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1627. Musket-Shot out of the Town, but weThe English saw the Enemy at the Heels of us, a-retreat.- hout two Hundred Horse and twoThousand Foot, and jwe were aboutthree Thousand Foot /and a HundredHorse, we made a stand, to see if theywould give us Battle, but they wouldnot. On we went to La Lanard , aVillage, where we made another Stand,thinking they would have charged us.Then we marched to Loys Bridge,where we were to embarks and be-fore two Regiments had pasted theBridge ( being very narrow) they fellupon our Horse in the Rear, and putthem to rout; insomuch that none ofour Foot could charge; So every oneran away, and the Enemy had theExecution of five whole Regiments ,which they put all to the Sword ,except twenty Officers and a Hundredcommon Soldiers, Prisoners, and thosethat were drowned, which were many.The Enemy had passed the Bridge, butSir Pierce Crosby , with some Pikes, andSir Lhomas Fryar with Muskets madethem retreat, after they had beaten usout of the Work, which was made soill it was not tenable.

The following Account is given of theRetreat from the Island of Rhee,by an eminent Colonel, employed in thatsuccessless Expedition, and one of theCouncil of War .

" H E Night before the Retreat," the Duke call’d a Council of“ War, and there shewed them the Ne-<c cestity of their Retreat , the next" - Day 5 And that himself being whol-" ly unexperienced in Martial Disci-

" pline, he left the Management of the 1627.<r next Day’s Action to the Ordering of" the Council of W ar, offering the Ser-" vice of his own Person to any Haz-" ard whatever, as far as any private" Soldier. The Council committed" the Management of their Retreat, by" a free Consent, unto old Sir William" Courtney, a heavy, dull, covetous" old Man, who, having been twenty" or thirty Years a private Captain in" Holland, was, by Sir John Burrows ’s" Means, made Colonel in that Expe-" dition; And Burrows being now" dead, and Courtney the oldest Colo-'• nel, it was referred to him how to" bring off our Men in Safety : But he,

" either thro' Want of Judgment or" Forgetfulness, having not sufficientlytc provided for Security of our Rear,

" many of our Men were most unfor-" tunately cut in Pieces; And had not" Sir Pierce Crosby, with eight Hun-" dred Irijh, made good the Retreat,

" all our Men had been lost. Courtney" himself fell into a Salt-pan, in the" Defeat, and was saved by Means of“ his Man Anthony's crying, 0 save" my Captain-, But the poor Fellow lost" his own Life, and saved his Ma-" ster's.

Principal Causes of our ill Success, atthe Ife of Rhee.

,f Nothing but a Concurrence of" several Miscarrages could have ren- Burchetb" der’d this Attempt in all Points so in-" effectual on our Side; and one who" was employ'd in the Expedition sums" them up in the following Particu-" lars. 0)

1. " The

u Fleet. The Duke just appeared before Rachel " ing, I follow in these two last Expeditions, the<- t 0 fend in a Message, and then made the best " one to Cadiz , in 1625- which I have treated of,“ of his Way for England , having lost since his “ the other to St. Martins, in 1627, which I" first Landing on the Island, about fifty Officers, " am to treat of, as well in Number as Goodness

" near two Thousand common Soldiers, five and “ of Ships, as in Proportion and Quantity of

" thirty Prisoners of Note, and four and forty “ Men.

" Colours, which were carried to Paris, and " Tho’ I was no Actor myself in the twocc hung up as Trophies in the Cathedral there. " last Expeditions, there being no Relation that“ And thus ended this Expedition, with great “ can give a more true Account of them, thante pifhonour to the Englijh, and equal Glory to “ those published by the Authority of State, Itc the French. “ have upon View of those Pamphlets, collected

“ such Errors, as the Actions themselves, have

Sir William (a) To these I shall add the Errors obser- “ given just Cause to except against.

Monson’i ved by Sir William Monfon to have been commit- “ Let it not be imputed to me that I do it,

Tralls '. ted in this Expedition. . ^ of a carping or detracting Humour, or a

cc I N my Lxamination of the Voyages mQueen " malignant Disposition, or an evil or contesting“ Elizabeth’s Reign, I make often Reflection, " Nafure, or out of a vain or phancastical Cnri-ce w ithout Fear or Flattery, upon the Errors " osity, or Pride, or Arrogance, to make small“ then committed, as well by us, as by the Spa- " Ertors seem greater than they are ; For I have“ niards, our Enemies, which Kind of Proceed- « no other End then what I have often expres-

“ fed,