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A37300	The memoires of Monsieur Deageant containing the most secret transactions and affairs of France, from the death of Henry IV till the beginning of the ministry of the Cardinal de Richelieu : to which is added a particular relation of the Arch-Bishop of Embrun's voyage into England, and of his negociation for the advancement of the Roman Catholick religion here : together with the Duke of Buckingham's letters to the said Arch-Bishop about the progress of that affair, which happened the last years of King James I, his reign / faithfully translated out of the French original.; Mémoires de M. Deageant. English	Deageant, Guichard, d. 1645.; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628.	1690 (1690)	Wing D490; ESTC R5548	101,034	282

de Luines and the removing of Monsieur Deageant were the only Obstacles that hindered the King from becoming absolute Master of Rochel at that time During the Employment of Monsieur Deageant no other Affairs of consequence were transacted in Italy but that of the Duke of Florence above mentioned the Marriage of the Prince of Piedmont the difference between the Dukes of Savoy and Mantua of which the King was Arbitrator and the Accommodation between the King of Spain and the Duke of Savoy And it would be needless for me to enlarge on them since there are many that are able to produce larger Memorials than I can as for the last Father Joseph can give a true account thereof since he was sent into Spain on purpose to cause the Treaty to be put in Execution that was made for the restitution of Verseil I shall only add one particular passage that happened to my Knowledge which perhaps may be thought worth the observing Cardinal Ludovisio who was afterwards promoted to the Pontificate negotiated for the Pope in the aforesaid Accommodation and Monsieur de Lesdiguiers was one of those whom the King had employed therein The Treaty being concluded Monsieur de Lesdiguiers went to take leave of the Cardinal and amongst other Complements wished him the the Mitre he smiled and made him this answer Will you promise me to become a Catholic when I shall be Pope Yes certainly replied Monsieur de Lesdiguiers who seeing him very Ancient and the last of the Cardinals could not imagine that he could attain to this Supreme Dignity however in a little time he was placed in St. Peters Chair and long after dispatched a Brief to Monsieur de Lesdiguiers to put him in mind of his promise to perform which he was already inclined as shall be hereafter observed he sent an answer to this Brief full of respect and even made use of the terms of most Holy Father and his Holiness notwithstanding the Remonstrances that the Deputies of the Reformed Religion and the Consistory of Lyons from whence he wrote exhibited to him on this occasion There were also certain Treaties in agitation concerning the Affairs of the Valtoline which were disannulled by the Venetians at the very first overture but because I knew not the succeeding Events I shall make no mention of them here And as for Spain excepting the Transactions that related to the composing of the differences between them and the Duke of Savoy there was no other matter of moment depending between the two Crowns and Peace hath been maintained in despight of the mutual Antipathies of of these two Nations one against another and the different Interests of their Kings There arose about that time a certain contest with England the Ambassador of France was come back and left le Cler his Secretary to act in his stead who proceeded so far that a resolution was taken to treat him somewhat severely he thereupon withdrew himself and having sent an express to the King of what passed he received a Command to find out some means to return which he afterwards did there was also an Ambassador from England with the King who upon notice that the other of France was in the Kingdom gave orders that he should speedily depart since contrary to the Law of Nations his Master had abused his The Duke of Savoy who kept a good Correspondence in England and treated there about the Marriage of his Son hoping that these two Kings being united together would assist him much in obtaining the Crown that had been propounded to him interposed and took much pains to reconcile them since their differences were produced on a very slight occasion The principal difficulty consisted in this Point which of them should first send his Ambassador The King alledged that since there was no composition between the two Crowns touching precedency the English having always yielded it to the French and the King of England having obliged his Majesty to recal his Agent it belonged to him to send his Ambassador first into France The King of England did not dispute about the matter of Composition but pretended that he had not treated the Agent of France after so rude a manner that he ought to have withdrawn himself that he was highly offended that his was sent back without any lawful Cause and that this offence could not be redressed but by sending a French Ambassador to excuse it after the arrival of whom he would cause his to depart At last it was agreed that the two Kings should nominate their respective Ambassadors that the English should first pass over the Sea and that as soon as he had given notice of his Arrival in France the King should order his to set forward the first being very active made so great haste that as soon as he landed in France he travelled to the Court and remained there some time before the later began his Journey An amicable Correspondence hath been since maintained between the two Crowns The King of England upon the recommendation of our King did often mitigate and abate the ordinary rigorous proceedings against the Roman Catholicks in that Country He was also very well pleased with the Propositions that were privately offer'd to him on behalf of his Majesty tending to re-unite him to the bosom of the Church insomuch that after some reiterated Conferences that were managed to that effect in the King's Presence without communicating any thing thereof in his Council lest the effect being made known should be obstructed or prevented the Arch-Bishop of Embrun made a Voyage into England as it were without any design in the habit and under the name of a Counsellor in the Parliament of Grenoble whom curiosity had induced to see England he had no sooner set his foot on Land at Dover but the Duke of Buckingham came to meet him and having saluted him whispered him thus in the Ear Sir You that call your self a Counsellor of Grenoble being the Arch-Bishop of Embrun are very welcome into these Dominions you need not change your Name nor conceal your Quality for you shall receive nothing but Honour here and especially from the King my Master who hath a very particular esteem for you Indeed the King of England treated him very honourably granted him several Favours in behalf of the Catholicks and even permitted him to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation to them in the House of the Ambassadour of France where there was a great Court the doors being open There were near eighteen thousand persons that received this Sacrament without having any thing said to them in the Entry at the Door or elsewhere although there was a great concourse of the English people in the street that saw this Ceremony performed During the time that he resided there he had several Conferences with the King who being satisfied as to all the points in Controversie wrote a large Letter to the Pope by a Catholick Gentleman his Subject whom he privily

condition I diligently examined my Conscience but could not find that I had offended any but God alone in thought word or deed Having committed no action that might give a just cause of complaint since I had for a long time before taken care to do nothing that might be the occasion of the least suspicion therefore I was apt to believe that the above-mentioned jealousies had mainly operated in this unfortunate conjuncture I was informed by some that my Antagonists to accomplish their designs had animated the Queen-Mother against me although in serving the King I was always very careful lest I should displease her as appears from the preceeding Relation Whilst I revolved these things in my mind a certain debauched young man that had been an Augustine Fryar afterwards was admitted into the Oratory and at last associated himself with the Libertins of the Court pretending to be an Abbot being committed to the Bastille for his Crimes and lodging in a Room over mine gave me an account that he had been employed to cause me to be put into this place after this manner At first a Letter of Complements that I had written to Madame de Lesdiguieres was produced to the intent that he might forge another like it for he had a singular faculty in counterfeiting all sorts of hands but he desired to be excused because he thought mine was very difficult to be imitated for several reasons that he alledged after this denial he was told that he ought at least to depose that for three months together he had seen me going at midnight without a light and only attended with a little Page into the Chamber of Monsicur the King's Brother as also the Sieur de Modene and that we remained shut up there above an hour to this he replied that he was unwilling to mention M. de Modene by reason that he being esteemed as a man of no great judgment it would not be thought probable that he should contrive any Plots but this could not be affirmed of M. Deageant however since he knew him only by hear say and not by sight he feared lest he should be compelled to justify these Depositions face to face before a Magistrate upon these difficulties it was agreed that he should only declare the matter privately to the King the Queen-Mother the Cardinal of Richelieu and the Lord Keeper of the Seals having received a promise that effectual care should be taken to prevent his being confronted The Abbot Fcuquan and l' Anglois his Brother informed me of divers other circumstances when they were brought into the Bastille the former being lodged in a Chamber next to mine insomuch that we could discourse one with another at certain hours though we were closely locked up They confessed to me that they were the persons that prepared the Bill of Indictment in order to my Examination without specifying the particulars of my accusation lest the truth should be thereby discovered for if they had been exhibited to me I could have very easily demonstrated my innocence by proving that I had no Foot-men but such as were biger than my self that it was above a year ago since I stirred beyond the bounds of the street where I lived after seven of the Clock in the Evening and that the Watch was set every Night either at my house or at that of my Brother-in-law over against it where they remained usually till one of the Clock in the Morning and never found me absent so much as once Praised be God for all and may he vouchsafe of his Infinite Mercy not to impute to my Calumniation the evils that they have caused me to suffer but to forgive them this and all their other Offences Perhaps this Digression concerning my own particular Affairs may be accounted very tedious and extravagant but I humbly entreat his Eminency to excuse this boldness since it proceeds from the extreme desire that I have always had that he should be informed of my innocence and of the forgeries that have been invented to withdraw me from the honour of his favour and protection as also to procure my ruin But all these attempts or any other that hereafter may be put in practice to this effect shall never be able in the least to divert me from the affection and service that I owed to him and have long since prosessed neither shall they hinder me from continuing the Prayers that I daily put up to the Throne of Grace for the preservation of his health for many years and for the happy success of his generous Enterprizes Whilst these Memorials were in the Press one of my Friends having shewed to me the Relation that the Arch-Bishop of Embrun composed for the use of the Cardinal of Richelieu concerning his Voyage into England I thought it would not be amiss to insert it here since it confirms one of the most considerable Passages related by M. Deageant touching the inclination of James I. King of great Britain to embrace the Roman Catholick Religion I have hereunto annexed the Duke of Buckingham's two Letters on this subject and the little Summary of the Negociations of the said Arch-Bishop which was adjoyned at the end of this Relation The Letter of the Cardinal of Richelieu to the Arch-Bishop of Embrun SIR HAving call'd to mind the Voyage that you took some years ago into England I could not forbear to lay hold on this opportunity to desire you to let me know whether you were sent thither by the King or whether you went of your own accord and to what end as also whether there were certainly at that time any Negociation depending between his Holiness and the King of Great Britain concerning his Conversion You will very much oblige me in giving an account of all those particulars that you shall judge worthy to be observed on this subject assureing you in the mean time that whensoever an occasion shall be offered to demonstrate my affection to you you shall find that I am Paris Febr. 19. 1635. SIR Your most Affectioned Brother to serve you The Cardinal of Richelieu THE RELATION OF WILLIAM D'HUGUES Arch-Bishop of EMBRUN IN the year 1624. the Embassadors of England on the account of the Treaty of Marriage between the Sister of the King of France and the Prince of Wales being arrived at Compienne where his Majesty then resided a certain English Catholick Gentleman came to me to deliver a Letter from a Scotch Fryer of the Order of St. Francis who had formerly received some favours from me in Italy and at my instance was employ'd by Pope Paul V. in the English Mission the Letter of this Religious Person contained many particulars relateing to the lamentable Condition of the poor Catholicks in England as also a Recommendation of this Gentleman who gave me a very large Account of all things and shewed to me the printed Copies of divers Acts made in England against the Catholicks insomuch that I acquired a perfect knowledg of

at London where during the time of my residence in that City above ten thousand English Catholicks received this Sacrament from my Hands at which their Enemies were extremely offended and complained thereof to the King but to no purpose for his Majesty answered them that I did nothing contrary to his Pleasure At this time and at all others wherein I had the honour to see this King he was so well pleased with my Propositions that he freely disclosed his Thoughts to me and if M. d'Effiat were now living he would be my Witness that this good Prince did plainly make it appear that he delighted in conversing with me In our Conferences he told me that next to the Happiness he wished for to be allied with France he desired to be revenged on the Spaniards for the Injury that they had offered to him rehearsing to me all the Particulars thereof with great Indignation to which he added the Interests of his Son-in-Law who was said he as it were banished into Holland with abundance of Children I instantly replyed upon this last Expression and acquainted him that to recover the Palatinate it was requisite that the two Crowns of France and England should be united with a firm Resolution to weaken the Power of Spain and to this end to enter into a League with the Princes of Italy who as I verily believed since they had formerly made an Alliance with France alone in the time of the late King would be so much the more willing to do the like again when they saw that England was also engaged with whom the Pope would easily be persuaded to join since he had reason to fear least the Spaniards should one day force him to submit to their Yoke but to procure this Union he ought to assure the Pope and the other Princes that the Catholick Religion should be indemnified upon this I proposed many Expedients which pleased him extreamly as the Duke of Buckingham afterwards related to me In exhibiting the methods to attain Union I took an Opportunity to represent to him that Liberty of Conscience in England would be one of the the most effectual means to give full Satisfaction to the Pope and the Catholick Princes thereupon the King putting his Hand on mine spake these Words I plainly see that you are the Person appointed by God in whom I ought to confide and to reveal the Secrets of my Heart afterwards he very freely acknowledged the good opinion that he had conceived of the Catholick Faith and so particularly that he omitted nothing protesting to me that during his Minority his Tutors having perceived his Inclination to that Religion he run great hazard of being assassinated As to this Liberty of Conscience he professed that he intended long agoe to grant it in his Dominions and that for this very purpose he designed to summon an Assembly of Prelats and other learned Men of England together with an equal number of Forreigners and on the Decisions therein concluded to found the said Liberty adding that he had already determined what Persons should be chosen amongst the English and that if the Assembly could not meet at Dover he would consent that it should be holden at Boulagne as soon as he should be in a condition to relye on the King of France by the means of the Marriage to which he had agreed on his part and to procure these good Effects he thought it convenient that after the Consummation thereof I should return into England under the pretence of accompanying the Princess at which time he would deliver to me two Letters written with his own Hand one for the King and the other for the Pope containing his generous Resolutions he would also give me a distinct Memorial concerning his Intentions which I should prepare and he would sign to the end that being furnished with these Dispatches I should go to Rome under colour of visiting the Apostolick See where I should treat with the Pope alone for whom he said that he had a great Affection and Respect ever since he understood that he had composed Verses in his Youth on the violent Death of the late Queen of Scotland his Mother in commendation of her and of the Family of the Stuarts which he shewed to me He was pleased further to declare that in case I returned from Rome with his Holiness's Approbation of the said Convention he would cause it forthwith to be assembled whereupon extraordinary and admirable Events would ensue but before he proceeded to discover his purpose as to his own Person he would negociate with the Protestant Princes of Germany and with the principal Puritan Lords of England and Scotland and promised that all things should tend to an happy end and to the great advantage of the Catholick Church This is the substance of all our Discourses at several times on this Subject but for a Testimony of the Trust that this King reposed in me I shall here insert the particulars of my Transactions on account of the Marriage A considerable Progress being made in this Negociation the Duke of Buckingham arrived near London and from one of his Houses wrote to M. d'Effiat that he was ready to treat with him about a new Affair desiring him to come thither and to bring me along with him We went accordingly and the Duke told us that the King remembering the Delays and Artifices of the Spaniards to hinder the procuring of the dispensation during the Treaty with them was sensible that they would endeavour much more to cause it to be refused at the solicitation of France that he was resolved not to incurr the danger of a second Affront and that for this reason it was necessary that the King of France should permit the Marriage to be celebrated before the Dispensation for he was informed that an Absolution for Actions already committed was more easily to be obtained at Rome than a Dispensation to do them Upon this the Ambassador alledged two Points first that the King his Master had altogether as much Power at the Court of Rome as the King of Spain and secondly that his Most Christian Majesty would very willingly grant this Demand however I seemed not to approve the last Answer which the Duke of Buckingham soon perceived and taking an occasion after Dinner to shew me his House he desired me to explain my meaning at large as to this Particular which I did and enumerated to him divers Inconveniencies very prejudicial to England that would ensue upon the Consummation of this Marriage without a Dispensation together with the examples of several Princes insisting that this would grievously offend the Pope that no favour could afterwards be expected from him and that by this means the good Designs that the King of Great Br●tain intended to prosecute would be frustrated besides I believed that the King of France would never consent to it The Duke having heard me replyed that since he distrusted his own Ability to relate to the

all the Papers Letters and Instructions that he had received from the late King Henry the Great relating to his Negociations in Italy and Germany he sent one of his Servants to Embrun to fetch the said Papers amongst which was the League offensive and defensive that he had transacted with the Princes of Italy having presented the Copy of the said League and other Memorials to the late King his Majesty commanded him with his own Mouth to deliver them to M. de Luines which he did but could never recover them out of his Hands for after the death of the said Monsieur de Luines the late King at his request ordered Monsieur de Tronson to demand them of Monsieur de Modene who replyed that he had seen them but that he knew not how they were disposed It is well known what Advantages accrued to the State upon the Conversion of the late Constable de Lesdiguieres which was accomplished with great applause by the said Arch Bishop who having insinuated himself into the Mind of this Noble Lord continually solicited him to take this good resolution Monsieur de Puisieux whom he acquainted with these Particulars hath given a testimony thereof in his Letter that he sent to him which is also confirmed in another written by the King on the subject of this Conversion According to his Majesty's Order he accompanied the Constable at the Siege of Montpelier and constantly attended him until the Month of January 1624 when he received a Letter from the King importing an express Command that he should come unto him assoon as he appeared at Court his Majesty imparted to him the desire that he had to send him into Italy to treat with the Princes as he had formerly done on the behalf of King Henry the Great against Spain But the time not being convenient for such a Negociation he ingeniously propounded his Reasons to the King which his Majesty approved and declared to him his Satisfaction therein Not long after the King appointed him to go into England concerning which Voyage he hath already composed a Relation for the use of the Cardinal of Richelieu who wrote to him on purpose to desire it It is certain that in this Voyage he was very serviceable in concluding the Marriage that was once broken off It is no less true that he acquired much Credit and Reputation with King James I. to that degree that he not only obtained a permission to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation in London where above twelve thousand English Catholicks received it from his hands and were thereby comforted and strengthened but he also persuaded that Prince very much to incline towards a Conversion and if he had not died so suddainly the good Effects thereof would have appeared the Duke of Buckingham's Letters may serve as a sufficient Testimony of all these Circumstances which are specified at large in the above mentioned Relation The late King was fully informed concerning these Transactions insomuch that besides the Satisfaction that he expressed to him in particular he designed to nominate him to the Cardinalship and signified his Intentions to Cardinal Bagny then Nuncio in France who returning to Rome revealed it to the said Arch-Bishop at Avignon But at this time as heretofore the King 's generous Inclinations to promote the Arch-Bishop proved ineffectuall nevertheless he alwaies persevered to serve his Majesty with his Person and small Estate neither could extraordinary Expences nor great Dangers divert him from this Resolution for in the year 1630. the late King having ordered him to take care of the Passage of the Troops through his Diocese and to furnish them with Provisions Ammunition and other things requisite for the Subsistence of the Army that was to march into Italy Although this obliged him to disburse vast Summs of Money and to incurr extreme Perils since the Plague raged everywhere throughout his whole Diocese so violently that his Almoner and Gentleman Usher fell sick in his own House however he remained alwaies near the High-way to provide all things necessary this may be evidently proved by the Letters of the late King and the Cardinal of Richelieu as also by those of the Marshal de Montmorency de Schomberg de la Force and d'Effiat Moreover he performed other remarkable Services when the King's Forces took Pignerol for the Arch-Bishop being informed that the Duke of Savoy intended to put a strong Garison into his Fort of Lauret in the Valley of Barcelona very near the Roads that lead to Provence and Dauphine through which all the Provisions and military Ammunition were to be conveyed to the end that they might make Incursions and seize on the Waggons and Carriages and might by this means reduce the Army to the utmost Extremity He gave notice thereof to the Cardinal by the Sieur d'Hugues his Nephew at present Agent General of the Clergy of France whom he sent to him on purpose The Cardinal did not neglect this Advice but immediately dispatched Monsieur de Montreal Quarter-Master and the Abbot de Beauvau at present Bishop of Nante who with all possible speed repaired to Embrun with Orders to do whatsoever the Arch-Bishop should think convenient on this occasion who declared his opinion gave to them the Sieur Baron d'Hugues his other Nephew and afforded all manner of Assistance insomuch that the Fort was attacked and the Garison compelled to surrender FINIS