SEVERAL LETTERS BETWIXT THE FRENCH KING AND THE Q. MOTHER, Concerning the present Troubles there.  
Unto which is added, The French Kings Declaration upon the departure of the Queen Mother, and Monsieur his Brother out of the Kingdom.  
The Confirmation of the Court Parliament of Paris upon the same.  
Faithfully translated out of the French.  
LONDON. Printed for NATH: BUTTER, and NICH: BOURNE. 1631.   


A LETTER OF THE FRENCH KING TO THE QUEEN MOTHER.  
Madame:  
I Cannot sufficiently testify my grief, for having understood by your Letters and by the report of my Cousin the Marshal of Schomberg, and of the Lord of Roijssy, the refusal which you have made of all the conditions I have offered you, for the change of your abode at Campeigne, into some more convenient place for yourself, and less suspected for me. Were it not a thing altogether necessary for the welfare of my affairs, I would not have caused you so much to have been pressed thereabout. And because I have reserved to myself to give you shortly to understand the last resolution which I have taken upon so important a business, I will say no more thereof to you at this present, but will answer only to that which you have written in your last concerning my said Cousin the Marshal of Schomberg, and the said Lord of Roijssy. It had been very difficult for me to have sent you persons of more approved honesty; and the report which they made me of your intention at their return from you, is so agreeable to the sense of these Letters you writ unto me by my said Cousin the Marshal of Schomberg, and the Lord of Roijssy, as you have no occasion thereupon to complain; but I rather, because my instant and reiterated prayers have had so little power to work upon you. God will inspire into me, if it be his pleasure, what I ought to do for the good and quiet of my estate. After the which I shall always have the same consideration of you, which you can expect Madam, from  
Your most humble and obeisant Son, LOVIS. From Fontainebelleau, 28. May, 1631.   

Answer of the Queen Mother to the King's Letter above-written.  
Monsieur my Son:  
I Had deferred to have written you an answer to your Letter the 28. of this Month, had not mine enemies spread a rumour to my prejudice, that I was escaped into Flanders. This shall assure you, that I am yet here, resolved not to departed hence, unless it be by force, if this be not to upbraid you with with the respect which a good Mother, such as I am to you, aught to be in with her Son; for I never had nor shall have the desire to retire myself into any place where you have not absolute-power, having (God be thanked) no crime upon my Conscience which should give me occasion to withdraw myself thence, nor which ought to hinder me from hoping; that your goodness weary of seeing me thus to suffer, will oblige you in the end to restore me to the calm which is due to mine innocency; most humbly beseeching you to vouchsafe, that for answer to your last upon this occasion, I may tell you, that if I had no other consideration of remaining here, but mine own, I would long since have rendered you that obedience which you require at my hands, of departing hence. But if you please to consider what those displeasures are of a Mother so afflicted as I am, without having committed any fault against You or your estate; you may easily judge, how unseemly it would be both to you and me, that me continual tears and my extreme affliction should be exposed to the eyes of your Subjects in so long a journey, I should have to make unto any one of those places which you have caused to be propounded unto me, and that the triumph of mine enemies should be adorned with this spectacle, which would be most proper to illustrate their power all the world over, and the miserable estate whereto I am reduced. If the counsels which are given you upon this subject, came not from the same persons which have persuaded you to confine me to this place, and who doth not think (knowing me so well as they do, to be subject to stops of breath, whensoever I am sick) that I can live 3. days to an end; You might well know that it is fare more important for your state, that the ill usage which I suffer without cause be concealed here within four walls, than made known to every one in my passage; nor would you be so earnest after it in your said Letter, nor so much complain of my refusal of doing it. I know well what duty I own unto you as you are my King; but you also as my Son ought to compassionate mine afflictions, and not to allege unto me always as you do, the considerations of your estate, seeing there is no man that knows not right well that mine abode here can bring no prejudice thereunto, & that this is none other pretext or artifice; then that which was used by others heretofore, during our former separation, for which you were so sorry, so soon as you were come home to yourself, after the death of the Constable LVYNES, and which is now put in practice to torment me; to the end that losing (as I do) my repose, my health may be so impaired, as I must sink under the burden, and lose my life, which they cannot any longer endure.  
As touching the Conditions which have been offered me, I doubt not, but they have told you, and would make it publicly to be believed, that they are very advantageous unto me: But if they would describe them as they ought, there would be no such judgement made; seeing that MOULINS and ANGERS which have been propounded unto me for mine abode, are so infected with the Plague, as without doubt they have been chosen by them of purpose to thrust me into the jaws of death, which they see, doth not seize upon me here so soon as they could wish. Your disposition is too good to consent to their wicked designs, in case you know them: but under pretext of the duty which you own to your estate is hidden the poison which they would have me swallow, to rid their hands of me, contrary to your intention: God will deliver you from that, and your Mother also, if he please, and will touch your heart, to make you know, that next your own self I am the person most interested in your preservation, and that for this purpose, my life imports you more than myself. There is no honest man in your Kingdom that doth not think so. For the honesty of my Cousin the Marshal de Schomberg mentioned in your Letters, I leave the judgement thereof to God, and do beseech his divine Majesty, to grant both him and me the grace, that his counsels may be such as he is bound in Conscience to give you, and that he will inspire also into you that which you ought to do, for the good and repose of your estate, assuring myself, if you follow those divine inspirations in stead of the passionate counsels against me which you have taken erewhile; your estate shall therein find quiet and safety, and I the comfort which is so necessary for me, and those effects of love which I ought to expect from you  
Monsieur my Son, Your most humble, and most affectionate Mother and subject, MARRY. From Campeigne this last of May, 1631.    

The Copy of a Letter written from PARIS the 7. of August, 1631.  
Upon Monday last, the Queen Mother sent hither the Lord De Beno'ville with letters to the Parliament, and to the Sheriffs of this City. And he delivered both the one and the other in open and full Assembly, and afterward departed again without contradiction. These letters were presently sent to the King's Majesty without being opened. It is confidently reported, that the said Letters are manifestly replenished with very unseemly and strange threatenings. Thereupon, and upon the arrival of an Ambassador from Brussels, the King's Majesty having changed his purpose concerning his devotion of our Lady of Liesse, is now expected here in very few days to enter into the said Parliament: there to open his Declarations against the said Queen and Monsieur. It is confidently held that he will restore the Paulette, to the Officers of the Court according to the ancient form and custom.  
The farther we do proceed, the more the divisions of this Court do increase and wax worse. The jealousies which have here been conceived concerning the same, have cause order to be given for the augmentation and reinforming of the old Regiments, and Commissions to be granted for 10000 Foot forces more, and 20. Cornet of Horse.  
The King's Majesty hath given Charge and Commandment to Monsieur de Guyse, De Gramont, to the Earl of Rochefoucault, and to Monsieur de Valencay, with all speed and diligence to be present with his Majesty. The last of these (as we are informed) hath given a flat denial, that he will not departed out of Calais. And if Monsieur be sure enough without, as we are certified that he shall be, it is very credible that the rest will be no less refractory, but draw back as well as he.  
Monsieur the King's brother hath put away and discharged one of his Secretaries, and three of his other Officers, who were by the Lord— Coigneux suspected of Treason. He is yet at Beyancon.  
We have received Letters from Brussels, that Forstenbergh and Altringer, are about to join their Forces unto those Troops of the Administrator of Wirtenbergh, who so miserably is fallen away from the Conclusion made at the Diet at Leypsich. Since we have been informed of this Design, concerning the forenamed Conjunction, word was sent to Monsieur de la Force, to put the Army of Champaign into the Field, but he answereth, that as yet it is not expedient.  
Monsieur de Lorraine, hath sent hither the Lord de Ville, to make known to his Majesty, that Lorraine is at his Devotion, and that if the Gates of Nancy are not large and great enough, the very walls shall be broken down, to give entrance to, and to receive his Majesty. But all their kind of submissions will not purge and clear his Highness. Who is like enough to receive the first stroke of the forces of this estate; If so be that the said Lord do but enterprise any thing, and especially, if he do give entertainment into his company to the Prince of Phalsbourgh, who (as it is reported) for a certain, is one of his parties.  
The forenamed Ambassador of Brussels, comes to make excuse to his Majesty in that the Infanta being taken on a sudden could not afford that due honour and respect to the Queen Mother, which otherwise she would have done.  
Those of Straesburgh, much sorrowing at the miserable and unfaithful falling of the Duke of Wirtenbergh, do now earnestly implore the succour and aid of our King by the Lord Clafer. His Majesty hath given him all assurance, that he will in no wise forsake them. God grant that he may return home better contented than the Ambassador of S●yeden. Who much grieved, that he could not receive grant of 4000 men which he required: will within few days return home very ill satisfied. Nevertheless he hath received the gift of a Chain of Diamonds, worth the value of five thousand Crowns. The Lord Larson, Treasurer of the said King of Sweden received a Chain of two thousand Florins, and the secretary of the said Ambassador, had one given him of one thousand.  
The Lord De Villars hath sold the Government of Honfleur to the Marquis De Sourdis, from whom it is like to be taken away. He was lately brought in question and accused before the King that his Company of the Guard was not complete and that he pursed up the moneys of those that were more to pay. Whereupon, and by reason of some Insolent words which he gave in the presence of his Majesty, his Majesty plucked from his neck his Corslet and degraded him, and disarmed him most shamefully in open Company.   

A Letter written by the Queen Mother to the King's Majesty with the Answer of his Majesty to the same.  

The Letter of the Queen Mother to the King.  
Sir. My Son.  
I Have thought it my duty diligently to acquaint you by my Lord De la Bar that I am departed from Campaigne, as also to declare unto you the reasons and Motives inciting me thereunto which your Majesty shall find in this Letter.  
If I should allege no more, but the hardness and harshness of my imprisonment, the continual disquiets and persecutions which I suffered by the Cardinal Richelieu, I think they might easily be of power to give abundant satisfaction to your good disposition, for I know that your inclination is such that you would not have me obey him to the very prejudice of my life. And to the prejudice of your pious affection to your Mother, which can no longer be preserved, nor consist with my obedience to him in this place, especially when all those evils and wrong inflicted upon me, are pretended to be done in your name. I have hitherto (without express of my grief, and relating of my tears) suffered that which were impossible for a woman of a far base rank and degree, to suffer with any kind of patience. I have been held from the first beginning as guilty, because I would not obey the Cardinal's pleasure, for this the most veritable letter bears it, being the first declaration addressed from Champagne to the Parliaments and Provinces. Since that I have been used and dealt withal, as if I were the greatest Enemy of the whole Kingdom of France, not only in the denial of my honest and just requests, but even in the misconstruing of my good meaning and intentions. And in shutting up in prison my officers and servants as well as my own person. Insomuch that they might not budge out of the City without his warrant, that kept and guarded me with two Companies of foot Soldiers 500 Horsemen, and unanswerable to all my submissions, and the lenity and mildness which I manifested in all my treaties and proceed with you, I have been opposed and set upon with nothing but threatenings, violences, and insultings; Which undoubtedly and infallibly, (if you respect my natural disposition) would have by this time interred me in my Tomb, if the Lord of heaven himself had not strengthened my courage with a magnanimous and generous resolution, and in recompense of my candid and fair proceeding I have been repaid with tricks and dissimulations. The forces that were brought upon the borders of Champagne were only retired thither to abuse those good people that did sympathise with my Imprisonment, and under show of the liberty which I had yielded me to walk abroad, to surprise me as it were in Ambush. As I have been well informed by such as could easily know something concerning the evil intention of the Cardinal against me, to prolong my misery, and to keep the people and strangers in suspense and expectation. There have been sent unto me diverse Ambassadors, who noised abroad, that they came to allay all difference and amend the matter. But, O God What remedy and amendment did they speak of to me? When as some of them have been so insolent that violating the honour and respect due unto me as did the Marshal of Schomb●rgh, greedily raging after me until the very entrance of my bedchamber. The last voyage which my Cousin the Marshal Destree made, and the Lord Mesmin was no better than the former, for it was only to threaten me with the returning again of my guard and again to make me fear the former violence, and the loss of my faithful officers and servants, necessary for the preservation of my life; And to yield myself to their proceed, God knows to what end and intention. As also to propound unto me the journey of going to Chartres or to Mante where you might see me before I went into Champagne. Which caused me to suspect their proposition, Champaign being the way, but not Chartres. But this was more proper and agreeable to their desire which they had, to lead me along in Triumph, and show, and with me all Europe, where my Children command and reign, more than our mutual meeting, which I desire more than any thing, the privation whereof is the greatest and most sensible misery which I suffer, how ever the other are cruel enough. All these things I have suffered with resignation, to testify to the whole Kingdom of France, that I did respect your Authority even in the hands of my Enemies, and that I never had nor shall have, any but wholesome and good intentions toward your State, for having matter and subject enough to company of, I contained myself with all patience five months together, to give you leisure to find out and acknowledge my integrity and innocency. And to let it appear unto you, that I never had intelligence, nor held Correspondency with any of my Children but your own self. However the Cardinal maliciously hath possessed and persuaded you to the contrary, to the end that he might attain to the accomplishment of his own wicked desires and intentions. Which is, to chase and expel both Mother and Children, out of the Kingdom, to attain to the end of his designs, and one day you will find it and acknowledge the same, perhaps when it will be to late.  
In mean while, now how as the time of my sufferings hath continued long, a new to give you an impression of my innocency, and that longer time would make me to be esteemed guilty, if I did not now have a care for the preservation of my life, and the reestablishment of my liberty seeing that my Children cannot dispense with the disgrace and Infamy which should be laid upon me. That shall notwithstanding, (by God's grace) justify me in the mind and before the face of all the world, for as I have perceived that my body did decrease, and my strength was daily abated and I daily weakened, and that it was the intention of the Cardinal to have me die within four walls; I was then resolved to save my life and reputation and to give some easement to my sorrows and sufferings. Wherefore I will accept of that good offer made unto me by the Marquis de Verdes, who every day since my departure, hath wished me to go to the Capelle of which he is Governor, which is a place where your Mai: hath absolute power, I was then resolved to betake myself thither, & was not come within three leagues from that place, but the said Lord De Vardes sends me word by two Gentlemen, one of which was the Knight his brother, that I could not enter into the said Capelle, and that he had delivered up the said place into the hands of his Father. I beseech you to consider how I was grieved and anxious, when after that I found myself thus basely deceived, I found also myself earnestly pursued by the cavalry whereupon I was advised to press forward and to go forth of your Kingdom. Insomuch that I was constrained to journey thirty leagues without either eating or drinking. And it hath been God's pleasure in this occasion, as in others also that the cunning devices should be discovered even by the mouth of such as were agents. Who have in some manner confessed that the said Cardinal had plotted the business and only intending to make me to sty and abandon your state, which was that which he only desired & that which I only feared. Being th●● reduced & brought to this miserable extremity, I have betaken myself into this place of Avennes which belongs to the Archdutchesse, being constrained in a strange Country to seek my liberty and safety and protection of my life, which I thought easily to have found in some place under your obedience. But what was so faithfully proffered me, was shamefully refused me, and as now I perceive was merely offered unto me by the stratagems and devises of my Enemies, rather than in any good intention to receive me. Now I seek nothing but only the confident trust upon justice and equity, which you deny not to the most miserable and meanest of all your subjects. After the same shall have quitted and justified me, although my Enemies should receive no other punishment but the shame of tormenting and persecuting me, with the declaration of their injustice, yet this will then hinder all farther evils which might accrue, and it will cause the complaints of my other Children to cease, who have some interest in my sorrows by reason of their own reputation, and will give satisfaction to all Europe, & lay an obstacle to whatsoever hereafter may be plotted against me.  
For mine own part I should not much care but rest contented to sacrifice the remnant of my days, unto the vengeance of the Cardinal, were it not that I desire to make up the breach, and to establish the union and concord between yourself and my son. D'Orleans which he hath already overthrown, in your mind by his several devises. You may if you please yield a remedy against this great evil, and hinder any worse proceeding by your good judgement and understanding. If I may be so happy, as to return again to you, I promise faithfully, I will cause you to know, that in any thing I ought, I have never esteemed any dearer to me▪ than your good and Utility.  
Since I am MONS: my Son. Your most humble, and most affectioned Mother and subject MARIE Avennes the 21. july 1631.   

Answer of the King to the Letter of the Queen his Mother.  
MADAM,  
I Am so much the more moved at your resolution, which you have taken, to absent yourself from this State and Kingdom, by how much you had less ground and cause. The imaginary imprisonment, the supposed persecutions which you complain of, the apprehensions which you confess yourself to have conceived in Campagnie concerning your life; they have no more foundation, than the pursuit which you say was made after you at your departure, and the intelligence which you writ untome, hath been held with the only Son of the Lord de Vardes. Their intentions are a device somewhat like unto that fear, which you feigned to have three months ago, that I would send you back again into Italic, which you know I never thought, much less ever intended. For those proffers which I have made you, of diverse and several dwellings and habitations, fare remote from those parts, can testify the contrary. Such calumnies and accusations shall not (God be blessed) disgrace and dis-repute me in Christendom, where my actions do sufficiently make me known. Whatsoever you tell me of those that serve me and are near unto me, hath not so much as an appearance of truth. And I wonder and am even astonished, that the Authors of your letters are not ashamed, to set before your eyes such things against those, unto whom your conscience knows, that such things cannot be imputed. I do perceive and know by manifold infallible proofs, the affection and sincerity of my Cousin the Cardinal of Richel●●●: His religious obedience which he affords me, his faithful care concerning whatsoever doth concern my person and estate, speaks for him. If you please, Madame, you shall permit and give me leave to tell you, that the action which you have so lately done, and what hath passed not long since, causeth that I cannot be ignorant what hath been your intention heretofore, and what I may expect in the time to come. The respect which I bore you makes me forbear of saying any thing more unto you. I pray the Lord in the mean while to give you good counsel, And that you may always prevail, with his affections who shall always be  
Madam, Yours    

The French Kings Declaration upon the departure of the Queen his Mother, and Monsieur his Brother, out of the Kingdom.  
Confirmed at the Parliament at Paris the 13. day of August 1631. faithfully translated out of the French Copy.  
LEwis by the grace of God King of France and Nanarre, to all those unto whom these presents shall come, greeting.  
We have by our Letters of Declaration, the 30. of March last passed, published throughout our whole Kingdom, for the causes contained therein, declared all those guilty of Crimen lasa Maiestatis, who abusing the facility of our well beloved and only Brother the Duke of Orleans, did by their evil devices and pernicious counsels, entice and persuade him to withdraw himself from us, and to departed out of our Kingdom without our knowledge and permission, as also all those that should be found to be his followers, if in a certain prefixed time they did not take recourse to our Grace and Mercy, having hoped by this means to give them leisure to find out and acknowledge their fault, and so to reduce them unto their duties, and thereby cause them to departed and abstain from all evil ways and practices, which they had begun, as well within as without the Kingdom, to trouble the rest and peace of the same. But in stead of using this means to repent them of their fault, and to take their refuge to our clemency and favour, they have persisted in their evil counsels, and carried away our Brother (against the duty of his birth, and the respect which he oweth us) and instigated him to write unto us letters full of bitterness, calumnies, impostures and accusations against the Administration and Government of our State; striving and aiming by those said letters, full of injuries and falseness (with other writings of the like nature, which they have caused to be printed every where) to persuade our people to be ill conceited of us, and by them and other Princes our neighbours, to have sinister opinions of our affairs and government, accusing (against all truth and reason) our well-beloved Cousin the Cardinal Richelieu of infidelity, and of enterprizing against our person, and the person of our much honoured Mother, his own, and our Estate; as also some others which we do employ in our Government (even about the most weightiest matters of our Estate) of adhering to his evil counsels, notwithstanding that from them we do receive the greatest contentment that we can desire. Yea they have been so bold and audacious, as that they did dare to present a request to our Court of Parliament, under the name of our said Brother, against our foresaid Cousin the Cardinal Richelieu, in like manner as the former, full of falseness & forged calumnies, contrary to all humanity, reason and truth. Which caused us to answer our said Brother, and by our letters the 5. of june last published in our Chancery, to declare our good intention and meaning, and the exceeding satisfaction which we have received by the service, faithfulness, and good carriage of our aforesaid Cousin the Cardinal, in so many, great, and weighty occasions, in the which we have very profitably employed him for the good and greatness of our State, as also from the rest our chief Counsellors. All these means notwithhanding have hitherto served only to make them the more impudent and insolent, and to continue their erterprises, and pernicious designs, which they had begun and undertaken, not only to divert our said Brother from the obedience which he oweth us, but also he much honoured Lady our Mother, who since a short space of i'm hath suffered herself also to be led away and seduced by their mischievous counsels, and to side with our brother in his designs, more than did well become her. It may be perhaps by reason of the false and evil rumour which some persons have spread, who make profession of curious and evil sciences, gives them hopes of some ready change in this Kingdom. We perceiving all these their proceed, and seeing that it was a difficult matter to provide for the safety of this Kingdom, and our own person, if any longer we should suffer them to go on in these devices, ways and practices, which they did publicly attempt even in our Court, by those which did approach near unto them, We thought good at the same instant when our Brother withdrew himself from us, to acquaint the Lady our Mother with the intelligence we had of all their practices and devices, which they used to our great prejudice, and with our resolution which we had taken for the stopping of that course; As namely to take into hold and durance some persons which we knew to participate in their designs, and to banish the rest from our Court. Also we desired & entreated her, to this end, to assist us with her best counsel, as formerly she had done within these few years, and to leave & separate herself from all the secret intelligences, which she had or might have with our foresaid Brother, who was then departed from us. We persisted in this our supplication even to Campaguis, where we made known unto her diverse other instances by our trusty and well-beloved, the Lord Chastean-newf, Keeper of the Scale, and our trusty and well-beloved Cousin, the Marshal de Schomb●rgh, unto both which she answered, that she was weary any longer to intermeddle with our affairs, & that she would no more have any share, nor be partaker with our Counsels; which caused us too too confidently to understand and believe, the firm resolution which she had taken, to remain linked and joined to the designs of our said Brother, and to follow and be led by the pernicious counsels which were given him. Whereupon we resolved and determined to separate ourselves for a while from her, and to entreat her to withdraw herself and retire to Moulins, a place which properly belongs unto her, and which place during the time of our minority, she voluntarily chose for her own abode. Unto this she gave answer, that then she would willingly go thither; but a few days afterward, she requested us to think it expdient and fitting, that she might betake herself to Nevers: Which she was so much inclining unto, and did affect, because she had a desire to approach and draw nearer to our said Brother, who was then as yet at Orleans. A while after this, learning and perceiving that our said Brother in his proceed, used many devices and cunning practices, striving and endeavouring to assemble together many warlike troops, we invited him by our well-beloved Cousin the Cardinal de Valette, to absent and separate himself from all those wicked counsels, and to return again to us, where we promised him that he should receive all good and favourable contentment; which he refusing to do, and to have correspondency, and to join with our good meaning and intention, we journyed as fare as Eltampes, where presently we were informed that he was departed from Orleans, so to retire and leave our Kingdom, where he was no sooner departed, but our said Mother sent us word that she would no longer go, either to Moulins or Nevers, and that she desired not to departed out of Champaguie; and at the very same time she and our said Brother did device and effect to publish and divulge this rumour, that she was detained in prison, notwithstanding she had all liberty afforded her with her train either to go to Moulins or Nevers, although in those places there was no Garrison. But as this supposed imprisonment served for a pretence of discontentment unto those that waited for such an occasion and opportunity, so she continued this false complaint, notwithstanding that daily our Cousin the Marshal Destree, and also the Lord marquis of St Sch●●●●out did advertise her in our behalf (which too we have many several times sent unto her) that she would be pleased to departed out of Campagnie, and to choose such a place within our Kingdom, as she should think most fitting for her abiding: offering her (to the end she might abide there with the more respect and authority) the government of that Province, into the which she would betake herself, forthwith declaring and making known unto her, that her remaining still in Champagnie, gave unto us great cause of jealousy & suspicion, forasmuch as we were certainly informed they did persuade her to departed out of our Kingdom, (unto which she would no way condescend, nor thereby be persuaded) feigning many causes of complaint, as among others, that we would have sent her unto Italy, and that our Galleys were ready prepared for the same purpose. Then we sent unto her our said Cousin, the Marshal of Shombergh, and the Lord de Roissye Counsellor in our Council of State, to desire her to conform herself to our will and pleasure, and to resolve with herself to departed out of Champagnie, and to choose such a place within our Kingdom which she might like of for her dwelling, only Champagnie excepted. To the end that those pretences might cease of those who had enticed our said Brother to forsake our Kingdom, and that they might not have so much as any appearance to ground their reports upon, of our Mother's imprisonment. Nay which is more, they two in our name, proffered unto her the government of Anion, which she complained she was bereft of, and that the same was taken from her, although indeed she had of her own accord abandoned the same, for some considerations best known to herself. They urged also unto her and shown her, that it was very requisite for the good of our affairs, and that it would prove very advantageous to herself if she would be pleased to conform herself to our will and intentions. But whatsoever reasons they could lay before her, it was impossible to divert and draw her from her strong resolution, which she had taken to abide in Champagnie, for to bring to pass the design, which since that time she hath executed. Notwithstanding all this her resistance, to testify more and more our affection towards her, and the earnest desire we have to reunite her unto us, we caused those troops to be removed which we had left in Champagnie, and since that did diverse times send to her our said Cousin the Marshal Destree, and the Marquis de St Shanmont, to reiterate the request which so often we had made unto her, that she would choose any other place than Champagnie for her abode. Yea we proffered her to come and visit her in her house at Monceana, or some other place in the way to Blois, Angers, or Moulins if she went thither, to the end that we might be reconciled together. This in appearance she seemed to agree unto, and willing to embrace, which gave us great contentment, and abundant satisfaction, supposing that this also was the way to reduce our said brother to his devoir, and to remove all those pretences which the foresaid evil Authors of bad counsel did make use of. But when we believed that our said Mother was well contented with us, and was most ready and willing to follow our good intention, which we had for our common good, and the good and happiness of the whole Kingdom of France, which hope we conceived by the answer delivered unto us by our said Cousin the Marshal Destree, who brought us word, that she would never departed out of Campagnie, to go into any other place without our knowledge and consent. But all this proved but a shadow, for in lieu of performance, we understood that she was departed out of Campagnie the 19 of the last Month, in a Caroche of the Lady du Fresney, accompanied with the said Lady only, and one of her Chamber-maidens, and so passed along to Chosy and Bleren Court, and there arrived at the Village of Rosny, where she found the Caroche of the Baron of Crevecoeur Governor of Auennes, a Town in the obedience of the King of Spain, which Governor had expected her himself 15. days in the Town of Sein; where being arrived, a Gentleman of the Marquis de Vardes told her, that the Lord Vardes the father was arrived at Capelle, and had banished thence his son and his wife; and hereupon she went to Auennes, where she was received, and a while after visited in the behalf of the Infant by the Prince d'Espinoy, Governor of Enhault, as since that time we have learned by the enquiry which we have caused to be made, concerning her departure out of our Kingdom, by one of our Masters of Requests, at the very same time when she departed from Champagnie. And since that to follow the same course which our said Brother had taken, she sent a request to our said Court of Parliament of Paris, full of forged and calumnious accusations against our said Cousin the Cardinal of Richelien, very like unto the same which our Brother would have laid upon him. She was no sooner arrived at the said place of Auenues, but she did presently write letters unto us, full of invented pretences to colour her departure, and the like complaints against our said Cousin the Cardinal, which have no ground at all nor foundation, but only slanders and inventions, which doubtless have been suggested unto her by the Authors of those same which our Brother wrote unto us; which is evident enough, especially since both the one and other do tend to the subversion of our Authority, and of our Kingdom and State; and we know that her departure hath been plotted by those Agents which they have at Brussels, to cause her to retire (as she hath done) into a Country under the command of the King of Spain.  
But she not resting contented with the first slanders and calumnies which she wrote unto us, abusing our goodness and lenity, and the mildness which hitherto we have used towards them that have been the bringers of the same, she hath begun to write others and new slanders to our said Court of Parliament, and to the Provost of the Merchants of our good City of Paris, striving to incense them against us, and to give bad examples to others.  
Now therefore desiring to prevent all those evils which may ensue and accrue by the departure of the said Lady our Mother, and our said Brother in this estate, and to hinder them that they continue and increase not through the credit which some of our Subjects might afford unto their complaints and inventions, written and manifested to be full of impostures, which they publish against us, our Government and our principal Ministers of State; and to the end that none of our said Subjects be not so rash and ill advised as to adhere unto them, and participate of their evil counsels, to adjoin unto them or have any private intelligence with them, or those that follow them.  
We do make known by this present, that with the ad●… of the Princes, Dukes, Peers, Officers of our Crown, and 〈◊〉 great and eminent personages of our Counsel, which are ●…re about us, We confirming our precedent declarations of 30. of March, and 5. of june last, have pronounced and declared, and do pronounce and declare by this present, signed with our own hand, guilty of Crimenlaesae Majestatis, and disturbers of our common peace and rest, all those that shall be found to have participated to such pernicious and damnable Counsels; or have withdrawn our said Mother, and our only Brother the Duke of Orleans from our obedience, and have enticed or instigated them to departed out of our Kingdom: As also all those that shall have followed them and departed with them, of whatsoever rank or condition they be: with all those that shall assist them, or have levied or raised any soldiers against our service, and made any devices or practices prejudicial to our authority, as well without as within the Kingdom. We will therefore, that there be proceeded against them as against those that are guilty of Crimenlaesae Majestatis, and disturbers of our common peace, according to the rigour of our Laws, with all the diligence that may be, both of our Proctor's General, as also their Substitutes and Deputies.  
And hereby we prohibit and utterly forbid all our Subjects of whatsoever quality or condition they be, from having any intelligence or correspondency with our said Mother, and our said Brother, and with their domestic servants, and those that are partakers of their Counsels, under whatsoever pretences it may be.  
And we wish that all their Lordships, and whatsoever honourable privileges they enjoy, moving under our Crown, be seized upon, and afterward reunited to our own revenues, that they be deprived of all dignities, places or offices whatsoever they enjoy, And that all their other goods as well moveables as immovables be seized and praised, afterward to be by us taken from them and confiscated. And further we will that all those that levy any soldiers, or maintain any forces without our Commission be earnestly pursued, and dealt with all according to the rigour of our Laws and Ordinances, ●…ed because it is a very difficult matter to hinder and preue●… di●… said Mother and Brother, and such as follow them and adhere 〈◊〉 them, from sending and writing to those, to whom they think good; and because it were unreasonable and ill-beseeming, that those to whom they send or write unto, should incur the penalties here prescribed, We will and ordain, that those to whom these Letters shall be addressed, shall be bound as soon as ever they shall have received the same, or as soon as any one shall come unto them in their behalf, to declare it, and carry those letters to the chief judge Royal in that Province in which they dwell, and cause these (if they can) to be stayed and arrested, which shall bring these letters to them, or be trusted with any message to them, which judge shall be bound instantly to send the said letters to the Secretary of State, who hath the deportment of that Province. And if this happen in our Court, they shall address themselves to our beloved and trusty Keeper of the Seal. And if it happen in our City of Paris, they shall be bound to acquaint the Lieutenant of the City, and he shall be bound to acquaint us as soon as possible may be, and all this under the same penalty.  
To this end we will and command all our beloved and faithful Counsellors, and those of our Court of Parliaments, to cause this to be read, published and registered, and the contents of the same to be executed in every particular, according to their form and tenor. As also our Proctor's General to make all diligent and earnest enquiry, and necessary pursuit for the punishment of the delinquents. And farther we charge and command all Governors, Lieutenant's General of Provinces, Governors and Captains of our towns and places, to fall upon all disobedient and rebels, and to suppress them as fare as in them lies, with their forces which they command for our service, as also in time of need to assemble forces to that end and purpose, And all judges to execute judgement against the offendor. And the Provosts of our beloved Cousins the Marshals of France, to fall upon their Camps, and assault ●●ose, that contrary to our prohibitions, shall levy any for●● without Commission expressly signed by Us, and countersigned by one of our Secretaries of State, and sealed with the Great Seal; To execute and fully proceed in judgement against those they shall apprehend, and cut in pieces those who after they have been summoned, shall go about to stand in their defence. For such is our Will and Pleasure.  
In witness whereof We have caused our Seal to be put to these presents. Given at Paris the 12. of August, in the year of Grace, 1631. and of our Reign the 22. year. Signed Lowies. and somewhat lower by the King. De Lemene. and Sealed with the great Seal in Yellow wax.  
Read, published, and registered, heard at the request of the Attorney General of the King, Copied according to the Original, sent forth therewont.  
At Paris in the Parliament of the King. August 13. 1631.