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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48383	The life and actions of the renowned prelate & souldier, Christopher Bernard van Gale, Bishop of Munster, Prince of the Holy Empire, Adminstrator of Corvay, Marquess of Stomberg &c. in which is an account of the most considerable actions of Europe in his time.; Historisch verhael van 't leven en orlogsbedryf van de Heer Christopher van Galen. English	Vries, S. de (Simon), b. 1630.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1980; ESTC R611	83,312	182

Person was accus'd before his Highness for having publickly kept a Concubine four and twenty years and for having to do with several other women to the great scandal of the Clergy and people Besides that in the Administration of the Arch-Deaconry he had assum'd to himself a greater Authority than the Pope dispensing with an unsufferable arrogance with several Marriages in the first and second degree and commanding the Priests to finish those Marriages which he had concluded Lawful Which things being known and not punish'd by the Dean therefore they desir'd that for his negligence he might be suspended from his Employment The Bishop presently consented and caus'd publication thereof to be made in the usual place The same misfortune befel two others T is true they Appeal'd but their Appeals were rejected Upon the 16. of June being the same day that the Bishop was to attend the Funerals of the preceding Bishops of Munster by eight of the Clock in the Morning came a Publick Notary to him as he was just entred into the Church in his Epicopal Habit and ready to be attended up to the Quire by the body of the Clergy and put into his hand a writing from the Dean to let him know that though neither in pursuance of his Oath nor by vertue of any agreement he was oblig'd to take upon him the Order of Priesthood of which there were several Presidents to be produc'd not only in the Diocess of Munster but in several other places nevertheless that he had receiv'd the Order of Deacon the second of July and the Sunday following the Order of Priesthood and consequently before the publication of the Decree by which his vote was taken from him because he was no Priest and this was confirm'd by the Copies of two writings annex'd The Bishop took them without any appearance of being displeas'd at the importunity of the Notary But he remember'd him for all that the same day to the end he might take it for a warning not to be sawey another time telling him withal that he should produce the Originals because the Copies were not sufficient Two days after the Notary came more confidently than before with his witnesses and by an unusual way getting into the Anti-Chamber shew'd himself to the Bishop then just Habited in all his Formalities and ready to go to hear Divine Service accompany'd with his Chaplains Canons and Courtiers He was so offended that he gave the Notary a bloody rebuke commanding him from thence forward not to come any more without leave before Persons of his Quality or if he had any thing to shew him to give it to his Vicar General The Notary obey'd and gave the Originals to the Vicar General to prove that the Dean was both Deacon and Priest But the Bishop still found out somthing or other to cavil at As that it was done by another Bishop out of season without any necessity c. Beside that he commanded him to prove that he had observ'd all those things which the Church of Rome injoyns upon the like occasions Thus the Episcopal Narration Others go further accusing the Bishop not to have done well by the Dean and other persons and that by these delaies and denyals to hear their justification he only kept them in suspense till the Election were past according to his desire We have told you that the day of Election was by one part of the Members appointed to be the 19. of July The 18. was the Feast of St. Maximus the Martyr whose Reliques had been brought six years before into this City with a great deal of Ceremony as being given by the Pope to the Bishop and were shew'd in the Cathedral where they were put for the defence of the Diocess in the place of those Reliques which the Anabaptists had burnt a hundred years before But it is observable that the Feast of the Reliques was kept a day before the Feast of St. Maximus The second day the Bishop would needs go to Church with all his Episcopal Ornaments But because the day before contrary to the opinion of all men there was but a small appearance of Canons to wait on his Highness to the Quire he was apprehensive that the same thing would happen at this great Ceremony to his shame and the scandal of the people who were wont to flock to that Procession And of this he was the more jealous because contrary to his Orders they had decreed a meeting of the Chapter upon the Festival-day at a time when they should be at Divine Service and without any necessity So then when he thought that the Canons were assembl'd in the Quire he sent his Lacquy to let them know that he intended to come to Church But contrary to his Orders they were got before into the Chapter House to debate about the admission of the three new Canons Thereupon the Lacquy went to the oldest Beadle to tell the Canons that the Bishop was prepairing to come to Church But though he were come very near it with all his Court there was not one that stir'd forth to meet him Thereupon the Beadle was sent a second time to tell them the Bishop was at hand A great part of the Chapter upon that seem'd willing to rise but the Deans party over-persuaded them not to stir desiring not only the admission of the three new Canons but also of another young Canon whom they had sent for with a French precipitation In the mean while the Bishop stay'd at the Church door to be conducted by the Canons through the body of the Church to the Quire and to receive the Holy-water Pot from the chiefest of the train but all to no purpose not a man stir'd but only one who told the Bishop that the greatest part were ready to obey him but that the rest would not consent For this cause he made a protest by his First Chaplain and Apostolick Notary upon the contempt which they had put upon him in the Face of the whole world and withal sent word to the Canons of the Chapter to come forth and do their duties by giving him those honors and respects which were due to him being at the Church-door and in his Episcopal Robes or else that he would pronounce sentence of suspension against them all for their disobedience Upon which they put it to the vote and the major part carry'd it that they should obey and break up the Chapter for that day Though others were of opininion that they could not be constrain'd by threats to attend upon the Bishop as he commanded them but that it was at the good will and pleasure of every one and that therefore the Assembly should not dissolve Now when the Bishop had stay'd a long time in vain he was fain to march by himself through the body of the Church to the Quire madded at the very heart and not a little to the astonishment of the rest of the Clergy Magistrates and people After the offering

the Enemy was before their Walls and as for their usage they were sure they had better than any the Bishop allow'd and for his second request they reply'd that being taken up with Powder and Bullet they minded little of their Shops at present Soon after the Bishop perceiv'd that his Enterprize upon this place would not have the same success as he had had in other places The Elector of Cologn though he had adviz'd the Siege began to look upon his Colleague with an evil Eye and they began to quarrel already about the expence of the Siege and the wast of their Countries Cologn upbraided Munster with his boasts he made of his Souldiers his Artificial Fires and his Miners and yet that after the Moat of the Curtain was fill'd up with Fagots he durst not venture the Onset for fear of losing his men In the mean while the Young Prince of Nassaw had written a letter in French from the Camp before Groningen dated the 20. of August N. S. and directed to the Duke of Luxenburgh to this purpose The Face of the Affairs of our Camp changes every day Wednesday morning last our C●non plaid so fortunately that we ruin'd five Batteries and silenc'd all the rest Which gave us some hopes by reason of the Consternation which we observ'd in the City and for that a certain Monk who had escap'd out of the City reported to us that the Catholick Burgers would desire to be excepted from Plunder if we took the City by Assault M. de Munster is confident that he shall say Mass in the City upon St. Lewis ' s day But my Faith is too weak to believe those miracles and I very much doubt our entry into the City till his Prayers have silenc'd Eighty pieces of Canon that continually play upon us and have ruin'd his Strongest Battery of seven pieces notwithstanding all that we can do because the Traverses of our Battery are so narrow that we can play but upon one side The 17. A Forlorn of Gentlemen sally'd out of the Town and found that the Enemy had quitted their Approaches Upon news whereof several of the besieg'd went forth and found in the Enemies Trenches great store of Warlike Ammunition as Bombs Fire-balls Granados Bullets Hatchets Shovels and the like of which every one took as much as they could carry away Their Retreat was very sudden and the Infantry were in such a fright that the Horse were commanded to recure them from flying All this while the Bishop lay behind the Gallows Hill but the 21. he fully and wholly quitted the place which caus'd a Universal joy among the Inhabitants of the Town This Bishop dislodg'd his Army for two principal reasons The first was for that his great Guns were no longer serviceable and his Morterpieces were most of them spoil'd The second was because his Army was half in half wasted As to the first reason his Artillery was almost all spoil'd and broken so that he had not above ten or twelve Guns left by reason of his continual firing upon the Town As for his Morter-pieces he had not above five or six left For the Bishop impatient of the Protraction of of the Siege order'd them to be double charg'd so that some of his Morter-peices broke and others were greatly indammag'd As to the second cause it could never be certainly known what number of men he brought to the Siege but t is thought that they amounted to between twenty and thirty thousand and he did not march off with above thirteen thousand This was afterwards confirm'd by a Muster made by the Bishops Officers by which it appear'd that his Army when they first came before Groningen consisted of above twenty four thousand men but that he carry'd off no more than twelve thousand nine hundred sixty eight So that he had lost eleven thousand two hundred thirty two To these two reasons that oblig'd the Bishop to quit the Siege may be added three more 1. The coming of the Auxiliary Forces of the Emperor and the Elector of Brandenburgh 2. The want of Ammunition and Victuals 3. The Rain that fell at that time whereby his Approaches were quite overflow'd with water However it were the City was at liberty and the Bishop was no more in a condition to make any farther attempt We cannot here pass over in silence the most barbarous cruelty that was ever exercis'd upon poor sick and wounded men who were carry'd to Helpen into a Barn where they lay without straw being lookt after by six French Chirurgions The Bishop perceiving that their number every day increas'd askt the Chirurgeons which they thought to be curable and which not and those that were judg'd incurable were presently dispatch'd with a Bullet shot into their heads to make room for others The besieg'd had not lost above fourscore persons notwithstanding that vast number of Bombs Stinking-Pots and Fire-Balls which were thrown into the City the number of which was said to have amounted to above four thousand for as for the Canon-shot it was not to be counted And indeed the effects of Divine Providence were most apparently to be seen in reference to some persons considering the prodigious deliverance from eminent danger A Fire-ball meeting with the Wall of a House was beaten back and falling pass'd between a Mennonites Breeches below the Codpiece without doing him any other harm than only singing his Breeches One of the Sheriffs of the Town whose name was Bothenius being just risen out of his Bed a Fire-ball presently came and falling in his place burnt the Coverlet Mat Bedstead and all The Widow of Anthony Van Essen being in Bed with her Daughter a Fire-ball pass'd between them and being resisted by the Beds head return'd the same way without doing any more hurt than burning the Bed A woman sitting upon a bench before her own house a Fire-ball flew between her legs and carry'd away a piece of her Coats both before and behind without any farther mischief The same thing happen'd to one of the Proposers who sitting in his Study a Fire-ball came and carry'd away the Seat from under him without any farther damage A Servant of James Warnholts a Brewer was just drinking but before he had ended his draught a Fire-ball came and struck the Glass out of his hand without any other prejudice Another Bomb lighted into the Chamber of a certain person who not liking his Bedfellow took it and flung it to the ground where it broke and spoyld all his goods but did the man no harm A woman being a sleep in her Bed by break of day was awakn'd by a Bomb that fell through the Cieling just before her Bed The woman ran out into the street in her smock and seeing her house a fire cry'd out Though my house be burnt the Bishop shall not have the City Another woman having a little child in her Arms perceiving a Bomb to be fallen into her House all in a fright threw her infant