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A51449	The most Christian Turk: or, a view of the life and bloody reign of Lewis XIV. present King of France Containing an account of his monstrous birth, the transactions that happened during his minority under Cardinal Mazarine; afterwards his own unjust enterprizes in war and peace, as breach of leagues, oaths, &c. the blasphemous titles given him, his love-intrigues, his confederacy with the Turk to invade Christendom, the cruel persecution of his Protestant subjects, his conniving with pirates, his unjustly invading the empire, &c. laying all waste before him with fire and sword, his quarrels with the Pope and Genoieze, his treachery against England, Scotland, and Ireland, the engagements of the confederate princes against him; with all the battles, sieges, and sea fights, that have happened of consequence to this time.		1690 (1690)	Wing M2870A; ESTC R216384	73,891	189

extreamly strengthened and fortified at the Expence of vast Treasure lying at the same time so Commodious for Trade and other Advantages The pretences the French King made were That there was an Agreement with Oliver Cromwell that upon the Payment of a certain Summ of Money it should be delivered to the French But no body as we can hear of was privy to this Contract but himself However contrary to all Mens Expectation his French Pistols gained that strong Town which all the Cannon and Forces of France had the King of England defended it could never have done But now we Experience the damage of that Oversight when too Late For Dunkirk was delivered for Money and Lewis had the unexpected Pleasure of entering into it in Triumph on the Second of December in the Year 1662. These Successes flushed his Ambition to greater Attempts nothing less now than the Dukedom of Lorrain will serve his turn and thereupon he sent his cunning Sophisters to wheedle the Duke out of it by Threats and Promises First That he had an Army ready to fall into it if it were refused Secondly That he would consign him Lands more secure in Lieu of it in another place And to make the old Duke more fond promised to declare him Heir to the Crown of France in Case the Family of Bourbon failed although there was a Dauphin born of the young Queen These and other inveiglings between Force and fair Means wrought so powerfully that the Agreement was made the Sixth of February 1662. and in March following confirmed in the Parliament of Paris to the apparent Wrong of Prince Charles the present Duke of Lorrain who though of years was no ways consenting to his Father's Act. And upon this Agreement the French Troops were immediately sent who seized upon all the Cities and Country of that fertil and spacious Dukedom except Marsal which being garisoned and influenced by the young Prince opposed their Progress This made Monsieur storm and immediately he ordered his Generals to be ready for an Expedition to make War as he term'd it for the Glory of his Arms and came on so terribly in the Head of his Forces that the old Duke though he repented of what he had done foreseeing the ruine that would insue to his People if he opposed and being altogether unfurnished by the surprize of his Towns to Encounter a great Army thought it his best way to submit to his Misfortune And thereupon in an humble manner he went to Metz in Lorrain to excuse himself to Lewis who received the venerable old Man after a haughty manner and would hear of nothing but the surrender of Marsal which not being able to hold out against such a powerful Army as he had brought into the Country it was put into French hands on the Third of September 1663. Much about this time Lewis fell a cavelling like an Unchristian Son with his Holy Father at Rome and the Manner was thus Monsieur de Crequi his Ambassador in that City bearing himself with too high a hand and putting Abuses even upon the Pope himself it so enraged some of the Pope's Guards that whether willingly or by chance remains doubtful a Harquibus was shot into his Coach which wounded some of his Servants This Affront made such a noise in the Court of France that Lewis instead of going in Devotion immediately prepared to make a Procession to Rome with his Dragoons which so frighted Pope Alexander II. that then held the Chair that he was forced to send and meet his Army with Protestation of his Trouble for what had happened and that he should have any satisfaction This stopped his Carier a little and Pisa was pitched upon as the City to examine the matter And on the Twelfth of March 1664. it was agreed between the French and Pope's Deputies a thing that the Pride of the Popes of Rome never submitted to for many Hundred years viz that Flavio Chigi the Pope's Nephew should come to the King and beg the Pope's Pardon so that it seems the Great Pardoner was forced to creep at this Time for a pardon from one of his Sons And farther That a Monument should be raised in the place where the Affront was done with an Inscription declaring the Cause of its being erected This was performed but it did not satisfie For whilst it was a doing the French fell into the Pope's County Palatine of Avignon drove out the Garrisons and without respect to St. Peter Mother-Church or Father Pope plundered his Patrimony for which the most Christian King highly applauded them But soon after the Queen-Mother of France died and now Lewis XIV began to take his pleasure without Regard to the young Queen Wherefore though it may be looked upon as a digression it may not be amiss to see a few of Lewis the Great 's Intrigues with his Little Mistresses for you must understand his Inclinations have been as well to Love as Glory Since Lewis XIV was Married to Maria Theresa of Austria daughter of Spain the first Mistress though the Queen was charming enough young brisk and lively that he publickly owned was Madam de la Valliere and that she might come up the better to his Humour he made her Duchess of Vaujour And although the Queen grew jealous and the Queen-Mother very much reproved his over-fondness of this Woman yet he little regarded their Reproaches Whereupon they used many devices to draw off his Affections but those not succeeding one Father Anat a Jesuit and at that time his Confessor was prevailed upon to reprove him So that he took upon him boldly to represent to him the Scandal and bad Effects such a loose way of Living occasioned by making an ill Impression upon the Minds of the People and that if he did not Reform he must enjoin him sharper Penance at his next Confession But the most Christian King little satisfied with this Discourse coldly replyed That he thanked him kindly for his good Advice and his past Service but that for the future he would make use of no other Confessor but the Parson of the Parish And so the old Fellow was turned out of Service for his Ill timed Preachment which made the Society of Jesuits curse him for being so scurvy a Politician on such an occasion which he might have Improved to their Advantage But however though this was Cashiered yet others of the Society more cunning and facetious made a shift to creep into the King's Bosome making their own Advantages by embroiling a great part of Europe And the more to flatter his Ambition contrary to the Rules of their Order they took away the Name of Jesus from off the Gates of one of their Colleges in Paris and placed the King's Name instead of it which occasioned this Distich Abstulit hinc Jesum posuitque Insignia Regis Impia Gens Alium non habet Illa Deum They Jesus name have ta'en from their Aboad And plac'd the King's he only is

where they pleased but not any more enter into the French Service Whereupon most of them entered into the Duke's Pay and a great Number of French Soldiers deserted their Army notwithstanding the severe Discipline to prevent it by hanging up some Hundreds who had been taken going off Nor did their Army in Flanders escape the angry Skies for a violent Tempest happening accompanied with extraordinary Rains and Floods divers Persons perished a great deal of Baggage was spoiled and carried away in by the Rapidity of the Torrent and the Mareschal d' Humiers who commanded in Chief hardly escaped drowning And although the French King laboured by many secret Intrigues and Contrivances to widen or keep on foot the Differences between the King of Denmark and Duke of Holstein yet by the Mediation of the Emperor and Electors of Saxony and Bandenburgh an Accomodation was made and Signed on the Thirtieth of June upon sundry Articles Upon this News upon what Account we are yet to learn the Duke De la Force and the Marquess Vivaus were clapped up in the Bastile at Paris and their Papers secured The Duchess De la Force was likewise sent Prisoner to the Castle of Anger 's And about the same time a French Man of War of Thirty six Guns and Two hundred Men was taken by two Dutch Ships and carried into Amsterdam And the French and Irish Forces Besieging London-Derry were beaten off with great Slaughter and amongst others many Principal Officers were killed which obliged them upon the City's being Relieved with Provision to raise the Siege and retire in some Confusion The French Forces likewise in Catalonia were beaten by the Spaniards and upon the Approach of the Imperial Army quitted all or most of the Places they yet held in the Palatinate And now the Storm of War threatning Montz and Bonne the only strong Places the Frence held in those Parts the Marquess Vxelles Governour of the former sent to the Court of France to demand speedy Aid but had no other Answer returned him as to that particular than that the King had sent the Arrear-Ban towards the Coasts and that by reason of some Disappointments he must not expect very Powerful Succours for that there were every where too great Occasion for their Troops the Enemy having never had such numerous Forces in the Field as at present For at that time the Army Commanded by the Duke of Lorrain was composed of 20000 Imperial Foot and 8000 Horse 10000 Saxons 8000 Lunenburghers and 6000 of Hesse-Cassel The Bavarian Army with the Troops of Suabia 14000 with which were joined 8000 Imperialists under Caprapra The Forces of the Duke of Brandenburgh amounted to 32000 those of Munster 6000 which with the 3000 Hollanders that were in that Country and the 8000 afterward sent by the Duke of Hanouer amounted to 123000 Men not accounting the Dutch and Spanish Armies in the Netherlands These extraordinary Forces made Lewis the Great begin to look about him more than ever labouring with the King of Denmark to hold a Neutrality to which he found him no ways inclinable And the Pope's Nuntio being called Home to prevent the Clergy flocking to him in his way an Officer contrary to Custom was sent to him out of the Kingdom and published an Ordinance commanding all the Subjects of France whose Fathers Children or Brothers are in the Service of his Enemies and the Women whose Husbands are in that Service to depart the Kingdom within the space of a Month which was in many Places put rigorously in Execution The French Troops under the Command of the Duke Duras making an Attempt upon Heidelburgh the Regiment of Wertemburgh got opportunely into the Town and beat them off with the loss of Three or Four hundred of their Men. And in Flanders about Forty English Horse meeting with a greater Number of French killed Fifteen and took Eight Prisoners These bad Successes one upon the Neck of another made the French King cause his Orders to be published Commanding the Inhabitants of Sedan Mezieres and other Places not to Sow their Ground with Corn this Year on pain of Death promising they should be furnished other ways It would be too tedious to mention all the Skirmishes that passed this Campaign with various Success though mostly to the Advantage of the Confederates Wherefore passing many over we come to Instance that great Engagement between the French under the Command of the Mareschal d' Humiers and the English and Dutch under the Command of Prince Waldeck c. The French Troops Attacking the Village Forge where Eight hundred Men were Posted under the Command of Collonel Hodges and Lieutenant-Collonel Goes they bravely defended it till sending one Party after another on both sides the two Armies in a manner Engaged where the English more especially behaved themselves with such Bravery and Resolution that after a long and obstinate Fight the French gave Ground and retired in some Confusion leaving behind them their Cannon and Ammunition and about Three thousand Killed and Wounded And the Six Battalions of Guards were for the most part cut off which Loss may be best guessed at by the following Account Monsieur de Gelais Mareschal of the Camp was killed with a Cannon-Shot as likewise were Monsieur de Metz Tirecelin Commissary of the Artillery Killed of the Guards the Count d' Artuagan four Captains five Lieutenants a Gentleman-Voluntier wounded Three Captains eleven Lieutenants the Aid-Major and two Voluntiers of the Regiment of Campaign the Chavalier de Colbert Brigadier and Collonel mortally wounded the Lieutenant-Collonel wounded the Major mortally wounded two Captains killed two Lieutenants killed five Captains and seven Lieutenants wounded the Liutenant of the Artillery wounded of the Gensd'arms an Exempt of the Guards wounded of Vilpians Regiment of Horse killed one Captain wounded a Cornet and Aid-Major of Greders Regiment of Foot killed one Captain and Aid-Major wounded two Captains one Aid-Major and a Lieutenant several of the wounded dying of their Wounds soon after the Battel This blow greatly allarmed the Court of France and might have put Lewis XIV into another Fit of his Ague had not cordial News come from Rome of the Death of Pope Innocent XI upon which he immediately sent away the Count de Chaulms his Ambassador and the French Cardinals such as he would trust with his Interest prepared to follow him in order to make his Party in the Election of a new Pope But when they came to Rome their Admission into the Conclave was disputed till such time the French King should relinquish his Pretensions to the franchises which at last was agreed to be done during the time of Election But it so fell out that neither the French Interest nor Gold was so Powerful as heretofore for after some Contest amongst the Factions Cardinal Ottoboni a Noble Venetian was Elected and Confirmed Pope by the Name of Alexander VIII The City of Mentz having been violently Attacked by the Confederates under the