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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

I am Poyson'd So dy'd that poor Princess in the Twenty sixth Year of her Age and Fifteen Days over Now though they were not so Successful the first time to involve the King of England wholly in their Interests yet the Design was not given over To which purpose Father La Chaise propos'd to the King to make use of the Jesuits 'T is certain Sir said he that they are the fittest Persons in the World to manage both King Charles and his Brother the Duke of York For not to reck'n upon their being both Catholicks at the bottom of their Hearts in regar'd they have been bred up in our Religion Your Majesty knows that they are deeply oblig'd to the Society Had it not been for the Supplies of Money which they furnish'd 'em withal they had been in danger of making but a small Figure in the World Our Fathers of France alone by themselves allow'd him Twenty thousand Crowns a Year which there is little likelyhood will be ever re-pay'd ' em I speak this added he to let your Majesty know that a Jesuit will be no ominous sight to that Prince I believe it reply'd the King nor am I ignorant of the Kindnesses he has receiv'd from your Society So that there is good Reason to hope that he will do much upon their Sollicitations But with what an Eye d' you think will your Fathers be look'd upon in England Do you believe they will be safe there Never think it and if they should once come to be known there the Character of Agent or Envoy will never protect 'em from the Fury of the People I should rather choose to employ the Dutchess of Portsmouth who has hitherto serv'd me faithfully in several little Affairs that I have entrusted to her Management and I am persuaded she will be no less useful to me in great Ones She is very nimble and dexterous in Business and possesses altogether the very Heart and Soul of the King and frankly to tell you a Mistress has a Hunder'd Opportunities and Tricks to improve Perswasion which the most cunning Ministers can never meet with Sir reply'd La Chaise with a Smile your Majesty may speak knowingly in that particular I have nothing to object against it I am also convinc'd That the Dutchess of Portsmouth is now the only Person that can undertake this Affair with Success There needs no more then to instruct her well in your Majesty's Intentions and 't is only to that purpose that I have propos'd to send some of our People into that Country Very good reply'd the King I consent to it but whom shall we send Your Majesty answer'd La Chaise cannot make choice of a better Man then Father De Carnè He is near of Kin to the Dutchess and well-belov'd by the Duke of York and besides that he is one of the most Politick Head-pieces in our Order The King agreed to it and sent him away Fifteen Days after furnish'd with Three or Four Suits of Modish Apparel by way of Disguise So soon as he arriv'd at London he went to wait upon the Dutchess of Portsmouth who entertain'd him in a very courtly manner for above a Quarter of an Hour not knowing who he was However she bethought her self that she knew 〈◊〉 Face tho' after long tormenting her Brain she could not call to mind where she ha● seen him or how she came acquainted with him so that at length she was constrain'd to ask his Name I find said the Father that Fortune and Grandeur have made you forget you● old Friends else you could never have banish'd poor Father Carnè so utterly from your Thoughts Is it possible cry'd the Dutchess that it should be you dear Cousin embracing him i● truth I beg your Pardon But good God what Business brings you hither D' you know the Danger you are in Should you once be discover'd by the Mobile there would be no way to save you Is your Zeal so warm as to embolden yee to come hither in search of Death with so much Gayety and Briskness I knew the time when you were more sparing of your Life The time past is not the present Madam answer'd he 'T is true that in my Youth I lov'd my Pleasures perhaps a little more than became a Person of my Coat but now I am become a Man that only seeks to serve God and his Prince and 't is upon that account only that I come hither 'T is from the King continu'd he that I come He expects from you an Important piece of Service and as I know you will be over-joy'd to have the Opportunity I shall not trouble you with long Remonstrances but only deliver his Letter into your Hands together with another from the Reverend Father La Chaise who has written to yee likewise and I am to give yee notice that you are beholding to him for the best part of the King's Resolutions to make choice of your self to serve him before his Embassador M. de Croissy the Lord Treasurer who is wholly at his Devotion and Twenty others who would have been glad to have given his Majesty Proofs of their Fidelity to him And so saying he presented the Letters to the Dutchess who open'd 'em immediately with a great deal of Earnestness The First of which from the King was as follows Madam Dutchess of Portsmouth THE sincere and true Affection which I bear the King of England my Brother and good Friend which I have endeavour'd to make known to him upon all Occasion having made me passionately desirous a long time since to join with him in a strict and lasting Alliance which uniting both our Empires in the Bond of Peace and Amity migh● enable us not only to repell the Assaults of our Enemies but also to repress their Boldness I sent to him Madam Henrietta Stuart our dear Sister of happy Memory to propound a Treaty which could not have been but very Advantageous to him But she found him so pre-possess'd by the Councils of certain Person about him who minding nothing but then voluptuous Pleasures would be at their W●● end to see him undertake any thing to his Honour that it was impossible to obtain any thing of him Nevertheless in regard I cannot without great Grief of Mind behold him under such a Lethargy so contrary to his Interest especially when the Hollanders out brave him to the highest Degree I thought it fit to write to your self requesting you to represent to him in my name how prejudicial such an excessive Love of his Repose will be to him a last the apparent Aim of the Hollanders being to establish their Commerce upon the Ruin of the Trade of England and to make themselves Masters of the Sea from which they do not think themselves far off since they already refuse to lore Sail to his Men of War and have violated the Laws of Nations in driving his Merchants from their settled Factories and Places of Trade Besides I cannot believe that he has

his Crown he begg'd her of the King of France and his Sister who could not deny him so small a Favour Presently the King sent a Yatch and a Frigate to Brest to bring her from thence into England Where her Wit and her Beauty and her medling with State-Affairs rais'd her a great number of Enemies some in the Parliament some among the People and others among the Court-Ladies among whom there were few that equall'd her in Beauty But for all this the Love which she had for the King or her own Good Fortune which was the most likely enabl'd her to surmount all these Difficulties with an extraordinary Courage The chief Maxim of her Politicks was to keep in with the Duke of York and side with France and by that means she so well order'd her Business that she held on a Ruling Favourite till the Death of King Charles II and should I say till the Advancement of King WILLIAM I should not tell an Untruth She is moderately Tall well-Shap'd having the Air Gate of a Queen She has the loveliest Mouth and Teeth in the world and her Smiles penetrate to the bottom of the Heart When she has a mind to be Complaisant she is altogether lovely but the mischief is that she will not be Complaisant to All. And this is that which has procur'd her such a world of Envy and Ill-will She has a Wit so piercing that 't is impossible to disguize any thing from her Her prevailing Passion or rather her Idol is Ambition to which she sacrifices her Repose her Pleasures her Honour and all things in the World Now in regard she pants after nothing but Honour and that for several Years she has made a Considerable Figure in the World she has assum'd such an Air of Grandeur and Business which she will never leave off as long as she lives There is no Woman living so Proud as this Woman but the last Revolution in England by which she lost above Fifty thousand Crowns a Year caus'd a great Alteration in her Affairs However she put a good Face upon the Matter in hopes the Times would change again or else that the King of France would give her a Considerable Pension for the Service she did him But that sort of Gratitude is no longer in Fashion the Partridge must be plum'd while you have her in your Hands for if once you let her go 't is in vain to expect she will ever return The Dutchess of Portsmouth is a fair Example of this She defy'd all England to serve her French King and Countrey and for that reason was thrown out of all Since that she has been reduc'd to that necessity as to sell her Coaches Horses Moveables and to turn off three fourth Parts of her Servants no body offering her so much as a Pension of a Thousand Pistoles So that when all her Hopes fail'd her and that there was no likelihood of King James's Return she sent her Son into England where he became a Protestant and marry'd the Lord Bellasis's Widow with whom he had a great Fortune By which means he is upon as sure Grounds as before and I think he has done very well But leaving this Digression the Dutchess of Portsmouth was so over-joy'd that she was become so necessarily Instrumental to the Designs of a Great Monarch that in the Evening she return'd this Answer to the King SIR THE Honour which Your Majesty do's me surpasses far my Hopes and my Ambition I shall have henceforward some good Opinion of my self since my King has not thought me unworthy to do him the utmost of my most humble Services upon an Occasion of so high Importance But I dare be bold to say That Your Majesty did me ample Justice when you thought that my Zeal and my F●delity would be inviolable Though I am remov'd into a Foreign Countrey yet I have not forgot the Advantage I enjoy to be b●●● your Subject nor that my Mother my Brother and all my Relations are still in your Kingdom And lastly That I am beholding to you for my good Fortune since it was your Majesty your self that gave me to the King by whom I have the Honour to be belov'd Th●● Love Sir however it may Charm me dis never as yet render me so Glorious as now that it has procur'd me the Means to be serviceable to your Majesty and that you w●● find by my extraordinary Diligence in performing your Commands But in regard the King has not hitherto appear'd to me so we inclin'd I beg your Majesty to give me a little Time and to afford me Leisure to take my Opportunities 'T is certain That many good Designs are ruin'd by too much Precipitation that might have been brought to a good Conclusion by Temporising a little And I am apt to think Sir that this is a Design of the same nature Should I open the Business to the King at an unseasonable minute and he should absolutely forbid me never to speak of it more to him should I not fall into a Misfortune to be unprofitable to your Majesty Which would be a Grief past Consolation to me Not but that I believe he will be brought to Reason But your Majesty your self acknowledges That the deceas'd Madam of Glorious Memory fail'd in her Attempt And therefore if you please to give me leave I will proceed gently in this Affair which by the Blessing of God will have a happy Issue at least I will not be sparing of my Endeavours to bring it about I am with a most profound Respect SIR Your Majesty's most humble c. London Decemb. 14. 1670. Afterwards she wrote the following Letter to Father La Chaise Most Reverend Father NEver complain more of the slender Occasions which have made me take the liberty to beg Favours of you That which you have now done me in perswading his Majesty to honour me with his Commands is so great that I shall be oblig'd to you as long as I live And it would be a violent Trouble to me not to be able to discharge the Obligations you have laid upon me did I not know that 't is alway your desire I should be beholding to you upon that account I consent then since it must be so but know Most Reverend Father That if it were in my power to repay you as great Services as that which you have now done me by an extreme Acknowledgment or an earnest Desire to do my Utmost for them from whe● I have receiv'd 'em I should owe you nothing There is no need Most Reverend Father of proposing me magnificent Rewards to engage me to do my Duty in the Negotiation wherewith you have entrusted me You will fa● by the exact Account which I shall give you of all my Proceedings that I shall leave nothing omitted to bring it to a good Issue upon no other Motive then my Obedience to the King and to do him faithful Service But in regard this Affair requires a

to any other and yet notwithstanding all his Promises and his Fear of God had basely betray'd her and had authoriz'd the King to commit an infamous Adultery and take another Man's Wife from him In short In less then a Quarter of an Hour she inform'd all those that were present of all the secret Transactions that had pass'd between her and him The Jesuits were ready to hang themselves at this unlucky Accident for which there was no Remedy For she was a Fury not to be approach'd but at the Peril of him that came within her reach And if Mareshal de Bellefonds had not arriv'd in the interim and carry'd her away she had most certainly reveal'd a great deal more so much she was beside her self I know not whether Night brought her to her self and caus'd her to see that extreme Folly that she had committed and made her asham'd of what she had done or whether her Despair to see her Love despis'd were the only Motive However it were she betook her self into a Carmelite Nunnery where she has continu'd ever since Her Retirement deliver'd Father La Chaise from an extraordinary Disturbance that extremely tormented him for he made no question but that in her Fury she would have affronted him even in the King's Chamber Montespan could not moderate her Joy that now she had no longer any Rivaless that could dispute with her the Prince's Heart and keep her from being sole Predominant Lausun rid victorious over all his Enemies and Louvois content with his share of her Favour little regarded La Valliere So that she a poor unfortunate Mistress to a King abandon'd and betray'd saw her self constrain'd to fly to a dreary Retirement there to bewail all the rest of her days those transient Pleasures which she had hardly had time to taste together with a Surplusage of Grief not to be lamented or pity'd but by very few 'T is true that Lausun did not over-long enjoy the Pleasure of Rejoycing at her Disgrace For in a little time after he had the ill Luck to be crush'd by a Fall no less desperate then her's Every body knows how he had enthrall'd the Heart of Mademoiselle de Montpensier who demanded him for her Husband and how the King who thought himself engag'd by his Word to let him have whatever Mistress he should make Choice of consented to the Match which had been solemniz'd in the sight of all the World but that the Prince of Condè in Conjunction with several other Princes of the Blood so well represented the Stain which that Marriage would imprint upon the Royal Family that maugre the Importunities of La Chaise and the Interest of the Nobility who sided with Lausun he retracted his Word and forbad 'em to think any more of it But all the Prohibitions in the World were never able to with-hold two Persons of which the one was possess'd with a violent Love the other by an inordinate Ambition and He more-especially since by the Match he became Related to one of the Greatest Monarchs in Europe He therefore Marry'd her Privately without the King's Knowledge flattering himself perhaps That when the Thing was done and that the King came to understand it he would only look a little Gruff upon 'em for two or three Days But he took a quite different Course for though he lov'd 'em both very well yet he would never consent to let the Marriage be made Publick and in regard there was some Reason t● fear lest the Princess should be with Child he sent the Count to Bastille and thence remov'd him to Pignerol where he remain'd Sixteen Years that is to say t● there was no longer any Danger of thei● Interviews at the end of which time Mademoiselle purchas'd her Liberty with the Loss of the Sovereignty of Dombes Louvois was not very sorry for 〈◊〉 Misfortune He was always a Favourite at least and not a little formidable fo● tho' they were all Three leagu'd together as I said before to exclude all others from the King's Favour and particularly th● Princes of the Blood nevertheless the● was no depending upon Lausun But the King who had been lon● hatching the Design of Universal Monarchy hearken'd very much to the Councils of Father La Chaise with whom Cardinal Mazarine had left excellent Memoirs upon that Subject and who of himself prov'd greatly serviceable toward it by means of the Jesuits People prepar'd for any Undertaking and of whom he had always a hunder'd in his sleeve ready to Obey all manner of Commands The Draught of this Design which he had drawn up look'd with as fair a Prospect as any in the World The King of England was to be lull'd a-sleep whatever it cost which appear'd to be no difficult thing to do provided you fed him with Money Then was the King to fall upon Holland and make himself Master of it Which done the Spanish Low Countries the Bishopricks of Liege Munster and Cologne could not have made any long Resistance Then an Alliance was to be made with the Turk to fall upon the Emperor on both sides and then divide the Spoils Thus you see the Design was laid and if it has not had that good Luck which was expected it has not been for want of Conduct for all the secret Tricks and scandalous Artifiees of Knavish Policy have been made use of to bring it to pass except of latter Years wherein I must confess they committed some Capital Faults which are never to be recover'd Of which I shall speak in due place Now in regard the first step they were to make in this great Enterprize was to make sure of the King of England 1670. the King resolv'd to send thither his Sister-in-Law against the Advice of Father La Chaise who had no Kindness at all for her and who as he said was not good Catholick enough to be entrusted with such a Negotiation However she set forward and arriv'd at Dover where she was met by the King her Brother to whom she made those Proposals with which she was entrusted which were To have an Alliance Offensive and Defensive against all Princes To break the Triple League and To make War upon Holland in particular But whether it were that the King had no Inclination to the Propositions of himself or that the Princess not thinking they would be of any Advantage to him disswaded him from medling she return'd without doing any thing Nor did Father La Chaise fail to lay hold of the Opportunity to render her suspected to the King by putting him in mind that he had told him what would come of it before she went But whether it were that the King bore her any Grudge or any other Person she dy'd at St. Clou within Three or Four Days after her Return God knows how for we could never hear of any thing else but that she was very well in the Morning only after she had supt up a Mess of Broth she cry'd out