THE Breaches and Contraventions OF FRANCE, Since the Peace of NIMIGUEN, Betwixt His Most Catholic Majesty, AND The Most Christian King, Concluded January 15, 1682.  
Particularly relating to Luxembourgh, Namur, and Brabant.  
LONDON, Printed for R. Baldwin, in Old Baily Corner, 1684.   


MEMOIRES OF EHE BREACHES AND CONTRAVENTIONS OF France, etc.  

Contraventions by delaying the Evacuation of Places  
BY the Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Articles of the said Treaty it was agreed, That the places to be restored on either side, should immediately after the exchange of the Ratifications be really and Bona fide Evacuated, without delay or difficulty, for any Cause whatever.  
Notwithstanding this agreement, and all the instances of his Catholic Majesty to have the Treaty observed, The Ministers of France, designing to reduce the whole Country, they were obliged to restore, to a point of irrecoverable Ruin and Desolation, have notoriously delayed the Evacuation of the Places: Pretending, as to the Towns where there were Rivers, that the Ice had rendered them unpassable for Vessels to carry away their Ammunition: And, as to the Country, That the Commonalty of the Provinces, under the Obedience of his Catholic Majesty, being in arrear for Contributions demanded by France, had not given Security sufficient to satisfy all their pretensions.   

The oppression and Ruin of the same Places.  
Offers were made on the part of his Catholic Majesty, that the French Ammunition should be carried by Wagons, and that it might be done after the Restitution of the Towns, according to the Seventeenth Article of the Treaty: As to the Contributions, the Spaniards would have given all reasonable satisfaction, and made it appear the Evacuation ought not however to be retarded on that account; but all to no purpose: For the French continued their Exactions of Aids and Subsidies from Town and Country, and Quartered their Troops there Ten Weeks after the publication of the Peace, and forced the Inhabitants to pay every Company eight hundred Florins towards Recruits, besides Free Quarter.  
And when the Levyes for Recruits were ended, they made the Officers pay the Moneys in their Hands, received on that Account, into the Treasury of the most Christian King.  
The Charge on this occasion hath been so excessive, that it hath amounted to above Fifty thousand Florins a day, and for the Ten Weeks time to several Millions. The French, not content with this, extended their Exactions over several places, which have always belonged to his Catholic Majesty, particularly over the Countries of Alost, Grammont, and Waes', and generally all those Countries that had paid Aids and Subsidies with the City of Ghent.  
Any Country that had been assessed with Ghent towards payment of Taxes, the French took themselves sufficiently entitled to, and made absolute Proprietors of by right of War, as a Dependent of the City of Ghent, which they had possessed themselves of, but were obliged by the Treaty to have restored to his Catholic Majesty, at the time they exacted Aids and Subsidies from them.  
And though by the Fifth and Eighth Articles of the Treaty it was agreed, That the places to be Evacuated should not be damaged, and that the Inhabitants should not be charged, nor any demand be made of payment by them for any thing pretended due to the Soldiers quartered among them; yet the severity of the French, in exacting Aids and Subsidies, was such, that the Inhabitants of several Villages in Flanders, Hainault, and elsewhere, having deserted their abode, the States of the Provinces, or those Towns which had any thing left, were forced to pay the Rates assessed on the depopulated Places.   

The oppression of his Catholic Majesties Subjects under pretence of Arrears of Contribution.  
The Rigour they have used in the matter of Contributions, without regard to Reason or Covenant, or the moderation agreed on, is unparallelled.  
They forced the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty to travel from place to place, and dance attendance wherever the Intendents of France thought fit to Command them: They made them pay, not only after the conclusion but publication of the Peace, the charge of Envoys, Reprizals, and Counter-Reprizals past in time of the War, though his Catholic Majesty had revoked all Orders of that kind. And when his Majesty's Subjects could not produce particular Acquittances (which had been burnt, or lost, or mislaid in the War time) the French compelled them to pay the same Duty twice, not satisfied with later Acquittances, by which it appeared the former Duty was discharged; and his Catholic Majesty was obliged to pay what was demanded of such of his subjects as were insolvent.  
Besides, they extended their Contributions in full Peace, to places that had not been subject to them in the time of War, nor paid any Aid or Subsidy to his Catholic Majesty.  
'Tis evident by the Sixteenth Article of the Treaty, That the Contributions were not to be demanded after the Sixteenth of October, 1678. But it was the pleasure of France, they should be paid for two Months longer, under pretence, that his Catholic Majesty had delayed the exchange of the Ratification; though in truth, the Term was prolonged by mutual consent, without altering the Treaty in any particular; and that, in the mean time the Suspension of Arms continued, so that there was not any need of Guards or safe Conducts, and consequently no cause to raise Contributions; but the Exaction ought to have ceased upon that very account, if the Treaty had not limited when it should determine.   

Breach by destroying of Woods.  
The Thirteenth Article of the Treaty says in express terms, That the Subjects of either Part, should from the day of Signing the Treaty be put into full possession of their Estates, and particularly of the Woods in the several Places, and that from that day no Wood should be fallen by right of War.  
The French Intendants have been Guilty of a formal Contravention in this point; having caused a fall of Woods to be begun after the Treaty had been signed, and a prodigious quantity to be cut down, which did belong to the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty: The pretence being, they had order to do so, if the Ratifications were not perfected within the time limited for that purpose: And when it was made appear the Ratification had been effectually exchanged within the time prefixed, their answer was, the Woods were fallen before they had the News; as if they had not been obliged in the least to inquire after the progress of the Treaty, and that their distance from Nimmighen had given them full right to act the violences they pleased, upon supposition it was possible a thing was not done which had been effectually accomplished.  
Besides, they were so far from harkening to the Instances made them, that they would leave to the Owners such of the Trees fallen as remained on their Grounds, that they caused them to be carried away, and disposed of them as they pleased.   

Waste and ruin by the March of their Troops.  
Their Forces, before they were drawn off, in pursuance of the Treaty concluded and ratified, committed great spoil, and excessively wasted the Province of Namur, by Marches and Counter-Marches of purpose, wherein they were Guilty of disorders in abundance, using the Spanish Subjects at discretion, Robbing their Houses, and forcing them to ransom their Persons, as in the heat of the War.  
The Chevalier de Sourdis, who, pursuant to the Treaty concluded with the Elector of Brandenbourgh, brought back the French Forces from the Duchy of Cleves, through the Provinces of Gueldres and Luxemburgh, abstained not from the like disorders; having forced his Catholic Majesties Subjects of Welst and Breehdorf to Build a Bridge over the Roer, for carrying over his Ammunition; the Officers of his Dragoons having compelled the same Subjects to furnish them with Victuals and Forage unpaid for.  
This was certainly against the Laws of Nations and of Hospitality: For though this passage had been granted them on the account of the Elector of Brandenbourhg and the States of the United Provinces, to rid the Country of the former of these Forces, and the States of so dangerous Neighbours, they ought to have been content with the liberty of passage, and not have forced the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty to bear their Charges.   

Breaches by invading and taking Towns and Places of his Catholic Majesties.  
These Contraventions ushered in an inundation of others, that quickly followed in several parts of the Provinces subject to his Catholic Majesty, wherein the French took several Towns and open places, many whereof they had quitted and restored into the possession of his Catholic Majesty, in pursuance of the Treaty.   

In Hainault.  
The Town of Cheure in Hainault holds immediately of his Catholic Majesty and the Sovereign Court of Mons: The most Christian Kings Attorney, at the Conferences held in execution of the Treaty of Aix la Chappelle, which granted to France the Town and Castlewick of Aeth, had inserted the Town of Cheure in his List of the Dependences of that Castlewick, and pretended it belonged to the most Christian King, as a Member of the Castle of Aeth: His Catholic Majesties Attorney maintained the contrary: The Commissioners of the two Crowns were divided in Opinion, those of his Catholic Majesty insisting it ought to continue his, as holding immediately of him and the Court of Mons: The French urged, it belonged to their King, as a dependent of Aeth passed to him by the Treaty of Aix la Chappelle.  
And thought the matter was put out of question, by the Retrocession of the said Castlewick of Aeth, to his most Catholic Majesty by the last Treaty; so that it must of right belong to him, whether you allow the opinion of the French or Spanish Commissioners and Attorneyes of the Crowns: Yet in December, 1679. Count Monbron, Lieutenant General of the Armies of France, was sent with considerable Forces of Horse and Foot, with Engineers, to make himself Master of that Castlewick by force of Arms, in a time of full Peace, and when the Commissioners of the two Crowns were actually met for Execution of the Treaty.  
They possessed themselves the same time of about twenty Villages lying within the Castlewick of Aeth, intermixed with the Members of it, and called Free Lands, for that they are not dependants of the Castle, but are holden immediately of his Catholic Majesty as Earl of Hainault: Notwithstanding this, the French pretended to them since the Treaty of Aix la Chappelle, and took possession of them as dependdents of the Castle of Aeth, though his Catholic Majesty had also the perception of the Rights and Profits belonging to him.  
When their pretended Title by the Treaty of Aix la Chappelle, ceased by that of Nimmighen, wherein they agreed to restore Aeth and its Castlewick to his Catholic Majesty, the same time that they drew out of Aeth and its Castlewick, they did without difficulty evacuate those Villages, leaving them in the full and free possession of his Catholic Majesty, as agreed by the Treaty: But, after about a years time, they entered again upon the Castlewick of Aeth, and took actual possession of it; and (for want of other reason) pretended, they had right to it, for that they had in the last War taken and possessed it by force of Arms, and that the most Christian King in his Proposals for Peace, had not only demanded the Session of the places there mentioned, but added this Clause, In a word, the Places and Countries he was in Possession of, except only those he should think fit to restore.  
And though this general Clause was rejected by the Act of acceptation, and the Treaty thereupon, and that by the mediation of the States-General, it was agreed, That all places to remain in the possession of France should be particularly expressed and named in the Treaty of Peace, and a general Clause inserted, That all that had been or should be possessed till the Publication of the Peace, (except the places to remain by the Treaty in the Possession of France) should be restored: And that besides this agreement, the Castlewick of Aeth and its Dependants, were expressly named among the places to be restored to his Catholic Majesty, whereby all the right and pretence of the French was absolutely annulled: Notwithstanding all this, and that they had not any colour to claim again their pretended possession, having devested themselves of it, and of the Title they had made use of as the sole ground of their possession; Yet within twelve Months after evacuation of those places, pursuant to this Treaty, the French without right, and contrary to the Treaty, possessed themselves of the same places by force of Arms: They possessed themselves also of the Town of Fountain L'Evesque, which holds of his Catholic Majesty as Earl of Hainault: And in December, 1679. they seized the Towns of Fumay and Revin, situate on the , and belonging to his Catholic Majesty, as Dependences of the County of Beaumond, for which seizure they had not, nor pretended any right, other than that they had found, that about nine hundred years ago, those Towns had been reputed part of France.  
At the same time they made themselves Masters of Bourg D'Estrun, the Villages of Feron and Roully, and afterwards that of Rock and other hamlets, pretending them to be Dependences of Maubenge; though in truth they are part of the Principality of Chimay, belonging to his Catholic Majesty, under the immediate Jurisdiction of his Sovereign Court of Mons.  
An Order dated the sixth of February, 1680. was sent to those of Cerfontain, Tirimon, Bersilly, Le Val, and Audrelu, to force them to swear Fealty to the most Christian King: Under pretence, they had found some old Registers wherein those Villages were mentioned as Dependences of Maubenge: Though in truth, they neither were, nor are so; but the four first of those Villages have ever since the year 1518, been United to the Provostship of Beaumond, and Andrelu to that of Binch.   

Breaches in the Province of Flanders.  
The Violences done by the French in the Province of Flanders are no less suprizing and groundless than the former.  
They have possessed themselves there of several open places belonging to his Catholic Majesty, and among others, of the three Towns of Loo, Roulers, and Renaix.  
The Town Loo is immediately subject to his Catholic Majesty as Earl of Flanders, having been always Governed by particular Officers, without other dependence than that of contributing in Assessments with the Freedom of Bruges, whose Customs it follows, as may be seen by the Records of the Province, and the Customs of the Freedom of Bruges, Tit. 1. Art. 6, 7.  
After the Peace of Aix la Chappelle, France pretended to it as a dependent of Furnes, and the Sieur Bobert, the French Intendant, quartered Forces there under that pretence in the year 1668. But those of the Council of Flanders having made the contrary appear by Letter of the eighth of June that year, the Intendant acknowledged himself satisfied, and by Letter of the 13th of the same Month answered, that had he been so informed before, he would not have sent any Forces thither; his answer was confirmed by Order he sent for the speedy dislodging of the Troops quartered there; which being accordingly done, his Catholic Majesties unquestionable right to that Town was owned and confirmed by the confession of the French: Notwithstanding this, after the Peace of Nimmighen, they made use of the same pretence for appropriating to them the Sovereignty of that Town; in pursuance whereof, they placed new Magistrates there, in 1679.  
The same year they possessed themselves of the Town of Roullers, pretending it a Dependent of the Castlewick of Ipre; though it be in truth a Signiory in chief, and is called as such to the States of Flanders in all Assessments of Aids and Subsidies, and is part of the Land of Wynendall within the Freedom of Bruges: The Aids and Subsidies charged on the Castlewick of Ipre, as well as those on the Town of Roullers, are paid at Roullers; in all other things the Town of Roullers is wholly separate and distinct from the Castlewick of Ipre, and so absolutely independent, that the Inhabitants of Roullers have never contributed to the Charges of the Castlewick: and Roullers hath been so far from being reputed a dependent of the Castlewick of Ipre, that it had not any benefit of the redemption quarter's purchased by that Castlewick, or granted it from time to time: And the independence of it from the Castlewick, hath been confirmed by a Sentence upon Appeal in 1578.  
The Town and Territory of Renaix is immediately subject to his Catholic Majesty, as Earl of Flanders; and pays its Services in his Chamber of Justice established in the Town of Ghent.  
It belonged formerly to the Abbots of the Monastery of St. Cornelius, and in the year 1280, was sold to Guy Earl of Flanders, and united to that Province: The same Guy gave it to one of his Sons in Fee, to hold of him his Heirs and Successors Earls of Flanders; and it was accordingly held for several Ages.  
This possession is grounded on abundance of Evidences and Decrees of Confiscation to the use of the Earl of Flanders, as Sovereign Lord; so that the Right of his Catholic Majesty to it is beyond contradiction; but the French, whose Right consists in their Arms, have sent Troops to quarter there, and usurp the Sovereignty of the place against his Catholic Majesty.   

Breaches in the Duchy of Luxemburgh.  
The Province of Luxemburgh hath more than any other felt their daily Contraventions against the Treaty of Peace; for, in the time of full Peace, the French have taken in that Province without any reason, other than that of the Right of Arms, a great number of Towns, Castles, and Territories of very large extent.  
The Castle of Bourg of Rodemacker is a Signiory in chief, depending immediately of his Catholic Majesty, as Duke of Luxemburgh; it holds immediately of his Majesty's Person, and does its Fealty and other Services due to his Majesty before the General Governor of that Province, as appears by Surveys and other Records, particularly those of 1552, and 1553. And by the admission of the Marquis of Baden in 1562. The French pretended to it as belonging to them by the Session of Thionville by the Treaty of the Pyrenees: But in the Conferences held for execution of that Treaty, the Right of his Catholic Majesty was so clearly made out and maintained, that he continued in possession of the Castle and Burrough; and in the beginning of the War in 1667. His most Christian Majesty granted them a Neutrality at the request of the Marchioness of Baden.  
The Public Faith ought in that case to have secured them from his Arms, but hath been so far from securing them, that the French Troops, expressly contrary to the Neutrality, possessed themselves both of the Castle and Burrough: By the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle reparation was agreed to be made for this Violence; but the last War breaking out before reparation obtained, his Catholic Majesty retook the the Burrow and Castle, and continued a Garrison there till both were demolished: So that the last possession hath gone with the right of his Catholic Majesty.  
Yet, though after this, and especially after the conclusion of the Peace at Nimmighen, all violent attempts and seizures by force ought to have ceased; the Ministers of France have not only possessed themselves of the said Castle and Burrough, (for no other reason than that Right must submit to Might) but have seized other Lands to the Gates of Luxembourgh, pretending they are Dependences of the Burrow or Castle of Rodemacker, for which there is not any more colour than for the pretended dependence of Rodemacker on Thionville.  
Upon this ground it was, that in October 1679. they seized the Castle of Esperange within half a League of Luxemburgh, forced the Inhabitants of the Signiory to swear Fealty to the most Christian King, abused the Mayor of the place for opposing them, and prohibited the Inhabitants to acknowledge any longer the Sovereignty of his Catholic Majesty as Duke of Luxemburgh, or resort to the Fairs held in that City, upon pain of Corporal punishment, though it clearly appears by the Records of admissions of the Tenants of Rodemacker, that the Territory of Rodemacker extends not to Esperange, nor the Villages its Dependants: And by the admissions of the Tenants of Esperange it is equally evident, it is held immediately of his Catholic Majesty as Duke of Luxemburgh, being a Seignory in chief, and as independent as Rodemacker itself.  
The complaints made on this account to the Court of France appeared so reasonable, that Monsieur de Pompone the twentieth of October, 1679. declared to the Sieur Del Val, by express Order of his most Christian Majesty, that the Intendant having been charged to cause all the Inhabitants of the places his Majesty was possessed of in Alsace and Lorain to swear Allegiance to him, had of his own head extended the Order to the places above mentioned: But that no advantage should be taken of it; and when it should be made appear, at the Conference, that they belonged to his Catholic Majesty, he should without difficulty be put into Possession of them.  
After this Answer it was expected they would have at least abstained from Force; but the fifteenth of November, 1679. they took those places again, and farmed out the Toll of the Bridge of Esperange, belonging to his Catholic Majesty; and without any regard to the Protestation made by his Attorney General, and accepted by him they had constituted Commander of Rodemacker, they ordered the Ancient Farmer of that Duty under his Catholic Majesty to pay it to the use of his most Christian Majesty; and let the Governor of Luxemburgh know, they would not permit his Catholic Majesty to receive any Aids or Impositions from the places they had obliged to swear Allegiance to the most Christian King, and that they would make the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty pay double what should be so imposed or received on his part.  
In January, 1680. they seized Ryaville, and seventeen Villages annexed to it, pretending they were Dependants of Metz, though in truth they are not, but belong to his Catholic Majesty, and depend absolutely on his Duchy of Luxemburgh.  
Their proceed as to the Signories and Lands of Russy, Putlange, and Presche are yet more enormous; for the fifth of May, 1680. the Count de Bussy presented himself at the Frontier of Luxemburgh with a Body of French Horse and Dragoons, with resolution to enter that Province on the morrow, if the Soldiers his Catholic Majesty had in those Castles did not retire thence in the mean time; which, to prevent greater inconveniences, they did: And the Count de Bussy immediately possessed himself of the Places, placed French Garrisons in them, and forced the Province of Luxemburgh to pay the Charges the Victuallers of his Troops said they had been at, and imprisoned the Provost of Verton, till he had Compounded with them for a hundred Pistols.  
These Violences were the more surprising, as grounded on no other pretence than an imaginary Dependence of those places on Thionville and Rodemacker: Though Russy be a County and Seignory held immediately of the Person of his Catholic Majesty, to whom it does Homage and other Services, which it performs to his Majesty in the Person of his Governor-general of that Province, to whom alone under his Majesty it is obliged to pay them, having always been a place independent of any other, and its Inhabitants subject to the immediate Jurisdiction of the Council Provincial of Luxemburgh. Besides it is Registered as a County, and more ancient than Thionville and Rodemacker, as appears by the Surveys and Admissions, particularly of the years 1270, and 1563.  
The Castle of Putlange is also a Seignory in Chief, holden immediately of his Catholic Majesty as Duke of Luxemburgh, and the Territory of it is under the Jurisdiction of the Provostship of Luxemburgh, with which it hath been always taxed, and contributes to all Charges public and private, ordinary and extraordinary, as appears by the Registers of Fires in the years 1552, 1563, 1624., 1656, and 1659. By the Original Assessments, the Accounts of the Provostship, and the Sentence given in the point the last of June, 1624.  
And that the Lordship of Preische, consisting in a Castle and some Farms, hemmed in and encompassed with Villages of the provostship of Luxemburgh, is a distinct Fiefe and Seignory holden in Chief, and depending immediately on his Catholic Majesty, as Duke of Luxemburgh; as appears by many Admissions of Tenants, and Surveys, particularly those of 1563, 1597, and 1624.   

Breach as to Charlemont.  
By the Treaty of Peace his Catholic Majesty was to have his Election, to yield up to the most Christian King the Town of Charlemont, or in lieu thereof, to procure Dinaut to be yielded to him, with the consent of the Prince of Liege, the Emperor and the Empire, within a year from the Ratification of the Peace between the Emperor and his most Christian Majesty: The Catholic King having determined his Election by choosing the Session of Dinaut, The Ministers of France without any scruple publicly used all the means in their power to deprive his Catholic Majesty of the Effect of his Choice; And, two Months before the year was expired, employed open Force to possess themselves of Charlemont: The year was to begin from the Ratification of the Treaty between the Emperor and France, (being the twenty eighth of April, 1679. the day the Ratifications were exchanged) and to end the same day in the year 1680. But the French were so impatiently eager to be Masters of that Town, that two Months before, they drew down many Forces to the Frontier, and declared to the Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, that if that Town were not Evacuated in February 1680, they would right themselves by Arms: Pretending it sufficient, the Ratification of the Peace by the most Christian King was Dated in February 1679, though the Ratification by the Emperor, and the Exchange was made after.  
This proceeding was more unjust, as contrary to the Nature of Treaties, which is grounded on the mutual consent of Parties: Which the Ministers of France thought so necessary in regard of the Ratification of the Treaty with Spain, that the delay of it by his Catholic Majesty for a time agreed on for that purpose, served them for a pretence to force his Majesty's Subjects to pay them Contributions two Months beyond the term agreed on.  
And though their pretences were wide from the purpose, it being evident that the time for demanding the Session of Dinaut was not to begin till the Ratification of the Peace by the Emperor, without which the Instances of his Catholic Majesty in the Empire could not be effectual; yet the Representations made on this Subject by the Spanish Ambassador, and those of England and Holland, were altogether vain; And his Catholic Majesty was obliged to comply with them, to prevent the Oppression of his Country by their Troops; which, in default of compliance with their pleasure, had order to fall into his Majesty's Countries four several ways.   

More Contraventions in Luxemburgh and Namur.  
They were no sooner in possession of Charlemont, but they made themselves Masters of several Places of Luxemburgh and Namur, as Dependants of that Town, which is but a Fortress or place of Arms, having not any Dependent, nor mentioned in the Treaty.  
Under this pretence Fifty Men under the Command of Count Montbron took the Castle of Agimont, and forced the Spanish Garrison to quit it; though Agimont be so far from being a Dependent of Charlemont, that on the contrary Charlemont hath been always a Dependent, and reputed part of Agimont, till separated from it by Charles the Fifth: The Protestations against this proceeding were altogether fruitless, and his Catholic Majesty connived at the Attempt, to prevent the irruption his Countries were threatened with in case of opposition.  
The same time they seized Givet, and afterwards possessed themselves of above thirty Villages belonging to his Catholic Majesty, pretending them to be Dependants of Agimont, though the pretence for the most part be as groundless as that of the Dependence of Agimont on the Fortress of Charlemont: Part of those Villages being of the Duchy of Luxemburgh; as the Signories of Rienne and Viereux les Walraut, the former whereof is held of the Castle of Orchimont, and the other a Seignory in Chief, independent of any other place, as appears by the Admissions and Surveys of both; and part of them not only are parcel of that Duchy, but have been acknowledged such by the Intendant Faultrier, who being asked the reason of this Infraction of the Peace, answered he very well knew the Articles of it: And that this Village being not above half a League from Givet, and surrounded on all sides with the Lands of Agimont, his most Christian Majesty was at liberty to appropriate to himself the Sovereignty of it, by disinteresting his Catholic Majesty of the Right he had in it. Though in truth such Exchanges and Disinteressments, as the Intendant seemed to intimate, could not be regulated by the will of either of the Crowns: It being expressly provided by the fifteenth and sixteenth Articles of the Treaty, that Commissioners should be appointed on both sides for adjusting them, with directions for clearing such difficulties as might arise on that Subject.  
A third part of those Villages belongs to the County of Namur, and depends not of Agimont, but other places of that Province belonging to his Catholic Majesty: But there is no end of the Dependences they pretend to: In April 1680, the Villages of Spontin, Falmaigne, Pondrosme, Sorinnes, Maismil, St. Blaise, Hargnies, and the two Bourseignes, were seized by the French, as obliged to follow the Fortune of the Seignory of Polvache in the same County.   

Contraventions and Violences against several Abbeys in divers Provinces.  
In the same Month of April they possessed themselves of the Abbey and Villages of Waulsors, Hastier, and Ermeton, belonging to his Catholic Majesty in the same County: They attempted the Abbey of Moulin, and used all sorts of Artifice to induce the Monks in the absence of their Prelate to swear Allegiance to the Crown of France.  
Having found at St. Gerrard, a Prior that had the baseness to desire their protection, they seized the Lands of Broigne and St. Gerrard, having sent thither for that purpose an Officer with Dragoons in July 1680. The pretence being, that the Monks of the Priory of St. Gerrard had opposed the Union made of that Priory to the Bishopwrick of Namur in the last Age: And that the See of Namur being void, they had Right to defend and support those Monks, that the Profits and Revenues of the Bishopwrick might be preserved for the use of them they should belong to.  
They committed the like attempts against other Abbeys in Haynault and Flanders, and refused to admit the Abbot of Hannon, nominated by his Catholic Majesty while the Abbey was under his Obedience: They forced the Abbot of Aumont to go to the French Court, pretending he was rendered a Dependent of it by the Session of the Provostship of Maubenge, though his Abbey is not of that Provostship, but depends immediately of the Court of Mons.  
They have treated and continue to treat with rigour the Abbey of Dunes transferred long since into the City of Bruges, having in effect taken away all its Subsistence, by seizing the Lands it hath under the French Kings Dominion, and giving them to a revolted Monk, who hath procured himself to be made an Abbot in one of the Farms of the said Abbey called Bogard: So that the Prelate and Monks of Dunes at Bruges, being thirty in number, having not wherewith to maintain themselves, have for their nourishment been forced to sell the Consecrated Vessels of their Church; and having now nothing left, are reduced to the utmost extremity, having not been able to prevail for any thing to maintain them in the mean time till Justice be done them, which they have demanded, and are sent to the Conference at Courtray, in order to obtaining it.  
Not content herewith, they pretended a Right to take from that Priory all its Effects, and the poor Remains it hath under the Dominion of his Catholic Majesty, and for that purpose seized by way of Reprisal the Estate of the Abbey of St. Peter in Ghent, to the value of six thousand Florins a year.   

Contraventions and Attempts in the Woods and Forests of his Catholic Majesty,  
Their Attempts in the Woods and Forests of his Catholic Majesty in several Provinces, are no less considerable than destitute of any colour of Reason.  
They possessed themselves of the Woods of Nieppe, Mourma●, and Oosthulst, which were neither yielded up to them, nor depend on any of the Places yielded; and extended their Usurpation (in regard of the Woods of Oosthulst) into the Territory of Merckem which is within the Freedom of Bruges.  
Their pretended protection of the Estate of the Monastery of St. Gerrard before mentioned, hath sufficed to entitle them, not only to dispose of the Estate of that Monastery, but to Usurp his Catholic Majesties Forests bordering on the County of Namur, particularly Biert, Marlaigne, and Foix, having hindered the Sergeants to make distress there, carried them Prisoner's to St. Gerrard, and obliged them by all sorts of Menaces to swear Fealty to them, and to discover what was done in those Woods for his Catholic Majesty.  
When complaint was made of the injustice of this proceeding, the Intendent Faultrier answered, if those Woods belonged to his Catholic Majesty he should have them; and that the matter should be regulated in the Conference at Courtray.   

And his Subjects.  
They have taken the same liberty as to the Woods of his Subjects, having caused those of the County of Beaumond to be cut down for the Fortifications of Maubenge, without consent of the Owners.  
The Tolls and Customs of his Catholic Majesty are not exempt from the Violences of the French, who in the Territories subject to their Dominion, have at their pleasure erected Offices for gathering them in the very sight of his Majesty's Towns: And when the like was endeavoured to have been done on his Majesty's part at St. Antony's, about three quarters of a League from Tournay, they not only hindered it by force, pretending it too near the City of Tournay, but possessed themselves of the Village where the Office was intended to have been set up.  
Nor will they permit that their Subjects shall pay any Duty for Importation or Exportation of Goods they carry through the Spanish Dominions, from one Town under their Obedience to another: Because it is said in the sixteenth Article of the Treaty, that if Difference arise about any Lands belonging to either Crown, surrounded by those belonging to the other, no Office may be erected on either side, to perplex and render more difficult the Communication of Places under the same Obedience: And on this ground they have hindered the Establishment of Offices in several places where there are not any Enclaves or Lands surrounded as aforesaid.  
The French Subjects need no more than the Countenance and Assistance of an Interstant to defraud (without fear of Punishment) His Catholic Majesty of these and other Rights in his Countries, where this Establishment is not contradicted, and to be discharged of the Forfeitures and Confiscations they have incurred, and the Compositions they have agreed to.  
This hath been made appear on several occasions, particularly in December 1680, in the Duchy of Luxembourgh, when a Merchant of Marville, who would have conveyed severel Stuffs from Luxembourgh into France, without bringing them to the Staple, without Entering their Quantity or Quality, and without paying the Duties of Importation or Exportation, or that of Safeconduct, which is generally due for whatever goes out of Luxembourgh; and had Treated with the Officers of his Catholic Majesty to pay fourscore Patacoons to discharge himself from the Penalties incurred. He no sooner addressed himself to the Intendant of Metz, under pretence of a Privilege granted those of Marville by Archduke Albert, to bring thither their Merchandises in their passage through his Dominions, without paying any Duties; but the Intendant declared his pleasure the Merchant should be absolutely discharged; otherwise, that Right should be done ●●m by way of Reprisal, which he gave the Governor of Thionville order to make upon the Inhabitants of Luxembourgh: So that to stop his course, the Officers of Spain were forced to restore to the Merchant the four-score Patacoons, pay him his Costs of Suit, and to give him two hundred and four-score Crowns Damages: Though the Privilege granted the Inhabitants of Marville, when under the Obedience of Archduke Albert could not take place after it had passed into the subjection of France; and that it was declared before, it extended not to the said Duty of Safeconduct, and consequently cannot warrant the Contraventions against his Catholic Majesties Placarts.   

By prohibiting them to Alien their Estates without Licence.  
They have not only ill used the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty, and particularly the Nobility, but have taken their Measures to take from them the Liberty of Alienating the Lands they have under the Dominion of France: For under pretence there was heretofore an Order that the French must purchase Licence to sell their Lands in any part of the Low-Countries, particularly in Artois and Cambresy; they made a general Ordinance the fifth of December 1679. Prohibiting the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty to Alien their Estates, in any part of the French Dominions, to the use either of French or Strangers, without Licence from the most Christian King; contrary to what was agreed by the Treaty of Peace, That every one should be restored to the full property and enjoyment of his Estate, which consists principally in the liberty to dispose as one thinks best of his own.   

By drowning their grounds.  
In the time of full Peace they damned up the Waters at Conde, and afterwards opening the Sluices laid under Water all the Lands of Bernissart, the Meadows and greatest part of the Lands of Harchies, Preau, Tiuvette, Hensy, Neufville, Sarty, and a great part of Pommerevil, all under the Dominion of his Catholic Majesty: This done, 
Bonnier is a measure of Land somewhat above the French Acre or Arpent.  they laid a Tax of fifty Florins on every Bonnier of Land and Meadow under Water, for redeeming the Inundation, and threatened the Proprietors to seize upon the Meadows, and Unite them to the Crown of France, in default of payment of the Tax: And several not submitting to this Oppression, they caused those Meadows to be Mowed in July and October 1680, and let them out to Farm to the use of his most Christian Majesty for the Term of seven years.  
This Violent and Notorious Usurpation upon the Sovereignty of his Catholic Majesty is the more surprising, for that the French pretend to a Right to oblige the Governors of his Majesty's Places in the Netherlands, by way of Reprisal, to open their Sluices, when their Subjects suffer the least inconvenience by the stopping them.  
They made the Sluices of Newport be opened at the first demand, for the benefit of the Meadows of Furnes: And during the Peace of Aix la Chappelle, they made use of a pretence of some Damage received in their Lands by the Inhabitants of Bernissart, by the stopping of the Waters of Conde, to seize upon the Effects of several of the Nobility, and other Subjects of his Catholic Majesty, and disinterested the said Inhabitants from any Concern in the Affair, taking the matter wholly upon themselves: And though in the year 1680, the Waters of Courtray were let down at their request beyond the usual marks, so that his Catholic Majesties Customary Mill, where his Tenants in those Parts were obliged to bring their Grists, could not Grind of a long time, only that they might be furnished with the Water they said they wanted, for working more easily in some Foundations of the Fortifications of Menin.  
Not satisfied with this, they would have made the Governor of Coutray responsable for the inconveniences they suffered by the Rains; and on another occasion sent him word, that if he did not let down the Waters to a greater height than they were at, they would send Forces into the Castlewick of Courtray to Quarter at discretion, and that Count Montbron had received Orders to that purpose: So that the Governor of Courtray was obliged to desire the French to send some Persons to Courtray to inform themselves of the Truth, and be convinced upon sight that they had done all in their power to pleasure them, that he might prevent the Reprisal they were going to put in Execution, and whereof they make use every moment, even in private Affairs.   

By stopping the course of Justice.  
For, for a Sentence pronounced in the Court of Mons, against a Person the Intendant Faultrier pretended to belong to the Dominion of France, they seized Goods of the Spanish Subjects amounting to above a hundred times the value of the Sum in Question.  
The Burgomaster and Sheriff of Zenecon were imprisoned for having exacted a Labourer in the Land of Agimont.  
If a Robbery or any disorder be committed in their Country, 'tis enough if they can suspect it hath been done by the Subjects or Soldiers of the Neighbouring Spanish Garrisons; this serves them for ground sufficient not only to demand Justice, but to do themselves the Right they pretend to, by way of Reprisal; as they did in Luxembourgh and Flanders in December 1680, so that the States of those Provinces were obliged to charge themselves with Restitution of what the French said had been taken from them.   

Contraventions and Violences on the account of Palisades at Bovignes.  
If they apprehend any Fortification of Places belonging to his Catholic Majesty, or have not a mind they should go on, they proclaim Reprisal beforehand, as was done the beginning of the year 1681. When being alarmed at the News of some Palisades made at Bovignes by a company of Soldiers Quartered there, they sent to brussels the French Lieutenant of Tournay, to declare to the Governor of the Netherlands, that having Forces in Dinaut they would not permit Bovignes, being so near it, to be Fortified, and that if they ceased not Forifying on this warning, they would employ Force to stop them. And though they were made sensible that Fortification was nothing, and that they might be convinced by a sight of it on the place, they were not satisfied, but disposed of their Troops in readiness to enter his Catholic Majesties Countries, and forced the Governor to take away the Palisade: Though in the mean time they Fortify where they please, have raised a regular Fortification at Menin near Courtray, and cannot pretend the Town of Dinaut to be theirs, but the Bishops of Liege, to whom they are obliged to restore it, and have by the Cardinal of Bovillon solicited the Chapter of that Bishopric not to consent it should be exchanged and separated from their Church, that by this means they may have the Town of Charlemont, and retain Dinaut also, the better to block up the Town and Province of Namur.  
The constant success they have in these Attempts and Violences, and the inability of the Spanish Netherlands to oppose them, makes them look upon the whole Country as a place invested by their Arms, to be harassed on all sides, that it may at last wholly fall under their Power.   

New Violences in Namur, by taking the Towns and Places of his Catholic Majesty  
'Twas not on any other account, that the seventeenth of May 1681. they prohibited the Inhabitants of Arbre and Lesues belonging to his Catholic Majesty, as part of the Baylywick of Bovignes in the County of Namur, to pay his Majesty any more Taxes, upon pain of being chastised as disobedient to the Orders of the most Christian King: And that on the twenty sixth of June 1681, they granted to him that gave most, the Great and Small Tithes of the Village of Bioulx and the Neighbouring Places between the Sambre and the .  
In July 1681, they possessed themselves of the Villages of Biesmes, Gerpinnes, Villers-la-posterie, Acos, joncret, a la Stache, Orez, Gougnies, Bois, de Sart-Villers, Romree, and Furnau, Dependants of the bailage of Bovignes, and forced the Mayors and Inhabitants of the said Villages to come to Biesmes, and there swear Allegiance to the most Christian King: They seized also the bailage of Anthee between the Sambre and the , with all its Dependences, and possessed themselves of them, particularly Morville, Fontaine, Meanvoye, Sierville, Flavions, Rosee, Kestrevins, Metz, Wespins', Melins, River, Summer, Ontraye, Wellien, and other places, all unquestionably belonging to his Catholic Majesty as Earl of Namur. They extended their Usurpation over the Forest of Marlaigne, which is part of his Catholic Majesties Demaines, over six hundred Bonniers more, and forbade all the Chapmen of the Fellettes to fall any of the Woods sold them, or to make any use of them, without paying their Commissary for them.   

In Hainalt.  
They continued their Violences in the Province of Hainalt, where the fifth of April 1681. they possessed themselves of the Villages of Vaux, Fontenoy, Veron, Maubray, Bras-maisme, and Bourgeon, though unquestionably belonging to his Catholic Majesty, as part of the Castlewick of Aeth, as was agreed by the Procurators and Commissioners of both Crowns at the Conference at Lille, in Execution of the Treaty of Aix la Chappelle, where it was Decreed by consent, That these Villages should continue in the List Exhibited by the Procurator of the most Christian King, who enjoyed them on that account, till by the Treaty of Nimmighen he was engaged to restore them to his Catholic Majesty, in pursuance whereof, he caused them to be Evacuated with the rest of that Castlewick, that his Catholic Majesty might have free Possession of them, wherein he continued till the said fifth of April 1681.   

New and horrible Violences in taking all the Towns in the Territory of Luxemburgh, except the Provostship of the City.  
Their Principal Designs have always been against the Province of Luxemburgh, for its great extent as well on their side as on the side of the Empire, and the Netherlands, to the Province of Namur; and their Exhorbitances to bring it under their power, have been greater than the Disorders and Enormities committed in other Places.  
For, under pretence that the County of Verton had some Ages passed been holden of the Bishop of Verdun, and that the Counts had done Homage, and other Services, to the Bishop for that County; the French (without Colour of Jurisdiction) in the Name of the pretended Lord of that place, caused his Catholic Majesty (in the Person of one of his Officers) to be Summoned to appear in their Chamber of Reunion Established at Metz, to do his Service due for the County of Verton, upon pain of Forfeiture: Which pain they not only Decreed, but would have Executed by Force of Arms in the Territories of his Catholic Majesty: Having sent the thirteenth of March 1681, the Count De Bussy with a Troop of Horse and Dragoons into the Duchy of Luxemburgh, where he presented himself at the Gate of Verton, and Summoned him who Commanded there for his Catholic Majesty to quit the place with his Garrison. The Commander declaring he could not do it without Order from the Governor of the Province, the Count De Bussy with about two thousand five hundred Horse Quartered in the same Province, and continued there till thet wenty fourth of April following, having in that time committed several Acts of Hostility, by the Spoil and Ruin of the Estates and Effects of his Catholic Majesties Subjects, by taking away their  and other Movables, and imprisoning their Persons, and putting them to the Ransom, without desisting his violent Erterprises till his Catholic Majesty had ordered his Garrison to be drawn out of Verton.  
And though this was done the eighteenth of April 1681, the Count De Bussy, not satisfied therewith, continued his Violences, till the Spaniards Evacuated St. Marred, though a Dependent of another Provostship.  
The same Count possessed himself of the Signories and Castles of Tour la Val, Gomeriers, and Mont Quintin, having sent towards this last place a Company of Granadeer to drive out the Spanish Garrison thence, and damnified the Province by his Spoils and Oppressions to the value of a hundred and fifty thousand Crowns.  
They seized also the Provostship of Orchimont, and several Lordships included in it, and Neighbouring to it: And forced the Officers both of State and Justice, the Lawyers and other Inhabitants, to swear Allegiance to the most Christian King, and forbade them to pay any Aids or Taxes to the States of Luxemburgh.  
They possessed themselves also of the Castles of Rochfort and Beaurain, where they have placed a Garrison, though these Places are part of the Dominions of his Catholic Majesty in Right of his Duchy of Luxemburgh, to which they have belonged several Ages.  
And that they might seize the Territory of the County of Chiny, and so open a way to invade the rest of that Province, they have searched out a pretence of Tenure, that Homage ought to be paid to his most Christian Majesty for that County: Which in truth is part of the Ancient Demeans of his Catholic Majesty as Duke of Luxemburgh, and hath been many Ages in the Possession of his Majesty and his Predecessors independent of any other Power.  
True it is, the Dukes of Lorain pretended a Right to have Homage done them, as Dukes of Barr, for a Moiety of that County; and several Conferences were had on that Subject toward the end of the last Age, and the beginning of this, betwixt the Deputies of Archduke Albertus, and those of the Duke of Lorraine and Barr: But 'tis as true, and appears by the Treaty had in pursuance of those Conferences, That it was agreed, the County of Chiny should be absolutely exempted from the Fealty and Homage pretended to for it by the Duke of Lorraine and Barr, who granted to the said Archduke and his Successors all the Right he had or could have to it, in consideration of a Release the Archduke made to him of the Services due for some places of the Dukedom of Barr.  
Notwithstanding this, the French Summoned, (at a House of an Officer of the said County) the pretended Count of Chiny to appear in the said Chamber of Reunion at Metz, (which hath not any Authority or Jurisdiction in the Case) to do Homage to his most Christian Majesty, as being in Possession of the Dukedom of Bar without any Grant.  
And though this Summons and Proceed thereupon have been Vacuated by the Councils of his Catholic Majesty, as Judges of the Territory, the French have not ceased to pursue their Point. And the better to gain it, in a place where could be no contradiction, the most Christian Kings Attorney made use of those Evidences only which had been exhibited in the said Conferences on the part of the Duke of Lorraine and Barr, without mentioning the Evidences Exhibitied on the part of Archduke Albertus, nor the Treaty concluded.  
Pursuant hereto the said Chamber of Metz upon a pretended default gave Judgement the twenty first of April 1681, whereby the pretended Count of Chiny was condemned to hold the said County of the Dukedom of Barr, and to do Homage for its Appurtenances, Dependences, and places annexed to it, upon pain of Forfeiture to be incurred within a Month, without further Order.  
This Judgement was sent into almost every place of the said Province, though altogether independent of Chiny; and Prohibition added in the Name of his most Christian Majesty, that no Money should, without express Order from him, and the appointment of the Officers of the Generalship of Metz, be raised or imposed on the Inhabitants of those Places; nor any Quarter or Subsistence allowed there for any Officers or Soldiers of any Nation whatever, without like Order and Appointment, on pain of a thousand Livers.  
And as these strange Orders, (being absolutely null by the Maker's want of Jurisdiction and Authority within the Territory and Dominions of his Catholic Majesty) could not be obeyed there; the count De Bussy entered again into the Province of Luxemburgh the tenth of July 1681. with a Body of Horse and Dragoons, and caused the Commander of Chiny for his Catholic Majesty to be Summoned to draw his Garrison out of Chiny, and leave the place to the French, adding Threats in case of refusal. The Commander Answering, his Duty permitted him not to comply with the Summons, the Count De Bussy first Quartered his Troops in the County of his Catholic Majesty about Chiny, and afterwards at Neuf-Chasteau in the Country of St. Hubert, Mirwart, March, Durbuy, and other Places, having not only forced the Inhabitants to receive the said Troops, but obliged some of them to swear Allegiance to the most Christian King: Afterwards he went with the same Troops to Ortheville, Asnonlez, Bastoigne, Martelange, Ell, and then to Mersch, having posted himself between Mersch and Lintgen, till the thirteenth of August.  
Yet the Ministers of France thought this a Proceeding not brisk enough, and therefore the sooner to attain their end, sent an Envoy to Brussels to signify to his Highness the Prince of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands, that if within eight days he caused not the Spanish Garrisons to be all drawn out of the County of Chiny, and all its Dependences, they would make a further Irruption into the Lands of his Catholic Majesty in Flanders and Hainalt, with two Bodies of Horse, Commanded by Count Montbron and the Chevalier de Sourdis, whom they had ordered to March for that purpose to the Frontiers of both Provinces.  
So that to prevent the total overthrow of his Catholic Majesties Interest in the Netherlands, the Spanish Garrisons were drawn out of Chiny and all its Dependences.  
Yet all this would not satisfy them; but to compass their Design of making themselves Masters of other places in Luxemburgh, as Dependants of Chiny, (though in truth they were not, nor had their Chamber of Reunion Decreed any thing in that point) they let his Highness know further, the two Bodies of Horse  should fall into his Catholic Majesties Country, unless he would Evacuate all those places the Count de Bussy should name to be Dependants of Chiny, having ordered the said Troops to forage in the interim in Flanders and Hainalt upon the Lands belonging to his Catholic Majesty, into which they caused their foragers to enter, and forced the Subjects (to prevent their Ruin) to carry to the French Camp the Forage they demanded, being double the quantity they needed, and to pay in the Country subject to France the Subsistance of those Troops.  
To these Violences they added the Usurpation of his Catholic Majesties Sovereignty over his Subjects, prohibiting them by Proclamation to carry their Effects into his Majesties Walled Towns, on pain of Confiscation, which they Executed in some places.  
Besides all this, they forced the Spanish Subjects to make Presents to the Commanders of these Troops for their Oppression and Injuries, as the Effects of the Amity and fair Correspondence they had promised to observe by the Treaty of Peace: So that (to put a stop to those Violences) they had delivered up to them (besides Chiny and its Dependences) all the Towns, Lordships, and Countries of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, demanded by the Count de Bussy, except the City of Luxemburgh and the Provostship thereof, with some Lordships included: Whereby they have not only extended their Power over a large quantity of Ground, containing above a thousand Towns, Burroughs and Villages, but also opened the way for subduing Luxemburgh, especially by continuing the measures they have taken to stop the Importation of Necessaries for its subsistence.  
All which is directly contrary to the Treaty of Peace, (whereby to prevent all occasions of proceeding by force) it is agreed by the fifteenth Article that Commssioners should be sent to Courtray, to put an amicable end to all differences that should arise about Execution of the Treaty.   

Their refusing to treat of any business at the Conference.  
But they have made it evidently appear they intended no such matter, nor sent their Deputies to Courtray for any other end, than merely to make a show, and amuse the Neighbouring Princes and States, without any the least effectual satisfaction.   

Difficulty raised about the Title of Duke of Burgundy.  
For the Commissioners of the two Crowns having met in December 1679, the French raised a Preliminary difficulty about the Title of Duke of Burgundy inserted in the Commission from his Catholic Majesty; pretending that Dukedom had been granted to the most Christian King, by the Treaty of Crepy.  
And though there be not any ground for the Objection, but on the contrary, the said Treaty mentions not any, otherwise than Conditionally and Alternatively: That the Netherlands should be granted, with a Renunciation of the Duchy of Burgundy, to Prince Charles, younger Son of Francis the First; in case he should Marry the Daughter of Charles the Fifth: Or that the Duchy of Milan should be granted to that Prince if he Married the Daughter of Ferdinand King of the Romans, at the Election of the Emperor: That the Emperor determined his Election by the Marriage of his Daughter with Ferdinand; that the intended Marriage of the said younger Son of France was prevented by his sudden Death, and consequently, the condition of the Grant was not fiulfilled, in which case the Title and pretention to the Duchy of Burgundy was expressly reserved, in that as in all following Treaties that relate to it: Besides it was made appear, the discussion of this point was out of the Power of the Commissioners, which was limited to the Execution of the Treaty of Nimmighen which mentions it not: And that there was so much the less reason to raise this Objection in a place where they were obliged to disallow and oppose it, for that this Title belongs to his Catholic Majesty by Birth right: That since the Union of the House of Austria with that of Burgundy, all the Princes of both Branches, (as well that of Spain as Germany) have used it, and use it to this day: That with the full privity, and without any contradiction of France, it hath been constantly inserted in all the Treaties made since that of Crepy, for an Age and a half; that it is found in the Powers granted for the present Treaty of Peace, the Execution whereof is the sole matter in question; as also in the Ratification of the Articles, and the Proxy for the Espousals given by his Catholic Majesty to the most Christian King, who accepted it without scruple, and by virtue of it substituted the Prince of Conty in that Affair.  
Notwithstanding all this, they persisted in their Demand, and the third of May, 1680. caused it to be declared to the Spanish Commissioners, that if they did not procure themselves another Commission to the satisfaction of the French, within the Term limited for that purpose, the most Christian King would order his Commissioners to retire from the Conference, and possess himself of all the places he should judge aught to belong to him by virtue of the Treaty.  
And though this difficulty ceased since September 1680. and that the Commissioners of France the fifteenth of that Month dclared they were satisfied with the Powers Communicated to them that day; and that they were content to enter upon the business; yet they sought out several pretences to delay the Affair for several Months. And when they could not find any more; but expressed themselves satisfied with the Reasons of the Spaniards; 'twas but in appearance and merely to amuse them, for they continued to decide all by the way of Arms, eluding all instances made to the contrary.  
And when the Commissioners of his Catholic Majesty desired to Treat at Courtray of the Affairs of Luxemburgh; the Commissioners of France declared openly, they had not any Commission or power to Treat of them there, and that they concerned the Execution of the Treaty of Munster, and not that of Nimmighen; though they very well knew, neither his Catholic Majesty, nor any on his behalf intervened in the Treaty of Munster, nor in that of Nimmighen, as relating to that of Munster; the one and the other having been made separately between the Plenipotentiaries of the Emperor and the most Christian King.  
And as to the restoring his Catholic Majesty to the Possession of the Places and Countries Usurped from him by Force since the Publishing of the Peace; the French have been so far from doing his Majesty Right, that they have incessantly acted new Violences and Injuries, and form other pretensions at the Conference, not only destitute of Ground, but any appearance of Reason: Insomuch, that they insisted the most Christian King had Right over the Towns and Countries of Alost, Nivoue, Gramont, and abundance of other Places, to the very Lands of the States of the United Provinces: And demanded an Equivalent for them from his Catholic Majesty, pretending that by the taking of Ghent, their Arms had given them Right of Entry into those Countries; and that they had had some kind of Possession of them. Whereas in truth they are open places, and have so continued during the War: So that France could not on that account gain any right to them, nor hinder his Catholic Majesty from access to them, and consequently from preserving his Right and Possession as he hath done. And that the most Christian King, after the taking of Ghent, pretended not to them but as Dependences of that City, which he is particularly and expressly obliged to restore to his Catholic Majesty.  
Besides, after the Publication of the Peace, the French were Quartered in those Countries, as Places belonging to his Catholic Majesty, to Force Spain to pay the Residue of the Contributions as pretended to by France: And when they were paid as is mentioned before, the most Christian King drew his Forces out of those Places at the time he Evacuated Ghent, that his Catholic Majesty might be left in the peaceable Possession of them.  
Add hereto, that these Places are essential Parts of the Barriere, for which the most Christian King hath obliged himself to rest satisfied with the Session of certain Places agreed to be given him in exchange. And that in the List of Places named in the Treaty to be given in exchange of the Barriere, the Places we speak of are not comprised: And that after the Enumeration of Places to remain in the Possession of either Crown, or to be restored to them, an Article was added by way of enlargement, that all Towns, Place, Posts, etc. should be restored, that had been or should be possessed by either Party till the Publication of the Peace, as appears by the seventh Article of the Treaty.   

More Contraventions and Violences in Namur and Haynault.  
After all this they gave us to understand they were not minded to stop there; for they renewed their Usurpations in the Provinces of Haynault and Namur with as much or more Violence than formerly: For in October 1681, they compelled the Commonality of Long-Pret and Beutonville, two Villages near Beaumond in Haynault, to swear Allegiance to the most Christian King: And sent Orders to the same purpose to those of Profondeville, Wepion, Aveloy, and Thyle-Chasteau, in the Province of Namur; and having posted themselves at Wepion adjoining close and contiguous to the City of Luxemburgh, they stopped the Importation of any Grain into it by Land or by Water▪ and the fourth of October 1681, seized some Horses Laden with Oats and other Grain, and caused the Boats that were going down the  to come ashore, to be searched whether they had aboard any Grain to be carried to Luxemburgh.  
Not content with this, they caused some of the Inhabitants of Wepion to be carried away in November 1681, on pretence those of that Village had not sworn Allegiance to France; and threatened to Plunder and set Fire on the Place if they complied not forthwith.  
Besides, they caused an Ordinance to be published, Dated the fourth of that Month, prohibiting all Gentlemen and others having Votes in the Assembly of the States of Namur, and those who were Lords or Inhabitants of any Lands or Villages pretended by the French to have submitted to them, to appear any more in the said Assembly on pain of being proceeded against as disobedient, with further prohibition to the Inhabitants of the Villages between the Sambre and the , to acknowledge any Sovereign, other than the most Christian King, or to receive any order from Spain, or pay any Rights, Taxes, Aids, or Duties, to any but those deputed by the Intendant of France: With express order to carry Prisoners to Philippeville or Charlemont, those who should bring any Orders of that Nature from Spain or any place but France, and the Persons Commissioned by it.  
To let the World see how unlimited they would make their Attempts, they extended them beyond the  over all the Villages of the Provostship of Poilvache; for though his Catholic Majesty continued in peaceable possession of them to the fifteenth of November 1681. (Except only the Month of April, 1680.) They possessed themselves of the Villages of Houx under Polivache, setting up there the Arms of France, and afterwards sent orders to the like Effect to Spontin and Sursinnes, pretending the most Christian King had taken possession of all the said Provostship of Polivache, and gained the Sovereignty over all the Inhabitants and the Villages its Dependants.  
Pursuant to this pretence, in Ostober and November, 1681, they sent Orders to the Mayors and Inhabitants of the Ban of Leignon, the Villages of Chaltin, Emptiness, Spontin, Obey, Halliot, Gaun, Hodemon, Walay, Wauremont, Asies, the Mayoralty of Rendarche, containing several Villages, Gesues, Corier, Falmaign, and other places dependent and under the Jurisdiction of the said Provostship, to force them to swear Allegiance to France, and to send into Dinaut Oats, Hay, and Straw, for Maintenance of their Horse (which was accordingly done) with Prohibition to the Inhabitants to receive any Orders from his Catholic Majesty, or carry any Money to the Receipt of of his Domain, on any pretence whatever, upon pain of being punished as disloyal Subjects: After which they placed Soldiers in the Castles and strong Places of that Provostship to be maintained at the Charge of the Country: Without setting up any pretence for seizing those Places other than the pretended possession of their King, as appears by the following expressions contained in every Order relating to this Affair: viz. Though the possession his Majesty is in of the Sovereignty of Poilvache and the Provostship thereof, may sufficiently inform all the Subjects of the Provostship they ought not to acknowledge any Sovereign but his Majesty, etc.  
They took the same course with the Mayors and Inhabitants of the Village of Ahin, a Dependent of the Bailiage of Entre meuze and Arch, and with those of the Mayorality of Houx a Dependent of Bovignes, and consisting in the Villages of Lisoigne, d' Auvaigne, Purnode, Eurd'haille, Juoix and Godiness, and in the hamlets of Lois, Faynoulle, Champall, Venate, Furvoy, Frappeud, Fresne and Talfier, all Situate beyond the , and unquestionably belonging to his Catholic Majesty as Count of Namur.  
Nor did they think it sufficient to make themselves Masters of the Woods of Biert, Marlaigne, and Foy, but they possessed themselves also of the Forests of Marly, Bielme, Vieux-fourneau, Halloy, Weillon, Hez, Bruvieres, and Heronart; for having caused the said Woods and Forests to be felled, they sold them in October 1681, to him that bid most for the use of his most Christian Majesty: And the fourth of December following, compelled the Ranger of the Forests of High and Low Arch (both Dependants of the said Bailiage of Entremeuse and Arche) to appear at Dinnut to swear Allegiance to France.  
They pretend also a property in the Woods of Anwez in the same Province, consisting in eight hundred forty six Bonniers situate beyond the ; and in November 1681, prohibited the Officers of the Woods of that Quarter to come any more to Namur to make any Report concerning those Woods to the Officers of his Catholic Majesty, but required them to make their Reports for the future at Dinaut, on pain of being hanged or sent to the Galleys.   

Other Violences in the Provinces of Lothier, Limburgh, Luxemburgh and Flanders.  
They extend their Usurpations to the Villages of the Duchy of Lothier or Brabant, having about the end of September 1681, sent orders (which were renewed the seventeenth of November the same year) to the Mayor and Inhabitants of Ayseaux, Le Roux, abbey d' Ogines, and their Dependences, being all under the Jurisdiction of the said Duchy, to force them, (as they did,) to swear Allegiance to the most Christian King: Notwithstanding the Remonstrance made to them by the Marquis d'Aysseaux, that these Places were Dependants of the said Duchy of Lothier and not of the County of Namur.  
They have also left Marks of their Violences in the Countinghouse of the Duties for Exportation and Importation established at Honyles Esseneux in the Country of Limbourgh, as well by taking away all the Ancient Controls of Claude noel the Controller deceased, as by other Attempts and Violences against his Widow, who foreseeing their Enterprise withdrew with her Money to Liege.  
In the beginning of December 1681. They made the Province of Flanders feel more sharply the smart of their Opressions; for under pretence of some Attempts and Spoils pretended to have been committed in the Country of Luxemburgh by the Troops of his Catholic Majesty (though caused by the French,) they invaded the said Province, and committed more Cruelties than in a time of open War; having Plundered and sacked several Villages in the Country within the Freedom; and in the Castlewick of Courtray, taking away above six hundred Horse, a Multitude of horned Beasts, and carried with them the Bailiffs, Burgomasters and Sheriffs of Harlebeck, Thielt, and Deinse, the Provost of Harlebeck, the Baron of Winghene, several Curates and other Gentlemen of the Country, whom they used ill, and imprisoned them at Menin among the common Malefactors, where they endured very great incoveniences: the Sieur Voorden Commissioner for France at the Conference of Courtray, having declared to a Deputy of the said Castlewick, that the pretention insisted on by France, was to have payment from the Subjects of Spain, of the Sum of sixty thousand Florins for Interest and Damages pretended to have been suffered by them in the Country of Luxemburgh, and of three and thirty thousand Patacoons for the Charges of the Execution above mentioned: And that if these Sums were not presently paid, the Marshal d'Humieres would send orders for making more terrible Executions, and taking persons of greater Quality than those who were then Prisoners.  
To make it appear yet more clearly, that France scruples not any sort of Contravention against the Treaty of Peace: An Ordinance was issued, dated the twenty seventh of November 1681, whereby they caused all the Lands in Artois, belonging to the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty, to be seized, with prohibition to the Farmers or Receivers to pay thenceforward any thing that should be due to the Proprieters for Arrears or growing Rents till further order: In pursuance whereof, they caused all the Lands, Signiories, and other Effects belonging to the Baron of Couriers, Governor of Audenard, to be seized; though by the Treaties of Peace the Subjects of the one King unquestionably may and aught to enjoy peaceably their Estates within the Dominion of the other.  
Till than we were ignorant of the cause of these Seizures: But the Ministers of France have since sufficiently explained themselves, having by Order of the most Christian King, caused a general seizure to be made of all the Estates, Lands and Signiories of the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty, situate in any Country yielded to France; and having settled Commissioners to receive the Profits and Revenues thereof, and pressed the Receivers to pay them what was already accrued. Declaring further, that those Estates should continue under seizure till the Ministers of his Catholic Majesty at Brussels made Reparation to the Prince d'Isenghien for the vexation he had suffered; though what they call vexation, is but the Sentence and Execution given and awarded by Competent Judges, whom the said Prince petitioned to have Assigned in a Cause wherein he was Plaintiff, and acknowledged their Jurisdiction from the time of the Action brought to the decision of the Cause, having Personally, or by his Lady or Agents, constantly solicited the dispatch of the business, procured the assistance of the Commissioners who attended the Inquests, taxed the Costs, and made up the Report of the Proceed.  
It was afterwards observed also, as to the Office at Esseneux spoken of before, that the Ministers of France had no other design but to destroy it, and utterly ruin the Province of Limburgh as well as the rest; for under several feigned pretences purposely set on foot, and principally for that the Officer at Esseneux had made the Tradesmen of Liege pay the Duties for Importation and Exportation, who, to defraud his Catholic Majesty, pretended themselves Subjects of France, though their being so would have been so far from exempting them, that it obliged them to pay: Yet on this pretence principally they first threatened high, and afterwards Plundered and ruined several Villages of Limburgh, which they also pretend to under the false Title of Dependences of the County of Chiny and others.  
These Attempts and Violences being endless, they exacted two hundred Measures of Oats from the Bank of Sprimont in the same Province, threatening to Plunder the Boars if they did not presently deliver the Oats; and would have obliged the Count d'Esseneux Lord of Sprimont to swear Allegiance to the most Christian King, though that Lordship is notoriously known to be holden of the Duchy and Sovereignty of Limburgh.  
In a word, it clearly appears by all these proceed, that all hitherto done by France and its Ministers is not to be justified either in form or substance.  
For as to form the whole World hath seen, and known they have not acted otherwise than by Force, but have violated the Law of Nations, and broke that Seal of sincerity and truth, affixed so solemnly to the Treaty of Nimmighen, to declare it was intended to be made firm and stable, and to be perpetually observed.  
As to the substance and ground of the pretensions of France, it hath been made appear, they have not any Foundation of Title, Possession, or Colour of Right: And that on the contrary the Title, Possession, and Right of his Catholic Majesty are so fully justified and so clearly made out, that they are really unquestionable, and not to be contradicted with Reason or Truth: Yet for further satisfaction to the World, as to Luxemburgh and Namur, we have thought fit to deduce more particularly the lawful Right and Possession of his Catholic Majesty, in all the French have possessed themselves of in those two Provinces since the Publication of the Peace.    

A PARTICULAR DEDUCTION OF THE EVIDENCES and PROOFS OF The Right and Possession of His Catholic Majesty IN AND TO All the Places France hath taken actual Possession of in the Province of Luxemburgh, since the Publication of the Peace of Nimmighen.  

The Castle, Borrough, and Signiory of Rodemacheren, with twenty Villages its Dependants.  
1. FRance began with the Castle and Borrough of Rodenmacheren, of which the French possessed themselves the thirtieth of December 1678. and afterwards of twenty Villages in which the Lordship of Rodenmacheren consists; though the said Lordship, Castle, and Borrough be a particular and distinct Signiory in chief, depending only of the Duke of Luxemburgh, and held immediately of his Person, as appears by the admissions of the Tenants and Feoffees thereof; particularly in the years 1302, 1314, 1532, 1562, 1605, and several others: as also by the Gift of the said Signiory made by Maximilian King of the Romans, the fifteenth of November, 1492, to Christopher Marquis of Baden, with condition that he and his Heirs, Lords of the said Signiory, should upon every Descent or Alienation do the Services due for their admission, and hold it in Fee of the Duke of Luxemburgh, of whom the said Signiory is holden of old, with all Royalties, Jurisdictions, Fees, and Rights possessory, as expressed in the Grant: It appears further by the Register of Fires, in the years 1552, 1553, and others: Notwithstanding all which, and that Rodenmacheren hath not been granted by any Treaty to the French, yet have they possessed themselves of it, as aforesaid.   

The Castle and Lordship of Hesperange, and four Villages.  
2. In October 1679, the French seized the Castle of Hesperange (distant only half a League from the City of Luxemburgh) pretending it to be a Dependent of Rodenmacheren; and forced the Inhabitants of Hesperange, and four Villages that make up the Signiory, to swear Fealty to the most Christian King; and that they would no longer acknowledge the Duke of Luxemburgh their Sovereign, nor pay him any Aid or Imposition; though by the Surveys of the Lordship of Rodenmacheren, it appears clearly, it extends not to Hesperange, nor those four Villages its Dependants: And the Records of admissions demonstrate evidently, it is held immediately of the Duke of Luxemburgh as a distinct Signiory in Chief, and is as independent as Rodenmacheren itself, as by the Rolls of Admissions in 1532, 1562, 1605.   

The Castle and Lordship of Raville with 17 Villages its Dependants.  
3. In January 1680, the French possessed themselves of the Land and Lordship of Raville, (consisting in seventeen Villages, situate by the River Niedt and thereabouts) as a Dependent of Metz: Whereas in truth the said Land and Signiory hath been always held and reputed parcel of the Sovereignty of Luxemburgh: And the Lords as well as the under-Tenants of Raville have always owned and submitted to the Jurisdiction of the Provincial Council of Luxemburgh, and held immediately of the Duke of Luxemburgh, as appears by the admission of John de Roldenge in the year 1323, by the Earl of Luxemburgh; and by the admissions in the years 1461, 1546, 1548, 1570, 1572, and others: And in the Conference and Partition made the twenty third of September 1615, and the Ratification thereof the twenty fifth of October 1615. it was agreed and declared, That the Duke of Luxemburgh should continue in possession and quiet enjoyment of the exercise of all Acts of Sovereignty in the Village of Raville, without impeachment or innovation by those of Metz, in any point whatsoever: And that thenceforth the Lord Bishop of Metz should be for ever debarred from pretending to any Sovereignty or Jurisdiction whatever in Raville aforesaid: So that not only the Castle but the Signiory of Raville, and its Dependences, belong to the Duke of Luxemburgh.  
4. The fifth of May 1680. the Count de Bissy presented himself upon the Frontier of the Province of Luxemburgh, with a Body of French Horse and Dragoons, threatening an Irruption on the morrow, unless the Soldiers his Catholic Majesty had in the Castles of Russy, Putlange, and Preisch were drawn off in the mean time: The Spaniards to prevent the Ruin of the Province, were forced to comply, and Evacuated the three Castles: This was no sooner done, but the Count de Bissy put French Garrisons in them, and obliged the Province of Luxemburgh to pay the Charges the Victuallers of his Troops said they had been at.   

The Castle and County of Russy, with eleven Villages its Dependants.  
The pretence for these Usurpations was, that those Castles were Dependants of: Thionville and Rodenmacheren: Though Russy be a County holden in Chief of the Duke of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Admissions in the years 1270, 1287, 1304, 1563, 1624., and others; and hath been Surveyed by itself, as a County; as appears by the Register of Fires of the Province; and hath been always under the immediate Jurisdiction and ordering of the Governor of the Province: Besides it is in truth more Ancient than Thionville or Rodemacheren, and was heretofore given by Henry Earl of Luxemburgh to his Brother Walerand. Notwithstanding this, the French have possessed themselves of the said Castle and County of Russy, and eleven Villages its Dependants.   

The Castle and Jurisdiction of Putlange, and fifteen Villages  
5. As also the Castle of Putlange, though held in chief of the Duke of Luxemburgh, as by the Records of Admissions in 1551, 1574, and others; and that the Lord of Putlange, with the rest of the Gentlemen and Feoffees of that Country, swore Fealty to Winceslaus Duke of Luxemburgh in the year 1398.  
6. The French possessed themselves also of the Land of Putlange, and fifteen Villages in which it consists; though it is in truth a Franchise of the Provostship of Luxemburgh, with which it hath been always Taxed and Assessed, in all Charges Ordinary and Extraordinary, as appears not only by the Registers of Fires in 1552, 1563, 1624., 1656, and 1659., but by the Accounts of the Office of the Provostship, and a Sentence given in the point the last of June 1624.   

The Castle and Lordship of Pritsch.  
7. The Castle and Lordship of Pritsch is a distinct Fee and Signiory, depending immediately, and held of the Duke of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Admissions in 1562, 1597, 1624., and others; yet the French seized both the Signiory and Castle.  
8. They possessed themselves of the Castle of Agrimont, as a Dependent of Charlemont, which in truth hath not any Dependent, but was Built and Fortified by Charles the Fifth, in the Territory of Agimont: And the Castle of Agimont, the Capital Seat of the Territory, or any Land depending of it, was never by any Treaty granted to France: But the French have also seized the Lordships of Riennes and Vireux le Walerand, 
The Lordships of Vireux le Walerand and Rienne.  though parcels of the Duchy of Luxemburgh; the former held of it as a Signiory in chief, independent of any other place, and the other holden of the Duke, as of his Castle of Orchimont, as appears by the Admissions and Surveys in the years 1598., 1600, and others.   

The Lordships of Chastepierre, Riviere, &.  
9 Claud Verdavoine Usher of the Chamber of Metz, Summoned the last of February 1681, the Deteyners of the Lands and Lordships of the County of Rochefort and Montagn, the Provostship of Orchymont and New Castle, and Lordships of Chastepierre, Riviere, Fontenoilla, S. Cecile, Lesch, Le Mesnil, Cugnon, Les Bertris, Ban d' Orjo, Baillamont, Marpout, Dochamps, Herbumont, Ban de Hutailles, Ban de Musson, and several other Villages, to appear and answer the Articles of the Attorney General of the said Chamber of Metz: Pretending it did appear those Lands and Lordships were Dependences of the County of Chiny, though in truth not any of them but New Castle be a Dependent of it; and that France had not then set up the least pretention to the County of Chiny: yet in process of time, the French possessed themselves of those Places.   

The Castle and Provostship of Orcymont, with 6 Villages and ten Lordships.  
10. Particularly, having by Force of Arms possessed themselves of the Castle of Orcymont and its Provostship, consisting in twenty one Villages, and also of ten Signiories included within the Limits of the Provostship, they compelled the Justices and Officers of the Provostship and Lordships to swear Fealty to the most Christian King, and prohibited them under grievous Penalties to pay any thing thenceforth to those of Luxemburgh: Though the said Provostship and Lordships have time out of mind been held and reputed parcel of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, and the Dukes of Luxemburgh have enjoyed all Royal Rights, Jurisdiction and Sovereignty over them. And when Orcymont hath been out of the immediate possession of the Duke, the present Owner always did Fealty and other Services for it to the Duke, by the Hands of the Governor General of the Province, as appears by the Admissions in 1545, 1598., 1600, 1678, and others: And in 1260. John Lord of Orcymont acknowledged he held his Lordship of the Earl of Luxemburgh.   

The Castle and County of Rochfort, with four Villages.  
11. The French by Force of Arms possessed themselves likewise of the Castle of Rochfort, a place very considerable, and that hath for above four hundred years acknowledged, as to part, the Duke of Luxemburgh Lord, (as appears by several Admissions, particularly in the years 1283, 1545, 1598., 1599, 1600, 1673, and others) and, as to the residue, the Bishop of Liege, according to agreement with him.  
12. Under pretence that Verton holds of the Bishop of Verdun, and aught to pay him relief and other Services, the Chamber of Metz, by Arrest of the 24th. of October, 1680. condemned His Catholic Majesty to receive admission to his Tenancy of Verton from the Church of Verdun, and to appear personally in the said Chamber, to do his Fealty and Homage to the Most Christian King: though it cannot be made appear, that Verton hath at any time within three hundred and forty years' last passed been taken as a Fee of the Bishop of Verdun; but, on the contrary, the Dukes of Luxemburgh have possessed and enjoyed it ever since the year 1340 when John King of Bohemia, than Earl of Luxemburgh, purchased it of the then rightful Lord of it, to hold to the said Earl and his Successors, in all Sovereignty, Jurisdiction, and Demeans; which Purchase was made in the face of all the World, and without the least trouble or impeachment by any. So that, admitting it true, that Verton above three hundred and forty years since hath been taken of the Bishop of Verdun, as Lord of the Fee; yet what can that be to the purpose, after so many Revolutions and Changes since happened in Kingdoms, Principalities, and Sovereignties? when nothing can be more clear, than that the Conquest one Sovereign gains over another in War, must be regulated by inspexion of the last Estate of the thing conquered: that is, The Conqueror cannot otherwise possess his Conquest than in such manner and form as it was possessed by the Disseizee at the time of the Disseizin by the Arms of his Enemy. Consequently, it being unquestionably true, that the Empire, when by the Treaty of Munster it granced to France the Sovereignty of the Bishopric of Verdun, was not seized of any Seignory over Verton in Right of that Bishopric; it follows, that the Most Christian King cannot by virtue of that Grant pretend to any such Seignory.  
14. This Rule is grounded on the Right of Arms, and derived from the Law of War, by which it is generally holden, the Conqueror succeeds him that is dispossessed, and represents him in his Conquests. So that the Grants of Dependences, and Cessions (of things annexed) in Treaties of Peace, are to be understood (by a tacit condition in Law) to have relation always to the last Possession of the Dispossessed, though it be not so expressed in the Treaty.  
15. This Maxim is allowed by all to have the force of Common Law, except the Ministers of France, who not only reject the Interpretation and Constructions in Law of such Cessions and Grants, but without scruple break express Stipulations.  
16. For, by the Latin Original of the Treaty of Munster it is clear, that the Session of the Sovereignty of the three Bishoprics of Metz, Toul, and Verdun, with their Appendences and Dependences, was not otherwise granted to France, Quam sicuti Imperium hactenus pessedit; that is, Than as the Empire hath hitherto possessed it: which is altered in the French Translation of the Treaty, where the Word Hactenus is not rendered Jesques icy, Hitherto; but Cydevant, Heretofore: which gives quite another sense to the Period.  
17. Notwithstanding this, Count Bissy, accompanied with about two thousand Horse, entered the Province, Mar. 13. 1681. and caused the Commander and Inhabitants of Verton to be summoned three times to yield themselves to France; and upon their refusal, he lodged his Troopsin the Province, and ruin'd several Villages depending on the Provostship of Verton, St. Marred, d' Arlon, Boulogne, Estalle, and Luxemburgh, and divers other Lordships; where he committed many Cruelties and Exactions, having put the Inhabitants to Composition and Ransom, carried away many Goods, and a great quantity of all sorts of Beasts. Not content with this, he sent several Prisoners into the Towns of France, and declared publicly he would not draw out his Forces before the Evacuation of Verton, but would march with them throughout the Province, consuming and ruining one Place after another.   

The Town, Suburbs, and Provostship of Verton, with 17 Villages.  
18. So that the Spaniards, forced to comply, evacuated the Town and Suburbs of Verton, which France took possession of, as well as of the Provostship, with seventeen Villages.  
19 But notwithstanding this Evacuation, Count Bissy would not leave the Province till St. Marred was likewise evacuated, though a Provostship different from Verton, and for several Ages under the Jurisdiction and Sovereignty of Luxemburgh, and time out of mind before the Purchase of Verton. The Spaniards submitted also to the Evacuation of St. Marred, thinking thereby to prevent the total Ruin of the Province, which the French Troops had by their Oppressions, Devastations, and carrying away Men and Beasts, damnified to the Value of One hundred and fifty thousand Crowns.  
20. Thus France possessed itself of St. Marred, and sixteen Villages, its Dependants.   

The Castles and Lordships de la Tour, Mont-Quintin, Lavaux, Grommery, etc.  
21. Not content with this, the French have seized the Signories and Castles de la Tour, Mont-Quintin, Lavax, Gommery, Bassail, Ruette, Villers la Loupe, though Capital Places, held of the Duke of Luxemburgh, and part of them granted him by a Session made 15 July, 1602. confirmed 26 March, 1603.   

The Town and County of Chiny, with 27 Towns, Villages, Hamlets, etc. And the Lordship of Neuf-Chasteau; consisting in 40 Villages.  
22. France stayed not here; but the Chamber-Royal established at Metz, having by an Arrest of 21 April, 1681. condemned the pretended Earl of Chiny to appear pesonally in the said Chamber, to do his Fealty and Homage (due for the said Earldom, its Appurtenances, Dependences, Rights, and Places annexed) and within forty days after to bring in a Survery thereof, with Acknowledgement of his Tenure; they would have recorded this Arrest in the Town of Chiny, by Claud Verdavoire their Usher, had he not been hindered by the Commander of the Town, who made him retire.  
23. And though this pretended Arrest be null by the highest of Nullities, the want of Jurisdiction in that Chamber over his Catholic Majesty, who hath the Right and Possession of the Sovereignty of the County of Chiny, with all its Appendences and Dependences, it is besides most unjust, and full of Errors, both in Law, and in Fact.  
24. For although the Duke of Luxemburgh purchased the County of Chiny in the year 1364. and possessed it ever since in Demensn, with all Sovereignty and Jurisdiction, without doing any Service, or paying any Relief for it to the Duke of Barr, who, on the contrary, by Grant of 15 July, 1602. confirmed 26 March, 1603. released all Rights and Obligations of Vassalship, direct Seignory, and Feodal Tenure, he had, or could pretend to, or demand, over the said County of Chiny, in exchange for the Services and Reliefs due from the said Duke of Bar for several considerable Lands, to wit, the Town and Castlewick of S●thenay, the Town and Castlewick of Marville, the Provostship of Arancy, the Ban or Manor of Marry and Conflans in Gernesey, which the Archdukes Albert and Isabel released to that Duke; yet the Chamber of Metz condemned the Lord of the County of Chiny to do in Person his Fealty and Homage, whereof he had been acquitted by solemn Acts, executed with all Formality requisite: Not to mention that the Duke of Barr pretended to the Seignory of no more than a moiety of the said County, as appears by the said Grant of 15 July, 1602. and by another of 10 September, 1553.  
25. However, the Count de Bissy, the tenth of July, 1681. entered the Province again with a Body of Horse and Dragoons, and caused the Commander of Chiny to be summoned to quit that Place with his Garrison, threatening him with ill usage in case of refusal: But the Commander having not thought fit to obey the Summons, Count Bissy stayed some days with his Troops about Chiny, and afterwards marched with them from one end of the province to the other, requiring the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty to receive them, and to swear Fealty and Homage to the most Christian King, which some were forced to do: And having continued some days at Ay, he marched with his Troops to Ortevilli, Asnoi lez Bastoigne, Martelange, and Elle, and afterwards went on to the further end of the Marshes, and posted himself between Mersch and Luxemburgh till about the end of August.  
26. So that the Spaniards were obliged to evacuate Chiny, to prevent the Ruin of the Province, and of Brabant, Flanders, and Hainalt, threatened by the French, who use in such cases to be too true to their Words, as appears sufficiently by many fresh Instances here before mentioned.  
27. But France not satisfied with the Evacuation of Chiny, demanded that the following Places should be evacuated; to wit, Remich, Greven-Macheren, Wasserbillig, Echternach, Vianden, Dickrich, S. Vith, Lafoy Roche, Houstalize, Durbuy, Clervaux, March, Mirwart, Bastoigne, Arlon, and their Dependants; to which the Spaniards were forced to submit.  
28. Thus France got possession of them, and generally of all the Places, Lands, and Lordships of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, except the Villages of the Provostship of Luxemburgh, and obliged the Officers and Lawyers to swear Allegiance to the most Christian King, though the Places, Lands, and Lordship's , or any of them, have not any dependence on the County of Chiny, or any other Capital Place belonging to France, but have always been part of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, and for several Ages held of the duke as Sovereign Lord thereof, as will particularly appear by what shall be observed concerning every Place hereafter specified and possessed by France.  
29. The Provostship of Luxemburgh is composed of three Jurisdictions; Kuntzig or Clemancy, Putlange, and Bettingen; three Land-Mayories, Bettemburgh, Sand-Weiler, and Kehlen; and three Mayoralties, Steinsel, Lingtgen, and Schittenigen: consisting together in seventy one Villages and Hamlets, and thirty five more, called The Villages of the provost. this Provostship is of the Ancient Patrimony of the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh, having heretofore belonged to Sigisfroid first Earl of Luxemburgh, who having purchased in the year 963. of Wikerus Abbot of St. Maximin at Treves, the Castle of Luxemburgh, in exchange for an Estate in the village of Tealen, immediately caused this Town of Luxemburgh to be built there: And the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh have ever since successively enjoyed the said City and Provostship in Demean, with all Rights of Jurisdiction and Sovereignty, till Count Bissy possessed himself of the said Provostship.  
30. Besides, the said Jurisdictions, Land. Mayoralties, Mayoralties, and Villages of the Provostship, have been always surveyed together, and taxed jointly towards all Public Charges, ordinary and extraordinary, under the name of The provostship of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Register of Fires in 1552, 1553, 1604, 1656, 1659. Every of them being governed by a Sheriff and Assessor, who with the Provost make up the Provost-Court, kept in the City of Luxemburgh, where the Assessors are obliged to reside. And it cannot be proved, the said provostship, or any part of it, is a Dependent of the Lordship of Rodenmacker, (but hath always acknowledged the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh its Sovereigns, and is held of them) nor yet of the County of Chiny, nor of any other Capital Place; the County of Chiny having been first purchased by Wenceslaus first Duke of Luxemburgh, in the Year 1364. as hath been already made out; and consequently, above four hundred Years after the Earls of Luxemburgh were first seized of that Provostship, which now is entirely in the possession of France, except only the thirty five Villages and Hamlets of the Provost.   

The Borough, Franchise, and mayoralty of Remich, consisting in 20 Villages and Hamlets.  
31. If any Place in the province may be reputed annexed to the Town and Provostship of Luxemburgh, the Mayoralty of Remich must certainly be so, having belonged to the first Earls of Luxemburgh; and the Inhabitants are free of City of Luxemburgh, as well as of Remich: And the Court or Mayordom of Remich hath also belonged to the first Earls of Luxemburgh, who, as well as their Successors, the Earls and Dukes of that Place, have always enjoyed it in Demesne, and exercised in it all Jurisdiction and Sovereignty; the ninth part of all Wine and Grain within the Mayordom having been paid his Catholic Majesty, by the Hands of the Receiver of his Demesns in the City of Luxemburgh, who resides there, and receives also the Demesns of the Provostship of Luxemburgh. Walerand and Ermesind, Earl and Countess of Luxemburgh in the Year 1225. assigned to their Daughter Catharin (promised in Marriage to Matthew Duke of Lorraine) Three thousand Livers Messinois, on the Demesns of Remich, and other Places, which in 1229. were paid the said Duke. Henry the ninth Earl of Luxemburgh, and Son of Walerand and Ermesind, with Margaret his Wife, paid the Cloister of Clairfontain, near Arlon, Thirty Awms of Wine, to be taken out of their Demesns of Remich and Graven-Mackeren: By which it appears the Mayordom of Remich is of the ancient Patrimony and Demesns of the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh, who have from time to time caused it to be Assessed, and to pay towards all Public Charges, ordinary and extraordinary.   

The Jurisdiction of Mackeren le Conte, consisting in the Town and thirty four Villages and Hamlets.  
32. The Jurisdiction of Mackeren le Conte, consisting in the Town of that Name, and four and thirty Villages and Hamlets, lies near adjacent to the Mayordom of Remich, and belonged to the first Earls of Luxemburgh, from whom it came to the Dukes of the same Place, and successively to his Catholic Majesty in Demesn, with all Rights of Jurisdiction and Sovereignty. Henry the second of that Name, the ninth Earl of Luxemburgh, having in the year 1251. assigned to the Monastery of Clairfontain Fifty Measures of Rye, upon his Demesns of Mackeren le Count, as a Foundation for five prebend's in the said Monastery: and in 1270. the said Earl sold the said Monastery Thirty Awms of Wine, to be taken Annually out of his Demesns of Graven-Mackeren and Remich, as was observed before. Besides, in the Year 1252. the Burrow of Mackeren was farmed out by order of the said Earl Henry, from whom it bears to this day the Name of Mackeren le count, or Earls-Mackeren: The Inhabitants were made Freemen of Luxemburgh, and afterwards, in 1327. gratified with many other Privileges, by John the Twelfth King of Bohemia, and Wenceslaus his Son, first Duke of of Luxemburgh, who in 1357. granted them a Weekly Market; and lastly, by Wenceslaus the Emperor, second Duke of Luxemburgh, who in 1584. confirmed all their Privileges.   

The Provostship of Echternach, consisting in the Town, and thirty three Villages and Hamlets, etc.  
33. The Provostship of Echternach, consisting in the Town of that Name, and three and thirty Villages and Hamlets, divided into the four Mayordoms of Osweiller, Irrel, Erenhen, and Bollendorff, belonged to the first Earls of Luxemburgh in Demesn, with full Right of all Jurisdiction and Sovereignty: Which Earls had granted the Greatest part of their said Demesn to the Abbeys of St. Willebrod and St. Clair at Echternach, for Pious Uses. Henry the second of that Name, and Mineth Earl of Luxemburgh, the Son of Wallerand de Limbourgh, and Ermesinde Countess of Luxemburgh, assigned in the Year 1240. 700 Livers a Year on his Lands in Echternach and Biedbourgh, in Dower to his Wife Margaret de Barr. His Son, Henry the Tenth, Earl of Luxemburgh, in 1277. ratified the Foundation made by Thiry de Kerpen and Margaret his Wife, of an Anniversary in the Abbey of Echternach, out of his Rents at Wallendorf. In 1398. the Deputies of the Town of Echternach did Fealty and Homage to the Emperor Wenceslaus, second Duke of Luxemburgh; and the Subjects of that Place have acknowledged his Catholic Majesty, and his August Predecessors, Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh, their Sovereigns, and paid them Aids and Subsidies, as well as other Places of the Province, to this day.   

The Town and Provostship of Biedbourgh, consisting in the Franchise of Dusseldorf, and 34 Villages.  
34. The Town and provostship of Biedbourgh, consisting in the Franchise of Dusseldorf, and four and thirty Villages, having belonged in Demesn, with full Right of Jurisdiction and Sovereignty, to Sigisfroid first Earl of Luxemburgh, and descended from him to other Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh successively, the Subjects of the Territory have to this day acknowledged his Catholic Majesty their Sovereign, and paid him Aids and Subsidies, with other Subjects of the Province, as formerly, in 1359. Henry Earl of, Luxemburgh, the Son of Walerand Earl of Limbourgh and Ermesinde Countess of Luxemburgh, assigned in the Year 1240. in Dower to Margaret the Daughter of Henry Earl of Barr, his Wife, seven hundred Livers a Year, on his Demesns of Biedbourgh and Echternach: And in 1398. the Deputies of Biedbourgh, with the Deputies of other Towns, did Fealty and Homage to the Emperor Wenceslaus, as Duke of Luxemburgh.   

The Town and Provostship of Dickrich, etc.  
35. The Sovereignty and Jurisdiction over the Town and provostship of Dickrich, consisting in the Town of that name, and five and twenty Villages and Hamlets, hath ever belonged to the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh; and so have the Demesns of it: part whereof Walerand Earl of Luxemburgh purchased of Robert d'Esch, in 1221. Besides, the said Provostship hath contributed with other Towns of the Province, to the Aids and Subsidies paid his Majesty: And the Town of Dickrich hath lately sent Deputies to the Assembly of the States, as it had formerly done in the year 1400. in the Town of Arlon.   

The Town and Provostship of Arlon.  
36. The Town and Provostship of Arlon, consisting in the Town of that name, and 119 Villages and Hamlets, under fifteen Bannes or Mayoralties, is a Provostship of large extent, and comprehends a great part of Ardenne; which having belonged to Sigisfroid first Earl of Luxemburgh, came many years after, by marriage, to the Family of Limbourg, and afterwards returned, by the like way of Marriage, to the House of Luxemburgh: Since which his Catholic Majesty (as his Royal Predecessors) enjoyed it in Demesn, with full Right and Exercise of Jurisdiction and Sovereignty: For clearning whereof, it may not be impertinent to give you the following Account.  
37. Sigisfroid, the first of Luxemburgh, having, as Successor to the Earls of Arden, had in his possession the Town and Provostship of Arlon, enjoyed it during Life, and at his Death left it to his Son Henry, under the Title of the Earldom of Ardenne. Frederick, elder Son of the said Henry, having by Inheritance succeeded in the Earldom of Luxemburgh, left Conrade the Son of his Brother Gisilbert his Successor, to whom the said Town and Provostship of Arlon descended, by the name of the Earldom of Ardenne. Conrade had Issue Wallerand Earl of Arlon, who first qualified himself in Writing with the Title of Earl of Arson. He married Adela the Daughter of Theodore Earl of Barr and Brie, Niece of Frederick Duke of Lorraine, who built the Town of Bar. Adela, who had her usual Residence at Arlon, having survived her Husband, left Issue by him two Sons, Walerand and Foulk, and a Daughter named Adela. Walerand and Foulk dying without Issue, the County of Arlon fell in possession to their Sister Adela; who having married Henry Earl of Limbourgh, brought him in Marriage the Earldom of Arlon. The same Henry, afterwards created Duke of Lothier, by Henry the Emperor, about the Year 1101. retained the same Title, though deprived of it about 1106. and left Walerand, surnamed The Pagan, his Heir, as well of the Duchy of Limbourgh, as the Earldom of Arlon, and all his Father had been seized of about Thionville. This Walerand had three Sons, Henry Duke of Limbourgh, Walerand Earl of Arlon, and Gerard. His son Walerand Earl of Arlon, in the Year 1210. gave by Deed to the Abbey of Munster near Luxemburgh, for an Anniversary Obits to be sung on the day of his death, the Church of Kittenlwuen, with the Right of Patronage; in which Deed he first took the Title of Marquis of Arlon. Walerand the Marquis left (besides other Sons) Walerand second Husband if Ermesinde Countess of Luxemburgh, to whom, in 1214. with consent of his two sons by a former Venture, he gave in Marriage the Marquisate of Arlon, with its appurtenences and dependences, upon condition the Issue he should have by that Marriage should inherit the said Marquisate, together with the County of Luxemburgh. Accordingly, the said Marquisate of Arlon, together with the Earldom of Luxemburgh and La Roche, fell to Henry eldest son of Wallerand by Ermesinde; which Henry left it to his Successors, Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh. And thereupon the said Marquisate remained annexed to the Duchy of Luxemburgh; and the August Successors of the Dukes of that Place have from time to time peaceably enjoyed the Patrimony and Fees depending thereon, and exercised therein all Acts of Jurisdiction and Sovereignty, 150 Years before the Purchase of the County of Chiny in 1364. by Wenceslaus the first Duke of Luxemburgh.   

The Town and Provostship of Bastoigne.  
38. The Town, Mayoralty, and Provostship of Bastoigne, consisting in the Town of that name, and one hundred forty five Villages and Hamlets, under ten Mayordoms, hath ever since the Year 963. belonged to the first Earls of Luxemburgh in Demesn, with full Right of Jurisdiction and Sovereignty, as comprehended under the Title of the Earldom of Ardenne. Walerand and Ermesinde, Earl and Countess of Luxemburgh, having by Deed, in 1225. assigned to their daughter Catharin (who had been promised in Marriage to Matthew Duke of Lorraine) three thousand Livers Messinois, upon their Demesn of Bastoigne, (except the Town) and upon their Courts of Remich and Anliers, which were accordingly paid the said Matthew of Lorraine in 1229. Since which time, the Town and Provostship of Bastoigne hath been reputed a Member of the County and Duchy of Luxemburgh, and the Earls and Dukes thereof have enjoyed it, with all Sovereignty and Jurisdiction, to this day.   

The Town and Provostship of March, etc.  
39 The Town, Mayoralty, and Provostship of March; consisting in the Town of that name, and nineteen Villages and Hamlets, hath many Ages belonged to the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh in Demesn, with full Right of Sovereignty and Jurisdiction. Henry the second of that name, Earl of Luxemburgh, the Son of Ermesinde, gave it in the Year 1247. to his Brother Gerard, in full of all demands of Inheritance in Right of his Father and Mother. This Provostship was then granted by the name of The Land of Tamennes, above the Castle and Town of Durbuy, with all its Dependences, Villance, the Land of Dalem, and Filstorff, upon condition expressed in the Grant, That Gerrard should hold the said Lands in Fee of the Earl of Luxemburgh. The said Lands of Tamennes, Durbuy, and Balance were in the Year 1304. reunited to the County of Luxemburgh, by Count Henry the fourth of that name, Son of Henry the third and Beatrix Daughter of Baldwyn of Avennes, pursuant to an Agreement made that Year between Gerard Earl of Grandprez, Lord of Houstalize, Son of Henry of Grandprez and Beatrix Daughter of Gerard Lord of Durbuy, and the said Henry Earl of Luxemburgh, by the Mediation of his Mother the Countess Dowager of Luxemburgh, called Beatrix, to whose Arbitrement the Parties submitted, the Sunday after Christmas, 1303. upon condition nevertheless, that the Lordship of Russy whereof Dalem and Filstorff are part) should remain to the said Gerard of Grandprez, and that Count Henry should pay him an Annuity of One hundred Livers. The like Agreement was made by Gerrard Lord of Blackenheim and Irmgard his Wife, Daughter also of Gerard Lord of Durbuy, by Deed, in February, 1306. whereby the said Lord of Blackenheim and his Wife have renounced and released all Right they could any way have to the Estate of Gerard Lord of Durbuy, their Father-in-Law, and Father respectively; which Renunciation and Release was ratified in 1314. by John and Gerard Sons of the said Gerard of Blackenheim; and afterwards the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh enjoyed it in Demesn, with full Jurisdiction and Sovereignty.   

The Town and Provostship of Durbuy, etc.  
40. The Town and Provostship of Durbuy, consisting in the Town of that name, and forty four Villages and Hamlets, divided into four Courts, and nineteen Lordships of the Soil, Composed of two and thirty Villages, have likewise belonged some Ages to the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh in Demesn, with full Right of Jurisdiction and Sovereignty: And his Catholic Majesty hath continued in possession of it, as appears by what hath been said before as to the Provostship of March.   

The County of La Roche, etc.  
41. The Earldom of La Roche, consisting in the Castle and Town so called, and one and fifty Villages and Hamlets, divided into four Mayordoms, and the Seignory of Beausaint, is an ancient Patrimony of the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh, who assumed the Title of Earls de la Roche ever since the year 1214. and enjoyed the said Castle, Town, and their Dependences, in Demesn, with full Right of Jurisdiction and Sovereignty, till dispossessed of them forcibly by the French, as aforesaid.   

The County of Salm, etc.  
42. The County of Salm, consisting in a Castle, Burrough, and thirty two Villages and Hamlets is very ancient, having taken its Original from the first Family of the Earls of Luxemburgh: Gislibert the Son of Frederick the second Earl of Luxemburgh having taken the Title of Earl of Salm, in which Earldom his Son Herman succeeded, who afterwards was chosen Emperor of the Romans, and left the said Earldom to his Son Herman also by name, who had his Son Conrade his Successor; Henry the Son of Conrade succeeded him, and by Deed of 15 May, 1240. declared, That as his Ancestor the Earl of Salm had done Fealty and Homage to the Noble Man the Earl of Luxemburgh, he would renew the said Homage, and did for him, and his Heirs and Successors, Earls of Salm, take of Henry Earl of Luxemburgh and La Roche, and Marquess of Arlon, (which Henry, being the second of that name, was the ninth Earl of Luxemburgh) the Castle and Castlewick of Salm, with all their Appurtenances, Rights, Inheritances, Fiefes, Wards, Homages, Burgessships', and Signories whatsoever, to be holden of the Earl of Luxemburgh in Fee, and by Homage-Liege. Henry, the Son of the said Henry Earl of Salm, did the like Fealty and Homage, on Thursday next after the Feast of All Saints, in the Year 1248. for the same Castle of Salm, to the same Henry Earl of Luxemburgh, with a formal Declaration, That the Earl of Luxemburgh might and ought to have Aid of the Castle of Salm, and Lands belonging to it, against all Men; and that the Castle was to be surrendered to him when occasion required. In 1306. Henry Earl of Salm, Son of Henry aforesaid, did the like Services for the said Earldom of Salm, to Henry the fourth of that name, the eleventh Earl of Luxemburgh, and seventh Emperor of that name. After him, Henry his Son, Earl of Salm, did the like Services for the said Earldom, to John King of Bohemia, twelfth Earl of Luxemburgh, on Monday the eighth of December, 1343. The Family of Salm being extinct in 1408. the Lords of Reiferscheidt succeeding as next of Blood, did the like Services for the said County, till a certain Lord of Reiferscheidt, Earl of Salm, having for Violences and Outrages by him committed, been banished out of these Countries, and his Estate declared confiscated to the use of the Emperor Charles, the Fifth Duke of Luxemburgh, by Sentence of the Great Council at Malines, 16 January, 1528. his Son John of Reiferscheidt, Earl of Salm, was summoned to appear at the said Council, to hear Execution awarded of the said Sentence, at his peril: But this John having submitted himself, by agreement made at Bruxelles, with the Queen Dowager of Hungary and Bohemia, Governess of the Low-Countries, 21 February, 1549. the said Earldom of Salm, and all the Estate thereto belonging, were granted to the said John of Reiferscheidt Earl of Salm: but upon express condition, that he should take and hold them in Fee of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, as Duke of Luxemburgh, by the Services accustomed: And the third of January, 1551. the said John took them accordingly; and ever since, the successors of the said Earl of Salm have been used and reputed (as his Predecessors had been) Vassals of his Catholic Majesty and his Ancestors, Dukes and Earls of Luxemburgh; and the Subjects of the said Earldom have contributed to all public Charges imposed on the Province of Luxemburgh.   

The Country of Vianden.  
43 The County of Vianden consists in a Castle, Town, and forty nine Villages and Hamlets, divided into six Mayordoms, of which several other Castles and Lands hold as Mesne Fees. It is of large extent, and for several Ages passed hath been held in Fee of the Earl of Luxemburgh. The first Earl of Vianden was Frederick in the Year 1124. who left Signisfroid his Son his Successor, to whom succeeded Frederick about the Year 1193. and to Him his Son Philip, who dying without Heirs of his Body, left the said County to his Brother Henry; who having been kept Prisoner by Walerand Duke of Limburgh and Earl of Luxemburgh, was set at liberty, on Condition he should acknowledge Walerand Lord of the Fee of the said County of Vianden. the next Earl of Vianden was Philip, Son of the said Henry, who was kept Prisoner by his Nephew Henry, upon some difference between them about the Succession of the County of Vianden. On this occasion it was that Henry Bishop of Utrecht, Brother to Philip Count Vianden, passed an Act in the Year 1264. in favour of Henry Earl of Luxemburgh; by which he promises that Philip his Brother, and his Successors, should hold the said County of Vianden as a Fief Liege immediately of the Earl of Luxemburgh, on Condition the said Henry Earl of Luxemburgh should use all the means he could to set at liberty the said Philip Earl of Vianden, and to restore to him the Castle of Schonecken, usurped by his Nephew Henry. The said Philip accordingly took the Earldom of Vianden of Margaret Countess of Luxemburgh, Wife of Henry the Second, Earl of Luxemburgh, and of Henry the Third of that Name, their Son, on Tuesday before Lent in the Year 1270. Godfrey having succeeded his Father Philip, left Heir of the County of Vianden, Philip, begotten of Lintgarde, Lady of Lignie, etc. which Philip took in like manner the said County of Vianden in 1306. of Henry the Fourth of that Name, Earl of Luxemburgh, and Emperor of the Romans. Afterwards the said County came by Marriage to the House and Family of Nassau above three hundred years ago, and the Princes of Orange have successively taken it of his Catholic Majesty and his Predecessors, Dukes of Luxemburgh; and the Subjects of Vianden have from time to time constantly contributed to all Aids and public Charges, ordinary and extraordinary, with other Subjects of the Province of Luxemburgh; and his Majesty, whenever he pleased, put a Garrison into the Castle and Town of Vianden.   

The Land and Seignory of St. Vithe, etc.  
44. The Land and Seignory of St. Vithe, consisting in a Town and forty seven Villages, divided into six Courts, is an ancient Fee of Luxemburgh, Count Henry the Second of that Name having long since had Toll and Conduct-Money in St. Vithe and Bullenge in the Year 1253. as appears by the Agreement between the said Count Henry and his Sister Elizabeth, Wife of Walerand, Lord Faulcomont and Montjoy, in the Year 1270. Walerand, Lord Faulcomont and Montjoy, did Fealty and Homage for the said Land and Seignory to Henry the Second of that Name, Earl of Luxemburgh, and Margaret his Wife: So did Reynald Lord Faulcomont and Montjoy in 1306. to Henry the Fourth of that Name, Earl of Luxemburgh, for the Lordship of St. Vithe; which coming afterwards to Simon Earl of Spanheim, he did Fealty and Homage for it to Winceslaus Duke of Luxemburgh, in the Year 1380. The same Lordship passing since by Marriage into the Family of Nassau, the Princes of Orange have always done Fealty for it, (with the County of Vianden, and other Lands and Lordships in the Country of Luxemburgh) as a Fee held of the Duke of Luxemburgh: And the Inhabitants of the said Land and Lordship have always Contributed, with the rest of his Catholic Majesties Subjects, towards all public Aids and Charges, ordinary and extraordinary: And his Majesty hath placed a Garrison in the Town of St. Vithe, when ever he thought it convenient.   

The Lordship of Munster, etc.  
45. The Lordship of Munster, near the City of Luxemburgh is a Capital place, consisting of our and twenty Villages, Hamlets and Farms, and hath been of the ancient Patrimony of the Earls of Luxemburgh, who in the year 1080, endowed therewith the Abbey of Munster, as appears by the Foundation of Conrade, the second of that Name, Earl of Luxemburgh, in the year 1083, Confirmed by Earl William his Son, and Walerand, Earl of Luxemburgh, in the year 1225: And the Privileges and Exemptions granted them have been confirmed successively, by Wenceslaus, Earl of Luxemburgh, in the year 1398; by Philip, Duke of Burgundy, in 1432; by Maximilian the Emperor, in 1486, and by Charles the Fifth, the 15th of July 1531.   

The Lordship of Mont St. Jean, etc.  
46. The Lordship of Mont St. Jean, consisting in four Villages and Hamlets, with an old demolished Castle, hath ever been under the Sovereignty of the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh, and held in Fee immediately of them, as appears by the Records of Fealty and Homage, in the years 1563, 1573, 1600, 1624.   

The Castle and Lordship of Differtange, and Sollevure, etc.  
47. The Castle and Lordship of Differtange and Sollevure, with three and twenty Villages, Hamlets, and Farms its Dependants, hath been part of the ancient Demesnes of the Earls of Luxemburgh, as appears by Deed, in 1238, wherein Alexander Lord of Sollevure hath acknowledged the said Lordship to have descended to him as a Fee from Ermesinde, Countess of Luxemburgh, who having, in the year 1236, confirmed the Privileges of the Town of Echternach, the said ALexander, obliged himself to observe them, on pain of losing his Fee: The Lord of the same place did Fealty and Homage for it to Duke Wenceslaus, in the year 1398, with other Lords and Feoffees of that Country; and his Successors did the like in the years 1532, 1546, 1563, 1573, and 1600.   

The Castle and Lordship of Bertrange, etc.  
48. The Castle and Lordship of Bertrange, (the Lords whereof have not only been Lords, Feodals, and Gentlemen of that Country, but had Jurisdiction over the Gentlemen Feoffees of the same, as appears by the Act of Sale of the Towns of Verton, Ivoix, and la Ferte, conveyed to Jeffrey de Bertrange, in the year 1340.) is not distant above a 11 hours' Journey from the Capital City, and stands enclosed within the Provostship of Luxemburgh.   

The Castle and Lordship of Ansembourgh, etc.  
49. The Castle and Lordship of Ansembourgh consists in three Villages and Hamlets, wherein his Catholic Majesties Predecessors, and his Majesty, have for several Ages exercised to this day all acts of Sovereign Jurisdiction, by their Provost of Luxemburgh, particularly by the Execution of Malefactors condemned to die: And the Lord of Ansembourgh, in the year 1398, did Fealty and Homage with the other Feoffees and Subjects of that Country to Duke Wenceslaus.   

The Castle and Lordship of Hellenfelts, etc.  
50. The Castle and Lordship of Hellenfelts, consists in twelve Villages and Hamlets, the Lords whereof have been Feoffees of that Country. And John de Helvetz, above three hundred and sixty years past was Justicier of the Nobles there. And the Conveyance of the said Lordship was made before the Justicier and Bench of Nobles of that Country, as appears by the Sale and Conveyance made in the year, 1477: Since which, as before, it hath been taken in Fee from the Dukes of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Records of Fealty and Homage, in 1546, 1547, 1570, 1577, and 1624.   

The Castle and Lordship of Mersch, etc.  
51. The Castle and Lordship of Mersch, consisting in fourteen Villages and Hamlets, hath also been an ancient Demesn of the Earls of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Gift of part thereof, made by Sigisfroid, first Earl of Luxemburgh, to the Monastery of St. Maximin; the residue thereof, with the high Jurisdiction, or right of doing Justice in Capital matters, as well as those of inferior Nature, having been held in Fee of his Catholic Majesty, by Temporal Lords, who have been always Cavaliers of that Country, and assisted as such at the Sessons of Nobles held at Luxemburgh, particularly at the Sessions held in the year 1407, and with other Feoffees of the same Country did Fealty and Homage to the Emperor Wenceslaus, as Duke of Luxemburgh, in the year 1398, and afterwards received the said Lordship as a Fee of the Dukes of Luxemburgh, in 1520, 1534, and 1571.   

The Castle and Lordship of Pittange, etc.  
52. The Castle and Lordship of Pittange, consisting in sixteen Villages and Hamlets, the high Justice whereof the King of Bohemia, in the year 1311, gave to Arnold, Lord of Pittange, for enlargement of his Fee: The Lord of Pittange did Homage for it to the Emperor Wenceslaus, in the year 1398: The Sale and Conveyance of it was passed before the Justicier and Bench of Nobles of that Country, as appears by the Grant thereof, made by Margaret Lady Pittange, in the year 1458, since which, the Lords thereof have successively taken it of the Dukes of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Records of Services done upon admission in the years 1520, 1532, 1546, 1547, 1562, 1570, and 1572.   

The Lordship of Huperdange.  
53. The Lordship of Huperdange is a Dependent of that of Pittange, and was given by Henry Earl of Luxemburgh, to Arnold of Pittange, in the year 1281, on condition he should hold it in Fee, by Fealty and Homage: And for enlargement of the said Fee, the King of Bohemia granted the said Arnold the Right and Power of High Justice, or Criminal Jurisdiction, in the year 1311.   

The Lordship of Arlon-Court.  
54. The Lordship of Arlon-Court consists in three Villages and Hamlets, and is a Capital place, and ancient Fee of the said Province. John King of Bohemia having granted Arnold de Pittange High Justice there, in the year 1311, for enlargement of his Fee. And in 1570 the Lord of Arlon-Court did Homage for it.   

The Lordship of Meissenburgh.  
55. The Lordship of Meissenbourgh consists in fifteen Villages and Hamlets: The Lords thereof have been Counsellors to the ancient Earls of Luxemburgh, before, and since the year 1237, and in 1398 did Fealty and Homage for it to the Dukes of Luxemburgh, and afterwards in the year 1532, 1547, 1556, and 1624.   

The Castle and Lordship of Fischbach.  
56. The Castle and Lordship of Fischbach consists in three Villages and Hamlets: The Lords thereof have been Cavaliers of that Country, done Fealty and Homage to the Duke in 1398, and assisted at the Session of Nobles in 1407. The High Justice thereof was given by Justus, Marquis of Brandenburg, to Robert and John de Fischbach, on Friday before the Visitation, in 1407. And Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, on St. Simons day, in the year 1409, confirmed the said Gift: The Conveyance of Sale of part of the said Lordship was passed before the Justicier and Bench of Nobles of Luxemburgh the 13 of September 1581., and the 18 of May, 1628.; and the Lords of it have done Fealty and Homage for it to the Dukes of Luxemburgh.   

The Castle and Lordship of Leinster, etc.  
57 The Castle and Lordship of Leinster, or Lincerens, consists in nine Villages and Hamlets: The Lords thereof have been ancient Feoffees of that Country, and in 1236 obliged themselves to observe the Privileges granted to the Inhabitants of Echternech, by the Countess of Ermesinde, on pain of forfeiting their Fee: The Lord of Leinster, in 1230, did Fealty and Homage for it; the like was done for it to Duke Wenceslaus in 1398, and afterwards to other Dukes in 1447, and 1556.   

The Castle and Lordship of Heffingen.  
58. That the Castle and Lordship of Heffingen is a Capital place, and held in Chief of the Duke of Luxemburgh, appears by the Records of Services upon Admissions in 1563.   

The Lordship of la Rochette, with the Wall of an old Castle, and fifteen Villages and Hamlets, etc.  
59 The Lordship of la Rochette consists in fifteen Villages and Hamlets, the Lords thereof have been ancient Feoffees of that Country, and as such have purchased several Lordships there, and in 1398, and since in 1546, 1563, 1570, 1600, and 1621., have done Fealty and Homage for it to the Dukes of Luxemburgh, as appears of Record.   

The Lordship of Heringen.  
60. In 1570 the Duke of Luxemburgh had Fealty and Homage done him by the Lord of Heringen, for his Lordship of Heringen, consisting in a Village and a Hamlet.   

The Castle and Lordship of Beaufort, etc.  
61. The Castle and Lordship of Beaufort, consisting in eleven Villages and Hamlets, is a Fee and Capital place of the Duchy of Luxemburgh: In 1338, among other the Feoffees of the Duchy, the Lord of Beaufort did Homage to the Duke. The Lordship having since been Confiscated by Archduke Maximilian, he invested in it Messire Jean Bayer of Bapport, as appears by the Act of Donation made the 7th of August, 1478. And the Successors of the Donee have since done Fealty and Homage for it to the Dukes of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Records thereof in 1506, and 1621.   

The Castle and Lordship of Berbourg.  
62. The Castle and Lordship of Berbourg, or Beaurepart, consisting in eleven Villages and Hamlets, is an ancient Fee of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Act of Renovation of the Privileges of Echternach, by which Viry, Lord of Berbourg, is obliged to observe them upon pain of being deprived of his Fee. In 1238 the Lord of Berbourg did Homage for it to the Duke of Luxemburgh; the Successors of the said Lord did the like in 1563, 1573, and 1600: The Lords of the said place having been the ancient Chancellors of that Country, and acknowledged to b e so in the Session of Nobles held at Luxemburgh in 1407.   

The Lordship of Herberens and Mompach.  
63. The Seignory of Herberens and Mompach is a Fee held of the Duke of Luxemburg, and in 1451, John de Sirk did Homage for Mompach to the Duke.   

The Castle and Lordship of Reulandt.  
64. The Castle and Lordship of Reulandt, consisting in fifteen Villages and Hamlets, is an ancient Fee of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Act of Sale made by Elizabeth of Blackenheim to the King of Bohemia, in 1327, wherein she declares she sells it in the same manner, as the late Feris of Blackenheim held it in Fee of the said King, by Homage and Fealty: And the said Lordship having afterwards been granted out in Fee: it was taken in the year 1384, of King Wenceslaus, as Duke of Luxemburgh, and annexed to the Office of Chamberlain of the Duchy; and in the year 1549 Homage was again done for it.   

The Castle and Lordship of Ouren.  
65. The Castle and Lordship of Ouren consists in six Villages and Hamlets; the Lord thereof, with other Subjects and Vassals of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, did Fealty and Homage to Duke Wenceslaus in 1398.   

The Castle and Lordship of Clervaux.  
66. The Castle and Lordship of Clervaux, consists in four and forty Villages and Hamlets, the Lords whereof have anciently been Chancellors of this Country, as appears by the Sale of Ivoix, the Conveyance whereof was made before Walter de Chervaux, and Chancellor of the Province, who with other Cavaliers of those parts did Fealty and Homage to Duke Wenceslaus, in the year 1398.   

The Castle and County of Wiltz.  
67. In the year 1398 and after, Fealty and Homage have been performed to the Dukes of Luxemburgh, for the Castle and County of Wiltz, consisting in three and twenty Villages and Hamlets.   

The Castle and Lordship of Esch.  
68 The Castle and Lordship of Esch, or Aisse, consists in nineteen Villages and Hamlets, the Lords whereof were anciently Chancellors of the Country, having assisted the Earls of Luxemburgh in Council, and in quality of Noble Feoffees, taken Cognizance of Sales and Grants of the Lordships of the same Country, as appears by an Act passed in 1230, before Robin d'Esch, Knight: This Lordship was formerly held of the Earl of Vianden, who having afterwards consented it should be holden immediately of the Earl of Luxemburgh, Homage was done to him immediately for it, in 1270, 1306, 1506, 1551, and 1624.: And in 1398 the Lord of Esch, with other Chancellors of the Country, swore Allegiance to Duke Wenceslaus. And in 1402 John d'Esch acknowledged himself his Subject.   

The Castle and Lordship of Bourscheidt.  
69. The Castle and Lordship of Bourscheidt, consists in twelve Villages and Hamlets: The Lords thereof were anciently Cavaliers of the Earls of Luxemburgh, particularly Solver de Bourscheidt, who was Justicier of the Nobles there, and by Act in 1233, acknowledged himself a Liegeman of Luxemburgh, and entered into obligation to guard and defend the Castle of Luxemburgh, and declared that the Countess of Luxemburgh, ought (as heretofore) to have aid of the Castle of Bourscheidt: Ferry de Bourscheidt acknowledged himself under the like Obligation in the year 1317. The Lord of Bourscheidt in 1398, with other Chancellors of the Country, paid Homage to Wenceslaus Duke of Luxemburgh: Werner Zanden of Bourscheidt, and John Theodore Zanden did the like to the Duke of Luxemburgh, in 1551, and 1624.   

The Town, Castle and Lordship of Newerbourgh.  
70. The Town, Castle, and Lordship of Newerbourgh, consisting in the Town of Newerbourgh, and two and fifty Villages and Hamlets, is a very ancient Fee of the Country of Luxemburgh: the Earls of Vianden having acknowledged they held it in Fee of the Earls of Luxemburgh, by Acts and Services done for it, in the years 1257, 1270, and 1306: Since which time the Lords of Newerbourgh, with consent of the Earls of Vianden, have taken it in Fee, immediately of the Earls and Dukes of Luxembourgh, as appears by the Records of Homage in 1547, 1551, and 1598.: And in 1398, Everard de la Marck, as Lord of Newerburgh did Fealty and Homage for it to Duke Wenceslaus.   

The Castle and Lordship of Brandenburg  
71. The Castle and Lordship of Brandenburg, consists in six Villages and Hamlets, and in the years 1270, and 1306 hath been acknowledged a Fee of Luxemburgh, by the Earls of Vianden: in 1398 the Sieur de Brandenbourgh, with the other Gentlemen of this Country, swore Allegiance to Duke Wenceslaus.   

The Castle and Lordship of Kayll.  
72. The Castle and Lordship of Kayll, consisting in two Villages, hath by Thiry of Blackenheim been acknowledged a Fee held of the Duchy of Luxembourgh, as appears by an Act of Recognition in 1449: Arnold de Blackenheim did Homage for his part of it in the years 1357, and 1378, and William and Philip Theodore of Manderscheidt, in 1482, and 1624.   

The Castle and Lordship of Falkenstein.  
73. The Castle and Lordship of Falkenstein, or Faulconpiere, consisting in three Villages and Hamlets, is an ancient Fee of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Records of Homage done for it by Arnold de Faulconpiere, in 1270, and by other in 1451, and 1624.   

The Castle and Lordship of Bettingen.  
74. The Castle and Lordship of Bettingen consists of nine Villages and Hamlets; the Lord thereof did Fealty and Homage to the Emperor Wenceslaus, Duke of Luxemburgh, in 1398: the like Services were done for it, as a Fee of the Dukes of Luxemburgh, in 1451, and 1624.   

The Castle and Lordship of Ham.  
75. The Castle and Lordship of Ham, consisting in four Villages and Hamlets, is a Fee, and part of the ancient Patrimony of the Earls of Luxemburgh: as appears by the Act in 1334, whereby the King of Bohemia gave the High Justice of Ham to Gerard of Ham, for improvement of his Fee: And the Lord of this place, in 1398, did Homage for it, with other Feoffees, to Duke Wenceslaus.   

The Lordship of Brouch.  
76. The Lordship of Brouch, consisting in twelve Villages and Hamlets, is an ancient Fee of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, and acknowledged to be so by the Lord of the place, in 1394, who with other Feoffees of the Country did Homage for it in 1398.   

The Lordship of Malberg.  
77. The Lordship of Malberg consists in three Villages and Hamlets, and was taken in Fee of the Duke of Luxemburgh in 1306; and in 1398 the Lord of Malberg, with other Feoffees of the Province, did Homage for Malberg.   

The Lordship of Rosport.  
78. The Lordship of Rosport, consisting in six Villages and Hamlets, was in the year 1303 acknowledged a Fee of the Earldom of Luxemburgh.   

The Castle and Lordship of Mirevart.  
79. The Castle and Lordship of Mirevart consists in six and twenty Villages and Hamlets, and hath been an ancient Patrimony of the Earls of Luxemburgh; the parts of which it consists having ever since the year 1311, been accounted and recorded among the Demesns of the Earls of Luxemburgh, and made parcel of the particular thereof. Archduke Maximilian gave it since to Everard de la Marck, who, and his Successors the Dukes of Aremberg, have from time to time paid Homage for it to this day.   

The Castle and Lordship of Focant.  
80. That the Castle and Lordship of Focant was parcel of the ancient Demesns of the Earls of Luxemburgh, appears by the accounts of the Revenues thereof, ever since the year 1311.   

The County of Montague.  
81. That the County of Montague, consisting in thirteen Villages and Hamlets, is also a Fee of Luxemburgh, appears by the Records of Homage done for it in 1545, 1598., 1600, 1673.   

The Lordship of Rachamps.  
82. The Lordship of Rachamps, consisting in a Village and Hamlet, is an ancient dependent of Luxemburgh: King Wenceslaus having the 12th of October, 1384, confirmed the Privileges his Predecessors, the Earls of Luxemburgh, had granted the Lord and Tenants of this Lordship.   

The Lordship of Ayvaille.  
83. The Lordship of Ayvaille, consisting in eight Villages and Hamlets, hath been an ancient Patrimony of the Earls of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Gift the King of Bohemia made of the Bridge of Ayvaille, to the Inhabitants of the place, 23 July, 1346.   

The Lordship of Harzet.  
84. Lewis de Clermont, in the year 1302, did Homage for the Lordship of Harzet, consisting in three Villages and Hamlets, as a Fee held of the Earl of Luxemburgh.   

The Lordship of Bascille.  
85. Alard de Bascille by Act in 1307, acknowledged himself a Leigeman of the Earl of Luxemburgh, for the Lodship of Bascille, as a Fee of the Earldom.   

The Lordship of Chesne.  
86. The Lord of the Signiory of Chesne, consisting in three Villages and Hamlets, did among other Subjects and feoffs of the Province, perform his Homage to the Emperor Wenceslaus Duke of Luxemburgh, in 1398.   

The Castle and Lordship of Witty.  
87. The Castle and Lordship of Witty, consisting in four Villages and Hamlets, is a Capital place, and of the ancient Demesns of the Earl of Luxemburgh, as appears by the Gift thereof made by Henry Earl of Luxemburgh, to Arnold de Pittange in 1281, on condition he should hold it of him in Fee by Homage: And in 1311, the King of Bohemia, than Earl of Luxemburgh, granted the said Arnold the High Justice of Witty for improvement of his Fee.   

The Castle and Lordship of Useldange.  
88 That the Castle and Lordship of Useldange, consisting in sixteen Villages and Hamlets, is an ancient Fee of the Earldom of Luxemburgh, appears by an Act in 1298, wherein Robert Lord Useldange hath acknowledged Homage due from him to the Earl of Luxemburgh: This Lordship came afterwards by Confiscation to Maximilian the Emperor; who, and his Son Archduke Philip, as Dukes of Luxemburgh, gave the said Castle and Lordship to Philip. Marquis of Baden, in the year 1494: After which Homage was paid for it in 1532, 1562, and 1605.   

The Castle and Lordship of Autel, etc.  
89. That the Castle and Lordship of Autel, consisting in six Villages and Hamlets; is an ancient Fee of the Earldom of Luxemburgh, appears by an Act in 1223, when Henry de Dune having been made Marshal of Luxemburgh, annexed to that Office the Lordship of Autel, acknowledging he held it in Fee of the Earls of Luxemburgh, to whom Homage was done for it in 1270; and afterwards in 1398, by the then Lord of Autel, to Wenceslaus the Emperor: This is confirmed by the Sale Richard de Dune made in 1254, to the Covent of Clairfontain of some Estate in Autel, which the Lords thereof had not power to alien without leave of the Earl of Luxemburgh.   

The Castle and Lordship of Girsch.  
90. The Castle and Lordship of Girsch, consisting in fifteen Villages and Hamlets, is an ancient Fee of the Earldom of Luxemburgh; and Homage was done for it to the Duke of Luxemburgh in 1556.   

The Castle and Lordship of Koerich.  
91. Tillman of Koerich in 1314 did Homage to the Earl of Luxemburgh for the Lordship of Koerich, consisting in five Villages and Hamlets, as a Fee held by Homage of the Earl. And in the years 1400, and 1617., the Successors of Tillman did Homage for it to the then Dukes of Luxemburgh: And in 1398 Homage was done for it to Wenceslaus the Emperor, in the right of the Earldom of Luxemburgh.   

The Castle and Lordship of Septfontain, etc.  
92. That the Lords of the Castle and Lordship of Septfontain, consisting in ten Villages and Hamlets, have been ancient Vassals of the Earls of Luxemburgh, is evident by the record of Homage done for it in 1233: Since which, Thomas de Septfontain, Chamberlain to the Earl of Luxemburgh, and his Successors, received by the Earls Grant, the Right and Privilege of High Justice to be exercised throughout the Liberty of Septfontain, for inlargment of his Fee.   

The Lordship of Wiltingen and Cantzem.  
93. In the year 1230, Ernest de Pictipas acknowledged the Lordship of Wiltingen and Cantzem to be Capital places, held in Fee of the Earldom of Luxemburgh; and John de Sirk did Homage for them accordingly in 1450.   

The Land and Lordship of St. Hubert.  
94. The Land and Lordship of St. Hubert consists in six Mayordoms or Manors, with several Villages depending thereon: and, as to Situation, is enclosed on all sides by the Lands of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, and consequently by the Laws and Maxims of State, cannot be a particular Sovereignty, distinct or separate from that which encloses it: The intention of the Duke (in granting away the Lands of St. Hubert) being grounded on a Presumption in Law, That Land enclosed within other greater and more considerable, is to be reputed of the same Quality, Jurisdiction, and Sovereignty, with that which encloses it, till the contrary be made appear.  
95. This will be thought more reasonable in this Case, when it shall be considered, that till the age before the last it was never disputed, but that the Dukes and Earls of Luxemburgh had not only the Possession, but the Right of Sovereignty of the Land and Lordship of St. Hubert. On the contrary it appears by Letters Dated at Arlon, June 5, 1343, that John King of Bohemia, and Earl of Luxemburgh, calls the Abbot and Covent of St. Hubert, his Faithful and well Beloved, (importing Fealty due from them to him). And grants them the privilege of Mast in the Woods. And by the Act of Inauguration of Philip Duke of Burgundy, Dated at the Castle of Luxemburgh, October 25, 1415, the Abbot of St. Hubert, as a Prelate of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, with other Prelates, Earls, Barons, Gentlemen, and Estates of the Province, did Swear Fealty and Homage to the Duke, as his Predecessors the Abbots of St. Hubert had constantly done before to the Sovereigns of the said Province.  
95. The same Duke Philip soon after granted those of St. Hubert a Charter for a Weekly Market, which is an evident Mark of Sovereignty.  
96. The 12 of December, 1648, at the Inauguration of Charles the Hardy, Duke of Burgundy, and Son the said Duke Philip, the said Prelate of St. Hubert, without scruple, took again the like Oath of Fealty and Homage, as Prelate, Vassal, and Subject of the Province.  
97. The like was done by the Prelate of St. Hubert, at the Inauguration of Maximilian King of the Romans, who Married the only Daughter and Heir of Charles the Hardy, with whom the Provinces of the Low Countries came to the House of Anstrin; as also at the Inauguration of Charles the Prince of Spain, afterwards Emperor of the Romans.  
99 The Prelates of St. Hubert have ever since appeared at the States of Luxemburgh, as other Prelates of the Province, and submitted, as the rest of the Prelates, to the Penalty imposed for absence from the Session of the States; till the Prince, Bishop of Liege, undertook to dispute the Sovereignty of St. Hubert with the Duke of Luxemburgh; when Remacle de March Abbot of St. Hubert, inclining to favour the Bishop's Pretensions, refused to appear at the Session of the States, held at the Inauguration of Philip the Second Prince of Spain, and Son of the Emporour Charles the Fifth: By reason whereof the Attorney General of the Council of the Province, cause all his Temporalties in that Province to be seized. The Prelate of St. Hubert appealed to the Great Council at Malines, and brought his Action for restitution of his Temporalties: Sentence was given upon hearing both Parties, that the Prelate had no right of Action.  
100 The Prelate thereupon had Recourse to the Queen of Hungary, Governess of the Low Countries, and Petitioned he might be admitted and received to agree to, ratify, and approve what had been Enacted at the said Sessions of the States at Luxemburgh, as if he had been personally present; adding an offer and promise to appear for the future at the Assembly of the States of the Province of Luxemburgh, as his Predecessors, the Abbots and Lords of St. Hubert had done, and that in the mean time he might be restored to his Temporalties.  
101. His Petition was granted upon his Signing Deeds of Acknowledgement and Promise, as the Case required, which Deeds were Executed in the year 1551. And in the Assembly of the States held at Luxemburgh the 28th of December, the same year, the Prelate by another Act reiterated the same Acknowledgement and Promise: The Prelates of St. Hubert have ever since appeared at the States of Luxemburgh, till the immediate Predecessor of the present Abbot desired to be excused from appearing there, by reason of the War.  
102. In the mean time his Catholic Majesty, as Duke of Luxemburgh, and his August Predecessors, have not only had the Title of Sovereigns of St. Hubert, but continued in possession of Sovereignty, and exercised there all Acts of Jurisdiction, Judgement of Appeals, and absolute Command in quartering Soldiers there, and charging the place with their subsistence and maintenance, and other Acts of Supreme Jurisdiction, notwithstanding the Action of Right brought by the Bishop of Liege, as appears by the Articles exhibited by the Attorney General of the province of Luxemburgh.   

The Castle and Lordship of Schleiden.  
103. By the Records of Homage done in the years 1270,1344, 1549, 1551, 1676, 1680, and others, and the Translation of the 19 of November, 1546, 'tis clear the Castle, Town, and Lordship of Schleiden, consisting in thirty six or thirty seven Villages, is a Fee held immediately of the Duke of Luxemburgh.   

The Castle and Lordship of Cronenburg:  
104. It appears by like Records of Homage done to the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh, in the years 1293, 1306, 1318, 1549, 1551, 1599, and several others, and by the transaction above mentioned in 1546, that the Castle, Burrough and Signiory of Cronenburg, consisting in thirteen Villages, is a Fee held (from all Antiquity) of the Earldom of Luxemburgh.   

The Castle and Lordship of Manderscheidt  
105. By the same transaction and the Records of Homage done in the years 1343, 1419, 1551, 1624., and many others, 'tis evident the Castle and Lordship of Manderscheidt, with the Villages, its Dependants, is an ancient Fee of Luxemburgh: and that John of Manderscheidt did Fealty and Homage to Wenceslaus, in the year 1398.  
106. 'Tis evident, all the Towns, Lands, Signiories, and L'ordships before mentioned, are Capital places, reputed for many Age's part of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, and held of it: And that the Earls and Dukes of Luxemburgh, have for between three and four hundred years, or more, enjoyed them as the ancient Patrimony and Demesns of the Duchy, and exercised therein all Acts of Sovereignty and Jurisdiction, in Assessing the Subjects, Levying of Aids, and other Taxes, quartering Soldiers, exclusive to all others; and without trouble or hindrance, they have in like manner enjoyed the Lands and Lordships following, that is to say, The Castle and Lordship of Schonfelts, consisting in two Villages and Hamlets: The Court of Thommen, consisting in twenty two. Hacheville, in three: The Castle and Lordship of Morstorff, consisting in three: The Castle and Lordship of Heltzembourgh, consisting in two: Sterpigny: The Castle and Lordship of Aspourg, consisting in thirty four Villages and Hamlets: The Castle and Lordship of Sinsfelt, consisting in six: Scharssbillich, consisting in twelve: The Castle and Lordship of Daun and Dens-bem, consisting in four: Mehret Bettenfelt: The Castle and Lordship of Solver: The Manor of Esclassni, consisting in three: Redu, Esclaye: The Castle and Lordship of Beauram, consisting in three: Hansurlesse, consisting in three: The Castle and Lordship of Houstalize, consisting in twenty two: Human: The Castle and Lordship of Waha, consisting in two: The Castle and Lordship of Daverdis: The Castle and Lordship of Dessy, consisting in six: The Castle and Lordship of Jemeppe: The Castle and Lordship of Docham, consisting in six Villages and Hamlets: The Castle and Lordship of Rollet, consisting in six: The Castle and Lordship of Montjardin: The Castle and Lordship of Travigny, consisting in six: The Castle and Lordship of de la Val, in two: Vilers lafoy Loupe, Chesnoy: The Castle and Lordship of Rutte la Grande: The Castle and Lordship of Signeul St. Remy: The Castle and Lordship of Villers, before Orval: The Castle and Lordship of Porcheresse: Vance, consisting in two Villages: The Castle and Lordship of Boulogne, in five: The Castle and Lordship of Horbeumont, in seven: The Castle and Lordship of Everlange, consisting in nine Villages and Hamlets: The Lordship of Nasseigne: The Castle and Lordship of Grune.  
All which last mentioned Lordships are also Capital places, and Fees held of the Marquisat of Arlon, the Earldom of la Roche, Durbuy, and other places, and some of them of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, whereof the Catholic King is Sovereign. And the said Lordships have not only been for many Ages reputed parcel of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, but the Dukes thereof have in the face of all the World peaceably enjoyed them, and exercised therein all Powers and Acts of Sovereign Jurisdiction; Without that, that they or any other the places before mentioned have had any dependence on the County of Chiny, or any other Capital place belonging to France.  
These (men would think) are Reasons sufficient to make out the Right of his Catholic Majesty to these places, and that he ought to continue in possession of them; the rather, for that France hath not any colour of pretence to them, since the Act of the 25th of November, 1462, of the Grant and Conveyance of the Duchy of Luxemburgh, and the Counties of Chiny and la Roche, by Lewis King of France, to Philip Duke of Burgundy, whereby the said King of his special Grace, full Power, and Royal Authority, hath given, granted, conveyed, and released all Right, Title, Interest, Claim, and Demand he had or could have to the Duchy of Luxemburgh, and the Counties of Chiny and la Roche, their Appurtenances and Appendences, Quitrents, Rents, Jurisdictions, Property, Fee, and other Rights thereto belonging, as well by means of the purchase thereof by his late Father, as otherwise howsoever, To have and to hold to the said Duke of Burgundy, and his Heirs forever; without that, that the said King Lewis, his Heirs and Successors, shall or may Claim or Demand the same for any cause whatever. Yet France, as hath been made appear, hath possessed itself of all the Towns, Lands and Lordships before mentioned, and generally of all the places of the Province of Luxemburgh, except the Capital City, and the 25 Villages of the Provostship of Luxemburgh, though without Reason or Ground.    

A PARTICULAR DEDUCTION OF THE EVIDENCES and PROOFS OF The Right and Possession of His Catholic Majesty IN AND TO All the Places France hath taken actual Possession of in the Province of Namur, since the Publication of the Peace of Nimmighen.  

Agimont in the possession of France.  
CHarlemont having, in pursuance of the Peace made at Nimmighen, been yielded up to France, the French Ministers thought fit to take Possessiof Agimont, with its Appurtenance and Dependences, notwithstanding the Claims and Protestations of the Officers of his Catholic Majesty, against the Proceed of the French: And under pretence that the Villages of Maisnil St. Blaise, Hargnies, and the two Bourseignes, are Dependants of Agimont, Faultrier, the French Commissioner and Intendant, sent Order of the 30th of March, 1680, to those of the Village of Maisnil St. Blaise, to repair to Charlemont, to swear Allegiance to the most Christian King, which they, and those of Hargnies, and the two Bourseignes were forced to do.   

The Right of Spain to Agimont.  
True it is, that Agimont being neither part, nor within the limits of the Province of Namur, there in not in the Records of the Castle of Namur, any Evidence to justify the Right of his Catholic Majesty to it, and to prove it Independent of Charlemont. But let it be observed, that the Castle of Agimont is of a Structure far more ancient than the Fortress of Charlemont, which was built by the Emperor Charles the Fifth, about and Age since; so that we cannot see how Agimont can be a Dependent of Charlemont. And by two Copies, the one Dated the 6th of April, 1555, it appears, the said Emperor Charles the Fifth bought the Castle and Strong-house, Town, Land, and Lordship of Agimont, with its Rights and Dependences: And by the other Dated the 7th of March, 1574, That his Majesty engaged the said Castle, Land and Lordship to the use of Lancelot de Berlemont, Earl of Meghe. As to the Villages of Maisnil St. Blaise, Hargnies and Bourseignes, it appears by an Act of the 7th of March, 1431, that Homage was done for them by the Lord of Agimont, to the Earl of Namur, as Lord of Poilvache: Since which they were united to the Provostship of Poilvache, and have been accordingly Charged in the account of the Aids of the Province of Namur, granted his Majesty the 10the of October, 1493, as by the Close Rolls in the Chamber of Accounts at Lille: Since which time they have to this day paid the said Aids, and Contributed to public Charges, as well as other places of the Province.   

Waulsors, Hastiers, and Ermeton.  
The same Intendant, Faultrier, sent Order, Dated the 5th of April, 1680, to the Mayors of Waulsors and Hastiers, signifying, that his Christian Majesty had Ordered him to take Possession, in his Name, of the Land and Bank of Waulsers, Hastiers, and Ermeton, and to receive in his Name an Oath of Fidelity to his Majesty, which the Mayors and Inhabitants of those places were obliged to take. He Commanded them to give notice to the Inhabitants of those Villages and their Dependences, to repair for that purpose on the morrow to Waulsors, where they were effectually obliged to take the said Oath: And having omitted the Administering the like Oath to those of the Village of Ermeton, he Ordered the Officers and principal Inhabitants of that place, to attend him at Charlemont the twelfth day of the then next Month, to take the said Oath; and in the mean time, in the Name of the most Christian King, expressly prohibited them to receive or execute any Order from his Catholic Majesty, or his Ministers, or to pay him any Aid or Duty whatever, upon pain of being punished as Rebels: And not only disturbed the Spanish Receiver at Ermeton, in the exercise of his Office, but caused him to be taken and carried away by a Company of Foot.  
Some days after the said Intendant went to the Abbey of Waulsors, to cause the Abbot and Monks there to swear Allegiance to the King his Master, and upon their refusal, sent thither in August following thirty Soldiers, whom the Abbots and Monks were forced to maintain, at great Charges, for six Weeks; which one of the Monks having represented to the Marquis of Louvois, he answered, that if the Prelate would not within fifteen days be at the Monastery, he would cause it to be raised: The 2d or 3d of September, 1680, Faultrier, full of Indignation that the Monks of that place refused still the taking the said Oath, sent to the said Abbey a hundred and sixteen men to live there at discretion, with Order to the Monks, that they should not any longer acknowledge their Prelate, and to the Farmers their Tenants, that they should not pay them any thing, on pain of being made pay twice, and having the Bailiff of Waulsors Arrested and put into a Dungeon, which was accordingly done: These Soldiers continued at Waulsors till the Monks promised they would not do any thing against the Service of the most Christian King, whereupon the French Erected a Custom-house at Waulsors, and took Toll, and levied other Duties for the use of their King.   

The Right of the Spaniards to Waulsors, Hastiers, and Ermeton.  
It appears by the Register remaining in the Compting-house of the General Receipt at Namur, entitled the Register of the Demesnes of Namur, in the year 1265, that Waulsors, Hastiers, and Ermeton on the , are of the ancient Demesns and Lands of the County of Namur: The Earls of Namur having granted out in Fee, the Wineage of Hastiers, and several Duties the Inhabitants of Waulsors, Hastiers, and Ermeton were obliged to pay, and also the Manor and Dependences of Ermeton on the Bierre. Besides, in the Record of a solemn Oath taken by William Earl of Namur, in the year 1360, with four Knights of his Council, nominated by Enghelbert de la Marcq, Bishop of Liege, pursuant to an Agreement between them, it is contained, that the Banks of Waulsors, and Hastiers, on either side the , are entirely within the County of Namur, and that in all Cases the Law of Namur is to be observed there, no less than in the Broigne and its Appurtenances, Members of that County: And that the Inhabitants of Waulsors, and Hastiers, and the Territories thereof, are no less subject than the Citizens of Namur to the Earls of that Country: The said Earl William, and four Knights, having affirmed that Waulsors, Hastiers, and the Broigne, had been as long as could well be remembered, the Inheritance of the said Earl and his Predecessors, as by the Record of that Oath more at large appears.  
And in Act of the year 1420, Copied out of an ancient Register of the Churches of Waulsors and Hastiers, it is declared, That the said Churches are situate in the County of Namur, and the Jurisdiction of the those places had been granted to the use of the said Churches, saving to the Earl of Namur the Sovereignty thereof: And in the year 1466, the Inhabitants of the same places petitioned and obtained from Philip Duke of Burgundy, as Earl of Namur, an Act of Pardon and Oblivion, for their having retired with their Effects into the City of Dinant then in Hostility with him.   

Broigne, otherwise called St. Gerard.  
The third of April, 1680, the said Intendant sent fifty Horse to the Village of St. Gerard, with Order to the Mayor of the place to receive them, and Summon the Officers of Justice, and principal Inhabitants to be in readiness to take an Oath of Allegiance to the most Christian King of fourth day after; when the Intendant, being arrived with a Guard of two Troops of Horse, told the said Officers of Justice, and greater part of the Inhabitants, that he was come to take possession of the place, and to administer the said Oath, which he forced them with Menaces to take, without allowing them time to advertise their Superiors: And the Mayor having in the Name of the Commonalty of the place, Read and Signed the Oath, as drawn by Faultrier, he obliged the Pastor of the Church there to Sing Te Deum, with Oremus pro Ludovico decimo quarto. Having in his Harangue made to induce the People to take the Oath, told them, That King Pepin, to whom the Low Countries belonged, being dead, a King of France succeeded him: And that the Emperor, Charles the fifth, being a Powerful Prince, had appropriated to himself what he thought convenient; that they, the Inhabitants, ought not to scruple the Oath he required of them, for that it did not belong to them to dispute it, being a matter to be decided between the two Kings, and that the more powerful would carry it; since which to this day there hath been a French Garrison in the place: And the Intendant, in pursuance of the Usurpation, gave Order to the Officers of Justice there to make new Assessments: And by his Ordinance of the 17th of February, 1681, moderated the Tax that place and its Dependences had usually been assessed at to pay his Catholic Majesty, reducing it from a thousand Florins to three hundred.   

The Right of Spain to the Broigne, alias St. Gerard.  
That the Village of Broigne is of the ancient Demesn Lands of the Earldom of Namur, appears by the Register above mentioned, remaining in the Compting-house of the general Receipt of Namur, in the year 1265, wherein the said Village of Broigne is contained and called St. Gerard: And in the Close Rolls of the Accounts of Aids in the Chamber of Accounts of Lille, the 10th of October, 1493, it is mentioned under the Title of the Mayory of Rovignes: And in the Act of the Solemn Oath taken by William Earl of Namur, in 1360, with four Knights of his Council, nominated by Enghelbert de la Marcq Bishop of Liege, pursuant to the Agreement between them, it is expressed, that Broigne and its Appurtenances are part of the said County, and that the Inhabitants of that Territory, as well as the Citizens, of Namur, are Subjects to the Earl. Broigne having, as long as could well be remembered, been he Inheritance of the said Earl William and his Predecessors, as appears at large by the Record of the said Oath.   

The Woods of Biert.  
Upon pretence that the Woods of Biert, and others belonging to his Catholic Majesty, are Dependants of St. Gerard, a French Captain of Dragoons was quartered there, who not only interrupted the ordinary Sale of Woods, begun by his Catholic Majesties Counsellor, and Receiver General in the Woods of Biert, but forbade the Chapmen (who had bargained) to fall a Tree without leave under the Hand of the said Intendant; who by an Edict of the 4th of November, 1680, prohibited all Persons to fall any Tree in the Woods of Biert and Foy, or to put in any Hogs or other Beasts there, on any pretence whatever, on pain of Confiscation of the Beasts, and a hundred Crowns Fine; with like prohibition from Hunting in those Woods, or Fishing in the River's Dependants of St. Gerard. And he that had by Grant from the Officers of his Catholic Majesty, obtained the Mast of the Woods of Biert, was obliged to give Security at St. Gerard to pay the Rent there. Besides which, the Intendant not only made several Bargains for Wood to be fallen there, but caused a great quantity of the fairest Oaks to be fallen and squared, and carried to Phillippeville, Charlemont, and Dinant. And by his Order a Chapman was Arrested and carried to St. Gerard to pay the French the price he had agreed for a bargain of Woods in 1680, made with the Officers of his Catholic Majesty, for his Majesty's use. Several other Chapmen were forced to do the like, and some to quit their Bargains, and restore the Woods sold them by the Officers of his Catholic Majesty: finally, the woodward's appointed by his Catholic Majesty, were forced to take an Oath to serve the most Christian King in the same Function: And the Chapmen of Falaen were forbidden to carry out of the Woods of Foy, any Wood Sold there.   

The Right of Spain to the Woods of Biert.  
By a Transaction and Agreement in the year 1266, between Thomas Abbot of Broigne, and his Covent of the one part, and Guy Earl of Flanders, and Marquis of Namur of the other part, upon a Controversy happened about the Woods of Biert, It was agreed, that among several other Woods, those of Biert should remain to the said Guy, who in consideration thereof, granted to the said Abbot and Covent a piece of Wood Ground, descended to him from his Ancestors, as appears at large by the Agreement. In pursuance whereof, the said Guy, Marquis of Namur, and his Successors, have to this day peaceably enjoyed the said Woods, without any Interruption by the said Abbot and Covent, or their Successors, who have likewise enjoyed the Woods passed to them by the said Guy. And if there had not been any such Transaction or Agreement, yet a Possession of four hundred years and upwards is by the Common Law of the Country sufficient to create a Right, which is presumed upon continual and peaceable possession: the rather for that by the 35th Article of the Customs of Namur, there is no more required than a possession of Forty years to prescribe against the Church.   

The Bailiage of Bouvignes.  
The Sixth of July, 1681, the Intendant Faultrier, with the Sieur Madelan, and Charles Boron his Deputy, being come to the place of residence of the Bailie of Bouvignes, caused the Officers of Justice, and some principal Inhabitants of that place to be summoned to swear Allegiance to France, which they did, and were the same time prohibited on pain of Chastisement to own any other Superior.  
The same Intendant sent Orders to the Officers of Justice at Gerpines', to repair to Biesme, and take the like Oath, without any Dispute, otherwise it should go ill with them, and they should be punished as disobedient.  
The like was done to those of the Villages of Acos, Joncret, Villers lafoy pottery, Sart a la Stache, Orez, Gougines, Bois de Villers, Romree, and Turnault, Dependants of the said Bailiage. And to the Farmer of the Rents of the Manor belonging to his Catholic Majesty, in the Forest of Marlaigne, who were all obliged to take the said Oath; the Intendant alleging for the ground of his proceed the Authority of Prophecies, and some say of Wizards.  
The Intendant having sent Orders to the Mayor and principal Inhabitants of Lesues and Arbre, Dependants of the same Bailiage, to come to St. Gerard for the purpose ; they not coming accordingly, Charles Boron, his Deputy, caused them to be taken in the Night by Soldiers, and carried to St. Gerard the 7th of June, 1681; where, upon their Arrival, the Commander prohibited them to receive any Orders from those of Namur, or to pay them any thing on pain of being severely punished. Orders being afterwards sent them by four French Dragoons, to come again to St. Gerard, they obeyed, and found there the Intendant, the Sieur Madelain, and other French Officers: And the Intendant having declared to them it was convenient they should take an Oath of Allegiance to France; the said Mayor and Inhabitants excused themselves; the Intendant hearing them, Ordered the Commander of St. Gerard to have his Men in readiness to go punish those who would not obey his Orders: this so frighted the Mayor and Inhabitants, they took the Oath as required.   

The Right of Spain to the Bailiage of Bouvignes.  
That the Bailiage of Bouvignes belongs to his Catholic Majesty, is sufficiently made out by a Deed in 1262, remaining among the Records of the Castle of Namur, whereby it appears, that the same year Baldwyn, Emperor of Constantinople, and Philip his Son, than Earls of Namur, by Succession after several Ancestors, had sold the Town and Castle of Namur, Bouvignes, Golsines, vieth ville, and the whole County of Namur, to Guy Earl of Flanders, whom his Catholic Majesty represents. And pursuant to this Sale, this said Emperor and his Son Ordered and Commanded the Inhabitants of the Town and County of Namur, to acknowledge the  Earl of Flanders their Lord, and to pay him in all things the obedience faithful Subjects ought to pay their Sovereign, which hath to this time been successively done. The Earls of Namur having constantly possessed and enjoyed with all Sovereignty the Town of Bouvignes, and the places its Dependants, particularly Enumerated in the Register  of the Demesnes of the County of Namur, in 1265; called Le liure aux aisselles.   

Rosee, Flavion and Serville.  
The said Intendant possessed himself also of the Villages of Rosee, Flavion, and Serville, Dependants of the said Bailiage. And the Receiver General of Namur, having caused two beasts belonging to some Inhabitants of the Village of Bois de Villers to be seized for a Debt due for some Wood sold by his Catholic Majesties Officers of the Woods. The Intendant by way of Reprisal, caused a Forge-Master to be taken and carried to St. Gerard, and thence to Philippeville, to be kept Prisoner there till restitution of the Beasts; the Commander of St. Gerard being informed that the Mayors of Arbre and Lesues had been with the Attorney General of Namur, to acquaint him with the Prohibition they lay under to pay any Taxes to his Catholic Majesty, sent a Party of Dragoons to take them, and forbade them to go any more on any such Errands without his Orders, on pain of being Chastised, adding, they ought not to own any Superior but France.   

Ontraye.  
The third of August 1681, the said Intendant accompanied with St. Madelain, Governor of Philippeville, and other Officers, came to Ontraye; and having caused Dieu-donne Petit Jean (his Catholic Majesties Commissioner there for the Customs and Duties of Exportation and Importation) to come before him, he declared he was come to take possession of that Village, and therefore forbade him to Levy there any more Duties for his Catholic Majesty, which prohibition the Commissioner was forced to comply with: And the Officers of Justice, and several Inhabitants of Ontraye, were Commanded to meet and take an Oath of Allegiance to France, and to give in their Names to be Registered; all which was accordingly Executed. And in the Woods of Biesme, and of Halloy, and Vieux Fourneau its Dependants; the French Officers have marked a great quantity of the fairest Trees to be fallen, and used in Buildings at Philippeville.   

The Provostship of Poilvache.  
The same Intendant, Faultrier, sent Order, Dated the 10th of April, 1680, to the Lieutenant Provost of Poilvache, importing, That as his most Christian Majesty had ordered him to take possession of the said Provostship, for his Majesty's use, he required the Lieutenant and other Officers of the Provostship, to appear without delay at Charlemont, to swear Allegiance to the most Christian King; and to bring with them an account of the Impositions Levied on their Parishes, that they might be moderated according to the Orders he had received: All this to be done on pain of being declared Disobedient, and punished accordingly.  
The same Month of April, the Mayors and several Inhabitants of the Village of Houxsoubs Poilvache, were sent for by the Intendant to the Town of Dinant, to swear Allegiance to the King his Master; and upon their refusal, he forced them to it by threatening to send Soldiers into their Mayoralty: After which he placed an Officer there, to show he had taken possession of the place, and put up on a Tree and the Old Tower of Poilvache the Arms of the French King, and settled a Compting-house there, and Levied five per Cent. Duty on Oats and other Corn.  
And by Order of the 8th of March, 1680. sent to them of Spontin, the 10th of the following Month, the said Intendant, Faultrier, signified to them, that not only the Provost, Lieutenant, and Officers of the Jurisdiction and Provostship of Poilvache, but of all the Jurisdictions, its Dependants, were to appear the 10th of May following, in the Forenoon, at the House of the Burgomaster Taboulet, in the Town of Dinant, to receive his most Christian Majesties Orders, and not to fail on pain of being proceeded against as disobedient: Pursuant to which, they of Spontin having sent to know his Intentions; he let them know he had Order from his Master to take possession of the Provostship of Poilvache: and that having been upon the place for that purpose, he had found there only old Walls, without any Inhabitant, and was therefore obliged to require all those who dwelled within the Jurisdiction of that Provostship, to swear Allegiance to his most Christian Majesty, and the Messenger from Spontin should first do it, which he did, and was then told by the Intendant, they should thenceforward pay only a moiety of the Taxes and Impositions they paid his Catholic Majesty, from whom he forbade them to receive any more Orders.  
The Mayor of Sorinnes also received Order, Dated the 8th of April, 1680: wherein the Intendant required him to swear Allegiance to France, prohibiting him to acknowledge for the future the Sovereignty of his Catholic Majesty, or pay him any Taxes or Duties, and promising to protect him and the Inhabitants in case of Molestastion.   

The Right of Spain to the Provostship of Poilvache.  
The Provostship of Poilvache comprehends several Mayoralties, every of which is composed of many Villages. And by an Act of the Month of March, 1280, it appears, that Henry Earl of Luxemburgh, and Marquis of Erlon, received out of the Hands of Guy Earl of Flanders, Marquis of Namur, the Castle and Town of Poilvache, with the Village of Oire sur , and others specified in that Act, to be held in Fee of the Marquis of Namur, and his Heirs the Lords and Earls of Namur, by perpetual Homage.  
Pursuant to which, it is mentioned in an ancient Register of Surveys, written in Paper of Lombardy, in the year 1343, that the Sire de Poilvache is a Peer of the Castle of Namur, and holds of the said Castle in Fee, the Castle and Town of Poilvache, and all the Mayories belonging to it, the Mayory of Falize, the Mayories of Sorinnes above Dinant, of Ascech. of Diwaing, of Schaltin, of Leignon and Falmaigne, and all the Towns and Houses depending thereon, and aught in all Cases to use the Law of the County of Namur.  
But in the year 1344, John, King of Bohemia, and Earl of Luxemburgh, for him, his Heirs and Successors, sold to Madam Mary d'Artois, Countess of Namur, her Heirs and Successors, the said Town, Castle, and Provostship of Poilvache, with the Appurtenances; namely, the Mayories of Poilvache, Falize, Sorinnes above Dinant, Ascesse, Diwaing, Ohey, Schaltin, Leignon, Falmaigne, and all Towns and Houses their Appendents, with all other things appertaining to the said Provostship, held of the Earldom of Namur; (without Exception or Reservation) as also the Bann de Soy, for the sum of twenty seven thousand and four hundred Florins. And by a particular Act of the fifth of September, 1344, the same King of Bohemia Commanded all his Subjects of the Provostship of Poilvache, to do Fealty and Homage to the said Countess of Namur, having released and absolved them from the Fealty and Homage due to him.  
The Sale was agreed too, and ratified by Charles, Eldest Son of the said King of Bohemia, and Earl of Luxemburgh, the 24th of August, 1344. And by an Act of the 12th of December, 1346, he discharged all the Burgesses and Subjects of the Territory of Poilvache from all Fealty and Homage, that might any way be due to him his Heirs and Successors.  
This done, the Lady Mary, Countess of Namur, by Act of the 11th of September, 1353, gave her Son William Earl of Namur, and his Heirs, the said Castle, Town and Territory of Poilvache, and the Bann de Soy, with all their Appendences and Appurtenances, High and Low Signiories, Homage and Rights whatsoever.  
After which, John of Flanders, Earl of Namur, sold to Philip Duke of Burgundy (whom his Catholic Majesty represents) the County of Namur, with the Territory and Provostship of Poilvache, in the year 1421: In which Territory is comprised the Village of Houx on the , in the Record of Fealty done for the Fee, in the year 1280, mentioned before: And in the Close Rolls of the Accounts of Aids, in the Chamber of Accounts at Lille, the 10th of October, 1493: It is charged as a parcel of that Provostship.   

Pondrosme.  
The Intendant not satisfied with having done as much in the Village of Pondrosme, as in other the Dependants of the Provostship of Poilvache, Ordered the Mayor of that place to suppress the Compting-house established there, for Levying the sixtieth penny.   

The Right of Spain to Pondrosme.  
The Village of Pondrosme, situate very near a Branch of the River Less, is a Dependent of Poilvache, and as such, hath always paid Aids to his Catholic Majesty, Contributed with the County of Namur to public Charges and Expenses, and the furnishing Pioners, Carriages, and other things of that Nature; received his Majesty's Orders and Placarts by the Provost of Poilvache, and, as other Members of that Provostship, made Appeals to the Council of Namur: so that there is little reason appears why France should have suppressed the Counting house settled there from all Antiquity, and Governed by the Under-farmers of the said sixtieth penny.   

Haibes.  
The same Intendant, Faultrier, sent an Order, Dated the 20th of April, 1680, and Letters of the 27th following, to the Inhabitants of the Village of Haibes, requiring them to swear Allegiance to France; though by an Extract sent by the Counsel of Namur, Number 12, in their Letter of the 24th of November, 1680, 'tis evident the Sieur de Haibes holds the said Village in Fee, as a Dependent of Poilvache.   

The Mayory of Bouvignes.  
From Onhaye the Intendant with his Company and Guards went to the Bann, or Jurisdicton of Anthee, consisting in the Villages of Anthee, Mavoye, Morville, and Fontaine, and took possession of it the third of August, 1681, and made the Inhabitants take the Oath required. The like was done as to the Hamlets of Chestrevin, Melin, Wespin and Metz, Dependants of that Mayory; after they having in July 1681, compelled those of the Villages of Soumiers and Rivere, Dependants of the same Mayory to take the like Oath, and made Laurence Licos, an Inhabitant of Soumiers, Mayor of the place, and given the People some Money to Drink: though the Right of his Catholic Majesty to the Mayory of Bouvignes, may be clearly made out by the evidences , as to the Bailiage of Bouvignes.   

The Bailiage of Montaigle, Falaen.  
About October, 1680, the Intendant, Faultrier, having sent three several Orders to those of the Village of Falaen (a Dependent of the Bailiage of Montaigle) to be all in readiness, came thither accompanied by Madellain, and a good number of Soldiers; and in an Harangue to the People, told them, that the Village of Falaen was a Dependent of St. Gerard; that it was an Estate of the Church usurped by Charles the Fifth; that those who had exacted Taxes and Gabels from them, had Committed Sacrilege; that he would restore them to their ancient Liberty; that they should pay no more Taxes or Gabels, but only some small acknowledgement to his most Christian Majesty.  
Madellain the same time told an Officer of the Bailiage, that what he then said to him, he said not as a Frenchman, or Governor of Phillippeville, but as an honest Leigois as he was; that he had written to them out of kindness, and the Affection he had for the Inhabitants of Falaen: With that he presented them a Paper to Sign, containing in substance a Promise not do to any thing against the Service of the most Christian King.  
The Inhabitants refusing to Sign it, he threatened to send four hundred Dragoons to their Village; adding, they need not be afraid; and that they should never fall again under the Dominion of Spain; and that France had a High and Powerful Arm to protect them.  
By these means and inducements the Inhabitants were prevailed with to Sign the Paper, protesting nevertheless they were forced to it by violence: This done Madellain offered them Money to Drink, which they refused, and he thereupon threw them four Patacoons, and retired.   

Anvoye and Rovillon.  
The 9th of October, 1680, the Villages of Anvoye, Rovillon, and Hun were prohibited to pay his Catholic Majesty any Tax, Impost, or Duty whatever, or to permit any Usher, or Sergeant of Namur to Execute any Process in the said Villages; and in case any such Officer should come within their Precincts, the Inhabitants were Commanded to take, and carry him bound and pinioned to Phillippeville, to be sent thence to the Galleys: That they should try their Suits in the Courts of their Precincts, and appeal, (when there should be Cause) to the Court of Tournay.   

Salez, Corbay, and Henemont.  
In November 1680, pursuant to an Order from the Intendant Faultrier, the Farmers of Corbay, Salez, and Henemont, Dependants of the Bailiage of Montaigle, went to St. Gerard, where the Intendant, after some Remonstrances like those , made them take the like Oath of Allegiance to France.   

The Abbey of Moulin.  
The Abbot and Covent of our Lady at Moulin, having after many Solicitations, refused to swear Allegiance to France, had, in July 1681, between fifty and threescore Horse and Foot Quartered upon them, by Faultrier's Order, where they lived at Discretion a considerable time.   

The Tithes of Bioulx.  
Charles Boron, the Intendants Deputy, having given notice of his Intentions, by Papers publicly posted, granted to him that gave most, the Great and Small Tithes of Bioulx, and the Villages adjacent, belonging to his Catholic Majesty, and Dependants of the Bailiage of Montaigle.  
In November 1680, Madellain having sent to Falaen a Captain of Dragoons, with ten Horsemen to bring thence to St. Gerard a Woodward who resided there, with the Farmers of the Fishery of the Brook of Floyon, forbade them to pay his Catholic Majesty any Rent till the Difference should be decided at Courtray.  
By an Ordinance of the 17th of February, issued out by Faultrier, the Tax assessed on the Bailiage of Montaigle, for the use of his Catholic Majesty, being a thousand Florins, was reduced to six hundred Florins, with intimation it was done for the ease of the new Subjects of the King his Master.  
In March, 1681, the Farmer of the Fishery of the  before Goddinnes, along Rovillon, was disturbed in his Fishing, till the Sieur de Goddinnes, who set it to Farm, promised Faultrier to let him see the Evidences he had of his Right in that Fishery.   

The Right of Spain to the Tithes of Bioulx.  
By the Records remaining in the Castle of Namur, it appears, that William Earl of Namur, bought the said Tithes the 28th of July, 1362, of Sir John Marbais, Knight, Lord of Marbais, and paid him the Consideration Money, as appears by an acquittance of the last of that Month.   

The Woods of Marlaigne, Libinnes, and others, and the violences used against the woodward's of his Catholic Majesty.  
By Order of the 19th of March, 1680, the said Intendant prohibited all Persons to out, fall, square, or take away any Tree within the Compass of the Vicounty of Libinnes, being part of the Forest of Marlaigne, on pain of Corporal punishment: And enjoined the said Boron to see this Order Executed, and in case of resistance, or force, to have recourse to Arms.   

The Right of Spain to the Woods of Libinnes.  
The Land of Libinnes is a Fee held of the Earl of Namur, William of Libinnes having in a Survey of that Land, acknowledged himself a Feoffee of the said Earl, and that he held of him, by Homage, his Manor and Tower of Libinnes, with all Lands therein contained and enclosed, and eight Bonniers of Land and Meadow, more or less, with Pasture in Marlaigne, for 25 yearlings in the Woods, above seven years' Growth, and Pasture for six Horses of his Team, and dead Wood to burn in his House, feeding for Hogs of his Breed: With which Fee the said William endowed his Sister; and after his Death, William his Son did Homage for the same Fee; and having granted it in Fee-Farm to John de Cells, Knight, he did Homage for it to the Sovereign Bailie of Namur, as appears by the Surveys of Fees held of the Castle of Namur.  
By a Deed of the 28th of December, 1412. William of Flanders, Earl of Namur, for the good and acceptable Service done him by John de Cells, than his Sovereign Bailie of the County of Namur, and which he expected should be done him by the said John, did for himself his Heirs and Successors grant to the said John the Royalty, Seignory, and High, Mean, and Low Jurisdiction of the Mayory of Libinnes, with Power to Constitute a Mayor and seven Eschevins, with a Sergeant for the Exercise and Execution of Justice there: He gave him also all the Rents he had in Libinnes, and whereof the Court there had Cognizance.  
The said John de Cells having enlarged his Fee, by an addition of about sixty Bormiers of Land and Meadow, which with the ancient Fee made up a hundred and thirteen Bormiers: The said Earl of Namur granted him Pasture for his Horned Beasts, and the Horses of his Team, within the Woods of Marlaigne, of above seven years' growth.  
And that the Limits and Bounds of the Land and Royalty of Libinnes might be known, the said Earl sent several of his Council and Officers to view it; who reported that the Royalty and Mayory of Libinnes, gins at the Ditch of Rochealroux, which divides the Country of Liege from the County of Namur, and reaches from thence to the High way that leads into the Great Plain of Libinnes; the said High way being the Boundary that parts the Moyory of Floreffe, and the Land of Libinnes, till you come to the Choir Oak, from which Oak it extends to the way that leads through the bottom of Wastieux to a Maple-Tree, which parts the Mayory of Broigne, and the Land of Libinnes, and from thence it goes to the Land of the Abbot of Broigne, as well towards Broigne as towards his House.  
This Land and Lordship the Earl of Namur granted to John de Cells, and his Successors, to be held as an entire Fee of the Earl of Namur: Saving to the said Earl, his Heirs and Successors, Earls of Namur, the Sovereignty and Judgement of Apeals: Saving also, that if the Mayory of Libinnes, extended into the Woods of Marlaigne, within the Limits and Bounds above-declared, the Receiver of the Earldom of Namur, and the woodward's, Chapmen, and Workmen, might and should exercise and enjoy their usual Powers and Privileges in the said Woods, without any disturbance or impeachment by the said Sieur de Libinnes, his Heirs and Successors, or any other: And that the said Sieur de Libinnes, his Heirs and Successors, or any of them, should not any way intermeddle with the Debts, Fines, or Forfeitures concerning the said Woods.  
Whereby it appears clearly, that the Earl of Namur hath the Sovereignty and Supreme Jurisdiction over the said Land and Signiory of Libinnes, and that the Sieur de Libinnes is his Vassal.  
It appears also, that the Woods of Marlaigne, within the Limits and Bounds , belong to the Earl of Namur; and that the Sieur de Libinnes hath not any Jurisidiction there, at least as to any Fine or Forfeiture incurred by the Chapmen, or their Workmen, employed in the Sales made by the said Earl: Nor can the Sieur de Libinnes claim any thing in the said Woods, but the Pasture and Fuel he holds in Fee of the Earl.  
This is so clear, it needs not illustration, and is confirmed by an Extract of the old Repertory of Services done for the Fees held of the Castle of Namur; wherein we find, that after the said John de Cells, Gerard his Brother did Homage for the said Seignory, and Land of Libinnes, in 1427. And after him Godfrey de Cells, in 1430. And in the same year John Burquin de Supplea, who succeeded Godfrey, by virtue of a Devise by the last Will of John de Cells.  
The 10th of March, 1445, John de Lonchamps, Lord of Fernelmont, as next Heir, recovered it out of the Hands of John de Warissoul, who had taken possession of it.  
The 2d of August 1461, Don William de Graux, Abbot of Broigne, did Homage for the same Land and Lordship; which came to him by Virtue of an exchange made between him and the said John de Lonchamps, for fourscore measures of Corn.  
The Second of August, 1462, the same Don William de Graux settled the said Land and Lordship to the use of Pierart Alart, Valet de Chambre, to the Duke of Burgundy, and his Heirs, paying a rent of fourscore measures of Corn to the Church of Broigne.  
In 1469, the said Pierart Alard, Sieur de Seiron, conveyed to the use of Henry d'Outremont, Receiver General of the Court, all the Land of Libinnes, with its Appendances and Appurtenances.  
In 1488, Gyles d'Outremont did Homage for the said Land, its Appendances and Appurtenances, descended to him by the death of Nicholas his brother.  
The 2d June 1495, Gyles d'Outremont the Son of Henry, sold to the Reverend Don James le Hourier, Abbot of the Church of St. Peter at Broigne, for the use of his Church, the House, Town, and Land of Libennes, its Appurtenances and Dependences, without Exception or Reservation; and the Abbot did Homage for the Fee.  
The last of September, 1503, Don William de Beyn, Abbot of Broigne, did Homage for the House, Town, and Land of Libinnes, its Appurtenances and Dependences, as James le Hourier, his Predecessor, had enjoyed them.  
The 11th of May, 1507, Don Thomas Bawdry, Abbot of Broigne, did the like: The 28 July, 1513, Don William Cauliere, Abbot of Broigne, by the Resignation of the said Thomas, did the like: And the 3d of July, 1551, Don Benedict de Mailey, Abbot of Broigne, did the like.  
The 6th of September, 1584., Francis de Walon Capelle, Bishop of Namur, Prelate of Broigne, and Sieur de Libinnes, did Homage for the same Land and Lordship of Libinnes: The like was done the 13 of July, 1598., by the Right Reverend Father in God James Blaseus, Bishop of Namur, and Prelate of Broigne; and afterwards, by John Davin, Bishop of Namur, and Prelate of Broigne; and since by Enghelbert de Bois, Bishop of Namur: And in 1664, by John de Wactendoncq, Bishop of Namur, and Prelate of St. Gerard. And lastly, the 14 September, 1675, by Ignatius Austin de Grobendoncy, Bishop of Namur, and Prelate of St. Gerard, last deceased.  
By which it appears, the Homage, successively done, and continued several Ages, for the Land and Lordship of Libinnes, was pursuant to the Survey made by William de Libinnes, and the Feoffment from the Earl of Namur to John de Cells.  
This being so, the Prelate of the Abbey of St. Gerard, annexed to the Bishopric of Namur, can pretend to no more, than what is contained in the said Survey of the Fee of Libinnes, being only Pasture and Fuel in Marlaigne, belonging to the Earl of Namur, and some kind of Jurisdiction on Marlaigne, as enclosed within the limits of the Lordship of Libinnes, with an Express Exception and Reservation of Competent Jurisdiction to the said Earl, and his Officers, in all matters of Fines and Forfeitures in the Woods, which, by the Feoffment or act of Donation, the Count hath expressly reserved to himself.  
So that the Seizure of the Woods of Libbinnes, and of Marlaigne, lately made by the French, is a manifest and notorious Usurpation, considering the Evidences above mentioned, and his Catholic Majesties possession of the said Woods several Ages.  
True it is, That under the Jurisdiction of Libinnes, there are two little parcels of Wood, containing about sixteen Bonniers more or less, called the Sarts or Sauts, and belonging to the Abbot of St. Gerard, as Sieur de Libinnes: But they are distinct and separate from those of Marlaigne, and we grant the Propriety, as the Possession of them belongs to the Prelate of St. Gerard.  
By this it appears, His Catholic Majesty hath a clear and unquestionable right to the Woods of High Marlaigne, within the Mayory of Libinnes; though we should allow the bounds of that Lordship to extend as far, and comprehend as much, as the French have unjustly, according to their Custom, lately pretended, taking from his Catholic Majesty, what lawfully belongs to him.   

Marlaigne.  
His Catholic Majesties Officers of the Woods, being gone to the Woods of High- Marlaigne, to mark the Fuel due to the Abbot and Covent of St. Gerard, found there the Receiver of the Abbey; who told them, he had Order from the Abbot, and the French Captain of Dragoons quartered, and St. Gerard, not to receive the said Fuel within the Limits of Libinnes: And if they marked any there, the Captain would come in search of them, and take them Prisoners, by Order given him to that effect, by the Intendant Faultrier.  
The French Officers have marked abundance of Trees, to the quantity of 400 or 500 Bonniers of Timber, pretending them to be Dependants of Libinnes, and Confiscated Woods, fallen by some Chapmen, pursuant to their Bargains with the Officers of his Catholic Majesty, and driven away the Workmen they employed.  
The 13th of April, 1681, Boron, and the Captain of Dragoons having, by Posted Billets, summoned several Timber Merchants to appear at Libinnes, and declared to them, That if they made appear by Acquittance, they had paid for their Bargains at three several Sales, and would pay them in eight days, the value agreed at the last Sale in October, 1680: They would permit them to enjoy their Bargains, and go on with their business, otherwise they would Confiscate the Wood, they had fallen.  
Yet one of them, having produced his Acquittances, was nevertheless carried to St. Gerard, upon pretence, he had not paid Boron the value, he had agreed for, at the Sale made by the Officers of his Catholic Majesty, in the year 1680, in the Woods of Biert.  
The 4th of November, 1680, the said Captain of Dragoons, having caused Benedict Noel, Stephen Copee, and John Melez, his Majesty's woodward's in the Quarter of Biert, to be called before him, Ordered them to go presently to the said Intendant, to declare, whether they would serve him in their Offices, and make report to him of the Trespasses and Offences, committed in the Woods, for four Months past, and that should be committed there for the future: Otherwise he would employ others in their places; And endeavoured to make them show him all the Trees marked at the extraordinary Sale, the 3d of June, 1680, saying, they belonged all to France.  
The 13th of November, 1680, the said Captain, with four Dragoons, found out the said Noel, and asked him, why he went not to receive Orders, and make his Reports? who answering, he was forbidden by his Superiors; the Captain replied, he must do it, or be carried away by the Soldiers, and put into a Dungeon: To which he added Invectives and Threats against many of the woodward's, who had reported to his Catholic Majesties Officers at Namur, what the French did in the Woods of Marlaigne.  
The 16th of November, 1680, Madellain, being at St. Gerard, and having sent for Stephen Copee, and Benedict Noel thither, partly by Promises, and partly by Menaces, and detaining their Parsons, made them sign a Declaration, whereby they approved the Oath taken by them of Falaen and Ermeton Sur-Biert. Madellain telling them further, that if they of Namur should trouble them on that account, or any person authorised or employed by the French, they would Arrest some Officer of his Catholic Majesty, or some Rich Farmer, till they were indemnified. And that they ought to make Report to him, or the Captain quartering at St. Gerard, of Trespasses done in the Woods, and give them notice of all Orders and Billets posted up by the Officers of Namur.  
Paul Philibert Gobert, a Subject of his Catholic Majesties, and Partner with Jerom Bonchat, having obtained a Grant of the Master of Weillen-woods, received a Letter, Dated the 9th of Decenber, 1680, requiring him to put in Security at Dinant, or some other place of the French Conquests, to answer for the Profits of his Grant. Boron having, by Letter of the same Date, ordered Bouchat to detain Goberts' Hogs, till he had paid the Charge of their running there. And Gobert having not put in Security, as required; Boron, with a great number of Soldiers, drove away his Hogs, and kept them at Falaen, till Gobert gave Security.  
The 11th of March, 1681, his Catholic Majesties Officers of the Woods, being at High- Marlaign, to Mark and sell Timber there; the Captain of the Dragoons came upon them with ten or twelve Soldiers, to hinder their Marking, telling the Chapmen he would not permit a stick to be carried away without order from Faultrier.  
The Spanish Officers, protesting against this Violence, the Captain answered, he had express Order from the King his Master, to watch and observe whatever was done in the Woods, and to give him notice.  
And when some of the Chapmen would have fallen the Woods bought at the Sale in November 1680, of his Catholic Majesties Officers, the Captain hindered them.  
Bills were put up on the Church doors of Floreffe, Arbre, Lesves, Profondeville, and St. Heribert, to signify, that the 15 of July, 1681, a Sale of Timber should be made in Marlaigne Woods, for the use of the most Christian King, by Deputy Boron; which was accordingly done, the 16 and 17 of that Month, at Geraumont in High Marlaign, and afterwards at Brocteaux, and elsewhere.  
The like had been done by the French, the 21 of March, 1681, near the Parkfall towards the bottom of Beauty, when they sold to new Chapmen, the Wood sold by his Catholic Majesties Officers, at the extraordinary Markage, on Condition they would put in Security for the value to France at St. Gerard or Dinant.  
Besides, Boron marked a number of Trees unsold, and said, it was for repairing the Abbey of St. Gerard.  
From the Parkfal and Beauty bottom, he went to Spittechamps, where he made Sale of all the Wood standing or fallen, which had been marked and sold by the Officers of his Catholic Majesty.  
From thence he went near the Woods called Sartes, or Sautes, belonging to the Abbey of St. Gerard, and made Sale to him, that offered most, of the Wood his Catholic Majesties Officers had marked and sold.  
So that the French, in the Limits, themselves have set to the Woods they pretend to have usurped in High Marlaigne, six or seven hundred Bonniers of Wood, belonging to his Catholic Majesty: In a word, the whole Forest of Marlaigne within an hour and a halfs journey of the Castle of Namur.  
In June 1681, Faultrier took the Liberty to tell Lewes Moreau, his Catholic Majesties Receiver of the Duty for Importation and Exportation, that he would set up the Arms of France, close to the Castle of Namur, and perhaps would make it appear, the said Castle is situate upon the same Territory with the Woods of Marlaigne. And that in a short time, he would forbid any stick to be taken for the use of the King of Spain, out of the Woods of Marlaigne.  
To Conclude, the French have caused the Woods of Wellein, Delhee, and Faulx being Dependants of Biert, to be measured in order to a Sale of them (as the other Woods) for their proper use.    

A CONTINUATION Of the PROOFS of His Catholic Majesties Possession and Right, TO ALL The Places, and other Hereditaments, seized by France, in the Provinces of Namur and Brabant, since September 15, 1681.  
THE Intendant Faultrier, pretending his Catholic Majesties Officers were about sending Orders to the Villages of the Province of Namur, to pay the Taxes, Subsidies, and other Rights, due to his Majesty; caused an Order of the 29th of September, 1681, to be delivered to the Mayors, Sheriffs, Officers at Law, and Inhabitants of the Village of Anhee, and its Dependences, with Prohibition to all Ushers, Sergeants, and others, of what Quality soever, to use any Force or Compulsion, or make any Seizure or Execution against the said Inhabitants, with express Order to them, to Swear Allegiance to France, and not receive any Order or Command to pay any Taxes, Loans, Rents, or other Duties whatever, in Money, Grain, or otherwise, upon pain of paying twice.  

The Right of Spain to Anhee.  
That the Territory of Anhee, with its Appendences, consisting in the places following, viz. Anhee, Mets, grange, Rostenne, Haux le Wasteau, Ohey, Hontoir, Riviere, Chestrevin, Melin, Mestprin, Flun, and Welin, Onhaye, Marine, and Soumiers, are Dependants of the Province of Namur, appears, First, By the Register, remaining in the Office of the General Receipt, Entitled on the Cover, The Register of the Demesnes of the Country of Namur, Ann. 1265, where, among others, in the Chapter of Bovignes, all the places , are particularly enumerated in so many several Chapters, in every of which, it is expressly Declared, That the Earl of Namur hath, in every of those places, Right of Subsidies and Tallies, and several other Rights, there particularly set forth.  
It appears, Secondly, by the first Volume of the Old Repertory, in the Enumeration of the Fiefes of the Sovereign bailage of this Province, that several of the said places; to wit, Wespin, Hontoir, Flun, Chestrevin, and others, are Fieses held of the Castle of Namur, where the Homage of the Tenants, done two or three Ages since, remain of Record, as also in the Register of the Fiefes of the bailage of Bovignes.  
Thirdly, It appears by an old account, Herd and Decreed in the Chamber of Accounts at Lille, the 10th of October, 1493, for the Aids granted in the year 1491, by the Members of the three Estates of this Province; That Anhee is comprised in the bailage of Bovignes.  
It appears further, by the Accounts of the years 1559 and 1562, of the Aids of the Spirituality of the Province, that Soumiers, Ohey, and Outray, have, as Dependants of the Mayory of Anhee, been Assessed towards payment of the said Aids, granted by the said States.  
Lastly, It appears by the Register of Surveys, made by the Deputies of the Governor of this Province, that the Mayoralty of Anhee, and all the places abovementioned, are integral parts of the same Province.   

Profondeville.  
The like Order was sent to Profondeville.  
The right of Spain to Profondeville.  
It appears by a Record of the year 1212, in the Castle of Namur, that by the Mediation of Arbitrators, there named, an Agreement was made between the Chapter of Hay, and Philip, Marquess of Namur, containing, among other things, That all that Wood, called Profondeville, with all Right Property, and Dominion therein, shall remain to the Lord of Namur and his Heirs, saving to the Inhabitants of the place, their Right and Custom of Fuel, Pales, Rods, Buildings, etc. in the same Wood  
By another Record of the year 1341, in the Castle of Namur, it appears that Profondeville, is part of the County of Namur; and that Philip de Juppleu did Homage to the Earl of Namur, for a House and Garden he had in Profondeville.  
It appears also by the Register of the year 1265, that the Earl of Namur hath right of Taxing the Tenants of Profondeville, and receiving other Duties, there particularly mentioned.  
Moreover, Profondeville is returned within the bailage of Bovignes, and accordingly assessed at a certain sum, in the said account of Aids of this Province, granted at Lille, in 1493. As also in the Accounts of the years 1559 and 1562, of the Aids of the Clergy of Namur: And in the Register of Surveys, made in the year 1602, in the Survey of the bailage of Bovignes, Profondeville is mentioned as an integral part of the Province of Namur.   

Aveloy.  
Faultrier sent an Order, the same in effect with that , to Aveloy.   

The Right of Spain to Aveloy.  
By the Register abovementioned, of the year 1265, it appears, that the Earl of Namur, hath Right of Tallage, Mortmain, Escheats, and many other Rights (particularly expressed there) in Aveloy.  
And by the Register of Fiefes, Aveloy is a Peerdom, holding of the Castle of Namur, a moiety of which Peerdom belongs to the Abbot of Floresce, and the other Moiety to the Lord of Ham, on the Sambre. And the Abbot, as well as the Lord of Ham, have ever since the year 1361 to this day, done Homage for it to the Earls of Namur, from time to time.  
It appears also by the said Account of Aids of the year 1493, That Aveloy is Returned and Assessed within the bailage of Bovignes; as also by the Accounts , of the Aids of the Clergy, in 1559 and 1562: And in the Register of Surveys of the year 1602, it is returned, as Part of the County of Namur.   

Wepion.  
The said Intendant sent like Orders to Wepion.   

The Right of Spain to Wepion.  
It appears by the Register of a Survey of the Banlieu, or Capital place of the Town of Namur, in 1601, by William Rancet, Lieutenant Mayor, in pursuance of an Order of the Mayor and Sheriffs of Namur, That Wepion is a Member of the said Capital place, and appeartains to it with all the Houses and Heritage's thereof.   

The Le Chasteau, and its Dependants.  
The Inhabitants of Thy Le Chasteau, and its Dependences, received an Order to the like effect, and Dated, as That before mentioned.   

The Right of Spain to Thy Le Chasteau.  
It appears by two Letters remaining among the Records in the Castle of Namur, of the years 1289 and 1290, that Gerard Lord of Thierry erected a Fiefe in the Burgessship of Thierry, and made a Gift of it to the use of Simon de Neuville, and had the Licence of the Earl of Namur for so doing.  
By another Record of the year 1322, it appears, that the Steward of Haynalt holds the Land of Thy of the Earl of Namur.  
And by the Register of the year 1265, that the Earl of Namur hath right to Command all the Inhabitants of Thierry, to attend him in the Army, and to provide Horses and Carriages for his Progresses and Journeys, or to pay him Composition for the same.  
By the old Repertory of the Fiefes, it appears, that John Lord of Werchin, Seneschal of Hamault, is Liegeman to the Earl of Namur, and did him Homage for all his Territory of Thierry; to wit, the Castle-house and Towns of Thierry, Castle Feroul, Line, Tarsinne, The Jurisdiction of Rabusee, Somzee, Gourdins, with all and every their Appurtenances. And that from the year 1367, James Lord Werchin, Steward of Hamault, and his Successors from time to time to this day, did Homage to the Earl of Namur for the said Territory.  
The same Territory of Thy Le Chasteau, is Charged and Assessed at a certain sum, both in the said Accounts of Aids, in the year 1493, and of the Aids of the Clergy, in 1562.  
And by the Register of Surveys in 1602, 'tis clear, that Thy Le Chasteau is part of the Province of Namur, and bailage of Bovignes.   

Ayseaux, le Reux, and the Abbey of Ognyes.  
The like Order of the 29th of September, 1681, was sent by Faultrier to the Mayor, Sheriffs, Officers at Law, and Inhabitants of the Village of Ayseaux, le Reux, and Ognyes, with their Appendents and Appurtenances.   

The Title of Spain to the places last .  
As to Ayseaux, there is in the Castle of Namur, a Record of the year 1334, concerning the difference between the Duke of Brabant, and Earl of Namur, about Aysiaux, which was referred to the Arbitration of the French King, and other Lords there named, wherein it is awarded, that the Earl of Namur shall use Sovereign Jurisdiction in Ayseaux.  
By another Record of the year 1343, in the same Castle, mention is made of an Agreement concerning the Land of Ayseaux, whereby John, Duke of Brabant, released the Right, he claimed to the said Territory to the use of William, Earl of Namur.  
By another Record of the year 1350, the French King being chosen Arbitrator between the Duke of Brabant, and the Earl of Namur, about Ayseaux, Awarded, that the Prior of Ognyes should receive and keep the Rents and Profits of the Territory of Ayseaux, till Determination of the matter in Controversy between the Parties.  
By another Record of the year 1357. Wencestaus, Duke of Brabant, and William, Earl of Namur, surrendered their right to Ayseaux into the Emperor's hands, with Power to dispose thereof, as he should think fit. Since which, Ayseaux was granted to the Duke of Brabant; and John, the first of that name, gave it to his Son John, the Bastard of Braban, surnamed Brant, whose Mother was a Daughter of that House, the Land and Lordship of Ayseaux, with the Appurtenances, to be held in Fee of the Duke. The present Marquis d' Ayseaux is a Descendent of the said Brant, and in Right thereof, sits in the States of Brabant, as appears by the Feodal Registers of Brabant, and by Christopher Berken's Trophies of Brabant: Printed in 1641, fol. 448, etc. 653, etc.  
N. The beginning of October, 1681, the French posted themselves at Wepion, close by Namur, and hindered the Importation of any Grain into Namur, by Land or by Water; and for that purpose, seized several Sacks of Corn, and Horses that came from Villers; and searched all the Boats that came down the .   

The Fishery in the  at Wepion.  
The French have prohibited his Catholic Majesties Farmers of the said Fishery at Wepion, and thereabouts, and taken away the Fish; they had taken, pretending, that the said Fishery belonged to the most Christian King.  
Besides, Faultrier made an Ordinance, Dated the 10th of September, 1681, to all Persons any way accountable for the Demesnes of his Catholic Majesty, between the Sombre and the , to make Payment of what is in their hands, to N. Boron, and his Order. And sent a Billet without Date, whereby he gave notice, he would at nine in the morning at Falaen, sell to him, that bid most, the most of the Forests of Bier, of High and Low Marlaigne, of the Forest of Marly, the Forests of Biesne, old Tournan, Halloy, the underwoods of Wellan, Hez, Bruaire, Feroniar, and Ford, all situate between the Sambre, and the , and belonging to his Catholic Majesty.   

The Right of Spain to the Fishery and Forests.  
By a Placart of His Majesty, Decreed and Published in the year, 1591., concerning the Isles in the , and grounded upon an ancient Record of that Country, it appears, his Majesty, as Earl of Namur, hath the whole Course of the River from beyond Saulx a Revin towards France, to the Poplars of Ardem, and Rieu d'Alim, near the Town of Hue, with full Seignory and Jurisdiction.  
As to the Forests of Bier, etc. it appears by a Record of the year 1324, remaining in the Castle of Namur, that a certain Lady granted and transferred to the Earl of Namur, the Wood of Marliar: As for those of Biert, Bresne, Marlaigne, and others; see, what hath been said before, concerning them.   

Floreffe.  
An Ordinance, Dated the 28th of September, 1681, was posted up by night in Floresse, whereby, the said Intendant Prohibits the Transportation of Grain out of the Territories, under the Dominion of France, Commanding the Guards, and others, to stop their passage; to seize the Horses and Carriages, and the Boats, if any pass loaden with Grain; and to Confiscate them to the use of the Farmers of his most Christian Majesty; though the Village of Floreffe is notoriously known to be within the Dominions of Spain; and the French have not yet possessed themselves of it; so that 'tis superfluous to add any more on that Subect.   

Spontin.  
An Ordinance to the like effect, was sent by Faultrier, to Spontin, and divers other Villages of this County, with a Prohibition to the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Inhabitants of Spontin, to pay any Tallage or Aids to his Catholic Majesty, on pain of Disobedeince.   

The Title of Spain to Spontin.  
By a Record of the year 1377, in the Castle of Namur, it appears, that the Lord of Spontin owns the Earl of Namur to be his Lord, and confesses, he bought of him the Mill of Spontin for some Bushels of Corn, to be delivered into the Granaries of the Castle of Polvache.  
Besides, in an old Register of in the Offiec the Sovereign bailage; Entitled, The Register in Parchment; it appears in the Chapter of Poilvache, that William Lardienoy, held of the Earl, and did him Homage, for his Castle, Lordship, and Territory of Spontin; to wit, the Town of Spontin, and its Dependences, there set forth at large.  
In the said Account of Aids, of the years 1491 and 1562, Spontin is Assessed among the Villages of this Province.  
And in the Register of Surveys, of the year 1602, it is mentioned to be part of the Provostship of Polvache, and being a Member thereof, the Title of his Majesty of Spain is further cleared to Spontin, by what is before said of his right to that Provostship.   

Gerpinnes.  
Faultrier sent to Gerpinnes, situate between the Sambre and the , an Order, Dated the 4th of November, 1681, Prohibiting the Inhabitants to receive any Orders from his Catholic Majesty, or pay any Toll, Taxes, or Duties to any Person whatever, but such as should be Commissioned by him the said Faultrier, with further Order to all Gentlemen and others, having right to sit in the Assembly of the States of this Province, and all other Lords and Inhabitants in the Lands and Villages in the possession of France, that for the future, they forbear Sitting in the said States, on pain of being proceeded against as Disobenient.   

The Title of Spain to Gerpinnes.  
It appears by Register abovementioned, of the year 1265, that the Men of Gerpinnes are not only obliged to follow the said Count of Namur into the Wars, and to provide Horses and Carriages for his Progresses and Journeys, but he hath also right of Mortmain, Escheat, High Justice, and other Rights there specified, over them.  
Besides, Gerpinnes is one of the Seventeen Villages, heretofore in Controversy between the Bishop and Chapter of Liege, and the Earl of Namur; touching which it was agteed between the Parties in the year 1360, that the Earl and four of his Knights, there named and chosen, on the part of Bishop and Chapter, should swear, that the said Villages did belong to the said Earl; that they descended to him from his Predecessors, who had enjoyed them time out of mind: And that the said Bishop and Chapter had not possessed or enjoyed them: And that they did not any way belong to them; that in case of such Oath made, the said Bishop and Chapter would restore to the said Earl, the possession of the said Seventeen Villages. The Earl accepted the Condition; and he and his four Knights, one after another, took solemn Oaths upon the Holy Evangelists, to the effectaforesaid: the Form of the Oath being entered at the bottom of a Parchment Roll, wherein the Rights and Dependences of every of the 17 Villages were set forth at large. All this being done, in presence of the said Chapter, and four Commissioners appointed by them, who administered, received, and accepted the said Oath; notwithstanding all this, the said Bishop and Chapter refused to restore the Count to his possession of the 17 Villages, according to the agreement, whereupon the Count obtained, in the Court of Rome, four Decrees for possession, by which the Bishop and Chapter were Condemned, to restore to the Count the possession of the Villages, and to account to him for the mean Profits, they had received.  
Pursuant to these Decrees, Execution was awarded by the Cardinals, deputed by the Pope, and a Commission given by the Bishop of Liege, for restoring to the Count, the possession of the 17 Villages, which was accordingly done.  
Moreover, By the Paper List of the Fiefes of the bailage of Bovignes, holding of the Castle of Namur, it appears, that John le Rouleux was a Liegeman and Homager to the Earl of Namur, for the Vicounty of Gerpinnes, and all its Appurtenances; and John de Graux did Homage for it in 1426.  
In the Accounts of the Aids of the years 1493, 1559, 1560, 1562, Gerpinnes is Assessed as a Member of the Province of Namur, and is accordingly returned in the Survey of 1602.   

Sorinnes sur Dinant, Ayseaux, Viley lafoy Poterie, and Wepion.  
The Intendant Faultrier caused an Order to be delivered to the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Inhabitants of Sorinnes, to oblige them to swear Aliegiance to France; which they accordingly did, as appears by Certificate from J. de V●●●nsaigne, Lord of that place, to the Attorney General Cuvelier.  
In October, 1681, the French Ministers sold, to him who bid most, the Woods of Marlaigne, Biert, and other places.  
The Officers of his Catholic Majesty, having thought fit to demolish the Hermitage of St. George, situate upon a Hill, over against the Fortifications of Sorinnes, and within Musket-shot of them; the Governor of Chilipville made great Complaints of it to the Prince of Barbanson, Governor of this Province; and threatened, by a Letter on that Subject, to proceed by way of reprisal, for the Demolishing the Hermitage; pretending, that the Hermitage being between the Sambre and the , it was a Dependent of the Villages and Places, France was in Possession of, and subject to the Pretensions France, hath upon that Country.   

The Mayoralty of Anhee.  
Faultrier sent an Order, Dated the 4th of November, 1681, to the Inhabitants of this Mayoralty, expressly commanding all Gentlemen, and others, having right to Sat in the States of this Province; or being Lords or Inhabitants of any Villages within the French Conquests, that they forbear Sitting in the said States, for the future, on pain of being punished, as Disobedient: And that the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Officers at Law, of the Lands, owing Fealty to France, and summoned to do it, should not receive any Order, or pay any Tolls, Taxes, or Duties to any, but such, as should produce Commission from Faultrier.  
The like Order was sent by him to the Inhabitants of Ayseaux, and its Dependants, and other Villages of this Province.  
And by Order of the 14th of November, 1681, sent to Vilers lafoy Poterie, between the Sambre and the , and a Dependent of the County of Namur, he Commanded the Inhabitants there, to deliver at Philipville a quantity of Forage, several Measures of Oats, and Trusses of Straw.  
The like Order was sent to Wepion, for the Inhabitants, there to furnish Dinant with three thousand Trusses of Hay, 4 Measures of Oats, and a hundred Trusses of Straw, with Threats in case of Disobedience, to send thither Horsemen and Dragoons, to fetch away that Forage.  
The 17th of November, 1681, the Inhabitants of the same place had Order to go to Philipville, to swear Allegiance to France, and because they obeyed not those Orders, some French Soldiers, carried away to Di: nant two of the Inhabitants of Wepion, whom Faultrier threatened with Plunder and Fire, unless the Inhabitants of Wepion would swear Allegiance to France, before the end of November.   

The Titlh of Spain to the places last ementioned.  
Sorinnes is one of the Villages mentioned before, and belongs to Spain by the same right, that Gerpinnes doth; besides which, it appears, by a Grant of the Provostship of Poilvache, made by an Earl of Luxemburgh, to an Earl of Namur; and by the Accounts of Aids, granted in the years 1493, 1560, and 1562; and by the Register of Surveys, in 1602, that Sorinnes, is a Member of this Province.  
His Catholic Majesties Right to the Mayoralty of Anhee, Ayseaux, and Wepion, hath been made out before: And as for Villers lafoy Poterie, it appears by the Register of 1562, that the Earl of Namur is Lord of Villers; and that the Inhabitants there own him suit to the Wars, provision of Horses and Carriages for his Journeys; and that he hath right of Mortmain, and all other rights of Seignory there.   

The Provostship of Poilvach, and Bann of Leignon.  
In November, 1681, the Mayor, Sheriffs, Officers at Law, and Inhabitants of the Liberty of Liegnon, depending on the said, Provostship, received Order from Faultrier, to appear the 15th of that Month at Dinant to swear Allegiance to France, with Probition to receive, for the future, any Order, but what came from him.   

Ivoir.  
The same Faultrier, by his Order, Dated the 15th of the same Month, Prohibited the Inhabitants of Ivoir, as a Member of the Provostship of Polvach, to own own any Sovereign, but the most Christian King, on pain of being punished, as Rebels.  
The Sieur de Liseigne, having by Petition to Faultrier, complained of two Decrees the Council of Namur had pronounced, in favour of his Sister, and the Executions served, pursuant to the Decrees, upon his Estate in Ivoir: Faultrier, by his Answer to the Petition, Reversed the Decrees, and Prohibited, on pain of Reprisal, all Executions there of, in the Villages in the Possession of France.   

Chaltin, Emptiness, Spontin, Ohey, Halliot, Goesne, Hodomont, Walay, Wauremont, Asses, Corier, and the Mayoralty of Rendarch.  
The same Intendant sent two Orders, Dated the 14th and 26th of November, 1681, to the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Inhabitants of the Villages of Chaltin, Emptiness, Spontin, Ohey, Halliot, Goesne, Hodomont, Walay, Wauremont, and Asses, situate beyond the , and Dependants of the Provostship of Poilvache, and to the Inhabitants of Colier; and the Mayor and Sheriffs of the Mayoralty of Rendarch, which comprehends several Villages: By the First, they were to deliver to Courbiet, at Dinant, a quantity of Hey, Oats, and Straw. By the Second, they were prohibited to receive any Order from his Catholic Majesty, or his Ministers, or to carry any Money into the Receipt of his Demesne, for Impost, Tallage, Subsidies, or on any other pretence whatsoyver.  
By Billet, Dated the 25th of November, 1681, the same Intendant Commanded Philip Hovyoux, Deputy Provost of Poiluache, to appear immediately in the Town of Dinant, to receive such Orders, as should be given him, on the behalf of France.   

Falmaigne.  
An Order of the same Intendant, Dated the 26th of November, 1681, was delivered to the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Inhabitants of Falmaigne, a Dependent of the Provostship of Poilvach, forbidding them to receive any Order from his Catholic Majesty, or his Ministers, or to pay any money into his Exchequer, on any pretence whatsoever.   

Ash in Rendarch, Eurehailles, Godines, Gesnes, Ivoir, and Champall.  
The said Villages, all Dependants of the Provostship of Poilvach, received several Orders from Faultrier, forbidding them to pay any Duties, in Obedience to any Order of the States of this Province; and commanding them not to receive any Order, but what came from him.  
The 30th of November, 1681, thirty or forty Dragoons, under the Command of N. Boron, Faultriers' Deputy, came to Ivoir, and, by ringing a Bell, summoned all the Inhabitants together, and by word of Mouth, repeated to them the Orders : Having passed thence to Godines, Boron asked John Charlett, one of his Catholic Majesties woodward's in Hanwez, by what Authority he had on the 28th and 29th of November, measured the Woods of Hanwez? the Woodward replying, he had done it by Order of his Catholic Majesties Officers, his Masters: Boron forbade him to do so again, on pain of being Hanged, or sent to the Galleys.   

The Mayoralty of Houx, and its Dependants.  
Faultrier sent Orders to the Inhabitants of the Mayoralty of Houx, a Dependent of Bovignes, to the same effect as the Orders sent to the Provostship of Poilvache; which Mayoralty consists in the following Villages, Lisoigne, Avaigne, Purnode, Eurehailles, Ivoir, and Godines, with the Hamlets of Lois, Faiginoule, Champal, Venate, Futvoye, Frappeul, Fresne, and Talfier, all situate beyond the , and Dependants of the Province of Namur.  
In December, 1681, the French quartered Dragoons in the strong places and Castles of the Provostship of Poilvach, where they continue at the charge of the Country.   

The Right of Spain to all the Places last mentioned, within the Provostship of Poilvach, and Bann of Leignon.  
The Bann or Liberty of Leignon, and the Villages , are Dependants of the Provostship of Poilvach, which by the Register of Surveys of the year 1602, consists in the following Villages, the Mayoralty of Rendarch, which comprehends Loustin, Ronchines, Ivoy, Ash, Mallien, Corier, Corioule, Long Sorinne, Porin d'Asses, Miltier, Jassoigne, the Fields of Jassoigne, Wauremont, Ohey, and Walbet, with other Appendences, Halliot, Say, Mohiville, the Appendents of Say, Chaltin, Maibe, a Dependent of Chaltin, Fusee, Waulin, the Liberty of Leignon, Leignon, Chapoy, Ouechippe, Rouvaux, Corbion, Falmaign, and Barsinalle, Sorinne snr Dinant, Borsell, Gesnes, Emptiness, Emptinal, Natoye, Fontam, Campilion, le sart, Spontin, Goesne, Filly, Hodomont, House en Famerme, Harynies, the two Bourseignes, old Bourseigne, Mesinil, St. Blaise, Hailes, Prondrosme, the Mayoralty of Houx, consisting in the Land of Eurehailles, brooch, and Gayolle, incorporate into the Town of Bovignes, Ivoir, and Furvye, Venate, Hour, Champal, Hugomont, Rbockmont, Godines, Monts, and Chavaux, Frappeul, Fresne, and Talfier, Awaign, Lisoigne, Teroul, Loyers, and Purmode, of which France hath taken possession.  
That the Provostship and Villages , belong to his Catholic Majesty, hath been already made out, and may further appear by unquestionable Evidences, and Records of the years 1280, 1343, 1344, 1346, and 1353, containing the Sale made of that Provostship, and the Mayoralties, depending of it, by the Earl of Luxembourgh, to the Lady Mary d' Artoy, Countess of Namur: The Confirmation of the same Sale, by Charles, eldest Son of the said Earl; and the said Earl and his Sons discharging their Subjects of the said Provostship of the Homage due to them; with Order to acknowledge the Countess of Namur their Lady, as they had done the Earls of Luxemburgh their Lords, and pay her for the future the like Duties they had formerly paid the said Earls, to which the said Earls, to which may be added the Gift the said Lady, made of the said then Provostship to William her Son Earl of Namur.  
Besides which, we find an Agreement made by the Mediation of the Emperor, Between Wenceslaus, Duke of Luxemburgh, and Brabant, and the said William, Earl of Namur, whereby the said Duke releases all Right, he or his Heirs might any way claim to the Castle, Town, and Provostship of Poilvach, with its Dependences, and to the Liberty of Say; and agrees that the said Earl shall enjoy the same, by virtue of the said Sale, made by his Predecessors to the Lady Mary d' Artoy; in consideration whereof, the said Earl of Namur, released on his part, all Right to Mirwart, Longpreit, and some other Villages of the Country of Luxemburgh.  
Add hereto the said Accounts of Aids of the years 1493, 1559, 1560, and 1562, where the Villages of the said Provostship have been all Assessed as Members of the Province of Namur.  
To come to particulars, Emptiness, Natoye, and Sorinnes sur Dinant, are part of the seventeen Villages , as appears in the Chapter of Gerpinnes.  
Spontin we have already spoken of particularly.  
As to Halliot and Menceau, we find an Award between the Earl of Namur, and the Chapter of Ardenne, Decreed in 1384, and remaining of Record in the Castle of Namur, whereby it is declared, that the Seignory of Halliot and Manceau belongs to the Earl of Namur.  
As to Loustin and Mallien, there is an Agreement made between the said Earl and the Chapter of Hue, in 1400, whereby a-among other things it appears that the Earl of Namur, is Lord Paramount of Loustin, and Mallien.  
As to Awaigne, it appears by a Record of 1384, that Chabot, as a Descendent of the House of Awaigne, acknowledged he owed the Earl of Namur, in Right of his Castle and Lordship of Poilvach, the Service of Person and Teem, and other Duties there particulary set forth.  
As to the Ban or Liberty of Leignon, there is in the said Castle a Record of the year 1400, of the Rights and Seignory of the Earl of Namur, over the Liberty of Leignon, and that in Right of his Territory of Poilvach, he is Sovereign Lord of Leignon.  
As to Ivoir and Champal, it appears by a Record of the year 1385, in the Castle of Namur, that N. Mancor granted away the great Tithes of Ivoir and Champal to the Earl of Namur.  
And by a Register made by a Receiver General of Namur. beginning in 1345, 'tis plain that James de Marchie, Receiver General of Namur, having given notice by Proclamation, he would Farm out the Rents and Profits of Champal, with the Meadows, Lands, and Tithes thereto belonging, in the year 1497, did the 27th of May, the same year, let them to Farm to Matthew Dauchet, under the Rent there specified, for the term of Twelve years; in the Name, and for the use of the Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgoigne and Earl of Namur.  
As for Hodomont, it appears by the second Volume of the Repertory in the List of Fiefes of the County of Namur, that Libert, Son of Jacqmin of Hodomont, is a Liegeman to the Earl of Namur, and did Homage for the Lands and Lordship of Hodomont, with all its Members and Appurtenances, in the year 1372; and that from 1372 to 1545: the Lords of Hodomont have successively done like Homage to the Earls of Namur.  
By the Register, called The Parchment List, in the Chapter of Poilvach, fol. 34; it appears, as to Lisoigne, That Baldwyn de Mostier holds all his Territory of Lisoigne with the Chief and Annual Rents, Capons, Lands, Meadows, Woods, and Pasture of the Earl of the Earl of Namur, as Lord of Poilvach.  
By the same Register, in the same Chapter, it appears that Monsieur Arnold, Lord of Cowaren, holds of the Earl of Namur, in Frank Fee, the Liberty of Natoye.  
By the Register of the Fiefes of Aloux, beginning in the year 1486, it appears that John de Ramelot, in 1507, holds of the Earl of Namur, as of his Castle of Namur, all the Lands and Lordships of Goesne, with its Appurtenances and Dependants.  
As to the Land of Hour en Fancen, it appears by the second Volume of the old Repertory, that Walter, the Son of Oliver Centfontain, did Homage to the Earl of Namur, for his Mesmage and Lands of Hour and Fancenn: And that John Small, Heir of the said Walter, did the like in 1408, and the owners of the said Lands and Lordship of Hour en Fancenne, have from time to time, done Homage for the same to the Earls of Namur.   

The Woods of Hanwez and Loche, Dependants of the Provostship of Poilvache.  
N. Boron, Faultrier's Deputy, in November, 1681, Caused John Grosseaux, his Catholic Majesties Woodward of Hanwez, to come to Dinant; and having informed himself by him, of the Growth of those Woods, and the regular Course of Falling them yearly: He forbade Grosseaux to come any more into Namur, to make any report concerning the said Woods, to his Majesty's Officers, but to repair to him Personally at Dinant: After which he caused above two hundred of the best Timber-Trees, in the Woods of Loche, to be cut down.   

The Right of Spain to these Woods.  
It appears by the Sale of the Provostship of Poilvache, and its Dependences, in 1344, by John Earl of Luxemburgh, to Dame Mary d' Artoy, that all Woods Dependants of that Provostship, are mentioned and comprised in the Sale.   

Achin and Soliers.  
Faultrier sent Orders to the Abbey of Soliers, and Inhabitants of Ahin, the same in effect with those sent to the Provostship of Poilvache, prohibiting payment of any Duty to his Catholic Majesty, notwithstanding any Order from the States of the Province, and Commanding them not to obey any Orders, but what should be sent them, on the behalf of his Majesty; upon pretence the said places are Dependants of the said Provostship, though in truth they are not, but within the Jurisdiction of the Province of Namur: And at Ahin there is a Custom-house settled by his Catholic Majesty, for Duties of Exportation and Importation, Ingress and Egress.   

The Right of Spain to Soliers and Ahin.  
Soliers and Ahin are Dependants of the Province of Namur, within the bailage of Entre  and Arch, as appears by the said account of Aids of 1493, and the Register of Surveys of 1602.  
As to Ahin in particular, 'tis a Fee held of the Castle of Namur; Libert de Foux did Homage for it in 1404; and so have the other Owners successively done, as appears by the second Volume of the List of Fiefes.  
The Records concerning Soliers, are in the Custody of the Nuns of Illec; and endeavours shall be used to have them produced, if there be Cause.   

High and Low Arch.  
Boron sent an Order, Dated the 8th of December, 1681, to Francis de Page, Woodward of High and Low Arch, a Dependent of the bailage of Entre  and Arch, to repair to Dinant to take the Oath of Allegiance to France; but because we are not certain, France hath taken possession of those Woods, we forbear to set forth his Catholic Majesties Title thereto.   

Wepion, Godines, and Leswes.  
Because the Council of this Province had sent into the Villages between the Sambre and the , and into the Provostship of Poilvach the Placarts last Published by his Highness: Count Montbron, sent Order to the Mayors and Inhabitants of the same places, prohibiting them to receive such Placarts, on pain of being punished as Rebels, and threatening to send to the Galleys, the Bearers of such Placarts, whom he calls Vagabonds.  
The beginning of the year 1682, Boron accompanied with Sergeant Benedict, came to the Village of Biesme la Colonness, situate between the Sambre and the , and a Dependent of the bailage of Bovignes, where he levied and received all the Chief-rents belonging to his Catholic Majesty, and caused them to be left at the House of Hubert Baviot at Biesme.  
On Twelf-day last, John de Gozee, Lord of Biesme, as the People came from Mass in the Parish-Church, caused it to be Published aloud before all the Commonalty of Biesme, that he had received Order from France, to lay an Assessment on the said Commonalty to be presently paid: And that the Order was, they should be Taxed at 600 Florins for Biesme, instead of 1945, they formerly paid his Catholic Majesty.  
The like Order, Dated the second of January, 1683, was sent to Wepion, and to Hontoir, a Dependent of the Baliage of Bovignes, whereby it appears, that Hontoir is Assessed at Forty Florins to be forthwith paid into the hands of the Lord of Biesme appointed by France to collect the said Assessments. Besides which, all the Inhabitants of the places, in the possession of France, were commanded upon hearing a Bell rung, to assemble together, and Seize those who should bring Placarts, or other orders in his Catholic Majesty's names, with threats of Reprisal on his Majesty's Subjects, if any on behalf of his Majesty, or his Officers should Levy any Duties from the said Inhabitants or their Estates, as appears at Large by Faultriers' Order.  
The 11 of January, 1682. By two other Orders, delivered at Hontoir, and Dated the one the 12 of September, the other the 22 of November, 1682, he Prohibited the inhabitants between the Sambre and the , to appear for any Cause, or pretence whatsoever, before the Officers and Courts of his Catholic Majesty, and Commanded them to withdraw their Suits, if any, depending there, under divers penalties expressed in the Order. With Prohibition to all Mayors, Provosts, Bailiffs and other Officers of the said Villages, to receive or admit into their Jurisdiction any Advocates, Proctors, or other pleaders, but such only as are Subjects of France.  
By Billet of the first of January, Faultrier forbade those who get Stone out of the Quarries in the fields of Houx (close adjoining to the Town of Bovignes) to pay for them to any but Boron, pretending the said Quarries are dependants of the Provostship of Poilvache, tho' they are in truth within the Liberty and Jurisdiction of Bovignes.  
As to his Catholic Majesties right to all the places above mentioned, besides what hath already been said on that Subject, his Majesty and Predecessors have been in possession of them time out of mind, for several Ages, and till now have continually exercised all acts of Sovereignty over them without contradiction of any Person whatever.    
January 15. 1682.  
FINIS.