FOVRE
LETTERS
:
One
from
the
Duke
of
Bouillon
to
the
French
King
.
Dated
in
Feb.
1619.
Another
from
the
French
King
to
the
Duke
of
Espernon
.
Dated
the
11.
of
Ian.
1619.
Two
other
from
the
Duke
of
Espernon
to
the
French
King
;
the
one
dated
the
17.
of
Ian.
the
other
the
7.
of
Feb.
1619.
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dore
of
Paules
.
1619.
A
letter
from
the
Duke
of
Bouillon
to
the
French
King
.
Sir
,
I
Haue
receiued
with
the
honour
and
respect
I
ought
to
beare
to
whatsoeuer
cometh
from
your
Maiestie
,
the
message
wherewith
it
hath
bene
pleased
to
charge
the
Lord
de
la
Chainee
towards
me
,
with
the
letter
which
he
hath
deliuered
me
,
dated
the
26.
of
Febr.
In
the
which
mention
is
made
of
another
sent
two
dayes
before
,
which
did
declare
vnto
me
the
vnexpected
depart
of
the
Queene
your
Maiesties
mother
from
Bleis
,
which
I
haue
not
receiued
;
neither
had
I
learned
these
troublesome
newes
before
the
coming
of
the
said
Lord
de
la
Chainee
,
who
being
endued
with
many
good
qualities
,
is
among
others
an
old
faithfull
affectionate
seruant
of
your
Maiestie
.
By
the
election
it
hath
pleased
your
Maiestie
to
make
of
him
,
your
Maiesty
doth
testifie
and
assure
me
of
its
good
will
and
affection
,
which
is
a
treasure
I
desire
to
possesse
aboue
any
other
riches
.
Your
Maiestie
doth
command
me
to
giue
him
my
aduice
vpon
the
occasions
which
are
offered
.
I
cannot
in
obeying
it
be
blamed
as
presumptuous
,
but
rather
as
ignorant
,
for
the
small
insight
I
haue
in
affaires
.
My
loue
and
the
fidelitie
I
owe
to
your
seruice
directing
my
pen
,
shall
with
your
Maiesties
good
pleasure
supply
what
may
be
defectuous
.
In
the
Queene
mothers
depart
,
all
true
Frenchmen
receiue
at
first
this
griefe
,
to
see
an
alteration
in
the
naturall
loue
and
mutuall
beneuolence
,
which
(
as
it
should
seeme
)
ought
to
be
perpetuall
betweene
your
Maiesties
.
But
as
it
doth
cause
a
sudden
sorrow
,
so
doth
it
instantly
mitigate
it
with
an
assured
hope
,
that
by
Gods
helpe
and
natures
assistance
,
your
Maiesties
cannot
remaine
disunited
in
loue
,
you
Sir
being
a
good
King
,
and
a
good
sonne
;
she
not
onely
a
louing
mother
,
but
also
a
most
humble
subiect
.
Your
Maiestie
may
haue
bene
informed
by
the
letter
which
she
hath
written
vnto
you
from
Lorches
,
that
two
passions
(
as
she
doth
tell
you
)
haue
moued
her
to
go
out
of
Blois
not
without
danger
;
The
first
,
the
notice
which
she
hath
of
many
disorders
that
concerne
your
Maiestie
;
the
other
,
of
her
life
;
leauing
and
submitting
to
your
choise
and
good
liking
the
meanes
she
ought
to
take
to
let
you
vnderstand
them
.
By
this
meanes
your
Maiestie
shall
without
constraint
rest
free
of
her
actions
,
to
the
end
that
taking
the
profitable
aduices
for
your
affections
,
they
may
reiect
those
that
are
lesse
conuenient
.
France
aboue
all
other
Realmes
hath
bene
obnoxious
to
like
sudden
accidents
,
or
rather
greater
;
but
also
better
then
any
where
else
,
haue
they
bene
helped
and
cured
without
force
of
armes
,
which
are
alwayes
hurtfull
,
especially
in
this
State
,
which
I
may
say
hath
now
lesse
neede
of
them
then
at
any
other
time
.
So
(
Sir
)
by
a
royall
,
iust
,
and
mild
power
,
your
Maiestie
may
reape
some
profite
from
this
,
in
iudging
what
is
wanting
to
a
sure
tranquillitie
;
in
the
which
your
authoritie
may
be
respected
,
the
lawes
of
the
kingdome
maintained
,
your
Edicts
of
pacifications
kept
and
obserued
,
the
infractions
repaired
,
the
difference
of
your
subiects
taken
away
,
and
preferments
and
dignities
i
…
rted
vnto
such
as
your
Maiestie
(
both
for
their
birth
and
merit
)
shall
esteeme
worthy
to
be
bestowed
vpon
.
So
(
Sir
)
shall
you
enioy
an
immortall
glory
within
your
kingdome
,
and
an
assured
felicity
.
And
I
hold
that
your
Maiestie
cannot
be
counselled
to
make
vse
of
armes
but
by
those
that
aime
at
a
dissipation
,
and
to
equall
their
dutie
in
the
equalitie
which
they
hope
to
obtaine
in
weapons
:
which
intention
is
most
detestable
,
and
shall
haue
heauen
for
iudge
,
and
on
earth
due
punishment
;
and
likewise
those
that
proffer
their
seruice
that
they
may
haue
the
meanes
to
be
disloyall
,
of
whom
there
is
great
number
.
Sir
,
giue
eare
to
your
mother
by
faithfull
and
sufficient
persons
.
Hearken
to
the
common
desires
of
your
State
,
and
appoint
what
shall
be
most
conuenient
for
it
.
Thus
doing
,
if
there
be
any
who
vnder
a
faire
shew
maske
any
false
intentions
,
they
will
be
manifested
,
and
will
serue
to
demonstrate
your
power
,
and
your
iustice
in
their
punishment
:
in
the
execution
whereof
you
shall
be
aided
by
your
good
subiects
,
according
as
their
duty
binds
them
.
As
for
my selfe
,
(
to
whom
there
remaineth
but
a
little
life
,
and
lesse
health
)
I
consecrate
whatsoeuer
belongeth
to
me
and
mine
,
without
any
excuse
,
to
the
seruice
and
establishing
of
your
authoritie
.
From
Sedan
.
Feb.
1619.
A
Let●●●
sent
from
the
French
King
to
the
Duke
of
Espernon
.
COusin
,
I
will
deferre
my
answer
to
the
Letters
which
the
Lord
of
Fauieres
hath
deliuered
vnto
me
from
you
,
as
also
to
those
I
haue
receiued
before
,
vntill
I
haue
heard
him
more
particularly
,
and
be
informed
how
he
hath
executed
the
commission
which
I
had
giuen
him
.
But
forasmuch
as
in
them
you
make
no
answer
to
the
command
I
sent
you
,
not
to
stirre
from
Mets
;
and
that
by
the
discourse
you
held
to
the
said
Fauieres
vpon
this
subiect
,
it
seemeth
that
your
mind
is
rather
not
to
stay
there
,
then
to
conforme
it selfe
to
my
will
;
I
therefore
expresly
send
this
messenger
vnto
you
with
these
presents
,
to
aduise
you
,
that
hauing
very
lately
receiued
newes
from
Germanie
,
which
not
onely
confirme
the
precedents
,
but
witnesse
the
broyles
to
increase
,
and
that
it
is
to
be
feared
that
warres
fire
alreadie
kindled
is
not
so
quickly
nor
so
easily
quenched
,
but
disperseth
it selfe
throughout
the
greatest
part
of
the
countrie
.
I
iudge
your
presence
necessary
in
the
Citie
of
Mets
,
and
charge
you
againe
,
and
that
expresly
,
not
to
leaue
it
vntill
you
receiue
farther
directions
from
me
;
which
you
shall
haue
(
as
I
haue
promised
you
)
so
soone
as
the
affaires
will
permit
you
to
remoue
from
the
Frontiers
of
my
king
dome
;
assuring
my selfe
that
in
the
meane
while
you
will
performe
that
seruice
I
desire
,
and
vnto
the
which
the
dutie
of
your
charge
doth
oblige
you
.
I
giue
you
no
other
commission
at
this
present
,
but
onely
that
you
suffer
not
the
Arch-dukes
Commissaries
,
or
any
other
whatsoeuer
,
to
carry
away
any
saltpeeter
;
and
looke
that
my
commandements
in
that
and
all
other
things
be
duly
obserued
.
I
beseech
the
Almightie
,
Cousin
,
to
haue
you
in
his
keeping
.
From
Paris
this
11.
Ian.
1691.
Signed
-
Lewis
-
And
Lower
Ratier
.
The
first
letter
of
the
Duke
of
Espermon
to
the
King
.
Sir
,
I
Haue
learned
by
the
letters
wherewith
it
hath
pleased
your
Maiestie
to
honour
me
,
written
the
20
of
the
last
moneth
,
and
the
11
of
this
present
,
that
vpon
the
newes
you
haue
receiued
of
the
continuing
of
the
warres
in
Germanie
,
you
iudge
it
fit
for
the
profit
of
your
seruice
that
I
should
not
yet
stirre
from
the
Frontires
of
this
kingdome
.
As
to
that
(
Sir
)
I
haue
nothing
to
answer
to
your
Maiestie
,
but
that
hauing
alwayes
absolutely
depended
on
your
commandements
,
and
propounded
to
my selfe
in
all
my
actions
(
for
onely
aime
)
the
good
of
your
State
,
in
the
smallest
interest
that
shall
regard
it
within
the
limits
of
my
charge
;
which
is
not
onely
capable
to
stay
me
here
,
but
doth
oblige
me
at
all
times
and
in
all
places
whatsoeuer
,
to
esteeme
my
life
nothing
,
so
I
may
be
so
happie
as
to
spend
it
for
the
seruice
of
your
Maiestie
.
But
at
this
day
(
Sir
)
the
peace
and
tranquillitie
of
France
is
growne
so
generall
,
your
State
so
powerfully
established
,
and
your
friendship
so
deare
to
all
your
neighbours
;
that
as
there
is
nothing
within
this
Realme
but
stoopes
to
your
authoritie
,
so
out
of
it
there
is
no
Prince
but
doth
respect
your
power
,
and
maintaine
himselfe
by
your
iustice
.
As
for
the
warres
in
Bohemia
,
to
the
which
hitherto
it
hath
not
bene
possible
to
giue
remedie
(
besides
that
meanes
are
now
intended
for
the
ending
of
them
in
the
friendliest
manner
that
may
be
,
and
that
there
is
no
condition
how
vnprofitable
soeuer
,
but
the
Emperour
will
accept
rather
then
to
hazard
the
little
authoritie
that
yet
remaineth
vnto
him
)
the
danger
(
fained
by
such
as
make
things
far
greater
then
they
are
,
)
is
so
remote
from
this
Frontire
,
that
the
feare
which
we
might
haue
thereof
should
be
without
ground
;
seeing
moreouer
that
not
any
as
yet
are
come
ouer
on
this
side
the
Rhene
,
and
that
the
ancient
friends
&
allies
to
this
Crowne
(
who
are
the
nearest
to
these
broyles
)
expect
the
issue
without
any
stirring
,
vp
or
taking
either
the
one
or
the
others
part
.
These
considerations
(
Sir
)
require
not
my
staying
in
this
country
,
where
all
things
are
in
so
good
a
being
,
as
almost
of
themselues
they
may
subsist
and
be
maintained
:
and
the
abode
that
my
sonne
de
la
Valette
shall
make
here
in
my
absence
(
being
sufficient
to
giue
order
to
whatsoeuer
shall
concerne
the
good
of
your
affaires
:
)
I
trust
your
Maiestie
will
with
equitie
regard
the
necessitie
of
mine
owne
particulars
,
and
be
pleased
to
let
me
returne
to
my
house
,
from
the
which
I
haue
bene
absent
aboue
these
15
moneths
.
I
craue
but
the
libertie
which
you
denie
not
to
the
least
of
those
whose
greatest
honour
is
to
be
vnder
your
gouernment
.
I
make
no
doubt
(
Sir
)
but
that
you
will
be
pleased
with
the
desire
I
haue
to
performe
this
iourney
;
and
assure
my selfe
that
you
will
take
the
paines
to
consider
,
that
since
your
coming
to
the
Crowne
,
hauing
indebted
my selfe
aboue
an
100000
crownes
for
your
seruice
,
for
the
which
I
pay
interests
at
Paris
:
&
hauing
not
since
these
two
yeares
receiued
of
your
liberality
any
other
gratification
but
the
bare
wages
of
a
Colonel
,
after
the
rate
of
10
moneths
for
a
yeare
,
it
is
not
possible
I
should
hold
out
in
the
great
&
necessary
expences
which
I
am
bound
to
make
here
,
as
well
for
the
maintaining
of
the
dignity
of
my
office
,
as
for
the
performing
of
your
Maiesties
seruice
with
more
eminence
.
Furthermore
(
Sir
)
since
my
enemies
do
daily
endeuour
to
infuse
into
your
Maiesties
heart
a
mistrust
of
my
purest
intentions
,
and
that
I
am
so
vnhappie
,
that
euen
waxen
old
in
the
seruice
of
three
great
Kings
,
I
should
yet
haue
much
adoe
to
defend
a
so
constant
and
approued
fidelity
from
calumnies
;
I
must
(
and
with
griefe
I
must
)
speake
it
,
that
I
haue
remained
in
my
dutie
when
as
rewards
were
promised
to
vnfaithfulnesse
;
that
I
haue
maintained
your
authority
when
it
was
abused
of
some
,
and
dispised
of
others
.
It
is
to
wrong
me
much
to
thinke
that
at
these
yeares
I
would
begin
to
proue
disloyall
,
and
that
my
priuate
passions
should
be
dearer
to
me
then
my
fidelity
to
your
seruice
.
In
this
case
(
Sir
)
I
will
freely
anow
,
that
I
haue
no
cause
to
complaine
but
of
my
bad
fortune
;
being
most
certain
that
it
is
not
where
your
Scepter-doth
beare
sway
that
vertue
is
suspected
,
and
a
good
reputation
odious
;
and
that
your
Maiesty
is
too
iust
to
put
no
difference
betweene
the
oppressed
innocent
and
the
guiltie
.
For
indeed
(
Sir
)
if
then
,
when
you
were
not
as
yet
free
,
the
gentlenesse
of
your
nature
hath
bene
such
,
that
you
haue
alwayes
withstood
violent
counsels
,
and
not
suffered
your
authoritie
to
be
employed
to
the
ouerthrow
of
your
subiects
,
there
is
no
likelyhood
(
now
that
you
onely
depend
of
your selfe
,
and
that
your
mild
inclination
is
not
fostered
by
any
with
violent
passions
)
that
in
his
hoarie
age
you
would
oppresse
one
of
your
best
seruants
,
and
ancient
officers
to
your
Crowne
;
or
denie
to
his
yeares
the
rest
which
nature
doth
require
of
you
.
I
thinke
,
Sir
,
I
may
presume
to
deserue
that
for
a
recompence
of
my
long
and
faithfull
seruice
,
and
your
Maiestie
may
grant
it
me
(
as
humbly
I
do
beseech
it
)
without
any
disparagement
to
your
State
:
for
as
I
neuer
expected
other
profit
from
my
actions
but
the
pleasure
I
receiue
to
haue
done
them
,
so
will
I
thinke
my selfe
sufficiently
happie
by
the
testimonie
which
my
conscience
all
my
life
time
will
yeeld
me
,
that
I
haue
truly
bene
,
and
intend
to
remaine
vnto
my
end
,
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
,
most
dutifull
,
faithfull
,
and
louing
subiect
and
seruant
,
Espernon
.
From
Mets
this
17
of
Ian.
1619.
Another
Letter
of
the
Duke
of
Espernon
to
the
King
.
Sir
,
HAuing
heretofore
represented
vnto
your
Maiestie
with
what
patience
I
haue
expected
in
my
gouernment
of
Mets
the
occasions
to
do
you
seruice
,
and
hoping
that
hauing
put
to
your
consideration
the
necessity
of
my
businesse
,
you
would
haue
bene
fully
satisfied
with
my
resolution
so
long
ago
concluded
:
I
haue
thought
that
I
could
not
be
blamed
of
your
Maiestie
,
nor
of
any
other
,
if
at
these
yeares
,
hauing
giuen
the
best
part
of
my
life
to
the
publike
good
,
I
did
desire
at
least
to
go
spend
the
remnant
of
it
with
some
ease
,
and
be
partaker
of
the
peaceable
rest
you
haue
stored
vp
for
your
kingdome
.
Neuerthelesse
,
Sir
,
the
least
of
your
commandements
is
so
deare
vnto
me
,
and
I
am
so
religious
in
all
the
circumstances
of
my
duty
,
that
I
had
not
vndertooke
my
iourney
,
if
the
occasions
of
the
staying
thereof
had
not
bene
taken
away
,
and
the
difficulties
of
the
warres
in
Bohemia
altogether
finished
.
But
hauing
learned
by
certaine
aduise
which
the
Lord
Duke
of
Lorraine
hath
receiued
from
that
countrie
,
that
the
Differents
are
vpon
tearmes
of
agreement
,
to
the
furtherance
whereof
shall
be
proceeded
by
the
deposition
of
armes
on
both
sides
:
I
thought
that
the
profit
of
your
seruice
did
not
require
my
abode
any
longer
in
a
place
which
in
time
of
peace
is
not
in
any
danger
,
and
will
increase
by
the
decay
of
the
Empire
if
the
warres
continue
.
That
if
there
be
any
part
of
this
countrie
lesse
participant
then
other
of
the
publique
tranquillitie
,
and
needing
more
carefully
to
be
conserued
,
I
am
sure
that
your
Maiestie
will
iudge
that
it
is
that
Prouince
into
the
which
I
am
going
;
which
since
it
dependeth
of
my
charge
,
it
is
my
duty
to
be
carefull
in
whatsoeuer
doth
concerne
the
good
of
it
,
and
not
to
giue
way
throught
it
to
the
preiudice
of
your
authoritie
.
So
,
Sir
,
that
if
at
this
time
I
will
not
omit
the
occasions
,
your
Maiestie
shall
be
pleased
to
do
me
the
honour
to
consider
,
that
I
do
not
therein
disobey
your
commandements
,
but
that
contrariwise
I
expound
them
according
to
the
right
sence
,
and
that
I
giue
them
the
best
interpretation
,
since
it
is
that
which
is
the
most
profitable
for
your
seruice
.
For
indeed
,
Sir
,
euery
one
doth
know
,
that
as
the
chiefest
law
of
your
Realme
is
the
maintaining
of
your
authoritie
,
so
your
most
expresse
and
most
important
commandement
is
the
good
successe
of
your
affaires
;
which
being
absolutely
true
,
what
likelihood
should
there
be
,
that
(
being
in
me
to
conserue
vnto
your
Maiestie
the
affections
of
a
Prouince
disunited
;
and
to
retaine
by
my
presence
those
spirits
that
might
affect
a
changement
,
if
there
were
no
body
to
confirme
them
in
their
dutie
)
I
should
propound
to
my selfe
(
for
the
hindering
of
so
necessary
a
voyage
,
)
such
weake
considerations
as
the
warres
of
Bohemia
.
I
am
not
of
that
age
(
Sir
)
that
will
permit
me
to
seeke
after
vaine
glorie
;
yet
neuerthelesse
I
do
not
thinke
that
your
Maiestie
esteemeth
of
me
so
little
,
as
to
imploy
me
in
no
other
seruice
then
for
the
surer
directing
of
your
pacquets
from
Germanie
:
I
do
not
hold
my selfe
yet
so
vnprofitable
that
I
should
onely
be
thought
fit
to
performe
to
you
and
to
your
State
seruice
of
so
little
consequence
.
Sir
,
this
is
that
which
I
humbly
request
your
Maiestie
to
iudge
of
my
faults
;
and
in
the
meane
time
to
do
me
that
honour
to
beleeue
,
that
wheresoeuer
I
be
,
and
what
bad
vsage
soeuer
I
haue
had
these
20
moneths
,
no
condition
in
the
world
,
and
neuer
so
profitable
shall
corrupt
me
,
nor
any
necessity
how
great
soeuer
hinder
me
to
remaine
with
the
same
affection
,
with
which
I
haue
alwayes
bene
,
Sir
,
Your
most
humble
and
most
obedient
subiect
,
most
faithfull
and
louing
seruant
,
I.
Lewes
de
le
Valette
.
From
the
Bridge
of
Vichy
this
7.
of
Feb.
1619.