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A73873	A briefe report of the militarie seruices done in the Low Countries, by the Erle of Leicester: written by one that serued in good place there in a letter to a friend of his	Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.	1587 (1587)	STC 7285.2; ESTC S110913	20,751	34

and made the countrie yéeld them large contributions euen from the ports of Vtricht Amsterdam and Leiden in Holland being 50. miles frō them For strength they were accounted impregnable and might be supplied from the Towne by great passagde boates with al necessaries The Estates campe two yéeres before had lieu at them ten moneths with eleuen thousand footemen and 3000. horse and departed with losse without them Taxis a soldier of account with the enimie lieutenant to Coronell Verdugo gouernour of Frizeland for the king of Spaine commanded in the towne and forts After aduise taken vpon good view of the place it was resolued that the forts as of more importance for vs and not the town should be besieged Our bridge of boates was appointed to be laid ouer the riuer about an English mile from the Towne and the campe to be placed on both sides the water that the prince if he came and thought fit mought sée that we would giue him the opportunitie to attempt vs. Order being taken for these things whiles they were in doing his Excellencie vnderstanding the tickle estate of Deuenter thought fit himselfe in person to go thither leauing straight charge to be spéedily aduertised if at the campe they should vnderstand any thing of the Princes moouing Deuenter is the chiefe citie of the prouince of Ouerissell One of the Haunse townes large strong rich and directing indéede Swowle and Campen and the rest of the cities and townes of that countrie which in a manner depende wholy vpon it It is seated vpon the northeast bank of the riuer Yssell It then stoode in a kinde of newtrall termes inclining more in shew to the Estates party but yéelding no contributions to the war and indéed aiding the enimie with victuals and prouisions and some of the towne hauing secret and strict intelligences with him That was the cause of his Excellencies so spéedie repaire thither the case being taken to be such as that who had come first of the prince or him with forces should haue béene receiued And indéede the prince as we after vnderstood hastened al he could thither But his Excellencie was first entred and with him about foure hundred footemen and two or thrée cornets of horse and no moe at this time He dealt in courteous and gentle sort with the townesmen and they likewise vsed him and his well but yet so as they woulde not lodge as in garrison anie of those he brought with him He had not béene there full two daies when certaine aduertisement came to him from the camp that the prince with his whole armie was risen from about Weesell and come to Burckloe a towne of the territorie of Munster about eight english miles from our campe Wherevpon his Excellencie departed presently with his owne traine to the campe leauing the foure hundred footemen and two cornets of horse in Deuenter and finding in the camp the trenches vpon Zutphen side not fully finished he cōmanded all diligence to be vsed therin so as in one day they were sufficiently made vp wel furnished with soldiers and al necessaries ready for defence The next night the prince came to Zutphen with 1500. horse and the morning after departed leauing part of his horse men there and returned to his campe at Burckloe where whiles he staied prouiding victuals as we vnderstoode for Zutphen and the forts our men spent the time in intrenching and fortifieng about the two forts where as also vpon the towne side happened diuers light skirmishes almost euery day till vpon the 21. of September in the euening his Excellencie hauing intelligence that the Prince would the next morning send a conuoy of victuals into Zutphen sent out good scowt that night and gaue order to sir Iohn Norris to drawe out sir William Stanleies and some other bands of footemen and appointed some horsemen withall to encounter the conuoy in the way betwéene the enimies campe and Zutphen In the morning the 22. of September fell a great and thicke mist that you might hardly discerne a man ten paces of at the breaking vp whereof the enimies appéered so néere our companies hauing planted all their muskets and arcabuzes being 2000. and their pikes being a thousande very strongly on the high way as our men specially the noblemen and gentlemen as the Erle of Essex the Lord Willoughbie sir Phillip Sidney sir William Russell sir Iohn Norris and the rest in number seuen or eight score who were in troupe togither in the face of the enimie before our footemen receiued the whole volie of the enimies shot and passing the very furie of it gaue charge vpon the two formost troupes of the enimies horsemen and draue them backe ouer their owne trenches and within their pikes at two seuerall times in such sort as Count Hanniball Gonzaga a man for nobilitie and seruice of speciall account amongst them was there slaine and many others with him Captaine George Cresier an Albanese of singular valure and skill was taken prisoner and two of their cornets brought away We lost about thirtie one and other slaine and dying after of hurts but not any of name saue onely sir Phillip Sidney who first hauing one horse shot vnder him and mounted vpon a second was shot with a musket in the left thigh but came home on his horse and died the 25. day after His Excellencie hauing béene in the field giuing order from the beginning and now receiuing the newes of this good successe was somewhat of opinion to haue brought downe the whole campe and to haue set vpon the enimie with all our forces But vpon better consideration by aduise of all the chiefe officers of the field we being not past 300. horse 16. or 17. hundred footmen that might presently come to fight the rest being imploied at the forts and in other necessarie seruices at that time the enimie being thrée thousand footemen strong in place and 12. or 14. hundred horse and we doubting least his whole armie had béene there which it might well haue béene being the night before but fiue miles of it was resolued that our troupes should stay and not to commit the whole to the fortune of that day So this hot skirmish ended our men content with their victorie returning and the enimie marching quietly away After this fight we heard no more of the Prince in 10. or 12. daies But our certaine intelligences gaue vs that he was gone to méete with our Reyters and Almaines now thought to be readie to march with intent to stay them either by stopping their passage or by fight or otherwise as also to prouide more victuals powder and shot for Zutphen His Excellencie still applied his principall purpose in besieging the forts There is a péece of ground on the side of the riuer that Zutphen is and within sixtie yards of the towne called the Island but it is drie toward the towne The taking of it was accounted of great importance for the winning of the forts but

A BRIEFE REPORT OF THE MILITARIE SERVIces done in the LOW COVNTRIES by the Erle of LEICESTER written by one that serued in good place there in a letter to a friend of his Imprinted at London by Arnold Hatfield for Gregorie Seton 1587 Note that the account of the daies monethes yeeres and miles is to be made alwaies in this letter after the stile and measure of ENGLAND TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL MY ESPECIALL GOOD FRIENDE SIR I. A. KNIGHT SIR to satisfie your often earnest requestes I haue taken time these holydaies to set you downe a briefe reporte of the military seruices done in the lowe Countries by the Earle of LEICESTER and his armies during the time of his abode and gouernment there reckening from the 22. day of Ianuary 1585. on which day he was receiued Gouernour of those Countries till the 23. of Nouember 1586. when he embarked at VLVSHING in his returne for ENGLAND I entermeddle not with the estate of Religion iustice or ciuill pollicie because your letters demaund it not and I willingly deale not further in reportes then is by some kinde of dutie required of me You expect not I hope but the substance of things done with breuitie the circumstaunces I know and particularities will require a reasonable volume Of one thing I must entreate you to be especially excused I will not meddle with the particular seruices of priuate men because if I should rehearse them all and speake of them as indeede they haue deserued it were aboue my skill and I should be longer then my leisure suffreth And if I should touch some and conceale others the iust offence would hardly be endured For truth of the things I write you of this be assured what I write as done of our partie either I sawe and am witnes of it my selfe or I haue it by the credible report of those that were the doers What I set downe of the enimies doings I either take it from their owne intercepted letters or I do it vpon the aduertisements of our best intelligencers who in circumstances may erre but swarue not much from truth I thinke in any materiall point howsoeuer it is I trust you will be perswaded that I willingly speake no vntruth And then as I conceiue of these things if so it please you to accept of them they haue béene done as I take them in maner as followeth After long and humble suite of the Estates generall of the vnited Prouinces of the lowe Countries it pleased the Quéenes Maiestie our Soueraigne to graunt vnto them a large and bountifull aide of men money in such sort and vpon such Articles and conditions as in the treatie concluded betwéene them bearing date the fourth day of September in the yéere 1585. it more at large appéereth To speake of the magnanimitie wisedome bountie and singular goodnesse of hir Maiestie in yéelding so great and chargeable a succour with consideration against whom vpon how necessarie and most vrgent causes and for how gréeuouslie oppressed a people and countries it was intended were a matter beside my purpose at this time and aboue the reach of my pen and skill The fact is and will be approoued and renowmed in the world so long as the memorie of wise and good Princes and of true princely actions shal endure But in the Treatie named there is one Article amongst others whereby it is especially required That it might please her Maiestie to sende with her forces into those partes a personage of nobilitie valure and wisedome of the English Nobilitie as well to gouerne her people as also to direct and to deale otherwise and to vse such further préeminence and authoritie as is specified in the Treatie The man for this purpose most desired of the Estates and especially chosen by her Maiestie was the Earle of Leycester who being accordingly appointed for this seruice after his commission receiued and view taken of such as were then to go with him leauing whatsoeuer the singular blessings of God most happily many waies and the especiall fauour of a mightie Prince had of long time yéelded him in his owne Countrie tooke leaue at the Courte and departed towardes Harwich in Essex there to embarque in the beginning of December following There accompanied him in this voyage the Earle of Essex the Lord Awdeley the Lord North with diuers Knights and manie Esquiers and Gentlemen to the number of sixe or seauen hundred horse brauely and souldiour like appointed all voluntaries and of his owne friendes followers seruants He departed from Harwich with the most part of his traine the ninth day of December and on the tenth of the same arriued at Vlushing in Zealand where at Middleborough he was receiued with great concourse and ioye and after two daies staie there by sundrie iournies came to the Hage in Holland Here after many daies treatie vpon the 22. daie of Ianuary 1585. he receiued the gouernement of those Countries with tytle of Gouernour and Captaine Generall of Holland Zealand and of the vnited Prouinces and of their associates The vnited Prouinces and their associates were then accounted the Duchie of Gelders with the Countie of Zutphen Holland Zealand Vtricht and the countries adioining of Frizeland betwéene the riuer of Emes and Lawers Flaunders also and Brabant for the townes of those countries that then helde with the other vnited Prouinces And the estate of them all was then this In Holland Zealand and Vtricht the enimie had cléerly nothing in Frizeland also nothing sauing that the citie of Gronningen and that part of the countrie called Omelandes were wholie his in Gelderland and Zutphen he had a good part in Brabant the Estates had but Bergen apzome Saint Ghertrudenberg Huesden Graue and Wowe castle with the Forte of Lillo in Flaunders they had Sluice and Oostend and the fortes of Terneuse the Dole Lyskenshooke and Saint Antonies hooke all the rest were the enimies togither with all the other of the seauentéene Prouinces except the whole almost of the countrie of Ouerissell which in a kinde of newetralitie séemed to fauor the Estates party and rather to encline to them but indéed did greatly aide the enimie with victuales and prouisions and had manie secrete intelligences with him These Prouinces their estate and the people of them did the E. of Leicester at this his first arriuall and acceptance of the gouernment find in great confusion The common people without obedience The soldier in miserie and disorder for want of pay The Gouernors weary tired for lacke of good assistance and due obedience The Prouinces themselues staggering in their vnion euery Towne next danger readie to séeke newe meanes for their safetie such was their feare of the enimie triumphant nowe with continuall victories and especially with the late recouerie of Anwarpe so little was their hope of their owne abilitie to resist and so many were the enimies déepe and secret practises euen in the verie bowels of them The estate dulie