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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07361	Mayeres his travels containing a true recapitulation of all the remarkable passages which befell in the authors peregrination and voyages, as namely in these imployments following: viz. his 1 voyage for the wars in Ireland in Queen E.R. 2 At Breda, under one of the four English Colonell regiments. 3 With Count Mansfield. 4 To Cales. 5 To the Ile of Rhee. Wherunto is added a speech the author held with great King Hunger in his journey over the alpes. Collected and written by him who was both an actor, and an eye witnesse in the above named severall imployments, the space of forty yeeres, R.M.S. Gent. Published with license and authority.	Mayeres, Randulph.	1638 (1638)	STC 17745; ESTC S120913	19,610	68

were very noble Gentlemen but the mayn cause of this much losse on shipboard was the very rogery inhumane carriage of the vulgar prest souldiers which made such spoyle in all places of England as they went especially in Kent that the tydings came both to the eares of the French King as also to the States who hearing what hurt and inhumane parts they play'd in their own Country being a Kingdome of a commendable and civill government thought they would make havock in theirs where warrs is kept a foot therfore to prevent a greater mischief they would not a mit them to come to shore and this their own base carriage brought their owne ruines and this was the maine cause of so much losse on shipboard 74 O Getheringbarch what wofull work was there When over-board so many men were thrown That every morn the water did appear With dead mens corps for to be overflown O souldiers then beware take heed by this In your own Country never do amisse 74 Nothing can be more hatefull to GOD then for a souldier who is commanded to fight for the truth of the Gospell and for his King and Country to be a traitor and enemy to it and by any colour or pretence to wrong the inhabitants of his owne Nation as God knows too many of these souldiers did was then prest therefore God shewed his judgemen● upon them 75 But strive to do your King and Country good And not the Kingdome harm before you go For if you do you sure will lose your bloud If not thus basely yet before your fo You shall have shame and with disgrace shall die For God is just and justly will you try 76 Then souldiers all bear you an honest minde And being prest take hearts of valour then And to your Country ere be true and kinde And with your fo be sure to fight like men So shall you gain credit and comfort brave And to your Countrey much more welcome have 76 Nothing in a souldier is more honorable then to be well conditioned and true to his Country 77 Then after this another Voyage I went To Cadiz fair where Sack did make such spoile That souldiers had their wits therwith so spent That then with shame the fo gave us the foile Besides commission it was counted bad And said the worst that ere Generall had 77 This Voyage is too wel known therfore I will say no more of it but that I went from Hull with Sir William Courtney I had as good have had staid at home 78 But what it was I cannot truly tell But by report and fame may tell a lie For with edge-tools I do not love to mell For they will cut therfore I le let them lie But how it was I cannot truly say Many were glad they came so well away 79 But presently we had another Presse Where I was sent into the North Country And did receive three hundred men no lesse All able men as any man might see Where that indeed I then Conductor was And brought them safe to Hull where they did passe 79 This Voyage I went also from Hull with Captain Francis Conisby to the Long Line to General Morgan then for Stoad Leager but presently I came back 80 Over the Seas with all the Northerne men To Denmark's Voyage and to the Leager poor Which was at Stoad but I with them as then There did not stay but presently came ore Even from Long Line where noble Conisby Did send me back with Sir Iohn Burlassie 81 Now here I must the Muses summon all With trumpets sound chiefly Melpomene To aid me here and shew the heavy fall Even of such Worthies as I dare well say Will vex great Mars within his Court to finde So many Worthies of so noble minde 81 This I le of Ree Voyage was not so poore as pitifull by reason of so great a losse of noble Souldiers great Commanders the passages of it is too well known therfore I will say no more of it 82 As here was lost wo to that fatall chance And wo unto that more then dismall day That England had that overthrow by France Which makes the French for to presume say From Englands yoke that they have eas'd their neck And brought brave England for to bow and beck 83 Aswell as they had formerly been kept Vnder command of Englands Royall Kings Now that obedience they away have swept And of Heroick victory now sings Having their green died with our Crimson gore Of noble bloud whose losse we may deplore 84 But out alas what doth the Frenchmen say And as the Spaniard nay the Bo●ish Dutch Lay Sack enough but in the English way They need no fo their valour is so much The 'le kill each other in their drunken fits For Bacchus is their god and spoyles their wits 84 It is an ordinary brag of the Spaniard to give out that throw but a Butt of Sack in the way of the English and with their own help killing one another being drunk will do more hurt in an English Army then a thousand Spaniards can do in Arms. 85 For Mars is banish'd quite and valour to Vnlesse it be in some brave minded men Which are so few alasse what can they do When in a hundred scarce you shall finde ten That ere is prest but they are bred so base That they have neither valor truth nor grace 85 And the Dutch braggeth that they have changed trades with the English for we have learned them to fight and they us to drink or else we have taken the trade up at our own hands never being any apprentices to the same yet free without any order of L●w So now we English are the drinkers and the drunken Dutchmen brave souldiers more is the pitie 86 For any slave if he be nere so bad Is holden good enough to serve the King Nay any thief whence ere he can be had Which doth good souldiers oft to ruine bring For when they should doe service as they ought Prest to be gone they are then to be sought 87 Which makes brave hearts come oft by weeping crosse And lofe their lives by such disasters base Which might have honor but comes home with losse Both of their lives and with most vild disgrace And then these slaves to England will come ore Saw nere the fo yet beg for souldiers poor 88 And tell you tales how Cannons they do rore And how great Mars his trumpet brave doth found And how they are lam'd and made exceeding poor By that hard warre in which they nere were found But run away before it did begin To beg or steal their former course of sin 89 But why do I use this prolixity To speak of that which I can never mend Yet pray I will and that most heartily That God King would better souldiers send Against the foes of his blest royall bloud For untill then that we shall nere do good 90 Yet still me thinks the

let us fight that night so in the morning the enemy was fled and got his trenches and so we lost all 56 Our forlorn hopes were ready all drawn forth And Doctor Burgesse gave brave encouragement To all our souldiers who was of that worth That all was ready and to battail bent But Marquesse Baden all our hopes then bard And all our pastime for that day was mard 57 For after that our Canon mounted was Fair for to play against the enemy Also our horse faln on like hearts of brasse To shew their valour and fidelity And we were ready both with hart hand To fight our parts as long as we could stand 58 But present tydings came we should not fight But every man his quarter fair should keep Because it grew even some what to ward night Which made the heart of many a souldier weep To see how basely that same day was lost Which did indeed the Palsgraves Countrey cost 59 For that same night our fo their trenches got Which was more safe then any Castle strong Not caring then what we could do a jot And in the same they did remain so long Till that they had even so increas'd their force That they were able to give us the worse 60 For winter comming and our force grew weak Our fare being hard and eke our payment bad Our Captains then with us did all betake To severall towns and of the same were glad And there we did in Garrison remain Till we were forc'd to yield them up again 61 But not with ease this dare I tell you plain Nor with the losse of small or little bloud But with hard war they did the Country gain With wofull spoil and but with little good Town after town when they were very poor For untill then we would not give them ore 62 For there we kept unto Commission came From Englands King unto our Generall And Chichester that Lord brought him the same With Frankindale we should deliver all Then we with honour marched quite away For in the country there we might not stay 62 After that most nay indeed all the Palatinate was lost both higher and lower yet my Lord kept Frankindale till my Lord of Chichester brought Commission from King Iames to deliver it up by way of composition 63 Then every man had leave for to depart Vnto his Country or where lik'd him best Being glad to march with poor and heavy heart To finde some place where hee might take his rest But many a man this can I truly say Did lose his life in comming thence away 64 But God above did then preserve me so That I got down along the noble Rhine And did me keep even from the mortall Fo That not one hurt I got in that same time But safely came to Utrich where indeed I did get means for to relieve my need 64 I got down the Rhine and came to Vtrich in the Netherlands where I served Sir Ferdinando Knightley untill I came for England to goe over with the foure Regiments 65 And here I stay'd under the States a while Being under pay of noble Knightley he Thinking the best and time so to beguile Till he thought good his Passe to give to me Then did I come to Englands shore again But here I staid not long for to be plain 66 For that four noble Peers were ready bent In forraigne parts their valour for to try And each of them a warlike Regiment Being men of courage and of spirits high Oxford and Essex and Southampton three The fourth of these was noble Willoughby 66 These foure Peers had each a Regiment that went over at the first time Breda was beleagred and wonne by the Enemy and where more was the pitie the Lord Henry Earle of Oxford with over-heating himself at Treheyes Sconce got such a vehement surfet that at the Hage in short time after he died as also did the Earle of Southampton and the yong and noble Lord Wriothesley his sonne to the great grief of all the whole Regiments At this Voyage I got a shot in my head and then I came for England 67 These Nobles had Captains of high degree To follow them being men of high renown And each of them a worthy company Of souldiers stout of brave courage known But yet indeed this Voyage was not the best Two of the Earles did die besides the rest 68 That in this great exploit did hope for gains And went with these same Lords their worths to try But had no more but death even for their pains As it did prove and with them then went I But yet I came a Fool as I did go With one shot mo that I got from the Fo. 69 Then presently a presse was new prepar'd For noble Mansfield dainty Voyage was that As ever was in any age yet heard For hunger and extreams I le tell you what Yet can I scarcely now the same rehearse For why I shame to put it in my verse 69 This Voyage of Mansfields was the poorest that ever souldiers made for if they had lost their lives in service and fair fight it had redownded to their honour but dying so basely as they did being starved was such a poor proceeding as hath not bin hard of 70 It was so poor and bad and base withall That he declar'd I cannot well tell how For noble Mansfield so I will him call Was in no fault this dare I swear and vow He did his best his souldiers to maintain And honour to himself and them to gain 71 For many went in this disastrous Voiage Brave noble harts and valour truly tri'd As noble Cromwell Dutton wise and sage That honor'd Ramsey and gallant Rich beside And Sir Ralph Hopton that same noble Knight Whose worth is more then I can write of right 72 For when some others left their souldiers poor Those that were his and left to hungervild He did not leave them nor did give them ore But like a faithfull Captain meek and milde Did them relieve and left them safe sound Though that it cost him many a hundred pound 73 Now doe I think I heare the vulgar cry That at this Voyage some fault for sure there was Else with vild hunger why did so many die Vpon shipboard and not to land did passe The souldiers fault that was so bad at home The States would not let them on their land come 73 Now by the censure of the common and vulgar sort Count Mansfield was much blamed but altogether unjustly and unworthily for he was a very noble Gentleman and of a high spirit stout and very couragious wise and gentle and expert in the wars he was ever loving to an honest souldier but hated a sharke he had too many in this Presse more was the pitie for it kild his noble heart when hee was cut off from landing them for indeed the fault was neither his nor any of the Commanders then appointed for that service for they