The historie of Philip de Commines, knight, lord of Argenton / [Philippe de Commynes].
- Philippe de Commines
- Date:
- 1614
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The historie of Philip de Commines, knight, lord of Argenton / [Philippe de Commynes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Ses Se Se ee — SSS Sar a 4. THE FIRST BOOKE OF giuen foie aaa with the gouernement of Normandy, and afterward again taken from him. Ce ih ‘The next day in prefence ofthe felfe fame audience, the Earle of Charolois kneeling vpon a veluet cuffion,addrefled his {peech to his father,and began with this baitard of Rabempre,afirming the caufes of his imprifonmentto bee iuft and ee pence taine and him(elfe,faying,that true it was that the D. and hee were entred into cishefoue co leagueand amity,and had {worne themfelues brethren in armes, but that this anEnglih — Jeague tended in no refpect to the preiudice of the King or his reamle, but rather ana ee to the feruice and defence thereof,if neede fhould fo require. Laftly,as touching penionafter_ che penfion taken from him, he anfwered, that he neuer receiued but one quar- thatrateas ters benefire thereof,to the value of nine thoufand franks, 9,and chat for his pare fowerthone be never made {ute neyther forit, nor for the gouernment of Normandy: for fo fand huehun- long as he entoyed the fauour and good will of his father,he fhould not need to wy fond crane of any man. Ithinke verily,had it not been for thereuerence hee bare to 10 fhe towns his {aid father who was there prefent,and to whom he addreffed his {peech, that ans tenstories he would hane vfed much bitterer terms.In theend D. Philp very wifely, hum- ofSommeene bly befought the King lightly not to conceiuean euill opinion ofhim or his fon gaged toD. © but to continue his fauour towards them. Then the banquet was brought in, laeee and the ambafladors tooke their leaue both ofthe father and the fonne: But af- raswhich . ter the Earle of Eu, and the Chancellour had taken theirleaue of the Earle of ne ea ; Charolois, who ftood a good way from his father, he faid thus to the Arch- arenamedin bilhop of Narbonn that paffed forth the laft of the Ambafladors: Remember theArucles my moft humble duty to the King,and tell him he hath made his Chancellour Bie lane ,. to vie me very homiely here, but beforea yeares end he fhall repent it: which fedin.annal, meffage the Archbifhop did to the King at his returne into France, as hereafter - en if Nie you thall percetue. the firt book Thefe AQoruilliers words abouerehearfed,caufed the Earle of Charolois hatred we oe ate againft the King to take deeperoote,the feedes whereof, were before fowne by Bioanal, the Kingeslate redeeming of the townes fituate, vponthe river of Somme ?°, Corks ey Bey» ae be eves Guiaan be Se eho CiBite ** feuenth had engaged by thetreaty of 4rrasto his father. D, inch ie to haue andto holde io tin afd A his heires males, tillthey wereredeemed for and Anval,fowre hundred thoufand crownes 7%. Howthefe matters pafled, ] know not forscoooo, perfectly,but trueitis,thatin the D.oldage he was fo gouerned by the Lords of crownes, but Croy and Chimay,being brethren,and others of their houfe, that heeaggreede woe totake againe his money,& reftore the {aid territories to the King, greatly tothe otherwere Earle his fonnes difcontentation : for befides that they were the frc ntier townes redeemed lor of their dominions, they loftin them a number ofable men for the warres, The testa Earle of Charolois charged the houfe of Croy with this fa&,{o farre foorth that Marches e- after extreame age was grownevpon his father (whereunto hee euen then ap- er. ANNA, bie. proched)he banifhed all the faid houfe out ofhis dominions, and copfifated all “their lands,eftates and offices,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30320549_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
