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A26296	The voyages and adventures of Capt. Barth. Sharp and others in the South Sea being a journal of the same : also Capt. Van Horn with his buccanieres surprizing of la Veracruz : to which is added the true relation of Sir Henry Morgan his expedition against the Spaniards in the West-Indies and his taking Panama : together with the president of Panama's [i.e. Juan Perez de Guzman] account of the same expedition, translated out of Spanish : and Col. Beeston's adjustment of the peace between the Spaniards and English in the West Indies / published by P.A., Esq.	Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.; Perez de Guzman, Juan.; Beeston, William, Sir, b. 1636.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4315; ESTC R9181	65,058	198

Chagre Now having formed the Army into two double Squadrons and the Cavalry which were two hundred mounted on the same tired Horses which had brought them thither and with two great Herds of Oxen and Bulls drove thither by fifty Cow-keepers on purpose to disorder the Enemy The Army all appeared brisk and courageous desireing nothing more than to engage nor wanted there any thing of Regalo to infuse Spirit into them So that it seemed to me by what I saw and what they told me that they would be able to charge the Enemy like Lightning On Wednesday morning the Enemy appeared seeming to direct their march towards our Rear in three Squadrons wherein they had two thousand three hundred Men as I understood for certain afterwards but by and by they taking a compass advanced to the Front of our Army I had put for Leader of our left Wing Dom Alonso Alcaudete and for Leader of the right Wing the Governour of Beragues Don Iuan Portando Bargueno and in the centre the Serjeant Major To these I gave strict Command that none should move without my order and that coming within shot the three first Ranks should Fire on their Knees and after this charge they should give place to the Rear to come up and Fire and that although they should chance to see any fall Dead or Wounded they should not quit their stations but to the last extremity observe these their Orders I was at this time in the right Wing of the Vanguard watching the Enemies motion which was hasty by the Foot of a Hill in a narrow place about three Musket shot from the left Wing of our Army When on a sudden I heard a loud clamour crying out Fall on fall on For they Fly At which Don Alonso de Alcaudete was not able to keep them in their Ranks nor stop them from running away though he cut them with his Sword but they all fell into disorder And I well knowing the Fatality of this gave command that they should drive in the Herds of Cattle and charge with the Horse So putting my self in the Head of the Squadron of the right Wing saying come along Boys there is no other remedy now but to Conquer or Die Follow me I went directly to the Enemy and hardly did our Men se● some fall Dead and others Wounded but they turned their backs and fled leaving me there with only one Negro and one Servant that followed me Yet I went forward to comply with my word to the Virgin which was to Die in her Defence receiving a shot in a staff which I carried in my Hand upright close to my cheek At which moment came up to me a Priest of the great Church called Iuan de Dios who was wont to say Mass in my House beseeching me to retire and save my self whom I twice sharply reprehended But the third time he persisting telling me that it was meer desperation to Die on that manner and not like a Christian. With that I retired it being a miracle of the Virgin to bring me off safe from amidst so many thousand Bullets After this I endeavoured with all my industry to perswade the Souldiers to turn and face our Enemies but it was impossible so that nothing hindering them they entred the City to which the Slaves and Owners of the Houses had put Fire and being all of Boards and Timber 't was most of it quickly burnt except the Audiencia the Governours House the Convent of the Mercedes San Ioseph the Suburbs of Malambo and Pierde Vidas at which they say the Enemy fretted very much for being disappointed of their Plunder And because they had brought with them an English Man whom they called The Prince with intent there to Crown him King of the Terra Firma The English having thus got possession of the Relicks of our Town found a Bark in the Fasca although I had given order there should be none yet had they not complied with my command and when they would have set it on Fire the Enemy came fast and put it out and with it did us much damage for they took three more with it and made great havock of all they found in the Islands of Tabaga Otoque and las Islas del Rey taking and bringing from thence many Prisoners After this misfortune I gave order to all the People I met that they should stay for me at Nata for there I intended to form the Body of an Army once more to encounter the English But when I came to that City I found not one Soul therein for all were fled to the Mountains The same happened to me at the Town from whence I dispatched a Vessel to Peru with the sad News of our misfortune as I had done by Land to Guatimala Mexico and by Puerto Velo to Sparue And although I afterwards attempted several times to form an Army yet I could not do any good of it because no Man would be perswaded to follow me So that I remained utterly destitute of any Guard till such time as the English marched back to the Castle of Chagre to make his Voyage for Iamaica There embarked themselves for Peru without seeing the face of an Enemy the Castellan Saludo whom I did not believe to be such a one Don Iuan de Aras Francisco Gonzales Ca●asco being a young lively Captain and many Others This Sir has been a Chastisement from Heaven and the same might have happened to that great Captain Gensalo Fernando de Cordova as did to me if his Men had deserted him for one Man alone can do little In the middle of all this Torrent of Affliction it was no small good fortune to have the Fort of San Geromino in Puerto Velo finished And to have the Fortifications of those two Castles made there anew Because their first intent was to have attaqued the said Castles which are as report goes well furnished with Men and Ammunition If all were lost I hope God would give me patience to suffer so great a Punishment But so it is that all the Presidents together that this Kingdom has ever had have not done the third part of what I have done in order to the prevention of these mischiefs But I know my self so unfortunate as not to have People sent me out of Spain that are paid And so long as that shall happen not to be so in this Kingdom and that Chagre and Panama shall not be fortified they will be in perpetual danger of loseing the Indies This is what has passed omitting infinite particulars not to enlarge too much and which is all I have to say to you whose Life God preserve many years Panama c. The Relation of Colonel Beeston his Voyage to Carthagena for adjusting the Peace made in Spain for the West-Indies c. COlonel William Beeston having received Orders and Instructions from the Honourable Sir Thomas Linch Knight his Majesties Lieutenant Governour of the Island of Iamaica to embark on the

that although six thousand Men should come against them he should with the Fortifications and Men he had be able to secure himself and destroy them The like those who were at the passages of the River confidently assured me And now the Enemy being come those of the Castle of Chagre fought whole day and defended themselves with great Valour and Resolution Killing above two hundred Men and repulsing above six Assaults until the English taking advantage of the night and by the help of their Fire-balls set on Fire the Fortifications because the outsides were of Wood. They likewise burnt the Castellans or Governours House being thatched with Palm and consumed all the good Arms within There was Killed above half the People the Lieutenant also and the Castellan who all had behaved themselves with great Valour and had it not been for the Fire the Enemy had never gained it At the unhappy News of the loss of this considerable Castle those on the River were extreamly astonished and fearing the English would come up to them with two thousand Men Luis de Castillo Captain of the Mulatto's whom the Castellan Saludo had ordered to his Post a place called Barro Colorado having called a Council of War of those Officers under his Command without having any Order of mine or power to do it retired to Barbacoa forsaking his Post without fo much as ever seeing the Face of the Enemy The Castellan Saludo did the same quitting the Fortifications of Barbacoa and retired with his Men to Cruzes Before this at the first notice I had of the loss of the Castle of chagre Two mestises called the Sollices and a Negro of Vregoa offered with a hundred Men to regain the Castle or so to disorder the Enemy in case they should attempt to come up the River as to hinder them And for fear they should gain the Castle of Santos I sent Gil de la Torre who had been Lieutenant there to Govern and Defend it But neither of these complied with their undertaking for having sent two hundred and fifty chosen Men instead of the one hundred they had desired with the Sollices who meeting the Enemy on the River neither durst they stay to fight him as they might have done nor did they pass on to regain the Castle of Chagre But rather went round by the Mountain and came out at Capira after which they all dispersed without doing any good at all In this conjuncture having had the misfortune to have been lately Blooded three times for an Erysipelas I had in my right Leg I was forced to rise out of my Bed and march to Guiabal with the rest of the People which I had raised in Panama where I slaid until I understood the exact course of the Enemies march because I would be sure not to miss them for they might have gone by Barbacoa port Gilloa and Puerto de loes Naos With me I took eight hundred Men and three hundred Negroes that were Vassalls and Slaves of the Assentistaes And from the aforesaid place I sent to Cruzes three hundred Men amongst whom went one hundred Indians of Darien with their Commanders Of these I had greater Credit and Opinion than of any others yet had not these the courage to perform any thing Having been a day in Guiabal and my Men pretty well refreshed I received a Letter from a Negro Captain called Prado in which he assured me that the Enemy marched against us two thousand strong which News so much discouraged my Men that they ceased not to importune and press me to return to the Town protesting they would defend themselves in it to the last But it being impossible then to fortifie it it having many entrances and the Houses all built of Wood so soon as the Enemy should once make a breach we should quickly be exposed to their fury and forced miserably to shift for our selves for which reasons I consented not to them Next morning at break of day I found my self with not above one third part of my Men the rest having deserted me So that I was constrained to return back to the City to perswade them to Fight there at Panama there being no other remedy I arrived on Saturday night at Panama and Sunday morning went to the great Church where having received the Holy Communion before our Blessed Lady of Immaculate Conception with great Devotion I went to the principal guard and to all that were present I expressed my self to this effect That all those who were True Catholicks Defenders of the Faith and Devoto's of our Lady of Pure and Immaculate Conception should follow my Person being that same day at four a Clock in the afternoon resolved to march out to seek the Enemy and with this caution that he that should refuse to do it should be held for Infamous and a Coward besely slighting so precise an obligation All proffered me their assistance except those that had slunk from me at Guiabal And when I had drawn them up in order I carried the chief of them to the great Church where in the presence of our Lady of Pure and Immaculate Conception I made an Oath to die in her Defence And I gave her a Diamond Ring of the Value of forty thousand pieces of Eight in token of Compliance with my word and heartily invoked her aid And all present made the same Oath with much fervour The Images of the Pure and Immaculate Conception ever since the day of the Fight at Chagre Castle had been carried out in general Procession attended by all the Religious and Fraternity of the Cathedral of St. Francis that of the Nuns of our Lady of the Rosario those of San Domingo and those of the Mercedes together with all the Saints and Patrons of the Religious And always the most Holy Sacrament in all Churches was uncovered and exposed to publick view Masses were continually said for my happy success I parted with all my Jewels and Relicks collected in my Pilgrimage presenting them to the asforesaid images Saints and Patrons After this I marched with my Army about a League from Panama having with me three Field pieces covered with leather and charged And from that place I ordered another Party with two other Guns of the Men which came from the River being above three hundred to advance towards the Enemy which neither did any good This Body of Men which I had thus brought with me was compounded of two sorts Valiant Military Men and faint hearted Cowards many of them having all their Estates or pay due to them left in the Castle of Chagre and Puerto Velo and a great part of my Men were Negroes Nulattos and Indians to the number of about twelve hundred besides two hundred Negroes more belonging to the Astiento Our Fire Arms were few and bad in comparison of those the Enemy brought For ours were Carbins Harquebusles and Fowling pieces but few Muskets for they had likewise been left in Puerto Velo and