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1589. the Plunder ; But the Englijh Soldiersfinding the Cellars full of Wine, indulg-ed themselves so much in excessiveDrinking, that many of them fell sickand died.

The Spani- The Spaniards themselves, in theards burn a mean Time, set Fire to a monstrous

Yhetcw£°f& vezt wt| ich la 7 in the Harbour,and which burnt for two Days together.And aban- Before they set Fire to her, they so o-on others. V er-loaded her Cannon, that four andthirty of them burst. They likewiseabandoned several other Ships whichThe upper Hy t ^ iere - The Englijh then besiegedTown be- the Upper Town, which was very dif-sieged. ficult of Access, and sprung a Coupleof Mines, which did considerable Dam-age to the Wall. Two Breaches beingmade, they begun the Attack with someSuccess; But the fall of a Tower, in theMidst of the Asiault, which killed ma-ny of the Men, and dismayed the Rest,obliged them to retreat, and was theOccasion of the Attempt proving unsuc-cessful. In their Retreat from bothBreaches, thro' a narrow Lane, manyof their Men were wounded, havingonly three Pieces of Ordnance to sup-port them.

During the Siege of the UpperTown, they took the Cloister, standingon the South-Side, close by the Wallof the Town, and the second Day,Colonel Huntley ravaged the Countrywith a Detachment of Troops, andbrought into the Camp a good store ofCows and Sheep: As did, likewiseCaptain Anthony Sampson on the fifth.

The Day after the Assault, the Ge-neral hearing by a Prisoner, who wasbrought into the Camp, that the Condede Andrada, with a Body of eightThousand Spaniards , had assembled atPuente de Burgos, was approaching tothe Relief of the Place, and was quick-ly to be joined by a far greater Numberof Troops, under the Conde de Altomira,he advanced, on the sixth of May, tomeet him, with nine of his Regiments,leaving the other five with Sir FrancisDrake, to guard the Artillery and theCloister. They marched in three Bo-dies, and Captain Middies on, havinggiven the first Charge, was seconded byCaptain Wing field, who beat them fromPlace to Place, 'till they fled to a StoneBridge over a Creek of the Sea: On thefarther Side of which the Enemy’s Campwas strongly intrench’d. Nevertheless,Sir Edward Norris, at the Head of the .Pikes, with Colonel Sidney , the Cap-

tains Hinder, Fulford and Barton, anddivers others, passed over the Bridge tothe farther End of it, which was barra-'caded with Barrels: But they whoshould have guarded it, seing the Eng-lijh march on, with so much Undaunted-ness, forsook the Barracade. Sir , Ed-ward enter’d, and charging the first hemet, with too much Eagerness, he fell,and was wounded with a Sword, as werealso several other Gentlemen who ac-companied them, particularly the threeCaptains abovementioned; Yet werethey so well seconded by the General,that the Enemy’s bravest Men being de-stroyed, the whole Army was put to sp^‘the Flight with such Precipitation, that ards defid' }they were cut off in the Pursuit, for edbyL an ’three Miles together, to the Number ofthree Thousand Men.

They took their chief Standard, withthe King’s Arms, and, besides whatthey killed in the Pursuit, and in theHedges and Vineyards, they put twoHundred to the Sword in a Cloister ;

And all this with the Loss only of oneCaptain, and one Man killed, and somefew wounded.

Having plundered and burnt allthe adjacent Villages, together with the J^ged-Enemy’s Camp, in which they foundgood Store of Ammunition, Plate andApparel, it was thought fit, withoutreturning to the Siege, to re-embarkthe Troops, which was done, on theeighth, without the Loss of a Man, af-ter having set Fire to the Lower Town,and the Cloister.

From hence the Fleet proceeded to Theyp r ° cee tthe Coast of Portugal, and they were to the C°%.joined, in their Passage, by the brave °JEarl of Ejjex, with some Ships whichhe, thirsting after Glory, had fitted out,at his own Expence, and without the jnd are htQueen’s Knowledge. He had been joineRj,^,cruising about the South Cape, where E a J lhe had taken some Ships laden with *" eX ‘

Corn, which he brought into the Fleet.

With him were his Brother, Walterd’Evreux, Sir Roger Williams , SirPhilip Butler, and Sir Edward Wing-jield.

On their Arrival, the sixteenth, be- The sf/ffor e Penicha, a small Town of Portu-of^pAgal, near the Burlings, Sir Johu Norris, h urrewith the Land Forces, were set afhoar,and the Castle of that Place was pre-sently surrendered to Don Antonio. Up-on this Encouragement, and at the ear-nest Persuasions of that Prince, it wasresolved, that the Troops should march

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