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
their Forces and Cromwel his Lieutenant who soon after on the acquittal of the former took to himself the whole Authority He made himself Master of Scotland Ireland and England he made and unmade the Parliament at his pleasure and in fine under the name of Protector of the Commonwealth of England he most Sacrilegiously usurp'd the Command of a King This year ended with the Peace between France the Emperour and Swede concluded at Osnabruc Anno 1649. In the year 1649 the King Queen and Princes leave Paris in the night between the fifth and sixth of January and retire to St. Germains The Parisians believing they intend to revenge their insolencies committed in the action aforesaid take Arms and rise in Troops by order of the Prince of Conty Hereupon the King seizes St. Denis Meudon Corbeil and Lagny This had no doubt occasioned a publick Ruine had not the Court of Parliament deputed several of their Members to his Majestie and obtained a general Amnestie which once more restored France to her former quiet Anno 1650. In January 1650 the Princes of Condé Conty and Duke of Longueville were Imprisoned in the Château de Vincennes from thence removed first to Marcoussy and then to Havre de Grace and restored to Liberty the 6th of February 1651. The Princess of Condé retired to Bourdeaux with the Duke of Enguien her Son where were also the Dukes of Boüillon Roche-Foucaut and de Turenne In this year the Enemy recovered Piombino and Portolongone le Catelet la Capelle and Vervins as also Mouson and Rethel which notwithstanding they kept not long Anno 1651. Nor was the year 1651 more fortunate to us seeing we lost then Furnes and Bergue in Flanders And now the Prince of Condé retires into his Government of Guienne neglecting to be present at the King's Majority which was magnificently celebrated the 7th of September Presently after his Majesty takes a Journey towards Bourges to stop the ill intentions of the Princes which place upon his approach they quitted with their Forces The King stops not in his designes but marches on towards Poitou takes St. Amand sends the Comte de Harcour to attaque Rochelle which the Comte d'Ognon held at the Prince's devotion and compels him to submit to obedience Anno 1652. In the mean time the Parliament at Paris declares the Cardinal Mazarin guilty of High Treason who retires for a while but not at all to remit ought of his care or occasion to serve his Majesty he raises several Troops and presents them to the King at Poitiers the 25th of January 1652 without having encountered any obstacle After this Anger 's is Besieged by the Duke of Rohan and compel'd to submit to the King's obedience together with le Pont de Cé And now the King intending to justifie his Minister sends a Declaration to the Parliament at Paris commanding that all the proceedings against the Cardinal Mazarin be forthwith brought over to him The King Besieges Estampes in which place the Army of the Princes was shut up but the Issue being not very advantageous to the Royal Army he was forced to draw off and invest Paris Here happened many Attaques on both sides after the arrival of the Lorainers though these last shun'd the Encounter as much as possible in such fort that they came not hand to hand till such time as they met in the Fauxbourg St. Anthoine at which Encounter it is believed there died more than 1000 men on both sides The Fight endured from seven in the Morning till three in the Afternoon The Prince of Condé did all that could be expected from a valiant Captain nevertheless had not Mademoiselle caused the City-Gate to be opened and the Cannon to be discharged from the Bastille the Army of the Princes had been utterly defeated Two days after this the disorder was so great in Paris that all people were forced to wear Straw about 'em as a mark of aversion to the Cardinal Mazarin After this they set fire to the outward Gates of the Hostel de Ville where 300 of the most noted Citizens being Assembled to consult of some means whereby to unite the City with the Parliament the Mutineers in order to destroy them all first Massacre the Sieurs le Gras Master of Requests de Janvry Counsellor in the Parliament Myron Master of the Accounts and several others as they came out from the Assembly The Sieur Doujat Counsellor of the Great Chamber and several other persons of Condition had run the same fortune had they not used Disguizes and by the favour of the night past unknown during this disturbance Two of the Factious were Condemned by the Sentence of the Parliament to be Hanged and were accordingly Executed in the Court of the Palace The Sedition grew to that extremity that even the Priests and Religious Women and Children were forced to wear Straw and thereby secure themselves from outrages nay the very Nuns who to shun the dangers of the Campagne sought refuge in this City if at any time they were seen in the Streets or Churches found themselves obliged to appear with this ridiculous Badge The Duke of Nemours about this time challenged the Duke of Beaufort they met with Sword and Pistol The Duke of Nemours fires but without further execution than onely to singe the Duke of Beaufort's Periwig but he in return fail'd not to kill his Enemy And now the people of Paris being pretty well tired with the effects of War begin to disgust the rule of the Princes and upon this occasion depute several of their Burgesses to Pontoise where the King then was to supplicate his Majesty to honour his good Town of Paris with his return This occasioned the retreat of the Duke of Orleans and flight of the Prince of Condé with his Troops Not long after the King returns to the City followed by the Mareschal de l'Hospital Governour of the place the Prevost des Merchands and the Eschevins who had been all constrained to absent and was there received with all the submissions and blessings which the people could possibly invent After this the King went to the Parliament which he re-unites with that part which he had lately establish'd at Pontoise And then and there also he publishes his Amnestie in favour of all those who had risen provided that by their returning to duty they made themselves capable of such a Grace But the Prince of Condé being retired into the Catholick King 's Dominions appeared in the head of an Army before Rhetel of which soon after he got possession as also of Chasteau-Porcien Sainte-Menchou and Bar. During the troubles at Paris the Spaniards knowing the Mareschal de Grancey to be absent from Gravelines lay siege to that place and take it before it could possibly be succoured on our part Those of Guienne finding themselves in such disorder by reason of the Princes party invite the King's Army to come among them commanded by the Count de Harcour who
this for the future to contain the Nobless and Citizens in their duty His Majesty being at Aix with much joy and tenderness received the Prince of Condé at his return from the Low-Countries Their Majesties continuing their Progress through Languedoc were received most magnificently at Thoulouse and then at Bourdeaux passing from thence to Bayonne and so to St. John Luz they arrived in the Isle of Pheasants where was appointed the Interview of the two Kings and the glorious reception of Maria-Theresa d'Austria Inheretrix presumptive to the Estates of his Catholick Majesty The Pomp and Consummation of these so great and splendid Nuptials was very advantageous to the two Crowns The Ceremonies performed their Majesties take the Road of Paris and arrive happily at the Bois de Vincennes where for some daies they rest till the Queens most magnifique entry at Paris the 26th of August And now happens that horrid Earthquake at the Pyrenean-Hills which swallowing the hot Bathes there and several other places caused extraordinary terrour to the Inhabitants of all that Voisinage The decease of the Duke of Orleans at Blois the 2d of February did much abate our publick Joy and Triumphs their Majesties and all the Court being sensible of so great a loss Anno 1661. To put the Treaty of Peace in Execution and to determine the limits of our King's Conquests the Sieurs Courtin Master of Requests Talon Intendant of Artois and Parmentier Substitute to the Attorney-General were commissioned to treat with the Commissioners of Spain Vilteingh Colins and Anglanzey They had laboured much in these particulars a long while first at St. Omers then at Arras and lastly they concluded happily at Metz where they limited the Extents of Flanders Artois Hainault and Luxembourg and having worthily acquitted themselves in their Employ parted the 25th of November 1662. The Cardinal Mazarin did not long enjoy that Peace which he had procured to all France having been almost ever since indisposed The Fire which in the beginning of February happened at the Louvre and consumed the Gallery of Pictures that look'd into the Garden obliged his Eminence to forsake his Bed and retire to his own Palace where his disease continuing he was advised to change the Air which he did to Vincennes but all this was not of force to prevent his death on the 9 of March following to the great regret of the King and all his Creatures But the following Marriages of the Duke of Orleans with the Princess of England and the Prince of Florence with Mademoiselle d'Orleans caused the loss of this great Minister to be almost forgotten The Sieur Fouquet too intent on the encrease of his own Fortune was arrested at Nants the 5th of September and conveyed to Vincennes and from thence to the Bastille He was the first cause of the erection of the Chamber of Justice which has been so advantageous to those people that deal in these affairs by the detection of the wasting of the King's Revenues which they have applied to their own private uses and to the great Purchases which they have made in the Kingdom The extraordinary profusion in the Conduct of this Minister obliged the King to take some pains in the reformation of his own Estate We may say that hereupon he effected two wonderous things and by which he surprized the Polititians The admirable order and Oeconomy which he establish'd in his own house and the Military Discipline in his Armies in all which particulars he raised the Grandeur and Dignity of the Offices and yet made as well the high as low Officers themselves exactly subject to his own Authority and Power who all remain at present in their perfect duty and dependance The other thing is his having made himself so absolute a Master of all the Citadels and Fortresses of his Dominions so that the Princes and Officers of the Crown the Governours of Provinces and of particular places who heretofore made themselves of too great value and consideration are now in a perfect obedience He suppressed the Office of Super-Intendant of the Finances and certain * Officiers de l'Espargue Officers in his Exchequer and establish'd a Council and Treasury Royal where nothing can be proposed nor one single Sol paid out of his Coffers unless it hath been there first resolved and ordered But that which is most admirable is that his Majesty does himself consider and weigh all things as well of great as small concern whether far off or near necessary or superfluous His Manufactures and Buildings at the Louvre Tuilleries and other Houses Royal have found a place in that vast Spirit amidst the Citadels and other important places of his Kingdom War and affairs of State have not absolutely banish'd from his minde Pleasure and Magnificence But having first heard the serious discourses of the Mareschal de Turenne and the Sieur Colbert he is pleased to confer with our Illustrious Artisans le Brun le Nore and all those excellent Spirits who have the very genius and perfection of their several Arts. It seems about this time Spain was minded to try whether his most Christian Majesty's new form of Government would be maintained with force and vigour To this purpose the Baron de Batteville past an affront on the Comte d'Estrade at the entry of the Swede's Embassador Extraordinary at London And the Spaniards being the stronger killed some French on the 10th of October After this perswading the King of England that their Master had always acknowledged him and assisted against Cromwel they endeavoured to draw him into the quarrel of his Catholick Majesty Hereupon our King complains at Madrid and Bruxelles and calls home his Commissioners who were labouring with those of Spain about settling the Limits of Flanders In fine France came off with honour in this action and the Marquiss de Fuentes Embassador extraordinary from Spain made our King reparation and assured him that his Master had given order to all his Embassadors and Ministers to abstain and strive no more with those of France in all such Ceremonies and publick actions where they both happen to assist This was performed in the presence of eight Embassadors and 22 Residents The Nativities of the Dauphin of France and Prince of Spain the first and ninth of November was a new Blessing to both Nations Oh what disputes shall these Illustrious Competitors hereafter manage to maintain the Grandeur and Glory of their Predecessors The King resolving a new promotion of Knights of both his Orders a general Chapter was held at Fontainbleau about the end of December Here to the admiration of all men the Duke of Longueville demanded precedency of him of Vendôme scïlt the next place after the first Princes of the Blood but in regard of those Declarations which Henry the great granted for the Duke of Vendôme the 15th of April 1610 Registred in the Parliament of Paris the 30th of the same the Duke of Longueville's pretensions were utterly defeated The
of May at Marseilles with extraordinary magnificence the like through all the Kingdom till he arrived incognito at Fountainbleau where he was received by the King at the entrance into the Queen-Mothers Cabinet des Bains Afterwards he made his publick entry at Fountainbleau the 18th of July and at Paris the ninth of August and returned to Rome with the same Pomp and magnificence that at first he arrived in France Germany was at this time much Alarmed at the raising the siege of Canise and at the loss of the Fort of Serin The Primier Vizier had defeated the whole force of the Emperour's Army and had it not been for the assistance of the French Forces there commanded by the Comte de Coligny the Consternation of that action had been extream The Comte de la Fueillade signalized his valour on this occasion who arriving the 15th of August defeated more than 10000 Turks on the Raab where they lost 150 Colours and sixteen pieces of Cannon which were planted on the other side of the River and all this notwithstanding the Gross of their Army was not far distant This great success obliged the Turkish General to march towards Gran there to joyn 20000 men and thereby put himself in a condition to repair his said loss and shame and also more effectually to secure that place and Newhausel He call'd back also those Troops which had already past the Vaag to wast the Countries of Moravia and Silesia in order to his designe of extending his Conquests to the very Walls of Vienna and into the Hereditary Countries of the Emperour But this Rout obliged a Truce between the two Empires and the Enemy to decamp the 29th of September The Enterprize of Gigeri did not a little contribute to effect this so also his Majesties designe to render Africa and her Kings free and Christian and to establish in that part of the World Commerce and the Law of Nations This had been truly a most Heroick action and to the great profit of the whole World It had had no doubt a favourable success had the generous resolution of the Admiral Duke of Beaufort been followed For the victorious are always obliged to fight and conquer and they never take root in a strange Country otherwise than by continual Combats and Battles which make 'em fear'd and casts the people into so great a consternation that in fine they are glad to submit to the discretion of their Conquerours The Duke d'Ossonne continuing the War in Portugal with no better success than Dom John the Spaniards strive now to raise a more puissant Force than ever under the command of the Marquiss de Caracene About this time the English offered several acts of Hostility to the Hollanders and prepare for a War The Parliament raise two Millions and a half of pounds sterling to manage it they do much damage on the Coast of Guiny and New-Holland and their Fleet which scour'd the Seas had order to see that no English were aboard any Dutch Vessel and if they found any or if they refuse to be search'd to fight ' em The 16th of November the Queen was delivered of the Princess Mary-Anne of France who deceased the 26th of December This year the Venetians were at rest le Marquiss Ville having visited all the places of that State and left 'em in good order The Chevalier d'Hoquincourt with onely one Ship fought gloriously against 33 Turkish Gallies sunk five and much indamaged the rest The King desirous that Justice should be done in the most remote Provinces of his Kingdom establish'd a Chamber of Justice in Auvergne where the President de Novion did well answer the choice which his Majesty had made of so learned a person to preside there on Grand days Anno 1665. The Ballet of the Birth of Venus was now danced It was the Invention of the Dutchess of Orleans to whose conduct his Majesty had remitted the manage of this affair It consisted of two parts both beginning with excellent Dialogues and Speeches The first by Neptune and Thetis and the second by the Graces It contained also twelve Majestick Entries all which was augmented with a Masquerade of ten Entries The Spanish Army now consisting of 10000 Horse and 20000 Foot that King refuses the Mediation of the King of England as to a Peace with Portugal supposing the War with Holland would sufficiently employ that Prince and prevent his assisting the said Kingdom In the mean time the States of Holland license all private persons to equip out what Vessels they can to cruze about and do what mischief they can to the English whose Regiments they also casheered hoping thereby to repair the damage they sustain by the rupture of Trade The Admiralties on both sides strive who shall equip the most potent Navy and prepare for a vigorous defence The English having made Prize of 160 of their Vessels But that which surprized the whole World was that notwithstanding this they joyn'd their force against those of Alger The Bishop of Munster's taking Arms and the Intelligence he had with many Princes of Germany obliged the Estates of Westphalia to assemble and the Hollanders to stand upon their guard They also desire the Hanse-Towns at the same time not to furnish themselves with any English Merchandise in like manner as his Majesty of Great Britain had obliged them not to receive any out of Holland And the better to defend themselves they oblige Valdee and the Brunswic Troops to secure their Frontiers About this time the House of Austria laboured unsuccessfully to match one of their Princesses to the Duke of Savoy thereby to draw him off from our Alliance on which condition they offered to joyn Alexandrin to his Estates and several other advantages which the Bishop of Laon did not approve He therefore demonstrated to this Prince that solid Goods are of far greater consideration than empty appearances and that his Marriage with Mademoiselle de Nemours would settle his Estate and House which indeed ought never to be separated from the Interests of France He had before this taken much pains to conclude a three and twentieth Alliance between the Houses of Savoy and France of the Duke of Nemours and Mademoiselle de Longueville This Prince did what he could to dis-engage himself and procured the said illustrious Prelate to be Install'd Arch-Bishop of Reims And now it was that the King sent into England the Duke of Verneüil to endeavour a Reconciliation between his two neighbour-Nations and prevent a cruel War But they met the 13th of June and Victory seemed doubtful for a while till at last she declared in favour of the Duke of York the Hollanders loosing their Admiral Opdam and 17 ships At the same time the King Solemnized a great Feast at Versaille After which his Majesty did proscecute with much assiduity a former designe to unite the two Seas by the Rivers of Guyenne and Languedoc The Battle of Villa-viciosa this year did much abate
the Ambition of the Spaniards and no less raise the Courage of the Portugals The Treaty of the King of England with the Bishop of Munster astonish'd the Hollanders and the Troops sent to their succours engaged us in a War with that Crown The Duke of Beaufort took and carried off the ships in the Port of Bougie in spite of all resistance from their Arms Fire or the Artillery of five Forts that commanded the place He burnt the Admiral of Alger and two other Vessels in the very mouth of the Harbour Those of Alger sent out twenty ships to expel him out of their Road he having onely four two of which they perceived this Prince had taken from them They were glad to use the advantage of the Night to fight him in but they were reduced to the utmost Consternation when they perceived they got nothing but blows In fine they were so terrified that they call'd back their Fleet again into their own Port. The 24th of August under Sarcelle he encountered five Vessels of Alger and the order which he gave for their destruction was so admirable that in three hours he became Master of three with the other two he continued fighting when the Powder-room taking fire the Report was heard ashore and of this accident the Pirates made use to fire the Saint Loüisa By this time the Hollanders had recruited and were got to the mouth of the Thames where they waited the motion of the English Navy On the 17th of September arrived the last hour of Philip the 4th of Spain whose decease was followed not long after by that of the Duke of Vandosme the 22 of October Their Majesties and all the Court did attest their Sorrows to the Dutchess his Widow and to the Duke of Mercoeur To that end the King sent the Duke de Saint Agnan apparell'd in a Mourning-Robe born up by two Gentlemen the Corner'd Cap and the Coller of the Order the Ceremony was conducted by the King at Arms and a Herald who having presented him with the Holy-Water he cast it three times on the Sepulchre of the deceased Prince while his Majesty's Musick sing the De Profundis The Comte de Sery performed the same Office on the part of Monseigneur the Dauphin and the Comte du Plessis-Praslin and the Marquiss de Pluvaut for the Dukes of Orleans and Valois which ended the Ceremony The first of December the Mareschals du Plessis d'Aumont and de la Ferté-Seneterre and the Marquiss de Montausier were received into the quality of Dukes and Pairs of France Anno 1666. The decease of the Queen-Mother which arrived the 20th of January was most sensibly resented by their Majesties and the whole Court Not long after insued a Rupture between France and England in pursuance of the League Defensive made by the Crown of France with the Hollanders in the year 1662. And now his Majesty by his Declaration publish'd his Intentions to relieve 'em and joyn his Forces with theirs against the English as well by Sea as Land The Queen of Portugal who had hitherto with so much glory and generosity supported that Crown deceased the 27th of February at whose death the Court of Spain took no small advantage by their many Intrigues and Cabals which they rais'd afresh in that Kingdom The Bishop of Munster who had so far terrified the Hollanders as to occasion them to invoke the aid of France for their defence about this time happily concluded a Peace this occasioned the return of our Troops Those of Holland have now therefore no more to do than to prosecute their Marine affairs and minde their Wars with England The 29th of May the Duke of Beaufort parted from Toulon with his Majestie 's Fleet on designe directly to meet a Squadron of the English and fight 'em in assistance of the Hollanders and this they happily performed at the same time when our Troops by Land defended them from the Insults of the Bishop of Munster Notwithstanding all the endeavours and Menaces of the Porte the Venetians and the Marquiss Ville appeared this year the aggressors of a War by Sea and by Land in Dalmatia and in the Isle of Candy having besieged New-Candy and almost blockt up Canea The Families of Vandosme and d'Estrée received extraordinary joy at the Birth of a Prince of Savoy they having been at no small labour and great expences to prefer the Princesses of Nemours and particularly the Queen of Portugal the ornament and support of that Crown The assistance of France and conduct of the Bishop of Laon in this affair hath defeated the Spanish designes in his intended Conquest of those Dominions which have now by this important Alliance taken fast root and re-establish'd that ancient Kingdom The Fleets of England and Holland being joyn'd the 11th of June there followed a terrible Battle and so resolute that it continued till the 14th at which time the English Ships retiring into the Thames and soon recruiting with fresh men they put out to Sea again and another great fight began the fourth of August which concluded to the equal prejudice of both parties Several of the English pursuing their Enemies into the Vlie fired there a great number of Merchants-ships They had yet another Battle neer Calais where the English having the Wind and the Tempest being great they run their Enemies on the adverse Shore In the mean time the Duke of Beaufort having taken in the Squadron which had conducted the Queen to Portugal sail'd with intentions to joyn the Hollanders at Calais but understanding they were retired for fear to be alone exposed to the Enemy he gained Brest in sight of the English Fleet they not able to prevent it though in this passage some of his ships being separated from the rest by a violent Tempest the Triumph the Mazarin and the Ruby fell among the English where valiantly fighting they were much torn and shattered and forc'd to retire into Havre except the Ruby who was so far engaged that her Captain la Roche grapled with the Admiral of England intending to perish together in fine obtained quarter After the Alliance concluded the 25th of October between the Hollanders and the King of Denmark the Elector of Brandenburg and the Princes of Brunswick certain Propositions of Accommodation were set afoot His Majesty of Great Britain protesting not to have made any act of Hostility against that Republick complain'd that they had taken 200 Vessels before ever the War broke out And in order to assure Navigation to re-establish Commerce and procure a Peace the States made known to his Majesty that it was necessary to appoint some place neutral where to treat as well with them as their Allies The affair of Breme which had so cruelly alarmed the Hanse and Imperial Towns was in fine determined the 25 of Nov. the Swedes contenting themselves with the submission of the Inhabitants The Duke of Valois was Baptized at the Palais Royal the sixth of December and
they have received from France endeavour with too much heat and precipitation a League Defensive with all the Potentates of Europe The King's Voyage into the Franche-Comte and Conquest of that Province during the Carnaval was a great action and the most glorious Enterprize that any Prince could possibly perform in less than 15 days The bare name and reputation of the Arms of this Monarch forced Spain formerly resolved never to acknowledge the King of Portugal to conclude a Peace with him and renounce the name and Arms of that Crown the 25 of February The meeting for Peace between the two Crowns of France and Spain being appointed at Aix-la-Chapelle the Treaty was concluded and signed the second of April though with a sensible regret from the French Army and Nation who desired nothing more than a continuance of War with the Spaniards But it was at the request of Clement the 9th that the King did yield to a suspention of Arms during the moneth of April and May in which he did more consider the good of Christianity than the Grandeur and Glory of his own person and Estates By this Treaty his Majesty kept his Conquests of the year past leaving to Spain that of the Franche Comte This great Monarch herein sacrifizing one of the bravest Conquests that ever shall be to the repose of his Subjects and this it was which he procured them in all his Rencounters The Alliances which soon after were concluded between the Dukes Maximilian of Bavaria Brother to the Elector and Mademoiselle de Boüillon and John Frederic de Brunswic-Lunebourg Married to the Princess Benedicta Palatine de Bavaria were of no small glory to France and Germany The Estates of Portugal now press Dom Pedro to receive the Title of King on the Abdication of his Brother Alphonso but not able to perswade him to that they extend his power equal to that of Royalty and in such condition he treats with all the Potentates of the World The King seeking all occasions to oblige his Holiness and the Holy Sea makes it his own request to demolish the Piramide heretofore erected against the Corses by the Treaty of Pisa The Marquiss de Crequy de Bellesons and d'Humieres were created Mareschals of France And on the 19th of July was performed an extraordinary magnificence at Versailles Great Honour was acquired by the Marquiss Ville in the defence of Candy the Marquiss de Saint André-Montbrun sharing with him the Glory of that Action These two gallant men have so signalized their valour in this Renowned Expedition that they have rendred their names Immortal The Nativity of the Duke of Anjou on the 5th of August occasioned much joy to the Court of France The ill Intelligence between the Queen of Spain and Dom John begun soon after the Peace the occasion that Prince's refusal to pass into Flanders he resolving to stay at Court as an obstacle to the Fortunes of Father Nitard The King judging the Letter circulary of the four Bishops sent about to all the others to unite them in resisting the Execution of the Pope's Breve which had named several Prelates to proceed against those four to be an irregular action did by his Arrest in Council and by the interposition of the Bishop Duke of Laon calm and asswage the greatest Storm which the Church of France had perhaps ever seen rais'd through the Vertues and Merits of some rare Spirits who with so much heat and obstinacy did oppose the Book of Jansenius from which approaching troubles this Illustrious Prelate found the way to dis-engage them with that sweetness and prudence wherewith he managed all things imprinting in their Hearts at the same time profound Sentiments of respect and submission for the Holy Sea By vertue of the Emperour's Mandate brought by the Marquiss de Bade the Electour Palatine on the 14th of December caused to be publish'd a Suspention of Arms and Cessation of acts of Hostility between him and the Duke of Lorain Anno 1669. The Portugals were overjoy'd at the Birth of the Infanta of Portugal which arrived the sixth of January This Princess was named by the Embassador of France after her Majesty Elizabeth-Maria Loüisa The Empress also was delivered of a Daughter the 18th following About the end of this moneth the Elector Palatine and the Duke of Lorain were obliged to disband their Forces to which his Majestie 's Arms under the command of the Mareschal de Crequy had compell'd ' em And now it was that his Holiness invited all Christian Princes to succour Candy and to which he applied his utmost as also to pacifie the Kingdom of Poland He sent also a Breve to Lisbon in confirmation of that Queens Marriage to Dom Pedro. About this time the Council of Spain resolved and took some pains to raise a Regiment of Guards to be always neer the person of his Catholick Majesty This Novelty was nothing pleasing to the Nobless and people it was also one pretence of the discontent of Dom John This Shrovetide was presented the Ballet of Flora composed of fifteen Majestick Entries Winter made the Overture with a handsome Speech the Sun who expell'd him chang'd the face of the Theater into a smiling Campagne This Glorious Planet accompanied with the Elements made the first Entry All the other parts were correspondent to this magnifique Spectacle where the beauty of the Machines the richness of the Habits and the Charms of the Ladies did not a little contribute to render this Piece into the number of the most glorious On the first of February the Ministers of the Empire Spain England Swede and the States concluded at the Hague the Treaty of triple Alliance the Swedes being to receive of his Catholick Majesty nine hundred thousand Livres In the beginning of the Spring the Duke of Beaufort and the Chevalier de Vandôme departed for Toulon there to hasten the Succours designed for Candy The Duke of Anjou was Baptized the fourth of March and named Philip by the Duke of Orleans and Madame representing the Emperour and Queen of Spain The Admiral Duke of Beaufort received from the Pope a Breve declaring him General of the Troops Ecclesiastick going for Candy to command in the absence of Dom Vincenzo Rospigliosi His Holiness having sent him the Standard of the Holy Sea The King of Portugal demanding to go into the Isle of Terceres he was convoy'd thither in the beginning of May by the Comte de Prado Dom John about this time made no unhappy Agreement He quitted Spain to Father Nitard reserving to himself the Title of perpetual Governour of the Low-Countries with the Vice-Royalty and Vicariat-General of Arragon Valancia and Catalonia with power to provide to all Offices and Benefices in the said places Prince Charles of Lorain and the Duke of Newbourg remain now the onely pretenders to the Crown of Poland Their Partisans take Arms and urge that affair to so great an extremity that they open the Eyes of the Polonois and the Prince Wiesnowiski being proposed to their election he was universally received and thus he happily ascended the Throne of his own Nation and of his Fathers the 19th of June Our Army having past from Toulon to Candy in fourteen daies that place being now extreamly prest and a fair occasion to charge the Enemy presenting it self Monsieur de Navailles sallied with the Army The Duke of Beaufort would assist with his own personal valour and courage in so brave an Enterprize The Chevalier de Vandôme shewed there his great Heart and resolution and that he was an accomplisht Souldier and Captain The Admiral having landed eighteen hundred men from Shipboard beat the Turks out of their Trenches and no doubt we had raised the Siege had not a panique fear frighted our men from so promising a Victory The Chevalier call'd to several Officers by their Names but ineffectually Fortune with much happiness and some difficulty brought off this young Mars from the Embarras of this sad Retreat But the Duke of Beaufort remain'd in the Field of Battle which he had won and which indeed he could never be made to abandon being there either slain or taken by the Ottomans Those many great Services which the Cardinal Duke of Vandôme had rendered to the King and State concluded with the pains he took to advance the Succours for Candy His Death arrived the sixth of August a loss for which the Courts of Rome and France and all Provence were not easily comforted The Dutchess of Vondôme who had been a perfect Example and Model of Vertue and Piety and the Queen of England youngest Daughter of Henry the great deceased the 8th and the 10th of September And now it was that the Prince of Tuscany finish'd his Voyage of Europe in France avowing that he had not seen a fairer Country than France nor a more admirable Heros than her King To conclude the Events of this year King Cazimir after he had seen another King Elected into his place quitted Poland and arrived in France where he was most splendidly regaled at Chantilly by Monsieur the Prince and Monsieur the Duke FINIS