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A42214	De rebus belgicis, or, The annals and history of the Low-Countrey-warrs wherein is manifested, that the United Netherlands are indebted for the glory of their conquests, to the valour of the English, under whose protection the poor distressed states, have exalted themselves to the title of the high and mighty ...; Annales et historiae de rebus Belgicis. English	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1665 (1665)	Wing G2098; ESTC R3740	690,015	1,031

them in Order of Battel yet hiding from the Souldiers the loss of the former Fight In the Van-Guard was Sir Francis Vere with a double Band of English and Frizons and two Ensigns more the one belonging to the Prince the other to Count Hohenlo who was absent being to guard Holland the Middle Ward or Battel was made up of French Switzers and the New Souldiers from Fort Andrew and of this Count Solmes had the Leading The Rereward consisted of Hollanders and Germans the last of which was all that remained of Count Ernestus his Forces There was also a Bard of Utrechers Commanded by Collonel Vctrembrouch The Horse were partly in the Front other part attended the Battel and some waited upon the Rear-Guard Thus the Prince order'd his Army according to the Antient Policy of famous Captains and then commanded the Ships to depart which by this time were in great Number come to him and to steet their Course to Ostend That the danger being equal to all so all hopes or causes of flight should be utterly taken away but they which had setled themselves in the Haven before could not presently obey that Order until they were assisted by the Tide Besides some Companies were left about Newport to keep in the Souldiers there that they might not break out on the Bank of the Prince's Men when they were engaged to fight And now the Morning being half p●ssed and Noon approaching the Enemies Horsemen going a great distance before their Battel came in sight and after some short Skirmishes with Pistols being driven from the Shore retreated to the Hills where a Band of Foot-men tarryed for them against whom moving in a slow pace towards the Sea the Cannon on both sides plaid very fiercely Some there were with Prince Maurice who advised at that time to meet the Enemy for that would inflame the Souldiers Valour and increase their Courage and Alacrity But others with more Wisdom that it was more fit to abide in the same place whereby they might repel the more easily the Enemies Fury after their long March over the difficulties of the Sands which when they had concluded and the Horse dispersed which had taken away the Prospect Prince Maurice from the Tops of the Hills which he had possessed for his Advantage in the Battel spyed the Enemy drawing nearer and in this manner ordered There were Three Battels according to Custom of which the Middleward being double fill'd the whole breadth of the Shore wherein were four great Bodies of Pikes to each of which were added as Wings both greater and lesser Shot which we call Musketiers and Bow-men They of Diest under many Captains having but one Standard made the first Battel wherein Mendosa was present The Right Wing of the second Battel which consisted all of Spaniards was commanded by Monteregio and Villars The Left made up partly of Italians was order'd by Sapena and Avilos Between these Two Bodies was a select Number of Horse which were the Arch-Duke's Life-Guard appointed to stand In the last place were the Netherlanders led by Barlotte and Bucquoy with Auxiliaries out of Ireland whose Captain was Bastuck The General of the Horse by reason of Landriano's infirmity was Peter Galen onely they of Diesl had their own Offiches whose power was no more over them than at pleasure And as they differ'd in Language or their Arms being either Lances Guns and Breast-Plates so were they drawn our and disposed into Troops The Day decaying as the Battels grew nearer each to other the wiser Spaniards thought fit to take Advice Whether they should engage in a general Battel and try the doubtful Chance of War For they did not find as was believed the Enemy hastning his slight into the Ships or running away but standing with Resolution to sell their Lives and revenge their Deaths Thus the Battels being prepar'd and all the Souldiers on both sides encouraged to fight That whoever was the Conquerour could not but expect great effusion of bloud They were to take care that they did not drive him to hope who being unawares fallen into so great Dangers was brought to such a condition that he could not fear or decline fighting That they had better besiege him since all the Countrey was theirs and the Enemy had no place of Retreat In the mean while the Souldiers should rest themselves being wearyed with long Journeys and one onely Fight But there were others of Opinion That they should make it their first care and business to recover the Fort Albertus before spoken of And besides the Minds of the Souldiers were so elate I with the success of the former Battel that they believed they were come thither rather to take Prey than to fight that old saying of the Spaniards being frequent in the Mouths of most The more are the Moors the more glorious the Victory Nay it was almost come to that That they would not go off without Battel though the Enemy seemed to decline the same And many of the Commanders thought that Alacrity of the Army and vehemency of their Minds was to be encouraged wherefore laying aside all further delay which was look'd upon rather as specious than advantagious They thought fit by Exhortations to raise the Souldiers Courage already inflamed That they would perfect the Victory already begun increase the Spoils already gotten and not onely slay the main Body but the very Remains of that Army begun to be Conquer'd by them That they themselves were men practised in Fights those ignorant and Rebels to God and their Prince till this time having received so great presumption as to pitch their Colours against Us on purpose onely to be destroy'd and are at this time ready to fight because they can find no means ready to fly Here are no Ditches to pass no Rampires to scale nor any Defences for Sloth or Cowardise but as Out-casts they come out of their lurking places having nothing but Arms and those depraved and made of no force by the guilt of their Consciences That it now lay in their viz. the Spanish Armies hands to make their Prince as great as they would have him for this one day would fully restore his Dominion to him if they would strive for the Victory nor should there be any further occasion of War for this would be the first and last Battel 'T is true indeed at Turnholt they kill'd some of the Spanish Army but what were they such as chose rather to run away than to meet the Enemy neither at that place was there either a Battel or an Army or a Prince whereas at this time he for them they fought should be a Witness of their Valour whose great Victories at Calais Hulst and Amiens they should call to Mind and each of them take Example from his Valour Constancy and Industry These were the general Exhortations used by the Nobles to all but to the Spaniards they were more particular repeating to them many famous Acts both of antient and

about Antwerp in a running Band and all that were quartered in that part of Flanders and Brabant where the Schelde divides them Care also was taken for appeasing those seditious Spaniards in Hamount who being translated thence to Diest under hopes of money to be there paid them and having other provision made for them at length by little and little returned to their old obedience And though there was a necessity of associating as many as possible for that otherwise the number of the forces would be too small yet still there remained a fear of their seditious humours but at last being won by prayers and promises which is often soen in War that they would lend their helping band to the repelling this common danger they yet retained their discords yet so as that the Enemy should not rob them of their reward But the Italians who succeeded the Spaniards both in Homant and the cruelty of their redition would not slir thence as suspecting that if they got the Victory yet they should be little advantaged thereby but that by their deaths the Princes would be great gainers The number of all they could gather into a body was but ten thousand Foot and sixteen hundred Horse with these as fast as so great and heavy a Body could be moved the Arch-Duke himself went not relyihg on the Care or Fortunes of others herein In their Journey they made a Halt it Gaunt where the Arch-Dutchess Isabella came to them not affrighted with the Noise of War and beseeched them That they would not leave her in this extremity of danger and frustrate her in the top of her hopes But turning particularly to them of Drest she said many Things both concerning the time and matter in hand and that she might raise in them the greater Confidence laying her Hands upon her Ear-Rings and Jewels she protested She would first part with all those principal Ornaments of her Fortune and Honour than that the well-deserving Souldier should want a Reward much less go without his Pay At once the News of the Enemies approach and the danger growing to them in the next Forts thereby arrived at Prince Maurice's Army so that some strucken with the force and Terrour of this so suddain coming of the Enemy fled from the said Fort For they that were to defend Plas●endale and Bredenede being but few in number would not so much as see the Enemy But they that held Oldenburg part of them being gone out to Forage and so the Garrison weakned yielded up their Charge The same did they that were left at Snaskerk surrendring the place upon Articles for Life But the Fury of the Rout thinking it long till they embrued their hands in the Enemies bloud contemning the Laws of Arms and the Religion of their Chieftain who had signed the Articles fell upon them and kill'd them all The blame of this wicked Cruelty he cast off from himself upon the Seditious Souldiers and this was done either to make them hated and odious or else these disobedient men really thought to make amends to their Prince for their dubious Fidelity by their perfidious Treachery upon their Enemies It was Night when the Report of this matter came to the Prince's Ears and the Terrour thereof frighted the rest who had foreseen nothing less Nor do I suppose them dis-ingenuous who believe that the Hollanders Affairs had not for many years been in the like danger 'T is true there were Forces which were without doubt considerable to their Party yet the gallantry of the Captain was more than the greatness of the Forces All the Country round about was Hostile and now the Enemy was at hand it was too late to fortifie the Camp nor indeed would it avail them who were ready daily to be surprised with Hunger for Provisions could not be expected from Ostend when the Enemy would lye between it and them To fly into France would be no less base and cowardly than doubtful and dangerous And if they should stay for the Enemy drawing nearer and nearer to them every minute the Souldiers being dispersed in the Siege so that the very Port might be taken from them it would rather seem to be a Slaughter than a Battail Yet for all this the Prince laid hold on one hope which onely remained by the Opinion of all the Commanders in Chief and other Officers the great and famous Day for Battel being not yet come sent Count Ernest with 10 Companies of Foot 4 Troops of Horse and 2 great Guns that by taking the Bridge at Leffingen which one single Passage was stit open the Enemies passage might be stopped towards them but if that could not be effected they should yet make them for a while delay their progress until he prepared his Army and took Counsel further what to do But Count Ernest though speeding all he could found the Enemy passed those Streights and out of hope onely to wear out some time with the two great Guns he had brought with him commodiously planted to that purpose be assailed the Enemy who at first doubting lest all Prince Maurice his Army were come to give him Battel but finding it otherwise drawing his men into a more compact Order and considering how far his Forces excelled the Enemy in number grew very fierce and ardent to sight Nor was the like Courage and Resolution wanting in them on the other side but by the inequality of Men they seemed rather to have taken Counsel to fight than by fighting to have conceived an hope of Victory For at first with singular Testimonies of Eminent Valour they were compelled to Retreat and soon after to fly so that there were slain 800 Men part of them fighting part after th●y had Quarter given them the Victory growing to that heighth of Fury that they would spare none This Slaughter as it often happens was the means that all the rest of the Army were saved For while the Enemy was busie in following the Chace and pillaging the Field Prince Maurice got time first to transpose his Horsemen and afterwards his Carriages into that part of the Sea-Coast which looks towards Ostend During whose passage if the Enemy had come upon them there must needs have follow'd a very great slaughter But he being grown more slow by his Security and measuring the whole Event by the former Fight sent Messengers into the Neighbouring Cities that a great part of Prince Maurice's Army was slain in the Fight and himself with the rest inclosed by Them Which Letters being read many of the same Cities applauding their Fortune with an over-hasty Joy posted to make Solemn Orations in their Praise and to decl●● their Exaltations by all expressive Signs of rejoycing In●●e into 〈◊〉 the Foot and the Remainder of the Horse so●● B●●● shewing them a Ford not far from the Sea in two Bodies 〈◊〉 over a Bridge made somewhat nearer the Town where the Haven is more narrow The Prince as he carryed any over still placed

great Forces wherewith all the people round about suspected the Spaniard would make War in Italy because also from hence sometimes designs were laid against several Venetian Castles otherwhile new plots were discovered upon some Cities of Low Germany But a sudden peace put a stop to all the Alpine troubles it being agreed That for the Marquisate of Saluzza the County of Breseia in the borders of Lions in which is the bridg of Roan should he delivered to the French adding an exception That it should be lawful to the Spaniard to lead over the said Bridg his Forces either into the Netherlands or Burgundy And now King Henry that after Peace abroad and dissentions in Religion setled at home and ordered by good Laws he might establish his Kingdome in a right Heir desires that the Pope would suffer him to be Divorced from Margaret Valois long since disaffected by him having been of no good fame and besides that for many years barren which was soon granted and he Marryed to Mary the daughter of Francis late Prince of Etruria a Lady of excellent disposition and which by her more mild temper should purge out of France all envy against the Name of Melices And the same Prince confirmed a League of Amity with England by new Conditions wherein was concluded That the boldnese of Pyrats should be restrained by severe Judgments and Pledges The Tenth BOOK of the History of the Dutch AFFAIRES IN this year one thousand six hundred and one The Armies being recruited and augmented did threaten grievous and terrible things for the great Captains lay as it were at watch and fixed in expectancy of the manifestation of each others counsels The whole Winter and Spring was spent in Stratagems and Foraging before the restrained violence of War burst out with greater Force And first of all a Souldier born in Brabant urged by the perswasions of the Jesuits and hired with money that under the pretence of bringing in several prisoners to Gertruydenbergh he should open the Town to the Enemy was apprehended before his design could take effect Soon after some Mauritian Horsemen suddenly forcing a certain Castle in Limburg brought thence a great prey and many Prisoners About the s●me time one Captain Cloet was sent to take the Castle of Cracow which is in the Jurisdiction of Meurs and together with the City and Country by gift of the last Earl came to Prince Maurice but had been held by gran● from the Duke of Parma to Salentine Count Isenborg by the said Count until that time the same Cloet took beyond Wachtendone three hundred Horse and some Foot which being understood one Dulquio Governour of Straten a Town hard by marching out by the Archdukes command with above four hundred Foot and a few Horse in the darkness of the night fell upon the Enemy ere they were aware of him And now he had taken about thirty and killed some before the rest awaked with the noise could make themselves ready but as he retreated through the narrow passages Cloet going another way through the open fields met him who being inferiour to Cloet in Horse the Village being seized he was forced to surrender Thus being Conqueror and hastning about what he was sent he found the trench of the Castle full of Ice and not broken as his spyes had brought him intelligence so that easily comming to the Gate which he forced open with Gunpowder he drove out the Garrison Albertus hitherto had Covenanted with the Souldiers in Hamont that leaving that more inferiour fear they should have the Town and Castle of Waert from whence both the Countreyes of Leige and Gulick were exposed to their plunder whereat the neighbours were grievously troubled But all their frequent Messages and Complaints were slightly passed over because it was known of old to be a kind of gain under the pretence of sedition to maintain War at the charge of others So also were the people of Cleves vexed with the Garrisons of Berck and Geldre and the misery of that people who had deserved better was increased in that the Hollander assessed as much money upon them as had been withdrawn by others saying That it mattered not whether by force or voluntarily they increased the Enemies Wealth since they could not defend themselves from it And because they heard of a Fleet preparing in Spain and that the Du●k●kers infested the Sea with more then ordinary boldness a greater Navy of Ships was sent to Sea yet for all that some Pyrats appeared still who in the sight of Scheveling which is a Village upon the Sea-Coast of Holland near the Hague they exposed their Captives and received their Ransome But soon after b●ing circumvented by some Fisherboats wherein some Souldiers were put they gave satisfaction for their audacious attempt by their usual and deserved punishment Some old Ships also were sent to Dunkirk Haven where being full of stones they were sunk on purpose to choak it up But as oft as the Sea ebbed the wood being cut away with Axes by the Towns-men at the flood by the violent beating of the Waves the place was again cleared of all And some Merchants Ships going into England were taken and made Prize by Spinola's Galleys the Ship of Warr which was to be their Convoy after a long fight with the Enemy a great number of whom was slain by some fire thrown into it utterly perished The same also thought to have set upon Flushing some within the Town being corrupted to have set fire thereon but one of the Conspirators falling by chance sick and by the terrour of approaching death repenting and making confession thereof to his ghostly Father the whole Plot was detected and punished In the interim new Mutinies and Seditions arose among Albertus his Men And the Antwerpers pacified a Man of Warr that lay in the Schelde and made a Mutiny by giving them part of their pay And the Walloons that kept the Forts about Ostend raged even to the wounding and killing of their Officers yet were largely indulged because by the Hollanders Promises they were like to be d●awn off from their Obedience and being perswaded to go from their Garrison they passed to Montz After these things the United States setting an Asse●sment upon all Chimneys and being assisted with Souldiers out of England and Moneys out of France again fell in Debate upon another Expedition into Flanders but for that all the hopes of that Design lay in the speedy execution thereof and therefore that it was necessary first to divert the Enemy to some other part it was thought sit to make a shew of Warr in the furthermost Borders To which purpose Prince Maurice sending before some Souldiers under pretence of a Marriage between Count Lewis of Nassau and Count Broakens Widow himself came to Arnheym and then making no delay he speeded to Bercke with above a hundred Companies of Foot and Thirty Troops of Horse of which Place Jeronimo Lopez had the Government by the