was discover'd and he withal gave notice of his coming which was but ill news for the new Conqueror who by this means was not like to wear his Laurel long Hereupon the Townsmen began to change their note and declar'd they would not suffer themselves to be plundered by us and therefore bid the Governor shift for himself which he could no otherwise do then by sending to desire a Pass from M. Chamilly that he might come and capitulate with him which he did and was suffer'd to return again to the Busse with his 100 Horse he mentioned not the Foot in the capitulation which he thought was so far behind that he might easily give them notice to retire homewards and none of us the wiser But to their misfortune he was out in his calculation for M. de Joyeuse met with them who though he had then with him but a small party of the Brigade of Horse which he commands the rest being gone before under command of the Marquis de Tury to recover the Town he fell upon them so furiously that they had only time to make one discharge at us In this Encounter most of the Enemy were kill'd and the rest taken so that there hardly escap'd one to carry home the bad news we got at this bout 33 Colours The night that follow'd and the sixth day there hapned a Fire in the Kings Quarters which began in the Duke of Monmouth's House and burnt down together with some others the damage the Duke had by it was computed to amount to 100000 Crowns The fire reached the Kings Stable and destroyed many Horses and their harness and at last grew so dreadful that the King was forced to rise least the fire should also come to his Appartment many of his Pages having had their cloths burnt We heard of the ill success of Monsieur de Nancrud's attempt upon Ardemburg which had faild by his guides and spies saults these having misinform'd and the other misled him The Particulars of that business were as follows Word was brought to him that the Garrison was both very small and also negligent which made him resolve to try if he could surprize it and to that purpose he order'd his march so as to arrive before the Place at midnight with a design to attaque it in four several places at once but it so happen'd his Guides either not being sufficiently acquainted with the Country or mistaking their way in the dark that his whole party met at the same place and so were forc'd to make their attaque all on one side of the Town which being perform'd very couragiously they beat out the Enemy and gained a half Moon which Post designing greater things they cared not to secure from the Enemy's shot but day at last begining to break the Enemy who had receiv'd supplies from Sluice now made more vigorous resistance and having discover'd our men who lay leuel and open to their shot kill'd many of them so that they were forc'd to retire with loss of 1000 or 1200 men The Marquis de Ranes went to Isselstaing and Monfort leading thither some Dragoons to reinforce those Garrisons The same day about evening the King came to visit Vtrecht and he was scarce gone thence when the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington Embassadors from the King of England arriv'd hoping to have found his Majesty there to whom they were sent by the King their Master The 7 the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington went from Vtrecht to the Camp at Zeist where the King presently gave them Audience after which a Courier was dispatch'd to the King of England who was mightily sollicited by the Dutch Ministers to a Peace The Enemy came and attaqu'd Oudwater and beat back our horse Guard after having killed 5 or 6 of them with the like loss on their side but the Alarm being streight given to Monsieur de Rochefort he presently went to their assistance as did also the Marquis de Ranes with his Regiment Royal of Dragoons but they at their arrival found the Enemy retir'd so that all these supplies kept a guard all that night upon the Place The Musqueteers who ever since the surrender of Vtrecht had been either within the Town to secure it or encamp'd just before it with Monsieur de Rochesorts Army return'd now to the Kings Camp at Zeist a part of whose Guard they were The three Bataillons of the Regiment of Guards which the Duke de Roannez had with him in the same place did the like and in their stead were sent thither one Bataillon of the Kings and another of the Queens Regiment the Regiment of Castelnan the Royal Regiment de la Marine and that of Suitzers whose Colonel is the Sieur Stouppe who also commanded the Place as belonging of right to him whilst that the King had yet appointed no Governour of it The rest of the Regiment of Turenne was sent to Naerden to relieve those of the Dauphin's which lay there and many foot were sent to reinforce M. de Rochefort's Army which his Majesty intended to leave about Vtrecht as well to keep all that part of the Country quiet as to hinder the Hollanders Armys which lay not far off from attemting any thing upon the new conquered places that lay that way The eight in the morning Monsieur de Rochefort order'd some powder and shot to be sent to Oudewater with a Convoy of horse and then he returned with the Troops he had brought the day before The Marquis de Ranes came back also with his Regiment Royal of Dragoons The King prepar'd to leave Zeist and the Cardinal de Boüillon went and consecrated the Church of Vtrecht which was perform'd with great pomp to the great Joy of an infinite number of Roman Catholicks who impatiently expected that day The 9 the Duke of Luxembourg returned to the Kings Army with the Marquis de la Valiere having left his Baggage and Equippage near Emerick and the command of his Army to the Bishop of Munster who came likewise to give the King a visit and then returned towards Frizeland where since he hath done the Enemy much harm The Marquis de Ranes who during all this Campagne had commanded the Regiment Royal of Dragoons left that and took the command of the Regiment Colonel and went to the Kings Camp to follow his Majesty The next day the Prince who had been conveyed to Arnhem and continued there ever since his Majesty left that place found himself worse then he had been of his wounds and was much tormented with a fit of the Gout The King gave 8000 livres among those who had lost their horses in the late fire The 10 the King left Zeist which lyes within 2 leagues of Vtrecht where he had lain 8 days and went back to encamp between Rhenen and Wageningen The Duke of Luxembourg went to the Camp before Vtrecht to command that Army which M. the Marquis de Rochefort left to
which made the World think it would at last come to something The 23 after the Prince of Orange's Envoy had made known his Propositions the King ordered a Drummer to go with him to Brussells that he might know the Count de Monterey's answer to the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington's demands in the King of England's name which was to call back all the Spanish Forces that were either in Breda the Busse Bergen-op Zoom or the Dutch Army's M. de Turenne came to wait on his Majesty at Boxtel and lay there that night following and his Army the while rested at Hompel whether the Ordnance being arriv'd with their Convoy they were sent on a league forward of the next day's journey towards the Kings Quarters The 24 the King called a Council of War at which he himself was present as he always used to be and it was there resolved that after his Majesty's departure who intended to return and refresh himself a while in France after the toile he endured in the Campagne Monsieur de Turenne should stay behind in Brabant with 20000 men and should have for his Lieutenants general the Sieurs de S. Abre and Foucault for his Camp-Marshals the Sieurs de Choiseul Magalotty and de Vitry that the Count de Chamilly should come and lye below Maestricht and the Marquis de Rochefort with the greatest part of the Kings Household above it that so betwixt them they might wholly block up that Town that M. de la Feuillade should go with his own Brigade and some others which he should have given him to the number of 4000 horse and lye about Wezel And because the King intended to return again as soon as he should have given such orders at home as were necessary he sent most part of his Equipage and heaviest Baggage to Grave that he might not be troubled to send them backwards but that at his return he might meet them there in readiness The same day the Duke of Neubourg came to Boxtel to give his Majesty a visit and Monsieur de Turenne's Army leaving Hempel advanc'd towards Beerlicon within 2 leagues of the Kings Quarters and remain'd there till after his Majesty departure whom M. de Turenne left not till then At the same time the Spanish Troops in the Hollanders service having heard of the Proposals which the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington were going to make with Count Monterey and knowing that the Spaniard was not in a condition to maintain a War of that importance as he was thrcaten'd with upon refusal pack'd up bag and baggage and made themselves ready to depart upon the first orders to that purpose which they doubted not but they should speedily receive Some persons whom we met in our march told us they went every day to the Busse and assur'd us they had seen the said Troops there who were very weary of the service and complain'd much of their ill diet and pay The 25 the King after having treated the Duke of Neubourg had him out to view the Troops that belong'd to his person and some others that were then with him and in the evening when he came back he let us know that he would be going the next morning for France and accordingly gave order that all things should be in a readiness for his departure against that time The same day he committed the Government of Lorraine to the Marquis de Rochefort Monsieur de Turennes Army rested at Beerlicon and the Count du Lude Grand-Master of the Ordnance left it and came to Boxtel with a part of the Artillery which was to follow the King Some few days after the Marquis de Ranes General of the Dragoons and the Count de Guiche Lieutenant General of the Prince's Army came thither likewise the King having order'd them to follow him into France The 26 in the morning the King departed from Boxtel and came to lye at Borkel which is a great Abbey of white Fryars in the way from Boxtel to Tongres His Majesty lodg'd in the Abbey but almost all the Court was forced to encamp about it because there were very few houses thereabouts A great part of the Regiment of Guards staid behind to joyn with M. de Turenne's Army as did all the rest of the Foot which was in the Kings retinue because they could not keep pace with the King who intended thence forwards to take great Journeys only 12 Companies were order'd to follow softly after him to Paris Monsieur de Turenne return'd to lead his Army which lay still at Beerlicon and the Prince of Mechlebourg came to visit the King at Borkel The 27 in the morning the King left Borkel which lies in Brabant and within the Territories that belonged to the Hollander and having passed by Beringen which is a little Town in Liege went and lodg'd a league beyond that Town The 28 in the morning the Light-horse which had hitherto accompanied the King returned to joyn with M. de Turenne's Army which had not yet disencamped his Majesty came to a little Village called Leuve within a league of Hannuy a little Town of the Spaniards where we met some Cravates belonging to the Spanish-Troops The heavy baggage of the Court and those that belonged to them had orders not to accompany the King any farther but to march after leisurely with a Convoy which was ordered for them all The same kind of baggage which belonged to the Kings Houshold was sent to Maesiick with another Convoy The King in the middle of this day's Journey met Monsieur Vaubrun with 2000 horse a 1000 of which he left with his Majesty to guard him beyond Binche and returned with the rest to M. de Turenne's Army The 29 the King left Leuve betimes in the morning and having staid to dine in the middle of his Journy he was inform'd that all the heavy Baggages had been taken and plundered some said by a party which sally'd out of Maestricht and others by the Cravates we met at Hannuy His Majesty thereupon sent in hast to know the certainty of the business but the Courier brought back word that only M. Brancas's Baggage had been taken by some horse of the Enemy's who being aware that his Waggoner drove a good way before the rest made him turn into the Woods where they took away the horses and left the rest to be riffled by the Peasants who had hid and sheltered themselves there ever since the beginning of the War The 30 the King continuing his march left Ameley betimes in the morning and came by Binche where without entring the Place he dined at the Gate and afterwards went and lodged a league beyond that Place upon the road of Quesnoy This day he order'd the Van of his Life Guard and the Brigades of the Men at Arms and light Horsemen to go before and expect him at the Castle of Cambray where he intended to spend the next day The 31 the King
Orange and the Count Maurice were both with their Armies After the pillage of this Castle Monsieur de Turenne marched on close after the Enemy a party of which he overtook and found breaking a bridge upon the Channel that runs from Arnhem to Nimegen over which we must necessarily pass These men though but a small party had a mind to finish their enterprise perhaps because they thought they might be seconded with the rest of the Army that was not gone far but having skirmish'd a little with the Vanguard the Dragoons lighting of their horses set upon them so vigourously that they gave them the rout and forced them into Arnhem And finding themselves well enough at the end of a bridge that lyes over the Rhine and reaches from this Town to the Isle of Betau they lodged there maugre the Canon and musket shot of the Enemy that fortunately killed more horses then men His Majesty having call'd a Council before the departure of M. de Turenne as soon as it was ended began to march towards Emerick to joyn with his Army which all this time lay in their Quarters at Reés The Army also that had been commanded by M. de Turenne came thither likewise and made up one body with that of the King The Troops that had followed his Majesties two days before and those of his own House did the like M. the Duke of Monmouth natural Son to the King of England arrived the same day at the Camp at Emerick with 7000 foot that were all brisk and active men Monsieur the Cardinal de Bouillon that day consecrated anew the great Church of Reés The 14th his Majesty rested with his whole Army at the Camp of Emerick After dinner he visited M. the Prince who the day before had caused himself with the rest that were wounded to be removed into this Town and at his return took a view of the Duke of Monmouths Forces Monsieur de Turenne seeing his affaires so well advanced before Arnhem resolved to lay siege to it and thereupon having taken a view of it and taken up his Quarters he sammoned the Town In the mean while that no time might be lost M. the Count du Plessis employed some men about repairing the boats that the Enemies had began to break as being necessary for our passage but in that action he was killed with a Canon shot to the great regret of the whole Army The Dragoons which were much incommoded by a guard of the Enemy placed in a redoubt on the other side of the river were resolved to venture the passage which after orders were given they performed with so much resolution and success as struck a terrour into the Town whereupon the Burghers began to mutiny and at length forced the Garrison to leave of firing The Fame of General Wurts defeat and of our entrance into Betaw was not long a spreading and the noise of it no sooner came to the ears of the Prince of Orange who with his Army guarded the passage of Yssel but the Enemy being daunted with the news thought of nothing but a retreat which was done in so great hast as terrified all the places through which they passed In the mean time M. de Turenne ordered 150 horse under the command of a Captain of the horse of Condé to swim the river and to fall on their rear Guard that passed pretty near Arnham The Enemy little expecting this attaque as thinking themselves secured by the River were so surprised at this assault that the Guard of the Baggage abandoned it all to those few horse who made themselves masters of it at their leasure and returned loaded with so great a booty that they had enriched themselves by it though they had not joyned to it the two other of which they had also the spoile which amounted to no less then fourty thousand Francks The same day M. the Cardinal de Bouillon consecrated anew the great Church of Emerick The 15. The Kings Army rested and His Majesty took a view of it after dinner Upon the Summons that M. de Turenne had given to Arnhem the Citizens began to mutiny and threatned the Garrison to cut all their Throats if they fired any more whereupon they came and demanded Articles but M. de Turenne sent them to the King and immediatly marched away with the greatest part of his Army to besiege Knotzembourg otherwise called the Fort of Nimigen because it is seated on the right side of the Wahal directly opposite to that great Town that lies on the left hand He arrived thither time enough to open his Trenches that Evening it being but three little Leagues from Arnhem That Night we worked with so much success as to lodge our selves on their Counterscarpe by which we became Masters of their covered way but not without some difficulty and the loss of several Men for they defended themselves from the Fort very briskly and gave continual fire from the Town besides three Boats each of them provided with 8 10 or 12 pieces of Canon came round and fired at us with full Charges at about thirty paces distance During all that Night there was fired so great a number of Canon-shot that those that heard it from Emerick where His Majesties Army lay could not imagine where so continual a noise should be made but from another place where the noise could not plainly be heard one would have thought they had been Musket-shot and only an engagement of some Foot The 16. His Majesty early in the Morning parted with all His Army from Emerick and encamped at Latem upon the River Yssell or rather the Channel of Drusus A branch of this River that runs from Arnhem to Doesburg is a Channel that communicates between the Rhine and the Yssel which was made by Drusus in the time of the Romans whence 't is called the Channel of Drusus or the Drusian Ditch In the mean time we advanced to Zevenaer a small Town that hath no other Fortification but its Ramparts so that we made our selves Masters of it without any great difficulty Presently after that M. the Count de l' Orge and M. the Marquis de Ranes had command to pass the Yssel the one with 4000 Horse and the other with the Regiment Royal of Dragoons to take the places that lie before Doesburg which immediatly they did But the Deputies of Arnhem having came to the King and brought the Keys of their Town without Conditions His Majesty in the Afternoon gave order to the M. de Ranes to go with his Dragoons to take possession of the Town M. the Marquis de Louvois went thither also and the Inhabitants had granted them a freedom of their Religion with all their Priviledges but the Garrison were made Prisoners of War and disarmed to the number of 3000 Foot and 200 Horse which were very sufficient to have defended the place The Dragoons were hardly masters of the Gates when 200 Bores that came to the Garrison with