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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

that committed them were harboured and protected he thought the best way to prevent such disorder for the future was to deprive them of their shelter by taking away the Franchises of all the Ambassadors that none might have cause to complain And in order thereto he revoked those Privileges by a Bull bearing date the 12 of May Anno which was mightily opposed by the Marquess D' Lavardine Ambassador for Lewis XIV though none else opposed it as holding the Pope a Sovereign Prince in his own City But he proceeded not only to shelter Murtherers and Thieves even in the City of Rome but to Protect them and with armed Force stood upon his Guard to oppose the Officers that were sent to demand them sending a Dispatch to his Master to let him understand what had happened who in a Bravado fell to big Words against his Holy Father resolving not to part with any part of his Franchises However he seized upon the City of Avignion whch had been held for many Ages as part of St Peter's Patrimony and caused the Pope's Supremacy to be denied in the Parliament of Paris as appears by the Speech of Monsieur de Tolon Advocate General who likewise plays with the great Thunderbolt of the Roman See which has so long been a Bugbear to all the Roman Catholick Princes like a Tennis-Ball when he has this Expression And to add says he to that Bull meaning that by which the Franchises were taken away vain Threats of Excommunication that are not capable of creating the least Terrour in the most timerous Minds and in the nicest Consciences c. But neither these big Words nor his frequent Solicitations nor his many Purses of Gold distributed amongst Favourites could bring the Old Man to buckle to his Most Christian Son's Humour For the Ambassador persisting to contemn the Pope's Orders he Excommunicated him and Interdicted the Church of St Lewis in Rome for admitting him in the Night-time to the Holy Sacrament forbidding all manner of Persons to have Converse either with them or him But the Circumstances of this Matter we shall see in an Act of Appeal put in by the Attorney General of France to the Council upon the Subject of the Pope's Bull concerning the Franchises c. in these Words Before the under-written Apostolick Notory was present in his own Person Messire Achilles de Harlay Counsellor of the King in his Conncil of State and his Majesty's Attorney General who in the Presence and by the Advice and Counsel of Messire Denis Talon and Messire Fra●cois Critean de la Moignon also Counsellors of the King in his Council of State and his Advocates General in his Courts of Parliament has declared That having some time since seen Copies of a Bull given on the 12th of May last past by our Holy Father Pope Innocent XI concerning the Franchises which certain Persons are in Possession of in the City of Rome he could not have imagined that His Holiness could have conceived the Design of comprehending the Ambassadors the King was willing to send to him in the general Menaces of Excommunication which he judged convenient to insert therein contrary to the use observed by other Popes in the Bulls made by them He had hoped that if the remembrance of the sovereign Power which the King's Majesty's Predecessors exercised in Rome of their Liberalities to the Holy See and of the Protection they gave to several Popes could not induce this Pope to cause to be rendered to the King in the Person of his Ministers Honours and Testimonies of Acknowledgment proportionable to his Bounties At least his Holiness as visible Head of the Church would not be insensible to the Prodigies the King had performed before his Eyes for the Reuniting within the Bosom of his Good Mother so vast a number of Children that were gone astray from her by these he means the Dragoon'd Converts but that he would be Affected with the Piety of this Prince and the powerful Protection he continually gives to Prelates though he insists not on his Victories and Power and that he would not enter into Disputes with him about Rights that had not suffered any Invasion under his Popedom for many Years But being informed that His Holiness had given Orders to the Cardinal that is his Vicar in Rome to declare the Church of St Lewis in that City and the Ecclesiasticks that officiate in it Interdicted for having admitted to the participation of the Holy Mysteries of the Sacrament on the Night wherein is Celebrated the Solemnity of our Lord 's Nativy Monsieur Le Marquis de Lavardin the King's Ambassador Extraordinary to His Holiness and that it was supposed upon the Ordinance delivered upon this Subject that he was notoriously Excommunicated for pretended Contraventions to the Bull the said Attorney General did not think he could without being wanting to his duty remain any longer in Silence he hath hitherto kept Now if the matter which has given an occasion to so great an Excess did concern the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction that belongs to the Pope he would easily shew the Errours that have been committed by proceeding against a person that has not been particularly specified in that Bull to whom the State of the matter has not been signified since his being at Rome who might be ignorant of them in France where it was not published that the Pope could condemn him as an Ambassador though his Character ought to secure him from these Thunders in regard of his Functions yet His Holiness would not so much as hear him or own him in that Quality whatever Addresses he has caused to be made for that purpose and that in fine the very Rules of the Canon Law requires that Persons of so eminent a Dignity should be pointed out by Name in Bulls of that Nature before they incurr the Penalties they utter But the Pope in a matter purely Temporal as are these Franchises has made use of the Spriritual Arms which he is intrusted with only for the Conduct and Edification of the Church Here by the way the Pope might have demanded of Lewis XIV Why he used Temporal Arms in Spiritual matters as his Dragoon-Converts can testifie But to go on And having constituted himself Judge in his own Cause the Excommunication which his Holiness Cardinal Vicar declares to be Incurr'd is so Null that there is no occasion for any Proceeding to annihilate it and those that are therein comprehended ought not to receive Absolution though it were offered them even at their own homes And indeed the said King's Attorney does with all the French expect from his Majesties Single Power the Reparation which these Proceedings challenge and the Conservation of those Franchises which only depend on the Judgment of God as the Rights of this Crown which can admit of no Dominion but such as the King's Moderation and Justice may give them But as not any thing can Contribute more to lessen in the Minds of shallow

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

Men there and even to dispute it with the French if it was not quietly put into their Hands However though Mazarine and his Pupil had a great Mind to this strong and important Place yet at that time they were forced to let it slip through their Fingers as well knowing the Protector had a powerful Army on Foot in England But some time after they found means to Charm it from us with French Gold to the great endamaging of our Shipping which Trade on that Coast In the Year 1656. the French relying upon their own Strength at the remarkable Siege of Valenciennes received a great Overthrow But the English had better Success for whilst the French stood looking on and concluded it utterly impossible Sir Thomas Morgan who Commanded the English Forces Stormed Mardike recovering the Top of the Walls almost before they were expected passing through showers of Bullets and Fire to the Astonishment both of the French and the Besieged and possessed themselves of that strong Fortress and after that they saved it from a Surprize attempted by the Spaniards in the dead of the Night And indeed most of the Towns that were taken during this War may be justly ascribed to the English Valour which Valour peradventure Lewis XIV may one day Experience in the Heart of France as several of his Predecessors have done The Spaniards grown weary of this War the usual way of Accommodation was proposed viz. a Match between the Spanish Infanta and the French King This Match was greatly opposed by Mazarine who concluded if a Peace ensued and the King gave himself up to the Embraces of a Young Wife his Authority would be lessened But the Queen-Mother declared resolutely for it saying That whether he would or no it should be done for that her Son should marry one of her Kinswomen But this had like to have broken off by the Sickness of Lewis which every one concluded would terminate in his Death Whereupon Cardinal Mazarine knowing the many Villainies he had committed in France and the Mischief done by his Evil Council was about to pack up his Awls and trudge for Italy fearing if the King should die he should fall a Sacrifice to the Fury of the Rabble And thereupon he sent a Gentleman to the Mareschal de Turin to know if he might have a safe Retreat in the Army till he could otherways shift for himself But that Protestant General returned him so cold an Answer that he was put out of all Hopes However whilst he was studying what to do the King began to recover and accordingly escaped that Death that threatned him to be the cause of the Death and Ruine of more than a Million of People The King being Recovered Mazarine was sent to Bayon and Don Louis d' Ardo de Gusman came to Saint Sebastians the more commodiously to treat about the Peace being constituted for that end Plenepotentiaries And accordingly it was concluded on sundry Articles to the great Joy of the Frontier-Towns who by Burning Plundering Quartering Soldiers and Contributions were reduced to extream Misery And Lewis sent a Procurator to Don Louis d'Ardo in his Name to Espouse the Infanta and the Marriage was consummated at Fonterabia in the presence of the Court of Spain and the two Kings met in the Isle of Conference situate between both Kingdoms where Mary of Spain was delivered to Lewis of France as his Wife and both Kings solemnly swore to keep and confirm to one another the Treaty of Peace and the Young Queen entered Paris in an open Chariot shining with the Treasure of both the Indias But Card. Mazarine for Grief to see his Purpose crossed as some gave out fell sick and died on the Nineteenth of March 1661. to the Joy of all France to whom he had a long time been a Scourge and instilled that Spirit of Cruelty into Lewis XIV that has since been manifested to the World in Characters of Blood This Cardinal had his first Rise under Richelieu the great ●ardinal of France and from a mean Birth raised himself and his Family to the greatest Dignity France could afford a Subject He was born an Itaelian and by his cunning bore himself up in the Favour of this King and his Father in spight of all the mighty Opponents he met withal For beside the Prince of Conde Duke of Conti and most of the Nobles he stood the Envy of the People in general whom he had sorely vexed by Taxes and Oppressions The Court went into Mourning for him but continued it not long for an occasion of Joy soon after made it vanish The Duke of Orleance falling in Love with the beautiful Daughter of Charles I. of England the Lady Henrietta at the publick Ceremory of that illustrious Marriage the Mourning went off Thus far we have traced this Monarch as we may term it in his Leading-strings For the Cardinal whilst he lived had the absolute Rule of his Mind whatever share he had in his Body and from thence we may hitherto conclude him an Engine that moved by the Dictates of that covetous and ambitious Prelate but for the future we must consider him moving more directly in his own Sphere It is observed of Nero by Suetonius and others That the beginning of his Reign was tolerable and not comparable to those Cruel and Irregular practices that followed and left a Lasting stain upon him to all Posterity Notwithstanding the terrible Name Lewis XIV supposed to have gained in the year 1662 his Ambassador contending with the Spanish Ambassador for Precedency at the Reception of another Ambassador near the Tower was there worsted had several of his Horses and some of his Attendence killed and wounded For the King of England's Council not undertaking to determine in this Matter they were left to dispute it and a Proclamation was put out forbidding any English to meddle in this Matter upon great Penalties so that the Ambassador of Lewis the Great appear'd but very Little being forced to sneak to his Lodging by all the by-Ways he could find though they pretend to claim Precedency of all the Ambassadors of Europe unless at the Court of Vienna where the Lords of Austria bear Rule Yet this made Monsieur to storm and bluster at a strange rate insomuch that the King of Spain being of a quiet disposition and not desirous to involve himself in another War gave him such satisfaction as contented him upon his sending complaints to Madrid preferring the Quiet of his Kingdoms before a Punctilio of Honour Which so puffed up the Frenchman that he had a great Mind to be Quarrelling with England and not well knowing how to begin he pitched upon a peremptory demand of Dunkirk that was then in the Hands of King Charles II. This Demand was looked upon by the French themselves as so Extravagant that they could not imagine the English would hearken to the delivery of a place gained with the loss of the Life 's of so many brave Men and

which of these Turks they ought most to fear Though Lewis XIV out of a seeming pretence for the House of Austria had made an offer to assist the Emperor but this was only shadow as appeared afterwards by his violent falling upon the Spanish Netherlands whereby the Forces of the King of Spain were hindered from Assisting in the common Cause And although most of the Princes of Europe used their Interest with him though all Christendom in a manner lay at stake nothing would prevail till he perceived the Turks could not effect what they purposed For in the Year 1683 they were totally Routed and beat off from the Siege of Vienna the principal City of Austria when it was at the last Crisis and could have held out but a few days longer It is no wonder that the Jesuits who on all Hands are detested and accounted the Incendiaries of Christendom by the moderate Roman Cotholicks have so great an Influence in France since Father Maimburgh and Father La Chese have had so great an Influence over Lewis XIV to whose fiery Spirit they labour to add Fuel and plunge him into Cruelty without Remorse or distinguishing Protestants from Roman Catholicks And these were the blessed pair that laid the Foundation of the Misery of his Subjects of the Reformed Religion by persuading him That by Rooting the Protestants out of his Kingdom he would render himself greater than his Ancestors who were never able to accomplish that matter and that if he could bring it to pass it would render his Name Immortal in the Roman Kalendar And no doubt as many Instances affirm these Locusts who seek to devour every thing that is pleasant have had as great an Influence in the Ruine of the Neighbouring Roman Catholicks For from the Wideness of his Conquests they could not but promise to themselves great Advantage where they have so great an Influence over the Conqueror as to have his very Conscience in their keeping and dispose We have not of late heard that any like Father Ante have reproved him for Exorbitancy of Lust or other Vices but rather encouraged him therein that they might reap the profit at the Price of his Eternal State And of this we may give some hints as we find it in a Letter that has of late been frequently Printed and held to be Authentick sent from La Chese Confessor to the French King to Father Edmund Petre late Great Almoner to King James II. though fatal in his Counsels to the repose of that unfortunate Prince Wherein amongst other matters undertaking to give the Jesuit directions to put forward affairs by his Counsels Interest and Power with King James and others great at Court he thus proceeds Most Reverend Father TO satisfie the desire I have to show you by my Letter the Choice you ought to make of such persons fit to stir up c. I will in few words since you desire it inform you of the Genius of the people of our Court of their inclinations and of them we make use of that by a Parallel you make between them and your English you make use of you may know them Therefore I shall begin with the Chief I mean our Great Monarch It is certain he is naturally Good and loves not to doe Evil unless desired to doe it This being so I may say he never would have undertaken the Conversion of his Subjects without the Clergy of France and without our Society's Correspondence abroad He is a Prince Inlightned who very well observes what we put him upon is contrary to his Interest and that nothing is more opposite to his great Designs and his Glory he aiming to be the Terrour of all Europe The vast number of Malecontents he has caused in his Kingdom forces him in time of Peace to keep up three times more Forces than his Ancestors did in the greatest Domestick and Foreign Wars which cannot be done without prodigious Expence The Peoples Fears also begin to lessen as to his aspiring to an Vniversal Monarchy and they may assure themselves he has left those Thoughts nothing being more opposite to his designs than the method we enjoin him His Candour Bounty and Toleration to the Hereticks would undoubtedly have opened the door of the Low Countries Palatinate and other States of the Rhine and even of Switzerland whereas things are at present so altered that we see the Hollanders at present free from any fear of Danger the Switzers and City of Geneva resolved to lose the last drop of their Blood in their defence Beside some Diversions we may expect from the Empire In case we cannot hinder a Peace with the Turks Sir His Majesty's Brother is always the same I mean he takes no notice of what passes at Court It has sometimes happened the King's Brothers have acted so as to be noted in the State But this we are sure will never do any thing to stain the Glory of his Submission and Obedience and is willing to lend a helping hand for the Destruction of the Hereticks by the Instance he makes to his Majesty who now has promised him to cause his Troops to enter the Palatinate the next Month. The Dauphin is passionately given up to Hunting and little regards the Conversion of Souls and therefore we do not care to Consult him how or which way the Hereticks shall be destroyed He openly laughs at us and slights all the Designs of which the King his Father makes great Account The Letter goes on to Characterize the Dauphiness in her witty Humour and Hatred to the Protestants as likewise Monsieur Lovois the Archbishop of Paris and others who labour to Agrandize Lewis XIV by following the Methods of the Society of Jesuits who have always been held the Foxes with Fire-Brands at their Tails who have laboured to promote Violence War and Bloodshed in all Places where they come Henry IV. Banished them France and demolished their Houses for setting one of their Pupils to kill him in his Presence-chamber amidst his Nobles because he would not hearken to their Counsels but detested their pernicious Ways Yet knowing them to be Sycophants fraught with Malice and Revenge after he had frustrated many of their Attempts that great Prince who had faced Death in all its Shapes fearing their wicked Purposes thought fit to make fair Weather with them and to recall them which being opposed by a Lord of his Council who alledged how pernicious they were in all Kingdoms States and Governments the King passionately broke out into this Expression viz. Secure me my Life then And indeed this King who had remained safe in forty Battels found his Death as has been said in the midst of his Capital City amongst his Friends and Guards Nor could the Obstinacy of the Assassinate and Paricide denote any thing else but that he was set on by these Men. For Raviliack the bloody Actor neither sought to fly nor excuse the Fact nor when his Flesh was plucked off with hot

had an Influence upon hindering the Cardinal of Furstemburgh whom he says he for many Reasons was bound to Influence and Protect from being Invested in the Electorate of Cologne And for this Reason and no other given he declares War against them by Sea and Land commanding his Subjects to fall upon them forbidding Trade or Commerce upon pain of Death and Revokes all Pasports and Safe Conduct c. By this we may see that he bore himself mightily upon the Election of that Cardinal whom not only a great part of the Roman Clergy but the Pope himself looked upon as an Enemy to the Church By which it may appear That the French King's Pretensions to Support him tended only to sinister Ends and hopes by this means to annex that Electorate to the Crown of France Upon this Declaration contrary to the Law of Nations a Guard was set upon the Dutch Ambassador which obliged the States General to do the like upon Monsieur d' Avaux by which means an Exchange was made and either of them permitted to return And now though in the depth of Winter the French were abroad ravaging the Country and although this King had not declared against Spain yet a great Impost was laid on Goods to be brought out of the Spanish Netherlnads But perceiving the Confederate Armies drawing together in great Bodies he caused several of the Towns he had possessed himself of in the Palatinate to be slighted and many Dismantled or Demolished the Souldiers requiring great Summs of the Inhabitants to save them from plundering Yet many after they had paid what was demanded had their Goods taken away and their Persons miserably misused To retaliate in some Measure these Proceedings the Governour of the Spanish Netherlands laid an Impost upon Wines and Brandy of which when the Mareschal complained his Excellency told him He could not but wonder that his Master having done the like on the Goods of that Country he should find any Reason to complain The Emperor moreover commanded the French Envoy to leave Vienna and the Plenepotentiary of Ratisbone Prince Clement of Bavaria refused to see the French Minister sent to Complement him because he denied to give him the Style of Elector and those Canons of the Electorate were commanded to leave him and return to their Dignities on pain of being Dispossessed and of incurring Excommunication Whereupon the Cardinal in a Pet made a new Protestation against the Pope's Proceedings touching the Electorate of Cologne Whilst these things were doing the French Troops quitted Heylbourn after having Plundered it blown up the Gates and part of the Walls carrying with them four Hostages for the payment of Fifty thousand Crowns laid as a Tax They likewise flighted Offemburgh demolished Manheim and burnt Oberadt with the Villages belonging to that City declaring they would burn and destroy all the Places of the Palatinate and Electorate of Mentz except Philipsburgh And indeed the whole Country at a distance seemed in the Night time for some space but one Fire the Villages and Towns every where flaming which shew how little Lewis XIV notwithstanding his specious Pretences regards the Peace and Tranquillity of Europe this way of burning being altogether a Turkish Fashion which is not for his Glory to imitate These Proceedings made the Swisses that were in the French Service in the Electorate of Cologne quit it declaring They could not fight against the Empire and thereupon the Cardinal sent to the French Court for more Assistence to secure Bonne the Cittadel of Liege was commanded to be blown up and accordingly performed except one Bastion and its Works and although the Castle of Montjoy Surrendered upon good Articles the Soldiers contrary to Faith given were made Prisoners of War and slighting Huy they blew up the Walls and either destroyed or much defaced all the Places in the Diocese except Chinay which they Garrisoned On the 12th of February 1688. the States of the Empire assembled at Ratisbone having taken into their Consideration the Mischief the French had done contrary to the Truce of Twenty Years concluded at Nimeguen proceeded to give their Resolutions to stand by the Emperor and assist him with all their Forces for the suppressing the Disturber of Christendom setting forth at large their Resentments of his Proceedings Upon this and the like Resolution the French bethought themselves of slighting Heydelburgh and Frankendale and Fortified Mentz Bonne and such other Places as they conceived tenable And now the States of Holland finding the French Men of War and Privateers had taken many of their Merchants and that open Hostilities were begun proceeded to proclaim War against France and accordingly a Declaration of War was published at the Hague and at other Places setting forth That considering the French King had openly broke the Treaties and Peace conluded without any just Reason or manner of cause and had declared War against them on groundless Pretences they find themselves constrained to make a publick Declaration of War against France And towards the Conclusion they strictly command viz. 1. That none of the Inhabitants of this State or any Foreigner residing within their Territories shall Transport any thing to France that is prejudicial to the State 2. That all Counterband Goods that shall be taken going to France shall be declared Prize 3. That good Security shall be given by all Persons carrying any Goods out of these Countries that they are not designed for France 4. That all Ships laden with Counterband Goods that shall be found on the French Coast shall be taken for good Prize 5. That all Ships ought to have lawful Pasports 6. The Men of War not to molest any Ships having such Pasports and not bound with Counterband Goods to the Ports of France 7. That such as shall be offending herein shall be punished with Confiscation of Ship and Goods 8. That the Commanders of the Ships of War shall punctually govern themselves in this matter according to the Treaties made in relation thereto with other Kings Princes and States 9. That the Admiralties shall have the Cognizances of these Offences 10 11 12. The Money arising by such Confiscations shall be disposed of as has been practised in like Cases and as to the Seizures c. Former Placates to be observed 13. None of the Inhabitants of this State shall Insure any French Ships or Goods or others bound to France on Penalty of forfeiting the Summ Insurred The Confederates being early Abroad this Spring the French had not so good Success as the former For the Brandenburgh Forces defeated a great Party of the Garrison of Nuis as likewise gave another Defeat to the Chevalier de Sourdis who came with a strong Party to the Relief of the other killing a great number in the Fight and pursuit gaining a good Booty Upon these Defeats the Castles of Lintz Nuis Zons c. surrendered and the French set Fire to and blew up many places they despaired to keep which so astonished the

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