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A62145	A compleat history of the lives and reigns of, Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son and successor, James the Sixth, King of Scotland, and (after Queen Elizabeth) King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First ... reconciling several opinions in testimony of her, and confuting others, in vindication of him, against two scandalous authors, 1. The court and character of King James, 2. The history of Great Britain ... / by William Sanderson, Esq.	Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.	1656 (1656)	Wing S647; ESTC R5456	573,319	644

him enters the other conducted by Sir Henry Cheyney and both Combatants take Oath to come fasting But ready to encounter the Demandant was missing and so by default the Chief Justice resites the Writ and former passages of challenge and gives Judgement for the Tenant and leaves the Demandant and his Pledges de prosequendo in impercordia Reginae ●id Dyer 30. Some preparations there were of late in King Iames time intended between two Scotch men the Lord Ree and David Ramsey in point of Treason but I know of no other policy preventing the Tryal than the doubtful effects to decide the question by this way to find out truth But because the matter hath been long laid aside the manner thereof will not be amiss to preserve to Memory The Ceremony was wont to be thus when it was in Authority and use in the Earl Marshal or High-Constables Court The Appellant exhibits his Bill in the High Court Constable or Marshal and failing of his proofs offers force of his own body upon the Defendant And the Constable as Vicar General in Arms so saies my Author under the King hath power to join issue in Battel and within fourty daies after to appoint time and place The Constable assigns them arms being a Gantlet and short Sword and Long Sword and Dagger They bring able pledges for appearance at the day and for good behaviour to each other till then The King names the Field sixty foot long and fourty foot broad firm ground and even listed about by Order of the Marshall with Rails with two Dores East and West seven foot high and kept by the Serjeant at arms At the day the King sits on a Throne mounted with two seats on each hand for the Constable and Marshall at the foot of the Ascent who demand the Pledges to render themselves to the King or the Appellant and Defendant to come in and make Oath The Appellant comes on horse-back to the East dore whom the Constable brings in and demands his name and why thus armed He answers I am A. B. Apellant and demand Entry to make proof of my intent against C. D. and to acquit my Pledges The Constable takes off his Bever and proclames him to be the Man opens the door and bids him enter with his Arms Victuals necessary Attendants and Council presents him to the King and sets him on a Seat till the Defendants comming and request being made his Pledges are discharged Then the King commands the Constable who commands the Marshal and he the Lieutenant and he the Marshal of the Heraulds of the South if it be this side Trent being the Marches of King Clarencieux or otherwise if it be Northward then the Heraulds of Norris King of Heraulds there to call the Defendant thus O yes C. D. Defendant Come to your Action acquite your pledges in the presence of the King Constable and Marshal to defend your self against A. B. before three of the Clock after Noon He enters at the West dore in like manner Their Appearance presently Registred in the Records of the Constables Court with the order time horses arms and attendants and their manner Two Knights are assigned Observant to either Adversary that they take no charm or spel or other evil arts till their Oath be taken which the King commands the Constable to receive and what other Protestations their Council shall advise If not The Register saies you A. B. Appellant do you know this to be your Bill of Complaint exhibited in Court before the Constable Swear to the Truth thereof in all points and that you intend to prove the Contents thereof upon C. D. so ayde you God and your Patron Saint and then proclaims Thou A. B. thy Bill is such in all points continue thy intent to prove it this day so God help thee and hallowing The Defendant C. D. in like manner c. Then the Appellant takes his second Oath That he comes appointed with Arms as was assigned without knife or other sharp weapon no stone or herb of virtue charm or spell of power or belief to be assisted but only by God and his own Body and merits of his Cause So God him help c. The Defendant swears the like The Constable bids them both to take each other by the right hand without violence gently and laying the left hand on the Book He saies I charge your A. B. that you use all advantages to force the Defendant to render himself into your hands or to demand a Parley or with your own hands to kill him before you part out of the lists by the light of the Sun and age of the day assigned by your Faith and so God help you The like by the Defendant Then O Yes The Herauld pronounces In the Kings name That no person approach within four foot of the List keep silence give no sign by Countenance or otherwise to advantage either upon pain of life and member and loss of Chattel The King of Arms and Heraulds are assigned to Minister unto them to eat or drink of what they brought with them asking leave of each other Within the Lists are admitted a Knight two Esquires of the Constables Train and the Lieutenant also a Knight and two Esquires of the Marshals being all in Armour with Launces unbarbed to part the Combatants at his Majesties pleasure and these lying flat on the Ground at each side of the List only the Constables Lieutenant and the Marshals standing At the instant of the Kings Direction the Constable shall say Let them go Let them go The Appellant advancing upon the Defendant the Constable stands ready at the Kings pleasure whilest they fight viz. to stop take breath or otherwise neither of them ingaged in advantage They may not whisper In case of Tr●as●n the convict shall be disarmed by command of the Constable one corner of the List to be broken down his body dragged at a horse-tail to the block of Execution to be beheaded or hanged on the Gallowes the Marshall to see Execution But in cases of particular interests he shall not be drag'd but shall be thrown over the lists and lose the penalty of the Lands or honor in question The vanquished forfeits his Horse and Arms and all which he brought into the Field with him unto the Constable as his Fee The Lists Rails Seats c. to the Marshal If the Combate be withdrawn by Command or perswa●ion of the King and both content else not they shall be led out together by the Constable and proclamation made thereof with equal honor to them both I have read of such a duel Combate before the King of France between Robert le Blanch and Le●●● le Force in a case of Treason Blan●h the Appellant grapples le Force and casts him down sets his left foot upon the others stomack holding up his right hand with his sword by the Hilt his left hand within a foot of the point and therewith presently he meant to

Camps His seconds were Captain Steenhius and two horse Lieutenants Bryante and his Comrades furious Frenchmen we need not name them they would be disguised advance forward and at a convenient distance a half Troop of Horse behind the Combatants to see fair play and a hundred further off lookers on In like manner came on Count Iohn who upon the carrier passes Bryante and discharges so close upon a Frenchman that the Pistol flame fired his Shoulder but had received before the others Bullet in the brow of his Saddle indangering the Counts Codpiece for it pierced through and grazed his flanck angry Bryante having lost his aim wheels short on any and cryes out Charge Moy charge Moy be what thou darest I am Bryante revenger of my Fathers blood and as fate would fixes upon him who indeed was Lieutenant to Grobendouck that for his Captains cause chose the quarrel and both spurr'd Bryante fires too far off and mist his deadly aim the other came closer and clapt his bullet through Bryantes belly who dying catcht hold of the others Saddle pommel but sanck down to the ground Thus was it the fortune of father and Son to be the cause of eithers ruin Steenhius was hurt and another killed But Bryante his deadly case the cause of all gave occasion to withdraw the Combate whether by consent I cannot say but as my eyes conceived at a distance though the Spanish say the Dutch came in to part them Indeed Count Iohn retired unwilling to ingage Forces which drew up on both sides and therefore the Count made hast away and was out-rid by one of his own at getting the start the hilt of whose Sword pressing close caught hold of the Counts bridle and snapt it out of his hand and therein the others Sword so fast intangled that it drew out of the Scabbard prickt the horse and scared the Rider but astonishment to the Beast to be ill used and yet his reins so loose made him suddenly to leave pransing pause and stop for the Count to recover all At this encounter Count Maurice was Spectator and I believe Spinola but not so publick either of them as to be well guarded for I am sure the Prince put his dapple Nag to a dangerous leap and ever after was displeased with this Duelling that might have endangered eithers Army Yet one Bouteville such another Beautefeau as Bryante with five more set upon the Baron of Beauvoix of like Number and forced them into a Grove within their Guard Bouteville boasting what he was advanced alone and challenged any one confiding more in his own valor than his secret Goslet for indeed he was daring enough though by chance he had it under his Coat but he was bidden begon with a Musket ball in his Breech which made him let fall his Pistol and retire with raging pain This was he that had fought as the French say twenty Duels and therein killed a dozen and was now hunting counter for an Enemy in Holland who was fled from France and to beard Boutevile had worn a slip of his Mistresses Riband He killed him here and afterwards returns home again fought so frequent in France that at last for a desperate Duel in the midst of the Pallace Royal and the death of his adversary with much ado had his head taken off by the Hangman These were all the Recreations the resty Gallants used to imploy their Spirits whilest the Camps faced each other at gaze only and in truth it became the Pastime of the Centuries Perdues and Out-guards oftimes a dozen or more horse or foot went a birding as the English termed it to meet with booties or broken Pates not a day past but some hot spirit advanced from the Guards and dared the Enemy at these duellings and one or other kist the ground Prince Maurice not idle of designing set on foot an Enterprise better than Breda which had been in his deliberation from the first time of the Siege to surprize the Castle of Antwerp and to that end all our Out-guards at Bergen-op-zome Rosendale and Mede kept strict watch for this Secret that so Spinola's Camp little dreamt of it The Stratagem committed to a Dutchmans Command one Brouchen Drossart of Bergen and Captain of a Horse Troop● that for the assurance and ease of it the honor mightnot fall upon any other Nation Out of all quarters he pickt out a thousand foot and two hundred Horse Dutch with Waggons and Engines suitable The Souldiers out of either Guards amuzed to march to several places untill at distance gotten out together they had order to alter the Orange Colours into the Red Scarf and Colours of Spain and their Waggon Canvas marked with the Burgundian Cross to pass unsuspected of the Pesant and if demanded to answer they marched to Antwerp for Provisions whether indeed the Enemy had designed such an errand and at dead and a dark night they arrived neer the Castle forthwith seizing Out-guards pulling down three or four stakes of the Pallasado for a passage and already gotten upon the Bridge the Wind so assisting as carried away all noise of the Waggons neys of the Horses or clattering of Arms and so having let down their Boats into the Ditch fastening their scaling Ladders making ready their ●insers Hammers Leavers and Engines to break Baracadoes and to lift Ports off their Hinges And thus as silent as mlght yet comming too near an Old Souldier Centinel one Andrea Cea a Spaniard he listened to an unusual murmuring noise and like a tryed Blade discharged his Musquet which alarmed Iuan Bravo the Spanish Governour and Guard who got to the walls and the Dutch to their Heels lest all their Instruments and Engines evidences what they ment to do In our Camp at Mede we had a flying report of the good successe of some excellent Enterprize which no doubt our General himself too much assured of good effects had revealed But when it was blasted and better known the Prince to excuse his Countrey-men complained only of their quick Spirits confidence and too much hast in the execution It was my chance to be there when Brouchen came in to yield up the accompt of his miscarriage and with him an English excellent Engeneer one David Collet who over a sip or two of Brand-wine protested to me that he by Boat and wading was got upon the Bridge-end and fixed his Pittard upon the Castle-Gate that the Century called indeed qui-va-la as but suspecting for after a good while silence he seemed satisfyed when said he the cowardly Dutch scared at his voice only left the Enterprize and ran away leaving him to wade and swim back again in cold weather with a hundred shot by guess about his ears for then the Century discharged his Piece and not before Another such design afterwards committed to the charge of Statenbrunk Governour of Grave which intruth failed by the hand of neaven the monstrous showers of

Vere was of opinion that it was the gross body and therefore advised to meet them before their forts should fall into their hands And whilst these disputes The Spaniards Cannon was come and the Fort yielded to him and as in a trice had seized the Bridges was entered on the Downs But by the way met with some forces sent by the Prince to hinder his free passage who were encountered fought bravely though against a puissant army till they were too weak and fled the fate falling upon the Scotish forces about 800. eleven Captains besides other Officers The hasty News gave heart to the Arch-Duke to write to Burges that he had vanquished the Princes Van and ingaged his whole Army which made them Triumph and the States at Ostend to tremble The Arch-Duke thus incouraged Marches in hast to Newport The Prince presuming that the late defeat must needs frighten his Army forthwith sends away their shiping to Ostend and fords over the Haven and lodges between the Spanish and the Sea so to fight or dye The rest of the Army of foot passed over the next day at Ebbe being the turn of Sir Francis Vere to have the Van where he found the Arch-Duke with all his Army in Battalia who apprehending that these forces were the whole Army come over otherwise it had been easy for him to have prevented the Princes fording the rest And besides the dust of the sand-hills drove upon the Spanish that blinded their sight who were forced to halt until all were got over Vere with the Troops of the Van leaving the foot ranged into Order behind the sand-hills hastens not to ingage with the Enemy as yet but only to chose the place to attend for them being all the advantage was left And so got to a hollow bottome between the Hills and Downs which they might make use of and stop the Spaniards way by the Sea-shore also And so draws out 1000. men whereof 300. English and 50. of the Princes guard were lodg'd on the top of an Hill steepy and sandy and so hollow that they were covered from the other Hills and might shoot as from a Bulwark And the like order upon two other Hills with 700. men more the rest of the English so that this avant-guard took up the third part of the downs The Prince comes to Vere and consult whether to advance upon the Enemy or to stay his coming Most voices as in honour to advance conceived it would rather daunt them and prevent their fortifying upon their Princes passages to Ostend and so stop their victuals and cut off any retreat thither Vere was of the contrary opinion That the Arch-Duke gathered his Army in hast and brought thither where they intended not to make a seat of warr unprovided and without any Magazine of victuals and so no fear to starve the Prince who had the sea open And according to his Counsel here they stayed The Prince returns places his horse next the sea six pieces of Cannon advanced and planted in the head of the Avantguard with advantage of wind and sun some ships of warr waved so neer as to gall the Spanish Battalions upon the sand The Arch-Duke had been hurried out and tired his men with a nights March and all that day and his adversaries moving he rested a holt for some time and staying till half flood that the Dutch might have less land for their horse He marches and before him some light Horse-men to discover One of them suffering himself to be taken and tels Vere what he knew that some Dutch forces had been routed brags of their Number valour and resolution speedily to give battel And so they did their Horsemen come in the head of their Divisions a competent distance who marching neerer Vere discharges his Cannon scatters their Troops in disorder and fly The Spanish foot come on discharge their Ordnance roundlyand did much hurt which drew them on into the Downs where Veres horse stood a fit place upon a Hill for two demy Cannons to be planted and himself on the Top of another which commanded all fromw hence he gave his Orders Thither comes the Spaniards with 500. pikes without Ensign or order labour to enter upon Veres Hill who was forced to succour himself with more shot and gawled them Their horse likewise Marching between the Hills were sore put to it by the two Demy Cannons gawling them upon the first profer of a charge with the advantage also of the Princes horse encountring put them to a disorderly retreat The Battail begins the Ordnance on all sides increasing the Fight with diverse charges Vere beats two Regiments of Spaniards to a ●etreat which incenseth the rest to advance their Battel and Rear so does the Prince the like and at the first Charge came to handy blows the French against the Spaniards and Ital●ans and not long after a second Charge also and retired The Prince sees this and once more commands Solms with the French to fall on assisted with the Walloons Regiments called the new Geux and fought bravely against Burlette and Bucquoy the Enemies Rere The Princes Rere come in with five Regiments and a lasting fight of three hours was doubtfully performed the Arch Dukes side declining had their Horse driven almost to Newport but then their Foot did the like against the Orange party on the Downs to the hazard of their Ordnance This while Vere with the Van and his shadowing Hills had advantage thereby to gall his Adversaries who retire to their Gross from whence disbands five hundred Spaniards more and fall upon the Assailants forcing them back to Vere who not used to give ground beats the Spaniard home again whilest their Battel of Foot are come up to the Gross of their Van under good covert and by fresh men force Vere's men from his Grounds of Advantage which he sometime lost and won again with loss of men his Design being to beat upon his Adversaries gross body and to engage them till the Orange other Troops might advance which did and retreat and were pursued by which occasion the Arch Dukes Horse were got out of the Foot-mens reach an over-sight in fight for in Battel the success of Foot depend most on the Horse But the fight increased on all sides the English on Vere's side pell mell with the Spaniard and seeing their Gross disband by degrees sends to the Prince to second him with some Horse lest his Enemy grow too strong upon him and so increased that he was forced to descend and encourage them in the Downs who were driven from their good Ground to Disadvantages And at his very Approach had two Bullets through his Leg and Thigh which he dissembled from his Surgeon knowing that his presence must encourage his Troops near foiling for in all this time the Prince sends no Relief being put hard to it in the Battell Vere gave Ground and retires to his Canon when his own Horse being shot

Origen yet as men they might have failings which made the Apostles themselves to leave them when they left the Hebrew letter A few hundred of years after Christ the Roman Conquests having mastered many Nations East West North and South the Old Testament spake Latine Latini Interpretes nullo `modo numerari possunt too man to be good being all from the Greek which moved Saint Hierom the best Linguist and most learned of his age to translate the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Latine most admirable Thus was it in Greek and Latine before that the faith of Christ was generally embraced in the Roman Empire but afterwards most Nations under Heaven followed their Conversions not by voice onely but by the written Word So then followed Gothick Arabick Beda into Saxon Vallus into French and after two hundred years Charls the Fifth Sur le nome Prudente and Iohn Trevisa about Richard 2. his time into English The Gospels also by many and afterwards we had it in Henry 8. his time in English that all men may say As we have heard so have we seen The Church of Rome of long time would not admit them vulgar in the Mother-tongue of any Nation but onely in Latine untill of late permitted onely to some Professours of Papistry by licence of their Confessor who must be sure to be soured with the Leven of their Superstition And would you think now at this time of Translation that our own Brethren were better content with the ancient English so long say they in use without any more Supervising alteration or quaint perusal To answer them it was said That all ancient Translatours did review their former Works and so got credit even with the Iews as accurately done So did Origen joyned with the Hebrew Original and the Seventyes Translation And Saint Austin exhorted Saint Hierom to a Palinodia or Recantation I am sure the Papists have least cause of offence from us How oft have they altered their Service-books Of late Pius Quintus did so that every several Bishop had a different Officium These were the justifiable Reasons that moved King Iames to command this Translation of such men as might say of themselves with Saint Hierom Et Hebraeum sermonem ex parte didicimus Latinum pene ab ipsis incunabilis Nor was it hastily huddled up as it is said the Seventy did it in seventy days but it was done over and over again the pains of seventy times seventy days out of Originals Hebrew Greek Latine consulting with the Translators Commentators of Chalde Hebrew Syrian Greek Latine nor neglecting the several Translations of all the Nations of Europe untill now that it comes out most perfect The Psalms of David turned into Meeter usually sung in our Churches are the very same done into the Court English then of King Edward 6. days by two or three godly men but not learned who took them from the Latine Translations commonly read in our Liturgy these Psalms the King wished might then receive more proper Language and more congruous with the Text. Himself afterwards versified som so did others very acute and learned such particular Psalms proper to their affections but the whole body was afterwards done by one and the phrase not pleasing some peoples humours who were versed in the old and mostly gotten by heart they could never be admitted publick reception by command to be bound with the Bible If fame hath nor over-spoken our Hierarchy of his time there were not other soils that yielded either so frequent flocks or better fed and went not on more happily in those high steps of true blessedness to save themselves and others in the main helps of tender Pastures and still waters by the one I mean an inuring of the people to the principles of Orthodox Doctrines by the other an immunity from factions and disturbance of the publick peace of the Church It was the Kings observation That partly the miscarriage of our People into Popery and other Errours was their ungroundedness in the points of the Catechism How should such souls be other than turned about with every winde of Doctrine that are not well ballasted with solid informations From whence it was that the King gave publick order for bestowing the later part of the Religious Day in familiar Catechizing It was the ignorance and evil disposedness of our Cavillers that taxed this course as prejudicial to Preaching yet in truth the most usefull is Catechetical this lays the Grounds the other the Walls and Roof this informs the judgment that stirs up the affection What use is there of those affections that run before the judgment or of those Walls that want Foundation And when that was in use I have heard it confessed by some that have spent the greater half of their aged life in the station of Gods holy service they repent nothing so much as not bestowing more hours in this Exercise of Catechism and might justly quarrel their very Sermons and wish the greater part of them had been thus exchanged for this speaking conference Those other divine discourses enrich the brain and the tongue at best this settles the heart these but the descant to the plain song And if herein Ministers be too much curious to satisfie the roving appetite of the tickling ears of curious Auditours their favour will be no better than injurious So may you observe an indiscreet School-master whilest he affects the thanks of an over-weening Parent mar the progress of a forward childe by raising him to an higher Form and Authour ere he have well learned his first Rules Heat of zeal to hear is as natural heat to the body there is no life of Religion without it but as the kindest heat if it be not tempered with a due equality wasts it self and the body too so doth zeal not moderated with discretion It is hard to be too vehement in contending for main and evident truths but litigious and immaterial verities may soon be over-striven for needless seeking a scruple of truth to spend a pound of peace The Church of England in whose motherhood we had just cause to pride our selves hath in much wisdom and piety delivered her judgment of all necessary points in so compleat a body of Divinity as all hearts might rest therein not their truths onely but their sufficiencies the voice of God in holy Scriptures the voice of the Church in her Articles As for her Rules Forms and Dress in Discipline let it be examined whether the Luminaria magna the Bishops were so severe as to introduce antiquated Orders or to impose novel Ceremonies rather did they institute and discontinue some though of use yet superfluous offensive to weak capacities whose judgments could not concoct such fulsom matter though palliated heretofore under lively names of Order and Decency And yet see what Sir Walter Ralegh said then prophetically writing the effects after such Ceremonies should cease The reverend care saith he which

with twenty foot Companies and dismst three Troops for better freedom of Forrage Two Rivers run through the Town a Tower three hundred sixty two foot high fit to discover a far off the houses twelve hundred The form of Breda seems three square but that the Castle bears out with several Fortifications of Bulwarks and Bridges and an Armory of double ditches a mile in compass makes another side and so beautiful with Galleries Pillars Walks and Gardens that it seems to excell the strength The Town Walls are all of Turf with a continued row of Oaks and at three Corners are three several Ports and the Castle Port fourteen Bulwarks with Artillery upon the Walls and several Windmills Two Platforms raised whose Artillery played afar off beneath these two lesser Bulwarks to which there is a passage under ground the Ditch one hundred and fifty foot broad in some places and in other seventy foot In the Ditch fourteen Ravelins triangle and the River encompasseth all five great Outworks secure the Counterscarfs being cast up before the four Ports of the Town and Castle the the longest curtain of the Town cut round with Ditches thirty foot broad the level sides of these works are 210 foot long one hundred and fifty foot broad and the largest of them before the Castle is two hundred fourty paces long Other fortifications strengthen this outwork and with such excellent order are all disposed most admirable Iustin Nassaw base brother to Prince Maurice was now Governour Artsen Lord Wermont made Drossart to dispose the victual and restrain mutinies Town Collonel and of the Councill it was reinforced with eight companies eighteen hundred Townsmen of Arms excellent sufficient provision of all sorts and each Townsman furnished himself with Corn for a twelve Moneth In one night the two sides of this Town was beseiged Don de Medina a Spaniard took up the village of Gineken and Paul Ballion an Italian with some Strangers and Arguile with Scots settled at Terheyde a village opposite and at Noon came Spinola with his whole Army This first day intercepting 12. Boats carrying provision to Breda an Omen of success to regain many Botes what was lost by One. Then was fortified Titeringen and Hage two other Villages opposites on the other side Each quarter intrenched with Earth eight foot high and a eleven foot thick and a Ditch about all seven foot deep and bottomed but four foot broad above water 10. foot broad Then from those quarters began their first inclosure to beguirt the Town with a continued Trench containing three thousand six hundred paces the inward Trench against the Town was distant from the outward two hundred paces In which space they passed from quarter to quarter being in compass 5 hours going The Trenches five foot high and seven foot thick at the bottom on the outside a ditch sunck six foot deep and seven foot broad on the top of the water Forts and Redoubts belonging to these Works seventy And thus with four quarters like four Armies this excellent service was designed and perfected by Don Io. de Medices Marquess of St. Angelo in eighteen daies Spinola's provision came far from Antwerp to Mechlin four hours and a halfs journey as they reckon their distances thence to Lime three hours to Herentals four hours to Turnhout four more to Hogstrought three and a half in all above twenty hours journey to his Quarters much about when in truth Antwerp lyes but ten hours direct from Breda but P. Maurice at home had his with ease and plenty The first Sally out of the Town with much loss was repulsed by Count Isenbergh this ill beginning made them less hearty to hazard often sallyes which would have been troublesome to the Besiegers to fortifie and fight yet so busie they were with their own works as kept them in health all old Souldiers inured to hardship But Manrice had many new men without with more idleness which brought sickness and infection to all The Town of Breda industrious with singular defence the Burgers and Souldiers firmly united Every man by Oath lends his store of money to the States all the Officers did so too whose good example brought one hundred and fifty thousand Crowns which paid the Souldier and for their Works and their coin was cryed up About the end of September the Prince of Poland came from home through the same of this siege to see it conducted from Bruxels into Spinola's Camp and entertained with three Vollies of Artillery and small Shot Drums and Trumpets which which at first put us in doubt in Prince Maurice quarters that the Enemy was in storm but the Town felt some of those Bullets with little hurt and the next Morning the besieged bestowed as many on Spinola's Troops conducting the Poland to see the works whose opinion was That the Dice were cast between two Matchless Generalls and their Reputations were at take Eight French No●les unwilling to be cooped up adventured to quit the Town and to get through the Enemies Camp but were taken and either to go to France or be returned in to Breda they in honour accepted the later The Prince of Orange with his Army in this time being come down by water and land to Gytrudenbergh and so incamps at Mede a village three hours journey from Breda and there besieges the Besiegers without any attempt upon Spinola though at this time weak and his horse absent to convey back the Poland who therefore with seven thousand foot and thirty Troops of horse marches out of his Trenches to meet Maurice neer Ousterholt within three miles of his Camp and got possession of that place before him the very mischief to Breda for betwixt Titrengen and Terheyde lay vast void places dry land and standing waters by which Waggons and flat Boats might relieve Breda with victual so much advantage is expedition though but some hours and here he raises a great Fort levels the ground and dares the Prince to Battail Who not accustomed to Ostentation but military circumspection made more use of fore-cast than force and gave his Enemy time to raise five Forts more separate to keep all passage It hath been usual with Armies in Camp to allow of Combates single or equal numbers with their Enemie And now one Briante a French Galiant weary of looking on that came to fight besought the Princes leave to send a challenge to young Grobendouck the Son of his Fathers murtherer as he stiled him who slew him long since at such a meeting Grobendouck accepts but Spinola giving much value to the Man secured his person and denyed the challenge Bryante the more fiery by being refused tacks about to be revenged on any and by his Trumpet summons Count Iohn Nassaw single or with numbers He indeed without dread of any Mans daring and above the quality of asking leave accepts the challenge and three more the next Morning at a fair distance between the