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Aduertisements from Britany, and from the Lovv Countries. In September and October
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1591
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as hitherto wee haue mette with For I protest vnto you before the liuing God that our soldiours onely haue borne the entire burden of this Sommers seruice At Lamballa we were not assisted with three hundred French which may seeme very straunge but what I write is most true and how farre my Lord Generall will in all seruice aduenture his owne person is so well known vnto you that I shal not neede to mention the same Vpon euerie opinion of encounter with the Spanyards a faire blew scarfe in likelyhoode presented by some honourable Lady is fastened to the ende of his Pike for his Lordshippe vnderstanding that Don Iohn de Laguilla had vsed some braue speeches did sende him worde by Monsieur Gibrian that by that fauour hee would make himself knowne at their first meeting After our returne to Saint Meyn the Prince perceiuing that the Duke de Mercury meant that daye to dislodge from Ereat and that the place of our abode did yeelde no kinde of comfort vnto our weake armie other then such as came thither from Reines and Vittrie which was sometime cutte off by the way thought good likewise to dislodge the day following and so for this time the Duke de Mercurie and wee did part compaine He vppon the thirtith day leauing Ereat did take the way towards Iocelin we vppon the day following dislodged from S. Meyn and so to Hendet the second of September to Breall the third to Noyall where the Prince did accord vnto vs twentie daies rest at Shatteau-grion for the refreshing of our weake men at this place wee arriued the fourth of September The day following my Lord Generall was solempnly inuited by the principall Magistrates of Reines to visite their Cittie and the thirde day after was receyued into the same with all those testimonies that might assure a most kinde and frendly welcome The Prince in the meane time hauing three hundred men and three Cannons from Vittrie did inuest the Castle of Chattillion vpon the seuenth of this instant But after three dayes triall finding those forces nothing sufficient for he had but those three hundred French and fiue hundred Launce-knights he sent vnto Reines for sixe Cannons more and to my Lord Generall in all earnestnes to assiste him with sixe hundred English His Lordshippe considering that after such a deduction the remainder would be verie weake and by such a seperation subiect vnto hazard thought good with all his companies to remoue to Saint Aubin de Cormer whereby the strength of our Armie might stande still vnited and the Prince according to his desire readily enough assisted For from Saint Aubin to Chattillion are but three little leagues In the meane season his Lordshippe sent two hundred shotte and pikes to attend the Cannon of Reines whose seruice afterwards the Prince vsed to great purpose Thus not hauing staide sixe dayes at Shatteau-giron wee dislodged vppon the tenth of September and incamped that night at Shatteau-burga the next day to Saint Aubin The Prince hauing receyued those Canons sent from Reines and planted the same vppon the twelfth of September were discharged some lost volleys vppon the defences of the Castle The morning following my Lord came to the Prince with three hundred English more and then the battery was pursued with such furie that by twelue of the clocke the breach was made very faire and assaultable which beeing well perceiued by the defendants they came to a parley and from the Prince receyued these last conditions That all Gentlemen and Captains within the Castle should become prisoners That the soldiours should haue their liues only except twentie which should rest at the Prince his discretion for he ment to make some examplary punishment of them While the enemie did entertaine somewhat too long time in the acceptance of these conditions our launce knights in a hungrie desire after spoyle drew themselues vncommaunded towardes the assault my Lord Generall perceiuing the same and doubting that some touch in honour to the Prince might thereby arise partly by perswasions and sometimes by threatnings did stay them from that purpose a long half houre but in conclusion they offered violence to their Coronel disobeyed all their commanders forced the breach where they founde no resistance and of two hundred and thereescore that were within the Castle left not twentie aliue But in the eager pursuite after spoyle they fiered vnawares some barrels of powder with the furie whereof thirtie of them were presently slaine and at least fiftie more came from thence the most miserable creatures that euer I did behold The iudgement of God was most iustly executed vppon them both in these for their disobedience in the enemie for their notorious spoyles and infinite outrages committed vppon the country it is constantly affirmed that these companions did yearely spoyle La vall Vittrie and Reines of more then twelue thousand crownes They of Fougiers were so terrified at the taking of Shattillion that in doubt of our next remoue towardes them they did beginne the verie same day to burne their Suburbs which peraduenture was but a needlesse feare for in plaine English we haue neither men nor meanes to vndertake the siege of such a place Monsieur de la Verdun did leaue the Prince at I. Iendit and promised to return within three weekes with three thousande footemen and fiue hundred horse His preparations for ought that I perceiue doe come but slowlie forwarde and yet I know the King hath of late vrgentlie hastened the same our men doe now begin to die and that verie faste so that without a present supplie wee are like to haue but a poore armie The Spaniardes paie arriued at Blanett about the eighteenth of August last The same was brought thether in foure Galliasses The Duke de Mercurie is gone to Nantes where a Spanish Countie of the house of Tolledo hath these daies past attended his comming thether sent by the King of Spaine to negotiate about the affaires of Brittaine Vpon the promise of some honest bribe you may peraduenture winne me to sende you a true report both of what is past in the last yeeres trafficke and in this present negotiation betweene the King of Spaine and Madame de Mercurie for it is she that doeth swaie the ballance And so hoping that you will be as wearie in the reading as I am in the writing hereof I commit you to the comfort of your best desires and vs both to the blessed protection of the Almightie From our poore armie at Saint Aubin de Cormer this sixteenth of September 1591. Aduertisements FROM THE LOVV Countries The 16. day of October LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe Anno Domini 1591. BY LETTERS out of the lovv Countries of the sixteene of October 1591. VPon the fourteenth daie of this present there vvas intercepted beetvveene Antwerp and Newport a Spaniard named Barnardo de Helena late of the Castle of Antwerp repairing to his brother seruing in the companie of Don Carlos de Luna Captaine of the Horse at Newport this man being carefullie examined saith that the Duke of Parma is still remayning at Bruxels vvithout any likelihood of performing his pretended viage into Fraunce And deliuereth farther that certaine of the mutined Spaniardes to the number of one thousande and fiue hundred being vppon promise of paie dravven out of Heretalles and the Sonne of the Duke of Parma sent to them to induce them thereunto By vvhose persvvasion they vvere brought into the land of Waes they novv vpon some nevv discontentment are retired backe againe haue seized the Tovvne of Tiel-mont in Brabant vvhere they fortifie against the Duke and haue carried vvith them perforce his Sonne vvhom they deteine vvith a Collonell named Don Sancho de Leua sometime Gouernour of Liere vntill their demaunds be graunted and performed Mondragon is in the Land of Waes vvith three thousande Foote and fiue hundred horse to erect certaine Sconces for the freeing of the passage betvveene Antwerpe and Gaunt impeached by the taking of Hulsts vvhich being performed and the mutinie appeased the Duke geueth out that he vvill into Fraunce The late Gouernour of Hulst and a Spanyard that vvas commaunder of the forces in the Tovvne at the time of rendering thereof are novve close prisoners at Bruxels Monsieur la Mote is in Brabant sent of purpose to pacifie the mutinies vvho as yet doe obstinately make refusall of all his offers The Gouernour of Cambray vvith fiue hundred horse hath made of late a great rode into Henault and there exceedinglie vvasted the country vvhich hath beene vtterlie contrarie to the Dukes expectation and it is thought to bee the chiefest cause of his stay of his iourney for Fraunce It is aduertised and from diuerse places confirmed that the kingdome of Arragon is reuolted the Vice-roy massacred and those of the Inquisition in that kingdome banished beeing practised by the King of Spaines Secretarie fled from the Court vpon discontentment The inhabitants of Venlo by the assistance of the Italians there in garrison haue put out the Wallons that vvere also in garrison in that place and aftervvards by a notable dexterity haue ridde themselues also of the Italians but doe as yet holde for the King and onely as it is thought till they haue made their peace vvith the States The Duke of Parma renevveth his demaund of fiue thousand poundes by the moneth and vvould haue it to bee leuied for sixe moneths before hand vppon the vvalled Tovvnes and they aftervvardes to collect and reimburse the same vppon the countrie and villages FINIS