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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P> <HI>Diatele&s;ma.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;econd part of the Moderne Hi&s;tory of the VVorld, containing this la&s;t Summers actions, IN <HI>Languedock, Italy, Piemont, Montferrat, Lorrain,</HI> the Dukedome of <HI>Burgundy,</HI> the <HI>Franch</HI> County, and generally in <HI>France, Holland,</HI> the <HI>We&s;t-Indies,</HI> and <HI>Marine</HI> occurrences; With &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages of <HI>Rome,</HI> and <HI>Turkey,</HI> brought downe to <HI>Novemb.</HI> 1637.</P>
<Q><P><HI>Quicquid agunt homines no&s;tri e&s;t ferrago libelli.</HI></P> <BIBL>Iuven.</BIBL></Q>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>decorative design</FIGDESC>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>T. Harper,</HI> and are to be &s;old by <HI>Nathaniel Butter,</HI> and <HI>Nicholas Bourne.</HI> 1638.</P>
<PB REF="2">
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<DIV1 TYPE="table of contents">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>A Table of Contents.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>_CErbellone</HI> encampeth before <HI>Laucate.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Pag.</HI> 2</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Situation of <HI>Laucate.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Cerbellon</HI> gropeth the Governour,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>And fayling of his end, prepares to batter the Fort.</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Roqueford</HI> taken by <HI>Cerbellon.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Garri&s;on re-enforced,</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Duke of <HI>Halewin</HI> prepares to relieve it.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Brings up his armie opportunely,</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Calleth a Councell of Warre.</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The re&s;olution of the Councell,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Is put in practi&s;e.</CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Spani&s;h &s;couts repul&s;ed.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The French Generall &s;eekes to be informed of the Spani&s;h Fortifications,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Fortifications di&s;covered,</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Another Councell of Warre is called,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>It being concluded to a&s;&s;ault the Enemie in five places.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Labourerers are &s;ent to open the way for the hor&s;e,</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>And the French armie is divided into five bonds.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A re&s;erve &s;et apart.</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The battels joyne.</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The fight doubtfull; the French hor&s;e come up, and get the victorie.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Spaniards flye,</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The French &s;eize on the &s;poyle.</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
</ROW>
<PB REF="3">
<ROW>
<CELL>The Spaniards lo&s;&s;e.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The King gives thankes to God, and rewards to his &s;oul|diers.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Duke of <HI>Rohans</HI> march out of the <HI>Veltoline.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>D. <HI>Bernhard</HI> goeth into the field,</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Takes in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Romagne,</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Which yeelds upon di&s;cretion.</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Some Pea&s;ants, to &s;ecure their gold, lo&s;e both money and lives.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Champlite</HI> &s;urrendred to D. <HI>Bernh.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Mercy</HI> with &s;eventeeene Regiments, oppo&s;eth the D. pa&s;|&s;age over <HI>Soan.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Duke <HI>Bernh.</HI> encounters him,</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>And gets the victorie.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Giz</HI> yeelded upon di&s;cretion.</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Commander in Saint <HI>Loup</HI> hanged up.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The i&s;&s;ue, and effect of the battell.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Mercye</HI> againe defeated by the <HI>Rhinegrave.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Mountbeliard</HI> blocked up by <HI>Putler,</HI> is freed by <HI>Schave|litzky.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Altkirk,</HI> taken, pillaged and burnt by <HI>Schavelitzky.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Montbeliard</HI> re-victualled by D. <HI>Bernhard.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Six Companies of <HI>Lorrain</HI> hor&s;men defeated by D. <HI>Bern|hard.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Boy&s;eys</HI> Regiment defeated, and him&s;elfe &s;lain.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Mommartin</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;on</HI> taken in, the Duke marcheth to|wards the <HI>Rhine.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>23</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Many of the <HI>Lorrainers</HI> &s;ubmit to the French King volun|tarily.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Le Pont de Horde,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Be&s;ieged,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>And taken by the Count of <HI>Medovie,</HI> Governour of <HI>Mont|beliard.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Governour hanged.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The death of <HI>Ponico,</HI> D. <HI>Bernhards</HI> bo&s;ome friend.</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
</ROW>
<PB REF="3">
<ROW>
<CELL>A &s;trange tempe&s;t at <HI>Tours.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Buffara</HI> a Weaver, nai&s;eth a commotion in <HI>Perigot.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>By an ill woven &s;peech to the Pea&s;ants,</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The people a&s;&s;enting, take up Armes;</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Are beaten in the field by the Duke <HI>de Valette.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Their Captaine broke upon the wheele.</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A black-Smith rai&s;eth a new commotion in <HI>Querey,</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Taketh <HI>Fons,</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Is re-enforced by three thou&s;and fre&s;h men,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Summons <HI>Pigear.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Is deluded by the Citizens,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Taken, and delivered to the hands of Iu&s;tice.</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Con&s;tans</HI> rai&s;ed by the Duke of <HI>Lan|gueville.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Courlaon</HI> be&s;ieged by the D.</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Surrendred upon compo&s;ition.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The towne of <HI>Lyon de Saulnier</HI> be&s;ieged by the <HI>French.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>34.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Ca&s;tle holds out.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Two other Ca&s;tles taken by the Duke <HI>Longueville.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>35</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Montaigne</HI> taken by the Count <HI>De Guebriant.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Lyon de Saulniere</HI> &s;urrendred upon compo|&s;ition.</CELL>
<CELL>36</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Divers Forts and Ca&s;tles taken by the D. <HI>de Longue|ville.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>37</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Sovigny</HI> ayred before the <HI>French</HI> enter.</CELL>
<CELL>38</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Duke of <HI>Longueville</HI> by &s;uffering the <HI>Camptois</HI> to take their Crop, relieves his Army.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Orgelet</HI> yielded to the <HI>French,</HI> with other Forts.</CELL>
<CELL>39</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Count of <HI>Soy&s;&s;ons</HI> gives evidence of his loyaltie to the King.</CELL>
<CELL>40</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Sundry Ca&s;tles taken by <HI>Guebriant</HI> in the <HI>French Coun|tie.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>S. <HI>Lawrence la Roche,</HI> the Towne &s;urprized by the <HI>French,</HI></CELL>
<CELL>41</CELL>
</ROW>
<PB REF="4">
<ROW>
<CELL>Burned by the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> which &s;lie into the Ca&s;tle,</CELL>
<CELL>42</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Where they are be&s;ieged, and forced to yield.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Bleteran</HI> in danger of a &s;iege.</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Burge&s;&s;es prepare to flie.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Guebriant</HI> way-layes them, and they not comming abroad, addre&s;&s;eth a Stratagem to &s;urprize the Garri&s;on.</CELL>
<CELL>44</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>That fayling, he takes in <HI>Io&s;&s;eau</HI> a Ca&s;tle,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>And the Fort <HI>de Loges,</HI></CELL>
<CELL>45</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Addre&s;&s;eth a new &s;tratagem for the Garri&s;on of <HI>Blete|rans,</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>And &s;urprized a part of the Pre&s;idiaries.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Bleterans</HI> be&s;ieged,</CELL>
<CELL>46</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>And de&s;cribed.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Fontenay</HI> &s;urrendred.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Towne of <HI>Bleterans</HI> taken.</CELL>
<CELL>47</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The be&s;ieged flie to the Ca&s;tle, where they capitulate, and &s;urrender.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Troubles among&s;t the <HI>Gri&s;ons</HI> after <HI>Rohans</HI> depar|ture.</CELL>
<CELL>49</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Leganez</HI> Governour of <HI>Millain</HI> goeth into the field.</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Army is divided into three parts.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Gildas</HI> &s;ent towards <HI>Ni&s;&s;e le Pagly.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Summoneth the Citie.</CELL>
<CELL>51</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Which by the treachery and &s;editious practice of the In|habitants,</CELL>
<CELL>52</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Was &s;urrendred,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>In de&s;pight of the Governour, and Garri&s;on.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Agliano</HI> be&s;ieged by the <HI>Spaniard.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>53</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Commander endureth divers a&s;&s;aults.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Slaughters upon the A&s;&s;ailants.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Agliano</HI> taken by the <HI>Spaniard.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>54</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Duke of <HI>Savoy,</HI> and the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Leganez</HI> en|campe neere each other.</CELL>
<CELL>55</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The M&agrave;rque&s;&s;e his Hor&s;es quartered without his Tren|ches, are expo&s;ed to damage,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<PB REF="4">
<ROW>
<CELL>The Prince of <HI>Modena</HI> &s;ent into <HI>Langues,</HI></CELL>
<CELL>56</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Plundereth the Territorie,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Taketh in the Fort <HI>Santa Iulia,</HI></CELL>
<CELL>57</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Where he encampeth, and is rai&s;ed by <HI>Senantes,</HI> a Colonell of the Duke of <HI>Savoy.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Fort Royall built by <HI>Leganez</HI> at <HI>Rocca.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Leganez</HI> di&s;campeth.</CELL>
<CELL>58</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The <HI>French</HI> Army joynes with the Duke of <HI>Savoy,</HI> who &s;ends a part thereof again&s;t the Prince of <HI>Modena.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>58</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Cairo</HI> be&s;ieged by <HI>Verrue.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>59</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Leganez</HI> to divert him, invades <HI>Veecelloia.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>But his project takes not.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Battell betwixt the Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Ville,</HI> and the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Forces neere <HI>Ce&s;ia,</HI></CELL>
<CELL>60</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Begun by a light Skirmi&s;h,</CELL>
<CELL>61</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Comes to a pitcht Battell, which a while continued doubt|full,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Yet in the end the <HI>French</HI> get the victory.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>La Rocca</HI> be&s;ieged by the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Piemontains.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>62</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A notable Exploit done by <HI>Dallot</HI> a <HI>French</HI> Colo|nell.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Leganez</HI> &s;endeth <HI>Don Martino</HI> to relieve <HI>la Rocca.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>62</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Vantguard &s;urprized.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Leganez</HI> bringeth his whole Armie again&s;t the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Piemontains.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Battell without victorie.</CELL>
<CELL>64</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The &s;iege of <HI>la Rocca</HI> rai&s;ed.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The victory gotten by the Duke of <HI>Savoy</HI> at <HI>Monbal|don.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The death of the Duke of <HI>Savoy.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>66</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The King of <HI>France</HI> cau&s;eth the Ma&s;ter of the Ceremo|nies.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>To proclaime an Office for his &s;oule.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Proclamation concerning the Dukes titles, &amp;c.</CELL>
<CELL>67</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The manner of the &s;ervice with all Ceremonies.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<PB REF="5">
<ROW>
<CELL>The fir&s;t dayes &s;ervice.</CELL>
<CELL>68</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Office for the &s;econd day.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>With all the particular ceremonies.</CELL>
<CELL>69</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Two Capuchins murdered by a Iew at <HI>Carriew.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>72</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The murder di&s;covered.</CELL>
<CELL>73</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Iewes condemned and executed.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Popes &s;ickne&s;&s;e and recovery.</CELL>
<CELL>74</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The death of the Dukes of <HI>Mirandula,</HI> and <HI>Mantua.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The States purpo&s;e to warre</CELL>
<CELL>76</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Breda</HI> be&s;ieged.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The de&s;cription of the Towne.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The condition under &s;everall Princes.</CELL>
<CELL>77</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Avantguard under <HI>Henry Ca&s;&s;imire,</HI> blocks it up.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ib.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Works begun.</CELL>
<CELL>78</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Cardinall <HI>Infante</HI> &s;eeks to releeve it.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Iohn de Na&s;&s;au</HI> &s;ent to de&s;cry the Princes posture.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Ob&s;erving the Prince on his &s;quadron, he departeth.</CELL>
<CELL>79</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Henry Ca&s;&s;imire</HI> like to be &s;urprized.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Garri&s;on &s;ally out upon the Campe.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Princes order to keepe the Garri&s;on in.</CELL>
<CELL>80</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Venlo</HI> taken by the Cardinall.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ib.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Rouremond</HI> &s;urrendred upon compo&s;ition.</CELL>
<CELL>81</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Articles of <HI>Breda.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>83</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> de&s;igne upon the rode of S. <HI>Tropez</HI> failing.</CELL>
<CELL>89</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Fleet &s;urpri&s;eth 10 <HI>Holland</HI> Ships bound for <HI>Genoa.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>91</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The <HI>Genove&s;&s;es</HI> &s;eeke to have them re&s;tored but prevaile not,</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Ib.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The arrivall of Count <HI>Maurice</HI> at <HI>Pharnam-Boucq.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>92</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>His Victory at <HI>Porto Calvo.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Ib.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Gallies of <HI>Bi&s;era</HI> pillaged the Sea-townes in the King|dome of <HI>Naples.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>95</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The &V;izeroy of <HI>Naples</HI> provideth to &s;erve them.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Ibid.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Coriale</HI> pillaged by the pirates of <HI>Alger.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>96</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>The Bendetty in the Kingdome of <HI>Naples,</HI> executed.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Ib.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
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<HEAD>Diatele&s;ma.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The &s;econd Part of the&s;e Summers Actions 1637 brought down, and publi&s;hed as it was promi&s;ed.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>The Victory atchieved by the</HI> French <HI>in</HI> Languedock. CHAP. I.</HEAD>
<P>_A <HI>Private man is happy in a medio|crity of Fortune, if he can content him&s;elfe with having what is ne|ce&s;&s;ary and &s;ufficient. A Prince by &s;eeking to enlarge his Terri|tories, not &s;eldome draineth his Exchequer, always increa&s;eth his cares, often his owne, and his peoples &s;orrows.</HI> The Catholike King might &s;eeme to
<PB N="2" REF="6"> thrive the yeer pa&s;t by his inva&s;ion of <HI>Picardie,</HI> yet now &s;hould it come to an <HI>Audit,</HI> his lo&s;&s;es in <HI>France</HI> would (it &s;eems<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;urmount his gain.</P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">, the Count <HI>Cerbellon</HI> encamped before <HI>Laucate,</HI> with an army (as the <HI>French</HI> affirme) of 16000 <NOTE PLACE="marg">Cerbellon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> en|campeth be|fore <HI>Laucate.</HI></NOTE> foot, and 1800 hor&s;e, an artillery of 70 peeces of Ca|non, a great number of wagons loaden with amuniti|on, armes, and other nece&s;&s;ary in&s;truments, (all which had been in preparing the &s;pace of two years) with a purpo&s;e to &s;urpriz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ome places of &s;trength in <HI>Langue|dock,</HI> the <HI>Spaniards</HI> them&s;elves having &s;eriou&s;ly given it out, that the King in per&s;on was to command that ar|my.</P>
<P>The town is &s;ited in the &s;outh of <HI>Languedock,</HI> called by <HI>Cae&s;ar Gallia Narbonen&s;is,</HI> in a <HI>Penin&s;ula,</HI> about 15 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles in circumference of a triangular forme, bounded with rocks on the one &s;ide, a &s;alt Lake called <HI>Sal&s;es</HI> by the <HI>French</HI> on the &s;econd, and the <HI>Mediterra|nean</HI> Sea on the third, where there is a good Road for Gallies, and Ships of a rea&s;onable burden. The &s;ituation <NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;ituation of <HI>Laucate.</HI></NOTE> of the place, they adjudging that it would much advan|tage their incur&s;ions into <HI>Languedock,</HI> cau&s;ed <HI>Cerbel|lon</HI> to bring his <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> troops before the Fort, who fir&s;t &s;ounded the Governour, the Lord <HI>de Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ry,</HI> offering him in hand (as is written by &s;ome) 50000 Crownes, and promi&s;ing him a yeerly pen&s;ion of 6000 to be|tray it, and in fine, finding his loyalty to the Chri&s;tian King his Ma&s;ter, his con&s;tancy being revived by memo|ry of the glorious death of his father, formerly Gover|nour <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cerbellon</HI> gro|peth the Go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> of the &s;ame place, who being taken by the <HI>Spani|ard,</HI> preferred the con&s;ervation of the Fort for the King his Ma&s;ters &s;ervice, before his own life, proceeded from treaty to violence, to try if the walls could abide the thunder of his Ordnance, and remayne as firme as the Governours heart, which hee had found many a thou|&s;and
<PB N="3" REF="6"> double Pi&s;tolet proofe.</P>
<P>Like a wi&s;e Commander, the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Generall pro|vided <NOTE PLACE="marg">And failing of his end pre|pares to batter the Fort.</NOTE> fir&s;t for his own &s;ecurity, before hee attempted any offen&s;ive way again&s;t his Enemy: ten days he &s;pent in entrenching him&s;elf upon a lane of fifteene perches long, (the place being no way el&s;e acce&s;&s;ible, by rea&s;on of the &s;alt Lake on the one &s;ide, and a &s;teep Rock-plum-down, on the other &s;ide) where becau&s;e there was little &s;tore of earth, he covered his trenches with a wall of &s;tone and clay, rai&s;ed eight foot, where the ground was highe&s;t, and fourteen or fifteen, where it was lower, with a Ditch before it, and a Mount be|hind it, for the more convenient lodging of his Mu&s;|quetiers. Within his trenches he rai&s;ed two Forts, one called after his own name <HI>Cerbellon,</HI> of four ba&s;tions; another in a place called <HI>Franquie,</HI> to which the le&s;&s;er &s;hipping and Gallies might arrive; be&s;ides hee made many redoubts upon which he planted all his Canons, except 14 peeces, bearing bullets of 40 pounds weight, which he drew neerer the Fort, and divided into three batteries, the fir&s;t at <HI>Gran</HI> of &s;ix peeces, the &s;econd of four Canons right again&s;t the only &s;pring of &s;weet wa|ters in the <HI>Penin&s;ula,</HI> many of his &s;ouldiers (being com|pelled thither to relieve their nece&s;&s;ities) lo&s;t their lives in time of the &s;iege, and a third of the &s;ame number of Guns, with the &s;econd, rai&s;ed neere the Bridge, which is layed over the narrower chanell, by which the &s;alt Lake emptieth it &s;elf into the <HI>Mediterranean.</HI></P>
<P>His batteries began with his entrenching, but they were like the gentle di&s;tillations of &s;ome few drops of rain before a violent &s;torm, or the noy&s;e of the gliding, purling rivolets at the Spring-head, compared to the roaring falls of <HI>Nilus,</HI> in re&s;pect of what en&s;ued after. <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Roqueford,</HI> ta|ken by <HI>Cerbel|lon.</HI></NOTE> His works being perfected, he fir&s;t &s;ei&s;ed of the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Roquefort,</HI> which hee garri&s;oned and fortified, to
<PB N="4" REF="7"> command that pa&s;&s;age, and impeach the <HI>French</HI> forces, which might be brought by the way of <HI>Narbonne</HI> and <HI>Defferecavall,</HI> and next of the town of <HI>La Palme,</HI> and &s;o blockt up the way from <HI>Bordeaux,</HI> and then played from all his batteries upon the be&s;ieged Citadell ince&s;|&s;antly (the be&s;ieged in the &s;pace of 30 days, which the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> forces lay before the place, having taken pre|ci&s;e notice (upon an exact account) of 17000 Canon &s;hot) in the mean time, making the be&s;t u&s;e he could of his Morteren and Grenadoes, which did the defen|dants farre more harme then his Ordnance. The Go|vernour had &s;et up his re&s;t, re&s;olved to die, before hee would &s;urrender a piece of &s;uch importance to his Ma|&s;ters, the Kings enemies, and with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of 300 men, (the number of his &s;ouldiers being increa&s;ed to <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Garri&s;on re-enforced.</NOTE> that height, by the acce&s;&s;e of two Companies, which were &s;ent unto him by the Duke of <HI>Halewin,</HI> Lievte|nant Governour of that Province) maintained the place bravely, till the &s;iege was rai&s;ed, and then affirmed, that he &s;hould have been able to have holden out three weeks longer, if the &s;uccours had not come in, as they did, &s;o maturely. Hee hid not, but &s;ecured him&s;elfe, by the &s;trength of the Fort, from the a&s;&s;ailants vio|lence.</P>
<P><HI>But there is no cau&s;e of confidence in bulwarks and walls of &s;tone, Famine will &s;cale them in the end, though the Enemies Ordnance cannot bore them;</HI> the Duke of <HI>Hale-win</HI> held this po&s;ition for an Aphori&s;me, and em|ployed all care, &s;ummoned up his thoughts, u&s;ed all art to relieve him opportunely, called a Councell of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Halewin</HI> pre|pares to re|lieve it.</NOTE> Bi&s;hops and Nobility, and having advi&s;ed with them, what was to be done, applyed the meanes which were mo&s;t probable to cure that ulcer which began to gan|grenate and &s;pread it &s;elfe in that Province. Hee mu|&s;tered up the Regiments of <HI>Vitry, S. Aunez S. Andrew,</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="7"> <HI>Ca&s;telan,</HI> and <HI>Murviel;</HI> and train bands of <HI>Montpellier, Narbonne, Beziers, Ni&s;mes, &V;zez, Carca&s;&s;one, Lode&s;ve, Sevennes, Ganges, Mirepois, Ionquieres, Ca&s;tre, Viellette</HI> and <HI>Valat,</HI> which &s;erved as his Infantry. The <HI>Cavallary</HI> was compo&s;ed of the Gentry of <HI>Languedock,</HI> his own company of men at Armes, and his life guard, which divided by him into eleven Squadrons, under the com|mand of &s;o many &s;everall, valiant, and expert Leaders, at <HI>Narbonne, Sept</HI> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">/2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, the time and place of the Generall Randevouz, marched the day following to <HI>Sigean,</HI> where they lay enquartered that night, and the night following, attending till &s;uch &s;tore of amunition and victuals were brought in, as were thought nece&s;&s;ary for that expedition.</P>
<P>It was then upon the nick when the <HI>French</HI> Duke came in with his Army to &s;uccour the be&s;ieged, the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Gunners had made a &s;ufficient breach in the wall, to try the courage and manhood of the defen|dants by a&s;&s;ault. The Duke of <HI>Cardonne</HI> Viceroy of <HI>Ca|talognia's</HI> &s;onne was come to the Campe, and had re|enforced <NOTE PLACE="marg">Brings up his Army oppor|tunely.</NOTE> the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Army, with a new accrewt of 1000 men: the Count <HI>de Serbellon,</HI> began to be confi|dent of the prize, rode upon his Male about the Camp, to give directions, promi&s;ed the young <HI>Don</HI> to &s;hew him a fre&s;h battery, the next day oppo&s;ite to the place, upon which he had before played with his Canon, and both by ge&s;ture and po&s;ture, word, and work, expre&s;&s;ed a certain a&s;&s;urance of a &s;peedy and notable victory. But let not him, that is putting on his arms, brag as if he was putting them off. The chance of warre, is of all other mo&s;t uncertain, and here if any where, we may averre:</P>
<Q>Ne&s;cis quid &s;erus vehat vesper.</Q>
<P><HI>Di&s;cretion looks about, before it undertakes an adven|ture.</HI> The Duke of <HI>Halwein</HI> for all this apparance of
<PB N="6" REF="8"> imminent perill to the be&s;ieged, went not on to &s;uccour <NOTE PLACE="marg">Calleth a Coun&s;ell of Warre.</NOTE> them without foreca&s;ting what might be the con&s;e|quents of his adventure. Hee would not involve his Friends in mo&s;t certain difficulties of a greater impor|tance, to avoid a le&s;&s;er danger of more uncertainty. The be&s;ieged brought to extremity, might capitulate, and come off with life and honour; the wor&s;t was, but the lo&s;&s;e of the place, which being in the Kings Country, was in all likelihood to be regained, though not with|out expence, the lo&s;&s;e of an Army, and &s;uch an Army as was drawn out of the mo&s;t &s;elected men of that Pro|vince, was of more importance, and though he re&s;ol|ved to try the utmo&s;t for his Friends relief, yet hee would not attempt it without good <HI>Advi&s;oes.</HI> Two Councels of Warre, be&s;ides that at <HI>Narbonne,</HI> were cal|led, the one in the commencement, the other in the pro&s;e quution of his action. The one at <HI>Sigean, Sept.</HI> 14/24, where he lay encamped, the other in the plain of <HI>Law|cate</HI> foure dayes after.</P>
<P>The conclu&s;ion of the fir&s;t con&s;ultation was that <HI>Ar|gencour,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">The re&s;oluti|on of the Councell.</NOTE> the Field-mar &s;hall with his Avant-guard of the Army, &s;hould go to take up his quartier, at the pa&s;|&s;age of <HI>Deferrecavall,</HI> and &s;urprize the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Ro|quefort,</HI> while&s;t the re&s;t of the Army might march up to him: The taske was an hard and difficult one, the pa&s;&s;age was narrow, there could march no more then two abre&s;t, yet his willing indu&s;try over|came that difficulty, and with a word, a bare &s;ummons took in the Fort, the Commander according, and con|de&s;cending to depart with no other Armes then his &s;word, and his &s;ouldiers with &s;taves in their hands. The <HI>French</HI> Generall followed with the main body of his Army, giving a te&s;timony of impatience, to &s;ee the Kings Enemies &s;o farre advanced in his Maje&s;ties ter|ritories: and the &s;ame day about one in the afternoon,
<PB N="7" REF="8"> &s;et his Army in battalia in the &s;ight of his adver&s;aries. This his apparition &s;omewhat altered the cour&s;e of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Is put in pra|cti&s;e.</NOTE> <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Counts de&s;ignes. He was not &s;o ab&s;olutely con|fident of his power, as that hab-nab <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">he would deale with the <HI>French</HI> Duke in open field: the trenches in which he was hedged, were as &s;trong as the Ca&s;tle, and there he meant to keep, unle&s;&s;e &s;ome advantage might invice him abroad. He took it in foule &s;corn to be out|braved, yet would not adventure forth of his forti&s;ica|tions upon doubtfull, much le&s;&s;e upon de&s;perate condi|tions. <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Spani&s;h &s;cowts repul|&s;ed.</NOTE> A glimp&s;e he had of the <HI>French</HI> forces, but nei|ther knew their number, nor their order perfectly. To be better informed of each particular circum&s;tance, 400 hor&s;e were &s;ent out to de&s;ery the <HI>French</HI> Army. <HI>Halewin</HI> &s;oon perceived what was &s;ntended, and to detain him in his ignorance of the particulars, &s;ent out five &s;elected companies, under the direction of a man experimentally proved both wi&s;e and valiant, the Lord <HI>de Boi&s;&s;at,</HI> to beat the&s;e di&s;coverers back, which charge (fortune waiting upon his valour) he performed &s;o happily, that he forced them to retreat, one part into their trenches, and another by the Lake <HI>de Sal&s;es,</HI> to|wards the way of <HI>Spaine.</HI></P>
<P>All the&s;e actions were but the <HI>Pro&s;coenia</HI> of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>French</HI> Generall &s;eeks to be in|formed of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Forti|fications.</NOTE> <HI>Tragoedie:</HI> the <HI>French</HI> Generall having thus defeated the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Count of his intelligence, endeavoured to informe him&s;elfe of his adver&s;aries fortifications. The day light might be&s;t in&s;truct him, but would mo&s;t in|danger him, the enemy &s;tood all the next day in battalia behind his trenches, and waited for &s;o advantagious an occa&s;ion. The night though it could afford him but a confu&s;ed notice, would more &s;ecure him, and that he made choyce of being content to &s;atisfie his under&s;tan|ding, which before knew the advantages of the ground, with &s;uch a generall di&s;covery of his manner of encam|ping.
<PB N="8" REF="9"> He knew before, that the <HI>Spaniard</HI> lay intrenched <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Fortifica|tions di&s;cove|red.</NOTE> among&s;t rocks, almo&s;t unpa&s;&s;eable, e&s;pecially for his Cavallary, onely he de&s;ired to &s;ee if there was any way left, by which he might reach them in their fortificati|ons, although it mu&s;t be done with much difficulty. The night pre&s;ented him with a pa&s;&s;age on the right hand of the new Fort called <HI>Serbellon,</HI> but &s;o ob&s;curely, that he dur&s;t not adventure, till the day di&s;covering the Landskip of the place more plainly, confirmed him, that he might probably leade on his Army that way, not without any, but the lea&s;t danger. Vpon this di&s;|covery, he cau&s;ed the Commanders of the Army, a|gaine to meet in coun&s;ell, gave them a particular relati|on of what he had &s;eene, wi&s;hed them to prepare a|gain&s;t 6 in the evening to execute, what he had de&s;ign|ed for a&s;&s;aulting the enemy, and being &s;econded by <NOTE PLACE="marg">Another Coun&s;ell of warre is called,</NOTE> <HI>Mayola,</HI> Lieutenant of the Guard, to the Cardinall Duke <HI>Richelieu,</HI> who was come that day to the Camp, with in&s;tructions from the Chri&s;tian King, his &s;peech was crowned with applau&s;e, by the generall votes of the officers, with an expre&s;&s;ion of as much forward|ne&s;&s;e to performe, as the Generall propounded the en|terprize.</P>
<P>The houre drew on, and then after in&s;tructions to Arme, the Duke made a &s;hort oration to his &s;ouldiers to encourage them to fight for the King, the Country, their wives, childrens, and their owne liberty, warned to be ready upon the &s;ound of the trumpets, &s;elected <NOTE PLACE="marg">It being con|cluded to a&s;|&s;ault the ene|my in 5 places.</NOTE> five times 80 men out of five regiments, to goe on as the Perdues of the Army, which he had divided into &s;o many &s;everall parts, to a&s;&s;ault the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> trenches, in &s;o many &s;everall places, ordered them to march with their &s;words by their &s;ides, a Pike in one hand, and a Bavin in the other, for a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the labourers, whom he had appointed to open the trenches, and the&s;e being
<PB N="9" REF="9"> &s;upported by <HI>Mayola</HI> and <HI>Heri&s;&s;on,</HI> a Captaine of the regiment of the I&s;les, (yet &s;car&s;e recovered of the wounds which he received at <HI>Margarita</HI> and <HI>Honora|ta)</HI> which offered them&s;elves to that &s;ervice, follow|ing their directions, performed their work &s;o well, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Labourers are &s;ent to open the way for the hor&s;e.</NOTE> that in the &s;pace of halfe an houre, the Perdues were earthed, and he Pioners had cut a way for the more ea&s;ie bringing up of the <HI>French</HI> Cavallary.</P>
<P><HI>Mayola,</HI> who by his pre&s;ence had encouraged the workmen, would al&s;o be the fir&s;t relator of this &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e, po&s;ted backe to the Duke, told him what was done, and the Duke who longed after &s;uch tidings, Went on immediately in the head of his Army, not &s;taying to give them a charge by word of mouth, with an <HI>Ite,</HI> goe you, like a faint-hearted Commander, but like a daring leader, declaring a <HI>Venite,</HI> come and fol|low me, by his exemplary action. The places appoin|ted for the &s;ive &s;everall a&s;&s;aults, and the Commanders which were to manage them were the&s;e. The fir&s;t place, was at the Bridge upon the mouth of the Salt-Lake, the charge whereof was committed to S. <HI>Aunez,</HI> and his regiment who was &s;econded by the &s;ouldiers of <HI>Narbonne, Beziers,</HI> and the Dioce&s;&s;e of <HI>Ca&s;tres,</HI> a com|pany of Volunteers commanded by the Lord <HI>de Lai|rone,</HI> a company of Muskettiers, hor&s;emen of <HI>Tholouza<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> under the Lord <HI>de Calvet,</HI> Trea&s;urer of <HI>France.</HI> The &s;econd place was upon the &s;ea &s;hore, at the Port <HI>Fran|qui,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">And the <HI>French</HI> Army is divided <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ive bonds.</NOTE> and this was the charge of the regiment at <HI>Lan|guedocke,</HI> which was backed by three companies of foot, brought into the Army, by the Lords of <HI>Ionquie|res, Cauvi&s;&s;on,</HI> and the Baron of <HI>Mirepois,</HI> by a troope of 150 Gentlemen, friends and allies to the Marque&s;&s;e <HI>d' Ambres,</HI> one of the Kings Lieutenants in <HI>Langue|dock,</HI> and by a company of men at Armes, con&s;i&s;ting of 50 Ma&s;ters. Betwixt the&s;e two places, on the right
<PB N="10" REF="10"> hand of the regiment of <HI>Languedock,</HI> a third place was committed to the tru&s;t and valour of the Lord S. <HI>An|drew,</HI> and the military bonds of <HI>Ni&s;mes</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;tres,</HI> who was to be &s;econded by the Duke of <HI>Halewins</HI> com|pany of men at Armes, which were to be backed with 60 voluntiers, and a troope of hor&s;e under the com|mand of the Lord <HI>de Magalas.</HI> The fourth place depu|ted to the charge of <HI>Cha&s;telan,</HI> who with his own re|giment, and the Commons of <HI>Montpellier</HI> lead the Vant-guard, being &s;econded by the Count <HI>d' Aubyoux,</HI> who commanded the white Cornet of 100 Gentle|men, the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Mirepois,</HI> following him with 50 others of the &s;ame quality, and the Lord of <HI>Mon&s;o|leus,</HI> who marched after the Marque&s;&s;e with 60 men at Armes of his owne name, and kindred, was upon S. <HI>Andrewes</HI> right hand, and the la&s;t upon <HI>Ca&s;telans</HI> right hand, committed to the regiment of <HI>Vitrye;</HI> in the head whereof marched <HI>Clermont Vertilliard,</HI> the Field-mar|&s;hall, &s;econded by a body of Infantery, commanded by <HI>Murveill,</HI> and that by another, under the direction of the Lord <HI>de Vallat,</HI> all by the men of Armes belonging to the Duke <HI>d' Halewin,</HI> and two other companies, un|der two other Commanders.</P>
<P>All the Army was not to be engaged at once, a &s;trong <NOTE PLACE="marg">A re&s;erve &s;et apart.</NOTE> re&s;erve was &s;et apart, to relieve their friends, if they &s;hould hap to be nece&s;&s;itated, and that was ready to be &s;upplyed by the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Burdeaux,</HI> who by &s;ea, about &s;uch time as both the hoa&s;ts began to &s;lack their hands, as weary of fighting, came in happily, with 4000 foot, and two &s;quadrons of hor&s;e, which he brought thither in &s;uch ve&s;&s;els, as the harbour was ca|pable of, to &s;uccour his confederates upon all occa|&s;ions.</P>
<P>In this order, upon a &s;ignall given by the di&s;charge of 4 Cannons, the <HI>French</HI> Army marched up to the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI>
<PB N="11" REF="10"> trenches, and began a doubtfull battell, both parties fighting couragiou&s;ly, and victory hovering over both the Armies, without any remon&s;trance, where &s;he would pitch. The <HI>Spaniards</HI> in the beginning &s;eemed her favourites, the <HI>French</HI> Commanders and &s;ouldi|ers, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The battels joyne.</NOTE> appointed for the foure la&s;t places, were more di&s;heartened by a fal&s;e report (that S. <HI>Aunez,</HI> who had the charge of the fir&s;t a&s;&s;ault, was beaten backe with lo&s;&s;e of many of his men, him&s;elfe being de&s;perately wounded in the head with one Musket bullet, and in his body with many others) then the offen&s;ive Armes of the enemy, though by them they received much dammage, being twice repul&s;ed, not without &s;ome &s;laughter of men. But the Generall &s;till like him&s;elfe, by his word incouraged them not to faint, and leading on in per&s;on, charged upon the invadors &s;o roundly, that he beat them backe againe to the &s;quadrons, which were appointed to &s;econd them. The <HI>French</HI> Cavallary was not yet come up, the foot onely had maintained this ambiguous fight, by the &s;pace of two houres. In the end the prauncings of the hor&s;e were heard, the Cavallary of both &s;ides met, and the violent &s;hocks of their encounters gave the Infantry a time of breathing. <NOTE PLACE="marg">The fight doubtfull, the <HI>French</HI> hor&s;e come up, and get the victo|ry.</NOTE> The Moone, who&s;e light till then was &s;hadowed by the interpo&s;ition of a foggy-dark-thick-womb'd cloud, then began to peep out of her &s;ilver orbe, and &s;tood as a &s;pectatre&s;&s;e of the battell five houres together. So long &s;he lent her borrowed light to the directors of the battell, who by her a&s;&s;i&s;tance, ordered their &s;qua|drons &s;o well, that though they were often broke on both &s;ides, they were as often rallyed, no man being a|ble to judge which &s;ide would goe off with conque&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Quis cladem illius noctis?</HI> the &s;laughter of men that night cannot be recorded without expre&s;&s;ion of &s;ome compa&s;&s;ion. <HI>Cynthia</HI> &s;tood looking on till the rocky
<PB N="12" REF="11"> mountainous field, rough by nature, appeared more uneven by heapes of &s;laine men, and hor&s;es which cove|red the earth, till tho&s;e hils which had bin &s;o often cour|ted of <HI>Neptune,</HI> who by her a&s;&s;i&s;tance, had oft rai|&s;ed his curly head above the &s;hore, appeared an <HI>Acelda|ma,</HI> a field of blood: the <HI>French</HI> not without &s;ome no|ted lo&s;&s;e having got the victory, (&s;ome of their chiefe Commanders having purcha&s;ed it with their lives, (all the re&s;t with &s;ore wounds) and &s;laine far more <HI>Spani|ards</HI> upon the place, and then &s;he hid her head under the earth, as unwilling to &s;ee that horrid confu&s;ion, and &s;o determined the battell.</P>
<P><HI>The adaequate object of wi&s;edome is, facienda, &amp; vitan|da; things to be undertaken, and avoyded.</HI> Both the Ar|mies had encountred with hazards and difficulties to a|voyd <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Spaniards</HI> flye.</NOTE> them. Now the darkne&s;&s;e of the night had con|cealed the conque&s;t from the victor, but could not make the lo&s;er un&s;en&s;ible of his dammage. The <HI>Spaniard</HI> &s;aw his men utterly di&s;com&s;ited, few repairing to their colours, and to &s;ave the remainder, made a volley of &s;hot about 2 in the morning, from the Fort of <HI>Serbel|lon,</HI> as if it had bin a &s;ignall to his &s;cattered troops, to repair thither that they might be ready the next mor|ning for a new fight, though it was (perhaps) but a trick to conceale his &s;ight, him&s;elfe and the remnant of his Army, pre&s;ently making towards <HI>Spaine</HI> by the way of <HI>Perpignan:</HI> the <HI>French</HI> &s;tood in full battali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> till the morning, and at dawning of the day, marched to|wards the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> quarters, which they found abando|ned, and the &s;unne climing up the Ea&s;terne hill, by his &s;plendor, di&s;covered the way of <HI>Spaine,</HI> &s;trewed with the Armes and baggage of the flying enemy, who had disburthened him&s;elfe of tho&s;e incumbrances to make his &s;light the &s;peedier. There needed no advi&s;e of what was to be done, the one part of the <HI>French</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="11"> Army, was &s;ent after the &s;ugitives, which overtooke the reare, and put the &s;lowe&s;t to the &s;word, be&s;ides great numbers which were &s;laine at the Well of fre&s;h <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>French</HI> &s;eyze of the &s;poyle.</NOTE> waters, during the time of the &s;iege by the garri&s;on, and the &s;laughter of &s;ome of the reare-guard upon their &s;light, and tho&s;e as were &s;laine the &s;ame day upon the place of battell, 500 were taken pri&s;oners, (as the <HI>French</HI> boa&s;t) for the mo&s;t part Captaines, and refor|med officers, and above 500 drowned in the &s;ea, and the Lake <HI>de Sal&s;es.</HI> The other part went to ri&s;le the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Campe, where they found a booty beyond common beliefe, and their owne expectation. <HI>Serbel|lons,</HI> and all the officers tents &s;tood whole, their Plate was unremoved, which with their beds and uten&s;ils remained to the victors, who al&s;o &s;ey&s;ed of the Gene|rals Mule, Coat, and &s;taffe of office, and &s;ent them to the King as a trophee of the victory. But this was not all the prey, which befell to the Conquerors. The night <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Spaniards</HI> lo&s;&s;e.</NOTE> which crowned them with this happine&s;&s;e, was the next which &s;ucceeded the Chri&s;tian Kings Birth-day, and as emulous of the glory thereof, pre&s;ented the <HI>French</HI> Army with further &s;poyles, (as the <HI>French</HI> write) all the Invadors Cannons, and Morterers, 500 Quintaux of powd r, 600 of Lead, (a quintane is 100 pound weight) 30 Wagons loaden with match, 7 or 8000 Bullets, 4000 Pikes, as many Axes, more Bom|bards, and fire-works, &s;even Wagons loaden with hor&s;e-&s;hooes, as many with iron nayles, 26 Apotheca|ries che&s;ts, well &s;tored with all manner of medicines, and victuals in abundance.</P>
<P>Newes of this victory was brought to the King at <NOTE PLACE="marg">The K. gives thanks to God, and re|wards to his &s;ouldiers.</NOTE> <HI>Paris,</HI> who to expre&s;&s;e his thankfulne&s;&s;e to the Author, by a &s;olemne &s;ong of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;giving, <HI>Octob.</HI> 8. new &s;tile, in the Church of <HI>No&s;tre-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ame</HI> at <HI>Paris,</HI> the Q: the Cardinall, the Coun&s;ellours o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;tate, and the officers of
<PB N="14" REF="12"> all the Courts of ju&s;tice, with throngs of people atten|ding at that &s;olemne Service; and in requitall of the In&s;truments, honoured the Duke of <HI>Halewein</HI> with the Office of a Mar&s;hall of <HI>France,</HI> and the inferiour Officers with rewards, tokens of his Royall love, the Canons of the <HI>Ar&s;enall</HI> and Town-hou&s;e, expre&s;&s;ing the joy of his Maje&s;ty in the Liberties of the people, and the Bone-fires, and continuall Acclamations of the people crying out <HI>Vive le Roy,</HI> te&s;tifying their affections, and &s;incere love to his <HI>Ma|je&s;tie.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="15" REF="12">
<HEAD>The Actions and Occurrences in <HI>Lorrain, Burgundie,</HI> the <HI>French</HI> County, <HI>Perigort,</HI> and <HI>Turena.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_AN a&s;piring flame is not ea&s;ily &s;uppre&s;t, it often diffu&s;eth it &s;elf about the matter ca&s;t upon it, and recovereth the ayre, receiveth no hurt by the blow of a &s;taffe, but giving way to the harder body, without any &s;en&s;ible &s;eparation of its parts, commeth together again. Such is the con|dition of a true &s;ouldier, an affront by his Friends, an open de&s;ertion of his Allies, cannot &s;o much abate his &s;pirit, as to make him lay down his armes, and give way to his adver&s;ary, the &s;tage of warre is large, and if one part thereof bee &s;o incumbred that hee cannot doe his part there, he will act it upon another. The Duke of <HI>Rohan</HI> by the practice of the <HI>Gri&s;ons,</HI> was hindred <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Rohans</HI> march out of the <HI>Veltoline.</HI></NOTE> from promoting the <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Kings affaires in the <HI>Vel|toline,</HI> marched thence with 800 hor&s;e, and 4000 foot, men of braver in&s;ides then out&s;ides, tryed Lads, their weather-beaten garments te&s;tifying, that they had in|dured &s;ome &s;torms of warre and weather, intending to joyne his Forces with the Kings Armies, either in the <HI>French-County,</HI> or <HI>Piemont,</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> hee &s;hould receive order
<PB N="16" REF="13"> from his Maje&s;ty, who was then pre&s;cribing &s;everall Provinces to his &s;everall Generals.</P>
<P>Duke <HI>Bernhard</HI> of <HI>Weymar</HI> was appointed for the <HI>Rhine</HI> principally, but not with &s;o &s;trict a Commi&s;&s;ion, as not to encounter with the Kings Enemies el&s;-where; &s;ome rubs were expected in his way, and it was in his election, whether hee would make any &s;tay to remove them, the Chri&s;tian King thinking him&s;elfe &s;ufficiently honoured by the voluntary &s;ervice of &s;o noble a Prince, &s;o ab&s;olute a Commander, not limiting him, which <NOTE PLACE="marg">D. <HI>Bernhard</HI> goeth into the field.</NOTE> without chalking the way, knew both the manner, and time to further the Kings bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. His Maje&s;tie graced him with his per&s;onall pre&s;ence to <HI>Rhemes,</HI> the Metropolis of <HI>Campagnia,</HI> whence after a <HI>Dieu vous benie,</HI> God &s;peed you, and farewell, ordinary com|plement, the Duke marched fir&s;t to <HI>Langres,</HI> a towne in the mid&s;t of <HI>Cae&s;ars Lingones,</HI> now knowne by the name of the Province called <HI>Be&s;&s;igni,</HI> thence to <HI>Ve&s;cay,</HI> and thence to <HI>Dampiere,</HI> the Generall Randevouz of his Army, where I finde him fir&s;t preparing for action, <HI>Iune</HI> 3/1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. The <HI>Almaine</HI> Forces which were to be condu|cted to his Army under the Generall <HI>Major Schavelitzky</HI> did not then come in, nor was their &s;tay prejudiciall to his de&s;ignes, but <HI>Hallier</HI> his Lievtenant Generall met him with 4000 able hor&s;e, and &s;even Regiments of foot, and attended with this retinue, he began to execute the Kings Commi&s;&s;ion. The Garri&s;on of <HI>Gray,</HI> a town upon the Northwe&s;t of the River of <HI>Sacue,</HI> right over again&s;t <HI>Auxounne,</HI> had lately got from the <HI>French</HI> the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Romagne,</HI> a place of &s;uch importance, that it being in the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Takes in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Ro|magne.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Spaniards</HI> hands, did not only hinder all corre&s;pon|dence, betwixt the two great townes of <HI>Sangres</HI> and <HI>Diion,</HI> but did much annu&s;ance to the whole adjoy|ning territory. It was well manned according to the
<PB N="17" REF="13"> proportion of its capacity, 120 &s;ouldiers, and thirty pea&s;ants being layd into it, and better victualled, and this was the fir&s;t place where hee imployed his forces. <HI>Tupadell</HI> his Generall Major was &s;ent before with the avantguard of his Army to &s;urround it, the Duke imagi|ning that &s;uch an apparition would be &s;o terrible to the defendants, as to make them prepare for a capitulation. The i&s;&s;ue was otherwi&s;e, the be&s;ieged &s;aw but a &s;mall number of Enemies, and by the benefit of the Fort, thought them&s;elves &s;trong enough to grapple with them, they imagined that the Duke was confined to a day and place el&s;ewhere, and would not &s;tay to bring the body of his Army thither, and in this confidence &s;coffed at the Generall Major, as if he had undertaken a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e which he could not accompli&s;h: But <HI>&s;e M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">c|que qui cloque,</HI> they had no cau&s;e to &s;corne him, the a|vantguard which pre&s;ented it &s;elfe before the Fort, was but as a fla&s;h of lightning before a thunder-clap, two days after, the Duke him&s;elfe came downe in per&s;on <NOTE PLACE="marg">Which yiel upon di&s;creti|on.</NOTE> with the mayn body of his army, &s;pent 100 great &s;hot again&s;t the Ca&s;tle, forced the Garri&s;on to yield upon di&s;cretion, made all the &s;ouldiers pri&s;oners of warre, with their Captain <HI>Tournon</HI> Major of <HI>Gray</HI> and an <HI>Alfi|eres,</HI> which commanded them. The pea&s;ants were di&s;|mi&s;&s;ed, and might have pa&s;&s;ed freely, had they not been di&s;covered, to have concealed &s;ome Pi&s;tolets which <NOTE PLACE="marg">Some pea&s;ants to &s;ecure their gold, lo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> both mony and lives.</NOTE> were given to the &s;ouldiers as lawful pillage. Like tho&s;e <HI>Iews</HI> when <HI>Hieru&s;alem</HI> was be&s;ieged by <HI>Titus Ve&s;patian,</HI> they had &s;hrined up &s;ome gold in their bowels, and that trea&s;ure which &s;hould have &s;erved for their livelihood, was the cau&s;e of death to &s;ome of them (the &s;ouldiers apprehending them, and ripping up their bellies to find that Mine) and had been to all, if the Duke had not in|terpo&s;ed and re&s;trained them, from proceeding &s;o cru|elly.</P>
<PB N="18" REF="14">
<P> <HI>Champlete</HI> another Fort which much endamaged the Kings Country, &s;tood next in his way, and this hee fir&s;t &s;ummoned by a trumpet, <HI>Iune</HI> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">0, and the day follow|ing by &s;ix Canons, which forced the Garri&s;on to &s;ur|render and redeeme their baggage with a good and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Champlite</HI> &s;ur|rendred to D. <HI>Bernh.</HI></NOTE> proportionable ran&s;ome, and then the way being clee|red, and the&s;e Ca&s;tle committed to <HI>French</HI> pre&s;idia|ries, a part of our Army, marched directly towards the River of <HI>Soane<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> with order to encampe about the towne of <HI>Briot,</HI> till the day following, which time he him&s;elfe came to them with the troops which atten|ded him.</P>
<P><HI>It is the &s;ouldiers glory to encounter with difficulties,</HI> and the Duke of <HI>Weymar</HI> met with much oppo&s;ition on his march, but never &s;hunned it. The Colonel <HI>Mer|cy</HI> in behalfe of <HI>Charles</HI> Duke of <HI>Lorrain,</HI> with 13 Re|giments of hor&s;e, and four of foot, though not com|pleat <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mercy</HI> with 17 Regiments op|po&s;eth the D. pa&s;&s;age over <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">an.</HI></NOTE> ones had planted him&s;elfe on the Ea&s;t &s;ide of the River, to hinder the <HI>Almain</HI> Duke and his <HI>French</HI> re|tinew, from pa&s;&s;ing it. Tydings of the <HI>Lorrainers</HI> de|&s;igne, were brought him, by the Vantcurriers of his Army, and he immediatly put his men into battalia, and marched directly towards the River point blanke again&s;t the place, a Village where the Enemies Army lay on the other &s;ide of the water. The &s;ight of the foe, &s;tanding to di&s;pute his pa&s;&s;age with arguments of &s;teel, ray&s;ed his bloud (not to an unadvi&s;ed anger, which &s;hould make him neglect coun&s;ell, and without re&s;pect of danger, cau&s;e him to go on de&s;peratly) but to a well regulated emulation, and that expre&s;&s;ed in action, his valiant heart being therby inflamed to make &s;trong and &s;peedy re&s;i&s;tance, again&s;t &s;uch a daring Antagoni&s;t. At once, he both drew out a Squadron of hor&s;e, and orde|red them to a&s;&s;ay the pa&s;&s;age, and beat off the <HI>Lorrai|uers Dragoons,</HI> which lay intrenched beyond the flood:
<PB N="19" REF="14"> and planting eight Canons upon an hill neere the Vil|lage, levelled them again&s;t the <HI>Lorrainers</HI> Camp, which <NOTE PLACE="marg">Duke <HI>Bernh.</HI> encounters him,</NOTE> making &s;ome &s;laughter of his men (the Cavallary &s;ent to that purpo&s;e, having happily pa&s;&s;ed the &s;tream, twice di&s;charging upon the <HI>Dragoons,</HI> being &s;econded by &s;ome Mu&s;quetiers, which waded up to the arm-holes, to &s;uccour their friends, cleered the pa&s;&s;age, D. <HI>Charles</HI> his <HI>Dragoons</HI> perceiving almo&s;t 100 of their compa|nions &s;lain upon the place, among&s;t which was their prime Commander, the Generall <HI>Major</HI> of that Regi|ment, 100 wounded, and &s;ome taken pri&s;oners, rety|ring to an hill for their better &s;afety. But the change of ground could not &s;ecure them from the devouring &s;word which pur&s;ued them; the whole body of the <HI>French Cavallary,</HI> without delay made over to their Companions, and Colonell <HI>Ro&s;a</HI> Lievtenant of the <HI>Al|man</HI> Dukes life-guard, having found a more fordeable cut, brought that off Regiment of 800 men through the &s;tream, to tho&s;e who had pa&s;&s;ed it before, which flankerd, or &s;ide-ways a&s;&s;aulted the <HI>Lorrainers</HI> forces, while&s;t the <HI>French Cavallary</HI> them in fron<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, neere the Village <HI>d' Arralogne.</HI> The battaile might have proved doubtfull if all Duke <HI>Charles</HI> his men had been &s;onnes of one mother, if all had but the like courage to three <HI>Almayn</HI> Regiments which &s;tood to it &s;toutly, &amp; main|tained the &s;ight valiantly alone by the &s;pace of an hour, <NOTE PLACE="marg">And gets the victory.</NOTE> after the re&s;t were &s;led. But the tergiver&s;ation of tho&s;e fugitives lo&s;t the day, the <HI>Germans</HI> in the end too were compelled to give ground, by an orderly retreat from one Hill to another keeping their ranks unbroken, and them&s;elves from the Ma&s;&s;acre, till being brought to a &s;traight pa&s;&s;age, and roughly a&s;&s;aulted they disbanded in great confu&s;ion, expo&s;ing them&s;elves &amp; their friends to the &s;word, or captivity, and their baggage for a prize
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<PB N="20" REF="18"> to their Enemy. The &s;umme of all was thus. The <HI>Lor|rainers,</HI> and <HI>Burgundians,</HI> the other part of D. <HI>Charles</HI> his Army, &s;led to the neighbour Towns and Ca&s;tles to &s;ave them&s;elves, but to the great damage of their enter|tainers; the town of <HI>Giz,</HI> whither the major part of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Giz</HI> yielded upon di&s;cre|tion.</NOTE> them fled for &s;helter, was &s;urrounded immediatly by the <HI>German</HI> Duke, who <HI>Iune</HI> 15/25, con&s;trained both it and &s;ome other &s;mall Ca&s;tles, where hee found good &s;tore of viands, to yield upon di&s;cretion; only the Fort of <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Com|mander in St. <HI>Loup</HI> hanged up.</NOTE> Saint <HI>Loup</HI> held out two days longer to the paine of the Governour, who then yielding upon &s;uch conditions, as the <HI>victor</HI> &s;hould pre&s;cribe him after the &s;urrendry, (ju&s;tice over-ruling mercy) was hanged according to the Law of Armes, for his &s;awcine&s;&s;e, in pre&s;uming to hold a place &s;o weakly fortified again&s;t &s;o pui&s;&s;ant an army. All the three <HI>German</HI> Regiments, 50 per&s;ons on|ly <NOTE PLACE="marg">The i&s;&s;ue and effect of the battell.</NOTE> excepted were &s;lain, or brought into captivity, 500 dead corp&s;es of them being found upon the place, and 900 known to be taken pri&s;oners, be&s;ides &s;uch as were kept &s;ecret by the &s;ouldiers for their ran&s;oms, and 3000 hor&s;es gained by this victory. The pri&s;oners of note were the&s;e. Fir&s;t, the Count of <HI>Reux</HI> a Colonel, 2. two Lievienant Colonels, by name <HI>Siurry</HI> and <HI>Io&s;eph Carr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">.</HI> 3. ten Captains of hor&s;e. 4. Nine Lievtenants. 5. Fif|teen Cornets. 6, 13. Quarter-ma&s;ters. 7. Thirty and &s;even Corporals. 8. Thirteene trumpeters, 9. Three Kettle-drums one Provo&s;t, 426 common &s;ouldiers, and 400 <HI>Dragoons;</HI> be&s;ides women among&s;t which was the wife to Baron <HI>de Langres,</HI> and a great number of Ser|vants; the greate&s;t part of the &s;ouldiers freed them&s;elves from thraldome, by a voluntary tender of their &s;ervice to the Duke of <HI>Weymar,</HI> but 16 En&s;ignes gained by the victory, were &s;ent to the King as Monumentall tro|phees of this atchievement, and are kept by his Ma|je&s;ty.</P>
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<P> This defeat was &s;econded by another, <HI>Mercye</HI> had rallyed up his broken Army &amp; with 2000 hor&s;e applyed him&s;elfe to trouble <HI>Schavelitskyes</HI> pa&s;&s;age, who was comming from the <HI>Rhinoward,</HI> with 3000 men ap|pointed to attend the <HI>Alman</HI> Duke in this Expedition. Notice of the de&s;igne was brought to the General before <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mercy</HI> againe defeated by the <HI>Rhinegrave</HI></NOTE> it was put into execution, commanded the <HI>Rhinegrave</HI> again&s;t him, who &s;o behaved him&s;elf in the enterprize, that he &s;lue 400 of them upon the place, put the re&s;t to &s;light, and pur&s;ued them two league to <HI>Ve&s;ou,</HI> one of the principall towns of the <HI>French-County.</HI></P>
<P>Whil&s;t the&s;e things were acting about the <HI>Saone,</HI> &s;ome <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Montbeliard</HI> blocked up by <HI>Butler,</HI> is freed by <HI>Schavelitzky</HI></NOTE> other of the forces appertaining to Duke <HI>Charles</HI> the Generall Butler and the <HI>French</HI> County appeared about <HI>Monbeliard</HI> a City almo&s;t at the head of <HI>Mo&s;ella</HI> in <HI>Lorrain,</HI> in all 4000 &s;trong, &s;urprized, and ruinated the bridge &amp; Fort of <HI>Voiaucourt,</HI> and began to block up <HI>Montbelyard;</HI> but retreated againe upon the report of <HI>Schavalit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> march, who&s;e very name grew formidable <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Altkirk,</HI> taken, pillaged and burnt by <HI>Scha|velitzky.</HI></NOTE> by the ruines hee had made in the <HI>Sundgow,</HI> where he had taken <HI>Altkircke</HI> and the Ca&s;tle, pillaged them, and burnt them to the ground, and now re-enforced by the <HI>Count de Grandcey,</HI> Commander of <HI>Montbeliard,</HI> who came to him, with 200 hor&s;e, and 1000 foot, with their joynt Forces tooke in <HI>Porreutruy,</HI> in the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Ba&s;ill,</HI> where they &s;tayed &s;ome few days expecting dire|ctions from the Generall. <HI>Iune</HI> 25, <HI>July</HI> 5, they met his Highne&s;&s;e at <HI>Viller-&s;exe,</HI> whither they brought up on|ly 2500 men, the roughne&s;&s;e of the way, and tediou&s;|ne&s;&s;e of the journey making the re&s;t to lagge behinde upon the way. The Dukes forces, were now drawn all together, and though he ha&s;ted towards the <HI>Rhine,</HI> hee <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Montbeliard</HI> revictualled by D. <HI>Bernhard.</HI></NOTE> would not leave the <HI>French County,</HI> without &s;ome am|pler te&s;timony of his &s;incere re&s;olution to propagate
<PB N="22" REF="19"> the cau&s;e, which he had undertaken. Divers <HI>petit</HI> Forts and Ca&s;tles in that only Province had &s;ubmitted to him, and out of their &s;tore, he had revictualled <HI>Mont|beliard,</HI> both with Corne and Cattell, and now for a farewell to the County, <HI>Iune</HI> 27, <HI>Iuly</HI> 6, he fir&s;t vi&s;ited <HI>Beaulme,</HI> which &s;urrendred the &s;ame day, and furni&s;hed the Army with provi&s;ion for the belly, and amunition for warre; and then him&s;elfe and his Lievtenant Gene|rall <HI>Halliere,</HI> having drawne out 350 hor&s;e, and 1200 footmen out of the army went to &s;eeke out the Enemy about <HI>Bezauzon. Iuly</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">, the Game &s;prung of it &s;elfe. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Six Compa|nies of <HI>Lorrain</HI> hor&s;men de|feated by D. <HI>Bernb.</HI></NOTE> Six Companies of the <HI>Lorrainers</HI> light hor&s;e, and life|guard, appeared neer a Country Village therabouts, a&s;|&s;aulted them, &amp; though for a time, they defended them|&s;elves manfully, in the end vanqui&s;hed them, &s;lue, and took the mo&s;t part of them pri&s;oners, and got all their Cornets and baggage. The Sunne had not reached the Meridian, when this Enterprize was accompli&s;hed, nor had the Duke of <HI>Weymar,</HI> yet attained to the Zenith of that days happine&s;&s;e, <HI>Ridet fatum quoi evexit &s;ubi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&ograve;, &amp; ni&s;i mi&s;ereatur, rapit.</HI> Fortune deals with her creatures, as the yong Lion with the Dog, plays with it a while, and then kils it. <HI>Boy&s;ey</HI> a man rai&s;ed by Duke <HI>Charles</HI> to the dignity of a Colonell, as if Fate had &s;ent him to fill up the Cre&s;cent of the <HI>German</HI> Dukes glory, with a <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Boy&s;eys</HI> Regi|ment defeated and him&s;elf &s;lain.</NOTE> full Regiment of 1200 men, came into the field, and was di&s;covered not farre from <HI>Bezanzon,</HI> preparing to impeach the Duke in his way to the <HI>Rhine,</HI> and again&s;t him, &s;ome troops were &s;ent out, who defeated him, and made him pay for his ambition of glory, with his own life, and of above 100 of his men, and with the capti|vity of his &s;onne, who had engaged him&s;elfe with his Father in that Expedition, and many other ordinary Souldiers.</P>
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<P> <HI>Mont-martin</HI> a Ca&s;tle &s;ited advantageou&s;ly, and the town of <HI>&V;e&s;ou</HI> &s;tood &s;till in his way, and he meaning to have his pa&s;&s;age cleere, would not leave them unvi&s;i|ted, <HI>Mont martin</HI> was &s;ummoned <HI>Iuly</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">/1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, and yielded <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mommartin</HI> &amp; <HI>Ve&s;ou</HI> taken in the Duke mar|cheth towards the <HI>Rhine.</HI></NOTE> the next day upon di&s;cretion, <HI>Ve&s;ou</HI> was &s;urrounded by the <HI>Dukes</HI> army the day after, and the inhabitants &s;u|&s;pecting their di&s;ability to hold out a &s;iege, &s;urrendred upon compo&s;ition. And here was the period of the Dukes &s;taye in the <HI>French County,</HI> after the&s;e atchieve|ments hee marched towards the <HI>Rhine,</HI> de&s;irous to pre|vent <HI>John de Werth,</HI> who was di&s;patched by the King of <HI>Hungary,</HI> and the Duke of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> to make head a|gain&s;t him there. Duke <HI>Charles</HI> intending to joyne the remaynder of his army (abated already a third part and more) with the <HI>Bavarian</HI> followed him at a di&s;tance, and &s;eeking to a&s;&s;i&s;t his Con&s;ederate, lo&s;t the love of his owne people, who &s;eeing their late Prince more care|full of anothers, then his own territories, both the Gen|try and other inhabitants of the Dutchy at <HI>Nancy,</HI> and the <HI>Barrois</HI> came in by throngs, and voluntarily at <HI>Nan|cy</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Many of the <HI>Lorrainers</HI> &s;ub|mit to the <HI>Fr.</HI> King volunta|rily.</NOTE> gave an oath of Allegeance to the Chri&s;tian King, be|twixt the hands of <HI>Oq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">incourt</HI> the Governour.</P>
<P><HI>Le Pont de Horde</HI> a place upon the River of <HI>Doux,</HI> in the Frontiers of the <HI>French County,</HI> was knowne to be garri&s;oned with &s;uch men; as much troubled the Chri|&s;tian Kings Allyes, and &s;ubject in the adjacent territo|ries, yet he would not &s;tay to encampe before it, nor &s;end a trumpet to &s;ummon it, that charge was left to the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Le pont de Horde,</NOTE> <HI>Count de Medavy,</HI> Governour of <HI>Montheliard,</HI> from whence it was but three leagues di&s;tant: The Governor according to his order. <HI>Iuly</HI> 7/17, committed the care of the de&s;igne to the Captain <HI>la Capelle,</HI> Serjeant Major of the Regiment <HI>de Perche,</HI> whom with 200 Mu&s;quetiers, two Companies of light-hor&s;e, and one peece of Canon <NOTE PLACE="marg">Be&s;ieged.</NOTE>
<PB N="24" REF="20"> he &s;ent the &s;ame day, to take it in. The Captain according to the common cour&s;e of warre, &s;ent fir&s;t to &s;ummon it, and receiving not only a flat deniall, but a volley of &s;hot, which wounded &s;ome of his &s;ouldiers, attending the Commanders refu&s;all, played upon it with his Ca|non, while <HI>Fre&s;mey</HI> his Lievtenant had advanced up to them, and broke it down. <HI>A &s;mall di&s;advantage abates the edge of a Thra&s;onicall Braggart:</HI> He which before might have had any honourable conditions granted him, if hee would have de&s;ired them, now began to beg for his <NOTE PLACE="marg">And taken by the Count of <HI>Medovy</HI> Go|vernour of <HI>Montbeliard.</HI></NOTE> life, and baggage, and that being denied by the Leaguer, which would not then, being &s;o farre advanced, be tied to Covenants, and thus di&s;tre&s;&s;ed, fearing to be &s;urpri|zed in the Fury, the i&s;&s;ue wherof is fatall, hee &s;ubmitted without articling to the a&s;&s;iegeants mercy. <HI>The wheele of fortune turns in a moment, the &s;poake that er&s;t was highe&s;t, is pre&s;ently lowe&s;t:</HI> The Sunne but two houres &s;ince, &s;aw this Governour commanding like a <HI>petit</HI> Prince, out|braving his Enemy, and returning words of defiance to the others admonition; and now &s;ees him a Captive, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Gover|nour hanged.</NOTE> a &s;lave marked for death, manacled, and led to executi|on, the Count of <HI>Medovy</HI> &s;o adjudging it, that becau&s;e the Garri&s;on expected the Canon, and had done many out-rages with execrable cruelty in the vicinage, the Governour &s;hould be hanged before the Ca&s;tle gate, &amp; the Souldiers be made pri&s;oners of Warre, if they would not &s;erve under his Colours, which they did to recover their libertie, were tran&s;mitted to Duke <HI>Beru|hards</HI> Army, and di&s;per&s;ed into &s;everall Regiments; that being &s;evered they might not con&s;ult to run away. The Ca&s;tle was not great of building, but of &s;ome impor|tance, the prize therof &s;ecured the harve&s;t of that territo|ry, as far as to <HI>Neufcha&s;tell,</HI> and opened the way for the <HI>French</HI> Garri&s;ons to make an inroad into the Mountain of <HI>Burgundy.</HI></P>
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<P> <HI>It is but folly for man among&s;t the multitudes of &s;o many vanities, as attend mortality, to expect perpetuall felicity. Some mole&s;tations, are &s;till calling us to their em|braces, and &s;orrowes will intervene to &s;ea&s;on our merri|ments</HI> The German Duke was not &s;o much joyed in his atchievements, as dejected by the death of his bo&s;ome friend <HI>Ponica,</HI> a man whom above all other he had <NOTE PLACE="marg">The death of <HI>Ponica,</HI> D <HI>Bernhards</HI> bo|&s;ome friend.</NOTE> cho&s;en out, to participate of his &s;ecrets, being both wi&s;e in coun&s;ell, and valiant in action. He was taken from him by a violent feaver in the mid&s;t of <HI>July,</HI> and his embalmed body was re&s;erved in the Camp, till the Duke went to the <HI>Rhine,</HI> and then it was honourably interred at <HI>Ba&s;ill.</HI></P>
<P>Nor was the Chri&s;tian King without his Cro&s;&s;e, though his forces abroad on the thriving hand, an in&s;ur|rection at home, by the <HI>Croquans</HI> in <HI>Pirigort,</HI> and the mi&s;erable deva&s;tation of Towres, the Metropolis of <HI>Turena</HI> upon the <HI>Loire,</HI> by a &s;trange &s;udden tempe&s;t, much di&s;turbed him.</P>
<P>The dammage at <HI>Tours</HI> was unevitable, it procee|ded <NOTE PLACE="marg">A &s;trange tempe&s;t at <HI>Tours.</HI></NOTE> not from the ho&s;tile Armes of an open enemy, nor the mutinies of rebels, but permi&s;&s;ion of the divine po|wer, again&s;t which, there is not a thought of conte&s;ta|tion to be entertained. The thing was full of admirati|on, progre&s;&s;e and period. It was a great calme, with a little raine, when &s;odainly, two dark clowds met to|gether, which belched out a winde intermingled with fire, and rai&s;ed &s;uch a tempe&s;t, as hath not been known in the memory of man. It was fir&s;t perceived neere the wood S. <HI>Co&s;me,</HI> where it tore up the trees by the roots, and as in a moment, drive them to divers places, and thence extending it &s;elfe to the City, overturned the mo&s;t part of the hou&s;es in the towne and &s;uburbs, par|ticularly that of <HI>La Rich,</HI> which had not a chimney left &s;tanding, nor a piece of the roofe to couer it, not &s;pa|ring
<PB N="26" REF="21"> the Churches; S. <HI>Julians</HI> be&s;ides the &s;hattered windowes, having one of the &s;teeples laid flat to the earth, and the other broke off in the middle: two of Saint <HI>Gratians</HI> Pyramids being blowne downe, with the windowes of S. <HI>Peter du Boyle,</HI> the Dormitory and chimneys of <HI>Marmon&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">r,</HI> a pannell of the wall in the <HI>Carmelites</HI> cloy&s;ter, with &s;o much more lo&s;&s;e, as cannot well be repaired with one hundred thou&s;and <HI>French</HI> crownes. This was the progre&s;&s;e, yet the end was more wonderfull both in its time of duration, and the bounds of the tempe&s;t. It was &s;uppo&s;ed to be rai&s;ed by &s;ome damned Sorcerer, who by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Prince of the ayre had cau&s;ed this outrage. The in&s;tru|ment of this de&s;olation was limited both to time, place, and per&s;ons; the time la&s;ted not above halfe a quarter of an houre: the <HI>Hericano,</HI> (&s;o we may call it, though the true one was never &s;eene in <HI>Europe)</HI> did not dilate it &s;elfe beyond the City, and the Southerne banks of the <HI>Loyre,</HI> where it rent up &s;ome few trees, nor killed any, &s;ave only two men, which in a kinde of diffidence in the divine providence, were going to &s;helter them|&s;elves in the Tower S. <HI>Hugon,</HI> their eyes having be|held that &s;trong place ca&s;t down by the violence of the &s;torme before their deaths, the &s;upreame Maje&s;ty reading a lecture to us all by their de&s;truction, when they &s;ought for pre&s;ervation, that the a&s;&s;ured meanes of temporall &s;afety are not in our election; and that it is meere vanity to oppo&s;e his omnipotency.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ties troubles by the mutinous rebels, were <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Buffara</HI> a Wea|ver rai&s;eth a commotion in <HI>Perigot</HI></NOTE> within his power to remedy. The heads of &s;uch inte|&s;tine commotions, are commonly ba&s;e fellowes, neither fit for coun&s;ell in peace, nor command in warre; <HI>Jack Straw, Cade,</HI> and <HI>Wat Tyl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">r</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> were former|ly knowne the ringleaders in &s;uch in&s;urrections, and now <HI>Buffara,</HI> a Weaver in <HI>Perigot,</HI> over&s;hooting his
<PB N="27" REF="21"> &s;huttle, would be a &s;tickler in &s;tate bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and con|voking &s;ome pea&s;ants, men of de&s;perate fortunes, and more de&s;perate mindes, by an heape of words, ill cou|ched, but plau&s;ibly uttered, &s;pake thus unto them.</P>
<P><HI>Is there any difference betwixt the King and us? we</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">By an ill wo|ven &s;peech to the Pea&s;ants&punc;</NOTE> <HI>have the &s;hape of men as well as he. His greatne&s;&s;e is &s;up|ported by us, who&s;e &s;houlders mu&s;t beare the heavy weight of all his impo&s;itions, if we will continue in &s;ubje|ction to that too grievous a burden. There is &s;car&s;e one of us, but may know the &s;weetne&s;&s;e of liberty; wee have bin apprentices, or hired &s;ervants, and then feeling the &s;courge of our ma&s;ters over us, we de&s;ired to be our owne men, the expiration of &s;ome few yeares, delivered us from that &s;ervitude, and we rejoyced in that liberty: But what got we thereby? A &s;lavery far above the former: while we lived with our Ma&s;ters, their pur&s;es bore our char|ges, we neither cared for hou&s;e-rent, nor pari&s;h duties, we did our worke, tooke our ordinary repa&s;ts and re&s;t, not caring for the morrow. Now we are Ma&s;ters, but wor&s;e &s;laues then formerly; we carke and labour, &s;it up late, and ri&s;e early, and hardly can maintaine our fami|lies, yet mu&s;t be taxed with &s;uch burthens, as we cannot &s;upport to maintaine a warre, undertaken for plea&s;ure, not profit to the Kingdome. The King hath provoked an enemy, with whom hee might have had peace, and Wee mu&s;t &s;uffer for it. We &s;ee the Frontiers of this Kingdome invaded, the</HI> Spaniard <HI>hath got &s;ome footing in</HI> Guyenne, Languedock, Province, <HI>and</HI> Picardie, <HI>it is to be thought he will goe on, and if we meane to &s;ave our &s;elves, wee mu&s;t not appeare in the Kings behalfe, and if wee meane to enjoy our &s;tates, wee mu&s;t take up Armes, and oppo&s;e the Kings officers, that pur&s;ue us with their exactions. I crave your re&s;olutions, and as many as will a&s;&s;ent unto me, let them fling up their caps, and cry liberty.</HI></P>
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<P> <HI>Each offence (like</HI> Horace <HI>his Crow in the Iayes fea|thers)</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">The people a&s;&s;enting, take up Armes.</NOTE> <HI>&s;truts in the colours of vertue)</HI> The rebell, which preferring his private intere&s;t before the common good, would alter the cour&s;e of &s;tate, in an <HI>Ari&s;tocratie</HI> u&s;hering in an <HI>Ataxie,</HI> in a Monarchie introducing an <HI>Anarchie,</HI> will have a plea of politie to varni&s;h his rebellion, and if he can but deliver it to the ignorant people in a fu&s;tian language, that many-headed bea&s;t doth oft receive it as Authenticall. The &s;educed people applauded his &s;peech, and as if <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">itho</HI> had &s;ate upon his &s;editious tongue, a&s;&s;evered, that he &s;poke truth in all, tooke up Armes, cho&s;e him for their chiefetaine, and in a de&s;perate madne&s;&s;e, following their more de&s;perate leader, &s;earched the Merchants ware-hou&s;es of that Province, &s;laughtered the Kings officers, proclaimed a day of Iubilie to as many as would take part with them, and by their progre&s;&s;e in the beginning, finding no re|&s;i&s;tance, increa&s;ed their fir&s;t number to 7000 men. <HI>Mi&s;chiefe, though not well &s;upported at the fir&s;t; growes higher, like the luxuriant branches of a fruit-bearing tree: if a good Patriot, like a Gardner, put in his pruning hooke, the &s;uckers are &s;oone cut off, and the &s;tocke re|maines entire.</HI> The Duke <HI>de Valette,</HI> &s;onne of the a|ged <NOTE PLACE="marg">Are beaten in the field by the Duke <HI>a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Valette.</HI></NOTE> <HI>d' Espernon,</HI> Lievtenant Generall of that Province, his old Sires yeers di&s;abling him from performing his office, &s;upplyed his Fathers duty, &s;ummoned the traine bands of the Country, called together many volunteers, met them in open field, when they were in the height of glory, gave them battell, &s;lew 1200 of them upon the place, and cha&s;ed them to <HI>Bergery,</HI> a a City upon the <HI>Dordonne,</HI> a River which di&s;embo|geth it &s;elfe into the <HI>Garonne,</HI> below <HI>Bordeaux,</HI> where they fortified them&s;elves, and &s;tood in defiance of his Forces. The Duke omitted no meanes to reclaime or
<PB N="29" REF="22"> &s;ubdue them: brought his Cannon into the field again&s;t them, but that did not &s;o much as affright them, pro|mi&s;ed them fairely, that their taxes &s;hould be alleviated, if not totally taken off, but his oratory could not pro|vaile, yet at la&s;t with the old &s;tate tricke of a pardon, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Their Cap|tain broke up|on the wheele.</NOTE> made them &s;ubmit, and deliver up their Captain into his hands, whom he commanded to be broke alive up|on the wheele, in the high way, as an exemplary pat|terne of ju&s;tice, and di&s;mi&s;&s;ed the others in peace to their own habitations.</P>
<P>A black Smith, a Farrier, born at <HI>Lavergne</HI> in <HI>Quir|cy,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">A blacke Smith rai&s;eth a new com|motion in <HI>Quercy.</HI></NOTE> at the &s;ame time made another in&s;urrection in that Province, and upon the like pretext, had drawn toge|ther 3000 men from <HI>Tegrac, Lavergne, Padicar,</HI> and other places of that territory, who gracing him&s;elfe by the name and title of Captaine <HI>Ba&s;que,</HI> and attended with this goodly retinue, went fir&s;t to <HI>Gramat,</HI> a wal|led towne, within one league of <HI>Lavergne,</HI> and thence enforced the proprietor, the Count of <HI>Cabeces</HI> to flye, having &s;lain five or &s;ixe of his dome&s;ticke &s;ervants, whom he had &s;ent to re&s;traine his in&s;olent di&s;order. Proud of his &s;ucce&s;&s;e, he proceeded further, went to <HI>Fons,</HI> neere <HI>Figear,</HI> a &s;mall walled towne, but not gar|ri&s;oned, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Taketh <HI>Fons.</HI></NOTE> commanded the inhabitants to open their gates and receive &s;uch conditions as he would pre|&s;cribe them, which they dur&s;t not refu&s;e, there being no Army in that peaceable, and by peace over &s;ecure Country to re&s;i&s;t him. His &s;ucce&s;&s;e in the fir&s;t attempt, made him entertaine a conceit, that he was a good Commander, but the fortune of the la&s;t, rai&s;ed him from an opinion of his owne worth, to a &s;ure confi|dence of ability, the bladder of his timpanons ambiti|on <NOTE PLACE="marg">Is re-enforced by 3000 fre&s;h men.</NOTE> being blown up, by the breath of 3000 other vaine fellowes, which came in to his a&s;&s;i&s;tance. <HI>Buffara,</HI> in the adjoyning territory, had given him a pre&s;ident of vaine
<PB N="30" REF="23"> arrogancy, and he intended to out-doe him in his folly. His attendants took upon them the name of <HI>Croquans,</HI> as well as tho&s;e under <HI>Buffara,</HI> and to make them re|&s;emble military men, that they might goe into the field with colours, he robbed the Churches of their Pennons, and Banners, imployed and u&s;ed them as En&s;ignes: and that he might appeare another <HI>Salmoneus,</HI> armed with fal&s;e thunder, he took a tree of proportionable bigne&s;&s;e, boared and &s;haped it like a piece of great Ord|nance, thinking thereby to be more formidable. <HI>Wa&s;pes make combes, and Apes imitate men:</HI> and Smug would re&s;emble S. <HI>George</HI> on hor&s;e back.</P>
<P>In this equipage he pre&s;ented him&s;elfe, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">0/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">. before the City <HI>Figear:</HI> fir&s;t, &s;ey&s;ing of the &s;uburbs, which the in|habitants had abandoned upon the report of his march <NOTE PLACE="marg">Summons <HI>Pigear.</HI></NOTE> thitherwards, and then &s;ummoning the town to open the gates, and to admit him in, with the black guard which followed, his ragged regiment. The inhabitants ironically humbly petitioned him, to &s;tay till morning, acknowledged his victorious Armes, but that they might not be proclaimed traitors to the Crowne, and forfeit their charter, they onely reque&s;ted a &s;hort time of deliberation. The Farrier yeelds, plants him&s;elf that <NOTE PLACE="marg">Is deluded by the Citizens.</NOTE> night in the &s;uburbs, expects the &s;ignall of his intrami&s;|&s;ion the next morning, when &s;odainly he was &s;aluted with haile-&s;hot from the walles, order being taken that the Lord <HI>Camboulye</HI> then re&s;iding in the City, &s;hould place him&s;elfe there, with the old men, and &s;uch as could doe no other &s;ervice, to di&s;charge the &s;mall Guns again&s;t him, while&s;t the Lord of <HI>Roquefort</HI> with &s;uch a Cavallary as could be &s;uddenly rai&s;ed in the Ci|ty, and the Baron of <HI>Marinall,</HI> with 500 armed Citi|zens, &s;hould &s;ally out again&s;t him. The &s;hot &s;tartled him, and made the Pea&s;ants give ground; but <HI>Roque|fort,</HI> and the Baron &s;oon after falling upon the Rebels
<PB N="31" REF="23"> with all their might, beat them out of the fir&s;t Barrica|do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, drove them to the end of the &s;uburbs, where while their leader was rally ing his di&s;ordered band, inten|ding to renew the combat, the &s;ouldiers of the City gaue them &s;uch arough charge, that the mo&s;t of them being &s;laine, the re&s;t were compelled to flye for their lives to <HI>Fons,</HI> which they had &s;urprized the day fore|going, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Taken and de|livered to the hands of ju|&s;tice.</NOTE> whither the Baron of <HI>Marinal</HI> pur&s;ued them, do|ing execution upon the Reare, and be&s;ieging the re&s;t in the towne, which they had taken for their &s;ecurity. The rabble of Rebels no &s;ooner perceived them&s;elves thus &s;traitned, but they humbly begged licence to re|turn in peace to their own homes. They were natural|ly the Kings &s;ubjects, born in his dominions, and had &s;worne to per&s;i&s;t in a faithfull obedience to his Maje|&s;ty, and the Baron therefore was unwilling to proceed in extremity again&s;t them, though they had given &s;uch an euidence of di&s;loyalty, it was reputed mi&s;pri&s;on, not malice which cau&s;ed the common men to offend, and though it was in his power to puni&s;h them exemplari|ly, he concluded it to be farre better to win their affe|ctions by an act of mercy, then to eloigne the hearts of their fellowes from him, by proceeding again&s;t them legally. Yet &s;till he kept at a politike di&s;tance from them, painted out the hainou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the tre&s;pa&s;&s;e in glaring, oylie colours, told them he could not an&s;wer it before his Maje&s;ty, if he &s;hould &s;uffer them to e&s;cape unpuni&s;hed, and all to make them &s;en&s;ible of their er|rour, which he did &s;o effectually, that the poore &s;oules perceiving what they had done, humbly begged par|don, which he granted conditionally. Fir&s;t, that they &s;hould deliver into his hands, their Captain, Lieute|nant, and the En&s;ignes with the colours. Secondly, that each man &s;hould return to his own dwelling, and &s;weere never more to meet with any intention to op|po&s;e
<PB N="32" REF="24"> the Kings &s;ervice: both which conditions were performed the &s;ame day, and the Captain, Lieutanant, and En&s;ignes, were delivered to the officers of civill ju&s;tice, to be proceeded again&s;t as criminall melefa|ctors, guilty of high trea&s;on: the Baron of <HI>Marivall</HI> preparing for his journey to <HI>Paris,</HI> to informe his Ma|je&s;ty of the particulars which had bin done.</P>
<P>Thus the Kings forces were happily victorious over the Rebels, which had rai&s;ed the&s;e inte&s;tine commoti|ons within his own dominions; nor were his Armies which were &s;ent again&s;t the frontier Prouinces under the <HI>Spaniards</HI> command unfortunate, either when they undertooke the recovery of what the King had lo&s;t, the yeare pa&s;&s;ed, or made an inva&s;ion into the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> ter|ritories. The Comtois were freed of D. <HI>Bernhard,</HI> but not of all the Kings &s;ouldiers. The D. of <HI>Longueville,</HI> Lieutenant Generall to the Prince of <HI>Conde,</HI> had drawn together all the <HI>Frenches</HI> which had wintred in <HI>Cham|pagne, Lorraigne,</HI> and <HI>Burgundy,</HI> and expecting to be re-enforced by the old &s;ouldiers, which came out of <HI>Switzerland,</HI> under the Duke of <HI>Rohan,</HI> who by rea&s;on of the indi&s;po&s;ition of body, being forced to &s;tay at <HI>Ge|neva,</HI> was tran&s;mitting his 500 hor&s;e, and 4000 foot to <HI>Longneville,</HI> though yet attended onely with his owne men, marched directly again&s;t the <HI>French</HI> Coun|ty, and began his work where Duke <HI>Bernhard</HI> left, fur|ther advancing the Kings bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and more perplex|ing his enemies. His fir&s;t quarter was at <HI>Branges,</HI> whence I finde him marching, <HI>Iune</HI> 11/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">. and encamping the &s;ame night neer <HI>Faix</HI> with his Army. Till then he found occa&s;ion to make experiment of his mens cou|rage, or his own forrunes. Here he found a &s;mall ad|venture <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Mar|que&s;&s;e nf <HI>Con|flans</HI> rai&s;ed by the Duke of <HI>Langueville&punc;</HI></NOTE> to try his prowe&s;&s;e. An expert <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Com|mander, the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Conflans,</HI> was encamped neer him with three regiments, again&s;t him he di&s;patched
<PB N="33" REF="24"> <HI>Guitry</HI> the Field-mar&s;hall, with one part of his Army, who, undi&s;covered till hee had reached his Enemy, charged him &s;o &s;uddenly and furiou&s;ly that had not the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Commander bin very carefull to hold his forces in their military order, his Regiments had bin rowted, and yet his care could not enable him to maintain his trenches, ray&s;ed he was, but not di&s;comfited, receding in a well ordered retreat, &s;ome of his <HI>Cavallary</HI> being &s;lain, he &s;aved the remayn of his men two leagues, lea|ving one <HI>Cornetto,</HI> one <HI>Guidon,</HI> his plate, and all his bag|gage, as a booty to <HI>Guitry,</HI> who&s;e &s;ouldiers more gree|dy of that prize, then a glorious victory &s;tayed to pil|lage his Campe, not pur&s;uing him.</P>
<P><HI>June</HI> 12/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">1, the Duke incamped neer the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Cour|laon,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Courlaon&punc;</HI> be&s;ie|ged by the D.</NOTE> which he rounded with his army the &s;ame day, but not without oppo&s;ition of the Garri&s;on, which played upon him from the Ca&s;tle, and wounded <HI>Gondreville,</HI> his Armour-bearer clo&s;e by him, and not far from him, <HI>Fevillan</HI> and <HI>Rembe</HI> two Captains of the Regiment <HI>d' Anguyen.</HI> The Vicount <HI>Arpajoux</HI> Field-mar&s;hall, was imployed all night to plant a battery again&s;t the Cita|dell, whiles the labourers, and &s;ome ordinary &s;ouldiers were &s;ent to get bavins to fill up the two ditches about the Fort, both which did their parts &s;o carefully, that by break of day, the great Ordnance began to thunder, the pioners had filled up the outward ditch with fag|gots, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Surrendred vpon compo&s;i|tion.</NOTE> and plained the way for their ea&s;ier acce&s;&s;e to the other; the great Guns had made a rea&s;onable breach in the wall, and the &s;ouldiers, each man with a faggot in one hand, &amp; military in&s;truments in the other, were ha&s;ting to fill up the inward ditch, and prepare for a&s;|&s;ault, by eight the &s;ame morning, when &s;uddenly a white flagge appearing upon the wall, a retreat was &s;ounded, the <HI>French</HI> A&s;&s;ailants made a &s;top, and the Garri&s;on conde&s;cended upon condition of life &s;aved to
<PB N="34" REF="25"> &s;urrender the Citadell. Le&s;&s;e could not have bin de&s;i|red, more perhaps might have bin granted, if it had bin reque&s;ted: to this petition the Duke &s;ub&s;cribed willing|ly, &amp; &s;o without effu&s;ion of bloud, got tile Fort, where he &s;pent the next day to refre&s;h his Army, repaire the breaches, renew the Fortifications, accommodate the place with a Garri&s;on, and to di&s;po&s;e of the amunition, and other commodities found there, for his be&s;t bene|fit, and &s;ub&s;i&s;tence of his Forces.</P>
<P>A wor&s;e Fate attended a neighbouring City <HI>Lion de Saulnier,</HI> then befell the Ca&s;tle, it was a place late of e|mine~ce <NOTE PLACE="marg">The town of <HI>Lyon de Saul|nier</HI> &s;urprized by the <HI>French.</HI></NOTE> in the County, the &s;alt pans adjoyning yielding a good annuall revenew to the inhabitants, and they again adorning the place with goodly edifices, te&s;timo|nies of their wealthine&s;&s;e. Now it mu&s;t both change its Lord, and lo&s;e its &s;plendor. <HI>Iune</HI> 14/24, the Duke went in per&s;on to &s;urvey it, and the &s;ame day begirt it with all his power. The Garri&s;on defended it well, whiles it was theirs, and when they could not hold it, ruined it. The <HI>French</HI> got it by piecemeal, fir&s;t, the cloy&s;ter of the <HI>Capuchins,</HI> then the Suburbs of Saint <HI>De&s;ire,</HI> and the town afterwards; yet we cannot properly &s;ay they got it, though the <HI>Spaniard</HI> lo&s;t it, unle&s;&s;e the <HI>Spaniards</HI> lo&s;&s;e may be called their gain; the Garri&s;on as it gave ground, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ca&s;tle holds out.</NOTE> &s;o the A&s;&s;ailants gave fire to the Cloy&s;ter, Suburbs, and City, which put the be&s;iegers to a new trouble, labou|ring to &s;ave what they could from the devouring <HI>Vul|can,</HI> while <HI>Rimcourt</HI> the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Commander inclo&s;ed him&s;elf in the Ca&s;tle, the &s;trength of the City wel moa|ted, well walled, and then of the more difficult acce&s;&s;e, becau&s;e the Dike was brim full of water; and hee had broken down the bridge, which led into the Ca&s;tle, leaving the rubbi&s;h of the towne a prize to the a&s;&s;ay|lants.</P>
<P>Yet though the Duke could not then take that Ca|&s;tle,
<PB N="35" REF="25"> two others the &s;ame day became &s;ubject to the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Two other Ca&s;tles taken by the Duke <HI>Longueville.</HI></NOTE> King by his and his Confederates meanes. <HI>Sancourt</HI> a Captain of one of his troops of hor&s;e, took in the Fort of <HI>Chilly,</HI> and the <HI>Count de Guebriant,</HI> Lievtenant Gene|rall to the Duke of <HI>Rohan,</HI> who that very day came up with his Forces to the Army, by the way took in ano|ther in the &s;ame vicinage.</P>
<P>Mutuall &s;alutations were &s;carce pa&s;&s;ed, betwixt the Duke the Generall, and <HI>Guebriant</HI> the Field-mar&s;hall, when the Towne and Ca&s;tle of <HI>Montaigne</HI> &s;ited on an hill, in the view of <HI>Lion de Saulnier,</HI> pre&s;ented it &s;elfe to the Counts eye. <HI>An active &s;pirit apprehends each occa|&s;ion to be doing:</HI> The Count though he could not but be weary of his late march, expre&s;&s;ed a kind of impatience <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Montaigne</HI> ta|ken by the Count <HI>de Gue|briant.</HI></NOTE> in his looks, till he might come to action; acquainted the Duke with his purpo&s;e again&s;t <HI>Montagne,</HI> and the Duke as forward to give way to the de&s;igne, as the Field-mar&s;hall was to undertake it, gave him licence to u&s;e his forc&eacute; there without tying him to conditions. The Count marched again&s;t it, and carryed the towne, though the Commander tracing the &s;teps of <HI>Rimcourt,</HI> intended to fire it, and in the end the Ca&s;tle upon Co|venants, that the Pea&s;ants which &s;urmounted above the number of 100, who were in the Fort, &s;hould yield upon di&s;cretion: and the &s;ouldiers with their armes, without baggage, &s;hould have convoy to &s;ome place of the Catholike King, which being not &s;pecified, were &s;ent to <HI>Perpignan.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Matters of danger, not despair, are the true objects of valour: Every vertue is tied to Rules; and bounded with limits not to be tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed, the extremes alter all good|ne&s;&s;e, if they be pitched upon: courage lo&s;eth its merited honour, if wilfulne&s;&s;e and unguided petulancy over|bear it: a well grounded rea&s;on, without prejudice to a</HI>
<PB N="36" REF="26"> <HI>mans honour, may ju&s;tly countermand a ra&s;h and incon|&s;iderate re&s;olution.</HI> It had bin di&s;honourable for <HI>Rime|court</HI> to yield upon the fir&s;t &s;ummons, and to hold out, it was almo&s;t impo&s;&s;ible. Nor could the a&s;&s;aylant en|force him, but by famine, nor his friends relieve him if it &s;hould have come to that exigent. The place was pent up with numbers of &s;ouls within it, the &s;trait con|fines of a Ca&s;tle &s;carce could containe his &s;ouldiers a|mounting <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Lyon de Saul|mere</HI> &s;urren|dred upon compo&s;ition.</NOTE> to 600 in number, and the inhabitants which &s;urmounted that account, the Pe&s;t was hot among&s;t them, and payed a greater tribute to the grave, then the Enemies &s;word. <HI>Pharaohs</HI> leane Kine pre&s;ented them|&s;elves daily before him, the people began to cry out for bread, a mor&s;ell would have contented them, which before fared delicately every day, and were not plea&s;ed without variety of dainty di&s;hes: Relieve them hee could not but by an hard purcha&s;e of their liberty, nor be ea&s;ed of their clamours, but by ab&s;enting him&s;elfe from them, and that could not be archieved without the a&s;&s;ent of his Enemy, and therfore he rather re&s;olved to buy his quiet upon hard covenants, then endure that vexation, which otherwi&s;e mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily pur&s;ue him. Capitalate he would, and upon any termes &s;urrender, and capitulate hee did, and &s;urrendred upon a &s;trange Article, which though in the Generals it &s;avoured of providence, was a plain evidence, that harder termes would have bin accepted, if they had bin required, <HI>viz.</HI> a convoy for the Garri&s;on to any of his Catholike Ma|je&s;ties townes, which the Duke accepted, imbarqued them in &s;o many Bottoms, as were required for their tran&s;portation, and carried them down the <HI>Saone</HI> into the County of <HI>Rou&s;illon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The fir&s;t wheele of an Autocineton, a &s;elf-moving En|gine being &s;et a going the others mu&s;t follow: It is &s;o in</HI>
<PB N="37" REF="26"> <HI>warre, one prime place yielding, the appendants mu&s;t come in too.</HI> The Ca&s;tles of <HI>Crevecaur, Chilly,</HI> and <HI>E&s;toille</HI> in the <HI>French County,</HI> as if there had bin a contignation of their &s;everall buildings, &s;unke with the mayne piece of that Fabrick, the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Lyon de Saulnier</HI> and with|out <NOTE PLACE="marg">Divers Forts and Ca&s;tles taken by the D. <HI>de Longue|ville.</HI></NOTE> enforcement rendred them&s;elves to the Duke of <HI>Longueville</HI> his Maje&s;ties Lievtenant Generall, who po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elf of them to the u&s;e of the Chri&s;tian King his Ma&s;ter. The Fort of <HI>Savigny</HI> in the Province of <HI>Bre&s;&s;e,</HI> made &s;ome re&s;i&s;tance, and detained him &s;ome few days: The <HI>Spaniard</HI> had got it by his pui&s;&s;ance the yeer before, and would not let it go without knocks; <HI>A private man is more tenacious of what he hath got by his own indu&s;try, then what de&s;cends unto him by inheritance: The Souldier, like the Merchant, will &s;ell dear when he pays dear.</HI> The others places de&s;cended to the Crown of <HI>Spain,</HI> by marriage, this was purcha&s;ed with bloud, and nought but bloud could redeem it, 14 dayes the Garri&s;on held out, from the 2/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Iuly</HI> new &s;tile, to the 16, and then af|ter blows both given and taken, was con&s;trained to yield, upon condition that the Garri&s;on con&s;i&s;ting of 200 men &s;hould be convayed to &s;uch one of the Catho|like Kings townes, as it &s;hould plea&s;e the <HI>French</HI> Ge|nerall.</P>
<P><HI>It is no happine&s;&s;e to be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of much, if there be no u&s;e to be made thereof.</HI> The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Savigne</HI> opened her gates to let the <HI>French</HI> in, but as yet they dur&s;t not tru&s;t them&s;elves within the walls therof, the <HI>Spandards</HI> were gone, but left a more dangerous foe behinde them: the ayre was infected with pe&s;tilent exhalations threatning an unavoidable de&s;truction, to as many as &s;hould dare to draw breath there: To make it &s;ecurely habitable, the Dukes fir&s;t care was to have it well ayred, and having purged it of the &s;tench, &s;ilth and putrifaction, which
<PB N="38" REF="27"> cau&s;ed the contagion, about three weeks after, put in a <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Sovigny</HI> ayred before the <HI>French</HI> enter.</NOTE> <HI>French</HI> Garri&s;on. The time which was &s;pent thereabout was not con&s;umed vainly, order was taken by a poli|tick Ordinance for the &s;u&s;tentation of his Army, which though it was imployed to the proper u&s;e of bearing armes again&s;t the Kings Enemies, was by that meanes provided for plentifully, by the pea&s;ants of the <HI>French County,</HI> not of love, but fear, while the &s;ouldiers follow|ing their own profe&s;&s;ion, handled not the Sicle to cut down the ripe Corne, but the &s;word to cut off their ad|ver&s;aries: The <HI>French County</HI> was full of grain, the Har|ve&s;t an&s;wered the &s;eed-time, and the plowmans hopes&punc; but they which &s;owed it, dur&s;t not mow it, le&s;t they &s;hould both lo&s;e their labours, and lifes in that adven|ture. To &s;ecure the labouring Husbandman, and to pro|vide for his Campe at once, by a Proclamation hee au|thori&s;ed the <HI>Comtois</HI> to gather in the fruits of the earth of what &s;ort &s;oever, with a condition, to bring in the <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Long,</HI> by &s;uffe|ring the <HI>Comp|tois</HI> to take their crop, re|lieves his army</NOTE> third &s;heafe, &s;hock, or ri&s;pell unto his Magazine. The covenant was received joyfully, and the pea&s;ants with &s;hew of alacrity, brought in the thirds of their Country commodities glad to have an a&s;&s;urance of two parts, which feared they &s;hould lo&s;e the totall.</P>
<P>And yet the effects of this Decree, were not the mayn &s;umme of the account, which the Duke could make of his time there. His forces came to action, and whil&s;t the Country people by &s;upplying their wants, &s;trengthened their hands and hearts, they advanced the Kings de&s;ignes. The Duke was informed by &s;ome pri|&s;oners, that the <HI>Spaniards</HI> had made a little head, had a&s;|&s;embled together betwixt <HI>Poligny,</HI> and the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Ruffe,</HI> and him&s;elfe in per&s;on attended with 1200 hor&s;e, and 5800 Mu&s;quetiers went from the Camp at <HI>Savigni</HI> three days before it was &s;urrendred to give them battell.
<PB N="39" REF="27"> His intent was to have cru&s;ht the Cockatrice in the &s;hell, to have abated that little body, which was in growing, before it came to perfection, but that project prevented by the providence of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Colonell <HI>Maillart,</HI> who commanded tho&s;e forces, and hearing of the Dukes march, retreated to a place of more &s;ecuritie, betwixt <HI>Salines</HI> and <HI>Bezanzon,</HI> he took occa&s;ion by his own eye to informe him&s;elf of the States, and &s;trength of <HI>Bleterans, Poligni,</HI> and <HI>Arbois,</HI> the taking in of which places would prevent the Enemy of all meanes to at|tempt any thing again&s;t the Kings towns in <HI>Bre&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Bagez,</HI> while the <HI>French</HI> armies were bu&s;ied el&s;ewhere, and then returned.</P>
<P><HI>Iuly,</HI> 5/15, he went again from his Quarter in the Camp, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Orgelet</HI> yielde to the <HI>French</HI> with other Forts.</NOTE> towards <HI>Cowleige,</HI> and thence again the next day to <HI>Or|gelet,</HI> to be&s;iege the Towne and Ca&s;tle which defended it, where the Suburbs being ma&s;tered by the Vicount <HI>d'Arpajoux</HI> his Lievtenant Generall, the be&s;ieged fired the towne, and betook them&s;elves to the Ca&s;tle, which they thought was &s;trong enough to &s;ecure them, and they able to hold, but were forced to yield the &s;ame day upon di&s;cretion. Many hands make light work, <HI>Savigni</HI> by this was reduced to extremities, and &s;tood upon ac|cord, only a part of the hoa&s;t was left before it, the re&s;t were commanded upon &s;everall adventures. The Baron of <HI>Cowpet,</HI> with the Regiment of <HI>Anguien,</HI> was &s;ent a|gain&s;t the Ca&s;tles of <HI>Montonne, Pymorain,</HI> and <HI>latour-du-May,</HI> which he took &s;ucce&s;&s;ively upon accord, and la&s;t again&s;t the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Clervall,</HI> which he took by a&s;&s;ault, put the pre&s;idiaries to the &s;word, and tooke three En|&s;ignes and two Cornets, which he &s;ent to the King by <HI>Ramboy Aide</HI> of the Campe to the Dukes army, as mo|numentall tokens of his atchievement.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty received &s;ome content in the happy pro|ceedings
<PB N="40" REF="28"> of his Forces again&s;t the profe&s;&s;ed Enemies of that Crown, but more in the &s;ucce&s;&s;efull negotiation of <HI>Bautru</HI> a Coun&s;ellor of State, whom he had employed to feele the pul&s;e of his late di&s;contented Cou&s;in, who as a &s;ubject ought him all dutifull obedience, and by the obligation of Con&s;anguinitie, being his neere&s;t Kin&s;man of bloud, was tied unto him by nature, but upon a cau&s;ele&s;&s;e di&s;ta&s;te, in a Male-content was retired to <HI>Sedan,</HI> where <HI>Bautru</HI> being admitted to conference with him, di&s;charged his office &s;o effectually, that o|pening the Kings good affection towards him, hee di|&s;per&s;ed <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Count of <HI>Soy&s;&s;ons</HI> gives evidence of his loyalty to the King.</NOTE> tho&s;e clouds of doubts, which had hovered o|ver his under&s;tanding, and made him entertain &s;ome jealous thoughts again&s;t his Maje&s;ty, and after hee had got &s;ome evidence of his loyall heart, returned again to his Maje&s;ty, <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 3 new &s;tile, with the welcome ty|dings of his &s;incere and unfained obedience.</P>
<P><HI>July</HI> 6/16, was a day to be recorded in the <HI>French</HI> Ka|lendars, and &s;et downe in golden letters. <HI>Guebriant</HI> the Field-mar&s;hall, being &s;ent out that day by the Duke of <HI>Longuevill,</HI> again&s;t the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Bournay,</HI> which was kept by a <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Captaine, ten &s;ouldiers and 200 pea|&s;ants, after 58 vollies of Cannon-&s;hot, forced it to yield upon di&s;cretion, and tru&s;&s;ed up three of the Souldiers, cau&s;ing them &s;o to &s;uffer exemplarily, marched him&s;elfe again&s;t the Ca&s;tles of <HI>Pibly, Ruargues,</HI> &amp; <HI>Pre&s;illy,</HI> which he &s;urprized, and &s;ent the life-guard of the Duke of <HI>Ro|han</HI> with 400 Mu&s;quetiers, to <HI>Beauregard</HI> and <HI>Binan,</HI> which they &s;eized of, doing &s;uch &s;ervice thereby to the King, that be&s;ides the ground which they had gotten in the <HI>French County,</HI> which gave them good footing there, there being no place of &s;trength in their Ene|mies <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sundry Ca&s;tles taken by <HI>Gue|briant</HI> in the <HI>Brench County.</HI></NOTE> hand, from Saint <HI>Claude</HI> to <HI>Bleterans,</HI> &s;ave only S. <HI>Lawrance de la Roche,</HI> nor no place in the Frontier which
<PB N="41" REF="28"> might &s;erve as a convenient Randevouz for the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Armies, which were then on forming, but <HI>Salines</HI> in the two only Ca&s;tles of <HI>Elymorain,</HI> and <HI>Beauregard,</HI> a booty was found worth in e&s;timation above 50000 Franks, which the Duke <HI>de Longueville,</HI> di&s;tributed among&s;t the &s;ouldiers; who thus encouraged with a generall vote te&s;tified their forwardne&s;&s;e to attend him in his future de&s;ignes.</P>
<P>The gaining of all the&s;e Forts brought not the <HI>French</HI> Generall to the period and end of his pains, but renova|tion of his labour, and pro&s;ecution of his Conque&s;ts. Towards <HI>Bleterans</HI> he tended, and to leave nothing be|hinde him, which might be an Harbour to the <HI>Spani&s;h,</HI> he fir&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">k in three &s;mall Ca&s;tles, that of <HI>Cha&s;teau-chalon,</HI> which &s;ubmitted <HI>Iuly</HI> 15/2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, and the other at <HI>Har|lay,</HI> and <HI>Pica</HI> which came in <HI>Iuly</HI> 17/27, and then made to|wards Saint <HI>Lawrence la Roche,</HI> one of the &s;tronge&s;t picces, and of mo&s;t importance in that territory.</P>
<P>An advi&s;o which hapned into his hands while&s;t hee was at <HI>Cha&s;teau-chalon,</HI> made him leave the two la&s;t Forts, to the care of <HI>Montau&s;ier</HI> the Camp-ma&s;ter, and march away with all &s;peed to be&s;iege that City. <HI>Iuly</HI> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">, A Letter was intercepted, which was to be carried by a <NOTE PLACE="marg">S. <HI>Lawrence la Roche,</HI> the town &s;urprized by the <HI>French.</HI></NOTE> pea&s;ant from the Garri&s;on of the towne and Ca&s;tle of Saint <HI>Lawrence</HI> to the Governour of <HI>Bleteran,</HI> the pur|port whereof was, that they de&s;ired him to remit them their own Governour, becau&s;e the <HI>French</HI> Army drew towards them, and they were threatned with a &s;peedle &s;iege. The Duke from hence collected, that if he could &s;urround them before the return of their Commander, he might ea&s;ily carry the place, the &s;trength of a Garri|&s;on, not con&s;i&s;ting &s;o much upon the numbers of ordi|nary men and common Fortifications, as the &s;age dire|ction of an expert Leader, who armed with authority,
<PB N="42" REF="29"> can both awe the men, and manage the action, To lo&s;e no time, the &s;ame day he &s;ent away a party of 400 cho|&s;en men, drawn out of al the Regiments, under the com|mand of <HI>Ver&s;tot</HI> the Camp-ma&s;ter, who reaching thi|ther the &s;ame Evening, &s;ent away two of the Serjeants belonging to the Regiment of <HI>Normandy,</HI> and twentie <NOTE PLACE="marg">Burned by the <HI>Spaniards</HI> which flie into the Ca&s;tle.</NOTE> Souldiers to view it. The Officers did their parts care|fully, found it a&s;&s;aultable, and &s;o reported it; the Camp|ma&s;ter applyes him&s;elf to their relation, plants his &s;ca|ling ladders, and at point of day, <HI>Iuly</HI> 14/24, tooke it by &s;calado, yet the Serjeants bought it with the lo&s;&s;e of their own lives, and one of the &s;ouldiers. The town was ta|ken, and expo&s;ed to pillage, but the inhabitants and Garri&s;on retyring into the Ca&s;tle, by ca&s;ting fire-balls upon their hou&s;es, milked the a&s;&s;aylants hopes in their expected pillage, but doing them withall one plea&s;ure in their pre&s;ervation from the pe&s;tilence, which then raged &s;o furiou&s;ly in the City, that there was &s;carce one hou&s;e free. The Camp-ma&s;ter &s;ent with &s;peed to the Generall to informe him, of what had been done, who the &s;ame day hee received his intelligence <HI>July</HI> 15/25, mar|ched thither with the Vicount <HI>d' Arpajoux,</HI> viewed the place, notwith&s;tanding three Faulcons &s;hot di&s;charged again&s;t him, planted the Regiment of <HI>Normandie</HI> un|der <NOTE PLACE="marg">Where they are be&s;ieged &amp; forced to yield.</NOTE> the town wall, from whence they made their daily approches to the Ca&s;tle being &s;upported, and relieved by the other Regiments of the army &s;ucce&s;&s;ively. Sixteen days &s;iege the Ca&s;tle held out, and then wanting water, and afflicted with po&s;tilence, yielded upon this conditi|on, that the &s;ouldiers 48 in number, the remaynder which had e&s;caped the Sword and Pe&s;tilence, &s;hould depart with one Captain, and one Serjeant, and their wives, the Drum beating, and without baggage, and &s;o be convayed to <HI>Bleterans.</HI> It was granted them, they
<PB N="43" REF="29"> were di&s;mi&s;&s;ed with a Convoy of 100 Mu&s;quetiers, and 50 hor&s;e to <HI>Bleterant,</HI> the inhabitants being made pri|&s;oners of warre.</P>
<P><HI>An unexperienced Navigator to avoid</HI> Scylla <HI>falls into</HI> Charybdis, <HI>one extremity drives unadvi&s;ed &s;oules into a wor&s;e, like the fi&s;h, which to avoid the frying pan, leaps into the fire:</HI> the true Hierogly phicke of the&s;e poore &s;oules, which by leaving Saint <HI>Lawrence de la Roche,</HI> thought them&s;elves &s;ecured in the choice of <HI>Bleterans,</HI> whither they had a &s;afe convoy, &s;afe as for the way, not as for a &s;ure &s;helter, that being the next place of note, and &s;trength which the Duke meant to engirt with his Forces.</P>
<P>Criticall progno&s;ticks of the i&s;&s;ue preceded the Fate of that City, the <HI>French</HI> omitted to do nothing, which might be for their advantage, and the inhabitants admit|ted all things which conduced to their own prejudice, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bleteran</HI> in danger of a &s;iege.</NOTE> the hearts of the inhabitants fayled them, the be&s;t and wealthie&s;t Citizens tooke up a re&s;olution to &s;ave their per&s;ons, and be&s;t goods in <HI>Dole,</HI> and yet changed their coun&s;ell pre&s;ently, fearing what they had ju&s;t cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect, to be &s;urprized by the way, though they were to be conducted by a Convoy. The Count of <HI>Guebriant</HI> Field-mar&s;hall to the Duke of <HI>Rohan,</HI> had notice of their fir&s;t intention, by Letters intercepted from a pea&s;ant, who was intru&s;ted with that portage to <HI>Dole,</HI> &amp; leaving the Campeat <HI>Chilly, Augu&s;t</HI> 1/11, went to way-lay them. An ambu&s;cado hee prepared upon the way, expecting <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Burge&s;|&s;es prepare to &s;lie.</NOTE> each minute the waggons which were to carry their wealth, li&s;tned after the Bels, and the Carters whi&s;tles, &s;ent out his Scouts to de&s;cry them, yet neither could the eyes of his Spies, nor his own diligent harkening bring him any a&s;&s;urance of his hope: They neither did, nor intended to &s;tirre at that time; perplexed, knotty doubts
<PB N="44" REF="30"> had &s;taggered their re&s;olve, &s;omething they meant to do, to that purpo&s;e, but neither knew, nor could con|clude <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Guebriant</HI> way lays them, and they not com|ming abroad,</NOTE> of the How or the When to do it &s;ecurely. <HI>Gue|briant</HI> would no longer attend the Citizens, but by a devi&s;e thought to inveagle the Garri&s;on, and draw the military men into the trap which hee had laid for the Burge&s;&s;es; his party con&s;i&s;ted of 200 light hor&s;e, and 100 <HI>Dragoons,</HI> ten of his <HI>Cavaliers</HI> hee &s;ent abroad to &s;urprize the Pea&s;ants, which by night were imployed <NOTE PLACE="marg">Addre&s;&s;eth a &s;tratagem to &s;urprize the Garri&s;on. That failing he takes in <HI>Io&s;&s;eau</HI> a Ca|&s;tle,</NOTE> to bring home the crop of the Earth: thinking by this means to make the &s;ouldiers i&s;&s;ue out for their &s;uccour, and &s;o to entangle them: the <HI>French</HI> hor&s;men did their part, &s;urprized thirty pea&s;ants when they had loaden their hor&s;es with corn, and by bright day light, deeming that the pre&s;idiaries would come abroad to relieve and relea&s;e the Captives, marched with the&s;e pri&s;oners hard by the Counter-&s;carpe. All this would not do, the Gar|ri&s;on &s;ent &s;ome Cannon-&s;hot after them, but would not pur&s;ue them. The Count thus fru&s;trated of his expe|ctation, ro&s;e from his ambu&s;h, and marched directly to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Iou&s;&s;eau,</HI> which he reached by noon, being but three leagues from <HI>Bleteran,</HI> and though it was a place of good &s;trength, rounded with a Moate foure perches broad, eight foot deep of water, flanked with four good towres, and fortified by a countermure, had it &s;urrendred unto him at his fir&s;t appearing, upon di&s;|cretion. <HI>Where Valour and Coun&s;ell leads, Fortune attends, and crownes the de&s;igne with a prosperous i&s;&s;ue.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Jou&s;&s;eau,</HI> by the change of the Lord, had &s;ome altera|tion of its Lawes, a <HI>French</HI> Garri&s;on was pre&s;ently put into it, which mu&s;t &s;tand in oppo&s;ition, to the townes with which the Ca&s;tle lately had commerce and corre&s;pondence, and that done, the Field-mar&s;hall
<PB N="45" REF="30"> went to <HI>Loges</HI> another Fort within half a league of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">And the Fort <HI>de Loges,</HI></NOTE> former, which he &s;ummoned, took in, and then prepared for his &s;peedy returne to the Army. But one raw mor|&s;ell, the fayling of his fir&s;t project at <HI>Bleterans,</HI> was not yet dige&s;ted, hee &s;till concluded that hee had done no|thing worthy him&s;elfe in that expedition, if he did no <NOTE PLACE="marg">Addre&s;&s;eth a new &s;tratagem for the Garri|&s;on of <HI>Blete|rans,</HI></NOTE> more; &amp; to allure the pre&s;idiaries in <HI>Bleterans</HI> out of the town, hee marched in their open &s;ight with his army towards the Camp, leaving five or &s;ix <HI>Dragoons</HI> behind him, with in&s;tructions that when it might be imagined that the mayn body of his Forces were marched a two houres journey, they &s;hould ari&s;e from the place where they lay hid, drive away all the cattle which were gra&s;ing neer the City, and if the Garri&s;on did pur&s;ue them, they &s;hould with a &s;ecure, but not over-ha&s;ty pace, go on to &s;uch a place, where hee would lay &s;ome <HI>Carabins</HI> to &s;ave them, and &s;urprize the pur&s;uing Ene|my. The actions of his men, and the Event an&s;wered his directions. The <HI>Dragoons</HI> turned Drovers, and the Garri&s;on &s;eeing the cattle which were their mainte|nance driven away, by that maniple of men, &s;ent out 40 hor&s;e and 50 Mu&s;quetiers to recover them&punc; the <HI>Dragoons</HI> at the fir&s;t drave on faire and gently, till they &s;aw the bait had taken, and then mending their pace, <NOTE PLACE="marg">And &s;urpri&s;ed a part of the pre&s;idiaries.</NOTE> but ob&s;erving &s;uch a di&s;tance as might keep them out of the reach of the Enemies Mu&s;quets, and give the purfuers hope to over-take them&punc; led them on to their Fate, the wood where <HI>Vilette</HI> lurked with his <HI>Carabins,</HI> which &s;odainly and roundly fell upon them, and at the fir&s;t charge, cut them all in pieces (but 15 who begged quarter, and obtained it, and five <HI>Cavallieres,</HI> who&s;e Steeds &s;tood them in more &s;tead then their &s;words, and by their &s;peed &s;aved their Riders, and them&s;elves in <HI>Bleterans.</HI></P>
<PB N="46" REF="31">
<P> This atchievement, &s;atisfied him for the pre&s;ent, he was well provided to give an account to the Generall of his doings, and now returned to the Campe then at <HI>Ruffey,</HI> where, before his comming in, the Duke of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bleterans</HI> be|&s;ieged,</NOTE> <HI>Longueville</HI> being re-enforced with 12 fre&s;h Compa|nies of the Regiment <HI>de Ca&s;tel-moron,</HI> had concluded to be&s;iege <HI>Bleterans,</HI> and had &s;ent <HI>Vandy</HI> the Camp|ma&s;ter, and <HI>Mar&s;in</HI> a new Colonell, rai&s;ed to that ho|nour by the death of the <HI>Liegois Bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">queroy,</HI> which died of the plague at <HI>Chalon,</HI> with 60 Mu&s;quetiers, and 200 men at armes, to burn down the Mil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon the River, <NOTE PLACE="marg">and de&s;cribed.</NOTE> which they did accordingly.</P>
<P>The town is &s;ituated in the County of <HI>Burgundie,</HI> in figure &s;quare, con&s;i&s;ting of 600 Families, with one fair &s;treet, which extends it &s;elfe from the Ea&s;t end to the We&s;t, and many le&s;&s;er &s;treets, and lanes abutting upon it. A four-&s;quare Ca&s;tle, guarded with a double ditch, four great towres at the foure corners, and foure others upon the firme land betwixt the two Moats, &s;tands like a Bulwarke at one Angle of the City, which being &s;trong by nature, built in the middle of a <HI>Moora&s;&s;e,</HI> whither the Cannon could not have been drawn, had not the drought paved the ground, mu&s;t now entertain the&s;e new gue&s;ts which came to vi&s;it it; it &s;tood alone for the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> the neighbouring Forts and places of <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ca&s;tle of <HI>Fontenay</HI> &s;ur|rendred.</NOTE> &s;trength, had &s;ubmitted to the Chri&s;tian King, <HI>Fontenay</HI> honoured &s;till by the birth of S. <HI>Bernhard,</HI> which held out la&s;t, being taken in by <HI>Guebriant,</HI> after three Can|nons &s;hot again&s;t it.</P>
<P>Some days were &s;pent in intrenching the Army, rai|&s;ing of batteries, making of Gabeonnadoes and appro|ches, <HI>Aug.</HI> 16/26, was the fir&s;t day when the platforme of the &s;iege was drawn, and <HI>Aug.</HI> 21/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">1, the Duke having &s;pent 600 Cannon-&s;hot in the foure preceding days a|gain&s;t
<PB N="47" REF="31"> the walls, and made a breach of 25 paces in length fir&s;t &s;ummoned the City, and the Garri&s;on at fir&s;t demanding three dayes re&s;pite to acquaint the Lievtenant Generall of <HI>Burgundy,</HI> with the particu|lars of their e&s;tate, and upon the Generals deniall of <NOTE PLACE="marg">The town of <HI>Bleterans</HI> ta|ken.</NOTE> their reque&s;t, telling him plainly that they were able to guard the breach, and would not yield, he concluded to a&s;&s;ault it, and did &s;o the &s;ame day, and carried it by force, maugre the re&s;i&s;tance of 300 <HI>Alman</HI> Souldiers, which lay therin, in whom the inhabitants put a &s;trange con&s;i|dence, for their valour &s;hewed at <HI>Saverne,</HI> and in the fury put 200 men of the inhabitants, whom he found in armes to the &s;word, but pre&s;erved the lives and honours of 300 women which implored his grace, inclo&s;ing them in a Sanctuary, till the violence of the raging tem|pe&s;t was over.</P>
<P>The Ca&s;tle &s;erved as a place of retreat to the Garri|&s;on, and held out till <HI>Sept.</HI> 2. new &s;tile, when the De|fendants <NOTE PLACE="marg">The be&s;ieged &s;lie to the Ca|&s;tle, where they capitulate and &s;urrender.</NOTE> de&s;ired to capitulate, &s;ent out an ho&s;tage to that effect, the Ma&s;ter of their Ordnance, received an|other from the Campe, <HI>Mico</HI> Lievtenant of the Regi|ment of <HI>Anguien,</HI> and after much &s;cruple, and many difficulties obtained the&s;e conditions.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM N="1">I. THat the Souldiers &s;hould have liberty to depart with their armes, baggage, one Dum beating, bul|let in mouth, and lighted matches.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="2">II. That they might carry with them two field-peeces,
<PB N="48" REF="32"> &s;uch as &s;hould be a&s;&s;igned them by the Duke of <HI>Lon|gueville.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="3">III. That they &s;hould be furni&s;hed with waggons to tran&s;port their baggage, &s;icke, and wounded men.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="4">IV. That they &s;hould have a Convoy, with &s;ecurity to <HI>Dole.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>La&s;tly, that the inhabitants, which had retired into the Ca&s;tle, &s;hould freely go whither they plea&s;ed, and as many as would &s;tay in the town, &s;hould take an oath of allegeance to the Chri&s;tian King. All which were ac|cepted, and the Garri&s;on having &s;tayed two dayes to pack up their trinkets, marched out <HI>Sept.</HI> 5, new &s;tile, 300 in all the mo&s;t <HI>Almans,</HI> which took &s;ervice under the <HI>French,</HI> and the other <HI>Comtois,</HI> who according to the treaty, were conducted to <HI>Dole,</HI> by 150 <HI>French Cavalliers.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="49" REF="32">
<HEAD>The Actions and Occurrences in <HI>Piemont, Montferrat, Millanois,</HI> and generally throughout <HI>Italy.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe departure of the Duke <HI>de Rohan,</HI> from the <HI>Valtoliue,</HI> not only promoted the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> de&s;ignes among the <HI>Gri|&s;ons,</HI> and <HI>Valteliuers,</HI> the <HI>Gri&s;ons</HI> chal|lenging <NOTE PLACE="marg">Troubles a|mong&s;t the <HI>Gri&s;ons</HI> after <HI>Rohans</HI> depar|ture.</NOTE> a juri&s;diction over the <HI>Valteli|ners,</HI> which they deny, and the Mar|que&s;&s;e of <HI>Leganez,</HI> Governour of <HI>Millain,</HI> fi&s;hing in tho&s;e troubled waters, interpo&s;ing as a &s;tickler in that controver&s;ie, which is not yet agreed of, but &s;trengthe|ned the Marque&s;&s;es hands again&s;t the Duke of <HI>Savoy,</HI> in the Principality of <HI>Piemont</HI> and <HI>Montferrat,</HI> his united forces of 20000 foot, and 5000 hor&s;e (becau&s;e there was no Enemy to flank him) being brought down a|gain&s;t the Duke, before the <HI>French</HI> &s;uccours under the command of <HI>Crequy,</HI> could be brought in to his a&s;&s;i|&s;tance. The Dukes Army which &s;hould make head a|gain&s;t the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> hoa&s;t, was but a &s;mall one, 5000 foot and 1500 hor&s;e, yet &s;o well di&s;po&s;ed and ordered, that
<PB N="50" REF="33"> with this &s;mall number hee guarded his Dominions, from that univer&s;all deva&s;tation which threatned them <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Leganez</HI> Go|vernour of <HI>Millain</HI> goeth into the field.</NOTE> though with lo&s;&s;e of &s;ome places, till the <HI>French</HI> came in to relieve him. <HI>Leganez</HI> appearing in field at <HI>No|varra, Iune</HI> 6 new &s;tile, <HI>Grequy</HI> not reaching the Duke till <HI>Iune</HI> 14/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">4, eighteen days after, when hee arrived op|portunely at <HI>Ca&s;&s;all,</HI> the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Marque&s;&s;e, before the <HI>French</HI> came in, having threatned to be&s;iege it.</P>
<P>At <HI>Novarra</HI> the Marque&s;&s;e divided his Army into three parts, one was to &s;tay with him here, the &s;econd was &s;ent into the <HI>Lomeline;</HI> and the third under <HI>Gildas</HI> towards <HI>Ni&s;&s;e de la Paille,</HI> which was the fir&s;t place <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Army is divi+ded into three parts.</NOTE> he aimed at; the victory there being prepared for him before his comming, by the trechery of the inhabitants, who by private intelligences, had invited him to come before it, and promi&s;ed to &s;urrender it, in de&s;pight of the Governour and the Garri&s;on. A traitor in a State is like a Serpent in the bo&s;ome, fatall if fo&s;tered, and unremoved. The Duke of <HI>Savoy</HI> knew not the &s;ecret practice betwixt tho&s;e Rebels and his Enemies, but re|garded them as &s;ubjects, and was carefull for their pre|&s;ervation. Vpon the fir&s;t bruit of <HI>Gildas</HI> his comming downe, he di&s;patcht thither wards, two companies of light hor&s;e, one con&s;i&s;ting of 80, and the other of 40 <HI>Cavalliers,</HI> who came into the town, <HI>May</HI> 31, <HI>June</HI> 10 before day, and receiving intelligence, that the <HI>Spani|ards</HI> were then at <HI>Anci&s;a</HI> a place fa&s;t by, &s;ent out &s;ome Vant-curriers to di&s;cover their number and po&s;ture, who returning with an an&s;wer, that the Army con&s;i|&s;ted of 4000 foot, 1200 hor&s;e, and &s;ome <HI>Dragoons,</HI> the&s;e <HI>Cavallieres</HI> re&s;olved to vi&s;it them, and skirmi&s;hed <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gildas</HI> &s;ent to|wards <HI>Ni&s;&s;e le p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">gl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI></NOTE> with them all that day, being &s;ecured from much da|mage by the Canons of the towne, which played ad|vantageou&s;ly upon the Campe, and at night were re|ceived
<PB N="51" REF="33"> into the City by the Governour, who di&s;po&s;ed them into their &s;everall places to defend the City. The night nur&s;ing mother of tho&s;e deeds of darkne&s;&s;e, fir&s;t cau&s;ed the evill affection of the Citizens towards the Duke their lawfull Prince to be &s;u&s;pected, when <HI>Gildas</HI> a&s;&s;aulting an half-moon neer the Cloy&s;ter of the <HI>Capu|chins,</HI> carried it by the &s;lackne&s;&s;e of the defendants, who inclining to his party, did as good as &s;urrender it, with|out oppo&s;ing him, and &s;uffered his <HI>Cavallary</HI> and <HI>Dra|goons</HI> to pa&s;&s;e the River of <HI>Borbo,</HI> and range them&s;elves in Battalia upon Saint <HI>Francis</HI> his Hill, and the day en|&s;uing plainly di&s;covered it. The pre&s;idiaries did their be&s;t, both for their owne defence and offence of the a&s;|&s;aylants: They skirmi&s;hed all day, neere the <HI>Piemont</HI> Port, with the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Campe, to give the inhabitants opportunity to go abroad to get forage for the hor&s;es, of which they were almo&s;t de&s;titute. Out they went, but did little to help their friends at home, and much for the advantage of tho&s;e new ones abroad, <HI>Gildas</HI> were certified by &s;ome of them, of the e&s;tate of the towne more particularly, and &s;ent a Scout of &s;ummons to yield before that <HI>Leganez</HI> came downe directed to the Governour, and the Lord Saint <HI>Paul</HI> then re&s;iding <NOTE PLACE="marg">Summoneth the City.</NOTE> there by a trumpet, accompanied with two <HI>Capuchins,</HI> and the Curate of Saint <HI>John de Ni&s;&s;e,</HI> (who fained him&s;elfe to have been a pri&s;oner to the <HI>Spaniard)</HI> to which the Governour returned no other an&s;wer, but that hee thanked <HI>Gildas,</HI> and would prepare to enter|tain <HI>Leganez</HI> in a military bravery, with this an&s;were the Drum, and the two <HI>Capuchins</HI> returned, but the Curat &s;tayed behind, to adde more &s;uell to that fire of mutiny, which was kindled in the City, and to pa&s;&s;e in|telligence of each circum&s;tance to the <HI>Spani&s;h&punc;</HI> Army. The ba&s;e&s;t of creatures are mo&s;t proli&s;icous, and the un|perfect
<PB N="52" REF="34"> animals produce more yong ones in number, and in a farre &s;horter time, then the perfect; the &s;edi|tious <NOTE PLACE="marg">Which by the treachery and &s;editious pra|ctice of the in|habitants,</NOTE> Curate had prepared a&s;peech, a &s;hort one &s;carce of three lines, to divide the hearts of people from their Prince, and it wrought &s;o effectually, that the Drum had &s;carce delivered his an&s;wer to <HI>Gildas,</HI> and he pre|pared to a&s;&s;ault the Curtain of Saint <HI>Francis,</HI> when the rebellion of the people (which like fire, if it fall upon flaxe, or &s;uch combu&s;tible matter, doth &s;oone ray&s;e it &s;elf to a flame) at fir&s;t a&s;hamed to &s;hew its head, fed with the oily words of a traiterous Prie&s;t, began to be both in&s;olent and impudent, they abandoned the &s;tati|ons, to which they were de&s;igned, threatned the <HI>Sa|voyards</HI> Officers to deliver them into the hands of the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> unle&s;&s;e they would pre&s;ently capitulate, 40 of them marching up to the Governour, with menaces to murder him, unle&s;&s;e he did treat in&s;tantly. The Com|mander &s;eeing how hee was pre&s;t betwixt two ex|tremes, apparant danger of life, if he &s;hould refu&s;e, ig|nominie if he &s;hould a&s;&s;ent, though to &s;pin out the time <NOTE PLACE="marg">Was &s;urren|dred,</NOTE> a little, till he could pacifie this commotion, &s;ent out a Drum, as if he meant to Article, and in lieu of him re|ceived a Serjeant from the Campe, &s;o obtaining a ce&s;&s;a|tion of armes, which he &s;pent with all remon&s;trances he could think of, to pacifie the people, and divert them <NOTE PLACE="marg">In de&s;pight of the Governour and garri&s;on.</NOTE> from that &s;hamefull revolt, when not prevailing with the inraged multitude, he was forced to come to cove|nants, and <HI>Iune</HI> 4/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">4, the Garri&s;on of 300 men (able to have maintained the place again&s;t the enemie with|out, if there had not been a wor&s;e within) departed from the City, and left it to the command of the Catho|lick King.</P>
<P><HI>Breme</HI> was the next place, de&s;igned by the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Marque&s;&s;e to be conquered by his forces, and a de&s;igne
<PB N="53" REF="34"> only it was, which never came to execution, it being a place of &s;trength well garri&s;oned, and provided for by the Duke of <HI>Savoy, Emery</HI> the <HI>French</HI> Emba&s;&s;ador, and <HI>Pra&s;tin</HI> who laid in an experienced, couragious &s;ouldier <HI>Mont-gaillard</HI> to defend it, and that being known to the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Generall, he loth to &s;pend his time and for|ces there, which might be imployed el&s;where more ex|peditiou&s;ly left it, and with his Army fir&s;t be&s;ieged <HI>Aglian</HI> or <HI>Aillan,</HI> a Ca&s;tle neere <HI>A&s;ti,</HI> &s;ituate upon an Hill, where <HI>Renato Roero,</HI> which commanded there, received him couragiou&s;ly, hanging up a black flag, in te&s;timony that he meant to hold it, as long as hee was <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Agliano</HI> be&s;ie|ged by the <HI>Spaniard.</HI></NOTE> able, his deeds an&s;wering the outward &s;igne wherby he expre&s;t his re&s;olution.</P>
<P>Severall times he a&s;&s;aulted it, and was as oft repelled, with more lo&s;&s;e in conclu&s;ion, then glory by the pro&s;e|quution: the way he went, proclaimed the <HI>Spaniard</HI> to be a man of undaunted courage, fit for the managing of &s;uch an enterprize, three vollies of the &s;hafts of fate, winged with rage, and pointed with death, could not divert him from following his enterprize, nor the fourth <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Com|mander endu|reth divers a&s;|&s;aults,</NOTE> more dreadfull then any of the former appale him; twenty wagons were laden with men, wounded in this la&s;t attempt; the Ho&s;pitals of <HI>Alexandria</HI> and <HI>Mi&s;&s;e</HI> were filled with Creples, di&s;membred, impotent men: &s;ome Commanders of note were &s;laine out-right, the Colonell <HI>Lion</HI> a <HI>German,</HI> the Serjeant Major <HI>Crevelli,</HI> three Captains, 15 Lievtenants, and <HI>Alfieres,</HI> be&s;ides a man of more &s;peciall rank, known to be &s;uch by his ha|bit, not his name, and yet all this misfortune could not &s;hake, much le&s;&s;e &s;hatter his grounded re&s;olution: The <NOTE PLACE="marg">Slaughters upon the a&s;&s;ai|lants.</NOTE> Marque&s;&s;e was not in the &s;iege per&s;onally, and yet was pre&s;ent there powerfully, his quarter was then at <HI>Ca|&s;tighliote,</HI> betwixt <HI>Nave</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;tignone,</HI> places late ap|pertaining
<PB N="54" REF="35"> to the <HI>Savoyard,</HI> but now &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ed by the <HI>Spa|ni&s;h</HI> Army, being but open Dorps, Towres unfortified, and there informed of the former ill &s;ucce&s;&s;e, concluded of another way to compa&s;&s;e his de&s;igne. The Ca&s;tle was by his direction undermined in two &s;everal places, and that neer the <HI>A&s;ti&s;an</HI> Port was &s;prung, <HI>June</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">, more fortunately for the be&s;ieged, then the a&s;laylants, the&s;e being covered and &s;mothered with the earth, which fell upon them, tho&s;e having an halfmoon which defended the Ca&s;tle neer it, better fortified by a new mount of earth, rai&s;ed by the playing of that mine, then it had bin formerly.</P>
<P>Yet all this only deferred, prevented not the fate of the Citadell. A new a&s;&s;ault was concluded, and under|taken the next day, which though for that time was <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Agliano</HI> taken by the <HI>Spani|ards.</HI></NOTE> beaten off, with a notable lo&s;&s;e to the a&s;&s;ailants, &s;o abated both the &s;pirits, and number of the defendants, that within two dayes having then endured a &s;iege of thir|teen days, (begun with re&s;olution to ma&s;ter the Fort, and continued without ce&s;&s;ation of ho&s;tile oppo&s;ition) were compelled to condition for their lives, and the Commander and Officers being dimitted with their &s;words by their &s;ides, and the &s;ouldiers with white &s;taves, the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Marque&s;&s;e intending to demoli&s;h the Ca&s;tle which he had purcha&s;ed with the lo&s;&s;e of 3000 of his men, &s;lain and disbanded, that it might no more &s;teed the <HI>Savoyard</HI> his adver&s;ary.</P>
<P><HI>Gold may be bought too deare:</HI> &s;o was <HI>Agliamo,</HI> the Marque&s;&s;e after this prize, aymed at an higher pitch of Glory, but could not reach it, the wings of his Army by which he was to mount being clipped by the vali|ancy of the <HI>Savoyards,</HI> &amp; the Duke hanging like a plum|met at his heels, to pull him downwards when he was ri&s;ing. <HI>Albe</HI> was menaced with a &s;iege, but that was
<PB N="55" REF="35"> &s;trongly garri&s;oned with 3000 &s;ouldiers, and the Duke incamped him&s;elf with his &s;mall Army, neer the bridge <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Savoy,</HI> and the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Legauez</HI> en|camp neere each other.</NOTE> upon the <HI>Taner,</HI> to hinder the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Generall from ray&s;ing a banke again&s;t it: which cau&s;ed the Marque&s;&s;e about the end of <HI>Iune</HI> to retreat towards his own Pro|vince, the <HI>Millanez,</HI> pa&s;&s;ing the River under the &s;hel|ter of his Fort <HI>de Nom,</HI> and to incampe in a &s;mall field betwixt <HI>Ancona</HI> and <HI>A&s;ti,</HI> neere the <HI>Taner,</HI> labouring unce&s;&s;antly about his Trenches, to earth him&s;elf within &s;o &s;mall a di&s;tance of his Highne&s;&s;e, who&s;e little Army lay fortified in the wombe of its common mother, <HI>the Ground,</HI> that the Sentinels could parlee together, as they did frequently.</P>
<P><HI>Strength is not the only thing that makes a &s;ouldier vi|ctorious: He that carried a &s;peare like a Weavers beam, was vanqui&s;hed by a &s;tripling:</HI> pre&s;umption of the power of his brawny arms, was the bane of that &s;uperlatively &s;trong Crotoniate, and the Marque&s;&s;e his con&s;idence in the number, and force of his <HI>Cavallary,</HI> expo&s;ed his hor&s;men both to danger and damage. The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> hor&s;e it fir&s;t were enquartered without his Trenches, the Duke perceived how open they lay a&s;&s;aulted them, and forced them to &s;eek a more &s;ecure &s;tation. But what a&s;|&s;urance <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Marques his hor&s;es quartered without his trenches are expo&s;ed to da|mage.</NOTE> of &s;afety is there among&s;t the many turns, and doubtfull changes of warre? The ditches and mud|walled &s;tables whither they retreated, might &s;helter them from the <HI>Savoyards</HI> &s;word, but not from famine. Gra&s;&s;e did not grow in the new opened bowels of the earth, but upon the &s;urface, the bea&s;ts mu&s;t abroad to fetch in their forrage, or peri&s;h, and their Riders to pro|vide for them, made many incur&s;ions into <HI>Montferrat,</HI> whence they &s;till came &s;hort home, the Dukes <HI>Carabins</HI> which hee had planted there to guard that Province, cutting off the men, which adventured to get food for the Cattell.</P>
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<P> Hitherto the balls were but to&s;&s;ed, which afterwards came to be banded. The vigilant <HI>Spaniard</HI> lay clo&s;e at his defen&s;ive ward, &amp; would not offer to make a blow til he thought he might do it certainly, and &s;trike home: His Highne&s;&s;e (as it behoved him) was no le&s;&s;e caute|lous then his Enemy: Both lay upon their advantages, though with &s;ome difference of their ends, the <HI>Spa|niard</HI> ayming to winne ground from his Highne&s;&s;e, the Duke who all this while laboured only to &s;ecure his Do|minion from that forrain inva&s;ion.</P>
<P>The Marque&s;&s;e perceived that the Duke grew daily more and more &s;trong, and therupon imagined, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> all his Forces were generally drawne into the <HI>A&s;te&s;an,</HI> that the other part of the Country was unfurni&s;hed of men, and therfore &s;electing 4000 Foot, and 500 Hor&s;e, out of the mayn body of his army, &s;ent them with three <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Prince of <HI>Modena</HI> &s;ent into <HI>Langues,</HI></NOTE> peeces of Cannon, under the command of the Prince <HI>Bor&s;io</HI> of <HI>Modena</HI> to <HI>Langues,</HI> who razed <HI>Montbaldo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and <HI>Reccaveran</HI> whence the inhabitants were fled, and burnt all the Villages as farre as <HI>Courtenville,</HI> which was de&s;igned for the fire too, but bought its &s;afety with a &s;umme of money. The Prince finding &s;uch a naked Country &s;o farre, thought to finde all the re&s;t unprovl|ded both of men and munition, &s;ent back his Cannon, which he would not &s;tay to lugge after him, to make <NOTE PLACE="marg">Plundereth the territory.</NOTE> the more &s;peed, and in ha&s;te came before <HI>Salietto,</HI> which the inhabitants had for&s;aken, but was then (the day before the Princes comming) garri&s;oned with 150 <HI>Dragoons,</HI> by the provident care of his Highne&s;&s;e, who al&s;o commanded the whole Regiment of <HI>Senantes,</HI> which till then was laid in <HI>Albe,</HI> to march thither al&s;o, and to be a&s;&s;i&s;tant to that &s;mall Garri&s;on again&s;t the E|nemy. The proce&s;&s;e of all this was made known to the Prince <HI>B&oacute;r&s;io,</HI> who now mi&s;&s;ing the Canon, of which
<PB N="57" REF="36"> he had disburdened his Army, and being once repul&s;ed, when he intended to have &s;urprized the place by &s;cala|do, marched thence immediately again&s;t the Ca&s;tle <HI>Santa Iulia,</HI> which being defended but by 50 men, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Taketh in the Fort <HI>Santa Iulia.</HI></NOTE> undermined in two &s;everall places by the Prince his pioners, in the night was &s;urrendred the next day, be|fore that <HI>Senantes,</HI> who was ordered by the Duke to keep an eye upon the Prince his de&s;ignes, could ap|peare to his Friends with his auxiliary Forces. The Commi&s;&s;ion given to the <HI>Savoyard</HI> Colonell was to attend upon the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> and to impeach him, as much as might be, with the &s;ecurity of his Regiment, which was then only of 500 men, but not to adventure the hazard of a battaile, in regard of the di&s;parity betwixt his, and the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> forces. The Colonel ob&s;erved the di|rections to which he was limited, and concealing him|&s;elf from the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Campe, which lay about <HI>Santa Iulia,</HI> lodged him&s;elfe upon the top of a Mountain till <NOTE PLACE="marg">Where he en|campeth and is rai&s;ed by <HI>Se|nantes,</HI> a Colo|nell to the D. of <HI>Savoy.</HI></NOTE> midnight, when ri&s;ing &s;uddenly, he fell upon one of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> quarters unexpectedly, &s;lue above 200 men up|pon the place, took one Captain and &s;ome Officers, and &s;ouldiers, pri&s;oners of warre, and brought &s;uch a con|fu&s;ed amazement upon the whole <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Campe, that the Prince <HI>Bor&s;io</HI> di&s;camped pre&s;ently, and retired in &s;ome di&s;order, by the way of <HI>Cairo,</HI> being pur&s;ued three <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles by <HI>Senantes,</HI> who then returning met with another <HI>Savoyard</HI> Colonell <HI>Cerruto,</HI> who by or|der from his Highne&s;&s;e, joyned his troops to tho&s;e un|der <HI>Senantes,</HI> to &s;top the progre&s;&s;e of the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> if hee &s;hould hap to appeare againe in the parts there|about.</P>
<P><HI>Leganez</HI> in the <HI>interim,</HI> mployed him&s;elfe to build a Fort Royal at <HI>Rocca,</HI> point-blank again&s;t that at <HI>Anone,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Fort Royall built by <HI>Lega|nez</HI> at <HI>Rocca.</HI></NOTE> wherin he u&s;ed &s;uch diligence, that be&s;ides the great
<PB N="58" REF="37"> number of Pioners and Ma&s;ons, which he had mu&s;te|red out of the State of <HI>Millan,</HI> to that purpo&s;e, he or|dered two Companies of each Regiment to helpe the ordinary labourers in the &s;peedy rai&s;ing of that fortified building. He performed it happily, and was therby &s;e|cured again&s;t both the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Savoyards</HI> forces, the~ ready to joyn if he had not bin nece&s;&s;itated through want of forrage and victuals. The penury of his men, pinched them more, then the ho&s;tile actions of his ad|ver&s;ary. Many would faine have run away from their colours, if the wayes had been open for their &s;light, the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Leganez</HI> di&s;|campeth.</NOTE> Duke of <HI>Savoy</HI> perceived it, and ob&s;erving the old rule, that it is wi&s;dome to lay a bridge of gold for a flying Enemy, opened the pa&s;&s;ages to <HI>Montferrat,</HI> which be|fore were blocked up, relieved the Fugitives which fled from the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Campe, both with meat and money, and by this means did more &s;cath to <HI>Leganez,</HI> then hee could have done by all mights the Marque&s;&s;e &s;eeing his Army abated every day, and him&s;elfe vexed in his tren|ches, by the frequent a&s;&s;aults made by his Highne&s;&s;e di&s;|camping and retiring under the &s;afegard of his Forts towards the territory of <HI>Alexandria,</HI> relinqui&s;hing <HI>Piemont</HI> and <HI>Montferrat,</HI> when he had fortified <HI>Agli|ano,</HI> and <HI>Ni&s;&s;e de la Paille,</HI> lately gotten from the <HI>Sa|voyard.</HI></P>
<P>By this the <HI>French</HI> &s;uccours were come in, and one part of them under the Count <HI>de Verrue,</HI> was imployed to a&s;&s;i&s;t <HI>Cerruto</HI> &amp; <HI>Senantes,</HI> again&s;t the Prince of <HI>Mo|dena,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>French</HI> Army joynes with the D. of <HI>Savoy,</HI> who &s;ends a part therof again&s;t the Prince of <HI>Modena.</HI></NOTE> who with fire &amp; &s;word made havock in <HI>Langues</HI> and the other part under the <HI>French</HI> Generall, the Duke <HI>de Crequy,</HI> was tran&s;mitted to his Highne&s;&s;e, to attend upon the de&s;ignes of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Marque&s;&s;e. <HI>Verrue</HI> per|formed his charge &s;o well, that he cha&s;ed <HI>Bor&s;io</HI> out of <HI>Langues,</HI> became ma&s;ter of the Towne and Ca&s;tle of
<PB N="59" REF="37"> <HI>Carchere,</HI> (a place of much importance, being the pa&s;|&s;age from <HI>Piemout</HI> to <HI>Genoa,</HI> and <HI>Rome,</HI> by which the <HI>French Curriers</HI> could not formerly pa&s;&s;e without much perill) having fir&s;t &s;urprized the greate&s;t part of that Garri&s;on in the open field, put the one half to the &s;word, the remaynder flying to the Mountains for their pre&s;er|vation, and afterwards be&s;ieged <HI>Cairo,</HI> a place of &s;trength in <HI>Langues.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;ervice done by the Count and his a&s;&s;i&s;tants, <HI>Ca|&s;telan,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cairo</HI> be&s;ieged by <HI>Verrue.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Cerruto</HI> and <HI>Seuantes,</HI> was no le&s;&s;e offen&s;ive to the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> then gratefull to the Chri&s;tian King, and the Duke his Con&s;ederate, <HI>Leganez</HI> to divert <HI>Verrue</HI> from pro&s;equuting the &s;iege of <HI>Cayre,</HI> brought his forces out of the territory of <HI>Alexandria,</HI> over the <HI>Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> into the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Legenez</HI> to di|vert him, in|vades <HI>Vercel|lois.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Vercellois,</HI> and burned certain Villages there, thinking to compell the Duke of <HI>Savoy</HI> to recall <HI>Verrue</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t him with the <HI>French</HI> troops, and &s;o make him leave off the &s;iege which he had happily begun, and was like to fini&s;h fortunately.</P>
<P>But the project took not, <HI>Verrue</HI> took in the place &amp; &s;tirred not till he had done it. His Highne&s;&s;e was ma|turely advi&s;ed of the Marque&s;&s;es march and purpo&s;e, and would not revoke the order he had given the <HI>Count de</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">But his project takes not.</NOTE> <HI>Verrue,</HI> thinking him&s;elf &s;trong enough (being now re|enforced with the re&s;t of the <HI>French</HI> troops) to meet the enemie in <HI>Campania,</HI> but pre&s;ently &s;ent the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Piane&s;&s;a,</HI> to mu&s;ter up all the <HI>Cavallary</HI> neere <HI>Vercelle,</HI> and to enquarter them in &s;uch a place, where hee might mo&s;t conveniently intangle the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> forces, and &s;tay them in their full careere: him&s;elfe in the mean time vi|&s;iting the territories of <HI>Verrue, Cre&s;&s;entin,</HI> and <HI>Trin,</HI> and lodging that night neere the bridge at <HI>Sture;</HI> His &s;tay there mini&s;tred an occa&s;ion of a combat betwixt his and the <HI>French</HI> united forces&punc; and the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> army, under
<PB N="60" REF="38"> <HI>Don Martino de Arragon, Tiberio</HI> of <HI>Naples, Lucio Boc|capiana, Don Giovanni Cavalla</HI> the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Camp-ma&s;ter, the Count <HI>Bolognino</HI> Lievtenant Generall of the Infan|tery, <HI>Don Fedro</HI> Commi&s;&s;ary Generall of the <HI>Cavallary, Spaden</HI> and other Officers. It was thus! At <HI>Sture</HI> his Highnes was informed, that the&s;e <HI>Spani&s;h Cavalliers</HI> with one part of the Army, had order to ravage the Lands of the Prince of <HI>Ma&s;&s;eran,</HI> upon whom they meant to a|venge them&s;elves, becau&s;e that he the yeere la&s;t pa&s;t had driven them out of <HI>Crev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">oeur</HI> which they had unju&s;tly detained from him, and afterwards to make an inva&s;i|on into the <HI>Ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">lois;</HI> where they meant to plunder the Country, as they had done the <HI>A&s;te&s;an,</HI> and the <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;el|lois,</HI> and to prevent them; he di&s;patched the Marque&s;&s;e <HI>&V;illa,</HI> Generall of his Hor&s;e and Field-mar&s;hall of the Chri&s;tian Kings Army to go and joyn &s;ome companies of Hor&s;e with tho&s;e under the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Piane&s;&s;a</HI> about <HI>Ver&s;elle,</HI> and take an opportunity to fight with the <NOTE PLACE="marg">A battaile be|twixt the Mar|que&s;&s;e <HI>&V;ille,</HI> &amp; the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> forces neer <HI>Ce&s;ia.</HI></NOTE> Enemy. The Marque&s;&s;e followed his direction, and par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ing from the Campe then at <HI>Morani, Iuly</HI> 21, <HI>Au|gu&s;t</HI> 1, with his troops making about 1300 Hor&s;e, at|tained to <HI>Ver&s;elli</HI> about 11 of the clock, where he under|&s;tood, that one part of the Enemy was already pa&s;&s;ed over the River of <HI>Ce&s;ia,</HI> having carried away out of the <HI>Ver&s;ellois</HI> a booty of cattell, and taken pri&s;oner the Cap|tain <HI>E&s;prit,</HI> Lievtenant of the <HI>Carabins,</HI> of <HI>Don Carlo,</HI> as he was &s;couring that Country with 20 of his men, five wherof they flue, and cau&s;ed the re&s;t to flie. The report &s;tartled the Marque&s;&s;e, who &s;eeing &s;ome other <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> troops upon the further banke of the River, made over the &s;tream toward them with his <HI>Cavallary,</HI> and &s;o af|frighted them, that they pre&s;ently fled, &amp; &s;heltred them|&s;elves behind the Fort of <HI>Doval,</HI> whither the Marque&s;&s;e would not follow them, the Cannons being planted a|gain&s;t
<PB N="61" REF="38"> his Army, and the Mu&s;quetiers being ready to di&s;charge upon him from the Fort, but returned toward the River, where hee was &s;carce arrived, but he perceived (within an houre) &s;ome troops of <HI>Spa|ni&s;h</HI> Hor&s;e, making in all about 1500, marching toward <NOTE PLACE="marg">Begun by a light skirmi&s;h.</NOTE> him with a prety hand-gallop, as prepared to fight with him who &s;tood ready to entertain them. The com|bat began in a light skirmi&s;h betwixt the conjoyned <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Piemontain Dragoons</HI> and <HI>Carrabins,</HI> and tho&s;e of the Enemy, but la&s;ted not long, being broken off, by the comming in of a new Squadron of <HI>French</HI> Hor&s;e, which charged this Avantguard of the Spani&s;h Army &s;o furiou&s;ly, that they were pre&s;ently routed, and put to flight. The Spani&s;h Battalia &s;tood whole &s;till, whither the Avantguard &s;led, and were rallied to renew <NOTE PLACE="marg">Comes to a pitcht battail, which a while continued doubtfull,</NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> fre&s;h combat, which la&s;ted doubtfull on both &s;ides, till the Squadron of <HI>Souvray</HI> breaking in among&s;t the midde&s;t of the <HI>Spaniards</HI> broke their ranks, and defeated them intirely, having &s;lain betwixt three and four hun|dred upon the place, and taken as many pri&s;oners, the mo&s;t of them Officers, and men of quality. Among&s;t the dead were found <HI>Lucio Boccapiana,</HI> Camp-ma&s;ter, one Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Davie,</HI> the Lievtenant of the Colonell <HI>Sehic;</HI> the Provo&s;t Mar&s;hall of the <HI>German</HI> Forces; two Lievtenants, three Cornets, and many other Officers which are unknown. <HI>Don Martino</HI> of <HI>Arragon</HI> e&s;ca|ped hardly, his hor&s;e being &s;laine under him, and hee beaten to the ground: <HI>Don Antonio</HI> Nephew to the Count of <HI>Montery</HI> Viceroy of <HI>Naples, Spadin</HI> and many other <NOTE PLACE="marg">Yet in the end the <HI>French</HI> get the victory.</NOTE> Officers and men of quality being taken pri&s;oners.</P>
<P>During the time of this combat, the Count <HI>&V;errue</HI> took in the City of <HI>Cairo,</HI> and went from thence to be|&s;lege <HI>Larocca</HI> neer <HI>A&s;ti:</HI> lately fortified by <HI>Leganez,</HI> in the time of his abode there. The Marque&s;&s;e had then a
<PB N="62" REF="39"> time of &s;orrows which thronged together upon him. A Currier came from <HI>Spain</HI> with unwelcome news of his wives death, &s;i&s;ter to the Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Spinola,</HI> and another with a report of a new Succe&s;&s;or into his Government, yet neither of the&s;e did &s;o much trouble him as the &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e and hopefull progre&s;&s;e of the united <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Piemontain</HI> Armies; the fir&s;t hee knew to be a debt to Nature, and it did not trouble him, the other he thought might be fal&s;e and rai&s;ed by the malice of &s;ome of his enemies in Court, or, if true, yet he would take care to di&s;charge his Office con&s;cionably, and comfort him|&s;elfe in the true account, he &s;hould make to the Catho|like King. <HI>La Rocca</HI> was be&s;ieged, and he encouraged <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>La Rocca</HI> be|&s;ieged by the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Piemontains.</HI></NOTE> the defendants to hold out manfully, promi&s;ing to re|lieve them as &s;oon as he might conveniently. The de|fendants behaved them&s;elves manfully, being animated by the daily intelligence they received from their a&s;&s;oci|ates, by the favour of a Hill upon the bank of <HI>Taner,</HI> and the <HI>French</HI> Generall to debarre them of that conference, commanded the Colonell <HI>Dallot</HI> to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him&s;elfe of that place: it was a worke of difficultie and danger, the Mu&s;quetadoes played upon him from within, and the appointed &s;uccours with&s;tood his way without, yet he performed it with as much happine&s;&s;e as valour.</P>
<P>It was a work full of hazard, yet his indu&s;try joyned with Fortune overcame it, with much difficulty he en|trenched him&s;elfe neere the palli&s;adoes of the be&s;ieged, foure days together endured the &s;allies of the Garri&s;on, and the a&s;&s;aults of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Campe, both which ha|ving <NOTE PLACE="marg">A notable ex|ploit done by <HI>Dallot</HI> a <HI>French</HI> Colonell.</NOTE> the benefit of a Mill, where the Enemy had flan|cout'd him&s;elfe, and a woodden bridge laid over the River for their mutuall corre&s;pondence. <HI>Dallot</HI> re&s;olved to burn them both, &amp; to that end putting off his clothes him&s;elfe, his brother, and two other &s;ouldiers good
<PB N="63" REF="39"> &s;wimmers ca&s;t them&s;elves into the River in the view of the Enemy, who played upon them with their Mu&s;|quets, but hit them not, Fortune &s;o favouring them, that they broke downe the doores of the Mill with the pickaxes which they carried in their belts, and burnt both that and the bridge with the balls of fire which they had in their hands, and left not the water until they &s;aw them both con&s;umed into a&s;hes. The Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Leganez</HI> (conjecturing at the i&s;&s;ue of this adven|ture) <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Leganiz</HI> &s;end|eth <HI>Don Marti|no</HI> to relieve <HI>la Rocca.</HI></NOTE> began to feare that <HI>la Rocca</HI> could not hold out, and therupon di&s;camping, returned into the State of <HI>Millan,</HI> where he drew out &s;even Regiments of foot, and 2000 Hor&s;e from his Army, and &s;ent them under the conduct of the Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Don Martin, d' Arragon</HI> to relieve it. His Highne&s;&s;e had notice of his march, and followed him. His &s;peedy pur&s;uit after him brought him upon the Vantguard of <HI>Don Martin,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of 200 <HI>Dragoons</HI> and <HI>Carrabines,</HI> whom hee a&s;&s;aulted &s;o roughly, that he &s;lue and wounded mo&s;t part of them, and put the re&s;t to flight. The i&s;&s;ue made the <HI>Spani&s;h Don</HI> to give over his de&s;igne, till <HI>Leganez</HI> with the main body of his Army might come in to his &s;uccour. The Marque&s;&s;e had &s;peedy intelligence of what had pa&s;&s;ed, and as &s;peedily came up to him, encamped upon the banke of <HI>Taner,</HI> with four peeces of Canon to impeach the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Piemountain</HI> Armies, who had pitched their Campe upon the declining of the Hill neer the ri|ver. <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Vantguard &s;urprized. <HI>Legonez</HI> bring|eth his whole Army again&s;t the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Piemontains.</HI></NOTE> In fine, the Canons began to play on both &s;ides, &amp; thence (the Battalia's drawing neerer each other) the &s;mall &s;hot began to flie, and was &s;pent &s;o effectually, that for a time both &s;ides appeared lo&s;ers, and neither could promi&s;e it &s;elfe a victory. Both Commanders and ordinary men fell down dead in both the Armies, till the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> a little declining the battaile, if either party
<PB N="64" REF="40"> was the gainer, it is thought to be the <HI>Savoyards</HI> Army. Many of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Chieftains fell that day, among <NOTE PLACE="marg">A battel with|out vi ctory.</NOTE> which was a yonger brother of the Prince <HI>Bor&s;io de Modenn,</HI> the certain number of the common men is not known, only 600 dead corp&s;es were reported by the pri&s;oners to be tumbled into the River, and thirty waggons loaden with the carca&s;&s;es of the principall men which were &s;laine, and &s;ome wounded &s;ouldiers were knowne to be &s;ent to <HI>Alexandria.</HI> Nor could the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Piemontain</HI> army glory of this conque&s;t, it co&s;t them deare, the lives of many of their Officers and Souldiers, nor did the lo&s;&s;e of the <HI>Spaniard</HI> do him &s;o much prejudice, but that by the helpe of his Canon at <HI>Annona,</HI> and &s;ome companies of Mu&s;quetiers (whom he afterwards &s;ent to guard the River) hee laid in 600 <NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;iege of <HI>la Rocca</HI> rai&s;ed.</NOTE> fre&s;h men into <HI>la Rocca,</HI> who defended them&s;elves &s;o bravely, that at la&s;t the &s;iege was rai&s;ed, and the Duke of <HI>Savoy</HI> was forced to depart without a Conque&s;t.</P>
<P>A victory &s;oon after attended him, the <HI>French</HI> Fleet &s;omewhat affrighted all the Sea-townes of <HI>Italy,</HI> and the Governour of <HI>Millam</HI> to &s;ecure the Catholique Kings townes upon the Sea-coa&s;t of <HI>Montferrat, Sep|tember</HI> the &s;econd new &s;tile, drew out of his army 7000 footmen, <HI>Almayus, Spaniards,</HI> and <HI>Italians,</HI> &s;ix Squa|drons of hor&s;e, and &s;ome companies of Harquebuzen hor&s;men, who under the command of the Prince of <HI>Modena, Don Martin d' Arragon,</HI> and <HI>Gildas</HI> with Can|non, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The victory gotten by the D. of <HI>Savoy</HI> at <HI>Monbaldon.</HI></NOTE> Petards, Bombards, and Morterers had order to pa&s;&s;e through <HI>Languez</HI> towards the Sea-coa&s;t, and, by the way to &s;elze upon the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Cengio,</HI> a place which his Highne&s;&s;e of <HI>Savoy</HI> had lately fortified. The Duke was informed of the Enemy his de&s;igne, and to overtake him <HI>September</HI> the fourth new &s;tile, advanced as farre as <HI>Salycotte,</HI> within a league and halfe of <HI>Cengio,</HI>
<PB N="65" REF="40"> where under&s;tanding, that the <HI>Spaniards</HI> (upon the re|port of his arrival, and becau&s;e they found <HI>Cengio</HI> newly reen forced with a garri&s;on of 200 men) were returning the way they came, he made after them, overtook them neere <HI>Mombaldon</HI> and the Valley of <HI>Espin</HI> upon the banke of <HI>Bor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">io</HI> gave them battail, <HI>September</HI> the eighth new &s;tile, and obtained &s;uch a victory, that of tho&s;e 7000 Foot, and 1200 Hor&s;e, not above 2000 e&s;caped, the re&s;t being &s;lain, or di&s;per&s;ed upon the Mountains, where the Pea&s;ants of the Country pur&s;ued them with all ho&s;til<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">y, and &s;lue as many as they found. Be&s;ides the lo&s;&s;e of men 40 waggons loadeh with baggage, and 30 with amunition became a prey to the united Armies of <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Savoy,</HI> to the great weakning of <HI>Leganez</HI> his Army, who to re-enforce it returned into the <HI>Mil|lanez,</HI> and commanded each Family to &s;upply him with a man.</P>
<P>The news of this victory ecchoed through <HI>Savoy</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> the Marque&s;&s;e of Saint <HI>German,</HI> Ma&s;ter of the Wardrobe to his Highne&s;&s;e, was &s;ent to the Chri&s;tian King with tydings of that &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and was there en|tertained with &s;uch &s;tate as became his per&s;on &amp; office, <HI>Thur in</HI> re-ecchoed with the prai&s;es of the Duke, to who&s;e vigi&s;ancy they a&s;cribed this Fortune, and the in|habitants had made bon-fires of joy, had not this For|reigne happine&s;&s;e been over-clouded with &s;ome &s;orrow at home. The Duche&s;se and her &s;econd &s;onne the Prince <HI>Emanuel</HI> were both &s;ick; and their maladies made the Citizens to &s;ympathize of their griefe. The Duke was informed of the &s;tate of his Duche&s;&s;e, and po&s;ted from the Campe to vi&s;it her, where after two days &s;tay finding her recovered, hee returned into the <HI>A&s;te&s;an</HI> to the Duke of <HI>Crequy,</HI> the Lord of <HI>Emry</HI> Emba&s;sadour to his Maje&s;tie of <HI>France,</HI> and the other Commanders, to
<PB N="66" REF="41"> advi&s;e about the further proceedings of his Army. A Councell was called, neer the River <HI>Ce&s;ia,</HI> and the Duke (though known to be &s;age in Coun&s;ell, both for warre and peace) then &s;eemed to out-&s;trip him&s;elf, when &s;ud|denly a Collick pa&s;&s;ion tooke him, which fir&s;t chang|ing <NOTE PLACE="marg">The death of the Duke of <HI>Savoy.</HI></NOTE> into a &s;ingle Tertian, and afterwards into a double, accompanied with &s;ome malignity, held him 11 days, till nature being overcome by the di&s;ea&s;e, there follow|ed a &s;eparation of &s;oule and body in the one and fiftieth yeer of his age: A Prince hee was doubtle&s;&s;e of a great &s;pirit, wi&s;e in policy, valiant and painfull in warre, and in demon&s;trance of his affection to the Crowne of <HI>France,</HI> and his Duche&s;&s;e a &s;i&s;ter thereof, made her protectre&s;&s;e of his Children, and Regent of the State.</P>
<P>The Chri&s;tian King (as ill news hath &s;wift wings) had &s;peedier notice of the death of his brother in Law, than he had of the late victory, and to &s;hew that his love was permanent after his death (according to the cu&s;tome of <NOTE PLACE="marg">The King of <HI>France</HI> cau&s;eth the Ma&s;ter of the Ceremo|nies</NOTE> the <HI>Roman</HI> Church) gave order for a &s;olemne <HI>Requiem,</HI> and a Dirge to be held in the Cathedrall at <HI>Paris</HI> with all &s;olemnity. To this purpo&s;e, <HI>Le Sieur de Sainct tot,</HI> Ma&s;ter of the Ceremonies had order to command the Parliament and other Soveraigne Courts, the Provo&s;t of the Merchants and Sheriffs, the Rector and Scholars of the Vniver&s;ity of <HI>Paris</HI> to &s;uffragate at the Prayers and Service which his Maje&s;ty had appointed in the Cathedrall of that City, giving him a Commi&s;&s;ion to that purpo&s;e, dated at Saint <HI>Germans, October</HI> 14/24. The Ma&s;ter of the Ceremonies, according to his warrant the 16/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">6, of the &s;ame moneth, in the Robes of his Office, <NOTE PLACE="marg">To proclaime an Office for his &s;oule.</NOTE> with a &s;quare Cap upon his head clothed in a mourning Gown, with a train of four ells long, carried by foure Gentlemen, accompanied with three Heralds of Arms,
<PB N="67" REF="41"> bearing in their hands their &s;taves of Office, which were garni&s;hed with &s;lowre de Luces, then covered with Cypre&s;le, inve&s;ted al&s;o in long black Robes, upon which they had their ordinary Coats of Velvet em|broydered with &s;lowre de Luces, and attended with 23 ordinary Cryers of <HI>Paris,</HI> in mourning Gownes, each carrying before and behind him an E&s;cutchion of the Dukes Armes, they made this Proclamation.</P>
<P>All Nobles and devout per&s;ons pray for the &s;oul of the mo&s;t excellent and mo&s;t pui&s;&s;ant Prince, <HI>Victor Amady</HI> by the grace of God Duke of <HI>Savoy, Chablais, Augu|&s;ta,</HI> and <HI>Geneva,</HI> Prince and perpetuall Vicar of the &s;a|cred <HI>Roman</HI> Empire, Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Saleuce&s;&s;e, Nizze,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Procla|mation con|taining the Dukes titles, &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>Romaut</HI> and <HI>A&s;ti, Banes,</HI> and <HI>Favoigni,</HI> Lord of <HI>Ver|&s;ellei,</HI> of the Marque&s;ate of <HI>Seva,</HI> and <HI>Doviola</HI> late de|cea&s;ed, for who&s;e &s;oul the King hath appointed Prayers and Service in the great Church of <HI>Paris,</HI> at which place, on Wedne&s;day next in the afternoon, &s;hall be &s;aid the Ve&s;pers and Vigils for the dead, to continue untill ten of the clock upon Thur&s;day morning.</P>
<P>Wedne&s;day the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">8, the Courts and incorporated bo|dies a&s;&s;embled in the &s;aid Church, the train band of the City having worke enough to make way for them through the pre&s;&s;e of people, which was &s;o great that the Church doores were forced to be kept &s;hut for the &s;pace of an houre, that time being &s;pent to &s;etch in the Kings order for tho&s;e Ve&s;pers and Vigils, which were &s;aid by the Deane, Chanter, and Canons in a dolefull tune agreeable to that mournfull action without &s;ound of Mu&s;ique in the Quire of the &s;aid Cathedrall. The Quire was hung round with five &s;everall rowes of <NOTE PLACE="marg">The manner of the &s;ervice with all Ce|remonies.</NOTE> black cloth, and two of Velvet, be&s;ides the benches, &s;eats, chairs, and pews, which were covered as the high Altar, and the ground &s;pread with black cloth. The bo|dy
<PB N="68" REF="42"> of the Church was &s;o great, that thou&s;ands of men there would have &s;eemed but a &s;mall number, yet that <NOTE PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t days &s;ervice.</NOTE> was hung round with two rowes of black cloth, and one of Velvet to the great doore of the Church which was hanged double, as was that al&s;o which led to the Archbi&s;hops Palace by a pair of winding &s;taires which were covered with blacke, as were the two Halls of the Palace both prepared for the receit of that com|pany.</P>
<P>This was the fir&s;t days work, the next morning be|tween eight and nine, the &s;ame a&s;&s;embly met to attend the three yong Princes of <HI>Nemours,</HI> the chief Mourners, who expected them in the Palace Hall, robed in black <NOTE PLACE="marg">The office for the &s;econd day</NOTE> Gowns with long trains each of &s;ix els apiece born up by the Gentlemen. The Ma&s;ter of the Ceremonies thence conducted them into the <HI>Quire,</HI> having three Heralds going before him attended with their King at Armes, before whom marched the 23 Cryers in the &s;ame habit as they had done the day before, and among them 100 poore men in mourning Gowns and Hoods, each carrying a lighted torch garni&s;hed with his de|cea&s;ed Highne&s;&s;e his Armes, and before all the&s;e the train band of the City, having work enough to keepe off the multitude, who&s;e curio&s;ity had drawne them thither in &s;uch troups, that they pe&s;tered the way, and hindred the Mourners, who were to attend the Ser|vice and the Quire whither they came at la&s;t, and there abode four houres together. In a Gallery above them, were placed the Officers of the Chamber of Accompts, the Court of Aids, and the Corporation of the City. Oppo&s;ite to them on the other &s;ide, &s;tood the prime Pre&s;ident the Duke of <HI>Montba&s;on,</HI> the Coun&s;ellours of the Court, and the Rector of the Vniver&s;ity attended with eight Beadles with their &s;ilver Maces covered
<PB N="69" REF="42"> with Cypre&s;&s;e, which filled the lower end of the Quire. The Queen was &s;eated where &s;he might &s;ee all and not be &s;een. <HI>Madamo&s;ella</HI> and the prince&s;&s;e of <HI>Condy</HI> for their better conveniency were placed in the Archbi|&s;hop's &s;eat, he being then ab&s;ent. The Popes Ordinary <HI>Nuncio</HI> was &s;eated on a bench at the &s;ide of the Altar, and the <HI>Venetian</HI> Emba&s;&s;adour by him, the Emba&s;&s;ador of <HI>Savoy</HI> being not able to attend by rea&s;on of the in|di&s;po&s;ition of his body, many Bi&s;hops in their ordinary habits being &s;eated on a bench at the great doore of the Quire, and the re&s;t of the &s;pace filled with people of all conditions and &s;exes.</P>
<P>The Office was performed by <HI>Routhiller,</HI> coadjutor to the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Tours,</HI> who with <HI>de la Barde</HI> a <NOTE PLACE="marg">With all the particular Ce|remonies.</NOTE> Canon of the Cathedrall, which a&s;&s;i&s;ted him in black Velvet Copes, garni&s;hed with the Armes of the decea|&s;ed Duke, celebrated Ma&s;&s;e before the great Altar of the Quire, which was adorned with many white wax tapers burning and garni&s;hed with double E&s;cutchions of <HI>Or</HI> and <HI>Argent.</HI> At the &s;ide of the &s;aid Altar, a Cup|board was erected in forme of another Altar, garni&s;hed with foure great Candle&s;ticks, one Cro&s;&s;e, and the &s;a|cred Ve&s;&s;els required for that &s;ervice, all of &s;ilver en|graven. The Archbi&s;hop officiating. <HI>Le Sieur des Ro|ches,</HI> Secretary to the Cardinall Duke, Chanter and Canon of the &s;aid Church, and his Sub-chanter held a Quire by the &s;ide of the burning Chappell, which was of 1 a foot long and 10 wide, compo&s;ed of nine pillars charged with double cro&s;&s;e-bars, upon which were &s;et 800 great Lights of yellow wax.</P>
<P>Vnder the middle of the roofe was an Her&s;e repre|&s;enting the body of the Duke, covered with cloth of gold, quartered by a Cro&s;&s;e of white Sattin, adorned with foure great Scutcheons bearing the Armes of the
<PB N="70" REF="43"> decea&s;ed Duke, in a broydery of <HI>Or</HI> and <HI>Argent,</HI> and about it &s;tood &s;ix great Candle&s;ticks of &s;ilver gilt, gar|ni&s;hed with great white waxe lights, and double Scut|chions of the &s;ame bearing. The foure Heralds of Arms were &s;eated upon four low-&s;tools, at the foure corners of the <HI>Capella Ardente,</HI> towards the head of the repre|&s;entative Her&s;e, betwixt the two chiefe Heralds &s;tood an holy-water-pot of &s;ilver covered with blacke, and neer that were laid two cu&s;hions of black Velvet. At the feet of the Her&s;e towards the Altar betwixt the two la&s;t Heralds, there was an other le&s;&s;er Altar, and upon that foure Candle&s;ticks, and a Cro&s;&s;e of carved &s;ilver. Vpon the head of the Her&s;e, there &s;tood a pillow of black Velvet, upon which was placed a Dukes Crown, covered with black Cypre&s;&s;e. The foure Se&s;&s;es, which made the towre of the <HI>Capella Ardente,</HI> were covered with cloth, and black Velvet, garni&s;hed with four great Scutcheons of the &s;ame bearing, woven with <HI>Or</HI> and <HI>Argent,</HI> the re&s;t being powdered with many other le&s;|&s;er Armes. Be&s;ides the other lights, the place de&s;igned for the Chori&s;ters was hanged, with three rowes of cloth, and two of black Velvet; all which were gar|ni&s;hed with great lights, and double Scutcheons. About the Arches and Galleries of the body of the Church and Quire, 1200 great lights were blazing: So that in all, during the Service, which was performed with an ex|cellent harmony of Mu&s;ique, by the Chaunters, Chap|lains, and Chori&s;ters, no le&s;&s;e then 3000 wax Tapers were &s;een burning. In the time of the Liturgy, the three yong Princes of <HI>Nemours,</HI> made their offering, and pre&s;ented each one, a white waxe Candle: the fir&s;t offered one garni&s;hed with foure Scutcheons of <HI>Or,</HI> the &s;econd of three, and the third of two, which were gi|ven them by the Ma&s;ter of the Ceremonies, for the &s;ame
<PB N="71" REF="43"> purpo&s;e. Then the <HI>Sieur</HI> of <HI>Liugendres,</HI> placed in the Chanters &s;eat, made an Oration &s;it for the time, in ho|nour of the Princes honour, contayning a relation of his acts in his life and pious death.</P>
<P>The Funerall Oration done, the &s;ervice was conti|nued: after the elevation of the holy Sacrament, foure torches of white wax, were carried by four Mourners clothed in black without Hoods, &amp; in the end the three yong Lords, thanking the company, with an accu&s;to|med reverence, their devotions being done upon their knees, when they had ca&s;t &s;ome holy-water upon the Her&s;e, as did all the re&s;t of quality, depart each man to his own place.</P>
<P>The Duke is dead,
<Q><L>At non ille ferox qui &s;e jactavit Iberus,</L>
<L>Nec &s;celerata manus Catilinae&mdash;</L></Q> he neither fell immaturely by the hand of the <HI>Titans,</HI> the men of warre his Enemies, nor by clande&s;tine trea|&s;ons of a <HI>Iaques Clement,</HI> or <HI>Ravilliack,</HI> the bloudy practices of murdrous A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inates, but &s;ubmitted to Fate, &s;ickne&s;&s;e the Harbinger of death, prepared his way, and he traced it: two of his &s;ubjects <HI>Capuchins,</HI> of that order which in his life, he mo&s;t re&s;pected, attended upon him in his death, the thred of their lives being cut off by the violence, and malice of &s;ome impious <HI>Jews,</HI> for profe&s;&s;ing the Name of Chri&s;t, the Divine Power having &s;o ordered it, that he would not want a cleer witne&s;&s;e again&s;t that ob&s;tinate people, in the duskine&s;&s;e of the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Chri&s;tian Religion. The &s;tory is thus delivered from <HI>Lions, Chambery,</HI> and <HI>Roven.</HI></P>
<P>There was dwelling at <HI>Carrieu</HI> in <HI>Piemont</HI> a <HI>Iew</HI> named <HI>Macohabe,</HI> aged above 60 yeers, and &s;o weal|thy,
<PB N="72" REF="44"> that he maintained a Family of 12 Males, and nine Females, and in the&s;e late warres betwixt the Duke of of <HI>Savoy</HI> and the State of <HI>Millain,</HI> had furni&s;hed his Highne&s;&s;e with above 12000 Duckets. Hee had a Nephew called <HI>Iacob Rabby,</HI> who had &s;ome com|mence with the Chri&s;tians, which de&s;iring his conver|&s;ion, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Two <HI>Copuchins</HI> murdered by a <HI>Iew</HI> at <HI>Car|riew.</HI></NOTE> with much entreaty per&s;waded him to hear a Ser|mon made by a <HI>Capuchin</HI> in Lent la&s;t at <HI>Carriew.</HI> The Argument of the Sermon was that Ie&s;us the Saviour of the world was already come into the world in humane fle&s;h, born of an immaculate Virgin by the operation of the Holy Gho&s;t, and that there was no other Prophet to be longer expected in <HI>I&s;rael;</HI> which being proved and explained by the Propheticall Scriptures, cau&s;ed the young <HI>Jew</HI> to &s;earch more narrowly into that my|&s;tery, which had &s;o long bin concealed from him, and (being aftewards confirmed in the truth by private conference) to renounce his Iudai&s;me, and to de&s;ire Bapti&s;me for his initiation into Chri&s;tianity. <HI>Maccabe</HI> his Vncle hearing of his conver&s;ion, &s;welled with de|&s;pight and rage again&s;t the <HI>Capuchins,</HI> vowing to be a|venged of that order, and as many Chri&s;tian &s;oules, as he could meet withall conveniently. The forenamed Friars fell into his hands, and were made the Anvils of his malicious mi&s;chief. By command from their &s;upe|riour, they were &s;ent upon a journey, and belated upon the way, met ca&s;ually with the old Wolvi&s;h <HI>Iew,</HI> who foreca&s;ting how to glut him&s;elf with their bloud, cun|ningly invites them to take a lodging at his hou&s;e, pro|mi&s;eth a faire and kinde welcome, which they being wearied, and benighted did not refu&s;e, but they were no &s;ooner entred into the hou&s;e of the per&s;idious <HI>Jew,</HI> but &s;traight the doores were made fa&s;t, and they were environed with the whole Family, which entertained
<PB N="73" REF="44"> them with words of de&s;pight, calling them Apo&s;tataes, &s;aying, that the <HI>Me&s;&s;ias</HI> of the <HI>Iewes</HI> would come, and put the Chri&s;tians to confu&s;ion, and adding horrid bla&s;phemies again&s;t our Saviour, bound the poor &s;ouls, hands, and feet, beat them with cudgels, threatning torment upon torment, unle&s;&s;e they would confe&s;&s;e the ble&s;&s;ed Virgin to have bin a common pro&s;titute. It could not but grate the eares of any Chri&s;tian, to heare tho&s;e execrable words, the <HI>Capuchins</HI> would not have heard them &s;poken, much le&s;&s;e utter them, but comfor|ting each other by mutuall encouragements, they pre|pared to receive their Martyrdome &s;till mayntaining the fundamentall point, and hing of &s;alvation, till the <HI>Iews</HI> grown mad with rage at their con&s;tant re&s;olution fir&s;t cut out their tongues, and then &s;tabd them to death with knives in many parts of the body &s;ucce&s;&s;ive|ly <HI>(Michaey</HI> fir&s;t, and <HI>Seraphino</HI> afterwards, and then carried them in their habits into a dark Vault, thinking to conceal this horrid murder.</P>
<P>But the bloud of the Friers cried to Heaven, and that ju&s;tice, which will not permit &s;uch haynous &s;ins to go <NOTE PLACE="marg">The murder di&s;covered.</NOTE> unpuni&s;hed, made it known by the tongue of a <HI>Iewi&s;h</HI> childe, of eight or nine years of age, which playing with the Chri&s;tian children in the &s;treet the next morning, told how <HI>Macabe</HI> had a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inated two <HI>Franci&s;cans,</HI> &amp; hid their carca&s;&s;es. The words of the child, cau&s;ed this truth to be &s;u&s;pected among&s;t the inhabitants, who &s;ee|ing the Friers go into the <HI>Iews</HI> hou&s;e, and not hearing of their return, came together, forced open his gates, &s;earched for their bodies, and found them as the child had told, and therupon apprehended the whole Fami|ly, the child only excepted, and the Actors by &s;entence <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Iews</HI> con|demned and executed.</NOTE> of the Senate at <HI>Turin</HI> were all burned alive, <HI>Octob.</HI> 2. 12, their goods con&s;i&s;cate, the one part to the u&s;e of
<PB N="74" REF="45"> the Duche&s;&s;e Regent, and the other to the child which revealed the murder, and turned Chri&s;tian, and recei|ved Bapti&s;me.</P>
<P>The Fabrick of the State of <HI>Italy</HI> did &s;eeme to totter this la&s;t Summer, the great Bi&s;hop was twice &s;truck <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Popes &s;ickne&s;&s;e and recovery.</NOTE> with a pal&s;ie, and the Cardinall <HI>Barberino</HI> his Nephew, by his appointment governed as a Vice-pope during his weakne&s;&s;e, to the grievance of the whole Conclave, The Cardinall of <HI>Savoy</HI> Comprotector of <HI>Spain,</HI> and <HI>de Medicis,</HI> &s;uppo&s;ing his &s;ickne&s;&s;e mortall, laboured to promote the Cardinall <HI>San&s;i&s;to</HI> to the Papacy, but <HI>&V;r|ban</HI> recovered, was informed of each particular, which had hapned, a&s;&s;embled the Conclave created eleven new Cardinals, and yet liveth, <HI>San&s;i&s;to</HI> which was de|&s;igned for his &s;ucce&s;&s;or being dead before him. The Fa|mily of the Dukes <HI>de Mirandola,</HI> is quite extingui&s;hed, their was but one le&s;t of that name, and he an illegiti|mate, who having obtained by the interce&s;&s;ion of his <NOTE PLACE="marg">The death of the Dukes of <HI>Mirandula</HI> and <HI>Mantua.</HI></NOTE> Friends, the inve&s;titure of that Duchy, is dead &s;ince without i&s;&s;ue. The Duke of <HI>Mantua</HI> hath yielded to Fate.</P>
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<P>_WArre, if once begun, &s;preadeth like a Canker. A Prince, engaged in armes, hath commonly a troubled State, and re&s;tle&s;&s;e head, his Enemy waits all op|portunities, and unle&s;&s;e providence guide him, hee can finde &s;ecurity no where. The Cardinall Infant &s;tood like a common bounder between two Enemies: the <HI>French</HI> upon the South and Ea&s;t of the Provinces under his care, made an inva&s;ion upon him: the Vnited States upon the North did the like, and now to forti&s;ie him&s;elf, fir&s;t, he cau&s;ed the City of <HI>Hul&s;t</HI> to double their Pali&s;adoes, and renew their Fortifications, and then the Garri&s;ons of <HI>Mech|len, Lyre, Breda,</HI> and the other places in <HI>Flanders,</HI> and <HI>Brabant,</HI> where his old &s;ouldiers were wintered, he drew out &s;uch Forces and Amunition, as was thought
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<PB N="76" REF="47"> fit to with&s;tand them. The beginning of <HI>Iune,</HI> the Princes Rendevouz was appointed, 80 Boates were <NOTE PLACE="marg">The States proparation for warre.</NOTE> &s;ent from <HI>Bergenapzohm</HI> to <HI>Ramekens,</HI> the Enginers were &s;ent to <HI>Nimminghem,</HI> the <HI>Frizelanders</HI> met at <HI>Emerick,</HI> the Cardinall Infant fortifying in the interim <HI>Stiven&s;worth, Gennep,</HI> and other places, and &s;ending the Avantguard of his Hor&s;e from <HI>Antwerp</HI> towards <HI>Flan|ders.</HI></P>
<P>His Highne&s;&s;e the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> kept his de&s;igne &s;ecret, &s;ome thought it had bin for <HI>Brugez,</HI> others for <HI>Hul&s;t,</HI> but none imagined, nor could tell certainly whi|ther they tended. About the end of <HI>Iune,</HI> his Forces met together, were &s;hipped at <HI>Gorcum,</HI> and though the winde blew hard, and cau&s;ed &s;ome tempe&s;t, arrived <HI>Iuly</HI> the &s;eventh new &s;tile at the Keel. Free Camp was then publi&s;hed about the <HI>Rhine,</HI> all Excizes taken off, the Army then a&s;&s;embling together to attend his Highnes <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Breda</HI> be&s;ieged</NOTE> plea&s;ure. Some time he &s;taid upon the <HI>&V;lack</HI> before <HI>Ramekens,</HI> and till the 19 of <HI>Iuly,</HI> no man had any par|ticular knowledge of his meaning: then it was fir&s;t di&s;covered to Prince <HI>Henry Ca&s;&s;imere</HI> of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw,</HI> who with the Vantguard of his Army, led on towards <HI>Breda.</HI></P>
<P>The name of the Town is dignified with the ho|nour of a Baronry, is &s;ituate in the Country of <HI>Kempen,</HI> which is on part of the Province of <HI>Brabant,</HI> between <NOTE PLACE="marg">The de&s;cripti|on of the Towne.</NOTE> <HI>Lyre, Antwerp, Bergenapzohm, Tourn-hoult, Hog&s;traten, Stievenbergen,</HI> and <HI>Gertrudenberg:</HI> &s;even leagues from each of the two fir&s;t places, five from the third, foure from the fourth, three from the fifth, and two from the la&s;t, and hath under it &s;eventeene Villages, be&s;ides the Towns of <HI>Stiven-berg, Ro&s;endendall,</HI> and <HI>O&s;terhoult.</HI> It was the ordinary re&s;idence of the Prin|ces of the hou&s;e of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw,</HI> to whom it fell in the yeer
<PB N="77" REF="47"> 1404, by the inter-marriage of <HI>Englebert,</HI> a Prince of that Family, with <HI>Iane</HI> the Inheritrix of that Territory. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Its condition under &s;everall Princes.</NOTE> The Princes of that Race held it peaceably, till the yeer 1567, at which time <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw</HI> was con&s;trai|ned by the Duke of <HI>Alva</HI> to leave it, till the yeer 1577; at which time he was newly po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of it, and kept it four yeers, till that <HI>Iune</HI> 15/25, 1585, when driven out by violence, he again left it to the <HI>Spaniards,</HI> who kept it till the fourth of <HI>March</HI> 1590, at which time Captain <HI>Heranger</HI> &s;urprized it by a Turf-boat which covered &s;ome force of men underneath: <HI>Grobendonk</HI> in the yeer 1599, laboured to &s;urprize it, but failed, yet the Marque&s;&s;e <HI>Spinola</HI> took it by Famine in the yeer 1625, <HI>Iuly</HI> the fifth new &s;tile, after a &s;iege of ten moneths &amp; 22 days, &s;ince which time the <HI>Spaniards</HI> have kept it with a &s;trong Garri&s;on, which troubling the whole ad|joyning Territory, and hindring all trade by the neigh|bouring Rivers, the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> now re&s;olved to be&s;iege it. This was the motive which impelled him to this Enterprize, for pro&s;equution wherof, he u&s;ed this method.</P>
<P>The Prince <HI>Henry Ca&s;&s;imere</HI> of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw</HI> was &s;ent be|fore with the Vantguard of his Army, con&s;i&s;ting of 44 Cornets of hor&s;e, and 80 Companies of Foot to begirt it round, which hee did <HI>Iuly</HI> 13/<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">, driving away all the cattell that fed in the medows neer it, his Highne&s;&s;e in per&s;on the next day, comming before the Towne with <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Avant|guard under Prince <HI>Henry Ca&s;&s;imire</HI> blocks it up.</NOTE> the body of his Army con&s;i&s;ting of 40 Cornets of hor&s;e more, and 230 Companies of Foot, and above 100 pie|ces of canon, having before given order for 8 &s;hips men of warre to guard the Chanell from <HI>Gertrudenberg</HI> to <HI>Stieven-bergen,</HI> that he might have a &s;ure pa&s;&s;age to vi|ctuall his Army by that River, he began with prayers, and cau&s;ed &s;upplication to be made through all the Pro|vinces
<PB N="78" REF="48"> of the Vnited States for an happy happy i&s;&s;ue of that de&s;igne. Their devotions once over, he fell to work, drew out the lines of his trenches, following the Mar|que&s;&s;e <HI>Spinola</HI> his plot-forme, imployed 8000 Boores in the work, and appointed their quarters to the Colo|nels, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The works begun.</NOTE> taking his own at <HI>Ginniken,</HI> a&s;&s;igning the Count <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw</HI> to the Village of the <HI>Hague,</HI> Colo|nell <HI>Morgan</HI> to lie upon the way towards <HI>Autwerpe,</HI> betwixt his owne quarter and the Count <HI>Williams,</HI> Count <HI>Henry Ca&s;&s;imere</HI> Governour of <HI>&V;rie&s;land,</HI> being enquartered at the <HI>Heyde,</HI> and the Duke of <HI>Bovillon</HI> at <HI>Tetringen</HI> and <HI>Heu&s;enheut.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Cardinall by this had notice of what the Prince intended, and loth to lo&s;e &s;o fair a Gem as <HI>Bre|da,</HI> with an Army of 14000 Foot, and 6000 Hor&s;e, many peeces of Ordnance, and good &s;tore of Amuniti|on, marched from <HI>Antwerpe,</HI> and came to <HI>Hogstraten,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Cardinal Infant &s;eeks to relieve it.</NOTE> thinking to impeach the Prince, and rai&s;e his &s;iege be|fore he was well &s;et down: but to adventure to a bat|tail, had bin to have put all to the Fortune of one day, he would not do it de&s;peratly, though hee had conclu|ded to a&s;&s;ault him couragiou&s;ly, therfore he &s;ent before him a Vant Currier <HI>Iohn de Na&s;&s;aw</HI> an experienced &s;ouldier with ninety Companies of Hor&s;e to view the po&s;ture of the Princes Army, and to acquaint him with the particulars. Hee found the Prince neither &s;upinely &s;leeping, nor in a loo&s;e po&s;iture, as if there had bin no cau&s;e of feare expecting him: He knew the Cardinall to <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn de Na&s;&s;aw</HI> &s;ent to de&s;cry, the Princes po&s;ture.</NOTE> he a man trained up from his youth in military Feats, &amp; &s;tood in a firme Battalia to attend him. The Cardinall would not hazard all at once, but upon a good ground and informed of the Princes &s;trength and vigilancy, made no attempt upon the Campe, but retired toward the <HI>Hemeri&s;h-werth,</HI> and the <HI>Prince-land,</HI> leaving the
<PB N="79" REF="48"> i&s;&s;ue of the &s;iege to the care of the pre&s;idiary &s;ouldiers. The garri&s;on inclo&s;ed within their walles, and the <NOTE PLACE="marg">And finding the P. upon his guard, the C. departeth.</NOTE> Princes Army, &s;hewed their courage by many &s;allyes, to get their liberty: but his Highne&s;&s;e his power orde|red by his care, &s;o farre availed him, that &s;till he repel|led them with lo&s;&s;e, and in the end, entrenched him|&s;elfe &s;o &s;trongly, cutting the <HI>Merk-dike</HI> to environ his trenches, that he neither feared the inva&s;ion of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> campe without, nor the fallies of the garri&s;on from within.</P>
<P>Count <HI>Henry,</HI> Governour of <HI>Vrie&s;-land,</HI> by too much confidence was endangered, while the Pioners <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Henry Ca&s;&s;imire</HI> neer to be &s;ur|pri&s;ed.</NOTE> were labouring in the works. He went abroad to view the fortifications of the City, and at an old ruined hou&s;e, where he feared no perill, was in hazard of his life or liberty: &s;ome of the garri&s;on were lurking in the Cellar, and leaping out &s;uddenly, took hold of his bri|dle, and had &s;urpri&s;ed him &s;uddenly, had not his hor&s;e trained up to bounds and curvets) regained his liberty by &s;trength.</P>
<P>It would be long to proceed to each particular. <HI>Iuly</HI> 23. old &s;tile, the garri&s;on made another &s;ally, and for a time became ma&s;ters of an halfe Moone, but were bea|ten out immediately, and on Thur&s;day following, a|bout 3. of the clock in the morning, 1400 men of them <NOTE PLACE="marg">The garri&s;on &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">lly out upon the Campe.</NOTE> a&s;&s;aulted againe the &s;ame halfe Moone, &s;eized on it, and held it for an houre, at which time they were re|pul&s;ed, with the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ive Captains, and many o|ther officers and &s;ouldiers: the a&s;&s;iegeants them&s;elves not repo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the place, without the death of many men in <HI>Bredrods</HI> quarter, with one Lieutenant, and 5 or 6 &s;ouldiers of <HI>Mauritius</HI> his company.</P>
<P>The Camp made its excur&s;ions abroad, as well as the garri&s;on made its &s;allies upon the Army. The Prince by his labour and providence, had taken &s;uch order,
<PB N="80" REF="49"> that they could not breake forth &s;o frequently out of their enclo&s;ure. He having already rai&s;ed two batte|ries, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Princes order to keepe the Garri&s;on in.</NOTE> one neare the <HI>Ginniken</HI> Water-mill, about 600 pa|ces from the City, and the other in Count <HI>Williams</HI> Quarter, kept by two <HI>corps de guard,</HI> and &s;ecured by two Redouts to prevent their eruption. The way into the field was open for the garri&s;on, and <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> the 6. new &s;tile, young <HI>Mon&s;ieur de Mee,</HI> went abroad upon the Heath with 70 Cavaliers, and there encountred with 80 wagons loaden with Wine, <HI>Aqua vita,</HI> and Beere, de&s;igned for the Infanta's campe, &s;urprized the Convoy, broke the ve&s;&s;els in pieces, and brought to the camp 70 ju&s;ty hor&s;es, which were &s;ould by &s;ound of the drum the day following.</P>
<P>The hearts of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> &s;ouldiers in the Cardinals Army by this, began to faile them. A whole troope of <HI>Burgundians</HI> ran away together, and among them one <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> man, who joyntly affirmed, that if they were not kept in by the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> hor&s;e, more would follow them. Yet though his men began to decline him, the Cardinall Infant would not for&s;ake him&s;elfe; but &s;ee|ing the improbability he had to relieve the City, pro|jected how to advance the affaires of the Catholike <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>&V;enloo</HI> taken by the Cardi|nall Infanta. A Ba&s;tard.</NOTE> King el&s;ewhere, and marched towards <HI>Venloo</HI> and <HI>Ruremond,</HI> end took in <HI>Venloo</HI> in the &s;pace of 5 dayes, (though it was garri&s;on'd with 1100 able men) by the cowardi&s;e, trechery, and wantonne&s;&s;e of the Gover|nour. One of the family of <HI>Bredrode,</HI> who enticed (as is reported) by the &s;educing face of a fal&s;e Nun, with whom it was thought he had too familiar an acquain|tance, delivered up the keyes to the Infanta, who re|warded him with the wages of his perfidiou&s;ne&s;&s;e, a &s;mall &s;umme of money, with the which he went to <HI>Collen,</HI> to be &s;ecured from a ju&s;t vengeance of the States, which though they could not apprehend his
<PB N="81" REF="49"> per&s;on, and put him to an actuall torture, executed him in <HI>e&s;&s;igie.</HI> Thence he advanced to <HI>Ruremond,</HI> which he <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ruremond</HI> &s;ur|rendred upon compo&s;ition.</NOTE> thought to have &s;urpri&s;ed as &s;peedily, but the Gover|nour there, in his loyalty to the State, maintained it as long as he was able, though in the end he was forced to yeeld upon compo&s;ition.</P>
<P>It had been vain to have &s;taied in that quarter longer, little hope was there to advance his conque&s;t further, the States, warned by the lo&s;&s;e of the&s;e two la&s;t places, had double garri&s;on'd all the townes, and it was more probability, that by his &s;tay, he might there con&s;ume him&s;elfe and his Army, than enlarge his victories. Be|&s;ides, he had other irons in the &s;ire el&s;ewhere. The <HI>French</HI> began to domineere in <HI>Henault</HI> and <HI>Artois,</HI> and had they found no oppo&s;ition, they had invaded <HI>Flan|ders,</HI> the glory of tho&s;e Provinces under the <HI>Spaniard;</HI> and to make head again&s;t them. He was forced to leave the <HI>Maze,</HI> and march to the frontiers of <HI>Picardy.</HI></P>
<P>The hope of the garri&s;on in <HI>Breda,</HI> depended upon his &s;uccours, and though they could not be ignorant that he was gone, and had left them, they were not de|jected, but u&s;ed all their policy and might to weary out the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> and force him to ri&s;e, &s;eeing they could not vanqui&s;h him. <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">/2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. the be&s;ieged &s;allied out againe, and fought &s;o earne&s;tly, that as if their liberty were above their lives; they gave not o|ver combat till the horrid face of death appeared in the mangled bodies of &s;ome of their copartners, and of the a&s;&s;ailants; then they retired, begd ce&s;&s;ation of Armes for two houres, and obtained it for the buriall of their dead; and that work of piety being done, the remain|der of the few minutes was &s;pent in friendly drinkings betwixt the garri&s;on and the camp; the pre&s;idiaries ca|rou&s;ing to them in their owne liquor, and the camp an|&s;wering them in the Beere of <HI>Dort</HI> and <HI>Rotterdam,</HI>
<PB N="82" REF="50"> with which it was furni&s;hed. The &s;ands that mea&s;ured out the time, were no &s;ooner runne, but both &s;ides fell againe to their acts of ho&s;tility, the Prince &s;till procee|ding to make his approches neerer, although they were already brought within a &s;tones ca&s;t of the walles. In time he perfected what he had in his minde foreca&s;t, though not without co&s;t and expence both of bloud and money. <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 23. old &s;tile, he began to under|mine the enemies Horn-work, and that day our Noble Countryman, (who&s;e valour not appearing in blo&s;|&s;omes, but in fruits in his youth) the yong Colonell <HI>Goring,</HI> who commanded in the approches, and had ad|ventured too far into the then not fully fortified Shrub|gallery, received a faulcon-&s;hot in his ancle, which to the eye of the Chirurgeons, appeared &s;o dangerous, that they concluded, he could not e&s;cape unle&s;&s;e his legge were cut off: the Noble Gentleman bore the hurt pa|tiently, but not the conclu&s;ion of his Chyrurgeous, he re&s;olved rather to lo&s;e his life, then his limb, till per|&s;waded by the divine advi&s;e of his Chaplaine, Doctor <HI>Calfe,</HI> he began to a&s;&s;ent to the cour&s;e pre&s;cribed him. It was not without an argument of the divine provi|dence, that he &s;hould thus demurre upon the manner of his cure; while they were thus per&s;wading him, and the Chyrurgeons preparing to di&s;member him, an old ex|pert Chyrurgeon commeth in, undertaketh the cure, and performed it happily, it being now &s;carce a blemi&s;h to the eye, and di&s;cernable onely by a little halting.</P>
<P>Mon&s;ieur <HI>Charna&s;&s;e,</HI> Emba&s;&s;adour for the Chri&s;tian King to the States, and Generall of the <HI>French</HI> forces in that &s;ervice, &s;ped not that day &s;o happily: He not a|bove two dayes before, had received a &s;hot upon his hat-band, which &s;lipt away and did him no harme, but this day was &s;trucke more unfortunately upon the forehead, &s;o lo&s;ing his life, to the great griefe of the
<PB N="83" REF="50"> Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> who had often u&s;ed his coun&s;ell both in his publique and private affaires.</P>
<P>But the fate of the City now drew on, the Mines were ready, the galleries prepared, and the City brought to extremity, the Governour and garri&s;on ca|pitulated upon the&s;e conditions.</P>
<LIST>
<HEAD>Tbe Articles follow, as they are delivered &s;uc|cinctly and plainely by the <HI>French.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM N="1">FIr&s;t, the Governour of <HI>Breda,</HI> with all the officers of warre, of what condition or quality &s;oever with|out exception, even tho&s;e al&s;o who have formerly left the &s;ervice of the States, and now taken pay under the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> &s;hall have liberty to depart from the towne without any &s;toppe or impeachment, with Armes and baggage, the Drum beating, En&s;ignes di&s;|plaied, bullet in mouth, and match in cocke, in the rank and forme they u&s;ed to ob&s;erve when they marched in battalia, with a &s;afe conduct for their lives and goods to <HI>Malines.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="2">2. They &s;hall have licen&s;e to carry with them foure Pieces of Ordnance, &amp; two Morterers, &s;uch as the Go|vernour &s;hall choo&s;e, with all their attirall, equipage, and &s;hot and powder &s;ufficient for three di&s;charges of each of them.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="3">3. They &s;hall be furni&s;hed with hor&s;e, waggons, and drivers, to carry that Artillery, tho&s;e Morterers, the at|tirall, and ammunition to <HI>Malines.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="4">4. All the other ammunition of warre, and provi&s;i|ons of victuals appertaining to the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> &s;hall without &s;tand be delivered to him whom his Highne&s;&s;e the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> &s;hall appoint to receive it, except
<PB N="84" REF="51"> &s;uch victuals which &s;hal be found &s;ould <HI>bonafide,</HI> before the 6 of this moneth new &s;tile, when this treaty began, the &s;ale whereof &s;hall &s;tand good, and no man &s;hall be &s;earched, nor enquired after for buying it.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="5">5 All the Officers and Souldiers, &s;icke and wounded, lying at the Ho&s;pitall, or el&s;ewhere, &s;hall be permitted to abide there, till they have recovered &s;trength to de|part, at which time there &s;hall be given them a &s;afe conduct, and accommodation to tran&s;port their Armes and baggage to the fore-named place <HI>Malines.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="6">6 The &s;aid Governour &s;hall be furni&s;hed with &s;uch number of waggons and hor&s;e as &s;hall be requi&s;ite, as well for the tran&s;portation of his own luggage and baggage, as of all the Officers and &s;ouldiers to <HI>Malines:</HI> under which names of luggage and baggage, are com|pri&s;ed all the Armes of the &s;ouldiers of the &s;aid towne of <HI>Breda,</HI> even tho&s;e that be ab&s;ent, dead, &s;ick, wounded or &s;led, nor &s;hall tho&s;e waggons be &s;earched by any man upon any pretence.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="7">7 Such as will have their luggage and baggage carried to <HI>Malines</HI> by water, &s;hall be freely provided of boats to conduct them through <HI>Holland,</HI> which &s;hall be ex|empted and di&s;charged of all impo&s;ts, taxes, and pay|ments what&s;oever, and for the &s;afeguard of that lug|gage and baggage, there &s;hall be a competent number of men to conduct them, and tho&s;e boats &s;hall not be &s;earched nor arre&s;ted by the way upon any pretext what&s;oever, nor &s;hall they unload any parcell untill they arive at <HI>Malines.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="8">8 The Governour, Captains, Officers, military Iudges, and others, receiving pay of the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> both Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks and Lay-men, as al&s;o the widowes and children, which have in the &s;aid towne of <HI>Breda,</HI> any hou&s;es or inheritances, whether they be upon the States of <HI>Brabant</HI> in that juri&s;diction, or in the town,
<PB N="85" REF="51"> whether land or moveable goods, &s;hall have the &s;pace and terme of two yeeres of this treaty, to tran&s;port, &s;ell, engage, or otherwi&s;e di&s;po&s;e of the &s;aid goods, and du|ring the &s;aid terme, &s;hall enjoy the &s;aid Rents, Farmes with the Hou&s;es, Fruits, and goods already gotten, or to be gotten in that &s;pace, be they of what nature or con|dition &s;oever they may be.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="9">9. The Officers and &s;ouldiers of all conditions, may leave their wives and children in the towne during the &s;aid terme of two yeers, to di&s;po&s;e of their goods move|able and immoveable, whether they be in the &s;aid town or el&s;ewhere, without danger of &s;ei&s;ure or confi&s;ca|tion.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="10">10. No Officer or other &s;ouldier, neither now, nor hereafter &s;hall be arre&s;ted for the rents of the hou&s;es they have po&s;&s;e&s;t, nor have their baggage &s;earched to make payment of any debt, be they either &s;uch as &s;hall depart pre&s;ently with the Garri&s;on, or &s;uch as being &s;ick or wounded, cannot depart till they be recovered.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="11">11. All the &s;ouldiers, pri&s;oners on both &s;ides, of what rank &s;oever &s;hall be &s;et at liberty without ran&s;ome, pay|ing only for their victuals, according to the taxe of the Quarter. The &s;ervants and other pri&s;oners &s;hall depart al&s;o paying the charges of their expen&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="12">12 The booty that hath been gotten by tho&s;e of the town, both before and during the &s;iege, &s;hall not be re|quired of them back again.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="13">13 After the Articles of this compo&s;ition are &s;ealed, the Governour of <HI>Breda</HI> &s;hall have time given him to &s;end an expre&s;&s;e to the Cardinall Infant with a &s;afe con|voy to acquaint him with what hath pa&s;&s;ed, all which the Governour may doe the &s;ame day this Treaty &s;hall be &s;igned.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="14">14. The conditions forenamed being confirmed,
<PB N="86" REF="52"> two dayes &s;hall bee granted to the Governour and his Souldiers to prepare for their departure, which time be|ing expired, the &s;aid Governour, and the &s;aid Officers of the Garri&s;on &s;hall promi&s;e to depart (to wit) upon Sa|turday next being the tenth of <HI>October,</HI> new &s;tile, be|times in the morning.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="15">15. It is intended that till the two days be pa&s;t, that no per&s;on of the town &s;hall come into the Campe, nor any of the army &s;hall enter into the town, but that eve|ry one &s;hall contain him&s;elf, during this time, in their trenches and fortifications, without doing any act or ho&s;tilitie, for a&s;&s;urance wherof, there &s;hall be ho&s;tages interchangeably given on both &s;ides, this article being re&s;olved of, to avoid all di&s;order which might happen other wayes.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="16">16. Before that the Garri&s;on departeth, there &s;hall be given two &s;ufficient ho&s;tages by the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> which &s;hall march with the &s;aid Garri&s;on, their armes and baggage to <HI>Malines,</HI> and in exchange of them two other ho&s;tages &s;hall be given by the Governour, which &s;hall abide with his Excellencie, till the &s;aid ho&s;tages and waggons be returned, at which time his Excellency &s;hall &s;end the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> ho&s;tages with a &s;afe conduct to <HI>Malines.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="17">17 The Officers, Captains, and others comprized in the fir&s;t Article of this pre&s;ent treaty, having any armes, Barks, or Shallops, or other uten&s;ils of warre, may either &s;ell them or tran&s;port them, neither &s;hall &s;uch as are tran&s;ported, bought or &s;old be &s;earched upon that oc|ca&s;ion.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="18">18 There &s;hall no re&s;titution be made of Hor&s;es, armes, Merchants ware, or other baggage held for law|full booty, and &s;old, nor &s;hall any particular man be &s;earched.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="87" REF="52">
<P> Dated at the Camp before <HI>Breda,</HI> the &s;eventh of <HI>Octo|ber,</HI> new &s;tile, 1637.</P>
<P>The&s;e Articles concerned the Garri&s;on in particular, which came not to treat till our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Souldiers had taken by a&s;&s;ault a <HI>Ravelin</HI> in the Mote, and the <HI>French</HI> an halfe Moon before the <HI>Gininkens</HI> Port: at which time, the mine being ready to play, and 5000 Souldiers of divers Nations, but of one heart, in armour of proofe, provided with In&s;truments for &s;uch an occa&s;ion expe|cting the i&s;&s;ue prepared for the a&s;&s;ault: at which time they fir&s;t hung out a white flag upon their walls, as a token that they de&s;ired to capitulate, and afterwards &s;end out two Captaines to conferre with the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> about the heads of the treaty, he &s;ending two o|thers of the army into the City. The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Captaines, one by Nation a <HI>Burgundian,</HI> the other a <HI>Free&s;lander,</HI> di|ned with the Prince <HI>Octob.</HI> the &s;ixth new &s;tile, and upon the overture of their conference, returned into the City, from whence about five in the Evening, eight men of note and authority among the people came to his Excel|lencie's Gampe, to conclude the forenamed Articles, <HI>(viz.)</HI> two men of authority among the Clergy; the chief judge, and the Pre&s;ident of the town, two Burgo|ma&s;ters, and the two Sheriffs. The&s;e per&s;onages of quali|ty thus contracted for <HI>Gomar Fourdin</HI> the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Gover|nour, and the Garri&s;on, which accepted the conclu&s;ion, and <HI>Oct.</HI> 10 new &s;tile, marched thence about 11 a clock, being in all about 1585 men Mu&s;quetiers, and <HI>Co&s;tlets, Almans, Burgundians, Spaniards, Walloons,</HI> and other Na|tions, armed with 48 En&s;igues, and four or 500 &s;ervants imployed about the baggage, having in the middle of their troops about 7 or 800 waggons, &s;ix pieces of Ca|non (the courte&s;ie of the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> giving them
<PB N="88" REF="53"> two more than what they covenanted for, two Morte|rers, 12 tuns of powder with other amunition, the Go|vernour followed in his Caroach by rea&s;on of the indi&s;|po&s;ition of his body, with two Officers and &s;ome Ca|vallary, being come out of the town, mounted an hor&s;e, and went to &s;alute the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> who expected him in a place where foure wayes met, accompanied with <HI>Charles Lodovick,</HI> the Prince Elector <HI>Palatine,</HI> Duke <HI>Robert</HI> the Elector's brother, the yong Prince his own &s;onne, the Counts <HI>William</HI> and <HI>Henry Ca&s;&s;imere,</HI> and other Lords, and the Complement ended, went on toward <HI>Malines,</HI> where this &s;tory mu&s;t leave him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. V. The Marine Occurrences.</HEAD>
<P>_THe dry Land was not the only &s;tage of action,
<Q><L>&mdash;vidit in undis</L>
<L>Et Thetys ignotas &amp; Galathea feras.</L></Q> The Military Fleets of divers Kingdoms, &s;ome imploy|ed onely to &s;ecure the coa&s;ts, others for tran&s;portation of Souldiers, others for inva&s;ion, and the &s;hipping for trade, plowing the face of the Mayn, made the O|cean &s;eeme to carry &s;o many moving I&s;lands, that part appearing like a woodland where the Navies lay wind-bound, or rode at anchor, yet di&s;covering it &s;elfe again to be Sea, when the &s;ails were hoy&s;ed, and the ve&s;&s;els left that &s;tation.</P>
<P>The <HI>Archipelago</HI> was furrowed by the Pirats of <HI>Bi|zerte, Algier,</HI> and <HI>Tunis (Sally</HI> being then blocked up, by our worthy and vallant Countriman, Captaine <HI>Raui&s;|borow)</HI> which &s;ought for pillage upon the Chri&s;tians ei|ther
<PB N="89" REF="53"> by Sea, or upon the <HI>European</HI> &s;hoare: by the Gal|lies of <HI>Malta,</HI> which endevoured to make prize of tho&s;e Renegadoes, and the Navies of the Chri&s;tian and Ca|tholick Kings, each of them intending to pre&s;erve his own, and endamage the others territories.</P>
<P>The Navy of <HI>Spaine</HI> had changed its Generall <HI>(Don Melchior Borgia,</HI> being a&s;&s;igned in the roome of the Duke of <HI>Ferrandina)</HI> but not the former de&s;igne. The Dominions of the Chri&s;tian King were the maine &s;cope of its ho&s;tility, and thitherwards 21 Gallies well armed and mann'd with above 3000 &s;ouldiers, rowed by the <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> de&s;igne upon the Rode of St <HI>Tropez</HI> and <HI>Ra|pheau</HI> failing.</NOTE> way of <HI>Sardinia,</HI> and were di&s;covered by the <HI>French</HI> in the Gulph of Saint <HI>Tropez</HI> upon the Coa&s;t of <HI>Provence, June,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">/1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. The project mu&s;t needs have took had it not bin prevented by much circum&s;pection, <HI>Mont Guion,</HI> who commanded the <HI>French</HI> Garri&s;on in the town and Cit|tadell, under the Mar&s;hall <HI>de Vitry,</HI> at their fir&s;t approch|ing prepared to hinder their landing, but their ha&s;t pre|venting his, and &s;ome of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Souldiers landed at <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">rtr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">t</HI> with a purpo&s;e to &s;urround the Cittadell, hee &s;allied forthwith 120 Souldiers of the Garri&s;on, and charged the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Vantguard &s;o couragiou&s;ly, that hee beat them back to their Boats, and enforced them to &s;eek for the &s;afeguard of their lives in the Sea, whither their precipitious confu&s;ed ha&s;t carried them. It was fortune that crowned his action. His &s;mall Forces con&s;i&s;ting of Landmen, could not have maintained that Port-towne again&s;t &s;uch an Armado: By good hap there was in the Harbour at the &s;ame time four ve&s;&s;els of the <HI>French</HI> Fleet, <HI>(viz)</HI> two Pinnaces named the Royall, and the Cardinall and two Frigots, which kept the mouth of the Harbour, and by their frequent Cannonadoes a&s;&s;i|&s;ted by the Cittadell, played upon the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Fleet &s;o &s;ucce&s;&s;efully with 300 vollies of &s;hot, that they forced the Enemy to retire out of the Gulfe, and defeated him of his project.</P>
<PB N="90" REF="54">
<P> Yet the Seene only was altered, and not the <HI>Spaniards</HI> purpo&s;e, The Port of St. <HI>Rapheau</HI> did pre&s;ent It &s;elfe to the fancy of the invaders, who failing of their end at St. <HI>Tropez</HI> tugged thither intending to &s;urprize it, before it could be well provided for defence. The Mar&s;hall <HI>de Vitry</HI> was the fir&s;t, but not the only Di&s;coverer of that enterprize, conceal it he could not, it being apparantly known to all the inhabitants about <HI>Fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">iu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> (where hee then re&s;ided) the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Gallies rowing before the eyes of the people. The Count of <HI>Harcourt,</HI> Generall of the <HI>French</HI> Fleet, the &s;ame day that the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Navy went from St. <HI>Tropez,</HI> departed from <HI>Treius,</HI> where hee had been entertained at Supper, by the Mar&s;hall <HI>de Vitry</HI> the night before, and had not failed above one hour and an half, but that he kenn'd the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Gallies, and ob&s;erved with what eagerne&s;&s;e the &s;laves imployed their &s;inews, to bring them up to &s;ome of the Sea-townes, and pre|&s;ently made to land, mu&s;tered up the Forces of the Country, which comming in continually, beat off the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Armado from the Port of S. <HI>Rapheau;</HI> when they had burnt one <HI>French</HI> Bark only, their intention being to have done the like to all the &s;hips which lay at anchor in that rode.</P>
<P>From St. <HI>Rapheau,</HI> the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Navy retired into the Bay, where being informed that ten &s;hips of <HI>Holland</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sp. Fleet &s;ur|pri&s;eth ten <HI>Holland</HI> &s;hips bound for <HI>Genoa.</HI></NOTE> were bound for <HI>Genoa,</HI> with Corn and Spicery, &amp; other Merchandize amounting to the value of three Millions of Crowns, the Flees way layed them, and in a calme after two days fight, having &s;unke the <HI>Dutch</HI> Admirall, took the other nine, two wherof they conducted to <HI>Fi|nall,</HI> and the other &s;even to <HI>Morguez,</HI> where they &s;old the goods as a vile and unproportionable value. The &s;tate of <HI>Genoa,</HI> to which the&s;e goods were con&s;igned, la|boured much for their re&s;titution, and &s;ent one Agent to the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Admirall, and another to the Governour of <HI>Millain</HI> to require it, and that being denied, it cau&s;ed
<PB N="91" REF="54"> &s;ome heart-burning betwixt the <HI>Genove&s;es</HI> and the <HI>Spa|niards</HI> in <HI>Italy, Den Melchior Borgia</HI> de&s;iring liberty that his Fleet might come and refre&s;h it &s;elfe in &s;ome of the Harbours of that State, and the Magi&s;trate ab&s;olutely refu&s;ing to grant it, upon pretence that they were in|fected by the Merchants lately taken from the <HI>Hollan|ders,</HI> and not only &s;o by his owne word prote&s;ting the re&s;entment of that &s;eeming inju&s;tice, but by the deeds of the pea&s;ants about <HI>Ara&s;&s;e,</HI> breaking out with violence upon the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Mariners, when they came to water upon their Coa&s;t, &s;laying &s;ome, cha&s;ing the re&s;t, and ta|king from them 170 barrels of fre&s;h water, of which the Navy &s;tood in need, pretending that they found them robbing of their Olive-yards. It is no point of provi|dence <NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Genoe&s;es</HI> &s;eek to have them re&s;tored, but prevail not.</NOTE> to provoke a potent enemy. That politike State of <HI>Genoa,</HI> however di&s;plea&s;ed with the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> procee|dings, did not de&s;i&s;t from promotion of their cau&s;e for one deniall, nor yet breake out into open enmity. Again they di&s;patched <HI>Signior Luca Spinola</HI> to the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Gene|rall, and the <HI>Signiors Chiavari</HI> and <HI>Someliui</HI> to the Em|ba&s;&s;ador of <HI>Spaine</HI> re&s;ident in that City, about the &s;ame negotiation, who again denying to make any re&s;tituti|on, and ju&s;tifying their detention of the goods, becau&s;e they were taken out of <HI>Holland</HI> Bottomes, and upon the <HI>French</HI> S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">, both tho&s;e States being enemies to the Ca|tholike King, they di&s;patched another Advocate to the Viceroy of <HI>Naples</HI> to intermediate betwixt the State &amp; the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Generall, and he refu&s;ing to meddle out of his own Sphere, as la&s;t they &s;ent an Emba&s;&s;ador to the Catholike King, who&s;e an&s;wer is yet expected.</P>
<P>Here was the period of the actions of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Na|vy in the <HI>Archipelago.</HI> A &s;torm was ri&s;en in the new We|&s;tern world, and had &s;o &s;hattered the frame of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">The arrivall of Count <HI>Mau|rice</HI> at <HI>Pharnam|buck.</HI></NOTE> State there, that is required both men &amp; mony to repair it. To this purpo&s;e, <HI>Don Antonio de Ocquendo,</HI> was &s;ent from <HI>Major<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">a,</HI> with one Gally to make choice of the
<PB N="92" REF="55"> be&s;t &s;hips in the <HI>Neapolitan</HI> Fleet, and to tran&s;port them to <HI>Bra&s;il</HI> again&s;t the Forces of the Vnited <HI>Netherlander</HI> States there, who&s;e fortunate progre&s;&s;e had dilated and inlarged the States Dominions there. His Excellency the Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> of <HI>Na&s;&s;aw,</HI> to whom the States had given a pleny-potentiary Commi&s;&s;ion for the ordering of their affairs there, arrived at <HI>Pharnamboucg, Ianuary</HI> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">/2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, where being entertained with the joyfull acclamations of the <HI>Dutch</HI> plantations, after &s;ome dayes &s;pent in gi|ving &amp; receiving of entertainment, the end of his voy|age <NOTE PLACE="marg">And his victo|ry at <HI>Porto Calvo.</HI></NOTE> not being complement but action, <HI>Ian.</HI> 26. <HI>Febr</HI> 5. hee &s;ent before him the Admirall <HI>Lichthart</HI> to <HI>Serenhim,</HI> where his army lay on &s;hipboard, him&s;elfe following by land with one company of hor&s;e and certaine fire|locks. His de&s;igne was again&s;t the Fort of <HI>Provocation,</HI> &amp; <HI>Porto Calvo,</HI> where the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Generall the <HI>Count de Ba|niola</HI> lay with an army of 4000 me~ his name was grown terrible to the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> army: the <HI>Gount</HI> would not abide his comming, but though fortified with four Redouts, having garri&s;oned the Fort with 600 men, fled by the way of <HI>Alegoa.</HI> News of his flight was brought to the <HI>Count of Na&s;&s;aw,</HI> who in&s;tantly begirting the Fort with one part of his Forces, di&s;patched the <HI>Colonell Manifield</HI> to pur&s;ue the <HI>Spani&s;h Count,</HI> who overtook his Rereward, and &s;lue about 200 of his men, and then returned to the Campe. <HI>Count Maurice</HI> all this while was bu&s;ied in making his approches, rai&s;ing of foure batteries, and ordering of things required for the &s;iege, which he followed &s;o earne&s;tly, that by the end of <HI>Fe|bruary</HI> new &s;tile, hee forced the Garri&s;on to capitulate for want of fre&s;h water, their conditions being, that they &s;hould march away the third of <HI>March</HI> new &s;tile, with high and low weapons, one peece of Ord|nance, and be tran&s;ported to <HI>Hispaniola</HI> or <HI>Saint Do|minga.</HI></P>
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<P> The victory was of con&s;equence, both in regard of the &s;trength of the place, and the wealth therein contai|ned; it was the &s;tronge&s;t Fort the enemy had in that territory, ordained for their Magazine, yeelded the Conqueror 22 Pieces of bra&s;&s;e Ordnance, 5 iron Pieces, 4 Copper Morterers, 800 great Granadoes, 2000 hand-granadoes, 46395 pounds of powder, 6034 pounds of match, 9750 pounds of lead, opened the way to <HI>Todos los Santos,</HI> whither the <HI>Dutch</HI> Generall pre&s;ently &s;ent his Army, was taken with the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ixe common men, and two prime Officers, the Lord <HI>Carlo,</HI> ba&s;e &s;onne to the late Prince <HI>Maurice</HI> of <HI>Orange,</HI> and Cap|taine <HI>Dunkarcke</HI> a valiant &s;ouldier, who was &s;laine with a great &s;hot from the Fort in time of the &s;iege: and this rich atchievement, purcha&s;ed &s;o ea&s;ily, could not but cau&s;e a generall thank&s;giving, and triumphs of joy among the <HI>Dutch</HI> plantations, which being cele|brated upon <HI>March</HI> the 8 new &s;tile at <HI>Pharnam, boucg,</HI> where after Sermon, 4 Companies of Citizens, and one of Souldiers pre&s;enting them&s;elves in their ar|mours, victory was proclaimed by the roaring throats of althe Canons about the town; fir&s;t of tho&s;e in the Re|dout of <HI>Bruin,</HI> the next, of tho&s;e in the Sconce of <HI>Bru|in,</HI> the Land-Ca&s;tle, and the Water-Ca&s;tle, and the &s;hips then in harbour, and la&s;tly by tho&s;e of the Stone-Redout, the Fort five-hook and the &s;conce <HI>Emilia,</HI> the Citizens and Souldiers concluding the triumph with their Mu&s;quetadoes, joying that by this meanes they enjoyed the 4 North Provinces of <HI>Bra&s;il</HI> in peace, and had extended their dominions to the length of 400 <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> miles, the <HI>Portugals</HI> comming in voluntarily, and offering their fealty to the States of the united Provinces.</P>
<P>The Gallyes of <HI>By&s;erte</HI> made an inva&s;ion upon the Kingdome of <HI>Naples,</HI> and &s;urpri&s;ed there 4 great Fri|gots armed and loaden with corne, and other merchan|dizes appertaining to the Prince of <HI>Cariati,</HI> and en|heartned with this &s;poyle, pur&s;ued the Signior <HI>Giovan|ni</HI>
<PB N="94" REF="56"> <HI>Bapti&s;ta La&s;agna</HI> a Genue&s;&s;e appointed Governour of <HI>Cor&s;ica,</HI> by the State of <HI>Genoa,</HI> as he was going to re|ceive <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Gallies of <HI>By&s;erte</HI> pil|lage the Sea towns in the Kingdome of <HI>Naples.</HI></NOTE> his dignity. Yet him they mi&s;t; he was neer up|on <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">gorne</HI> when they fir&s;t di&s;covered him, and he per|ceiving againe what they aymed at, made ha&s;te thither, and &s;aved both his &s;hip and per&s;on: the Gallies of <HI>Tu&s;|cany</HI> putting to &s;ea pre&s;ently, to &s;urpri&s;e the bold Bar|barians, who&s;e number and &s;trength exceeding the <HI>Florentines,</HI> the Pyrats having a fleet of 16 Gallies, and the great Dukes &s;ubjects but of 6. the <HI>Tu&s;canes</HI> were faine to retreat to the Port of <HI>Calvi</HI> for their owne &s;ecurity.</P>
<P>It was then a time of terrour to all the townes of the Sea coa&s;t in the Kingdome of <HI>Naples</HI> and <HI>Calabria.</HI> The <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Viceroy of <HI>Naples</HI> pro|vides to &s;ecure them.</NOTE> Viceroy was enforced to exact &s;trange contributions for the maintenance of tho&s;e places. The Nobility di|&s;ta&s;ted his cour&s;e, and would have &s;ent to the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> to have acquainted him with their oppre&s;&s;ions; the Commons complained of the heavy burthen&punc; pre|tended their di&s;ability to beare it, their &s;tates being al|ready much impoveri&s;hed by the late warres, yet the wi&s;e Viceroy &s;o behaved him&s;elfe, that by his owne private negotiations with the Nobility, and the publiks exhortations of the Fryars whom he &s;ent abroad a|mong the Commons to per&s;wade them of the nece&s;&s;i|ty of the act in regard of it &s;elfe, the omi&s;&s;ion thereof expo&s;ing them to unavoydable mi&s;eries by forraigne enemies, and the acceptable &s;ervice which thereby they might doe the Catholike King, and the glorious office they might doe their Countrey, prevailed &s;o far, that they willingly &s;eemed to bring in what he had de|manded rationally.</P>
<P>The Gallies of <HI>Algier</HI> and <HI>Tunis</HI> were abroad at the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ceriale</HI> pilla|ged by the Pyrates of <HI>Algier.</HI></NOTE> &s;ame time, had burnt and pillaged in the State of <HI>Ge|noa</HI> the towne of <HI>Ceriale,</HI> neare to <HI>Final;</HI> thence carri|ed away 400 pri&s;oners, and proceeding further, had &s;acked the Sea-coa&s;t of <HI>Sardinia,</HI> plundred the Chur|ches, taken away the ve&s;&s;els of Plate and Ornaments,
<PB N="95" REF="56"> and returning home, were met withall by the Arch|bi&s;hop of <HI>Berdeaux,</HI> who knowing that the&s;e Barba|rian Pyrats had not taken tho&s;e &s;poiles out of the lands of the Chri&s;tian, but his enemies dominions would not fight again&s;t them, but, inquiring of the prizes, and finding the Church uten&s;ils in their hands, (religion and this pious ob&s;ervation of tho&s;e con&s;ecrated ve&s;&s;els, overcomming his ho&s;tile di&s;po&s;ition to the Catholike King) he redeemed tho&s;e Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall goods with his money, and &s;ent them backe to <HI>Sardinia,</HI> to be imploy|ed to their proper ends.</P>
<P><HI>Sicily</HI> was the next place which tho&s;e Pyrats threat|ned, and <HI>Melchior Borgia</HI> the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Generall, to re|lieve it, ordered 15 <HI>Neupoliian</HI> Gallies, (which then lay at <HI>Legorne)</HI> to make to Sea pre&s;ently after them, but they returned without doing any thing, the Pyrats out-&s;ayling them. Sixe Gallies of <HI>Malta</HI> being about the beginning of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> arrived at home from <HI>Trapa|ni</HI> were counter manded by the great Ma&s;ter for <HI>Na|ples,</HI> to joyne there with their <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> &s;quadrons, a|gain&s;t the <HI>By&s;ertains,</HI> and the other Pyrats which be|gan to di&s;people and ruinate the Sea-coa&s;ts of that part of Chri&s;tendome. <HI>Nari</HI> the Prior was appointed for their General, who landing upo~ a Turki&s;h &s;hore, to take in fre&s;h water, was endangered by an Ambu&s;cado of <HI>Turkes,</HI> which lay there, and &s;lew &s;ome of his men, and wounded him with a Mu&s;quetado in the arme, yet he fortunately arrived at <HI>Naples, Augu&s;t</HI> the 6. new &s;tile, and went to vi&s;it the Viceroy then re&s;iding at <HI>Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ill|p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> but the fleet was imployed other wayes; the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Gallies &s;haken with &s;tormes, and the tempe&s;ts which they had endured in the gulph <HI>de la Speti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> were ap|pointed to tran&s;port <HI>Don Melchior Borgia</HI> into <HI>Spaine,</HI> and the <HI>Malti&s;an</HI> Gallies were to convey the Regent of the Vicaria of <HI>Naples</HI> to <HI>Florence,</HI> whither he went in the quality of the extraordinary Emba&s;&s;adour to the Catholike King, to congratulate the great Duke for his late marriage with the Prince&s;&s;e of <HI>Rovera,</HI> of the
<PB N="96" REF="57"> hou&s;e of <HI>Vrbin,</HI> which was &s;olemnized at <HI>Florence, Ju|ly</HI> the 5. new &s;tile, in the pre&s;ence of Cardinall <HI>Cappo|ni</HI> and the Dukes of <HI>Parma</HI> and <HI>Modena.</HI></P>
<P>The Kingdome of <HI>Naples</HI> in the <HI>interim,</HI> &s;uffered <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Bandetti in the King|dome of <HI>Na|ples</HI> executed.</NOTE> much by the inte&s;tine commotions of its owne &s;ub|jects, <HI>Bandittes</HI> and other male-contents. <HI>Franci&s;co Caraffa,</HI> Prince of <HI>Lupino,</HI> the Duke of <HI>Salzi</HI> of the hou&s;e of <HI>Straboni,</HI> the Signiors <HI>Ce&s;ari</HI> and <HI>A&s;canio</HI> of <HI>Bolognia,</HI> and &s;ome other <HI>Neapolitan</HI> Lords, heads of the commonalty of <HI>Nid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and <HI>Capna,</HI> had challenged the Cavilliers of other commonalties to &s;ingle duels, and for this fact were condemned by the Collaterall to have their heads &s;trucke off, yet becau&s;e they con&s;ented willingly to the contributions which the Vice-Roy re|quired, upon the interce&s;&s;ion of the Regent <HI>Brancia,</HI> Duke of <HI>Belvidier,</HI> and the Noble&s;&s;e of the Kingdome to the Vice-Roy, the &s;entence was not abrogated, but altered, they were onely bani&s;hed to &s;everall places. But the &s;entence and execution of the <HI>Banditti Luigi Taglialatela</HI> was exemplary and unchangeable: He was apprehended in his Fort with &s;ome of his companions, beheaded, and his &s;cull was carried to <HI>Giuliano,</HI> the place where he was born, and there &s;et upon an iron barre, in the place where his hou&s;e once &s;tood, that be|ing ra&s;ed to the ground, and &s;own with &s;alt. Piety commands ju&s;tice again&s;t &s;uch malefactors, and policy will have it exemplary. The ambitious heads of &s;uch &s;tinking Poppies mu&s;t be cut off, to pardon &s;uch De|linquents lifes, is to give life to their in&s;olencies.</P>
<P><HI>Here we are becalmed, &amp; though we &s;ee the &s;heare of</HI> Bar|bary <HI>&s;omwhat more glorious, by the happy &s;ucce&s;&s;e of our little Engli&s;h Fleet which lay before</HI> Sally, <HI>ca~not yet reach it. S.</HI> Hilary <HI>&s;hall perfect that &s;tory, which crowneth our Nation, and makes it de&s;ervedly called</HI> Gentem Libera|tricem. Dum &s;ua re&s;tituit &s;poliato jura patrono,</P>
<P><HI>With a perfect narration of other Occurrences both by Sea and Land, wherof we have already obtained &s;ome bre|viates, &amp; do daily expect more, which we purpo&s;e to con|tinue &amp; publi&s;h by the time promi&s;ed, if God permit.</HI></P>
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