they not been prevented by a seasonable appearance of the
Trained Bands of the City, who at length quelled the Tumult
by a Slaughter of six or seven of their Leaders.
And when all was done, Some of the Court-admirers were
pleased to lay the fault upon the Princess of Condé, as if she by
her Emissaries had incensed the People; who immediately
thereupon, being attended by the Dukes de la Rochefoucaut
and Bouillon, made an address to clear her self before the Parliament;
where she gave so full satisfaction, that they returned
her an assurance or the continuation of their goodwill and
Protection And so by this means the Court complement came
too late to Bourdeaux, offering his Majesties endeavour to
vindicate the Authority of Parliament from the Peoples Insolence;
And had it not been wisely done to have believed them,
considering how tender that Monster Prerogative hath ever
been of Parliaments and People?
Yet the Parliament of Bourdeaux hath found out the old
knack of England, and intends to play over our game for
King and Parliament, reserving a little cranie still in the Conscience,
for that fawning Cur, which some call Loyalty, though
it be but contented Slavery; and therefore as yet this new
reconcilement doth not extend so far as a declared Union with
the Princess and her Party; which will not in policy as yet be
granted, though on the other side, they do not oppose the
Proceedings and Preparations of her Highness, and the Duke
of Bouillon. These Princes and their Party spare no cost to carry
on the work, the Lady having Signed for three hundred
thousand Franks, the Duke for one hundred thousand, and the
other Lords and Gentlemen, according to their proportion.
And to help on, there arrived two Spanish Frigots lately,
with a Summ of money, according to the Articles of the late
Treaty with the Spaniard; which was brought ashore, and
convered into the house of the Princess of Condé, to the value
of six hundred thousand Liures, faith one Letter, and eight
hundred thousand, faith another, which will serve very well to
recruit their old Army, and raise a new one, to send the Court
back to make its last Will and Testament at the City of Paris.