Passionate Zeal for the Prince of Orange Our Renowned and Beloved King Assigning to him in all Politick and State Affairs a Superlative Ripeness and Soundness of Judgment and in all Warlike Exploits the like degree of Conduct and Magnanimity The same or a greater Character if greater needed or could be being given Him by the Eminent Sir William Temple in his Memoirs of his Embassy and Negotiation at the Treaty of Nimeguen and elsewhere confirmes me in the beleif of this that the highest Eulogies in his praise can never reach an Hyperbole And considering it my duty not to omit any thing that may contribute to the Aggrandizing of Our Great and Famous King or Blazoning the Grandieur and the Eminent Excellencies of his Ancient Family and most Noble Ancestors I have here Transcribed Verbatim what my Author sayes in his preface to that purpose Wherefore sayes He to Conclude as our History ends with the General Peace we now enjoy let our value and esteem of Him who under GOD has been the Particular Instrument of it our Dread Soveraign King WILLIAM be Enhansed more and more who has so many Personal Excellencies both in Peace and War as have no manner of need to borrow from the vertue of His Ancestors whereof yet there has been such an Unparalel'd Chain as is not to be met with in History And the Antiquity of whose Name for ought I can see may be as old as Julius Caesar who in the first Book of His Commentaries sayes a Body of Germans out of Suabia came under the Command of two Brothers Nasua and Cimberius by Name and setled upon the bank of the River of Rhine near Treves Now this is the more worthy of observation that besides the similitude of the Names of Nasua and Nasau which only differ but in the Transposition of one Letter there is an Estate upon that spot of ground which belongs to the Family to this day But be as it will I was the more desirous to take notice of it upon this occasion because I beleive it is the first time it has been done by any other in this kind And because it may stir up the Curiosity of those Gentlmen who are skilled in Genealogies to make a farther Inquiry into it So far He. I find also the Learned and Famous Mr. Rushworth in His Collections says the Family of Nasau have been of a Princely Quality for many ages And again speaking of the Emperours Defeating the Forces of the Prince Palatine of the Rhine near Prague he gives this reason besides the greater number of Men the Emperours Army sayes he was Commanded by the Greatest and Expertest Captains then known in Europe except the Prince of Orange To be second to whom was accounted the Highest Commendation Yea we have yet on step higher to make when several Eminent and Emulous Princes were contending for the Western Empire amongst all the Candidats Adolph Earl of Nassau was Elected and Advanced to the Imperial Diadem in Anno 1291. Now all thir Remarks laid together and duely weighed claim from Us to Our Unparalel'd Prince the greatest Loyalty the most Ardent Affection and the highest Adoration that Subjects can possibly pay or that may be warrantably allowed to meer Humanity 5ly I suppose I may be Censured by some for making such an Abrupte entry on the Work mentioning off hand a Congress of Plenipotentiaries and Mediators at Nimeguen not giving first the Reader an account of the great Antagonists by whom those Plenipotentiaries were Imployed The true reason of this omission is when I entered on this Work I had no other design then my own privat satisfaction but having finished it and Communicating it to some Ingenuous Gentlmen of my Acquaintance they seemed to put a greater value on it then indeed I did and advised and urged the Publishing of it which tho with some Diffidence and Reluctancie I condescended to And now seing it is going Abroad for the satisfaction of these who are yet strangers to the Parties Contending and who Occasioned the Congress at Nimeguen I have here Inserted a List of their Names On the one part The Principal Confederates were The Emperour of Germany The King of Spain The King of Denmark The Elector of Brandenburgh The States of Holland And Collaterally The Prince of Orange The Duke of Lorrain The Princes of Lunenburgh And Nieuburgh And the Bishop of Munster On the other part The King of France Principal The King of Sweden His Allie The Duke of Holstein Gottorp And the Bishop of Strasburg Confederates Charles King of Great Britain Sole Meditator Sir William Temple and Sir Lionel Jenkins Plenipotentiaries In that Negotiation 6ly Supposing these Preliminaries may give a Competent Satisfaction to any who are not too Critical I shall Conclude with one Request to the Ingenuous Reader That where he finds any thing Defective or Redundant either in this or in the Treatise or any way Disrelishing or unagreeable He will be pleased to allow those Graines of a favourable construction as may reasonably be granted to a Souldiers pen the Stile and Dialect of which profession being generaly different from that which I owne might be more requisite and proper for a Subject of this nature And the rather because this is the first Manuscript of mine that ever Aspired to the Press as I verily beleive it shall be the last ERRATA Page 22 line 31. dele the p. 25. l 7 read Le-Strange p. 38. l. 13. r. Attacks and l. 29. p. 40. l. 30.1 Doge p. 47. on the margent for England r. Ireland p. 49. l. 28.1 Attacked and l 30. r. Spahâ—'s p. 51. l. 22. 〈◊〉 Cashaw p. 79. l. 32. for leâ—ving r. Leavying and l. 20 r. Mackay p. 88. l 31. for King 1. Queen and on the margenâ—r Londonderry p. 104. l. 15. for four r forty and l. 19.1 out of the Daâ—piâ—â—ate p. 149 for and r. to p. 153. l. 4.1 Duke of Savoy p. 154. l. 5. dele oune AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE HISTORY OF EUROPE CHAP. I. Anno 1676 Congress at Nimeguen THE Treaty at Nimeguen between the Confederats and the French King wherein the King of Great Brutain was sole Mediator may be said to begin in July 1676. Tho there was only present then the French and Dutch Plenipotentiaries and the two English Mediators Sir Wilâ—iam Temple and Sir Lionel Jenkins The rest of the Confederats protracting and bearing off designedly till they saw what thelssâ—e of that Campaign would be intending to take their measures accordingly The French Ambassadors endeavour to carry on a seperate Peace with the Dutch who at that time positively refused it tho the French King threatned to recall his Ambassadors unless they presently condescended thereto In the mean time About the end of July the Prince of Orange lays Seidge to Mastricht An. 1677. which the French bad fortifved to great advantadge P. of Orange Beseidges Mastricâ—â— the Garison bâ—ing furnishâ—d with Eight thousand Choice Men Moâ—sieur
time to cary off their Effects That all the Prince of Oranges pretences and Interests contained in a separate Treaty shall be as effecâ—uâ—lly confirm'd and made good as if they had been particularly inserted in this present Treaty That the King of Great Brittain and his Subjects shall be comprehended in this present Treaty according to the best form that may be That the French Kings Allies as the King of Sweden The Duke of Holstein Bishop of Straâ—burg c. shall be comprehended And on the States side the King of Spain the Protestant Sweetzers c. And Lastly the Treaty to be ratified by both parties within six Weeks after the 10th of Auâ—ust 1678. Ratifyed by the French King The French King Rratified and Signed the Treaty at St. Germans the 18th day of August 1678. The French Embassadors grants and promises to the Prince of Orange the Restitution of the Principality of Orange with all other his Lands and Seigniories in France or Flanders in such maner as he Enjoyed the same before he was disposest by the War and Signed the same the tenth of August 1678. and the French King approved and Signâ—d the said seperate Articles at St Germans the eighteenth of August 1678. Many of the Dutch were unsatisfied with Mousâ—â—â— Bâ—verâ—ings precipitation in Signing the Peace But Amsterdam approving of it the rest of the Provinces came soon to acquiesce in the same At this time Mons was blocked up by the French Army Gommanded by Luxemburg SECT 4. Sect. 4 On the seventeenth of August the Prince of Orange Decamped from Soignâ—s with his own and the Confederat Forces Mons blocked up by the French and marched to St Dennis where the Right wing of the Enemy was posted which about Twelve a clock he began to Cannonâ—de at which very hour the Duke of Monmâ—uth arrived in the Camp About three afternoon Battale of Mons or St Dennis Count Waldeck began the Attact the Prince being present the other side of the Enemy was Attact by the Spanish Forces Commanded by the Duke De Villa Harmosa assisted by the Princes Guards and the English and Scotâ— Commanded by the Noble Earl of Ossery who behaved with much bravery in that Action which Continued from three till nine at night Luxemburgh defeated and the Seige raised by the Prince of Orange with a great slaughter of the French In so much as the Duke of Luxemburgh was forced to reteire in the night leaving his dead and wounded men his Tents Baggadge and all behind him Next morning the Prince intended to prosecute the Victory but was stopt by the advice of Signing the Peace brought to him then A Brave French Officer declared that be esteemed this the only Heroick-action that had been done in the whole progress of the War this added much to the Princes Honour An inâ—erview between them The Prince presentâ—y gave notice to Luxem borg that the Peace was Signed who desiâ—ed an interview with the â—â—rmoâ— which he granted and all things past betwixt them with great Civilâ—ies on both sides the French â—rouding about the young Prince admireing him for his Courage and Conduct in the late Action which made a great noise in the World After this the Dutch Embassâ—dors applye themselves with great zeal to â—â—nishing of the Treaty between France and Spain wherein the English Mediators refused to joyn oâ— be Concerned The northerne Confedera's were mightily â—hafed at the Dutch proceedings and tho the Peace they had Concluded with France could not be repealed yet they indeavoured what in them lay to prevent the agreement between France and Spain King Chares sends Mr Hide wit orders to the Embassadors No sooner King Charles hears of the Signing of the Peace then he â—ends over Mr. Hide about the middle of August with orders to the English Ambassador to go and acquaint the States with his dissatisfaction at their rash proceedings in that matter with several reasons for his being so especially that they had not secured the Evacuation of the Towns to be restored to Spain which he found the French seemed to recede from by some now propositions to the Spainaird And ordered him to solicite the States not to ratifie the agreement their Ambassador had made promising The â—rince of Orange his speach to Sir William Temple on that Embassy that on three dayes after notice thereof he would declare Actual War against France The Prince of Orange being acquainted with this by Mr. Hide he was astonished and lifting up his hands two or three times he sayes to Sir William Tempel was ever any thing so Hâ—â— and so Cold as this Court of yours will the King who is so often at sea ever learn a word that I shall never forget since my last passage when in agreat storme the Captain was crying out to the Man at he Helm all night STEDDY STEDDY STEDDY If this dispatch had coâ—e twenty dayes agoe it would have chaingâ—d the face of all things in Christendome and the War might have been caried â—n till France had yeelded to the Treaty of the Pyrenees and left the World in quiet the rest of our lives but it s my opinion as it comes now it will have no effect And the event proved answerable to his Judgement However that motion of King Charâ—es did so Influence several of the Dutâ—b States Beverning sensured by the States as they began to censure severely Mr. Bevernings Conduct and to charge him with Exceeding his Commission in several points to salve which the French King orders his Embassador at Nimâ—guen to Satisfie the â—aceâ— in these several clauses wherein they seemed to except against Bevernings Conduct Excused by the French King and farther to remit all obstructions in the â—reaty betwixt him and Spain to the sole determination of the States themselves 〈◊〉 is so softened them as they proceed presently to the Ratification ordering it to lye in their Embassadors hands till the Treaty between France and Spain was Concluded which was done and the Peace Signed at the Dutch Embassadors house Peace between France and Spâ—in Signed Soptem-17 1678. the seventeenth of September 1678. Wherein the English Mediators would not Concurre And so the disigns of the English Court were once more cluded and Mr. Hiâ—e return'd discontented to England â—e Infecta The Material Articles of this agreement were first The Articles such as are ordinary in all such cases an universal Cessation of all Acts of Hostility on both sides A lasting Peace to continue between the two Kings their Heirs and Sucâ—essors and all their Subjects All prisonâ—rs on both sides to be reloassed without any ransome An Act of obliuion to pass for all Damnages losses or Injuries of any sort that have happened in the War to this present day The French King to â—ender up to Spain the Towns of Charle roâ— â—inche Aâ—th Oudenard Articles of Peace between France and Spain and Câ—â—tray with all their appurtenances
the beginning of this Year The French King gave the Command of his Army to the Duke de Villeroy The Confederate Army outnumbering the French this Year by Twenty thousand The King formed his Army into Two Camps one commanded by himself and under him by the Old Prince de Vaudemont And the other by the Dukes of Bavaria and Holstein Plâ—en On the 27 of May the King went from Breda to Ghent and his main design being upon Namure he detached the Earl of Athlone with 40 Squadrons of of Horse thitherward And finding he could not draw the Duke of Villeroy to a Battle he concluded on the Seige of Namure and on the 19 of June he marched to Rosclair where he lest the Army with Prince Vaudemont and went himself towards the Muse And in the mean time sent orders to the Earl of Athione Encamped then at Tilmont to march and invest Namure which accordingly he did but wanting Troops to surround the Town entirely Bousslers took an opportunity to throw himself into the Town with Eight Regiments of his choise Dragoons but sent away most of the Horses Namure beseiged The Duke of Bavaria's Forces coming up all the Posts about Namure were taken and the Seige was compleatly formed by the 23d of June So we reckon from this day the Seige begun And here In the First place My Author gives a particular account of all the defects of the Fortifications of Namure of its Weakness and the disadvantages it ley under when the French took it and of the admirable Enfor ements and improvements they had made in it since to that height as not only themselves but others look't upon it now as impregnable Which gave them the confidence to set up this Inscription over one of the Gates Reddi non vinci potest And all this he Writes in proper military Terms as if he had been an expert profest Engenier In the 2d place Prince Vaudemounts brave Retreat He gives an account of Villeroys design of attacking Prince Vaudemonts Army on the 4th of July which he delayed till the next day but that Night the Prince gave him the Slip marching his Army entirely away with that wonderful secrecy and celerity as by his excellent conduct he made a safe retreat to Ghent by six a clock next morning This was so fine a peice of the art of War as can hardly be parallel'd in History to which the King now the greatest Captain known gave His Testimony by his Letter to the Prince so soon as he heard of his safe Escape And in the 3d. place He goes on with the full narration of the admirable proceedings at this Famous Seige in which truly there are many remarkable Exploits very well worth the Observation and memory of all such as have a Maretal Genius The particulars whereof I hope the Render will not expect from me my proper work being in effect nothing else but as the large Contents of a Chapter so as he must be content at present with this breif accumulative account The Seige beginning on the 23d of June as a foresaid it was carried on with incessant application till the 2d of August whereon The Town of Namure yeilded all things being ready for a General Assault Count Guiscard the Governour gave the sign for a Parley whereon Hostages being exchanged and Honourable Conditions being granted he surrendered the Town on the 4th of August but the Castle held out still SECT 2. Sect. 2 And here we shall allow those Warlike Litigants a little breathing time before the attacking of the Castle and take notice of somethings elswhere The French having no Fleet in our Channel the English and Dutch Fleets had the more liberty to insult them in their own ports St Malo's Bom'd by the Lord Berkeley And first they began with St Malo's Into which the Lord Berkely threw no less then nine hundred Bombs which by the Frenches own confession reduced it almost into ashes But to return to Villeroy Having fail'd of his design on Prince Vandemont he chose rather to play at smal game than ly out and therefore he attacks Dixmude Dixmude and Deixse yeelded to the French and takes it making all the Garison Prisoners of War the sillie defence whereof cost Major General Ellenburg his Head The same fate befel the Garison of Dense From hence Villeroy marches to Brussells where after a Compliment premised of sparing that Lodging wherein the Electress of Bavaria was on the 13 of August he Bombarded the Town seyerely reducing a great part of it to ashes Brussels Bomed by Villeroy After which reinforceing his Army which amounted now to a hundred thousand Men he marches towards Namure in order to raise the Seige whereof he fail'd to his great greife and dishonour However he advanced as far as Flerus He marches to the releife of Namur which obliged the King to leave the care of the Seige to the Dukes of Bavaria and Holstein-Pâ—oen and to repair to his Army to oppose Villeroy who seemed now fully resolved to Fight and in order thereto drew out his Army in formal array Retreats reâ—insectr and attacked the advance Guard of the Confederats Horse but being repulsed by the Hessian Horse he retiered that night sine â—editu The Seige of the Castle was carried on vigorously all this while there being no fewer than a hundred and ninty Cannon and Mortars playing continually upon the Fort and Castle The King finding scarcity to creep into the Camp on the 19 of August Consults Bavaria Vaudemont and other General Officers and a general Assault is resolved on next morning and so the disposition of the several Officers with their Detachments to attack at such and such places is concerted and appointed which I pass over Namur Castle attack't Next morning early the dreadful Assault begins in comparison with which the former Actions about taking the Town were but like pickeiring or skirmishing before a feirce Battle The Fight continued all day and was carried on with incredible valour on both sides till the evening by which time the Confederat Forces had made themselves Masters of several important Lodgements but it cost them dear for besides many Officers some being of eminent Quality they lost near two thousand Men. All this notwithstanding the work goes on next day the Cannon thundering continually against the Castle On the 23d the Beseiged beat a Parly craving a Cessation till they buried their dead which was granted and a little before it ended Count Guiscard came upon the breach and desired to speak with the Elector of Bavaria who coming to him â—e proposed a Capitulation the King coming at that very time from the Camp into the Town consented and so an agreement was made on Honourable Termâ—s and was Signed that night by the Mareschal De Bâ—uffâ—ers And perhaps this was the first Capitulaâ—ion that â—ver was Signed by a Mareschal of France and so much the more to the Honour
Calvo being Govâ—rnour The Seidge was carryed on briskly for three Weeks and many sharp Assaults made where the English Forces behaved gallantly But a cruel Sickness falling into the Army and the Rhinegrave who Commanded next to the Prince of Orange dying of his Wounds but especially the Marishal Sâ—â—mbâ—gs being on his March throw Flanders with a considerable force obleidged the Prince with the full consent of a Council of War to raise his â—eidge Philipsburg surrendered to the Imperialists But to make some amends for this disappointment about the latter end of September Philipsburg after a Blockade of three Moneths is surrendered to the Imperial Army All this last Compaign and succeeding Winter Denmark and Brandenburg prevailed much against the King of Sweden who only was Confederate with France But the Imperial Forces on the Rhine had not so good success which enclived the Dutch to listen now to the French Overtures for a separate Peace CHAP. II. Anno 1677. SECT 1. Section 1 To return to the Treaty About the middle of February 1677. The Assembly was compleatly formed The Assembly fully formed and the Preliminaries bâ—ing dispatched the Respective Ambassadors by agreement put all their Propositions and Pretensions into the hands of the Mediators The particulars whereof being too large to be inserted fully now considering my intended Brevity I have pretermiâ—ted intending to mention the most material heads of them hereafter as the several Parties come to agreement with France Now the Dutch discover a strong propension to a Peace to which the Prince of Orange was much averse and endeavoured what he could to obstruct it The French finding the Confederates very slow and backward in the negotiation for Peace thought fit to quicken them by Blocking up of Cambray and Valenciennes and early in the Year broak in upon Flanders and these parts of Germany on the other side of the Rhine and that with more cruel Devastations then at any time before since the War began Of which the Allies complained heavily to King Charles the Mediator but in vain The French King in Person comes to the Seidge of Valenciennes and the 9th of March the Trenches are opened and on the 17th it is taken From thence he Marched to Cambray which Valenciennes and Cambray taken by the French King on the 5th Day after the Trenches were opened surrendered to him upon Articles except the Citadel which held out a few Days longer At the same time his Brother the Duke of Orleans invested St. Omers The relief whereof the Prince of Orange intended and and endeavoured with the States Forces only the Spainiards giving him no Aid Approaching to St. Omers the Duke of Orleans drew off from the Town and met him at Mountcassel Orleans Forces being much Superior to his The Battel of Mountcassel where after a briâ—k Engagement and hot Dispute on both sides the Princes Batallions fell in disorder and in short betook them to downright flight tho he strove to stop them with his Sword in his hand and cut the first he met over the Face crying aloud Rascal I 'll set a mark on thee that I may hang thee at last But withal he made so Noble and safe a Retreat as wanted little of the Honour of a Victory St. Omers Cambray Citadel surrendered to the French The consequence of this was The Surrender of St. Omers and Cambray Citadel the twentieth of Aprile The French King being at Dunkirk sends the Duke of Câ—equi with a Complement and a Letter to King Charles professing himself willing to agree to a Truâ—e with the Confederates for some years it his Ally the King of Sweden would condescend Praying King Charles to sound his inclination in that point Beverning adjusts the Peace with France Moâ—sieur Beverning the Dutch â—â—enipotentiariâ— who was earnest for concluding a Peace understanding this look't on it as a meer shamm and eâ—â—â—umned openly against it And contrary to the Advice of Moâ—â—â—â—uâ— Vâ—n Benningham and other Ministers of the Allies he streatched farther then his Commission would bear as some thought and managed tâ—e matter so as by the beginning of July all material pâ—ints between the French and Dutch were adâ—â—sted The rest of the Summer being triffled away in unsuccessful Disputs and Junglings about the Duke of Lorrains and the Bishop of Straseburgs concerns in the Treaty Nor was there any considerable Action on either side all this Campaigne for if the French boasted of taking the City of Freeburg in October Sâ—â—tings falling into the Elector of Brandenburgs hands the same Moneth counterpoiâ—ed that and so lest the Scales even SECT 2. Sect. 2 In October The Prince of Orange went to England Prince of Orange goes for England And on the first view of the Princess Mary eldest Daughter of the Duke of York he was extreamly Enamâ—ured of her and â—mmediatly made Suit to the King and her Father to that effect which was assented to provided the Tearms of Peace abroad were â—iâ—st agreed on before the Marriage Which the â—â—mâ—e on no Tearms would assâ—nt to saying the World would beleive â—e hâ—d made that Match for himself at their Cost adding that he would never Sacrifice his Honour to his Love And at last becam so Sullen on the matter as he desired a friend to tell the King that he would leave England within two dayes if things Continued so An. 1678. that it repented him of his coâ—ing that the King must chuse how they should â—ive after for he was sure it must either be as the greatest friends or greatest Enemies This sharpnes and freedom so wrought on the King as he presently consented to the Marriage is Married which was Consummated without delay After which they began to discourse and Concerte the Teâ—rms of I eaâ—e thâ—t was in agitation abroad And so on the Twâ—nty first of November and reâ— turns to Holland the â—rince with his Pâ—â—â—â—ess arryve in Holland Tho King Charles had Engaged to the Prince to joyne in the War with all the Allies if France refused to Concludâ—â— Peace on reasonable Tearms yet soon after he receded from this and sends over with Mr. Thynne a draught of an Alliance with the Dutch only which was Concluded on and Sign'd at the Hâ—gue the sixtenth of January 16â—8 CHAP. III. Anno 1678 SECT I. Sect. 1 Ghent and Ypre â—aken by the French Towards the end of Febreuary the French King Marches on the head of his Army to Metz and having drawn the Spainsh Forces that way of a sudden Crosses the Countrey and by the fourth of March sits down before Ghent and in few days took it as he did Ypre before the end of that Moneth tho the Garrison made a gaâ—lant resistance of which Grivances the Allies acquainted King Charles but all they could do could not excite him to any speedy or open Declaration the French Kings project of Peace The French King elated with his Success of
within three Moneâ—â—s and that he himself will ratify is within six Weeks And this ended thus long and bloody War in Europe But with much dissâ—isfaction to almost all the Allies Especidly Denmark and Bâ—andeâ—burg but many wayes advantagious to France and withal not very Honoâ—â—rable to England whose Mediation contiâ—ed even to the last and yet had not the happiness of Signing any one of the Treanes SECT 5. Sect. 5 Now let us return home And enquire what has been doing in England all this while In the preceeding year Popish-Plot in England â—â—ptember 29. 1678. about the 29 of September 1678. Doctor Oates made a Discovery of a Popish Plot agâ—inst the Life of the King the Protestant Religion and for the Subversion of the Government on which Sir George Wakeman the Queens Physician Coleman Secretary to the Dutchess of York and several Jesuites and Preists were apprehended and committed As were not long after the Earl of Powis Viscount Stafford Lord Arundel of Warder Lord Petre and Lord Bâ—asis these last five were all committed Prisoners in the Tower of London Sir Edmundbury Godfrey a Justice of peace Sir Edmundbury Godfrey Murdered who was appointed to Examine the Prisoners first committed was Murdered on the 12 of October which confirmed all Men in beliefe of the Conspiracy and on the 1st of November the Parliament Nemine Contradicente did declare themselves fully perswarded of the same Soon after Godfreys Murther came to be discovered by one Bedlow prompted thereto by his Conscience on whose evidence and one Prance's Green Berty and Hul were Convicted and Executed Examinations And farther Inquiries relating to the Plot going on for two or three Moneths The long Parliament dissolved and and another called to sit the 6th of March in all which time the King continued seâ—mingly doubtful and incredulous of the same and finding the Parliament more Zealous and forward in prosecuting that Affair then he approved of on the 24th of January Dissolves them after they had sat seventeen Years and above eight Moneths And called another to sit the 6th of March following On the 28th of February He requires the Duke of York by a Letter to withdraw from England Duke of York leaves England which he obeys and retires with his Family first to the Hague and then to Brussels To make all things appear more pausible The King choses a New Council viz. Names of the Privy Councillers 1 Prince Rupert 2 Arch Bishop of Canterbury 3 L. Finch Chancellor 4 Earl of Shalsburry Lord President of the Council 5 Earl of Anglesay Privy Seal 6 Duke of Albemarle 7 Duke of Monmouth Master of Horse 8 Duke of Newcastle 9 Duke of Lauderdale Secretary of State for Scotland 10 Earl of Salisbury 11 Earl of Bridgewater 12 Earl of Sunderland Secretary of Stato for England 13 Earl of Essex 1 st Commissioner of the Treasury 14 E. of Bath Groom of the Stool 15 Viscount Falconbridge Viscount Hallifax 16 Lord Bishop of London 17 Lord Roberts 18 Lord Hollis 19 Lord Russel 20 Lord Cavendish 21 Henry Coventry Esquire Secretary of State 22 Sir Francis North Lord Cheif-Justice of Common Pleas. 23 Henry Capel Knight of the Bath and 1st Commissioner of the Admirality 24 Sir John Ernley Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer 25 Sir Thomas Chichely Knight Mr of the Ordinance 26 Sir William Temple 27 Edward Seymor Esqr 28 Henry Poule Esqr Take notice We have stept back to bring up the the English Plot and other Affairs of Brittain begun in 1678 and join them now to the year 1679. The King finding his new Parliament slow in advancing Money for disbanding the Army Parliament dislolved and one called to sit the â—7 of October 1679 and withall beginning to nible at a Bill for Excluding the Duke of York first he prorogues them from the twenty seventh of May to the fourteenth of August and in the mean time July the twelth he dissolves them So as this Parliament proved as short lived as the former was long And another Parliament is called to sit the seventeenth of October following SECT 6. Sect. 6 At this time troubles began to arise in Scotland for on the first of June a great party of the Presbeterions to the Number of fifteen Hunder'd Rendevouz'd under the Command of Robert Hamilton at Lowden-hill and Marching to Glasgow from thence Issued a Declaration Covenanters up in Armes in Scotland giving their reasons for taking up of Armes But this business has been so often and so fully published and so universally known as I think a repetition or a particular Relation of the progress and event altogether unnecessary farther then to tell you that the King sent the Duke of Monmouth speedily down to Scotland who so managed the matter Defeated by the Duke of Monmouth June 22. 1679. that on the twenty second of June Encountering this ill governed multitude at Bothuel-bridge he defeated them totally near eight Hundered being killed and a greater Number taken And so an end was put to this undertaking Tho the main designe was to render the Duke of Monmouth Odious to the Presbiterians Duke of Monmouth declared a Baâ—â—aâ—d by sending him on this expedition yet it proved quite otherwayes for the whole Protestant party were now so affrayed of a Popish Successor that they cast their eyes on Monmouth so favourably as they lookt on him as the only Person after the Kings death to stave off the Succession of his Brother whom they so much dreaded so this project failing the next was to declare him â—llegitâ—â—te which on the third of March following the King did very solemnly giving it in writing with his own hand it these words Given under the Kings hand For the avoyding of any dispute which may happen in time to come Concerning the Succession of the Croun I do hereby declare in the presence of Almighty GOD that I never gave nor made any Contract of Marriage noâ— was Married to any Woman in whatsoever but to my present wife Queen Kathaâ—â—â—e now living CHARLES REX Whitehall March the third 1679. CHAP. V. Anno 1680. An. 1680. Duke of York returns to England About the latter end of August 1680 the King fell sick which the Duke of York heâ—ing of he came to England and on the second of September went to the King at Windsor the Consequent whereof was the Banishment of the Duke of Monmouth Monmouth banished who reteired to Vtrecht and a little after the Duke of York went back to Bruss is but with no design to stay long there for on the twelth of October he with his whole Family arrived at St James's to the astonishment of many And on the twenty seventh of November after Both return soon to England All Monmouths places taken from him the Duke of Monmouth came to London being welcomed by the Citizens with all possible expressions of Joy which so displeased the Court and Irritated the King as all his
places of prosite and trust are Immediatly taken from him And soon after the Duke of York is sent down High Commissioner into Scotland Duke of York goes to Scotland Well the Parliament in England meeting the seventeen of October as was ordered by the King The first Compliment they met with The Parliament proroged 5 times in one year was a prorogation to the twenty sixt of January and from thence to the fifth of April 1680. and from thence to the seventeenth of May and again to the first of July and again to the twenty first of October graciously declaring they should then sit and do business The whole Nation being deeply greived with these strange proceedings especially that of hindering the Parliament to sit several Addresses were made by three or four Counties Addresses from several Counties to the King but all rejected humbly beseeching his Majesty to case them of their greivances but no satisfactory answer was given nor to be expected Things going on at this rate in England and the Duke ruleing all as he pleased in Scotland there could be no serious prosecution of the Popish Hot nay it was so ridiculed by Estrange The Plot ridiculed and others of the Court party as indifferent men began to doubt if any such thing was or no. While in the mean time the Popish Faction began to trump up a new Plott upon the dissenters King Charles finding himself weak at home King Charles makes Alliance with Holland and indeed having made himself so thought it necessary to strengthen himself by some Foreign Alliance And to that end sends Mr. Henry Sidney now Earl of Rumney Embassador to Holland to propose to the States the making a Treaty of Guarranty for the Peace Concluded at Nimeguen The French King hearing of this earnestly indeavours to defate the design and by his Embassador Monsieur D'avaux then resident in Holland proposes an Alliance with them the same being moved at the same time by Monsieur Colbert to the States Embassador in Paris Mr. Sidney gives in a Memorial against this motion with many insinuating Arguments which was answered by Count D'avaux but in more threatening Tearms The States haveing weighed the Arguments on both sides in the Scales of security and interest at last the ballance was cast in favour of England all the Provinces unanimously agreeing thereto except Gronningen and Ommelands who inclined more to the French but being over-ruled by plurality of votes Alliance with England is Concluded The Dauphing Married to the Duke of Bavaria sister The French King failing in this project proposes Alliance with the Duke of Bavaria by Marrying the Dauphin to the Dukes sister which is agreed on and soon-after Consummated SECT 2. Sect. 2 In February 1680. The Emperor and Empyr by several Letters and Memorials acquainted the dyet at Rattibone The Emperour complains of the French Kings breach of the late Treaty that they found themselves aggrieved that the French had already Contraveened the Peace in no less then twelve Material Particulars and that quite contrary to all the Treaties both of Westphaita and Nimeâ—uâ—n And the dyet Examining the matter fully and finding it to be so intreated the Emperor in behalfe of himself and the Empyr by his Letters or Embassie to require reparation of the same from the French King But for all these Remonstrances he was so far from giving the proposed Satisfaction as he began to enlarge his limits in Alsatia And soon after a paper was published as was pretended by the French King bearing that in case the Dauphin were chosen King of the Romans most of the Towns detained from the Emperor should be restored that ane Army of sixty Thousand French should be maintained in Hungary against the Turks without any Charge to the Empyre and a Considerable Fleet should be imployed against the Turks towards the Dardanello's with many other plausible propositions but these being little taken notice of the French King incroaches severely on the Prince Palatine which makes the Emperor and Empyr complain in every Court where there was any hope of releif particularly the States of Holland were solicited to Employ their bâ—st Offices at the French Court that these Contraventions might cease and be abolished but the States finding that notwithstanding all the French Kings Caressess and fair promises that their addresses to him in behalfe of the King of Spain their Alliâ— had taken so little effect they thought it needless to expect any better sâ—ccesse in this and therefore they made no progress in it Flanders and Italy allarmed by the French Nor was iâ— Germany only that thought her self Injured for in the Spring the French made incursions in the province of Nâ—muâ— possessing themselves of above fourty villages and the Princes of Italy were Allarmed also by the French Troops marching to take Possession of Cassâ—l sold by the Duke of Mantua to the French King for four Millions of Livers SECT 3. Sect. 3 About this time King Charâ—es makes an Alliance with Spain as he had done with Holland And at the sitting of the Parliament which was on the twentieth first of October 1â—80 As he had formerly promised he desires Money of them for the releif of Tanâ—â—er and that they should not medle with the Succession of the Croun but to proceed to the discovery of the Hot and Tryal of the Popish Lords Bill of Exclusion by the house Commons The Parliament taking this into Consideration and finding no expedient for securing of the Protestant Religion while the Duke of York had any Prospect of the Crown they resolve on a Bill for his Total Exclusion which passed in the House of Commons the eleventh of November 1680. The bill of Exclusion is so universally known in these Kingdomes as I thought it but needless to insert it here Rejected by the Lords The Bill being presented to the House of Lords was by them rejected and after the first Reading a vote passed that it should not be allowed a second Reading which gave it such a dash as the House of Commons did not farther insist on it Lord Stafford executed And then the Parliament prâ—ceeded to the Tryal of the Lord Stafford who being convicted was Executed on the seventh of December 1680 The next thing they fell on was the prosecuting and displaceing all Abhorrers of petitioning the King for the meeting of the Parliament the Chief of those were Sir Francis Withens Sir George Jeffâ—â—yes Recorder of London Sir Thomas Iones a Judge of the Kings Bench Sir Richard Westone a Barron of the Exchequer and Sir Francis North Chief Jâ—stâ—ce of the Common pleas who for his good service in Sentenceing to Death Steven Colledge at Oxford had the great Seal of England Committed to his Custody As to the Kings demand of Money for releife of Tangieâ— The Commons refuse mâ—ney to the King or what ever pretended occasion the Parliament altogether declined it giving in many
fit to strengthen himself by entering into a strict Alliance with the King of Poland Alliance between the Emperour Pole and Venice and the next year he drew in the State of Venice so as it became a Tripartite Confederacie On the sixth of May 1683. The Emperour gives the Command of his Army to Charles Duke of Lorrain Duke of Lorrain General of the Imperial Army who presently Marches with the Army to Newhousel and beseidges it on which making several sharp attacks he was forced at last to quit it hearing that the Grand Visier was on his March to Buda with an Army of above two Hundered Thousand Men Beseiges Newhousel but quits it on the Turks aproach The Duke hasts through the Isle of Schut towards Raab and in few days after the Turkish Army draws thither and Encamps within veiw of the Imperial Army The Duke of Lorrain finding the Turkish Army far above his number hasts towards Vienna whither the Grand Visier soon followed As the Duke made his retreat on the sixth of July three Thousand Tartars sallying out of a Wood suddently and furiously attacks the left wing of his Army Guarding the Baggadge on the Front dissorders Retreats to Vienna the Turks follow him and beats them back on the main Body and tho the Germans opposed and rooted them yet they carryed off most part of the Bagadge with them In this Conflict Prince Lewis of Saxony and the young Duke of Arschot were killed The Emperour hearing of the approach of the Turkish Army removed from Vienna to Lintz leaving the City in great dissorder and Consternation and many fled and left it SECT 4 Sect. 4 On the eight of July the Duke comes to Vienna with his Army in good order which cheered up the drooping Citizens very much And Count Staremberg Vienna biseiged by the Turks the Governour put all things in the best posture he could for making a Vigorous defence against the Enemy who on the fourteenth formed the Seige Encamping between the Town and the south side of the Danube This Famous and Memorable Seige was carried on by the Visier Bassa with better Conduct and greater Resolution then had appeared in any of the Turkish Enterprises for many ages preceeding and was â—ndefatigably continued for the space of nine Weeks And was with no less policy and Valour Vigorously defendâ—d by the Noble Governour Staremberg To enter upon a minute account of the many brisk attacks and furious Assaults made by the Enemy and the no less Valiant Resistance made by the Germans were to swell and enlarge this work beyond the proper and ordinary bounds of an Abridgement So as for the satisfaction of the more curious in that point I must referre them to the Original and intreat them to rest contented with the Summary account following A breife account of the Seige The Duke of Lorrain lying with his small Army entrenched beyond the Daâ—ube and hearing that Count Teckcley was ravaging all Moravia Marched thither and drove him thence On the seventeenth of August he had a letter from Staremberg giving an account of all Remarkable Actions on both sides preceeding the date of his letter That a Jamsary being taken told him that they had already lost ten Thousand men two Bassa's and many great Officers But he wrote withall that their losses and dangers in the Town encreassed dialy and implored roleife with all possible speed To which the Duke Answered That the Auxiliary Forces were now almost Joyned that the King of Poland was hasting hither in Person that he expected the arrival of all the joynt Forces before the last day of August that he had recovered Presburg from Count Teckcley and beaten him once aâ—aâ—n near the Marow And prayed him to persevere in his duty till releife came Which letter did much Encourage the Governour and the whole City But the first of September being come and no signe of releif the Governour gives the Duke notice once again of the Extremities they were reduced to and on the sixth at night they espyed five Rockets on the top of the Calemburg near the Dukes Quarters as a signe that the Succours were at hand which filled them all with exceeding joy The Turks decamp The Grand Visier having Intelligence of the approach of the Confederate Forces carryes on his attaches with great diligence till the eleventh and that afternoon Decamps and Marches with his Forces towards the Calemburg to which the Christian Army was come The battle of Calemburg The Turkish Army amounted to an Hundred and twenty Thousand Fighting Men above sixty Thousand being lost in the seige The Christian Army not exceeding eighty Thousand and six Thousand in the Town The King of Poland Commanded the Right wing The Dukes of Bavaria and Lorrain the left the Duke of Saxony and Prince Waldeck Commanding the main body Whereupon Ensued a fierce and cruel Battle being maintained with a great obstinacie and resolution on both sides for a long time Durcing the hottest of the Battle the Turks left at the Seige by the Grand Visier attached the Town with incredible Vigour and Furie which put the beseiged so to it that the Governour was forced to send to the Duke of Lorrain for Assistance who sent presently Prince Lewis of Baden with a body of Horse Foot and Dragoons into the City with whose help all the Turks that were in the attack were cut in peices The Turks deseaâ—ed In short towards the evening the Enemy gave way and fled the Christians pursuing them beyond their Camp and standing to their Arms all night the next morning being the thirteenth they plundered the Enemyes Catrip took fifty peice of Cannon two Horse tayles the Grand Seigniors Standard and the Grand Visiers own Horse with all their Tents and Provisions In this baâ—tle which was on the twelth of September 1683. the Turks lost above fifteen Thousand Men and the Christians not above on Thousand Names of the Auxiliaries The Princes Assisting the Emperour in this battle were The King of Poland the Electors of Saxony and Bavaria The Duke of Lorrain Prince Waldeck the two Princes of Baden the Prince of Anhalt the Duke of Croy the Prince de Salm the Marquesse of Brandenburg Bareith the Landtgrave of Hesse the Prince of Hannover the two Princes of Newburg four Princes of the House of Saxony three of Wirtemburg and the Prince of Hoenzelles Emperour returns to Vienna The Emperour being informed of this Glorious Victory came the next day to Vienna and going to St Stevens Church with the two Electors and many other Princes and Nobles caused Te Deum to be sung which was followed with a Triple discharge of all the Cannon Battle of Barkan The Polish and Emperial Armies having refreshed themselves a few days persue the Enemy and near the Fort of Barkan they find fourteen Thousand Turks Encamped whom they attack and root so intirely as scarce four Thousand of them got
safe in to the Garison of Barkan which the Christians presently attacked and took it by storme Turkâ— defeated putting all to the sword except five hundered Janisaries in this place the Dâ—ke of Lorrain put a good Garison and on the twentieth of October he passed the Dannbe with the Imperial Army and Marched towards Gran. Gra◠〈…〉 The Duke of Lorrain Beseiged this Town and plyed it so warmely An. 1684. as on the twenty seventh of October which was but three dayes after the opening of the Trenches the Turks desired to Capitulate which the Duke listened to and the Articles being agreed on the Turks marched out to the number of two Thousand JaÌ„nisaries and four Thousand of the Inhabitants and were conducted by a safe Convoy in their way to Buda So Gran was recovered with the loss of an Hundered and fifty Men after it had been seventy eight years in Possession of the Turks CHAP. IX Anno. 1684. Courtray Dixmude and Luxemburg serzed by the French Ye have heard this last year of the King of Frances pretensions to several Seigniories and Towns in Germany and Flanders c. In prosecution whereof about the latter end of 1683. he surprized Courtray and Dixmude and in May after beseiged Luxemburg which was surrendered to him on Articles the tenth of June 1684. which vexed Spain extreamly Genoa Bombarded and submits to the French King The French King having pickt a quarrel against Genoa tho no just provocation was given him sends his fleet before the City on the seventeenth of May 1684. which Bombarded it severely for four or five days this being the first place he ever Bombarded by sea The Genoise made pritty good resistance till the twenty fourth at which time the sea growing high the French Fleet weighed off which the City was glad of but fearing their return and knowing themselves unable to Cope with so potent an Enemy they send their Doâ— and four Senators to the French Court and make their humble Submission SECT 2. Sect. 2 Returne we now to the Duke of Lorrain whom we left in Gran who on the twentyeth of May 1684. begins his March towards Buda Vicegrad taken by the Duke of Lorrain and Vicegrad lying in his way it surrendered to him from thence he marched to the plaines of Waisen where he found fifteen Thousand Turks drawn up in Battle array On the twenty sixth of June he attacked and defeated them killing a Thousand Turks and one Basha the broken Troops fled in to Waisen which surrendered to the Duke on discretion On the tenth of July he marched the whole Army over the Danube and Encamped at St Andrew Turks defeated at St Andrew Buda beseiged where the Turkish Army engadged him the encounter was sharp on both sides but the Turks being baffled and repulsed by the Christians on all hands they retired at night with a great dale of loss towards Buda the Duke followed them and on the fourteenth of July invested the Town On the ninteenth the Germans attacked the lower Town and drove the Turks out of it and the Town being fired both by the Turks and Christians before might it was almost reduced to ashes And totally rooted at Hanschabets July 21 1684. The Duke having advice that the Turkish Army was Encamped at Hâ—uschabets two German miles beyond Buda Marches towards them on the twenty first the Turkish Army amounted to twenty Thousand whom the Christians attacked and after a long and obstinat Feight routed them Killing four Thousand of whome their were a Thousand Janisaries all killed on the place In the persute a great many moe were killed Wounded and taken Prisoners They took their whole Camp and all their Artillary and their Bagadge which was very Rich Together with Machomets great Standard and the Serasquier Bassa's Pavilion who Commanded the Army in the Grand Visiers Absence Of this great Victory the Duke of Lorrain gives the Emperour an account the next day by an express highly extolling the valour of all the Officers especially Prince Lewis of Baden and the Count de Caprara The Duke continued the Seige till the 25. of October dureing which time The Duke raises his Seige from Buda a great many Warlike and gallant Exploits were performed on both sides the Assaliants making many brisk Attaks and the Defendants many bold and desperate Sallies But the Weather growing Rainy and the Cavalry wanting Forage and withal the Serasqueir having in this time reinforced his Army with a design to relieve the beseiged The Duke by the full advice of a Council of War resolved to march off and accordingly did so on the 29. of October 1684. But to mitigate this disappointment at Buda the Emperours Armies proved more successful in other parts The Emperour successful in Sclavonia by General Lesly this Campaign For in Sclavonia Count Lesly took Virovitza the chief City of that Country and defeated the Basha of Maratha and the Beg of Zerneg who with near Four thousand Men designed the relief of Virovitza killing a great many and taking twenty Prisoners of good quality and all the Provisions designed for the relief of the place And though he had but Fourteen thousand Men he repulsed the Serasquier Basha who attacked him with Thirty thousand Men and fortifying his post he went to Vienna to give the Emperour an account of all And in upper Hungary In upper Hungary also General Schultz took Zeben by storme killing all the Christian deserters he found there And having advice that Teckelys Army lay secure not far from him on the 17th of September in the Evening General Shultz defeats Tecley near Zebon he marches silently and about three in the next Morning fell suddenly in upon his Camp which in a trece he made himself Master of entirely rooted the Army killed Four thousand in the Action took all Teckelys Tents and Bagadge his Coach and Standard himself narrowly escaping and all his Apparel â—ate and Money and his Papers also After this Schultz took Barthfieldt and several other small Garisons and so retired with Honour and Riches to his Winter-Quarters About the middle of August 1684. The King of Poland randevouzed his Army at Bucksaes King of Poland takes Jaslowick routs out the Tartars killing 3000 from whence he sends a Detachment to Attack the Fortress of Jaslowick which soon surrendered After this he marched to Kolenzan where meeting with a considerable detatchment of Tartars he Commanded his Van-guard to attack them which they did with that Bravery that the Enemy fled leaving Three thousand behind them slain The Poles loosing but an hundred And so this Action concluded the Pollish Campaign Morosins made Captain General of the Venetian Forces The Venetians having perfited their Alliance with the Emperour and the King of Poland make Morosint Captain General of their Forces who in June Randevouzed the Fleet at Lessina and on the 19th of July arrived before Sancta Maura scituate in
the Gulf of Prevesa And Landing some Forces raised two Batteries on the East and West sides of the Town which after some resistance He takes Sancta Maura surrendered on Articles about the latter end of July wherein they found Eighty peices of Brass-Cannon and great quantity of Ammunition and Provisions From thence the Captain General Steers towards Prevesa and lays Seige to it the 20th of September And plying it briskly with Cannons and Bombs by Sea and Land till the twenty eight And Prevesa the Enemy desired to Capitulate and Articles being agreed on they Matched out on the 30th of September leaving behind them Fourty four Cannon eighteen whereof shot a fifty pound Ball with a great quantity of Ammunition and Provisions After which the Venetians went to their Winter Quaters at Corsu The Venetian Troops were successful in Dalmatia also this Campaign Venetians successful in Dalmatia for they beat the Turks in several small Rencounters making Incursisions into their Quarters An. 1685. and still returning with Victory and Booty They took in the Isle of Narenta and the Castle of Narim and then retired to their Winter Quarters And so we conclud this year 1684. CHAP. X. Anno 1685 Death of King Ch the 2d The first thing remarkable in the year 1685. is The Death of Charles the 2d King of great Brittain who dyed of an Appoplexy on Saturnday the 7th of February in the 37. year of his Reign after he had lived 54 years 8. Moneths and 8 days passing over the the first part of the Character my Author gives of him I take notice only of the latter part His Character which says he was a Prince the most fit to govern of any other and applyed himself the least to it which was great pity since he had such an insight into Men and things that no Monarch of his Age could pretend to compare with him besides a mild Disposition which made him at his Death be so universally Lamented by all sorts of his Protestant Subjects especially by the Dissenters and that more out of fear of his Successor then any great kindness to him A witty Quaker appearing very jovial and all about him seeming sad was asked his reason for being so who Answered They had two to deal with before and now GOD he thanked they had but one Now the Duke of York ascends the Throne and the same day his Brother dyed King James Speech to the Privy Council Assembled the Council and declared that he intended to follow his Brothers example in clemency and tenderness to his People That he would make it his business to preserve the Government both in Church and State as established by Law he commended the Church of Englands Pâ—inciples and Members and that as he would never depart from the just Prerogatives of the Crown so he would never invade any Mans Property King James being solemnly Crowned at Westminster the twenty third of April 1685 King James Crowned He appoints a Parliament to meet the Twenty second of May after to whom Repeating much of what he had said to the Council His Speech to the Privy Council repeated to the Parliament and his demand of Money he proceeded to the demanding a large supply of Money laying before them many plausible Reasons and Arguments for moving them thereto The Parliament being in a manner fashioned and moulded before to his Inclinations not only settled the Customs and temporary Excise upon him as they were before upon his Brother but laid a new Imposition upon Wines Vinegar Sugar Tobacco and other Commodities so as in short his revenue with the hereditary Excise and other Revenues of the Crown amounted to Two Millions four hundered thousand Pounds per annum Which is granted to which add an Hundered and fifty thousand Pounds per annum which he had when Duke of York the whole amounted to Two Millions and five hundered and fifty thousand Pounds per annum SECT 2. Sect. 2 The King then acquainted the Parliament That he had News from Scotland of the Earl of Argyles Landing in the Highlands Argyle lands in Scotland That he had put out two Declarations one of which he presently communicated to them Which is so generally known in Scotland and elsewhere as saves me the Labour of repeating it here To be short in a few dayes after the Earl's small Forces were dissipated and each Man shifted for himself And he himself falling unhappily into the hands of a Country-man was soon after brought to Edinburgh He is taken and Executed at Edinburgh he dyed very piously where for his former unpardonable Crime reqâ—ireing care should be taken for the Protestant Religion and for explaining himself on taking the Test this brave tho unfortunate Man was beheaded June the 30. But a blacker Cloud appeared about this time in the West of England Monmouth lands in England by the Duke of Monmouths Landing at Lyme in Dorset-shire on the 12. of June where he presently put out an ample Declaration in his own name and the rest of his followers Which Declaration being very large and being generally known all Brittain over I shall now overpass The Prince of Orange hearing of Monmouths Landing in England Prince of Orange offer to King James presently sends over the Six English Regiments in the Dutch Service and Pay and by Monsieur Benting not only offers King James the loan of his Troops but to come in person and command his Army if his Majesty pleased But before Benting reached London Skelton King James Envoy at the Hague had sent the King so bad a Character of the Prince Rejected as he told Benting that their common Interest required the Princes stay in Holland and hinted as much to him as he thought his Zeal for his Service was not seasonable at that time and this was the thanks the Prince had for his Service offered Providence so favoured King James at this time as the Duke of Monmouths Forces are defeated at Sedgemore Monmouth Executed and he being taken soon after was brought to London and Beheaded on the 15. of July Jessereys Bloody Work in the West Hereupon followed the Tragical proceedings in the West The Lord chief Justice Jessereys being cloathed with a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to try and prosecute all who had any way appeared or concurred with Monmouth At Dorchester 30. being Impeached he hang'd Twenty nine of them and again of two hundered and fourty three eighty suffered and almost as many at Exeter at last he finished his Bloody Assizes at Tauntoun and Wells where above 500. were Condemned and of them 239. were Executed Yet for all his Bloody Humour Covetousness put in for a share For he had the Conscience to take Fourteen thousand and Five hundered Pounds for saving the Life of one Man And Kirks also Nor was Collonel Kirk much short of him in Cruelty for at Taunton he caused Ninety
to seperate themselves speedily from them Kings Letter to Scotland in favour of Papists About this time The King wrote a Letter to the Council of Scotland in which he takes no notice at all of Protestant Dissenters but recommends to them his innocent Roman Catholick Subjects who with their Lives and Fortunes had been alwayes assistant to the Crown in the worst of Rebellions c. These he heartily recommended to their Care that they might have the benefite of his Laws and that security under his Government as others of his Subjects had and that Obligations might not be imposed upon them which their Religion could not admitt of wherein they would do him most acceptable Service c. SECT 2. Sect. 2 Now the Hungarian War calls us thither again The Duke of Lorram joining the Imperial Army in June Hungary Marches towards Buda where he arrived the 21st The 2d Seidge of Buda and placed his Men in their Old Trenches near the lower Buda A deserting Jaâ—â—saâ—y coming to the Duke told him there were not above Six thousand Men in the Town and that the Garison was not near so strong as at the former Seige which Intelligence did much encourage the Beseigers The Seige is carryed on with a great deal of industry till the 4th of July On which day the Brandenburgers arrived in the Camp The 9th the Beseidged made a Sally and did considerable Damnage but were repulsed The 13th the Duke commanded a Lodgement to be made on the Breach in which Attack he lost near a Thousand Men besides many Officers and Fifty Volunteers whereof were several Noblemen and divers English Men of good quality On the 22d The Turks Sallyed on the Bavarian Quarter and did considerable Execution On the 27. the Duke made a general Assault and the Germans fixed their Lodgement on the first Wall On the 3d. of August they made a general Assault again on the second Wall but were beaten off with a considerable loss On the 13th the Duke had certain advice that Nincy thousand Turks were on their March towards him Whereupon leaving Twenty thousand Men to carry on the Seige he marched all the rest of the Army out of the Lines and drew up in order of Battle A sharp skirmish And hearing that the Grand-Visier had detached Six thousand Jaussaries and Four thousand Spahis all choice Men to take up some Advantageous posts on the Neighbouring Hills he sent off seven Regiments of Horse and some few Hungarians to oppose them who with the help of the Regiments of Taff forced the Enemy head-long down the Hill Turks worsted with so great fury and slaughter as near three thousand Jaussaries lay on the spot and the rest retired towards Esseck The Germans brought back with them eight peices of Cannon thirty Cullors and Standards with three hundered Prisoners And perhaps a more vigorous Action was never performed by Horse alone The two Armies being drawn up in Battle array Confronted one mother Buda Attackt at a respectful dutance for some time at last the Turks drew back by degrees towards the Hills on which the Christians advanced their right wing some â—hâ—t before their main Body which the Turks perceiving made a faint Attack but were repulsed It drawing late the Christians retired towards their Trenches slowly and in good order The Grand Visier also retired with his Army towards Aâ—ba Regaâ—â—â— and ordered the Basha who gave him an account of the Defeat in the Morning to be strangled only for saying they charged the Christians like Lyons but they received them like Devils The Seige is still curryed on with all the force and industry possible for Men till the 1st of September the Grand Visier in the mean time using all endeavours to throw in some Men into the Town which he could not possibly perform That day the Christian Army was strengthened by the Accession of ten thousand Men under the Command of Count Scherffenberg whereon it was unanimously agreed to storm the Town the next day which was performed accordingly for all things being put in due order the Cannons and Mortars playing all the Forenoon and the signal being given at three Afternoon all the Detatchments advanced and mounted the Breaches with as great Order as Courage Buda taken by Storm The Germans were twice beaten back but being animated with the Dukes presence who led them on himself made a third Attack so furiously as they entered the Town with the slaughter of eight hundered Janisaries who defended that Breach where the Visier Basha was in person who through the whole Action gave great proofs of his Bravery and being first Wounded was at last killed in the breach The other Detatchmen's going on with the like Resolution entered the Town on all sides so as in little more than an Hours time they made themselves absol to Masters of the Town The Souldiers round in the Town a great dale of Plate Jewels and Money so as many of them had two or three thousand pound for his share Of Five thousand Men in the Town at first above three thousand were killed and about a thousand five hundred of them getting in to a Redoubt hung out a Flag and begged Quarters which the Duke was pleased to grant The number of Christians slain was about Five hundered and not so many Wounded The Grand-visier retires with shame to Alba Regalis they got in the Town Four hundered peices of Cannon This Victory was the more Glorious that it was acquired in the sight of the Grand Visier and his powerful Army who had not Courage to attempt the relief of it but so soon as he knew the Town was taken he set Fire to his Camp and retired with dishonour and grief to Alba Regalis Things being set in order in Buda the Duke sends the Prince of Baden to take in five Churches Prince of Baden takes five Churches Syclos and Capsowar Burns the Bridge of Esseck in which Garisonthere was a Basha seven Beys and two thousand sive hundered Men Notwithstanding which force the Prince plying them hard with Cannon which made a great Breach forced them on the 20th of October to surrender at discretion so as the Garison and all the Inhabitants were made Prisoners of War The Prince sends the Count of Sherffenberg with the half of his Forces to beseidge Sycloâ— And then retires to Winter Quarters who arrived before it on the 25 of October and the Garison after a faint resistance surrendered at discretion After this the Count re-joines the Prince at Darda who marched streight to Esseck where he burnt all the Bridge from Darda to the Drave and all the Turks Boats on that River From thence he marched back to Capsowar which surrendered on Articles And the Weather growing bad he sends all his Troops into Winter Quarters SECT 3. Sect. 3 At the same time that the Duke sent the Prince of Baden to take in Five Churches he sent
and the Court Treasurer about midnight to attack them himself following with the whole Army the Marshal accordingly attacks them and totally routed them An. 1687. taking above three Hundered Prisoners soon after the two main Bodies advanced and Engadged and after a short Fight The Tartars were routed and fled leaving a great many slâ— in and many taken prisoners but not without loss on the Poles side several Officers and persons of Quality being killed particularly the Palatin Podosâ—ker after this the King Marched homewards and in this expedition acquired no great applause CHAP. XII Anno 1687. SECT 1. Sect. 1 We left off Affaires in England last year taking notice of the Kings kindnes to his Roman Catholick Subiects in Scotland England by his Letter to the Council in their Favours but now follows a more Generall Act of his to that end Tolleration of Religion for on the 12th of February he Issues out his Proclamation for a Tolleration of Religion unto all But for all this his trusty Tirconnill now cheife Governour in Jreland would scarce allow the benesite of this Proclamation to the Protestant Subjects there for he Succeeding the Noble Earl of Clarenden exerted his Authority to the hight Tirconnels proceedings in Ireland in his Proclamation the letter end of February he promised to defend the Laws Liberty and Established Religion yet he left out the preservation of the Act of Settlment and explanation resolving speedily to repossesse the Irish of their forfeited Estares The King goes on without any stop in making Popish Judges And King James's in England Justices Magistrats and deputy Leivrennants all England over The privy Council is filled up with Papists Popish Schools Encouraged in London and through all the Kingdom and four Forreign Popish Bishops as Viccars apostolical are allowed in Ecclesiatickal Jurisdiction over all England and Wales And further the Earl of Castlemain is sent Embassador to Rome to Tender the Kings Obedience to the Holy Apostolical See Earl of Castlmain sent Embaslador to Rome with great hopes of extirpating the Northern Pestilent Heresie in a short time And to secure the dispensing power Tirconnel sends him over a considerable Detachment of Irish Papists to strengthen his Army who are now become intollerably insolent SECT 2. Sect. 2 In Hungary this Campaign Hungary The Imperial Army Consisted of sixty two Thousand nine Hundred Fighting Men a third part whereof was to Act in upper Hungary under the Duke of of Bavarta Duke of Lorrain marches towards Esseck a nother third part in lower Hungary under the Duke of Lorrain and the third on the Frontiers of Crâ—aâ—ta under General Dunewald The whole Army Rendevouzed near Barkin where the Duke of Lorram arrived on the thirteenth of May on the seventeenth of June the Duke of Lorrain advanced towards Esseck continuing there about for near three Weeks without any Considerable Action on the thirteenth of July he passed the Drave Passes the drave where the Duke of Bavaria Joyned him with his Forces as Dunewald had done a Week before with three or sour Thousand of his party so as a review of the Army being taken it was found to consist of fifty five Thousand Men. The Duke being informed that the Grand Visier with near eighty Thousand Men was Encamped near Mohatz repassed the Drave and Marched towards him the Dukes Army being Joyned on his March with eight Thousand Swabian Troops so he came near to Mohatz on the 29 of July where he spent some days indeavouring to draw the Turks to a Battle and finding them to decline an ingadgement he made a show of retireing towards Sycloâ— on purpose to draw them after him which had the wished effect for the Grand Vasier being animated with the Dukes Retreat on the 12 of August advanced and ordered ten Thousand Spaht's and five Thousand Janisaries to attack the Imperialists left Wing which they did with great furie but were bravely repulsed by General Dunewald Turks defeated at Mohatz 16000 killed and so both Armies intirely engadged the Turks observing better order in that Bartle then ever formerly the Fight continued for a long time with great courage on both sides But by little and little the Turks began to loss ground and at last took themselves to open flight The Christians persued closs and entered pel mel with them in their very Camp making a horrible slaughter in which Action the Christians lost not above seven Hundered Men but of the Turks there were killed on the spot and drowned in the Morasses and River few less then sixteen thousand The Christians got a very rich Booty in their Camp with a Hundered and sixteen peice of Cannon The Duke of Bavaria had for his share the Grand Visiers Tent which resembled a Castle for bulk enriched wiâ—h Gold Pearles and Precious stones he got also all the I late Jewels and forty thousand Duâ—kats in Cash Butschin yealded From Mohatz the Duke detached General Dunewald with Forces to attack Butschin which lay between the Drave and the Save to which he laid Seige the 11th of September and followed it so vigorously as on the 14th the Aga who Commanded surrendered at discretion this strong Fortress being gained brought above a Hundered Villages about it under Contribution it covered Virovitzâ— and hindered the Turke of sending any succours to Sigeth and Camsia Esseck abandoned by the Turks The Garison of Essâ—ck being allarum'd and daunted with the lofs of this Important place abandoned it on the 29th of September which General Dunewala hearing of sent Count de Lodion with a detachment thither who entered the same without any opposition finding in it fifty two peices of Cannon four Mortars and a vast quantity of Ammunition and other provisions After this the Turks surrendered Walpo at discretion and abandoned Possega the Capital City of Sclavonâ—a and some other smal Garisons Transilvanta revolts To return to the Duke of Lorram he understanding that Abafit Prince of Transâ—invama had declared in favour of the Port notwithstanding of his Treaty made with the Emperour about the 15th of September passed the Theysse and Marched his Army directly towards Transilvama which he presently reduced under the Emperours Obedience and concluded an advantagious Treaty with Prince Abasts and the States of Transilvama Reduced by Lorrain And from thence he went to Presburg the Capital City of upper Hungary where the Emperour then was and who by this time had so settled all Affaires with the States of the Countrey Joseph Arch Duke elected King of Hungary and crowned as they were willing to accept of Arch-Duke Joseph the Emperours eldest Son for their King whose Coronation was performed on the 9th of December following with the greatest Pompe and Solemnity To all this good success is added the surrendry of Agria to Count Caraffa Agriâ— surrendered which was kept by Rustem Basha and four thousand Turks who were starved out of it only by
King of Great Britain he would take it as a Rupture of the Peace and resent it accordingly SECT 4. Sect. 4 Soon after this King James is informed more certainly of the preparations in Holland and that the design was against him England and believed it so And now began to turn Car in pan declaring in Council on the 2d of October that he would restore the Charter of London and on the 5th declared that he would dissolve the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes King James allarm'd And impowers the Bishop of Winchester to resettle all the Affairs of Magdalen Colledge but hearing of the disaster of the Dutch Fleet at Sea he recalled that Commission and hearing afterward of their approach he renewed it again so sickle was he and so at last the said Bishop perfected that business The Wind continued for three Weeks still at west and in London the question every Morning was have we a Protestant Wind yet and a Seaman cursed openly the Dragon on Bow steeple for turning his Head where his Tayle should be But about the latter end of October the Wind came Easterly Prince of Orange lands at Torbay and the Dutch Fleet consisting of near five hundred Saile whereof there were fifty one Men of War and eighteen Fire Ships came with a fair Gale upon the English Coast and Landed all safe at Torbay the 5th of November And in a short time the Princes Army was encreased by the Junction of diverse persons of good quality with him And soon after his Declaration was published Which was dated at the Hague the 10th of October 1688. His Declaration published The substance whereof was a Relation of the Subversion and Violation of all the Laws of England both in Church and State all which he imputed to the Kings Evil Councellors which disorders could not possibly be rectified nor Affairs regulated but by a lawful and Free Parliament the calling and sitting whereof was the main cause of his coming to England The Declaration being very large and withal supposing it well known to all intelligent observing persons I thought the transcribing of it unnecessary Prince of Orange writes to the Protestant Officers in England About the same time The Prince wrote a Letter to all the Protestant Officers in the Kings Army laying before them their Error in joining with a Popish party and their dauger if they persisted and earnestly invited them to concurr with him for preservation of the Protestant Religion and freedom and Priviledges of the Subjects This Letter did very much influence most of those to whom it was directed About the midle of November the Lord Delamare came to the Prince with a considerable â—arty Association at Exeter Before the Prince left Exeter there was an Association drawn and Sworn to by all the Nobleâ—en and Gentlemen then present for a close adherence to the Prince of Oranâ—e and to one another an prosecuting of that work they now engaged in and for avengeing the Princes Death if done by any barbarous indirect means The 1st Bloodshed On the 20th of November a Skirmish happened at Winâ—anton between eighty Horse and Dragoons Commanded by Sarsfield and thirty of the Princes Horse Commanded by one Campbel where notwithstanding the inequality of the Number the former were defeated which much daunted King James's Army and as much encouraged the other party Associâ—â—ion aâ— Notâ—ingham On the 22d of November The Nobility and Gentry assembled at Nottingham delaring their just greivances in eight material points and implying many moe indefinitly Associate and bind themselves much to the same purpose as these at Exeter had done The Nobility about the King labour earnestly to perswade him to call a free Parliament but he continued inexorable Prince George Dukes of Graslon and Ormond and other Nobles go to the Prince On which the Duke of Graston the Lord Churchil and several other Noblemen lest him and went over to the Prince then as Sherbâ—â—â— And on the 25th of November Prince George the Duke of Ormond and Sir George Hewet followed them Before Prince George went off he wrote to the King a very pertinent Letter for his Excuse as did also the Lord Churchil and Princess Ann withdrawing privatly from London after the Princes departure left a very passionate Letter to the Queen begging her Majesties pardon for leaving the City without her leave and waiting upon her The King comes to London The 26. of November the King returns to London and Issuâ—s writes for a free Parliament to sit the 15 of January but this was too late for by this time the Nation was generally in such a ferment as nothing he could either do or promise would appease them The Prince of Orange understanding that most of the considerable Cities and Towns in England had complyed published as was said another Declaration at Sheâ—burne Castle the 28. of November But it appeared soon after by the Princes disowning it that this Declaration was contrived by some private person who had put his name to it to give it Authority The main purport of the Declaration was a strict order to all Magistrates both in the Cities and Countrey to disarme and secure all Papists and tho this was a bold and presumptuous attempt of a private person yet it happened to have very good effects Proposals by the King to the Prince The Prince of Orange being at Windsor the King sends â—aâ—â—â—sax Nottingham and Godolphine to him desiring him to make what proposals he thought necessary for sitting of the Parliament and for their security while they sat The King leavs London They return the next day with seven Proposals which were so unsatisfying to the King as that night he left London and went to Rochester Before he went he wrote to the Lord Feversham Exhorting him and all the Officers to continue him in their Loyal Principles but gives him no orders for any Action On Receipt of which Letter Feversham disbands his Forces being about Four thousand and presently after acquaints the Prince therewith by a Letter Returning the 16 of December On the 16 of December the King returns to London being advised and invited thereto by some Lords On the 17. at twelve at Night he receives a Letter from the Prince advising his removal to Ham Goes to Rochester but he inclining rather to go to Rochester moves that to the Prince who assented and so on the 18. he goes thither accompanyed with the Earl of Arran and some others That same day the Prince came to St. James's innumerable Acclamations The Prince comes to London Bells and Bon-fires signifying how welcome a Guest he was to London King James and the Queen go to France On the 23 of December the King Embarked at Dover for France the Queen Landing there the 10th Before he went he left a Letter written with his own hand declaring his Reasons for leaving the Kingdom desiring it
suspected and talked off by severals little to his Commendation The defending of Londonderry so long by a meer Rable of undisciplin'd Men a few Gentlemen and Officers exceepted against a powerful Army of Train'd Men well furnished with all Warlike Engines Seige of Derry and other Provisions needful for such an undertaking and under the Command of skilful Generals and other Officers both French and Irish as it was matter of Admiration in this Age so it will seem altogether incredible by our posterity However it was resolutly defended by the good conduct of Collonel Henry Baker and after his Death by Collonel Mitchâ—iburn assisted by Mr. Walker a Minister who had the oversight and distribution of the Stores and who was afterward killed at the Battle of Boyn closs by the Duke of Shomberg and who before his death wrote a narrative of the Seige of Darry but there was onâ— written after by one Mr. John Mckeâ—zie a Mimster Six thousand Irish beaten by two thousand Iâ—â—skilliners Major General Maeharty taken Prisoner allowed generally to be more true and impartial that the other On the 30 of July the very day before the relief of Darâ—y about two thousand of the Iniskillineâ—s encountered Six thousand of the Irish commanded by Major General Mâ—kartie at a place called Newtounbutler routed them killed and drowned near three thousand of them and took Mekarty priâ—oner losing only twenty Men and about fifty wounded SECT 4. Sect. 4 This Summer the King ordered the raising of Eigâ—teen Regiments of Foot and Five of Horse for the Irish Service Duke of Shomberg Lands in Ireland And on the 13. of August The Dâ—ke of Shomberg Landed at Carrickfergus with those Men being about Ten thousand Horse and Foot On the 20. the Duke marched several Regiments towards Carrickfergus from Belfast to which place he had marched next day after his Landing and presently drawing the Trenches and raising some Batteries Takes Câ—â— rick serguâ— he played furiously upon the Town which so terrisied Mackarty-more the Governour as on the 26 he parlyed and agreed to march out with Arms and some Baggage Presently after this The Duke began his March to wards Dundalk Matches to Dundalk ordering the Train to be shipped and carryed about to the Bay of Carlinsoâ—ra eight Miles from Dundalk He Eucamped at Dundalk the 3. of September the Irish Army being Twenty thousand lay at Drogheda King James offers Battle On the 20th of September The Irish Army drew near Dundalk and on the 21. they drew all out Horse and Foot advanced the Standart Royal and approached toward the Dukes out-works Whereupon he ordered all to stand to their Arms but kept his Camp and made no advance towards the Enemy Reteirs who after a bravado for three or four Hours drew off and reteired towards Ardoe eight Miles off A Conspiracy is found out in the Army one Duâ—plâ—ssey a French Man being the cheif who with six more is hang'd and above 200 in the French Regiments being found Papists were disarmed and sent under a Guard to England Five thousand Iriâ—h defeated On the 27. of Sâ—ptember Collonel Lloyd with a thousand Iniâ—killâ—ners defeated five thousand Irish marching to Sligo Killed Seven hundred took Killie the Commander and Fourty other officers and eight thousand Cattle and all with the loss of fourteen Men. But within a short while after both Stiâ—o and Jamestoun fell into the hands of the Irish which loss was inconsiderable to the English being compared with the great Mortality that ensued in the Camp There dyed Sir Edward Deering Collonel Herry Wharton Sir Thomas Gower Captain Hungersooâ—a Mortality in â—he English Army and a great many moe brave Officers and of the Souldiers a thousand seven hundred dyed at Dunâ—alk 1970 Sick were shipt off to Belfast most of whom dyed on Shipboard and in short near one half of the Army which came from England Flanders dyed before February SECT 5. Sect. 5 The Confederaâ—e Army this Year in Flanders was commanded by â—rince Waâ—deck as was the French Army by Mareshal de Humtere between whom happened no considerable Action this Campaign French defeated at Forge Only on the 25. of August the Armies lying near to one another the Mareshal sent out a party to attack the â—rinces Foragers near the Village of Forge hereon ensued a sharp skirmish which lasted for some Hours Recruits coming in on both sides to the parties engaged at first at last the French râ—teired in great haste leaving their Cannon and near two thousand Killed and Wounded on the other side were Slain about three hundred and Leivtennent Collonel Grahame Keyseâ—wart taken by Brandenburg In Germany the Armies were early in the Feild on both sides In June Keyserwart in the Dutchy of Cleve is beseiged by Brandenburg and on the 29. it was surrendered on Honourable Conditions leaving in the Town Fifty eight peices of Cannon and Two Mortars Menta taken be the Duke of Lorrain In June the Duke of Lorrain with Twenty thousand Men. layes Seige to Menâ—z which was carryed on with a great deal of Courage and Slaughter of many Men on both sides till the 11. of September on which day the French marched out of it with Drums beating Cullors flying Six peices of Cannon and Two Mortars The modest computation of loss to the Germans make it above Six thousand amongst whom were Four Princes and the French lost Five thousand besides the Wounded about Six thousand marching out of the Town That Summer the French miserably ravaged the Palatinate and on the 4th of August Mareshal de Duras laid seidge to Hesà elberg and making one attack only wherein he lost 400 Men he retreated toward Philipsburg and a little while after he attackt Brushal and carryed it On the 25th of July the Marquess de Bouslers Cocheim taken by Bousleâ— sell in into the Electorate of Trâ—ves with Fire and Sword and marching to Cocheim he attackt it with great sury where being stoutly resisted for a while at last took it by Storm putting to the Sword Man Woman and Child but the fury being a little over Quarters was given to about three hundred Bonne taken by Brandenburg In July the Elector of Brandenburg laid seidge to Bonne but several things interveening retarded his progress till the 27. of September on which day the Dake of Lorrun came to him after which the Town was so hotly plyed as Baron de Hasstield the Governour fearing taking of the Town by Storm he Capitulate and on the 12 of October Surrendered leaving all his Cannon and Provisions as also all Count Mainard of Shombergs Baggage which the French had basely seized on a little before SECT 6. Sect. 6 The Emperour having employed the Duke of Lorrain Germany this Year in service on the Rhine he give the chief command of the Army in Hungary to Prince Lewis of Baden who well deserved it and as well managed
it The 10th of June he arrived at Belgrade From thence he sent orders to Picolomini to come and joyn him with his Forces On the 27 of August his foot Army randevouzed near the Bridge of Gravovez and the Horse came to him the next day The Turkish Army about Fifty thousand lying not far from him sent out some detachments to attack his Foragers which occasioning some Skirmishes at last engaged both Armies in a Battle near Potochin which was managed with a great many Warlike Stratagems and martial Exploits Battle of Potochin on both sides for a long time Prince Lewis having the great advantage on his side of several Politick and Expert Generals as Pâ—â—olomins Veteram the Duke of Crot Count Palfi Count Staremberg c. by whose excellent conduct tho Prince beat the Turks from one Wood and one Retrenchment to another Turks rooted by the Pâ—â—nce or Baden till at last he attackt their main Camp out of which he drove and put them to a total Root taking a hundred and five peice of Cannon three Mortars several Bombs a great quantity of Ammunition and other Provisions and abundance of Riches The Prince having advice that the defeated Turk had rallied again near Nissa thither he Marches with about seventeen thousand Men where he arrived on the 23 of September where he found the Turkish Army entrenched much more regularly than ordinary but without any delay Battle of Nissa Turks rooted he drew up his Army in Battle array and attackt them The Enemy being above twice the Princes Number and very strong in Horse made a stout resistance for several Hours but towards Night the Turkish Cavalâ—y fell into disorder and fell foul of their own infantry which put them in great confusion which the Prince observing lay'd hold of the opportunity and making a furious onset routed them entirely who fleeing towards the Bridge which they could not find being now dark they took the River thinking to Swim over but the Stream being rapid a great many Men and Horse were drowned In the Camp the Prince found thirty peices of Cannon extraordinary big with aboundance of Ammunition and great store of all necessary Provisions Of all which the Prince took nothing for his share but the Scrasquiers Tent which was very Rich and was sent him by the Grand-Visier his own being lost at the Battle of Potochin After they had pillaged the Camp they entered Nissa without any opposition Nissa yeilded wherein they found provision for the Army for Six Weeks and three thousand Horses and Mules having lost in this Action not above three hundred Whereas it was computed there were Kill'd and Drown'd of the Turks near Eight thousand The Prince immediaty fortifyed Nissa and made Picolomini Governour of it and all the adjacent Countrey and on the 6. of October set foreward with the Army toward Widin a strong place with a good Castle lying on the Danube and being informed that two Basha's with their Forces were Encamped near Widin he hastes thither and arrived in the Plains of Widin on the 14. early The Enemy was in a consternation at the Princes sudden Arrival Turks desâ—â—â—â—d at Widin however at first they made brisk opâ—osition but being furiously assailed by a Victorious Army they gave back and reâ—eired to the City the Christians pursuing closs entered with them pellmed into the City In which Action they killed near Two thousand with the loss only of Four hundred Men. The broken Forces sled into the Castle with a Resolution to defend it but the Prince presently ordered to open the Trenches in order to a Sâ—ige and sent to Semenaâ—â—a for his great Cannon Widin yeilde which the beseiged understanding and having no great Stomack to abide their coming on the 18 of October marched out with â—rms and Baggage The Prince having with great Success and Honour run shoâ—ow this Campaign sends his Army to Winter Quarters in Transtivania and Vaâ—achia and goes himself to Vienna The Otoman Embassadors at Vienna being utterly dissatified with the Proposals made by the Emperour an his Allies go home in great discontent and the War goes on SECT 7. Sect. 7 The Venetians Venice had but bad success in the former Campaign and little better in this for after a along Seige of Napon de Malvesia in the Morea General Mo tâ—o worsted by the Turks â—ea and loss of many brave Men they were forced to convert it into a Blockade and then retired to Winter Quarters And in Dalmatta also Molino the Providitor General Narenta meeting with a party of Turkish Horse near Narenta he and his Moâ—laques are by them basely bassled and forced to make a dishourable Retreat This Year The 12â— of August Died Pope Innocent 11th An. 1690. Odeschaici by Name called the Protestant Popr And was succeeded by Peter Otobom a Veneâ—â—an of Eighty Years Old CHAP. XV. Anno 1690. SECT 8. Sect. 8 Coming now to the Year 1690. England We begin with the Affairs of Brittain The first thing the Parliament did Act against a Popâ—â—h K. or Q. was making of an Act that if any King or Queen of England should Embrace the Roman Catholick Religion or Marry with a Roman Catholick the Subjects should be absolved from their Oath of â—â—llegiance Next They annull'd the pretended Parliament in Irelan And ordained that all who should take up Armes against the King after the 24th of Pâ—bruâ—â— Parliament dissolved and a new Parliament called should be guilty of High Treason And on the 6th of February they were dissolved and a new Parliament ordered to meet on the 30th of March who meeting accordingly The King declared to them his design of going for Ireland and desired them to concert and settle all Affairs relating thereto with that expedition as a matter of that importance required and told them farther that he intended to leave the Government in the Queens hands during his absence On this Speech the Parliament went roundly to Work The first Act passed was one of oblivion as the King had desired The next was of putting the Government in the hands of the Queen during the Kings Absence in Ireland or any where else The King lands in Ireland Juneâ—a And dispatched all other Affairs with that celerity as the King having prorogued them to the 17. of June hastened to Ireland where he arrived safe on the 14th of that Month at Belfast SECT 9. The Rebels in Scotland under the Command of Collonel Cannon Scotland kept together in the Hills and places unaccessible from whence they made frequent inroad on the Low lands whom King James reinforced by sending from Dubline Collonel Buchan Collonel Wachop and near Fourty Commission Officers more together with Cloaths Armes and Ammunition for the supply of Cannons party which so encouraged tâ—em being about a thousand five hundered strong as they marthed in to Strathspay in the County of Murray Sir Thomas Livingstoun being informed of
particular Articles and Conditions between Spain and Savoy SECT 13. Sect. 13 The Prince Waldeck lying with the Dutch Forces at Pieton in Flanders having intelligence that the Duke of Luxemburg drew near the Sambre Flanders intending to cross the River between Namure and Charleroy in order to waste the Spanish Countreys Decamped from Pieton the 3d. of June and marched toward Fleurâ— Prince Weldick marches to Flreus or Flerus lying near the Sambre Prince Waldeck ordered off the Count of Berle with a thousand five hundered Horse to observe the Enemies motion and after him the Count of Flodorp with four or five Regiments of Horse The French beat his advanced Troops and after him the Count of Webennum with another detachment The French attack Berlo who was killed on the spot and his party forced to retire to Flodorp who being oppressed with numbers was driven back to Webennum where rallying they put a stop to the Enemy And so they all retreated to the Body of the Army which was by this time drawn up in Battle Aray The States Army consisted of about Twenty five thousand whom the Prince drew up in two Lines But the French were above Fourty thousand so as Luxemburg formed his Army in 3 Lines which was great odds The Armies advanceing and engaging â—â—ux â—â—beâ—g attacked first the left wing of the Princes Army Battle oâ— Florui observing them to be the weakest who received them with great Courage driving back the French Horse who assaulted them on their Infantry But fresh Batallions of French coming up the Dutch quite tired with the Brunts they had already sustained were forced to give ground The Princes Right wing engageing with the Enemy routed them several times and General Dupuy had gaâ—â—â—d ten of their Cannon but the French being still relieved with fresh Batallions the Dutch Cavalry were so dispersed and broke as they could never be rallyed again which has brought on them the bad Character of being the worst Horse in the Confederates Army but the Infantry stood stoutly to it chough aâ—andoned by their Horse suffering the French Squadrons to come up within Pistol shot and then let fly with such a sleddy aim that the whole Squadron seemed to sink altogether into the Ground And this they did so often as at last they laughed at their Enemies crying out Let them come on we wiâ—â— give them their Belly full on 't And the French were so dash't with the Execution done upon them Waldeck retreaâ—s as they durst no more attack them but suffered them to retreat in good order without pursueing them Luxemburg said It was fit for Prince Waldeck to remember the French Horse and for himself never to forget the Dutch Infantry The Battle was Bloody on both sides The Dutch owning they lost four thousand six hundred upon the place Loss on â—â—â—n sides computed a great many Wounded and near Three thousand Prisoners taken besides a part of their Cannon amongst the slain were the Prince of Saxâ—n Masqueâ—g the Count of Sâ—rum the Count. de â—erlo one of the young Counts of Nassaw the Baron de Heide and several Colâ—onels Captains and Inferior Officers The French loss was computed to be twelve thousand killed Wounded and taken Prisoners though themselves would never own near that Number The Dutch Recruited their Army with a great dale of Celerity Count â—â—lly General of the Forces of Leige joined them on the 22d of July with Ten thousand Men And soon after the Elector of Brandenburg jâ—ined them with his Forces which made up the Army to Fifty five thousand strong Luxemburg Recruited his Army also very speedily yet there was no more Ac tion this Campaign in Fâ—anders And so we will take notice how things went in Germany SECT 14. Sect. 14 The Emperour moves the Electoral Colledge to make his Son Arch Duke Joseph Germany and King of Hungary King of the Romans which with Vnantmous Consent was agreed to Duke of Lorrain dyes and the Dauphiness On the 18th of April the Brave and Famous Duke of Lorrain dyed suddenly of a Quinzie near Lintz And within two days after dyed the Dauphiness of France The Duke of Lorrain being dead the Emperour gives the Command of the Army to the Elector of Bavaria to whom the Duke of Saxony joynes his Forces heading them himself and his two Sâ—ns Soon after the Emperial Army Marched towards Mentz The Dauphin who Commanded the French Army on the Rhine Marches with forty Thousand Mon to the plain of Strotbission on the Rhine where he Eneamped on the 16th of August designing to open a passage into Wirtemberg which project the Duke of Bavaria intended to prevent and joyning the Saxons the two Electors March straight towards the Enemy and endeavoured to eâ—â—â—â—â— him to Fight but he could not be moved 〈…〉 their endeavours to hazard a Battle And so the time was trifled away betwixt them without any memorable Action that season 2. In the begining of this year happened a dangerous Insurrection in Catalonia Insurrection in Catalonia under pretence that they were affraied of being Invaded in their Priviledges and complaining of the intolerable Impositions lying upon them hâ—lding Correspondence in the mean time with the French who promised them asistance About two Thousand of them getting into a Body seized on three or four Troops near Barcelona and Committed several outrages in the Countrey about but the Duke de villa Harmoza the Vice roy sent out some Forces which defeated them and chased them to the Mountains from thence they sent to the Duke and begged his pardon which was granted so as all seemed to be prety quiet again but soon after this they broak out again with greater force then before and tho the Duke de Noailles made all the hast he could to joyn them yet before he came the Vice roy had so thresh't and dissipated them as they were not able to make any Body to joyn the French who had no other benefite by this revolt then that they were got earlier to the field then the Spainard which gave them the opportunity of taking some Castles and small Forts But by the Moneth of August the Vice-roy having got together ten or twelve Thousand Men Marched towards them and used all means to draw them to a Battle which they declined retireing safe by the way of Rousillon King of Spain Married and so ended this Campaign without any farther Action The Court of Spain being more taken up with the Jollities of the Kings Marriage with the Princess of Newburg then with the cares and fatigues of a Campaign Piedmont 3. The Duke of Savoy having now actually ingaged with the Confederats joyns his Troops with the Milanese Forces and so makes up an Army near as strong as Monsieur Catinats and on the 17th of June he Encamped at Calalarga near to Catinat the Po being betwixt them French beaten at Carignon On the 16th of July
seize and secure him Montmelian yeilded to the French By this time the Duke of Bavaria with Eight thousand Germans comes up on which Catinat repasses the Po and sends the Marquess de Hoquincourt to beseige Montinelian who took it a trice but the Castle held out still The Dukes of Savoy and Bavaria did what they could to draw Catinat to a Battle which he altogether declin'd And passing the Po Carmagnola taken by Prince Eugina Prince Eugine invested Carmagnola on the 27 of September and on the 8 of October the Garison Capitulat and surrendered on Honourable Terms Montmelian Fortress yeilded to Catinate Not withstanding this Catinat has orders to attack the Fortress of Mountmelian which he did on the 16 of November wherein conflicting both with the rigour of the Season and a desperat Enemy he overcame all with that patience and constancy as the Fortress was Surrendered to him on the 22d of December upon Honourable Terms by which place the French became entire Masters of all the Dutchy of Savoy SECT 4. Sect. 4 In Hungary Hungary Prince Lewis of Baden headed the Imperial Army near Peter Waradin from thence Prince of Paden worsted by the French in August he marched towards the Enemy who encamped at Semom on the Save where he used all means to draw them out of that fastness wherein they were so securely Encamped with a hundred and fifty peices of Cannon all mounted on Batteries which seing he could not effect he retreated towards Salankemen The Turks thinking he fled pursue him which pleased him very well On the 18. of August he posted his Army on all the rising Hills about Salankemen By this time the Turkish Army was come pretty near and in the mean time Buquo's Regiment of Dragoons being detacht to secure two hundred Wagoons who were coming from Peter Waradin was surrounded by the Enemy and after a valiant resistance were all killed and taken and the same day the Recruits of Hoffkirken and Caprara's Regiments fell under the same misfortune all the Women Baggage Waggons and Led-horses were lost with two hundred Waggon load of Provisions and twelve hundred Oxen that drew them In the mean time the Prince observed that the Enemy were posted on much more advantagious Ground than his own Army and finding a necessity either of hazarding to attack them in their Camp or starving in the place his Provisisions being almost exhausted he generously resolved on the former nnd on the next day being the 19 of August he put all things in order to the best advantage The great battle at Salankemen The Prince draws out his Army and with undaunted Courage marches on and attacks the Enemy who received him with great resolution It was near 3 in the afternoon before the Armies were fully Engaged but once Engaged there was Bloody work on all sides till night came on about which time the Turks being over powered with downright force and fury fell in disorder and in short betook themselves to flight the Christians pursued them till it fell dark and all next day killing a great many who had hid themselves in the Boggs and amongst the rushes and then possessed themselves of the feild of Battale and of all their Tents Cannon Baggage Amunition and all other Provisions The Tinks routed The loss on both sides was very great the Conquerors themselves owning that they had near seven thousand killed and wounded and among them many good Officers But of the Turks they reckoned no less then eighteen thousand killed in the Battle and almost all their Officers were killed wounded and taken Prisoners And to compleat the Victory The Grand Visier killed and eighteen thousand Turk not only the Serasquer Basha and the Capital Aga of the samsaries were found amongst the slain but the Grand-Visier Cupergh also who was the most accomplisht person in all the Ottoman Empire Several towns taken all Sclavonia reduced to the Emperours obedience After this General Capraâ—a took Lippa And in Sclavonia The Duke of Croy took Broâ—a Grandisca Possega and Baâ—aros so as all â—clavonia became intirely reduced under the Emperours obedience Yet at great Wâ—raâ—in Seige they had not so good successe for tho the imperial Troops attackt it with much Vigour yet they could not prevail against it so as after all they were forced to turn the Seige into a Blockade with which ended the Campaign in Hungary During which time Sir William Hussey the King of Englands Embassador at the Ottoman Fort was Negotrating a Peace betwen the two Empires tho with little appearance of Successe We do not find any thing dono this year by the Venetians worth mentioning King of Poland marches into Moldavia The King of Poland marched his Army twenty thousand strong once more into Moldavia designing to march that way as far as Budziack But he had not marched far into Moldavia till he heard a great body of Taâ—tars were not far from him against whom ho marched but they retreated so fast as he could not overtake them so he marched to Jassi which the Hospodar had quitted and took possession of it He took also Roman Nimick and Novacran And the â—eâ—son being now far spent retreated homeward with his whole Army On the first of February this year dyed Alexander the 8th Pope of Rome Remarkables on this year 1691. Pope Alexander the 8th Monsieur Louvois after he had sit in the Holy Chaire 15 Months and 21 Dayes To whom succeded Pignatelli the Cardinal being then 76. years and 4 moneths old taking on him the Name of Innocent the 12. On the 16th of July dyed the Cheif Minister and Secretary of State in France Monsieus Louvois Duke of Saxonie all die And on the 2â—d of September dyed at Tubing John George Elector of Saxony he had by Anna Sophia daughter of Fredrick the 3d. King of Denmark John George the 4th who was born on the 17th of October 1668. And Fredrick Augustus who by his Brothers death without Heirs became Elector of Saxony and now chosen King of Poland CHAP. XVII Anno 1692 SECT 1. Sect. 1 We begin this year 1692. conform to our former method with our Affairs at home The King having setled all matters with the Farliament according to his own mind The King goes to Holland on the 5th of March he Adjourn'd them to the 12th of Aprile and so he went to Holland where he Landed the 16th of March and after some stay at the Hague he went to Loo and thence to the Army After the Kings departure the Queen had some notice of an invasion intended from France on which she ordered the hasâ—ning out of the Fleet stopt the Forces designed for Flanders with whom and some other Troops she ordered a Camp to be formed near Portsmouth The late King had at that time a considerable Army posted on the Coast of Normandy ready to be Embarked so soon as the French Fleet could come up
IV. The Most Christian King promises upon the Faith and Word of a King not to disturb the King of Great Brittain in the fice possession of all or any of His Kingdoms Dominions c. nor aid or assist any of the saids Kings Enemies who shall offer to disturb or nâ—olest Him directly or indirectly the King of great Brittain being engaged to perform the same Freindship to the Most Christian King V. That there shall be a free Commerce and Trade between the Subjects on all sides without any stop or molestation as their was formerly in time of Peace VI. That the Administration of Justice shal be restored and set up through all the Kingdoms of both Kings to which the Subjects of either may have recourse for reparation if any Damnage or Inâ—thy shall be offered to them VII The saids Kings do mutually promise to deliver up to each other all Countries Islands Forts and Colonies wheresoever situated which were poâ—â—est by either of them before the Declaration of this present War VIII Commissioners shall be appointed on both sides to adjust and determine the Pretensiions which either of the saids Kings hath to the places situated in Hudâ—ons-bay The saids Commissioners to meet in London within three Moneths and to determine the matter within six XI That all Letters of reprisal and marque shall be made null and void and shall not be granted hereafter by either of the saids Kings against the Subjects of the other unless it be first made manifest that right was required and denyed X. Provision is made for preventing any Disputes which may arise concerning the restitution of Ships Merchandises c. which either party may complain of â—aken and detain'd from the other in remoâ—e places after the Peace is concluded and before it be notified there XI That if by Imprudeâ—ceâ— any Subject of either of the Kings shall commit any Act any where contrary to the present â—reaty that Act shall not infringe or make voâ—d the said Treaty only the said person shall Answer for his own Fact and receive â—unishment for the same according to the custom and Law of Nations XII If War happen to break out again betwixt the two â—ings which God forbid tâ—e Goods of the Subjects on either side shall not be conâ—â—scated or stopâ— but six Moneths shall be allowed for removing and carrying off the same XIII The Most Christian King promises in reality to the King of Great Brittain the â—rincipality of Oraneâ— and all otâ—er Lands and Dominions belonging to the said King conform to the separat Article of the Treaty of Nimeguen concluded between the Most Christian King and the States General of the united â—rovinces the 10th of August 1678 together wâ—th all the â—râ—fits and Interest due to him ever since he was dispossessed of the same in tâ—e time of the War which was ended by the Treaâ—y of Nimeguen XIV The Most Christian King ratisies all the Articles made between him and the late Elector of â—râ—ndeâ—burgh at St Germans in Laye the 29th of June 1679. XV. He ratifies also the Treaty and Agreement made between him and his Highness the Duke of Savoy on the 9th of August 1660. XVI Both the saids Kings allow to be comprehended in this Treaty all who shall be named by either Party with mutual consent before the exchange of ratification or within six Moneths after Especially the Serene and Mighty Prince Charles King of Sweden sole Mediator in the Grand Treaty XVII And Lastly Both the foresaid Kings appoint that this agreement and Alliance made in due form shall be delivered on both sides and mutually and duly exchanged at the Royal Palace of Reswick in the Pâ—ovince of â—olland within three Weeks from the day of the â—ubscription or sooner if it may be In ' Testimony whereof the former Articles were Signed by the English and French Embassadors and by the extraordinary Ambassador Mediator INDEX ABdicat debated in Parliament 77 Ackmet Sultan dyes 146 Addressis to King Charles 25 And Rejected Ib. Act of Parliament in England against a Popâ—sh King and Quâ—en 87 Act of Recognition in Scotland 79 Aeth taken by the French 157 Agria yeilded to Count Carassa 65 A brim Battle 114 Alba Regalis and Lippa yeilded to the Emperour 70 Alliance between the Emperour Pole and Venice 36 Altercations about the Basis of the Treaty at Reswick 159 Argyle Earl of convicted of high Treason 31 Makes his Escape 32 Lands in Scotland is taken and Beheaded in Edinburgh 45 He dyed piously Ib. Argos Battle 147 Asoph taken by the Ozar of Moscovie 157 Athlone taken by General Ginkle 113 Ausburg League 35 Auxiliaries Names for the Empeâ—our against the Turks 39 BAden Prince of takes Five Churches Syclos c. 57 Burns â—sseck Ib. Beates Count Teckley out of Transilvania 1â—7 Comes to England 133 Ganonades the Fyench Camp at Newstadâ— 1â—2 Barkan Battâ—e 39 Bavaria Elâ—ctress dyes 127 Belgrade taken by Storm by the Duke of Pavarid 71 Retaken by the Turks 107 Beseiged by the Duke of Croy 132 Berkley Lord of attaques Brest and comes off with loss 134 Bombards Deip c. 136 And St. Malo's 142 And Calais and St. Martins 152 Beverning adjusts the Peace with France 4 Censured for it 12 Bishop of London Suspended 53 Bâ—shops Seven refused to Read King James's Declaration 69 They are Imprisoned tryed and acquâ—tted Ib. Bill of Exclusion rejected by the House of Lords 27 Bonne taken by the Duke of Lorrain and Brandenburgh 84 Boyle Robert Esq dyes 127 Boyn Battle in Ireland 92 Brandenburgh Flector of his Letter to the French King 16 And to the States of Holland 18 His Death 77 Battle at Brâ—d 71 Bouster takes Cochein 83 Brussels bâ—mb'd by Villeroy 142 Butschin taken by Dunewald 64 Buda beseidged by Lorrain 41 Seidge raised lb. Beseâ—dged again by him and taken by Storm 56 C. CAlamburg Battle 38 Cambray Citadel yeilded to the French 3 Cambrun Battle 116 Carricksergus taken by the Duke of Schomberg 81 Carignan Battle 103 Carmagnola yeilded to the French 117 Retaken by Pâ—â—nce Fugine 118 Castlemain Earl of sent to Rome by Ring James 63 Castlenovo taken by General Cornaro 66 Catalonia Insurection 102 Catalonia a Conflict 152 Canissa yeilded to the Emperour 105 Casal yeilded 145 Cessation of Armes betwen France and the Confederates 6 Cessation between the Emperour and the Turks 60 Charles King joins with the Dutch 7 His new Councellors after the Popish Plot 22 Makes Allyance with the Dutch 25 His Death and Character 44 Charter of London made void 32 Charters of all Towns of England questioned 34 Charleroy yeilded to the French 131 Ciclut and Cobluch taken by General Delphino 138 Cochein taken by Bouslers 38 Colâ—â—dge Steven Executed 31 Coloâ—n Elector made Prince of â—â—â—â—â—ge 135 Commission High by King James 35 Commons House voted the Crown vaccant 77 Comâ—â— prodigious 29 Couinsmark defeats the Turks and takes new Novorino 59 Conâ—â—ess at Nameguen 1 Corâ—â—th Sparia Athens taken by Moâ—osini 67
21 Doubted and ridicul'd 25 Plot called mealtub 30 Plot Presbâ—terian 33 Plot against King William 149 Hâ—ppily discovered 150 Polish King defeats the Tartars 43 He marches into Moldavia 61 He routs the Tartars 138 Marches again into Moldavia 120 He dies 156 â—ope Alexander dies 121 Pope Innocent 11th dies 156 Potachin Battle 84 Presbiterian Ministers are restored 88 Prince George and others go to the Prince of Orange 75 Process of the Plot against King William related 150 Protestants persecuted in France 53 Protestant Princes move for savour to protestants but not granted 164 Preliminaties at Reysweck signed at the Hague 157 Q. QUeen Mary of England dies 139 Queen mother of Spain dies 107 R. ROses taken by the French 131 Rupert Prince dies 33 Russel Lord Executed Ib Russel Admiral defeates the French Fleet 122 Russel coup's up Tourville in Thoulon 137 S. SAlankamen Battle 119 Savoy Duke of joynes with the Confederates 98 He invades the Dauphinate 125 He takes Amburn Gap and Guilestre 126 Fâ—lls siâ—k and returnes Ib. He takes Casal 146 He agrees wâ—th the French King 153 Terâ—us of agreement Ib. He excuses himself to the King of Spain and others but not to the King of Great Britain Ib St Andrew Battle 41 Saxony Elector dies 28 Saxony his son dies 121 Saxony his son dies 1â—9 Saxony General to the Emperour 1â—6 He is chosen King of Poland 1â—8 Salusses Battâ—e 103 Sarsfeild Livetenanâ— General takes the English Artillery 96 Schulis General defeats Count Teckeley 42 Shastsberry comitted tryed and acquired 21 Schomberg Duke of aryves in Ireland August 14 1689 81 He 's killed at Boyn Battle 94 Schomberg Livetenant Generall is son killed at Marâ—â—glia Battle 132 Scinta Battle 58 Scio takâ—n by General Steinau 1â—8 And retaken by the Turks 147 Sclavonia reduced to the Emperour 12â— Stafford Lord executed 28 Smirna Fleet comes safe home 115 Sidney Collonel executed 34 Smirna Fleet outward attacked by the French 128 Sign taken by General Cornarâ— 60 Schovel Sir Clovesly takes a Frigat in Dublin bay 89 Solyman made Sultain 66 Spain King of claymes Mastricht from the Dutch 19 Which they refuse Ib. He is married 102 Spainiards beat the French in Catalonia 145 Strasburg yeelded to the French 32 Suza yeeâ—dâ—d to the French 104 Sweden King of Mediator of the Treaty at Reswick 158 T. TAlbot Collonâ—l sent to Ireland 47 Tangier quitted by King Charles 35 Tariars routed by the Poles near Caminieck 131 Tempâ—e Sir William Commended 6 Temes waer Baâ—le 1â—5 Thou'on Fleet â—omes safe to Brest 151 Tirconels actions in Ireland 62 He fiâ—ls the Army with Irish papists 47 and 48 He dies at Limerick 114 Titul taken by he Turks 1â—6 Torrington Aâ—miral beaten by the French 88 Triumphant volly at the taking of Namure 144 Transilvania reduced by the Duke of Lorrain 65 W. WAllis G. takes Segedin 5â— Warradin great taken by General Heusler 1â—6 Waterâ—â—oâ—â— and Duncanon Fort yeelded to King William 95 Wheeler Sir Frances Ship wrackt and lost 134 Widin Battle 80 And taken Ib William King lands in Ireland 87 He is wounded 91 He goes to England 97 His speech to the Congress at the Hague 111 His speech to the Parliament in October 1963 133 His speech to the Parliament In October 1965. 148 He returnes to England 165. His solmne reception in the City of London 165. Waldeck prince beaten by the French at Cambrun 116. He dies 127 Wirtemberg Duke of routed and taken by the French 125. Wolsley Collonel routs the Irish at Cavan 89. V. VAlenciennes taken by the Fr 3. Valona taken by Generall Cornaro 109 He dies there Ib Vauâ—emâ—nt Prince of his brave retreat 141 Veterani Gâ—nerall routs the Turks â—uiâ—e at Scinta 58. He is Kiled at Lugos Battle 147. Vicâ—grade taken by the Turks 50. Vienâ—â—a Seige 36. Villana yeâ—â—ded to the French 117. Villerny Duke General of the French Army 140. He attempts to releive Namur but sails of doing it 143. Orgell yelded to the French 116. Y. YOrk Duke of leavs England 21. He returnâ—s 24. He goes Commisioner to Scotland Ib makes the Test there 31. Ypre taken by the French 5 Z. ZEnta a bloody battle 162 A terrible slaughter of Turks Ib FINIS
Douglas and his party joined him the day following SECT 12. Sect. 12 From thence the King Marches towards Lamrick And on the 9th the Army made their approach to the City in excellent order Seige of Lamrick And though the Irish had considerable parties of Horse Dragâ—ons and Foot posted advantagiously in inclosed Grounds and behind hedges for near two Miles from the Walls of the Town the English went resolutely on beating and driving the Enemy from hedge to hedge to their very Walâ—s losing but 11 or 12 Men in that difficult and hazardous enterprize and before five at Night the Army was posted and the Seige formally laid That Night the King sent a Summonds to the Governour to yeild which he utterly rejected and so they went to Work It 's Reported that a French Man and a Gunner deserted the Army the day before and getting into Limrick gave a particular account of the Artillery which was coming from Dubline Whereon Sarsfieâ—ld with a body of Horse passed the River in the Night time Sarsfeid takes the Artillery at Cullin far above Limrick and marching about through the Hills on the 12. of August fell in upon the Train by day break at Cuâ—len killed about sixty of the Guard and of the Waggoners The Troopers pickt up as much of the best of the Baggage as they could carry away with them and then drew together the Carriages Waggons Tin-boats Ammunition and all the provisions into a heap about the Cannon and filling them full of Powder and putting their Muzles under the Ground laid a short Train and at their marching off fired it which blew up the whole heap with a hideous noise The Night before Sir John Lanter was ordered out to Cullen being within 9 Miles with Six hundred Horse to bring the Artillery safe into the Camp but he came too late by an hour in which time Sarâ—fiâ—â—ld was got out of his reach This unhappy adventure was very unpleasing to the whole Army however the Seige went on and the Trenches were opened on the 17 Batteries are presently raised and it happening that at the blowing up of the Train at Cullin Two of our Cannon Twenty four Pounders escaped spliting these were brought up and mounted which did special good service dureing the Seige My Author says That it would be an endless task to trace particularly all the attacks and defences made at this Seige And I say so too being present at it so passing by circumstances of the proceedings I shall as he does give you an account of the most material Action and of the Conclusion of this unsuccessful enterprise After a breach had been made over the black Battery Limrick attackt nigh St. Johns Gate of about twelve Yards in length On Wednesday the 27th of August the King ordered the Counterscarp to be attackt and the signal being given half an hour after three afternoon the Granadeers went boldly on and in a Trice beat the Irish quite from the Coâ—nterscrap they flying to the breach the Granadeers pursued and lodged themselves upon the breach whereon many of the Irish forefook both the breach and the Walls and fled in to the Town and had not the Regiments that were to second the Granadeers The Asseliants beaten off stopt by some unhappy mistake they might undoubtedly have carryed the Town at that first Assault but the Irish observing that the attack was not pursued and pushâ— on with that vigour as they expected and feared return'd to the Breach and so pepper'd the English with incessant fireing as after three houres resistance they were forced to retreat The Brandenhurgers at this time had got upon the Black battery closs by the Breach where a great deal of the Enemies Powder lay which unhappily taking sire blew a great many of them into the Air and falling down again on the hedge-stakes which were fixed round the Battery there they hung like Skar-Crows At this Attack there were killed five hundered and above a Thousand Wounded and the Army was so greived at this unexpected repulse and the King himself so much concern'd as he resolved to raise the Seige The King goes for England And so the very next day he went to Dunâ—annon accompanyed with the Prince of Denmark and several other Lords and on the 5th of September took ship and arrived at Kings-road near Bristol the day following and on the 9th he went to Windsor Before he left Limrick he appointed the Lord Sidney and Thomas Conninâ—by Esquier Lord Sidney and Thomas Coninsby Esqueir Lord Justices Lords Justices of Ireland and Count Solms General of the Army who going to England soon after left the Command to the brave General Ginkle Within three days after the Kings departure General Solms breaks up the Seige and dispersed the Army into Winter Quarters The Seige broak up On the 21 of Septermber The Earl of Marelborough with some Forces arrived in Cork â—arbour and being joyned by the Duke of Wirtemberg Major General Scravenmore Major General Tetteau and Four thousand of their Forces on the 26 He presently formed the Seige Cork yeilded which continued not long for they plyed the Town so warmly as Collonel Mckillicut the Governour came to a Parley and surrendered the Garison consisting of Four thousand were made Prisoners of War Kinsale yeilded and all the Ammunition and Armes in the Town delivered up to the Victors And before the fifteenth of October Kinsale and both the Forts were surrendered to Marlburrough Leaving Ireland We step over now to inspect how Affairs go between the Confederates and the French King The Duke of Savoy having continued neutral hitherto The French King presses him to declare And in the mean time for security of his Neutrality requires the Citadeâ—s of Verceil and Turin to be put into his hands which motion being declin'd by Savoy and France becoming more and more suspicious of him Monsieur Catinat is commanded to march the French Troops as far as Turin which he did yet forbearing for a time all Acts of Hostility Duke of Savoy joins with the Confederates The Duke of Savoy having spun out the time as long as he could by some unsatisfying Overtures to the French King at last openly declares himself and allying himself first with the Empeperour and the King of Spain soon after he Embarques with all the Confederates The first Article of his Treaty with the Emperour was this He engages not to enter into any Treaty of Allyance with the most Christian King without consent of the Emperour show he kept this Article the World knows and the next Article was he engages himself to act jointly with the Emperour and the rest of the Confederate Princes against France and her Adherents The Articles betwixt the Emperour the King of Spain and the Duke of Savoy are written at length by my Authour The Summ of all being a full and firm mutual Confederacy against France Defensive and Offensive together with some