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ALl Historians of the last Age, that make mention of the unfortunate Prince of Spain, who is the subject of this Treatise, do also speak of his Love for his Mother-in-Law; and as people are always apt to put an evil interpretation upon things of that nature, his Passi∣on hath done some wrong to the reputation of that vertuous Queen. The Authour of this Book having found in divers places the particularities of their
History, thought himself obliged to communicate them to the Pub∣lick, because they justifie the me∣mory of that Princess, and make it appear, that there was no∣thing, but what was very inno∣cent on her side. Though she had done nothing else, but discover the Conspiracy, whereof you shall see the recital, she had well de∣served to have some care taken of her glory, because it is cer∣tainly true, that without her, the Prince of Navarre had never come to be the greatest King in the world; and (to say some∣thing more to his honour) Grand∣father to Lewis the Fourteenth.
This History is taken out of all the Authors, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch, which have written of those times in which it hapned. The principal are, Thuanus, Monsieur Aubigné, Brantome, Cabrera, Campana, Adriani, Natalis Comes, Du∣pleix, Mathieu, Mayerne, Mezerai, le Laboureur Sur Castelnau, Strada, Meteren, The History of Don John of Austria, the Elogies of F. Hi∣larion de Coste. The Spanish Book of the Deeds and Sayings of Philip the Second. A Rela∣tion of the Death and Obsequies of his Son, &c. It is likewise collected out of several Pieces pertaining to History, as well
Manuscripts as Printed, and amongst the rest, out of a little Book, intituled, Diogenes, which treats largely of this mat∣ter; and a Manuscript written by Monsieur de Peresese, expresly upon that subject. However, for the Reader's farther satisfa∣ction, I have set down in the Margent, of the most particular and extraordinary places, the principal Authors out of which they were taken.