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A27415	The compleat history of the warrs of Flanders written in Italian by the learned and famous Cardinall Bentivoglio ; Englished by the Right Honorable Henry, Earl of Monmouth ; the whole work illustrated with many figures of the chief personages mentioned in this history.; Della guerra di Fiandra. English	Bentivoglio, Guido, 1577-1644.; Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing B1910; ESTC R2225	683,687	479

those that assailed them and came the better to where their help was required They also soon discerned that they were all false Alarms that were given without and that the true Assault was made only in one place To this was added that Count Bucquoy not finding the water of the aforesaid Channel so low as he believed he could by no means pass over them Yet the Catholicks did for a long time continue their assault but the Defendants advantages still increasing the Assailants were at last forced to give over with great loss for there were above 600 slain and wounded part of them being Gambaloita's men who was slain himself and part belonging to Durango who was sorely wounded Nor did those within let slip the occasion of prejudicing yet more the Catholicks as they retreated For plucking up some of their Sluces by which they both received the Sea-water into their ditches and let it out again they turned the water with such violence into the Channel which the Catholicks had passed over before they came to the assault and which they were to pass over again in their retreat as many of them were unfortunately drowned John Bentivoglio Knight of St. John's Order our Brother who was but a little before come from Italy after having served the Emperor some years in Hungary was in this action and therein gave such trial of himself as the Archdukes not long after honoured him with a Company of Lances The year 1602. was already begun and with so bitter cold weather as many advised the Archduke to give over the siege of Ostend as a business which might be despaired of But he would not be perswaded thereunto thinking the Kings honour and his own too much engaged not to continue that siege still and bring it to a good end Wherefore he resolved to raise a great Platform in St. Alberto's quarter which might command the Town as much as might be possible on that side and gave new orders that Bucquoy should from St. Charls his Fort advance with all possible speed that great Bank which was designed to command the Channel of Bredene as we touched upon before Having given out these directions and leaving the Spanish Campmaster John di Rivas a valiant and well experienced Souldier to have the chief government of the Siege the Archduke retired to Gaunt to make such provisions against the Enemy as were requisite who on their side made very great preparations that they might be early in the field with great Forces The Treaty of Agreement which had been formerly on foot and almost at the same time broken as we told you then between the King of Spain and the Archduke on the one part and the Queen of England on the other was this interim continued by many means Great desire of coming to some good correspondencie appeared on both sides And the Queen being now very full of years did particularly shew her self every day more and more inclined thereunto When in March she fell very sick of which sickness she dyed after she had lived 70 years and reigned 4● Thus dyed Elizabeth Queen of England and Ireland who so much afflicted the Church and who so long and by so many wayes fomented the War which we describe She was Daughter to King Henry the Eighth by Queen Anne of Boloign After the death of her Father being bred up in Heresie she was much made of by her Brother King Edward the Sixth who was likewise a Follower of the new Sects which were formerly introduced by his Father But Queen Mary who soon restored the antient Religion succeeding him Elizabeth ran hazard of her life and was either imprisoned or confined all her Sisters Reign who dying without issue the Crown came to Elizabeth The marriage of her Father with Anne of Boloign was always detested by the Catholick Church wherefore she openly maintained Heresie and persecuted the Catholicks And to secure her self the better in her Kingdom she was not content to favour Heresie in her own Dominions but still joyned with the Heretical Factions of Scotland France Germany and Flanders endeavouring thus to keep her neighbouring Countries still in turmoils that she might be the more quiet at home For what remains it is not to be denyed that by Common opinion such gifts both of body and minde concur'd in her as would have been worthy of the highest praise had she so much illustrated them by the true Religion as she did eclipse them by false worship a comliness of Aspect graceful behaviour weight in her words or a winning speech and a pleasing greatness both in her private and publick actions She was endowed with a rare understanding and wit which made her be a great friend to learning to the choicest and most delightful whereof she applyed her self she was particularly so ready in the Latin tongue as she was often pleased publickly to make use thereof and therein to receive the applause of the most learned in both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge it may be no marriage was ever more coveted then hers Many Princes in several parts of Europe did for a long time strive to be her husband hoping that the refusal of the one might facilitate the pretences of another and she very cunningly still nourished hopes in them and endeavoured divers waies to honest her excuses thinking her self so much more worthy by how much the more she was pretended unto Coming at last to her declining years those seeming appearances ended and then it was clearly seen that she being full of haughty thoughts not caring for issue would never receive a Companion in her Bed because she could not admit of a Companion in her Throne She exercised her greatest enmities with the Pope of Rome and King of Spain as may have been seen in this our History she kept good correspondencie with all the other Potentates of Europe and was by the most of them continually much honoured She was a woman of a manlike spirit infinitely intent upon Government and desirous of retaining the chief hand in managing thereof as she had the prime authority Great were her expences both within and without her Kingdom It is not to be credited how much she spent at home especially in keeping England well munited with Naval forces being ofttimes used to say That her well arm'd ships in that Island were her Armies and her Citadels She enjoyed good health and that so long as none of her Predecessors lived so long as she and but few reigned so long And although she detested the Queen of Scots whom at last she put to death yet she was pleased that her Son King James who was likewise fallen into Heresie should succeed her and unite the Island of England and Scotland into one body which whilst divided had formerly for so many Ages been cause of so many discords wars and calamities on both sides THE HISTORY OF THE WARS OF FLANDERS Written by CARDINAL BENTIVOGLIO The Third Part. BOOK VII

the Provinces of Flanders were under the Government thereof Nor was this a bare Union between Prince and Prince but it extended from Nation to Nation and almost from private man to private man so great were the considerations both of neighbourhood Traffick and the conformity of Government and of all other Interests to make both peoples as it were but one and the same Every concern being then so united between the Flemish and the English how could I abandon those and not abandon these Nothing is more just then to defend the oppressed nothing more becoming a regal condition then to take such into protection And if the most remote people may merit such a favour how much more may our neighbours desrve it and those between whom and us there is so near a conjunction Nor ought the Flemish to be ere a whit less assisted by me out of justice then out of conveniency You see whether the vastness of the Spanish Empire is arrived And how much more this Kingdom in particular is now indangered by the addition of the Crown of Portugal thereunto The designe of oppressing Flanders is apparently seen to the end that such Forces both by land and by sea may be planted there as may serve to make Spain impose what Laws it shall please both upon the North and West In this case England and Ireland being incompassed therewith why may we not fear that they may suffer the like evils as Flanders should have done So as by my succouring of those Provinces I pretend to have at the same time secured my own Dominions Here it is that the King of Spains shoe wrings him and hence it is that he accounts that an injury which I have done in mine own necessary defence And could I appear more moderate then in refusing the Soveraignty which the United Provinces did so freely and unanimously offer me And yet how justly may I complain of so many injuries done to me by him What hath he not endeavoured to make Ireland rebel against me What are his continual machinations to the same purpose with the Catholicks in England and what doth he not in all other parts in hatred to my Kingdoms and to my person It may then be safely concluded that he now makes open war up on me not out of any true reason but out of a false pretence and that his true end is to in vade this my Kingdom and to endeavour by all the power he hath to get the Dominion of it I therefore summon and exhort you my faithfull Subjects to the defence thereof to the defence I say of a Kingdom which is more yours then mine I being more yours then mine own The marriage from whence I derive was established by Parliament by the Authority of Parliament was I brought to the succession of the Crown which I wear The Religion which I follow is imbraced by the Parliament I have acknowledged the Parliament to be my Father and as I may say have taken the Parliament for my Husband For I have forborn marriage to avoid bringing of a foreign Prince hither who by new Customs and imperious demeanours might trouble not so much my own quiet as the common happiness of the Kingdom By the miseries of Flanders it may be comprehended what those of England would be if the Spaniards should enter here We should soon see new Tribunals of Inquisition new yokes of Citadels new Laws new burthens new Customs horror cruelty and violence every where I know you would not willingly fall into this condition and that to keep from doing so you will of your selves do all that lies in your power This consists chiefly in providing such subsidies as so great an occurrency requires Wherefore I beseech you to give them so as that the preparations on our side may justly counterpoise those which the enemy doth by so many ways order on his behalf For what remains every one knows what advantage the assaulted hath over those that do assail We shall particularly have the advantage very much by defending a Kingdom to which the sea serves for a Bulwark on all sides With our Forces those of our Confederates in Flanders will joyn and all the Northern parts will unite themselves with us when they shall see this new designe of the Spaniards to invade England after having endeavoured so cruelly to oppress Flanders I the mean while who may term my self no less your servant then your Queen will perform what it becomes me to do and though a woman rest confident you shall find a manly spirit in me And that I will cheerfully incounter death if it shall be requisite so to end my life upon so worthy an occasion The Queen was indued with a very great wit and with almost all sorts of learning which she had particularly studied in her younger years And by reason of her then great age and the opinion which was had of her singular gift of Government she was generally no less reverenced then beloved by her Subjects Wherefore it is not to be exprest what affection her Parliament shewed towards her and what indignation against the King of Spain in their answer She was assured by both the Houses that in her service and the service of the Kingdom they would spend both their fortunes and their lives and that they would be as ready to give Subsidies as she had been in desiring them To this their disposition of will the universal diligence of effects did soon correspond Exact Guards were forthwith put into all the Ports of the Kingdom Many men were raised for the Fleet by sea and to make two Armies also on land The one under the Earl of Leicester who was sent for back into England by the Queen and the other under the Lord Hunsdon who was likewise very much esteemed of in the Military profession Leicester was chiefly to defend the banks of the Thames which runs through London and to keep the Spanish Fleet from entring thereinto And Hunsdon with his Army which was the greater was to keep more within land and to guard the City of London and the person of the Queen All this while the aforesaid Treaty of agreement in Flanders was continued by their Commissioners between the King and Queen But this Treaty suddenly vanisht For the Spanish Fleet being ready to put to Sea and such preparations as were needfull being likewise made in Flanders the King would no longer defer the execution of his design The Fleet consisted as it was generally reported of 160 Sail of Ships most of them Men of War the rest were for Carriage They were almost all of them Galleouns except some Galleasses and Gallies which were to be rowed upon any occasion The Galleouns were like so many Castles in the Sea they had high Towers in their Fore and Hinder-Deck their Masts were of an unmeasureable greatness their bodies were of a vast bulk and the very least of them bore no less then 50 great Guns 22000 Foot and

incouraged for that he saw his Authority and power did daily increase in France He therefore proclaimed War against the King of Spain and endeavoured by a bitter Declaration to invite all his Subjects to the War Nor was it long ere another contrary manifesto came from Flanders wherein the King of Spain indeavoured to justifie all that he had done in order to the affairs of France And some other Declarations were added which were requisite upon such an occurrence War being thus declared between the two Kings the greatest designs of both sides were turned towards the Frontiers of France and Flanders The King of France had sent the Duke of Bullion with good Forces a little before into the Country of Lucemburg Wherein the United States did likewise joyn with a certain number of horse and foot on their behalfs Wherefore Bullion having soon won the Towns of Frette Yvois which lay nearest the Frontiers of France he marched further into the Country pillaging and preying upon that Province in hostile manner At the same time the States took likewise the Town of Huy in the Country of Liege that they might advance nearer the Confines of France on that side and in the mutual communication of their designs communicate their Forces also the easilier The Town of Huy lies upon the Mause with a Bridg which expedites that passage and a Castle eminently seated which commands the Town The Town belongs to the Bishoprick of Liege and till this time had always enjoyed Neutrality between the Kings Forces and the adverse party as all the rest of that Country had likewise done Ernestus the Elector of Bavaria enjoyed that Bishoprick together with the Archbishoprick of Colen The invasion being made he applied himself to the United States for the restitution of that Town which was taken But his endeavours proving vain he had afterwards recourse to the Kings forces to which he promised to joyn his also that such a novelty might be the sooner remedied The Archduke was no less moved upon this occasion nor less ready on his part to remedy it And he being dead Count Fuentes appear'd to be of the same mind He therefore and 't was his first action sent Monsieur de la Motte with good Forces to recover Huy which were quickly augmented by those which the Elector added unto them La Motte being come near the Town began to play upon it and within a few dayes took it and reduced the State of Liege into total security He being afterwards sent for back by Count Fuentes to Brussels who intended to imploy him elswhere Colonel Verdugo was sent by the Count with a great strength of men to free the Country of Lucemburg from the excursions made by the French and to recover the Towns which Bullion had taken Verdugo went thither and did so handle the French as making them first forsake the field he made them afterward quit the Country and the Towns which they had taken The King of France his Forces were then chiefly turned upon the Dukedom of Burgony to take it from the Duke Du Mayn To the defence whereof as also of the County of Burgony which was likewise threatned by the King the Constable of Castile Governour of Millan was come with very gallant Forces from Italy Fuentes had thought to have sent Verdugo thither also with some assistance from Flanders But he dying at that time it could not be effected In him the Spanish Nation lost one of the most valiant and best experienced Commanders in War that was then in all those Provinces Wherein he had served the King of Spain little less then ●0 years And passing through all the degrees of the Militia he had still shewed himself most worthy in the last and particularly most in such as required either greater vigilancy in command or greater wisdom in advice He commanded the Kings Forces with great authority a long time on the further side of the Rhine with much variety of acquisitions and losses till that the Spanish Forces being diverted too much in France the Kings own affairs in Flanders were brought to too bad a condition Count Fuentes being freed from that diversion which the enemy had occasioned in the Countries of Liege and Lucemburg and leaving Colonel Mandragone well furnished with forces thereabouts he applyed himself wholly to the Frontiers of Picardy resolving to go thither himself accompanied with a great strength of men and to advantage the Kings affairs there as much as he could Count Charls Mansfield did formerly command the Kings Flemish Forces which were upon that Frontier as hath been often said But he being gon into Germany to serve the Emperour against the Turk in the VVars of Hungary the Archduke before he died had substituted the Marquis of Barambone in his place who was Governour of Artois which joyns upon Picardy VVho being entred into that Province had overrun it in divers parts and taken Anker and some other Towns all but of small importance He afterwards returning into his own Province had sent Monsieur di Rone in his place of whom and whose Military worth mention hath been often made already He was one of the chief of the League of France but resolving at last actually to establish himself in the King of Spains Service he was received thereunto and had a great stipend allowed him and was made Campmaster General of the Army VVherefore the command of those parts being past into his hands he went thither and made likewise some small acquisitions The Spring was by this time over and Count Fuentes did no longer delay to prepare for putting his designs into execution He desired above all things to take the City of Cambray from the French and to reduce it as formerly it was under the particular Authority of the King of Spain In the revolutions of Flanders soon after the death of Don John that City was fallen into the hands of the Duke of Alanson as was then said Alanson at his death left the Queen his mother heir to those parts which he could pretend to by such an acquisition and she had confirmed the Government of Cambray and of the Castle and Territory of Cambresis upon Signor di Baligni who had the same charge whilst Alanson lived Nor did Baligni omit to make use of the present conjuncture of times by becoming as it were absolute Lord of that City and of all that depended upon the Dominion thereof He having always wrought his advantage on both sides during the troubles of France and Flanders had brought that Country into a condition as it were of neutrality Yet upon all occurrences he lean'd much more to the French where his acquisition might cause less jealousie and consequently receive more protection But the King of France his affairs bettering every day in that Kingdom and especially upon that Frontier Baligni had condescended to put the City of Cambray under the direct dominion of the King reserving unto himself the usefull part