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1625. and to place a Guard upon the Sea-side,towards Gibraltar, in which Places somescattering Men of the Enemy were,who gave the Occasion of that Alarm.

Butinterrup- jVfy Lord Marjhal, and the Rest of theColonels, suspecting the worst, wentout every one to his Charge. His Lord-ship having [his Horses ready, rode upinto the Downs, to fee what the Alarmwas; And soon after, by whose Advicewe know not, but, we protest, by noneof ours, he gave Orders, by the Ser-jeant Major-General, that the wholeArmy should march, and so marchedto the Neck of the Land, which is theWay towards the Bridge, (b) At thisTime, Victuals for the Army were somein Landing, and some landed at theFort j But by Reason of my Lord Mar-Jhal’s express Command to march away,Men had not Time to take them, nordid his Lordship take Care thereof,when he was told of it; For there, SirCharles Rich acquainted him, that di-vers Captains of his had no Victuals,some of them having their Victuals cometo Puntal, others, their Boats were gonefor them to their Ships, (c) To whichhis Lordship answered, that however hemust march, and that Victuals should

Camptaints f 0 q 0w him; Also the Serjeant-Major

Victuals- of Colonel Harwood, upon the first ofthe Order, went unto my Lord Marjhal,and told him, that three or four of theCompanies of his Colonel’s Regiment,who landed the Day before, had noVictuals, nor had they had any from

(b) They are mistaken in this Fact; For whenI went out, it was only to discover the best Wayfor the Troops to march; For I did not under-stand that any Enemy could give us an Alarm, bycoming out of the Town into the Gardens thatwere hard by us; Neither do I think him anySoldier, who put that Point into the Journal; Forthe Alarm was delivered to me, to come from theContinent, otherwise I had not stirred ; And forcalling a Council of War for such a Matter,would have been frivolous, except that the Armyhad been commanded by a Commiffion, as I find,by the Petition, they could have wished it.

(r) It was not my Fault; For coming the last,he might have brought some with him from Ship-board, and if he made not Haste to come sooner,it was not my Fault; Yet I am assured, that afterhe had landed,he staid by theWater-side about halfan Hour- And for the other Troops which werelanded, they had above an Hour’s Time to theirVictuals, and I saw, that most of them had re-ceived Victuals, and had staved some Barrels todrink, which, if he had not commanded to theirCompanies, would never have given over; Sothat there was Time enough for careful Officersto have provided for themselves.

(d) Was this so sharp an Answer? It will be

the Time they came from Ship-board ; 162G

To whom his Lordship sharply answer-ed, " That now was not Time to speak" for Victuals, when we were to march" towards our Enemy ; And that Want" of Victuals must not make Men Cow-fr ardsWith which Answer, the Ser-jeant-Major was much offended, but re-plying not, came back and acquaintedhis Colonel, and Lieutenant Coloneltherewith, (d)

The Army marched, and being come The Armyto the Neck of Land, there my Lord arches-of EJsex and Sir John Prowd came tomy Lord Marjhal, and acquainted himwith the Want of Victuals in the Army,and pressed him to take Order for it, e’erhe went any farther, (e) My Lord ofEjsex declaring also, that he approvednot his going to break the Bridge.Whereupon he said that he would call.a Council, (f) and so made aHalt nearHercules Pillars, and sent to the Colo-nels to come to the Vanguard of theTroops. Then also he was put in Mind,by my Lord Delaware, that he had left A Guard si 1no Troops as a Guard upon the Town, v J on theto secure our Return, our Men’s com - lozun 'ing on Land, or following the Troopsupon any Occasion. Upon which Con-sideration, before all the Colonels werecome together, he sent back ColonelBurgh, and Colonel Bruce, with theirRegiments, and then marched forwardswith the Rest of the Troops, withoutstaying ’till the Council were all assem-bled, and against the Advice of my

Lord

rather proved, I told him more sharply, "

" it was a Shame for him, and other Officers, to“ be so careless as to suffer their Soldiers to come" on Land without Victuals, having the Provi-" lions nigh them, and such Means to carry it:”And is it not as necessary for a Colonel to haveCare of his Regiment, as I had over the wholeArmy arid Fleet? For there was not one in eitherthat I did not my best to relieve, in all Kinds, hav-ing stood upon the Half-Deck of my Ship wholeDays, without Eating or Drinking; And yet theWorld fees what Thanks I have, and how littlethey have proved against me.

(e) I c a n remember no such Thing ; For ifany did, irtnust be only the Companies that land-ed the Day before, with Sir John Burgh , whichwas the Reason that he went back ; For if I hadheard that those Troops which were to marchhad wanted any, I should never have marchedforwards, without calling a Council.

(/) The Cause of my calling a Council wasto know every Man’s Opinion, whether theythought it fit to march to the Bridge or no ; Butthe Alarm of my Lord of Valentia , of the Ene-my, which' we did pursue, hindered that Coun-cil, when they were met,