Page:King of France, his catechism.pdf/4

 put the Places to Sale for great Sums, and ſecure the Property to my ſelf before they've got half their Purchaſe Money; to force from 'em what Aids I want, and Beggar my Subjects, to ſupport my own Ambition.

Q. What is your Majeſties principal Deſigns in view?

A. Chiefly to inflame the War in the North, in hopes to get ſome Partizan of my own elected King of Poland; to incite the Turks againſt the Emperor, to take off the burden of the War in Italy, to put the Duke of Bavaria upon the Ruine of his Country, ( as I have done his Brother) that I may under the pretence of getting again make ſome part of it my own, to get as good a Title to the Crown of Spain, as my Grandſon has, and to Govern as abſolute there as I do in the Low Coun-tries.

Q. What were your Majeſties Ends in the Peace of Reſwick

A. The ſame that I had hy Convoying home the Plate Fleet, (which I deſign'd to have kept, had I got it once into my Territories ) I knew of the