The royal almanack containing a succinct account of the most memorable actions of K. William III : with the year and day of the month when they happened / composed by P. Vincent Coronelli, cosmographer to the most serene republick of Venice, and presented to his Majesty by himself.

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The royal almanack containing a succinct account of the most memorable actions of K. William III : with the year and day of the month when they happened / composed by P. Vincent Coronelli, cosmographer to the most serene republick of Venice, and presented to his Majesty by himself.
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Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718.
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London :: Printed for E. Whitlock ... ,
1696.
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William -- III, -- King of England, 1650-1702.
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September.

1, 1672. Having feigned to attack Narden, his Royal Highness falls on Woerden. 2. 3.

4, 1672. Besieges Naerden.

5, 1672. The States empower the Prince to remove all the Magistrates of the Hague, and put others in their Places.

6, 1672. The Siege of Woerden proves the death of se∣veral French Officers, and above 200 Soldiers.

7, 1672. His Royal Highness goes from Loo towards the Frontiers of Germany, to confer with several Electors and Princes of the Empire.

8, 1688. The Marquiss of Albeville, Embassador from King James II. presented a Memoir to the States General, desiring to know their Design in fitting out so great a Fleet.

9, 1688. Monsieur d' Avaux, Embassador from the French King, does likewise declare to the States General, that if their Navy were designed against the King of England, as it was likely, the French King his Master would assist him to his utmost, as being his Friend and Ally.

10, 1691. The King presents the Prince of Vaudemont with 40000 Florins, and a Palace in Brussels richly furnished.

11, 1653. On the Princess Dowager's arrival at the Hague with the young Prince, the Inhabitants of the place desire the Magistracy to give them the Arms and Colours be∣longing to the Princes of Orange, and threaten that else they will take them by force.

12, 1682. The States General send an Embassy to the French King, requiring him to draw his Troops from the City of Orange, and to cause the Inhabitants to be recom∣penced for all the Damages they had sustained by his Soldiers quartering there.

13, 1673. The Prince does, to his great Glory, take the Fortress of Naerden.

14, 1674. Notwithstanding the Fatigue his Army had un∣dergone in the Battle of Senef, he besieges Oudenarden.

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15, 1690. The King having reduced almost all Ireland to his Obedience, takes Ship at Doncanon for England.

16, 1673. The Emperor first uses the Stile of ROYAL HIGHNESS in his Letters to the Prince of Orange.

17, 1691. His Majesty having made fruitless Endeavors to oblige the French to fight him, blows up the Fortifications of Beaumont before the Duke of Luxemburgh's Face; and then leaves his Camp to divert himself at Loo.

18, 1691. The Mareschal de Luxemburg, who had so carefully avoided the Fight while the King was with the Army, no sooner hears that he is gone, but he falls on our Rear with all his Horse, but is so vigorously repulsed by the Prince de Waldeck, that he loses many of his Men, and comes short of his Design.

19, 1691. The King arrives at Breda, and thence goes to Loo.

20, 1688. The Prince of Orange went to Minden to con∣fer with the Elector of Brandenburg, the Princes of the House of Brunswick, the Landtgrave of Hesse, the Bishop of Munster, and several other Princes; and thence went Post to Anemberg, to meet there with the Elector of Saxony.

21. Minheer Fagel and some other Persons are deputed, by the States, to compliment the Prince on the taking of Naerden.

22, 1690. The King returns to London from the Campaign in Ireland, and is receiv'd there with all possible Expressions of Joy, for the great Victories he had gained in Ireland.

23, 1688. He returned to the Hague from his Progress in∣to Germany, and began to get his Forces together.

24, 1690. The Parliament in Scotland confirm the Oath of Allegiance, which all the Inhabitants of the Kingdom, especially those in Places of Trust, were to take.

25, 1668. The Prince is made Head of all the Nobility of Zealand, and President of the States of that Province, at Middleburgh.

26, 1672. The States General do, by an Edict, impower his Royal Highness to pardon as many Criminals as he should think fit.

26, 1691. The King's Army in Ireland takes the City of Slego.

27, 1672. The States General raise a Company of Gen∣tlemen to guard the Prince of Orange's Person.

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28, 1672. His R.H. abhors the Proposals that some made him, of Murthering the two Kings which were his Enemies.

29, 1683. He proffers Himself and the Assistance of the States General to the King of England, against the Duke of Monmouth who was landed in Scotland, and had raised a Re∣bellion in almost that whole Kingdom.

30, 1673. He storms Rhimback.

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