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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35913	A relation of the French kings late expedition into the Spanish-Netherlands in the years 1667 and 1668 with an introduction discoursing his title thereunto, and an account of the peace between the two crowns, made the second of May, 1668 / Englished by G.H., Gent.; Campagne royale. English	Dalicourt, P.; G. H., Gent.	1669 (1669)	Wing D135; ESTC R5204	56,374	222

of only six years of age and against a Regency subordinated to the Laws of a Testator without any form of Justice or observance of the Rule of first demanding satisfaction And if your Majesty hath any pretension of dissatisfaction Reason and Justice require your Majesty should first declare and justifie them not only in particular to the Parties interessed but also to the Neighbouring Princes to the Countries in dispute and to your Majesties own Subjects since by the Law of Nature nothing can be exacted or forcibly taken from ones own Subject or Slave much less from one that is wholly innocent where the Government is ty'd up by a Regency to the prejudice of the Subjects of both Parties and of the Roman Empire by vertue of whose Laws and without whose knowledge so noble a Member as the Circle of Burgundy cannot be taken away This proceeding violates the Treaty of Munster by which as also by our Peace which was since concluded it was capitulated that in case of a Rupture the Parties concern'd should have ten moneths notice of it and infringeth the Peace of our Neighbours whose concernments will oblige them to interest themselves in a common danger Besides this your Majesty was pleased to tell the Marquis De la Fuente at his Audience of Conge That he was a Witness with what earnestness you intended to preserve the good correspondency and peace between both Crowns and that he should in your Majesties name assure the Queen my Mistress that you would continue it in the same manner and with the same good will giving likewise your Ambassadour at Madrid the same charge I leave it Sir to the consideration of your Majesty how remote it will be from the Justice Christianity and Generosity of your Majesty to attempt an Invasion without any of those Formalities and Interpositions which all Christian Princes have alwayes observed that so your Majesty as the most Christian may not introduce an Example which as it is contrary to all former ones so it may prove prejudicial to your self and your Posterity I do not desire your Majesty to prejudice your own Rights if any such you have but only that you would declare them if you pursue them nor that you should suspend the use of Force if satisfaction be denyed you but that before you begin your March or any Hostility which may render an accommodation impossible you would prevent the Mischiefs that may ensue upon it to all Christendom by giving place to a Negotiation I am firmly perswaded that the Queen my Mistress will give your Majesty all reasonable satisfaction and that she will not refuse to reason the Cause wherein both parties are interessed to the Cognisance Mediation and even the Decision of any of those that may be concerned in the mischief● the Rupture will occasion Obliging my self as soon as I know the cause and pretensions of your Majesty to give account of it to the Queen my Mistress who I doubt not to let the World see her good intention and the justice of her Proceedings will not refuse to refer her self to the judgment not of one or two only but of the whole World and in particular of all the Princes of the Roman Empire of the Crown of England supposing that your Majesty is very near a Peace with it and of the Vnited Provinces our Neighbours to the end that their joynt Plenipotentiaries may see the reasons and justifie those that have reason on their side before any advance be made by the force of Armes considering there is nothing that so far presseth you nor any danger in suspension that should be preferred before the common Interest by which each Party may justifie to the World the events which may happen This Representation Sir and Request which my Zeal alone to your Majesty hath put me upon seems to me most just as desiring that Christendom our Neighbours and common Subjects may avoid all new calamities and especially those mischiefs which may prove far greater then those that are already past before an end can be put to these Wars wherein we are going to engage our selves And I hope Sir that your Majesty will please to admit it as such and that Almighty God will put it into your Majesties heart to resolve upon an Expedient as just as it is fair and advantageous to all by letting Reason take place and having a just regard to the tender age of the King my Master giving our Neighbours the satisfaction of being Judge of the Differences between us whereby al● those Mischiefs may be prevented which a different procedure or further violence will occasion God preserve the Sacred Person of your most Christian Majesty as I desire Brussels May 14. 1667. A RELATION Of the French Kings Late Expedition into FLANDERS Anno Dom. 1667 and 1668. THe flame of a new War being begun to be kindled between the two Crowns in the Year 1667. And finding my self without imployment in the new-raised Army I thought I could not fit my self with a more honourable and more profitable way of bestowing my time during the Campagne of this year then to set down in writing the Passages thereof to the end I might not be reduced as I have often been during the space of seventeen or eighteen years spent in his Majesties Troops to ransack my memory in vain for such things as I had a mind to remember I take not upon my self to make an exact description of the State of affairs at that time my design being to compose a Journal and not a History Neither do I think fit to display the Queens Title to the Netherlands since the righteousness thereof hath been authentically enough made out by the Manifesto published by his Majesty concerning the same It shall be sufficient for me to relate in a plain manner and without all affected Ornament of Style what I saw my self and what I received by information from others The Peace which was Treating at Breda between England France and Holland was at the point of conclusion when the King who had suffered eighteen or twenty months to pass since the death of Philip the fourth King of Spain thereby to allow time to the Queen Dowager to give him satisfaction in a fair way in reference to his pretentions to several Provinces of the Low Countries as he had given her to understand as well by sundry Letters as by frequent instances of his Ambassador in the Spanish Court astonisht all his Neighbours and surprised most part of his own Subjects by giving order in the months of March and April that almost all the Forces design'd by his Majesty to serve in this Expedition should advance to the Frontiers of Champaigne and Picardy under pretence of making great Musters as he had accustom'd to do for some years past wherein all the Regiments and Companies both of Horse and Foot were used to encampe as exactly and regularly as if they had been in open War and in the midst of his