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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

of Duke William said likewise that it preferably appertained to him because it was concluded in the contract of the marriage of that Lady that in case an issue Male were wanting to the house of Juliers the Succession should return to him and his descendants Now that arriving it necessarily followed that the Succession was open to him The Duke of Nevers pretended likewise to the Dutchy of Cleves as he alone carrying the Name and Arms of Cleves and the Count of Maulevrier for the same reason demanded the County de la Mark for he was the Eldest de la Mark and in this quality he pretended likewise to the Dutchy of Bouillon and the Signory of Sedan which were held by the Viscount of Turenne Marshal de Bouillon The Emperour said that all the pretensions of those concurrents were ill founded for that those Lands being Fiefs Masculine could not fall to Daughters but in default of Males were devolved to the Empire and therefore he to have the disposal of them And upon this right he secretly gave the investiture to Leopold of Austria Bishop of Strasbourg and sent his forces to seize those lands under pretext of Right and in the mean time assigned the parties to appear before his Imperial Majesty to give in their reasons The pursuits of the Duke of Nevers and the Count of Maulevrier were not very hot because they were made understand that the Fiefs they demanded were united and could not be dismembred The Right of the Marquis of Brandenbourg and that of Newbourg being most apparent the greatest contestation was between them The Landgrave of Hesse their common friend became Mediator for them and made them pass a transaction to decide their difference friendly without imploying their forces except against Usurpers the administration of the Succession remaining equal and common amongst them saving the Rights of the Emperour But in the mean time Leopold of Austria arrives with his forces and seizes Juliers The two Princes resolved to drive him out sought assistance on all sides and particularly implored the Kings to whom they sent the Prince of Anhalt with the Letters of the Electors Palatine and of the Duke of Wirtenbourg who assured him that his Arms would be just powerful and by the grace of God victorious The Prince of Anhalt without doubt discoursed with him of many other things touching the great design The King gave his person a most gracious reception and received his propositions with an unparallel'd joy he answered him in terms as obliging as he could that he would march in person to the assistance of his good Allies and that till such time as he could mount on horseback with an Equipage befitting a King of France he would dayly make some Troops advance which he did about the end of the year 1609. But moreover he prayed him to let the Confederate Princes understand that they would do him great wrong if they thought that he intended any prejudice to the Catholick Religion in that Country for he desired above all things that the Exercise of it should be conserved in the same estate it was before the death of Duke William who was a Catholick but Brandenbourg and Newbourg were Protestants The Emperor likewise sent to him Ambassadors one of his chiefest Confidents intreating him not to favour the rebellion and injustice of these Princes and to consider that he could not assist them without doing wrong to the Catholick Religion Henry the Great answered him That being the thrice-Thrice-Christian King he should know well how to maintain and amplifie it but that he acted not to that intent that the question was onely about succouring his friends in which he should never be wanting so long as he had life During the whole Winter he gave order for all preparations for this Expedition which was onely the cover to a greater Being resolved to pursue himself the success he had deliberated before his departure from the Kingdome to establish so good an Order for the Government of it that no trouble could arrive For this effect he believed that the best way was to leave the Regency to the Queen but because he knew that she was governed by Conchini whom he did not at all love he would have her assisted by a Council composed of fifteen persons to wit the Cardinals of Joyeuse and du Peronne the Dukes of Mayenne Montmorency and Montbazon the Marshals of Brissac and de Fervaques Chasteau-Neauf who should have been Keeper of the Seals of the Regency for the King would take his Chancellour with him Achilles de Harlay first President of Parliament Nicholas first President of the Chamber of Accounts the Count of Chasteauvieux and the Lord of Lian-court two wise Gentlemen Pontcarre Counsellour of Parliament Gesvres Secretary of State and Maupeou Controuller of the Revenues Moreover he would establish a little Council of five persons in every one of the twelve Provinces of France to wit one person for the Clergy one for the Nobility one for Justice one for the Revenues and one for the Body of the Cities and these twelve little Councils should have correspondence with and dependence on the great one which should have taken its resolutions from the plurality of voices the Queen having onely hers Nor could it indeed take any but according to the general Instructions formed by the King or without his Majesties being informed of it if it were a thing which his Instructions did not clearly enough explain Thus though absent he kept the Reins of his Government and tied up the hands of the Queen for fear lest she should take too much Authority or have been induced to abuse her Command Whilst he applyed his spirit to these things some persons amongst others Conchini and his wife put it into the spirit of the Queen that she should to acquire more dignity and splendour in the eyes of the people and more advantagiously to authorize her Regency be installed and crowned before the departure of the King For the same Reasons that she desired it the King found it not agreeable to him besides that this Ceremony could not be made without a great deal of expence and without loosing much time which would keep him at Paris and retard his designes He had an extream impatience to depart from that City I know not what secret instinct pressed him to be gone as soon as possible but for this reason the Instalment troubled him yet he could not refuse this mark of his affection to the Queen who passionately desired it Sully recounts that he heard him say more then once My Friend this Instalment presages me some misfortune they will kill me I shall never depart from this City My Enemies have no other remedy but my death they have told me that I should be killed at the first great Magnificence that I make and that I should die in a Coach this makes me often times

and attended onely by one Page passing the Bridge went to give a visit to the King They entertained one another a long time in two or three Conferences in which our Henry gave great marks of his Capacity and Judgement Their Resolution in sum was to raise a puissant Army to assault Paris which was the principal head of the Hydra and gave motion to all the rest a thing easie for them to do because the King expected great Levies from towards the Switzers whither he had sent Sancy for that purpose adding that the designe of the siege being published it would infallibly draw a great number of Souldiers and Adventurers out of hopes of so rich a pillage The two Kings having passed two days together he of Navarre went to Chinon to cause the rest of his Troops to advance who hitherto had refused to mingle themselves among the Catholicks During his absence the Duke of Mayenne who had taken the Field fell upon the Suburbs of Tours thinking to surprize the City and the King within it by means of some intelligence The Combat was very bloody and the Dukes designe wanted little of taking effect but after the first endeavours having lost the hopes to compass it he easily retired Afterwards the Kings Troops being wonderfully increased they marched conjoyntly he and the King of Navarre towards Orleans took all the little places thereabouts and from thence descended into Beauce and drew together all of a suddain towards Paris All the Posts round about it as Poissy Estampes and Meulan were either forced or obtained Capitulation in which they desired no other security then the word of the King of Navarre to which they trusted more then to all the Writings of Hen. 3. So great a profession made he of keeping his word even to the prejudice of his interests Let us consider a little the different Estate to which these two Kings were reduced by their different conduct The One for having often broken his Faith was abandoned by his Subjects and his greatest Oaths found no belief amongst them and the Other for having always exactly kept it was followed even by his greatest Enemies in all occasions he gave marks of his Valour and Experience in point of War but above all of his Prudence and of those Noble Inclinations he had to good and to oblige all the world He was always seen in the most dangerous places to accelerate Labours animate his Souldiers sustain them in Sallies comfort the wounded and cause Money to be distributed amongst them He observed all inquired into all and would himself with the Marshal of the Camp order the Lodgings of his Souldiers He observed strictly what was done in the Army of Henry 3. where though he often found faults he concealed them out of fear to offend those who had committed them by discovering their ignorance and when he believed himself oblito take notice of them he did it with so much Circumspection that they could not finde any reason to take it in ill part He was never niggardly of giving praises due to Noble Actions nor of Caresses and generous Deport to those came near him he entertained himself with them when he had time to do it or at least so obliged them with some good word that they still went away satisfied He feared not at all to make himself familiar because he was assured that the more men knew him the more they would esteem him In fine the conduct of this Prince was such that there was no heart he gained not nor no friend he had who would not willingly have become his Martyr Paris was already besieged the King lodged at St. Clou and our Henry at Meudon keeping with his Troops all that is between Vanvres to the Bridge of Charenton Sancy was already arrived with his Levies of Suisses and they laboured with Orders to give a general Assault to the end they might gain the Suburbs beneath the River The Duke of Mayenne who was in the City with his Troops expecting those Supplies the Duke of Nemours was to bring was in great apprehensions that he should not be able to sustain the furious shock was preparing when a young Jacobin of the Convent of Paris named James Clement spurred on by a Resolution as devilish and detestable as it was determinate smote King Henry the third with a blow of a knife in the Belly of which he died the morrow after If the frantick Monk had not been slain upon the place by the Kings Guards many things might have been known which are now concealed Our Henry being advertized late in the Evening of this mournful Accident and of the danger in which the King was came to his Lodging accompanied onely by five and twenty or thirty Gentlemen and being arrived a little before he expired he fell on his knees to kiss his hands and received his last Embraces The King named him many times his Good Brother and Legitimate Successour recommended the Kingdome to him exhorted the Lords there present to acknowledge him and not to disunite In fine after having conjured him to embrace the Catholick Religion he gave up the Ghost leaving all his Army in an astonishment and confusion which cannot be expressed and all the Chiefs and Captains in Irresolutions and different Agitations according to their Humours Fancies or Interests The Second PART OF THE LIFE OF Henry the Great Containing what he did from the day he came to the Crown of France until the Peace which was made in the year 1598. by the Treaty at Vervin THE Death of Henry the third caused an entire change in the face of affairs Paris the League and the Duke of Mayenne were transported from a profound Sadness to a furious Joy and the Servants of the Defunct King from a Pregnant Hope to see him Revenged to an extreme Desolation This Prince who had been the object of the peoples hatred being now no more it seemed that that hatred should cease and by consequence the heat of the League relent but on the contrary not only all those who composed that faction but likewise many others who had held it for a Crime to League themselves against Henry the third their Catholick and Legitimate King believed themselves in Conscience Obliged to oppose themselves against our Henry at least till such time as he should return into the bosome of the true Church a qualification they believed absolutely necessary for that him should succeed Charlemagne of S. Lewis So that if the League lost that heat which hatred gave it it gained one much more specious from a zeal to Religion and had likewise a most plausible pretext not to lay down Arms till Henry should Profess the Religion of his Ancestors It was very difficult to judge whether the point of time wherein this unhappy Parricide arrived were good or ill for him for on one side it seemed that Providence had not drawn him from the

as in Bourdeaux and Rouen where it is suspected there is yet some of their Children who privately follow the obstinacy of their Fathers Much contrary to the taking the protection of these Infidels the King was about very great designes for the glory and extent of the Christian Religion towards the Levant But he would not declare himself till he had so ordered the Affairs of Christendome that there should be no fear of any trouble or division and that it might make use of all its forces against so powerful an enemy as the Grand Signor Out of these thoughts he had sent three or four Gentlemen into the Levant who under the pretext of travelling and visiting the holy places might take notice of the Country the disposition of the people the estate of their Forces the Garisons and Government of the Turks Which having well considered he promised himself that after having composed the interests and procured the union of the Christian Princes he might in three or four years at most ruine this power esteemed so terrible and that with an Army of five and thirty thousand foot-men and twelve thousand horse onely Alexander the Great not having had more Forces to destroy the Empire of the Persians which without doubt was greater and more powerful then that of the Turks I shall declare what his great designe for the re-union of Christendome was when I shall in brief have observed some important things which passed in the three or four last years of his Life As he laboured diligently to heap up money the Nerves of War so he hearkned to all Propositions made for the gaining it so much the more willingly because his designe was to abolish all Taxes and Impositions The first could not be done without much diminishing his Revenue so it was necessary to find some other foundation in its place Now this stock or foundation was the Demains of the Crown which he would entirely disengage encrease by a great quantity of new rights and particularly by that of the Greffes which had been quite withdrawn for five or six years but had brought him fifteen Millions a year But when he was dead Queen Mary de Medi●is re-engaged it f●rther then it was before It is certainly worth our wishing that this sacred Patrimony of the Crown might be regained and that care were taken to re-gather this Mass which the Law of the Realm and the diligences of so many wise Heads have made and composed for the space of so many Ages to maintain our Kings with splendour and magnificence without being a charge to their Kingdome except in great and urgent necessities As for the Impost our Henry had a desire to buy from the particular Owners all the Salt-Marishes of Poictou and Britanny and then when he had them in his hand sell the Salt upon the place at what price he pleased to the Merchant who should again retail it through the whole Kingdom as they do Corn without any constraint or imposition In this manner there had been no need of so many Officers Overseers Controulers Factors and a hundred other people which without fallacy amounted to near twenty thousand all fed and paid at the expence of the King and Publick and against whom he had often very great complaints Thus the poor Country-people would not be burthened by them with imposed Salt constraining them will they nill they to take yearly a certain quantity and it is certain the people would have had it four times better cheap then they have and the King have raised much more money then he doth without expence without pains and without the vexation of his subjects Now the King seeking means to fill his Coffers and to finde some other way then Taxes it must be acknowledged that he made some Imposts and likewise some creation of Officers but that he removed many things which gave cause of complaint to many persons And moreover to pay his ancient Debts and acquit himself of the recompences and pensions due to those which had served him in his Wars against the League he was constrained to pass for their profit the advice of several things which they proposed so that he loaded himself with that envy and those reproaches which ought more justly have fallen upon those people then on himself But those who knew his intentions blamed him not as did the others for they called that good husbandry and wise oeconomy which some termed avarice and insatiable covetousness Moreover though the will of this Prince was very good for the ease of his people and for the grandeur of his Estate nevertheless it cannot be denied but he was sometimes deceived in the choice of the means and that all those whereby he furnished himself were not always as innocent as his intentions He had two particularly of which the one made some noise but never succeeded and the other was of very dangerous consequence The first was an inquisition of the Rents of the Hostel de Ville by which he pretended to make those loose them who had ill gained them and this in it self was very just but most part of the Rents having changed Owners or been parted he must of force trouble an infinite number of Families so that all Paris was moved at it and the Landlords had recourse to their Provost of the Merchants This was Miron who was likewise Civil Lieutenant a man very zealous for the service of the King as he had demonstrated in several occasions but withal a very honest Man and one whom no interest in the world could bribe against the peoples whose Magistrate he was In sum he sustained it stoutly he spoke in the Assemblies of the Hostel de Ville acted with the Superintendent with like vigour and made Remonstrances to the King But in these Remonstrances too much heat transported him to make some odious Comparisons not of the Kings person but of some people of his Council The Louvre stormed the people of the Court cryed out that he had blasphemed those whom he had taken notice of in his speeches And those who were interested in this inquisition after Rents used all their endeavours to incense the King and to perswade him to punish rigorously this boldness On the other side the people having understood that their Magistrate was threatned took fire sooner then it was believed the Burgesses came in troops about his house to defend it Miron instantly entreated them to retire and not to make him Criminal He remonstrated to them that he feared nothing that they had to do with a King as sweet and just as he was great and wise and who would not let himself be carried away by the perswasions of ill Counsellors Upon this those who wished him ill employed all their endeavours to engage the King to take him by force and to make valid his supreme Authority but he wisely answered these people That

Secretary His punishment The Ambassadours Secretary arrested Several discourses concerning Ambassadours priviledges The King forbids any process against the Secretary The Ambassadour makes a great noise and threatens his Kings resentment Treason of the Luquisses A fool makes an attempt on the Kings person Those who desire war whet the Kings spirit upon these Conspiracies Character of Philip 3. of Spair A good profitable reflection In what the courage of a Soveraign principally consists The goodness of Henry the Great But the King hastens not the War He makes himself Arbitrator of the differences of Christendom 1606. After the death of Clement 8. he causes to be chosen Leo xi who soon dies and Paul 5. succeeds A great difference between Paul 5. and the Venetians The Venetians had made a law to bound the Acquisitions of the Clergy They make other Decrees Paul 5. offended at these Decrees He sends Briefs to revoke them He Excommunicates the Senate They declare his sentence of Excommunication null and abusive 1607. Henry the great undertakes to accommodate the difference He sends to this purpose Cardinal Joyeuse who concludes an accommodation The Pope absolves the Signory There was nothing but the reestablishment of the Jesuites not obtained 1608. The King endeavours an accommodation between the Hollander and Spaniard He underhand assists the Hollander with men and money Janin sent for this accommodation They come presently to an eight months truce The King makes an offensive and defensive League with the Hollander The Spaniards Alarm'd at this League Don Pedro de Toledo makes great complaints to the King Things very curious which passed betwixt the King and Don Pedro. Their entertainments Lively and quick replies Don Pedro kisses the Kings Sword Two obstacles in the Treaty of the Hollanders surmounted by the King The Treaty ends in a twelve years Truce Great praise given by the republick of Venice to our Henry All desire his friendship and protection He will not protect Subjects against their Soveraign What the Maurisques were The Spaniards treat them ill * An avanie is when by a false accusation money is forced from any person They demand assistance of Henry the Great He refuses it The King of Spain banisheth them all They are horribly ill Treated by the Spaniards and by the French They are carried into Affrica but some stay in France The great designe of Henry 4. for the extent of the Christian Religion in the Levant He sends some to spy the Country He seeks means to raise mony without burthening his people He would disengage his demain * The Greffes is a due to the King of 63 ● 9 d. Tours upon the sale of wood in several places and take off the Impost by buying the Salt-Marishes He is constrained to acquit himself of old scores to make some new imposts creations He makes not always use of innocent means Inquisition of the rents of the City-house cause disturbance * Hostel de Ville is the same at Paris as Guild-hall at London Miron Provost of the Merchants sustains the interest of the people Some would incense the King against him The people rise to defend him The King counselled to take him by force The Kings wise answer worthy a great Polititian He will not pursue this business of the Rents Establishment of the Paulete Justice formerly administred in France by Gentlemen How it fell into the hands of the Plebeians who made profit of it The Parliament of France meddle with particular affairs and is made sedentary at Paris They make all other Judges subalternate to them The number of the Officers of Parliament small How Offices became vendible under Francis 1. * He had often said that fat Boy would spoile all and Henry 2. How this might be remedied But on the contrary is made incurable by the Paulete Which causes great abuses 1609. Marriage of the Prince of Conde And of the Duke of Vendosme What were the Kings divertisements He loved Play too much He was extremely given to women This passion made him do shameful things Three or four of his Mistresses This causes often contentions with his wife And hinders his great design What that was The means with which he served himself to put it in Execution To this purpose he grants an Edict to the Hugonots and pays his debts Which regains the reputation and credit of France He joyns to him all Christian Princes by promising his conquests He reunites them by accommodating their differences The Princes he made his friends How he would have accommodated the Protestant Princes with the Pope He treats with the Electors With the Lords of Bohemia Hungary Poland With the Pope Model of the designe of Hen. 4. He would part Christendome into fifteen equal Dominions To wit eleven Kingdoms and four Republicks What the Pope had had The Signory of Venice The Italian Common-wealth Duke of Savoy Republick of the Swisses The Low-Countries Kingdome of Hungary The Empire with free election Bohemia Hungary elective A general Council of sixty persons Three others of each twenty Order to hinder tyranny and rebellion and to assist the Provinces adjoyning to Infidels Three general Captains two by Land and one by Sea to war against the Turks What forces what train None but the house of Austria had suffered by this establishment In Italy the Pope Venetians and Savoyard would consent In Germany many Electors and had chosen the Duke of Bavaria Emperour In Bohemia and Hungary the Lords and Nobility The business of Cleves happens to give a beginning to the great designe The Cities of Flanders should revolt The King● Army should have lived in great order The King would have reserved nothing of his Conquests He had with other Princes prayed the Emperour to rerestore the Cities of the Empire to liberty Bohemia Hungary Austria had made the same request The Duke of Savoy had demanded the Dower of his wife from the Spaniard The Pope and Venetians to become mediators of the difference of Navarre Naples Savoy c. And the King had yeilded his right They had perswaded the King of Spain or else forced him The great Prudence and moderation intended by the King in the pursuit of his design The preparations he made The forces he had The Prince of Oranges Army That of the Electors German Princes That of the Venetians and Savoyard His Exchequer for defraying this great designe He would make the War powerfully that it might be short Great appearance it might have succeeded having no Princes to oppose it but the Dukes of Saxony and Florence What was the business of Cleves and Juliers Death of John Duke of Juliers without issue His succession disputed by many particularly by Brandenbourg and Newbourg The Emperour said it was devolved to the Empire He invests Leopold of Austria who whilst Brandenbourg and Newbourg dispute seizes Juliers They implore the Kings assistance who promises to march in person But tells him he intended to conserve the Catholick Religion in that Country Answer made to the Ambassador of the Empire He establishes good order in the Kingdom before his departure Leaves the Regency to the Queen but gives her a good Council He establishes little Councils in the Provinces who refer to the great one 1610. Some put it into the spirit of the Queen that she should be installed before the Kings departure He though unwillingly consents The instalment of the Queen Many Prognosticks which seemed to presage the death of Henry 4. Advice from several places that his life should be attempted He seems to believe them and fear Who Ravaillac was He is induced to kill the King but it is not known by whom The King departs the Louvre to go to the Arsenal What persons were with him His Coach stopt in the street of the Ferronnerie Ravaillac killeth him He is torn with burning pincers and drawn in pieces by four horses The Kings body opened and found that he might yet live 30 years He is buried at St. Denis The Queen made Regent The great desolation in Paris when they knew of the Kings death His age and the time of of his reign His two wives Margaret and Mary He had three Sons by Mary and three Daughters He had eight Natural children of divers Mistresses Two Sons and a Daughter of Gabriella A Son and a Daughter of the Marchioness of Verneuil Of the Countess of Moret one Son Of Madam d' Essards two daughters He loved all his children and would have them call him Papa Summary recital of the Life of Henry the Great Parallel of his adversities and prosperities * There are more then fifty conspiracies against his person His adversities whet his spirit and courage Why Princes who come young to the Crown seldome learn to govern well Those who come to a Crown at greater distance and a more ripe age are more capable and better The reasons of it A mystick Crown to the glory of Henry the Great

steal a victory that ambuscadoes were not honest but onely during War and that it was necessary for his honour to take hee● that he did not in any manner contribute to that rupture the enemies had a design to make In fine the Spaniards having found that this wise Argus had too many eyes and too much vigilance to be surprized on any side resolved to employ their Arms in pious and honorable enterprizes A part of their Land-Army passed into Hungary which was at that present assaulted by the Turks The Duke of Merceur being gone to seek in that Country a juster glory then in the Civil-wars of France commanded the Emperours forces He made known to the Infidels by many gallant exploits particularly by the memorable retreat of Canise that the French valour was chosen by God to sustain the Christian Religion Nor was there any doubt made but that he would have quite chased them out of that Kingdom of which they had invaded more then one half if he had not died the year following of a burning Feavour which seized him at Nurembourg as he was about to go pay his devotions at the Shrine of the Lady of Loretto There arrived some time after an accident by which the King took occasion to let the Spaniards know that he could not suffer any thing against his honour nor against the dignity of his estate Rochepot was his Embassador in Spain Some Gentlemen of his train of which one was his Nephew washing in the River chanced to have a quarrel with some Spaniards and killing two saved themselves in the Ambassadors house The friends of the slain so much excited the people that they besieged the house and were ready to put fire to it The Magistrate to prevent the Tragick effects of this fury was constrained to do an injustice and to violate the freedom of the Ambassadors house for he seized by force and led the accused to prison The King of Spain being troubled that he had violated the right of Nations sent him to demand pardon of the Ambassador yet the French men still remained prisoners There were made many discourses and writings concerning the rights and priviledges of Ambassadors It is true said they that an Ambassador hath alone right of Soveraign Justice in his Palace but the people of his train are subject to the Justice of the estate in which they are for those faults they commit out of his Palace and so if they be taken out of it their Process may be made and though it be known that this rigour is not generally observed and that the respect born to the Ambassadors person extends to all those that follow him yet however this is a courtesie and not a right But notwithstanding it is not permitted to go seek the Criminal in the Palace of the Ambassador which is a sacred place and a certain Sanctuary for his people yet ought it not however to be abused or made a retreat for wicked persons nor give Sanctuary to the Subjects of a Prince against the Laws and Justice of his Realm for in such cases on complaint to his Master he is obliged to do reason Now the King being offended as he ought to be at the injury done to France in the person of his Ambassador and not judging the satisfaction the Magistrate had given him sufficient commands him immediately to return which he did without taking leave of the King of Spain He forbade likewise at the same time all Commerce with Spaniards and foreseeing that in these beginnings of the rupture they might enterprize somewhat on the Towns of Picardy he with great diligence departed from Paris to visit that Frontier and came to Calais The people who began to taste the sweetness of repose and to Till their lands with patience trembled for fear lest a new War should expose them once more to the License of the Souldiers But God had pity of these poor people The Pope becoming mediatour to remedy those mischiefs which threatned Christendom happily accommodated the difference The Spaniard remitted the Process and the Prisoners whom his Holiness consigned some days after into the hands of the Count of Bethune Ambassador for France at Rome and the King afterwards sent an Ambassador into Spain which was the Count of Barraut Whilst the King was at Calais whither as we have said he went the Arch-Duke who was before Ostend where he continued that Siege the most famous that ever was since that of Troy feared with some reason lest the Kings approach should retard the progress of his enterprize in which he had already lost so many men so much time spent so many Cannot shot so much money and such stores of Ammunition he sent therefore to complement him promising him on the part of Spain satisfaction for the violence done to the Lodgings of his Ambassador but intreating him that the besieged might not prevail themselves of this Conjuncture The King who never let himself be overcome by Courtesie no more then by Arms sent the Duke of Aiguillon eldest Son of the Duke of Mayenne to assure him that he desired to maintain the peace that he was not advanced on the Frontiers but to dissipate some designs which were contriving and that he hoped in the equity of the King of Spain which he doubted not would do him reason VVhilst he was at Calais Queen Elizabeth sent likewise to visit him by my Lord Edmonds her principal Confident For answer to which obliging civility he caused the Marshal of Byron to pass into England accompanied by the Count d' Auvergne and the choice of all the Nobility of the Court to represent to her the displeasure the King had finding himself so near her that he could not enjoy the sight of her This Queen endeavoured by all means possible to make known to the French her greatness and power One day holding Byron by the hand she shewed him a great number of heads planted on the Tower of London telling him that in that manner they punished Rebels in England and recounting to him the reasons she had to put to death the Earl of Essex whom she had once so tenderly loved Those who heard the discourse remembred it afterwards when they saw the Marshal Byron fallen into the same misfortune and lose his head after having lost the favour of his King VVe must not forget how that before the King made his voyage to Calais he had led the Queen with him to enjoy the Jubilee in the City of Orleans where the holy Father had ordained the Stations for France to begin His piety which was sincere and unfeigned gave a fair Example to his people who see him go to Processions with great devotion and pray to God with no less attention his heart agreeing with his lips He laid the first stone to the foundation of the Church of the holy Cross at Orleans which the Hugonots had miserably

Louvre and demanding his opinion of it The Escurial is much another thing said Don Pedro. I believe it replyed the King but has it a Paris about it like my Gallery One day Don Pedro seeing at the Louvre the Kings Sword in the hands of one of his followers advanced to it and putting one knee on the ground kissed it rendring this honour said he to the most glorious Sword in Christendom During the truce of eight months of which we have spoken the President Janin incessantly laboured for a Treaty There were two great difficulties one that the King of Spain would not treat with the United Provinces but as with Subjects and they would have him acknowledge them to be free and independent the other that the Prince of Orange whose power and authority would be extremely weakned by the Peace opposed it by a thousand Artifices being sustained in it by the Province of Zealand who ever desired War and by some Cities of its faction These two obstacles were in the end surmounted The Spaniard yeilded to the first and acknowledged that he owned the States for Free States Provinces and Countries and about the second the King spoke so high to the Prince of Orange that he durst not stop the course of the Treaty It ended no longer however in a Peace but onely in a Truce of twelve years which was free and assured Commerce on one part and on the other The renown of this accommodation carried the Kings glory throughout all Europe The Duke of Venice told our Ambassador in the Senate That that Signory entred into new admiration of the prudent conduct of our King who never deceived himself in his undertaking nor never gave blow in vain that he was the true upholder of the repose and felicity of Christendom and that it had nothing of happiness to desire but that he might reign for ever An Elogie so much the more worthy and glorious because we may say with truth that Venice hath still been the Seat of Politick wisdome and that the prayses which came from that Senate are as so many Oracles The Friendship and Protection of this great King was sought on all sides all was referred to his Arbitration and all implored his assistance And as he was equally powerful as wise feared as loved there was none who durst contradict his judgement or assault those whom he protected But he was so just that he would not enterprize any thing upon the Rights of another nor maintain the Rebellions of Subjects against their Soveraign A certain proof of which he gave to the Maurisques It is known how heretofore the Moores or Sarazins invaded all Spain towards the year 725. The Christians with the aid of the French had regained it from them by little and little so that there remained no more then the Kingdom of Granada which was little in Extent but very rich and extremely populous because all the remnants of that infidel Nation were retired into that little space Ferdinand King of Arragon and Isabella Queen of Castile finished the Conquest of that Kingdom in the year 1492. and so put an end to the Government of the Moores and to the Mahumetan Religion in Spain constraining the Infidels to take Baptism or to retire into Affrica Now as those who had thus professed the Christian Religion had done it perforce they for the most part remained Mahumetans in their hearts or Jews for there were many Jews amongst them and secretly brought up their children in their incredulity To which likewise the Spanish Rigor did much contribute putting great distinction between the new Christians and the old For they received not the new ones either to Charges or Sacred Orders they allied not themselves with them and which is worse made a thousand avanies upon them and oppressed them with excessive ●mposts So that these unfortunate people seeing themselves thus trampled on and being too weak of themselves to loosen themselves from their Yoak they resolved to address themselves to some strange power but which should be Christian because that of the King of Morrocco or the other Princes of Affrica would have appeared too odious To this effect they had secret recourse by Deputies to our Henry when he was then but King of Navarre Afterwards in the year 1595. when they saw that he had overcome the League and had got the upper hand in his affairs they again implored his Protection He hearkned favourably to their propositions sent disguised Agents into Spain to see the Estate of their affairs and made them hope that he would assist them And truly he might have done it since then he was in War with the King of Spain and it is lawful to make use of all sorts of Arms to defend our selves against our enemies But now being returned this year 1608. to sollicite him instantly to accept their propositions and offers and to hear the answer from his own mouth he plainly let them know that the quality of thrice-Christian King which he bore permitted him not to undertake their defence so long as the peace of Vervin lasted but that if the Spaniard should first openly infringe it he should have just cause to receive them into his Protection Their Deputies having lost all hopes on this side addressed themselves to the King of England whom they found yet less disposed then he to lend them assistance In the mean time their plots having taken wind in the Court of Spain caused both fear and astonishment for they were near a million of souls and were possessed of almost all the Traffick particularly that of Oiles which is very great in that Country King Philip the third found no other secure way to hinder the dangerous effects of their conspiracies but banishing them quite out of his Territories which he did by an Edict of the tenth of January in the year 1610. which was executed with much cruelty Inhumanity and Treachery For in Transporting these unfortunate people into Affrica as they had demanded part were drowned in the Sea others despoiled of all they had so that those who remained to depart perceiving the ill Treatment of their Companions fled towards France one part by land to St. John de Lus to the number of one hundred and fifty thousand others in French Vessels who brought them into divers ports of the Kingdom But to speak truth those who came by land were not much better treated by the French then the others had been by the Spaniards for in crossing the Countries they were almost all robbed and stript and their Wives and Daughters ravished so that finding so little safety in a Country wherein they believed they might find refuge they embarqued by the Kings permission in the Ports of Languedoc and crossed over into Affrica where they are become implacable and most cruel enemies to all Christians There remained some families in the Maritime Cities of the Kingdom