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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42794	The history of the life of the Duke of Espernon, the great favourite of France Englished by Charles Cotton, Esq. ; in three parts, containing twelve books ; wherein the history of France is continued from the year 1598 where D'Avila leaves off, down to our own times, 1642.; Histoire de la vie du duc d'Espernon. English	Girard, Guillaume, d. 1663.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1670 (1670)	Wing G788; ESTC R21918	646,422	678

been agreed upon the day before was totally overthrown and Messieurs the Prelates would by no means accept the high degree of Judges the Duke had so submissively offer'd but would humble themselves to the qualities of simple Parties only They assembled then again at the Archbishop of Bordeaux his Palace and from thence sent a Deputation to the King wherein the Archbishop of Arles was to speak for the rest All that they say was observable in the Bishop's Oration was only an excessive vehemency in the heat whereof he made use of all the odious terms he could invent to allure his Majesties Indignation and to possess him with the highest sense of the Duke's Misdemeanour Upon which occasion it was that Caspian Bishop of Nantes one of the greatest and most vertuous Prelates of his time cry'd out That if it were possible for the Devil to submit himself to God Almighty to such a degree as the Duke did he would infallibly obtain pardon for all his Offenses and that notwithstanding the Church deny'd this Pardon to a Christian who had ever serv'd God and his Church But neither this true Remonstrance nor any other whatsoever that could be offer'd in the Duke's behalf could produce any good effect to the composing of this Affair He had very good intelligence of all the Severity was practis'd to his prejudice for although the greatest Powers were declar'd against him he had notwithstanding friends in the Assembly that were sway'd by no other consideration save only the pure interest of Piety and Justice Of this number were the Archbishops of Sens and of Tholouze the Bishop of Nantes before mention'd that of Mans of Beauvais and some others These Prelates acknowledg'd by the whole Kingdom for men of great Merit and Example no sooner had intelligence of what the rest of their Order were contriving against the Duke but that they came in all haste to Paris to do him all the good Offices the condition of the time would permit but there was an over ruling power that rendred all their endeavours fruitless so that after having long sustain'd the Torrent of Authority that opposed their Reason they were constrain'd at last to give way to force that ever gives the Law to the best Arguments Upon the Complaints of the Clergy preferr'd to the King by the mouth of the Archbishop of Arles his Majesty commanded that the Informations of the Parliament of Bordeaux should be put into the hands of Lauzon Master of Requests to make his Report Villemontée who was also at the same time at Court was likewise order'd to give in his Answer after which and that the Depositions of the Witnesses had been sufficiently canvas'd the Cardinal who was present at the Council was of opinion That upon the Duke 's single Confession contain'd in his Answer he ought to be reputed Excommunicate and as so that the King ought to declare him laps'd from all his Offices and Dignities till by vertue of his Absolution he should be re-united to the Church Though the King's Sentences were by the Duke himself obey'd with all manner of submission his Friends and Servants nevertheless did not forbear even in the face of the Court with many powerful Arguments to move for his Quietus est of which Arguments there were enow of themselves to make an entire Volumn but I have nothing to do to transcribe them here both in regard they were of no advantage to the Duke at that time and that his intention remains sufficiently justified by his Respect and Submissions to the Church The Cardinal de la Valette fail'd not however to urge and dispute those Reasons as he had ever done but not having been able to prevail that the Clergy might themselves be Judges of his Father's Cause nor that the King would please to take off the punishment he had impos'd upon him till after he should be absolv'd The Duke was constrain'd to apply himself to the Court of Rome first to obtain the repose of his Conscience and after his Restauration to his Offices and Commands His Secretary was therefore dismiss'd from Plassac to go to Rome furnish'd with several Dispatches directed to several of the principal persons of that Court The Duke's name famous in all parts of Europe was with his Holiness in very great esteem he had had the honour to be acquainted with him in the time of his Nuntiature in France and he was then reputed no ill Catholick His Holiness therefore very graciously receiv'd his Submissions and contrary to the c●stom of that Court where delays are very usual chiefly when the Authority of the Apostolick See in any Debate of Consequence is concern'd cutting off a great many of the tedious Forms caus'd the Expeditions necessary for the Duke's satisfaction to be dispatch'd and sent them away to Cardinal Bichi his Nuntio in France So that had the Resolutions of the Court of Rome at that time had less dependence upon those of France the Duke had from thence obtain'd a speedy and full satisfaction But so many rubs were on this side the Alpes laid in the way that four whole months were laps'd before the Duke could receive his Absolution which when it came was no other neither than Ad Reincidentiam a term us'd by those who treat of such matters when it is not a plenary Absolution Who is it that reading the progress of this Dispute but must admire that a little Complement ill receiv'd and a few words ill interpreted should grow to be one of the most important Affairs of two of the greatest Courts of Europe I was very unwilling to have been so tedious in being so particular but others having related it so as they knew would please the Great Ones of that time who were no Friends to the Duke I thought my self oblig'd to render here an account of things as they truly pass'd which if it will not here absolutely excuse the Duke for being in his sudden passion too violently transported against an Ecclesiastical Person it will at least serve to manifest the respect he bore to the Church and to a Dignity he ever had in the highest Reverence and Esteem From this time forward the Duke's Affairs began to appear with a much better face at Court his Sons having by their diligence and discretion so moderated Cardinal Richelieu's heat that nothing remain'd to do save only how to contrive a durable Reconciliation and from this breach as it often falls out to derive an occasion of inseparably uniting their two Families The Cardinal notwithstanding would first have his Will he had as has been said in the Year 1632. desir'd that the Duke would demise his Government of Metz in his favour wherein having not met with that complacency he expected he must now be satisfied Neither would promises serve the turn the laying down the Government of this place must also precede the Absolution the Cardinal being by no means to be perswaded to consent that the