The Copy of a Letter From Paris, the 24. Jun. 4. Jul. 1642. Upon the subject of the CONSPIRACY: For the which the marquis of Saint Mars, great Esquire of France, Monsieur de Thou, Counsellor of State, and Monsieur de Chavagnac, are kept in prison.  
With another Copy of a Letter from Narbon, serving to the clearing of the business:  
Wherein may be seen the marvellous deliverance of France, and of her Confederates or Friends, but especially of England, Involved in that plot.  
Printed at London for J. B. 1642.   

A true Copy of certain Letters from Paris, and other parts: Declaring the conspiracy of divers great personages against France and England.  
THe Conspiracy (for the which Monsieur le Grand is still kept strictly in the Citadelle of Montpellier, and the Lords of Thou and Chavagnac in the Town of Tarascon) was not tending only to the destruction of the Counsels of Monsieur the Cardinal Richelieu, and of his credit by the King, but to the confusion of this State, and Confederates, and specially to the subversion of England. They have been examined by the Lord of Choizi, and by this examen it appeared, that they had already in some sort worked in the spirit of his Majesty, and that without any notice to the great Cardinal; for the said Lord le Grand had confessed to have written (by Order sealed by the King) to the Queen Mother; and the Lord of Thou to have sent also, by order of his Majesty, by Letter of Exchange, ten thousand Crowns, to Madam de Cheureuze.  
Many Letters or Missives of the Queen of England, were found among the writings of the said Lord le Grand.  
The Duchess of Bovillon (which is suspected to be of the same party) had withdrawn herself few days ago, from this City, to Sedan. The said Lord of Thou, (being questioned again for the space of three hours, by the Lord of Chavigni, Secretary of State) had declared among other things, that it was resolved to kill the said Lord of Chavigny, which is a person mightily acting, and confident to the service of his Majesty, under the said Cardinal, and that it was he which had prevented that blow.  
The King had confessed to the said Cardinal, that the Lords de Grand and of Thou, had propounded unto him some Articles of Peace with the House of Austria. This Peace was so plotted without any warning to his Eminency, persuading his Majesty, that the said Cardinal for his own ends was repugnant to the public tranquillity, and therefore that he was not to have any notice of this negociation: embraced by the highest Ladies, forged by the Jesuits, stirred up by the violence of this primum mobile of Spain, which caused Madame de Cheureuze to pass from Paris to Madrid, from Madrid to London, and from London to Brussels, and which had been choked or stillborn, (in the point of the execution.) By that supreme providence, the ordinary guide of his Majesty, which had inspired him to perceive suddenly the danger of this precipice, and to stick close, better and better to the good and male counsels of the said Cardinal.  
By this Peace, the Queen-mother, the Princess, and other discontented persons, exiled from France, were to be reestablished; the houses of Savoy and Lorraine reintegrated, and restaured, all that is of this side of Rhine reestablished; as it was before the wars. Catalonla, and other Countries and places taken in Spain restored, the Cardinal of Richelieu and all his friends destroyed, the King's true confederates, (after the consummation or spoil of so many men and money these many years ago, for their recovery) left desolate; especially the house Palatine, and other Protestants, and France to the prey of the house of Austria, the which only was to receive benefit, in this disorder, by the vileness of his creatures, which under hope to rule therein, did imagine to subvert the wise proceed of his Majesty, and under him the generous designs of that brave Cardinal, the repercussion of which blow was to be fatal, and bringing ruin to England, notwithstanding whatsoever female promises made to the Catholics there, and to their Adherents, blinded in this plot, that by this Peace they should have their liberty, and that Kingdom should be hereafter so absolute, as the liberty of the Subject hath been there great and happy until this time, under the privileges of the Parliament.  
Now to show you clearly and by proof of fact, that the house of Austria thought to destroy the said Cardinal, not for the public tranquillity, but for the better advancing his own vast and prodigious designs; and that those which directly or indirectly have any hand to it, do work out their own confusion. I send you here annexed the Copy of a Letter written from Narbonne, by a Minister of State, before the imprisonment of the said Lord le Grand and others: In the which you shall perceive what hath hindered this general Peace to be desired.   

From Narbonne the 22. of May. 1642.  
THe last Avisoes that we have from Hamborough, make better and better known unto us, how little sincere the proceed are of the house of Austria, touching the public tranquillity, whereunto she hath no inclination. The King of Hungaria hath not only disclaimed or disallowed once the Lord Lutzall his Ambassador, (which hath signed the Tract of Preparatories, founded with full power from himself) but he hath employed him since, and the Earl of Aversburg, which is also from his part in Hamborough, for to propound to the Lord Salvius, Ambassador of Swede, one Tract of particular peace with the Swedish, which doth witness that he desireth in no ways the peace of the Commonwealth, but only to be free of some of his enemies, for to war still against the others, and that he had not any good intention when he treated of the Preparatories of Peace. Notwithstanding all this, his designs shall not come to pass, seeing that the Crown of Sweden is not for to repugn to the Confederacy made with France. By all this is to be discerned the wicked faith of the King of Hungaria, and that nothing but strength of Arms is able to bring him to Peace; In such sort that all the contribution of men and money made unto him in these wars by Germany, is only one Sacrifice that she makes to the advantage of the house of Austria, which shall bring forth nothing but the ruin of the Empire.  
FINIS.