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A42275	The history of France written in Italian by the Count Gualdo Priorato, containing all the memorable actions in France and other neighbouring kingdoms ; the translation whereof being begun by the Right Honourable Henry, late Earl of Monmouth, was finished by William Brent, Esq.; Historia delle revolutioni di Francia sotto il regno di Luigi XIV. English	Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo, conte, 1606-1678.; Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661.; Brent, William, d. 1691.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2166; ESTC R21817	657,819	516

to the new Town of the Ampuries where he sojourned some time to amass together all the Corn found there and carry it to Roses as he did making every Company carry six Quarters of their Country measure After this having nothing more to do in the Countrey of Lampourdam the Troops not being able longer to maintain themselves there they made them pass the hill of Pertus upon the 28th of September and leaving the Regiments of Anjou Languedoc Roquela●re Grammont and Harcourt in Roses they came unto Boulon a place upon the River Tiech the 30th day from whence the Mareschal sent his own men to quarter in Rossillon and those of Plessis Belliere in Conflans All these Troops stayed in that little Country till the arrival of those of Guienne Commanded by the Mareschal Marinville and assoon as they were entred into Rossillon Oquincourt resolved to pass a Convoy into Rosa. He caused all things to be prepared for that purpose and himself would have the conduct of it together with all the General Officers and the whole Militia excepting only such as were thought necessary to be left for guarding of some Posts were to be maintained in Conflans Upon the 29th of October he passed the Mountain and the next morning made the said Convoy enter into Rosa and the French Army advancing met the Spaniards near Loustelna● in a bad posture but because 't was necessary to make haste that the Foot might pass the Mountain they had the means to retire the Marquess Marinville who that day had the Van with his Troops of Guienne followed them to Figuieres from whence the Spaniards drew the Garrison and the Inhabitants assoon as they saw Mari●ville's Troops cried Vive le France the Garrison which also was in Castillon retired from thence in great disorder Upon the 6th of November Plessis Belliere having the Vantguard commanded out 100 Horse to get Intelligence of the Enemies condition by whom having notice that they had discovered seven Squadrons of Spaniards beyond the River towards Servia Oquincourt being then with Belliere they marched forthwith to the River side where Belliere being acquainted with the Fords by the Mareschal's Order passed and marched after them with so much swiftness and good success that he came up to them and fell upon their Rear skirmishing with them till they came into Bourdilles one of their Quarters where they thought to make a stand being seconded by those who were at that time in the Quarter but being driven from it and beaten unto another of their Quarters and thence to Salt● which was their general Quarter they made another stand by the assistance of the Troops there but with the same ill success they had at first being intirely routed and defeated many being killed upon the place and a number wounded and taken Prisoners all their Baggage of the value of above 10000 Crowns lost and their whole Army disordered and in confusion the French having only some few Souldiers hurt and two Brothers of the Villavoir's Prisoners who engaged themselves too far into a Troop of Officers who were retreating ●owards Girone After this Noble and Famous Action the French Troops lodged without disturbance in the same Quarters the Spaniards had taken up for themselves and enlarged themselves something farther that they might maintain themselves with more convenience and for the longer time till the arrival of Monsien● Picoy who was expected from Court with the King's Orders for the French Armies Winter Quarters and they staid thus about two Moneths in L●mpo●rdam the Spaniards not daring after the said Rout to offer them the least disturbance until at last about the 20th of December Picoy came with the Winter Quarters at which time the Mareschal held a Councel where it was resolved to send the Army into Quarters Rosa was in the mean time furnished with all sorts of Victuals and they transported thither whatsoever they could find in La●po●rdam The 27th of December the French Army repassed the Mountain and entring into Rossillon the Mareschal gave Order to Plessis Belliere for quartering of his Troops who having appointed them their Quarters and sent them thither took leave of the Mareschal to go to Court according to his Majestie 's permission given him for so doing and the Mareschal remained there to place the Souldiers in their Quarters and to make all such Provisions as he thought fi● to be done according to the Discipline of War Whilst these things were in Action the Cardinal Mazarine was thinking upon the means which might be fittest for gaining of the discontented Spirits rather by the way of gentleness than rigour and yet neglected not to make Provisions as well of Mony as Forces for continuance of the War the Recruits of the old Troops and raising new was not hard because the Cardinal's Credit prevailing with the men of War beyond all other Interest they imployed themselves with affection and diligence therein that they might thereby make demonstration of their gratitude and deserve his favour a thing whereof the Souldiery being infinitely obsequious and devoted to him was most ambitious by whose force he was after able to compass his designes which in spight of the contrary Opinion of those who envied him took good effect as will appear by that which follows The Cardinal 's principal aim was to calm the Intestine Broyls and re-unite the divided minds of all the French wisely considering that all France being at unity and in obedience to the King there was no Forreign Power whatsoever of Strangers was to be feared He applied therefore his utmost diligence by Treaties and Arms to reduce those of Guinne not neglecting the Designes entertained with several Inhabitants of Bourdeaux he gave Order that before all things they should block up the City from making use of the Garonne without which it could neither receive supplies nor continue its Commerce and being harrassed by the King's Forces 't would in a short time be forced to yield without stroke strucken The Duke of Vandosme therefore having with his Majesties Fleet stopt up the mouth of the River built Forts in the most important places and driven away the Prince's Forces from several Towns with the Land Forces it was resolved in Council to publish a new Proclamation of Grace to those Citizens letting them know That notwithstanding so many advantages as rendred the Enterprize in manner certain yet his Majestie 's clemency was so great that he was ready with open arms to receive them into his favour who had with so much ingratitude risen against him This Act of Grace was published and Registred in the Parliament which was adjourned to Agen upon occasion whereof many Assemblies were held wherein the most moderate Persons spoke with great sense in favour of the Country setting forth the prejudices it suffered and the dangers in which these Subjects were involved who upon the foundation of Forreign hopes build up a structure of Contumacie and Rebellion but the incentive of Ambition were too

thereof though the Conditions were the same that they desired that thinking of nothing less than of laying down Arms they had called a Spanish Army to Paris with which they joyn'd theirs intending to maintain their violent usurped Authority and to divide the poor Subjects Substance amongst themselves that they had given a sinister Interpretation to what he had done and did do for preserving the Lives and Liberties of his Officers and Magistrates that he long'd to see that noble City in that splendor and abundance it was in the first years of his Reign to re-establish Commerce and his Parliament and to honour it with his Presence not only for his own content but for that of all his good Subjects that the mean while his Majesty would be well satisfied to see a good many Officers and Inhabitants visit him but considering that the Body of the City was then commanded guided and composed by the Adherents of those Princes who contrary to Custome were come into the said Assembly to hinder any thing that might not make for War That he ought not to Authenticate any thing that was done in their presence specially in that of Beaufort and Broussell who were the chief Authors of all the present Disorders that therefore he declared that Assembly to be null invalid and unlawful and consequently he could not grant the desired Pasports but that he would grant Passes for any particular men that were desirous to see him were they either lawfully chosen Magistrates or other publick Officers Merchants or Citizens who should be gratiously listned unto in any thing they should represent Pierre returning with this Answer to Paris where all things grew worse not only in Commerce but in Damage suffer'd by the Neighbouring parts by the depredations of both Armies now that the season of sowing Corn and planting Vines came on wherefore they began more openly and with more fervour to resume treating with the Court by means of the Cardinal de Retz Chasteaneuf and other persons who desired Conde's ruine no less than Mazarine's The Duke of Orleans seeming to have the same sense and weary of these Combustions reiterated his desire of quiet to Anville and others and on the 20th of Sept. writ to the Queen That having to his great joy by Marquess Ioyeuse Sambert understood how gratiously his Majesty was minded to Peace he thought himself bound to assure her by these Lines that he and Conde did passionately desire it also But that though the first Object of his Prayers to Heaven ought to be the welfare of the State yet he protested that the inclination which he always had perfectly to honour her Majesty was one of the chief Reasons thereof and that nothing could ever happen should alter the zeal and respect whereby he declared himself her most obedient Servant At this time la Corte d' Aydes resolved to go to Pontois in conformity to his Majestie 's Orders and his Majestie 's other good Servants sought how to withdraw themselves out of the slavery of the Frondeure At last the Bishop of Amiens Father Bertaut a Franciscan and divers others who shall be hereafter named held an Assembly on the 24th of September consisting of about four or five hundred men in the Palace-Royal where the Counsellor Charles Preuost appear'd who was totally upon good terms with the Court and presented the Assembly with a Letter from the King wherein his Majesty said He had a great desire to return to Paris but that he could not do it so long as its seditious Masters were there wherefore he propounded that all faithful Citizens should take up Arms should throw straw away put Paper in their Hats go into the Streets and cry Vive le Roy and joyntly possess themselves of all the Chief Places of the City drive out the Disturbers and fall upon as many as should oppose their Design which being done he would then return The Chief Authors of this Assembly after the aforesaid Bishop of Amiens Father Bertaut and Councellor Preuost who had the whole management of the Business were Monsieur Barby the King's Maistre d' Hostella Luines Councellor of the Parliament of Mets Monsr Borgon Monsr de Fay Messieurs Bidal and Villars both of them great Silk-Merchants Monsr Brun Merchant of Tapistry Monsr Farin the King's Secretary Monsr la Mare Monsr St. Michael all which had many who sided with them All these declared that they had no other design in this their Assembly than to find out the best means how to bring the King back to his Metropolis which was upon the brink of ruine without his Majestie 's presence They took a Solemn Oath to observe religiously all resolutions that should be taken and therein if occasion should serve spend their lives and livelihoods taking upon them to defend each of them in particular and all in general who should be injured by the contrary Party The same Oath concluded that they had no other end in this their meeting but the Glory of God and the Re-establishment of the King 's lawful Authority after the manner of his Predecessors Though not above four or five hundred men met in this Assembly yet had they many Adherents and the six Corporations of Merchants concur'd with them most of the Colonels of Quarters with almost all the Commissioners of the Town-house their true end was to let the people see that there was in Paris a strong Faction for the King and to oblige the Duke of Orleans to grant Passes to the Commissioners of Merchants and of the Colonels to go to Court and treat with his Majesty which was refused as prejudicial to the Interests of the Princes This Solemn Oath being taken some one proposed the Cardinal of Retz for the Head of this new Party but those who considered that this was proposed only to make him necessary at Court and to bring him by degrees into the chief Administration of Government opposed it mainly saying That they ought to receive no other Head but he who should be sent and chosen by his Majesty The Princes and all their Faction were much astonish't at this News fore-seeing the down-fall of their Designs and began to think how to reduce disorders and how to keep off the currant which was coming upon them Mareschal d' Estampes went with Orders from the Duke of Orleans to the Palace Royal to dissolve the Assembly but in vain Madamoselle thought to go thither her self in person to break off these Negotiations by her presence and authority but when she considered that her Reputation might be concerned therein she forbore doing it and she was wise therein for the Assembly had prepared a bunch of white Ribbon for her instead of Straw which she wore Thus the Morning of the 24th of September was spent the Assembly was adjourned till the next day when every one was charged to bring with him as many friends as he could get The same day Monsieur de Pois one of St. Mark 's

Together with this Enterprise of St. Menhaud ended the Campagne 1653 which in the beginning of it was likely to have proved very prejudicial and fatal to the King's Interests by reason of the unequality of Forces and the Diversion in Guienne which was the most part of it under the Princes so as the more hard and improbable a matter 't was to hinder the Enemies Progress so much the greater Glory resulted by it unto the Prudence of the Cardinal and valour of the Commanders who were able to gain so considerable advantages and having through so many disasters and cross accidents of Fortune brought things unto so good an end we cannot choose but hope for the continuance of good success since the malignity of the times can never be so great but that it will be overcome by the constant endeavours of Wit and Prudence By taking of this Town the Countrey thereabouts was freed from the Contributions they were enforced to pay unto this Garrison to avoid the mischiefs which otherwise they did unto them During this Siege the Cardinal failed not with incredible diligence to have an eye to all and to give such Orders as were convenient for the good Government of the Kingdome He dispatcht Courriers into Provence to make them with their Galleys carry necessary Provisions into Rosa doubting least the Spaniard after the happy relief of Girone should lay Siege to that important place he sent the Captain of his own Guard to Brisac to conclude the Negotiation with Count d' Harcourt and get that considerable Fort to be left freely unto his Majesties disposing he applyed to Bourdeaux such remedies as were proper for curing the unquietness of that people to make them tast the Sweet of Peace that they might thereby better know the bitterness of their passed troubles Orders being afterwards given out for the Souldiers Winter Quarters with the least trouble that might be unto the Subjects he returned with the King to Paris where his Majesty was received as in Triumph with theincredible applause of every one and with so much admiration of the Cardinal's Abilities that his Name was rendred Venerable and immortal by the Hands and Tongues of those who had before exclaimed against him Whilst the Cardinal Mazarine was imployed about the business of the Campagne and intent upon the Enterprize of St. Menhaud the Countesses of Mancini and Martinozze his Sisters with a Daughter of the latter Countess who after Barbarine's alliance with the Pope had left Rome came into Provence being honoured in all places where they passed and particularly in Genoua with all those marks of honour and esteem proper unto the generosity of that State and due unto the merit of their Brother and their own worthy qualities being Ladies endued amongst their many other Vertues with an admirable Modesty and excellent Deportment they staid in Provence for some days and coming to Paris when the Court was returned thither were received with an Affectionate courtesie not onely by the Grandees of the Court but also by his Royal Majesty The Affairs standing in the posture hath been related the Prince of Conty was in Cadillac where Monsieur de Langlada the Cardinal's Secretary lay sick amongst other discourses which past between them the Prince discovered to him the design he had to make his Peace at Court and put in execution the last Advice he had received from the Mouth of his dying Father which consisted in this That he should alwayes stand for the King's Interests and never swarve from the Obedience due unto his Prince He revolved in his mind upon the example of his Brother who whilest he had contained himself within his Duty had been Fortunate and Glorious He considered That the misfortune of his Family deceived by their Friends who for their own particular Interests had made a separation between him and his Brother reduced him unto the necessity either to be in an ill condition wheresoever he should live without Favour or Trust at Court or to take unfitting means for returning with glory and advantage to his first obedience and preserve his Family in that condition wherein his Father had by great endeavours left it and from whence Conde was about with so much inadvertency to throw it headlong He foresaw that to retire himself into Spain would be contrary unto his Genius and 't would be to expose himself absolutely to the revenge of a Brother who prepossessed by Count Marsin blinded by Lenet and full himself of sinister impressions against him would make a scorn of him and of those Eminent Services he had done him in Emergencies of high Importance having with an admirable dexterity kept up his Party with a few Men and little Money amidst the aversion of the People who were tired even to extremity with the Miseries of Warr he thought that by retiring into Italy or any part of his own Lands in France he should never be able to avoid the continual suspitions would be had of him by the Court so as either t'one way or t'other his life in the flower of his Age would prove unhappy idle and unworthy of his Lively Spirit and Courageous Heart which made him capable of all Noble Actions revolving therefore with himself what was Essential to his own Interest and weighing prudently what was fit for him to do he found the onely means to preserve himself in a condition fit for a Prince such as he was would be to follow the example of the Prince his Brother and to unite himself with the first Minister by the strict tyes of an Alliance which would consequently restore him to the Favour of his Royal Majesty He gave a hint of these thoughts unto Langlada but opened himself after with greater confidence unto the Duke of Candale with whom he professed to have a particular tye of Friendship neither was he deceived in his thought for the Duke concurring in opinion with him approved his thoughts as well projected and firmly grounded praising the Resolution with frank sincerity notwithstanding the Duke himself were far proceeded in a Treaty with the same party the Prince proposed and did extreamly desire the conclusion of it The Prince for all this thought it not fit to discover his thoughts so suddainly unto the Court but onely sent thither Monsieur Menil the Captain of his Guard onely to pass Complements but without Letters of Credence or other Instructions Menil was received with great kindness and he having informed himself touching the sence not onely of their Majesties but also of the Cardinal and all the other Ministers assured the Prince That he had found so great an inclination in the Cardinal towards him that he might certainly assure himself of an eternal Oblivion of all things past and of the renewing a sincere Affection towards his Person Upon these informations he resolved to dispatch thither Monsieur de Saracin his Steward in whose Fidelity and Prudence he had great confidence that he might make some Overtures and