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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17474	Diatelesma. The fifth part or number comprehending the principall actions of Germany, France, Spaine, and the Neatherlands, continued from November, 1637.	N. C.	1639 (1639)	STC 4293.8; ESTC S107115	59,854	122

of all beholders to doe our Christian duties in relieving the afflicted and it was our great good hap that in so great hazard wherein wee were involved our people having lesse resistance then the poore French wee exercised our Charity to the comfort of those that were at the point of death Those which fled towards Iran wee could not pursue but if wee had but stopped their way onely with 200 Musquetiers without doubt they had beene all cut in peeces or become our Prisoners which was impossible to fore-see we not imagining to have obtained so notable a Victory our counsels onely tending to relieue the Port not suspecting that so puissant an Enemy so well fortified in his Trenches would so soone turne his backe though many of them drowned themselves in the passage of Bobia Those of Fontarabie could not salley forth being reduced to so small a number which neverthelesse if they had done no doubt they had made a very great slaughter Our Generals met together about 5. of the clock in the afternoone and entred Fontarabie where they were received with incredible joy by a people which that day and before had endured so many broyles and toyles and had spent all the morning in viewing the Hills a farre off to see whether the expected succours would come and were almost past hope because they could descry no part of them The Lords Generals like most devout Catholike Princes went instantly to expresse their pious acknowledgement of so graat a Victory and sang Te Deum which though it was not attended with the greater Musicke was done with greater Zeale and affection Drummes Trumpets and Artillery beeing not necessary for such a Solemnity Their devotions ended the Lords Generals saluted the inhabitants with most loving embracements thanking them in the name of his Catholike Majesty for their constant Loyalty by which they had pleased God and defended their King and Country Don Pedro de Giron had order to make no assault vpon the French Campe till 4 of the clocke in the morning of our Lady Day but the Enemy fled that Night and concealed his flight by many false fires They left behind them much warlike provision ammunition apparell and riches not burning the baggage as they intended and Don Pedro might without resistance have possessed himselfe of Iran in the morning if hee had followed it Hee that did best for gayning this victory was the Marquesse De Torrecusa with the Navarroyes and Neapolitans Concerning the Particular Cavallieres I can say little most of them beeing unknowne to mee Some affirme that Don Francisco de Garro was the first which entred into the Enemies Trenches other say the Earle of Xaviers though he was beaten out againe by the blow of an Halbert which had undoubtedly slaine him had not his Gorget saved him Captaine Pedro de Maravidis Knight of the order of Saint Iames entred also into the same Redoubt whence he brought away a French Colours having slaine the Ensigne in sight of the whole Army others report the ficst that entred to have beene Don Iuan D' Eques a Knight of Navarre and that a Neapolitane of Valentia charged very brauely There were slaine of the French 1200 which were seene floating upon the Son most of them men of quality as it seemeth by their outward Habit wee lost not many the generall vote is not above thirty yet the Lord Admirall saith more nor had we many wounded The Prisoners taken that day were above 1000. and the number increaseth daily mamy which had hid themselves in Brakes and Thickets being compelled abroad by Hunger It is said there were 50 of the French Nobility wanting but that is scarce credible A French Trumpet came into our Army the Friday following who affirmed they had lost 6 thousand men and being demanded what the French conceived of the Spaniards hee answered the Spanish are Couragious and the French want Government which hee meant perhaps of those which betrayed the Cause by their feare and flight for they could not bee ignorant that their Forces then consisted of two and twenty thousand Foot 1000 Horse fifty good Ships well provided and that a re-enforcement of 6000 men was expected daily from Baiona the Spanish Army consisting onely of 3000 Foot and five hundred Horse more or lesse and the Enemy being fortified and wee having no place of strength how could so shamefull a flight and so glorious a Victory bee expected The Booty was great and the pillage was increased the Enemy vainely conceiving according to the relation of a Capuchin prisoner to winne ground upon Fontarabie and then to fall upon St. Sebastian a place of lesse importance and so to passe victoriously throughout all Spaine even to Madrill without resistance which was also beleeved by them as a matter of faith They came to the Siege very rich in Plate Gold costly Lodgings Pavillions very curiously wrought Cabinets and other precious furniture Wee seized the Wardrobe of the Prince of Conde wherein wee found much and very rich enamelled Plate and a most rich Ensigne of the Order which was of such estimation that the next day hee sent a Trumpeter to the Admirall of Castile intreating him to returne the Plate and the Golden Fleece and hee would allow the true worth thereof for the same The Arch-Bishop of Burdeaux wardrobe also they seized and part of his owne wearing Apparell and the foure thousand Doublous which hee promised to deliver amongst his Souldiers to encourage them to the assault It is thought hee was present in the Campe at the time of the skirmish and it is not knowne how hee escaped Because hee falls not downe towards the Sea it is thought hee betooke himselfe to the Cittadell of Saint Elmo from whence the next day it was observed the French vayled their sayles having given fire to their Cittadell cloyed it with Artillery Their Muskets Harquebuses and Pikes were all left in the place being too heauy to beare away and might hinder their escape Their cassocks of Skarlet and other of finest cloth with the orders of the Holy-Ghost were very many One of our Souldiours had 3 of them and sold one for 16. Royals which was then worth 100 Duckets The hangings were of unshorne greene Velvet broy dered with Gold embossed with Iewels and tufted with greene water Grograynes buttons of gold and rich galownes The Iewels chaines watches and many other rich ornaments were found vpon the dead bodies in the Sea In such Fishings the Irish were very skilfull diving under the waters to find them The Ensignes gained from the enemy were about a hundred though the Admirall had not so many many of them were in the hands of particular persons desirous to place them in their severall countreyes as Trophies of their Victory notwithstanding the old souldiers made no account of them saying they would only place in their Countreyes those which were taken and wonne from the hands of the enemy The pieces of Artillery which were left during the

the night seeme as glorious as day the great Ordnance thundred out a Proclamation of triumphant victory the souldiers and inhabitants kept Revels and feasting and as if there had been no enemy neer them and after their feeding lay downe to sleepe The Spanish Garrisons of Guelders Gennep Ruremund Venlo and other places upon the Maze conjecturing what the issue of that dayes froliking might be mustered up 1500 men and armed with Petards and such like instruments marched up thither-ward to surprize the City Each circumstance answered their hopes for execution of the Enterprize Undertaken upon good grounds the Lord of Wynbergen was the person to whose care the custody and government of the Towne was deputed He was then absent from his charge and his absence was no small encouragement to the undertakers Common men will assume more liberty when their prime Commander is away then they dare think of while he is with them The darknes of the night concealed their approches and the loud reports of the Canon and out-stretched shouts of the people their actions An artificiall bridge was laid over one part of the outward Moat and a pile of brush-wood and bul-rushes dammed up another the Canons were ready to play and the enemy to enter yet nothing was suspected much lesse perceived by the Garrison and inhabitants How happy a presage was this of their wished end their counsels hitherto found no reluctancy in a still silence they stood armed to give the assault till the triumphs being past and as still a silence in the Town as was observed in the Army gave the assaylants some evidence that then was their time for action The word was given Is prosecuted valiantly and each man conformed himself to an active obedience The assault was made with such violence that one of the gates which was made only for the ingresse and egresse of friends was therby become under the command of the enemies Heere only was the rub which stayed the race of their conquest the draw-bridge was up and that being wanting stopt them in their full carreer But it only hindred their speed and could not divert the resolved Spaniards from prosecution of this thus farre fortunate beginning True valour is not heartlesse upon each disadvantage and a right souldier accounts it his honour to encounter with difficulties Though the way was thus hedged up yet on they went but not with such speed as they intended nor with that happinesse which their hopes had promised The assault was discovered then by a Sentinell whose fear made the danger greater then it was his throat proclayming the state of the Town to be past danger as already in the absolute power of the Enemy The Citizens stood like amazed men and were ready to buy their lives with the voluntary surrendry of their goods to the victor only the Lievtenant Governours heart fainted not hee made good use of the little breathing time the yawne of the bridge had given him beat up the Alarum drew up his Companies together and wisely ordering his half distracted men who by his example took fresh courage fell upon the Enemy with an impetuous violence when having scaled the walls hee ganto cry victoria The end crowneth the work And disappointed happily had the conclusion bin answerable to the premises the Governour of Gelders the principall adventurer in this expedition had got much more profit by the Catastrophe then glory by his well advised Enterprize Wesell had bin blocked up though no Enemy appeared in the field the Spanish Garrisons had incircled it nor could it have received relief from the States conveniently The valour and vigilance of the Lievtenant Governour prevented al with his new awaked men he made an assault upon the over-watched adversary who neither prepared perfectly to defend himself nor offend the Garrison some of his men being upon the wal and rather seeking the way down into the City to endamage the defendants then tosecure themselves others got over the Moat and more expecting the assistance of their companions friends then affronts of their foes and in conclusion with the losse of his own life and 60 of his men repulsed the besieger with the slaughter of some hundreds of his men and many prisoners leaving the name of Wike so was he called more glorious after his death then it was in his life by dying victoriously Yet nor his valour nor fate was all to which the Town was obliged for this deliverance Some other accidents intercided which forwarded if not perfected it The Spanish Canon was not good two old Peeces were planted to scoure the streets when the Gate was laid open and those crasie things upon the first discharging fell on pieces and then the noyse of the Guns within the Town being heard at Wesell not above four English miles thence distant some companies were sent out with 3 Drums to assist their confederates which according to direction beating the marches of 3 severall Nations disheartented the Spaniards from presuming too far as not knowing what Enemy might be behinde them and so caused them to leave their weapons to save their persons their Petards Granadoes Pikes Halberts Harquebusses of crocks and other military instruments being thus made a prey to the victorious Hollander Stratagems in warre are like goodly houses in eminent Cities one is but the model of another This designe of the Spanish garrisons was the pattern of the like to the Statists of Mastricht against the little city of Hanuyit which was undertaken as advisedly as the other and ended more happily though not prosecuted so eagerly Their intentions were different as their issues these last adventurers had no designe upon the place which desired neutrality but upon four companies of Spanish foot and horse which were thrust upon the city as Presidiaries whom the duke of Bovillon intended to surprise by onslaught and to restore the city to its antient liberty To this purpose the fifth of November new stile Surprised at Hanuit withall the Cavallery and some fire-lockes drawne of each company in the garrison nine out of each companies under two Captaines three lievtenants and three ensignes armed with petards and hand granadoes hee marched about eight at night towards the city which lieth in little Brabant upon the frontiers of the Bishop of Liege and arrived there the next morning before day His approach was suspected by the sentinell but not knowne perfectly the Watchman heard a noyse and called his Corporall who comming from the Corps dugard and listning a while in vain for a better information the army upon the sentinels word keeping strict silence returned checking the scout for his vaine feare which he concluded to have troubled his fancy with an ungrounded suspition of an approaching enemy Facile credimus quod volumus Mens understandings are often fooled by their corruptible appetite which presenting things to the sence otherwise than they are deludeth the reason and by a false conception produceth a Phrygian