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B23787	China and France, or, Two treatises the one, of the present state of China as to the government, customs, and manners of the inhabitants thereof ... from the observation of two Jesuites lately returned from that country, written and published by the French Kings cosmographer and now Englished : the other, containing the most remarkable passages of the reign and life of the present French King, Lewis the Fourteenth, and of the valour of our English in his armies.	Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712. Viaggio del P. Giovanni Grueber tornando per terea da China in Europa. English.; Grueber, Johann, 1623-1680.; Orville, Albert, comte d', 1621-1662.; Thévenot, M. (Melchisédech), 1620?-1692.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2163	63,324	224

their breaches restored their Fortifications and put them all into a good posture of defence But that which was remarkable in this progress the King had no extraordinary Militia he trusted so much these new Subjects that he entered into all their populous Towns attended only by his houshold Servants and usual Guards This got him the love and respect of the Walloons and secured him the hearts of his people as well as the Walls of their Towns About this time a King of Guinny who lives at a City called Arda sent an Ambassador to Paris to treat about an establishment of a Trade between that place and the Islands of America under the French Scepter The King entertained him and his motion very kindly and sent him back with Tokens of his liberality There had been an Order of the Kings Council published by which certain Wares of the Hollanders were prohibited in France They labored by their Ambassador to perswade the King to revoke this Order but in vain for the King was now resolved to revenge himself upon them for their insolent carriage towards him and his people in the West and East Indies and in many Foreign Countreys where they had ingrossed all the Trade to themselves It is certain that both the English and the French had great cause to complain of the Hollanders who had on several occasions discovered an unsufferable Pride and a haughty carriage not to be endured by Crowned Heads They had exercised their cruelty upon the Subjects of both Kingdoms beyond the Seas and had seised upon their Goods affronting thereby their Princes who are ingaged to protect them These and other unjust practises as was pretended obliged the French to prepare for War Therefore in his Progress in Flanders he visited himself the Fortifications of all his Frontier Towns and caused the weakest places to be fortified with new Works from Dunkirke he went to Amantiers from thence to Lille to Courtray to Aeth He found that Monsieur de Montal had strongly repaired the Walls of Charle le Roy for which he highly commended him Before the War was proclaimed Madam de Orleans the only Sister a live of our Gracious Monarch came over here unto England to visit the King and the Duke of York She was received with all the expressions of kindness that Nature did require and her Vertues deserve But as all our satisfactions are momentary she had no sooner seen these dear Relations but was forced to leave them again and return over to France where she died so suddenly that most men entertained the bad reports that were raised about her death However the Court of France honored her Birth and Vertues with an outward Mourning and the Duke of Orleans's countenance seemed to be very sad and pensive until the King had cheared him up with the thoughts of another Wife The Daughter of the Prince Palatine of the Rhine was pitched upon the Mareschal du Plessis was sent to espouse her in the Dukes name in the City of Mets the sixteenth day of November The Duke himself wen● as far as Chalons to receive and welcome her The King the Queen and all the Court expressed their joy and satisfaction for her safe arrival and about a year after she was brought to Bed of a Son All this while the War was preparing against Holland England and France were to unite their Forces by Sea and Land On the seventh day of April 1672. the King published his Declaration to forbid all Commerce and Trade with the States of the Vnited Provinces and immediately after appeared at the Head of an Army of One hundred and fifty thousand Men with whom he carried all before him in the Low Countreys as a violent torrent Nothing was of a sufficient resistance for so great a power every one did judge that he would win all the other Towns the following Spring if there were not a stop put to his undertakings But the motion of the French is always violent at the first and then at the least discouragement it begins to abate The Dutchy of Cleves the Electorate of Cullen the Dutchy of Limburgh the County of Zutphen Vtrecht and its Territories Holland Brabant Overissell the Oriental Frieze Groningen and the Dutchy of Geldres were full of French Troops on a sudden Orsoy Vesel Burick and Rhineburgh that had been so strongly Garrisoned that the Dutch thought them to be the Bulwarks of their Land were surrendered at the first appearance of the Kings Standard Reez Emmerick and Groll were delivered to the Bishop of Munster who had taken up Arms to vindicate the French quarrel The next attempt was the Passage over the Rhine which was first undertaken by the Count de Guiche at the Head of Two thousand Horse he swom over it although three Squadrons of Horse and some few Foot were ready to receive him on the other side When the French had recovered the Bank they charged so desperately that the Enemy was disordered and fled to their Foot for succor They had Barricadoed themselves in but when the Prince and the Dukes of Orleans and Longueville were got on the other side with their Infantry they resolved to assault them in their Trenches The Prince desired to march in order against them but some of his Men were so furious that nothing could keep them in The Duke of Longueville in a rage went so near them with the Prince that the Duke was killed and the Prince wounded in the left arm with many more laid upon the ground When they saw the whole Army surround them they desired quarter which was granted by the Prince by that means they yielded and were all taken prisoners It is not good to render an Enemy desperate a small company in a danger have won the victory therefore the Prince freely offered them their lives This Action amazed the Hollander and astonished the Prince of Orange who expected the Kings Army another way Harnen was taken by Monsieur de Turenne Nimeguen and Schenk also Doesbourgh and Zutphen were surrende●ed into his Majesties hands and the City of Vtrecht sent Deputies to yield it up Monsieur de Luxemburgh was sent thither to take in all the places about Vtrecht After this Turenne recovered Crevecoeur Coërden Grave and Bomel so that almost all the Inland Countrey thereabouts submitted to the French The Hollanders were then so much troubled that they offered Conditions of Peace to the King but he hoped to gain all the rest of their Countrey Therefore they were rejected as unreasonable The King after all these Successes left the Army the Six and twentieth of July and arrived at Paris the first of August where he was congratulated and welcomed by all the Societies of his Kingdom The Queen was so much overjoyed that she commanded a Chappel to be built at Roan and dedicated it to Our Lady of Victories for as amongst the Heathens they did give to Pallas the Goddess of War several attributes and names betokening the many good

upon Springs when they turn and at the least motion they cause their Pillows and Bolsters to send up a cold and fresh Air to cool their faces which is a notable advantage in the hottest nights of the Summer Their Chairs are of the same substance the Back and the Elbows are made of the Skins of Indian Cane very commodious to sit down The Tartars are not so effeminate to make use of all these things they sleep upon the bare ground as the Turks We desired him to tell us something of the Kings pomp and of the magnificence of his Throne when he appears in publick in all his grandeur He assured us that the former Kings of China did delight in a great deal of glory and state but that the present King of the Tartars who reigns now in China is not so ceremonious He is content in his greatest splendor to sit upon a Carpet spred on the ground Monsieur Dati desired to know from the Father in what the Chineses were most expensive He answered that they spent much in their Funerals in the great quantity of Perfumes and Wax which they did there burn in the making of Wooden Statues in their Frankincense which they did offer to the deceased and specially in the rare Coffins in which they put the dead Bodies They are of precious Wood as of Aloes of Yellow Saunders or of some other Aromatick Wood of a great value This serves instead of imbalming We inquired of the goodness of the Air of the Countrey and how long the Inhabitants do commonly live The Air said he is very good every-where therefore the Countrey people that are temperate in their diet commonly live to be very old some are one hundred years of age The Nobility at forty seem to be old and when they see fifty they begin to be crasie this difference proceeds from their debaucheries with the Female Sex and their immoderate eating in which they prescribe no bounds to themselves Their Daughters seldom come to be thirty years of age because their Mothers are wont to tie and bind their Legs assoon as they are born for they think all their beauty consists in crooked Legs which is that part alone of their Bodies seen when they go abroad This strange and unnatural bending and tying of their Legs so young disorders the Channels through which the nourishment of their Members passeth and stops the Conduits in such a manner that neither their Legs nor their Bodies ever come to a perfect stature and bigness for by that means the Blood is hindered in its ordinary circulation and the complexion and constitution of their Bodies being vitiated it hastens them the sooner to their Graves We desired him to tell us which were their most noted Festivals He answered us That they cheifly observe three the one at the first New Moon in February the second in November and the third at the Kings Birth-day In every one of these Festivals the King goes out of the City attended upon by all the Nobility and Lords of the Court by the Magistrates Officers of the Law and by the Learned Men c. Every one wears an habit suitable to his dignity and place All their Garments are differing from one another none but the King dares wear a Pearl alone at the top of his Gap Many of the most eminent Lords have precious Stones and some Pearls but always a Ruby an Emerald or a Jasper is put with it for none but the King is to wear it alone He wears also as marks of his Royalty two Storks embroidered with Silver upon his Brest The Mandarins have other Animals There are nine cheif differences by which the Nobility is distinguished in their habits The first hath a Crane for his Badge the second a Lion the third an Eagle the fourth a Peacock I do not remember the rest nor what differences are to be noted in the Garments of their Magistrates and Learned Men. I only remember the Badge of the Mathematicians they wear four little Squares of Jasper tied with silken strings at their Girdles In the middle of the Squares there is a Ruby and upon the top of their Bonnet they bear a Ruby and a Pearl together The most ordinary colours of their Garments are Red Blew Orange mixed with Blew We have already said that their Bonzi are cloathed in Gray and the Learned in White I remember that at every Festival observed at the New Moon in February every one is wont to melt or cast some piece of Mettle upon which they represent the Figure of a Crescent or New Moon and they call this Festival The Sacrifice of the Hare We inquired Whether the Chineses had any Memorials so antient that give an account of the passages of so many thousand years ago as some do affirm He told us that they had no Histories more antient then King Tao who lived about four thousand seven hundred years ago and that they had no Histories of antienter date that speak of the beginning and continuance of the World We put the Father next upon the Art of Navigation to know whether they believe in China that there is any passage out of Asia into America he assured us that they had but little skill in Navigation that they know not well how to make use of the Compass or rather this knowledge is defective Their greatest Vessels are not able to carry above fifty Men their Sails are made of Mat but so artificially that they can go almost with any wind Their rowing differs from ours for they move their Oars before and behind Therefore as they have no great insight into the Art of Navigation it is not possible that they should be able to adventure far at Sea they dare not loose the sight of the Land Concerning their passing from Asia into America the Father told us That he knew nothing certain because the English and the Hollanders have been disappointed in their attempting to pass through the Frozen Sea where they have no manner of Trade For the Tartars they are no great Traders and it is not probable that any of them will venture upon a meer curiosity to open that passage It is not likely that the Chineses will leave their Countrey to undertake any such hazardous voyage Nevertheless it is generally believed that there is some-where a passage or that Asia is divided from America but by a Narrow Sea The continual appearance of many wild Fowl of America in the Southern Parts of Tartaria do very much strengthen this opinion For it is not probable that they would there be seen if America and Tartaria were not joyned together or not far from one another We asked him concerning the Dancings Plays and Gardens of China The Chineses replied the Father never dance but the Tartars use that sport amongst themselves the Men with the Men and the Women with the Women but never both Sexes together Their Musick consists in striking their hands one against another

our Religion had been heretofore professed in this place From hence they travelled to the first City 〈◊〉 the Mogols Kingdom named H●donda and from thence to Battani a City upon the River Gange● and then to Benares the Academy of the Brachmans afterwards the● went to Agra the Royal Palla● of the Mogol Father Albertus d'O●ville sick and weary of his trave●ling died within a few days after 〈◊〉 arrival in this middle way betwee● China and Europe FINIS THE Most Remarkable PASSAGES OF The Life and Reign OF LEWIS XIV The Present KING IN FRANCE LONDON Printed for Samuel Lownds over against Exeter-House in the Strand 1675. The most noted Passages of the Raign of the French King THe French and Spanish Monarchies seldom live long in Peace Either the Interest of the Kingdoms or the jealousies of State or the humors of the People or the natural aversions and animosities which they have received by inheritance from their Forefathers do frequently kindle the flames of War Their Neighborhood and continual Conversation furnishes them with many occasions of distastes and disputes for both the Spaniard and the French have no compliance nor respect for one another They are naturally proud and high-minded they pretend both to the Universal Monarchy and think all the World must bow and creep to their greatness I intend not to examine in this short Tract the causes of their frequent Ruptures and Wars I shall confine my discourse within the Borders of the French Dominions where we must visit the King and Court and see what hath hapned worthy of our observation upon that famous Theater of Europe I design not so much to satisfie the Readers curiosity as to furnish him with that knowledge which he may improve to his advantage for in every capacity true and impartial History tends to our right information and direction God by his providence teacheth men as well as by his Word It concerns us not to neglect the means that he affords for our instruction And there is nothing more required in men that pretend to learning and perfection then to be acquainted with the late and present Affairs as well as with those that we have received from our Forefathers Relations It is very observable that the French and Spaniards seldom conclude Peace without a Marriage The old Fable of Mars's Adultery or Conjunction with Venus is a practice so ordinary amongst them that it needs no proof In the year One thousand six hundred and fifteen the Polititians of both Kingdoms were resolved to conclude their disputes and reunite their interests in a Marriage between Lewis the Thirteenth sirnamed The Just and Anne of Austria Infanta of Spain Both Kingdoms expected from these two hopeful Princes a numerous posterity but to the great disappointment of their Subjects and of all Europe they lived together three and twenty years without Children Success follows not always our best endeavors At last in the Moneth of September One thousand six hundred thirty and eight the Queen was brought to Bed of a brave lusty Boy who was saluted and welcomed into the World by the Parliament of Paris with the name of Dieu-donnè Given of God For they were verily perswaded that his Birth and Conception had been miraculous in regard of the indisposition of his Father To strengthen this perswasion the more by Cardinal Mazarines contrivance then the Factotum of France the King the Queen and the whole Court had been in Procession with much devotion bare-footed to the Chappel of the Virgin Mary near Paris to desire from her a Son and Heir to the Crown o● France Therefore the French look upon this Prince as the effect and return of their Prayers then solemnly offered up to the Blessed Virgin for within a year after the King and Queen were blessed with this hopeful Child to the greater joy of France then of some of the Blood Royal who had promised to themselves the Kingdom in case Lewis the Thirteenth did die without issue Their discontents remained long concealed in private and were not suffered to break out into a Publick War by the good order that the Cardinal gave to the Affairs of the Kingdom and by their respect for the King then alive But afterwards when they saw Lewis in his Grave the People dissatisfied and the Grandees discontented with the Italian Government they proclaimed their displeasures at the Head of an Army with the loud noise of Drums Trumpets and Cannon as we shall see by and by As soon as the Dolphin was inaugurated into his Principality and initiated into Christian Religion they gave him his Attendants and Officers according to his quality and Birth the two cheif were his Governess a Lady of a noble spirit and Hardouin de Perefixe afterwards Bishop of Rhodes and since removed to the Archbishoprick of Paris was his Governor and Tutor He is a great Polititian Wise and Learned very affable and courteous Whiles he lay in his Cradle we can find nothing worthy of our notice but as soon as he stept out of it to walk alone Providence waited upon him to put into his hands a Scepter before he could manage it For at four years of age and a few Moneths his Father Lewis sirnamed The Just departed this life having published before his Declaration dated April 21. 1643. By which the Queen was appointed Regent and Governess of the whole Kingdom the Duke of Orleans was her Lieutenant and cheif of the Council The Prince of Condé deceased the Cardinal Mazarine Monsieur Seguier Chancellor of France Monsieur Bouthillier and Monsieur Chavigny were to be of this Privy Council but the conduct of the Army then on foot was left to the Duke of Enguien who is now Prince of Condé This Declaration settled the Affairs of the Kingdom and prevented the mischeif which might have hapned in case the election of these great Officers of State had been left to the choice of such as might have designed to imbroil the Kingdom for their own private ends About a Moneth after on the fourteenth day of May 1643. the King died At that time the Spaniard was attempting to inlarge his Dominions in the Low Countreys by a War with France Don Francisco de Melo was Viceroy there at the Head of an Army before Rocroy a French Garrison which he besieged in vain For the Duke of Enguien a young General of twenty two years of age came seasonably to its relief forced the Spaniards to a retreat and obtained of them a notable victory on the nineteenth of May. All their Artillery was taken with about threescore Colours all their Bag and Baggage and six thousand prisoners The Colours were sent to Paris to be presented to the new King six days after his promotion to the Throne The Viceroy behaved himself like a great Commander he incouraged his men by his words promises and example where he perceived the greatest danger there did he hazard his person and his life but when he saw the day

assaulted Gravelin but could not recover it in a Moneth for the Garrison was strong and resolute Many brave Actions hapned in this attempt the besiegers and besieged behaved themselves very gallantly at last they capitulated upon honorable terms the Eight and twentieth of August In the interim the Dukes of Modena and Navailes took Mortera for the French This first hath always been devoted to the Crown of France The Spaniard endeavored to take from the French some little places which they recovered but it is certain that the Spaniard was the greater looser Therefore the Princes of the Empire assembled together to consult about the chusing of another Emperor at Franckfort sent to desire his Majesty of France to hearken to an Accommodation The King of Spain Philip the Fourth had caused some Overtures of Peace to be made by the Popes Mediation The French Court entertained them willingly upon condition of a match between the young King and the Infanta of Spain When the King was at Lions an Envoy came to him from Madrid about this Negotiation The Cardinal had orders to have a private Conference with him to make way for the Ambassadors de Lionne and Pimentel The first was dispatched away to Madrid the second went to Paris They dealt so effectually that all Differences were composed Articles were concluded and the great breach was made up to the satisfaction of both Princes and Kingdoms The Queen-Mother was not a little useful in this business for when the Cardinal did seem to put in some Demurs she declared That the Peace should be made without him for that she was resolved that her Son should match with one of her own Kinred The Kings indisposition had almost ruined this Affair for he fell dangerously sick but he recovered after a few days distemper Afterwards he made a progress into the farthest confines of his Kingdom for there had been some discontents and disorders about Lions Burgundy and Provence which could not be terminated without his coming When he was at Lions the Duke of Savoy came to wait upon him This Prince is so near a Neighbor to France that he is forced to keep his friendship for fear of loosing his Principality which hath been several times in great danger to be swallowed up by this great Monarch at the least distaste In the mean time the Spanish gravity was very slow in concluding the Peace that Court trifled away the time in Consultations and Meetings whilest the Spring of the next year 1659. was coming on apace Which caused the King to give order for new levies of Soldiers to appoint Generals and Commanders as if he had intended to prosecute the War as vigorously as before This made the Spaniard desire a Truce of four Moneths from the eighth of March to the third of July which was granted the King That it should continue till his Declaration to the contrary ordered In order to a Peace Mazarin went to Bayonne and Don Louïs d' Aro de Gusman came to S. Sebastians to treat more commodiously These two Plenipotentiaries at last concluded and signed the Articles the seventh of November next ensuing The Inhabitants of S. Sebastian of S. John de Luz and of the Neighboring Cities declared their satisfaction and joy by Bonefires and other publick signs Whilst the business was in debate the French Court was at Bourdeaux and Tholouse that it might be sooner consulted in all difficult Matters After the conclusion of the Treaty the French King sent a Procuration to Don Louïs d' Aro to espouse the Infanta of Spain in his name The Marriage was performed in Fontarabia in the presence of the Court of Spain the third day of June The two Kings met in the Isle of Conference scituate between both Kingdoms where the young Queen was delivered to her Husband and both Kings swore to keep and confirmed to one another the Treaty of Peace After this interview they separated the French King and Queen was received at S. John de Luz with much pomp and Joy and in their journey to Paris every good City in their way expressed their extraordinary satisfaction for the Marriage and Peace between the two Kingdoms But their Reception at Paris was one of the most glorious Ceremonies the most splendid Triumph of our Age. The young Queen was carried in an open Charriot shining with all the riches of the East and West Indies she was attended upon by the whole Court in their greatest splendor and glory The People the Clergy and the Nobility did welcome her with such expressions of joy that they are not credible In the beginning of the next year 1661. on the nineth of March the great Minister of State Cardinal Mazarin paid his last debt to Nature having by his policy raised himself and family from a low beginning to the greatest honors in France The Court was pleased to Mourn for him but they quickly cast off their sad attire when Monsieur of France resolved to marry with the Princess of England A Lady very well accomplished in Beauty and Vertue The publick ceremony was performed on the One and thirtieth of March. There hapned nothing remarkable this year till the latter end The first day of November the Dauphin of France was born to the great joy of all that Kingdom Monsieur de Montausier was appointed to be his Governor One thousand six hundred sixty and two the King made Seventy two Knights of the Order of the S. Esprit all Persons of the greatest Nobility and approved valor In the same year there hapned a difference between the Ambassadors of Spain and France about precedency in the City of London The Spaniards were prepared to receive the French so that the tumult was great and some Bloodshed on both sides The French sent their Complaints to Madrid the King gave them satisfaction and forbad all his Ambassadors for the future to appear in any publick solemnity with the Ambassadors of France for they claim a precedency in all Courts of Europe unless it be in Vienna where the House of Austria are Lords The King of Spain preferred in this occasion the Peace and Quiet of his Kingdoms to this odd Punctilio of Honor. This year was spent in Sports and publick Divertisements of the Gentry and Nobility at court till the Moneth of November Then the French Ambassador in England had Orders to demand the restitution of Dunkirk to the French for a sum of Money according to their pretended Agreement with Cromwel It was generally supposed by the wisest in France that the English would never part with a place so well fortified by their late industry purchased with the Blood of many of their bravest Men that took it and so handy and commodious to them both in Peace and War and that therefore there would be a dispute between the two Nations for the recovery of it But it hapned otherwise to the Universal Sorrow of all our people Dunkirke was surrendered and the French King made

Office that they fancied proceeded fron● her favoring of them So the Papists assign divers and differing titles to the Virgin Mary who is now become the Goddess of War amongst them and the Giver of Victory to her devout Proselites The Princes wound had cast him into an indisposition which made him follow his Majesty and accompany the Duke of Orleans the Kings Brother to Paris leaving the Conduct of Affairs to Monsieur de Luxembourgh and Turenne The Prince of Orange was then before Voërden with Twelve thousand Men Luxembourgh prepares a strong brigade of Two thousand five hundred Men and by a secret way over the Marshes he gets into the Town undiscovered with his Party with which he made such stout Sallies that the Prince was forced to rise from thence with his Army to leave some of his Baggage and Cannon behind him All this while the Dutch had scarce time to look about the French had been so nimble and furious that they had gained all this Countrey without any considerable loss But before the next Campagne the face of affairs was changed the Dutch had many Armies come to their assistance the Spaniard the German and the Imperialists sent their powerful Succors to aid them So that they have since recovered a great part of what they first lost and will according to all probability recover the rest The Prince of Orange was now restored by Order of the States after the inhumane massacre of de Wit to his Patrimonial Offices of Statholder Admiral and General of the Vnited-Provinces This generous Prince began to appear at the Head of an Army of 24000 Men with these he resolved not to be idle some places he took but did not yet dare to adventure against his insolent Enemy triumphing for so many great Successes Monterey Viceroy of the Netherlands for the King of Spain desired him to attempt something in his Countrey because the French had drained their Garrisons for the Spaniard had not declared yet against them According to this advice he laid siege to Charleroy a Fortress that was likely to annoy the Spaniard their next Neighbors Montal the Governor had notice of the design he Posts thither in haste and taking his time in the night he passed through the Dutch and Spanish Troops and got safe into the Garrison to the great joy of the besieged The next day he adventured to sally out with a strong party which was received and welcomed by the Prince of Orange with loss on both sides When the King heard of this siege he drew near to the Borders of Picardy and gave order to several thousands of his Soldiers to meet him with a design to beat the Dutch off Therefore this intelligence caused the Prince to rise with his Army the Two and twentieth day of December and depart Which was signified to the King by a Post sent from the Governor At this time Luxembourgh attempted to lead his Men over the Ice to Assault Bodengrave Swammerdam and Niverburgh which three places he took without much resistance After this the French went no further till the next Spring 1673. They were all sent into several Garrisons where we shall leave them to take notice of their behavior at Sea On the Water as well as on the Land the War was carried on The Dutch had a gallant Fleet with which they did defie the Fleets of England and France But though De Ruyter their Admiral labored by Policy to fight us and to surprise us at an advantage he was much mistaken to find our English courage in the greatest discouragement not to resist and brave Death it self His Majesty of England had been engaged to joyn his strong Fleet with the French Squadron which was commanded by the Count de Estrées Therefore the Twenty eighth of May 1672. in prosecution of the War that had been declared against the States of Holland our Fleet under the command of the brave Duke of York had a very sharp Engagement with the Dutch upon the English Coast in which the Victory declared for the English with the loss of the Royal James which was unfortunately burned and of the Earl of Sandwich who was drowned and his body found about the tenth of the next Moneth floating on the English shore He was an excellent Captain more fortunate in the Mediterranean and in the Sound then in our Channel England lamented the loss of so excellent a person It seems his courage destroyed him for when his Ship was Boarded and Fired by a Dutchman when it was surrounded by many of the Enemies best Ships His resolution to brave Death and the Enemy in the midst of the greatest disadvantages and dangers made him abide and continue the sight in his Flaming Ship Of our English Twenty four Persons of Note were killed with three of the French Amongst the rest a Gentleman so Courageous Learned Civil and so well accomplished that I cannot but mention him in this place It was Mr. Clement Cotterel Sir Charles Cotterels Son About fifteen Gentlemen were desperately wounded seven hundred Common Soldiers and Seamen killed and as many maimed Monsieur de Rabiniere tres le Bois Rear Admiral of the French was killed and buried at Rochel The Duke of York in this Engagement behaved himself as a discreet and wise Commander with an undaunted Courage It is supposed that if our whole Fleet could have had the conveniency of fighting the Dutch had been for ever undone but the Wind hindered most part of our Ships from coming up to them so that the Blew Squadron was forced to ingage with the Enemy alone The Dutch had great loss of Men and Ships it is thought about five or six of theirs besides the Fire-ships were sunk It is certain that our Fleet pursued them to their own Coast About this time the Twentieth of August 1672. hapned a most barbarous execution of the two De Wits torn in pieces by the rude rabble of the Hague their Privities cut off their Bodies dragged through the Streets and hanged at the Gallows in such a barbarous manner that the Cannibals would have been ashamed to have done the like Groningen had been besieged by the Mercenary Weather-cock of Munster but in the Moneth of August he left the Town after a considerable loss of his Men. The good Bishop was moved with compassion to see his Soldiers slaughtered by the stout-hearted Dutch so that he preferred their safety or it may be his own to the filling of his Purse with Gilders which was the thing this noble Captain aimed at in this attempt upon the Dutch The States of Holland had prevailed with many of their Neighbors especially with the Emperor King of Spain and Duke of Brandenburgh to send their Succors to assist them by Land The Prince Palatine was perswaded notwithstanding his Alliance with France to enter into the party They were all resolved to send into the Field their Armies in the next Spring for they were afraid that the French would