Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	great_a	raise_v	siege_n	1,010	5	8.9178	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B14964	Advice given unto the states of of [sic] the Lovv-Countries obedient & faithfull to his Maiesty of Spaine, upon occasion of the letters written by Count Henry Vanden Bergh the 18. day of Iune 1632. to her Highnesse the Archdutchesse, and the estates in those dominions. As also unto the declaration made by him concerning his discontent received, being all fully answered and found to be unjust and unreasonable. If the reader please to compare them together, you shall find Henry of the Bergh his letters and declaration, printed in our aviso of Iune, the 30. Numb. 31. and Iuly 6. Numb. 32. Translated out of the French coppy.		1632 (1632)	STC 18507.262; ESTC S103527	13,346	19

held therein have imitated the generosity of his Brother Count Frederick who in the yeare 1597. defended himselfe within the City Lingen even to the extreamity with onely three Companies of foote and one of Horse But this two dayes before the enemie did come before Venlo called the Magistrates and told them that the city would soon be besieged to take away the courage from the Citizens demonstrated unto them the small appearance and hope he had of defending the same Wherefore hee excused himselfe from protecting of them nay and besides this being Governour of that Province said he had other places to guard looke to neverthelesse he presently made hast unto the City Gelder from whence he departed presently accompanied onely with one servant or Companion betooke himselfe to Liege there to put in execution the perfidiousnesse which he had plodded a long time As for his service of forty yeares which he mentions T is true in the beginning they were considerable and of some worth when his brother whose death he doth alleadge did animate him by their good and valerous examples But ever since from the yeare 1606 that he defended the City Groll with expectation of reliefe by the Marquise Spinola who came time enough to rescue him his services have not beene so remarkeable nor of such moment and moreover they have beene recompenced an hundred fold with dignities and titles gifts and honourable charges and excessive summes of Money As for the ill government of the Countryes and the progresse of our enemies that proceeds from nothing else but from the manifold treacheries and the to too much confidence and trust which our Princes have in his person having with a fatherly and favourable affection which they bare unto their servants indured a long time his discontentments and greevances which in time by little and little and more and more are still degenerated unto this action the most base and ignoble that ever could bee returned with reproach unto a reasonable Soule manifested in these two branches ing●atitude and revolt One of the first testimonies of his disloyall and evill will which he cunningly concealed was observed at Bergen on Zoom in the yeare 1622. for then and here having received command reiterated by her Highnesse to conduct the Marquise Spinola with all diligence unto the Army which he than had on the Rhyne hee made a thousand excuses to prolong the time and stay him or keepe him backe untill the want of reliefe caused us to rayse the siege And it was told the Marquise than who was in travaile with impatiency during this delay by the Lieutenant of the Artillery Wyngart by name that he would loose his head if Count Henry de Bergh whom he had knowne by long experience did arriue before the occasion should be let slip He thought to have played the same prancke two yeares after in like manuer to divert the siege of Breda making profer of an enterprise upon Ravensteyn afterward upon the Grave and lastly upon the Castle of Genepe The cunning Letters which after his subtile manner he wrote full of excuses have sufficiently discovered what was his designe They are printed at large in the history of the siege of Breda composed and set forth by Father Hermanus Hugo The confidence which her Highnesse had euer since in his fidelity for the releeuing of Groll In the yeare 1627. was the cause why wee lost that City For being there was a difference risen betweene two Maisters of the Campe for the vantguard being of different Nations hee instead that hee should haue rid them out of the Field and done as it befitted him for his Maiesties service hee counsels the one not to yeild to the other by that meanes in the meane time to prevent them both from defeating a Convoy which eased and refreshed the Enemie for want of which Convoy the Enemie must of necessity haue raised the siege Hee was put to his excuse and 〈◊〉 quitted because his authority was not great enough for the deciding the preeminence of Nations But let vs see if hee hath better be haued himselfe when hee had receiued more authority The City named Shortogenbosch was besieged by the Prince of Orange in the yeare of our Lord 1629. Wee than praised God because the Enemie was fallen before a City which was able to defend it selfe and hold out vntill releife should come Her Highnesse at that time vsed so much diligence that in few dayes wee had a most flourishing Army on Foote and able to make a strong assault There was onely question made who should command the same the Marquis Spinola than being absent In the end this was the resolution that Count Henry de Bergh should haue the honour and to this end hee was sent for by her Highnesse No sooner was hee come to Bruxels but hee began to propound an hundred difficulties one after another and frame excuses to the end that the Enemie might gaine the more time to fortifie themselues In these extremicies and by reason of the confidence which wee had in him and partly by reason of his experience nothing was denied him which hee demanded Many dayes passed in these entermedlings but in the end hee goes to Field and was by the way so great hast he made from the 3. of June to the 27. and than hee found that the besieged had not yet lost one Inch of ground of all their outworkes although the quarters of the Enemie were in good reasonable defence The advice of the most part of the Colonels was to open Trench against trench and weary out the enimie in such sort that hee should not bee able to disquiet the besieged and so expect vntill the Autumne should bee past and than the waters would cause him to depart of his owne accord or at the leastwise bee constrained to forsake some quarter or other by which meanes wee might haue a way opened to bring in Munition and soldiers and necessaries as much as should be required for the deliuerance of the City Count Henry cannot approue this enterprise indeed hee made tryall of some others in those places which were most fortified and contented himselfe with this conclusion that the Enemies trenches were not possible to bee entred Hauing therefore intended a diuersion of his Army hee leaues the siege and sends to hazard the passage of the Yssel by Lucas Cayro who hauing passed happily hee followed him and ioynes the Imperiall Army with theirs which Army was come for our aid and reliefe And what doth hee than hee begins to treat with the Burgomaisters of Cities onely to replenish his owne Coffers and famish the fairest and compleatest Army which had beene seene in a long time in stead of demanding vp those places where there were neither soldiers nor munition and which doubtlesse would haue surrendred at the very sight of a stock of a tree or the smallest and simplest stroake which could haue beene made at them You shall obserue