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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26296	The voyages and adventures of Capt. Barth. Sharp and others in the South Sea being a journal of the same : also Capt. Van Horn with his buccanieres surprizing of la Veracruz : to which is added the true relation of Sir Henry Morgan his expedition against the Spaniards in the West-Indies and his taking Panama : together with the president of Panama's [i.e. Juan Perez de Guzman] account of the same expedition, translated out of Spanish : and Col. Beeston's adjustment of the peace between the Spaniards and English in the West Indies / published by P.A., Esq.	Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.; Perez de Guzman, Juan.; Beeston, William, Sir, b. 1636.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4315; ESTC R9181	65,058	198

Enemy was constrained to fight us upon their hasty march not having room enough to wheel their whole Body by reason of a great Bogg which was just at their Rear and before which they had purposely drawn up to entrap us But we having thus Changed our Ground that proved in the upshot to be of prejudice to themselves We being thus advanced Don Francisco de Haro who commanded their Cavalry with his Horse gave the first Charge to our Vanguard which he did very furiously coming upon the full speed and we having no Pikes among us our Admiral gave order That we should double our Ranks to the Right and close the Files to the Right and Left inward to the close Order But their fiery Commander could not stop his career till he dropt losing his life in the FrontRank of our Vanguard Upon this their Horse wheeled off to the Right and their Foot advanced to try their Fortunes but they proved as unsuccessful as their fellows for we being ready with our main Body to receive them with our first Volley gave them such a warm welcome and pursued our work in hand with that vigour and briskness that our friends the Spaniards thought it safest to retreat and by and by were so closely plyed by our Left Wing also who at first could not come to engage because of their hindrance by the Hills which our Enemies not able to endure mended though unwillingly their pace and at last all in general betook themselves to plain running Just before which they practised such a stratagem as hath seldom been heard For while the Foot had engaged us in the Front and the Flanks they had contrived to force in two great Droves of Oxen of above a thousand in each into the Right and Left Angles of our Rear with intention to break and disorder us Which design might probably have taken effect had not our prudent Admiral with great presence of mind spoiled their project giving order to a small Party to fire at the Drivers and not at the Cattle which put the rest into so great a fear that the Oxen were soon forced back with ●afe So that this stratagem being thus defeated they were in so great consternation that happy was he that could get first into the City There they had two hundred fresh men and two Forts in the one were fix Brass Guns mounted and in the other eight They had all their Streets barricadoed and in many of them had also planted great Guns the number of which amounted in all to thirty two Brass Guns But instead of fighting after all this preparation the President caused the City to be fired and his chiefest Fort to be blown up which was done with such hast that he blew up forty of his Souldiers in it We followed them into the Town where in the Placa Mayor or chief Market place they made a short resistence fring some of their great Guns at us with which they killed us four Men and wounded five At three a Clock in the Afternoon we had quiet possession of the City although in Flames with no more loss on our side in this days work than five Men killed and ten wounded but of the Enemy about four hundred And now were we forced to put all Hands to work for the quenching the Fire of our Enemies Houses which they themselves had kindled to disappoint us of the Plunder but all our labour was in vain for by twelve a clock at Night all the whole City was burnt except a part of the Suburbs which with our great industry we made a shift to save being two Churches and about three hundred Houses Thus was that ancient and famous City of Panama consumed and laid in Ashes being the greatest Mart for Silver and Gold in the whole World for it receives all the Goods and Merchandise coming from Old Spain in the Kings great Fleet which is first landed at Puerto Belo and Venta Cruz and thence brought on Mules and by other land-Carriage hither and likewise delivers to the Gallions of the Flota or Plate Fleet all the Silver and Gold which comes from the Mines of Potozi and all Peru. Here at this City we stayed eight and twenty days making continual incursions upon the Enemy by Land for twenty Leagues round about without having so much as one Gun shot at us in anger although we took in this time near three thousand Prisoners of all sorts And kept Barks likewise cruising in the South Sea and fetching off Prisoner from Toboga and other Islands near that Coast to which the Spaniards had fled with their Families February the fourteenth we quitted Panama and began our march towards our Ship with all our Prisoners and the next day came to Venta Cruz at about two in the Afternoon which is about fifteen English miles Here we stayed refreshing our selves till the four and twentieth giving the Spaniards opportunity to ransom their Prisoners The twenty sixth we got to Chagre which we found in good order since our leaving it And here we divided the Plunder amongst the Souldiers and Seamen which amounted to about thirty thousand Pound Sterling March the sixth we fired the Castle of Chagre having first spiked the Guns and then embarked for our Voyage towards Iamaica where in a short time we safely arrived The reason why we got no more wealth in that expedition was because they had two Months notice of us before our coming and conveyed most of their Treasure away on board their Ships to be transported to Lima in Peru one of which Ships was laden with Gold Silver and precious Stones which Ship contained seven hundred Tun And there was likewise another of three hundred Tun laden also with Riches both which made their escape from us This together with their firing the City of Panama made us return so empty home Don Juan Perez de Guzman President of Panama his Relation of the late Action of the English there in the West●Indies Being a Letter intercepted by them as it was going into Spain and brought to Admiral Morgan Rendred into English out of the Spanish HAving had advice from the Governour of Carthagena which he sent me by way of Darien that the English of Iamaica assisted by the French intended with an Army of three thousand Men to Invade Carthagena and Panama I presently orderded two hundred Men to march to Puerto Velo and to Chagre one hundred and fifty And to the Castillan Don Francisco Saludo I sent order that with five hundred Men he should guard the passage of the River and fortifie it About five months before this I had consulted Don Iuan de Aras Capellan of the Audiencia and other Intelligent persons And they perswaded me that the forts on the River as well as the Castle were all impregnable And in reiterated Letters which I had from Don Pedro de Lisardo he assured me the same of Chagre and that I needed not to take care for them for