in law the King of Spain and the House of Austria he did it meerly out of political interests and pure reason of State which is now grown to the highest point of subtilty and swayes the world more then ever It is well known that France as all Europe besides hath bin for many yeers emulous of Spaine and suspectfull of her greatnes for she hath bin still growing and gathering more strength any time these hundred yeers In so much that considering her huge large limbs she was become a Giant in comparison of all her neighbours France was fearfull of this unproportionable hugenes of hers more then any and therefore being somewhat distrustfull of his own strength to cope with her single he enters into confederation with others as the Hollander and Swed So that this war of France with Spain is meerly preventive Nor is preventive war a new thing but we have warrant for it from Antiquitie I am sure it is as old as that of Peleponnesus the ground whereof was to keep the power of Athens within its wonted channel which went daily swelling ore the old banks this gave the first alarum to the Lacedemonian to stand upon his Guard and to put himself in Armes whence afterwards issued that long liv'd war which History renders so famous to posterity Alphonso K. of Castile made war against the Moors and the rest of the Spanish Kings for there were divers then in Spain finding him encrease in power collegu'd against him and the reason the Historian gives is Nunquam satis fida principum potentia finitimis est occasionem proferendi Imperii avidè arripiente natura mortalium The Decree of the College of Sorbon is That the exorbitant greatnes of a neighbouring Prince may be a just ground for a war 'T is well known how watchfull those three Geryons of their times Charles the Fifth Henry the Eight of England and Francis the First of France were to keep their power in aequilibrio they had alwayes an eye upon the Scale to see which way it panch'd and out-pois'd And it hath bin us'd to be the old policy power of England though now crosse winds have long blown upon her to question any of her neighbours touching their encrease of strength in shipping There be examples without number how it hath bin alwaies the practise of the sagest Princes as being a rule that 's warrantable in the schoole of prudence and honor to prevent that their adjoyning neighbours oregrow them not by accesse of new power either by weakning their Allies by Monopolizing of Trade encrease of Territory by mastering of passages or by too neer approaches The last makes me think that it is high time for the Hollander to look about him considering the late acquests of the French in the Netherlands and to be warnd by the old Proverb Aye le François pour ton Amy non pas pour ton voisin Have the French for thy friend not for thy neighbour The Austrian Eagle had display'd his wings wider then formerly by addition of the Palatinat Triers and other places in Germany France took Armes to make him mew these new feathers and she had those three things which one said were requisit to make her eternall favourable unto her viz. Rome the Sea and Counsel Pope Vrban the Eight had his breeding there twenty yeers together and so was a friend to her she had a competent number of Ships and for Counsell she had Richelieu for her Pilot He was not like your Countrey Wasters that Demosthenes writes of who were us'd to grow skilful in defending those parts of the body where they had bin hurt but he could foresee and fence away the blow before it was given And for others he carried matters so that some of them found their hands sezi'd upon when they were ready to strike This caus'd him to make his King the first aggressor of the war against Spain wherein he had wonderfull successe and done such feats as hath appear'd already in the body of the story that as they have struck an amazement in the present age so they vvill breed an incredulity in the future Touching the last complaint against him that he peel'd and poll'd the Peasan 't is true he did so but he who is vers'd in the humour of that people vvhat boyling brains and perpetuall inclinations they have to noveltie and to break out into motion if they be pamper'd with peace and riches will conclude that there is a necessitie to keep them short in point of wealth vvhose ordinary effects are pride and insurrections Yet I beleeve there may be other more laudable vvayes of policy us'd for prevention of this then poverty It being a true maxime in the Academy of Honor that it is more glorious for a Prince to be King of an opulent free people then of a slavish and beggerly And the greatest reproach that Forreners cast upon the French Government is that the vvealth of the Countrey should be so unequally dispenc'd the King Clergy Nobles and Officers svvallovving up all vvhile the common people have scarce
his majoritie and raigne and so our storie shall grow up with him in dimensions and yeares Of his Nativitie and Dauphinage LEwis the thirteenth second French King of the Bourbon line had for his father Henry the great and the great Duke of Toscanies daughter for his mother The first we know was sent out of the world by Ravaillac the second by Richelieu as some out of excesse of passion doe suggest For this great Queene having conceived a deep displeasure and animositie against him and not liking his counsels and course of policy to put quarrels and kindle a war betwixt her children in a high discontentment she abandon'd France and so drew a banishment upon her selfe which expos'd her to divers encumbrances removes and residences abroad and this some thinke accelerated her end For great spirits have this of fastnesse and constancie in them that where their indignation is once fixed for having their counsels cross'd their authoritie lessen'd and the motions of their soules resisted they come ofttimes to breake rather then bow As we see the huge Cedars who scorning to comply with the windes and stormes fall more frequently then the Willow and poore plying Osier who yeeld and crouch to every puffe But to our chiefe taske When the sixteenth Christian centurie went out Lewis the thir teenth came into the world and he began the seventeenth being borne in the yeere sixteene hundred and one about the Antumnall Equinoctiall which was held to be a good presage that he would prove a good Iusticer The Queene had a hard delivery her body having beene distemper'd by eating of fruit too freely so that when the Midwife brought him forth to the King and to the Princes of the blood in the next roome who according to the custome of France use to be present for preventing of foule play for an Heire apparant of the Crown his tender body was become black and blue with roughnesse of handling and the Midwife thinking to have spouted some wine out of her mouth into his the King tooke the bottle himselfe and put it to the Dauphins lips which reviv'd his spirits His publique Baptisme was not celebrated till five yeers after at Fontainebleau because the plague was in Paris and the solemnitie was greater in preparation and expectance then it was in performance The King would have had him nam'd Charles but the Mother over-rul'd and gave the law in that point and would have him called Lewis Paul the fifth was his godfather notwithstanding that the Spanish faction did predominate in the Conclave at his election which happen'd about the time the Dauphin was borne And the French Ambassadour then at Rome meeting with the Spanish at Saint Angelo and telling him Ilmio Rè há fatto un maschio my King hath made a sonne The Spanish Ambassadour answer'd il mio Rè há fatto un Papa and my King hath made a Pope It seemes that Mercury the father of eloquution and who hath the powerfullest influence ore the tongue was oppressed by a disadvantagious conjunction with a more praedominate planet at his Birth which appear'd by that naturall slownesse he had in his speech as Lewis the sixt his predecessor and last Emperour of the six French Kings had But a rare thing it was and not to be paralleld in any age that two of the greatest Kings of Europe I meane the Dauphin we now write of and His Majesty of England now regnant should come both into the world within lesse then ten moneths compasse the one in November the other in September next following I say a most rare thing it was that it should so fall out that as they were contemporaries in yeares and raigne the same kinde of utterance should be coincident and connaturall to them both though the haesitation be lesse in Him of November Besides it seemes he is richly requited with the advantage of an incomparable imperious pen wherein nature joyning hand with Art hath made him so rich a compensation that he may well claime the palme of all his progenitors But now againe to our Infant Dauphin which the English with other call Dolphin commonly but very corruptly for 't is not from a fish but a faire Province that he derives this appellation the very instant he comes into the world the ground whereof was this Humbert last Dauphin of Viennois having lost his eldest sonne in that famous battaile of Crecy against the English and his tother sonne having died of a fall from betwixt the Fathers armes as he was dallying with him The said Humbert being oppressed by the Duke of Savoy and others transmitted and bequeathed as free gift the brave Province of Dauphinè unto Philip of Valois then King of France with this proviso that his eldest sonne and so of all successive Kings should beare the title of Dauphin to perpetuity during their fathers lifes holding it as he did and his progenitors had done in fee of the Empire This was the sixteenth Dauphin since the first who was Charles the wise in the yeare 1349. whereby I observe that the precedent title of the presomptif Heire of the Crowne of France is not so ancient by halfe a hundred of yeares as the title of Prince of Wales to the Heire apparant of England which begun in Edward the firsts time who conferred that honour upon his sonne Edward of Caernarvon 1301. But this title of Dauphin seemes to have a greater analogie with the Dukedome of Cornwall which title was confer'd first upon the black Prince because this as that of Dauphin needes no creation for ipsissimo instante the very moment that any of the King of Englands sons come to be Heire apparant of the Crowne he is to have liverie and seisin given him of the Dutchy of Cornwall with all the honours and lands annexed for his present support Touching those publike passages of State that happened during the Dauphinage of Lewis the thirteenth while Henry the fourth lived we will nor meddle with them because we would not confound the actions of the father with those of the sonne He was educated with that speciall care and circumspection wherewith the Dauphins of France are wont to be bred as also with that freedome from overmuch awe and apprehensions of feare which is observed in the French breeding generally because the spirits may not be suppressed and cowd while they are ductible and young and apt to take any impression He was not much taken with his booke nor any sedentary exercise but with pastimes abroad as shooting at flyes and small hedge birds to which end his Father put to him Luynes who had many complacentious devices to fit his humour that way for which petty volatill sports he soard at last to the highest pitch of honour that a French subject could flie unto for of a gentleman in decimo sexto he was made Duke Peer and Lord high Constable of all France But he had the advantage to have the managing of his masters affection
in his Palace at Theobalds A little before he broak out into a very passionate Speech to his Lords of the Counsel of the King of France saying My Lords the King of France hath writ unto me that he is so far my friend that if ever I have need of him he will render me Offices in Person whensoever I shall desire him Truly he hath gain'd upon me more then any of his Predecessors and he may beleeve me that in any thing that shall concern him I will employ not only my peoples lifes but mine own and whosoever of his subjects shall rise against him either Catholiks or others shall find me a party for him 'T is true if he be provok'd to infringe his Edicts I shall impart as much as in me lies by counsell and advice to prevent the inconveniences Then falling upon the perfections of Madame Henriette Marie he said pleasantly When she is come over I will denounce war against her because she would not read my Letter nor my sons as I understand before she had first receiv'd command from the Queen her Mother yet I have cause to thank her because that after she had perus'd them she put mine in her cushionet and the other in her bosome intimating thereby that she would rely upon me for counsell and lodg my son in her heart King Iame's death retarded a while the proceedings of the Match for things were at a stand till his Exequies were pass'd which were perform'd with a Magnificence sutable to so great a King This Ceremony being ended a procuration was sent the Duke of Cheureuse from his Majesty of Great Britain to be contracted unto the Lady Henriette and then to marry her in his name which was done with extraordinary celebrity the one in the Louure the last in the great Church of Paris by the ministery of the Cardinall Rochefaucaud a little before there was a clash twixt him and the Bishop of Paris who urg'd it was his right to officiat in his own Church but the Cardinal being a Prince of the Church Universall being also gran Almoner which makes him chief Clark of the Court and Cardinal Richelieu who had now the greatest stroak in the State favoring his own habit and the Hat more then the Mitre the Cardinal carried the day This solemnity was perform'd to the very height of greatnes and splendor and such was the bravery of the English Ambassadors the Earls of Carlile and Holland that they seem'd to outshine the French that day in their own Sphere One half of the dowry had bin delivered before upon the Contract which was in all as was said before eight hundred thousand crowns and it was more then the eldest Sister had by two hundred thousand crowns and double as much as the second had the one having but six hundred thousand the other but foure hundred thousand crowns to their portions The Contract and Mariage being thus finish'd the Duke of Buckingham came a fortnight after with admired gallantry to demand the Queen of Great Britain for the King his Master and to attend and conduct her over to England The Queen Mother accompagnied her as far as Amiens Monsieur her Brother to Bullen whence a Fleet of twenty Galeons Royall transported her to Dover This was the eighth Nuptiall conjunction of the Rose and Flowerdeluce that hath happend 'twixt England and France The first was in the yeer 900. 'twixt Charles the First of France and the Lady Ogine daughter to Edward the old King of England 120. yeers before the Norman conquest The second twixt Henry the Third of England and Margaret daughter to Lewis the Seventh of France The third was between Edward the First of England and the Lady Margaret daughter to Philip the Hardy of France The fourth 'twixt Edward the Second of England and Isabel daughter to Philip the Faire The fifth was 'twixt Richard the Second of England and Elizabeth daughter to Charles the Sixth The sixth 'twixt Henry the Fifth of England and Catherin daughter also to Charles the Sixth of France The seventh was 'twixt Lewis the twelfth of France and Mary daughter to Henry the Seventh of England The eighth was this 'twixt Charles Stuard Prince of Wales and Henriette Marie of Bourbon youngest daughter to Henry the Great so in these eight Matches England hath had six daughters of France and France two of Englands As soon as this great Nuptiall pompe was pass'd there came tydings that Soubize upon a new discontent of them of the Religion had a great Fleet of ships at Sea and surpriz'd the Port of Blauet in Britany which is a faire and large Haven deposited to the Spaniard in time of the Ligue and restored to Henry the Great at the peace at Vervins Soubize enterd the Haven with eleven Sayle of men of War and took and carried away six great ships whereof some belong'd to the Duke of Nevers This rendred them of the Religion powerfull at Sea and because their Ships might have choise of harbors they seiz'd upon the Islands of Re and Oleron where they began to fortifie Soubize sayles up the Garond towards Bourdeaux with a Fleet of seventy sayles of all sort which made him Master of the Sea and landing a considerable number of land forces at the land of Medoc they of Bourdeaux joyning with Toiras sent him a shipboard again with losse and so he return'd to Rochell A little after he sets out to Sea again and takes divers prises extremely interrupting all traffic on those Coasts Hereupon the King sent to the Hollander to hyre twenty Sayle of men of War according to the late Treaty which were accordingly sent him under Admirall Hauthain These joyning with another Fleet of the Duke of Monmorency made a considerable naval power Monmorency was very eagar to set upon Soubize and the Rochell Fleet but he found the Hollanders bacward and cold being charm'd by Letters and a Remonstance annexed unto it sent to Hauthain by two French Ministers and two Dutch Merchants from Rochell wherein they made piteous complaint that the King had performed little or nothing at all of the Treaty before Montpellier and that the utter ruine of the whole body of the Religion which was the same with that of Holland was intended therefore they did efflagitat and conjure the said Admiral Hauthain to lay his hand on his heart and conscience and not to contribute to so damnable a dessein This Remonstrance wrought much upon Hauthain and Dorp his Vice-Admiral in so much that he publiquely declar'd unto the Duke of Monmorency that he had Commission in expresse termes from his Masters the States to reduce Monsieur Soubize to his duty either by reason or force that he understood how he was ready to conforme himself to the first and to that effect he and his Brother the Duke of Rohan with other Towns of their party had Deputies employed to the King to desire Peace which was in a good forwardnes