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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	command_v	horse_n	troop_n	1,218	5	8.9105	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14422	A continued iournall of all the proceedings of the Duke of Buckingham his Grace, on the Isle of Ree, a part of France, from the beginning vntill this 17. of August In whom are combined religion, fortitude, and clemencie; being the true characters of a noble generall. Published by authoritie.	Garetson, Mr.	1627 (1627)	STC 24741; ESTC S111523	10,959	26

Foote-boy of his that could both runne and swimme well and sixe Muskatieres to the point of the Island where they were to land their Men to see if they could discouer any Men or Ordnance that they had planted there to encounter vs When he came to the shoare he caused the Foote-boy to strippe himselfe and to run along and he run three quarters of a mile into the Countrey and found all that Coast cleere sauing three Horse-men that the Enemies had set out to be Scoutes which chased him back to the Sea side The Boy was releiued by the Ship Ordnance and the Muskets in the Boate At ten of the clocke he turned back to the Triumph and gaue the L. Generall an accompt what he had discouered Whereupon the L. Generall gaue present order for all Officers to be in a readinesse and to meete him aboard the Kings good Shippe called the Lyon lying next the Pointe where they were to land their Men for there he would keepe his Randeuous for that time At twelue of the clocke he tooke his Barge accompanied with Sir George Blundell Sergeant Maior attended by M. Grymes and M. Ashburneham and went to all those Ships that had Land Soldiers and commanded them that they should presently draw themselues as neere that point of the Island as they could After that he went to all the Ships and appointed the Captaines of them how and where to attend with their Shippes and commanded them presently to prouide their Barges and long Boates to land their Land Souldiers and to send them to the Lyon Hee then made choyse of tenne Ships of lesser burthen and directed them to draw their Shipps as close as they could to either side of the point of the Island where the Souldiers were to be Landed and commanded them that if the Enemie did appeare within shotte they should presently play vpon them He being aboard at the same time of one of these Shippes went vp to the top of the mayne Mast and discouered of the Enemies three Troupes of Horse and 16. or 18. hundred Foote all ready in Battalia some English mile or more off the place where wee were to land our men hee came presently downe and tolde vs what hee had discouered and shot at them himselfe two or three Peeces of Ordnance and commanded the rest of the Peeces to play vpon them still with that tooke Barge and went to the Lyon where hee found all the Officers ready with their long Boates to land their men In this time came backe from Rochell Monsieur Sabuesa and Sir William Beecher who stayed there till Saturday following Monsieur Saint Blancart disswaded the Lord Generall to forbeare the Landing of his men vntill the next morning but the Lord Generall fearing it would giue time to the Enemie to strengthen himselfe Hee would by no meanes heare of any delay Whereupon Monsieur Saint Blancart like a braue man choosed himselfe a Pike and put himselfe into Sir Iohn Burrowes Regiment By this time it was three of the clocke when the Lord Generall commanded to land two Regiments that were of the olde Companies where of Sir Iohn Burrowes and Sir Alexander Brett were Commanders he went with them himselfe on shore and appointed the two Colonels in what place they should land their men And being landed commanded them to put their men in Battalia with all speed fearing the Enemie vvould giue them a suddaine assault The men being vveary in lying on Shipboard lingred vvashing their hands in the Sea but the Lord Generall vvith a Cudgell runne to and fro amongst them beating some and threatning other-some and got them thrust vp three Pykes length to the skirt of the banke vvhere they vvere to be There vvas a third Regiment that vvas ready to land in the meane time came Sir William Courtney to the Lord Generall and tolde him that vnlesse hee should doe the same curtesie for him vvhich he did for the other two Collonells hee should not get his men landed and that his vvere olde Souldiers and vvould doe good seruice if the Enemie made assault Whereupon my Lord called Sir William Courtney vvent into his Barge vvith an intention to hasten a shore his Regiment and as soone as he had gone about fourescore from the shore hee presently heard the fight begun and turning backe he saw three Troupes of French Horse charging our Foote vvith all the fiercenesse that migh● be And the third Regiment those that vvere vnlanded pressing themselues amongst the Shippes to succour themselues the rest of that Regiment that vvere landed hee sawe prest into the vvater by the French Horse and Sir William Haydon being caried violently to the Sea by the Reuolters was there drowned Whereupon he set S. William Courtney into another Boate with commande to make all expedition to get his Men landed And very brauely himselfe drew his Sword and turned his Barge attended by Master Grymes and M. Ashburneham and thrust himselfe vpon the Reuolters and rebuking some and encouraging others told them he hoped they came not with any intent but to aduenture themselues so farre as he would leade them Wherevpon he thrust himselfe on to the shoare and they followed slowly and animating of the other Foote which were run into the water they most of them leapt out of the water and vpon the Lord Generalls words threw themselues forwards as if they would haue fought brauely but before we could get where the blowes were the Battaile was ended My Lord Generall had ordered certaine Shippes to scoure the Landing place with their Ordnance but the assault was so sodaine as they did little hurt to the Enemie and in verie heate of the combate it fell out that one of our owne Shipps had entangled himselfe betweene our Battering shippes and the Land by which meanes they were hindred in performing of their charge If the French Foote had come on to haue charged presently vppon the discharge of the Horse it had been impossible that we could haue withstood them But as God would haue it the Horse-men made more hast then in iudgement they should haue don Before the Foote came we had killed most of their Horses But when the Foote did come they came very orderly and brauely being 1500. comming within a Pike and a halfe of our Men before they discharged and the Leader of the Foote being a braue and goodlie Gentleman tooke off his hatte wherevpon all their Foote discharged their Muskets and after they fell to it with Swords and push of Pike vntill they were breathlesse on both sides The French finding our Pikes to be longer then theirs threw away their Pikes and went to it with Stones and so did our Men but ours beate them out and made them flye away very disorderly that happie was he that got first off his Armor to betake him to his heeles This Battaile did not continue in all much aboue halfe an hower but our Horse were not yet landed But if we had had twentie