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A79464	A relation of the life of Christina Queen of Svveden: with her resignation of the crown, voyage to Bruxels, and journey to Rome. Whereunto is added, her Genius. / Translated out of French, by I.H.; Briève relation de la vie de Christine reyne de Suède. English	Chevreau, Urbain, 1613-1701,; Saint-Maurice, Mr,; Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701,; Howell, John, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing C3803; Thomason E870_9; ESTC R200881	27,298	46

its professors and persons well educated One of my friends who upon his admission into her Service was us'd to entertain her both often and long observing that her minde was delighted with such kinde of tales did abundantly furnish her with them yet because there were some of his narrations which did somtimes require more modest expressions then the genuine or natural chiefly before a Royal Majestie and in a maids presence as she saw him going about his circumlocutions and seeking civil terms she would boldly speak out the words though they were never so filthy many of which he hath specified to me which modestie forbids me to write here Judge of her Religion by her ranging up and down the world without a Minister preferring her health for whose preservation she hath a Physician to her souls salvation for which those Ministers are instruments appointed by God She made a shew to retain one who did wait on her as far as Halmstat upon the frontiers of Denmark where she did dismiss him Another was offered her at Hamburgh whom she made a shew to accept though the event declar'd she had no minde to him And indeed such persons had been but as thorns in her feet for having a designe to profess Popery the Ministers of the Gospel were no fit attendants on her 'T is evident that long before she took no delight in all their Functions for as many persons can testifie as well as I she had at Church so little Religion and Zeal that her countenance shew'd enough what spirit possess'd her She us'd to sit in a Chair of Purple Velvet and lean her head and arms on another questionless building after the Proverb fine Castles in the air and if the Minister through his zeal to his Charge or for the merit of his Theme or Subject did preach and pray a little too long for the devotion of the Queen and all such luke-warm souls her custom was to recreate her weary attention if yet she had any at all in playing with two little Spaniels which are always with her or pratling with some of her creatures if any was then neer I have sometimes seen her make such a noise with her Fan on her Chair that if the Priest had had respect and complaisance enough to give somthing to her humour he had taken those signes of impatience as silent commands to make a quick end but he was no whit the shorter either because he kept his old custom or that he would break or bend her impatient disposition and use her to more pietie attention modestie in the celebration of Divine Mysteries and so in the sweet exercise of Christian Religion which yet could take no effect on her Mind so strong and lasting are Bourdelot's impressions on her and so deep all the roots which the seed of Impiety and Dissolution he sow'd in her heart hath taken there that no amendment can be expected from her That inconstant Humor has continu'd with her even in strange Countries namely at Hamburgh where we saw her at Church hearing the Word of God with so little reverence attention so much impatience that thereby many men who went to see her through curiosity were confirm'd in the ill Opinion they had before conceiv'd of her by divers Reports made of her before her Arrival Even some of her Swedish Priests having Observ'd so little Zeal in their Princess told me before my departure out of that cold Country That they fear'd very much she would fondly embrace the Superstitions of Papists since she slighted so visibly the Religion she was bred in and lov'd not the other which is known by the name of the Reformed Churches having frequently said She had rather become a Papist than of the Reform'd Religion meaning by this those of Geneva's Confession from whom she had a mighty Aversion either because she was not well inform'd of her Doctrine and Purity or that the Lutheran in which she has been bred comes somwhat neerer the Roman chiefly in Ceremonies But it is enough of her Religion which is now lost if ever she had sincerely any let 's a little Examine her Carriage in her Wandrings or Voyages It was thought convenient That after she had waited on the Queen her Mother whose ordinary abode is at Niukupin she should go to Oeland which is a very pleasant Isle that she had reserv'd for her self and did before belong to his Royal Highness who doth now Reign over the Sweds a Nation though glorious yet too little for his Merits and aspiring Valour Thence she was to pass by Sea into Pomerania to see the Lands and Goods which were Assign'd for her Appannage or Provision by her own Agreement The King gave Order that Seven Great Ships should be prepar'd for her Transportation under the Command of Marshal Wrangle and that the Governor of Oeland should have in readiness whatsoever was fit to entertain her Royally as it became his and her Majesty But having made a shew to go thither yea being gone that way a whole day she did resolve to go by Land and to cross all Denmark which she did habited like a Cavalier with a red Scarf after the Spanish mode and thus entred Hamburgh incognito and went to Lodge in the House of a Jew a Physitian by Profession slighting that which the Magistrates had designed for her That Action much amaz'd both the Senate whose Honourable Reception and Entertainment she refus'd and the Priests of the Town who enflam'd with the Zeal of God's House could not forbear to speak in Publick against her for her Ridiculous and Scandalous Choice of the House of a man who is by Profession a sworn Enemy of Iesus Christ Yet this Meting for all that appeared to be somwhat too hard and the wiser sort thought That somthing should have been allowed to the condition of a Queen and that Excuses should be made for her But she replied for her self That Jesus Christ had all his life-time conversed with the Jews That himself was come of their Seed and that he had preferred their Company to the Company of all other Nations Now judge ye your selves of this Answer When she went out of Hamburgh it was at an unseasonable hour to wit at 4 or 5 a Clock in the Morning at the out-going of a Feast whereat the Land-grave of Hesse had Royally entertain'd her without taking her leave either of the Senate or of the Magistrates whereat every one was extremely surprised In her Train she being Fifth or Sixth her self followed on her Voyage towards the United Provinces without being accompanied with any Woman or Maid-servant having left her two Hollands-Women that had served her a long enough time and which she had brought from Sweden with her at Hamburgh without giving them any Recompence as she had likewise done to her Foot-men and Coach-men committing her self wholly to the guidance of Seigneur Esteenberg of whom she made choice above all in her Court as of the