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A53879	Verses by the University of Oxford on the death of the most noble and right valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill, alias Granvill, Kt. who was slain by the rebells at the battle on Lansdown-Hill near Bathe, July the 5, 1643.	University of Oxford.; Birkhead, Henry, 1617?-1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing O989; ESTC R18022	30,066	120

Anglorum Magnanimus BEVILLIVS GRANVIL Cornubiensis Eques Auratus VERSES BY The University of OXFORD On the Death of the Most Noble and Right Valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill alias Granvill Kt. Who was Slain by the Rebells at the Battle on Lansdown-Hill near Bathe July the 5. 1643. Aut spoliis ego jam raptis laudabor opimis Aut Letho insigni Virg. Aeneid Printed at Oxford in the Year of our Lord 1643. and now Reprinted at London 1684. To the Right Honourable John Earl of BATHE Viscount of Lansdown Baron Granvill of Granvill Bideford and Kilkhampton Lord-Lieutenant and High-Steward of the Dutchy of Cornwal Lord-Warden of the Stanneries Governour of Plymouth Groom of the Stole to his Majesty First Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-Chamber and One of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Councill THese Verses were an Epicedium of the Muses of Oxford made to adorn the Herse of your Noble Father who Dy'd so Gloriously at Lansdown in Defence of his Prince and Country It is Apparent what a Publique loss his Death was that one of the first Universities of Europe should think fit to Lament it A Respect it may be never done before to any but to the Royal Family But as there are few Persons my Lord so Deserving to be Celebrated as your Father so are there few Families which have had that Military Glory in them Not to go back so far as your great Ancestor Hamon Dentatus Earl of Corboil descended from the Warlike Rollo Duke of Normandy Nor to Mention his two Renowned Sons Robert Fitzhamon and Sr Richard de Granvill who came over with William the Conqueror and Ayded him at the Battle of Hastings to Wyn the Crown of England and afterward in the Conquest of Wales there are late Instances of other of your Progenitors who have Illustrated your Race by their valiant Actions In the War with France betwixt Henry the 8 th and Francis the first Sir Roger Granvil lost his life at Sea And his Son Sir Richard Granvil when he was very Young went a Volentier into Hungary to serve the Emperour Ferdinand against the Turk and after that was with Don John of Austria at the Battle of Lepanto the greatest Day that ever was at Sea since that of Actium At his Return home applying himself to the Sea he became an Expert Captain and Admirall after Several Voyages into the West-Indies and elsewhere Services done his Country with much Honour and Successe he was at last Slayn at the Azores Islands having with one of the Queen's Ships alone being unhappily Seperated from the rest of the Fleet whereof he was Vice-Admiral Sustain'd a fight against the whole Naval power of Spain never yeilding though his Guns were dismounted his men almost all hurt or kill'd himself Mortally Wounded and his Decks blown up that there was no place left to fight upon so that his Enemies were Astonished at his valour and Concern'd to save him as if he had been of their own Nation but his Wounds being too Mortall to be cured he Expired in a Few Hours and was Buried in the Ocean which had been the Theatre of his Glory I cannot forget another Sir Richard Granvill your Lordships Uncle who having done his Apprentice-ship in Arms in the Low-Countrys and German-Wars serv'd his late Majesty in the Northern Expeditions and then in the Wars of Ireland and at length coming to command one of the Kings Armies in the West kept that Country in his Majesties Obedience till the Rest of England was lost the fortune of the Parliament prevail'd every where A severe Observer of Military Discipline and my Lord General the Old Duke of Albemarle was wont to say one of the best Captains we had in all the War of England and Ireland As the Name and fortune of your Ancestors are Descended to your Lordship so is their Virtue too which appeared so early in you that before you were Seaventeen years Old you enter'd into your Fathers Command and after you had serv'd the King upon several Engagements in the Army and particularly in Cornwall at the Defeat of the Earl of Essex you brought those Valiant Companies in the Head of which your Father was slain at Lansdown to fight for his Majesty at the Second Battel of Newbery where you were like to have undergone your Fathers fate as well as Imitated his Virtue for being Engaged in the Thickest of the Enemies and having receiv'd severall wounds and one most Dangerous One in the Head with the blow of a Halberd which beat you to the Ground you lay for some time without Sense or Motion 'till a Body of the Kings Horse Charging the Enemy a-fresh beat them off the ground upon which you fought where you were found amongst the Dead Cover'd with Dust and Blood and being known were carried into that place of the Field where the King Prince of Wales his now Present Majesty were who sent you to Dennington Castle to be treated for your Wounds It could not My Lord but be matter of great Contentment to you to have his Majesty himself a witness of the Blood you had lost for him and a Spectator of that Loyalty and Courage which are the Hereditary Qualities of your Family No sooner were the Armies drawn off from the Field of Newbery but you were presently Besieged in Dennington where for some time you lay in Extream Danger of your life not only by those Desperate Wounds you had got in the late Battel but in the hazzard you were in of Receiving new ones from the Enemy the Bullets flying continually through the Room where you lay under Cure 'till you were Releived by the Victorious Forces of his Majesty at the Third Battel of Newbery Nor have you only Serv'd the King with your Sword in the Field but been another way a Chief Instrument of the Greatest good that ever came to England I mean the Restauration of his Majesty and of the Laws and Liberty of your Oppressed Country This my Lord was brought to pass by your Prudent and Successfull Negotiation with my Lord General Monck you having a particular Commission from the King to treat with him with whom when you had Conserted all things for his Majesties Return and that without Imposing the least Condition upon him you Posted away to Bruxells to give him an Account of it In which Journey as well as in the Rest of your Conduct in this Affair you exposed your self to no Ordinary Danger and most certainly serv'd the King your Master more Effectually then if you had won more then One Battel for him My Lord General who seem'd to be Inspir'd in the Carrying-on of this Great Business was so Circumspect that he would not write to the King by your Lordship for fear you might be Searched upon the Way and what you carried Intercepted and his Great Design Discover'd before it was Ripe and therefore left all to your Care and Prudent Management But at your Return he

the fort of Florida And after that Sr John Norris marched from Peniche in Portugall with a handfull of Souldiers to the gate of Lisbone being about 40 English miles Where the Earl of Essex himself and other valiant Gentlemen braved the City of Lisbone encamped at the very gate from whence after many days abode finding neither promised party nor provision to batter they made retrait by Land in despight of all their Garrisons both of Horse and Foot In this sort I have a little digressed from my first purpose only by the necessary comparison of theirs and our actions The one covetous of honour without vaunt of ostentation the other so greedy to purchase the opinion of their own affairs and by false Rumors to resist the blust of their own dishonours as they will not only not blush to spread all manner of Untruths But even for the least advantage be it but for the talring of one poor Adventurer of the English will celebrate the Victory with Bonfires in every Town always spending more in Faggors then the purchase was worth they obtained When as we never thought it worth the consumption of two Billets when we have taken Eight or Ten of their Indian Ships at one time and Twenty of the Brasill Fleet Such is the difference between true Valour and Ostentation and between Honourable Actions and frivolous Vain glorious vaunts But now to return to my purpose The Lord Thomas Howard with Six of her Majesties Ships Six Victualers of London the Bark Ralegh and two or three other Pinnaces riding at Anchor near unto Flores one of the Westerly Islands of the Azores the Last of August in the afternoon had intelligence by one Captain Middleton of the approach of the Spanish Armada Which Middleton being in a very good Sailer had kept them Company three days before of good purpose both to discover their Forces the more as also to give advice to my Lord Thomas of their approach He had no sooner delivered the news but the Fleet was in sight many of our Ships Companys were on Shore in the Island some providing balast for their Ships others filling of Water and refreshing themselves from the Land with such things as they could either for Money or by Force recover By reason whereof our Ships being all pestered and romaging every thing out of order very light for want of balast and that which was most to our disadvantage the one half part of the men of every Ship sick and utterly unserviceable For in the Revenge there were Ninety diseases in the Bonaventure not so many in health as could handle her Main-Sail For had not Twenty men been taken out of a Bark of Sr George Careys his being commanded to be sunk and those appointed to her she had hardly ever recovered England The rest for the most part were in little better State The Names of her Majesties Ships were these as followeth the Defiance which was Admiral the Revenge Vice-Admiral the Bonaventure commanded by Captain Crosse the Lion by George Fenner the Foresight by Mr Thomas Vavasour and the Crane by Duffild the Foresight and the Crane being but small Ships only the other were of the middle size the rest besides the Bark Ralegh commanded by Captain Thin were Victuallers and of small force or none The Spanish Fleet having shrouded their approach by reason of the Island were now so soon at hand as our Ships had scarce time to weigh their Anchors but some of them were driven to let slip their Cables and set sail Sr Richard Granvill was the last that weighed to recover the men that were upon the Island which otherwise had been lost The Lord Thomas with the rest very hardly recovered the Wind which Sr Richard Granvill not being able to do was persuaded by the Master and others to cut his Main Sail and cast about and to trust to the Sailing of the Ship for the Squadron of Sivil were on his Weather-Bow But Sr Richard utterly refused to trun from the Enemies alledging that he would rather choose to dye then to dishonour himself his Country and her Majesties Ship persuading his Company that he would pass through the two Squadrons in despight of them and enforce those of Sivil to give him way Which he performed upon divers of the formost who as the Mariners term it sprang their Luff and fell under the Lee of the Revenge But the other course had been the better and might right well have been answered in so great an impossibility of Prevailing Notwithstanding out of the greatness of his mind he could not be persuaded In the mean while as he attended those which were nearest him the great San Philip being in the Wind of him and coming towards him becalmed his Sails in such sort as the Ship could neither make way nor feel the Helm so huge and high-carged was the Spanish Ship being of a Thousand and Five Hundred Tuns who after laid the Revenge abord When he was thus bereft of his Sails the Ships that were under his lee luffing up also laid him abord of which the next was the Admiral of the Biscaines a very mighty and puissant Ship commanded by Brittandona the said Philip carried three tire of Ordinance on a side and eleven Pieces in every tire She shot Eight forth-right out of her Chase besides those of her Stern-Ports After the Revenge was entangled with this Philip. four other boorded her two on her Larboord and two on her Starboord The Fight thus beginning at three of the Clock in the Afternoon continued very terrible all that Evening But the great San Philip having received the Lower Tire of the Revenge Discharged with Cross-bar shot Shirted her self with all diligence from her sides utterly misliking her first entertainment Some say that the Ship Foundred but we cannot report it for truth unless we were assured The Spanish Ships were filled with Companys of Souldiers in some Two Hundred besides the Mariners in some Five in others Eight Hundred In ours there were none at all besides the Mariners but the Servants of the Commanders and some few Voluntary Gentlemen only After many enterchanged Vollies of Great Ordinance and Small Shot the Spaniards deliberated to enter the Revenge and made divers attempts hoping to force her by the Multitudes of their Armed Souldiers and Musketters but were still repulsed again and again and at all times beaten back into their own Ships or into the Seas In the beginning of the Fight the George Noble of London having received some Shot thorow her by the Armadas fell under the Lee of the Revenge and asked Sr Richard what he would Command him being but one of the Victualers and of small force Sr Richard bid him save himself and leave him to his fortune After the Fight had thus without intermission continued while the Day lasted and some hours of the Night many of our Men were slain and hurt and one of the great Gallions of the Armada and the Admiral