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A64847	The commentaries of Sr. Francis Vere being diverse pieces of service, wherein he had command / written by himself in way of commentary ; published by William Dillingham ...	Vere, Francis, Sir, 1560-1609.; Dillingham, William, 1617?-1689.; Dorislaus, Isaac, 1595-1649.; Ogle, John, Sir, 1569-1640.	1657 (1657)	Wing V240; ESTC R219854	108,031	242

opinion of our fear or take the opportunity of our stay to fortifie upon the passage to Ostend to cut off our victuals and retreat I alleadged that their army that had been gathered in haste brought into a countrey where they intended no such war could neither have provision of victuals with them for any time nor any magazines in those parts to furnish them nor other store in that wasted countrey and in that latter end of the year to be expected so as fear there was none that they should seat themselves there to starve us that had store of victuals in our shipping and the sea open to supply us with all sailing winds And as for the vain courage they should get by our supposed fear after so long a march with climbing up and down those steep sandy hills in the extreamity of heat wearied and spent before they could come to us and then finding us fresh and lusty and ready to receive them in our strength of advantage it would turn to their greater confusion and terrour They persisted and as it were with one voice opposed so as in the end I was moved to say that all the world could not make me change my counsel The Count Maurice was pleased to like of it resolving not to passe any further towards the enemy and for the ordering of things reposed so much trust in me as that he believed they were well without viewing the places or examining the reasons of my doings but returned to give order to the rest of the army which as the water ebbed he enlarged to the sea-ward next the which the horsmen were placed and six piece of Ordnance advanced into the head of the vanguard In this order we stayed and the enemie though still in the eie moved not forward for the space of two hours and then rather turning from us then advancing they crossed the downs rested other two hours at the foot of them towards the land which confirmed their opinions that held he would lodge But we found reasons out of all their proceedings to keep us from wavering For it was probable to us that the enemy over-wearied tired with that night and dayes travell and seeing us passed the haven of Newport wherein to have hindered and prevented us was the greatest cause of his haste whilest he saw us stirring and ordering our selves might hope that we that were fresh now passed and engaged to fight would advance the rather to have the help of our troops with the Count Ernest if perchance he were retired to Ostend which the nearer the fight were to that place might be of most use to us or else if we had heard of their defeat vve vvould be dravvn on vvith revenge But vvhen they savv that vve held our place not moving forvvard being out of that hope and not provided to make any long stay for the reasons before mentioned they might resolve to refresh themselves and then to advance towards us for which that side was more convenient then the bare sea-sands Withall we considered that their chief trust resting in their footmen which were old trained souldiers and to that day unfoiled in the field they would the rather attend the growing of the tide which was then at the lowest that the scope of the sands might be lesse spacious and serviceable for horsmen About half-floud they crossed again the downs to the sea-sands and marched forward sending some light-horsmen far before the troop one of which as we supposed suffered himself to be taken who being brought to the Count Maurice told him aloud that Count Ernest was defeated and that he should presently have battel augmenting the number bravery and resolution of their men The losse of our men we understood before and therefore were carefull to have few present at the hearing of the prisoner whose mouth being stopped by the Count Maurice his order the rest that heard it bewrayed it either in vvord or countenance to the souldier The enemy grovving nearer and nearer and their horsmen coming in the head of their troops in a competent distance to have been dravvn to a fight I vvould very vvillingly have advanced the horsmen of the vanguard near to them and vvith some choice and vvelmounted men have beaten in their carabins skirmishers to their grosse vvith purpose if they had been charged again to have retired in haste with the said vanguard of horse betwixt the sea and the vanguard of foot and having drawn them from their foot under the mercy of our Ordnance and engaged to the rest of our horse to have charged and followed them resolutely This advise could not savour to that young Nobleman that was not well pleased with the power the Count Maurice had given me over his charge and therefore was not by him put into execution who chose rather as the enemy advanced leasurely so he in like sort to recuil towards the foot This counsel of mine taking no better effect and their horsmen now come within reach of our Cannon I made the motion to have them discharged which was well liked and so well plied that we made them scatter their troops and in disorder flie for safety into the downs which had doubtlesse given us the victory without more adoe if our horsmen had been ready and willing to have taken the benefit of that occasion Their footmen out of our reach kept on their way alongst the sands and the sooner to requite us advanced their Ordnance a good distance before them and shot roundly at us and did some hurt The water now grew very high so as both we and they were forced to streighten our front and the enemy whether of purpose as aforesaid to fight with more advantage as he took it with his foot in the downs or to avoid the shot of our Ordnance for he could not be so carelesse as to be surprised with the tide and so driven to this sudden change put all his forces as wel horse as foot into the downs which his horse crossed to the green way betwixt the low-lands and the downs All our horsemen stood with our rereward hereupon our vanguard altering order our battel and rereward passed into the downs and in the same distances backward sidewise as they had been on the sands on my left hand before ranged themselves so as the front of the three bodies of foot filled the breadth of the downs all the horsmen being placed on the green way betwixt the low-land and the foot of the downs not in any large front but one in the tail of another as the narrownesse of the passage enforced I found a fit place on the top of a hill from whence the green way on the inside of the downs might be commanded with Ordnance on which by the Count Maurice his order two demi-Cannons were presently mounted The enemy growing very near I told the Count it was time for me to go to my charge asking him whether he would command

go to Fayall the Lord Thomas with his squadron and I with my ship were to go to Graciosa and Sir Walter Raleigh with his either to Pico or Saint George but Sir Walter Raleigh whether of set purpose or by mistake I leave others to judge making with his squadron more haste then the rest of the fleet came to Fayall afore us landed his men and received some losse by the Spaniards that kept the top of the hill which commanded both the haven and the town The Generall with the rest of the fleet came to an anchor before the Island and hearing of Sir Walter Raleighs landing and losse was highly displeased as he had cause it being directly and expressely forbidden upon pain of death to land forces without order from the Generall and there wanted not about my Lord that the more to incense him aggravated the matter seeing the Spanish ensigne upon the hill his Lordship prepared to land with all haste and so about an houre before sun-set came into the town A competent number of men were given to Sir Oliver Lambert to guard the passages and then it was consulted how to go on with the enterprise of forcing them They were entrenched on the top of the hill to the number of two hundred which was so steep that it seemed artillery could not be drawn towards the said trench The night growing on I desired his Lordship to give me leave to go up to discover the place which his Lordship assented unto and so taking two hundred souldiers I set forward the young Earl of Rutland Sir Thomas German and diverse other Gentlemen-adventurers accompanying me At our coming to the top of the hill finding no watch in their trenches we entred them and possessed the hill where we found some of our men slain by the Spaniard The hill was abandoned as we supposed in the beginning of the night unseen or undiscovered of us or those that were placed at the foot of the hill we were all very sorry they so escaped as was also the Lord Generall for there was no following or pursuing them in that mountainous Island The Captain and Officers that landed with Sir Walter Raleigh were presently committed and before our departure thence Sir Walter Raleigh was called to answer for himself in a full assembly of the chief Officers both by sea and land in the Generalls presence Where every one being to deliver his opinion of the crime it was grievously aggravated by the most for my part no man shewed lesse spleen against him then my self The Generalls goodnesse would not suffer him to take any extream course but with a wise and noble admonition forgave the offence and set also at liberty the Captains that had been committed After the fleet had taken the refreshing that Island could afford which was in some good measure we put from thence and for three dayes were plying off and on betwixt Graciosa and the Island of Tercera the ordinary way of the Indian fleet and in the mean time certain were sent a shore by the Generall at Graciosa to draw from the Inhabitants some portion of monie and provisions to redeem them from spoiling They brought word to the Generall in the afternoon that from the Island a great ship was discovered on the road-way from the Indies but they being sent again with some other to make a full discovery at their return which was sudden it was found to be but a pinnace I must confesse in this point I may be ignorant of some particulars because things were not done as they were wont by Council or if they were it was but of some few to which I was not called But in all likelihood there was wilfull mistaking in some to hinder us of that rich prey which God had sent as it were into our mouths Howsoever it was that same night when it was dark the Generall with the fleet altered their course and bare directly with the Island of Saint Michael as it was given out to water A pinnace coming to me in the Lord Generalls name told me it was his pleasure my ship and Dread-nought in which Sir Nicholas Parker was should beat off and on betwixt the Islands of Saint George and Graciosa for that the Indian fleet was expected The Rainbow in which was Sir William Monson and the Girland my Lord of Southamptons ship were to lie by the like order on the North-part of Graciosa willing us if we discovered any fleet to follow them and to shoot off now and then a piece of Ordnance which should serve for a signall to the rest of the fleet This order as I take it was delivered us about ten of the clock at night About midnight or one of the clock those of our ship might hear shooting according to this direction rather in a manner of a signall then a fight toward that part of the Island where the other two ships were to guard which as we after understood was from the Rainbow which fell in the midst of the Indian fleet whom in their long boat they hailed and by the Spaniards own mouths knew whence they were who held them in scorn and in a great bravery told them what they were laden withall The wind was very small so as it scarce stirred our ship but we directed our course as directly to the sound of the Ordnance as we could and so continued all night the morning was very foggy and misty so as we could not discover farre but still we might hear shooting of Ordnance when we listned for it About eight or nine of the clock before noon it began to clear and then we might see as we judged some five or six leagues off a fleet of twenty sails which was much about half way betwixt us and Tercera The wind began a little to strengthen and we to wet our sails to improve the force of it and somewhat we got nearer the Spanish fleet more through their stay to gather themselves together then our own good footmanship All this while the Rainbow and the Girland followed the fleet so neare that they might to our judgements at pleasure have engaged them to fight But their fleet being of eight good Gallions of the Kings the rest merchants of good force though the booty were of great inticement it might justly seem hard to them to come by it and so they onely waited on them attending greater strength or to gather up such as straggled from the rest The Girland overtook a little friggot of the Kings laden onely with Cochinell which she spoiled and I found abandoned and ready to sink yet those of my ship took out of her certain small brasen pieces The Indian fleet keeping together in good order sailed still before us about two leagues and so was got into the haven of Tercera into the which they towed their ships with the help of those of the Island before we could come up to them It was evening when we came thither and

at the least four hours till I came to an open heath which was from the bridge about some five or six English miles sending in the mean time messenger upon messenger to the Count Maurice and the Count Hollock for more troops And it pleased Sir Robert Sidney himself who also came up to me and looked on the enemy when he saw the fair occasion to ride back to procure more forces But all this while none came not so much as any principal officer of the armie to see what I did On the left hand of this heath which is little lesse then three miles over were woods and inclosed fields coasting the way the enemy was to take in distance some musket-shot and a half Along these I caused my muskettiers to advance and as they could from the skirts of the heath to play upon the enemy which was more to shew them and our men that were behinde by hearing the shot that we had not forsaken the enemy then for any great hurt we could do them My self with some thirty or fourty horse that were come up to me to see the sport following them aloof off The enemy seeing no grosse troop to follow them began to take heart put themselves into order in four battalions their horsmen on their wings advancing their way easily When we had in this manner passed half the heath our horsmen in sixteen troops for they were so many began to appear behinde us at the entry of the heath not the way we had passed but more to the right hand coasting the skirts of the heath a good round pace This sight made the enemy mend his pace and gave us more courage to follow them so as now we omitted no endeavour which might hinder their way falling again into skirmish with them For they fearing more those that they saw afar off then us that followed them at their heels being a contemptible number to them that might see us and tell us mended still their pace I therefore sent messengers to those horsmen for of our footmen there was no help to be expected to tell them that if they came not with all speed possible the enemy would get into the streight and fast countrey in which there could be no good done on them They were not above two musket-shot from the mouth of the streight when the Count Maurice with six companies of horse came near unto us that followed the enemie in the tail The other horsmen because they fetched a greater compasse and came more upon the front and right flank of the enemie were further off I sent to the Count to desire him to give me those horsmen And in the mean time to give the enemie some stay I made a round proffer to charge the rereward under the countenance of that second with those horse and foot I had which took good effect for they knowing no other but that all the troops were also ready to charge made a stand and seeing our horsmen on the right wing to grow somewhat near put themselves into a stronger order My messenger returning from the Count Maurice told me he would speak with me to whom I made haste and as the time required in few words having delivered my minde he gave me three companies of horse to use as I should see cause with which I went on the spur for the enemie was now marching again and was come even into the entry of the streight The other horsmen with the Count Hollock seeing me go to charge did the like also so that much about one instant he charged on the right corner of their front and on their right flank and I with my troops on the rereward and left flank so roundly that their shot after the first volley shifted for themselves for their pikes being ranged in four battels stood one in the tail of another not well ordered as in that case they should have been to succour their shot and abide the charge of the horsmen and so charged their pikes not breaking through them at the first push as it was anciently used by the men of arms with their barded horses but as the long pistols delivered at hand had made the ranks thinne so thereupon the rest of the horse got within them so as indeed it was a victory obtained without fight For till they were utterly broken and scattered which was after a short time few or none died by handy-strokes The footmen defeated our horsmen disordered as they had been in the charge and execution followed the chase of their horsmen and baggage which took the way of Herentalls I foresaw that the enemies horse that had with-drawn themselves in good order and untouched of us at the beginning of the fight would soon put to rout those disordered men and therefore made all the haste that I could to the mouth of the streight there to stay them Where finding the Count Hollock I told him he should do well to suffer no more to passe so riding forward on the other end of the streight where it opened on a champain I overtook Sir Nicholas Parker who commanded the three companies of English horse under me who had some thirty souldiers with the three Cornets with these I stayed on a green plot just in the mouth of the streight having on either hand a roade washy way with purpose to gather unto me those that came after me and relieve our men if the enemie chased them I had no sooner placed the troop but I might see our men come back as fast and as disordered as they went out passing the streight on either hand of me not to be stayed for any intreaty The most of our men passed and the enemy approaching Sir Nicholas Parker asked me what I meant to do I told him attend the enemy with our troop there Then saith he you must be gone with the rest and so almost with the latest the enemy being upon us I followed his counsel and so all of us great and small were chased through the streight again where our troops gathering head and our foot appearing we held good and the enemy without any further attempt made his retreat There were taken between fourty and fifty ensignes and slain and taken of the enemy near three thousand and their Generall Signieur de Ballancy and Count de Warras died on the place THE BATTEL AT NEVPORT A.D. 1600. The Battel at NEWPORT IN the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred the enemies forces being weak and in mutinies and his affairs in disorder the States resolved to make an offensive warre in Flanders as the fittest place to annoy the enemy most and to secure their own State if they could recover the Coast-towns which was the scope of their enterprise As this action was of great importance so were the meetings and consultations about it many To which though unworthy my self was called where amongst other things the facility of the execution coming in question it was

calculation and beyond his expectation that it continued longer At the Commissioners return his later entertainment to them was better then the first he feasted with them drank and discoursed with them but came to no direct overture of article though they much pressed him that part of the day and the whole night was so spent and in sleep The like had we in the camp except drinking whereof there was no excesse but of good chear and courtesie abundance In the morning were discovered five ships out of Zeland riding in the rode they brought four hundred men and some materials for the sea-works the men were landed on the strand with long boats and shallops the enemy shot at them with their artillery but did no hurt The pretext of succour from the States the Generall took to break off the Treaty which he had not yet really entred into The Commissioners were on both sides discharged in this order Cerano came first into the army it was my right to have gone for him but I sent Captain Fairfax at the earnest entreaty of Don Juan de Pantochi and some others who said they desired my stay onely to have my company so much the longer making me believe it was agreeable to them the rather for that I spake their Language I was the more willing to yield because I would not leave any other impression then that I saw they had received of my integrity in this negotiation Fairfax being in the town Ottanes made not long stay nor I after him The Generall was not pleased that I stayed out of my turn but when I gave him my reasons for it he seemed to be well contented GEnerall Vere having now received part of the long-expected supplies together with the assurance of more at hand straitway broke off the Treaty which though ending somewhat abruptly had it seems finished the part which was by him allotted it whereupon he sent the Archduke this following acquittance WE have heretofore held it necessary for certain reasons to treat with the Deputies which had authority from your Highnesse but whilest we were about to conclude upon the Conditions and Articles there are arrived certain of our ships of Warre by whom we have received part of that which we had need of so that we cannot with our Honour and Oath continue the Treaty nor proceed in it which we hope that your Highnesse will not take in ill part and that neverthelesse when your power shall reduce us to the like estate you will not refuse as a most generous Prince to vouchsafe us again a gentle audience From our Town of Ostend the 25 of December 1601. Signed FRANCIS VERE NOw whosoever shall but consider how many and how great difficulties the Archduke had struggled with to maintain the siege how highly concerned he was in point of honour and how eagerly engaged in his affections and what assured hopes he had of taking the town will easily conceive that he must needs finde himself much discomposed at so unexpected a disappointment He had already taken it with his eyes as if he had bound the Leviathan for his maidens to sport withall under the assurance of the truce he walked the Infanta before the town with twenty Ladyes and Gentlewomen in her train as it were valiantly to stroke this wild beast which he had now laid fast in the toiles and to look upon the out-side of the town before they entred into it Now to have his hopes thus blown up and to be thrown from the top of so much confidence wonder not if we finde him much enraged at it and what can we now expect but that he should let fly his rage in a sudden and furious assault upon the town especially considering that before the treaty began all things were in readinesse for such a purpose But whether it were that the treaty had unbended the souldiers resolution or the unexpected breaking off stouned the Archdukes counsels or whether his men were discouraged at their enemies increased strength or whatsoever the cause was certain it is that there was no considerable assault made upon the town for many dayes after And we have cause to beleive that Generall Vere was never a whit sorry for it who had by this means opportunity though no leasure to repair his works wherein he employed above twelve hundred men for at least eight dayes together during which time he stood in guard in person at the time of low-water in the night being the time of the greatest danger which conduced much to the encouragement of his men and having received intelligence by his scouts of the enemies preparations and resolutions within few dayes to give them a general assault he was carefull to man the chief places Helmont Sand-hill and the rest and to furnish them with Cannon and stones and what else might be usefull for their defences Mean while the besiegers spared no powder but let fly at the ships which notwithstanding daily and nightly went into the town and many a bullet was interchanged between the town and the camp who lay all this while pelting at one another some small hurts on both sides being given and received But the seventh of January was the day designed by the besiegers wherein to attempt something extraordinary All day long without intermission did the Archduke batter the bulwark of Sand-hill Helmont Porc-espic and other places near adjoyning with eighteen Cannon from two of his batteries the one at the foot of the downs upon the Catteys and the other on the South-side thereof from whence were discharged which the Cannoniers counted above two thousand shot on that side the town all the bullets weighing fourty and fourty six pounds a piece After I was thus far engaged I happily met with an account of this bloudy assault by Henry Hexham who was present at it to him therefore I shall willingly resigne the story HIs Highnesse the Archduke then seeing himself thus deluded by Generall Vere his Parley was much vexed thereat and very angry with the chief of his Council of War who had diverted him from giving the assault upon that day when the Parly was called for insomuch that some of them for two or three dayes after as it was credibly reported durst not look him in the face others to please him perswaded him to give an assault upon the town Hereupon his Highnesse took a resolution to revenge himself of those within the town saying He would put them all to the sword his Commanders and souldiers taking likewise an oath that if they entred they would not spare man woman nor childe in it Till that the enemy had shot upon and into the town above an hundred sixty three thousand two hundred Cannon-shot to beat it about our ears scarce leaving a whole house standing but now to pour out his wrath and fury more upon us on the seventh of Ianuary above-said very early in the morning he began with eighteen pieces of Cannon and half