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A55902	The history of France under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarine containing all the remarkable and curious passages in the government of that state, from the death of King Louis XIII, which happened in the year 1643, to the death of the cardinal, which was in the year 1664 / written in Latine by Sieur Benjamin Priolo ... ; done into English by Christopher Wase.; Ab excessu Ludovici XIII de rebus Gallicis historiarum libri XII. English	Priolo, Benjamin, 1602-1667.; Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing P3506A; ESTC R7055	242,261	471

more hard and hasty the Master of the House grows and the whole Family the worse This hath been the s●nse of James and before him famous men have ha● the same thoughts Erasmus Cassander Melancthon● and the latest de Dominis Archbishop of Spalatto● It hath always been dangerous to touch holy thing●● as those who in the Old Testament are punished for a rash touch For what matter is it how the profession of Religion stand so that people by it worship God the giver of all good and be obedient to the Supreme Powers But lest I should against my resolution insensibly winde my self into a Whirl-pool my Boat shall coast along the shore leaving that best King of England as the following Book declares among the Essexes Fairfaxes and at length Cromwells brought to extremities impeached not only to have innovated in the Worship but under that pretence to have altered the established Form of Government that he might get no less absolute Authority than the King of France concerning whom what is his Power were a crime to question He only reigns truly What a malignant Star did then in all places influence Kingdoms You see at the same time the Fates of France you see of England Naples Catalaunia and Portugal which having broken its Allegiance hitherto kept to the Philips by instinct in a heat chose for their King the Duke of Braganza throwing off the Castillians How was it but by Fate that Philip. II. came into that Kingdom which seemed so established in multitude of Successors that there was no room nor crevise even for the most presumptuous hope Mark Emmanuel King of Portugal had married three Wives Thee first Isabella the eldest of the Daughters of Ferdinand and Isabella King and Queen of Spain His Issue by her Michael who if he had lived had been the undoubted Heir of Spain in the whole extent of his Empire he dyed a Child and his Mother in Child-bed Therefore he then took to Wife another Mary the third Daughter of Ferdinando and Isabella For Joan who was the second was given to Philip of Austria of which Match are the present Kings of Spain Of her Emmanued begets in truth a numerous Issue six Sons two Daughters Lastly of a third Match also which he contracted with Leonora Daughter of Philip of Austria and Joan he had two Children a Son and a Daughter This House was grounded upon so many Props Non● to come to their Children what a Train twenty two were before Philip and the Succession and hindered the accrewment of this adventitious Estate And yet see whether the Fates invites us He came and succeeded in right of Isabella his Mother the Wife of Charles the V. which was the elder of Emmanuels Daughters passing by Catharine Daughter of Edward Duke of Guimarance who was the sixth Son of the same Emmanuel and Wife of John Duke of Braganza B● the same Fates tacking about it is returned to the right Lords the Dukes of Braganza I know not by what secret cause besides the manifest these thing● thus fall out that whereas in other Arts men grow perfect by practice in this of Government it proves ordinarily quite contrary and Princes swerve rarely hold out in a straight path to the Goal From the Compliances of all they gather scornfulness Even that mighty weight of Empire may for some tim●● hardly always be sustained with an upright neck Men tire and bend where there is no other thing to restrain but the regard of a good Name and naked Vertue and especially Religion To this Corrupters 〈◊〉 contribute an evil connatural with Courts and such as commending ill actions give a biass that way 〈◊〉 turn Power into Licentiousness But there is some occasion too given by Subjects who are refractory and perverse and unthankeful towards the best Princes resent that with trouble and disdain and so by degrees take off their affections the more if there be Sedition or Rebellion or Plottings Then they think they have just title to oppress and afflict All smart for the guilt of the major part Blessed we who after so many provocations of severity have not seen the Sword drawn but against the Enemy For this reason the Publick Felicity seems to have singled out Mazarine to bring him to this Government who hath so principled the young King For how great mildness have we found in his life time how great do we enjoy since his death from the best and most just of Kings But neither did favours nor clemency work upon men to alter their minds The storm every day more furiously discharged upon Mazarine The Grandees rejoyced provided to be still craving who accounted former concessions not a stop but a step to farther Petitions A man of great importance and then admitted with favour to the Cardinals ear advised him to fortifie his Interest with potent Friendships and Alliances that he was therefore undervalued because he had not sure footing in France that he seemed as though he had thoughts of returning into his Country when he had made his Fortunes that these and the like words were given abroad that great sums of money were transmitted to Rome he had there bought and furnished a House forgetting our Estate had Banks of money out at use in Venice and Genoua Mazarine hearkened to the Counsel as appeared beneficial as the issue proved afflictive Therefore first of all he thought of matching his Nephew Mancini with the only Daughter of the Count d'Ales the Cousin Germain of Conde How much spirit did he think was in Conde whose Alliance he esteemed the remedy of his Troubles In truth Conde stood in Condes own light or else he might have carried all in France before him I am assured that it was the top of Mazarines ambition to have been serviceable to him as his Master The Princes mind in this particular mistaken refused the offer being able to acquire as he thought of himself more glory than if he should seem to depend on an odious Minister Not in this point only but every where else he forfeited great opportunities and equalled not his vast Successes with any prudence Conde seemed to slight such a Match which Mazarine made use of me to sue for Longueville being certified of the whole business as he was greedy to find occasions voluntarily interposes himself promising his effectual assistance not without a reward For he that needed nothing but quiet thought it a disparagement in troublesom times to get nothing and when a fire was kindled not to warm his own fingers And being seriously advised that in a bad Age he would dare to be good could never be brought to put off that humor of trassicking Whereas no sort dispositon stands upon so unsteady ground looking over with a readiness to precipitate into folly and vanity but it may easily be managed by the rein of prudence to return into the straight path only our Princes incapable of any but suborned advice draw against it Therefore did Longueville

miscarry in the end The Princes of Europe or their Ministers flocked thither as to consult an Oracle they admired the Island that is a little Spot upon which the whole Globe hung You would have taken it for the Anchor of the floating World The Duke of Lorraine heretofore detained in confinement at Toledo is then enlarged and without waiting upon that King goes with all speed to Haro to know the terms imposed upon him When he came to understand the condition of his Affairs impatient at such a penalty he broke out into speeches which might have given just occasion to have clapt up again in Prison the Duke tired out with miseries This is not a Peace saith he but a slavery by consent The singular goodness of Haro took compassion of afflicted Lorraine who leaving the Castilian Minister at Fuentarabie fled to the French mercy Mazarine receives him honourably Divers discourses past to and fro even about entring Alliance Duke Charles seemed to go away less discontented What was afterwards done shall be related in the end of the Book Charles King of England comes from Flanders for Cromwel whilst he was alive and after his death his Ghost would not let him live at Paris Haro omitted no Ceremony no deference of the humblest submission to him as a Stranger but neither granted him Condes Troops which he desired upon pretence of the Portugal War nor would enter into any other enagagement to act for the restoring of the King of England Mazarine would not so much as vouchsafe to speak with or see the King for fear of Lockhart who was a Spye there in behalf of the Parliament of England It is a thing which posterity will hardly believe Mazarine always hated Cromwell and the growing Common-wealth yet so great an apprehension of that petty Tyrant was imprinted on the Cardinals soul that he dreaded the very Ghost of him when he was buried and whom he had courted with feigned Honour whilst he was alive he followed with a false Veneration after he was dead So true it is that some meaner Spirits have a natural ascendant and predominancy to strike awe into them that are of greater abilities The King of England having lost his labour withdrew himself from the Affront loaded with Complements from the Spaniard and Contempt from the French Ormond who accompanied the King hardly getting to speak with Mazarine to avoid the giving umbrage it seems to Lockhard hinted many things to win upon the Cardinal The assured hopes of the Crown which Charles was near recovering the Plots in favor of him all was safe only that there needed some small assistance Nay proceeded so far as to sound Mazarines mind with an Overture of the Royal Alliance Such is the power of fatal and invincible necessity which the Gods themselves cannot surmount All this was to no purpose the Restauration was to be put upon no other account than his personal Vertues and the providence that attended so great a King who goes away offended at the French rigour Through so many Compliances of Fortune the two Ministers Umpires of the disagreeing World Arbitrate all things at their pleasure and dispense the Fates of Nations depending upon them Portugal fell under debate when Mazarine turned to Haro and said Look me out to the very remotest Indies any Soveraigne Estate for poor Braganza that his head used to a Crown may not again sink into a private Condition The Affairs of Italy Mantua and Savoy and other Princes were left to the decision of the Cardinal and Fuensaldagne Pope Alexander only was neither party nor partaker in the Pacification The Princes of the Conclave admired at Rome that Chighi whom they had chosen principally upon that account because having been trained up in the Treating of Peace he seemed a fit Peace-maker should be so scornfully passed by Mazarine in his Judgment after Chighis Judgment reputed a Fomenter of Discord and Hater of Peace shews That he both could and would conclude Peace Things must be fitly timed The Secrets of Kingdoms should not be divulged It is enough to have one Master in a House No King must usurp Authority over Religion only the Inspection No Bishop must usurp Authority over Kings but paternal Affection At twenty four Sessions the Business of the Peace was compleated and at length on Novem. 7. 1659. The Articles agreed on by the two Ministers were signed which having been published and the Issue of Affairs abundantly shew what they were One might have seen the most straight embraces of both Nations and tokens of Dearness upon account of the old Hatred after so many Inroads made on both sides burning of Towns so many Prisoners carried away so many Cities subdued and demolished so much blood-shed no Anger left In the height of publick Rejoycing each in their proper Language and Manner expressed their Joy the past Battels they accounted as Fictions The Cities of France and Spain shined with Splendour and Beauty So that they seemed truly Objects of pity who were not Subjects of the one Crown or the other The two Ministers after mutual Presents from the one of a rich Suit of Hangings from the other of a gallant Set of Horses depart out of the Island chosen by the Providence of God to clear the Sky and create a right understanding between Nations divided and of an insociable Temper of Spirit THE ELEVENTH BOOK Of THE History of FRANCE The CONTENTS The Contents of the former Book may be the Summary of this which contains nothing but all matter of joy excepting the Death of Mazarine that yet was constant couragious and agreeable to his Life THE Cardinal at Tholouse rendered the the King and Queen an account of the Peace concluded whereat they received much satisfaction From hence the Court made a Progress into Provence till the King of Spain should come with his Daughter to compose the disorders at Marseilles which had broken out about the Priviledges of their Consuls The King the better to secure Peace at home and Reputation abroad was necessitated to build a Cittadel having a plausible occasion to preserve the equal liberties of the Community and especially to be a refuge for such as were of approved fidelity A mighty defence without distaste or charge of which Beringham is made Governour than whom no man in France had a more formal gravity having served two Princes with an even tenour of Prudence At Paris where all things are condemned the match was not believed scarcely the Peace that there were Castilian deceits in the bottom and Mazarine over-reached not so much the Common People in the streets and at clubs as many of the Noblemen did whisper Conde having survived so many Battels being certified of the State of Affairs after he had courteously saluted his Souldiers according to their standing or office spoke to them much after this sort It is the seventh year Fellow-Souldiers since having been tossed by hard Fates after the extreamest instances of Barbarous usage being

Cities had at length effected it that the French Arms were masters in all parts there The Infant King of Savoy is by our consent restored with his Mother to Turin out of which she had been long exiled Whatsoever the Dukes of Savoy do they reign but by permission being invested on this side by the French on that by the Spaniard It is the question to which side they should render their service yet had they better to the French since the Country of Savoy and Piemont almost lies within his Empire and he being the chief King who presently posts thither in person and not by Vice-Roys The account of the Dutchy of Millan is different that Power is less to be feared because less and managed by Deputies It was then judged convenient to carry up War not far from Rome not for the avenging of the Barberines as the common people thought nor for enlarging our Bounds but for the affrighting Innocent who had come surreptitiously into the Papacy against Mazarines will Therefore Thomaso with the French Army comes before Orvitello All things at the beginning prove lucky but the end sell out dishonourable for the Siege was raised Carlo Gatta making a stout defence Our Fleet under Breze their Admiral having happily scoured the Seas came thither to countenance the proceedings of Thomaso but Breze having the thred of his life cut off by a shot dies one of the two eyes of Richlien's Family being thus put out It is strange that the King being of an age unfit for the War and the discord of the Princes growing stronger Mazarine could of himself assume so much authority as that soon after he sent thithera new Army under the Command of Meilleray who obliged Piombino and Porto-Longone in the Island of Helbe to a Surrender within few days The Issand of Helbe is celebrated by the Ancients for having Mines of Lead Tin and Vitriol but especially producing Iron famous for its Spring which rates the measure of the days with its water being dry at the Winter Solstice and overflowing at Midsummer Catalaunia is a Principality in the hither Spain heretofore annexed to the Kingdom of Arragon that too following the Planet which then reigned but off its yoke and upon certain Conditions subjected it self to our King In the very times of Richlieu's the Mareschal la Motte was sent thither to be the first Governor of that Province many brave Services were done by him not only the whole Catalaunia having been subdued to us excepting Larida the bastle of Harcourt and Conde but also in having entred the Kingdom of Arragon by the seizing of Flix La Motte complaining that he was with too much difficulty supplied and thereupon could hardly hold out against the Castillian Assaults when our condition there began to decline was revoked being come to Lyons was secured in the Roche-Taillée which is a Castle there and afterwards upon occasion of the Civil disorders enlarged Harcourt substituted in his room lays a close Siege to Lerida and when the King of Spain approached the Borders of Catalaunia in Person attended by the Grandees of his Kingdoms the Siege was raised which disgraced Harcourt after so many glorious Actions Such is the Fate of Sieges that none are certain of the event So Alexander the Great hazarded his Fame before Tyre So Charles the Fifth at Metz received an utter rebuke So Soliman the Magnificent raised the Siege of Vienna not without a blot upon his Name The French Court accustomed to Victories and Triumphs ill resented the rebuke of Harcourt and to refund the disgrace upon the Spaniards deputed Conde his Successor as thinking he must conquer all by his bare Name Conde had the same luck as Harcourt He attempted Lerida and being obliged to withdraw then first took out the lesson of being Vincible Yet he gloriously chased away the Spaniards from the Siege of Constantine this is the only piece of Service that he performed in Catalaunia The King of Spain was in the neighbouring parts reclaiming the Rebels by promises and fair words and some by terrour Amidst all this Joseph Margaret who having been the Author of the defection did the French gallant Service was the only peremptory Refuser of returning to his Allegiance What was the mans fortune afterwards I shall elsewhere in short touch upon Envy it self cannot deny but that he was a stout and couragious man Flanders having been left by Orleans and Conde Gassion did readily command all that Tract having for the most part his Head-quarters at Courtray almost always prosperous in his Attempts Vanquished by the impetuousness of his Courage he would very often fling off the bridle of Reason but being puffed up with a happy multitude of successes thought nothing too hard for him to venture upon As he besiegeth Lentz and goeth to set a Palisado stuck loosly into the ground more fast his head was batter'd with a Canon bullet and not long after he died He was born in Bearn of no mean parentage having left France he went into Germany upon the fame of Gustavus and amongst his Voluntiers having served to the death of that great King not without Honour under the Conduct of Weymar returned home to us where he was taken into imployment first by Richlieu then by Mazarine he left no means unassay'd to advance his Fame Of a noble heart but unanswerable fortunes which yet he did openly aver honest men never want being himself remarkable for ancient indigence He ennobled his new-raised Dignity with making great enemies owning all the steps of his fortune to himself Towards the later end of his life he grew to be disgusted by the Court. Taxed of Cromwellism as though he had thoughts of passing into England and offering his Service to that Tyrant Some said to the Hollanders At last he died of his wound Perhaps it is better to die once in the atchieving of honourable Enterprises than to live longer at the mercy of others loaded with injuries About that time the Venetian Republick opprest by the Great Turk in vain implored the succours of Christian Princes This was the occasion of the War A Knight of Malta met a Galley of Rhodes in the Archipelago and made Prize of it In this there was a Sultaness who being carried off to Malta was original of these mischiefs The Musulman stormed complaining to our Ambassadors of the Affront received as though the Order of Malta were at our controul But his especial Complaint was to the Venetian Ambassador because the Venetian Gallies had not relieved his when it was in extremity He debates about invading Malta and when the difficulty of the Enterprise was suggested he thought of Sicily then of Calabria at length the fury of his vengeance flamed out upon poor Candy That Island heretofore called Creet was reduced by Metellus into a Province afterwards obeyed the Greek Emperors then the Saracens at last coming to be in the possession of Baldwin Count of Flanders and Emperor of Constantinople

him And they were most instrumental in his Return who were supposed to have compassed the necessity of his Departure Manifestly none was expulsed with greater obloquy nor received with more joy Nor was the Cardi●al more glorious for his Triumphs and Honours than either for his Banishment or the cause of it When he was coming Feb. 3. 1653. his Majesty with Monsieur and all the Grandees of the Court went to meet him two miles off the City through the Port of S. Denis What Embraces and Joys there were that innumerable multitude of men can witness whom the greatness of the Sight had invited to gaze on the Wonder of the World That he against whom so many capital Ordinances so many Armies levied the Town so often alarm'd had raged and roared should make his Entry into the same City with the general Applause of it and have his Return adorned with unusual Pomp. The King took him along with him into his Coach and carried him to the Louvre To the end of his life he with his Nieces kept in no other House than the Palace Which Honour no Favourite ever before was vouchsafed The News of his Coming was entertained by publick Expressions of Joy in most Houses The Windows set with Candles and Bonfires made which the Common-people would do without Order although it be against Law to make such fires unless by Command from the King when publick Joy is enjoyned upon the having got Victories or other happy Occasions Not long after he is entertained in the Town-house by the Magistrate and Eschevins and all the Officers with so great Magnificence and such sumptuous Feasting that the like was hardly ever seen He keeping the command of his Face but admitting approaches to his Person and Hand smiled familiarly upon every one and threw money among the Common-people After a welcoming with such Joy Mazarine more pleasing for Novelty is preferred before old Friends and all bitterness of distasts being forgotten is re-admitted into his former Charge and wheels cleverly about from hatred to favour When there was any matter of Punishment or Restraint the King puts others upon it whatsoever Rewards or Preferments were to be bestowed he reserved that to pass the Cardinal who being before all things concerned for the Treasury vacant by the death of Vieville put in Abel Servient and Nicolus Fouquet to be Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury Servient besides the Lustre of his Birth and gentile Qualities had abilities proportioned to vast business of an inventive Head Maintainer of unlimited Prerogative able in Tongue and Pen had pierced into the Intrigues of Courts but so scandalously deficient in comprehended the Secret of the Treasury that by what employment others grow rich he run in debt He died in the Office honourably having empaired his estate Fouquet under a neglected Garb shrowding a vast Spirit not unmindful of his Friends but of his Enemies at Lucullus like charges mastered Nature and oblidged a most disadvantagious Scituation to relent into a delicious Seat without wrong to any but himself and the Kings Treasure Such a choice of Mazarine to the management of the Treasury did not scape censure in a City which spares no body Then was that famous word of the Chancellours given abroad Whatever I shall do said he My Election will still be defective Some through profuce Riot will lavish out the Royal Wealth Others in a penurious way will worse discontent the Kingdom Neither will duly hold up their authority therefore they shall not hold it long transported with Luxury or Pride worse than Luxury that publick mony is like Rivers which run from the Sea and to the Sea having refreshed Countries and Cities His principal care was over Guyenne which if it were torn from Conde the Princes authority would be deminished with the Spaniard and the reputation of his power by which Warrs are supported That charge is committed to Vandism the Admiral A Fleet was necessary principally because of the Spaniards drawing down and preparing Succours C●ndale was joyned with him for his Interest in the ●avourers in the house of Espernon and to retreve their affections for he was of a sweet disposition and had disobliged none But d' Strade was Commander in chief who since the repentance and return of D'ognon to his allegiance was Governour of Brouage and Rochel A man experienced in diversities of Affairs discreet in ordering Peace or War who always carried on the force of Arms with a concurrence of reason and to whose only care Guyenne is engaged for her quit Such character did Mazarine give d'Estrade who presently takes in Bourg chasing out Osorio and the Spanish Garrison Bourdeaux was not of one judgment It made for the Interest of some to have the war eternal These bragged of great Assistances from Spain and England The more discreet persons detested that and cried out after Peace a sweet word which none but Beasts disesteem Conti just entring upon Youth did moderate in the City torn between two Factions and in an age that might have pleaded an excuse from engaging in such Affairs acted what might have become gray-hairs He considers in his mind all events morally possible and concludes that there is no means of deliverance but in submission to the King yet that too must not be over-hastily sought That by too forward a suing for pardon Grace is forestalled Marsin L●net and aferwards Fiesque coming over from Spain Officers in Condes Army were the Incendiaries of the war of Guyenne nor was it any than● to them that it had not been perpetuated havin● their whole fortunes laid in the publick misery These too began to perceive that Peace was likely to ensue and Conti's inclination towards it I am fully informed that there were councels held about surprising him which being afterwards discover'd came to nothing In the mean while the Royal Army distresses poor Bourdeaux Provisions growing scant the common people murmur'd against the better sort The Etmers let the Hospitals loose in the Town and cry out against the slackness of the Spanish supply the Townsmen put on White and Red Favours the colonrs of this and that Party a White Flag is set upon St. Michaels Steeple and the Red one taken down the first token of their returning to their Allegiance to the King And at length that prevail'd people always returning to their Duty which strengthens by time the suppresser of Rebellion The Friends of Candale and those that were affected to the Royal Party went so often forward and backward till that a Cessation of Arms was obtain'd for a few days Provision was sent in by the Generals permission to relieve the poor Townsmen This course was discreetly taken in order to Peace which is concluded with a perfect Oblivion of the past Rebellion all honest and wise men forwarding the work amongst whom Virlada was most eminent for his Zeal Judgment and Industry Between the Cessation of Arms and conclusion of the Peace arrives at the mouth