of May. During this interval a French Cavalier in the Enemies Army came over to ours and gives advice to the Duke of Enguien that General Beck was to arrive the next morning by 7 a clock with 1000 Horse and 3000 Foot to re-inforce the Enemy hereupon it was resolved to fight by break of day which no sooner appeared but the General having taken the Right wing of the Army and the Mareschal de l' Hospital the Left about a quarter of a League from Rocroy they disposed themselves to do their best The Enemies Army being composed of 25000 men viz. 17000 Foot and 8000 Horse the Infantry commanded by the Comte d' Isemberg and the Cavalry by the Duke d'Alberquerque and the Comte de Fontaines Mareschal General du Camp under Fancisco de Mello General for the King of Spain The French Army was 14000 Foot and 6000 Horse The Duke of Enguien having visited the several Divisions and encouraged the Officers to perform their Duty the Skirmish begins and 1000 Musqueteers of the Enemy are forced to give ground On the Left the Sieur de la Ferté-Seneterre charging the Enemy the Combat was so obstinate that he was Wounded in ten several places and taken prisoner though a while after rescued During this advantage the Enemy took our Cannon but the Mareschal de l' Hospital with his succours charged and recovered them again In this lively action he was wounded in the Arm with a Musquet-shot so that he was forced to leave the fight This accident gave the Enemy such advantage that once more they took our Cannon and used them against us but the Baron de Siron Mareschal de Camp of the Cavalry having a body of reserve rallies our men and stops the Enemie's success In the mean while our Right wing having routed the Cavalry attaques the Spanish Foot which she cuts in pieces In fine the Sieur Gassion coming up they are all put to the Rout. We lost there about 20 Officers and as many Wounded On the Enemies side beside a great number of Dead of lesser note the Comte de Fontaines was killed and the Comte d' Isemberg wounded to death and 6000 Prisoners among whom 200 Officers and 20 pieces of Cannon From this signal Victory which has insencibly carried this Discourse beyond its intended Bounds we will proceed to the Funerals of Lewis the Just the preparatives for which were made the 22 of July the day preceding ended the * A space of forty days during which time Prayers are continually made for the Dead Quarantaine during all which time the Queen-Mother remained shut up thereby to give place more opportunely to the sensible regrets for the loss of her Spouse Monday was appointed for the Funeral-Ceremonies at which did assist the Princes Prelates and Soveraign Courts of Justice The Kings Body was placed in the midst of a Chappel all flaming with Lights and the Solemn Service made at St. Denis in France where also the Body was deposited in the Vault of his Predecessors The 29th of July Madam the Dutchess of Enguien was happily delivered of a Son who bears the Name of Duke d'Albert The 2 of August the Duke of Beaufort youngest of the two Sons of the Duke of Vendôme was arrested and imprisoned in the Bois de Vincennes The Duke of Enguien after the Victory at Rocroy and the taking of Cirq returns to Paris with the Comte de Rantzau and on the 7th of October the King and Queen Regent were pleased to leave the Louvre to inhabit at the Palais Royal about which time also was sent to the Abbey of St. Germains desprez one of St. Placidus's Arms by the great Master of Malta which Relique was solemnly received by the Religious The Civil troubles in England continuing the Comte de Harcour was sent on the part of his most Christian Majesty to compose if possible the discontents between the King of great Britain and his Parliament but he found the Spirits of the Dissenters so little disposed that way that he returned without success About the same time a crew of Raskals at Rovergüe who took the name of * Croquans Devourers did raise a Tumult which notwithstanding was soon after supprest by the Comte de Noüaille As our Kings have alwaies had this advantage to give Laws to Strangers and not to receive them so also have they been constant Mediators of Concord among Christian Princes and particularly of the reconciliation of the Duke of Parma with his Holiness of which the Treaty was concluded at Paris and the Articles signed by the Cardinal Dongly Plenipotentiary for his Holiness and by the Cardinal Bichy Plenipotentiary on the part of his Majestie for the Duke of Parma In which Treaty he continued the Title enjoyed by our former Kings of Arbiters of Christian Princes A while after les Sieurs de Servient and d'Avaux Plenipotentiaries for his Majesty parted from France to conclude the Peace which in fine was presently effected The 21 of November Monsieur Lesoit Doctor and professor at the Sorbonne who for his singular merits had been named to the Bishoprick of Chartres was consecrated at Paris The Mareschal de Guebriant a Breton whose valour was signalized in the last King's Raign being now at the siege of Rothweil in Germany was wounded with a Faulcon-shot the 24th of November of which he died his Body being conveyed to Paris by the King 's express order his Funerals were performed with great solemnity Anno 1644. The Year 1644. was no less fertile in producing new Lawrels for France than the former But before we attempt to display these Victories it is not impertinent to observe by the by the Death of Anne de Montasie Widow of Charles of Bourbon Comte of Soissons Prince of the Blood and great Master of France who died at Paris aged 67 years she left by her Will 100000 Crowns to the Chevalier de Soissons Bastard-son to the deceased Comte de Soissons who was slain in the Battle of Sedan The Town of Gravelines was besieged by Monsieur the Duke of Orleans who invested it the 6. of June assisted by the Dukes of Guise and Nemours the Comte de Harcour Eldest son of the Duke d'Elbeuf and the Mareschals de la Meleraye de Gassion de Cossé and the Marquess d'Alegre This Siege may be placed in the number of the most difficult such was the stout resistance of the besieged which notwithstanding had no power to stop the Victories of France Here in one of our Attaques fell the Marquess de Nangis In fine the Besieged under the Conduct of Ferdinando de Solis finding himself out of all hope of Relief which Picolomini had once made a shew of giving surrendered to the Duke of Orleans the 29th of July And at the same time died Vrban 8th after he had possess'd the Holy Seat 21 years Now also past an Arrest in the Parliament of Paris prohibiting all Physitians whatsoever except those of the University of
Mareschals de Turenne and la Ferté to whose care his Majesty had left his Army to continue the glorious progress of their successful undertakings Having then first taken Moncassel they invest Gravelines under the conduct of Monsieur the Mareschal de Bellefons which place after a stout defence by the Besieged who fought in despair was reduced to a Capitulation as when taken from us at such time as the Spaniards made use of our Civil Wars The Chevalier de Hautefeville Captain of the Regiment of Guards entred the 31 day of the siege with three Companies of the said Regiment and the Sieur Davignan was the next day left Governour till further order The Spaniards foreseeing they were about to lose all that they had in these parts did their utmost endeavours to secure what they could possibly but the discreet vigilancy of Monsieur the Mareschal de Turenne did always frustrate their designes They were not able to succour Oudenarde which surrendered immediately to the French valour they were glad to take covert in Armentiers and Tournay for fear of being engaged to Battle where without doubt they would have been beaten since in all our Encounters Fortune had seemed to forsake them and to confer her Victories on us The King designing to visit Lyons arrives at Dijon where receiving some discontents from his Parliament he interdicts them immediately and pursues his Journey to Lyons at which place he was received with incredible joy from all people And here it was that he received the complements of Madame Royale who came to visit him with the Princesses her Daughters Also his Royal Highness of Savoy presented himself with a very considerable Retinue extraordinary well furnish'd Two days after his said Highness parted again for Turin but with a most entire satisfaction at the sight of our excellent Prince The Deputies of the Estates of Languedoc and those of Provence had Audience but the Embassador of Savoy had a particular one as also the Envoy of the Duke of Mantua Since in the beginning of the year all things did seem to concur to render the Lawrels of our young Mars more resplendant all people began now to talk of Peace To that purpose a Cessation from acts of Hostility was publish'd on both sides to the end they might have the more liberty to treat of the future tranquillity and this daughter of Heaven which God alone gives to his people after he has Chastized 'em was equally desired by both parties Monsieur de Lyonne then is sent into Spain and the Sieur Pimentel arrived at Lyons during the King's abode there this appeared a good and hopeful beginning since both Nations began of themselves to re-assume their former Traffique so long discontinued Anno 1659. Hereupon the Cardinal Mazarin accompanied by the Duke of Crequy the Mareschals de Villeroy de Clerembaud the Grand Master of the Artillery the Sieur de Lyonne and a great number of other Lords takes the way of the Frontier where Dom Lewis d'Haro chief Minister of Spain would meet him of France to confer together for the perfecting so great a Work The Truce was already prolong'd to further order but before they begin the Conference it was agreed that Monsieur de Lyonne should have Commission to meet and complement the Minister of Spain and Dom Antonio Pimentel to perform the like civilities to him of France Monsieur de Lyonne had order to propose to the Spaniards a Marriage between their Infanta and the King of France and in regard their chief fear was that in default of Male-Children to succeed to that Crown that Kingdom might fall to the King of France their Queens being now with Childe caused that apprehension to vanish and rendered them the more attentive to this Alliance Notwithstanding proceedings were for a time broken by reason of a difficulty presented on the behalf of the Prince of Condé whom the King of Spain would have comprised in the Treaty Cardinal Mazarin therefore writ to the Pope to perswade that King to wave the Prince's Interest and not for that to defer so precious a benefit to both Nations The Spaniards during this year were in as bad a condition with the Portugals and that made them the more easily incline to wave this Article The Alliance which about this time France had contracted with England and the interview of Madam Royale and his most Christian Majesty had given them sufficient cause of jealousie They went therefore seriously to work to effect the Treaty and during the Winter the King being returned to Paris Pimentel follows him thither and renews the Propositions of Peace and Marriage to which Cardinal Mazarin and D. Lewis d'Haro conferred the finishing hand These two great Ministers being arrived in the Isle of Phesants upon the River Bidassoa with a most magnificent Train after many notable Interviews and Conferences from the one part and the other at last signe the Treaty of Peace and Contract of Marriage between the Infanta of Spain and the King of France Notwithstanding the Publication was not made immediately that being reserved to render the ensuing year more August and Famous the present concluding with all dispositions requisite to our future hopes of an eternal happiness and a lasting Tranquillity to both Kingdoms which not a year ago none dared to promise or expect The Peace then being proclaimed his Holiness and all the Potentates and Soveraigns of Europe express'd their publick joys and satisfaction in those many feux de joye which they commanded their people to make through all their Dominions Anno 1660. The Peace was Register'd in Parliament the 12th of February the Chancelier being present and with universal applause and acclamations In England General Monke was so happy this year as to contribute very much to the Restauration of his Majesty Charles the second the lawful and undoubted Heir and Successor to that Crown To put a compleat end to a War which had lasted 25 Campagnes the King resolves on a Progress thereby also to compose for ever the Factions in Provence and reduce to reason certain Pirates of Marseilles who becoming petty-Tyrants did much oppress that important City The Duke of Mercoeur entred the place Sword in Hand at the head of the King's Light-horse The prudence and moderation of this Prince secured the Town from Pillage and he observed so much order and circumspection in this affair that he soon reduced the place to great obedience After this the King himself was received there with Volleys of Cannon and the joyful cries of Vive le Roy. During this Journey he caused to be demolished the Citadel of Orenge which heretofore had been the cause of much mischief to the Catholicks of the three neighbouring Provinces and was still suspected and withal charged the Prince of Orenge that hereafter he keep a more strong and able Garrison To secure the Marsellois from all fears of their past miseries the King caused to be traced out the Platform of a Citadel and
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
Princes of Vendôme having by their Legitimated birth and in respect of Marriage priority above all other Princes and a power to succeed to the Crown before the Dukes of Longueville and all this is comprised in the said Declarations On the 30th of December the Novices marching before the ancient Knights the six Ecclesiasticks were first received into the quality of Commandeurs of the Order After them the 66 Knights Laicks The King began with the Princes of Bourbon and Vendôme but his Majesty not able to comprehend the pretensions of the Comte de Soissons and the Duke of Guise they were not received saying he would have them two go together and march with the Dukes of Mercoeur and Beaufort who by right of Birth and by the Declaration of Henry the Great take place after the Bourbons and ought to precede the Princes of Courtenay and Portugal when they are acknowledged and received into this Quality This was adjudged authentickly and with great and mature consideration of the Case and executed in the presence of the most Great and August Assembly of the Kingdom and in the sight of more than 100000 Witnesses all the people that were present at this so gallant action Anno 1662. The next day being the first of January the grand Ceremony was continued at the Augustins the Knights wearing the Collers of the Orders and the second being apparelled in Mourning-Robes they assist at a solemn Service for the Knights deceased at which was a most magnificent Representation a King at Arms placed at the Head and four Heralds at the Corners And now it was that the Portugals had so well defended themselves during this first Campagne that the Spaniards were forced to begin a new War On the 19th of January the Carnaval begun with a Balet consisting of nine entries at the Madame's in which to render it the more excellent was no omission of cost or pleasing objects The grand Ball was danced the seventh of February where the Grandeur and glory of the House of France was most lively represented with the fifteen Alliances which she had contracted in the Imperial Family The Treaty with the Duke of Lorain in which he released all his Estates to our King under divers Conditions reserving however to himself the Possession was verified the 27th of February At this time the Portugals contracted a strict Alliance with England giving their Infanta Tangier and other advantageous Conditions to Charles the second for his defence and assistance against the King of Spain The Succours which they drew from thence France have establish'd that Crown against all the efforts of his Catholick Majesty On the 27th of April Peace and a Renovation of the Alliance betwixt France and Holland was concluded and signed after a Negotiation of eighteen Moneths It was on the 18th of June following that the famous Carrousel or Triumphant Combat on Horseback began It was composed of five Squadrons or Companies That of the King were all apparrelled in the ancient Roman habit That of the Duke of Orleans represented Persians the Prince of Condé Turks the Duke of Enguien Indians and the Duke of Guise the Savages The party of the Prince of Condé gain'd the Prize and received a Diamond from the Queen-Mothers hand The attempt late made at Rome the 20th of August on the persons of the Duke and Dutchess of Crequy by the factions of the * The Pope's Guards Corses and * Serjeants Sbirres against the Law of Nations and the cruel and unjust persecution rais'd against the French caused the Duke Cesarini and the other Partisans and friends of this Crown to oblige the Embassador and his * L' Ambassadrice in the Original Lady to quit the City and retire into the Estates of Tuscany and so return into France The Church and indeed all Europe found themselves much scandalized at so soul an action much blaming the Fauters and adherents of this capital Crime which made so great a noise and in the end was determined in a Treaty The Marquiss Mathei a chief Minister and Plenipotentiary of his Imperial Majesty was expell'd from his service for having unknown to him and without his agreement accepted the Office of Commander of his Holiness's Arms. The Emperour and our King were at this time reconciled by the mediation of the Marquiss de la Fuente the Comte Fuensaldagne having laboured in that affair four years without effect And their Majesties gave mutual testimonies of affection and sincerity by several Letters which this Embassador exchanged in the moneth of September Great joy appeared in France and Spain at the birth of Madame at the Louvre the eighteenth of November This Princess was * Ondoyée Christened privately by the Cardinal Antoine in presence of the whole Court and the 27th of December the publick Ceremony of her Baptism was performed by his Eminence she being named Anne-Elizabeth by the Queen-Mother and the Monsieur She deceased the 30th following and her Body was conveyed to St. Denis About this time a Courier arrived to inform the King of the delivery of Dunkirk the Fort of Mardike and the greater and lesser Fort of Bergue and that his Troops were entred Presently upon this news his Majesty sets out for the place where he made his entry the second of December and returned again the sixth with the same diligence that at first he had taken the Voyage accompanied with the Duke of Enguien and Duke of Beaufort this last but lately landed from giving chase to the Pirates of Barbary This year was made happy in a conclusion of Marriage between the Duke of Savoy and Mademoiselle de Valois The Ballet of the Arts consisting of seven Entries was danced the first time at Madame's where was present the Prince Eldest son to the King of Denmarke Anno 1663. The Duke of Crequy's return into France and the reduction of Benevento in the Estates Ecclesiastick the 14th of March into which place the Prince de la Ricca had retired contrary to his word past to the Vice-roy of Naples for having killed an Artisan and debauched away his Wife had much alarmed the Court of Rome who through a panique fear had made several Levies which again were disbanded as suddainly Which occasioned a certain Cardinal to say * Qu'elle possedoit la Science des Contre-temps That they plaid at cross purposes having raised Arms no-body knows against who and laid 'em down again not considering where they have made Peace The Ceremony of the Nuptials of Mademoiselle de Valois and the Comte de Soissons Proxie to the Duke of Savoy was performed at the Louvre the fourth of March by the Cardinal Antoine the seventh following the Princess departed for Savoy About the eighth of June Dom John who had promised to himself the Conquest of Portugal was beaten in a set Battle at Evora by the Comtes of Villaflora and Schomberg recovering also at the same time the said Town and all the other Conquests of
that Prince during the last Campagne The Ottomans having formed a designe against the Empire and being as yet in no very good condition to attaque it propose an Accommodation In the mean time the Premier-Vizier followed by 25000 Janizaries 30000 Spahys and 40000 men drawn out of Asia 15000 under the Bassa of Bosnia 14000 under him of Silistria 8000 other Janizaries and 12000 Spahys under their General Ali-Bassa 6000 under him of Waradin 9000 under Michel Abaffi 12000 of Moldavia and Valachia and 25000 who quartered neer the Grand Seignior's person at Andrinople enters Belgrade the 18th of June as a Conquerour Besieges and takes Neuhasel the 27th of October besides that the vast body of such an Army did ruine Nevutrade Novitrade and several other places This year his Majesty renewed the desires of the deceased King and his own for the recovery of the Commanderies of the Order And surely the Estates ought to be restored after so much care and concern which these two great Monarchs have shewed for that most lawful and just Restitution Marsal was invested by the Comte de Guiche the 17th of October this Mareschal had given order for the siege but the King's arrival in eleven days and the humble submission of Duke Charles who restored the place to the perfect obedience of his Majesty fill'd the Court with joy as also the Birth of a Prince of Tuscany the ninth of August The Duke of Beaufort being returned into the Mediterranean Sea continued his usual course in performing many brave actions and taking considerable Prizes all which the King expected from his valour and courage The Conversion of the Duke of Meklebourg occasioned the King to confer on him his Orders of Knighthood and to do him several other publick Honours not usual to any but Soveraign Princes He is descended of the Kings of the Vandals and from the Herules The Embassadors from the Cantons of Swisserland having been treated at Vincennes with a magnificence truly Royal made their publick entry at Paris the ninth of November with so great a splendor that there was found more than 1000 Coaches in their Train The eleventh following they had Audience of the King who took each of them by the hand and remained * Convert but I suppose rather uncovered Covered during the Harangue of the first Embassador to which his Majesty answered with much joy and tenderness The Ceremony of the Renovation of the Alliance was performed at Nostre-Dame where the Cardinal Antoine approaching the place in which his Majesty was then seated and having placed the Book of the Gospels before him the King put his hand thereon with the Embassadors while the Sieur d'Ormesson read the Oath After this Te Deum was sung and the Cannon discharged The Deputies of Avignon arriving to assure the King of the Fidelity and Zeal of that place were presented by the Sieur de Lyonne and had Audience the 24th of November in the Grand Cabinet Not long after this the Duke of Enguien espoused the Princess Palatine Anne of Bavaria Their Majesties were pleased to grace the Marriage-feast with their presence The Bridegroom-Duke Duke dined at the Princess Palatine's his Mother-in-law who regaled the Princes and Princesses with extream magnificence At Supper the King and Queens were entertained at a Table of sixty Dishes and six distinct Services all nobly furnished On the 14th of December the King was pleased to declare in Parliament his pleasure to bestow the quality of Duke and Pair on fourteen persons whom he esteemed most worthy of that Honour as well by birth as merit and these were the Dukes of Vernüil d'Estrées de Gramont de la Méleraye de Mazarin Villeroy Mortemar Crequy Saint-Aignan Foix Liancour Tremes Noailles and Coaslin The Articles of Marriage between the Emperour and the second Infanta having been publish'd the 18th of the instant December the Contract was signed by the Count de Pelting Embassador for his Imperial Majesty The 27th of December deceased at Turin Madame-Royale much lamented by her people and the Court of France Anno 1664. With much displeasure did France and Italy behold the death of the Dutchess of Savoy which happened on the 14th of January and not long after that of the Arch-Duke Charles-Joseph the Emperour's Brother to the no less sorrow of Germany and Spain The first Representation of the Ballet of Loves Disguize was performed the 13th of February by a most delightsome contest between Pallas attended by the Virtues and Arts and Venus by the Graces and Pleasures to accommodate the dispute Mercury directs them to the King whose Arbitration they also desire and submit to Here the Scenes were so many and compleat the fourteen Entries so splendid the Habits so extream rich the Speeches and Poetry so charming the Dancers so graceful and exact that in effect this grand Divertisement became most admirable And now our Troops appearing on their march in Modena and Parma the Marquiss Mathei findes himself obliged to visit that Frontier and renew his Orders to his reformed Officers of those Forces which he had lately raised This also gave occasion to revive the Conferences at Pisa between the Sieur de Bourlemont Plenipotentiary for the King and the Sieur Rasponi on the part of his Holiness which at last were happily ended by the Treaty of Peace concluded the 12th of February where his Majesty the Dukes of Parma Modena Cesarini and the other Partisans and Friends of France received all satisfaction It contained among other things that the Corses were declared incapable to serve for the future in Rome and the Estates Ecclesiastick And that a Pyramide should be erected directly opposite to their Corps-de-Garde with an Inscription containing the Decree against ' em This War first made known to the Court of France the persons of the Cardinals d'Este Maldachini and Imperiale The third of March the Duke of Beaufort parted from Toulon with seven Vessels to give chace to the Pirates of Barbary who he had always defeated and made Prize of in many Encounters The Peace of Italy obliged his Holiness to assist the Emperour with 2000 Horse and 6000 Foot And it was ordered at Ratisbone that they march with diligence in regard the Ottomans were incredible for number The 7th of May the King celebrates a great Feast at Versaille which lasted three days under the Title of the Pleasures of the Inchanted Island It began with running at the Ring and here the Marquiss de la Valliere received the Prize The second day was represented a French Comedy intermingled with Musick Poetry and Entries of a Ballet and the third a Ballet upon the Water and artificial Fireworks The Cardinal Chisi during this Legation in France made choice of the Sieur Visconti Auditor of the Rota for his Datary the Sieur Bucinocorsi Clerk of the Chamber for his Major-domo the Sieur Roberti for his Secretary and for his Protonotary the Sieur Colonna son to the Prince de Carbognano He was received the 12th
held over the Font for the King of England by the Duke of Enguien who named him Philip-Charles and by Mademoiselle for the Queen He deceased the eighth ensuing Anno 1667. The Queens happy delivery of a Princess on the second of January was a joyful Newyears-gift to all France and welcomed with the Ballet of the Muses adorn'd with many Entries and Dialogues This served for a pleasing Divertisement all the Carnival appearing always different by reason of continual new Embelishments and Scenes The Grand Seigneur having now resolved and disposed all things necessary for the important Siege of Candy sends the Grand Vizier to make the necessary preparations for the siege and to assemble in the Isle 40000 men and 15000 Pioneers he held it in a manner invested round with Batteries and Attaques in which he wrought from December to the 27th of June at which time it was besieged with great vigour and resolution and extraordinarily well defended by the Marquiss Ville and those Troops and Succours which the Venetians had sent him On the seventh of February the Pope made a promotion of four Cardinals the Duke of Vandôme the Arch-Bishop of Saltsburg the Duke of Monstrate and the Sieur Delphino and names Roberti Spinola Visconti and Caraccioli who were reserved in petto since last year The several Musters of the King's Troops and in particular that of Oüilles the Feasts and Triumphs at Versailles and those noble Divertisements of running in * Courses de Quadrilles Squadrons and such other delights surprized the Spaniards and their Embassador who became perswaded we past a whole Campagne thus And now the War between England France and Holland growing towards an end Breda is chosen for the place of Treaty at which place the several Deputies meeting conclude a Peace the 31 of July On the 20th of April the King went personally to the Palace to cause there to be verified his new Ordinance by which he reforms and regulates Judicial proceedings On the tenth of May deceased the Queen of Poland and on the 22 Pope Alexander the 7th to whom succeeded Clement the 9th both which have sustained the Grandeur and Glory of the Church with much Majesty The Marriage of the Duke of Guise with Mademoiselle d'Alençon was celebrated the 15th of May. The next day the Court departed to put the Queen in possession of her Rights late fallen to her in the Low-Countries the reasons of which are publick in Print The march of our Armies gave the Alarm to Flanders and Holland and obliged the Marquiss de Castel-Rodrigo to demolish several places that wanted sufficient Forces to defend ' em We begun at Armentiers and his Majesty having past as far as Charles-Roy caused the Fortifications to be repaired After this he forces Tournay to surrender the 24th of June and Doüay the sixth of July On Dunkirk-side the Mareschal D'Aumont with another Army takes Bergue and Furne and invests L'isle where the Siege was carried on with much vigour his Majesty being always in action and going the Rounds continually This Town was taken after a Siege of seventeen daies and nine from the first opening the Trenches The Comte de Broüay who demanded four daies was much surprised to finde the King answer with a denial and within three hours after force the place to surrender This proposition from that Governour obliged our Monarch to lie that night at Arlebec He ordered the Comte of Lislebonne to march with the Lorain Forces and joyn the Marquiss de Crequy and Bellefonds and then to meet the Enemy which they did so happily as to defeat the Prince de Ligne and the Comte de Marcin which staggered all Flanders His Majesty was ready to assist and remained about a quarter of a League from Gand sleeping in his Coach that night at the head of the Bridge over the River of Bruges to back and assist his Army in case of occasion The Town and Citadel of Courtray was also taken with Oudenarde and Alost which being retaken by the Enemy was soon after recovered again by the Mareschal de Camp General and demolish'd The Empress being delivered of an Arch-Duke their Majesties sent the Marquiss de Guitry to congratulate the Court of Vienna who notwithstanding enjoy'd not long that happiness The Estates and People of Portugal about this time forced their King to renounce the Government which they conferred on D. Pedro his Brother also Commissaries are appointed to examine the complaints of the Queen as to a Nullity of Marriage The Divertisements of Shrovetide began with a Masquerade call'd the Carnaval consisting onely of seven Entries The first overture was performed by a Speech but the Dialogue between Carnaval and Gallantry with an admirable Consort of Musick gave wonderful satisfaction to the Spectators Anno 1668. On the 21th of January Madame was Baptized at the Tuilleries and named by the Dutchess Dowager of Orleans and the Duke of Enguien Maria-Theresa The same day was the Cardinal Duke of Vandôme conducted to have Audience from their Majesties by the Sieur de Saintot Master of the Ceremonies with a very great Train The King having desired the Pope to be Godfather to Monseigneur the Dauphin the news appeared most agreable to his Holiness who therefore prefer'd this Illustrious Cardinal to those of his own Bloud and Princes extreamly dear to him conferring on him to that purpose with much joy his Power and Authority and that of the Holy Seat which in truth he managed and sustained with great Honour giving the King to understand that it belonged to his Holiness represented in his person to Name the Prince Dauphin and to the Bishops of France to pay to the Holy Seat and to his dignity all due respects and submissions In fine the Dauphin was named Lewis and the Ceremony performed at St. Germains the 24th of March. The Baptismal Honours were carried by the Bourbons and the Duke of Vandôme bore up the Train of the Prince's Mantle-Royal taking place immediately after the Princes of the Bloud The Dispensation which Monsieur the Legat granted for a second Marriage of the Queen of Portugal with that Prince was an extraordinary piece of State and good Fortune France and that Crown have as much cause to praise the Conduct of that action as the Council of Spain just occasion to appear troubled who under colour of giving to that Prince a Daughter of the House of Austria would by that means very subtilly have made themselves Masters of that Kingdom The Duke of Beaufort and the Chevalier de Vandôme in the thirteenth year of his age embarqued themselves with intentions to make a descent into Spain but the ensuing Peace and a violent Tempest concurring put a stop to the designes of our great Admiral who notwithstanding could not but admire the assurance and courage of this young Prince At the same time the Hollanders apprehending some fears from the progress of the King's Arms into their neighbourhood and forgetting all the benefits
they have received from France endeavour with too much heat and precipitation a League Defensive with all the Potentates of Europe The King's Voyage into the Franche-Comte and Conquest of that Province during the Carnaval was a great action and the most glorious Enterprize that any Prince could possibly perform in less than 15 days The bare name and reputation of the Arms of this Monarch forced Spain formerly resolved never to acknowledge the King of Portugal to conclude a Peace with him and renounce the name and Arms of that Crown the 25 of February The meeting for Peace between the two Crowns of France and Spain being appointed at Aix-la-Chapelle the Treaty was concluded and signed the second of April though with a sensible regret from the French Army and Nation who desired nothing more than a continuance of War with the Spaniards But it was at the request of Clement the 9th that the King did yield to a suspention of Arms during the moneth of April and May in which he did more consider the good of Christianity than the Grandeur and Glory of his own person and Estates By this Treaty his Majesty kept his Conquests of the year past leaving to Spain that of the Franche Comte This great Monarch herein sacrifizing one of the bravest Conquests that ever shall be to the repose of his Subjects and this it was which he procured them in all his Rencounters The Alliances which soon after were concluded between the Dukes Maximilian of Bavaria Brother to the Elector and Mademoiselle de Boüillon and John Frederic de Brunswic-Lunebourg Married to the Princess Benedicta Palatine de Bavaria were of no small glory to France and Germany The Estates of Portugal now press Dom Pedro to receive the Title of King on the Abdication of his Brother Alphonso but not able to perswade him to that they extend his power equal to that of Royalty and in such condition he treats with all the Potentates of the World The King seeking all occasions to oblige his Holiness and the Holy Sea makes it his own request to demolish the Piramide heretofore erected against the Corses by the Treaty of Pisa The Marquiss de Crequy de Bellesons and d'Humieres were created Mareschals of France And on the 19th of July was performed an extraordinary magnificence at Versailles Great Honour was acquired by the Marquiss Ville in the defence of Candy the Marquiss de Saint André-Montbrun sharing with him the Glory of that Action These two gallant men have so signalized their valour in this Renowned Expedition that they have rendred their names Immortal The Nativity of the Duke of Anjou on the 5th of August occasioned much joy to the Court of France The ill Intelligence between the Queen of Spain and Dom John begun soon after the Peace the occasion that Prince's refusal to pass into Flanders he resolving to stay at Court as an obstacle to the Fortunes of Father Nitard The King judging the Letter circulary of the four Bishops sent about to all the others to unite them in resisting the Execution of the Pope's Breve which had named several Prelates to proceed against those four to be an irregular action did by his Arrest in Council and by the interposition of the Bishop Duke of Laon calm and asswage the greatest Storm which the Church of France had perhaps ever seen rais'd through the Vertues and Merits of some rare Spirits who with so much heat and obstinacy did oppose the Book of Jansenius from which approaching troubles this Illustrious Prelate found the way to dis-engage them with that sweetness and prudence wherewith he managed all things imprinting in their Hearts at the same time profound Sentiments of respect and submission for the Holy Sea By vertue of the Emperour's Mandate brought by the Marquiss de Bade the Electour Palatine on the 14th of December caused to be publish'd a Suspention of Arms and Cessation of acts of Hostility between him and the Duke of Lorain Anno 1669. The Portugals were overjoy'd at the Birth of the Infanta of Portugal which arrived the sixth of January This Princess was named by the Embassador of France after her Majesty Elizabeth-Maria Loüisa The Empress also was delivered of a Daughter the 18th following About the end of this moneth the Elector Palatine and the Duke of Lorain were obliged to disband their Forces to which his Majestie 's Arms under the command of the Mareschal de Crequy had compell'd ' em And now it was that his Holiness invited all Christian Princes to succour Candy and to which he applied his utmost as also to pacifie the Kingdom of Poland He sent also a Breve to Lisbon in confirmation of that Queens Marriage to Dom Pedro. About this time the Council of Spain resolved and took some pains to raise a Regiment of Guards to be always neer the person of his Catholick Majesty This Novelty was nothing pleasing to the Nobless and people it was also one pretence of the discontent of Dom John This Shrovetide was presented the Ballet of Flora composed of fifteen Majestick Entries Winter made the Overture with a handsome Speech the Sun who expell'd him chang'd the face of the Theater into a smiling Campagne This Glorious Planet accompanied with the Elements made the first Entry All the other parts were correspondent to this magnifique Spectacle where the beauty of the Machines the richness of the Habits and the Charms of the Ladies did not a little contribute to render this Piece into the number of the most glorious On the first of February the Ministers of the Empire Spain England Swede and the States concluded at the Hague the Treaty of triple Alliance the Swedes being to receive of his Catholick Majesty nine hundred thousand Livres In the beginning of the Spring the Duke of Beaufort and the Chevalier de Vandôme departed for Toulon there to hasten the Succours designed for Candy The Duke of Anjou was Baptized the fourth of March and named Philip by the Duke of Orleans and Madame representing the Emperour and Queen of Spain The Admiral Duke of Beaufort received from the Pope a Breve declaring him General of the Troops Ecclesiastick going for Candy to command in the absence of Dom Vincenzo Rospigliosi His Holiness having sent him the Standard of the Holy Sea The King of Portugal demanding to go into the Isle of Terceres he was convoy'd thither in the beginning of May by the Comte de Prado Dom John about this time made no unhappy Agreement He quitted Spain to Father Nitard reserving to himself the Title of perpetual Governour of the Low-Countries with the Vice-Royalty and Vicariat-General of Arragon Valancia and Catalonia with power to provide to all Offices and Benefices in the said places Prince Charles of Lorain and the Duke of Newbourg remain now the onely pretenders to the Crown of Poland Their Partisans take Arms and urge that affair to so great an extremity that they open the Eyes of the Polonois and the Prince Wiesnowiski being proposed to their election he was universally received and thus he happily ascended the Throne of his own Nation and of his Fathers the 19th of June Our Army having past from Toulon to Candy in fourteen daies that place being now extreamly prest and a fair occasion to charge the Enemy presenting it self Monsieur de Navailles sallied with the Army The Duke of Beaufort would assist with his own personal valour and courage in so brave an Enterprize The Chevalier de Vandôme shewed there his great Heart and resolution and that he was an accomplisht Souldier and Captain The Admiral having landed eighteen hundred men from Shipboard beat the Turks out of their Trenches and no doubt we had raised the Siege had not a panique fear frighted our men from so promising a Victory The Chevalier call'd to several Officers by their Names but ineffectually Fortune with much happiness and some difficulty brought off this young Mars from the Embarras of this sad Retreat But the Duke of Beaufort remain'd in the Field of Battle which he had won and which indeed he could never be made to abandon being there either slain or taken by the Ottomans Those many great Services which the Cardinal Duke of Vandôme had rendered to the King and State concluded with the pains he took to advance the Succours for Candy His Death arrived the sixth of August a loss for which the Courts of Rome and France and all Provence were not easily comforted The Dutchess of Vondôme who had been a perfect Example and Model of Vertue and Piety and the Queen of England youngest Daughter of Henry the great deceased the 8th and the 10th of September And now it was that the Prince of Tuscany finish'd his Voyage of Europe in France avowing that he had not seen a fairer Country than France nor a more admirable Heros than her King To conclude the Events of this year King Cazimir after he had seen another King Elected into his place quitted Poland and arrived in France where he was most splendidly regaled at Chantilly by Monsieur the Prince and Monsieur the Duke FINIS