this for the future to contain the Nobless and Citizens in their duty His Majesty being at Aix with much joy and tenderness received the Prince of Condé at his return from the Low-Countries Their Majesties continuing their Progress through Languedoc were received most magnificently at Thoulouse and then at Bourdeaux passing from thence to Bayonne and so to St. John Luz they arrived in the Isle of Pheasants where was appointed the Interview of the two Kings and the glorious reception of Maria-Theresa d'Austria Inheretrix presumptive to the Estates of his Catholick Majesty The Pomp and Consummation of these so great and splendid Nuptials was very advantageous to the two Crowns The Ceremonies performed their Majesties take the Road of Paris and arrive happily at the Bois de Vincennes where for some daies they rest till the Queens most magnifique entry at Paris the 26th of August And now happens that horrid Earthquake at the Pyrenean-Hills which swallowing the hot Bathes there and several other places caused extraordinary terrour to the Inhabitants of all that Voisinage The decease of the Duke of Orleans at Blois the 2d of February did much abate our publick Joy and Triumphs their Majesties and all the Court being sensible of so great a loss Anno 1661. To put the Treaty of Peace in Execution and to determine the limits of our King's Conquests the Sieurs Courtin Master of Requests Talon Intendant of Artois and Parmentier Substitute to the Attorney-General were commissioned to treat with the Commissioners of Spain Vilteingh Colins and Anglanzey They had laboured much in these particulars a long while first at St. Omers then at Arras and lastly they concluded happily at Metz where they limited the Extents of Flanders Artois Hainault and Luxembourg and having worthily acquitted themselves in their Employ parted the 25th of November 1662. The Cardinal Mazarin did not long enjoy that Peace which he had procured to all France having been almost ever since indisposed The Fire which in the beginning of February happened at the Louvre and consumed the Gallery of Pictures that look'd into the Garden obliged his Eminence to forsake his Bed and retire to his own Palace where his disease continuing he was advised to change the Air which he did to Vincennes but all this was not of force to prevent his death on the 9 of March following to the great regret of the King and all his Creatures But the following Marriages of the Duke of Orleans with the Princess of England and the Prince of Florence with Mademoiselle d'Orleans caused the loss of this great Minister to be almost forgotten The Sieur Fouquet too intent on the encrease of his own Fortune was arrested at Nants the 5th of September and conveyed to Vincennes and from thence to the Bastille He was the first cause of the erection of the Chamber of Justice which has been so advantageous to those people that deal in these affairs by the detection of the wasting of the King's Revenues which they have applied to their own private uses and to the great Purchases which they have made in the Kingdom The extraordinary profusion in the Conduct of this Minister obliged the King to take some pains in the reformation of his own Estate We may say that hereupon he effected two wonderous things and by which he surprized the Polititians The admirable order and Oeconomy which he establish'd in his own house and the Military Discipline in his Armies in all which particulars he raised the Grandeur and Dignity of the Offices and yet made as well the high as low Officers themselves exactly subject to his own Authority and Power who all remain at present in their perfect duty and dependance The other thing is his having made himself so absolute a Master of all the Citadels and Fortresses of his Dominions so that the Princes and Officers of the Crown the Governours of Provinces and of particular places who heretofore made themselves of too great value and consideration are now in a perfect obedience He suppressed the Office of Super-Intendant of the Finances and certain * Officiers de l'Espargue Officers in his Exchequer and establish'd a Council and Treasury Royal where nothing can be proposed nor one single Sol paid out of his Coffers unless it hath been there first resolved and ordered But that which is most admirable is that his Majesty does himself consider and weigh all things as well of great as small concern whether far off or near necessary or superfluous His Manufactures and Buildings at the Louvre Tuilleries and other Houses Royal have found a place in that vast Spirit amidst the Citadels and other important places of his Kingdom War and affairs of State have not absolutely banish'd from his minde Pleasure and Magnificence But having first heard the serious discourses of the Mareschal de Turenne and the Sieur Colbert he is pleased to confer with our Illustrious Artisans le Brun le Nore and all those excellent Spirits who have the very genius and perfection of their several Arts. It seems about this time Spain was minded to try whether his most Christian Majesty's new form of Government would be maintained with force and vigour To this purpose the Baron de Batteville past an affront on the Comte d'Estrade at the entry of the Swede's Embassador Extraordinary at London And the Spaniards being the stronger killed some French on the 10th of October After this perswading the King of England that their Master had always acknowledged him and assisted against Cromwel they endeavoured to draw him into the quarrel of his Catholick Majesty Hereupon our King complains at Madrid and Bruxelles and calls home his Commissioners who were labouring with those of Spain about settling the Limits of Flanders In fine France came off with honour in this action and the Marquiss de Fuentes Embassador extraordinary from Spain made our King reparation and assured him that his Master had given order to all his Embassadors and Ministers to abstain and strive no more with those of France in all such Ceremonies and publick actions where they both happen to assist This was performed in the presence of eight Embassadors and 22 Residents The Nativities of the Dauphin of France and Prince of Spain the first and ninth of November was a new Blessing to both Nations Oh what disputes shall these Illustrious Competitors hereafter manage to maintain the Grandeur and Glory of their Predecessors The King resolving a new promotion of Knights of both his Orders a general Chapter was held at Fontainbleau about the end of December Here to the admiration of all men the Duke of Longueville demanded precedency of him of Vendôme scïlt the next place after the first Princes of the Blood but in regard of those Declarations which Henry the great granted for the Duke of Vendôme the 15th of April 1610 Registred in the Parliament of Paris the 30th of the same the Duke of Longueville's pretensions were utterly defeated The
Memoires Of the Affairs of FRANCE During the Reign of the present KING LEWIS the XIV CONTAINING The most noted Exploits of the now Prince of Condé the late Mareschal de Turenne and all the chief Commanders in the French Armies Done out of French Ex pede Hercules Licensed May the 10th 1675. Roger L'Estrange London Printed by J. C. for T. Dring at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery-lane in Fleet-street 1675. ADVERTISEMENT THis brief Account of many great Actions Translated out of the French History reduite en Sommaire may satisfie the Curious as to the Affairs of France under her active Monarch who now governs till a more elaborate History and consequently more correspondent to the Grandeur of its Subject gives a fuller and particular account to the publick 'T is possible some may think our Author writes with too much concern and interest of his own party such upon due consideration will acknowledge this the best or if you had rather the most janté of all the defects proper to that people and that the French are to be applauded in this particular more than some of their Neighbour-Nations that they always speak the best of their King and Country not seeking to finde fault with the Royal Conduct but to magnifie it rather more than less than the true merit of the Actions Historical Abbreviations though in a small Volume are not always of the least use for beside the Example of Justin the Epitomizer of Trogus among the Ancients we have in this our Age the judicious Dr. Heylin who with much judgement and fidelity has in this sort of Miniature drawn to the life the Tragical History of our late Soveraign of ever-Sacred Memory There is no need of a further Preface than onely to admonish the Reader that the Dates and Timing of things so oft occurring in this short History must be understood according to the Forrain or new Stile ten days more forward than ours Farewel J. 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LEwis 14th Eldest son of Lewis 13th being in the fifth year of his Age succeeded to the Crown the 65th in number of our Kings The King never dies in France uno avulso non deficit alter Therefore immediately after the Court of Parliament had assembled the King was received accompanied with the Queen Regent his Mother Monseigneur the Duke of Anjou the King's Brother Monsieur the Duke of Orleans his Uncle and Monsieur the Prince of Condé where the Queen was declared Regent during the Kings minority and Monsieur the Duke of Orleans General of all the Forces No sooner was the King seated in the Throne Royal thereby to take possession of the Crown of his Ancestors but he saw himself under the shadow of victorious Palms brought from Rocroy by the Duke of Enguien General of his Triumphant Army On the 9 of May the Duke of Enguien having Rendezvouz'd his Troops on the Banks of the Oise and the Somme received advice that the Enemy under the command of the Count d' Isemburg had invested Rocroy the second past upon this intelligence he sends immediately the Sieur Gassion to give some diversion to their Attempts who on his arrival having made their chief Force draw together took that opportunity to put 100 men into the Town and this Succour gave the Besieged occasion to retake their Out-works which the Enemie had quitted The 18 of May was resolved on to relieve the place effectually to that end the Duke of Enguien assisted by the Mareschal de l'Hospital and the Mareschals of the Camp appeared with his Cavalry that day about two of the clock afternoon and immediately on his arrival caused his Army to draw into Battalia At five in the evening the Enemies Cannon began to play and cut off many of our men but they were soon answered by our Artillerie which appeared as the Lightning to that Thunder which was to follow The night coming on by order of a Council of War the dispute was deferred till next morning the 19
the Ambition of the Spaniards and no less raise the Courage of the Portugals The Treaty of the King of England with the Bishop of Munster astonish'd the Hollanders and the Troops sent to their succours engaged us in a War with that Crown The Duke of Beaufort took and carried off the ships in the Port of Bougie in spite of all resistance from their Arms Fire or the Artillery of five Forts that commanded the place He burnt the Admiral of Alger and two other Vessels in the very mouth of the Harbour Those of Alger sent out twenty ships to expel him out of their Road he having onely four two of which they perceived this Prince had taken from them They were glad to use the advantage of the Night to fight him in but they were reduced to the utmost Consternation when they perceived they got nothing but blows In fine they were so terrified that they call'd back their Fleet again into their own Port. The 24th of August under Sarcelle he encountered five Vessels of Alger and the order which he gave for their destruction was so admirable that in three hours he became Master of three with the other two he continued fighting when the Powder-room taking fire the Report was heard ashore and of this accident the Pirates made use to fire the Saint Loüisa By this time the Hollanders had recruited and were got to the mouth of the Thames where they waited the motion of the English Navy On the 17th of September arrived the last hour of Philip the 4th of Spain whose decease was followed not long after by that of the Duke of Vandosme the 22 of October Their Majesties and all the Court did attest their Sorrows to the Dutchess his Widow and to the Duke of Mercoeur To that end the King sent the Duke de Saint Agnan apparell'd in a Mourning-Robe born up by two Gentlemen the Corner'd Cap and the Coller of the Order the Ceremony was conducted by the King at Arms and a Herald who having presented him with the Holy-Water he cast it three times on the Sepulchre of the deceased Prince while his Majesty's Musick sing the De Profundis The Comte de Sery performed the same Office on the part of Monseigneur the Dauphin and the Comte du Plessis-Praslin and the Marquiss de Pluvaut for the Dukes of Orleans and Valois which ended the Ceremony The first of December the Mareschals du Plessis d'Aumont and de la Ferté-Seneterre and the Marquiss de Montausier were received into the quality of Dukes and Pairs of France Anno 1666. The decease of the Queen-Mother which arrived the 20th of January was most sensibly resented by their Majesties and the whole Court Not long after insued a Rupture between France and England in pursuance of the League Defensive made by the Crown of France with the Hollanders in the year 1662. And now his Majesty by his Declaration publish'd his Intentions to relieve 'em and joyn his Forces with theirs against the English as well by Sea as Land The Queen of Portugal who had hitherto with so much glory and generosity supported that Crown deceased the 27th of February at whose death the Court of Spain took no small advantage by their many Intrigues and Cabals which they rais'd afresh in that Kingdom The Bishop of Munster who had so far terrified the Hollanders as to occasion them to invoke the aid of France for their defence about this time happily concluded a Peace this occasioned the return of our Troops Those of Holland have now therefore no more to do than to prosecute their Marine affairs and minde their Wars with England The 29th of May the Duke of Beaufort parted from Toulon with his Majestie 's Fleet on designe directly to meet a Squadron of the English and fight 'em in assistance of the Hollanders and this they happily performed at the same time when our Troops by Land defended them from the Insults of the Bishop of Munster Notwithstanding all the endeavours and Menaces of the Porte the Venetians and the Marquiss Ville appeared this year the aggressors of a War by Sea and by Land in Dalmatia and in the Isle of Candy having besieged New-Candy and almost blockt up Canea The Families of Vandosme and d'Estrée received extraordinary joy at the Birth of a Prince of Savoy they having been at no small labour and great expences to prefer the Princesses of Nemours and particularly the Queen of Portugal the ornament and support of that Crown The assistance of France and conduct of the Bishop of Laon in this affair hath defeated the Spanish designes in his intended Conquest of those Dominions which have now by this important Alliance taken fast root and re-establish'd that ancient Kingdom The Fleets of England and Holland being joyn'd the 11th of June there followed a terrible Battle and so resolute that it continued till the 14th at which time the English Ships retiring into the Thames and soon recruiting with fresh men they put out to Sea again and another great fight began the fourth of August which concluded to the equal prejudice of both parties Several of the English pursuing their Enemies into the Vlie fired there a great number of Merchants-ships They had yet another Battle neer Calais where the English having the Wind and the Tempest being great they run their Enemies on the adverse Shore In the mean time the Duke of Beaufort having taken in the Squadron which had conducted the Queen to Portugal sail'd with intentions to joyn the Hollanders at Calais but understanding they were retired for fear to be alone exposed to the Enemy he gained Brest in sight of the English Fleet they not able to prevent it though in this passage some of his ships being separated from the rest by a violent Tempest the Triumph the Mazarin and the Ruby fell among the English where valiantly fighting they were much torn and shattered and forc'd to retire into Havre except the Ruby who was so far engaged that her Captain la Roche grapled with the Admiral of England intending to perish together in fine obtained quarter After the Alliance concluded the 25th of October between the Hollanders and the King of Denmark the Elector of Brandenburg and the Princes of Brunswick certain Propositions of Accommodation were set afoot His Majesty of Great Britain protesting not to have made any act of Hostility against that Republick complain'd that they had taken 200 Vessels before ever the War broke out And in order to assure Navigation to re-establish Commerce and procure a Peace the States made known to his Majesty that it was necessary to appoint some place neutral where to treat as well with them as their Allies The affair of Breme which had so cruelly alarmed the Hanse and Imperial Towns was in fine determined the 25 of Nov. the Swedes contenting themselves with the submission of the Inhabitants The Duke of Valois was Baptized at the Palais Royal the sixth of December and