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A84639	An unhappy vievv of the vvhole behaviour of my Lord Duke of Buckingham, at the French island, called the isle of Rhee / discovered by Colonell William Fleetwood, an unfortunate commander in that untoward service.	Fleetwood, William, Colonel.	1648 (1648)	Wing F1259; Thomason E430_14; ESTC R202115	6,192	16

arose betwixt the faction of Sir John Burrowes and the Duke that had not Sir John suddenly quieted all by his wisdome we had certainly mutined amongst our selves to all our confusion and so have given the Enemy an occasion of advantage but they seemed to be reconciled and new celebrated the amity the same night by a private Supper in the Dukes Tent But such is the malice of a vindicative heart that it is never appeased but remaines still inexorable and devilish For the next morning Sir John Burrows according to his daily wont surveying his own Trenches and being cleare out of all danger of the Fort was in an instant stricken dead in the place with a musket shot by an unknown hand and so gives up his spotlesse soul into the joyes of Heaven that had never done but good on earth The newes and manner of this bred a new hurly burley in the Campe and ready we were to dye againe upon each others swords but through fresh rewards from the Duke to some and Lord like meanes to other some that had been formerly rewarded all were once more quieted and our provision was much lessened whereupon my Lord of Holland was sent to for our releife but came not About this time there was news that the French King approached with releife for the Fort and to raise our seig wherupon the Duke for the safeguard of his owne person wheras his retinew were the strongest already withdrew two of the best Regim from the sure places wher Sir John Burrows had formerly allotted them for his own defence in particular and so left al manlesse which the French Convoyes perceiving entred there the same night releived the Fort in abundance both with fresh soldier and provision and so nightly for a week together came under our noses with the like stuffe and yet the Duke would not suffer us to encounter them pretending that hee feared the French King at his backe when alas there was neither King nor French Army there When the Fort was as well manned as victualed the defendants began divers times to confront and brave us before their maine sally out yet this our Generall would neither permit us to incounter them nor at last to continue our battery so that in a very discontented manner we lay idle riotously consuming the remainder of His Majesties allowance without attempting any thing worth the while Insomuch that I my selfe impartially demanded of the Duke what he would doe with us whether he longed to inthrall us to his owne ignoble pleasure or to starve us up instead of the defendants but could draw no other answer from him but that he was our General and so we should know it by the strict hand he would carry over us And for our further proceedings against the Fort wee should goe on in our idlenesse till wee heard further from him Wee that were Colonels and prime Officers under him could hardly brook this his untoward carirage as raw meat on our stomachs yet for quietnesse sake to repell mutenies in the Camp we smothered our grudge without any appearance of heart burning to the multitude and so lay expecting a miserable successe of all our undertakings Afterwards the Duke told us that he had secret intelligence out of the Fort that most of their best Souldiers had conveied themselves away by night for feare of a new supply by my Lord of Holland and that the Remnant if we lay still intrencht would shortly become our Vassals which news being confirmed with as large protestations as could proceed from the heart of any Christian man made us so farre to credit him as to lie secure and to presume that this once done would make us all as happy as our confidence in his word could any wayes make us miserable by the contrary The very next morning after this consultation which fell out to be the day of doom to most of us the Duke being sensible of his perfideous dealings that was the day the Defendants would encounter us to death notwithstanding what his engagement for our safety had formerly bin to the contrary privily in his Tent by the help of his faction attired one of his own followers every way much resembling himself in his warlike habit colours with instructions suitable to the deceipt and then disguised as a faint and impotent souldier got himself a Shipboard and not onely left us ignorant of the bloody intent towards us but also made us uncapable to prevent it when we should Immediatly upon this we suspecting as little this treachery as that which came of it the defendants numberlesse sallied out and with such violence and fury assayled us in our Trenches they taking most of us unarmed and daunted with the sight of the multitude that wee were glad to fly for our lives Which retreat cost most of us our lives as the assault and both fel out in the end to make up a conquest to the French an absolute overthrow to us The wildnesse of my Lord Mountjoyes horse was the cause of his surprizall and as well of the death of some of our own men for that he not onely avoyded the Enemies charge but confusedly ranne upon and beat back divers of our best horses which otherwise to the very death would have stood it out In our flight we aimed at a certain narrow bridge over agreat River which if we could have recovered and passed we had stopt the pursuit of our Enemies but through their pollicy we were prevented by their overturning a loded Cart there beforehand which we must either climbe over or leape into the River or salt-pits which most of our Company being unable to doe were instantly hewen in peeces Sir Charles Rich and others of great esteeme who in the very deadly extremity were offered quarter but would not rather chusing to dye honourably then longer to live with infamy and torment I my selfe perceiving the folly of resisting any longer having one of the best Horses in the Company was forced to take an infirme Salt-pit where both my selfe and my horse stuck fast in the ground and where I had suddenly a gashly wound in the legge with a Bullet and so I lay struggling for life Lord Lord me thought what paine it was to dye so and divers of our Company and Commanders were in the like distresse But in the end the French horsemen wanting shot to reach us in the water by the valiancy of the poore remainder of our souldiers that were gotten over the Cart wee were dragged a shoare and so being at that time unpursued were conveyed out of danger During the time of our conflict our counterfeit Generall fought very resolutely and got a gash or two in his shoulder for his pains and labour which before we knew the deceit made us notwithstanding our losses to commend him for a valourous Commander but through the Dukes back wardnes some of those that were trusted with the knowledge of this Villany we