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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50572	The memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-hill containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the last age, not mention'd by other historians, more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and King James : in all which transactions the author was personally and publickly concern'd : now published from the original manuscript / by George Scott, Gent.	Melville, James, Sir, 1535-1617.; Scot, George, d. 1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing M1654; ESTC R201	279,416	250

lost without all hope of recovery That the Queen Dowager of Scotland had taken occasion hereof to prevail with the Governour so effectually that he had resigned the Government to her she being made Queen Regent and willing me to shew the same to the Constable But I required to know what further he had to say Then he proceeded to shew that when the Bishop of S. Andrews had recovered his Speech and health by the help of Cardanus an Italian Magician he cursed and cried out that the Governour was a very Beast for quitting the Government to her seeing there was but a Skittering Lass between him and the Crown But I blushed when the Captain pulled upon me to tell these very words to the Constable He perceived how loath I was to rehearse it at last he pressed me I told him I did not think it worthy to be communicated to his Lordship He asked my name and caused his Secretary to write it up and enquire if I was of Kin to the Captain Who said in bad French that I was his Sisters Son The Constable enquired of me if that was truth I told him I had no relation to him at all Then he desired to know with whom I was in that Country I answered his Lordship that the Bishop of Valence had Commission from the Queen Regent of Scotland to place me her Daughters Page He desired to know if I would remain with him in case he procured the Bishops consent I answered that I should think my self much honoured by being in the company of a Person so famous in Europe as he was but that I believed he durst not dispose of me in respect of the Promise he had given to the Queen Regent He answered that he could present me when he pleased to the Queen but if I would be satisfied to stay with him he would not fail to advance me I exprest my self much obliged to his Lordship that he had so far taken notice of me and willing if he procured the Bishops consent The Constable failed not at his first rencounter with the Bishop to enquire concerning me and expressed his desire to have me in his Service To which the Bishop acquiesced and acquainted me therewith that same night that the Constable was the best Master in France and would not fail to promote me Whereupon I entered into his Service in the Year 1553. I grant these Trifles are not worthy to be here inserted were it not to testifie Gods gracious goodness to the posterity of the Faithful As David observes in his Psalms I have been young and now an old yet did I never see the Iust abandoned For it was God that moved the Queen Regents heart to take two of my Brothers into her Service and to send me into France to be placed with her Daughter our Queen Who also moved the Bishop to be so kind to me that if I had been his own Son he could not have had more affection for me and the same God moved the Constables heart to desire me In the Year 1553. in the Moneth of May the Constable of France raised a great Army And being the Kings Lieutenant led them first to Amience in Picardy For when the King of France was in Dutckland with his Army as he gave out to help the Princes of the Empire Mary Queen of Hungary then a Widow Sister to the Emperour and Regent of Flanders entered with an Army into Picardy and burnt the Kings Palace of Fontanbrey with divers other little Towns and Villages Thinking thereby to divert the King that he should have come back to defend his own bounds Thus they entered into hot Wars and the King in his return besieged several Towns and took them Therefore the Emperour in the Spring time of that same Year entered in person with a great Army into Picardy and won Turaan and Sedan and burnt divers Burghs and Villages which caused the Constable to go with his Army to resist him The two Armies being incamped seven leagues asunder the Constable was advertised by a Spie that all the Emperours Horsemen were to come in the night to assault the French Camp Therefore he to shun that surprise marched all night forward toward the Enemy with all his Forces Horse and Foot whereby he surprised those who thought to have found him in bed and gave them the overthrow Many were killed and some taken among the rest the Duke of Arescot Leader of those designed for that Enterprise was taken Prisoner After this Victory King Henry the Second came to the Camp himself The Emperour retiring toward the Town of Valencien the Kings Camp following always upon his Wing making divers days journeys before he came to the said Valencien where the Emperour had set down his Camp without the Town upon an Hill making Trenches round about the same Where the King presented him battle waiting in vain a whole day to see if he might be provoked to come forth And for that effect sent a number of Infantry Perdews to his Trenches to bring on the Skirmish where the Emperour sent out some Companies of Horsemen who were soon beat back within their Foot In the mean time the Emperour caused his whole Artillery to fire at our Camp though not much to our prejudice We were advertised that the Emperour was determined not to hazard Battle for he began to believe that Fortune favoured no more his old age Therefore when night drew near the King retreated to St. Quintine where the Constable fell deadly sick being then in his great Climacterick Then both the Armies were sent to their Winter Garrisons the Emperour went for Bruxels and the King to Paris and the Constable to his Palace at Chantilly to recover his health During this Winter there was a great Convention between Calis and Ardress where Cardinal Pool was appointed Mediator by the Pope to agree the two great Princes but without any effect Therefore the next Spring the King went first into the Field with his Army in the Year 1554. as the Emperour had done the Year before At which time I was made his Pensioner by the Constables means His Majesty besieged and took first Marianbrugh a gallant Town and of great strength He took also Bovineand and at length Dyvan But the Castle of Dyvan situated upon a high Rock was stoutly defended by a Spanish Captain who at length coming forth to speak with the Constable about Composition was retained and the men of War came forth with their Bag and Baggage Few or none of the Souldiers who came forth of Dyvan but were hurt either with shelves of staves by the force of our Battery or were burnt with the Fire-brands that they did roll down the steep hill whereupon the Wall was built And thrice they repulsed our French Footmen Eleven Banner-bearers whereof went up to the breach to wit First one with the Ensign in his hand not followed with his Company who was killed and fell tumbling down the Hill

carried the Sword and Hat a little before to the King of France Which Cardinal was afterwards strangled by the next Pope Pius IV. for practising to bring the Great Turk into Italy against the Christians Which he at his death confessed he had for his own greatness This I understood afterward being at Rome Now to return to the Duke of Guise his Army abandoned by the Pope He returned to France with the loss of the most part dead for hunger and weakned by sickness and slain by the Spaniards who waited at their heels all the way Before the Duke of Guise his coming home to France the King of Spain was entered upon the Frontiers of France with a great Army of ...... thousand men Whom to resist the Constable my Master was sent with sixteen thousand The day before he took leave of the King at Rhemes in Champaigne riding to the hunting there came a man in grave apparel following him on Foot crying for audience for Gods sake Whereupon the Constable staid willing him to speak Who said The Lord says seeing that thou wilt not know me I shall likewise not know thee thy glory shall be laid in the dust This strange language put the Constable in such a rage that he strook the poor man into the face with the horse rod which was in his hand and threatned to cause him to be hanged The man answered he was willing to suffer what punishment he pleased seeing he had performed his commission The Duke of Nevers perceiving the Constable troubled drew near desiring to know the cause The Constable told him that such a Knave had been preaching to him of God Then the Duke did also threaten the poor man But as they did ride forward after the King I staid behind and asked the man what had moved him to use such strange language towards the Constable he answered That the Spirit of God gave him no rest till he had discharged his mind of that Commission given him by God Now the Spanish Army above mentioned was led by Emanuel Duke of Savoy along the Frontiers of France 〈◊〉 at last planted his Camp about the Town of St. Quintin Whith 〈…〉 onstable sent the Admiral of Chastillion his Sisters Son to de 〈…〉 he same and lodged his Camp at La Ferr five Leagues from the Town of St. Quintin which was not sufficiently furnished with Men and Munition wherefore he assayed the next day in vain to put in it more Companies under the Conduct of Mounsieur d' Andelot Brother to the said Admiral After the preparation of two days he marched forward with his whole Army toward St. Quintin carrying with him eighteen Cannons with some Boats that are commonly in Camps to pass the Army over Rivers and Waters For there was a little Logh upon the South-west side of the Town in the which the said Boats were set And Monsieur D' Andelot first with three hundred entered the Town that way but so soon as it was perceived the Enemy stopped the rest from entering But so soon as the Duke of Savoy was coming with his whole Army towards us the Constable alledging that he had furnished St. Quintine sufficiently drew homewards toward La Ferr in good order intending to eschew Battle if he could the other being more powerful than he His intention was to pass and besiege Calis but the whole Horsemen of the Enemy were hard at us against the time we had travelled four miles where the Constable stopped a little time At length he said that these Horsmen came to stay us till the Foot were advanced Therefore he thought best to pass forward to a narrow Post betwixt a Wood and a Village there to give them Battle if he could not escape them In the mean time the Marshal D' St. Andre a great Man for that time gave unhappy advice that all the French Servants who were on Horseback should retire from among the men at Arms lest they should be an impediment to them who were to fight there being as many Servants as there were Masters They were glad to get them out of the Prease spurring their Horse with speed homewards intending to stay upon some Hill to behold the Combat The Enemy perceiving so great a number of Horsemen as they thought flying in the very instant took occasion to charge upon our Light-horsemen Whereupon the Constable being in a Valley between two Hills marching toward the strait part where he intended to stay spurred forward up the little Hill that he might see how to resist and put order to the Battle which gave an hard apprehension to others that he was flying But when he turned on the top of the Hill to behold the Onset no man would tarry with him for any command Though he always cried return return their heads were homewards and their hearts also as appeared Then his Master of the Horse bringing him a Turky speedy Horse to run away with the rest he answered in anger That it was against his Profession and Occupation to fly addressing himself fearlesly against the greatest Troop of Enemies saying Let all true Servants to the King follow me though onely threescore Gentlemen accompanied him who were all overthrown in an instant The Constable desired to be killed but the Master of the Horse cried continually It is the Constable kill him not But before he was known he was shot through the thigh and then was taken prisoner I being hurt by a stroke upon the head was again mounted by my Servant upon a Scotch Gelding which 〈…〉 ed me through the Enemies who were all betwixt me and h 〈…〉 Two of them struck at my head with Swords because my 〈…〉 ece was strucken off in the first rencounter These two were standing betwixt us and home to catch Prisoners in a narrow strait But my horse ran through them against my will and through the Village for the Field between it and the Wood was full of smoke of the Culverins There most of our Foot were slain The leaping over a Dike separated me from the two and so being past the said Village there was room enough to escape So I came safe to La Ferr where I did meet with Mr. Henry Killegrew an English Gentleman my old Friend who held my horse till I sate down in a Barbers Booth to be dressed of the hurt in my head In the mean time a Proclamation was made that no man should remain within the Town but the ordinary Garrison because the Governour thereof looked for a Siege By the loss of this Battle the Town of St. Quintine and several other Towns were lost Whereby the King of France found himself reduced to so great straits that he was compelled to accept of a very hurtful Peace at Cambray where I was for the time with my Master the Constable yet a Captive With the said Constable was adjoined in Commission the Cardinals of Lorrain and Chastillion the Marshal of St. Andre the Bishop of Orleance and the

became effectual he having been at last induced to resign the Government into the Queens hands who thereupon was declared Regent The Protestants were thus at this time her best friends and by the diligent preaching of the Preachers they were increased to so great a number that she judged it would prove a dangerous and difficult matter to compel them to desert their Principles But the instructions which Bettancourt brought to her and to Monsieur Dosel Lieutenant in Scotland for the King of France and to all others who had greatest credit about her Majesty were so strict and mixed with some threatnings that she determined to follow them She therefore issued out a Proclamation a little before Easter commanding every man great and small to observe the Roman Catholick Religion to resort daily to the Mass that all should make Confession in the ear of a Priest and receive the Sacrament By word of mouth she acquainted several of the Protestant Lords that they behoved to desert their Principles she shewed to them the Commission that was sent her out of France and the danger that would follow thereupon if not obeyed When the Nobility and States of the Country perceived her to be in earnest finding themselves also threat'ned by Monsieur Dosel they left the Court And consulting together what was meetest for them to do they sent unto her Majesty the Earl of Argile and Lord James Prior of St. Andrews to shew her Majesty in name and behalf of the rest how that they had been permitted by her Majesty to keep their own Ministers of a long time sometimes secretly and sometimes openly That by her tolerance their Religion had taken such root and the number of the Protestants so increased that it was a vain hope to believe they could be put from their Religion seeing they were resolved as soon to part with their lives as to recant The Queen Regent did as much dis-relish this kind of Language as they had done her Proclamation so that she began to persecute and they to stand to their own defence binding themselves together under the name of the Congregation Therefore they brake down Images Kirks and Cloisters The Queen Regent sent to France advertising her Daughter and her Husband of these disorders requiring help and Forces to suppress this in time or else all would be lost Declaring that she had ground of fear that my Lord James Prior of St. Andrews natural Son to James the Fifth would under pretext of this new Religion usurp the Crown of Scotland and pluck it clean away from the Queen her Daughter unless sudden remedy were applied thereto Upon this advertisement some of the Council of France advised presently to raise a great Army for reducing of Scotland but the Constable counselled the King whose Pensioner I was for the time to send me unto Scotland The King first gave me his Commission by word of mouth and then the Constable his chief Councellor directed me at length in his Majesty's presence as followeth Your Native Queen saith he is married here in France unto the Dauphine and the King is informed by the Cardinal of Lorrain that a Bastard Son to James fifth called Prior de St. Andre pretends under colour of Religion to usurp the Kingdom unto himself his Majesty knows that I was ever against the said marriage fearing thereby to make our old Friends our new Enemies as is like to come to pass this day But I gave too great place to the House of Guise to deal in the affairs of Scotland because the Queen Regent is their Sister But now seeing their violent proceedings are like to occasion the loss of the Kingdom of Scotland I must needs meddle and put to my helping hand as having better experience of the nature of that Nation then apparently they have I assure you that the King is resolved to hazard his Crown and all that he hath rather then that your Queen be robbed of her right seeing she is now married unto his Son And he resolves to send an Army to Scotland for that effect though he would gladly shun the trouble thereof if it were possible For now after his Majesty hath had Wars long enough with his old Enemies and hath agreed with them upon very rational considerations he is loath to enter again into a new unnecessary War with his old Friends Seeing there is probable ground of conjecture that it is not their default but that the same is occasioned by the harsh usage they meet with I hear that Monsieur Dosel is cholerick hasty and too passionate Such are not qualified to rule over remote and form'd Countries I have also intelligence that the Queen Regent hath not kept all things promised unto them The King my Master is not so rash as readily to believe that Scotland who had kept so long Friendship with France would now so slightly break their old band and abandon their duty to their Lawful Prince The King is well acquainted with the inconveniencies which may arise upon so distant and beyond-Sea Wars He knows what charge it is to furnish out Ships which perchance may be thrice victualled e're they make Sail by reason of contrary Winds and that your Seas are very dangerous The Marquess de Albuiff was driven upon the Coast of Norway when he thought to have landed in Scotland so that his Voyage did no good though his preparations for the same was very expensive Though our Army were well landed in Scotland how oft might they stand in need of supply when we by reason of these and several the like difficulties will not be able to help them whereof we have too good experience when Monsieur de Lorge was there I have brought you up from a Child I understand that you are come of an honourable Family I have assured the King that I have had good proof of your honesty so that his Majesty is well minded toward you at whose hand I hope you shall deserve a good reward this is a Commission of a far greater importance then that which Betancourt carried For the King will stay or send his Army according to your report Give it out that you are only come home to visit your Friends Let neither the Queen Regent nor Dosel know of your Commission wherein you are implored by the King who is now your best Master First try diligently and perfectly well whether the said Prior pretends to usurp the Crown of Scotland to himself or if he be moved to take Arms only for Conscience sake in defence of his Religion himself his dependants and associates Next try what promises are broken to him and them by whom and at whose instance Thirdly if they desire another Lieutenant in place of Dosel If it be only Religion that moves them we must commit Scots-mens Souls unto God for we have difficulty enough to rule the Consciences of French-men It is the obedience due unto their Lawful Queen with the Body that the King desires If