Volume 2

Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great : containing the history of the life and reign of that monarch and his own administration under him ; translated from the French by the author of the Female Quixote to which is added, the tryal of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry the Great in five volumes.

  • Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de, 1559-1641. Mémoires
Date:
1757
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Credit: Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great : containing the history of the life and reign of that monarch and his own administration under him ; translated from the French by the author of the Female Quixote to which is added, the tryal of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry the Great in five volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Re Ps + Ho el | ci TT, NES ONE OR TOR S Book XII. tion: the command of this fleet had been given to Probably it was defigned againft Portugal, where the true or the falfe Don Sebafti- an * {till continued to have a great number of par- tifans : fome fecrets which he revealed, that it feemed could have been only known to the king of Portugal; certain natural marks upon his body which he fhewed, and fome other circumftances of the fame kind, confirmed his affertion. However, to confefs the ‘truth, none of thefe proofs appeared unanfwerable; neverthelefs, the king of Spain thought it the wifeft way to rid himfelf privately of this pretended prince: fo that the truth was never known, or at leaft to a few perfons only, whofe intereft it was not to publifh it. A diet was ‘convened at Ratifbon, with intention to make fome compofition between the popifh and proteftant religions, but this came to nothing : upon the firft queftion propofed, which was concerning the authority of the holy fcriptures+, fuch heat was * There is fomething furely ve- ry furprifing and uncommon in this perfect refemblance of all. the parts, features, and even the de- fe&s of the body, which, accord- ing to all the hiftorians, was be- tween the real Don Sebaftian and this man, who is faid to have'been a native of Calabria; and it is no lefs difficult to guefs, how he could come to the knowledge of the cir- cumftances of this king of: Portu- gal’s life, which were. fo peculiar and fecret as to aftonifh all the world. The Portuguefe, ftill more deceived through their natural af- feG&ion for the blood of their kings, as alfo through their hatred for Spain (this laft motivé might like- from any evidence they had, per- fitted in fupporting the claims: of this impoftor. The Septennaire is very favourable to him, an. 1607, p: 217. See what has-been faid a littlehigher, The Spaniards’ were 7 fo thoroughly convinced of their having difcovered the cheat, when Ferdinand, grand duke of Tufca- ny, had delivered him up into the hands of the Viceroy of Naples, that they no longer fcrupled to ex- pofe him,as a public gazing-ftock, mounted’ him on an afs; after which they ferit him to the gal- leys., See Marina: tom. II. I. iii, pe 451. + This queftion was: publicly debated, during fevera] fittings; Between’ the catholic divines of Maximilian.duke of Bavaria, and the proteftant divines of Ludovic count. palatine of Neubourg, and of the: electors: of “Saxony . and Brañdenbourg ; : the two firft of thefe princes, affifted at it in per- fon, and were obliged to put an end to this difpute, the advantage in which, each: of the parties;).a$ fcribed to themfelves. De Thou, Chron, Septen, for the year 1601. raifed