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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06822	A true report of the seruice done vpon certaine gallies passing through the narrow seas written to the Lord high Admirall of England, by Sir Robert Mansel knight, admirall of her maiesties forces in that place.	Mansell, Robert, Sir, 1568 or 9-1656.	1602 (1602)	STC 17259; ESTC S102589	7,696	22

A TRVE REPORT OF THE SERVICE DONE VPON CERTAINE Gallies passing through the Narrow Seas Written to the Lord high Admirall of England by Sir ROBERT MANSEL Knight Admirall of her Maiesties forces in that place AT LONDON Printed by Felix Kyngston and are to be sold by Iohn Newbery at his shop in Paules Churchyard 1602. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY SINGVLAR AND BEST Lord the Earle of Nottingham Lord high Admirall of England MY dutie to your Lordship humbly remembred Although the seruice which I confesse I doe owe vnto your Lordship in a manner from my childhood for many fauors doth so much oblige me as I cannot thinke how euer it may fall in my power to expresse it yet cannot I but acknowledge that those fauours of yours whereby any publike trust or seruice hath been committed to me doe sit neerest my heart and as often as I do thinke of them doe call me to a stricter account then any others which doe onely touch me in a priuate qualitie for that in the one I am onely obliged to acquite my honesty towards your loue but in the others I am bound in a sort to make good your iudgement and to iustifie the choise you haue made of me as a seruant of the State for whom your selfe are accountable to her from whom all power in our State is deriued The sense which hereof I haue in the inwardest retraite of my soule is the cause I haue thought my dutie both to you and to the State not a little interessed in a report very vulgar in many mens mouthes in the Citie and by this time perhaps spred ouer the Realme And confirmed by a Pamphlet printed contayning a narration of the late seruice done vpon the Gallies wherein no mention being made neither of my selfe nor of any of her Maiesties Shippes nor of our nation wee are all secretly touched with some note either of negligence of the things committed to vs I specially or of vnskilfulnes or of want of courage from the staines of all which it importeth me to cleere my selfe not onely for mine owne sake and our nations but in some sort for your Lordship who through my errors cannot but be wounded for the ill choise made of me for so great a charge I haue therefore though against my nature which delighteth not to talke of my selfe been forced for your Lordship and all other mens satisfaction to expresse in a few lines a true report of all that was done in that seruice which as it is free from affectation of glorie to my selfe or of imputation to others so doe I vpon all the dutie I owe both to your Lordship and to my owne reputation vndertake to make good in euery point thereof Beseeching your Lordship notwithstanding not to repose your selfe onely vpon mine owne assertions but by diligent inquisition which is not hard for your Lordship to make hauing so much power ouer the whole companie that serued with me throughly to enforme your selfe of as much as may suffice to satisfie your iudgement which if thereby you shall finde confirmed so much as not to repent you of the trust by your fauour committed vnto me it is the vtmost of my desire weighing otherwise little what the vulgar conceits of such as either cannot or will not thinke aright shall esteeme of me if by this true report of my seruice they will not be satisfied For it is those that can iudge whom I desire most to content and specially your Lordship to whom I doe with as much truth and synceritie dedicate all other seruices which I may be able to doe as I haue vsed in setting downe this which I beseech you to accept as a small testimonie thereof Your Lordships in all deuotion ROBERT MANSEL A TRVE REPORT OF THE SERVICE DONE VPON CERTAINE GALLIES passing thorough the Narrow Seas ON the three and twentie day of September being in the Hope and hauing in my company the Aduauntage onely of the Queenes Ships which Captaine Iones commanded and two other Dutch men of warre I ridde more then halfe Channell ouer towards the coast of France vpon a Northwest and Southest line my selfe being neerest that coast Captaine Iones next vnto me and the Dutch men of warre a Sea-boord and to the westward of him The small force at that time present and with me remaining thus disposed for the intercepting of the Gallies hauing dismist the Dutch men of warre that serued vnder me vpon their owne intreatie to reuictual and trimme and hauing imployed the rest of the Queenes ships vpon especiall seruices I descried from my toppe mast heads sixe lowe sailes which some made for Gallies others affirmed them to be small barkes that had strooken their top-sailes being bound from Deepe towards the Downes To which opinion though I inclined most yet caused I the Maister to waie and to stand with them that I might learne some newes of the Gallies which by your Lordships aduertisement sent mee I knew had either past me that night or were neere at hand vnlesse the Sea had swallowed them vp in the stormes which had raged three daies before Hauing set my selfe vnder saile the weather waxt thicke which caused me to lascke some two poyntes from the winde towards the English coast least the continuance of that darke weather might giue them power to runne out a head of me About eleuen of the clocke the weather cleared when I discouered them plainely to be the Spanish Gallies so long time expected at which time with the rest I plied to receiue them by crossing their forefoote as they stoode alongst the Channell which they endeauoured till they perceiued that by the continuance of that course they could not escape the power of my Ordinance All this time these two Fliboates were betwixt them and me and as the Slaues report that swam a shore at Douer they determined with three Gallies to haue boorded each of those Ships and would haue executed that resolution but for the feare of her Maiesties great Galion as the tearmed the Hope whose force that they shunned in that kinde considering the disaduantage that twice sixe of the best Gallies that euer I sawe hath by fighting against one Ship of her force I doe as much commend as otherwise I doe detest their shamefull working in that full of cowardlines and weakenes they rowed backe to the westward and spent the day by running away in hope that the darkenes of the night would giue them libertie sufficient to shunne the onely Ship they feared or that was in deede in the Sea at that time to giue them cause of feare I meane betwixt them and Dunkerke or Newport This error onely of theirs bred their confusion as you may perceiue by the sequell For they no sooner began that course of rowing backe againe but I instantly made signes for Captaine Iones in the Aduantage of the Queenes to come vnto me whom I presentlie directed to repaire to Callis roade and thence to send the al-arme