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A43206	A chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland with the intervening affairs of treaties and other occurrences relating thereunto : as also the several usurpations, forreign wars, differences and interests depending upon it, to the happy restitution of our sacred soveraign, K. Charles II : in four parts, viz. the commons war, democracie, protectorate, restitution / by James Heath ... ; to which is added a continuation to this present year 1675 : being a brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forreign parts / by J.P.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Phillips, John. A brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forein parts, from the year 1662 to the year 1675.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1321; ESTC R31529	921,693	648

Dominions and an invitation was sent hither from them to others of the same principles to follow them Her Majesty Queen Catharina was now expected to be at Sea and therefore his Majesty came to the Parliament and acquainted them with the same and desired that as a Complement to her they would cause the Highways and Streets of London to be fitted and cleansed against her reception and to make what hast with convenience they could with the dispatch of those Bills under their consideration And soon after to remedy the perversness and obstinacy of the Quakers against taking the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy and their meeting and Conventicling publickly together to the pestring of the prisons whither they were Committed and their Enthusiast tricks one Thomas formerly a Lieutenant of that party poysoning himself and one Powel a Widdow poysoning of her Son-in-law and another person a Bill was passed against them with the said Bill for High-ways now ready for the King's assent which he gave by his Commission to the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Duke of Albemarle and Earl of Manchester By this Act several inconvenient passages in London are to be enlarged and Houses that jutted into the street and obstructed the ways were to be pulled down as the upper end of Ludgate-hill on the South-side of the street and elsewhere Having but onely mentioned the Kings Declaration of his Marriage for his choice whereof both the Lords and Commons returned him their thanks it will not be impertinent in this place to give a larger and fuller account thereof This Royal Bride Heaven had more especially prepared and predisposed out of the Royal Family of the Kings of Portugal which having suffered an Ecclipse by the powerful interposition of the Spanish Monarchy for the space of neer an hundred years was now revisited in its Splendor in the assumption of Iohn Duke of Braganza the fourth of that Name King of Portugal by almost as miraculous a Turn as that of our Captivity by the Kings Restitution So Providence was pleased to adapt and fit both these Princes Conditions and Estates to this happy juncture of them in this Royal and happy Estate This was designed by King Iohn in the beginning of our Troubles and of his Reign and was one of the first Acts of State he did with us managed here by Don Antonio de Souza his Embassadour hither who was very instrumental in transacting His late Majesties Affairs of Forraign Concernments receiving and returning his Dispatches One Ingredient no doubt in point of Civility and Honour among those other of Affection and Interest that make up this Princely Match These were something as also his Majesties reflection on his Personal picque with the Spaniard who had very much disobliged him in the time of the Usurpation by courting and owning his Rebels to satisfie himself of some pretended injuries done him by his Grandfather and Father by loss of his Spanish Fleet in the Downs which the King had a most inviting opportunity here to remember Upon the return of the Conde de Mello as aforesaid with the Articles of Treaty and Marriage to Lisbon they were presently noysed about the City and more loudly reported from all the Cannon in the River both Portuges and Forraigners by which means without further Proclamation it was publick about the Town who like over-joyed People betook themselves to the presentest yet most solemn de monstrations thereof by Bonfires and Entertainments c. the Streets resounding with Healths al Re del Grand Brettanna which continued that Night and the next Day Not long after by an Express from England from the King to her she was Complemented with the Stile of Queen of Great Britain which put that Court into a new Splendor both to her Retinue and Attendance and all Honours and Duties done her as if she were actually Crowned It will not be much material to insist on all the other particulars viz. those several Messages sent and returned betwixt those two Royal Lovers together with the intercourse betwixt the Two Crowns in point of Alliance and Security nor the numerous resort of the English every day to Worship this Sun of the East and pay their Early Devotions to her It will be more unnecessary to relate those Romances and Fictions made by the Phanatick Crew at Home that there were a Fleet of Spaniards and Hollanders that lay ready in her way to intercept her Passage into England We will only mention the happy Arrival of that Fleet and the Royal Charles from England with Sir Richard Fa●shaw sent to salute the Queen for his Majesty who now impatiently expected her Arrival as did the whole Nation together with him Just at the same time the Earl of Sandwich now the second time visited the Queen being appointed to attend her departure and to convey her into England the King her Brother and Mother with his Nobles and the whole Court in a solemn Procession and Cavalcade from his Palace where the English Gallantry there present assisted accompanied her till she Arrived at the River-side the Golden Tagus where she entred a Stately Brigandine and the Naval Triumphs commenced their Glory For as soon as the King and Queen were reimbarqued for Lisbon and returned with the discharge of all the Cannon the Fleet immediately with a fair wind and leading Gale began their course being as they past the River saluted by all the Block-Houses Forts and Castles with the imitation of their Thunder That Night and part of the next day the Wind and Weather was very propitious but then coming clear about and contrary it so retarded the Voyage that in a Fortnights time they hardly got into the middle of the Bay of Biscay where the Queens Majesty dispatcht away Mr. Montague Sir Tho. Sands and Sir Ioseph Douglas on the 29 of April at Seven at Night to give an account to the King of Her Condition which the untowardliness and averseness of the Wind had much altered by protracting her longing desires of meeting the King and also incommodating her by the tossing and topping of the Sea so that she lay sick for the most part of the Voyage until about Fifth of May with indefatigable working and skill the whole Fleet reached the Islands of Scilly the furthermost Western Dominions of England Her Arrival had been every day expected a fortnight before which caused the King to send down his only Brother the Duke of York Lord High Admiral to attend on her upon the Coast and to Complement her in his Name whereupon his Highness hasted to Portsmouth and on the Eleventh of May attended by the Duke of Ormond the Earls of Suffolk and Chesterfield the Lord Berckley and other Persons of Quality went aboard the stately Yacht with which the City of Amsterdam presented the King to Coast about the Isle of Wight to meet her Majesty On the same day Sir Ioseph Douglas making towards Portsmouth with an Express from her Majesty to

whose Ports and Harbours upon the pursuit as far as the Texel they had driven and scattered the Dutch Fleet which had so brought down the stomacks of the Hollander that that Province having as before sent away a Boat with a white Flag with a Messenger for a Pasport and a Safe-Conduct for two Embassadors and having obtained it sent away the Lords Youngstall and Vande Perre to follow two others newly gone before These arrived the 20 of Iune and had Audience the 22 their Message being of such importance for every day their Merchant-ships were taken coming home and there was no stirring out for any so that there was an absolute Cessation there of Trade no less than 30 ships of good lading having been taken by our Fleet riding up and down about their Havens But this expedited and the more hastily and intently carried on their preparations for War if Peace should not be presently concluded the major part of their Fleet being put into Zealand and that Coast was new Rigging there and some new ships off the Stocks and this Van Trump supervised another new Fleet was equipping at Amsterdam and that De Wit took the care and charge of the Marriners Wages though there was no other Employment for them were now raised the Lords States themselves came down to the several Ports and saw the men imbarqued to whom they gave Money in hand and took them by it requesting of them now to do valiantly for their Country and telling them that if they fought well this time they should fight no more and for the better incitement and to see every man do his duty two of the States went on board a nimble-Frigat to be present at the Fight now with all speed resolved on and in confidence of success this Fleet was Victualled for five Months which time it should continue abroad blocking up our Harbours in like manner as we did theirs for as yet in Forrain Courts and Countries they would not confess we were too hard for them and this bout would rectifie all and adjust their Stories This happened in the end of Iuly it having been so ordered that both the Fleets under Van Trump from the Weilings in Zealand and De Wit from the Texel should meet upon the Engagement General Monke with the English Fleet lying as it were in the mid-way On the 29 of Iuly the Scouts a Head discovered this Dutch Fleet whereupon the General made after them but they standing away for De Wit it was five a clock at night ere any of our Frigats got up to them when they appeared to be 90 sail of Men of War and ten Fire-ships about 7 that night General Monke aboard the Resolution got up to them with some 30 ships and Frigats in all and charged through their whole Fleet when it beginning to grow duskish the Masters advised the General not to stand to them again that night for fear of the Fire-ships but the noble General turning himself with indignation towards them commanded them in some disgraceful but more unproper terms that they should To um again for said He The very Powder of the Guns of this Ship is able to blow away a Fire-ship from it and so they tackt about and through the Dutch again in which by a Ball from the Enemy both Fleets being close to one another the Mizen-shrouds of the Resolution were fired but quickly put out again by the courageous Activity of one Captain Ioseph Taylor then assisting and standing by the General Nothing of more remarque was done that night save that the Garland with the Enemy received much prejudice being known and saluted by every ships Broad-side though the Dutch had altered her Decks and so the English stood to the Southward and Van Trump to the Northward that night and joyned with De Wit and withal got the Weather-gage by reason his sailing Northwards was no way suspected by our Fleet. The next day there being much Windy and foul Weather both Fleets could not Engage the Sea was so high but found it a difficult work to get off of a Lee-shore which was so much the worse to the English being on an Enemies Coast but a most gallant delightful sight it was to see the two Fleets so neer one another plying their Sails fill'd with as much Revenge and desire of Engagement as with those envious Gusts that kept them asunder But next morning being Sunday the Weather proving fair and little Wind Iuly 31 both Fleets Engaged again in a most terrible Fight the Dutch animated with the equal if not the inclinable success of Friday and the English loth to contest so long for a resolved Victory as if three days were always to be the apportioned time of their labour in Conquest It is impossible to give a distinct account of this Battle in Fire and Smoak Board and Board for eight hours together incessant The Garland was the first disabled and the Dutch Fire-ships notably managed their business the Andrew Victory Triumph and Rainbow the great ships at whom the Dutch spight was greatest being so endangered that out of the Triumph which was fired by one of them several of the ships crue threw themselves into the Sea but others of better spirits remaining behinde with great gallantry quenched the Fire and gave a merry occasion of a Civil Law or Admiralty-Controversie Whether the Chests Goods and Cloaths which those that stayed in the ship had got on of those that deserted it and when the danger of the Flame was past got in again should belong to the present Possessor who refused to d'off or re-deliver them to the former owner who was much troubled to see other men in his Apparel The Victory in which was Captain Lane was stoutly beset with a Vice-Admiral and two other Flemish War-ships and so distressed that another Dutch Vice-Admiral in an East-India-ship of 60 Guns coming up by her Quarter and mistaking the Condition as well as Resolution of that Captain proffered him Quarter and bid him yield which was answered with the thanks of a Broad-side that sunk the Dutch-man immediately by his side No less gallant service did the Speaker-Frigat so well known to the Dutch by the name of the Prater and truly there was nothing but the antient glory right of the English to be Superiors to that Nation which differenced the valour of both since had the Dutch fought upon a juster Quarrel Fortune might have been as equal Besides the Death of their Admiral the brave Van Trump in the beginning of the Fight by the shot of a Musquet-bullet in his left Pap mainly contributed to their Defeat His Flag the Original of the War was strucken with a shot and whether they would not for a signe to their Fleet to revenge his Death or could not make it stand there was no such Ensigne the greatest part of the Fight which having continued from seven in the morning till one or two in the afternoon the Dutch

those overtures of his were not approved of to demand his Pass that he might leave the Kingdom but what he propounded was so plausible that in case Money and Arms could be had in time and in proportion to what he demanded as the infection of Galloway out of which Town chiefly both were to be had made it very difficult they judged it a very likely Expedition Whereupon the Lord Clanrickard desirous to keep so able a Commander as Sir George in the Kingdom furnisheth him with what Money he could at the present and sends him Northwards to lay and prepare the business before promising to do his uttermost endeavours to procure him those supplies of Money Ammunition and Arms by the time appointed as also to bring his Army up as far as Sligo there to countenance Sir George in his undertakings and be ready for any fair occasion that should present it self for the mastering of the Country After four or fiv● days stay at the most his Excellency took his leave and hastened towards Kilkenny obliging the Lord Clanrickard to come after him to be present at a meeting he had appointed there for the procuring of a good understanding between the Clergy the Commissioners and himself and for taking the best order they could for the raising and maintaining an Army against the next Spring But though they met nothing at that time could be done or agreed upon wherefore the Lord Clanrickard returns into Connaght to take order for his Northern Exp●dition which out of the great difficulties of getting his men together arising out of the universal distractions that were then in the Kingdom the hard Season of the year the Pestilence the want of Moneys and Provisions he could not possibly go through with against February which was the time designed nor even then when he did without very great necessities and inconveniencies to himself and his Army though that Noble Person declined no difficulty nor spared no Charge in his Majesties Service This failing in point of time and a great part of the Moneys promised him which nevertheless as things stood no mans industry could have remedied Sir George Monro complained very much of affirming that their opportunity was lost thereby especially now they being come the Army was able to move no further through extreme want of Provision kept from them by foul and contrary weather for which and the residue of the Money together with hopes of an accord between the Lord-Lieutenant and the Commissioners some days were spent in expectation but nothing in the end except onely a Letter from the Lord Ormond summoning the Lord Clanrickard suddainly away his Lordship was forced to leave his Army and the Northern business to the hazard and return back to meet the Lord-Lieutenant and the Commissioners at Loghreogh W●ereupon Sir George Monro believing now the Lord-Lieutenant would leave the Kingdom seeing the divisions amongst the Irish grew daily greater and giving all for lost having received a defeat by Sir Charles Coot where the Earl of Claneboys was taken Prisoner and Colonel Henderson killed with some 800 Private Souldiers and lastly finding the impatience of his own party to treat with the Enemy as he had often before publikely declared he would retires himself to Eniskillin and having made Conditions for himself the remainder of his Party and his Officers that were in Prison gave up that place to the Enemy and departed the Kingdom Very soon after whose retirement the Lord Clanrickard's Army through extremity of want was forced to return from Sligo back towards the County of Galloway Where I will leave it and come back to his Excellency who being left by the Lord Clanrickard lately in Kilkenny after having caused Captain Tickle to be Executed for a designe he had of betraying that Town to Cromwel was by the breach growing daily wider between him and the Kingdom and through the increase of the Sickness now come thither at the joynt request of the Commissioners and Officers induced to remove towards Limerick where being negligently received without the accustomed respect used to the Kings Lieutenant he after a short stay departed thence into the County of Clare Immediately thereupon the Enemy having refreshed his men and encreased his Army with a great accession of old Souldiers that had formerly served under the Lord Inchiqueen and the Lord-Lieutenant takes the field and falls a Summoning Castles and bringing the Country under Contribution wherein he had a general success most of the Castles surrendring upon appearance of a party of Horse except Kiltenan which gave him some resistance His Excellencies Army through the forementioned obstinacy and disobedience of the Towns against receiving Garrisons was so far dispersed that there was no means of drawing them together neither if that were done of drawing them in a Body for the Country was destroyed and wast so that it could not supply him besides during these disagreements between the Lord-Lieutenant the Clergy and the Commissioners there were few or none of the Irish Souldiers if there had been Provisions for them that would obey his Excellencies Orders Of all which Cromwel was well aware and therefore went securely and with confidence to work carrying all before him Amongst other of his successes Ballisanon was sold unto him and Cahir Castle then the dwelling-house of Master Matthews a young youth and half Brother to the Lord-Lieutenant given him contrary to those strict orders left by his Excellency with Master Matthews for the keeping of it who was so conscious of his own misdoing in the Act that he refused upon several summons and invitations to appear before his Lordship and stayed s●●ll in the Enemies quarters to secure himself from his Excellencies indignation But nevertheless this act of Master Matthews is made a ground of new sus●●●●ns and fresh clamours against his Lordship himself by the Irish who all this while run on in their extravagancies intent onely upon their disputes in hand as if there were no such man as Cromwel in the Kingdom insomuch that seeing so many several meetings assigned and so much time spent to so little purpose his Excellency concludes that those people would never be brought into order by him and therefore resolves to withdraw himself from the Government if not to depart the Kingdom and to commit the management of all unto the Marquess of Clanrickard which was the reason of his Lordships being sent for back again from Sligo The Enemy in the mean time having the Castles of Gowran and Laghlin together with the Officers Commanding in them delivered into his hands by the Common-Souldiers sets at last upon Kilkenny whence a while before the Earl of Castlehaven who was now left with chief Command in Lemster was drawn out with his Forces by reason the Sickness raged so leaving Sir Walter Butler and Major Walsh with about 50 Horse and some 400 Foot in the place where a breach being made and the Enemy

almost run from their Wits in rage and madness Cromwel was Appointed and Declared for Protector of this Infant-Commonwealth and it was a tedious interval to him the Chancery-Court at Westminster-hall being prepared for the Ceremony of the Instalment in this manner after the usual seeking of God by the Officers of the Army The Protector about one of the clock in the afternoon came from White hall to Westminster to the Chancery-Court attended by the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England Barons of the Exch●quer and Judges in their Robes after them the Council of the Commonwealth and the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Recorder of the City of London in their Scarlet Gowns then came the Protector attended with many of the chief Officers of the Army A Chair of State being set in the said Court of Chancery the Protector stood on the left hand thereof uncovered till a large Writing in Parchment in the manner of an Oath was read there being the power with which the Protector was Invested and how the Protector is to Govern the three Nations which the Protector accepted of and subscribed in the face of the Court and immediately hereupon sate down covered in the Chair The Lords Commissioners then delivered up the Great Seal of England to the Protector and the Lord Mayor his Sword and Cap of Maintenance all which the Protector returned immediately to them again The Court then rose and the Protector was attended back as aforesaid to the Banqueting-house in White-hall the Lord Mayor himself uncovered carrying the Sword before the Protector all the way and coming into the Banqueting-house an Exhortation was made by Mr. Lockyer after which the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Judges departed The Instrument or Module framed to be the Foundation of this present Government was chiefly made up of these following Heads 1. The Protector should call a Parliament every three years 2. That the first should Assemble on the third of September 1654. 3. That he would not Dissolve the Parliament till it had sat five Months 4. That such Bills as they offered to him he not Passing them in twenty days should Pass without him 5. That he should have a select Council not exceeding one and twenty nor under thirteen 6. That immediately after his Death the Council should chuse another Protector before they rose 7. That no Protector after him should be General of the Army 8. That the Protector should have power to make Peace or War 9. That in the Intervals of Parliament he and his Council might make Laws that should be binding to the Subjects c. With some other popular Lurdes and common incidencies of Government not worth the recital which were confirmed and strenuously validated by this his Oath I Promise in the presence of God not to violate or infringe the matters and things contained in the Instrument but to observe and cause the same to be observed and in all things to the best of my understanding govern the Nations according to the Laws Statutes and Customs to seek their Peace and cause Justice and Law to be equally administred The Feat needed no more security as good altogether as its Authority in this fo●lowing Proclamation which was published throughout England Scotland and Ireland in these words Whereas the late Parliament Dissolved themselves and resigning their Powers Authorities the Government of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland in a Lord Protector and successive Triennial Parliaments is now established And whereas Oliver Cromwel Captain-General of all the Forces of this Common-wealth is declared Lord Protector of the said Nations and hath accepted thereof We have therefore thought it necessary as we hereby do to make publication of the Premises and strictly to charge and command all and every person or persons of what quality and condition soever in any of the said three Nations to take notice hereof and to conform and submit themselves to the Government so established And all Sheriffs Mayors Bayliffs c. are required to publish this Proclamation to the end none may have cause to pretend Ignorance in this behalf Great shooting off Guns at night and Vollies of acclamations were given at the close of this mock-solemnity by Cromwel's Janizaries while the Royalists were more joyfully disposed at the hopes of the King's Affairs but no body of any account giving the Usurper a good word or miskiditchee with his Greatness save what was uttered in Fur by the Lord Mayor and the Complices in this Fact who tickled his Ears with the Eccho of the Proclamation done with the usual Formalities These Triumphs so disgusted Harrison as also Colonel Rich that he withdrew himself from the Gang and turned publick Preacher or Railer against his Comrade Oliver who was glad to be rid of such a busie and impertinent Assistant in the moduling of Government So Cromwel had now two Commonwealth contra-divided Factions against him the old and the new Parliaments and therefore it neerly concerned him to make much of the Anabaptist and Sectary which now succeeded Independency as the Religion maintained and favoured above all other and Kiffin a great Leader and Teacher was now in great request at the Court at White-hall and contrarily Sir Henry Vane jun. was looked on a-skue as also Sir Ar. Hazilrig and Bradshaw and Scot. And so the Babel-builders were confounded one amongst another The Council appointed by Officers or taken rather by himself by whose advice he was to govern were 14 at first Lord Lambert Lord Viscount Lisle General Desbrow Sir Gilbert Pickering Major-General Skippon Sir Anthony Ashly-Cooper Walter Strickland Esquire Sir Charles Wolsley Colonel Philip Iones Francis Rous Esquire Richard Major Esquire Iohn Lawrence Esquire Colonel Edward Montague Colonel William Sydenham By these another Proclamation came out enabling all Officers Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace to continue in their respective places and Audience and Conference was given to the Dutch Embassadors who besides their last loss by Fight had suffered very greatly by the same storm that endangered our Fleet as De Wit was returning from the Sound which made them ply hard for a Cessation in order to a speedy Peace And General Monke was now riding at St. Hellens-point by the Isle of Wight with a considerable Fleet Colonel Lilburn was likewise ordered to Command in chief the Forces of Scotland who had defeated the Earl of Kinoule and his party and Sir Arthur Forbes another Chieftain of the Royal party was routed neer Dumfrieze and himself desperately wounded while the main Army Quartered in Murrey-land and thence to Elgin Colonel Morgan being sent to attend their motion The Noble Wogan who from France had by the way of Durham and Barwick and through a Fayr in open day marched into Scotland and had joyned with those Scotch Royalists and done excellent service in beating up of Quarters and attempting them in all their marches and advances came now at

of Voluntiers there In the mean time General Venables formed a new Regiment of Seamen to serve upon occasion at Land these were put under the conduct of Vice-Admiral Goodson the rest of the Regiments brought out of England were easily compleated to a full number likewise a Troop of gallant Horse were raised by the Islanders at their own cost and charges the Carcases of which were afterwards buried in the Souldiers Bellies for want of better food But these were not all the strength for the Planters Servants understanding that if they would serve the State their time should still go on and that at last in spight of their Masters they should enjoy their Freedoms in as ample a manner as if they had served them this spurred them on to become Souldiers of Fortune and many were presently listed into several Regiments accordingly The Fleet was also augmented by twenty sail of Dutch Vessels which were made prize for presuming to traffique with Prohibited Goods contrary to the Articles of Peace betwixt the two Nations The Land-Army being now in readiness their number was found to be so great that every ships share was as many as it could carry March 31 they set Sail from Barbadoes and in six days after came by the Lee under St. Christophers Here joyned with them about 1300 more which came off from several Islands in hopes to be made for ever from hence they shaped their course directly for Hispaniola On the 13 of April the whole Navy came fair by the Island and plainly discovered the sown of Sancta Domingo Immediately hereupon a Council was called and the Guides consulted withal here it was concluded that General Venables should to Land According to which resolution the next day he landed about ten Leagues to the West-ward of the Town with 7000 Foot a Troop of Horse and three days Provision of Victuals No sooner were they landed but every mans Tongue was tipt with Gold nothing could be thought on but the plunder of Plate and Jewels small things could not enter their minds as for Hangings Housholdstuff c. they would be cumbersome to carry and therefore they resolved to leave such things behinde them In this extasie of joy was the Souldiery when behold upon a sudden there appeared a Proc●amation from the General commanding that when they entred the Town of Sancta Domingo no man should plunder either Money Plate or Jewels neither kill any tame Cattle on pain of Death This made the Army look Sower on their imaginary Sweetness their Golden Hearts were now turned to Leaden Heels so that it was indifferent to them whether they went farther or tarried there yet for all this on they marched through Woods of incredible thickness meeting no Enemy except the excessive heat of the Sun which caused an intolerable drought that oppressed them sorely having not had one drop of Water in many miles march but what they carried in their own Bladders so that Urine was as White-wine to them that could swallow it General Pen after the landing of these men set ashore three Regiments more under the Command of Colonel Buller in a Bay where a fair Fresh-water-River disburdened it self this was within two Leagues of the Town and appointed to be the place for conjunction of the whole Army It was not long before the General according to the appointment having peaceably past the Woods came to the River and joyned himself with Buller's Brigade Here upon view the Army was sound to be 9700 but few fighting men From this River the Army hasted away to take possession of the Town which in imagination was already won there marched on before the rest a Forlorn Hope consisting of 500 men afterward followed the main Body of the Army In this order they marched within four miles of the Town when on the sudden a small party of Spaniards encountered the Forlorn Hope and in an instant forced them in confusion through the next Regiment which was also routed the Body of the Army coming up to their rescue made the Enemy to retire to a Fort hard by in the Woods without any considerable loss at all to the Spaniards On the English side was slain Captain Cox the chief Guide for the place and many others The General having now seen the imbecility of his men through want of Water and many other necessaries he caused them to march back again to the River from whence they came to refresh themselves in order to a full prosecution of the designe in hand To which end Scaling-Ladders were made and two small Drakes mounted with a Morter-piece and Granado-shells which were landed from the Fleet these were conveyed by Water to be set on shore at a convenient place neer the Fort. All things being now in readiness to try conclusions the Army once again dislodged and were by the Guides promised to be brought upon the Town of St Domingo by a private way where they might pass thorough the Woods free from any Fort. Such a way there certainly was but these blinde Guides taking another to be it the whole Army were brought neer to the place where before they had been shamefully repulsed The Spaniards in the mean time having certain intelligence by Negroes and Molattoes of the English march prepared to entertain them in their passage April 25 1655. the whole Army approached near to a Fort which the Spaniards had in the Wood built of Brick in a triangular form without Flankers in it were nine pieces of good Ordnance and 300 resolute fellows to manage them The English Army a little before noon approaching neer this Fort were upon the sudden charged by a party of the Enemy that lay undiscovered among the Trees These resolute Spaniards being about seventy in number at first fired a round Volley of small shot upon the Forlorn Hope and then flew in like mad-men with their sharp Steel-Lances upon the English who were already even suffocated with Thirst and hardly able to stand much less to fight so that in a moment the General 's running-Regiment with half the Army flew back to the Rear and possest their fellows there with such a Pannick fear that every one began to shift for himself Mean while the Spaniards pursued the Victory with the greatest slaughter they were able to make for meeting with no resistance but what that ever-Renowned Gentleman Major-General Hayns was able to make with twelve men whom he engaged by the honour of their Country one whereof was Ensigne Boys who died not unrevenged in the midst of their Enemies they wreaked their fury at pleasure on these frighted men till at last being overcome with killing they retreated back in Triumph with seven English Colours the evident Trophies of their Victory The retreat of the Enemy gave opportunity for the Living to number the Dead Upon view it was found that 600 were slain outright 300 Wounded most in their backs and besides 200 more crept into Bushes and ran away

order oppose Force to Force by which means it happen'd that while those lesser Frigats retreated to their own they extreamly disordered the rest of the Fleet yet the Battle was desperately Fought The French that could come up fought well with whom the English intermixt out of their eagerness entangled one another Among the rest most covetous to engage was the Earl of Ossory but being pester'd among the French falling foul upon an English Frigat and entangled with one of our own Fireships he had much ado to free himself he was no sooner clear but he was Attacqued by De Ruyter and all the Squadron that followed him whom with a vast Courage he stoutly resisted and gave as good as they brought The Prince in the Van drave the Enemy before him and pursu'd them as far as he could for the Shallows and Sands whose Magnanimous and Invincible Example was most strenuously follow'd by Captain Legge Wetwang and others at length Night put an end to the Combate The Dutch retir'd to their old station the English lay by all Night under Sayl. Of common Men of the English were very few lost and not one Ship Captains there were slain Fowles Finch Tempest and Woorden On the part of the Dutch were kill'd Vice-Admiral Schr●m Rear-Admiral Vlugh and six more Captains their loss of Men was considerable but only one Ship call'd the Deventer was taken Both parties assum●d to themselves the Honour of the Victory the Dutch because they had remov'd the Assaylors The English because they had beaten the Dutch into their Lurking holes The next three days were spent in repairing the Ships damages wherein the Dutch had the advantage as having their supplies ready at hand from their own shore In the beginning of Iune the Dutch changed their station but lost a fair opportunity For the Wind favour'd them and the Weather was hazy so that if they had then took their advantage to have fallen upon the English who lay scatter'd for the advantage of Repairing they might have exposed the English Fleet to some danger But the English observing the motion of the Enemy presently make ready which the other perceiving let fall their Anchors as the English did likewise having drawn their Fleet first into a Line which reached at least three Leagues in length The Dutch again make sail and Sprague believing they did it onely to change their station as before and not with an intention to fight made the less haste to bear up whereby it came to pass that he lost the Wind which by making haste he might have gained The French were in the middle the Prince in the Rear eager to come to blows press'd upon the French the French upon Sprague which made no small confusion But what Sprague did amiss in delay he recompenced in fighting courageously nor did he give out till his ship was so ma●m'd that he was forc'd to retire into whose place the Earl of Ossory succeeding maintained the Dispute with equal bravery The Dutch now perceiving the English-standing North-West fearing to lose the Wind which they had so favourable to them did the like which was the reason that the day began to close before th●ir shot did any execution having spent thousands of Bullets all the day in vain at which time the Prince changing out of the Royal Charles into the Soveraign continu'd the Fight the greatest part of the Night having no other light than the fire of the Guns and the Flame of several Boats that being ●●●'d by one accident or another floated up and down upon the Sea By break of day the English saw the shore neer Laystaff but no Enemy but onely a small part of the Rear the rest having withdrawn themselves in the dark A Council of War was thereupon call'd some were of opinion to pursue the Enemy but the greatest part advised to return ●o the Thames their Ammunition being spent and many ships very much out of repair which by reason of the first retreat of the Enemy they might do without any prejudice to their honour There was no great loss of Common Seamen Of Captains onely Sadlington and White The French lost some Fire-ships And the Earl of Oss●ry sunk one by his side Not a ship of the English was wanting nor could the loss of the Dutch be very great in regard they fought at a distance and strove rather to keep the advantage they had got than to offend their Enemies The middle of Iuly was spent before the Fleet could be got ready again which was no sooner done but in the presence of the King himself the Fleet weighed and the same night got into the Gunfleet and thence to the Ness. The next day they made for the Dutch Coast and the following day they perceiv'd the Dutch about eight Leagues off of Zealand who seeing the English prepare to engage return'd to their own shore not daring to hazard themselves in the open Sea far from their Sanctuaries At length understanding De Ruyter to be about the Gorce the English make thither toward night they saw the Dutch Fleet but it being late they thought fit to stay till Morning In the mean while the Dutch by stealth in the night got the Weather-gage and by break of day shew'd themselves above us De Ruyter ●aving thus got between the English and Camperdown according to his own desire bore directly upon the English which the Prince perceiving changing his course about seven a clock in excellent order stood to the S. West The French led the Van the Prince in the middle Sprague brought up the Rear The Dutch came boldly on Bankert attacques the French De Ruyter the Prince and Tromp engaged Sprague Then was it incredible to think how equally and with how much vigour the Fight was maintain'd But by and by the French in the Van thinking to get the Wind sail'd away which Bankert perceiving leaving a few ships to observe their motion with the rest falls in with De Ruyter upon the Prince nor did the French when they had got the Wind come up to his assistance onely Martel with much courage stood by him As for Tromp fiercely bearing up upon Sprague he was as undauntedly receiv'd by Sprague who slackned his Sails in expectation of him which the rest of the Squadron observing it fell out that being by this means separated the Squadrons could not relieve one another as they should have done The courage of both Captains was equal and their desire of Glory the same The Wind however favour'd the Dutch and they refus'd to come neer but fought at a dist●nce About Noon the Wind changing Sprague who before stood to the South now bore Westward follow'd by the Earl of Ossory Tromp still engag'd with Sprague Tromp's Second with the Earl of Ossory In the Afternoon Sprague lay by to repair his Rigging but his ship being at the same time disabled by two unhappy shot he left the Vessel and taking the Flag along