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A35913	A relation of the French kings late expedition into the Spanish-Netherlands in the years 1667 and 1668 with an introduction discoursing his title thereunto, and an account of the peace between the two crowns, made the second of May, 1668 / Englished by G.H., Gent.; Campagne royale. English	Dalicourt, P.; G. H., Gent.	1669 (1669)	Wing D135; ESTC R5204	56,374	222

twenty Companies of the Kings Regiment Commanded by the Marquis d' Anjau who altogether made eleven Battalions viz. The French Guards four the Swiss four and the other Regiment three The second Brigade was that of Picardy of which was the Regiment called by that name Commanded by the Counte de la Mark the Regiment of Saux Commanded by the Count de Saux de Lesdiguiers the Lyonnois Regiment Commanded by the Marquis de Villeroy the Regiment de Turenne Commanded by the Marquis de Sillery all which Regiments made up two Battalions a piece The third was the Brigade of Champagne composed of the Regiment of Champagne Commanded by the Marquis d' Ambre and of the Regiments of Castelnau Louvigny and Orleans the first Commanded by the Marquis de Castelnau the second by the Marquis de Louvigny the third by the Marquis de Beaufort and each of these Regiments made up two Battalions likewise In the fourth Baigade was the Regiments of Auvergne Commanded by the Duke de Chevreuse the Royal Regiment Commanded by Pierrefit the Regiment of Roussillon or Catalonia Commanded by Caramagne and the Regiment of Alsatia Commanded by the Counte de Nassau which in all made up but seven Battalions Roussillon making but on The Light Horse Commanded by the Duke Coaslin their Camp Master General was divided into twelve Brigades but because it would be tedious to reckon up the several Regiments they were compos'd of I shall content my self only to insert the names of the several Brigadies they served under which were the Barron of Montelar of Fourneaux Beauveze the Marquis de Resnel Bissy and Montauban the Chevallier de Fourilles the Comte de Choiseul Artagnan the Comte de Roye the Marquis de Rochefort and de Villequier There were expected also some Troops from the Duke of Lorraine which consisted of four Regiments of about 1500 Horse and two of Foot of about 900 or 1000 Men. Their Canon they brought from la Fere and Amiens I mean their great peices for at the beginning of the moneth the King had given order to the Commanders of the several Brigades that every Battalion should carry a peice of 4 or 5 pound Ball along with it and money was given out accordingly to buy Horses and other things necessaries for their train S. Hillary Lieutenant of the Ordinance was the person Commanded all the Equipage designed for this Army and Colbert Master of the Request was Comissary And this is the account of our strength by land As to our Forces at Sea I have been told we had twelve or thirteen Gallies in the Mediterranean Sea and that the Duke de Beaufort our Admiral was upon the coast of Brittain and Rochell with about 25 or 30 men of War The King being arrived at Amiens the 20 of May he depa●●ed from thence the 25 having taken his eave of the Queen who instead of being present as was supposed at the Rendevouze at Perrone returnd by Montdidier to Compiegne and and the same day being the twenty fifth with all the Horse his Majesty encampt near d' Encre and the next day at Mont S. Quintin not far from Peronne where he met most of his Army especially his Foot who were drawn up thereabouts from thence he marcht and incampt at Goüy near Catelet from thence to Briatte not far from Chasteau Cambressy from thence to Villerpol near Quesnoy after that to Peronneval near to Binch a small Town in Hainault unfortified and which in the time of the Wars follows alwayes the Master of the Field here it was thought expedient to leave some Forces for our convenience whilst the Army lay at Charleroy where his Majesty design'd to go at his coming from Amiens at the length he came and encamp't at Pieton a Village situate upon a Brook of the same name which after some meanders and Circumflexions falls about a league from the Town into the Sambre This River and Brook where they meet doe make an Angle on the side of their descent which being sufficiently elevated above the waters there was formerly a little Villa called Charnoy This place having appeared of great advantage to Castle Rodrigoe Governour of the Low Countries for the King of Spain in respect the Sambre was not furnisht with any Forts from Landrey which is not far from its Fountaine to Namur where it falls into the Meuse he had resolv'd the year before with the Counsel of the Provinces to raise a strong Fort there which might oppose it self to the Excursions of such Garrisons as the King of France had betwixt the Sambre and the Meuse that is to say Avernes Phillippville and Marienburg Towns that were delivered up to us upon the peace on the Pyreneans and the designe was pursued with that diligence and expence that the place was almost defensible when they had the first newes of the Kings resolution to come in person with a great Army to demand such places as he pretended belonged ●n justice to the Queen This place which was called by Castle Rodrigo Charleroy was fortified with seven Bastions lined with a sort of stone that was very strong and large that they had brought from the Country of Leige The most part of these Bastions and the Courtines were raised to the very top and the outworks also were in so good a condition there was scarce a better to be seen in Flanders In the men time Castel Rodrigo understanding that the King was coming towards him in good earnest and fearing that his works being new and made the most part in the winter were not able to make any long defence if they should be set upon and besides having not Force enough to make good othe places he thought of as much importance he resolved to quit it and having drawn away his Canon and all the Ammunition he had sent thither before he blew it up and demolisht the body of it as well perhaps as ever was any before but the out-works they left intire and they appeared so well to his Majesty when he came thither that he resolved to repair all upon an opinion that this place not being above six Leagues from Namur and about ●s many from Monts and perhaps some 12 or 13 from Brussels might be of great consequence for the design he had upon Brabant and the remainder of Hainault But there were other reasons also made the King take up this resolution for he being come of a sudden out of France and the Spring being very backward by reason the Winter proved so ●ong he found but very little ●orrage besides they were so ill provided with Horses for their Train of Artillery that all they could rap and rend were scarce sufficient to draw eight or ten peices of whole Canon with necessary Ammunition for them their Foot Nor was their accommodation for Victualls in a much better condition most of their Baggage being in a very ill posture to follow the Army which was falling into their Country it may be also

A RELATION Of the French Kings Late Expedition into the Spanish-Netherlands In the years 1667 and 1668. With an Introduction discoursing his Title thereunto And an account of the Peace between the two Crowns made the second of May 1668. Englished by G. H. Gent. LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet near Temple Bar. 1669. THE INTRODUCTION Containing a Display of the Grounds upon which the French King layeth claim to a great part of the Spanish Netherlands THat the best Title of the French Queen to the Dutchy of Brabant and its annexes the Seignory of Malmes Antwerp Vpper Gelderland Namur Limburg and the places united on the other side the Meuse Hainault Artois Cambray the County of Burgundy and the Dutchy of Luxembourg consisted in the Sword of the King her Husband scarce seems a doubt to any but the French themselves And with what success the Cause hath been pleaded by that Weapon during the Campagne of 1667. the ensuing Narrative written by one that was present at most of the considerable Actions thereof giveth a particular and yet no immodest Account So that perhaps it is not much necessary to preface this Relation with a Display of the Grounds and Reasons of the War whose progress it exhibits accordingly the Author thought fit not to meddle therewith conceiving I suppose that the Justice of his Soveraigns Armes was sufficiently evidenc'd to all the Subjects by the Manifesto and other writings which his Majesty had publish'd immediately before his Forces enter'd Flanders Nevertheless in regard that 't is likely many into whose hands this Piece may fall have not so fully understood the Reasons whereby the French King hath endeavor'd to justifie to Forreign Princes and States his late Proceedings in the Netherlands nor those contrary ones whereby the Spaniards endeavour to maintain their own possessions and invalidate the French Pretensions I shall adventure to present the Reader with an Abstract of either Parties Allegations The French Queens Title stands thus Philip the fourth King of Spain married Elizabeth Daughter to Henry the fourth and Sister to Lewis the thirteenth Kings of France in the year 1615. on the same day whereon the last mentioned Prince espoused Anne of Austria Infanta of Spain The Portions of either side were satisfied by way of Exchange being the sum of 500000. Crowns of Gold Elizabeth some years after dies leaving behind her a Son nam'd Don Balthasar and a Daughter nam'd Donna Maria Theresa Afterwards King Philip marries another Wife by whom he hath Issue male Don Carlo who by the death of his half-Brother Don Balthasar became Heir apparent to the Catholick Crown In the year 1659. a Treaty of Peace was concluded between the two Crowns and together therewith a Marriage between Lewis the fourteenth now King of France and the above-mention'd Lady Maria Theresa for whose Portion the King her Father obliged himself to pay 500000. Crowns of Gold and pretended Salick Law debars Females from succession to the French Crown as also to the end that the two Crowns being too great and puissant to be united into one Kingdom all occasions of such a Conjunction might be avoided It was covenanted amongst other things that neither the Infanta nor her Children and Descendants in what degree soever should ever succeed in the Kingdoms Signiories or Dominions which do or shall belong to his Catholick Majesty as well within as without the Kingdom of Spain notwithstanding any Law or Custom which by this Agreement which is to continue in the full force and vigour of a Law for ever their Majesties did abolish This Renunciation the Infanta confirmed in these very Terms by her Oath in the presence of the Kings themselves the Princes of the Blood and the chief Nobility of both Kingdoms This Peace remained inviolated about six years in which time the King of Spain for the preservation thereof yielded to the King of France the Precedence which had occasion'd a fray between the Train of the Ambassadours of the two Crowns there at London But upon the death of Philip of Spain which happened toward the latter end of the year 1665. and had been lookt for the year before by his good Neighbour who from the latter end of 1664. had laid up great Magazines of Corn at Amiens and other places on the way towards Flanders discourses began to be spread abroad through France of a Title which the Queen and her Son the Dauphin had to certain Provinces of the Netherlands Nevertheless his French Majesty thought not fit to make discovery of his Designs till he saw what would be the Issue of the War which in great measure by his practices was broken out between the King of Great Brittain and the States of the Vnited Provinces whose Quarrel upon a pretended League made two years before he espoused In the mean time he set forth a considerable Navy at Sea which yet never engaged in any Action against the English and likewise made great Levies and warlike Preparations at Land without manifesting how he intended to imploy the same At length about the middle of May when his Neighbours the English and United Provinces being weary of the War had set on foot a Treaty of Peace at Breda wherein himself was also included he thought it a fit opportunity to publish a Manifesto of his Claim to part of the Spanish Netherlands which he likewise sent to several Princes of Christendom and shortly after seconded by falling into those Countries with a powerful Army the performances whereof are recorded in the following Narrative In the said Manifesto it is set forth 1. That by the customary Law of Brabant the Children by the first Marriage go away with the whole Inheritance of their Father the Children of the same Father by a second Marriage being excluded which Law is called Jus Devolutionis or the Right of Devolution and consequently that the Infanta now Queen of France being the sole surviving Issue of Philip the fourth by his first Marriage is Heir of all those Countries wherein the said Law doth obtain and so excludeth her Brother of the half-blood by a second Marriage 2. That by the Laws of Spain she is likewise Heir to her Mother of all her Marriage-portion and the Jewels left behind her at her death amounting with interest to the sum of 1100000. Crowns of Gold 3. That the Renunciation made by the Infanta at her Marriage is void and null First because that a Renunciation is only of an Estate in expectancy not of an Estate already fallen as these Countries are pretended to have been upon the death of the Spanish Queen Secondly because a Renunciation supposes a Portion actually paid but the Infanta never received any and that if the 500000. Crowns of Gold promised in the Contract of Marriage had been actually paid it had still been no Portion in regard 1100000. were due to her To all which some other specious reasons are added which would take up too much

he might have some inclination to attend and see what effect his Manifesto might have upon the spirits of the people the War not being yet so far gon but that if they had given any assurance of satisfaction he could have hearkned to their conditions and have saved those Provinces from all the calamities and devastations hath been since brought upon them by his Army But whatsoever was the reason we spent there fifteen dayes in reparing the ruines as well as we could the whole Army working all the while with all diligence imaginable The War being thus begun and no enemy appearing in the Field there was not much Hostility committed the King keeping his Army in as strict a discipline as if they had been in his own Dominions However they did not forbear the prosecuting the War from the time it marcht from about Chasteau de Cambresy and Pilois Camp-Master to the Horse was Commanded out with 500 Horse to fall into the Country for intelligence and to discover if there were any preparation making against them The most part of the persons of quality offered themselves as Voluntiers in this Expedition but the King would permit but some few of which the most considerable were the Duke d' Enguien the Counte de S. Paul and the Duke de Boüillon but their design proved to little purpose for after they had been abroad four or five dayes they returned to the Camp without opportunity of doing any thing During the stay of the Army at Charleroy the Queen as I have said returned to Compiegne but she came back as far as Avesne to enjoy the presence of the King who was there and to take the advantage of that little time he would spare from the care he would needs take to see the place accommodated himself The day she was to arrive the King went out with a good body of Horse some two or three Leagues to meet her and during the four or five days they were together Monsieur who remained in the Camp gave out all necessary orders Some there are that will say that that which carried the King into this part of the Country was not only the designe upon Charleroy which he knew was demolisht before he set out But having a long time maintained a correspondence in Namur and Luxembourg he had hastned his march to encourage that enterprise but I am not so well informed of the intrigues of Government to know the certainty this I only know they were favourers of the house of Austria that spred the report to make the conduct of the King the more odious to the people In short they put Charleroy into such a condition of defence that they left all the great Guns they had in the Camp there and put the Regiment of la Ferte in Garrison and other Companies drawn out of several battalions which they formed into another called the Dauphins Regiment and gave the Command of it to Phisica somtimes Lieutenant Colonel in the Regiment of Turenne the Government of the Fort was bestowed upon Montal with order to continue the fortifications without intermission They left also 300 Horse about Charleroy for their farther security after which marcht the King up into the Country to make his advantage of the consternation his great Army had brought upon the Provinces On the 15th of June he discamp't and marching towards Brussels he took up his quarters about Nivelle whither having at the entreaty of the inhabitants sent two of his Guards to secure them they were notwithstanding contrary to all honour and equity carried Prisoners to Brussels where they lay above two moneths From Nivelle the Army marcht a little above Mons towards Braine-le-Comte and after some days march they came to At h a little Town situate almost at the head of the River Dendre without any fortification but so capable of it that the King resolved to leave a Garrison there and made des Landes who had formerly served the Prince of Condy the Governour Out of divers Regiments there were some Companies drawn out in all about 400 Foot and 100 Horse which were left on purpose to infest and alarm the Towns thereabouts and particularly Brussels which was but eight leagues distant there being no considerable Rivulets betwixt them All this progress was made without any other impediment then from the badness of the wayes the Enemy not daring to shew themselves any where only a Party of their Cravatts earnest upon plunder fell upon our bagage But Rommecour Lieutenant of the Company of the Gardes de Corps being by accident with a Party of Horse near Enchoit upon a design which was the place where this business began he charged them so home he constrained them to leave their prize though they had slain some of our men not without loss certainly to themselves This I am sureof the Comte de S. Geran who served then as Aide de Camp and the Marquis de Bellefont were both very much wounded The Army staid not so long there as it had done at Charleroy they left the Garrison only some pallisadoes to begin their fortifications withall and the King discampt and marcht to the siedge of Tournay a place of great importance but very ill provided with Souldiers and the inhabitants who were very numerous bearing no great animosity to the French under whose Dominion they had lived long for it is scarce an age since they submitted themselves to the house of Austria Besides the King perceived the taking of this Town would be a considerable acquest in respect of its situation upon the River Sceld betwixt Conde and Oudenarde and might especially perplex that part of Flanders is called the Wallonne Country of which that is a Member as also Hainault and Brabant On the 20th of June they began their march but before that he gave order to Comte de Lillebonne a Prince of the house of Lorrain who Commanded the Troopes the Duke of Lorraine had sent to the King and who being not as yet joyned to the Army was quartered about Arras that he should immediately joyne himself with Artagnan who was thereabouts also and that passing the bridge at Avendin he should march away immediately and block up Tournay on that side next Lille which was executed accordingly and the Bridges for communication being finished the King past the River next day with most of his Army and took his Quarters up at the Town of Foryenne having left on the other side of the water the Marquis Humieres and the Comte de Duras with such Troops as were thought necessary for the beleaguering the Town on that side next to Hainault and Brabant and without giving further time to the beseiged to recollect themselves it was resolved they should that very night begin their approaches The place being surveyed we began our approaches on the side of certaine Windmils which are plac't upon a little eminence not far from the banke of the River as you go into the Town The