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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93939	The siege of Antwerp. Written in Latin by Famianus Strada, Englished by Tho: Lancaster, Gent.	Strada, Famiano, 1572-1649.; Lancaster, Thomas, gent.	1656 (1656)	Wing S5781; Thomason E1612_2; ESTC R208442	87,922	211

THE SIEGE OF ANTWERP Written in Latin by FAMIANVS STRADA Englished by THO LANCASTER Gent. DeVM CoLe LONDON Printed by W. W. for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's Armes in St Paules Churchyard ERRATA IN the first verses line the last blot out wisely p. 5. l. 22. before it read else p. 6. l. 6. p. 7. l. the last for file r. board p. 8. l. 9. for ber r. his p. 13. l. the last blot out by force p. 19. l. 13. r. contrary ib. l. 15. r. rooks for kings p. 23. l. 17. for first r. one p. 36. l. 9. for kings r. queens ib l. 11. for queenes r. kings p. 42. l. 7. for second r. bishops third p. 36. l. 1. r. contrary queens bishops pawa p. 67. l. 11. for 39 read this p. 68. l. 13. r. her bishops p. 86. l. the last read White knight p. 93. l. 12. r. his house p. 100. l. 10. r. one house p. 107. l. 19. r. 76 p. 111. l. 3. r. White kings p. 112. l. 2. r. takes p. 28. l. 12. p. 32. l. 6. p. 50. l. 16. p. 58. l. 26. p. 72. l. 4 and at the beginning of Gambett. viij xxiv xxxiij xxxiv xxxv lviij make this mark vvv p. 72. l. 7. and Gambett xlvj lix make this mark vvvv TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE CARYLL Lord MOLLINEUX VISCOVNT MARIBROVGH c. My Lord BEing about to publish these first fruits of my studies I found my selfe not as others in need only of a patron for my Book but of a Gardian also for my selfe Whose yeares as yet exempt me not from the tutelage of others and whose attempts in this kind will scarce be freed from presumption temerity But yet I was no little animated when I understood how much your LORD-ship was pleased to favour me as to condescend that this little Treatise might beare in the front your HONOURS name inscribed I confesse it is too unequall a taske for one of my yeares so little verst in the curiosity of either language the subject being so serious the variety of passages so full the Authors expressions not of the Vulgar straine Notwithstanding when I reflected on your Lordships courteous disposition love of learning and promptnesse to further any laudable undertaking I went on with greater alacrity not doubting but I had found a fit Mecaenas whose frownes would not blast my little learning in the bud but rather whose cherishing glances would bring it to maturity Arts come not to perfection but by degrees and if weake beginnings had found no foster fathers I know not if the world would have flourished with so many eminent person for learning as it hath My intention in this translation was to profit my selfe and therefore I had rather be instructed by others in what I am defective then be applauded for any thing which may seeme to be passable But whatsoever it is I present it to your Lordship as a testimony of the due service I owe to your Honour And in this my desire is that not so much the booke though otherwise in the Originall not unworthy your Lord-ships perusall where valour worth are not slightly shadowed as the sincere affection and duty wherewith I offer it may be regarded This is the height of my wishes and chiefest pretence of Your Lordships most humble servant THOMAS LANCASTER The Translator to the Reader Courteous Reader HAving lately left off our Country Schooles I was not minded to lose that little I had learned wherefore I applyed my selfe to peruse some of the best latine authors and though I sought to better my selfe in the language yet to digge and labour in the Quarry of choice words and still to be hewing and squaring out latine phrases onely I thought too servile unlesse the matter it selfe also yeelded some sweetnesse and content which made me walke forth into the pleasant fields of History in which I found a rare mixture of pleasure and profit where the matter it selfe with variety of passages informeth and delighteth the understanding and the elegant words and delivery teacheth the tongue and pen to expresse Amongst the rest I fell upon a moderne master-piece in that kinde viz. Famianus Strada of the Low-country Warrs and of all other parts I was most taken and not without just reason with the Siege of Antwerp contained in the sixth and part of the seventh booke of his second decade A compleate History of it selfe and to those that understand it in the Originall as exact a piece perhaps as hither to hath beene published wanting neither worth in the actours nor ability in the writer This for my owne private practise I assayed to translate which after shewing to some friends to whose judgement and anthority it were presumption in me not to subscribe their pleasure and desire was to have it sent to the presse Nor doe I doubt but if in playing the Translators part I could neer have paralel'd the latine relation little had beene wanting to have made this small Teatise appearing in our Country habit gratefull to the perusers But how can that bee expected from a Schoole-boy for neither by age nor knowledge dare I assume more to my selfe having not passed the eighteenth yeare of my age nor saluted any University or Schoole of more eminent learning nor yet travelled to converse with those of a more terse style and consequently lesse able to treate of so serious a subject and shadow in our native colours the deepe expressions and language of so grave an Author For my presumption herein I expect not but to be censured when others of greater ability have not escaped the browes of Critickes But yet my nonage may afford mee this advantage that what others point at as a fault I may learne to amend for as yet I cannot despaire of bettering my selfe in learning for the future The right Worshipfull Sir Robert Stapylton hath highly merited of our Country men by sowing this field with our English seede having with exquisite skill and generall applause to their pleasures and profits published the first Decade of Strada and may perhaps produce the second of which this is a part Why doe I then presume to thrust my sickle into his corne That worthy learned man I trust will not be offended if I gleane one sheafe out of his rich harvest who will thereby neither become poorer nor his worke of lesse value even in this part when the judicious Reader shall see how far his pure language and expressions doe surpasse those bare lines of mine the whole disparagement will fall upon my selfe As for the injury I may seeme to doe to the Author by not publishing the whole worke how can that bee imputed to me as a crime Hee wants not his due desert in the Originall nor is hee wronged if neither I nor any else should make him a Denizon of our Country Why then should I bee taxed for making him free at least in part Nor wants there

wayes now had regard to the Navy lying at Lillo then nearer attending to the Antwerpians designe Alex hastens to divert the shipp from the Bridge forthwith at those shoutes repaired thither where the fire-ship seemed to attempt and commanded some Marriners to board the ship disperse the wood and quench the fire others to keep off and prevent the danger with long poles and pikes He himselfe stood in the wooden Castle which is the furthest part of the Pile-work from Flanders side to which the navall bridge is connected There were with him Rubasius Cafatane Billius and Vastius with other chiefe Commanders besides the guard of the place Amongst whom a Spanish Ensigne A Spanish Ensigne endeavours to remove him from the Bridge an ancient servant to the Farnezes having some knowledge insuch like Engines was the preserver of Prince Alexanders life Whether he knew how excellent Jambell was in this Art and perhaps had heard how hee had been treated in Spaine and therefore suspected this device to be set forth out of the work-house of this incensed man Or not by humane reasoning hee did it but God who then had determined Antwerp should be taken by so couragious and pious a Generall putting it into his mind came to his Excellency and most earnestly desired him that seeing now hee had sufficiently provided what things were necessary for the present hee would please to withdraw himselfe thence and not to trust his life on which every souldiers life yea the very Warr it selfe depended to so perilous a place But being rejected hee insisted in his suit twice or thrice Being rejected he still insists and not taken notice of hee prostrated himselfe at his knees and said I most humbly beseech and intreat you most Illustrious Prince by your life which now I see exposed to present hazzard once to take counsell of your servant And saying thus hee reverently took hold of his garment and with a kind of commanding authority And almost compell's him besought him to follow him Alexander interpreting the unwonted freedome of the man as from a higher power Alexander departs from the Bridge at last consented Vastius and Cajatane following him And as scarcely entered Saint Maries Fort on Flanders shoare when the houre of the limited time approaching on a sudden the fatall ship burst with such a horrid crash At the same time the fireshipp burst as if the very skies had rent asunder heaven and earth had charged one another and the whole Machine of the earth it selfe had quaked For the storm of stones chaines and bullets being cast out with Thunder and lightning The wonderfull force of it there followed such a slaughter as no man but that actually it happened could have imagined The Castle on which the infernall ship fell the pile-work of the bridge next to Saint Maries Fort that part of the navall bridge next the Castle souldiers Marriners Commanders a great number of Cannons armour and armes all these this furious whirle-wind swept away together tossed in the ayre and disperst as wind doth leaves of Trees The Scheldt prodigiously gaping was first seen to discover its bottom then swelling above the banks was even with the Rampires and overflowed Saint Maries Fort above a foot The motion of the panting earth extended its force and feare above nine miles There were found stones and that very great ones as grave stones and the like a mile off the River struck into the ground in some places foure palmes The slaughter various But no losse or destruction was more miserable then of men some the hellish violence of the fires either forthwith consumed or furiously and miserably dash't them together or shot them as it were into the ayre amongst stones and wood who straight-wayes were bruised falling on the earth or drowned if lighting in the River Others were stifled with the pestiferous vapours not wounded otherwise some the swelling river long tormented with hot scalding waters many were slaine in the shoure of falling stones and some the grave-stones both kill'd and intombed Yet this direfull infernall fury omitted not to make some sport in this so lamentable a Tragedy The Viscount of Bruxels was taken and darted out of his own ship by this sudden Tempest but fell over-thwart another shipp plac't a good distance off The severall chances of others This devillish whirle-wind carried Captaine Tuccius heavy arm'd out of Saint Maries Fort like light chaffe in the ayre and cast him down in the midst of the River out of which hee being well skilled in swimming loosing his armour and protected by the Mother of God whose ayde hee implored with great confidence escaped without any harme But a young man of Prince Alexanders life-guard dispatched a farr greater journey for snatched from the bridge a distance from Flanders side he was carried over a great part of the river into Brabant being but a little hurt in that shoulder which first light to the ground and said hee seem'd like a bullet shot out of a piece of Ordinance he felt behind him such a violence forcing him forward Indeed The judgement of some concerning this Engine there were some of opinion that survived the slaughter that what man soever fabricated this execrable Engine composed that direfull plague not of natura● stuffe but fetch 't that terrible fire from the infernall furnaces of hell that without doubt hee provoked that Thunder and lightning by Art magick from the Skies attracted the pestiferous vapours from no other place then the black dungeon of Plnto and derived the very waters burning beyond measure and custome from the Stygian lake It is so FAMILIAR amongst men to judge that whatsoever is beyond their capacity is also above humane power to effect Vasquius Sergeant Major of a Spanish Regiment writes The number of those that were slaine there were eight hundred slaine besides a great number that were wounded and maimed Nor doth Tuccius speak of any fewer who were both present at the slaughter Amongst whom there fell many brave souldiers chiefe Officers and leaders But the death of Rubasius and Billius which happened in the Castle amongst whom Billius from which Prince Alexander departed farre surpassed the losse of all the rest Gaspar Robley a Portuguese but by his wife a Dutch Lady Lord of Bill had been Governour of Friez-land and was then Colonell of a German Regiment and Capta●● of a Troop of horse an ancient and expert souldier as ever any a faithfull Counsellour and highly esteemed by the Prince of Parma who giving the Regiment to one of his sonnes and the Troop of horse to another continued the love of the Father towards his children But many things concurred to the honour of Robert Marquesse Rubasius And Rubasius Nis Elogium his ancient Nobility from the house of the Melunes his great riches of his owne and increased by the accesse of the Principality which Prince Alexander his brother being proscribed

had obtained for him of the King This great authority both at home and in the Camp being both Governour of Artois and Generall of the horse which he left greater to his successours being the first General of the horse to whom Prince Alexander permitting it the lances began to bee bowed an honourable kind of salutation accustomed onely to the sole Generall of the Army which from that time was brought in custome and some yeares after it was allowed that the Cornets of horse should bow downe their colours to the Generall of the Horse For his military mind there was none more confident or fortunate and therefore hee was often by the States confederate invited to retum to their party for whom hee had once fought against the King In the interim they feared him as conscious of their councells and strength The love of Prince Alexander heaped these dignities upon him which his Excellency knew hee well deserved for the returne of Waloone Provinces chiefly by his example to their allegiance for his discovery and preventing the treacheries plotted against him his incomparable care and reverence continually acknowledging how greatly hee was obliged to the Prince of Parma almost adoring the very name of Alexander though otherwise high-minded and haughty But the death of Rubasius and many others And others caused not only by this ship at the bridge but by the other that was grounded vomiting its poyson not without the losse of many for the third was driven to the bank but the fire-work being extinguished by waters had no effect the approach of day not without great griefe discovered for that night amidst the pittiful groaning of wounded persons nothing was thought on but each one to lament his misfortune all struck with terrour and almost out of their wits being ignorant of their comrades lives and not assured of their owne Yea Alex. himselfe was thought to bee slaine And the feare encreased with the supposed death of their Generall Prince Alexander because so lately seene in the Castle which the fire first took hold on and consumed often reflecting on those words which hee spoke in the hearing of many to the Antwerpian scout viz. that the bridge should either be his Tombe or a path to the Victory They thinking that hee too truly had foretold his death and the place where And verily his Excellency although a good distance off the bridg was never in greater perill of death for a great stake falling on him His danger in the entrance of Saint Maries Fort being tossed with the whirle-wind of the disturbed ayre between the Helmet and shoulder struck him to the ground where he was found with his sword drawn like to one in a trance and Bastius by him imbracing his knees Cajatane also lying not farre off hurt in the head with a stone Prince Alexander after a while coming to himselfe His griefe at the overthrow when he saw so many dead corps of his souldiers lye prostrate about heard the miserable lamentations with which some being fastened and hanging on the beams of the bridge others covered with heaps of stones or halfe buried under grave-stones implored the helpe of their fellowes when hee beheld the Steccada to be torne in pieces the Castle utterly destroyed and three shippes that were next to it devoured by the River and understood that those that were in them both Marriners souldiers and their Captaines all to be oppressed in the same ruine and hearing no certainty of Rubasius hee was indeed in extreme sorrow yet not at all dejected although deserted by his deare and faithfull fellow souldiers Yet not dejected in so great a ruine of his labours and all being in despaire yet he alone for all this huge discomfiture took courage constancy and bore himselfe as superiour to the mis-fortune and taking to him Mondragonius Charles Mans field and Camillus Capisuccus besides others that escaped the tempest to whom also George Basta and Casius with a select Troop of horse call'd thither by the thunder and lightning came on the spurr hee went round the stations shippes and tents whos 's first and chiefest care was Hee walkes the round to send the wounded unto the hospitall of Bevera Assists the wounded to help every one the best hee could to comfort with his presence Comforts all with his presence words words and encouragement to extenuate their opinion of the mis-fortune he denied not but that many were hurt yet divers of them began to revive come to themselves and take breath and strength nor were the enemies exempt from that terrour with which they had struck others seeing they durst not proceed forward in the darknesse being ignorant of the overthrow and carefull of themselves One thing was seriously to be provided for viz. that the day should not reveale the breach of the bridge And animases them to repaire the Bridge which the night concealed from the enemies Certainly it is scarce credible how much the sight of Prince Alexander elevated the dejected spirits of his souldiers and repressed their feare of the enemies approach The arivall also of Maurique with his German Regiment whom the Prince of Parma after the losse of Lief-kenshoeck with all speed had sent for out of Guelders fell out very opportunely Therefore with Emulous alacrity THE Bridge is repaired Prince Alexander himselfe giving the first example without distinction of Commanders or souldiers they all contentiously apply themselves to repaire the bridge not because hee thought the invention and labour of many moneths could be restored in foure houres yet the breach of the bridge by mending the Steccada and interposing shippes in some manner closed up might seem in the morning to the enemies scouts not to be impaired at all In shew onely to delude the enemies knowing souldiers are some times kept off as well by meere appearances as true realities being alwayes exercised with jealousies and feares and with that false spectacle their eyes being deluded and terrifyed their courages would easily give back And did so And hee presented them with as seemly a Pageant as hee could wish for by their great dexterity in the rest of the night the beams which floated on the Waters being layd in their former places new piles erected poles layd over-thwart and what else they had at hand driven into the River and shippes linked betweene as they were he so fitly repaired the bridge placing souldiers thereon commanding Drumms and Trumpets continually to bee ratled and sounded that the enemies Navy was by this imaginary species gull'd and hindered from an assault which if it had advanced from Lillo might easily have broken through that temporary supply but afterwards the work being daily strengthened it was really retarded Being thereby highly praised especially by the King And verily it was uncertaine whether the Prince of Parma had greater courage now in repairing the bridge or before in building it Indeed the King upon