the valiant hearted sea-man; declaring a late skirmish fought between our english fleet and the dutch. wherein the dutch was worsted, two of the dutch ships sunk, and two taken as lawful prize, with a very small loss on the english side. the tune is, lusty stukely. j. r. fl. . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). b wing r a estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) the valiant hearted sea-man; declaring a late skirmish fought between our english fleet and the dutch. wherein the dutch was worsted, two of the dutch ships sunk, and two taken as lawful prize, with a very small loss on the english side. the tune is, lusty stukely. j. r. fl. . sheet ([ ] p.) : ill. printed for s. tyus ... london, : [ ] signed at end: j. r. contains illustrations. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a true relation of capt. kempthorn's engagement, in the mary-rose, with several algier men of war. hollar, wenceslaus, - . sheet ([ ] p.) : ill. s.n., [london? : ?] caption title. imprint suggested by wing. text in four columns. engraving signed: w. hollar delineanit et sculpsit. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng naval battles -- mediterranean sea -- th century -- early works to . broadsides -- england -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - john pas sampled and proofread - john pas text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a. the mary rose b. the hambererough frigatt a merchant c. the roe keleh d. a scotch merchant bound for cadiz e. a 〈◊〉 which came with us from tangier bound for sal●●● f. the half moon an algier man of ware the charging 〈◊〉 had ●● gunns and men g. orange tree being the 〈…〉 ●●a●all gunns ●●● men h. seven starrs gunns men i. whi● 〈…〉 gunns men k. the har● gunns men l. golden 〈◊〉 the turks admirall he had ●● gunns men m. the 〈◊〉 ●ell 〈…〉 the pri●● n. the p●●●● o. french merchant a depiction of sailing ship b depiction of sailing ship c depiction of sailing ship d depiction of sailing ship e depiction of sailing ship f depiction of sailing ship g depiction of sailing ship h depiction of sailing ship i depiction of sailing ship k depiction of sailing ship l depiction of sailing ship m depiction of sailing ship n depiction of sailing ship o depiction of sailing ship w. holler delineauit et sculpsit a true relation of capt kempthorn's engagement , in the mary-rose ; with seven algier man of war. anue , in the beginning of december , his excellency the lord ambassador hanry howard , having obtain'd from the emperor ot barbary , tassaleta , a letter of security , to his content , had resolv'd to prosecute his journey to the court ; to which end , he order'd his baggage , and most of his retinue , to be embarqu'd in the mary rose , which had transported him from england ; and purpos'd himself , with some few of his gentlemen and servants , to the number of fifteen or sixteen , to go by land , and the ship by sea to salee ; resolving , as soon as we were under sail , to begin his journey also . thus accordingly we set sail on wednesday the eighth of the said month , at two a clock in the morning , with the wind at north-east , along the shore of barbary ; and having past arzila that evening , aster midnight , we overtook a great flyboat of tuns ; and finding her to be an english vessel , fraighted with deal , masts , salt , and tobacco , coming from new-england , or those parts , and taken by the algier men of war off of the cape st. vincent , being bound for cadiz , we took , and made prize of her ; and having found turks aboard her , and three christians , one a russian , and two englishmen , we transported them aboard us , and sent other men aboard her ; and having examin'd the principal of them , found them to belong to a squadron of algier men of war , who were cruising in those seas : but the prize being heavy loaders , and a bad sailer ( insomuch that we were forc'd to tow her ) did much prolong our voyage , as that we could not arrive till saturday at noon before salee : yet that flowness did us a courtesie for that time , though a discourtefie afterwards ; for having for the most part of the forenoon taken notice of a barque keeping betwixt us and the shore , and thinking her to be otherwise than she prov'd afterwards , captain kempthorn sent his ketch to speak with her in the mean time we arriv'd before salee ; and having handsomly trimm'd our ship with pendants and other ornaments , and cast anchor , we saluted the town with guns , and receiv'd for answer , silence . however , we made ready for landing ; and first the steward onely , in a pinace with another gentleman , rowed towards the shore ; and while that was doing , we saw at a distance , that our ketch had overtaken the barque , and after a l●ttle time of conference let her go with discharging ot a gun ; which barque made with full sails towards us , to our great admiration ; till coming nearer , we pereceiv'd that she bore the king of englands colors , and discharg'd two guns ; then we concluded , that it was some extraordinary message from his excellency ; therefore the captain commanded to discharge a gun , and to make a waft for those who were roving towards the shore , who seeing that , turn'd back again , and came aboard . and the vessel , being a brigantine belonging to tangier , having aboard her a gentleman of quality , and a captain , with soldie● , and brass guns , did also approach , and deliver'd his message , which was , that we should not land , but rather get aboard , if we could , ill those who were ashore before , with the goods also , matters at tangier since our departure being much alter'd ; and had we not been retarded by the fore-mention'd prize , this message would have come too late however , we stay'd there till munday , and seeing there could nothing be effected , in getting those people aboard ( because they were deram'd ) and a storm being at hand forcing us from the shore , we took the sea ; and having fastned the said brigantine at our stern , we cruisel that night and the day following , in a storm , far in the sea , all the men 〈◊〉 the brigantine being aboard her , and suffer'd much . this evening we sa● two turks men of war afar off ; and at night was a very great storm , so that we were forc'd to take all the men of the brigantine aboard us , and suffer her to be cast away . next day , the . the weather continued : toward evening we saw again a turks man of war , chacing a spanish vessl but having pereciv'd us making towards him , he fled : by and by we saw land , it being la rotta on the spanish coast ; which we could not reach , the storm blowing out of the levant , but were forc'd to keep at sea further off , and there to be toss'd all that night and the day after . the came to us a french canary man , bound for cadiz ; by and by , a scotchman , from the same place ; we saw also two turks men of war ; therefore those two ships came to us for protection . next morning at break of day we discover'd seven turks mer of war ; and because their course was towards us , therefore all possible preparation was made aboard us for the fight , and all that might be hurtful , or hinder us , remov'd , and thrown overboard , and our aforesaid prize forsaken , the men taken aboard into the mary rose , and the ship let drive before the wind. the same day before noon the turks pass'd by us ; but neither party attempted any thing ; yet our preparation went on to the utmost of our power . in the mean time , one of the turks ships , being a slow sailer , and full of men ( being the half-moon ) lagg'd about an english mile behind the rest ; so that they were forc'd to stay for her , and to send out two boars man'd to tow her . our captain seeing that , who was near betwixt them both , sent also a boat with men to intercept theirs , which caus'd a small skirmish among them ; but when we saw that the turks put out another boat strongly provided , our captain commanded to make a waft for our man to come back again : after that , we saw them to stand close together , no doubt , to consult what was to be done ; and we still preparing ; still about three a clock they began to charge , whereupon ensued a 〈◊〉 service , and much harm done on both sides ; but the night being at hand , they retired a little way , and there stay'd till day , observing our motion ; and because they should not think that we would run away in the dark , captain kempthorn commanded lights to be set out , that they might see where we were ; and so having taken some rest the same night , early in the morning we were alarm'd again ; and having perform'd solemn prayers , immediately every one repair'd to his station , for they were coming : and all things being well order'd , especially that every other gun should be fir'd at every ship , to preserve the rest for the second ; by which means , every one of the turks men of war receiv'd a sufficient opposition . we had also , besides our ordinary ships crew , about land-soldiers of tangier , and about . of his excellencies retinue ; in all about men. thus began the fight with a great courage ; and they coming in a line from the somh-east quarter , the half-moon was the foremost ; and having come within pistol-shot , gave us his small-shot , and his broad-side , and receiv'd as much from us , and then having pass'd , bore off a little toward the starboard , north-east ; the same order kept all the rest , the golden-lion , or admiral being , in the rere , with intention to board us : after we had receiv'd these five broad-sides , even as he was coming up , with more sails spread than the rest , he receiv'd a shot betwixt wind and water , and another which tore his main-sail from end to end , and being thus disabled , stood off : his companions seeing that , tack'd about , and compassing him round , went away fore the wind with all speed , which put an end to the fight , god be thanked . the seventh ship all that while was pursuing our prize , by which means we had one enemy the less . thus we follow'd our course , having lost thac day in the time of the fight our french ship companion , and the following night , the scotchman and the pink ; which pink having aboard a number of jews , armenians , and the like companions , having during the fight revolted against the master of the vessel , endeavour'd to comply with the turks , and having given some signal , bore towatds them : they mistrusting it to be a fire-ship , began to avoid ; but our captains providence hinder'd that design . there were kill'd aboard us persons , wounded , and the ship ; much dammag'd . the next day in the evening we arriv'd in the bay of cadiz , being december . s. v. . the particulars of all the late bloody fight at sea on thursday and friday last. with a list of the losse on both sides from the beginning to the end. the horrid designe of van trump to murther the english. and an account of the whole fight: signified by a letter from both the generals at sea, to his excellency the lord generall cromwell june . . appointed to be printed by speciall order. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason e _ ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing p thomason e _ estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; :e [ ]) the particulars of all the late bloody fight at sea on thursday and friday last. with a list of the losse on both sides from the beginning to the end. the horrid designe of van trump to murther the english. and an account of the whole fight: signified by a letter from both the generals at sea, to his excellency the lord generall cromwell june . . appointed to be printed by speciall order. albemarle, george monck, duke of, - . blake, robert, - . [ ], , [ ] p. printed for r. ibbitson dwelling in smith-field neer hosier lane., london, : . "a letter from the generals at sea" signed on a v: geo. monk. rob. blake. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng tromp, cornelis, - -- early works to . naval battles -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history -- commonwealth and protectorate, - -- early works to . a r (thomason e _ ). civilwar no the particulars of all the late bloody fight at sea on thursday and friday last.: with a list of the losse on both sides from the beginning albemarle, george monck, duke of a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the particulars of all the late bloody fight at sea on thursday and friday last . with a list of the losse on both sides from the beginning to the end . the horrid designe of van trump to murther the english . and an account of the whole fight : signified by a letter from both the generals at sea , to his excellency the lord generall cromwell . june . . appointed to be printed by speciall order . london , printed for r. ibbitson dwelling in smithfield neer hosier lane . . a letter from the fleet . sir , wee have still large experience , that gods time is best in all the issues of his designs for his people ; though ( for so wee hear ) van trump , and some of the chief , after taking the sacrament , had vowed to kill and slay the english to his uttermost , and spare none ; blessed be god the vvar is now brought to their own doores , and we are still pursuing them , and doubt not but al holland is before this in a strong alarme : there are many ships of war taken , and many men slain , and above a thousand prisoners taken of the dutch , and our fleet still pursuing their victory , the particulars at large you wil shortly have , which can be given now but brokenly . off of ostend june . a letter from the generals at sea . may it please your excellency , your lordships of the second instant , with the inclosed intelligence , we this day received , and according to your excellencies apprehensions thereon , wee have ingaged the dutch fleet , a breife account of the first days action we have already sent unto your lordship . the next day being the third instant , we did what wee could to re-ingage them , and having the wind ( which was but little ) about noon wee came within shot , after foure houres dispute with them , or thereabouts , they indeavoured what they could to get away from us ; but having then a pretty fresh gale of wind , we pressed so hard upon them , that we sunke and took many of them ( as by the inclosed list , ) and doe suppose we should have destroyed most of them , but that it grew darke , and being off of ostend amongst the sands we durst not bee too bold , especially with the great ships , so that it was thought fit wee should anchor all night , which we accordingly did about ten of the clock . this morning some of our ships descried the enemy againe afar off , steering towards the willings , whereupon a councell of war being called , it was resolved , wee should forthwith set sail with the whole fleet towards the willings , so far as with safety we may , and so to range along the coast till we come to the texel ( the better to improve the present victory the lord hath given unto us ) unlesse we shall see cause to divert our course . we shal not further trouble your lordship , but subscribe our selves , your excellencies most humble servants geo. monk . rob. blake . from aboard the resolution at sea off of ostend-lenages north east june . . for his excellency the lord generall cromwel , these . a briefe account of the success of the fleet against the dutch on thursday june , . dutch vice adm. ship blown up . . dutch men of war taken one of their vice admirals slaine . of the dutch slaine . of the dutch taken prisoners . of the english . gen. dean slaine . english more slain never an english ship lost a list of the particulars of the losse on both sides on friday . june . dutch captaines taken prisoners , prisoners more . dutchmen of war taken whereof two vice admirals and one rear admirall , a great quantity of ammunition taken . two hoyes that releeved them with fresh water , taken . six dutch men of warre sunk . two dutch men of war blown up . one dutch man of warre sunke by those blown up . neere a thousand dutch said to be lost in this fight . the whole losse of the english . one captain of the english slain . slaine wounded not one english ship lost . finis . a valorous and perillous sea-fight fought with three turkish ships, pirats or men of warre, on the coast of cornewall, (or westerne part of england) by the good ship named the elizabeth, of plimmouth, she being of the burthen of tuns, which fight was bravely fought, on wednesday, the of iune last part. . taylor, john, - . this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text s in the english short title catalog (stc ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a stc estc s this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a valorous and perillous sea-fight fought with three turkish ships, pirats or men of warre, on the coast of cornewall, (or westerne part of england) by the good ship named the elizabeth, of plimmouth, she being of the burthen of tuns, which fight was bravely fought, on wednesday, the of iune last part. . taylor, john, - . [ ] p. : ill. printed by e. p[urslowe] for edward wright, dwelling neere christs-church gate, london : . signed at end: iohn taylor. printer's name from stc. signatures: a-c⁴. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng elizabeth (ship) -- early works to . naval battles -- early works to . a s (stc ). civilwar no a valorous and perillous sea-fight. fought with three turkish ships, pirats or men of warre, on the coast of cornewall, (or westerne part of taylor, john a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - chris scherer sampled and proofread - chris scherer text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion tho iolley esq. f. s. a. a valorous and perillous sea-fight . fought with three turkish ships , pirats or men of warre , on the coast of cornewall , ( or westerne part of england ) by the good ship named the elizabeth , of plimmouth , she being of the burthen of tuns , which fight was bravely fought , on wednesday , the of iune last past . . london printed by e. p. for edward wright , dwelling neer christs-church gate . . a valorovs sea-fight . master hackluit , in his well composed booke of voyages , doth truly relate of many brave attempts , and resolute sea-fights , and withall hee doth name the chiefe commanders and others who valiantly liv'd and dy'd in the said atchievements ; as sebastian cabot a venetian borne , brought up in england , vvindam , vvilloughby , chancelour , grinvill , cavendish , gilbert , chidlie , frobisher , hawkins , clifford , wingfield , devoreux , bascarvill , drake , rawleigh , who have all left famous remembrances of their valiant adventurous and fortunate services performed by them for the honour of their prince and countrey , and their owne just commendations to the end of time . and in these later times this kingdome hath produced many brave and able mem , that ( to the admiration of the world ) have plowed and furrowed the dangerous ocean , and ( maugre all oposition ) bin profitable and victorious , for the service and renowne of our nation , such as were and are pennington , nicholas , maldam , weddell , hyde , and many others , who doe deserve to have their names enrowl'd in the booke of fame . so ( for the continuation of this kingdomes renowne ) it pleases god to supply us with valiant and undaundted spirits , such as these of whom i am to make mention in this following discourse . on the . day of iune last , a ship of the port of plimmouth , of . in burthen , ( the name of her being the elizabeth , and the owner of her is our master abraham iennings , the ship having binne in a voyage to new-england , and thence to virginia , after some . months time returned laden from thence , and making their best speed for their arrivall at home , they were ( on the day aforesaid ) about two of the clocke in the morning , within two leagues neere to the lizzard , which is a small iland , a good sea marke on the west part of the mount in cornewall between scilly & the main , assaulted furiously by turkish pirats ( or men of war ) where there was a most bloody and cruell bickering . the accursed mahometans , having gotten the winde of the elizabeth , which was a great advantage for them , their admirall being in burthen . tunnes , with . pieces of ordnance in her . the vice admirall was of a greater burthen , about . tunnes , with . pieces of ordnance : the reare admirall was in burthen . tunnes , and had but . pieces in her . so the turkes had in their three ships : pieces of artillerie , the number of their men is unknowne . on the other side the elizabeth had but . men , and three of that small number were passengers , or ( as they tearme them planters ) and they had but ten pieces of ordnance aboord , and of those , they could make use of , or plye but five gunnes , the ship was so pestered with packes , and other carriage betweene the decks . the master of the ships name was master doves , ( who dwelt in plimmouth ) a man of an excellent and invincible spirit , as the sequell of the fight , and his worthy life , and unfortunate death will shew . the fight continued about the time betweene seven and eight houres , and though the english ship had but . pieces of ordnance ( that could be used ) yet by gods assistance the master gunner ( being a skilfull valiant and experienc'd man , he so ply'd and play'd upon the miscreants , that he kill'd many of them . the gunners of the ships name is john whidon . and all the while that the master of the shippe ( master doves ) most manfully and couragiously , did labour and bestire himselfe , and by his valorous example gave encouragement to all the rest of his companie that were in the ship , amongst whom the three passengers which were with us , did most worthy deserving service . the master still chear'd them up , and told them , that ( by gods grace ) he would not give away his ship and himselfe to those accursed mis-believers , but that he was resolved with christian courage to fight it out so long as his life lasted . and indeed hee was as good as his word , for being so long a time furiously assaulted with many ordnance , and about enemies , and also being three times boorded , and entred by the turkes ( who were also thrice beaten out againe ) their ship being fired , and their round house burnt , their maine-sayle was likewise consumed in the flames , and their rigging and cordage cut downe and spoyl'd . at last the master was slaine , ending his dayes nobly , likewise the masters-mate , and the pilot , and quarter-master were kild outright , they having done as much as men could do against so strong an enemy , kept master doves company , both in life and death , and in heavenly happinesse . in this terrible turmoyle , there were two of the turkes had got themselves up into the top , and one of the three passengers ( with a musket ) shot at them , and kil'd them both : one of those slaine pirats , was a man of an extraordinary great stature , and for his corpulency , not to be equal'd amongst them all ; he being kil'd , the english did cleave his head , and then they divided it from his carkasse , they shewed the head and corps to the turkes , and with renewed courages and unwearied valour they haled to the enemy , and in braving manner said , come aboord you dogges if you dare , and fetch your countrey-man ; but the turkes finding the businesse so hot , and the men so resolute , that their damnable courages were quel'd , that they had no more mind to assault the english ship any more . so they in deriding and showting to the turkes , cast the dead body over-boord , on the one side of the ship , and the cloven head into the sea , on the other . there were also three turkes more slaine that came aboord . but how many the number of them that were kil'd is uncertaine , therefore let them reckon them . but surely their losse must needs be great , for the master gunner was so diligent , warie and expert , that it was not perceived that there was a shot lost or spent in vaine , and indeed for his skill and courage , he is esteemed not to have many fellowes in the west parts of england , for his knowledge in that art . the losse on the christian side , were those foure men , which were killed outright ( as is aforesaid ) there were also eight more of them dangerously wounded , whereof one of them is dead , since their arrivall at plimmouth ; and ( praise be given to god ) the other seaven are all on the mending hand and indifferent well , so that there is no doubt of their recovery , to health and limbs unmaimed , onely their scars will remaine , as markes of their valour , and badges of famous reputation . the master gunner , being the chiefe commander left alive in the ship , did haile to the turks againe , and dared them to come on againe and try the other bowt . but they had had such proofe of his courage and knowledge before in the fight , being so shattered , torne , and gauled ; that they could neither boast of victory , nor durst then venture any more to gaine it , for they perceived the gunners resolution was never to yeeld , and so they fell to their sayles , and tacklin , and very much discontented slunk away , making their moanes to mahomet . there were certaine hogges , and powltrey , in the elizabeth ; and in the heat of the fight , ( the ship being much rent and torne with the shot of the enemy ) the poore swine and pullen were killed , partly with the bullets , but most with the shatters and splinters of shivered planks , and timber of the ship . wherefore ( in derision and scorne of the turkes , who doe abhorre and hold all manner of swines flesh in abhomination ) the english marriners lifted up the hogges , and shewed them to the turke , as it were in a merry or jeeringway , to invite them to come aboord of their ship to eate some porke . thus ( by the mercifull assistance of god ) this one poore ship , so weakely man'd , and so meanely furnished with artillery or ordnance , against so many , and so great a multitude , ( as were . ships , . men , and . peeces , maintaine a fight almost . houres , and ( with the losse of . men ) not onely kill and spoyle a great number of their enemies , but also to escape them , and come off with reputation , ( as it were with conquest , tryumph , and victory . it is almost to be thought miraculous and beyond beliefe , but that the truth of the matter is so plainly manifested that all oposing unbelief is vaine and frivolous . for after the turkes had quite left them , they began every man to worke hard , some to lay the dead corps as decently and coole as time and place would give them leave , some others ( who had escaped hurts , or had not received great harmes in the fight ) did their best to helpe , dresse and comfort their wounded men : and some of them ( with all speed and diligence ) fell to mending their ropes , cordage , rigging , and sayles , which were cut , broken , spoyl'd , and burnt in the fight ; so that no one was idle , every man imployed in doing something necessary , that ( by gods guidance ) the ship and goods arrived safe in the harbour , or port of plimmouth . the next morning , which was thursday , the eighteenth day of iune last . the bodies of the foure men that were slaine aboord the elizabeth , were brought on shore , and in seemely manner buried . and at their funeralls they had two learned , accute , and gratulatorie sermons , the one of them was preached at the master of the ships funerall , by the arch-deacon of exeter , who is vicar of plimmouth , and the other was preached ( at the masters-mates funerall ) by master thomas bedfourd , batchelour in divinity , and lecturer of plimmouth , and this may suffice for sufficient testimonie of the certainty of this former relation . but if there be any that be yet doubtful or diffident in this case , let them ( for their further satisfaction ) read this following examination , of john whiddon , the valiant and well deserving gunner , whom my pen cannot praise enough , nor these ingratefull times gratifie him ; read but his examination as followeth , and be confirmed in the truth , for this is a true copie of it , which was sent up from plimmouth , to london , to the right honourable the lords of his majesties most honourable privie counsell . the examination of iohn whiddon of plimmouth , in the county of devon , gunner , had and taken at plimmouth aforesaid , before robert gubbs , merchant , major of the borough of plimmouth aforesaid , and one of his majesties iustices of the peace , within the said borough , the nineteenth day of iune , . the said examinant saith , that on wednesday last about two of clocke in the morening , being the of this instant iune , hee being gunner of a ship called the elizabeth , of plimmouth , of two hundred tuns burthen , or thereabouts , having ten pieces of ordnance aboard her , and comming from virginia , bound for plimmouth , two leagues off of the lizard , they met three turkish men of warre , who weathred and kept the said elizabeth from the shoar , and gave her chase , and saith , that the admirall was a ship of tuns burthen or therabouts : and had pieces of ordnance aboard her , and the vice-admirall was a shippe of tuns , and had pieces of ordnance ; and the rere-admirall was a ship of tuns , and had eight pieces of ordnance aboard her , and believeth that heretofore shee was a prize , and at first they all shewed both dutch and english colours , and had at least men aboard them , who betweene three and foure of the clocke in the morning , came up with them and boarded them , and continued fight with them , untill eleven or twelve of the clock that day ; during which time , the company of each of the said turkish men of warre , boarded them three times , and fired their round house , killed their master , masters mate , the pylate , and quarter-master , and hurt eight other of their company , fired their maine sayle , cut downe all their riggin , and with their great shot did them and their shippe a great deale of hurt and dammage , and afterwards did leave them ; presently after within two leagues , or thereabouts off of the shoare , this examinant , and the company of the said elizabeth , discovered eleven small vessels floating on the streame , without sayles , or any men in them at all , which this examinant , the gunner of the shippe , doth very certainely believe were taken by the said turkish men of warre , and their company carried away by them , and doth say , that upon the eighteenth of this instant moneth of iune , about foure of the clocke in the morning , they came into the harbour of plimmouth . a friendly , true , deserv'd commendation and encouragement of all mariners , and the noble art of navigation with the most excellent and necessary use of shipping . the use of shippes and shipping , is of most worthy and memorable antiquitie . for the blessed patriarke noah , built an arke , ( by the commandement of god ) of which arke , noah was admirall , master , and pilot. that arke was then the militant church , the whole congregation being but persons , and yet though they were but few , they were not all sound in religious piety , there was a cham amongst them : all the people of the world , that had not grace to cōe aboord of the arke were drowned , wherein was prefigured that as many as will not come , and be of gods church , are like to be cast away . and as the arke was tost and weather-beaten upon the troublesome waves of the all-sea world ( or universall deluge ) till such time as she happily grounded on the mountain of ararat in armenia , gen. . . and so shall the church be continually turmoyl'd with tempests of tribulations , seas of sorrow , stormes of strife , she being like a good peaceable ship most inestimably richly laden , is daily assaulted by . wicked pirats , ( the world , the flesh , and the devill ) who with their associates and vassals , ( the ocean or sea of rome , the schismaticall gulfe of separatisme , and the rough lake of nonconformisme , ) she hath not any ankering , rest , or moareing at all , but upon the mountaine of holynesse , the rocke of righteousnesse , the true corner-stone , christ iesus . our saviour himselfe , did not onely passe the sea or lake of genezareth , but he also did there ( in the ship ) most miraculously command , and stil'd the raging windes and seas , and he did grace one ship so much , that he preached out of the said ship , or another , to the people that stood on the banke of the sea . mat. . . mat. . . mar. . . luk. . . and the apostles ( for the enlarging and divulging their ministry , which was the meanes of the knowledge of salvation ) did make use of ships , as it appeareth in divers places of scripture . a ship well govern'd at sea , is an epitomy of a wel guided church , & common-wealth on the land , and it is a thing to be wished , that the earth were as free from some sinnes , as the salt water is . for in a ship at sea , it is a rare matter , to see a man play the brutish parts of a glutton , or drunkard . there are no wrangling lawyers , nor wicked projectors , a vsurer or a catchpole are as rare to be found there , as it is to find chastity in the stewes . in a ship is abstinency from swearing , and incontinency , and twice a day there is ( or ought to be ) prayer & thanksgiving offered up to god . ships , are the impregnable wooden walls of great brittaine and ireland . and the winged flying and floating castles , forts , & fortifications for defence against forraigne invasion & domesticall rebellion : they were of that serviceable use in the raigne of king edgar , that it is said that he did often sayle round about this iland with ships . king solomon had his cedar brought ( for the building of the temple , by sea to ioppa . . chron. . . and he had also brought him in ships from ophir , . talants of gold . . chron. . . besides algummim wood , ( of which trees there were no more to be seene to this day ) . king. . . besides , precious stones and jewels , were all brought by such marriners and ships as hiram king of tyrus lent to king solomon . it is recorded that the warlike virago queene semiramis , had . sayle of ships and other vessels , when she made warre against cyrus king of persia , marke anthony ( at the battel of actium ) with cleopatra his aegyptian concubine queene , had . sayle of ships and gallies , against octavius augustus caesar , and caesar overcame that great number with ships ; read plutarcks lives , page . william the conquerour came out of normandy , and invaded england with . ships . read stowes chronicle : king charles of france , fought with . ships against king richard the second , king of england ; in revenge of an overthrow by sea that was given to the french by king edward the third , who was king richards grand-father . in the yeare . at the battel of lepanto ( which is a gulph or sea neere corinth , in greece ) betweene the united christians and the turkes , on the seventh of october , the christian fleet being of great and small , but . sayle . the turkes were in number of ships and gallies . in the . yeare of queene elizabeths raigne , when selimus the second of that name was turkish emperour . then and there ( aforesaid ) was a bloody battel fought where ( to the great joy and safety of all christendome ) the christians in five houres won a notable and memorable victory , and very few of the miscreant turkes , went home to carry newes to constantinople . reade knoles turkes history , or else reade stowe , page . and it ought thankfully ever to be remembred , the great and wonderfull victory that god vouchsafed to give us , from the spanish invasion . in the . yeare of the raigne of queene elizabeth , the spanish armado being . vessels for warre ( besides victuallers ) the english navie being ( one with another ) . sayle , and there was a supply of . ships more which the prince of parma ( alexander fernesius ) was to bring for the spanish ayd , and englands ruine . but wind , weather , and the hollanders kept parma and his fleet in the havens of graveling , dunkirke , newport , and some other ports of flanders , so that by gods assistance , the valour and valiant service of the english marriners was so prevailing , that the spaniards , were beaten , battered , slaine , taken , sunke , and so shattered , tattered , and scattered , there were not many of them left to make report in spaine , of their entertainment in england . thus having shewed partly the antiquity of shipping , with the services which they doe for , and in matters of warre , so it is fit to be considered what commodious uses are made of shipping , and marriners in time of peace . it is manifest that as god hath beene mercifully , liberally , bountifull , to all nations and people of the world , giving to each climate and countrey meanes for the maintaining of life , yet he hath not given all kinds of commodities to any one place , kingdome or dominion . but for the society of mankind he hath ordained negotiation commerce and traffique . the gold and silver jewels of india , the honie , waxe , hempe , and furres of russia ; the winds , oyles , spices , drugs , sugers , silkes , stuffes , copper , cotton , mashes , yards , pitch , rosen , tarre , turpentine , fruits , fish , coales , and millions of commodities more ( i had almost forgotten tobacco ) from america , and some rattels , babyes , and hobby-horses from holland ) all these , were it not for shipping , marriners , marchandize , and traffique , we ( in england ) were like to want , besides millions of commodities more , which are endlesse and impossible by me to be named ; and other nations would be destitute of our leade , tinne , leather , cloath , tallow , beere , and i know not how many other pretty things which we doe vent , venture , and spare , to all the realmes and regions almost of the whole world . by which meanes customes are encreased and payd , peace and unity maintained betweene nation and nation , merchants enriched , marriners and sea-men bred and maintained , and many thousands of arts , sciences , trades , crafts , mysteries , and occupations , doe live well , and innumerable numbers of poore labouring people are set on worke . true valour is both invinceable and impregnable , and ( not savouring of dull mortality ) in spight of death is immortall . it knows that the onely life is to live well . it shews that happinesse consists in wealth , for thieves may steale that , wife , parents , children , kindred , friends , & our acquaintance may dye , & all earthly goods may be spoyled & consumed by fire , water , time , or some natural or accidentall way or other ; but true valour is onely long-liv'd , for it guids a christian couragiously all his life from whence it conducts to an honourable death , and death cannot hold it , but delivers it to fame , fame , layes it up in the register of time , and time leaves it to everlasting eternity . to which in all my best wishes i doe give both the dead and the living that were in this former related sea-fight ; or have dyed or will dare to dye for their christian faiths , prince , and country : i meane not rashnesse , anger , fury , or desperate madnesse , for lyons , beares , bulls , boares , dogges , tygers , cockes , and such unreasonable creatures , will fight , snarle , scratch , byte , teare , rend , and destroy one another . but if it be ask'd wherefore they doe it , they doe neither know or can tell . but true valour indeed doth know that god hath put an immortall soule into a mortall body ( or transitory tenement ; to inhabite therein till such time as the ( lord of life ) great landlord of all things , doth ( at his pleasure ) command the tennant forth of a poore house of clay , to an everlasting mansion and perpetuall habitation of happinesse . and as god delivered the israelits out of aegypt , most miraculously , as his almighty power protected david , from saul & absolon , daniel from the hungry fierce lyons , noah from the almost all devouring flood , ionah from the whale , the three children from the fiery furnace , iob from the dunghill , nebuchadnezzar from beasts and exile ; ioseph from his brethrens malice , and potiphars furie , manasses from the dungeon , ieremie from captivity , england from spaines invasion , and romes powder plot , so did hee most wonderfully preserve this poore shippe ( the elizabeth of plimmouth ) and the valiant men therein from apparent danger and destruction . for the which , and all other , his infinite undeserved mercies , to him alone be given all honour , and glorie , amen . iohn taylor . finis . tvvo memorable relations the former, a relation of some late conflicts betweene the portugals and the english at surat in the 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng naval battles -- england -- early works to . naval battles -- portugal -- early works to . netherlands -- history -- wars of independence, - -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion tvvo memorable relations . the former , a relation of some late conflicts betweene the portugals and the english at svrat in the east-indies , wherein the portugals were vanquished , many slaine , and many taken prisoners . the later , the copie of a letter written from bergen-vp-zoom by an english hand ; wherein is contained , a full perfit and true relation , of the late ( great and admirable ) defeat of the spanish forces by water , by the prince of orange assisted with the english forces neere bergen , the . of september , . london , printed for nath : bvtter , and nich : bov●●● . a relation of some late conflicts betweene the portugals and the english , at , or neare surrat in the east indies , by letters dated in surrat the . of september and ● . of october . vpon the . of s●ptember . arrived . english ships in the roade of swalley ( which is th● port of surat ) namely the great iames , the william , the blessing , the discovery , and the reformation , in the way of peaceable trade and marchandizing , who there found thirty portugall frigots of warre which had waited for them , . dayes before the said ships arrivall to oppose their trade there and in all o●her parts of the said east indies , ( as continually before , the portugals have done from the very beginning of the trade of the english there ) ●hi●h frigots had a little before seazed agreat ship o● portugals no lesse cautelously had opened and spread them selves in good order , the full length of all their frigots , as they purposely had contrived themselves closer along the shoare , as well for the safety of their owne people , as to terrifie the english from drawing any further for dread of the great ordnance , which with their harquebusses acrock ( usually mounted on their prigots sides ) was the refuge ( it seemeth ) they mainly depended on . but such was the undantednesse of the english , being stirred up to a high measure of fury by the hourely vexation and braving of the enemy , as being now come within shot , with a generall resolution , reioyeing at the occasion , after a shot or two received first from the portugals , put on in the very face or mouth of all their frigots : and perceiving that but three of them could use the advantage of their prowes against them , and that some of the rest were brought a ground , and so could not vse their great ordnance , but had onely their harquebusses acrock to gall them , advanced forward still plying their small shot with very good discipline , and the portugals no lesse valiantly replying with their double forces , as well from their frigots on sea as their squadron on shoare , but not able ( it seemeth ) to endure the violent rage of the english , they beganne to give ground , and the english most fier●ely following , entred pell mell amongst them even in the water , within lesse then pistoll shot of their frigots ; in which interim the vice-kings sonne was convayed aboord , but so narrowly escaped , that the party who provided for his safety was himselfe taken prisoner in the action , many of the english ( not fearing to runne up to the chinne in the water , even to the very sides of their frigots ) pursuing the victory with great flaughter , both on shoare and at sea , and at length returned with . portugals prisoners taken alive , without the losse of any more then one ancient man ( a corporall ) not wounded , but suffocated with heate , and wounding . more of the english . this they happily performed in the sight of myrza backhar and divers of the countrey people to their great admiration and the english nations great honour . the next day to the portugals great shame , they were constrained to leave the port : but the next day after ( being sunday the . of october ) about eight of the clocke the portugals put in execution their maine stratagem ( so much depended on by them ) and not without cause much feared by the english in firing of their foure prepared vessels , chayned together for the intended destruction of the english fleete , but the vigilancy of the english , prevented that great mischiefe intended by their ships boates , well manned on the head of their head . amble thereunto . first , it is well knowne to vs , that since the enemy was repulsed , and forsooke the siege of bergen , in the dai●s of marquesse sp●nola , they haue beene practising and plotting some dangerous designes to make them●elues masters of some of the isles of zealand , that by sloops , punts , and fl●t bottom'd boat● , ( which they haue beene a long time a preparing and making ) they might separate , and cut off our passage betweene holland and zealand . to this end , about two or three yeares agoe , they began to fortifie a village in brabant , called sandf ; le●te , which hath a creeke that comes out of the riuer called the scheld , which runs vp to antwerpe ; and made some forts vpon some p●tches of dry ground in the drownd land , called the cr●ys-sconces , and hoogerweif , that they might bring their boats and sloopes on the back side of lillo , and so auoyd the danger of shot in passing to sanduliet vpon the scheld , betweene two strong forts of ours , lill● and liefkeys booke , which lies opposite the one to the other . now his excellency perceiuing the enemies designe , and that he began to fortifie himselfe at sandfleete , and in the other places afore mentioned ; to preuent him from getting any more ground vpon vs , built likewise forts at a place called blawe-garne , as fredericke henries fort , calling it after his owne name , hawtames and carreys forts , so that the enemies forts may shoote at randome at our shipping , which runnes vp to lillo , and liefkeys booke , and ours towards their sloopes , which comes thorow the drownd land from antwerpe to sandsleete and their forts . now over against sandsleete and their forts , there is an iland called the doel , from which an old dyke doth runne from the doel to the scheld ; which his excellency hearing the enemies preparations , feared much that if the enemy had possessed before vs , and built a fort vpon it , they might haue cut off all reliefe and passage to lillo , fredericke henries fort , and lifkeys hooke : and thus much to giue you to vnderstand the situation of the place : which you may see more plainly in the card brabant , which i send vnto you . the enemy for the effecting of this great designe by water , hath beene this three or foure yeares a making of sloops , punts , and great flat-bottom'd boats , especially since our last flaunders voyage this yeare , to seek a reuenge in casting of new ordnance for them , making a brest of oaken plancks for their muskettiers to play ouer musket-proofe ; and furnished them with sailes , oares , and all other necessary equipage , and in the fore part of their greatest punts and sloopes planted three quarter and halfe canon , with other peeces to s●oote leuell with the water . they drew not passing three or foure foot water , and for the hasting hereof , against the last full moone and spring tyde , spared not to worke vpon the sabbath dayes . but before i goe on , i will digr●sse a little , and tell you of the franticke braine of a pape or popish priest , that would doe wonders . a drum of ours being sent from our army at druynen to antwerpe for prisoners , some of the enemy told him that there was a pape , that would bring their men into bergin vp zoom , ( which indeed hee hath done ) and would carry fiue thousand men vnder for the morning tyde ; our men of warre comming vp againe , yet with their often shooting from their battery , and out of their punts with their great ordnance , got cleare off them againe , and so with that ebbe fell downe towards bergen and beyond rommerswall , in the view of our army , and passing by , three or foure shot was made from the south sconce of bergens head to them , so that one of them shot off the rudder of one of their sloopes , which was taken and brought in . but before i proceed any further , i will shew you the list of their preparations , and how strong they set forward from antwerpe , viz. fifty great sloopes . tenne great punts , wherein their canon was planted . eighteene pleyts or great lighters , which make in all seuenty eight sayle . foure hundred small peeces of ordnance , as small brasse and leather peeces , chambers and murderers . foure thousand hand granadoes , and other fire workes . tenne halfe canon . twenty french canon , or three quarter canon , carrying bullets of . pound . betweene sixe and seuen thousand souldiers and saylers . eleuen barrells of money . great store of ammunition , us powder , bullets , and match . whose chiefe commanders were the prince of barbanzon and count iohn of nassaw ; and victuals , wine and beere for fourteene dayes . being thus prouided , as is aforesaid , and falling downe before bergen , at the first fight his excellencie and we hearing such a shooting the night before , and in this morning , being friday the . of this moneth , knew no better but that they had beene our owne men , which had beene put to a retreat ; not thinking the enemy had beene so madde to vndertake so high an attempt , as to come vnder our noses , and to dare and braue our army at noone day , our souldiers being on fire , and their fingers itching at them , and that onely the water parted vs ; his excellency , from the hill which is by his quarter , calls for his perspectiue glasse , discouers the burgunn●an crosle , and their sloopes and punts full of souldiers , and being falne downe a little beneath rommerswall , drawing a grosse together , and pointing as though they would land vpon the dyke of tertole ; sends my lord generall morgan away in all expedition with the gards his owne regiment , and other forces to secure that towne of tertole and the iland thereof . proffering to land , they cry'd to the peasants , which stood vpon the dyke to desend it with their armes , that they would wash their hands in the geufes blood ; but seeing generall morgan and his colours making such haste to meete them , they bethought themselues , and fell backe againe into the streame . but ere i conclude , there happened two wonderfull markes of the prouidence of god. sailing one after another like a company of wild geele , twelue or fourteen of their greatest lighters wherein but the second mark of the admirable prouidence of god , was this ; in the morning towards foure of the clocke , the lord sent a thicke mist , which did so blind fold them , as heretofore the enemies of gods children were in the old testament , so that they could not see one another , and count iohn in this mist ranne a ground , put forth a light , and the rest following , thinking he had been in the streame , were all like wise stranded with him . when the mist dissolued , they saw likewise our men of warre which came from holland and zealand in the head of them , which hindered them from recouering the point ▪ count iohn , the prince of barbanzon , the duke of borneuille , & two or three more commanders , being strucken with an amazement at this sudden worke of god , got into a little boate , and stole away from them , count iohn calling to them , and saying , nessieurs à dieu , cest mon d●rniers , euery man shift for himselfe ; which did much discourage and astonish their men , as they themselues confessed : so when that beganne to cleare vp , our men saw the grosse of their punts and sloopes lying vpon the sands and mud , and they by hundreds forsaking their sloopes , and casting away their armes , some swamme , others waded vp to the neck to get to the land to saue their liues , crying for quarter to the pesants , which at the first did repulse them : in the meane time count iohn gaue them the slip , and got into prince-land with those which hee had in his little sloope , leauing his sword , his leading-staffe , his horses , and his trumpetor and laquyes behind him . this morning being saturday , the . of september new stile , all the enemies sloops , punts , and lighters , all their ordnance , and ammunition , materials , mony and victuals , thirty commanders , as gouernours , lieuten●nts , coronels , captaines , and abf●r●sses , dullicum the gouernour of groll , which heretofore had brought them into the velowe ( sauing the prince of barbanzon , the duke of b●rn●v●lle , c●unt iohn of nass●w , barnesels sonne , and some others that escap●d in the sloope with count iohn ) were taken ; and the numb●r of aboue . souldiers and saylers droue like flocks of cattle thorow our quarters , and hath filled all our vacant places at bergen vp zoom , steen bergen , and tertole with prisoners , hauing lost , as the pesants in the vosmare report , who haue buried them drown'd and slaine , aboue . of them , our souldiers and sailers hauing made braue booties of arms , money , clothes , and victuals , and fifty fiue thousand pound st●rling brought in by the admirall of zealand ; which the states , they say , will giue as a reward to the souldiers & saylers for their seruice . and this night , being the . of september , after thanks giuing to god , for this wonderful & powerful worke of his almighty and out-stretched arme , wee haue resounded the glory of god , from all our townes and forts , with the report and thundering of a thousand canon shot , towards the faces of our enemies ; to make them vnderstand in their army , which lies but fiue english miles from vs , at antwerpe , and along the coast of flaunders , what god hath done for vs : hoping shortly , as victors , after we haue bin nineteen or twenty weeks in the field , to returne to garrison . and thus , sir , to conclude , i haue truly and briefly related vnto you this victory , which god hath giuen vs without the losse of bloud , and not one man of our nation , but a seriant shot , that you , and the reft of gods people may reioyce with vs , because his deliuerances and his mercies to his people , endure for euer and euer . amen . resting your louing kinsman euer to command . h. h. from our army at bergen vp zoom the sixteenth of september , . new stile . postscript . this precedent relation comming from a noble and worthy gentleman to his friend here in england , was obtained to the presse , with much importunity ; being the most exact and impartiall discourse that hath come to ourknowledge , concerning this action . and which , if wee durst manifest the author , would giue sufficient credit to the matter . such as it is , wee promise shall bee the last wee intend to publish of this matter . farwell . finis . a brave memorable and dangerous sea-fight, foughten neere the road of tittawan in barbary where the george and elizabeth (a ship of london) under the command of mr. edmond ellison, having but . peeces of ordnance, was encompass'd and encountred by nine great turkish pyrat ships, or men of war, they being in number of men at the least . to one; and their ordnance more than ten to one against the english, yet (by gods assistance) they were encouraged to a resolute fight, and obtained a glorious victory over their miscreant enemies, and a happy returne with men, ship, and goods to london. taylor, john, - . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng george and elizabeth (ship) -- early works to . naval battles -- mediterranean sea -- poetry -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - tcp staff (michigan) sampled and proofread - tcp staff (michigan) text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a brave memorable and dangerovs sea-fight , foughten neere the road of tittawan in barbary , where the george and elizabeth ( a ship of london ) under the command of m r. edmond e●●ison , having but . peeces of ordnance , was encompass'd and encountred by nine great turkish pyrat ships , or men of war , they being in number of men at the least . to one ; and their ordnance more than ten to one against the english , yet ( by gods assistance ) they were encouraged to a resolute fight , and obtained a glorious victory over their miscreant enemies , and a happy returne with men , ship , and goods to london . london : printed for henry gosson ; and are to be sold at his shop on london bridge . . to the loyall and generous minded for his prince and countries service , the hopefull m r. edmond ellison , the master and commander in the ship and fight hereafter related . sir , as childhood brings us to manhood , manhood to old age , and old age to death , so ( by consequence ) a good life begets fame , which though time doe seeme to devoure , yet when time is ended , an honest fame shall be invested with eternitie . for as all the valiant men cannot boast of high birth and great houses , so all dejected and cowardly spirited mungrils are not borne in meane tenements and poore cottages : for my part ( being a meere stranger unto you ) i dare not to delineate your pedigree , having no skill in honourable heraldry ; yet hearing of the worthy forwardnesse , and fortunate endevours of yours , i could not refraine to set my pen to paper to the publishing of your late imminent dangers and most happy deliverance ; which by the almighties blessings , and your valorous fight , and directions , and the worthy and remarkable courage of your few men , for the glory of god and the honour of our country , you have accomplished . sir , i did not write this onely for your sake , but for the example of others , that they in the reading of it may in the first place magnifie his great name , who is the giver of all victorie ; and secondly to be truly constant in all extremities , by your worthy imitation : for as charitie commands us to forget mens faults , so it is shame and pittie that vertue and extraordinarie good actions should be buried in the gulph of oblivion . i have made bold to make relation of what you know to be true in action ; you doe know best if i have erred , which i hope i have not : i know that you are the sonne of a most worthy , approved , and serviceable sea-man , whose old and good improvements you doe most filially follow . to close up my dedication , i doe recommend my selfe and my labours to your love , you to your fathers , and both of you to the almightie , craving pardon for my boldnesse , and remaining yours . in any service befitting your worth to be commanded , john taylor . a brave memorable and dangerous sea-fight , foughten neere the road of tittawan in barbary , where the george and elizabeth ( a ship of london ) under the command of m r. edmond ellison , having but . peeces of ordnance , was encompass'd and encountred by nine great turkish pyrat ships or men of warre , they being in number of men at the least . to one ; and their ordnance more than ten to one against the english , yet ( by gods assistance ) they were encouraged to a resolute fight , and obtained a glorious victorie over their miscreant enemies , and a happy returne with men , ship , and goods to london . invocation . first to begin , i 'le invocate and pray to him that hath both heaven and earthly sway , that hee 'le direct my spirit and my quill , that truth , and onely truth from them distill : as falshood is mans credits greatest blot , let not my lines with lyes the paper spot . thus ( being arm'd with truth and fortitude , i send my verse amongst the multitude of criticke censurers , whose best and worst is to vent out their follies , or to burst . th'yeere sixteene hundred thirty five , that 's past , friday the . of november last , the ship nam'd george and elsabeth , abode at tittawan , at anchor in the road ; our businesse and occasions at that place caus'd us to anchor there some certaine space . betimes w'arose , and as all christians should , we fell to prayer , for mercies manifold before extended , and to be extended , imploring heavenly power , that had defended us in all dangers ( though we oft transgresse ) would quit our crimes and helpe us in distresse . our prayse to god and prayers being done , even with the mounting of the morning sunne , whose golden beames did guild the oceans face , and zephirus balmy breath the ayre did grace , both skves and seas seem'd calme in beauteous forme , when streight we spide an unexpected storme . nine warlike ships , with swelling sayles appear'd ; and towards us their course directly stear'd ; and by the reason that we did not know if they were christians , turks , or friend or foe , we to prevent the worst that might befall , betooke our selves unto our tackling all : some to the capstane , some hold of the cable , some heave , some quoyle , ( it was no time to fable ) some with fish , cat , and boighroaps ( we know how ) did bring and bend our anchor at the bough . both topsailes out , the maine and foresaile fell , our spritsaile and our mizzen were handed well ; our sheats , tacks , boleins , braces , tyes and lifts , martlines , and halliers , ( all mann'd , all make shifts ) with helme and steeresman to doe each his best , t' avoyd destruction , and to purchase rest . their admirall , ( at least . tunnes ) fenc'd with two tyre of ordnance ( forty gunnes ) gave warning ( to the rest o th' cursed crew ) by shooting off a peece , us to pursue . nor was the admirall himselfe inclinde to come too neere us , he was richly linde with gold and treasure , therefore he thought meet to charge the other eight ships of his fleet to charge and chace us ; streight in little space they gave another gunne for charge and chace . thus neere and neerer they upon us come , whilest we with trumpets sound , and beaten drum , t'wards suttye , where we thought secure to be , but god did otherwayes for us foresee . by reason of the foulenesse of our ship , she was unapt those rovers to outstrip ; and therefore force perforce , we all must stay , fight , or give men , ship , goods and all away : which upon short consideration then we did bethinke our selves that we were men , not heathen infidels , that christ denide ; but those for whom our blest redeemer dyde , for whom h'arose againe , and did ascend to bring us to those joyes that ne're shall end . and shall we give our selves away to those , that are the sonne of gods malicious foes ? and shall we , for base feare be so un just to part with ship and goods within our trust ? no surely , bulke and fraught much more did cost , then cow'rdly to be given away or lost : besides the slavery of our persons , and our ransoms begg'd from many a mizers hand , who ( some of them ) as willing with 't doe part , as they would doe from bloud dropt from their heart , these things considered , we did hold it best , true christians fortitude to manifest . because they twice did shoot , and twice begun , upon their second gun we gave a gun ; and so unto 't pell-mell straight wayes we went , our shot and powder liberally we spent ; but they were much more bountifull than we , for every shot we sent , they gave us three . then boord and boord on either side they layd us , where we paid them , and ( as they could ) they paid us ; when ten men ( of the turks ) at first were slaine , which made them with all speed fall off againe and leave us , yet i something doe mistake , that conflict more than ten did kill or shake . we being from the first two parted thus , streight two more came , and fiercely boorded us ; where all those villaines ( on the ocean deepe ) striv'd ( all we had ) to get , and we to keepe ; where shot and shot flew free ; we gave and tooke , till ( finding us too hot ) they us forsooke . the ayre was fild with drum and crying sounds of thundring ordnance ; and the noyse rebounds downe from the verge of the rotundious skyes , that what with guns , drums , clamors wounded crics , confusion , horror , and the cowards feare , grim death himselfe began to domineere . the accursed blood ( from the base sonnes of cain ) gush'd , and began the greene-fac'd sea to staine , thus six times boorded by those cruell men , we still sent some of them to plutoes den , and in their fury they did mount our tops , shot through our sailes , and masts , and cut our roaps , shatterd our ship , and would in shivers teare her , they had beene better they had ne're come neere her , for we were all resolv'd to fight and dye for god , prince , countrey , and our liberty . their ships much rent with round and cros-bar shot , and steele in bundles ( which we spared not ) their men hurt , and unknowne what number slaine , they all in generall the fight refraine . their admirall came hot within our reach , whose shot and ours made now and then a breach , untill at last , good fortune did affoord , vve shot , and beat her main-mast bye the boord , vvhich made her leave the fight ; that lucky blow did ease us gladly from our greatest foe . encompast round with smouldring smoke and sire , our enemies did finally retire . thus ( by the power of god ) their force was foyld , three of their ships went home torne , split and spoyld , the other six their course to sea-ward bore , having no minde to trouble us no more ; but as they made away ( our loves to show ) vve gave them now and then a parting blow : for any man of judgement may conceive , vve spent some powder at their taking leave . in this sharp conslict with those faithlesse turkes , god shew'd his ' mercy over all his workes . for though for one of us th 'had threescore men , and for one gun of ours th 'had more than ten , yet from the first to last of all the fight , vve lost but three men which were slaine outright . and five or six men had some wounds or scarres to weare , as noble jewels of the warres ; yet none of those that with us wounded were , vve hope the use of one limb shall forbeare ; for which we give all honour , laud , and praise unto th' almighty ancient of all dayes . he is the god of battels , and 't was he with his strong arme , that got the victorie : the lord of hosts was onely our defence , and we were his unworthy instruments . his power hath brought to passe most wondrous things , and with small meanes confounded mighty kings : vvhen egypts pharaoh did his name despise , he foyld him with an hoast of lice and flyes , and ( 'gainst that king ) gods souldiers in those warres , were hailstones , scabs , and frogs , and grashoppers , for such contemptuous vermin he can make his armies , to inforce great kings to quake . gedeon , with poore three hundred ( truth recites ) destroyd the mighty hoast of midianites . with foxes , and the jaw-bone of an asse , gods strength in sampson brought great things to passe . vvith shamgars slender goad , and jaels nayle , ( against the proud ) th' almighty can prevaile . all ea●thly force ( t' oppose his force ) is feeble , goliahs braines were pierced with a pibble ; and surely , had the lord not fought for us , we had not liv'd to tell our story thus . these rabshakaes , that each occasion waits to rob and spoyle all christians in the straits , whose barbarous and inhumane cruelty is worse than death ( for death ends misery ) for such as dye under our saviours banner , ( dye conqu'rors ) 't is no matter in what manner . would every man resolve thus , surely then men would not give away ships , goods , and men to these mahometan base infidels , whose spight gainst christ and christians so excels , then would our resolution strike a feare and terror in these hell-hounds of argiere , their hopes are numbers , threats and composition , a trembling , cowardly and base submission ; and thus with bug-beare looks , and scare-crow words , they oft win more than with guns , pikes , or swords . had weddell yeelded in the persian gulph , rufrero had devour'd him like a wolfe : had nichols yeelded like a fearefull mome , his ship with victory had ne're come home : had malam basely given himselfe away , he had bin captiv'd , and lost a glorious day . and e're this fight had ellison given over , his credit he should ne're againe recover ; then let men strive to doe as hath bin done by vveddell , nichols , malam , ellison , take faith , and hope , and courage in distresse , trust in the lord , and he 'le give good successe . we brag not ( i would have it understood ) 't is not the arme of man , nor flesh and blood that can effect such mighty things as these , but onely he that rules heav'n , earth , and seas , he gives the courage , and the fortitude to few men , to withstand a multitude ; and yet to brag and boast there 's none more apt than such as in a cowards skin are wrap'd : such as dare not looke danger in the face , but seeke some skulking hole , or hiding place , betweene the decks , or in some cable-teire , to keepe their carkasse shot-free in their feare ; who feare a guns report , more than they doe the hangman , gallowse , and the halter too . these , and none else but such as these will prate , and lyes and letters often shall relate the unknowne worthy actions which they did , remembring not to tell how they were hid i' th cook-roome , or some cabbin , or the hold , as is before a little plainly told . vve are not such , we therefore say againe , gods be the glory ; all our force was vaine ; but yet we knew our cause was just and right , and so the lord encourag'd us to fight . but some perhaps may say we are too free , and that good ships and men may taken be vvith multitudes of enemies combinde , and disadvantage of sea , sunne , and winde ; and that in such a case , good composition on reasonable termes , a forc'd condition is better part with part , than to lose all , and into an assur'd destruction fall . all this is right ; but yet all this is wrong , if men doe not what doth to men belong : vve know that ships , and men , as good as any , have beene sunke , slaine , and taken , too too many ; but sure we thinke their detrimentall fate should not make men despairing , desperate ; but stand upon defence whil'st hope doth last , and ne're compound or yeeld , till hope is past . for certaine 't is , these argeire dogs are such , vvith faith and troth they seldome doe keepe touch ; but contrary to humane kinde profession , their composition turnes to base oppression : besides , we know not what will merchants say , vvhen ( without leave ) we give their goods away . therefore , as merchants make account of men , let men so serve them honestly agen ; if they pay us , we hold it right and just to serve , and to be worthy of their trust : but if there were such as would not depart with fraight and wages , fitting mens desert , shall men turne ill ' cause they are ill inclin'd ? or shall their being darke make others blinde ? if any such therebe , we hope they 'le mend ; or if they mend not , they will one day end . so gracious god thy mercy we implore , to blesse all such as doe thy name adore : and for thy glorious sonnes most boundlesse merit , give christians all , thy all-preserving spirit ; encourage them to fight , and to withstand thine enimies and theirs , let thy strong hand and their weake faith be strengthned still by thee , that in thy name they may victorious be . snaffle , and curbe those rude unmanag'd jades that live by theft , and spoyle of merchants trades . thine are the seas , o let the seas be free for traffique , and the honour be to thee ; and as these turks with satans guiles are wounded , be they by thee conformed , or confounded . and if thou please in mercies manifold , as there 's one shepherd , make us one sheepfold . to make some things more plaine and obvious to the reader , we desire him to take into consideration , that wee went to a place called buttow , upon the coast of barbarie , where finding no goods to fraight our ship as we expected , but onely wheat , which was sold for six shillings the bushell there , which , though it were deare , we desired to be fraighted with it , and to carry it to the canaries ; but themerchantsfactors there , would not give so great a price for so much of it as would fraight us ; but they adventured for so much as did a quarter lade us ; with the which corne , and some gold and silver of the merchants , we weighed anchor from buttow , and came to the road at tittawan , where the nine argeire pyraticall ships ( or men of warre ) did assault us , as is before related ; but when ( by gods assistance ) we had gotten from our enimies , we made for the canaries , there to sell our corne , and to fraight our ship from thence for england : we being arrived at the canaries , did find the people oppressed with an extreme famine , so that they look'd rather like the ghosts or anatomics of dead carkasses than of living men or women . in briefe , they were so pyn'd and pinch'd with hunger , that many of them did drop downe dead daily in the streets , starv'd to death ; so that our small quantity of corne which wee brought from buttow ( which cost but six shillings the bushell ) we sold it at the canaries for s. the bushell . so that if our merchants factors had fully fraighted us with wheat at buttow , we had made a profitable voyage with it at the canaries , for they would have given almost any price for it . our wheat being sold , wee could have no fraight at the canaries , the season was so farre past , and therefore with such gold and silver as we had ( which was the merchants ) we weighed from the canaries , and ( by the favour of god ) wee after all these dangers arrived safely at london in april last , . to close up all , m r. ellison had one of his men , named vvilliam ling , who was a quarter master . this ling ( with two men more ) had the charge to ply two peeces of ordnance in the steerage . ling having a cabbin on the decke over his head , had in his cabbin some barbarie gold and other good stuffe , which he had cramm'd into an old boot . in the steerage where ling was , he did open a small loope-hole , through which hee espyed a turke that had broke open his cabbin , and had made a booty of his boot ; which ling perceiving , not well pleased with , put to a charged musket , presenting it through the aforesaid loop-hole he shot the turk thorough , who strait fell downe ; and after the fight ling found him dead with the golden lynde boot in his hand , a good semiter by him , a great silver sealed ring on his finger , which finger was so swelled that hee was faine to cut it off to have the ring ; which having done , and pillaged the pillager naked , ling gave him a cast of his office overboord , to feed cods , haddocks and sharks . i have named captaine iohn vveddell , and master edward nichols , and master malam , in this former relation , which although two of them are dead , and the third onely remaining alive ( i meane captaine john vveddell ) and though their persons and worth were knowne to many , yet there are more that knew them not ; for whose satisfaction i will give a memorable touch of their three severall noble and valiant sea-fights , although some of them haue bin more at large related by mee many yeares agoe . mr. edward nichols was master of the good ship called the dolphin of london , of the burthen of tuns ( or thereabouts ) mann'd with men and boyes , peeces of ordnance , and murtherers , being laden at zant , and bound homeward for england , was set upon by six great turkish men of warre , with men in them at least , and odde guns , and after a cruell and bloody fight ( which continued the space of five houres ) with three most terrible assaults , with the losse of eleven men and boyes who were killed , and five maymed and hurt , the ship was set on fire in the fight , which made the pyrats forsake her ( having their ships sorely torne and rent with the dolphins ordnance ) three of their captaines being fugitive or renegade englishmen ; namely , captaine kelley , captaine vvalsingham , and captaine sampson ; but lastly , it pleased god that by the mens industry the fire was quenched : this fight was fought the . of january , . and when the ship was repaired , at a place called callarie , she set saile homewards , and after all these dangers , arrived safe at london . the fame of which danger and deliverance came to the hearing of our royall prince charles , who is now our gracious soveraigne ; hee to honour and give applause to so worthy a designe , did come aboord of her , and viewed her hurts and dangerous breaches , where to the encouragement of others to imitate master nichols in resolution and noble valour , his highnesse grac'd him to make him his servant , with the title of a captaine . captaine iohn vveddell on the first of february being sunday , . was homewards bound for england from the east-indies : and in the gulph of persia , hee being generall commander of the fleet , which consisted of foure good ships ; namely , the royall iames , admirall ; the ionas , vice-admirall ; the starre , rere-admirall , and the eagle ; there was also ( to associate the english ) foure good dutch ships , whose names were , the south holland , admirall ; the bantam , vice-admirall ; the mawd of dort , rere-admirall , and the vveasop , under the command of an experienc'd brave sea-man named albert becker . these two commanders were set upon by eight great ships or galliows of the portugales , and friggots , which were under the command of rufrero ( an inexorable and implacable enemie to captaine vveddell . ) these two fleets met and fought on the day aforesaid with furious opposition , fighting three dayes without intermission , at which time the dutch admirall albert becker was slaine , with more that were killed in his ships , and the english lost much about the same number ; but ( as it was related by a french-man that was with the portugals in the fight ) the enemie had of his men slaine , besides many maymed and hurt ; they having peeces of ordnance , and men , besides friggots , against the english and dutch ; yet were some of them sunke , many of them spoyld , and by the mercy and assistance of god , they were all foyld . so that after many dangers past , captaine vveddell with ships and goods came richly welcome to london . concerning captaine richard malam , his fight was inferiour to none of the former , and his deliverance was as remarkable as any : the story of it was never published , therefore i may erre in the time when , but i shall hit right upon the matter how it was ; and ( as i thinke it was in anno . or thereabouts , ) which if i faile , there are many yet living in rederiffe and elsewhere to confute me . this richard malam being commander in a small ship of london named the vvilliam and francis , or vvilliam and iohn , having but eleven pceces of ordnance , was ( neere the south cape ) set upon and fiercely fought withall by eleven tukish men of warre ; the fight continued from the morning till the darknesse of the night made them come to a parley and truce till the next day-light , upon condition that captaine malam , and one master hughkinson of dover ( who was cape merchant , and then in the fight ) should come aboord of the turkish admirall for pledges that malams ship should not be stolne or slipp'd away in the night : in this hard exigent and condition they both went into a boat which the turke sent for them , for the ships were so torne in the fight , and many men slaine and hurt , that they were all willing to have a little ease till the morning . but as malam and the merchant went downe out of his ship into the turkish boat , he spake softly to his mate and some other of his men , that if they could they should convey the ship away in the night , whilest he was aboord of the enemie , and let him and the merchant shift for themselves as they could . the boat carried malam and hughkinson aboord the turke where they were well entertained , and their wounds drest ( for malam had received a hurt , but i know not whether the other was hurt or not ) but the turke contrary to a turkish nature did deale very affable with them , applauding their valours , though they had done him much spoyle ; but in the morning , when they thought to have set them aboord their ship againe to renue the fight , the turkes perceived the ship was gone , in a rage commanded that malam and the merchant should be both hanged at the yard armes of his ship . in this extremitie captaine malam told the turke that his ship was so torne and rent with their ordnance , that hee thought shee was sunke to the seas bottome , and not conveyed away as hee suspected , all which the turke would not beleeve , but commanded his men to make speed with the execution : then malam said to him , sir , i have done you no wrong , but i have sustained a great losse by you ; i have lost in the sea my men , my ship , my goods , with a great deale that did belong to other men , and shall i now lose my life ? if it must be so , i doe intreat you that wee may not dye thus ignominiously by the halter ; but let us be fastened to the mast , and be shot to death with muskets . the turke presently condescended to his request ; but as they were making ready for death , there was a small scottish ship came sayling about a point of land in ken of them : the turkes being greedy for prey , deferr'd the execution , and made towards the scottishman , which being a small vessell of little resistance or defence , was presently at the pyrats mercie , who did but halfe pillage her , and in a generous way did release both captaine malam and hughkinson , putting them both into the scottish ship , which ship ( being the turkes prize ) hee gave to malam ; but when shee brought him to london , hee gave her freely to the scottishman againe : and thus was this fight and escape ; and for a further happinesse , after captaine malam had beene at home at rederiffe some certaine dayes , his men brought the ship home , where shee arrived safe at london . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a -e iudg. . iudg. . iudg. & . two letters from the fleet at sea, touching the late fight: the one written by generall monck to the commissioners of the admiralty sitting at whitehall. the other by capt bourn, captain of the resolution to his wife. in which fight generall deane is killed by a great shot, and a dutch admirall blown up, and , or , of their ships sunk. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason e _ ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing a thomason e _ estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; :e [ ]) two letters from the fleet at sea, touching the late fight: the one written by generall monck to the commissioners of the admiralty sitting at whitehall. the other by capt bourn, captain of the resolution to his wife. in which fight generall deane is killed by a great shot, and a dutch admirall blown up, and , or , of their ships sunk. albemarle, george monck, duke of, - . bourn, john, captain. p. printed by tho. newcomb, dwelling in thamestreet, over against baynards-castle, london, : mdcliii. [ ] reproduction of the original in the british library. eng anglo-dutch war, - -- early works to . naval battles -- early works to . great britain -- history, naval -- stuarts, - -- early works to . netherlands -- history, naval -- early works to . a r (thomason e _ ). civilwar no two letters from the fleet at sea, touching the late fight:: the one written by generall monck to the commissioners of the admiralty sittin albemarle, george monck, duke of a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion two letters from the fleet at sea , touching the late fight : the one written by generall monck to the commissioners of the admiralty sitting at whitehall . the other by capt bovrn , captain of the resolution to his wife . in which fight generall deane is killed by a great shot , and a dutch admirall blown up , and , or , of their ships sunk . london , printed by tho. newcomb , dwelling in thamestreet , over against baynards-castle , mdcliii . two letters from the fleet at sea , touching the late fight . gentlemen , yesterday morning being at anchor some miles without the south-head of the gober , early in the morning we discryed the dutch fleet , about two leagues to the leeward . we made sail towards them , and between eleven and twelve at noon we were engaged ; and for three hours the dispute was very sharp on both sides ; which continued from three till six in the evening ; at which time the enemy bore away right before the winde , and little more was done ; onely the frigats gave chace so long as there was any light to distinguish one from another . one of the dutch admirals was blown up , and three or four sunk , as we are informed . we cannot hear that any of our own ships was lost in this engagement , blessed be the lord . we are at this time again very fair by them , and shall endeavour our utmost to engage them as soon as we can . it hath pleased the lord to take away general dean in the fight , an honest and faithful servant of the commonwealth . he was slain by a great shot . in this engagement we have spent the greatest part of our powder and shot ; and therefore i earnestly desire you vvill take care that a considerable proportion may be suddenly provided for us and sent , vvith such victuals and waterships as are yet behinde what ships are making ready in the river , may as soon as can be sent . this is the best account can be given at present . your most affectionate friend and servant geo. moncke . from aboard the resolution , leagues from the northforeland bearing west of us , june . . at in the morning . col : bourns letter to his wife . dear heart , our engagement was yesterday . about two of the clock in the afternoon . this time , at ten of the clock in the morning , we are in pursuit of dutch , who , if they will stay , i hope we shall by gods providence make an end of the war . and i hope we shall engage the enemy within an hour and less . from aboard the resolution , leagues off the northforeland , the of june , . about east , and east by south . our master , and lieutenant , and all the other officers are well , but general dean was taken off by a great shot . your loving husband john bourn . finis . a true relation of the late great sea fight as it was sent in a letter to his excellency the lord general cromvvell, from gen. blake and gen. monck. wherein is a list of what dutch ships were taken and sunk, with the number of prisoners. likewise the number of what men were slain and wounded on our side. blake, robert, - . this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason e _ ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing b thomason e _ estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; :e [ ]) a true relation of the late great sea fight as it was sent in a letter to his excellency the lord general cromvvell, from gen. blake and gen. monck. wherein is a list of what dutch ships were taken and sunk, with the number of prisoners. likewise the number of what men were slain and wounded on our side. blake, robert, - . albemarle, george monck, duke of, - . [ ], p. printed by henry hills, and are to [sic] sold at his house in py-corner, and by thomas brewster at the three bibles in pauls church-yard, london, : . annotation on thomason copy: "june th". reproduction of the original in the british library. wing has "to be sold" in imprint. eng anglo-dutch war, - -- early works to . naval battles -- england -- early works to . a r (thomason e _ ). civilwar no a true relation of the late great sea fight: as it was sent in a letter to his excellency the lord general cromvvell, from gen. blake and g blake, robert a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - robyn anspach sampled and proofread - robyn anspach text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a true relation of the late great sea fight as it was sent in a letter to his excellency the lord general cromvvell , from gen. blake and gen. monck . wherein is a list of what dutch ships were taken and sunk , with the number of prisoners . likewise the number of what men were slain and wounded on our side . london , printed by henry hills , and are to sold at his house in py-corner , and by thomas brewster at the three bibles in pauls church-yard , . for his excellency the lord generall cromwell . may it please your excellency , your lordships of the second instant , with the inclosed intelligence , we this day received , and , according to your excellencies apprehensions thereon , we have engaged with the dutch fleet ; a brief accompt of the first daies action we have already sent unto your lordship ; the next day , being the third instant , we did what we could to re-ingage them , and having the wind ( which was but little ) about noon we came within shot ; after four houres dispute with them , or thereabouts , they endeavoured what they could to get away from us ; but having then a pretty fresh gale of wind , we pressed so hard upon them , that we sunk and took many of them , as appears by the inclosed list , and do suppose we should have destroyed most of them , but that it grew dark , and being off of ostend among the sands , we durst not be to bold , especially with the great ships ; so that it was thought fit we should anchor all night , which we accordingly did about ten of the clock . this morning some of our ships descryed the enemy again a farre off , steering toward the willings ; whereupon a councell of war being called , it was resolved we should forthwith set fail with the whole fleet towards the vvillings , so farre as with safety we might , and so to range along the coast till we came to the texell ( the better to improve the present victory the lord hath given unto us ) unlesse we shall see cause to divert our course . vve shall not further trouble your lordship , but subscribe our selves from on board the resolution at sea off of ostend north east , june . . your excellencies most humble servants , robert blake , george monck . a list of the dutch ships taken and sunk , with the number of prisoners ; likewise the number of men slain , and wounded in our own fleet , viz. on thursday . four or five dutch ships sunk . on friday . dutch prisoners . whereof six captains . dutch ships taken , . sunk , six . water hoys taken , two . dutch ships blownup amongst their own fleet , two . sunk by that disaster , one . men slain in our own fleet , . whereof one captain . wounded , . not one ship lost on our part . finis . an exact and faithful account of the late bloody engagement between captain booth, commander of the adventure and hodge allii captian of the two lions and crown of algier, otherwise called the great genoese ... on the th and th of september , as it was communicated from the said captain to his friend at cadiz : and thence by letter of the th of october, new-stile, communicated to his friend in london. booth, william, sir, d. . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing b estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) an exact and faithful account of the late bloody engagement between captain booth, commander of the adventure and hodge allii captian of the two lions and crown of algier, otherwise called the great genoese ... on the th and th of september , as it was communicated from the said captain to his friend at cadiz : and thence by letter of the th of october, new-stile, communicated to his friend in london. booth, william, sir, d. . sheet ([ ] p.) printed for e. l. by john gain and are to be sold by mrs andrews ..., london : . caption title. in double columns. reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng naval battles -- early works to . broadsides -- england -- london -- th century - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - derek lee sampled and proofread - derek lee text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion an exact and faithful account of the late bloody engagement between captain booth , commander of the adventure , and hodge allii captain of the two lions and crown of algier , otherwise called the great genoese , a ship of guns , turks and moors , and christian slaves on board . on the th . and th . of september , , as it was communicated from the said captain to his friend cadiz : and thence by letter , of the th . of october , new-stile , communicated to his friend , in london sir , this comes to give you an account of my good fortune in taking of the two lyons and crown of algier , commonly known and called by the name of the great genoese , being a ship of fourty and more guns ; at present mounted but with and four pederoes : having on board turkes and moors , and christian slaves , commanded by one hodge allij a dane renegado , born at copenhagen , with a relation of our whole engagement . viz. in cruising alone between cape spartel and cape trafeldegar , with the windeasterly , on the th of september , about dawning of the day , we chased a saitee into barach , which belonged to france . my chasing the saitee proved very lucky , for in standing off from the land , gave me sight of this algerine , which i have already mentioned to you above . at my first giving him chase , he had an english pink in a tow , which he immediately cut off , seeing me come so fast upon him , and notwithstanding my coming up with him so fast , he hoisted out his boat , and took the turks and moors out of the said pink , i being distant from him three leagues , two english slaves that were in the turks boat , got out of her into the pink , and seeing the turks in a great disorder , and fear upon them , they hid themselves in the pinks hold ; by which means they made their escape , i coming within call of the pink , and seeing two englishmen there , i gave them order to follow me , which they did for one hour and a half , then the pink lay by , and i saw no more of her . betwixt one and two in the afternoon , i came up along the algerines side , and after we had fired our great and small shot into her , she being very nigh , i laid him on board before i fired another gun , much to the turks disadvantage , i being so far forward as his bow , lying so till he shot my weather brace off , of my fore-yard , and fore-top-sail , he having the wind upon the quarter , forced me a head of him , but before he could get clear of me , i had time to cut away his sprit-sail-yard , which fell under his bow , and stopped his way , and i laid him on board the other bow , but could not get cross his harser , so as to hinder his ships steeridge , although i laid him on board twice after . i having by fortune a double proportion of hand-granadoes , threw them in amongst the turks , which did them great damage , and gave us opportunity of killing them without small shot . his last time of cleering himself of me , i shot his mainmast down , it being then about in the evening , notwithstanding the loss of his main-mast , i found him make stout resistance , he working his ship so well before the wind , i could not board him , but to my disadvantage , we fighting still within pistol shot , till eight or nine in the evening . the algerine having in this time so much disabled me in my masts and rigging , i was forced to fall a stern to mend my rigging , and bring new top-sails to my yards . the loss of my men was so considerable , that i was forced to new quarter them , not having one man left on my quarter-deck , saving one or two , but was killed or wounded , which gave the algerine opportunity of bringing another fore-sail and fore-top-sail to his yard , he firing most part of the time his stern-chase at me , until about twelve or one at night . when i got up with him again , and continued fighting each other very close , but did not think fit to board them , by reason of my mast being very much disabled , we fighting before the wind , it continuing still easterly . about nine in the morning , having taken a man from each gun below , where they could best spare them , to man those guns on our quarter-deck , one of the kings cripples being quartered there , to carry powder for that place , having three carteridges of powder in his hand , went into the round-house to secure himself from the shot , we not knowing what was become of the man , till a great shot from the enemy came into the round-house , and shot the three carteridges of powder which he had by him , which took fire , and blew him but of the round-house upon our quarter-deck , and with him all our granadoes , which were about seven or eight that were left , which granadoes did kill and wound every man that was by me , i escaped very narrowly among the rest , being hurt in the neck by one of the granado shells . immediately after the algerine's fore-mast went by the board , i being so advantagiously placed on his bow , that he immediately called for quarter . when we took possession of our prize , we found the captain wounded , and five of his under-captains , he having in all seven , four of which being dutch and hamborough renegadoes , the other being nephew to baba hastan governour of algier , and an old turk , called by the name of abram rees , who was formerly admiral of algier , and came that voyage for his pleasure ; the other a moor. the christians tell me , the ship had certainly yielded when she lost her main-mast , had it not been for that old commander , abram rees , he still encouraging the turks , telling them of his former success he hath had against the christians , naming his fighting with dutchmen of war , and another time his fighting sir richard beach in the hampshiee , with several other good actions . not having men to officiate those works that were necessary to be done , as you may judge , when i had but men and boys serviciable on board when i began to engage , not having opportunity of manning my self since my engaging . the golden-horse was a great means i judge of my having so many men killed and wounded , which were in number , fifty five , of which twenty one were killed out right , and several others mortally wounded , which we do not expect to live , among those killed , was the minister , my brother , a voluntier , the boat-swain , the chief-mate , the coxon . my two other voluntiers , mr. row was blown up , but i hope will dò well , mr. woolfran cornwall was shot in the brest , and afterward shot through the upper part of his body , but is still alive , and in a fair way of recovery . london , printed for e. l. by john gain , and are to be sold by mrs. andrews in lambs-chappel , . a famous fight at sea vvhere foure english ships vnder the command of captaine iohn weddell, and foure dutch ships fought three dayes in the gulfe of persia neere ormus, against . portugall gallions, and . friggots. as also the memorable fight and losse of the good ship called the lion, with the barbarous crueltie of the enemie truly declared. with a farewell and hearty well-wishing to our english sea and land forces. taylor, john, - . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a famous fight at sea vvhere foure english ships vnder the command of captaine iohn weddell, and foure dutch ships fought three dayes in the gulfe of persia neere ormus, against . portugall gallions, and . friggots. as also the memorable fight and losse of the good ship called the lion, with the barbarous crueltie of the enemie truly declared. with a farewell and hearty well-wishing to our english sea and land forces. taylor, john, - . [ ] p. : ill. (woodcut) printed by iohn hauiland for henry gosson, london : . signed at end: iohn taylor. partly in verse. signatures: a-d⁴. running title reads: a braue sea-fight in the gulfe of persia. variant: title page lacking the words "with a farewell .. forces". reproduction of the original in harvard university. library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng lion (ship) -- early works to . naval battles -- persian gulf -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - john latta sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a famovs fight at sea. were fovre english ships vnder the command of captaine iohn weddell , and foure dutch ships fought three dayes in the gulfe of persia neere ormus , against . portugall gallions , and . friggots . as also the memorable fight and losse of the good ship called the lion , with the barbarous crueltie of the enemie truly declared . london , ¶ printed by iohn hauiland for henry gosson . to the right worthy , generous , and well experienced commander captaine iohn weddell , late generall of the east-india fleet. worthy sir , hauing written the true manner of your late famous , perillous , and fortunate fight with the portugalls in the persian gulfe , and knowing that bookes without patrons are like fatherlesse children , i imagined that it was better to send it to you for succour and protection , than to any other whomsoeuer ; for the most part which is herein by relation , i am assured that you doe know to be true by action , and my pen hath but only superficially pratled of those things which you saw , did , and suffered . i therefore humbly intreat you to accept this poore fish out of your owne ocean , this sheepe of your owne fold , this cloth of your owne weauing , and this deserued memory of part of your worthy won reputation . thus not doubting but your affabilitie is correspondent to your approued knowledge and knowne sufficiencie , i commit both my selfe and this relation to your acceptance and good censure , my best wishes still attending on you , that your fortunes be euer equall to the goodnesse of your minde . euer at your command to be imployed , iohn taylor . a famous fight at sea in the gulfe of persia. the eternall prouidence hauing diuided mankinde into many kingdomes , climates , people , and nations , yet to the end there should be a vnitie or mutuall society amongst all men , hee hath permitted traffique and commerce betwixt nation and nation . realme and realme . nauigation and shipping being as it were the fleeting bridges , for the transportation and exportation of men & merchandise , from countrey to countrey , that though god hath not inriched any one kingdome or countrey with all things , ( the one hauing what the other hath not : ) yet to maintaine humane society ( but chiefly for his owne glorie in dispersing his gifts ) commerce and traffique hath been vsed at all times , and in all ages ; for the which noble imployments our kingdome of england hath not beene inferiour to any nation for the ability and worthinesse of merchants , and i thinke not equalled by any for goodnesse and sufficiencie of skilfull nauigators , and marriners , and strength of shipping , and munition . so that neither the parching heat of libia and ethiopia , or the benumming frigidity of groen-land , or the hiperborean icle regions , neither the farre remotenesse of china eastwards , or the vttermost bounds of the new world america westwards , the dangers stormes , gusts , flawes , tempests , spowts , and tornadoes , or monsoones , the hazard of shoales , rockes , leakes , enemies , pirates , barbirous and cruell nations , vnwholsome and vntemperate aires and climates , sea or land monsters , or what perills may be named or thought vpon , hath euer daunted or hindred our merchants and mariners to prosecute and accomplish their continuall , laudable , and profitable vndertakings . amongst whom our noble , worshipfull , and worthy east-india merchants , and aduenturers , may in these later times be held as superlatiue to those of former ages , their inestimable charge , their mighty force , their valuable returnes , and their aduenturous hazards rightly considered . all which being no part of my purpose to treas of , i referre the reader onely to the description of two famous sea-fights , performed betwixt the english and the portugals ; which , though the newes of it could not be brought hither so soone as if it had beene done vpon the coast of zealand or flanders ; yet , as soone as winde and weather could bring it , i had it , and with what time i could well spare i haue written it , assuring my selfe of what i dare assure my reader , which is , that all is true . in which regard , i thought it vnfit to let it lie buried in obliuion , or the hatefull and ingratefull graue of forgetfulnesse . in it is valour described , and manifested in the liues and deaths of many of our english , and extreme cruelty and inhumanity in the enemy . but to the matter . a braue sea-fight in the gulfe of persia. english ships . the royall iames , admirall . the ionas , vice-admirall . the starre , reare-admirall . the eagle , fourth ship. iohn weddell chiefe commander of the english fleet. dutch ships . the south-holland admirall . the bantam vice-admirall . the maid of dort , reare-admirall . the wesope , fourth ship. albert becker , chiefe commander of the dutch fleet. the . of ianuary . being friday , the english and dutch ships being in the road of gombroone , there arriued a small frigot belonging to a place neere chowle , ( which is in warre with the portugals ) she came in betweene the maine and ormus , to whom the generall of the english , capt. iohn weddell , sent mr. andrew euans , in a little boat called a gellywat , to know from whence he came , and whether hee could giue vs any intelligence of the portugall armado ; his answer was , that hee came from a place some eight or ten leagues to the southwards of chowle , laden with pepper and other merchandise , and withall he said , that on the saturday before , being the . of ianuary , he was of the cape called cape gordell , halfe way betwixt the coast of india , and cape iaques , where to seaward of him hee saw eight great gallions , and certaine frigots , which frigots gaue him chase , but he kept himselfe so neere the shore , that they could not fetch him vp ; and this was the first information of the neere approach of the enemie . the . of ianuary in the morning , the english and dutch fleet heard three peeces of ordnance goe off from kishme castle , ( a strong hold , and in warre with the portugals ) the captaine of the said castle hauing before promised the generall ( captaine weddell ) that if he descried any crosse sailes or ships in sight of the castle , that then he would discharge those peeces as a warning vnto him , which accordingly he did . wherupon a man was sent vp to the top-mast head in the english admirall , to looke abroad , who being vp , presently cried a saile , , , , , , , . with many frigots in their company , then the generall commanded the gunner to shoot off a peece of ordnance , to giue warning to all the fleet to put themselues in readinesse for the entertainment of the enemy , putting also the bloudy colours out , as likewise the dutch admirall did the like , with all speed getting their men and boats from the shore , weighing their anchors of all hands , and getting vnder saile with all possible celerity , with courage and resolution they stood towards the enemy , ( whose drift was to haue taken the english and dutch at anchor vnprepared ) but their expectations were frustrate . towards . of the clocke at night it fell calme , so that our ships came to an anchor , when the commander of the dutch fleet ( named albert becker ) sent his master of his ship , accompanied with some other merchants , and masters aboord the royall iames , informing captain weddell that their commander had sent them to see how he did , and what hee thought the ships and frigots to be that they had descried . the commander weddell answered , that they could be no other than the portugall armado , which had beene two yeares preparing to meet with the english and dutch , and that now they were come in search of them , from goa , vnto this place , hoping first to conquer both our and their nation , and afterwards to fall to worke vpon ormus , kishme , and gombroone , to destroy our setled trade , and to extirpe and root vs out with all hostility and dishonour . then the dutch demanded captaine weddells resolution , concerning so common and open an enemie , he told them that his resolution was , for the glory of god , the honour of his nation , the profit of worthy imployers , & the safeguard of liues , ships , & goods , he would fight it out as long as a man was liuing in his ship to weare a sword , and that he doubted not but the other three ships vnder his command were all of the same minde and courage ; to whom the dutchmen answered , that they were of the like resolution , and would sticke as close to the english as their shirts to their backs , and so in friendly manner each tooke leaue of other for that night . the first of february , being sunday , the dutch admirall weighed anchor an houre before day-light , and the english presently after him , but the dutch got the start of vs all , though we made al the saile we could ; at last the english came vp to him with their whole fleet , but he discharged the first shot at the portugall admirall , who presently answered him with three for one . the friends and foes being now within musket shot of each other , it fell calme , whereby our ships would not worke but as the tide did set them , that when the portugalls were boord and boord , they had a great aduantage of vs with their frigots that towed them cleare one off another often , which helpe we wanted , thus we lay some foure or fiue houres pelting and beating one another with our ordnance , the whilst the frigots plyed vs with small shot , as fast as they could , the royall iames being forced to keepe the barge a head to pull the ships head to and fro ; but towards the afternoone there arose a fine gale , but the enemy had the wind of vs , whereupon the admirall and vice-admirall of the portugalls bore vp roome vpon vs , making account to lay the royall iames aboord , the one on the starboord , the other on the larboord side , which captaine weddell perceiuing , scarce being able to shun it , he called to the master , and told him the purpose of the enemy , to auoyd which danger , hee commanded the master to beare a little lasking to separate them further each from other , that hee might haue more roome to goe betweene them , the vice-admirall of the enemie seeing the iames beare vp so lasking , she likewise bore vp with her , when suddenly captaine weddell perceiued there was hope to weather him , caused his mizzen and mizzen top-saile to be set , and so presently got the wind of him , edging close vp with the admirall , being within musket-shot of them both ; the portugall admirall put to stay , by which meanes the iames gate the wind of him also , hauing much adoe to get out a weather of him , comming so close vnder his sterne , that his boats were close at our ships side as she sheared by , when presently we gaue him a whole broad-side , euery shot taking him fore and after , tacking forth with , and standing after him . thus the first dayes fight lasted till fiue at night , wherein the royall iames lost eight men , and some others which had some small hurts : also this day the dutch lost their chiefe commander , a braue valiant fellow , who liued and died nobly in the bed of honour . this fight was terrible and fierce for the time , for the royall iames alone spent neere . great shot , and all the other ships english and dutch , did proportionably doe the like . the sunne being set , the enemy fell off , and came to an anchor at the east end of kishme , the english being north-northwest from them two leagues , thus was concluded the first dayes fight . munday the . of february , being candlemas day , the wind being very little which blew off from kishme , so that the enemy had the aduantage of it , but neuer offered to make vse of it , to make roome towards vs ; the english and dutch being imployd busily to fit vp their torne rigging and tackling , and stopping such dangerous shot as they had receiued in the fight betwixt wind and water . also the same day in the afternoone there was a meeting aboord the royall iames , where both the english and dutch concluded , that they would giue the enemy fight the next morning , and that the royall iames should be the leading ship , and the admirall of the dutch should second her , and that they should goe directly to the enemies admirall , not striking higher or lower till the iames came side by side with her . so the third of february being tuesday , both the fleets weighed anchors at breake of day , hauing the weather gage of the enemy , the great iames stood right with the admirall of the portugalls , which was head-most but one ; but comming neere them , they weaued to leeward with their bright arming swords , and we the like to them , they saluted vs with a whole broad side ; but captaine weddell commanded his men not to answer them , till they were brought neerer within danger , which charge was obeyed ; but being come neere the admirall , and another of their ships , the great iames bestowed vpon each of them a whole broad side , making them both to beare vp , the one a port , and the other a starboord , by which meanes one of their ships was cut off and sundred from them , and was chased three or foure houres by the eagle , and weasope ; the hope of the english and dutch being that she should no more returne to her fleets company ; the iames following still the admirall and vice-admirall , got vpon the admiralls side , hauing the vice-admirall on his starboord bow ; insomuch that this daies fight grew very hot , for often the iames was in thickest of the enemy , being at one time all round about vs ; but our men so plyed their ordnance vpon them , that they all refused to stand by vs , but fled all before vs as chaffe , dust , or smoake before the wind . in this fight the iames got between one of their fleet , and singled her out , lying by her sides with fore-saile , and fore-topsaile a backe stayes , so neere as a man might quoit a bisket cake into her , when straight master iohnson came vp in the sterne of the iames , so neere as he could hardly keepe cleare , to whom captaine weddell called , willing him to clap the portugall aboord on the larboord quarter , ( whilst the iames lay thundring vpon him with her great ordnance ) he promised to doe it , but after he refused it , this vessell had not so few as . shot thorow her hull , masts , sailes , and yards , before she got cleare . this third day the fight was very violent , for the royall iames onely spent . and odde shot vpon the enemy , foure men being slaine in her , and three others their legs shot off . in her masts , yards , rigging and hull , she had receiued aboue . great shot ; both parties at sun-set being so faint and weary , that they all left off , the portugalls came to an anchor vnder ormus , and the other neere gombroone road , this fight last neere eight houres . note , that the morning captaine weddell had fitted a portugall vessell ( which had beene formerly taken with some cokernuts ) and purposed to haue fired her thwart the admiralls hawse , she being appointed to come between the dutch admirall , and the ionas , but through disaster , or rather negligence in darby the master , who came not vp according to his appointed place , she was chased by the frigots ( she hauing but ten men in her ) being of no defence , they were forced to set her on fire farre from the fleet , and so the men betooke themselues to a barge , which was left them for their safety , by which meanes the generalls proiect was disappointed . all this third day at night this vessell burnt , & two houres before daylight , whether she was towed by some of the enemies boats , or no , is vnknowne , but she came burning amongst the english and dutch fleets , and forced them from their anchors by slipping their cables , which anchors they tooke vp some three daies after . the . of february in the morning , both fleets made towards the enemies , who were vnder saile , and made all the haste they could to get vnder the iland of lowracke , which lieth some eight or nine miles from ormus , vnto which iland their frigots went ahead , conducting them in ouer a barre , whom the english and dutch followed as farre as with safety they durst , hauing neither the helpe of pilots to shun the dangers of the place , or frigots to goe a head as conductors , as the enemy had . besides , there might haue beene ordnance planted a shore by the enemy , which would haue been greatly to their aduantage , or otherwise in the darke night they might haue chained two or three frigots together , and turning them vpon them , vpon the ebbe thwart their hawse , might much haue endangered them , they knowing the enemie to be implacable , malicious , and politique ; these reasons caused them to follow them no further at this time , but to come to an anchor a league from them , when captaine weddell sent for the chiefe of the dutch , whose resolution was to go backe againe for gombroone , there to dispatch our merchants affaires . so anchors were weighed , the iames giuing them a shot for a farewell , and they answered her with the like , they all getting into gombroone road that night , where they speedily fell to worke to repaire the ruines of warres , in sitting of masts , yards , sailes , rigging and stopping breaches , all which in three daies , was accomplished , leauing the portugall like a theefe in his mill , or a fox in his hole , not minding to trie as yet the hazard of another bout . in this fight their reare-admiralls maine mast was shot by the boord , their vice-admiralls maine top-mast was likewise shot by the boord , their admiralls mizzen-mast , flag , and flag staffe shot by the boord , and her hull much rent and torne . their fourth ship had the head of her maine mast shot by the boord . another of their ships had al her top-masts shot by the boord . in conclusion , all their eight ships were so torne and tattered , that they had neither good masts , sailes , or yards to helpe themselues with , nor tight sides to beare saile vpon . thus it pleased the almighty to giue the victory of the day vnto those that relie vpon his promise ; to that great god be all glory for euer , and let all true christians say amen . the . of february being friday , the english and dutch fleets set saile at day-light from the road of gombroone , hauing also with them foure iunks , other vessels of lading , vnder the conduct and charge of the dutch , which as soone as the enemy perceiued , they let slip their cables and slipped from their harbour at the iland of lawracke , which is foure or fiue leagues from the road of gombroone , the enemy making all the saile he could to sea-boord of the english and dutch all the day till sun-set ; when they were got within saker-shot of each other , and a good bearing gale , they all kept company together all night . this . at night it blew so hard at west-south-west , that one of their great gallions bore ouer-boord the head of her maine mast , close vnder the hownds , not being able to hoyst vp her maine saile , she was forced to steere alongst with her fore-saile , fore-top-saile , her sprit-saile , and mizzen , the wind being at west-south-west , they steered away south and by east . the . in the morning the dutch fleet staying , and bearing vp vnto the iunke , the night past was a storme so farre , that the english fleet could scarce descry them ; so the iames laid her fore-saile a backe-staies , staid for them , the portugall neuer offering to alter his course , but kept on still . the same day about noone the dutch being come vp with the english , it was agreed betweene them , that the royall iames should giue the first on-set vpon their admirall , and the rest of the fleet to second her ; so about two of the clocke that afternoone the two fleets came to weather of the enemies admirall , receiuing the first shot from their vice-admirall , and presently a whole broad side from their admirall , both sides comming as neere each other as they could but well keepe cleane of each other , they fell to it of all hands pell mell , the ordnance going off as fast as small shot , the iames for her part giuing them two broad sides , shee then edgd vp in the winde , laying her fore-saile and fore-top-saile a backe staies , as well to giue leaue to the ionas , ( who was second to the iames ) as also to suffer the portugall admirall to shoot a head , which she suddenly did , then the iames filling her top-saile the second time , bore vpright with the enemie admirall , plying her whole broad side so fast vpon him , that hee had scarce leasure to returne any shot backe , whilst the english and portugall admiralls were so neere each other , that they could hardly cleare themselues . in this time whilst our ships plyed the enemies admirall , ( not so much looking after , or heeding the other ships ) the vice admirall , with the rest of their fleet , were left a sterne , their admirall plyed very hard vpon the iames , giuing and receiuing many dangerous shots , the iames being shot betweene wind and water often , and had more spoile in her sailes and rigging than she had done any of the two daies fight before , then the third time comming side by side with each others fleet , they let driue one at another like thunder in the aire , the iames comming vp with the admirall ( the great ship of damon , who the first daies fight lost her maine mast ) crept in betwixt the iames and the portugall admirall , lying as a bulwarke to weather of her , to receiue all that might be put vpon her , and indeed all that was meant to haue been bestowed vpon the admirall , was still plyed vpon that great hulke ; as likewise the iames , and dutch , did continue this third daies fight til day-light was shut in , the portugalls edging vp to get neere the arabian shore , in so much that at eight at night both english and dutch were faire by it , chasing them in . this night the english and dutch steered away their course for surat , the portugalls steering for swar , a place where they haue a castle . the royall iames with the rest , were forced to giue euen the chase for these reasons . first , for that the time of yeare was so farre spent , that they should not haue time enough to deliuer their goods at surat , and so to goe cleere off the coast before the westerly monsoone , which is a wind that blowes at west six moneths together , beginning in aprill , would be come , and so endanger the ships in getting off againe . a second reason was , that the royall iames had but . barrells , and some . cartregos fild with powder , and some . shot all which was not aboue three quarters of a dayes fight for her vse , for in her former dayes worke the third of february she alone spent . great shot vpon the enemy , so that now through want of powder she was not able to maintaine such another fight according to that rate . and this last dayes fight she lost but one man , hauing spent vpon the enemy more than three hundred great shot . to the lord of hosts the only giuer of victory , the mighty god of battels , be all honour , glory , praise and dominion for euer , amen . a note of the mens names slaine in these three seuerall fights with the portugalls , out of the english fleet. slaine in the royall iames. richard dauis quarter masters . nicholas burton quarter masters . robert skalfe , gunners mate . ioseph wright carpenters . thomas bland carpenters . iohn bircham carpenters . godfrey howton carpenters . richard dauis iunior sailers . richard walker sailers . iohn maisters sailers . william wilcockes sailers . william clarke dismembred in their legs , and died . william surnam dismembred in their legs , and died . slaine in the ionas . robert nodding , masters mate . john beedam , mid ship-man . william adams . robert sancie . edward wilkinson . robert larke . richard hergell . francis blow . thomas page . thomas wilkinson . thomas williams . slaine in starre . iames wanderion . william carter . reignold sanderson . charles robinson . slaine in the eagle . iohn sares. the dutch lost neere the like number , amongst whom their chiefe commander albert beaker slaine the first dayes fight . a relation by peter hillion a frenchman , of the force of eight portugall gallions , which fought with the english and dutch fleet , in the gulfe of persia ; as also the spoile they receiued by them , with their number of men slaine , on the . . and . of february . himselfe being then in the admirall ; which afterwards riding with three more of her fleet at the riuers mouth of surat , he escaped from her , and ran to the english , which were then riding in the barre of surat . their admirall named s. francisco sanuer , wherein was generall non alua basellia , had . peeces of brasse ordnance of whose cannon , demy-cannon , cannon pethrow , whose culuering , and demy-culuering , and . men , of which were slaine , whereof three were chiefe captaines vnder the aforesaid generall , named lorenzo luis , ieronimo botella , and brossa coze , who all three were kild with one shot , the ships fore-mast , bospreer , and maine mast were so torne with shot , that they were vnseruiceable , her mizzen-mast , flag and flag-staffe shot by the boord , with the head of her maine top-mast , and her rigging much rent and torne . their vice-admirall named likewise s. francisco , wherein was commander francisco burge , had . peeces of ordnance as the former , and . men , of which were slaine . the aforesaid commander being one of the number , her maine top mast shot by the boord , her maine mast , fore-mast , and bospreet so torne , that they were vnseruiceable . their reare-admirall named s. sebastian , ( their biggest ship ) wherein was commander don antonio tela , who was lamed of an arme , had . peeces of brasse ordnance as the former , and . men , whereof . were slaine , her maine mast , fore-top-mast , fore-yard , and spritsaile-top-mast shot by the boord , and her fore-mast so vnseruiceable , that she could beare no more saile but her sprit-saile . their fourth ship named s. saluador , wherin was commander don francisco de tuar , had . peeces of brasse ordnance , and . men , . whereof were slaine , the aforesaid commander being one of the number , his masts were so rent and torne , that they were all vnseruiceable . their fifth ship named s. iago , wherein was commander simon de kintalle , had . peeces of brasse ordnance , and . men , whereof were slaine . her masts were all standing , but she so leaked betweene wind and water , by shot receiued , that they had much to doe to free her , so that she was cast away vpon the coast of india seuen daies after . their sixth ship named trinidada , wherein was commander pedro alua botelia , had . peeces of brasse ordnance , and . men , . whereof were slaine , his top-masts were all shot by the boord , and her other so torne , that she could beare no saile thereon , but was towed by the great hulke reare-admirall , from muscas to goa . their seuenth ship named s. antonio , wherein was commander antonio burallia , had . peeces of brasse ordnance , and . men , whereof . were slaine , her masts were all standing , but she very leake by shot receiued betwixt wind and water , and the seuenth day after she was cast away vpon the coast of india . their eighth ship named miserere-cordium , wherein was commander emanuel rodreeges chaua , had . peeces of brasse ordnance , and . men , whereof three were slaine , her fore-top-mast , maine-yard , fore-yard , and maine-top-saile-yard shot by the boord , and her fore-mast so torne that it was vnseruiceable . a table containing the former numbers .   ordnance . men. men slaine the admirall had the vice-admirall had the reare-admirall had the fourth ship had the fifth ship had the sixth ship had the seuenth ship had the eighth ship had the summe thus it pleased god in mercy that the english and dutch , not being halfe the numbers of the enemy , neither in men or ordnance , that with onely the losse of . or . men , they should kill . of the portugals , and with all so to beat them , ( notwithstanding the helpe of . frigots ) being so torne that they were cast away seuen dayes after , and the rest all vnseruiceable , and not daring to stand to the hazard of another conflict . a briefe description of the disaster of the good ship called the lion , one of our english ships , trading to the east india , who was lost in fight with the portugalls , neere gombroone in the gulfe of persia , on the eighth of nouember . the seuenth of october . about . in the morning , the palsgrane , dolphin , and lion anchored about three leagues to the southwards of surat barre , and when it grew light ( men being in the top ) espied certaine roaders , riding against surat riuer , which some supposed to be english or hollanders , others affirmed to be a fleet of frigots ; but in fine , about an houre after they set saile and steered after vs , and in short space we made them to be foure portugall gallions , and fifteene frigots , the wind being then of shore , they could not come to vs that tide , but anchored about a league from vs , our captaine perceiuing their intents , put forth an ensigne for counsell , and the master of each ship presently repaired aboord . at which consultation , as it was reported by our master m. richard swanley , captaine blithe propounded that he thought it expedient to set saile , and stand off to sea againe , and by that meanes to abate the force of the frigots , and if it fell out so that our ships sailed better than the portugalls , we should stand direct for ormus ; the reasons he gaue for it were these , viz. first , hee doubred that the portugall had a great force of shipping in swalley road. secondly , hee feared whether our merchants had friendship with the countrey people , or not , by reason of the discord which was between them at the dolphins preparations for england , which was the last newes hee heard from thence . thirdly , he doubted that the portugalls had made peace with the gazerats , and had planted ordnance a shore on swalley sands . hee also doubted what was become of captaine weddells fleet , for he assured himselfe , if there were any friends at that time in swalley road , they would not suffer the portugall to ride there , for he supposed that the portugall had beene in fight with them the yeare past , and had either put them to the worst , or else for want of munition to effect another fight , they were forced to repaire to ormus castle for succour vntill supply came out of england . all which being propounded , and the vnreadinesle and great charge of all three ships well considered , it was concluded to set saile , the which we did , the wind being northerly , and the tide of stoud come , we stood for sea , and the portugall admirall and vice-admirall sayling better than the rest , fetcht vs vp about foure in the afternoone , at which time the lion being formost of our fleet , the enemy admirall shot one peece of ordnance at her , for the which she answered three of foure , but could hardly reach further than halfe way : the portugall finding his ordnance better than ours , both admirall and vice-admirall plyed vpon the lion for the space of halfe an houre , in which time she receiued diuers shot both in her hull and rigging . our master richard swanley , seeing their aduantage , caused to bruile maine-saile , and edge within musket-shot of them both , and there maintained fight with them vntill sunne-set , and receiued no hurt at all . all which time , and an houre after , being calme , the other two ships of the enemy were at least a league a starne . the palsgrane , and dolphin all this time being right a head , kept on their course , only plying their starne peeces . the portugals seeing them still stand away , came both aboord of vs , the one in the one quarter , and the other in the other , and entred at least . of their men , heauing fire-pots , and diuers sorts of fire-works vpon our decks , the frigots ( as many as could lye about vs ) threw firepots in at the ports , and stucke fire-pikes in her sides ; all which ( by the great mercy and assistance of god ) wee still put out . our admirall and vice-admirall , in this our misery were quickly out of our sight , the cause whereof is best knowne to themselues . this conflict remained from . at night till about . in which space our master richard swanley was slaine , and . more of our men were also slaine , . of our masters mates , and . more were exceedingly burnt , the rest almost wearied , and more discomforted , by reason our fleet had left vs , and in briefe we were in that case that the word was giuen to blow vp the ship , had not god in his wisdome staid it , by putting it in the minde of some of our men to let fall an anchor , which being done ( the tide running very strong ) brought our ship to so strong a bitter , that the fast which the portugals had vpon vs brake , whose vnexpected ▪ sudden departure from vs left or of their men vpon our poope , who still maintained the fire in such sort , that we were forced to blow them vp , which blast tore all the starne of our ship in peeces , from the middle-decke vpwards . the portugals being all repulsed , and the fire put out , we vsed all diligence for the clearing our ship , and getting vp our maine-top-saile-yard , which then lay vpon our decke , likewise bringing new sailes to yard , the former being all burnt and torne , all which being as well done as haste would giue leaue , wee expected their comming again the next tide , but they hoping we would either haue burnt or sunke , onely left fiue frigots without shot of vs , and themselues with the other two ships that were formerly a starne stood after the palsgraue and dolphin , and in short space fetcht them vp , and fought with them all that night , they standing still off to sea , were but off our sight the next morning . the . day in the morning , ( all the ships being out of our sight ) it was agreed vpon by the officers of our ship , that henry crosbey our masters chiefe mate should succeed as our commander , vntill such time as it pleased god we should meet with our commander . this being done , we being not able to weigh our anchor , by reason our men were most of them hurt , cut cable in the hawse , and set as much saile as wee durst beare , ( our fore-mast hauing receiued three shot , in such wise , as it had but foure inches hold ) and stood off to sea , and being faire weather , praised be god , in short time our fore-mast was made seruiceable . the frigots aforesaid that were left by vs , stood foure of them after the fleet , and the other in for the shore , all that day we heard them in sight , but saw them not , likewise the next night wee could see the light of their ordnance at our top-mast head ; but they being to wind-ward of vs , we could not get to them , nor indeed were not in case if we could , for our ship was so open , and all our chiefe men kild and hurt . the ninth in the morning , we could neither see them , nor heare them , then it was thought fitting by our master , that according to the consultation held aboord the palsgraue the seuenth day wee should stand for ormus , the which ( by the assistance of god ) wee did , hauing faire weather all the way ; in which time of our sailing , our carpenters had got vp all the sterne of our ship againe , as well as his store would giue him leaue , our men also were all well recouered of their hurts . the fourth of nouember wee arriued at gombroone , where wee had intelligence by our merchants there resident , that rufrero was riding vnder ormus iland , with . or . frigots , the which when our master vnderstood , ( the merchants being then aboord ) it was concluded by consultation , that to preuent any ensuing danger that might happen , and also for the cleering of our ship , wherby to mount our lower tier , all the cloth , and currall , and foure chests of money should be sent a shore with as much speed as possible , the other our master refused to send out of the ship , alleaging , that if it should please god they were forced to leaue the port by any disaster , there was no stocke to buy any refreshing for our men which then did want it ; the rest of our carriages or goods lying low in hold , could not then be come by , without much time which then we wanted . it was also appointed that we should with all speed take in water , and stand for ormus , the which was assaied to doe , and partly effected , for vpon the fifth day the merchants and our purser rode with all speed to the sultan , ( who was then out of towne ) to intreat for boats to land the goods , and to water our ships , the which he granted , and also gaue vs a boat to make vs a long-boate , by reason wee had lost both our skiffe and long-boat the last fight . the sixth there came boot-hailers aboord , and tooke all the goods aforesaid , and carried them a shoare , and also tooke in caske to fill with water . the seuenth of nouember there came twelue tunne of water aboord , which was presently taken in , and more caske sent a shore , also in this short time our lower orlope was almost made priddie , and our two chase peeces were mounted , and wee were in good hope the next day to take in water enough to serue vntill the fleet came to stand ouer for ormus ; but god hauing otherwise appointed , it fell out contrary . the eighth day , about seuen in the morning , rufrero with his frigots came rowing towards the ship , and being then calme that the ship could not worke , he came in such sort , that she could haue none but her chase peece to beare vpon them , which lay so well to passe , that they sunke two of their frigots before they could boord her , and two more after they were by her sides . but after they were a boord they plied their small shot in such wise , that they were not able to open a port in the ship , but were forced to shute away ports , and all . they also maintained such abundance of fire-workes round about her , that in a moment all her masts and sailes were on fire , her vpper decke was also on fire , the which for all their heauing much water vpon it , in lesse than halfe an houre fell downe vpon their heads , and put them from their ordnance , who seeing death on each side , some leaped ouer-boord , and put themselues to the mercy of their enemies , the rest gaue fire to the powder-roome , and blew vp the ship . those men which leaped ouer-boord were all receiued into the frigots , and carried vnto ormus iland , and the next morning rufrero gaue order to cut off all their heads but one , namely , thomas winterborne , whom he sent with a letter to the merchants at gambroone , the rest being . persons were immediatly beheaded . those that were blowne vp in the ship droue a shore , and were buried at gombroone , being in number . there were also . men a shore about the companies affaires , and one that rufrero sent with a letter makes . whom god grant neuer worse fortune . thus was this good ship and men vnfortunately and lamentably lost , yet as much courage and manly resolution as possibly could be was performed by the engligh , nor can it be imagined how more industry or truer valour could haue been shewed ; on the other side the cruell and bloud-thirsty enemy gained nothing but knockes , losse of liues and limbes , hauing his frigots suncke and torne in peeces , his maine purchase being dishonour and infamie , for after all our men had fought so long , and so manfully , being besieged round with death , as the sea to swallow them , the fire to consume them , or the portugals swords to cut their throats , not being possible to escape one of these waies of eminent danger , that then in that extremity . men leaping into the sea , were all aliue taken vp by the enemy , whom had hee then kild in heat of bloud , when warre , rage , death and fury were vp , it had beene then but the effect and fortune of warre ; but to giue them harbour all night , and the next day in cold bloud to cause them to be beheaded , it was one of the ignoblest , inhumane , and barbarous parts of murther that could be committed . but rufrero being a portugall or spaniard , could doe no other ( for the honour of his countrey ) but shew his bloudy nature , especially to our nation : a barbarian , a turke , or a iew should haue found more kindnesse , for indeed they all are of one disposition . and i am sure no record or chronicle can shew , no history can report , no tradition can declare ; nor any memorie relate , that euer any englishman , or almost any other nation ( except the spaniard ) did murther so many disarmed naked men , hauing had them all a whole night in their custodie . a farewell and hearty well-wishing to the noble attempts of our english sea and land forces , with their allies and confederates . you sonnes of mars , that surrow neptunes brow , and o're the dang'rous deepe ( vndanted ) plow ; you who esteeme your countreys honour more than life , or pelse , ( which peasants doe adore , ) your noble ancestours , whose memories are borne by fame as farre as titans rise , and vniuersally diuulg'd from thence the circle of the worlds circumferenoe , let their example be a spurre to you , that you their worthy vertues may pursue : they were but men , and you are each so much , they were victorious , may you each be such ; they had good courage , guided with good skill , which skill and courage , fortune , grace , and will , i doe implore th' almightie to bestow on you in generall , all , both high and low . time doth record , our britaines matchlesse force by sea and land , with valiant foot or horse , hath made france tremble , and proud spaine to quake , and great ierusulems foundations shake : and as true valour did inspire their brests , so victorie and conquest crown'd their crests . o may your good intendments fall out right , the god of battels still your battells fight ; 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but the crown sailing best , we got on her , and about twelve got up with her , and had a bloody fight for the time of half an hour , till at last we clapt her on board , carried her main-mast , and so made our selves masters of her : the number of what men the french had killed is uncertain , some say , some ; we lost but one man ▪ besides several wounded : we brought her in last night . the french are yet on board us ; a great many of them wounded : she is a rich prize , and hath in some measure requited the couragious seamen for their valour : her name is the slut , guns patereroes ; we asking the prisoners what made them fight at so great disadvantage , they say , the french k●●● will hang up every captain that doth not fight , though with a 〈◊〉 the french captain is killed , the lieutenant dangerously wounded in the thigh , and almost all the officers . and now i cannot but acquaint you of the gallant behaviour of captain hoskins incouraging his men , every officer particular to their charge , he exposing himself to the greatest dangers : a great sh●● coming close to him , almost mortally wounded another . but to 〈◊〉 short , both officers and seamen behaved themselves truly couragio●● to the honour of our nation : i have not time to write any more particulars ; 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