horneworke it selfe finding much difficulty to clime vp after the breach was made Howsoeuer the order was followed and the Lieutenant of the Fire-locks with his Sariant passed the Damme and fell vp to the breach with as many as were able to follow in regard of the breaking of the flagg-bridge yet they scrambled vp entred carrying themselues very well but the Horne worke being cutt of in diuers places were driuen to a retreate for the Lieutenant was hurt the Sargiant of the fire-locks slaine with diuerse of his men which stood so open to the Ennemies shott They being beaten of and the Ennemy defending the ropp of the breach with clubbs flailes stones Handgranadoes casting in rize-busshes vpon the topp of it to make a blinde for thē Lieutenant Gladstone seconded them and brooke in againe through the breach with diuerse of his men but the Ennemy returning with a new furie vpon the breach kild the Lieutenant and some that entred with him and beate of the rest Afterward Captaine Iohn Leuiston mounted vp to the breach with a few pikes the discommodity of this passage was such that half his men could not come vp at length Captaine Kilpatrick fell on with as many of his pikes as he could gett ouer was seconded with some muskettiers commaunded by Lieutenant Blake of Coronell Gorings Regiment with these Lieutenant Coronell Iames Henderson Captaine Balford of Coronell Sandalins Regiment with Captaine Williamson Ensigne Hamelton Lieutenant Turuill all Voluntiers and seeking honour charging vpon the right hand with a more furious charge then the former striuing to enter entred beate the Ennemy to a retreate from of the topp of the breach where Captine Williamson dyed valiantly and the Ennemy finding themselues ouerprest with a more furious assault then the former were forced to retire from the breach and turne their backs insomuch that wee entred the worke beate them vp to their Counterskarfe out of all the trauerses they had cutt of in their Horneworke but one which lay vpon the lest winge of the Horne-worke being both exceeding high and Canon proose with a moate of 16 foote broade and water in yt before it from whence they flew our men with musketts and Hand-granadoes hauing no deffense against it neither were wee able to offend them And our cōmanded men who should haue cast vp a Brest-worke in some kinde for our deffence could not come vp through the discommodity of the passage and though they could haue come vp yet our mē had all be slayne ere they could haue cast vp a place of defense for our safety so that the impossibility of the mainteyning of the worke being such did cause a retreate with the losse of 150 men slaine and hurt and diuerse Officers among whom was Licutenant Coronell Iames Henderson Captayne Williamson Ensigne Hamelton Ensigne Fargeson all slayne Captaine Balford Captaine Kilpatrick Ensigne Niece quarter-master Egmonds Inginier hurt Sariant Corbitt Sariant Inglish and Sariant Lindsay kild and so returning out of the Horne-worke that night the Ennemy sensible of their losse and possessed with a feare that the Dutches and Scocth would haue areuenge fall on with a more furious assault Monsieur Puchler commanding the next night they quitted the worke voluntarily leauing an number of Armes bagged behinde them wee possessed the the Horne-worke quietly Vpon Fryday night the eleuenth of September Coronell Herbert had the Commaund in the Approaches vnder whose Companic these worthy Voluntiers marched downe namely Mr. Herbert Sonne vnto the Lord Herbert Earle of Castle Iland and Baron of Cberburie Mr. Roper Sonne vnto the Lord Roper with diuerse other Gentlemen of quality About this time also Sir Faithfull Fortescue Captaine of a Troupe of Horse in his Maiestie seruice in Irelād with Mr. Bryan came to the Army and trailed pikes vnder his Companie This night and the day following the work was well aduanced and there was sett vp foure posts in the English Gallerie Vpon Satterday the 12 of September the French Gallerie being more forward then the English who began theirs at the brinke of the moate hauing this day 20 posts the Ennemy with their Cannon beate downe 5 posts kild a work-maister and some two Souldiers more but the next day all was repaired and the posts sett vp againe On Satterday night the 12 it was Lieutenant Coronell Holles turne to commaund in the Approaches and when he was relieued on Sunday night the 13 the English Gallerie was aduanced to 22 posts and the French to 25. On Sunday night the 13 Coronell Colepepper relieued Coronell Gorings Regiment this night and the next day our men sett vp foure posts more so that on munday night wee had 26 posts in all This night a man was sent out of the Towne from the Gouuernor and taken with a letter written to the Cardinall Infant in charactars the contents whereof were these that vnlesse his Highnesse could relieue the Towne within fiucteene daies he could not well hold it out any longer This Euening also the English and the French Batteries with sixe halfe Canon were readie planted vpon the Counterskarfe and the brink of the moate which seowred along the moate and curtaine of the wall to dismount the Ennemies Canon which played vpon our Galleries Vpon Munday night the 14 Lieutenant Coronell Thienen relielieued Coronell Colepepper this night and the day following a great many Ris-busshes and a great deale of Earth was cast into the moate and there was sett vp 29 posts in the English Galerie On Tewsday night the 15 my Lord Morg an commanded in the Approaches and aduanced the Gallerie very much so that vpon Thursday at night when he was relieued there was 33 posts sett vp so that we were gott 6 rodd into the moate This night Sir Symon Harcourt returned with the foure English Companies that he had a long with him to the Army The French Gallerie this euening was aduanced to 36 posts And this day Count William on his side had putt vp 4 posts and had gott twelue foote into the moate towards Anwerps Bulwarke Vpon wensday the 16 Count Solms relieued my Lord Morgan this day the Ennemy shott twelue Canon shott through our Gallerie and had sunck one peeee so lowe in their Bulwarke that they shott into the mouth of the Gallery which Bullett flew cleane through it and went out at the Entrance into the Gallery and with the very wind of it kild a man in the Gallerie this night and the day following the English Gallerie was aduanced to 36 posts and because the Ennemie had men lurking in the Hathorne hedge vnder the Bul-warke and a long the curtaine which shott diuers of our men that wrought at the end of our Gallerie three Drakes were brought downe which shott cartridge shott and musket-bullets amonge them to driue them from thence Vpon Thursday night the 17 Coronell Herbert commaunded in the Approaches and made a good nights worke for there was throwne from the ende of
we wrought vpon the line with great expedition while the rest of our army these three dayes lay in bataille On Sunday before noon the quartermaster Generall the particular quartermasters of euery Regiment drew out the French quarters vpon the heigths and the English quarter vpon the heath neerer the towne And on Munday being the 27 the Regiments and companies drew into their quarters and cast vp a Trench before them euen from the mast wood to the riuer side Tewsday Wensday and Thursday were spent in reparing our line raising it and makeing a foot-banke to yt and in finishing the Trenches before the head of our quarters Vpon Friday the 14 of Iuly there were sent downe in the night with Monsieur Perceuall the quartermaster Generall 150 English as many French all worke men to breake ground iust halfe way betwene Breda and Ginnekins where they cast vp a small halfemoone a redout by the water mill and the burnt houses to keepe in the Ennemy Satterday the first of August was spent in repairing the line Upon Sunday about three of the Clock in the morning the Ennemy sallyed out vpon these two small workes some 150 men and discharged a volley of shott vpon them but hearing our Trumpetter of the horse gard sound a charge retreated presently this was onely to discouer for vpon Munday the third about the same hower in the morning they Sallied our againe about 200 men with fire-lockes encompassing both the works offred to giue on vpon one of the points of the half moone giuing fire vpon our men But Monsieur Beringham who commands the Princes troupe came thether with some horsemen from the Princes gard notfarre of and sounding a charge the Ennemy instantly retreated as fast as they could into the outworckes of the Towne and being come vnder their ordinance they shott from of the Bulwarks and walls about 20 Canon shott vpon those workes and vpon the way vp towards Ginnekens leauing dead behinde them a Sariant a gallant man and 5 or 6 others slayne and carryed of at least 15 or 16 hurt men Vpon this seruice Lieutenant Loofe Lieutenant tot Lieut Coronell Thienen was hurt About this time his Highnes the Prince Elector Palatine with his Bretheren Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice and a great traine of English Noblemen and Gentlemen came to the siege who during the whole time of it were euery day as frequent and forward in the Approaches as any needy Cadet could bee that sought to make his fortune that way And were attended on by Sir Robart Stone Sir Thomas Billing sley Mr. Karr Mr. Daniell Mr. Hamptden Mr. Grissin their owne followers accompained also with the Earles of Warwick and Northhampton my Lord Grandisson Sir William Howard Mr. Oneall Captaine Crofts Mr. Apsley Mr. Fanchy Mr. Eldrington Mr. Neale and afterwards Mr. Neuill who putt themselues vnder Coronell Gorings commaund and marched with his Companie to their gards And Mr. Georg and Mr. Walter Vane mounted themselues vnder the Princes Troupe His Hghnesse the Cardinall Infante hearing now that the Prince of Orange with our Army was set downe before Breda made all the expedition that possibly he could to gather a head from among his harried troupes who had had long and wearisome marches for the defending of the coast of Flanders the land of Waes other places pickt vp a reasonable Army consisting of some 10000 foote and 50 troups of horse the most of them being imployed against the French to resist thē hinder their incursious progresse into the Prouinces of Henegow and Artois and on the 24. of Iuly new stile accompanyed with Prince Tomaso of Sauoy Count Feria some other Grands came to Antwerpe drawing on the 23. 7 or 8 Canon through it The same day came the Regiment of Bruon to him being a matter of twelue hundred men strong who had thought to haue put his Regiment into Breda but was preuented deceiued baked 80 thousand loaues of Bread for his army and gaue them some Money and drew out of Gelders Gennip and Steuensward and other forts and places all men that might be spared to see if he could relieue Breda his mē promising him that they would either venter for to relieue it or to dye before it but the carefulnesse and industry of his Highnes the Prince of Orange was such that it was a thing impossible for them to break through our line The Cardinall Infante then the second of August being come to great little Sundert Rysbergen which is an howers going frō the Hagh Count Williams quarter as the mapp of the Barronie of Breda showes quartered in these three villages hutted cast vp for their safegard some trauerses vpon the auenues passages and showed a matter of 17 troups of his Horse vpon the heath within lesse then a Canon shot of Count Williams quarter who saluted them from his Batteries with our Ordinance and slew some foure or fiue of them shott of the chaps of a horse which they left behind them so retreated Those of Breda seing their freinds were come so neare with hopes of reliefe did encourage them and on the third fourth and fifth of August hung out lanternes vpon the topp of their high steeple to shew them the way into the Towne by night but by the vigilencie of his Highnesse our out-line by that time was made so stronge that they durst not venter to breake through it The Ennemy being come so nere vs now was a time of action for 10 or 12 nights one after an other as long as the Cardinalls Armie lay in these villages aboue named our whole army horse foote of all nations euery night drew out after the warning peece went of to besett the out line euery companie to march to their seuerall stations attend the Ennemy if he durst haue attempted any thing for the reliefe of Breda once more he showed 14 troupe of his horse which were beaten back with our Cannon as the former were Vpon wensday night the 12 of August 400 of our horse went and gaue the Ennemy an allarme in the night and beate vp their horse gards to a trauerse which they had cast vp before their quarter slew foure or fiue of the Ennemy and finding there some of their foote to second them our men retreated with the loose also of some foure or fiue men On Fryday night the 14 of August the Cardinall Infante seing noe possibilitie to breake through our line and Army in the night sent away a part of his forces who brake vp and fired their quarters and the next morning rose with the grosse of his Army marching towards Loone other villages in Brabant hauing a secret plott and enterprize vpon the Sconce of the Vorne and Thei l and before that had giuen order to those troupes of his which were drawneout of Gelders Gennep and Steuensward to march to these two places who comming to the Maze
side putting some men in boates to crosle ouer the riuer into the Iland of the Vorne were discouered on Saterday night the 15 of August A man of warre and our men discharged many shot among them which slew diuerse of their men and leauing their Scaling ladders behind thē were driuē to retreate being reported that these two places had warning intelligence of them by a Boore that rann from them so that if they had falne on our men were prouided to entertaine them In the Interim the Cardinall Infante his army who came to second them buzzed vp downe with hopes that this dessigne of his would take effect and cause the Prince of Orange to rise from his seige of Breda but his expectation was frustrate The Ennemy being marched away his highnesse that euening sent for Coronell Wyne-bergen Sir Symon Harcourt Sariant Maiour to Coronell Gorings regimēt to attend the Ennemy gaue them the command of 25 corpanies out of euery regiment among the rest of our natiō Sir Simons owne company Captayne Ropers Captaine Herles Captaine Duncums that night they marched towards Ghetrudenberke and comming to Hemersward by Heusden Coronell Wynebergen marched away with his 14. Companies vp towards the Bettow to desend with Coronell Pincen the riuer those parts lying vpon the Rhene the Whale Sir Simon Harcourt staying in Hemersward with his eleuen companies to gard that place but on the 18 of August receiued order from the Prince to march with his men to the Graue for the securing of that Towne if the Ennemy who drew that waies should haue beseiged it There he stayed some ten or twelue daies untill the Ennemy was marched away to Venlo Roermont The Ennemy being gone he receiued order againe to march from thence to Nemwegen where he did embarke his eleuen companies for Wesell but before his arriuall there he receiued a Counter-command from the Prince to returne againe with his men to the Army This by the way On Satterday the 15 of August in the night there were 150. English and 150 French workemen commanded to goe downe with Monsieur Perceuall the quartermaster Generall to breake ground this night aduanced some 300 paces forward frō the two first workes aboue named towards the hils vpon which they made the first battery for foure or fiue peeces of ordinance to fauour our workemen and to keepe the Ennemy from sallying out Vpon Sunday the 16 that nights worke was repaired and in the afternoone the Prince with a great traine went to view the Ennemies quarters in what forme they lay Also vpon Sunday at night following the English from the first battery Northward on the left hād cast vp a Trench and gott 76 Rod towards the towne at the end whereof they made a good Redoubt the French doing the like from the right hand of the batrerie and gott as much ground or rather more casting vp also an other Redoubt there were commaunded men the next morning sent downe to repaire that nights worke On Munday the 17 Sundaies nights worke being repayred the the first battery of fiue peeces was made to hinder the Ennemy from Sallying out vpon our approches our trenches was enlarged to 12 foote broade that ordinance and waggons might be drawne downe the day following our trenches were heightned and some blindes sett vp On Tewsday night the 18 of August My Lord Morgan and Monsieur Hauteriue as Eldest Coronels went downe to breake ground and to aduance the approches Monsieur Hauteriue from the first batterie as eldest Coronell takeing the right hand and my Lord Morgan the left and so the English and French ran their lines each Coronell commanding ten companies to wit eight English and two Dutch one of the Lord of Bredroods Regiment and an other of Count Solms and the French Coronell ten Companies of their owne nation the Gards and the Walloons which garded with them There was appointed to goe downe with these two Coronells to breake ground 250. Commanded men with matterials and our English that night in running an oblique line gott forward 72. rodd or 864. foot from the left corner of our first batterie and at the end thereof made a large Corps of Gard to defend that approach The French did the like that night from the right corner of the batterie and hauing 50 men more then the English they gott 80. rodd The Ennemie Shott much this night vpon our men that garded the workemen with some fiue or sixe of their men gaue vs an alarme and my Lord Morgan shott through his briches which bullet grazed vpon his buttock without doing him any further harme This night Captaine Francisco who commaunds Captaine Francis Veres Companie had three of his men mortally wounded whereof they all dyed with in two or three daies after Vpon wensday morning being the 19. there was sent downe into the approches a Sariant and 30. men of euery English and Dutch Regiment to repaire heigthen and enlarge the approach made that night Moreouer about eleuen of the clock that day the Ennemy sallied out of their workes about fifty men upon the French approaches thinking to haue cutt of some of those that had the point But Captaine d' Escars Lieutenant de Brett and Monsieur la Terriere who commanded Coronell Hauteriue his companie with some French Voluntiers fell out of their trenches and beate the Ennemy back againe into their workes In this sallie the Ennemy lost a Captaine a Sariant and seuen or eight men and had an other Sariant shott in his thigh who had behaued himself so stoutly that afterwards when there was a parley the Prince of Orange being in the approches sent him foure double-pistols as a reward of his courage So much he prizeth valour though in an Ennemy The Ennemy being retreated into his workes within halfe an hower after they beate a Parley desiring that they might fetch off their dead bodies especially to seeke for the Corps of a Captaine of theirs that was slaine vpon this seruice His Highnesse the Prince of Orange being acquainted therewith granted them a Parley for an howers time presently after dinner the Prince came downe himself into the French approaches and while the cessation of armes dured there were appointed Officers on both sides to meete half way betwixt the Ennemies workes and our Trenches till they had sought out fetcht of their dead The Prince on our side with a french officier commanded Monsieur Perceuall the quartermaster Generall and chiefe Inginier for the directing of the French Approaches to take vpon him the habit and quality of a Sariant with a halbert in his hand and to goe out and entertayning discourse with the Ennemies Officer which should come out on their side should cast his eye about him now and then to discouer how the ground lay and the Ennemies workes that he might the better know which way to run his approches towards them neither was the Ennemy failing
being the 30 of August Coronell Hauteriue had attempted to lay a Damme of Rize-busshes ouer the moate of the Horne-worke in the French Approach but sustaying the losse of about sixeteene persons besides hurt men was constrayned to forbeare noe others being willing to vndertake it The Englisst sapp yet was not quite aduanced to the brinke of the water notwithstanding Coronell Goring perceiuing how desirous the Prince was the worke should be hastned and hearing him offer fiue and twentie hunderd gilders to the French who were in it before obtayned the same allowance for his Approaches And before he marched downe on Sunday night the 30 of August sought out the most expert and bould workemen of our Nation Sixe men vndertooke it that themselues with some others whome they would hire should doe it for fiueteene hundred gilders the Coronell reseruing the other thousand gilders to pay bringers of Rise-busshes and to hire others in case these should be to few or to reward them aboue their expectation if they did succeed After the Sappers had wrought twelue foote to come to the water for so much was yet wanting these sixe men begann their taske and proceeded to good effect but were all slayne or hurt in a short space onely the chiefe of them being assisted by a succession of sixteene others who likewise were all either slaine or dangerously shott liued worked forward till sixe of the clock the next morning being the 31 at which time the damme was laid within 15 foote of the other side Here this workeman out of a brauerie would needes sound the depth of the moate remayning and dis-couering himselfe too carelessly was slaine by which meanes many men were lost for that he had neglected to make blindes as he went which made other souldiers timerous vnwilling to vnder take it In all this time and danger yow may imagine how paynfull a part the Coronell acted who did not onely most vigilantly place Muskettiers to discharge without intermission in euery foote of ground from whence they night annoy the Ennemy but oftentimes visited the Rise-bringers that matterials might not be wanting and vpon the failing of any workemen by his singular dexterity of perswasion gott new in their places himself being an example vnto them of singular dilligence and boldnesse Yet now they were at such a stand that for two howers space the discourse of all was that it could not be done till another night might contribute some shelter to them At last the Coronell not being able to satisfie himselfe with what was alreadie effected though it were enough to haue gained honor for two nights besides that he saw the feciblenesse of that litle remaynder gott first some men to laye blindes of bushes on that which was made and then foure other workemen to finish the rest for the reward of two hundred and fifty gilders a peece which they receiued being not so much as one hurt and ended their worke about twelue of the clocke at noone The Prince comming downe and seing what was done so much aboue his expectation gaue the Coronell Many thankes with expressions sutable to his merrit and hastned the Miners vnto him that noe time might be lost One of them was presently sett a mining vnder the Barme of the Horne-worke But his feare makeing him willing to finde excuses he quickly came back and complaind that the damne was not easily passable Wherevpon the Coronell sent others to perfect it if any thing were amisse and when all was finished the Miner being returned to his worke that noe more neede-lesse excuses should be made the Coronell himselfe went quite ouer it and in his returne receiued a shott with a sling bullet in his left legg it strock him in the iuncture where the foote is fastened to the legg brake assunder all the vpper Sinnews toore away a greate deale of his flesh bruised the huckle bone and broke the end of the great shinn-bone where it ioynes vnto it At first the resolution of all the Chiurgians was to cutt of his legg but seing the admirable courage firmnesse of his minde wherwith he boare it and trusting much to this perfectnesse of health and temper of his flesh they concluded they might deferre it for a time without danger of a Gangrene and after two dressings resolued to goe on in the cure without any thoughts of cutting it off Which I expresse here as that which was the matter of ioy not onely to our Nation but also to the whole Army as his greate wound was and is the sorrow of all that loue honour virtue and Souldiers But I must forbeare to enlarge my selfe in relating what a vniuersall dampe of sadnesse seized on the hearts of all men or what praises and honours were payed vnto his incomparable worth not onely by his Highnesse the Prince of Orange but by all others of qualitie for I am to remember I write but a Diarie though indeed in one daies worke he hath giuen penns worke for many daies for if you consider the space of ground to be sapped through before he came to the water the bredth of the moate about 60 foote the depth of it 6 foote and the bredth of the Damne 15 foote it will appeare a worke of greater bulke then euer was done in the seruice of this state since their warres began Besides the difficulty of the action from the strength of the Garrison and encouragement they receiued the night before from the ill successe of the French attempt A while after the Miner whom the Coronell had sett to work makeing an other passage backe had his braines shoot out with the same sling peece And the rest of that day was sorrowfully spent in mending and perfecting the workes Captaine Syden-ham whose actiuity and vigilancie was not wanting in all this buisinesse remayning there Vpon Tewsday night the first of September Coronell Colepepper relieued Coronell Gorings Regiment and the Damme as is said being layd ouer that night our men begann to sap a long the Barme of the Horne-worke and on the right hand of the Horne of the worke began to mine the Ennemy shott hard vpon the damme that night from the other horne of the worke which flankered it and slew hurt foure or fiue of our men This night also Monsieur Charnaze Ambassador for the King of France with the Lords the States and Coronell of a French Regiment commaunding in the French approches receiued a shot in his head whereof he presently dyed Vpon wensday night the second my Lord Morgan relieued Coronell Colepepper this night our men repaired and heightned the Corps of gard on both sides of the damme and began a left hand sap a long the moate side of the Horne-worke the day following was spent in repairing the workes makeing of blinds and setting vp musketbasketts for the safeguard and defense of our men Vpon Thursday night the Lord of Brederoods Regiment tooke their turne and his Lieutenant Coronell Monsieur
the Gallerie into the moate that night 750 Rize-busshes each Souldier hauing fourteene Rixdallers for the casting in of a hundred and ere Coronell Herbert was relieued they sett vp 5 posts three foote distance on from an other in the space of 24 howers The next day Lieutenant Airs was shott through his shoulder This night and the day following also Count Williams Gallerie was well aduanced my Lord Aumont commanding then in those Approaches Monsieur Couts his Lieutenant Coronell receiued a greeuous shott through his thigh which brake his thigh bone in peeces of which wound he is not yet cured This day Count Harrie of Frizeland attempted to fall on vpon the Ennemies Horne-worke on the Castle side but the bridge breaking our men with the losse of some slaine and others drownd the water being very deepe were driuen to retire into their workes his men gaue fire exceedingly vpon the Ennemy with Cannon small shott so that they could not choose but loose a great many men Vpon Fryday night the 18 of September Lieutenant Coronell Holles relieued Coronell Herbert this night there were foure hundred Rize-busshes and a great deale of earth cast into the moate and the English Gallerie aduanced to fiue and forty posts some three foote distant one frō an other The next day in the morning old Sariant Goddard Captaine Killegrews Sariant hauing the guard sitting at the end of our Gallerie with the very winde of a halfe Cannon Bullett of 24 pound weight had his thigh bone broken with out euer drawing a dropp of bloode from him This day there was brought into the Armie one of the Ennemies Lieutenants and some sixty prisonners that were taken prisonners with him in Gulick-land Vpon Satterday night being the 19 Coronell Colepepper commaunded in the Approaches This night for the aduancing of the Callerie there were cast into the moate aboue eleuen hundred Rize-busshes and many hundred wheele barrowes of earth so carefull was the Coronell to aduance the worke and yet thanks be to God notwithstanding the Ennemy shott very much he had but three men slaine and hurt The French likewise cast in a great many rize-bushes this night into the moate and came with them within three pikes length of the barme of the Bulwarke which the Ennemie discouering what a great nights worke they had done the next morning had sunck two peeces which shott iust into the mouth of their gallerie that beate downe sixe or seuen of their posts which disaster cast them a daies worke behinde hand ere they could repaire the Gallerie sett vp their posts againe On Sunday night the twentith Monsieur Thienen the Lotd of Brederods Lieutenant Coronell releiued Coronell Colepepper and this night and the day following besides the Earth that was cast into the moate there was cast into it aboue fiue hundred risebushes yet had but three or foure men slaine and hurt This euening there was some of our Leger boates brought downe into the Horne-worke and launched into the moate of the halfe-moone behind the morter batterie and the next day there were great backs or chests built vpon thē with high oakē boards musket proof the chests filled with Rizebushes and earth with pluggs in the bottome of them which being puld out vpon any occasion they sunck 6 7 or 8 foote deepe and had likewise oares on both sides of them that the men which rowed them might be vnder couert and shott free This Afternoone Monfieur D'escard a worthy French Captaine who had carryed himself very brauely vpon the first sallie which the Ennemie made vpon the French Approaches before mentioned receiued a dangerous shott into his mouth and throate whereof within fiue or sixe dayes after he dyed was much lamented Vpon Munday night the 21 my Lord Morgan went downe to commaund in the Approaches two of his owne Companie taking vpon them to cast Rize-busshes into the moate for twelue Rixdallers a hundred were slaine and the Ennemie hanging out two great lights ouer the wall not witstanding that our Canon and small shott playd much vpon them to see what our men did in their moate yet they slew and hurt sixe or seuen men more howsoeuer towards morning there were found some resolute Souldiers which for 14 Rixedallers a hundred cast in 250 Rize-busshes into the moate and gott 4 posts more sett vp so that wee had in all 49 posts vp which reached more then halfe way ouer the moate and we found that the moate grew shallower after wee had passed ouer the midst of it This day the great chests and boates aboue mentioued were made ready musket proofe with thick oaken plankes and oares fitte to them and the backs or chests fild vp with rize-bushes and earth and lay ready whensoeuer his highnesse should haue occasion to vse them The 22 being Tewsday night Count Solmes relieued my Lord Morgan and thanks be to God had but one man shott He gaue fire exceedingly this night vpon the Ennemie with his muskettiers from all Corps de guards and flankes and being moone-light our Cannon also played vpon them which kept them from peeping ouer and vnder couert This night there were noe Ris-busshes cast neither into the English nor the French Galleries but our men cast in earth to fill vp the moate and to gett forward so that this night wee had one and fiftie posts sett vp in our English Gallery On wenscay night the 23 of September Coronell Herbert releiued Count Solms and aduanced the work very much for that night and day there were three posts more got makeing in all 54 the French gott likewise three or foure posts forwards The prince gaue the workemasters order to cast noe rizebushes this night into the moat but should worke out that which was cast into the moate already and sett vp posts in the French and English Galleries till they came to the end of the Rize which lay in the water The Prince now euery day going downe into the approaches to view encourage and aduance forward the workes hazarded his person much escaped some dangerous shott that came neere him for Coronell Wynebergin this afternoone being in his Highnesse traine receiued a dangerous shott vpon his Eybrow which if the bullet had perced a litle deeper it had slaine him Vpon Thursday night the 24 Lieutenant Coronell Holles relieued Coronell Herbert this night the work was reasonable well aduanced but towards morning the Ennemy hauing sunck new peeces shott downe three of our posts sett vp in the English Gallerie the day and night before On Fryday night the 25 of September Coronell Colepeper commaunded vnder whose Companie as voluntiers marched downe ordinarely Lieutenant Coronell Thomas Essex Sir Charles Slingsby Mr. Campian Mr. Fothers by Ensigne Throghmorton Mr. Brankard Mr. Dauis Captaine Roockwood Mr. Bradly Mr Parsons Mr. Hankinson and divers other Gentlemen on Satterday night when Coronell Colepeper was relieued there were two posts more set vp and not aman shott Vpon Satterday
night the 26 Lieutenant Coronell Thienen commaunded in the English and Dutch Approaches and this night there was cast into the moate 550 Rize-busshes and the Gallerie advanced to 65 posts and the French Gallerie also was well advanced Vpon Satterday towards euening the Ennemy shott a Granado of some seuenty pound weight just into our Horne-worke and fell close by our Battetie neere vnto seuen Barrels of Powder it brake and toore a Marriners thigh all to peeces The very same day also wee shott a great Granado of 180 pound weight which flew into the Towne almost as farre as the great Church and breaking with a great violence a peece of the bullet rebounded and flew back againe into our Horne-worke Vpon Sunday the 27 Count Harrie Gasimir Gouernour of Frizland hauing made a Gallerie of 21 posts ouer the moate of the Horneworke on his side attempted to haue taken it in but finding it not feisible at that time leauing the Horneworke sapped forward towards the Counterskarfe of the maine moate before the Castle and there to lodge himselfe in it and so to begin a gallerie ouer the moate Vpon Sunday night towards euening when Lieuetenant Coronell Thienen was relieued the English gallerie had 68 posts sett vp and the French 42. This euening a Kicker or a peeper of Flushing a proper man had his right Arme shott of cleane from his body with a Canon shott Vpon Sunday night the 27 it was my Lord Morgans turne to commaund in the approaches our men shott exceedingly this night and my Lord Morgan aduanced the worke so much that this night and the day following there was sett vp fiue posts more so that there was in the English Gallerie 73 posts in the French 55 and in Count Williams gallerie 59. On Munday night the 28 Count Solmes releiued my Lord Morgan this night the Ennemie and our men shott much yet notwithstanding there were a great many rize-bushes throwne into the moate and ere Count Solmes was relieued there was 77 posts sett vp in the English gallerie Vpon Tewsday night the 29 Coronell Herbert relieued Count Solmes and commaunded in the Approaches our men shott exceeding hard this night and the next day for ouer aboue the ordinarie pouder which was in the muskettiers bandeliers and the pouder bagges they brought downe our muskettiers shott away that night and the next day eleuen hundred pound of powder extraordinarie as appeared by the Coronels hand Towards morning the Ennemie hauing sunck two halfe Canon vpon the wall lower then ordinarie hoising vp the briches of their Canon with an Instrument and great cables they shott so low that they shot and brake downe sixe or 7 of our posts in the English gallerie and though our Ordinance shott much to dismount theirs yet they could not find them in the night This hindred the aduancement of the English Gallerie much and cast vs behinde hand but the carefulnes and the vigilencie of his highnes was such that comming downe into the Approaches the next morning he gaue order that the Gallerie should be repaired with all expedition and new posts sett vp in their places which was done with all speede by ten a clock on wensday night following Vpon wensday also his highnes gaue order for the makeing of two new batteries for the finding and dismounting of the Ennemies Canon which played vpon our gallerie The one was made vpon the top of the Horneworke not farre from the place where our English mine was sprung The other where the Coronels Companies held their grand Corps de guard These being planted beate vpon the Ennemies port holes and put one of their halfe Canon presently to silence Vpon wensday night the last of September it was Lieutenant Coronell Holles his turne to commaund in the Approaches This night the worke was so advanced that their was diuerse Rize-busshes cast into the moate and three posts more sett vp This night also there was one Iohn Trotter of Coronell Gorings Companie that vndertooke the pyling of the moate from the ende of our Gallerie to the barme of the Bulwark and hauing stript himself naked hauing a long match bound about his Armeholes he was lett out at a hole on the right side of the Gallerie and being come to the end of our Rize-busshes found the water to be betweene fiue and sixe foote swiming two or three stroakes further felt ground and came to foure foote deepe and wading a litle further came to three foote water and so gott vp vpon the barme of the Bulwarke and vp to the quick sett hedg or Pallissado vpon it And then being puld back by those that were within the Gallerie which held the end of the match came safely back againe and found by the markes vpon the match that wee wanted yet a matter of some 40 foote from the end of our Rize-busshes to the foundation of the Bulwarke this Souldier for his discouuerie was rewarded with twentie Rix-Dallers On Thursday morning the next day Captaine Willmot my Lord Wilmots Sonne Captaine of a Troupe of Horse going downe into the Approaches and looking too long through our Muskett-basketts receiued a dangerous shott which grazed along his right Jaw-bone and so by his throat whereof he is now recouuered This day also Iohu Williams a Work-master of Gurcum in giving some direction about our Gallerie was slaine with a muskett-bullet Vpon Thursday night the first of October Coronell Colepepper relieued Lieutenant Coronell Holles the worke was well advanced notwithstanding that the Ennemie shott much this night both with their Canon and small shott to hinder vs. This night also there was a planck bridge on Count Harries side layd ouer the moate of the Horne-worke before the Castle which twise had ben attempted before in makeing a Dam but was then not found fesible Vpon Fryday night the second Lieutenant Coronell Thienen relieued Coronell Colepepper and aduanced the worke much and this night there was a mine a preparing on Count Harries side in the corner of the Horne-worke where the Ennemie had cut it of Vpon Satterday the third betweene eleuen and twelue of the clock Count Harries mine on the Castle side being readie his Highnesse gaue commaund that this mine should be sprung and that Count Harrie hauing sapt a long the Horne-worke towards the Raueling which lay before the Castle should assault both the Horn-worke and the Raueling at once and withall to giue the Ennemy worke on all sides gaue order also that the Frēch this day being come within two pikes length of the Bulwarke should fill vp the moate with Rize-busshes from the end of their Gallerie to the barme of the Bulworke These two peeces of seruice were to be done at one time Count Harries mine being then sprung at the time appointed fell on brauely with his men vpon the Horne-worke and the Raueling which lay vpon the side of it gaue fire by whole volleys vpon the Ennemie for the space of an hower beate the
be lent them to carry their baggage and other goods to Machline including therein all manner of Armes as also for the souldiers of the garrison absent dead sick hurt or runaway and that the said waggons shall in no wise be searched 7 And those which desire to haue their goods transported by shipping to Machline shall haue good shipping appointed them to passe through Holland saueing all manner of wares or Commodities And it is granted them ouer and aboue to make choise of men that shall haue a care of the bringing of their goods and baggage thither which shall not be searched nor arrested in any place vnder what pretence soeuer but maye passe freely to Machline 8 That the Gouernour Captaynes Officers Councellors of Warre and souldiers takeing pay from the King of Spayne aswell Spirituall as Temporall men none excepted as also widdowes with their children whosoeuer of them which haue any houses inheritances rents in this Citty or vpon the States of Brabant in this quarter or haue any houses in the Towne or any inheritances of perticular goods maye enioy them two yeares after the date and sealing of this composition to transport them according to their desire to sell them to morgage them or otherwise to dispose of their goods and during this time shall enioy the rents and hires of their houses and the fruits of their goods or such as they may get vpon any condition Whatsoeuer 9 That the officers and souldiers in what seruice or State soeuer they bee may Leaue their wiues and children in the Towne and that during the time of two yeares shall dispose of their goods moueable or immoueable lying within this Citty or else where none excepted so that noe man shall confiscate them neither shall any confiscation take place of them 10 Neither shall any officer or souldier be arrested or stayed at this present or in future times for the hire of their howses wherein they haue dwelt neither their baggage for any debts whither they march out with the garrison or stay behinde being sick or hurt when they are well they shall depart from hemce 11 All souldiers prisoners aswell on the one side as on the other of what quality soeuer they bee shal be set at liberty without paying any thing for their ransomes but onely for their dyet according to the taxation of the quarter as also the preachers and other prisonners shal be set free paying their dyet 12 That all the boote which hath bin made before or since the seige shall not be required of them but shall remayne their owne 13 That after the signing of the articles of this composition it is granted to the Gouernour of Breda that he may send an expresse Messenger to his highnesse the Cardinall Infant with free conduct and safety to aduertize him of all things happened in this seige which the Gouernour may doe the very same day as these articles are signed 14 These conditions being attested the Gouernour and the souldiers shall haue two daies respite giuen them at the least to make themselues ready for their departure which time being expired the Gouernour and Officers of the same garrison shall promise to depart to witt vpon Satterday next being the tenth of October 1637 new Stile 15 With intention that during the time of two dayes none of the towne shall come into our army nor any of our army goe into the Towne to the end all disorders may be preuented and all men shall conteyne themselues within their trenches and fortifications without being permitted to approach neerer or to shew any hostility one against an other for the assurance whereof Hostages shal be giuen on both sides 16 That before and ere the garrison shall depart two Sufficient Hostages shall be giuen who in the behalfe of his highnesse shall march with the said garrison armes and Baggage to Machlin withthem and on the otherside two Hostages shall remayne there from the Gouernour till the two Hostages on his highnesse side shall returne back againe with the waggons and that his highnesse shall send to them the aforesaid Hostages remayning in the towne with free Conduct and assurance to Machline 17 That the Officers Souldiers comprehended in the Articles of this composition hauing any armes Barkes sloopes or other equipage of warre belonging to particular persons maye either sell or transport them without being mosested or stayed for any such things as they shall haue sould or will transport 18 That there shall be made noe restitution of any horses Armes Marchandizes moueables and other commodities sould or held for boote for which no man shal be stayed Giuen in the Army before BREDA the 7. of October 1637. Stilo Nouo THE COPIE OF THE ARTICLES AND Demands propounded by the Spirituality the Drossard Schout Burgomasters Aldermen and the Councill of the citty of BREDA to his highnesse my Lord the Prince of Orange Lord and Baron of BREDA with his highnesse Answere thereunto I. Demand IMprimis that all fautes enmitie and offences howe great and of what quality soeuer they bee or maye be held to be without exception of any either of any spirituall or temporall men present within or without the a foresaid citty whither in generall or perticular which haue bene committed shall be forgotten and forgiuen as if they had neuer hapned I. Answere His highnesse hauing seene and examined the Articles aboue mentioned hath declared declareth by these that he granteth this Arcicle vpon condition that all persons mentioned therein shall hence forward carry themselues as they are bound to doe II. Demand That in the aboue said citty of Breda now and allwaies the exercise of the Catholique Romish Religion shal be publikly taught in the great Church in the Cloisters and Nunneries as it hath bin in vse these last twelue yeares so that noe man of what quality soeuer he be either ciuill or militarie shall giue any hinerance obstakle or scandall in Churches or vpon streets by word or deede vpon arbitriall punishment II. Answere The two Cloisters of Nunnes shall be held in the same manner as they were before the yeare 1625. vnder the gouerment of the high and mighty Lords the States Generall III. Demaund That the Magistrates shall be made indifferent of persons as well indifferent of the Romish Catholiques as of those of the reformed Religion and that all permanent offices yea those Administrations that were the yeare 1625. of men now deceased and afterward such as were conferred by Count Iohn of Nassaw maye be continued III. Answere The Magistrates shall be chosen out of the best and qualifiest persons of the citty according to the Lawes and Priuileges of BRABANT and of the citty of BREDA aforesaid IV. Demaund That the Masters of the Chapiter with their Supposts the Pryor and the Nunnes Cloister of Saint Catherins-dale the Pastor the Colledge of the Society of Iesus the Conuents of the Fathers Capuchians the gray Fryers the Nunnes court and the clergie of the Gesthowse with
Munday morning being the twentith when the Princes shipp should set saile from Rammekins and shoote of a warning-peece that then euery Tercia as they lay should make readie to sayle after him So then on the 20 about fiue of the Clock in the Morning the Prince having a stiff and a prosperous gale of Winde set saile for Bergin op zoom all the army following him as fast as they Could get out And at the same instant his highnesse Caused two hundred empty ships with the shippers onely and some fewe drummers in them to Saile vp the Scheld and along the land of Waes to make shew of landing there which gaue the ennemy So strong an alarme in all those parts that they neuer thought of his comming any where else his highnesse in the interim kept his course towards Bergin vp zoom and by twelue a clock came the same day to the Fort that lies vpon the creeke betweene Bergin and Tertole where he cast anker and seing Sir Iacob Ashley Seriant Maior of the English tercia passe by him gaue him order that as the shipping came vp they should follow two ships which were to saile into the creeke that runns vp towards Halter as far as they could and there to finde a fit landing place for the army and comming to the landing place should be drawne a shoare and march along the dike to their seuerall quarters which was done accordingly with admirable expedition for the shipping comming vp a great part of the army that afternone was landed and drawne into their quarters the officers and souldiers hauing layne longe a board were willing to refresh themselues a shoare some of them wading vp to the knees in water and mudd till they gott to the dike The horse troopes had order to run vp into Bergen head and as farre as they could into the towne for the more commodious and the better landing of their troupes The next day being tewsday and the 21 the rest of the Army horse and foote were disembarqued drawne into their quarters receiued order to prouide thē three for foure daies victuals against the next morning Now on wensday the 22 at the breake of the day all the quarter master receiued waggons from the waggon-master generall for the cheife officers Captaines of their Regiments two Captains to a Waggon which were presently distributed to the Captaines and sent away with all expedition to the shipping with command so lade their waggons and to follow the Armie This morning about seuen of the clock the whole army drew into armes and the English Tercia hauing the avantgard that day marched to their old quarter of Rosendale where they had layne a whole winter when Marquesse Spinola had blocked vp Breda anno 1624 where they were well quartered and the Coronels and chiefe officers accommodated with houses The next morning being the 23 of Iuly at the creeke of the day the army began to moue againe and Count Williams tercia hauing the Auantgard wee marched that day to the heath betweene Ginnekins and the mast-wood before Breda Some daies before wee departed from Rammekins his highnesse had written to Count Henry Casimir gouernour of Frizeland who to gard the Muze and the Rhene and to desend those quarters had an Army of 90 Companies horse foote cōposed of all nations as English French Dutch and Scotch and gaue him order night and day to march with his Army towards Breda who vpon the 21 of Iuly two dayes before his highnesse came before it rounded the towne and stopt all Auenues and passages into it This gaue those of Breda a terible alarme which made them ring their alarme Bell and made them shut and damme vp their ports the same day as Count Henry came before it they sallied out of the towne with some 400 men to fetch in Cattle and other prouisions but our horse beate them in againe with the losre of some men slayne others hurt and some taken prisoners To returne againe to the Prinecs Army on Thurs-day the 23 of Iuly new stile our Army came and lay in Battaile vpon the Heath betweene the princes houses neere Ginnekins the Riuer of Merch the Mastwoed In the riuer by the princes house there lay a new lōg boate very commodious to make a bridg vpon his highnesse presently gaue order to the Carpenters and workemen to lay plancks ouer it and to make two bridges vpon it for his men to passe ouer it on the other side of the Merch to the Lord of Bredrods Count Solmes and Count Henries quarters which that afternoone was made with all expedition withall gaue order that noe quarters should be made for the Regiments but all of them to lie in Battaille attending an ennemy vntill such time as our line of Circumualation was defensible On Fryday morning then the 24. at the breake of the day all the quartermasters had orders to fetch matterials from the Commisse Martin for 250. workemen of euery English and French Regiment and proportionally of euery Regiment of the whole Army so that there were aboue 5000 Commanded men that morning appointed with the quartermasters to goe to worke euery souldier hauing giuen him by the Inginier and his quartermaster a rhenish rodd of ground that is 12 foote to cast vp The Line of Circumualation was began first from the Princes house by Coronell Colepeppers Regiment and then euery Regiment according to the order of their march tooke their ground the line was cast vp ouer the hills and heights a long through the Mastwood to Papenmutch to the Hagh where Count Williams quarter was and so to Monsieur Buyshuysens quarter of 8 Companies and then to Terhey where Coronell Varick lay with 12 Companies And ouer the bridge by the Princes house it ran a long through the walloons quarter to the Lord of Bredrods to Count Solmes and so to Tettering to Count Henry his quarter and from thence ouer the feilds to the Swart dicke upon which redoubts were made and so was shutt at Terhey being some 21 English miles in compasse hauing upon heights places of aduantage strong Forts Horneworkes Halfe moons spurs with diuers batteries vpon it And the merck the other Riuer were stopt and dam'd vp in two places to wit by the Princes quarter and betweene Papenmutch and the Hagh which ouerflowed and drownd all the meddowes and lower grounds more then a mans heigth deepe and lay like a sea before our Trenches Three or foure dayes also after the prince had satt downe with his Army before Breda there came a matter of some 3 or 4. thowsand Boores or hus-bandmen out of Holland who made an out ditch casting the earth vp on both sides on the out side of the first line eight foote deepe 8 foote high on both sides and sixteene foote broade to hinder the Ennemes horse from leaping ouer it and breaking in vpon vs. Vpon Friday Satterday and Sunday the 24. the 25. and 26. of Iuly