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A08577	A true historie of the memorable siege of Ostend and what passed on either side, from the beginning of the siege, vnto the yeelding vp of the towne. Conteining the assaults, alarums, defences, inuentions of warre, mines, counter-mines and retrenchments, combats of galleys, and sea-fights, with the portrait of the towne: and also what passed in the Ile of Cadsant, and at the siege of Sluice, after the comming of Count Maurice. Translated out of French into English, by Edward Grimeston.; Histoire remarquable et veritable de ce qui c'est passé par chacun jour au siege de la ville d'Ostende. English.	Grimeston, Edward.	1604 (1604)	STC 18895; ESTC S113561	132,698	249

the which arriued all together at Ostend The comming in and going of the ships was in a maner like all the rest of this yeare as in like sort their ordinary shooting the which the reader may imagin by that which hath bin written and that which followeth we will leaue this discourse the which is happily too long because we will not weary him and will talke of other accidents which haue past this yeare to take our first traine in the yeare 1603. The 5. of Iuly 1602 the Commaunders charged them of the towne that at the breake of day they should celebrate the first day of the siege of Ostend shooting of all ther Canon insteede of belles for they had none and euen the women and children were commaunded to beate vpon kettles pannes and other things to make a great noise which put all the Campe into alarme not knowing what it might be There was also a Sermon made to giue thankes vnto God for the miraculous preseruation of the Towne this yeare with harty praiers that it would please to him preserue it so hereafter The Arch-duke hauing certaine intelligence that the armie of the States vnder the command of Prince Maurice past by Brabant to come to succour Ostend he caused his Campe to be fortified against the Towne and intrenched himselfe without to attend this armie these newes did wonderfully reioyce them of the Towne who hoped to be freed by this meanes but for some let or occasion that was offred his Excellencie past not into Flanders Newes being come vnto the Campe that Prince Maurice had laied siege to Graue and the Arch-duke fearing nothing behinde resolued to finde some meanes to presse Ostend more straightly and to stop the passage for the ships to this end he causeth Saulcisses to be made so they call certaine things made of wood ryed together very close with hoopes of yron like vnto a tunne but bigger and longer behinde the which a horseman might easily couer himselfe and to roule it they must haue 50. or 60. men the which were planted on the East side of the towne vpon the Gollet behinde they wrought presently although the towne shott furiously vpon them The enemie also made very great gabions which they filled with very great stones to resist the Sea and the shott from the towne Whilest these things were doing before Ostend Prince Maurice did all he could to take Graue both by mine and batterie forcing it to yeeld the 20. of September 1602. and made himselfe be knowne for the lawfull heire and Lord thereof in view of the Admirall of Arragon Lieutenant generall to the Arch-duke who incamped neere vnto the towne to succour it but seeing his Excellencie very well intrenched and that he should preuaile nothing and that his troopes did leaue him dayly in the end he retired without any exploite doing worthy the remembring The Arch-duke hauing intelligence that P. Maurice had taken the towne of Graue was more earnest then before to stop the passage of the ships the which notwithstanding all the inuentions his men could finde out haue entred all the time of the siege and a great number by the gollet at the Canons mouth oftentimes at noone day without feare of any danger Their inuencion of Saulcisses proued also fruitlesse for this desseine they tryed yet many other inuentions both to fill vp the Gollet and to annoy the ships in passing Among other inuentions the enemie filled a great number of sacks with sand to stop vp the gollet hauing tried this deuice in the chanell neere to Alberts fort but heere it proued fruitlesse by reason of the violence of the tide That which most afflicted the besieged this yeare was the sicknesse that was among them whereof some dyed dayly neither was the enemy free from it The Estates of the confederate Prouinces considering that the discommodities the souldiers suffered was the cause of this sicknesse they caused the towne to be new built and the streetes were so disposed as the enemies Canon could do them little harme dying at the first thing it hit so as of 50. shott not one did hit a man and when any such thing chanced they held it for an extraordinarie accident which did not trouble them and this made the sicknesse to cease This yeare 8. great Galleys were rigged and made ready at Seuille in Spaine their chiefe commander was Frederike Spignola that wherein Spignola went was called S. Lewis the Captaine thereof was Redon The second the Trinitie the Captaine Pedro de Fergas The third the Occasion the Captaine Auila the fourth Saint Philip the Captaine Don Rodrigo de Neruaiz The fift the Morning the Captaine Pedro Collado Tenorro The sixt S. Iuan the Captaine Hernando de Vergas The seauenth Hiacintho the Captaine Christouall de Mongis and the eight La Padilla the Captaine Iuan de Sossa There were 400. men in euery one of these Galleys besides the slaues and eight hundred Souldiers they tooke in as they past at Lisbone These Galleys went their course towards England and were sent by the King of Spaine with some others which the Arch-duke had to scoure along the coast of England Holland and Zeland to interrupt their trade and to annoy them of Ostend by Sea Two of them the Trinitie and the Occasion were sunke by Sir Richard Luson Knight then Admirall in those Seas for the Queene of England vpon the coast of Spaine and Portugall about the Cape of Sicambre afterwards these Galleys tooke their course towards the Lowe-Countries and the third of October according to the new computation they were first discouered by two of the Statesmen of warre the one was called the Tyger whereof Iacob Pieterssen-Mol was Captaine and the other the Pellican whereof Timen Luberts was Captaine these two Shippes followed and chased these sixe Galleys The same day Robert Mansell Knight then Admirall for the Queene of England in the narrow Seas lying betwixt Douer and Calais discouered them also and sent presently to Captaine Ionas Captaine of one of the Kings ships called the Aduantage commanding him to goe presently to Calais and along all the coast of Flanders and to giue and allarme with Canonadoes especially to giue aduertisement of the comming of these Galleys to the States Fleete which laye then vppon the coast of Flanders the which the Captaine did performe most faithfully and verie speedily The Admirall did also oftentimes shoote of the greatest peece of Ordinance in his shippe to aduertise and call an other of the Kings shippes called the answer whereof Bredgate was Captaine who ridde at an Anchor South of the Downes and he presentlie set saile Soone after there arriued 4. ships of the Estates of Holland of the which the Seignior Opdā Henszbruch was Admirall lying then sicke at Porthmouth in England in whose absence and by his appointment Iohn Adrianssen Cant commanded in quality of vice admirall the Captaines of the three others were Garbrandt Iohanss Stahl

giue it him so hotte as they will burne his fingers This Gentle man of Don Catris saide that there were already about 3000. souldiers slaine before the Towne besides Pioners and aboue two thousand hurt The 10. of September the Lord of Chastillon being vpon the high Bulwarke of Sand-hill with Colonell Vchtenbruch a Scotish Liuetenant and other Gentlemen and men of commaunde at two of the clocke after-noone had his head strooke of with a Canon shotte aboue the teeth his braines flew against the left cheeke of Colonell Vehten ruch and made him to reele a little the Scottish Lieutenant was also greeuously hurt These be ordinarie accidents in warre neither is the the besieger any thing more free from them then the besieged the greater then the lesse the strong and valiant then the feeble and weake That night 30. ships came into the Towne and a greater number were dayly comming the which staied at Flesingue for faire weather to waigh Anchor and set saile The 14. of September also in the night there entred 23. or 24. saile more laden with victuals and munition after the which the enemie shotte furiously but by reason of a cloude and miste which did rise they could not hitte nor hurte any one wherevpon they ceased A fugitiue of the enemies said that there were manie sicke men in the Campe and that the Italians newly come out of Sauoye dyed by heapes that the Canon from the Towne did euery daye kill many men that the Souldiers fledde from the armie by troopes and that many more would goe if the horsemen kept not good guarde abroade and that it was to be feared that if the men of warre were long held in this constraint being ill payed they would mutine The 15. of September the enemy shot almost all night fiery Bullets and Flints into the Towne the which the besieged returned vnto them againe in the same coine The enemie had then but 16. peeces of Canon before the Towne they had sent all the rest to diuers strong places except foureteene which they had sent to Nieuport to be new cast for that they had beene spoiled and broken by the Canon of the Towne They had likewise sent away part of their troopes and those which remained in the armie stood in the water throughout all their trenches At the same time were surprised sundry letters from men of qualitie of Bruges and other parts of Flanders which shewed that they had lost all hope to take Ostend and that the Flemings were much afflicted and yet notwithstanding the bruite was that the Arch-duke would by no meanes heate speake of raising the siege how long soeuer it did continue or whatsoeuer it did cost The night before the Duke of Holstein or Holsatia brother to the King of Denmarke and the Earle of Hohenlo entred the towne with eight or nine saile wherein their baggage was and some Poulder they continued there two nights and two dayes and then returned to Middlebourgh without any annoiance or losse There came oftentimes men of qualitie both from England and France to see the place and the siege but they staied not There went out also 18. or 20. ships without any harme but one that was sunke and an anchor broake The Arch-dukes men made a halfe Moone or platforme in their trenches that are vpon the South at the foote of the Sand-downes meaning to plant sixe Canons thereon to batter the West-rauelin vnder the West Bulwarke where the besieged wrought dayly to make it higher and stronger The same day as the two former they did not shoote so much as they were accustomed the which seemed very strange vnto the besieged The Noblemen whereof we haue formerly spoken went the same day with the Gouernour and Colonels of Ostend to see the fortifications of the Towne and the enemies trenches which are about it The enemy shot 25. or 30. Canon shotte at one vollee against the South corner of Sand-hill and brake a little bridge set vpon the corner to passe vnto the False-Bray which hauing done they ceased whereby they might well see that they meant to giue an assault and to take away all that might annoy them There went some out of the Towne with Loapestaues which brought in a Spanish Lieutenant prisoner who said that many dyed in their Campe and that many fled dayly and more would flie if the Horse-men in guard which scoured all the passages to the ampe did not hinder them as hath beene formerly said There was also made a new Hauen at the mouth or gollet whereby the ships entred with lesse hazard and were more safe They built many houses in Albertus-fort and round about so as it might well be compared to a little towne they thought the Arch-duke would make a Port or Hauen of the Sluce which is neere to vse it insteed of that of Ostend The 18. of September there entred about 24. saile into the Towne laden with munition victuals bowes piles stakes plankes and with diuers instruments and commodities and they went forth by the gollet without any hurt or losse The same day they discharged thrice all the Canons Muskets and small shotte of the Towne in honour of the Queene of Englands birth-day this thundring put the enemie in alarme who presently began to shoote their fierie Bullets and Flints into the Towne to the which the besieged like men of honour and resolution failed not to replie They of the towne hauing placed some Canons betwixt the vttermost Piles and the Rampart which lookes to the enemies Campe and bends towards the Sea were the cause that the Sea swallowed vp and carried away part of the ground so as the opening or the breach of the little Tummel dike grew greater dayly The 19. Generall Vere being cured of his hurt returned into the Towne Almost all this night the enemie shotte fierie Bullets and Flints into the Towne but without any effect About ten or eleuen of the clock when the tyde went out they of the towne to the number of 200. made a sallie vpon the Sands to fier certaine Gabions but beeing too greene or wet it would not take where they lost one Souldier brought home ten or twelue hurt in the meane time the enemies trenches were fraught with shot and their Horsemen were vpon the Sea-shore whether the Canon from the Sand-hill shot furiously beeing a cleere Moone-light At the breake of day Generall Vere sent forth certaine aduenturers to the warre to take some one of the enemies who returned about two houres after noone bringing with them two Wallons which they had taken in the armie who said that the East quarter of the camp had beene fortified with the regiment of Asincourt wherein were 900. men but they were ill payed The same afternoone the aduenturers or fributers brought in a Germane prisoner who besides that which they vnderstoode of the two wallons said that the reason why they had fortified the Campe on the East side

that their meaning was to charge them wayed anchour and hoysed vp their sailes taking their course towards the east although the tide were cōtrary the wind also being so weake as it would not fill their sailes Spignolas galleis hauing the aduantage of wind tide and sun vpon the States fleet went by the North beyond the Francois Pol into the Vuielinghe or gulfe turning their prowe against the fleet Being in the Vuielinghe about 5. of the clocke the 8. galleis deuided thēselues in two foure foure with some space betwixt them came in this order very furiously with a great cry with all their force against the states army first 2. galleys set vpon the shippe of lost de Mohr vice-admirall called the golden Lion don Fredirike Spignola was in one of these galleys the which had no banderolle or flag vpon his mast but only aboue the Chamber of the captaines lodging Mohr the vice-admirall defended himselfe valiantly and did much indomage his enemies with his great ordinance so as Spignola himselfe was there mortally woūded died before he could go a shore foure other galleis went after the shippe of Captaine Legier Pieterssen of Groningh called the Segel-hont or flying-dog one of them tooke him right vpon the sterne with his spurre or pointe and made him retyer at the same time the gunner of the dogg set fier to a peece the which made such a spoyle of the soldiers in the galley as it seemed a Cart had passed from one end to the other The Hollandoise or black galley wherein Iacob Michielson was Captaine did fight with the other two galleys this skirmish hauing continued a while two of the galleys which were nere vnto the shipe of Legier Pieterssen forsooke him and went against the galley of Zeland called the Flight in the which Cornelius Ianssen of Gorchū was captaine who played his part as well as the rest without doubt had wone the honor if an accident of fier had not chanced in his galley The 2. other galleys did in like sort leaue Legiers shipe rowed against the Hollandoise or blacke galley One of them was vice-admiral to Spignola had a bāderol vpon her mast these 4. galleis had inough to do with the Hollōdoise who defended her selfe so valiētly as notwithstāding that these 4. had grappeled with her to draw her into Escluse yet were they forced to leaue her after along fight The galleie of Holland being thus forsaken by them that had assailed her went against them that were in fight with the vice admirall lost de Mohr An other shippe wherof Criin Henrihes of Zierc zeè called the Alte-hont or the old dogge although he were not charged yet did he much harme to Spignolas Galleies he was among the rest did flanke them shooting furiously vpon the enemies galleyes which were in fight with the vize-admirall and the black galley There was such a slaughter on euery side but especially in Spignolas galleies as euen a hart of Flint would haue bin moued to pity neyther of them shewed any base cowardise they were all so attentiue man to man with the Canon Muskets halfe pikes swords and other armes to shoote strike and anoy an other without any care to auoide the enemies blowes as it was a horrible things to see in the end Spignolas men fainted and fled to Escluse in great disorder carrying backe all their gallies being fauoured by the neerenes of the retreat According to the letters written from diuers parts there were slaine on the Arch-dukes side the Generall Frederik Spignola with aboue 800. men and there were some hundreds hurt on the States side There were some 36. slaine and amongst them Captaine Iacob Michels and his Lieutetenant The Vize-admirall Iost de Mohr and Captaine Legier Pieterssen with some 60. others which were hurt in the Vize-admirall and the galley of Zeland there were in either of them about 18. Englishmen of the garrison which is at Flesingue for the King of England who serued very well there were 8. slaine and 15. hurt which are comprehended in the nomber of the dead and hurt In this combat Iost de Mohr the Vize-admirall commaunded insteed of the signeur William Van Halteyn Lieftenant Admirall to the Prince Maurice which lieutenant hearing the Canon shott parted presently from Flesingue with 5. ships of war and one frigat to come to the succor of his men before the ditch of Escluse but the combat was ended the enemies retired when he arriued Beholde what passed then with the galleys of Spignola wherein is verefied that which the royal Prophet Dauid saith in the 16. 34 Psalmes that victories come not from the force and power of man but from the grace succor and assistance of Almighty God The 28. May Monsier du Fort went out of Ostend with part of the French men at night there went forth two great ships whereof the enemies tooke one The 29. of May two souldiers of the Towne meaning to flie vnto the enemy one of them was slaine two ships went forth whereof one of them was sunke and fell neere vnto the enemies battery the Pilot saued himselfe there were 19. souldiers of Ghistell which were taken and as some say were hanged The 2. of Iune the Leapers or aduenturers of the Towne brought in four prisoners and amongst them one of the enemies aduenturers In the night a little boat past ouer the dike to surprise the enemies Sentinell the same night the enemy aduanced neerer vnto the towne vpon the west square The 3. of Iune they of the Towne made a sally in the which Captaine Hanikrot was hurt in the cheeke arme and legge The 4. day at night there entred 20. Marchantes ships whereof three were sunke The same night they of the Towne made a sally vpon Lusbos with a 1000. men and wonne the Platforme and the enemies trench turning some of their owne Canon against them they cloyed two and cut in peeces the Corps de garde Canoniers and other officers of the artillery whom they found there of their parts they lost the lieutenant to Conte Ernest of Nassau the first lieutenant of Hauszman the Baron of Sancy a frenchmā Grouestein Colonel of the Frisons was hurt in the legge with many others and in the end they of the Towne were forced to retire They buried their dead men together the simple souldiers as well of the Towne as of the enemies were buried in the downes the men of commaundement in the Towne The 8. of Iune they brought 100. barrelles of Poulder into the Towne The 9. day there went 5. ensignes of French out of the Towne three souldiers fled out of the Towne to the enemy and in the night there entred 44. ships into the Towne whereof two were sunke About the same time Lieutenant Bitter died The 11. of Iune 5. saile went out of the Towne by the new Hauen whereof one in the which were Frenchmen was sunke and some of