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A03134	A iournall, of the taking in of Venlo, Roermont, Strale, the memorable seige of Mastricht, the towne & castle of Limburch vnder the able, and wise conduct of his Excie: the Prince of Orange, anno 1632 VVith an exact card drawne first by Charles Floyd (nowe ensigne) and since lessened and cutt by Henricus and Willihelmus Hondius dwelling by the Gevangen Port in the Hagh. Compiled together by Capt. Henry Hexham quartermaster to the regiment of the Lord Generall Vere. As also a list of the officers, voluntiers, gentlemen, and souldiers slayne, and hurt in this seige. With the articles of composition.	Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?; Hondius, Hendrik, b. 1573, engraver.; Hondius, Willem, engraver.; Floyd, Charles, fl. 1632-1633, cartographer.	1633 (1633)	STC 13263; ESTC S104007	41,030	60

vvieck vvhere they fortfied themselues most stronglie as if they had bin in a towne the Companies of our Nation vvere these Captaine Killegrey Captaine Essex Captaine Scudamore Captaine Courtney Captaine Morton and Captaine Inglebie Thus the Armie being setled and all quarters entrenched the approches furnished and all out-vvorks and by-guards orderlie Kept releived many other strong vvorks of Fortification as Redoubts double ditches Halfemoones Horneworks Spurres Traverses vvere made along the lyne of circum-valation and prepared for the Enemyes attempt who vvas daylie expected to come and fall on vpon some part of our Armie for the releife of the towne and therefore a Fort Royal vvas made called the English Fort ouer against the English quarter And an other strong Fort called Belfide but more commonlie Brederodes Skonce because it laie neere to the Baron of Brederodes Quarter for defence of that part of the Leager and of the lower bridge vvhich vvas there layed for the passage of our Forces over the Riuer as occasion should require In the begining of the seige those in the towne annoyed vs much in our quarters vvith their great Ordnance and many vvere slayne in their huts and tents especiallie in the Scotch quarters so that vvee vvere forced to make Baracadoes and blindes in most places for the defense of our quarters and the Prince of Orange being to neere remoued his tents to the top of the hill neere the French quarters The 16. Colonell Pakenham commanded in the approches and many vvorkmen vvere sent to vvorke in the trenches This day it vvas ordanied that a Sargeant Maior should goe a grand-Round euery night betweene Count Henries quarters and ours Likewise orders vvere giuen out to all Captaines and their Sutlers to prouide victualls for their Companies for ten daies and that to begin vpon Sunday following after the expiration of those ten dayes there was once or twice a vveeke Ammunition bread brought to euery Regiment to be equally dealt among the souldiers for their moneys The 17. Certaine vvorkemen out of every Regiment vvere sent to finish the vvorks begun this night in the trenches The letters and declarations of Count Henry of the Berke touching his revolt from Spaine this daye came into our Army in print This night the Scotch Colonell Broguë his Regiment begining tooke their turnes to watch in the approches from this day to the 22 our approches went well forward the Enemy many tymes sallying out but were commonly beaten back againe with losse The 22. about 4 of the clocke in the afternoone the Enemy sallyed out about 200 strong an hundred fell into the Englishe trenches and as many into the French The Horse troope which had the guard at the entrance into our trenches fell out on the French side beate them in and the Captaine of the guard Shot with a bullet and Captaine Skippon on the English side fell out of our trenches with some 80 men and did encounter them in the playne feild the Enemy stodd it out in the open feild but after some skirmishing retyred this night wee aduanced our works in the approches without interruption The 23 they of the towne made a triumph with peales of Ordnance and Volleys of Musket-shott which made vs expect they would attempt something vpon vs that night or the next day following This day wee had a Conuoy from Nimwegen of 20 Ships loaden with meale Ammunition and diuerse materialls of warre The 23. of Iune Colonell Pakenham commanding in the trenches was shott in his face Vpon Thursday the 24 the Enemy sallyed out of the towne about 100 strong to beate in our workmen and fell into our trenches An Alferus or Ensigne of theirs who had the Command of 30 men followed the assault almost to our Corps-du-guard but at last they were put to retreate and the Alferus slayne with most of his men A parley was had for a certain tyme to fetch of the Alferus his body and other prisoners Into this Alferus his pockets were closely conveyed some Coppies of the letters of Count Henry of the Berke his reuolt in this fight Captaine Hickmans Sergant and some Souldiers of his Company were slayne The 25 also Marquis Sancte Croce came in the eueing with the Spanish Army to Tongeren where hee lay to victuall his Army two dayes Munday the 28 of Iune the Spanish Army came and quartered in the Villages on this side Tongeren not aboue an houres going from his Ex cie quarter there Reere being come vp they made a great noise with their ordnance and discharged foure tymes 24 peeces of Cannon one after another and hung out lights vpon the steeple there abouts to encourage their freinds in the towne and to signifie vnto them that they were not farr of Those of the towne answered them againe and shot al their ordnance three times off round about the towne their Bullets grazing and raking throw our quarters This night the Prince sent a guarde of Musketteirs with lights to search a Caue which was imagined to go vnder the ground into the towne they entred the Caue on the side of the Maze in the hill of Luchtenberch Castle found it to be hewen out by mens hands through a rock of free-stone and came forth on the other side of the hill neere vnto the walls of the towne Tuesday the 29 the Enemy marched from his quarters in the sight of our Army towards the heath A spye which marched with them three dayes brought intelligence that their Army consisted of 178. Companies of foote 76 troopes of horse 70 peeces of ordnance great and small and 900 vvaggons and marched in Phalanges and great Battalions with their Carriages baggage and wagons after euery Battalion This night they tooke vp their quarters in the Village by the hooght Cloyster a little below the Baron of Brederods quarters where wee lay the night before wee sate downe before Mastricht and where they remayned This night also a morter was planted in the English approches which Shott two great Granados of 80 pound weight one of them fell in the Enemyes half-moone before Brussells port the other in the towne and blew vp a house The 30 of Iune our horse and the Enemyes skirmished together their horse standing in Battalia while their Foote marched forward our horse skirmishing with them slew some of them and tooke others prisoners The first of Iuly our approches being well aduanced there was a traverse of the Enemies which lay some 30 paces in the playne field beyond the further point of our Sapp His Ex cie gaue order that this night it should be assaulted The Earle of Oxford then commanded in the approches and great store of Brushe was brought downe and workmen appointed for that service my Lord of Oxford gaue order to assault it in this manner That Sergeant Bagnall my Lord Veres Sergeant off Dort Company should fall on first with ●5 men then Lieutenant Garth Lieutenant to Sr Henry Herbert with 40. men and the

workmen and after him Captaine Roockwood with 80 men more all which was performed accordingly and they beate the Enemy out off the ●raverse and maintained it a good while The Enemy this night had drawne out of the towne about 800 men with intent to haue given vs a Camissado and to have falne vpon our works but this alarum of ours prevented them howsoever they were in Armes and in a readines to receave vs which made the fight more hard for falling vpon their traverse to regaine it they cast aboundance of hand-Granadoes in amongst our men which did much annoy them and indeede it was doubtfull for a while whether ours or the Enemyes men should carry it vpon this Sr. Symon Harecourt being then present with my Lord of Oxford was sent with freshe men in all expedition to second Captaine Roockwood The fight grew hott by reason the Enemy shott so much among our men diuerse were slayne and hurt among the rest Captaine Roockwood had his arme nere vnto his Shoulder shot in peices Sr. Symon Harcourt shot through his cheeks by the Pallate of his mouth and his thigh sorely torne with a granadoe and Lieuetenant Garth receaued a mortall shott through his body whereof hee dyed shortly after These Officers being brought off my Lord of Oxford sent Captaine Caue with 20 Pikes and 20 Muskettieres off my Lord Generall Veres Company off Dort and after him Ensigne Sydenham with some Gentle-men and Souldiers off his Company off Delff they fell on and beate the Enemy out off it againe and mayntained it not withstanding that the Enemy shott mightly and cast abundance off granadoes amongst them almost an houre Calling for workemen to turne it vp which fayling them seing that it was not tenible because it lay to open to the vvalls off the towne the Counter skarfe their halff-moone and outworks quitted it and retired againe into our works Diuerse Voluntieres Gentlemen and Souldiers off my Lord Veres two Companies were slayne and hurt as Captain Hauwton Reformado Mr Knowlls Mr Ewins Mr Wittington Mr Sedgwicke besides diverse Gentlemen and Souldiers off other Companies To prevent the Spanish Armye Coming over the Maze there was sent diverse Companies of English Scotch French and Dutch to lye along the River side in those places which were like-lyest for the Enemye to come ouer and every night men were sent likewise to the Lord of Brederodes quartiers where there was made invincible works to hinder the Enemye from approching towards his quarter and our lower-bridge The Enemyes Army lying so neere vs it was now a tyme of action for euerie night the whole Armye at the shooting off of the warning peece was in Armes and drew to the lyne every Companie standing 100. or 150. paces one from another and the horse troopes behinde them this lasted for sixe weekes every night till we had taken in the towne The first of Iuly also out long runing trench began to be made on the other side of the Maze beneath the Lord of Brederodes bridge for the safeguard of our men that went daylye at noone to guarde the water side even from the Bridge to the house of Geul where Count Stirums quarter was the Enemye had planted ordnance vpon diverse Batteries along the water side and shott at our men marching to their Guards but did them little harme The second of Iuly in the morning sixe French Companies of the Duke of Candales Regiment the Marques d'Esteaux his Leiftenant Colonell commanding had the guard on the other side of the River to hinder the Enemye from putting over the Maze below the Lord of Brederodes quarter The Marques distrusting the Enemye would attempt some such thing in the night layed some of his men in Ambuscadoe among the Reedes and in the Corne and suffred the Enemye to put over two punts full of his men about 300 strong and another punt full followed them The Enemye being landed high Dutches and Wallons fell to worke with their Spades to make good that peece of ground where they intended to lay over their bridge had cast vp three Crosse Batteries on the other side of the River that vnder the favour of them hee might passe over his men and had lodged some 3000 Muskettiers along the River side in a brest-worke cast vp in the night to play vpon our men The Frenches seing them at worke burst out of their ambuscadoes fell vpon them Pell-Mell and gott betweene the River and them and charged them vp to the very middle in water The Enemye played cruellye vpon the Frenches from their Batteryes which flanckered that place and their Cannon bullets raked through he French Companies slew many of them and shott of the Armes leggs of divers of them some of them were shott with Muskett bulletts from over the River Howsoeuer the Marques and his men carryed them selues so well that they beate the Enemy backe and sunck one punt with men in it so that there was drowned slayne taken Prisoners of the Enemye vpon this action about 400 men where of five or sixe of them were Captaines two or three Alferusses and 70. Souldiers The Marques d'Esteaux who had bestirred himselfe so bravelye when all was done in coming of was slayne with an vnhappye cannon bullett of the Enemies and with him also were slayne Captaine Foullon Captaine du Fresnes Monsieur Bois his Leiftenant and Leiftenant de Fay besides divers voluntiers Gentelmen and Souldiers to the number of fifty which lay dead vpon the place and a greate many hurte men were brought of This afternoone the Enemye sent a Trompetter to demaund his Prisonners hee speaking with his Ex cie for their releasment commended much his clemencie and mercye that they were not all put to the sword and also what good quarter was given to the kings men the yeare before at Bergen op Zoom when wee tooke their punts and Shalloups and that if ever they should haue such an advantage vpon vs hee hoped they would doe the like Saturday the third of Iuly our horse tooke five carrs laden with bread and other provision which was going to the Kinges Campe. The next day being the fourth the Regiment of Colonell Belford being in the trenches Sr. Iames Levistone his Leift. Colonell who then commanded the Enemye gaue them an Alarme Sr. Iames standing vp to see what the matter was receaved a dangerous shott vpon the crowne of his head whereof thanks be to God he recovered The fourth of Iuly also our horse firelocks tooke 60 waggons and carres laden with wyne beare and victualls for the Enemies Armye and brought in 103 Pesants whereof some proved Newtralls the other Enemies The fift of Iuly without the losse of any men our sapp was cut into the Enemyes traverse which the English before had assaulted About this tyme it was a very wet season greate store of Raine fell so that the River swelled and the Enemye could not forde it over till our works

double entrenchements Ditches Skonces Ravelings and halfe-Moones on the other side of the River were defēsible which made vs beleive that as God fought for vs before the Busse with drye weather so now hee did the like by wett weather made the heavēs to favour vs. Tuesday the sixte off Iuly the beseiged fell out vpon our workmen in the sappe off the traverse my Lord Morgan then commanding beate them twice out off it hee himselfe was shott vpon his brest and some others hurt and slayne This night the Enemy sprung a myne vnder the traverse in the English approches but did little harme This sixte off Iuly also his Ex cie hearing that the Enemy intended to fall on hee sent Mons r Stackenburch Lieuetenant Generall off the horse to giue them a sound alarme which was done in this manner following Hee had with him some 80 horse some 80 firelocks and tooke with him many trumpetts and Drums which where to sound and to beate a charge in sundry places and coming neere them hee fell on with his horse firelocks the trumpetts sounding the Drums beating gaue them such a terrible allarme that the Enemy supposing as the runewayes and prisoners reported that his Ex cie had giuē on with his whole Army did so pusle them that they run too and fro like men amazed and could not get into Armes Mons r Stackenburch broke into their trench and cut off a corps de Guard wherein a Spanish Captaine was slayne and takeing diverse prisoners returned backe into his quarters The 7. our men brought in 20 horsemen prisonners with a Drossard and 9 Carrs laden with provisions which were declared good boote The 8 they brought in likewise some kar●s laden with wyne provision which was for Count Iohn off Nassau The 9 an 10. our approches were well advanced The 11 of Iuly a convoy came frō Nimwegen with money victuals The 12 off Iuly wee had intelligence that the Marquesse Sancte Croce was in Armes had deuided his troopes into three Battaliōs with intent to attempt some thing vpon vs and to see if they could have brooke through our lyne but bethinking themselves they returned back againe into their quarters This day also sixe Souldiers off the Enemies came out off the towne with their Armes advertized the Prince of the State of the towne where their Mynes lay they were sent to take entertainement of count Henry of the Berke which they themselves desired More over this daye the French approches were so well advanced that a Soudier called Wild-boare of my Lord Veres Company of Dort and 4 other souldiers for 800 gilders vndertoke to sapp into the Counterscarfe of the towne this day also there came nyne Dutch Companies from Groning to our Army which were quartered on Weick side Tuesday the 13. of Iuly certaine forces of the Enemy marched towards Maseyck the Prince fearing that they might get over the Maze or take in the house of Count Henry of the Berke in Steevens-weert sent thitherward Count Stirum with diverse Foote Companies and the Duke off Bouillon followed him with some 20 troopes of horse more The 14 the Enemy found out a Myne in the French approches and stole the Powder out of it The French likewise found out a Myne vnder one of their Corps du guard and served them in the like Manner This daye five women were taken coming out off the towne whereoff one had a packett of letters found about her The 15. this daye in the morning those off the towne fell vpon the French works and tooke in part off their sapp and began to cast it vp against them but in the afternoone the French falling on vpon them recouered the most part of it againe with the losse of some men This night the Duke of Bouillon tooke in the Castle of Argenteau scituated on a high Hill betweene Luke our army to secure our provisions Vpon Fryday the 16. of Iuly the Enemy had in a readinesse another Myne and springing that filled the French sapp with earth some foure rodds where vpon the French Colonell Monsieur Maison-Neusve that commanded desired his Ex cie that the French might spring their myne and haue a revenge which the Prince not only granted but also was present there himselfe The myne then being sprung the Frenches fell on brauely and droue the Enemy into their Moate and followed them so close that they cryed out Mesieurs Faitez Nous Graces the French lost aboue 40 men among which Ensigne Fay was slayne and the Enemy aboue 100 slayne and hurt that day as they themselues confessed The springing off the Myne tooke but little effect yet not with-standing the French Voluntiers Gentlemen Souldiers fell on pursued them the Enemy shooting so thicke with their Cannon and small shott from the walle and their out-works that they could not lodge in the Myne nor cast vp the earth against the Enemy where driven to retyre againe into their workes The VVallons relieuing the French about one of the clocke in the night fell on againe vpon the Enemyes worke and beate them out off it but fresh seconds falling out of the towne the vvallons retreated into their works In this fight were slayne Monsieur Beza a French Captain that commanded a French Lieuetenant and a VVallons Ensigne beside some 30 Souldiers slayne and hurt The Enemy lost also in these seuerall encounters 82 men as they themselves reported and about 60 hurt whereof some of them died of their wounds afterwards The 18 a Burger of Mastricht came voluntarily ouer into our Army This day also there came 60 Musketteirs from Leige which were taken vp there and raysed for vs. A woman also was apprehended and taken goeing with a letters to the Spanish Army Also a Spaniard was taken in pesants Cloathes and brought in which had letters from Sancte Croce to the Gouernour of Gulick Letters were likewise intercepted frō the Infanta to Papenheim wherein shee offered him present pay for two monthes if hee would helpe to releiue Mastricht and come into the Land of Luke as an Enemy Vpon Munday the 19 the Enemyes Horse of Sancte Croce his Army surrounded and made a brauado before the Princes Quarters chased and tooke many of the waggoners horses and slew some Foremen our ordinance playd vpon them and our horse charged them and slew a Captaine of theirs and made them to retreate The Princes Captaine of his troope of Harquebusiers was slayne this day our men also slew some of the Enemy and tooke others prisoners The Lord of Vpdam haueing 100 horse vpon the Maze neere vnto Stockham brooke out of an Ambuscado suddenly charged three of the Enemies troopes of horse put them to flight and pursued them so fast that they tooke 12 horse and 25 horsmen prisoners The 20. Nothing of consequence was done Wensday the 21. of Iuly proclamation was made that hee w ch could take any going in or out of the towne

with letters should haue two hundred gilders for his labour The Count Warfuse Maister of the King of Spanies finances or reuenewes revolted and declared himselfe at Leige against the Spaniards and published his reasons This day 25 firelocks sallied out of the towne neere vnto the place where S r Robert Honywoods troope had the guard hee fell vpon them slew sixe of them and tooke three prisoners This night the Enemy attempted againe to come over the water and sent ouer two hundred Italians in Sloops on our side of the Maze but Colonell Varick sett vpon them slew diuerse of them among the rest a Colonell which had the command in that action and tooke some 70 prisoners and a Sariant Maior six Captaines the most of thē Reformados two Alferuses The Dutch lost in this sight Captaine Bruyn no others This day also while the English gave the Enemy an allarum in their trenches the Princes guard and the vvallons sprung a mine in the French approches and fell vpon a Traverse of the Enemies before their halfe-moone they fought a long tyme with the Enemy till their Amunition was spent and the alarum being hott Leiutenant Viuian Lieuetnant to Sr Iohn Manwoods Company was sent with all expedition with 40 fresh Musketteirs out off the English approches to second them and some Dutch he fell vpon the Enemy and put them to retreat and made the place good till the workmen turned it vp lodged some of our men in it the Enemy holding one side of the worke and wee the other Count Haynaw who commanded the Regiments of the guards did carrie himselfe valiantly in this action charged the Enemy in the playne feild with his sword drawne in his hād was there slayne whose death the Prince much lamented Three vvallon Captaines were hurt and diverse Gentlemen and Souldiers slayne in this service The 22. of Iuly towards noone the Enemy sprung a myne neere the point off the English sapp which cast vp abundance of Earth and falling into our sapp filled it vp a rodd or more and likewise stopt the entrance into our myne This cast vs behinde and wee were driven to worke yt out againe and cleere both our sapp and our myne before wee could aduance forward VVhen the Enemyes men sprung their Myne vvee had three or foure men a sapping forward the earth fell vpon them and buried two off them 12 or 13 foote deepe vnder it in the mouth of our sapp my Lord of oxford vpon Thursday night commanded a little before the breake of the day these two Souldiers of Sariant Maior Generall Witts his Company which were buried vnder the Earth when the Enemies myne was blowne vp lying in the concaue thereof wrought themselves out with their hands and a spade and tumbled into our sapp among our men who supposing they had bin the Enemy were ready to give fire vpon them which they seeing cryed out that they were our owne men thus it pleased God miraculously to preserve these two poore men which lay buryed vnder the Earth 15 houres from Eleuen a Clock in the day till 3 a clock in the next morning Lieutenant Colonell Proude who commanded that day in the approches when the myne was sprung was shott dead in his head with a firelock bullet This day Count William off Nassan returned from Antwerpe and came into our Armye with 30 Companies who were quartered betweene Count Maurice his quarter and the lower bridge Vpon the 24 in the morning the Enemy sprang a Myne in the French Approches but did little harme The English also sprung their Myne fearing that the Enemy had discouered it would haue prevented them the Earth fell short of the Enemies worke This day two pesants were taken coming out of the towne whereoff one off them had letters found about him The 25 two new Companies were raised at Leige w ch came vnto vs. About this time the States raised nine troops off horse About sixe off the clock this morning the Enemies troope off horse which lay in the towne laying some firelocks in Ambuscado for their retreat sallied out vpon Weike side came vpon the spur into a Village about an English mile from the towne thinking that our horse troopes which lay there had him vpon the watch and so to have pillaged their lodgings in their absence but our men staying some thing longer them vsuall taking the Alarum charged them with three troopes off our horse and falling in among them made them returne with greater speede then they came and followed them soe close vn till they came to the Ambushe off ther firelocks which brake out and gave fire vpon our men and the Cannon out of the Towne played among them which made the Enemies horse take courage againe and turning faces about charged our men but our men broke them so that their foote casting away their firelocks ran away after them their horse whome our men charged home vp to the very port though they shott much with their ordnance from the wall In this skirsmish we lost 4 or 5 horsmen and the Enemy lost many more Captaine Hurryes troope a Scotch Captaine was very much comended for this service This day one of our sapps was so farr advanced that it touched one of the Enemyes works this being S t Iames his day wee were verilie perswaded that the Marques Sancte Croce would have fallen on vpon our lyne and outworks to see iff hee could have releived the towne but wee kept so strong a watch that hee did not try what their Patron-Saint would doe for them The 26 the Enemy sent some of his troopes towards Maseyck Tuesday the 27 of Iuly the beseiged sprung a Myne in the English trenches which defaced our sapp did a little hurt to one of our mynes This afternoone the Enemy sprung two Mynes in the French approches the vvallons haveing the guard there had hurt slayne 18 of their men among whom Captaine Duke his Ensigne was slaine The Enemies horse of the towne salied out on Weike side but were presently beaten ile This night also a Corps du guard and a Battery was made in the ille aboue the towne and a morter planted the which played with granadoes and two small peeces into Weick The 28 of Iuly about one of the clocke in the night the Enemy shott frō their leaguer diverse peeces of ordnāce but did not attēpt to put over The French this afternoone sprung a Myne and fell on vpon it but the earth lying so open toward the towne retreated with the losse off Captaine Lavilletta and some others Thusday the 29 of Iuly that afternoone the Enemy fell out and shott much in the English trenches of ours there were some 20 men slayne hurt among the rest Captaine Courtney who commanded Colonell Pakenhams Companie had his thigh broaken with a Granadoe whereof three dayes after he dyed And in the night the Enemy sprung a Myne which did some harme to our

each Company to 300 strong This afternoone wee had orders to prouide victualls for three dayes and to be ready to march att the breake of the day the next morning The fifth of Iune vvee marched from Venlo to Roermondt being a long and a wearisome march by reason of the abundance of rayne vvhich fell that day and night soe that many of the souldiers vvere left behinde and could not gett vp to the quarters till the next morning the order of the march vvas this Count Earnest his Brigado being sent before to Roermondt vvas accompted for the Van-guarde the French the Battle and the English the Reare this night vvee begā to make our approches towards the towne The next day being sunday the sixt of Iune the States Magistrates and souldiers of Roermondt sent messingers to his Ex cie intreating him to giue them good quarter which hee granted thē the agreemēt being on both sides confirmed the Enemy marched the same day out of the towne vvith bag and baggage being sixe coullors in all about three hundred strong and these Companies vvere to goe to Rhijne-bercke Seauen Dutch Companies of Foote and one troope of horse marched out of our troopes into the towne and Monseur Randwijcke a horse Captaine vvas made Gouernour of Roermond and these Companies also had orders to strengthen each Company to 300 strong It vvas generally supposed that those of Roermondt yeilded vp the towne with so much the more speed fearing that his Ex cie vvould vvith violence haue assaulted it vvithout giueing them any quarter in reveng of Count Earnest his death vvho vvas shot and Slayne before it The seauenth vvee marched from Roermondt betimes in the morning and came about 4 a clocke that afternoone to Maseycke vvhere we tooke vp our quarter that night This day the French had the Van-guard the English the Battaile the Dutch the Reare This euening two souldiers and a Drumer were apprehended and hanged vp for robing and pillaging certaine pesants who brought in bread and other prouision for the releife of our Army The eight wee lay still before Maseyck to stay for the Punts which were not yet come vp to make a Bridge ouer the Maze and also to victual our Army before that towne being newtrall they brought out great store of prouision which the souldiers bought of them for their moneys This day there came newes to his Ex cie that Count Iohn had put in two thousand choise souldiers into Mastricht with munition and other materialls of warre The Arch-Duchesse perceiuing his Ex cies dessigne sent with all expedition to the Spanish Army in the Palatinate to leaue those parts and to come to helpe to defend her owne whose command they obeyed and marched so fast downward that they left many men Cannon baggage behinde them and the Rhijne Grave pursued them close at their heeles Sittert a small walled towne in Gulick-Land lying about two houres going from Maseyck wherein were certaine parties of the Enemy horse andFoote was given ouer into the hands of the Prince of Orange vpon the first summons VVee had orders to march the next day very early vpō wensday the 9 wee marched from Maseyck in extreame continuall raynie weather and that day the Army passed ouer the Bridge on that side that Maseyck lyeth and that night quartered an houres going short of Maestricht betweene two Villages called Harne and Rick-ham neere vnto the Lord of Petersons house the Hoog-Cloister belonging to the principalitie of Leige The order of the march this day was The English had the Van-guard The Dutches the Battaile The Frenches the Reare From this quarter Mons Perceuall the quarter-maister Generall and diuerse other Officers of good experience were sent with a strong guard of horse to view the scituation of the cittie of Mastricht and the most convenient places and grounds for the quartering of our Army about it which was speedilie done and a quarter-master of euery Regiment with a Sergeant of every Company went before to take vp their ground and to draw out their quarters against the coming of the Army On the tenth wee marched to our quarters before Masiricht Count Henry of Nassau had the Van-guard the French the Battle and the English the Reare This day the Army was devided into foure quarters the Lord of Brederodes his Ex cie owne quarter Count Henryes vpon the hill and Colonell Pinsons by the vpper bridge where provisions came from Luke The 11 of Iune the quarter-maister Generall gaue the ground to the quarter-maister of every Regiment for the entrenching of their seuerall quarters which was performed by the Officers and Souldiers with great diligence and the quarters that night where made defensible The 12 five peeces of ordnance were planted vpon the brow of a hill neere vnto colonell Pinsons quarter these did the towne little harme because the Battery was to farre distant The 13 and 14 Orders where giuen out that every Souldier should with all speede builde vp their huts and cabbins with Bed-steads from the ground which was done accordingly This night wee began to breake ground to make our approches towards the towne on the west-side towards Wymering port and ran two lynes towards the highest and strongest part of all the towne It was ordred that Count Solms Count Maurice and Count Hannaws Regiments should alwayes keepe their turnes and watch with the Frenches in the approches which came to their turne every scauenth night and after the 4 English Regiments had furnished the watch in the approches 4. nights one after an other the Scotch taking their turnes after the English watched in the trenches with their owne nation three nights till their Companies had all watched over and what they fell to shorte of the last night the English were to make vp out of their Regiments so that every Regiment English Scotch had the watch in the approaches every seuenth night This night wee had also orders that those Companyes which had the watch in the approches should draw in Parado every night to the quarter of the Colonell that cōmanded to sing a Psalme and heare Prayers the Companies to be ready to march into the trenches at 7. of the clocke in the euening without sound of Drumm and without head-peeces and taces And the Quarter-maisters of euery Regiment were commanded to fetch materialls the commanded workemen of our Nation were 40 of each Regiment and 80 of my Lord Generall Veres Monsieur Niels his Ex cie Inginier appointed to goe with the English Scotch And Collonell Harwood vpon the 14 Iune of in the night first broke ground in the approches before Mastricht The 15. 16. our approche went well forward a batterie was made The 17. there was sent by his Ex cie cōmand 18 companies of foote of diuerse Nations vnder the comād of Count Maurice of Nassau Collonel of the vvallon Regiment and quartered on the side of Falkenborch ouer against

a Company of brave and worthy men who desirous of honour lost their lives there yet they did so startle the Ennemy that they durst not stand out a second assault as yee shall heare the daye following Vpon Saterday then the 21 in the morning a parly was beaten for the fetching off of our dead bodies on both sides S r Ieamet Sanderling then commanding in the approches the dead being brought off our men begann to shoote againe but it seemes the Ennemie fore-seeing an other storme and for the prevention off a further daunger tooke hold off this oppertunity calls for a parly and desired that one or two of them might speake vvith his Ex cie vvhich S r Ieames graunting caused his men to leave shooting and sent word to the French approches that they wold doe the like also so his Ex cie sent downe Sariāt Maiour Generall Monsieur Witz into the approches and hostages were sent out and in and the Articles of Composition agreed on and accordingly performed on both sides According to the Articles of Composition herevnto annexed Munday the 23. of August the Ennemies Garnison marched out of the Towne 29 Coullours a foote being about 14 comen in all and a troope of horse They had also vvith them nine peeces of ordnance two three quater canon Carrying a bullet of 3● pounds weight two halfe Canon three ●ling peeces and two Faulcons the Prince at their request out of his bountie gave them two peeces more then at the first was agreed vpon but they taking three his Ex cie caused one of them to be carryed back againe into the towne They had also a hūdred of our vvaggons to carrye awaye their hurt and sickmen their bagg and baggage vvhich brought them to the Marquesse Sancte Croce his Armie A great many of them taking their leaves of their frends in Mastricht were foxt and in going out discharging their Musketts and firelocks one more malicious then the rest having a bullet in his firelock shott dead a horsemans sonne of ours for which offence he was apprehended and presently executed The 24. Count Papenheym having marched to a village called Esder neere vnto a litle towne called Vysell attempted to have put a bridge over the Maze to have hindred and cutt of our provisions betweene Luke our Army but hearing that Mastricht was come to a parly that his Ex cie had sent some forces to prevent him that the boores round about rose vp in Armes against him not willing to suffer the insolences of his Souldiers who neere visell had murthered some of their pesants in revenge whereof the bores cutt the throats of some of his stragglars he bethought himselfe and returned back againe to his owne quarters The 25. a daye of thankgiving was solemnized to God the Authour and giver of this Victorie The 26. Papenheym marched againe with 6 or 7 thousand men into the Countrie to pillage plunder yt vvhere his men committed cruell Insolences breaking vp Churches Cloisters Gentlemens houses spared not the Romish Catholiques themselves especially his men payd those of the Reformed Religion Among the rest some of his Officers Souldiers fell vpon a Gentlemans house brooke vp their Chests Truncks and Cubbarts and tooke aboue 20000 gilders in ready coyne from him this did not onely content them but also to satiate their fylthy lusts ô horrible villany ravished his wife and daughters notwithstanding the many teares cryes they made vnto them for the preserving of their chastetie The 27. Sancta Croce removed part of his quarter frō the Hooght Cloister and came and laye with some off his men neerer Stockham to guard his bridge vvhich was layd over the Maze to goe into and to come from Count Papenheyms quarter The 31. the Duke of Niewburch came againe into our Armie to excuse Papenheyms coming against vs now hee had declared himselfe an Enemy aswell in his owne behalfe as in the Bishop off Cullens but they sayd hee had noe great audience The first of Septēber we heard there was agreat contestation betweene Count La Motterie the Baron of Leyde his Vice Gouvernour and Sancte Croce his Spaynards hitting them in the teeth that they had layne there all that whyle and attempted nothing for the reliefe of Mastricht The fifth of September Papenheym being marched awaye towards Cullen Sancte Croce tooke vp his bridg and lett some of yt drive downe the streame he kept it a daye or two longer fearing least wee should have falne in the brich of Papenheym and have cutt off his passage The next day he marched awaye with his foote towards Diest in Brabant leaving his horse in the reere of his quarters His Ex cie went with our horse to see his going off and some of our horse entertayned skirmish with them and bulletts changed betweene ours and their centinells And thus the great braggs they made that they would give vs battle and fight with vs before wee came home came to nothing The Ennemy being gone our ordnance were drawne off from all Batteries and sett in order in our quarter Vpon Sunday the 5. of September two sermons were preached in Saint Mathews Church in Mastricht There was a great auditorie of Souldiers the inhabitants as full as ever the church cold hold After the fore nones sermon was ended Mr Conrade Merkinius the States preacher comming downe from the pulpit there was an old womā that had bin of the Reformed religion all her life time whom God preserved from death vvhen the Prince of Parma tooke in the towne with an assault when so many were Masacred drownd in it by the Spanyards This good soule hearing the sound of the Gospell againe in Mastricht was so over ioyd that as Symion did to our Saviour shee catched the preacher in her armes embrassed him and blessed God for yt This caused also a great reioycing to the standers by w ch made some of them shed teares weepe for ioye This night towards evening his Ex cie Comaunded Monsieur Stakenbrock Lieutenant Generall of the Horse Colonell Pincen who comanded the foote having with them certaine Dutch companies foure peeces of ordnance two Morters and sufficient ammunition laden vpon vvaggons to march vnto Limborch sixe dutch miles beyōd Mastricht on mundaye morning the sixth of September they came before yt made a Batterie planted their Canon vpon the Castle which by nature and art was exceeding stronge scituated vpon a sleepe Hill overlooking the towne after they had made some 34 shott against the Castle they came to aparly and yeelded finding in yt ten or twelve peeces of good ordnance and so the States and his Ex cie became master of the first Dukedome of the 17 Provinces It is a montaynous Country and full of high hills in which there are Mineralls found and great store of Calamine stone and copper it is credibly reported that these hills especially one of them were farmed for

Enemy also playd w th their Canon and small shott from of the wall and flanckers vpon vs. The manner of assaulting of yt was this Captaine Ogleby who commanded Colonell Brought Companie Ensigne Hunns and a Sargant with some 12 men fell on first vpon the topp of the worke were at push of the pike a good while and beate the Enemy out of yt and our spade men began to slight yt turne yt vp against them Vpon this service worthy Captaine Ogleby the Sariant and one M r Meaper were slayne The Ensigne Hurt and some 30 Gentlemen and Souldiers slayne hurt This daye also the Prince commanded wee should fetch all the forrage that possibly wee cold gett in the lād of Valckenburch least Papenheym who began to drawe neere vs should make use of yt The seventh his Ex cie gave leave to the Marquis de Gere a French Vovoluntier to goe into Sancte Croces leaguer to visite the Marquis de Clayton the Baron de Vieux-pont two Frēch Colonels which served the Enemy they told him that though the Marquis Sancte Croce did dispaire off the releife of Mastricht yet hee hopt that the Prince of Orāge would not refuse to giue him battayle in returning homeward towards Holland and that Count Papenheym was come to him to that end Also their Runawayes and prisonners told vs that now they had got betwene vs Hollant wee should be fought with all and not a man of vs come off It was reported that Papenheym also should send word vnto the Prince of Orange that hee came not to offend him the lo the States but was sent from the Elector of Cullen to punnish the rebellions Legeois whereof they being advertired prepared for him presently and two dayes before they intercepted and tooke materialls which were sent from Namur to Papenheym to make a bridge over the Maze The eight of August the Enemye sallyed out of Weick with their horse but were beaten in with the losse of sixe of their men The 9 of August Papenheym came to Sittert some 8 or 9 English miles from our Leaguer The 10 a woman was taken comming out of the towne meaning to goe to the Ennemies Army being strickly examined by Sariant Maiour Glaser shee confessed shee had swallowed downe a bullet wherein was a letter which after a purge shee voyed the letter was found the letter being wrapped together in alitle hollow bullet baked in paste The 11 Colonell Harwood having the command in the trenches and being bid-day after dinner going to see the sapp was slayne with a sling bullet whose death was much lamented This day those of the towne sprung a myne in the trenches but did little harme The 12 Papenheym marched towards Count William his quarter whervpon his Ex cie gave orders that all our gards over and about the Maze as also Count Styrums horse-troopes should retreate within the lyne and keepe their guards at the further end of the Lord of Brederodes bridge and this night Papenheym marched to our ould quarters by Geule where Sancte Croce and hee made a bridge our the Maze This daye also their was a great fire in Colonell Harewoods his quarter which burnt of a division his dead Corps escaped burning very neere The Duke of Newburch came also into our Armye to the States his Ex cie It was reported his Ambassage was from the Bishop of Collen to excuse Papenheyms comming sollicite that Weike might be made newtrall they say hee had noe good answere from the Prince and the States but went away with a flea in his eare This day those of the towne sprung another myne but it tooke noe great effect but at night they set some of our blindes on fire The 13 a Souldiers wife of Mastricht who had bin formerly taken going with letters to the Kings Army was now the second tyme apprehended and brought to his Ex cie but noe letters could be found by her yet at last being strictly examined and thretned to be hanged she ingeniouslie confessed that shee had swalowed two Copper-boxes with two letters the one from the Baron of Leyde to Sancte Croce in characters and the other from the Magistrates off Mastricht to their ould Governeur Count La Motterye The States Doctor over night gave her some pills in the which wrought so well with her that the next morning they were found washed opened and these letters found in them the letters they say were to this effect that vnles they were presentlie releived wee being so neare them it was vnpossible for them to hold out the towne any longer The 14 14. woemen were taken and 4. firelocks which came out off the towne to gett forrage This day also Papenheyms horse ours skirmished together and sought to beate in our horse centinells This night the Ennemy hung out lights on the wall both against the English French approches to shoote vpon vs to discover what wee were a doing in their moate The 15 also a Capuchian Fryer belonging to the Earle of Vorstenburch came from Papenheyms quarters into ours to visite a Leiutenant of horse off theirs who was taken prisonner and lay wounded in our quarters hee told vs Papenheym desired that Weike might be delivered to him or else hee made noe quastion but hee would releive the towne for his men had done wonders and overrun stronger works then ours at Magdenburch wee prayed the Pape that hee would goe perswade Papenheym to make a tryall off the strength off our works and hee and his muffs should have a very good wel-come This day also came Kutingen Agent off the Bishop off Coullen to our Armye to excuse Papenheyms coming but the States and the Prince gave him noe great welcome The 16 of August the Scotts having the gard in the trenches the beseiged about two a clock in the morning came into the moate and gave fire vpon our right hand sapp that opened in it and wounded two or three off our workmen they were presentlie beaten out left two or three of their men dead behinde them afterward they shott into this sallie with a sling peece being in drinke as comonlie they were when they fell on fell out againe vpon our sappers but the Scotch beate them back with the losse of eleven of their men the scoth also lost a Sergeant with foure men This day Count Henry of Nassau his stuard was slayne This night Papenheym shott of five peeces of ordnance towards Count Maurice his quarter by which hee declared himselfe an Enemye as appeared the day following Those of the towne hung out lights this night three tymes and extinquished them againe wee interpreted this to be some signall they could not hold out long This evening a corporall of the Enemyes came out of the towne and told vs that the beseiged intended to fallie out vpon vs the next day with a greate many men Vpon tuesday the 17 Generall Morgans Regiment

had the gard in the trenches my Lord Generall Vere commanded the lyne as hee did every night betweene the English quarter and Count Henryes accompanied with Sergiant Maiour Holles It was my Lord of oxfords turne to comād this night in the quarters who being sikly my Lord Vere comanded his quartermaster to attend his lo. to bring him what orders should come This night about 12 a clock Sergant Maiour Generall Witz hearing the Enemy moved gave order that 150 men should be drawn out of the quarters put into the Fort Anglois to stregthē yt this caused my Lord of oxford to come forth see it executed he stayed with the companies till morning The reveille being beaten my Lord Vere my Lord of Oxford gave order that the Companies should be drawne from the lyne to the quarters they had scarce layne downe an hower to take their rest but wee heard a sudden and a hott alarum in the trenches which was betweene 7 or 8 a clock in the morning The Enemye sallied out about 400 men vpon the English trenches and over the plain feilde fell into our sapps and guards it was a mistie morning so came stealing behinde our centinells who could not well discover them give the alarum so soone as they might if it had bene cleare the Enemye fell into our first Corps du Gard beate our men out of yt and so along our right-hand sapps gott into the second Corps du Gard and at last assaulted the Colonells Corps du Garde where Serg t Maiour Williamson comanded and in w ch Generall Morgans owne Companye was and some others Our men made the best resistance they could were at push a pike with them a long tyme the Enemy gave fire exceedingly from the wall with their ordnance small shott with their firelocks slew many of our men in the Colon. Worke Serg t Maiour Williamson received two or three mortall wounds at push a pike with a shott that fainting they puld him downe from the top of the worke carryed him prisoner into the towne where hee shortly after dyed Serg t Maior Holles hearing this alarum in our quarter gave order to the quarter maister that came to him that with all expedition my Lord Veres Cōpanie of Delff S r Iohn Gibsons Capt. Skippons who were newly come from the watch the souldiers at rest in their huts they should instantly draw forth though they could get but 20 mē together of a Company All expedition was made that possiblie could bee and getting some men together the rest following these capt ran with their Companies downe as fast as they could into the trenches to second our men and a scotch Companie likewise vvhich had the gard at the scotch avenue got the start a litle before them now Sir Iohn Gibson and they vvhen they came at the entrance into our trenches for haste left the trenches and ran over the plaine feild the next way to come to the point of our trenches and saps vvhere the buisines was to bee done they shott exceedinglye from the vvall vpon our men and Maister Treffery of my Lord Veres 2. Companie was shott in the head the Enemye seeing the resolution off our men fearing that wee should have gott between them and home so have cut thē of The Governour Beckned cryed to their men from the vvall that they should retreate into their works but before these Companies came downe Capt. Browne who vvas newly releived from the point Serg t Maior Cromwell Leift Browne Leift Temple with some ten Muskettiers entred the Colonels gard againe gave fire vpon the Enemye and beate them out of yt the Enemye having stripped our dead bodyes in it where Captain Martin divers brave gent and souldiers of Generall Morgans Cōpanye lay dead where quarter-maister Weyman and M r Ed Mead received their mortall wounds After them entred Captain Trevery Captain Walker Captain Avry Vere with my Lord Craven and his brother and beate the Enemye also out of the second worke there entred also 2. French Voluntiers whereoff one was the Baron de Chastres my Lord Craven and the French Baron Captayne Treverye Leift Iohn Gray and Leift Moncrife fell into the third worke and to the very pointe off the sap it selfe and beate the Enemye out off the third guard where the French Baron and Leift Moncrief were slayne The Enemye having possessed these vvorks began to slight them and cast downe many off our muskett-Basketts which made them lye very open to the wall of the towne then came my Lord Vere my Lord of Oxford Sargāt Maiour Holles Sr. Io. Manhood Sr. Symon Harecourt my Lord Vere being there gave presently order for the strēgthning of the guards and the relieving of our men and appointed workmen to repaire our blindes which the Enemye had begun to slight and by litle and litle to set vp our musket-baskets again comāded our men from all guards to give fire vpon the wall and the Roundels of it to keepe the Ennemy from shooting while our men did their buisinesse My Lord of Oxford coming downe went to the point and right hand sap coming thither the Souldiers being over wearyed called out to his Lo p for reliefe whervpon my Lord off Oxenford promissed them they should be relieved presently his Lordship comming out passing throw the Colonells Corps du Guard a litle beyond yt mett some of our Musketteirs which were brought vp to releive our men his Lo tooke about 16 of them and though hee was intreated by my Lord Generall Vere Sargant Maiour Cromwel and some others not to venter his person yet hee went in with them and before he came to the point of the right hand sapp being a dangerous place and lying open received their a mortall shott throw his head What a heavie spectacle this was to the standers by and what a sudden impression of greife it vvas to my Lord Generall Vere the symptomes of his face did discover neverthelesse his Lo p suppressing yt as well as he could gave further direction that our men should ply shooting that the gards and the sapps should be relieved and the musket baskets which the Enemy had throwne downe by litle and litle should be sett vp againe And ere all things vvere done it vvas twelve a clock at the least In this fight Sarrant Maiour Williamson Captaine Martin that comanded Generall Morgan his Companie Lieutenant Avery Qvartermaister Wayman and some 30 of Generall Morgans owne Companie were slayne and hurt besides others Among these that were hurt Captaine Trefferie was shot by the shoulder and his legg hurt with a granado likewise capt Abree Vere was shott throw his Munmouth cap and bruysed on his foote with a granado This action was noe soner ended but an other alarme began on Count Maurice his side for vvhilst my Lord Vere and diversse Officers vvere at dinner vvith my Lord

the English with the scotch were apointed to secōd them vvhile things were a ordring the Cōpanies marching downe the workmen come diversse gapps were cut in the trenches sallies made in the most conveniēt places where our men might fall out the two litle decked Galleryes or sallies on either side off our great gallerie were cutt in the bottome of the ditche and on the sides for our men to fall vp to the breach The Myne by this time was stoptt 14 foote backward and 3 chabers made where in 18 Barrells of powder were layd but as fast as wee vvrought backward the Enemy vvrought forward to give vent to our myne The manner off assaulting the breach was thus Lieutenant Charles Kettleby and Ensigne Munings were first to fall vp with 50 Muskettiers Piks to visit the breach After him Lieut. Holmes with 24 workemen and Quarter maister Watkins as Inginier Next them Capt. Manly Ensigne Sydenham Capt Stantons Ensigne with 100 men more halfe pikes halfe Muskettiers after him Capt. Caue Lieut. Lewes Ens. Foster with the like nūber Then Lieut Col Holles with Capt. Peyton Capt. Esda Lieut. Browne Ens Garret Ens. Moyle Ens. Manly with 200 more These voluntiers also fell on my Lord Craven his brother Sariant Maiour Huncks Capt. Davis Reformado Maister Donogh ô Brian Mr Wilis Ensigne Browne Captaine Griffin also fell vp the breach with his Companie Thus yt was ordered and betweene 8 and 9 a clock this night all things being in a readinesse the Myne vvas sprung and to amuze the Ennemy an Alarme was giuen by the French in their Approches Nowe ere the Myne vvas sprung the Ennemy had stolne out nyne Barrels off powder out off yt the other nyne Barrells being fyred having such a vent and such a huge wall of Earth and stone to cast vp it made not so great a breach as otherwise yt vvold have done if all the powder had bin in yt neverthelesse it shooke the fondation of the vvall so that some Earth being blowne vp the stone vvall tumbled downe into the moate about a rodd in breadth which our men perceving giuing a great shoote fell on Couragiously from the bottome of the moate and clambring over the stones vvhich vvere falne downe and helping one another vp gott vp to the very topp of the Breach gave fire in the teeth of the Ennemy and came to pushe of the pike with them The Ennemy running from all parts of the towne to defend yt and from the two Roundles which flanckred the Breach gave fire a pace vpon our men that vvere vpon the topp of the Breach amounting and with their ordinance from the halfe-moone before the port from an other pecce vvhich shott out of a hole within the port playd vpon our men and scowred a long the moa●e hanging out two great lights vpon either side of the Breach that they might see and discouver our men the better the Ennemy casting downe many hand-granadoes stones fireworks and pycht ropes burning among our men discharging their ordnance from all flancks as fast as they could charg and discharge and ours likewise vpon them from all our Batteries while our men fell vp to the breach with agreat resolution putting the Enemy hard to yt Captaine Dudley Ensigne Sydenham now Captaine Captaine Sandall Ensigne Garret my Lord Veres Ensigne of his Company of Dort with some other Officers Gentlemen and Souldiers sallyed a long the moate and the Ennemies Counterskarfe and comming to the drawe-bridg before Brussels Port entred the halfe-moone cutt the throats of those that had the guard in yt beate them downe with their Musket-stocks and mauld them pittifully so that they cryed out for quarter but none was given them The Ennemy that had the guard within the port having the wicket open shutt yt and left those that were without to our mercie All this while our men strived to enter the breach and assaulted yt well nigh halfe an houre slashing and cutting of the heads of the Ennemies piks His Ex cie the Lord Generall Vere Sariant Maiour Generall and diverse Officers stood vpon the Batterie to see the Breach assaulted where the bullets flew thick and threefold It was very difficult for our men to enter because of the steepnesse of the wall and their clambring over stones and dead mens bodies being 80 foote in height from the bottome of the moate to the stone wall Our men giving on three or foure times with freshe courage vvhich his Ex cie seeing that the longer they stayed in assaulting the more men wee lost sent word that our men should come downe from the breach and retyre into our works In this fight captaine Davis a worthy Gentleman was slayne Captaine Edmund Manly who strived to enter cutting off the heads of the Ennemies pikes received a shott throw his left arme by his shoulder vvhich brake his bone and an other throw the same arme a litle above his Elbow vvhich likewise broke his bone asunder another shott through his right thygh among his synowes vvhereof the 23. of August he dyed Also Captaine Griffin was shourdly hurt agreat many of his Company slayne hurt Lieutenant Colonell Holles vvas also hurt vvith a granado on his foote Captaine Cave shott throw his right-hand the bones all to peeces and Captaine Peyton throw his left-hand Capt. Dudley at push of the pike vvith the Ennemy was runne into his brest and his Lieutenant Reade shot through one of his hands the bones all to shatters Captaine Sandall received a cruel shott vvhereof of late he dyed Capt. Sydenham hurt also with a granado and diverse Gentlemen and Souldiers of my Lord Vere his two Companies slayne and hurt a great many of other Companies also The Ennemy likewise lost a brave Captaine vpon the breach and a great many of other Officers men who did ingeniously confesse vnto vs after wee came into the Towne that if our Myne had sprung but halfe an houre sooner the Baron of Leyde Vice Gouvernour and some of the Magistrates standing aboue the myne and giung some orders how to defend the breach had bin blowne vp into the aire Our men falling on striving to enter there was a pityfull cry of men woemē children in the Towne their great alarme Bell ringing out And some of them fearing that our men wold have entred and served them as the Prince off Parma did Anno 1579. cryed out for quarter but our men gave noe eare vnto them because his Ex ice had promissed our men they should pillage the Towne if they entred which did much animate them There was order giving whē our men fell first on that iff the breach was not mountable and the assault feisible they should have sent his Ex cie word and have falne off but it seemes the over-ruling hand of the Lord of Hoasts was in this action and the courage of our men such that it was omitted for though wee lost