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A03003	A true discourse of the most happy victories obtayned by the French King, against the rebels and enemies of his Maiesty With a particular declaration of all that hath beene done betweene the two armies, during the monthes of September and October, and part of Nouember. 1589. Also of the taking of the subburbes of Paris by the King. Faithfully translated out of French into English, according to the coppy imprinted at Tours. By T.D.	Wealsh, Luke.; T. D., fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 13143; ESTC S92937	12,313	24

A True Discourse of the most happy victories obtayned by the French King against the Rebels and enemies of his Maiesty With a particuler declaration of all that hath béene done betweene the two Armies during the monthes of September and October and part of Nouember 1589. Also of the taking of the Subburbes of Paris by the King Faithfully translated out of French into English according to the Coppy imprinted at Tours By T. D. LONDON Printed by I. Wolfe and E. White 1589. To the right Honourable Lord Robert Deuorax Earle of Essex and Ewe Vicount of Harryford and Bourchier Lord Ferrers of Chartley Burchier and Louaine maister of the Queenes maiesties Horse and Knight of the most honourable order of the Garter Luke Wealsh wisheth all heauenly happinesse and increase of honourable vertue THe viewe of Scipio his valiant exploites right Honourable was no lesse admired amongst the hardie Carthagenians then the report of his conquestes were ioyfull among the Senators and Citizens of flourishing Rome But if they in regarde of Heathen honour and onely forworldly causes conceaued such felicity in their victories yeelding their graue ears to the discourse therof then need I not feare to present to your honors hands the vndoubted truth of these happy victories obtained by the most noble and Christian French King who for the recouery of his right aduancement of Gods glory is inforced to maintaine wars against them Wherfore in respect of your honourable and magnanimious minde your wisedom and vertuous inclination your hardinesse in warres and hatred to rebellion sondrie times manifested to your eternall and well deserued praise as also to declare my well affected hart to your honour I haue chosen you the Patrone of this warlike discourse that the noble exploits herein mentioned may be the better regarded and the more esteemed by the name of so honourable a personage whose loue as it is generally planted in the harts of all the Cōmons of this land so it is euery day augmented through hope of your neuer dying fame Thus shielding my selfe vnder your honours protection with hope of your honourable fauour and pardon for my bolde attempt in most humble manner I take my leaue Your Honours most humble at command Luke VVealsh Certain verses written by master Wealsh as a thankesgiuing vnto God for the prosperous successe of the King OVr mighty God in highest heauens doth sitte And yet behouldes all things on earth below How godles men applies their chiefest witte With might and maine his truth to ouerthrow But praised be our God of greatest power Who can confound their doings in an howre Though all the Princes of the earth conspire Against the Lord and Christ his onely sonne They shal be scattered in his furious ire And be constraind to leaue where they begunne For praised be our God of greatest power Who can confound their doings in an howre By him alone all royall Kings do raigne By him they rule and sitte in Princely throne Then flie you Rebels with your trayterous traine Your sinne and shame throughout the world is knowne And praysed be our God of greatest power Who did confound their doings in an howre In Pharaos sight the stout Egyptian King The Lord by Moyses many wonders wrought His chosen flocke from bondage great to bring But all his threats hee leaudly set at nought Yet praised be our God of greatest power Who did destroy his army in an howre And thou O France whose fame in former daies Did glorifie the pleasant Westerne partes How oft in thee did God his wonders raise Which neuer yet could mollify your hartes But praised be our God of greatest power Who can confound his foes within an howre What grieuous tumultes in thy townes are wrought What rage and bloudshed by thy City wales What wrongfull broyles and causelesse wars are sought What great Rebellion on thy people falls But praysed be our God of greatest power Who can confound his foes within an howre Ierusalem that Citty of renowne By diuers tokens warned was of sinne And thou O France didst lately sée a Crowne Plast in the skie by God ouer the King As many men affirme and plainely shoe A wonderous thing if that the truth be so Then cease your iarres obey your soueraigne Lord Whom God from Heauen affirmes your louing King Whose heart whose hand doth séeke with one accord Your health your wealth and Realme in peace to bring And blessed be our God of greatest power Who can confirme these blessings in an howre FINIS A true discourse of the most happy victories obtained by the French king against the rebels and enemies of his Maiesty With a particuler declaration of all that hath bene done betweene the two Armies during the months of September and October and part of Nouember Also of the taking of the Subburbes of Paris by the king IT is too common and manifestlye knowen with what pompe and vanity the Duke de Main and all those of his side had vanted in euery place of the supposed successe which they assured themselues to obtaine in the voyage which they enterprised in September last past against royall Maiesty in the partes of Normandy But it is more manifestly knowen how those vainglorious brags giuen out both by wordes and writing were gain-saide by God in the effectes which followed for it pleased him clean contrary to their Imaginations and published boastinges to turne their glory into shame As by the following discourse most plainely shall appeare to the comfort of all such as wishe the aduancemente of the glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ His Maiesty hearing that the enemy approched very fast intamped himselfe at Arques a good league from the towne of Dieppe by the prudent counsaile of the Lorde Marshall de Birron And viewing the place hee by and by iudged what the enemy was able to doe against him whereuppon he caused certaine trenches to be made on the toppe of the hill in most substantiall manner as farre from Arques as a cannon can shoote A deuise so excellente and pollitickely framed that all the Army for a néede mighte be couered therewith out of all danger vppon which trenches his Maiesty planted foure péeces of great Artillerye this being done in sight of a faire plaine where he supposed the enemy would come to fight whether also wée might come without any daunger this Campe of the Kings was pitched close almost after the fashion of the Romanes in olde time All the companies were quartered in villages rounde about according as his Maiesty had ordained their lodginges The meane while the enemy approched more and more very fast and on Friday the fiftéenth of this moneth of September he came and lodged his vantgard within a league and a halfe of the towne of Diepe whether his Maiesty was gone that morning to mark the enemies intent who saw plainly by their present dealing that they minded vtterly to spoil the suburbe called le Paullet before hee came to Arques The king

sorrowfull for the death of Mounsieur the Count de Rousy brother to the Count de la Rouchfoucaue and Mounsieur de Bacqueuille whose vertues were most commendable among all men but especially the valiant and hardy seruice which they performed in this fight wherein they declared their wonderfull courage Neither can I forget Mounsieur le graund Prior who séeing Monsieur Sagonne a most proud and ambitious enemie and one that boasted himselfe ouer all men for the opinion hee conceaued in his manhood and strength of armes he called him to the fight and so néere they ioyned togither that when they parted Sagonne bore away his markes And sée the iudgement of God vpon this vnhappie man lighting down from his horse he broke his necke The next day after that is to say on Saterday the thrée and twentie my Lord Stafford Ambassadour to the most Noble Quéene of Englande arriued at Déepe bringing both money and victuals but he sawe not his Maiestie till the next day About midnight the same Saterday wee perceaued that the enemie changed his opinion and that he would rayse his armie which in déede he did on the Sonday morning very early without any sound of Driumne or Trumpet in sight of his Maiestie and all his armie which were for the most part in battell raye on the otherside of the hill where my Lord Ambassadour mette him this remoouing of theirs was doone with such great feare and so cowardly that they left their wounded men in their villages behinde them leauing by the way both their victualles and munition for warre and to their greater shame they staied not so much as to giue their Sentriles warning to retire or saue themselues They tooke their iourney as though they went to a Towne called Ewe but we pursuing them tooke some prisoners who being demaunded the cause of their soddaine retire were founde in diuers tales concerning the same for some sayde it was because of the comming of the English shippes which lately ariued there wherein they doubted great aide to be sent to his Maiestie Some other saide it was vppon occasion of placing of newe Gouernours among them in stéede of those which had béen slaine whereupon great strife grew among them some allowing of one man some choosing an other but we must referre that vnto God who can worke confusion among his enemies when it pleaseth him Then the enemie went past the forrest and riuer to S. Vax Quinqueuille and Bures lodged himselfe on the otherside of the towne of Déepe where he spredde his troopes all about intrenching himselfe in the néerest Villages as Ianuall Boutiles Apeuiell and others The king séeing that caused his battell to be pitched in the plaine néere Arques and sent the regiment of Monsieur de la Gard into the Castle of Arques but the day before he brought all his armie into Déep and the suburbes of the same with thrée péeces of great ordinance and being come all that night he caused great and large trenches to be made in a place called the Mount of Cattes on the side of the enemie so that he had a faire defence in the morning in which place he lodged a part of his footmen vnder the Gouernement of Monsieur de Chastelon with thirtéene ensignes of Suitzers the rest of his armie he placed in the towne and in the fort of Paulet but in the fort of the Mount of Cats on the side of Ianuell the King caused two double Cannons to bee planted which were shott off vpon the enemie without any shott in vaine because they were all on an heape and their horsemen could not come into their quarter but by the fauour of the Cannon The first day of October the enemie planted sixe péeces of ordenance vpon the toppe of the hill by Ianuall shootting fiue or sixe vollies of shot into the towne wherewith was slaine one of the Kings Cookes a woman a maiden and a boye doing also great hurt vnto two shippes which lay at Anker in the hauen But they withdrewe soone after their Cannons from that place because by our Cannons their master gonner was slaine two péeces of their ordenance dismounted which was done by a skilfull English Cannoneir who was presented to the King by my Lord Stafford Ambassadour to the Quéene of England The fourth day of October the enemie broke downe all their Rampiers or Gabions because our men visited them more then they desired making them to forsake them euery foote And séeing they could no better preuaile the enemie retired himself againe with great shame and losse of men and the vtter ruine of his armie after he had vsed all the cruelties that might be taking his way toward Picardie not daring to fight against the helpe which was comming towarde the King His Maiestie little thinking of the enemies sodaine departure sawe how he raised his campe on a soddaine in sight of them all whereupon he presently imagined that he went to fight against the helpes which were comming towarde his Maiestie which were brought by the Earle of Soysson the Duke de Longeuiell and the Marshall d'Aumont before they could ioyne with his Maiestie And the more his highnesse mistrusted the matter by their shifting into thrée seuerall places and neuer farre off from his Maiesties armie But his grace knowing that these helpes were come within seauen or eight leagues he determined with thrée or foure hundred horsemen to go méete and ioine with them leauing the Marshall de Birron in Déepe with all the rest of the armie And although the enemie was but fiue leagues off when his Maiestie ioyned with his newe forces yet in sight of them all his highnesse tooke parforce the towne and Castle of Gamasche and since hee tooke in like manner the towne of Ewe which was as great an occasion as might be to procure the Duke de Maine to the fight But in stéede thereof and fearing he should be constrained therevnto he most cowardly went ouer the riuer of Some into Picardie séeking to excuse this shamefull retire with a greater disgrace for he published abroad that he was constrained to come downe into Picardie to take him selfe possession of the townes of that Prouince which matter was before intreated of by his Deputies in the towne of Aras at what time the saide Duke de maine had bound himselfe to the Spaniardes to deliuer all those townes into their hands but the Spaniards wold not come to aide him before he had performed what he was bound to doo vnto which composition hee was in doubt the people of those townes would not easily censent The King which had a speciall desire to bring the enemie to an open battell séeing he would not do it so long as he was on this side of the riuer of Some and now being the first that had passed the sayde riuer he thought it now vnpossible hee should be brought thereunto His Maiestie therefore resolued himselfe to stay for the enemies returne backe againe not