disguise being there Besieged by the Parliament-Forces and fled to the Scots who shewed him no part of that due reception which belongs to their King but sent him under a strong Convoy to Newcastle to which place also the King of France sends the Sieur de Montreüil to reside neer him and reconcile him to the Parliament On the 9th of May the Comte de Harcour lays siege to Lerida where in our first Attaques we lost the Comte de Chabot and the Marquiss de Gévres Sons to the Comte de Tremes On the 14th of June the Town of Courtray in Flanders was taken by the French Army notwithstanding that Duke Charles Picolomini and Lamboy made a shew of Relief In Italy the Town Orbitello in Tuscany was besieged by the Prince Thomas Here our Admiral Commanding a Fleet on the part of the Besiegers was killed by a Cannon-shot in a Naval fight In fine Prince Thomas was forced to retire the Enemies Forces being augmented by fresh succours July 8th the Prince of Wales Eldest son to the King of England arrived at Caën in Normandy and from thence directly to the Queen his Mother at St. Germain en Laye The 13th of July died Messire Roger de Bellegarde Duke and Pair of France and Grand Escuyer aged 83 years and 7 moneths and the 26th of the same moneth died also his Brother Octavius de Bellegarde Arch-Bishop of Sens. His decease was preceded by two other Prelates viz. Messire Abra de Raconis Bishop of Lavaur in Languedoc and Messire François de Pericard Bishop of Eureux Longuvy the onely place that remained in the Duke of Lorain's Territories was taken about this time by the Marquiss de la Ferté Seneterre The Assembly of the Clergy ending about the 30th of July Messire Jean François Paul de Gondy Arch-Bishop of Corinth and Coadjutor in the Arch-bishoprick of Paris made an Harangue to the King in the name of all the Clergy And now Messire le President Believre was sent Embassador into England where he had favourable Audience by the Parliament at London the 27 of July and the first of August by the King at Newcastle In the beginning of August the Fort of Mardike was Besieged by Monsieur the Duke of Orleans the brisk Attaques which we gave took from us at the very first the Chivalier de la Füeillade le Sieur du Terrail of the same Race with Captain Bayard and three days after the Comte de Fley and the Chevalier de Fiesque The Duke of Nemours was Wounded by a Musquet-shot in his Leg but without hurting the Bone and as favourably the Prince de Marsillac Eldest son to the Duke de la Rochfoucault The 22 of August the Sieur de Grignan had his Head taken off by a Cannon-shot This resistance by the Besieged enflamed the Courage of our party and the mouth of the Channel being stopt by six ships of Holland so that the Besieged were forced to receive all their Relief from Gravelines to which they had been as a Bulwork Mardike finding her self so severely prest began to Parley the Besieged were received to Composition by Monsieur the Duke of Orleans and the chief Articles were that 3000 men then and there in Garrison should come out Life and Baggage safe but should remain Prisoners of War The place thus taken the Sieur de Chalen was made Governour The 6th of September the Comte Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie Embassador extraordinary from Swedeland arrived at Paris where he was extream kindely received by their Majesties and lodged at the Hostel de Vendôme In the mean while News arrives at Court that on the 17th of September his Holiness at the Kings Instance had restored those of the House of Barberins to their Goods conditionally that the two Cardinals should abide some while at Avignon At the same time the Mareschal de Bassompierre aged 68 years dies suddainly at Provins Dunkirk which hitherto had been the receptacle of Pirates who had continually scowred the Seas on all the Coasts of France was Invested by the Duke of Enguien on the 17th of September and assaulted so vigorously by our Souldiers excited by the courage of their Commander that on the tenth of October it surrendered by Composition The Marquiss de Leide the Governour march'd out with 1500 men of which 400 Sick and Wounded and he confest to have lost 600 of his best Souldiers The Mareschal of Rantzau succeeded to the place of Governour for the French Dunkirk was first built 600 years since by Baudoüin Earl of Flanders After that it was burnt down by the English in the year 1388. Rebuilt by the French and after taken by the Spaniards who kept it till the present Conquest The King's Army in Italy commanded by the Mareschals de la Mêleraye take the Town Castle and Citadel of Piambino in Tuscany at which time Monsieur the Marquiss Villeroy the King's Governour received from the hands of their Majesties the Oath of Mareschal of France Portolongona a place scituated in the Isle of Elb lying in the Tuscan-Sea between the Continent of Italy and Corsica which was heretofore usurp'd from its own lawful Lord by a Captain of the Emperour Charles the 5th in the year 1548. after that delivered into the possession of his son Philip the 2d and whose Successors held it ever since was now Besieged and taken by the French Army In the midst of this Island rises a Spring on this account the more admirable that its Waters are observed to hold proportion with the length of the daies of the year in such manner that when they are at the longest the Stream is able to drive a Mill but when at the shortest 't is almost dry Lerida in Catalonia having been besieged by the Comte de Harcour for the space of 7 moneths was relieved the 21 of November in the night by the Marquiss de Leganez General of the Spanish Army who forcing our Lines with 7000 Foot and 3000 Horse our party though at the first they made a stout resistance encouraged by the Valour of their Commander yet finding themselves o'repower'd by the number of the Enemy were constrained to retire but in good order into Cerveres with 6000 Foot and 1000 Horse by that means to secure the Country We lost there the Comte de Origny In revenge of this action the Sieur de St. Colom-Marin Mareschal of the Field took from the Enemy the Town of Arbera the 6th of December following The 26th of the same moneth Madam la Dutchess of Orleans was happily delivered of a second Daughter The same day the 26th of December being the Feast of St. Steven Henry de Bourbon Prince of Condé deceased at Paris aged 58 years and three moneths he left two Sons and a Daughter the * Formerly called Duke of Enguien Eldest of which makes no inconsiderable part in the French History of these last years by reason of his many Renowned Exploits of War Sieges and Battles in which things
Princes of Vendôme having by their Legitimated birth and in respect of Marriage priority above all other Princes and a power to succeed to the Crown before the Dukes of Longueville and all this is comprised in the said Declarations On the 30th of December the Novices marching before the ancient Knights the six Ecclesiasticks were first received into the quality of Commandeurs of the Order After them the 66 Knights Laicks The King began with the Princes of Bourbon and Vendôme but his Majesty not able to comprehend the pretensions of the Comte de Soissons and the Duke of Guise they were not received saying he would have them two go together and march with the Dukes of Mercoeur and Beaufort who by right of Birth and by the Declaration of Henry the Great take place after the Bourbons and ought to precede the Princes of Courtenay and Portugal when they are acknowledged and received into this Quality This was adjudged authentickly and with great and mature consideration of the Case and executed in the presence of the most Great and August Assembly of the Kingdom and in the sight of more than 100000 Witnesses all the people that were present at this so gallant action Anno 1662. The next day being the first of January the grand Ceremony was continued at the Augustins the Knights wearing the Collers of the Orders and the second being apparelled in Mourning-Robes they assist at a solemn Service for the Knights deceased at which was a most magnificent Representation a King at Arms placed at the Head and four Heralds at the Corners And now it was that the Portugals had so well defended themselves during this first Campagne that the Spaniards were forced to begin a new War On the 19th of January the Carnaval begun with a Balet consisting of nine entries at the Madame's in which to render it the more excellent was no omission of cost or pleasing objects The grand Ball was danced the seventh of February where the Grandeur and glory of the House of France was most lively represented with the fifteen Alliances which she had contracted in the Imperial Family The Treaty with the Duke of Lorain in which he released all his Estates to our King under divers Conditions reserving however to himself the Possession was verified the 27th of February At this time the Portugals contracted a strict Alliance with England giving their Infanta Tangier and other advantageous Conditions to Charles the second for his defence and assistance against the King of Spain The Succours which they drew from thence France have establish'd that Crown against all the efforts of his Catholick Majesty On the 27th of April Peace and a Renovation of the Alliance betwixt France and Holland was concluded and signed after a Negotiation of eighteen Moneths It was on the 18th of June following that the famous Carrousel or Triumphant Combat on Horseback began It was composed of five Squadrons or Companies That of the King were all apparrelled in the ancient Roman habit That of the Duke of Orleans represented Persians the Prince of Condé Turks the Duke of Enguien Indians and the Duke of Guise the Savages The party of the Prince of Condé gain'd the Prize and received a Diamond from the Queen-Mothers hand The attempt late made at Rome the 20th of August on the persons of the Duke and Dutchess of Crequy by the factions of the * The Pope's Guards Corses and * Serjeants Sbirres against the Law of Nations and the cruel and unjust persecution rais'd against the French caused the Duke Cesarini and the other Partisans and friends of this Crown to oblige the Embassador and his * L' Ambassadrice in the Original Lady to quit the City and retire into the Estates of Tuscany and so return into France The Church and indeed all Europe found themselves much scandalized at so soul an action much blaming the Fauters and adherents of this capital Crime which made so great a noise and in the end was determined in a Treaty The Marquiss Mathei a chief Minister and Plenipotentiary of his Imperial Majesty was expell'd from his service for having unknown to him and without his agreement accepted the Office of Commander of his Holiness's Arms. The Emperour and our King were at this time reconciled by the mediation of the Marquiss de la Fuente the Comte Fuensaldagne having laboured in that affair four years without effect And their Majesties gave mutual testimonies of affection and sincerity by several Letters which this Embassador exchanged in the moneth of September Great joy appeared in France and Spain at the birth of Madame at the Louvre the eighteenth of November This Princess was * Ondoyée Christened privately by the Cardinal Antoine in presence of the whole Court and the 27th of December the publick Ceremony of her Baptism was performed by his Eminence she being named Anne-Elizabeth by the Queen-Mother and the Monsieur She deceased the 30th following and her Body was conveyed to St. Denis About this time a Courier arrived to inform the King of the delivery of Dunkirk the Fort of Mardike and the greater and lesser Fort of Bergue and that his Troops were entred Presently upon this news his Majesty sets out for the place where he made his entry the second of December and returned again the sixth with the same diligence that at first he had taken the Voyage accompanied with the Duke of Enguien and Duke of Beaufort this last but lately landed from giving chase to the Pirates of Barbary This year was made happy in a conclusion of Marriage between the Duke of Savoy and Mademoiselle de Valois The Ballet of the Arts consisting of seven Entries was danced the first time at Madame's where was present the Prince Eldest son to the King of Denmarke Anno 1663. The Duke of Crequy's return into France and the reduction of Benevento in the Estates Ecclesiastick the 14th of March into which place the Prince de la Ricca had retired contrary to his word past to the Vice-roy of Naples for having killed an Artisan and debauched away his Wife had much alarmed the Court of Rome who through a panique fear had made several Levies which again were disbanded as suddainly Which occasioned a certain Cardinal to say * Qu'elle possedoit la Science des Contre-temps That they plaid at cross purposes having raised Arms no-body knows against who and laid 'em down again not considering where they have made Peace The Ceremony of the Nuptials of Mademoiselle de Valois and the Comte de Soissons Proxie to the Duke of Savoy was performed at the Louvre the fourth of March by the Cardinal Antoine the seventh following the Princess departed for Savoy About the eighth of June Dom John who had promised to himself the Conquest of Portugal was beaten in a set Battle at Evora by the Comtes of Villaflora and Schomberg recovering also at the same time the said Town and all the other Conquests of
he has rendered his Name Renowned having joyned Mars and Minerva in his own person The second son is Monsieur the Prince of Conty The Daughter Mademoiselle de Bourbon Married Monsieur the Duke of Longueville Anno 1647. In the beginning of the year 1647. though the Winter-season invited our Troops rather into Garrison yet such was the courage of the Mareschal de Gassion that nothing relenting at the extremity of the Weather he undertakes the siege of Ingelmunster the Garrison of which place was no small impediment in our Victualling Courtray This place was Attaqu'd with such fury that she was forced to yield by the end of February The Governour with his Garrison was conducted to Courtray having received no other composition than to remain Prisoners of War Also the Marquiss of Marolles Governour of Thionville a place heretofore taken by the now Prince of Condé presently after his Victory at Rocroy in the year 1643. about the same time defeated a party of the Garrison of Luxemburg by means of an Ambuscade where he killed and took Prisoners above 100 men About the end of the said Moneth of February the Mareschal de Turenne invests Tubinguen in Germany and after a Siege of seventeen or eighteen daies submits the place to the King's obedience This did contribute much to the Treaty of Neutrality not long after concluded with the Duke of Bavaria in which was comprised the Elector of Cologne Since the Arch-Duke Leopold had quitted the Conduct of the Imperial Forces to be General in the Low-Countries he had raised on the suddain a compleat Army with which he Invests Armentieres under the Government of the Sieur du Plessis-Bellievre This Siege being so surprizing made the courage of our party yield to necessity so that for want of Ammunition the place was surrendered the 31 of May. The Garrison remained all Prisoners of War except the Governour and Principal Officers At this time the King and Queen Regent were at Amiens to give their orders more effectually for securing the Frontiers of Picardy The Arch-Duke Leopold having taken Armentieres lays siege to Landrecies where the Garrison not being sufficient to secure their Outworks the Sieur Heudicourt their Governour after a courageous defence of three Weeks was forced to surrender the 18th of July The Mareschal de Gassion finding that he was unable to succour Landrecies joyned with the Mareschal de Rantzau to revenge that loss elsewhere this last in three days made himself Master of Dixmude and the Mareschal de Gassion so vigorously Assaulted la Bassée that he forced the Besieged to surrender at the end of eight daies After this the Mareschal in one day takes the Fort Nieufdan neer Newport and Sluise with several other little Forts all which he Demolish'd During this the Marquiss de Caracene sent to relieve Newport in case of a Siege obliges the Mareschal to an Engagement in which Rencounter the Enemy lost 300 men and we not above fifteen The French Army being now in sufficient condition to oppose their Enemies the King and Queen Regent leave Amiens the 27th of July and take the way of Abbeville passing thence to Dieppe they were received by the Sieur de Montigny who met them in the head of 500 Gentlemen The 9th of August they arrive at Paris The Mareschal de Rantzau considering that the Mareschal de Gassion was necessitated to remain in the midst of his Enemies to keep la Bassée makes a shew of besieging Lens and by that means having diverted the Enemy and brought off Gassion from all danger attaques the Troops of Duke Charles lately arrived from Luxemburg and defeats 800 men of which he took 200 Prisoners Presently after the Armies of these two Generals being united the 10th of September march against the Common Enemy and often Skirmish but always with advantage on our side The 23 of September our Army having past the River Lis the next day arrives before Lens The Mareschal Gassion took the plain of Doway and the Sieur de Villequier the Bridge Avandin the night following they opened their Trenches and the 26th the Cannon began to batter but the Mareschal Gassion being on his way to succour the Sieur de Villequier at the Bridge Avandin and understanding that the Enemy had taken it returns to the Trenches The 28th he hearing that the Besieged had raised a Pallisade neer the Town-gate he gives order that the Posts be immediately pluck'd up and being told it was a matter of extraordinary danger by reason of the Enemies continual firing from that quarter he goes thither himself and as he was trying to move one of the Posts receives a Musquet-shot in the side of his head with which he falls from his Horse and being taken up and carried to Arras deceased the 10th of October in the 38th year of his Age. But the Sieur de Villequier continues the siege of Lens and that with such resolution and effect that the Besieged are forced to surrender the third of the same October and the Comte de Palluau Mestre de Camp of the Cavalry took possession of the place with a French Garrison In the mean time the Enemy thinking to divert the siege of Lens besiege Dixmude which place after a courageous resistance on our part was forced to surrender The Mareschal de Turenne receiving orders from the King to march into Germany understands that Major-General Rose by secret practises had debauched several Souldiers of his Troops hereupon having first endeavoured by all means possible to reclaim him to his duty though ineffectually to prevent a greater disorder he secures his person and sends him Prisoner to Philipsburg About this time the Spaniards under the Conduct of Bonichausen Mareschal de Camp Imperial Colonel Frangipani Governour of Frankendal and Colonel Garnier form a designe to besiege Worms the Garrison consisting but of 100 men The Sieur de la Marche Governour of the place perceiving the weakness of the place and being prest by the Enemy who had already struck a terrour into the Citizens engaged to surrender in case he received no relief in two daies Hereupon he sends immediately to the Governour of Philipsburg who dispatches the Sieur de la Poquetiere a Gentleman of Touraine with 100 men who guarded with other Succours pass the Enemy enter the Town and without ever resting Sally immediately at another Gate on the opposite side charging the Enemy in that quarter so courageously that in fine they beat them off and * That is to drive a Nail or Iron-pin into the Touch-hole so that they become useless Nail'd their Cannon in such manner that the Enemy finding no hopes of gaining the place quitted the siege In Catalonia the Mareschal de Gramont by order of the Prince of Condé having pursued the Spaniards who besieged Constantine return'd and joyns with our Army the 12 of October and the 21 Monsieur the Prince of Condé having drawn together all our Troops on advice that the Spaniards under the Conduct of the