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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70217	A trve and briefe relation of the bloody battel of Nievport in Flanders found betwixt Prince Mavrice of happy memory and Albert arch-duke of Avstria vpon the second of Iuly 1600	Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?	1641 (1641)	Wing H1656A; ESTC R40974	18,700	14

haue hindred or prevented vs was the greatest cause of his hast whilst also he saw vs stirring ordering our troupes he might hope that wee that were fresh now passed engaged in fight would advance the rather to have the helpe of our troupes which were with Couut Ernest if perchance he were retyred to Ostend towards which the neerer wee were to fight to that place it might be of more advantage vnto vs or else if wee had heard of their defeate then wee might be drawne on to revenge But when he sawe that wee stood held our place not moving out of the hope that they were not provided to make any longe staye for the reasons before mentioned might resolue to refresh themselues a litle then to advance towards vs seing that side was for that purpose more advantagious then the bare sea sands withal wee considered that they made a halt to rest their footemen which were all ould exercised Souldiers to that daye vnfoiled in the feild they would attend rather the growing of the tyde which was then at the lowest ebb that the scopes of the sand might be lesse spacious seruisable for Horsemen Now about halfe floude they crossed the Downes againe to the seasands marched forwards sending some light horsemen farre before the troups to discover one of which as wee supposed suffred himselfe to be takeÌ„ who brougt newes to his Excie tould him alone that Count Ernest was defeated and that he would presently giue him battaile augmenting the number braverie resolutioÌ„s of their meÌ„ The losse of our men being vnderstood before wee were carefull to haue few present at the heareing of this prisoners report whose mouth being stopped by the Princes order not with staÌ„ding they hearing it bewrayed it both in word countenaÌ„ce to the souldiers The Ennemie advancing neerer neerer their Horsemen came in the head of their trouppes in a compitent distance to haue bene drawne to a fight Sr Francis Vere would willingly haue advanced the Horsemen of our Vantgard neere vnto them with some choise well mounted men haue beaten in their Carabines shit mishers to their grosse with purpose if they had bene over charged againe to haue retyred in hast with a sett Avantgard of Horse betwixt the sea the Vauntgard of foote having drawne them from their foote vnder the mercy of our OrdinaÌ„ce would haue engaged the rest of our horse to haue charged followed them resolutely This advise liked not to the young noblemen who was not well pleased with the power which his Excie had giuen to Sr Francis Vere over this charge therefore was not by him putt in execution who choose rather as the Ennemie advanced leisurely to retreate likewise towards our foote This councill of his takeing noe better effect the Horsemen nowe comming within the reach of our Cannon Sr Francis Vere made the motion to haue them discharged which was liked so well spent that wee made theÌ„ scatter their troupes in somedisorder fly for safety which had doubtlesse given vs the victorie without any more adoe if our Horsmen had bene ready willing to haue taken the advantage of this occasion Their footemen out of our reach kept on their way alongst the sands the soner to requite vs advanced their Ordinance a good distance before them and shott roundly at vs and did some hurt The water now growing very high wee they were both forced to strengthen our Front the Ennemie of purpose as aforesaid was driuen to fight vpon Sr Francis Veres advantage which he tooke with his foote in drawing them into the Downes where all our Horse stood with our Reere herevpon our Avauntgard altering order our Battaile and Reere passed into the Downes in the same distance backwards as they had before raunged themselues vpon the sand on the left hand so as the front of our three bodies of foote filled the bredth of the Downes not in any large front but in the reere one of another as the narrownesse of the passage enforced theÌ„ where Sr Francis Vere found a fitt place on the topp of a hill froÌ„ whence the greene waye which lay on the greene side of the Downes might be commaÌ„ded by our Ordnance vpon the which hill by his Excies order two demy-Canons were presently mounted The Ennemy drawing very neere then Sr Francis Vere tould the Prince it was nowe time for him to goe to his charge and asked his Excie if he would command him any further seruice he said noe but to doe as he saw cause willing vs the chiefes that stood about him to advise him in what part of the Armie he should be personnally wherevnto wee all answered that for many reasons he was to keepe in the Reere all which his Excie yeelded to And so Sr Francis Vere takeing his leue of the Prince he went into the head of the Avantgard and after he had viewed the readinesse and order of the seuerall troupes the Ennemy now appearing at hand that he might the better discouuer their proceedings and for the readiest execution of his commaunds vpon all occasions Sr Francis Vere after he had encouraged his men in abyding the first brunte tooke his place in the topp of the foremost hill before mentioned where he resolued to attend the issue of that daies seruice aswell for the advantage of the ground he had chosen there to stand vpon his defense as alsoo because it was an even ground where he might stirre from place to place as is vsually and necessarily for the executing and performing the duty of a Captaine where the Countrie lying open and plaine he should not onely haue the sight of the Ennemie vpon whose motions in such cases the Councill of execution depend but also the view of his troupes and they of him which might haue caused many vnreasonable and confused Commaunds if it had bene otherwise The Ennemies forlorne hope of Harquebusiers having gotten vp to the topp of the hills and places of most advantage on the other side of the bottome before mentioned began to shoote from thence at vs whilst our Avantgard approched who now growing neere at hand fiue hundred Spaynards Pikes and short mingled without Ensignes or precise order gaue on vpon the place where Sr Francis Vere stood and very stoutly for the space of a great halfe hower labouring to enter and force it but he succoured it with more store of shott from the topps of the hills The grosse of their Avantgard standing in some covert from the shott which flew from Sr Francis Veres troupes on the other side of the bottome In the meane time the Vauntgard of the Ennemies horse advanced alonge the greeneway so often mentioned betwixt the hills the Downes towards our horse that stood more backwards vpoÌ„ the flanks of our Battell wherevpon our two peeces of Ordinance were discharged from the topp of the hill to

on the other side of the Downes towards the firme land if the whole bredth were not possessed the Ennemy might passe to the Haven of Nieuport where our bridge and most of our shipping yet lay on the dry ground and so to spoyle and burne them in our View To prevent then all these inconvementes Sr Francis Vere went to finde out a place where the hills and Downes stood in a manner divided with a hollow bottome narrow and the hills higher to the sea side North then towards the Iland South part which ranne cleane thwart from the sea sands to the Iland the Downes being there also of no great bredth so that wee might conveniently occupie theÌ„ with out front commaund the sea shoare and the waye that laye betwixt the lowe Iland the foote of the Downes on that place which was on the higher side of the bottome Sr Francis Vere resolued to attend the Ennemy there and therefore causing his troupes to advance drew from the whole Avantgard about a 1000 men to wit 300 English the Princes guard such other companies as vsuaily march with it 250 and of the Frizons 500 which were muskettiers two troupes consisting of shott and pikes the English and 50 of his Excies guard they laced on the topp of the hill that lay more advanced then the rest which being steepie and sandie was not easely to be encountred in the topp so hollowe that the men laye covered from the hills on the other side might shoote from it as from a Bulwarke Iust behinde this hill some 100 paces froÌ„ it was another farre more higher on the toppe whereof Sr Francis Vere placed 200 men of the troupe of the gard in which also with a litle labour of the Souldiers they laye in a good covert these two hills ioyned together with a ridge somewhat lower then the foremost hill which endwaies laye East and West and broadwaies looked towards the South and Inlands and commaunded all the ground passable on the outside steepe loose sandie ill to be encountred within the hollow he placed 500 Muskettiers giving charge to the Officers to bestowe their shott onely to the Southwards when time should serue which was directly on the right side and flanke as wee then stood turned towards the Ennemie Betwixt these two hills on the left hand or flanke which looked towards the sea Sr Francis Vere placed 700 men in covert places for that purpose to be neere the sea sand that with ease and good order in an instant they might breake out into two or foure troupes all which were English The Ennemie ranged their forces to the Northwards directly on our left flanke so they adventured to passe by vs to the other troupes with intent to leaue them in his eye more Easterly vpoÌ„ the sands then on the Inermost of the two hills which Sr Francis Vere perceiving ranged in a Front with a space betwixt them the other two troupes of the English And a pretty distance behinde them more to the sea-wards ordered the Frizons in foure Battaillions two in front with a space to receiue betwixt them one of the other Battallions that stood behinde them And the files intervals behinde the troupes as close one to another as conveniently might bee to leaue the more space for the ranging of the other Battaillions with a compitent distance betweene each division so that one troupe might not shaddow an other but that all of them might be in the Ennemies eye in an instant insomuch that the Avantgard tooke vp about one third part of the Downes leaving the rest to be manned by the other troupes as occasion should require on the left hand the outtermost towards the sea more advanced were the horsemen placed This worke was scare done when as his Excie Prince Maurice with the rest of the chiefs Commandours of the Armie came to the head of Sr Francis Veres troupes where his Excie in the hearing of many putt it in deliberation whether he should advance towards the Ennemie with his Armie or attend their comming Those that spake as most men in those cases will not seeme fearefull councelled him to march forwards for they thought it would daunte the Ennemie much make the Victorie more easie whereas in attending him he would gather courage out of an opinion of our feare by takeing the oppertunity of our staye to fortifie vpon our passage to Ostend so cut of our victuals retreate Herevpon Sr Francis Vere alledged that their Armie having bene gathered vp in hast brought into a Countrie where they intended noe such warre could neither haue provisioÌ„s of victuals with it nor any Magazines in those parts to furnish them therewith nor any store in that naked Countrie in the latter end of a yeare could be expected soo that there was noe feare that they should setle themselues there to starue vs who had store of victuals in our shipping the sea open to supply vs with all sailing windes with the vaine courage they should gett by our supposed feare after a longe march comming vpon vs downe those sandie steepe-hils in the extremity of heate would be wearied spent before they could come vnto vs then finding vs fresh lustie ready to receiue them in the strength of our advantage in all reason it would turne to their greater confusion terrour They persisted in their opinion as it were with one voice oppossed it so as in the end Sr Francis Vere was moved to saie that all the world could not make him to change his opinion His Excie was pleased to like of it resolving not to passe any further towards the Ennemy for the ordering of things reposed so much trust in Sr Francis Vere that he beleeued they should be well done without viewing the places or examining the reason of his doings But his Excie returned to giue order dispose of the rest of the Armie which as the water ebbed his Excie enlarged to the Seawards next the which the HorsemeÌ„ were placed sixe peeces of Ordinance advanced planted in the head of the Avantgard having the advantage both of the winde the Sunne on our side gaue order to Mons Warmont Mons. Duvenvord that they from our men of warr should giue fire with their Ordnance vpon the Ennemies Battallions that stood vpon the strand In this order wee stayed the Ennemie though stil in our sight moved not forwards for the space of two howers then rather turning from vs theÌ„ advancing they crossed the Downes rested there two howers at the foote of the Iland which confirmed their opinions that he would lodge there But wee found reasons to the contrarie out of their proceedings to keepe vs from wavering for it was probable that the Ennemie was harryed out tyred with that nights march daies travell And seing wee were passed the Haven of Nieuport to

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