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<P>BALTAZAR
GERBIER
KNIGHT
TO
ALL MEN THAT LOVES
TRVTH</P>
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<HEAD>BALTHAZAR GERBIER KNIGHT.
To all men that Loues Truth.</HEAD>
<P>THe Diuine p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ecopts of Chri&s;t forbidd men to Iudge one an|nother,
Iudgment belongs to God, and to none else; for
he saith IVDGMENT IS MINE:</P>
<P>It pleaseth God to suffer my Parents to fly the bluddy per|&s;ecutions
in France against those vvhich the Roman Catholikes
called then <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> My said Parents left and lost all for that
cause;</P>
<P>My Father Anthoine Gerbier vvas a genthleman borne, and
had a Baronnie in Notmandie; My Mother vvas Radegonde, daugh|ter
jn Ayre to the Lord of Blayet in Picardie;</P>
<P>I vvas borne; att Middelbourg in Zelandt, vvhence I vvas (by
one of my Brothers) transported into France, and thence retur|ned;
and about <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> tuinty one pa&s;t (in the company of
No&euml;l Caron then Holl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ndt Amba&s;&s;adeur) into England; vvhere
I applied myselfe to George Villiers, nevvly become fauorit to King
Ieames, the said George Villiers, being immediatly after Baron,
Vi&s;count Earle, and aftervvards created Marquis and Duke of
Buckingham.</P>
<P>My attendance vvas pleasing to him, bijcause of my seuerall
languages, good hand in vvriting:, &s;kill in s&ccedil;iences, as Mathe|maticks,
Architecture, dravving, painting, contryuing of &s;cenes,
Marques, &s;hovvs and entertainments for greate Princes, besides
many <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> vvhich I had gathered from diuers rare per&s;ons, as
likvv<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, for making of Engins usfull in vvarre, as I made tho&s;e
vvhich might blovve vpp the Dike that &s;topt the pa&s;&s;age to the
Tovvne of Rochell, for it vvas on the same Modell of that of
the Prince of Parms vvhen the attempt vvas on Antvverpe;</P>
<P>He did puts to me fir&s;t, the contryuance of some of his
habitations, to chou&s;e fort him rarities, bookes, medals, marble
<PB N="4" REF="3">
<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 line">
of mony, of vvhich I neuer vvould hane the managing.</P>
<P>I did keepe his Cifers vvith his jntelligences abroade, vvas
&s;ent by him (vvith the king his Ma&s;ters aprobation) in &s;ecret
Me&s;&s;ages;</P>
<P>No &s;ooner vvere tho&s;e markes of tru&s;t ob&s;erued, butt mali|cious
Ignorant per&s;ons made glo&s;&s;es theron, according the places
vvere I vvas &s;ent:</P>
<P>My fir&s;t publike inployment abroade vvas a iourney into
Holland, to meete theire an Eminent per&s;on from Brabant
vvho vvas to make ouuertures from Spaine and Germani<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e for the
re&s;titution of the Palatinat; I vvent att that &s;ame ju&s;tant jnto
Te&s;&s;ei and a&s;&s;i&s;ted Sr. Sackville Trevers, to gett cleere from the
Ea&s;tindian Company theire de&s;&s;igne vvhich vvas to &s;tay him vvith
the Shipp called the S. E&s;prit, vvhere vviht he made aftervvards
for England:</P>
<P>My &s;econd jmployment vvas jn France, to expo&s;tulate vviht
the Cardinall de Richelieu, concerning large promi&s;&s;es France had
made to a&s;&s;i&s;t Count Mansfelt, vvhen king Ieames vvas mouued
to engage him &s;elfe on theire fai<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e promi&s;&s;es againts Spaine; vvhi+ch
a&s;&s;i&s;tance prouued att la&s;t butt bare Cabinet di&s;cour&s;es, and
no reall engagement of that king nor Mini&s;ters of &s;tate: vvhich
&s;eemed to vexc Count Man&s;felt art my returne to Douer&punc; and &s;e|med
to mouve him to de&s;ire that I &s;hould &s;ay to King Ieames,
that he had keijes to make his one pa&s;&s;age through France, iff
the king vvould giue him leaue, though it vvas a que&s;tion vvhe|ther
Count Man&s;felt ment it, for he neuer had any o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ttaine pro|mi&s;&s;e
of a reall conjonction nor a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the french: his Tre&s;orier
then (for &s;hovve) only did pa&s;&s;e aquittances to the french; the|reby
to per&s;uade king Ieames that the jntended vvare for the
Palatinat &s;hould not vvholly lay on his charge:</P>
<P>I vvas aftervvards jmployed againe jnto Brabant, vvhere I vvas
commanded to comune vvith the Marquis Spinola about the re|concilliation
betvveene the Crovvne of England and Spaine, on
vvhich &s;ecret conference the treaty vvas &s;ett on foot; and pur&s;ued
vntill it vvas braught to &agrave; conclu&s;ion:</P>
<P>I vvas jmploied jnto France to remon&s;trate the greate jncon|ueniencies
of theire countenancing of the Spanish trade, for
<PB N="5" REF="3">
that theire shipping did tran&s;portte all the Spanish Marchandi&s;e,
and thereby fru&s;trated the king of England of tho&s;e hopes (du|ring
the breach betvveene the tvvo Crovvnes after the de&s;oluing
of the tvvo Treaties of the Spanish match, and that of the Pa|latinat)
the Spaniards might haue been pu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t to it, and thereby
mouued to giue fitt &s;atisfaction on the point of the Palatinat:</P>
<P>I vvas likvvei&s;e imployed by the King to remon&s;trate to the
French King and to the then Queene Mother, the mi&s;takes of
the French Amba&s;&s;ador Mon&s;ieur de Blinuille; vvhen his men v&s;ed
violence on the Kings Officers, Con&s;tables and others that did
theire Duty, to hinder the &s;candalous re&s;ort of English Papi&s;ts
att Durham hou&s;e:</P>
<P>I did then deliuer to the Cardinall des Richelieu a letter
of the Duke of Buckingham, vvhich vvas by &s;ome taken for the
cau&s;e and begining of mis-intellgences betvvene the tvvo Crovvnes
of England and France, becau&s;e tho&s;e tvvo greate fauorits did then
declare theire re&s;&s;ents; vvhich vvere &s;o violently vttered on the Car|dinall
de Richelieu &s;ide, as that hee accompanied them vvith
unciuill glo&s;&s;es, vvho gaue ground to &s;ome licencious di&s;cour|&s;es,
vvhich did &s;o little vvorck on me (that had not other North|&s;tarre
then his Maje&s;ties &s;eruices and my duty) as mouued mee to
proceed as befitted a per&s;on &s;ent on good grounds, and to make
apparant to the haughty &s;piritt of that Cardinall that threats vvere to
vveake to driue me from my byas, nor could his compliments after|vvards
vvork any other effect on me (vvhen he de&s;ired my toturne)
then to mouue me to heare him, and to relate his vtterances
vvhich concluded vvith compliments that he contented him&s;elfe to
knovve the fame of a fauorit &s;o great as the Duke of Buckingham
vvas, but for him only to act the part of a &s;ingle Mi|ni&s;ter
of &s;tate; vvho did admire the povver of the Canon of an
English Admirall, but that hee him &s;elfe did remaine in th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> hu|mility
of the Canons of that Church vvhereof he vvas a Di&s;ciple,
and as tho&s;e vtterances vvhere indeed butt flovvers of Rethorice,
they coueted &s;erpents, for he cau&s;ed men to follovv me to the
very port of Bollogne&punc; vvhere the foldiers vvere apointed to cea&s;&s;e on
all my papers, butt he vvas di&s;apointed, for I gott &s;afe into
England:</P>
<P>I vvas aftervvards commanded tovvards Spaine, on an invitatin<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
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from that King and a Pa&s;&s;e &s;ent for my &s;afe Landing&punc; In any <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">
of CANTABRIA, it vvas to proceede to the intended Treaty of
reconcilliation betvvene the tvvo Crovvnes; butt an Irish blee<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d
Eyd Papi&s;t Prie&s;t vvas &s;ett on by Mr. Endimion Porter to make
the Duke of Buckingham beleeue that the Conde-Duch
d'Oliuaras the king of Spaines fauorit de&s;ired the &s;aid Mr. Porter
to be &s;ent on that Treaty, vvhich prouued but a plot of the &s;aid Mr
Porter, as apeared by his proceedings, for after he got the Duke of
Bukinghams con&s;ent to go allong vvith them and the Abot d'E&s;|caillie
(then Amb<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ad from the Duke of Savoye) no &s;ooner vvere
vvee arriued at Bruxels butt the &s;aid Mr. Porter (vvith out knovvledge
of the &s;aid Abot d'E&s;calie, le&s;&s;e of m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e) repaired &s;ecretly to the
Arch Duche&s;&s;e Infame I&s;abells, and to Don Carlot Colom<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">, to
contrice his di&s;gui&s;ed pa&s;&s;age into Spaine, vvithout the &s;aid Abot
d'E<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">caille and my &s;elfe vvich he undertooke after hee left me on
my vvay from Bruxelles to N<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">mur, and his returne to Bruxelles,
though he had neither Comi&s;&s;ion nor any letter of Credence, for
I did poce&s;&s;e them, therefore his &s;aid &s;ecret journey into Spaine
prouued mo&s;t ridiculous, and his appearance to that Court vvas ta|ken
by the Conde-Duca as an argument of vveakne&s;&s;e in tho&s;e that
had &s;ent him&punc; that had no letters of credit.</P>
<P>It vvas from that in&s;tant that I became an Eye-&s;ore to the English
Spanish faction vvich vvas maintayned by the Lord Cot<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">inghton;
&s;ome of them cau&s;ed a mo&s;t malicious and horride a&s;per&s;&s;ion to be
ca&s;t on me &s;uppo&s;ing by theire letters to the Lord of Carlile (his Ma|je&s;ties
extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador in Itallie in the yeare 1628.) that
I vvas &s;ent that vvay about (on a pretence to go to Spaine) only
to kill him by the vvay; of which horrid a&s;per&s;&s;ion the &s;aid Lord of
Carlille vvas plea&s;ed to giue me notice; and on my ju&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ent decla|red
in his Maie&s;ties pre&s;ence, that hee neuer had any cau&s;e to credit
that foulle report: yet did the Authors thereoff continue their
malice again&s;t mee by theire ill Offices during my Bleuen yeares
Re&s;idency in his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice in the Court of Bruxels; re|turning
copies to the Spanish mini&s;ters off all the of mo&s;t Impor|tant
adverti&s;&s;ements vvhich I did &s;ent to the King and State.</P>
<P>And as tho&s;e malicious per&s;ons &s;eemed to ayme to haue me and
myne di&s;troyed in that Re&s;idency, they endeauoured no le&s;&s;e than
the di&s;truction of his Maie&s;ties &s;eruice, his Intere&s;t honnor;
<PB N="7" REF="4">
that of the Nation, and the intere&s;t of the be&s;t and mo&s;t a&s;&s;ured
Friends and Allies of the State of England.</P>
<P>This they did on diuers notable occa&s;ions: Fir&s;t, vvhen by their
maintayning the Spanish, &s;carce any of his Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects
could get Iu&s;tice in the Admirallitie Courts of Brabant and Flan|dres,
vvhen diuers of his Maie&s;ties &s;ubiets might haue been timly re|lea&s;t,
their per&s;&s;ons and goods freed from di&s;truction, diuers of them
&s;uffered therein by the in&s;olency of their aduer&s;&s;e parties fauoured
by the Spanish faction in England.</P>
<P>Secondly, They cro&s;t many faire occa&s;ions concerning the
Palatinat, by returning to &s;ome of the ill di&s;po&s;ed Spanish mini|&s;ters
of &s;tate &s;uch &s;ecret aduerti&s;&s;ements as I had &s;ent into England
and vvhich I had in confidency from the Emperors Re&s;ident, the
Du<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">k of Neevv<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">g, the Prince Elector of Treue<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; and the Re&s;ident
of Collen: The &s;aid English Spanish affected, aduerti&s;&s;ed the Mar|quis
d'Ayton<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> that the Infanta I&s;abella Arch-Duche&s;&s;e had honnored
mee vvith a &s;ecret declaration that &s;hee vvould put Franckendall
into the Queene of Bohemias hands. This they returned by
one Iohn Taylier (an English Papi&s;t, vvho formerly had been by
the English Spanish faction, imployed into Germanie)
by vvhich auerti&s;&s;ements the Infants for her good vvill to|vvards
the Queene of BOHEMIA vvas braught into que&s;tion,
and that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e vtterly di&s;troyed, vvhich then I did manife&s;t to
Old Sir Iohn Coke, then Secretary of State: and that I had vvit|ne&s;&s;es
hovv the &s;aid Iohn Tayler confe&s;t his faute for hauing con|ferred
vvith the &s;aid Marquis dAyton<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, Contrary to his In&s;tru|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ions,
receaued from the King and the Secretary of State&punc; vvich
he confe&s;t a month after his arriuall att Bruxels, that he had kept
&s;ir Iohn Cokes letter to mee in his pocket untill the &s;aid bu|&s;ines
of Franckendall vvas di&s;troyed, he &s;aid that the Cottintoniens
had forbid him to go a long vvith me to the Spanish mini&s;ters.</P>
<P>Thirdly, They returned to the Court of Bruxels the Copie of
a great di&s;patch vvherein I manife&s;ted to the King and to the
Secretary of State all vvhat the Catholike States (both Spirituall
and Temporall) had re&s;olued in their trance, that tho&s;e Prouinces
vvere in hazard to be conquered.</P>
<P>By vvhich cetu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ne of Adverti&s;&s;ement vvas vvrought the di&s;truction
of the famillies of the Duke of A&s;cot, Prince of E&s;pinoy, Barban|&s;on,
<PB REF="5">
Duke or <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Count Egmond: One Iean de Vi|ualde
(that had been Secretary to van-Malle for the Space of 1<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
years in England) beheaded on the Marquet place at Bruxels, on the
returne of &s;uch aduerti&s;&s;ements as I had &s;ent unto <HI>the</HI> State? His &s;en|tence
in Dutch, bearing the vvords, <HI>Vitz.</HI> For hauing giuen aduerti&s;&s;|ments
to a publike mini&s;ters of a Neigbour Prince.</P>
<P>All vvhich being become publix, the COTTINTONIENS
cea&s;&s;ed not to countenance in&s;tances done for my recall from that
Re&s;idency; vvhich the Marquis de Velad<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Don Alonzo de C<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">|denas
did vigourou&s;ly per&s;ue, though his Maie&s;tie did mo&s;t
graciou&s;ly reject their motions, and vvith matkes of extraordi|nary
exteeme of my fidelity, <HI>for he an&s;w wared, it vvas not his cu|&s;tome
to di&s;grace tho&s;e that dit &s;erue him vvill</HI></P>
<P>Like ill VVillers as the COTTINTONIENS did likvvel&s;e
countenance many complaints against mee made by factio|na<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ls
about Queene Mother. The Duke d'Elboeuf, and others
vvho vvould pa&s;&s;e into England again&s;t his Maje&s;ties vvill, vvhen
<HI>the</HI> vvords of my In&s;tuctions (&s;igned by the Lord Dorche&s;ter,
then Secretary of State) dit beare, <HI>that my <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> vvas in the Sca<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e
if any one of tho&s;e dit pa&s;&s;e to trouble the Engli&s;h Seas.</HI> As it &s;eemed to
be indeed vvhich vvay it vvent, &s;ince the factionaris about Queene
Mother had tho&s;e in the Engli&s;h Court, as vvell of the French <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">
of the Spanish faction (and of others God knovvith) vvllo did
&s;turre an inteconciliable hattered again&s;t me for hindering &s;o great
a Prince&s;&s;e as Queene Mother, to repaire in time vvhere &s;hee
might breath (att re&s;t) the la&s;t of her dayes: In fine it proved
that to free Queene Mother from &s;uch aduerti&s;&s;ements as I could
and did giue from the place of my Re&s;idency <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> factionaris a|bout
her ledd her avvay about into Holland, vvhore my con|fractor
Sir Vvilliam Bo&s;vvell could not &s;top her, though no
ruine fell on him for her &s;aid pa&s;&s;age into England, vvhere <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">
&s;elfe being returned I met a Sea of ill <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> of diuers
factions, vvho duting my Eleuen yeares Re&s;idency at Bruxels,
had taken occa&s;ion to except again&s;t my aduerti&s;&s;ements vvhich
&s;pared none, nor of Church, nor State, for vvhat vvas manife|&s;ted
to me and by mee found true on the place I did plainely
&s;et dovvn, vvithout mincing any thing for feare of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> nor
for allurements, re&s;olved to take things as God <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">evould have <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">
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<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, and to make due exteeme of the vvi&s;e &s;aying&punc; <Q><HI>Nolite can&s;idere Principibus, neque filiis hominum in quibus non e&s;t Salus.</HI></Q> His Maje&s;ty in|deed
vvas often graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to approve my endeaviours, to ex|pre&s;&s;e
his &s;atisfaction thereon, and I may &s;ay, (vvithout vanity) a truth,
as a marke of my gratitude, that his Maje&s;ty vvas &s;o gracious, as to
&s;ay in publike, that of all tho&s;e that did then attend His &s;ervice abroad
none vvas more diligent; this vvas vvritten to me by my predece&s;&s;or
Sir Iohn Finet, vvho attended the King at His dinner, vvhen the
vvords vvere uttered.</P>
<P>Nor could I thinke &s;o meanly of my indeavours, ble&s;&s;ed by Gods a&s;&s;i|&s;ta~ce
in the di&s;covery of many things, vvhich peradventure divers others
vvould haue bin incapable off for vvant of Languages, but that I might
have bin thought vvorthy of a better revvard; &amp; better con&s;idered euen
by the be&s;t friends of the State of England, &s;ince diuers of my adver|ti&s;&s;ements
to His Maje&s;ties principall Secretaries of State, did beare
particulars vvhereby his be&s;t friends could be vvarned to looke to
them&s;elves, vvhen foure hundred thou&s;and Crounes vvere di&s;po&s;ed for
the betraying of Ma&s;tricht, that engins vvere prepared again&s;t Be<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">gop|zom.
That one Triboulet, a Bourguinnon, vvas di&s;patc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t from Braban<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
to kill the French King Louis the XIII. All I got for my paines vvas
a check from old Secretary Coke; to have named in my publike di&s;|patch
the Duke of Bullon, though his name and the thing became
aftervvards publique in the &s;treets of Bruxels, the check, I <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">,
vvas not old Sir Iohn Coke, but came from the English Spanish fa|ction,
vvho then con&s;trained Sir Iohn Cokes pen to vvritte as they
vvould have it. On the &s;econd, the man being di&s;covered by the French
King him&s;elfe, a Gentleman belonging to the Duke de Chevreule vvas
<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ent to me, vvith thankes, nor did I looke for more &s;ince vvhat I
could de&s;erve vvas to put on that ma&s;ters &s;core, vvho I had the honor
to &s;erve. And vvho in conclu&s;ion vvas &s;o gracious to mee as to con|firme
his &s;atisfaction of my &s;eruice in my letter of credence to the
late French King, by the vvords, <HI>V<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">z.</HI> I Do RECOMMEND THIS GEN|TLEMAN
<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> MASTER OF MY CEREMONIES TO YOUR PARTICULAR
PROTECTION, FOR THAT HE HATH DONE MEE LONG AND FAITH|FULL
SERVICE.</P>
<P>This Letter of Credence I &s;ued for, vvhen I vvas per&s;uaded that I
could no longer breath vvhere the Cottintoniens had any credit, &s;ince
I did feele the continuance of their ill offices vvithout intermi&s;&s;ion
<PB N="10" REF="6" MS="y">
That it vvas mo&s;t knavvishly &s;u&s;teined to the King that I had de<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">|ved
to be heinged by my legs, for having to the Lords in Parliament
(vvhen I vvas charged by them of my Con&s;ience) declared the names
of tho&s;e that did bettray the Kings affaires in forraine parts, though
God knovveth I &s;aid no more then I could prove, and did but an&s;vver
to the Que&s;tion, for I never tutcht the &s;tring of others, and vvho&s;e re&s;t
It vvas not my de&s;igne &s;ince to trouble; though my Iournals did beare
vvho&s;e Pen&s;ionnaries they vvere reputed to be, &amp; vvhat Popish Prie&s;ts
vvere theirs. That it vvas likevvi&s;e mo&s;t knavishly repre&s;ented to the
King (vvhen the Prince Elector Palatin to the hearing of Colonell
Linzey vvas plea&s;ed at Yorckere the Standart vvas let up to reque&s;t
for my Licence, that I might be di&s;mi&s;t of my Office to shift for my
&s;elfe in &s;ome other part of the vvorld) That I had been untrue to
my fir&s;t ma&s;ter the Duke of Buckingham, and this on a mo&s;t bace,
ridiculous and fal&s;e pretence. VVhich no doubt vvas for&s;talled by a
per&s;on, vvho in the Duke of Bukinghams time vvould once put me
ill vvith the &s;aid Duke, and even at the &s;ame in&s;tant that he intreated
me to get him preferred to a more neere attendance to his per&s;on, it
vvas one Ma&s;ter Iohn A&s;bornham, &s;ince one of the grooms of the
Bedchambre, it vvas for him I &s;pake, the Lady Duche&s;&s;e (at his earne&s;t
&s;ute) required me to do it; I did it in her pre&s;ence, that she vvas a bed
vvith the Duke, vvho mi&s;tooke my &s;peech and di&s;tickt it, for novv I
<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t declare the truth (on vvhich I take God to vvitnes) it vvas vvhen
the Duke had told me in private that he vvould have me in that place,
Sir Sackville Crovv being then on point to be preferred to the place of
Tre&s;orier of the Navy. This office in favour of Ma&s;ter A&s;bornham,
though to my one prejudice then, proved &s;o little advantagious to me,
as that it vvas &s;uppo&s;ed to the Duke of Buckingham that I had taken
the Lady Porbecks part, to &s;ave her from the Officiers that vvould have
carried her to pri&s;on, from a hou&s;e in the Strand next to the Vene|tian
Ordinary, vvere then the Savoye Amba&s;&s;ador did lay, and vvhere
by accident I then vvas. It being in tho&s;e dayes that the mi&s;under|&s;tanding
betvven the Duke and me vvas fomented, God of Heaven
knovveth (to vvho&s;e Tribunall I do appeale on that &s;ubject and to
an&s;vver for all vvhat is contained in the&s;e Lines) that I had no to-re&s;pondence
at all vvith the Lady Porbeck, nor bad &s;een her &s;ince the
dayes that she lived in amity vvith the Duke and all the family of
the Villiers. Not had the Abot d'E&s;caille any premeditated de&s;&s;igne
<PB N="11" REF="6">
vvith her, nor to contribute to her e&s;cappe; as vvas &s;uppo&s;ed on
a vvanton <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">-Loo&s;ne&s;&s;e, vvhich vvas acted on a &s;ud|dayne,
vvithout any premeditation vvhen one of the Pages of the
Amba&s;&s;ador vvas dre&s;t in a vvon as clo&s;e Mon&s;ieur Bron<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">, Sir Theo|dor
Mayetnes brother in Lavv being then pre&s;ent and the &s;aid Page
put in a Coach by the Abott d'E&s;railles men, vvho finding the
hou&s;e vvhere the Abott d'E&s;caillie their Ma&s;ter lay to bee abu&s;ed
by a number of men that brake in to g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> ouer a pall<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of his
guarden into a next hou&s;e, vvhere the Lady Po<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">bech vvas &s;aid to
Lodge, propo&s;ed to the Abott (being att dinner) to ridde his
hou&s;e of annoyance, for that his &s;aid men did conceaue that all
the crevv vvould runne out of dores to &s;topp the Coach vvherein
the Page vvas putt, vvho vvas found to be a Page in effect, as
foone the Coach vvas overtaken the length of a &s;treet, vvhich did
not att all contribute to the e&s;cappe of the Lady Po<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">beck, &s;ince the
hou&s;e vvherein &s;he vvas remayned pocect vvith Sergeants and &s;tore
of people.</P>
<P>All vvhich being examined and found true mo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ed the Duke of
Buckingham to reconcile him&s;elfe vvith the Abott d'E&s;caille, and
to de&s;ire that the fea&s;t of reconcilliation &s;hould be att my hou&s;e;
vvhere the Duke vvas plea&s;ed tvvo dayes after to be&s;eech his Maie&s;ties
to come vvith the Quene, to accept like entertainment becau&s;e the
manner thereof vvas plea&s;ing.</P>
<P>The impo&s;ture, therfore, that I &s;hould haue been untrue to the Duke
being Manife&s;t, could not butt vvith tvvo much Audacity and
bu&s;ne&s;&s;e be repre&s;ented to the Kings mo&s;t Royal <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> tvvelue
yeares after that it vvas clereed, and his Maje&s;tie had many proofes
of my fidellity and con&s;tancy to his &s;eruice, for vvhich I haue many
letters of his Royall hand to &s;hue, and vvherein as before &s;aid his
Maje&s;ties hath ben mo&s;t gratiou&s;ly plea&s;ed to expre&s;&s;e his &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P>I vvas thus contayned to sue for my remoue from the pre&s;ence of
a greate King, in vvho&s;e &s;eruice and in that of the State) I vvould
haue thought my &s;elfe happy to end my dayes; yett my licence vvas
refu&s;ed to agreate Prince; vvho (in meere compa&s;&s;ion) inclined to
&s;peake in my favour, vvhen all meanes of &s;ub&s;i&s;tance vvere taken
from me, that the Secretary of State then Lord Fackland had hin|dered
&s;ome Bi&s;hops of paying &s;uch monnie to mee as had beene
by Tallies &s;truck on them a yeare before, and for vvhich I had
<PB N="12" REF="7">
payed the fees in the Exchequer att vve&s;tmin&s;ter.</P>
<P>Being thus in an In&s;tant deprived of all lively-hood and al&s;o
fru&s;trated of de&s;bo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;&s;ments made both for the tran&s;pottation of
Queene Mothers trayne from London to Douer, and during the time
of my attendance in the office of Ma&s;ter of Ceremonies (after I
had con&s;umed my &s;elfe in his Maie&s;ties &s;eruice during my eleven
yeares Re&s;idency in the Court of Bruxels&punc; greate part of my arreares
being <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> payed) No vvouder that I tooke then hold on the occa|&s;ion
to pa&s;&s;e into France, vvhen I had obtained the letter of Cre|dence
as afore&s;aid&punc; vvhich being about the time that a que&s;tion vvas
moved on as intercepted letter &s;ent from London to Oxford fathe|red
on me (though no man could proure the caracter to be myne
not to haue his &s;ent directly nor indirectly by me my &s;aid depar|ture
then did not (as it &s;eemes) &s;atisfy all tho&s;e that heard of
the &s;aid letter; not &s;ome that haue bin plea&s;ed to vent glo&s;&s;es theron;
Though, I had to pleade on that &s;ubiect fir&s;t, not guilty:</P>
<P>Secondly, That I vvas charged vvith a letter of Credence to pa&s;&s;e
a Compliment vvith a King vvho vvas acere the Angonies of death,
as it proued; &s;ince ere I landed att Callis he vvas decea&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Thirdly, that I had a pa&s;&s;e from the Parliament, declaring my liber|tie,
to attend his Maie&s;ties &s;eruice, and this vvithout limitation of
place; vvhen his Maie&s;tie had full povver on me to command mee
to go or to come; That my dependency vvas Manife&s;t and publike;
my attendance but a Coremoniall part, vvithout any relation to the
dicipline of vvarres.</P>
<P>Fourthly <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> my going from London I vvas in no con&s;traint nor
vnder any guarde.</P>
<P>Fiftly, it vvas ten the ClocK in the morning vvhen I did embarke
my &s;elfe in the ordinary packett boate att Douer vvhereof one Ma|&s;ter
VVhi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> vvas ma&s;ter vvho had Knovvne me many yeares before,
I payed the duties, vvhich the Officers there demanded of mee:
all men that vvere there did &s;ee my face, vvhich vvas not di&s;gui&s;ed
by falce heare nor peruix. Ma&s;ter vvhit vvas at the &s;tarren of the
Boate and I neuer vvent under deck to hidde my &s;elfe.</P>
<P>Sixtly, that iff the letter could haue been proved to bee mine, yet
could it not have argued mee to bee a dangerous man, &s;ince I had
no voyce in chapter vvith either parties; that I vvas no in&s;trument
of the unhappy difference betvven the King and his People for vvhich
<PB N="13" REF="7">
I &s;hall prai&s;e God vvhille I live; and di<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">rs of my publick di&s;patchs
(vvhich I have made to the King and State during my Re&s;idency at Bru|xels,
as my Iournals can manife&s;t) vvill prouve that I did faith|fully
relate hovv little the vvorld did reflect on His Maje&s;ties povver,
&s;o long it vvas not &s;ea&s;oned by an Harmonious concordance of Par|liaments;
VVhich vvas often ca&s;t in my teeth, VVhen I did inci&s;t
(as my duty vvas, and my In&s;tructions did beare) on the point of the
re&s;titution of the Palatinat; VVhich endeauours (be&s;ides the pur&s;u|ance
of His Maje&s;ties intere&s;ts) lo&s;t me vvith &s;ome of the Spani&s;h Mi|ni&s;ters,
as namely vvith the Pre&s;ident Role, vvho vvhen I did demand
Iu&s;tice for His Maje&s;ties &s;ubje&s;ts, and &s;uch po&s;&s;itiue an&s;vvers as I vvas
commanded to put to him in&s;olently que&s;tioned vvhetber the King had
an Army of fifthy thou&s;and man at his back: VVhich he <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">eered vvith
di&s;re&s;pectfull VVords, vvheron I made a ju&s;t complaint to the In|fant
Cardinall, vvho did blame the &s;aid Pre&s;ident Ro&s;e for it.</P>
<P>No men vvill vvonder (as I do conceiue) that I did at la&s;t &s;ue for
my recall from that imploiment; as I did vvhen I had &s;o long vvith|&s;tood
the violence and malice of the Cottintoniens, vvho by the&s;e great
Intelligence vvith the mo&s;t depraued Mini&s;ters the King of Spaine had
(&s;ome of vvhich the &s;aid King <HI>hath</HI> been con&s;trained to shake of) all
<HI>the</HI> good and &s;olid Orders &s;ent to me by His Maje&s;ties Principall Se|cretaries
of State, vvere of no force; and all good indeavours de&s;troyed&punc;
to the prejudice of His Maje&s;ties Seruice, Honour, and the reall good
and greatne&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the State of England.</P>
<P>No vvonder al&s;o, that I did &s;ue for my &s;aid recall, vvhen the Kings
ennemies made u&s;e of Spirits of Dil<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ion to attempt on the Soules
and minds of the fir&s;t of my family, a perfecution vvhich (vvithout
comparai&s;on) <HI>Iob</HI> neuer felt, for his calamity did not follovv him from
one Countrey to another: As &s;ir&s;t it begun again&s;t me in Brabant&punc; It
continued at my returne in England, and follovved me into France,
as feemes to finish vvhere it begun vvith my Predece&s;&s;ors.</P>
<P>For no &s;ooner had I gotten in France a Surintendance of an Of|fice
vvhich vvould haue proued vvorth to me many thou&s;and pounds
a yeare; but vvas pur&s;ued by factionnaries, vvho did boldly main|taine
in Petitions pre&s;ented by the Bishop du Puis to the Queen Re|gent,
that She vvas <HI>Ip&s;o facto</HI> excommunicated, for having conferred
&s;uch an Office on an Heretique, as they terme all that are not of
the Church of Rome: This vvas pur&s;ued by libels and mi&s;chie<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">
<PB N="14" REF="8">
contrivances; in vvhich English Papi&s;ts had part, as e&s;pecially those
vvho impudently, and mo&s;t falcoly, did &s;u&s;taine me to be the man who
cro&s;t all the King of great Brittains affaires abroad, alledging <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">
other ground for their utterances, but vvhat I had openly declared to
the Lords in Parliament concerning the Lord Cottington; and ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
during my being at Paris, one Sir Thomas Dishington had free ac|ce&s;&s;e
to me That the &s;aid Sir Thomas Dishingt on should have &s;aid that
it vvas I vvho di&s;uaded the Queen Regent from &s;ending any Amba&s;&s;ado<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r
into England that had not left a good e&s;teeme there; that the
Queen Regent, being graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to a&s;ke my opinion vvhat per|&s;on
&s;eemed mo&s;t fit for that Amba&s;&s;age, I &s;aid in an&s;vver (to her mo&s;t
gracious commands) that to me the Mareshall de Ba&s;&s;ompie<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e &s;ee|meed
the fitte&s;t, being a peaceable, graue; good, and vvi&s;e noble man,
vvho hauing once reconciled the tvvo Nations, might perhaps prou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
a fit Mini&s;ter for the reconciliation betvveen the King and his people.
That the &s;aid Sir, Thomas Dishington had &s;aid, that the Lord Lan|thian
had departed as ill &s;atisfied from the French Court as any man
euer could; If I had not repre&s;ented to the Queene Regent, and to
the Cardinall Mazarin the true condition of that Lord; That I
had likevvi&s;e procured a pre&s;ent of a golden chaine to the &s;aid Sir
Thomas Dishington, and pre&s;ented him to the Cardinall Mazarin,
before his going for England, vvhich vvas in the yeare one
thou&s;and &s;ix hundreth fourty foure.</P>
<P>VVeake Objections indeed, and vveake grounds for Ma&s;ter VVil|liam
Crafts to proceede on, for the utter de&s;truction of my familly,
and to take hold on any other occa&s;ion to do me mi&s;chief, as vvas
intended vvith a report that I had &s;ince my being in France core&s;|pounded
vvith &s;ome that are not in good intelligence vvith the
French: On vvhich point I vvas not bound to an&s;vver to any man
liuing, for as I am a free man borne in Zeeland. It vvas free to me
(being not ingaged in any &s;eruice to corre&s;pond vvith vvhom I
vvould) Yes cannot any man doubt of my Integrity, and Maxime<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
con&s;idering the profe&s;&s;ion I haue made during many yeares, my ex|perience
and the cruell per&s;ecutions vvhich I have &s;uffered by tho&s;e
that are no reall friends to the State of England, vvith vvhome I
vvould corre&s;pond (both in publique and priuate) if thereby I could
doe good to the &s;aid State; becau&s;e I and my familly haue liued
there thirty yeares; that I am of the &s;ame Religion that the Church
<PB N="15" REF="8">
of England doth profe&s;&s;e; and that I haue a particullar affection to
the Nation.</P>
<P>For the bruited corre&s;pondence in it &s;elfe, vvho,
doth it concerne?</P>
<P>IT may concerne the &s;atisfaction of th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e that haue <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> this <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">
(if they plea&s;e to confirme them&s;elues in vvhat I do maintaine
vvhich is TO TELL TRVTH,) to take the paines to reade
the copie of a letter vvhich <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> vvritten &s;o me, at my going
from Paris, vvhere I haue novv the&s;e nine months, troubled my <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">
about recouering three of my daughters, as yet detained from me
in a Nunnery; contrary to the Lavves of God, of Nature, the
Fundamentall Lavves of the Land; and of Nations in the &s;ight
of a mo&s;t Chri&s;tian Queens Regent; vvho as Her pious exemplary
life, manife&s;ts Her to bee a machele&s;&s;e Miror to all tho&s;e of Her
Se<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and condition) <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> di&s;obedience of Children <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">
Patents, &amp;c&punc;</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>COPIE AND TRVE TRANSLATION
OF A LETTER VVRITTEN TO ME BY IAQUES
D'ELDIMS, dvvelling in the &s;treet S&punc; Leu behind La Rue
<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Ours, a V<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nneger hou&s;e, dated 4 Apprill 1646, Puril.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I have thought fit to let you knovv,
that Mon&s;ieur des Champs is come
to me, from Mon&s;ieur de la Bernadi|ere
and con&s;orts, (Confrators of the Holy Sacra|ment
as they terme them&s;elves to bee employed to
convert Huguenots and hath told mee that if you
vvill become a Roman Catholicke, Reconcile your
<PB N="16" REF="9">
&s;elfe to the Queene of England, and ca&s;t your &s;elfe
at her feet, it shall bee procured that all your affai|res
vvill &s;ucceede according to your de&s;ire.</P>
<P>It behoves you to knovv vvhether your de&s;ires
and contentments can bee a&s;&s;ured by this meanes;
and if you do beleeve that your peace is ea&s;ie to bee
compa&s;&s;ed vvith the Queene your Mi&s;tris; for my
part I do give you this advi&s;e as it is put to my
charge, to let you knovv the &s;ame, praying you
to vvritte thereon vvhat you thinke fit, and your
intention, that I may make Knovvne to have ac|quitted
my &s;elfe of this commi&s;&s;ion, &s;o Ki&s;&s;ing
your hands, I re&s;t for ever</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>SIR.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>COPIE AND TRVE TRANSLATION
OF MY ANSVVER TO THE LETTER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I do an&s;vver to your Letter of aduis, for vvhich I thanke
you, though I &s;tand not in need of any other Confraternity then
that of Chri&s;tians, vvho haue tvvo Sacraments In&s;tituted by their
Cheefe Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, It's for that profe&s;&s;ion my predece&s;&s;ors have
shed their blood <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> in the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of Mon&s;ieur <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, as
you may reade: and for mee I have &s;uffered for the &s;ame from my
mothers VVombe, vvho fled during the per&s;ecutions again&s;t tho&s;e of
our profe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>And for vvhat concernes the particular title of Roman Catho|like,
I do an&s;vver, that the Chri&s;tian &s;aith all. That of Roman
properly belonging but to him that'll borne at Rome, from vvheno<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">,
as &s;aid, &s;eldome good men <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></P>
<P><PB N="17" REF="9">
The propo&s;ed reconcilliation to the Queen of England &s;eemes
as &s;trange to me as the propo&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, hauing neuer offended
her in thoughts, vvords, nor deeds; &s;o that tho&s;e vvho haue obliged you
to notice theire propo&s;itions are vvholly mi&s;taken in the&s;e tvvo points
yet vvill I not forbeare to vvi&s;h them all good, and to commende
you for your good vvill, vvhich obliges me to tell you that I am
the more SIR,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Paris <DATE>6 of Aprill 1646.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Reader being come thus farre, may (if he
plea&s;e) remember againe vvhat is &s;aid in the fir&s;t lines
of the&s;e leaves. Iudgment belongs to God and
to none el&s;e, for he &s;aith Iudgment is mine.</HEAD>
<P>And a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> by &s;o doing, he vvill free him&s;elfe of that ju&s;t cen&s;vver vvhich
tho&s;e de&s;erve that judge arni&s;&s;e, &s;o vvill he (by the reading of the fol|lovving
lines) be throughly informed of the ju&s;t cau&s;e that ju&s;tly mo|ved
me thereunto, and that I could not (vvithout proving criminall
to my &s;elfe) obmit to mention the pa&s;&s;ages contained in the former
lines&punc; For an Anatomi&s;t cannot proceed to the demon&s;tration of the
figure of the heart of man except he rips up the skin of the body.</P>
<P>Some kings and Princes (vvho are abu&s;ed by pernicious) Coun|cellors)
vvill not &s;tick to the Ob&s;eruation of the Lavvs vvhich they
them&s;elues haue made, not to tho&s;e to vvhich they vvere &s;vvorne,
Butt abandonne them &s;elues unto a Licenciou&s;ne&s;&s;e to di&s;po&s;e of the
Liues and poce&s;&s;ions of men: But none of them can di&s;po&s;e of the
motions of the heart, nor of any mans good fame.</P>
<P>Iff theire be any peculliar Prerogatiue in this vvorld &s;ure &s;elfe
defence in the lea&s;t que&s;tionnable, it is the fir&s;t Lavv of nature. The|refore
all men are bound to conclude that tho&s;e vvho do vvilfully
a&s;&s;aille it do make them &s;elffe unvvoorthy of the benefi&s;t of the Lavvs
of God, the Lavvs of Nature, the fondamentall Lavvs of Empi|res,
and of Nations.</P>
<P>To the heart I haue been vvounded, and attempts haue been
made to my &s;oule, and therefore no vvonder that I haue begunne
the&s;e Lines vvith the names of my Parents, their birth, and their
<PB N="18" REF="10">
profe&s;&s;ion, likvvei&s;e vvith my birth, and profe&s;&s;ion; and con&s;equent|ly
vvith &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages that mu&s;t argue vvhat I haue profe&s;t, vvhie&s;t
in effet is the ripping upp of the fir&s;t skin: On vvhich Spiri&s;t of
Darkne&s;&s;e and Diluzion haue of late endeauioured to put &s;uch an
infamous &s;tayne, as neither Antiquity nor Moderne times can afforde
amore~ horride example.</P>
<P>All vvhich the &s;aid Spirits of Darxne&s;&s;e factionnaris and adhe|rents
to Cottintoniens haue been contracted in the per&s;&s;on of Mr.
VVilliam Crafts, vvho undertooke his taske, to
poce&s;&s;e divers Noble Famillies in Paris, vvith a mo&s;t
fal&s;e opinion that my Daughters (detained from m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
in the Nunnery) belong to others: This the Elde&s;t
hath declared under her ovvn hand, and that vvhen the &s;aid abomi|nable
fal&s;e-hood vvas uttered by the &s;aid Ma&s;ter Craft, &s;hee de&s;ired a
friend to reprove him, he an&s;vvered it vvas to make her a fortune.</P>
<P>A fortune indeed, vvhich the mo&s;t vvicked among the Headens
vvould on &s;uch condition reject, and vvould for ever banish the
vvord Fortune from their remembrance.</P>
<P>My &s;elfe and a vertuous Mother proclamed the Keepers of the&s;e
Children, to have &s;pent their meanes, belonging to others, horride
Mon&s;ters, that kept children from endeavouring their Salvation; and
in conclu&s;ion by the &s;aid Ma&s;ter Craft's mo&s;t fal&s;e relations) become
in the Opinion of number of Deluded per&s;ons a Mon&s;ter, that
&s;hould haue been capable to do that for vvhich I &s;hould ju&s;tly de&s;erve
to be for&s;aken by God, and abhorred of all man-kinde; better had
I never been borne, than to be coupable of &s;uch a crime; better had
I lived all my dayes among brute bea&s;ts, and not in &s;ight of the Courts
of Princes.</P>
<P>My life hath been vvithout &s;taine, no man ever &s;avv me poce&s;t
vvith vvine, and &s;ure no man can &s;ay that the place of my birth vvas
de&s;troyed by fire and Brim&s;tone, and that I vvas driven vvith my fa|mily
in a Cave: No man can &s;ay of mee (as the VVorld hath ju&s;t
cau&s;e to maintaine of the &s;aid Ma&s;ter Crafts) to haue &s;vvarued from
the Religion in vvhich I baue been borne and bredd, nor for any
vvorldly preferments; Meanes to vveake to vvork on a Chri&s;tian &s;et|led
m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nde; I &s;hall rather chou&s;e to abandonne the Society of man|kind,
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all vvorldly conforts; Nay, burry my &s;elfe alive, than to yeeld
to di&s;ordinate povvers; And had it not been the hopes to do &s;ome
good on my poore &s;educed Children, I vvould not haue been mo|ved
neither by promi&s;es of SUFFICIENT ENTERTAINMENT an&s;vverable
to my condition, nor by a&s;&s;urances of Royall favours, &s;ub&s;cribed by
Eminent Signatures, vvhich Mon&s;ieur Bra&s;&s;et the French Re&s;ident at
the Haghe did peru&s;e ere I vould &s;turre from thence in Augu&s;t la&s;t
1645 to returne into France.</P>
<P>VVhere (as &s;aid before) all my labours on my &s;educed Children
haue proued like the vva&s;hing of Black mores, my cares and paynes
having produced to me but &s;ome letters vvritten by tho&s;e blinded
Virgins, but penned by their blind Leaders, for &s;o theire arguments
proues them to be, &s;ince they haue &s;ett under theire one hand that
they could not hazard to imitatte Io&s;eph vvhen he rane to his fa|ther
Iacob to go&s;&s;en to do theire la&s;t duty, but vvith hazard off
theire SALVATION, and therefore &s;ent only to me (at my
departure) a vvorke Stilled, <HI>DISCOVRSE OF AMABLE
BOVRZET,</HI> a Prie&s;t, vvho had dedicated a pack of mouldy or|dinary
tailles, (a ne&s;t of Cob-vvebs) to Prince Edvvard Palatin,
Allas deluded Prince! as iff tho&s;e Lines vvere to proue as fatall as
the vvound Achiles receaued in his heele, and (though vvhithout
comparai&s;on of quality) con&s;equently to &s;tay me, that I might be
vvraught uppon, or con&s;trayned to render my Soule into the &s;narres
of Mon&s;ieur Bourzet, vvho teacheth a mo&s;t damnable doctrine, as di|&s;obedience
of Children to Parents, e&s;pecially in things in different;
vvhich is to &s;ee and to heare Parents in a neuther place, according
the Lavvs of the Land, VVhich do ordaine children to &s;ee and con|&s;ulte
their parents ere they take any religious orders.</P>
<P>All vvhich being finally &s;econded by the letter vvritten by Iacques
d'Eldime (vvho dvvels as &s;aid before at a Vinnegar man behind Saint
Leu, La Rue aux Ours in Paris) proued a mo&s;t bruti&s;h farvvell; and
a &s;ouer comfort, to the vvounded heart of a Father&punc;</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>BALTAZAR GERBIER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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