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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

former persecutions The Marques of Varambon and his Brother the younger Balanson did meet us at Namure the young Balanson who was nothing so proper a gentleman as the other did court this maid in the way of Mariage and the Marques of Varambon during our aboad at Namure made semblance as if till then he had never seen her at which she put on the apparence of content constrayning her selfe to seem regardlesse of it but the trouble the griefe and indignation thereof did so contract her heart that as soon as they had taken their last farewell and were departed from the Boat she was strook with such a suddain sorrow that shee could not draw her breath but with many shreikes and mortall pangs having no other cause of her sicknesse her youth did combat with death for the space of eight or ten dayes who armed with despite in the end did render himselfe victorius ravishing her from her Mother and my self who both did bear this losse with equall greife and passion for her Mother although she was a very severe woman did love her most intirely Her Funeralls were commanded to be performed with all solemnity because she was discended from a great great and noble family and pertained to the Queen my Mother the day of her interrement being come they appointed foure of my Gentlemen to bear the Corps one whereof was Boessier who having in her life time passionately adored her and not daring to discover it unto her by reason of the inequality of his birth and the vertue which he observed in her did carry now this mortall burden and dyed as often in her death as the losse of his love had interrupted and divided the course of his life breathing out his soule after her in sighes and every new minute bringing a new death unto him this fatall convoy being in the middle of the streets and passing to the Cathedrall Church behold the Marques of Var●mbon who guilty o● this sad accident some few dayes after my departure from Namur repenting of his crueltie and his ancient flame O wonderfull being kindled in her absence which could not be awakened by her presence he resolved to come and demand her of her Mother trusting peradventure in the good fortune which did attend him to be beloved of all whomsoever he desired as since it hath appeared in a Lady of eminent account whom against her parents consents he hath espoused and promising to himselfe that his Mistris de Tournon would grant him an easie pardon repeating these Italian words che l● forza d'amore non risguarda al delitto did beseech Don John to give him commission to come unto me and making diligent haste he came just as the body as unhappy in her death as glorious and innocent in her Virginitie was in the middle of the street the throng of the people at this pompous solemnitie did hinder him that he could not passe he looked about him to learne what the occasion was and observed in the middle of the troupe a multitude of mourners and a white cloath crowned with Chaplets of flowers he asked who it was some of the City made reply that it was a buriall he growne more curious advanced himself amongst the first of the convoy and with much importunity desired to know who it was O deadly answere the vengeance of love for his ingratitude and inconstancie made him now feele those stroakes of death in his soule which his forgetfulnesse and disdaine had made his Mistresse suffer in her body the man not knowing who it was that pressed to know it told him that it was the body of Madamoiselle de Tournon at that word he swounded away and fell from his horse they carried him as dead into his lodging justly desiring in this extremity to approve that union with her in his death which in his life too slowly he accorded to his Soul as I believe departing into her tombe to crave pardon for what his disdainfull oblivion had committed did leave his body for a time without any apparence of life and returning thence did animate it anew to make him feele again the justice of death which once alone had not sufficiently punished his Ingratitude This sad office being performed beholding my self in a company of strangers I would not afflict them with the griefe which I received for the losse of so vertuous a servant I was invited either by the Bishops Grace or by some of the Canons to dinner every day in severall houses and gardens as there are very faire ones in that Citie His Grace with many Lords and Ladies strangers comming every morning to my chamber accompanied me to the garden wherein I was to take the waters of Sp●u which was to be received walking and though the Physitian that did prescribe it was my Brother yet it hath done me good having since continued six or seven yeeres without feeling the swelling of my arme departing thence we never parted company but resorted to some feast and after dancing to heare Vespers to some religious house and after supper we were entertained with dancing againe or else with Musick on the water Six weeks did passe away themselves on this manner which is the ordinary time accustomed for the taking of these waters and which was prescribed to Madame the Princesse of Roche-sur-yon As I was preparing to returne to France behold Madame de Aurec who going to Lorrayn to seek her husband expounded to us the wonderfull alteration that happened at Namur and in all that Countrey since my departure The same day wherein I departed from Namur Don John going out of his boate and taking horse under presence of hunting came before the gate of the Castle of Namur the which as yet he had not mastered and feigning as casually he passed by to goe in and see it in his way he seized on it and slew the Captaine whom the States kept there breaking the Articles that were agreed on between the States and him and moreover he seized on the Duke of Arscots on Monsieur de Aurecs and on her owne person and though after many demonstrations and intreaties he let her husband and the Duke depart yet he retained her till then 〈◊〉 be a caution to him for the deportment of them She declared that all the Countrey was now in armes there were three parties the first of the States which were the Catholicks of Flanders the other of the Prince of Orange and the Huguenots who made but one Party and the third of the Spaniards over whom Don John commanded I seeing my selfe imbarked in this manner that of necessitie I must fall into the hands of the one or the other of them and my Brother having sent a Gentleman named Lescar to me by whom he wrote that since my departure from France God had given him the grace to serve the King so well in the charge of the army committed to him that he had taken all the Townes which he was commanded to

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

was much troubled at the news which gave me the greater apprehension to beleeve that we were discovered entring into her Closet she tooke me aside and said Have you heard what Matignon hath told me I made answer I did not understand it Madame but I perceive it is some businesse that doth afflict you yes she replyed and that very much for you know that I have answered the King that your Brother should not goe and Matignon now is come to tell me that he knows he will not be here to morrow Finding then my selfe in these two extreams either to faile in my fidelity to my Brother and put his life in hazard or to sweare against the truth a thing which I would not doe to escape a thousand deaths I was in so great a perplexity that had not God assisted me my fashion sufficiently had witnessed without my words the fear I had that we were discovered but as God assisteth good intentions and his divine bounty joyned in this work of my Brothers safety I so composed my lookes and words that she perceived not any thing but that which I would have her and that I offended not my Soule or Conscience by any false oath I demanded of her if too well she did not understand the hate which Monsieur Matignon did beare unto my Brother that he was a spitefull disturber of all our quiet and who did grieve to see us live in concord that when my Brother did goe I would answer it with my life that I was confident he having never concealed any thing from me that he would have communicated this designe unto me if he had an intention thereunto this I said assuring my selfe that my Brother being safe they durst not doe me wrong and choosing rather to ingage my life then to offend my soule by any false oath or to put my Brothers life in jeopardy She seeking not after any other sence of my words replied Be well advised what you say you shall serve as caution for him and answer his absence with your life to which I smiling did make answer that it was that which I desired and bidding her good night I forthwith repaired to my Chamber where putting off my cloaths with all diligence hasting unto bed to be the sooner ridde of the Ladyes and Gentlewomen that attended on me I was left onely with the women of my Chamber when presently my Brother came in and Simier and Cange with him and having commanded them to look first into the ditch to see if any one were there we fastned the cord to the post of the window we were ayded onely with my three women that lay in my Chamber and with the boy that brought the cord my brother although it was a very great height without any apprehension of feare descended first and laughing at the danger went swinging and playing down after him discended Simier in such a pittifull feare that he could scarce hold the rope for trembling and last of all Cange the groom of his Chamber God so happily did guide my brother from being discovered that he came to Saint Geneviefue where Bussi did attend him who by the consent of the Abby had made a hole in the Town wall at which my Brother did goe forth and finding there two horses ready he retired to Anger 's without any misfortune As Cange last of all came downe there arose a man from the bottome of the Ditch who began to run towards the lodgings neer the Tenis Court which is the way to the Corps de guard I who in all this adventure apprehended not any thing which concerned my self in particular but onely the safety or danger of my Brother stood in a maze strook through and through with feare beleeving that man to be some one who following the advise of Monsieur de Matignon was placed there on purpose to observe us and thinking that my Brother had been surprized I fell into a despaire which cannot be represented but by an essay of things like to it being in these perplexities my women more curious then my self for my safety and their own took the cord and put it into the fire to the end that if the misfortune were so great that the man who rose out of the ditch had been set there to observe us it might not be discovered this cord being very long made so great a flame that it blazed out of the chimney and was perceived by those of the Guard who that night did watch In a great fright and with loud importunity they came and knocked at my door desiring that suddenly it might be opened then I thought that my brother at that present had been taken and that we both had been undone having notwithstanding anchored my hope on God who preserved my judgement intire a grace which his divine Majesty was ever pleased in all my danger to vouchsafe unto me and perceiving that the cord was but halfe burned out I spake unto my women to goe gently to the doore to demand what they would have and to speake softly to them as if I were asleepe which they did and they of the guard told them that a great fire came out of the tunnell of my chimney and made in the darke of night so bright a flame that the danger of it did call them thither to extinguish it My women made answer to them it was nothing and that they were able to quench it well enough themselves and charged them to take heed that they did not waken me on which they returned back This alarm being passed some two houres after behold Monsieur de Losse came to call me to the King Queen my Mother to give them an account of my brothers departure being advertised of it by the Abbot of Saint Genevifue who to avoid all checks and by my brothers own consent when he saw himselfe farre enough from the danger of being intrapped came to informe the King of it telling him that he was surprized in his own house and being shut up therein till a breach in the wall was made for my brothers escape he could come no sooner to acquaint his Majestie with it He found me in my bed for it was yet night and I suddenly arising and putting on my night-gown one of my women indiscreetly affrighted at it tooke hold of my gowne weeping and crying out that I should never return unto them Monsieur de Losse beating her back said If this woman had done this before any but my selfe who am your devoted servant these words of hers might procure great trouble to you but give thanks to God and feare not any thing for Monsieur your Brother is safe This assurance of his was to me a needfull and no lesse welcome encouragement to arme me to endure all the threats and choller of the King whom I found sitting on the Queen my Mothers bed in so great a passion that I beleeve I should have found the effects of it if the feare