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A journal of the late motions and actions of the confederate forces against the French in the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands with curious remarks on the situation, strength, and rarities of the most considerable cities, towns and fortifications in those countreys : together with an exact list of the army / written by an English officer who was there during the last campaign.
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English officer who was there during the last campaign.
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1690
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Wing J1099; ESTC R36213
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Cloaths Numb Men. DVtch Count Bullengburg Red lined White Dra. 0300 English Duke of Ormond Red lined Blew Gran. 0060 English Duke of Ormond Red lined Blew Guar. 0200 Spanish Count Dedamont White lined Blew 0300 Spanish Don Quan Degusti White lined White 0300 Spanish Monsieur Bay White lined White 0300 Spanish Don Martin de Corduva White lined White 0300 Dutch Wittenburgh White lined Red 0300 Dutch Prince Waldeck Gray lined Red 0300 Dutch Obdam Gray lined Scarlet 0300 Dutch Min Heer Benting White lined Blew 0300 German Overstrake White lined White 0400 Dutch Lieut. Col. Webingha White lined Blew 0400 English Oxford White lined Scarlet 0400   Total 4160 Foot Regiments First Line Brandenb Brandorf Blew lined White 0700 Dutch Anholt White lined White 0700 Dutch Rhinelscave White lined Blew 0780 Dutch Grafton Barloe White lined Red 0700 Dutch Overston Zalif Gray lined Red 0700 English Talmash-Guards Red lined White 1000 Scotch Part of the Guards Red lined White 0700 English Fuzileers Red lined Yellow 0780 English Hales Red lined White 0780 Lunenb Obubermstoff Blew lined Red 0600 Lunenb Hull Blew lined Pink 0600 Dutch Dursling White lined Red 0700 Dutch General de Alva 0700 Dutch Prince Waldeck Red lined Red 0780 Brand. Prince Cor. Red lined Green 0700 Dutch Count Tilly. White lined White 0700 Dutch Buloe Gray lined Blew 0780   Total 12400 Second Line Dutch Morewitt Red lin White Drag 0350 Frizland Prince Nassaw Blew lined Red 0300 Dutch Baron de Hinds White lined Green 0300 Dutch Baron de Hay White lined Red 0300 Dutch Baron de Saxon. Red lined Pink 0300 Dutch Holston White lined Blew 0300 Dutch Baron de Guistle 0300 Lunenb Overstbrang Gray lined Blew 0400 Dutch Count Flodrop White lined Red 0350 Dutch Grafton Nassaw Red lined Red 0300 Dutch Erff. White lined Green 0300 Hesse Wattlebrook White lined White 0350 Dutch Nassaw White lined White 0300 Spanish Dumong White lined White 0350 Spanish Monduboy White lined White 0350 Walloon Pettincore White lined White 0350 Lunenb Frank. White lined Red 0480 Lunenb Brankea Blew lined Blew 0350 Lunenb Craw. Blew lined Blew 0350   Total 6380 Besides the Brandenburgh Horse which came to us to Nottredam-Hall from the Siege of Ments which amounted to 6000 Second Line Names of their Count. Names of the Chief Commanders Colour of the Soldiers Cloaths Num. Men. Dutch Youg away Red lined Blew 0780 Dutch Covert d'over Isle White lined White 0780 Dutch Min Heer Van Fagall Red lined Yellow 0780 Frizland Prince Van Nassaw Blew lined Red 0780 German Prince de Berkovan White lined Red 0780 Lunenburg Count Swenesive Blew lined Red 0780 English Offarrell Fuzileus Red lined Red 0780 English Fitz Patrick Red lined Green 0780 English Churchill Red lined Buff 0780 English Hodges Red lined Red 0780 English Count Shamburg Red lined White 0780 Dutch Amalisworth Gray lined Red 0650 Dutch Min Heer Dutell White lined Blew 0700 Brandenburg Lord Beaumont Red lined Black Plush 0780 Lunenburg Major General Burrier White lined Red 0780 Brandenburg De Hull Blew lined Red 0780 Dutch Linstock White lined Blew 0780 Lunenburg La Mott. Red lined Black 0780 Lunenburg Little Host Blew lined Red 0780 Lunenburg Marquess de Budavid White lined Red 0780 Dutch Winburg White lined Red 0780   Total 16173 Second Line Names of their Count. Names of the Chief Commanders Colour of the-Soldiers Cloaths Num. Mer. Sept. the 2d Hoges Churchils Hales and Offarrels Regiments being wearied with Toyl and Sickness were dwindled away to about 900 Men for which reason they were sent to Breda whence we were recruited on the 16th with a Regiment of Sweeds Blew lined Yellow 0780 Dutch Regiment White lined White 0780    1560 Likewise Three Regiments of Dutch Horse and Prince of Friezlands Guards 0900 0100  In all 1000 A List of Prince Vademonts Army Which joyned us at Notredam-Hall where it Encamped Five hundred yards distant from the Right of ours on the 18th of September 1689. in Two Lines Horse-Regiments Names of their Count. Names of the Chief Commanders Num. Men. Walloon Mouns de Puis 350 Walloon Le Count de Masting 350 Walloon Duke de 〈…〉 scourt two Regiments 600 Spanish M 〈…〉 si 〈…〉 oude 300 Almaigne Count de Egmont 300 Almaign Baron de Toursey 300 Spanish Ansiens 300 Spanish Lieutenant General Count de Sallizer 300 Spanish Le Count de Vatzzin Lieutenant General de la Troop de Strangere 300   3100 Dragoons Names of their Count. Names of the Chief Commanders Num. Men. Walloon Mounsieur de Vallauseire 400 Walloon Baronde 400 Walloon Mounsieur de Villais 400 Spanish Mounsieur de Castors 350  In all 4650 Foot Regiments Spanish Mounsieur Marine 700 Mounsieur Maudrick 700 Mounsieur Agiare 700 Count de Shiron 700 Noy Elle 700 Sweeds One Regiment 780 Dutch Three Regiments from Gaunt 2100  Total 6380 The Total of the Army when Prince Vademont had joyned us Horse The First Line 4160 The second Line 6380 Brandenburg 6000 7000 Dutch 0900 Fâ—â—izland Guards 0100 Vâ—udemonts Horse 4650  22190 Foot The First Line 12400 The Second Line 16170 Dutch Recruits 01560 Prince Vademonts 06380  36510 Total Horse and Foot 58701 FINIS
Winter Quarters with Orders to send fresh Forces out of the Garrisons where they were to quarter which Forces joyned us at Lombeck On the 5th we marched to Jonep Jonep Here the Weather was likewise very bad and the Ground we encamped on worse in which sad Condition we stayed till the 9th and then marched to Notre Dame de Hall Notre Dame de Hall This is a large Town of good Trade where is a sumptuous Chappel a Jesuits Colledge with several Religious Houses this Town pays 10000 Guilders per Annum and a brass Gun to the French that they may be protected from the fury of their merciless Army on the 15th Prince Vademont's Army of 15000 Men joyned us which moved us to remove to Lombeck to give them room on our Right Lombeck Here the French Army having begun to set the Country on fire 'twixt us and Brussels Prince Vademont detacqued 3000 Horse out of his own Army and pursued them who were followed by twice as many out-of our Army under the Command of Mouns de Bee The Spanish Lieutenant General Prince Vademont came up with some of them killed 120 and brought 60 Prisoners into Brussels with the loss only of three Men the rest fled whereupon he returned to the Camp where we remained till the 19th when we marched to Enghien Enghien This Town belongs to the Duke of Arcourt and Prince of Brand Rambourge where he hath an extraordinary Mansion-House and sumptuous Garden some say it is as fine as Versailes the Fame whereof hath brought several from Paris and other remote parts to see it it is likewise said that the Prince before the War raged so much kept two Hundred Workmen all the Year imployed about it The Garden-plat which is well walled about cannot be less than three Hundred Acres in one part thereof is a small Deer-Park planted with several Groves of divers sorts of pleasant stately Trees as Fir Walnut Chesnut Spruce-Fir in the pleasure Garden are 52 small Statues in several Postures and eight very large guilded besides what are in the Hedges which all run Water There are Flower-Pots betwixt every Statue there are likewise four Houses of Waterworks in the middle of the Park of Mazes is a Fountain in an Octogon arched on sixteen Pillars about twenty Foot high on the Top are eight great Lions cut at large in Stone under the Freez are eight Caesars Heads The Fountain is railed and banastered about with Marble the bottom being flagged and the sides lined with the same as are the other four Houses of Waterworks From hence you see eight great Walks with Elm Hedges very curiously cut Joyning to which are eight Labyrinths on the side of the Walls are several regular Groves some in a Triangle some in a Quadrangle In this Town are several Convents of Carmelites and Capuchines Here is also a Nunnery and a stately Church curiously beautified with Sculptures this Town hath been walled but is now demolished Here we stayed till the 22th and then we marched to Syllie Syllie This day the French hearing of our decamping left the ground where they were very strongly posted in great disorder leaving behind them in the Hurry several Carriages Barrels of Bear Forrage and other Luggage Nevertheless we remained encamped at this place till the 27th and then marched in four Lines to Cambroug where we encamped in two Lines Prince Vademont's Army still keeping the Right Cambroug Here the French Army was encamped within a League and a half of ours who if they had a mind to shew fair play need not want a delicate plain Champion Country for it there cannot be a pleasanter sort of a Country and more capable of Improvement in the World But the Inhabitants are so given to Superstition and Idolatry that it is impossible any thing should prosper where they are From our Camp might be seen eleven Churches the Country being wholly dedicated to Religious Houses which cannot be termed any thing so properly as Nests of idle Idolatrous People blind Leaders of the Blind to whom the rest of the Inhabitants are all Slaves if it were not so and if it would please God to bless them with Peace it would certainly be as pleasant and plentiful and perhaps as flourishing a Country as any in the whole World The chief of these Irreligious Places is the House from whence our Camp derives its Name it is walled round situate in the midst of this Plain by a River-side 'twixt two of our Garrisons At h and Monts Within these Walls is a famous Chappel joyning to the Cloyster adorned with admirable Carvings and extraordinary Painting in it are many rich Altars which they at last refused to let our Guards see because said they they have given Offence in not kneeling at the lifting up of the Host but another Chappel they were admitted into where among other Fopperies and Trumperies I observed a little Prayer hanged up in Latin to be learnt of all that came thither to devotion the Prayer was to this effect That it would please the Lady of Cambrogue for the sake of the five Wounds which her holy Image suffered in that place by the hands of an unsanctified Jew to grant five things Namely that in the Hour of Death they may not want the Company of a Priest whereby they may have the benefit of Auricular Confession Absolution receiving the Sacrament and being anointed with Oil This is a Carmelite Convent They stamp little Medals of Silver and sell them to the People whom they perswade shall by the wearing of them be kept from Sickness Disasters Infection or any Power of the Devil This I heard one of them aver In the larger of these two Chappels is a great Marble Pillar much like the Cross in Coventry with all the Popes and Fathers of the Church engraven on it There is likewise engraven the Expiration of our Saviour on the Cross under which is drawn to the life two Priests laying him in his Grave with Women weeping all cut at large in Marble Here are likewise several large Tombs one of them which is indeed very rich belongs to the Family of Enghion others lye in Arches in the Wall cut at large impailed in Iron grates which though of stone are very much defaced which puts me in mind of Juvenal who says That the very Marble Statues and Monuments must yield to the corroding Nature of Time and pay a Tribute to Death It is said that the Prince of Orange's Army being about to be betrayed into the hands of the French by the treacherous contrivance of these Fryars he let his Soldiers plunder the Church and take away all they had whereof there is now no sign they having since admirably enriched themselves During our stay here I went to see Ath. At h This Town lieth at the West End of this Plain about a League and a half from the Right of our Camp which stretcheth it self when they are Encamped in two Lines at least a League