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A53879	Verses by the University of Oxford on the death of the most noble and right valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill, alias Granvill, Kt. who was slain by the rebells at the battle on Lansdown-Hill near Bathe, July the 5, 1643.	University of Oxford.; Birkhead, Henry, 1617?-1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing O989; ESTC R18022	30,066	120

Anglorum Magnanimus BEVILLIVS GRANVIL Cornubiensis Eques Auratus VERSES BY The University of OXFORD On the Death of the Most Noble and Right Valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill alias Granvill Kt. Who was Slain by the Rebells at the Battle on Lansdown-Hill near Bathe July the 5. 1643. Aut spoliis ego jam raptis laudabor opimis Aut Letho insigni Virg. Aeneid Printed at Oxford in the Year of our Lord 1643. and now Reprinted at London 1684. To the Right Honourable John Earl of BATHE Viscount of Lansdown Baron Granvill of Granvill Bideford and Kilkhampton Lord-Lieutenant and High-Steward of the Dutchy of Cornwal Lord-Warden of the Stanneries Governour of Plymouth Groom of the Stole to his Majesty First Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-Chamber and One of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Councill THese Verses were an Epicedium of the Muses of Oxford made to adorn the Herse of your Noble Father who Dy'd so Gloriously at Lansdown in Defence of his Prince and Country It is Apparent what a Publique loss his Death was that one of the first Universities of Europe should think fit to Lament it A Respect it may be never done before to any but to the Royal Family But as there are few Persons my Lord so Deserving to be Celebrated as your Father so are there few Families which have had that Military Glory in them Not to go back so far as your great Ancestor Hamon Dentatus Earl of Corboil descended from the Warlike Rollo Duke of Normandy Nor to Mention his two Renowned Sons Robert Fitzhamon and Sr Richard de Granvill who came over with William the Conqueror and Ayded him at the Battle of Hastings to Wyn the Crown of England and afterward in the Conquest of Wales there are late Instances of other of your Progenitors who have Illustrated your Race by their valiant Actions In the War with France betwixt Henry the 8 th and Francis the first Sir Roger Granvil lost his life at Sea And his Son Sir Richard Granvil when he was very Young went a Volentier into Hungary to serve the Emperour Ferdinand against the Turk and after that was with Don John of Austria at the Battle of Lepanto the greatest Day that ever was at Sea since that of Actium At his Return home applying himself to the Sea he became an Expert Captain and Admirall after Several Voyages into the West-Indies and elsewhere Services done his Country with much Honour and Successe he was at last Slayn at the Azores Islands having with one of the Queen's Ships alone being unhappily Seperated from the rest of the Fleet whereof he was Vice-Admiral Sustain'd a fight against the whole Naval power of Spain never yeilding though his Guns were dismounted his men almost all hurt or kill'd himself Mortally Wounded and his Decks blown up that there was no place left to fight upon so that his Enemies were Astonished at his valour and Concern'd to save him as if he had been of their own Nation but his Wounds being too Mortall to be cured he Expired in a Few Hours and was Buried in the Ocean which had been the Theatre of his Glory I cannot forget another Sir Richard Granvill your Lordships Uncle who having done his Apprentice-ship in Arms in the Low-Countrys and german-German-Wars serv'd his late Majesty in the Northern Expeditions and then in the Wars of Ireland and at length coming to command one of the Kings Armies in the West kept that Country in his Majesties Obedience till the Rest of England was lost the fortune of the Parliament prevail'd every where A severe Observer of Military Discipline and my Lord General the Old Duke of Albemarle was wont to say one of the best Captains we had in all the War of England and Ireland As the Name and fortune of your Ancestors are Descended to your Lordship so is their Virtue too which appeared so early in you that before you were Seaventeen years Old you enter'd into your Fathers Command and after you had serv'd the King upon several Engagements in the Army and particularly in Cornwall at the Defeat of the Earl of Essex you brought those Valiant Companies in the Head of which your Father was slain at Lansdown to fight for his Majesty at the Second Battel of Newbery where you were like to have undergone your Fathers fate as well as Imitated his Virtue for being Engaged in the Thickest of the Enemies and having receiv'd severall wounds and one most Dangerous One in the Head with the blow of a Halberd which beat you to the Ground you lay for some time without Sense or Motion 'till a Body of the Kings Horse Charging the Enemy a-fresh beat them off the ground upon which you fought where you were found amongst the Dead Cover'd with Dust and Blood and being known were carried into that place of the Field where the King Prince of Wales his now Present Majesty were who sent you to Dennington Castle to be treated for your Wounds It could not My Lord but be matter of great Contentment to you to have his Majesty himself a witness of the Blood you had lost for him and a Spectator of that Loyalty and Courage which are the Hereditary Qualities of your Family No sooner were the Armies drawn off from the Field of Newbery but you were presently Besieged in Dennington where for some time you lay in Extream Danger of your life not only by those Desperate Wounds you had got in the late Battel but in the hazzard you were in of Receiving new ones from the Enemy the Bullets flying continually through the Room where you lay under Cure 'till you were Releived by the Victorious Forces of his Majesty at the Third Battel of Newbery Nor have you only Serv'd the King with your Sword in the Field but been another way a Chief Instrument of the Greatest good that ever came to England I mean the Restauration of his Majesty and of the Laws and Liberty of your Oppressed Country This my Lord was brought to pass by your Prudent and Successfull Negotiation with my Lord General Monck you having a particular Commission from the King to treat with him with whom when you had Conserted all things for his Majesties Return and that without Imposing the least Condition upon him you Posted away to Bruxells to give him an Account of it In which Journey as well as in the Rest of your Conduct in this Affair you exposed your self to no Ordinary Danger and most certainly serv'd the King your Master more Effectually then if you had won more then One Battel for him My Lord General who seem'd to be Inspir'd in the Carrying-on of this Great Business was so Circumspect that he would not write to the King by your Lordship for fear you might be Searched upon the Way and what you carried Intercepted and his Great Design Discover'd before it was Ripe and therefore left all to your Care and Prudent Management But at your Return he

of the Hulks both Sunk and in many other of the Spanish Ships great Slaughter was made Some write that Sir Richard was very dangerously hurt almost in the beginning of the Fight and lay Speechless for a time e're he Recovered But two of the Revenges own company brought home in a Ship of Lime from the Islands Examined by some of the Lords and Others affirmed that he was never so Wounded as that he forsook the Upper Deck 'till an hour before Midnight and then being shot into the Body with a Musket as he was a dressing was again shot into the Head and withall his Chirurgion wounded to death This agreeth also with an Examination taken by Sr Francis Godolphin of four other Mariners of the same Ship being returned which Examination the said Sr Francis sent unto Master William Killegrue of her Majesties Privy Chamber But to return to the Fight The Spanish Ships which attempted to boord the Revenge as they were wounded and beaten off so allways others came in their places she having never less then two mighty Gallions by by her sides and aboard her So that e'ere the Morning from Three of the Clock the day before there had Fifteen severall Armadas assailed her and all so ill approved their entertainment as they were by the break of day far more willing to hearken to a Composition then hastily to make any more Assaults or Entries But as the day encreased so our men decreased and as the light grew more and more by so much more grew our discomforts For none appeared in fight but enemies saving one small Ship called the Pilgrim commanded by Jacob Whiddon who hovered all night to see the Success but in the morning bearing with the Revenge was hunted like a Hare amongst many ravenous Hounds but escaped All the Powder of the Revenge to the last Barrell was now spent all her Pikes broken Forty of her best men slain and the most part of the rest hurt In the beginning of the Fight she had but one hundred free from Sickness and fourscore and ten Sick laid in Hold upon the Ballast A small Troup to man such a Ship and a weak Garrison to resist so mighty an Army By those hundred all was sustained the volleis boordings and entrings of fifteen Ships of War besides those which beat her at large On the contrary the Spanish were always supplied with Souldiers brought from every Squadron all-manner of Arms and Powder at will Unto ours there remained no comfort at all no hope no supply either of Ships Men or Weapons the Masters all beaten over-bord all her tackle cut asunder her upper work altogether rased and in effect evened she was with the water but the very foundation or bottom of a Ship nothing being left over-head either for flight or defence Sir Richard finding himself in this distress and unable any longer to make resistance having endured in this fifteen hours Fight the Assault of fifteen severall Armadas all by turns aboord him and by estimation eight hundred Shot of great Artillery besides many Assaults and Entries and that Himself and the Ship must needs be possessed by the Enemy who were now all cast in a ring round about him the Revenge not able to move one way or other but as she was moved with the waves and billow of the Sea commanded the Master Gunner whom he knew to be a most resolute man to split and sink the Ship that thereby nothing might remain of Glory or Victory to the Spaniards Seeing in so many hours fight and with so great a Navy they were not able to take her having had Fifteen hours time above ten Thousand Men and Fifty and three Sail of Men of War to perform it withall and perswaded the Company or as many as hee could induce to yeild themselves unto God and to the mercy of none else but as they had like Valiant Resolute Men repulsed so many Enemies they should not now shorten the Honour of their Nation by prolonging their own Lives for a few Hours or a few Days The Master Gunner readily condesended and divers others but the Captain and the Master were of another opinion and besought Sr Richard to have care of them alledging that the Spaniards would be as ready to entertain a Composition as they were willing to offer the same and that there being divers sufficient and Valiant Men yet living and whose Wounds were not Mortall they might do their Country and Prince acceptable Service hereafter And whereas Sir Richard had alledged that the Spaniards should never Glory to have taken one Ship of her Majesty seeing they had so long and so notably defended themselves they answered that the Ship had Six-foot Water in hold Three shot under Water which were so weakly stopped as with the first working of the Sea she must needs Sink and was besides so Crusht and Bruised as she could never be removed out of the Place And as the matter was thus in dispute and Sr Richard refusing to hearken to any of those reasons the Master of the Revenge while the Captain wan unto him the greater Party was conveyed aboard the General Don Alfonso Bazan Who finding none over-hasty to enter the Revenge again doubting least Sr Richard would have Blown them up and himself and perceiving by the Report of the Master of the Revenge his dangerous disposition yielded that all their Lives should be saved the Company sent for England and the better sort to pay such reasonable Ransom as their Estate would bear and in the mean Season to be free from Gally or Imprisonment To this he so much the rather condescended as well as I have said for fear of further less and mischief to themselves as also for the desire he had to recover Sir Richard Granvill whom for his notable valour he seemed greatly to Honour and Admire When this answer was returned and that safety of Life was promised the Common sort being now at the end of their Perill the most drew back from Sir Richard and the Master Gunner being no hard matter to disswade men from Death to Life The Master Gunner finding himself and Sir Richard thus prevented and Mastered by the greater number would have slain himself with a Sword had he not been by force withheld and locked into his Cabbin Then the Generall sent many Boats aboard the Revenge and divers of our men fearing Sir Richards disposition Stole away aboard the General and other Ships Sir Richard thus over-matched was sent unto by Alfonso Bazan to remove out of the Revenge the Ship being Marvellous unsavory filled with Blood and Bodies of Dead and Wounded men like a Slaughter house Sir Richard answered that he might do with his Body what he list for he esteemed it not and as he was carried out of the Ship he Sounded and Reviving again desired the Company to pray for him The General used Sir Richard with all Humanity and left nothing unattempted that tended to his Recovery