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lord_n	john_n	sir_n	town_n	15,511	5	7.6738	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49472	Flanders, or, An exact and compendious description of that fair, great, and fat countrey of Flanders wherein the inhabitants, bounds, length, breadth, division, riches, rivers, forrests, cities, towns, and villages, castles, principalities, sea-ports, courts of justice, abbeys, with the chief estates are observed : as also a distinct relation of some battels fought and towns won unto the now victorious proceedings of the English and French armies therein, with the taking Mardike, Dunkerk, Winnoxbergh, Vuern, and Dixmude, to the present besieging of Graveling.	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.	1658 (1658)	Wing L3490; ESTC R5657	7,431	17

set down the State of Dunkirk and Ostend both of them have been subject to the fury of VVarre and change of Lords and Laws for Ostend 't was a fishing Town and lived by what they got at Sea as well by labour as by Pyracy for they used both as well against us English as against the Hollanders who once were Masters of it and did by the valour of English Commanders especially Sir Francis Vere and Horatio afterwards Lord Vere his valiant brother and Sir John Ogle with other hardy Commanders hold out a tedious siege of three years three moneths and odde dayes against all the Spanish power and strength who spared neither men nor bullets to get it into his hands which at last when it was not a Town but an heap of battered Rubbish by the fury of his Cannon and Granadoes when it had cost him almost a million of men and millions of moneys was honourably yeelded into his hands to the never dying fame and honour of our Commanders and souldiers and so the Spaniard hath kept and builded it anew so that at present it is a neat prety new town but strongly fortified and hath done a world of mischief to our Merchants Fisher-men and Colliers and would have been a sore nest of Pirates had they not been valiantly kept prisoners within by our stately Men of VVar who have barr'd up this nest of pickeroons with good Cannon and stout Seamen and who will I hope ere long roust them out of this Hole and make them look out another kennel and reduce O end as Dunkerk is to the obedience of his Highnesse to the benefit of all Merchants and honor of our Nation And now we are almost come to a period onely this Place must not be omitted It hath the name from the Church Duin-kerk in Dutch signifying a Church in or neer the Downes or to be seen in the Downes as a mark at Sea there is a convenient Harbour for shipping and a strong Castle the Town indifferent large well built too good for such vermin as are now cast out of it strong it is and well Bulwark'd toward sea and land 't is commodiously seated for pleasure and profit the great Church is faire in building and will be fairer when as Popish superstition is removed and the Gospel preached in its with vigour zeal and purity which is already begun the Townsmen may praise God for so happy a change it hath been subject to many alterations I will onely name some for brevities sake it was sacked pillaged and burned Anno. 1558. by Monsier Termes It was besieged and won from the Spaniard by the French Anno 1655. Again the peace being not broke betwixt England and Spaine it was regained by the Spaniard but he was beholden then to us for it and now this present yeare after a short siege though hot for the time it was at first yeelded into the hands of his Majesty of France who presently redelivered it into the Lord Lockarts possession for his Highnesse who now is sole owner of it and Mardike her strong neighbour both turned from Spanish and French fashion into English So that at present Flanders is under the Government of two free States to wit England and Holland and under two Kings of France and Spain This Couutrey hath been the seat of Warre for sixty years and upwards sometimes by the Dutch and Spaniards who worryed one another in this Countrey in several sieges as that of Scluis and that at Dam and two voyages to Hulst the first time the Prince of Orange was glad to come off with some loss but the second time entring with a strong Army took that Town of Hulst and the States of the Low-Countreys do keep it garrisoned at this present it is not far distant from sea It hath also been the thorough-fair for the French and Spanish armies to range and rove in to the extream harassing and impoverishing the husbandman and trades The most famous battel that hath been fought in this Countrey was that of Neiwport great were the Armies as well that of the States as that of the Arch-Duke Albertus and almost for number equal the advantages of winde or Sun or ground little or none the States had a sad morning and the Arch-Duke a fatal evening for the Spaniards cut off twelve hundred stout and hardy Scots at a narrow passage a great losse for the quality of the souldiers or number at that pinch of time for they were with the English the flower of the States Army the Spaniards followed their game so furiously that Prince Maurice left the field all the Dutch ran a shipboard that valiant and wise Sir Francis Vere was shot in the morning which wound rendred him unable for Command that day but he committed it to his brother a prosperous and religious Leader who managed it so that when the Spaniard had gained so much ground that they possessed the Cannon and cryed out Sancta Maria Victoria victoria and all was given for lost yet the English Regiments who only kept and wonne the field did so poure their bullets amongst the enemies that they presently regain'd the Ordnance and charg'd them presently with small shot and discharg'd them so successfully that the Spaniards were forc'd to leave the field in disorder that night and their heels was their shelter But the English pursuing their victory slew and cut down all they overtook stragling so that the day was gained by the English who did not onely gain that field then but from time to time have upheld the Low-countreys who in truth had been totally ruin'd by the Spaniard without our help this famous battel was fought with at least fourty five thousand men on both sides And now at present this County of Flanders is the Seat of Warre wherein England and France are tugging against Spain and hitherto have performed admirable service as the taking of Bourburgh and Mardike the surrender of Dunkerk into our hands that Town so infamous for Piracies the great overthrow given to the Spaniards striving to relieve it with a great number of field Officers and others made prisoners the speedy gaining of VVinnoxberg Vuern Dixmude Towns that have all of them titles added to their names as Dunkerk for trade Winnoxbergh for a gallant Market Vuern for pleasure and Dixmude for excellent butter And at this Instant that strong seated deep moated and treble-walled Town of Graveling is besieged Newport and Ostend kept close In which when gain'd will cause the Spaniard to shrug and shrink in his bombasted titles and Bravadoes and be a just cause of Englands triumph and rejoycing over the proud Spaniard FINIS 1. Name 2. Countrey 3. Inhabitants 4. Made a County 5. Ancient bounds of it 6. Length and breadth of it 7. Aire fruitfulness of it 8. Cattel 9. Division of it into Flanders Flamingant Gallicane and Imperial 10. Rivers and Forrests 11. Cities and Towns walled 12. Unwalled Towns 13. Gaunt Bruges briefly described 14. Bruges 15. Villages in Flanders 16. Castles 17. Castles Abbeys 18. Dignities Government and Officers of State 19. Principalities 20. Officers peculiar to the Earle of Flanders 21. The Earles Revenues 22. Ostende 23. Dunkerk 24. Battels in Flanders Newport Battel