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A47671	The history of Father La Chaise, Jesuite, and confessor to Lewis XIV, present King of France discovering, the secret intreagues by him carried on, as well in the court of England, as in all the courts of Europe, to advance the great designs of the King his master / made English from the French original.; Histoire du père La Chaize, jésuite et confesseur du roi Louis XIV. English.	Le Noble, Eustache, 1643-1711.; Le Noble, Pierre.; Le Roux, Philibert-Joseph.	1693 (1693)	Wing L1052; ESTC R179438	143,271	350

means to become more considerable in the Kingdom than he was already that it behov'd him to remember the trouble he had put him to during his Minority when his designs made such a noise that the Queen Mother was constrain'd to seize his Person and with what Animosity from his Enlargment in 1651 to 1659 he had made War against his Majesty who was forc'd by Treaty to receive him tho without advancing him to those high Places and Dignities which he had before that if at that time he thought it good Policy to keep him in a midling Condition to prevent him from attempting any thing to his prejudice the same reasons obliged his Majesty to look more narrowly after him That the Prince's Vexation and Discontents were visible and that maugre all the care which he took to conceal it he could not forbear to display his dissatisfactions upon several occasions by comparing his present condition with what he had been formerly So that his Majesty had all the reason in the world to be assur'd that his Great Heart and his Ambition importun'd him without ceasing to extraordinary Attempts and that all things being well consider'd he was the only Prince in a condition to oppose if not to stop the Career of his Majesties Glorious Designs that he ought to consider seriously the incumbrances he would meet with if the Prince should go about to Head the Huguenots of his Kingdom and at the same time make an Alliance with Holland that would not only be able to stop his Progress but also to introduce the Enemy into the Heart of his Kingdom and then the least mischief that could befall him would be to make an ignominious Peace and restore the Huguenots their Antient Privileges All these Reasons being urg'd by la Chaise and seconded by Louvois made the King resolve to confer no more Employments upon the Prince who on the other side perceiving the suspitions which the Court had of him and how he was lookt upon with an evil Eye retir'd to his Palace of Chantilli where he was in hopes to live and dye quietly without pretending any more to publick business But it was ordain'd that his Generosity and his great Heart should always be the cause of his misfortune For about the end of the year 1683 being inform'd by M. Montauzier of a Cruel Order which la Chaise had obtain'd of the King and which he was preparing to put in excution he could not endure such Barbarities without declaring his Mind Thereupon he went to the Court and throwing himself at the Kings Fleet laid before him how great a stain such a foul Action would be to his Honour that he himself had several times oblig'd himself by promise never to make use of Violent Courses and sanguinary Ways but tho he had never engag'd his Royal Word yet that the Interest of his Honour and his Fame were sufficient to divert him from so black an Eterprize and so misbecoming a most Christian King as that was that there were other ways for his Majesty to reduce the Protestants that they were already in so low a condition that they were not able to make Head against him and if the worst came to the worst he might banish 'em out of his Kingdom These Remonstrances of the Prince wrought so effectually upon the King that he revok'd his Order and la Chaise was disappointed But his Animosity upon this redoubling he made use of this occasion to let the King understand that the reason why the Prince of Conde oppos'd with so much heat the destruction of the Huguenots was only because it would utterly ruin those designs which he was meditating to put into their Heads and the Cunning Priest made use of several kindnesses which afterwards the Prince desir'd in favour of the Huguenots to render him odious to the King and cast him absolutely but of his Favour wherein he succeeded but too well it being certain that after that the King could hardly endure to see him 1686. At length this Great Prince dy'd the 16th of December 1686 at Fontain Bleau whither he went to see his Grandaughter the Dutchess of Bourbon who lay sick of the Small Pox and many People were of Opinion that the Jesuits did not a little contribute to hasten his Death He wrote a very Pathetick Letter to the King wherein he exprest his sorrow for having born Arms against his Majesty protesting withal that since his return he had never had any other than Sentiments of Respect and Affection for his Person and Fidelity to his Service whatever suspitions had been infus'd into him to the contrary as in regard he had been in part the cause of the Prince of Conti's misfortune he begg'd his pardon with an extraordinary submission in that Letter assuring the King that the Prince was as good and faithful a Subject as his Majesty could wish or desire adding withal that Father la Chaisè knew well what he said to be truth if he would vouchsafe to testifie the Truth Cardinal Camus also had incurr'd the Confessors displeasure much upon the same account and for the same Reason as the Prince He wrote to the King a Letter wherein he lai'd it before him that it was neither for his Honour nor did it become his Justice to use violent means that for his part he could not approve of 'em and therefore besought his Majesty not to take it amiss if within his own Diocess he qualifi'd and soften'd such boistrous proceedings as much as lay in his Power At which the King being provok'd wrote a threatning Letter to the Intendant of the Diocess against the Cardinal with orders to shew it him There upon the Cardinal wrote to the Intendant that Famous Letter wherein he proves that Rigorous and Bloody means are not to be made use of to reduce People to the Religion they have forsaken and that there is no other way to deal with the Conscience but by perswasion Our Jesuit therefore who is a sworn Enemy to all those who concur not blindly with his designs incens'd the King against him withal his might and obtain'd a Warrant also to send him to the Bastile which was revok'd soon after at the intercession of the Duke of Montauzier However afterwards this worthy Prelate was haunted with a thousand vexations tho the only person that we have in France that lives a life so exemplary and so like a true Bishop He was formerly a Courtier and one that had very far engag'd himself in vanity and a luxurious Life but at length retiring from the world leading a very Vertuous and Pious Life the King made him Bishop of Grenoble For which when he went to return thanks to his Majesty he took his leave of him for all his Life after where upon the King demanding the Reason why he bid him so long a farwell he answer'd that residence was of Divine Right and that he thought himself oblig'd to reside in his Diocess as he had

Interested and legally possess'd ought to inform yee sufficiently of the Will of God in this particular So that I cannot apprehend upon what grounds you set your self to be an Instrument for the Destruction of a Work which your own Brethren whose Testimony cannot be suspected in this have been oblig'd to approve and commend it upon several Occasions by reason of that Glory which is done thereby to God and the Edification which redounds to the Church Much less can I apprehend upon what score you could publickly say That God would be more glorify'd if the Doors of my Church were shut up Dear Father What is become of that profound Respect that Submission with which you formerly reverenc'd the Holy Church and the Holy See that now you go about to destroy what both have establish'd and if it be true as some give cut not only without Authority but against the King's Consent For 't is observ'd That in the last Brevets which you have got dispatch'd for the Canonships of my Cathedral that the Clause formerly inserted at the beginning which binds the Persons preferr'd to take upon 'em the Habit or to admit themselves Noviciates is left out and that Expedients are also found out to exempt those who were bound to those Ceremonies by their Brevets There are also several Intelligent Persons and your good Friends who attribute this Conduct of yours to a Design to securalize my Church notwithstanding Mine and the Opposition of my Chapter and without any Authority from the Pope Is this the acquittal of the Promise you made me as well for those whom you have engag'd in those Benefices as to some Ecclesiasticks of my Diocess Think you the Publick does not observe how you abuse that Belief which your Quality of Confessor fixes in the King's Mind not only in causing him unknowingly to violate the Rights of the Church but also to Authorize in his Name those pieces of Injustice which would hardly be believ'd did they not appear in open Acts of Violence 'T is impossible Reverend Father that you should have solidly study'd the Business of the Regale and not understand That the King has not that Prerogative in my Diocess no more then in several others so that you do an extraordinary prejudice to my Church in perswading his Majesty to assume it to himself Now if you are not fully acquainted with this Matter How is it possible for yee to be so confidently Instrumental to our being handled upon this Occasion with the same Rigour as if we were Enemies of the Church and State Nay tho' it were true that the King had this Privilege which it is certain he has not Can you have the Conscience to deal is such a rugged and irregular manner so contrary to all the Laws of God and Man and a Bishop and a Chapter whose only Crime was their Zeal a little too ardent in defending the Rights of the Church and their Obedience to a general Council The shortness of this Letter permits me not to set down a Thousand Reasons that prove invinceably the Justice of my Cause and the ill Usage we have suffer'd for so long time under this Pretence Besides that I find you have not so much need of being well inform'd as well inclin'd in reference to 〈◊〉 Which lies not in any Earthly Power but in God alone to do For your fear of incurring the King's Indignation should he come to understand how he has been Flatter'd by him who had a greater Obligation then any other Man to tell him Truths so necessary for his Salvation and his real Honour your Reluctancy to confess that you have done amiss your Desire to Disgrace a Bishop who cannot but disapprove your Maxims because he does not find 'em conformable to those of Jesus Christ and his blessed Saints are Difficulties not to be surmounted by any other then by him who is the Lord of all Hearts Believe me Dear Father for as I have the Honour to be a Bishop I have the Privilege to give yee good Advice You have reason to fear incurring not only the Indignation of God in violating the Indignation of his Spouse but also the Anger of the King who is too quick-sighted not to come to the Knowledge one Day of these Things and too just not to condemn the pernicious Actions to which your Counsels have bow'd him contrary to his Inclinations And instead of God and the King 's being well pleas'd with your performing the Office of a Confessor and solidly labouring the Salvation of his Soul whose Conscience you have in Charge They whom you unfortunately expose to Censures would be more engag'd to yee if you would exhort 'em to make themselves worthy of Benefices and not to possess themselves of 'em in defiance of the Ecclesiastical Canons And all good Men would bless God for seeing you employ your Credit for the Good of the Church by perswading his Majesty to content himself with enjoying the Prerogative as his Predecessors did according to the limitation of the Council of Lion I conclude Dear Father with laying before yee That it would become your Charity to let a poor Bishop now 70 Years of Age and by whose labouring 34 Years in the Function of his Episcopacy you may well guess him not to be far from his end to dye in Peace and not suffer an Assembly of Persons who have consecrated themselves to God not without the extraordinary Edification of many to be dissipated by People the visible Enemies of a regular Life I hope that God will give you the Grace to be Faithful till Death and for my part Dear Father however you deal by me I shall never cease to be your Servant Francis Bishop of Pamiers This Letter wrought no other Effect then only that it more incens'd La Chaise against him who persever'd in his Hatred to that degree that after his Death he reveng●d himself upon him in the Person of his Grand Vicar whom he caus'd to be condemn'd to death by a Decree of the Parlament of Tholo●s● as guilty of High-Treason because he oppos'd the Violences of those that were preferr'd by virtue of the Regale and caus'd him to be Executed in Effigie clad in his sacerdotal Habit. The famous M. Anthony Arnault Doctor of the Sorbonne was one of those who could not approve the Regale All the world knows what a terrible War he maintain'd against the Jesuits 1680. for above 30 Years together in defence of Jansenism of which he was the Chieftain However he was still supported against their Efforts by the means of his Nephew M. de Pompone Secretary of State But in the Year 1680. La Chaise having render'd him a suspicious Person to the King who was made believe that he was the stiffest Antiregalist in France and to be the very Person that had Poyson'd in such a manner the Bishop of Aleth and Pamiers he fell into utter Dsgrace together with his Nephew who had disclos'd to him at the

time that the King put forth his Declarations for the Regale That M. Boucherat Counsellor of State had given his Advice in Council That the Churches should be left free in the Possession of their Immunities and Privileges without any farther Disturbance Arnault gave Intelligence of this to the Pope who could not forbear to insert this Circumstance in a Brief which he wrote some Years after to the King The King was much surpriz'd at it and endeavour'd to sift out through what Channel this Secret was convey'd But Father La Chaise soon unfolded the Riddle assuring him that it was his Secretary Pompone's Discovery who was confin'd to his own House and Arnault his Uncle was order'd to quit St. James's Street where he liv'd with a Prohibition to have any Assemblies in his Ho●● Upon which misdoubting the Consequence of such a harsh beginning and fearing to be put into the Bastille he retir'd into Holland for good and all where he compos'd his Apology for the Politicks of the Clergy which the very well done and to the King's Advantage was however condemn'd and a poor Prie●● committed to the Bastille at the prosecution of La Chaise for endeavouring to publish some few Copies in France And the Reason that oblig'd him to it was not only because the Book justify'd the Proceedings of the Antiregalists and particularly of the Bishops of Aleth and Pamiers but because M. Arnault was the Author of it This is 〈◊〉 Quality peculiar to Father La Chaise that he would condemn any Book i' th' World tho' written never so much to the Advantage of Him and his Party if he had an Antipathy against the Author And this was visibly to be seen at the same time For the famous Minister M. de la Rocque compos'd an excellent Treatise of the Right of the Regale and which is one of the most strenuous Pieces that have been seen upon that Subject nevertheless the Confessor forbid him to publish it that it might not be said of him That he made use of a Heretick Pen to support the King's Prerogatives against the Church and perhaps i● that he did not do so much amiss The same could not be said of M. Chastai● who was a good Catholick He had compos'd a very excellent Piece entitl'd The true Erplication of the Concordat Wherein he made out a very specious Right of Nomination to several Benefices The King had also appointed Commissioners to examine it but what avail'd all this to a Person whom La Chaise hated He was forbid to print his Book and that was all the Reward he had for his Pains to have labour'd a long time to no purpose and perhaps against his Conscience Nor were they the Churches only endow'd with Benefices which La Chaise resolv'd to Subjugate under the Yoak of the Regale but the Monasteries of the Urbanist Monks of the Order of St. Francis who ever since their Institution had been Priories Elective only from Three Years to Three Years The whole Congregation of St. Maur among the Benedictines under-went the same Fate The Abbot of Clugni who had been Canonically elected was expell'd and the Monks enforc'd to receive the Cardinal of Bouillon who took possession of it By virtue of the same Prerogative the Abbies of Chezal-Benoist which had been united to that Congregation by the Authority of the Holy See and the Grants of several Kings had every one a secular Abbot impos'd upon 'em as had also a Thousand others too tedious here to be inserted All these Intrusions were enforc'd where Residence was absolutely necessary for Example upon Nunneries and all this by Force of Arms and the Ministry of a 100 Dragoons who after they had broke open the Gates of the Nunneries committed a 1000 Disorders and many times most horrid Violences and Sacrileges These Exorbitances at length reach'd the Holy Father's Ears by the Complaints of the Monks and Nuns at the same time that the Bishops of Pamiers and Aleth made the same Lamentations And it griev'd him beyond Expression to see That a most Christian King pre-possess'd by an impious Varlet of the Society of Jesus as he stiles himself should yet the Church with Persecutions so cruel and till then unheard of under the Reign of a Catholick Prince He wrote therefore to the King several Briefs and laid before him with an Affection altogether cordial and paternal the Injustice wherein he had unwarily engag'd himself by the Counsells of his Ministers and particularly of Father La Chaise who had giv'n him an Idea of Things contrary to Reason and Equity Beseeching him for God's sake to surcease a Proceeding so unbecoming those great Actions which had otherwise extoll'd his Fame and no longer to permit the Sighs and Groans of so many pious People consecrated to God to ascend to Heaven and implore Assistance against the Violences and Profanations which they suffer'd under his Authority He also wrote to the Cardinals Bonzi and D'Estrees to the Arch-bishop of Paris and Father La Chaise which wrought no other Effect but only that it procur'd the sending of D'Estrees to Rome Who to perswade his Holiness to swallow patiently this bitter Cup set forward in August 1680. The Clergy who were then assembl'd had receiv'd a large Brief from his Holiness upon the same Subject to which all the answer they gave was this that they wrote a Letter to the King wherein they told him that the Pope took upon him to concern himself in a business which they could by no means approve in regard that instead of submitting to the common good of the Church he only gave people an opportunity to cabal together to encrease Confusion and Schism and to encourage and embolden seditious spirits the consequences of which would be very pernitious The next year the Assembly had several debates upon the Regale The Archbishops of Reimes Ambrun and Albe the Bishops of Rochelle Autun and T●oye being Commissioners it was pronounc'd that the Regale was a Right annex'd to the Crown not to be alicnated without the compass of prescription and against which no opposition could be made directly or indirectly without palpable injustice The poor Bishop of Pamiers well understanding the unworthiness of these Prelates who had sold themselves to Court Favour and had so perfidiously betray'd the Rights of the Church entrusted in their Hands and finding himself alone poor feeble dispossess'd and no way able to support 'em was seiz'd with such a lively sorrow that he soon follow'd his Brother the Bishop of Aleth who dy'd some months before During his sickness he wrote three Letters one to the Pope desiring his Prayers and his Protection of the Church which most assuredly after his death would be subjected to the Regale another to the King to ascertain him that he had never taken the liberty to oppose his Ordinances and Decrees but to satisfie the duty of his Function and the Character he wore which oblig'd him indispensibly to defend the interests