the afternoon they departed from the Princes Leger to the King of France who yet lay encamped before Utrecht and followed the French Leger to the Bos being every where nobly entertained and complimented Where they the 16 dito renewed their treaty of Alliance thereby more nearly binding themselves to hearken to no propositions of Peace but with knowledge on both sides and to come to no agreement but with the satisfaction of both of which notice was to be given to the States by their Deputies as also by a Letter of the English Plenipotentiaries was done from Boxtel dito 17. the same being communicated to his Highness with an annex of the Articles upon which they might have peace Demands and Conditions on which his most Christian Majesty would make Peace with the States General of the United Provinces THat the Proclamations formerly put forth by the States General forbidding the French Wines and Brandewine with all the impositions upon French Wares and Manufactures be revoked That within 3. months a Treaty of Commerce between his Majesty and the said States shall be concluded wherein also shall be comprehended the regulating of the French and Holland East and West Indies Companies 2. That for the future throughout all the United Provinces not onely a full liberty But also shall the publick exercise of the Romish Catholick Apostolical Religion so that in all places where more than one Church shall be one be given over to the Catholicks To whom also it shall be permitted to build one where there is none and they shall have liberty untill such time as the Church shal be built openly to celebrate Divine service in such houses as they shall to that end buy or hire That by the States General or every Province in particular a reasonable maintenance out of the Goods which have formerly belonged to the Church or such like be allotted to the Pastor or Priest in every of the said Churches 3. And forasmuch as the Deputies of the said States sent to his Majesty have for special reasons desired that it would please him by the Peace to permit the Body of the United Netherlands to remain in the State so as hitherto it hath been and thereupon in change to give unto his Majesty for the Conquests wherewith it hath pleased God to blesse his just War they have offered to him in stead of the Provinces Cities and Places which his Majesty already possesseth to quit unto him other Lands Cities and Places which in Brabant and Flanders by the Spaniard have been delivered up to them His Majesty although he be now Master of three whole of the 7. Provinces in the United Netherlands together with some of the Places and Posts in Holland hath willed for to preserve the said seven Provinces in their first Union to restore unto them what by his forces he hath posessed himself of in the said Provinces excepting what here under shall be specified and upon the following conditions 4. That the said States shall quit unto his Majesty generally all the Provinces Cities and Places which they have in Flanders and Brabant and those that have been quitted to them by the Spaniard onely excepting Sluce and the Iland of Casant 5. The said States also shall quit to his Majesty the City Nimwegen with the depencdencies and all belonging to it The Fort Knotsenburg Schenckenscons and the part of the Province of Gelderland lying on this side the Rhijn as to France together with the whole Island of Bommel the Island and Fort of Voorne the Fort St. Andries and the Castle of Louvestein and the Fort Crevecoeur 6. The said States also shall quit to his Majesty Grave with its dependencies and all belonging to it and shall give unto him the propriety of the City and the County Meurs to dispose thereof according to his pleasure with condition that the said States shall indemnifie the Prince of Orange as to the said County and other Places Cities and Countries belonging to the said Prince but yeelded up to his Majesty 7. That the said States shall yeeld to his Majesty all such claim as they may have had or could pretend unto in those places which his Majesty hath taken from the said States in the Empire that also they yeeld the same in favour of the Prince and Earl of East Friesland of all such claims as they have or may pretend unto in such Places as they possesse in his Land as namely the City Embden The Sconse van Leer-oort and the Ylersconse out of which they shall recall their Garrisons 8. That also it shall be permitted to the Subjects of his Majesty in all those Countries Cities and Places of the States General which have been yielded up to his Majesty to go in and out both by Water and by Land Rivers and Streams without paying any due or imposition or be subject to be visited as to their goods bagage munition of war and provision what soever 9. The said States shall oblige themselves to the Order and Religion of Malta to cause to be restored unto the said Order all the Rights which shall be found belonging unto them 10. The said States shall promise to cause the Children of the Earl of Bentem to be restored to him which by the authority and protection of the said States are by the Countesse wife of the Earl of Bentem detained from him notwithstanding his often requesting the same thereto also obtaining the Letters of the Emperor and of his most Christian Majesty for the restoring of them 11. The said States shall promise to indemnifie his Majesty of part of the excessive Charges he hath been necessitated to in this War and pay unto him within the time that shall be agreed upon the some of 20. millions and then his Majesty will acquit them of the three millions with all the intrest thereof which they owe unto his Majesty for the said sum his Majesties Father of happy memory had lent unto them Anno 1651. 12. That in acknowledgment of the Peace which his Majesty is willing then to grant unto them when he could have made his Conquests further in their Country The said States hall every year by an Ambassador Extraordinary upon a certain stipulated day cause to be presented to him a Golden Medal weighing a mark which shall contain that they hold the preservation of the same Freedom from his Majesty which the Kings his Predecessors have helped them to obtain 13. That although his Majesty doth declare to content himself with the foresaid Conditions in case they be accepted within 10. dayes after which his Majesty pretendeth to bee no longer obliged thereto neverthelesse herewith he gives to wit that although the same should be owned by the States they shall not be of any force and that his Majesty will enter upon no Treaty of Cessation or of Peace before such time as the King of England on his account shall receive satisfaction from the said States and that the Princes
THE LYON DISTURBED 〈◊〉 Amsterdam by Steven Swart GUSMAN FONSECA DE HARO GRAEF van MONTERY Goevernuer Vande Spaensche Nederlanden THE LYON DISTURBED Containing An Historicall Relation of the most remarkable Passages since the beginning of this War betwixt the United Provinces France England Colen and the Bishop of Munster unto this present ANNO 1671. IN January a German Prince wrote unto one of the noblest Princesses of the Low Countries admiring that people were so secure in Holland and not more awakened because of the great preparations of War by the French and their Creatures which he verily fore-saw to tend to nothing else but the invasion of the Netherlands Cunctaniem maxime Mars odit In Febr. the Bishop of Munster took on many Officers in service pretending his own security which â—…sed the States as suspecting him to choose four Horse and five Foot Regiments appointing their several Places of mustering of them April 23. The King of France began his journey to the Spanish Netherlands which being in great Pomp and attendance for to take a view of his Conquests caused not a little fear to the Spaniard But the Earl of Monterie held a vigilant Eye yea England it self would seem to be awakened securing their Coasts This State also took care both for Ships at Sea and strengthening the Garisons on the side of Flanders In May when the French Court was at Dunkirk abundance of French and English Gentry came to and fro for to view the Courts which by both the Kings were so highly entertained that it was judged far to surpass common civility and somthing else to lurk under it as afterward did plainly appear In July upon the tidings of the sickness of the Duke d' Anjou the King returned home and arrived at St. Germain the 17. dito finding his Son but a little before departed In August beside the continual taking on of Soldiers and preparing Magasins an 187. Commissions were sent forth from Paris beside Expresses to Germany Genua Switserland Savoy Venice Luqua Corsica and Scotland with other places for to leavy Regiments and whole France through Sea-Equipage was hastened At which time the States Fleet was before the Wielings and the Esquadron of Admiral van Gent was met by the Merlin commanded by Captain Crow sent over to fetch the Ambassadrix Temple from the Hague who making a bravado would have the whole Esquadron to strike but as not having sufficiently insisted he was at his return clapt up in the Tower which business proved afterwards the greatest pretence of the English to their breach of the league between us In September Soldiers were pressed both in England Scotland and Yreland for France under pretext of recruting Douglas his Regiment but Indeed of greater concern it being afterward known that above 12000. were raised for the French service In Octob. this State perceiving the mighty warlike preparations on every side and that vast sums of money were sent from France to England and maâ—y English Scotch and Irish Soldiers were shipt over from Dover to Calis they resolved also to increase their Militia and to form a nearer instruction about a Captain General which had somwhile been in deliberation In Novemb. The French were yet busie to form Magasins in Luyk Bon Nuys pretending it to be for the Bishop of Colen's service against the City but in the mean while abundance of French entred upon divers pretences the Countries of Overmase along the Rhyne which awakened Montrey to visite and provide the considerable Places of his Government as far as Navagnie The States also by their Committees visited their Frontiers and resolved against Spring to set forth a Fleet of 72. Ships and by their Edicts forbad the bringing in buying selling or consumption of French Wine Vineger Paper Canvas and Chesnuts In Decemb. This State perceiving the mighty increase of the French Forces and their great endeavours to gain England Spain Sweden and Germany on their side sent a friendly Letter to be delivered by their Ambassador de Groot unto the King who was kept from his audience the space of a Moneth but in the mean while in the Hague on the 17. dito a defensive League was much against the will of France and England concluded betwixt this State and the Ministers of Spain and afterward was ratified and delivered over on both sides A LETTER to the King of France MAy it please your Majesty After serious consideration of that bounty which the Kings your Progenitors have alwayes shewed to this State we could not without regret give credence unto the reports abroad that those mighty preparations for War in your Kingdome should be intended against us which nevertheless by reason of advertisements from all parts and the management by your State Officers in the Courts of Kings and Princes round about doth cause us to suspect We therefore have strictly searched whither there might not something in the management of our affairs be found an occasion to move your Majesty tö decline that friendship wherewith it hath pleased your Majesty to honour us unto this present but having found nothing to accuse our selves nor for which we have been reproved by your Majesty we could not imagine that the Justice which is exercised in your Kingdome would permit your Majesty to improve your Armes against your most faithfull and ancient Allies without any foregoing manifestation of those difficulties of which you required reparation And really it is so far from us to give any just cause unto your Majesty or in any thing to come short of the agreement concluded in Paris Decemb. 1662. that we apprehend that we have observed the same with all strictness and care and do offer without any delay to make satisfaction if through mistake we have come short thereof It is true Great Sir that for some time there hath not been that Compliance as to Sea affairs and Merchandise but this was very much to our griefe neither have we omitted anything that might justly be required of us to prevent and wholly to remove the troubles that have fallen out on either side even as we are ready yee to do and not onely as to that but in whatsoever may fully testifie to your Majesty our earnest desire to render unto you the honour and high esteem we are obliged unto as to your Person and Worth and to give you all the contentment which you could desire from your best and most affectionate Allies for the restoring of Trade at Sea and Traffick in the same way as it was at our last agreement yea in respect of our condescention to your interest to go to the uttermost we are able without prejudice to what we stand bound to other Confederates To be short Royal Sir we do not believe to justifie those martial prepares which are both at Sea and Land according to the intelligence we daily receive but we would assure your Majesty that we do it not with purpose to wrong any but through extream necessity
Ports are the things which move Our just Indignation against them The Right of the Flagg is so ancient that it was one of the first Prerogatives of Our Royal Predecessors and ought to be the last from which this Kingdom should ever depart It was never questioned and it was expresly acknowledged in the Treaty at Breda and yet this last Summer it was not onely violated by their Commanders at Sea and that violation afterwards justified at the Hague but it was also represented by them in most Courts of Christendom as ridiculous for Us to demand An ungratefull Insolence That they should contend with Us about the Dominion of these Seas who even in the Reign of Our Royal Father thought it an Obligation to be permitted to Fish in them by taking of Licenses and for a Tribute and who owe their being now in a condition of making this Dispute to the Protection of Our Ancestors and the Valour and Bloud of their Subjects Notwithstanding all these provocations We patiently exspected Satisfaction not being willing to expose the Peace of Christendom for Our particular resentments whilest they ceased not on their parts to endeavour to provoke the most Christian King against Us of which they thought themselves so secure that for above these Twelve months their Ministers here have threatned Us with it At length hearing nothing from them We sent another Ambassador to them who after several pressing Memorials in Our Name could receive no Answer till after he had declared his Revocation Then they offered a Paper to this effect That in this Conjuncture they would condescend to Strike to Us if We would assist them against the French but upon conditiön that it should never be taken for a President hereafter to their prejudice Since the return of Our said Ambassador They have sent an Extraordinary One to Us who in a most extraordinary manner has given Us to understand That he can offer us no Satisfaction till he hath sent back to his Masters Wherefore despairing now of any good effect of a further Treaty We are compelled to take up Arms in Defence of the Ancient Prerogative of Our Crowns and the Glory and Safety of Our Kingdoms And We put Our Trust in God that He will give us His Assistance in this Our just Undertaking since We had no way left to defend Our People from the Artifice of that Nation in Peace but by the Valour of Our Subjects in War We have therefore thought fit to Declare and do hereby Declare That We will prosecute War both by Sea and Land against the States General of the United Provinces and all their Subjects and Inhabitants Hereby enjoyning Our most dear and entirely beloved Brother the Duke of York Our High Admiral Our Lieutenants of Our several Counties Governors of Our Forts and Garrisons and all other Officers and Soldiers under them by Sea and Land to oppose all the attempts of the States General of the United Provinces or their Subjects and to do and execute all Acts of hostility in the prosecution of this War against the said States General of the United Provinces their Vassals Subjects and Inhabitants Willing and Requiring all Our Subjects to take notice of the same Whom We henceforth straightly forbid on pain of Death to hold any Correspondence or Communication with the said States General or their Subjects those only excepted who are necessitated thereunto for the withdrawing their Persons and Estates out of the United Provinces And because there are remaining in our Kingdoms many Subjects of the States General of the United Provinces We do Declare and give Our Royal Word that all such of the Dutch Nation as shall demean themselves dutifully towards Us and not correspond with Our Enemies shall be safe in their Persons and Estates and free from all molestation and trouble of any kind And further We do Declare That if any of the Low-Countrey Subjects either out of Affection to Us or Our Government or because of the Oppression they meet with at home shall come into Our Kingdoms they shall be by Us protected in their Persons and Estates And whereas We are engaged by a Treaty to support the Peace made at Aix la Chappelle We do finally Declare That notwithstanding the prosecution of this War We will maintain the true Intent and Scope of the said Treaty and that in all the Alliances which We have or shall make in the progress of this War We have and will take care to preserve the Ends thereof inviolable unless provoked to the contrary Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 17. day of March in the 24. year of Our Reign 1672. This was published in London the 7. April and the very same day the French King Proclaimed War against this State which afterward was also done by the Bishop of Munster The frivolous reasons and idle pretences I referre to the judgement of the Reader it being sufficient barely to mention them LOUIS DE BOURBON DE XIIII by de gratie Godts KONINCK van VRANCKRYCK en Navarre etc The Declaration of the King of France by which his Majesty after resolution to make War upon the States of Holland forbiddeth all Correspondence or Trading with them 6. April 1672. By the King The dissatisfaction his Majesty hath had in the management of the States General of the United Provinces some years since in their actings toward him and it being come to that passe that his Majesty can no longer but with stain to his honour connive at the unworthinesse acted against him by such manner of doing which so little agreeth with the great obligations wherewith his Majesty and the Kings his Predecessors have so liberaly filled up the measure unto them so that his Majesty hath declared and doth declare by these presents signed by his own hand that he hath arrested and fully resolved to make war with the said States General of the United Provinces both by Sea and Land To this end his Majesty commandeth all his Subjects Vassals and Servants to fall upon the Hollanders and hath doth forbid them from hence forward to hold any Correspondence Trade or Intelligence with them upon pain of Death And his Majesty to this end hath henceforward revoked and doth revoke all Permission Pasports Safegards or Free-passes which either by himself or his Deputies or other his Officers may have been granted contrary to these and accounts the same as null and of no worth forbidding all and everyone who ever they be to have any regard unto them And his Majesty commandeth and appointeth the Lord Earl of Vermandois Great-Master Head and Superintendent General of the Navigation and Commerce of this Kingdom The Marshà ls of France the Governors and Lieutenants General for his Majesty in his Provinces and Armies The Field-Marshà ls Colonels chief Officers Captains Heads and Leaders of his Soldiers whither Horse or Foot French or Strangers and all other Officers whom it may concern that they cause the Contents hereof to be executed every
of the Empire allied with his Majesty in this war shall likewise be content with the Condition that shall by the States be offered unto them Here followeth a further Amplication of the forenamed Articles ANd that it may appear by the choyce of more Conditions than one how uprightly his Majesty had been pleased to present to the said States General divers wayes for to obtain the Peace they desired of him and not to bring so far as was in his power the pretences which he justly might by force of Arms and the continuance of his Victories Therefore his Majesty declareth that without standing precisely to the offers which here before have by the said States been made as also the Conditions which by form of alternative he had required of them He will content himself with keeping all the Conquests his Majesty at present possesseth together of those he may further Conquer untill that the said States shall have consented to these Conditions to wit the whole Province and Dukedom of Gelderland belonging to the States the Province of Utrecht and County Zutphen all the Cities Places and Fortresses which are in the said Provinces their appendencies and what belongeth to them without exception the Soveraignties of the Provinces Lands Cities and Places conquered by his Majesty with the appendencies and all belonging thereto to remain for the future for ever to his Majesty And to the end the said Conquests Countries and Places delivered up to his Majesty may the better be brought to a capacity through the assistance of the Empire to be strenthened the said States shall renounce all Soveragnity over the Cities Mastricht and the Wijcke as also of what they now hold in Overmase Dalen Fouquemont and the Country belonging to the Bos together the City and Meyerije of the said Bos and all what belongeth to the appendices thereof with the Fort Crevecoeur And that the Treaty upon the last Terms might serve not onely to re-establish the friendships and alliance between his Majesty and the said States but to procure the rest and tranquility of the Empire which his Majesty as Guardian and conserver of the Treaties of Westphalia doth in speciall lay to heart his Majesty will promise after the Peace made to renounce in favour to the Princes of the Empire to all that right which by law of Armes may appertain unto him as to those Places which his Majesty hath taken from the States in the precinct of the Empire his Majesty reserving onely to himself the liberty to demolish the fortification thereof But forasmuch as his Majesty will of himself contribute to re-establis the Princes of the Empire in the free possession of the Cities and Places belonging to them therefore he hath also willed to procure that the said States General shall draw forth their Garrisons out of the Cities Places which they hold as yet in the Empire namely the City Embden the Fort of Leer-oort and Ilersconse which shall be delivered up to the Prince and Earl of East-Friesland with all the Priviledges appertaining in respect of the said County and to the end that the needfull correspondence between France the City Maestricht which is to be given up to his Majesty may be for the future no occasion of Contest It shall be by both parties estipulated to endeavour a grounded and free passage for the Troups of his Majesty from the French Frontiers to the said Maestricht from the Elector of Ceulen as Prince and Bishop of Luyck yet upon condition not to make use of the passages but with paying what charges they are at that the Country be not burthened Furthermore the Articles mentioned in the former notition shall remain in full as they are even that concerning the quitting of the City and County Meurs onely excepting those that concern the delivery up of other Lands and Places to be made by the said States to his Majesty Demands and Conditions upon which the King of England would consent to make Peace with the States General of the United Provinces 1. THe King of England understands that the Hollanders without any gainfaying shall give unto him the honor of the Flag yea so as their whole Fleet shall strike and let fall their Top-sail for any one English Ship bearing the Flag of his Majesty throughout the whole British Sea even to the Coasts of Holland 2. Free permission for a whole year to all English that remained in the Colony of Surinam to depart thence when they shall desire with all their goods of what nature soever they be according to the Treaty of Breda 3. Perpetual banishment out of all the Territories of the United Provinces of all the Kings Subjects that are declared guilty of Crimen Laesae Majestatis together with all other which shall be noted by his Majesty to have published seditious Libels or otherwise to have conspired against the Peace and tranquility of his Kingdoms 4. Restoring to his Majesty the expences of the war to the sum of one million of pounds sterling whereof 400000. shall be paid between this and the month October next ensuing and the rest by 400000. pounds sterling every year 5. A yearly pay for ever of 10000 pounds sterling for the grant they shall have from the King to catch Herrings upon the Coasts of England Scotland and Yreland 6. The present Prince of Orange and his Successors shall have the Souveragnity of the United Netherlands excepting of what shall fall to the share of the Two Kings and their Allies or shall at least enjoy for ever the honour of Admiral General and Stadtholder in the highest degree that hath by the foregoing Princes been enjoyed 7. That within three moneths after the Peace a Treaty of Commerce shall be made as well to the regulating of Trade in India according to demands formerly made as to the advance of the Subjects of his Majesty in their trading going coming or habituating in any of the Countries belonging to the said States and with such advantagious conditions as are agreed unto the Nations most in favour 8. The Island of Walcheren the City and Castle of Sluce with its dependencies the Island of Cassant that of Goeree and the Island of Voorne shall be put into the hands of his Majesty by way of Caution for the performing of the Conditions before specified 9. And however his Majesty declareth to content himself with the foresaid Conditions in case the same be within ten dayes accepted after which his Majesty understands himself no longer obliged Nevertheless he doth peremtorily declare that although the said States should accept them yet they shall be of no force nor that his Majesty will make any Treaty of Peace or Cessation before such time as the most Christian King shall in his regard by the said States have received satisfaction as also that the Princes of the Empire allied with his Majesty in this War shall be contented with the Conditions presented to them by the said States I believe there
Dragten and Bergen where the Frieses being allured into an Ambush would have fallen short had they not been seconded whereby those of the Bishop were driven back with the loss of 150. horse and onely 25. of our soldiers 31. dito The Pensionaris de Wit for the first time went to Church after his recovery of his wounds wherein he was the more hasty for to have the opportunity to be assistant to the dangerous condition of his brother the Ruart van Putten who the 24. dito was brought from Dort to the Hague and there kept prisoner The 1. August the Pensionar went and complimented his Highnesse over his Illustrious Character and advance The 4. dito he appeared in the Session of the States General where he made an Oration of his great services and care of the welfare of the State but perceiving that in this conjuncture it could be no longer for the profit but contrarywise to the disadvantage of the Land he therefore was come to lay down his office of Pensionarship perhaps because he foresaw he was not like long to hold or at least to execute the same and withal desired that according to the resolution before taken he might have his seat in the High Councell but forasmuch as there fell dispute about the Ranck and afterward Zealand was opposite to the Session it self and as is reported the Chair of State was denied in the Church he never after appeared in the Councel Upon notice given in England of his Highnesse advance to the Stadtholdership came a rescription dated 28. July which his Highnesse communicated to the State A Letter of his Majesty the King of Great Brittain To his Highness the Prince of Orange From Whitehall the 28. July 1672. Cosin MOnsieur van Reede having made report of the sad condition to which you are brought it went very near me but which most troubled me was that you seem to have an apprehension as if I had lesse care and affection to you than formerly I pray you that you be pleased to assure your self that they are groundless apprehensions without cause but on the contrary that I have the same tender respects and affection your person that ever I had both in regard of your own worth as in respect of that blood of which we both partake Neither have I ever forgot any of the least good services which your Father in his life time hath shewed to me the obligations whereof shall alwayes remain engraven in the bottom of my heart Be pleased I pray to believe though the present State of things have not permitted me to correspond with you and to communicate my designs and Treaties which in all transactions I have undertaken with the most Christian King I have alwayes endeavoured to advance your Interest so far as the nature of the Treaty could any way permit The insolencies and continual Machinations against me by those that for some time since have had so great direction in the Government of the United Netherlands have necessitated me to joyn with the most Christian King who also hath the same Subject of complaint against them to the end onely to cast down that insupportable greatnesse of the Louvesteinish faction and to assure our selves from the like future insults and mockage The trust that I have to the Friendship of the most Christian King the affection he bears to your Person and his aversion to them which have manifested themselves to be my Enemies as well as yours do promise unto me a good issue out of all these turmoiles as to your self and in case the Inhabitants of those Provinces had in time considered their mistake and conferred upon you the authority and dignities wherewith your Illustrious Predecessors have so worthily been possessed of then without doubt the said most Christian King and We should have continued in a perfect and assured friendship with the foresaid Provinces Notwithstanding I am very much satisfied with what the Commons of those Provinces now lately have done choosing you for their Stadtholder And when I shall see that affairs are brought to such a stay that it shall be no longer in the power of the said violent faction or another as malitious to dissolve or make fruitlesse what is done and that I shall be able to free my Subjects from the oppression and injuries they have so long sustained I will endeavour to protect you and your friends and improve all my interest with my Brother in law the most Christian King for to yeeld to such an issue to these embroiled affairs that the whole World may perceive the particular care I bear to your Person and what for your sake I will do for the interest of the foresaid Provinces To be short I would assure you and you may certainly believe that I have alwayes all manner of good inclination and intention for your well being as such as you could desire and which alwayes may witnesse that I am and shall be Cousin Your well-affectionate Uncle and was under writ CHARLES REX The Letter was diversly interpreted which I leave to every one to judge of as seemeth him good but look upon it as meerly complimental and expressing the Kings bitternesse against this State under the name of the Governors thereof and I pityed those who judged to see in it any affection of the King towards his Highnesse and for his sake to this Country or did hope by this change the easier to obtain an accommodation with England 1. August Towards evening went out of Utrecht about 3000. men most Horse having some pieces by them with which the day after they came before Kroonenburg where Captain Witze commanded with about 200. men it was a strong Fort but not provided with Ammunition of which the French with some losse made themselves masters carrying away our Soldiers prisoners to Utrecht which also they did to the Fort Loenersloot in which lay onely a few men both which Forts a while after they left by powder demolishing Kroonenburg and having plundered all Loenen and what was thereabout retired with the spoil to Utrecht 8. dito In the Quarters of his Highnesse Captain de Hing Yossa who had laid in Wesel was sentenced by the High Councel of War to be beheaded for cowardize mutiny and treachery Colonel Mombas who had betrayed the Tol-house was the same day his brother in law de Groot departed the Land sentenced to be deprived of all dignities and Offices to be detained 15. years prisoner but in the sentence nothing was pronounced against his Person but not long after he escaped and went over to the Enemy upon which 3000. gildens was set upon him by proclamation The 28. August Colonel d'Ossery for his unfaithfullness at Rijnberck was beheaded in the Princes Leger And the 23. Septemb. the Commander van Zanten and Major Copes for their unfaithfull carriage in the delivery of Wesel were disgraded and their Swords broken at their feet and the first of these in the presence of
and most strong obligations to defend our State and Subjects and that it shall be our joy to lay down our Armes when it shall please your Majesty to free us from those troubles which that War doth bring upon us that seemeth near approaching on all sides assuring our selves we ought not to stand in fear of yours We have given Commission unto our Ambassador D' Groot to desire a particular audience as to these things by your Majesty and to propound them more at large with addition of whatsoever may serve to assure your Majesty of the uprightness of our intents Here we will break off and not further enlarge but onely to beg of God to preserve your Majesty Written in the Hague Decemb. 10. 1671. ANNO 1672. Januar. 2. The Interim agreement between the Bishop and City was signed at Colen by which also the City was necessitated to cause Bamphields Regiment being in service of the States to quit the City which by reason of many obstructions the French urging to muster them and to take out all of their Nation among them was retarded untill the 4 of February but without molestation then departed to Rijnberck and other Places on the Rhijn when it manifestly appeared that the French Munsters and Colens designes were nothing else but to fall upon us to which end the Bishop of Colen claimed the delivery of Rijnberck and the Bishop of Munster the Children of the Earle of Benthem In the mean while nothing more noysed than raising of Soldiers and shipping over of numbers of English to France and then because of the low waters many flat boats were made ready here to lay upon the Rivers Febr. 4. The Ambassador d'Groot first obtained an hearing to deliver the States Letter to the King receiving for answer that this Letter was already communicated to him from other Princes and that about the Spring it would appear whereto this arming tended to which end also the 6. dito a Letter was sent to the States in answer as followeth MUch endeared Great Friends and Allies By the Lord d'Groot your Ambassador Extraordinary to us we have understood what was on your behalf to be declared to us and have received out of his hand of Decemb. 10. the Letter ordered by you to be given unto us We were well pleased in it to find the acknowledgement you make to have received at divers occasions the tokens of the goodness of the Kings our Progenitors but we could have wished you had not forgotten what hath fallen out since we came to the Crown the remembrance whereof would have prevented you of judging so sincerely of your transactions to us ward as you doe in the managing of your affairs since that time you might have called to mind that you have not alwayes observed that fidelity which our ancient confederacy did oblige unto and that we have not failed in your urgent necessities to afford you requisite assistance for the preservation of your State If so it may be the innovation you made in trading since 1662. would not have seemed so excusable unto you as you make it and which we are willing to referre to the judgment of them that have lesse interest in it than we If what you acknowledge be true that Justice be the rule of our actings and that you are satisfied in the considering of our undertakings then ought you not to be troubled at our taking up of Armes We grant that since our last journey to Flanders we have increased our Bands to improve our foot in the works of our Forts and to difend our Subjects from danger threatned by the more than ordinary number of Foot and Horse by you raised and the Fleet you kept before our Coasts as also because of importune Addresses of your State Ministers at the Court of most Princes for to combine with you against our Crown Wherein we followed the Law of sage providence and what the defence of our people obliged us to We would therefore let you know that we will go forward with our arming both at Sea and Land and when it shall be brought to that height we have proposed to do we shall so improve as we shall think becoming our Honour of which we are bound to give no account to any assuring our selves that God will blesse our righteous undertakings and that shall be owned of all Potentates who have not suffered themselves to be prejudiced by those evill impressions which now for a long time hath been endeavoured to be done This was our pleasure to give in answer to you Letter although it was written not so much for us as to stirre up the Princes against us in whose Courts it was common before we had received the same We pray God very dear great Friends and Allies to keep you in his holy protection Written at St. Germein de Laye 6. Januar. 1672. Your good Friend and Ally LOUIS LE TELLIER Was subscribed Under it 8. Dito The Ambassador Downing who some dayes had been in the Hague made his publick Entrance but little satisfaction was taken as to himself and not much exspected from his negotiation About this time the Lords of Amerongen went to the Elector of Brandenburg and of Brasser to the Princes of Lunenburgh for to treat with them about supplies of Auxiliary Troups WILLEM HENDRICK DE III by de gratie Godts PRINCE van ORANIE erf Stadthonder Cap Gen van Holl Zeel etc Febr. 4. The Ambassador Downing had his farewell audience declaring that forasmuch as he could not obtain an answer to his memorial iterated instances about striking the Flag he was ordered to return home Although the State had divers times proffered to give due satisfaction in case all pretences were brought in to be together treated on which also the said States by their Letter had signified to the King but Downing protested to have expresse order to treat of nothing before satisfaction was made about the Flag which the States declining he returned home and soon after his return was put into the Tower and deprived of some of his Places of honour the cause not being discovered onely it was given out that he came back before he had order although afterward it appeared that the agreement betwixt France and England was fully concluded and subscribed the 12. dito so that it seemeth this was onely done to abuse us 9. Dito The States of Holland took on Officers for 8. Regiments of Horse and 5. on Foot and the 12. dito by provision for two more which choice of Officers was pro rato also made in the other Provinces In France Patents were given out for 20000. Foot and 6000. Horse more The Bishops of Colen and Munster also gathered Forces amain England hastened their Fleet under the Duke of York Admiral Here also they neglected nothing which might hasten their Fleet. 25. Dito After infinite consultations and disputes at length his Highness was appointed Captain General over the Forces of the State but with
one in his Place throughout their command and Jurisdiction for such is his Majesties pleasure who willeth that these shall be published and affixed in all his Cities and Sea-Coast Towns and in all Havens and other Places of his Kingdom where it shall be requisite that none may pretend ignorance hereof Acted in the Castle of Versailles the 6. April 1672. Signed Louis and yet lower Le Tellier It is ordered that Charles Canto sworn Herald of the King shall Proclaim and cause to be affixed in all places of this City Suburbs Provostships and Markgraefships of Paris where need shall require this Ordinance of the King of the 6. of this present moneth and year that no ignorance be pretended Signed De la Reinie Read and proclaimed at the sound of Trumpet together by affixion in all the common and extraordinary Cross-streets and Suburbs of Paris by me Charles Canto Ordinary sworn Herald of the King in the said City Provostships and Markgraefships of Paris in proclaiming whereof I was accompanied with five Trumpetters viz. Prosme Trousson Endime du Bos sworn Trumpetters of this King and three more on Thursday the 7. April 1672. Subscribed CANTO Now it was high time to hasten all warlike preparations the Ambassadors of the States the Lord Meerman and D'Groot returning from England and France re infecta and the Generals being chosen both of the French and our Armies The Generals of the French Army The Army of the King â—…nsieur the Duke of Orleans Gene-Mralissimo â—…arshal de Turenne Captain General Earl of Soisons Marquis de Rochefort Earl of Lude Earl or Gadaigne Duke de la Favillades Earl de Lorge Lieutenants General Chevalier de Loraine Marquis de Genlis Martinet de Montal Field-marshals The Army of the Peince of Conde Marshal d'Humieres de Bellefonds Captains General Foucault de St. Arbre Earl de Guiche Lieutenants General Earl du Plessis du Nogent Magalotti Field-marshals The Army of the Marshal de Crequi Mons de Nancre Lieutenant General Earl de Vaubrun Monsieur du Plessis Field-marshals Duke of Luxenburgh General of the Army of the Confederates Mons de la Valiere Field-marshal Mons le Brest Field-marshal towards Catalonia Mons d'Elbeuf General of a Body at the Sea-side The King before the setting forth of the Army having commanded the Marshals d'Humieres Bellefonds and Crequi that if the Armies come to be conjoyned or in absence of the Princes of the Bloud they should for the time of this expedition submit to the orders of Turenne which they excusing were put by in disgrace and Chamely Gadaigne and Navaile put in their room but after some time the former were replaced yet with promise of submission to Turenne Generals of the Army of the States of the United Provinces The Prince of Orange Captain General Prince Maurits and the Lord Wirts Field-marshals The Rijngrave Senior General of the Horse The Lord of Zuilestein General of the Foot The Earl of Hornes General of the Artillery John van Welderen Earl of Nassau Lieutenant Generals of the Horse Alua The Earl Koningsmarck Lieutenants Generals of the Foot Mombas Steenhuyse Commissary Generals of the Horse Kirpatrick the Earl of Stirum Sergeant Majors Afterward was chosen for the third Field-marshal the Earl of Waldeck and Kuylenburg The 13. dito The State proclaimed a general fast against the 4. of May and so forwards to be kept upon every first Wednesday of the Month and it was resolved to encrease the Militia both for the State in general as also for Holland in particular of which capitulations were formed to raise them of outlandish Soldiers Also some of our Foot Regiments were sent over to the Spaniards to be in Garrison in Namen Valencijn and other places and on the other hand to us came some Regiments of Spanish Horse of which some Companies were sent to Mastricht 16. dito The Elector of Colen published a Manifest though his whole Country of Colen and Luyck was already a Magasin for France that he would maintain neutrality forbidding the acting of any hostility against the Subject of this State unto all in his Dominion but in truth this was onely done for to deceive us 26. dito Was the time appointed for the sitting of the Parliament at London which instantly was prorogued without doing of any thing to the 30. of Octob. and in place of Ayscue deceased Sr. Joseph Jordan was placed jin the Fleet to which the Duke of York went the 29. dito to set to Sea and the Duke of Monmouth prepared himself for France there to command those of the English Nation and in special his own Regiment in the Kings Army and soon after departed with many of the Gentry 27. dito After that the French King had for a long time been raising an huge Host which was esteemed to amount to above 300000. men which reckoning all the Pages Lacquyes Coachmen Carriers Boyes Krauwels Pioniers Women Trosses and Whores might well be for the Muster-rowles amounted to 146270. Soldiers at least with Mortepaise huge Artillery with an incredible quantity of Provision and Ammonition both at home and in diverse Magasins abroad Thus his Majesty having committed the management of the Kingdom to the Queen and her Council departed from Paris the 27. of April with the Marshal Turenne three dayes together being spent in transporting of the Treine and Bagage for which were imployed 40000. Horses with a sufficient number of Carts and waggons The 28. dito the Duke Orleans with many Grandees followed who took their march with his Majesty by Nantevil Soisons Lion Rocroy and the 5. of May arrived at Charleroy The same day the Prince of Conde passed by la Ferte and Reims and arrived the 30. at Sedan for to come down with an Army apart In the mean while much shipping came down the Moesel and Rijne for to bring all manner of necessaries past Colen unto their Magasin at Nuys great numbers also longst the Mase to Luyck and the Troups which lay spread abroad thoughout the Country of Colen were now called together to Nuys and the Bishop of Munster also gathered his Soldiery together preparing for the Field May the 6. at Colen on the Spree a treaty of mutual assistance and defence was concluded between Brandenburg and the Lord of Amerongen in which Brandenburg engaged to raise for the defence of this State 20000. men to wit 12000. Foot and eight thousand Horse to which Holland was to furnish the half of the levie mony viz. 120000. Rijcksdollers and for the pay of every Regiment consisting of 500. Horse 4977. Rijcksdollers to stulvers and every Regiment of Foot consisting of a 1000. 4214. Rijcksdollers 4. stuivers per Month besides for the Artillery and other inevitable expences 14841. Rijcksdollers per Month being together 79543. Rijcksdollers per Month with proviso that Brandenburg at his charges should provide 50. pieces with all the Ammunition and Artillery thereto belonging obliging himself 2 months after the receipt of the first
will few be found that do imagine such an unreasonable project to proceed from such prudent royal Councels and nevertheless it pleased those Lords to rise thus high perhaps not well advised that the Holland generosity though at present much brougt under was yet too great thus willingly to subject them selfs to the arrogāt cruelty of the French insupportable yoke of the English The 19. dito the English Ambassadors came in the Kings own coach conducted by 500. horse to Antwerp where they had conference with the Earl of Montery having a Commissioner of France with them labouring with all their might to draw Montery from siding with us forasmuch as hitherto not onely by order from the Spanish Court but through his own inclination and vigilancy he had much assisted this State by sending auxiliary troups in most of Frontiers in Brabant Flanders Maestricht and into our Army it self wherefore they desired that he would call them back again or make himself master of those Cities in which they lay offering their assistance thereunto but that noble Earl was too honourable so much as once to listen to such an hellish plot declining as much as might be all conference with them and departed to Brussels shortly after augmenting instead of calling back his auxiliary Troups The English perceiving they could gain nothing upon him departed the 26. dito from Antwerp over Calis for London where they arrived the last dito The 26. July the King brake up from Box tel with Monsieur other Grandees with a conduct of 14000. men passing through the Meyery over Beringen St. Truyen Hanuyt Charleroy Quesnoy directly to St. Germein where he arrived 1. August the Prince of Condé following him shortly after with most of the Gentry and Voluntaries in which return they of Mastricht as formerly afterward got very great booty as daily going forth for prey and since the beginning of the war till now have got an incredible spoil of which the Spanish Auxiliaries had not the least part whose horse were most in this service The Duke of Monmouth went home over Flanders his Regiment of 2400. being melted away to 1500. And thus to the admiration of every one this Companies was before August broken up Monsr de Turenne also Generalissimo of the Kings Leger in the Netherlands left the siege of the Bos and marched higher up some Troups at times appearing before Heusden and the Bos to fetch in contribution and burned some Villages about Breda The Bishops of Colen Munster had begun 28. July to play with their Canon upon Groeningen to open their Loopgraves They in the City were reasonably provided had prepared all things without for to hold out a siege But that which was most of all they had a gallant Governour the Lord Rabenhaupt and a notable Commander the Duke of Holstein Pleun and other worthy Officers The Governour took upon himself the whole management of the Militia and fortification being very strict in discipline of war and very vigilant to look to all things Hereby the Magistrate was frustrated of their opportunity to play their parts as they in other Cities did and citizens and soldiers kept from mutiny The Enemy made his approaches both out of the Munsters and Colish Quarters shooting very hard continually whereby they got to the Counterscarp casting without ceasing fiery Bullets Bombes Granados Stink-pots and Pitch-Garlands into the City But they within both Citizens Studens and Soldiers defended the City with unwearied pains never appeared the least discouragement amongst them but contrary it increased through the successe of diverse issuings forth upon them and by the succours of such as came from other places as many Regiments of Konings mark some Frieses and the whole Regiment of Jorman of Amsterdam beside the supply of all necessary Provision and Ammunition When they saw their Houses through the force of the Bombes tumbling down instead of being disheartened they were the more encouraged The Women themselves stepping over the ruines of their habitations to encourage their Husbands to the fight they lightly esteemed the losse of an Arm Leg Child or Friend in respect of their purchased liberty in which they continued with such constant manfullnesse and unwearied zeal untill that the Enemy the 28. August was forced with shame to quit the siege Oh! Praise-worthy Groeningers how wickedly did other Cities betray themselves yet in truth this of Groeningen could hardly be termed a siege the City being onely closed at 2. or 3. Bulwarks and the rest free being provided of all necessaries never sustaining a storm onely furiously shot upon with Bullets and Granados which did little hurt except to the houses although it is reported they cast in above 5000. Granados many of them weighing 4. and 5. hundred pound a piece which indeed did ruine that part of the City but did little hurt to the people there being not above 80. slain during the whole siege but very many of the Enemy who besides the wounded amounted toy number of 4536. under which were three Commanders two Lieutenants Colonels 63. Captains with many other Officers many were taken prisoners and about 5000. ran away so that the army of 24000. was decreased to 14000. and an infinite number of Fire-works consumed The Enemy leaving the City set their Tents and Leger-place on fire but were fain to leave some Canon with much Ammunition and Leger instruments behind them the which they of the City made good prize of and slighted all the Enemies works At Sea since the battle of the 7. June nothing considerable fell out our Fleet still keeping near Zealand upon what ground is diversly conjectured The Enemies Fleet also seemed to have little stomack for another engagement yet in the midst of July they came before the Texel in all appearance the design being to Land their men some where or other but the Heavens by a storm hindred the same which sooner than they were willing drave one of their ships a shore and sent back many shattered home again the rest remaining crossing about our Sea-ports thinking in appearance yet to bring about their design in the mean while our Fleet having no considerable losse But the Enemy having repaired their Ships for the most part spread themselves all about on Sea for to watch our merchant men but especially our Ships returning from the Indies And the 1. August some Seamen came hither in an Advice-Yaght from Chilon and being pursued by the English to our very Coast and seeing no way or escape they themselves sunk her and so escaped in the Boat however the English saved the said Jaght and brought it for England but was of no great valew The 6. dito tidings came of 14. East-Indies Ships happily arrived upon the Eems who not knowing of the war and having met with no English saving two Frigats before the Eems who made signs for assistance but in vain and therefore were fain to suffer them all safely to get in which being
at the time of the besieging of Groeningen the Fort Delf-zijl had the hap to be furnished with powder and shot out of East-India the better to defend the ships Suddenly many Smack-boats were sent thither to take out the finest Wares and to bring them home over the Wadden and our Ships of War went to the Eems to fetch off these India Ships all which by a special providence arrived at their several Ports without any hinderance and the Fleet returned again to Zealand And it is very remarkable that the English who had so long lurked for to prey upon our East-Indie ships themselves of which the certain news came the 17. August lost a very rich Indie ship of their own called the Faulcon being taken by a Zealand Caper and brought up at Bergen in Norway esteemed to be worth 1500000. gildens After this nothing was done by both Fleets the design of the Enemy which was to Land on our Coasts being continually hindered by hard weather in the mean while our Capers which at the beginning of the War were not permitted with many other that had Commission from Zealand went out to Sea and yet daily do which already have so much endammaged the French and especially the English that their losse is rated at many millions The condition of the remainder of our Country we left under the sad tumult of the Inhabitants by which all things were like to come into a lamentable confusion and if I judge not a misse in greater peril than through the Armies of the French every moment we being in danger to strand upon the blind Rocks of the incensed vulgar of which the effects were so many and diverse that it would be too confused and tedious a work to rehearse or read them it will be sufficient to relate the chiefest by which may easily be judged of the rest Upon the general insurrection of the Citizens against the Magistrates it was in some Cities published and Letters from his Highnesse divulged dated the 9. July wherein the Citizens were commanded to abstain from such manner of proceedings and to let things remain as formerly they were upon pain of displeasure and to be punished as disturbers of the common peace it being an intrenchemend on his Highnesse authority as Stadholder whose office it is to dispose of the concerns of the Magistracy wherefore if any in the Regency were guilty they might be orderly charged and being found guilty should be according to desert punished Hereupon the Citizens expected that his Highness would make a general reformation in the Government but nothing came of it and no wonder for this Iron was too hot for him to lay hold on the time not be suitable to begin a work of such consequence Nevertheless the Commons would so have it and therefore they set upon the work again Rotterdam and Dort displaced the most part of the Magistrates and nominated others in their room and in many other places by threatning Petitions the restitution of their Old Priviledges laid by were required Delf was taken in by the Pesants of Maesland and the Magistrates constrained to give them and the Citizens satisfaction The like was done at der Gou and at der Tholen the Pesants came to alter the Magistrates At Zierickzee they brake the windows of the Town-house but the Citizens shut out the Pesants that were entring themselves emptying the Town-house shutting it up and displacing all the Magistrates At Middle-borough the Citizens and common people had set upon the Magistrates till such time the Pefants came brake open the City gates and lifting up the Doors from off the Bars drew 7. of the Lords without the City whom they would not let go till they had received satisfaction Vlissingen and ter Vere also turned all upside down and at ter Goes the Citizens rose up against some whom they termed Traytors Leyden was deep in the reformation deposing all their Lords and shut up the Town-house Haerlem did not much lesse In North-Holland the Women themselves very busy to have things ordered to their mind At Amsterdam also were meetings at their Doelens some of whom not satisfyed to have occasioned great trouble in the Church by following of Labadie who now is said to be married with the Lady of Sommelsdick were ring-leaders also to do the like in the Policy But the Magistrates according to their wonted wisdom desirous to prevent the storm approaching resigned the whole Government and every one his charge to the free disposal and pleasure of his Highness who seeing the unavoidable necessity for the common peace did according to the resolution of the States General in date of 7. August take in hand the altering of the Magistracy disposing thereof in some Cities as he thought best himself in others he chose out some of them that were upon nomination in some he did it by Commissioners which notwithstanding gave not full content to all but much dissatisfaction still remained which was not a little fomented by such as imagined themseves injuried by this alteration But blessed be God this drew no further disaster along with it and that the Government was in some measure brought to a more setled posture by putting by such as the commons suspected What concerns the plundrings and personal assaultings they were diverse whereby also the greatest of the Land were in jeopardy as Burgemaster Graaf the Ambassador de Groot the Lord of Beverning yea the ancient Prince Maurice himself yea such was the rage of the vulgar as they threatned to plunder the house of Admiral de Ruyter which also was really done to many of the Magistrates houses in diverse Cities but it shall suffice to note in its place one example thereof happened at the Hague the 20. August After the King of France his departure the quitting of the siege before the Bos the breaking up of Turrennes Leger and the delivery of Groeningen no great matter of concern passed between us and the Enemy except some skirmishes of which I will note the principal as they fell out 22. July the Ambassador de Groot who was the chief of the Commissioners sent to the King of France silently departed the Land with his Family as perceiving that the change of time would not permit the transactions with France to go forward his Highnesse not being altogether satisfyed with him therein but disavowing the same declared that he was ready to defend his Country to the utmost and to hazard life and all for the same De Groot wrote a Letter to the State in way of excuse that he was onely retired for to escape the machinations of his enemies and the rage of the vulgar by which for some while he had been in perill of being overwhelmed That all his services had been improved for the good of the Land neither would yet undertake any thing to the prejudice of the State GRONINGEN 26. dito The Frieses under Alua were unawares assaulted by 13. Standards of the Bishop between