Companion c. The Relation of the Great and Memorable Battel fought in Battel Field in Sussex between Harrold King of England and William Duke of Normandy on Octob. 14. 1066. KING Harrold having no sooner defeated the Army of Norvigians and Danes in the North with exceeding slaughter in which of note fell Harfagar King of Denmark Tosto his Brother and Olave his Son but News was brought him that the Normans under the leading of their Duke were landed in the South whereupon he made such speed with his Army that before they could pass through the County of Sussex he was drawing out of London and so with the like celerity marched to give them battel after having sent back the Messenger who came from the Duke of Normandy to demand possession of the Kingdom by vertue of a promise he had made him when being a private man he was taken Prisoner upon his Coast so that both Armies pitching their Tents upon a great Plain now known by the name of Battel-field the King sent divers Spies to view the Norman Camp who being taken and presented to the Duke he generously feasted them causing them to be carried from Tent to Tent and then they were dismissed without any damage or detriment And now Duke William a second time sending to demand the Kingdom or a single Combat with King Harrold and both of them being refus'd as also another proffer which was to hold the Kingdom as a Feudetary of Normandy the Armies drew out on the 14th of October 1066 to try the Fortune of a King and Kingdom by more Swords than one when being set in array of Battel and incouraged on either side with moving Orations the bloody Blast was sounded and the Kentish Men who claimed the Avaunt-guard or From of the Battel as their Right moved and charged the Enemy in the Front with great fury the Battalions and Wings of Horse on the other parts doing the like yet keeping firm in their thick and closed Ranks so that what with the shot of Arrows and those that came to the Sword and push of Pike a bloody and doubtful Fight ensued nor could the Normans with the continual wheeling of their Horse and shot of Archers of which they mostly consisted dismay or disorder the English Battel thoâ— in their motions they shot a slaunt in the Air that the Arrows in their fall might disable the inmost Ranks and gaul the Horse which the Duke perceiving and finding that unless he could loosen the Battel it was in vain for him to expect the Victory nor had he any hope of return his Fleet being before fired at his command he ordered the Retreat to be sounded but â—n such a manner that the whole Army consisting of 50000 Horse and Foot might suddenly face about and charge at the Signal appointed to be given which Stratagem answered his Expectation for the English supposing the Normans fled suddenâ—y disranked to pursue them so that their Orders being open and the Duke rallying 〈◊〉 is Men broke in with a furious Charge â—nd made such slaughter that the ground was covered with heaps of the slain nor â—ould the King though he laboured to cast â—â—em into a thick Body restore the Battel â—ut as he was intent upon it he received the â—ot of an Arrow which entred his Brain â—nd of which Wound he fell down dead â—ter which a miserable slaughter ensued â—ough a party of the English cast themselves into a Ring and manfully resisted however being in the end routed on all parts there fell 97974 by the Sword and shot of Arrows amongst which were the King and his two Brothers Leosin and Grith together with the flower of the English Nobility and of the Normans not above 9000 and although their Duke escaped he had three Horses slain under him yet by this Battel so gained he won a Kingdom for the Land being thus deprived of her King and Nobles no farther resistance was made but all things were left to the disposal of the Conqueror who soon after caused himself to be Crowned King and is known in our Cronologies by the style oâ— King William the First or William the Conqueror Thus Normans fierce possess'd our fruitful Soile And stain'd with blood the famous British Isle Speed de vitae W. C. The Battels of Jerusalem or Jerusalem noâ— by the Armies of the Western Princes December 25. 1099. JErusalem being in the hands of the Infidels their unheard of Cruelties loudened the crys of the oppressed Christians anâ— obliged them to importune their Patriarch to implore the Christian Princes to send their Armies by Battel to rescue them from their Oppressors who accordingly sending his Letters full of lamentations by one Peter a Hermit with other proofs and attestations of the miseries they suffered in the Holy Land such credit was given to them that in a short time an Army of 300000 men were raised wearing on their Breasts red Crosses in token of their holy Warfare and were chiefly under the leading of Godfry of Bulloin Duke of Lorrain and his two Brothers Eustace and Baldwin Hugh brother to the French King Raymond and Robert Earls of Flanders Robert Duke of Normandy Son to William the Conqueror Stephen de Valois Earl of Chartires Adimer Bishop of Podolia c. and with this Army they passed the Hellespont covering the shores of Asia and brought a great Terror upon the Infidels who gathered what Forces they could to oppose the progress of such a War and were not altogether unsuccessful for Peter the Hermit advancing before the rest of the Army with 40000 men raised in the Territories of the Church being furiously charged by the Enemy lost the greatest part of his Forces and was obliged to retire with the rest to Civite a Town a little before abandoned by the Turks not daring to depart thence till the arrival of Duke Godfry when with their united Forces the Christians marched to the City of Nicea which they besieged and made themselves Masters of it in fifty days finding therein great Riches and many Persons of note amongst whom were the Turkish King Solyman's Wife and two Children and the King who came to the Relief of it with the whole power of the lesser Asia consisting of 60000 Horse and Foot was overthrown with such slaughter as covered the Fields with the dead Bodies and filled the Ditches with blood nothing being to be heard but crys and dying groans for the Christians following the Execution 40000 of the Infidels fell by the Sword which brought such a Terror upon those Parts that Cities and Towns were abandoned without so much as being disputed Antioch only of all in that large Tract held out yet made but a weak resistance for after a furious Assault it was taken which being known to the Garrisons of Iconium and Haraclea they surrendred upon the first summons still flying before the Victors and daily sending to his Cozen Axan the Persian Sultan for Aid but he not being able to
Anno 1390. THE Turkish Kingdom founded by Othoman in Asia having spread it self in a short time over the Hellespont into Europe and their Arms brought a Terror upon the Greek Empire now sick and languishing by reason of intestine broils to prevent the further incroachment of Amurath the Despot or Prince of Servia made a private League with the King of Bosna that with their united Powers they might defend their Territories which was not yet so secretly done at an interview between them but the Turk had notice of it and having overthrown Aladin the Caramanian King in Asia and stripped him out of his Countries he drew all his Forces into Europe to oppose the Princes who were raising what Power they could to march against him and knowing they had to deal with one of a fierce and cruel nature resolved to try what might be done by stratagem in order to which a Captain that kept a Castle on the Confines of Bosna hasting to the Camp of Amurath promised him for a large Reward no put the greater part of the strong holds into his hands if he would follow his directions confirming him in what he said by many specious Pretences and Protestations insomuch that the covetous Turk credited him so far as to send 20000 men under the leading of his Tutor Lala-Schahin which the Captain suffering for a while to plunder some inconsiderable Places to give them thereby the greater confidence of their security in the end he trained them into an Ambush of 30000 Besniacks who as they were stragling fell upon them and cut off 15000 of them the other 5000 with Schahin hardly escaping to make a relation of their welcom Amurath being not a little grieved and vexed at the misfortune and disgrace put upon him by one in whom he thought he might have confided considering the Rewards he had bestowed to ingage him on his part breathed nothing but Revenge against the Christians and in the height of his fury commanded his Army to march into Servia where somewhat contrary to his Expectation he found the Christians with a formidable Army ready to bid him battel when as some inconsiderable Towns being taken and possest on both parts and the dreadful day of battel drawing nigh the Armies as if by consent met upon the large Plains of Cossovia where the Generals and Great Captains on either side having made many Speeches and moving Orations to animate the Souldiers to try their utmost Power and Force and set them in battel array the charge was founded and the battalions joyned with such fury that the Earth trembled under their Feet and such was the horrid clashing of Arms the noise and shouts of the Conquerors the Groans and Crys of the vanquished and the neighing and trampling of Horses that many report the wild Beasts in the Mountains stood trembling at what it might signifie or whence so great a Clamour proceeded and that such as beheld the fight at a distance imagined the showers of Arrows that darkned the Plains descended from the Clouds and so furiously the Despot to revenge the mischiefs the Turks had done in his Country charged upon the right wing that he broke and disordered it and pierced the main battel But the Turks being double the number of the Christians and Bajazet Amurath s Son coming in with twenty thousand Horse restored the battel so that the Christians being wearied with slaughtering their Enemies and having done all that could be expected from true Valour for the space of eight hours for so long the battel lasted they were at length overset and put to the worse in all parts and the Plains were made mountainous with the heaps of the slain so that they in some measure hindred the pursuit though the Christians like men desperately resolved to conquer or dye fled not till Lazarus the Despot and all the great Captains were killed valiantly fighting or whilst there was any hopes of Victory or of an honourable Retreat Those that fell in this battel on both sides not being accounted less than 50000. But of this Victory Amurath had but small joy for whilst he was glutting his Eyes with the vast heaps of the slain a Christian Souldier named Cobelites half dead and faint with Wounds and loss of Blood rising as it were from a Golgotha or Grave came staggering towards him falling two or three times in twenty paces whilst those that were about him would have hindred his approach but Amurath forbad them to hinder him as supposing he came to petition for Life when on the contrary without a word speaking suddenly drawing out a Dagger he stabbed him into the Belly for which he was hewen in pieces by those that attended their King who likewise died of that wound soon after and for this Reason the Turks when any one is admitted to his Audience of the Emperour lead him by either Arm c. Thus were Cossova's Plains made fat with Blood And Death was glutted with a Crimson Flood The tot'ring State of Christendom found there A fatal Scar which still she 's forc'd to wear A Description of the Memorable Battel fought on the Plains of Sennas in Asia between Tamerlane the Great Prince of the Tartars and Bajazet the First of that Name King of the Turks c. BAjazet succeeding Amurath who was kill'd on the Plains of Cossovia not only prosecuting his Wars against the Christians but stripping the Mahometan Princes out of their Dominions in the lesser Asia and they hearing of Tamerlane's Conquests in the great Kingdom of China where he had wrought Wonders and of his Power with the Tartarian Emperour whose Daughter he had married many of them fled to him for Refuge imploring him by Arms to restore them to their just Rights that had been wrongfully taken from them which so far prevailed with him being at the same time sollicited by Emanuel the Greek Emperour whom Bajazet had besieged in Constantinople the chief City of his Empire as to send Ambassadors to the Turk with Presents on their behalf requiring him to cease from molesting his Allies and more especially so worthy a Person as the Greek Emperour had been represented to him to be but instead of answering his Expectations Bajazet in a proud manner not only rejected his Presents but in opprobrious Terms made him many foul Reproaches telling his Ambassadors He desired nothing more than to meet him in the Field and so dismiss'd them with Threats and Scorn which so enraged the Tartar that being before perswaded by Axalla his great Favorite a Genoa by Birth and by Profession a Christian and having an Inclination to assist the Christian Emperour whose Opinion he favour'd to raise an Army he now resolved to do it and such an Army as should cover the Countries he passed through which he soon did in those vast Dominions and taking leave of his Father-in-Law and his Wife passing the Mountains marched through divers Countries drawing a World of People after him none daring oppose
furiously together fell both of them grievously wounded one in the Eye and the other in the Cheek and thereupon the Souldiers rushing together to their rescue great slaughter ensued for Aliprandoe's Regiment that joyned as the Advance-guard was not so suddenly re-inforced as intended which in the end being over-matched by the men at Arms made them wheel off which did not a little discourage their Fellows who suddenly coming on had their flank left open to the shot of the main battel and those Horse that wheeled off being charged upon as flyers altho the Marquess laboured to make them face about finding no place amongst the Squadrons to make their retreat good entered amongst the Ranks of the German foot which put them into great Confusion for finding their battel was behind the Ensigns they brake quite through and the French likewise pressing on got in at the breach making great slaughter especially of the hindermost of those that fled and when the Switzers who stood over-against the Italians perceived this wavering as likewise the slaughter of the Germans they likewise fell upon them with great fury neglecting the Italians with whom it was expected they would have ingaged so that they who before were hard enough put to it by the Gascoins and old Switzers who fought in their front and weakned by the breaking in of their own Horse the French Horse likewise charging them in the Rear were not able to withstand the fresh charge but their Captains being most slain and their Ensigns thrown down turned their backs and fled yet being hotly pursued they were most or them slain and amongst them divers men of great Note viz. Vulcain Son to the Earl of Furstemberg Michael Preusinger Lieutenant to Brannor Scaliger Antonya Vrste a Captain of Great Fame Hildebrand Tunnie Balthasar Chaldese James Figero Matrice Bursea Adam Brall and the Baron of Grimstein and Aliprando near dead of his Wound was found amongst the dead bodies and taken Prisoner and when the Italian foot perceived the Germans broken and dispersed and that the Horsemen had left the Field they made good their retreat and with little loss got about Midnight to Asti whither the Horsemen were gotten before them and soon after came the Marquess with his Helmet much bruised and battered and shot with a Harquibus-shot into the Knee so that the Victory was intirely left to the French. And of the 40000 that were in the Field on both sides 12000 are acounted to be slain whereupon Carignanâ— surrendred to the Duke of Haghein Thus Peimont sees the blood of Foreign Lands Reeking in Streams upon her thirsty Sands Such is the Fate where cruel War Commands A Description of the Battel of Lochen fought in Saxony between Charles the Fifth Emperour of Germany and John Fredrick Dake of Saxony on the twenty fourth of April Anno Dom. 1547. THE Emperour Charles the Fifth being displeased with divers Princes of the Empire and the mis-understanding growing daily greater they thought it the surest way to arm on all parts and stand upon their Guard which making the Emperour suppose it the best way to fight them separate he pursued John Fredrick Duke of Saxony upon his return into his own Country by such speedy marches that the Advaunt-guard of his Army attacked the Saxons before they expected they were arrived in those parts which created much Fear and Consternation yet maintaining only a kind of a flying fight till the gross battalions came up the Duke had leisure to put his Troops in Order and formed his Battel in this wise viz. He commanded the Foot-men of the Earl of Bichenlinghen in whom he reposed the greatest trust and the Horse-men of John Ponecan and Gaugulph of Eslenhen to take their Stations in the front ordering them that if they charged they should retire and avoid as much as in them lay entering into a hot dispute till the signal was given to assure them the other Battels were in a readiness then he cast 6000 foot-men into two Squadrons and supported them with 500 Horse-men riding himself from Rank to Rank to give necessary Orders and Directions for what was wanting placing another 2000 Horse as a Wing to cover the Foot on the Right side and so closing his Battel to prevent the Enemies breaking in he stood in array to expect the Event whilst the Emperour with whom was the King of Romans and the Great duke of Alva placed in the Vaunt-guard of his Army 600 Launces with 600 Hungarian Horse-men 700 Italian Horse-men and 100 Harquibusiers on Horse-back then he divided them into three Troops the Hungarians he placed on the Right wing the Germans on the left and the Italians in the middle and of the rest of the Forces he made his battel dividing it into three Squadrons of whom he committed one to the charge of the King of Romans but the others he led himself the one consisting of 700 Horse-men and the other of 1000 part Lances and part Harquibuses commanding the whole Army to advance in such order that the front might be broad and extended that so they might prevent being inclosed and thus-both Armies being in array and the Duke not perceiving it commodious to retire proceeded with a moving Oration to incourage his Men by putting them in mind of the Prowess and Valour of their Ancestors and exhorting them to fight like men for their Liberties Lives Wives Children and Country and that for his part he would not be wanting to fight or succour as occasion should require it Nor was the Emperour wanting to incourage his Souldiers to the like effect so that now there being nothing wanting but the Signal to joyn battel that was not long delayed for the Trumpets suddenly sounding the Imperial Battel moved with great swiftness but the Horse coming into dirty and slippery Ground were so mired that the Ear-guard was forced to give back till the Advaunt guard had passed it lest by pressing on they should have broken the Array and caused Confusion and Disorder to have ensued which gave the Saxons Opportunity to charge the Front before the Rear could come up insomuch that a hot and desperate fight ensued for the battel being begun in the Right-wing the Saxons poured in their shot like Hail and had made great slaughter had not the Italian and Hungarian Light-Horse-men come in and charged them in another part which for a time allay'd their fury whilst in another part the men at Arms of Naples and the German Harquibusiers sorely pressed their main battel so that the Advaunt-guard became open and began to scatter although the Duke laboured all that in him lay to keep his men in their Ranks and to admonish them with Words and Actions to do their utmost to support his Honour yet fear had so possessed them that they could not be kept in their Battels but began incontinently to disrank so that the Imperialists thrusting into their Array brought them in a short time into great Distress and Confusion whereupon
Wings of the Lithuanian Horse and placed the Foot behind the Men an Arms to support them and so riding from Rank to Rank he admonished them to do their utmost for the Honour of their King and Country and not by any Cowardize in them be a means to lose a Battel upon which depended their Lives and Liberties c. He would have proceeded but whilst he was speaking the Moscoviâ— sounded the Charge whereupon commanding the Captains in the Vaunt-guard to break in upon the Enemy with their Spears mauger their shot of Arrows each battel moved furiously and although the Arrows flew thick as Hail yet the Poles passed on though some yet but a few oâ— them were slain so that the Archers being frustrated in a trice they brought iâ— to the Sword so that the Lithuanian stretching out their Wings and theâ— straitning them made good their Archers who sorely gauled the Moscovites who being on all sides in a manner oppressed could neither give back nor brake through in the front and those that were behind still thrusting them forward break their Array bearing out side-ways upon the Wings of the Lithuanians so at one time they attacked two Incounters in divers places so that the fight being hot on all parts and the Duke finding himself over-charged sent to Command the Horse-men in Ambush to advance who soon discovered themselves and came on with horrid crys and sounds of Trumpets to be thought more dreadful in their number which the Polonian General perceiving ordered his Battel to stand firm yet Polosky a Palatine of that Kingdom turned on them a squadron of Foot-men which had not been much shaken and sustaining the first shock of their Arrows gave Command for all the Harquibusiers to fire at once and so by a swift advance came to the push of Pike and Halbert causing the Moscovite Horse-men to recoil yet their Ranks being close they could not expand themselves or travers their Ground by reason of which they were obliged to sustain the fight in that narrow compass with great slaughter so that it was a pitious sight to see Men and Horses dead lying on heaps weltering in Blood and groaning out their last whilst in that part where the General fought the Ranks of Moscovites were broken and disordered and the Right Wing of Horse almost all cut in pieces so that the middle Battel wherein was yet the Person of the Great Duke was attacked on all sides and the foremost Ranks pierced through so that he despairing to restore the fight gave back and now the Foot that had routed his Ambushment of Horse having nothing to do charged upon his Battel of Succour and entring their Ranks who had been shaken before by the Lithuanian Horse they with their Pikes and Scimiters made a miserable slaughter putting them in all parts to the rout of which the Duke having notice and how those Horse he had laid in Ambush were likewise defeated whom he scarce thought as yet to have made their attack he with a Troop of his Nobles that were his Guard retired out of the Battel and left his Men to shift for themselves making all the speed he could to escape that Ruin and Desolation into which he had brought his Army which once known nothing but flight and confusion followed whilst the Poles had the Execution of them for many Miles with great slaughter In this Battel fought on the eighth of September 13000 men were slain and many of them of Note all the Baggage and rich Pavilions with the Great Dukes Standard taken as likewise was Michael Goliza but Smolensco being strongly fortified could not be regained Thus Blood still flows thus cruel Mars still raves And Drowns the Plains with Seas of Purple Waves A Description of the Great and Memorable Battel fought in Persia near the City of Coy or Coios between Hysmael the Persian Sophi and Selymus the First of that Name Emperour of the Turks SElymus to obtain the Diadem having caused his Father Bajazet the Second to be poysoned and to secure himself in the Throne strangled his three Brethren being grieved that his two Nephews Amurath and Aladine yet lived the one by securing himself in the Persian Court and the other in that of the AEgyptian Sultan upon the former's making some Inrodes into Capadocia he took an opportunity to quarrel with Hysmael the Persian Sophy and thereupon raising an Army of 300000 Horse and Foot and under pretence of his having aided his Rebels he marched to invade his Country and so drawing his People after him over the huge Mountains of Scodrasci Moscii and Ante-Taurus he passed along the Banks of the River Euphrates holding his way Eastward till he came to the River Araxis where he found all the Country wasted and destroyed by the Persians upon which the Army began to fall into great want of many things so that the Souldiers were forced to feed upon wild Fruits when in the mean time Vsta-Ogli the Persian General approached him with an Army of 80000 Horse and whilst either Army was at some distance one from the other Hysâ—ael came in Person to his Camp and from thence sent a Heraulâ— to Selymus to know why in a Hostile manner he had entred his Country having no Title thereto to which the Turk hautily reply'd That his Grandfather his Uncle and himself had greatly endamaged the Ottoman Empire by making several Incroachments Inrodes and Invasions and aiding the Rebels in the Reigns of Mahomet Bajazet and his own yet he esteemed them not a sufficient ground of War but sought after his Enemy young Amurath his Brother's Son who had lately wasted Cappadocia whom if he would quietly and friendly deliver into his Hands he would withdraw his Forces but if he refused to gratifie him therein he would with Fire and Sword not only destroy the Confines of Armenia but the very heart of Persia Notwithstanding these promises and Threats the Persian refused to comply with his demands in delivering up the young Prince to certain Death yet for that day both Armies lay in their Trenches but the next day they drew out and each being put in Battel-Array and incouraged by moving Orations to do their utmost the bloody blast was sounded after which the Persian Horsemen came on with great Futy over-setting the Vaunt-guard and overthrowing the Asapi by heaps these are a sort of ordinary Souldiers placed by the Turks for the most part to dull the Swords of the Enemy with their Blood and often set formost in Assaults to fill up the Trenches with their dead Bodies when they besieged a Town that the Janizaries may pass the easier over them nor was that all for the Persians at the same time charged the Spahi or Turkish Horsemen in either Wing causing them in some Confusion to give Ground which Selymus perceiving and finding they would soon charge the Battel of the Janizaries in the middle of which himself remained he caused the Orders to open to the right and the
the King charged being put to the retreat an Officer of the Cuirasiers knowing the King broke desperately thro' the Ranks that sheltered him and coming behind him as he was Retreating shâ—◠〈◊〉 through the Body with his Pistol 〈◊〉 at the same time this is the right bird yet enjoyed it not for scarce had he done it before himself was shot dead on the place by Luchan the Master of the Dukes horse and so lost his expected Reward yet so hotly the Cuirasiers charged that the Swedes were not capable of bringing off the dying King but were obliged to let him fall where he was barbarously mangled by the Enemy who stripped him every one getting something that could conveniently come at him as a Trophy of honour all that he was heard to say as those report who were about him when thâ—as demanded who he was for at first those that stripped him did not certainly know him was viz. I am the King of Sweden who do Seal the Religion and Liberty of the German Nation with my bloud and then after some hesitation subjoyning Alas my poor Queen and so recommending his Soul to God gave up the Ghost yet was his Body after ward Rescued and honourably buried his death being lamented even by his Enemies and although the King was thus slain yet he was a Conquerour even in death for the Swedes instead of being discouraged grew more inraged and breathing nothing but revenge for the death of their King charged so furiously on all parts that although â—resh Supplies came hourly to the assistance of the Imperialists yet after nine hours obstinate fight not only their right Wing but their main battel was broken and disordered which obliged the Generalissimo under the favour of the Night to draw off yet in such confusion that most part of his Souldiers fearing the pursuit of the Swedish horse disranked and fled leaving their Cannon and a great part of their Baggage behind them together with their wounded men and 6000 dead upon the place many of them of great Note when on the Swedes part there died not above 2000. the chief of Note on the part of the Imperialists were the Abot of Fulden by his place a Prince of the Empire the Counts Puppenheim and Bartholdus Walenstine's Serjeant Major General Bruner Lodovicus Westrum Lancius Comargo Witzeb and Fines all Collonels of the respective Regiments together with Borda Taxheim Lampart and Cammarhoff Lieutenant Collonels besides divers Serjeant Majors Captains and Lieutenants and on the Kings side of Note was himself Nicholas Count of Wesenburg Grave Nelees Serjeant General Isler and Collonel Gersdorf with some Lieutenant Collonels and divers Captains Thus great Gustavus fell yet conquering dy'd Fortune ne'er gave the battel from his side VVhere'er he fought be was victorious still His body only Fate had powr to kill A Brief Description of the memorable Battels and Skirmishes c. that happened during the unhappy civil Wars in England c. in the Reign of King Charles the First as they are taken and drawn from warrantable history c. AFter many Indignities had been put upon King Charles the First of blessed Memory by an inexorable Parliament whom no favours nor concessions could oblige he thought it highly convenient to oppose their force with force and thereupon in August 1642. he set up his Standard at Nottingham so that the Hostilities being begun after the loss of about twenty men by a Sally out of Hull and the routing of Collonel Fines and Sands by Prince Rupert at Worcester with coÌ„nsiderable slaughter of their men c. The King resolved to march towards London but finding the Earl of Essex who by this time was made General for the Parliament marched after him and hung in a manner upon his Rear he faced about to give him battel or oblige him to retire so that the Armies facing each other and the King having discovered the number of the Rebels from a convenient stand with a Prospective and desiring God and all good men to assist his cause on the 13 of October 1642. he drew into a large Field or Plain between Edghill and Keinton in the County of Warwick where Essex was putting his Army in order so that both Armies being drawn up in battel array the Charge was sounded and thereupon a dreadful fight began continuing bloudy and doubtful Prince Rupert who there commanded the King's horse making a great slaughter and pursuing the Enemies horse even beyond their Baggage so that they forsook the field but fresh Troops coming in the fight-was maintained with doubtful success till Night put an end to the fury yet the King soon after had many Places surrendred to him and marched triumphantly into Oxford with 150 Colours there taken and in this battel are computed to be slain between 5 and 6000 men on both sides And now the King's Army being Recruited and increased by the coming in of many Troops and the Revolt of two Regiments and a Troop of Horse from the Parliament upon his taking of Banbury he marched towards London whither Essex was retired upon which Essex with an Army composed mostly of Prentices and the City Trained Bands drew out to oppose his passage which made the King advance to gain the Bridge to prevent his being hemm'd in by reason the Parliaments forces possessed most of the Towns in those parts but part of Hollis's Regiment made head against him being seconded by two other Regiments the Passage was hotly disputed which lasted till Night at what time the Parlimentarians retreated and left the Town to the Ksng together with 200 of their men dead upon the place eleven Colours and fifteen Pieces of Ordnance but he slighting that place returned to Oxford with his Army nor was the King's success in other Parts less for in February following Prince Rupert with a select Party of 4000 horse and foot making shew to Regain Hadly Castle a little before taken by Collonel Massey marched immediately to Cirencester and charging the Guard forced his way into the Town with considerable slaughter possessing it in two hours dispute with all the Magazine of the County and 2000 Arms making at the same time 1100 persons Prisoners yet this Joy was somewhat lessened by the Defeat of 1500 Welch-men raised by the Earl of Worcester and his Son for the service of the King at Hingham house by the Forces under the command of Collonel Massey and Sir William Waller as for the rest of the Year 1642. it was passed over in sundry light Skirmishes sometimes successful to one Party and sometimes to the other the most material of which was that in Hoptón-Field near Hautly in Staffordshire where the Earl of Northampton was slain and that of Bramham Moor wherein Sir Thomas Fairfax was routed In April 1643 young Hautham the Son of Sir John Hautham whose Father had denied the King entrance into Hull was routed by Collonel Cavendish near Ancasâ—er in Lincolnshire and most of his party slain or taken
Cromwell's own Guard and the best of his old Soldiers were forced to Retire whilst seconded by those numerous Supplies of fresh Soldiers who served like the Turkish Asapi to blunt the Royal Swords so that their wearied Arms no longer able to hold out they were forced to Retreat notwithstanding the Generous Example of the King who performed things worthy of wonder executing at once the part of a brave Commander and a valiant Captain in which he had his Horse twice shot under him yet could he not bring them to rally for being pressed and overpowred by numbers they had not time or space to do it in so that in the end the retreat turned into a disorderly flight whilst the Enemy following close at their heels entred Pell mel with them into the City And now notwithstanding the flight and confusion the cry went through the field to save the King who although he was pressed by Duke Hamilton and others to reserve his fortune to a better day yet scarcely could he be induced to quit the field nor would he till he perceived it impossible to rally his men and too plainly found the battel was irreparably lost and that Cromwel had entred and possessed himself of a part of the City and soon after took the Fort Royal by assault putting all he found therein to the Sword but not without considerable loss especially of the Cheshire men 1600 of which fell in the attempt and now when it was almost too late the King left the field and by the Aid of divers Loyal Souls after a considerable while concealing himself found means to escape beyond the Seas In this fatal battel fought on the third of September most of the Kings foot were either killed or taken Prisoners but of the Horse about three thousand escaped out of the Field those that account the least recon 3000 that were slain though none of note amongst them and the chief of the Prisoners were the Earls of Derby Lauderdale Cleveland Shrewsbury and the Lord Wentworth and of the Scots the Earls of Cranworth and Kelly and the Lord Sincler with divers Knights and Gentlemen and soon after Duke Hamilton and Major General Massey and others were taken This strange and wonderful Victory as the Juncto then sitting at Westminster gave it out though they had ten to one in the field made the Sectarian party greatly rejoyce and to appoint publick days of Thanksgiving as if God were the Patronizer of Villanies But since they miss'd of what was most their Aim We won't their further wicked Acts proclaim Lest by such Monsters we the Nation shame A Description of the Great and Memorable Battel fought before the City of Vienna in Austria on the 11. of September Anno 1683. between the King of Poland the Elector of Bavaria the Duke of Lorain c. and the Grand Visier Cara Mustapha c. VIENNA being pressed by the Turkish Power and the Garrison therein under Ernestus Count of Staremberg greatly weakned by sickness and the loss sustained in divers Sallies the Duke of Lorain having joyned the King of Poland they thought not convenient any longer to hazard a place of such Importance but to attempt the Relieving of it at the Price of a Battel and so on the 10 of September 1683. about eight in the Evening the Armies marched in order to it making together between 70 and 80000 fighting men the King of Poland commanding the Right Wing the Dukes of Lorain and Bavaria the Left and the Elector of Saxony and Prince Waldeck the main Body and in this order with what speed and silence they could they marched through a great Forrest the which had the Enemy taken care to have fortified would have proved a work of much difficulty Cara Mustapha the Grand Visier trusting to his number of men expected not to be attaqued in his Camp he being at his sitting down before the place 120000 strong but finding himself mistaken he thought it best to Rouse out of that Security and upon the Approach of the Christian Army detached 10000 Horse with an express command to possess themselves of the Passes c. but the Christians before that had passed them yet they advanced to Charge the Front of the Army but being gauled by a Regiment of Foot lodged in a Vineyard for that purpose which was supported by three other Battalions they only fired and wheeled off with great Cries whereupon the King of Poland and the other Commanders drew the Army up in three Lines all closed without any Interval and in that firmness they encroached upon the Enemy at what time the Turkish Horse advanced with great shouts hoping to break the Array of the Battel but perceiving the Christians stood firm to expect them they made a halt and discharging their Harquibusses at a distance wheeled off whereupon the first Line fired upon them and the whole Army advanced by a slow March still gaining upon the Infidels and making of them a considerable slaughter who Returning charged as before at a convenient distance and so wheeled off continuing often to do the like and as often the Christians fired upon them and so proceeded till within two Furlongs of their Camp at what time a Body of Foot and Dragoons were detached to Attaque their Canon of which they soon became Masters without any considerable loss the Enemy wanting Foot in a readiness to defend them nor did their Horse make any great resistance yet they made a shew to charge the Right wing in the Flank to prevent which the King of Poland commanded the second Line to advance and make a Front on that side whilst in Person he charged their Front with the first Line making them continually to give ground and whilst the Fight was hot on both sides the Turks in the Trenches made a furious Assault upon the City strugling even at the utmost hazard to carry it and so resolute they were in throwing themselves into the Ditches and Breach that great slaughter ensued which obliged Count Steremberg the Governour to send with all speed to the Duke of Lorain for assistance least the Turks at that juncture should enter and mix the ruine of the Citizens and Garrison-Soldiers with their own when immediately the Margrave of Baden was detached with 5000 Horse and 3000 Dragoons who entering the Trenches at the time the Garrison sally'd the Turks that were in them were cut in pieces and trodden down on all hands to the number of 6000 which unexpected bad success made known to the Visier and finding that now his hopes were altogether frustrated of entering the City in the time of the confusion he gave ground towards the Evening with the Gross of his Army in hopes to make an orderly retreat to the Camp but being furiously charged by the Christians he fled beyond it yet the Generals suspecting they might Rally and fall upon them under the favour of the Night would not enter the Camp by reason it might be
THE Souldiers Companion OR MILITARY GLORY Display'd In a True and Impartial Description of all the Memorable Battels and Fights by Land and Sea c. That have been fought in Europe Asia Africa and America for upwards of Six hundred Years deduced from the Conquest of England by the Normans Anno 1066 to the last fight in Hungary Anno 1687. Wherein is contained the manner of marshalling Armies and Fights of divers Nations the Policies and Stratagems of Emperours Kings Princes and great Captains of several Ages together with their Success or Misfortunes on sundry Occasions drawn and collected from the most Authentick Histories and Relations Antient and Modern c. To which is added Seasonable Advice to young Souldiers and Officers c. Together with the Art of Gunnery and preparing Artificial Fire-works for War or Recreation with other things and Matters necessary to be known on the like Occasion By J. S. Timidi nunquam statuerunt Tropaeum Mars Dubius victorque cadit victusque resurgit Qui fugit Huic merito nulla corona datur LONDON Printed for Nath. Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey 1688. LICENSED And Entred according to Order THE PREFACE TO THE READER READER it frequently appears by the Histories of all Nations that Military Glory has not only taken up the Thoughts but the Business of the most Illustrious part of Men in courting which they have not only spared to expose themselves to all the hazards and dangers imaginable but pressing on even beyond the sense of danger have performed to their immortal Fame such Heroick Enterprises and Actions as have shaken the belief of many into the highest degree of Incredulity especially such as have received them upon bare report naked and unadorned with the many Circumstances that attended them wherefore I have thought it highly convenient at this juncture to restore if possible their belief by giving them a true Relation of the many famous Battels and Sea-Fights that have been fought under the leading of Emperours Kings Princes and Great Captains the most expert of their times in Warlike Discipline with their various Success and Fortune Nor may it serve less to incite or inflame the Valiant where a Just cause offers an Invitation Precedents of this Nature always being attended with powerful Motives to stir up even the Pusilanimous at least to conceive a generous esteem of great Atchievements and kindle in Heroick Minds a restless Flame not to be extinguished but by Death Themistocles that Noble Graecian whose Fame reaches to the end of Time having seen the Triumph of Miltiades for a Victory he had obtained could not as the story of him goes sleep but became altogether restless till he found Opportunity to enter upon a command wherein he became the Bulwork and Glory of his Country and it is reported of the Great Julius Caesar first Emperour of Rome that whilst he was but in a low Station seeing the Statue of Alexander the great and being sensible what vast Kingdoms and Countries that Monarch had subdued and brought under his Subjection in a short spaoe he wept because being equal to him in years himself had not arrived at his Perfection and thereupon ceased not till he made almost all the then known World at his Devotion nor of this kind is he who was truly stiled the delight of Mankind and the Honour of our English Nation the wise and valiant Sir Philip Sidney to be omitted who reports of himself That hearing the Ballad of the fight between the Earls Piercy and Dowglass sung but by a common Chanter it raised in him such a desire of Martial Enterprises that he from that time coveted nothing more than to signalize his Valour in the Field which afterward became to his immortal Fame the wonder of the Christian World. Nor does this Treatise consist only of Battels c. but of the Policies Stratagems and Practices of the most Expert and Renowned Generals and Captains whereby they secured themselves in a retreat circumvented the Enemy or obtained the Victory To which a Scheme of Military Behaviour is added c. with the most material matters and things appertaining to Engenry especially as to what relates to Gunnery and Artificial Fire works c. with somewhat that refers to Fortification by which even the unlearned may have an insight into that great and curious Art and Mistery and be made sensible at once of the danger and advantage that attendâ— it which insight if it be his fortune to seek for Honour in the Field c. may greatly profit the Reader or if otherwise he will at least get this advantage by it to know in his Retirement what otherâ— have sought for not without effusion of Blood through innumerable hazards and dangers And so hoping it will prove advantageous not being perverted to a sinister end I humbly take leave to subscribe my self Reader Your devoted Friend and Servant J. S. ADVERTISEMENT REader be pleased to take notice that the Battel of Alcazar is by an unhappy Mistake placed out of due order and ought to have followed the Battel of St. Quintines after Page Folio 134. A POEM Recommended to the Reader upon the Perusal of the Book intitled The Souldiers Companion c. By a Person of Quality IF Fame and Martial Glory you affect Reader what more than 's here can you expect Or if you 'd know what in days past was doneâ— This Book informs you how much Fame was won How by their Valour Heroes got Renown How never-fading Laurels wreath'd their Crown And rising Monarchs grasp'd a lasting Throne Or won vast kingdoms to augment their own How Nations felt a sudden change of State And Fortune's treacherous smiles perceiv'd too late How Princes set in Blood how Armies fell How Plains with might heaps of Ruine swell How Rivers with a Crimson Torrent rise How th' Victors shouts and how the vanquish'd's crys Pierce thinner Air and rend the blushing Skies How clashing Arms a horrid discord bray And Earth-born Thunders cloud the Lamp of day How Iron Globes with Death pave all their way Whilst angry Vollies bellow'd o're the Plain And made it seem but one great Field of Flame Here you may count the number of the slain Or see the yielding Souldier on his Knee Begging for Life from 's enrag'd Enemy See others nobly bold maintain a fight And in despair to conquer take delight More in a noble death than slavish flight See those in rout cast every way their Arms Whilst hot pursuit their rear with slaughter storms Sad sights you 'l say but he who War will court Must steel his Heart and think the Danger Sport Yet safely you may sit and view a Sceen That fatal has to bleeding Nations been Nor is this all in it more things you 'l find That may more please a weak and tender mind Though it for Heroes chiefly was design'd With Magick Flame it treats the God of War And new created Fires adds to his Star. THE Souldiers
York and the Earl of Worcester Thus Haughty France drunk with her Blood did reel And fell before a Conquering Monarchs Steel Thus in old Days kind Heav'n for England fought And Mighty Realms to her Subjection brought A Description of the Glorious Battel and chievements of the Mighty Scanderbeg King of Epirus being an Account of his many Victories over the Turks under the leading of Amurath the Second King of that Name c. AMurath the Second Turkish King of that Name by the many Conquests he had made growing dreadful to the lesser Princes divers of them conditioned to become his Tributaries and amongst others John Castriot Prince of Epirus for the due Observance of which he gave his four Sons as Hostages viz. George after named by the Turks Scanderbeg Stamsius Reposius and Constantine Amurath promising well and honourably to intreat them yet he had no sooner gotten them into his Possession but he caused them to be circumcised and to be instructed in the Mahometan Superstition poisoning upon a Jealosie of their intending to escape all but the first and after the Fathers Death seized contrary to his Promise upon the Kingdom of Epirus which not a little grieving George Castriot or Scanderbeg whose Right it was he sought 〈◊〉 ways to escape but the crafty Turk 〈◊〉 watchful Eye over him intending at 〈◊〉 times to put him to death but by 〈◊〉 â—eans or other was as often prevented 〈…〉 being at length made a Commander in the Turkish Army against the Hungarians and that Army with a fearful slaughter overthrown by the Great Huniades on the Plains of Moravia he then thought it the best time to escape and fly the Turkish Servitude whereupon taking with him Amurath's Secretary with divers of his trusty Friends he led him into a large Wood and there compelled him to write in his Masters Name to the Governour of Croija the chief City of Epirus as also to sign it with his Signet to the intent that he might deliver him up his Charge which accordingly he did and then having secured him from making any Relation thereof he posted thither and had it upon the sight of those Letters surrendred at what time sending for Prince Amasa his Kinsman Moses an expert Captain and divers others he acquainted them with the purpose he had to deliver his Country from the Turkish Tyranny who approving his undertaking his Subjects frequently resorted to him so that he became very powerful and divers Cities revolting from the Turks put themselves under his Protection as Stelusia Petra Alba Petrolla so that with a great Power he entred Macedonia and laid those Countries that were under the Turkish Sovereignty waste at which unexpected News Amurath being greatly alarmed sent 40000 of his best Souldiers under the leading of Alis Bassa to surprize him but Scanderbeg retiring into Epirus gave him battel with no more than 6000 Men and after a sharp dispute overthrew him with the slaughter of 22000 of his Men not losing above 300 of his own carrying in a manner the battel with his Prowess for charging the Turkish squadrons he broke through beating down all with an irresistible force that stood before him so that his men following him had little to do but to slaughter the routed and amazed Turks After which Amurath sent Mustapha Bassa with a great Army to waste Epirus who was by Scanderbeg overthrown and himself taken Prisoner These overthrows so enraged Amurath that raising a mighty Power he came in Person promising great Rewards to those that could bring Scanderbeg's Head and so besieged Sfetigrade but although he batter'd it incessantly with his Cannon and made frequent Assaults with the loss of 20000 of his best men it was so resolutely defended by the Governour who would not be corrupted by any offers of Gold that he despaired with his huge Army to win it and fearing by the Sallies of the besieged and the frequent Assaults Scanderbeg made with his flying Army by breaking into one quarter or other of his Camp that his multitude being consumed he should be obliged to return with disgrace he in the end indented for a Sum of Money in hand and a larger quantity when it should be effected with an inconsiderable Fellow by Occupation a Smith to cause the City to be surrendered which he brought to pass in the following manner The City of Sfetigrade by most held impregnable being scituate upon a Rock and for that Reason affording but one Well or main Spring which in abundance furnished the Citizens and Souldiers into this Well in the Night-time the Traitor cast the stinking putrefied Carcass of a Dog that had lain a long time in the Streets which being found and drawn thence the next Morning as likewise noised throughout the City as well the Citizens as Souldiers refused any more to drink of it nor could the Governour with all his Perswasions and Intreaties oblige them to it though himself to convince them of the wholsomness of the Water drank often in their sight but they rather chose to undergo the worst Extremities of Thirst by which means many of them died so that the Governour through this Nicety of his Souldiers not finding the City tenable was obliged to capitulate and marching out with Bag and Baggage was conducted to Scanderbegs Army and he by whose Treachery the City fell into the Hands of the Turks being for a while seemingly carress'd was in the end secretly made away yet upon Amurath's return Scanderbeg fell upon the Rear of his Army and cut off 3000 of his Men. The year following Amurath returned with a greater Army and besieged Croija the chief City of Epirus but losing under its Walls without success 30000 men and despairing notwithstanding to win it he died in his Tent Anno 1450. leaving his Son Mahomet to succeed him in his Empire charging him to be revenged of Scanderbeg with whom his Armies under the leading of divers Bassa's fought many bloody Battels but were always worsted by the invincible Prince even with a handful of men his Force and Courage being such that he often with his own hand turned the Scale of Victory when it was inclining to his Enemies nor could the Corruption of his great Captains with vast Sums of Turkish Gold alter his Fortune so that having stood twenty four years the Champion and Bulwork of Christendom he at last died in Peace at Lyssa which Town nine years after his Death being taken by the Turks they opened his Sepulchre and took thence his bones for which they had such a Veneration that happy was he that could get the smallest piece of them which being got they counted of great Value and wore it about them as an inestimable Jewel fancying that ever after Scanderbeg's Fortune would attend them Thus di'd the Hero far Renown'd in Arms Whose very Name the Globe with Wonder charms No Pow'r from him could take the Laureat Prize Till All-subduing Death seal'd up his Eye And lay'd him up till he
Scots entered England as far as Durham when King Edward preparing to meet them marched to York and there making a halt sent the Lord Montacute to oppose and hinder their further Progress but being encountered on Hedgly Moor by the Lords Hungerford and Ross together with Sir Ralph Peircey he after a sharp dispute took Sir Ralph Prisoner which success incouraged him to pass on and give battel to King Henry who lay encamped at Hexam where both Armies striving to do their utmost devoir a bloody conflict ensued but many being slain and much blood spilt divers of the Commanders wounded and disabled and taken Prisoners Victory declared against King Henry who finding himself unfortunate in War fled into Scotland in this battel 5600 were slain and the Duke of Somerset with three other Lords and one Knight taken Prisoners who were all beheaded And now King Henry returning privately into England in disguise was taken Prisoner and carried to the Tower so that Edward seem'd established in his Throne yet Fate not satisfied with English Blood though the wounded Nation had bled such Streams as made her faint and languish another cruel War arose and the Factions began again to bandy as fierce as ever for Warwick who was called afterwards the make King of those Times being sent to solicite a Marriage between King Edward and the Lady Bona Daughter to Lewis Duke of Savoy and having finished his Negotiation to the liking of the Lady and her Father found upon his return thaâ— the King was married to Elizabeth the Widdow of Sir John Gray slain in upholding the Cause of King Henry at which the Eatâ— supposing his Honour that had been ingaged in the Savoiards Court greatly to suffer grew much inraged and finding mean to withdraw himself joyned with diver Nobles raised a Power and proclaimeâ— King Henry declaring for him and epousing his Interest growing on a suddeâ— so strong that King Edward was forced tâ— draw out his Army and march against him pitching his Camp at Wolney four Milâ— from the Plain on which Warwick was encamped but his Guards being negligent and the Earl having notice thereof entereâ— the Kings Camp and took him Prisoner yeâ— used him very courteously allowing him for his Keeper his Brother George Nevilâ— Arch-Bishop of York who suffering him tâ— ride abroad a hunting and to follow otheâ— Recreations till one day being with a slender Guard far from the Castle and meeting a great Troop of his own Men those thaâ— were with him durst not speak to him 〈◊〉 returning to his Confinement but were glaâ— to leave him behind them and escape for their Lives so that being again at Liberty he was received by his Army with great Joy and passed to London to the great discontent and dislike of the Earl of Warwick Things being at this pass Sir Robert Wells Son to the Lord Wells raised an Army of 30000 consisting mostly of the Commons of Lincolnshire on the behalf of King Henry in revenge of which King Edward caused the Lord Wells and Sir Thomas Dimmock his Kinsman to be beheaded and so marched to fight Sir Robert when charging furiously upon the unexperienced Plebeans they scarcely sustained the second shock but throwing away their Coats and Weapons fled for their Lives from whence it was called the Battel of Loose-Coat-Field and the Execution â—eing hotly pursued by the inraged Soulâ—iers 10000 of them are accounted to be â—ain As for Sir Robert Wells and Sir Thomas Deland who commanded under him â—hey were taken Prisoners Upon the News of this Defeat the Earl of Warwick and the Duke of Clarence Brother to King Edward â—ed to Callais but being denied entrance â—hey departed thence to the Court of France where they found Queen Margaret where gathering great Forces they returned to England every where proclaiming King Henry so that the People from all parts hasted to their Standart as well the Nobles as the Commons viz. the Earl of Pembrook the Lord Faulconberg and others so that marching towards London and King Edward finding his Mandates in many places disobey'd thought it not convenient in that juncture to attend the Sequel but with divers of his trusty Friends leâ—â— England and fled to his Brother-in-Law the Duke of Burgundy who had a little before married his Sister so that King Henry waâ— Re-in-throned but continued not long iâ— that Estate before King Edward returned landing in the North with a small Army proclaiming King Henry as he passed and pretending he came only as a private maâ— to possess himself of his Inheritance bâ— which means deceiving the People hâ— surprized the City of York and having garrisoned it pulled off the Vizor and marched towards London reconciling himself by the way thro' the means of a Maiâ— who had been brought up by the old Dutches of York to his Brother the Duke of Clâ—rence whereupon the Citizens opening their Gates and every where proclaiming him King Henry was again taken Prisoner anâ— send to the Tower and now the whole weight of the War lying upon Warwicks shoulders he desperately resolved to carry the day or fighting courageously dye in the Bed of Honour and thereupon directed his March towards London out of which King Edward drew his Forces to meet him and on Easter Day joyned Battel near Barnet since known by the Battel of Barnet-field where either of the Generals impatient of so tedious a War drew on their Forces with great force and fury Warwick charging upon the Kings Squadron broke in with his Sword and made such Distruction that they fled on that part and the Battel had gone on his side had there not been a mistake in part of his Men who by mistaking their Cognizances charged upon their fellows which making them suspect some Treason or sudden Revolt they threw down their Weapons and fled which Warwick perceiving and not finding it in his power to retain them or restore the Battel though he laboured by Example and Perswasion to do it resolving not to out-live the day â—he rushed furiously amongst the Squadrons of the Enemy and there fighting valiantly fell upon the heaps of the slain and with him died his Brother the Lord Montacute and three other Lords were slain on the part of King Edward and of the meaner sort on both sides 20000. The News of this defeat made known to Queen Margaret and Prince Edward her Son by such as fled the field she took Sanctuary in the Abby of Ceerne but the Lords that escaped the Battel of Barnet rallying their scattered Forces gave King Edward another Battel at Tewxbury in which they were overthrown with the loss of 3000 men and of Note the Earl of Devonshire and the Duke of Somerset's Brother there likewise Prince Edward was taken and soon after stabbed by Crook-back'd Richard Duke of Glocester in the Presence of King Edward and soon after King Henry was murthered and his Queen taken from Sanctuary and put to a great Ransom Thus stop'd the Stream of Blood
fight whilst the Battel had wandered over the Field came to a bloody Encounter on all hands so that the slaughter grew hot and the Wings still charging each other each Nation strove by all possible means to express its Valour for in this battel fought not only French and Germans but Spaniards Italians and Switzers indifferently on either side being Mercenary Souldiers and hired for pay and especially the French for the Honour of their King who spared not at once to give command and charge the Enemy ranging through the fiercest attack as knowing that if he lost that Battel it would be hard for him to escape nor were the black Battalion of Almayns fighting on the Part of the King less diligent in charging the Switzer so that one party ingaging after another they fought in the end in all parts so that the field was in a trice covered with the bodies of the slain and so eager were they to shed blood that they minded not as yet the taking of Prisoners on either side by reason of which many men of Note were slain that might have been made Prisoners and amongst others Solice whose Horse being slain under him and he oppressed with Armour would have yielded to the Captain of the Squadron of Horse that fought on that part but a certain Spaniard envying the Horse should have the Ransom of so Noble a Prisoner bent his Harquibuss against his Brest and killed him on the Place also Tremoville an other great Captain that had in his time won many great Victories was shot upon the like account and Galeazo Sansenerino was slain in the Kings sight so that the Imperialists pressing on as having brought their whole strength into the Field many Gallant men were slain and especially of the Horse who were for the most part in the heart of the battel sustaining not only the Charge of Horse against Horse but frequently of the Foot-men who flanked them so that the shot flying like hail a great number were overwhelm'd Men and Horses strugling together for Life and many being dismounted were trampled to death so that it frequently hapned that the Front of the Battel was so barrocaded with the slain that neither Party could well advance to break into the Squadrons especially those on Horse-back and now the Switzers over-charged began to give ground in striving to restrain which the Lord Bonevet was slain and the King's Guard being miserably cut off with the shot of the Foot-men he was left almost void of Succour to the fury of the Enemy and many who loved their Lives dearer than their Honour left him and scatter'd in all parts which the King perceiving and that it was now but too apparent that the battel went against him having fought courageously and done all that could be expected from a great a Cptain he laboured to get from amongst his Enemies but being surrounded by the Horsemen of divers Nations tho' they knew not directly who he was yet supposing him a Person of Note they pressed hard upon him nor did he forget himself though he was forsaken by his Guard but continually wheeling his Horse to avoid the thickest of his Pursuers defended himself with his Sword both giving and taking divers Wounds but whilst he attempted a Bridg that passed over a Water-course or small Rivolet his Horse was thrust in with a Pike falling immediately down in which fall he was much bruised so that he bled in abundance lying at the same time with his Leg under the Horse and not able to relieve himself when one Didaco de Aebilla and John Orbieta a Biscaian coming in and not well knowing him in that Condition shook their Swords over him and willed him to yield or he was a dead man but whilst he disdained to reply or at least to discover himself Monsieur de La Motte came up who knowing the King kept off the Crowd and relieving him from the misery he lay in required him to yield himself to the Duke of Burbon whom he said was at hand but that duke having revolted from the King whose Feudetary he was he grew angry and in a chafe at his very Name fiercely replying No but call me hither Lenoy who in the end being sought for in all parts came of himself and removed the great Crowd from about the King who pressed on all sides to see him It being known throughout the field that the King was made a Prisoner the Courage of those French that yet stood to it altogether failed them so that the Imperialists crying every where Victory they fled in all parts as likewise did the Switzers that sought on the Kings side fearfully running into the River Teniso where being unskilful in swimming they were drowned in whole Troops and those that remained on shore although they threw down their Arms and begged for Life were mostly slain and all the Spoil of the Camp besides much rich Furniture of Horse and Armour taken as likewise was Henry King of Navar and a great number of the French Nobility and the Count of St. Paul lying on the Ground wounded a Spaniard cut off his Finger to take his Ring which he could not otherwise get off As for the Duke of Alanson who with a Regiment of Horse he brought during the Battel having stood a while a looker on he turned Tail and fled with those under his Command into France to tell the doleful News In this Battel fought Anno 1523 upwards of 10000 men were slain and as many wounded and taken Prisoners not reckoning those that were drowned in the River Ten. so As for the King he soon after obtained his Liberty in consideration of his quitting claim to Millain Naples and Asti as also his Superiority over Artois and Flanders paying moreover to the Emperour 120000 Crowns By this we see how Fortune deals with Kings Casting in doubtful chance all Earthly things He who an Army late in Triumph led Bereft of Power 's a woful Captive made A description of the Battel of Gabiniano fought between Philbert Prince of Orange General for the Emperour Charles the Fifth and Franaio a Captain of the Florentines Anno 1530. THE Florentines having banished the Family of the Medicâ—'s the Emperour Charles the Fifth was so far offended thereat that he caused his Forces under the Command of Philbert Prince of Orange straitly to besiege the City of Florence in Italy which being accordingly done the Citizens resolved to send for Farnaio a Captain of theirs who was abroad with some Troops on the Frontiers who by his falling into the Imperial Quarters whilst they sallied out of the City might be a means to raise the Siege and so without further delay they sent Han a chosen Messenger promising him great Rewards if he prospered therein which made him incontinently gather what Forces he could and advance with all imaginable Diligence and Secrecy yet his Approach was made known by the Imperial Espials The Prince of Orange sent to Fabrico Marmaldo and
Bay of Messina on the Coast of Sicily the Admirals and the other prime Commanders called a Council to consider what course was best to be observed or what measure to be taken in the management of the War against so powerful an Enemy eneouraging each other with an assured hope of Victory if they could come to a fair and equal fight For the Venetians had sent thither 108 Gallies six Galliasses two great Ships of extraordinary force with divers Galliots and Tenders to which were joyned twelve of the Popes Gallies commanded by Collumnius and with Don John of Austria General for Philip King of Spain and Auria his Admiral came 81 Gallies and other Vessels of Force three of which appertained to the Knights of Malta nor were other Princes and States wanting to contribute to this Expedition viz. The Dukes of Florence Savoy and the Estate of Genoa c. and in the Fleet beside Mariners were 20000 Persons most of known and approved Valour a fifth part being of the Nobility and Gentry of Spain Venice and Rome c. all gallantly accoutred and attended the principal of which were Franciscus Maria Prince of Vrbin Alexandeâ— Farnesius Prince of Parma and Paulus Jordanus Vrsianus of the Honourable Family oâ— the Roman Vrsini so that nothing being wanting but an Enemy to contend withaâ— Venerius the Venetian Admiral in Council pressed the General that for as much as they were assured that the Turkish Fleet was in the Gulph of Lepanto speedy Orders might be taken to sail thither and give them battel with the first advantage which being agreed upon by all the Commanders the Fleet was martialed in the following order viz. In the Right-wing consisting of 53 Gallies Auria the Spanish Admiral was placed in the Left wing with a like number of Gallies Barbadicus an experienced Commander of the Venetians took his place and in the middle the General placed himself with a Squadron of 70 Gallies Collumnius and Venerius commanding the rest of the Fleet on his Right and Left and in this Order they set forward with a prosperous Gale. Whilst these Preparations of the Christians were in hand the Turks had notice of â—ll that had passed and calling a Council â—n the Bay or Gulph of Lepanto where they â—ay they held a long debate whether they â—ould give the Christians battel or decline â—t but at length those that were against it â—eing over powered by the number of Voiâ—es of the contrary Opinion they came to a â—esult that the Fleet should be put in order â—o receive them which at the Command â—f Haly Bassa General of the Land Forces and great Admiral was done in this manner so soon as they came out of the Gulf viz. The middle battel consisting of about 60 Gallies was to be conducted by Haly Bassa assisted by Partau Bassa attended by Agan Master of the Turks Arsenal and the rest in all to the number of 350 Gallies and Ships of War were disposed much in the same posture as the Christian Fleet viz. The Right wing commanded by Mahomet Bey consisting of 50 Gallies to whom many experienced Sea Captains were joyned The Left wing was committed to the charge of Vluzales Vice-Roy of Argiers an old experienced Pirate consisting of â— Gallies attended on by Cariolo and Arabâ— his two Sons and strongly manned with Pirates and Sea Rovers In the Rearward was placed Amurath Dragut with 30 Gallies attended on by divers small Vessels And in these Orders both Fleets being arrainged though indeed the Turks were deceived in the number of the Christians by reason the Left wing of their Fleet lay under the Island and could not be well discerned the day being fair and calm about noon they fiercely engaged with such Shouts as made the Ocian Ring which notwithstanding waâ— soon exceeded by the thunder of the Cannons nor was God wanting to favour thâ— Christians by the suddain vering of the Wind which drove the Smoak of the Ordnance and Vollies of small shot in the faces of the Turks so that after a long bloody and obstinate fight of four hours the Turkish Admiral being slain his Gally taken and upward of 40 others taken burnt and sunk Victory began to declare on the part of the Christians but the Turkish Commanders fearing the Anger of Selimus if they should return vanquished fought like men in despair yet true Valour prevailing after an obstinate fight of six hours all the prime Commanders except Vluzales Carragosa being either slain wounded or taken Prisoners and he perceiving the battel irreparably lost shifted with his Squadron and getting clear with about thirty or forty Gallies flâ—d into the Bay of Lepanto leaving the rest in flâ—mes or miserably torn and disabled to fall into the hands of the Christians who pursued him as far as with safety they thought convenient and then return'd to take the Spoil where it was a dreadful Spectacle to behold the Sea coloured with Blood and thousands of dead and dying Bodies floating upon the Waves together with Masts Tackle pieces of Ships Gallies and such Weapons as were subject to float as also the Cries of the wounded and the flaming Vessels which made the Sea seem on a blaze As for the exact number of the Infidels that perished in this fight it is not known but modest Writers and amongst others Antenius Gnanaerius in his History of this War makes mention of no less than 32000 and amongst them these of Note viz. Haly Bassa General Mahomet Bey Governour of Alexandria Cassanes Son to Barbarossa the Piratical King of Argires together with his Son Mulaune Governour of Mytilene Giador Governour of Chiâ—s Cassambeus Governour of Rhodes Provi Agga Captain of Nauppâ—â—um Mustapha Zelibi great Treasurer to the Grand Seignior Caracoza and others of Note and amongst those that were taken Prisoners the chiefest of Note were Achmet and Mahomet Sons to Haly the General and Nephews to Selymus and Mechmet Bey Governour of Eubaea with 3500 of lesser Note of the Turkish Gallies 161 as also sixty Galliots and other small Vessels were taken and upward of forty burnt or sunk during the Fight This Important Victory to Christendom which put a stop to the Turkish Incroachment being intirely gained Don John Venerius and Collumnius coming on board the Admiral kindly embrac'd with all the Endearments of Reciprocal Love and afterwards in a most Christian Manner falling on their Knees ascribed not the Victory to the arm of Flesh out to him who is the God of Battels returning hearty Thanks to the great and wise Creator and Disposer of all things for giving them so signal and important a Victory over the Enemies of his Name in Imitation of whose pious Example the whole Fleet as well Souldiers and Mariners as Officers and Commanders did the like In this bloody and dismal Fight were slain no less than 7566 Christians of all Nations the Principal Persons were John and Barn dinus of the honourable Family of Cordona in Spain Horatio Caraffa Ferentes
which means the slaughter was scattered over aâ— the field and had been very great haâ— not the approach of Night put an end to it yet there perished by the Sword c. 18000 besides a great number that perished in the River and amongst the slain Hasan Bassâ— the General Mahomet Beg Achmet Beg Suffer Beg Meni Beg Framulan Beg Curlii Begâ— Operd Beg and Goschus Bassa together with Sinan Beg Amurath's Nephew the only Soâ— of his Sister As for the Prisoners taken they were many yet few of note though the spoil of the Camp was very great The Battel thus happily obtained the Christians as well the Commanders as the Soldiers fell on their knees and gave immortal thanks to the God of Battels to whom alone they ascribed their success The News of this overthrow coming to the Knowledge of Amurath he highly raged and at the Instigation of his Sister who refused to be comforted for the loss of her Son sent a blasphemous denuntiation of War stiling himself there in Monarch of the World and a Mighty God on Earth c. Thus those that sought for Blood with Blood were pay'd And meeting Death their cruel fury stay'd Who had with Flame whole Realms in Ashes lay'd A Description of the famous Battel of Lutzen fought on the sixth day of November Anno 1632. between Gustavus Adolphus the Warlike King of Sweden and Duke Walenstine Generalissimo of the Imperial Army THE King of Sweden having entered the Empire with an Army and overthrown Count Tilly the Imperial General with incredible slaughter the Terror of his Name spread wide which caused many Towns and strong holds to be at his Devotion nor was it expected but that every where being victorious he would in a short time make himself Master of the Empire though to oppose him Walenstine Duke of Frizland was made Generalissimo and another huge Army raised which the King upon notice of their being at Lutzen resolved to attack and therefore in the most secret manner marching all Night he came within sight of them in the Morning and drew up into battel in this manner viz. He divided this Army into two fronts and each of these into the Wings and battel with their Reserves each of the Wings composed of six Regiments of Horse lined with five bodies of commanded Musquiteers every one of them advancing with two Field-pieces in their front which plaied continually on the Imperialists The battel in each front consisting of four Brigades of foot a reserve of foot being placed between the two middle Brigades of the first front and a reserve of Horse hindermost of all between the two middle Brigades of the rear or second front and before each Brigade marched six pieces of great Ordnance which the King himself who would ever be in places of greatest danger led committing the lest to Duke Bernard of Saxon Weymar and the main body to Dodo Kniphausen Serjeant-Major and General of the whole Army under whom commanded many experienced Collonels and Captains c. of sundry Nations The order of the Imperial Army was in this manner viz. It being drawn into one large front was divided into three bodies the Right Wing of Horse which tended to the town of Lutzen was committed to the Count Rodolpho Coloredo appointed for that day Serjeant-Major-General of the Army and was lined with commanded Musquiteers besides supported by others that were lodged in the Gardens and had likewise the advantage of certain Windmils standing upon small Hills whereon they planted nine pieces of Ordnance the Mills and Millers Houses serving them for a good shelter the main battel or middleward was commanded by the Generalissimo's station being in the head of the Regiment of Piccollommine's consisting of Horse which was placed in the middle of the foot Regiments the left wing placed opposite to the right was commanded by Collonel Henderick Holek lately made Lieutenant velt Marshal under velt Marshal Lupenheirne yet no longer than till the other who was absent should take the field Both Armies being ordered in battel array and the advantages of the Ground which was in a manner a plain Campain unless some few ditches that proved troublesome being taken by either General as well as the time and opportunity would permit as likewise those of the Wind and Sun which in this case is ever observed by great Captains to be no small advantage to those whom they favour The fight began with the thundering of the great Ordnance by which many were overthrown on either side but the eager Souldiers desired to come to a close fight so that advancing hastily towards each other after the small pieces that were in the head of the Musquiteers on the Kings part were fired they gave their Salvos upon which the Horse that supported them charged furiously upon the German Horse so that many were slain and a great number beaten down who were most of them troden under foot and the King having commanded Collonel Stolhaunsh a Fleming to charge the Cuirassiers who were all in black Armour himself advanced at the head of the right Wing with his Pistol in one hand and his Sword in the other and when he had fired his Pistols regarded not to recharge them but charged upon the Enemy with his Sword so furiously that although they fired thick upon him and flashes were even in his Face he desisted not till he had broke their Array yet a Regiment of Croats taking the Advantage of the Kings being hotly ingaged thrust between the Right Wing and the main battel in order to seize upon the Baggage and blow up the Powder but Collonel Bulach making head against them they were obliged to retire yet upon his wheeling about to recover his station they fell on his Rear and much disordered that squadron of Swedish Horse but a sudden Mist falling it was not perceived by the rest of the Imperialists And now the fight being hot on all parts and the King out of the greatness of his heat and Câ—thâ—ge still pressing on and entering amongst the Ranks of those Iron-men as he called the Cuirassiers being himself only clad in a buss Coat and not being well supported he was overlayed with numbers for his men being in danger to be hemmed in by the Cuirassiers and the Regiment of Picolmaini which came fresh to charge them were obliged to give ground and retire towards their own bodies to prevent the danger they foresaw so that the King being left open to the shot of the Enemy received a shot in his left Arm by a Musquet-bullet which in the heat of his Courage he at first sliâ—oveed but perceiving the blood gush out abundantly and that the bone was splintered he thought fit to give way to necessity and thereupon calling to the Duke of Saxen Luenberg who charged with a party on his right Couzen says he I am surely wounded help me to make my retreat the which whilst the Duke laboured to do the Squadron at the head of which
defeated near Stow and Dening surrendred to the Parliament yet the great blow that caused the Royal Cause so much to decline was the unfortunate battel of Naseby fought near the Town of that name and so as it was the saddest I shall conclude with the description of it this unfortunate War. The Armies meeting near Naseby and the King in a Council of War resolving to give battel to Fairfax who had for some time followed him in the Rear he so ordered it that himself commanded the main Body and Prince Rupert assisted by his brother Prince Maurice the right Wing and the Lest was committed to Sir Marmaduke Langdale there were likewise two Reserves the one commanded by the Earl of Lindsey and the Lord Ashley and the other by the Lord Bards and Sir George Lisle of the Rebels Army Fairfax and Skippon commanded the main Body the Right Wing was committed to Cromwell and Collonel Rossiter and the left to Ireton there were in the Army likewise two Reserves under the charge of Collonel Pride Rainsborrough and Hammond The Armies being in array the Charge was sounded whereupon Prince Rupert advanced with great Resolution charging the Left Wing commanded by Ireton which after some Resistance was forced to give ground in this conflict Ireton was wounded in the face and thigh and had his Horse shot under him and was taken Prisoner so that the Prince pursuing this advantage followed the chace even to the Town of Naseby and upon his return summoned the Baggage and Artillery to surrender but without success in the main for by reason of the Prince his not timely returning to the battel Cromwel had the best opportunity to charge the King 's Left Wing which he did with such fury that he soon broke and disordered it whereupon that Wing fled leaving the main battel wherein was the Person of the King open and unguarded in either flank so-that the Reserves not being able to make it good and Cromwel returning with his victorious party before the Prince charging in the flank whilst the battel of the Enemy did the like in the Front notwithstanding the great Resistance that was made the King's battel of Footmen became broken and disordered so that although it came to handy-strokes with much Resolution and obstinacy on either part yet fresh Supplies of the Parliament foot coming in and the Royal-Army considering the safety of the King who was pressed on all parts finding it self unable to make longer resistance retreated out of the Field as the Prince was advancing who perceiving the bad fortune of the King's Army since his absence and despairing to restore the battel retired likewise Fairfax pursuing the King till within two miles of Leicester though in the way a Retreating-fight was maintained on the part of the Royalists so that the King not thinking himself safe in Leicester marched without staying directly to Litchfield In this Fight about twenty Collonels and Officers of lesser note together with 600 common Souldiers were slain of the King's Party and many wounded amongst whom of note the Earl of Lindsey Lord Ashby Collonel Rastol c. but almost all the Foot together with their Officers were taken Prisoners and in all six Collonels eight Lieutenant Collonels eighteen Majors seventy Captains 4500 private Soldiers 200 Ensigns one of the King's Coaches with part of his Treasure and almost all the Waggons Ammunition and Baggage together with his Letters and Furniture with twelve Pieces of Ordnance 8000 Arms and the KING's Standard which quite broke the strength o◠the Royalists insomuch that they could no◠bring any formidable Army into the field afterward nor was it long before the King◠being besieged in Oxford made His escap◠thence and cast himself upon the Scotch Army who for a Summ of Money delivered Him up to the Parliament whose usage towards Him was so Inhumane that it cannot be mentioned without a deep sence of sorrow by any good Christian Wherefore in silence let us mourn His fate Who dy'd a Martyr for the Church and State. A Brief Description of the second Battel of Worcester fought on the Fatal Third of September Anno 1651. KIng Charles the Second of blessed memory being crowned at Scone in Scotland entred England with an Army for the Recovery of his Right in August 1651 and by easy Marches with little difficulty entered Worcester on the 22 of August being Joyfully received by the Town 's men who were glad of that opportunity to Return to their Allegiance and there it was solemnly debated whether he should stay there and expect the event or immediately march to London but in the end the former was concluded at least so long till the Soldiers had well Refreshed themselves which gave the Enemy advantage to gather about that City from all parts yet care was taken for fortifying the place and securing the advantageous Passages to which purpose a Line and several Mounts were raised yet Major-General Lambert who commanded for the Parliament sending suddenly a Party of Horse to discover the difficulty of the passage at Vpton where Major General Massey commanded 300 Horse and Dragoons for the King about fifty of them venturéd over on a piece of Timber accidentally left cross that part of the Bridge that was broken down and although the Royal party immediately took the alarum and beat them into a Church where they defended themselves yet so speedy was Lambert in sending over a greater number of men that after a hot dispute Massey having his Horse killed under him and himself shot through the Arm was obliged to Retreat and now Cromwell's Army that had followed the King in the Rear out of Scotland began to joyn with those Parties that were already gathered out of divers Counties making in all between 50 and 60000 Men when as the King 's whole Power exceeded not above 10000 so that with these numerous Forces he was in a manner encompassed and there being no hopes left of marching away without coming to a battel after divers Sallies with various success the fatal day drew nigh for Cromwell Fleetwood and others after the gaining the pass at Vpton endeavoured to make themselves a clear passage to the City that their Army might joyn in the Leaguer to which end two Bridges were ordered to be made the one over the Severn and the other over Thame over the last of which Fleetwood advanced to attaque the City on the West part which so Alarum'd the Royal Army that then lay within their Leaguer at St. Jones that to hinder the approach they sallied out with the greatest part of the Horse and Foot so that a hot dispute ensued till overpowred by number more than by true valour they were obliged to Retire again into their Leaguer But whilst this encounter was on the West side Cromwell passed his Army over Severn and marched directly towards the Wall which the King perceiving sallied at the head of the Horse and charged with so much courage and bravery that
he could find no place of retreat amongst the squadrons but rushing through the Ranks of the Germans some part of the Horse entring amongst the foot created no small confusion on the other side of the Army where yet the Standard Royal remained the Troops of Horse there placed made great slaughter of the Moors pursuing them even to their Artillery but being succoured by the squadrons that were sent to support them they returned afresh to the fight so that in a short time it fell out worse with these Horse than those commanded by the Duke the King not being there but gone to the Vaunt-guard for being home charged by the Moors they sell in amongst and greatly disordered their own foot so that both Horse and Foot being in disorder and no place of retreat left flight and Confusion ensued for although this part of the Horse consisted most of Nobility and Gentry yet many of them being young men sent by their Friends to wait upon the King and little expecting to come to so sharp a Conflict were raw and unexperienced in the Trains of War so that whilst some were fighting valiantly others even in the same Troop were flying unpursued of the Enemy yet where the Italians and Spaniards fought the King being then in the Vaunt-guard a looker on great resistance was made insomuch that above 2000 Moors were killed in the place but not being succoured they were in the end overcome rather weary with killing hand to hand than by the force or Valour of the Enemy who pressed them with their Multitude yet the first charge of the African Horse of the Portugal Army commanded by Edward de Menesses struck no small terror to Moluc for seeing his men fly sick as he was he left his Litter and mounting on Horsâ—back notwithstanding the Christians shot approached he in a great Choller advanced to restrain their flight or dye in the place but being seized with a fit of his Disease in the midst of his fury he sunk from his Horse into the Arms of his Favorites who came about him to perswade him to return and being carried to his Litter he there instantly dyed yet was his Death kept secret by the Rhenegados that attended him lest upon the bruit thereof the Moors should leave the Field and consequently the Victory to the Portugals which no doubt they would have done had they at that time known it and although the Portugals had notice of it some hours afterwards by several Rhenegados that deserted the Moorish Camp and it was published to incourage them to maintain the fight yet it proved too late for by this time the greatest part of the Army was in Confusion losing continually ground and shrinking together notwithstanding the squadrons of the main battel did not move but unfurnished of shot stood lookers on urging it was the Kings command till charged by the Moors on Horseback they most of them miserably perished their Commanders in that Consternation not being able to draw thâ—m into any proper Posture of resistance or defence and now Francis de Tavora having long by his Valour withstood the Moorish charge of Horse and Foot was slain by a Harquibus shot whereupon his men were so discouraged that many of them threw down their Arms and fled and soon after the Duke D' Avero having rallyed some Troops of Horse and charged desperately upon the Moorish squadron that attempted to force the Ranks of the Germans had his battel overborn and was himself unhorsed and slain and on the other side were Christopher de Tavora and Alphonso de Norogna with divers others of account slain And the Arabian Adventurers who came rather to spoil the conquered than to fight having a little before fallen upon the Moors Baggage when they supposed they were in the rout with a full carreer charging the foot that stood firm brake their Ranks and put them into great Confusion so that Victory now declaring against the Christians in favour of the Moors and the chief Commanders being unhorsed and their Magazin blown up by an accidental fire nothing but flight and slaughter ensued though the King with some of his trusty Friends about him endeavoured by Words and Example of true Valour to restrain them and restore the Battel though in vain for after he had acted the part of a valiant Souldier killing many of the Enemies with his own hand and having three Horses slain under him in vain being required to yield he expired fighting couragiously on the heaps of the slain after which every one shifted for himself King Mulei Mahomet escaped out of the battel but hastily attempting to pass the River Mucazan now swelled by the Moons increase he was there drowned as were many hundreds who were deceived in the Foards the River being swelled to a greater height than when they passed it so that as the Plainâ— were covered with the slain the River was no less pregnant with the floting Carcasses of those that were drowned therein The battel thus intirely won by the Moors Hamet hasted to his Brother Molucâ— Tent to rejoyce with him for the succesâ— of his Arms but finding him dead and it being further made known himself by the general consent of the Captains and Souldery was in the Field saluted King and many Presents made him of the rich Plunder found in the Christian Camp as also of sundry noble Prisoners amongst whom of chiefest Note were Anthony Prior of Crato and the young Duke of Barsellos nor was the day less famous for the Death of three Kings viz. Don Sebastian King of Portugal Mulei Moluc King of Morocco and Mulei Mahomet the cherif or expulsed King and by the imprisonment of the greatest part of the vanquished Nobility of a Realm and so many Souldiers the Prisoners being more than the slain for of all that landed not above one hundred returned to the Fleet to tell the News and though the number of the slain on either side is uncertain yet next to the Kings mentioned there fell of the Christian Nobility the Duke of Avero Alphons Earl of Vimiosa Lewis Contingo Earl of Rodondo Vasco d' Gama Earl of Vidignera Alphons de Norogna Earl of Mira John Lobo Barron of Alvito Alvara de Mello Son to the Marquess of Ferrara Rhocterick de Mello Son to the Earl Tentugvel Jamie Brother to the Duke of Bragance John de Sylveria Son to the Earl of Sorteglia Christopher de Tavora the Lord Tomberg Arias de Sylva Bishop of Conionbra with many others of account so that some Noble Families by this means were quite extinct and sew in the Kingdom of Portugal but had a Son Brother Nephew or some other Relation that fell in this unfortunate battel sought the fourth of August Anno 1578. Portugal Hist Lib. 2. The Christian Arms thus Fate in Asrick crush'd In Royal Deaths her killing fury blush'd Whilst Crimson Streaâ—ns from mixtures of the slain Manur'd with Blood Tamista's thiâ—sty Plain A Relation of the last glorious Victory