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A50581 Memoirs of the most remarkable enterprises and actions of James Duke of York, Albany, and Ulster 1681 (1681) Wing M1672; ESTC R903 7,284 16

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MEMOIRS Of the most Remarkable ENTERPRISES AND ACTIONS OF James Duke of York ALBANY and VLSTER LONDON Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens-Head-Alley in Pater-Noster-Row 1681. MEMOIRS OF The most Remarkable Enterprises and Actions OF James Duke of York ALBANY and VLSTER JAMES Duke of YORK Brother to our Gracious Sovereign Charles the Second King of England c. descending from James the Sixth King of Scotland who bore an unquestionable Title to the Crown of England from James the Fourth King of Scotland who married Margaret Eldest Daughter of Henry the Seventh King of England by whom he had James the Fifth who had one only Child Mary Queen of Scots who had also one only Son James the Sixth who from James the Fourth had undoubted Right to the Kingdom of Scotland and from Margaret King Henry the Sevenths Eldest Daughter the Male Line being quite extinct a certain Title to the Crown of England from whose Line descended our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the First and in the same our present Gracious Sovereign Charles the Second whom God preserve Also out of the aforesaid Royal Lines came James Duke of YORK Brother to our King Omitting any further Discourse of his Birth or Education we proceed to the most memorable Occurrences of his Life in his Manhood In the Time of his Fathers and his Brothers our Gracious Sovereigns late Troubles Anno 1648. on July the 27th when the Parliament having gotten the Fleet but perceiving their own insufficiency rendred themselves to the Prince viz. our present King then made Captain General of his Father's Forces The Parliament having some inkling thereof Commissioned Colonel Rainsborough formerly a Seaman to the Command thereof whom the Marriners of the Kings Party fairly put on Shore having posed him with this Question of Engaging for their Sovereign With this Naval Force the Prince departed from Holland and came into Yarmouth Road where it was deliberated whether he should land and attempt the Relief of Colchester there were then in Company with him at this adverse Season his Brother the DUKE of YORK 1648. On Apr. the 23d The DUKE of YORK in the Time of the late Troubles being disguised in Womens Apparel made his escape from St. James's by Water and landed at Dort in Holland by the help of one Mr. Bamfield who was purposely sent over on that Design by the Queen Also Anno 1652. In the encounter of Estampes in in France the DUKE of YORK then on the Kings side so valiantly behaved himself that the Marshal De Turenne his General gave a very obliging Character of him as highly meriting in that Service which procured him special regard and honour from that Court and all the Grandees of that Nation Anno 1657. The DUKE of YORK commanding a part of the Spanish Army was marching to joyn with other Forces to the Relief of Montmedy Castle in Lorrain besieged by the French Marshal De Ferte while the English Forces joyned with four Regiments of Horse were advancing from Vervins part of them to the number of 300 quartered in a Castle somewhat distant from the Body the DUKE with a Brigade attaqued and thereupon they presently yielded and took up Arms with him In the same year Mardike being taken September 23th and put into English hands the taking whereof was very grievous to the Dunkirkers and Spanish side and therefore it was resolved by Don John to hazard a Scalado and assault by night the DUKE of YORK and the Marquess of Caracene ordered and were present in the business and the King our Soveraign and the Duke of Gloucester had conveyed themselves to Dunkirk to see the management of this Attempt On the 22d of Octob. at night some 4000 English Scotch and Irish and some Spaniards about ten a Clock at night began the Storm with Hand Granadoes and all sorts of Assaulting Engines and were got into the Trenches and mounted their Scaling Ladders but the English within being in readiness and Reynolds Morgan and Lillingstone being at that same time there the Assailants were with great Slaughter repelled and beaten down the great Guns from the English Fleet Riding at the Splinter Firing their Broad-sides being directed by four great Links set up in the Corners of the Fort how to miss it nevertheless about four a Clock the Duke commanded the Assault to be renewed again which was done with greater Fury but to as little Advantage which Event with the approaching Day-light caused a Retreat the dead being most of them carried off in Waggons In the following year 1658 when the Dunkirk Fight was managed chiefly on the Spanish-side by the DUKE of YORK accompanied with the Duke of Gloucester the Military renown of whose Actions was raised in the French Kings Service he did not only maintain the Fight till the irrestible daring Gallantry of the honour seeking Red-Coats made the Spaniard abandon his Punctilio's and mend his Retreating Pace but sustained the Impression upon the Flight and at least saved the day Anno 1660 About the time of his Majesties Restitution the King being entertained at the Hague in Holland and entreated by several Commissioners in the Name of his Majesties People to return and resume the Scepter and Government The King preparing to depart before which departure the Dutch magnificently treated him But on Sunday the 20th of May the King heard De Hardy Preach before him the place intended was the Erench-Church after their Sermon but they knowing of it being greedy to see the King would not come out of their Seats so it was done in the Princesses Lodgings here the King touched many of the Evil. In the mean while the DUKE of YORK took the Oath of Allegiance of the Fleet having gone aboard the Naseby where the General treated him which Ship at his departure he called the Charles as afterwards the whole Fleet was new Christened in their way homewards Anno 1662. The Queen sailing for England but through the untowardness of the Wind being protracted of her desires in meeting the King and her Arrival being in England expected every day a fortnight before caused the King to send down his Brother the DUKE of YORK Lord high-Admiral to attend on her upon the Coast and to compliment her in his Name whereupon his Highness hasted to Portsmouth and on the eleventh of May attended by the Duke of Ormond the Earl of Suffolk and Chesterfield the Lord Berkley and other persons of Honour went aboard the stately Yacht with which the City of Amsterdam presented the King to Coast about the Isle of Wight to meet her Majesty On the same day Sir Joseph Douglas making towards Portsmouth with an Express from her Majesty to the King was met by his Highness the DUKE of YORK five Leagues off the Isle of Wight who commanded him back with him to the Fleet. On Sunday Morning about ten a Clock they discovered the Royal James but there was so great a Calm that they could not reach the Royal