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A53879	Verses by the University of Oxford on the death of the most noble and right valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill, alias Granvill, Kt. who was slain by the rebells at the battle on Lansdown-Hill near Bathe, July the 5, 1643.	University of Oxford.; Birkhead, Henry, 1617?-1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing O989; ESTC R18022	30,066	120

Anglorum Magnanimus BEVILLIVS GRANVIL Cornubiensis Eques Auratus VERSES BY The University of OXFORD On the Death of the Most Noble and Right Valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill alias Granvill Kt. Who was Slain by the Rebells at the Battle on Lansdown-Hill near Bathe July the 5. 1643. Aut spoliis ego jam raptis laudabor opimis Aut Letho insigni Virg. Aeneid Printed at Oxford in the Year of our Lord 1643. and now Reprinted at London 1684. To the Right Honourable John Earl of BATHE Viscount of Lansdown Baron Granvill of Granvill Bideford and Kilkhampton Lord-Lieutenant and High-Steward of the Dutchy of Cornwal Lord-Warden of the Stanneries Governour of Plymouth Groom of the Stole to his Majesty First Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-Chamber and One of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Councill THese Verses were an Epicedium of the Muses of Oxford made to adorn the Herse of your Noble Father who Dy'd so Gloriously at Lansdown in Defence of his Prince and Country It is Apparent what a Publique loss his Death was that one of the first Universities of Europe should think fit to Lament it A Respect it may be never done before to any but to the Royal Family But as there are few Persons my Lord so Deserving to be Celebrated as your Father so are there few Families which have had that Military Glory in them Not to go back so far as your great Ancestor Hamon Dentatus Earl of Corboil descended from the Warlike Rollo Duke of Normandy Nor to Mention his two Renowned Sons Robert Fitzhamon and Sr Richard de Granvill who came over with William the Conqueror and Ayded him at the Battle of Hastings to Wyn the Crown of England and afterward in the Conquest of Wales there are late Instances of other of your Progenitors who have Illustrated your Race by their valiant Actions In the War with France betwixt Henry the 8 th and Francis the first Sir Roger Granvil lost his life at Sea And his Son Sir Richard Granvil when he was very Young went a Volentier into Hungary to serve the Emperour Ferdinand against the Turk and after that was with Don John of Austria at the Battle of Lepanto the greatest Day that ever was at Sea since that of Actium At his Return home applying himself to the Sea he became an Expert Captain and Admirall after Several Voyages into the West-Indies and elsewhere Services done his Country with much Honour and Successe he was at last Slayn at the Azores Islands having with one of the Queen's Ships alone being unhappily Seperated from the rest of the Fleet whereof he was Vice-Admiral Sustain'd a fight against the whole Naval power of Spain never yeilding though his Guns were dismounted his men almost all hurt or kill'd himself Mortally Wounded and his Decks blown up that there was no place left to fight upon so that his Enemies were Astonished at his valour and Concern'd to save him as if he had been of their own Nation but his Wounds being too Mortall to be cured he Expired in a Few Hours and was Buried in the Ocean which had been the Theatre of his Glory I cannot forget another Sir Richard Granvill your Lordships Uncle who having done his Apprentice-ship in Arms in the Low-Countrys and German-Wars serv'd his late Majesty in the Northern Expeditions and then in the Wars of Ireland and at length coming to command one of the Kings Armies in the West kept that Country in his Majesties Obedience till the Rest of England was lost the fortune of the Parliament prevail'd every where A severe Observer of Military Discipline and my Lord General the Old Duke of Albemarle was wont to say one of the best Captains we had in all the War of England and Ireland As the Name and fortune of your Ancestors are Descended to your Lordship so is their Virtue too which appeared so early in you that before you were Seaventeen years Old you enter'd into your Fathers Command and after you had serv'd the King upon several Engagements in the Army and particularly in Cornwall at the Defeat of the Earl of Essex you brought those Valiant Companies in the Head of which your Father was slain at Lansdown to fight for his Majesty at the Second Battel of Newbery where you were like to have undergone your Fathers fate as well as Imitated his Virtue for being Engaged in the Thickest of the Enemies and having receiv'd severall wounds and one most Dangerous One in the Head with the blow of a Halberd which beat you to the Ground you lay for some time without Sense or Motion 'till a Body of the Kings Horse Charging the Enemy a-fresh beat them off the ground upon which you fought where you were found amongst the Dead Cover'd with Dust and Blood and being known were carried into that place of the Field where the King Prince of Wales his now Present Majesty were who sent you to Dennington Castle to be treated for your Wounds It could not My Lord but be matter of great Contentment to you to have his Majesty himself a witness of the Blood you had lost for him and a Spectator of that Loyalty and Courage which are the Hereditary Qualities of your Family No sooner were the Armies drawn off from the Field of Newbery but you were presently Besieged in Dennington where for some time you lay in Extream Danger of your life not only by those Desperate Wounds you had got in the late Battel but in the hazzard you were in of Receiving new ones from the Enemy the Bullets flying continually through the Room where you lay under Cure 'till you were Releived by the Victorious Forces of his Majesty at the Third Battel of Newbery Nor have you only Serv'd the King with your Sword in the Field but been another way a Chief Instrument of the Greatest good that ever came to England I mean the Restauration of his Majesty and of the Laws and Liberty of your Oppressed Country This my Lord was brought to pass by your Prudent and Successfull Negotiation with my Lord General Monck you having a particular Commission from the King to treat with him with whom when you had Conserted all things for his Majesties Return and that without Imposing the least Condition upon him you Posted away to Bruxells to give him an Account of it In which Journey as well as in the Rest of your Conduct in this Affair you exposed your self to no Ordinary Danger and most certainly serv'd the King your Master more Effectually then if you had won more then One Battel for him My Lord General who seem'd to be Inspir'd in the Carrying-on of this Great Business was so Circumspect that he would not write to the King by your Lordship for fear you might be Searched upon the Way and what you carried Intercepted and his Great Design Discover'd before it was Ripe and therefore left all to your Care and Prudent Management But at your Return he

above all cold precepts which do preach Escapes retreats and fallings back and teach Advantages of Time and place and thus Learnedly make Men Pusillanimous Or at most valiant to a Point and all Their Courage meerly Philosophicall Thou thought'st it still Ignobler to retire With flegme and coldness then to fall with fire Still call'dst retreating loosing of the Day Still thoughtst that to be safe was to betray And where the Cause requir'd it not to dye That 't was as great a baseness as to fly Thus meeting Dangers in their sternest shape Thy Arts were still t' encounter not to scape Still reckoned'st it a Souldiers Stain and blot To be secure not by his Sword but Plot. Methinks I see Thee shaking thy bold spear Against a numerous Host without their fear Who did beset Thee and the spacious plain Before Thee strow'd with Slain fal'n on thy slain Whilst all our other Troops discharg'd from fight Wonder'd to see the War turn'd to a Sight Where one encounter'd many and descried A Siege on theirs a Duel on our Side Great Soul who didst contract the Battel to Thy Solatary self and there didst do Things which made all our other Forces be Idle spectators of their Victory While'st safer by thy Side then at their home Their business was to see and overcome O what a Terrour issued from thy Look Which fought as well as Thou and Prisoners took By th' eye as by the Hand which but beheld Made the first Skirmish and at distance quell'd Thy unarm'd face shew'd dreadful as our Lances The foe felt new Artilleries from thy Glances Which still like Native Engines from Thee flew And at once routed chas'd and overthrew Thus then secur'd by thy Great self at once To us a Bulwark to thy self a Sconce As in a Circle 'bout Thee drawn by the charms Of thine own Courage which did arm thy Arms How didst thou dare the numerous Foe still mock Their furious Onsets with a shook for shook Still ' gainst their Iron Men and men of Steel Like One inchanted all parts but the Heel If We may credit what some do report Did'st hold fight from thy self as from a Fort Impregnable untoucht still did it repair The Faintings of those who about thee were Still did'st recrute our Losses We did see New Squadrons as some fell still rais'd from Thee Whose Valour ran supplys and We from thence Saw Thee new Troops new Regiments dispence Still unexhausted We can now unfold Th' ambiguous rumour and report which told And spoke of our Increase i' th West that there Two Camps two Armies for us did appear The Cornishmen made One the Other Fame Which reckon'd Thee Stout Granville and thy Name Still as our other Camp from whence We drew Fresh Legions still and thus from handfulls grew Here some would chide thy Valour whose bold Heat Joyn'd thine own to the Enemies defeat And say 't was rashness in Thee to expose Thy self a Pikeman against Horsemen Foes As if to fall had been thy Plot and aym And Thou had'st some Ambition to be slain 'T is true indeed our Conquest had been more Had'st Thou liv'd to behold it with the Store Of Worthies who escap'd Since losing Thee We did not Win but change a Victory Yet if to Dye with Honour be a Grace If to fall and to consecrate the place On which Thou fell'st and make it shcred Ground To all those who surviv'd Thee and stood round Be Nobler then to live Those Books which tell Of ancient Herp's who devoted fell And yielding up their stout and Warlike Ghosts With their brave ruine did preserve their Hosts Will always be thy Chronicle whom Death Snatcht like a Decius hence whose hallowed Breath Flew from Thee like an Offering who dyed'st twice Our Souldier once and once our Sacrifice Jasper Main NOt to be wrought by Malice Gain or Pride To a Compliance with the Thriving Side Not to take Arms for love of Change or Spight But only to maintain Afflicted Right Not to dye vainly in pursuit of Fame Perversely seeking after Voice and Name Is to Resolve Fight Dye as Martyrs do And thus did He Souldier and Martyr too He might like some Reserved Men of State Who look not to the Cause but to its Fate Have stood aloof engag'd on Neither Side Prepar'd at last to strike in with the Tyde But well-weigh'd Reason told him that when Law Either is Renounc'd or Misapply'd by th' awe Of false-nam'd Common-wealths men when the Right Of King and Subject is suppres'd by Might When all Religion either is Refus'd As meer Pretence or meerly as That us'd When thus the Fury of Ambition Swells Who is not Active Modestly Rebells Whence in a just esteem to Church and Crown He offred All and nothing thought His own This thrust Him into Action Whole and Free Knowing no Interest but Loyalty Not loving Arms as Arms or Strife for Strife Nor Wastfull nor yet Sparing of his Life A great Exactor of Himself and then By fair Commands no less of Other men Courage and Judgment had their equall part Councell was added to a Generous Heart Affairs were justly tim'd nor did he catch At an Affected Fame of Quick Dispatch Things were Prepar'd Debated and then Done Nor rashly Brook nor vainly Over-spun False Periods no where by Design were made As are by those who make the Warr their Trade The Building still was suited to the Ground Whence every Action issu'd Full and Round We know who blind their Men with specious Lyes With Revelations and with Prophecies Who promise Two things to obtain a Third And are themselves by the like Motives stirr'd By no such Engines He His Souldiers draws He knew no Arts but Courage and the Cause With these he brought them on as well-train'd men And with these too he brought them off agen I should I know track Him through all the Course Of his great Actions shew their Worth and Force But although all are Handsom yet we cast A more intentive Eye still on the last When now th' incensed Rebell proudly came Down like a Torrent without Bank or Damm When Undeserv'd Success urg'd on their force That Thunder must come down to stop their Course Or Granville must step in Then Granville stood And with Himself oppos'd and checkt the Flood Conquest or Death was all His Thought So fire Either Orecomes or doth it self expire His Courage work't like Flames cast heat about Here there on this on that side None gave out Not any Pike in that Renowned Stand But took new Force from His Inspired Hand Souldier encourag'd Souldier Man urg'd Man And He urg'd All so much Example can Hurt upon Hurt Wound upon Wound did call He was the But the Mark the Aim of All His Soul this while retir'd from Cell to Cell At last flew up from all and then He fell But the Devoted Stand enraged more From that his Fate ply'd hotter then before And Proud to fall with Him sworn not

highly commending his Valour and worthiness and greatly bewailing the danger wherein he was being unto them a Rare Spectacle and a Resolution seldom approved to see one Ship turn towards so many Enemies to endure the charge and boording of so many huge Armadas and to resist and repell the assaults and entries of so many Souldiers All which and more is confirmed by a Spanish Captain of the same Armada and a present actor in the fight who being severed from the Rest in a Storm was by the Lion of London a small Ship taken is now Prisoner in London The General Commander of the Armada was Don Alphonso Bazan Brother to the Marquess of Santa Cruz. The Admiral of the Biscaine Squadron was Britandona of the Squadron of Sivil the Marquess of Arumburch The Hulks and Flyboats were Commanded by Luis Coutinho There were Slain and Drowned in this fight well near One Thousand of the Enemies and Two special Commanders Don Luis de Sant John and Don George de Prunaria de Mallaga as the Spanish Captain confesseth besides divers others of special account whereof as yet report is not made The Admiral of the Hulks and the Ascension of Sivil were both Sunk by the side of the Revenge one other recovered the Rode of Saint Michael and sunk also there a fourth ran her self with the Shore to save her men Sir Richard died as it is said the Second or Third day aboard the General was by them greatly bewailed What became of his body whether it were buried in the Sea or on the Land we know not the comfort that remaineth to his Friends is that he hath ended his Life honourably in respect of the reputation won to his Nation and Country and of the same to his Posterity and that being dead he hath not out-lived his own honour For the rest of her Majesties Ships that entred not so far into the Fight as the Revenge the reasons and causes were these There were of them but six in all whereof two but small Ships the Revenge ingaged past recovery The Island of Flores was on the one side 53 Sail of the Spanish divided into Squadrons on the other all as full filled with Souldiers as they could contain Almost the one half of our men sick and not able to serve The Ships grown foul unromaged and scarcely able to bear any Sail for want of Balast having been six months at the Sea before If all the rest had entred all had been lost for the very hugeness of the Spanish Fleet if no other Violence had been offered would have crusht them between them into Shivers Of which the dishonour and loss to the Queen had been far greater then the spoil or harm that the Enemy could any way have received Notwithstanding it is very true that the Lord Thomas would have entred between the Squadrons but the rest would not condescend and the Master of his own Ship offred to leap into the Sea rather then to conduct that her Majesties Ship and the rest to be a prey to the Enemy where there was no hope nor Possibility either of Defence or Victory Which also in my opinion had ill sorted or answered the discretion and trust of a Generall to commit himself and his charge to an assured destruction without hope or any likelyhood of prevailing thereby to diminish the Strength of her Majesties Navy and to enrich the pride and glory of the Enemy The Foresight of the Queens commanded by Mr Thomas Vavisor performed a very great Fight and staid two hours as near the Revenge as as the Weather would permit him not forsaking the Fight 'till he was like to be encompassed by the Squadrons and with great difficulty cleared himself The rest gave divers volleis of Shot and entred as far as the place permitted and their own necessities to keep the weather-gage of the Enemy untill they were parted by night A few days after the Fight was ended and the English Prisoners dispersed into the Spanish and Indie Ships there arose so great a Storm from the West and North-West that all the Fleet was dispersed as well the Indian Fleet which were then come unto them as the rest of the Armada that attended their arrival of which 14 Sail together with the Revenge and in her 200 Spaniards were cast away upon the Isle of St Michael So it pleased them to honour the burial of that renowned Ship the Revenge not suffering her to perish alone for the great honour she atchieved in her life time On the rest of the Islands there were cast away in this Storm 15 or 16 more of the Ships of War and of an hundred and odd Sail of the Indie Fleet expected this year in Spain What in this Tempest and what before in the Bay of Mexico and about the Bermudas there were 70 and odd consumed and lost with those taken by our Ships of London besides one very rich Indian Ship which set her self on fire being boarded by the Pilgrim and five other taken by Master Wats his Ship of London between the Havana and Cape S. Antonio The fourth of this Month of November we received Letters from the Tercera affirming that there are 3000 bodies of men remaining in that Island saved out of the perished Ships and that by the Spaniards own confession there are 10000 cast away in this Storm besides those that are perished between the Islands and the Main Thus it hath pleased God to fight for us and to defend the Justice of our Cause against the ambitious and bloody pretences of the Spaniard who seeking to devour all Nations are Themselves devoured A manifest testimony how injust and displeasing their attempts are in the sight of God who hath pleased to witness by the success of their affairs his mislike of their bloody and injurious designs purposed and practised against all Christian Princes over whom they seek unlawfull and ungodly Rule and Empery One day or two before this Wrack happened to the Spanish Fleet when as some of our Prisoners desired to be set on shore upon the Islands hoping to be from thence transported into England which liberty was formerly by the General promised One Morice Fitz. John Son of Old John of Desmond a notable Traytor Cousin German to the late Earl of Desmond was sent to the English from Ship to Ship to perswade them to serve the King of Spain the arguments he used to induce them were these The increase of Pay which he promised to be trebled advancement to the better sort and the exercise of the True Catholique Religion and safety of their Souls to all For the first even the beggerly and unnatural behaviour of those English and Irish Rebells that serv'd the King in that present action was sufficient to answer that first argument of rich Pay For so poor and beggerly they were as for want of Apparell they stripped their poor Country-men Prisoners out of their ragged Garments worn to nothing by six Months service