utmost of our powers, cheerfully and faithfully to assist and
serve your Highness, in the maintenance of the lawes and liberties
of these Nations, And we shall make it our earnest
Request at the Throne of Grace, That God will give you a
wise and an understanding heart, suitable to your great and
weighty affairs, and that he would poure a double portion of
the spirit of Government, upon the head of your highness,
and cause his face to shine upon your Counsells, prosper your
Armies, and Navies, against the enemies of this Comon-wealth,
and make your Highness a blessing to these Nations
From Dover, Novemb. I.
We have this account from the other side of the Sea; that
the French Army is not yet gone into Winter-quarters, but
they go up and down feeding upon the Enemies Country;
and tis said, it will be the end of November, before they
will all get into Quarters. Marshall Tureine intends, before he
leave the Army, to take care for securing this Summers Conquests,
and to this end he hath caused a Draught to be made
or a deiineation of the Model of a Fort, which he intends
shall forthwith be raised upon that branch of the river Lys
which runs from Alvn to Menin.
The news is very hot again, that Don John is to leave the
Government of the Low-Countries, and give way to Archduke
Leopold the Emperors Uncle, to whom it is said the
Spaniard intends to make over the possession of those Countries
to Leopold during life; the design whereof is this,
that the Emperor being oblieged not to assist the King of
Spain against the French, may by this shift the more colourably
lend Succor to the Flemings, when they shall be declared
Subjects of his Uncle the Archduke.
In the mean time, Don Jolin is at Brussels, where having
held a Council of Warwith the Marquis of Ca[unr]cence and
other principal Commanders, the said Marquis is since gone
to Answers, to treat with the Merchants about matter of
mony, and to draw from them (if possible) a considerable
sum, for the making of new Levies of men in Germany.