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A51922	The memorialls of Margaret de Valoys, first wife to Henry the fourth, King of France and Navarre compiled in French by her owne most delicate and royall hand : and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...; Memoires de la roine Margverite. English	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing M595; ESTC R15539	98,790	238

a great green where was a grove of high timber trees in an ovall form round about which my Mother had caused great Neeches to be made and in every Neech she had placed a round table for twelve persons the table only of their Majesties with the cloath of State advanced it self at the upper end of the hall and was mounted on foure steps of green turfes of earth All these tables were served by diverse troupes of Shepheards diversly apparelled with cloath or gold and Sattin according to the diverse habits of all the Provinces of France At the landing of the triumphant boats in which their Majesties wafting from Bayons to the I le were alwaies attended by the way with the Musick of man of the Sea-gods singing and rehearsing verses round about them these Shepheards were on the green troup by troup apart on both sides of a great Alley cast up on purpose for their Majesties to goe to the said Hall every troup playing and dancing according to the fashion of their Country The Poitevines with their Cornets they of Provence dancing lavalt●es with their Cimbals the Burgundians and Champagnians with the Bagpipes Treble viols and Tabers the Brittons dancing loftily with their fine nimble risings and as many turnings with it and so accordingly of all the other Provinces After the service of whom and the Banquet ended the Musitians were discovered with a great troupe of Satyres to enter the great luminous rock shining with artificiall light but sparkling more with the jewells and the beauties of the ladies that sate above who comming down did dance that most curious maske the glory of which the Envie of Fortune not able to endure came storming in with so great a Tempest that the confusion and wrack which among the boates that night had made brought the next morning as great a subject of laughter as the magnificent setting forth of the maske before had brought delight The like was to be seen in all the brave Entries that were made to expresse the Principall Cities of this Kingdom whose Provinces here represented they did visite In the Reigne of the mighty King Charles my Brother some few yeers after the return of the great voyage the Hugenots having begun again the war the King and Queen my Mother being at Paris a Gentleman of my Brothers of Anjou who hath been since King of France arrived to bring tidings from him that he had brought the Huguenots army to such an extreamity that he hoped in few dayes to force them to give him battell before which time hee did beseech them that he might have the honour to see them to the end that if Fortune envious of the glories which in so young an age he had obtained should in that desired expedition after having done good service to his King his Religion and the State conjoyne his funeralls with the triumph of his victories he might depart this world with lesse sorrow having satisfied them both in that charge which they had done him the honor to commit unto him If these words touched the heart of so good a mother who did not live but for her children only to preserve whose lives and estates she every houre abandoned her own you are able to judge Incontinently she resolved to depart with the King taking with her a small and usuall traine of Ladies as the Lady de R●is the Lady de Sauva and my selfe Being borne on the wings of desire and motherly affection she dispatched the way betwixt Paris and Tours in three daies which was not without some inconvenience and many Accidents worthy of laughter occasioned by the poor Mounsieur the Cardinall of Burbon who never did forsake her although he was neither of garbe of humour nor complexion for so great a Presence Arriving at Tours we found my Brother of Anjou with the chiefe Commanders and Captaines of his Army who were the flowers of the Princes and the Lords of France in the presence of whom he made an Oration to the King to give him an account of all the carriage of his charge since his departure from the Court composed with such art and eloquence and delivered with so much Grace that he caused admiration in all the standers by The greennesse of his youth did so much the more advance and make apparent the wisedome of his words that seemed more suitable with a gray beard with an old experienced Captaine than a young Gentleman of sixteen yeers of Age whose brow the Laurells of two Conquests had already crowned and Beauty which gives a greater grace to every Action did so flourish in him as if she were in emulation with Fortune which of them both should render him most glorious The joy which my Mother did receive hereat can no more by words be represented then could the Griefe of the father of Ipbigenia and in any other but her self whose soul was ever wedded to discretion one might easily have perceived the exilience which such an excesse of joy had made but she moderating her actions as well she could demonstrating apparently that the Discreet doe nothing which they would not doe without studdying to proclaime her joyes or stretch in words those prayses which the Actions of so accomplished and deere a childe did merit took only the chiefe points of his oration which concerned the actions of the warre to deliberate on them with the Princes and the Lords there present to take a thorough resolution for the war and to provide things necessary for it for the disposing whereof it was requisite to continue there some certaine daies in one of which the Queen my mother walking in the Parke with some of the Princes my Brother of Anjou in●reated me that we might walke aside into ●n Alley into which being come he thus spake to me Sister the education which we have had together doth no lesse obliege us unto love then the neernesse of our blood and you have understood that among all my brothers sisters I have ever had a greater inclination to wish well to you then unto any of them and I have well observed that your nature hath ever borne to me the same respects of love hitherto we have been guided to it by Nature not by counsell neither hath this Action brought us any profit but only the pleasure we have to converse together This indeed was agreeable to our Infancy but this houre requires that we no longer live like children you see the great and honorable charges to which God hath called me and to which the Queene our good Mother hath advanced me you ought to believe that you being the onely thing in the world whom I doe most affect and cherish I shall not be master of that greatnesse or fortune of which you shall not be partaker I know you have capacity and judgment to doe me good offices with the Queene my mother to preserve me in that Fortune wherein I stand my principall intention is to labour to retaine her favor

insisted on it very strongly but the Queen my Mother did intreate me that I would not give way unto it and assured me that I should receive of the King what I would demand on which I did request them that they would not comprehend me in the Articles and that whatsoever I had conferred on me I had rather receive it from the grace and bounty of the King and Queen my mother beleeving that it would be a course more beneficiall and as assured to me The peace concluded and assurance taken on the one side and on the other the Queen my mother preparing her selfe for her returne I received letters from the King my Husband by which I understood that he had a great desire to see me intreating me that as soone as I saw the peace concluded to sue for leave to come unto him I besought the Queen my mother who rejected my petition and by all means possible indeavored to divert me from it saying That when I received not her proposition to disanull our marriage after the massacre of S. Bartholomew she then commended my resolution because my husband was made a Catholick but now since he hath abandoned the Catholick Religion and is turned Huguenot she could not permit that I should goe unto him and seeing I daily renewed my petition she told me with teares in her eyes that if I returned not with her she should for ever loose her credit with the King adding that the King would beleeve that she had taken me with her for that intent and that she had made a solemn promise to him to bring me back she desired me to stay till my Brothers return which she said should be with speed and that suddainly after she would take order for my dispatch to the King my Husband Some few dayes after we returned to the King to Paris who by reason of the peace received us with great joy yet not well liking the advantageous conditions of the Huguenots and determining with himselfe as soon as he had got my Brother to Court to finde some new Invention to begin the war again and not let them joy in that to which to his grief he condiscended to withdraw my brother from them who stayed yet behind a moneth or two to give order for sending backe the Reisters and for the dismissing of his army He arrived not long after at Court with all the Catholick Nobilitie that assisted him the King received him with all honour seeming to have great joy to see him there and he made very much of Bussi also who came with him for Le Guast was lately dead being slaine by the judgement of God as he was in course of physick he had a body infected with all sort of villanies and subject to a corruption which a long time did possesse it as the Devills did his soule to whom he did homage by Magick and all sort of wickednesse this Brand of fire and division being taken from the world and the King having his thoughts bent only on the ruine of the Huguenots intended to make use of my Brother to command against them to render my brother and them unreconcileable and fearing also that to prevent it I would hasten to the King my husband he entertaind us both as well the one as the other with all the pleasures that the Court could yeeld to make our stay there more delightfull and seeing at the same time that Monsieur de Duras was sent from the King my husband to demand me and with so much importunity I urged to be gone that he no longer could denie me he told me shewing first it was the love he did beare unto me and then the knowledg what a Grace ornament I brought unto his Court which caused him so long to suspend my journey that he would now conduct me himself as far as Poictiers and returned Monsieur de Duras with that assurance Certaine daies after he stayed at Paris deferring and not openly refusing to give me leave to goe till he had all things in readinesse for the declaration of his designed warre against the Huguenots and by consequence against the King my Husband and to give a pretence unto it they caused a rumour to be spread that the Catholicks complained of the advantageous conditions to which they accorded with the Huguenots at the peace of Sens. This murmur and discontent of the Catholicks was blowne abroad that they came to League and unite themselves at Court from all the Cities and provinces of the Kingdome enrouling and signing themselves and making a great noise but privately with the Kings consent that they would choose Monsieur de Guise for Chiefe there was no other thing spoken of from Paris untill you come to Blois where the King had called the States together during the overture of whom the King called my Brother into his cabinet with the Queen my mother and some of the Lords of his counsell and presented there unto him of what importance for his Authoritie and estate was this league which the Catholicks had begun especially if they should come to make themselves heads and to choose those of the House of Guize that it concerned them understanding my brother and himself more then all the rest that the Catholicks had reason to complain and that his duty and conscience did oblige him to discontent the Huguenots rather then the Catholicks he intreated and conjured my Brother as an heire of France and a true Catholick that he would counsell and assist him in this affayre whereon the hazard of his Crowne and the Catholick Religion so much depended adding that it seemed to him to cut off all danger that this League might bring that he himself ought to make the chiefe and both to shew his zeal to his Religion and to debarre them from choosing any other to signe himself first as Chiefe and then to have my Brother signe and afterwards all the Princes Lords and Governours and whosoever had any charge or power in his Kingdome My Brother could not but offer that service which he owed to his Majestie and to the preservation of the Catholick Religion The King having taken assurance of my Brothers assistance which was the principall end to which the artifice of the League did tend did suddenly call all the Princes and Lords together and causing the roll of the said League to be brought unto him he first there signed himself as Chiefe and then my Brother and after him all the rest who had not yet signed The morning following they opened the Estates having taken advice of the three Lord Bishops of Lions of Ambrum and of Vienne who perswaded him that after the oath made at his consecration no oath made unto the Hereticks could be of power the said oath nullifying all other oathes and promises which he could make unto the Huguenots this being pronounced at the opening of the States and warre being proclaimed against the Huguenots the King sent back Genislac

who had been there to hasten my departure with rough and threatning language telling him that he gave his sister to a Catholick and not unto a Huguenot and if that the King my husband had a desire to have me he should turne Catholick againe all preparations for the warre were made there nothing else was spoken of at Court and to render my brother more unreconcileable with the Huguenots the King made him Chiefe of one of his Armies Genislac being come to tell me this sad farewell which the King had given him I repayred presently to the closet of the Queen my mother where I found the King and complained how he had abused me with delayes having alwayes hindered me from going to the King my husband and now dissembled to depart from Paris to conduct me to Poictiers to expresse an effect so contrary I represented to him that I was not married for pleasure or to satisfie my owne desires but that it was the desire of King Charles conjoyned with my mothers and his owne that since they had given me to him they could not hinder me from running my fortune with him that I would goe unto him and if they refused to give me leave I would steale away in what disguise and fashion that I could though with the hazard of my life The King answered 'T is not now a time my Sister to importune me for leave and I professe the truth which you have said that I have deferred your going for a while to denie it in the end for altogether for since the King of Navarre hath turned again to be a Huguenot I never thought it good that you should goe unto him that which we have done the Queen my mother and my self is for your safetie I will make warre against the Huguenots and root out that Religion which doth us so much mischief and there is not the least apparence of reason why you who are a Catholick and my sister should be in their hands as an hostage of me and who knows not but to procure unto me an irreparable losse they may revenge themselves on your life for the evill which I shall bring upon them no no you shall not goe and if you steale away as you say you will understand that you shall have me and the Queen your Mother for your cruell enemies and you shall feel our anger to the uttermost of our power and shall rather impayre then amend the condition of your husband I retired my self with great displeasure from that cruell sentence and taking the advice of the principall of my friends at Court they declared that it would ill become me to be resident in a Court so contrary to the king my husband and from whence so openly they made warre against him and counselled me as long as the warres continued to retire my selfe from Court and were it possible it were more honourable for me to finde some pretence to goe out of the kingdome under the colour of pilgrimage or to visite some of my kindred Madame de Roche-sur-yon was one of those whom I assembled to desire their counsell who was then upon her departure to goe to the waters of Spau My brother was also present and had brought Mondoucet with him who was Agent for the King in Flanders and being lately returned represented to the King with what griefe the Flemmings suffered the usurpation which the Spaniards made on the Lawes of France for the dominion and soveraignty of Flanders that many of the Lords and Commons of their cities had expresly commanded him to acquaint his Majestie how much they stood addicted to the French and that they would lend him all their helping hands Mondoucet seeing the King gave no eare to his advise having nothing in his head but the Huguenots who were now to feele the vengeance of his displeasure for assisting my brother against him talked no more unto him of it but addressed himself unto my Brother who having the true nature of a Prince loved onely to enterprise great and glorious things being borne rather to conquer then preserve he suddenly imbraced the enterprise which pleased him so much the more because he perceived nothing of injustice in it willing to regain that unto France which was usurped by the Spaniards Mondoucet for this cause became my Brothers servant who sent him back to Flanders under the colour of accompanying Madame the Princesse of Roche-sur-yon to the waters of Spau and he observing that during these warres every one sought a faire pretence to withdraw me from France whether it were into Savoy or into Lorrayne or to Saint Claudes or to our Lady of Loretto whispered these words into my brothers eare Sir if the Queen of Navarre could pretend any malady which the waters of Spau whither Madame the Princesse of Roche-sur-yon is now going might serve for cure this would fall out very fortunately for you my brother much commended his counsell and being very glad of the discovery of it suddenly cryed out My deer Queen study no more for you must goe to the waters of Spau whether Madame the Princesse is going I have sometimes heard you complain of a swelling in your arme you are to say that your Physitians did then prescribe it but the season was not fitting but now the time is seasonable and you must intreat the King to give you leave to goe My Brother declared not himself at that time wherefore he desired the journey because that Monsieur the Cardinall of Burbon was then in company whom he suspected for a Guisian and inclined to the Spanish faction For my selfe I understood it very well not doubting but it reflected on his enterprise for Flanders of the which Mondoucet had spoken to us both All the company were of this advise and Madame the Princesse of Roche-sur-yon who her selfe was going thither and who loved me intirely with great joy did apprehend and entertain this counsell and promised to goe with me to the Queen my mother to have her grant consent unto it On the morning following we found the Queene alone and I represented unto her what a displeasure it was unto me to see the King my husband in a warre against the King and to be thus removed and kept asunder from him that while this warre continued it were neither expedient nor honorable for me to stay at Court where if I still continued I could not avoide one of these two Evills either that the King my husband would conceive that I stayed at Court only for my owne pleasure and that I assisted him not as I ought to doe or that the King would entertaine an opinion that I sent daily advertisements to the King my husband that both the one and the other would procure unto me much affliction I besought her that she would be pleased to think well of it if for a while I estranged my self from Court to avoid all occasions of suspition that some time was passed since the Physitians prescribed

the like manner will I say that beyond that first rememberance of mine there is nothing to be discovered but a wilde of my first Infancy an Infancy wherein we live rather guided by Nature after the manner of plants and other creatures then of men perswaded and counsailed by reason and I will leave unto those who were the governours of my nonage that superfluous enquiry where peradventure among those actions of my Infancy there will be found some as worthy to be recorded as that of the Infancy of Themistocles and Alexander the one exposing himselfe in the middle of a Street to a Carters horses who would not stay himselfe at his intreaties the other despising the rewa●d of the Olympique Race if Kings might not contend with him for the honor or it Of which number may be the answer that I made the King my Father some few daies before the fatall blow that deprived France of peace and our house of happinesse Being then but foure or five yeers of age my Father holding me on his knee to hear me prattle demanded ●f me whom I would choose for my servant Monseiur the Prince of Joinville who hath been since the great and unfortunate Duke of Guise or the Marquis of Beaupreau the sonne of the Prince of Roche-sur-yon in whose spirit fortune having made too great a proofe of the excellency of it conspired with envy to become his deadly enemy depriving him by death in the fourteenth yeer of his age of the honours and the Crowns which were justly promised to the vertue and magnanimity that shined in him they were both at play with the King my Father and with a fixed eye I did behold them I made answer to my Father that I would have the Marquis wherefore so replied the King for said he he is not so handsome for the Prince of Joinville was of a ruddy colour and fair to look on and the Marquis of Beaupreau was of a brown complexion and haire I told him because he was the wiser and because the other would never live in peace but would be working mischiefe to one or other and one who ever would strive for masterdome a true presage of what we since have seen and the resistance which I made to persevere in my Religion at the time of the Colloquy at Poissy when all the Court was inclined to the new Religion by the imperious perswasions of many Lords and Ladies of the Court and especially of my Brother of Anjou since King of France whose Infancy could not avoide an Impression of that Religion who with incessant importunity did call upon me to change my Religion casting oftentimes my Howres into the fire and giving me instead of them the praiers and psalmes of the Huguenots constraining me to take them which as soon as I received I gave them to Madame de Curton my governesse whom God in mercy to me had preserved still a Catholick and who oftentimes would goe with me to that good man the Cardinall of Tournon who did counsaile and encourage me to suffer all things for the maintenance of my Religion and gave me new Howres and Beades in the place of those which my Brother of Anjou had burned And some other friends of his who were ●ealous to pervert me observing me againe to weare them transported with choler would offer injury unto me affirming that it was meer childishnesse and folly that made me doe so saying it did well appear that I had no capacity that all those who were of any discretion of whatsoever age or sex they were hearing grace preached were retired from the abuses of the old Superstition but I they said was as very a foole as my governesse And my Brother of Anjou adding threats to his reproaches would tell me that the Queen my Mother should cause me to be whipped but this he spake of himself for the Queen my Mother knew not of the errour into which he was fallen and as soon as she did understand it she did extreamly check him and his governours and causing them to re-instruct him she constrayned them to return to the true holy and ancient Religion of our Fathers from which she never did depart But I replyed to such threatnings of my Brother melting into teares as the age of seven or eight yeers at which I then was is tender enough that he might cause me to be beaten and if he pleased he might cause me to be killed that I would rather suffer all the torments that cruelty could invent then pull damnation on my Soule Many more such answers of mine and notes of resolution and of judgement might be found in the discovery whereof I will no longer travaile intending to begin my Memorialls with that time when I waited in ordinary on the Queen my Mother to depart from her no more For presently after the Colloquy of Poissy that the warrs began my Brother of Alenson and my selfe by reason of our tender age were sent unto Ambois whither all the Ladies of that Country retired themselves with us there was your Aunt the Lady of Dampierre who then received me into her friendship which she continued to her death and there was your Cosin Madame the Dutchesse of Rais who in that place knew the favour that fortune had done her by delivering her at the battell of Dreux from her afflicting husband Monsieur de Annebaut a person too unworthy to possesse so perfect and so divine a Subject I speak here of the beginning of the friendship of your Aunt with me and not of your Cosin which we have preserved so inviolate that it continueth yet and shall doe evermore But then the age of your Aunt had a greater complacence with my Infancy it being the nature of ancient people to make much of little children and those who are of perfect age as was then your Cosin to be weary of them and to hate their importunate simplicity I did continue there untill the commencement of the great voiage when the Queen my mother caused me to return to Court to depart from thence no more of which I will not speake at all being then so young that I cannot retain the remembrance of it but in grosse the particulars being vanished from my memory like a dreame I leave therefore the description of it to those who being then as you in a riper age can remember in particular the magnificent triumphs that were made especially at the Duke of Barrs at the Christening of my Nephew the Prince of Lorrain at Lions at the welcome of Monsieur and Madame de Savoy at Bayons at the enterview of the Queen of Spain my Sister and the Queen my Mother and of King Charles my Brother There I assure my selfe you will not forget to represent that stately banquet which the Queen my Mother made in the Iland with the mask and manner of the hall which Nature it seems had appropriated to that effect there being discovered in the middle of the I le