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A47023 A theatre of wars between England and France in all the kings reigns, from the time of William the Conqueror to the conclusion of the peace, on the 10th of September, 1697 ... : with a map of England and France on a copper plate / by D. Jones. Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720. 1698 (1698) Wing J934A; ESTC R43322 51,271 110

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contrary to the Articles of Peace and 2 The contumelious Language used by King Phillip concerning his Person WILLIAM II. SUrnamed Rufus or the Red during his 12 Years and about 8 Months Reign had no Wars with France neither do we read of any just cause given to engage him thereto but he unjustly invaded Normandy then subject to his Brother Robert and disposest him of the County of Owe many Castles and some Monasteries but was in the mean time by divine Justice assaulted by his younger Brother Henry in his own Dominions and it had like to have cost him his Life for he was bore down in fight from his Horse by a valiant Knight who taking his Sword for to kill him was stop'd by the Kings crying out Hold thy hand Knave I am the King of England which words so struck the Knight with Reverence that he mounted him on another Horse and the King to recompence his Valour and Submission swore by St. Luke's Face he should be his Knight and be written in his White Book He was accidentally killed by Sir Walter Tyrell as he was Hunting in the New Forrest Anno 1100. buried at Winchester and died unlamented HENRY I. WHo for his learning was called Beauclerke was youngest Son to William the Conqueror he passing over into Normandy made War against the Earl of Anjou who kept Main against his will and this engaged Lewis the French King to take part with the latter whereupon ensued many sore Battles both in France and Normandy between them with various success at length taking Anjou's Daughter for Wife to his Son William Peace was concluded But it will not be amiss to give the Reader a tast of the high Spirit and Resolution of this King in a personal quarrel he had in France In his fathers life time he accompanying his eldest Brother Robert into that Kingdom while the latter associated himself with the then French King Henry according to the suitableness of their years took up with the company and divertisements of the Dauphine and being one Evening at Chess together the Dauphine happened to lose a considerable summ of Money to the Prince at that Game whereat the former grew so enraged that after some reproachful Language he struck the Prince who not brooking the high affront with the Chess-board knocks the Dauphine fairly down to the ground and being intent to pursue his Revenge his Brother Robert fortunately came in and minding him of the danger away they both fled and with great hast and difficulty recovered the next part of Normandy before their pursuers could reach them This King made his Exit as his Father before him in Normandy in the Year 1135. after he had reigned 35 Years and 4 Months The cause of this War we have before assigned to wit the King of France's taking part with Anjou against Henry STEVEN KIng of England was Son to Adella a Daughter of William the Conqueror and Nephew to the two last Kings he laid claim to the Kingdom of England in the year 1135 notwithstanding his Oath to Mawd the Empress and Daughter to Henry the First to the contrary wherefore without looking abroad into France for any Wars his whole Reign which was Eighteen Years and about ten Months was in a manner taken up in intestine Broils and Contests about his right to the English Crown wherein he was stiffly opposed by several Nobles and by the said Empress Mawd and her Son Henry afterwards Henry the 2d whom she bare to Geoffrey Plantagenet Earl of Anjou and Duke of Normandy from whence sprang the Noble Family of the Plantagenets that so long governed England he was once made Prisoner at Bristol and at last notwithstanding he had Children of his own was forced to adopt Henry for his Son and Heir and the Nobles sware fealty to him accordingly HENRY II. SOn of Mawd and Geoffrey Plantagenet as aforesaid at the Age of Three and Twenty Years and even in the life time of his Mother under whom he claimed began his Reign over England in the Year 1154. This Prince notwithstanding his Domestick Troubles and famous Atchievements against the Welch and his conquest of a great part of the Kingdom of Ireland so as he was the first of our English Kings that was stiled the Lord of that Country yet found opportunity to make War in France upon several occasions the Allyance he had made with the French Court by the Marriage of his Son Henry to King Lewis his Daughter Margaret proving rather an incitative to Contention and Discord then a bond of Peace and Amity The famous city of Tholouse was chiefly the seat of this War which was once and again bravely Assaulted by King Henry and as vigorously defended by Lewis In his first Expedition against this Place he was accompanied with Malcolm King of Scots a Welch King and with others of highest Rank and Dignity in England Normandy Aquitain Anjou and Gascoigny during his second expedition in France the Earls of Bulloign and Flanders with 600 sail of Ships attempted to make a Descent into England but their undertaking proved frustrate and abortive through the vigilance Courage and Prudence of Richard Lacy who then Governed England This King is famous or rather infamous in History for the many base Children he had being no less then 19 in Number for his fair Concubine Rosamond for whom he built that celebrated Labyrinth at Woodstock the recesses whereof could not be penetrated into but by insuperable jealousie the Queen as it was said by the help of a clew of Thread finding of her out at last and so used her that she lived not long after and no less to be mentioned for the troubles he met with from that proud Prelate Thomas a Becket to whose shire after his Murder much blind Devotion has been paid even by the greatest Potentates Tho his Son Henry who was crowned King in his life time and dyed before him gave him much disturbance yet when he found after his death that others and particularly his Son John conspired against him he was so strucken with grief that cursing his Son and the day of his own Birth he died July 6. 1189. Aged 61 having reigned 34 Years and almost seven Months The causes of the War were That King Lewis did incite the Prince his Son against the laws of Nature to oppose Henry his Father in the war time Lewis had promis'd upon the word of a King to meet him in order to a Treaty but he failed for his own Advantage whereupon Henry being sensible of the Fraud sought him out with his Army and made him give ground thereupon another interview being appointed betwixt Terwyn and Arras Histories relate that as the two Kings were busie in Conference there fell a clap of Thunder between them and meeting the next day the like accident happen'd which struck a Consternation in both Armies and inclined the Kings the more to an accommodation RICHARD I. WHo for his Valour was
lives of the Inhabitants saved and all to depart where they pleased excepting the Governour and fifty more such as the Duke of Guise should appoint to remain Prisoners and be put to ransom thus the good Town of Calais after it had been in the hands of the English for the space of 200 and 10 Years for it was taken by Edward III. after a Siege of Eleven Months in 1347. was lost in less then a Fortnight till which time we had the Keys of France at our Girdles and so 't was believed Queen Mary resented the loss accordingly for she died soon after having said not long before that if she were opened they should find Calais at her heart some feints were made for the repairing of this loss for the Queen equipped out a Fleet with a design to surprise Brest they landed in Conquet Road and in a short time became Masters of the Town with the great Abbey which they sacked and burnt together with diverse adjacent Villages where they found good Plunder from hence having now allarmed the Country the Admiral judged it not convenient to pursue their enterprise and so returned King Phillip in the mean time went on with his Wars and could not conclude a Peace though both sides seemed to desire it because he insisted stifly upon the rendition of Calais to the English which the French would by no means yield to which together with the King's absence hastned the Queens death for she departed this life at St. James's November 17th 1558. when she had reigned five Years four Months and odd days The chief ground of this War with France was the conjugal tye whereby the Queen was bound to adhere to King Phillip her Husband ELIZABETH SEecond Daughter to Henry VIII by Queen Ann Bullen succeeded her Sister Mary to the Imperial Crown of England a Princess whose vertues its impossible for me to celebrate if it were my design having advanced the glory of the English Nation both at home and abroad beyond any of her predecessors and how far short her successors have been from improving or so much as maintaining of it is evident in History but no where so well as in that celebrated piece the Detection of the 4 last Reigns c. in War she was involved almost all her Reign and had not only to do with but triumphed over the proudest Monarchy then in Europe I might say in the World I mean that of Spain which however being forreign from the present design I shall not meddle with The first occasion of quarrel she had with France was in the second year of Her Reign when the French having upon the suit of the Queen Dowager of Scotland sent great numbers of Soldiers to aid and assist her against the reforming Lords Queen Elizabeth disliking such Neighbours and knowing the Queen of Scots was married and govern'd in France and began to assume the English Arms upon the humble suit of the said Lords sent them a strong reinforcement by land under the command of the Lord Grey of Wilton and at the same time dispatch'd Sir Will. Winter Vice Admiral with a Fleet of Ships for to block up Lieth the Army after some stay at Berwick pursued their March and after some usual pickering by the way and overtures of a cessation arrived before Leith which was chiefly garrisoned by French Soldiers the Place was bravely attack'd several times and wonders done by the English both by Sea and Land against it and the French omitted nothing that could be done for its defence and this continued from about the beginning of April till the latter end of June at what time the Place being very much streightned and must have yielded the Commissioners appointed for that purpose made a Peace at Edenburg which July 7th was proclaimed in the Town of Leith by vertue of which treaty the French were to depart out of Scotland except 120 and the Scottish Queen to put our o● her Title the Arms of England and Ireland c About two years after that horrid Massacre was perpetrated in France upon the poor Protestants that is so infamous in History the Popish party having leagued themselves against them which barbarity powerfully induced the Queen to assist the reformists in order to prevent their final destruction and to that purpose sent over a good band of Soldiers to New Haven in France which the Townsmen joyfully received over whom and other Forces that did arrive was constituted General the Earl of Warwick who landed here 29th of October Anno 1562. This place is remarkable in History for the long Siege it susteined through the valour of the English first came the Rhinegrave before it then the Constable of France and last of all the Prince of Conde whose united forces had in all probability been baffled had it not been for a violent Pestilence that raged within and swept away its defendants in great numbers but notwithstanding this and that the Enemies Cannon were within 26 Paces of the Town and many breaches made yet the noble Warwick with his respective Officers and Soldiers stood at the breaches to receive the Enemy if they offered to make an assault which the Constable perceiving caused a Trumpeter to sound a Parley which being accepted of the Town was surrendred upon honourable Articles after the Earl had held it Eleven Months the Perfidy of the Reformists giving also an helping hand to these misfortunes to which may be added another disadvantage in that the French had a pretence by this our aiding the Protestants to withold the surrendring of Calais after the term of 8 years whereof some were already expired About the 32th year of the Queens Reign Henry III. King of France was murdered whereupon the leaguers armed under the Duke of Main to keep Henry King of Navar then a Protestant from the Crown whom they pressed so hard upon that he was forced to flee into Diep designing from thence to get over into England but first sends to the Queen an account of his circumstances who commiserating his Condition forthwith sends him Sixty Thousand brave Soldiers under the command of the Lord Willoughby the report of whose arrivall coming to Main's Ears he suddenly raises the Siege which so animated the King that he marched out encountred and defeated his Enemy and so by degrees prevailed through the Queens good assistance from time to time both of Men and Money the Spaniards having also about this time by means of the leaguers got footing in Bretaign the Queen dispatches thither 3000 Men under the command of that thrice famous General Sir John Norris who beat them quite out of that Country about a year after my Lord Willoughby's succors arrives in France the renowned Earl of Essex with 4000 foot more some Horse and Pioneers as a further reinforcment to the King and did honourable service challenging Monsieur Villerse Governour of Roan to a single combat which he refuses and then return'd but had the mortification to have