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A89449	The chiefe events of the monarchie of Spaine, in the yeare 1639. / Written by the Marquesse Virgilio Maluezzi, one of his Majesties Councell of Warre. Translated out of th'Italian copy, by Robert Gentilis Gent.; Successi principali della monarchia di Spagna nell'anno M.DC.XXXIX. English.	Malvezzi, Virgilio, marchese, 1595-1653.; Gentilis, Robert.	1647 (1647)	Wing M355; Thomason E1161_1; ESTC R202848	79,537	217

and the Contract was voided by the not having received it within the time limited though it were made and not required and much more it not being made Shee staying as it was said for order from the most Christian King and they having as it was knowne demanded it That this clause not accomplished excluded her highnesse out of the Treaty and the King of France being included therein it severed him from his Sisters interests Shewing that his Majesties Officers also had therein committed a default by not withdrawing their Forces out of such places where they were employed in her Highnesse service because the Truce concluded in Italy with the King of Spaine did not admit of the securing any of his enemies places whence might be perceived how much they had gone beyond that which was agreed upon by entering into Susa Avigliano and Canor as if it were the same thing to exchange a Garrison and to take possession of a new one to leave the state of things as it was and to better it by the gaining of three places An act so farre from what was agreed upon that though the Dutchesse had ratified the contract and made of two parties one it could not choose but be a manifest breach He marvelled not that his Eminency had spoken nothing of Canor for having neither reason likelihood nor shew to defend the seizing upon it he would take no notice of the doing it seeing the Governour thereof had immediatly before the Truce by a Letter subscribed with his Captaines hands made an acknowledgement of it to be the Princes Cardinall and Thomas That which his Eminencie insisted upon of the like done by us by bringing in Garrisons where those of Piemont were was not as yet done And if it had it would have been a thing very different The King his Master with the Princes being but one party whereas the King of France and the Dutchesse were two That it was true Nizza had changed Lord but many dayes before the Truce But the French had bettered themselves in their Workes under the Castle of Villa Franca against and since the capitulation That the Decree published in Turin was no act of hostilitie of policie it was granted and that if it were of hostilitie it might bee done against the Dutchesse already excluded from the suspension of Armes That his Eminencie might know that the Spanish officers had observed the Truce as if it had been ratified And that the most Christian Kings Officers had broken it though it had been ratified And howsoever that the want of the ratification did debarre the most sophisticall understandings from questioning the defects of the one part and the subtilties of the other His Eminencie must excuse him if hee did not satisfie his request and that hee could not remedie the inconveniencies or understand them otherwise but that he must hinder the exchange of the sixe hundred Souldiers from Casal Nor would he doe it if the Dutchesse would ratifie and the King of France desert those places which his Officers had taken not binding them with so much rigour but that they might yet have so many dayes after the truce to amend what was past The Marquis concluded his Letter which was full of the Cardinalls praises with proffers and thankes I have herein trusting to the Readers capacitie not so farre enlarged the reasons nor unfolded them with so much spirit as the Marquis did write them Yet I have not added any thing of mine owne nor taken away any thing of the substance In the meane time the Fort of Salsa● in Spaine was set upon in foure places In the most dangerous place wrought the Count Dukes Regiment commanded by the Marquis of Mortara and Iohn d'Arza there th' enemy made out trenches sallied sprung Mines leaving nothing unattempted to hinder the designe but all in vaine When he sallied he was driven in sometimes by the one Commander sometimes by the one Commander sometimes by another still with excellent valour and by both of them first beaten into the out Dikes and afterwards from thence dislodged giving our men thereby leave to advance which they valiantly did The Governour with great care and watchfullnesse giving every one way to obtaine reputation The enemy was closely besieged without any more hopes of sallying out the Count Dukes Regiment being gotten within the Dike close to the wall to undermine it The great fall of raine hindered the worke for a time then the report of the enemies comming on to relieve it caused it to be intermitted and at last was quite given over through a deceitfull report or relation of deceived men For some being runne out of the Fort or at least dissembling as though they had forsaken it said there was not provision within to maintaine it for a weeke and that the Souldiers died for hunger They shewed some of the Bisket mouldy and stinking and added so many circumstances that the Captaines tooke the newes for certaine And to avoid the shedding of blood about a place of no great importance and because of the incommodities of rainie and cold weather the intemperatnesse of the aire which cause diseases in men and the necessity of fortifying our selves against the approching reliefe they determined to lie still till famine caused it to yeeld seeing by force it was not to bee wonne in lesse time The terme of many dayes being spent and no yeelding spoken of it was attributed to the Governours obstinacie never perceiving the deceit And one weeke passing away after another the enemy within and without still maintaining the report of the famine it was alwaies judged ill done that they had not set upon it by force and it was now thought it could never be taken Every day some precedent error was blamed and some new one committed losing time through th' opinion of having lost it I doe not affirme there was any error committed but if there were it may bee called a most fortunate one it stayd not the Conquest so long as it increased the glory of it taking away from the enemy all manner of excuse for covering his defects even of time Leaving men enow to besiege the place close they began to cast up our workes and though they were large they brought them to that perfection that there might be some hope of defending them All this worke which caused the effect of the enterprise must be attributed to the Count Duke who whilest the Generalls writ sometimes of impossibilities sometimes of difficulties with effectuall Letters shewing them it was not impossible relieving them with men engaged them to goe on with the work and made it so easie that in the end of the Siege it was almost inpregnable In Flanders the King of France his Army being divided in two parts one under the command of the Marshall of Chatiglion the other of Migliare the Cardinall Infanta opposed the first with Piccolomini and the other with the Marquis of Fuentes Few passages happened on either

that should not hinder their good order yet might you keepe backe their reliefes and provisions in those rough and narrow waies and provide as is fitting for Perpignane Out of which in my opinion it would bee good to leave some Commanders of Horse and Foot who uniting themselves with the men of the Province might upon any occasion either obstruct the enemies provisions or bring him in between those Troops and your excellencie For as it may be believed and as upon the last Orders advice is given that the Catalanes were raising forces whereof the faintest part increasing the bulk and the best strengthening Perpignane would make the enemies intentions exceeding difficult if not impossible Besides I hold it very painfull there being no provisions ready upon the Frontiers the 24th day to bring all necessary provisions from Sicas to Rivas altas for an Army which stands in want of it by reason of the great compasse which by reason of the ill way they must fetch and the short time of ten dayes which they have to worke in your Excellencie being abundantly stored with every thing for above twelve If the enemy should make his attempt by the way of Rivas altas your Excellencie would not have so much time as I think of between the one and the other action But before any such passage could bee made you would have had it by that which I have spoken of Perpignane and alwayes cut off the enemies Convoyes they being at such a distance or burne their provisions in their Magazines For it is impossible and not to be imagined that he can keep such a guard upon his provisions and other places and secure himselfe Whence shall he provide such a strong Army both in quality and quantity as might stand for seaven whole leagues in every place stronger then the body of your Excellencies to secure him from receiving a blow which may disorder him and utterly overthrow his designe I beseech your Excellencie to pardon me as Don Pietro de Toledo was wont to say if I souldiour it with so great a fouldiour who am altogether inexpert in that art I conclude Sir that we are and ought to be Gods hoping he will not forsake his cause I send your Excellency money I will also rehearse the circumstances they will seeme weake but they are necessary to lay open the great ones they will abase my stile but what is that to the purpose so they doe exalt anothers glories He did not elaborate this letter with his pen he did dictate it without any intermission not when he was quiet and farre from any noise sitting at his desk but in his coach running not imparting it to any onely dictating it to Don Antonio Carnero one of his secretaries a man of great understanding and knowledge of most unspotted fidelity and cleane hands in service attentive and infatigable I beare with them who set me out for a flatterer They see me rewarded they examine my talent and because they find no great worth they blemish it with a great vice They find me a writer of great actions they examine what they can doe and because they find it come short they call my relations fables The conciousnesse of what themselves would doe causeth them to thinke ill of him that writes that which they cannot do to misunderstand him that doth it An Historian of understanding flatters himself if he imagines he can avoid slanders He hath somewhat within him which he concealeth a great vertue and a great vice which being hid from the eyes of the vulgar when it comes to be manifested it seeming he addeth it of his own because that though it were so it was not knowne they call him if he writes of excellent good ones a flatterer if of exceeding bad ones a malicious person I would be pleasing to heare vice reproved but with modesty and vertue extolled but with moderation and its displeasing to have the secrets of vertues and vices discovered They would be willing to embrace the one and not have it knowne and to not labour for the other and yet have it imagined that they have it They heare the writers expressions blame vice wholly but in vertue praise onely the greatest and men having commonly of the one and the other and few of the latter excessively participating of the reproof which extends it selfe even to mediocrity and not of the praise which goeth onely upon the extreames on the one part they remaine ill satisfied on the other offended Upon the report of the reliefe comming out of France his Majesties Army was increased by a considerable number of Catallanes who in this occasion carried themselves cunningly and by many souldiours who having recovered their healths went to employ it in their masters service Above all others remarkeable was the arrivall of the Duke of Naccara and Maccheda not so much because he brought three hundred of the choicest musquettiers of the Fleet with him as for the person of so compleate a Gentleman who not through any other perswasion but of his own well-guided courage voluntarily came to increase it in that Army and whereas before he without feare stood expecting the enemy now fearelesse came to challenge him He put himselfe in the regiment of the Count Duke under the Command of the Field Marshall Don Iohn de Arze to make himselfe famous with his pike in his hand Let it be a sufficient attestation for the nobility of his bloud that I have named him Of the great endowments of his person the relation of this action In the former are rehearsed the memories of his many illustrious forefathers and a person is set forth in whom is made the union of all those greatnesses in the latter shines modesty wisdome valour and devotion to the King and gallantnesse in serving him Th' intelligences which many wayes came out of France were That the most Christian King was resolved to have the Fort relieved That to that purpose came cut of Paris Monsieur de Poncourle Marquis of Coastin Nephew to the Cardinall of Richelieu That the old and new Forces of Languedock were appointed for that purpose soure companies of forraign Nations the Regiment of Lionnois the Regiment of guards eight which came out of Lorraine downe the Rone all the Cavallerie that was in pay the bound Nobility which was bound to come and that which came voluntary and because they should be enow for such a great enterprise there being a scarcitie of them in France they resolved to remedy it by the same way as it came taking the Baron of Bassompier out of prison for so they write him that hee might with the Duke of Luin and Marshall La Force goe to the reliefe All this rumour ended with the approach of the Vanguard within foure miles of the place the day before that which was agreed upon for the yielding of it And to th' end the default might be imputed to want of time or peradventure to the Governour

because it was not then relieved and for the former time to the Generall because he could not relieve it They did nothing at all and left it to be doubted what they would have done if they had fought But what they would have done may be knowne by what they did when they did fight before The time was long enough being foure moneths the Governour deserved commendations having before he yeilded suffered long famine deadly diseases and great mutinies The Generall was justified by the two reliefes which he attempted and by this third which was not attempted The Governour came out of the Hold according to the agreement the day of the Epiphanie The Lord would not have our King want this place to offer up that day wherin other Kings present their gifts unto him And because it should bee manifest what his Majesties directions doe operate in all enterprises what the Princes hopefulnesse begins to operate and what the Count Dukes advice had operated this could not happen upon a fittinger day then this which is his Majesties day by his preheminencie amongst Kings The Princes by his name of Balthasar and the Count Dukes by reason it was his birth day The Sunne shines not upon the birth-day of him who was borne for the greatnesse of this Monarchie nor returnes not to the place where hee was on that day or celebrates the festivall of it with a lesse favourable aspect then the conquest of a place regained with so much valour and glory There the world being spectator beheld as on a Theatre too great and terrible Provinces Spaine and France fighting a Duell not for their states but for their reputations expecting as the reward of victory the renowne of being the most valiant There with foure thousand foot and two thousand five hundred horse was the enemies whole forces set upon in their own quarters and routing them they were faine to be beholding to the darknesse of the night to not have it knowne whether they retreated or fled There in little more then an hour were assaulted gained and throwne downe their Forts halfe Moons Trenches and what ever else in so many dayes was set up about that place by French art and understanding to safeguard him from the the Spanish valour There a few forces tired with want and sickly by reason of the unseasonablenesse of the aire defended a large and weak circuit of trench against a most powerfull Army of the King of France increased in great number by the Souldiers Gentry of the adjoyning Provinces and by old regiments from far parts much reinforced There along the Poole with weake Barkes was overthrown a Convoy and a great aide overcome which the enemy had embarqued to relieve the place with victuals and Ammunition There after they had gathered together all the power of France they durst not appeare in the field being disheartened by the horror of seeing their dead companions and discouraged with the remembrance of the overthrowes they had there received Finally the Spaniards have there been alwayes conquerors a foot● a horse-back by land by water in open field or intrenched in assalting or in defending trenches Let it be knowne that nature on the one fide raines downe plenty on the other it instilleth valour to some it gives number to others solidnesse and hath imprinted the character of superiority in the breast of them who exceed in valour not in number Articles of suspension of Armes between the two Crowns The Lady Dutchesse and the Lords Princes of Savoy from the 14th of August to the 29th of October 1639. IT being judged necessary for furthering the Propositions made betweene the Dutchesse and the Princes of Savoy and to prevent the ruine of Piemont to have a Suspension of Arms betweene the two Crownes the Dutchesse and the said Princes as well in Italy as in all other her highnesse of Savoys Dominions The said Suspension was agreed upon for the publick good and quietnesse and in regard of the good offices done by th'Archbishop of St. Severina Apostolicall Nuntio untill the 24th of October next of this present yeare 1639. to give their Majesties notice thereof in the meane time and to receive an answer concerning their pleasures therein During which time all manner of hostilities shall cease on all sides and that upon the conditions following That the Cittadell of Turin shall remaine in the Dutchesse and the Frenches possession and the City of Turin in the Princes of Savoy and the Spaniards possession as they are at this present with such numbers of men as shall bee judged fit for the guarding of the said places That they both may work within the said places during the time of the said suspension or as it may be agreéd between them as shall bee appointed for the said purpose and as it shall bee set downe in the Covenants made and confirmed this present day The two Armies shall retire each to the Provinces and Townes of their owne side and into their severall Holds as more particularly it hath been covenanted and agreed in another writing beating date with these present without making any incursions or doing any other acts of hostility And if any thing should happen contrary to this Article the dammage shall be made good againe and satisfaction given upon the complaint without any breach of this suspension thereby That in such places as are possessed by the two Crownes the Dutchesse and the said Princes of Savoy none of their officers nor any other person of their partie shall without a Passport goe to places belonging to the other party nor into their Armies or much lesse into any such places as is covenanted they should retire into As concerning Casal things shall remaine in the state they are at this present and no act of hostility to be done on either side It shall be lawfull for the Field Marshalls and Officers of Justice and treasure and other Officers of the most Christian Kings Armies to goe and returne to and from the said Casal and other places of Monferrat where the said most Christian King hath any Garrison as likewise those as shall bee sent by his Majesties Generalls and Officers or such as shall be within the said places with Passes from the most Christian Kings Generalls or the Governours or any other person as shall have the command of the place from whence they shall come which Passes being shewne both at going and comming to the Governours of such places as shall be held by his Catholick Majestie and the said Princes of Savoy they shall bee tied to suffer them to goe and come freely without any lett on either side All Officers which doe not belong to the said Garrison of Casal and are not at this present in it and shall goe into it during the time of the said suspension shall be tied to come forth againe before it be ended according to the order which shall be given them so to doe by the most Christian Kings Generalls upon