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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.
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Garetson, Mr.
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nothing but what was giuen them and what they payde for and that he would goe aboard the victualing Shippes and told them they should want nothing which contented them verie well and thanked God with a loude voyce that they had such a worthy Lord Generall He tooke his Barge and accordingly went and as he was going there was a poore Englishman in distresse in a Sand-bed where the Tyde had locked him about and had no meanes to saue himselfe but must runne towards the Fort where the Enemie was retired with all his Forces My Lord hearing him so cry out caused to stay his Barge although the Barge-men told him he would endanger the casting away of himselfe and the Gentlemen perswaded him also that he should not hazard himselfe in the danger yet would he not stirre before he had releeued this Man and got him into his Barge So after went aboard of the Victualing Shippes and saw all the proportions of the Victuals sent to the Soldiers and after went aboard the Tryumph And on wednesday the 16. made a dispatch for England to acquaint the King with his fortunate proceedings The Enemy was retired into the Fort a Musket shot with 1500. Men of which number there was 120. Horse left they had neyther Water nor Wood in their Fort and had but some eight or nine Peeces of Ordnance and the Fort too little for so great a Company so that it was not likely that they could hold it long and we hope to be Masters of it as well as of the Island within a very short time Thurseday and Fryday we were raysing a Mount to plant our Ordnance against it Saterday the 21. we planted twentie one peeces of Ordnance and eleuen Drakes and the Master Gunner was very confident to batter them from the Fort in a very short time We were working with our Pyoniers and our Soldiers trenching against the Fort. This is all I was an Eye witnesse to So God send them good successe and I for England in his Maiesties Good Ship called the Charles There was slayne that day in the Battaile of the French 125. Horsemen dead on the ground besides a great many that were deadly hurt of vvhich number there vvere 23. Marquesses and Barons all the rest Knightes and Gentlemen of the best quallitie in all France Some Commanders of their Foote vvere killed with 100 or 120. Common Soldiers Receiued at Court the 15. of August THe Cittadell in the Isle St. Martins holds out still the Walls and Fortifications thereof being made so strong and substantiall that our Cannon that beate on it perpetually could doe little hurt to it in so much as my Lord wrought by Mynes and hath cut off two Pipes that carried vvater to the same but findes that part of the ground which is penetrable neere the Cittadell to be loose sandy ground which will not Mine and the foundation of the Cittadell and the part neere the same is Rocky not to be wrought so as my Lord hauing beaten the Enemie out of his out-workes into the Fort is resolued to endeuour to recouer the same by famine there being 3000. men in the Castle and they wanting Firing and Water My Lord hath planted aboue 20. Peeces of Ordnance by Sea and Land against the Cittadell and the third shot that the Kings Cananere made killed 41. French men as some who were then in the Fort related My Lord lately intercepted two small Vessels laden vvith Victuals and one laden vvith Munition vvhich vvere in the night passing from the mayne ouer the Riuer to releeue the Cittadell that vvhich vvas laden vvith Munition vvas in the taking sunke vvith a Shot and 37. French men in one of the other Vessells slaine vvhich made the third yeeld vvithout resistance My Lord walkes the round most nights to see the Watch performe their Duty And Sunday last vvas seauen dayes lay in our Trenches all night vpon aduertisements that the Enemie vvould sally and assault the men in our Workes My Lord Montioy chiefe Commaunder of the Horse very happily surprized 28. of the best of the Enemies Muskatieres vvho vvere sent out of the Fort for a guard to some vvho vvere sent to fetch vvater at a Well not farre distant from the Fort as soone as they perceiued our Horse to approach they ranne into a Mill and there vpon quarter demaunded and graunted they yeelded My Lord hath by Proclamation giuen permission to the Inhabitants of the I le to make Salt with which Commodity his Grace intendeth to satisfie the Dutch men who were taken vp to transport Horses and Prouisions for the Armie for the hire of their Ships and likewise to furnish England with Salt The Gouernour of the Cittadell and I le of St. Martins sendeth euery day some Messenger to speake with my Lord And about tenne dayes since vnder colour of a Parly sent a Disciple of the Iesuites to haue mischieued his Grace the Villaine being come to act his Villanie when hee began to speake to my Lord changed his colour and so trembled that he could scarce speake whereupon his Grace commaunded one that was with him to search him there was found in the Sleeue of his Doublet a long Rauilliack-like Knife poysoned which at the first he said he caried for his defence but that being no place to carrie a Weapon for defence he was that night committed and being threatned to be tortured hee desired to be brought before the Lord Generall which was graunted and then he confessed that the Gouernour had dissiplined and hired him to murther my Lord and being questioned how he durst vndertake such a mischieuous work since he could not hope to escape death or enioy the reward he was to haue he said he did beleeue it would cost him his life but being perswaded it was a meritorious worke and promised his Wife and Children for it should be aduanced he vndertooke the same and falling downe at my Lords feet besought his pardon My Lord sent him backe to the prison and after three dayes pardoned him and sent him ouer into the mayne All Souldiers cry out against the Gouernour for this treachery and say hee deserues not to haue any Quarter that would offer the same to one who hath in all poynts caried himselfe so Nobly towards him and all the French that haue beene at his mercy for my Lord sent him back his Brothers Page which was taken in the day of Battell and hauing found the Gouernours brothers Gentleman of his Horse wounded in the Field caused him to bee sent a board his owne Ship and looked vnto by his owne Chirurgion Sir George Blundell is lately dead of the wounds hee formerly receiued in the day of Battell There is Newes from Paris the French King is very ficke and no man dares tell him of his Graces landing in that Island he lies at Villeroy and Monsieur that Kings Brother at Paris The Duke of Sauoy and Count of Soissons are in Armes vpon the Froutiers of Daulphine and the Dukes of Roan and Mountmoreney are in Armes in Languedoc Monsieur the Marshall Crequi Gouernour of the Daulphine sent Post to Paris for a Commission and money to leauie men returned with a Commission but without any money I must adde this which I beleeue makes my Lords actions to prosper that his Grace doth duly euery morning and euening serue God either priuatly in his Chamber or publikly in the whole Armie and hath caused a strict course to bee held with such as neglect the seruice of God Thus endeth the Journall at this time Receiued at Yorke-House August 15. THE RELATION OF Mr. Garetson Master of the Shippe called the Bread and Beere-pott of Horne in Holland made and taken at Plimmouth the 12. of August 1627 by Sir Iames Bagge knight who reporteth the same as followeth Videlicet THat he was that day chased with a Ship as he supposed to be a Man of warre of Dunkerke and to free himselfe did put into the port of Plimouth this present euening being the 12. aforesaide and that he was at Burdeaux about the 29. of Iuly last where the Gouernor and People were taken with such a feare of the aproach of the English that they destroyed the Cloysters and Ware-houses and all the Suburbes of the saide Citie to the end the aproach of the English might be the more difficile And from Burdeaux he went to Southers and from thence to Rochell where he arriued the first of August And from thence he went to St. Martines where his Excellencie was besieging the Cittadell and making a Trench to impeach the sallying forth of the Horse And for as much as all passages by water were stopped except the intercourse betweene Rochell and St. Martines He was enforced to returne for Rochell and from thence went ouer land to Southers where he laded his Shippe with Salte And sayling from Southers came within halfe a League of St. Martines where being by the lee there came out three English Shippes to vnderstand what he was and finding him to be a Hollander gaue him relation that the 5. day of this moneth the Cittadell was by his Grace taken the French men permitted to depart thence only with Bastinadoes in their hands And the Captaines of those Shippes told him that the 6. of this month there was an English Shippe dispatched with information of his Excelencies full proceedings and conquest of that Island He further sayeth that at Southers it was reported that the French King sent to Rochell to require them to declare whether they would abandon the English and serue him or not To giue answere to which the Rochelers desired seuen daies respite But he sayeth that diuers of the Principall and others of Rochell daily repaire to his Maiesties Generall He also sayeth that there is a command giuen that none speake with the French King and it is muttered that he is dead He sayeth that there was a French man apprehended in the Dukes presence with a Knife in his sleeue who waighted an opertunitie to attempt the murther of his Grace FJNJS