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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17474	Diatelesma. The fifth part or number comprehending the principall actions of Germany, France, Spaine, and the Neatherlands, continued from November, 1637.	N. C.	1639 (1639)	STC 4293.8; ESTC S107115	59,854	122

the night seeme as glorious as day the great Ordnance thundred out a Proclamation of triumphant victory the souldiers and inhabitants kept Revels and feasting and as if there had been no enemy neer them and after their feeding lay downe to sleepe The Spanish Garrisons of Guelders Gennep Ruremund Venlo and other places upon the Maze conjecturing what the issue of that dayes froliking might be mustered up 1500 men and armed with Petards and such like instruments marched up thither-ward to surprize the City Each circumstance answered their hopes for execution of the Enterprize Undertaken upon good grounds the Lord of Wynbergen was the person to whose care the custody and government of the Towne was deputed He was then absent from his charge and his absence was no small encouragement to the undertakers Common men will assume more liberty when their prime Commander is away then they dare think of while he is with them The darknes of the night concealed their approches and the loud reports of the Canon and out-stretched shouts of the people their actions An artificiall bridge was laid over one part of the outward Moat and a pile of brush-wood and bul-rushes dammed up another the Canons were ready to play and the enemy to enter yet nothing was suspected much lesse perceived by the Garrison and inhabitants How happy a presage was this of their wished end their counsels hitherto found no reluctancy in a still silence they stood armed to give the assault till the triumphs being past and as still a silence in the Town as was observed in the Army gave the assaylants some evidence that then was their time for action The word was given Is prosecuted valiantly and each man conformed himself to an active obedience The assault was made with such violence that one of the gates which was made only for the ingresse and egresse of friends was therby become under the command of the enemies Heere only was the rub which stayed the race of their conquest the draw-bridge was up and that being wanting stopt them in their full carreer But it only hindred their speed and could not divert the resolved Spaniards from prosecution of this thus farre fortunate beginning True valour is not heartlesse upon each disadvantage and a right souldier accounts it his honour to encounter with difficulties Though the way was thus hedged up yet on they went but not with such speed as they intended nor with that happinesse which their hopes had promised The assault was discovered then by a Sentinell whose fear made the danger greater then it was his throat proclayming the state of the Town to be past danger as already in the absolute power of the Enemy The Citizens stood like amazed men and were ready to buy their lives with the voluntary surrendry of their goods to the victor only the Lievtenant Governours heart fainted not hee made good use of the little breathing time the yawne of the bridge had given him beat up the Alarum drew up his Companies together and wisely ordering his half distracted men who by his example took fresh courage fell upon the Enemy with an impetuous violence when having scaled the walls hee ganto cry victoria The end crowneth the work And disappointed happily had the conclusion bin answerable to the premises the Governour of Gelders the principall adventurer in this expedition had got much more profit by the Catastrophe then glory by his well advised Enterprize Wesell had bin blocked up though no Enemy appeared in the field the Spanish Garrisons had incircled it nor could it have received relief from the States conveniently The valour and vigilance of the Lievtenant Governour prevented al with his new awaked men he made an assault upon the over-watched adversary who neither prepared perfectly to defend himself nor offend the Garrison some of his men being upon the wal and rather seeking the way down into the City to endamage the defendants then tosecure themselves others got over the Moat and more expecting the assistance of their companions friends then affronts of their foes and in conclusion with the losse of his own life and 60 of his men repulsed the besieger with the slaughter of some hundreds of his men and many prisoners leaving the name of Wike so was he called more glorious after his death then it was in his life by dying victoriously Yet nor his valour nor fate was all to which the Town was obliged for this deliverance Some other accidents intercided which forwarded if not perfected it The Spanish Canon was not good two old Peeces were planted to scoure the streets when the Gate was laid open and those crasie things upon the first discharging fell on pieces and then the noyse of the Guns within the Town being heard at Wesell not above four English miles thence distant some companies were sent out with 3 Drums to assist their confederates which according to direction beating the marches of 3 severall Nations disheartented the Spaniards from presuming too far as not knowing what Enemy might be behinde them and so caused them to leave their weapons to save their persons their Petards Granadoes Pikes Halberts Harquebusses of crocks and other military instruments being thus made a prey to the victorious Hollander Stratagems in warre are like goodly houses in eminent Cities one is but the model of another This designe of the Spanish garrisons was the pattern of the like to the Statists of Mastricht against the little city of Hanuyit which was undertaken as advisedly as the other and ended more happily though not prosecuted so eagerly Their intentions were different as their issues these last adventurers had no designe upon the place which desired neutrality but upon four companies of Spanish foot and horse which were thrust upon the city as Presidiaries whom the duke of Bovillon intended to surprise by onslaught and to restore the city to its antient liberty To this purpose the fifth of November new stile Surprised at Hanuit withall the Cavallery and some fire-lockes drawne of each company in the garrison nine out of each companies under two Captaines three lievtenants and three ensignes armed with petards and hand granadoes hee marched about eight at night towards the city which lieth in little Brabant upon the frontiers of the Bishop of Liege and arrived there the next morning before day His approach was suspected by the sentinell but not knowne perfectly the Watchman heard a noyse and called his Corporall who comming from the Corps dugard and listning a while in vain for a better information the army upon the sentinels word keeping strict silence returned checking the scout for his vaine feare which he concluded to have troubled his fancy with an ungrounded suspition of an approaching enemy Facile credimus quod volumus Mens understandings are often fooled by their corruptible appetite which presenting things to the sence otherwise than they are deludeth the reason and by a false conception produceth a Phrygian