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And bringsaway a con-fderableBooty.

F. Daniel.

Seme En-glish Shipsare of Ser-vice to theSpaniards, atthe Battleof Newport,crGrayeling.

several other Places in the Neighbour-hood. This done, the English were sowise, to retreat in Time to their Fleet,and carried a very considerable Bootyon Board with them: But the Flem-tnings imprudently rambling fartherup into the Country, the greater Partof them was cut off in their Retreat. (^)Besides this designed Revenge, theQueen had the Satisfaction of anothersmall one, which was accidental. TheCount of Egmont, Governour of theEarldom of Flanders, had advancedwith a great Part of the Spanish Armytowards Newport. Monsieur de Ferities,Marshal of France, and Governour ofCalais, who had made some Excur-sions that Way, with an Army, notexceeding twelve Thousand Foot, andtvro Thousand Horse, which was muchinferiour to that of Egmont, wouldhave avoided him, and returned backto Calais ; But the Count pressing himjo a Battle, he was at Length obligedt o engage. Both Sides fought with agreat deal of Courage and Resolution,and Victory balanced between them,when an unexpected Incident turnedthe Scale on the Spanish Side. Ten ortwelve English Ships, happening acci-dentally to be on the Coast, heard theNoise of Cannon, and concluded it wasa Battle. The Tide favouring them,they entered the River, and havingranged themselves in a Line, with theirbroad Sides towards the French Army,they so gauled their right Wing, withtheir Cannon, that it was impossible tostand so terrible a Fire. It soon gaveWay, a Pannick seized the whole Ar-my/ and the Victory on the Spanish Sidewas com pleat. Two Thousand Frenchwere killed on the Spot, and a greatmany knock’d on the Head by the Pea-sants, in their Retreat, the Marslialwas himself wounded and taken Prisonner, with many others. Count Egmont

made a Present of two Hundred Priso- 1 SF‘ners to the English, as a Recompencefor this Service, and they were carried,as it were, in Triumph, to the Queen.

{a) This Battle was fought on the thirdof July.

On the three and twentieth of April, Purchas, fof this Year, Anthony pfenkinjbn, ol^A/j/ewhom Mention is made in the Tranf- Co j/ 0 f tr-actions of the foregoing Year, havingyages ,sent back his Fleet, from the Bay ofNicholas, for England, and spent the Ant jiofl/Winter himself at Moscow, where he Jenkinseswas nobly entertained by the Czar, he- v s)’ a S e a Fparted from thence, for the City ti

Boghar, in Badlria. He travelled a-Boghar i*bout six Hundred Leagues by Land,B a ctd 3 'then entered th eCaJpian Sea, on the tenthof August, and landed near the Souther-most Bay of that Sea, on the third ofSeptember. After a tiresome Journy, offive and twenty Days, twenty of whichwere thro' a Wilderness, without seingTown or Habitation, where he suffer-ed much by Hunger and Thirst, hecame again to a Gulf of the Caspian Sea,where formerly the River Oxus, fell in-to it, but then, he said, run into ano-ther River not far from thence, calledAr dock, the Course of which is towardstheNorth,and under Ground, above 500Miles, after which it rises again, andunburdens itself in the Lake of Kit ay.

From thence he departed, on the fourthof Oblober, and after a tiresome anddangerous Journy, arrived, on the threeand twentieth or December, at Bogharin BaSlria. He departed from thence,the eighth of March, to return theWay he went, and the second of Sep-tember arrived again at Mufcow.

On the seventeenth of November,§tieen~F^Queen Mary died of a Dropsy, wither,which she had been afflicted someTime.

She was in the three and fortieth Yearof her Age, and had reigned fiveYears^four Months and eleven Days,

F Daniel. (JA FaTHER Daniel fays, the Militia of the Action five Thousand Men, Part in the Battle,Province, being got together, attacked the En- fort in Flight, and great Numbers were pushedglifh, while they were pillaging a Town, defeat- into the Ocean. Their chief Officers were al-ed them, killed siz Hundred on the Spot, took most all taken ; among whom was the Marshal

a Hundred Prisoners, and drove the Rest to their himself, and several other Persons of Quality,

Ships: This, if Fact, is probably to be under- fovo Hundred fled to our Ships, and, tho' they

stood of the FlemmingS. might easily have been drowned, obtained Quai>

Godwin. ( r ) Godwin fays; Th t French lost by this ter, and were carried Prisoners to England.

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