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<HEAD>A Narrative of an ill favoured attempt to pervert the Duke of <HI>Glo|ce&s;ter,</HI> extracted out of divers letters from <HI>France.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Paris,</HI> <DATE><HI>Novem.</HI> 7. 1654.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THere are newly come to my notice &s;ome unto|ward pa&s;&s;ages, wherby one of our great Pledges hath been expo&s;ed to the hazard of his Religion; which my Pen is very loth to impart, were it not for pre|vention, le&s;t being impo&s;&s;ible to bee conceald in <HI>England,</HI> it might bee repre&s;ented by others either more de&s;perate, or more faulty than yet it is in truth.</P>
<P>The King when hee went away from hence was over-in|treated by his mother to leave the Duke of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> with her, which to content her in &s;ome things, whom hee could not plea&s;e in divers others, he con&s;ented to grant her that re|que&s;t, upon promi&s;e that &s;he would not force him to change his Religion, and &s;o conditions of liberty of prayers, &amp;c. were e&s;tabli&s;hed. But of late they doe (&s;ome &s;ay by the French Courts in&s;tigation) pre&s;&s;e it very hard, and even profe&s;&s;e an attempt of it. Mr <HI>Mountagu</HI> (Lord <HI>Abbot</HI> of <HI>Nanteul &amp;c</HI>) and his In&s;truments have gotten him, under pretence of weaning him from young French gallants company (that on occa&s;i|on of being in the &s;ame Academie were indeed grown but too kinde to him) to <HI>Pontol&s;e,</HI> and after a weeks &s;tay there, his Tutor comming on bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to <HI>Paris</HI> for one night, (whe|ther they had de&s;igned this ab&s;ence of his, or onely did make u&s;e of it, I cannot tell) they all &s;et upon him with motives Spirituall and Temporall to become a Roman Ca|tholike; the Spirituall ones &s;uch as the &s;ubject would af|ford
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<PB N="2" REF="4">little and many; more tru&s;ting on number than weight, he and (his only help then) Mr. <HI>Griffin,</HI> an&s;wered with the be&s;t skill they had, and with much more re&s;olution and metall both of them than you can imagine: and rejected the Temporall ones with contempt, and with the danger of in|curring the Kings di&s;plea&s;ure, who had both given him a charge, and engaged his Mother, that there &s;hould bee no change in Religion laboured for. But to both the Duke added a complaint, that they &s;hould offer to a&s;&s;ault him, with either of tho&s;e con&s;iderations in the ab&s;ence of his Tutor, who was fitte&s;t to judge of their propo&s;alls.</P>
<P>When hee came therefore the &s;hock was renew'd, and &s;u&s;tained &s;o firmly, that the &s;tay at <HI>Pontoy&s;e</HI> was &s;ooner en|ded than wee hoped for. To our great content we &s;ee our yong Prince again frequent and con&s;tant at the &s;ame devo|tions with us, but complaining much hee &s;hould bee trou|bled by his Fathers and Brothers &s;ubjects, e&s;pecially to be|come of another Religion, than they and his con&s;cience di|rected him to keepe to.</P>
<P>But the Queene now mu&s;t appeare to own the thing, and to profe&s;s that &s;he cannot but labour to have her &s;on &s;hew'd the right way to Heaven; and though &s;hee promi&s;ed hee &s;hould not bee forced by her, yet to have that way propo&s;ed to him &s;hee found requi&s;ite: and &s;ince Mr. <HI>Lovell</HI> (his Tutor) had expre&s;&s;ed hee could not, nor mu&s;t not &s;ee him &s;o a&s;|&s;aulted, and therefore pre&s;&s;'d the forbearance of &s;uch di&s;|cour&s;es in the Dukes pre&s;ence, being ready to &s;atisfie any one him&s;elfe; &s;he would put him into another Governors hands, for a while at lea&s;t, and &s;o under Mr. <HI>Mountagus</HI> wing hee is carried to Mr. <HI>Crofts</HI> hou&s;e, being contrary to his owne earne&s;t entreaty hurried away on Saturday, and not &s;uffer'd to &s;tay till Monday, though he pleaded hard for it upon want of a warme coat, and there he mu&s;t tarry till Monday &s;even|night
<PB N="3" REF="4">after. Meanwhile no body with him that might help his re&s;olution &s;ave Mr. <HI>Griffin</HI> of his Bed-chamber: a yong Gentleman, though an old &s;ervant of his (once my Lord of <HI>Manche&s;ters</HI> Page) who is indeed zealous again&s;t their de&s;ign, even with re&s;olution to quit the &s;ervice, if any change &s;hould happen; but his yeares and breeding make him not invincible as to him&s;elfe, and if hee yield any con&s;iderable a&s;&s;i&s;tance to his Ma&s;ter, mu&s;t bee left behind too, the next remoove at lea&s;t.</P>
<P>They have &s;ent notice of the&s;e &s;traights to the King and Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> long &s;ince, but t'is carefully provided that the Duke of <HI>Yorke</HI> mu&s;t not come home yet, and when he does prepare to come, if they cannot find them&s;elves Conque|rors and &s;ecure, they will (rather than hazard the lo&s;s of this Prey) not &s;cruple to encloy&s;tre him from any Heretikes view what&s;oever.</P>
<P>In &s;uch a ca&s;e as this, you cannot pre&s;ume enough of the reale and indignation the little Prince ha's again&s;t his U&s;age heere, again&s;t the wrong done him by the Councell that left him in &s;uch dangerous hands, again&s;t every obtruded Servant of that pack about him, again&s;t his new Governor, him&s;elf cro&s;&s;ing him in divers things, even of le&s;&s;er moment, as if hee were the only Engli&s;h, whom experience hath taught how narrowly men ought to watch again&s;t U&s;urpa|tion; in fine, hee apprehends his danger &s;eriou&s;ly, and the honour of re&s;i&s;ting mo&s;t nobly and heroically, both for re|&s;olution of Endeavour, and for confidence of Succe&s;&s;e: that and the odds of the cau&s;e, and Gods power to perfect prai&s;e <HI>ex ore infantium,</HI> is almo&s;t the only hopes we have.</P>
<P>Let us have yours, and all good Prote&s;tants Prayers for this Confe&s;&s;or, who as he &s;ees (unmov'd) an evident want of all things fit for a Gentleman of better &s;ort, &s;lighted of the French Court, his Mothers Frowne and endle&s;s impor|tunity
<PB N="4" REF="5">before him, if hee be not perverted: So I doubt no is now under the <HI>Mew-Di&s;cipline,</HI> and the <HI>Manage</HI> of their Spirituall, or rather Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall <HI>Faulconers,</HI> who will not ever cea&s;e <HI>watching</HI> &amp; <HI>dieting,</HI> &amp;c. and whatever el&s;e is nece&s;|&s;ary to bring this <HI>yong Eaglet</HI> to <HI>&s;toop</HI> and <HI>vaile,</HI> and to detall things at their <HI>Lewre,</HI> even to take <HI>Hood</HI> too, if need bee. For they that make &s;uch a Court-worke of every little <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> and di&s;contented debauch'd &s;ervants conver&s;ion, will &s;pare none of their little or great Arts to get this Noble <HI>Bird</HI> of &s;o Royall a <HI>Wing,</HI> as being the only one of that <HI>Air<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">y</HI> they hope for now, having lo&s;t &s;o much pains on the two former, and &s;o fit to <HI>awe</HI> and <HI>dare</HI> le&s;&s;er Birds by; of which there are Wagers layd of no few or mean ones already.</P>
<P>I fore&s;aw this unmea&s;ur'd excur&s;ion before hand, and was therefore &s;o loth to write at all: and the truth is, I can neither <HI>&s;cribere,</HI> nor <HI>non&s;cribere,</HI> til this <HI>Cri&s;is</HI> be over. Though I fore&s;ee what news this will be in <HI>Gath,</HI> furni&s;hing the Par|liament with a ready an&s;wer, when the next bold man asks, What have the poor Gentlemen done abroad? And there are &s;agacious &s;ouls that would never under&s;tand <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> now the rea&s;on why the Parliament decreed to &s;end him abroad, are he was out-grown the danger of perver&s;ion. But certainly they that pretend to have true Prote&s;tant hearts, and will for either fear or love of money, &s;uffer the <HI>Defenders of their Faith,</HI> to be <HI>led into</HI> the <HI>Wilderne&s;s</HI> of want, and prepare them with <HI>hunger</HI> for the <HI>Divels temptations</HI> of <HI>Turning</HI> any <HI>&s;tone</HI> to get <HI>Bread,</HI> doe de&s;erve the la&s;h of per&s;ecution, which in time may ju&s;tly light upon them, if God and they doe not timely prevent it.</P>
<P><HI>Paris,</HI> 25. <HI>Novemb.</HI> 1654.</P>
<P>By former Letters you may perceive how they prevailed with the Queene to take the Duke out of his Tutors hands, hurrying him fir&s;t to <HI>Pontoy&s;e,</HI> and then to Mr. <HI>Cro&s;ts</HI> hou&s;e.
<PB N="5" REF="5">During which, as fully as they po&s;&s;e&s;s'd him, every houre and much le&s;s parts of the day, one or other of the <HI>Bees</HI> ever humming about him; yet at night hee had one that lay in his Bed-chamber, who entertain'd him more to his hearts de&s;ire, and (like <HI>Penelope's Web</HI>) un&s;pun (as well as they could two little yong things &s;ome few years above thirty between them) what ever had pa&s;t in publique, or the day before.</P>
<P>And indeed they did well to &s;pend and improve their nights in this manner; for when once they were up (as his Grandfather &s;aid of my Lord of <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> he was in perpetuall torments, Eatings, Huntings, Dancings, Vi&s;its, Journeys, En|tertainments of Males and Females; &s;o) our little Duke was continually tortur'd with Arguments finely imbeli&s;h'd with, True Church, Roman Catholick Church; To be of the King of <HI>France,</HI>-his Mothers Religion: Being made a Cardinall, To become that King which mu&s;t re&s;tore what <HI>Henry</HI> 8, took away, and the appendices.</P>
<P>However he was not &s;o &s;trictly lookt unto at fir&s;t, but that there might bee now and then &s;tolen into his hand a Con|fortatory Letter from his Friends at <HI>Paris;</HI> but the&s;e &s;hifts were to la&s;t but for a while: A terrible Ferule was poli&s;h'd for him, and &s;uch a one, as the awe of it kept him from flat rejecting and affronting his new Governor <HI>Mountagu,</HI> le&s;t he being throughly vex'd, might re&s;igne him up into the Je|&s;uits hands; to who&s;e College the Duke knew him&s;elfe de&s;tin'd within few dayes, even by Violence it &s;elfe, if relief came not from <HI>Germany.</HI></P>
<P>And now when all his &s;tock of Replies (which my Friend tels me, were hugely ingenious, and indeed &s;olid, &s;uch as one would &s;ay, could not bee in tho&s;e yeares but <HI>Ex traduce</HI>) were &s;pent, and his la&s;t refuge of peremptory &s;ilence, and upbraiding them for pre&s;&s;ing their Sophi&s;mes on &s;uch a one as he was, while the Deane his Tutor and friends were de|clin'd
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<PB N="6" REF="7">ba&s;ely, grew &s;tale helps, behold a grave friend of his Fathers, Sir <HI>G. R.</HI> comes with a Letter in his pocket from the King; and was indeed admitted to &s;ee him, and talke with him before witne&s;s, but &s;o far from po&s;&s;ibility of priva|cy, that hee was faine to leave the Letter behind him to bee conveyed at an opportuner occa&s;ion into his hand. That Letter, &s;aies my Intelligencer, begins and ends &s;o Brother|like, &s;o Chri&s;tian-like, &s;o King-like, that hee hath &s;et my longing on fire to hear it: 'tis promis'd me I &s;hall, and when I doe, I &s;hall be carefull to pre&s;ent you with that Jewell.</P>
<P>It puts him in minde of the &s;trict command hee left with him at parting; of the mon&s;truous injury to his con&s;cience; to his &s;tate; to his Family; the vanity of their Motives, the emptine&s;s of their promi&s;es; the more Eligiblene&s;s of any degree of &s;uffering; Gods promi&s;es, who&s;e love he mu&s;t rec|kon to lo&s;e as well as his &s;o loving a Brothers, if he were per|verted by any inticings what&s;oever: And to make all he &s;aid more valuable; that he would reflect on their dead Fathers la&s;t charge, which he &s;olemnly gave him, with the entaile of his ble&s;&s;ing annexed.</P>
<P>In fine, he clo&s;ed his in&s;tructions with that which would have been &s;evere enough alone; That if he either chang'd his Religion, or put him&s;elfe into the <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> College, he had the la&s;t letter from him, and mu&s;t never look to &s;ee <HI>Eng|land</HI> or his Face again: And that if (which God forbid) their bu&s;ine&s;s mi&s;carried, the whole ruining of their Familie, and all the Nations too, mu&s;t lay the mi&s;chiefe at his doore as the great Cau&s;e of it.</P>
<P>Now no &s;ooner had he read this Threatning Comforter, but he hugg'd it in his Bo&s;ome, and with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed tran&s;crib'd a Copie of it for his Mother, &s;ending it forthwith to her; and begging her leave to come to <HI>Paris,</HI> both upon tho&s;e commands of the King, and upon the newes of his
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<PB N="8" REF="7"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">harp A&s;&s;aults, tis very prety to heare, and did not the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> interruption give me &s;u&s;pition that our Letters keep <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">heir daies to you, no more than yours to us, I &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">you con&s;tantly the proceedings in the bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">ut if there be not &s;trange unnaturall carriage u&s;ed, we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> enjoy his Concurrence in Communion with us as we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">very day, and which will mo&s;t vex them, on Sunday <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> at Church at the Re&s;idents hou&s;e: which he is re&s;olv'd <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> not be neglected or omitted upon any per&s;wa&s;ion what| <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">er: though that be not in the number of tho&s;e things by word <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">ch he is fortified for by the Kings Letter. For he has a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">ous indignation again&s;t them that have with &s;o many <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">es hindred him (indeed by plain moral Violence, which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> entreaty, no policy of his could either prevent or mollifie) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> many Sundayes from <HI>Paris;</HI> and at the Reports which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">e begotten betweene lying tongues and credulous eares, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">t he was already turn'd, upon no other ground of his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">ng, but bare being away from Church; which could <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">ay be effected but by hurrying him out of Towne; nor <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">d that be obtained of him without e&s;tabli&s;hing a new <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">vernour upon him, which thing &s;o indirectly trenching <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> Religion, he could not have refu&s;ed without di&s;obeying <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> Mother: Yet the advantage of that, as it was really great <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">in&s;t the poore Youth, produc'd &s;o great a pledge to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">man party, that the Curates in divers Churches gave <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">nks for his Reconciliation a Sunday or two agone; So <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">t they will be now expo&s;ed to di&s;repure of their Pari&s;hio|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">s, and mockerie of the adver&s;ary, the fir&s;t Sunday of their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">po&s;ed Pro&s;elytes appearing at our Church, which is like|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">o kindle no &s;mall wrath among&s;t them, and therefore we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">nd in feare of &s;ome &s;hrew'd <HI>Cri&s;is</HI> between this and Sun|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">y morning as neere as it is: I doe not meane of hazard, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> greater violence of a&s;&s;ault.</P>
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<P>He has been on his Vi&s;it at the <HI>Louvre,</HI> and pa&s;t tho&s;e pikes already: though both Queen and Cardinal joyntly, and both &s;everally, have pre&s;&s;ed him, that hee is now to obey his Mother &s;ince his Fathers death; and they cannot finde any occa&s;ion he &s;hould have to regard other directions. Here hee thought hee had mo&s;t need of his Bro|thers Letter, which enjoyn'd him &s;ilence to any di&s;putes: But manners would not &s;uffer him to &s;ay nothing, and much le&s;s to &s;ay what he could have done, of the inconvenience of preferring Mothers commands before his Soveraignes: But it would have been too hot; and therefore glad he was to come off that brunt, with a general promi&s;e of dutifulne&s;s to his Mother as much as any Son in the world could or ought to u&s;e; and a prote&s;tation that it was ever a thing abhorr'd of him to harken to any Coun&s;ell to the contrary. And be&s;ides that the very getting off was a Triumph, he made great prize of their promi&s;e, that it was but for his greater good, and the advantage they &s;hould have of high|lyer doing him good, that they look'd upon the hopes of his change of Religion; they knew however that they ought to look on him as a Childe of <HI>France,</HI> of what&s;oever religi|on he was.</P>
<P>There was be&s;ides, a pa&s;&s;age which hee was not very free of relating, yet it came out; that there had beene a promi&s;e betweene the Crownes <HI>articled upon at the Marriage-Treaty of his Father and Mother,</HI> that the Queen &s;hould have the bring|ing up of all the children till twelve years of age, in lieu and compen&s;ation of which being &s;o notoriou&s;ly violated, it was but rea&s;on and great conde&s;cention, that the third Son &s;hould be intirely committed to her di&s;po&s;all, e&s;pecially &s;he being in <HI>France.</HI> You will ea&s;ily grant it out of the Sphere of his Age to reply to &s;uch high a&s;&s;aults: it was highly enough for his honor that hee was thought fit to bee &s;o pleaded with; but that it wrought not with him, is a &s;igne of
<PB N="10" REF="8">Gods great vigilancy over him, and a Pledge that hee ha's a Ble&s;&s;ing for him.</P>
<P>In fine, all the&s;e Addre&s;&s;es abroad, and other renew'd at home, gave &s;uch a te&s;timony of his firmne&s;s, that the Queen on Saturday morning tooke him apart from all his and her Servants, and very &s;eriou&s;ly bemoan'd her ca&s;e with his too, in that the earne&s;t de&s;ire of his and the whole Families good met with &s;uch difficulties, as &s;hould put her to u&s;e &s;uch &s;e|verity with him. Shee could not but pity him, as wearied already with &s;o many per&s;wa&s;ions; and truly the tender affection &s;he ever had for him, and had con&s;tantly &s;hew'd to him, could not but make her &s;elfe weary of &s;uch tedious cour&s;es: Therefore &s;he was re&s;olv'd to make a &s;udden end; and for that cau&s;e charg'd him to retire him&s;elfe, and give one hearing more to Mr. <HI>Mountag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI> and afterwards to lay her and his words &s;eriou&s;ly to his heart, and bring her an an&s;wer full and finall ere night. What the particular Pro|po&s;als &s;he made were, may come out hereafter: At the fir&s;t appearance of this intended privacy with him, hee very dex|terou&s;ly contrived an opportunity to &s;peake to his Servant <HI>Griffin,</HI> to &s;eek out my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> to be ready to &s;peake with him, by then he might come from his Mother; which is a fair <HI>Omen:</HI> But the Po&s;t mu&s;t not be pre&s;um'd on, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Decemb.</HI> 2.</P>
<P>You were left I think at the &s;tate of things on Saturday morning, and was come to the charge the Queen had given him to attend her alone. The Duke had in the little Interim of clearing the room, &s;ent <HI>Griffin</HI> for my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> pre|&s;ently to be with him, or at lea&s;t &s;o &s;oone as the Queen had done: And it was but Propheticall Providence: for the Queens bu&s;ine&s;s was of &s;o great import as might require it well. She began with all &s;weetne&s;s po&s;&s;ible, repeated the ma|nife&s;t &s;ignes of her great and tender affection for him, and
<PB N="11" REF="8">how much it griev'd her that that very love it &s;elfe &s;hould compell her to proceed now with &s;uch &s;eeming &s;everity: She pre&s;um'd he was weary of it, and truly &s;o was &s;hee too, therefore for his ea&s;e &s;ake, &s;hee would &s;horten his Time of Triall; and therefore propo&s;ing all the good &s;he aym'd at in this de&s;igne of hers, and the Duty hee owed her, and the di&s;ability of the King to maintaine him, &amp;c. She wi&s;h'd him to withdraw pre&s;ently, and &s;eque&s;tring him&s;elfe from any diver&s;ion after he had given Mr. <HI>Mountagu</HI> the hearing, for a while to ponder &s;eriou&s;ly what &s;hee and hee had &s;aid, and bring her his finall an&s;wer ere night.</P>
<P>The Duke obey'd; for reply then he mu&s;t not: Goes to his Chamber; Mr. <HI>Mountagu</HI> comes, pre&s;&s;es, is refu&s;ed: but after an houres Di&s;cour&s;e, retires, begs to be &s;ent for againe when my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> was come, within an houre; if not, hee mu&s;t come of him&s;elfe. But my Lord of <HI>Ormond</HI> comes, no <HI>Mountagu</HI> &s;ent for, or comes for two houres. The Marque&s;s and the Duke &s;oone re&s;olv'd what &s;hould bee an|&s;wered: &s;pent the time onely in ordering circum&s;tances for the manner.</P>
<P>After the&s;e three Di&s;cour&s;es, it was time for a yong Prince to have a little breath, and therefore hee retires to a Lady's Chamber on the other &s;ide, where he might give his eares a little ea&s;e, and if he mu&s;t heare more, that it might bee le&s;&s;e materiall di&s;cour&s;e, therefore choo&s;es one that would beat no more upon that Theme. No &s;ooner is hee gone, but Mr. <HI>Mountague</HI> comes, mi&s;&s;es him, hunts up and downe for him, chides him for being off his &s;tation of pen&s;ivene&s;&s;e, for not having &s;ent for him.</P>
<P><HI>Well Sir</HI> &s;ayes the Duke, <HI>my Task is done, I have re&s;olv'd: what did my Mother bid more? there is time enough to tell.</HI> And &s;o it was, as it prov'd to be; for the an&s;wer was &s;uch, that the en|tertainment it had, was <HI>a charge to &s;ee her face no more.</HI> Which
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<PB N="12" REF="10">Sentence was no &s;ooner pronounc'd, but executed by French ha&s;te: Out he mu&s;t; and then hee that had nothing but a|mazement to reply with, had now a Cue to &s;peake on, and beg the parting Ble&s;&s;ing at lea&s;t, till hee could prevaile for her pardon. It will not bee; Out hee mu&s;t; and &s;o full of Tears and A&s;toni&s;hment, to finde out his Brother hee goes, and they &s;hare the &s;orrow till Youth and Night parts them by drow&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>But the Edict, that it may not &s;eem Scenical, or <HI>in terrorem,</HI> goes forth to all the Officers of the Hou&s;e; neither to pro|vide nor lend any Nece&s;&s;ary either to &s;pend, or &s;o much as to u&s;e. While the yong Innocent &s;lept &s;oundly, and upon the advantage &s;orrow had given, long in the morning; drea|ming but of one Task at mo&s;t, &s;tealing a Ble&s;&s;ing of his Mo|ther, either by Si&s;ters or Brothers Interce&s;&s;ion; or &s;tealing at lea&s;t a means of begging it ere &s;hee went to her Mona&s;te|ry, or him&s;elfe to Church, a much long'd for (and often wrangled for) contentment. But in &s;tead of a Mother, hee is admitted to no conver&s;e on her &s;ide but of a Step. Tutor, who again &s;olicits, aggravates the perill of his Mothers an|ger, knowing indeed more then the little Duke did of it (as Cau&s;es can prophe&s;ie, and Coun&s;ellors know all that was al|ready.) <HI>Now was the time, if ever,</HI> &s;ayes <HI>Mountagu: Get to her this very pre&s;ent in&s;tant,</HI> (almo&s;t Sermon-time,) <HI>&s;hee has ea&s;ier Pro|po&s;als for you, but I cannot name them now.</HI> The Duke an&s;wers; <HI>Then will I; where ere I go, I mu&s;t have not a quiet only for a while, but the exerci&s;e of my Religion; neither her Propo&s;als, and le&s;&s;e yours, promi&s;e that.</HI></P>
<P>The Coach went now by with his Mother for the Nun|nery: The back&s;ide whereof made him warm: Mr. <HI>Moun|tague</HI> need not aggravate the &s;adne&s;s of the &s;pectacle, which as appear'd afterwards, was more like the la&s;t remote View, than the child could think of. Hee an&s;wered; <HI>Such as it is I
<PB N="13" REF="10">may thank you for, Sir; and tis but rea&s;on, What my Mother &s;ayes to me, I &s;ay to you; I pray be &s;ure I &s;ee you no more;</HI> and &s;o &s;hew'd his back. And to the la&s;t que&s;tion, <HI>Whither are you going, good Sir?</HI> The Duke an&s;wered (over the &s;houlder) <HI>To Church.</HI> Where hee was indeed &s;omewhat &s;adder than be|came the cheerfullne&s;&s;e of the re&s;t of the Congregation: But ere night we all pardoned him, finding much of its cau&s;e the &s;tory which we knew not then, and be&s;ides that a great deale of Augurie which hee could expre&s;&s;ie then know: for after Sermon hee had a (No-Sunday) thought lay on him to finde a Dinner: to the Cooks he mu&s;t &s;end; neither Meat, Wine, Bread, Napkin, nor diet to bee had el&s;e; &s;o heavy, &s;o generall the Pro&s;cription.</P>
<P>Yet after Evening Prayer he hop'd one interval of content, by his Mothers ab&s;ence to goe &s;ee his Si&s;ter. The newes of his adventure frights her poore childe into Teares and &s;hrikes; and though the vi&s;itant was by his &s;ervant named a Gentleman onely, yet &s;hee &s;tarts up, and cries out, <HI>Oh God, my Brother! Oh me! my Mother! I am undone for ever! what &s;hall I doe?</HI> Not one among her attendants old or yong, could an&s;wer her but in Teares and &s;hrikes as impotent. The poore Duke attends; the me&s;&s;enger di&s;&s;embles their po&s;tures till he was got farther off. Ere long home, was the Queene come, and how full by this time &s;he was of his Re|ply to Mr. <HI>Mountague,</HI> a new advance of the &s;entence &s;hewes; a Groom comes up at 8, or 9, at night to know what he &s;hould do with the Dukes two Hor&s;es: the Comptroler was come with a charge to put them out in&s;tantly: The Clowne pleaded, <HI>To morrow would be time enough; Now 'twas too late:</HI> with a great oath or two, the yong Comptroller re|plies, <HI>Yes, and I &s;hall be out of my place ere morning.</HI></P>
<P>The re&s;olutions on Munday of the Duke were to give way to this Pa&s;&s;ion; and in order to it &s;ince his verball Pa&s;&s;e
<PB N="14" REF="11">was given him on Saturday night, <HI>Doe what you plea&s;e: onely &s;ee not my face:</HI> he would not be &s;o neare his Mother (all the while hee was providing nece&s;&s;aries wanting for a <HI>Germanie</HI> journey,) but retire to Mr. <HI>Crofts</HI> his hou&s;e a while, a little out of the way, whence he might beg a grant to bee admit|ted to take leave. The Queen heares of this al&s;o: checks <HI>Crofts</HI> for now &s;eeming willing to receive him, whom &s;hee has often commanded to invite. The like penaltie almo&s;t lay on him if he lent him his hou&s;e: he tells the Duke, and &s;ubmits however to his plea&s;ure. The Duke thankes him, but would not di&s;plea&s;e her &s;o much: and &s;o re&s;olves after Dinner, when the Queene of France was to come, (and it would bee uncomely for him to bee in the hou&s;e, and not waite on her; as in his Mothers lodgings hee might not) to goe over the water and vi&s;it my Lord <HI>H.</HI> but even in that there would be a danger to the good Lord from <HI>London:</HI> yet con&s;idering there was great odds betweene his and his Bro|thers pre&s;ence, hee adventured, though the deliberations made it &s;omewhat over late: but there grew on an occa&s;ion, that the next night he was to lie there al&s;o, for there was no longer &s;taying in the <HI>Palais</HI> royall</P>
<P>The Lord and his Lady cannot refu&s;e (a double exile, for his Fathers and his owne Religion, and for his owne crime loyaltie) to admit &s;uch a Gue&s;t, while hee can provide for his Voyage, for which t'was pre&s;um'd he could find but two Hor&s;es, and the relikes of his new-given 10 l. for the monthly privy pur&s;e.</P>
<P>We were la&s;t night in &s;ome apprehen&s;ions too of danger by rea&s;on of the &s;ituation of the hou&s;e, alone in the utmo&s;t <HI>Fauxbourgs,</HI> from either the zealots welwillers to the hor|ribly and notoriou&s;ly di&s;appointed; or from the di&s;relli&s;h of the Courts that might happen. But all is well to day, &s;aving that his abode there is not yet &s;o known, but that
<PB N="15" REF="11">divers of each French Religion thinke hee remov'd from the <HI>Palais</HI> to the <HI>Jo&s;uites</HI> College: all things being there &s;o con|&s;idently ready long agone, and the de&s;ires of both Queens &s;o concentrally tending to that de&s;igne, even &s;ince the perem|ptory commands of his Brother from <HI>Coloigne</HI> triplicated to him, and &s;econded with divers &s;ince.</P>
<P><HI>December,</HI> 3.</P>
<P>On Munday the Queene had not forgot her &s;evere threat and interdict to the Duke: yet having taken all the cour&s;es &s;hee could finde in her owne Spheare, had it &s;eems enga|ged the Queene of <HI>France</HI> to try once more her Authority with him. But the expectation of her comming to the <HI>Falais</HI> was diver&s;ly interpreted, &s;ome imagined it was to make the Dukes peace; &s;ome that &s;hee might retract his re&s;olution by fre&s;h a&s;&s;aults; &s;ome to &s;hew him how little he mu&s;t look for the favour of their pre&s;ence: but his High|ne&s;&s;e could not endure the uncouthene&s;&s;e of his confine|ment to his chamber, nor car'd much to hazzard the &s;ight of the Queen of <HI>France,</HI> he had been &s;o fearfully a&s;&s;aulted of late.</P>
<P>But &s;o it was, that &s;o &s;oone as &s;hee came, &s;hee &s;ent her &s;on the Duke of <HI>Anjou</HI> to vi&s;it him, who returned with newes he was not at home: The Queene of <HI>France</HI> &s;ent then his Governour to enquire where he was, and having heard, &s;ent him immediately over to the Lord <HI>H.</HI> to labour to bend him to the Queens re&s;olution for him, and the <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> College was vehemently pre&s;s'd againe. To the Kings con|trary command, the Marque&s;&s;e (Duke of <HI>Anjo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> his Gover|nour) replied with the greate&s;t advantage of his owne parts, that it belonged to the Queen to di&s;po&s;e of her &s;on &s;ince his Fathers Death entirely; he di&s;puted whether he was in his Brothers power, onely for being his Soveraigne: and the di&s;cour&s;e growing now &s;omewhat publicker, and the Lords ioyning in with the Duke, the Marque&s;s had now his match;
<PB N="16" REF="12">and the debating that ill favoured nicety of Authority be|tweene Queen Mother, and Brother King, was &s;o agita|ted by the Engli&s;h, that the French Gentleman, a man of huge parts indeed, was put out of hopes of prevayling in his Narrand. The Queen, in confidence of her <HI>Envoy&egrave;,</HI> expects he &s;hould bring her home entire newes of the change of the yong Prince his mind, and till almo&s;t 8. &s;hee tarried for him there; but the report of the Di&s;cour&s;e did &s;oone &s;atisfie her, no alteration could be made in his Re&s;olutions.</P>
<P>The next day therefore a Report is rais'd how uncivilly the Queene of <HI>France</HI> her Me&s;&s;age was receiv'd with affront, &amp; the la&s;t &s;tep of alienation and di&s;tance between the Queen and her Son came to the height: The great Palace of <HI>Cardi|nall Richelieu</HI> is not big enough for the&s;e two great Hearts ex|tracted from <HI>Henry</HI> the 4.</P>
<P>Since his departure all things are better then we imagin'd, &s;ave that the pre&s;umption they had of him heretofore is not yet worn away. It la&s;ted to my knowledge till Thur&s;day, in &s;o great a &s;trength of Tumour, that one of the French Mini|&s;ters a&s;&s;ured an Engli&s;hman that came to vi&s;it him, that the Duke was for certaine in the <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> College. The Duke had made a Re&s;olution that would have confuted the very Relikes of that mi&s;take, by an intention to have come every day to Prayers to us, but becau&s;e that might perchance have aggravated the heat, and lookt like a fre&s;h affront, it was advi&s;ed to be omitted.</P>
<P>Wee begin now, &s;ince I began writing, to bee a&s;&s;ured the Pa&s;&s;ion begins to abate: The Queen they &s;ay, ha's conde&s;cen|ded to give him leave to go with my Lord of <HI>Ormond,</HI> and it is hoped may admit him to beg her ble&s;&s;ing: which makes my Letter &s;omewhat the &s;horter: and I pre&s;ume you wil be content to goe to the burying of pa&s;t four circum&s;tances as &s;oone as may bee with the Vindication of the Dukes &s;incere and heroike con&s;tancy.</P>
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