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A52961	The new politicks of the court of France Under the reign of Levvis XIV. Wherein are to be seen all his intreagues, and his present manner of acting, in respect of all the potentates of Europe, to satisfie his ambition and grandeur. Made English from the original printed at Cologne, 1694.		1695 (1695)	Wing N715A; ESTC R224183	77,082	145

high that few or none can reach it that is to say the Depopulation of France and consequently the Ruine of the Kingdom for Religion's sake For it is well known that the Protestants of France have always made a Considerable Body of that Realm and tho' they have been Persecuted and Massacred under divers Reigns more-especially in the Reigns of Charles IX and Henry III. nevertheless they have still reviv'd again and considerably encreas'd their Number yet always faithfully devoted to the Service of their Soveraign and that Fidelity obtain'd all those Edicts of Pacification and Liberty of Consciennce which were granted 'em by Henry IV. and Lewis XIII For as the Historians themselves confess the Huguenots were the Men that fix'd the Crowns upon the Heads of Henry IV. and his Offspring Lewis XIII and Lewis XIV now Reigning whose Crown when he was Young and in his Minority the First Prince of the Blood would have wrested from him pretending that the Succession belong'd to him by Right of Birth after the Death of Lewis the XIII openly asserting his Claim as well by word of Mouth as publick Manifesto's at the Time of the Parisian Bar●cado's Nor could the King himself forbear to give Truth her due in several Declarations and Edicts and by Letters written to the Protestant Princes And indeed so Signal a Piece of Service and a Devotion so faithful to the Person of this Monarch gave the Protestants all the Encouragement in the World to hope for an Irrevocable Protection and an Enlargment of their Liberties Assurance of Safety both for themselves and their Posterity not only during the Reign of this King but also of his Successours Nevertheless notwithstanding all these Signal Services they only obtain'd the Title of Faithful Subjects which the King affected to bestow upon 'em in all his Edicts and Declarations Nay their Fidelity was so disserviceable to 'em as to create nothing but Fears and Jealousies in the Prime Ministers and Courtiers and augmented the Natural Hatred of the Jesuits who all together from that time forward meditated nothing more then to abase and ruine the Protestant Party and inspir'd into the Young Prince distrustful Sentiments of those to whom he was beholding for his Crown perswading him that if the Huguenots were so powerful as to settle him in his Throne they would be able at another time to throw him down again whenever he refus'd 'em any Privilege which they demanded These Disturbers of the Repose of France having thus found the Monarch dispos'd and inclin'd to follow their pernicious Counsels the Jesuits Directors of the Prince's Conscience fail'd not to improve those Sentiments so Opposite to his Real Interests and his Promis'd Faith and for the Expiation of some Great Sin impos'd upon him by way of doing Pennance the cancelling some Privileges granted to the Protestants by the King his Predecessours and with an Oath confirm'd by the Reigning Prince And as it is usual for Scorn to degenerate into Hatred the King having lay'd a Design to ruin the Vnited Provinces thought it then high time to begin with the Destruction of the Protestants of his Kingdom And then it was that every Body study'd who should be most forward to second the Bloody Design of their Soveraign and to invent new Torments for the more quick dispatch of the Great Work as the Court of France call'd it and the King himself could not refrain himself from saying That he would have the satisfaction in his Life-time of having the Honour to destroy Heresie and that he had rather leave the Dauphin a Beggarly then Heretical Kingdom and thus enflam'd Men Women Children Monks and Ministers of State all cry'd out To the Sack to the Sack with the Churches of the Huguenots and every one according to his Power lent a willing hand to the Diabolical Work Madam de Maintenon an Old Female Sinner was the Jesuits faithful and sedulous she-Intelligencer who for that purpose held their Cabals both day and night the Marquis of Louvois sent away the Dragoons into the Provinces and St. Ruth put in Execution with great delight the Cruel Orders that were dispatch'd from Court and recommended to his Executioners and Hangmen the Care of tormenting the poor Creatures with all sorts of Barbarism and Cruelty And while this Tragedy was acting in the several Provinces the Chancellor Tellier sent forth Declaration upon Declaration against the Protestants and issu'd out the Revocation of all their Edicts Privileges and Liberties with so much Satisfaction that as he was sealing the Revocation of the Edict of Nants he could not forbear declaring That it was the greatest Blessing that ever overjoy'd him in his Life and that he could be content after he had seen that happy Day to dye and he was so impious as upon that Bloody occasion to repeat the Song of Simeon and indeed God took him at his word for within a few days after he deliver'd France from that same Monster of Men. However the Persecution did not cease with the Life of that Minister who left very good Disciples behind him for that Father La Chaise finding one day the King in a Good Humour obtain'd an Order from him for a General Massacre of the Huguenots all over France grounding his Persuasions upon the Constancy of some of 'em with whom the Prisons and Convents were cramm'd and upon the Hypocrisie of the New Converts who when Opportunity served would be as so many Enemies within the Kingdom and that therefore there wanted a little Blood-letting to cure the Mischief And if this Order were not put in Execution the Protestants were beholding to the Two First Princes of the Blood Condé and Contí who took it out of Father La Chaise's Hands and return'd it to the King This Persecution which produc'd nothing but Hypocrites and forc'd Catholicks constrain'd a vast number of People to quit France and retire with their Effects into Foreign Countries contrary to the Expectation of the Court and the Policy of the King and his Ministers who never intended to dispeople the Kingdom as the Spaniards did their Country by expelling the Moors and for fear of falling into the same Blunder again they committed another as bad setting forth Rigorous Prohibitions forbidding all People to stir out of the Kingdom guarding the Passes and ordering all to be brought back Prisoners that should be taken upon the Frontiers and filling the Prisons Convents and Galleys with their Captives which was very near the same thing as expelling 'em the Kingdom All this so barbarous and unheard-of Usage was premeditated however notwithstanding the outward shew of Piety to be serviceable to the King's Design as having been for some Years contriving the Utter Ruin of the Protestants and therefore rightly judging that the Potentates their Confederates would never consent to their Destruction in regard their Downfall would only serve to aggrandize France and augment her Strength in order to the carrying the whole Universe before Her