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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09218	Three to one being, an English-Spanish combat, performed by a westerne gentleman, of Tauystoke in Deuon shire with an English quarter-staffe, against three Spanish rapiers and poniards, at Sherries in Spaine, the fifteene day of Nouember, 1625. In the presence of dukes, condes, marquesses, and other great dons of Spaine, being the counsell of warre. The author of this booke, and actor in this encounter, Richard Peeeke [sic].	Pike, Richard, fl. 1625.	1626 (1626)	STC 19529; ESTC S120629	14,680	38

Three to One Being An English-Spanish Combat Performed by a Westerne Gentleman of Tauystoke in Deuonshire with an English Quarter-Staffe against Three Spanish Rapiers and Poniards at Sherries in Spaine The fifteene day of Nouember 1625. In the Presence of Dukes Condes Marquesses and other Great Dons of Spaine being the Counsell of Warre The Author of this Booke and Actor in this Encounter Richard Peeeke TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT Maiestie GRATIOVS SOVERAIGNE IF I were againe in Spaine I should thinke no happinesse on Earth so great as to come into England and at your Royall Feete lay downe the Story of my Dangers and Peregrination Which I tell as a late Sea-wrackt Man tos'd and beaten with many Misfortunes Yet setting my weary Body at last on a Blessed Shore My Handes now lay hold vpon your Altar which is to me a Sanctuary Heere I am safe in Harbor That Psalme of Kingly Dauid which I sung in my Spanish Captiuity Psal 137. When as wee sate in Babilon c. I now haue changed to an other Tune saying with the same Prophet Great is thy Mercy towards me O Lord for thou hast deliuered my Soule from the lowest Graue Psal 86.13 And as your Maiesty hath bene gratiously pleased both to let your poore Soldier and Subiect behold your Royall Person and to heare him speake in his rude Language So if your Maiesty vouchsafe to cast a Princely Eye on these his vnhandsome Papers New Sun-beames shall spread ouer him and put a Quickning Soule into that Bosome which otherwise must want Life for want of your Comfort Those Graces from your Excellent Clemency already receiued being such that I am ashamed and sorry not to haue Endur'd and to haue done more in Forreigne Countries for the Honor of Yours When from so High a Throane my Souereigne Deignes to looke Downe on a Creature so vnworthy whose Life he prostrates before your Highnes Euer resting Your Maiesties most Humble and Loyall Subiect RICHARD PEEKE Three to One Being An English-Spanish Combat LOuing Countreymen Not to weary you with long Praeambles vnnecessary for you to reade and troublesome for me to set downe I will come roundly to the matter intreating you not to cast a malitious eye vpon my Actions nor rashly to condemne them or to stagger in your Opinions of my performance sithence I am ready with my life to Iustify what I set downe the Trueth of this Relation being Warrented by Noble Proofes and Testimonies not to be questioned I am a Westerne Man Deuonshire my Countrey and Tauestoke my place of Habitation I know not what the Court of a King meanes nor what the fine Phrases of silken Courtiers are A good Shippe I know and a poore Cabbin and the Language of a Cannon And therefore as my Breeding has bin Rough scorning Delicacy And my Present Being consisteth altogether vpon the Soldier blunt plaine and vnpollished so must my Writings be proceeding from fingers fitter for the Pike then the Pen And so kinde Countreymen I pray receaue them Neither ought you to expect better from me because I am but the Chronicler of my owne Story After I had seene the Beginning and End of Argeires Voyage Argiers I came home somewhat more acquainted with the World but little amended in Estate My Body more wasted and weather-beaten but my Purse neuer the fuller nor my Pockets thicker lyned Then the Drumbe beating vp for a New Expedition in which many Noble Gentlemen and Heroicall Spirits were to venture their Honors Liues and Fortunes Cables could not hold me for away I would and along I vowed to goe and did so The Dissigne opening it selfe at Sea for Cales Cales proude I was to be imployed There where so many Gallants and English Worthies did by their Examples encourage the Common Soldier to Honorable Darings The Shippe I went in was called The Conuertine one of the Nauy Royall The Captaine Thomas Portar On the two and twentie day of October October 22. The Fleete came to Cales being Saterday 1625. our Fleete came into Cales about three of the clock in the afternoone we being in all some hundred and ten Sayle The Saturday-night some sixteene Sayle of the Hollanders and about ten White-Hall-Men who in England are called Colliers were commanded to fight against the Castle of Puntall Fight at Puntall standing three miles from Cales who did so accordingly and discharged in that Seruice at the least one thousand sixe hundred Shott On the Sunday morning following the Earle of Essex going vp very early Earle of Essex and an hower at least before vs to the Fight commanded our Shippe the Conuertine being of his Squadron to follow him The Castle playing hard and hotly vpon his Lordship Captaine Portar and the Maister of our Ship Captaine Portar whose name is M. Hill hauing vpon sight of so fierce an Encounter an equall desire to doe something worthy themselues and their Countrey came vp so close to the Castle as possibly Men in such a danger either could or durst aduenture and there fought brauely The Castle bestowing vpon vs a hotte salutation and well becomming our approach with Bullets whose first Shot killd three of our Men passing through and through our Shippe the second killd foure and the third two more at least with great spoile and battery to our Shippe The last Shotte flying so close by Captaine Portar that with the winde of the Bullet his very Hands had almost lost the Sence of feeling being struck into a suddaine numbnesse Vpon this Captaine Portar perceiuing the danger wee and our Shippe were in commaunded a number of vs to get vpon the vpper Deck and with our Small Shotte to try if we could force the Cannoneers from their Ordnance Wee presently aduaunced our selues fell close to our worke and plyed them with Pellets in which hotte and dangerous Seruice one Master William Iewell Mr. William Iewell his Seruice behaued himselfe both Manly and like a Noble Soldier expressing much Valour abillity of Body and readinesse with whom and some few more I amongst the rest stood the brunt which continued about three houres Out Ship lay all this while with her Star-bord side to the Fort who beating vs continually with at least two hundred Muskets whose Bullets flew so thick that our Shrowdes were torne in peices and our Tacklings rent to nothing and when she came off 500. Bullets in the Star-board side of our Shippe there were to be seene fiue hundred Bullets at the least sticking in her side I for my part without vaine glory be it spoken discharging at this time some threescore and ten Shotte as they recounted to me who charged my Peeces for me In the heate of this Fight Sir William Sentliger Sir William Sentliger whether cald vp by my Lord of Essex or comming of himselfe I know not seeing vs so hardly besett and that we had but few Shotte vpon our Deck in regard of the