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A03134	A iournall, of the taking in of Venlo, Roermont, Strale, the memorable seige of Mastricht, the towne & castle of Limburch vnder the able, and wise conduct of his Excie: the Prince of Orange, anno 1632 VVith an exact card drawne first by Charles Floyd (nowe ensigne) and since lessened and cutt by Henricus and Willihelmus Hondius dwelling by the Gevangen Port in the Hagh. Compiled together by Capt. Henry Hexham quartermaster to the regiment of the Lord Generall Vere. As also a list of the officers, voluntiers, gentlemen, and souldiers slayne, and hurt in this seige. With the articles of composition.	Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?; Hondius, Hendrik, b. 1573, engraver.; Hondius, Willem, engraver.; Floyd, Charles, fl. 1632-1633, cartographer.	1633 (1633)	STC 13263; ESTC S104007	41,030	60

A IOVRNALL Of the taking in of Venlo Roermont Strale the memorable Seige of Mastricht the Towne Castle of Limburch vnder the able and wise Conduct of his Ex cie the Prince of Orange Anno 1632. VVITH An exact Card drawne first by Charles Floyd nowe Ensigne and since lessened and cutt by Henricus and Willihelmus Hondius dwelling by the Gevangen Port in the Hagh Compiled together by Capt. Henry Hexham Quartermaster to the Regiment of the Lord Generall Vere As also a List of the Officers Voluntiers Gentlemen and Souldiers slayne and hurt in this seige With the Articles of Composition AT DELPH Printed by Iohn Pietersz VValpote for Nathaniell Butter and are to be sold at Henrij Hondius his house in the Hagh Anno 1633. VVith the Priviledge therevnto of the high and mighty Lords the States Generall of the vnited Provinces TO His honored Kinsman Maister Frauncis Morrice Clarcke of his Ma ties Ordnance Sir yow having married the widdowe of my deceased vncle M r Jerome Heydon marchant of London I am tyed by an obligation of loue to shewe you al dutifull respect and for yours and my Aunts many favours J have made choise to dedicate vnto your selfe these particulars touching the seige of Mastricht some remarkeable things hapned this last yeres service in the Lowe Countries And though they be not so well done as I could wishe they were because some things maye be forgotten and others which came not to my knowledge yet so farre as my intelligence served and being an eye-witnesse in the most of them J hope they will carrye more truth along vvith them then Eloquence for truth and bluntnesse becomes a Souldier best Here then worthy S r you shall see everie Nation as so many rivers runing into the mayne endevouring and striving to doe the State and Land service whome wee serve One principall motive vvhich perswaded mee to vndertake this labour and to putt it out to the viewe of the vvorld was this Harmon Hugo a Iesuite wrote well in the praise and Conduct of the deceased Marques Spinola who deserved well and was one of the best Generalls that ever the King of Spayne had in his Lowe Cuntrie warrs concerning the blocking vp of Breda It is as free for mee being a protestant and a Souldier to write some thing without flatterie as a remembrance to posteritie in the honor cōmendations of our Generalissimo the Prince of Orange if hee pararells these two great Generalls of our age together indeed I must tell the Iesuite this in a Souldiers account a towne or a citie gayned by the sword and Approches is more honorable witnes the seige of the Bosch Mastricht then to block it vp and to starue yt out which is a languishing death On the contrarie side because hee spake well of our nation gives them their due I will likewise speake the truth that wee mett with a brave Gouvernour the Baron of Leyde and a daring Ennemie which disputed every patch of ground with vs and yeelded not till the foundation and Bowells of the vvall of Mastricht were rent assunder To concludel that which I have collected the severall services acted the passages and remarkeable things to be observed I leave to your wise the judicious Readers Consideration which I hope wil be acceptable vnto you rest Your ever loving Kinsman Henry Hexham AN EXACT CARD Wherein is described and delineated the famous Seige of Mastricht begun the 10. of June and ended the 23. of Angust following Anno 1632. THe name of the citie of Mastricht is compounded of two words Maze and treckt a dutch word which signifies in English a passage over the Maze called also in Latine Traiectum Mosae or Traiectum Superius to distinguish betweene yt Traiectum inferius which is Vtrecht This citie is very well scituated vpon the river of Maze having Brabant on the VVest Northwest-side Luykland the Dukedome of Limburch on the South and south East-side and Gulickland and the Countie of Valckenberke on the East and North-side It is devided into two Townes the one called Mastricht the other Wieck the Maze running between them and have also betwixt them a very faire stone bridge of nine great arches to passe over This is an ancient Towne of a large Circuit and stronge lying foure Germane miles from Luyck haveing in yt two Cathedrall Churches the one called St. Servaes vvhereof the King of Spayne as Duke of Brabant is Canon which heretofore hath bin a Bishopprick and was founded in the yeare of our Lord 395. whereby the antiquitio thereof is Knowne but the Bishops seate was removed from thence to Luyck anno 1210. The other Cathedrall Church is called S t. Maries having a Convent neere yt called the Bissen vvherein a mightly Prince and his trayne maye lodge and besides these Catheralls it hath many other Churches Cloisters Monasteries of men and woemen in yt This citie also hath two Lords over yt vvhereof the one is in the possession of the Duke of Brabant the other the Prince of Luyck by loane And as they have two Lords so they have two seats of Iustice two Maires or Burgomasters Aldermen Officers of Iustice which meete and keepe good correspondence together vvithout distinction of limits neverthelesse the Duke of Brabant was the Soveraigne Lord over them both for hee onely stamps his picture vpon the Coine and at his Entrance into these cities shewes mercie and gives pardon to Malefactours These two townes prospered and flourished well a long time till the Netherlandish Troubles and warr brake forth and till the Spaynard put a garrison into yt as being a chiefe Frontier towne the key of Brabant and the Magazin for all the King of Spaynes guarnisons over the Maze and a ready passage for the sending vp of his forces into Germanie to assist the Emperour In the time of some of her Gouvernours especially vvhen Duke d'Alva tyrannised and Domineered yt sustayned great losses and dammages by the Spaynards for in the yeare 1576. they cunningly surprised yt did plunder and pillage in yt The States having gott yt in againe Anno 1579. the Prince of Parma came before yt and beleagured yt straightly for the time of 8 mounts playing continually vpon yt vvith 54 peeces of Ordnance The inhabitants and Souldiers carryed themselves so well that scarcly the like hath bin parareld since the beginning of the Low-Countrie warrs Notwithstanding the 29 of Iune 1579 being S t Ieames his day hee tooke yt in with an assault the Spaynards murdring and killing a great many of men woemen and children in yt and cast over the stone Bridge betweene Mastricht and Weyck some hundreds and drownd them the River of the Maze some others got vp into the steeples and turrets of Churchers and Cloisters to save themselves crying out at the holes for quarter to them but they insteed of that sent them volleys of Musket-bullets vvhich yet stick in the vvall and the

vvieck vvhere they fortfied themselues most stronglie as if they had bin in a towne the Companies of our Nation vvere these Captaine Killegrey Captaine Essex Captaine Scudamore Captaine Courtney Captaine Morton and Captaine Inglebie Thus the Armie being setled and all quarters entrenched the approches furnished and all out-vvorks and by-guards orderlie Kept releived many other strong vvorks of Fortification as Redoubts double ditches Halfemoones Horneworks Spurres Traverses vvere made along the lyne of circum-valation and prepared for the Enemyes attempt who vvas daylie expected to come and fall on vpon some part of our Armie for the releife of the towne and therefore a Fort Royal vvas made called the English Fort ouer against the English quarter And an other strong Fort called Belfide but more commonlie Brederodes Skonce because it laie neere to the Baron of Brederodes Quarter for defence of that part of the Leager and of the lower bridge vvhich vvas there layed for the passage of our Forces over the Riuer as occasion should require In the begining of the seige those in the towne annoyed vs much in our quarters vvith their great Ordnance and many vvere slayne in their huts and tents especiallie in the Scotch quarters so that vvee vvere forced to make Baracadoes and blindes in most places for the defense of our quarters and the Prince of Orange being to neere remoued his tents to the top of the hill neere the French quarters The 16. Colonell Pakenham commanded in the approches and many vvorkmen vvere sent to vvorke in the trenches This day it vvas ordanied that a Sargeant Maior should goe a grand-Round euery night betweene Count Henries quarters and ours Likewise orders vvere giuen out to all Captaines and their Sutlers to prouide victualls for their Companies for ten daies and that to begin vpon Sunday following after the expiration of those ten dayes there was once or twice a vveeke Ammunition bread brought to euery Regiment to be equally dealt among the souldiers for their moneys The 17. Certaine vvorkemen out of every Regiment vvere sent to finish the vvorks begun this night in the trenches The letters and declarations of Count Henry of the Berke touching his revolt from Spaine this daye came into our Army in print This night the Scotch Colonell Broguë his Regiment begining tooke their turnes to watch in the approches from this day to the 22 our approches went well forward the Enemy many tymes sallying out but were commonly beaten back againe with losse The 22. about 4 of the clocke in the afternoone the Enemy sallyed out about 200 strong an hundred fell into the Englishe trenches and as many into the French The Horse troope which had the guard at the entrance into our trenches fell out on the French side beate them in and the Captaine of the guard Shot with a bullet and Captaine Skippon on the English side fell out of our trenches with some 80 men and did encounter them in the playne feild the Enemy stodd it out in the open feild but after some skirmishing retyred this night wee aduanced our works in the approches without interruption The 23 they of the towne made a triumph with peales of Ordnance and Volleys of Musket-shott which made vs expect they would attempt something vpon vs that night or the next day following This day wee had a Conuoy from Nimwegen of 20 Ships loaden with meale Ammunition and diuerse materialls of warre The 23. of Iune Colonell Pakenham commanding in the trenches was shott in his face Vpon Thursday the 24 the Enemy sallyed out of the towne about 100 strong to beate in our workmen and fell into our trenches An Alferus or Ensigne of theirs who had the Command of 30 men followed the assault almost to our Corps-du-guard but at last they were put to retreate and the Alferus slayne with most of his men A parley was had for a certain tyme to fetch of the Alferus his body and other prisoners Into this Alferus his pockets were closely conveyed some Coppies of the letters of Count Henry of the Berke his reuolt in this fight Captaine Hickmans Sergant and some Souldiers of his Company were slayne The 25 also Marquis Sancte Croce came in the eueing with the Spanish Army to Tongeren where hee lay to victuall his Army two dayes Munday the 28 of Iune the Spanish Army came and quartered in the Villages on this side Tongeren not aboue an houres going from his Ex cie quarter there Reere being come vp they made a great noise with their ordnance and discharged foure tymes 24 peeces of Cannon one after another and hung out lights vpon the steeple there abouts to encourage their freinds in the towne and to signifie vnto them that they were not farr of Those of the towne answered them againe and shot al their ordnance three times off round about the towne their Bullets grazing and raking throw our quarters This night the Prince sent a guarde of Musketteirs with lights to search a Caue which was imagined to go vnder the ground into the towne they entred the Caue on the side of the Maze in the hill of Luchtenberch Castle found it to be hewen out by mens hands through a rock of free-stone and came forth on the other side of the hill neere vnto the walls of the towne Tuesday the 29 the Enemy marched from his quarters in the sight of our Army towards the heath A spye which marched with them three dayes brought intelligence that their Army consisted of 178. Companies of foote 76 troopes of horse 70 peeces of ordnance great and small and 900 vvaggons and marched in Phalanges and great Battalions with their Carriages baggage and wagons after euery Battalion This night they tooke vp their quarters in the Village by the hooght Cloyster a little below the Baron of Brederods quarters where wee lay the night before wee sate downe before Mastricht and where they remayned This night also a morter was planted in the English approches which Shott two great Granados of 80 pound weight one of them fell in the Enemyes half-moone before Brussells port the other in the towne and blew vp a house The 30 of Iune our horse and the Enemyes skirmished together their horse standing in Battalia while their Foote marched forward our horse skirmishing with them slew some of them and tooke others prisoners The first of Iuly our approches being well aduanced there was a traverse of the Enemies which lay some 30 paces in the playne field beyond the further point of our Sapp His Ex cie gaue order that this night it should be assaulted The Earle of Oxford then commanded in the approches and great store of Brushe was brought downe and workmen appointed for that service my Lord of Oxford gaue order to assault it in this manner That Sergeant Bagnall my Lord Veres Sergeant off Dort Company should fall on first with ●5 men then Lieutenant Garth Lieutenant to Sr Henry Herbert with 40. men and the