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A iovrnall of all the proceedings of the duke of Buckingham his grace, in the isle of Ree, a part of France Whereunto is added the names of the French nobilitie that were slaine. Set forth by a gentleman of special note who was a spectator of all that hapned. Published by authoritie.
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put himselfe into Sir John Burrowes Regiment By this time it was three of the clocke when the Lord Generall commanded to land two Regiments that were of the olde Companies whereof Sir Iohn Burrowes and Sir Alexander Brett were Commanders he went with them himselfe on shore and appointed the two Colonels in what place they should land their men And being landed commanded them to put their men in Battalia with all speed fearing the Enemie vvould giue them a suddaine assault The men being vveary in lying on Shipboard lingred vvashing their hands in the Sea but the Lord Generall vvith a Cudgell runne to and fro amongst them beating some and threatning other-some and got them thrust vp three Pykes length to the skirt of the banke vvhere they vvere to be There vvas a third Regiment that vvas ready to land in the meane time came Sir William Courtney to the Lord Generall and tolde him that vnlesse hee should doe the same curtesie for him vvhich he did for the other two Collonells hee should not get his men landed and that his vvere olde Souldiers and vvould doe good seruice if the Enemie made assault Whereupon my Lord called Sir William Courtney vvent into his Barge vvith an intention to hasten a shore his Regiment and as soone as he had gone about fourescore from the shore hee presently heard the fight begun and turning backe he saw three Troupes of French Horse charging our Foote vvith all the fiercenesse that might be And the third Regiment those that vvere vnlanded pressing themselues amongst the Shippes to succour themselues the rest of that Regiment that vvere landed hee sawe prest into the vvater by the French Horse and Sir William Haydon being caried violently to the Sea by the Reuolters was there drowned Whereupon he set S. William Courtney into another Boate with commande to make all expedition to get his Men landed And very brauely himselfe drew his Sword and turned his Barge attended by Master Grymes and M. Ashburneham and thrust himselfe vpon the Reuolters and rebuking some and encouraging others told them he hoped they came not with any intent but to aduenture themselues so farre as he would leade them Wherevpon he thrust himselfe on to the shoare and they followed slowly and animating of the other Foote which were run into the water they most of them leapt out of the water and vpon the Lord Generalls words threw themselues forwards as if they would haue fought brauely but before we could get where the blowes were the Battaile was ended My Lord Generall had ordered certaine Shippes to scoure the Landing place with their Ordnance but the assault was so sodaine as they did little hurt to the Enemie and in verie heate of the combate it fell out that one of our owne Shipps had entangled himselfe betweene our Battering shippes and the Land by which meanes they were hindred in performing of their charge If the French Foote had come on to haue charged presently vppon the discharge of the Horse it had been impossible that we could haue withstood them But as God would haue it the Horse-men made more hast then in iudgement they should haue don Before the Foote came we had killed most of their Horses But when the Foote did come they came very orderly and brauely being 1500. comming within a Pike and a halfe of our Men before they discharged and the Leader of the Foote being a braue and goodlie Gentleman tooke off his hatte wherevpon all their Foote discharged their Muskets and after they fell to it with Swords and pâ—â—h of Pike vntill they were breathlesse on both sides The French finding our Pikes to be longer than theirs threw away their Pikes and went to it with Stones and so did our Men but ours beate them out and made them flye away very disorderly that happie was he that got first off his Armor to betake him to his heeles This Battaile did not continue in all much aboue halfe an hower but our Horse were not yet landed But if we had had twentie Horse to haue followed them we had killed them vp euery Man That night we intrenched our selues in that place fearing the Enemie would giue vs an assault in the night My Lord Generall spent that euening in viewing of the dead Bodies and visiting those that were hurt on our side and giuing great charge to the Chirurgions to take speciall care of them We tooke fower of the French Gentlemen but they were all hurt before two of them dyed the next day one of them is aliue yet in the Tryumph his thigh being shotte to peeces the other being a Page the Lord Generall sent him to his Master The next morning very earlie the Lord Generall came on shore againe and spent all the whole daie there calling the Commanders to him and ordering them to bring him notes of euery seuerall Companie how many they were and how manie were perished in the conflict By which vve found there was nineteene Captaines Antients and Lieuetenants killed and twelue other Officers hurt but in no danger of death and some thirty fiue common Soldiers drowned but none killed for the French men discharged all on our Gentry and neuer looked at the Common sort Our Gentry when the common Soldiers began to route clapt themselues together and shewed themselues the brauest Men in the world espetially Sir Iohn Burrowes Sir Alexander Brett Sir George Blundell and a Brother of Sir Alexander Bretts There was not one Gentleman of our Nation in the field that did not act his part brauely This being Friday the day after the Battaile the 13. of Iuly Monsieur de Thorax Gouernour of the Island sent the Barron Ambleuile with a Trumpet to speake wth the Lord Generall His Message was to desire my Lords fauour to giue them leaue to fetch away their dead bodies they being so suddenly demaunded by them my Lord made scruple in granting it Whereupon the Gentry made meanes by some of our Officers to buy the bodies and offered for one 1000. pounds When my Lord Generall had considered he gaue leaue that they should take them away Within foure houres the Gouernours sent another Trumpet with one of his Pages to giue him thankes for his fauour and to report to him that he would neuer after harbour an ill thought of the English for hee iudged the Gentry of them to be the brauest men in the world Although before the Battaile he made no more account of vs then if wee had beene all Beeues and enquiring what number we were wee tolde him 6000. He said he would kill vs and salt vs as wee did Oxen in England At the same time he sent my Lord Generall word that he would wayte on him himselfe so that we made full account that hee would giue vs Battell The same day wee put our selues in Battalia and expected them all that day yet hee came not The next day being the 14. of Iuly we made our selues ready to Martch and at
Rocky not to be wrought so as my Lord hauing beaten the Enemie out of his out-workes into the Fort is resolued to endeuour to recouer the same by famine there being 3000. men in the Castle and they wanting Firing and Water My Lord hath planted aboue 20. Peeces of Ordnance by Sea and Land against the Cittadell and the third shot that the Kings Cananere made killed 41. French men as some who were then in the Fort related My Lord lately intercepted two small Vessels laden vvith Victuals and one laden vvith Munition vvhich vvere in the night passing from the mayne ouer the Riuer to releeue the Cittadell that vvhich vvas laden vvith Munition vvas in the taking sunke vvith a Shot and 37. French men in one of the other Vessells slaine vvhich made the third yeeld vvithout resistance My Lord walkes the round most nights to see the Watch performe their Duty And Sunday last vvas seauen dayes lay in our Trenches all night vpon aduertisements that the Enemie vvould sally and assault the men in our Workes My Lord Montioy chiefe Commaunder of the Horse very happily surprized 28. of the best of the Enemies Muskatieres vvho vvere sent out of the Fort for a guard to some vvho vvere sent to fetch vvater at a Well not farre distant from the Fort as soone as they perceiued our Horse to approach they ranne into a Mill and there vpon quarter demaunded and graunted they yeelded My Lord hath by Proclamation giuen permission to the Inhabitants of the I le to make Salt with which Commodity his Grace intendeth to satisfie the Dutch men who were taken vp to transport Horses and Prouisions for the Armie for the hire of their Ships and likewise to furnish England with Salt The Gouernour of the Cittadell and I le of St. Martins sendeth euery day some Messenger to speake with my Lord And about tenne dayes since vnder colour of a Parly sent a Disciple of the Iesuites to haue mischieued his Grace the Villaine being come to act his Villanie when hee began to speake to my Lord changed his colour and so trembled that he could scarce speake whereupon his Grace commaunded one that was with him to search him there was found in the Sleeue of his Doublet a long Rauilliack-like Knife poysoned which at the first he said he caried for his defence but that being no place to carrie a Weapon for defence he was that night committed and being threatned to be tortured hee desired to be brought before the Lord Generall which was graunted and then he confessed that the Gouernour had dissiplined and hired him to murther my Lord and being questioned how he durst vndertake such a mischieuous work since he could not hope to escape death or enioy the reward he was to haue he said he did beleeue it would cost him his life but being perswaded it was a meritorious worke and promised his Wife and Children for it should be aduanced he vndertooke the same and falling downe at my Lords feet besought his pardon My Lord sent him backe to the prison and after three dayes pardoned him and sent him ouer into the mayne All Souldiers cry out against the Gouernour for this treachery and say hee deserues not to haue any Quarter that would offer the same to one who hath in all poynts caried himselfe so Nobly towards him and all the French that haue beene at his mercy for my Lord sent him back his Brothers Page which was taken in the day of Battell and hauing found the Gouernours brothers Gentleman of his Horse wounded in the Field caused him to bee sent a board his owne Ship and looked vnto by his owne Chirurgion Sir George Blundell is lately dead of the wounds hee formerly receiued in the day of Battell There is Newes from Paris the French King is very sicke and no man dares tell him of his Graces landing in that Island he lies at Villeroy and Monsieur that Kings Brother at Paris The Duke of Sauoy and Count of Soissons are in Armes vpon the Froutiers of Daulphine and the Dukes of Roan and Mountmoreney are in Armes in Languedoc Monsieur the Marshall Crequi Gouernour of the Daulphine sent Post to Paris for a Commission and money to leauie men returned with a Commission but without any money I must adde this which I beleeue makes my Lords actions to prosper that his Grace doth duly euery morning and euening serue God either priuatly in his Chamber or publikly in the whole Armie and hath caused a strict course to bee held with such as neglect the seruice of God Thus endeth the Journall at this time Receiued at Yorke-House August 15. THE RELATION OF Mr. Garetson Master of the Shippe called the Bread and Beere-pott of Horne in Holland made and taken at Plimmouth the 12. of August 1627 by Sir Iames Bagge knight who reporteth the same as followeth Videlicet THat he was that day chased with a Ship as he supposed to be a Man of warre of Dunkerke and to free himselfe did put into the port of Plimouth this present euening being the 12. aforesaide and that he was at Burdeaux about the 29. of Iuly last where the Gouernor and People were taken with such a feare of the aproach of the English that they destroyed the Cloysters and Ware-houses and all the Suburbes of the saide Citie to the end the aproach of the English might be the more difficile And from Burdeaux he went to Southers and from thence to Rochell where he arriued the first of August And from thence he went to St. Martines where his Excellencie was besieging the Cittadell and making a Trench to impeach the sallying forth of the Horse And for as much as all passages by water were stopped except the intercourse betweene Rochell and St. Martines He was enforced to returne for Rochell and from thence went ouer land to Southers where he laded his Shippe with Salte And sayling from Southers came within halfe a League of St. Martines where being by the lee there came out three English Shippes to vnderstand what he was and finding him to be a Hollander gaue him relation that the 5. day of this moneth the Cittadell was by his Grace taken the French men permitted to depart thence only with Bastinadoes in their hands And the Captaines of those Shippes told him that the 6. of this month there was an English Shippe dispatched with information of his Excelencies full proceedings and conquest of that Island He further sayeth that at Southers it was reported that the French King sent to Rochell to require them to declare whether they would abandon the English and serue him or not To giue answere to which the Rochelers desired seuen daies respite But he sayeth that diuers of the Principall and others of Rochell daily repaire to his Maiesties Generall He also sayeth that there is a command giuen that none speake with the French King and it is muttered that he is dead He sayeth that there was a French man apprehended in the Dukes presence with a knife in his sleeue who waighted an opertunitie to attempt the murther of his Grace FJNJS