act discharging any person to go aboard of, or correspond with french privateers. edinburgh, august 3, 1697. scotland. privy council. 1697 approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05311 wing s1408 estc r182987 52528905 ocm 52528905 178923 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05311) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 178923) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2774:62) act discharging any person to go aboard of, or correspond with french privateers. edinburgh, august 3, 1697. scotland. privy council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson, printer to the king's most excellent majesty, edinburgh : anno dom. 1697. caption title. initial letter. signed: gilb. eliot cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -collaborationists -scotland -early works to 1800. scotland -foreign relations -france -early works to 1800. france -foreign relations -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 megan marion sampled and proofread 2009-01 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion act discharging any person to go aboard of , or correspond with french privateers . edinburgh , august 3 , 1697. the lords of his majesties privy council being informed , that notwithstanding the laws and acts of parliament against such as correspond with his majesties enemies ; and particularly the act one thousand six hundred ninety three , intituled act against corresponding with france : yet upon the occasion of french privateers , and others his majesties enemies coming upon the coasts of this kingdom , several persons have either been ensnared , or have presumed to go on board of them , or otherways to correspond with them , albeit enemies , and in actual hostility as said is : therefore the saids lords of privy council have discharged , and hereby discharge all and every one of his majesties leidges to go on board any of the saids privateers , or otherways to correspond with them in any sort , or to have any manner of dealing with them , without express licence obtained for that effect from the saids lords of privy council , under the pains in the saids acts. and the saids lords of privy council do hereby ordain , that all sheriffs , stewarts , baillies and their deputs , and other magistrats whatsoever , be careful that these presents be duely observed , as they will be answerable : as also , that they be printed and published at the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and other places needful . per actum dominorum secreti concilii . gilb . eliot cls. sti. concilii . edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to the king 's most excellent majesty , anno dom. 1697. his majesties most gracious speech to both houses of parliament, on thursday the 31 of december. william iii, king of england, 1650-1702. 1692 approx. 2 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b06612 wing w2389a estc r186666 52529369 ocm 52529369 179253 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b06612) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179253) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2781:20) his majesties most gracious speech to both houses of parliament, on thursday the 31 of december. william iii, king of england, 1650-1702. england and wales. parliament. england and wales. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) 1 sheet ([1] p.) re-printed by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to their most excellent majesties, anno dom. 1692. edinburgh : caption title. initial letter. imperfect: tightly bound with slight loss of text. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -finance -early works to 1800. great britain -politics and government -1689-1702 -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-04 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2008-10 spi global rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-12 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-12 john pas text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion his majesties most gracious speech to both houses of parliament on thursday the 31 of december , my lords and gentlemen , i must not lose this occasion of returning you my hearty thanks , for the great ●roofs you continue to give me of your zeal and resolution to support and assist me , in the vigorous prosecution of the war against france next year ; and i assure you it shall be my greatest care that the assistances you give me may be so applied , as to render them most effectual for the ends you design them : but i must take notice to you at the same time , with some trouble , that the new year is already come , while our preparations●●r it are not only more backward ; but those of our enemies , as we have reason to think , in greater forwardness then they were the last year : i find my self therefore necessitated from this consideration , most earnestly to recommend to you , gentlemen of the house of commons , the hastning of such further supplies as you design to enable me with , for the prosecution of the war. my lords and gentlemen , the season being so far advanced , this present sessions cannot admit of a much longer continuance ; and therefore i must recommend to you the dispatch of all such other bills also , as you shall judge necessary for ●he publick good. edinburgh , re-printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to their most excellent majesties , anno dom. 1692. his majesties most gracious speech to both houses of parliament. november 12th 1694. william iii, king of england, 1650-1702. 1694 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b06614 wing w2401 estc r186670 52529371 ocm 52529371 179255 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b06614) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179255) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2781:22) his majesties most gracious speech to both houses of parliament. november 12th 1694. william iii, king of england, 1650-1702. england and wales. parliament. england and wales. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) 1 sheet ([1] p.) by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson, printer to their most excellent majesties, re-printed at edinburgh : anno dom. 1694. caption title. royal arms at head of text. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -early works to 1800. great britain -politics and government -1689-1702 -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-04 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2008-10 spi global rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-12 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-12 john pas text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion his majesties most gracious speech to both hovses of parliament . november 12th . 1694. my lords and gentlemen , i am glad to meet you here , when i can say , our affairs are in a better posture both by sea and land , than when we parted last . the enemy has not been in a condition to oppose our fleet in these seas , and our sending so great a force into the mediterranean , has disappointed their designs , and leaves us a prospect of further success . with respect to the war by land , i think i may say , that this year a stop has been put to the progress of the french arms. gentlemen of the house of commons , i have had so much experience of your good affection to me , and of your zeal for the publick , that i cannot doubt of your assistance at this time , i do therefore earnestly recommend to you , to provide such supplies , as may enable me to prosecute the war with vigour ; which is the only means to procure peace to christendom , with the safety and honour of england . i must likewise put you in mind , that the act of tunnage and poundage expires at christmas ; and i hope you will think fit to continue that revenue to the crown , which is the more necessary at this time , in regard the several branches of the revenue are under great anticipations , for extraordinary expences of the war , and subject to many demands upon other accounts . i cannot but mention to you again , the debt for the transport ships imployed in the reducing of ireland , which is a case of compassion , and deserves relief . my lords and gentlemen , i should be glad you would take unto your consideration the preparing some good bill for the encouragement of our seamen . you cannot but be sensible , how much a law of this nature would tend to the advancement of trade , and of the naval , strength of tht kingdom , which is our great interest , and ought to be our principal care. re-printed at edinburgh , by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to their mos ; t excellent majesties , anno dom. 1694. a proclamation, declaring war against the french king. edinburgh, the 6th of august, 1689. scotland. privy council. 1689 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05557 wing s1738 estc r183432 52528948 ocm 52528948 179015 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05557) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179015) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:4) a proclamation, declaring war against the french king. edinburgh, the 6th of august, 1689. scotland. privy council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heir of andrew anderson, by order of privy council, edinburgh : anno dom. 1689. caption title. initial letter. signed: gilb. eliot, cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng war, declaration of -scotland -early works to 1800. grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -early works to 1800. scotland -foreign relations -france -early works to 1800. france -foreign relations -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-08 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-08 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal blazon or coat of arms a proclamation , declaring war against the french king. edinburgh , the 6th of august , 1689. whereas the french king being the great disturber of christendom , these several years , hath not only invaded , and seized the territories and rights of his neighbouring princes , his majesties allies ; but hath used unparalelled cruelties , and devastations , and by a most unchristian persecution , having designed to suppress and extirpat the protestant religion , he hath been the great supporter , and abetter of the arbitrary courses in these kingdoms , for the destruction of their religion , liberties , and laws ; and hath of late , without any declaration of war , invaded ●he kingdom of ireland , fomenting and maintaining a rebellion there : and likewise , he has lately declared war against his majesty , and his kingdoms of scotland and england , and hath sent ships to transport irish forces to invade the said kingdom of scotland ; for which cause his majesty having required the lords of his privy council , to emit a declaration of war in his majesties name . therefore the lords of his majesties privy council , in their majesties names and authority , do declare war against the french king , and his subjects , and discharge all the leidges of this his majesties antient kindom of scotland , to trade , correspond , or have any intercourse , or meddling with the said french king , or any of his subjects : declaring nevertheless , that such of the french subjects , as for the causes foresaids have been expelled , or have abandoned their native countrey , and have taken refuge in this kingdom of scotland , that they living dutifully , and not corresponding with his majesties enemies , they shall be secure in their lives , liberties and fortunes , under his majesties protection , and the shelter of his laws . requiring likewise , all officers of war , captains , and masters of ships , and generally the whole leidges , to prosecute the war against the said french king , and his subjects , with all acts of hostility , by sea and land , to their uttermost . and ordains these presents to be printed , and published by the lyon king at arms , or his depute , heraulds , macers , and pursevants , at the mercat-cross of edinburgh , at the castle-gate , and peer and shore of leith , and other places needful . extracted by me gilb . eliot , cls. sti. concilii . god save king vvilliam and queen mary . edinburgh , printed by the heir of andrew anderson , by order of privy council , anno dom. 1689. a proclamation discharging correspondence and commerce with france. scotland. privy council. 1696 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05562 wing s1743 estc r226071 52529269 ocm 52529269 179017 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05562) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179017) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:6) a proclamation discharging correspondence and commerce with france. scotland. privy council. scotland. sovereign (1694-1702 : william ii) 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson, printer to the kings most excellent majesty, edinburgh : 1696. caption title. initial letter. intentional blank spaces in text. dated: given under our signet at edinburgh, the twenty first day of january, and of our reign the seventh year, 1696. signed: gilb. eliot cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng treason -scotland -early works to 1800. grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -early works to 1800. scotland -foreign relations -france -early works to 1800. france -foreign relations -scotland -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-07 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-07 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a proclamation discharging correspondence and commerce with france . william by the grace of god , king of great-britain , france , and ireland , defender of the faith , to macers of our privy council , messengers at arms , our sheriffs in that part , conjunctly and severally , specially constitute ; greeting , forasmuch as , albeit the corresponding and keeping commerce with our enemies , against whom we are now in a state of war , is discharged by several laws and acts of parliament under the pain of treason , and particularly by the eight act of the third session of this our current parliament , all our subjects are expresly discharged to go to the kingdom of france , or any of the dominions subject to the french king , after the first day of june one thousand six hundred and ninety three years , or being already in the said kingdom of france , or countries foresaid to stay or abide therein after the first day of august in the said year , without express leave from us , or the lords of our privy council , under the pain of treason ; yet sundrie of our subjects presume to have commerce , and to correspond and keep intelligence with persons residing in the said kingdom of france , now in a state of war with us , or dominions thereto belonging , without authority foresaid : therefore , and to the effect , our subjects may know their danger in the premisses , if they shall for hereafter transgress in manner foresaid ; we with advice of the lords of our privy council , do strictly prohibit and discharge all and every one of our subjects within this our antient kingdom to correspond , keep intelligence , or have any commerce whatsomever with the said kingdom of france , or persons residing within the same , or dominions belonging to the french king , without authority foresaid , under the pain of being punished as corresponders with declared traitours , to the outmost rigor ; declaring hereby that this shall be without prejudice of any former acts made against treason , or treasonable correspondencies , or the punishment of such as have already incurred the pains thereof . our will is herefore , and we charge you strictly , and command , that incontinent , thir our letters seen , ye pass to the mercat cross of edinburgh , and remanent mercat crosses of the head-burghs of the several shires and stewartries within this our kingdom : and there in our name and authority by open proclamation , make intimation hereof , that none may pretend ignorance . given under our signet at edinburgh , the twenty first day of january , and of our reign the seventh year , 1696. per actum dominorum secreti concilii . gilb . eliot cls. sti. coneilii . god save the king. edinburgh , printed by the heirs and successors of andrew anderson , printer to the kings most excellent majesty , 1696. a copy of admiral russel's letter to the earl of nottingham published by authority. orford, edward russell, earl of, 1653-1727. 1692 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a90172 wing o417 estc r220701 99896340 99896340 154321 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a90172) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 154321) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2410:23) a copy of admiral russel's letter to the earl of nottingham published by authority. orford, edward russell, earl of, 1653-1727. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by edw. jones in the savoy, [london] : 1692. dated: may 20. 1692. cape-barfleur, s.w. distance 7 leagues. includes: some particulars of another letter from the fleet. in this edition, the first line of title reads: "a copy of admiral russel's". reproduction of original in the newberry library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -early works to 1800. great britain -history -william and mary, 1689-1702 -early works to 1800. great britain -history, naval -stuarts, 1603-1714 -early works to 1800. broadsides -england 2007-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-09 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2007-09 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a copy of admiral russel's letter to the earl of nottingham . published by authority . yesterday about three in the morning , cape barfleur bearing s. w. and by s. distance seven leagues , my scouts made the signal for seeing the enemy , the wind westerly ; the french bore down to me , and at eleven engaged me , but at some distance ; we continued fighting till half an hour past five in the evening ; at which time the enemy towed away with all their boats , and we after them ; it was calm all day ; about six there was a fresh engagement to the westward of me , which i supposed to be the blue ; it continued calm all night . i can give no particular account of things ; but that the french were beaten , and i am now steering away for conquet road , having a fresh gale easterly , but extream foggy , i suppose that is the place they design for ; if it please god to send us a little clear weather , i doubt not but we shall destroy their whole fleet : i saw in the night 3 or 4 ships blow up , but i know not what they are , so soon as i am able to give you a more particular relation i will not be wanting . may 20. 1692. cape-barfleur , s. w. distance 7 leagues . some particulars of another letter from the fleet. yesterday in the gray of the morning we made the french fleet , in a line of battle , about two leagues to windward , they having the weather gage , bore down very boldly , and close upon us ; at 11 exactly we engaged ; the engagement was very hot , and continued so till near four in the afternoon , at which time the french fleet bore away ; then the wind was as before , at w. b. s. and w. s. vv. veering about to n. by e. and n. n. e. sir clouesly shovel , and sir john ashby , having the weather gage , fell on , and maintained the engagement till near ten at night ; the french all that time bearing away , and the english pursuing them ; what damage is done on either side is not yet known ; some ships were seen in flames about nine at night , but it is not discovered what they were . portsmouth , may 20. since this account , the mary galley is come to spitthead from admiral ruffel , whom he left at 8 this morning , about 15 leagues s. and b. w. from the isle of wight ; he saw both the french admirals seconds sink , and many ships on fire ; and that for two leagues together the sea was full of vvrecks of ships , but doth not know of the loss of any of their majesties ships , or commanders . this morning when he came away the french were running , and ours in pursuit of them ; and about ten a clock heard them engaged again , and heard the guns till one , when the vvind sprung up 〈◊〉 s. and s. and by w. printed by edw. jones in the savoy . 1692. a copy of a letter from the french king to king james in answer to one from him. translated from the french copy. louis xiv, king of france, 1638-1715. 1692 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b04187 wing l3104 estc r180074 52612197 ocm 52612197 179499 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b04187) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179499) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2790:31) a copy of a letter from the french king to king james in answer to one from him. translated from the french copy. louis xiv, king of france, 1638-1715. james ii, king of england 1633-1701. 1 sheet ([2] p.) [s.n.], london printed : and reprinted, 1692. caption title. dated and signed at end: from our camp before namur, june the 18. 1692. lewis. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -sources. france -foreign relations -england -early works to 1800. england -foreign relations -france -early works to 1800. broadsides -england -17th century. 2008-04 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-10 megan marion sampled and proofread 2008-10 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a copy of a letter from the french king to king james in answer to one from him . translated from the french copy . your majesty seems to be too sensibly afflicted with the late disaster of our fleet ; the disappointment we must confess was unexpected and surprizing , & has occasion'd no small interruption in the measures we had taken : but however the severe application that you have made , by imputing that unhappy accident to the ill fortune that attends your affairs since you betook your self to our protection , we cannot admit of , much less can we allow the consequence which you seem to imply , and which your friends are apprehensive of , that the blame of that disappointment should , in our nation , any wayes affect your majesty . the mistaken informations you receiv'd from your dependents in great britan , we are sensible were no otherwise represented to us by your majesty , than as they were first communicated to you ; the ill success whereof shall be so far from obliging us to withdraw our protection from you , that it has only added vigor to our endeavours , to repair by land the misfortune we have sustain'd at sea. the glory and grandure of the french nation has been too well established , to be shaken by one storm . the success we may reasonably expect from the siege of namur , will be sufficient at least to ballance the insulting hopes of our enemies : we are already masters of the town , and have no reason to despair ( if the assurances given us by vauban may be rely'd upon ) of a prosperous progress from so formidable forces as are now employ'd in that service . 't is true , the account of the surrender of great waradin comes something unseasonable , but we hope the consequence is too remote , to affect the enterprizes of our summers campaign on this side , upon which the fortune of the war seems to depend . we hope to perswade our people , that the descent which the english seem to threaten upon our coast , is rather an ammusement than any awayes practicable . there are some about us ( and with whom our most important councils are concenred ) who appear apprehensive in case of a descent , or any other inrode into our kingdom of france , that it may occasion a revolt amongst our subjects . but we presume the discipline we have used , has not been so ill bestowed as to admit of any such rebellious practice . our subjects are french men , and we have taken care to make them catholicks , who will not easily learn the hereticall distinction between revolt and rebellion . the request which you make of retiring from our kingdom , we cannot at this time hearken to . the late obsticles in our affairs , upon which you seem to ground your proposal , is an irrefragable argument for our with-holding our consent : forasmuch as it would be looked upon by all the world , as well friends as enemies , that we want either inclination or power to protect you , which would be unsuitable to our character , and inconvenient for the present posture of affairs . from our camp before namur , june the 18. 1692. lewis . london printed , and reprinted , 1692. a letter from exon to his friend, mr. t. wills, in london, concerning the landing of the french july 26 ; with the particulars of the burning the town of tingmouth, &c. lamplugh, thomas, 1615-1691. 1690 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a97060 wing w58c estc r186094 43077743 ocm 43077743 151858 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a97060) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 151858) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2279:13) a letter from exon to his friend, mr. t. wills, in london, concerning the landing of the french july 26 ; with the particulars of the burning the town of tingmouth, &c. lamplugh, thomas, 1615-1691. wills, t. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by h. hills, london, : 1690. reproduction of original in: newberry library, chicago, illinois. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -campaigns -england. broadsides -london (england) -17th century. 2007-06 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-07 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2007-07 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter from exon to his friend , mr. t wills , in london , concerning the landing of the french , july 26 ; with the particulars of the burning the town of tingmouth , &c. loving kinsman , my service in the camp , against the french fleet , hinder'd me from writing the last post . the enemy now lie as they did when i wrote to you last ; and on saturday morning , about five , the 15 gallies , and one man of war , with the long-boats , made up to tingmouth , and rang a peal of canons about half an hour long ; afterwards landed about 1000 men , who entred the town and burnt about 30 houses : went into the church , broke the communion-table in pieces , the pulpet and desk ; tore the common-prayer book in pieces , and did some injury to the font. i observ'd the proclamation for the fast against a pillar , which had but one cut with a sword. there were in the harbour about eight ships and barks which they also burned , not sparing the passage-boat , nor the village which lies the yonder side the passage . they also made an incursion about a mile above the town , and burnt several country houses . about three hours before they landed , coll. bampfield was in the town with his regiment , but they pretending to land about brixham , he was commanded there ; and the town left to the guard of the mobile , and a mob . troop of horse , commanded by the young heyden , who all scoured upon the first firing of the enemy , and left two pieces of half canon planted upon the shore , which the enemy took with them . when they landed , there was so great a mist , that one could not discern the other : about nine a clock it broke up , and the enemy retir'd to their boats , when i enter'd the town , in the head of 200 of the posse com. where we found the town all in flames and ruine , but no one stay'd to be killed ; all left their houses , except an old woman , of eighty years , who was taken in the bed , and in danger of ravishment ; but pleading her age , escaped . she says , about twenty enter'd her chamber , all english ; they made bold with her coffers , but assured her , she need not be afraid of burning her house ; and told her , if the rest had stay'd , they might have saved theirs . i send you some of their match , which i took burning in a house ; and were it not for the charge of postage , would send you a bullet of 30 l. weight , which i took up in the ruins of a chimney . i am just mounting again ( having seen your mare , who will be serviceable against you come ) and therefore must bid you adieu , wishing us victory over the enemy , and a happy meeting , yours j. w. exon , july 28. 1690. london , printed by h. hills . 1690. act anent persons travelling to england or ireland without passes. at edinburgh the twenty sixth day of january 1694 years. scotland. privy council. 1694 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b05298 wing s1394 estc r182971 52528895 ocm 52528895 178915 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b05298) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 178915) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2774:54) act anent persons travelling to england or ireland without passes. at edinburgh the twenty sixth day of january 1694 years. scotland. privy council. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by the successors of andrew anderson, printer to their most excellent majesties, edinburgh : anno dom. 1694. caption title. initial letter. signed: gilb. eliot. cls. sti. concilii. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng passes (transportation) -scotland -early works to 1800. international travel regulations -scotland -early works to 1800. grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2009-01 megan marion sampled and proofread 2009-01 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion act anent persons travelling to england or ireland without passes . at edinburgh the twenty sixth day of january 1694 years . the lords of their majesties privy council understanding , that now when levies are appointed to be made for their majesties service , in the present war , so necessary for the defence of the true protestant religion , and the preservation of their majesties kingdoms , these most proper for the said levies , may possibly : ( to decline the same , ) retire out of the kingdom to england or ireland ; do therefore require , and strictly command all collectors of their majesties customs , surveyers , clerks , waiters at the several ports , and all others their majesties officers , civil or military who may be concerned , that they suffer no vessel great or small to sail for ireland , at any time after publication hereof , at the said ports on the west seas , untill the first day of may next to come , without a sufficient pass from one of their majesties privy council , or the sheriff or sheriff-deput , or two of the commissioners of supply , or justice of peace of the shire , within which the saids ports do ly ; which persons impowered to give the saids passes , are hereby also impowered , and required to take caution of the master and skippers of the saids ships , that they shall carry no person out of this kingdom for ireland , during the space foresaid , without lawful passes , under the pain of one hundred merks toties quoties , for each person so carryed out by him : as also , the hail forenamed persons , with all collectors , surveyers , clerks , and waiters upon the borders betwixt scotland and england , are hereby commanded , that they suffer no person to go for england or ireland , without passes from one of their majesties privy council , or from the sheriff , or sheriff-deput , or two of the commissioners of supply , or justices of the peace of the shire where the saids persons did last reside , and that as the hail foresaids persons will be answerable at their peril . and furder , the saids lords of their majesties privy council , do hereby prohibit all such persons who are fit , and in use to be put forth in foot-levies , to remove out of the shire where they dwell , after the date hereof , until the present levy ordered by proclamation be compleated , without passes from the heretor of the ground where they live , or his chamberlain in his absence ; certifying those that presume to do in the contrair , that they shall be summarly seized where they may be apprehended . and it is hereby declared , that the seazers and apprehenders of the said fleers , shall have right and liberty to give them up to serve for such as they may be obliged to put forth in the said levy . and ordains these presents to be printed , and to be published at the mercat-cross of edinburgh , and at the sea-ports of the west-seas , and hail other head-burghs of this kingdom . per actum dominorum secreti concilii . gilb . eliot . cls. sti. concilii . god save king william and queen mary . edinburgh , printed by the successors of andrew anderson , printer to their most excellent majesties , anno dom. 1694. account of a great engagement which happened between the english squadron, under the command of vice-admiral herbert, and the whole french fleet, near the coast of ireland, on the first of may, 1689. 1689 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b01322) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 178691) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2766:1) account of a great engagement which happened between the english squadron, under the command of vice-admiral herbert, and the whole french fleet, near the coast of ireland, on the first of may, 1689. torrington, arthur herbert, earl of, 1647-1716. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by w. davis, london : 1689. caption title. imprint from colophon. reproduction of the original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -naval operations -early works to 1800. broadsides -england -17th century. 2008-06 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-11 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-11 john pas text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion account of a great engagement which hapned between the english squadron , under the command of vice-admiral herbert , and the whole french fleet , near the coast of ireland , on the first of may , 1689. with allowance . his majesty's naval forces having taken the seas , under the command of vice-admiral herbert ; in order to curb the insults of the french , and to hinder their attempts upon the kingdom of ireland , &c. after several successful enterprizes , and suppressing the french-capers and privateers , rescuing several prizes they had taken and were carrying into their harbours , braving the naval forces of the french-king , with a small number of ships in his chief harbour , &c. and resolute to prosecute the glorious war against the disturbers of christendom : the english understanding the french were gotten to sea , under the favour of the night , and contrary winds that hindred ours for standing in , or bearing up with them , and mistrusting they made for ireland , they stood to that coast to prevent their landing any forces to distress the protestants . on the first of may instant , the english got sight of them lying in the bay of bantree in the west of ireland , near the county of kerry , and resolving forthwith to enter the bay and attacque them , the wind unluckily chopt about , and blew hard at west north-west , so that we could not but with abundance of difficulty turn into the bay. but resolving by any means to get in to them , with nine of our ships , the admiral himself leading them , they advance ; which the french perceiving , with full sail before the wind , they make up and meet us . the french fleet consisted of twenty nine sail of men of war , besides tenders ; ours but nineteen in the whole , whereof five only could fully come up to engage . our admiral had immediately seven of their best ships upon his quarter , and the french admiral lying on the other broad-side of him , but notwithstanding the inequality , our brave admiral never stirr'd off the quarter-deck encouraging his men , both by his orders and example ; the rest of our ships that could come up , charging them board to board , discharging their broad-sides , grappling , and couragiously fighting on the decks , thundring in their vollies of small shot , killing their men in great number , and renting their sails , masts , and rigging , thereby very much disabling them , continuing resolutely engaged till night parted them : and although the english , much inferiour in number , and wanting the weather-gage , which greatly hindred them , did not gain the advantage they otherwise might undoubtedly have had , yet nothing was wanting that might testify their continued gallantry and bravery , and to shew the french that they are not to dispute with them the soveraignty of the ocean . as to the particulars of the loss on either side we are wanting ; however it reported on all hands , the english have not lost one vessel : yet under the favour of engagement , the french having landed a few men , retreated , dispairing notwithsta●●ing the advantage of their number , of any answerable success , though our admiral solves to stick close to them . and in a little time we doubt not ( under god ) to ma●● good the justice of our cause , and pull down the pride of that antichristian mona●●● who has so long disturb'd the peace of the whole christian world. london printed by w. davis . 168● . his majesties most gracious speech to both houses of parliament england and wales. sovereign (1689-1702 : william iii) 1697 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b06618 wing w2413 estc r186677 52529105 ocm 52529105 179259 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b06618) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179259) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2781:26) his majesties most gracious speech to both houses of parliament england and wales. sovereign (1689-1702 : william iii) william, iii, king of england, 1650-1702. england and wales. parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) by robert sanders one of his majesties printers, printed at london ; and re-printed at glasgow : anno dom. 1697. caption title. imperfect: tightly bound with slight loss of text. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -finance -early works to 1800. great britain -politics and government -1689-1702 -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-06 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-06 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion his majesties most gracious speech to both houses of parliament my lords and gentlemen , the war , which i entred into by the advice of my people , is , by the blessing of god , and their zealous and affectionate assistance , brought to the end we all proposed , an honourable peace ; which i was willing to conclude , not so much to ease my self from any trouble or hazard , as to free the kingdom from the continuing burden of an expensive war. i am heartily sorry my subjects will not at first find all that relief from the peace which i could wish , and they may expect ; but the fonds intended for the last years service have fallen short of answering the sums for which they were given , so that there remain considerable deficiencies to be provided for . there 's a debt upon the account of the fleet and the army . the revenues of the crown have been anticipated , by my consent , for publick uses , so that i am wholly destitute of means to support the civil list ; and i am never distrust you 'l suffer this to turn to my disadvantage , but will provide for me during my life , in such a manner as may be for my honour , and for the honour of the government . our naval force being increased to near double what it was at my accession to the crown , the charge of maintaining it will be proportionably augmented , and it is certainly necessary for the interest and reputation of england , to have always a great strength at sea. the circumstances of affairs abroad are such , that i think my self obliged to tell on my opinion , that for the present , england cannot be safe without a land force ; and i hope we shall not give those who mean us ill , the opportunity of effecting that , under the notion of a peace , which they could not bring to pass by 〈◊〉 war. i doubt not but you , gentlemen of the house of commons , will take these particulars into your consideration , in such a manner as to provide the necessary supplies , which i do very earnestly recommend to you . my lords and gentlemen , that which i most delight to think of , and am best pleased to own , is , that i have all the proofs of my peoples affection that a prince can desire ; and i take this occasion to give them the most solemn assurance , that as i never had , so i never ●ill nor can have any interest separate from theirs . i esteem it one of the greatest advantages of the peace , that i shall now have ●eisure to rectifie such corruptions or abuses , as may have crept into any part of ●he administration , during the war , and effectually to discourage prophaneness ●nd immorality ; and i shall imploy my thoughts in promoting trade , and advancing the happiness and flourishing estate of the kingdom . i shall conclude with telling you , that as i have , with the hazard of every ●hing , rescued your religion , laws and liberties , when they were in the ex●●eamest danger , so i shall place the glory of my reign , in preserving them en●●re and leaving them so to posterity . finis . printed at london , and re-printed at glasgow , by robert sanders one of his majesties printers , anno dom. 1697. articles of peace offered by the crown of france france. sovereign (1643-1715 : louis xiv) 1696 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b04186 wing l3103a estc r180073 52614776 ocm 52614776 175962 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b04186) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 175962) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2757:3) articles of peace offered by the crown of france france. sovereign (1643-1715 : louis xiv) louis xiv, king of france, 1638-1715. 1 sheet ([1] p.) [s.n.], printed at london, ; and re-printed : in the year 1696. caption title. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -early works to 1800. france -foreign relations -england -17th century -early works to 1800. england -foreign relations -france -17th century -early works to 1800. great britain -history -william and mary, 1689-1702 -early works to 1800. broadsides -england -17th century. 2008-04 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-10 megan marion sampled and proofread 2008-10 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion articles of peace offered by the crown of france i. the crown of france for the foundation of a future peace , will observe the westphalia and nimeguen treaties . ii. notwithstanding the said crown intended to keep strasburgh and luxemburgh , and give for an equivalent friburg , in the state it is in at present , with its dependencies : and also brisack , with all its fortifications , except those of the new city , the fort of esch and the fort of ryne , to be demolished : nevertheless upon the allies refusing to accept them , the said crown promises to give up the city of strasburgh only in the condition it was in when taken . iii. to deliver up philipsburgh to the bishop of spire . iv. to raze the fort of kiell , and other forts made on the rhine . v. as also fort-louis and huninghen . vi. to raze montroyal and roseback , provided the allies will be obliged not to re-fortifie them . vii . to restore to the elector of pallatine , not only his electoral lands , but also the dutchies of simmeren and lauteren , and the county of spanheim , with all other places whereof his ellectoral highness has been dispossessed to this present time . viii . madam the dutches of orleans will not proceed by force on her protestant subjects , but will prosecute her right only before a competent judge in relation to the elector . ix . to give satisfaction to the other crowns , in relation to other revenues ; that is to say to the crown of sweeden , for the dutchies of deux-ponis ; and all its dependencies . x. to the count of valdentz , for his town and castle of valdentz . xi . to restore bischweiter to the count of hanow . xii . to the count of obersteine the county delamoets . xiii . the signory of salme , and that of salstein , to the prince of salme , or to whom they lawfully appertain , since there is still a dispute about it . xiv . the signory of lustenstein , and that of altsheim , to those to whom they belong . xv. obsworter to the house of nassaw . xvi . to the house of wirtemburgh , the county of montraband , herricourt . blamont , and chastillet . xvii . germersheime to the house of the elector palatine ; notwithstanding former treaties . xviii . stadez . and landeburgh to the count de valitz . xix . to restore all that has been taken since the peace of nimeguen : xx. as to lorrain . this crown would have it referred to the general treaty of peace ; and in the mean time , france promises to offer more on this subject than she has ever hitherto done . xxi . to restore to the bishop of liege , dinant , in the state it was in when she possessed her self of it . xxii . that to all other princes , whether comprehended in the alliance or not , their pretensions shall be respited ; and that france obligeth her self to give them satisfaction in the time of the negotiation . xxiii . that this crown will acknowledge william the third for lawful king of england , without any reserve or restriction , tho' not before the conclusion of the peace ; since if this crown should do it at present , and the peace should not be concluded , it would be necessary for her to retract it , an inconvenience she would avoid . printed at london , and re-printed in the year , 1696. a letter to the states general of the united provinces from prince waldeck, who commands their army in flanders, giving an account of the happy success they had against the french army commanded by the mareschal d'humieres, on the 15/25 of august instant, 1689 ; published by authority. waldeck, georg friedrich, graf von, 1620-1692. 1689 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a85911 wing g531 estc r177379 42475463 ocm 42475463 151145 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a85911) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 151145) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2246:5) a letter to the states general of the united provinces from prince waldeck, who commands their army in flanders, giving an account of the happy success they had against the french army commanded by the mareschal d'humieres, on the 15/25 of august instant, 1689 ; published by authority. waldeck, georg friedrich, graf von, 1620-1692. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by edward jones in the savoy, [london] : 1689. signed at bottom of sheet: g. frederick p. of waldeck. reproduction of original in: newberry library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697. broadsides -london (england) -17th century. 2007-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-12 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2007-12 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a letter to the states general of the united provinces , from prince waldeck , who commands their army in flanders : giving an account of the happy success they had against the french army commanded by the mareschal d'humieres , on the 15 / 25 of august instant , 1689. published by authority . this morning a good part of your lordships army being gone to forage , we had news , that the mareschal d'humieres with his army , which he had reinforced some days before with 6000 men , was on his march , of which we immediately advertised the foragers by firing several pieces of canon , as had been agreed on . in the mean time the enemies vanguard attackt the village forgé , where 800 men were posted under the command of the english colonel hodges , lieutenant colonel goes , and the major of the regiment of hesse . this attack lasted about 2 hours , but our men defended themselves very bravely , till major de roo ( who was sent to give notice thereof to the lieutenant generals webbenum , the earl of marleborough and d'huby , who were with the foragers and to bring them back ) came to their assistance with some horse ; whereupon our men , seeing the whole french army advanced towards them , retired fighting till they came to a hill near the town of walcourt , in which was posted a batallion of lunenburghers of linstau's regiment , who were afterwards reinforced with the batallion of colonel holle . the french attack'd the said town very furiously with many batallions and several pieces of canon , which lasted two hours and a half . lieutenant general aylua advanced with 3 regiments towards the town , of which he detached that commanded by brigadier talmash , and the lieutenant general the earl of marleborough , followed with the guard du corps , and two english regiments . in the mean time major general slangenburg , advanced with a detachement of foot to the other side of the town , which obliged the enemy to retire in confusion , leaving behind them their cannon and ammunition , and a great many killed and wounded , the number whereof is not yet certainly known , amongst which are three captains of the french guards ; and monsieur d' artagnan commandant of the said guards , with several others , are taken prisoners . in their retreat came two drummers from the enemy , to desire a cessation to bury their dead ; who said , that six battalions of the guards , who likewise made the attack , were , for the most part , ruined . on our side none of any consideration are kill'd , besides lieutenant colonel graham of the english , the major of the lunenburgh dragoons , and a captain lieutenant ; and a captain , and some foragers , were taken : and in the town there were very few kill'd or wounded . the french retired to their camp , and our troops kept their ground till night . the velt mareschal count de nassau , with all the other generals and officers , behaved themselves as could be wish'd ; and all our troops shewed a great courage and desire to come to a battle , and particularly the english , who were engaged in this action , behaved themselves very well and a great success might have been expected had the scituation of the country suffered us to follow the enemy . i congratulate your lordships upon the good success of this rencounter , which has fallen out so fortunately for your arms , and in which the enemy has been forced to retire . praying god farther to bless your lordships arms and government ; to whose protection i commend you , and remain your lordships most humble and most obedient servant , g. frederick p. of waldeck . from the camp near the castle of til , aug. 25. 1689. late at night . other letters from the army say , that there were 2000 of the french killed and wounded . printed by edw. jones in the savoy , 1689. his imperial majesty's letter to the pope wherein is offered his reasons why he cannot accept of any offers of peace with france / translated from the original. holy roman empire. emperor (1658-1705 : leopold i) 1692 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b03987 wing l1112 estc r179455 52614743 ocm 52614743 175937 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b03987) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 175937) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2755:27) his imperial majesty's letter to the pope wherein is offered his reasons why he cannot accept of any offers of peace with france / translated from the original. holy roman empire. emperor (1658-1705 : leopold i) leopold i, holy roman emperor, 1640-1705. catholic church pope (1689-1691 : alexander viii). 1 sheet ([2] p.) re-printed by the heir of andrew anderson ..., edinburgh, : 1692. caption title. imprint from colophon. dated at end: vienna, jan. 30, 1691. reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -sources. germany -foreign relations -france -early works to 1800. france -foreign relations -germany -early works to 1800. broadsides -edinburgh -17th century. 2008-04 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-09 megan marion sampled and proofread 2008-09 megan marion text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion his imperial majesty's letter to the pope ; wherein is offered , his reasons why he cannot accept of any offers of peace with france . translated from the original . most holy father , what deep and sorrowful impressions the great calamities and miseries of the present war , which all christendom groans under , have made on your mind , as also the great and special care your holiness takes to reconcile the exasperated minds of all christian princes , in order to the promoting of an universal peace , has been given us to understand at large by your holiness letter , from the 8th of the last month. and truly the great and increasing mischiefs , attending a war that has been rais'd under so frivolous pretences , moves no less ours , than your holiness fatherly heart . yet since we did not take up arms till we were forc'd to it by an unavoidable necessity , we have this consolation left us , that ( calling god and our conscience to witness ) we are wholly free from the cause of it : besides your holiness , by a long and solid experience , is so well acquainted with the remotest inclinations of our heart , that you 'll easily conceive , that we can suffer nothing with more uneasiness and impatience , than to see the effects of a natural tendency to peace and quietness , obstructed by the ambitious and envious endeavours of france . as yet no obligations , promises , no not the most sacred oaths could prevail with that crown to keep it from the breaking of the most solemn treaties as soon as they were made , for to pass over all the rest , the christian world knows it ; and future ages will relate it with astonishment , that the most christian king has caused himself to be seduced so far , as to obstruct the glorious course of our victorious arms over the infidels ; and when we were relying on his friendship , but so lately renewed , and consequently not at all standing on our guards , to invade us upon a sudden the second time with his hostile arms , putting all to the fire and sword , before he had acquainted us with his having the cause for it , and indeed , all divine and humane laws are violated , rather than france should let slip any occasion of enlarging her frontiers , or to hinder us from the securing of ours , and to deprive us and christendom of all means to end the war with the turks with success and advantage . thus have we been obliged by the most sacred ty of our high office , by reason of that most ignominious league between the most christian king , and the sworn enemy of the christian name , to unite our selves with our friends and confederates against france , to the defence of us and our people ; which union and confederacy is of so high a nature , that we can do nothing towards the conclusion of a peace , without their advice and counsel . but since we are wholly convinc'd that their inclinations are no less tending than ours to such a peace , by which all christendom , according to the wesphalian and pyrenean treaty ( since violated by france ) may be restor'd to its former quietness and tranquillity , all will be reduced to this point , that your holiness will be pleased to employ to the outmost , your fatherly care to prevail with the french king as the sole author of this war , to restore both the abovementioned treaties , which he himself has broke . in case your holiness can obtain from him these so just demands , there shall be wanting nothing on our side to render effectual this so holy design of your holiness , tending to the good of christendom , and your proffered fatherly service for the promoting of a general reconciliation , so acceptable to us , and so much wish'd for by all the rest of our confederates . this we have thought fit to reply to your holiness's letter , according to our zeal for your person , praying god almighty long to preserve your holiness to the benefit of us and the church . vienna , jan. 30. 169● . edinburgh , re-printed by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to their most excellent majesties , 1692. their majesties declaration against the french king england and wales. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) 1689 approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b06632) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179265) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2781:32) their majesties declaration against the french king england and wales. sovereign (1689-1694 : william and mary) 1 sheet ([1] p.) by the heir of andrew anderson, by the order of the committee of estates, printed at london ; and re-printed at edinburgh : 1689. caption title. initial letter. dated: given at our court at hampton court, the seventh day of may, 1689. in the first year of our reign. reproduction of the original in the national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -early works to 1800. war, declaration of -great britain -early works to 1800. great britain -foreign relations -france -early works to 1800. great britain -history -william and mary, 1689-1702 -early works to 1800. broadsides -scotland -17th century. 2008-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-02 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-03 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-03 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion their majesties declaration against the french king . william r. it having pleased almighty god to make us the happy instruments of rescuing these nations from great and imminent dangers , and to place us upon the throne of these kingdoms , we think our selves obliged to endeavour to the uttermost to promote the welfare of our people , which can never be effectually secured , but by preventing the miseries that threaten them from abroad . when we consider the many unjust methods the french king hath of late years taken to gratifie his ambition , that he has not only invaded the territories of the emperor , and of the empire now in amity with us , laying waste whole countries , and destroying the inhabitants by his armies , but declared war against our allies , without any provocation , in manifest violation of the treaties confi●med by the guaranty of the crown of england ; we can do no less than joyn with our allies , in opposing the designs of the french king , as the disturber ot the peace , and the common enemy of the christian world. and besides the obligations we ly under by treaties with our allies , which are a sufficient justification of us for taking up arms at this time , since they have called upon us so to do , the many injuries done to us , and to our subjects , without any reparation , by the french king , are such , that ( however of late years they were not taken notice of , for reasons well known to the world , nevertheless ) we will not pass them over without a publick and just resentment of such outrages . it is not long since the french took licences from the english governor of new found-land , to fish in the seas upon that coast , and paid a tribute for such licences , as an acknowledgment of the sole right of the crown of england to that island ; and yet of late , the encroachments of the french upon our said island , and our subjects trade and fishery have been more like the invasions of an enemy , than becoming friends , who enjoyed the advantages of that trade only by permission . but that the french king should invade our charibbee islands , and possess himself of our territories of the province of new-york , and of hudson's bay in a hostile manner , seizing our forts , burning our subjects houses , and enriching his people with the spoil of their goods and merchandizes , detaining some of our subjects under the hardship of imprisonment , causing others to be inhumanely kill'd , and driving the rest to sea in a small vessel , without food and necessaries to support them , are actions not becoming even an enemy ; and yet he was so far from declaring himself so , that at that very time he was negotiating here in england by his ministers , a treaty of neutrality and good correspondence in america . the proceedings of the french king against our subjects in europe , are so notorious , that we shall not need to enlarge upon them ; his countenancing the seizure of english ships by french privateers , forbidding the importation of great part of the product and manufactures of our kingdom , and imposing exorbitant customes upon the rest , notwithstanding the vast advantage he and the french nation reap by their commerce with england , are sufficient evidences of his designs to destroy the trade , and consequently to ru●ne the navigation , upon which the wealth and safety of this nation very much depends . the right of the flag , inherent in the crown of england , has been disputed by his orders in violation of our sovereignty of the narrow seas , which in all ages has been asserted by our predecessors , and we are resolv'd to maintain , for the honour of our crown , and of the english nation . but that which must nearly touch us , is his unchristian prosecution of many of our english protestant subjects in france , for matters of religion , contrary to the law of nations , and express treaties , forcing them to abjure their religion by strange and unusual cruelties , and imprisoning some of the masters and seamen of our merchants ships , and condemning others to the gallies , upon pretence of having on board , either some of his own miserable protes ; tant subjects , or their effects , and lastly , as he has for some years last past , endeavoured by insinuations and promises of assistance , to overthrow the government of england ; so now by open and violent methods , and the actual invasion of our kingdom of ireland , in support of our subjects in arms and in rebellion against us , he is promoting the utter extirpation of our good and loyal subjects in that our kingdom . being therefore thus necessitated to take up arms , and relying on the help of almighty god in our just undertaking ; we have thought fit to declare , and do hereby declare war against the french king , and that we will in conjunction with our allies , vigorously prosecute the same by sea and land ( since he hath so unrighteously begun it ) being assured of the hearty concurrence and as ; sistance of our subjects in support of so good a cause : hereby willing and requiring our general of our forces , our commissioners for executing the office of high admiral , our lieutenants of our several counties , governors of our forts and garisons , and all other officers and souldiers under them , by sea and land , to do and execute all acts of hostility in the prosecution of this war against the french king , his vassals and subjects , and to oppose their attempts , willing and requiring all our subjects to take notice of the same , whom we henceforth forbid to hold any correspondence or communication with the said french king or his subjects . and because there are remaining in our kingdoms many of the subjects ot the french king , we do declare and give our royal word , that all such of the french nation as shall demean themselves dutifully towards us , and not correspond with our enemies , shall be fate in their persons and estates , and free from all molestation and trouble of any kind . given at our court at hampton court , the seventh day of may , 1689. in the first year of our reign . god save king willlam and queen mary . 〈…〉 london , and re-printed at edinburgh by the heir of andrew anderson , by the order of the committee of estates . 1689. a declaration of war by the states-general against the french, hague, march 12, 1689 united provinces of the netherlands. staten generaal. 1689 approx. 8 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a52829) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 109698) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1708:17) a declaration of war by the states-general against the french, hague, march 12, 1689 united provinces of the netherlands. staten generaal. 1 broadside. re-printed at edinburgh in the year, [edinburgh] : 1689. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697. netherlands -history -1648-1714. broadsides -scotland -edinburgh -17th century. 2007-12 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-02 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2008-02 elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a declaration of war , by the states-general against the french , hague , march 12. 1689. that the states-general being in perfect peace and tranquillity in the year 1672 , with such an entire confidence in the treatles of peace , friendship and alliance established between the french king and this state , that they were unprovided of whatever might serve for their defence against so powerful a king , not being able to imagine that the said king , without any just cause , would break the said treaties , were yet contrary to all expectation fallen upon with so sudden and heavy a war , that the state was in a short time brought into great danger , and might have been entirely subverted , had they not reflected upon the reasons which the said king declared had moved him to the war , to wit , the encrease of his honour and glory ; and firmly trusted that almighty god would not suffer their destruction , undertaken with so great injustice , whereby they were encouraged in that desperate state of affairs , under the prudent conduct of his highness the prince of orange , to stand our all extremities in the defence of the true reformed religion , their liberty , & country ; that it having pleased god to pour out his mercies upon the state , after the spilling of much innocent blood , & the great suffering of the inhabitants by the cruelties of the french , a treaty of peace , commerce , & navigation was concluded in the year 1678. with the french king at nimeguen : which the states on their part exactly & religiously observed ; but that on the contrary the french king soon after , by a publict edict , laid heavy burthens upon the commerce of the state , and endeavoured from time to time , by all manner of way , as well in , as out of europe , to molest the same : favoured the taking of their ships and goods , and sought , as far as in him lay , as well directly as indirectly , entirely to ruine their said commerce and navigation , causing even their ships of war to be visited by force , and some of them to be attack'd in time of peace ; that the said king had finally by new impositions and vexations hindred the inhabitants of these countries from vending in france , their manufactures , and product of their fishery , and had on frivolous pretences laid such great and unjust impositions upon their trade , that it was impossible for them to continue it any longer ; slighting with great contempt all the instances made by the states on occasion thereof , and denying their ambassadors in france the honour and respect which they had always enjoyed ; that the said king having begun the terrible persecution against those of the reformed religion within his kingdoms , had involved therein the subjects of this state , residing there on account of their trade , forcing women from their husbands , and children from their parents , and treating even the consuls of this state in a cruel and unheard of manner , contrary to the law of nations , and the express tenor of the treaties ; that the said king had farther shewed his ill design against this state , by the continual motion of his troops towards their frontiers , thereby to oblige them to make extraordinary preparations by land and sea , to the exhausting of their revenues ; that he had sometimes with fair words and solemn assurances , and even by overtures of an alliance , endeavoured to amuse them , but that when ever they went about to provide for their own security , and the farther strengthning of the treaty of nimeguen , by making defensive alliances with any of the princes their neighbours , he had always opposed them , & even threatned them with a war on account thereof . lastly , that the said king has in ful peace caused the ships , goods , & persons of the subjects of this state who were residing in france , upon the publick faith of the treaties , to be seized , and the masters and seamen of the said ships to be imprisoned , and most babarously treated , to force them to change their religion , and the said ships , goods and effects to be sold , although it is expresly stipulated by the treaty of commerce , that in case of a war , the subjects on both sides shall be allowed six months time to retire with their goods , or otherwise to sell or dispose of them ; which was followed with the plundering and burning of diverse villages within the territories of this state ; and afterwards with a declaration of war , for which no other reason was given than that the states had made extraordinary preparations by land and sea , although they had as●ured the said king that they were only intended for their own necessary defence , and that they would not concern themselves with the election of cologne ; that the states having thus made manifest the evil designs and machinarions of the french king against this state , do admonish their subjects seriously to reflect upon the treatment they are to expect from him in matter of their religion , liberty , estates , and persons , and that they will call to mind the cruel persecution he has undertaken against his own subjects , and in what manner the towns and places , who thought they had surrendred upon good conditions have been treated , and whole countries destroyed which his troops have been forced to quit . upon all these considerations , and for the preservation of their religion , and liberty and the repairing the injuries ther subjects have so unjustly suffered , the said states do declare war against the said king of france , and all his subjects countries and dominions , both by sea and land , strictly commanding . 1. that none of the inhabitants of this state , or any forreigner residing within their territories , shall transport any thing to france that 's useful in war , or correspond with the french to the prejudice of the state. 2. that all contraband goods which shall be taken going to france , shall be declared prize . 3. that good security shall be given by all persons carrying any contraband goods out of these countries , that they are not designed for france . 4. that all ships laden with contraband goods as shall be found on the french coasts shall be taken for good prize . 5. that all ships ought to have lawful pass-ports . 6. the men of war not to molest any ships having such pass-ports , and not being bound with any contraband goods to any ports in france . 7. that such as shall be found offending here-in , shall be punished with confiscation of ship and goods . 8. that the commanders of the ships of war shall punctually govern themselves in this matter according to the treaties made in relation thereunto , with other kings , princes , and states . 9. that the admiralties shall have the cognisance of these offences . 10. 11 , 12. the moneys arising by such confiscations shall be disposed of , as has been heretofore practised in like cases ; and as to the seisure , &c. former placaers to be observed . 13. none of the inhabitants of this state shall insure any french ships or goods , or others bound to france , on forfeiture of the sum insured . given at the hague the 9th of march , 1689 . re-printed at edinburgh in the year , 1689. the french king's declaration of war by sea and land against the spaniards revoking the passports, safeguards, and safe conducts, and making prohibition against having any commerce, and enjoyning his subjects to fall upon the spaniards. france. sovereign (1643-1715 : louis xiv) 1689 approx. 13 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a49214 wing l3112a estc r39667 18462499 ocm 18462499 107752 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a49214) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 107752) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1638:18) the french king's declaration of war by sea and land against the spaniards revoking the passports, safeguards, and safe conducts, and making prohibition against having any commerce, and enjoyning his subjects to fall upon the spaniards. france. sovereign (1643-1715 : louis xiv) 1 sheet (2 p.) s.n.], [london : 1689. caption title. english and french texts in two columns. imprint from colophon; place of publication suggested by wing. reproduction of original in the harvard university library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697. 2006-12 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-12 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-03 jason colman sampled and proofread 2007-03 jason colman text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the french king's declaration of war by sea and land against the spaniards , revoking the pasports , safeguards , and safe conducts , and making prohibition against having any commerce , and enjoyning his subjects to fall upon the spaniards . the sincere desire which the king has had to maintain the truce concluded in the year 1684. induc'd his majesty to dissemble the conduct held by the ministers of spain in all the courts of europe , where they have made it their whole endeavour to stir them up to take up arms against france ; and his majesty is no stranger to the sham they have had in the league of augsbourg ; he has likewise been informed of the part the governour of the spanish low-countries has had in the prince of orange's enterprize against england ; but in no wise believing that his conduct in that matter had been prescribed to him by the king his master , who for so many reasons of religion , blood , and security for all kings , was bound to oppose such an usurpation . his majesty had hoped that he might have prevailed with his catholick majesty to have struck up an union with him for the restoration of the lawful king in england , and the conservation of the catholick religion , against the union of the protestant princes , and at least to keep an exact neutrality , if the state of the affairs of spain did not permit the catholick king to take such like engagements : his majesty had to that intent made him several proposals since the month of november last , which have been well received , while the prince of orange's enterprize seemed doubtful . but these favourable disparitions vanished , as soon as it was known at madrid ; that the king of england had departed his kingdom , and from that time there has been no other discourse than of war against france . his majesty has at the same time understood , that the spanish ambassador in england daily saw the prince of orange , and sollicited him to induce the english to declare war against france ; that the governour of the spanish low-countries raised forces in all haste ; that he promised the states general to joyn them with theirs in the beginning of the campaign , and sollicited them , as well as the prince of orange , to send troops into flanders , for the putting him in a posture of waging war against france : all these intimations having let his majesty understand , that it became his prudence to know what to rely upon : he gave order to the count de rebenac , his ambassador at madrid , to demand a positive answer of the catholick king 's ministers , offering him the continuation of the truce , provided he would oblige himself , by keeping an exact neutrality not to succour directly or indirectly his majesties enemies : but all counsels having prevailed , his majesty has been informed , that the resolution had been taken to favour the usurper of england , and of joyning with the protestant princes . his majesty has also understood at the same time , that the prince of orange's agents receiv'd considerable sums at cadiz and madrid , that the troops of holland and brandenbourg are entered into the principal towns belonging to the spaniards in flanders ; and that the catholick king 's governor of the low-countries caused the states-general to be sollicited to order their army to advance to bruxells . all these advertisements , together with the answer received by the count de rebenac at madrid , leaving his majesty no room to question , but that the catholick king 's intention is to joyn with his enemies ; his majesty thought it became him , not to lose time , for the preventing his ill designs , and has resolved to declare war against him , as well by sea as land , as he does by these presents : therefore his majesty orders and enjoyns , to this effect , all his subjects , vassals , and servants , to fall upon the spaniards , and has most expresly forbid , and does forbid such his subjects from having hereafter with the spaniards any communication , commerce , or intelligence , upon pain of death ; and to that purpose , his m. has revoked and does revoke all permissions , pasports , safeguards , and safe conducts , which may have been granted by him , or by his lieutenant generals , and other his officers , contrary to these presents , and has and does declare them null , and of no effect ; forbidding all persons whatsoever from having regard thereunto . his m. commands and orders the admiral , mareschals of france , governors , and l. generals for his m. in his provinces and armies , mareschals de camp , colonels , maistres de camps , captains , chieftains , and leaders of his soldiery , as well of horse as foot , french and foreigners , and all other his officers to whom it shall belong , that they cause these presents to be executed as far forth as may concern them , and fall within their powers and jurisdictions . for such is his m. will and pleasure , his will and pleasure being , that these presents be publish'd and affix'd in all his cities , as well maritime as other , and in all his ports , havens , and all other places of his realm , and to all territories under his command whom it may concern , that so none may pleaad ignorance . given at versailles the 15th . of april , 1689. signed , and lower , colbert . le desir sincere que le roy a eû de maintenir la tréve concluë en l'année 1684. a porté sa majesté à dissimuler la conduite qu'ont tenuë les ministres d'espagne dans toutes les cours des princes de l'europe , où ils ne se sont appliquez qu'à les exciter à prendre les armes contre la france ; et sa majesté n'a pas ignoré la part qu'ils ont cùë dans la negociation de la ligue d'ausbourg ; elle a aussi esté informée de celle qu'a eû le gouverneur des païs-bas espagnols , dans l'enterprise que le prince d'orange a faite contre l'angleterre ; mais ne pouvant croire que la conduite qu'il a tenuë à cét égard , luy eût esté prescrite par le roy son maistre , qui par tant de raisons de religion , de sang , & de seurté pour tous les roys , estoit obligé de s'opposer à une pareille usurpation , sa majesté avoït esperé de pouvoir porter sa majesté catholique à s'unir avec elle pour le rétablissement du roy legitime en angleterre , & la conservation de la religion catholique contre l'union des princes protestans , & au moins , à garder une neutralité exacte , si l'état des affaires d'espagne ne permettoit pas au roy catholique de prendre de pareils engagemens , sa majesté luy a fait faire pour cét effet differentes propositions depuis le mois de novembre dernier , lesquelles ont esté bien receûës , tandis que le succez de l'enterprise du prince d'orange a paru douteux ; mais ces favorables dispositions se sont évanouïes dés quae l'on a sceu à madrid le roy d'angleterre sorty de son royaume , & l'on n'y a plus parlé que de guerre contrel a france . sa majesté a appris en mesme temps que l'ambassadeur d'espagne en angleterre voyoit journellement le prince d'orange , & le solicitoit de faire que les anglois déclarassent la guerre à la france , que le gouverneur des païs-bas espagnols levoit des troupes avec empressement ; qu'il promettoit aux estats généraux de les joindre aux leurs au commencement de la campagne , & les solicitoit aussibien que le prince d'orange , à faire passer des troupes en flandres pour le mettre en estat de faire la guerre à la france . tous ces avis ayant fait juger à sa majesté qu'il estoit de sa prudence de scavoir a quoys'en tenir , elle a donné ordre au comte de rebenac , son ambassadeur à madrid , de demander une résponse positive aux ministres du roy catholique , luy offrant la continuation de la tréve , pourvû qu'il volust s'obliger en gardant une neutralité exacte , de ne secourir directement , ny indirectement les ennemis de sa majesté ; mais les mauvais conseils ayant prévalu , sa majesté a esté informée que la resolution avoit esté prise de favoriser l'usurpareur d'angleterre , & de se joindre aux princes protestans . sa majesté a appris aussi , presque en mesme temps que les agents du prince d'orange on t touche des sommes considérables à cadix , & à madrid , que les troupes de hollande & de brandenbourgh sont entrées dans les principales places des espagnols en flanders , eque le gouverneur des païs-bas pour le roy catholique faisoit soliciter les estats généraux de faire avancer leur armée sous bruxelles . tous ces avis joynts à la réponse que ledit comte de rebenac a receûë à madrid ne laissant à sa majesté aucun lieu de douter que l'intention du roy catholique ne soit de se joindre à ses ennemis ; sa majesté a crû ne devoir pas perdre de temps à prévenir ses mauvais desseins , & a resolu de luy declarer la guerre , tant par mer que par terre , comme elle fait par la presente . ordonne & enjoint pout cét effet , sa majesté , à tous ses sujets , vassaux & serviteurs de courre sus aux espagnols , & leur a deffendu & deffend trés-expressément , d'avoir cyaprés avec eux aucune communication , commerce , ny intelligence , à pein de la vie ; et à cette fin , sa majesté a dés-à-present revoqué & revoque toutes permissions , passeports , sauvegardes , & sauf-conduits , qui pourroient avoir esté accordez par elle , ou par ses lieutenans généraux , & autres ses officiers , contraires à la presente , & les a declaré & declarè nuls , & de nul effet & valeur ; deffend à qui que ce soit d'y avoir aucun égard . mande & ordonne sa majesté à monsieur l'amiral , aux mareschaux de france , gouverneurs & lieutenans généraux pour sa majesté en fes provinces & armées , mareschaux de camp , colonels , mestres de camp , capitaines , chefs & conducteurs de ses gens de guerre , tant de cheval que de pied , françois & estrangers , & tous autres ses officiers qu'il appartiendra , que le contenu en la presente , ils fassent executer chacun à son égard dans l'étenduë de leurs pouvoirs & jurisdictions ; car telle est la volonté de sa majesté , laquelle veut & entend , que la presente soit publiée & affichée en toutes ses villes , tant maritimes qu'autres , & en tous ses ports , havres & autres lieux de son royaume , & terres de son obéïssance que besoin sera , à ce qu'aucun n'en prétende cause d'ignorance . fait à versailles 15. avril 1689. signé , louis . et plus bas , colbert . printed in the year . 1689. a panegyrick upon his majesties glorious return from the wars, after the conclusion of a general peace. by joseph brown, dr. of physick and the civil laws browne, joseph, fl. 1700-1721. 1697 approx. 24 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 12 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a77651 wing b5044 estc r229482 99895286 99895286 152579 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a77651) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 152579) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2306:3) a panegyrick upon his majesties glorious return from the wars, after the conclusion of a general peace. by joseph brown, dr. of physick and the civil laws browne, joseph, fl. 1700-1721. [4], 15, [1] p. printed for a. bosvile, at the dyal over against st. dunstans church in fleetstreet, and to be sold by e. whitlock, near stationers hall, london : 1697. reproduction of original in the william andrews clark memorial library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng williams -iii, -king of england, 1650-1702 -early works to 1800. grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -early works to 1800. 2007-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-02 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2008-02 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a panegyrick upon his majesties glorious return from the wars , after the conclusion of a general peace . by joseph brown , dr. of physick and the civil laws . salve igitur multum regum rex maxime , salvus ingredere optatam patriam , salvusque revise quae loca grata tibi felix terraque marique aeternum tuos , & te diadema coronet . london , printed for a. bosvile , at the dyal over against st. dunstans church in fleetstreet , and to be sold by e. whitlock , near stationers hall , 1697. to his grace henry duke of norfolk , earl marshal of england , &c. vvhen poets write th' immortal worth of kings , from what blost source their glorious actions springs ; they may , with less ambition justly claim , the umbrage of some high-born prince's name : such as great norfolk ; boldly may assume , next to his sov raigns right , as justly due to him . when bosworth field was once the glorious scene , where norfolk's blood did noble hanours gain : when youthful surrey did as bravely show , how far a true heroick soul dunst go : when moubrey's lyon for example strove , to kill the brutish herd , to gain the conq'rors love : which none deserv'd with greater worth we find , a noble birth joyn'd with a gen'rous mind . honour is talk'd of much , but where 's the name , so much of honour from their ancestors dare claim , embalm'd with glory , and eternal fame . what can the noble off-sppring be , but brave , that such allyance from the great and noble have . and that first pow'r is still the gen'rous soul , that actuates and moves the mighty whole . and that high genius does it self disperse , through howard's intelectual universe . the muses i am sure will bless my choice , when norfolk's name shall echo from my voice . this mighty theme cou'd come to none but you , your noble station calling it your due ; of honours laws made judge and patron too : well may you then these humble lines deserve . cou'd they , immortal as your honour live . cou'd such strong torrents on my numbers rowl , great as your worth , capacious as your soul : then might i boast no vain poetick fire , but such as homer might himself admire , when jove with harmony did him inspire . and such the gods might sure bestow on me , when i essay the high-born norfolk's pedegree : but more , when boldly i essay to sing th' imortal triumphs of the greatest king. a panegyrick to the king . assist , some godlike muse , assist my song , some angel now with nectar touch my tongue ; let my ambitious lyre tune all her strings , to heavenly numbers , soft harmonious things . such a bold theme employs my daring muse , as none but such a rash artless bard durst chuse . since then the pow'rful charm does here begin , i feel , i rising feel , the god within . arise , ye ruins , now the conqu'ror's come , with peaceful lawrels , to britannia home . no more let fame boast the grand lewis's praise , 't is william's royal temples wears the bays : to which more justly , none e're yet aspir'd , by all ador'd , by all the world admir'd ; since peace , a happy glorious peace he brings , spreading it self on fame's eternal wings ; a lasting triumph to britannia's kings . what greater conquest cou'd our albion wish ? than have her monarch crown all europe's peace . what greater can to future times be told ? than that our william was the mighty chief of old ; that he more brave , heroick trophies won , than other gen'rals , great in arms , had known . more crowns had truckled to his vast success , than other monarchs durst attempt to wish . such glory to his arms was freely giv'n , as he himself durst never ask from heav'n : for fortune to his great designs must yield , and fate obey his conduct in the field . such prosp'rous , high success , moves from afar , and comes not from the formal pageantry of war : for if by chance such glorious actions move , we 're vainly fond to think there is a jove . arise , brave brittons , now no longer mourn , your tragick cypress to triumphant lawrels turn . as new-born souls arise , come gladly show how much to caesar's mighty toils you owe : whilst zephir's balmy blasts do gently chear the tender plants of each indulging year . let flora all her gawdy nymphs adorn , more beauteous than the rosie blushes of the morn . ceres and bacchus , on the desart plain , let them a far more fertile conquest gain : and let diana , once again be made free of her wonted solitary shade . romona , let the fruitful gardens yield to thee the luxury of all the field . and let that too increase its usual store , which to our settled peace may still add more , than all the happiness we knew before ; whilst pan , propitious of the flocks , remains , a glorious pattern to succeeding swains . this prodigy of peace , we britons boast , that so much noble blood has europe cost . the want thereof , so much benums our grateful sense , we yet enjoy not half its influence . the pleasure so surprisingly does seize , we feel the dose too strong at first , to ease . this wondrous cure our great apollo wrought ; but how 't was done , is past all human thought . each feels th' effect , but none the cause can find , or william's god , or god's to william kind . either this pow'r's himself , or to him giv'n as the choice favourite of bount'ous heaven : this mighty act describes him so much more , than all the high-fam'd deeds he did before : such a confused chaos , did once appear , our utmost hopes was but a doubtful war. when , loe ! despairing , pensive albion sate , the son of war reviv'd her sinking state , and gave her life to hope a better fate . that ev'ry corner of the land became enrich'd with triumphs of the heroes name . for had achilles , or alcides liv'd , t' have seen the scene of war so boldly now reviv'd . they 'd thought their heroes here return'd again , bravely to fight , not barely to be seen , that they were deities , but warlike men. so like to mars heroic nassau reigns , he out-rivals all his virtues but his vice refrains . noble by birth , by bold experience , wise , inur'd to hard , and toilsom victories ; bold even to a fault , if such a fault we blame , that gain'd our peace , and his immortal fame . his well taught passion rules his warlike rage , and a mild clemency his actions gage . so soft by nature , to compassion led , his souldiers are no tyrants , but to mercy bred . so great in arms , each to a caesar's grown , and as well , caesar-like , deserves a crown , bold sons of war , and to that honour born , vertue 's their aim , and baseness what they scorn ; with arms , like atlas , they support a crown , and they must fall , e're that can tumble down ; the noblest title they desire to gain , is their great gen'ral's honour to maintain : under whose conduct they may boast more fame , then ever monarch yet , on his own score durst claim . if caesar knew the peace his pow'r doth give , ev'n caesar wou'd be proud under that pow'r to live . to all that 's good , and vertuous , so inclin'd , he godlike shares the praise of every mind ; whilst things inanimate do seem to move , in just obedience , to express their love. the batter'd walls before his souldiers fall , and to the neighbouring rocks with clamour call , fall , fall , to albion's heroe homage pay , for stones and rocks must albion's pow'r obey ; fall yee rebellious towns before his force , lest your proud tow'rs do perish with a curse : lest your green fields be dy'd with purple blood , yield to his arms , and own him all divinely good . whilst lofty mountains do their tribute give , and fruitful valleys rise to ask reprieve , that they may yet descend again , and live . but peace , triumphant nassau does prefer , ignoble peace , before destructive war. tho' he a noble , glorious peace might claim , 't was all beneath the godlike hero's fame : his vertue was too strong , himself too brave t' usurp that pow'r , which other states enslave . earth is too base , too high heav'n's glorious call , for albion's peace imports the peace of all . uniting france , he has enlarg'd his throne , and made divided europe all in one . far from a common pitch his actions rise , their just designs enough convince the wise , and with amazement dazle vulgar eyes . yet some bold infidels deny that light , which like the glaring sun betrays their sight : so screeching night-owls o're the desarts fly , and hate the lustre of the beamy sky . methinks i see the times already here , hasting their motion thro' each circling sphere ; these days i see with joy return again , which will , augustus's-like , be thought a glorious reign . when arthur's name must yield to time , and fate , and the fam'd julian period lose its date : when in the more victorious william's name , time shall begin anew , and all the rites proclaim , which gracefully inshrine the heroe's fame . when all the daring conquests , glorious fights , perform'd by edward , and his garter knights , shall be , by great nassau , excell'd as far , as meteors are by the idalian star. then shall they raise portraicts of massie gold , such as men gave unto their gods of old . then shall they fanes , and sacred altars call , by william , henry , nassau , or them all ; then shall men with ambitious pride desire , the sacred name of william to admire . this is the hero , shall the mystick sybils say , for whom , ev'n time oblig'd it self to stay . the long wish'd heroe , by whose conqu'ring reign , britannia shou'd her ancient pow'r regain . the heroe , that of mortals best deserves the style , to govern great britannia's glorious isle . too great 't is to relate all he hath done , since he ascended that successful crown : how by example , more than rigid laws , he did support britannia's sacred cause . how , while the neighbouring worlds , toss'd by the fates , so many phaetons had in their restless states , which into furious flames turn'd their bright thrones ; our peaceful william quench'd their burning zones . with lute in hand , full of coelestial fire , to the pierian groves he did retire . incircled there with all urania's flow'rs , in sweeter lays than rais'd up theban tow'rs : he charm'd the fleeting time , 'till from her sphere , the fair astraea kindly did appear . then did the sun its wonted heat regain , and light diffus'd it self o're all the plain : the peaceful brooks in silent streams do glide , the meadows stretch themselves , with wanton pride embroid'ring all their banks ; whilst the proud hills aspire , to crown their heads with more aetherial fire . the feather'd choir display their grateful wings , and in soft harmony glad anthems sings : each circling flood to thetis tribute brings . the starry senate looks serene and fair , and no disorder'd blasts disturb the air. pan without care may keep his peaceful flocks , seas need no dangers fear , but the deceitful rocks . what altars then to nassau can we raise ? or sing due poeans to the heroe's praise ? but more , what can t' iberia's land compare ? once the great monarch's toil , and now his constant care , but the event that crown'd that tedious war. the glory that he won on that fam'd field , trophies engrav'd on his immortal shield . but what sums all , is this his last success , that makes him glorious , and all europe bless , with the redoubled echoes of a welcome peace . was these recorded by some maro's quill , our very foes the conqu'ring charm wou'd feel , and own the magick of the pointed steel . how'midst his troops the heroe flew like fire , his martial soul burning with hot desire ; which ev'ry souldiers breast did so inspire . with hugh gigantick strides he mov'd apace , amazing all his foes to see his warlike grace . o're torrent streams , and the high mountain's top , nor ramparts cou'd his thund'ring progress stop : rending in pieces , with impetuous shocks , the harden'd flint , and the rebounding rocks , into ten thousand atoms shiv'ring ev'ry part , irreparable , ev'n by vaughban's matchless art. whilst others , daring in the feats of war , do shew , how brave 't is to be bold , how base to fear . to serve their pious chief , they hazard all , and glory , if before him they can fall ; with such ambition do their souls aspire , to mount to bliss , tho 't is by vulgar fire . so curtius once , a noble roman born , whose name rome's sacred annals does adorn ; himself for liberty a victim gave , and dy'd ignobly , that he rome might save . with glorious pride he bore the scorching flame , and suffer'd bravely , to raise rome's sinking fame . to serve a pious prince , then who 'd not chuse , who wou'd not gladly life or empire lose ; since 't is for honour , and for peace to strive , and thus to dye , is doubly blest to live ? whilst other states for monarchy contend , and boldly their designs at empire bend , their vain ambition finds a juster end. since peace the universal world does crown , who can but with excessive pleasure own the glory of our heroe's arms ? — ev'n the wild fame from envy this just praise imparts , william's the only monarch of all hearts , the only victor is , sent from above , what others gain by force , to win by love. by softer means he makes mens pride obey , and with unwilling readiness his tribute pay . but let this curs'd age frown , the next due praise will give , and wish that william long as his fame may live . ' midst undistinguish'd crowds of endless praise , in glory to out-live old nestor's days . whilst the glad tritons of the watry field , shall give him what far distant shores can yield . whilst from the northern clime , and frigid zone , the mighty caesar of the world is come , our greater caesar's glory to behold , crown'd with imperial diadems of gold. to both the poles the sun spreads forth his praise , and turns their sable nights to bright refulgent days . thus does great nassau to dark climates shine , proving thy far fam'd merits all divine , not gain'd by chance , but by wise conduct thine . as the wise king of israel's fame was spread , from tago's stream to indus sacred head : so thro' the spacious extent of the land , victorious william shall his troops command ; and barbarous kings to his just laws subject , not to usurp their pow'r , but to protect : whilst they the conduct of his arms admire , his mild revenge , and yet his warlike fire ; thoughtful of glory , not of high applause , and yet deserving both , the merit of his cause . yet tir'd with honour's load , and wars vast toil , he thus expostulates upon the grateful soil . as man when first from native turf did rise , he all around him cast his wond'ring eyes ; absolute monarch then himself might call , and , under his great maker , lord of all . the royal lyon willing homage paid , and the huge elephant obeysance made : ambition cou'd not find a thing to ask , and pleasure had as difficult a task ; his most luxurious wish cou'd seek no more , when all fair eden was his own before . he saw the am'rous palms out-stretching wide their leafy hands , to reach the distant side : the groves all whisper , and the birds all sing , murmur each crystal brook , and silver spring . no wind , but gentle zephir's spicy breeze , which into softer motions fans the waves , and trees . an universal calm around him cast , he saw , which into eden quickly past , this more than mortal bliss , too great to last . hail then ye sacred sons of levi , hail ! let peace and union o're your tribe prevail , and let seditious zeal from hence be driv'n , as most pernicious to the peace of heav'n . no more let plots the awful robe profane , or stains of blood condemn their souls for gain ; nor let ambitious greatness prompt the wise , to wilful sacrilegious perjuries . whilst ignorance , the common cause of strife , acts the seditious bigot to the life . you noble senators , that laws dispense , with utmost justice , not with violence ; depress this monster envy that does rise , argos-like , with a thousand killing eyes . hells spiteful engins ! like huge winds that roar , deaf'ning the glad pilot , when in sight of shore , he joyfully proclaims the danger o're . so look the heav'ns when no star appears , but slow and weary , shroud them in their sphears . o , bright augusta ! let thy streets be fill'd , with all the triumphs that united joy can yield ; let the wild populace aloud proclaim their extasie of joy , in william's fame ; mov'd by a sense of gratitude , let them confess their due obedience , and their happiness ; needing no more the dire avenging sword , but humbly yield to mercy 's milder rod. o , happier thames ! let thy proud flouds arise , to meet the watry , and impending skies : advance thy surges thro' nassovia's court , with pompous pride , in soft luxurious sport . whilst the kind banks the forward noise proclaims , and sounds the echo thro the neighb'ring plains : from a far distant shore , the busie nymph imparts this blissful welcome to our grateful hearts . that william , o! th' heroick , god-like man , victorious william is return'd again . eas'd from laborious war , a servile toil he undertook , to make britanni ' a peaceful isle , o nassau ! let me blush for the ungrateful soil . soon as these tidings from the main was brought , th' ambitious stream convey'd her joyful thought , to all the nimble floods , adjoyning nigh , she told her tale , she told her melting joy : thames first the soft diffusive pleasure took , which she convey'd to isis , and fair charwell's brook , where all the muses round about her flock ; each bard attending to her pow'rful tale , each bard has charms , but none o're hers prevail . the tickling pleasure like inchantments spread , and with fresh flow'rs adorn'd each uncloath'd mead. but why shou'd isis only make thee shine , is not thy thames , more than thy isis thine ? tho' isis may in softer songs adore , let it suffice , thy thames doth love thee more . tho' isis , for her beauty may compare with seyne ; for swans , and flood-nymphs with imperial rhine : yet in the title both may claim in thee , nor isis , nor the world shall equal me . when in her am'rous arms thames does thee fold , and dries thy martial hairs , with hers of gold : whilst floating skiffs ambitious are to ride , upon the undisturbed stream , and peaceful tide . as bees , after a stormy show'r is past , return unto their flow'rs with eager haste ; the busie insect doubles her desire , to gain the end which nature does require , and all mankind with wonder so admire . finis . a declaration of his electoral highness the duke of brandenburgh, concerning the present war with france: directing his subjects and vassals, and all other his dependants, how they are to demean themselves in their trading, negotiation, and all incident occasions during the present war. as also a letter sent from the imperial diet at ratisbon to the thirteen cantons in switzerland, march 7, 1689. exhorting them to adhere to his imperial majesty, and the princes of the empire, in the present war against france. brandenburg (electorate). sovereign (1688-1701 : frederick iii) 1689 approx. 30 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 11 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a70076 wing f2110b estc r15621 99825001 99825001 29362 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a70076) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 29362) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 184:24 or 1759:16) a declaration of his electoral highness the duke of brandenburgh, concerning the present war with france: directing his subjects and vassals, and all other his dependants, how they are to demean themselves in their trading, negotiation, and all incident occasions during the present war. as also a letter sent from the imperial diet at ratisbon to the thirteen cantons in switzerland, march 7, 1689. exhorting them to adhere to his imperial majesty, and the princes of the empire, in the present war against france. brandenburg (electorate). sovereign (1688-1701 : frederick iii) friedrich wilhelm, elector of brandenburg, 1620-1688. aut holy roman empire. reichstag. aut 18, [2] p. printed for richard chiswell, at the rose and crown in st. paul's church-yard, london : mdclxxxix. [1689] translation of unidentified works in possibly german or latin. on verso of title page: licensed may 28, 1689, j. fraser. with a final advertisement leaf. identified on reel 1759 as wing (2nd ed.) f2108. reproductions of the original in the harvard university library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng grand alliance, war of the, 1689-1697 -early works to 1800. europe -history -1648-1715 -early works to 1800. 2006-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-10 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-11 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2006-11 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a declaration of his electoral highness the duke of brandenburgh , concerning the present war with france : directing his subjects and vassals , and all other his dependants , how they are to demean themselves in their trading , negotiation , and all incident occasions during the present war. as also a letter sent from the imperial diet at ratisbon to the thirteen cantons in switzerland , march 7. 1689. exhorting them to adhere to his imperial majesty , and the princes of the empire , in the present war against france . london ; printed for richard chiswell , at the rose and crown in st. paul's church-yard . mdclxxxix . licensed may 28. 1689. j. fraser . a declaration by his electoral highness the duke of brandenburgh , concerning the present war with france . directing his subjects , and vassals , and all other his dependents , how they are to demean themselves in their trading , negotiation , and all incident occasions , during the present war. frederick the third , by the grace of god duke and marquiss of brandenburgh , arch-chamberlain and elector of the roman empire , &c. &c. &c. to all christian people , greeting . though hitherto we have most earnestly wished and longed for the continuance of the universal peace of christendom ; and that the countries , by the providence of god committed to our charge , might under our conduct enjoy in some degree the blessings of peace and quiet , in which they have been so long interrupted by the wars , wherein our father of blessed memory was entangled , during almost the whole time of his glorious government . yet at this time the french king having not only in an hostile manner invaded the empire of germany , without any reasonable cause or provocation offer'd ; and with a cruelty and barbarity not used or known among christians , destroyed whole towns and provinces by fire , sword , and utter desolation ; but also threatned to exercise the same cruelties on us , and our relations and friends in franconia , and other countries under our subjection : putting such his unjust purposes actually in execution , wheresoever he had power and opportunity , ( not to mention many other attempts against us , and other states of the empire and its allies , in and without the empire , expresly contrary to the articles of peace and truce formerly made with the french king , even to his greatest advantage ) from which nothing was more certainly to be expected than the total subversion of the state of europe , and particularly the utmost prejudice and absolute ruin of us , and our electoral family . therefore , as well in compliance with the common acts and ordinances of the empire , the unanimous decree lately made in the diet at ratisbon , and the injunctions given by the imperial mandate , to all the loyal members and states of the empire ; as out of the duty incumbent on us to provide for the defence of our self and our estate , according to the law of nations , and by virtue of our soveraignty against these and the like provocations , and to the utmost of our power to consult all such ways and means conducing to our safety , as god and nature hath supply'd us with ; we have been unavoidably obliged to take a resolution to have recourse to our arms , in order to our necessary defence , against the violence of the said french king. and we have thought it fit hereby to give notice to all people , especially to our loyal subjects , and to all the inhabitants of our provinces and countries , and all others that belong to us ; but in a more especial manner to all our lords-deputies , governors , officers civil and military , and to all and every of our subjects , of what rank , dignity , or condition soever they be : and to publish such plain and distinct directions , that every man may understand how to behave himself upon all occasions , in this present juncture of affairs . i. that none of our subjects , vassals , or other inhabitants of our countries , or such as for a certain time shall sojourn , or reside therein upon occasion of trade , or other business , do entertain , or hold any correspondence , communication , or intelligence with the french king , or his subjects , relations , adherents , and abettors ; much less to presume to do any service , or kindness to him , or contribute the least aid or assistance to him for carrying on the present war ; upon pain of confiscation of their estates both real and personal , and on peril of death , if their offences merit it . ii. if any of our subjects or vassals , or other inhabitants of our countries , have at any time before this been imployed in the service of the said king , or his adherents , either in war , or other affairs . our pleasure is , that such persons do forthwith , after the publishing this our declaration , actually quit such service , and immediately return into our countries ; or in default thereof , and in case of disobedience to these our commands , that they forfeit , ipso facto , all their fees and freeholds , and all other their rights and priviledges in any of our countries , either in possession or reversion , and all pretensions , claims , and benefits whatsoever ; to be seiz'd upon by the commissioners of our exchequer . iii. if it so fall out , that any subjects , officers , souldiers , or adherents belonging to the said french king , shall be found in any of the countries belonging to us : we require and authorize all officers under our command , to seize and apprehend them , that so upon notice thereof given to us , we may give order to proceed against them according to their demerits , iv. if any goods , wares , merchandizes , manufactures , claims , debts , or obligations belonging to the said king , or his subjects , shall be discover'd and found in any of our countries , at the publishing of this our declaration , or at any time after during the present war , they shall be forthwith forfeited , without respect of persons : and we strictly require all our subjects to give us an account accordingly , with all expedition , and of all the circumstances attending it . v. we do further declare , charge , and inhibit , that none of our subjects , allies , friends , or such as during the present war shall remain in a neutrality , do import , or bring into any of our countries , by water , or by land , any corn , wares , or merchandizes of what kind soever they be , either of the growth , product , or manufacture of the kingdom of france , or of any of the islands , countries , provinces and colonies thereunto belonging ; unless the said wares , &c. have been in the possession of the subjects of other states of the empire , and our allies , for some months before the prohibition of all french commodities was published by the emperor , and by the united provinces of holland and west-friezeland : that so upon sufficient evidence such wares , &c. may be exposed to sale in our countries ; and such , for which no evidence can be made to appear , may be presently taken away and confiscated . vi. all our subjects , vassals , and other the inhabitants of our countries ; especially such foreign merchants as shall have a temporary residence in our countries , cities , and havens , in order to trade ; are prohibited to have any commerce with france , or any of the provinces thereto belonging , and are commanded utterly to forbear trading towards the french king's dominions with any sort of commodities , or in any kind of ships whatsoever , on pain of forfeiture of all such ships and goods that shall be imployed in such traffick . vii . as it is not our intention to prejudice our allies , confederates , and friends , or such princes and states , and their subjects , who during this present war shall remain in a neutrality , or to debar them that liberty of trade which by the law of nations they enjoy , both in the time of war and peace : so we expect that they manage their commerce and negotiation with the french king's subjects in such manner , as may not be prejudicial to us , or our allies interessed with us in this war : more especially that they neither do , nor attempt any thing which may enable the french king and his adherents to become the more hurtful to us in this his unjust war ; or hinder us from recovering from the french king what we , and our said allies in this present war have to just a title to claim . wherefore we do hereby admonish the subjects of our said friends , confederates , and neutral states , not only to forbear all manner of trade or traffick with any of the cities , fortresses , havens , or other places , which are , or hereafter may be , actually invested by the forces of us , or our allies ; or to import into the same any kind of corn , goods , or other things that may be of advantage or support to the french subjects so besieged : but also , viii . during this present war , not to carry any contraband goods , wrought or unwrought , to any place within the french jurisdiction , and in particular no cannons , muskets , pistols , or barrels or locks for them , guns , mortar-peices , petards , bombs , carcasses , granadoes , stink-pots , carriages , pike-heads , bandeliers , gunpowder , shott , salt-petre , bullets , swords , lances , pikes , halberds , head-peices , curiasses , horses , holsters , saddles , hemp , flax , pitch , tar , corn , iron , copper , masts , round-timber , boards , planks , crooked-timber , and other such like materials , which may be used or imployed in military actions by sea or land. but if contrary to our expectation , such commodities shall either by sea or land be stop'd by our generals , or any inferior officers , captains of ships , or their lieutenants . bayliffs , or ordinary sea-men , or by any officers belonging to the custom-house ( who by their duty are obliged to use all care and circumspection in this matter , and to make diligent search upon all occasions ) and upon due examination and tryal in our admiralty , or other courts , shall be found to have been directed to the dominions and countries belonging to the french king , or to his armies or fleets ; the same to be forthwith seiz'd and forfeited . ix . if any of the commodities and manufactures of the french king's subjects shall happen to be found in the ships belonging to the subjects of our friends , allies , confederates or neutral princes : we freely declare , that we will let them pass , provided they be not contraband goods . but if any such wares shall be found on board any of the french ships , our officers may justly seize both ship and goods , as forfeited according to the practise of other nations on such occasions , notwithstanding that such wares do really belong to the subjects of our said friends , allies , and neutral princes ; being very well content , that the same course be taken with our subjects , and their effects in the like case . wherefore we do strictly command , and ( under pain of our highest displeasure , and such punishments as justly we may inflict on such as are refractory and disobedient to our commands ) and injoyn all our lords-deputies , governours , generals , and other officers by sea and land , together with all civil magistrates in cities and towns , and all others who by any way are subject to our jurisdiction , to put this our declaration exactly , in execution in all the points , clauses and articles of it , and stedfastly to observe the same ; but in no case to act , or suffer others to act contrary to the tenor of it . and as we have been necessitated to emit this our declaration , and to take up arms in our own defence against the french king ( not only out of our duty to the roman empire , our renowned native country , but particularly to use all effectual means at this time to preserve us and our countries against the hostilities already practised , and to restore them to their former security ; and to procure full recompence and satisfaction for the injuries done to us , and our allies , and other states of the empire ) so we put our whole confidence in almighty god , that he will maintain our just cause , and continue to bless , and make the armies of us and our allies victorious , who are so unjustly provoked , and to give so happy an issue to this present war ; that they ( whose unsatiable ambition to bear sway in the world , could not be appeased and satisfied by the many considerable advantages suffered to be taken from time to time for the sake of peace , nor by the obligation of treaties and promises sworn and agreed in the most solemn and religious manner ; but for many years past have exercised all christendom with continual troubles , diffidence and irresolution ; nay made use even of the very articles of peace to begin and foment a war ) may at last by the most considerable forces of europe , now by the miraculous providence of god united in one common interest , be compell'd and constrained to cease from those hostilities and oppressions , under which so many thousand innocent souls of all degrees have hitherto groaned , and to suffer the empire , our renowned native country , to enjoy a constant peace and tranquillity , according to its most ancient lustre , liberty , and authority ; toward which good design we shall never fail to contribute all that lyes within the compass of our power , even to the hazard of our life . given at our court at colloin upon sprea the 〈…〉 of april . 1689. signed , frederick . eberhard danckelman . printed at colonia upon sprea , by ulric liebpert printer to his electoral highness . 1689. a letter sent from the imperial diet at ratisbon , to the thirteen cantons in switzerland , march the 7th , 1688 / 9 , to adhere to the empire in the present war against france . we have understood at large by the letters of his imperial majesty , our most gracious lord , how fairly it was represented to you , why his imperial majesty , upon the unexpected breach of peace made by the french king , without any just or reasonable cause , ( and even in despight of faith it self ) could not , because of the arch-dutchy of austria , consent to the neutrality by you proposed between his majesty and the french king , concerning constantz , and the four forest towns , as also a liberty of two leagues , as they commonly call it , in regard that it did not at all consist either with the interest of his imperial majesty and the empire , or of your selves , to ingage in a particular neutrality with the said french king , after so manifest a violation of the peace ; but rather that it conduced to your advantage , and to the preservation of your free state , to continue in good correspondence , and to hold a friendly intelligence with his imperial majesty , and the arch-dukes of austria , and to observe inviolably the perpetual agrement respectively made , so that his imperial majesty might also effectually receive the benefit of your assistance , all which in his imperial majesties said letter more amply doth appear . neither do we doubt , but that before this time you have received advertisement , what an unanimous resolution , touching this affair , hath been taken by this diet , and most graciously approved by his imperial majesty ; and that the french king ( by reason of his invading the sacred roman empire , and particularly the estates of the electors on the upper rhine , with the circles of franconia , suabia , and westphalia , without the least provocation , or pretence of any lawful cause imaginable ; acting therein in a hostile and barbarous manner against the articles of peace concluded in westphalia , and at nimiguen ( in which your selves are more especially concern'd , in regard of the many considerable priviledges and advantages obtain'd thereby from the empire ) and lastly against the twenty-years truce here concluded , and the many repeated sanctions on the word of a king ) is declared the common and publick enemy of the empire . wherefore , among other dispatches , it was adjudged most necessary to make a particular address to the illustrious confederate cantons in switzerland , and to admonish them to preserve a good and neighbourly correspondence , as appears out of the two enclosed papers , to which , to avoid repetition , we refer our selves . tho we do not in the least doubt , but that the further advantagious proposal and demand made by his said majesty , according to our most humble address presented to him , out of the sincere and unwearied care he takes for the roman empire , and the common good of christendom , will carry its own recommendation to you , whose interest is so evidently interwoven with it : yet upon especial command given us by our most gracious master , and superiors , we must not be deficient in the friendly imparting our thoughts to you , and duly representing the necessity thereof . and first of all be pleased a little to reflect how you are not only really straitned , and every day more and more confin'd , and surprised by the french king's taking alsatia , sundian , brisac , friburgh , and the free county of burgundy together with the dukedom of lorrain , and several other places , but are yet more pinch'd by the many erected fortresses , sconces and bridges as well on this side , as beyond the rhine ; on purpose that he may the more conveniently intercept all succors designed for you by the roman empire , which at this very time seems to be aimed at by the undertaken design with creutznack , and which will indubitably as well now as hereafter be carried on , whensoever the french king shall observe you to be in a condition not to hinder it , or shall think it fit to fall upon your selves , accordingly as he hath since his coming to the government given many proofs to the world , that he seeks to bring all under his yoke . nay he placeth his inward peace in forreign wars , from whence you may easily judge what you are to expect in time to come , if it should so fall out , that the french king should according to his evil purposes get the upper hand in germany ; not to mention the unbecoming usage and entertainment your ambassadors lately met with in france , and other passages there . and now if you will take this and other matters into your most serious consideration , and particularly call to mind how little any of the french king's promises , how obligatory soever they may seem to be , are to be relied on , since no articles of peace or other treaties ( to the performance of which he hath bound himself with an oath ) have been kept , but hitherto violated and broken upon several frivolous pretences , nay even sometimes without any pretext at all , at his will and pleasure : we cannot believe , or fear , that in respect to the said towns you will either insist with his imperial majesty upon any neutrality , not at all allowable in this case , by vertue of the acts , and the approved decree of the empire aforesaid ; or that you will resolve to enter upon any such terms with the french king , for the sake of your estates , whereby the enemy would be strengthened , and unavoidable danger and mischief would fall upon you . wherefore we desire you , as it becomes us , that you will be pleased not only not to hearken to the enemies overtures and proposals , which have been , or hereafter may be made , but rather wholly to abandon the french king , and to adhere to the roman empire , and especially without delay to recal the forces of your nation , and free companies , wheresoever they may have their quarters , or remain in the french king's service , on pain of severe punishment , according to the example of former times , and in imitation of your ancestors ; since they have been already engaged against the empire , and done so great mischiefs , though we are apt to believe , without your knowledg , and against your will , and directly contrary to the hereditary agreement . and that hereafter you will not permit the said king to list , or raise recruits of any souldiers , to buy horses , export corn , ammunition , or provisions ; nor be helpful to him , either directly or indirectly with mony , or in giving him free passage ; but that by all means possible you will prohibit the french manufactures in all the cantons , and other places belonging thereunto , and in general break off all commerce with him . further , that you will take constantz , and the rest of the four forest-towns into your particular protection , in whose conservation you are equally concern'd with his imperial majesty and the empire ; and that upon emergent occasions you may be in a readiness to march your troops toward the frontiers . all which as it tends directly to your own interest , and to the maintaining a good and neighbourly correspondence ( to the sincere observance whereof you have hitherto always tendred your willingness ; while the alliance formerly made with france , could not , or ought not to be any obstruction , in regard a saving clause for his imperial majesty , and the roman empire is there expresly inserted , not to mention that this war is undertaken merely for self-defence ; whereas the french king has again at this time , appeared a notorious truce-breaker , and a hostile invader of germany . ) so we hope you will take these things into your serious consideration , and proceed in the good correspondency , which hath been kept time out of mind with the said roman empire : particularly that you will adhere to the perpetual hereditary agreement with the arch-dukes of austria , which hitherto hath proved so gloriously successful , and which you have not many years since constantly assured us , always to observe sincerely , exactly and inviolably , with all the obligatory contents of it . and further that you will freely declare your mind to these our messengers ( dispatch'd to you for that purpose , and to whom we desire full credence may be given ) concerning his majesties most gracious demand , and this our reasonable request : assuring your selves , that the roman empire shall not fail upon all occasions to afford you considerable assistance ; as we are still willing and ready to do you all possible kindness . given at ratisbon , march the 7 th . 1688 / 9. sirs , your friends , the plenipotentiaries , councellors , nuncii , and embassadors of the electors , princes , and states in this present diet. finis . books lately printed for richard chiswel . the case of allegiance in our present circumstances considered , in a letter from a minister in the city to a minister in the country . a sermon preached at fulham , in the chappel of the palace , upon easter ▪ day 1689. at the consecration of the right reverend father in god gilbert lord bishop of sarum : by anthony horneck , d. d. the judgments of god upon the roman catholick church , from its first rigid laws for universal conformity to it , unto its last end. vvith a prospect of these near approaching revolutions , viz. the revival of the protestant profession in an eminent kingdom , where it was totally suppressed . the last end of all turkish hostilities . the general mortification of the power of the roman church in all parts of its dominions . in explication of the trumpets and vials of the apocalypse , upon principles generally acknowledged by protestant interpreters . by drue cressener , d. d. a breviate of the state of scotland in its government , supream courts , officers of state , inferiour officers , offices and inferiour courts , districts , jurisdictions , burroughs royal , and free corporations . fol. some considerations touching succession and allegiance . 4 to . a discourse concerning the worship of images ; preached before the university of oxford . by george tully , sub-dean of york , for which he was suspended . reflections upon the late great revolution : written by a lay-hand in the country , for the satisfaction of some neighbours . the history of the dissertion ; or an account of all the publick affairs in england , from the beginning of september , 1688. to the twelfth of february following . with an answer to a piece call'd the dissertion discussed , in a letter to a country-gentleman . by a person of quality . k. william and k. lewis , wherein is set forth the inevitable necessity these nations lie under of submitting wholly to one or other of these kings ; and that the matter in controversy is not now between k. william and k. james , but between k. william and k. lewis of france , for the government of these nations . an examination of the scruples of those who refuse to take the oath of allegiance , by a divine of the church of england . a dialogue betwixt two friends , a jacobite and a williamite ; occasioned by the late revolution of affairs , and the oath of allegiance . two sermons , one against murmuring , the other against censuring : by symon patrick , d. d. an account of the reasons which induced charles the second , king of england , to declare war against the states general of the united provinces in 1672. and of the private league which he entred into at the same time with the french king to carry it on , and to establish popery in england , scotland , and ireland , as they are set down in the history of the dutch war , printed in french at paris , with the priviledg of the french king , 1682. which book he caused to be immediately suppress'd at the instance of the english ambassador . fol. an account of the private league betwixt the late king james the second and the french king. fol. the case of oaths stated . 4 to . the answer of a protestant gentleman in ireland to a late popish letter of n. n. upon a discourse between them , concerning the present posture of that countrey , and the part fit for those concern'd there to act in it . 4 to . an apology for the protestants of ireland , in a brief narrative of the late revolutions in that kingdom ; and an account of the present state thereof : by a gentleman of quality . 4 to . a letter from a french lawyer to an english gentleman , upon the present revolution . 4 to . mr. wake 's sermon before the king and queen at hampton-court . — his fast-sermon before the house of commons , june 5. 1689. dr. tennison's sermon against self-love , before the house of commons , june 5. 1689. mr. tully's sermon of moderation , before the lord-mayor , may 12. 1689. a letter written by the emperor to the late king james , setting forth the true occasion of his fall , and the treachery and cruelty of the french. the resolution of the electors , and the princes of the empire , february 11. 1689. containing the reasons of their declaring war against france : together with the emperor's concurrence with them in it ; and approving the same . an account of the late revolution in new-england . together with the declaration of the gentlemen , merchants , and inhabitants of boston , and the country adjacent , april 18. 1689. written by mr. nathanael byfield , a merchant of bristol in new-england , to his friends in london . a letter from a trooper in flanders to his comrade shewing that luxemburg is a witch, and deals with the devil. sergeant, john, 1622-1707. 1695 approx. 38 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 9 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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or how come these things about ? i have been often musing what the matter should be ; and at last i have found it out . in plain english , tom , we have been bewitch'd . this damn'd rogue luxemburg , this crooked urchinly rogue , and the devil together , have bewitch'd us all this while . as for the dauphin , who commanded the french last summer , or at least had the name of it , i suspect him not : for we all know that the dauphin is no conjurer . but we have been bewitch'd as sure as i am here ; and none but luxemburg could thus bewitch us . thou knowest , tom , that at the beginning , we talk'd of nothing less than marching into france , and carrying the war into france . and we had forces sufficient for that purpose , both then , and many times since ; the french not daring to fight us . if they had , we should have beaten them to clouts . by our carrying the war thus forward , we should have lived upon the enemy ; and should have tumbled in free quarter , and contributions , and plunder . but instead of this , we have kept still in flanders ; lying heavy upon it , and plainly devouring it . nor have we ever had our foot upon french ground . so that i conclude we have been bewitch'd ; and that a spell hath been laid before us , which we had not the power to pass over . i meant , by french ground , not only their own country of france , but their conquests also ; or generally , the french quarters . and i say again , that we have not been in the french quarters ever since this war ; that is , not with our main army . for i confess duke wirtenburg with a detachment , and count thian with a party , have been in those quarters ; though their stay and their reign were very short . marry your gazette did publish . that our main army ( upon our late march to rouselaer , where we encamp'd so long to so little purpose ) was in the enemies country . but that 's a damn'd lye. for the enemies country ( we all know ) is that which is beyond , and within their frontier garisons : whereas this place is on this side their frontier , and between their frontier and ours ; and pays contribution to us , as well as to them . so , i remember , three years ago , when our army had passed the sambre , and was got as far as beaumont , fools gave out that we were in the enemies quarters . but we were but nine or ten miles from charleroy , which was then ours , and within the contribution of that garison . and the like may be said of walcourt , where we had been before that time . thou seest now , that we can come near the enemies country ; though even that doth seldom happen : but we can't get into it , for the heart-blood of us . though we desire it above all things ; and though we want neither strength , nor courage , nor conduct . and therefore thou may'st be satisfied , as well as i , that the devil has hinder'd us , and that we have been bewitch'd . the french run every foot into our country , and why should not ▪ we do the like into theirs ? are we affraid of an action of trespass ? we had once namur , charleroy , and mons , all abreast ; and it was a noble frontier . but the french made nothing to pass through this frontier , and to lie in the heart of our country , between those places and brussels ; where they were as safe as a thief in a mill. not a quarter ever beaten up , or so much as attempted . and this they would do , even when they were forced to avoid fighting , our army being stronger than theirs . tom , we have been invaded year after year , by an enemy that durst not fight us : but whether this could be done without witchcraft , i leave thee to judge . and i know thou art a great judg in these matters : we have many great officers , that cannot judge half so well . prethee tom give me leave , for otherwise i must take it , to add one word more . i say then , that by these doings poor flanders hath been sadly burden'd , being made the perpetual seat of war : when in the mean time the french quarters lie fresh and untoucht . and this hath made them so rampant as they are . but if we had lain upon their country as long as they have done upon ours , they would have been in a very bare and low condition . ay but , thou'lt say , we cannot fall into the french quarters , because of their lines . very good . and these lines shew yet more : plainly , that there is witchcraft in the case : for they could never be defended without the help of the devil . they reach from dunkirk upon the sea , to pont espiers upon the river scheld ; which is near forty english miles . from whence to conde ( along that river , which here serves for a line ) is near twenty miles more . and from conde to namur , it is almost fifty miles . now i leave thee to consider , whether lines of this length could be defended without witchery . and herein lies the witchery , that we have not the power to attempt them . for when we did attempt them , ( which we have done but twice , and that was under wirtemberg and thian , ) we broak through them with ease . thou seest , by what i have written , that i am very fond of getting into the enemies country . others are rather for besieging and taking their frontier towns. and so am i , when we are able to do it . but this requires a great odds in power : one army for the sieges , and another to confront the enemy . whereas we may march into their country , when ever we dare fight . what , go beyond their frontier garisons ? ay , beyond them . why should not we do it as well as the french ? and garisons signify nothing against a commanding army ; no more than so many crows nests . an army that dares fight , and yet dares not march into the enemies country , are the veriest buzzards and owls that ever were hatch'd . unless they are bewitch'd , as we plainly have been . for i would have thee , and all men to know , and thou dost know , that we are neither owls nor buzzards . i will now tell thee in particular of some of luxemburg's tricks : that thou may'st see what a rogue he is , and that he is the rogue that has bewitch'd us . one of his first pranks , after he came in play , was at fleury : where i saw plainly , who he dealt with . he lay with his army beyond the sambre ; and prince waldeck was advancing towards him in fair order . what does luxemburg now , but get boufflers to him ( by the help of the devil ) with his army from a far country : and prince waldeck knew no more on 't than the pope of rome . in the twinkling of an eye , abundance of bridges were thrown over the river , by the same help i warrant : and they catch'd poor waldeck in fleury plains , just as the devil had contriv'd it . would'st know what came on 't ? they gave us a damnable ruffle , to say no worse . i come now to mons ; which place we had never lost by a winter siege , but that we were bewitch'd there twice over . first , the devil was in it , that when we saw vast preparations for a siege , and that in all likelihood mons was aim'd at ; we did not put into it one man the more , though thousands lay quartered in flanders . so that the place was lost for want of men. for the garison was not five thousand strong , when the place required ten thousand . secondly , the town being yet in condition to hold out several days , by luxemburg's means the devil possessed the priests , and set them in a mutiny ; and they forced the governour to surrender . when at the same time we were just marching to their relief . mons being lost , we fell to fortifying of hell ; which thou knowest is within seven miles of brussels . and we had laboured several weeks upon it . but luxemburg coming across the country , we were fain to out run our new fortress . for , as the devil would have it , there were but two thousand men in it , and no cannon . we thought the loss not so great , as the disgrace and the baffle . if luxemburg could have kept this town , it had been a sharp thorn in our sides , lying so near brussels . but our army grew soon so strong , that he durst not do it . and now he declined fighting , and mainly fortified his camp. whereupon we fairly left him , and marched away directly for france ; to the great joy of the whole army , who long'd to be there . and luxemburg soon followed ; marching along beside us , and coasting us at a distance . we , in our march , were joyn'd by several thousands ; so that our army was increased to ninety thousand men , the french being not near so many . and now we were full of hopes , and resolution , and courage ; and we hugg'd our selves with the thoughts of a brave invasion . but in the nick , this cursed rogue luxemburg , fell to his charms and spells , and confounded all . methinks i see the devil sitting upon his crump shoulder , and beckning to us , and saying ; come this way , come this way , turn your noses this way . and as sure as thou art alive , tom , we stop'd our march into france , and turned our noses upon luxemburg . and we encamp'd by him with our mighty army a good part of the summer ; doing no kind of thing but eat up our own country . didst thou not read news in the gazette , week after week , from his majesties camp at gemblours , and from the royal camp at gemblours ? there it was that we lay , just behind charleroy and namur , which then were ours ; while the french army lay advanced before mons. they said , we staid for our heavy cannon to come by water from mastricht ; which were long a coming . for the devil dryed up the maese river , and laid sands in our way , so that the boats could not pass ; and we were bewitch'd all over . at last our cannon came up , and we did nothing with them . however we afterwards marched on , and passed the sambre . but we never got ten miles beyond it , nor out of our own contribution : nor could we ever reach the french quarters ; though they lay as open to us , as hartfordshire does to middlesex . for then they had no lines thereabouts . but our stay was not long in these parts : for within a while we marched back into flanders , and luxemburg after us ; where we passed the rest of the campaigne . all this while our noble king was with us ; who is the bravest general in christendom . he spares for no pains , and he wants no brains , and he is metal to the back . tom , it would do thee good to serve under such a general . but , at the end of the year , his majesty left us , and prince waldeck commanded . and then it was that luxemburg play'd us another trick , near a town called leuze , in a damn'd thick fogg , which the devil had raised for him ; he was with us , and upon us , before we were in the least aware of him . i tell thee , tom , we dreamed not on him , till he was almost within pistol shot . and if we had not fought like devils , luxemburg's devil had beaten us to pieces . but fighting as we did , it proved but a brush , or a basting . here the devil did as much for luxemburg , as could be expected at his hands . for he raised one mist in the air , and cast another over some-body's brains : or else we should have had our scouts abroad , knowing that the enemy was not far from us . the siege of namur follows next in order : where we were bewitch'd most confoundedly . it was a brave town , and of mighty importance ; and we brought a brave army to relieve it ; and our men were in high courage , and would have sought blood up to the ears , and were mad to be at it ; making no question but to beat the french to dirt . then , as to conduct , i say it again , we have as good as any in the world : but yet we suffered this town to be taken before our faces , without striking a stroke ; or so much as firing a musquet . and some think , that we lost more men by lying still , and by the diseases it occasioned , than we should have done if we had fought every day . now can any man imagine that these things could be , if the devil had not bewitch'd us ? if the relief was possible , why did we not attempt it ? if it was impossible , why did we not march away , and make a diversion ? but we could neither fall on , nor march off ; but were perfectly inchanted . and who should do it , but that crooked urchin , whom i have so often mentioned ? the french king was here himself ; who is likewise much suspected to deal in the black art. but , for my part , i am fully satisfied , that 't was luxemburg , and his devils , that brought these things about . it must be confessed , that the french did something out-number us ; but we feared them not . and their army lay round a great city ; their inner line being without cannon shot , as it must be : so that their quarters extended very wide , and took up a mighty compass : nor had they any circumvallation , as they called it ; only their quarters were barricadoed , and some works thrown up here and there . also the maes and the sambre meeting at namur , those two rivers run through and divided their quarters . so that part of their men lay on one side the sambre , and part on the other , and part lay beyond the maes . and we having huy upon the maes , and charleroy upon the sambre , we might have marched upon them on either side of either river . and it had been hard , if some where or other we could not beat them up . however we might have tryed what we could do : but the devil was in it , we never made a tryal . whereas though we had failed in the attempt , and been soundly banged with the loss of ten or twenty thousand men ; no body would have blamed us , and our very loss had been glorious . but to be lookers on , was such a thing ; it makes me mad to think on it . though an observator says , that we got more honour by our mighty attempts to relieve the town , than the french did by taking it . but after namur was lost , we fell to fighting like mad ; though it would have been better , one would have thought , to have done so before . had we ventured half so freely before , as we did after , namur might have been ours at this day . but as to the fight we had after , ( it is called the battel of steenkirk , and thou hast heard much of it ) i 'll tell thee how it was . the french king , after he had taken namur , was gone to paris ; and a good part of his army was sent towards germany ; and our army was much increased . so that the french army , left in flanders with luxemburg , was now clearly the weaker . yet , for all that , he had the impudence to march into our country , and there continue . but , for fear of the worst , he encamped in a ground of great advantage , which he also strongly fortified . whereupon we took a resolution to fall upon him in his camp. and we begun most bravely . ten battalions of ours , who had the van , beat thirty french battalions out of their ground ; and chased them from hedg to hedg , and from one work to another ; and we made them out-run their cannon . we shewed what rogues we could make of the french , if we had them fairly before us . and now was luxemburg hard put to it : he scarce had time to say a short prayer to the devil . good devil , quoth he , help me out at this dead lift , or i am undone for ever . and the devil did help him to some purpose . for he so brought it about , that our men were not seconded : by which means we were beaten off with great loss , ( still fighting stoutly ) and luxemburg scaped a scouring . for had our main body secon●ed our van , he had certainly been quite routed . some said , that our main body could not come up , because of the bad ground . but why could they not march the same way , and upon the same ground , that the van had done ? and why did they not follow closer , but lay lagging some miles behind ? in short , the devil was in it , and we were bewitch'd . when this bloody bout was over ; and our army recruited and reinforced , we marched to attaque the french lines . but luxemburg , by the help of his old friend the devil , got thither before us . for we , on our part , saunter'd a great way about , and out of our way , as if puck had led us ; which i believe he did . however , we then learned , as we had done at hall before , that the true way to draw the french out of flanders , is to march into france , or towards it . for they are very tender in this matter : and though they love to be in an enemies country , yet they cannot endure that an enemy should be in theirs . being bob'd at the lines , we went with our commanding army and encampt at at a place called grammen ; which is a good snug place , within our own country , and but five or six miles from gaunt . and here we were tyed by the leg ( no doubt by sorcery and witchcraft , it could be nothing else ) for a great many weeks ; being not able to move one way or other . but our army increased to a hundred thousand men , while luxemburg had not half the number ; a great part of his army being gon to the maes under boufflers , to stave off an invasion there . nevertheless we still kept close in our camp at grammen : nor did we budg from it till we went into winter quarters . during all which time you had news in the gazette , from the royal camp at grammen . but what could we have done , had we been disposed to be active ? i answer , that in the first place we might still have attempted their lines . not their line between the scheld and the lys , where luxemburg lay with his army ; but their long line between the lys and dunkirk . for this had but an ordinary guard : and if the french should have drawn their main army to have defended it , their new and unfinished fortifications at courtray , and likewise their camp near it , would have been in great danger . we found afterward , by experience , that in all likelihood it would have been no hard matter to have sorced these lines . but if it had prov'd hard , and we had been repulsed , we might have marched up the scheld ; and have endeavoured , by throwing bridges over it , to have gotten that way into the french conquests . tom , i think in my conscience this river scheld is enchanted . it is like styx , the river of hell ; which none could pass without the help of old charon . thou knowest it is but a paltry river , in comparison of other rivers . a man ( i had almost said ) may leap over it with a pike staff : i am sure that with five or six boats , we might lay a bridge over it any where . and yet we stand in as much awe of it , as if it were the rhine , or the danube ; we dare not so much as attempt to pass it . though the french conquests lie entire and untoucht behind it ; at which we might have our wills , if we durst pass this river . if we must encamp , why might we not have encampt upon this river ( getting likewise a passage over it ) any where above their lines ? and then the french must quit their lines , we being behind them . or if we had made a new garison , methinks there were the place . a lusty garison here , ( i would not have it less than ten thousand men ) would maintain it self bravely , by contributions out of the french conquests . in such a garison i should desire to be ; there were some cut in such a garison . but suppose we could not get over this river ; must we then lie in our own country with our commanding army ? there was no such necessity . for we might have gone higher up the scheld ; and have forced those lines , ( if they had then any lines there ) which afterwards count thian forced so easily , with a party of twelve hundred men. which being done , nothing could have hinder'd us from marching into france , we having such a mighty power as we had . and if luxemburg had come in our way , we should have beaten him , with all his devils . but let us go on . thou hast heard , i know , that dixmude and furnes , which we had fortified at the end of the campagne , were most famously lost this winter . we out-run the one , and the other was delivered up after a siege of some hours . when these things were done , luxemburg was at paris : but i warrant he had laid his spells before he went ; for i am very sure he did bewitch us . was it not a bewitched thing , that we should fortily these places for the french ? when base things are done , and no body in fault , i conclude there is witchcraft in the case : and when no body is punish'd , i conclude that no body was in fault . we were much troubled at the loss of these places : but some think , that we were more bewitch'd in fortifying them , than we were in losing them . furnes is about five miles forward from newport , ( which is ours ; ) and dixmude about seven sideward . and must we have a garison at every seven miles end ? why , a small country , thus garison'd , would drink up a great army . and thou knowest , tom , ( for thou art a cunning dog , and hast guts i' thy brains , ) that when we fortify places near our own garisons , they do us little good if we keep them , and great mischief if the enemy take them . if we had kept these two places , they would not have commanded a contribution ( more than we had before ) to maintain a thousand men ; when at least five or six thousand must be in them . i 'll not give a pin for a garison , that has not a good contribution . for the great end of garisons , let them say what they will , is to command contributions . therefore our new garisons should have been made twenty or thirty miles forward , towards the enemies country ; and then they would have contribution in abundance . now follows the campagne of 93. in the beginning of which the french monarch was soundly baffled . at that season , it seems , the devil was turn'd against him , or at least forsook him . he came upon us with a greater force than ever ; and we were to be run down forthwith , and all flanders to be swallowed up . in good earnest , tom , we were in great danger . but our king encamp'd so commodiously , and so strongly , and took such order for the defence of all places , that the monarch was quite gravell'd . yet if he had not been an arrant buzzard , or the devil had not owed him a shame , he might have left us in our camp , and have marched up to brussels , and beyond it , and whither he pleas'd ; and have grazed up the country as he went , and have put all brabant under contribution . which had put us in a bad condition to maintain the war : and some places or other would have fallen into his hands . but instead of doing this , or any thing else , he sneak'd back to paris , ( or to versailles , i care not which ) and all his court ladies with him : whom he had brought to be spectators of his famous victories ; and by report they were no better than they should be . soon after the dauphin marched towards germany , with part of the french army : luxemburg being left with the remaining part , which was still a force superiour to ours . and not long after that , the duke of wirtemberg was detach'd from our army to attaque the french lines . which design was carried so secretly , that the devil himself could not discover it to luxemburg . the lines were master'd with little ado , and we got into brave quarters , and we raised contributions amain . but then came the battel of landen , ( another bloody bout , ) which hurried us back to our main army that wanted us . 'till then we had been free from witchcraft during that campaigne : but then luxemburg bestir'd himself , and conjur'd up all his devils ; and we were bewitch'd over and over . first , the devil bewitch'd us to let huy be so miserably unprovided for defence , the enemy being so near it . and if we could not defend it , why did we not blow it up ? but it was yielded in two or three days . secondly , we were bewitch'd to lie in the enemies reach , who so much over-power'd us . and thirdly , we were catch'd in a bewitched ground ; having a river and morass behind us , which should have been before us . the french came up with us over night ; and we expected to retreat that night , which the gallants thought dishonourable . but some of our troop have read sir walter rawleigh , and they tell us that he has a saying , that 't is more honourable to retreat by night , than to be beaten by day . but we fought it stoutly ; and the king did bravely above the rest . however it was a bad business : and it would have been much worse , if luxemburg ( to our great good fortune ) had not play'd the beast , in not pursuing his advantage . we are come at last to ninety four , or the campaigne of last summer : and thou wilt find by the story , that the devil doth still haunt us , and bewitch us . this year the dauphin did again command the french in chief ; and the old magician ( thou knowest who i mean ) commanded again under him . and they presently fell to their old trade : for the first thing they did , was to come boring into our country , where they lay at rack and manger . and we suffered this as tamely as we used to do : wherein thou may'st perceive a spice of the old witchery . i confess that the french at first were something too strong for us : but in a short time we were grown stronger than they ; and our fingers itched to be upon their jackets . however we were content to forbear , till the arrival of all our forces : which forces being come , and we being all together , the sun never shined upon a braver army . and then we out-number'd the enemy , by many thousands , both in horse and foot ; and we had better horses , and better men , and were every way superiour : so that we made no more of the french army , than of so many jack-daws . we being in this glorious condition , the french , who had lain beside us , then marched in quite beyond us ; and were got between liege and mastricht . but we thought them besotted , to give us such an advantage ; making account that we had them then in a bag ( if we had but the grace to shut it , ) and that they could not escape us . for our army interposing between them and home , ( as we expected we should ) and they having with them all their baggage and heavy cannon , they could not get off without fighting ; and then we made no doubt but we should beat them to fitters . for my part , i thought the war was near an end ; a happy and glorious end : there being but two things to do ; that is , to beat the french army , and then to march to paris . thou knowest , tom , that namur , and huy , and liege , and mastricht , lie all on a row upon the maese . of which mastricht and liege were ours , and the french had huy and namur : huy being advanced into our quarters , beyond all the rest of their frontier . these places lying thus , and the french army ( as i told thee ) being between liege and mastricht , we had orders given us to get ready to march. and i cannot express , nor thou imagine , how joyfully we received these orders . and then our business was , either to march straight upon the enemy , or to cut off their retreat , by interposing between them and home ; that is , between them and huy : for if they got to huy , they got home . but now see and wonder how we were enchanted : tom , as i hope to be saved , we turn'd our noses the wrong way again . for with mighty diligence we marched clear fromward the enemy , and likewise beside and beyond huy : leaving the french a free passage to it . and they marched thither the very next day . never talk now of bungling , or fumbling , or making blunders ; for we scorn those words . 't was witchcraft , dear tom , 't was witchcraft , that made us do as we did ; the devil and luxemburg did bewitch us : and that damn'd magician may brag of this , as one of his bravest-feats . thou wilt say , that we were still between the french and namur . ay , and so we were . but the french had a bridge at huy over the river , and they made divers other bridges : whereas we had none , nor did we offer to make any . so that they could march to namur on the far side the river , when they pleas'd , without the least danger or disturbance . but they chose rather to lie by it , that they might give us a baffle by making us rise first : wherein they succeeded , as well they might . for they commanded the one side of the river as much as we ; and the other side they had wholy to themselves . yet here we staid and encamp'd , as long as we could get any forage , waiting upon the french-mens back sides ; ( when thou and i are together , we use another word . ) but , for my part , i did not think we had owed them that duty ; nor did i know why , or wherefore we staid here so long , in the high condition we were in . the french , being the weaker , might with reason be willing that the time should be spent in idle encampments : but we , who were the stronger , if we had not been still bewitch'd , methinks should rather have chosen to be doing . well , at last we marched away for flanders , as hard as we could drive , to have another bout at those lines . and the french durst not follow us the way we went , ( which was the next way , ) for fear we should turn back upon them , and fall upon their bones ; but they were fain to go round by namur , and beyond the sambre . yet , by the devil's help , ( for no power of man could do it ) they got before us to the lines : by which means we were prevented and baffled . what had we then to do , with our glorious army , but to march presently up the scheld ; and either force a passage over that river , or march on directly for france it self ? we had then led the french such a dance , who were damnably jaded by their late long march , and hardly able to crawl , ) that all the devils in hell could not have enabled them to follow us . but the devil turn'd our noses once more the wrong way : for we marched down the river , and into our own country ; first to oudenard , then almost to gaunt , and at last to a place called rousselaer , which now bears the name of a royal camp. for here was another encampment , and enchantment : and here we lay with our glorious army all the rest of the summer , as it were bound hand and foot ; and without doing any thing , or any prospect of it . for we were coop'd up by the enemies lines , which we had no thoughts of attempting . and was not this a bewitched place , for such an army to lie in ? we exceeded the enemy by thirty or forty thousand : and though after a while we sent a detachment to the siege of huy , yet still we far exceeded them . if we had encamp'd all this while in the enemies country , it would never have anger'd me , though we had been never so idle : for then , if we had done nothing else , we had eaten up the enemies country . i have told thee already , and i tell thee again , that we were not then in the enemies country . in the country between both , i confess , we were : but in these parts , the enemies country is that within their lines ; whereas our camp was without these lines , and eight or nine miles short of them . i said before , that we had never attempted scheld river , but i lyed ; we attempted it then , that is , we look'd upon it and no more . first , one great man view'd the p●ace , and then another great man view'd it , and then we came away . it was as we came down to oudenard , in ou● way to ou● camp : and the attempt was made by a detachment of about six thousand men. but if we had ●een in earnest , we might have made , out of our vast numbers , many such detachments for that service : and we might have attempted several places at once ; or tryed one place , and then another ; both by day and by night . how did prince lewis of baden pass the rhine this summer ? i am sure i saw it in the paris gazette , ( for tom i can now read french a little , ) that he made a false attaque or attempt in one place , and then passed in another ; the french having drawn their forces to the first place . but this attempt of ours ( such as it was ) was made in one place only ; and in a place more likely to be provided for defence , than any other on the river . for it was at pont esperies , where the french line ends , which is between the lys and the scheld , and where they always had forts and guards . our retaking of huy was a very good business , as things go : but i expected that the army that took it , would have enter'd the dutchy of lutzenburg , which the french now have , and which lies hard by ; and so have broken that charm that keeps us hitherto from entring the enemies country . thou wilt say , they did enter that dutchy , for all the news-books said so . why then all the news-books lyed ; for we never were in that dutchy , nor out of the diocese of liege : for , by their own story , we lay all the while between navaigne and franchimont , both which places are in this diocese . and navaigne is upon the maes , almost as low as mastricht . and therefore i am the more confirmed that some witchcraft lies upon us ; so that we cannot find the way into the enemies country . in the close of the last campaigne ( for at last i draw to a conclusion ) we new fortified several places : that is , dixmude again , ( which the french had slighted and abandon'd , ) deynse , ninove , and tillemont ; and we talk of hall likewise . of these , dixmude ( as i said before ) is seven miles from newport ; deynse is within five miles of gaunt ; ninove lies behind oudenard and aeth ; tillemont is between lovain and leeuwe , and very near the later ; and hall is within six or seven miles of brussels . and the places to which they ●ie thus near , were our standing garisons before . let us now examine between thee and me , and according to our rules , ( and i think we troopers should understand these matters as well as some of them do ) whether these new garisons be good ones , and will do us any service . i say then , that if each of these new garisons can command contribution to maintain three or four thousand , or even two or three thousand men , we must allow these garisons to be good ones . but if all these garisons put together , will not command any contribution worth the speaking of , more than we might have without them ; then , according to our rules , all of them together are not worth a dog-turd . and we were bewitch'd , by luxemburg and the devil , to be at so much charge , in fortifying and keeping such useless things . a little time will shew what they can do . but if we had made a new garison upon the scheld , any where between tournay and conde , and another upon the sambre near charleroy , either above or below it ; i 'd have eaten hay with a horse , and been hang'd for a fool , if either of these two garisons would not have maintain'd ten thousand men : if they were made big enough ( as they ought ) to contain so many . and all this by contributions out of the enemies countries , which otherwise we cannot reach . out of these two garisons we should have scour'd the french quarters i'faith . i could write more now to thee , but i won't ; for i know thou art a man of business . only i shall say this , that if this cursed witchcraft which has so plagu'd us were removed , we 'd beat the french to iericho : but if it continue upon us , though you send us never so many millions from england , we shall do nothing here in flanders that is worth one farthing . and so , dear tom , fare thee well . london , printed in the year mdcxcv . the copy of a letter from a gentleman in dort to a member of the house of commons in london translated out of dutch. gentleman in dort. 1690 approx. 46 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 9 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a34478 wing c6115 estc r17343 12039041 ocm 12039041 52930 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. 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wishing they may be as much to your satisfaction , as the most obliging treatment i received from you , and your other generous friends in london , and your later correspondences challenge from me . at this time i shall endeavor to resolve three of your enquiries , as those which more immediately concern you as a member of parliament , leaving the remainder to a farther opportunity . the first , as i remember , was to know what the successes of the french king's arms have been this campaign . secondly , what i have observed of the state of both our countries in relation to the present war. and lastly , what measures are taken by the confederate princes towards a peace , or preparation for a more vigorous war. as to the first , it is true the intemperate spring , and thereby the late opening of the campaign , on the part of the french , and especially that king 's surprizing return to versailles , and his detaching from hence so great a part of his troops to the rhine , put us in great hopes that we should have been able to have at least made a good defence this summer ; yea , our states expected some considerable victory , and the regaining some frontier town from the french. but we have had a fatal disappointment ; our statholder had very commodiously encamped himself at park , where he could want no sort of supplies ; we had with great diligence fortified huy , a place of the greatest importance , considering it was the only place of strength upon the maize , betwixt namure and liege , yet it was lost without our being able to make any advances towards its relief , when our army was in its fullest vigor and heart ; so that now liege , and all that fertile country , and all the circuit to bois le duc , lies open to the french for forrage and contribution , out of which they infinitely store their magazines of provisions for the next campaign : we ascribe it to want of courage , or conduct , that we attaqued not the duke of luxemburgh while he was posting himself to cover that siege . but we have much more reason to exclaim against the conduct of detaching the duke of wirtenburgh to make so insignificant a forcing of the lines , and sending such a part of our army to liege , at a time when the only excuse we make for the loss at landen was the french over-powering ns in numbers . but surely all wise men will consider , that as our army was intrenched , and our artillery planted , we had the advantage of three to one , the french having no coverture , but were to storm a fortified camp with at least 40 , or as they own 45000 souldiers in it ; an attempt and success scarce to be paralled in history ; in which action the world must own it self convinced that the french conquer by courage , manhood and valour , and not by treachery or surprize , or inequality of forces : and if our losses must be ascribed to the french out-numbering of the confederates in all places , when must we expect better success ? for to what number soever we may vainly hope to encrease our troops , he is able to augment his proportionably ; so that let us swell to what degree soever our windy imagination may stretch us , we shall be but like the frog to the oxe in the fable . but it must nauseate all thinking men to consider , what pitiful excuses both your and our prints make to cover the loss we sustained at nere winden : they tell us , that the french were slain in whole brigades by the advantagious disposal of our cannon , and the small damage we sustained by theirs , our infantry being commanded to lie upon their bellies while their cannon played ; and that in fine they lost above 20000 men killed , or mortally wounded ; yea , some advance the loss to be double to ours , and when by authority they publish these things , to buoy up the spirits of the people , they with design to have made us hope for some after success told us , that when the detachments to liege , and with the duke of wirtenburgh were rejoyned , the army would be stronger than before the battle . from which we may learn the truth of the old proverb , that lyars ought to have good memories ; for it is well known that those detachments amounted to 27000 men , as the remarks upon the london gazette plainly proves . therefore it is plain though involuntary confession , that we lost so many , and we ascribe all this loss to our statholder's obstinacy , which with you is called his great courage ; that he would not hearken to the councel of withdrawing his army over the river geete in the night : whereby all those mens lives might have been preserved for future events , as his was by a timely retreat to secure his own person ; which conduct marshal luxemburgh moderately censured , by saying he now found prince waldeck was dead . another convincing argument of our loss , as great as i have mentioned , is easily gathered from the resolution of our states to raise 25000 men more , which i believe they would willingly enough do , to recruit the losses of the last campaign ; and yet no ways increase their numbers ; but without they be supply'd from you with mony , i know our paper treasury is so low , that we are no ways able to accomplish our designs . i own the german princes and switzerland might supply us , but we must pay at least 20 dollars a head , and they must be punctually paid while in service , or we can get no men ; for the princes of germany raise no forces but what they sell , as a great branch of their revenues , and the arbitrament of war and peace depends upon the gelt , which made our statholder and states to buy off the king of denmark from the siege of ratisburg , with 100000l . in hand , and as much more promised to be paid after . but we that know the usage of this state know , that that king may stay long enough for the latter payment , now that the storm is over . but while i am mentioning those recruits , you are to consider what raw undisciplined men they will be , more fit to make fascines with , than to conquer the well disciplined army of the french , flushed with so many victories . however the hopes of our state is , that the rumor of such a vote of raising supplies will obtain from you proportionable recruits , if you be either able or willing to send more of your fellow-subjects to the common shambles . but to proceed , it was rational to think that after such a success luxemburgh would attempt either liege or charleroy ; and if our army had been in so good a condition as our and your gazettes would have perswaded the world , we had opportunity enough to have posted our selves so , as to have prevented the siege ; while the general discourse even at our statholder's table was , as several officers assure me , that the french army was so so harass'd , and weakened by the slaughter of their men at nere winden , and 8000 of their wounded men couped up in hospitals that they were able to do no more this campaign . but to the eternal shame of our statholder as generalissimo , we have suffered charleroy to be taken without once essaying a relief , for we want the skill or manhood to attacque an enemy in their trenches . but it may be you know not what an excuse we make for such a neglect , for the states had sent a new train of artillery to supply the loss at landen , as fair brass cannon as any was to be seen ; but it seems , being so credulous that the statholder had saved his wagons and draught-horses by his giving out he had sent them away with his baggage before the late battel , they sent no supply of them ; so that too late it was owned how great a part of those were lost . so that now we have no manner of excuse why we relieved not charleroy , but that we wanted wagons and draught-horses to furnish a marching army with a sufficient train , and provisions for a few days ; and so were forced to stand in our camp with our arms across for 20 days , till we had notice of the surrender of it . so that now as huy opened a free passage to liege ; so this to brussels and the remainder of brabant , even to our fastnesses of the united provinces ; and it is not forgot among us how 20 years since in one spring this so victorious king took 60 of our strongest towns and forts in one month , when he had neither huy namur , or mons , and advanced within a few leagues of amsterdam : so that we have great reason to be apprehensive of our eminent danger the next spring , if no peace be made this winter ; when we are exposed so naked of any barrier in the spanish netherlands , and consider how untenable the strongest places have hitherto been against the force of his assaults , when to conceal or cover our impotence , we ascribe the successes to treachery . thus i have given you a short touch of this king's successes in our parts . i pass now to the rhine ; where 't is notoriously known , how vast a magazine of arms , ammunition , and all sorts of stores were taken at heidelberg , and though prince lewis of baden had so strongly intrenched himself , that the dauphin and marshal de lorge thought it not advisable to attacque him , yet the french have had the honour to have couped him up all this summer , and the advantage to have maintained their whole army in an enemies country , and raised immense contributions , which , by reason of the hostages they have in custody , must be paid , even when their army are withdrawn into their winter-quarters . of how great importance the taking of roses in catalonia is , may be seen even in the monthly account , which industriously lessens all successes of the french ; it is not only a port town and harbor towards the mediterranean , but hath a very great trade into catalonia : so as it is a key both to trade inward and outward ; and gives not only an harbor to french merchants , and galleys , but extends likewise its jurisdiction to a large part of catalonia , where it seems the spaniards are so weak , that his forces have not been able to take any advantage over the duke of noalles , although he detached some part of his forces to marshal catinat . this leads me to give you a short account of that wise and fortunate general marshal catinat's successes , who , after he had quietly sustained all the contemptible things from all the confederates gazetters , as if he were neither able to succor pignerol , or relieve cazal ; at last , like another fabius maximus , descended from the cloudy hills into the open plains , and by fine force obtained as compleat a victory over the unfortunate and obstinate duke of savoy as any hath been obtained in this war. since which he marcheth as conqueror where he pleaseth through the country , constraining that duke's subjects to furnish him with all sorts of provisions , and most large contributions ; and the french king resolving to push the war , on that side , either to a peace upon his own conditions , or an entire conquest of the country , hath ordered an addition of 50000 men to the marshals army , which will much facilitate the conquest of that country , or force a peace . as i have given you this account of the successes of the french king's arms , so you cannot but with me observe the unprosperous proceedings of the emperour's troops this year in hungary , where the wily grand visier , as much contemned as catinat was , suffered the duke de croy to lay siege to belgrade , the reduction of which in one month our gazettes assured us off : but after the duke had lost by assaults , sickness and death , in his march almost as many thousands of his men as he had been days before it ( for some prints compute them at 15000 men ) the visier made a short turn upon him , and made him ingloriously quit the siege . for excuse of which no other than the common one is made , that the enemy out-numbered ours , who by the prints was , from 10000 men a few days before were multiplied to 50000. at the raising the siege . you may , if you please , add to these the consideration , that since this present war the confederates have neither gained one town or fort from the french , or preserved any one , which his troops attaqued ( except rhinefield ) nor been able , though that king is surrounded on every side with an entire circle of enemies , to hinder him from enlarging his conquests on every side ; and is so provident that every year he hath sufficient magazines before hand of all things necessary for one or two years succeeding , and all his money for two or three years ordered in readiness ; and this year can increase his new levies proportionable to what ever he finds the confederates are able to do . this i suppose is sufficient to answer the first of your enquiries . as to the second head , it may be branched into several particulars , as relating both to you and us ; which i will not persue in an exact method , but as matters of enquiry hath occurred to my mind since i was with you , or the later letters of you , or your friends , have suggested to my thoughts . and first , as to the propensity of our country to embrace a peace with france ; you may remember that in our town , which hath the first vote , the p. of o. was first made statholder , though all the states and magistrates of the seven provinces had taken solemn oaths never to admit a statholder , and particularly not the p. of o. nor any of his house ; and the prince himself had taken an oath not to accept of the office though tendered to him : so that the breach of all their oaths upon that election was by some styled absolute perjury , but we found a softer word for it , in styling it , the mortifying the former edict . you know how our senior burger-master cornelius de witt , and his brother the pentitioner , were most barbarously murthered , because they did not so readily comply . now in this very town the senior burger-master halewin , as you know by his sentence printed with you , was settling some correspondence with monsieur amelet , in order to know what terms the french king would insist upon ; and i assure you this was not a personal caprice of his , who is a solid , juditious person , and of a great interest and popular ; who acted nothing in that but with the good liking and underhand approbation of many other great men and magistrates , which you may easily perceive by the boldness of his expressions , as you have it printed in your translation of his sentence in these word ; viz. pag. 12. that it is agreed on all hands , that to endeavour to procure a peace is not at all prejudicial to the state , but is so far from that , that those that imploy themselves about some honest way of obtaining it , should not be looked on as criminals , but rather to have a statue erected them , and that he was willing to do it with the peril of his life . also in the 13. pag. it is said , that being before the high court of justice of his country , he had a great mind to convince them , that it was none of his fault that lives and estates was sacrificed to men , and that he would rather dye than that it should be longer continued , and to play on dobb , dobb , dobb , fanfare for the king of england ; by whom he means not king james but our statholder , for whose sake he neither would have lives or estates sacrified nor war continued . and in the next pag. it is added further , that in case some solid and reasonable proposals of peace should be offered , it being a thing so necessary , and salutary for the state ; that every true patriot would readily , and without any other reason , have embraced them : withal assuring the judges that what steps ever he had made in this affair , they were occasioned by nothing else but a sincere intention to promote the true interest of this state. i assure you he spoke these things with great boldness , and wanted not the majority of the suffrages of many magistrates of cities , if not those of the judges themselves ; and if the princes authority had been as great now , as when he was first made statholder , he had been de witted rather than had so easy a sentence . i verily believe that i perfectly know many scores of our chiefest magistrates , who are of the same opinion with monsieur halewin ; and by the conversation i had with very many of your parliament men , i think there are a majority of you , who , if they might give their vote by balloting , would put an end to the war , by returning to the condition our countries were in before the war ; and if they would consider their strength , as well as interest , they would value the saving of their country from ruin , before the private concern of any prince whatsoever . and to me it is an unaccountable thing to find leading gentlemen in governments , both at home and abroad , so forward and outragiously zealous to supplant and abdicate their lawful kings , supream governors or magistrates upon small pretences ; who yet can see their country fleeced , yea , gnawed to the bones , with taxes to support such , as have either been sovereigns of their own creation , or usurpers ; as i have known some servants who were audatious and refractory to their masters , and yet were slavishly cowards and abjectedly suffered the affronts and insolencies of their fellow servants . i am sure this is an odious disposition in magistrates or representatives of the people , as you are stiled . but to return to the head of this your second enquiry ; i can assure you we are so solicitous for our own preservation , and suspicious of our statholder , that when ever we shall surmise that he shall prefer the preservation of any interest before ours , we shall with great precipitation entertain any reasonable proposals from france , and though monsieur halewin says , that unless france would deliver up to the spanish netherlands some considerable place , there is no dutchman who would not rather sacrifice the last stiver he had then think of a peace ; yet i am well satisfied if we might have mastricht in our own right , as it now properly belongs to the spaniards , they would that moment quit the interest , not only of the statholder but of all our confederates , and leave them all in the lurch , as you know we have constantly done in all the seperate treaties we have had , and are well known , even to a scandal upon us , in those of 48 and 74. and i must here note to you , we are in no condition to continue the war , for though monsieur halewin , in his discourse to monsieur amelet , saith , that it was true that the most considerable families of our country suffered very much by heavy taxes , as having great estates in land which carry the greatest burthen , yet the merchants were gently treated for the benefit of trade , yet he owns that those arguments he used , in page the third and fourth , were only to magnify the power of the states ; being desirous , like a lover of his country , to let the french know the utmost of our abilities that we might obtain better terms ; but the french king knows too well our insufficiency to carry on the war , for the taxes are here so heavy that i know several substantial citizens , in our city of dort , who pay as much for taxes as the yearly rent of their houses yield them . and though monsieur halewin saith , that the taxes on real estates could cause at the worst but a change of masters , which did not at all concern the states in general and in abstracto ; yet surely the impoverishing of the landed men to that degree , that they must be forced to sell their estates for nothing , to others that were able to pay the taxes , must in a little time effect the states in general ; who can't subsist without the supply of the terra firma , no more than the heart , brain , or arms and legs , without supply from the stomach ; for , however it is unregarded , all other taxes , upon what sort of commodities soever , either of ware or tare , in the last resort , fall upon the land and its occupiers ; and to let you see how our states , not only at this present squeeze the people , but oppress them to the highest degree , there was a gentleman who had as fertil a plat of ground as any in the country , which being judged commodious to build a fort upon , the states offered a sum of mony for it , but the owner being unwilling to part with his inheritance , they laid heavier impositions upon it , till the taxes amounted very near the yearly profit he made of the land , so that at last he was forced to part with it ; yet , as monsieur halewin saith , the states were no loosers , for he was taxed according to the old rate ; it being alledged he had received mony for it , which was to be taxed : i remember i heard , when with you , that this story was related at an entertainment , when some made complaint of the heaviness of your taxes ; it was replied , then , and not till then , england would have reason to complain , when you were driven to such extremities : you know how great a man he was that related this , and major ashton can name him if he pleases . monsieur halewin , pag. 3 , in his communication with monsieur amelot , to aggrandire our power , told him , though there were some losses of trade on one hand , yet they were repaid on the other by a considerable sale of the manufactures , and those that stood in need of the goods were to pay a greater price ; and that the merchants generally ensured : but i must tell you this was said , to put our best foot forward , for though our merchants , of whom our very states consist , devise all the ways they can to promote or preserve traffick , yet our common people , what by the burthen of taxes , and the obstruction of the old course of trade , are reduced to such a poor estate that they are upon the very tipto of rising in mutiny against our magistrates and states , for their so obstinate persisting in the war ; and generally exclaim that our statholder never yet had any success ar all against the french , so that if this winter , or in the spring , the french king should have any one signal success in these parts , it would be impossible to restrain the mobile any longer . indeed our merchants have many contrivances you want , because our states being all such , contrive or connive at the frauds ; for whereas we read weekly in your gazetts of french prizes , taken by some of our privateers , they are generally such as by assignation are to be brought to our ports , and by these measures we supply you and other countries with french commodities , besides we are glad to be excused with so small a quota of our men of war , while you make a great noise with encreasing the number of your grand fleet , by which means we spare more for convoys ; and it is an admiration to our people , that you should not discover our arts and industry to ingross all the trade into our hands . we have , without your being able to censure us for it , utterly defeated all your laws of navigation : we bring you in our own bottoms , at least under some of your own peoples names , the far greatest part of all your imported commodities , which may be discovered every day , by the number of our dutch built vessels in your river , and all your ports : we have had good lading back of corn , butter , and cheese , and there is one fraught we bring of our country-men , french refuges , and other foreigners , for what uses your master and ours designs them , it becomes you to look to it ; we have got one advantage since your revolution besides many other colatcral ones , that we know the soundings of all your ports , the strength of your fortifications , the stores of your arms and amunition you had , which have been transported hither or to flanders , the small stock you have left , the secrets of your revenue , and what is above all the disposition of your people , and the easiness of managing your parliaments to our advantage , whereby we and the confederates have gained many millions , since we found you so ready to give us 600000l . for our assisting our own statholder , for which benefits we have reaped since in any other reign we would have given millions . yet notwithstanding all these emoluments , if you once withdraw your giving hands , we shall be forced to make peace ; and when you have given to the last doit , and are sufficiently exhausted , we shall be able to make our terms , and then enjoy the sole trade , for obtaining which only , we use all our arts to engage you still in the war , from which we expect no other advantage . and our statholders interest will never fail within our consideration , for that he useth his despotick power in nominating or approving only such magistrates as are his creatures , which hath highly disobliged this town , roterdam , pregow , and many others of our most opulent cities , and by his preferring to the supream command of our armies , the dukes of halston ploen , and wirtenburgh , general ginckle and others , he hath so disobliged the prince of nassaw statholder of friesland and other princes of his own blood , as well as deserving men of our country , that he hath lost very much of his interest in friesland , groninghen , and , other provinces lying most obnoxious to the french , which is no inconsiderable weakning of our country ; and i doubt not but by our statholders disobliging many leading and popular men in our country as well as in yours , he must have cooled the affections of many to his person , as well as his advancing several among us , who are not very greatful to the people : as i remember i heard many wonder with you , that one coningsby , who was much blackened by informations against him in parliament , and yet , as if done it in dispight to the houses , he made him a lord , and took him into his secret council . this consideration leads me to tell you , what resentments he used of the conducts of the admirals this year , as he had formerly done against admiral torrington , and admiral russel ; which we look upon as a perfect design to convince our states that he hath an heartier good will to promote our interest than yours . i must confess it was a great oversight in your council , and commissioners of the admiralty , that they did not order the grand fleet to attend the merchants under the care of admiral rook , till they had certain notice where the french fleet was ; but since they had no such orders , i know not wherein the admirals are to blame ; for i hear that admiral almond owns that sir ralph dalaval , and i think the other two admirals , at a council of flag officers , moved that the grand fleet might attend admiral rook till they knew where the french fleet was ; which being utterly denied by our flags , and such of yours as joyn'd with us , he then moved , that at least they might go a hundred leagues further ; which being likewise denied , by reason i presume of the positive orders to attend so far only , without any latitude in their instructions , i cannot see why our statholder should not remove some of the commissioners of your admiralty , if he be satisfied there have been no miscarriages of the council . as to the loss sustained there , i think we and the hamburghers had the greatest share ; yet when i consider the charge your merchants had been at , in lying fraught nine , ten , or twelve months in expectance of convoys , the charge of buoying up the sunk ships , and damage to their goods ; the absolute loss of their market , the money which must be payed for their conducting home , and the expences while they stay for a stronger convoy , and the real loss you sustained , as appears by the remarcks on the london gazette , the merchants must have lost a pretty round sum. and i learnt , before i came from london , that upon the first alarum of that loss , many thousand of workmen at the clothworkers trade had been dismissed ; so that in one parish . viz. leeds in yorkshire , five hundred workmen had been discharged in one day . and the hazard of adventuring hath so discouraged the merchants to buy , that they are still out of employment ; and we have the like effects with us . however the matter fell out that you suffered no more , yet the french at that time in ships , and goods , got as much ( besides the burning of so many ships ) as will desray the greatest part of the charge of their fleet this summer ; whereas you have been at a vast charge , and yet scarcely have preserved one inward or outward bound ship , which was discovered by a french privateer . neither can we apprehend the true reason of your late proclamation concerning your sea-men , that they shall have no pay till their next going to sea , and then only a promise to be paid to michaelmas last . the pay they used to have at the laying up of their ships was a great support to their families in winter , and by short voyages till the fleet went out , they got something towards the summer following : i know not how you can think that near 100000 persons , including their wives and children , can have any possibility of subsisting without stealing , begging , or starving , if they be not paid now . this kind of way of proceeding our sea-men would not suffer ; and such proclamations have that fatal consequence , besides the discouragement of the sea-men ( which you may be sure pleaseth us here ) that it discovers either the real want of money the governmeet is in , or else the squandering what is given to unwarrantable uses . such as the magnificent buildings here at the loo , where our statholder is building a palace to equal versailles , or the pleasure-house of the duke of savoy ; to furnish which , besides the curiosities and splendid ornaments , he hath provided , as an onyx table and stands from the emperor , he hath transported the richest hangings , and other furniture of the palaces of your kings , and several rich silver tables and pictures ; and he hath demolished a great part of hampton-court , and so magnificently rebuilt it , that i was told when i went to see it , that already he had expended above 100000 l. upon it , it would cost 400000 l. more ere finished and furnished , while whitehall lyes still in rubbish ; and one of your commissioners for taking the publick accounts told me , that as much was expended upon that building , and at kensington , and for jewels and other needless matters , as would have built fourscore men of war. and i remember an extract of their accounts was shown me , whereby it appeared that since our statholder's administration in england , he had received into the exchequer 25 millions ; of which , according to a full discharge of all money to be defrayed according to the establishments , he must have expended no more than 20 millions , and yet there was a debt owing of 5 millions still ; and that he expects for carrying on a vigorous war no less than 7 or 8 millions more , and an encrease of 20 or 30000 men , without which he can hope for no better success than he hath had formerly ; whereas it is our opinion you neither can provide such supplies , nor if he had them he would be able to effect greater matters than he hath hitherto atchieved . i own there are many secret sluces by which great sums of your money have passed , which whether they be publickly owned i know not : the duke of savoy , besides 100000 l. prest-money , hath received 20 , 30 , 40 , or 50000 l. per month. the king of denmark had a large sum for the hiring the troops under the command of the duke of wirtenburg , though prince george his royal brother hath had ill usage by your court. the duk of hannouer , and several other german princes , proportionable sums : above 100000 l. spent upon the swiss cantons and vaudois , besides what we and the spanish neatherlands have received . so that your money hath plentifully circulated through the whole confederacy . how much hath been squandred away upon other accounts i know not ; but i presume upon giving liberty to due informations you may easily learn. and i cannot think it needful to descend to many particulars ; but one instance i cannot omit , a master of one of the transport ships related to me in presence of several , not as any secret , but as the case of many other such masters ; that upon his first imployment into ireland , he had 70 l. worth of hay a board , and was retained at 50 l. a month , and ordered with his hay to lye at one port after another , till his wages amounted to 1300 l. and when he related this he said he had the like lading on board upon the other years pretended descent , whièh he had kept on bonrd till his pay had run up to 750 l. he adds further , that a year since there was 500000 l. owing to transport ships , which he durst undertake to prove , was more by 400000 l. than all their cargo was worth . i think you may cast into the scale of the lavish expence 300000 l. at least squandered away upon your noised descents , by which you mightily raised the expectation of all europe , to have seen some master-piece of stratagem , which by their abortiveness have redounded to your eternal disgrace ; and if your present undertaking , with your squadron under capt. bombo , with his well-boats and bomb vessels , shoul end in an empty burst , you will forfeit for ever your reputation in policy , and conduct . i remember , when i was with you , i heard several of your character liberally censuring some of these matters , as also bitterly inveighing against the numbers of civil and military officers and pentioners in the house ; for whom it was reported that 150000 l. was lodged , not to be touched for other uses , that it might be ready for distribution agoinst the sitting of the house . besides the quarterly payments of 30000 l. which i doubt not but our states , if required , would willingly pay a share of , rather than such useful persons should want their wages ; for the more liberal such men are of the publick money , the more comes to ours and all the confederates treasury , as well as yours . and i think you may easily judge in whom this aurum potabile works most effectually ; for they will seem , at the first sitting , as forward as any to redress publick grievances , yea , to enquire into some miscarriages , and seem unwilling that any money should be given till publick accounts be stated ; but when they have gotten the reputation of patriots by that art , they then know when to follow their file-leaders , to supersede all further enquiries , by diverting the house by some new matters , or suggesting dangers from abroad , or plots at home , and then watching an opportunity when their party is strongest in the house , they gain some fundamental vote for a supply , and as soon as that is obtained , they pursue that quarry only , letting all other publick bills sink , insinuating that they had found no such grounds of complaints , or mismanagements , as at first appeared to them . this discovery i gained by discourse from a member of our states general , who hath a great influence in your councils , as well as ours ; so that you may be confident that till you remove such mercinary members out of the house , as monopolists , and other obnoxious persons , as betrayers of their publick trust , have been in other parliaments , you will never be able to obtain a true account how your money hath been expended , and what vast arrears are owing to the fleet and army , providores of stores , of victuals , ammunition , transport ships , &c. it pleaseth us infinitely that so great sums are brought over hither for pay of the army , and the confederates in specie , and the best money , and i cannot learn that our statholder brought any great sum back in silver , hesides 1500 l. in washt and clipt money . i am sure you cannot forget how a very credible person of quality told you and me , that if a strict enquiry were made , there would appear that 1900000l . had been given by you since the administration of our statholder with you , for your fleet more than ever had been paid to the sea men , or expended upon it , and he believed such like defalcations would be found in what was given to the army , and for other occasions , besides placing more to accounts than really had been paid : i shall long to know , whether in this sessions you make any enquiry into such matters ; for it is believed , if you trace these matters up the stream , ( which if you do not , you will be notorious breakers of the trust reposed upon you ) you will pinch some great ministers , who must either have an unusual decian courage , to devote their lives to excuse some above them , which will be a rare gallantry in this age , or you will at the fountain head find the source of miscarriages you are to enquire after , of which we here talk more openly than you do . having thus dispatched the second of your enquiries in these several particulars , i how proceed to the last . it is more difficult i must confess to give an answer to this than either of the former ; because the consultations of the confederate princes are kept , as they ought to be , very secret ; only i can tell you in the general , that neither the emperor , king of spain , duke of bavaria , or the other german princes , are so devoted to our statholder as formerly ; since they see he can work no miracles . and all the deference they have for him now , is because he hath been so well credited , and befriended by you , as to be supplied with men and money hitherto , according to his desire , without rendering any account ; which , though it be to the infinite damage of your selves , who reap no sort of blessings , or benefits thereby , yet is the only cement which prevents the crumbling of the confederacy . for i assure you we are sufficiently tired ; out and exhausted by the war , and would be very thankful to such unengaged princes as would uneergo the office of mediators ; for which purpose we have late advice that the emperor hath sent to the pope , to acquaint him , that he is not averse to peace , provided he may have honourable terms and for that purpose desires a copy of the french king's terms . the king of poland likewise hath represented his inability to sustain the losses his subjects receive by incursions and pressures of the tartars : what applications have been made by the emperor to the northern crowns , and the willingness of the french king to accept of their mediation is much discoursed of ; and how instant the pope , the state of venice , and the italian princes , are to persuade the duke of savoy to accept of the overtures of the king of france , you cannot be ignorant , though it may be it is concealed from you into what strates the duke is reduced ; for we have it from sure hands , that in the late battle , after a perfect numbring of the duke's souldiers slain , they amounted to 9000 and 600 men , and that 3000 prisoners were taken , and 117 standards and colours , and besides all the cannon and baggage , a vast number of bombs and carcasses were taken , with which the duke intended to bombard pignerol . that since this victory the whole army under marshal catinal hath quartered in that rich country , and hath drawn such vast provisions from thence , that he hath stored pignerol for two years , shall do the like for cazal , besides putting so large a garrison into it , as shall enable them to make excursions all this winter ; and the french king hath sent a message to the italian princes , that if they admit any of the germans to quarter in their territories , he will send his . troops among them , otherwise he will inviolably preserve the peace of italy ; and our very last advices are , that the duke hath at last sent to the duke of orleance to medeats a peace ; upon which the french king dispatched a courier with his answer in five hours ; and if a peace be once made in that quarter ; it will be a great step towards the like with the emperor . you must , in the next place , consider the french king is so much above his work , that he may continue the wars many years yet longer , without impoverishing his subjects in 12 years more , as much as ours and yours have been in these four or five years last ; for that he maintains a great part of his troops , by quarterings , forrage , and contributions out of the confederate countries , and his sea force by prizes , while his own kingdom enjoys a profound tranquility , as if no war was in their borders . and all the world knows with what ease out of his large and populous dominions he can raise what men be pleaseth by warrants only from lieutenants of provinces , to the respective cities and towns , who at a day prefixed bring to the rendevouz , a double number of men , out of which the officers pick out the number needed of the ablest men , without beat of drum , or allowing his officers so much per head , as the confederates are forced to advance for theirs . and his subjects have such a perfect love to him , even to a veneration , and such a sense of the honour which redounds to the french nation by his glorious successes , that with great alacrity they submit to what-ever he requires ; besides that , all undertakings , after mature consultations , are ordered by himself solely , so that his purposes and determinations are never betrayed , or embarrassed , or retarded , by staying for the consent of others , as the confederates are yearly ●ompelled to submit to ; and then he hath 400000 stout and resolu●e men , under the most experienced commanders of any age , to put all his commands in execution ; and his fund of money is inexhaustable , for that in times of peace the whole revenue of his kingdom passeth through his exchequer once in five or six years , some affirm it in four. and if he chance ever to be put to a streight , a few of his rich allies will supply him . thus , sir , i have given you not only my own judgment , but that of very juditious men i have conversed with : yet , least my letter should be too long , i have omitted several things i had to say ; which , if this be of any use to you , may be supplied in my next ; and with profound respects i remain , sir , yours . a journal of the late motions and actions of the confederate forces against the french in the united provinces and the spanish netherlands with curious remarks on the situation, strength, and rarities of the most considerable cities, towns and fortifications in those countreys : together with an exact list of the army / written by an english officer who was there during the last campaign. english officer who was there during the last campaign. 1690 approx. 71 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 19 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a journal of the late motions and actions of the confederate forces against the french , in the united provinces , and the spanish netherlands . with curious remarks on the situation , strength and rarities of the most considerable cities , towns and fortifications in those countreys . together with an exact list of the army . written by an english officer , who was there during the last campaign . london , printed , and are to be sold by richard baldwin , near the black bull in the old-baily , 1690. to the reader . the war in which the confederates are at present engag'd against that disturber of all europe , the french king , having been of late the chief subject of discourse amongst all sorts of people ; nothing certainly can be more diverting , than to entertain the reader with a diary of the proceedings this last campaign in flanders ; wherein is very carefully and particularly set down , whatever may be thought worthy of remark . and , whereas in most histories , many things are taken meerly upon trust or hearesay , our author ( who was a person of worth and note , and had a considerable post in the army ) being an eye witness of every transaction ; the reader is not in the least danger of being impos'd upon , or of swallowing fables and falsities instead of truths . but , besides the military transactions , you have likewise here a topographical description of those places the army pass'd through in their march ; in which , the situation of the towns , their fortifications , buildings , curiosities , customs of the people , &c. are not omitted . and , what is still more inviting ; all those who are friends to the protestant interest , must needs take infinit pleasure in seeing that good agreement amongst the confederates ; which is no small presage of victory and future success . for , if the christians by their being vnanimous , strike terror and amazement amongst the infidels in hungary , venice , dalmatia , and wherever they come ; we need not doubt , but , if we take advantage of this happy juncture of affairs , and proceed as vnaimously as we have begun ; not only to rescue from slavery many of those poor creatures who groan under the french yoak , but so to humble that proud monster , as to make him beg leave to live quietly at home , without disturbing his neighbours , and dispossessing them of their dominions . a true relation of the actions and motions of the confederate army in brabant , anno. 1689. with a short historical account of holland and flanders . having left london at the same time with his grace the duke of ormond , in company of the honourable the earl of pembrook , embassador for holland , and the lord lazington , envoy to the duke of brandenburgh , who had one man of war and two yaughts for their convoy ; the first land we made , was the brill . bril , is surrounded with a water and a sodwork-fortification , which is very regular ; here we made no stay , but sailed with the greatest hast up the maze to rotterdam ; having by the way the diversion of seeing howse●dike , blackwall , lorden , skelden , and several other very pretty towns situated along the river . rotterdam , here we stay'd three days , and were diverted daily with viewing the admirable neatness and curious order of every thing , relating to the houses and streets of this fair city , where no carts are suffered , but sledds and wheelbarrows , that the pavements may not be endamaged : in the market-place of this town , is the statue of erasmus in brass : in the great church , is the monument of admiral du wit ; to the top of the steeple is one hundred and twenty steps . ships of large burthen , come up to most of the houses in the town ; for the conveniency of their passage there are several draw-bridges , which are raised to give way when their occasions lead them to bring them up or down . the banks of the rivers , which are the streets , are planted with lime and elm-trees , which give their shade in summer and shelter in winter , and are a very great ornament to the town ; the middle of whose streets , are very curiously paved with stone ; and the outside for two yards broad , with clinker-brick : their doors and window-shutters , are all painted green : their houses are neatly kept within , and placed in admirable order without : their men are tollerably fashionable , but their women are generally fat , burly and unsightly ; they all go in slippers , and their coats come down but half way their legs . here is a sumptuous stadhouse and exchange , and i think every thing that can contribute to the composing of a lovely , decent , rich , commodious city . on the 14th we went to delf , in order to see the hague . delf , to this place it is by water two leagues from rotterdam . our boat was drawn by a horse , rid by a boy , who trots him all the way , and in two hours time comes to his journeys end . there are about sorty of these boats ( which are much like your aldermens barges on the thames ) which will contain about forty passengers ; these boats are so ordered , that one of them is to go this course every half hour : there are likewise at delf other boats , which are obliged to go every hour to the hague . the buildings of this city are much after the same manner with rotterdam : here are two spacious churches , hung all round and richly beautified with coats of arms ; in the old church lyeth the body and monument of admiral van trump ; in the new church lyeth interred the body of william henrick van nassau● , first prince of orange ; as stately a monument as most in westminster . here are likewise interred three more princes and princesses ; over the door of the stadhouse are engraven these two latine verses , haec domus odit , amat , punit , conservat , honorat nequitiam , pacem , crimina , jura , probos . from delf to the hague is a league by water , and it costs two pence half peny the passage in one of the forementioned boats. hague , here is the prince of orange's court about a quarter of a league from the town ( for this is not a city , although it doth surpass several cities iin grandure . ) in a grove hard by , is a very fine mall . in the stadhouse of this town is the burgermasters chamber , wherein is placed the strappado : two leagues from this place is hounslerdike , where the prince hath a very stately pallace , whereunto appertaineth several rarities , among which is an ostridg and some indian oxen ; he hath likewise another fine pallace in the grove near the hague , in which is a very spacious hall adorned with several curious sculptures ; from the hague to skeeveline is a walk about two miles in length , paved all the way with clinker-brick . about half way is the heer bentings house , now earl of portland , whereunto appertaineth a very famous orange garden , with a large bird-cage which is sixteen rood long , and twelve foot broad : to the top of the great steeple of the hagus is three hundred steps , and in the church thereof is the monument of obdam , the famous admiral of the dutch fleet , who was blown up together with his ship as he was coming to an engagement with the english fleet. most of the gentry and nobility in this part of the country , have habitations in this town ; they use few coaches , but generally ride in an open kind of chariot , which defends them from neither wind nor sun ; the carriages thereof are not slung as in england , so that they are little better than a gilded car : the women appear very modestly ( or rather unmannerly coy ) not suffering a man so much as to touch their hands , without shewing a dislike thereunto . this town is likewise famous for a spin-house , in nature of a bridewell , which is for restraining of burgermasters daughters which lead lewd lives , upon discovery whereof they are confined to this house for a year and a day . and from hence we were ordered to breda , to joyn the troop of guards formerly gone thither ; in obedience to which we came back to rotterdam , and began our journey from thence on the twentieth , and in two days arrived at our journeys end , through a country where to see a stone is a miracle ; the land there seems lower than the sea , and i do believe so it is ; for , half the country would be overflown with the sea ; were it not for a great multitude of windmills that are kept constantly imploy'd in draining the land by a pretty kind of stratagem . there are several towns , and good entertainment on the road , wherein i observed no great superstition ( wherewith brabant is horribly pestered ) save in the matter of the stork , which they account lucky both to particular persons and the publick state ; they being possest with a fond conceit , that they have a secret instinct in them , which teaches them to abhor monarchy , and that therefore they will breed no where but in a free state ; and therefore they build their nests for them in the tops of their chimneys , where they delight to breed . but if they chance to breed on the top of a burgermasters chimney , they will rather choose to lose the benefit of the fire-place , than disturb this lucky bird ; the laws of the land protect them , and make it penal to destroy them ; for which there is a natural reason , especially in a country where frogs and toads do so much abound , of which vermin these birds are great destroyers : and of which sort of vermin , and provision for the storks , there is such plenty here , that if almost all the birds in the air were storks , they may be feasted in holland . breda , when we arrived there , we were surprized to ride over five or six draw-bridges , before we came to the town ; as soon as you enter the gates , which ( if a stranger , they will not suffer you to do without a great deal of caution ) you are carry'd to the governour , before whom you must give an account of your self : this is a large orderly city , only that they are not so curious in their houses , as they are in other parts of holland , though cleanly enough . it belongs entirely to the prince of orange : it is so well fortified , both by nature and art , that 't is even impregnable , besides the rampierts , which are all arched underneath with a strong brick arch , and are raised higher than the houses of the town , whereon is an enneagon ; there are two pair of outworks , each encompassed with a broad deep water ; on the government of this city do depend seventeen other towns of note in the province of brabant . this city was taken by a wile from the spaniard , by king williams grand-father ; our king hath a very fine castle and garden here . there is likewise a very remarkable steeple here , which is in height four hundred and thirty four steps , all of carved stone ; wherein is a delicate ring of bells , which chime every half hour , to give notice of the clocks going to strike , which strikes here so often ; these bells will readily and sweetly chime to any time . near to the top of this mighty structure , in a round ball , liveth a trumpeter and his whole family , which by reason of the height , seems to them that stand on the ground , to be no bigger than that you may grasp it in your arms : this trumpeter is to sound every night , after the gates are locked , to give an account that the city is safe . on the twenty seventh , the duke of ormond received a portent from prince waldeck , to march to the army , which was encamped at perway ; accordingly on the twenty eighth we marched to a city called lunehout . lunehout , here we were quartered at country houses , it being the custom of this country , to give free quarters to the souldiers on their march ; but the houses were forsaken by the inhabitants . in our march through this country , i observed that every little house had a hop-garden belonging to it ; the next day we marched to skell . skell , here i had the opportunity of waiting on the duke of ormond to antwerp . antwerp , this is reputed the chiefest town in all flanders ; the most beautiful , and the strongest situated ; for the better defence whereof , there is a strong cittadel , formed with five bastions ; some of the streets of this city are sixty paces broad ; in the middle of the great street is the statue of our saviour on the cross , carved at large and gilded ; at the entrance of the gates , and corners of every street , is carved the virgin mary with our saviour in her arms , and at the foot of them a place to kneel and worship : in this city are twenty five colledges , nunneries , and religious houses : no art can exceed the curiosity of the jesuits chappel in its structure and ornaments , which is wainscoated with all sorts of marble ; the roof is painted by the best hands : they were so free as to shew us all their riches , which they valued to two millions : they have for every holy day a several skreen to draw before their altar , which is richly painted and embroidered ; you may go from hence to any part of holland by water , so you may to brussels : here is likewise a nunnery furnished with english nuns , who appear extream civil , but are great bigots in their religion , and great athenians , as to news : from hence we went to lire . lire , which is two leagues from antwerp : here is another english nunnery . this town is not very strong , but is a good market town , where all provisions are plentiful and cheap ; next morning we went to reminian . reminian , here all the habitations were forsaken in a country full of standing corn , whose soil is very fertile , and all well tilled , yet we found a great scarcity of all manner of provisions , which we supposed the inhabitants had withdrawn , by reason of the army marching that way . we are now come into the land of idolatry , where the images of the virgin mary , st. ann and the cross are worshipped in every grove , under every green tree , and at every cross way ; the canaanites could never arrive to a greater pitch of idolatry ; so that this land can be so fitly likened to nothing as to a paradice inhabited with devils ; and to say the truth , for their complexion , the inhabitants , both men and women , may keep the feinds company , there being no such ill-favoured megre creatures in the whole universe , as are these walloons , who speak a broken french ; it is true , you may meet with a priest or a bacon-headed friar here and there that looks pretty plump and fat , the mobile being a kind of ill shap'd monsters , starved thereunto , 't is supposed by the covetousness of the clergy , who lord it over these poor creatures , and have engrossed to themselves all the fine houses and habitations , and i suppose all the riches and provisions in the country : the next day we marched through veltum to bissen . bissen , here we had the help of an ale-house for our refreshment , which is all the advantage we had beyond our former quarters , where we could get nothing for love or money : the next day we marched through lovaine . lovaine is a large uniform plentiful city , whither all the gentry do repair from the country , whilst the army is in the field . here are eighteen colledges and monasteries , among which are all orders of monks and fryers : in the great church of this town ( which is a very stately structure ) is painted the whole story of the bible in the glass . there is likewise the statue of our saviour riding on an ass . this church is much beautified with famous sculptures ▪ among the colledges , one of them is said to be of the most antient standing of any in the world ; which is all my short stay in this place would suffer me to observe , we being to march that night to gree and bee. gree and bee , the country began to be dangerous ; the bores or peasants being so bloody , rude , and surly , that as they find an opportunity , they knock what souldiers they can on the head , and butcher them , though they gain nothing thereby but their cloaths ; as they did two of the lord of oxford's regiment , which lurked behind us , and were never heard of after ; for which reasons we encamped in a meadow that night , and foraged our horses , but could get no meat but what we brought from lovaine : hence we marched the next day to perway , and joyned the army . perway , several branches of the army being not yet come in . here the army was encamped in one line , having fifteen great cannon , twenty six of a lesser sort , and twenty five small field-pieces , with four mortars , and thirty tin boats ; all the camp we found plenty enough of every thing , there being store of sutlers . here we staid till the ninth , and then marched in two lines , the pioneers having first cleared the way for us to sombreife . sombreife , here we encamped in two lines , and were joyned with some spaniards and brandenburghers , which to all appearance were stout likely men. here some of the lord of oxford's regiment began to mutiny about their pay ; whereupon one boad , their major shot , one of them trough the head , who died within three days , which quieted the mutiny , and the major was justified by the court marshal for what he did . here several irish men amongst the foot , having conspired to go over to the french army , were discovered , and shot to death by order of court marshal : we were encamped here until the fourteenth , and then marched to gerempont . gerempont , here we encamped in three lines , two of the army , and one of the baggage and artillery ; here were great parties commanded out every night , and frequent alarums , but nothing of action , saving that a party of the dutch , under the command of a lieutenant , run away from a french party , the commander whereof , and some of his men were taken by another party of ours ; but our lieutenant that fled was shot , and every tenth man of his men was hanged by order of court marshal . at the camp several souldiers were by a priest inveagled to desert our army and go over to the french , some whereof were taken in the act , and shot , but the priest made his escape . here the inhabitants of the country removed what they had into their churches , or rather temples of their gods , which alone are free from the plunder of the souldiers , having this motto on them ( altare privilegiatum . ) they keep their markets at their churches on the sabbath , where we might have champaign and rhenish wine plenty . hence i attended on the duke to charleroy . charleroy , here i had the opportunity of observing the strength of a most regular fortification , which is accounted the key of flanders ; it was two leagues distant from the camp ; in the town was a strong guard , and on the road to the camp were placed several guards . this place is memorable for nothing but that it is a good garrison , which was the design the french king had in building it : there is plenty of meadowing about the town , which makes it a good quarter for horse , and the neather part of the houses of the town are all stables , which occasions the uncleanliness of the streets . the governour entertained the duke ( after the spanish manner ) with all sorts of the best wine , and rode with us round the walls , which are raised so high , that none of the houses appear to any body without the city ; at this town i observed a great market of french horses , which had been lately taken from their army , and here exposed to sail by beat of drum. at the dukes departure he was complemented with the discharge of the great guns round the walls . thus we returned to the camp , where i was commanded on a party to brussels , to guard our new accoutrements to the camp , which were come thither out of england . brussels , this city was twenty miles from our camp ; the road lying through several great woods , made our passage dangerous , and gave us reason to expect an attaque from a french party which lay in ambush for us , but missed us . brussels is large , but not very strongly fortified , there being only a dry foss round the outworks ; within it are a hundred and twelve churches and chappels , among which are an english nunnery , and several other religious houses ; the private houses and streets are but too much furnished with images and crucifixes , which are most devoutly worshipped by the priest-ridden mobile . the great church here is sumptuously adorned , the outer isles being hung with tapestry and arras , which are raised on three large rows of marble pillars , compiled aster the dorick manner of architecture ; the rails , as you go up to st. ann's altar , are made of massie silver , so are the pillars of the altar , of which sort there are above a hundred in this church , which the spectators may say do all vie with one another for beauty and riches ; all the windows , which are very large and splendid , are glazed with painted glass ; before these altars , some ladies or other ( blinded with popish zeal ) are constantly prostrate , so that all i can say on their behalf , is , that they look like christians ; the men and women of this town appearing much more gentile and fashionable than those of holland ; whereof ( on a fair day ) you may see abundance in a walk which is in an handsome , natural , regular grove , leading to the governours pallace , which is likewise very great and splendid , having on one side thereof an exchange ; about it are divers magnificent statues , with curious gardens and water-words ; near the house is pitched a tent which was taken from the bassa before buda , it is very noble and rich , being all green silk without , and fine damask within , the lodging apartment thereof being wainscoated . in this town is an english academy , and before it lie encamped a thousand men , commanded by prince vadamont , for the better security thereof : it is said that camlets and lace are not cheaper in any part of the world than here . the inhabitants have good opportunities of education , saving the superstition of their wicked religion , and are extream civil to strangers , provided they intermeddle not with that . here is a great ordinary at two guilders , which is three shillings four pence english , where you may have excellent fare . here is likewise a market once a week for dogs , which they harness , and draw with them ( in small carts made for that purpose ) their heaviest lumber . here we staid till the twenty fourth , when we returned with our accoutrements to the camp , and on the twenty fifth , marched with the army , which encamped at monstrea . monstrea , here we encamped in four lines , and staid but one night , the french having forraged all that country . on the twenty sixth we marched to nevill . nevill , here we encamped in an oblique round , with the baggage and artillery in the middle . out of one of our parties , we lost a dutch major , and an english lieutenant , with five men ; and in the action , took and killed about fifty french●… a dutch ( forraging ) party lost thirty horses , which were taken from them by the french. the army had great out-guards , the french being round about them , and the country extream woody ; for the defence of this town , there is an old fortification , with several round towers thereon , not very strong ; in it is a very magnificent chappel , where ladies of noble descent , called channonesses , officiate instead of priests : they have a notable knack of singing out their devotion , wherein they are accompanied with flutes and organs . they entertained the duke of ormond with a ball , and in requital he treated them with a collation one evening at the camp ; their governess is a princess , without whom they stir not abroad ; they keep their coaches ( some with six horses ) and live very court-like . none are admitted into this society , but such as can evidence their extract to have been noble for thirteen past generations together . they are all great fortunes , and sometimes change this condition for a married state ; when they happen to do that , they leave a hundred pound per annum to the society . when they are a their devotion , they wear a white linnen vest , over which is a black veil lined with ermins , which trails ; at other times they dress well , are beautiful , civil and well carriaged . there are of this sort at brussels and monts , but are not so strict ; neither can they boast that their societies are so ancient as this . hence we removed the first of august , and encamped in four lines at tressinean . tressinean , here is the curiousest garden and wilderness in flanders , embellished with many rarities . the gentleman to whom this place belongs , is a protestant ; who was so fond of his fine garden and his house , which is likewise very considerable , that he gave all his money and substance to the french army , on condition that the houses and gardens might be spared ; by which means this sumptuous structure alone hath escaped the fury of the french army . at this place some lunenburghers , brandenburghers , and more spaniards joyned us , which compleated our army forty five thousand men. the next day we marched through a very dangerous pass , to fountaine laveck . marshero pont , here we remained only one night , having sent our pioneers ( covered with a strong guard ) to cut a passage for our army through the thick forrest of arden ; in the action the french attaqued them , but were repulsed with a considerable loss ; this forrest is noted to be the greatest forrest in europe , perhaps in the whole world ; beginning at brabant , it runs up into hungary , and is said to be eight hundred leagues in length : on the eighth instant we decamped and marched to hemsurry . hemsurry , here we were got three leagues into the french territories , and within two miles of the body of their army , encamped in a wood , with a line of circumvallation ; which is stronger in horse than ours ; but ours stronger in foot than theirs , and that considerably : at this camp we intrench'd our selves , and one of the french lieutenants of horse coming to view our camp , mistaking our out-guards for his own , came into hem , and was taken prisoner . sir richard brown , was this day run through the body by lieutenant collonel billensly , who was exasperated thereunto by some passionate ill language , which the other used , who dyed on the spot , and was the next day buried in the forrest . on the tenth , the french general sent a trumpet to ours , to desire the exchange of prisoners . on the eleventh we sent our forragers under the cover of five thousand horse and foot ▪ to forrage close by the enemy ; whereupon , the french. army was alarumed and drew out ▪ but would not be invited to leave the shelter of their woods ▪ there was that day some pickeering , but little hurt done ▪ and now we are resolved , since we cannot attaque the french army by reason of the strong situation of the place where they are encamped , that we will eat up the forrage round about them , and so starve them out of their entrenchments . thus we spent our time till the fourteenth , when we marched forward to bressea . bressea ▪ here we saw their army draw forth , but they did not offer to attaque us , though it was supposed the two armys would have had some brushing here ●the french army having received some considerable fresh supplies out of the garrisons ) but that night we decamp'd ; the french did not expect we would march so soon , having newly entrenched our selves , and our pioneers for a colour : but we cut a large pace , through a great wood , quite another way ; our vant-guard took 12 of their dragoons , and killed one . several diserters came in to us , on our march ; and in conclusion , we got beyond their army , and marching over boated bridges towards phillipville , we encamped on the 15th . at tillroy . villroy , here we were strongly posted , having on the rear a river , with a steep ascent on each side , and on the front some villages and shottoes , which we had garrisoned among which was wall-court , to which all the peasants of the country , to the number of five thousand had flocked , bringing with them all their provision and substance , thinking thereby to secure themselves , under cover of the french army ; whose general had commanded the inhabitants of the country , not to sell any provision to our army , on pain of death , and burning their houses , whereupon all provisions began to grow very scarce and dear ; whereat our general being enraged , sent two regiments of brandenburgh foot , to require admission into the town , and that they should bring their provisions to the camp , where they should receive the utmost value for them , which if they declined to do , he would batter the town about their ears : these proposals were with reluctancy condescended unto , and the brandenburghers accordingly posted in the town . this is the walled village which was ( more superstitiously than wisely ) so vigorously attaqued by the french army , on st. lewis's day , which is their kings birth day ; out of a fond conceit , that that day is always prosperous to their arms ; which day being on the sixteenth of this instant , proved the direct contrary , their rashness being the occasion of the loss of most of the principal officers of their army , besides 3000 sentinels killed in the field , and a number wounded , with the loss of not above 50 or 60 on our side , among which was only one officer of note , who was a major . the engagement began on a party of the dutch , who gave way on the first charge ; but , our english being there also , who were the guards ( that day ) for covering the forragers , on whom the design of the french army chiefly was ( and indeed if they could have passed that guard , they might have taken 5000 of them ) they bore the brunt of the battle , and by their bravery , gained the advantage of the gound ; which if the french could have got , they would have made use of it to our great damage . all this while the brandenburghers in wall-court , were not idle , but received the attaque made on them , with a great deal of courage , committing a great slaughter on the enemy ; who demonstrated a great deal of desperate valour to little purpose . this rancounter lasted ten hours , the cannons playing all that while on both sides ; theirs did us on mischief , but ours cut off several of their horse , and made lanes through their foot as they retreated ; which they did not do , till they saw the scotch regiment , and the english guards advance ; whereupon they sounded a retreat , and sent to our general for leave to bury their dead ; to which the general gave his consent , after having taken from them 12 of their cannon , not esteeming it adviseable to follow victory too far . in burying their dead they had the boars to assist them , for which reason , before we decamped , the general ordered their villages to be burnt , and gave the soldiers leave to plunder their churches , wherein they found great booty . the french army is now encamped within a mile of us , and our advance-guards can see their whole camp. in the fight , and after the fight , several deserters came in to us , who gave us account that a multitude of their best officers were slain , and that marshal de humiers , narrowly escaped ; one of his field officers being cut off by a cannon ball , whilst he was leaning on his shoulder . here we stay'd till the 19th , when we marched about two leagues , designing to encamp ; but the french being encamped too near us , and the place of our encamping , not strong , our general thought fit to change his measures , and so marched the army three leagues further , that day , a party of the french following us , but at a great distance . near our camp we received an alarum , that the french were in the rear of us ; whereupon , our general in half an hour put the whole army into an advantageous posture to receive them ; but finding the alarum to be false , and that it was only our own rear guard ; we marched to our camp , where we stay'd till the 22th : and being informed , that the enemy designed to get betwixt us and charleroy ; having likewise advice from the duke of lorraine not to engage them , we marched early that morning , without sound of trumpet , or beat of drum , through a very thick wood , having the evening before sent away our cannon and baggage toward the sombruff , after having forraged and ravaged , in the french territories . for three weeks through this wood the french followed us ; whereof having advice , and finding a little plain in the middle of the wood , our general there drew up the army , lined the wood , manned a shottoe , and turned our cannons upon them ; which their out guards perceiving , wall-court being fresh in their memory , they were perswaded to be so mannerly as to keep their distance . however , we marched in a retreating posture , relieving their rear , every half hour ; by this means , the english guards , who led the van in morning , marched in the rear in the afternoon : thus we marched over the sombruff by the help of four bridges , on copper boats , guarded with cannon ; as soon as we got over , we encamped at a place called jollie , by the river side . jollie , here we stayed till the 29th . but on the 27th . in the morning , by break of day , the french having raised two batteries over night , laid on us with ten pieces of cannon of twenty four pound ball from one battery , and eight pieces of eighteen pound ball , from the other battery ; but we were prepared for them , and had provided sixteen cannon to play against them , which were managed so well , that we did a great deal of execution , both on their battery , and guards , and attendants : we killed three of their eminent officers with one of our balls , and found several of their horses next day dead , near the batteries : of our side , we lost only two men and a woman ; a bomb fell among the officers of colloner hayle's regiment without doing any harm , the fuzze being stifled ; two more fell in a meadow near our guards , with the same success ; there likewise fell two hundred balls among our tents , which injured neither man nor horse . all the prejudice done , was , that some of the tents were torn , among which the duke of ormonds was one ; notwithstanding which , the duke stood his ground ( with the troop drawn up ) for three hours , in the heat of the cannon adoing , the general having forgot to send him orders to draw off , without which he was resolved , not to quit his post : this sort of game lasted from four in the morning till eleven , during which space of time , the cannons never ceased playing . in the end we constrained them to quit their battery , and we returned to our ground again , where we encamped that night , and the next day we marched to moutaine sur le samberg . mountaine sur le samberg , here we stayed till the 2d . of september , when we marched to our old camp , called vill de perway . vill de perway , here we were encamped in two lines , for two days , without any action ; the weather being very bad , many of our men fell sick of the flux , with eating of fruit , wherewith this country doth much abound : by this and other accidents , four regiments of our english foot , and two of dutch were so wasted , that it was thought fit to send them to winter quarters , with orders to send fresh forces , out of the garrisons , where they were to quarter , which forces joyned us at lombeck : on the 5th . we marched to jonep . jonep , here the weather was likewise very bad , and the ground we encamped on worse ; in which sad condition , we stayed till the 9th . and then marched to notre dame de hall. notre dame de hall , this is a large town of good trade , where is a sumptuous chappel , a jesuits colledge , with several religious houses ; this town pays 10000 guilders per annum , and a brass gun to the french , that they may be protected from the fury of their merciless army ; on the 15th . prince vademont's army of 15000 men joyned us , which moved us to remove to lombeck , to give them room on our right . lombeck , here the french army having begun to set the country on fire , 'twixt us and brussels , prince vademont detacqued 3000 horse out of his own army , and pursued them , who were followed by twice as many out-of our army , under the command of mouns . de bee : the spanish lieutenant general , prince vademont , came up with some of them , killed 120 , and brought 60 prisoners into brussels , with the loss only of three men , the rest fled ; whereupon he returned to the camp , where we remained till the 19th . when we marched to enghien . enghien , this town belongs to the duke of arcourt and prince of brand rambourge , where he hath an extraordinary mansion-house , and sumptuous garden ; some say it is as fine as versailes , the fame whereof hath brought several from paris , and other remote parts to see it ; it is likewise said , that the prince , before the war raged so much , kept two hundred workmen all the year imployed about it : the garden-plat which is well walled about , cannot be less than three hundred acres ; in one part thereof is a small deer-park , planted with several groves , of divers sorts of pleasant stately trees , as fir , walnut , chesnut , spruce-fir ; in the pleasure garden are 52 small statues in several postures , and eight very large guilded , besides what are in the hedges , which all run water : there are flower-pots betwixt every statue ; there are likewise four houses of waterworks ; in the middle of the park of mazes is a fountain , in an octogon , arched on sixteen pillars about twenty foot high ; on the top are eight great lions cut at large in stone ; under the freez are eight caesars heads ; the fountain is railed , and banastered about with marble ; the bottom being flagged , and the sides lined with the same , as are the other four houses of waterworks : from hence you see eight great walks , with elm hedges very curiously cut : joyning to which are eight labyrinths ; on the side of the walls are several regular groves , some in a triangle , some in a quadrangle : in this town are several convents of carmelites , and capuchines : here is also a nunnery , and a stately church curiously beautified with sculptures ; this town hath been walled , but is now demolished : here we stayed till the 22th . and then we marched to syllie . syllie , this day the french hearing of our decamping , left the ground where they were very strongly posted , in great disorder ; leaving behind them in the hurry , several carriages , barrels of bear , forrage , and other luggage : nevertheless we remained encamped at this place , till the 27th . and then marched in four lines to cambroug , where we encamped in two lines , prince vademont's army still keeping the right . cambroug , here the french army was encamped within a league and a half of ours ; who if they had a mind to shew fair play , need not want a delicate plain champion country for it ; there cannot be a pleasanter sort of a country , and more capable of improvement in the world : but the inhabitants are so given to superstition , and idolatry , that it is impossible any thing should prosper where they are . from our camp might be seen eleven churches , the country being wholly dedicated to religious houses , which cannot be termed any thing , so properly , as nests of idle idolatrous people , blind leaders of the blind , to whom the rest of the inhabitants are all slaves ; if it were not so , and if it would please god to bless them with peace , it would certainly be as pleasant , and plentiful , and perhaps as flourishing a country , as any in the whole world : the chief of these irreligious places , is the house from whence our camp derives its name ; it is walled round , situate in the midst of this plain by a river-side , 'twixt two of our garrisons , at h and monts . within these walls is a famous chappel , joyning to the cloyster , adorned with admirable carvings , and extraordinary painting ; in it are many rich altars , which they ( at last ) refused to let our guards see , because , said they , they have given offence in not kneeling , at the lifting up of the host ; but another chappel they were admitted into , where ( among other fopperies and trumperies ) i observed a little prayer , hanged up in latin , to be learnt of all that came thither to devotion ; the prayer was to this effect , that it would please the lady of cambrogue , for the sake of the five wounds , which her holy image suffered in that place , by the hands of an unsanctified jew , to grant five things ; namely , that in the hour of death , they may not want the company of a priest , whereby they may have the benefit of auricular confession , absolution , receiving the sacrament , and being anointed with oil : this is a carmelite convent ; they stamp little medals of silver , and sell them to the people , whom they perswade , shall by the wearing of them be kept from sickness , disasters , infection , or any power of the devil : this i heard one of them aver . in the larger of these two chappels is a great marble pillar , much like the cross in coventry , with all the popes and fathers of the church , engraven on it : there is likewise engraven , the expiration of our saviour on the cross , under which is drawn to the life two priests , laying him in his grave , with women weeping , all cut at large , in marble : here are likewise several large tombs ; one of them , which is indeed very rich , belongs to the family of enghion ; others lye in arches in the wall , cut at large , ( impailed ) in iron grates ; which though of stone , are very much defaced : which puts me in mind of juvenal , who says , that the very marble statues , and monuments must yield to the corroding nature of time , and pay a tribute to death . it is said , that the prince of orange's army being about to be betrayed into the hands of the french , by the treacherous contrivance of these fryars , he let his soldiers plunder the church and take away all they had , whereof there is now no sign , they having since admirably enriched themselves . during our stay here , i went to see ath. at h , this town lieth at the west end of this plain about a league and a half from the right of our camp , which stretcheth it self , when they are encamped , in two lines , at least a league ; the fortification thereof is a septagon , with out-works , answerable to every bastion ; it is pallisadoed and stakudoed with turrets on the walls , whereon are golden flower de luces , which sheweth that it was fortified by the french king , as was charleroy , but by the treaty of nimiguen was surrended to the spaniard : in the counterscarp are encamped a regiment of dragoons : in the town are quartered three italian , and two spanish regiments of foot ; on the walls and ramparts , rows of large flourishing lime-trees , which adorn the town and shelter the building thereof from bombs : you go over four draw-bridges before you enter the gates of the town , which is encompassed with a large wet ditch and a strong fossbray ; there are four gates to the town , and two port-cullis to every gate ; there is likewise a magnificent church with thirteen altars ; the great altar hath on it the ascention of our saviour , engraven with a great deal of cost and art ; on another is the passion of our saviour cut in brass : the work of this church , is most in brass , as is cambrogue in polished marble of all colours : this town is famous for good buff , which is sold , very cheap . on the fourth i waited on the duke of ormond to monts , in company of twenty of our guards . monts , this town is built on a hill , which is all surrounded with marshy ground ; the out-works are sod works , not very uniform ; the buildings and streets are large and handsome , as is the whole town , but the fortifications are irregular , and stronger by nature than art : it is surrounded with a wall , whereon are old-fashioned turrets , notwithstanding which , the situation of the place makes it really admirably strong . the french , in king charles the seconds time , laid siege to this town , but were beaten from it by the powers of the renowned earl of ossory . within this town ( on an hight ) is built a very high piramid , whence is a very great prospect , they say for seven leagues round : on the top are five round turrets which are made use of for prisons ; it is all built of carved stone : this town lies to the east end of the aforesaid place , and is from our camp four leagues ; in it are several churches , monasteries , nunneries , and other religious houses ; there are two very magnificent churches , one of the canons , the other of the canonesses ; the latter is in every particular much after the nature of them at neville , but the church is much more a splendid church , and most of the ladies are related to the king of spain , king william , or sisters to some of the german princes : here count horne invited the duke to a ball , where the canonesses after evening service , danced ( at their own house ) with the duke of ormond and his retinue . these ladies meddle not with consecrating the sacrament , which is left to the priest . there occurred unto me here a superstitious ceremony , namely , the carrying of the host in procession , attended with organs , voices , and other musick playing all the way , whilst priests went with their incense-pots fuming before it ; it exceeds any opera , which is a shew they much admire in these parts : in this church is placed on a pedestal in the middle of the isle , the image of the virgin mary crowned , with our saviour in her arms likewise crowned ; she is apparelled in a fine cloth of silver gown , and every one that comes thither to worship , makes a low bow to the ground , and kisses the hem of her garment . after all this view of their churches , which strive every way to exceed one the other in beauty and riches , wherein they come pretty near one the other , except that of antwerp , which exceeds the rest ; i can only lament that such noble structures should be dedicated to idolatrous uses . on the 5th . we turned back to combrogue , where we remained as long as we could get any forrage , which was all devoured for twenty miles round , betwixt the french army and ours , i believe i may say forty miles , without any great mistake ; at last there grew a real scarcity of horse meat . on the 6th . ten of the grenadeers belonging to our guard , unadvisedly went a forraging without a convoy ; three of them were killed by the french , five taken prisoners , and two escaped without horses or coats , which they had pulled off to work and make up their trusses . the peasant that belonged to the house where they forraged , brought the french upon them ; but this action was sufficiently revenged on the french , by the lunenburghers , who being a forraging with their carbines only , were set upon by some french soldiers disguised in boors frocks , but they received them so warmly , that they killed eight and twenty of them , and took about seventy prisoners , with very little loss . the day before we went to monts , we marched a detachment of eight thousand men towards the french camp , together with ten pieces of cannon ; when we came near their out-guards , we sent a lieutenant of horse with thirty men to fire on them , which he did , but they stirred not , neither returned their fire : it was near a wood , where it is supposed they had an ambuscado , and thought to trapan us ; however this alarum was so great a surprize unto them , that several of their sutlers run away from them , and several of their officers sent away their baggage : we waited about ten hours there to invite them to engage fairly , but they declined it ; the next day they decamped and marched towards tourney in order to send their troops to winter quarters , and in a few days after we began to disperse our army to the frontier garrisons , to wit , at h , monts , maestricht , gaunt , charleroy , brussels , &c. in conclusion we marched towards nevil , where we were discharged at nevil , on the when the duke took his leave in order to go for england , and the next day we marched , having free quarters all the way to breda , to winter quarters ; where we arrived on the twenty fourth , and met with an account that the granadeers who were taken by the french , had made their escape to newburgh , where they are taken up as deserters ; but we have sent for them , and in a short time do expect them with us , where we now remain laid up for the next campain . amsterdam , standeth on 0996 acres . leiden , containeth 0250 haerlem 0165 rotterdam 0160 dort 0130 delf 0130 the latter five 0835 so that amsterdam alone is bigger by 160 acres than the aforementioned five cities . there is one remarkable passage , that is , the burning of colonel billingsleys quarters : one evening , on our road to breda , from the camp , we were forced to stand all night drawn up on our guard , for fear of the boars rising against us ; it was accidentally done , but in this fire was consumed to the value of a thousand pound ; the parish-church being next to the house very narrowly escaped . a list of our army as it was drawn up at tillroy camp. horse-regiments , first line . names of their count. names of the chief commanders . colours of the soldiers cloaths . numb . men. dvtch , count bullengburg . red , lined white , dra. 0300 english , duke of ormond . red , lined blew , gran. 0060 english , duke of ormond . red , lined blew , guar. 0200 spanish , count dedamont . white , lined blew 0300 spanish , don quan degusti . white , lined white 0300 spanish , monsieur bay. white , lined white 0300 spanish , don martin de corduva . white , lined white 0300 dutch , wittenburgh . white , lined red 0300 dutch , prince waldeck . gray , lined red 0300 dutch , obdam . gray , lined scarlet 0300 dutch , min heer benting . white , lined blew 0300 german , overstrake . white , lined white 0400 dutch , lieut. col. webingha . white , lined blew 0400 english , oxford . white , lined scarlet 0400     total — 4160 foot regiments , first line . brandenb . brandorf . blew , lined white 0700 dutch , anholt . white , lined white 0700 dutch , rhinelscave . white , lined blew 0780 dutch , grafton barloe . white , lined red 0700 dutch , overston zalif . gray , lined red 0700 english , talmash-guards . red , lined white 1000 scotch , part of the guards . red , lined white 0700 english , fuzileers . red , lined yellow 0780 english , hales . red , lined white 0780 lunenb . obubermstoff . blew , lined red 0600 lunenb . hull . blew , lined pink 0600 dutch , dursling . white , lined red 0700 dutch , general de alva . — 0700 dutch , prince waldeck , red , lined red 0780 brand. prince cor. red , lined green 0700 dutch , count tilly. white , lined white 0700 dutch , buloe . gray , lined blew 0780     total — 12400 second line . dutch , morewitt . red , lin . white , drag . 0350 frizland , prince nassaw . blew , lined red 0300 dutch , baron de hinds . white , lined green 0300 dutch , baron de hay . white , lined red 0300 dutch , baron de saxon. red , lined pink 0300 dutch , holston . white , lined blew 0300 dutch , baron de guistle . — 0300 lunenb . overstbrang . gray , lined blew , 0400 dutch , count flodrop . white , lined red 0350 dutch , grafton nassaw . red , lined red 0300 dutch , erff. white , lined green 0300 hesse , wattlebrook . white , lined white 0350 dutch , nassaw . white , lined white 0300 spanish , dumong . white , lined white 0350 spanish , monduboy . white , lined white 0350 walloon , pettincore . white , lined white 0350 lunenb . frank. white , lined red 0480 lunenb . brankea . blew , lined blew 0350 lunenb . craw. blew , lined blew 0350     total — 6380 besides the brandenburgh horse which came to us to nottredam-hall , from the siege of ments which amounted to 6000 second line . names of their count. names of the chief commanders . colour of the soldiers cloaths . num. men. dutch , youg away . red , lined blew 0780 dutch , covert d'over isle . white , lined white 0780 dutch , min heer van fagall . red , lined yellow 0780 frizland , prince van nassaw . blew , lined red 0780 german , prince de berkovan . white , lined red 0780 lunenburg , count swenesive . blew , lined red 0780 english , offarrell , fuzileus . red , lined red 0780 english , fitz patrick . red , lined green 0780 english , churchill . red , lined buff 0780 english , hodges . red , lined red 0780 english , count shamburg . red , lined white 0780 dutch , amalisworth . gray , lined red 0650 dutch , min heer dutell . white , lined blew 0700 brandenburg , lord beaumont . red , lined black , plush 0780 lunenburg , major general burrier . white , lined red 0780 brandenburg , de hull . blew , lined red 0780 dutch , linstock . white , lined blew 0780 lunenburg , la mott. red , lined black 0780 lunenburg , little host . blew , lined red 0780 lunenburg , marquess de budavid . white , lined red 0780 dutch , winburg . white , lined red 0780     total — 16173 second line . names of their count. names of the chief commanders . colour of the-soldiers cloaths . num. mer. sept. the 2d . hoges , churchils , hales and offarrels regiments being wearied with toyl and sickness , were dwindled away to about 900 men , for which reason they were sent to breda , whence we were recruited on the 16th . with a regiment of sweeds blew , lined yellow 0780 dutch , regiment . white , lined white 0780       1560 likewise three regiments of dutch horse , and prince of friezlands guards 0900 0100   in all — 1000 a list of prince vademonts army , which joyned us at notredam-hall , where it encamped five hundred yards distant from the right of ours , on the 18th . of september , 1689. in two lines . horse-regiments . names of their count. names of the chief commanders . num. men. walloon , mouns . de puis . 350 walloon , le count de masting . 350 walloon , duke de 〈…〉 scourt , two regiments . 600 spanish , m 〈…〉 si 〈…〉 oude ▪ 300 almaigne , count de egmont . 300 almaign , baron de toursey . 300 spanish , ansiens . 300 spanish , lieutenant general count de sallizer . 300 spanish , le count de vatzzin lieutenant general de la troop de strangere . 300     3100 dragoons . names of their count. names of the chief commanders . num. men. walloon , mounsieur de vallauseire . 400 walloon , baronde . 400 walloon , mounsieur de villais . 400 spanish , mounsieur de castors . 350   in all — 4650 foot regiments . spanish , mounsieur marine . 700 mounsieur maudrick . 700 mounsieur agiare . 700 count de shiron . 700 noy elle . 700 sweeds , one regiment . 780 dutch , three regiments from gaunt . 2100   total — 6380 the total of the army when prince vademont had joyned us . horse . the first line . 4160 the second line . 6380 brandenburg , 6000 — 7000 dutch , 0900 — f●●izland guards , 0100 — v●udemonts horse . 4650   22190 foot. the first line . 12400 the second line . 16170 dutch recruits . 01560 prince vademonts . 06380   36510 total horse and foot 58701 finis . the history of the campagne in the spanish netherlands, anno dom. 1694 with the journal of the siege of huy / by edward d'auvergne ... d'auvergne, edward, 1660-1737. 1694 approx. 269 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 59 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a37153 wing d298 estc r16405 12159737 ocm 12159737 55269 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial 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and john newton , at the three pigeons , near temple-barr , in fleet-street , 1694. imprimatur , novemb. 20. 1694. edward cooke . to the honourable major-general ramsay , colonel of their majesties regiment of scots guards , &c. sir , i need not make an apology for presenting the account of the last campagne to you ; for since custom will have every trifle that is publish'd , attended with an epistle dedicatory , i should be very ungrateful , if i did not embrace this occcasion to acknowledge to the world the many obligations i have to you : though , to acquit my self of it , i must put your honourable name to a piece in which i am sensible you must find a great many faults . for , 't is impossible that a man should judge so justly and equally of the affairs of war , as to give an account of them free from any mistakes , unless he has as great a share in the management of them as you have . however , i am very glad it gives me the opportunity to express , in some measure , my gratitude for your favours . when the dean of winchester ( whom i must acknowledge for the author of my happiness , in belonging to you ) recommended me to be chaplain to your regiment , i cannot forget how willing you was to receive me ; as if you had been long expecting an opportunity of doing good to a friend , though i was then a stranger to you : this favour was , indeed , more than i could expect . but your generosity stopt not here ; you have treated me ever since , with so much civility and obliging kindness , that i cannot be silent , but must own the thankful sense i have of it as publickly as i can . i must yet value your favours the more , that they come from a person of so much worth and merit , that you excuse and free me from the common fault of others , in swelling an epistle with praise and commendations ; the whole army knows more of it than my mean rhetorick can express . those who have been at the siege of maestricht , and the battel of st. denis , repeat with pleasure , to this day , the early proofs you gave of your martial conduct and courage . your vertue and valour has ever since encreas'd with your honour ; and this present war has done you justice , in raising you to such considerable posts in the army , as have given a better light to your merit . i could speak with pleasure of your exploits in the battle of steenkirk , where the brigade under your conduct and command did such considerable service : and in that of landen , where you fought with so much vigour and bravery , that ( notwithstanding the inequality of the number ) you often regain'd your post , and repuls'd several times the victorious enemy : your brigade was then in the right wing ; where the elector of bavaria was a joyful witness of your valour and conduct , which he express'd in the kindest and the most endearing manner . but i remember i am writing an epistle , and not your history . i shall say no more , but , that you are a soldier of the king 's own making , and that you have been train'd in his service from your infancy . his majesty is an excellent judge of merit , which is the standard by which he measures his favours : so that though your birth is great and noble , yet 't is your own personal worth that has rais'd you to be major-general of their majesty's forces . if you owe a noble birth to the earls of dalhousy , you sufficiently repay the nobility of your extraction with your great vertues and accomplishments , which make you now the ornament of your family . may you live , long to enjoy these rewards of your worth and vertue ; and whatever else is laid up in the stores of a great , just , and bountiful monarch . may you live to enjoy them for their majesty's service , the comfort of your vertuous and excellent lady , the prosperity of your family , the joy of your friends , and the honour and credit of your nation . these are the hearty prayers and wishes of sir , your most obliged , humble , and obedient servant , ed. d'auvergne . to the reader . this being the third account i publish of this kind , i would venture it without the ceremony of of a preface , if i was not obliged to excuse some faults which may happen in the impression : for i write so ill my self , that i have been forc'd to get it copy'd , to make it legible : i could not get the same hand that transcrib'd the last : it has now been copy'd with some faults ; which i could not correct , without making it as difficult to read as the original . but i have recommended it to friends , who cannot only correct the faults of the copyer , but my own too : which favour i beg from them , since my own affairs here will not permit me to be in england to see it printed . i shall only add , that i have us'd all possible diligense to give an exact and impartial account of affairs , to inform the people of england ( that have so great a share in the burden of this present war ) of the truth ; and to disabuse them of many stories impos'd upon them ; some , by the enemies of the present government , and friends to the french interest ; and others , by some bigotted national people , who do their utmost to foment h●a●s and animosities between the several nations concern'd in the common cause , who therefore are as great enemies to it , as the open and profess'd enemies of the government . i cannot excuse this , nor any of the former accounts , from several mistakes . when a man is stinted to a time , for the publishing such matters , which would otherwise be out of season , after so long consulting of friends , which , it may be , would inform me better ; errors , in such a case , cannot be avoided : but where i have been guilty of mistakes , i shall not think it shame , but my duty to own it . i dare say , this present war now is drawing near to a happy end ; and if god grants me life to have my share in the blessings of peace , i will publish all the particular accounts together of the several campagnes i have seen in flanders , exactly corrected and amended , with the draughts and planes of the battles and sieges : and i will use my best endeavours to free them from all errors and mistakes , by a diligent search into authentick papers ; and a strict enquiry among all the knowing persons of the army , the honour of whose friendship and kindness i may pretend to , several of them having been very willing to assist me in what i have already done ; and i need not doubt of the same favour , when there shall be time and leisure to bring the work to perfection . bruges , novemb. 5 / 15. 1694. the history of the campagne in the spanish netherlands , anno dom. 1694. our last year's history left both armies going into winter-quarters , the french on their side flush'd with a considerable victory , and with the success they had in the siege of charleroy , with which they closed the last campagne ; and though they never had a greater occasion to be stirring , than during the last winter-quarters , yet the french have not been so quiet all this war , as they were at that time . the french king knew very well that the allies were unanimously resolved to augment considerably their forces on all sides , and to bring such armies in the field the following campagne , as might put a stop to the progress of his arms , and oblige him to be now on the defensive , who before had been so violent and so successful an aggressor . and though alliances are attended with great inconveniences , and that the operations of allied armies cannot be so active and brisk , as when they are the results of one single , wise , and absolute head ; yet , on the other side , they have this great conveniency and advantage , that when there is a good and perfect correspondence between allied powers , their very defeats improve their strength , and they gather power from their own disadvantages ; because that makes them the more sensible of the greatness of the common enemy , and of the necessity of a mutual and vigorous defence ; and the spring and sources of war , both for money and men , being many , they can with so much the more ease to their respective states , not only recruit , but augment their forces . we have had good experience of this truth in the present war , in which the allies have kept a better union and correspondence than they had in any former alliances . the great victory which the french had over prince waldeck , in the plains of fleuri , served to bring an army into the field , even the latter end of the same campagne , of 70000 men : which has since oblig'd the french king to augment his forces to so vast a number , to keep up the credit of his successful armies , that he has entirely exhausted his treasures , and now finds himself push'd to such a non-plus , that far from being able to augment his forces , as the allies have done since the battel of landen , he is hardly able to pay those he has now on foot ; and which is worst of all , whereas before he supply'd the want of money , in some measure , by making his armies subsist in the enemies countrey , he has had the mortification , this campagne , to see them eat and destroy his own frontiers . there was therefore a certain necessity that the french should , in common prudence , have undertaken something the last winter , which was the only time they had left to keep up the credit and reputation of their arms. and as there was a necessity for them to have done something then ; so ( i may say ) they have not had a fairer opportunity all this war , if we consider either the state of our army , or the posture and condition of affairs in this countrey . our army had been weaken'd by the overthrow at landen : and though our losses were far from being so considerable as the french made it , yet no doubt it did very much disconcert our affairs ; and besides , the soldiers wading thorough the geet to make their escape , and lying wet for several days after , caused many sicknesses amongst them , insomuch that our english and scotch forces never wanted more recruits than they did the last winter ; and they have not yet been later in bringing their recruits over , and in compleating their regiments : so that in respect of our army , the french never had a greater encouragement to put them upon some action . and as for the posture and condition of affairs , in relation to the countrey , the death of the late bishop of liege , and the following dissentions of the chapter , gave the french king the happiest opportunity he could wish for , to have driven the allies out of that place ; which , no doubt , would have made room for the cardinal of bouillon's pretensions in the following election , and would have given him a great share in the suffrages of the chapter . and though the pope has given so authentick a confirmation of the justice of the elector of cologne's cause in the last disputed election , yet if the french had made themselves masters of liege the last winter , 't is very probable that the cardinal of bouillon would have found more favour at the court of rome in this suit ; and that the committee of cardinals deputed for that purpose , would have found a great deal of right on his side in the french canon law , to have placed that mitre upon his head : and the cardinal de bouillon being absolutely the french king's creature , he could then have look'd upon the principality of liege as in a manner his own , and thus have advanc'd his frontier to the very gates of maestricht , which , as to its civil government , is equally divided between the states-general and the bishop of liege ; which then would have open'd to him an inlet into the states dominions , the thing he has so much long'd for , and has been so much endeavouring after all this present war. as for newport , and the frontiers in flanders , the king provided for their safety , by sending the last winter a speedy supply of eight battalions from england ; tiffeny and the three french regiments first , who were quarter'd in the camerlings ambacht , ( for so the countrey is call'd about the canal of newport , ) and afterwards lloyd , st. george , friderick hamilton , and colonel ingoldsby's regiments , which were dispos'd into quarters , for a time , in ostend and newport ; but still i dare say , that the rest of our army was in no very good condition to have taken the field , if the french had undertaken any siege during the winter . all this being consider'd , no other reasons can be alledged why the french were so quiet all the last winter , and so contrary to their interest , which oblig'd them to some action , but these following . first , the dearth and famine that raigned in france , and in the conquer'd countrey ; which was indeed greater than can be expressed , or than can hardly be believ'd ; though the french court , and the king by his edicts , us'd all possible means to prevent it , and to cover the inward sufferings of his kingdom . we have seen in bruges , and in most of our towns in flanders , very lamentable instances of it , where they fled from the neighbouring parts of france , and the paiis conquis , for bread ; and many of them had been so long without it , that though they had bread given them , yet they could not eat it , and died in the streets : they came in such multitudes , that the magistrates have been forced to stand centries at the gates , to hinder them from coming in : but since they have had a fruitful harvest in france , his edicts acknowledge in plain terms , what but some months before they smother'd over with fine words , to amuse and deceive the people . the french king , for this reason , could not supply and fill his stores with corn , a thing absolutely necessary for a winter campagne : his subjects were hungry , and began to be loud and clamorous ; which , if his purveyors had bought up the corn of the countrey to fill the king's stores , might easily have been improved into a revolt ; for seditions and tumults about it there had been many in several provinces of his kingdom . the second reason , was , because his own infantry , notwithstanding the victory at landen , had been so well handled there , and had been so fatigu'd in the siege of charleroy , that his battalions were so weak , they could not be in a condition to serve in a winter siege , though the misery of his countrey supplied his army with raw soldiers enough to recruit them . the third , was , the ill condition of his cavalry ; which , besides the losses of the foregoing campagne , must be very much weaken'd by the want of forage , the necessary consequence of the famine at home , insomuch , that whereas the french troups had before the same complement with ours , yet the last winter they were reduced to forty a troup ; which does sufficiently shew that the french king wanted horses , and that he could not re-mount his cavalry . the fourth reason , was , the want of money , which is justly called the sinews of war , and without which , the best concerted designs must miscarry : and the scarceness of money was so great in his army , that they subsisted all the last winter upon credit in their several quarters ; even the very lieutenants and ensigns were order'd to have credit in the publick-houses and vivandiers , the first for a groat , and the latter for three-pence a day to subsist them . i may write this for truth , because 't was the report * here last winter ; and i enquired of officers that were prisoners this summer in our army , who owned it to have been so . whilst the french king's affairs were so at home , the allies were encreasing their forces , and making new levies in england , the empire , holland , flanders and italy , to endeavour to turn the scale of the war , which hitherto had turn'd so prosperously and successfully on the french king's side . and the event of this campagne is a convincing argument that they have not bestow'd their money in vain : that the french king has hitherto ow'd his success more to the number of his troops , than to their bravery . though i do not say this to lessen the praise and commendation they deserve , but only to fix and settle the judgment of things in an equal ballance ; which is the right and just way of judging of success in military and other affairs . this was the state and condition of things the last winter , and towards the opening of this campagne ; about which time the king came over from england , to put himself at the head of the confederate army in flanders , though later than his majesty had done hitherto : but the settling of the fund for the army , navy , and new levies , had drawn the sessions of parliament to such a length , that the king could not come over sooner . after the king's arrival in holland , his majesty having had some conferences with the states-general and ministers of the allies at the hague , went , for some few days , to take his usual divertisements at loo ; but orders were sent to all garrisons to be ready to march and take the field : though the french still continued very quiet in their frontiers , without making any motions to form a camp. on the 17th of may , sir henry bellasis received orders to march the next day with the garrisons of bruges , ostend , and those quarter'd upon the canal of newport , to form a camp by ghendt . the cavalry march'd out some days before , to canton upon the countrey for forage : and the forces quarter'd in the frontiers of holland , and the garrison of brussels , received orders about the same time to march and form a camp at bethlehem and terbank , near louvain , under the command of the duke of holstein . on the 18th . of may , eleven battalions marched out of the garrison of bruges ; and were joyn'd by the four regiments that had been upon the canal of newport , two battalions from ostend , one from damme , and one from sluys : those from bruges were of the scots guards , two battalions ; the royal regiment , one battalion , ( the second was left in garrison ; ) granville , tidcomb , castleton , ingoldsby , mackay , graham , offarrell and maitland : from the canal tiffeny , la meloniere , belcastel and marton : from ostend , lauder's and ferguson's ; ( argyle's regiment remain'd in garrison : ) from damme , lloyd : from sluys , st. amand , being the regiment lately commanded by count horne : these , to the number of nineteen battalions , march'd that day about half-way to ghendt , upon the canal of bruges , being commanded by sir henry bellasis , and major-general ramsay . the next day they march'd on to ghendt , and encamp'd at mary kirk , where the duke of wirtemberg and the count de nassau came out of the town to see them ; where they halted till the 21st . that day they march'd thorough ghendt , making their way to the canal of brussels : and this same day the garrison of ghendt , composed of three battalions of english guards , the fusiliers , and seven battalions of danes , march'd out of the town and joyn'd them : the zealand battalion of danes remain'd in garrison , and colonel selwin was put in the brigade commanded by sir david collier : the regiments of st. george , and frederick hamilton , that had left their garrison of ostend to be more conveniently quarter'd near ghendt , upon the canal of bruges , joyn'd them likewise this day ; and count nassau's regiment , from the sas van ghendt . count nassau , as eldest major-general , put himself in this march at the head of this body of foot ; and the duke of wirtemberg went on before , to wait upon the king at his arrival at the camp at bethlehem . but out train of english artillery that had remain'd all the winter in ghendt , was not yet ready , for want of horses ; for which reason , sir david collier was left there with selwyn , granville , tidcomb , castleton , graham , offarrel , ferguson and la meloniere's regiment , to guard the train , when it should come up to the army : which brigade of foot encamp'd on the other side of the town , upon the way to dendermond . all the english horse and dragoons march'd the same day out of ghendt , being joyn'd by the foreign horse , upon english pay , that had quarter'd in bruges , and canton'd upon the villages between brussels and dendermond , being commanded by monsieur d' auverquerque . the dutch cavalry did the same in the villages between tongres , maestricht and hassel , commanded by the lord of athlone , general of the horse . the * boors had suffer'd so much between brussels , louvain and the meuse , the former campagnes , in which their countrey had been foraged by the armies , that this year they had neglected the tilling of the ground , being unwilling to work in vain . this obliged us to canton our cavalry , which retarded very much the operations of this campagne , which we were to open in this countrey where the greatest scarceness of forage was . whilst our garrisons were thus filing off to form the camp by louvain , the french , on their side , began to leave their winter quarters , and to march towards the countrey between the sambre and the meuse , where the general rendezvous was appointed : and the marshal de boufflers gathered together another body made up of the garrisons beyond the meuse , in the county of chiney , between the bishoprick of liege and the paiis de luxembourg . the 24th . the king came to the camp that had been form'd near the cloister of terbank , where his majesty found thirty six battalions of dutch infantry ; and the regiments of churchill , trelawney , and erle , that had been quarter'd the winter at malines : and the same day the dutch guards left their winter quarters upon the canal of brussels , to come up to the camp. his majesty took his quarters at the abbey of bethlehem ; where he was waited upon by the electors of bavaria and cologne , who had left brussels the same day for that purpose , to complement his majesty upon his arrival to the army . the 26th . the english infantry , under the command of count nassau , sir henry bellasis , and major-general ramsey , pass'd the canal of brussels , at vilvorde , and encamp'd at stannokezeel : and the dutch guards arriv'd at the same time at bethlehem , where they encamp'd upon the king's quarter , to mount the guard. the 27th . the eight battalions that had been left at ghendt , under the command of brigadier collier , to guard the english train of artillery , came up to vilvorde , where they encamp'd between it and grimberg , along the canal : the artillery was sent by water to malines , where the artillery-horses had been order'd to come from holland . the 28th . the body of foot encamp'd at stannokezeel , being joyn'd by stanley and collingwood's regiments from dendermond , march'd to the general rendezvous by louvain , and encamp'd upon two lines , with the right at the king's quarter at bethlehem , and the left towards louvain . three or four dutch regiments encamp'd in the same line upon the left. the 31st . the king review'd all the english infantry that was come up to the camp , in the presence of the electors of bavaria and cologne , who were come from brussels to be at the review ; and they appear'd in very good order , cloaths and accoutrements . the french ( as we have said before ) had mark'd their general rendezvous on the other side of the sambre , between it and the meuse , where , by this time , most of the army was come up ; but still they continued canton'd upon the country , both foot and horse , for the preservation of forage : which thing was very carefully look'd after on both sides . the 20th . the marshals of luxemburgh and villeroy came to head the army canton'd near the sambre , and the infantry drew out to form a camp : and the 22d . the dauphin , whom the french king had appointed to make this campagne in flanders , as generalissimo of his forces , both to get the knowledge and experience of a general ; and also , because where there are several mareschals of france in an army , it has been a rule generally observed by the french court , to put a prince of the blood-royal over them , to prevent disputes . the dauphin was follow'd by the dukes of chartres and bourbon , and other princes of the blood : and the armies , on both sides , were now come to their general rendezvous , and all things ready for the opening of the campagne . the 3d. day of june , the army decamped from bethlehem and terbank , and pass'd the dyle by louvain , at havre : we march'd by the camp we had last year at park abbey , and the defiles of the bois de merdal ; but all along this march we could hardly find any corn upon the ground , but here and there , it may be , half an acre : the boors had left the countrey so bare , that they boasted of starving both armies into a peace . the king took his quarter , after this days march , on the other side of the bois de merdal , at the cloyster of st. hertogendale , in french valeduc , a cloyster of nuns-of the order of st. bernard , ( not benedictins , as i said in my last year's account , through a mistake : ) and the army encamp'd with the right at tourine bavechein , two parishes that have but one curate , and belonging to the diocess and principality of liege , though surrounded on all sides with the countrey of brabant . the left of the army went by the villages of sluys and meldert , and reach'd as far as hoexem , within an english mile of tilmont . the brigade of guards encamped upon a line by the cloyster of valeduc , to cover the king's quarter . the whole army was here dispos'd into brigades , and interlin'd with a brigade of horse , and a brigade of foot ; so that a brigade of foot in the front , was sustain'd by a brigade of horse in the rear : but because the cavalry was not yet come up , intervals were left accordingly in both lines , till they should joyn the army . the english horse and dragoons , upon this march , left their quarters between brussels and dendermond , and advanc'd to the villages between malines , louvain , and tilmont , where they canton'd , as before ; and my lord athlone left the neighbourhood of tongres , to canton the dutch cavalry nearer our army , between hassel , st. tron , and leauwe . the 4th . we were joyn'd by the eight regiments under the command of brigadier collier , which we had left encamped at vilvorde ; and and by ten battalions under the command of lieutenant-general tettau , which had march'd out of the garrisons of maestricht , tongres , and hassel ; four of them were some of the swiss regiments which the states-general had rais'd the last winter for their service . the french being informed of our march to the camp at valduc , had just reason to fear lest we should advance farther towards the sambre ; for which reason they pass'd this river on the 4th . and encamp'd at gemblours , where the dauphin took up his quarter . he review'd all his forces here , and dispos'd them into an order of battel ; of which you may read the list following . the order of the french army at the camp at gemblours , being commanded by the dauphin ; and under him , by the mareschals of luxembourg and villeroy . right wing first line . lieutenant-generals , duc de bourbon , monsieur de rose . major-generals , duc d'elbeuf , duc de roquelaure . monsieur de gassion commanding the troups of the king's house . brigades . regim . squad .   grenadiers , du roy 2 noailles 2 duras 2 luxembourg 2 lorges 2 gensd ' armes 1 chevaux legers 1 montgon cuirassiers 3 bourbon 2 la feuillade 2 villequier 2 rottembourg rottembourg 3 roquespine 3 rohan 2 phelipeaux orleans 2 dauphin 3 cravates 3     squadrons 37 second line . lieutenant-general , monsieur de ximenes . major-general , duc de montmorency . brigades . regim . squad . praslin royal roussillon 3 la valiere 3 levis 3 la tournelle 3 rassent rassent 3 manderscheid 3 vaillac 3 la bessiere aubeleterre 3 imecourt 3 fiene 3 la bessiere 3     squadrons 33 body of foot first line . lieutenant-generals , prince of conti , duke of berwick . major-general , marquis de crequi . brigades . regim . battal . dantin navarre 3 languedoc 2 surville , du roy. 4 cadrieux dauphin 3 thoulouse 2 albergoti humieres 2 royal italien 1 la marche 1 caraman gardes françoises 3 gardes swisses . 2 charots vermandois 2 haynaut 1 motroux 1 l'abadie guiche 2 gardes angloises 2 villeroy lionnois 2 roussillon 2 de lux provence 2 piedmont 3     battal . 40 second line . lieutenant-generals , feuquieres , rubantel . major-general , monsieur de castres . brigades . regim . battal . pompane bourbonnois 2 artois 1 chartres 1 la marre 1 reinold suisse stouppa 4 reinold 4 monim 2 zurbeck suisse zurbeck 4 greder 4 cavoye cavoye 1 soissonois 1 blesois 1 bugey 1 senneterre 1 greder greder aleman 2 angoumois 1 periguex 1 lignieres 1 tulles 1 surlanbe royal danois 2 surlanbe 2 crussol 2     battal . 40 left wing first line . lieutenant-generals , duc du maine , monsieur de montrevel . major-generals , count de marsin . monsieur de vandeuil . brigades . regim . squad . souternon du roy 3 bourgogne 3 thoulouse 2 furstemberg 2 du mesiul , carabiners 16 chaludes villeroy 2 du maine 2 berry 2 maistre de camp general 3     squadrons 35 second line lieutenant-general , busca major-general , count de nassau . brigades . regim . squad . lagny lagny 3 pujeol 3 st. lieu 3 thisenhausen lully 3 villers 3 melun 3 cossé 2 massot quadt 3 clermont 3 massot 3 chartres 2     squadrons 31 body of reserve . due de chartres , general . major generals , messieurs de bezons , & de mailly . brigades . regiments . squadrons .   hussars 1 mousquetaires gris 2 mousquetaires noirs 2   dragons .   cailus colonel-general 3 cailus 3 chenteran 3 battalions   royal artillery 2 artillery , consisting of 66 pieces of cannon , besides mortars .   regiment of bombardiers besides gunners and matrosses . 1   dragons .   davaret la reine 3 davaret 3 st. ermine 3 asfeldt fimarçon 3 asfeldt 3     squadrons 29     battalions 3 so that according to this list , the dauphin had sixty and nine squadrons in the first and second line of his right wing of horse , and sixty and six in the left , and twenty and nine squadrons of dragons , hussars and mousquetairs in the reserve , which makes in all 164 squadrons . and because the french had reformed their troups of horse , last winter , to forties , we must compute each of their squadrons to be , at their coming in the field , of 120 horse-men ; which makes the total of the horse and dragons of this army to be 19680. the foot consisted of forty battalions in the first line , and thirty nine in the second , and three in the reserve , which makes in all 82 battalions ; which , at 600 men each battalion , at the first coming into the field , amounts to 49100 men. so that the total of this army , commanded by the dauphin , and under him by the marshals of luxembourg and villeroy , came to 68880 men , besides what belonged to the artillery , as gunners and matrosses , miners , &c. we shall not make a computation of all the forces the french had in flanders , till we come to speak of the bodies commanded by the marshal de boufflers , the marquis de harcourt , and the marquis de la valette ; which shall be in their proper places . the dauphin being come with this army to gemblours , within a day 's march from ours ; likewise there being but little forage about our camp , which hinder'd the cavalry from subsisting in it ; the king , for this reason , order'd to make a retrenchment to cover our body of foot , in case the enemy would have come to attack us . our right was cover'd by the villages of tourine and bavechein ; the first being just upon the brow of a hill , below which runs a small current which has its spring at bavechein , and so goes by ham , and other villages , into the river dyle : the brigade of guards encamped upon another hill , separated from the right of the main body by this current , and cover'd the king's quarter . the left was cover'd by deep , hollow ways , and other defiles of the villages of sluys and meldert , and a little brook which rises at meldert , and so runs by hoexem , oirbeck , and cumtick , to tilmont : the ground was plain between the villages of bavechein upon the right , and sluys upon the left , for about an english mile and an half upon the center of our line ; which plain went from the village of bossu , and the abbey of florival , cross our camp towards tilmont : and again on the other side of the villages of sluys and meldert , towards judoigne . the french took up this camp last year , when we were encamped at park , stretching their line along the plain from the abbey of florival towards tilmont , with the villages of tourine and bavechein in their front , and sluys and meldert in their rear , where they had their head-quarter . and the year before , we encamped one night in this plain , stretching our left another way , towards judoigne ; and the king's quarter at meldert ; and our right near the bois de merdal ; which now at this camp of hertogendale remained in our rear . this was the situation of our camp ; so that nothing remain'd open to the enemy but the plain upon our centre ; which the king , upon the coming of the french to gemblours , orderd to be fortified with a retrenchment from bavechein to sluys and meldert . we had several parties toward the sambre , to observe the motions of the french ; and upon their march to gemblours they took many prisoners which had straggled from the army , among which were some of the late king's guard. the 5th . the three second battalions of guards , and eppinger's dragons , were ordered to encamp on the other side of the king's quarter , between it and the bois de merdal , to cover it from parties skulking in the wood. the 6th . the english artillery came up from malines , under the escort of brewer , lesley , and buchan's regiments , which joyn'd us this day . these three regiments , with those of strathnaver and hamilton , had come but lately from scotland ; they were put in quarters at leer and malines , to put themselves in a condition to take the field , and strathnaver and george hamilton were sent to ghendt . our english train of artillery consisted of sixty pieces of cannon and six mortars , four companies of gunners and matrosses , and one company of miners , all of one hundred men each . this same day we were also joyn'd by the cavalry , who came up only to be review'd , and encamp'd by brigades in the several intervals that had been left for them , ( as we have said before . ) the king review'd , the same day , the eight regiments which had come up to the camp the 4th under the command of brigadier collier , in the presence of the electors of bavaria and cologne , who had left brussels to come to louvain , to be nearer the army , where his electoral highness expected his own bavarian foot and dragoons , to form a camp of his own near louvain . the day following , the king review'd all the horse that had come up the day before , the electors being present : and as the several regiments were reviewed , they march'd again to their respective quarters where they had been before ; the english , upon the villages between louvain , arschot , and tilmont ; and the dutch , towards hassel and leauwe ; and appear'd all of them , both men and horse , in very good condition and order . we were very careful for the conservation of forage , which was but scarce in this countrey . the horse , for this reason , continued canton'd ; and the foot had orders to cut down no corn , upon pain of death . on the 8th . the french march'd from gemblours by one in the morning , to bonef , upon the mehagine where the dauphin had his quarter . for which reason , the king ordered the army to march the next day upon the left , towards tilmont , to be nearer , to observe the french , who were making their motions between the geet and the jecker , towards liege . accordingly the army march'd the next day towards tilmont , and encamp'd with the right at roosebeck , where the king had his quarter ; and the left upon the geet , between tilmont and linther . our front was cover'd upon the left with the river geet , and the town of tilmont ; the center , with the villages of cumtich , and the little river that runs into the geet at tilmont . we had the little river velpe in our rear , that falls into the geet below leauwe . so that our right only was open in the camp between the village of cumtich and that of roosebeck . the whole body of foot , consisting then of eighty eight battalions , encamped upon two regular lines , and was dispos'd in the brigades following . of the english and english pay , the brigade of guards upon both lines : upon the first were the brigades of erle , collier , and alefeldt : in the second line , stuart , offarrel , and haxhausen . of the dutch , deden , anhalt , and heukelom : in the first line , and ratzauw , holstein-norburg and bernstort : in the second , which made thirteen brigades of foot , seven english , and six dutch. the king , in the winter , had made the brigadiers churchill and ramsey , major-generals of his forces : but at this camp , the king declared count nassau ( that had been major-general ever since his majesty's coming over to england ) lieutenant-general ; and the colonels fitz-patrick and offarrel , brigadiers . and in the dutch army , the count de noyelles was declared lieutenant-general by the king ; and he made the brigadiers fagel , salich , and l'escluse , major-generals in the infantry ; and the prince of anhalt , the duke of holstein-norburg , the colonels ratzauw and dedem . brigadiers : and of the horse , the brigadiers ittersum , warfusé , hubert , and stain , were made major-generals ; and the colonels dompré , roo , lippe , zell , piper , and montigny , were made brigadiers . in the english dragoons , brigadier eppinger was made major-general ; and the colonels , matthews and wyne , brigadiers . but because the horse did not come into the line of battle in this camp , i shall omit the inserting the list of the army , till we come to the camp at mount st. andré . the 10th . the french army decamp'd from bonef , upon the mehaigne , and marched into the paiis de liege , as far as st. tron ; the dauphin's quarter with the right at this place ; the left went along the joar , or jecker , almost as far as warrem , which river remain'd then in their rear . the same day , the king review'd brewer , lesley , and buchan's regiments , the last of our english infantry that had come into the field . the 11th . the marshal de boufflers ( whom we had left forming a small body in the county of chiney , and who , upon the marching of the french army into the paiis de liege , had drawn nearer to huy ) pass'd the maes at huy , and encamp'd on the other side of the jecker , between warrem and the mehaigne , where he flank'd the left of the army , and cover'd the communication with namur ; which otherwise would have suffer'd very much by our parties and detachments , which would have had very fair play upon their provisions which should have come to their camp. the list of his army was as follows , but i could not get it dispos'd into brigades . the marshal de bouffler's army . cavalry . lieutenant-general , monsieur de bertillac . major-general , monsieur de lanion . regim . squad . commissary-general 3 — 2 anjou 3 la duretiere 3 courtebonne 3 petitpierre 2 royal aleman 3 dragons du roy 3 — de gramont 3   squadrons 25 infantry . lieutenant-general , count de gassé . major-general , baron de bressey . regim . battal . poitou 2 du maine 2 la reine 3 la saar 1 beauvesois 1 foix 1 nice 1 berry 1 arbauville 1 — 1 royal artillery . 1   battalions 15 the gentleman from whom i had this list did not understand french , so that he abused several names in the copy ; which i got rectified as much as i could , by informing my self from prisoners : which i have done all to two regiments , which i could make nothing of : however , if there be any mistake in the names , there is none in the summ. by which it appears , that the marshal de boufflers had , according to our foregoing computation , 3000 horse , and 9000 foot , which amounts to 12000 men. the marquis de harcourt had form'd another body of horse and dragons in the paiis de luxembourg , of between twenty and thirty squadrons ; but i have not seen a list of them . however , upon the mareschal de boufflers's passing the meuse , he came with his army , and encamped in the condros . at the same time , the enemy formed another small body , between harlebeck and courtray , under the command of the marquis de la valette , lieutenant-general of the french forces , to cover their line between the lys and the scheld , in case we should endeavour to make another attempt on that side , as we had done the last year . i have had a list of this army , but with the same misfortune as the former , to be a little mangl'd , for want of knowing the language ; however , where the names were not french , or doubtful , i have omitted them . a list of the army under the command of the marquis de la valette , lieutenant-general . cavalry . major-general , regim . squad .   dauriac 3   condè 2   bissy 3   courcelle 3 dragons asfeildt estranger 3 sully 3     squadrons 17 infantry . major-general , count de solré . regim . battal . orleans 2 maulevrier 2 anjou 2 solré 1 chivois 1 fontenay 1 — 1   battalions 10 which , as we have before computed , must make 2040 horse , and 6000 foot. so that the french had in all , of foot , in the field , in flanders , in the dauphin , boufflers , and la valette's army , 107 battalions , which makes 64200 foot : and of horse in these three armies , and the marquis de harcourt's ( which we shall suppose to be 20 squadrons , which , i dare say , was the least , ) 226 squadrons ; which , according to this year's computation of the french squadrons , amounts to 27120 horse . so that the total of the enemy's forces in flanders , both foot and horse , made 91320 fighting men : which is a very great army , though inferiour to what they had the last year . the french king having sent his fleet into the mediterranean , to make some considerable conquest in catalonia , had left his coasts destitute of any defence from the sea ; for which reason he was obliged to have some forces dispers'd up and down the provinces of britany and normandy , to prevent a descent , and the insults of our fleet. which he did effectually at the bay of camaret , though he had not the same success in other places the french king likewise foreseeing that the allies would have such an army in flanders the campagne following , as would hinder any more conquests on that side , thought it more convenient to make a considerable detachment both of horse and foot , the last winter , towards catalonia ; where the ill posture of the spanish affairs gave him the prospect of keeping up the credit and reputation of his arms by some conquests : and 't is very probable that he would have possess'd himself of the whole principality of catalonia , if the king had not provided for its safety , by sending our fleet , under the command of admiral russel , into the streights . which so much thwarted the french designs , that they were forced to content themselves with the taking of palamos and gironne , and to omit the more important siege of barcelona . this is the reason , that though the french had a very good army in the field this campagne , in flanders , yet it was very much inferiour to what they had at the opening of the other campagne . this digression may be forgiven , since it serves for a better understanding the affairs of flanders , with relation to former campagnes . to oppose this little army of the marquis de la valette , of which we have now spoken , the allies formed another of almost an equal strength , which encamped at mary kirk , upon the canal of bruges , just by the walls of ghendt , under the command of the count de merode thian , serjeant-general de battaille of the king of spain's forces , which consisted of seven battalions encamp'd , viz the second battalion of the royal regiment , which ( as we have said before ) had remain'd in bruges , at our going out to take the field . and argyle's regiment which was left at ostend ; besides the regiments of strathnaver , and colonel george hamilton ; and three dutch , viz. holle , weed , and grave john : van horne , the count de thian , had besides three terces , that is regiments , of walloon foot quarter'd upon the villages thereabouts , viz. the marquis de deinse , the count de grobendonk , and the baron de winterfelt , which were very well cloathed , and in very good order , both for the number of men , and their accoutrements , and in a much better condition than is usual with the spanish and walloon terces in this country . as for the count de thian's cavalry , it consisted of six or seven squadrons of spanish horse and dragons , whose list i cannot tell . having given this short account of the state of the french army , and the two little armies they and we had in flanders , under the command of the marquis de la valette , and the count de thian , we must return to the two main armies towards the meuse . the 11th . in the evening , we heard three discharges of cannon and small-shot from the enemy's camp ; which we heard , the next day , had been a feu de joye , for the taking of palamos , in catalonia . the 12th . sixteen hussars deserted from the french camp , and came to our army : these are hungarian horse , the emperor has several regiments of them upon the rhine ; and one of their chief having deserted the imperial army about two years since , so many were debauched by his example , and for want of pay , that the french king made a regiment of these deserters , of which he sent a squadron ( which i believe was the whole regiment ) to serve this campagne in flanders , where they were farther from their comrades in the imperial army , and where the french king thought they would have a less mind of deserting back again : but they found the french pay so much less to their satisfaction than that of the emperor's , that they were at last weary of the french service , and i believe that most of them have deserted this summer from his army : to which they were much encouraged by the duke of holstein , who receiv'd them all into his service , and made a troup of them , which he added to his regiment of dragons ; and he generally had a detachment of them for his guard , when he went abroad . their hungarian horses are little , but very swift , and endure a great deal of fatigue ; and they themselves are very dexterous horse-men , though they make but an ill figure on horse-back : they have a little saddle cover'd with cloth , and a houssen , cut like a swallow's tail , that hangs very low on both sides of the horses legs : they ride like the orientals , very short , with their knees almost to the pomel of the saddle ; and when they gallop , they raise themselves up , learning forwards with their heads upon the horses necks : they have round furr cups , with a long head hanging behind their backs ; and cloaks a l'antique , that hang down to their heels , and the capes to their waste : they have under that , a short wastcoat , and their breeches and stockings of a piece , and little russia leather boots that come up half way their legs : they have a very heavy sabre , or scimiter , which gives an effectual stroak when it hits ; but if they miss , those that have a light sword have much the advantage of them , for 't is then difficult to recover themselves . their officers have for all distinction , brass feathers sticking up an end in their caps , just over their foreheads : they are very good for pursuits and parties , and have generally had very good success in this way against the turks . the heydukes are the hungarian foot , dress'd the same way , except the cloak . i thought it convenient to give this description of them , because their names occurr very often in the gazettes , and , it may be , few know what they are , that read it . the 12th ▪ fourteen battalions of the dutch were detached from our line , to encamp half a league to the rear of the left , to possess and defend the pass of the abbey of linther , upon the geet , between leauwe and tilmont ; which was a very convenient post , not only to defend the avenues to our camp , but also to incommode the enemy's forage . this detachment was put under the command of a dutch major-general . the 13th . the king rid out very early in the morning , to observe the several posts between his camp and the enemy's . the king had with him a strong detachment of horse , with which he pass'd both the geets , and came very near the enemy's camp. his majesty went over the ground where we fought last year at landen ; which he rid over several times , to observe exactly the field of battel , and returned late in the evening to the camp. and there scarce happen'd a day all along the campagne , but that the king rid out towards the enemy : such are the pains and care his majesty takes for the welfare and prosperity of the common cause . the 15th . seven battalions more were detached to reinforce the dutch foot that had been posted near the abbey of linther ; these were drawn out of our forces , and put under the command of brigadier erle : viz. erle , lesley , lloyd , mackay , meloniere , jutland , and aver . the same day , the dauphin remov'd his quarter from st. tron , to the village of st. brusten , to settle here an hospital for the sick , to be near the army . the same day , the king had advice from maestricht , that no less than four or five hundred swissers had deserted the french army , and were come to that place . upon which , orders were given , that these regiments that wanted recruits , should send an officer to maestricht , to get them among those deserters : many of them were of monim's regiment , which is the same as brigadier stouppa had , that died of the wounds he receiv'd at the battel of steenkirk . that stouppa was a protestant , and had been a minister ; but i was told , that colonel no●im , who had the regiment after him , was a roman-catholick , and had turn'd out the minister that belong'd to the regiment , and put a priest in his place : which so disgusted his soldiers , that it occasion'd a general desertion in his regiment . the 16th . the king review'd sir thomas levingstom's and colonel cunningham's dragons , that had lately come over from scotland ; they were canton'd near the town of arschot . the same day , the mareschal de boufflers march'd nearer to the dauphin's army , and passed the jecker at warem , where he encamp'd upon the left of the french army . forty suisse deserters more came at the same time from the enemy , and our detachment brought in several prisoners . my lord athlone came up likewise nearer to our army this same day , and took his quarter upon the left , at the abbey of linther . on the 17th . because bouffer's had now joyn'd the dauphin's army , and that we had only foot in our camp ( the horse being still canton'd in the neighbourhood ) which might have given the french an occasion to attack us , 't was order'd to fortifie our camp , and to make a retrenchment from the king's quarter at the village of rooseheck , to that of cumtich , the only place open in our camp , the rest was well covered , ( as we have before described . ) we said before , that the elector of bavaria expected some of his own forces , which he had sent for , to augment his army this campagne ; they were now come to the neighbourhood of louvain , and consisted of three squadrons of dragons of count philippe d' areo , three of monasterol , two squadrons more of cuirassiers of weychel , two battalions of his guards , two battalions of riviera , and one of horthansen ; these joyn'd the spanish horse , and the bavarian cuirassiers , and made a body near louvain . the 18th . they were review'd by the elector , where the king was invited , and receiv'd with three salutes of cannon and small-shot , and afterwards treated by the elector . the 19th . a detachment of danish horse took fifty six prisoners , and brought them into the camp with their officers : and the same day , we had the first forage , by order ; before , the horses gras'd , in the day-time , in the neighbouring fields , and in meadows ; and the men cut down hay , which they brought along with them in the evening , just enough for the horses to subsist on in the night : standing corn was scarce ; and there was a necessity of preserving it , else we should have had no occasion for retrenchments . the 20th . a great many deserters more came from the enemy ; and , indeed , there hardly pass'd a day , but there came in some of them to our camp , more or less the same day , a detachment of our dragons brought in seventy seven prisoners : they fired upon the vanguard , not thinking it had been the whole detachment ; but the rest rid up immediately , being a strong detachment , and surrounded the wood , where the french had posted themselves in ambuscade ; and so they all yielded themselves prisoners of war. at the same time , we took two dominican fryers prisoners , and an irish priest , that were come as spyes into our army : a soldier of the late king james's guards , that had deserted to us some days before , and had taken service in our english guards , discover'd them : he knew they had pass'd between both armies several times , particularly the two dominicans , and that they had engaged to debauch as many as they could of our english soldiers , to recruit the late king's regiments in france ; for which they were to receive a luy d'ore a man , for as many as they could bring over . they had an irish young man with them ; who being press'd to confess , own'd the truth , and was afterwards an evidence against them . after being examined , they were committed prisoners severally in tents , at the king's quarter , and centries continually set over them . on the 21st . a detachment of our foot , posted at the abbey of linther , brought in fourscore prisoners ; of which , some of them were gensd'arms , and of the french king's life-guards . the detachment , from this post , did very much incommode the french army ; and they seldom had a forageday , but that they brought in several prisoners . the 22nd . the king review'd brigadier matthews and the lord fairfax's dragons , which had come up to the camp the day before . brigadier matthews's regiment encamped on the other side of the village of cumtich , which was without the retrenchment , to cover monsieur d' auverquerque's , and other general officers quarters there . my lord fairfax's dragons encamped without the defiles of the village of roosebeck , to cover the king's quarter on that side . the same day , several of the enemy's squadrons came in sight of our camp , in the plain on the other side of tilmont . upon which , the major of the several regiments upon the right , had orders to come to take the posts of their regiments upon the retrenchment , in case the french should come and attack us ; and to see if the retrenchments of their several posts were well made , with a good defensible breast-work . i forgot to say , that the town of tilmont ( the dutch call it tienen ) which in this camp was , before , the left of our army , was guarded by a detachment of three hundred men , under the command of a field-officer , and other officers proportionably , which relieved one another every other day : it is situated upon the greater geet , which comes from judoigne , and has several petty cloysters and publick buildings in it , with an old decayed wall , and ruin'd retrenchments about it : there is no water near it , but the little river geet , and 't is commanded by the countrey about it ; for which reason , 't is not capable of any good fortification . the 24th . one of the french king's carabiners deserted , and came to our army : and the same day we brought in eight prisoners ; and an english officer that was a lieutenant in the duke de chartres his regiment of foot , and has served many years in the french army ; the rest of his party made their escape , and some of them were wounded . this day , the spanish and bavarian forces left the neighbourhood of louvain , and march'd up along the river dyle , as far as neer ische . the elector of bavaria left brussels at the same time , to come and head his army in this place : ( i shall reserve the list of these forces , till we bring them all together at the camp of mount st. andre : his brother , the elector of cologne , accompany'd him the most part of this campagne , being incognito in the field ; so that no honours were paid to him by the army . the same day , ten drums , all of the regiment of piemont , deserted together , and came in their livery-coats to our camp. the 25th . we worked again at the retrenchment , to make some of the breast-works higher , which were found too low : and yet as bad as they were , i heard several officers say , that they were infinitely better than those we had last year at landen , which were made up hastily in one night ; so that they could only serve to hinder horse from riding into our camp , but not cover our men either from cannon or small-shot ; a man could easily have jump'd over them , ditch and all : and yet these were call'd , by some , ( to magnifie the victory ) formidable retrenchments . the 26th . the regiments of marton and fuhnen were sent to reinforce matthews his dragons , to cover the village of cumtich . the 27th . the enemy made a great forage hard by leauwe ; and because they were to come very near our camp , and to forage just under the garrison of leauwe , they had a strong detachment of twelve hundred horse , and six pieces of cannon , which the dauphin commanded himself in person , to take this opportunity of viewing the posts between the two armies and the field of battle where we fought last year at landen . the enemy foraged so near the garrison of leauwe , this day , that they fired cannon upon them , to oblige them to retire ; but seventy of their maroders were made prisoners by a detachment of ours upon the left. ( when the soldiers go out of the camp to gather roots , fruits , or pulse , or , it may be , to plunder the boors , this is call'd maroding . ) lieutenant-general dewits , commanding the elector of brandenburg b's forces employed in flanders , past the meuse , much about this time , at maseick , coming from the lower rhine , and the dutchy of cleves , to joyn our army with twenty squadrons of horse ( of which i shall give a list hereafter ) and advanced as far as diest , to be at hand to reinforce our army , when the king should have occasion for it . the 28th . in the evening , we heard a firing of cannon and small-shot in the french camp ; which we guess'd to be for the reduction of gironne , in catalonia : of which we were inform'd the next day . the french were so much the more glad for this conquest , because that in 1684. the mareschal de belfonds suffered a disgrace before this place , and was forc'd to raise the siege , when he had made a breach in the place ; and that his forces , in a general assault , had got into it , but were beaten out again with a great slaughter by the besieged , that had fortified themselves in the parade-place . but the mareschal de no●ailles got a better bargain this bout , and the besieged did not think fit to stay to surrender till things should have been brought to this extremity . the 29th . our parties brought in two hundred and fifty french maroders . we had taken so many prisoners by this time , that the provosts guard , and gaols of the neighbouring towns , were full of them , though the mareschal de luxemburg had them reclaimed as fast as he could : their pay is so small , and , for this twelve-month past , so ill receiv'd , that their soldiers could not subsist , but by what they could gather in the country : so that they were forced to tollerate the soldiers going out of the camp , to get wherewithal to live . this is the reason that so many fell into the hands of our parties , and that we took so many prisoners : and though the french are more given to deserting than any other soldiers , yet deserting was never so much known among them , as 't was at the beginning of this campagne , not only in flanders , but upon the rhine , and in piemont , where they all unanimously complained of their want of pay ; so far , that by this time 't was computed , that above five thousand of them had deserted from their army here , either to our camp , or to the garrisons of liege and maestricht , since the beginning of the campagne : which would be reckoned a great loss in a battle . the 1st . of this month , the french army left their camp at st. tron and brusten , and marched towards the jaar and the meuse , and encamp'd with their right at tongres , and the left at fies , along the jaar , which was in their rear : the dauphin took his quarter at oerle , upon the same river : they had made great preparations at huy , of bombs , battering-pieces , and all other necessaries for a siege ; which now they had brought to their camp , and gave out , that they designed to bombard liege and maestricht : and some were not content with this , but would have a formal siege to one of these places . but though the french had heavy cannon and mortar-pieces brought to their camp , yet they had bridges laid along the jaar , to pass that river : which shews , that they were more afraid of being attack'd by us , than of having any real design to fall upon us . we had above forty battalions in the lines of liege , and a good garrison in maestricht ▪ and our own army consisted now of ninety battalions , after the arrival of the two regiments of wolfembuttel to our camp : and if the french had not been cover'd by so many rivers , which we must have pass'd to come at them , they had run a great risque of having been attack'd on all sides by our army , and the liege forces ; but the nature of the country gave opportunity to the french of advancing so near to maestricht , having rivers on all sides between them and us , and between them and the forces encamped in the lines of liege : and besides , there was a necessity of suffering the enemy to consume the forage about liege , for reasons that we shall mention hereafter . however , the french made a great noise of their foraging under the cannon of maestricht . the 4th . the two dominican fryers , and the irish priest , that had been taken up in our army for spyes , were set at liberty : the two first were found guilty by the court-marshal , and sentenc'd to die : after which judgment of the court , they were removed from the king's quarters to the provost's , and laid in irons : but the king pardon'd them , out of his pure mercy , ( for the elector of bavaria would have had them hang'd , ) and sent them to the archbishop of malines , to have that town for a prison , during the war. but the irish priest alledg'd , that he was going to his own countrey ; that he took only the opportunity of the two fryers company to come to our camp , and so to go for ireland . which appearing to be truth , he was acquitted , and set this day at liberty . the 7th . lieutenant-general dewits , that commanded the brandenburgh forces that we left at diest , march'd to joyn the elector of bavaria , at the camp of neer-ische . the 10th . the king review'd my lord of essex and brigadier wynne's dragons ; the latter wanted two troops that had been left in england , and his horses very much fatigu'd in twice crossing the sea the last winter , and their continual motion thorough ireland and england , to come over to this countrey . my lord of essex's appear'd in very good condition and order . the same day , two irish officers left the french army , and came over to us ; one of them had been in the late queen's regiment , and the other in colonel talbot's , both of them in savoy . and prince vademont , that had come post from italy , to make the campagne in flanders , came to salute the king at his arrival . his majesty receiv'd him with a great deal of joy , and with the greatest demonstration of friendship . he is a very wise general , and has been with the king in all his campagnes ( except the last , that he was in italy ) both in the former and this present war , and is very zealous and affectionate for his majesty's interest . orders were given , this day , to be ready to march. the 11th . one of our parties came to the camp with a colonel , lieutenant-colonel , major , and two captains , and several soldiers , which they had taken in the passage-barge between namurr and huy : the officers were treated very civilly in our camp , especially the colonel , who had the liberty of his sword , and to ride with the army in the following march , to have a full view of it : with which he was very much pleas'd . the 12th . the battalions we had posted upon the left , near the abbey of linther , left that place to come up to the army , to be in a readiness to march : and the seven battalions under the command of brigadier erle , encamp'd upon the right , upon the ground that remain'd between it and the village of roosebeek , which cover'd the king's quarter . some squadrons of horse had encamp'd here at the beginning ; but upon the making of the retrenchments , they were sent back to the village , for their more convenient subsistence . this same day , major-general la forrest was sent with a great detachment of horse , to observe the enemy ; and orders were given to load all the heavy baggage , and to march that night without any precedent beat of drum , but to take our motions from the right . accordingly , the 13th . by one of the clock in the morning , the army began to march upon several columns . the first consisted of the brigade of guards , and the seven regiments that had been detached under brigadier erle : this column was led by the duke of wirtemberg , and count nassau , and passed the geet between tilmont and judoigne . the two lines had the general officers upon their respective divisions , and the first march'd thorough tilmont , by the gate of louvain , out of the gate of judoigne . the second march'd thorough the town , by the gate that leads to leauwe , and went out by the gate of st. tron . the artillery and baggage follow'd the column led by the duke of wirtemberg . very early in the morning we were got on the other side of the town , into the plain ; which made room enough to subdivide the two lines into six columns , for a more speedy and convenient march. the elector of bavaria march'd at the same time from his camp at neer-ische , to joyn us this day ; and all the cavalry had the same orders . we made a long march between the two geets , and by the town of judoigne , towards the mehaigne : and though we owe all the following advantages of the campagne to this camp , and that we made no secret of our march , ( for , as we said just now , orders had been given two days before , to be ready to march , ) yet the french did not think it convenient to hazard a pattle , to dispute this camp ; which , it may be , was the king's design , by making no secret of his march. we made a halt about judoigne , to stay for the elector's forces , which were to pass the geet here ; and about the evening , the right of our army got to the mahaigne . the quarter-masters had remain'd in this march with the army , because the ground we were going to , could have been disputed by the enemy ; and so we mark'd our lines , after we were come up to our ground . the king's quarter was mark'd , in the order of the march , at bonmale ; and the elector's , at tav●ers , upon the mahaigne . but the king took his quarter , upon our coming to this ground , at mount st. andre ; and the elector , at first , had his at ramelies . our right was at harlue and taviers , upon the mehaigne ; and the lest stretched out beyond the villages of marilles and molembais , which we left in our rear . the line made a small kind of an elbow by the village of henieux heddin , which we had here in our front ; the right of this camp was a plain , and the left went into narrow and close grounds . all the cavalry joyn'd us here . the brigades of rantzaw and dedem were interlin'd in the right wing of horse , under the command of major-general fagel ; and the brigades of collier and offarrel in the left , under the command of major-general ramsay . and because this is the first camp where all our army got together , and where we form'd our line of battle , 't is here that i shall insert the list of our army : i have had an authenick list of it , which is as follows . but the reader is to observe , that i assign no post upon the line either to the king , to the elector of bavaria , the duke of holstein ; or the prince de vaudemont , general of the king of spain's army in flanders : because being generals in chief , they have none . i was guilty , the last year , of this mistake . [ note , that the regiments to which i give two names , with olim before the second , that the second is the name the regiment had last year . ] the list of the confederate army in flanders , under the command of his majesty of great-britain , and the elector of bavaria . right wing .         first line .   lieuten . generals , major-generals , brigad . regim . squad .         spanish horse . duke of holstein , general of the spanish horse . lieutenant-general , du puy .   the spaniards have none : neither have i seen the list of their generals de battuille , which answer to our major-generals . valençar dragons 1 elector's life-guards 2 prince vaudemont and the duke of holstein 1 guards . 1 de bay 1 marquis d'avese 1 hartman 1 count d'arco , lieutenant-general of the bavarians .   bavarian foot. battal . elector's guard 2 count riviera 1 bavarian horse . squad . arco dragons 3 elector of cologn's guards 1 arco cuirassiers 5 lieutenant-general , dewits . brandenburgh horse . squad . horse-granadiers 1 grand mousquetaires 1 life-regiment 3 du hammel 1 electoral prince 3 gensd'arms 1         squadrons 26 battalions 3 right wing .       second line . lieuten . generals , major-generals , brigad . regim . squad . marquis de bedmar , master de camp , general of the spanish foot     steenhuys dragons 1 risbourg dragons 1 moncada 1 troop   ribeaucourt 1 penalosa 1 vintimiglia 1 borja 1 couriers 1 bavarian foot. bat. count riviera 1 horthausen 1 bavarian horse . squad . monasterol dragons 3 weickel cuirassiers 5 major-general , sonsfeldt . brandenburgh horse . squad . dorfling 3 du hammel 2 letwits 2 fleming . 3     squadrons 25 battalions 2 right wing .       first line . lieuten . generals , major-generals , brigad . regim . battal .       brigade of foot interlined , commanded by major-general fagel .   fagel . rantzouw slangenbourg 1 rantzouw 1 st. amand 1 bernstorf zell 1 lochman suisse 1 arents 1 sparre 1 fagel 1       8     dutch horse in the right wing . nassau weilbourg . pyper . mont pouillon 2 wirtemberg 2 vrichapel 2 erback 2 hubert 2 ryswick warfusé 2 wolfembuttel 2 hesse d'armstadt 2 ostfrise 1 ryswick 2     squadrons 19 battalions 8     spanish , bavarian , and brandenburgh squad . 26 bavarian foot 3       in all , squadrons 45 battalions 11 right wing .       second line . lieuten . generals , major-generals , brigad . regim . bat.       brigade of foot interlined in the right wing , under the command of major-general fagel .     dedem . noyelles 1 oxensterne 1 lewenhaupt , olim● koningsmark 1 buldenbrook , olim disenhausen 1 marquett 1 st. paul 1 dedem 1     7   dutch horse in the right wing . montigny . ittersum 2 voght 2 saxen meiming 2 saxen 2 hesse hombourg 1 montigny 2       squadrons 11 battalions 7       spanish , bavarian , and brandenburgh horse 25 bavarian foot 2       squadrons upon this line 36 battalions 9 body of foot .         first line .   lieuten . generals , major-generals , brigad . regim . battal . duke of wirtemberg , general . count nassau . churchill . brigade of guards english guards , 1st . reg. 1 english guards , 2d . reg. 1 dutch guards 1 scots guards 1 mirmont . erle royal , or lord g. hamilton 1 selwin 1 churchill 1 trelauney 1 fuziliers , or fitz-patrick 1 brewer 1 erle 1   ellemberg . alfeldt meloniere 1 belcastel 1 brandenburgh 1 nassau 1 prince george 1 prince friderick 1 danish guards 1   anhalt tettau 1 salisch 1 luc 1 tzcharner suisse 1 melune suisse 1 anhalt 1 wymbergen 1 tettau . l'ecluse . heukelom torsay 1 bulow 1 bielke 1 wolfembuttel guards 1 holstein beck 1 heukelom 1 ringrave 1 holstein ploen 1         battalions 33 body of foot .       second line . lieuten . generals , major-generals , brigad . regim . battal .     the other half of the brigade of guards english guards , 1st . reg. 1 dutch guards 1 scots guards 1 bellasis . stuart granville , olim bathe 1 tidcomb 1 lesley 1 castleton 1 lauder 1 st. george 1 meloniere . haxhausen marton , olim cambon 1 aver 1 funon 1 jutland 1 prince christian 1 queen of denmark 1 salisch ▪ holstein norbourg zobel 1 gober 1 capol suisse 1 schrattenback , olim aylua 1 cinquilles 1 carle 1 holstein norbourg 1 count de noyelles . bernsdorf l'ecluse 1 dumont 1 heyden 1 hockeren 1 hering 1 bernsdorf 1 hanouer guards 1 bickenfeldt 1       battalions 30 continuation of the left wing . earl of athlone , general . first line . lieutenant-general , auverquerque . major-generals . hubert . tilly. ramsay la forrest . colchester . scarborough . brig . regim . battal . iselstein nassau sarbruck 2 prince phiilpe 2 saxengotha 2 boisdair'd 2 tilly 2 dompre dompre 2 saxe heylburg 2 grisper 2 nassaw weilburg 4 athlone 2 brigade of foot interlined , commanded by major-general ramsay . brig . regim . battal . collier tiffeny 1 ingoldsby 1 fred. hamilton 1 stanley 1 collingwood 1 lloyd 1   battalions 6 leveson leveson 2 windham 2 galloway 3 wood 2 lumley langston 2 coy 2 schomberg or linster 2 lumley or the qu. 3 l'etang portland 2 auverquerque li. g. 1 colchester now e. of rivers life-g . 1 ormonds life-gua . 1 scarborough life-g . 1 horse granadiers 1   squadrons 47 continuation of the left wing . second line . lieutenant-general , lord portland . major-generals . warfuse . ittersum . zeugleustein . d. of ormond . brigad . regim . battal . choviere nassau friseland 3 lippe holland 2 turk 2 monflin 2 choviere 2 staine 2 roc arco 1 bernikow 2 saxen 2 oht 2 flodort 2 lippe zell lippe zell 2 zeulen 2 goedon 2 heyden 2 opdam 2 brigad . regim . battal . second brigade of foot interlined , commanded by major general ramsay . offarrel offarrel 1 buchan 1 mackay 1 maitland olim leven 1 ferguson 1 graham 1   battalions 6 schack schack 2 scravenmor 2 vittinghoff 2 zeulestein 2 boncourt boncourt 2 wirtemberg 2 zeestadt 2 la forrest 2   squadrons 48   battalions 6 body of reserve , consisting of dragoons . major-general eppinger . dutch dragoons . english dragoons . brigadiers .   squad . brigadiers .   squad .   holstein ploen 4 wynne eppinger 5 berenburg 4 essex 4 mathar 4 wynne 3   schlipenback 4 cunningham 4 schuglenburg 3 mathews fairfax 4 willers 3 livingston 4 dopf 4 mathews 4   squadrons 26   squadrons 28 you must observe that at first coming to the camp of mount st. andré , all the dragoons incamped upon the left , where the left is the post of honour : 't is for this reason that the english dragoons in this list fall after the dutch. our artillery consisted of sixty pieces of cannon and six mortars , and four companies of gunners and matrosses , and one of miners , each of one hundred men . the artillery was commanded by colonel goor , lieutenant-colonel brown , and major slondt ; and the four companies of gunners and matrosses which carry fire-armes , were commanded by the captains , watson , cock , vanderstam and lesley . the dutch artillery consisted of the same strength both in respect of cannon and men. it appears by this list of our line of battle at mount st. andré , that our army consisted in the right and left wing , of 176 squadrons of horse , which at 150 horse each squadron at our first coming into the field , makes 26400 horse ; the reserve consisted of 54 squadrons of dragoons , 100 each squadron , which is our complement , which makes 5400 dragoons ; by which the total of our horse and dragoons amounted to 31800 men , all very well mounted and armed ; but of the dragoons especially i may say , that such a body , either for number or the good order they were in , has hardly ever been in the field . our infantry consisted of 63 battalions in the body of foot , 20 interlined in the right wing of horse , and 12 in the left , which in all makes 95 battalions , which at 600 each battalion at first coming into the field , amounts to 51000 foot and 31800 horse , which makes the total summe of our army at mount st. andré to be 88800 men , and about 7000 which count thian had incamped under his command near ghendt , of which we have given an account before , which being added to the former summe , amounts to 95800 men. this is all we had now in the field . 't is true that we had a great many forces in liege , of which i shall give an account to the reader hereafter . but that town being then our frontier , it required an army for a garison ; and the condition of affairs in regard of that city did then require our special care for its safety ; so that what forces we had in liege at that time were useless as to the acting offensively ; whilst the enemy were between us and the meuse , with as good an army in the field as ours , except what it had suffered by deserters ; for by our computation of the french forces above , it appears that they had here and in flanders 91320 men , which was but 4480 men less than we had in the field in both these places , which in such a number is no great odds : i put it therefore to the judgment of impartial men , whether the french were not in a better condition to act defensively against us this year , than we to have acted defensively against them in the former campaigns . we dispos'd our field-pieces this march to mount to st. andré upon the head of the several brigades of foot , each brigade had five field-pieces , with stores and gunners proportionably . the day following , count alefeldt was detach'd with his brigade to the village of ramelies , which the elector of bavaria left to take his quarter at taviers upon the mahaigne , and this post was committed to the charge of major general ellenberg . we made a retrenchment about ramelies , and placed a great many pieces of canon upon the height of this village which commanded the plain that leads to huy . the same day we rectified our camp , which had been mark'd in haste the day before to make the line more regular , and filled up the interval that had been left by alefeldt's brigade . the french being advised of our march towards the mehaigne , left this day their camp between tongres and fies , and marched near to huy , after they had passed the jaar upon several bridges ; they imcamped with their right between the villages of vignamont and walef towards the jaar , and their left at fenmale upon the mehaigne . the dauphin took his quarter at vignamont , within two english miles of huy ; and the french , which before made a shew of having some design upon liege or maestricht , now did not think themselves secure enough in the camp of vignamont , though strong by situation between the meuse , the jaar , and mehaigne , but immediately upon their coming to this camp they fortified it where it was open , between the jaar and the mehaigne , with a very good retrenchment , which they made as strong as art and leasure could do it . the right of our own camp , upon the mehaigne , was within two leagues and a half of namur , and within four english miles of the meuse : for which reason the french kept their communications with namur , from whence they had their provisions by land on the other side of the river , which before they had by water ; and the marquiss d' harcourt , which before lay incamped between the paijs de liege and that of luxemburg , was ordered to come and post himself on the other side of the meuse near huy , to cover the french convoys , which otherwise would have been much exposed to the excursion of the garrison of liege , which has an equal advantage on both sides of the river : and because the french were now every much streightned in their camp , that they had already forraged all about liege and maestricht , and that there remained but little ground on this side of the river which they could forrage securely on ; the dauphin , to provide for the subsistance of his army as long as he could , ordered all the heavy baggage of the army to march by huy to the other side of the meuse . this was the great advantage of our camp at mount st. andré , that the french , which before ravaged all the countrey between liege and maestricht , were now forced to retrench themselves under the walls of their own garrison of huy ; and that it put all the countrey on this side of the sambre under our command , so far , that the french , though masters both of namur and charleroy , yet could not hinder us from incamping in the plains of fleury , and were themselves forced to pass and re-pass the sambre , which is a great way about , to follow us into flanders . and though our advantages were so great by this camp , yet we could not take it up sooner , because the french might then have subsisted about liege and huy longer than we could have done upon the mehaigne ; which would have exposed liege too much to the french power , upon our march to the scheld . the 16th . stuarts brigade was detached out of the line to incamp at the cense , or farm of franquenies , near the abbey of bonef upon the mehaigne , where they intrenched themselves , and the guard of this post was committed to the charge of count nassau , lieutenant general . this village , with that of ramelies on the other side , commanded the plain before our right wing , ( where we incamped along the mehaigne in the campagne of 1692. where the king had his quarter at ramelies , and our right by perwys , and the left at brancon upon the mehaigne : the french were then besieging the castle of namur , ) the rest of our camp was covered in the front by the lesser , and in the rear by the greater geet : the river in the front was a great way from the line , above half of a league , but a little brook covered it nearer that went from the village of offus and fell into the lesser geet at jauche . this was the strength and situation of our camp at mount st. andré , the posts that covered , and the advantages we got by it . upon our coming to this camp , and the french to vignamont , the king ordered the forces that were incamped within the lines of liege , to march out , and form a camp by the citadel , consisting of dutch , brandenbourg , and liege forces , commanded by prince circlaes of tilly , and the major-general heyden , and cohorne . this was a very convenient camp to molest the enemy in their forrage towards liege ; and the french to be even with us , commanded a small body of horfe and dragoons , commanded by colonel vaillat , to incamp under the walls of namur to molest our forragers between the mehaigne and the meuse , who often went very near namur : the french sent besides this detachment , a man of a company commanded by the officers , that had best knowledge of the countrey , to go out in parties ; in which they had pretty good success , particularly between the mehaigne and the meuse , where we lost several horses , and they took generally some prisoners . but if these were inconvenient to us from namur , our camp near liege was equally inconvenient to the enemy on that side from whom they took a great many horses and prisoners ; but few deserters came to us from this camp , though they deserted before in multitudes , because they were so closely intrenched between rivers that it was difficult for them , who had a mind , to get away . the 17th . the king rid out very early , with a strong detachment of 4000 horse , along the mehaigne , towards the enemies camp , and returned very late that evening : the day following we had a general forrage on the other side the mehaign . several of the enemies squadrons appeared in sight of our forragers ; for which reason we fired three pieces of cannon from our camp , the signal to call them in . the french did forrage the same day on their side , and these squadrons were of the detachment to cover the forragers , who were no less surprised to see some of our squadrons posted near them for the same reason ; however there was no action on either side , though such accidents falling out have sometimes brought two armies to an ingagement , as it happened in 1689 at walcourt , between prince waldeck and the mareschal de humieres . our foragers nevertheless made a shift not to come into the camp empty , but we lost some horses that tarried too long after the signal given to come off , at which time the detachment that cover'd the foragers were commanded back to the camp. colonel mathews lost 8 horses out of his regiment , and 3 of his men were wounded . the 22 th all the dragoons removed from the left to the rear of the right by hottemont : what remained of the english and dutch artillery after the field-pieces had been distributed into the several brigades of foot , and that we had planted some others at the village of ramelies , came to be posted here the day before from the ground between mount st. andré and bonmale , where it had incamped at our first coming here . and the 24 th the duke of st. albans and colonel lutterel came to the camp from england ; the first to serve as a voluntier , and the second to go to venice and command the irish forces in the service of that republick , with a commission of major-general . this day we had another general forage towards wavre , where the lord colchester , now earl of rivers , lost some horses out of his troop of guards . the parties not only from namur , but from mons and charleroy , were very frequent , and came often to the very rear of our camp ; so that upon a forage , 't was very hard to prevent the losing several of our horses , either by negligent men who did not take care to keep within the out-guards ; or others , who for choice of forage would venture beyond them . the 26 th we surrounded a party of the enemies in a wood , just by the rear of our left , where they had been decoy'd by a boor , who gave notice of it to my lord of athlone . this was a voluntary party of dismounted troopers that had a great mind to ride some of our horses , and to mount themselves at our own cost ; they got a partisan with them , who when they came near to our camp inquir'd whereabouts our horses grazed ; the boor told them , that they were every day just by the wood , and that if they would lie there in ambuscade that night they would not fail of horses the next morning : they took his advice , and the boor came immediately to advertise my lord of athlone of it , who commanded a detachment of dragoons and of the two brigades of foot interlined in the left to surround the wood , and to give no quarter ; so that they kill'd 20 of them up and down , and the partisan among the rest ; but at last they gave quarter to 17. much about the same time one of our parties , composed of soldiers of hukelom and carles regiments , brought in the lieutenant-colonel of the dauphins regiment , and several other prisoners , which they took between huy and namur . and though 't is none of my business to speak of the actions of parties and partisans , which have no more to do in the main business of an army , than privateers have in that of a fleet , the one being upon land what the others are at sea , yet i cannot omit to speak of a considerable adventure of one of our parties , which ventured to pass the meuse though not 30 men , and got about 50 troopers in a defile , where they took all their horses , and made every one of them prisoners , and repass'd the meuse with their booty , which they brought safely off . the 21 th count thian had a quiet camp in the neighbourhood of ghendt , where he seemed posted only to make head against the marquis de la valette near courtray , yet he would not remain idle there , but about this time he made a detachment of 300 spanish horse out of his camp , under the command of the lieutenant-colonel of the prince of chinays regiment , who in their way by aeth took a reinforcement of 700 foot out of that garison , and the next day they were joyn'd with about 3 or 400 more of the same garison : these forces attack'd the french line about st. ghilain , and forced several of their redoubts upon the haine , where they made 50 prisoners ; they pass'd the river after this , and plundered the town of st. ghilain , where there was a small garison which abandon'd it upon their approach , and retreated to mons ; they detach'd several parties in the countrey round about for hostages , and made a very great booty of horses and cattle which they brought to aeth . the 27 th the three battalions of guards in the second line , had orders to incamp upon the kings quarter , a great deal of baggage of the kings horse , and several , both mules and horses were on the other side of the little river which went under the kings quarter ; and the king had information of the designs of some of the french partisans to come and endeavour to steal away what lay on the other side of this river , where it was expos'd to such attempts ; and besides the kings quarter was removed from the line of the army , for which reason these three battalions of guards , and the duke of holsteins dragoons incamped here by the kings quarter , the guards on the other , and the dragoons on this side of the geet . the 28 th we had another general forage , under a good escort of 20 squadrons of horse commanded by count tilly , major-general , and a good detachment of foot commanded by brigadier collier . some horses were lost of brigadier mathews his dragoons , and two of his men were kill'd by the french parties that lay in ambuscade for a like occasion . the 31 th the king took a review of the 20 brandenburgh squadrons of horse that ( as we said above ) had joyn'd the elector of bavaria at his camp of neer isthe , being commanded by lieutenant-general d' witz and major-general sonsfeldt● ; the elector of bavaria was present , and the king was very well pleased with the order they were in . the grand musquetiers made a very fine shew , being all french gentlemen refugies , very well cloath'd with scarlet coats and silver lace , and as well mounted ; they behaved themselves very well the beginning of this war at the siege of bonne , and have been no less serviceable this campaign in that of huy . the 1 st of august the king reviewed four regiments of saxon horse that had come up to the camp the saturday before : they are included in the line of battle which we have incerted above . intervals had been left for them in several brigades at our coming to this camp , which they fill'd up at their arrival ; so that their coming did not alter the line of battle above specified ; they are only called saxon regiments in the list , but their names were rebauld , bernickow and penhausen , the fourth i have forgot . the states have hired them for their service from the elector of saxony ; and notwithstanding that they had made a long march to come so soon to the camp from their country , yet they appeared in good order . the 5 th all the heavy baggage of the army was commanded away towards louvain under the escorte of brigadier wynnes regiment of dragoons , which was sent to garison in ghendt , because their horses were out of order for reasons we have before alledged . a man out of a company was likewise detach'd for the security of the baggage , under the command of a captain , lieutenant and ensign , out of each brigade , and the whole was commanded by colonel , lieutenant-colonel , and major . by this time forage began to be very scarce in both armies , which were very numerous , and yet had now been above two months in and about the pajis de liege . the french had been in it from the very beginning of the campaign , and now had liberty of forage but between the meuse and the jaar , for that part of the principality of liege which lies on the other side of the meuse call'd the condros , affords but little forage ; 't is a woody country , and part of the forest d' ardenne abounds in coal-pits , which makes firing very cheap about this country . the french for want of forage on this side the meuse were forced to send their horses to feed on the other , having besides the passage at huy several bridges upon the meuse for that purpose . i saw a letter about this time from a gentleman in the french army to his friend , dated from this camp of vignamont , wherein he complained for want of forage , and that they wish'd very much for our decamping , that they might have the liberty of going to a more plentiful camp. as we have given a hint of it before , there was a reason to bring the army to this want of forage on both sides in this country , because the king design'd to bring his army into flanders to make room for the undertaking that has closed up this campaign . liege was our frontier town , which required an army for its garison , and the french being masters of huy , they could not only incommode liege very much , but march and subsist with their army as far as maestricht , as we have seen this campaign ; so that above all things , 't was necessary to drive the french out of huy , and establish our frontier there : but if we had march'd towards flanders without consuming first the forage all over this country , and without obliging the french themselves to help us in it ; upon our removal from this camp , and our march towards the scheld , they might have fallen upon liege , and our great towns in brabant , which would have been as good for them as any expedition we could have made in flanders , and which i believe they would have compass●d so much the sooner , since these places here are weak , and their frontier garisons in flanders very strong . the 5 th , 240 suisse deserters were sent from maestricht to the camp to recruit the suisse regiments we had in our army . the 6 th an order from the king was published at the head of every regiment , to forbid foraging without order , to go on maroding , or to molest victuallers , or any persons that came to the camp with provisions , upon pain of death . for what most destroys and ruines a country are these interloping foragers and maroders , who not only augment the scarceness in a camp by plundering the country people round about , but often fall into the enemies hands , whereby we lose our horses , and our men are made prisoners . the 7 th the army had orders to be ready to march , and the artillery and pontons were sent this day as far as perwys , under the escorte of the regiment of fuknen or green danes . the french expected our march , for which reason they fired several pieces of cannon from huy to call in all their horses from the other side of the meuse . we had a report that the french had abandon'd it , and that what we heard was the blowing up of the works , which appeared afterwards to be a story ; though i believe the french had once a design of doing it , because the week before they had sent most of the provisions and stores from thence by water to namur , but upon better thoughts they found the place of such consequence to us , that they resolved to use their power to keep it if possible out of our hands . the french upon the news of our march , which they expected this day , sent several parties and detachments out of the garison of namur , to observe the flanks of our columns upon the march , and take prisoners or baggage if they could find any stragling from the lines : but because we did not march , our detachments were not yet drawn off from the other side of the mehaigne , so that several of the french fell into their hands , who were made prisoners ; among the rest , a captain of horse of the regiment of tournelle . this evening orders were given to march the next day , and though we had a defile to pass between the mehaigne and perwys , where the french might have the opportunity of attacking our rear-guard the next day ; nevertheless we did not use any means to conceal our march from the enemy ; it may be to intice them out of their retrenchments at vignamont to fall upon our rear-guard , and to ingage them to a battle , for our rear guard was very well prepared to receive them . the 8 th the army decamped very early from mount st. andré , and directed its march towards the spring of the mehaigne and gemblours passing by the defile of perwys my lord portland had the rear-guard , composed of a good body of horse , and the brigade of stuart and alseldt of foot , which had been posted at franquenies upon the mehaigne , and some field-pieces the king kept with the rear guard till he saw it free from any attempts of the enemy , where the nature of the country did afford them an occasion to have fallen upon it . we made a long march this day , and the weather being warm made several soldiers saint under their armes . the king took his quarter at the chateau of sombref , our right went towards fleury at st. amand , from whence it turned back almost in a right angle to marbais , where the elector of bavaria had his quarter , and our left went towards gemblours as far as the cense or farm of bretinchamp . the kings quarter being in the front of the army , was covered by all the english and dutch dragoons , who incamped before it upon a line . the enemy being sensible that they could not hinder us from this camp , and expecting our march to this place , had ordered the small body of horse and dragoons commanded by colonel vaillac from namur , to march to charleroy , both to cover that place , and to incommode our foragers . we halted here the next day ; we had made a long march , and the rear-guard could not come up till two or three of the clock in the morning , and besides it was necessary to see what the french would do upon this march ; whether they would go back to liege , and endeavour to fall upon it , ( though the want of forage could not allow them to subsist there any longer ) or whether they would follow us , and march upon the sambre : for if they had been obstinate , to have kept on this side of the river , then the plain of fleury was a very convenient place to try the issue of another battle , and the odds were not so great between the two armies , but that the french ( if they depend so much on their boasted bravery ) might very well have ventured it . the enemy out-did us in foot by two battalions , as it appears by the list of their line of battle and ours , but we out-numbered them in horse and dragoons ; however it appeared by the enemies behaviour at this time , that they depend more upon the number than the bravery and valour of their soldiers . the french had so many reports of our marching the day before , in which they were deceived , that though we made no secret of this days march , yet they were not certain of it till about noon ; their right wing of horse was then gone to forrage : the dauphin caused several pieces of cannon to be fired to call them in ; the resolution was taken to follow us , and the drums immediately beat the general to give notice of marching . about four in the afternoon the dauphin began to move with the right wing of horse and body of foot , and passed the mehaigne at falay , directing their march up along the meuse towards namur . the right wing of horse , commanded by the mareschal de villeroy , being returned from their forrage , followed the dauphin about eight that evening , and so they marched all night and the next day , that they came about the evening between spy and masey , and the dauphin took his quarter at the chateau de soye upon the sambre ; but in leaving the camp of vignamont , the french provided for the safety of huy , and left a battalion to reinforce the garrison . when they were come up to this camp , we could discover part of their left , but the little river that runs from gemblours into the sambre covered them , and remained between us : however though we were so near one another , and that the plains of fleury offered a very convenient field of battle , yet the french were unwilling to hazard it , but rather resolved to make a retreat , and pass the sambre ; which they began that very night : the infantry of the kings house led the way , and the next day the whole army , with the right wing of horse , commanded by the mareschal de villeroy , followed , and incamped at ausart l' estrang , about a league and a half from charleroy , between it and namur ; but their troops were so fatigued with the march , which continued night and day , that the colours of their battalions were almost left bare , and sixty men made a good battalion upon the march , the rest being wearie stragled behind . the mareschal de villeroy was detached from this place with a body of horse and dragoons towards the scheld , ( where the enemies were informed we did design to march with all speed ) and took his march by maubeuge , where he re-passed the sambre , and passed the scheld the next day at conde , making all diligence to get to tournay . the enemy upon our halt at sombref the 9th . fired several pieces of cannon at charleroy ; i suppose for signals of our halt ; but the king being informed that the french would pass the sambre rather than venture the issue of a battle in the plains of fleury , and that they did actually begin to pass it that very night , gave orders for the army to march the next day . accordingly the army left the camp of sombref the day following , and marched by mellé towards genap and nivelle ; about noon we passed the dyle at the village and chateau of promel , about four in the afternoon our right was got to arkennes upon the senne , that runs by nivelle and nostredame de halte to brusselles . we incamped here this night ; our line went from senne almost to the dyle , our right at arkennes , the elector of bavaria's quarter ; and our left at vaillantpont , not far from promel , where we had passed the dyle ; the king took his quarter in the town of nivelle . this is a neat little town ; it lies in a bottom , and so cannot be made strong , however it has ancient walls and roundels about it , and is more particularly famous for the abbey of secular chanonesses , which are all to be women of the first quality of the countrey ; they take no vows , but may marry if they please , and leave their places . in the choice they have robes and furrs like secular canons , and the head-dress like nuns ; but otherwise , when they are out of the church they dress themselves like other ladies . the design of the foundation was for women of the best quality , that had no considerable fortunes , to live here honourably , without incumbring the small estate of the family . the abbess of this collegiate church is lady of the town ; and the army , on both sides , have been very favourable to this place , for the sake of the religious ladies . upon this march to nivelle , the colonel of the dutch train of artillery visiting the ammunition waggons , found a stranger in one of them that could give no good account of himself : he had got in by pretending himself to be of the army , that he was weary , and could not march ; by which pretence , and a little drinking-money to the waggoner , he got leave to get up in the waggon : the dutch colonel , that came to visit the waggons , suspected him , and caused him to be searched , and found a lighted match about him , and besides he gave so ill an account of himself that he was soon discovered to be a frenchman , and that he was come from the enemies to endeavour to set fire to our ammunitions : for which he was sent to the provoste , where we shall leave him , till we come to give an account of his punishment suitable to the enormity of the attempt . the 11th . major-general fagel was detacht , with the two brigades of foot of rantzaw and dedem interlined in the right wing of horse , to go by lessines to audenarde , and the artillery went with a good escorte another way to joyn us in the the plains of cambron , because the defiles were too difficult in the two following days march for the artillery to go along with us ; we were got into the country of hainault , which is generally very close and woody . the same day the army marcht from nivelle and passed the senne over several bridges above , and at the village of arkennes , and so we came to soignies . we lost upon this march some of our pontons , or tin-boats , and some baggage taken by the enemy , which ( as 't is said ) perswaded the men that looked after them to go a more convenient way , pretending themselves to be dragoons of our army , and so got them out of the line of the baggage ; they made the men prisoners , and took the horses from the pontons and waggons ; they rifled the baggage and took what they thought good , and left the rest ; they blew up holes in the pontons with powder , and so left them . the army being now come up by several defiles to soignies ; our right was at horrues and neufville , where the elector had his quarter ; the left stretched out a little beyond court aubois ; and the king had his quarter at soignies , an old town in the chatelleine of mons , and within three short leagues of it . as soon as the french had made themselves masters of mons , they summoned the burgh-masters , and inhabitants , to come and swear allegiance to the french king , and since are reckoned in the paijs conquis . we heard firing of cannon at mons this evening , which ( as we had information the next day ) was for the dauphine's arrival at that place , where the whole army followed him that very night . upon our march from sombref towards the scheld , the french made their utmost diligence to prevent any designs we could have upon their lines , or towns , in flanders ; for which reason they marched on the 11 th from ausart l' estrang ; ( though their army was already fatigued by their march night and day to get to that side of the sambre ; ) they went by ham sur heure , and so repassed the sambre at bussiere , which was already a good march : but the mareschal de luxemburg finding it necessary to get as far as mons that very night , that he may come to the scheld as soon as we , ordered all the infantry to fling away their snap-sacks , and march with nothing but their arms , and all the baggage was ordered to stay behind ; he caused likewise all the waggons of the countrey to be summoned to follow the army with the soldiers snap-sacks , and to take up the wearied soldiers who could not march , and bring them after to the camp. the enemy made a halt at bussiere , after they had re-passed the sambre , to refresh themselves ; the prince of conti , who commanded the infantry as first lieutenant-general , told them , that they had suffered but little for the king's service that campaigne , that the king's service did now require a quick and a speedy march , and therefore that such who loved his majesty's service should shew it , and follow their colours . he then caused 400 pistols-worth of brandy , which had been brought from the neighbouring towns for that purpose , to be given to the infantry to drink ; and so the colours were ordered to march on , and all the foot , that were come up , endeavoured to shew their zeal for the king's service by marching along with them ; but all along waggons were provided to take up those who could not march , and brandy upon every halt . the enemy came very early , by break of day , near mons , to which place the dauphine was got the night before . i cannot say that they incamped here , because all the soldiers tents were left behind for a more expeditious march , but here they lay down upon the ground to rest themselves . the 12 th the army marched towards aeth ; we passed the river of cambron at lens , and so got into the plain of cambron , where we incamped with our right at irchonwetz , within half an english mile of aeth , where the elector of bavaria had his quarters , and the left at lens , the abby of cambron remained in the rear of the left. we had the town of chievres before the right , where the king took his quarters . this is an old ruined town , where the spaniards had once a garison , but the french upon pretence that it was within the chatelleine of tournay , beat them out of it , and no garison has been in it since there is hardly a finer place in all the seventeen provinces for an army to incamp upon , than the plains of cambron , where the strength and scituation equals the beauty and conveniency of the plain , which reaches from the village of irchonwetz to lens upon the little river that runs by cambron , about five english miles in length , with a small rising over against chievres , from whence we could have a perfect prospect of the camp from the right to the left. our right was covered by the dender and irchonwetz , which runs through aeth , where 't is joyned by the river of cambron ; and our left and rear by the river which from lens went round the rear by cambron abbey , and so to aeth . our front was covered by a wood and close defiles which are between this place and mons. the artillery which we had sent from nivelle another way , because of the narrowness of the defiles we were to march through , came up to us this day . but we could not long injoy the commodiousness of this camp , the king was hastening his march to the scheld , and so orders were given to march on the next day . the 13 th in the morning the duke of wirtemberg was commanded with seven brigades of horse , one of them under the command of brigadier lumley , to pass the scheld at audenarde , where he was to joyn the two brigades of foot commanded by major fagel , detach'd from the camp at nivelle , of which we have given an account before . an express was sent likewise to count thian to march up from ghendt , with the body under his command towards audenarde ; and to send the three terces of walloon foot to garison in bruges , and to leave brigadier holles regiment in deinse . the same day the army marched , the first line passed the river of irchonwetz above aeth , the second with the cannon and baggage marched through the town . this town , as it appears by what we have said before , is scituated at the confluence of two small rivers , the dender and that of cambron , which pass through the town ; it was taken by the french king in 1667 , in that irruption he made in flanders after the death of philip the fourth : 't was left to the french king by the treaty of aix la chapelle , and remain'd in their hands till the peace of nimeguen , when it was given up again to the king of spain ; and as all spanish towns are very much improved by coming into french hands , so this place got a signal advantage by it : it was before of a very irregular figure , as appears by the gates ( before the french had it ) which are left standing to this day , and its chief strength consisted in the morass made by the dender and cambron river on the one side of it , the other was fortified with weak bastions of earth-work , commanded by the neighbouring ground . but as soon as the french had it yielded to them by the treaty of aix la chapelle , mounsieur de vauban was ordered to use his skill about it . he new model'd the circuit of the place , and brought it almost to the figure of a regular heptagone ; it has one side longer than the rest ( upon which is the port of tournay ) which occasions an almost flat bastion , else all the rest of the courtines and works are near equal ; the circuit of the town and all the works of it are faced with free stone , the fosse all about the place is fortified with tenailles or horn-work in it , according to monsieur de vaubans method of fortification , and faced with free stone ; and the river dender joyned by the other , passing through the town , keeps the fosse always full of water , which they can stop in the town by sluices , or let it out again in frosty-weather , at which time such a fosse would otherwise be dangerous ; and because the grouud about the town , from the port of mons to that of brussels , is high and commands the place , every bastion has a good cavalier raised upon it to remedy this inconveniency . the french had made a horn-work by the port of mons , and another by the port of tournay , but as we marched through this place they were pulling it down to make it a double fosse and covered way between these two places , with redoubts in the angles , saillants , or points jetting out , which they found more convenient and defensible . the place has now three very stately gates , that of mons , that of tournay , and that of brussels , done according to modern architecture , with an inscription above each of them in letters of gold , in latin , french and dutch , upon the several gates ; upon that of mons 't is in latin , importing that the king of france took the place in the expedition he made in flanders in 1667 , to assert the right of his queen mary theresa , and that he was content to establish the limits of his empire here , when fortune promised him the conquest of all flanders . all the other states of christendom are so much under-valued in this piece of flattery , that it may very well be incerted here for the satisfaction of england in particular , as i have translated it . the inscription upon mons-port at aeth . louis the xiv . king of france and navarre , finding nothing that could resist his armes , in the expedition he made for the legal pretensions of mary theresa his wife , was content to give bounds to himself , to a fortune that promised him in a short time the conquest of all flanders . thus it is that this prince , truly great , has known how to reconcile two vertues so much opposed to one another , as the love of glory , and moderation ; and to let the world see , that in the very height of his victories , he desired peace : being the onely one that could find the art of obliging all europe , even his enemies , by extending the bounds of his empire . and that the town of aeth may be an everlasting monument of so many glorious actions , he has been willing after he has had it fortified , that it should serve for a limit , and a bulwark to his empire , in the year 1670. within each of the gates is a very fine piazza , with the corps de garde at one end , and the officers of the guards-room and other apartments at the other . the pillars of the piazza support a very fine store house built of free stone , with a good frontispiece that over ▪ looks the gate , upon the chemin des rondes , or way that goes round the rampart ; it has an italian roof , with crowns of flower-de-luces or dolphins gilt upon it ; all the sentry-boxes are built very pretty with free stone , with like crowns of flower-de-luces and dolphins gilt upon them . there is a fine arcade in the market over the conduit , with the french kings-armes upon it , supported by two angels , and adorned with trophies . in short , as to its fortifications , 't is a noble place , the magnificence of the french king appears in it , and deserves a better description than i can give it , which has made me wander from the account i was giving of the armies march by and through the town . that evening we incamped by leuse , the place where the mareschal de luxemburgh fell upon prince waldecks rear-guard with the cavalry of the houshold in 1691 , our left was at lignes upon the dender , that runs from leuse by lignes and irchonwetz to aeth ; our right made an elbow from the center , where we had leuse upon our front to harquignies towards tournay , where the elector of bavaria had his quarters , and the king took his at grames . that same evening lieutenant-general tettan , major-general l. meleniere , and two brigadiers , with a detachment of 60 men per battalion , was commanded to the scheld to post himself over against the village of hanterive , in order to pass the river . we heard firing at tournay for the arrival of the mareschal de villeroy , who as we said before had been detach'd from the camp at ausart letong with a good body of horse , and all the dragoons of the army to pass the sambre at maubeuge , and the scheld at conde , and so to make all possible diligence to joyn the marquiss de la valette , who upon our march towards flanders was ordered to leave courtray , and to post himself at pont de espieres , where the french line ( of which we have given a sufficient account in our last years history ) does terminate it self upon the scheld . the mareschal de villeroy at his passing through the town of tournay , found monsieur de l' arteloire ready with a train of artillery to go down the scheld under his convoy to pont de espieres . when he had joyned the marquiss de la vallette , they left pont de espieres , and marched down the scheld about a league lower , and posted themselves at hanterive , where they arrived on the other side of the scheld much about the same time that lieutenant-general tettan was got by escanaffe on this , betimes in the morning . we attempted to lay a bridge of boats upon the river , but the french opposed it with their small shot , and were much superiour to our detachment ; for according to the french account , the marquiss de la valette had then 15 battalions , 9 regiments of horse and 2 of dragoons , and besides was now joyned by the mareschal de villeroy . lieutenant general tettan had 15 pieces of cannon sent with him , which was disposed in 3 several batteries which begun to play upon the enemy ; their cannon was not come up so soon as ours , but they intrenched themselves just upon the other side of the river , where our cannon did them some considerable damage : of maulevriers regiment , by their account , 1 lieutenant was killed and 25 men. our own people could easily see our cannon do execution upon them , being so near one another ▪ a little after the french began to fire upon us from 2 batteries on their side , but i have not heard of any execution or damage they did us at that time . the same morning the duke of wirtemberg had passed the scheld at audenarde with the 7 brigades of horse and the 2 of foot , of which we have given an account already , for which reason , as the mareschal de villeroy had intrenched upon the river to hinder our passage , he was also obliged to fortifie his rear with a retrenchment , to cover himself from the duke of wirtemberg , who upon his majesties orders was marching up to attack him in the rear , whilst we should force our passage in the front. i shall now leave things in this disposition upon the scheld , and return to both the armies . the 14 th we decamped from grames , and marched towards the scheld , which was now but 2 leagues from the right of our army . we passed not far from the foot of mount trinite , and the left flank of our columns was reckoned within 4 english miles of tournay . we heard in the morning upon our march great firing at this place , which at first was supposed to be signals for their army and neighbouring garrisons , but by the regularity of the fire we found it to be rather a salute . in effect the dauphine passed this morning through the town , and was saluted with a triple discharge of the cannon round the place ; the army followed him , which in two nights and one day had marched from mons to this place . we left them at mons the 12 th , where they were got betimes in the morning ; they refreshed themselves the best part of that day , except the brigade of guards that was sent to condé , where it was put on board of bilanders to come down the scheld to tournay by water , where i suppose it arrived as soon as the mareschal de villeroy , and with him joyned the marquis de la valette . the 12 th in the evening the french army left mons , and marched night and day ( only halting for rest now and then ) and so came to tournay the 14 th early in the morning ; but the waggons of the country were ordered all along to take up the sick and the weary , and upon every halt , there was a provision of brandy ready to refresh the men. the 14 th about noon our right wing came up near the river , but it was then too late to have undertaken to force the passage , and for the army to have gone over , for which reason 't was ordered to halt , and the weather proved so bad just at that time , that it would have been impossible to have undertaken it , though there had been day enough left for it . we had this evening and most of the night following , a violent storm of rain and wind , which made the wayes very deep and heavy ; the army was ordered to incamp in the ground where it stood upon the halt , and every brigade to incamp the most conveniently it could , without any regard to the niceness of a line ; the king took his quarters this night at the chateau de cordes , and the elector at chastelet : and the dauphine being now come up with the body of the french army to joyn the mareschal de villeroy , so that though we had forced the passage of the river , yet still we could not prevent the french army from incamping between harleber and courtray , where they covered their country in flanders ; and besides the french having drawn all their forces in this side of the country , which gave the king way for another undertaking may be of as great consequence ; his majesty did not think it convenient to attempt the passage here , where there might have been a great deal of blood shed , but no advantage on our side , though we had forced it , because the enemy would still have been masters of the camp at courtray , which equally covered their lines on both sides of the lys. the king therefore resolved to leave the french where they were , and to pass the scheld about two leagues below at audenarde . the french very much magnified their speedy marches to prevent our passage of the scheld before them , that in four days they should with their whole army pass and re ▪ pass the sambre , and pass the scheld at tournay , and be the fifth incamped on the other side of the river , to oppose the passage of our army : 't is said , that the mareschal de luxembourg valued it more than the battle of landen ; but if he valued it more , it did not cost him much less , for 't is supposed that this violent march has cost him at least three thousand men , and his cavalry has been almost ruined by it , so far that the french king is now forced to reform his cavalry , ( as he did the last year , ) and to reduce the troops yet to a less number , which the last winter he had brought to forty : ( i have heard that he has reduced them to twenty five a troop ▪ ) the french army might have been followed by the scent which they left behind of dead men and horses , which were to be found all along the road it went ; so that we may say , the french have suffered as much in this march as they could have done in a battle , either in men or horses . it has been reported , that the french king has writ a letter to the army , to be read at the head of every regiment , by which he thanked the dauphine , the mareschal of france , the lieutenant-general , and other generals , and all the army , but more particularly the suisse and french infantry , for the great services they had done him in this speedy march , by which they have saved his country in flanders from the invasion intended by the enemies this indeed is a very different language from what we had last year from him after the battle of landen ; there was nothing then but what he could expect after so considerable a victory , and there was nothing but what his enemies ought to fear after so great a defeat ; but now he seems to recant in his letter , and own that he was mistaken , and thanks his army for running as fast as they could , ( and so fast that it has suffered as much as in a battle , ) to save his conquered country from being invaded by the enemies , who last year were to fear every thing after the loss of the battel of landen . this is a very different note from the first , and would make but a very ill concert with it : such a thing must make his subjects sensible , either that the state of affairs is very much altered to their disadvantage , or that their king is strangely transported with success . whether this letter was read or no at the head of every regiment , i cannot tell ; but such a letter has been published at paris . because the french made so quick and diligent a march to prevent our passage of the scheld , it has given occasion to several men , who are generally rash in giving their judgments of things , to extol very much the enemies conduct in this occasion , and as much to blame our own , without examining the different circumstances of the one and of the other : what i shall say at present is not to lessen the wisdom and conduct of our enemies , or the commendation they deserve ; for their march was as wisely contrived , and managed with as little loss as the great diligence they used was capable of ; i shall only shew , that considering our circumstances , and those of the enemy , 't is no wonder they could make such diligence as to get before us to defend the passage of the scheld , and it could be no want of conduct on our side if they could make so much larger marches than we , as to be able to be there before us ; for the french had wholly the advantage of the country on their side . from the meuse to audenarde we met with no garrison of ours upon the march , but that of aeth ; the french they had in their way namur , charleroy , mons , conde , valencionnes , and tournay ; and unless when we passed by the plain of cambron , and the town of aeth , we marched upon the enemy's country , but the french still near their own numerous garrisons : from whence the enemy had this advantage over us for a speedy march , that the boors were all fled to their garrisous with their effects , from whence they could not onely get supplies of refreshments for their infantry upon every halt , but also waggons to bring the baggage , the sick and the wearied soldiers after them , in so much that though their battalions were not of one hundred men each , at their coming up to a camp or halt , yet still by night all the rest were brought up in waggons , who could not march and follow the army ; and the soldiers bagagge being carried in the same waggons , they marched only with their arms so much lighter than ours this is a conveniency the french had , and which 't is plain we wanted : besides , the french , marching by so many of their garrisons , could be supplied with fresh battalions which had suffered no fatigues in the field , but could hasten with so much the more ease to the scheld . another conveniency , the french marched without their baggage , which was brought up afterwards by the waggons of the countrey , who had retired generally to to the neighbouring garrisons ; but our baggage must march with us , or be left to the enemies , over whose country we marched , or it must have been sent so far about , that we must have laid many more nights than the french without tent or cover the french had no occasion to march with their artillery , being to act upon the defensive : they had a sufficient train ready at tournay to defend the passage of the scheld , so that they left their train in their garrisons to come up leasurely after them ; but we were obliged to have our train along with us , and to proportion our marches to the fatigues the artillery horses could endure , or else leave them exposed to the enemies garrisons , by which we passed . the french had another great advantage of the scheld ; for when once they were come up between mons and condé , they could send down by water from condé to tournay , upon the scheld , any thing that might incumber the march of their army , or any detachment of forces which they thought sufficient to oppose our passage of the scheld , till they themselves could come up ; they sent this way the brigade of guards , according to their own account , ( and may be more ) which sail'd down the river night and day , till they had joyned the mareschal de villeroy and the marquiss de la valette . now any impartial reader must own these to be great advantages which the french had over us in this march , and such as may very well equal the difference there was between the way the french had to go to the scheld and we , which at most cannot amount to one part in three , which the reader may observe if he will be pleased to consult the map. nothing can be alledged against our diligence , but the halt we made at sombref the 9 th . but of that we have given an account above . and at last , these who so willingly pass their judgments upon the conduct of our army , don't know whether their was at bottom any other design , but to bring the french from the meuse to the scheld , to make room for the siege of huy , whith ( as it shall hereafter appear ) was a place of great consequence to us , and if it was so , then the french by their speedy march helped our very designs instead of opposing them : or if the french would keep a body near the meuse for the conservation of huy , then that would have made way for some siege in flanders , because the french were not able to act defensively on both sides . whatever was the design , it appears that we did what we could to make the french believe it was upon flanders , because upon our march from mount st. andré , major-general cohorne was commanded from liege with twelve battalions , and six squadrons of liege-dragoons , to march by brusselles towards ghendt . this was sufficient to give the french the alarm in flanders ; and accordingly they left huy open to a siege , rather than leave their countrey in flanders exposed to an invasion . thus i have endeavoured to state , as justly as possibly i could , the account of this great march which has made so much noise in the world , and in which the french have so much applauded their diligence . i shall now return to both the armies , which we have left on both sides of the scheld . our army ( as we said before ) had incamped the 14 th . with the right near the scheld , the elector's quarter upon the right at chastelet , and the king 's at cordes . the dauphine having passed the scheld this day at tournay , could not be hindred of the camp of courtray , and besides , the evening proved so bad , that though we would then have endeavoured to have passed the scheld at hanterive , yet we could not . the next day the army was ordered to march towards audenarde : we came at escanaffe in presence of the french army , incamped with the right at hanterive , and the left at avelghem , all along the scheld , though i believe that the whole army was not there , but at hand between it and courtray , to observe our motions . general tettan was posted just on the other side of the river , with his detachment and field-pieces , but the caunon was silent on both sides . from escanaffe we marched all along the scheld towards audenarde , and incamped with our right at melde by audenarde , where the electot had his quarter , and the left at escanaffe , over-against the left of the french army . our left was here close under the cannon of the enemy , so that in the evening , when we were come to our ground , the french cannon plaid very briskly upon our left , where our two brigades of foot , commanded by major ▪ general ramsay , and our english horse most exposed , yet i have not heard of any men killed , but we lost fourteen or fifteen horses ; but the french used their greatest endeavours to do mischief to tettan when he came off with his detachment , and field-pieces , from under their very retrenchments , on the opposite side of the river , where he lay under cover , but could not get off without exposing himself very much to the enemies cannon : he remained quietly in his post for this reason all the day , and took the opportunity of the evening to come off , which he did without any loss . the king , at this camp before the scheld , took his quarter at berghem , upon the very bank of the river , where it was very much exposed to the enemies cannon . the rear-guard , which was brought up by the first battalion , and the battalion of the second regiment of english guards , and the first battalion of dutch guards , which had incamped upon the king's quarters at cordes , which was a considerable way from the line of the army , could not come up before the next morning ; for which reason there was no orders given over-night to march the next day . the 16 th in the morning the french began to play again upon our left with their cannon , where they killed some of our men , and our generals quarters were very much exposed here , being just upon the river , but none of them suffered any damage besides the batteries the french had against our left , we perceived that they were bringing of cannon down along the river to take up the length of our line , and have batteries from right to left ; one of their general officers came up in the morning to view the wind-mill between peteghem and the river , which absolutely commanded our right ; but to hinder the enemies bringing cannon down any farther , we had batteries made upon our side from the kings quarters along our left , to hinder the enemies from advancing any further . the cannon played on both sides all the morning , but without any considerable execution that i have heard of . the king rid out early to observe the countenance of the enemy ; part of their army was making a motion towards their left , which gave us reason to suspect that they design'd to march , and take up the camp of peteghem , a high ground in the way from audenarde to the enemies lines , from whence they might have canonaded the duke of wirtemberg ( who upon his majesties resolution of passing the scheld lower at audenarde , was countermanded under the cannon of this place ) from whence likewise the enemy would have very much incommoded our passage of the scheld even here , for which reason his majesty immediately order'd the four brigades of erle , stuart , alfeldt and haxhausen , and the two battalions of scots guards , to march and leave their tents standing , to joyn the duke of wirtemberg , and take up the high ground between poteghem and audenarde ; these brigades were commanded by the count de nassau , and major-generals , churchill , la meleniere , miremont and ellenberg . we passed the scheld at audenarde the same morning , and the two battalions of scheltinga and prince charles of brandenburgh came out of the garrison to joyn us . the french upon this motion were afraid they were coming to surround them , for which reason they immediately left their camp at hauterive and avelghem , and marched directly to courtray , where they incamped between it and harleber ; but a party of thirty men of the enemies that had advanced too near peteghem , were all made prisoners . upon the removal of the french from hauterive and avelghem , the army that had passed the scheld was ordered to halt , and to incamp upon the ground where it stood , every brigade to take the most convenient way of incamping for it self : about half of the infantry of the army had passed the river , being now six brigades of foot , under the command of the duke of wirtemberg . we said above that count thian , when the duke of wirtemberg was commanded before to audenarde , had orders to come up with his body from ghendt , and joyn him here . he came up accordingly , and incamped not far from audenarde , between it and deinse , but upon the march of the french to courtray and harleber , he was sent back to deinse , where he had left holles's regiment for the security of the pass . the 16 th the rest of the army passed the scheld at audenarde , and below it upon a bridge of boats. the scheld above audenarde makes a great kind of a lake , which being reduced in a narrow channel to run through the town , does make the best and the chief defence of it ; and generally all along between audenarde and tournay , the banks of the scheld are low , and the ground about it a morass , so that it is not passable by an army at many places , and the passage may be defended with a little opposition . the army marched this day between the lys and the scheld , the king took his quarter at wanneghem , our right made an angle from cruyshoutem ( the elector of bavaria's quarter ) towards deinse and the lys ; our left stretched out towards the scheld by peteghem ; our front was covered all along with close ground and defiles , for which reason we could not incamp upon a line , but some brigades more advanced and some less ; our front running between the lys and the scheld faced exactly the enemies lines which we attacked last year , which were not above three leagues from our camp ▪ the enemy upon our incamping did not think it convenient to remain upon the same side of the lys with us at harleber , but on the 18 th they passed the river at courtray , and incamped with their right at this place ( the dauphins quarter ) and their left at moorselle towards menin , where they were posted equally to defend their lines between the scheld and the lys , and their towns between the lys and the sea , but the marquis de la valette was posted at pont de espieres to defend their lines towards the scheld : however the french by this motion left the country open before us , and gave us liberty of foraging to their very lines . the 19 th our heavy baggage came up to the camp ; it had been sent away the 5 th under the convoy of brigadier wynnes dragoons , and a man of a company . they marched by louvain , vilvor de and ghendt , and so joyned us in this place . we have said before that upon our marching from mount st. andré towards the scheld , the king had ordered major-general cohorne with twelve battalions , and some liege dragoons to march towards ghendt , which obliged the enemy to bring all their forces in flanders to make head against so great an army as we should have after the joyning of all these forces . the 15 th major-general cohorne came to vilvor de with the body under his command , and the 21 th he marched through the town of ghendt , and incamped just without the town , upon the canal of bruges ; he had then with him three battalions of swerin , and the regiments of stockhansen , lindeboom , harsolt , ameliswert , prince christian lodowics , essen , vaudermeuten , churprince and friesheim , and two regiments of liege dragoons . the enemy having now left the meuse open , the king sent order● to maestricht to prepare a train of artillery , and all other necessaries for a siege , to send it up by water to liege ; and all the boats belonging to maestricht and liege were taken for the kings service . the 22 th we made a great detachment under the command of count de noyelles lieutenant-general , towards the right , to cover pioneers , who had come up to cut ways through the inclosures we had before us ; and we had bridges laid upon the lys and upon the scheld for the conveniency of the army to forage on the other side of both these rivers , and also to leave the enemies in suspence ( who were now busie in fortifying of courtray for a winter-quarter ) which way we design'd to march next , whether farther in flanders , or back again towards the meuse . the 24 th the heavy baggage was commanded back again to ghendt , and pontons were sent to make bridges upon the lys at mechlen . the 25 th . the right wing of horse , and body of foot , was ordered to march towards the lys , except the brigade of guards , which remained incamped at the king's quarter ; and and the same day lieutenant-general dewits was ordered to re-pass the scheld at audenarde , and to march towards the meuse with the brandenbourg horse under his command . the 26 th . the whole army marched , and passed the lys upon two bridges at mechlen . we began now to come in the close country of flanders ; and this is the reason that part of the army was ordered to march from the camp at wanneghem the day before , because the defiles were such here , that the whole army could not have marched from wanneghem , and pass the lys , in one day . after we had passed the lys , we incamped with our right at caneghem , where the elector had his quarter , and the left between markeghem and wacken upon the lys ; the king took his quarter at wouterghem about three english miles from deinse ; the artillery and baggage march●d by deinse and came up here to us the same day . the 29 th . count thian march'd from deinse , and came up to joyn us ; he incamped before our left at wacken , where the river mandel that comes from rouselar falls into the scheld . the second battalion of the royal regiment came to incamp in the line , and colonel lauders was ordered to joyn count thian in its place ; he was likewise reinforced with mathars regiment of dragoons . the 29 th the body of foot and the two brigades interlined in the right wing of horse , together with the spanish horse upon the right , and the brigade of life-guards and boncourts , with eppinger and dopfs dragoons upon the left , marched by thielt , and so came to rouselar : the ground being very close here , and generally all over the province of flanders , we had no occasion for horse ; the defiles were very bad , and the march long and tedious . the king took his quarters at rouselar , our right reached to hooghleede , where the elector of ravaria had his quarter , and our left by rumbek upon the river mandel ; the ground upon which we incamped was all high inclosures , with rowes of trees upon all the hedges , which made the country hereabouts so close , that one battalion could hardly see those upon the right or left. the town of rouselar is called in french roulers ( as most of the towns in this country have a french and a dutch name , which are often very different from one another ) and situated near the springs of the river mandel , which falls into the lys at wacken . the country all about it is very even , though woody , for which reason if this little river could afford more water for a good fosse , the town might be very well fortified ; it is in the chatellenie of ipres three leagues from thence , nine from ghendt , three from courtray , four from dixmuyde , and six from bruges ; this is reckoned the last place of the pajis conquis , and in time of peace the french king had officers to gather his duties for goods imported or exported , as being his utmost frontier . the duke of newbourgh , now elector palatine of the rhine , is lord of this place , but he has a bad tenant in the french king. the foot being incamped at rouselar , all the horse remained at wouterghem under the command of my lord of athlone , aud the two brigades of foot interlined , under the command of major-general ramsay ; but the dutch horse of the right wing joyned the left. though we were incamped here in very strong and close ground , yet 't was commanded by the heighth or little hill of hooghleede ( where we had our right ) which is a rare thing in this level country : we made several redoubts upon it for the security of our camp , this being the only place by which we could be attacked . the french upon our march to this place made several detachments from their army for the security of their country ; the mareschal de villeroy was commanded with a body to incamp by ipres to oppose our passage of the canal , which goes from this place by the knock and furnes to dunkirk ; and the marquis de la valette had orders to leave pont de espieres to come and post himself between furnes and the fort of knock for the defence of these places . we have given an account of both of them in our first relation for the year 1692 , to which i shall refer the reader . i must not omit to say that the dutch artillery upon our march to rouselar , was sent from the camp at wouterghem to malines its usual winter-quarter . the king having now brought all the enemies forces in flanders ( except the body of horse commanded by the marquis de harcourt , which was not sufficient to hinder or oppose his designs ) had resolved to besiege huy , for which end ( as we have said before ) great preparations of ammunitions , and all other necessaries for a siege had been prepared at maestricht ; his majesty had sent also lieutenant-general de witz from the camp at wanneghem with the brandenburgh horse , to joyn the liege forces to invest the place ; but the care and conduct of the siege was kept for the duke of holstein ploen , velt-mareschal general of the states forces ; accordingly upon our march from wouterghem to rouselar , the king ordered the duke of holstein to go and command the forces to be imployed in the siege of huy , and major-general cohorne who had remained with his body ( of which we have already given an account ) near ghendt till this time , was commanded to march towards liege . the 31 th the three battalions of guards , the first of the english guards , the second of dutch guards , and the third , the second battalion of scots guards , were ordered to incamp on the other side of the town of rouselar towards ipres , to cover the kings quarters ; for the country being close and woody made the enemies parties very bold . the same day quarter-master-general dopf was sent to dixmuyde to observe the place ; he had an escorte of 600 men , commanded by colonel trelawney ; at his return he gave his majesty an account of the place , upon which 't was resolved to fortifie it . the campagne being now far spent , and this being like to be the last camp before we separated into winter quarters , the army had orders to put down their tents , and to make baracques or huts of straw , which at this time was to be found in great abundance about this place ; for no army had incamped near it for many years . the same day the prisoner , of which we have given an account in the march from sombref to nivelle , that was taken in one of the ammunition waggons with a lighted match , was burnt alive , after he had first his right hand cut off , and flung into the fire ; he was put to the torture to confess his ruin , and was found guilty by the court-marshal of designing to blow up our powder waggons ; i have not yet seen the copy of the sentence , and so i cannot give a farther account of his crime , and of the persons by whom he was set on ; i have only heard that it was the marquis de grammont . we had such an accident in the campagne of 1691. the evening that we returned from beaumont to the camp at court sur heure : the thing was undertaken by one of the dutch traine ; he actually set fire to two bombs , which put the whole army into an alarm , and if the gunners had not hazarded themselves very much , to fling them out of the waggons , it would in all probability have set all our ammunion waggons on fire ; he underwent afterwards the same punishment at the camp of st. gerrard ; his right hand was cut off , and burnt before his face , and was himself afterwards burnt alive with a small fire , which he indured with a great deal of constancy . the third , an ensign of king james his irish guards left the enemies camp , and came over to our army ; and the same day one pierce oliver , that had been a sergeant in the dragoons of valencar and native of tournay , was hanged near the elector of bavaria's quarter : he had deferted the spanish service , and went over to the enemies , where he turned partisan ; he was taken prisoner the day before by a spanish party , and was hanged the next day for a deserter . the same the duke of wirtemburg began the review of the infantry , and reviewed this day the brigade of guards , the next day he reviewed the rest of the body of foot ; the same day his majesty went to my lord of athlone's camp under a strong escorte , and and because this close countrey was hardly ever without some of the enemies parties , they suprized one , of which they made fifty prisoners , killed some , and dispersed the rest . the king having dined with the lord of athlone , returned the same night to the camp , after he had ordered a detachment of thirty squadrons of horse , and some dragoons , to march towards aeth under the command of count tilly , major-general : this detachment was made to cover brusselles from the garrison of mons , which made some incursions to the very canal of brusselles ; and also to observe the enemy , in case they should make any detachments towards huy . the same day the regiments of hackelem , dedem , and holstein beck , were sent to reinfore the army to be imployed in the siege of huy ; they were commanded by brigadier dedem , and followed the next day by the regiments of birkenfeldt , zobel , and sparre , and the 6 th by the regiments of the rhingrave , holstein-norbourg , goar , and dumont , under the command of the duke of holstein norbourg , brigadier ; the regiment of lowenhaupt was detached the same day towards the canal of brusselles , to secure it from the attempt of parties . the 7 th . the duke of wirtemberg's quarter took fire , which began in his kitchin , and the wind was so high that it presently consumed above twenty houses to the leeward , in the street that goes to ghendt , most of them being covered with straw ; but the duke's servants had the time to save the best of his baggage , and furniture for the house , so that he suffered no great dammage by it . the same day all the english horse and dragoons , and all the cavalry upon english pay , came up to rouselar from the camp of wouterghem , under the command of monsieur d' anverquerque , and incamped that night upon the left between rombeck and inghelmonster . wynne's dragoons , that had been sent from the camp of mount st. andré to ghendt to get their horses in better case , being now refreshed from the fatigues they had indured , came up to the camp along with them , and the 8 th they were all sent to canton upon the villages between our right and dixmuyde . my lord of athlone left at the same time the camp of wouterghem , and marched to canton the dutch cavalry and dragoons from nivelle to st john de lerne , upon the lys , between deinse and ghendt . major general ramsay came the 8 th . to the camp with the two brigades of foot under his command , and incamped upon the left , where he flanked it near rombeck . my lord of athlone's camp being thus separated , count thian was ordered to march from wacken back to deinse to fortifie that place , and the government of it , during the winter , was given to brigadier off arell . this place is situated upon the lys , three leagues higher above ghendt ; it lyes upon both sides of the river , and in a convenient post to cover ghendt , and part of the canal of bruges , from the enemies parties , who before would venture up to the gates of the town ; and besides , our forces now were so numerous that we could not quarter them conveniently in the frontier towns and garrisons ; for which reason we have fortified several such posts this year , to inlarge our quarters , and advance them as far as we could towards the enemy's frontier . the 8th . the dauphine left the enemy's camp between courtray and menin , to return to versailles ; by eight in the morning he parted from courtray , being saluted by a triple discharge of the enemy's cannon ; by twelve he arrived at lisle , and was met at the gates by the mareschal de bouflers , the governour of the place since the death of the mareschal de humieres , and by the magistrates ; all the cannon was fired thrice round the town and citadel ; he was treated by the mareschal de bouflers , and so continued his way towards versailles . we could hear very plainly the enemy's cannon upon this occasion . the resolution being taken to fortifie dixmude for a winter quarter , after the report which quarter-master-general dopf made of it to his majesty , six regiments were commanded on the 9th . to this place , the two french regiments of belcastel and marton , three danes , the queen's , prince christian and jutland , and the dutch regiment of aver ; they were commanded by major-general ellenbergh , who has been made governour of the place ; captain cock's company of gunners and matrosses was sent at the same time , with fifteen pieces of cannon and ammunitions , and the boors were set at work to fortifie the place , assisted with a detachment out of every one of these regiments . i have given a description of this place in my relation of the campagne of 1692. to which i refer the reader . i have not heard we have altered any thing in this fortification , but only made up again the works which the french left last spring when they abandoned it . the same day the regiments of bernstorf-zell , and bulo , were detached from the camp to march towards brusselles and louvain , and the suisse regiment of milune , and the regiment of luo to maestricht . the 10 th . the king went towards dixmuyde , to review the english cavalry and dragoons , which appeared in very good order , at such a time of the year , and after so many marches . the 11 th . his majesty reviewed the infantry , which drew out of the camp upon two lines , all the general officers being posted upon their several divisions of the army , where they saluted the king as he rid along the line his majesty rid round every battalion of the army , to take a more special and exact review of them , and his aid de camps took an account of the depth and number of the files , to compute the strength of each battalion . the body of the infantry appeared generally in very good order , the regiments very full , and in a better condition than they have been at this time of the year since the beginning of the war , notwithstanding the great marches we had for so many days together , from the meuse to the scheld . indeed the weather was all along very favourable and free from heat , which gave a great deal of ease to the soldiers , who rather marched better the last days than the first . the same day the king reviewed the foot , the dutch troop of life-guard was ordered to march towards loo to make the relays for his majesty from breda to that place . the 12 th the elector of bavaria reviewed the spanish and bavarian forces , his majesty being present , and they appeared in good order as all the army had done . the king din'd afterwards with prince vaudemont . the 15 th the king went to dixmuyde to view the place himself , to see the condition of the works , and what forwardness they were in , and his majesty this day dined with my lord auverquerque that commanded the english cavalry and dragoons canton'd about this place . the same day the king had an express from the duke of holstein from the camp before huy , that the 13 th at night we had advanced our works and approaches to the point of the counterscarp of the forts rouge and picard , that our cannon had made breaches large enough to make an assault the next day upon these forts . this place was invested the 7 th by the duke of holstein with the dutch and brandenburgh , and the prince of tilly with the liege forces . the 9 th the artillery and mortars came up by water from liege . the 10 th , 11 th and 12 th , the besiegers worked at their batteries , upon which they mounted their cannon and mortars . this day their batteries began to play upon the two forts , and the night they opened the trenches at their several attacks . i shall say no more of the siege of huy , but what we had in our camp by expresses from the duke of holstein , till we come to the news of the capitulation , after which i shall incert the journal of that siege , to give a more particular and exact account of it . to return to the camp at rouselar . the 15 th in the evening we heard very great firing towards dunkirk , by which we soon imagined that our fleet was before the place commanded by sir cloudesly shovel , vice-admiral : the mareschal de villeroy upon the news of our fleets being before the place , left immediately his camp near ipres and went to dunkirk , accompanied with several general officers to see the success and issue of the undertaking , to be there ready for the defence of the place . our machines had no success here , and the enemy were so well provided for our coming , that their out-forts did not permit our bomb-ketches to come near enough to do any damage to it . the 16 th the king had by an express from the duke of holstein , the news of his having carried the forts rouge and picard by assault , with about three hundred of the enemy put to the sword , and seventy only escaped out of the fort picard to the castle , with the commanding officer , but a lieutenant-colonel that commanded in the fort rouge was killed in the trench , where he flung himself in the midst of our men after he saw the fort so easily carried by our forces . the 17 th the regiments of lesley , tiffeny , maitland , tergueson and buchan , were detached from the camp to march to dixmuyde , being appointed to have their winter-quarters in the camerlings ambackt , or the country about the canal of newport , which is not far from this place . they made baraques or huts of straw without the works of dixmuyde , where they continued incamped to work with the garrison at the fortification till it has been finished ; after which they went into their winter quarters : the fortification of dixmuyde went on hitherto but leasurely for want of men , for which reason these regiments were detach'd to forward the work . the camp of rouselar being strong by the closeness of the ground , and the wood and defiles about it , gave us the opportunity of making securely as many detachments as we wanted , though we were incamped just by the enemies garrisons and their own army too . the same day the king by an express from the duke of holstein , had an account that the besiegers before huy had made themselves masters the 15 th of a tower that commands the way that leads up to the castle , defended by the major of the castle and forty men , and the 18 th , that our batteries were playing upon the castle , since the taking of the two forts rouge and picard , which commanded it , and from whence our batteries played with such success against it , that a breach was made , and that he hoped in a very short time to be master of the place . the cannon , when once we were masters of the two forts , did so much annoy the besieged in the castle , that a centinel did not dare to shew himself upon the ramparts of it . the 19 th the army had orders to forage all the churches and cloisters before us in the chatellenie of ipres , and to take out the corn they had there : the town of rouselar was not spared , and the cloister of the augustines was foraged as well as the rest , the country before being the frontier of the pajis conquis , 't was thought convenient to destroy the corn and forage about the enemies garrisons as much as possibly we could , and the enemy by our incamping here being kept within their own garrisons , were no less inconvenient to the country round about : they had incamped between courtray and menin since the 18 th of the last month , insomuch that though they had agreed with the chatellenie of lisle to excuse it from forage , yet we kept them so long here , that they were forced to break the bargain , and not only the chatellenie of lisle was forced to send forage to the army , but the towns and villages much more remote from the enemies frontiers were obliged to do the same thing . the 19 th day count tilly , major-general of the states forces that had been commanded with a detachment of thirty squadrons of horse and dragoons towards aeth , had the misfortune to be taken prisoner in his own quarters at mafle , between aeth and mons , by the treachery of one of his own domestick servants , who run away to mons , and informed the enemy of the condition of the major-generals quarters , what guard it had upon it , and how it might be surprized ; who accordingly sent immediately a strong party of dragoons that surprized his quarters , made him prisoner , and carried him to mons : this is the same gentleman that had the misfortune last year to be attacked by a strong detachment of the enemies horse , all of the french kings house , near tongres , where he was posted with nine or ten squadrons of horse , with which he was to joyn our army ; he was forced to retreat towards maestricht with the loss of some of his baggage ; and not count cerclas , now prince of tilly , as i said last year by a mistake . the 20 th early in the morning the king left the army to go by liege and maestricht to loo , and so to the hague , in order to repass the sea. his majesty was attended out of the camp by the elector of bavaria , and all the general officers of the army , and had an escorte of fourscore men out of each battalion , commanded by the prince of anhault brigadier ; the detachment out of the kings forces was commanded under the prince of anhault by colonel titcomb , lieutenant-colonels , peyton and corbet , and major sabine , they conveyed the king to deinse , where a strong detachment of horse out of my lord of athlone's forces , which were quartered thereabouts , attended to conduct the king farther on his way . his majesty passed through the town of ghendt , incognito , and lay that night at overmeere between ghendt and dendermond , and so his majesty went on his journey towards liege , good escortes being laid by relays all along the way . the king just at his going out of the camp , had by an express from the duke of holstein , an account that the castle of huy had capitulated the 17 th , and that the garrison was to march out of the breach the next day , with drums beating , colours flying , and other marks of honour , but without artillery , to namur . thus far the account of huy , as we have had it in the camp ; but because it has been the most remarkable action of this campagne , i shall here incert the journal of this siege . the journal of the siege and taking of the town and castle of huy , with the several forts belonging to it , by the confederate army , commanded by his highness the duke of holstein ploen , velt mareschal general of the armies of the states-general of the vnited provinces . we have said above that the king , pursuant to the resolutions he had taken of laying siege ▪ to huy , had ordered the duke of holstein ploen from the camp at wouterghem to march towards the meuse with the body of foot and dragoons incamped near ghendt , under the command of major-general cohorne ; that the garrisons of liege and maestricht had orders at the same time to be ready to march . the train of artillery and mortars , and all things necessary for a siege were ready at maestricht , with boats to carry them up the river , and expected only the junction of the forces to form the siege to be sent up to huy . the 5 th prince cerclas of tilly marched out of liege to possess himself of several posts in the neighbourhood of huy , with the cavalry of the diocess . he was followed the next day by the duke of holstein , who was now joyned by the dutch and brandenburgh forces , and the cavalry commanded by lieutenant-general de witz , which in going back to the meuse from audenarde , had marched almost the same way we came to it . the 7 th all these forces being joyned together posted themselves at all the avenues leading to the place , and formally invested it ; brigadier swerin passed the meuse with his brigade of foot to post himself on the opposite side of the river to the town of huy . i refer the reader for the description of this place to what i said of it in my last years history ; i shall only add , that the fort picard , which was then imperfect , was quite finished by the french , and besides that they had made the fort rouge for the greater security of the place . when huy was invested , our army before the place consisted of the forces following . the list of the confederate army before huy . duke of holstein velt-mareschal general . prince cerclas of tilly , general . de witz lieutenant-general . heyden , cohorne and sonsfeldt , major-generals . swerin , lindeboom , &c. brigadiers . dutch infantry . brandenburgh foot. brandenburgh horse regim . battal . regim . battal . regim . squad . du thei l 1 electors guards 3 dorfling dragoons 4 cohorne 1 electoral prince 1 sonsfeldt dragoons 4 lindeboom 1 prince phillipe 1 auspach dragoons 2 dutch infantry . brandenburgh foot. brandenburgh horse regim . battal . regim . battal . regim . squad . swerin 3 prince louis 1 horse-granadiers 1 stockhausen 1 dorfling 1 grand musquetiers 1 friesheim 1 altholstein 1 gens d' arms 1 ameliswert 1 denhof 1 life regiment 3 essen 1 barfus 1 churprince 3 churprince 1 heyden 1 fleming 3 prince phillipe 1 brand 1 dorfling 3 harsolt 1 lottom 1 du hammel 3 prince louis 1 doua 1 litwits 3 anhaltdessau 1 slabendorf 1 schlipenback 3 knoring 1 anhalt 1     obergen 1 hult 1     vandermuklen 1 horne 1     battalions 18 battalions 18 squndrons 38     liege battalions 4     we had by this list forty battalions , which at five hundred each battalion one with another ( the usual way of reckoning the latter end of a campagne ) makes twenty thousand foot ; and thirty eight squadrons of horse and dragoons , at one hundred each squadron the latter end of a campagne , makes three thousand eight hundred horse , by which the total of our army before huy consisted of twenty three thousand eight hundred men ; the ten regiments which were detached from our army at rouselar under the brigadiers holstein-norbourg and dedem , came to the camp before huy but the very day of the capitulation , for which reason i have not incerted their names in this list . the same day that we invested huy , the count de guiscard , governour of namur , who had put himself into the place to defend it in person , went out of it betimes in the morning under a good escorte of dragoons by an express order of the court , which injoyned him to go back to his government of namur , whither he got with some difficulty : we had the news in our camp that he was forced to leave his baggage behind him , which fell by this means into our hands , but afterwards was returned safely to him . the count de guiscard at his going out paid the garrison , which was made up of the regiments of ponthieu and angoumois , consisting of twelve companies each , which made between thirteen and fourteen hundred foot , and one free company of dragoons . the defence of the place was recommended to monsieur de regnac commandant of the castle . about noon some deputies from the magistrates of huy came to wait upon the duke of holstein by monsieur de regnacs leave , to make some propositions , according to which he was willing to deliver the keys of the town into their hands , and to retire into the forts and castle if the duke would consent to them . 1. that the roman catholick and apostolick religion should be maintained in it in the state it was now . 2. that the burghers and inhabitants should return under the government of their natural prince the bishop of liege , and the see being now vacant , of his illustrious chapter . 3. that the magistrates , mayors , &c. should be continued in the possession of their charges , priviledges , rights and liberties , as well as the burghers and inhabitants of the town . 4. that the town being under the power of the allies , none of the ecclesiasticks either secular or regular , nor the burghers and inhabitants , nor those of the neighbourhood , which have fled thither for refuge shall be insulted , disturbed or molested in their persons , goods or effects , wherever they may be . 5. that when the allies should have taken possession of the town they should not attack the castle from it , and those of the castle should not commit any hostilities against the forces in the town . 6. that if the allies were obliged to raise the siege , and to abandon the town , they should in no wise molest or disturb the said ecclesiasticks , burghers and inhabitants , &c. nor their effects , nor burn , ruine or plunder their houses , nor seise themselves of any of them , upon any pretext whatever . 7. that in case they abandon the town , they should not demolish , cut down , nor blow up the ramparts , bulwarks , towers , gates , barrieres , or any other works of defence belonging to the town . 8. that they should not demolish nor do any damage to the great bridge of the town upon the meuse , nor those built upon any rivulets , either within the town or liberties of it . 9. that they should not sieze themselves of , nor take any bell , or piece of mettal belonging to the town , ecclesiasticks or inhabitants , neither should they cause them to be redeemed for money or otherwise . 10. that it should be lawful for any of the burghers and inhabitants , to retire where they please with their effects for the space of six months . 11. that the hospitals , pious houses and lumber houses , should not be molested nor disturbed in any of their revenues or effects . these are the articles upon which the town was given up to the allies , most of them are upon condition the allies should raise the siege of the place ; by which it appears that the besieged had great hopes of it . about four in the afternoon monsieur de regnac caused the following article to be added to it . that the allies should not attack the castle by the town or faubourgs , nor cause any troops to pass the bridge in a body during the siege ; nor any cannon , ammunitions or any other provisions of war ; and that by vertue of this capitulation he should deliver the next day by six in the morning the keys of the town in the hands of the magistrate . this capitulation having been agreed unto , and signed by the duke of holstein , and monsieur de regnac , the besieged left the town , and retired into the castle and forts ; four of of our battalions entered into the place to take possession of it . having now the castle and forts to besiege , the duke of holstein took his quarter upon the hill of coureux ; with most of the generals ; we began to work at our batteries , and we finished our bridge of communication at taverne . the enemy made a great fire with their artillery against our works , and shot some bombs , but without doing any considerable damage . the evening they made a salley on that side where major-general cohorne commanded , thinking to possess themselves of three field-pieces we had there , but the guard having perceived it gave the alarm , and we repulsed the enemy , with some loss on their side . the 9 th . the besieged continued to fire with their artillery , but not so briskly as the day before , and some deserters , who came over to us , reported , that they had some gunners killed in the fort picard by three pieces of cannon which had broke . we hastened our work at the batteries , and other works , and landed as fast as we could our heavy artillery , which had come up to our bridge of communication at taverne , by the meuse , consisting of fifty and five battering pieces , and twenty eight mortars , besides the cannon we had brought by land. the 10 th . we had advice that the besieged , resolving to defend themselves to the last extremity , did work within as fast as they could , chiefly to cover themselves in their works with earth and hay , to defend themselves from our bombs : they fired upon none but those who appeared out of the faubourgs of the place , and made but a small fire upon us this day , and hitherto they had killed us but very few men the 11 th . the enemy fired upon us with their cannon and mortars , with more vigour than they had done the day before . we finished this enening our batteries for cannon and mortars ; we had one upon the hill of coureux , the second near the counterscarpe ; major-general cohorné had one above croisiers , upon the saur ; brigadier swerin another near st. leonard ; and prince circlas of tilly had the fifth . the 12 th . the enemy fired very briskly upon us till nine in the morning , that the duke of holstein being come to the chief battery upon the hill de coureux , gave the signal by ordering a bomb to be fired in the air , after which this , and all other batteries , both of cannon and mortars , fired without intermission ; all the generals had posted themselves by the main battery , to be spectators of this work. this evening we opened the trenches at the brandenbourg quarter , who directed their attack towards the fort picard ; the rest did the same at their other attacks . the 13 th . we had a thick fog in the morning , which interrupted the vigour of our fire , but as soon as it was over , our cannon and mortars began to play with more force from all our batteries ; that of st. leonard fired perpendicular upon the head of the fort picard , to make a breach . the enemy , who kept themselves in their works , fired but seldom with two six-pounders , of which we soon dismounted one ; they fired some vollies of shot upon the bridge of the town , which caused the duke of holstein to send a message to monsieur de regnac , to let him know , that it was against the tenor of the capitulation , which would oblige him to give no quarter when once he should be master of the castle : the governour endeavoured to excuse himself , but the duke of holstein returned for answer by a drum , that he was a german and could not understand the wrangling of the french. a deserter came in , and told us , that the besieged could not hold out much longer , that our bombs had ruined their well , and had broke to pieces most of their casks filled with beer and water , that they had spoiled their provisions , and put their magazines of fascines on fire ; thereupon we push'd our approaches to the foot of the counterscarpe , and the besieged killed and wounded some of our soldiers . the 14 th . the enemies fire ceased . the general held a council of war , where it was concluded , that the breach in the forts rouge and picard being wide enough for an assault , orders should be given to the brandenbourgers , who were the most advanced , to prepare themselves for it ; and all things being ready , the signal was given about four in the afternoon , after which they made the assault upon the fort picard with so much bravery , that in less than half an hour they carried it sword in hand , without any great resistance from the enemy , of whom they made a great slaughter : the fort rouge had the same success ; our people came into the place with the enemies , before they had time to know themselves . the paris gazette gave an account that they sustained our assault twice , but that we carried it the third time , after a vigorous resistance . thus 't is honourable to have to do with a proud enemy . we carried at the same time the tower of st. leonard , and another which surrendred at discretion : monsieur de condron , the king's lieutenant that commanded in these forts , escaped with 60 or 70 men , out of 300 , though he was very much wounded , after he had nailed three pieces of cannon , which he was forced to leave in our power , and sprung a mine , which had no effect at all . among the prisoners we took , those of note were monsieur de tromboy , lieutenant-colonel of the regiment of ponthien , one major , three captains , aad other officers ; but the sieur fronier , lieutenant-colonel of angoumois , was not found in the castle , nor amongst the prisoners , and so it was concluded that he was killed : our soldiers stript all those that were killed naked , so that he could not be found . we had in this action but 9 or 10 soldiers killed , and some wounded . the 15 th . we changed some batteries , with which we continued our fire , to ruine all the works , the casemates , &c. of the castle . we had several fascines brought to fill the ditch , and disposed all things for an assault ; about eleven in the evening the duke of holstein sent to summon the commandant to surrender and deliver to the magisttates of the town divers burthers whom he detained in the castle , contrary to the capitulation . during this message we had a cessation of arms for half an hour ; at which time the officer , the duke of holstein had sent , returned with this answer from the commandant , that it was not time yet to surrender , that he would stay till things were brought to a greater extremity , that for the burghers demanded he had reason to retain them without explaining himself any further . the besieged did think of making a retrenchment in the castle , where to retreat and capitulate in case of an assault . the 16 th . we began again , as soon as it was day , to fire from all our batteries to make the breach wider , and to overthrow all the defence the besieged had , but we found it more difficult than was at first believed , to bring down the heaps of stone at the breach . the 17 th . we continued the same work till one in the afternoon , that the besieged beat the chamade , and asked to capitulate , which surprized us very much , since they might yet have defended themselves very well for some days ; for though the breach was wide enough , yet 't was very difficult to go up to it . hostages were exchanged on both sides , and the count de lur , colonel of the regiment of angoumois , brought the conditions in writing to the duke of holstein , according to which the commandant would deliver up the castle , which after examination some were agreed unto , and some rejected . we would have given no other conditions but those which the mareschal de villeroy had granted the year before to the baron de ronesse when he took it , which caused great contestations on both sides , and several messages backwards and forwards . the french insisted very much to have marched out with cannon , which was absolutely refused ; but at last the duke of holstein sent word to monsieur de regnac , if that night passed without accepting the conditions he had prescribed , that the next morning he would make a general assault upon the place , without any regard to the said conditions ; which message had the success we expected ; for the count de lur came about mid-night to the duke of holstein with monsieur de regnac's cousent to the said articles , which i shall here insert for the satisfaction of the reader , as they were proposed by monsieur de regnac , and granted by the duke of holstein ploen . the capitulation granted by the duke of holstein ploen commanding the confederate army before huy , to monsieur de regnac , commandant for the french king in the castle of huy . i. that the garrison shall go out of the place with arms and baggage , drums beating , colours flying , matches lighted at both ends , and that they shall march out of the breach . granted . ii. that they shall carry out along with them two brass pieces of cannon and mortars which are in the place , which shall be at the choice of the commandant of the castle . rejected . iii. that the garrison with the artillery , the officers of the state-major , the commissaries of war , the ingeniers and commissaries of the artillery , &c. and generally all those that are imployed in the kings service in the said castle , shall march out to morrow at nine a clock in the morning , with monsieur de regnac , to be conducted to namur by water , with their equipage , baggage , sick and vvounded , at the charges of the allies , who shall cause boats to be provided , with boat-men and horses , and a good escorte of one hundred horsemen for their safety , which shall be ready to morrow by nine in the morning , to go that same day to namur . granted thus far by the duke of holstein . that boats shall be provided for baggage for the sick and vvounded that are in a condition to go out of the garrison , but the rest mentioned in this article shall march on foot to namur , by the shortest road under a good escorte , and shall go out to morrow by nine at farthest in the morning . iv. that the sick and vvounded who are not in a condition to be transported to namur shall remain in the town to be dressed and looked after at the expence of the allies , till they are able to go back to their several posts , and then they shall have sufficient passports for their journey . granted . v. that the deserters shall not be reclam'd on either side . rejected . vi. that all officers and soldiers that have been made prisoners during the siege shall be set at liberty without ransom . granted , for those only that were made prisoners during the siege of the castle . vii . that no officer or soldier shall be arrested for debts , or otherwise ; nor any other persons comprehended in this capitulation . so far agreed unto by the duke of holstein : that this article shall be regulated according as the french observed it when they took huy ; but 't is understood , that if the officers owe any thing to the burghers of the town , that the governour shall oblige himself for the payment . viii . that we shall not command nor expect any restitution of the provisions which might have been taken in the town or neighbouring villages to put in the castle or otherwise . granted . ix . that we shall not search nor visit any equipages belonging to the officers or others marching out of the castle . granted . x. that after the signing of the capitulation , the hostages shall be restored on both sides . granted . xi . that when this capitulation shall be signed , the duke of holstein may send fifty men to take possession of the gate of the castle which has a draw-bridge . the gate of the castle shall be possessed this day by one hundred men ; and the besieged shall leave all the magazines in the state they are now ; and they shall shew to the hostages sent , the place and state of their mines , and that faithfully . the same day that the garrison began to capitulate , the duke of holstein norbourg , and brigadier dedem , came to the camp before huy , with the ten regiments that had been sent from our main army at rouselar , viz. the rhingrave , birkenfeldt , dumont , heukelom , dedem , holstein-norbourg , gohr , holstein-beck and sparre , of which we have given an account before according to the capitulation monsieur de regnac marched out of the castle between nine and ten in the morning by the breach , at the head of his garrison , consisting of about seven hundred men carrying arms , which remained of thirteen or fourteen hundred , they had at the beginning of the siege ; they had about three hundred wounded . the governour regnac complemented the duke of holstein as he passed by him , which the duke returned very civilly . we had the news in our camp that the breach was so difficult that the garrison had much ado to march out of it , and that finding this way so difficult , the governour would willingly have changed the first article of the capitulation , and have marched out of the gate ; but the duke of holstein answered , that capitulations were sacred , and exactly to be observed ; and therefore since they had made their bargain to march out of the breach , they conld not go out any other way . we obliged the french to leave hostages for the payment of their debts contracted in the town ; and of the cattle which they had taken before the siege from the inhabitants of the town , and neighbouring villages . we took likewise our deserters which were among the french in this place . the same morning we sent a detachment of six hundred foot of the dutch , brandenburgh and liege forces to take possession of the castle , where they entred by the breach , the sieur tobie ingenier had the command of it given him till other orders ; brigadier lindeboom was made governour of the town . 't is a very wonderful thing that during the siege we had not above forty men kill'd and wounded , no officer killed , and none wounded but a brandenburgh major , which adds very much to the reputation of the general ; that he has in so little time , and with so little loss , reduc'd a place to the allies which the french had taken as much care as they could to fortifie , and to furnish it with all things necessary for a good defence ; notwithstanding , this place was taken in five days from the opening of the trenches , which is no longer than the baron de ronesse defended it last year against the french. 't was invested by the mareschal de villeroy the 9 th , the trench was opened the 10 th , and the castle surrender'd the 14 th of july ; though the fort picard was not then quite finished , and that the enemy hath since added the fort rouge , both which are situated upon the points of hills which commanded the castle ; 't is true that since we had made our selves masters of these two forts , they so much commanded the castle , that the enemy could not perswade the soldiers to stand sentry upon the ramparts , but they kept themselves close under cover as much as they could . the governour could expect no relief , and that i believe was the reason why he would not defend the place to the last extremity . the french could not relieve it from flanders , because they could not make a sufficient detachment without hazarding ipres , and other towns on this side ; and prince louis of baden passed the rhine much about the same time , so that he could not expect any succour from the mareschal de lorge , who was obliged to keep all his forces against prince louis of baden , who was on this side of the rhine in the enemies country . as soon as we had taken possession of the castle , the clergy , religious , and inhabitants of the town went to the chief church ( which has a chapter consisting of a dean and secular canons ) where te deum was sung for their deliverance from the french yoke , and for being restor'd to their lawful prince the bishop , but now ( the see being vacant ) to the dean and chapter of liege , that had the administration of the government , as usually till the bishop elect had his confirmation from rome . the dean and chapter of liege had likewise te deum sung in the cathedral church of st. lambert , and a triple discharge of all the canon round the town , to express their joy for the reduction of this place to the government of liege . but before i part with the siege of huy , i cannot omit to shew the importance and consequence of it to the allies . we have already spoken of the great inconveniences we suffered by having liege for our frontier garrison , which being a very large place , situated amongst hills , requir'd a good army for its defence ; so that whilst liege was our frontier , we could not well act defensively against the enemy , because it took up those men within it for its defence which should have been required elsewhere : that very army which the duke of holstein had before it , was but the garrison of liege , and some regiments of maestricht ; and though we exceeded the french army by much , including these forces of liege , yet as long as the french had huy , they could still hinder the junction of these forces with us , or else the town of liege must be left exposed to them . but we having advanc'd our frontier by the taking of this place , a small garrison will serve liege , and as much as will keep the citadels will be sufficient ; so that by the taking of huy , we can without raising one man , have above twenty battalions more in the field the next campagne . this is sufficient to shew the consequence of huy , and of what importance it is to either side . it is now time to return from the siege of huy , to our camp at rouselar , and to bring things to the conclusion of the campagne . the king , as we have said , left the army here the 20 th , and went that day by deinse and ghendt to overmeere , where his majesty lay that night ; but at his passing by my lord of athlones quarters , where the dutch cavalry was canton'd , the king order'd major-general hubert to go and command the body of horse and dragoons we had by aeth , in the absence of count tilly , who ( as we have said before ) had been taken prifoner from his very quarters by a detachment of the enemies from the garrison of mons. the 21 th the first troop of guards , commanded by my lord of scarborough , was sent to quarter at breda , and the horse-granadiers to bois le duc ; and now some regiments went off daily from the camp to go into winter-quarters . the 22 th we made a detachment to cover our soldiers , who went to marode up and down the country ; which before occasioned many of them to be taken prisoners by the enemy ; for the country hereabours abounded in all manner of fruits , but roots especially , as turnips , parsnips and potatoes ; but when they began to grow scarce near the camp , the soldiers could not be hinder'd from going farther to gather them , which was the cause that the enemies parties daily took a great many prisoners ; for which reason 't was thought convenient to have set days upon which the soldiers should have liberty , a man of a tent , to go and gather roots and fruits , and a detachment was order'd out of the army to cover them ; but some greater inconveniencies happened by this way , for which reason 't was since left off . if the camp at rouselar was strong and secure , so that we could make what detachments we pleased from thence , yet in other cases 't was very inconvenient ; the country all about it was close and woody , which shelter'd the enemies parties , which were so frequent that our sulters underwent great hazards to get provisions for the camp ; and our bread-waggons were several times attack●d by these parites ; for the train of the bread-waggons and sutlers who took the opportnnity of convoys , made a line of such length through the narrow ways of this country , that 't was impossible for our detachments to cover them all along ; so that the enemies parties , which lay in the woods , would often sally out when they saw their opportunity , and take the horses from the waggons , which was all they look ▪ d for , and so run away with their booty as fast as they could ; about this time a party of the enemy attack'd our bread-waggons , but part of our detachment which was near , hindered them from stealing any horses ; yet being in close ambuscade they fired upon our men , where captain sacheverel of colonel titcombs regiment , that commanded this part of the detachment , had the misfortune to be wounded mortally ; which is the only officer of our army i have heard of , that has been killed this campagne by the enemy . the 23 th the king , who had left the camp at rouselar the 20 th , came to liege the 23 th about noon ; his majesty was waited upon by deputies from the chapter to complement him upon his arrival to this place , and by prince cerclas of tilly , the liege general , and the cannon was fir'd all round the town . his majesty did not go into the place , but only rid round the lines and works to see the condition they were in , and how far his majesty could depend upon them , whereby to take his measures for the next campagne . that evening the king went to maestricht , and lay in the duke of holstein-ploens house ( the governour ) which had been prepar'd for his majesties reception ; and the next day the king went on to loo , where his majesty arrived the 26 th to take his usual divertisements after the closing of the campagne . the 25 th we sent a reinforcement from the camp at rouselar of thirty gunners and matrosses , with stores to dixmuyde . the 26 th the elector of bavaria and prince vaudemont left the army early in the morning to go to brussels , 16 men being commanded out of each battalion , by two in the morning , to escorte his electoral highness as far as deinse , from whence relays were ready upon the road by ghendt to brussels . the command of the army remain'd now to the d. of wirtemberg , who had thereupon the honours paid him which are given to a general in chief . the same day the army had orders to forage all the churches and cloisters in our front towards the enemy , and to take all their corn ( as we had before ) to leave the enemies country hereabouts as bare as we could . the 28 th the bavarian foot and dragoons marched away from the camp to go into quarters ; they were incamped upon the heighth of hooghleode , where they flank'd our right , and cover'd the electors quarters ; but because this hill commanded our camp , 5 battalions of the brigade of rantzow and dedem were sent the same day to incamp in their places , to defend the redoubts which we had made at our first coming to fortifie this hill against the enemy . the same day the barracks of the battalion of the second regiment of english guards ( whereof my lord cuts is now colonel in the room of the late lieutenant-general taldmash ) took fire , the wind drove the flame to the left , where it chanced to be advanced forward to the front of the dutch guards , or else the fire might have done more mischief in our straw-camp , which is very dangerous , when an army is thus hutted all along in straw . the 29 th the d. of holstein-ploen came back from the siege of huy to the camp , to command the army ; he was complemented by all the generals upon his arrival , and the good success he had at huy : the mareschal de luxemburgh sent him a complement of 2 very fine mules . the d. of holstein at his coming away from huy dispersed the troops imployed in the siege . the baron de heyden was sent to incamp near liege by the ourte , which rises in the pajis de luxemburgh , and passes through the dutchy of bouillon , and bois d' ardenne , and so falls into the meuse at liege . lieutenant-general de witz was sent with the brandenburgh horse and dragoons towards the pajis de luxemburgh , to raise contributions in the enemies country , and the dutch foot commanded by major-general cohorne remained incamped by huy till the breaches were repaired ; of which six battalions , and two of the liege foot were sent into the town and castle , to keep a strong garrison in the place , which is now our frontier to the enemy . the 30 th the second troop of life-guards commanded by the d. of ormond , and the third by my l. rivers , marched out of the camp towards their winter-quarters at breda . the french which now wanted forage very much by their long continuance in their camp between courtray and moorselle , made a considerable detachment to the other side of the scheld between mons and tournay , commanded by the mareschal de bouflers , to subsist them more conveniently there ; and major-general hubert , who commanded our detachment of horse and dragoons near aeth , was now marched towards wavre and genap : it may be the enemy suspected some design against charleroy by this motion , for which reason the mareschal de bouflers was commanded with this body towards mons. october 1. all our heavy artillery was sent to ghendt ( and none remained but the light field-pieces ) under the convoy of the battalion of the second regiment of guards , whose barraques had been burnt ( for which reason they were now sent to winter-quarters at ghendt ) and the regiments of tettan , salisch and bieck which marched to maestricht . colonel titcomb had this day the same misfortune the second regiment of guards had some days before . the 3 d our bread-waggons were again set upon by the enemies parties , and as they made a false attack upon the center of the waggons , where our detachment came for relief , they had the opportunity to steal several horses from the front. our camp was so far towards the enemies frontier garrisons , that courtray was nearer ghendt , from whence we had our bread , than rouselar . this , with the closeness of the ground in our rear , made the enemies parties very successful , who had all the advantage they could desire , for such undertakings . but if the camp of rouselar was a perfect wood when we came to it , insomuch that any regiment could not discover the line upon the right or left ; yet before we parted with it we made it a plain , for above half an english mile in the front and rear . the soldiers cut down the wood and hedges to build their huts , and afterwards to burn and make fires withal . 't was really pity to see many fine trees and stately oaks cut down , and yet these are the least inconveniencies a country suffers , that is the unhappy and miserable seat of war. this reflection ought to make us set the greatest value in the world upon our domestick peace , and to let war be any where else ( whatever it may cost us ) rather than have it at home ; and if the mischiefs of war are so great , that when david was put to his choice of punishments for his sin , he chose rather the pestilence , or to be chasten'd by the hand of god , than to have a war at home : certainly those are to be look'd upon as the most unnatural monsters in the world , who would disturb the peace of our government under any pretext whatsoever ; and yet so much the more when 't is only to satisfie their own ambitious revenge or discontent . the 5 th the regiments that were to be quartered at audenarde marched out of the field to go to their garrison . the 6 th the whole army began to separate in order to march into winter-quarters ; the garrisons of bruges , ostend and sluys , marched away under the command of major-general ramsay , and all the heavy baggage of the remainder of the army was sent away under the escorte of the regiments of noyelles , oxensterne , st. paul and marquet , which marched to brussels ; and the next day the whole camp broke up at rousetar : we had a good rear-guard to cover our march , but the enemy did not appear to disturb it ; and so all the regiments marched towards their several quarters that had been assigned them . the 9 th the mareschal de luxemburgh came to view our camp at rousclar , with the mareschal de villeroy , and 4000 horse of the french kings houshold ; 't was supposed his design was to disturb the quarters of our english cavalry canton'd about dixmuyde ; but my l. auverquerque gave such orders for the defence of their quarters , that the mareschal de luxemburgh did not think convenient to attack them , and so he went back again to his camp at courtray to give orders for the separation of the french army into their winter-quarters , which tho' they had been now above 7 weeks in this camp , yet they could not stir from it till our army had left the field . my l. of athlone marched with the dutch cavalry from his quarters near deinse towards ninove , to cover the works we made at this place , and gramont upon the dender , to make them serve for a winter-quarter , and to lodge our troops as near as possibly we could to the enemies frontiers . the d. of holstein , after the separation of our army , went to wait upon the king at the hague , ( where his majesty arrived the 13 th from loo ) and the general officers to their respective quarters where they command . the 14 th and 15 th the french army left the camp of courtray to go into winter-quarters , and the mareschals of luxemburgh and villeroy went away for the court ; but the mareschal of bouflers staid to take possession of his new government of lifle , and the french flanders . about the 16 th . all the cavalry and dragoons left the villages where they were cantoned , to go into their quarters , and dixmuyde being in a condition of defence , not only the english horse and dragoons marched into quarters , but the five regiments that had their quarters assigned them in the comerlings ambacht , which had been sent here to forward the work of the fortification ▪ count thian separated his army from deinse , which was now fortified , and four regiments were left in the place under the command of brigadier offarrel . the army being newly separated into quarters on both fides , i shall only beg leave to make some reflections upon the present state of affairs , which may serve to close up this narrative . the scale of war had inclined very much in the former campagnes to france , and the french king has had very great success against the allies ; but the event of this campagne is sufficient to convince them , that if the french have had success , it has been because they did not make their best efforts in a vigorous prosecution of the common cause : for now , that the allies have been sensible of the necessity of augmenting their forces , we find the scale to turn . the enemy , who before were very stirring and active upon our frontiers , have been forced this year to preserve their own , and think they have made a good campagne , when they have been about eleven weeks of it imcamped under the cannon of their own garrisons ; a month by huy , and above seven weeks between courtray and menin ; and yet have not been able to act so far defensively , as to hinder us from taking of huy , a place of equal importance to both sides . the mareschal de lorges ( notwithstanding the great matters the turks expected from their allie against the empire ) has been forced to keep on this side of the rhine almost all the campagne , and to suffer prince lovis of baden to pass this river , and raise contributions in alsatia ; and in all likelihood more would have been done , if the apprehensions we had for hungary at that time , and the sudden swelling of the rhine , had not obliged prince lovis to re pass the river . the mareschal of catinat has done as little in savoy ; he has acted wholly upon the defensive , to secure provence and dauphine from an invasion ▪ there was nothing left but catalonia for the french king to talk of conquests and victories , and the success due to the justice of his arms , which has been his last shift ; where he has chosen rather to consume and ruine an army by the intemperateness of a hot climate , than want a te deum in the great church of paris to keep up the hearts of his subjects . it has appeared by all that has passed in this war , that the french king loves much more the laurels that grow in flanders , upon the rhine , or in piedmont , than those which catalonia affords ; so that gironne and palamos are but a shift to cover a weakened power : and i believe that those who know the state of spain , don't think the french king much the greater conquerour for it : but yet we have had this advantage by it , that the french king has been forced to discover his weakness at sea , in a place where he had hitherto rid , neptune-like , lord and sovereign of it , and our fleet no sooner appeared in the mediterranean , but the mareschal de tourville thought fit to leave that sea to our power , and retired into the habour of thoulon . if therefore it appears by the event of this campagne , that the french power and greatness does begin to abate , it ought to give the greatest incouragement in the world to the allies , to act so much the more vigorously in the prosecution of this present war. if the efforts of the fren̄ch begin to lessen , let not ours be the weaker for it ; but on the contrary , let them be so much the stronger , and the more powerful . this will be the way to make a quick and happy end of the war , and to procure a solid and lasting peace , which is the only design the allies propose to themselves in this present war ; which is so just , so good and laudable , and so much becoming christians , that if we will act our part as we ought to do , we may justly expect god's blessing upon it . the experience the world has had of lovis xiv . since the beginning of his reign , is sufficient to convince all mankind , that as long as his power is so great , as his encroachments upon his neighbours have made it , 't is in vain to expect a solid and durable peace . if we survey his history from the beginning of this monarch's reign , we shall find , that the longest peace he has had with his neighbours , has not lasted seven years , which was from the pyrenean treaty to 1667. that all along he had invaded the dominions and states of his neighbours , without any regard to treaties , though never so sacred ; and therefore if we should let this opportunity slip , can we expect a lasting peace so long as he has power sufficient to disturb it when he pleases ? i dare say , that the french king 's own subjects , if they value the peace and quiet of christendome , must be concerned themselves , and have an interest in the common cause of the allies , which has no other end but to procure it ; and consequently , that they themselves are sensible of the necessity of the french king's power to be less in order to obtain it . i shall yet beg leave to address my self to englishmen in particular , who have so great an interest in the present war , that our religion and liberties cannot be reckoned upon a sure basis , nor our nation flourish , so long as the french power is so great ; therefore 't is absolutely our interest to use our utmost endeavours to make it less ; whatever it may cost us , yet we cannot pay too dear for it . if we should not take hold of this occasion , and use our utmost endeavours to compass an end so beneficial to the honour , safety , and flourishing of the nation , what will our posterity say of us , when it may be they have those fetters on which 't is now in our power to break , nay which is worse , which we may live to wear our selves , and to be wise too late ? if such miserable times should happen through our neglect of this present occasion , will not our posterity curse our memory , if we do not live to blame our selves for it ? if we justly condemn our former governments , because they have suffered france to arrive to a power so prejudicial to our safety and interest , when they might , and ought , to have hindred it , should not we justly deserve the most ignominious character that can be printed upon paper , if we neglect so fair an opportunity as this , to assert the honour and credit of our nation , and to establish our own religion and liberty upon a sure foundation ? we make so considerable a figure in this present war , and england has such a share in it , that by our vigorous prosecution of it , we shall not only secure our rights and liberties , but we shall have the credit , under the care of our wise , great , and just monarch , to free the rest of christendom from slavery ; which will gain our nation such a credit , renown , and reputation abroad , as will make england flourish ( when we have compassed a lasting and solid peace ) more than ever it has done hitherto , and it will abundantly repay our present charges with interest . and at the same time that the french king's efforts are less , since his offers of peace are dayly so much the greater , we may reasonably expect , that if we do our duty as we ought , in this present conjuncture , we shall soon compass this wish'd for , firm , and lasting peace . a list of the winter quarters for the king's forces , for the year , 1694. infantry . ghendt : the three battalions of english guards , fitzpatrick , frederic hamilton , collingwood , la meloniere , danish guards , prince frederic , prince george , zealand , fuknen packmoer , or brandenbourg , nassau . brvges : regiment of scots guards , royal regiment , lloyd , cuts now colonel seymour , rada , brewer , titcomb , collier , castleton , ingoldesby . note , that the three regiments of seymour , rada , and collier , came over from england the latter end of august , and have not been in the field this year . malines : churchil , trelawney , granville , erle . dendermond : selwyn , stanley . ostend : st. george , mackay , graham . dixmvyde : belcastel , marton , queen of denmark , prince christian , jutland , aver . deinse : offerrel , lauder , strathnaver , george hamilton . damme : argyle . in the villages of willebrook ▪ and near canal of brusselles , the two battalions of dutch guards . in the camerling's ' ambacht , or villages near the canal of newport , lesley , tiffeny , maitland , ferguson , buchan . leer : st. paul , lewenhaupt , guards of hanover . avdenarde : guards of wolfembuttel , hering . in the villages of musen and heuens , cinquilles . cavalry . breda : portland , searborough , ormond , rivers , life-guards . hagve : auverquerque , life-guards . boisledvc : horse-granadiers . ghendt : lumley , schomberg , coy , langston , wood , galloway , windham , leveson , wirtemberg , la forrest , zeestadt . brvges : zuglenstein , boncourt , schack , vittinghof , tennaghel , being the regiment that was lately scravenmoor ' s. st. gertrvdenberg : montpouillan . in the villages between ghendt and the sas van ghendt , eppinger , mathews , levingston , fairfax , essex , wynne , cunningham , dragoons . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a37153-e650 * bruges . * so countreymen and farmers are call'd in flanders . ☞ 