The historie of Philip de Commines, knight, lord of Argenton / [Philippe de Commynes].

  • Philippe de Commines
Date:
1614
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Credit: The historie of Philip de Commines, knight, lord of Argenton / [Philippe de Commynes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TH ESRI RS TB DORE DF 1 muft here declare the occafion of the Kings voyage into Bourbonois, which was this : So foone as he vnderftood that all the princes of his realme had confpi- red againft him (at the leaft againfthis gouerment ) hee determined to prevent Rae them, and before they were affembled, to inuade the D. of Bourbon, who was # Readea the firft that openly difcouered himfelfe to be of the confederacie, !!: and be- Ei ibe Kane caufe his countrey was weake hee hoped foone tofubdue it, as in deede divers tothe Duke of places he tooke, and would eafily haue taken all, had not {uccours come thither Bourbonand oyt of Burgundie vnder the leading of the L. of Coulches , the Marqueffe of Rot- santivere telin, the L. of Montague, and others, with whom Matter Wiliam of Rochefort Annal, Bar- Chauncellor of Fraunce (aman at this day of great eftimation) was alfo in armes. vies ded This force was leuied in Burgundie by the follicitation ofthe Earle of Beauieu, is Care ‘ dinal of Bour- and the Cardinall of Bourbon, ** brethrento D. Joanof Bourbon , and bythem pone receiued into Molines. Aide came alfo of another fide to the D. of Bourbon, vn- of Lyons, nd er the leading ofthe D. of Nemours, the Earle of Armignac, and the L. of Al- brother tothe bert, being accompanied with a great band of foldiers , fome of the which were oes Bou- good men of armes of their countries, who lately had forfaken the Kings pay, and Burgund.for putthemfelues into their feruice. But the greateft part of their men werevtterly the which _vnfurnifhed of all things, and forced forlacke of pay to liue vpon the poore peo- itbeftinthe Ple» TheKing notwithftanding thefe their great forces gaue them yenough to French to do : wherefore in the end they fell to treate of peace, efpecially the D. of Ne- np te mours, who folemnly promiifed and {ware to take part with him,and yerdid after- caule the wardsthe contrarie : whereupon the King conceiwed fo great difpleafure againft mat een him, that afterward he could never brooke him, as eftfoones he hath told me. To Cardinal be fhort, the King perceiuing that he could not achieuehis enterprife in Bour- | were both _ bonnois fo fpeedily as at thé firfthe hoped, and fearing if the Earle of Charolois Brewren f©-- forces which approched neare to paris, and the forces of the Duke of Berry his Boubon, owne brother, and of the Duke of Britaine which were comming out of Britaine, fhould ioine together : that the Pariftans would receiue them into their towne, becaufe they all pretended the common wealth for colour of their enterprife: and knowing alfo as the towne of Paris did, fo all the other townes in hisrealme would follow ; for thefe caufes I fay,he refolued with all fpeede poffible to put himfelfe in- to Paris,smeaning to keep thefetwo great armies a funder: but hispurpofe wasnot ro fight, ashe hath himfelfe diuers times told me in communing of thefe affaires. How the Earle of Charolois encamped neereto Montl hery, and of the battel Sought there betweene the King of Fraunce and hun. Chap. 3. Was
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