Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	council_n	king_n	privy_a	1,162	5	9.8102	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

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

turn'd more efficaciously her Policy another way It was now about a dozen Years that the Earls of Flanders and Dampmartin had lyen languishing in Prison and as these two Persons were very near both Criminal alike it seemed but just that there should be as little difference put in the Favour which was to be shewn them as there had been in their Guilt and was in their Punishment But their Tempers were not equal the Earl of Dampmartin was of a Humour so ill contriv'd that it was not possible to have any kind of Indulgence for him which he would not be apt to abuse The League wanted a Head and that very thing was sufficient to obstruct his Deliverance for had he been let out he had certainly gone immediately and joyn'd the Rebels The Earl of Flanders had more of Honour in him and was not irregular in matters of Generosity except in such Rencounters where he distinguish'd it not sufficiently from those Vices which are design'd to pass for it he had in his Soul a fund of goodness which facilitated his return to his Allegiance however he had been carried away by Passion or Weakness The Regent being inform'd of the strong part and the weak of this Portuguez Prince resolv'd to give him that Liberty which she deny'd the Earl of Dampmartin and as she never attracted so much Admiration as in matters of loud importance so she particularly accompanied this with so many Obliging Circumstances for the Earl of Flanders that he not onely remained firm himself to the Interests of his Benefactress but also accepted of the Leave given him to return to his Wife meerly upon this very account that he might take her wholly off as he did from the League and oblige her to call home those Troops which she had sent into the Rebels Camp The Entreagues of Court were succeeded by the formalities of Justice the Regent after she had disjointed the League summon'd the principal members to meet in Parliament at Chinon and afterwards at Tours The Members summon'd appear'd neither at the first nor second Citation but when they were commanded to appear the third time at Vendome and had but twenty days time allow'd them for their appearance they consulted among themselves what they had best to do The most furious of them were of opinion that they might leave the matter to be judg'd by Foreclusion and only bring it to a review when the war should be ended but the wiser sort were of a contrary judgment alledging that it was always a troublesome thing to be cast in Causes of what nature soever and that an Arrest could not possibly come out against them without leaving a blot upon their memory Hereupon they concluded that it would be necessary to appear by Proxy and if the Reasons they brought for the defence of their Cause were not sufficient to satisfie her they would at least serve to convince the People that they were not so culpable as the Regent gave out but neither the one nor the other of these Councils were follow'd and the resolution they took was like the way of all seditious Assemblies in this that they chose the very worst of all Expedients propos'd It was carryed by the plurality of voices that the Princes and most eminent Lords of the League should repair to Vendome with a very small Train to perswade the Regent that they had a sincere desire of a reconciliation with her presuming that the Regent deluded by this fair pretence would not fail to bring along with her or at least send the King her Son to Vendome with a small guard by reason that on the one side the presence of this young Monarch would be absolutely necessary on the other side she would be cautious of giving the occasion of suspicion to a People who testified with so much frankness their readiness to submit to their Sovereign which would be obvious in case they should see him attended with a greater number than was usual upon such like Ceremonies that the Confederates who were Masters of Estampes and Corbeil might without being percei'd draw out of those two places as many Forces as would be sufficient to carry off the King and that the Regent having lost him by whom she held her Authority would be constrain'd to seek for an agreement with those whom she seem'd before so much to slight Who the Author was of this pernicious Council is not certainly known some Historians say it was the Duke of Bretaign others the Earl of March but from whose brain soever it proceeded it was so exactly adjusted to the Conjuncture of Affairs at that time that nothing but Divine Providence which took particular care of the preservation of St. Lewis could have frustrated the design The most sagacious wisdom of this world hath its Intervals and sometimes commits such failings as folly it self could not be guilty of greater Seldom are long administrations without some error as if the government of States were a kind of Sea where at one time or other there must needs be Shipwrack The Regent had hitherto follow'd the Maxims of most exquisite prudence and her Enemies who felt the sharp Effects thereof admir'd her no less than her friends who had the advantage of it but all was spoil'd at one dash For whether it were that she hop'd suddenly to conclude a Peace or that she rely'd too much upon the judgments of her blind Counsellors she sent the King her Son to Vendome with a very weak guard Never were there civil wars in France but had this inconvenience attending namely that the designs of one party though never so secretly carry'd were in a moment known to the other The Earl of Champaign had excellent Spies in the Army of the League and never fail'd of being inform'd from time to time of whatever designs were form'd among them in regard the chief of those who were most privy thereunto held correspondence with him consequently he had immediately notice of all the particularities of the design laid for seising the sacred person of the King He advertis'd hereof the Regent who was then at Paris for there the Council of State detain'd her as supposing the presence of this Princess would discover the correspondences of the Rebels in that great Town The Regent was not so much troubled though heartily angry at her self for her indiscretion at the error she had committed as in pain till she had found out a way to remedy it nor was it long e're her admirable inventive wit prompted her to a way which answer'd her desires She wrote to the King who was in the Bourg de Chastres to secure himself in the Castle of Montleher till such time as she could send Forces sufficient to deliver him and in regard the Army Royal was at too great a distance she had recourse to the Citizens of Paris The Queen assembled all the Colonels and other Officers from their respective Quarters and in a most pathetick thetick Speech

Lackland which would be to the prejudice even of those Children which she had brought into the World That it was the Regent's humour to desire rather to be accounted an ill natur'd than an ungrateful Person that this only consideration was sufficient to render her unworthy of the administration of the French Monarchy but that there was another also no less apparent nor no less considerable which was this The late King had form'd a design and put a good beginning to it of uniting Languedock to the Crown the chief obstruction to which by reason of his Majesties untimely death would be the not taking of Tholouse the Regent besides that she was uncapable of such an Enterprise being too much concern'd as a Native of Spain in opposing by all means possible the growth of the French Monarchy on the Pirenean side not to put off the Siege to another time under pretence of the Minority of the King her Son when ever she should be constrain'd to undergo the Importunities that must needs be made to her upon this account that the only Remedy to prevent these two Inconveniences would be to depose the Queen from her Regency and to put in her stead a Prince who on the one side should have no obligation to the English and on the other side would be capable of commanding the Army design'd for the taking of Tholouse This Harangue which the Earl made use of in the Nature of a Manifesto laid down nothing which in the main was not exactly true but withal it was enfeebled by a contradiction too plain to be unperceiv'd In the beginning of his discourse he presupposes her English designing thereby to raise an Odium against her upon the account of the Aversion she must needs have for France on the contrary at the latter end he will have her a Native of Spain on purpose to render her suspected and uncapable of pursuing the Conquest of Languedock However this Oration had almost all the success the Earl could promise himself from it since thereby he engag'd to his Party the two sorts of People which were then of most Credit in France that is to say those who had a more than ordinary passion for the Grandure of that Monarchy and those who less soaring in Ambition pleas'd themselves with the thought that this would be a great means of rooting out the Hereticks and were carried on with wonderful Application toward the Conquest of Languedock as imagining it another holy War Of this number were the Duke of Burgundy the Earls of March St. Paul and Bar whos 's Association was of great importance to the Earl of Boulogne and so much the more for that they thought themselves tied to his Interests by the strongest of humane Bonds to wit Zeal no matter whether true orfalse Having thus secur'd those who pretended to serve him out of pure inclination he made it his next business to gain those who act in all things as humour or interest leads them of this sort of persons the Earl of Champaigne was the first he address'd himself to This Prince found not that return of Love from the Queen which he thought his Services merited nor was he very much surpris'd thereat whether it were that he imputed the Queens Insensibility to those impressions which the surviving Love of her deceas'd Husband had left in her heart or that he believ'd the case of her Honour oblig'd her to keep within the bounds of exact decorum at a time when she knew the Eyes of the whole world would be upon her but he was more throughly convinc'd of the vanity of persisting in his Love when he saw that the Queen after she had taken upon her the Regency treated him no otherwise than common Civility oblig'd her to and that she neglect-him so far as not to make him a sharer in the Government by giving him a place in the Council of State his impatient humour stirr'd him up to high complaints of her slighting Usage Whereupon the Earl of Bologne who was neither ignorant of his Amours nor his ill success therein concluded the best way to draw him to a Revolt would be to heighten his jealousie The Pope had sent Legate into France a Prelate altogether agreeable to that Court he was call'd Romanor being a Native of Rome of the lowest rank of the Populacy nevertheless he was endu'd with such qualities as made him appear a person of real Grandure in all places wherever he came he had an excellent shape of body and for a gallant Meen was not equall'd by any his delicate and quick parts made him pass for a Miracle of wit and the rather for that it was very rare in that Age. In fine all Europe could not boast so compleat a Courtier to him France ow'd the Conquests that had been made in Languedock for it was he that call'd the Council at Bourges wherein the continuation of the war against the Albigenses was decreed he that had dispos'd all the Nobility of the Realm to serve in this Expedition at their own Charge he that had excommunicated anew the Earl of Tholouse he that took off the Fathers of the Councel from shewing him any favour when he came in as a penitent at a time when they least expected it This induc'd the Queen to have a particular respect for the Legate whether mov'd by the meer consideration of his Merits or thinking her self oblig'd to treat with more than ordinary Civilities a Minister of the Court of Rome and one whose assistance she mainly stood in need of to compleat the Conquest of Languedock and to keep the French in subjection and obedience during so long a Minority She consulted him in all important affairs follow'd his advice above all others and of those passant Civilities he desir'd for any of his friends she deny'd him none these things added so much to the count of Champaign's jealousie that the Malecontents could have wisht for no better opportunity to bring him over to their Party The Earl of Boulogne represented to him that he ought in reason to disengage his heart from a Spanish woman who had been so lavish of hers as to part with it to a Priest and that he could not in honour have any other Sentiments for her than those of abhorrence and revenge for the injury she did to the Memory of her deceas'd Husband There is nothing a man inclines to more than to believe things areas he would have them The Earl how ever was at a loss and knew not what to think of her manner of treating him he could not imagine that so young and fair as she was she could confine her self all her life long to a languishing and disconsolate Widow-hood having an overture which she might be glad to embrace of enjoying in second Nuptials the Heir presumptive of the Crown of Navarre ail this while he saw plainly that this Princess had no disposition to make him happy though to her own advantage and