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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

had got ready his own Fleet as the Hollanders advanc'd in their Marisine Preparations is it not true that the Hollanders being oblig●d to look after their own defence would never have permitted the sending away their Army by Sea For t is in vain to object that the King of Sweden had lent 'em Men and that the Elector of Brandenburgh had a considerable force ready to march Fifteen or Twenty thousand Men would never have been sufficient to stop the Army of France the sole approach of which would have utterly disappointed the great and brave design which they had upon England and which was so fortunately accomplish'd But instead of this the King allurd by the certain hopes of taking two or three Places not able to make any resistance snapt at that Bait and sent away the Dauphin with a mighty Preparation to conquer a pitiful Nook of Land while on the other side the Prince of Orange call'd in by the English and assisted by the Hollanders made sure of three powerful Kingdoms the preservation of which was of such vast importance to his Majesty and King James his Confederate In the name of God was ever such a sottish clumsie mistake committed or was the like ever seen or heard of since Kings first reign'd and wag●d War one upon another For my my part I must in this acknowledge the effects of an unknown and superiour Providence By what I have said 't is apparent that the end of that year was fatal to two Kings nevertheless when the Dauphin return'd to Court he was overwhelm'd with Congratulations All men cry'd out Victory Victory the Soveraign Courts The Magistracy of the City harangu'd him the Poets squeez●d their Braines for Panegyricks and the King himself spoke his Elogy several times in publick before all the World and he mist but little of having a Tryumph design'd him For my own part who was an eye-witness of all this and knew what it behov'd me to think of it I sigh●d in private to behold the weakness of men that oftimes Laugh and Feast and Daunce when they have much more cause to Weep I could not think they had so much reason to be merry for winning three Towns the on side and loosing three Kingdoms on the other But the French are of this Humour they look upon all things through prospective Glasses and those things that are to their disadvantage they behold with that end which lessens the Objects but those things that please 'em they view through the other end that magnifies whatever they see and brings it close to the sight However it were the Prince of Orange embark'd his men and set Sail. 'T is true he was a little delay'd by a Tempest that did him some damage but that being soon repaird he set sail again and fortunately continu'd his voyage The news of it arriv'd in France and according to custom the general report was that the greatest part 〈◊〉 the Ships were cast away and tha the Prince of Orange was drown'd and this rumour was supported by the following Sta●●a of Nostredamus which then made a great noise En mil six cent Octante huit Albion sera deliveree D'une Emprise mal digeree Qui ne produira aucun fruit Et par un Accident estrange Poissons se nourriro'nt d' Orange In thousand one six hunder'd eighty Eight Endanger●d Albion shall deliver●d be From a Contrivance lay●d but sillilee The fruit of which shall blasted be by Fate And through an accident by Heav'n decreed The hungry Fishes shall on an Orange feed This was shewn me by an Advocate in a most Triumphant manner who told me that I was no longer to complain of the Fortune of France for whose prosperity all the Elements fought I knew not what answer to give him for I had never study●d Nostredamus but the next day I went to visit my old Friend Cousinet a Counseller in the Parliament of Bretagne a person of Learning and good Sence to whom I shew●d my Prophesie In answer to which my worthy friend said he I have read the Centuries of this Astrologer several times from one end to the other and I assure you this Stanza is not there 't is a piece made at random and with that he told me a Story how that in the time of Mazarin's troubles he being engag●d in the contrary Party and the Cardinal doing all he could to ruin him he made a Stanza which he inserted among the rest and had 'em reprinted on purpose He repeated it to me but I have forgot all but the last Line which I remember concluded thus Les Rouges Rouges le Rouge assommeront The Red Red the Red shall knock oth Head By the Red Red he meant the Parliament and by the Red the Cardinal Nevertheless it prov'd as false as that of the Prince of Orange After which I suspected all the Centuries that were produc'd upon the present Affairs So soon as the Prince was ready to set Sail he put forth a Declaration wherein he declar'd that being several times earnestly solicited by a great many Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and by many Gentlemen of the English Nation to deliver 'em from a Despotick Power under which they were ready to be subjected to the destruction of their Priviledges and the Laws of the Realm and at the same time to free the Church of England from the Persecution which it suffer'd mov'd therefore with the misfortunes and the seve●● Captivity which both Religion and the State were likely to fall under he could not refuse 'em the Succour which they desir'd That his intentions were not to inv●●● the Crown as his Enemies gave out 〈◊〉 to make any alteration in the Legitim●●● order of the Succession but on the other side that he came to facilitate and procure the Meeting of a Free Parliament wherin every Member might speak his own Sentiments without Constraint and all together labour the restoration of the Laws and Libertie of the Kingdom to their Primitive vigor and the nesetling Religion in a flourishing condition as it was before the Kings unjust Attempts which tended only to the entire Destruction of it That the King of Englands Designs were sufficiently visi●●● by his strict Alliance with the Most Christian King and the intimate Vnion the was between 'em tho the King of France had long profest himself the declar'd Enemy of the Kingdom England the United Provinces and particularly of the Protestant Religion which he persecuted even to Rage and Frenzie That it was clear that King James was govern'd wholly by his Counsels that his Politicks were regulated by his and that he aim'd at the same ends And therefore seeing it was the interest of the People of England not to endure any longer such terrible Innovations he hop'd they would receive him as a Friend who only came to succour and protect 'em and concur with 'em in restoring Peace to the Church and Repose and Freedom to every Private Person This Manifesto