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A47019	A compleat history of Europe, or, A view of the affairs thereof, civil and military from the beginning of the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1676, to the conclusion of the peace with the Turks, 1699 including the articles of the former, and the several infringements of them, the Turkish Wars, the forming of the Grand Confederacy, the revolution in England, &c. : with a particular account of all the actions by sea and land on both sides, and the secret steps that have been made towards a peace, both before, as well as during the last negotiation : wherein are the several treaties at large, the whole intermix'd with divers original letters, declarations, papers and memoirs, never before published / written by a gentleman, who kept an exact journal of all transactions, for above these thirty years.	Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.	1699 (1699)	Wing J928A; ESTC R13275	681,693	722

and invited them to send Deputies to him at Ghent But because the Reader will be better pleased to peruse the Letter it self I shall here insert it DEINSE the 18th of May 1678. Most dear great Friends Allies and Confederates OVT of the sincere Affection which we have always born to the the promoting the Peace of Europe we are very much satisfied to understand by our Plenipotentiaries at Nimeguen the Account given unto them in your Name by one of your Ambassadors concerning your Thoughts upon the Conclusion of so great a Work which you had imparted to them by one of your Embassadors We are glad to understand that the Terms which we proposed at that Assembly appear to you to be reasonable and that you are fully perswaded of the Sincerity of our Mind in a matter of so great Importance And it is with the greater Satisfaction to our selves that we confirm the same unto you by this Letter that notwithstanding those Advantages which we have already acquir'd by our Arms and may justly hope for by the Prosecution of the War yet we place our chiefest Glory in making all the Steps we can towards a Peace But because it appears by the Discourses that have been made to our Plenipotentiaries by your Order that how desirous soever you are to conclude the Peace yet there remains some Scruple with you concerning the 7th Article of the Treaty of Commerce which has been debated at Nimeguen between our Embassadors and yours and Trouble of Mind lest we should make an entire Conquest of the Low-Countries in case Spain should reject the Terms we have offered we are willing to impart our Thoughts unto you upon these two Points We cannot do it more favourably as to the 1st of them than by granting that the 7th Article should be as your selves desire it and in taking such Measures with you upon the 24 Point as may ease you of the Fear you express for the Loss of Flanders And this we will then do when Spain having refused to consent to the Peace there shall be a Treaty concluded between us and you upon such Terms as have been already propos'd with relation to your selves and that you shall have returned to our Alliance and shall oblige your selves to continue Neuters during the War We shall be always reddy for your sake to grant to Spain the same Terms with relation to Flanders which they are at liberty now to accept And we are further willing to assure you that in all that time we will not Attack any one Place in all those Provinces Thus ye shall always find us reddily inclined not only to form that Barrier which you think so necessary for your own Safety but to secure it and to let you enjoy together with the Re-establishment of Commerce whatever other Advantages you can expect from our Friendship And if for the Prosecuting this Negotiation you shall think it necessary to send Deputies to us they will find us near Ghent till the 27th of this Month and in the same Dispositions we have declared to you in this Letter In the mean time we pray God to take you most great dear Friends Allies and Confederates into his Holy Protection Your good Friend Ally and Confederate LOVIS Underneath was Signed Arnauld The States after 4 Days Consultation did on the 25th of the same Month send a Letter in Answer to the King 's by a Trumpeter of their own to his Camp and after having complimented him upon the Honour he had done them by writing to them and rejoiced at the sincere Desire they conceived to be in his Majesty for the Peace of Europe They pray'd he would be pleased to give Credit to the Heer Van Beverning their Extraordinary Embassador whom they would send to him to inform him how desirous they were on their part to give him fresh Assurances of their sincere Intentions also for Peace Beverning attended upon the French King accordingly and concerted Measures so well that he obtained a Cessation of Arms for 6 Weeks in Flanders to the end the Dutch might endeavour to get the Spaniards to enter into the Peace upon the Terms they proposed for them which Truce extended it self to the 15th of Aug. following and upon his return he told his Masters whether really or designedly is a Question That he found the French King as well informed of the Condition of his Enemies and of the Places he might attack as he was of his own Affairs England in the mean time was grown pretty indifferent in the Matter of the Peace and Spain seemed well inclined to accept her part of it But the Emperor King of Denmark and Elector of Brandenburg fell into the highest Declarations and Reproaches against the States that could well be invented ripping up all they had ventured and suffered in a War wherein they had engaged for the sole Preservation of Holland But that now they were abandoned by them under a Pretence of concluding a Peace and that upon imperious and arbitrary Terms for them without then Consent That they were not backward to treat with France and make a Peace upon any safe and equitable Conditions but would never endure to have them imposed as from an absolute Conqueror and would rather venture and expose all than accept them especially those for the Duke of Lorrdin whose Case was the worst treated tho' seemingly the most favoured by the Confederates and the least contested by France Yet for all these Storms from their Allies the States were little moved but held on their Course having little Regard to the Satisfaction of any other than Spain in what concerned the Safety of Flanders and the Necessities of that Crown made them easie tho' as little pleased as the rest Wherefore on June 22. they sent their Embassadors Orders to Sign the Peace with France before the End of the Month And the very same Day wrote to the French King by the Sieur Lanoy one of their Officers who passed thro' the Camp and delivered a Letter from them to the Mareschal de Luxemburg whereby they acquainted him That they had given the foresaid Orders to their Embassadors at Nimeguen about Signing the Peace and at the same time communicated to him the Sence of the Letter they wrote to his Majesty But notwithstanding all this Tendency both in Spain and Holland to give the finishing Stroke yet an unforeseen Accident fell out which had like to have overturned the whole Fabrick and renew the War with greater Vigour and more equal Forces by engaging England in a Share of it in Favour of the Confederates which they had been long practising without any Success and were quite out of Hopes thereof For in the Conditions which the Dutch had made for the French restoring the 6 Towns in Flanders to the Spaniard there was no particular Mention made of the Time of that Restitution the Dutch understanding as well as the Spaniards that it was to be upon

had been a little more hastned the News of it had come in time to have saved a great many brave Mens Lives by preventing that Engagement The main Purport of this Peace was The Re-establishment of the Treaties of Westphailia without any Derogation from them except in a few Particulars and that for avoiding those Differences which commonly arise among Princes about the Confusion of Limits But the Reader will be better pleased to have the distinct Particulars and they are these that follow I. THAT there shall be a firm and lasting Peace between them and free Commerce by Land and Water II. All Hostilities to cease within 10 Days after the Exchange of the Ratification III. A general Oblivion of all that is past IV. The Treaties of Munster and Osnuburg to remain in full Force V. The Elector to restore to Sweden all he has taken in Pomerin during this War as Stetin Straelsond c. VI. But that the Lands on the other side the River Oder shall remain in Sovereignty to the Elector VII That Golnow shall at present remain in the Hands of the Elector he paying 50000 Crowns to the King of Sweden who upon payment of that Sum shall have the same restored to him VIII The King of Sweden quits the Toll which he received at Colberg and other Places in Pomerania pursuant to the Treaty made at Stetin 1653. IX Quits likewise all Rights and Revenues of the Lands on the other side of the Oder which remains by this Peace to the Elector X. Frees the Inhabitants of the Oath of Allegiance by them taken to him XI The River Oder to remain in Sovereignty to Sweden and the Elector is not to build any Forts or strong Holds on it as far as the Territory of Sweden reaches XII The most Christian King shall presently after the Exchange of the Ratification draw his Forces out of the Countries and Places of the Elector except 1000 Horse who are to remain in Wesel and Lipstadt till the Peace be entirely concluded XIII That the Elector shall draw his Forces out of the Field but because the King of Sweden wants Troops the Elector shall keep Garisons in the Places in Pomeren viz. 2000 Men at Straelsond 1200 or 1000 in Stetin and so in other Places proportionable till such time as Sweden sends over Men to receive them XIV That the Elector may take away the Cannon and Ammunition he hath brought into those Places but must leave what he found there XV. That all Endeavours shall be used to make the Peace with Denmark and that in the mean time the Elector shall not give that Crown any Assistance XVI The most Christian King obliges himself to procure the Crown of Sweden's Ratifications of this Treaty in 3 Months and as long as it is wanting the Elector is not obliged to restore the Places above-mentioned The Ratification between France and the Elector to be exchanged in a Month. But France somewhat to sweeten these hard Conditions put upon this Gallant Prince the Elector of Brandenburg in parting with such large Conquests as he had made in the Course of this War upon the Swede promised by a Separate Article to pay or cause to be paid unto him the Sum of 300000 Crowns towards the re-imbursing in some manner the vast Charges he had been at in making and prosecuting the said Conquests The Elector had no sooner made up Matters upon these hard Terms with his Enemies but he bethinks himself of trying whether his forsaken Friends who were the main Occasions to bring him to it would at all consider him And therefore he writes a Letter to the States-General wherein he did set forth That in the deplorable Condition his Country's Interests in Westphalia were in at that present it might be easily judged whether he had more Reason to complain of those who as Enemies had thus fallen upon him or of those for whose sake All that had happened to him who instead of giving him the Assistance required by their Treaties had neglected them and made a Separate Peace thereby as well abandoning his as their own Affairs and laying upon him the whole Burden of the War in which he should have had no part had it not been for his Desire to help his Friends in their Misfortunes as if it had been a Consolation to their High and Mightinesses to see him who had endeavoured with all his Might to save them from utter Destruction as a Recompence totally ruined That he did not think it necessary to set before them more Particulars of what he had suffered for his assisting them and how his Countries of Cleves Mark Ravensberg and Minden in sight of their Armies had been quite ruined and desolated which they had already understood from his Ministers according to the Orders he had given them That he had expected they would have returned him an Answer to the Letter in which he advised them of the Dangers that threatned him and desired their Assistance that so at least he might have had the Comfort to see the Concern they had for his Misfortunes which he had the more Reason to expect for that it could not but be yet fresh in their High and Mightinesses Memory how in their greatest Necessity he had hazarded all for them and preferred their Friendship before the most advantagious Conditions that were offered him That their High and Mightinesses would according to their great Wisdom comprehend that he ought not to bear these inestimable Damages for their sake without Compensation and that according to all Right he ought to expect the same and his Indemnity from those who might and ought to have prevented them That therefore he wrote to their High and Mightinesses that Letter that they might not think that he had swallowed their unjust Proceedings or quitted the Obligations his Alliance with them laid upon them But that as he on his part had always performed his Promises and Engagements and done even more than they required so he expected the like from them or in Default thereof Satisfaction for the same and reserved to himself and to his Posterity all the Right belonging thereunto That he prayed God to preserve them from all Misfortunes and hostile Invasions for the future that so they might not to their great Prejudice come to know the Consequence of forsaking faithful Friends The States who had once before failed in that respect that was due to the Elector by not answering his former Letter would not offend further in that Particular by turning a deaf Ear to this also tho' in Substance the Elector had as good as have received no Reply at all However they acknowledged in the first place the great Services the Elector had rendred their State and particularly in the late War assuring him That they would always keep the same fresh in Memory and make all suitable Returns as it should be in their Power Then they let him see how that they themselves had not been wanting

repeated much the same Things as he had told the Council before he proceeded to tell them That after having given them such Assurances he could not doubt but of a suitable return on their part and particularly in what related to the settling of his Revenues as he called it as it was in his Brother's time That he might use many Arguments to them for enforcing his Demand from the benefit of Trade supply of the Navy the necessity of the Crown and the well-being of the Government it self which he was not to suffer to be precarious That he foresaw there was one popular Argument which might be used against what he asked from the inclination Men had for frequent Parliaments which some might think would be best secured by feeding him from time to time by such proportions as they should think convenient But that Argument it being the first time he spake to them from the Throne he would answer once for all that that would be a very improper Method to take with him that the best way to ingage him to meet them often was to use him always well and therefore he expected a speedy Compliance with his Demands now that he might meet them again to all their Satisfactions But tho this was a very odd way of caressing a Parliament yet they being in a manner fashioned before to his hand they were so far from taking notice of it and what was more of the most grievous and dangerous State of the whole Nation as it was left by King Charles that instead of representing the same to the now King or redressing any Grievance they immediately gave him a Revenue to enable him to ruin the Church and State upon the Foundation his Brother had laid for him for besides their settling the Customs and Temporary Excise upon him as they were before upon his Brother They laid a new Imposition upon Wines and Vinegars made an Act to lay more Custom upon Sugars and Tobacco another laying an Imposition upon all French Linnens and all East-India Linnen and several other Indian Manufactures also upon French Wrought Silks and Stuffs and all Brandies And that there might be a nearer Conjunction between His Majesty and France tho the Nation thought them always before too great the Act for prohibiting the Importation of French Wine Vinegar Brandy Linnens and Cloth Silks Malt Paper or any Manufacture made or mix'd with Silk Thread Wool Hair Gold or Silver or Leather being of the Growth or Manufacture of France was now fully repealed There was also five Shillings per Tun granted upon every Voyage which any foreign Ship should make from Port to Port in England and Twelve-pence per Tun for every Voyage which a Foreign built Ship not free should make so that in short this Revenue with the Hereditary Excise and other Revenues of the Crown have been computed to amount to 2400000 l. per Annum to which if you add 15000 per Annum which the King had when he was Duke of York the whole will amount to 2550000 per An. which was 3 times more than any King of England except Henry VIII had before the King's Brother But before this Sessions was over they heard of something not only from the North but also from the West that did not a little terrifie the greatest part of them The King in the Close of the fore-mentioned Speech the very Day of the Opening of the Parliament told them That he had News that Morning from Scotland that the Earl of Argyle was Landed in the West Highlands with the Men that he had brought along with him from Holland and that there were Two Declarations Published one in the Name of all those in Arms there and the other in his own He said in general of both that he was charged in them of Usurpation and Tyranny but gave no Particulars of the Former the Court contenting themselves to put it by piece-meals into the Gazzette with what Animadversions they pleased but the last of them he presently communicated unto them and was in Substance this that follows A DECLARATION of Archibald Earl of Argyle Lord Kintyre Cowall Campbell and Lorn Heritable Sheriff and Lieutenant of the Shires of Argyle and Turbette and Heritable Justice General of the said Shires I Shall not Publish my Case Published already in Print in Latin and in Dutch and more largely in English nor mean I to repeat the Printed Declaration emitted by several Noble Men Gentlemen and others of both Nations now in Arms because the Sufferings of Me and my Family are therein mentioned I have thought it fit for me to Declare for my Self that as I go to Arms with those who have appointed me to Conduct them for no Private and Personal End only for those contained in the said Declaration which I have concerted with them and approved of so I do claim no Interest but what I had before the pretended Forfeiture of my Family and have a sufficient Right to And that I do freely and as a Christian forgive all Personal Injuries against my Person and Family to all that shall not oppose but joyn and concur with us in our present Undertaking for the Ends mentioned in the said Declaration and hereby I oblige my self never to pursue them in Judgment nor out of Judgment And I do further declare That obtaining the Quiet and peaceable Possession of what belonged to my Father and my Self before our pretended Forfeitures I shall satisfie all Debts due by my Father and my Self as any Heir or Debtor can be obliged And as my Faithfulness to his late Majesty and his Government hath sufficiently appeared to all unbyassed Persons void of Malice so I do with Grief acknowledge my former too much complying with and conniving at the Methods that have been taken to bring us to the sad Condition we are now in though God knows never concurring in the Design I have now with God's Strength suffered patiently my unjust Sentence and Banishment 3 Years an half and have never offered to make any Uproar or Defence by Arms to disturb the Peace upon my private Concern but the King being now dead and the Duke of York having taken off his Mask and abandoned and invaded our Religion and Liberties resolving to enter into the Government and exercising it contrary to Law I think it not only just but my Duty to God and my Country to use my utmost Endeavours to oppose and repress his Usurpations and Tyranny And therefore being assisted and furnish'd very nobly by several good Protestants and invited and accompanied by several of both Nations to lead them I resolve as God shall enable me to use their Assistance of all kinds towards the Ends exprest in the said Declaration And I do hereby earnestly Invite and Obtest all honest Protestants and particularly all my Friends and Blood Relations to concur with us in the said Declaration And as I have written several Letters so having no other way fully to

were to be left to continue the Siege and they being almost finished by the 5th of August he began his March that Day We shall at present follow the Duke of Lorrain in his March and give you an Account of the Issue of it and then return to Newheusell Aug. 8 he passed the Danube near Comorra and next Day reached to Dotis otherwise called Thasa from whence his Highness with the Elector of Bavaria advanced towards the Enemy with a design to Attack them in their Camp before Gran if they came not out to fight them As they approached nearer they understood how vigorously the Turks pushed on the Siege of Gran and the brave Resistance the Garrison continued to make On the 14th a Renagado Polander who had for some time served the Turks came into the Imperial Camp and inform'd the Duke of Lorrain that the Turks believing the Imperialists not above 20000 strong had resolved to Attack them Upon which Information the Duke who was encamped with the Army near a Morass which covered the Turks resolved to retire that very Night an Hours March thereby to confirm the Enemy in their Opinion of the weakness of the Christian Forces which being effected in very good Order the Turks without losing any time passed the Morass thinking to surprize the Imperialists in their Retreat But they were strangely mistaken for they found them drawn up in very good Order Yet they fell on with their usual Shouts and charged the Right Wing commanded by the Elector of Bavaria and afterwards the Left Wing where the Duke of Lorrain was in Person and likewise endeavoured to flank them but they were beaten off with the greatest Bravery imaginable With this being somewhat discouraged but much more in that they found themselves deceived in the Account they had of the Strength of the Imperialists they began to fall into great Disorder which was very much encreased by the Discharge of 30 Pieces of Cannon laden with Small-shot with which the Imperial Troops opening they fired upon them and made a great Slaughter And at the second Discharge they fled being pursued by the first Line of the Christians and a great many illustrious Voluntiers who on this Occasion gave great Proofs of their Courage While they repassed the Defiles on the side of the Morass the Imperial Troops followed them very close and cutting in pieces all that opposed them they entred their Camp and made themselves Masters of it where they took all their Tents Baggage and Artillory the latter consisting of 23 Pieces of Cannon and 4 Mortars the Enemy at the same time fleeing towards Buda while the Hungarians and Croats with a Detachment of Cuirassiers and Dragoons commanded by the Baron de Merci the Count de Stirum and Colonel Heusler were sent in pursuit of them This Victory was so much the more signal and advantageous to the Imperialists in that tho' there were 4000 Janisaries and 2000 Spahi's of the Enemy slain yet it did not cost the former above 100 Men and among them no Person of Note But Vicegrade had unhappily fallen into the Turks Hands before this for while the Serasquier was engaged in the Siege of Gran before which he lost near 3000 Men he had s●nt before the Duke came up a Detachment of 12000 to Attack it having then only a Garrison of 300 Christians who yet made a very brave Defence till at length the Enemy having made a Breach with their Cannon and Mines they Capitulated to march out with their Arms and Baggage to the Danube where they Embarked and were conducted by Water to the Imperial Army 5 while the Enemy thought fit to demolish the Place But this was nothing in comparison of the aforesaid Victory or the Taking of Newheusel that followed which happened after this manner The Besiegers having made their Approaches by Galleries Cannon and Mines so far that a Breach was made at one of the Bastions which was so broad that 3 Men might enter a breast General Caprara and the Duke of Croy having called a Council of War thereupon resolved to give a general Assault the next Day being Aug. 19 and sent their Commands into all Quarters to provide accordingly So that first having sprung 3 Mines about the said Bastion and Curtain which tho' they had not the desired Effect so as to ruin some Retrenchments of the Besieged yet they so far benefited the Christians as to facilitate the Assault by opening a Gap 12 Foot wide and of a pretty easie Assent Hereupon they immediately fired upon the Town from all Quarters which put the Turks within into such a Consternation that for a Time scarce a Man durst appear so that laying hold of the Opportunity whilst they played also with their Bombs and Carcasses upon the Besieged the Count of Scherffenburg was the first that entred the Place on the Right side of the Bastion The Sieur Ronimel at the same time pushing in at the new Breache● a little on the Left General Dumont who commanded the Lunemburghers vigorously backing the Assault This Vigour of the Christians brought the Besieged to set up two white Flags upon their Retrenchments but the former were now so eager that there was no bridling of them so that they immediately mounted the new Retrenchments and after a little Opposition the Imperialists rushed all into the Town putting all they found to the Sword Hassan the Basha was brought desperately wounded to General Caprara and about 10 Officers more were Saved Besides the great quantity of Ammunitition and Provisions they found there they had also 75 pieces of Cannon which Cannon they had all dismounted save 6. Of this Success the Duke of Lorrain was advertised as he was upon his March from Gran with an Intention to put the finishing Hand to it himself which made him alter his Motion and go in quest of the Enemies Army who rallied about Buda and whom he could not draw to a second Engagement during the rest of the Campaign However he had done in Hungary so much already that the Serasquier thought fit towards the latter end of August to send an Aga to his Highness who after having kissed his Hands and lifted them up to his Forehead presented to him a large Letter wrapped up in a piece of Crimson Sattin of which this is an exact Translation TO Our good Friend the Duke of Lorain present Generalissimus of the Emperor of the Germans Greeting We make known as a good Friend that Achmet Deschelebi formerly Defrerdo which is as much as to say Commissary of the Timarriotes of the Fortress of Neuheusel having represented to V● your Friend in case We desire a Negotiation of ●eace We ought to send Letters to which you might give Credit For this Cause these Presents have been written and sent unto You. And as We your Friend desire hereby for the Service of the Creatures of God that means may be found to restore the Tranquility of the Subjects on

Confession of those Violences of the Government that we have set forth so the Defectiveness of it is no less apparent For they lay down nothing which they may not take up at pleasure and they reserve entire and not so much as mentioned their Claims and Pretences to an Arbitrary and Despotick Power which has been the Root of all their Oppression and of the Total Subversion of the Government And it is plain That there can be no Redress no Remedy offered but in Parliament by a Declaration of the Rights of the Subjects that have been invaded and not by any pretended Acts of Grace to which the Extremity of their Affairs has driven them Therefore it is that we have thought fit to declare That we will Refer all to a Free Assembly of this NATION in a Lawful Parliament Given under Our Hand and Seal at Our Court in the Hague the 24th Day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1688. WILLIAM HENRY Prince of Orange By His Highness's Special Command C. HUYGENS. At the same time an Extract of the States-General's Resolution was privately Printed at London wherein among other Reasons why they had intrusted the Prince of Orange with such a Fleet and Army is this which follows THE King of France hath upon several Occasions shewed himself dissatisfied with this State which gave Cause to fear and apprehend that in case the King of Great Britain should happen to compass within his Kingdom and obtain an Absolute Power over his People that then both Kings out of the Interest of State and Hatred and Zeal against the Protestant Religion would endeavour to bring this State to confusion and if possible quite to subject it There was also Printed about the same Juncture this Letter of the Prince of Orange to the Officers of the Army Gentlemen and Friends WE have given you so full and so true an Account of Our Intentions in this Expedition in Our Declaration that as We can add nothing to it so We are sure you can desire nothing more of Us. We are come to preserve your Religion and to Restore and Establish your Liberties and Properties And therefore We cannot suffer Our Selves to doubt but that all true English Men will come and concur with Us in Our Desire to Secure these Nations from Popery and Slavery You must all plainly see That you are only made use of as Instruments to enslave the Nation and ruine the Protestant Religion and when that is done you may judge what ye your selves ought to expect both from the Cashiering all the Protestant and English Officers and Soldiers in Ireland and by the Irish Soldiers being brought over to be put in your Places and of which you have seen so fresh an Instance that We need not put you in mind of it You know how many of your Fellow-Officers have been used for their standing firm to the Protestant Religion and to the Laws of England And you cannot flatter your selves so far as to expect to be better used if those who have broke their Word so often should by your Means be brought out of those Streights to which they are at present reduced We hope likewise that ye will not suffer your selves to be abused by a false Notion of Honour but that you will in the first place consider what you owe to Almighty God and your Religion to your Country to your Selves to your Posterity which you as Men of Honour ought to prefer to all private Considerations and Engagements whatsoever We do therefore expect That you will consider the Honour that is now set before you of being the Instruments of Serving your Country and Securing your Religion and We shall ever remember the Service you shall do Us upon this Occasion and will promise you that We shall place such particular Marks of Our Favour on every one of you as your Behaviour at this time shall deserve of Us and the Nation in which We shall make a great Distinction of those that shall come seasonably to join their Arms with Ours And you shall find Us to be your Well-wishing and assured Friend W. H. P. O. This Letter was spread under-hand over the whole Kingdom and read by all sorts of Men and the Reason of it being undeniable it had a great Force on the Spirits of the Soldiery so that those who did not presently comply with it yet resolved they would never strike one stroke in this Quarrel till they had a Parliament to secure the Religion Laws and Liberties of England Which the Court on the other side had resolved should not be granted till the Prince of Orange with his Army was expelled out of the Nation and till all those that had submitted to him which were not many then were reduced into their Power to be treated as they thought fit In the mean time the Fleet came about from the Buoy in the N●re to Portsmouth under the Command of the Lord Dartmouth where it arrived on Saturday the 17th of November and on the Monday following the KING entred Salisbury which was then the Head Quarters of the whole Army But on the 16th of the aforesaid Month the Lord Delamere having received certain Intelligence of the Landing of the Prince of Orange in the West and seeing the Irish throng over in Arms under pretence of Assisting the King but in reality to enslave us at Home as they had already reduced our Country-Men in Ireland to the lowest Degree of Danger and Impuissance that they have at any time been in since the Conquest of Ireland in the Reign of King Henry II. He thereupon Assembled Fifty Horse-Men and at the Head of them marched to Manchester and the next Day he went to Bodon-Downes his Forces being then 150 strong declaring his Design was To join with the Prince of Orange This small Party of Men by degrees drew in all the North and could never be suppressed Now before His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange left Exeter there was an Association drawn up and signed by all the Lords and Gentlemen that were with him the Date of which I cannot assign but the Words thereof are as follow VVE whose Names are hereunto subscribed who have now joined with the Prince of Orange for the Defence of the Protestant Religion and for the maintaining the Antient Government and the Laws and Liberties of England Scotland and Ireland do engage to Almighty God to His Highness the Prince of Orange and to one another to stick firm to this Cause and to one another in Defence of it and never to depart from it until our Religion Laws and Liberties are so far secured to us in a Free Parliament that we shall be no more in danger of falling into Popery and Slavery And whereas we are engaged in this Common Cause under the Protection of the Prince of Orange by which means his Person may be exposed to Danger and to the cursed Attempts of Papists and other Bloody Men we do therefore solemnly

the Peace with the Emperor 61. sollicites Peace in France with little success ib. Derry the Siege of it 323. Diepe bombarded by the English 498. Diet of Ratisbonne's Result on the Emperor's Memorial 88. Dixmude surrendered to the Fr. 520. Doge of Venice his Death 255. Dulcigno besieged by the Venetians in vain 580. Dundee slain 317. Dutch at Nimeguen inclinable to a Peace 8. E. EBeremberg taken by the Germans 631. Electorate the Ninth 476. Elbing invested by the E. of Brandenburgh 684. Articles of Surrendry 685 c. Eleanor Queen her death 673. Embassadors Turkish press for a Peace 357. Emp-prepares against the Turks 131. gives the Command to the Duke of Lorrain 132. retires from Vienna to Lintz 133. returns to Vienna 146. his Letter to the late K. James 318 c. his Proposal of Peace to the Turks 357. his Answer to the Polish Envoy's Complaint 488 c. Empire's Complaint of the French Incroachments 89. English die-a-pace at Dundalk Camp 328. their Attempt upon Brest 495. Esperies besieged by the Germans in vain 160. besieged a second time ib. surrendred 191. Esseck the Town taken and the Bridge burnt by the Imperialists 190. abandoned by the Turks 234. besieged by 'em in vain 412 c. Essex the Earl of his Speech to K. Charles II 97. his Murther in the Tower 116. Extract of the Peace between the Muscovites and Turks 692. between the Poles and the Turks 693 c. between the Emperor and the Turks 695 c. between the Venetians and the Turks 699 c. F. FEnwick Sir John the Bill of Attainder against him 585. Parliaments Proceedings upon it 586 c. his Paper at his Execution 589 c. Feversham E. of his Letter to the P. of Orange 296. Fitz-Harris Edw. his Libel 102 c. concerned in the Meal tub Plot 106. discovers the Sham 107. impeached by the Commons to prevent his trial ib. tryed condemn'd and executed 109 c. Five Churches besieged and taken by the Imperialists 213. Fleet French beaten and burnt by the English c. 458 c. Flerus the Battle there 394 c. French make Devastations in Germany 8. take Valenciennes 9. comply with the Spaniards 41. invade Juliers 56. invade it again 65. propose odd Conditions to the Court of Bavaria 86. enlarge their Limits in Alsatia 89. their Encroachments in Flanders 90. their Carriage upon the Turks invading Hungary 131. begin the War upon the Rhine 257. burn and ravage the Palatinate 333. beat the Confederate Fleet at Sea 361. prevail in Catalonia 400. attempt a separate Peace with the Emperor 420. opprest with Famine offer Peace to the Confederates 488. fight the Spaniards in Catalonia 562. attack the Smyrna Fleet 477. Friend Sir John his Paper at his Execution 554 c. G. GAlloway surrendred to the English 433. Genoa bombarded by the Fr. 152. submits 153. George Prince his Letter to King James 288. Germans march toward Buda and rout the Turks 155. Ghent besieged and surrendred to the French 14. Givet the Magazine burnt 560. Godfrey Sir Edmundbury Murdered 73. the Discovery of it ib. c. Gran besieged by the Imperialists 148. taken ib. besieged by the Turks 186. relieved and the Battle there 187. Grandval the Sieur de his Trial and Execution 467. Great Waradin blockaded by the Imperialists 455. besieged and surrendred 476. H. HAlliwell Baron worsted and slain by the Turks 154 c. Hanover Elector of his death 689. Havre de Grace bomb'd by the English 498. Heidelburg taken and destroyed by the French 483. Heusler General beaten and made Prisoner in Transylvania 409. Holland Preparations there for England 258. Holstein Gottorp Duke of restored to his Territories 72. Hough Dr. chosen President of Magdalen Colledge 202. Huy taken by the French 479. besieged and taken by the Confederates 500. I. JAmaica an Earth quake there c. 473. James II. King his Speech to the Council 165. Crown'd and his Speech to the Parliament ib. his Practises against the Duke of Monmouth 169. his proceedings in respect to Ireland 182. his Speech to the Parliament about the Popish Officers 183. thanked for it by the Lords 184. his proceedings in respect to Charters 196. sets up the Ecclesiastical Commission ib. his Usage of the Fellows of Magdalen Colledge 202. his Letter to the Scotch Parliament 205. grants toleration of Religion 223. instructs the Judges going the Circuits ●b c. commands the Declaration of Indulgence to be read in Churches 245. the Bishops petition to him upon it ib. his Answer 246. restores London Charter 260. dissolves the Ecclesiastical Commimission c. 263 c. enters Salisbury 284. forsaken by divers of the Nobility 288. returns to London 289. issues Writs to call a Parliament 290 his Proposals to the P. of Orange 294. his Letter to the E. of Feversham 295. withdraws ib. returns to London 301. withdraws into France 303. his Reasons for withdrawing ib. c. abdicates the Throne 306. lands in Ireland c. 319. flees for France 375. his Letter to the Irish Troops arrived in France 446. his Letter to the Fr. King 459 c. Jefferies Chief Justice his proceedings and cruelties in the West 180. takes Money 181. made Lord Chancellor 196. Jenkins Sir Lionel refuses to sign the separate Peace with Spain 41. Imperialists successful in Vpper Hungary 191. Innocent XI his Death and Character 357. Johnson Samuel whip'd 203. his Address to the English Soldiers 204 c. Joseph Archduke crowned King of Hungary 235. chosen K. of the Romans 397 c. Ireland entirely reduc'd 323. Irish routed by the Iniskilliners 446. defeated again near Sligo which they took 327. routed by Woolsly 362. K. KEys his Paper at his Execution 554. Keyserwaert besieged and surrendred to the Elector of Brandenburg 330 c. King of France's Letter to K. Ch. II. and Message 10. his project of Peace 14. c. refused by the Mediator 17. his Letter to the States General 19. ratifies the Peace with Holland 36. prefixes time and condions of Peace to Denmark and Brandenburg 62. his Letter to his Army 499 c. King his Paper at his Execution 553 c. Kingsale besieged and surrendred to the English 386 c. Kirk Major General his cruelty in the West 181. L. LAnden the great Battle there 481. Lepanto abandoned by the Turks 241 Lesley Count routs the Turks in Sclavonia 159. takes the Town of Esseck 190. Letter to the States General from Turin 533. of General Veterani's defeat 535 c. Liberachi Basha embraces the Venetian Interest 579. Liege the Pr. of dies 497. Limerick besieged in vain by the English 379 c. besieged a second time 434 c. surrendred and the Articles 436 c. Lippa taken by the Imperialists 249. retaken by the Turks 535. Lithuania Troubles there 682. appeased and the Articles 688. London the Charter of it question'd 116. taken away 115. the Bishop of it suspended and the Reason of the Courts displeasure against