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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.
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English officer who was there during the last campaign.
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1690
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Wing J1099; ESTC R36213
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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 Fâ—â—izland Guards 0100 Vâ—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
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 Howseâ—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 Nassauâ— 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