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B23787	China and France, or, Two treatises the one, of the present state of China as to the government, customs, and manners of the inhabitants thereof ... from the observation of two Jesuites lately returned from that country, written and published by the French Kings cosmographer and now Englished : the other, containing the most remarkable passages of the reign and life of the present French King, Lewis the Fourteenth, and of the valour of our English in his armies.	Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712. Viaggio del P. Giovanni Grueber tornando per terea da China in Europa. English.; Grueber, Johann, 1623-1680.; Orville, Albert, comte d', 1621-1662.; Thévenot, M. (Melchisédech), 1620?-1692.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2163	63,324	224

Turenne la Ferté and Hocquincourt had orders to hazard all rather then to suffer this great City to fall into their hands When they had called a Council of War they resolved to attack the Lines and Trenches which they did with much resolution in the night the 24 and 25 days of August Hocquincourt entered first into the Enemies Camp through the Troops of the Duke of Lorraine but he was beaten back with a great slaughter of his Men the other Commanders relieved and seconded him So that at last the Spaniard was forced to leave his Trenches with some loss of Men of Ammunition and Baggage For the Governor of the Town sallied out at the same time and received so much assistance that the Enemy despaired of being able to gain the Walls The Spanish General preserved his Army by a seasonable retreat which was managed with that prudence and courage that he hath worthily deserved the admiration of his Enemies The King went to visit his Camp and Army immediately after this Siege was raised to encourage and reward his brave Soldiers In Catalonia also the Prince of Conti had some success in taking Conflans and Cerdagne from the Spaniard About the beginning of the Spring 1655. Landrecy Maubeuge Condé and St. Guilham submitted themselves again to the French Monarchy Thus these small places were often taken and retaken by the Armies of Spain and France At every advantage in the Field these weaker Towns of no resistance were forced for their preservation to prefer their Safety to their Loyalty and to side with the strongest party In this year there was a League Offensive and Defensive made between Cromwel and Mazarin against Spain upon conditions disgraceful to the King and Court of France Monsieur Bourdeaux sollicited his Masters Affairs so notably that he got that Arch-Rebel to send over in the beginning of the Spring 1656. an Army of stout Soldiers commanded by Reynolds For although France abounds in Men it is wont to make use of the valor of its Neighbors in all Wars against strangers For it hath been found by experience that the French are good for the first Onset but cannot abide nor weather so many discouragements as the English Scotch and Switzers can in War besides their Foot are not to be compared to ours Therefore they may ascribe their most difficult Conquests to their Money and to the English Scotch Irish and Switzers valor as we shall see in several late Encounters with the Hollanders and Imperialists The year 1656. was noted for the remarkable Siege of Valanciennes where the French received an overthrow and were forced to quit the place but afterwards they took Cappelle and Valencia in Italy In the beginning of the Campagne 1657. Montmedy was besieged by la Ferté the King himself went thither after that the Succors which were intended for a relief were happily routed Afterwards the City yielded to his Majesty and opened its Gates to receive him on the seventh of August St. Venant Bourbourg and the Fort of Mardike also were taken by Turenne Our English served him in good stead in the recovering of these places especially in storming of Mardike The attempt was not esteemed feasable by the French General who had a design rather to besiege it then to win it by an Assault But our English Commanders undertook this perillous attempt Sir Tho. Morgan now Governor of Jersey lead his Party with so much courage and resolution that they recovered the top of the Walls in an instant passing through showers of shot and fire to the great astonishment of the rest of the Army This Gentleman hath purchased to himself the name and honor of one of the bravest Soldiers of Europe And when the Spaniard ventured in the night to surprise this Fort again the English saved it beat back the Spaniard and obliged them to a speedy retreat to Dunkirk After this Turenne was employed with a Flying Party to raise the Siege of Ardres which he did with so much bravery that the Spaniard received there a considerable loss But all these Conquests were inconsiderable to those of the next year 1658. Turenne and La Ferté were the two Generals of the French and after the death of Reynolds drowned near Goodwin Sands in a small Boat in which he ventured to pass from Mardike into England my Lord Lockart then Ambassador at Paris took the charge of the English Forces The Army was commanded to besiege Dunkirk for it had been agreed between England and France that this place should be put into the English hands It was surrounded the Twenty fifth of May which when the Marquess of Leda had notice of he shut himself in with a strong Garrison resolving to defend it or die there The Siege was carried on very resolutely the English and French Armies made their approaches on a sudden so that the fear of loosing this strong place caused the Archduke to endeavor to raise the Siege by assaulting them in their Trenches Turenne confided in his own strength therefore when he heard of the Enemies approach he marched bravely out of his Camp to meet the Archduke the victory declared for the French In this encounter it was the unhappiness of the English to fight with their own Countrey-men In the Spanish Army the Noble and Couragious Duke of York a Prince of an invincible resolution was entertained by the Spaniard as one of the best Commanders of that Army That wise Nation as well knowing in Men as in Affairs would not suffer so great a Courage idle in time of War If I might have the liberty in this succinct Narration I could give an account of the most heroick actions of his Royal Highness insomuch that Turenne and the other Generals have often confessed him to be the ablest and most skilful Commander of the World His Courage and Wisdom had not that success that could have been expected at this time for the English Regiments under my Lord Lockart especially that of Colonel Alsop beat back the Spaniards and pursued them over the Sandy Hills with a great slaughter This victory was due cheifly to the courage of the English the fifteenth of June 1658. After the Retreat of the Spaniards the French Army returned to the Siege where the Marquess of Leda was killed with a Bullet After his death the Town began to listen to terms of Surrendring which were agreed on the Two and twentieth of June The King entered into the City to take possession of it afterwards he delivered it up to my Lord Lockart for the use of the English whose Blood and Valor had got it from the Enemy Bergues Furnes and Dixmuyde yielded also to the Kings Summons so did Oudenard Ypres staid for a Siege and when the Prince of Ligny had gathered the Relicks of the Dispersed Army beaten before Dunkirk he labored to raise it but was beaten off with loss by Turenne who took afterwards Menein and many other small Castles At that time La Ferté

Office that they fancied proceeded fron● her favoring of them So the Papists assign divers and differing titles to the Virgin Mary who is now become the Goddess of War amongst them and the Giver of Victory to her devout Proselites The Princes wound had cast him into an indisposition which made him follow his Majesty and accompany the Duke of Orleans the Kings Brother to Paris leaving the Conduct of Affairs to Monsieur de Luxembourgh and Turenne The Prince of Orange was then before Voërden with Twelve thousand Men Luxembourgh prepares a strong brigade of Two thousand five hundred Men and by a secret way over the Marshes he gets into the Town undiscovered with his Party with which he made such stout Sallies that the Prince was forced to rise from thence with his Army to leave some of his Baggage and Cannon behind him All this while the Dutch had scarce time to look about the French had been so nimble and furious that they had gained all this Countrey without any considerable loss But before the next Campagne the face of affairs was changed the Dutch had many Armies come to their assistance the Spaniard the German and the Imperialists sent their powerful Succors to aid them So that they have since recovered a great part of what they first lost and will according to all probability recover the rest The Prince of Orange was now restored by Order of the States after the inhumane massacre of de Wit to his Patrimonial Offices of Statholder Admiral and General of the Vnited-Provinces This generous Prince began to appear at the Head of an Army of 24000 Men with these he resolved not to be idle some places he took but did not yet dare to adventure against his insolent Enemy triumphing for so many great Successes Monterey Viceroy of the Netherlands for the King of Spain desired him to attempt something in his Countrey because the French had drained their Garrisons for the Spaniard had not declared yet against them According to this advice he laid siege to Charleroy a Fortress that was likely to annoy the Spaniard their next Neighbors Montal the Governor had notice of the design he Posts thither in haste and taking his time in the night he passed through the Dutch and Spanish Troops and got safe into the Garrison to the great joy of the besieged The next day he adventured to sally out with a strong party which was received and welcomed by the Prince of Orange with loss on both sides When the King heard of this siege he drew near to the Borders of Picardy and gave order to several thousands of his Soldiers to meet him with a design to beat the Dutch off Therefore this intelligence caused the Prince to rise with his Army the Two and twentieth day of December and depart Which was signified to the King by a Post sent from the Governor At this time Luxembourgh attempted to lead his Men over the Ice to Assault Bodengrave Swammerdam and Niverburgh which three places he took without much resistance After this the French went no further till the next Spring 1673. They were all sent into several Garrisons where we shall leave them to take notice of their behavior at Sea On the Water as well as on the Land the War was carried on The Dutch had a gallant Fleet with which they did defie the Fleets of England and France But though De Ruyter their Admiral labored by Policy to fight us and to surprise us at an advantage he was much mistaken to find our English courage in the greatest discouragement not to resist and brave Death it self His Majesty of England had been engaged to joyn his strong Fleet with the French Squadron which was commanded by the Count de Estrées Therefore the Twenty eighth of May 1672. in prosecution of the War that had been declared against the States of Holland our Fleet under the command of the brave Duke of York had a very sharp Engagement with the Dutch upon the English Coast in which the Victory declared for the English with the loss of the Royal James which was unfortunately burned and of the Earl of Sandwich who was drowned and his body found about the tenth of the next Moneth floating on the English shore He was an excellent Captain more fortunate in the Mediterranean and in the Sound then in our Channel England lamented the loss of so excellent a person It seems his courage destroyed him for when his Ship was Boarded and Fired by a Dutchman when it was surrounded by many of the Enemies best Ships His resolution to brave Death and the Enemy in the midst of the greatest disadvantages and dangers made him abide and continue the sight in his Flaming Ship Of our English Twenty four Persons of Note were killed with three of the French Amongst the rest a Gentleman so Courageous Learned Civil and so well accomplished that I cannot but mention him in this place It was Mr. Clement Cotterel Sir Charles Cotterels Son About fifteen Gentlemen were desperately wounded seven hundred Common Soldiers and Seamen killed and as many maimed Monsieur de Rabiniere tres le Bois Rear Admiral of the French was killed and buried at Rochel The Duke of York in this Engagement behaved himself as a discreet and wise Commander with an undaunted Courage It is supposed that if our whole Fleet could have had the conveniency of fighting the Dutch had been for ever undone but the Wind hindered most part of our Ships from coming up to them so that the Blew Squadron was forced to ingage with the Enemy alone The Dutch had great loss of Men and Ships it is thought about five or six of theirs besides the Fire-ships were sunk It is certain that our Fleet pursued them to their own Coast About this time the Twentieth of August 1672. hapned a most barbarous execution of the two De Wits torn in pieces by the rude rabble of the Hague their Privities cut off their Bodies dragged through the Streets and hanged at the Gallows in such a barbarous manner that the Cannibals would have been ashamed to have done the like Groningen had been besieged by the Mercenary Weather-cock of Munster but in the Moneth of August he left the Town after a considerable loss of his Men. The good Bishop was moved with compassion to see his Soldiers slaughtered by the stout-hearted Dutch so that he preferred their safety or it may be his own to the filling of his Purse with Gilders which was the thing this noble Captain aimed at in this attempt upon the Dutch The States of Holland had prevailed with many of their Neighbors especially with the Emperor King of Spain and Duke of Brandenburgh to send their Succors to assist them by Land The Prince Palatine was perswaded notwithstanding his Alliance with France to enter into the party They were all resolved to send into the Field their Armies in the next Spring for they were afraid that the French would

lost and the grievous slaughter of his Soldiers he found a way out of his Trenches to retreat with the sad remains of his broken Army and left his Enemy to glory in their Success and to inrich themselves with his spoils The Count de Fontaines was then grievously incommoded with a disease nevertheless for the honor of his Master he caused himself to be carried in a Chair during the fight that he might assist his men with his Counsels and incouragement seeing he could not help them by his example He purchased to himself much renown with the loss of his life for he resolved to overcome or die Therefore in the hurry and rout of the Spaniards whom he labored to keep to their Colours he was killed by a mean hand This victory gave a check to the designs of the Court of Spain of inlarging their Borders upon France They had perswaded themselves that the French had been discouraged during the sickness of the old King and that they were not so able to make resistance in the minority of the new for commonly Factions and private Interests raign in all Courts and Armies when the Prince hath not attained to the age and ability of managing his own affairs But it hath been observed that when men intend to advantage themselves by their Neighbors weakness they find themselves disappointed at last for providence makes use of the feeblest and most contemptible Agents to defeat the proudest purposes The French General pursued the Enemy into his own Countrey and took from him several small Forts and Towns as Maubeuge Borlemont Aimmerikt Binch and Thionville c. So that they that had flattered themselves of enjoying new Conquests lost a small portion of their own Land The Castle and Town of Cirke stopped the course of the victorious General it was so well furnished with Men and Provisions and commanded by such a resolute Governor that the threats of the French Army the inconveniency of an approaching Siege and the noise of the thundering Cannon could not prevail upon him to yield to the first Summons therefore it held out against the French several days but when they had brought their Trenches to the Town Walls the Spaniard hearkned to Conditions of Surrendring it up After this the Duke of Enguien left the Army about the latter end of August to receive the Compliments of the Court at Paris for his great success in Flanders but at his first arrival the news of the death of the Mareschal de Guebriant General of the French Forces in Germany hastned him thither He had been ingaged in a Battle against the Imperialists on the seventeenth of November where he was mortally wounded for he died a few days after The fight had been desperate between the Germans and the French both lost a great many of their best men so that the French Army was not able to hold the Field any longer without the coming in of fresh and victorious Troops out of Flanders with their young General Enguien His coming restored heart and courage to the shattered Companies of the dead Mareschals Army The French who are always wont to boast much in their Successes and Victories and seldom or never to grant the loss of the day to their triumphing Enemies declare That the Mareschal beat the Germans out of the Field It is certain they seised a little after upon Rotueil a Frontier-Town where the wounded Mareschal breathed forth his last gasp This War between France and Spain had ingaged most Princes of Europe in the quarrel the Trumpets sounded round about the Borders in Savoy in Italy in Navarre Catalonia Flanders Germany Alsatia c. Armies and Armed Men did carry about Death and Destruction In Italy the French had three watchful Commanders Prince Thomas took from the Spaniard Trin the Marquess of Ville seised upon Ast and the Count of Plessis-Praslin invaded Estura small places that would deserve no mention if these Generals had but taken any more considerable Towns but for want of stronger and more noted Garrisons and braver exploits the French must needs stuff their Relations with the taking of these poor Hamlets And the Spaniard on their side were not idle they gained several places upon the French but none of any importance In Catalonia the Mareschal de la Mouthe Houdancour commanded as Viceroy for the French at the head of a small Army with which he drove the Spaniards from the Siege of Miravel and Flix he made some inroads into the Kingdom of Arragon and seised upon Almeras In the same year at Sea as well as at Land the affairs of War were carried on with much heat The Duke of Brezè was Admiral for the French in the Streights He ingaged with his Light Squadrons against the Spanish Fleet twice once before Carthagena in the Moneth of August and another time on the nineth day of September In both Rencounters the Armadoes exchanged a few Bullets looked one another in the face but they were so scared with their Enemies frightful countenances and with the apprehension of what might happen if they continued too obstinately in the fight that they were both willing to part upon equal terms although the French and Spaniard both claim the Victory as their own When the War is once kindled between these two Nations it is not one or two Campagnes can put a period to their disputes no less then a River of the Subjects Blood must be spilled to extinguish the flames And it is observable that all their Neighbors must dance at the sound of their Fiddles and be interested in their quarrels All the Nations of Europe must attend upon them and second their bloody designs War like a Tempest commonly riseth out of Spain or France then it spreds it self and involves all the Neighborhood into the same misery Both Kingdoms are so populous and considerable that when the Princes of either stir all the bordering people move they are forced in their own defence to have their Armies ready which when they are so Interest obliges them to employ them During this Winter great preparations were making for the ensuing Spring of the year 1644. As soon as it appeared the Duke of Orleans was appointed to command in Flanders where he besieged Graveling which was surrendered to him after a stout resistance of two moneths He made his entry the Twenty nineth of July This place was strong and well fortified and the Key of Flanders on that side therefore the taking of it did as much rejoyce the French as it did grieve the Spaniard After this success the Mareschal of Gassion Lieutenant General had orders to march with his Army further into the Enemies Countrey where he took and pillaged some small Castles the Abby of Vate the Forts of Rebus d'Henuin and Arq. Some few Spanish Troops that were so unhappy as to come within his reach were put to flight In the mean while the Duke of Enguien was General in Germany for that Countrey hath

always been the Seat of War when any is stirring in Europe At this time the whole House of Austria that have so great a sway in that Climat thought themselves ingaged to assist the King of Spain their Brother against the common Enemy the French General Merci commanded the Army of the Duke of Bavaria he was so successful to take Frieburgh from the French As he was marching farther to besiege some other place the Duke of Enguien met him with his Army and ingaged three times on three several days at last the French forced them after a notable slaughter to a disorderly retreat After this many considerable Towns submitted to the conquering valor of the Duke of Enguien and received from him Garrisons only to preserve their Territories from the spoil which otherwise he would have made Philipsbourgh a strong Frontier Town Vormes Spire Mayence Burghen Landau and the Castle of Magdebourgh were yielded up this Summer But before the year was over the Princes of Europe agreed to send all their Plenipotentiaries to Munster there to compose their differences and agree in a General Peace for Germany and the Frontier Towns of the Empire had been so much impoverished by the long and continual Wars that as many died by Famine as formerly by the Sword The only remedy was an Universal Peace which was endeavored between all the Princes of Christendom The Queen Regent of France sent thither the Count d' Avaux and Monsieur Servien to manage the French interest afterwards the Duke of Longueville followed The Treaty began in the Moneth of April 1644. but could not be concluded till the Twenty fourth of October 1648. All the Monarchs of Europe agreed to lay down Arms and to suffer their People to injoy the Blessings of Peace only France and Spain had such differences as could not be composed their pretensions were so high and so intangled That the greatest Polititians that assisted at this composure of Affairs could not find any expedient to bring them to an agreement Therefore the Ministers of other Princes did their business without them When they saw them so stiff in not yielding to one another they left them to themselves and their Masters alone to end their own quarrels and fight till they were weary That which administered new difficulties every day to this Peace between the two Monarchies was the prosecution of the War which was so vigorously managed by the French in the time of the Treaty that in the beginning of the Spring 1645. they had five Armies on foot in Flanders in Germany in Lorraine in Catalonia and in Italy The Army of Flanders was commanded by the Duke of Orleans as Generalissimo his Lieutenants were the Mareschals de Gassion and Rantzau At their passage over the River of Colme there was a very hot dispute between the French and Spaniards but in fine the two Mareschals behaved themselves so bravely that the Spaniard was put to flight and the passage opened Mardike Bourbourgh Lillers Bethune Mount-Cassel S. Venant Menenes and Armentiers were forced to yield The Town of Lens was suddenly taken Upon the Borders of Germany the Duke of Enguien the French General marched with his Troops as far as the Nekar he took Rotembourgh and went next to find out his Enemies the United Forces of the Empire that were encamped about Nortlinguen and Dunkespiel The French had here a notable victory Four thousand men were killed with Merci the Duke of Bavariaes General Gleen the Emperors General was taken with all the Provisions Artillery Waggons and above forty Colours The Duke entertained Gleen very kindly and set him at liberty the Neighboring Towns Nortlinguen and Dunkespiel were surrendered to the French after the Battle The Army had orders to march towards Hailbron but the Duke fell dangerously sick so that he was forced to withdraw and be carried to Philipsbourgh At this time the House of Austria united all its Forces under two Generals the Archduke Leopold and General Galaz There were in this Army above Thirty thousand Men. Monsieur de Turenne and the Mareschal of Grammont commanded in the French Army instead of the Duke d'Enguien they had not above Twelve or thirteen thousand Men yet they behaved themselves so gallantly that the Imperialists could never come to fight them They retreated with their Soldiers through their Enemies Countrey and returned safe home into the Borders of France The French Generals were highly commended for their Wisdom in foreseeing the danger of a General Battle and for their care and prudence in managing the Retreat to save their Men. In Lorraine the Mareschal de Villeroy was sent with an Army to drive the Duke out of his Dominions because he had Confederated himself with the Enemies of France The Inhabitants are naturally inclined to favor the French therefore they made no great resistance but submitted themselves to the King of Frances General only La Mothe held out Monsieur Magaloty undertook to defend it but his death caused it to be surrendred also So that the poor Duke was driven out of all his Patrimony by the overruling power of his Neighbor In Catalonia the French were no less successful for the General the Count du Plessis-Praslin took Roses the nineteenth of May and the Count de Harcourt Viceroy of Catalonia defeated the Spaniards in the Fields of Liorerys and forced the Town of Balaguier to open its Gates Du Plessis-Praslin was honored with the Staff of a Mareschal of France for his good service to that Crown and was commanded into Italy to assist Prince Thomas against the Spaniards In the Dukedom of Milan Viguerano was taken from them but when the Prince was in his Retreat the Spanish Generals overpowered him and had it not been for the seasonable coming in of the new Mareschal his Soldiers had been cut in pieces and totally routed The next year 1646. the War was managed with the same fury as before especially in Flanders under the Dukes of Orleans and d'Enguien who laid siege with a numerous Army well appointed to the City of Courtray which they took in the presence of all the Forces of the House of Austria that came with a design to raise the Siege Mardike was again retaken from the Spaniard and Dunkirk was besieged by the Duke of Enguien Caracena and Lambay were the Spanish Generals but they did not dare to adventure a pitcht Battle The Marquess of Leda a famous and experienced Commander was then Governor of this Town that was well fortified by Nature as well as by Art Nevertheless the French won it in thirteen days and forced the besieged to a Capitulation After this Prince Thomas and the Duke of Brezé besieged and took Orbiselle but the Spaniards were so strong in Italy that the Court ordered the Mareschal de la Meilleray and du Plessis-Praslin with United Forces to march thither they took two small places Paombino and Portolongone About this time Henry de Bourbon Prince of Condé died the Six and

twentieth of December and his eldest Son the Duke of Enguien succeeded him in his Principality and to the honor of being the first Prince of the Blood Royal of France In the year 1647. the Mareschal de Gassion forced many places to submit he was wounded at the siege of Lens and carried to Arras where he died Monsieur Villequier commanded in his absence and took the Town About this time the Duke of Brezé was killed over against Naples with a Cannon Bullet and his Fleet was put to flight by the Spanish Armado But the misfortunes and ill successes of the Duke of Guise brought all his family to ruine He had been sollicited by the Rebellious Neapolitans to command their Army against their lawful Prince He too credulously trusted an unconstant Rabble and went to Naples to manage a War against Spain in that part of the World and dispossess the House of Austria of one of its best Kingdoms His first arrival was attended by some Successes and the favor of the Inhabitants but when the Court of France out of a jealousie of his greatness began to frown upon him and deny the assistance which they had promised and might have sent him the Neapolitans betrayed him to their old Masters for their own safety and pardon He was carried into the Prisons of Spain from whence he could scarce obtain his freedom in three years This great disappointment brought the House of Guise to a low estate together with some other miscarriages that they have been guilty of In this Campagne Lerida the strongest Bulwark upon the Borders of Spain was streightly besieged by the Army of the Prince of Condé The Count de Harcourt had attempted it the year before but this place stood it out till the last so that the siege was raised to succor some other more considerable Town which the Spaniard was ready to carry In the beginning of the Spring 1648. that dismal year for England the Prince of Condé appeared again at the head of an Army in Flanders where he took Ypres in twelve days but before this siege was over where the French Army suffered many wants the Spaniard had recovered Funes Courtray and Lens These advantages had made them contemn their Enemies commanded by the Prince So that General Beck assistant to the Arch duke Leopold in his Army assured him of a full victory over the French With this perswasion they ventured to ingage but the Troops of Lorraine were disordered in the Battle and the Archdukes Cavalry were so miserably treated that if the Prince de Ligny had not come in with his reserve the Archduke had been made prisoner General Beck died with the displeasure of his ill success as well as by his wounds This Battle was fought the twentieth of August it caused several petty Towns to open their Gates as Lens and Furnes c. At this time Mareschal de Schomberg the Kings General in Catalonia took the Town of Tortoise in the Kingdom of Valencia and defeated the Army of Don Francisco de Melo the Spanish General that came to relieve it All these Sieges Battles and Rencounters hapned during the Treaty at Munster which excluded the French and the Spaniard Their quarrels alone could not be ended for the Spaniard had intelligence of a secret Conspiracy in France where the greatest Princes were concerned He did therefore expect to recover what he had lost by the favor of the Domestick Wars and troubles of his Neighbors The Prince of Condé and many more of the Blood Royal were united together they published their Manifesto to justifie their taking up Arms to reform the Government as was pretended and to remove the Cardinal from that great trust reposed in him by the Queen Paris held for the Rebels and many other Towns were in danger of following the same example The Inhabitants were more then usually scurrilous and scandalous against the King the Queen and the Cardinal These troubles had almost deprived the young King of his Crown and Scepter had it not been for the seasonable assistance and kind Mediation of our great Monarch and the vigorous endeavors of the Mareschal de Turenne more faithful to his King then to his Religion At last after much Bloodshed in an intestine War the Prince retreated into Flanders with those of his party whom neither Love Loyalty nor Interest could perswade to guard their young King The Spaniard put him at the Head of their Troops with which he recovered almost all the Towns that he had formerly lost If the Mareschal de Turenne had not stopped the progress of the Princes victories he had invaded the Crown it self as well as the Frontier Towns But after an absence of several years the King invited him home received him into his favor bestowed upon him his Government and Employs and treated the Dukes of Conti and Longueville in the same generous manner publishing a General Pardon to all other offenders in the Civil Wars On the Seventh of September 1651. the King being thirteen years old was declared of Age sufficient to take upon him the Government and to begin to act in person in that sphere where providence had put him The Declaration was approved of in the Parliament of Paris and proclaimed all over the Land The War continued still between France and Spain In the years 49 50 51 and 52 the Spaniard had the greatest Successes against the French for they were assisted by the Sedition and Treachery of the Inhabitants as much as by their own valor and numbers of Men to recover more then they had formerly lost But after the Kings majority he appeared himself at the head of his Troops and with his presence gave them so much courage and resolution that they turned the fortune of War The City of Bar and the Castle of Ligny was surrendred to the Mareschal de la Ferté in 1653. The Duke of Espernon besieged Bellegard but could not take it till the news was come that the King was in the Camp then the Governor was loath to stand it out against his own Prince Rethel and Mouzon were retaken by Monsieur Turenne St. Menehou by la Ferté the twenty seventh of November Du Plessis Praslin behaved himself so gallantly in taking this place that the King gave it him to command Grancey surprised Castillon and withstood the valorous efforts of General Caracena The year 1654. was honored with the greatest solemnity and most sacred Ceremony of France the Coronation of their King at Rheims with that holy Oyl which they affirm to be faln from Heaven and sent from God for that purpose to anoint their Kings therewith When they have been thus inaugurated the people have a particular respect for their persons After this Stenay was besieged by the French commanded by Mareschal d' Hocquincourt when the Spaniard saw they could not hinder the taking of this place they labored to make a Diversion and to recompence themselves for their loss by the invasion of Arras

his entry into it the second day of December There had been a Treaty between the old Duke of Lorraine and this young King by which the Duke made over to him all his Right Title and Interest in the Dutchy of Lorraine for some Lands in lieu of it and for the priviledge of being declared Heir to the Crown of France in case the Family of Bourbon did fail This Agreement had been made the sixth of February 1662. and confirmed in the Parliament of Paris in the Moneth of March So that the French seised upon all the Cities and Countrey of Lorraine only the strong Town of Marsal remained in the Dukes hands who seemed unwilling to deliver it Besides the young Prince Charles of Lorraine was supposed to have won the Soldiers there in Garrison therefore they would not surrender it upon Summons This affair caused the King to travel into that Countrey with a sufficient Army to reduce it to his obedience commanding that Marsal should be besieged without delay His sudden motion surprised the Duke and found him unprovided therefore he went to meet his Majesty at Metz in Lorraine to submit himself unto him The King received him very generously and made him welcome Marsal according to Agreement was put into the French hands on the third of September 1663. A little before the French Ambassador Monsieur de Crequi had been affronted and in danger of his person in the City of Rome Some of the Popes Guards shot into his Coach and wounded his servants When the Court of France heard of it the King commanded the Popes Nuncio then at Paris to depart out of the Kingdom and sent for his Generals ordering them to prepare for a War Alexander the Seventh did then sit in S. Peters supposed Chair He sent immediately upon the news of the coming of the French Army an Express to assure his Majesty that he was much dissatisfied with the deed and that he would give him all the satisfaction that he should desire The City of Pisa was pitched upon to examine and discourse of this affair where the Popes and the French Deputies concluded it the Twelfth of March 1664. to the great joy of the Roman Catholicks The Pope yielded to his own dishonor that his Nephew Flavio Chigi should wait upon the King and beg his pardon that a Monument should be erected in the very place for posterity to gaze upon with an Inscription declaring the cause of its standing there This was performed accordingly but the zeal of the French for their King and their concernment for his honor is very remarkable in this occasion The Parliament of Aix hearing of the affront given to the French Ambassador and the Kings resolution to revenge it made some levies of Men of their own accord and marched to Avignon where they drive out the Garrison they surprised Carpentras and all the Popes Territories near them This action gave the King and Court great satisfaction and facilitated an Agreement between him and the Pope for the French are not so wedded to their Superstitions as to be so much afraid of the Popes thunderbolts as in former ages It would become the wisdom of the Politicians of this Nation to shake off the Popes burdensome Fetters and establish a Patriarch of their own There wants nothing else to make their King an absolute Monarch Some of the Jansenists have attempted to perswade their Clergy to it I hope God will one day open their eyes to perceive their slavery to S. Peters counterfeit Keys and to oblige them to use that liberty unto which Providence invites them At the same time that the Cardinal was in France the Emperor desired the Kings Succors to help him against the Turks who had invaded his Dominions This motion pleased the French humor for they would be thought to be the Champions of Christianity against the Infidels The King ordered as some say about Ten thousand Men to march under the command of Monsieur de Coligny and Monsieur de la Fueillade who is now Duke of Roannez This Army joyned with the Imperialists about the Moneth of June 1665. they found out the Turks Army and encountered with them twice It is certain the French behaved themselves very gallantly in this expedition so that the Enemies were worsted and in their retreat over the River of Raab they lost about Five thousand Men that were slain Sixteen pieces of Cannon and about One hundred and fifty Colours were taken with much of their Baggage The rest of their Army fled not being able to withstand the Christians valor The Queen-Mother of France fell dangerously sick and died the Twentieth of January in that omnious year One thousand six hundred sixty six She was much lamented in France and Spain for she was an excellent Princess At this time there was War between the Crown of England and the States of Holland Their Fleets had had a brush at Sea where the brave Duke of York adventured in person against their Squadrons more in number then ours Opdam their Admiral was blown up and after a sharp fight they fled to their own Coast to carry thither the sad news of their defeat and of the loss of many Ships taken by the English When the French saw that the Hollander was likely to be worsted he pretended an obligation to defend them therefore he declared War against us not so much with an intention to assist the Hollander by Sea as to stand by with his Fleet and judge of the blows However the countenance of such a Prince dreadful to all the World because it was not known yet what mischeif he could do helped them very much The French made no attempts upon us at home unless it be upon our industrious Merchants who lost some Goods and Ships at Sea But in the West Indies their treachery and cruelty were remarkable in the Iland of S. Christophers where the English and French Plantations had lived in Peace and Amity several years they supposed our English would endeavor to drive them away after this breach between the two Nations To prevent therefore that which the others had no design to execute they fell upon them unawares and massacred their Neighbors to their eternal shame plundering all their Goods and rifling their habitations They seised next the Islands of Antego Tabago and S. Eustache Our Men resolved to revenge these outrages upon those of Guadeloupe but the Fleet that set forth for that intent was dispersed by a terrible Hurricane and some of our Ships were broken and shipwracked amongst the American Islands to the great disappointment of the English This War between England and France continued till the year 1668. the Peace was concluded at Breda for the French had no quarrel with the English but only as was pretended in defence of Holland The truth is the King did not care to have two Enemies upon his back at once he was resolved to take into his possession some Towns in Flanders

their breaches restored their Fortifications and put them all into a good posture of defence But that which was remarkable in this progress the King had no extraordinary Militia he trusted so much these new Subjects that he entered into all their populous Towns attended only by his houshold Servants and usual Guards This got him the love and respect of the Walloons and secured him the hearts of his people as well as the Walls of their Towns About this time a King of Guinny who lives at a City called Arda sent an Ambassador to Paris to treat about an establishment of a Trade between that place and the Islands of America under the French Scepter The King entertained him and his motion very kindly and sent him back with Tokens of his liberality There had been an Order of the Kings Council published by which certain Wares of the Hollanders were prohibited in France They labored by their Ambassador to perswade the King to revoke this Order but in vain for the King was now resolved to revenge himself upon them for their insolent carriage towards him and his people in the West and East Indies and in many Foreign Countreys where they had ingrossed all the Trade to themselves It is certain that both the English and the French had great cause to complain of the Hollanders who had on several occasions discovered an unsufferable Pride and a haughty carriage not to be endured by Crowned Heads They had exercised their cruelty upon the Subjects of both Kingdoms beyond the Seas and had seised upon their Goods affronting thereby their Princes who are ingaged to protect them These and other unjust practises as was pretended obliged the French to prepare for War Therefore in his Progress in Flanders he visited himself the Fortifications of all his Frontier Towns and caused the weakest places to be fortified with new Works from Dunkirke he went to Amantiers from thence to Lille to Courtray to Aeth He found that Monsieur de Montal had strongly repaired the Walls of Charle le Roy for which he highly commended him Before the War was proclaimed Madam de Orleans the only Sister a live of our Gracious Monarch came over here unto England to visit the King and the Duke of York She was received with all the expressions of kindness that Nature did require and her Vertues deserve But as all our satisfactions are momentary she had no sooner seen these dear Relations but was forced to leave them again and return over to France where she died so suddenly that most men entertained the bad reports that were raised about her death However the Court of France honored her Birth and Vertues with an outward Mourning and the Duke of Orleans's countenance seemed to be very sad and pensive until the King had cheared him up with the thoughts of another Wife The Daughter of the Prince Palatine of the Rhine was pitched upon the Mareschal du Plessis was sent to espouse her in the Dukes name in the City of Mets the sixteenth day of November The Duke himself wen● as far as Chalons to receive and welcome her The King the Queen and all the Court expressed their joy and satisfaction for her safe arrival and about a year after she was brought to Bed of a Son All this while the War was preparing against Holland England and France were to unite their Forces by Sea and Land On the seventh day of April 1672. the King published his Declaration to forbid all Commerce and Trade with the States of the Vnited Provinces and immediately after appeared at the Head of an Army of One hundred and fifty thousand Men with whom he carried all before him in the Low Countreys as a violent torrent Nothing was of a sufficient resistance for so great a power every one did judge that he would win all the other Towns the following Spring if there were not a stop put to his undertakings But the motion of the French is always violent at the first and then at the least discouragement it begins to abate The Dutchy of Cleves the Electorate of Cullen the Dutchy of Limburgh the County of Zutphen Vtrecht and its Territories Holland Brabant Overissell the Oriental Frieze Groningen and the Dutchy of Geldres were full of French Troops on a sudden Orsoy Vesel Burick and Rhineburgh that had been so strongly Garrisoned that the Dutch thought them to be the Bulwarks of their Land were surrendered at the first appearance of the Kings Standard Reez Emmerick and Groll were delivered to the Bishop of Munster who had taken up Arms to vindicate the French quarrel The next attempt was the Passage over the Rhine which was first undertaken by the Count de Guiche at the Head of Two thousand Horse he swom over it although three Squadrons of Horse and some few Foot were ready to receive him on the other side When the French had recovered the Bank they charged so desperately that the Enemy was disordered and fled to their Foot for succor They had Barricadoed themselves in but when the Prince and the Dukes of Orleans and Longueville were got on the other side with their Infantry they resolved to assault them in their Trenches The Prince desired to march in order against them but some of his Men were so furious that nothing could keep them in The Duke of Longueville in a rage went so near them with the Prince that the Duke was killed and the Prince wounded in the left arm with many more laid upon the ground When they saw the whole Army surround them they desired quarter which was granted by the Prince by that means they yielded and were all taken prisoners It is not good to render an Enemy desperate a small company in a danger have won the victory therefore the Prince freely offered them their lives This Action amazed the Hollander and astonished the Prince of Orange who expected the Kings Army another way Harnen was taken by Monsieur de Turenne Nimeguen and Schenk also Doesbourgh and Zutphen were surrende●ed into his Majesties hands and the City of Vtrecht sent Deputies to yield it up Monsieur de Luxemburgh was sent thither to take in all the places about Vtrecht After this Turenne recovered Crevecoeur Coërden Grave and Bomel so that almost all the Inland Countrey thereabouts submitted to the French The Hollanders were then so much troubled that they offered Conditions of Peace to the King but he hoped to gain all the rest of their Countrey Therefore they were rejected as unreasonable The King after all these Successes left the Army the Six and twentieth of July and arrived at Paris the first of August where he was congratulated and welcomed by all the Societies of his Kingdom The Queen was so much overjoyed that she commanded a Chappel to be built at Roan and dedicated it to Our Lady of Victories for as amongst the Heathens they did give to Pallas the Goddess of War several attributes and names betokening the many good

glory in their pretended Successes and Victories The many Armies that were now on foot to attend upon and stop the further proceedings of the French caused them to call away their Garrisons from many Conquered Towns Besides the Sickness and the War had consumed a great number so that they were forced for their own safety to gather a little more close together Several strong places were abandoned and several were dismantled the Sodiers were sent to reinforce the Armies During this Winter many Encounters hapned between the Enemies and some few unconsiderable places taken But now to the great joy of England it pleased His Majesty to grant a Peace to the Hollander on most honorable Conditions to the English The French King nevertheless continues his designs by Land but by Sea he commands his Ships to be drawn up or to sail out of the Dutchmens sight In the beginning of the Spring he besieged Besanzon in the Franche Comté Pesme Marnay were taken before by the Duke of Navailles the fourteenth of February The strong Town of Gray was yielded up after two or three days siege On the twenty eighth Vesoal was also taken The King himself with a strong Party arrived at his Camp before Besanzon in the beginning of May 1674. It was surrendered into his Majesties hands before the end of the Moneth after many brave exploits and much blood shed Whiles the Treaty was on foot at Cologne the Emperor caused the Prince of Furstemberg Plenipotentiary for the Archbishop of Cologne to be arrested by the Officers of his Regiment of Grana in his Coach and carried to Bon because he had not maintained the interest of the Empire as he should have done he being a Subject This violent proceeding did mightily scandalise all the Ambassadors especially the Archbishop and the French King were offended at this violence For they pretend that the person of an Ambassador is sacred and not to be violated by any means Nature hath taught the most barbarous people to suffer them to go and come in safety who are imployed in quenching the Flames of War Navaigne was afterwards besieged and yielded to the Prince of Condé but the Prince of Orange had an intent to succor it had not the besieged made so much haste to secure their lives by a Surrender Dole was also besieged by the King and taken after a stout resistance The fifteenth of June there hapned a fight between Monsieur de Turenne and the Imperialists commanded by the Duke of Lorraine and the Count of Caprara The Duke of Bournonville was marching up to them Turenne resolved to hinder a conjunction for that purpose he passed the Rhine at Philipsburgh The Duke and Count had but Seven thousand Horse and a Regiment of Foot but Turenne was Twelve thousand strong The Confederates behaved themselves so bravely that had they not been inferior in number they had forced the French to a retreat After a hot ingagement which lasted all the Afternoon the Germans sought their fafety in a retreat over the Neckar many brave Men were killed on both sides some say the loss was equal It is certain four thousand Men lay dead on the Ground the old Duke of Lorraine headed his Troops with so much resolution as if he had intended to win a Dukedom in another World by his notable courage The Dutch Fleet about one hundred Sail passed out of the Channel to scoure the Seas of all French Frigats and to attempt something upon the Coast they Landed on Belle Isle but were repulsed after the loss of a few Men. The Duke of Schomberg commanded the French Forces in Catalonia in the County of Rousillon he ingaged with them and forced them to a retreat with the loss of his Son and another Gentleman of quality taken prisoners The next action was between the Prince of Condé and the Prince of Orange assisted by the Count de Souches the eleventh of August near Haynault The two Armies were resolved to have a brush which was performed with much gallantry The Prince of Oranges Army lost many Men and Commanders and the French disputed the case very stoutly at last they retreated into their Camp carrying with them many noble prisoners and most part of the Princes Baggage leaving the Dutch to boast of their empty and sorrowful Victory in the open Field At this time Grave was besieged by the Dutch The French could not be perswaded to surrender it till after a long and bloody siege The Messinenses had revolted from the Spaniard and put themselves under the French protection The Duke de Vivonne arrived there with some Succors and relief of Men and Provision The Inhabitants put them in possession of the strongest places about the City the Spaniards by Sea and Land endeavored to plague them A short conflict hapned upon the Coast between the French and Spanish Fleets where the noise of their great Guns and their mutual Rodomontadoes soon terrified them and made them both willing to part upon equal terms By this means the Messinenses had some Provision brought to them in their urgent necessity In October the Confederates incamped upon the skirts of Turennes Army were forced to fight near Strasburgh they lost three thousand Men ten Pieces of Cannon thirty Standards and many Prisoners the French also had many of their best Menkilled The Confederates retreated to Spire and Turenne to the sides of the Rhine The taking of the Cittadel of Leige this Winter by the French was an accident that surprised and startled all the World It was betrayed by a treacherous Governor and delivered into the Kings hands who sent thither three thousand Men to remain in Garrison This year 1675 the War continues still call Europe is ingaged in this Bloody dispute between the French and Dutch The Swedes have been perswaded for the French sake to enter into the Borders of the Duke of Brandenburgh and in defence of the Protestant Interest as they pretend to help the French who carries on the Popes Therefore they have quartered their Army all this Winter upon the Subjects of Brandenburgh who hath been forced to draw his Army from the Confederates to stop the Swedes violences In May the French King caused Limburgh to be besieged after the taking of Huy and Dinant The Confederates were resolved to raise the siege but the surrender prevented them Nevertheless the Dutch and Spaniards have behaved themselves very stoutly in the defence of this Town At present the Prince of Orange with his Army attends upon the French King near Ruremond Turenne is incamped near the Rhine about Strasburgh in sight of the German commanded by Montecuculi All the World expects to hear of a bloody dispute between them What end this great quarrel will have God alone knows however we ought to lament at the miseries of our Neighbors at the Christian Blood that is shed to satisfie the Ambition of a Prince that wants nothing on Earth but Content We ought to pray God to preserve our England in Peace and Unity and our gracious King the best of all Monarchs in health and prosperity Amen