all possible restrictions an Oath being taken of him that he might never seek to be Stat-holder of any of the Provinces nor accept of it if he should be desired to it Hereupon his Highness treated the Deputies of Knighthood and Cities of Holland with a Royal Feast March 1. March 4. The frost which this Winter was very long now ceasing here happily arrived a great and exceeding rich Fleet of Merchandise with their Convoyes having laid long at the Isle of Wight fearing they might have been there arrested 14. Dito The Ambassador Meerman was sent to England for to prevent if possible the breach feared of which there was some hopes because the Ships were suffered without any molestation to depart from the Isle of Wight and the Embargo of their Ships in England was made nul and especially because many English and Scotch Ships obtained Pas for Holland On the other hand the mighty preparations made both in England and France promised but little good to come from these overtures for peace the rather because our Ambassador being come thither was certified there was little appearance thereof it now being too late which perhaps if had come sooner might have been attained 20. Dito Digby declared in France that by reason of Downings mistake his Master the King of England would be forced to begin the work two moneths before it was intended and it easily deserveth credit that it was not their design to declare themselves so soon so many Ships having so lately obtained Pasportâ— for Holland and the season of the year not yet fit for a Field expedition 22. Dito the Smirna's Messina's and Mallaga's Convoy returning with 50. Ships richly laden among which also were five Convoyers from Gales to whom the Convoy from Lisbon adjoâ—ned being 20. in number by a Catch from Zealand in the Chanel were warned not to sail into any of the English Havens or to trust their Ships whereupon they also made all things ready for defence the very same night 4. English Ships appeared shooting but without Bullet but soon after 12. more who fired with shot lustily on ours continuing all the next day and the day after being reinforced with other Ships they fell upon the Merchant Men but were so saluted that with their battered Ships and many slain they were constrained to return home paying dearly for their prey taken viz. one Smirna's one Messina's with two other Ships of small value all the rest getting safe into our Harbors being a wonderfull providence of God thus gently to awaken us seeing the whole Fleet was in danger to have fallen into their hands or we might have been warned with a greater disaster And though the King by this unexpected and unjust attacque did manifest what his purpose was yet would they seem to colour it upon pretence of unwillingnesse to strike and to have satisfaction by constraint But they were Enemies in heart as our foregoing observations do sufficiently declare especially the Kings Declaration of War following hereupon the 29. dito His Majesties Declaration against the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys Charles R. WE have been alwayes so zealous for the Quiet of Christendom and so carefull not to invade any other Kingdome or State that We hope the World will do Us the Justice to believe that it is nothing but inevitable necessity forceth Us to the resolution of taking up Armes Immediately upon Our Restauration to Our Crowns the first work We undertook was the establishing of Peace and the setling a good Correspondence between Us and Our Neighbours and in particular Our care was to conclude a strict League with the States General of the United Provinces upon such equal Terms as would certainly not have been broken if any obligations could have kept them within the bounds of Friendship or Justice This League was maintained inviolable on Our part But in the year 1664. we were stirred up by the Complaints of Our People and the unanimous Vote of Both Our Houses of Parliament finding it a vain attempt to endeavour the prosperity of Our Kingdoms by peaceable wayes at home whilst Our Subjects were still exposed to the Injuries and Oppressions of those States abroad That whole Summer was spent in Negotiations and endeavours on Our side to bring them to reasonable Terms which notwithstanding all We could do proved at length ineffectual for the more we pursued them with friendly Propositions the more obstinately they kept off from agreeing with us BON LEGNIGH KERPEN KAREL DE II by de Gratie Godts KONINCK van GROOT BRITTANIE In the West-Indies â—hey went a little further For by an Article in the same Treaty we were to restore Surinam into their hands and by Articles upon the place confirmed by that Treaty that they were to give Liberty to all Our Subjects in that Colony to Transport themselves and their Estates into any other of Our Plantations In pursuance of this Agreement We delivered up the Place and yet they detained all Our men in it onely Major Banister they sent away prisoner for but desiring to remove according to the Articles Our Ambassadour complaining of this behaviour after two years sollicitation obtained an Order for the performance of those Articles But when We sent Commissionerâ— and two Shipt to bring Our Men away the Hollanders according to their former practice in the business of Poleroon for above fourty years together sent private Orders contradictory to those they had owned to Us in Publick and so the onely effect of Our Commissioners journey thither was to bring away some few of the poorest of our Subjects and the Prayers and Cryes of the Most considerable and wealthiest of them for relief out of that Captivity After this We made Our Complaints by Our Letter in August last to the States General wherein We desired an Order to their Governours there for the full observance of those Articles yet to this time We could never receive one word of answer or satisfaction But it is no wonder that they venture at these Outrages upon Our Subjects in remote parts when they dare be so bold with Our Royal Person and the Honour of this Nation so near Us as in their own Countrey there being scarce a Town within their Territories that is not filled with abusive Pictures and false Historical Medals and Pillars some of which have been exposed to the publick view by command of the States themselves and in the very time when we were joyned with them in united Councels for the support of the Triple League and the Peace of Christendom This alone were cause sufficient for Our displeasure and the resentment of all Our Subjects But We are urged to it by considerations yet nearer to Us then what onely relates to our Self the Safety of Our Trade upon which the wealth and prosperity of our People depends the preservation of them abroad from violence and oppression and the Hollanders daring to affront us almost within Our very
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
payment to have his Army in readiness There was a Treaty also with the Princes of Lunenburg but without effect in the mean while our Army gathered near the Yssel about Doesburg and the retrenchment alongst the Yssel was compleated whither the Prince with most of the chief Commanders came and the Forts at Staphorst and Rouveen were with all diligence forwarded and the Army mustered 9. dito The French King having made a review of his Army near Charleroy sent the Marshal Turenne with 15000. men 4000. Wagons and 27. Canons to march to the great Cassey by Luyck and Mastricht and himself followed with the gros of the Army and on the 11 12. and 13. dito having lodged in three several places of the Spanish bounds came the 14. dito into the countrey of Luyk passing near by Navagne and arrived the 18. dito at Visé where he stayed and beset Tongeren with French Soldiers In the interim dito 16 the Avantguard under Marshal Turrenne had surrounded and shot upon Maseyck requiring them to deliver it up and nothing regarding the Luyckish neutrality possessed himself thereof and Turenne entring it said that there a Magasin for the King must be erected and serve for a pas to the Armies so departing presently the French fell at work to fortify the Town demolishing whatever stood in their way Hereby Mastricht was as good as blockt up and the rather because Condé came on the other side of Mastricht with an Army of 35000. men which was come marching from Sedan through Ardennes longst the overside of the Mase so that it seemed they intended to assault Mastricht of which there was no great fear seeing it was well provided with all things necessary and had a Garrison of 12000. Soldiers besides the Citizens 14. dito Upon the advice that our Fleet was at Sea which at Schoonevelt yet waited for some of our ships and that the French Vice Admiral the Earl d'Estré was come to Wight The English Fleet under the Duke of York made out to Sea to joyn with them which had not our Fleet come a little too late might have been prevented one of them that followed falling in our hands was sent up to Rotterdam Our Fleet crossing there about some time and seeing the Enemies Fleet came not out returned back to our coasts 18. dito The Bishop of Munster desirous to share in the ensuing war published upon frivolous pretences a Westphalian Declaration of War against this State Declaration of his Grace the Bishop of Munster against the States of the United Provinces BE it known that forasmuch as by intercepted Letters and Persons detained in Prison and by many other wayes it is confessed and made evident that in the United Provinces many have been induced and misted through mony and great promises of reward to labour by themselves and their adherents to corrupt and by great soms of mony to entice the Servants and Officers of our Gracious Lord of Munster and Convey to fire the Forts Cities and especially the Magasins of his Highness and through such horrid crimes to make the Senses possessors of his Grades Forts and Cities and to debauch his Soldiers from their oath duty having stirred up â—…ellion CHARLEROY MAESTRIGHT and revolts by such damnable wayes yea have also not feared to conspire against the very life it self of his Grace committing Crimen Assasinatus against his Graces Person Which thing also horrible to relate hath in his Country Cities Forts Lordships Towns and Villages been practised many places set on fire as verily suspected to have been atchieved by these evill Doers as hath been confessed and ocularly appeared So as such horrid actions have scarce ever been perpetrated by Barbarians and Turks Wherefore his Grace both in care to his own Person as also to preserve asmuch as possible may be his Graces Cities Forts Lordships Towns and Subjects in the Country from further dammage doth command most graciously and earnestly all his High and Low Officers whiter Civil or Military all his common Soldiers and Subjects most strictly to take care that none of these incendiaries and traytors be suffered to enter his Grates Dominions which if any shall presume to seize upon them and deliver them to the nearest Garrisons and whoever shall bring in any one of these shall have a recompence of 100. Rijcksdollers But to the end that hereby other honest and well-meaning people be not hindred to come into his Highnesse Dominions for to Trade in his Graces Cities and Country they are required to signifie unto the Commanders and Officers where they first arrive the cause of their coming that so they may drive their trade and businesse in his Graces Dominions having before obtained a Pas from them His often before mentioned Grace doth also command the more carefully and with assurance to prevent all treachery upon the highest arbitrary and after conviction upon pain of corporal punishment as also confiscation of Goods that no man of what state or quality soever within his Jurisdiction thither Ecclesiastical or Laick Civil or Military person do without consent granted correspond with any of the said Netherlands by interchange of Letters or Commerce so as all trading with them is from hence forward unlawfull and that no man may pretend ignorance thereby to excuse himself these presents shall in all our Cities Towns Lordships and Villages as also in all Garrisons and elsewhere be publickly from the Pulpit proclaimed and afterward in usual Places affixed that every one may have knowledge hereof witnesse our own hand and printed secret Seal Subscribed at his residence in Ludgersburg the 18. May 1672. Christoff Bernhardt Locus Sigilli 18. dito Here happily arrived the Fleet from St. Ubal about 80. sail of which some that went towards the East Sea were taken by Scotch Capers The same dito the States did of their meer bounty set at liberty all the detained English and Scotch ships which about the time of the breach and some while after were with pas from the Duke of York come hither to the number of 70. Merchant men and more allowing them freely to depart with ships and lading which the States by their last agreement were not bound to do but might according to the Law of Arms have made them prize The day following the States chose Officers for the raising of four Regiments and gave the Commander Stockheim an order to raise one Regiment more also a part of our Foot that had been quartered in the Spanish Netherland returned home and the rest followed soon after All Holland through the Pesants were armed and mustered and 1375. of them were sent from North-Holland to the Yssel 18. dito in open field the King of France held a great Councel of War with all his High Officers and concluded to keep Mastricht blockt up with 20000. men and to march with the gros of the Army to the Rijn Whereupon Condé the 21. dito brake up with his Army passing through Gulicker-land
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
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
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
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
again to retire But forasmuch as Mombas doubted not but the enemy would the next day passe the River he would not stand to it but resolved to quit his Post and took his way to Arnhem and from thence to Dieren where on then 11. dito about 9. of the clock he came by the Prince of Orange to the great astonishment of his Highness who commanded the Lord Wurts thither with 2. Regiments to defend that Post where he arrived toward evening but found neither Canon nor entrenchments there ARNHEM SCHENCKEN SCHANS Before the French were got over the Tower of the Tol-house where lay a Sergeant with 18. men was deserted but Turenne was no sooner got into the Betuw but he marched to Aarnhem part of them running through the Betuw who the 13. dito took Heusden and made spoil thereof and from thence to Ysseloort shooting all the afternoon upon ours who were in the Veluw and at night rushed over the Rhijn upon the borders of the Veluw And thus the 14. dito being in capacity to shoot upon Aarnhem on both sides they within the day after being the 15. dito made an accord early in the morning which was so hastily done that the French entred before the Articles were once signed which also remained unsigned forsooth there being no pen and inck at hand The same day Turenne was come before Knodsenburg a strong Scons and reasonably well provided where some Troups had appeared but Turenne came not till 8. of the clock at evening and the day after the 16. dito in the forenoon was master of it through a treacherous disorder of a Drummer and overgreat cowardise of the Governour without any force done upon it The Garrison was permitted by Turenne to depart to Groeningen and then presently from the Scons fired upon Nimwegen and the same day marched with his Leger to Schenckenscons the 16. and 17. dito sending some Troups before Thiel who gave up themselves and took Sauvegard which also was followed the 19. and 20. dito by the impregnable Sconses of Voren and St. Andries It was the 17. dito that Turenne approached by his Loopgraves that strong Fort of Schenckenscons wherein lay 15. Companies which by a Trumpetter he summoned and the 18. dito had it delivered up to them A Scons on which depended the welfare of our Country sufficiently provided of all things requisite and with a Garrison able to defend it but commanded by a Rogue who without the knowledge of the Councel of War had sent away the Outlayers and demolished the Forts there erected by the Lord Wurts and so for mony delivered up that invincible Fortresse The Bishop of Munster after the conquest of Groll sate not still but mastered Brevoort Lochem and what else was neer about and on the 14. dito shewed himself upon the plain of Deventer to fetch away their beast that were grasing there but was driven back with losse by the courage of some that issued out of the City upon him But the 16. dito he came with his whole Army assisted by those of the Bishop of Colen to besiege it The King of France also with the gros of his Army sate down before Doesburg and summoned the same If these first nine dayes were fatall to our Netherland the following were no losse especially because his Highnesse was necessitated to depart from the Yssel for Aarnem being conquered the Veluw lay open to the Enemy and our Army in danger of being fallen upon on all sides and utterly to be ruinated so that his Highnesse having divided part of the Army and put them in the Cities on the Yssel under the command of Alua General for Friesland brought the greatest Canons with the Ammunition and Provisions into Doesburg Zutphen Deventer he with the rest and lighter field Peeces departed thence and coming at evening the 15. dito before Utrecht the gates were shut upon him and his followers being wearied and hungry by continual marching night and day but were constrained to lay without the whole night without any refreshing His Highnesse desired he might be let in offering to defend the City in case they would suffer it to be fortifyed as need should require and breaking off what was in the way which they of Utrecht refused to do requiring that the Army should lay encamped without pretending it would be to the great damage of the Citizens who would not be burthened by quartering of Soldiers but at length it was agreed that the two Regiments of the repartition of Utrecht should be admitted to come in but the States of Holland judging that thus doing they should not be able to maintain that Post if set upon resolved for the preservation of Holland to beset their Passes whereupon the Leger brake up the 17. dito from Utrecht and set forward to Weesp Bodegrave Goverwelle-sluce Schoonhoven Gorcum and afterward also Uythorn which Posts being now fortifyed are found sufficient to keep the Enemy out of Holland The amazement because of the breaking in of the Enemy into the Betuw and our Armies retreating was greater than I am able to relate and the fleeing from all places to Amsterdam was unspeakable thousands of Waggons and Boats daily came in all filled with fear and anguish To this retreat of our Army from Utrecht they ascribe their damnable delivery up their City and so would lay that upon others which their own faithlesness and treachery brought upon themselves Assoon as the Enemy was possessed of Wesel the Great ones began secretly to transport their goods which the commons perceiving opposed the same yea not without affronting the Magistrates themselves openly crying out to the Burgemasters you have ruled long enough it is now our turn from which tumults no good being to be expected they sent to the French assoon as Aarnem was taken and offered their City also to them desiring Safeguard but they were fain to go farther for the King yet lay before Doesburg thus they went seeking the Enemy and invited him to come for 20. English mile in the round not a Frenchman was to be found Thus they of Utrecht were waiting for their Enemy some of them being impatient he stayed so long They set a Trumpetter upon the Tower to give notice when the French came which by sound of Trumpet he did the 18. dito to signify to the City and so to the whole Army that the French were come into Utrecht But it proved a mistake for those the Trumpetter thought to be the French were Burgers that had been sent forth who returning saw no Enemy at all HINDERDAM NIEUWEâ— SLUYS MUY DEN GOUDSE SLUYS NIEWER BRUGH PAIN ET VIN WIERICKE DEVENTER DOESBURH AEN DEN ISEL The 20. dito Safeguard from the King came in with two Trumpetters and soon after a French Garrison whereupon they presently Capitulate for the whole Province a thing never heard before and cause of all subsequent disaster For hereby Over-Yssel pretended to be cut off from Holland so
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
a sudden a Brest-work upon which the French sell on with great fury but were repulsed with the losse of fifty men and on our side onely one Captain 10. dito An attempt upon Woerden was made the Lord of Zuylestein out of the Princes Quarter and the Earl of Horn out of Ouwater coming in the night before it but passed by to their appointed posts Zuylestein with the Regiment of Solms and some other Companies Groven-bridge betwixt Utrecht and Woerden to hinder succours from Utrecht posting there with a Battery toward Utrecht The Earl of Horn having by him some Companies of Mariners lay Posted upon Polanen and the Saw-mills to shoot upon the City from thence The 11. dito with the breaking of the day the Watch-man on the Tower spyed that there were Forces come before the City and sounding twice the Bells all was alarmed in the City and the sound of Musquets heard answered one another Whereupon the Watch made a fire upon the South-east Corner of the Walk for a sign to them of Utrecht that they were in stresse for succours and the wind blowing very hard the Tower Church and 15. or 16. Houses were consumed to ashes the fire during till the afternoon In the mean while his Highnesse made his approaches to the City from the side of Bodegrave to make an attempt upon it but they within sent forth some to set on fire the Tile-houses it being about the evening which in measure succeeded but they were soon driven in again by ours At which time the Duke of Luxenburg with 6. a 7000. men fell upon the quarter of Zuylestein but was manfully resisted The 12. dito early in the morning the Princes men scaled the walls by the favour of Fire-balls and Granados upon which they within issued out but fell short and soon returned back to the City leaving behind many dead among which were 18. Officers being followed by our men to the very gates which the French had out of a sudden fear left a good while open and without guard so as it might by our men have easily been taken had they gone forward While this was a doing and all things prepared to force the City for which the Prince himself in person advanced to the very Gate the Duke of Luxenburgh who the night before was beaten off from the quarter of Zuylestein through the help of some Pesants was led along the Houdijck to Camerijck and from thence came by the Cruipin though the waters were knee-deep and higher betwixt Woerden and the quarter of Zuylestein and on a sudden fell upon them from behind where it was naked and the Canon turned and however they fought manfully yet that quarter not able to stand out against the whole power of the French would have been ruined in case the Earl of Horn had not come to their assistance who fell upon the French with such courage that many were slain fighting with the rapier in their hand and the Mariners with their knives By which defence our men had opportunity to retire in order onely the Canon of Zuylestein with his Ammunition was taken but the Earl of Horn brought of his men and summoned the City before he departed And his Highnesse hearing the tidings hereof gave order to retire with the whole train and to return to the Leger posts the city by these succours being too much fortifyed for to attempt further upon it In this encounter indeed the design upon the City did not prosper yet there was no disadvantage in the battle there being lost on our side not above 500. men in all both prisoners and slain among was the Lord Zuylestein and Lieutenant Colonel Schimmel-penning on the other hand the French lost above two thousand among whom were some of great quality with many high and inferior Officers so that France it self did not greatly boast of this encounter At the same time it was appointed that the Garrison of Schoonhoven should make a diversion under the Marquis de Lovigni and alarm Vreeswijck otherwise called de Vaert over against Vianen which was also done with such success that our men approaching longst the Dike with the losse of 7. or 8. under which were two Captains entered the same but instead to advance further and fall upon the French who not above an hundred meanly retrenched lay below the Sluce every one fell a plundering and with their booty retired setting some houses on fire whereupon the French came afterward and burnt down the Church it self with some other houses At the same time also it was ordered to make a false alarm about Naarden but had no effect WOERDEN OUDE WATER 17. dito 36. Out of Aardenburg assaulted the Fort Knocke laying on the Vaart upon the Steen-straet where the French had a Custom-house which they took in killing many of the French and taking 25. prisoners among whom was the Custom-master and the Controller brought with them the Kings Arms with good booty setting the Forton fire but was afterward again reared by the French The 17. dito the great Councel of War was held at der Gow where were present his Highnesse and the Generals of the Leger but their Consultations were kept very close but soon after a great number of Inland-ships to the number of 800 or 1000. were arrested with which the 26. dito and following dayes from Rotterdam and der Gow were shipped the most part of the States Horse and some Regiments of Foot to the Brabants Coasts being followed by some of the greatest Commanders and his Highnesse himself who brought them into posture about Breda and marched into the Country of Luyck with what design is kept very secret 26. dito The Munsters with 1400. came along the Long Acker or New-sconse and fell upon ours for to raise the siege of the Belling wolder or Old-sconse but were so welcomed that they were forced soon to retire to the New-sconse 200. and more being slain and stript whereupon those of the Old-sconse the 27. dito began to parly and departed thence with burning match to the number of 400. of which scarcely an 100. came into Coeverden and our men did with all speed labour to block up the New-sconse as close as possibly might be but forasmuch as it cannot be well approached to and they within vvell provided it may in all appearance hold out long The Emperial and Brandenburger Forces kept along while about Franckfurt where were held diverse Conferences with the Princes thereabout touching the marching of these people through their Territories the Elector of Ments being resolved to hinder their coming over the Rhijne and therefore took away the Bridge before the City whereupon the Confederates in the beginning of November made a Ship-bridge over the Main near Fleersheim where fell out skirmishes about Usingen where some of the Emperialists guarding a Pas over the Lhaan were set upon by some Companies of Turenne who himself with his Army marched from Colen up higher and was already advanced