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A68465	A true discourse historicall, of the succeeding gouernours in the Netherlands, and the ciuill warres there begun in the yeere 1565 with the memorable seruices of our honourable English generals, captaines and souldiers, especially vnder Sir Iohn Norice knight, there performed from the yeere 1577. vntill the yeere 1589. and afterwards in Portugale, France, Britaine and Ireland, vntill the yeere 1598. Translated and collected by T.C. Esquire, and Ric. Ro. out of the reuerend E.M. of Antwerp. his fifteene bookes Historicæ Belgicæ; and other collections added: altogether manifesting all martiall actions meete for euery good subiect to reade, for defence of prince and countrey.; Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis. English	Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535-1612.; Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1602 (1602)	STC 17846; ESTC S105716	105,507	166

in times past called of Drusus the sonne of Tiberius Caesar Romane Emperour Drusburg who caused the Riuer of Rhine from a very ditch to be digged and inlarged beyond Arnhem aforesaid into an Iland at the towne of Drusburg which at this day is now also called Drusus Ditch The citie is high walled after the old manner and inuironed with large and déepe Ditches There were within the same thrée hundred Wallons in garrison sent from the prince of Parma thither and also armed citizens fiue hundred more or lesse The Erle Generall sendeth Countie Hoghenlo Sir Philip Sidney and others the Leaders of the forces with fiue hundred horse and eight hundred footemen in the night time to discouer and beset the citie about himselfe with the rest of the armie came after them the ninth day of September his Excellencie commands them in warlike wise quickly to intrench themselues and to make prouision for a batterie On the Thursday fiue péeces of Ordenance were mounted which made two great breaches which the Townes men with all possible haste and diligence made vp againe and fortified And whereas the Ditch being thrée foote broad and more and thirtie foote high encompassed the Citie the assault séemed very difficult to be made but the souldiers being thereunto encouraged the Erle Generall determined to trie the assault whereunto he appointed Countie Hoghenlo with his Germanes and Scots and Sir Iohn Norice with his Englishmen and Zelanders to giue the assault When y e besieged townsmen saw that they offered to yéeld vpon certaine conditions which being refused they yéeld vp the citie only with safetie of their liues the Lord Borough and Sir William Stanley the gouernment being giuen vnto the Lord Borough entred both into the towne And to the end his Excellencie might now next of all withdraw the Prince of Parma from the siege of Berck he taketh his iourney towards Zutphen one of the foure chiefe cities in Gelders famous by name in respect of other cities populous and well defended when he vnderstood it lacked victuals he went about either to take it or else to withdraw the Prince of Parma from Berck which thing so happened Zutphen was in the kéeping and defence of Iohn Baptista Taxis a man couragious in fight the Lieutenant Colonell to Verdugo Gouernour of Groning and séeing euen from this citie there situate ouer the Riuer of Issell all the countrie of Velue and Holland were troubled and molested with the Enemie and therefore the Estates not long before had builded a Fort or Sconce of defence but by reason of the great floods and too much violence of water there increasing incontinently after they were driuen away from thence therfore the citizens of Zutphen strengthened and fortified the same againe And because they of Zutphen extorted spoyling exactions throughout all the Velue by reason of the commoditie of these their new erected Fortresses the Hollanders two yéeres passed besieged the same in vaine almost for ten moneths space The Erle Generall now increasing his armie ioyneth a great part of those souldiers which vnder the Lord Rihouias and Cosmus Pescarengio were gathered to inuade Flaunders and forthwith pitcheth his Tents by the Riuer side and before Zutphen it selfe on the 18. day of September 1586 and with boates chained together crosse the Riuer almost a mile from the citie made a bridge to passe from the one side to the other When his Excellencie had thus pitched his Tents there he tooke his iourney thence with all spéed towards Deuenter in Ouer-Issell for as yet there were iarres and discords within the Citie and though the citie also did contribute with other cities yet did it refuse to conserue or kéepe orderly mutuall league with them he entreth into the city hauing for his guard about foure hundred footemen and two troupes of horsemen and when he had receiued newes that Parma had left Berck hée made towards his Tents with all spéede that he could and strengthened them so soone as possible might be the more confidently to besiege the said citie of Zutphen aforesaid The Prince of Parma fearing lest the Erle Generall should preuaile against Zutphen and vnderstanding that the towne of Berck aforesaid was well defensed and hard to be wonne when he had alreadie fortified the Isle before the towne in the Riuer of Rhene and blocked and besieged it about with other Forts and Sconces and thought he had sufficiently furnished it with victuals and all other necessaries departing from thence on the 22. ot September Anno 1586. he marcheth towards Wesel in Cleueland and the Castle there and making a bridge of ships had passed ouer the Riuer of Rhene and had made Forts from the other part of Resa vpon the Rhine and other places whereby he might both fortifie the Bridge defend himselfe in his iourney more safely he came to Bercklo and from thence he sendeth his prouision to be conueyed into Zutphen aforesaid The Erle Generall so soone as he perceiued that the Prince of Parmaes prouision so caried in was not sufficient for the Garrison there the next day he determined to set vpon the Garrison and committed that seruice to Sir Iohn Norice and Sir William Stanley with a great number of footemen and to certaine others with a great number of horsemen And when on the 23. of September the Prince of Parma had againe commaunded some more prouision to be that morning conueyed into the towne guarded with seuen troupes of horsemen and two thousand Harquebuziers they performed his commaundement and in a certaine well fenced place néere the Village called Warresfeld in the way almost a mile off from the Citie they made a stand In the meane time while the cariages and waggons doe enter into the citie presently the Erle of Essex the Lord Willoughby Sir William Stanley Sir Philip Sidney Sir William Russell Sir Henry Norice and his brother the Generall Sir Iohn Norice hauing with him about two hundred horsemen also fiftéene hundred Musquetters and Sir William Stanleys Regiment with as much spéed as they could marching thither doe suddenly and fiercely charge the enemies sooner then they thought for by reason of a great mist which dimmed and darkened their eyes at that time But euen these English forces were by and by encountred by certaine troupes of the enemies footebands out of a very commodious place like vnto a Fort and yet did the English very couragiously and valiantly passe through and endure the manifold stormie hot batterings of the bullets and yet not one of them once brake his order all keeping themselues constantly together in a wonderfull manner Then the enemies not knowing what number of Englishmē these were whom they saw approch néerer vnto them they quickly send out vnder Captaine George Cressy Albanoys a troupe of horsemen which being well beaten and dispersed here and there whereof many were slaine and taken they send out againe Countie Hannibal Gonzaga with his troupe which in like case were

presentlie came vpon them with their pikes so that the enimie retired with the losse of a great number of men for the said Captaine Pryse and his souldiers had the killing of them euen at his will the space of two English miles and a halfe vntill he came vnto a place where a windmill stood whither were sent by the enimie a thousand fresh men to second the others the said Captaine Pryse being formost went so fast and the rest behinde still following the execution of the enimie and wearie had not with him at the encounter with this supplie aboue 50. or 60. men at the most whereupon this fresh companie of the enimie deliuered a vollie of shot upon the said Captaine and shot him through the thigh and killed some of his men but the said Captaine by the help of some special men about him was rescued from the enimie and presently the said Generall Norice sent him a horse to carrie him away downe to the water side Then the enimie following and killing some few of our men the ships of warre played vpon them so hotlie that they made them to retire to their Armie The Generall and Sir Iohn Broughe were carried into Counte Holloks Ship where being verie wearie and wounded they rested vntill the next day where there was a generall reuew what men were slaine on both sides there was found by the reuew taken by the Counte Hollocke and the English Officers of the enimy aboue 700. men slaine at the secong charge besides them which were slaine by the said Generall Norice at the Fort before the comming of the said Captaine Pryse being some hundred or there abouts There were slaine of our men that day not fullie 150. men as was found by a generall reuew of the said Officers And so the next day the said Citie of Graue was releeued the enimies bridge broken and Counte Hollocke sent into the towne seauen horses laden with butter cheese munition and other necessaries which was to the great honour of our English nation and the great comfort of that distressed garison The Belgicke historie maketh this report of the field fought at Battenborow aforesaid of the siege of Graue viz. Parma in the beginning of winter Anno 1586. by Counte Charles Maunsfield causeth the Citie of Graue to be besieged and compassed about with foure Bulwarks or Forts and entring vpon the bridge of Naia neere the riuer he causeth all the passages to be made sure within and without and all manner of victuals to be kept within the Citie In the Bulwarks he had placed some 1500. souldiers for a garison and besides 5000. Spaniards more or lesse the rest were seruing in the Tents almost halfe a mile from the Citie After these had for 3. months space and more besieged the Graue the Erle Generall came from Haghe by Harlam and Amsterdam in Holland vnto Vtrecht and sent about 400. horsemen into Velonia or Velna as farre as Niekerke to help the Citizens of the Graue Generall Norice and Counte Hoghenlo marched vnto them with 2000. footemen which carried victuals and prouision into the Citie for with their horsemen they could do no good These footmen at the first inuade the Bulwarke called the Molensconce halfe a mile from the Graue and after that fortifie themselues in a new sconce not farre from the Spaniards Bulwarks which they perceiuing came fiercelie vpon them with 3000. of their chosen souldiers to surprise them and at the second or third assault driue away their workemen euen in the verie erecting of their Sconce who meete some 900. of the garisons and there make a stand which the Spaniards perceiuing charged them a fresh and droue them away to the next Sconce though the Spaniards so doing fiue hundred of them were slaine manie were wounded amongst whom were seauen Captaines of companies and two men of great account from whom the Englishmen tooke away a brasse peece of Ordinance And thus was the field fought at Battenborow as that historie mentioneth so of the siege of Graue when Parma had beaten it with 24. peeces of batterie he so battered and rent the walles thereof that hee compelled the Citizens and their garisons to yeeld the Towne vnto him who entred the same with his forces and gaue them leaue to depart with wife and children and all that they had whither soeuer they would with bagge and baggage Immediatly after the seruice so done at the Graue and surrendring or yéelding the same vnto the enemie the Erle Generall caused the Lord Hemert a Martiall gouernour with certaine others to be apprehended caried to Vtrecht prosecuted by order of law and put to death in the presence of al the Captaines for most part of the souldiers lately seruing at the Graue although saith my Author they had done no treason nor made any secret confederacie with the enemie But through a certaine youthfull want of skill in Militarie seruice had rendred vp the towne of Graue vnto the enemie which act of the Generall saith my Author turned away the hearts of many Noblemen and inhabitants there from him especially because they saw one Welsh sometimes a Captaine of the English forces and a notable Traytor before taken by Countie Hoghenloe which with others moe such as himselfe was betrayed the citie Alosto in Flanders and deliuered it vnto the Enemie was not put to death but preferred in Militarie seruice and also Sir William Stanley and Rowland Yorke two notable fugitiues and false forsworne Traytors to their Prince and Countrie escaping vnpunished likewise The Erle Generall in the moneth of August 1586. hauing gathered a conuenient armie of English Dutch and other Nations sent the first companie vnder Sir Iohn Norice and Sir Thomas Cicill now Lord Burley Knights who placed them neere vnto Seuenter in Cleueland purposing to march towards the Prince of Parma and his forces But the Erle Generall himselfe the 6. of September Anno 1586 departeth from Arnhem in Gelderland towards Eltem in Cleueland honourably accompanied with Prince Emanuel sonne of Anthony King of Portugale the Lord Truxsis the Prince Elector of Colen Countie Maurice of Nassaw Countie Philip of Nassaw nephew to the deceased Prince of Orange the Counties Solmes and Obersteyn the Erle of Essex Generall of the horsemen the Lord Peregrin Bartu Lord Willoughby the Lord Iohn North Baron of Kirtlington Sir Philip Sidney Lord Gouernour of Flushing and others of great authoritie And hauing taken a view of his hoste his Excellencie numbred his footemen to be about 7000. and his horsemen 1400. But this armie seemed vnto him insufficient to giue Parma the repulse who was said to haue 12000. footmen and 3500. horsemen And for that he would deliuer the citie of Berck upon the Rhine from the present siege of the Enemie he determined therfore first by policie to assault Doesburgh in the Countie of Zutphen to withdraw the Prince of Parma from the siege of Berck aforesaid This towne of Doesburgh was

with a strong power furnisht with great store of all manner of prouision and the next day after returneth backe two miles from Zutphen vnto Barcklo from thence to Wesel and so to Burck then making a bridge ouer the Rhene he falleth sick in his way comming to Bruxels there being enféebled by sicknes be ordaineth the Marquesse of Renty Lord of Montigni discended of the house of Lalaigne chiefe Gouernour of the Armie in his steed The Erle Generall battereth with his Ordinance on the 16. of October anno dicto the lesser Fort towards the North and commaundeth it after dinner to be razed to the ground and in this place there were 300. in garrison but in the greater Fort were 800. and in the Citie 2000. when the Prince of Parma himselfe was absent from thence scarce two miles So as what time neither out of the Citie it selfe nor out of the Fort anie man came to resist or withstand the Erles forces this was by them sharplie assailed in the assailing thereof Edward Standley an English Gentleman together with Sir William Standley being a Colonell behaued themselues verie couragiouslie For maister Edward Standley climed vp the rampere of the Fort out of which one supposing to strike him through with a pike the said Edward tooke it perforce out of his hands and held it stoutlie and the more the enimie stroue to wrest it from him againe the higher hee raised the said Edward Standley so much more out of his reach whereby he escaped the enimies daunger which deed was the chiefe cause of the victorie For which enterprise the Erle Generall dubbed him Knight as by desert and gaue him a yeerely pension of 600. Florens in this assault there were no moe but eight of the Generals men slaine and there the Counte Hoghenlo was wounded in the face His Excellencie on the next day after this battereth and so taketh the said greater Fort by commoditie of the lesser Fort and the I le on the north part aforesaid so as thereby he might vtterlie stoppe the passage betwéene the great Fort and the Citie and while the garrison were in feare thereof leauing their Ordinance there at randome before the Englishmen had placed their Ordinace they fled into the Citie and so these Forts together with the Castels of Newbeken Boxburgh and other places néere adioyning were taken whereby all the Countrie of the Velawe was deliuered from the violent extortions and burning spoilers there before raging His excellencie thought not good to assaile the City of Zutphen because it was stronglie fenced encompassed with waters enuironed with walles and situate betwéene Deuenter Doesburgh Lokam Doeterum and the saide Fort for he hoped they would then especiallie yeeld vnto him if penurie so constrained them by a little and a little Therefore almost in the midst of winter he remoueth his Campe which thing also Parma doing the Erle Generall disposeth his garisons in good order euerie where aduaunceth certaine Leaders and English Nobles for their approued valours with great honour and made some others of them Knights And so the Erle Generall hauing performed all these seruices in the Netherlands was worthilie well honourablie highly reputed of them hitherto but after this he is said by my Authour lib. 13. fol. 391. pag. 2. whether and how he deserued it I know not to incur the disliking of the Estates in some points as also in that he placed Rowland Yorke aforesaid Gouernour of the Fort at Zutphen for although they had vsed him in diuers seruices for his benefit before time yet he was not found so faithfull to them in those causes as he ought to haue bin and as was expected Also for that the said Erle Generall made Sir William Srandley knight giuing him charge ouer 1200. English and Irish footmen and ouer 200. horsemen into whose doings the Estates Generall aduisedlie looking found him also farre more vnfaithfull then eyther he should haue bin or they worthilie deserued at his hands The Erle Generall when in the deepe of winter he vnderstood that Parma was departed out of Gelderland and knowing for certaine that the souldiers appointed in the Osteland by the confederacie and secret conspiracie of certaine false forsworne souldiers which he had in his gouernment had reuolted from him yea and to their great shame no necessitie vrging them to runne away from him and when hee now also saw that neither time nor place was giuen him for performance of anie further seruice and the Towne Berck was deliuered latelie from the siege from whence Colonell Thomas Morgan was now returned the Erle General I say now departeth towards Haghe in Holland But whē his souldiers leauing at randome the I le before Zutphen remoued their Tents they were sodainelie fiercelie charged by Iohn Baptista Taxus the Spanish Colonell but they escaped away from the enimie with the losse of some sixe or seauen of the Englishmen and no moe At that time the Estates finding themselues agreeued at the Erles indirect doings as my Author saith in those countries doe make and exhibite vnto him certaine requests for diuers respects whereof the whole reformation was reserued vntill his returne againe out of England when God and her Maiestie should so permit And so his Excellencie taking his leaue of the Estates Generall not sufficientlie contented with his doings he taketh shipping at Flushing passeth into England and ariueth at London on the fourth of December Anno 1586. About this time for as much as Sir Philip Sidney late Gouernour of Flushing was slaine at the siege of Zutphen as before is said the Queenes Maiestie of England in his place gaue the gouernment thereof to Sir William Russell Knight sonne to the Erle of Bedford a man of great accompt and worthines He ariued there at Flushing and with him Monsieur Tyrlone sometime Admirall of Zeland who for suspitions in some points was a long time kept in prison but being afterwards set at libertie and discharged of all matters went into England to render his due and condigne thankes vnto the Quéenes most excellent Maiestie Before that the Prince of Parma purposed to besiege Sluce in Flaunders he leuied an armie throughout all the Prouinces of his iurisdiction making as though he would take his iournie through that part of Flaunders which we call the land of Waste These forces about the beginning of the month of May next following which was in Anno 1587. were dispersed into sundrie parts about Bridges by little and little encreasing And to the end they should the lesse suspect them they giue out speeches that they were sent with Mounsier de Lamot to the Towne of Oudenburgk in Flaunders to the end they should represse the outragious spoyles of the Souldiers at Ostend and of Sluce when now all his hoast was in a readines and as well the Bands come out of Germanie as out of the Netherlands and other Nations were gathered they passed

on forewards to the siege of Sluce The Prince of Parma himselfe on the seauenth of Iune departeth out of Bruxels and the next day came to Bruges leading with him 9. Troupes or Companies after whom the rest of his whole host followed the comming of these and the forerunning fame of their prepartion throughout Flaunders greatlie amazed the minds of them at O●tend and Sluce Insomuch as from the Gouernours of both townes diuers messengers were sent into Zeland and Holland to prouide themselues of souldiers victuals armour and other necessarie warlike furniture against the comming of the enimie towards them I haue seene saith my Authour amongst others the letters of Arnold Greeneveld then Gouernour of Sluce written to the foresaid Sir William Russell newlie made Gouernour of Flushing dated the 9. of Iune 1587. wherin he signified vnto him that he hauing made diligent search and view as well throughout all the publike magazin or garners of the Citie as through all the priuate garnets within the inhabitants houses of the Citie could not yet find any more store of corne and graine in them all then might serue for sustentation of their owne families euen for a verie few dayes Sir William Russell being with the reports of these letters throughlie moued had a few dayes before sent for certaine companies of footemen from the garison of Berghen which within a while after came timely enough and moreouer on the 11. of Iune dicto he writ vnto the States for souidiers also But for corne and graine and warlike munitions he writ vnto the States of Zeland onlie by Peter Vanhela a Netherlandish gentleman together with Nicholas Meetkirck Liuetenant Gouernour of Sluce sent thither for that verie purpose of whom when they receiued but onelie promises for their answere because the Zelanders denyed that the danger was not so much as they made report of in writing Sir William Russell therefore by these messengers instanteth the Zelanders on the tenth and eleuenth of that Iune for speedie dispatch of the requisite prouision and yet fearing in meane time their wonted delayes expreslie commaundeth Vanhela that taking vnto him the Magistrate of Flushing for his helper in this case hee would finde out some store of corne and graine wheresoeuer he could get it and that he without all delay should send it ouer to Sluce who the verie same day by diligent search made commaunded by authoritie so giuen him a Ship which he found laden with corne to depart with all speed vnto Sluce which hereby was sufficientlie prouided of corne and graine for and during the whole time of the siege The same day ariued three Companies in Zeland which came from the garison of Berghen to whom Sir William Russell adding one of his Companies with certaine chosen souldiers made vp foure iust cōpanies which were in all verie neere 800. men there ariued then also out of England that worthie souldier Sir Roger Williams and certaine other English gentlemen come thither by reason of the rumors of the enimies approch daylie about Ostend So the garrison of Sluce by this meanes increased to the number of about 1600. men For by this time the Prince of Parma had pitched his Tents in Cadsandt an Iland in Faunders had there the greater part of his host which was at Bersquin in Flaunders so that all along that part of the Country they might be safe from the English forces at Ostend the garrison of Sluce so besieged made often and stout sallies vpon the enimie wherein although they made great Skermishes to the foyle of the enimie yet lacked they manie of their companie Amongst the nobilitie and gentrie of the Netherlands great commendation for their valour gayned Nicholas Meetkirck from whose side his youngest brother Adolphus neuer departed also Charles Herogier Nicholas Mandy and very manie other Captaines amongst the English warriours Sir Roger Williams Sir Thomas Baskeruile Sir Frauncis Vere and Colonell Huntley deserued also most worthie and memorable commendations In the meane time when no sufficient power came to succour the Slusians nor anie preparation before written for was made by the Estates al men had then their voyces at large towards the before named Erle of Leycester their late Gouernour Generall saying that of dutie his presence and authoritie was now requisite that he might the better succour and defend them in this their present daunger The Erle Generall then being in England well vnderstanding these things and thinking occasion was now giuen him to gaine praise and glorie meanes being made thereunto he embarketh himselfe with a good number of new souldiers for Zeland and ariuing at Flushing on the 6. day of Iuly 1587. was there receiued with great expectation and ioyfull welcome of all men By this helpe of his presence and of the Englishmen ariued with him the Erle bestirring him by all meanes possible to deliuer Sluce from the present siege prepareth all necessarie adiuments and muniments by sea and by land to repell and raise the enemie from the siege thereof Countie Maurice of Nassaw when he had intelligence of the Erle Gouernour Generall his returne out of England into Zeland came vnto him leauing Countie Hoghenlo in Brabant with thrée thousand men hoping greater helpes would come out of Gelderland Frizland and Vtrecht to succour him which came not so well to passe In the meane time the Prince of Parma with his forces so mightily battered the towne of Sluce that he first taking the Fort battered continually the walles of the towne with thirtie péeces of Cannon and eight Culuerings To be short spending vpon them 17400. shot of which on S. Iames day from thrée of the clocke in the morning vntill fiue in the afternoone were foure thousand shot made so that the Prince of Parma himselfe confessed that to his remembrance he neuer performed against any others in one day such violent force and continuall assault By which great and vehement assault giuen and excéeding batterie of his Ordenance there was a breach made in the walles of 250. paces long into which breach the besieging enemies oftentimes with all their forces made assault vpon the townesmen but were of them with Pikes Halberts and other weapons so worthily entertained that after a great slaughter made of them the rest were glad to retire into their Trenches againe In which assault which lasted from nine of the clocke in the morning one day vntil eleuen of the next at noone the Marques of Renty was hurt Monsieur Lamot lost his right arme Strippen the Leader of the Burgundians with many Captaines of great accompt besides others were slaine and as the Enemie himselfe afterward confessed as many hurt also when they of Sluce so besieged lost but 150. men only as was found by a iust reuiew taken thereof And although that the Prince with his Pioners often and dangerously annoyed the inhabitants of Sluce yet such vigilancie and diligence they vsed that

Duchesse of Suffolke widow of that nobly renowmed Souldier Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke being borne at Wesell in Duchland in Quéene Maries time his parents making their iourney out of England for the profession of the Gospell by the tender care and good education of his parents being named Peregrine as borne in a strange countrie in processe of time from his youth forwards to his manhood proued pregnant in wit prompt in knowledge and practised especially in Martiall or Militarie actions whereby he became the most rare and surpassing ornament of his noble progenie and a most honourable and worthie Instrument for the seruice of his Prince and Countrie In somuch as his first seruice wherein the Queenes Maiestie employed him was when in his Adolescencie he was sent her Ambassadour vnto Fridericke the second of that name king of Denmark towards whom he so wisely behaued himselfe from whom he so discreetly demeaned himselfe towards her Highnes in his returne and answer that seldome a better or the like Ambassade hath beene in the like case found in one of so young yeeres for her Royall Maiestie vnto any forraine parts either before or since his time Next after that his Heroicall spirit yet further affecting Militarie affaires as one more desirous to serue his Prince and Countrie it pleased her Highnes with the aduise of her most Honourable priuie Counsell vpon the great good opinion and liking they had conceiued of his dexteritie when the Erle of Leycester was the first time returned into England to send him ouer to the Netherlands as Lieutenant Generall of the English forces there Anno 1586. where his noble courage so conioyned with dexteritie and his forwardnes with such fortune that he himselfe was formost in all attempts and enterprises of his forces fiercelie like a Lyon he assayled the enimies fought with them spoyled them and foyled them wheresoeuer he came So verilie and in such sort as the Duke of Parma then himselfe confessed of this worthie Lord Willoughbie and his seruice for foure yeers space in those Countries neuer anie English man enterprised more boldlie to meete his enimies in the face more brauelie encountered them nor more painefullie pursued and sought them out neere and farre off to their disgrace spoile and foyle wheresoeuer he found them At Sutphen as before is mentioned when the Prince of Parma came thither to releeue that Town this worthy Lord Lieuetenant Willoughbie vnder the Erle of Leycester who came not into the fight being in place more forward then the rest marched well mounted met the enimies couragiouslie brake his Launce in the middest of them made way with his sword euerie where and so forciblie aduentured his noble person through the thickest of them that all his men nearest him much feared when his bases were bereued from his bodie his plumes pluckt awaie from his head his Armes be battered with blowes except God would then mightilie preserue and protect him aboue all expectation he should vtterlie haue beene foyled in the fight and spoyled both of life and all things els about him he was so desperately endaungered euery way Yet so mightilie God himselfe doubtles preuailed with him and for him in the instant hazard of his life that hee pressed through the thickest of them without any bodilie harme and in this hot broile with his owne hands caught hold of Seignior George Cres●yonyer Albanoys before mentioned page 88. one of Parmaes ch●ef● Commaunders of his horse carried him away prisoner perforce and maugre all resisting force of the enimies sent him to the Estates to be kept their Captiue No Conuoy could at anie time escape his victorious hands neyther durst anie enimie approch the Towne of Berghen where and while he was then Gouernour Such by the fauour of God was his vertue ioyned with his fortune in his said gouernment that he was highlie honoured of his owne garrison and also greatlie feared of his enimies when he often times made chalenge of the brauest of them as namelie the Marquesse of Guasto a Nobleman of chiefest account with the Duke of Parma who yet for all that refused to encounter with him hand to hand After the returne of the Erle of Leycester Generall of her Maiesties forces in the Netherlands this worthie Lord Willoughbie as Leiutenant with great wisedome circumspection diligence fidelitie discharged his dutie so honourablie and vprightly in all points and at al times that he withstood the enimies attempt gained the good will of the people of those Prouinces appeased their troubles and ended all controuersies in the Townes of Medenblick and Narden in Holland and also of Camphere and Armude in Zeland to the great peace and common quiet of the same Townes and Countries For when Counte Maurice and the Estates had with their forces ensconced the Towne of Medenblick aforesaid and had opposed their forces against the souldiers in that Towne they did what they could to surprise and take the spoile of the Towne from Mounsier Snoy Gouernour thereof but little therein did they and their forces preuaile vntill by her Maiesties most Princelie care and chargeable expences this worthie Lord Willoughbie treated a reconciliation betweene the States and those townes so as those townes were rendred into the States hands againe without bloodshed After all this the Enemies hauing vainly inuaded the Isle of Thole lost foure hundred of their men They then marched with their forces towards Berghen opt Zome néere the Riuer of Schalde which citie they prepared to besiege seeing they could not obtaine the Isle of Thole being therein hindred by the watchfulnes vertue and valour of the Count Solme who in his owne person watched night and day in the Fortresse all the time that the Duke of Parmaes souldiers besieged Berghen This citie or Marquisate of Berghen opt Zome hath a dignitie which after the death of the last Marques of that house named Iohn being poysoned in Spaine Anno 1567. descendeth vnto his Sisters daughter begotten by the Lord of Merode and Peterson who is maried to the Lord of Bersole Baron of Brabant a follower of the Spanish Kings warres and his adherents yea though he dwelt at Leyden This citie is situate in Brabant by the Riuer of Schalde and is very large and commodious builded at the flood Zoma now by ouerflowings somewhat distant from Schalde but with a fit Hauen stretching toward Schalde where it hath a certaine head or foreland which being inuironed with strong Ramparts and munitions a Garrison did vse to kéepe the same sometime There was the same time Gouernour of that Citie a certaine Colonell named Sir Thomas Morgan since for his valour knighted a Welshman borne he succéeded that worthie Knight Sir William Drury in that gouernment The Garrison in that Citie were Englishmen vnto whom were adioyned some few Netherlandish horsemen amongst all these certaine aduenturers which made great spoyle and tooke many booties from the enemie and

therefore were called Boot-halers in Duch Buythaillers These daily made excursions into Brabant ransacking all places penetrable making hauocke of all they could lay their hands on besetting the high waies to Antwerpe Bruxels and Machlin by land and by water yea they robbed and spoyled trauellers by high waies although they were guarded with conuenient companies of souldiers and miserably bereaued them of al that they had about them carying away back with them into the Citie of Berghen great riches and spoyles euery day Moreouer they tooke very many Merchants and citizens of great accompt as their Captiues which gaue them for their raunsomes ten or twentie thousand Florences a péece The Duke of Parma therefore on the 24. day of September Anno 1588. sets his souldiers on worke to fall to the siege and for spéedier dispatch of the matter he causeth some to conuey thither warlike engins and great Ordenance for assault and batterie and others he maketh to bring thither great and small gabions Masts Dealeboords sparres and boates He also sendeth thither Carpenters and Smithes with their necessarie tooles And first he sets vpon the Fortresse on the foreland of Berghen which is called the North Sconce to cast it downe placing his Ordenance vpon a banke and so battereth the same Fortresse with many sore blowes and withall he practiseth by subtiltie also to further the enterprise by suborning two Englishmen to serue his purpose as he made accompt by playing a false cast whom he knew long since when he kept them his captiues These making themselues moued by Parmaes request tooke vpon them vnder colour that most of the garrison were Englishmen as they bare him in hand to betray the Citie vnto him and to the end they might more probably performe this action they alleaged vnto him that the Garrison were for many causes growne malecontēted These two were called the one William Grimston and the other Robert Redhead both of them being before instructed of the Gouernours of Berghen how they should herein demeane themselues with whose priuitie they performed all this seruice They handled the matter so cunningly that they had by this time gotten of Parma rich chaines of gold and withall large and liberall promises This politike deuice was so farre forwards brought that what was promised vnto Parma from such persons of the Garrison within Berghen should be performed on the 24. of October that yere 1588. in the chiefe Fortresse which was on the North side of the citie and to the end Parma should be in the greater securitie and assurance hereof Redhead pledged vnto him his owne person and was bound hand and foote to be killed outright if he brought not Parmaes souldiers within that Fortresse Now there were some thirtie or fortie of his souldiers receiued into the gate amongst whom was the said Robert Redhead when the Lord Willoughby Gouernour of the towne and of the English Garrison let downe the Port Cullis of wood ouer the gate But the Captaines and Leaders of the enemies seeing themselues pressed and thrust at their backes by foure thousand of their companie whereof fiftéene hundred were Spaniards and that in a very narrow place determined with courage and manhood to assaile the Fortresse Vsing the occasion of the low water and the ebbe of the sea they passed through the Ditch and comming to the Rampart pulled downe the Pallisado and fought with our men at push of pike vpon the top of the Rampart But al things were there prepared for Parmaes comming in such sort that they which gaue the assault were to their great losse beaten backe Whereunto also happened that the side of the sea comming in againe vpon them many were drowned in the Ditch whose number being added to the multitude of those which were slaine arose to many hundreds and amongst others were taken there eightéene or twentie Spaniards Gentlemen of some accompt This heauie hap and misaduenture Parma tolerating so patiently as he could all sad and melancholike in minde caused his forces by a little and a little to raise the siege from Berghen and so to depart towards Bruxels By this meanes was Berghen deliuered from the siege of the enemies to their great ouerthrow and detriment many of whose chiefe men of warre and of the Nobilitie were left there behinde captiued and the towne of Berghen it selfe from thence-forth became in farre much better and safer state vz. both better fortified and more largely reedified with new and beautifull buildings After the siege so raised from Berghen Count Maurice of Nassaw being inaugurate the Marques of Der Vere in Walchern in the prouince of Zeland on the 20. day of Nouember 1588. there in that solemnitie caused new Coynes of siluer money to be made which hée cast abroad vnto the people hauing the Armes of Nassaw and of Der Vere stamped vpon them with this inscription on the one side Nodus Indissolubilis and on the other side Ie Meyntiendray Other péeces of money were by him also cast abroad hauing two hands the one ioyning with the other holding betwéene them Mercuries Scepter or Rod with this inscription Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit In obsidionem Bergensium solutam Carmen Numerale Hostes Ausoniâ vt Rapina par Ma Zonae Berga tuae auferatur instant Cunctas Dux ad istud adhibetque artes Queis te tua possit occupare Frustra hos vertere Berga terga cogit In the moneth of May 1589. three troupes of horsemen which were of Count Maurices and of the Marshall Villers now deceased and of Chymscies Regiments issuing out for aduenture fell amongst the Garrisons of Gertrudenberg and others their companies which put them to flight so farre as the towne of Osse in Brabant There were taken amongst others of the Netherlanders Captaine Riscier and the Lieuetenant of Skymsky with many others When now Parmaes hoste by the siege of Hewsden the ouerthrow of Hyemert the yéelding vp of Heyl and other Fortresses vnto them they thought themselues now strong and safe enough in that part of Brabant Their Leaders determined in the moneth of September to passe ouer the Riuer Moza with a purpose to inuade the countrie of Tyle in Gelderland from whence they would passe either to Buren in Gelderland or to Vtrecht But the Spaniards by occasion of a sedition or mutinie risen betwéene them and the Italians which thing the Duke of Pastrana the Duke of Ascoly were had in beléefe to maintaine against the Duke of Parma they refused to passe ouer the Riuer crying alowd Viue il Re fuora il mal gouerno that is God saue the King let vs cast off euill gouernment And when Count Maunsfeld went about to take them they shot at him with their dagges and great péeces put him to flight and droue him into the Garrison of the Citie of Graue And when Count Maurice hauing now gathered some forces about him endeuoured to stop