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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09218	Three to one being, an English-Spanish combat, performed by a westerne gentleman, of Tauystoke in Deuon shire with an English quarter-staffe, against three Spanish rapiers and poniards, at Sherries in Spaine, the fifteene day of Nouember, 1625. In the presence of dukes, condes, marquesses, and other great dons of Spaine, being the counsell of warre. The author of this booke, and actor in this encounter, Richard Peeeke [sic].	Pike, Richard, fl. 1625.	1626 (1626)	STC 19529; ESTC S120629	14,680	38

pleased God that I should pluck my Enemy downe The Horseman dismounted and haue him at my Mercy for Life which notwithstanding I gaue him He falling on his knees and crying out in French to me Pardone moy le vous pree le suis vn buon Chrestien Pardon me Sir I am a good Christian I seeing him braue and hauing a Soldiers minde to Rifle him I searched for Iewels but found onely fiue Peices of Eight about him in all amounting to twenty Shillings English Yet he had Gold but that I could not come by For I was in hast to haue sent his Spanish Knight-hood home on Foote and to haue taught his Horse an English Pace Thus farre my Voyage for Oranges sped well but in the end prooued sower Sawce to me And it is harder to keepe a Victory then to obteyne So heere it fell out with mine For fourteene Spanish Muskatiers spying me so busy about one of their Countrey-men bent all the Mouthes of their Peeces to kill me which they could not well doe without endangering this Don Iohns life so that I was inforced and glad I scap'd so too to yeild my selfe their Prisoner True Valour I see goes not alwaies in good Cloathes For He whom before I had surprized seeing me fast in the snare and as the euent prooued disdaining that his Countrey men should report him so dishonored most basely when my handes were in a manner bound behind me drew out his Weapon which the rest had taken from me to giue him and wounded me through the Face An vngentle vnworthy base Spaniard from Eare to Eare and had there killd me had not the foureteene Muskatiers rescued me from his Rage Vpon this I was led in Triumph into the Towne of Cales An Owle not more wondred and hooted at a Dog not more cursed In my beeing ledde thus along the Streets A Flemming spying me Wounded basely by a Flemming cryed out alowde Whither doe you leade this English Dogge Kill him kill him hee 's no Christian And with that breaking through the Crowde in vpon those who held mee ranne me into the Body with a Halbeit at the Reynes of my Backe at the least foure inches A Noble Spaniard One Don Fernando an antient Gentleman was sent downe this Summer from the King at Madrill with Soldiers But before our Fleete came the Soldiers were discharged They of Cales neuer suspecting that we meant to put in there Before him was I brought to be examined yet few or no questions at all were demaunded of me because he saw I was all bloudy in my Cloathes and so wounded in my Face and Iawes that I could hardly speake I was therefore committed presently to Prison where I lay eighteene dayes The Noble Gentleman giuing expresse charge that the best Surgeons should be sent for least being so basely hurt and handled by Cowards I should be demanded at his hands I being thus taken on the Monday when I went on Shore The Fleetes departure the Heere departed the Friday following from Cales at the same time when I was there a Prisoner Yet thus honestly was I vsed by my worthy Friend Captaine Portar He aboue my deseruing complayning that he feared he had lost such a Man The Lord Generalls loue My Lord Generall by the solicitation of Master Iohn Glanuile Secretary to the Fleete sent three Men on Shore to enquire in Cales for me and to offer if I were taken any reasonable Ransome But the Towne thinking me a better Prize then indeede I was denyed me and would not part from me Then came a Command to the Teniente or Gouernor of Cales to haue me sent to Sherrys otherwise called Xerez lying three Leagues from Cales Wondrous vnwilling could I otherwise haue chosen was I to goe to Sherry because I feared I should then be put to Tortures Hauing therefore a Young man an English Man and a Merchant Goodrow a Merchant Pikes Fellow Prisoner in Cales whose Name was Goodrow my fellow Prisoner who lay there for Debt and so I thinking there was no way with me but one That I must bo sent packing to my long home Thus I spake vnto him Countrey-man what my Name is our Partnership in Misery hath made you know And with it know that I am a Deuonshire-Man borne and Tauestock the place of my once-abiding I beseech you if God euer send you Liberty and that you saile into England take that Countrey in your way Commend me to my Wife and Children made wretched by me an infortunate Father and Husband Tell them and my Friends I intreate you for Gods cause that if I be as I suspect I shall be put to Death in Sherris I will dye a Christian Soldier no way I hope dishonouring my King Countrey or the Iustice of my Cause or my Religion Anon after away was I conueyed with a strong Guard Pike Prisoner in Sherrys by the Gouernour of Cales and brought into Sherrys on a Thurseday about twelue at night On the Sunday following two Friers were sent to me both of them being Irish Men and speaking very good English Two Friers sent to Confesse him One of them was caled Padre Iuan Father Iohn After a sad and graue Salutation Brother quoth he I come in Loue to you and Charity to your Soule to Confesse you And if to vs as your Spirituall Ghostly Fathers you will lay open your Sinnes wee will forgiue them and make your way to Heauen for to morrow you must dye I desired them that they would giue me a little respite that I might retire into a priuate Chamber and instantly I would repaire to them and giue them satisfaction Leaue I had Away I went and imediately returned They asked me if I had yet resolued and whether I would come to Confession I told them I had been at Confession already One of them demaunded with whome I answered with God the Father And with nobody else sayd the other Yes quoth I Pike at Confession but with no Friers and with Iesus Christ my Redeemer who hath both power and will to forgiue all Men their Sinnes that truely Repent Before these Two haue I falne on my knees and Confest my grieuous offences and trust they will giue me a free Absolution and Pardon What thinke you of the Pope sayd Father Iohn I answered I knew him not They hereupon shaking their heads told me they were sorry for me and so departed Whilst thus I lay in Sherrys The Captaine of the Fort a Prisoner the Captaine of the Fort Don Francisco Bustamente was brought in Prisoner for his Life because he deliuered vp the Castle but whether he dyed for it or no I cannot tell My day of Triall being come I was brought from Prison Duke of Medina D. of Macada D. Ferdinando Giron Marquesse De Alquenezes c. into the Towne of Sherrys by two Drumbes and a hundred Shotte before three Dukes foure Condes or Earles