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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64996	The life of Francis of Lorrain, Duke of Guise	Valincour, Jean-Baptiste-Henri Du Trousset de, 1653-1730.; F. S.	1681 (1681)	Wing V44A; ESTC R220174	42,626	146

turbulent Man who made it his business to breed Quarrels and never troubled himself how to weather them Guise having sent his Army to Gesi came to Rome to pay his respects to the Pope he stayed there near a Month to wait perhaps and sollicite for the Succours that were promised him but no Body did approve of this stay And indeed though he could not have been reproached with leaving the Kings Forces useless through his negligence it was not very honourable to France to see a General that is sent to be at the head of it's Armies stay a whole Month amongst Monks and have the lowest place at a Table of Cardinals Upon which account there runs a Story of a Master of Requests of his Train who went and placed himself below him without being invited that he might prevent said he a General of the Armies of the King of France from having the lowest place at Table Some were of opinion that he stayed at Rome to secure the Pontificate to his Brother in case it should come to be vacant Whatsoever the reason was being returned to his Army he besieged Civitella and was obliged to raise the Siege after having stayed there three Weeks He was likewise vigorously repulsed at an Assault he made wherein he lost above two hundred Men. The famous Battle of Saint Quentin having brought France within an Ace of its Ruin Guise was recalled in all haste and he joyfully quitted a Country where he met with no success Never was Man received with a more general Applause The King did him the Honour to tell him that he was returned for the preservation of the Kingdom The People who usually are as easily comforted as they are afflicted forgot at the sight of him the misfortune that had occasioned his coming back and those who two days before did not think themselves secure in the midst of Paris demanded nothing more than to be led forth against the Enemy It was proposed that Guise should be made Vice-Roy but this Title being new and almost unknown in France he was nominated Lieutenant General of the Kings Armies within and without the Kingdom and the Letters were verified in all the Parliaments Though it was then the midst of Winter it was thought important for the Glory and Security of the Kingdom to make some considerable enterprize It was not thought fit to go to Saint Quentin which the Spaniards had fortified and the sight of which would only have served to abate the Courage of the Souldiers by renewing the remembrance of their defeat The resolution having thereupon been taken in the Council the Duke of Nevers with one part of the Army marched towards Campagne giving out that he was going to take Luxembourg and Arlon Guise came into Picardy under the pretext of guarding the Frontier after which he advanced as if he designed to go re-inforce the Garrisons of Ardres and of Bologne and at length the Forces of the Duke of Nemours having joyned him after great days Journeys he caused his Army to march with incredible diligence and came on the first of January before Calice where he was not expected This Town did at that time belong to the English but it was looked upon as the Spaniards because that Philip King of Spain wore then the Crown of England having married Mary the Queen at that time The place is defended on one side by the Sea and on the other by deep Marshes and by a River which almost wholly environs it Thus on the Land side you cannot approach it but by a Ditch which is guarded by the Fort of Nieulay and on the Sea side it has the Fort of Risban which absolutely Commands all the Port and which can hinder all Ships both great and small from coming in The success of this enterprize consisted in diligence Guise caused the two Forts to be Attacqued and took them both in one day after which having raised a Battery against that part of the Town which is called the Water-gate he began to Fire upon the Fortifications as if he would have made his principal Attacque on that side But the Enemies thinking they had only that part to defend were much astonished to see in an instant fifteen pieces of Canon pointed against the Castle that was only environed by a simple Wall without Ramparts The noise of the Artillery was so great that it was heard as far as Antwerp but it was not a noise to no purpose for the same Evening the Breach was great enough to amount to the Assault Guise having caused Grammont to advance with three thousand chosen Harquebusiers to hinder the Enemies from Re-trenching themselves upon the Breach he caused fifteen hundred Souldiers to pass along the Port under the Conduct of Dandelot with order to sink a Trench and afterwards a Traverse which answered to the Canal of the Ditch they broke and the Waters being emptied to the height of the Traverse Guise passed through the Water to the middle at the head of his Souldiers and notwithstanding the obstinate resistance of the Enemies he became Master of the Castle whither the English brought him the Keys of the Town the next day and received the Conditions he thought fit to impose upon them Thus was that Town taken in less than ten days which the English had held for two hundred and ten years They took it in the Reign of Philip of Valois in the year 1347. though it was not fortified at that time the Siege lasted a whole year and John of Vienna who Commanded there for the King did not deliver it up till that he saw his Souldiers half dead of Hunger and that they were no longer able to bear their Arms. But since that time the English had fortified it after such a manner as that it passed for impregnable and for this reason the French had been so long without daring to undertake to drive them from thence He afterwards took with the same Rapidity the Town of Guines and that of Hames He made himself Master of all the County of Oye and in less than a Month drove the English out of France after their having been settled there for two Ages without the French being able to force them thence The year after he besieged Thionville with the Duke of Nevers This place was taken with a great deal of pain and Guise had like to have been killed there by a Cannon Shot which took away Marshal Strozzy upon whose Shoulder he was leaning But while that his Army after the taking of Thionville spent their time in seeing the little City of Arlon on Fire which the Enemies had abandoned and in making Skirmishes near Luxemburg they received news of the defeat of Thermes whose Troops had been cut in pieces by the Count d' Aiguemont in the Neighbourhood of Gravelines This loss had like to have ruined France Some have laid the fault upon Guise who might have prevented it by joyning with Thermes as soon as the Siege was