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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

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