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A51199	The commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc, mareschal of France wherein are describ'd all the combats, rencounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, scalado's, the taking and surprizes of towns and fortresses, as also the defences of the assaulted and besieg'd : with several other signal and remarkable feats of war, wherein this great and renowned warriour was personally engag'd, in the space of fifty or threescore years that he bore arms under several kings of France : together with divers instructions, that such ought not to be ignorant of, as propose to themselves by the practice of arms to arrive at any eminent degree of honor, and prudently to carry on all the exploits of war.; Commentaires de messire Blaise de Monluc. English. 1674	Monluc, Blaise, seigneur de, 1500?-1577.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1674 (1674)	Wing M2506; ESTC R37642	835,371	442

choose each a thousand out of their respective Regiments ordering them to leave their Lieutenants to get their Regiments ready and so sent them into Italy to joyn with the Marquis de Guast Wherefore the said Monsieur d' Anguien humbly besought his Majesty to send me speedily away to him and also requested him that he would please to do something for me as a reward for my former services and an encouragement to more for the time to come Upon which Letter his M●jesty was ple●sed to confer upon me the Office of a Gentleman Waiter which in those times was no ordinary favour nor so cheap as now a days and made me to wait upon him at Dinner commanding me in the afternoon to m●ke my self ready to return into Piedmont which I accordingly did About two of the Clock Monsieur de Anneba●● sent for me to come to the King who was already entred into the Council where there was assisting Monsieur de St. Pol the Admiral Monsieur le Grand Escuyer Gallio● Monsieur de Boissy since grand Escuyer and two or three others whom I have forgot together with the Da●phin who stood behind the Kings Chair and none of them were set but the King himself Monsieur de St. Pol who sate hard by him and the Admiral on the other side of the Table over against the sad Sieur de St. Pol. So soon as I came into the Chamber the King said to me Montluc I would have you return into Piedmont to carry my determination and that of my Council to Monsieur d' Anguien and will that you hear the difficulties we make of giving him leave to fight a Battel according to his desire and thereupon commanded Monsieur de St. Pol to speak The said Monsieur de St. Pol then began to lay open the enterprize of the Emperor and the King of England who within six or seven weeks were determin'd to enter into the Kingdom the one on the one side and the other on the other so that should Monsieur d' Anguien lose the Battel the whole Kingdom would be in danger to be l●st for as much as all the Kings hopes for what concerned his Foot resided in the Regiments he had in Piedmont for that in France there were no other but what were now Legionary Soldiers and that therefore it was much better and more safe to preserve the Kingdom than Piedmant concerning which they were to be on the defensive part and by no means to hazzard a Battel the loss whereof would not only lose Piedmon● but moreover give the Enemy footing on that side of the Kingdom The Admiral said the same and all the rest every one arguing according to his own fancy I twitter'd to speak and offering to interrupt Monsi●ur de Galliot as he was delivering his opinion Monsieur de St. Pol made a sign to me with his hand saying not too fast not too fast which made me hold my peace and I saw the King laugh Monsieur le Dauphin said nothing I believe it is not the custom though the King would have him present that he might learn for before Princes there are evermore very eloquent debates but not always the soundest determinations for they never speak but by halves and always sooth their Masters humor for which reason I should make a very scurvy Courtier for I must ever speak as I think The King then said these words to me Montluc have you heard the Reasons for which I cannot give Monsieur d' Anguien leave to fight to which I made answer that I had both heard and weigh'd them very well but that if his Majesty would please to give me leave to deliver my opinion I would very gladly do it not that nevertheless for that his Majesty should any ways alter what had already been determin'd in his Counc●l His Majesty then told me that he would permit me so to do and that I might freely say whatsoever I would Whereupon I began after this manner I remember it as well as it had been but three days ago God has given me a very great memory in these kind of things for which I render him hearty thanks for it is a great contentment to me now that I have nothing else to do to recollect my former fortunes and to call to mind the former passages of my life to set them truly down without any manner of addition for be they good or bad you shall have them as they are SIR I Think my self exceedingly happy as well that you are pleased I shall deliver my poor opinion upon a subject that has already been debated in your Majesties Council as also that I am to speak to a Warlike King for both before your Majesty was call'd to this great charge which God has conferr'd upon You and also since you have as much tempted the fortune of War as any King that ever rul'd in France and that without sparing your own Royal Person any more than the meanest Gentleman of your Kingdom wherefore I need not fear freely to deliver my opinion being to speak both to a King and a Soldier Here the Dauphin who stood behind the Kings Chair and just over against me gave me a nod with his head by which I guess'd he would have me to speak boldly and that gave me the greater assurance though in plain truth I had ever confidence enough and fear never stop'd my mouth Sir said I we are betwixt five and six thousand Gascons upon the List for yo●r Majesty knows that the Companies are never fully compleat neither can all ever be at the Battel but I make account we shall be five th●usand and five or six hundred Gascons compleat that I dare make good to your Majesty upon my H●nor Of these every Captain and Soldier will present you with a List of all their names and the places from ●h●●ce we come and will engage our heads to you all of us to fight in the day of Battel if your Majesty will please to grant it and give us leave to fight 'T is the only thing we have so long expected and desir'd without sneaking thus up and down from place to place and hiding our heads in corners Believe me Sir the world has not more resolute Soldiers than these are they desire nothing more than once to come to the decision of Arms. To these there are thirteen Ensigns of Swisse Of which the fix of St Julien I know much better than those of le Baron which Fourly commands yet I have seen them all muster'd and there may be as many of them as of ours These will make you the same promise we do who are your natural Subjects and deliver in the names of all to be sent to their Cantons to the end that if any man fail in his duty he may be be cashier'd and degraded from all practice of Arms for ever A condition to which they are all ready to submit as they assured me at my

himself the first that ran away Thus shall the reputation of a man of honor let him be as brave as he will be brought into dispute with all the world When there is no more to be done a man ought not to be obstinate b●t to give way to fortune which does not always smile A man is no less worthy of blame for wilfully losing himself when he may retire and sees himself at the last extremity than he who shamefully runs away at the first encounter Yet the one is more dirty than the other and this difference there is betwixt them that the one will make you reputed rash and hair-brain'd and the other a Poltron and a Coward Both extreams are to be avoided You are never to enter into these ridiculous and senseless resolutions but when you see your selves fallen into the hands of a barbarous and merciless Enemy and there indeed you are to fight it to the last gasp and sell your skin as dear as you can One desperate man is worth ten others But to fly as they did here without seeing who pursues you is infamous and unworthy the courage of a man It 's true that the French man is accus'd for one thing that is that he runs and fights for company and so do others as well as they There are ill workmen of all Trades Now after the place was surrendred I will tell you how I cam● to know the Enemies disorder It was by the people of Carignan themselves and from Signior Pedro de Colonna's own mouth who related it to Snsanne in the presence of Captain Renovard who conducted him to the King by the command of Monsieur d' Anguien according to his capitulation after the Battel of Serizolles which you shall have an account of in its proper place The breaking of this Bridge was not undertaken but upon very mature consideration and the Enemy soon after began to be very much distress'd being no relief was to be had from Quiers as before they had every night duly received So soon as Monsieur de Tais and Signior Ludovlco de Birago had heard the success of this enterprize of the Bridge they sent word to Monsieur de Boitieres that if he would come into those parts where they were they believ'd they might carry Ivreé Whereupon both Monsieur de Boitieres and his Council were of opinion that he ought to go leaving Garrisons at Pingues Vinus Vigon and other places nearest to Carignan And as I remember Monsieur d' Aussun with twelve or fourteen Italian Ensigns and three or four of ours his own and some other Troops of Horse which I have forgot remain'd behind to command in chief The Enemy had no Horse at all at Carignan which was the reason they were kept to short on every side Monsieur de Boitieres then departed with Messieurs de Termes de St. Iulien President Birague and the Sieur de Mauré and went to joyn Forces at St. Iago and St. Germaine and afterwards sate down before Ivreé where we did just nothing because it was not possible to break the Causey that damm'd up the water which thing could it have been done we had infallibly taken the place forasmuch as there was no other defence but the River on that side but we were constrain'd to let it alone and to go to besiege St. Martin which also we took upon composition after it had stood out two or three hundred Canon shot and some other places thereabouts And as we were returning towards Chivas in the interim of the Siege of Ivreé Monsieur de Boitieres had notice given him that Monsieur d' Aussun was coming to command in his stead The King in truth was highly dissatisfied with him both for that he had suffer'd Carignan at so much leisure to be fortified and also upon other particular accounts A man must walk very upright to satisfie all the world The said Sieur de Boitieres was however very angry at it and 't was said thereupon withdrew from before Ivreé in despite which otherwise in the end 't was thought he might have taken but I am not of that opinion So it was that Monsieur d' Anguien arrived bringing with him for supplies seven Companies of Swiss● commanded by a Colonel call'd le Baron and as I remember it was at this time that Monsieur de Dros with seven or eight Ensigns what of Provençals and Italians came up also and Monsieur de Boitieres retir'd to his own house in Dauphiné There is much to do in this world a●d those who are in great command are never without vexation for if they be two adventurous and come by the worst they are look'd upon as fools and mad men if tedious and slow they are despised nay reputed Cowards the wife therefore are to observe a mean betwixt both Our Masters in the mean time will not be paid with these discourses they expect to have their business done but we must ever be prating and censuring others when were we in the same condition we should find we had enough to do The End of the First Book THE COMMENTARIES OF Messire Blaize de Montluc MARESCHAL of FRANCE The Second Book AT the arrival of this brave and generous Prince which promis'd great successes under his conduct he being endu'd with an infinite number of shining qualities as being gentle affable valiant wise and liberal all the French and all those who bore arms in our favour did very much rejoyce and particularly I because he had a kindness for me and was pleased to set a higher esteem upon me than I could any way deserve Af●er he had taken a view of all the Forces Magazines and Places that we held and that he had taken order for all things after the b●st manner he could about the beginning of March he dispatch'd me away to the King to give his Majesty an account how affairs stood and withal to acquaint him that the Marquis de Guast was raising a very great Army to whom new succours of Germans were also sent and moreover that the Prince of Salerna was also coming from Naples with six or seven thousand Italians under his command It was at the time when the Emperor and the King of England were agreed and combin'd together join●ly to invade the Kingdom of France which they had also divided betwixt them I had waited at Court near upon three weeks for my dispatch having already acquitted my self of my Commission which was in sum only to demand some succours of the King and to obtain leave to fight a Battel And about the end of the said Month came Letters also to the King from Monsieur d' Anguien wherein he gave him notice that seven thousand Germans were already arriv'd at Millan of the best of those the Emperor had had before Landreci where there were seven Regiments of them but being he could not at that time fight with the King he commanded the seven Colonels to

mischiefs it has since produc'd which rightly to comprehend let us consider the happiness wherewith God was pleas'd to bless this Kingdom in giving it ●o brave and magnanimous a King his Kingdom rich and his people so affectionately obedient that they would deny him nothing to assist him in his Conquests together with so many great and brave Captains most of which had been yet alive had they not devour'd one another in these late civil Wars Oh had this good King but liv'd or this unlucky peace never been made he would have sent the Lutherans packing into Germany with a vengeance As to the rest our good Master had four Sons all Princes of great hope and singular expectation and such as from whom his Majesty in his declining years might expect the repose and comfort of his old Age and consider them ● proper instruments for the execution of his high and generous designs The other Kings his neighbours could not boast of this for the King of Spain had one Son only of which never any one conceiv'd any great hopes and he prov'd accordingly the Kingdom of England was in the Government of a Woman the Kingdom of Scotland neighbour to ●● stood for us and was ours France having a Dolphin King by all which any one may judge that had not this unlucky peace been concluded the Father or his Sons had sway'd all Europe Piedmont the Nursery of brave men had been ours by which we had a door into Italy and perhaps a good step into it and we had seen all things turn'd topsie ●urvy Then those who have so brav'd and harassed this Kingdom durst not have shew'd their heads have stirr'd nor so much as projected or thought of what they have executed since But 't is done and past without any possible remedy and nothing remains to us but sorrow and affliction for the loss of so good and so valiant a King and to me of so gracious and liberal a Master with the mishaps that have since befallen this miserable Kingdom well may we call it so in comparison of what it was before when we stil'd it the most great and opulent Kingdom in Arms good Captains the obedience of the people and in riches that was in the whole world After this unhappy and unfortunate peace the King retir'd himself to Beauvais but Monsieur de Guise still remain'd in the Camp to dismiss the Army Before his Majesties departure I surrendred up the Commission he had made me to accept by force Neither ought it to appear strange that I disputed it so long before I would take that employment upon me for I doubted well that would befal me which afterwards did which was to incur the perpetual disgrace of the House of Montmorency more than that of Chastillon which was more nearly concern'd in the affair than the other But there is no remedy a man cannot live in this world without contracting some Enemies unless he were a God I accompanied Monsieur de Guise as far as Beauvais and from thence retir'd to Paris he having first promis'd to obtain me leave to go into Gascony and moreover to cause money to be given me to defray my journey thither for he knew very well I had not one peny Both which I am confident he would have perform'd but so soon as he came to Beauvais he found a new face of affairs others having slept in betwixt him and home and undermined him in his credit with the King Thus goes the world but it was a very sudden change and much wondred at by those who had follow'd him in the Conquests he had made he having repair'd all the disasters of others and manifested to the King of Spain that neither the loss of the Battel of S. Quintine nor that of Graveline had reduc'd the King to such a condition but that he had yet one or two Armies stronger than those having as to the rest taken almost impregnable places But let them deal it out These are things that very often fall out in the Courts of Princes and I wonder not that I have had my share since far greater than I have run the same fortune and will do for the time to come Now the King of Navarre had been driving on some enterprize or another in Bis●ay which in the end prov'd double and entreated the King to give me leave to go along with him for that he was resolv'd to execute it in his own person having an opinion that Monsieur de B●ry had fail'd through his own default and so I went along with him without any other advantages from Court than bare promises only and the good will of the King my Master but he was diver●ed from his liberalities both to me and to others who deserv'd it as well and perhaps better than I. We went then to Bayonne where we found that he who was entrusted to carry on this affair and whose name was Gamure plaid double and intended to have caused the King of Navarre himself to be taken whereupon he sent back Monsieur de Duras with the Legionnaries and also the Bearnois he had caus'd to advance thither in order to his design I had brought with me three force and five Gentlemen all arm'd and bravely mounted who were come thither for the love they bore to me and being return'd home to my own house within a very few days after came the gift the King had been pleas'd to give me of the Company of Gens d' armes become vacant by the death of Monsieur de la Guiche wherein his Majesty had no little to do to be as good as his word and to disengage himself from the several Traverses and obstacles my Enemies strew'd in his way to hinder me from having that command nevertheless the King carried it against them all more by anger than otherwise he being in the end constrained to tell them that he had made me a promise of the first vacancy and would be as good as his word and that therefore no man was to speak a word more to the contrary I made my first muster at Beaumont de Loumaigne one la Peyrie being Muster-Master At this time those unhappy Marriages were solemniz'd and those unfortunate Triumphs and Tiltings held at Court The joy whereof was very short and lasted but a very little space the death of the King ensuing upon it running against that accursed Montgomery who I would to God had never been born for his whole life was nothing but mischief and he made as miserable an end Being one day at Nerac the King of N●varre shew'd me a Letter that Monsieur de Guise had writ him wherein he gave him notice of the days of Tilting in which the King himself was to be in person his Majesty with the Dukes de Guise de Ferrara and de Nemours being Challengers I shall never forget a word I said to the King of Navarre which also I had often heard spoken before

which case there is still some danger and it is hard to be subtle enough for a Traitor Before I departed from Bourdeaux I in the morning assembled the Attorney General the General de Gourgues Captain Verre and my Nephew the Si●ur de Leberon to whom I would communicate what I had fancied with my self upon the news that daily came from Court of the di●●idence and discontent the Prince of Condé was in and what I should do if I were in his place In which discourse they may remember I told them that if the Prince could pass he would infallibly come into Xaintonge having Rochelle and almost all the Country at his devotion that the Isles when they should see Forces in Xaintonge and at Rochelle and Monsieur de la Rochefoucault so near them would presently revolt and that then the said Prince and the Hugonots would resolutely turn all their designs this way for in France Roan was no longer theirs which being gone they had not one Port-Town at their devotion and that it would be in them a ridiculous and a senseless thing to begin a third War without first having a Sea-Port in their power Now they could not possibly make choice of one of greater advantage to them than that of Rochelle on which depends that of Brouage which is absolutely the fairest and the most commodious Haven in all the Kingdom for being there they might have succours out of Germany Flanders England Scotland Brittany and Normandy all of them Countries abounding in people of their own Religion so that in truth should the King give them their choice to Canton themselves in any Port of the Kingdom they could not possibly choose a more advantageous nor a more commodious place They all approv'd of my discourse as being near the truth which I had fram'd in the Night as I lay considering the state of our affairs for so I used to pass part of the time in bed and this waking fancy of mine seem'd to presage almost as much disaster and misfortune as the dreams I had dreamt of King Henry and King Charles Having entertain'd them with this discourse I then proceeded to tell them that it would be convenient to find out some fit remedies against the evil before it should arrive for to communicate this conceipt to their Majesties without proposing at the same time some way to frustrate the Enemies designs were I thought to make them neglect my intelligence and to slight my advice We therefore fell to considering that to prevent the mishaps which seem'd to threaten us there was no other way than by making Forts upon the sea and betimes to secure the Ports which with four Ships and as many Shalops to lie at Chedebois la Palice and the mouth of the Harbour at Broüage might sufficiently be provided for and that the Ports being once our own neither English nor any other of their Party could or would attempt to come into their assistance knowing they were to land at places where they are almost always certain to meet with very tempestuous weather and that Seamen will never venture out to sea to go to any place unless they are first sure of a free and a secure Harbour to lie in and on the other side that our Ships lying about the Isles would so awe the Inhabitants that they would never dare to revolt and our men of War would so keep Rochelle as it were besieged that it must of necessity in a little time either wholly submit to the Kings devotion or at least contein themselves quiet without attempting any thing of commotion All which being remonstrated to them we unanimously concluded that I ought to send an account thereof to the King and Queen Now the next thing we were to consider of was which way the money was to be raised to equip these Vessels and to pay the men and as to that we made account that with ten thousand Francs and two thousand sacks of Corn which I offer'd of my own for the making of Biscuit we should set them out to sea General Gorgues would undertake also to cause Cattel to be sent from the upper Country upon the account of his own credit and all upon the confidence we had that his Majesty would in time reinburse us The Attor●ey General then dealt very earnestly with the said Sieur de Gorgues to perswade the Jurats monethly to advance something towards the charge and moreover to levy the Custom which the present T●easurer had obtein'd from the Privy Council and snipt from the Kings Revenue though the Graunt had not yet been executed by reason that the Receiver of Bourdeaux had oppos'd him in his claim pretending it to be a Member of his Farm insomuch that the Treasurer out of spite had forborn to execute his Warrant which when the Jurats should see was to be laid out for the publick good not only in the behalf of his Majesties particular interest but moreover for the benefit of their own City every one would lay to his helping hand so that what with this and what with the foremention'd advance it would not for the future cost the King a penny The Attorney General and the said Sieur de Gorgues then with Captain Verre cast up the account before me which being done we concluded that the Sieur de Leberon should go carry an account of all to the Queen very well knowing that her Majesty would better understand the business than any of the Council whereupon I accordingly dispatcht away the said Sieur de Leberon post to Court The Queen hearkned to all my said Nephew had to deliver with very great patience returning him answer thereupon that she would propound is to the Council which she did and three dayes after told him that the Council did by no means approve of the motion which I believe was occasion'd by some ones buzzing into their ears that I made this Proposition more out of a desire to range along the Coast than out of any reason there was to suspect any such thing as I fancied should fall out I remember very well that I gave my said Nephew further in charge to tell the Queen that I had been so unfortunate in all the advices I had presum'd to offer to her Majesty that she had never been pleased to give any credit to any of them notwithstanding that her Majesty had so often been convinc'd that they had been alwayes good and my intelligences continually true but that I did most humbly beseech her to give credit to me once in her life only which if she did not she would I doubted repent it and that it would be too late to be remedied when the misfortune should be once arriv'd but all these remonstrances signified nothing and she sent me back my said Nephew without any other answer but this that the Kings Council had not approv'd of the thing Which prov'd very ill I believe had her Majesty been pleased to follow my counsel the

a good round trot and their Launces ready in the Rest. Which made me say to those of our Company these people are ready for us and therefore I do not think it convenient to charge in amongst them lest instead of taking some of the chief of them it fare with us as with the Scotch man who took a Tartar So that we return'd without attempting any thing more upon them but I am yet of opinion that had not that rascally man of mine play'd me that dog-trick I had taken some man or other of Command amongst them As we were upon our return the Gentleman I spoke of before accosting me said these words Jesu Captain Montluc what danger was this Battel in once to day of being lost To which I who had neither seen nor heard of any disorder and thought that the last we had defeated had been those of Carignan who were drawn out of their Garrison to be present at the Battel made answer why which way were we in any danger seeing that all day we have had the victory in our hands I perceive then said he that you know nothing of the disorder has happened and thereupon told me all that had befallen in the Battel As God shall help me I do believe that had he given me two stabs with a dagger I should not have bled for my heart was shrunk up and I was sick at the news in which fright I continued for three nights after starting up in my sleep and dreaming continually of a defeat Thus then we arriv'd at the Camp where Monsieur d' Ang●●en was to whom I went and making my horse curver said to him sportingly these words What think you Sir am I not as pretty a fellow on horseback as I am on foot to which he made answer though yet very melancholy you will always behave your self very well both in the one posture and in the other and bowing his body was pleased to embrace me in his arms and knighted me upon the place an honor I shall be proud of so long as I live both for being perform'd upon the fi●ld of Battel and by the hand of so generous and so great a Prince Accursed be he that so basely deprived us of him But no more of that I then said to him Sir have I served you to day to your satisfaction for Monsieur de Tais had already told him that I had fought with them on foot to which he replyed Yes Captain Montluc and so well that I will never forget how bravely you have behaved your self neither do I assure you will I conceal it from the King Why then Sir said I it lies in your power to do me the greatest kindness that ever you can do a poor Gentleman so long as you live At which words drawing me a part that no body might hear he asked me what it was that I would have him do for me to which I made answer that it was to dispatch me suddenly away with news of the success of the Battel to the King telling him withal that it was an office more properly belonging to me than any other considering what I had said to his Majesty and his Council to obtain leave to fight and that the last words I had said to the King were that he was only to expect news of the victory To which turning towards me he made answer that it was all the reason in the world and that I should be sent before any other And so all the Army returned victorious to Carmagnolle but as I expected to have been sent away post in the night I was told that Monsieur Descars had gained every one to speak for him that he might go Monsieur de Tais had also passed his word to me but in the end he suffered himself to be overcome as also did Monsieur d' Anguien which was the greatest misfortune that possibly could have befallen me for having overcome the King's Council and their deliberation and that his Majesty had done me the honor to condescend to my opinion here to have carried him the certain news of what I had promised and assured him so few days before I leave every one to judge whether I should have been welcom or no and what wrong I had done me especially having been that day in a great and honorable command and acquitted my self of it to my Generals content It had been a great good fortune for me and also a great honor to have carried to the King what I had before promised and assured him of there was however no remedy and I was forced to submit though they had much ado to appease me but it was to no purpose to be angry or to complain of the injury was done me I have since repented me a thousand times that I did not steal away the same night which if I had done I would have broke my neck or have been the first that should have brought the news to the King and I am confident he would not only himself have taken it in good part but moreover have made my peace with others But I from that time forward gave over all thoughts of advancement and never after expected to come to any thing which made me beg leave of Monsieur d' Anguien to be dismiss'd that I might return into my own Country Which said Seigneur promised me great matters knowing me to be discontented and Monsieur de Tais did the same using all the perswasions he could to make me stay but I press'd my departure so much that at last I obtain'd leave upon my promise to return and for f●rther ass●rance of me the said Sieur d' Anguien made me accept a Commission from him for the speedy raising of one thousand or twelve hundred Foot to bring into Piedmont to recruit the Companies for in plain truth we had lost a great many men Now I shall tell you what advantages accrued to the King from this victory which I only had from Monsieur de Termes to whom the Marquis de Guast had told it lying wounded in bed of a Harqueb●ze shot in his thigh He told him that the Emperor and the King of England were agreed at one and the same time to enter the Kingdom of France each on his own side and that the Emperor had sent him the seven thousand Germans purposely to make him so strong that Monsieur d' Anguien might not dare to fight him and afterwards to march directly to Lom●rias there to throw a Bridge over the River and to put in●o Carignan the provisions that he brought along with him and as much more as he could provide besides and thence to draw out the four thousand Spanish and German Foot who were to return towards Ivré leaving four thousand Italians in their stead which being done he was to send back the seven German Colonels with their Regiments to the Emperor That then there would still remain with him in his Camp five

thousand Germans and as many Spaniards with which at the same time that the King of England should enter the Kingdom he was to descend by the valley of Ostia thorough which he should march straight to Lyons where he should mee● no body to oppose him but the Inhabitants of the C●ty nor any Fortress at all where lying between the two Rivers he might command all the territories of the Duke of Savoy together with Dauphiné and Provence All this was told me by Monsieur de Termes after his return an enterprize that had not been hard to execute had we not won the Battel in which betwixt twelve and fifteen thousand men of the Enemy were slain The victory was very important both in respect of the Prisoners which were many of them very cosiderable as also for the Baggage which was exceedingly rich and besides many places surrendred out of fear and in the end Carignan it self of which I shall not meddle with the particulars because I was not present at the surrender Had they known how to make their advantage of this Battel Millan had been in a tottering condition but we never knew how to improve our victories to the best It is also very true that the King had at this time enough to do to defend his Kingdom from two such powerful enemies His Majesty having intelligence of the great preparation that was made both by the one and the other withdrew the greatest part of his Forces out of Piedmont where I arriv'd at the time when Monsieur de Tais had received a command to bring away all the men he could for I never could stay long at home and never hated any thing so much as my own house so that although I had once put on a resolution for the wrong that had been done me never to go any more into that Country yet when it came too 't I could not forbear to go Monsieur de Tais had made choice of two and twenty Ensigns the Companies whereof were now very well recruited to which he moreover raised a new Company which at my request he was pleased to give to Captain Ceste●geloux who had been assisting to me in the raising and conducting of my men and had formerly carryed my Ensign in the Kingdom of Naples And so we began to set forwards towards France dividing cur Companies into five and five Of these I had the first Division and went before to Suzanne to prevent the Soldiers from getting thither before us and to take order for the provisions much of which I found upon the way going thither which made me redouble my diligence I arrived in the night two hours before day at Villaume and at the Inn where I alighted found Signior Pedro de Colonna whom Captain Renovard carried prisoner to the King according to the capitulation at Carignan They were already got up and the said Captain Renovard carried me into the Chamber of the said Signior who at my coming told me that he understood it was I who had broken the Bridge at Carignan and that had commanded the Harquebusiers at the Battel After which falling into discourse concerning the said Bridge I told him that had his people follow'd their fortune they had found no body to fight with but my self and some forty men at most and that our whole Camp was in so great disorder that had he pursued them we had all been defeated and Captain Renovard also assured him that what I said was true At which after a little pause turning towards me he said E v●i dicete che si la nostra Gente seguto havessi la sua fortuna no havena a combatere piu di voi co quarante soldati havessimo poste in fuga tuta la v●stra gente Io vi dico che si v●i h●vesti seguita la nostra m' haveresti messo ●●●ri di Carignan● per che la mia gente havia pigliato il spavento c●ssi forte che la citta no era bastante di vassecularli Which in English is this You tell me that if our people had followed their fortune they had had to deal with no more of yours than forty Soldiers only and had put your whole Camp to flight And I tell you that had you pursued your fortune you had driven me out of Carignan forasmuch as my people had taken so terrible a fright that the strength of the City had not been sufficient to reassure them And thereupon told us the great disorder his people were in saying that he had once thought the Spaniards had been men without fear but that he was now satisfied they had as much of that passion about them as other men and that he was then in so great extremity that he was constrained to throw himself before the Gare to try to stop them but that in so doing he was like to have been born down by the torrent and that they entred in such a crowd that they had like to have lifted the Gate 〈◊〉 the hinges And so soon said he as they were all entred in this disorder I step'd to the Gate to clap it to and knowing all the Captains call'd them name by name to come to help me but not a man would come inso much that had it not been for a servant of my own that heard me call out and came to my assistance I could never have shut it Nay the disorder in the Town was moreover so great that above four hundred threw themselves over the Curtines who in the morning returning back were ready to dye for shame and this is the reason why I have told you that if you had followed your fortune you had taken the Town with forty men By which account of his I knew the Proverb to be true that says Que si l'ost sçavoit ce que fait l'ost souvent l'on defferoi● l'ost Now notwithstanding that after the surrender of Carignan the ●nhabitants of the City assured us of this disorder yet could we not by any means believe it especially at the first or at least that it could be so great it seem'd so unlikely and so exceedingly strange but after it had been confess'd by their Governor himself we were bound to believe it to be true and that they were pursued by some Phantome or possessed by some evil spirit for we did them no harm being as much frighted as they and and it may be more But the night is terrible when a man cannot see by whom he is assanlted However this make me conclude that all befel me through good fortune for it cannot be called valour but rather the greatest folly that any man could commit and I do believe that of all the good fortune God has pleased to bestow upon me this was the most remarkable and the most stange but let us proceed to our business The thirst of Revenge had prompted the Emperor contrary to the faith he had engaged to the Pope to league and

confederate himself with the King of England who was fallen off from his obedience to the holy Chair out of despite which two Princes as it was said had divided the Kingdom for so both the Marquis de Guast told Monsieur de Termes and I have since heard the same from an English Gentleman at Boulogne but however it was but disputing the bears skin France well united within it self can never be conquer'd till after the loss of a dozen Battels considering the brave Gentry whereof it is fruitful and the strong places wherewith it abounds And I conceive they are deceiv'd who say that Paris being taken France is lost It is indeed the Treasury of the Kingdom and an unexhausted Magazine where all the richest of the whole Nation unlade their Treasure and I do believe in the whole world there is not such a City for 't is an old saying that there is not a Crown in Paris but yields ten Sols revenue once a year but there are so many other Cities and strong places in the Kingdom as are sufficient to destroy thirty Armies So that it would be easie to rally together and to recover that from them again before they could conquer the rest unless the Conqueror would depopulate his own Kingdom to repeople his new Conquest I say this because the design of the King of England was to run directly up to Paris whilst the Emperor should enter into Champagne The Forces of these two Princes being join'd together consisted of fourscore thousand Foot and twenty thousand Horse with a prodigious train of Artillery by which any man may judge whether our King had not enough to do and whether it was not high time to look about him Without all doubt these poor Princes have greater care and trouble upon them than the inferior forts of men and I am of opinion the King did very well to call back his Forces out of Piedmont though some are pleased to say that the State of Millan might otherwise have been won and that the Emperor would have been necessitated to have called back his Forces out of France to defend that Dutey but all this depended upon event So it was that God would not suffer these Princes to agree betwixt themselves each of them being bent upon his own particular advantage and I have often heard and sometimes seen that when two Princes jointly undertake the Conquest of a Kingdom they never agree for each of them is always 〈◊〉 of being over reach'd by his companion and evermore jealous of one another I have not I confess much conversed with Books but I have heard say that after this manner we first lost the Kingdom of Naples and were cheated by the King of Spain This suspition and jealousie at this time preserved us as it has at other times ●one se●●ral others as the H●storians report For my part I should more apprehend one great single Enemy than two who would divide the Cake between them there will always be some exceptions taken and two Nations do not easily agree as you see here The English King came and sat down before Boulogne which was basely surrendred to him by the Si●ur de Vervin who lost his life for his labour an example that ought to be set before all such as undertake the defence of strong holds This by no means pleased the Spaniard who reap'd no advantage by it saw very well that his confederate would only intend his own business Our Colon●l Monsi●ur de Tais brought three and twenty Ensigns to the King being all the same which had been at the Battel saving one n●w Company but I fell sick at Troyes and came not up to the Army till they were advanc'd near to Boulogne where the said Sieur de Tais delivered me the Patent his Majesty had sent me for the Office of Camp-Master but there was nothing done worthy remembrance till the Camisado of Boulogne As we arrived near to la Marquise the Dauphin who commanded the Army had intelligence that it was three or four days since the Town had been taken though he knew it before and that the K●ng of England was embarked and gone for England It is to be presumed that this Prince had made such hast away only to avoid fighting forasmuch as he had left all things in so great disorder for in the first place we found all his Artillery before the Town in a Meadow that lies upon the descent towards the Tower of Ordre secondly there was found above thirty Casks full of Corslers which he had caused to be brought out of Germany therewith to arm his Soldiers which he had left for the defence of the Town thirdly he had left all the ammunition of victual as Corn Wine and other things to eat in the lower Town insomuch that if Monsieur de Teligni be yet living as I am told he is the Father of this who is a Huguenot and who treated the peace during these troubles and was taken upon the Camisado in the lower Town where not one man but himself escap'd alive he will bear witness that there was not in the higher Town provision to serve four days for himself told it me The occasion of the Camisado was this A Son in law of the Mareschal de Bies not this fine Monsieur de Vervin but another whose name I have forgot came to Monsieur de Tais and told him that a Spy of his who came from Boulogne had assured him that as yet nothing had been remov'd to the higher Town but that all still remained below and that if they would speedily attempt to take the lower Town which might easily be done they would in eight days time have the upper come out to them with ropes about their necks and that if Monsieur de Tais so pleased he would in the morning lead him where he might himself discover all the Spy morcover affirming that as yet not one breach in the wall was repaired but that all lay open as if it were a village Upon this information Monsieur de Tais was impatient to go to take a view of all and took me along with him together with this Son in law of the Mareschal We might be about a hundred Horse drawn out of the several Troops and just at the break of day we arrived before the Town leaving the Tower of Ordre some two or three hundred paces on the right hand and saw five or six Pavillions upon the descent in the great high way leading to the Gate of the City We were no more than five or six Horse only Monsieur de Tais having left the rest behind a little Hill This Son in law of the Mareschal and I therefore went down to the first Pavillion and passed close by it into the Camp on the left hand till we came to the second from whence we discovered all their Artillery at no further distance than fourfcore paces only nei●her did