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A37156	A relation of the most remarkable transaction of the last campaigne in the Confederate Army, under the command of His Majesty of Great Britain and after of the elector of Bavaria in the Spanish Netherlands, Anno Dom. 1692	D'Auvergne, Edward, 1660-1737.	1693 (1693)	Wing D300; ESTC R18094	43,218	75

overtake the Enemies Rear returned the same day to Halle We Forag'd this day and the Detachment was put under the Command of my Lord of Athlene who being informed that several of the Enemy lay in Ambuscade in a Wood to steal our Horses he ordered a Party to beat the Wood where Captain Rowland Maikenzy of that Regiment as was Sir Robert Dowglas's now my Lord George Hamilton's made Twenty Prisoners who begg'd very eernestly for Quarter though Orders had been to give none This day the Chevalier de Grandval Knight of Malta Bartholomew Lanier by Name born at Liniere in Picardy was Hang'd Drawn and Quarter'd according to the English Punishment for Traytors in the midst of our Camp for having conspir'd to assassinate the King with Du Mont and Levendael the first having discovered the business as we have said before to the Duke of Zell and the second to his Brother in Holland They were confronted as Witnesses of the Fact which Grandval himself confessed and own'd This Grandval had before kill'd the Mareschal de Humiere's Nephew in a Duel and as there is no mercy in France for such Men he was oblig'd to fly to the Duke of Savoy's Country for shelter where in the beginning of the War he took Service But Monsieur de Catenat finding this Grandval Serviceable to the Duke of Savoy represented it to the French King and desired him to give him his Pardon being assured under-hand that he would quit the Duke's Service if he had it Accordingly upon Catinat's Request Grandval had the Kings Pardon and thus left the Duke of Savoy and came to Catinat's Army where he was immediately preferr'd to be Major of Dragoons and Adjutant General Du Mont having been formerly an Officer in the States Service and disoblig'd I think cashier'd by our King he was resolved to attempt a Revenge by the assassinate of his Sacred Person accordingly he made the Motion to the then Marquess de Louvois and this was designed to be executed in 91. when the King was in the Field either upon the March of our Army or at some other time when the King rid abroad to view some Posts The Marquess de Louvous pitched upon this Grandval to bring the Assassin off who was to command a Detachment of some stout desperate Fellows for that purpose For Louvois thought this Man fit for the purpose since he had been so desperate as to fight a Duel contrary to the strictest Orders of the French King and in which there was no hopes of Mercy and also because he had been so much obliged by the French King in having his Pardon in a case in which the French King had never pardoned before and therefore he lay under some Obligation to undertake this honourable Employment But Du Mont and Grandval missing of their Design that Campaign and the Marquess de Louvois dying some time after it was laid by and Du Mont retired to Hanover Barbesieux however finding this Project in his Fathers Papers would not let it fall but sent for Grandval who accordingly entred into a new Negotiation with Du Mont by Letters at Hanover and took with him a third Associate Levendael at Paris and appointed their meeting to execute their Enterprize at Endhoven near Boisleduc I need not say any more Particulars I refer my self to the Factum printed in several Languages by Authority to let the World know so horrible a Villany and what the French Court will not attempt though it be never so base and unworthy to rid themselves of a powerful Enemy and far more base and horrible than those Designs laid against the Life of William I. Prince of Orange his Sacred Majesty's Glorious Ancestor as this was carried with a Hellish Secresie whereas the King of Spain had by a publick Proscription laid a Price upon the Prince's Life These Traytors were invited to this more than Hellish Conspiracy by the Prospect of vast Rewards promised them both by the late King and Barbesieux as has appeared by their own Confession and Grandval's own Letter to Mademoiselle Juré wherein he desired her to wait upon the Archbishop of Rheins to acquaint him that he had obeyed the Marquess de Barbesieux's Orders at the Expence of his Life My Lord of Athlone General of the Dutch Horse was President at the Council of War where he was Try'd assisted by Sgravenmoor Sir John Lanier and Talmash and Mackay Lieutenant Generals La Forest de Weede Noyelles Zobell Major Generals Churchill and Ramsey Brigadiers But the business of Steenkirk cut off two of the General Officers present at the Council of War before the passing of Sentence so that their Names are not Sign'd in it viz. Lanier and Mackay The Sentence was passed and read Monday the 11 th of August at the Camp at Lembeck and Executed the Wednesday following This day the Army decamp'd from Nostredame de Halle and marched to St. Quinten Lenneck a place remarkable only for the Retrenchments which remain there which Prince Waldeck caused to be made sometime before the Army's breaking up in 1690. and the next day we came to Ninove the first Town in Flanders scituated upon the River Dender which passing by Alost falls into the Scheld at Dendermond The French were at the same time encamp'd between Grammont in Dutch Geersberg and Lessines both upon the same River about two Leagues higher The King took his Quarter in the Abbey of the Town of the Order of Premonstre or St. Norbet and the Elector at a Gentlemans House not far from the Town The Kings Quarter lying something too open in this Camp in the Front of our Army all the English and Scotch Granadiers were order'd to encamp about the King's Quarters to cover it The day before this last March viz. the ●th the Second Battalion of the first Regiment of Guards my Lord Cutts's and the Prince of Hesse's Regiments were sent to Mecklen having suffer'd very much in the late Engagement Three Dutch Regiments who suffer'd at the same time were commanded towards Maestricht All the heavy Baggage of the Army was commanded towards Ghendt under the Convoy of Four Danish Battalions who had suffered at Steenkirk and were ordered there to quarter They were the Battalion of Danish Guards the Queens Prince Christians and the Finland Battalions This was in order to the Armies marching the next day towards the Scheld The Ways being difficult and the Defilés many the heavy Baggage was ordered to Ghendt The next day being St. Lewis's day the Army march'd from Ninove The French at the same time decamp'd from Grammont and Lessines to pass the Scheld as soon as we this being their Patron Saint and reckoned amongst them as a Fortunate day Our Left Flank laid very open all this day's March if they had pleased to attack it but they thought it not convenient and so we came and encamped in very close Grounds at St. Levinus Haltheim a pretty large Village and considerable chiefly for