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resistance. The town and province of Utrechtsent deputies , and surrendered themselves toLewis. Naarden, a place within three leagues ofAmsterdam, was seized by the marquis of Roch-fort, and had he pushed on to Muyden, hehad easily gotten posfeilion of it. Fourteen strag-glers of his army having appeared before thegates of that town, the magistrates sent them thekeys; but a servant-maid, who was alone in thecastle, having raised the drawbridge, kept themfrom taking possession of that fortress. The magis-trates afterwards, finding the party so weak,made them drunk, and took the keys from them.Muyden is so near to Amsterdam, that its cannonmay infest the ships which enter that city.

Lewis with a splendid court made.a solemn*entry into Utrecht, fills of glory , because everywhere attended with success; though more owingto the cowardice and misconduct of his enemies,than to his own valor or prudence. Threeprovinces were already in his hands, Guelderland,Overyssel, and Utrecht; Groninghen was threat-ened ; Fricfland was exposed : The only dif-ficulty lay in Holland and Zealand; and the mon-arch deliberated concerning the proper measuresfor reducing them. Conde and Turenne exhortedhim to dismantle all the towns which he hadtaken, except a few; and fortifying his mainarmy by the garrisons, put himself in a condi-tion of pushing his conquests. Louvois , hopingthat the other provinces weak and dismayed,would prove an easy prey, advised him to keep

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