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A43553	A survey of the estate of France, and of some of the adjoyning ilands taken in the description of the principal cities, and chief provinces, with the temper, humor, and affections of the people generally, and an exact accompt of the publick government in reference to the court, the church, and the civill state / by Peter Heylyn ; pbulished according to the authors own copy, and with his content for preventing of all faith, imperfect, and surreptitious impressions of it.; Full relation of two journeys	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1737; ESTC R9978	307,689	474

see the alliance which this French Esau hath abroad in the world in what credit and opinion he standeth in the eye of B●●ri the Romish ●ittite the daughter of whose abominations he hath marryed And here I find him to hold good correspondency as being the eldest son of the Church and an equall poise to ballance the affaires of Italy against the Potency of Spain On this ground the present Pope hath alwayes shewn himself very favourable to the French side well knowing into what perils an unnecessary and impolitick dependance on the Spanish party only would one day bring the State Ecclesiastick As in the generall so also in many particulars hath he expressed much affection unto him As 1. By taking into his hands the Valtolin till his Sonne of France might settle himself in some course to recover it 2. His not stirring in the behalf of the Spaniard during the last wars in Italy And 3. His speedy and willing grant of the dispensation for Madams marriage notwithstanding the Spaniard so earnestly laboured the deniall or at least the delay of it To speak by conjectures I am of opinion that his Genius prompted him to see the speedy consummation of this marriage of which his Papacy was so large an Omen so far a prognostick Est Deus in nobis agita●te calescimus illo The Lar or angell guardian of his thoughts hastned him in it in whose time there was so plausible a Presage that it must be accomplished For thus it standeth Malachi now a Saint then one of the first Apostles of the Irish one much reverenced in his memory unto this day by that Nation left behind him by way of Prophesie a certain number of Mottoes in Latine telling those that there should follow that certain number of Popes only whose conditions successively should be lively expressed in those Mottos according to that order which he had placed them M 〈…〉 ngham an Irish Priest and Master of the Colledge of Irish 〈…〉 es in Paris collected together the lives of all the Irish Saints which book himself shewed me In that Volume and the life of this Saint are the severall Mottos and severall Popes set down Column wise one against the other I compared the lives of them with the Mottos as far as my memory would carry me and found many of them very answerable As I remember there are 36 Mottos yet come and when just so many Popes are joyned to them they are of opinion for so 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ld th 〈…〉 either the world should end or the Popedom be 〈…〉 ned Amongst the others the Motto of the present Pope was most remarkable and sutable to the action likely to happen in his time being this Lilium Rosa which they interpret and in my mind not unhappily to be intended to the conjunction of the French Lilly and English Ros 〈…〉 To take from me any suspicion of Imposture he shewed an old book printed almost 200 years agoe written by one Wion a Flemming and comparing the number of the Mottos with the Catalogue of the Popes I found the name of Vrban the now Pope to answer it On this ground an English Catholick whose acquaintance I gained in France made a copy of Verses in French and presented them to the English Ambassadours the Earls of Carlile and Holland Because he is my friend and the conceit is not to be despised I begged them of him and these are they Lilia juncta Rosis Embleme de bon prefage de l' Alliance de la France avec 〈◊〉 Angle terre Ce grand dieu qui d'un ocil voit tout ce que les ans So●bs leurs voiles sacrez vont a nous yeux cachans Decouure quelque fois anis● qui bon lui semble Et les maux a venir et les biens tout ensemble Anisi fit-il jades a celui qui primier Dans l' Ireland porta de la froy le laurier Malachie ●on 〈◊〉 qu' au tymon de leglise On verra s 〈…〉 r un jour cil qui pour sa devise Aura les lys chenus ioints aux plus belles fleures Qui dorent le prin-temps de leurs doubles colours CHARLES est le ●●curon de la Rose pourpree Henritte est le Lys que la plus belle pree De la France nourrtit pour estre quelque jour Et la Reina des fleurs et des roses l' amour Adorable banquet b●en heureuse co●ronne Que la bonte du ciel e parrage nous donne He●reuse ma partie heureuse mille fois Celle qui te fera re●●orier en les roys With these Verses I take my leave of his Holinesse wishing none of his successors would presage worse luck unto England I go now to see his Nuncio to whose house the same English Catholick brought me but he was not at home his name is Bernardino d'Espada a man as he informed me able to discharge the trust reposed in him by his Master and one that very well affected the English Nation He hath the fairest house and keepeth the largest retinue of any ordinary Ambassador in the Realm and maketh good his Masters Supremacies by his own precedency To honour him against he was to take his charge his Holinesse created him Bishop of Damiata●n ●n Egypt a place which I am certain never any of them saw but in a map and for the profits he receiveth thence they will never be able to pay for his Crozier But this is one of his Holinesse usuall policies to satisfie his followers with empty titles So he made Bishop whom he sent to govern for him in England Bishop of Chal●●don in Asia and Smith also who is come over about the same businesse with the Queen Bishop of Archidala a City of T●●ce An old English Doctor used it as an especiall argument to prove the universality of power in the Pope because he could ordain Bishops over al Cities in Christendom if he could as easily give them also the revenue this reason I confesse would much sway me till then I am sorry that men should still be boyes and play with bubbles By the same authority he might do well to make all his Courtiers Kings and then he were sure to have a most royall and beggerly Court of it To proceed a little further in the Allegory so it is that when Jacob saw Esau to have incurred his fathers and mothers anger for his heathenish marriage he set himself to bereave his elder brother of his blessing Prayers and the sweet smell of his Venison the sweet smelling of his sacrifices obtained of his Lord and Father a blessing for him for indeed the Lord hath given unto this his French Jacob as it is in the text the dew of heaven and the fatnesse of the earth and plenty of corne and wine Gen. 27. 28. It followeth in the 41. vers of the Chapter And Esau hated Jaeob because of the blessing wherewith his father had blessed him and

The next day being dedicated to the glory of God in the memory of St. Peter we took the benefit of the ebb to assist us against the wind this brought us out of the sight of England and the floud ensuing compelled us to our Anchor I had now leasure to see Gods wonders in the deep wonders indeed to us which had never before seen them but too much familiarity had made them no other then the Sailers playfellowes The waves striving by an imbred ambition which should be highest which formost Precedencie and supereminencie was equally desired and each enjoyed it in succession The winde more covetous in appearance to play with the water then disturb it did only rock the billow and seemed indeed to dandle the Ocean you would at an other time have thought that the seas had only danced to the winds whistle or that the Winde straining it self to a Treble and the Seas by a Diapason supplying the Base had tuned a Caranto to our ship For so orderly they ●ose and fell according to the time and note of the Billow that her violent agitation might be imagined to be nothing but a nimble Galliard filled with Capers This nimblenesse of the waves and correspondency of our Bark unto them was not to all our company alike pleasing what in me moved only a reverend and awfull pleasure was to others an occasion of sicknesse their heads gidie their joynts enfeebled their stomachs loathing sustenance and with great pangs avoiding what they had taken in their mouths nothing might have been so frequent as that of Horace Illi robur aes triplex Girea pectus erat qui fragilem ituei Comnasit pelago ratem Whether it be that the noisome smels which arise from the saltnesse and tartnesse of that region of waters poysoneth the brain or that the ungoverned and unequall motion of the ship stirreth and unsetleth the stomach or both we may conjecture with the Philosophers rather then determine This I am sure of that the Cabbins and Decks were but as so many Hospitals or Pesthouses filled with diseased persons whilest I and the Mariners only made good the Hatches Here did I see the Scalie nation of that Kingdom solace themselves in the brimme of the waters rejoycing in the sight and warmth of the day and yet spouting from their mouths such quantity of waters as if they purposed to quench that fire which gave it They danced about our Vessell as if it had been a moving May pole and that with such delightfull decorum that you never saw a measure better troden with lesse art And now I know not what wave bigger then the rest tossed up our ship so high that I once more saw the coast of England An object which took such hold on my senses that I forgot that harmlesse company which sported below me to bestow on my dearest mother this and for ought I could assure my self my last farewell England adiew thy most unworthy sonne Leaves thee and grieves to see what he hath done What he hath done in leaving thee the best Of mothers and more glorious then the rest Thy sister-nations Had'st thou been unkind Yet might he trust thee safer then the wind Had'st thou been weak yet far more strength in thee Then in two inebes of a sinking tree Had'st thou been cruell yet thy angry face Hath more love in it then the Seas imbrace Suppose thee p●or his zeal and love the lesse Thus to forsake his Mother in distresse But thou art none of these no want in thee Only a needlesse curiositie Hath made him leap thy ditch O! let him have Thy blessing in his Voyage and hee 'l crave The Gods to thunder wrath on his neglect When he performs not thee all due respect That Nemesis her scourge on him would pluck When he forgets those breasts which gave him suck That Nature would dissolve and turn him earth If thou beest not remembred in his mirth May he be cast from mankind if he shame To make profession of his mothers name Rest then assur'd in this though sometimes hee Conceal perhaps his faith he will not thee CHAP. I. NORMANDY in generall the Name and bounds of it The condition of the Antient Normans and of the present Ortelius character of them examined In what they resemble the Inhabitants of Norfolk The commodities of it and the Government THe next ebb brought us in sight of the Sea-coast of Normandy a shore so evenly compassed and levelled that it seemeth the work of Art not Nature the Rock all the way of an equall height rising from the bottom to the top in a perpendicular and withall so smooth and polished that if you dare believe it the work of Nature you must also think that Nature wrought it by the line and shewed an art in it above the imitation of an Artist This wall is the Northern bound of this Province the South parts of it being confined with Le Mainde la Beausse and L' Isle de France on the East it is divided from Picardie by the River of Some and on the North it is bounded with the Ocean and the little River Crenon which severeth it from a corner of Britain It extendeth in length from the beginning of the 19 degree of longitude to the middle of the 23. Viz. from the Cape of St. Saviour West to the Port-town of St. Valerie East For breadth it lyeth partly in the 49 partly in the 50 degree of Latitude so that reckoning 60 miles to a degree we shall finde it to contain 270 English miles in length and 60 English miles in breadth where it is narrowest Amongst the Antients it was accounted a part of Gallia Cellica the name Neustria This new title it got by receiving into it a new Nation A people which had so terribly spoyled the Maritine Coasts of England France and Belgium that A furore Normannorum was inserted into the Letanie Originally they were of Norway their name importeth it Anno 800 or thereabouts they began first to be accounted one of the Plagues of Europe 900 they seated themselves in France by the permission of Charles the Balde and the valor of Rollo their Captain Before this they had made themselves masters of Ireland though they long held it not and anno 1067 they added to the glory of their name by the conquest of England You would think them a people not only born to the warres but to victory But Ut frugum semina mutato solo degenerant sic illa genuina feritas eorum amoenitate mollila est Florus spake it of the Gaules removed into Asia it is applyable to the Norwegians transplanted into Gallia yet fell they not suddenly and at once into that want of courage which now possesseth them During the time they continued English they attempted the Kingdom of Naples and Antioch with a fortune answerable to their valour Being once oppressed by the French and in slaved under that Monarchie they grew presently

importance to both parties France having been totally won unto King Henry if this Town had yeelded and once so nigh it was to submit it self that the people proffer'd to yeeld themselves to Philip Duke of Burgundie then a great consederate of our Nation who had not been present in the Camp But this the English Generall would not consent to and it was the resolution of Antigonus i● long time before us Negavit Antigonus saith Justine se in ejus belli praedam socios admittere in cujus periculum solus descenderat On this determinate sentence of the General he was Montacute Earl of Salisbury the Town purposed to hold out a little longer and was at the last relieved by Joane D' Arc a maid of Vaucoleur in Lorrein whom they called La Pusille how that excellent souldier the Generall was slain and the siege raised I need not relate It is extant in all our Chronicles This only now that ever since that time the people of Orleans keep a solemn procession on every eighth day of May on which day anno 1427. their City was delivered from its enemies But the atchievements of this brave Virago stayed not here she thinks it not enough to repulse her enemies unlesse she also vanquish them arm'd therefore Cap a pe she went to seek occasion of battail and was alwaies formost and in the head of her troops Ducit Amazonidum lunatis agmina bellis Penthiselea furens mediisque in millibus ardet For her first service she taketh Jargeau discomfiteth the English which were within it and maketh the Earl of Suffolk prisoner Soon after followed the battail of Patay in which the English were driven out of the field and the great Talbot taken This done she accompanieth Charles the 7. whose Angel Guardian she was through all Campague unto Rhemes where she saw him solemnly crowned all the Towns of those Countreys yeelding upon the approach of her and the Kings Army Finally after many acts performed above the nature of her sexe which I will not stand here to particulate she was taken prisoner at the siege of Campoigne delivered over unto the Duke of Bedford by him sent unto Roven and there burnt for a Witch on the 6. of July anno 1431. There was also another crime objected against her as namely that she had abused the nature of her sexe marching up and down in the habit of a man Et nihil muliebre praeter corpus gerens Of all accusations the most impotent for in what other habit could she dresse her self undertaking the actions of a Generall and besides to have worn her womans weeds in time of battail had been to have betrayed her safety and to have made her self the mark of every arrow It was therefore requisite that she should array her self in compleat harnesse and in that habit of complete armour have those of Orleans erected her Statua all in brasse upon the middle of their bridge As for that other imputation of being a Witch saving the credit of those which condemn'd her and theirs also who in their writings have so reported her I dare be of the contrary opinion for dividing her actions into two parts those which preceded her coming unto Orleans and those which followed it I finde much in it of cunning somewhat perhaps of valour but nothing that is devillish Her relieving of Orleans and courage shewn at the battails of Patay and Gergeau with her conducting of the King unto Rhemes are not such prodigies that they need to be ascribed unto witchcraft She was not the first woman whom the world knew famed in armes there being no Nation almost of the earth who have not had a Champion of this sexe to defend their Liberties to omit the whole Nation of Amazons To the Jewes in the time of their afflictions the Lord raised up salvation by means of two women Deborah and Judith and God is not the God of the Jewes only but also of the Gentiles amongst the Syrians Zenobia Queen of Pabnira is very famous the Romans whom she often foyled never mentioning her without honour The like commendable testimony they give of Velleda a Queen amongst the Germans a woman that much hindred their affairs in that Countrey Thus had the Gothes their Amalasunta the Assyrians their Semiramis the Scythians their Tomyris the Romans their Fulvia all brave Captains and such as posterity hath admired without envie To come home unto our selves the writers of the Romans mention the revolt of Britain and the slaughter of 70000 Raman Confederates under the conduct of Voaditia and she in the beginning of her incouragements to the action telleth the people this Solitum quidem Britannis foeminarum ductu bellare Of all these heroical Ladies I read no accusation of witchcraft invasive courage and a sense of injury being the armes they fought withall neither can I see why the Romans should exceed us in modesty or that we need envie unto the French this one female warriour when it is a fortune which hath befaln most Nations As for her atchievements they are not so much beyond a common being but that they may be imputed to natural means for had she been a Witch it is likely she would have prevented the disgrace which her valour suffered in the ditches of Paris though she could not avoid those of Compeigne who took her prisoner the Devill at such an exigent only being accustomed to forsake those which he hath entangled So that she enjoyed not such a perpetuity of felicity as to entitle her to the Devils assistance she being sometimes conqueror sometimes overthrown and at last imprisoned Communia fortunae ludibria the ordinary sports of fortune Her actions before her march to Orleans have somewhat in them of cunning and perhaps of imposture as the vision which she reported to have incited her to these attempts her finding out of the King disguised in the habit of a countrey man and her appointing to her self an old Sword hanging in St. Katharines Church in Tours The French were at this time meerly crest faln not to be raised but by miracle This therefore is invented and so that which of all the rest must prove her a sorceresse will only prove her an impostor Gerrard Seigneur du Hailan one of the best writers of France is of opinion that all that plot of her coming to the King was contriv'd by three Lords of the Court to hearten the people as if God now miraculously intended the restauration of the Kingdome Add to this that she never commanded in any battail without the assistance of the best Captains of the French Nation and amongst whom was the Bastard of Orleans who is thought to have put this device into her head The Lord of Bellay in his discourse of arte militarie proceedeth further and maketh her a man only thus habited pour faire revenir le courage aux Francois which had it been so would have been discovered at the time of her burning Others of