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A35913	A relation of the French kings late expedition into the Spanish-Netherlands in the years 1667 and 1668 with an introduction discoursing his title thereunto, and an account of the peace between the two crowns, made the second of May, 1668 / Englished by G.H., Gent.; Campagne royale. English	Dalicourt, P.; G. H., Gent.	1669 (1669)	Wing D135; ESTC R5204	56,374	222

enemies After the review which his Majesty made of his Guards at S. Germains towards the end of the month of April it began to be divulged that his Majesty would in good earnest take the Field if the Counsel of Spain did not speedily yeild to the King a good part of those thing which he had demanded of them Soon after Generall Officers were nominated and care was taken for disposing great sums of money for the Artillery and provisions The Commanders of Regiments had notice given them to advertise all persons under their command to see to their Equipages and in a word all such Orders were given out as are usual in the commencing of a War Whilst these things were in preparation the Manifesto setting forth the Queens Right and Title to those Countries was published and about the beginning of May Printed Copies thereof were sent throughout all Europe e●pecially into Spain and to Brussels Which being a sufficient and competent Declaration of War the King fitted himself to go and expect an answer to it at the head of his Army Accordingly his Majesty together with the Queen departed from S. Germains on the sixteenth day of the same moneth attended with such a small number of those of his Court as were in readiness to accompany him most of the great Lords and Courtiers staying behind to prepare their Equipages of War But that those who intended to follow might have time to overtake him his Majesty spent four dayes on the way before he arriv'd at Amiens where he arriv'd on the twentieth day of the same moneth of May. At the same time the General Officers set forward in order to the drawing of the Troops together in several places some at La Fere others at S. Quintin Guise Mezieres Peronne Dourlens and Hesdin so that the Forces were extended from the River Meuse to the coast of Calais though in distinct Bodies yet so as that they might joyn together in five or six dayes according as it should seem expedient Marshall D' Aumont Governour of Paris was design'd to command a body of between seven and eight thousand men on the coast of Dunkirk and he had under him for his Lieutenant Generals the Count Du Passage and the Duke of Roanez formerly styl'd Count de la Fu●illade for the Marshalls of his Camp the Counts de ●orge and S. Lieu. His Infantry consisted of the Regiments of Navarre Normandie Plessis-Praslin Harcourt Sourches and the Queen's Regiment His Cavalry Commanded by Monsieur la Cardonniere Comissary General was divided into three Brigades at the head of which were the Marquis de Rouvray the Marquis de Gelis and Calvo The Marquis de Crequy newly recall'd to Court from which he had been absent for six years was sent with between three and four thousand men to the Frontrie of Luxembourg and the parts about Alsatia and with him Monsieur Desperce for Marshall of that Camp He had but two Regiments of Foot with him viz. the Regiment of Piedmont and S. Vallier besides 1000 Dragoons His Cavalry was likewise divided into three Brigades under the Command of the Marquisses d'Joyeuse de la Feüillee and de Montaurel who were all under the obedience of Monsieur de Rochepere At the same time the Duke of Noailles was sent to Perpignan whereof he was Governour to the end he might take care of Roussillon whilst the main brunt of the War should be in Flanders This Duke had but few Forces because there was but little to enterprise onely some Regiments of Cavalry were assigned to him and Monsieur Foucaut for his Lieutennant General 'T was easily judg'd that the King had some great design when it was understood that before his departure from S. Germain's he appointed a Counsell to remain with the Queen consisting of the Chanceller of France and the Marshall d'Estree with two Secretaries of state Monsieur Vrilliere and Monsieur Guenegaud After which having declared her Majestie Regent of the Kingdome during his absence he sent for the Parliament and other Soveraign Courts to signifie to them his pleasure that they should acknowledge her for such whilst his Majesty should be absent The Prince of Conde remain'd at his house of Chantilly partly for that he was indispos'd in his health and partly for that as it was seen afterwards the King reserv'd him for other imployments when the War should be begun his Majesty declaring that during the whole course of of this Campagne he would not make use of the Counsell of any but that of mounsieur de Turenne Marshal General of the Camp who by this meanes beheld himself at a higher step of glory then ever he had ascended to before As for the Ministers of State of whom his Majesty serv'd himself namely Monsieur le Tellier Monsieur de Lionne Secretaries of State and Monsieur Colbert they departed not from Paris till six dayes after his Majesty and then they went directly to La Fere there to remain in expectation of further orders The Marquis de Louvois Secretary of State had set forth from Paris two dayes before the King namely on the fourteenth of May in order to give notice to all the world of his Majesties march and the design he had to let the Queen see what Troups he had about Peronne where their Majesties arrived the 26 of May. But before we proceed any further it seems to me not impertinent to give account what Forces were in being when the King began first to think of this enterprise All the Infantry of France were divided into 1200 Companies each of them consisting of fifty men but several young Gentlemen of Quality having since taken the Command of Regiments upon them they are now much more they having for greater Ostentation of their Commands many of them inlarged their Troops and at their own expence raised several Companies much more Numerous then was required Moreover the King had two Regiments of his Guards one of French the other of Swiss besides twenty Companies of new raised Swiss all which Foot amounted upon the Muster Role to 70000 men besides 1000 Dragoones The Horse consssted of 200 Troops each of them of fifty men which made up likewise by the Roles 10000 Horse his Court and Equipage were 3000 Horse if we reckon the Guards de Corps his Musquitires on Horse-back his Gens d' Armes and his light Horse belonging to his person the most ready and best disciplin'd that without doubt have been seen at any time Having furnisht his Garrisons out of these and divided the rest into several Bodies according to the different places he design'd to imploy them as I have related before the Army Royal was judg'd to consist of about 24 or 25000 Foot and 9 or 10000 Horse of which you shall have the particulars The Foot was divided into four Brigades the first and strongest was that of the Guards Compos'd of twenty-eight Companies of the French Guards and nineteen of the Swiss and four

A RELATION Of the French Kings Late Expedition into the Spanish-Netherlands In the years 1667 and 1668. With an Introduction discoursing his Title thereunto And an account of the Peace between the two Crowns made the second of May 1668. Englished by G. H. Gent. LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet near Temple Bar. 1669. THE INTRODUCTION Containing a Display of the Grounds upon which the French King layeth claim to a great part of the Spanish Netherlands THat the best Title of the French Queen to the Dutchy of Brabant and its annexes the Seignory of Malmes Antwerp Vpper Gelderland Namur Limburg and the places united on the other side the Meuse Hainault Artois Cambray the County of Burgundy and the Dutchy of Luxembourg consisted in the Sword of the King her Husband scarce seems a doubt to any but the French themselves And with what success the Cause hath been pleaded by that Weapon during the Campagne of 1667. the ensuing Narrative written by one that was present at most of the considerable Actions thereof giveth a particular and yet no immodest Account So that perhaps it is not much necessary to preface this Relation with a Display of the Grounds and Reasons of the War whose progress it exhibits accordingly the Author thought fit not to meddle therewith conceiving I suppose that the Justice of his Soveraigns Armes was sufficiently evidenc'd to all the Subjects by the Manifesto and other writings which his Majesty had publish'd immediately before his Forces enter'd Flanders Nevertheless in regard that 't is likely many into whose hands this Piece may fall have not so fully understood the Reasons whereby the French King hath endeavor'd to justifie to Forreign Princes and States his late Proceedings in the Netherlands nor those contrary ones whereby the Spaniards endeavour to maintain their own possessions and invalidate the French Pretensions I shall adventure to present the Reader with an Abstract of either Parties Allegations The French Queens Title stands thus Philip the fourth King of Spain married Elizabeth Daughter to Henry the fourth and Sister to Lewis the thirteenth Kings of France in the year 1615. on the same day whereon the last mentioned Prince espoused Anne of Austria Infanta of Spain The Portions of either side were satisfied by way of Exchange being the sum of 500000. Crowns of Gold Elizabeth some years after dies leaving behind her a Son nam'd Don Balthasar and a Daughter nam'd Donna Maria Theresa Afterwards King Philip marries another Wife by whom he hath Issue male Don Carlo who by the death of his half-Brother Don Balthasar became Heir apparent to the Catholick Crown In the year 1659. a Treaty of Peace was concluded between the two Crowns and together therewith a Marriage between Lewis the fourteenth now King of France and the above-mention'd Lady Maria Theresa for whose Portion the King her Father obliged himself to pay 500000. Crowns of Gold and pretended Salick Law debars Females from succession to the French Crown as also to the end that the two Crowns being too great and puissant to be united into one Kingdom all occasions of such a Conjunction might be avoided It was covenanted amongst other things that neither the Infanta nor her Children and Descendants in what degree soever should ever succeed in the Kingdoms Signiories or Dominions which do or shall belong to his Catholick Majesty as well within as without the Kingdom of Spain notwithstanding any Law or Custom which by this Agreement which is to continue in the full force and vigour of a Law for ever their Majesties did abolish This Renunciation the Infanta confirmed in these very Terms by her Oath in the presence of the Kings themselves the Princes of the Blood and the chief Nobility of both Kingdoms This Peace remained inviolated about six years in which time the King of Spain for the preservation thereof yielded to the King of France the Precedence which had occasion'd a fray between the Train of the Ambassadours of the two Crowns there at London But upon the death of Philip of Spain which happened toward the latter end of the year 1665. and had been lookt for the year before by his good Neighbour who from the latter end of 1664. had laid up great Magazines of Corn at Amiens and other places on the way towards Flanders discourses began to be spread abroad through France of a Title which the Queen and her Son the Dauphin had to certain Provinces of the Netherlands Nevertheless his French Majesty thought not fit to make discovery of his Designs till he saw what would be the Issue of the War which in great measure by his practices was broken out between the King of Great Brittain and the States of the Vnited Provinces whose Quarrel upon a pretended League made two years before he espoused In the mean time he set forth a considerable Navy at Sea which yet never engaged in any Action against the English and likewise made great Levies and warlike Preparations at Land without manifesting how he intended to imploy the same At length about the middle of May when his Neighbours the English and United Provinces being weary of the War had set on foot a Treaty of Peace at Breda wherein himself was also included he thought it a fit opportunity to publish a Manifesto of his Claim to part of the Spanish Netherlands which he likewise sent to several Princes of Christendom and shortly after seconded by falling into those Countries with a powerful Army the performances whereof are recorded in the following Narrative In the said Manifesto it is set forth 1. That by the customary Law of Brabant the Children by the first Marriage go away with the whole Inheritance of their Father the Children of the same Father by a second Marriage being excluded which Law is called Jus Devolutionis or the Right of Devolution and consequently that the Infanta now Queen of France being the sole surviving Issue of Philip the fourth by his first Marriage is Heir of all those Countries wherein the said Law doth obtain and so excludeth her Brother of the half-blood by a second Marriage 2. That by the Laws of Spain she is likewise Heir to her Mother of all her Marriage-portion and the Jewels left behind her at her death amounting with interest to the sum of 1100000. Crowns of Gold 3. That the Renunciation made by the Infanta at her Marriage is void and null First because that a Renunciation is only of an Estate in expectancy not of an Estate already fallen as these Countries are pretended to have been upon the death of the Spanish Queen Secondly because a Renunciation supposes a Portion actually paid but the Infanta never received any and that if the 500000. Crowns of Gold promised in the Contract of Marriage had been actually paid it had still been no Portion in regard 1100000. were due to her To all which some other specious reasons are added which would take up too much

encouragement to make a long defence they presently surrendred both Town and Castle The same fortune also ran Besterans with with the Castle of Rochfort and some other small Forts The Government of Bisanzan was soon after conferred on the Marquis de Villers and a Swiss Garrison placed therein and that of Sali●s on Monesiur de Maupean On the eleventh of the same month the Prince of Condy came with his Army before Dole which had been reinforced a little before with an Army of 3 or 4000 Forces of the Militia of the Country and about two dayes after the King in person arrived at the Leaguer from Dijon upon whose coming Two of the half-moons belonging to the Town fell down of themselves and one of their Bastions cleft which somewhat disheartened the defendants who nevertheless refused to returne an answer to the summons sent to them whereupon his Majesty ordered a Battery of thirty Guns to be raised against the Town The Artillery having made a considerable breach in the works on the west side of the Town order was given to assault the Counterscarpe on the 25th of February at eight in the Evening in three places viz. by the Guards Commanded by the Duke de Roquelour by the Regiments of S. Vallier and de la Ferte Commanded by the Count de Guadagne and the Lions Regiment Commanded by the Count de Chamilly who after a stout resistance made themselves masters that night of the Outworks lodging themselves upon the Counterscarpe and gaining some half-moons in one of which the Marquis de Villeroy particularly shewed eminent proofs of his Valour himself siezing one of his Enemies Ensignes In this attaque were slain the Marquis de Fourilles Captain of the Guards with the Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment of Villeroy and some other inferiour Officers the Count de S. Mesme the Sieur Bonvise and some others hurt The next day his Majesty sent the Marquis de Grammont to invite them again to a surrender and he so effectually prevailed upon them by representing to them th● small probability they had of making a long defence the great dangers they might run by their further opposition and the assurance his Majesty gave them for the preservation of their Priviledges upon their surrender that they presently agreed upon Tearms and his Majesty entered the Town the next day causing Te Deum to be sung for their happy success and confirming the Government upon the Count de Guadagne The next day the Army appeared before Gray and within two dayes began to open their Trenches but by the mediation of the Marquis de Yennes formerly Governour of Franche Comte for the Spaniard the City was soon prevailed upon to open the Gates His Majesty conferred the Government of this Place upon the Sieur de Bissy Camp-Master and Commander of a Brigade of Horse About the same time Joux a considerable place of strength upon the borders of Swisserland surrendred to a part of the French Army at the first summons and the Command thereof was given to the Sieur de Chamarante one of his Majesties Bed-Chamber so likewise did the Fort of S. Anne Thi County being thus almost intirely reduced in the short space of one month the King in favour of the Prince of Condy united the same to the Dutchy of Burgundy the Princes Government and Granted two Reversions thereof one to the Duke d' Enguyen his son and the other to the Duke de Bourbon his Grandson He likewise made the Marquis d' Yennes Lieutenant General of his Forces there allowing him the same Pension which formerly he received from Spain and giving the Command of a Regiment of Horse to the Count de S. Amour his Nephew for his good service in winning the said Marquis to a compliance whereby the nimble Conquest of this County was much facilitated This settlement being constituted there the French Forces drew off towards Luxembourg and the King returned to Paris in the latter end of February During the Winter the French and Spanish Forces in Flanders made several excursion in Parties with various success nothing considerable being atchieved by the Former but the reduction of the Castles of Winnedale and Ligny The King of great Brittain and the States of the United Netherlands having entered into a League for an efficacious Mediation of Peace between the two Crowns now in War and obtained from the Most Christian King a promise he would lay down his Arms on a condition the Spaniards would either quit to him all those places already taken by him in the last years Expedition or else transfer to him the Remainder of their right to the Dutchy of Luxembourg or to the County of Burgundy together with Cambray Cambresis Doway Ayre S. Omers Bergue S. Wynox Fuernes and Link with their dependances in which case the French wer● to restore to the Spaniards all the places already taken In which League it was further agreed between the King of England and those States to employ force to bring the two Crowns to accept of these termes if either of them should refuse the same The French King accepted of the same and in order to an accommodation accordingly proposed a cessation of all Acts of Hostility during the months of March April and May following to which also the Marquis de Castle Rodrigo consented and nominated the Baron of Bergeyck to be sent with sufficient Powers and Instructions to Aix la Chappelle to assist at the Treaty of Peace there Notwithstanding the cessation the French forbore not to make all possible Preparations for War and Monsieur de Bellefons and Duras pretending want of notice of the cessation which they would not take from any besides their General invested Guena and in a few dayes constrained the same to be surrendered But the French King thought not fit to hold a place which had been taken during the Truce and therefore even before the Treaty gave order for the delivering of it back into the hands of the Spaniards But withall he declared that he would take the Field in the beginning of April and unless the Peace were perfectly concluded by the 25th of May next ensuing it should be free for him to pursue his Conquests yet obliging himself in case of Peace by that time to restore back to the Spaniards all such places as he should make himself master of by his Armes Monsieur Colbert was employed by his French Majesty to Aix la Chappel for negotiating the Peace and the Heer Van Beverning by the United Provinces as Sir William Temple Resident at Brussels for his Majesty of Great Brittain was likewise ordered thither for the same effect Signieur Aug. Franciotti Plenipotentiary for the Pope and three Plenipotentiaries more from the three Ecclesiasticall Electors of Germany In the mean time the French King gives command for the demolishing of the Fortifications of most of the considerable Towns which he had taken in Franche Comte and also for the building of a Citadel at Besanzon The former was accordingly executed but in regard the Peace began now to be hopefull it was thought fit to forbare the latter After many doubts concerning the issue of this Treaty at last the Plenipotentiaries signed an agreement on the second of May which being ratified by the French King and the Queen Regent of Spain was proclaimed at Brussels on the 30th of the same moneth and shortly after sworn to by both Kings The substance of this conclusion was 1. That the most Christian King should keep and effectually enjoy all Places Forts c. that he had taken or fortified by Armes during the last years Campagne viz. The fortresses of Charleroy the Towns of Binch and Atthe the the Places of Doway the Fort of Scarpe being comprised Tournay Oudenard Lille Armentieres Courtray Bergues and Fuernes and all their Baliwicks Castlewicks Appurtenances and dependances by what name soever called as far as ever they extend the Catholick King for himself and his Successors renouncing and disclaiming the same for ever 2. That immediately after the Publication of the Peace the French King should withdraw his Forces from the Garrisons of all Places Towns Castles and Forts of the County of Burgundy commonly called la Franche Comte and restore the same to the Catholick King 3. That the Treaty of of the Pyreneans stand good and valid without any prejudice by this present Treaty FINIS Tournay surrendred Bergue taken by Marshall d' Aumont Furnes taken Daway taken The Scarp Fort taken Courtray taken Oudenarde taken Alost taken