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<P>&cross; A TRVE Declaration of the Honorable Victorie obtained by the French King in winning of <HI>Noyan,</HI> and ouerthrow of the Duke de Maine his Forces.</P>
<P>Performed this pre&s;ent moneth of Augu&s;t, 1591.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed according to the Copie &s;ent into England to the Lord Amba&s;&s;adour for France.</P>
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<P>LONDON Imprinted by <HI>Thomas Scarlet,</HI> for <HI>Thomas Nel&s;on,</HI> and are to be &s;olde at his <HI>&s;hop ouer again&s;t the South</HI> dore of Paules.</P>
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<HEAD>A DISCOVRSE WRITTEN from the French Kings Campe, lying before Noyan, the viii. day of Augu&s;t, Anno 1591.</HEAD>
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<P>_THE town of Noyan being be|legur'd by the kinges Maie&s;tye, was con|&s;trained to great ex|tremitye: for the re|liefe wher of, the L. Vicount Tauanes &s;et forwardes towardes the the &s;aid towne, and came thither in the night &s;ea&s;on, accompanied with foure hundred hor&s;e, and about fiue hundred footmen: Yet &s;uch was his bad &s;ucce&s;&s;e in his pretence for &s;uccouring the town of Noyan, that his whol power was broken, &s;laine, di&s;comfited, and ta|ken
<PB REF="3">pri&s;oners: and more then that, to the great griefe of the Leagers, him&s;elf was taken pri&s;o|ner, and in the a&s;&s;ault &s;ore wounded.</P>
<P>This newes being brought to the forces of the Leaguers, cau&s;ed the Duke D'Aumaule to re&s;olue an attempt for his relea&s;ement: and thereupon hauing a&s;&s;embled about fiue hun|dred hor&s;e, came and made his generall a&s;&s;em|bly in the towne of Han, which is not aboue four leagues from the &s;ayde Noyan. From whence, on the &s;euenth of Augu&s;t, hee &s;ent three hundred of his be&s;t hor&s;e to the fight, to|gether with a company of Harquebuziers, who went before, and the &s;ayd Hor&s;emen lin|gered behind in a village, not farre from the rereward, who &s;oon after &s;et forward, and gaue a charge vpon the quarter of the Kings light hor&s;e, where they were well receaued. With him there came to the &s;aid alarme, the Lords of Largue, and of Lawney, his brother, with their companies, who are of &s;ome force. The&s;e ioyntly ioyned with the light hor&s;emen, greatly &s;trengthned the forces of the leaguers. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, after many charges, and &s;harpe a&s;&s;aults geuen on either part (the Kings &s;ide al|wayes hauing the greate&s;t likelihood of victo|rie) both the companies began to retire.</P>
<P>At which retire came in that valiant &s;oldier
<PB REF="3">and honourable man at armes, the Lord Baron of Biron, who albeit that he was not accom|panied with aboue twelue of his own men, yet the Kings forces &s;uppo&s;ing he had brought in &s;ome &s;tore of fre&s;h &s;oldiers, &s;o &s;oone as they once heard him named, took a wonderful and vn&s;peakable courage, and &s;eeing him in the mid&s;t of them, they gaue a fre&s;h charge vpon the enemie, in &s;uch &s;ort, and with &s;uch force, that they did driue the enemie euen into the gates of Han, from whence they had i&s;&s;ued. To whom there was al&s;o comming a new &s;uccor, and fre&s;h &s;upply of men, who perceiuing the euill &s;ucce&s;&s;e of the re&s;t, returned in the fore|frunt, &s;o that &s;ome of the kings maie&s;ties forces followed them euen into their barriours.</P>
<P>This fight was great, for there were at the lea&s;t twelue &s;euerall charges and a&s;&s;aultes ge|uen, in which there was &s;ome &s;tore of armed men &s;laine on the enemies &s;ide, with diuers of their Captains. Among whom was &s;layn Don Franci&s;co of Gueuara, the be&s;t captain of light hor&s;emen that the king of Spayne had in the low Countreys. The Lieutenant to the &s;ayde Franci&s;co de Gueuara, was al&s;o &s;layn outright. It is &s;uppo&s;ed that the Lieutenant to the Go|uernor of Han was al&s;o taken and &s;laine, with &s;undrie other of great account.</P>
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<P> The Lord of Long-champ, one of the be&s;t and mo&s;t aduenturous Captaines, is al&s;o taken pri&s;oner, with aboue four&s;core men at aimes of account, and diuers Leaders, and Lieute|nants of the hor&s;emen: who all confe&s;&s;e, that they were hardly be&s;tead, hotly encountred and a&s;&s;aulted by men of courage, and great va|lour. Yea this ouerthrow co&s;t them deare: for there was taken and &s;laine of the enemies a|boue fifteen hundred hor&s;e, who were not of the wor&s;t, but of their chiefe&s;t hor&s;e and hor&s;|men.</P>
<P>On the Kings Maie&s;ties &s;ide there was &s;laine about a do&s;&s;en hor&s;es, which were of his light hor&s;emen. Amonge&s;t whom the Mar|&s;hall of the companie was &s;laine: his death is greatly bewayled, fora&s;much as he was a man of great valor, and wonderfull courage.</P>
<P>The Duke de Maine arriued on the &s;euenth day of Augu&s;t, at the towne of Han, with all troupes of hor&s;emen which he could gather: Of whom it need not be doubted, but that hee is of the opinion to recouer this lo&s;&s;e, and to &s;peed better then the re&s;t of his chief captains did before him. Wherein if it may plea&s;e God he fayle in his opinion, and obteine but the like &s;ucce&s;&s;e, his forces would &s;hortly be weak|ned, and his faction for the mo&s;t parte con|founded.</P>
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<P> This one thing is worthy the noting, that all men are now more willing to goe again&s;t him and his troupes, then they were again&s;t tho&s;e that came fir&s;t. And it may very well be, that &s;ith the Duke de Main is not content with the two fir&s;t lo&s;&s;es and conflicts which hee re|ceiued, that the next may worke &s;ome greater effect: for it was likely (being then &s;o neere to|gether as they were) that they &s;hould hardly part againe without comming neerer in viewe and battel one of the other.</P>
<P>In the meane &s;pace the Kings Maie&s;ty lo&s;t no time about the &s;iege of this towne: For on this day, being the &s;euenth day of Augu&s;t, the Canon beganne to play vpon a Church that &s;tandeth in the mid&s;t of the &s;uburbs, which to|gether with a great ditch, did &s;trongly defend the &s;ame: wherby it is not found much weaker then the towne: the taking whereof could not but mini&s;ter great occa&s;ion of aduauntage, wherof the Kings Maie&s;tie was in good hope. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, he was cou&s;trayned to leaue of and to re&s;traine the forraine power which came vnto him from Germanie and England, who in mo&s;t honourable &s;ort are entered the Realme.</P>
<P>The Church afore&s;aide hauing receiued the force of the Canon, which played vpon it from morning vntill three of the clocke in the
<PB REF="5">after noone, had by that time a great breache made into the &s;ame: By meanes whereof, the Church was &s;oone taken by a fierce a&s;&s;ault made by the French and Engli&s;h companies. In which breach there was &s;layne about the number of thirtie enemies, be&s;ides whom there was to the number of fourty and fiue, that were retired into the vaultes of the &s;ayde Church, who yeelded them&s;elues vnto the mercie of the Kinges Maie&s;tie. And there|vppon hee immediately graunted them their liues, and likewi&s;e liberty to depart with bag and baggage.</P>
<P>The a&s;&s;aultes of the towne, and winning of this Church, was the meanes for taking the Suburbs, and therefore a thing preiudiciall to the towne, not onelye in re&s;pecte of the anoyance which the Kings forces did offer the enemie: but al&s;o for the men of war that were there &s;layne, of which the towne was but meanely and &s;lenderly furni&s;hed at the time of their yeelding.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;tie is aduerti&s;ed that Ro&s;ue, who ledde the Duke de Maine his army towardes Lorraine, is returned towards Laon, to which place the Duke is gone to ioyne with him, to the ende that they together might &s;uccour the &s;aid towne. By meanes wherof, there is likelihood of a great battaile and conflict very
<PB REF="5">&s;hortly to be geuen to the Duke de Maine, the rather, in re&s;pect that his Maie&s;tie, and all the Nobilitie about him, &s;tand very re&s;olutely in his defence.</P>
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<HEAD>The Compo&s;ition en&s;uing was concluded on <HI>the &s;euenteenth day of Augu&s;t,</HI> 1591.</HEAD>
<P>_VPon the &s;euenteenth day of Augu&s;t, 1591. the Lord of Ville, commander in Noyan, as wel for him&s;elfe, as for all the Gentlemen, Sol|diers, and other Inhabitantes of the &s;ayd Town, hath promi&s;ed to yeeld the &s;aid town of Noya~ into the king his hands, vpon munday next following by Noone, together with all the artillerie, the Munition for warre, and victuals, which at that pre&s;ent time was therein: vnle&s;&s;e that on the morrow (being Sunday) &s;ometime of the day, the Duke de Maine doe giue his Maiestie battaile, and &s;o rai&s;e his &s;iege: or at least, that the Duke de Maine doe put in a thou&s;and men by force, to &s;uccour the &s;aid Towne of Noyan, that then the &s;aid Lord of Ville, the Gentlemen and Cap|taines, with their armour, hor&s;es and baggage, and the Souldiers with their weapons and hor&s;e, &s;hall depart, and the Inhabitants (doing their dueties,) &s;halbe receaued into the Kings fauour, and intreated as his other good Subiects, that dwell and remaine in his other Townes.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Lord of Villes mother, may freelye remaine in the &s;aid Town, and enioy her goods, vpon perfourming the &s;ubmi&s;sion of loyall fidelitie as is accu&s;tomed of all his loyall Subiects.</P>
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<P> Item, that if any of the Inhabitants of the &s;ayde towne be de&s;irous to depart, that they &s;hall lawfullye depart among the men of warre.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Lord of Ville &s;halbe permitted to &s;ende the Lord of Broully to the &s;aid Duke of Maine, to aduerti&s;e him of the premi&s;&s;es, and that the King &s;hall &s;afe conduct him to that effect.</P>
<P>To the accompli&s;hment of the premi&s;&s;es, the &s;aide L. of Ville hath al&s;o promi&s;ed to deliuer for Ho&s;tages, to his Maiestie, the Lorde of Rieulx, the Abbot of Genlis, with four of the chiefe of the Towne, &s;uch as his Maiestie &s;hall choo&s;e. All which per&s;ons his Ma|iestie doeth promi&s;e vpon performance of the former conditions, to deliuer.</P>
<P>His Maiestie al&s;o graunteth to &s;ende two Captens into the Towne, to &s;ee and keepe them during the &s;aid time, from labouring to the contrarie.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Geuen <DATE>the xvij. of Augu&s;t. 1591.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed HENRIE. <HI>And vnderneath.</HI> <LIST>
<ITEM><HI>RVZE.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ville de Rieulx.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>La Chautrie.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Browly.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>VPon the xix. day following, the &s;aide compo&s;ition was put in effect as is afore|&s;aid, and his Maie&s;tie hauing adui&s;e that the enemy retired vpon <HI>la Fere,</HI> pre&s;ently re&s;ol|ued to depart after midnight with xij. hundred hor&s;e and foure hundred harguebuziers on hor&s;ebacke, the Lord Mar&s;hall of Biron being of the troupe, to the end to cro&s;&s;e and meete with the enimie by the waie betweene la Fere and Loan, and to charge him in the march:
<PB REF="6">there was great apparance, had the aduice bin true. Herevpon his Maie&s;tie returned the &s;ayd Lord Mar&s;hall, and retained with him&s;elfe on|ly &s;ixe hundred hor&s;e and the &s;aide harguebu|ziers, and &s;o marched toward Han, where the Duke of Maine remained yet with his &s;ayd ar|mie, where his &s;aid Maie&s;tie &s;tayed almo&s;t two houres in battel in his &s;ight within canon &s;hot, whereof there were&s;ome &s;hot di&s;charged with out anie lo&s;&s;e, neither woulde there i&s;&s;ue anie per&s;on, except one cornet of hor&s;emen, which had the riuer of Some before them. Thus the Duke cho&s;e rather to abide this &s;hame, than to &s;eeke to reuenge the fir&s;t. Euen again&s;t the towne there was al&s;o a Corps de gard of Spa|niards, who were di&s;placed by eight Gentle|men that alighted. On another &s;ide there were &s;ome twelue that aduentured too farre, whom four Gentlemen (of whom Sir R. Williams was one) pur&s;ued, and made them turne their faces, except one of the chiefe&s;t, that belonged to the duke d'Aumal, who remaineth pri&s;oner.</P>
<P>His Maie&s;tie on the twentieth of Augu&s;t marched toward Gi&s;ors, there to receaue the right honourable Earle of E&s;&s;ex, and &s;o imme|diately to ioyne with the great power of Ger|manes, who are already entred into Fraunce, by Gods grace to work &s;ome great effect, with the ayde of the honourable, warlike, and for|ward Leaders, and Gentlemen of England.</P>
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<HEAD>THE EPILOGVE.</HEAD>
<P>_THis former di&s;cour&s;e (gentle reader) is not forged or fained, as &s;ome perhaps for malice will pecui&s;ly report: neither is it fetched from flying and fabulous letters, ordinarie reports on the Ex|change, or publi&s;hed vppon ra&s;h warrant, as &s;ome, I know, will not &s;tick to vtter: but the &s;ame is &s;et forth for &s;uch credit as ca~not be di&s;proued, being agreeable to the intelligence &s;ent from his Maie&s;tie into Eng|land, to the Lord Amba&s;&s;ador for Fraunce. And although the &s;ame bee not publi&s;hed with &s;uch elo|quent phra&s;es as &s;ome newes which hath lately beene publi&s;hed, yet will I a&s;&s;ure you (if both were examined by the wi&s;e&s;t) that this is of more trueth, and without error, notwith&s;tanding that much trueth was pro|mi&s;ed, and little found but vntrueth. For reformatio~ wherof, be a&s;&s;ured there is &s;ufficient order taken, that no newes what&s;oeuer, &s;hall hereafter pa&s;&s;e in print, but that which is certain, and knowen to be true.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides this, you &s;hall very &s;hortly haue publi&s;hed the good &s;ucce&s;&s;e which the Lord Prince of Countie hath had in another part of Fraunce, in the behalfe of the French king: where he hath put a great num|ber of the Leaguers to the foyle. The maner of which
<PB REF="7">battaile &s;halbe particularlie publi&s;hed, being tran&s;la|ted out of the French printed Copie, with his Maie|&s;ties owne letter &s;ent vnto the &s;aid Prince of Countie, together with the honourable letter of Sir Roger Willyams, in the behalfe of his Countrey, &s;ent vnto the Collonels and Captaines of Paris, challenging them to the combat, in re&s;pect of &s;ome fal&s;e rumors giuen foorth by them again&s;t Engli&s;h companies, which therin is plainely layd open.</P>
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