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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

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

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

assaulted Gravelin but could not recover it in a Moneth for the Garrison was strong and resolute Many brave Actions hapned in this attempt the besiegers and besieged behaved themselves very gallantly at last they capitulated upon honorable terms the Eight and twentieth of August In the interim the Dukes of Modena and Navailes took Mortera for the French This first hath always been devoted to the Crown of France The Spaniard endeavored to take from the French some little places which they recovered but it is certain that the Spaniard was the greater looser Therefore the Princes of the Empire assembled together to consult about the chusing of another Emperor at Franckfort sent to desire his Majesty of France to hearken to an Accommodation The King of Spain Philip the Fourth had caused some Overtures of Peace to be made by the Popes Mediation The French Court entertained them willingly upon condition of a match between the young King and the Infanta of Spain When the King was at Lions an Envoy came to him from Madrid about this Negotiation The Cardinal had orders to have a private Conference with him to make way for the Ambassadors de Lionne and Pimentel The first was dispatched away to Madrid the second went to Paris They dealt so effectually that all Differences were composed Articles were concluded and the great breach was made up to the satisfaction of both Princes and Kingdoms The Queen-Mother was not a little useful in this business for when the Cardinal did seem to put in some Demurs she declared That the Peace should be made without him for that she was resolved that her Son should match with one of her own Kinred The Kings indisposition had almost ruined this Affair for he fell dangerously sick but he recovered after a few days distemper Afterwards he made a progress into the farthest confines of his Kingdom for there had been some discontents and disorders about Lions Burgundy and Provence which could not be terminated without his coming When he was at Lions the Duke of Savoy came to wait upon him This Prince is so near a Neighbor to France that he is forced to keep his friendship for fear of loosing his Principality which hath been several times in great danger to be swallowed up by this great Monarch at the least distaste In the mean time the Spanish gravity was very slow in concluding the Peace that Court trifled away the time in Consultations and Meetings whilest the Spring of the next year 1659. was coming on apace Which caused the King to give order for new levies of Soldiers to appoint Generals and Commanders as if he had intended to prosecute the War as vigorously as before This made the Spaniard desire a Truce of four Moneths from the eighth of March to the third of July which was granted the King That it should continue till his Declaration to the contrary ordered In order to a Peace Mazarin went to Bayonne and Don Louïs d' Aro de Gusman came to S. Sebastians to treat more commodiously These two Plenipotentiaries at last concluded and signed the Articles the seventh of November next ensuing The Inhabitants of S. Sebastian of S. John de Luz and of the Neighboring Cities declared their satisfaction and joy by Bonefires and other publick signs Whilst the business was in debate the French Court was at Bourdeaux and Tholouse that it might be sooner consulted in all difficult Matters After the conclusion of the Treaty the French King sent a Procuration to Don Louïs d' Aro to espouse the Infanta of Spain in his name The Marriage was performed in Fontarabia in the presence of the Court of Spain the third day of June The two Kings met in the Isle of Conference scituate between both Kingdoms where the young Queen was delivered to her Husband and both Kings swore to keep and confirmed to one another the Treaty of Peace After this interview they separated the French King and Queen was received at S. John de Luz with much pomp and Joy and in their journey to Paris every good City in their way expressed their extraordinary satisfaction for the Marriage and Peace between the two Kingdoms But their Reception at Paris was one of the most glorious Ceremonies the most splendid Triumph of our Age. The young Queen was carried in an open Charriot shining with all the riches of the East and West Indies she was attended upon by the whole Court in their greatest splendor and glory The People the Clergy and the Nobility did welcome her with such expressions of joy that they are not credible In the beginning of the next year 1661. on the nineth of March the great Minister of State Cardinal Mazarin paid his last debt to Nature having by his policy raised himself and family from a low beginning to the greatest honors in France The Court was pleased to Mourn for him but they quickly cast off their sad attire when Monsieur of France resolved to marry with the Princess of England A Lady very well accomplished in Beauty and Vertue The publick ceremony was performed on the One and thirtieth of March. There hapned nothing remarkable this year till the latter end The first day of November the Dauphin of France was born to the great joy of all that Kingdom Monsieur de Montausier was appointed to be his Governor One thousand six hundred sixty and two the King made Seventy two Knights of the Order of the S. Esprit all Persons of the greatest Nobility and approved valor In the same year there hapned a difference between the Ambassadors of Spain and France about precedency in the City of London The Spaniards were prepared to receive the French so that the tumult was great and some Bloodshed on both sides The French sent their Complaints to Madrid the King gave them satisfaction and forbad all his Ambassadors for the future to appear in any publick solemnity with the Ambassadors of France for they claim a precedency in all Courts of Europe unless it be in Vienna where the House of Austria are Lords The King of Spain preferred in this occasion the Peace and Quiet of his Kingdoms to this odd Punctilio of Honor. This year was spent in Sports and publick Divertisements of the Gentry and Nobility at court till the Moneth of November Then the French Ambassador in England had Orders to demand the restitution of Dunkirk to the French for a sum of Money according to their pretended Agreement with Cromwel It was generally supposed by the wisest in France that the English would never part with a place so well fortified by their late industry purchased with the Blood of many of their bravest Men that took it and so handy and commodious to them both in Peace and War and that therefore there would be a dispute between the two Nations for the recovery of it But it hapned otherwise to the Universal Sorrow of all our people Dunkirke was surrendered and the French King made

belonging to the Crown of Spain he was glad that His Majesty of England would let him alone and not intermeddle in this Affair The pretence to colour the invasion was that some Articles of the Treaty of Marriage were not performed by the Court of Spain The King by his Ambassador at Madrid acquainted them with his demands but they neglected to give him satisfaction this caused him to publish his Manifesto to justifie the seisure of those Lands and Towns which he said belonged to the Queen by agreement at her Marriage At the end of May 1667. he entered into Flanders with about Thirty thousand Men well furnished The first Garrisons were forsaken as Armantiers La Bassée Condé and S. Guilhain Bergnes and Furnes were yielded up to the Mareschal d' Aumont The King commanded Charleroy to be rebuilt and fortified that it might serve as a Bulwark against Flanders Tournay was besieged and assaulted but could not stop the impetuous torrent of the French that carried at this time all before them Douay waited for their coming its Governor had the meen to stop the French progress But upon his Majesties Summons he obeyed and sent him the Keys Courtray was taken in four days Oudenard and Alost were quickly frighted into a compliance with the French Lille was the next Garrison that had the unhappiness to be in the French Kings way The Governor of this place had the reputation of a brave Commander he had under him 800 Horse and 4000 Foot in Garrison and was resolved to defend it Therefore the King came before it with his whole Army laid siege to it and after a very stout resistance obliged the renowned Governor to save the rest of his men by yielding up the Town upon honorable terms The King made his entry on the Eight and twentieth day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and seven During the siege the Spanish Commanders had raised a small Army with an intent to Assault the French before Lille Marcin was at the Head of these Troops in his march when Crequy Rouvray Lillebonne and Bellefonds met with his Cavalry in two several Rencounters and broke his design For these Captains had so disordered his Men and scared them that they could not be perswaded to attempt upon the French again without more assistance After this Campagne the King went to Paris and in the first appearance of the Spring One thousand six hundred sixty and eight he gave order to his Armies to march towards the Franche Comte The Prince had the command of this expedition but when the Inhabitants understood it they sent to his Majesties Deputies to treat of yielding to him to prevent the spoils of an Army Whilest the Deputies delayed the Prince with his Army being ready went streight to Besanzon where he encamped On the sixth of February it was surrendered into his hands some other Towns were taken without resistance and Salines was seised upon suddenly At that time his Majesty was come to his Army which he caused to draw near to Dole a place well fortified and furnished with Men and Cannon which caused the Inhabitants to stand upon their Guards and think of a resistance but when they saw that the French had possessed all the Outworks in one night and lodged themselves under their Counterscarpe they accepted of his Majesties offers and sent him the Keys of their City All these places were taken in twelve days to the great astonishment of all Neighboring People There had been some overtures of Peace made the year before To prevent the conclusion of them the King appeared with his Army this year so early in the Field for the Dutch had threatned him by their Ambassador to joyn with the Spaniard if he would not hearken to an accommodation This Speech together with the Resolution of his Neighbors of rising up in Arms against him brought forth the Treaty of Aix la Chappelle Unto which place Colbert was sent as an Extraordinary Ambassador to meet with the Ministers of the Mediating Princes It was signed the sixth of May and sent to be published at Paris and Brussels but the French King was mightily offended at the Dutch who had forced him against his will to this conclusion of Peace therefore in due time he was resolved to find an occasion to punish them for their sauciness In the mean while the Nobility and Gallants of France that had prepared their equipages for the next Campagne when they saw themselves disappointed by a hasty Peace resolved to venture abroad in Foreign service Fame had told them of the long Siege of Candy by the Turks and that these Infidels did daily win upon the besieged by their numbers therefore the greatest Zealots of them resolved to hazard their persons for the releif of that noble City belonging to the Venetians The Duke de Roannez the Count of St. Paul the Duke de Chateau-Thierry the Chevalier de Harcour with many other brave Adventurers voluntarily ingaged themselves in this expedition It is certain that they behaved themselves with all the gallantry that could be expected At their return they acquainted the King with the condition of the place and the strength of the Turks This perswaded his Majesty together with the Sollicitations of the Venetians to send over thither the Dukes of Beaufort and Navailles with about 10000 Men to see whether they could raise the siege All the World expected a Success answerable to the French courage At their first sallying out upon the Turks they beat all down before them but when the Turks saw their vigor abate they charged furiously upon them and routed them forcing them back into the City Walls Beaufort himself was lost and killed as it is supposed in the rout but his body could not be found afterwards He was much to be blamed for venturing his person and the honor of his Prince amongst the meanest Soldiers for Commanders of his rank and quality are to be mindful that the safety of the whole Army depends upon the preservation of their lives They are never to hazard themselves in the Front of a Battle but when their presence is necessary to give courage to their fainting Soldiers or to add more vigor to them when the victory is almost in their hands After the defeat of the French the besieged City was yielded up to the Turks General upon very favorable condition The King had intelligence about the end of the year 1669. that the Duke of Lorraine did endeavor to stir up the Emperor and King of Spain against him This caused him to send the Mareschal de Crequy with an Army of 18000 Men into Lorraine to take in that Countrey The Duke seised upon Pont a Mousson and pulled down the Walls Epinal and Chaté held out a litteè but they were at last Surrendered up into his hands and the old Duke was driven out of all his Principality This year 1670. the King visited his new conquered Towns in the Low Countreys repairèd

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