THE LAST WILL and TESTAMENT OF The late Renowned Cardinal MAZARINI Deceased February. 27 1660.  
Together with some Historical REMARQVES OF HIS LIFE.  
London, Printed by Peter Lillicrap for William Gilbertson at the Bible in Gilt-spur-street, 1663.   

Licenced  
October 20. 1663. ROGER L'ESTRANGE.   

TO THE Right Honourable, THOMAS LORD Wentworth One of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council  
May it please your Lordship,  
I humbly crave your leave, to inscribe your noble name to this Translation of the Late Cardinal Mazarini's Will and Testament with some Remarquer of his life; from just though different respects.  
The first is your Lordship's knowledge and particular acquaintance with that great and eminent personage, while you followed our Soverains Fortune in that Court in the same quality of his privy Counsellor, which afforded your Lordship in your prudent and serious converse with him an experience of his abilities; improved to great advantage in your many Loyal and Noble services to this Crown.  
To do the Cardinal so much right therefore, I have presumed to put this last MEMORIAL, of him into you Honourable hands, 〈◊〉 the fittest and equalest Repository of his Illustrious Name, which shall now pass without profanation to the world, when sacrated by YOURS.  
The other respect is to signify and declare to the world the due sentiments the Nation hath of your Lordship's Conspicuous worth, together with the particular acknowledgements and obligations which I am bound to render for some Favours abroad, which your Lordship's singular Nobleness was pleased to vouchsafe me.  
And consulting herein also to myself this further favour from your Goodness, as to shelter my meanness under your Lordship's patronage, which is sufficient to vindicate the Cardinal, and to protect,  
My Lord Your most obedient and Devoted Servant, J. H.   

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THe French Original of this Last Will of the Cardinal, being Printed at Colen, in Germany, was so full of faults, literal and others, that the sense in some few places could hardly be made out, which will make it in some such places seem imperfect, but the careful Reader will soon supply such seeming deficiency as I have not adventured on in the translation: therein he is likewise desired to understand by the word Substitution 〈◊〉 is a French 〈◊〉 Term●, a Reversion or kind of Remainder, in perpetuum.  
Other Errors and mistakes in Printing the Reader is desired candidly to correct and excuse.   

The Last will and TESTAMENT OF CARDINAL MAZARINE:  
TO Day being the third of March one thousand six hundred and sixty one, about nine of the Clock in the morning, at the comandment of the most Illustrious and most Eminent my Lord Cardinal Julius Mazarine Duke of Nivernois and Ouziois being at present at the Castle of Vincennes; the Notaries, Inventory keepers of our Sovereign Lord the King at Paris here under-signed, transferred themselves to the said Castle, to the appartiment of his Emmence●; where they found the said Lord Carelinal Duke a bed, sick in body, but sound in mind, memory, and understanding (as it appeared to them, who said, declared, and acknowledged, that all his goods, movable, & , of what nature or quality soever they were, or where ever they were situated or remaining, and in whatsoever they consisted, without exception or reserve▪ did come and proceed from the Liberality and Magnificence of his Majesty: For which reason he believed he could not do better then by remitting (as he doth by these presents remit and return) into his Majesty's hands, all his said goods, movable and , and all other▪ generally whatsoever, of what ever nature or quality they may be, & where ever being or remaining, and in whatever they may consist, without any exception or reserve: the which present Declaration and delivery his Eminence doth make in favour of his Majesty by Donation and Gift of death, Testamentary disposition, or any other way in the best form and manner it can or aught to be made; willing that his Majesty be und do remain seized of all the said goods, from the day of the decease of his Eminence, who hopeth that his Majesty will have the goodness and bounty to dispose of the said Goods according to the intentions and designations of his Eminence, which his Majesty was pleased to receive from his Mouth; Leaving to his Majesty nevertheless full and frank liberty of the said disposition, as it shall seem good to him, as the Lord and Master of all the said Goods, which to that very purpose he hath given and bequeathed by these presents to his Majesty. This was done and said by his Eminence to the abovesaid Notaries, and by one of them, the other being present read and read again to him in the chamber of his Eminence aspecting the Tower of the dungeon the day and year abovesaid and signed by the said Lord the very minute of these Presents.  
The same day the date of these presents, at the Commandment of the most Illustrious and most Eminent my Lord Cardinal Julius Mazarini Duke of Nivernois, etc. The Notary's Inventory Keepers for his Majesty, etc. being arrived at his Eminences chamber in the Castle of Vincennes, found the said Lord Cardinal Duke, a bed sick, in body, etc. as before, who said unto them, that the length and tediousness of his sickness, the uncertainty of life, and the necessity of death had obliged him to think of making and ordaining his last Will and Testament, which he now made and nominated to the abovesaid Notaries as hereafter followeth.  
First of all, He thanks the Author of all good things, that he gave him his Birth in the Profession of the Catholic Religion which he acknowledgeth to be the sole, true, and only way of salvation.  
He thanketh the same Divine goodness, for all those Favours which it hath been pleased to bestow upon him during the whole course of his life, and particularly for raising him to one of the most Eminent Dignities of the Church among an infinite number of many others of greater merit, beseeching the Divine Goodness; that the said Elevation turn not to his confusion, for not having profitably enough employed those Talents which it hath been pleased to give him; for which he craves pardon from the bottom of his heart of the Divine Majesty, to whom he acknowledgeth himself guilty, but hopeth for forgiven, is by the merit of the precious blood of Jesus Christ shed for our Redemption.  
After his thanksgiving to God as the Author and Beginning of all good things, he judgeth, it will be no derogati n to his Glory to 〈◊〉 also (with disproportion nevertheless of the Creatures to the Creator) those acknowledgements he owes to his good Masters whom God hath given him.  
And first to the King deceased of glorious memory, who after his having called him to his service, and employed his instances and nomination to the promoring him to the dignity of a Cardinal, conferred on him the inestimable Honour of making him Godfather to the King now reigning, and in fine to judge him worthy of the Administration of his most important afairs, & to substitute him in the place (vacated by death) of one of the greatest, most glorious, and most sufficient able Ministers of State, [Cardinal Richleiu] that ever France had.  
To the Queen Mother, whose goodness was pleased to continue him in the same Administration during her Regency, of which with truth he can say, that the incredible firmness and constancy of her mind, hath saved the State from one of the greatest dangers it ever underwent.  
To the King, who having approved the choice made of his person by the King his Father deceased and by the Queen his Mother, hath pleased to continue to him the same Honour, and to make him partaker of those blessings which Heaven hath abundantly poured down upon his Sacred person, by those glorious and advantageous successes, which it hath given to his endeavours since his Majesty's advancement to the Crown; by that calm and repose which it hath Established within his kingdoms, soon after his Majority.  
As also by the glorious peace which his Majesty hath since afforded to the Christian world no less by the respect, renown and glory of his Name, then by his Mediation which all the Princes and Potentates engaged in War have besought and held in estimation and Reverence: so that it may be truly said that since a 1000 years, Christianity hath not joyed of such a tranquillity as this at present, by the endeavours and Authority of the King.  
And as in all these great successes it hath pleased God to make use of such a feeble and weak Minister of his will and pleasure and the orders of the King; by so much the more he ought to abase himself before the face of the Divine Majesty, and to acknowledge his real unworthiness and how little he was capable of himself to serve as an instrument to such great things without His particular assistance. The Principal satisfaction which his Eminence hoped for after the conclusion of those great works, and the return of their Majesties to Paris was in a diligent application of all his care and pains to effect incessantly the Execution of his Majesty's good intentions of reestablishing Order in the general Administration throughout the Kingdom, where many abuses were increased and reigned by the length of the War, the which, Prudence was obliged to Tolerate or was not suffered to repress for fear of some troublesome intestine Commotion, while there was a necessity of sustaining the foreign Hostile Impressions and effects of a Power most considerable. But God not being pleased after so many other, to grant him this last satisfaction which he had purposed to himself; and having visited him with a long and troublesome disease which took away from Him all means of applying himself as was requisite to an Affayr of that Importance for the Weal of the State, and the Profit of the King's Subjects: He comforts himself in the thoughts and certain Hopes he cherisheth, that His Majesty having taken such a Resolution, by his weak Counsels; will maintain it, by his Wisdom and his Goodness altogether Royal.  
His Eminence finds himself further obliged to say, that nothing hath given him more displeasure in the Course of his Disease, them his disability of endeavouring a considerable alleviation and mitigation of those over-pressures and surcharges which the People have suffered: who having testified their zeal and their obedience by those great succours and supplies which they have given the King on all occasions during a War of 25 years: He no way doubteth but that his Majesty will take a particular care of performing those good intentions of which he hath discoursed with him, by the motives of that tenderness which he hath for his people, and to excite them also to be equally and mutually ready to supply him in all pressing occasions  
For Conclusion, Their Majesty's having recompensed ●is mean services which he hath endeavoured to perform to them, by a Magnificence worthy of the● mind and Royal greatness; He finds himself obliged to give testimony thereof to the Public, and that the world may know, that if he hath served them with all Fidelity, they have recompensed his services, not only beyond his hopes and desires, but also beyond all he could imagine: to the end that this great example of their Liberality in his person may excite all their good Subjects to serve them with the same zeal and the same Fidelity which he hath endeavoured to do.  
The said Lord Cardinal hath appointed his Sepulture, in the Chapel of the College which he hath founded; and in the mean while he prayeth his Majesty that His Corpse may be deposited in the St. Chappel of Fincennes.  
The said Lord Cardinal confirmeth▪ and when it is or shall be needful reiterates and doubles that gift made to the Religious the Theatmes of St. Anne Royal.  
He confirmeth also the Donation made to the College of the four Nations and Academy in pursuance of the contract made and passed before Notaries,  
The said Lord Cardinal giveth to the Hospital General the sum of sixty thousand livres [6000 l. star.] besides the hundred thousand Livres which he gave to it before. He gives likewise and bequeathes unto the Hostel de Dieu, at Paris thirty thousand Livres.  
The said Lord Cardinal Duke, giveth and bequeathes to the Hospital of the Incurable the sum of twelve thousand livres for the founding of two beds according to the Reiglement or rules of the said Hospital, the nomination whereof shall belong to his successors and descendants of the name of Mazarini.  
The said Lord Cardinal Duke giveth six years' Alms, which he was used to give every year to several Convents of the City of Paris; He giveth likewise to the poor and beggars of the said City the sum of six thousand Livres.  
The said Lord Cardinal Duke, giveth the sum of six hundred thousand Livres which is in the Hands of the Sieur du Pont St. Pierre at I yons to be employed in making War against the Turks according to the Orders of his Majesty.  
The said Lord Cardinal Duke giveth to the Sieur de Fontenelle his first Esquire the sum of twenty thousand livres. To the Sieur Bernovin the first Groom of his Chamber the sum of fi●teen thousand livres; To the sieur Pronty his Housekeeper the like s●m.  
The said Lord Cardinal Duke, giveth to all the rest of his Domestics, that which shall be allowed them by a certain memorial which he will cause to be made.  
The said Lord Cardinal Duke, giveth to Monsieur Cardinal Antonio all those sums which he oweth to him the said Cardinal Duke and which hath been lent him either by obligation, on his promise or otherwise, which he wills to be rendered back, discharging the sieur Mazarine of all those sums which he may have given to the said Cardinal.  
My Lord Cardinal having accomplished a Design of matching 18 of the largest Diamonds which could be found, giveth them to the Crown, desiring his Majesty to accept of them, and that they bear the name of Mazarines.  
Giveth and bequeatheth also to the Crown all those pieces of Paintings which are at present within the the Library of his Eminence, and two suits of Tapestry, the one the Fruits of War the design of Julius Romain given to his Eminence since the Treaty of Peace, by the King of Spain, the other the Rape of the Saoines the design of Raphael. Most humbly thanking his Majesty for all his Bounties and Magnificences, and for that not long since he hath caused to be given him fifteen hundred thousand livres upon the Treaty of the Neutrality of the French County, and the disposal of the Offices of the houses of the Queen and Monsieur, which reward amounts in all to three or four millions.  
The said Lord Cardinal Duke having always regarded Madam Martinessi whose Offices of Piety & charity are eminently known, hath incessantly procured the advancement of the Daughters by advantageous Alliances, having married the eldest with Monsieur the Duke of Modena one of the greatest Princes, and of the most Ancient and Illustrious Houses of all Italy, and the second with Monsieur the Prince of Conti, Prince of the Blood Royal of France; and therefore no way doubting but that they will prefer his Interests before their Advancement; He giveth to Madam the Duchess of Modena the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand livres, which shall be paid unto her by the Executors of his Testament hereafter named. More, three pence making part of eleven pence to receive of the salts of Brovage: more, half of the Rents upon the City of Paris, purchased by his Eminence of Monsieur Charles Armand at present Duke Mazarini.  
He giveth and bequeathes to Madam the Princes of Conti the like sum ●f three hundred and fifty thousand livres, which shall be paid her by his Executors; more, the sum of thirty thousand livres to receive and take upon the Excise or Farn●s of Languedock; more, three pence making part of eleven pence to receive and take upon the said Salts of Brovage; more 〈◊〉 other ●●ity of Rents upon the Town hall of the City of Paris; more, the Compensation of the Rents of the office of sur●ntendunt for the House of the Queen Mother, amounting to two hundred thousand livres, which his Eminence hath purchased of 〈◊〉 the Princess Palatine, & of which she is at present in possession; more, the suit of Tapestry Hang with the story of rehoboam.  
He gives to the Lady Martinessi Sister to his Eminence the sum of eighteen thousand livres of a rent for life pavable at Rome monthly by advance; and upon charge to her and the said Ladies the Duchess of Modena and Princess of Conti, to renounce, and quit claim to the succession of his Eminence, and to all and such rights which they may pretend to the same: In default whereof they shall forfeit their Legacies abovesaid which shall return to the Heirs and Legatees General.  
The said Lord Cardinal, intends not that Monsieur the Marqess of Mancini his Nephew shall marry with any person whatsoever without the consent of the King; and in consideration thereof gives him the Peerage of Nivernois (or Nevers) and Ouziois, with the appurtenances and dependences purchased by his Eminence of Monseigueur the Duke of Mantua by contract of the 11th of July 1659. with the Decrees obtained since free and quit of all Rights: More, two thirds of the Subsidies arising from the Actions of Mortaine, which may be changed for those of Nevers: More, four pence, part of the nineteen pence purchased of my Lord the Duke of Ornanes deceased: More, three pence part of eleven pence upon the Salts of Brovage: More, the sum of six hundred thousand livres in ready money, which shall be paid by the hands of the Executors of his Will hereafter named. All upon charge that the said Lord Mancini shall punctually comply with what is before enjoined him towards his Majesty, and not otherwise; in default whereof he shall forfeit his Legacies abovesaid; and others that shall be made to him hereafter, shall be comprised in the Legacy General. And further upon charge, that the said Lord Mancini and all his Descendants Males or Females, shall carry the Names and the Arms of Mazarini without joining other names, or quartering other Arms therewith: And that the Eldest Son and Male Descendants of the said Marquis Mancini, by perpetual and infinite representation from Male to Male, and from Eldest to Eldest, shall have and take by gradual and perpetual Substitution, all these things and sums above mentioned, given to him the said Marquis Mancini; and in default of Issue male of his body, the Substitution shall belong to the eldest Daughter descendent of the male and to the male descendants for ever, observing always the right of Eldest to eldest, upon condition that in every degree the eldest male, and every daughter that shall be called to the Substitution, shall be tied to take the Name and Arms of Mazarini as abovesaid: And in default of descendants from the males, the Substitution shall belong to the eldest Daughter of the said Marquis Mancini, and to her descendants Males and Females; and in default of Children of the eldest Daughter or her Descendants, to the second third or other Daughters successively and their Descendants, preferring always the elder before the younger, and Sons to Daughters, as long as there shall be any Descendants of the said Daughters, on the same conditions of taking the Arms and Names of Mazarini Mancini jointly together. In case of default of Issue by the said Lord Marques Mancini, all the abovesaid things and sums above given and bequeathed him, shall belong by the same right of Substitution to the high and might Lord Armand Charles now Duke Mazarini, and after him in his place to the eldest of his Sons issued from him, and the high and mighty Lady Hortense Mancini his Wife.  
No person shall have benefit of this Substitution, who shall be an Ecclesiastic or Knight of Malta, unless he shall have renounced it before: the said Lord Cardinal willing and declaring, that he who shall refuse to accept of the said Conditions, shall be deprived of all right thereunto, and that all shall return to the Legatee General.  
The Lord Cardinal beseecheth his Majesty to receive the said Lord Marques Mancini in survivency to the Government and Lieutenancy of the King in Brovage and Rochel, the profits whereof shall remain in the hands of the Sieur Colbert.  
The said Lord Cardinal giveth unto Monsieur Mancini his Nephew the sum of 30 thousand livres to be employed for payment of his debts; the said Lord Cardinal willeth and intendeth that the administration of the goods of the said Lord Marquis Mancini remain in the hands of the Sieur Colbert, until he shall have attained the age of majority.  
The said Lords Executors may name a person to be Tutor to the said Marquis Mancini under direction of the Sieur Colbert, who shall be obliged to give Caution and Security: and whilst the said Marquis Mancini shall attain to the age of major, there shall be paid unto him the sum of thirty six thousand livres for every year, and if he marry with consent of the King, the sum of eighty thousand livres.  
The said Lord Cardinal desiring to perpetuate the name of Mancini at Rome, makes and ordains the said Lord Mancini his Nephew, Legatee Universal, and Heir of all his Goods at Rome, willing that he be seized thereof from the day of his Decease, which goods shall remain substituted to the second Son of the said Sieur Mancini, and to the Children of the second, and of his male issue by a perpetual and infinite representation from male to male, and from eldest to eldest, and in default of male Issue of the second Son, to the third, and from the third to the fourth, and consequently so from male to male, & from eldest to eldest. And in default of Issue male, the substitution shall belong to the eldest Daughter Descended of the male of the said second, third or fourth Son, and consequently to their issue male for ever. And in default of Daughter's Descendants of the males, the said Substitution shall pass to the eldest Daughter of the said Lord Marquis Mancini and to her Descendants, preferring always the eldest to the youngest, and the Sous to the Daughters, as long as there shall be any Descendants of the said Daughters. All upon condition that he who shall be called to the Substitution, of whatever condition or degree he be, shall be obliged to dwell in the City of Rome. and to bear the sole Name & plain Arms of Mancini, without partying or quartering them with any others, 〈◊〉 upon condition also, that if there be any Daughters of the males which are excluded by the males in a direct or collateral Line, the said Substituted shall be holden to give them Portions suitable to their quality.  
In default of Posterity of the second third or other son and of the daughters of the said Lord Marquis Mancini, the Palace, movables. Rights and other effects which are in the said City of Rome belonging to his Eminence, shall appertain by the same right of Substitution unto the eldest son of the said Lord Mazarini Mancini and to the male Jssue of the said eldest son, and in default of the males to the daughters and to their male children from eldest to eldest, as long as there shall be any male or female issue of the said Mazarini Mancini or of his descendants, on condition that the right of Primogeniture be always observed as abovesaid. And if there shall be but one of the said House of Mancini, to whom the Duchy of Nivernois shall appertain by the same right of Substitution, and that the goods at Rome shall belong to him likewise by the same right of Substitution; He shall be obliged to dwell in France. And if it shall so happen that the said Lord Marquis Mancini decease without issue, the said goods at Rome shall remain and belong to my Lord Armand Charles Duke Mazarini and his youngest descendants from male to male, and eldest to eldest: Observing always that Mazarini is Praferrible before Mancini.  
The said Lord Cardinal intreateth my Lord Cardinal Mancini, to take the Administration of the goods at Rome, and because they consist mostly in his Palace, and a number of Offices & places and the public stock, which may be put into money, he requesteth the said Cardinal if he thinks fit, to convert into the Purchase of some Land in the Ecclesiastical Stae, which shall carry the name of the Substitution.  
The said Cardinal Mancini in case of Death, may appoint another to the said Administration, who nevertheless shall not sell nor engage any of the things above named; And if the Sieur Mancini be more than five and twenty years old at the death of the Lord Cardinal, he may name an Administrator, but not dispose of the said Goods which shall remain substituted as already said.  
Further the said Lord Cardinal giveth and bequeathes to the said Marquis Mancini the Tapestry of the Acts of the Apostles made in Paris, with the rich Furniture of green Velvet to be sent to Rome to Cardinal Mancini, which shall be part of the said substitution.  
In lieu whereof, the said Marquis Mancini shall renounce the Rights which he may pretend to the succession of the said Lord Cardinal Mazarini, and if he fail to do so, he shall absolutely forfeit all his said Legacies, which shall return to the Legatee General.  
The said Lord Cardinal giveth and bequeatheth to the eldest Son of my Lord Duke de Mercoeur and de Ferie his Spouse the Demesne of the Duchy of Auvergne, the Demesne of Languedock, the third part of the Subsidy of the Election of Mortaigne, and the sum of three hundred thousand livres in money, which shall be employed towards the payment of the debts of the House of Vendosme.  
As to the second Son of the said Duke de Mercoeur, the said Lord Cardinal prayeth him to be content with that which he hath procured him from his Majesty, on condition also that both of them renounce their Succession to his Eminence, and all those Rights which they may pretend to by reason of these said Legacies, which in default of renunciation, shall be forfeited and returned to the Legatee general, even although the eldest shall make the said renunciation, if so be it be not done jointly by the youngest.  
The said Lord, etc. giveth and bequeatheth unto Madam the Countess of Soissons, besides the sum of three hundred thousand livres in money, the Subsidy or Imposition on the Election of Vernevil, and the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand livres, paid by his Eminence to Madam the Princess Palatine for the purchase of the Office of Surintendent in the House of the Queen for which she hath at present a Patent; on condition that the said Lady Countess of Soissons dorenounce any Caim or Title she may pretend to the succession of the said Lord Cardinal. In default whereof she shall forfeit her said Legacy, which shall return to the Legatee General.  
The said Lord Cardinal giveth & bequeatheth to Damoiselle Mary Mancini, now married to the Constable Colonna all that which he hath assigned her for her portion, willing that she content her sell with the part he hath given her, on condition she renounce all Claim and Title to the Succession of his Eminence.  
He gives and Bequeathes to Damoiselle Anne Mary Mancini the sum of six hundred thousand livres, which shall be paid to her, or put out at Interest by his Executors, they notwithstanding not to be responsible for the employ and profit thereof: on condition likewise that she renounce all Claim to the Succession, etc. otherwise to forfeit as aforesaid.  
The said Lord Cardinal nameth for trusties and Governor of the said Damoiselle Anno, Macini, the Executors of his Will hereafter mentioned.  
If there shall not be found ready money enough to discharge all those Legacies above mentioned, the said Lord Cardinal Wills that it shall be equally divided among the Legatees, penny for penny upon the liure, excepting the Legacy of Dame Mary and Mary Anne Mancini, who shall be paid in full, and which Legacies shall remain substituted to the Heirs of Dame Mary, and Mary Anne Mancini.  
The said Lord Cardinal having always had a most particular affection for learned men, continues to them during their life the Pensions he was accustomed to pay them, according to a catalogue or Memoyr which shall be given in by Sr. Colbert.  
The rest of all his said movable Goods, Debts, Obligations, Rents, and other Effects whatsoever, in Lands of Inheritance or Custom, the said Lord Cardinal giveth and bequeatheth to my Lord Charles Armand now Duke Mazarini, and the Lady Hortense his Spouse, whom with his own mouth he appoints to be his Heirs and legatees General; they to defray his Funeral charges, and to accomplish his present Testament, declaring that he intends not to comprise within this general Legacy his Palace, his other Jewels, Rings, movable and  Goods, Painting, Pictures, Vessels of Silver, with his Statues and Figures of Marble or Brass being within his Palace and his appartement in the Loruve and in France; nor his Governments, which he hath not disposed of, reserving to himself the disposition by Codicil, or otherwise as shall seem good unto him, on charge of the said Goods with a gradual, perpetual and everlasting Substitution, and nevertheless, all that which shall come and provene of his Legacy General, shall be in the nature of propriety to the said Lady Duchess Mazarini, the said Lord Cardinal barring in both the said Substitutions, as well in France as in Rome, any alterations; but such as shall be permitted.  
Forbidding likewise all distractions of quarter parts in the one and the other Substitution.  
As to his Dispatches, Letters, Missives, Negotiations, Treaties and other Papers concerning the State, and Domestic affairs, in what place soever they are, nothing being more dear or precious to him; he humbly prays his Majesty that they may be put into the hands of the Sieur Colbert, without making any Inventory, and that the said Colbert dispose them in order, and if there be any difficulty, he may demand the clearing of it of Monsir. the Bishop of Freins for the Affairs of Rome, and Mounsieur de Lyonne for the affairs of State, so to communicate them to the King, or to whom his Majesty shall please to order them upon occasion.  
The said Lord Cardinal not being able to give sufficient Testimony of the fidelity of Mr. Colbert which he hath experienced for more than twelve years' last passed, doth approve all that hath been done by him to this present, and willeth that it be believed upon his bare word.  
The said Lord Cardinal willeth and intendeth (having been hindered by great Affairs from examining the Accounts of the Sieur Picon for some years as he was accustomed to do) that the said Accounts which shall be given of his house, be examined by the Sieur Colbert, and signed and firmed by him alone.  
The said Lord Cardinal most expressly forborbiddeth any Inventory or Description to be made of his movable Goods or Effects, or of any Titles or Papers, and if the Legatees whether particular or general shall offer to demand them, His Will is, that they forfeit their Legacy, all which shall be vested in the person of the first Substitute, without that, that any disposition thereof may be declare penal or comminatory.  
Furthermore the said Lord Cardinal entreateth his Majesty in case of contravention, to interpose his Authority, that his Will may be followed, and that the said Accounts and Papers may not be seen, nor Inventory, nor description made thereof, it being necessary to keep them secret for the interest of the State and many Families as well within as without the Realm. He prayeth also the Messieurs of the Parliament and other Judges to forbear here, not doubting but that they will prefer the Interests of State to that of particular men's.  
The said Lord Cardinal giveth and bequeatheth to Don Lovis de Haro a rare piece of Titian representing Flora, by reason of the friendship which they have Contracted in the Treaty of Peace.  
He giveth and bequeatheth to my Lord the Count of Fuensaldigne a great Watch in a Gold Case.  
And for the execution of the present Will and Testament, the said Lord Cardinal nameth my Lord the first Precedent of Parliament my Lord Fouquet Counsellor of the King in all his Counsels, Procurator General of the Parliament, and Intendant of the Finances; My Lord le Tellier Counsellor of the King in all his Counsels, Secretary of State; My Lord the Bishop of Freins, and Monsieur Colbert Counsellor of the King in his Counsels, and Intendant of the Houses & Finances of his Eminence, whom he intreateth not to suffer any Inventory to be made of his moveables, or papers, nothing being more necessary to be kept then secrecy; and to acknowledge in some manner the pains which they shall take in the Execution of his present Testament; He gives and bequeathes the sum of forty thousand livres in money, or in goods at their choice to be equally divided among them. The said Lord Cardinal willeth and ordaineth that if death, or any other considerable hindrance shall happen to any of them, the Survivors shall name such others as they shall choose, to supply the places of the deceased, willing that the number be complete.  
He giveth and bequeatheth to each of his three Secretaries a Diamant of four thousand livres, beseeching his Majesty to protect them, and to continue them their Assignments.  
He giveth and bequeatheth to the building the Parish Church of St. Enstache the sum of six thousand livres.  
He gives and bequeathes to the St. Chappel of Bois de Vincennes the sum of ten thousand livres on condition they cause to be said and celebrated every year on the day of the decease of his Eminence, an anniversary for the Repose and weal of his Soul.  
My Lord the Cardinal declares, that whereas he had left all his goods to the King by his Will of the third of the present month, and that his Intention was always such, that his Majesty should dispose of them as he pleased, and that now the King was pleased to testify to him that his Majesty desired he should dispose of his own goods; He had therefore caused this present Will to be made which was so said, and named one word after another to the abovesaid Notaries by his Eminence, and read and repeated to him by one of them, the other being present, in the Chamber of his Eminence before declared, one thousand six hundred sixty and one, the sixth day of March, and signed by his Eminence.  

THE CODICILL ANNEXED.  
TO day the sixth day of March one thousand six hundred and sixty one, afternoon, at the commandment of the most Illustrious and most Eminent the Lord Cardinal Duke Mazarini the notaries Inventory Keepers, etc. as before found the said Lord Cardinal a bed sick in Body, but of sound mind and understanding, as it appeared to them, who having caused the Will and Testament by him made to be showed him again, and adding thereunto,  
Gives and bequeathes the sum of seventy thousand livres which he wills to be distributed to his Officers, according to their Rank and Seniority of their services by the Executors of his Will, without any of their complaining against that which shall be given them by the said Executors, on pain of forfeiture of each (their) part, which in this Case shall be distributed among other the said Officers within the said 70000. livres, besides the sums bequeathed by him to the Sieurs de Fontenelle, Bernovin and Pronti, who may not pretend to the said sum of seventy thousand livres.  
He gives and bequeathes to Madam de Revel Governess of the Ladies Mancini his Neices the sum of thirty thousand livres as a reward for those pains she hath taken with them.  
He gives and bequeathes to the Sieur de Gaumond Advocate to the Parliament, besides his other Assignments, the sum of twelve thousand livres. He gives and bequeathes to Monsieur Colbert Intendant of the houses and Finances of his Eminence, the house where at present he dwells, adjoining to the Palace of his Eminence.  
As concerning the Palace of his Eminence, Appurtenances, and Dependencies, Statues and Figures therein, being others then those before specified, he gives and bequeathes them by Moiety to the said Lord Duke Mazarini and Marques Mancini, to be equally divided between them; the said Lord Cardinal willing that the Choice of the Lors shall be given to my Lord Duke Mazarini: And the said Lord Cardinal Duke having reserved to himself by his Will, his Movables, Jewels Rings and other things, besides those which he hath disposed, wills, meaneth, and ordaineth that they be prized at the rate and sum of three hundred and sixty thousand livres, which shall thus be distributed, viz. Six score thousand livres which he gives to the said Lord Mazarini Mancini of which sum, one half shall go to the Substitution, the other shall be the proper money of the said Seigneur Mancini: and the sum of forty thousand livres to every of the other his said Heirs, on promise and condition that all and every of them do quit those claims they may have to the Succession of my said Lord Cardinal, which claims they shall renounce in favour of my said Lord and Lady the Duke and Duchess Mazarini; who may also dispose of that part which shall fall to them of the said Palace and Appurtenances: but as to the Statues & Figures they shall remain in Substitution, as likewise shall the sum of six hundred thousand livres, which shall be taken upon the Estimate that shall be made of the Rings, Jewels, etc. which shall be divided; the which sum of six hundred thousand livres shall be in the nature of a Provenue for the said Lady Duchess Mazarini.  
The said Lord Cardinal more expressly prohibiteth any Inventory to be made of his goods and papers upon the Penalties imposed by his last Testament,  
Giveth and bequeatheth unto Cardinal Sachetti the Tapestry hang of D'esnee.  
The said Lord Cardinal giveth unto my Lord Cardinal Albis the Hang of Tapestry of Verduire of Brussels, hanging at present in the Appartiment of his Eminence at the Lovure.  
He gives and bequeathes unto Sr. Lezio. Disnio a Diamant Ring worth eight thousand livres.  
To Sir Paul Manarani a Carcanet of Diamonds of one thousand Crowns.  
Further, my Lord Cardinal having reason to gratify the services of the Seiur Lepidio Benedicti, he prayeth his Majesty to be pleased to continue to him the Pension which he gives him at present.  
This was done, said, and named to the Notaries, and by one of them, the other present read and repeated in the Chamber, the s●id day and year above said.  
To day the sixth of March 1661., the King being at Vincennes, caused the last Will and Codicil of the Lord Cardinal to be showed unto him; and having approved thereof, His Majesty renounced and quitted all that was done to his advantage by the said Cardinal the third of this Month, and willeth and intendeth that the said Will & Codicil shall take their plain and full effect, and that they be executed from point to point according to their Form and Tenor, His Majesty commanding for a testimony of his Will to dispatch this present Breviate, which he would sign with his own hand, and to be countersigned by me his Secretary of State and of his Commands and Finances.  
To Day the seventh of March 1661., at the Commandment of the most Illustrious and Eminent my Lord Cardinal Duke Mazarini the Notaries ut supra, came to the Castle of Vincennes in a Chamber there, where they found the said Lord Cardinal a bed sick in body, but sound, etc. who said that he thanked God for the prolongation of his Disease, & for that by lengthening his days, he had given him more means to consider of his Salvation, hoping of the Divine goodness the remission of his sins, and that God would show mercy to him; and that if he should desire any other further length of life, it should be only to employ it in those reflections which he ought to have upon those Favours he hath received of God and the King, and to sacrifice it wholly in the acknowledgement of so many benefits of which he judgeth himself altogether unworthy.  
The said Lord Cardinal approveth & confirmeth his Will and Codicil heretofore made, reiterating his Donations and Bequeastes made by him, and adding thereunto, most humbly beseecheth his Majesty to accept of two fair Cabinets.  
He also humbly supplicates the Queen Mother to accept of a large Diamond of the Rose of England a large Diamond Brute weighing 14 Caracts, a Ruby Ring Caluchon perfect, 2 great Cabinets of the Peace and of the War, one Cabinet of Peace & war which came from Rome, thanking her for her Favours, and requesting her to vouchsafe her protection to his Nephews and Neices.  
He gives and bequeathes to Monsieur the Duke of Orleans the only Brother of the King, sixty Marks of Gold, thirty and one Emeralds, of which many are great, one of the fair Cabinets of Jasper brought from Rome, and the Tapestry Hang of Leander, beseeching him to accept this small acknowledgement, and to accord his Protection to those of his House.  
He giveth and bequeatheth unto my Lord the Cardinal of Colonne a great Watch of Gold which came from the Queen Mother Deceased, and is at present upon the Table of his Eminence.  
He giveth and bequeatheth unto Monsieur the Marshal of Grammont the sum of 100000 livres which he owes him by Obligation, and which he willeth to be rendered to him as paid and acquitted.  
He gives and bequeathes unto my Lord the first Precedent a Basin with its Ewer, Vermilion and Gold made at Augsburg, or as much in value as he hath given him as Executor of his Testament.  
He giveth and bequeathes unto Monsieur the Archbishop of Arniuzi a great Watch in a Case of Gold.  
My Lord the Cardinal refers himself to his Heirs and Legatees to give presents to his principal friends.  
He gives to Monsieur de Massat Advocate in Parliament a Diamond of fifteen hundred livres.  
He gives and bequeathes to Sr. Poisson his Apothecary four thousand livres.  
To the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Rome, a Lamp of three thousand Crowns.  
He gives another Lamp of the same price to the miraculous Crucifix of St. Bridget at Rome.  
He giveth and bequeatheth to the Church of St. Roch in St. Honory's street a Chalice of the sum of eighteen thousand livres.  
He willeth and ordaineth that after the sharing of the Palace of his Eminence, together with the Statues and Figures, which shall be therein, and that the said Lord Duke Mazarini hath chosen the part which best likes him, that then it shall be lawful to the said Marquis Mancini to take the sum of three hundred thousand livres for his part of the said Statues and Figures, which sum in the said Case the said Lord Mazarini shall be bound to pay him; for which payment all the said Statues and Figures shall be comprised in the said Substitution of the Legacy general, without comprising nevertheless the Palace and Appurtenances, which shall remain in his disposition.  
If the said Lord marquis Mancini receive the said sum of three hundred thousand livres, my Lord the Cardinal willeth and intendeth that it shall be employed in the purchase of a House fit to receive him, the which purchase shall not be made without the advice of Monsieur Colbert.  
My Lord Cardinal giveth unto Madam the Princess Colonna, besides that which he hath assigned her, as abovesaid, by his Testament, the sum of 15 thousand livres as well for the buying her Horses, Caroche and Equipage as for the expenses of her voyage into Italy.  
All which was so spoke and said to the said Notaries, and by one of them the other being present read and repeated Monday the seventh day of March about nine a clock in the morning the same year, 1661.  
TO day the seventh day of March 1661. the King being at Vincennes, after the reading to his Majesty by Francis le Foin Notary, etc. of the Testament and Codicils made by my Lord Cardinal Duke Mazarini: His said Majesty divers times renounced and renounceth that made to his advantage of the third of March instant, and Wills and Ordaineth that the said Testament and Codicils be executed according to the Form and Tenor: at which said reading were present my Lord the Prince of Conde; by and at the request of Madam the Princess of Conti, Monsieur the Duke of Mercoeur, Monsieur the Count of Soissons, the Sieurs, Duke and Duchess Mazarini, the Sieurs Premier President Fouquet, the Bishop of Freins and Colbert Executors of the Testament of my Lord the Cardinal, His Majesty commanding me for the the testifying his pleasure to dispatch the present breviate, which he hath signed with his own hand, and caused to be Countersigned by me his Secretary of State, and of his Commands and Finances.  
Signed Le TELLIER.    

SOME HISTORICAL REMARQVES OF THE LIFE Of the Famous CARDINAL MAZARINI  
London, Printed by Peter Lillicrap for William Gilbertson at the Bible in Guilt-Spur-Street, 166●.   

Some Historical remarks OF THE LIFE of the Famous Cardinal MAZARINI.  
IT might pass for no great misadventure, (in imitation of Philosophers, and those Mathematicians who to describe the Globes and the Government of the Universe have assigned Terms and Names to the great and Principal Parts thereof) if in the Elements of Humane Policy which hath ordered and disposed the Affairs of Christendom, in its Modern Administration, we give to its chief Motion the Name of MAZARINI whose Designs and Actions were the Supreme Intelligences the Poles and Hinges by which so many wonderful changes and vicissitudes have been Rolled upon the World.  
And he may properly be also called that Altern Luminary which upon the setting of the Glorious Richelieu, arose in the French Horizon, and with Universal Splendour pierced into the most Recondite and Abstruse Mysteries and Cabals of State, and influenced and Governed their Transactions; Like the Moons Opacous Body his Gleaming and Glittering and uncertain lights dazzled the Eyes of the World, while his dark Intrigues were reserved and concealed in himself.  
He was Fate its self in a Humane shape, which dispensed Events and favoured or crossed all Counsels and Designs according to his Pleasure; nothing succeeded without his Concurring advice and assent, and nothing failed with his auspicious Encouragement. To so near a resemblance herein, that he was able to clue glorious and most wonderful Effects through dark Labyrinths of Time and Adversity, and appoint the hour and minute of their Termination.  
He was a dark. Lantern whose Lucidations discovered all before him, and concealed his own Mysterious Practices; the Oracle of State, which no Sword or Wisdom could resolve, He could turn the Edges of the sharpest Steel, and blunt the Points of the acutest Wits, neither Mars nor Mercury could prevail against Him.  
In vain therefore it is to think to give any competent Character of Him, who surmounted the capacity of the ablest Personages Christendom e'er enjoyed, and who may be reckoned for one of the Wonders of the World.  
As he may in some sort also be said to have been a Monarch himself, having governed France absolutely in the Regency and Minority of the Present King and Queen Mother in very difficult and perplexed Times, and yet he was but a stranger, and a new comer to that Court and Country in a very private condition, which His Fortune and M●●it equalled after to the highest Advancements any Public Minister ever attained.  
It's true, he had an Excellent Master and Pattern the aforesaid Richlieu, who doubled his Faculties upon him at his death, commending him to the King as he had done before to the Queen, as the only fit and able person to undertake His Affairs. The main Scope whereof was the Ruin of the House of Austria, and the Advancement of the French Greatness upon it, to an Universal Sovereignty.  
And it will not be ungrateful I suppose to the Reader to show the Parallel and Differences between these Eminent Statesmen, (the latter exactly treading in the steps of the Former,) without any ambitious Hope or design of expressing them in their due proportions, but only to serve an ordinary Curiosity.  
Cardinal Richlieu was born at Paris, and so a Native of that Kingdom, and of Noble Extraction, which rendered him to the observation of the Queen Mother, who took him into her service and preferred him to the Bishopric of I uzon, where at her command he wrote a Book of Controversies, and Thereafter to the King, who procured him a Cardinal's Cap from the Pope (Paul the fifth, is reported upon viewring him to have said, that he would one day would prove the greatest cheat in the World.) He highly merited his Preferments of the King, by his taking of Rochel, which caused such an obliging confident affection in the King towards him that he left the total direction of Affairs to him, but that Interest in the King was very ungratefully managed against the Queen Mother who raised Him, and all her Party or Dependants, the Queen he forced into a dishonourable and wand'ring Exile; and to rid himself of Her and the Intrigues against Him, He cut off the Marshal Marillacis head her great Favourite, and ruined all such of whom he had any jealousy. He was beloved by the most zealous Protestants and hated by the most zealous Catholics, and never pardoned such as had offended against him. He gained the Duchy of ●●●urain by sine policy, and sudden force intending to ●●ine the Hous● of 〈◊〉, the successors or Char●●●●n, in order to the sa●e destructive Design un●●, the House of Austria, designing to have seized also the L●w Countries, upon which bottom the War with Spain in 16●●. was begun and continued till his death.  
He assisted the Duke of Never, in his succession to the Duchy of Mantwa, and made an alliance with the Swedes and the Protestant Princes; and yet notwithstanding ruined the Hugonites in France.  
He was an enemy likewise to the Princes of the Blood, especially the Count of Soissons, who deserted the Kingdom and joined with the Spaniard; His Party with him published a Manifesto against the Cardinal's male administration, yet he continued in the King's favour and firm assurance thereof, and for attempts and undermine thereof by the persuasions of the King to a peace, he caused Monsieur le Grand and De Thou, two Eminent Noblemen to be beheaded at Lions; which last sanguinous Action loosened him from his former fixedness in his Master's breast, whose coldness towards him raised Damps in his own, which with other distempers fomented and fed by this, extinguished his life on the 4th of December 1642.  
He was accused of having Embroiled England, to the end that it might be in no condition to hinder his seizing of the Low Countries, and this by most unjust and Malign practices (though varnished over with its like intermeddling in the business of Rochel) and of setting all Europe in general by the ears, though he cannot be deprived of the glory and praise of having done the Kingdom of France Superlative services though it were with the huge oppression of the poor people, he lived in great anxiety and sear, having perpetual apprehensions of the mischiefs he had done.  
His death was not overmuch lamented, and such as had either feared him, or fled his persecution returned into France, and by the King's Grace repossessed themselves of their Charges and Estates. He died wealthy and rich, seized of several Governments and Offices and Tituladoed with Dignities and Secular Honours, leaving a Peerage and Duchy to his Nephew Duke Richleiu now surviving; and was buried with a public sumptuous Funeral a little before the death of Lewis the 1●●● which happened in the beginning of the year 1643. after he had declared the Queen, Regent and recommended Cardinal Mazarini to her, who suffered no Eclipse or Diminution of Lustre in the clouded close setting of his Patron Richleiu.  
And we shall now perceive this Apotype and Copy of this great Exemplar Cardinal Mazarini who was (as hath been objected to, and reported of, him frequently) a Sicilian by birth, and so a Native Subject of the King of Spain, but took his Priesthood at Rome as did Richleiu, and by his good Fortune conducted to France, into which Court he cunningly insinuated himself, and gained the favour and knowledge of the Cardinal, who employed him in transacting his Affairs at Rome, and as his Envoy or Minister for that peculiar Negotiation, while he found it convenient to dispose of him for his better service, and prefer him to the Queen, as her Secretary, by which means he might fasten a sure Intelligencer of whatever should be contrived against Him, and continue and cherish those good correspondencies between her Majesty and Himself.  
And so true and faithful a Servant did he carry himself in that preferment, and so prudently and wisely for himself, that he preserved the entire favour of their Majesties and the Cardinal, without any suspicion of a partial study in things of a nice and dubious adherence.  
For as he had by his Birth the disadvantage of Alliance and Interest, so had be the unobserved unbusied and serence way of beneficing and engaging the means to his Grandeur which he saw designed for him by so Potent and concerned Inductions to the secrets of the Government; so that there was little odds between the Locality of their Extractions but what ambitious Envy against the one, and contemptuous Hatred against the other ineffectually signified.  
By the aforesaid direction of the King at his decease he now managed the State, and in prosecution of Richleius Design, (Sacrated to him by the Merit of his Advancement) resumed the next Summer's Expedition of 1643. with more violent Effects, the tediousness of the former having wearied Lewis the 14th of his life.  
The first signal Action of his Administration was the relief of Rocroy, which Don Francisco de melo a Portugese (than Governor after the death of the Cardinal Infanta of the Low Countries under the Spanish obedience) went to besiege with a gallant Army, but having declared the Duke of Albuquerque (a Portugese likenese) General of the Horse, who was a very young man and raw Soldier, the Officers took so much offence thereat, that they quarrelled themselves into a discomfiture so that all their Foot were presently worsted and defeated by the Duke of Anguien now Prince of Conde a person that could not, would not be debarred from Military employment, and was suffered to run his venturous fate in this service for other guess effects then a braving Experience, which after wards threatened the Fortunes of this Great Cardinal.  
This Victory was very great and most opportune to ingratiate His Administration with the people which voiced up likewise his favourite, General or Marshal Gassion a Protestant besides, who after took in Theonville. Of whom further.  
This success was also the more officious to him for that it removed the said Francisco de melo from the government of the low Countries, the Marquis Casiel-Rodrigo being substituted thereto, till the arrival of the Archduke Leopold from Germany, as if Fortune intimated that other Ministers of State were inferior to his Eminence, and could not consist nor stand with his insuperable Policy and felicity of Government.  
His aims were no less upon Germany pursuing the old League with the Swedes, then on Flanders, though with different success. For the remainders of the Duke of Saxon Weymars' Army being recruited and reinforced by the French, marched towards Bavaria, intending to swallow that Duchy, but here fortune faltered, for the Duke of joram and John de Wert accompanied by the Baron of Mercy the Bavarian General, so rudely accosted them, that the French lost 400 Officers and of them the gallant Marshal Guebriana, and 6000 Soldiers, and with speed were forced to return to the Rhine  
These 2 Battles of Rocroy and Dutling within so short a space of 6 Months were almost as signal as any in the Swedish or Flandrian War, and made the world suppose to the Cardinal's advantage, that he would direct and govern the Arms of France in their own natural way of sudden and sprightly resolution and push at a speedy conquest and Decision.  
The prudent Cardinal knowing how the pleasure of this Victory might transport the Duke of Lorraine, having highly vindicated and revenged himself of the French affronts (to feed the humours thereof, and charm the opportunities of this success) proposed a Treaty with the said Duke now as more facile to an accommodation, since he stood upon as equal if not higher ground: but the Duke being slured before by Cardinal Richlieu upon the same account at his last journey to Paris by the like offers would not venture another Flame, but fell into the low countries to winter quarters & gave the Cardinal leave to undertake another Composure.  
And that was between the King of England and the members at Westminster by the outward solemn Embassy of Prince Harcourt and as well entertained by them as intended by him; (the Members quarrelling at his Credentials as not amply and in form directed to them, and affronting him by a search and seizure of his papers as he was going to Oxford) for he bound himself up to the Dictates and Methods of Cardinal Richlein, which was by any means to continue our divisions; and the effect of this splendid whither go ye manifested no more, when the said Prince Harcourt, depart hence, without so much as one praliminary or word treated of toward an agreement.  
And as his averseness to the English Nation was merely Politic & hardly discovered in him, so had he a natural dislike of and Antipathy to the Neat, easily to be observed varying and counterchanging the interest of France whi●h thitherto had maintained an indissoluble League and Amity with Scotland; whether prompted to it by his Generosity a virtue relucent enough in him which abhorred their disloyal practices, or from a vile contempt of their Condition, and the dictates of Prudence which disobliged any confidence in that Nation (as they then went in the world's Repute) is not determinable.  
But most certain it is that some grounded radicated pique and quarrel he had against that people, for that the Immortal marquis of Montross of Famous Memory was put by his Command of that King's Guard which had been promised him, merely by this Cardinal, although he brought with him the greatest Merit that Loyalty, Conduct and Courage did ever lay claim to.  
As little indulgent he was indeed to the admission of any stranger into places of Trust, no not his own Countrymen of Italy, as knowing one was enough and thought by the Princes of the Blood and the Nobility to be too many, serving himself altogether of Frenchmen, except for Foreign Intelligence, for which he had Emissaries and Pensionary's of all Nations.  
And now we will return to some other Passages of his Administration as to the War he maintained yet with the Emperor and King of Spain in the year 1646. when the Duke of Orleans was Generalissimo, (the Cardinal studying to busy the Princes of the Blood in Military Actions, out of the Kingdom) and the aforesaid Duke of Anguien his Lieutenant General.  
That years greatest Campania fell upon Flanders where a Decision of the quarrel for those Provinces was resolved upon, by taking the chiefest Towns of Importance in the Heart of the Country, which would give the Spaniard a mortal blow; having prepared for it, by many successes to the Hollanders as well as the▪ self the year before: for that the Spaniards loss of Gravelling and the Sasse of Gaunt, the two main Frontier Defences both ways, laid the Country open to an entire Conquest.  
Courtrack was first taken within twenty miles of Gaunt, but victuals growing seant, by the multitude of such an Army, they retreated towards the Seaside to be supplied by the Hollander and took in Berghen St. Wynox by Dunkirk, besieged Mardike suprized from them the Winter before, but lost many gallant brave persons of the French No ility, and some four thousand men before it, and yet could not carry it till Vantrump with his Dutch Fleet blocked them up by Sea.  
Dunkirk and Fuernes followed the same Fortune, so that nothing was thought now able to withstand the progress of the French Armies to Antwerp, which the Cardinal by earnest expresses and instances desired the Prince of Orange to besiege promising him 6000 Men to his assistance; but the Dutch jealous of the French for former Reasons, and suspecting the Cardinal's reaches, and not willing to spoil the Trade of Amsterdam which must return again to Antwerp, would by no means approve of the design.  
Nevertheless the Prince of Aurange (Marshal Gassion and Rantzaw having driven back Piccolomini the Emperor's General and secured the passage by the Channel between Gaunt and Bruges) came with his Army and complemented the Duke of Orleans with a visit, and returned with booty and plunder into the Land of Was and there took in Hulst in October the last admirable felicity of that great Captain.  
So successful were the endeavours of this great Cardinal, that no doubt was made of reducing the Countries which France pretended to have been wrested from her some ages before, and so accomplish a total Sovereignty over all Belgia in process of time; when the Prince of Aurange the great wheel of the Holland War, by the insinuations and persuasions of the right honourable George Lord Goring Earl of Norwich deceased, was at last induced to hearken to an accommodation, which having been laboured at Munster by Deputies of all the concerned Princes and the Arbitrators, was in 1648. by that Prince's single Condescension (such a command had his Fortune upon Christendom) concluded and ratified on January the 8th and the French left to stand upon their own legs (after many instances made to the Contrary by Monsieur de Servient the French Ambassador at the Hague to no purpose) the Swedes and Hollanders returning to their repose after a m●st tedious War which the Ambitious Cardinal preferred b●fore a most just honourable and necessary Peace for the impoverished Subjects of France.  
Notwithstanding he obtained by this Munster Treaty from the Emperor in satisfaction of his charge and expense in the Swedish War, the strong Town of Brisack and most part of Alsatia, bordering upon Lorain, no small addittament of Territory, besides the security thereby of his acquests in Lorain; and his rights in the 3 Bishoprics of Metz, Thoul and Verdun.  
Maintaining and keeping also Portolongone and Prombino in Italy taken by his Arms under the Conduct of Prince Thomaso, as also his Conquests in Cataloma, where the War was continued with various success under the several Commands of Marshal de Motte, The Prince de Harcourt, de Conde, and Marshal de Schomberg, to the continuance of the Catalonians in their revolt.  
He retained likewise what he gained in Flanders, with a resolution to improve the French Flower de Lyzes in that Country, where they had formerly flonrished, looking with an evil eye upon the Dutch for abandoning their League, and evil-intreating of their Subjects in their Trade and Navigation, which showed how much he was displeased with this peace, which he foresee would breed ill humours in the State, and some envious designs against his Person and Authority therein.  
The said year 1648. on the 29th of August he was fortunated with another Victory at Lens in Artoys against the Archduke Leopold gained by the valour but allayed by the death of the gallant Marshal Gassion, slain with a bullet (as most men thought) treacherously by some great person near him, who shall be nameless. This noble Captain was a Confident of the Cardinals, and proved a greater loss to him than was at present imagined, but his sagacity and prudence seasonably provided himself with another Martialist.  
Hitherto the Cardinal had carried all things evenly without any intestine Commotions or open disturbances, & to his great Reputation and Honour: but the influence of the late general peace which stilled and dulled the minds of most men, like a compressed heavy vapour broke out into a violent Earthquake at home, and gave the Spaniard leave to respire after a war on both sides of his Provinces for thirteen years together, but belaid this great Agent of Christendom with very importunate s llicitudes.  
Some Cabal now on foot against him cherished by the Princes of the blood, and managed chief by the Prince of Conde, had obliged him by the Queen Regent's Order in September 1648. to commit the Messeiurs de Brussels de Charton and de Blanckmesnel Precedents of the Parliament, whom the people much respected and looked upon as Patriots, to the Bastilt of Paris, whereupon they began to cry Alarm and ran in Herds down to the Palace Royal (in the nature and to the Event of our unhappy Tumults in 1640) requiring the Liberty of the said Gentlemen: the Shops were shut up, the Chains made fast, and all the approaches barricadoed, so that Paris seemed to be in more disorder now, and the danger greater than that which happened in the Reign of Henry the 2d nor did the uproar cease till the Queen was constrained to release them. And so the discontent was for a while hushed up, being a forerunner to greater mischiefs, and a seeming calm cast upon the surface of the Kingdom, while it violently laboured for a free Vent through the turbulent blood of the Princes.  
Which happened on the 28 of December in their Christmas time 1649. when in the Evening the Queen, the King and Duke of Anjou with the Cardinal departed from Paris; which secret Retreat gave the Parisians another Alarm, for imagining that the Queen would revenge herself of the former commotion, they took up Arms again with as much Heat as they had done before, and raised their respective Militia's and Forces under the Command of the Dukes de Elbeuf, Beaufort, Bovillon and the Marshal de la Motte, their chief General being the Prince of Conty.  
The Queen Regent and King raised Forces also, there fl●cking to him many from all parts to reduce the Parisians to reason, he had already seized up●n the Approaches, and some hot Skirmishes were made in one, whereof the Duke of Rohan was slain, he pretended to be the Son and Heir of that most Famous Soldier and Scholar the Duke of Rohan the Head of the Protestant League.  
By this means the King possessed himself of St. Dennis, Meredon, Corbett, and Lagny near the City, who fearing the due punishment of their disloyalty, and the revenges of the Cardinal and animated by their Leaders, & the Nobility, invited the Archduke Leopold to their assistance, declaring their intolerable burdens under the pressures of a tedious War, and the oppressions of the said Cardinal.  
Upon this invitation the Archduke advanced, and to facilitate his Design caressed the Country as he passed, suffering not the least spoil to be committed upon their Goods or , but by the advice of the Duke of Lorain, he prudently retired and prevented the stops of his return, remembering that of Curtius, Gratiarum actiones apud hostes supervacaneas esse— aut prorsus nullas, That the thanks of an Enemy are altogether vain and unprofitable, or not to be expected or relied on.  
For the wise Cardinal to divert this storm which would shiver Him if he met and withstood it singly, vailed the Kings and Queen's Authority to this Exigence, Counselling the Queen to conclude with the Princes without any delay; which advice was suddenly executed, and thereby the Archduke having lost 2000 Horse for want of forage and by the celerity of his expedition, was yet fain to make more haste out of the Kingdom than he did into it, although he had saved Paris from a very forward Ruin.  
By this Agreement the Citizens of Paris were pardoned and restored to all their Privileges and Franchises and the Army of the King and his mutineers dispatched under the Prince de Harcourt to make an inroad into Flanders, who coming before Cambray were content to dislodge at the approach of the Arch Duke, whose Lieutenant General the Marquis S'sondrate took in Ypres after a gallant defence made by the French, while Harcourt took Conde and laid waste the Country of H●nault and part of Fragrant to the fright of the City of Brussels itself.  
This was one of the finest extricating fineries he manifested in so sudden Schazardous an emergence which else would have sunk him immediately, and the Kingdom together; no small advantage of this occurrence that it complicated the Monarchy of France with his particular Fate, and showed that its glory and safety were redevable to his single Concern.  
The Cardinal well knew where those Arrows were forged, and therefore having so triumphantly and nimbly surmounted this shock & encounter, he used the like diligence to be before hand with his Enemies for the future, and hereupon the Princes of C●nde and C●nt● next Princes of the blood Royal after the Duke of Orleans together with the Duke of Longueville their brother in law and the Duke of Beaufort, were upon a sudden made prisoners in the Castle of vincennes, with several of their servants secured and removed from them; this happened in 1650.  
The Princess of Conde retired herself to Bourdeaux (where the Duke of Bovillon & many Lords came to her) who for the hatred they bore the Cardinal and the Duke of Espernon, who stuck fast to the King, were welcomed by her and the Town, as well as the Viscount Marshal Turenne upon the same account at Brussels.  
The Duchess of Longueville got aboard in a Vessel which lay off before the Haven of Deip, and thence passed to Holland, and so to Luxenburgh to communicate intelligence and make a straight Alliance with the Arch Duke.  
This was a potent Combination, wherein most of the great men of the Kingdom, with the generality of the people were engaged against the Cardinal and which would have ruined the greatest Minister Europe ever had, were it not that his wisdom and policy were paramount and above the reach of Fortune, which had little to do with his Felicities.  
First therefore the King published a Manifest concerning the detention of the Princes, to give Satisfaction to the world of the justice and necessity thereof, the chief points of which declaration were the Prince of Conde's too great power and exorbitant Ambition, that had proceeded so far as to invade the royal Prerogative.  
In answer to this the Marshal of Turenne being in Stenay (and having agreed with the Archduke for the manage of the war) beat his drums and listed forces, declaring with the said Arch Duke, that neither Party would lay down their Arms till the Princes were released, the Duke of Lorain restored to his Estate, the Cardinal banished, & a firm peace concluded between both Crowns; but the Cardinal's Dexterity and diligence baffled all these designments, and turned their Resolutions into prayers and entreaties for most of the same things at his own hands.  
The Parliament of Bourdeaux also renewed the Order and Arrest given against the Marquis de Ancre the Favourite of the former Queen Mother, whereby it was declared that no Stranger (by reason of his Enormous Administration) should ever have thereafter the great Ministry and Intendency of the Kingdom.  
The Marshal Turenne with the Archduke attaqued Guise and notwithstanding terms and propositions of Peace public and private, resolved to prosecute the war, while the King seizeth upon the Prince's Governments and places of strength in Normandy, and finally by the Artifices of the Cardinal and the power of the Duke of Espernon, possesseth himself of Bourdeaux, which dangerously threatened his Crown, where he entered with triumph and with the same returned to his City of Paris.  
And now the second time had he quieted and laid the envious Rage of his Enemies against Him, when the Duke of Orleans the King's brother undertook the Prince's Intercession and Vindication, which he procured to be decreed by the Parliament of Paris, who in a body came and presented their Arrest in favour of the said Princes, to the Queen; which Authoritative Reversement of those proceed and severe restraint the Princes had suffered, with universal outcries against the Cardinal as the Author and Contriver of those injuries and other mischiefs to the Public, by his continuance of the War and oppression of the people, now at last forced this able Pilot to abandon the Steerage of the State, and to consult for his security, which the liberty of the Princes dangerously threatened.  
The Princes were set at liberty by Marshal Gramment who was Commanded to see it done, and made their entrance into Paris the sixth of February when the streets rung again with the noise of Live the King, Live the Princes, no Mazarine; every one accusing him of Exhausting the Revenue, etc. and of the mischiefs which embroiled the State, but he had played his Cards so, that they ceased not with his departure.  
Nevertheless to Honest his Retreat and take off the dishonour of it, he got the King and Queen to give him their Congee or leave for this his retirement, giving his Enemies full swinge to act their Exorbitancies, without any Treasure to mitigate that acuteness the people must suffer under those necessities of misrule, while he had wherewithal to loosen their combination and divide their interests into Atoms, and so make his return infinitely more glorious, than his Exit was disgraceful.  
His passage out of France was by Peronne, Sedan and Dinant where he stayed some days, and thence to Liege or Luyck and so to Bruel to the Elector of Colen who received him according to his quality, he having refused the like offers of civility from the Spaniards. Yet such was the present hatred of him in France, that even those who shown him any respect in his way to this Exile, were informed against as Enemies to the King and their Country, most of the Parliaments of France Decreeing against Him.  
And now returned the Marshal of Turenne, the Count of Grand Pre and the Duchess of Longueville, being welcomed with their Troops, while the Cardinal secretly listed men in Luyckland for the King's Service, which now went very backward in Flanders, for the Marquis Sfondrate retook Fuerues and Wynoxberg; and the Impositions and clamours of the people were as great as ever.  
To raise these discontents to another Sedition and Rebellion, the Prince of Conde gave out a Rumour of another Design to seize him and his Brother, and so all things were put in the same hazard as before at the Cardinal's departure, for though the Queen protested there was no such Design by an Express sent after him, which brought him back to Paris upon condition that Monsieur Servient and le Tellier should be discarded, as being the Cardinal's Creatures; yet he returned to the same suspicious humour and hasted to St. Maur and thence to Bordeaux, which again received and readily declared for Him.  
The King to prevent his clavies and increase there (having been newly declared Major the 27th of August 1651 by the Chancellor of France in Parliament as being fourteen years of age) followed after him to Poitiers, and seeing no remedy but in the prudent Counsels of the Cardinal, against this ambitious dissatisfaction of the Princes, sent for Him to come to them thither, which he obeyed: and the Prince of Conde▪ dealt with the Archduke in like manner; Mazarin being now declared Traitor, his Goods to be Confiscate, his fine Library sold, and fifteen thousand pound Sterling offered to any body should bring him either alive or dead: and at the same time the Duke of Nemours with Spanish Forces entered Picardy.  
This Restitution of the Cardinal, was then one of the wonderfullest Changes and Affairs of Christendom, though it were but an ordinary Effect of his prudence which plainly foresee this glorious Event of his secess and departure.  
France that had leaned so long upon his Shoulders, could not choose but miss her supporter, and unaccustomed to new Props, was in danger of an irrecoverable fall. Yet when he had Sampsons' opportunity of pulling the stately Frame of Government upon the Head of his Enemies, who triumphed at his disgrace, the kindness of his Revenge rather strengthened the Fabric and raised it higher.  
Necessity that injures and insolently crosseth other men, officiously served His Fortune, France could not be safe without Him, the Engine of the Government was discomposed and in pieces, and none but his skilful Hand could set it right and in order, which he did suddenly and invisibly by securing the King's Interest and Sovereignty, & dividing and perplexing the Princes, particularly by moderating and in some sort neutralizing the Duke of Orleans.  
The main Intrigue whereof was the gaining the Marshal Turenne over to the King's Party, who had constantly followed the Fortune of Conde, and appeared the Cardinals most avowed and formidable Enemy; but nothing it seems was insuperable or unfeasible to Him, who could reconcile Contraries, and outdo Nature, with the Elixir of his Brain.  
So that the Princes were constrained to invite the Archduke and Duke of Lorain to the other Expedition for Paris, which threatened the ruin of one of the Parties; but such was the favour of Fate towards this her great Instrument and Agent that she opportunely interposed the Authority and Mediation of our Sovereign the King of Great Britain then at Paris which superseded the fierce and sanguinous Resolutions of the Princes, and saved the Cardinal the Emergent Hazard of his Felicity. Which Courtesy how he requited, is one of the most Envious Enquiry's and the blackest darkest passage of his whole Administration.  
By the said Intercession the Duke of Lorain, with other satisfaction, retreated into Flanders, whither not long after perforce followed the Prince of Conde and his Partisans, and the King trinmphantly entered Paris with the acceptable insinuations of his Grace and Pardon, solemnly thereafter published; Nothing was wanting to complete the new settlement but the Duke of Orlean's (the King's Uncles) presence at Court, now absenting and retiring himself thence, which was one of the difficultest and nicest Punctilio of State the Cardinal ever met with.  
Being thus again Culminant and placed in his former Crb, he resumed the War with fresh vigour, and with two Eminent Successes the taking of Stenay whither he carried the King in Person, and the Victory at Arras 1654. re-stated and recovered the Honour of the Puissance of France.  
It will be unnecessary to mention the Chain of Successes which followed them in Flanders, as it will be rudeness to abrupt and disjoin It with his League with Cromwell and his Cunning destructive Design of Jamaica which he put into that Usurpers Head, because they press too near upon His Memory, and are every man's observation and public Discourse.  
But most certain it is, he joyed not our late Miraculous Restitution, nor did he foresee it at that Distance which timed and Governed all his other Consultations, for his Politics were like China Metal prepared and refined by years; though upon the Emergent and sudden Crisis thereof, at the Death of Oliver Cromwell he Complemented Her Majesty the Queen Mother, with the undoubted Hopes of Her Family's Restauration; the Effect whereof settled such a Melancholy in his Creature Monsieur Bourdeaux Neufville the French Resident here, that he endured not to survive it  
For a fit Conclusion: Nature favouring the fair & goodly Structure of his Glory, and in an obsequious compliance to his Fortune and Prudence with all other things had so humbly served and obeyed, prolonged his life (whose Lamp in a Sanguine Constitution the great maintainer of the spirits, and ventilated with so much Air of business was never thought of such a Continuance and Duration) till he had settled and Established that Kingdom in the greatest and potentest Condition the World ever saw it; and after he had restored to it a most glorious Peace, from a War of twenty seven years standing, and rendered his Prince the most Signal and incomparable Services, having annexed and Established on the Crown by the GENERALLL TREATY in 1659. the Counties of Roussillon, Haynault and Artoys with other advantages and Dependencies.  
Having also lived to see the glorious Effects of his Tuition and Education of the present King; as if Nice and Curious Fortune scorned to exhibit and continue so rare a Masterpiece of Government to the World in vain; or that a Phoenix should rise but out of his Ashes.  
He was by Fate intended and designed for the Troubles and Dangers of France, to the Redress whereof he was solely Competent, and they being Composed, His work was done, and He died when there was no need of His Life; If perhaps he prevented not some afterclaps of that Storm which impends at present upon one of his greatest Confidents and Privadoe's, and Loures upon many other of His Dependants and retainers.  
Fortune was so much his Familiar that even his Pleasures and Vacancies were entertained by Her, His greatest recreation being Play, or Gaming both at Dice and Cards, or any other Sport; at all which he was very lucky, and took great delight in success; but many times he did not owe it either to Chance or any Cunning but that of his Playfellows Design, who knowing his Winning and Thriving Humour, would play Booty against themselves; and by their Loss make great Advantage; For he that had a great Suit at Court or aimed at any High Preferment, had no readier way to effect his Business then by an Opportunity of playing with the Cardinal, to whom a loss of a thousand Pistols was worth a Bribe of ten thousand, and engaged him more easily and surely then any friends or other money whatsoever.  
So that in Effect He lost by his Gains, his indiscreet Avarice being eluded by the tickling Vanity of Conquest, and the pleasing Ambition of a good Hit.  
But it seemed to Him a kind of a more Noble Oppression to drain Gentlemen of all their money (as it also famed his Generosity in recompensing them with Offices) alike to that he exercised over the Commonalty, without redress or mitigation during his whole Administration; by which he heaped such vast sums of Money, computed by his Testament foregoing; and yet there is a report of twenty five thousand millions of livres, which is two Millions and a half of pounds Sterling, to be yet concealed by his Heirs and Executors more than was any manner of way disposed of by Him.  
And yet nevertheless His Death was not sung with the Dirges of revengeful Ribaldry as was his Predecessors Richlieu, though he had more Potent and impotent Enemies.  
At home he was reconciled (to view) with the Prince of Conde, who was willing to entertain his friendship, as he was ikewise respected by the King of Spain, and Doughty Lovis de Haro: only the Pope who always took him for the great disturber of Christendom, and the sole Opposer of the general Peace (his own great design at first) the War giving him opportunity of raising and preferring his Confidents and pillaging the people, did now upon the Conclusion of it very much more suspect and Malign the Cardinal, first for taking the glory of that Affair to himself, and then designing a worse War upon the Church of which he was sensible some long time before the present Rupture and Turkish Invasion.  
This Nativity being showed me by that ingenious and famed Artist Mr. John Gadbury, and knowing what particular respect is had by great Men to those Schemes of Geniture, I thought it would be acceptable to prefix this; being declaratory of the main Concerns of this the Cardinal's life Secundum Artem.  
Nasc. Cardinal Mazarine, anno 1602. July 14 6 b. 43 m. P. M Sub Elevatione Poli, 42 deg. ☽ à ☍ ♄ ad * ☉.  
THe Nativity of this great Statesman was pablished by a Pretender to Astrology in England, some ni●e years since, but falsely: for the Scheme thereof is no less than nine Degrees in the Medium Coeli, and seven in the Ascendent, distant from the Truth; as by this Correction following appears, 

(1.) In the thirty fourth year of this Persons Age, he began to be greatly noted, and to live in Favour of the greatest Persons in the place he inhabited: he had the Medium Coeli ad Trine Venus; a fit Direction 〈◊〉 lay a Foundation for future Honour.  
(2) In the year one thousand six hundred and forty he began to rise into great Favour at the French Court, and this in the month of November: The Medium Coeli had but lately passed the Sextile of Jupiter by Direction, and Jupiter in that month upon the Ascendent at Birth, and Venus upon the place of Direction; both very eminent Transits.  
(3.) In the year one thousand six hundred forty and three, and forty one of his Age, he had the Ascendent directed ad Trine Sol, & Sextile Luna: at which time the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Commonalty so cried him up, that he began to be, and indeed was, in greater request than the King; for the King was then but a Child of five years old.  
(4.) In the 49 and 50 years of his Age, he was devested of his Honour and Greatness for a time; and by the means of an enraged Nobility, etc. was banished, He had then the Sun ad Conjunction Mars, & Luna ad Quartile Mars by Direction; which should also have given him a very violent Fever: but I cannot inform myself thereof.    
Lastly, In the year 1660. in the Month Febr. he died: some say of a deep Melancholy, others of a Fever; the last is not without Reason, nor yet the first in a sense; therefore I believe he participated of both. The Ascendent was directed ad Opposition, Mars, and Saturn upon the Opposition of the Moons Radical place.  
FINIS.