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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85703	This is a true copy of a letter, that Prince Griffith lately writ to the Lord Windsor; wherein the passages that happened betwixt them in Flaunders are truely related.	Griffith, John, of Llyne.; Griffith, John, 1622?-1700, attributed name.; Marbles, Francis.	1650 (1650)	Wing G2005; Thomason E590_2; ESTC R206325	8,884	8

me any where else or in any other Countrey and indeed you had a great deale of reason for it as it appeared afterwards for in another place you might not have had the convenience of bringing a Boat full of men and of laying an Ambuscado all night long in the Dirches as you did which was contrary to your promise and the agreement which you made with my Second which was not to have brought any body but your Second Leivtenant Colonell Goff within six miles of the place where we were to fight at and for my owne particular I doe verily beleeve that you did your best to perswade those Persons you brought along with you if they would have been so base to have destroyed me either in the Feild or at least to have strops me in case you had fallen for certainely else you would not have appointed such a close place as that was to fight in For first on the one side of the Feild there was such high Hedges broad Ditches and Woods that it was in possible to have gotten away and on the other side a broad River that was not passable without a Boat and by that time we had done fighting all the Boats were conveyed on the further side of the River so that in two Miles riding I could hardly get one to carry me over the Water although when I came into the Feild severall Boats were on that side the River we sought on nay more men that the way out of the Feild was narrow and so full of great Trees and such broad Ditches on both sides of it as that one man might easily have stayed me but in case they had mist me there I had no other way to save my selfe but close to the River side where I could hardly ride halfe a Mile on either hand but that I should be necessitated to passe over a Bridge where two men might easily have stopt me besides close to each of the Bridges was a House where I saw men like Souldiers But your saying to my Second that you did feare the rising of the Boares or Countrey men I must confesse did hinder my curiosity of fisting out your Villany then although I have repented my selfe a thousand times since that I did not question the Fellowes what they were for I doe verily beleeve that they were set there by your order and if you had not had some base designe upon me why should you entice me into such a Trapp as that was rather then to give me a meeting in an open Countrey there being large Heathes farre neerer those villages wee lodged in the night before then the Feild was the we mett in the next morning and I am sure a great deale more convenient for fighting a Horseback and Windsor if thou were not given to Lying thou wouldst not deny but that this is a true description of the place where we sought Then let the World judge if the carriage of this action be justifiable in a Man that pretends to have either courage or honour And indeed I cannot much blame you to refuse reading my Letters because it seemes you desire not to be put in mind of your basenesse and treachery Can you forget how you came sneaking into the Field in a white Capp as if you had been going to the Gallows and how like a Stinkard as you are you refused for to pluck off your Doubler and that for all your managed Horse you durst not come within foure or five yards of me but Carricoled round about me knowing it your surest play against me being upon an unready Horse yet for all this advantage you discharged both your Pistolls at so great a distance from me that you did neither touch me nor my Horse howsoever you cannot deny but that both my Pistolls did some execution for with the first I shott your Horse through the neck and with the last I frighted you so after both your Pistolls were discharged that you rid close to your Second as it were for Protection and indeed I finding my Horse so bad that I could not with all the Art or Skill I had come close to you by reason of the quicke turning too and froe of your Horse's I must ingeniously confesse that it put me so into passion that I resolved to venter my Pistoll at you at a distance which it seemes narrowly mist you and much contrary to my intention or desire most unfortunately kill'd your Second which seriously greives me to the very Soule that so gallant a Man as he was should suffer and that such a Foist as you are should escape Besides when we came to the Sword you daring not to come up to me rid still round about me knowing the great advantage you had of mee by reason of the goodnesse of your Horse and indeed I perceiving of it too clapt Spurrs to my Horse thinking to come close to you at last but missing both you and your Horse by reason of a quick some that he nude my Horse being very ill mouthed ranne away with me which advantage you did not neglect but followed me in the reare yet at such a distance that you were not within five or six yards of me but howsoever I finding my selfe not able either to stopp or turne my Horse rather then to ride away flung my selfe out of the Saddle and falling sidelong on the ground I instantly stood up againe with my Sword in my hand calling severall times to you My Lord if you are a gallant Man light since my Horse as you see is a Jade and that both you Pistolls and mine are discharged shew your gallantly if you dare and let us fight it out a Foote with our Swords but you most cowardly refused to doe it although your Second lay bleeding before you and like a base fellow left the Feild when your Second was even ready to swound and had not my Second and I taken care of him he might instantly have bled to death so little did you look after him And for your charging of mee for bringing Mr Rennolds behind me a Horsback out of the Feild My answer to it is this That I did it first to shew you that I was not so timerous then as you were and next because the Boat you brought was almost gone out of sight besides one of Mr Rennolds ditch Companions was run away with his Horse so that not onely in civility but also in gratitude I was obliged for to doe it for whilst I was reaching a shirt of my owne for to bind up Leivtenant Colonell Goffs hurt my Horse slipt the Bridle out of my hand and run away and Mr Rennolds brought him to mee againe so he saving mee from goding a foote I thought my selfe bound to doe him the like courtesie And for my beeing at the mercy of your Horses feete that is as true as my demanding my life of you or your shouting or your hurting me in the back which diverse that have seene