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A03133	A historicall relation of the famous siege of the Busse, and the suprising of Wesell Together with the articles, and points of composition graunted by his Excellencie the Prince of Orange to those of the towne. And a supposition of the state, and order of their garrison marching out of the city. and some other additions herevnto annexed. Written by H.H. ... .	Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?	1630 (1630)	STC 13262; ESTC S118791	37,502	49

a day or two to get them off which made vs imagine he would haue returned back againe to vs. But at length he passed the ma●e by Mu●ker and made as though he marched away and had nothing to say to Nemegen but bethinking himselfe wel stole backe in the night with some of his forces to surprize it The Burgers and souldiers hauing intelligence of his comming prouided for him and were in a readinesse vpon the wall to welcome him and the alarum being silently taken they gaue fire from the wall among his troopes and if a Cannonier could haue but found the key of a pouder house not farre from his halfe canon where they should haue fal●e on they had payd him bette● howsoeuer they carryed off a waggon full of dead bodyes and hurt men and in the morning found many armes which they had left behind as Mr Pilgrime the seruice master of Nemegen told mee who was then present with his musket vpon the wall The Enemies Policie was now by way of diuersion to raise vs from the siege of the Busse and to that end sent the Gouernour of Ling and Dulcken which was the gouern●ur of Groll with certaine muskettiers and firelockes before to y● Isell to gaine a passage while Count Harry passes y● Rhyne at Wesell and meetes with the Emperours forces The gouernour by the helpe of a ferry mans sonne who for his reward they afterward made Captayne got ouer the Isell at Isellort Captaine Dabbs and a Scotch Captaine marcht as fast as they could to stop hinder the enemies passage by sloopes ouer the Isell but cam● to late notwithstanding he got vp as many of his men as he could and figh● brauely with the Enemy in which sight hee himselfe and diuers of his company were flaine The enemie being come ouer the Ysel falls to worke as fast as they could to maintaine and make good their passage till more forces came vp to them Count Harry hauing the newes off it sent with all expedition the Emperours forces horse foot to them Ar●h●m was then in a pittiful feare and diuers of th● best sort sled out of the towne which gaue discouragement to their fellow Burge●s and caused tho●e a great disorder Newes came to the Prince that the enemie was passed ouer the Is●l at Yselo●t into the yellowe he presently sent forces out of our Armie at seuerall times as first the lord of Di●d●ns R●gi●et with diuers English french and scotch companies afterward count Ernest Coronel Harewood Lieutenant Coronel Pagnam ●or the English and Coronell Hanteriue for the French Count Ernest comming to Arnham and finding it much distracted caused his drums to b●●te a proclamation that those Burgers which were fled had abandoned the towne should vpō penalty of confiscating their goods and lands returne backe againe into the Towne Then he guards and besets the B●row from Arnham to Skincksennce and so to Nimogen ouer which Coronell Har●wood and Lieutenant C●ronell Pagnam commanded And from Arnham downe the Riuer to Rhyme and wagener ouer whom Coronel Hauteriue Sr Iohn Ver● commanded The Enemy after they had ●howne themselues before Arnham vpon the hills and made some incursions into y● velowe they tooke in a sconce of ours betweene Do●sbarow and Zurphin on the valow side by Spankeron which a seriant with small reputation vpon the first summons gaue ouer The Enemy finding this pla●e more Con●●nient remoued his ●ridge and quarter from Iselor● came thither because it was a higher ground and better for his Army to lodge in and there layd ouer his bridge droue in piles of ●ake before it to secure it from breaking or burning and both on the velow● side and the county side at the ●●d thereof made strong force and entrenchments with seu●n points to defend it And being thus get into the ground and fortified the Ba●●e of Mount Cu●uly who commanded the Crawa●● accompanied with Count Harry of the Berks soone mar●h●● thorow the fear by a narrow passage to A●●reford and those of the Towne after a Cannon sho●t or two from the gallowe● hill giues it o●er vnworthily whereas if they had held it but two or three dayes 〈◊〉 the Pence had s●●t to them or I hang●r had ●●de the enemy to forsake them they had done better and gayned more repu●ation Amerchard now being taken there was likewise a 〈…〉 in Vtrecht 〈◊〉 of the ●ight of s●me of their chiefe men and Burgers The Papists began in diuers places to put vp their heads and expected a day The Lords the States generall themselues to giue encouragement to those of Vtrecht in this perplexed time and to preuent further disorders were fayne to remoue their councill from the Hagh to Vtrecht And General Morgan in this distresse came happily out of Denmarke put in forces into Campen Swoll Deuenter and Zutphen The states began to fortifie Vtrecht and ran a trench along the riuer side that goes from Vtrecht to the Fare To be short the Enemy being master of Amersford many mens hearts began to faile them and they hung downe their heads like bulrushes you may likewise imagine what heauy newes this was in our Army and how bobbard the papists grew herevpon witnes two y● one who had giuen out that his Excel was risen from the Busse That the Enemy had beaten vp the Lord of Breadroods quarter and had releiued ye●owne for which report he might very well haue had his braine● knockt out and his house plundred by the popularity if th● magistrates had not wisely preuented it The other after his geering māer said to some of our Religion Oh hee geel zynnude Geux hate broeck His Excel was much importuned by some to raise his siege to hinder the Enemies further incursions into the heart of their country which he would by noe meanes heare off notwithstanding cald a coancill of warre vpon it and tooke the advise of his chiefs Coronells His Excel-knowing fullwell what an infinite charge this siege had cost the land that his honour all ours lay at y● stake vpon it and so resolued to continew his siege and to rest vpon the prouidence of God for the Euene Whiles the Enemy was thus a dominering in Amersford firing plundring and rauaging the velow had intended another expedition for Hatton Swoll Campen and chose parts Nowes comes from heauen that Wesell was taken ●his dashes all breakes the necke of all their designes The Lord shuts a doore behind him puts a hooke in his nostrill and fetches him back with a whirre The Emperours men Crawats who had left their goods riches in Wesell sweares by e●n hondert duysent tonnen van gettapte duyvelen thought the there had bene iugling betwene y● Prince of Orange Count Harry his Cossin The post which brought the first newes of it to them was beaten and threatned to be hanged for his labour And they made as much hast as they could to be iogging

A HISTORICALL Relation Of the Famous Siege of the Busse And the surPrising of Wesell Together With the Articles and points of Composition graunted by his Excellencie the Prince of Orange to those of the Towne And A Supposition of the state and order of their garrison marching out of the City and some other additions herevnto annexed Written by H.H. quarter-master to my lord General Vere his Regiment Printed at Delph in Holland Anno. 1630. To His honoured friends The Deputy Minister Treasurers Assistants and Generality of the right Worshipfull Company of Marchant Adventurers residing in Delph RIght worthy and much respected The last Aprill when I went out of the Towne to the Army I was engaged by promise to three of my friends among you As occasions offred to aduertize you now and then of our proceedings before y● Busse which according to my weake ability I did performe But seeing the most part of you were eye witnesses at the siege Saw our workes and approaches went to the very point and into the galleryes and sent some Cannon bulletts into the Towne before it was giuen ouer and since saw that glorious day which made amends for your ill nights lodging when the Enemies garrison marched out of it And that hauing now more leasure for the refreshing of your memories I haue recollected the parts of my letters then written to you into a whole and briefe discourse Touching the siege of the Busse and the surprising of Wesell I confesse it is a graue story a braue subiect for a farr more eloquent pen then mine to worke vpon but considering my employment in ●his siege and that truth bluntnesse best beseemes a souldier I haue ventered vpon It to breake the yee vnto another Such as it is It comes vnto you from a souldier as a small retribution in acknowledgment of that great loue and ●omfort he hath found amonge you and not to shewe him selfe an vngrateful man beseeching you to accept of it with as free a hart as he Presēts it vnto you to pardon what therein is amisse Thus praying the Almightie to enrich you with all his blessings both Spirituall and Temporall I recommend you to his grace and protection and rest Yours to doe you a●● accep●able service Henry Hexham A Briefe relation of the siege of the Busse And the surprizing of Wesell AFter the happy Victory obteyned by that wise and valiant Generall Peter Heyne ouer the Spanish siluer fleete and the safe re●ume of the West Indian ships into the Netherlands the Lords the States Centrall and the Prince of Orange marking wisely herein the goodne●● and prouidence of God that that Neruus belli which th● king of Spayne would haue imployed against them was now brought into the bowels of their country tooke courage resolued for the field and prepa●ations being mad● and sen● before his Excel to amuze the Enemy appointed our Rendevous at Skinck●-sco●c● the 26 of Aprill 1629. where th● companies being come expected further order from the Prince On Tewsday then the 24 of Aprill 1629 according to th● new stile his Excel Sr Harry Veyne his Maiesties extrao●dinary Lord Ambassadour my Lord Generall Vere wit● diuers other Lords and cōmanders set forward from the 〈◊〉 that night lodg'd at Verceht the next at Ar●h●m whence 〈◊〉 sent monsieur Wyts Sariant maior General to Skincks-sco●●● with this order that the shipping should ●ack about and fa●● downe y● streame to Nemegen The wagons being mustered 〈◊〉 distributed to y● companie● the 2● y● Prince hit traine depa●ted from Ar●ham to Nemegen gaue command that the co●panies should be drawne off from shipboard and march alon● by the towne side to Mucker-heath where the Army qua●●red that night vnder the heauens canopy by the same token rayned almost all that night On the morrow being the 〈◊〉 his Ex●el ga●● order that the creeke of the day at the first beating of his drumme the souldiers should put on their armes at the second beating of a march they should draw forth and be readi● to ma●ch Monsieur Percivall the quarter master Generall with the quarter masters of euery Regiment and the captaine of the pioniers went before to prepare the way by which the army should march and so made a way thorow closies and ditches t●ll they came to the Ma●e dyke and then the army marcht along the dyke till they came a musket shot beneath y● Graue where they found a bridge layed ready ouer the Maze and there passed ouer the bridge 56 troopes of Horse and 286 companies of foote whereof many were double which marcht to the way y● goes to the Busse where the three Brigadoes of the Army the Avant guard the Battaile and the Reere were quart●red that night in a right line vpon the Heath which made a goodly shew with the but ends of their pikes sticking in the ground in their ranckes and ●iles and our Horse sodg'd on the right hand of the Heath at two villages called Reeke and Schayck neere vnto them On munday morning the last of Aprill the Army began to mo●ue againe at the breake of day and that night marcht to a Village called Hejwicke where there was a castle which the enemie held some two houres going frō the Busse whether the quarter Masters riding before to quarter the Army they lay pelting at them and some straglers out of the loope holes of the Castle but his Exellencie sent them word by the Gentelman which dwelt in the Castle that they should not play y● fooles too long in holding it out for if they did that they did force him to bring ordinance before it hee would beate it about their eares and that they were to expect no quarter He summoned them once more by his Trumpetter yet for all that they held it out stil till they saw the Avantgard of our armie come marching towards them and then they yeilded and cryd peccaui and sould to our souldiers bread butte● bear● cheese bacon hens and ducks which was a good refreshmt to them Count Ernest comming vp turnd them out and put some 60 of our ●irelockes into it and so the Armie was lodgd that night in the fields and meddowes by the riuer side ●alled the Aye The next day being May-day the Armie marcht through a village called Gemonde where they passed a bridg ouer the Dummell and the Armie being marcht to the Heath his Exellencie made a halt and broke his fast in a pesants house and hauing broke his fast tooke with him a thousand horse and went to viewe the ground at Vucht where y● Armie should be quartered the enemie not forgetting now ●nd then to send vs some Cannon bullets from the towne ●nd sc●ne●s After his Exellencie had well viewed the ground and found out the convenientest places for vs to quarter in he ga●e order to the quarter master generall to giue to euerie quarte● master his ground and lodg'd himselfe in a Gentelmans hous● at Vucht called Heyms-house