Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	foot_n	horse_n	squadron_n	1,059	5	11.6685	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87235	A brief relation of the surprise of the forts of Weymouth, the siege of Melcombe, the recovery of the forts, and raising of the siege. / By P.J. minister to the garrison.	Ince, Peter, b. 1614 or 1615.	1645 (1645)	Wing I128; Thomason E274_7; ESTC R210069	5,829	8

large as we made it and stumbled upon our men thinking them to be of his own party In both Towns there was every day a new expence of shot and blood on both sides but considering the many advantages they had continually upon us it did daily cause in us an admiration that our losse should be so little Every night we were molested with the loude blasphemies and revilings of our enemies but the worse we found them the greater was our hope of deliverance from them About the end of this week came down the Lord Goring from Salisbury and on the Sabbath-day all day faced us with his Horse and Foot No summons came from any of them whether from a despair of any inclination in us to surrender or from what other cause it might proceed we know not This night they made a Work at the North end of the Town which when the Governour discovered on Munday morning he resolved to take out a party of Foot and Horse and to see if they might be removed to a further distance from us but before they could be got together our great shot kil'd some of them and the rest did not stay so that we with case took all their working-tools and the work with a few Horse their Body of Horse standing on a Rising ground not far off and looking on On Tuesday morning we went out with our Horse and some Foot and met with a party of their Horse going with some Provisions to Weymouth we beat them from their Carriages brought some of them into Melcomb and had pursued them had not another party been too neer our Rear We burnt a House at Radipole a mile from the Town where we suspected they would lodge some Muskettiers which might have done us no small hurt Those in Weymouth seeing their Horse worsted and flying before us hasted out a hundred Foot for their relief the Governour being then in the field with the Horse and having intelligence of the motion of their Foot out of Weymouth resolved to fall over the Bridge upon the Town and to attempt the recovery of the Chappel-Fort which suddenly drawing out severall Squadrons out of every Company he effected Major Wilson and Captain Langford led on the party the enemy not discovering our men till they were upon the out-works ran into the Chappel and after a shot or two cried quarter Thus had we now again regained the command of the Town of Weymouth took in the Fort and Town above 100 prisoners one Lieutenant Colonel one Major three Captains besides other Officers we took about 40 Load of Provisions of all sorts which they had brought in the Lords day before we slew here their Marshall and Philip Ash the fourth of the confedrates who had conspired our ruine which received his reward besides three or four other men At this time our Provisions for Horse were almost exhausted so that if God had not supplied us out of our enemies store we had been driven to great extremities This invaluable mercy was the first step to our recovery Our enemy could not now harbour so neer us as before nor relieve their friends in the North-point so easily being to passe by us besides this Fort overlooking Melcomb did us far more mischief then the North-point We relieved here some honest men that were their prisoners which made it more a mercy and took some of the profidious Townsmen who after taking the Covenant with us were got into Arms against us Amongst other Pillage in the Town of Weymouth we took Captain Kaines a Papist his Port-mantle wherein we had a parcell of Holy-Beads a Commission for a Ship to play the Pyrat with at Sea which lay blank at Dunkirk till by Master Henry Jermins Letters which we have also he had his name put in Our enemies upon this losse began to think of packing up but Sir Lewis was loth to leave us so and therefore importunes the Lord Goring who for ought we can hear had no great stomack to the businesse to try an on-slaught upon us On Thursday they marcht with their Horse Foot and Carriages from Dorchester towards us but do so guard all wayes that no intelligence must come neer us Here fell in another strange providence of God for us One of our men who had been taken prisoner two or three dayes before though very strictly watcht broke from them and got safe to our Horse then in the field by him we had notice of all their intendments whereupon we put our selves into the most prepared posture we could to receive them We quit the West-guard of Weymouth and made a Barricado below in the street beneath the Chappel-Fort planted a Gun there and ordered all the other Guards so as might serve best for the repulse of them that were coming against us About one or two of the clock the night it being light on they come the most considerable part of them on the West-side where entring the work which we quit so easily they thought all their own and gave a loud hoop which ended in heavy groans with some of them not long after They had not come in a Body far down the street but their presumption was confuted and they wisht themselves further off A long time shot was going on both sides but at last seeing they got nothing but wounds by staying they began to run away and be quiet leaving five dead men in the streets One Lieutenant so wounded that he could not get off and some common souldiers The people saw them carry away some of their Gallants and since that they buried some they carried away at Dorchester and other places On the other side from the North-point the Irish Rebels and others of their fraternity sell on and the Barricado made that way lying below the Houses under the Hill the enemy broke in within the Barricado through the Houses and put our men to a somewhat disorderly retreat thence but they fell back to a second Barricado where a Gun was planted which they had been in a way to desert too but that the Governour came seasonably in and commanded them to make it good so they fired the Gun upon the enemy whereupon they fled back and were followed by a party taken off from the main Guard to the further Barricado formerly quitted Here we wounded another of them that betrayed us who died of his wound a day or two after The Governours Horse was here shot in the Head Those on the North end of the Town did onely lie behinde a bank firing at a distance and came not up yet left some of their blood behinde them So after about two hours fight they very silently stole away that we might not fall upon their Rear They retreated to Wike about a mile from the Town and having stayed a while to use some Chirurgery about their wounds and to take their friends out of our Forts a long with them at last they marcht away cursing and swearing We were struck with much wonder to see them leave our Forts and could not study the meaning of it But away they went and left us our Holds and Guns not past three or four of them spikt our Corn stacks unburnt our Ships unspoiled and departed with as little mischief doing as if they had been our veriest friends Oh that we could praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull Works that he doth for the children of men Had we enjoyed our old quiet we had not seen so much of God as now we have and many of us would not for the world have wanted the experiences we have now gained We have not lost since our assault upon the Chappel-Fort any Officer not so much as a Corporall and not above 20 men our enemies report their losse of men one way and another taken slain and wounded 4 or 500. men Thus God relieved us without the help of an Army and therefore we desire he may have the greater glory Since we have been repossessest of our own we have examined the Survivers of them that were Agents in the contrivement of our destruction and upon Saturday March the first Captain Cade an Alderman of the Town Thomas Samwayes a Tailor John Mils Walter Bond were tryed by a Councell of War and sentenced to be hanged A fitter reward for their Fact then the 500 pound one of them confesses Sir Lewis was to give them Cade and Mils and an Irish Rebel were hanged at the North-point on Munday morning the other two be reprieved to make a further discovery of their partners There be not many of the villains left but their sin hath found them out We have ground to hope for a Discovery of the rest We hope this place shall be so weeded of such inhabitants that we shall not come under the like dangers We desire other places and amongst them the great Citie of the Kingdom may learn by us to take heed how they keep false men and malignant spirits amongst them who do but wait when they may be employed upon the like Designes The God that hath delivered many other places of late and now us still turn these mens counsels into foolishnesse and disappoint the devices of the Crafty so that their hands may not bring about their enterprises We desire our friends may not look upon any valour or activity of ours as our deliverers but meerly upon that God who gave us whatever courage or successe we had To whom and not to us be glory for ever Amen FINIS