AN EXACT JOURNAL OF THE SIEGE OF Namur, etc.   

AN EXACT JOURNAL OF THE SIEGE OF NAMUR: Giving a Particular ACCOUNT Of the several Sallies and Attacks, and other most remarkable Passages from the first Investing of the Place.  
TOGETHER WITH The ARTICLES of Capitulation, both for the Surrendering the City and Castle.  
LONDON: Printed for I. Whitlock, near Stationers-Hall, 1695.   

AN EXACT JOURNAL OF THE SIEGE OF Namur, etc.  
FOR the better understanding the Motions of both Armies, so soon as they took the Field; of the Confederates striving to amuse the Enemy; and cover their main Design; and of the French, deluded by those Amusements, and endeavouring to defend themselves from the feigned Attempts of the Confederates, 'tis necessary that we should make a Repetition of the Movements on both sides from the beginning of the Campagne; since they all tended to a Siege; of which Posterity, as well as the present Age, will be glad to have an Exact Account.  
The Marshal de Villeroy was no sooner arrived in the French Army, but that he might win the Affection of so many great Officers, over whom he was to command, he told the chiefest among 'em, that he had in his Stables a Hundred Horses, which they might make use of when they had occasion: That he would also keep Three. Tables, where they would do him a kindness to come and Eat, and that his Purse was still at their Service. After these Compliments, the French General having visited all the Army that lay in different Quarters, from Furnes to the , caused those Troops that lay about Kièuraine, to pass the River Haisne, the 3d of June, in order to encamp at Blaton, Two Leagues from Condè. The 6th, about Four in the Afternoon, he ordered the whole Army to march, and take up their Post in the Camp at Leuse. The same Day also, M. the Bouflers encamped with his Army at Gosseliers, upon the Pieton, Two Leagues from Charleroy.  
In the mean time, the King of England, who arrived at Gaunt, the 6th of June, departed the same day for the Army which lay at Aerseel, near Thielt, under the Command of the Prince of Vaudemont, and the Duke of Wirtembergh. The next day his Majesty visited all the Posts round about the Camp.  
The Marshal de Villeroy being informed of the King's Arrival in the Army, upon the 8th, by Five in the Morning, Decamped from Leuse, and marching all that Day and the next, upon the 10th encamped at Cordes between Tournay and Oudenard. The same day he visited the Lines, between the Lys and the Scheld, and between Ypres and the Lys, and ordered the raising of some new Bastions from Ypres to Commines, and to furnish 'em sufficiently with great Guns.  
Upon the 10th. the King took a review of the Horse, and upon the 11th, detached away Twelve Squadrons, under the Marquis de la Foret, Lieutenant General, who passed the Lys at Machelen, over Three Bridges, with Orders to join the Elector of Bavaria, who lay encamped with his Army at Ninove. The same day also the King decamped, and to the End he might draw nearer to the Lines, encamped at Rousselare, over against Commines and Ypres, and advanced the 13th to Bekelar, a League or thereabout from the Enemy's Lines. Now in regard this Movement threatened the very Centre of 'em, as well as Menin, Ypres, lafoy Kenoque, Furnes, the Canal d' Eauve and Boasingue: Villeroy seemed to be at a great puzzle, not knowing well what effectual Course to take for the Preservation of so many Places at a time. Thereupon he forthwith issued out several Orders; he caused great Numbers of Men to march several ways, under several Commanders, and changed the Posts of several. M. de Rosen, who lay at Eschem, to defend the Line from Courtrai to the Scheld, passed to Ypres to defend the whole on that side, M. the Montrevel, was sent to Eschem, in the Place of M. de Rosen. M. de Capestan was appointed to command at Kenoke; the Count de la Motte, to command at Ypres, and M. de Pracontal at Comines. M. de Caraman commanded to Ypres, and M. Davejan to Courtray, and M. de Montal lay next to Dunkirk. The Marshal also ordered several Pieces of Canon to be planted upon the Rising Grounds of Hollebeck, where he had raised new Works, as having observed that part to be weaker than any of the rest.  
During these Motions, the Elector of Bavaria, who lay encamped at Ninove, departed from thence the 14th, passed the Dendre, and encamped at St. Stephens. The 15th he arrived at Ename upon the Scheldt, a League below Oudenarde; and the 17th encamped at Castre, within half a League of the Enemies new Line. On the other side, the Marshal de Bouflers who lay with the Body of an Army at St. Guilain, to observe the Electors Motions, being informed of these Movements, departed the 15th, and encamped near Tournai. The 16th he drew near the Scheld, and the 17th encamped under the Lines of Courtrai, where he received a Reinforcement of Horse and Foot, that Villeroy sent him.  
At the same time that the Elector encamped at Ninove, the Count of Athlone was detached from his Army, with Two and Twenty Squadrons of Horse, and Nine of Dutch Dragoons, and some Bavarian Troops, to march toward Louvain, and join, if it were necessary, with the Troops of Brandenburg and Liege, that lay quartered at Hologne, about a League from that City, and where they were joined with the Brigadier Damprè, with Four Regiments of Dutch Horse; and from whence they decamped the 18th, in order to march to Mehaigne. All which time, the Count de Harcourt lay with a Volant Camp of French Horse in the Condros, to observe the Confederates on this side.  
Marshal de Villeroy being informed, that the King of England drew near the Lines between Ypres and Warneton, decamped from Cordes, and marched all Night of the 13th and 14th. The Foot being led by the Prince of Conti, and the Horse by the Duke of Bourbon; and the whole Army encamped at Houthem in Two-Lines, the first all of Infantry, the Second all of Cavalry.  
Till the 19th, the French wrought hard to secure their Works raised all along the Lines; they also pressed forward the finishing of the New Works, and distributed Ammunition among the Soldiers. All the care of the French having been by these Motions, to retrench the more safely, and so to order it, that they might not be constrained to come to a Fight; a Proof sufficient that the Confederates were Superior to 'em in Number.  
Upon the 17th, the King detached away the Duke of Wirtembergh, with 3000 Men, and some Artillery, with Orders to advance toward Kenoque, to the end he might draw the Enemy that way, and make 'em believe that there was a real Design upon that Fort: But before they could get thither, there was a Post that stood in their way, about half a League from the Fort, of which it behoved 'em to make themselves Masters. This Post was defended by above 400 Dragoons, who were attacked with such an undaunted Bravery, as surprised the Enemy themselves. M. de la Motte, who commanded on that side, sent a Reinforcement to his own, so that there was brisk Firing on both sides: But at length the French were forced to give way, and the Assailants made themselves Masters both of the Post, and the Mote on that side: They also lodged themselves there, and made a Battery of Two Pieces of Canon in the same Place. It was the common Opinion, that in this Action, the Duke of Wirtemberg lost about Two Hundred, and the Enemy near Four Hundred Men.  
In the mean time, the Count de la Motte caused another Battery to be raised in Opposition to that which the Confederates had erected, and they began to play one upon another with great Fury. The French also made all the haste they could to entrench themselves beyond the Yser, casting up the Earth before the River, because the Moat which they possessed, lay lower than that which was opposite to it, the Ground being Marshy. They were also Masters of part of another Moat, which lay under the Canon of la Kenoque: And they sheltered themselves besides, by means of a Parapet which they raised all the length of the Ground which looked toward the Confederates, and which they cut in two or Three Places, to render the Access more difficult.  
Upon the 20th in the Afternoon, the Duke of Wirtemberg being strengthened with some new Reinforcements, Villeroy who had notice of it, sent away from the Left Wing of his Army, Eight Battalions, and a Brigade of Horse, under the Marquis of Feuquieres, Lieutenant General. The Night of the 20th to the 21st, was spent in continual Skirmishes; and there was a Report spread Abroad, that la Kenoque was assailed in Military Forms: But that was almost impossible, and it was sufficiently apparent, that the Assailants had no design to do it; but only to draw down all the strength of the Enemy to that side of Flanders, by feigning the Siege of la Kenoque, and thereby cause the French to run at the wrong Deer. For it was a most difficult Task to pass the Yser, by reason of the Works which the French had cast up; and there was no attacking the Fort, without passing that River: And though the Confederates had passed it, there lay beyond the broken Bridge, a great Quagmire, with a Road about Thirty Foot broad, wherein the French had made several Entrenchments one behind another. Besides, Montal commanded with his Volant Camp, from Dunkirk to Fintelle: His Forces stretching themselves from Furnes to this Place, which is a Considerable Post, well furnished with Men, because that they who would pass the Yser must take it before they can come at Furnes.  
While these things were thus Acting on this side, the Elector of Bevaria lay not Idle. Upon the 17th of June the Horse and Foot had orders to prepare Facines or Faggots to be laid before the Regiments. The 19th the Elector riding with between three and four thousand Horse to View the Ground about the Lines, found that the French had posted themselves at the Mill of Belleghem, which is not above half a Quarter of a League from Fort de Clar, and the Lines. In this Place were posted five hundred Foot, and eight or ten Squardrons. Therefore M. General Fagel was sent away with some Troops to make himself Master of the Post. The Onset was Rude and Obstinate, for they charged and returned to the Charge several times. But the French were constrained to give way, and retreated into their Lines the best they could, and in great disorder, being closely pursued by the Confederates. The Mill being thus taken, the Victors entrenched themselves upon the Place, and maintained their ground.  
By this time some part of June being spent in all these Attacks, and having sufficiently fatigued and removed the Enemy at a distance from the Place where the Attaque was really designed, private Orders were given to the Brandenburghers, the Earl of Athlone, to the Army of the Elector of Bavaria and the King of England's Forces, to set forward in Order to put in Execution the Design which had been laid some time before. For all this while the Confederates, i● order to what they chiefly proposed to themselves, had made great Preparations at Liege of Great Guns, Ammunition and Provision, Pickaxes, Spades, Shovels and other Utensils for Seiges, which were conveyed by Water down the River . They had got together a great Body of Men composed of the Troops of Munster, Cologn, Liege, Brandenburghers and others, who were advanced as far as Falaise, upon the Mehaigne. These were all ordered to march directly for Namur; and the Earl of Athlone decamped from Bethlem's, tending his march to the same Place. He encamped at Roesbeck the 22d where he made a Halt one day; then marching three days together, and crossing the Famous Plain of Fleurus, he encamped the 29th at Mellé, within an hour and a half's march of Charleroi While the Brandenburghers got before and advanced still nearer to the Samber: And upon the 2d of July, he crossed the Samber and invested Namur on that side next Condros.  
In the mean time the Elector of Bavaria decamped from Castre, about the 28th at night, and came the next morning to St. Lievens Hauten, and the 30th encamped at Ninove. The 1st of July he came to Hall, and the next day to Masy, within two leagues of Namur. The 3d he made his Approaches nearer to the City, crossed the Samber, posted his Men and took up his Head Quarters in the Abbey de Maloigne. The Baron of Heiden, General of the Brandenburghers, who had passed the Samber below Charleroi, took his Post next to Morlaigne, and sent a Detachment over the  on that side next to Condros. While the Earl of Athlone posted himself on this side the  with his Cavalry: And thus Namur, upon the 3d of June, was invested on every side.  
His Majesty of Great Britain upon the 27th of June sent away the heavy Baggage, the Sutler's and the Artillery from the Camp at Bekelaer: And the 28th by five a clock in the morning the whole Army decamped in two Columns, and marching on both sides of the Road with the Artillery encamped at Rousselaer. In the mean time the Duke of Wirtemberg having demolished the Post which he had made himself Master off, retreated to Dixmude with the Body under his command.  
The 29th his Majesty having left the Army to the Conduct of the Prince of Vaudemont, departed with a Detachment of Granadiers and the Guards of his Body, and took the Road of Vilvorde. However ten thousand Men of that Army had orders to march to Brussels through Deinse, Gaure, and Alost.  
His Majesty lay the 30th at Grimbery, and the 1st of July at the Abbey of Parc near Louvain. The 2d he arrived near Namur about a eleven a clock in the forenoon, and took up his Head Quarters at Coutoix le Chasteau. He held a Council of War that Evening, and the next Morning the Army drew nearer the City. The 3d his Majesty took up his Quarters at Flawen, on this side the Samber.  
Villeroy observing these unexpected Movements, sent away several Detachments to join Bouflers. But the Prince of Vaudemont who watches the French General, sent away as many Detachments from his Army, as the Marshal detached from his, and Encamped at Gramme near Deinse.  
The 4th in the Evening the Besiegers began to fall briskly to work in drawing and making their Lines of Circum-Vallation, and Contra-Vallation; but notwithstanding all their diligence they could not prevent Bouflers from getting into the Town with several Regiments of Dragoons, and M. Meg●igni the Chiefest Engineer in France, next to M. Vauban. So that there was then said to be in the Town and Citadel, besides those Seven Regiments, one and twenty Battalions, a Regiment of Cavalry, several Great Officers, a Company of Frank Volunteers, a Company of Cannoneers, another of Miners, a Brigade of Engineers, and Ammunition and Provisions for six Months. By the 12th the Lines being finished, and some Batteries to cover the Workmen and Pioners, the same evening the Trenches were opened in three several Places; and the Besiegers played from one Battery while the Workmen laboured without ceasing to bring the rest to perfection: During which time the Besieged made three Sallies, but in every one had no Success, being still repulsed with loss: Tho' Mr. General Fagel was wounded in one of 'em, and the Baron of Plettemberg, the Bishop of Munster's Nephew, and a very good Officer, Slain with a Cannon Bullet.  
On the 8th of July N. S. Twenty Battalions of Foot, of which Thirteen were English and Scotch, being sent from the Prince of Vaudemont's Army joined the Besiegers, under the Command of the Count of Nassau, Lieutenant General, and M. General Ramsey; and upon the 10th, Four English, and Two Battalions of Dutch, under the leading of the Lord Cutts, arrived in the Camp; so that the Besiegers were then no less 90 Battalions of Infantry. The Artillery also consisted of 120 Great Guns, and 60 Mortars.  
Upon the 12th of July, Major General Salish relieved the Trenches; the next day, Major General Lindeboome, and upon the 14th, Major General Henkelem. During which time, the Besiegers Works and Approaches being carried on within Pistol-shot of the Enemy's Outworks upon the Hill near Brussels Gate, his Majesty resolved to storm those Works. To which purpose, all things being in a readiness, the Attack was begun on Monday the 15th, about Six a Clock in the Afternoon, upon the Right Hand, by Five Battalions of the Foot-Guards, commanded by Major General Ramsey, seconded by Nine Battalions more of English and Scotch: Upon the Left, Eight Dutch, and other Regiments under the Command of Major General Salish, were ordered to undertake the Assault. This Attack was performed with a more than ordinary Courage, and a Success answerable. For after a very sharp and obstinate Dispute, that held near upon Two Hours, the Besieged were beaten out of their Forts upon the Hill, and a Great Entrenchment that leads to the Town, of which the Victors possessed themselves, being the most considerable Outworks which the Besiegers had on this side.  
In this Attack, the Besiegers had in all about 300 Men slain outright, and 400 Wounded. Of the English Guards, Lieutenant Colonel Robinson, Five Lieutenants, and Two Ensigns were slain; Colonel Matthews, and several others were wounded. Of the French side; M. Moulevier, and M. de Vitry who acted as Brigadiers, and the Count of Morstein, Son in Law to the Duke of Cheureuse, with about 50 Commanders more of Note killed, besides Inferior Officers, and about 1600 Men Killed and Wounded,  
The same day, about Two Hours before this desperate Attack, the Besieged made a Sally upon the Brandenburghers' Quarter, but after a sharp Conflict, were beaten back, and pursued to the very Gates of the Fort near the . The Enemy's loss could not choose but be very considerable, on the other side the Brandenburghers lost a Colonel, and some other Officers killed, and had about a Hundred Men killed and wounded.  
On the Tuesday Night following, Major General Heukelom relieved the Trenches; the next Night, Major General Salish, and on Thursday Night, Major General Ramsey. And at the same time, they had several Batteries playing against the detached Bastions, that were between Brussels and St. Nicholas Gate, toward which they were making their Approaches with all the speed they could.  
While things were thus hotly disputed between the Besiegers and the Besieged at Namur, Marshal de Villeroy well understanding that the Army under the Command of the Prince of Vaudemont was very much weakened by the sending of several Detachments to the Siege and other Places, thought he bade now an Opportunity to do a considerable piece of Service for his Master, by cutting off so considerable a part of the Confederate Forces: To which purpose he drained all the French Garrisons round about, and having by that means drawn together a Force that was almost triple in Number to the Prince of Vaudemont, he set forward with a full Resolution to fall upon him in his Trenches, in Front, Flank and Rear; confident he had him in such a Snare, that 'twas impossible a Man should escape him.  
'Twas upon the 10th of July therefore, that the French Army under Villeroy decamped from Pont Escanaffe, and quitted their Lines to attack the Prince, who lay near Deinse. Now in regard that the Confederates were so encamped, that the Enemy would have had 'em in Flank, the Prince thought it convenient to alter the Array of his Army, and to post his Right Wing beyond Aerseele, whereas it was posted at Dendergem; and the Left Wing he posted all along the Lys, a little above Gramme, whereas before it was posted at Zeverens, near Deinse. About Eight a Clock in the Evening, some Squadrons of the Enemies, advanced as far as Dendergem, and began to charge the Prince's Advanced Guards, who retreated between Dendergem, and the Front of the Army, according to the Orders they had received.  
The Night following, the Prince ordered a Line to be cast up, to cover his Left Wing and Main Body, and ordered several Pieces of Canon to be planted in the principal Avenues to the Camp. The 14th, between Seven and Eight in the Morning, it was easily perceived, that the Enemy's Army began to reach Denderghem, making a show as if they intended to side off to the Princes Left Wing. In the mean time the Right Wing was surrounded with a Line, as the Left and the Main Body had been environed before: But the Enemy made a Halt near Denderghem, till about Noon, when their whole Army filled along the Highway of Thielt, and came to post themselves within Canon shot of the Prince's Right Wing: And then it was, that the Prince expected a General Assault. But they durst not venture to attack him, seeing him so well entrenched, and in so very good Order to receive them, the Great Guns being extremely well disposed for that purpose.  
In the mean time the Prince having Advice, that the Count of Montal was filing along his Right Wing, with a great Body of Horse and Foot, in order to charge 'em in the Rear, and the Marshal to attack him in the Front, for that their Forces were much more numerous than His, the Prince immediately caused all the Baggage to pass the Scheld at Deinse, from thence to be Convoyed to Gaunt, which was done. Afterwards, he drew off his Artillery from the Batteries, and ordered them to take the same Road; as also the Ammunition Wagons, and the Infantry, in several little Bodies.  
And the better to hinder the Enemy from perceiving his Retreat, the Prince ordered M. d' Overkirk to face the Enemy, with all the Horse and Dragoons of the Right Wing, and for that purpose to range himself in Battle Array, from Aerseel to Vink, which was done; and after the Artillery, Baggage, Ammunition-Waggons and Foot were got far enough before, M. de Overkirk followed with the Cavalry and Dragoons, as the Prince had ordered him.  
Thus was the Enemy amused, notwithstanding they lay so very near, and that the Prince did not begin to march till about Five or Six of the Clock in the Afternoon, and consequently in open Daylight. And this March was performed in so good Order and with so much Speed, that the Enemy durst not attack the Confederates. Nor had they lost one Man, but for a Stratagem which the French used, which was by making use of Green Colours, to intermix with some of the Rear guard, and to fall upon Two Battalions, and some Granadeer, before they could get into a Lane through which they were to pass. But the Granadeer, and another Battalion making a Halt, the Enemy was soon repulsed: However this Stratagem cost the Confederates 200 Men. The Marshal enraged that such an Opportunity had slipped out of his Hands, Burnt and Plundered the Village of Wootergen, where the Prince had his Head Quarters.  
When his Majesty of Great Britain was informed that the Army and the Prince were safe, and what a Brave and Masterlike Retreat he had made, he sent the Prince the ensuing Letter.  
Cousin,  
YOU may well imagine how uneasy I was upon the Receipt of your last Letter, dated Yesterday Noon, which came to me this Morning by break of Day; and how great a Joy your other Letter was to me, Dated from Marykerk, near Gaunt, this Day at Three of the Clock in the Morning, finding that you understood so well with so much prudence, and so gloriously to disengage yourself from so imminent a Danger. I am much obliged to you for it; for in this Retreat you have given greater Marks of a general accomplishment in the Art of War, than if you had won a Battle. I absolutely approve your Conduct upon this occasion, and I hope it will caution the Enemy from attempting any more of the same Nature. In the mean time, I impatiently expect to hear which way they will bend their March, now they have missed their Blow. I remain always, etc.  
From the Camp before Namur, the 15th, at Nine a Clock in the Evening. Signed, WILLIAM REX.  
But to return to the Siege; after the Attack on Monday was over, a Letter was intercepted from M. Bouflers to the King of France, wherein, after the Marshal had given him a Relation of the particulars of the Attack, he very much lamented, that it had cost his Majesty above a Thousand Men, among which he reckoned the Counts of Mauleurier and Morstein, the Marquis of Monbron, the Governor of Cambray's Son, Colonel of the Dauphin's Regiment, Two other Colonels, 16 Captains, and several good Officers and Persons of Note. It was a Woman who undertook to carry the Letter to Dinant, from thence to be sent to the Court; but instead of the Recompense which M. Bouflers put her in hopes of receiving for her pains, the Besiegers hanged her up upon a Gibbet, that she might serve for an Example to others, who should undertake such kind of Messages.  
On the 18th of July, Orders were given out for Major General Ramsey, with Five Battalions of Guards, to Storm an Old Tower that stands below a certain Place called lafoy Budge, and the Enemies Works descending toward the Counterscarp; the order of which Attack was thus. The First Battalion of the First Regiment of Guards, a Battalion of Coldstreamers Regiment of Guards, and a Battalion of Scotch Guards, were ordered for the Attack upon the Right Hand, toward the bottom. The Second Battalion of the first Regiment of Guards, was appointed for the Attack on the Left Hand, by the Old Tower. At the Head of these Attacks, marched a Hundred and Twenty Fuseliers, who carried Fascines before them; and the same number of Granadiers, followed by a Hundred Pioners with Spades, Shovels and Gabions, etc. On the Right of the Body which advanced on the Right Hand, marched a Hundred Granadiers, carrying Fascines before them, followed by Fifty Pioners; and the same Number of Granadiers was on the Right of the Body on the Left Hand, between the Two Attacks.  
Half an Hour after Six a Clock in the Afternoon, the Signal was given, at what time the Battalions before mentioned marched forward in the appointed Order, with that undaunted Courage and Bravery, which is not to be expressed, never taking any notice of the Enemies Firing, which was very thick and furious: For the Fuseliers that were in the Front, advanced with their Fascines to the very Palisado's, where when they had laid 'em down, they fell a Firing upon the Enemy, while the Granadiers plied the Tower and Works, the Battalions in the mean time marching close after 'em, with their Muskets shouldered, till they came so very near, that they presented over the Palisadoes, driving the Defendants from thence, and pursuing them through a wide Place of Arms, to the bottom of the Work.  
But the Enemy firing afresh from the Counterscarp, and a Redoubt that lay on the other side of a Hollow way, upon the Assailant's Flank, the Lord Cuts immediately hastened to second those that were engaged, with Three Battalions of Titcomb, Stanley and Collingwood; with the First of which, he flew to the lowest Palisadoes, and together with the Guards, a Second time beat back the Enemy, some into the Water, others where they could best shift for themselves.  
At the same time Brigadier Fitzpatrick, with the Lord Hamilton's, his own Regiment of Fuseliers, Ingolsby, Saund●rson, Lowder and Maitland, set forward toward the Attacks, with the Two First to relieve the Dutch Guards, and those that were with the Lord Cutts, at the lowest Palisado's; the rest were drawn up by the Tower, to give assistance as occasion required; only Lowders Regiment was posted on the other side of the Hollow way, to prevent Flanking and Surprise. In the mean time, Major General Ramsey commanded the Pike-men to carry Fascines, and raise a work sufficient to withstand a Musket Shot; and when he had posted in that Place, the Regiments of Ingolsby, Sanderson, Lowder and Maitland, he drew off the rest by break of Day, to the First Parade. The Fury and Heat of this Action lasted about Two Hours, in which time the Besiegers possessed themselves of the Enemy's Works, notwithstanding they were defended by such considerable Numbers of Resolute Men. In this Bloody Action, the Assailants both Officers and Soldiers, signalised themselves to that degree, that 'twas no wonder that they who did more than Men could be thought to do, should be superior and victorious over those who did no more than only what Men could do.  
The chief Officers Slain and Wounded, were Colonel Robinson Killed, Lieutenant Colonel How, and Lieutenant Colonel Davis Wounded, of the First Regiment of Guards. In the Coldstream Guards, Colonel Matthews, Lieutenant Colonel Edgeworth, and Leiutenant Colonel Jones Wounded, Pierce and Morison, Lieutenant Colonels taken Prisoners. Of the Scotch Guards, Lieutenant Colonel John Hamilton wounded. Of the Dutch Guards, Goudaker and Panute, Lieutenant Colonels, and Major Hetzler wounded. Of the Royal Regiment, Major Mac Ilvain Slain, and the Lord George Hamilton Wounded. Of Colonel Ingolsby's Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Sabin Wounded, besides several Captains, Lieutenants and Ensigns, and others Killed and Wounded; and the whole Loss of Private Soldiers, according to the Account given in by the several Colonels, was 308 Slain, and 604 Wounded. And as for the Enemy, they had no less than 1600 Killed and Wounded, by the Information of the Deserters.  
In this Interim, Villeroy had laid a Design to have surprised Nieuport, by means of a Correspondence which he held with a Person who had undertaken to deliver the Sluices into his Hands. But the Prince of Vaudemont having an inkling of it, sent immediate Orders to Lieutenant General Bellasis, (whom he had detached some Days before toward Bruges, with Twelve Battalions) to march with all speed toward the Canal, and dispute the Passage with the Enemy, which he did the next Night. The French knowing nothing of this, continued their March toward the Canal, but seeing Twelve Battalions posted on the other side, they were so astonished, that they desisted from their Design, and retreated faster than they came, fearing to be swallowed up by the Waters of the Sluices which the Governor had opened upon their Approach. And as for the Traitor, finding himself disappointed, he made his Escape to Furnes.  
The 25th at Night, the Besiegers posted themselves at the Foot of the Redoubt of Pallart, and about Midnight, set their Miners to work: Which enforced the Enemy that defended it, to surrender at discretion by break of Day, being in all Six and Fifty Men, among whom were a Captain, an Engineer, Two Lieutenants, and an Ensign.  
Upon the 27th of July in the Morning, his Majesty having resolved that an Attack should be made upon the First Counterscarp of the Town, came into the Trenches himself, and after he had given ample and requisite Orders, more particularly, that all the Batteries as well of the Great Guns as Mortars, should play without intermission upon the Faces of the Bastion, before St. Nicholas' Gate, and the front of the Counterguard that lay upon the Left Hand of the Ravelin near the , returned to his Quarters. In the Afternoon, he went again into the Trenches, and about Five a Clock in the Afternoon, the Attack began. The English marched from the Head of the Trenches on the Right Hand, and advanced to the first Counterscarp that covers the Sluices. All the while the Enemy fired thick and furiously, and sprang Three or Four small Mines filled with Bombs upon the Glacis; nevertheless the Assailants made themselves Masters of the Counterscarp, and while they drove the Enemy from their Defences, the Besiegers made a Lodgement behind 'em upon the Glacis of the Counterscarp before mentioned.  
At the same time the Dutch marched upon the Left Hand, and advancing along the , fell upon the Enemy, who defended the First and Second Counterscarp in Flank, and in less than a Quarter of an Hour drove the Besieged out of the first Counterscarp, from one end to the other. Which done, the Assailants presently began to lodge themselves with Woolsacks, Gabions and Fascines, some of which unfortunately taking Fire, burned a part of the Lodgement, made by the English to secure their Left against the Counterguard of St. Rocque's Bastion. However the English, defenceless as they were, maintained their Ground, and kept the Enemy that were posted within the said Counterguard in play, till they had made a new Lodgement behind the First, which was at length put out. In the mean time the Dutch perceiving that the Enemies firing from the Counterguard, very much galled the English, mounted the Breach of the Counterscarp next the , plying the and Enemy with their Granado's, lodged themselves upon the Breach of the Counterscarp, as the English had done on the Counterscarp itself; by which means, they kept all the first Counterscarp, from the  to the Inundation. The Enemy all this while kept firing continually with Five or Six Pieces of Canon, several of the Bullets of which flew near the Place where the King stood; and one of 'em killed Mr. Godfrey, and took off the Arm of Lieutenant Colonel d' Eck. Of the Besiegers, between Three and Four Hundred Men were Killed and Wounded in this Action. Nor could the Enemy's Loss but be considerable, in regard that few of their Men who were posted in the first Counterscarp, escaped with their Lives; as also, for that the Assailants Canon and Bombs, and the small shot of their Infantry did great Execution.  
At the same time, the Elector of Bavaria attacked, and made himself Master of an Advanced Post of the Enemies, between the Sambre and the Castle-Hill, wherein were lodged about Four Hundred Men, besides a Detachment to guard the Abbey of Salsine, and another House that stood near it, Places both very proper for laying a Bridge over the Sambre, and to facilitate the Attack of the Castle. During this Action, the Besieged Sallied out of the Castle, both Horse and Dragoons, to second their Men, but upon the Electors sending some Squadrons against 'em, they presently retreated.  
After these Two Attacks were over, his Majesty ordered the Ditch of the Town to be drained; to which purpose, the Dam that kept in the Water, was undermined and blown up.  
Upon the 29th of July, it was resolved that the Electors Men, should the next Morning early, attack the Enemy's Lines, and Retrenchments that secured all their New Works before the Castle, between the Sambre and the : And the Forces appointed for this piece of Service, consisting of Bavarians, Brandenburghers, and other Foreign Troops, were ordered to move soon after it was dark, and during the Obscurity of the Night, to advance so near the Enemy's Trenches as possibly they could, without being discovered.  
Upon the 30th, as soon as Day was broke, the Signals being given, the Assailants fell on in Three several Places. The Assent of the Hill proved somewhat difficult, besides that the Enemy had Eight or Nine Great Guns, conveniently planted at some distance without their Works, additional to those mounted upon their Fortification. But notwithstanding all this, the Besieged were soon driven from their Lines, and that with so little Loss on the Assailants side, that had they stopped according to their Orders, there would have hardly been Twenty lost. But the Granadiers in heat of Courage, pursuing the Fugitive Enemy, advanced so far, that they drove 'em from the Counterscarp of some of their strongest and most regular Works; but not being provided to lodge themselves, they were constrained to retire to the Ground where they were first commanded to post themselves, which was a good way within those Lines, which were by the Enemy thought so strong, as well by reason of their Situation, as of the New Works which they had added since the Siege, that the Purchase of 'em would have cost much dearer than they did. This Action cost the Besiegers about a Hundred Men Slain, and a Hundred and Fifty Wounded. The French sent out of the Castle both Horse and Dragoons to second their Men, but upon the marching of a Detachment no less numerous against them, they presently retreated, without making the least Attempt.  
Upon the First of August, his Majesty caused an Onset to be given to the Counterscarp, before the Half Moon, and the Demi-Bastion, on the Left Hand near the . This Attack was begun about Seven a Clock in the Morning, by the English Guards, under the command of the Lord Cuts upon the Right Hand, and on the Left by the Dutch, led by Brigadier Dedem; who notwithstandig the continual Firing of the Enemy, before Ten a Clock had lodged themselves on the Right Hand, and secured their Lodgement. The Dutch also not being able to maintain the Work itself, lodged themselves upon the point of the Demi-bastion: And this Action cost the Besiegers about Four Hundred Men Killed and Wounded, part English and part Dutch. In this, as in all the rest of the Onsets made in the time of this Siege, the Soldiers behaved themselves with that undaunted Courage and Bravery, that they carried all before them, and the Oldest and most experienced Officers declared that they never saw such vigorous Storming of Ramparts and Bulwarks before.  
And now the Besiegers being lodged upon the Counterscarp, were preparing for a general Assault upon the Town; when upon the Third of August, about Two in the Afternoon, the Enemy hung out a white Flag, and desired a Parley; which being granted, Hostages were exchanged, Colonel William Seymor, and Major Storek for the Besiegers, and Count Nogent, and a French Major for the Besieged. Upon which a Treaty ensued, and the Town was surrendered upon a Capitulation that contained these following Articles.  
Articles of Capitulation, demanded by the French, for the Surrendering of the Town of Namur.  

I. THE Exercise of the Roman Catholic Religion shall be preserved in the Town, and no other permitted.  
Granted.  
II. All the Privileges of the Inhabitants shall be preserved, and their Goods that are Confiscated, restored.  
Granted.  
III. All the Inhabitants, French and others, may stay in the Town, or remove in Three Months, with their Families and Effects.  
Granted.  
IU. None of the Burghers, or others, shall be troubled for having served the French King, and they, as well as all the Deserters, shall be Pardoned.  
Granted, except what relates to the Deserters.  
V The Horses taken during the War, and bought by the Burghers or others, shall not be taken from them.  
Granted.  
VI The Sick and Wounded shall be Transported to Dinant, with the Persons appointed to take care of them; and Boats and sufficient Carriages shall be provided for them by the Allies, (they paying for the same) with the necessary Convoy and Passports, within Six Days after Signing this Capitulation.  
The Besieged may provide Boats for their Sick and Wounded, and shall have Passports to send for what Boats and Boat-men they want from Dinant, and may make use of what Boats there are at Namur, provided they send them forthwith back again.  
VII. Such of the Sick and Wounded as are not in a condition to remove, may continue at Namur, and when they are well, shall be furnished with Carriages and Passports to carry them to Dinant.  
Granted.  
VIII. Six Days shall be Granted to the Garrison of the Town to retire into the Castle with their Families and Effects, during which time, no Hostility shall be committed by either Party, on the side of the Town or the Castle; and to prevent all disorder, the Troops of the Allies shall only possess themselves of the Gate of the first Enclosure of the Attack, and none of them shall enter into the Town, until the Garrison is entirely retired into the Castle, and the Second Gate of the Second Attack, shall during the said time, be guarded by the Garrison.  
There are Granted to the Besieged, Two Days only, to begin from the 4th at Noon, and they shall forthwith give up the Posts at the Entrance of the Iron Gate. The Besieged may place a Guard jointly with the Allies, at the Gate of the Old Enclosure, to prevent Disorders.  
IX. The Garrisons in the Redoubts of St. Fiacre, Espiney, and St. Anthony, may enter into the Town, and thence retire into the Castle.  
Granted.  
X. All Persons put by the French King into any Places of Judicature, or others, shall continue to enjoy the same.  
Granted.  
XI. No Officers Sick or Wounded, or others, shall be stopped on account of Debt, or on any other Pretence, but Security shall be given to such as can but make out their Debts, for Payment of the same.  
Granted.  
XII. All Contracts and Agreements made between the French and the Burghers, and with the Magistrates shall be faithfully performed.  
Granted, provided the same be not prejudicial to his Catholic Majesty.  
XIII. The Horses and Equipages of the Officers and Garrison in the Town, shall be Conducted with a Convoy to Dinant, and they may not be stopped or searched, on any Pretence whatsoever, and no prejudice done to the said Equipages, or those that conduct them.  
Rejected.  
XIV. The Prisoners taken during the Siege, shall be released on both sides.  
Granted.  
XV. All the Hostages may be conducted with a Convoy to Dinant.  
Granted.  
XVI. There shall be given up the Town, which is between the Sambre, and the Attack of St. Nicholas' Gate, as also the Iron Gate, and the Two Towers which are at the end of the Gate of the , towards the Condros, except Gate Lewis, which is to remain in the Hands of the Besieged.  
Granted.  
XVII. The Hostages given on both sides for the due Execution of these Articles, shall be reciprocally restored, after the full performance thereof.  
The Mines and the Magazines shall be discovered by the Besieged to those that shall be appointed for that Purpose.  
The Besieged shall commit no Disorder, nor insult over the Inhabitants in quitting the Town.   
These Articles were Signed the 4th of August, by the Elector of Bavaria, and Count Guiscard, Governor of Namur.  
No sooner had the Confederates made themselves Masters of the Town of Namur, which they had bravely and fairly won in a manner by Inches, but the unhappy Tidings arrived, that Dixmude and Deinse were both shamefully delivered up to the French, and the Garrisons made Prisoners of War; the one by the Treachery of Major General Ellenbergh, the other by the perfidiousness of Colonel Ofarrel. Ellenbergh after he had done his business, retired to Paris, to receive the Rewards of his Villainy; and Ofarrel sheltered himself in Cambray.  
Upon the 12th of August at Night, the Besiegers broke Ground, in order to make their Approaches to the Castle, and carrying on their Trenches about 150 Paces before Cohorn Fort, toward the Sambre, made a very good Lodgement. The 13th they advanced their Trenches about 200 Paces farther; and that Afternoon one of the Besiegers Bombs fell into one of the Enemy's Magazines, wherein lay about 500 Granados, and some Powder, which blew up, and did them considerable Damage. The 14th, the Besiegers continued their Works with good Success. The Night following, the Enemy made a Sally upon Six Hundred of the Besiegers, commanded by Colonel Seymour, who were posted near the Palisadoes of the French, to secure the Pioners that wrought in the Trenches; but the French were repulsed, and several of them Slain, and the Besiegers Works were still carried on a Hundred and Fifty Paces farther. On the Besiegers side Four Men were Slain outright, and Twelve Wounded, among whom, Colonel Seymor's Major, and one Captain. 'Twas said that Marshal Bouflers designed to have taken the advantage of that Sally, and to have forced his way out with his Horse, but that finding the Besiegers had so well posted their Troops to receive him, he thought it not convenient to put his Design in Execution at that time.  
The 15th the Besiegers made a new Trench of about Three Hundred Paces in the Plain of Salsine, behind the other which they had raised before; and ran a Line from their Lodgement, as far as the old Trench at the Foot of the Mountain, to secure themselves against Sallies. During which time, the Enemy were so thrifty of their Firing, that the Besiegers had only Five or Six Men Wounded.  
The 16th the Besiegers advanced their Trench in the Plain of Salsine, and enlarged and mended that at the Foot of the Mountain, which had been much endamaged by the Rain.  
The 17th they advanced their Trench at the Foot of the Hill, above a Hundred Paces, and carried on that in the Plain of Salsine, in order to meet it. The next Night the Enemy fired thick and threefold with their Smallshot and Great Guns, and made Two Sallies to disturb the Pioners; but were presently beaten in again; Ten private Soldiers being Killed outright, and a Colonel who commanded in the Trenches, and some others being Wounded.  
Upon the 28th of August, about Eleven a Clock at Night, the Enemy made a Sally with about 200 Dragoons Mounted, and 500 Granadiers. The First made an Onset upon the Right Hand, with 160 Granadiers, where they were soon repulsed by the Count of Ribera, who was visiting the Night Posts. After that, they made an Attack upon the Left Hand, where the Lord Cutts had posted his advanced Guards to secure the Workmen; at what time a Hundred Dragoons came upon Lieutenant Sutton, a Lieutenant of Colonel Seymor's Regiment, who being posted in the Plain of Salsine, with 35 Fusiliers, suffered 'em to advance within a few Paces of him, and then discharging all his Fire upon 'em, retreated to his main Body; after which, the Dragoons pressing hard upon him, he gave 'em a Second Volley; at what time the Spanish and Bavarian Horse, who were posted in the Plain of Salsine to second the Infantry, fell in pell mell with the Enemy, and pursued 'em to the very gate of the Castle. In which Action, the Enemy confessed that they had one half of their Dragoons killed, together with the Officer that commanded them.  
Upon the 25th, came Letters to Whitehall, that His Majesty having received Information, that Villeroy was upon a full March to Fleurus, thought it convenient to leave the Camp before Namur to the Conduct of the Elector of Bavaria, and the Duke of Holstein Pleon, and join the Army commanded by the Prince of Vaudemont, taking up his Quarters at Bonesee near Mazy. The next Day the Enemy made a Halt at Fleurus, being joined by the Detachment from Germany, and the other Troops commanded by the Count de Harcourt.  
In the Evening of the same Day, the French marched to Gemblours, and seemed to prepare themselves for a pitched Battle, for they lest their Tents, and advanced toward the King of England, as near as the Ground would permit. Upon which His Majesty drew out his Army, with a Resolution to engage. And in that posture the whole Army continued all that Day; his Majesty staying in the Field in Person, from Four a Clock in the Morning, till Eight in the Evening; in which condition the Confederates stood ready to receive the Enemy, whenever they thought it convenient to begin.  
And it seemed that Villeroy had either a real intent to relieve the Besieged, or else to try what a Bravado would do. For he caused several Pieces of Canon to be discharged, which were supposed to be a Signal, and which were answered by the Besieged with Lights from the Highest part of the Castle. In the mean time, the Works before the Castle went on very well, and the Canon had made great Breaches as well in the Castle as Coehorn, insomuch that all the Discourse was of a General Assault.  
Upon the 29th of August, came an Express from his Majesty's Camp to Whitehall, giving an Account, That a General Storm had been made upon the Castle of Namur, that still it held out, which Assault was ordered in the following manner. The Lord Cutts was appointed to attack the Counterscarp and Breach of the Terra Nova, with a Detachment of Granadiers, and 4 Regiments of Infantry. Count Rivera, a Major General in the Spanish Service, was ordered to storm the Coehorn Fort, on that side next the Terra Nova, with 3000 Spaniards and Bavarians; M. General la Cave, was assigned to attack the Coehorn on the Right Hand of the Spaniards, with 2000 Brandenburghers, while M. Gen. Swearing attacked the Casotte with 2000 Dutch Infantry, and another Colonel attacked the Lower Town with about 2000 Men more.  
The English advanced with great Order and Resolution, and had gained the top of the Breach, forcing their way through Fire and Smoke on every side; but they found the Enemy so advantageously posted and entrenched behind the Breach, and the Ground on their side so very bad, that they could not get Ground in front, but were forced to retire.  
Count Rivera was Slain among the foremost, upon their first Approaches to the Coehorn; however the Bavarians posted themselves upon a Salient Angle of the Counterscarp, and kept firing furiously upon the Enemy, who endeavoured with great Obstinacy to dislodge them: Insomuch, that when most of the Officers of the Bavarian Guards were killed and Wounded, and that the other Regiments had suffered great Damage, the Enemy still firing with a more than ordinary Resolution, the English who had quitted the Terra Nova, as not being able to do any good on that side, seconded the Bavarians and Spaniards, under the Command of the Lord Cutts, who at the same time having ordered a Lieutenant of Colonel Mackay's Regiment, with 30 Men, to break through the Palisadoes, and attack a Battery of the Enemies; the Lieutenant executed his Orders with that undaunted Bravery, that he turned Seven of the Enemy's Canon against themselves, and at the same instant secured some of their Mines; by which means the English and Bavarians planted their Colours upon the Palisadoes, and made a good Lodgement.  
In the mean time M. Gen. lafoy Cave, with his Brandenburghers, and M. Gen. Swearing with his Dutchmen, made each of them Two other Lodgments, of which the Besiegers continued in possession, and presently fell to work to improve them, in order to another Assault; and the Batteries were ordered to play afresh upon the Terra Nova, to make the Breach wider, and facilitate a 2d Attack.  
In this Action, the Loss that fell upon the Four English Regiments, who made the Assault, was as follows.  
The Lord Cuts Wounded.  
Nineteen Commission Officers killed, and Fifty Four Wounded.  
Private Soldiers 339. Slain outright; 682 Wounded; Volunteers Wounded, Col. Windsor, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Stanhope.  
Other Advice from His Majesty's Camp at Ostin, Sept. 1. N.S. gave a farther Account, that during these Transactions, the Enemy appeared every Day in the Front of the Confedrates Line; that on the Tuesday before, they came with about 70 Squadrons to Boneff, extending their Line from that Place, to the Right Hand, near Perwys. Upon which, his Majesty ordered the Confederate Army to move, extending his Right Wing to Longchamp, and his Left to St. Denis; and leaving a Brigade of Masy to secure that Post. The last of August, they appeared with about Eleven Squadrons near the Advanced Guard, but were soon repulsed.  
The next day his Majesty having dined Early, and in the Afternoon being upon the Road, returning to the Siege, in order to give Directions for a second Attack of the Castle, was met by an Adjutant sent by the D. of Bavaria, to inform his Majesty that M. Bouflers and the Count de Guiscard had desired to Capitulate; that they had offered at first to treat for Coehorn Fort alone, but that being refused 'em by the Elector, they had agreed to capitulate for the whole.  
Thereupon, so soon as his Majesty was arrived, Hostages were exchanged, and Proposals brought from the Castle to the Salsine; the Enemy insisted at first, that they might have Ten Days time to expect Succour, but that was absolutely refused 'em; for it was plain, that the Enemy had suffered very much in the last Assault, and that they were extremely discouraged by their Losses.  
So that at length upon the 2d of September, N. S. in the Morning, the Capitulation for the Surrender of the Castle of Namur was Signed, and the Besiegers took the possession of part of the Outworks; upon which Villeroy began to draw off, and retire with the French Army toward Flerus.  
The Substance of the Capitulation was,  
That the Outward Fortifications, that is to say the Fort of Coehorn, the Redoubt Casemate, the Hornwork of Bale, and the Casotte should be delivered up the 2d Instant by nine in the morning.  
That the Garrison should march out with Drums beating, Colours flying, two pieces of Cannon 24; two 12; and two 6 Pounders, two Mortars, and this upon the 5th Instance in the morning.  
That they should be provided with Horses and Wagons sufficient for transportation of their Equipage, and such of the Sick and Wounded as are able to departed with the Garrison, and that the Besieged might leave Officers and Commissaries to take care of the rest.  
That no Officers shall be stopped for Money lent, or Goods delivered, provided they give Security, or Hostages for satisfaction of what they might owe.  
That no satisfaction should be demanded for Houses demolished during the Siege, but that  and Horses taken in the County of Namur before the Siege, shall be paid for.  
All Magazines to be faithfully delivered up.  
All Mines to be faithfully discovered, etc.  
Of this Capitulation, Two Copies were Signed, One by the Elector of Bavaria, the other by Marshal de Bouflers, and Monsieur de Guiscard.  
FINIS.