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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55902	The history of France under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarine containing all the remarkable and curious passages in the government of that state, from the death of King Louis XIII, which happened in the year 1643, to the death of the cardinal, which was in the year 1664 / written in Latine by Sieur Benjamin Priolo ... ; done into English by Christopher Wase.; Ab excessu Ludovici XIII de rebus Gallicis historiarum libri XII. English	Priolo, Benjamin, 1602-1667.; Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing P3506A; ESTC R7055	242,261	471

security But that Conde who was ope●●● contrary to the Publick Good must be represt all 〈◊〉 advantages upon the confidence of which he carrie● himself so high were to be retrenched therefo●● Espernon must be preserved from falling under th● Rebels and rather than afterwards Guyenne 〈◊〉 important to whatsoever Party it takes should be 〈◊〉 wholly at the devotion of Conde That the Prove●●zals must not be abandoned to the revenge of Ales 〈◊〉 would joyn with his Cousin Conde and grow proud 〈◊〉 having mastered his Adversaries That Orleans 〈◊〉 to be won over to the Royal Cause and linked to it 〈◊〉 means of the Abbot de la Riviere that was to be 〈◊〉 in band with expectation of a Cardinals Cap 〈◊〉 Beaufort was to be bought off by Mombazon That Corinth was to be inveigled with variety of hopes by Madame Chevreuse The Parliament to be preserved in their Allegiance by any means That some gifts were to be scattered amongst the busie and turbulent Spirits to keep them quiet that all were to be wrought over by hopes promises preferments and all that during this two years all which time his Majesty could not take the Government himself by reason of the established Laws and his Minority This was the Queens sense who conducted all in safety amidst the high billows it is not to be imagined with how calm a spirit the Divine favour presiding over her most holy Counsels Orleans thath had no design but what was i●sinuated into him partly by his Wife who had taken up an opinion that the King would marry her Daughter and partly by the instinct of the Abbot of Riviere who expected a Cap by the favour of the Court resolved to stick to the Queen and that mainly for this reason to oppose Conde that was tacked about Conde Conti and Longueville whose Lady was Condes Sister and had her Followers too though dissenting in other matters yet concurred in this That they would not have Mazarine removed but taken down so as to promote their Suits which were no small ones And to have his wings clipped that he might not sore too high and that the beginnings of an immoderate favour and greatness might be obviated upon the remembrance of their slavery under Richlieu Without doubt Mazarine might have had such persons at his devotion so he could but have stooped to their humors and have relaxed any thing 〈◊〉 his rigorous loyalty towards the King his Master 〈◊〉 in a constant tenour of which he persevered undaunted maugre all Conspiracies and Threats to the contrary The design of Beaufort and Corinth was to acquire a greatness that might make them dreaded and considerable so that which way they should bend they might turn the scale especially of C●rinth who bore in mind his Predecessors that had umpired in the State of France Therefore did he cherish the commotions particularly in Bourdeaux and aimed at bringing the Queen Regent at length to that pass as to renouunce Mazarine and take in either himself or Chasteaunoeuf to the prime Ministry In the mean while poor Guyenne always averse from quiet courses was torn with intestine rage Nor did the violence of displeasure against Espernon abate They fell one upon another with all extremity and the Kings Souldiers plundered the neighbouring Towns as if it had been the Spaniards or Enemies Country The Bourdelois would restrain them from pillaging and sometimes pillage themselves they engaged oftentimes with success always couragiously although the giddy multitude had divers Leaders How tough the hatred was you may learn by this that the Peasants upon the places adjacent to the City besieged in their Castles chose rather to be burnt alive than to come by Surrender into the hands of the Royalists Whosover from a moderate principle bethought themselves how great a crime was acted were adjudged Enemies of the State and banished out of Town Letters from the Parliament of Paris scattered seeds of War who promised all help to the Assembly of the Parliament of Bourdeaux Tholouse that was ever unspotted with treasonable designs being invited to an Union stoutly denied but promised its utmost service to appear as an Interceder in procuring a Pacification and that by the approbation too of Candale But all this was fruitless nor was it easie to part men desirous to fight and vaunting the strength of their Party Nor did they any longer contest with Declarations but came to blows Argenson is sent thither to treat as Commissioner who after divers endeavours when he thought he had brought all into safe Harbour was driven back by new billows again into the open Sea I will not be prolix nor dwell any longer upon this Whirlpool of Sedition whenas very many have delivered these things out of vanity in too tedious repetitions Argenson first went to visit Espernon at Cardillac a pleasant Seat of the Espernons though Bourdeaux was not well pleased at his so doing There what was said in Conference was to this purpose That he must relieve the Garrison at Trompet with provision which they stood in much need of The Bourdelois had so closely blocked it up that nothing could be conveyed into it That the Fort begun at Libourne must be compleated from thence sprung the Revolt and all those troubles that ensued were upon that occasion Argenson passing between the hostile Troops on the one side and the other begged of them both to return home nor to crush the hopeful beginnings of composing matters with too hasty counsels They promise they will obey his Majesties Commands Espernon declared he required nothing but the settlement of the Country Not a word of all which was true Yet by the consent of both Parties these Articles were signed Neither Party to revenge past wrong neither to instigate their followers to fight neither advisedly to violate the Articles of Peace no Quarrels to be permitted between the Townsmen and Souldiers which ordinarily break out against the will of their Superiors The Bourdelois grown more moderate kept within the terms prescribed and according to agreement Meal was conveyed into the Garrison at Trompette Espernon thought he had well ordered the present state of Affairs so that the Castle of Trompette were preserved from taking and the Fort at Libourne were built up to curb the Bourdelois Therefore he sees that the Work be hastened forward a Garrison and two great Guns with store of Powder and Bullet be put in Whereupon the violence of the Faction which was abating broke out af●esh Nor did Argenson escape censure being openly cryed out against as one of Espernons party and an Enemy of Bourdeaux Never were Spirits more embittered This is observable that as in the Parliament of Paris the worshipful old men were carried away with the stream of the young so on the contrary in that of Bourdeaux the Elders in the Assembly hurried away the Youth implanting ill principles in them Espernon having now set the Castle of Trompette in safety which was relieved with Provision