and came within Pistoll shot of my Lord Generall who was all the while close by the Shore in his Baâ—gâ— calling foorth and disposing of the Boates as they went on land for the second discharge of the Boates after he had been on land with the first and caused them to be drawne into a fitte place But of those who gane on there were about 120 slaine of the principall Gentry and the most forward with Pikes Swords and the but end of the Soldiers Muskets the rest got off most of them or their Horses wounded and vtterly routed And the two other Companies comming to giue on iust as they were routed were so astonished as they wheeled aboute and neuer gaue stroake The Infanterie came on in an other part and gaue their first Fires as neere and with as much resolution as was possible But after they had tasted of our Pikes they gaue quickly ouer and ran away in the foulest disorder that could be and did not that day answere the opinion that all France hath of the Regiment of Champagne My Lord Generall had ordered certaine Shippes to scoure the landing place with their Ordinance but the assault was so sodaine as they did little hurt to the Enemy and in the very heate of the Combate it fell out that one of our owne Shippes had engtangled himselfe betweene our battering Shippes and the Land by which meanes they were hindred in performing of their charge The Enemie lost so manie Noblemen and Gentlemen of Marque as the Horsse haue hardly euer since shewed themselues nor neuer attempted any thing with effect And the Foote haue kept themselues wholy retired in their Cittadell That night and the next day was spent on our side in retrenching in putting necessaries for our Soldiers on Land and in landing of our Horsse The Enemie sent a Trumpet with the Barron of Ambleuille to demande the Dead who was receaued with such curtesie and the Dead rendred with such Militarie honors as they confesse themselues no lesse vanquished by my Lord Generalls Fauours then by his Armes The 14. day a Councell was kept and the rest of the day was spent in vnshipping of the Ordinance Munition and preparing of eight Drakes to be drawne along with our Forces by Men for want of carriage And at night the Armie was drawne into Battaile and seuen Companies with Colonell Bartu were left in the retrenchment On the 15. day our Armie marched by fiue in the morning and tooke in Saint Marie and la Flote where they lodged that night In which places my Lord Generall left the Inhabitants in as great suerty and more libertie then they were before the Soldiers taking nothing but what they paide for Mounsiere de Toyras had sent a brauing complement that he would visit him that day for which my Lord Generall gaue the Bearer a good reward but it prooued but a Complement The 16. his Grace reposed the Armie and buried the Bodie of Sir William Heydon with all Militarie honour himselfe and M. de Seabise accompaning the Corpes On the 17. the Armie marched to Saint Martines the principall Towne of the Iland as great as Plimouth where the Enemies Cauelerie did appeare againe whome our Infanterie had so great a winde to be dealing with as hardly the Officers could keepe them from setting on them in disorder But as they aduanced they were sâ—â—â—ted with one of our Drakes which killed two or three Horses and hurt some Men. Here one of our Cauelerie aduanced himselfe and proffered a single Combat but no Man answered him This euening our Armie lodged as peaceably in Saint Martines as if we had been in Voyage and not in Warre the Inhabitants receauing vs with great cheerefulnesse embrasing M. de Subâ—ses feete and calling him their good Prince There were taken some hurt Men and some Prisoners in the Towne and the Enemie quitting their Baricadoes wholy retired themselues into the Ciâ—tadell And our Armie is now wholy employed in landing of our Canon dressing our Batteries and preparing our Trenches FINIS A Continued August 17 IOVRNALL OF ALL THE PROCEEDINGS of the Duke of BVCKINGHAM his Grace in the Isle of Ree a part of France Jn whom are combined Religion Fortitude and Clemencie being the true Characters of a noble Generall Published by Authoritie LONDON Printed for Thomas Walkley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Eagle and Childe in Britaines-Bursse 1627. A Iournall of the proceedings of my Lord DVKE in his Voyage IVne the 24. 1627. being Sunday after Diuine Seruice and Sermon the Lord Generall tooke his Barge and enioyned all the Officers and Commanders to attend him to the Fleet lying then at Anchor in Stokes Bay which hee weighed the same day and fell downe towards Saint Hellens poynt where hee cast Anchor againe and stayed there for want of winde till the 27. of Iune The same night hearing there were some Commaunders behinde in the Towne who kept disorder he went a shore himselfe and searcht all the houses in the Towne where he found some Captaines that had been disorderly Amongst the rest there was one that gaue an vnmannerly answere who was casheered for his labour That night the Lord Generall lay a shore the next morning betimes he went a board On Wednesday the 27. wee weighed Anchor with 100. sayle of Ships and tackt to and againe vntill wee recouered the Poynt East of the I le of Wight Thursday the 28. wee stoode on our course towards the West vntill we were come to the height of Plymouth about eight of the clock at night wee stoode West and East and by South And on Friday the 29. wee sayled with a slacke winde but before night wee got sight of land on our Larboard seeming to be 12. leagues off a part of France called the Vshant in 47. degrees or there-abouts Wee stoode on to Sea that night with a fresh gayle of winde which serued vs vntill the next morning at two of the clocke and then wee were becalmde till Monday the first of Iuly at foure of the clocke At which time we sent a Boy to the top of the mayne Mast to see what he could discouer he spied on the head of vs 14. sayle of Shipps some foure leagues off and very fortunately within a quarter of an houre after there arose a good gayle of winde fully with vs so that the Admirall and all the rest made hast to hoyst vp sayle and chase these Ships Before nine of the clocke at night a Catch of his Maiesties ouertook them which was commanded by Captaine Dunning he called to them and asked what they were they tolde him a contrary tale he desired then to winde about and come aboard and speake with our Admirall They bid him goe before to their Admirall and what he did they would follow he came to their Admirall and desired him to winde about and speake with our Admirall Their Admirall asked Dunning what Fleete it was he tolde him it was
the King of Englands Fleet hee asked what they were doing there hee tolde them they were Tacking to and againe to scoure the Seas No saith he I know you are going to Burdeaux but there you will finde them prepared for you and they will giue you hot seruice Hee asked who was our Admirall hee tolde them my Lord Duke of Buckingham Whereupon hee fell in rayling and called vs all Roagues and Rascalls and commanded the Gunner to shoote he shot halfe a dozen shot at him and shor him twice through the sayle hard by the middle of the mayne Mast so that Dunning fell a sterne of him and tackt about to vs and tolde vs what had past and that he conceiued them to be Dunkerks men of Warre very well appointed which did much comfort our Generall and all the rest We chased them all night and on Tuesday the 20. of Iuly at light day wee had got neere vnto them with some of our Shipps The Lyon had â—ot the Winde-ward of them Three of the Collyers and the Maria with the Catch was got almost within shot of thâ—â— â—ut in this time they were throwing out their Ballest and making themselues light and when they had done that they hoysed vp studding Sailes and after outsailed vs quite We followed them so farre as there was no hopes and then wound about to our intended course At foure of the clocke the same day my Lord caused to send vppe to the maine Mast to tell how manie Shippes we were in company and we found we were then no more then three score for we had lost in that Chase my Lord Haruey with fortie saile of Shippes who met not with vs till wednesday the 11. of Iuly We were kept from the place where we intended with contrarie windes and calmes till tewesday the 10. of Iuly About two of the clocke then fell a violent storme with a thicke mist so that we were put into great danger The Nonesuch in this storme had spent her Fore-mast and many of the other Shippes lost their Long-boates being tyed at the Sterne About eight of the clock the storme broke vp and it grew to bee cleare Then we discerned the Isle of Ree to be within three leagues of vs whither we steered our course And about ten of the clocke cast anchor ouer against Saint Martines the prime Towne in that Island The Next morning being wednesday we weyed anchor and sayled downe lower to a point of the Island next to the maine-Land and ouer against Rochell There we cast anchor and placed our Shippes round about the Island that the Enemie might neither export nor import any thing for their aduantage That done being the 11. of Iuly we had very good sport in chasing those Barques and Hoyes which were offering to goe from the Island to the maine-Land and from the maine-Land to the Island We tooke many of them and there were none that got eyther in or out About sixe of the clocke that day my Lord Haruey appeares with his fortie saile of Ships which was vnto vs a great comfort About eight of the clocke the same day the Lord Generall called a Councell and resolued to land our Men the next morning vpon that point which lay iust to vs as being the most safe place At which time he gaue order to some Shippes to batter a Fort which lay a league off on the right hand continued the battering till ten of the clocke the next day then we found there was no resistance in the Fort whereupon the Lord Generall commanded to giue ouer On tewesday the 12. the L. Generall was vp and readie by three of the clock in the morning and receiued the Communion that morning at fiue of the clocke and after tooke his Barge and went aboard the Nonsuch to Monsiure Subcesa and returned from thence at sixe At seuen of the clocke Monsiure Sabuesa Monsiure Blancarte and Sir William Becher went to Rochell At eight of the clocke the L. Generall sent Master Grymes the Gentleman of his Horse with a Foote-boy of his that could both runne and swimme well and sixe Muskatieres to the point of the Island where they were to land their Men to see if they could discouer any Men or Ordnance that they had planted there to encounter vs When he came to the shoare he caused the Foote-boy to strippe himselfe and to run along and he run three quarters of a mile into the Countrey and found all that Coast cleere sauing three Horse-men that the Enemies had set out to be Scoutes which chased him back to the Sea side The Boy was releiued by the Ship Ordnance and the Muskets in the Boate At ten of the clocke he turned back to the Triumph and gaue the L. Generall an accompt what he had discouered Whereupon the L. Generall gaue present order for all Officers to be in a readinesse and to meete him aboard the Kings good Shippe called the Lyon lying next the Pointe where they were to land their Men for there he would keepe his Randeuous for that time At twelue of the clocke he tooke his Barge accompanied with Sir George Blundell Sergeant Maior attended by M. Grymes and M. Ashburneham and went to all those Ships that had Land Soldiers and commanded them that they should presently draw themselues as neere that point of the Island as they could After that he went to all the Ships and appointed the Captaines of them how and where to attend with their Shippes and commanded them presently to prouide their Barges and long Boates to land their Land Souldiers and to send them to the Lyon Hee then made choyse of tenne Ships of lesser burthen and directed them to draw their Shipps as close as they could to either side of the point of the Island where the Souldiers were to be Landed and commanded them that if the Enemie did appeare within shotte they should presently play vpon them He being aboard at the same time of one of these Shippes went vp to the top of the mayne Mast and discouered of the Enemies three Troupes of Horse and 16. or 18. hundred Foote all ready in Battalia some English mile or more off the place where wee were to land our men hee came presently downe and tolde vs what hee had discouered and shot at them himselfe two or three Peeces of Ordnance and commanded the rest of the Peeces to play vpon them still with that tooke Barge and went to the Lyon where hee found all the Officers ready with their long Boates to land their men In this time came backe from Rochell Monsieur Sabuesa and Sir William Beecher who stayed there till Saturday following Monsieur Saint Blancart disswaded the Lord Generall to forbeare the Landing of his men vntill the next morning but the Lord Generall fearing it would giue time to the Enemie to strengthen himselfe Hee would by no meanes heare of any delay Whereupon Monsieur Saint Blancart like a braue man choosed himselfe a Pike and
so couragiously martch in the formost companies that it did so animate the Souldiers that I haue hard many of the Souldiers wish that the French would stand one Encounter that they might shew theire loue vnto theire Generall but that would not be at this present after we had martched vp to the East side of the towne so farre as the Sea would giue vs leaue we began to come nearer to the towne our Drakes performing their parts on the Horsemen that came foorth to see vs and killed one gentleman and two Horses About fiue of the clocke at night some of the chiefe men of the Towne came foorth with a flagge of truce and did offer to deliuer themselues and towne into the hands of our Generall they being Protestans that were left the Duke accepted of their offer and so marching into the Towne and quartring his Soldiers in seuerall parts of it did ride vp to the Prison house to see if any English were there but finding none he returned to the water side where Collonell Borowes quarter was ther did he see the malice of the enemie in burning of three good ship in the Harbour that had bin taken from the English and then taking his barge he went aboard the ships commanding all them to send victuals a shore for his Souldiers so that there was no want of any thing although the Enemie had taken all their owne prouision and the Protestants away with them into the Fort and now doe they begin to batter night and day vpon the Towne with their Ordnance but although they had battered from Tuesday vntill Friday night I could not heare of more then one man that was killed although the Fort be within Musket shot of the Towne and the shot flying into all parts of the Towne as on Thursday as the Duke and Sabuesa were talking there came two shot so neere them that they were faine to goe to end their discourse in some other place It was appointed that on the Saturday twenty field-Peeces at least nine Drakes should be mounted against the Fort with our Pyoners and our Souldiers to make some Trenching worke but that I cannot speake of but will pray for a good successe to their intent and purpose and so for England with the good Shippe of the Kings called the Charles whom God preserue Saturday the 20. of Iuly 1627. A note of such Commanders and Officers as were slaine in the first encounter at the East of the I le of Roâ— the 12. day of Iuly 1627. Slaine Sir William Haydon Master of the Ordnance Mounsier Blankart he was Chiefe for Mounsier Sabesa Sir Thomas Thornax Lieutenant Coronell Sir Thomas Yorke quarter Master Generall Captaine Babington Captaine Glinne Captaine Goring Captaine Blundon Captaine Cuntrey Captaine Woodhouse Corporall of the field Captaine Heatley Captaine Iohn Powell Captaine Morgan Powell Lieutenant Anderson Lieutenant Sidnam Lieutenant Grimsham Master Iohnson Enginer Ensigne Champernone Ensigne Goardon Master Iohn Temple Master Netherton quarter Master Hurt Sir George Blundon Sergeant Maior Generall Sir Charles Rich Coronell Sir Edward Conoway Coronell Sir Richard Grinfild Sir Edward Halley Captaine Abraham Captaine Rainsford Lieutenant Welcome Lieutenant Marcome Lieutenant Thornax Ensigne Bennet Sir Edward Conawayes brother There was slaine of the French that day 125. Horsemen of them was 23. Marquesses and Barons and Knights and the rest all Gentlemen of note in France and of the foote Companies some Commanders slaine of note and common Souldiers the number vncertaine this Battell did not last much more then halfe an houre There is in this thing to be noted the Dukes Noblenesse in that hee gaue them leaue to take away the slaine Bodies of these Noble men without paying one penny for them although they did offer largely as 1000. pound for one body and in giuing them leaue to carrie their wounded bodies ouer to the maine land to looke for cure and himselfe did imploy his owne Chirurgions to dresse some of them abord the Tryumph Slaine of the Nobilitie of France Monsier du Plessis Hay Monsier de Fueil Monsier de Roche Tauchuyn Monsier de la Chantebouchere Monsier de la Quichachere Monsier de la luniere Monsier de la Touche Vuchere Monsier de la Pitneytiere Monsier de la Leruantiere Monsier le Baron de Cauze Monsier de Souigny Monsier de Noudille Monsier de Bossonide Monsier de Montaigne Monsier de Lorboby Monsier de Tablay Monsier le Baron Chantail Monsier de la Laude Monsier de Nuelle Monsier St. Surin Monsier de Conte Tamini c. With other Gentlemen of note in France who were slaine with these French Noblemen in all amounting to 125. A Iournall WEdnesday the 26. of Iune we set saile but hauing the winde very contrary we beate vp and downe the Sea vntill the second of Iuly when we discouered 14. Sailes of Dunkerkers as we afterwards vnderstood My Lord Generall appointed some of his Shippes to chace them who pursued them all night and next day and followed them so close as they were forced in the night to fling ouerboord some of their Ballast and their Stuffe and to put foorth studding Sailes and goe right before the winde hauing lost ground vpon a tack and at veering and so not without difficultie escaped vs. From that day we beate vp and downe the Sea vntill the eight of Iuly when the winde came good On wednedsday the tenth we had a great tempest and verie thicke weather and so obscure as being driuen by the winde neere the coast and in the morning not being able to make land we ran a great hazard But God be thanked about noone the weather growing more cleere we discouered the I le of Retz and the same day we entred into the Pertuy Breton The chase of the Dunkirkers did seperate the Squadron of the Reare Admirall from vs together with some other Shippes so as my Lord Duke staying for the arriuall of the rest of the Fleete did nothing on tewesday at night on wednesday morning but compasse the Iland with his Vessels and stop all the entrances into the Iland On wednesday at night arriued my Lord Heruey very happily with the Reareward and next day at noone we landed After we had put on shore vpwards of one thousand Foote the Enemie who had laine in certaine hollow groundes began to appeare with aboute 300. or 400. Horse the greatest part Gentlemen well quallified and neere one thousand Foote of the Regiments of Champagne The Horsse were deuided into fiue squadrons whereof three gaue on very furiously and made three Ralimâ—â—s and charges againe and by the report of all that saw them neuer Cauaâ—liere did better So as they draue some of our new Men who were the last landed the least in order into the Sea where some of them were drowned and they ouerthrew some Boates and drowned some Gentlemen of quallitie of our side who were pressing on to get on Land
put himselfe into Sir John Burrowes Regiment By this time it was three of the clocke when the Lord Generall commanded to land two Regiments that were of the olde Companies whereof Sir Iohn Burrowes and Sir Alexander Brett were Commanders he went with them himselfe on shore and appointed the two Colonels in what place they should land their men And being landed commanded them to put their men in Battalia with all speed fearing the Enemie vvould giue them a suddaine assault The men being vveary in lying on Shipboard lingred vvashing their hands in the Sea but the Lord Generall vvith a Cudgell runne to and fro amongst them beating some and threatning other-some and got them thrust vp three Pykes length to the skirt of the banke vvhere they vvere to be There vvas a third Regiment that vvas ready to land in the meane time came Sir William Courtney to the Lord Generall and tolde him that vnlesse hee should doe the same curtesie for him vvhich he did for the other two Collonells hee should not get his men landed and that his vvere olde Souldiers and vvould doe good seruice if the Enemie made assault Whereupon my Lord called Sir William Courtney vvent into his Barge vvith an intention to hasten a shore his Regiment and as soone as he had gone about fourescore from the shore hee presently heard the fight begun and turning backe he saw three Troupes of French Horse charging our Foote vvith all the fiercenesse that might be And the third Regiment those that vvere vnlanded pressing themselues amongst the Shippes to succour themselues the rest of that Regiment that vvere landed hee sawe prest into the vvater by the French Horse and Sir William Haydon being caried violently to the Sea by the Reuolters was there drowned Whereupon he set S. William Courtney into another Boate with commande to make all expedition to get his Men landed And very brauely himselfe drew his Sword and turned his Barge attended by Master Grymes and M. Ashburneham and thrust himselfe vpon the Reuolters and rebuking some and encouraging others told them he hoped they came not with any intent but to aduenture themselues so farre as he would leade them Wherevpon he thrust himselfe on to the shoare and they followed slowly and animating of the other Foote which were run into the water they most of them leapt out of the water and vpon the Lord Generalls words threw themselues forwards as if they would haue fought brauely but before we could get where the blowes were the Battaile was ended My Lord Generall had ordered certaine Shippes to scoure the Landing place with their Ordnance but the assault was so sodaine as they did little hurt to the Enemie and in verie heate of the combate it fell out that one of our owne Shipps had entangled himselfe betweene our Battering shippes and the Land by which meanes they were hindred in performing of their charge If the French Foote had come on to haue charged presently vppon the discharge of the Horse it had been impossible that we could haue withstood them But as God would haue it the Horse-men made more hast then in iudgement they should haue don Before the Foote came we had killed most of their Horses But when the Foote did come they came very orderly and brauely being 1500. comming within a Pike and a halfe of our Men before they discharged and the Leader of the Foote being a braue and goodlie Gentleman tooke off his hatte wherevpon all their Foote discharged their Muskets and after they fell to it with Swords and pâ—â—h of Pike vntill they were breathlesse on both sides The French finding our Pikes to be longer than theirs threw away their Pikes and went to it with Stones and so did our Men but ours beate them out and made them flye away very disorderly that happie was he that got first off his Armor to betake him to his heeles This Battaile did not continue in all much aboue halfe an hower but our Horse were not yet landed But if we had had twentie Horse to haue followed them we had killed them vp euery Man That night we intrenched our selues in that place fearing the Enemie would giue vs an assault in the night My Lord Generall spent that euening in viewing of the dead Bodies and visiting those that were hurt on our side and giuing great charge to the Chirurgions to take speciall care of them We tooke fower of the French Gentlemen but they were all hurt before two of them dyed the next day one of them is aliue yet in the Tryumph his thigh being shotte to peeces the other being a Page the Lord Generall sent him to his Master The next morning very earlie the Lord Generall came on shore againe and spent all the whole daie there calling the Commanders to him and ordering them to bring him notes of euery seuerall Companie how many they were and how manie were perished in the conflict By which vve found there was nineteene Captaines Antients and Lieuetenants killed and twelue other Officers hurt but in no danger of death and some thirty fiue common Soldiers drowned but none killed for the French men discharged all on our Gentry and neuer looked at the Common sort Our Gentry when the common Soldiers began to route clapt themselues together and shewed themselues the brauest Men in the world espetially Sir Iohn Burrowes Sir Alexander Brett Sir George Blundell and a Brother of Sir Alexander Bretts There was not one Gentleman of our Nation in the field that did not act his part brauely This being Friday the day after the Battaile the 13. of Iuly Monsieur de Thorax Gouernour of the Island sent the Barron Ambleuile with a Trumpet to speake wth the Lord Generall His Message was to desire my Lords fauour to giue them leaue to fetch away their dead bodies they being so suddenly demaunded by them my Lord made scruple in granting it Whereupon the Gentry made meanes by some of our Officers to buy the bodies and offered for one 1000. pounds When my Lord Generall had considered he gaue leaue that they should take them away Within foure houres the Gouernours sent another Trumpet with one of his Pages to giue him thankes for his fauour and to report to him that he would neuer after harbour an ill thought of the English for hee iudged the Gentry of them to be the brauest men in the world Although before the Battaile he made no more account of vs then if wee had beene all Beeues and enquiring what number we were wee tolde him 6000. He said he would kill vs and salt vs as wee did Oxen in England At the same time he sent my Lord Generall word that he would wayte on him himselfe so that we made full account that hee would giue vs Battell The same day wee put our selues in Battalia and expected them all that day yet hee came not The next day being the 14. of Iuly we made our selues ready to Martch and at