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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29339	A breviate of the proceedings of France, from the Pyrenaean Treaty to this time as also I. The speech of Monsieur Zierowsky, the Emperor's Embassador to the King of Poland, II. A memorial presented by the said Embassador to the King of Poland, III. A letter from Monsieur Du Vernay to Count Tekeley, IV. A letter from Count Tekeley to Monsieur Du Vernay, V. A letter from Monsieur Peter Jaigel, Governour of Cassovia, to Monsieur De Vernay.		1684 (1684)	Wing B4414; ESTC R22585	46,143	194

discovered in Switzerland But being so cunning as to carry their business private and to surprize the Person as he passed from one City to another they carry'd him into France where he was broken alive upon the Wheel after he had endeavour'd to escape the Torments of his Execution by an Action more resolute than Christian-like For having found in the hole of the Prison where he lay a piece of Glass he cut off his Privy Members and hid them under the Bed that the Jaylor might not know what he had done but in regard he could not stanch the blood so well but that some drops would fall from the wound besides that his Colour plainly shewed that something more than ordinary ailed him the Jaylor would see whence the Blood came So that after a short search having found what was hidden under the Bed all in a puddle of Blood he went and gave the Judges notice of it who being resolv'd to make him a publick Example hasten'd to give Sentence Thereupon they condemn'd him to be broken upon the Wheel and fearing he might not have strength enough to be carry'd to the common place of Execution or that he might dye if they delay'd till the Afternoon Order was given for the immediate Erecting of a Scaffold before the Prison-door and for his speedy Execution The Triple Alliance which France did not foresee astonish'd her so that altho she had promis'd her self the Conquest of the greatest Part of all Flanders she was oblig'd nevertheless to lay down her Arms not but then she had an Army on foot of above a Hundred Thousand Men but in regard that England and Holland made great Preparations by Sea and that she had no Fleet was able to resist two such potent Enemies she was afraid least the English and Hollanders while her Forces were imployed in Flanders might land either in Normandy or Britainy and strike a panick Terror into the heart of his Kingdom France having thus made a Peace as it were by Constraint she plotted nothing more than to revenge her self upon those who had contributed most effectually toward it Now it being apparent that the United Provinces had been most active upon that occasion and that all Europe owed the Peace which it enjoy'd to Them it was their Lot to feel the weight of his Fury yet was she careful to watch her Opportunity before she brake forth into an open Blaze of Revenge For Holland being as yet in League with England and Swedland therefore there must be a way found out to divide her from two such Potent Friends who being United were still sufficiently powerful to disappoint all the French Designs Which as France had still watch'd to bring to pass it was not long before an Opportunity offer'd it self by reason of an unhappy difference between the English and Dutch about Trade Nor did France then take any care as she had formerly done to offer her Mediation to close up the breach between the Two Nations but on the contrary used all means to incense the King of England yet underhand set on foot a Treaty with the Hollanders least they should have any thoughts of making Peace with Great Britain The Hollanders who had often prov'd the good Effects of the French Succours when they had any quarrel with England believ'd they would be still as effectual depending upon the King of France who ceased not to amuse 'em with daily hopes But while they were thus as they thought upon a conclusion with Him to oppose the King of England who was making powerful Preparations against 'em by Sea they were not a little surpriz'd to find that the two Princes were joyn'd both together and that while the English attack'd 'em by Sea the French were to fall upon them by Land and that with a Force so numerous and dreadful that the Memory of History had not Parallel'd the like out of France in a long time And then it was that the United Provinces found themselves in a strange Disorder for tho they wanted neither Ships nor Money yet had they not an Army sufficient to oppose the King of France who had brought his Forces already into the Country about Cologne from whence he intended to make the Attack In the midst of these Troubles to levy Men in Holland was look'd upon as a Remedy that would but little avail when Peace enjoy'd for so many years had render'd the People more fit for Trade than War raw Souldiers not being proper to make resistance against inur'd and hardy veterans Therefore the Hollanders sent into Germany to raise Forces and to treat with those Princes from whom they expected aid but all Europe was so astonish'd at the prodigious Army and Preparations of France that every one kept his own Force at home out of a Jealousie least France under a pretence of assailing the Low Countries should break into Germany The Hollanders at that time had no more than Five and Twenty Thousand Men for tho they had given out Commissions to all that proffered their Service yet they could reckon upon none but those that were drawn down to the general Rendevouze But that which yet enfeebl'd their Condition the more was that De Wit the Pensionary of Holland had always kept the Prince of Orange at a distance from the Management of Affairs and therefore being a better Politician than Souldier yet one who would have a hand in every thing the main business was carried with much Disorder and Confusion There was also one thing more which very much contributed to the Ruin of the State tho at that time not discovered which was that the King of France had Intelligence of every thing that was acted in the Country by means of Mombas then in the Service of the Republic which had given him a considerable Command in the Army He was a Frenchman born so that he was easily gain'd to the King by the Industry of Des Roches Captain of the Prince of Conde's Guards and his near Relation and who had prevail'd with him to take a Journey into France the Winter before where he had been discoursed with by Monsieur the Prince This Conjuncture of Accidents had been sufficient to have utterly ruined the State according to humane probability had not God determin'd the contrary At what time the King of France being ready to enter the Country the States assembled together to consider of the best way for the Defence of their Dominions Monsieur the Prince of Orange who maugre all the shuffling and juggling of De Wit was chosen Captain General for the States advis'd the quitting of all the Places above the Rhine to put in Ten Thousand Souldiers into Maestrick and to encamp with the rest at Bodegrave as being a most advantageous Post to secure Holland Monsieur D' Opdam and Celidrek who spake in the behalf of the Nobility were of the same Opinion but the rest being of a contrary Judgmeni it was resolved that they should hold all