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A47019	A compleat history of Europe, or, A view of the affairs thereof, civil and military from the beginning of the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1676, to the conclusion of the peace with the Turks, 1699 including the articles of the former, and the several infringements of them, the Turkish Wars, the forming of the Grand Confederacy, the revolution in England, &c. : with a particular account of all the actions by sea and land on both sides, and the secret steps that have been made towards a peace, both before, as well as during the last negotiation : wherein are the several treaties at large, the whole intermix'd with divers original letters, declarations, papers and memoirs, never before published / written by a gentleman, who kept an exact journal of all transactions, for above these thirty years.	Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.	1699 (1699)	Wing J928A; ESTC R13275	681,693	722

and other Proceedings of the Parliamentsf The Affairs of Scotland The Jacobites Plot. The Iris● Affairs Col. Wools●ey routs the Irish Charlemont Castl blocked up Charlemont surrendred K. William landed in Ireland K. William wounded The Battle of the Boyne L. G. Hamblet●n h●s Character at the Boyne D. Sch●mberg's Character and Age. The late K. James 〈◊〉 for Fra●●●e 〈…〉 Athlone besieged in vain by L. G. D●uglass Waterford surrendred The Kings Proceedings in Ireland The Army march to 〈◊〉 2. The first siege of Limerick The English Train surprized by the Irish Th● Siege raised and the King goes for England 〈◊〉 besieged and 〈◊〉 Co●k surrendred Kingsale be●sieg'd Surrendred The Duke of Savoy enters into the Confederacy and the manner of it The Treaty between the Emperour and the D●ke of Sa●oy The Treaty between the King of Spain and the Duke of Savoy The Campagne in Flanders The Battle of Flerus Arch-duke Joseph chosen King of the Romans The death of the D. of Lorrain The Campaign in Germany The Insurrection of the Catalins The Fre●ch prevail in Catal●nia The French repulsed at Carignan The Vaudo●● ro●t the French Ca●ours taken by Catinat The Battel of Salusses Suza besieged and taken by the French Canisia surren●red Nissa and Widin besieged by the Turks Teckely possesses himself of Transilvania and routs Heuster Nissa surrendred Widin surrendred Belgrade besieged by the Turks The Turks take Belgrade by storm Esseck besieged by the Turks in vain P. of Baden reduced Trans●lvania and expels Tekeley The King of Poland tempted to make Peace with the Turks The Tartars harrass Poland The Poles unactive in the Prosecucution of the War Neapli di Malvasia besieged by the Venetians and taken Vallona besieged by the Venetians Vallona deserted by the Turks The Venetians beat the Turks at Sea Attempts made by France for a Peace with the Emperor The Remarkables of this Year The Congress at the Hague The King's Speech to the Congress The Resolution of the Congress Nice besi●ged and taken The siege of Mons. Mons surrendred The War in Ireland Baltymore surrendred to the English The English Town of Athlone taken The English pass the Shannon The Irish Town of Athlone taken The Battle of Aghrim Galloway surrendered Limerick besieged K. James's Letter to the Irish The Irish War ended Our Sea-Affairs noted The Campa●g● in Flanders The Campaign in Catalonia The Campaign on the Upper Rhine Carmagnolae besieged and taken Coni besieged Coni relieved Carmagnola retaken Montmelian Fortress surrendred The Battle of Sa●ankemen Duke of Croy succesfull in Sclavonia Great Waradin blockaded The King of Poland's Campaign Pope Alexander VIII his Death Monsieur Louvois Death The Elector of Saxony's Death Parliament meets Parliament adjourned Conspiracy in England Admiral Russel's Letter The French Fleet beaten K. James's Letter to the French King Namur surrendred The Battle of Steenkirk The English Forces imbark English Forces 〈◊〉 in Flanders The Campaign on 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Rhine The Siege of Reinf●ld The Duke of Savoy invades the Daupbinate and his Progress The Duke of Savoy's S●ckness The Duke recovers Great Waradin besieged Great Waradia surrendered C●nea besieged by the 〈◊〉 The Si●ge rais'd The P●●es do little Mr. Boyle's Death Earthquake in Jamaca and England Ninth Electorate The Proceedings of the English Parliament The Smyrna Fleet attach'd ' by the French The Campaign in Flander's Huy taken by the French The Battle of Landen Charleroy besieged and surrendred to the French Roses taken Heidelburg taken and destroyed by the French The Dauphine inclined to attack the Prince of Baden A Letter from Turin to the States General of the United Provinces about the Battle of Marsiglia Belgrade besieg'd by the Imperialists The Siege rais'd The King his Speech to the Parliament The Proceedings of the English Parliament Sir Francis Wheeler lost Acts of Parliament signed Admiral Russell with the Fleet ●ails for Spain The death of the Prince of Liege and Choice of another The Campaign in Flanders Diep and Hav●e de Grace Bomb●rd●d by the English The Confederates and French in motion towards Flanders The French King his Letter to the Army Huy besieged by the Confederates and taken The French Progress in Catalonia The French Fleet confined to Thoulon The Campagne in Germany The Campagne in Savoy The Affairs of Poland The death of the Elector of Saxony The death of Queen Mary The English Parliament's Proceedings Th● 〈…〉 Flanders Namur Besieg'd by the Confederates 〈◊〉 Fortifications P. Vaudemont's gallant Retreat The King his Letter to Prince Vaudemont The Siege of Namur continued to the Surrender of the Town The Maritime Towns of France Bombarded by the English Dixmude and Deinse Surrendred to the French Brussells Bombarded Villeroy fails to relieve Namur The Fort and Castle of Namur surrendred The Campaign on the Rhine inconsiderable Casall besieged and taken by the Confederates Sultan Ackmet's Death Sultan Mustapha takes Lippa and Titull A Letter concerning the Defeat of General Veteran● Scio quited by the Venetians The Battle of Mag●s Parliament Dissolv'd and another call'd The King's Speech The death of the Elector of Mentz An Act to remedy the ill state of the COin The Assassination discover●d The King's Speech to the Parliament The Parliaments P●oc●●dings there upon The Confederates buru the French Magazine at Givet The Bombing of Calais St. Martins c. The Fight between the French and Spaniards 〈◊〉 Cata●onia The Campaign in Germany The separate Peace of Savoy and the Management of it The Envoy of Savoy's Harange to the late K. James Valentia Be●ieged by the French and Savoyards The Articles of Neutrality for Italy Themeswaer Besieg●d by the Imperialists and quitted The ●attle between the Imperialists and the Turks Liberachi brought over to the Venetian● 〈◊〉 Dulcigno Besieged by the Venetians The Se●ge raised T●e Venetians Beat t●e Tu●ks by S●a The death of the King of Poland The Czar of Moscovy routs the Turks by Sea and takes Asoph The Substance of the King his Speech to the Parliament The death of the Qu. Mother of Spain The Parliaments Proceedings The Preliminary Articles The Treaty at Reswick Aeth taken by the French The Spanish A●bassa● r●present th●ir 〈◊〉 The Elector of Saxony chosen King of Poland Alterations about the Basis of the present Treaty Other Altercations about the B●sis of the present Treaty An Extraordinary Congress held The Lord Portland and the Mareschal de Boufflers their Interview and the Consequence thereof The Peace signed between England Spain Holland and France The Articles of Peace between England and France Mr. Ponti's Expedition Takes Carthagena Descryes and Escapes Admiral Neville * A Jurisdiction three Leagues in Compass Eberenburg ●aken by the Germans And a Cessation of Arms. The Battle of Zenta * Is the XLVI † Is the L. * Is the LI. * It is the XLVI The Parliament Add●ess the King Whitehall bur●t Parliament proceedings King's Speech Parl. dissolved another called K goes for Holland The Affair● of Spain Articles of Alliance between France and Sweden Overt●res of Peace with the Turks The troubled Affairs of Poland The Proposals of the Rocosche The Nu●cio his Mediation Brings the Primate to submit The Primare's Speech to the King The Troubles of Lituania A Fight in Lithuania The Czar's Travel 's A Fight between the Poles and Tartars Elbing invested by the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 The Electors Letter to Elbing The Articles of E●bing Sapieha defeated The Lithuanian Troubles appeased The death of the Duke of Courland The death of the Duke of Hanover The Dukes of Holstein and Lorrain married Conference of Peace with the Turks Altercations between the Venetians and Turks

Quantity of Silk and Silver Stuffs So that every Soldier of the 2000 had for his Share 6 Piasters the rest being divided among the Officers and other Soldiers the Czar reserving only the Cannon and Ammunition to himself This being happily effected the Siege of Asoph was carried on with great Application which all the Endeavours of the Turks and Tartars could not relieve by Land they being routed in the Attempt and a great many of their Number slain So that it was surrender'd to the Czar upon Articles on the 28th of July in pursuance of which the Garrison consisting of 3000 Men besides Tartars marched out with their Arms and Baggage and presently the Muscovites marched in and found 90 Pieces of Cannon together with a great Quantity of Ammunition in the Town But want of Provisions hasten'd the Surrender of it The News hereof no sooner arrived at Constantinople but it occasioned a great Consternation there and more especially for fear of losing those Supplies of Provisions which usually come to that City by the Euxine Sea which the Loss of that Place opened a Gap for the Moscovites to be Masters of But now after so long a Peregrination 't is time we should return homewards and take notice That the State of Affairs in Flanders this Year being already given an Account of it gave the King an Opportunity of returning to England somewhat sooner than usual and the Parliament to meet about the middle of Octob. to whom his Majesty said That he thought it our Happiness considering the Disappointments in the Funds and other Difficulties we laboured under that Things had passed without any Disadvantage That this was a convincing Proof of the good Disposition of his Army and steady Affections of his People That the Enemy's Hopes had been hitherto frustrated in respect to the difficult Conjuncture we were in and that their unanimous Proceedings was the Way to have the same continued That the Business before them was very great and our Occasions pressing That he could not let slip the Occasion to tell them That some Overtures had been made towards setting up a Negotiation of a General Peace But that the best Way to Treat was with our Swords in our Hands and by shewing our selves prepared to make a vigorous and effectual War Wherefore he recommended earnestly to the Commons to take Care for Raising the necessary Supplies with Speed As he did also the Remedying of some Inconveniences still remaining in Relation to the State of the Coin And so he concluded as we shall also conclude the Year with leaving the Parliament to take care in the first place of this last Clause of his Majesty's Speech about the Coin and to make a strict Enquiry among other Things into the late Conspiracy which took them up much Time And of which but very briefly before we hasten to give an Account of the General Peace Yet we will observe first as we were wont to do That this Year proved fatal to Mary Anne of Austria Queen-Mother of Spain who departed this Life on the 17th of May after she had been long tormented with a Cancer in her Breast Her Death being no less considerable a Loss to the Confederacy in general than to Spain in particular considering her great Influence over the Spanish Counsels to make them take such Resolutions as were conformable to the Interests of the Common Cause For which Reason she was but little beloved in France and gave Occasion for a great Prince of that Nation as was reported to say when he heard of the dangerous Distemper which had seized that Princess That he could have wished she had died Ten Years ago year 1697 Tho' this Year produced a General Peace between the Allies and the French Monarch yet our Parliament before the Close of the last in pursuance to his Majesty's Pre-monition to them in his Speech at the first Opening of the Session proceeded vigorously to other Methods for carrying on the War But they had not been long sate when they met with a considerable Interruption therein by the Business of Sir John Fenwicke who was one of the Conspirators in the late Plot for invading the Land and taking away the King's Life and was designed to have been tried at the Common Law as the rest had been But there were some Accidents fell out which made his Case extraordinary and brought it into Parliament of which take this short Account Upon Sir John Fenwicke's Apprehension which was in Kent as he designed to have made his Escape that way beyond Sea it did appear by a Letter of his writ to his Lady thereupon and which hapned to come in the Governments Hands That he was so far sensible of his Guilt and Danger that he proposed no other way for the present to Escape than by either getting a Jury Pack'd that would be Obstinate and not bring him in Guilty or making Friends to the King for a Pardon or Reprieve at least to gain Time But after his being brought to Town Commitment to Newgate and farther Consulting with his Friends the said Methods being found not very Practicable there was another Topick resolved upon which had a much more apparent Prospect of Success and that was to set up a Counterplot by accusing a great many of the King 's best and greatest Friends to have been guilty of Conspiring against him which startled a great many People at first not knowing who and who was together And tho' the same in the dilatory Managements of it did for a time with Sir John to gain him Space to have his Tryal put off yet he could not be but sensible it would not do always and therefore there was another Game for him to Play before he could conceive himself out of Danger which was to seduce away one at least of the Evidences that had swore the Treason against him as well knowing according to the late Act one was not sufficient in Cases of High Treason And this being also effected in the Person of Cardell Goodman who privately withdrew into France the Danger seemed now to be quite over tho' they could have been glad both for his and others sake that Captain Porter also had been got to the same or a worse Place and made Overtures to him by a rascally Irish-man one Clancy by Name to that end But he proved stanch against the great Temptation and made a Discovery thereof unto the Government So that the Government thereby finding it self horribly abused by these Clandestine Proceedings and no room left to bring the Criminal by the ordinary Course of Law to a Condign Punishment The King thought fit to give leave to Admiral Rassell to acquaint the House of Commons and lay before them the several Papers which were given in by Sir John Fenwicke in the Nature of Informations against himself and several Persons of Quality and desired that the same might be read that so he might have an Opportunity to justifie himself or

Client as could have been expected wherein however they were as notably answered by Mr. Sergeant Gould but I have not room to Cite the Arguments And so I proceed to shew that Sir John and the Council being ordered to withdraw and upon the Motion of some of the more aggrieved Members that the Prisoner should deal clearly and candidly with the House in giving an account of what he knew concerning several Persons of great Quality against whom he had given in the Informations formerly mentioned and he declining of the same it was resolved Mr. Vernon should give in his Evidence in respect to Sir John's getting his Tryal delayed by Offers of Information and that in his and the Counsels presence on both sides And the Counsel having no more to say they were discharged from their farther Attandance at that time and the Order of the Day for reading of the Bill a second time being read by the Clerk and the same being afterwards opened by the Speaker and having expected for some time and no member rising up to speak he asked whether he should put the Question of Commitment But then the Speaker had his Belly full on 't and the Debate ran very high both on the one side and the other about the extraordinary Method of Proceedings the Power and Justice of Parliaments compared with other inferiour Courts of Judicature with many Presidents of former Bills of Attainder Pro and Con and other Arguments that fell in which are too tedious for me particularly to enter upon But upon the whole towards Eleven at Night the Result was That the Bill should be Committed and on Friday the 20th the House resolved it self into a Committee of the whole House upon the said Bill and several Words having been offered as an Amendment to it importing Sir John Fenwicke's being Guilty at last these Words of which the said Sir John Fenwicke is Guilty were agreed on to be added to the Close thereof November the 25th the Bill was read the third time when the Contestation upon the Debate run as hot as ever and the Members were no less divided in their Opinions than before but at length the Question for Passing the Bill being put the House divided thereupon when there appearing for it an Hundred Eighty Nine and but an Hundred and Fifty Six against it it passed in the Affirmative It 's observable that tho' the Crime wherewith Sir John Fenwicke was Charged was of the highest Nature that could be against the Government yet that very many most honourable and worthy Persons in both Houses and such as are well known to be his Majesty's best Friends were very stiff against the Bill Yet that did not arise from any Intentions in them to Acquit the Guilty but they could not be satisfied with the manner of procedure and that of there being but one vivi voce Witness only stuck hard upon them especially since in all ordinary Courts two were always required for the Proof of such a Crime and that there had been an Act made but the very Sessions before that did possitively require the same in Cases of High Treason And it was looked upon very strange by some that such a President should be so quickly made and that in such a good Reign and the same might prove of very dangerous Consequence to the Liberty of the Subject in future Times which they should be always very regardful of But however the Matter were Sir John was Beheaded for it and none of them thought him unjustly to suffer though many boggled at the manner of his Condemnation At the Place of Execution he deliver'd the following Paper to the Sheriffs A true Copy of the Paper Delivered by Sir John Fenwicke Baronet to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex on Tower-Hill the Place of Execution on Thursday January the 28th 1697. SPeaking nor Writing was never my Talent I shall therefore give a very Short but Faithful Account first of my Religion and next what I suffer most innocently for to avoid the Calumnies I may reasonably expect my Enemies will cast upon me when dead since they have most falsely and maliciously aspersed me whilst under my Misfortunes As for my Religion I was brought up in the Church of England as it is establish'd by Law and have ever profess'd it tho' I confess I have been an unworthy Member of it in not living up to the strict and excellent Rules thereof for which I take Shame to my self and humbly ask Forgiveness of GOD. I come now to dye in that Communion trusting as an humble and hearty Penitent to be received by the Mercy of God through the Merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour My Religion taught me my Loyalty which I bless God is untainted And I have ever endeavoured in the Station wherein I have been placed to the utmost of my Power to support the Crown of England in the True and Lineal Course of Descent without interruption As for what I am now to dye I call God to witness I went not to that Meeting in Leadenhall-street with any such intention as to invite King James by Force to invade this Nation nor was I my self provided with either Horse or Arms or engaged for any number of Men or gave particular Consent foy any such Invasion as is most falsely Sworn against me I do also declare in the Presence of God That I knew nothing of King James's coming to Calais nor of any Invasion intended from thence till it was publickly known And the only Notion I had that something might be attempted was from the Thoulon Fleet coming to Brest I also call God to witness that I received the knowledge of what is contained in those Papers that I gave to a great Man that came to me in the Tower both from Letters and Messages that came from France and he told me when I ●ead them to him That the Prince of Orange had been ac●uainted with most of those things before I might have expected Mercy from that Prince because I was Instrumental in saving his Life For when about April 95. an Attempt formed against him came to my Knowledge I did partly by Dissuasions and partly by Delays prevent that Design which I suppose was the Reason that the last Villanous Project was concealed from me If there be any Persons whom I have injur'd in Word o● Deed I heartily pray their Pardon and beg of God to Pardon those who have injured me particularly those who with great Zeal have sought my Life and brought the guilt of my Innocent Blood upon this Nation no Treason being proved upon me I return my most hearty Thanks to those Noble and Worthy Persons who gave me their Assistance by opposing this Bill of Attainder without which it had been impossible I could have fallen under the Sentence of Death God bless them and their Posterity though I am fully satisfied they Pleaded their own Cause while they Defended mine I pray God to bless my True and