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A64888	The history of the government of France, under the administration of the great Armand du Plessis, Cardinall and Duke of Richlieu, and chief minister of state in that kingdome wherein occur many important negotiations relating to most part of Christendome in his time : with politique observations upon the chapters / translated out of French by J.D. Esq.; Histoire du ministere d'Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu, sous le regne de Louis le Juste, XIII, du nom, roy de France et de Navarre. English	Vialart, Charles, d. 1644.; J. D. (John Dodington)	1657 (1657)	Wing V291; ESTC R1365	838,175	594

about with fury It snatcheth away all fears and there is not any thing which it doth not perswade and lead him to The Events of War are incertain and it is in fights as in other affairs of the World sometimes he who negotiateth findeth himself reduced in certain conjunctures to put himself upon an eminent hazard of losing all to gain all the advantage to himself so he who in a combat would carry away all the glory by a high hand doth often see it reaped by his enemies for that he attempted to reduce them to too great an extremity The King falls very sick and disposeth of his State-affairs DUring the Treaty God Almighty who hath not made Princes of any other temper then other men permitted the King to fall into a violent disease the issue whereof being incertain put the affairs of the Kingdom into a strange confusion But as all the sicknesses wherewith he doth afflict men are not to destroy them his love alwaies guiding and conducting the order of humane affairs so he would not deprive France of a King who was so necessary for them nor the Church of her eldest son who fought for her Liberty He restored him his health and imployed the sickness to let him know that he was liable to the Laws of humane frailty as well as the least of his subjects He gave him this occasion to make known that vertue and extraordinary Piety wherewith he had invested his Soul His Courage evidenced to all the World that he did not fear death but considered it as an easie passage from the miseries of this life to the eternal happinesses of Heaven his thoughts were not fix'd upon any thing but how to render his Soul worthy of the divine mercy which he did hope to obtain The onely regret which he testified was not the leaving his Crown but the having committed offences which humane weaknesse cannot avoid and for which he desired pardon of God which all bathed in his tears he begged those who were present to assist him in Politique Observation KIngs are not exempted by the lustre of their Crowns from the necessities either of sicknesse or death If their Birth and Scepter have advanced them sicknesse and death render them equal The greatest part of adversities do not spare them at all during their lives But it should rather seem on the contrary that the greatnesse of their birth hath obliged them to undergo the greater afflictions The divine Prudence having so ordain'd it to let them know they are but men The valiant Alexander bewitched with his Conquests suffered himself to be perswaded by his flatterers that he was of the Race of the Gods and he was not undeceiv'd of this presumptuous opinion untill he was wounded and saw the blood run down from his wound There is indeed nothing more ordinary with great men then to forget themselves amidst those extraordinary respects which are payd to them God hath left them subject to the same afflictions with the rest of men which serve as so many calls to advertise them that their Felicity is not on earth and that their Kingdom is but a place of exile where God hath left them liable to the same inconveniences That true greatness doth not so much consist in the power to do whatsoever one would as in the will to do what one ought That it is blindness to measure their power by the licentiousness of satisfying their Passions and that the greatest Princes in subjecting all things have first subjected themselves to reason shewing in all their actions that though they could do any thing yet they would attempt nothing but what were fit and worthy of Gods Lieutenant that greatnesse doth not acquit them from well-doing but on the contrary as it hath furnished them with more opportunities so more is expected from them that their surest Revenue is the good and love of their people and that they ought not so much to fear to suffer evil as to do evil The gentleness of the Cardinal towards his Enemies THe Kings sicknesse produced several occasions by which the Cardinal perceived but with great grief the extremity of the hatred which the Queen Mother had conceived against him which made him redouble his care to do all things which might render him agreeable to his spirit There was no one quality or thing able to beget good will in the hearts of men with which he did not study to furnish himself that he might render himself deserving of the honour of his Majesties good favour Good Offices make a man acceptable and it cannot be related with how much Passion he imbraced his Majesties Interests We usually love them that love our relations and the Cardinal had so great a desire to pleasure his Majesty that forgetting all the injuries which he had received from the Marshal de Marillac he got ten thousand Crowns to be presented to him and a Command given him equal with that of the Marshals of Force and Schomberg to go to the relief of Cazal It is impossible to hinder our wills from loving them who love us it being very true that there is no stronger charm to oblige others to love us then our first loving them Now there is not any person can better testifie them the Queen Mother her self and those who were neer her both at Lyon and in her return to Paris how much zeal and affection the Cardinal vowed protested and shewed to her in a thousand actions which concern'd her service Great submissions reclaim the most brutish natures Now nothing could be added to those which the Cardinal made to his Majesty at Lyon and in the same journey to Paris when he begged his pardon in behalf of his most just intentions as if they had been most grievous offences and in such a manner as was able to allay the fury of a Lyon Was it needfull to imploy so many cares to use so much industry to make him be beloved who was the chiefest of men and the most amiable Those eminent qualities wherewith the Creator of the Universe hath inriched him as a Master-piece of his Power and which he form'd but once in six ages and so many glorious exploits which have immortalized his honour are not these I say such efficacious charms that it is impossible to see him and not to love him It is true that they were sufficient to have wrought upon any spirit which had not been cemented in its Passion for above two vears together And though it were so he for his part did never forget any of those things which are imagined to be capable of re-estating himself in her good thoughts The ordinary discourse with which he entertained her was that he could never do enough to recover that place which he had heretofore had the honour to possesse in her good opinion and to confesse and acknowledge to her those great favours for which he was still ingaged to her though indeed and by the strict Laws of Equity

THE HISTORY OF THE Government of France UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE Great Armand Du Plessis Cardinall and Duke of Richlieu and chief Minister of State in that Kingdome Wherein occur many Important Negotiations relating to most part of Christendome in his time With Politique Observations upon the CHAPTERS Translated out of French by J. D. Esq LONDON Printed by J. Macock for Joshua Kirton and are to be sold at the Kings Arms in St Pauls Church-yard 1657. EMINENTISSIMVS ARMANDVS IOANNES DV PLESSIS CARDINALIS RICHELEVS etc. G Faithorne excud TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE John Thurloe Esq SECRETARIE OF STATE SIR THe Illustrious Cardinall truely Eminent for his sublime qualities presenteth Himself unto You in ful assurance of a most ample Protection both to his Memory and Fame Generous and active Souls have a naturall and therefore inseparable inclination to the mutuall Honour and Defence of each other It were injustice that that Pilot who in his life time knew so well to sail with security amidst the many turbulent and frequent storms of Fortune should be toss'd and molested in his Urn the Harbour where common humanity allows a quiet Station to all Be pleased therefore Noble Sir to undertake the Patronage of this Great Person in whose History you will encounter nothing but what relisheth of an high Grandeur and an extraordinary Genius Indeed the cleer and happy Justice of those affairs whereon you are engag'd will not finde much here for your imitation yet questionless many things there are which upon another account may challenge your admiration and applause The Symmetrie of your Administrations doth oblige you to accept of this Dedication from him who devoteth himself to your commands in the quality of SIR Your Honours most humble Servant JOHN DODINGTON To the Reader I Desire thee to excuse the many Errata's which doubtless thou wilt here meet in regard the Printer in some places hath fail'd in point of Orthographie give him the allowance as in such cases are common and the scales will be turn'd for other faults I must also Apologize in regard of my own affaires which would not permit me to review my own Coppy or Correct the Press If thou dost then demand why I undertook it I shall deal ingeniously with thee and tell thee I was ingaged upon it by the importunate surprisall of a friend who extorted a promise of it from me ere I well knew what I had promised I beseech thee therefore to connive at what cannot now by either of us be amended Thus much more I thought good to let thee know that if this finde thee merciful I may perchance present thee with the sequell of the Cardinals Administration until his Death the manner of his Death his last Will his Birth and Youthfull Studies with diverse of his Letters and many quaint Observations upon his Life and Death which I hope may better deserve thy approval I. D. These Books are lately Printed and are sold at the Kings Armes in Pauls Church-yard A Collection out of the best approved Authors containing several Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophesies Spirits Divinations and other wonderful Illusions of the Divel wrought by Magick or otherwise Also of divers Astrological predictions shewing the vanity of them and folly of trusting to them By G. I. A Restitution of decayed intelligence in Antiquities concerning the most Noble and Renowned English Nation by the Study and Travel of Richard Vestegan The History and Character of the Bishops in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James Written by Sir John Harrington for the private use of Prince Henry The Magistrates Authority in matters of Religion asserted Or the Right of the State in the Church A Discourse written by the Learned Hugo Grotius Of Government and Obedience as they stand directed and determined by Scripture and Reason Four Books by John Hall of Richmond Two Plays of Mr James Shirley's The Constant Maid A Comedy and St Patrick for Ireland That excellent Tragedy of Bussy D' Ambois Written by George Chapman These now in the Press The Man in the Moon Or a Discourse of a Voyage into the Moon By Domingo Gonzales Also Nuncius Inanimatus or the Mysterious Messenger both written by D. F. G. a man of great parts and Eminency in his time The Indian History of Anaxandre and Orazia Written in French by Monsieur de Bois-Robert Translated into English by a Person of Honour some years since THE HISTORY OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE Cardinal de Richelieu Anno 1624. GOD who is able onely by the strength of his Arms to over-rule Kingdomes according to his own pleasure hath given some part of their Government to Soveraigns whom he hath established as Vicegerents of his Power The Love which he bears to men hath inclined him to admit them unto the pertaking of his Authority And if he hath ordained intelligences in the Heavens to over-see their motions he hath also decreed certain men upon the earth who should have the charge of reigning over Kingdomes But though he hath invested all Kings with an absolute Authority yet he hath not indued them all with one and the same Genius His Prudence which guides all things by Weight Number and Measure hath affected that as in Painting there are Raphaels and Titians whose pieces serve other Painters to learn the perfection of their Art so there should likewise be in Regality Caesars Constantines and Charlemains whose Actions might be recorded as examples for all others As it is said in Philosophy Perfectum in suo genere est mensura Caeterorum The worthiest subject in every kind serves for a measure to all within its compasse And who can refuse to rank in this number the present King under whose Scepter the Kingdome hath the happiness to be now governed To speak truth his Actions have fixed the Kingdome in the highest point of glory that many ages have seen his Prudence Valour and Justice do shine with so much splendour that without doubt they are sufficient to teach the Laws of Government to all other Princes He never affected any Title but that of Just because he made choice of Justice for the rule of all his Actions knowing that it was the most illustrious perfection in all Kings that it was it which rendered their Majesty most venerable That it was it which gave a good successe to all their enterprizes and lastly that this was it which was the strongest Prop of Peace But we should offend against that very Justice if we should deny h●m the Title of Great which his Scepter gives to him The Title of Invincible which his Valour hath merited the Title of August which his vertue hath acquired the Title of Conquerour which Fortune her self hath bestowed upon him His dignity maketh him the greatest of Kings his Power the strongest his Conduct the wisest his Treasuries the Richest and his Vertue the most just We have seen some Clouds arise which have seemed to obscure his light but they have onely

and Creatures to make him dis-esteem her and her not to love him the particular merit of this Princess gave great reason to beleeve that Monsieur could come to be sensible of it and would by his esteem and affection give her a great power over his Soul Now his Favourites finding if things went in that way it would be a great prejudice to their affairs and lessen the power which they pretended to have in his house left no stone unturned that they might ingage his affections elsewhere at least lessen his kindness to the Princesse but Monsieurs good nature animated by the vertue of this Princesse was above the malice of those Factious Interests So that love having joined their wills in a true affection death could not separate them but to their great griefs The Princesse growing big in a few moneths after her marriage was about the end of May brought to bed of a daughter but so mis-fortunately that there was little hopes of saving her life Monsieur was every hour with her so that it could not be concealed from him and he unable to dissemble the greatnesse of his affection she was forced to comfort him by testifying her readinesse to submit to whatever God should c●dain In the interim the Physitians imployed their utmost Art but to little purpose so that after she had disposed her self to leave this world by all religious actions which might make her fit for heaven she died and by her death taught all great men that in greatnesse nothing is more certain then inconstancy and that greatnesse ought to be considered onely as a game of Fortune which after a fair flourish bring all to nothing in a moment The King who did no lesse honour her virtue then Monsieur was much affected at it but above all the house of Guise They saw all their hopes and the great designs which they had projected upon her Marriage to be brought to nothing which made them continue along while in their discomforts Politique Observation HE spoke very wisely concerning worldly greatnesses who said they are obtained with much peril kept with no lesse vexation and inconstancy and lost with as great prise What ever luster and dazeling the Sun makes in our eyes yet we see him set everyday and though men attain to never so great glory yet must they be laid in the dust The same cause which gives us life leads us on to death yet as the same Sun which ushers in the morning light leaveth us in darkness at his departure The same Sun going out of the first degree Aries resteth not until his return and we too once borne are hurried on to death Nothing is here beneath more certain then incertainty more constant then inconstancy Though Fortune be so favourable as to let us enjoy greatness some little time yet then comes death and snatcheth all away forcing us to pay that duty which we own what ever resistance we make against its assaults it will at last force us to stoop under its Laws its dart is unavoydable so that there can be no greater wisedom then to resolve of being overcome and to enjoy that without regret which Fortune prepareth for us In our expectation of deaths comming to deprive us of all we ought to attend it with the greater care in regard the Limites of man's life are so uncertain and when it comes we ought not to think it hath made too much hast since no death is precipitated upon us and considering the uncertainty of the time when it will come we ought however to be assured that one day it will come and carry us out of this World Let the World flatter it self with all it's glories yet death will cut all down After the earth hath been enameld with Flowers replenished with a thousand sweets arrayed with infinite plants and laden with rich Harvests yet a few months and her beauty withers she becomes covered with snows hayles and storms she is glued up with frosts and drowned in raines So shall the greatest Princes find their luster and glory terminated by death in the grave Their Splender shall fade like Flowers their prosperities melt like snow and though like Torrents they have astonished the world by their noise at last they shall passe away like a flash of lightning A Duel between the Marquis de Praslin and the Sieur de Bouteville severely punished THough the King had made so strict an Edict against Duels yet such was the blind fury which had seized on the souls of the Nobility that some of them could not refrain fighting This Errour which had built glory upon Revenge and caused Duels to passe for a teste of courage had taken such deep roots in most of their thoughts that it was impossible totally to extirpate it and as heretofore among the Macedonians he was accounted an unworthy fellow who had not slain some of his Countries enemies so in France he who had not killed one or more in Duelling could not be thought valiant The King had made rigorous Edicts against this lamentable evil which had untimely ravished a number of Brave men out of France since Henry the second 's time But as it is to small purpose to make laws unlesse they who violate them be punished accordingly so his Majesty was very strict in chastising those Gentlemen which should offend in that particular The Marquis de Praslin son to the late Marshal had the boldness to fight with the Baron du Bar for his punishment he was deprived of his Livetenant Generals place in Champagne and forced to live some years away from the Court. About the same time there was some suspition upon the Sieur de Liancourt for having challenged the Sieur de Cressia from the Duc d' Alvin and though there were only conjectures of it yet the King forbid them the Court and also resolved to dispose of the place of first Gentleman of his Bedchamber which belonged to the Sieur de Lian Court and had accordingly done it but that some persons of quality who served them in that affair testified that there had not any challenge past in it This was so exemplary a punishment that every one began to hope the Nobility would at length be undeceived of that belief which they had that the Laws of Honour were contrary to those of vertue and Christianity But rashness hath no bounds The Sieurs de Bouteville and des Chapelles carried themselves to such excesse that his Majesty was forced to make use of his Justice to punish them with more then ordinary severity being unable to pardon them without giving way and countenancing the neglects of his Crown and a madness which cryed for Justice from Heaven and Earth The Sieur de Bouteville was indeed to be commended for his good courage as his very enemies would confesse but it not being guided with discretion it depraved into such a fury that there was hardly any one at Court reputed for a stout man but he must

needs meet him with his Sword in his hand Not a day how holy soever but he would profane by his Duels no place how publique soever which he would not bath with the blood of some one or other so little reckoning did he make of the Kings Prohibition after the comming out of the Edict he had fought with the Count de Thorigny and slain him about the end of the foregoing year and the begining of this he had another Duel with la Frete where his second was killed which quarrels of his were so much the less to be connived at in regard those of the best quality were still parties in it So the King resolved to punish him which he having notice of withdrew himself into Flanders where he found means to perswade the Archduchess to Interest her self in his affairs upon the score of the Damoizelle de Montmorency her favorite who writ to his Majesty to beg his pardon The King took advice of his Confessor and as there was no reason to forgive such offences so he counselled him not to grant it and made it evident to him that he could not do it with a safe conscience but that his Majesty might not seem totally to deny the Infante he sent her word that at her request he should not be questioned for what was past provided he came not either to Paris or the Court. This was as much as a Just Mercy could well do But the same fury which had formerly ingaged Bouteville in those quarrels did so provoke him upon his Majesties denial of a total pardon that he openly vowed he would ere long fight in Paris nay and in the Place Royal it self accordingly not long after thither he came and having given notice of it to the Marquis de Beuuron with whom he had a quarrel that he was ready to give him satisfaction for those differences between them which he had not the liberty to do in Flanders whither Beuuron had come to find him out by reason of the promise which he had ingaged to the Infante not to fight on any of her Territories So they made choise of the Place Royal for their combats where being met three against three Bouteville des Chapelles and La Berte against Beuvron Bussi d' Amboyse and Bouquet they fought and Beuvron was killed out right by Chapelles La Barte desperately wounded by Bouquet and Bouteville with Beruuron close grapling together with a good will to be at it with their daggers but having cast away their Swords it is reported how in this equality of advantage they mutually asked one anothers life to go part their friends This was all that could be got from their neglecting the Kings will and the fury which led them to entertain such detestiable offences The King heard of it and soon after that Bussy's Mother had arrested Bouteville by a Gentleman of hers and des Chapelles at Vitry from whence they were conducted to safe Custodie to Paris and there delivered over to the Parliament to be proceeded against his Majesty having absolutely refused to shew them any favour though their kindred made great requests for it and at last their heads were struck off at the Greve by order of the Parliament Politique Observation HE who defendeth the wicked and he who offendeth the good are both in equal abomination before the Lord as Salomon saith in his Proverb 's I should therefore submit to that of St. Chrisostome who saith That as Justice without Mercy is not Justice but cruelty So Mercy without Justice is not Mercy but extream rashness It were not lesse improper to pardon all Crimes then to use on all occasions the extremity of Justice Both ought to be moderated by discretion without which there are as many inconveniences which will follow gentleness as severity Philip advised his son Alexander to be very courteous to his subjects whilst he was not King for it would not be fit for him to use so great indulgence towards them when as he should arrive to the Throne Judging with great wisdome that it is impossible for him who ruleth to treat all with clemency not only because the Interest of his subjects doth sometimes compel him to be severe but also because unlesse he punish the wicked it will be a dimination of his own authority The Heathens say Jupiter himself cannot raign without Justice And Plutarch in the Life of Demetrius saith nothing is more becoming a Prince then the excercise of this vertue and doth not Solomon who is much more authentique say The Throne of a King is established by Justice St. Cyprian in his Tract of the twelve abuses saith the Justice of the King is the Peace of the people the Nurse of Children the defence of the Country the comfort of the poor and himself the hope of Heaven to come And if a Soveraign ever may make use of it he ought not to let it lye idle when it sends to the purging of his Court from such seditious companions as engage his nobles daily to cut one anothers throats It is a Crime more then Brutal for the instinct of nature forbideth beasts to fall upon one another It is reported that Neurians are Wolves one six mouths of the year men t'other six mouths but I should with more Justice imagine their swash bucklers not to be men at all but that by their greediness of spilling mans blood that are beasts Wolves and Tigres all their lives Their courage is not courage but a fury which hurrieth them on to dip their hands in their brothers blood not a courage but a Rage which maketh them madly expose their bodies to death and their souls to damnation It is not any just Law of Arms which obligeth that to be thus barbarous but a Devilish Charm which deprives them of their reason The foolish passion of an imaginary honour which animateth them is a monster begot by vanity brought up by fury and nourished by blood as it is said of that in Habacuc the greatest the noblest and most courageous serve it for a prey What apparency of reason can there be alledged for renuing the old Butchery of Haman flesh before the images not of a Moloc a Saturn but a vain fantasie of honour What Justice to tollerate that which God hath so expresly forbid and condemned to be punished with death which heaven abhors which the Laws detest and which is only worthy of Hell fier But above all things it ought not to be permitted when committed in dirsion of the Regal authority for once admitting a Kings power to be trampled on the next thing which follows will be the peoples revolt and a general confusion in the whole Kingdom The King of England's and divers other Princes endeavours to divert the King from his resolution against Rochel THough the design of besieging Rochel were kept very secret yet some little suspitions there were of it which allarumd all the neighbouring Princes The English who had already concluded upon

esteem the quickest to be the happiest so it come with Gods grace for that it hath lesse pain with it Politique Observation THat which I esteem to be most desirable by Grandees in that particular is after the well disposal of the Soul to die before the miseries of this World make them desire death That Prince is to be pittied whom death hath spared onely that he might undergo the disgraces of Fortune and be dispoiled of his Estates If he be ordained by the Divine Providence to indure such displeasures it were however much sweeter for him to die in a Battel with Honour then in his Bed with shame He who dies in a skirmish of War wounded with any turbulent commotion in the heat of a Combate doth hard●y feel his wound for whilest death it self guides him out of the World by the Gate of Honour it makes him leave it with the le●●e regret But true it is the sicknesse of the body caused by the griefs of the mind which puls the Soul away with violence in these disasters of Fortune do not ordinarily convey it forth but with great Convulsions The Prince of Piedmont takes the Government of the Army after the Duke of Savoy's death THe Duke of Savoy being dead the Prince of Piedmont who had alwaies commanded part of the Army took the whole charge of it upon himself and one may say he had none of the best good luck in it For the Kings Army prosecuting the point of their victory went to seize upon Vil●e Franchie and Pan●all●er and afterwards the Bridge of Carignan which gave them full liberty to passe the Po and march up to Cazal It is true they found much resistance but so that it was advantagious for them being onely an augmentation of their Glory The choicest of the enemies Army as well Spaniards and Germans as of the Duke of Savoy were intrenched and fortified so advantagiously under a Half Moon which they had raised that Arg●ncour who was sent to discover them informed the Council of War that it was impossible to carry it but by time However the Kings Army fell upon them with such violence that they entred the Half Moon unawares and the top of the Bridge in despight of all the resistance which was made the chief of the Spaniards being all either taken prisoners wounded or killed upon the place Now although this new Duke had no greater inclination to the Kings Interest then his Father yet the displeasure which he found in so many crosse incounters so opened his eyes that he began to imagine that Peace would be more for his Interests then War though he did dissemble it He was more and more strengthned in that resolution by the many reasons which were represented to him by some means or other amongst others these were the most considerable that his Majesties Army was not likely to be hindred from getting to Cazal seeing they had not as yet met with any resistance that if it were relieved without him and the War continued on against him he would inevitably he would inevitably find the Kings Army fall in upon the rest of his Territories that it was a joy to the Spaniards to ingage him in the War they not having lost any thing in Italy that they should but lose the hopes of Victory of Cazal were relieved whereas he would find himself quite despoiled that he did but deceive himself to believe that the Spaniards would raze the Castle of Cazal if they should take it for which they had used so many indeavours and been at so great a charge onely that they might make themselves stronger in Italy That the Duke of Mantua would grant to him some part of Montferrat to which he made pretensions and that he ought to rest satisfied therewith it being as much as he could expect from the Spaniards if they should become Masters of Cazal That in fine he had more reason to suspect the neighbour-hood of the Spaniards then of the Duke of Mantua seeing they were but too potent in Italy already in relation to the design of which they had oftentimes given testimonies of making themselves absolute Masters of it All these reasons were very considerable and did so work with the Duke of Savoy though he could not as yet declare himself that he did not so eagerly prosecute the enterprise he was ingaged in wherein he could not meet with any thing but his ruine and it was perceived that from that time he had not such frequent intelligence with the Spaniards as formerly he had used to have Politique Observation THere is not any motive which doth so strongly unite and divide Princes as Interest They quickly break a League when they cease to believe that it is for their advantage It is long since T. Livy saith common good is the bond and knot of Treaties each one regards not but his own advantage and cares not for that of another so it do but accord with his own All their common enterprises are built on this Foundation which if once it begin to decay you may see all their designs come to nothing Grandees have neither friend nor foe but in relation to the good or evil which attends it But what is there of strangenesse in it seeing all the Elements of the whole Universe are as it were tied together and united with invisible Chains which quickly fall into division if any one attempt any thing upon another A Cessation of Arms between his Majesty and the Spanish Army by the mediation of Mazarini THe Treaty of Peace was now upon breaking up yet Mazarini continued to negotiate daily both of one side and t'other At last about the fifth of August he proposed a Truce to the Generals of the Army with such conditions that at first dash were not all liked viz. They were to deliver the Town and Castle of Cazal into Spinola's hands for a certain time still keeping the Cittadel and this was to give the Spaniards some satisfaction who as yet had not got any advantage in Italy and that which made Spinola the more willfull was he had seen in a Letter how that his Master the King of Spain was in a great anger with him for that his Army had not made any progresse at all so it was thought fit to grant this favour for Spinola's honour and the Arms of Spain but upon assured confidence that the Treaty would produce a good Peace However this did but excite the spirit and courage of the French whose impatience was such that it would have carried them on to the relief of Cazal by plain force A proposition of so extraordinary a consequence could not suddenly be resolved on but a Cessation of Arms for three daies was concluded and that seconded for three daies more Shortly after there came Letters from the Sieur ...... which made them give Cazal for lost so that Mazarini comming again about the beginning of September to renew the propositions of the Truce was more