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A54323	The history of Henry IV. surnamed the Great, King of France and Navarre Written originally in French, by the Bishop of Rodez, once tutor to his now most Christian Majesty; and made English by J. D.; Histoire du roy Henry le Grand. English.	Péréfixe de Beaumont, Hardouin de, b. 1605.; Davies, John, 1625-1693, attributed name.; Dauncey, John, fl. 1663, attributed name.	1663 (1663)	Wing P1465BA; ESTC R203134	231,946	417

the Spaniard in Italy But the King was too wise to be gulled by gilded shadows he answered That he had no ambition to conquer the Estate of another but onely to recover his own That he would not speak of this Affair to the Duke but that they ought refer that to their Council In effect they named some persons who conferred together but those of the King insisting dayly on its restitution and the Duke endeavouring to free it to himself nothing was concluded Yet though all hopes were wanting to the Duke of obtaining any thing he lost not at all his Courage but trusted to the secret intelligences he had renewed with some great ones of the Court and particularly with the Duke of Byron Many believe that he began now to debauch him and that to this effect he served himself of one named Laffin a Gentleman of Bourgongne of the house of Beauvais la Nocle but the most pernicious and most trayterous Fellow that could be found in France he making a Trade of carrying Tales from one to another The King knew him well and often seeing him very familiar with Byron he had the goodness to tell the Marshall more then once Let not that man approach you he is a plague be will ruine you The Duke knew that Byron loved the King because he had raised him to the greatest Dignities of his Realm and that the Prince likewise honoured him with his Good-will It was therefore necessary to make him loose this affection to render him capable of any evil designe Byron was without doubt brave and valiant to the utmost but so puft up with his Gallantry that he could not suffer any person to equal him After the peace of Vervin not having any thing more to do he continually boasted of his great Actions according to his own words he had done all and he intoxicated himself in such manner with his own praise that he raised his own Valour above the Kings He believed that he ought him his Crown that he could refuse him nothing and that he should govern him absolutely These Bravadoe's pleased not the King he was troubled that his Subject should think that he equalled him in Valour but much more that he should have the presumption to hope to govern him who had ten times more brains and good judgement then the Marshal It is certainly a noble Ambition and not onely well placed but absolutely necessary for a King to believe none of his Subjects more worthy then himself When he hath not this good opinion of himself he lets himself be governed by him whom he believes a more able man then himself and by this means soon falls into Captivity therefore though he may be deceived he ought still to esteem himself the most capable person to govern in his whole Realm I may say rather that he cannot deceive himself in this because there is no person more proper then himself however ignorant he be to rule his Estate God having destined this Function to him and not to others and the people being always disposed to receive Commands when they come out of a sacred Mouth Henry the Great had therefore taken some disgust against the Marshal of Byron by reason of his vanity so that the Duke of Savoy praising one day the Noble Actions and great Services of Byron both Father and Son the King answered That it was true they had served him well but that he had taken great pains to moderate the drunkenness of the Father and the violent passions of the Son The Duke remembred these words and caused them to be carried by Laffin to Byron who touched in his most sensible part was transported to a thousand extravagancies and having lost all respect lost likewise that affection he had left for the King It hath been suspected that he at present abandoned himself to all manner of wicked designes and that he promised to enter into a League which the Savoyard was to make with the King of Spain on condition that he gave him his Daughter in marriage and assisted him to make himself Duke of Bourgongne After that the Duke of Savoy had remained more then two moneths in the Court of France shewing as the Proverb says A merry Countenance at an ill game and shadowing his discontent with an apparent joy but not knowing how to return without shame nor how to stay longer without any fruit The King who would not give him subject to say that he had treated him with the utmost rigour gave him to understand that if the Marquisate was so commodious to him and that he could not restore it without a notable inconveniency he would be content to take la Bresse in exchange This Condition seemed no less hard to the Duke then that of the restitution of the Marquisate however that he might have some pretext to retire with honour he seemed not averse to it and there were some Articles drawn up which he professed were not disagreeable to him But he demanded time to consider of the Alternative of the Restitution or Change and to take advice of the Grandees of his Estate on so important a thing There were granted him to this purpose three entire moneths which was to the end of February in the year sixteen hundred A little after he took leave of the King who conducted him to Pont de Charenton and gave order to the Baron of Lux and to Praslin to accompany him to the Frontier He returned by Champagne and Bourgongne from which he entred la Bresse and went to the Bourg They had great joy to see him arrived because they feared lest he should be arrested in France Indeed some there were would have counselled the King to have kept him till such time as he should restore the Marquisate but the King much offended at this Proposition answered in anger That they studied to dishonour him but that he should chuse rather to loose his Crown then to incur the least suspition of having falsified his Faith even to the greatest of his enemies The three moneths being expired and the Duke not having satisfied his promise the King was troubled and pressed him to resolve either on the one or the other interchange The Duke finds new delays but promises him dayly that he will satisfie him In the mean time he remonstrates to the Council of Spain the danger in which he was that the loss of the Marquisate would put him in such an estate that he should not have the power to serve the Spaniards that it would open a door to the French to go trouble Italy and that this tempest after having laid waste his Country would fall upon Milain The Council of Spain apprehended well the importance but acting very slowly were a long time before they resolved In fine the Count of Fuentes Governour of Milain had order but two moneths later then was necessary puissantly to assist

on Alexander de Medicis who was named the Cardinal of Florence He took the name of Leo xi but he died at the end of sixteen days so the business was to begin again The King would not that they should take pains in the choice of another and declared That France took no other interest then that an honest man should be chosen The Conclave in the end chose the Cardinal Bourghese who was named Paul 5. In the first years of his Papacy there was re-kindled a great difference which was begun under his Predecessours which had set on fire all the corners of Italy and possibly all Christendome if our Henry had not taken care to extinguish it I am about to tell the subject of it The Signory of Venice had formerly made an Ordinance or Decree which prohibited the Monks from purchasing Lands in their Dominions above the value of twenty thousand Duckats and enjoyning every one that had purchased above that value to remit it to the Signory who would re-imburse them the purchase and the improvements they had made on it And following the foot-steps of this ancient Decree they made another which forbad the founding or building of new Churches Convents and Monasteries without express permission of the Signory upon pain of banishment and confiscation of such Foundations and Buildings It was indeed part of the function and charge of Bishops to hinder this multiplication of Convents but either through negligence or too much facility they gave to all as much permission as they demanded insomuch that the Commonwealth seeing the default of the Prelates found themselves constrained to take notice of it otherwise it would soon have happened that all their Cities would have been nothing else but Convents and Churches and all their Revenues which ought to bear the charge of their Estate and serve for the nourishment of married people who furnish it with Souldiers Merchants and Labourers would have been expended onely in the maintenance of Nuns and Fryers The Senate therefore made another Decree which prohibited Ecclesiasticks from purchasing any immoveable Goods except by the permission of the Senate And at the same time it happened that an Abbot and a Cannon accused of very horrid Crimes committed in the Territories of the Signory were imprisoned by the Authority of the Secular Justice which passed for a strange attempt on the other side the Mountains where the Ecclesiasticks are not at all subject to Secular Justice Now Paul the fifth coming to the Pontificial Chair not able to pass by said he all these attempts of the Secular Estate on the Ecclesiasticks dispatched at the same time two Briefs to his Nuntio of Venice One containing the revocation of the Decrees made by the Signory touching the purchasing of temporal Estates and the other commanding the sending back the Abbot and the Canon to the Court of the Church The Nuntio signified these Briefs to the Signory who answered boldly That their Authority was born with them That no person but they had to do with it and That they should know how to maintain it against any would enterprize to oppose it Both the one and the other employed the best Pens of the time to defend their Rights and confute the Defences of their Adversaries There were spread abroad every where great quantities of Manifesto's and Treaties full of reasons of Right passages of holy Scripture Authorities of Fathers and Councils and Examples drawn from History In the mean time the Pope extremely offended at this answer thunders out an Excommunication against the Duke and the Senate if within four and twenty days they revoked not their Decrees and consigned the prisoners into the hands of the Nuntio The Signory was not at all moved at it but boldly declared the sentence of Excommunication Null and abusive nor was there any Ecclesiastick in their whole Territories who would attempt the publishing it or durst observe the Interdict or make Divine Service cease There were only the Capuchins and the Jesuites who resolved to depart and demand leave of the Signory They granted it to the Capuchins with liberty to return when they pleased and to the Jesuites with prohibitions of ever re-entring their Dominions Things being thus embroyled to the utmost between these two powers the Spaniards look't out with a sharp eye to make their profit of these divisions and underhand cast oyl into the fire though openly they made shew of extinguishing it For on the one side they encouraged the Venetians and heartned them up to maintain their rights and on the other they commanded their Governours of Naples and Milan to serve the holy Father with all their powers Henry the Great more sincere and more dis-interested embraced this occasion to establish his power in Italy in a more fair and just manner He assured the Pope that as the true Eldest Son of the Church he would always sustain its Interests and that in case of rupture he would go himself in person with an Army of forty thousand men but he intreated him that before it came to that he would grant that he should try all means possible for an accommodation He answered likewise to the Ambassador of Venice who demanded his assistance that he ought it to the holy Father in prejudice of all others And therefore he exhorted the Signory to give him content which that they might do without wounding their honour or rights he desired to be Mediator Both parties having accepted his Mediation he dispatched the Cardinal Joyeuse into Italy who to speak all in two words managed this Negotiation with so much Prudence that in the end he concluded an accord The Treaty contained four Principal Articles 1. That the Signory should consign the two prisoners into the hands of the Ambassador of France to remit them to his Holiness 2. That they should revoke the Manifesto and Declaration they had made against the Apostolick Censures 3. That they should re-establish all Ecclesiasticks in their goods 4. That the Pope should give them absolution and that in requital they should send to thank him by a Noble Embassy and assure him of their fili●l obedience On the morrow the Cardinal de Joyeuse coming to the place assigned by the Senate the doors being shut in the presence of the Duke and five and twenty Senators and the Ambassador of France revoked the Excommunication and gave Absolution to the Signory All these things passed without the Spaniards having the least participation though they endeavoured to make themselves of the Feast Thus had both parties some sort of contentment by the intermission of Henry the Great There was only the business of the Jesuites which for some months retarded the Treaty and which some thought would have quite broke it because the Pope considering that they were driven away for his sake absolutely resolved that the Signory should re-establish them in their houses and in their goods and they

of his Conversion and in the mean time they would continually keep him as it were besieged by those strangers forces In effect Elizabeth who had zeal for the Protestant religion interested her self very strongly in the cause of this King daily generously assisted him and strenuously sollicited the German Princes to co●cur with her At the same time the Hugonots pressed with all their force that he would grant them an Edict for the Free exercise of their Religion they pursued it so strongly that he was forced to accord it them and they sent it to the Parliament sitting at Tours but they could never obtain it to be confirmed by them but with these words by proviso only shewing themselves as much enemies to this false Religion as they were to the factions of the League During this time Pope Sixtus 5. died leaving in the Treasury of the Church Five Millions of gold which he had heaped up He was much disgusted at the League and stretched forth his armes as much as he could to our Henry to recal him into the Church whilst the League endeavoured to shut the gates against him that they might exclude him from his Royalty To Sixtus succeeded Urban 7. who held the Seat only thirteen daies and to that Urban Gregory the 14. who being of a violent spirit and a Spaniard by inclination zealously embraced the party of the League as we shall see hereafter I silently pass over divers enterprizes made both by one party and the other The Parisians made one upon St. Denis The Cavalier d' Aumale one of their Chiefs whom they called the Lion Rampant of the League was killed in the midst of the City when he had made himself almost master of it The King on his side made an other attempt upon Paris It was called the battail of the Flour because he was to surprize the City under pretext of a Convoy of Flour or Meal carried thither but it was discovered and obliged the Duke of Mayenne upon the vehement cries of the Sixteen to receive four thousand Spaniards into the Garrison which retarded for more then a year the reduction of Paris It is convenient to understand that neither the one nor the other party having any foundation to keep continually their Armies on foot they only as we may say made War by intervals When they had been three months together they retired and then re-assembled again and according as they were stronger or weaker made their enterprises The King having Rendezvouzed his besieged the City of Chartres where la Bourdaisiere commanded There was but a small Garrison within yet however the siege was long difficult and bloody It s length gave subject to the third party to continue many dangerous intrigues but the taking of that place repressed them for some time He restored the Government to Chiverni Chancellour of France who had had it before the League seized it After this the Duke of Mayenne who beheld himself in no very good Estate following the Counsel of the Duke of Parma renewed a Conference for peace which ending without doing any thing the Princes Lorrains and the Principal Chiefs of the League held a general Assembly at Reims It was resolved that they being altogether too weak to resist the King and wanting money it was absolutely necessary to unite themselves more firmely with Spain then they had formerly done and to this Effect they dispatched the President Janin to Philip the second This President was a man of a strong brain and a good French-man who laboured for the League and for the Duke of Mayenne but who would save the Estate by saving the Religion so that he well endeavoured to serve himself of the Spaniard but he would not serve them or procure their advancement Yet we cannot doubt but as he had his ends they had likewise theirs and that they designed to make good their expences laid out for the League on the Kingdom of France The Spaniard had for Aid and Second in his design the new Pope Gregory the 14. who yet went on more swiftly and with more heat then he for without having regard either to the Letters which Monsieur de Luxembourg after Duke of Piney writ to him on the part of the Princes and Catholick Lords which were in the Kings party or to the submissions and three humble Remonstrances made him by the Marquis of Pisany who was there at Rome deputed from them he strenuously embraced the party of the League entertained correspondence with the Sixteen receiving Letters from them and writing to them and which is more he prodigally wasted that treasure which Sixtus 5. had heaped up to raise an Army of twelve thousand men giving the Command to Count Hercules Sfondrato his Nephew whom he made expresly Duke of Montmarcian to authorize him the more by this new title He accompanied this Army with a Monitory or Bull of Excommunication against the Prelates which followed the King and sent it by Marcelin Landriano his Nuntio with great quantity of Silver to the Sixteen of Paris to be distributed among them and the Chiefs of the Cabals in the great Cities The Parliament at Tours having had advice of this Monitory caused it to be torn by the hand of the Common Scavenger and decreed an Arrest against the Nuntio That at Paris on the contrary annulled that Arrest as being said they by persons without power and commanded that the holy Father and his Nuntio should be obeyed After all these Bulls produced no great effect at present and the Cardinal of Bourbon tormented himself in vain to make the assembly of the Clergy which was held at Chartres declare against the Arrest at Tours Nor did the Army of the Pope do any great exploits but was almost quite dispersed ere it came to render any Service The same arrived not to those Troops the King had caused to be raised in Germany by the Viscount of Turenne They served the King well in his affairs and gained him notable advantages In recompence he honoured this Lord with the Staff of Marshal of France to render him the more capable to Espouse Charlotta de la Mark Dutchess of Bouillon and Sovereign Lady of Sedan who though a Hugonot had been puissantly sought to both by friendship and force by the Duke of Lorrain who desired to marry her to his Eldest Son the Marquis du Pont. The King made this Match to oppose a man to the Duke of Lorrain who helped to sustain the League Of which the new Marshal acquitted himself having among other fair exploits surprized Stenay the night preceding his Nuptials The King had another great Captain in the Daulphinate which was Lesdiguieres who held that Country having reduced the City of Grenoble and who saved Provence for him of which the Duke of Savoy thought to seize himself and dismember that piece from the Crown This Duke being Son-in-law to Philip the second King of

it to be opened in the presence of twenty six Physitians a●● Chirurgeons who found all parts so soun● ●hat in the course of Nature he might yet have lived thirty years His Entrails were the same hour sent to St. Denis and interr'd without any Ceremony The Fathers Jesuites demanded the heart and carried it to their Church de la Fleche where this great King had given them his house to build that fair Colledge at present seen The Corps embalmed in a sheet of Lead covered with a Coffin of Wood and a cloath of Gold over it was placed in the Kings Chamber under a Canopy with two Altars on each side on which Mass was said for eighteen days continuance Afterwards it was conducted to St. Denis where it was buried with the ordinary Ceremonies eight days after that of Henry the third his Predecessor For it is to be understood that the body of Henry the third remained till then in the Church of St. Cornille in Compeigne from whence the Duke of Espernon and Bellegarde great Esquire formerly his favourites brought it to St. Denis and caused his funerals to be celebrated Civility obliging that he should be buried before his Successor The Kings death was concealed from the City all the rest of that day and a good part of the morrow whilst the Queen disposed the Grandees and the Parliament to give her the Regency She obtained it without much difficulty having led the young King her Son to the Parliament and the Prince of Conde and the Count of Soissons who alone could have opposed it being absent The first was at Milan as we have said before and the second at his house at Blandy whither he was retired discontented some days before the Instalment of the Queen When the fame of this Tragical accident was spread through Paris and that they knew assuredly that the King whom they believed only wounded was dead that mixture of hope and fear which kept this great City in suspence broke forth on a suddain into extravagant cries and furious groans Some through grief became immoveable Statue-like others ran through the streets like mad men others embraced their friends without saying any thing but Oh what misfortune some shut themselves up in their houses others threw themselves upon the ground women were seen with their disheveled haire run about howling and lamenting Fathers told their Children What will become of you my Children you have lost your Father Those who had most apprehension of the time to come and who remembred the horrible calamities of the past Wars lamented the misfortune of France and said that that accursed blow which had pierced the heart of the King cut the throat of all true French-men It is reported that many were so lively touched that they died some upon the place and others a few days after In fine this seemed not to be mourning for the death of one man alone but for the one half of all men It might have been said that every one had lost his whole family all his goods and all his hopes by the death of this great King He died at the age of fifty seven years and five months the thirty eighth of his reign of Navarre and the one and twentieth of that of France He was married twice as we have said before First with Margaret of France by whom he had no children The second time with Mary of Medicis Margaret was Daughter to King Henry the second and Sister to the Kings Francis the second Charles the ninth and Henry the third from whom he was divorced by sentence of the Prelates deputed for that purpose from the Pope Mary of Medicis was Daughter to Francis and Niece to Ferdinand Dukes of Florence She had three Sons and three Daughters The Sons were all born at Fontain-bleau The first named Louis came into the world on the 27 September in the year 1601. at Eleven a Clock at night He was King after him and had the Surname of Just. The second was born on the 16 of April 1607. he had the title of Duke of Orleans but no name because he died before the Ceremony of his Baptism was celebrated in the year 1611. The third took birth on the 25 of April 1608. and was named John Baptista Gaston and had title Duke of Anjou but the second Son being dead that of Duke of Orleans was given him which he bore to his death which happened two years ago The eldest of the Daughters was born at Fontain-bleau the 22 of November 1602. she was the second child and was named Elizabeth or Isabella she was married to Philip the fourth King of Spain and died some years past She was a Princess of a great heart and had a spirit and brain above her Sex the Spaniards therefore said that she was truly Daughter to Henry the Great The second was born at the Louvre at Paris the 10. of February 1606. There was given to her the name of Christina and she Espoused Victor Amadeo then Prince of Piedmont and after Duke of Savoy a Prince of the greatest vertue and capacity in the world The third was born in the same place on the 25. of November being the Feast of St. Katherine in the year 1609. and had name Henrietta-Maria This is the present Queen-Mother of England widow of the unfortunate King Charles Stuart whom his Subjects cruelly despoiled of his Royalty and Life but heaven the protector of Soveraigns hath gloriously re-established his Son Charles the second Besides these six Legitimate children he had likewise eight Natural ones of four different Mistresses without counting those whom he did not own Of Gabriella d' Estrees Marchioness of Monceaux and Dutchess of Beaufort he had Caesar Duke of Vendosme who yet lives and was born in the month of June in the year 1594 Alexander great Prior of France who died prisoner of Estate and Henrietta married to Charles of Lorrain Duke of Elbeuf Of Henrietta de Balsac d' Entragues whom he made Marchioness of Verneuil he had Henry Bishop of Mets who yet lives and Gabriella who Espoused Bernard of Nogaret Duke of Valette at present Duke of Espernon by whom she had the Duke of Candale dead some time since and a Daughter at present a Religious Carmilite after which she died Of Jacqueline de Bueil to whom he gave the County of Moret was born Anthony Count of Moret who was killed in the Service of the Duke of Orleans in the Battail of Castlenaudary where the Duke of Montmorency was taken This was a young Prince whose Spirit and Courage promised much The Marquis of Vardes Espoused afterward this Jacqueline de Bueil Of Charlotta d' Essards to whom he gave the land of Romorantin came two Daughters Jane who is Abbesse of Fontevrault and Mary-Henrietta who was of Chelles He loved all his children Legitimate and Natural with a like affection but with different consideration He would