to his Majesty of great Britain the Duke de Crequi Peer of France First Gentleman of his Chamber Duke Crequi sent into England Chevalier of the Orders and Governour of Paris He parted from Court with a Train of above an hundred Gentlemen The Princes who joyn'd themselves with him to pay their respects to their Majesties of great Britain in particular were the Count of Soissons the Duke of Boüillon and the Prince of Monaco The King of England sent into France the Earl of Sunderland and the Duke of York sent my Lord Duras Captain of his Guards The King desires peace The King might probably have encreased his Conquests by a fourth Siege and all the low Countries were in such a consternation and their Troops in so ill an equipage that it was no hard matter for him to have improved his victory but his Majesty had a mind to let all Europe understand that whatever advantage he had got by the continuation of the War that he had yet a stronger inclination for Peace and in order thereto he wrot to the King of Great Britain as a Mediator that he was ready to sign the Articles of Truce to give leasure to obtain the means for a conclusion of Peace After this the King distributed his Troops into their Quarters breaking in the mean time the course of his victories to let them see the disposition which he had to give repose to Europe and to put himself into a condition to enter upon new enterprises if in case the Confederates should not yield their helping hands to a proposition so reasonable The King retain'd about his Person a part of the Troops of his Horse The King visits the conquered places and went to visit all the places on the Frontiers and his Conquests in the low Countries He gave to Lieutenant General Cardonniere the charge of Camp master General of the light Horse vacant by the death of the Marquis of Reynel and made a Detachment of six thousand men under his conduct for to march on the side of the Meuse till further orders The charge of Commissary General which he had before was given to the Marquis Montrevil Brigadier of the Cavalry The twenty fifth his Majesty His voyage came to Gravelin and that night to Dunkirk The next day he visited the Port Ramparts and all other places of the Town The twenty seventh he went to Bergues the twenty eighth he returned to Callis where he gave a private Audience to Griffendal Envoy extraordinary from the Sweed There he also received the compliments made him from his Majesty of Great Britain and from his Royal Highness the Duke of York Receives envoys from England by the Earl of Sunderland and the Lord Duras who on the twenty ninth had their Audience of taking leave introduced by Monsieur Bonnevil Mounsieur returns to Paris Monsieur having left the King at Callis arrived on the third of May at Paris with those Gentlemen who followed him Madame Madamoselle and many other Princes Princesses and great ones of the Realm came to meet him there and to receive him The next day after his arrival he went to render his visit to the Queen in the Covent of the Carmelites in the Street of Bouloir and the fifth he went with all his Family to St. Germans to see again the Queen and Monsieur the Dauphin The same day Te Deum was sung in the Church of Nostredame for the conquest of St. Omer and at night Bonfires were made for joy The Popes Nuncio and all the Embassadors and Ministers and very many of quality of both sexes made their complements to his Royal Highness both for the taking St. Omers and for his victory at Cassel Is complemented The King having taken a turn about all the Sea places went into Artois with the Court and staid some days at St. Omers From thence on the ninth of May he made his entrance into Valenciennes and staid a while in the County of Hainault The fourteenth he went to Conde where he received news of the Sea fight which the Count d' Estree had gained over the Hollanders in the Port of Tobago in America In the mean time the Confederates established their head quarters in the Country of Vaes They had assured themselves of the Troops of Osnabruck Munster and Newbourg The brave Prince of Orange had projected great enterprises as well with the States General as with the Spaniards and the Confederates in all their marches made appear that they were contriving to revenge themselves of so many affronts they had received by the execution of some great design The King rallied all his Troops from their quarters of refreshment The King takes a review of his Troops the 22th of May took a general review of his right wing in the Fields of Thulin and the 23th he reviewed his left wing under Bossu in the Territory of Keeuvrain He found his Army more flourishing than ever being about forty Battalions strong and fourscore and ten Squadrons not comprehending those Troops which he had detached to reinforce the Army of Marshal Crequi nor those which were sent into the service of the Marshal Schomberg between the Meuse and the Moselle His Majesty left the command of those in Flanders with Marshal Luxemburg and went on the 27th thorow Quesnay and the 28th to Cambray the 29 to Chaune the 30th to Lioncourt where he was received by the Prince of Marsillas the grand Master of his Wardrobe The 31 in the morning Monsieur met the King at Bourget and at noon the Queen the Dauphin and the Princes and Princesses of the Court met his Majesty at Clichy from whence they went to Versailles The third of June the Marquis of Siegnelay presented to his Majesty the Messieures of Parliament and of the other Sovereign Courts and Magistrates of Paris Returns and is complemented who did make their set Speeches on the felicity of his Arms in that glorious Campain The fourth Monsieur Bonnevil introduced to his Majesty the Nuncio and all the Embassadors and Ministers Strangers who testified their admiration and joy for the swiftness and greatness of his conquests The Campain ended in three months And thus the King ended his Campain in three months of which he employed two in his Conquests and the other in disposing things to assure what he had got Time will shew the Importance and consequences of these things better than we can All that we may say is that after the three most considerable places in the low Countries both for their repute and fortifications carried with so great promtitude the hardest part of the work was over By these he had cover'd all his former conquests and put the frontiers of his Kingdom in a condition to suffer no longer from the inroads of those Garisons nor to suffer any Incommodity from the War FINIS
thousand Soldiers drawn out of divers Regiments who carried the Trench above six hundred paces towards the Counterscarp The besieged fail'd not to fire stoutly but with little effect for there was but a few Soldiers and two Officers killed The Marquis of Livourn had his Horse killed under him by a Canon shot as he went to visit a certain Post The Governour is wounded The Marquis of Richbourg Governour of the place being advanced to the out Works was wounded that night in giving out orders and his wound putting him in a condition not to act Monsieur Despres was put in his place with full and absolute power by the consent of all the Officers this was not then known in the Camp From the tenth to the twelfth at night they put a Blind at the head of the Trench The Guard of M. de Feuillade and made a place for their Arms. The Marshal de Feuillade was that day with the Marquis de Renel Lieutenant general the Marquis de Tilladet Marshal de Camp the Prince de Harcourt Aid de Camp at the head of two Battalions of the Guards of Switzers two of Navarre one of Harcourt-Beuvron and another of Artois under Monsieur de Aubarede Brigadier of the Infantry sustained by the Marquis de Revel Brigadier of the Cavalry at the head of the Squadrons of the Corps du Guard of Luxembourg and Lorges of the Gend'armery of the Collonel Master of the Camp and the Regiment of the King The Guard of M. de Luxembourg At the beginning of the eleventh night the King went himsels to see the Guard mounted by the Marshal Luxembourg the Marquis de Cardonnierre Lieutenant General the Chevalier de Sourdis Marshal de Camp Monsieur de Bartillade Brigadier of the Cavalry Monsieur de Tracy Brigadier of the Infantry the Marquis de Chiverny Aid de Camp with the three last Battalons of the Guards and the two of Auvergne commanded by the Marquis de Coeuvres one Lemayn and the Squadrons of the Corps du Guard of Nailles and Duras one Gens d' Arms and the others of the Collonel master de Camp and of the King On the morrow being the twelfth The Battery the Artillery began to play Monsieur de Vauban who had the direction of the Works made them to continue a Demisap to favour the Canon whilst the first shots dismounted many pieces of the besieged Monsieur St. Cathern Commissary of the Artillery was killed in the Battery where he commanded The provisions which they had made on the Frontier Provisions in the Camp for the subsistence of the Army arrived by Bouchain and Conde and made plenty in the Camp Monsieur arrives Monsieur the only Brother of the King who had left Paris the seventh arrived at the Camp this day and was lodged in the King's Quarter M. de Lorgis his Guard The Marshal de Lorges mounted the Trenches with Count Plessis Lieutenant general Monsier de Albert Marshal de Camp Marquis de Livourn Brigadier of the Cavalry the Marquis of Cavois Aid de Camp the Marquis of Bourlemount Brigadier of the Infantry with three Battalions of the Kings Regiment two of the Royal and one other of Freezelier assisted by two Squadrons of the Guards du Corps of Luxembourg and Lorges one of the Gend ' Arms and the others of the Curassiers of Sourdis and Tilladet They approached neer the French on the edge of the Counterscarp and the Marquis de Sevigni Ensign of the Dauphins Gend ' Arms was there wounded They seized on some Spanish Officers in the Camp who would have entred the place either to carry them some intelligence or to have joyned themselves to their Companies The same night they took one Redout and the Fauxbourg Nostredame without much resistance on the besiegeds part They take the Fauxbourg of Nostredame As more than thirty pieces of Canon a great many Morterpieces and of Bombes pour'd down upon the Town a continual tempest of Fire Lead and Iron one would have thought that the besieged had enough to do within the place and that they had not time to think of succouring them without But there was yet a reason for their small resistance which was that they hoped to be able to drown the Besiegers in the same places without when they should seize them in letting go their Sluces and so revenge by water the ravage they had made by Fire They then let them loose in the Fauxbourg but to little purpose for there the fifth part of the Guard did not quit the place but lodg'd themselves there and made many places of shelter because the Defences and Palisadoes were overthrown by the Artillery M. de Humieres Guard It was the Marshal De Humieres who mounted the fifth Guard on the thirteenth with the Count de Auvergne Lieutenant General the Chevalier de Tilladet Marshal de Camp the Chevalier Nogent Ayde de Camp the Chevalier Grignan Brigadier of the Cavalry Monsieur St. George Brigadier of the Infantry two Battalions of the Regiment of Lyonnois two of the Dauphins one of Harcour Bauvron one of Fuziliers and the Squadrons of one quarter of the Gens d' Armes and the light Horse of the Guards one of the first Companies of the white Musqueteers one of the Dauphins Gens d' Arms one of the Cuirassiers and the other of Tilladet and Sourdis The fourteenth the Guard was relieved by the Marshal de Schomberg M. de Scombergs Guard the Duke de Villeroy Lieutenant General the Prince Palatin de Birckenfeild Marshal de Camp the Marquis de Montrevel Brigadier of the Cavalry the Marquis Pierre Brigadier of the Infantry and the Marquis de Arcy Ayde de Camp with two Battalions of the Queens Regiment two of the Fleets one of Piemont Genoways and one also of Saluces of Piemont and those Troops which the Court of Savoy sent for France and seven Squadrons of the second company of black Musqueteers the Dauphins light Horse the Gend ' Arms of Anjou and the Cuirassiers of Sourdis of Tilladet and of Bartillat M. de Feuillades Guard The Guard was mounted the fifteenth by the Duke of Feuillade the Count Montbron Lieutenant General Monsieur Stoup Marshal de Camp the Prince de Elbeuf Ayd de Camp the Marquis de Revel Brigadier of of the Cavalry the Marquis de Uxelles Brigadier of the Infantry with six Battalions of the Regiments of Alsatia Saluces and Salis and six Squadrons of Bartillat Grignan Leomare Konismark and Gassion This day the Works were very much advan and divided into three branches being more than two 200 yards in length and two in height They being fortified in very many places and encompassing the Angle of the Crown Work which we described before gave shelter to most of the Infantry and favoured the approach of the Batteries All that we have told you was done by the Kings orders which he gave forth himself every day He was every where he commanded he
the King had done them in conserving their goods The Town ransom'd the honour of their wives and their Lives and for preserving their Town from fire and pillage Eight hundred souldiers of the Garison stay'd upon the place The Garison made prisoners of war all the rest were made prisoners of war The principal Officers were the Marquis of Richboury Governour of the place who was wounded at the beginning of the Seige Despres who was substituted in his place and also wounded The Count de Solres The Marquis de Leuven The losse of the French Taxis Montigni c. On the French side the Marquis Bourlemonnt Brigadier of the Infantry master de Camp of the Regiment of Picardy was kill'd He was a young Officer of great merit and of very great hopes he was but newly cured of those wounds which he had received in another occasion in which he had behaved himself very gallantly They lost also three Captains of foot and one of Horse seven inferior Officers eleven Musqueteers and about fifty soldiers from the beginning of the Siege The Duke of Luxembourg and the Count St. Geran were slightly wounded at the attaque with some pieces of Granadoes the others that were wounded were Champigny Ferraut and several Officers of the Regiments of Guards Cailleres Captain of that of Navarre the Marquis de Charmel Voluntier about twenty five Musqueteers and thirty Soldiers more The King visited the fortifications The King visits the Fortifications and designed the building of a Citadel with the 40000 Crowns which was imposed upon the Town and for that the place was of that Importance as to require a person of an approved Fidelity great Courage and deep Prudence to be entrusted with the Government his Majesty chose the Count Bardi Magalotta a Florentine by Birth but more than thirty years in the French Service in which time having passed through the employs of Captain of Lieutenant of Collonel of the Regiment of the French Guards of Master of the Camp of a Regiment of Italian Foot he was come to be Lieutenant General The Lieutenancy for the King was given to Monsieur Foucaut Lieutenant Collonel of the Regiment of Burgundy and the Majoralty to Monsieur de Chazerat Captain in that of Navarre The Baron de Quincy in recompence of those services which he had done and which he still continued to perform before Cambray was made Provost of the County that is to say chief of the Inhabitants Praises publickly and recompenseth his Soldiers The King publickly commended the Officers and Voluntiers who had signalized themselves on this occasion He recompensed Jauvelle Captain Lieutenant of the black Musqueteers with a Commission that made him Marshal de Camp The Marquis de Vains Captain Lieutenant of the same Company with Commission and pay of Brigadier of the Cavalry Maupertuis under Captain Lieutenant of the white Musqueteers had the like Hoguete Barrieri Rigoville and Moissac Cornets of those two Companies had commissions and pay of Collonels of Horse The Marshals of Logis had their Brevets and appointments of Captains of the light Horse and also all the Officers of the Musqueteers were recompensed either with money or with commissions of favour or nobleness Monsieur Vauban had the gratification of 25000 Crowns His Majesty ordered to the Duke of Lude grand master of the Artillery to be divided among his Officers and Soldiers 3000 pistols to heal their wounds He made mony to be distributed among the Troops and particularly to those Soldiers who had taken prisoners He gave the Regiment of Picardy to the Marquis of Harcourt-Beuron and that of Harcourt-Beuron to the Marquis de Humieres Son of the Marshal Rejoycing at Paris The news of taking this place was carried the eighteenth to the Queen at Paris who had been there since the fourth with the Dauphin which gave them great joy and caused rejoycings thorow that great City The Te Deum was sung in the Church of Nostre Dame The Queen assisted there with Monsieur the Dauphin and were accompanied with all the Princes and Princesses of the Blood and all the Nobility the Archbishop Clergy Parliament Magistrates Ambassadours and Ministers Strangers At night there were bonfires made thorow all the Streets The Queen complemented by the Ministers Monsieur Varesi the Popes Nuncio Contarini the Venetian Embassadour Count Ferreri the Savoyan Embassadour the Abbot Gondi Resident for the Duke of Florence Count Baglioni Resident of Mantua and all the other Ministers of the Potentates and Princes friends to France came to congratulate with the Queen and the Dauphin for the important Conquest of the King At the same time they received the news that the Count de Estree Lieutenant General De Estree's Conquest in America and Vice Admiral of France with the Fleet he commanded in the American Seas had retaken in December the Isle of Cayenn from the Hollanders and had made the Garison prisoners of War So great and happy successes all at once gave no less terror to the Confederates and astonishment to the most puissant Neuters than confidence to the Conquerours to design new enterprises Monsieur commands the Army in Artois After the King had given all necessary orders concerning his great designs and had put a strong Garison into Valenciennes for the most part drawn out of the Regiments of the Suitzers he decamped on the twenty first of March and the same day he gave to Monsieur his only Brother the command of an Army for Artois of four Squadrons and twenty Battalions His Majesty chose to serve under his Royal Highness the Marshal de Humieres For Lieutenant Generals the Prince of Soubise and the Count de Plessis For Marshals of the Camp Monsieur le Mott who had block'd up St. Omers Monsieur de Albert the Chevalier de Sourdis and Stoppa for Brigadiers of the Cavalry the Marquis Gourney and of Bordages for Brigadiers of the Infantry Aubarede Chymenes Souvroy and Phiffer for Major General Monsieur de Montmont Captain of the Guards for chief Engineer Monsieur de Choisy for Commander of the Artillery the Marquis de Frezeliere and for Intendant Monsieur Roberto The King kept with himself to serve him in his Army The Troops and Officers about the Kings person the Marshals Scomberg Luxembourg Feuillade and Lorges for Lieutenant Generals the Duke of Lude the Marquis of Renel Cardonniere the Count de Avergne and the Duke of Villeroy For Marshals de Camp the Count St. Geran the Marquis and Chevalier de Tilladet Brothers and the Palatine Birkenfield For Aides de Camp the Chevalier Vandôme the Princes d' Harcourt and d' Elboeuf the Marquis d' Angeau and d' Arcy of Chiverni Cavois and the Chevalier Nogeut For Brigadiers of the Cavalry Jauvelle la Fitte Nonan de Auger Buzunvil Rose and Tallart for Brigadiers of the Infantry Rubentel Salis Tracy de Uxelles ville Chauve and Josseaux for chief Engineer Vauban for Intendant of
of the Guards Siber Major Laer Captain la Noy Lieutenant Collonel to Prince Maurice and Major Salis Lieutenant Collonel of Holstein with the Major of the same Regiment Haude Lieutenant Collonel of Horn with two Captains Schaep Major of Girickel the Count Warfusce and Collonel Vergne wounded and prisoner as also Collonel Witttenhoue Lieutenant Collonel Oalkemburg Collonel the Count of Lippe Poeduvel Lieutenant Collonel of the Brandenburgs Major Grime Collonel Collonel Zobel Collonel Maregnault wounded and about an 100 others as well Chief as under Officers The defeat of this Army had been entire but for the inequality of the Ground the Marshes the Hedges the Forrests the Shrubs and the coming on of the night The Troops of the enemies that behaved themselves remarkuably were among the Cavalry those of the Regiments of the Life Guard and the Dragoons of his Highness The Troops that did well those of Valdek Brederods Kinskel Skaep Krouemburg Aremberg Greams being Scotch Among the Infantry the Regiments of his Highness Guard of Foot that of Prince Maurice the Duke of Hosteins the Prince of Brandenburgs Courland Ringrave Waldeck Horne Girikil Van-Eppe Lavergne Kilpatrick Wittenhove Oalkembourg Toursay Lippe Klooster Grime Hoffwege Zobel Albrunsvart Slaugembur and three of Zeland This Victory cost Monsieur about two thousand men kill'd or wounded and some prisoners Slain and wounded of the French Among those that were slain were Moissac Cornet of the Musketeers l' Grange Cornet of the Scotch Gens d' Armes Maker Cornet of the English Bossier Captain of the Guards the Chevalier Beauveaux Captain Lieutenant of Monsieurs Gens d' Armes the Marquis of Villaserre and Benese Captains of Tilladet l' Estoille Captain under the Marshal Logis of the Dauphins Dragoons Mardoliers Tlei and Villairs Captains of Burgundy Sebastier Captain in the Queens Regiment Crean Humiers Lieutenant Colonel Sigoville Major and Gozon Captain in the Regiment of Le Main Du Chelar Major Lantillac and Meschatin Captains in that of Anjou Brisset Captain in that of Geneva a Peimontois Villars Lieutenant Collonel in the Royal Italian Regiment Piequemont Colonel of the Regiment of Walloons The Chevalier Silly a Gentleman belonging to his Royal Highness Prisoners Count Carces Ensign in the Scotch Gens d' Armes dyed of his wounds The Chevalier La Guetle Captain Lieutenant of the English also wounded Refuge Captain and Bourru Lieutenant of the Guards Wounded the Marquis of Livourn the Count de Luc Musketeer In the Scotch Gens d' Armerie Livry and Passage Quartermasters In the English the Chevalier Estoges under Lieutenant The Chevalier Crolly Ensign Obrieu Quartermaster In the Gens d' Armery of Burgundy the Marquis of Montgon under Lieutenant In that of Flanders two Quartermasters and one Brigadier In the Regiment of the Queens Light horse the Marquis Sequille Captain Lieutenant In that of the Dauphins light Horse the Marquis Vallarceaux under Lieutenant In that of the Gens d' Armerie of Anjou Lanion under Lieutenant In that of the Collonel Generals Captain Blot In that of the Campmaster General the Chevalier Lussau Captain and Ferriers Cornet In that of the Curassiers Mouces Captain In that of Tilladets Catin Aid Major and the Chevalier Narbonne Captain In that of Sourdis Caille Captain In that of the Dragoons Collonel General Paynae Chemin Grand-Val and Cussan Captain In that of Listenoy Baudet Lajanie and La Font Captains In that of the French Guards Malissey and other Captains Sage Varennes and Fouilles Lieutenants Jolley Beaumont under Lieutenants and Nonaut Ensign In that of Navar Lurcy Boistiroux Castillon Harlier Denot and Riotot Captains In the Royal Regiment Villechauve Lieutenant Collonel and Brigadier of the Infantry Biseiux and Valle-sablon Captains In that of Conty the Chevalier Frissinet Marvel and St. Seve Captains In that of Burgundy the Chevalier Villairs Talleures St. Cloy Beaureguard and Thomassin Captains In the Queens Regiment Farges Lieutenant Colonel Grimpier Val Crosseau Duval Montgrain and Bonnet Captains In that of Vaisseaux Lauzier Major La Tournelle Boissiere Arbouville La Mare and Renoir Captains In that of Lyonois L' Estolle Lieutenant Colonel Sercave Dapinat Bellegard Montbrison Lâ—ntival Montagny d' Enonomville and Bony Captains In that of Humieres Dames Major Codere Francalliere Moncabau Fontaines L' Hospital Normandy La Seine Milon and Gosse Captains In that of La Maceyns de La Haye de La Motte and du Tiel Captains In that of Anjou Melonnier Lieutenant Colonel Desnac Clerac Boulay Boulac Scalberg Chautezerce Ferriere Pallivil Du Long and Le Comte Captains In that of the Crown the Chevalier Betancourt Genlis Colonel Servey and the Marquis of Aire the eldest son of the Count Tavanes Captains In the Genevian Piemontois du Clos St. Luce Chosil Matovet and St. Seriel Captains In the Royal Italian Regiment the Count of Serraville the Marquis Orsucci and Rossa Captains Griffi Surgilli Validini Marchetti and Buzzoni under Officers In that of Phiffer Borgilli Margdossi and Aet Captains In that of Greeders Zegber Major Fabri Courtent Burent and Watteville Captains Volunteers who signalized themselves that of Stouppe Benselle Captain and some of the under Officers of each Regiment There were beside very many persons of Quallity who on this occasion signalized themselves in the quality of Volunteers as the Prince of Isenghin the Brother of the Count de Solre the Marquis of Thury Daranantum La Vallerie and other Gentlemen of the French Flanders Monsieur St. Poüange known very well for his employ which he dispensed with to expose himself to the peril and dangers of War not failing by by an excess of zeal and courage to be in the first of the Troops that fought and did great service in retaining those who began to be disordered and in rallying those again who were dispersed This is the third Battel struck in this place The heat of the fight lasted three hours and an half that is to say from two a clock in the afternoon to half an hour after five in the evening This is the third Battel which hath been struck under Cassel by three Generals bearing the names of Philip. The first was advantagious to the low Countries through the ill fortune of Philip the Fair but the other two were as glorious to France through the courage of Philip of Valois and throgh the valour of this Philip Duke of Orleans The news of this Victory being published in the Camp of the King it was solemnised by three vallies of all the Canon and all the Musketeers His Majesty giving to the Marquis d' Effiaut a Diamond worth two thousand Pistoles The King sends to complement Monsieur and sent away Monsieur de Gesvres the chief Gentleman of his Chamber to the Monsieur to testifie his Joy The news in Paris Merille chief Groom of the Chamber to his Royal Highness brought this welcome news to Madame on the twelfth at night The next day Monsieur the Dauphin accompanied with the Princes of Conty Madame
complemented the Duke of Montausier his Governour and many other young Princes and Lords of the Court came from the Castle of St Germains to Paris to rejoyce with her for the prosperous success of the Kings Arms under the conduct of Monsieur His Majesty wrote to her and sent Monsieur de Gombaud one of his Gentlemen in ordinary to compliment her and all the Princes and Princesses of the Blood Ministers Strangers and the chief persons of the Realm came to testifie their Joy to that Princess They made Bonfires for joy before the Palace Royal and also thorow all Paris by the people Rejoycing The Cittadel of Cambray is pressed After this victory they began to press upon the Cittadel of Cambray From the thirteenth to the fourteenth at night they enlarged the places for their Arms and their Lodgment to put their Artillery under covert and the descent into the ditch They raised new Batteries and sprung some mines and they prepared and charged others The fourteenth in the morning the Duke of Villeroy Lieutenant General being on the Guard with Rubentel Brigadier of the Infantry and the Marquis d' Angeau Aid de Camp two Battalions of the Dauphins making an attaque on the plain and of the Kings Battalions from without the Town An Half-moon taken and retaken they took the halfmoon being on the left hand being wholly ruined by the Canon The Governour of the Cittadel not being able to suffer them so to carry it at noon day knowing of what consequence it was in giving courage to the French by such easie success he detached some of the best Officers and Soldiers and made them retake it before the French had begun to make any Lodgment The same Soldiers being willing to continue their poynt and to proceed to overthrow their Works the Duke of Villeroy repulsed them vigorously and had almost retaken the half-moon if they had had any Tools and Workmen to have lodged there and if they had not considered that they had attaqued it more out of an Importment of Bravery than out of any reason of War Taken again From the fifteenth to the sixteenth the Count St. Geran Marshal de Camp Josseaux Brigadier and the Marquis Chiverny Aid de Camp being on the Guard of the Trench with two Battalions of Picardy they carried entirely the same Fort and there made their Lodgments whilst that two Battalions of the Guards guarded the works on the right hand His Majesty had ordered St. Geran not to be too wilful in the taking it in case that he should find any great resistance for that post being on the left side and without the attaques the taking of it appeared unprofitable and he had a mind to preserve his Soldiers But the out Centinels and the small Guards being on the point of the Halfmoon at the only menaces which a Serjeant of Picardy made something boldly they which guarded the place abandoned it The sixteenth the Marshal Feuillade being in the Trench with the Marquis of Cavois Aid de Camp The Governour summoned the King commanded a cessation of Arms and let the Governour understand by the Chevalier Nogent Aid de Camp also to the King that he had defended the place according to all the Laws of War and that could be expected from a man of valour and reputation that the Army from which he might have expected relief was wholly defeated without hope of getting together again that the halfmoons and all the out places were taken that there had been many breaches made and mines sprung to enlarge them and in conclusion he ought not to be wilful in any longer defence of the place which would only serve to destroy a great many valiant men on either side which he might avoid whilst he was in a condition to make an honorable and advantagious Capitulation His answer The Governour answered by a letter sent back by the same Chevalier Nogent that he was yet in a condition to defend the place that when his mines should have ruined those Bastions they would attaque there was still one where he could lodg himself in safety and that at last when he should be forced to yield to his power he hoped that his Majesty would use his ordinary generosity towards those Soldiers which had done but their duty Nevertheless on the seventeenth in the morning seeing two Bastions almost overthrown by the mines and by the Canon their best Halfmoons lost the the ditches wholly filled up and guard in the Trench in a condition to give a general Assault he thought it no part of his duty to stay for it and more to the purpose to preserve for his party the the rest of the Garison and some riches which he saw very well could not be saved but by a capitulation knowing as he did the valour of the Besiegers and that the victory would be easily atchieved in the presence of the King who knew to come by it through ways so short and surprising The King also treated him as favourably as he could wish He permitted him and his Garison to come forth at the breach with their Arms and Baggage two pieces of Canon and guarded as far as Brussels His Majesty immediately sent Marquis Louvis into the Cittadel The Governour presented himself to the King sick and wounded who praised his brave carriage in the defence of the place The Garrison went forth in good condition except the Irish Regiments of Molemby and Tilly who as they had performed the most vigorous Actions had been also the most ill treated The King then caused Te Deum to be sung in the Metropolitan Church The King enters the Town and gives thanks and as if Heaven would concur with Earth to fill up the measure of this Monarchs prosperity the Siege was finish'd the same day that his Majesty had finished in his Camp the stations of the Grand Jubilee The Archbishop of Paris and the Father de La Chaise Confesser to the King upon the Question which had been formed whether his Majesty could obtain the Jubilee in any other place than that which was set down in the Bull decided that there was no place limited for the person of his Majesty since he was not in the same Capacity as simple Travellers Lent also was concluded at the same time which was now a time of mortification to the Confederates as well as to the Catholiques And distributed employments The King gave the Government of Cambray to Cezan Major of the Regiment of Guards the Lieutenancy to Dreux the Majorality to Parisot Engineer the Command of the Cittadel to Choisi one of the cheif Engineers and the Lieutenancy to du Fresne And for that Cezan was Governour of Conde that Government was given to Lerretiere The King then gave order for to repair the Breaches and to raise up the walls both of the Village and of the Cittadel to put the fortifications in a good Condition and to