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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	christian_a	great_a	part_n	3,442	5	4.1248	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16421	The ouerthrovv of the most part of the Prince of Parma his forces, both horse and foote Performed on the twelfth and fifteenth of Iuly last, by the Graue Maurice his excellencie, generall of the armies in the lovve countries. With the breaking of the huge bridge leading to the Valew, neere Arnham. Seene and allowed.		1591 (1591)	STC 334; ESTC S117995	3,976	12

THE Ouerthrovv of the most part of the Prince of Parma his forces both horse and foote Performed on the twelfth and fifteenth of Iuly last by the Graue Maurice his Excellencie Generall of the Armies in the Lowe Countries With the breaking of the huge bridge leading to the Valew neere Arnham Seene and allowed Printed by T.S. and are to be sold ouer against the South doore of Pauls 1591. A Letter written in Arnham by a Gentleman of account on the sixteenth of Iuly concerning the great ouerthrow which the Prince of Parma lately sustained THe honourable seruices assaultes and battels lately made by his excellency vppon sundry Townes in the Lowe Countries together with the good successe which hee hath had therein hath of late giuen a great feare terrour to all the Towns neere thereabout who although some of them doe still stubbornly resist withstand his forces hazarding their liues in the defence of the most capitall enemie vnto all true professors of Christian religion yet the vnexpected victories which it hath pleased God to giue him of late hath so daunted the most parte of those who-doe still wilfully resist him as they did his excellencies Father namely the wise and valiaunt Prince of Orange that the chiefest of them knowe not well what to do nor which way to turne them Wonderful hath bene his successe since he tooke the cause of his country in hande yea he hath daunted the enemie more within the space of one yeare then was done by any other in seauen yeares before How many Townes hath he lately obtained wherein the enemie hath not made triall of his valour Nay what Towne or Cittie in all the Low Countries that doth forcibly resist the states which with an vndaunted courage he doth not attempt to conquere Surely there is none that hee can easily come at but hee seeketh meanes to compasse and countermaund the same either by the Cannon or Cutlasse For proofe wherof looke into his politike attempt lately made at Bredau a thing most worthie of memorie where vnder the colour of bringing in Turfes to serue the Towne with some kinde of fuell whereof then they were in great want he brought into the harbour hoyes laden with Turfes on the toppe and armed men vnderneath who in the dead time of the night came forth and surprized the Towne Call to minde his forwardnes at Graue sconce Zurphen Deuenter Delftes I le and sundry other Townes whole honourable seruice prowes and valour performed at the same maketh truth to spreade foorth his rare renowne into all Christian nations in so much as euerie one saith his deedes deserue to be chronicled and his inuincible courage to bee registred in letters of gold The Lorde of hostes hath assisted him yea hath preserued him as the apple of his eie euen as hee did defend Dauid from the handes of the mightie Captaine of the Philistines And although his excellencies power at the first was but very weake and then the enemies armie verie strong yet hath almightie God nowe greatly increased his power and in most wonderful sort pulled downe and weakened the forces of the said Capitall enemie yea and that in such sort as the same may seeme most wonderfull and straunge to those that enter into the due consideration thereof This Capitall enemie of whom I make recitall is the Prince of Parma who although hee were not long since sortie thousand strong he is now greatly weakened and his forces not aboue eight thousand sighting men in the field The reason is because some of his chiefest Townes are reuolted and his greatest strength of horses and horsemen lately by Gods prouidence scattered slaine and taken prisoners besides sundry of his footmen maymed discomfited put to the sword as appeareth by this historie particularly ensuing The Prince of Parma for truth lying at Huffen a Townescituate betweene Nimweghen and Arnham after that hee perceiued his strength was impaired by reason of the Townes of Deuenter and Zutphen which haue lately yeelded by constraint mustered vp his men hauing in all about ten thobsand soldiers namely two thousand horse and eight thousand foote of which power the greater part came and lay before Knotsenburgh sconce a fort builded verie strong and holden by the Graue Maurice his excellencie This his armie hath made two seuerall assaults vpon the said fort or sconce neuerth elesse he hath beene repulsed to his great hinderance losse for in the first assault the said Prince of Parma hath lost about six hundred men twentie seuerall Captaines the principall wherof was the Countie Octauio de Manfuelt with Lamberlot his Lieutenant and an Italian Prince Besides those aforesaid which were slaine there was also about the number of foure hundred more who beeing sore hurt wcre carried into Nimweghen This was vpon Monday beeing the 12 day of Iuly last past after our English computation in which fight they seemed on both sides verie hardie and couragious And whereas the Prince of Parma had compacted a great and mightie bridge made of Lighters sir poles and great planks which reached ouer the Riuer of Rhine into an Iland called Valew the same beeiug chained together was of such breadth and strength that the Princcs armies and troupes of armed men did easily march and passe ouer it when so often as they pleased The like bridge hee had also made from the wall by Nimweghen ouer to the other wal or land side leading toward Arnham both which bridges are fortified with sconces at the end so that there was no easie way to come vnto them betweene which lieth that Towne of Hussen where the Prince of Parma remained thinking himselfe there in greatest safetie But the Graue Maurice perceiuing that the bridge leading into the Valew was a great hinderance to his purpose for passing vp the riuer before Nimweghen polititikely and secretlie set forth a great many vessels togither called Drummedaries which being well manned came early in the morning forceably with Sea and Tide and beate vppon the bridge with great labour for the space of foure howers together in which time they had broken cut and sawed the same in sunder this done the force of the sea tore the rest of the bridge in pieces by meanes whereof the Graue Maurice hath now free passage with his forces to passe vp to Nimweghen by the riuer so that the Prince of Parma finding his holde weakened was constrained to flie to Nimweghen where since his comming hee hath taken from them al their armour and weapons of defence and deliuered the same into the custodie of his owne soldiours who are ioyned in equallitie with the principall surueiors and gouernors of that Cittie The Princes armie and the Graue Maurices do now lie within three English miles one of an other and it is supposed that their armies haue mette and fought together before this time whereof you shall haue certaine intelligence by the next Post After that his excellencie had receiued this